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V'^cw*, IOIM THELORD A TALE Or THE OLX> WEST Qjy tlAMlY LroNMlSONaj^S. CHAPTER XXXVII. . The Gentile Carrie* Off His 8poll. Half an hour later they heard the sound of voices and wheels. Follett looked up and saw a light wagon with four men in it driving into the meadows from the south. The driver was Seth Wright; the man beside him he knew to be Bishop Snow, the one they called the Entablature of Truth. The two others he had seen In Amalon, but he did not know their name®. . He got up and went forward when the wagon stopped* leaning casually on the wheel. "He's already dead, but you can help me bury him as soon as I get my wife out of the way around that oak bush---I ISM you've brought along a spade." i The men in the wagon looked at each other, and then climbed slowly out. "Now who could 'a' left that there spade in the wagon?" began the Wild Bam of the Mountains, a look of per­ plexity clouding his ingenious face. The Entablature of Truth was leu disposed for idle talk. "Who did you say you'd get out of the way, young man?" "My wife, Mrs. Ruel Fbllett."' "Meaning Prudence Rae?" i "Meaning her that was Prudence Rae." "Oh!" The ruddy-faced bishop scanned the horizon with a dreamy, speculative eye, turning-at length to his compan­ ions. "We better get to this burying," he said. « ! "W*it a minute," said Follett. They saw him go to Prudence, raise- her from the ground, put a saddle blanket over his arm, and lead her slowly up the road around a turn that took them beyond a clump of the oak brush. "It won't do!" said Wright, with A meaning glance at Entablature of Truth, quite as if he had divined his thought. "I'd like to know why not?" retorted this good man, aggressively. "Because tisses has changed; this ain't '57." "It'll almost do Itself," insisted Snow. "What say, Glines?" and he turned to one of the ethers. "Looks all right," answered the man addressed. "By heck! but that's a purty saddle he carries!" j "What say, Taggart?" 1 "For God's sake, no, Bishop! No-- I got enough dead faces looking at me now from this place. I'm ha'nted into hell a'ready, like he said he was yisterday. By God! I sometimes think I'll have my ears busted and my eyes put out to git away from the bloody things!" "Ho! Scared, are you? Well, I'll do it myself. You don't need to help. "Better let well enough alone, * Brother Warren!" interposed Wright. "But it ain't well enough! Think of that girl going to a low cuss of a Gen­ tile when Brigham wants her. Why, think of letting such a critter get away, even if Brigham didn't want her!" "You know they got Brother Brig­ ham under indictment for murder now, account of that Aiken party." "What of it? He'll get off." "That he will, but it's because h's Brigham. You ain't. You're just a south country bishop. Don't you know he'd throw you to the Gentile courts as a sop quicker'n a wink if he got a chance--Just like he'll do with old John D. Lee the minute George A. peters out so that the chain will be broke between Lee and Brigham?" "And maybe this cuss has got friends," suggested Glines. "Who'd know but the girl?" Snqw insisted. 'And Brother Brigham would fix her all right. Is the houshold of faith to be spoiled?" "Well, they got a railroad running through it now," said Wright, "and a teiegmyii, «uu » lot Oi sc,M«crs. uO don't you count on me, Brother Snow, at any stage of It now or afterwards. I got a pretty sizable family that would hate to lose me. Look out. Here he comes." Follett now came up, speaking In a cheerful manner that nevertheless chilled even the enthusiasm of the good Bishow Snow. "Now, gentlemen, just by way of friendly advice to you--like as not 1*11 be stepping in front of some of you in the next hour. But it isn't going to worry me any, and I'll tell you why. I'd feel awful sad for you all if anything was to happen to me if the Injuns got me, or I was took, bad with a chill, or a jack-rabbit crept up and bit me to death, or anything. You see, there's a train of 25 big J. Mur­ phy wagons will be along here over the San Brnardino trail. They are coming out of their way, almost any time now, on purpose, to pick me up. Fact is, my ears have been pricking up all morning to hear the old bull- whips crack. There were 31 men in the train when they went down, and there xnay be more coming back. It's a train of Ezra Calkins, my adopted tether. You see, they know I've "been here on special business, and I sent word the other day I was about due to finish it, and they wasn't to go through coming back without me. Well that bull outfit will stop for me--and they'll get me or get pay for me. That's their orders. And it isn't a train of "•©men and babies, either. Theylresuch »• outrageous rough lot, quick-tem­ pered and all that, that they wouldn't believe the truth that I had an acci­ dent--not if you swore it on a stack of Mormon bibles topped off by the life of Joe Smith. They'd go right out s V;4>d make Amalon look like * wholB ' • • • k - . . s i A cavayard of razor-hoofed buffaloes bad raced back and forth over it And the peat of the 2,000 men on Ezra Calk­ ins' pay roll would come hanging around pestering you all with Win­ chesters. They'd make you scratch gravel, sure! "Now, let's get to work. I see you'll be awful careful and tender with me. I'll bet I don't get even a sprained ankle. You folks get him; and I'll show you where he said the place was." Two hours later Follett came tun­ ning back'to where Prudence lay on the saddle blanket in the warm nsora- ing sun.- "The wagon train is coming--hear the whips? Now, look here, why don't we go right on with it, in one of the £ig wagons? They're coming back light, and we can have a J. Murphy that is bigger than a whole lot of houses in this country. You don't want to go back there, do you?" She shook her head. "No; it would hurt me to see it now. I should be expecting to see him at every turn. Oh, I couldn't stand that--poor sorry little father!" "Well, then, leave it all; leave the place to the women^ and go$d rid­ dance, and come off with me. I'll send one of the boys back with a pack tfcule for any plunder you want to bring away, and you needn't ever see the place again." She nestled in his arms, feeling Ml her grief the comfort of his tender­ ness. "Yes, take me away now." The big whips could be heard plain­ ly, cracking like rifle shots, and short­ ly came the creaking and hollow rumbling of the wagons and the cries of the teamsters to their six-mule teams. There were shouts and calls, snatches of song from along the line, then the rattling of harness, and in a cloud of dust the train was beside them, the teamsters sitting with rounded shoulders up under the bowed covers of the big wagons. A hail came from the rear of the train, and a bronzed -and bearded man in a leather Jacket cantered up on a small pony. "Hello, there, Rool! I'm whoopin' glad to see you. He turned to the driver̂ ©! the fore- most wagon. "All right, boys! We'll make a lay­ by for noon.** Follett shook hands with him heart­ ily, and turned to Prudence. "This is my wife, Lew. Prudence, this is Lew Stefflns, our wagon mas­ ter." "Shoo, now!--you young cub--mar­ ried? Well, I'm right glad to see Mrs. Rool Follett--and bless your heart, lit­ tle girl!" "Did you stop back there at tlis set­ tlement?" "Yes; and they Bald you'd hit the pike about dark last night, to chase a crazy man. I told them I'd be back with the whackers if I didn't find you. I was afraid some trouble was on, and here you're only married to the sweet­ est thing that ever--why, she's been crying! Anything wrong?" "No; never mind now, anyway. We're going on with you, Lew." "Bully proud to have you. There's that third wagon--" "Could I ride in that?" asked the girl, looking at the big, lumbering con­ veyance, doubtfully. "It carried 6.000 pounds of freight to Los Angeles, little woman," an­ swered Stefftns, promptly, "and I guess you to heft over 2$ or 30 at the outside. I'll have the box filled in with spruce boughs and a lot of nice bunch grass, and put some comforts over that, and you'll be snug and tidy. You won't starve, either, not while there's meat running." "And, say, Lew, she s got some stuff back at that place. Let the extra hand ride back with a packjack and bring it on. She'll tell him what to get." "Sure! Tom Callahan can go." "And give us some grub, Lew. I've hardly » bite since yesterday morning." An hour later, when the train was nearly ready to start, Follett took his wife to the top of the ridge and showed her, a little way below them, the cedar at the foot of the sandstone ledge. He stayed back, thinking she would wish to be there alone. But when she stood by the new grave she looked up and beckoned to him. "I wanted you by me," she said, as he reached her side. "I never knew how much he was to me. He wasn't b,ig and strong like other men, but now I see that he was very dear and more than I suspected. He was quiet and always so kind--I don't remember that he was ever stern with me once. f And though he suffered from some great sorrow and from sickness, he never complained. He wouldn't even admit he was sick, and he always tried to smile in that little way he had, sd gentle. Poor, sorry little father!--and yesterdhy not one " of them would be his friend. It broke my heart to see him there so wistful when they turned their backs on him. Poor little man! And see. here's an- 1 Other gfSTe all gTOWii SrSUud With, sage and the stones worn smooth; but there's the cross he upoke of. It must be some one that he wanted to He beside. Poor little sorry father! Oh, you will have to be so much to me!" ^ The train was under way agaih. In the box of the big wagon, on a springy couch of spruce boughs and long bunch grass, Prudence lay at rest, hurt by her grief, yet soothed by her love, her thoughts in a whirl about her. Follett, mounted o& Pandy, rode be­ side her wagon. "Better get some sleep yourself, Rool," urged" Bteffins, "Can't Lew. I ain't sleepy. Tm too busy thiqking about things, and I have to watch chit for my little girl there. You can't ten what these cusses might do." "There's SO of us watching out for her now, young fellow." "There'll be 31 till we get out of this neighborhood. Lew." He lifted up the wagon cover softly a little later, and found that she slept. As they rode on, Stefflns questioned him. "Did you make that surround you was going to make, Rool?" "No, Lew, I couldn't Two of them was already under, and, honest, I couldn't have got the other one any more than you could have shot your kid that day he up-ended the gravy diBh In your lap." "Hell!" "That's right! I hope I never have to kill anyone, Lew, no matter how much I got a right to. I reckon it al­ ways leaves uneasy feelings in a man's mind." WEIRD TALE. HERE'S Our Springfield Letter 4â sasssmm*&s3m*s5sss&mmmmammmmmaaa Sped*! Correspondent Writes of Tblan ot Internet at the State Capital. K j Springfield. -- State Superintendent | Repair Lincoln Home EfgW days later a tell, bronsed young man with yellow hair and quick blue eyes, in what aa observant Brit­ ish tourist noted in his jour­ nal as "the not unplcturesque garb of a border ruffian," helped a dazed but very pretty young woman on to the rear platform of the Pullman car attached to the east-bound overland express at Og- den. As they lingered on the platform be­ fore the train started they were hailed and loudly chered, averred the journal of this same Briton, "by a crowd of the outlaw's companions, at least a score and a half of most disreputa­ ble-looking wretches, unshaven, rough­ ly cyrggsed, heavily booted, slouch-hat- ted( they swung their nats {iHI drunk- frenzy), and to this rough ovation the girl, though seemingly a person of some decency, waved her handker­ chief and smiled repeatedly, though her face had seemed to be sad and there were tears in her eyes at that very moment." At this response from the girl, the journal went on to say, the ruffians had redoubled their drunken pande­ monium. Arid as the train pulled away, to the observant tourist's marked relief, the young outlaw on the platform had waved his own hat and shouted as a last message to one "Lew," that he "must not let Dandy get gandered up," nor forget "to tie him to grass." Later, as the train shrieked its way through Echo canyon, the observant tourist, with his double-visored plaid cap well over his face, pretending to sleep overheard the same person across the aisle say to the girl: "Now we're on our own property at last For the next 60 hours we'll be riding across our own front yard--and there ain't any keys and passwords and grips here, either--just a plain Almighty God with no nonsense about Him." Whereupon had been later added to the journal a note to the effect that Americans are not only quite as prone to vaunt and brag and tell big stories as other explorers had asserted, but that in the west they were ready blas­ phemers. Yet the couple minded not the ob­ servant tourist, and continued to en­ large and complicate his views of American life to the very bank of the Missouri. Unwittingly, however, for they knew him not nor s§w him nor heard him, being occupied with the matter of themselves. "You'll have to back me up when --- tA api-lncrflol/1" ha caM to b«P one late afternoon, when they neared the^nd of their exciting journey. "I've heard that old Grandpa Corson is mighty (peppery. He might take you away from me." Her eyes came in from the brown rolling of the plain outside to light him with their love; and then, the lamps having not yet been lighted, the head of grace nestled suddenly on its pillow of brawn with only a tremulous sigh of security for answer. This brought his arm quickly about her in a protecting clasp, plainly in the sidelong gaze of the now scandal­ ized but not less observant tourist. THE END. of Instruction Blair has issued a list of the institutes for instruction of teachers to be held during the year. The teachers of Sangamon county will meet in this city Aug. 26-30, and a program will bfe arranged in a Short time. _ • Meetings arranged by the state su­ perintendent are as follows: Sangamon county, Springfield, Aug­ ust 26-30--County Superintendent Ed­ ward C. Pruitt; instructors, David Felmley, G. P. Handle, Margaret Brooks, Warren Taylor, Edward Jer­ ry, Frank W. Westhoff, Joseph Carter. Morgan county, Jacksonville, June 3-14--County Superintendent H. C. Montgomery; Instructors, W. A. Furr, S. H. Trego, J. M. Pace, H. A. Wlthee, Ailsie Gcodrick. Menard county,,. Petersburg,, July 8-12--County Superintendent Eva B. Batterton; Instructors, Leila E. Part­ ridge, C. G. Hoffman. Christian county, Taylorville, Aug­ ust 5-9--County Superintendent Anna Lola Barbre; instructors, Thomas H. Briggs, U. G. Gordon, Mrs. Gertrude Cheney, Flora Hybarger. Cass county, Virginia, August 5-9-- County Superintendent Henry Jacobs; instructors; T. W. B. Everhart, S. H. Trego Macoupin county, Carlinville, July 8* 12--County Superintendent Robert C Moore; instructors, G. P. Randle, R. E. Selby, Margaret Brooks, Linda Scroggins. Logan county, Lincoln, July 22-86-- County superintendent D. F. Nlckols; instructors, W. A. Furr, Ck P. Randle, Edna Keith. Sfacon county, Decatur, July 29-Aug Ust 2--County Superintendent Leona F. Bowman; Instructors, James B Shaw, B. B. James, A. R. Taylor, Flora B. Smith, Mary J.. Clark The names of the instructors in this vicinity, having engagements in more than one county are: Margaret Brooks, of this city--Ma coupin county, July 8-12; Pope coun ty, August 5-9; Coles county, August 12-16; Vermillion county, August 19 23, and Sangamon county, August 26-30. W. A. Furr, of Jacksonville, 111 Morgan county, June 3-14; Logan county, July' 22 26; Scott county August 12-16; Randolph county, Aug­ ust 19-23; and Stark county, August 26-30 Sarah ^Montgomery, of this city--* Cook ciimty, August 26-30. G. Warren Taylor, of Decatur, HI.-- The work of repairing the Lincoln homestead on South Eighth street is going on. A number of the bricks in the foundation have become decayed and the wooden sills on the founda­ tion have so rotted, that the building became in a dangeroiSs condition. In consequence of this fact the legisla­ ture at its last session made an ap­ propriation for repairing the building. New guttering work will be made and plastering will be done on the interior of the house. The wooden sills were of 4>a* and black walnut and have laid there since 1839 when the house was built. Those in care of the home have been so annoyed lately with persons seeking to get relics of old wood used in the houso that all of the valuable material had to be placed in the cel­ lar. A new fence wiSI bfc constructed, but wttl'be just like the old one and when available all of the material fit for use will be utilized. The north cornice of the house will also be re­ paired, as the water now leaks through and damages the plaster. It is stated by those in charge that the least amount of wind would rock the house. 4 8chuyler county, August 19-23;, and Sangamon county, August 26-30. Charles VanDorn, of Springfield, 111 --Franklin county, August 16-23. Grace Winters, of Springfield, HI DeWitt county, June 3-14. Queer Brand of Liquor Must Be Used In Tennessee. | Walter Stephenson, while out train­ ing a pair of bloodhounds near the Dikeman springs, was subjected to a unique experience, says the Nashville American. He was just finishing a long chase with his dogs and sat down on a log to rest, when he espied upon the eastern horizon a speck, which he took to be a large kite. He paid little attention to the object, and shifted his gaze temporarily to other scenes. Soon his attention was attracted to a whirring noise, and looking upward, he saw that the speck which he had a few moments before discovered in the eastern sky had approached .almost directly over him, and that the object was in reality a huge balloon, but of a pattern and appearance he had never in his life before seen. He discovered that the floating mass was rapidly approach­ ing the earth. Of a sudden, the ob­ server says, strains of music calcu­ lated to charm the spheres burst from the balloon, which circled round and round and finally landed at Kideman Springs. A number of strange people emerged »from the car, which NEWS OF ILLINOIS? HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST ALL OVER THE STATE. ROO#*-ISLAND JUBILEE City Celebrates Completion of Hi •Booster Fund" by Demonstrati** In Which Ail Citizens i Many Visitors Present. > \ \ Rock Island.--Citizens of Rock lib ^ * land celebrsted the completion of tha g "booster fund" by a demonstration which excelled any previous celebra­ tion in the history of the city. The committee in charge of the canvas* basset its stakes for $100,000, but thf fiind already exceeds $125,000. The celebration included a long procession of citizens armed with dynainits- canes, proceeded by local militia and naval reserves. The streets of ths business district were packed witi* townspeople And throngs from neigh­ boring cities. Every business man Il­ luminated his place and the lysines* district was ablaze with pyrotechnic* of every description. The celebration was I ended with a great bonfire and fire- '% To Dedicate Old Site. Speaker Joseph Cannon, Gov. Charles S. Deneen and former Gov. Richard Yates will be invited to speak at the dedication of the site where Owen Lovejoy delivered his famous address in 1860. A committee com­ posed of C. J. Doyle, H. S. Russell and H. C. White, of Greenfield, came to Springfield and extended an invita­ tion to Gov. Deneen and former Gov. Yates. They then journeyed to Dan­ ville to Invite Speaker Cannon. The spot where Owen Lovejoy delivered the address which is now a part of history, is located at the Intersection of Greene, Jersey and Macoupin coun­ ties. The celebration will be held July 24. A cannon that was haujed from Springfield to the camping ground is sought by the committee in charge of the affair, and the older residents of Springfield will be asked regarding its present location. Tries to Sell Girl for Five Dollars. Ruth Smith, 18 years old, appeared at the police station and told a pa­ thetic story of an attempt to sell her for five dollars. Clarence Snyder, who pays his home is in Chicago, is the man accused of having atT?*hpied to closesly curtained with a substance j that fairly glistened in the sunshine that temporarily burst through the ob­ scuring clouds, and all going to the big, flowing spring, knelt by it in a supplicating attitude and so remained for a minute or more. Mr. Stephenson says that while this was going on he sat quietly within speaking distance, and when the strange visitors arose to their feet and he supposed their de­ votional exercises were over, he asked If he might be permitted to inquire who they were, and what their mis­ sion? He said that instantly a visard was lifted by one of the company and the benign face of a lady showed from underneath and said in German: "Haben sie Beten?" (did you pray?") and instantly.all were aboard, the air­ ship rose, circled about tor a minute or more, and was gone In a westerly direction. Mr. Stephenson says that the inci­ dent left an impression upon him that he can never forget,and while he knows that it wat some human invention, it looked and the music sounded more like that of angels than or mortals. works on the levee and the firing c€ cannon by the naval reserves. WOMEN LEAD A LYNCHING WO#* Fined end Sent to Jail In Illinois Trying to Hang a Man. Assumption^ -- Fifteen warrants were Issued for the arrest of persons who attempted to lynch Alfred Bo®- land. Victor Ritchie, Josephine Ritchie snd Jane Sorrows, alleged leaders of the mob, were sentenced to jail and heavily fined. Bouland, who married a woman here six months ago, had a wife In the old country. The latter arrived two weeks ago and Bouland had been ins jail, charged with big­ amy, but was released on bond. Upon returning to Assumption he was set upon by a mob with knives, revolvers and clubs. Okie woman had a rope around the victim's neck when- oA« cers arrived and beat off the mob; 1 SUICIDE PACT ENDS TWO LIVES. Good Wheat Crop in 8tate. In their present condition the wheat fields of Illinois promises to give larger yield this summer than they have tor many seasons past, and since the harvest is so near at band it would seem that nothing can now in­ terfere with this promised end. The crop has headed out unusually heavy, the grains are large and the straw it- sell will be a big crop. Farmers say it lias been a long time since wheat has grown as tall as It has this year. Nothing remains unfinished but the ripening, and with continued hot weather this will come almost before the farmers are ready to harvest the grain. With the exception of a few of the counties In the southern part of the state, which are becoming the wheat belt of Illinois, the acreage is announced as normal, though in the counties spoken of it is much greater than in former years. Between Spring­ field and GIrard, along the line of the Interurban, there arfe several fields, and all of them look "as though this crop will be the paying one of the year, the acreage sown considered. To Celebrate Great Debate. Plans for a seml-centennlal celebra­ tion of the Lincoln-Douglas debates were decided upon for next year by the board of directors of the State Historical society. Men of prominence will be selected to speak, representing Lincoln and Douglas, in the towns in which the historic debates were held. Horace White, of New York, who is thought to be the only person living who in any way actually participated in that debate, will be Invited to rep­ resent Lincoln, while Adlai E. Steven­ son, of Blooming ton, will be invited to represent Douglas. deal in human flesh. The nfrl's story was confirmed by R. W. Crouch, a painter, who avers that Snyder tried to sell her to him for five dollars. Crouch declares that Snyder told, him he had done the same thing many times before, and once he had re­ ceived $35 from a saloon keeper in Chicago for furnishing a girl. Crouch refused the man's offer and told the girl. According to her story, she was employed In a restaurant In St Louis land came to Springfield with Snyder to marry him. Plan Masonic Building. Plans for a fine new struct'^re to serve as a home for all the Masonic lodges of Springfield are rapidly tak­ ing definite shape, and from their present stage it is believed that work will be commenced upon the new building next fall. The Masonic building will be located on the old Prince property on the east side of Sixth street between Jackson street and Capital avenue. Requisition Issued. Gov. Deneen issued a requisition on the governor of New York for the re­ turn to Dekalb, 111., of Mr. and Mrs. George Hailing, wanted in the latter city on a charge of forgery. ( The couple were recently arrested at Syra­ cuse, N. Y. They are accused of hav­ ing passed a check for $35 on the First National bank of Dekalb with the forged signature of D. H. Hunt. One en the Ticket Seller. "Step right'up this way, ladies and' gentlemen," said the flashy youth in the circus ticket wagou. "Step lively, please. Get your tickets--the show Is just going to start Two for you, sir?" , A benevolent round-cheeked old rube apd his Hook of children stood at the edge of the crowd, a hunch of gaudy tickets in one hand and a hand­ ful of sjjver in the other. His parsed lips suddenly turned into a broad smile, he hesitated and then walked doubtfully toward the ticket window still counting the change. He edged his way through the crowd and ad­ dressed the fashionably dressed youth above him: "You made a mistake in yer change, sir," he said. * The ticket man fumed up and shook his head. "No mistakes rectified after you leave the window, Rube--don't you see the sign? 'Move along. Make way for the others." "But" expostulated the farmer. "No buts go with me. Get along." "Now, see here," said the Rube, se­ riously. r; * "Cut It out, Rube--yer wastin' my tiine. No mistakes in change recti­ fied after yon leave the window. D'ye hear?" "Well, all right" Mid the rustic, turning to go, "I wuz OUly tryin' to tell ye that ye guv me five dollars too much." Was Cut Out for a Diplomat Quick Wit Extricated Young from Difficult Situation. Most people take things lightly at the seashore, so that probably ac­ counted for the fact that a certain young man found himself engaged to two charming girls at one and the same time while enjoying his vacation during the past summer. One day he was seated, half dozing, on the deserted piazza of the hotel where all three of the Interested par­ ties were stopping when suddenly two little hands were clasped tightly over his eyes, and a sweet voice whispered. whtfT Was it Clara or Nan? Should he say one of the names and chance it? These thoughts were flashing through his brain, when an inspiration struck him. "It's the dearest sweetest, prettiest little giri in all the world," he said. "Oh, you dear old Jack boy!" she whispered, satisfied and delighted, and the hands dropped from his eyes to his shoulders. Fatal. "I see some one declares that the quick lunch Is responsible tor many divorces." "I don't know about that, but I know it makes lots of widows."--Milwaukee Sentinel. Holds Bondsmen In Fee Case. The supreme court denied a rehear­ ing in the fee case of the state of Illi­ nois against Floyd W. Whittemore, bondsman for Henry Wulff, former state treasurer. Begins Insurance Quest In accordance with the provision of the bill passed by the recent general assembly the state insurance depart­ ment is preparing to examine all fra­ ternal beneficiary societies doing busi­ ness in the state. Within the next two years Superintendent Potter expects to examine each of the 134 fraternal companies doing business here. The law provides that the Illinois superin­ tendent may accept reports of ex­ amination by state authorities in the state where the outside companies are organized. Freight Cars Ditched. Train No. 52 of the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis railway, a freight north bound from East St. Louis to this city, was wrecked near Waverly. Three cars left the track and were splintered while the right-of-way was torn up for a considerable distance, as the train was running at a rapid rate of speed when the. accident occurred. No one was injured. A wrecking crew worked until a late hour, repairing the damage, and several trains suffered considerable delay a* a result of the SIB ash-up. To Mark Historical Event. The committee of the Illinois State Historical Library, of which Col. Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg, is chair­ man, will meet In this city to formu­ late plans for celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas de­ bates in 1857. The idea is to have one ceieDrauon at the *uuu»I meeting of the society and observances also at the citieB where the debates were held. 11 Indicted Pastor Gives Bond. Rev. James R. Kaye of Oak Park, indicted by the federal grand jury on the charge of manufacturinCHnolds with intent to counterfeit United States money, gave bond In the sum of $500. He will be tried either at the September term of court In Quincy or at the January term in this city. iJlsct Brought Back. Jenifer Want Su Gov. Denlfen issued a requisition on the governor of New York for the re turn to Chicago of Stuart B. Wilklns, wanted In that city on a charge of workiug a confidence game. Wilkias is accused of having cashed a worth­ less check. Students Suffer from Smallpox. Three cases of smallpox in the state university at Urbana are causing some alarm to the health authorities of that city. Married Man snd Girl Kill Themselves tkmt Belleville.-; I ' Bettevtile. -- George BuHeefc sn€ Miss Clara Miller ended their lives la a suicide pact The couple were in love, but Bullock already had a wife living. The bodies were found 'M clasped together on the shore of Trl- Iff angle lake by boys. In the forehead of each was a bullet hole and between them lay a revolver. Notes left near by indicated that they had ended their lives in turn. Bullock was 30 years old and Miss Miller IS. Bullock In bis note to his mother asks her to tell one of Miss Miller's brothers that "I got her, snd I said I would If l had to follow her to the grave." . . .. - 1 vf Choose Gahan for President. Rockford--The Illinois Policemen and Firemen's association elected ths following officers: President, D. F. Gahan, Elgin; first vice president, Jeremiah Horrlgan, Chicago; second vice president, Archie Moreau, Auro- •• -r® ra; secretary, Ben Jaeger, Moline; treasurer, Melvin B. Little, Rockford; ,^f sergeant-at-arms, A. H. Wiikey, )• ree. ^ ; port. Papers were presented by I'resl- ^ dent Gahan, who advocated the taking > of children from factories and provid- ; ^ ing them with an education for life's battles. Jailer Stolp, of Aurora, in his ; 1 paper, advocated the establishment of p *• a sanitarium for habitual drunkards. . *1 Lieutenants Dennehy and Duffy, of Chicago, were here. , J Danger In Single Passion. prince Haseba of Japan, in an inter­ view in Spokane, Bald recently: . "Japan's danger now lies in her prosperity. She is In danger of mak­ ing money her god. To make money one's god is a bad thing. It is a pas­ sion like the maternal instinct, like the mother's love for her young, which causeu the mother to be In­ considerate and cruel to husband, servants--all the .world save her lit­ tle child. "There is a young mother hers In Spokane at whom I laughed the other day. "She had engaged a new nurse tor her baby. The nurse came to her and said: "'I don't know what's the matter, madam, but the little one cries and cries. I can do nothing to quiet it' "The mother thought a moment Then, brightening up, she said: "•I remember now. Baby's last nurse was a southern mammy. You will find the stove polish on the third shelf of the kitchen closet'" Second Regiment Opens Camp. A battalion drill and parade in the evening formed the chief features oi the first day's encampment of the Sec­ ond regiment at Camp Lincoln. Under command of Col. Stewart the men w- rived early in the morning and im­ mediately took up the camp routine. Although they were somewhat tired because of the trip, they were in good condition, and the hard day's work that followed apparently had no effect upon them, as no sickness W#s ra ported to the hospital. Hands Across the Sea. Every evening a great throng of peo­ ple gather uuder the dome of the ---- hotel in Paris. They come from every nation and tribe and tongue and kindred in the world It h» all life and beauty and mo­ tion, the prince and the commoner jostling each other in good-natured spirit as they mingle together in a delightful comradeship to be found nowhere else. Symphonies ex­ quisitely rendered, waltzes and marches and ballads, solos and du­ ets and sextets, and descriptive passages from the greatest and most familiar grand operas, and great because they • are familiar, fol­ low In delightful order, until sud­ denly with magical effect the whole dome biases with its myriad lights and the orchestra plays "Hands Across the Sea," and all the crowd, whatever its language op race, breaks into the most enthusiastic applause.--Charleston News and Cow* ier. Teachers Insist en Dsncing. Tolono.--The wave of reform Which recently started here has reached to the school board, and that body Is now trying to find teachers who will pledge themselves to refrain from dancing during the terms of their con­ tracts. Up to date the board has J $ b e e n u n a b l e t o f i n d a n y w h o w i l l s i g n x ' ' such a pledge, because the only sub- "J stltute entertainments offered are tlMl " occasional church socials and th« J|!s| weekly band concerts. ^ Big Fire In Wayne City, III. * Wayne City.--Fire destroyed *tr» tually all the business section of this place, including the post office, two i large furniture stores of T. E. Dickey *5 * and W. M. Gillespie. H. D. Thing's- ^ general store, Alex Wilson's store. R. " F. Merritt's general store, and Ed- • r;;v. mond's hotel. The buildings burned V i constituted the chief business block. The fire is supposed to ^iave been of incendiary origin. The loss Is mated at $50,000. Drowne While Battling. ShelbyTille.--While bathing In Okaw river near this city, Roscoo shops at Mattooh, where he was well was drowned. Strong was visiting in w # Shelbyvlile with his mother and went ^ *1 to the river with a number of corupauv. ^ ions to bathe. He got into a strong' t: current and was swept under. The J young man was employed in the car shops at Mattoon, where hs wm - • known. ' V Elgin Man to Wed Beaton Girt. Elgin.--Elgin society was surprised by the announcement iuat Will L. Lowrte of Elgin, United States con-: sul at Weimar, Germany, is to marry Miss Amy W. Alden, daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. George Clark Aides of 5 ton. . • • H. Wheje Business Section Gens. Mt. Vernon--The entire buslni section of Wayne City, a village of here, was destroyed by fire. l$50,000: Origin of the firo is known. pigs Raised in Hothouses. fresh figs raised in hothouses la Madison, N. J., are the very latest nov­ elty in rare fruits brought to New York. They are about the aiae of a big strawberry and are sold tor I3.TB a dozen. Ths Superior Man. ' CSdStoclus: The superior ma is •low in hts> words and earnest ia his conduct Bank Robber Sent to Penitentiary. Centralia.--Harry Coleman, aged 29*. was sentenced to the penitentiary IK the Marion county circuit court by Judge Dwight for being implicated lit the Odin bank robbery October It last Paris to Have Military Company. A. new company of infantry to be j| signed to the Fourth regiment of tWrX? Illinois national guard is to be tered in at Paris. Ill The new wait will be known as company Q, of Fourth infantsy. V ** 2 - e.\V '\i. -