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#*' LORD t i \ : A TALE OF Tilt OLD WEST <r *y HAttftYLEONWILSONtosknpiw ^ i capy/MG&r /aos orZomfaP PuBLtsMwe Co*P& Rae--Rae--Rae--doa't CHAPTER ,t M >>?"' coprtwcHr mas ;W,' <o" I _ 7 ' -< - / The Dead City. The city without life lay handsomely, •loos a river in the early sunlight of m September morning. Death had seemingly not been long upon It, nor tiad it made any scar- No breach or rent or disorder or sign of violence •could be seen. The long, shaded streets breathed the still airs of utter peace and quiet. From the half-circle Around which the broad river bent its moody current, the neat houses, set in «ool, green gardens, were terraced up the high hill, and from the summit of this a stately marble temple, glitter­ ing of newness, towered far above them in placid benediction. Prom a skiff in mid-river, a young man rowing toward the dead city rest­ ed on his oars and looked over his shoulder to the temple on the hilltop. Landing presently at the wharf, he was stunned by the hufah of the streets. This was not like the city of 20,000 people he had left three months before. In blank bewilderment he stood, turning to each quarter for some solution of the mystery. Perceiving at length that there was really no life «lther way along the river, he started wonderingly up a street that led from the waterside--a street which, when be had last walked it, was quickening with the rush of a mighty commerce. Soon his expression of wonder was darkened by a shade of anxiety. There was an unnerving quality in the trance-like stillness; and the mystery of it pricked him to forebodings. He was now passing empty workshops, hesitating at door after door with ever- mounting alarm. Then he began to)" «all, but the sound of his voice s«r»sd only to aggravate the silence. Growing bolder, he triad some of tlxe doors and found tlicffi to yield, let­ ting him into a Wad of smothered, troubled quioiswss even more op­ pressive Zhsa that outside. He passed an evnctf ropewalk, the hemp strewn untfcllly about, as if the workers had left hurriedly. He peered curiously at Idle looms and deserted spinning- wheels--deserted apparently but the Instant before he came. It seemed as if the people were fled maliciously just in front, to leave him in this fearfullest •of all solitudes. He wondered if he did not hear their quick, furtive steps, iand see' the vanishing shadows of them. At last, half-way up the next block, lie thought his eyes caught for a short lialf-second the mere thin shadow of a skulking figure. It had seemed to pass through a grape arbour that all but shielded from the street a house slightly more pretentious than its neighbors. He ran toward the spot, calling as he went. But when he had "vaulted over the low fence, run across the garden and around the end of the arbor, dense with the green leaves and clusters of purple grapes, the space in front of the house was bare. If more than a trick-phantom of his eye had been there, It had vanished. He stepped inside and called. There was no answer, but above his ^ead a "board creaked. He started up the stairs in front of him, and, as he did so, he seemed to hear cautious steps across a bare floor above. He stopped climbing; the steps ceased. He start­ ed up, and the steps came again. He Icnew now they came from a room at the head of the stairs. He bounded up the remaining steps and pushed open the door with a loud "Halloo!" The room was empty. Yet across it there was the indefinable trail of a presence--an odor, a vibration, he ltnew not what--and where a bar of sunlight cut the gloom under a half- raised curtain, he saw the motes in the air all astir. Opposite the door lie had opened was another, leading, apparently, to a room at the back of the house. Determined to be no longer eluded, lie crossed the room on tiptoe and gently tried the opposite door. It was locked. As he leaned against it, al­ most In a terror of suspense, he knew lie heard again those little seemings of rf presence a door's thickness away. He did not hesitate. Still holding the turned knob in his hand, he quickly crouched back and brought his flexed shoulder heavily against the door. It flew open with a breaking sound, and, with a little gasp of triumph, he was In the room to confront its unknown occupant. Then, from behind the door he had opened, a staggering blow was dealt "him, and, before he could recover, or had done more than blindly crook one arm protectingly before his face, he was bqrne heavily to the floor, writh­ ing ill a grasp that centered all its crusj^nfcpower about his thj'Q&k you "Joel see?" • iECfc:' ' They looked at each other in pant­ ing amazement, until the older man recovered his breath and spoke: "Gosh and all beeswax! The Wild Ram of the Mountains a-settin' on the Lute the Holy Ghost's stomach a- chokln' him to death. My sakes! I'm a-pantin' like a tuckered hound--a- thinkln' he was ft cussed xnilishy mobocrat come to spoil his house­ hold!" ) The younger man was now able to speak, albeit his breathing was still heavy and the marks of the struggle plain upon him. "What does it mean, Brother Wright--all this? Where are the Saints we left here--rwhy is the city deserted--and why this--this?" "Thought you was a milishy man, I tell you, from the careless way you hollered--one of Brockman's devils come back a-snoopin', and' I didn't crave trouble, but when I saw the Lord appeared to reely want me to cope with the powers of darkness, why, I jist gritted into you for the consolation of Israel. Tou'd 'a' got your come-uppance, too, if you'd 'a' been a mobber. Tou was nigh a-ceas- in' to breathe, Joel Rae. In another minute I wouldn't 'a' give the ashes of a rye-straw for your part la the tree of life!" ^ "Yes, yes, man, but go back a little. Where are our people, the sick, the old, and the poor, that we had to leave till now? Tell me, quick." , The older man sprang up, the late over there in the slough now, as many as ain't gone to glory. It made me jest plumb murderous!" The younger man uttered a sharp cry of anguish. "What, oh, what has been our sin, that we must be proved again? Why have ire got to be chas­ tened?" "Then Brockman's force marched in Thursday afternoon, and hell was let loose. His devils have plundered the town, thrown out the bedridden that jest couldn't move, thrown their goods after 'em, burned, murdered, tore up. You come up from the river, and you ain't seen that yet--they ain't touched the Ibwer part of town ---and now they're bunkin' in the tem­ ple, defacin' it--that place we built to be a house of rest for the Lord when he cometh agaia. They drove me acrost the river/y ester day, and promised to shoot me if I dast show myself again. I sneaked over in a skiff last night and got here to get my two pistols and some money and trinkets we'd hit out. I was goin' to cross again to-night and wait for you and the wagons." "Do you know, Bishop, I've thought that he might mean us to save our­ selves against this Gentile persecu­ tion. Sometimes I find it hard to control myself." The Bishop grinned appreciatively. "So I heer'd. The Lute of the Holy Ghost got too rambunctious back in the States on the subject of our wrongs. And so they called you back from ;your mission?" "They said I must learn to school myself; that I might hurt the cause by my ill-tempered zeal--and yet I brought in many-^v ^ "I don't blame you. I got in trouble the first and only mission I went on, and the first time I preached, at that. When I said, 'Joseph was ordained by Peter, James and John,' a drunken wag in the audience got up and called me a damned liar. I started for him I never reached him, but I reached the end of my mission right there. The Twelve decided I was usefuller here at home. They said I hadn't got enough of the Lord's humility for out­ side work. That was why they put me at the head of--that little organ­ ization I wanted you to join laat spring. And it's done good work, too. You'll join now fast enough, I guess. (N with the rest, like cattle to the slaugh­ ter." "You don't mean to say they're over there on the river bank?" "Now, they's a kind of a mystery about that--why they wa*t»'t throwed out with the rest. Your ma's sick abed--she ain't ever been peart since the night your pa's house was fired and they had to walk in--but that ain't the reason they wa'n't throwed out. They put out others sicker. They flung families where every one was sick out into that slough. I guess what's left of 'em wouldn't be a supper-spell for a bunch of long- billed mosquitoes. But one of them milishy captains was certainly partial to your folks for some reason. They was let to stay in Phin Daggin's house till you come." "And Prudence--the Qorsona--Miss Prudence Corson?" "Oh, ho! So Bhe's the one, is she? Now that reminds me, tnebbe I can guess the cute of that captain's par­ tiality. That girl's been kind of look- in' after your pa and ma, and that same milishy captain's been kind of lookin' after the girl. She got him to let her folks go to Springfield.'* "But that's the wrong way." 1 i "Well, now, I don't want to but I never did believe Vince Corson was anything more'n a hickory Saint --and there's been a lot of talk--but you get yours from the girl. If I ain't been misled, she's got some ready for you." ^Bishop, will there be a way for us to get into the temple, for her to be sealed to me? I've looked forward to that, you know. It would be hard to miss it." "The mob's got the tempi*, even if you got the girl. There's a verse writ in charcoal on the portal: w ^ " 'Large house, tall steeple,. ̂ * •' Silly priests, deluded peoplife v "That's how it is for the temple, and, the mob's bunked there. But the girl, may have changed her mind, too." The young man's expression became' wistful and gentle, yet serenely sure. PieCf o& Furniture for LjbraryWhlch ,• Bojr Can Build. . i: Ork of the prettiest way! to keep books is in a revolving bookcase. These can be had at furniture stores, but the cost is usually somewhat high, and then, there is much more pleas­ ure in making a thing than in buying it, especially when the article is so easily made as is a book case of this style. To begin at the foundation, one needs first the base and standard. Two pieces similar to that shown in Fig. 1 are needed for the base. These are "halved" together and a stout standard inserted, as shown in Fig, II. The base pieces should each be about two feet long and the standard, hard wood, one and a half inches in diame^ ter, should be three feet in height above the base. The top of this stand* ard should be very smoothly rounded, as the weight of the whole case Is to rest upon this top and revolve about upon it The making of the Shelves comes next, explains the Orange Judge Farm­ er. The lowest of all is shown in Fig. III. The four side boards should be six or seven inches wide, according to. the size of the books to be accom­ modated. The lower shelf can be sev­ en inches wide and the others- six and five an one-half, respectively, if that will suit the varied sizes of books. The corner joints of these shelves are put together by "halving" one piece upon another, but one half need not come quite to the front edge of the other. Across from one side to the other is nailed a thin Btrlp with open­ ing in the center for the standard to pass through. This will hold the low- erpart of the book case steadily in V • >' "• CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT. Howan Eflfl Can Be Kept to Center of Liquid Maw To keep an egg continually rotating in the midst of a liquid mass, without ever allowing it to come up to the sur­ face or to fall down to the bottom, is a feat which does not seem easy to perform. Owing to a peculiarity of the composition of the shell the ex­ periment is easily made, and will af­ ford entertainment as well as impart some knowledge. The eggshell contains a consider­ able amount of calcium carbonate, and will evolve carbon dioxide gas when VI, CHAPTER III. A Staggering Blow Wat Dealt Him. CHAPTER II. The Wild Ram of the Mountains. Slight though hie figure was, it^was lithe and active and well-muscled,\nd lie knew as they struggled that his assailant was possessed of no greater advantage than had lain in his point of attack. In strength, apparently, they were well matched. Twice they rolled over on the carpeted floor, and then, despite the big, bony hands pressing about his throat, he turned his burden under him, and all but loosened the killing clutch. This brought them close to the window, but again he was swiftly drawn under­ neath. i As the light flooded in, he saw the truth, even before his now panting and sneezing antagonist did. Releas­ ing the pressure from his throat with it sudden accete of strength born of the new knowledge, he managed to gasp, though thickly and with pain, as they still strove: "Seth Wright--wait--let go--watt, Seth--I'm Joel--Joel Rae!" ,v .*. »i* struggle driven from his mind, his face scowling. He turned upon his questioner. "Does my fury swell up in me? No wonder! And you hain't guessed why? Well, them pitiful remnant of Saints, the sick, the old, the poor, waitift' to be helped yender to winter quarters, has been throwed out into that there slough acrost the river, six hundred and forty, of 'em." « "When we were keeping faith by going?" "What does a mobocrat care for faith-keep in'? Have you brought back the wagons?" "Yes; they'll reach the other side to-night I came ahead and made the lower crossing. I've seen nothing and heard nothing. Go on--tell me--talk, man!" "Talk?--yes, I'll talk! We've had mobs and the very scum of hell to boil over here. This Is Saturday, the 19th, ain't it? Well, Brockman marched against this stronghold of Israel jest a week ago, with 800 men. Tuesday, along comes a committee of 100 to negotiate* peace. Well, Wednesday evening they signed terms, spite of all I could do. I'd 'a' fought till the white crows come a-cawin', but the rest of 'em wasn't so het up with the Holy Ghost I reckon. Anyway, they signed. The terms wasn't reely set till Thurs­ day morning, but we knew they would be, and so all Wednesday night we was movln' acrost the river, and it kept up all next day--day before yes­ terday. You'd ought to 'a' been here then; you wouldn't wonder at my comin' down on you like a thousand of brick jest now, takin' you for a mobo­ crat. You'd 'a' seen families druv right out of their homes, with no horses, tents, money, nor a day's pro­ visions--jest a little foolish household stuff they could carry in their hands --sick men and women carried on beds, mothers luggin' babies and lead- In' children. My sakes! but I did want to run some bullets and fill my old horn with powder for the con­ solation of Israel! They're lyln' out You begin to see the need of such doin's. I can give you the oath any time." "No, Bishop, I didn't mean that kind of resistance. It sounded too prac­ tical for me; I'm still satisfied to be the Lute of the Holy Ghost." "You can be a Son of Dan, too." "Not yet not yet We must still be a little meek in the face of Heav­ en." "You're in a mighty poor place to practice meekness. What'd you cross the river for, anyway?" "Why, for father and mother, of course. They must be safe at Green Plains. Can I get out there without trouble?" The Bishop sneered. "Be meek, will you? Well, mosey out to- Green Plains and begin there. It's a burned plains you'll find, and Lima and Morley all the same, and Bear Creek. The mobbers started out from Warsaw, and burned all in their way, Morley first, then Green Plains, Bear Creek and Lima. They'd set fire to the houses and drive the folks in ahead. They killed Ed Durfee at Morley for talkln' baak to 'em." "But father and mother, surely--" "Your pa* and ipa was druv in here The Lute of the Holy Ghost Breaks His Fast. In his cautious approach to thej[ Daggln house, he came upon her un­ awares--a slight, slender, shapely^ thing of pink and golden flame, as shej- poised where the sun came full upon her. One hand clutched her flowing blue skirts snugly about her ankles; the other opened coaxlngly to a kitten' crouched to spring on the limb of aif apple tree above her. The head wal thrown back, the vivid Hps were part* ed, and he heard her laugh low to herself. Stepping from the covert that ha$ shielded him, he called softly to her. "Prudence--Prue!" She had reached for the kitten, but at the sound of his low, vigorous note, she turned quickly toward him, colors ing with a glow that spread from the corner of the crossed kerchief up to the yellow hair above her brow. She answered with quick breaths. "Joel--Joel--Joel!" She laughed aloud, clf ppln^ her small hands, and he ran to her--over beds of marigolds, heartsease and lady slippers, through a row of drowsy looking, heavy-headed dahlias, and past other withering flowers, all but choked out by the rank garden growths of late summer. Then his arms opened and seemed to swallow the leaping little figure. --"You dear old sobersides, you--how gaunt and careworn you look, and how hungry, and what wild eyes you have to frighten one with! At first thought you were a crazy man." He held her face' up to his eager eyes, having no words to say, over­ come by the joy that surged through him like a mighty rush of waters. In the moment's glorious certainty he rested until she stirred nervously un­ der his devouring look, and spoke. "Come, kiss me now and let me go." He kissed her eyes so that she shut them; then he kissed her lips--long-- letting her go at last, grudgingly, fear­ fully, unsatisfied. "You scare me when you look that way. You mustn't be. so fierce." :f *'I told him he didn't know you." ; • *'Who didn't know me, sir?" . ; "A man who said I wasn't sure of you." 5 "So you are sure of me, are you, Mr. Preacherman? Is it because we've been sweethearts since so long? But remember you've been much away. I've seen you--let me count--but one little time of two weeks in three years. You would go on that horrid mission." t "Is not religion made up of obe­ dience, let life or death come?" "Is there no. room for loving one's sweetheart in it?" v "One must obey, and I am a better man for having denied myself and gone. I can love you better, I have been taught to think of others.- I was sent to open up the gospel in the east­ ern states because I had been en­ dowed with almost the open vision, it was my call to help in the setting up of the Messiah's latter-day king­ dom. Besides, we may never question the commands of the holy priesthood, even if our wicked hearts , rebel in secret." "If you had questioned the right person sharply enough, you might have had an answer as to why you were sent" "What do you mean? How could I have questioned? How could I have rebelled against the stepping-stone of my exaltation?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) r.+jr The Completed Cat*. tOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUQ Alfred Vanderbilt's Banter "place. The second shelf need not have this cross piece, but the next one above should have it At the back edge of each shelf a thin sttfp across in both directions, thin strip Is nailed, projecting two inches above the shelf, to hold the books from slipping back. The maga­ zine shelf, next to the top, should have a strip across in both directions, as these strips are to rest upon the top of the standard, and should be ex­ tra strong, as the weight of the whole case and the books will come upon them. A little plate of iron should be screwed to the under side of the under cross piece for the top of the stand­ ard rest against" This will insure aa lfttle friction as possible. The rim at ttte back edge of this magazine shelf should extend up and touch the top of the book case, that this top may bear its part in supporting the weight of the books. The flat strips of wood that are screwed (with round-head screws) to the corners, should be stout enough to hold the weight that will be upon the shelves. A good size for the case is 18 or 20 Inches square. It can be made of pine or white wood, then stain­ ed, if desired. The top is not of Pouring the Acid Into the Jar. submerged in a solution of hydro­ chloric acid. The reaction differs, how­ ever, from that which takes place un­ der similar circumstances with ordi­ nary limestone; the organic matter which enters in the composition of the ijshel! causes most of the gaseous hub- bles to remain attached to the egg. They increase Its bulk, and hinder the contact of the acid with the shell to such an extent that a solution which would in a few minutes consume a piece of marble the size of a nut. takee several hours to dissolve the thin shell of an egg. The phenomenon, says the Scientific American, Is most interest­ ing to observe when produced by means of the following apparatus: Take a glass jar and half fill it with water. Then, by means of a glass tubs which reaches to the bottom of the jar, pour an .equal amount of hydrochloric acid under the water, as shown in Fig. 1, until the water rises to the top oi the jar. If no effort be made to mix the two liquids they will remain neatly separated for days, the density of com­ mercial hydrochloric acid being greater than that of water. Let an egg sink gently into the water. It will pass through it, reach the hydrochloric acid zone, and there almost instantaneously become covered with a thick layer of bubbles. These decrease Its density and prevent its farther downward progress. The egg does not come up to the top, however, but settles on the dividing line between the two liquids. There it begins to revolve slowly around its greater axis, and will keep up that queer motion for more than NEWS OF ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST PROMlf ALL OYER THE STATS. TOWN.MAY BE ABANDONED Fosterburg Seemingly Haa Failed ten,. Win Recognition as a Business ^; *; Center-- Merchants Discour- 1 *' aged at Outlook. * Carlinville.--Fosterburg, a small „5 lage, just across the line in Aiadisonf V county, probably will be forsaken as|<V*' a business center. Since the abandons " ment of the postoffice there, when th» postmaster resigned after 50 year# of service, the town has been forsaken by the farmers living in the ing country. There is just one of business in the town that will tract them, and that is the blac shop. Thi/ draws them in so seldc that the merchants are on the of abandoning the place. OIL WELL IS A WONDER. Real fifcuaher Attracts Attention McLeansboro. Mcfc^ansboro.--The oil which 'cam®' in two weeks ago on (Sen. J. Tt. Camp* , „ - ^ ' bell's farm, the "cabbage patch," miles northeast of here, is a very . strong one. It is plugged with a largo * ' 'f; wooden block which is held in place by - a three-ton drill, yet the oil constant- ^ ly flows out around the stopper and be- tween the castings. Thousands have visited the well and ofl speculators and capitalists come is - 51^ on every train. Options are beingf - :j§t taken in many pqj*ts of Hamilton coun« ty and within the next four or five ; ' months a great many drilling rigs wW.-... be in operation around there. s v s* ' Wife's Murder Crazes Him. Cambridge.--John Anderson, who®*- wife was mysteriously shot to death while sleeping by his side, has heoom«4 : a raving maniac. Doctors fear he will V die soon. As he and a nine-months-ola ' babe were the only witnesses to the murder, the authorities fear they will not unravel it. Feeling has grown so high over the affair that several flat fights occurred on the streets. M Pig. PART8 OF THE CA8E. Fig. 1.--Section of Base. Fig* II---Base Complete. Ill/--Details of the Lower 8helf. double thickness, but has an inch- square strip screwed beneath It, a lit­ tle back from the edge, to which the upper ends of the corner strips are screwed. The top should be a little larger than the shelves, to afford the required projection. "On the Alfred G. Vanderbilt coach," said a Pittsburger, "I rode from the Hotel Windsor to the Atlantic City horse show few the small sum of one dollar. "Mr. Vanderbilt was in good spirits the day I was his paying guest He bantered very gracefully the beautiful young lady who sat beside him on the box seat "I heard Mr. Vanderbilt say that women were never satisfied. No mat­ ter what you gave them, they always wanted something else, and It they couldn't get what they wanted by fair means then they got It by foul. "He said that last fall a lady who had just returned from Newport sent for a fashionable physician. "The physician, on arriving, found the lady reclining on a ccrtichV<(|ie maid fanning her and another holding to her nose a gold bottle of smelling salts. " 'What is the nature, madam, of your complaint?* the physician asked. " *Oh, doctor,' said the lady, plain­ tively, T am suffering dreadfully from --er--oh, what was that illness any­ way for which you sedt my friend, Mrs. Golde, on a yachting tour In the Mediterranean?'" Ingenious Lad. "So you want a position?" asked the business man of the bright-faced youth. "What can you say In your favor?" "8ir," replied the earnest lad, "I was given letters of recommendation by our pastor, by my Sunday school teacher, by the president of th^W. C. T. V., and by my grammar school teacher, and--" * "That will do. I iffl afraid we have no place for--" « / "But I tore their letters up, sir. I thought that the best recommenda­ tion would be to work a week and then you could get a line on my fu­ ture speed." "Good hoy! You're Judge. • ' Bismarck's Premonition of Death. ^Bismarck's anticipation of the date of This own death is not generally kpown. About 19 years ago, during ,Bl debate in one of the great military schemes, he refused to interfere with the Septennate bill on the ground that he expected to live another three years, but to die within seven, in other words, he calculated op living till 1890 and on dying before 1894; As a matter of fact his prediction was not wrong, for, though he actually lived until 1898, he was politically dead as soon as he went into retirement at Friedeipbsruh. Egg Rotating In the J#*;' an hour. The bubbles on the top ol the egg gradually dissolve in the water, while they increase at the bottom, which l's nearer the acid. The double process continually raises the center of gravity of the egg,, and its rotation is due to this continued alteration. ; J 8peaklng Well'of Him. were trying to teach out little lad, aged five years, to speak well of the absent. - / At dinner he began to relate a personal encounter between himself and another little boy, and seeing reproof oq our faces, he halted a minute and then resumed, with a deep sigh, "Well, mamma, Roy Is a real strong boy,"--another sigh--"and --he's got a good education!"--Youth's Companion. Words to Designate Storm. "Typhoon" is by no means the only word for a storm that has come to the English language through Portuguese and Spanish. Others are "tornado" and "hurricane," which Shakespeare could still write "hurricano." Old- time Englishmen, at any rate, spelled the last word in at least as many ways as Shapespeare and other peo­ ple spelled his name, and some of the spellings indicate frantic attempts to make the word suggest a derivation intelligible to the English mind. Of such are "furicane," "hurlecan," "Hero cane" and "Harry-Cain." Even "hur­ ricane" was finally adopted, ijo doubt, as suggesting "hurrry." The originsJ was the Carlb "huracan." or "furacan," the navigators of Portugal and Spain having been Instrumental only In bringing it to England from the west as they brought "typhoon" from the east. Pana Lineman Is Injured. Pana.--William Swin, a Itaenuuf employed by the electric light com^ pany of this place, received severe in» . juries while repairing some wires at the top of a pole. The man came in X'^ contact with a wire which he thought had been killed. He was severely- ..f^ burned about the arms and legs. It : is announced that his injuries will >' * not prove fatal. jy * - « . • - >*,' Police Chief Orders Mashers Shot, : Alton.--Orders were issued to ths police by Chief of Police Maxwell to shoot at mashers who annoyed women on the strets and attempt, to escape arrest The order followed an un­ successful attempt by "Chief Maxwell? ;* to hit a masher at whom he fired, "The insulting of ladies on the street , " by loafers and mashers must step," ^ f-i he said., • 1-\ : iX; j| County Clerk Dies at Desk. 'J "* Watseka.--Capt Alexander Hamil« . l 1 ton South, county clerk of Iroquois^ & county, expired from heart failure ' while at his desk. He was elected sheriff of Iroquois county in 1868, andi* % was twice reelected. He was in the grain inspection department at Chica- - go for 13 years, and was deputy re*« 'jfe * j enue collector under Gov. Yates, three ̂ | yeara* • fc/J Post Office Work increases. 4 Chicago.--The annual report for /C- 4 post office reveals a general /increase* ^ 3 in business. The volume of money ; ? > ;. ^ order transactions shows the greatest^ ^ gain--28 per cent. In l906 $200,538,-h"- j* 006.06 was transferred in 11.425,433^' ^ Vf transactions. The increase in numbei^l; of pieces of mail handled was 63,911,- ^ 991 pieces, weighing 2,888,488 pounds. > Chicago Post Office Business. f Chicago.--In his annual report for % the year of business done in the money order department Postmaster Busse shows domestic money orders to the amount of $1,958,126.87 issued, as against $959,299.38 for 1905. The total business for the year shows aa increase of 1,503,133 transactions, or more than 14 per cent Rockford Ice Plant 8old. Rockford.--The Rockford company] has been sold to the Western Ice com-t pany which recently secured control! of the Knickerbocker company. An , I(. r artificial ice plant is to be erected^ here, and this, with the present plant " f" % _ M J. _ . _ _ _ ̂ _ •• MIII OAnlrfnatlu . •"V •' of the company, will make Rockford^ III one of the shipping and supply points; for the outside trade. New Building and Loan Association. ^ ^ Springfield.--The Zaruka Building,: v and Loan association of Chicago wastf- I n c o r p o r a t e d b y t h e s t a t e a u d i t o r o f . public accounts with a capital stock of , $1,000,000. The term of incorporation is fixed at 50 years. The incorporators are John F. Lltuan, Frank A. Burea4% John E. Bishop, Adolph Biskup asd William Bishop. $3,000,000 for U. of C. ^ « Chicago.--John D. Rockefeller Jano- '«< V- 'I y Elephant's Busy Day. , V I r •< This is what I call all right! Wont papa be pleased whan he finds I've Ironed his collars for him?--Royal Magazine. * - * ~t - a New Year's greeting in the form of gifts aggregating nearly $3,000,000. * This is the largest unconditional dona- ^ tion ever received from the founder \ of the university, whoso benefactions.-Jg Including the present gift amount now to $19,416,191. News of the gift was received by Acting President Harry Pratt Judson in a letter from the son of the oil king, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The new gift amounts to $2,917,000. J Diss From Wreck Injuries. ' 'X ' Springfield.--Fielding L. Phelps,1 '&r" ^ Chesterfield, the fireman who was bad- 's - >; 'I ly scalded in the wreck of a passenger *•$%* [; M train at Gardner, died in Springfield '•,$/ | hospital. Edward C. Eberle, the esr^ J <u<4 <t)w 4.Y 10119.M* th» ̂ * T Storm s»V<«iubi. '4 t',. "JL:- •' '-'lii Former JacksonviUe--Henry J. RofSm. late sheriff of Morgan county, fettl' been appointed second vice presMssk of the Jacksonville National bank. * 1 •- , v. ̂