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Xtii/ nv TT1I mT JM RE cwr/e/arrso /SOB «v 2$ • AVJW9M0T THCC9ST. mFMUffl. Etc. CHAPTER IV.---Continued. ^fT',, Financially I vu.now on my way t^e surface- I supposed that I had ,y become a political personage also. v . . Was 1 not in possession of the most :'.4g-TiowerfuJ office In the county? I was IjAi, " astonished that neither Dominick nor 3any other member of his gang made $jf?A the slightest effort to conciliate me £. • 'between election day and the date of my taking office. I did succeed s£- |n forcing from reluctant grand juries , Mndictmeats against a few of the '3m.ost notfiiidus, but least important, j j-;!'.; ^members of the gang; and I got on© ^V;j.S;3copviction--which was reversed on J'i. t trial-errors by! the higher court ; s The truth was thai my power had no existence. Dominick still ruled, ftf'-v through the Judges and the newspa- M, %'5,ers- Pre<S8 was silent when "it - .could not venture to deprecate orrta p • •. ,-condemn me. ^ But I fought on almost alone.. I did 1 ^ not fall to make it clear to the people jvv.".' ^why I was not succeeding, and what pr- a sweep there must be before Jackson f^'county could have an real reform. I ffejv' Imade an even more vigorous cam- £•. * -ipaign for reelection than I had made |f-P tour 3ears before. The farmer® &E*.Jat°od by me fairly well, but the ^'WVtown went overwhelmingly against Why? Because 1 was "bad tor f'.f^buslness," and, if reelected, would be •^V^still worse. The corporations with ' 'whose law-breaking I interfered were ^ j. ."^threatening to remove their plants -SSfrom lulaski--(hat Would have meant ,,'^the departure of thousands of the P?* ( merchants' best customers and the de- »>' • Vstructton of the town's prosperity. I ^.""^think the election was fairly honest. "Dominick's man beat me by about the "-.same majority, by which I had been %^'elected.' • A. 'Bad foi business! "---the most po­ tent of political slogans. And it will Xt' 'inevitably result some day in the con-, w;, 4 • ceixtration ot absolute power political - and all other kinds, in the hands of '•* ?^the fb* who are strongest and clever- J*l^iiest. ¥*or they can make the people ** bitterly regret and speedily repent ,having tried to correct abuses; and fS^Tr^'the people, to save their dollars, will sacrifice their liberty. I doubt if they . «wiil, in our time at least, learn to ^|hee far enough to realize that who , ^captures their liberty captures them, aSand, therefore, their dollars, too. By my de'eat 1,1 typical con- • test I was disheartened, embittered-- ^ j.'v.Md ruined. For, in my .enthusiasm i ̂ aad confidence I hfid gone deeply into fe V^idebt 'or tbe expenses of the reform ••S "^campaign, At midnight of the elec- ^/.i.f'tlon day I descended Into the black 'heave of despair.» For three weeks felfslP explored it. When I returned to *;$•' i<he surface, I was a man rea<^y to deal with menoa the terms of bu- .man nature, I liad learned my les­ son. - \ For woman tfife cost of attainment ^ 1 3,of womanhood's maturity is the beau- t-j;* iv tiful, the divine freshness of girlhood. For man, th^ cost of the attainment of manhood's full strength and pow­ er is equally great, and equally sad-- his divine faith in human nature, his divine belief that abstract Justice and . . . right and truth rule the world. # Even now, when life is redeeming |v!'^|some of those large promises to pay which I had long ago given up as 'lishopeless bad debts; even now, K ^ \^gives me a wrench to remember the .cruelest chapter in that bitter lesson. | *^£f«So certain had I been of reelection V' ."that I had arranged to go to Boston ^ *-, the day jafter my triumph at the ^polls. For I Jknew from friends of the . Crosbys in Pulaski that Elizabeth 'v-S^^was still unmarried, was not engaged," " '^and upon that I had built high a ro­ mantic hope. 1 made up my mind that mother and I must leave Pulaski, that I must give up the law and must, in Chicago or Cleveland, get something to do that would bring in a living at once. Before I found courage to tell her that which would blast hopes wrap- - ped round and rooted in her very heart, and, fortunately, before I had to confess to her the debts I had made, Edward Ramsay threw me a lifeline. . He came bustling into my office one afternoon, big and broad, and bbvious- •5ly pleased with himself, and, there- |fe^%jfore, with the world. He had hardly k i changed in years since we were at •V > *Y Ann Arbor together. He had kept •r'.Jj^up our friendship, and had insisted jp$t'»n visiting me several times, though J.,'3j®#not in the past four years, which had • It* / been as busy for him as for me. Lat- ^ ̂ ; terly his letters urging me to visit '"him at their great country place, C vaway at the other end of the state, . •:"V had set me a hard task of inventing excuses. "Well, welll" he exclaimed, shak- ^"^lng my hand violently In both his. 5 r "You wouldn't come to see me, so I've come to you." , I tried not to show the nervousness this announcement sUrred. 'Tm afraid ^ you'll find ourTiospitality rather un- i" comfortable," was all 1 said. Mother ~ and I had not spread much sail to ' £*our temporary gust of prosperity; and, when the storm began to gath- er, she straightway close-reefed. "Thanks, but I can't 'stop with you this time," said he. 'Tm making an Inspection of the Power Trust's prop- erties, and 'I've got mother and sls- „ j ter along. We're living in the private , -y 'car the company gives me for the k V; tour." He went on to tell how, pt<f nince his father's death, he had been Vf;.^ forced into rssponsibillties, and was, ; among many other things, a member "X iof the Power trust's executive com- , "3 mittee. , Soon came the inevitable question: "And how are you getting on?" So, ao,** replied I; "not too well. you know, and have to go back to my practice In January." "Wish you lived in my part of the state," said he. "But the Ramsay company hasn't anything down here." He reflected a moment, then beamed. "I can get you the legal business of the Power trust if you want it," he said "Their lawyer down here goes on the bench, you know--he was on the ticket that won, Roebuck want­ ed a good, safe, first-class *"»" on the bench in this circuit" But he added yj^ottsfnf more about the Power trust vacancy at Pulaski. True, my first impulse was that I couldn't and wouldn't accept; also. I told myself it was absurd to Imagine they would consider me. Still, I wished to hear, and his failure to re­ turn to the subject settled once more the cloud his coming had lifted some­ what Mother was not well enough to have the Ramsays at the house that even­ ing, so I dined with them in the car. Mrs. Ramsay was the same *im- ye« can da That's the way to get on nowadays, they tell me. Whenever the fellows on top find the chap es­ pecially one in public office, who makes it hot for them, they hire him. Good business all around." . Thus, so suddenly that It giddied aie, I was translated from failure to success, from poverty to affluence, from the .most harassing anxiety to ease and gscsirfty. Two months be­ fore I should have rejected the Pow­ er trust's offer with scorn, and should have gloried in my act as proof of superior virtue. IJut in those crucial two months I had been apprentice to the master whom all men that ever come to anything in this world must first serve. I had reformed my line of battle, had adjusted it to the linea laid down in tactics of Life-as-it-is. Before I was able to convince my­ self that my fortunes had really changed, Ed Ramsay telegraphed me to call on him in Fredonia on busi­ ness of his own. It proved to be. such a trifle that I began to puzzle at his real reason for sending for me. When "he spun, that trifle out over ten d„ays, on each 61 which I was .alone with Carlotta at least half my waking hours, I thought I had the clew to the mystery. 1 saw how I could in­ crease the energy of his new enthus­ iasm for me, and, &lso, how. I could ccol it, if I wished to he rash and foolish and to tempt fate again. • Oh, the business didn't amount to much," was my answer to one of my mother's first questions, on my re* turn. She smiled peculiarly. In spite of my efforts, the red came--at least ! felt red. "How did you like his sisterT she went on, again with that flutter­ ing smile In the eyes only. A very nice girl," said I, to any- pie, silent, ill-at-ease person I ted tktag but a natural manner. My moth- tvt Her Mone)# Couldn't first met at the Ann Arbor commence* rnent--probably the same that she had been ever since her husband's wealth and her children's infection with new-fangled ideas had forced her from the plain ways of her youth. I liked her, but I was not so well pleased with her daughter. Carlotta was then 22, had abundant, noticeably nice brown hair, an indifferent skin, pettish lips, and restless eyes, a little too close together--a spoiled willful young woman, taking to herself the deference that had been paid chiefly to her wealth. She treated me as if I were a candidate for her favor whom she was testing so that she might decide whether she would be graciously pleased to tolerate me. Usually, superciliousness has not disturbed me. It is a cheap and harmless pleasure of cheap and harm­ less people. But jost at that time my nerves were out of order, and Miss Ramsay's airs of patronage "got" on me. I proceeded politely to con­ vey to her the impression that she did not attract me, that I did not think her worth • while--this, not through artful design of interesting by piquing, but simply in the hope of rasping upon her as she was rasping upon me. When I saw that I was gaining my point, I Ignored her. I tried to talk with Ed., then with his mother, but neither would Interfere between me and Carlotta. I had to talk to her until she volontarlly lapsed into offended silence. Then Ed, to save the evening from disas­ ter began discussing with me the fate of our class-mates. I saw that Carlotta'was studying me curiously-* even resentfully, 1 thought; and she was coldly polite when I said gopd She and her mother calicd on my mother the next morning. "And what a nice girl Miss Ramsay is--so sen­ sible, so intelligent, and so'friendly!" said my mother, relating the lnc|> dent of the visit in minute detail When I went home at noon. "I didn't find her especially friend­ ly," said I. Whereat I saw, or fan­ cied I saw, a smile deep down in her eyes--and it set me to thinking. In the afternoon Ed looked in at my office In the court house to say good-by. "But first, old man, I want to tell you I got that place for you. I thought I had better use the wire. Old Roebuck is delighted-*telegraph- ed me to close the arrangements at once--congratulated me on being able to get you I knew it'd be so. He has his eyes skinned for bright young men--all those big men have. When« ever a fellow, especially a bright young lawyer shows signs of ability, they scoop him in." "I can't believe It," I said, dazed. 'Tve been fighting him tour tour years --hard." , "That's it!" said ne. ;'Anu don't you fret about it being a case of try er expression teased me into adding: "Don't be silly. Nothing of that sort. You are always imagining that every one shares your opinion of me. She isn't likely to fall in love with me. Certainly I shan't with her." Mother's silence somehow seemed argumentative. "I couldn't marry a girl tor her money," I retorted. "Of course not," rejoined mother. "But there are ^tfeer things to .marry for besides money or love--other things more sensible than either. For instance, there are the principal things--home and children." I was listening with an open mind. "The glamour of courtship and honeymoon paseeB," she went on. "Then comes the suber business of living--your career and your home. The woman's part in both is better played if there Isn't the sort of love that Is exacting, always Interfering with the career, and making home life a succession of ups and downs, mostly downs.'" "Carlotta Is very ambitious," said I. "Ambitious for her husband," re­ plied my mother, "as a sensible wom­ an should be. She appreciates that a woman's best chance for big divi­ dends in marriage is by being the sl- lent pirtrier in her husband's careier. She'll be very domestic when she ha children, I saw it the instant I look­ ed at her. She has the true maternal instinct What a man who's going to amount to something needs isn't a woman to be taken care of, toot a woman to take care of him." * She said no more--she had made her point; and when she had done that, shs Within a month Ed Ramsay tent for me again, but this time it was business ^lone. I found him in a pan­ ic, like a man facing an avalanche and armed only with a shovel. Dun­ kirk, the senior United States sena­ tor for our state, lived at Fredonia. He had seen that by tunneling the Mesaba range, a profitable railroad betw^n Fredonia and Chicago could be builj; that would shorten the time at least three hours. But it would take about half the carrying business of the Ramsay company, besides seri­ ously depreciating the Ramsay inter- e^t, in the existing road. "And," con­ tinued Ed, "the old scoundrel has got the capital practically subscribed In New York. The people here are hot for the new road. It'll be sure to carry at the special election, next month. He has the governor and leg­ islature in his pocket, so they'll put through the charter next winter." "I don't see that anything ftaa be done," said Ed's lawyer, old Judge Barclay, who was at the consultation. "It means a big takeoff ifor Dunkirk. Politics is on a money basis nowa­ days. That's natural enough, since there is money to be made out of it I don't see how those in politics that don't graft as they call it are any better than those that do. Would they get office if they didn't help on the Jobs of the grafters? I suppose we might buy Dunkirk Off." "What do you think, Harvey?" asked Ed, looking anxiously at me. "We've got to fight the devil with fire, you know." ( I shook my head. "Buying him off Isn't fighting--it's surrender. We must fight him--with fire." I let them talk themseivss out and then said: "Well, I'll take It to bed with me. Perhaps something will occur to me that can be worked up into a scheme." In fact, I had already thought of a scheme, but before suggesting it I wished to be sure it was as good as it seemed. Also, there was a funda­ mental moral obstacle--the road would be a public benefit; it ought to be built That moral problem caused most df my wakefulness that night, simple though the solution was when it finally came. The first thing Ed said to me, as we faced each other alone at breakfast, showed me how well spent those hours were. "About this business of the new road," said he. "If I were the only party at interest. I'd let Dunkirk go ahead, - for It's undoubtedly a good thing from the public standpoint But I've got to consider the interests of all those I'm trustee for--the other share holders in the Ramsay com­ pany and in our other concerns here." "Yes," replied I," but why do you say Dunkirk Intends to build the road? Why do you take that for granted?" "He's all 'ready to do it, and it'd be a money-maker from the start." "But" I went on, "you must as­ sume that he has no intention , of building,, that he is only making an elaborate bluff. How do you know but that he wants to get this right of way and charter so that he can black­ mail you and your concerns, not mere­ ly once, but year after year? You'd gladly pay him several hundred thou­ sand a year not to use bis charter and right of way, wouldn't you?" "I never thought of that!" ex­ claimed Ed. "I believe you're right Harvey, and you've taken a weight off my conscience. There's nothing like a gopd lawyer to make a man see straight What an Infernal hound 61d Dunkirk Is!" "And," I went on, "if he should build the road, what would he do with it? Why, the easiest and big gest source of profit would be to run big excursions every Saturday and Sunday, especially Sunday, Into Fre­ donia. He'd fill the place every Sun­ day from May till November, with roistering roughs from the slums ol Chicago. How'd the ptople Ilka that?" "He wouldn't dare," objected Ram­ say, stupidly insisting on leaning backward in his determination to stand straight. "He's a religious hyp­ ocrite. H|>'s afraid." "As Deacon Dunkirk he wouldn't dare," I replied. "But as the Chi­ cago ft Fredonia Short Line he'd dare anything, and nobody would blame him personally. You know how that Is." (TO mm CONTINUED ̂ 'fr Special Correspondent Writes of Things ol Interest at the State Capital. Springfield.--Preparations are mak­ ing for extension of the scope of work in the insurance department of the state government In accordance with new lews enacted by the Forty-fifth general assembly as recommended by Gov. Deneen in his message to the legislature. Insurance Commissioner Fred W. Potter, who is the first prac­ tical Insurance man to hold this posi­ tion, is making extensive provisions for enforcing the new laws and ac­ quainting the public with the purport of-the insurance acta. The new stat­ utes are in the main In accordance with those recommended by President Roosevelt through the national com­ mission on this subject, which made an extensive invest igatioif and report as an outgrowth of the recent life-in­ surance scandals. The governor, it is asserted, has set out to make his department a model for other states to pattern after, and insurance men are authority for the statement that Mr. Deneen took a conservative stand in his attitude in urging new legislat­ ion on this subject. Reports of the state auditor and the books of the $tate treasury show that under the present administration the fees and taxes collected by this department amount to $400,000 a yfear, which has been turned to the account of the state. There has- not yet' been time for, the practical benefit of the new laws to be realized, as they did not bectfme operative until July 1. This department has been particularly ac­ tive during the last two years. It has each year licensed 40,000 agents to transact insurance business in Illi­ nois. Statements from over 600 com­ panies are examined and report made on them each year. In this regard it Is said this branch of the state gov­ ernment has acquired a standing among the first in the country as the Illinois examinations, it is asserted ham come to be recognised authority. Honored by State's Attorneys. Frank R. Reid, recently elected president of the Illinois State's Attor­ neys' association, Is state's attorney of Kane county. He was born at Aurora in 1S79, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago and of a Chicago law school. Mr. Reid was OOPOOOOiOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOCOOgOOOOOOOOOOBm Left Big Man Thinking. fortable feeling than had come to him since he had been In the big city.--N. Y. Press. Visitor's Remark Tended tp Reduce ^ "Swelled Head." There «re men In high positions te New Tork who are a credit to them only in their business ability. One of that sort came to the city a dozen or more years ago from a western town, where he made his start A gentlemen who had known him in his less pretentious days called on him re­ cently. "I simply called to pay my re­ spects," he said, going a little lame at the reception he received. "I have no axes to grind and no favors to ask. You may have forgotten me, but I met you several times on business visits to your old town, and I thought I'd like to see how you were taking to the metropolis." "Yes, yes," responded the man at the desk, picking up a pa­ per, as if he were very busy, and speaking in the tone of the person who sices up other people on their material possibilities. And that's all he said. The visitor shook himself and got a fresh hold. "Yes," he said, turn­ ing to go, "I called to pay my respects. King's 8ignatur«. " Trilling aB the actual work of sign­ ing his name may seem, yet when the number of times King Edward affixes his signature to documents is consid­ ered the work assumes something ot the nature of hard, or at least confin­ ing, labor. It Is estimated that his royal name is signed to not fewer than 50,000 official documents yearly, and in addition to these there are several hundred signatures affixed to bis pri­ vate correspondence. Qraln Dealers Want Equity. That the Illinois state railroad and warehouse commission should estab­ lish a rule providing for the equitable distribution of grain cars Is the con­ tention of the Illinois Grain Dealers' association, a committee of which paid a visit to the capital. The mat­ ter will be taken up later by the com­ mission, but before any such rule is established, the railroads of the state will necessarily have something to say on the subject. The committee was composed of E. M. Wayne, of Delevan; J. E. Hawthorne, of Bloomlngton; George W. Milles, of Wapella; John R. Williams, of Colfax, and S. W. Strong, secretary of the association: The committee discussed the matter of formulating such a rule with W. H. Boys, chairman of the commission. It Is the grain dealers' contention that the commission should frame a rule whereby the railroads would be com­ pelled to distribute cars in equal num­ bers among grain shippers, regardless of the amount to be shipped, After discussing the subject some time, the committee decided to frame a rule along the lines proposed by them and submit it to the commission for con­ sideration. f&4MT-J2-J3E7Zy chairman of the executive committee of the State's Attorneys' association the last year and had charge df the legislative work, and procured the passage of several bills by the last legislature. He has been a member of the bai* since 1891. Mr. Reid Is the youngest state's attorney ever elected In Kane county. NEWS OF ILLINOIS, HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FftOflR ALL OVER THE STATE. ADDITION TO TAX ROLL By Decision sf Judge Vaughn* «f Iff* eetipln, PafaofidycB and in Cook County Are Liable A# to Taxation. .^4 4 Chicago.--Based on it dsftpsesiirti*' dered by Judge Vaughn, of Macoupin county, sitting in the county court, which enforces a test assessment levied against an Evanston hospital, and another decree of the same na­ ture, which holds all church parson­ ages as taxable property, the board o£ review and the county attorney have commenced action which will result in the taxation of all parsonages and hospitals in Cook county except tb# county hospital, which M purely ST public institution. Judge Vaughn held that the rev­ enue laws exempt from taxation only such hospitals as are public institu­ tions In the sense of admitting aB patients free. Of all ths hospitals ia Cook county it is claimed that t&e county hospital is the only one thftt can tome under that provision. WILL GO TO OXPOHSI. Asks for Reports on Accidents. David Ross, secretary of the state bureau of labor statistics, mailed to employers in all parts of the state a circular calling their attention to a law passed by the last general assem­ bly, providing for report to his board on all accidents. The circular con­ tains a copy of the law and a state­ ment of the objects of the statute The information to be gained from these reports win probably be used In the drafting of an Industrial insurance law by the next general assembly. Prior to the enactment of this law no reports of accidents were made, ex­ cept In the case of coal mines. The form of the report which employers are to fill out is included in the cir­ cular. New Brigadier Getters!. Frank P. Wells, who has been pro­ moted to brigadier general of the Illinois National Guard, has had a long and celebrated career In the service of the state. Entering Com­ pany H, Fifth infantry. In June, 1881, as a private, he was elected sergeant In January, 1882; first sergeant, Au­ gust, 1882; second lieutenant, January Begin Transfer of Insane. The first step was taken July 18 towards removing the 600 patients in the county almhouses of Illinois out­ side of Cook county when Gov. Deneen and the state board of charities held a long meeting to make the prelim­ inary arrangements. The last gener­ al assembly gave the board the au­ thority to take charge of these pa­ tients and to transfer them to the state asylums. The first thing that had to he done was to red (strict the state to regulate the admission of pa­ tients Into the state hospitals. The asylum at Bartonvllle, originally cre­ ated for the care of incurables alone, has been made a general insane hos­ pital. The addition of this institution to the list made it necessary to create six districts, and each hospital was given a certain number of counties near by from which its patients will be drawn hereafter. The work of emptying the county almshouses will be begun in September and will con­ tinue as rapidly as room can be found In the state institutions. Ben J. Tomiinson Awarded One jlT 1 Rhodes Scholarships. Urbana.--Ben J. Tomlinson, ot Illi­ nois, has been awarded a Rhodes schol­ arship and will enter Oxford uni­ versity In a few months.. Young Too* i mm i jmr-jr-7amJ2txNL& ; ilnson Is a graduate of the University of Illinois and won a scholarship in modern languages. He was president of the French club and took an active part in the German club. He was bm at Thitedown, Ind., in 1886. DOWNER'S GROVE TAKES PRIZE. Puts Editor on Merit Board. Gov. Deneen appointed John A. Cously, editor and publisher of the Alton Telegraph, a member of the Il­ linois civil service commission, to suc­ ceed former State Senator James A. Willoughby, who was recently ap­ pointed a member of the state board of railroad and warehouse commis­ sioners. tng to heap coals of fire on your head. . - Roebuck don't use the fire shovel for but I discovered that I don to we any. that sort of thing. He's snapping you Good-morning. Then he ' ^ r w _ . i i v i « m A n ke /1 & mnro uncnt l l - Going the Rounds. Borrowby--"Let's see--do I owe yo«ij1rlttt» to Efe<£ New Colonel anything?" Morrowby--"Not a cent my ooy. Going round paying your lit­ tle debts?" Borrowby--"No, I was go­ ing round seeing if I had overlooked anybody. Lend me five till 6^ur4ay, will your*--Lippincotfs. Finger Nails." White spots in the nails are usually due to Imperfect circulation ot the blood and nervousness, and these, again, are due to wrong living. Live Warns Public 8chool Boards. Trustees of public schools through­ out the state of Illinois are warned against the illegal expenditure of school funds and notified to make a report of the conditions of all schools in a circular which is being sent out by State Superintendent of Public In­ struction Francis J. Blair. Among other things, the circular states that the reports for the year ending June 30, 1906, disclose an expenditure of $24,432.98 for incidental expenses by trustees of schools which was unau­ thorized, and therefore illegal. f&mr-p-mzzxss** 24, 1883; first lieutenant, June 14, 1884; captain, January 27,1886; major, August 24, 1889; lieutenant colonel, March 28, 1892; colonel, November 12, 1903. As lieutenant colonel of the Fifth regiment, United States Volun­ teers, Gen. Wells served in the Span- ish-AmericaQ war from May 7, 1898, to October 16, 1898. Victor In Parade of Illinois Mite Firemen's Association. Kewanee.--Downer's Grove won first prise in the parade of the Illinois State Firemen's association at the annual tournament here. The second prize was won by Venice. Fine show­ ings were also made by the teams from Princeton, Chicago Heights, Ed- wardBville, Galva and Riverdale. More than 600 men were in the parade, which was under the direction of State Senator 3; F. Baker, of Kewanee. So great was the local Interst Is the tournament that the saloons of the city decided to close in the afternoons. This is the first time in the history of Kewanee that they have closed on a , week day, except when required tor do so by law. * Upheld by Circuit Court. The constitutionality of the act which provides for bringing civil ac­ tion for damages by parties Injured in freight discrimination was sus­ tained by Judge Creighton In the San­ gamon circuit court in-overruling a demurrer in the case of L. H. Zum- brook & Son against the Chicago, Peoria & St. I^ouis railway. Accord­ ing to the act, if an excess rate be found damages may be awarded for three times the amount of the excess. In Its demurrer the railway company held that the act t^as unconstitutional and deprived them of property without due process of law. iggfijb, - Js; A new colonel of the Fifth regiment will be chosen Saturday, August 3, to fill the vacancy caused by the ap­ pointment of Brig. Gen. Frank P. Wells, of Decatur, to his present rank. This was the substance of an order is­ sued by Adjt. Gen. Thomas W. Scott. No name has been mentioned as the probable choice. Many of the National guardsmen believe Lieut. Col. John C. Cabanis will be the choice of the off­ icers. The election will be presided h* , P. WeU^ Cowan Renamed Grain Inspector. Gov. Deneen. reappointed W. Scott CQwan, of Carroll county, chief grain inspector of Chicago. Candidates for Governorship. Judge McEwen has added his name to the growing list of candidates for the Republican gubernatorial nomina­ tion, and his formal announcement was made in the shape of uu answer to the request of a cltlsen's committee which visited him at his courtroom. From Jacksonville eame the announce­ ment that Andrew Russel, who was a candidate for state treasurer last sum­ mer and defeated in convention by John F. Smulski, would be a candidate against Gov. Deneen. & t* Girl Makes Target Record. A record for Camp Lincoln rtfto range was established by Miss Eloise Snyder, of Rockford, who shot 35 out of a possible 50 bull's-eyes. Miss Snyder Is the slster-ln-law of Capt. Crl|l, of Company H. and went on the range with a battalion of the Third. Capt. J. C. Tetlow. of Rockford, also established a record by shoo tingle ven straight bull's-eyes. Both perform­ ances were accomplished from the 200-yard mark. Gov. and Mrs. De­ neen received the officers of the Third, regiment July 17. , * s 4* * - - Dates for Farmers' Institutes* . , , Urbana.--Officers of the farmers* 'lagf stitutes of the several counties com­ posing the Eighteenth and Nineteenth congressional districts met and ar­ ranged dates for the Nineteenth die* trlct as follows: Macon, Decatur, De­ cember 17-20; Coles, Charleston, De­ cember 17-20; Moultrie, Sullivan, January 17-18; Bethany, February 7-8; Champaign, January, 16-17; Douglass, Hindsboro, January 16-17; Shelby, Windsor, October 23-24. "Granny" Nickerson Deed. Canton.--Elsie Jane Nickerson, oaip of the oldest women In America, died at the county farm. Granny Nicker­ son was. 107 years of age on June 4, and is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Noah Hill, and two sons. Joshua and David Nickerson. Mrs. Nickerson wss among the early settlers in Illinois and one of the pioneers of Fulton county, she having settled Just out- Bide of the city of Canton half s cen­ tury ago. Carlinville Added to Wealth. Carllnvllle.--Carllnville real estate, according to the assessor, has In­ creased in value materially the psst four years. The total assessment on lands and lots in Caflinville an^ town­ ship four years ago was $499,809, and this year It is $676,873, an increase ot |76,874 on assessed valuation. The full valuation ot lands and lots in Car­ linville has therefore Increased $384** 870. .Jf Woodmen Hsve an Spring Valley.--The second 'afirinal " picnic of the Illinois Woodmen asso­ ciations of Bureau and La Salle coun­ ties was held at Webster park in this city. The attendance was 10,000, bait of whom were Woodmen. The Joliet prize drill team took part in the com­ petitive drills. The first prize was awarded camp No. 3, Ottawa, and the second prise went to the Marseilles camp. The baseball game between Ottawa and Depue was woe by tbe latter, score, 4 to i T* Compile Abstracts. • ^ Decatur?--Judge Solon PhltBrfcl! HP* Champaign, has refused to issue % temporary injunction restraining John Allen and Macon county from making and selling abstracts. The petition was made by the Macon County Title & Trust company, who contend that the county's money was being use4 to compile abstracts and that then1 were no laws authorising the county to C° Into the abstract business. The cm* ! may come up at the October 1 the circuit court _ .„ ill i • iife