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^ ' : '•Z CHAPTER XXX;--Continued. Of course some's poor, and some's rfeh--that's got to be. But I think It's fikA- rfr • M- til newspaper lies about these big for­ tunes and about all the leading men in politics being corrupt. I know it ain't so about the leading men in tny party, and I reckon there ala't no more truth in it about the leading men of your'n. I was saying to my wife last night: 'It's all newspaper lies," says I, 'just like the story they printed about Mrs. Tlmmlns eloping with Maria Wllmerding's husband, when she had only went over to Rab­ bit Ford folks to visit her married daughter.' No, they can't foo? me-- them papers." "That's one way of looking at It," said I. * •It's horse sense," says he. And I've e6 doubt that to' the aver­ age citizen, leading a small, quiet life and dealing with affairs in corner- grocery retail, the stupendous facts of accumulations of wealth and whole­ sale, far-and-wide purchases of the politicians, the vast system of bribery, with bribes adapted to every taste and conscience, seem impossi­ bilities, romancings of partizanship and envy and sensationalism. Nor can he understand the way superior men play the great games, the heart- lessness of ambition, the cynicism of political and commercial prostitution, and the sense of superiority to the legal and moral codes which comes to men with success. Your average citizen is a hdro-wor­ shiper, too. He knows his own and his neighbor's weaknesses, but he gapes up at the great with glamoured eyes, and listens to their smooth plausibil­ ities as to the reading of the Gospel from the pulpit. He belongs to the large mass of those who believe, not to the small class of those who ques­ tion. But for the rivalries and jealousies of superior men which have kept them always divided into two parties, the ins and the outs, I imag­ ine the masses would have remained forever sunk in the most helpless, if the most delightful, slavery--that in which the slave accepts his lowliness as a divine ordinance and looks up to his oppressors and plunderers as hero- leaders. And no doubt, so long as the exuberant riches of our country enable the triumphant class to "take care of" all the hungry who have in­ telligence enough to make themselves dangerous, we shall have no change-- except occasional spasms whenever a large number of unplaced intelligent hungry are forcing the full and fat to make room for them. Hcto long will this be? If our education did not merely feed prejudices instead of removing them, I should say not long. As it is, I expect to "leave the world as wick­ ed and las foolish as I found it." At any rate, until the millennium, I shall continue to play the game under the rules of human nature--instead of un­ der the rules of human ideals, as does my esteemed friend Scarborough. And I claim that we practical men are as true and useful servants of our country and of our fellow men as he. If men like him are the light, men like us are the lantern that shields it from the alternating winds of ra­ pacity and resentment. But, in running on about myself, I have got away from my point, which was how slight and even flimsy a pretense of fairness will shelter a man in high place--and therefore a Burbank. "He will fool the people as easily as he fools himself," said I. And more than ever it seemed to me that X must keep out of the game of his administration. My necessity of party regularity made it impos­ sible for me to oppose him; my equal necessity of not outraging my sense of the wise, not to speak of the decent, made it Impossible for me to abet him. At last Woodruff came in person. When his name was brought to me I regretted that I could not follow my strong impulse to refuse to see him. But at sight of his big strong body and big strong face, with its typi­ cally American careless good humor --the coo! head, the warm heart, the amused eyes and lips that could also harden into sternness of resolution-- at sight uf this old friend and com- panion-in-arm», my mind began to lift and I felt him stirring in it like sunshine attacking a fog. "I know what you've come to say," I began, "but don't say it. I shall keep to my tent for the present." "Then you won't have a tent to ksep to," retorted he. "Very well," said I. "My private affairs will give me all the occupa­ tion I need " He laughed. "The general resigns from the command of the army to play with a box of lead soldiers." "That sounds well," said I. "But the better the analogy, the worse the logic. I am going out of the business Of making and working off gold bricks and green goods--and that's no analogy." "Then yon must be going to kHI yourself,** he replied, "for that is life." "Public life--active Hfe," said I. "Sere there are other things," and I looked toward my two daughters. Whose laughter reached us from their pony-cart just rounding a distant carve in the drive. ' His gaze followed mine, and he watched the two children until they were out of sight, watched them with the saddest, hungriest look in his eyes. "Guess you're right." ho said gruffly. * After a silence I asked: "What's ' newer A quizzical smile just cnrlcd hfe Hps, and it broadened Into a laugh aa he saw nit own rather shamefaced smile of "understanding Seems to me," said he, "that I read somewhere once how a king,\ perhaps it was an emperor, so hankered for the quiet joys that he got off the throne and retired to a monastery--and then established lines of post-horses from his old cap­ ital to bring him the news every half- hour or so. I reckon he'd have taken his job back if .he could hare got it." "I reckon," said I. "Well," said he, "the news is that they're about to oust you from! the chairmanship of the national commit­ tee and from control of this state." "Really?" said I, in an indifferent tone, though I felt anything but in­ different. "Really," said he. "Burbank is throwing out our people throughout the country and is putting Goodrich men in place of 'em--wherever our fellows won't turn traitor. And they've got hold of Roebuck. He's giving a dinner at the Auditorium to-morrow night. It's a dinner of 11 covers. I think you can guess who ten of 'em are for. The eleventh is for Dom­ inick!" other men yield him the command-* give it to him, fierce It on him. If he hangs back. "What do you want me to dor I asked. * "That dinner to-morrow night is in suite L. Go to it--that's the shortest way to put Roebuck and Dominlck out of business. Face 'em and they'll skulk." "If 8 a risk," said I. I taw at once that he was right, but I was in a re­ luctant humor. "Not a bit of it," wajs his confident reply. "I had a horse-that was crazy --would run away on any old provo­ cation. But no matter how busy he was at kicking up the dust and the dashboard, you could always halt him by ringing a bell once. He'd been in the street car service. That's the way It is with men, especially strong men, that have been broken to the bell. They hear It ring and they can't resist Go up and ring the bell." "Go ring it yourself," said 1. "You're the bell," said he. CHAPTER XXXI. Harvey Sayler, Swineherd. At a little after eight the following night. I was in Chicago, was knock­ ing at suite L in the Auditorium ho­ tel; I was hearing sounds from with­ in that indicated that the dinner was "For Ofaaby** ghontr said J, plaa* antly. His big lips writhed. And aa my glance of greeting to these old friends of mine traveled down one side of the table and up the other, it might have been setting those faces on fire, so brightly did they flame. It was hard for me to keep my disgust beneath the surface. Those "gentle­ men" assembled there were among the "leading citizens1" of my state; and Roebuck was famous on both sides of the Atlantic as a king of commerce and a philanthropist. Yet, every one of those brains was busy most of Its hours with assassin-like plottings--and for what purpose? For ends so petty, so gross and stupid that it was inconceivable how intel­ ligence could waste life upon them, not to speak of the utter depravity and lack of manliness. Liars, cheats, bribers; and flaunting the fruits of infamy as honors, as titles to respect, as gifts from Almighty God! And here they were, assembled now for silly plot- tings against the man whose only of­ fense in their eyes was that he was saving them from themselves--was preventing them from killing the goose that would cheerfully keep on laying the golden eggs for the priv­ ilege of remaining alive. It was piti­ ful. It was nauseating. I felt my degradation in stooping to such oompany. I spoke to Dominlck last. To my Our Springfield Letter Special Correspondent Writes of Thing* oi Interest at the State Capital. under way. The door swung back, ^ and there stood old Roebuck hlmfeelf, j surprise he squarely returned nsy napkin in hand, his shriveling old face showing that his dollar sense was taklnc up the strength which his other senses were losing. He was saying cordially: "Ah, Croffut, you are late--" Then his dim eyes saw me; he pulled himself up like a train when the air brakes are clapped on. "They told me at t'he office that yon were at dinner," said I, in the Springfield. -- Women politicians have discovered something which has about taken their breath away. The Oglesby direct primary bill disfran­ chises them so far as concerns a voice in the nomination of candidates for whom the law gives them the right to vote. They discover not only that di­ rect primaries'probably would depri ve them of representation on the board of trustees of the University of Illi­ nois, but that this particular primary bill does not even allow them any "say" in the nominations. , Represen­ tative David Shanahan, the opponent of direct primaries, who displayed the manner in which it would work out in the length of the primary ballot, has aided in discovering that it disfran­ chises the women voters. The women politicians are taking the matter seri­ ously and are asking for amendments Wills New Capital Hospital. An additional public hospital tor Springfield is provided for in the will of the late Col. Stephen Logan Littler, which has been filed for probate. The testament Creates a trust of the bulk of Col. Littler's estate, which is said to amount to nearly $1,000,000. Pro­ vision is made for the payment of the net income to rflatives and other bene­ ficiaries until the death of the longest lived of the beneficiaries, when the en­ tire trust estate is to become immedi­ ately available for founding and main­ taining a new hospital. Twenty-five per cent, of the value of the property may be used in purchasing grounds, erecting buildings, and equipping the institution, and the remainder of the estate is to be retained by the trus­ tee and the annual income is to used in maintaining the hospital. The NEWS OF ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST PROM ALL OVER THE STATS. , u .- VS&E • ^ FIGHT WHITE SLAVE SIN --------~-- • " ."'W- Assistant State's Attorney Su#g««t»~^|^j| That State of Illinois Help to Stamp Out Evil In Chicago • * --Crusade Is Started. < f4 s M m 'The General Resigns from the Command of the Army to Play with a Box of Lead Soldiers." That was enough. I grasped the situation instantly. The one weak spot in my control of my state was my having left the city bosses their local power, Instead of myself ruling the cities from the state capital. Why had I done this? Perhaps the bottom reason was that I shrank from per­ mitting apy part of the machine for which I was directly responsible to be financed by collections from vice and crime. I admit that the distinc­ tion between corporate privilege and plunder and the pickings and steal­ ings and prostitutions of individuals is more apparent than real. I admit that the kinds of vice and crime I tolerated are far more harmful than the other sorts which are petty and make loathing outcasts of their wretched practitioners. Still, I was snob or Pharisee or Puritan enough to feel and to act upon the imagin­ ary distinction. And so, I had left the city bosses locally independent-- for, without the revenues and other aids from vice and crime, what city political machine could be kept up?" "Dominlck!" I exclaimed. "Exactly!" said Woodruff. "Now, Mr. Sayler, the point is just here. I don't .blame you for wanting to get out. If I had any other game, I'd get out myself. But what's to become of us--all of your friends, not only in this state but throughout the country? Are you going to stand by and see them slaughtered and not lift a finger to help 'em?" There was no answering him. Yet the spur of vanity, which clipped into me at thought of myself thrown down and out by these cheap ingrates and scoundrels, had almost Instantly ceased to sting, and my sense of weary disgust had returned. If I went Into the battle again, what work faced me? The same old monotonous round. To outflank Burbank and Good­ rich by tricks as old as war and pol­ itics, and effective only because hu­ man stupidity is infinite and unteach- able. To beat down and whip back into the ranks again these bandits of commerce disguised as respectable, church-going, law-upholding men of property--and to do this by the same old method of terror and force. "You can't leave us In the lurch." said Doc. "And the game promises to be interesting once more. I don't like racing on the flat. It s the hur­ dles that makes the fun " tone of one who has unintentionally blundered. "As I was looking for dinner, I rather hoped you'd ask me to join you. But I see that--" "Come right in," he said smoothly, but gray as a sheep. "You'll find some old friends of yours. We're tak­ ing advantage of the convention of western manufacturers to have a lit­ tle reunion." I now had a full view of the table. There was a silence that made the creaking of starched evening shirt- bosoms noisy as those men drew long stealthy breaths when breathing became imperative. All my "clients" and Dominlck -- he at Roebuck's right. At Roebuck's left there was a vacant chair. "Shall I sit here?" said I easily. "That place was reserved--was for --but--" stammered Roebuck. gaze. His eyes were twinkling, as the eyes of a pig seem to be, If yon look straight into its face when it lifts its snout from a full trough. Presently he could contain the huge volume of his mirth no longer. It came roaring from him like" a great coarse torrent, shaking his vast bulk and the chair sustained it, swelling the veins in his face, resounding through the silent room while the waiters literally stood aghast. At last he found breath to ejaculate: "Well, I'll be good and--damned!" This gale ripped from the others and whirled away their cloaks of sur­ face-composure. Naked, they suggest­ ed a lot of rats in a trap--Dominlck jeering at them and anticipating the pleasure of watching me torture them. I choked back the surge qf repulsion and said to Roebuck: "Then where shall I sit?" Roebuck looked, almost wildly, to­ ward the foot of the table. '..He long­ ed to have me as far from him as possible. Partridge, at the foot of the table, cried out--in alarm: "Make room for the senator between you and Mr. Dominlck, Roebuck! He ought to be as near the head of the table as possible." "No matter where Senator Sayler j sits, it's the head of the table," said Roebuck. His commonplace - cour­ tesy indicated, not recovered ' self- control, but the cunning of his ram* pant instinct of self-preservation--- that cunning which men so often ex­ hibit in desperate straits, thereby winning credit for cool courage. "We're a merry company," said I, as we sat This, with a glance at Dominlck heaving in the subsiding storm of his mirth. My remark set him off again. I glanced at his place to see if he had abandoned his for­ mer Inflexible rule of total abstinence. There stood his Invariable pot of tea. Clearly, it was not drink that enabled him to enjoy a situation which, as it seemed to me, was fully as unattrac­ tive to him as for his fellows. Soon the door opened and in strode Croffut; handsome, picturesque, with his pose of dashing, brave manhood, which always got the crowds into a mood for the frenzy his oratory con* jured. Croffut seemed to me to put the climax upon this despicable com­ pany--Croffut, one of the great ora­ tors of the party, adored by the people that, but for overwhelming su­ periority in the state, I should never have dared eject him from office. Since I ejected him he had not spoken to me. Dominick looked at him, said in a voice that would have flared even the warm ashes of manhood into a fu­ rious blaze: "Go and shake hand* with Senator Sayler, Croffut, and sit down." Croffut advanced, smiling. "I am fit for my company," thought I a» I let him clasp my hand. "Better tilt Granby's ghost out of that chair. Croffut," said Dominick, as the ex-senator was seating himself. And in his animal exuberance of de­ light at his joke and at the whole situation he clapped Roebuck on the shoulder. (TO BE CONTINUED.) LD HOME OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, WHICH IS TO BE TORN DOWN. Chicago.--Charges that Chicago rapidly is becoming the greatest "white slave" center of the world and that a powerful syndicate for traffic in young girls exists in the city has stirred religious and settlement work­ ers to form a large organization for the express purpose of combating the , evil. State aid to stamp out the evil was advocated by Assistant State's At­ torney C. G. Roe. At a meeting of nearly 50 ministers, lawyers, and settlement leaders In the Young Men's Christian Association building plans were laid for the wo rk. The following organizations already have expressed their eagerness to ^ fi join in a crusade against the traffic ^ in girls: " Cook County Women's Christian, A Temperance union, Citizens' league, . '*| Cook County Federation of Women's ^ clubs, Social Settlement league. Legal ^ ̂ Aid society, Associated Charities, Chi- ^ ̂ cago Purity league, National Purity 1 association, Relief Aid society, City * club, Visitin- Nurse association, ^ Young Men's Christian association. J|f Young Women's Christian association, '->|| 1 Illinois Training School for Girls, Sal- ,,J| , | vation Army home, Florence Critten- 4 * den home. Midnight Refuge house. ^ Many of the named organizations sent representatives to the confer- i ence, while others expressed their willingness to cooperate in any move- \*|§ ^ ment the organization might under- v f take. Miss Rose Johnson, an Eng- lishwoman, who has devoted her life to rescue work in Egypt and Panama* -||| stirred her hearers to action by as*. , M serting there are paid agents in those countries receiving many young and * innocent girls from Chicago, "and that j, *| they are sold into bondage. Judge- / ' j Necomer and Assistant State's At*v torney C. G. Roe furnished additional , ' Sj information as to the traffic. ' •: "There is a great Chicago syndicate |Y; for the traffic in young girls," said Mr. Roe. "I have prosecuted over 5® \ young men who are tools of the syn* ?| ̂ dicate. They are hired to keep com- ^ fortable and even fashionable bache- lor apartments to which they lure" j young girls. I believe the state should' - £ - J give us a force of detectives to ferrta*^ , /• out the agent* In this business." , < • & . u/ w'.'* horse going round and round the ring. Jumping the same o!d hardies at the same old intervals. "Take my place, Doc," said I. He shook his head. Tm a good second," said he, "but a rotten bad first." It was true enough. Hennysterl- onsly lacked that mysterious some­ thing which, when a man happens to have been born with. It, makes TRAPPING WILD ANIMALS. Jungle Creatures Have No Chance Against Ingenuity of Man. "Elephants Is easy trapped," said a zoo keeper. "Very easy trapped, very easy tamed. The trapper chooses a spot what is a popular elephant haunt, and here he digs a hole five feet deep and 20 foot square. He surrounds this hole with a high board fence, ex­ cept in one place, where he Langs a swing gate. So far so good. Next he finds a herd of elephants, chooses the animal he wants, maddens it, and makes It chase him. Lickety-split lickety-spllt. The man tears along on his nag; the ele­ phant thunders closely after, and just at the gateway the man swerves to the right, but the elephant, too heavy to swerve, bangs right on through, kerthump, into the hole. He's mad at first, outrageous, terri­ ble. But they give him no food nor drink, they build around the pit fires of damp wood that suffocate him nearly with the smoke, and they dase him with shouts and the bangln' of brass pens. That there wild elephant I pictured myself again a circn«lls completely broke and subdued in three cr four days. He comes forth tmh tollers the trapper humbly and timidly, with tears In his eyes. Monkeys Is trapped--ain't It a shame? --with boose. You rush in among a flock of them, and they take to the trees, chatterln' and watchful. You pull out some bottles of strong, sweet booze, pretend to drink from them, then lay them down and go away. On your return an hoar later the floor of the jungle Is strewn with the limp, slim bodies of drunken monkeys. The only animal impossible to trap is the gorilla. Too strong and fierce." Where Beggars Ride. "If wishes were horses beggars might ride," says the old saw, but is1 Persia beggars actually do ride, ak though they patronize the humbls donkey instead of the more aristocrat ic brother. How they manage to ob­ tain these useful animals, or even to exist themselves, passes European comprehension, but the fact remains that they do both. The Persian tramp, astride his donkey, often makes very long journeys--even as far as Meshed or Mecca, whence he retiy-ns with the proud title of "Hadji." useful as the donkey is to his mendicant mas­ ter, the latter usually treats him In s most brutal fashion, a length of chain being a frequent substitute for a whip when the unfortunate animal needs encouragement.--Wide * World Maga» sine. All the Particulars. French gendarme sent in the fol­ lowing report to his superior officer recently: "The undersigned declares that at ten o'clock in the morning h« passed in such a street and saw twa women and two men in a shop occ»> pied in breaking glasses, the two w» men by the hair of their heads and the two men by the scruff of their necks, and of which one had a broom, stick, which was the master of th« shop and which affair the undersigned has nothing to say and known about it." Theancient frante structure at 34 East Thirty-fifth street, Chicago, known as the Douglas homestead, which is about to be torn down to make way for a modern flat building, was erected for Stephen A. Douglas, the "Little Giant," in the early '50s. Years before that time the famous orator and political antagonist of Abraham Lincoln had bought land along the lake shore, where he intended to build a home. Some of this land was bought from his widow by the state in order to provide a site for the Douglas monument. which at least will give thenPthe op­ portunity to vote for the nomination of candidates. The gallant political conventons always have allowed wo­ men a place on the state ticket and the Republican party has given three places on the university board to wo­ men. Women voters are allowed to vote in state elections for candidates for the state university board and in school district elections for school trustees. The latter nominations have been taken out of the operation of the Oglesby bill by amendment, but the candidates for university trustees are included in it. In the first place the women can see that women candi­ dates would have a small chance in a primary unless the women turned out strongly at primary elections and threw their strength to three or four women candidates. In the second place they cannot find where the Oglesby bill recognizes their right to have anything at all to say in the nomination of the candidates whom they have a right to vote in general elections. The question may appear a small one to the legislators, but there is a chance of great results being ob­ tained from small questions when the supreme court gets the bill, as it un­ doubtedly will in the course of time. A quick trip into the courts is promised by George E. Cole if the measure in becoming law does not retain the Mc- Goorty amendment allowing the voters to determine how many candidates shall be nominated for the house of representatives. Other parts of the property were sub- diVidedv He called his property "Oak- enwald" and selected a pretty Bpot, surrounded by fine trees, for the site of his "home. The structure is one and one-half storieB high and consists of 12 roonfs, with the kitchen and din- ing-room in the basement. It was in this home that Mr. Douglas formulated his plan for the famous debates with Lincoln. Seeberger & Richards, real estate agents for the property, which now belongs to Herrick Stevens es­ tate, declare the house is too old to be of any use. homestead of Col. Littler is bequeathed to his cousin. Senator Logan Hay. To Senator Hay also is bequeathed all real estate owned by the decedent in the city of Springfield, including sev­ eral office buildings. Col. Littler was 36 years old at the time of his death, a few weeks since. He was unmarried and his nearest surviving relatives are cousins. He was a son of the late Senator David T. Littler, and was a member of the military staff of the late Gov. John R. Tanner. 8hip for Illinois Militia. Assistant Secretary Newberry at Washington has assigned the Nash­ ville for the use of the Illinois naval militia. The vessel is no longer of value to the regular navy. Drop Delegate Provision. No action will be taken by the sen­ ate and house primary election bill conference on the proposal for an ad­ visory vote on president and vice pres­ ident. "An agreement has been reached, and no new subjects will be incorporated in the bill," said one of the conferees. "It has been agreed to eliminate from the Oglesby bill the provisions for the election of delegates and alternates to the national conven­ tions and of presidential electors. In all other particulars the Oglesby bill will stand, in substance if not In form." MISS DIXON SOON TO BE FREE, ; Pretty Church Embezzler Will T»af*|* . Live Down Her Disgrace. ~ Bloomington.--Pretty Helen Dixon, . ^ sewing time in the county jail for th®. ; '• ^ embezzlement of funds of the Second ^ H Christian church, will be at liberty t f; ̂ within a week. Miss Dixon announce* that she will not leave this city when fj "' j released, but will remain here to live ® ^ down the disgrace to which she sub* -.j jected her name. n The penitent little woman states ^ that she would rather take up her residence here where her offense is ' 1 known than go to a strange placa where her disgrace would crop oute at some unexpected time. She statei that Bhe will obtain a livelihood by d^ i lng work of any nature, from acrub-^ ; bing floors to stenography. | y On June last, Miss Dixon was sen^ ? = tenced to six months in the county. jail, following her plea of guilty to the charge of grand larceny tp the charges against her had Ml*.-- changed. Odd Fellows Elect'Officers. The following officers were elected by the Grand Encampment of Illinois Odd Fellows: Grand patriarch, Fred D. P. Snelling, of Chicago; grand high priest, H. E. Makutchan, Princeton; grand senior warden, D. C. Stocking, Rock ford: grand scribe, Henry C. Pelt- inan, Salem: grand treasurer, E- H. Kinney, Table Grove. A school of in­ struction in the secret work of the Rebekah degree was held in the state arsenal, conducted by Mrs. Nellie M. Harris, chief instructor. The grand lodge met in Representatives hall and conferred the grand lodge degree on qualified members. The Rebekah as­ sembly degree was conferred on all past grands entitled to the same in the state arsenal. Oglesby Reshapes Primary Bill. Representative Oglesby, author of the primary election bill pending in t^ie legislature, and Assistant Attorney General Woodward have completed the work of reshaping the bill, so far as its provisions have been agreed upon by the joint conference commit­ tee. The measure will be submitted to the sub-committee of the joint con­ ference committee at its meeting Fri­ day. Fishing Season Opens. The seining season on the Illinois river Is proving exceptionally profita­ ble on account of the low water. The water has reached the lowest mark this year; it is now standing at eight feet eight inches. The John A. Schulte fishing crew landed a haul of 35,000 pounds recently, which was mostly carp. The haul was made in Thompson lake, which is on the Ful­ ton county side of the river. The fish­ ermen were kept busy from Tuesday noon until Wednesday noon sorting the fish sod placing them in lire boxes. Madden Back; Praises Canal. Congressman Martin B. Madden, of Illinois, just back from an inspection of the Panama canal, is enthusiastic over what he saw, and said: 'With­ out a doubt the Panama canal can be made an accomplished fact in five more years. Last month a total of 1,879,000 cubic yards of earth were excavated, and that, notwithstanding the rainy season was at its height. This speaks more than could any oth­ er statement of the progress that has been made possible and that is being continued." Wants a Law on Courtships. "All the young people who contem­ plate marriage should by law be com­ pelled to take a course on the question of their own legal rights and their ob­ ligations to one another," said Judge Petit to the Woman's club of the Arrnl- tage Avenue settlement In Chicago. "If this were done wife desertion and child abandonment would be unheard of. There should be a reciprocity law between the various states, so a man could be brought back when he runf away." : !-Vl William Lathop Is Dead. .i Rock ford.--William Lathrop* one ttt v|* the founders of the Republican party In Illinois, died at his home hem from injuries received when he wan run over by a horse and buggy in tin city park. He was 82 years old. Ho was Rockford's first city clerk, afl|& was president of the Rockford han- pital. He defeated Gen. Stephen 4L, Hurlbut for congress in the Fourtli district, in 1876, serving one term^ Miss Julia Lathrop, member of thf state board of charities, is his dauc|h ter. Fatal Wreck Near Peoria. Peoria.---A Chicago & Alton ger train and a Vandalla freight came together head-on at Farmdale, she miles east of here. One trainman was killed and the list of injured numbers seven. Both roads are tenant lines of the T. P. & W. on which the wreck occurred. Earl Wherff, of Term Haute, Ind., fireman of the Vandalla train, died at Proctor hospital to tW» city. ,, Long Separated; Wed. Pans.--School children togeth«|f|J close friends, sweethearts and latH? betrothed, Peter Trison and Antoinette Fleger were married in this city aftttr a separation lasting many yearn. . v : Raise Section of Pans Mine. Pana.--The main section of ths Penwell mine was raised. Several hundred people witnessed the raisin®. The mine will be in shape tor opwfir, tion within two weeks. Peorian Crushed to Death. Peoria. -- Edward Nevour crushed to death by a car of while at work at the gas plant. Keeps Saloon Open; Fined fSS. Decatur.--George Warren was fined $65 for keeping bis saloon open oil Sunday. „ Fears Sponee's Throat. Taylorvllle.--Mrs. Mary E. Shaffer filed suit in the circuit conrt for % divorce from her husband, Ama* Shaffer, who is now In Montgomery county. She charges cruelty &nd[ drunkenness, and does not ask for thin custody of their child, through fear that the defendant will oarr* threats 1m has made to hill fcaci. V| Physician Is Kitted. *" Murphysboro.--Dr. W. W. Essiok was killed here by an Illinois Central switch engine* , > ĵi .* 71.-'. • -'4 !•. .. *vv„ '*<'> .,.j£. * .1 V.J V • ' •¥ "i.