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"4ti: Seventeen - Yea.r Locusts . Due to Swa^rm in May. CHAPTER IN A FELINE ROMANOE Warnings are being sent out by the state commissioners of agriculture all over the northern and eastern parts of the United States against the great •warm of seventeen-year locusts which It is expected will make its appearance next nonth. After sleeping under­ ground for nearly two decades, the in­ sects vrill come out in May in enor­ mous numbers, and fruit-growers espe­ cially will have reason to fear for the safety of their trees. This locust is the weirdest and In some respects the most interesting of *11 insects. No other insect lives for Anything like so long a time, and sorely nothing can be more strange than a fcabit which requires an animal of the recurrence of the cicada at sev­ enteen-year intervals, the first writ­ ten notes on the subject having been made in 1715. The last appearance of the swarm was in 1885, so that the next one is due in 1902. There are other swarms of locusts which turn up every year at different places, but the one expected next month is by far the largest. Boy Won By Mlatatoi'i Taet. The Rev. Dr. Mackenzie, who is coming to New York from San Fran­ cisco, has always been popular with children. One story goes that he was calling on a new parishioner who had a "limb" of a boy. She had invited 'p5SQ«t£- jrarmw Did Thla C»t Perpetrate Sileld* Be- cause of JMloufT We have no such affection for stories about cats as for those about dogs, but a cat story that reaches us from Brooklyn Is at least as interesting as a third or fourth rave dog story, and is therefore worth printing. The Brooklyn cat in question had received a large amount of attention and affec­ tion from the members of the family with whom she lived--they might bet­ ter have given both to a dog, but it'B a Brooklyn story, remember--and the creature had come to regard herself as of much importance--an absurd mis­ take, of course, but never mind that, either. The other day an amiable child vis­ ited the cat's family and received much petting. This the cat observed with a jealous and angry eye, and manifest­ ed displeasure in several sulky feline ways. Later the hosts and the little guest betook themselves to a sort of roof garden with which the house is equipped. The cat followed, watched for a while the continuance of the con­ duct to which she objected, and then- disappeared. An hour or two later she was fouud dead on the ground close to the house, and her owners declare that she committed suicide out of grief over the neglect to which she had been sub­ jected. Nobody saw the animal jump from the roof, so it may have been an accidental fall. The chances that a cat would fall from a roof are minute, but BO are the chances that she would com­ mit suicide. Just what happened will never be known. The problem Is not very important. If It had been a dog, now, the matter would have been worth earnest and laborious Investiga­ tion.--New York Times. rlBf Wktrt the Swarms of Lorut* Are Expected to Represent* a Distinct Swarm. Appeal--Kaeh Da to spend so extended a period in soli­ tude in a subterranean cell, the whole of the open-air career of the seven- teenyear cicada, as it is properly called, comprising only a few days. Filling the ground from which they issue with oountless exit boles, swarm­ ing over trees and shrubs, and making the air vibrate with their shrill, dis­ cordant notes, the locusts leave ob- Yious marks of their presence in the small wounds, made for the purpose of depositing eggs, which cover all the smaller twigs and branches. Though no serious harm is done for­ est trees, fruit trees and young nur­ sery stock are liable to suffer consid­ erably. The young ant-like larvae hatched from the eggs escape from the wound­ ed limbs, drops lightly to the ground, and quickly burrow out of sight, each one forming for itself a little subter­ ranean chamber over some rootlet, where it remains winter and summer, hurled and solitary, in this manner ,passing the seventeen years of its un­ derground existence, while preparing tor a few weeks only of the society of its fellows and the enjoyment of the qnnnhina and fragrant air of early summer. With perfect regularity, at the end of the allotted period, millions of the insects attain maturity at almost the same moment. For four or five weeks the winged male sings his song of Hove and courtship, and the female tousles herself with the placing of the sggs which are to produce a fresh gen- oration seventeen years later. For feearly two centuries there is a record the doctor to dinner. "Willie," she said to her hopeful, "pass Dr. Macken­ zie a potato." Willie seized the pota­ to between thumb and finger and be­ fore his mother could utter a horrified remonstrance, he had tossed it across the table and squarely into the good man's lap. "Judgment!" cried Willie. "One strike," quoted the quick witted clergyman. "Willie, leave the table," stormed his mother. "Madam," said the minister, "do not judge him harsh­ ly. See how beautifully he put the sphere over the plate." And from that time there wasn't a more earnest worker in all the big Sunday school than that same Willie. Indian Gets a Vote at 81. The first real American Indian ever registered in Rockland had his name added to'the voting list of ward 2 last week. His name is Loren Lee. He was born on the Shinnecock reserva­ tion, Long Island, N. Y., and Is of pure Indian blood. He is 81 years of age and made a fine appearance. He has served in the United States navy. "Indians not taxed" are not permitted by law to vote in this state, but Mr. Lee was assessed and taxed last year and so qualified.--Daily Kennebec Journal. Acquisition for Unseam. A gold plate which Charles Bona­ parte pawned in order to pay the trav­ eling expenses of his son, Napoleon, to the military school at Brienne has been placed in the town museum at Ajaccio. 0 New Design for Fla.g of the United Staites. Congressman Shafroth of Colorado has a plan which he claims will beau­ tify the American flag and also make It more symbolical. Shafroth's idea is that the field of the flag should be one-third the fly length of the banner and contain thir­ teen stars in a circle, representing the thirteen original states. He would then have thirty stars, representing thirty states, placed within the circle In the design of a large star, and two stars, representing Wyoming and Utah Crime of Ras*lan Students. Russia has published a' statement about the settlement of the student troubles at Moscow. Their crime was forming an organization and startiug a political movement. Nearly seven hundred were arrested and of these ninety-five were exiled to Irkutsk, in Siberia, for periods ranging from two to five years, and 567 were sent to prison for terms between three and six months. SUrer Coronation Medal. ,A sihrer medal has been struck to oommemorate King Edward's corona­ tion. The obverse has the heads of 'the king and queeen in high relief. >The reverse represents Britannia, seated and surrounded by various em­ blems, with Westminster Abbey in the background. The sculptor is Mr. Emll •Fuchs, who perpetrated the new post­ age stamps. 3,' Kollow* German (Tash'on. Miss Lila Sloan of New York has in­ troduced the German fashion, and has given a sapphire and diamond engage- Bent rio,g to her future husband. the last states admitted to the union, placed temporarily on a straight line each side of the center of the interior star. His scheme also includes a plan for continuing the artistic symmetry of the design as other states are admit­ ted. Because the country owns its ex­ istence as a nation to the thirteen original states, he would have the stars which represent them one-eighth larger than those representing the states afterward admitted. The Land of KI Dorado. At the head waters of the Orinoco the Spanish traditions located tlfe land of El Dorado, "The Gilded Man," a potentate whose country was so rich in gold dust that he had his body anointed with oil and sprinkled with gold every morning, so that he shone in the sun as though gilded. It is.a curious fact that the country in which tradition located this marvelous be­ ing has never been explored by a white man. Karty Type of Masic. •r-"7-«rTf iO id «*«f attl This is the way music was written in the tenth century. Call for British Vnlnateera. The British war office call for 10,000 volunteers for the front in order to release those who have already served a year in South Africa to return home has, it iB said, proved practically futile. Only about 1,500 men have responds^ Or about 15 per cent. MOTIVES THAT INFLUENOE MISERS. Dread of Povirty Is Generally the Chief Csase. The case of a man who died from personal privations with 2,000 hoarded pounds within reach of his skeleton fingers inspires a moralizing mood concerning the motives of the misers. The only one that strikes me as reach­ ing the nearest to the truth is the hy­ pothesis of fear--fear of extreme pov­ erty, to avoid which at some indefinite future time the miser faces all its con­ sequences in the present. The gibe of the old laborer, who said to his master, "I be a braver man than you be, tor I durst spend my last farden, and you dursent," is quoted as affording the best hint of the real truth. When once the mind conceives the idea of possible poverty there is scarcely anything it will not do to avert the horrible con­ tingency, says the London Globe. Men in battle have been known to shoot themselves in the dread fear of being shot by the advancing enemy. Fear in money matters, as in all others, par­ alyzes the judgment and shakes the reason. Misers are probably in all oth­ er respects the purest and most moral of men; they are at any rate as rigor­ ous in their asceticism as monk and friar. But such is the force of this vice that is destroys by its own strong arm all the higher emotions and aspirations of humanity, leaving its victim a mis­ erable and negative creature, beneath the contempt of his weaker brethren. Mew York's Water Supply- New York's Croton dam, the largest iver undertaken by man, is 200 feet thick at the bottom, 300 feet high from the base of ' the foundatiou, 150 feet high above the ground and 1,000 feet long. It Is located three miles from Peekskill, the top of the dam being 216 feet above tidewater and 100 feet above the reservoir in Ceqtral Park. The storage capacity., Is l£o,000,000 gallons. Work has been in progress eight years and will continue three years longer. The estimated cost of the dam was 94,- 150,573, but $1,000,000 additional will be required. * & * * * * ILLINOIS ITEMS & & WHERE WOMAN BEIQN8 SUPREME. Pemllarlty of the Fletaree^ae Towa of Tehnantepoo. This town, to which the Isthmus owes its name. Is extremely picturesque. Strangers are almost unknown, and many quaint habits, customs and cos­ tumes still remain. Strange to say, however, in this very up-to-date, far­ away spot "Women's rights" are un­ disputed. Ninety per cent of the trade is done by the women; a wife has to vouch for her husband before he can even get credit! Indeed, woman reigns supreme. The market-place presents a curious spectacle; hardly a man is to be seen; in fact, cutlery seems to be the only trade he is allowed to ply, says the Fortnightly Review. Not only do the women predominate in business, but they prove beyond all doubt that because a woman earns a livelihood it is not necessary for her to be ugly or misshapen. On the contrary, the wom­ en of Tehauntepec are remarkable for their beauty of face and form. Dark- skinned, with glorious soft eyes and masses of wavy black hair, they pos­ sess exquisite features and lovely teeth. They are the most beautiful women in Mexico, and their carriage at once at­ tracts attention. Small in stature, they are fine in limb; in fact, the girls of Tehauantepec seem born models for the artist's brush. A Race Between Go|d and BUwmi. The official statement of the miiieral products of the United States for the last ten years--1891 to 1900 inclusive- shows how the coining value of the gold produced, starting at less than half that of the silver produced, finally overtook and passed it. The actual quantity of the yearly product of gold measured, in ounces, considerably more than doubled during the decade; that of silver showed .large fluctuations, and in 1900 was but little more than in 1891. The respective values in 1891 were for silver 75,416,565, and for gdld $33,175,000. Silver touched its lowest point in 1894, when its value was $64,- 000,000, that of gold for the same year being $39,500,000. Silver had its great­ est lead in 1892. when it stood at $82- 099,150, against only $33,000,000 for gold. In 1899 gold passed silver in an almost neck and neck race the respec­ tive values being for gold $71,053,400 and for silver $70,806,626. In 1900 gold increased its lead, standing at $79,322,- 281, against $77,070,471 for silver. -- Youth's Companion. The tight cord Is the easiest to snap. During the first three months Of this year City Clerk Frank Suddoth of Mt. Vernon issued thirty-six death certi­ ficates. The Wabash, Chester and Western railroad has paid its taxes, amounting to $1,649.15, to Collector R. A. Ander­ son at Mt. Vernon. State Mine Inspector Evan Johns Is seriously ill at his home in Carbondale. The old race track at the Cairo fair grounds exists no longer. A force of workmen is engaged in grading the grounds, which will be platted into city lot*. Dr. Allan Dunaway, a prominent resident of Virginia, died suddenly of heart disease at Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Lydia Hallett is dead at her home at Bloomington, aged 87. The Democratic congressional com­ mittee of the new 25th district con­ vened in Carbondale to issue a call for the next Democratic convention, which will convene in that city on June 3 to nominate a candidate for Congress in opposition to Congressman Smith. D. W. Karraker of Jonesboro, was elected chairman, and State Sena­ tor Roy Alden, secretary. Thomas J. Trotter has resigned his position as. postmaster at Columbus, and a number of applications have been filed for appointment to succeed him. Among the applicants is Richard McNeal, former recorder of Adams county, who is highly Indorsed for the position. It is understood he will be appointed. Mrs, Annie Mary Williams died at her home in Waterloo, aged 76 years. She was born in Germany. Mrs. Corinna Morton Green, wife of Dr. W. Duff Green, died at Mount Ver non. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Highland fair association held In the city hall it was unanimously de elded to hold a fair next fall. The dates set are September 4, 5, 6 and 7 Mrs. Christina Klein, an old resident of Quincy, died, aged 82 years. • Harry Worth, aged 12 years, had his foot crushed by being caught under the wheels of a dray at Quincy. The Enterprise Stove and Sheet Metal Manufacturing company has been in corporated at Quincy with a capital of $20,000, and will soon commence op­ erations, giving employment to twenty men. The Daughters of Rebekah of Alton lodge are planning to give a big pic­ nic at Rock SprlngB park May 1 to celebrate the anniversary of the found lug of Odd Fellowship. The Alton lodges of Odd Fellows will co-operato with the Rebekahs In giving the plc- nlc. Rev. Louis J. Duncan, formerly of Quincy, has accepted a call to become pastor of the Unitarian church in Butte, Mont. The Chicago and Alton Is digging a ditch 15 feet wide, 15 feet deep and several milefc in length to divert the drainage of water near Godfrey to the railroad pond, which has been enlarged and has not been full since the im­ provements were completed. It has been found the territory drained Into the pond is not extensive enough and thousands of acres will be drained into the pond by the ditch. An injunction has been prayed for by the Chicago and Alton railway against the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis railway to restrain the defendant company from tearing out a crossing surreptitiously laid by the Alton at the junction of the two roads north of Springfield. The crossing is part of the Alton's new double-track system extending north from Springfield. Rev.Dr.Adin A. Kendnck died at his home in Upper Alton, in his 67th year. Death was due to apoplexy, which gave its first warning over one year ago, when Dr. Kendrick was stricken while engaged at his customary duties in the classroom of the theological depart­ ment of Shurtleff college. He was president of Shurtleff college from 1872 to 1894, and it was during his adminis­ tration that this, the oldest education­ al institution in the West, attained the summit of its greatness. Work on the concrete bridge to span the Big Muddy river, which will be the largest cement bridge in the world, is being pushed with a full force. At least twelve months more will be re­ quired in its construction. Prof. George H. Vincent of the uni­ versity of Chicago has been chasen to deliver the annual address at the commencement exercises of the south­ ern Illinois state normal university. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Dr. D. B. Parkinson, pres­ ident of the university. J. C. Gunn, aged 86 years, died at his home in Kinmundy. Mr. Gunn had been a resident of Illinois for sixty years and a citizen of Marion county during the past thirty-two years. He was at one time a leading lawyer of southern Illinois. He was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and Gen. John A. I/Ogan. Harvey Cobon, a saloon keeper at Oakford, shot and killed John Hare. The tragedy occurred in the saloon and is supposed to have been the re­ sult of a drunken row. Threats of lynching were being made, but the sheriff arrived and quieted the mob. At Red Bud Prof. J. W. Holtman and wife celebrated their silver wed­ ding, and their daughter Amanda was married to August Meyer, a young business man of St. Louis. The new Anna B. Millikin home at Decatur was thrown open for inspec­ tion. East Alton Methodi6ts are planning to erect a new church building, and have made a good start toward raising the necessary amount to begin work on the proposed new house of worship. Rev. Cameron Harmon of the Wash­ ington Street Methodist church has charge of the East Alton congregation. John McKinzie, an aged citizen of Springfield, suffered a stroke of par- alaysis while alone in his room. - !n falling he sustained a severe scalp wound. Medical assistance was sum­ moned and he was taken to St. John's hospital. At the annual town meeting held in Carlyle » tax levy was made for 20 cents for two purposes and 8 cents on the $100 assessed valuation for in­ terest on bonded indebtedness. A spe­ cial levy of 7 cents was made for the purpose of raising enough money to pay off one bridge bond. The fortieth anniversary of the bat­ tle of Shlloh, or Pittsburg Landing, was observed by impressive services at the Evangelical Protestant church at Mascoutah. About thirty veterans were present, among thorn a number who fpught with the Bloody Ninth in that memorable engagement. John C. Gunn, aged 86 years, died at his home in Kinmundy. Mr. Gunn was at one time a prominent lawyer of Illinois and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. An important deal has been closed which will be of great interest to Cairo because of the part in the trans­ action taken by Cairo capitalists, and especially by those concerned in river affairs. The Mound City ways, for­ merly owned by the Haarsticks, of St. Louis, and the W. F. Halliday estate, have been sold to Edward J. Howard & Sons, of Jeffersonville, Ind., who for many years have been the most prominent boat builders in the west. The new owners will as­ sume charge of the ways at once, and will doubtless do a large business. The Children's Home and Aid so­ ciety, of Cairo, at its decent meeting, decided to make an effort to secure subscriptions toward the re-establish­ ment of the orphans' home there. The ladies have been advised to consult the attorney-general of the state of Illinois regarding the matter that has been discussed for many months of reopening the orphan asylum on Twenty-fifth street, and they have de­ cided to take this action as a means of reaching a final decision. Rev. Clark Braden, pastor of the Christian church of Cairo, has left for California on a lecture tour and will be absent for a month or longer. Ser­ vices at the Christian church during his absence will be conducted by Rev. Carey, of Metropolis. The receipts of the Cairo postoffice from the sale of stamps and postal supplies for the year ending March 31 amounted to $31,582.20. The previous year the figures were $29,046.36, a gain of $2,535.84. Mr. Nathan D. Finch, of the Illinois Central ticket office force at Cairo has received notice of his appointment to the position of traveling passenger agent for the Illinois Central, with headquarters at San Antonio, Tex. He will be succeeded in the local ticket office by Mr. Edward Gross, formerly night ticket agent. Dr. William Wood died at Cairo at the age of 80 years. He came to Cairo in 1852, having lived there and at his present residence ever since. He was one of the oldest and best known phy sicians in that part of the country. He leaves a wife and several sons and daughters. The Alton Blues baseball club has been reorganized and opened the sea­ son at Sportsman's park .April 2. The local manager of the team will be Louis Berner, Jr., who will look after the business affairs of the team. Charles Schlemm, of St. Louis, will be the managei and Captain of the team. R. S. McKay, assistant orchard in­ spector of the Illinois experimental station, has just finished an Inspec­ tion of the orchards in the vicinity of Lebanon. He reports having found several in the Sutnuierfleld vicinity badly infested with the San Jose scale, but that for the most part orchards are in excellent condition. The village board of North Alton gave instructions that an ordinance be drafted and presented at the next meeting providing for the submission to a vote of the people of North Al­ ton the question of annexing the vil­ lage to Alton. The majority of mem* bers of the village board favor annex­ ation, and it is said that the question of annexation will carry if submitted at a special election. The contractor expects to have the new Carnegie library building at De­ catur finished before October. J. C. Mitchell, the jockey, who spent part of the winter in Decatur has gone to Russia to ride in races for Russian noblemen. Articles of incorporation for the Chicago Zeigler and Gulf railway have been filed in the circuit clerk's office at l^hanon. Officer Henry Spaet, of the Alton police force, was obliged to shoot a bad tramp who refused to submit to arrest twice when the officer attempted to arrest him on suspicion. Richard Lyons, a prominent farmer residing southeast of Pana, was drowned while attempting to cross a creek in the storm on his way home from Herrick. He was about 75 years of age. Mrs. Ellen Smith, widow of William H. Smith, died at the home of her son, William Eliot Smith, president of the Illinois Glass company of Alton. Mrs. Smith fell while crossing the floor of her bed chamber at the home of her son. Elm Ridge, and she sustained a fracture of her hip joint. Death, was due to the effects of this accident. Everett Maynard, a young lad, who was run over by an Illinois Central train at Cairo, died from his injuries. Mrs. A. C. Finn, wife of a prominent stock dealer, Is 4ead at his home at Kell. The controversy which was on over the location of the Ayer A Lord tie preserving plant at Alton has been set­ tled and the work on the construction of the buildings will begin at once. The plant will employ 100 men, and will treat by the bichloride of zin process over 4,000,000 ties annually. John W. Jeffery, special agent of the department for the free rural delivery service, was at Lebanon to Inspect the proposed routes applied for by that office anto conduct a civil service examination of applicants for posi­ tions as carriers. Alexander C. Nevins, a well-known newspaper man of Chicago, died at Alexian Brothers' hospital of heart failure. Doctors F. G. Stericker and H. R. Riddle of Springfield, have been ap­ pointed examining surgeons- Oasis council, No. 407, Mutual Pro­ tective League, was organized at Salem with sixty-one charter members. Charles Nichols, a prominent farmer of Meacham township, died, aged 60 years. Mrs. R. C. Finn, aged 60 years, died at her home, southeast of Salem. The newly organized carpenters and joiners' union ef Pinckneyville has elected the following officers: Frank Scurlock, president; John Miller, vice president; Lewis Sterling, secretary; W. G. Wilson, treasurer; Philip Gieser, warden; James McLane, conductor; E. E. Williams and William Watson, trustees. The union will hold a meet­ ing on Saturday evening, when the charter will be closed. John Marietto pleaded guilty to car­ rying concealed weapons, in the coun­ ty court, at Taylorville, and was fined $100 and costs. Taylorville typographical union has elected the following officers: Presi­ dent, Fr%nk J. Wheeler; vice president, W. T. Martin; recording secretary, Claude Speer; financial secretary, I. V. McAdoo; executive committee, W. T. Martin, E. J. Flynn and C. W. Mor­ gan. W. R. Greenwaldt, aged 61 years, died at his home in South Fork town­ ship. He Is survived by his widow and three sons. Louis Welser sold 120 acres of land In Buckhart township to R. F. Oplin- ger for a consideration of $90 an acre, a total of $10,800. Henderson Burson, an old resident of Litchfield, died at the home of his daughter, aged 75 years. The re­ mains were taken to Paris, where the funeral services were held. Rev. J. W. Nye, of Varmilion, conducted the services. The date of the Republican sena torial convention at Cairo, which was set for Thursday, May 8, has been changed to Thursday, May 15, as the state convention will be held on the former date. Mr. and Mrs. Lester McMurray left Springfield for Denver, Colo., where they expect to spend their declining years. Mr. McMurray had been con­ nected with the Springfield postoffice since 1857, and for the past thirty years has been assistant postmaster. Ed S. Cincebeaux, formerly an em­ ploye of various newspapers in Spring­ field, has been appointed eastern agent for the Iowa Central railroad with headquarters at Peoria. There has been a persistent rumor for some time past that the Wabash Railway Employes' Hospital associa tion would remove the hospital, estab­ lished in Springfield some eighteen years ago, to Decatur. It now seems probable that the change will be made during the summer, the reasons being that the building here is • not large enough nor well adapted for being added to, and it is not as near the shops and station of the company as sites offered by Decatur and Bement. . Bishop George F. Seymour, of the Springfield Episcopal diocese, has an­ nounced that he will make his annual visit to the Alton Episcopal church, St. Paul's, on May 15, at which time the rite of confirmation will be performed on a class of candidates. Bishop Sey­ mour will preach his annual sermon in Alton on that day. The Wabash officials have ordered plans drawn for the new hospital, to be erected in Decatur. The building will cost about $60,000. Charles Wheeler, son of the late Samuel Wheeler, and for many years a cattle buyer in central Illinois, died of penumonia at Decatur. Reports from Cairo say a hard freeze was disastrous to the asparagus crop, and the loss to the growers will be heavy. The shipping would have be­ gun from this vicinity, I at the frost cut down the tender young shoots and shipments will be delayed a week, and even later, should the weather remain cool. This will cause the shippers to mi^s the early market, which is al­ ways the most profitable. Strawber­ ries are yet unhurt, as but few are in blossom. Indications are now that there will be a part of a crop of peach­ es, despite the statements earlier in the season that they were all killed. . Anton Engelhardt, a teamster, aged 63 years, dropped dead While deliver­ ing goods at the Tenk Hardware com- pan's store at Quincy. The annual convention of the South­ ern Illinois United Presbyterian church, comprising twenty-one church­ es in Missouri. Arkansas, Mississippi and Illinois, also the Ladles' Mission­ ary society of southern Illinois, was held at Oakdale. About 200 delegates were present. William Tallay, a farmer living six miles from Carbondale was killed by "being thrown from a horse. The horse became unmanageable and threw him, causing a concussion of the brain. The mission board of the Baptist general conference of Illinois met at the First Baptist church of Lincoln. Rev. C. T. Hewitt of Normal was mod­ erator, and Rev. S. F. Gleason of Mo­ hamet was secretary. The principal address was delivered by S. A. McKay, president of Shurtleff college. Dr. T. B. Rogers of Springfield also made an address. Mrs. Maty Fenton, relict of the late Jesse L. Fenton, and sister of Mrs. F. h. Hays of Decatur, died at Mem­ phis, Tenn., aged 72. She leaves two children--Hamilton W. Fenton and Mrs. Jessie Sneed. Col. Samuel N. Hltt of New Berlin died in Jacksonville. Deceased was commander of the 10th Illinois cav­ alry of the civil war. The Platonian literary society of Mc- Kendree college at Lebanon will cele­ brate the fifty-third anniversary ol the founding of the society on Apri 21- Current News and Views CHAMPION OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE 1 atter Morris Floneor of Ms ment In Wyoming. Mrs. Esther Morris, who died Mt Cheyenne, Wyo., recently, aged It years, was noted as the "mother" of woman suffrage in Wyoming, and as- the first woman justice of the peaofc She inaugurated the movement which -1 1 i Mrs. Honk gave Wyoming women tka itgfel til vote for President. As justice of the peace, to whlck post she waa appointed In 1869, Mrs; Morris was a terror to wrongdoers, and no tie of friendship was strong enough to Induce her to depart from the Justice of a case, either In a suit or a trial for infraction of the peaost During the year in which she held of­ fice she tried about fifty cases, and tl is said no decison of hers was ever versed in a higher court of appeal. Mrs. Morris came from English an­ cestry, was born in Oswego, N. Y.. was married twice, and lived for nineteen years at Peru, I1L, where John Morris* her last husband, was a merchant. Hs died In Wyoming in 1876. MORMONISM SPREADING RAPIDLY Report That Converts Ar* at an Alarming Bate* The rapid spread of Mormoaism la New York is attracting the attention of the home missionary societies, the members of which bodies are about to take steps to prevent its further fit ' . growth in the metropolis. Already the Latter Day Saints own this* churches and number 3,000 New Yark»< srs as adherents of the faith. The do^ trlnes of Mormonism seem to attract the masses and converts are being made at an alarming rate. The direct­ ors of the. church claim to haTO gained 20,000 converts in this country last year. They maintain 2,000 Hill* slonaries in the field all the time. Speaking of polyganmy, in an In­ terview, Apostle Smith, who is WW proselyting In New York, said it was beneficial, In that it preserved the virtue of the community and gave * home to every woman. ' _ - i j DANA MAY BE MINISTER W ITALl^ Bomor That the New Tack UttK • to Receive Appointment. ' It is reported in journalistic circles in New York that Paul Dana, until re­ cently editor in chief of the New Yorlt Sun, will be appointed minister to Itae Faal ly. Mr. Dana la the eon of let* Phnrlpa A. Dana. He Is a graduate o£ Harvard University and of the Colom­ bia University law school. Jjts; was for three years. A Trappist Monk's Prayer Tn Lippincott's Magazine there Is an article on "Trappist Monks," by John Tun Osborne, from which the folloi Ing pathetic fact is quoted: "M letters come to the monastery nounclng the death of relatives of monks; these are seen by the at only, and at chapter he may simi announce: 'The mother of one of number is dead; let us pray for souL* Never to his dying day doss bereaved Trappist learn that he praying for his own mother. Cold Storage for Ft»h The legislature of Ne^fo«»dIsaA, has provided liberally for the installa­ tion of a cold storage system for th» fisheries of the colony. All the now caught there are cured and ed for the market, found prlncli in the Mediterranean ports and and it is hoped to open up new kets for the codfish, salmon and and lobsters in a fresh a tat*. Differ* ace la Xsvsl The German naval budget this ««^)ls for about $50,000.000, while " Britain "Us*-•jk*