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Published in me Interests of Highland Park, Highwood and Ravinia, every Friday afternoon by H. F. A. E. Evan's. V Advohlsi «it; Q‘fill‘fie'kn'own an. lutlon at this olflcéuzl ppl ' The .Highland Park News. LEWIS B. HIBBARD H. F. EVANS Terms, 81.00 per year, 50 CCIHS fur six mumhs, 30 cents for three months. Avenue. Highland Park, Illinois. TI‘ESDAY‘S Timesâ€"Herald had a two column cut of our ex- State Sen- ator Coon, of Waukegan, the author and firm friend of the inheritance tax law bill just decided to be con- stitutional by our judicious State Supreme court. It was a good pic- ture of the man who did a good work WE NOTE with pleasure the pres-‘ ence in our city of the man in charges of locating the United Evangelical College. As our readers know, a strong wing of that body want the College at the Park, and with a man of Pastor Thoren’s all around ability to bring things to pass, all hope it will come and make the Park a literary centre the NEWS is here now. Emercd al WE remember when it was thought quite a success to cross the Atlantic inside of twelve full days and it was a noteworthy event compared with the old speeds of thirty, fortylive and even sixty days. But. last week Friday the Lucuniu of the Cunard line made the distance from New York to Queenstown, Ireland in a trifle over five days and a half. That is, a man could attend church one Sundky in New York and the next Sunday in an European cong regation. CENTRAL avenue Inacatlnmizing is so far along that wecan now see how good a street we shall have if only the contractor puts in plenty of material and plenty of good horr eat work, as no doubt, he intends to Office: McDonald‘s Building, 5L Johns Ed at the postâ€"office at Highland Park, 111., as second class matter. FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1897. â€" - - EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER. Thc Baptist church has its prob- lem. practically one of self'preserr- : vation in fact. We need not men- tion details; everybody knows all aboutit. The church is reaching; 1 if it has not reached, a crisis in its career. To let it pass as though all were well will be to put back that institution. ,which ought to stand in the fore front among our churches, for a full score of years. It is a very serious problem and the way the church deals with it will reveal the“'capacit_v of that church for em:- THE HIGHLAND PAlyK NEWS. do. But there is whiz the failure will come if it cornea, ough to our mind there should ha/Ie been a tile four {MWp of the clay through the centre of that street. Seventy feet is too great a distance in this heavy clay for three feet drains to take off all the ' subsoil water and that :is where the peril comes from. We would have had four courses of longitudinal tile inâ€" stéa'd’ (if two under that macadam. ON TRIAL. The churches of this city are on trial before their fellow men and before God. The problem of a reconcilation and settlement of old difficulties faces the Bethany and the First United ichurches. The public knOWs little and cares less about the causes of the present con- dition of things, but is intensely in- terested to see how these people will handle and settle this problem, for their dealing with that will Show their ability or lack of ability for valuable Christian service. , ,Therfeleutinnm ‘selection of a new board of Elder; contains a grave problem for our Presbyterian friends, for the men placed in that position will mark that church’s estimate of the place and value of personal piety or godliness Grodlikenebs in the church and community. If con siderations of wealth or social pos- ition are seen to have had strong in- fluence in their selection. by that act the church will say to the com- munity that it places things first in the church, while as a matter of fact they have no place in the church of Jesus Christ. As they creep in, godliness. spiritual life and poww- wane. was. The future for a whole gen, eratiun hangs in the balances. The Trinity folks have no serious problem, so far as we know,unless itbe the danger "of undue pride over their coii'tinued harmony, unit- ed efi‘orts and success. So of St. Mary‘s church and the other west side churcheszâ€"râ€"peace. union and prosperity prevail. But brethren. do not forget in the midst of these trial times matting is not mocked nonvcan he be deceived. and your fellowiiien' will not be deceived, how- ever much wemay deceive ourselves. For many years we have done con- siderable newspaper work,'and have owned and published three of our own We Were early taught that the high grade model was Harper's Weekly, then under Mr. Curtis’ care in his palmiest days. For vigorous forceful, incisive editorials, nothing rivalled the New York Nation, of which we have files. most of them bound, for 30 years. For condensed newer, Edgy. put, the New York Sun shines brightest. while the model lo- cal and family paper is the Spring- field (Maesachussetts) Republican. Harpers is too classic for a local pa per, but it and the Nation are jour- Inals of tremendous influence, none such in the land. Now they, like all lesser. hut successful papers, have certain traits in common. There is nothing meaningleés or colorless about them. They stand for something in the world. They are criticised. found fault with by Home and approved and applauded by others: the masses of the people stand by them or they could not flourish. Their articles are read and reread, talked of. and all that means influence.- They are all such papers as good. clean, ll()Il('Ht. fainminded people like to read and reread. That is the supreme test of journalism. So once when a college professor said to us. “I calculate to read all your editorials, although I don‘t always agree with you," we knew our paper 115 a success. that it was doing it“ legitimate work. influencing Imblio opinion. When the best people read our paper, we are content. Fiâ€"ndlly, a successful journal has a SUCCE$FUL JOURNALISM.