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Hible. The svwm‘ has got to come, and t’hut very soon; will it be much better. all things considered, for the poorer taxpayers to wait a yi-ur or two? The Council had a meeting Mon. 1 day night m act on the ordinance for; an electric street rzu'h'ay through 5 our city and passed it, essentially as. ‘, agreed upon between the council 1 committee and the offict‘trs "of the 1 "MT-”mes everylxxiy .expeeted they would do. 'The company eaine here and selected their own route with the advice of some of our citi‘ zens. In some (till-388,35 we saw it out- lined, they have erred, but generally their route is an admirable one, com- ing down St. Johns ave. to the cor- ner just below S. M. Coe’s residence then hearing off toward the lake. just as near the Sheridan road as they can get and not he on it. and so on down to Ravinia and the county line. We think its inset-ting the east-side of the track south end of town will greatly injure that seet- ion as a purely residence district. but We. hope our fears are groundless. The 9V0!lt_5lloW(‘d that Alderman Phillip‘s contention for an open par. liam‘ent or citizens meeting f0[.(1i5;, ctissiun ofwthe, ordinunw before the meeting of the committee and otlic- ers 0f the mad. not to give final shaping to the ordinance. was (YOI‘H’PL As a matter of fact. the citizens had practically no voice- in the nluttvr. The committee did just as was ex- pected. shape-d the ordinance and then passed it. \Vt‘ are not finding fault with tho. ordinance. hnt (-itizvns are scolding that they WH‘O not heard nntil after vverything was settled. “'9 do not think there- was any spacial (losirv 0n the part of any of thia alderman or the officers of the road to jam through tho ()rtlllulllt‘t‘. though it unfortunatvly has that appearance, all of which was un- necessary. If the officers of the road made any mistake it was in supposing that one ortwo of tho alderman -arry tlw city in tlwir ’puckt-ts. Tlmy (in withing ofthe- kind thoughthey may thus carry someof thealdvrman. but the city, neVer. ' Th» chief modificninn was in ad- npting a rail like thv Chic'tgo shunt (m which \‘vhiclos run and turn with ease ins‘tvntl of the- propum-tl T and shanghai mils. Th0 road will he (hmlflo truck from thv Eloctriv light plant tn old Highland :n’vnuo- lwlmv tho Military Academy. Th:- (mly rvgmt wv now haw is that Aldvrlmm l’hillips' pmpmitimt“ THE ELECTRIC ROAD. 7â€"7-.-‘_â€" t" (- ‘- A Waukegan baper prints a list of its mayors from 1819 to 1897, a lieâ€"_ 1 riod of 48 years. Here there have lt‘lztaen 3tLiu fl“- u'i‘w _ them having { serVed two 0r thre’e ( itferent times. 1 One, Mr. Douglass, resigned,showing ! that politicians sometime do that ‘ thing, as impossible as it seems. l The Park. as a municipality is 20 ‘3 years younger than the. county cap- ~ ital and our list is as follows: ‘ 1869» Frank P. Hawkins. 1370 Cornelius R. Field. 18'2 S.B. Williams. 1873 William A..James. 1874 Thomas H. Beebe. 1877) William W. Boyington. 1377 John Middleton. 187$ ()tho H. Morgan. ” 1381 John Middleton. 1883 Warren My Sweetland. 1887 William A. James. 1883 , Parmcnas T. Turnley. 1891 David M. Erskine. Jr. 1893««Archibald_ W. Fleteher. 185)?) Robert (:1. Evans. 0 It will be seen that. some of these 1 men served two or three terms. Ours is a somewhat illustrious list and however many small men we may elect as aldermen. let us keep that mayoral standard high. up to the mark already set. We observe that of the Waukegan list. three. Judge Upton with the Messrs. Hutchinson and Partridge. were Vermonters: The Park has not yet honored her“ self by selecting a son of the (ireen Mountain state for her executive head. therc was the late S. R. Bing- ham. "hat a mayor he would have made} and with .what a lustre he would liave crowned the office. Then there'ilerauk D. Everett. let us hon- or ourselves by electing him before it is too late. Said Senator Proctor once, “Vermont raises up men whom she Lends to other states for eminent serx‘it'e.1 . for an OIM'H citizen’s mutating. with full discussion Wis not adopted, and the couuuittvo meetings came after- ward or this play wculdlmve silenc- "(I all uth-tiuns. prvvmnml ull ‘irriv tatiuu and lumtility to the road. We all wzmt the road in tlw lwst place for the public. with no hoodlu ur (ll\'l(l('(l oounsrls. THE We livard of one of thv good lmusv wiivos of this city who saw an an ad.. 123 cakes of soup 27mm. and she urdvred at (mm) and 10! tlwro came to hm‘ home (3 bars of soup split in two lengthwise and she was -I 1 I ~ “'0“. language just failed he“, when she heard tlw hired man use vigurnus Wurds Sllt‘ felt lu‘tter. he oxpre-«ml her svntimums. P. S. Slu- huys he-r soup suuwwhen- (-Ia-u' nnw. HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. OUR ‘nAYORs. Judging from the Waukegan pa- pers we would suppose the Liberty. ville convention Saturday was as de- corous as a Sunday church service. But such was not exactly the case. for the young Jehus of Lake county politics, from ancient Little Fort, ran up against the butt end of East Deerfield; there was a click; a spark, a flash, and the detonating. sound and explosion, as when one pulled the trigger of a Well-loaded and carefully primed old 1312 army musket; or to change tl;-“. ‘igunfithe political jockey'of East Deeriieid pat the curb-bit on the Little Fort Je- hus. and soon order came out; of chaos. A. W. Fletcher was chair- man; Editor Storms of the Antioch News, secretary: S. M. Millard and D. L. Zook, elected delegates from ‘ this township to go to Elgin in 1 February. to the judicial convention, to nominate a successor to Judge Upton. The convention will put some one in his place, as Massachu- setts has put Henry Cabot Lodge in the chair once occupied by Charles Sumner, but the chair is not filled. It will be a wise convention, with plenty of first-class material at its disposal, that can fill Judge Upton's l . l i I | l l l a l l I . plaice, Fifteen other delegates, from the other towns. make up_Lake vaunty‘s quotg’tlolthe Elgiu convex: tion. “About this time," as the almanac says, look out for seed catalogues. The first one on our table is from the Iowa Seed company of Des Moines. It it a large square pam‘ plet. like Vauglrn's, and has all the ordinary beets, onions, turnips, corn. potatoes and flower seeds. Its spe- cialties are its wonderful "Silver Mine” which last year produced 2N) bushels of shelled corn per acre on a $500 prize for the best acre of corn grown in this country from their seed. This was done by Claus Joch. iinScn of Scott county, Ia. They have some fine wax beans, tomatoes. radishes, pop and sweet corn, which we shall try. You can get plenty of seeds good for some soils. but not good here. We have had lots of ‘ failures. while seeds from Minnesota i never failed. We shall try these 1 Iova seeds' {or the motto of Iowa is “A schoolhouse on’ eVery hilltop. and no saloons in the valleys." Seeds 1 bred on light. \‘urm sandy soil or on . rich prairie lozunswill not thrive. on our Park clay. cold and heavy. but as rich as (‘muus and very produc- ; live. i l LIBERTYVILLE CONVENTION. SEED CATALOGUES. g1