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Avrt/m co*rmG*rr*0 /*0o BIT jj Co*f*a*yr £ft ^ ^ CHAPTER VII.--Continued. '* I could find nothing to say. I saw '0--'•"'•ay freedom slipping from me. I v ' tratsaed it, sick at heart; yet, on the other hand. I neither tried nor f Irished to detain It, though I could ijiasily have made a renewal of our evt agement Impossible. I have no ex- ianation for this conflict of emotions _i%ad motives. "Don't make it so hard for me," she >;>*'Went on. "I never before in my life ' 1|old anybody I was sorry for anything. .1 thought I never would. But I ' Am sorry, and--we'll have the wedding the first day of August." Still I found nothing to say. It was ^ $o painfully obvious that, trtie to her , ..training, soe had not given and was - V fiot giving a thought to the state of ,'".[jkiy mind and feelings. What she ^-".•^rished, that she would do--the rest 4id not Interest her. "Are you satisfied, my lord?" she demanded. "Have I humbled myself sufficiently?" "You haven't humbled yourself at all," said I. "You have only humbled me." , v She did not pause on my remark long enough to see what it meant. "Now that it's all settled," she said, gayly, "I don't mind telling you that * I began to make my preparations to be married on the first of B August--*• when, do you think?" "When?" I said. "The very day I got your nasty let­ ter, putting me second to your moth­ er." And she laughed, and was stil! * laughing, when she added: "So, you •ee, 1 was determined to marry you." "I do." said I. dryly. "I suppose I ought to feel flattered." "No, you oughtn't," she retorted. "1 simply made up my mind to marry you. And I'll do it, no matter what !t cost. 1 get that from father. But I've got mother's disposition, too-- and that makes me far too good for fiuch a cold, unsentimental, ambitious person as you." "Don't you think you're rather rash to confess so frankly--when I could still escape?" "Not at all," was her confident an­ swer. "I know you, and so I know nothing could make you break your word." "There'* some truth in that"--and I hope that I do not deceive myself in thinking I was honest there. "More truth, perhaps, than you guess." She looked shrewdly at me--and friendly. "Don't be too sure I haven't guessed," said she. "Nobody's ever so blind as he lets others think. It's funny, isn't it? There are things in your mind that you'd never tell me, and things in my mind that I'd never tell you. And each of us guesses most of them, without ever letting on." She laughed queerly, and struck the horse smartly so that he leaped into a gait at which conversation was im­ possible. When we resumed, the subject was the details of our wedding. At home again, I found my mother too ill to leave her bed. She had been ill before--many times when she wouldn't confess it, several times when she was forced to admit it, but never before so ill that she could not dress and come down stairs. "I shall be vip to-morrow," she assured me, and I almost believed he*-. She drew - a letter from under her pillow. "This came while, you were away," she wept on. "I kept it here, because--•" a look of shame flitted across her face, and then her eyes were steady and proud again--"why should I be ashamed of It? I had the impulse to destroy the letter, and I'm not sure but that I'm failing in my duty." I took it--yes, it was from Boston, from Betty. I opened it and fortun­ ately had nerved myself against show­ ing myself to my mother. There was neither beginning nor end, fust a Single sentence: "From the bottom of my broken heart I am thankful that I have been spared the horror of discovering I bad bound myself for life to a coward." The shot went straight to the cen­ ter of the target. But-- There lay my mother--did she not have the right to determine my destiny--she who had given me my life and her own ? I tore up Betty's letter, and I looked at mother and said: "There's nothing In that to make me waver--or regret." It was the only lie I ever told her. I told it well, thank God, for she was convinced, and the look in her face repaid me a thousandfold. It repays me once more as I write, Carlotta and I were married at her bedside, and she lived only until the next day but one. When the doctor told me of the long concealed mortal disease that was the cause of her go­ ing. he ended with: "And, Mr. Sayler, It passes belief that she managed to lceep alive for five years. I can*t un­ derstand it." But I understood. She simply refused to go until she felt that her mission was accomplished. "We must never forget her," said Carlotta, trying to cpnsole me by grieving with me. I did not answer--how could I ex- ;V jplain ? Never forget her! On the .jjfHMrtrarjr, I knew that I must forget, I *' --and that I must work and grow and heal the wound and cover its scar. ^ lost not a day in beginning. To those few succeeding months I owe the power I have had all these years, to concentrate my mind upon j: whatever I will to think about; for '.L ....vjjn those months I fougbt-ihe fight I h* .Scared not lose--fought it and won. ^" ]Let those who ha .e never loved talk -» / ^ 0>t remembering the dead. • I turned away from her grave with I "'the resolve that my first act of power i7^%would be to stamp out Dominick. But yfor him she wnmd not have gone for " , n; m*' A year. T was his persecutions l* involved us In the miseries which * waateil fcer and made he* fall a victim to the mortal disease. It was his malignity that poisoned her last years, which, but for him, would have been happy. As my plans for ousting Dunkirk took shape, I saw clearly that, if he were to be overthrown at once, I must use part of the existing control of the machine of the party--it would take several years, at least three, to build up an entirely new control. To work quickly, I mu3t use Croffut, Dunkirk's colleague in the senate. And CrOffut was the creature of Dominick. Early in September Woodruff came to me, at Fredonia, his manner jubi­ lant "I can get Dominick," he ex­ claimed. "He is furious against Dun­ kirk because he's just discovered that Dunkirk cheated him out of f100,000 on that perpetual street railway fran­ chise, last winter." "But we don't want Damlnick," said I. My face must have reflected my mind, for Woodruff merely replied: "Oh, very well. Of course that alters the case." "We must get Croffut without him," I went on. Woodruff shook his head. "Can't get him," he said. "Dominick controls the two southern ranges of counties. small mind with small matters to occupy it. Of the stones I have quar­ ried to build my career, not one has been, or could have been, spared to waste as a missile. I went down to the Cedar Grove cemetery, where my mother lay beside mv father My two sisters who died KnfAMi T wee KAM WAI»A • l/V4Wt V 4b www Wtli «f V* V MW iVUi, her parents and his on either side. And I said to her: "Mother, I am go­ ing to climb up to a place where I can use my life as you would have me use it. To rise in such a world as this I shall have to do many things you would not approve. I shall do them. But when I reach the height, I shall justify myself and you. I know how many have started with the same pledge and have been so defiled by what they had to handle that when they arrived they were past cleans­ ing; and they neither kept nor cared to keep their pledge. But I, mother, shall pot break this pledge to you." CHAPTER VIII. A Call from "the Party." About a month after the Chicago and Fredonia bill was smothered in committee there appeared upon the threshold of my office, in the adminis­ tration building of the Ramsay com­ pany, a man whom at first glance you might have taken for an exhorted or a collector for some pious enterprise. But if you had made a study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that glaze of oily, apologetic appeal. Behind a thin screen of short gray beard lay a heavy loose mouth, cruel and strong; above it, a great beak and a £)air of pale green eyes, intensely alive. They were in startling contrast to the apparent de­ crepitude of the stooped shambling body, far too small for its covering of decent but somewhat rusty black. "Senator Dunkirk," said I, rising and advancing to greet the justly fear­ ed leader of my party. I knew there replied. "He is not an €Asy man to know--indeed, who is?" "A very able man; In some re­ spects a great man," Dunkirk went- OH. "But, like so many of our great men of business, he cannot appreciate politics--the difficulties of the man in nuhlir urhnco Gfirsuasion rrssn- uiuoi lurcu, auiuuruy vi* most never. And, because I have r®- sisted some of his impossible demands, he has declared war on the party. He has raised up in it a faction head­ ed by your old enemy, Dominick, I need not tell you what a brute, what a beast he is, the representative of all that is abhorrent in politics." "A faction headed by Dominick couldn't be very formidable." I sug­ gested. "But Dominick isn't tho nominal leader,^ "replied Dunkirk. "Roebuck is far too shrewd for that. No, he has put forward as the decoy my col­ league, Croffut--perhaps you know him? If so, I needn't tell you what a vain, shallow, venal fellow he is, with his gift of gab that fools the peo­ ple." "I know him," said I. in a tone which did not deny the accuracy of Dunkirk's description. "Their object." continued the'seoa- Speci&l Correspondent Writes of Things of Interest at the Slate Capital. NEWS Of ILLINOIS. HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FRO* ALL OVER THE STATE. '~mJ WILL MEET AT DECATUR ried on in the effort to remove the tor, "is to buy the control of the par-4^mcked glasses from the eyes of con- "'Wm It Was from Boston, from Betty. He fiances his own machine from what he collects from vice and crime in those cities. He gives that branch of the plum tree to the boys. He keeps the bigger one, the corporations, for himself." "He can be destroyed," said I, wav­ ing aside these significant reminders. "Yes, in five years or so of hard work. Meanwhile, Dunkirk will run things at the capital to suit himself. Anyhow, you're taking on a good deal more tftan's necessary--starting with two big fights, one of 'em against a man you ought to use to do up the other. It's like breaking your own sword at the beginning of the due?." "Go back to the capital," said I, after a moment's thought; "I'll tele­ graph you up there what to do." . It was my first test--my first chance to show whether I had learned at the savage school at which I had been a pupil. Scores, hundreds of men, can plan, and plan wisely--at almost any cross-roads general store you hear in the conversation round the stove as good plans as ever moved the wrold to admiration. But execution--there's the rub! And the first essential of an executive is freedom from partialities and hatreds--not to say, "Do 1 like him? Do I hate him? Was he my enemy a year or a week or a moment ago?" bat only to ask oneself the one question: "Can he be useful to me now?" "I will use Dominick to destroy Dunkirk, and then I will destroy him," I said to myself. But that did not sat­ isfy me. I saw that I was temporizing with the weakness that has wrecked more careers than misjudgment. I felt that I must decide then and there whether or not I would eliminate per­ sonal hatred from my life. After long and bitter struggle, I did decide once and for all. I telegraphed Woodruff to go ahead. When I went back to Pulaski to settle my affairs there. Dominick came to see me. Not that he dreamed of the existence of my combine or of my con-i nection with the new political deal, but simply because I had married into the Ramsay family and was therefore now in the Olympus of corporate pow­ er before which he was on his knees-- tor a price, like a wise devotee, on- troubled by any such qualmishness as self-respect. I was ready for him. I put out my hand. "I'm glad you're willing to let by­ gones be bygones, Mr. Sayler." said he, so moved that the tears stood in his eyes. Then 't flashed on me that, after a!!, he was only a big brute, driven biindly by his appetites. How silly to plot re­ venges upon the creatures of circum­ stance--how like a, child beating the chair it happens to strike against! HJlreds and revenges arefor tka was an intimate connection between this visit and the death of his pet project. I thought it safe to assume that he had somehow stumbled upon Woodruff's tunnelings, and with that well-trained nose of his had smelled out their origin. But I need not have disquieted myself; 1 did not then know how softly Woodruff moved, sending no warnings ahead, and leav­ ing no trail behind. For several minutes the senator and I both felt for each other in the dark in which we both straightway hid. He was the first to give up and reveal himself in the open. "But I do not wish to waste your time and my own, Mr. Sayler," he said; "I have come to see you about the threatened split in the party. You are, perhaps, sur­ prised that I should have come to you, when you have been so many years out of politics, but I think you will understand, as I explain myself. You know Mr. Roebuck?" "I can't say that I know him," I ty machinery away from those who now manage it in the interests of con­ servatism and fair dealing. If they succeed the only business interest that will be considered in this state will be the Power trust. And we shall have Dominick, the ignorant brute, lashed on by Roebuck's appe­ tites, until the people will rise in fury and elect the opposition--and you know what it is." ""What you say is most interesting,** said I, "but I confess I haven't lmag* ination enough to conceive a condi­ tion of affairs in which anybody with 'the price' couldn't get what he want­ ed by paying for it. Perhaps the busi­ ness interests would gain by a change --the other crowd might be less ex­ pensive. Certainly the demands of our party's machine have become in­ tolerable." "It astonishes me, Mr. Sayler, to hear you say that--you, who have been In politics," he protested, taken aback by my hardly disguised attack upon him--for he was in reality "party" and "machine." "Surely, you understand the situation. We must .have money to maintain our organ­ ization, and to run our campaign. Our workers can't live on air; and, to apeak of only one other factor, there are thousands and thousands of our voters, honest fellows, too, who must be>»paid to come to the polls. They wouldn't vote against us for any sum; but, unless we pay them for the day lost in the fields, they stay at home. Now, where does our money come from? The big corporations are the only source---who else could or would give largely enough? And it is necessary and just that they should be repaid. But they are no longer con­ tent with moderate and prudent re­ wards for their patriotism. They make bigger and bigger, and more and more unreasonable demands on us, and so undermine our popularity-- for the people can't be blinded wholly to what's going on. And thus, year by year, it takes more and more money to keep us in control." "You seem to have forgotten my point," said I, smiling. "Why should you be kept in control? If you go out, the others come In. They blus­ ter and threaten, in order to get them­ selves in; but, once they're elected, they discover that it wasn't the peo­ ple's woes they were shouting about, but their own. And soon they are docile 'conservatives' lapping away at the trough, with nothing dangerous in them but their appetites" "Precisely--their appetites," said he. "A starved man has to practice eat­ ing a long, long time before he can equal the performances of a trained glutton," I suggested. His facial response to my good-humor­ ed raillery was feeble Indeed. And it Boon died in a look of depression that made him seem even older and more decrepit than was his wont "The same story, wherever I go" said he sadly. "The business interests re­ fuse to see their peril. • And when I, in my zeal, persist, they--several of them, Sayler, have grinned at me and reminded me that the legislature to be elected next fall will choose my successor! As if my own selfish in­ terests were all I have in mind! I am old and feeble, on the verge of the grave., Do you think, Mr. Sayler. that I would continue in public life if it were not for what I conceive to be my duty to my party? I have toll* ed too long for it--" (TO BK CONTINUED.) Raffles Cow to Buy a Leg Ingenious Scheme of a Man Diaabled by a Train. If there is more than one way to akin a cat, there is certainly more than one way In which to acquire a cork leg. The usual way is to earn oney and buy it, says the New York World. The way adopted by Julius Thorne, who lives at Glens Falls, is to let a cow raise herself and then raffle her off toe a leg. Thorne was hit by a reliroad train about a year ago, and when tto doc­ tors cut off his Jeft leg, a disease of the bono set ia. The hujured man was taken home, where, while he lay on his back wafting for the bone to heal, he cast about for some means whereby he could procure a cork leg. Being supplied with little in the way of the world's goods, Thorn was forced to use his ingenuity. From a neighbor he bought for a couple of dollars a sickly calf less than a month old. This he raised on skimmed milk provided by another neighbor who made his own butter, and in time the ca!f got strong enough to be turned .put to pasture. Grazing around cost little, and while the calf was growing and fattening Thorne made baskets that he might have enough cash to winter the ainmal. By fall be bad earned enough to more than do* this, nd recently he starfM » rafle. Alt .: * '• ' . \ V:- ... . his friends took tickets, and when ths drawing takes place Thorne will cele­ brate by wearing his new cork leg. Narrow Escape. Mr. Ferguson, two of whose down­ town friends had just dined with him. had taken them into the library for a smoke. "I must tell you a good one on my wife," he said. "She's been roasting me because I look at the head­ lines in the papers once ID a while to see if anything important is happening} in the Thaw trial. Well, the othef' afternoon, while the girl was away, she put a pan of biscuits in the oven to bake, and while she was waiting she picked up a paper and began to read the stuff herself. She got so in­ terested in it that she let the bis­ cuits--" At this moment Mrs. Fergu- so% came into the library for a book. "And the joke of it was," continued Mr. Ferguson, without a moment's pause, "that they found the cow next morning in a 40-acre lot." "Ha, ha, ha!" roared the guests, laughing till the tears ran down their cheeks--but not at the story. How Many In sending his yearly subscription to one of the Winnipeg newspapers a Manitoba farmer wrote: "Dear Sin If you see any women that want to get married, send them this wajr. I want a wife myself, and a good Springfield.--A boom for the deep water way congress to be held in Mem­ phis, Tenn., October 4 and 5, was launched by Congressman William Lorimer. It is the intention of the congressman and the lakes-to-the-gulf boomers to stir the entire nation with the appeal that will be voiced at the Memphis conference. The main pur­ pose of the October gathering is to make such a showing and perfect such an organization that congress will quickly provide the $100,000,000 appro­ priation needed to open a deep water way from Chicago to the gulf of Mex­ ico. Further details of the convention and the plan of campaign to be car- s will be elucidated at a confer- enc£"<o,be held at Chicago soon. At this contefsence there will be selected 50 delegates xU> officially represent Chicago at thelJ^emphis rally. Pro­ moters of the watef^ay project are hopeful of large results'fcpm the com­ ing congress. At St. Louis N^st year, where the first general Mississippi valley congress was held, 1,600 able­ gates .were registered. This Convei^ tion was planned three years before when a delegation, headed by Con­ gressman Lorimer, made a trip down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, holding meetings in all the important towns in the valley, and organizing deep water way associations. It was determined at that early date that congress would not provide adequate appropriations for the great inland water way until the country was aroused to the importance of the project. As a result of conferences held at that time by western congress­ men the "campaign of education and organization" was launched. Much personal work was done by the con­ gressmen, and finally the brtfnch or­ ganizations were asked to send dele­ gates to the St. Louis convention, which opened the eyes of several east­ ern members of congress. It is now proposed to make this year's conven­ tion a convincing demonstration of the widespread demand for the lakes-to- the-gulf ship canal. Few Get Teachers' Certificates. Of the 23 applicants who took the examination for state teachers' certifi­ cates, only an even dozen were suc­ cessful. The list of candidates who passed was announced by State Su­ perintendent of Public Instruction Francis G. Blair. The successful ones will bye given life certificates under the new ruling of the educational de­ partment. The questions propounded this year were not more difficult than on other occasions, but. the number of those who failed to answer them cor­ rectly was considerably larger than at the previous examination. The list of successful teachers follows: Mina B. Havens, Springfield; J. J. Love, Decatur; A. F. Butters, Alexis; Mary A. Murphy. Elkhart; Thomas F. Mc­ Cartney. Metropolis; J. L. Dunbar, Mason; George Sype, Pontlac; Albert W. Bailey, Auburn; S- T. Walker, Watson; R. M. Dorsey, Ramsey; Chhrles C. Condit, St. Joseph; Thos. . Sinnet, Tonica. Springfield District Baptist Associf|r, . V.! tion Convenes in That City Sep- .•'• ' tember 4--Many Towns Will *L j? Be Represented. . , 'i Decatur.--The pastor of the ,* having resigned, members of the Bap­ tist church of Taylorville have asked . the members of the First Baptist church of this city to prepare for the annual meeting of the Springfield dis­ trict Baptist association, which was , I to have been held in Taylorville. Th# request was granted and the delegates will convene in Decatur September 4- 5. There are 20 churches in the die- trict, the largest cities represented be- 4 | ing Springfield, Taylorville, Morrison- ^: ville, Pana and Shelbvville. Y • A decision affecting members of a large number of fraternal organiza­ tions throughout the country was ren­ dered by Judge James A. Creighton in the circuit court when he sustained the demurrer to the petition for a writ of mandamus in the case of Frank E. Doollng against the Court of Honor. By the decision the court htdds that the law passed by the general lodge of the Court of Honor of 1903, giving the board of directors concurrent jurisdiction with the local court to try members for a misdemeanor, is valid, and that the bill for a mandamus does not state facts sufficient to warrant the issuance of the writ. The case grows out of the original charges of embezzlement that were preferred against the plaintiff. The petition for mandamus was filed soon after the indictments were returned, and after the board of directors had availed itself of the powers vested in it by the general lodge and placed Dooling un­ der suspension. The action was taken only after the local court failed, on a technicality, to suspend him from membership, and after the board had considered objections filed by ttooling. Each,, and every one of the objections were considered by the board, and all were overruled. The mandamus peti­ tion has been before the circuit court since last April, and has been under advisement since that time. Politicians Active. Speaker Shurtleff addressed a Chau­ tauqua assembly at Old Salem, Menard county, and William E. Mason spoke at Mount Carmel. Twelve Republican leaders from Randolph county called upon Gov. Qeneen at Springfield and protested against the action of Con­ gressman George Smith in urging the appointment of Dr. H. C. Adderly, of Chester, at the southern Illinois peni­ tentiary to succeed Dr. W. R. McKen- zle. The deputation was friendly to McKenzie. Na<r» Rock Island Man. Gov. Deneen accepted the resigna­ tion of John Wagner, of McLean, as trustee of the state institution for the feeble minded at Lincoln and appoint­ ed Dr. John Desilva, of Rock Island, his successor. Praise Gatling Gun Platoon. Much favorable criticism was given by the regular army officers and by the Fifth infantry regiment to the maneu­ vers executed by th<| gatling gun platoon. Illinois Gets Logan Relics. Mrs. Jphn A. Logan, widow of Gen. John A. Logan, shipped to Springfield, 111., a splendid memorial collection of souvenirs of Gen. Ix>gan and her son, Maj. Logan. The gift of Mrs. Logan to the state of Illinois will be placed in a room in the state capitol building set apart by the legislature at its last session, at which a resolution was passed appropriating the sum neces­ sary for the shipment of the collec­ tion. There are many priceless civil war relics of that period of the his­ tory of the nation. Negro Odd Fellows Meet. The annual session of the Negro Odd Fellows of Illinois and Wisconsin and the woman's auxiliary, convened in Represen ta t ive s ' ha l l Augus t 6 . Mayor Reece delivered the address of welcome and the response was made by D. J. Smith, of Peoria; Grand Mas­ ter Boyd, of Chicago; Deputy Charles Meser, Harrisburg, 111.; Grand Secre­ tary Charles S. Smith, Parts, 111., of the Odd Fellows, and Irene Camp, of the Household of Ruth made their annual reports. u'v" Must Obtain License. ' All violators of the new automobile ^aw will be dealt with severely. As­ sistant State's Attorney Wines issued a statement in which he declares he will hav&^all those owning machines who do not > comply with the law brought within thewclutches of the law. The legislature at ^s last session passed a new law, In wbVch owners of automobiles muBt have aN^icense, a rear and front light, and thd^umber of the license on the rear, ailt^ also painted on the front lights. ForHfche Crop Outlook la Good. Chesterfield.--The rains have pre­ vented threshing and haying. The farmers are making good use of the first few days after the law went inft)J nice weather threshing wheat. The effect, which was July 1, the secretary of state's office - was swamped with those desiring licenses. Now the bus­ iness has lulled, and the state's attor­ ney's office has been informed that one-half of the owners residing in this city have failed to procure licenses. The permission costs but $5 while the fine is fixed at $25 to $200. Regular Troops Break Camp. With the finish of last week's en­ campment, the close of the infantry stay was reached. Now the cavalry comes to camp. Maj. Tillson has been'greatly pleased with his stay at the camp and believes it has been a benefit to the National guard. All of the officers with whom he has dealt have supported him in this opinion Maj. Tillson and his men return to Ft. Thomas, Ky., where they will re­ main for a short time. They will then proceed to the barracks at Wash­ ington, D. C. In February the Fourth United States will go to the Philip­ pine islands, where they have been ordered. Italians in Free-for-AII. .*•!^ Murphysboro.--With 18 Itallans jail and more than 50 others in hiding in the nearby woods, the village df Fordyce, ten miles West of here, is en­ joying comparative quiet, after a day of wild rioting. The Italians, who were employed on the Iron Mountain road as section hands, began rioting after their demand that the section foreman be dismissed had been re­ fused by the roadmaster. They at- • tacked the foreman and roadmaster, and in a short time a general melee was in progress. The residents of the village, headed by Sheriff Hanson, or­ ganized a posse and started In to break up the riot. After IS of the for­ eigners had been lodged in jail the ' others took to the woods. * No fataH> ties are reported. 'rage yield will be about 20 bushels an\cre, some fields yielding as high as 30 vljushelc. Some of the oats will not be dU.t. The hay will be up in about ten ^ays. The yield is good. The pastures'\have Wen green ever since spring. I^ere is a fine prospect for corn. Some the corn on the Macoupin valley wSfl drowned out during the high water,v^ut the rest Is * ' fine. *s btfe« Taylot\ Keep Clergy and Charity Rates. Contrary to the action of the West­ ern and Central Passenger associa­ tions, the Transcontinental association lines have refused to adopt a proposi­ tion to abolish reduced rates' on ac­ count of clergy and charity. The three-cent per mile basis of fares is still in effect in many of the states in the Transcontinental association, while in the territory of the Central and Western associations a majority of the states have passed laws making the maximum rate two cents per mile and the roads propose to also make that the minimum fare for everybody! State to Care For Insane. Plans are being drafted by Gov. Deneen and the members of the state board of chaHtles for the proper care of the insane and the complete con­ trol and administration of insane asylums by the state. Under the law receutly passed it is now possible to place all the asylums in counties un­ der state control. The Cook County institution at Dunning will not come under the control of the state, how­ ever, until similar institutions in other counties are cared for. Saves a Patient; Loses Elgin.--Dr. Leonard S. Taylor",^ of the most successful surgeons of 'the west, died, giving his life as a sacrifice* > to his profession. In May he per- .V;" formed an operation which saved his patient's life, but which has resulted in his losing his own life. In sewing up a wound after an operation for ne­ crosis Dr. Taylor pierced his thumb with the needle. He applied the usual remedy, but the poison entered the blood and his whole body was if- fected. » Veteran Educator Dead. Decatur.--Enoch A. Gastman, ttiir nestor of Illinois educators, died sudk denly at "the Parker house in Boston while on a visit with his wife to the east. His death was caused by acute bronchitis. Mr. Gastman was the first graduate of the Illinois State Normal 51 years ago. All his life he had been a teacher. His close friends and associates were the literal^ group famous a generation ago--. Longfellow, Whittier and Bryant. Wheat Yield Is Varied. Loami.--Threshing has been to., layed in this vicinity, on account of rain and the average yield of wheat an acre cannot at this dhte be estimat­ ed. The wheat that has been threshed ranges from 15 to 41 bushels an acre. The oats crop will be light, but the quality of the grain is very good. Barring an early frost the prospect for a large corn crop is the best la several yetfrs. Fruits, except grapes* are almost a total failure. Church 8ociety Changea Name. The Evangelical Luthera church ex­ tension and home mission board, with headquarters at Chicago, filed with the secretary of state a certificate of change of name to "The Evangeli­ cal Luthern church extension and home mission board of the northern Illinois district of the German Evan­ gelical Lutheran church." Erection Not to Be Protested. No protest will be filed against the election held for colonel at Camp Lin coin, when Col. Frank Wood was elected over Lieut. Col. John C. Ca banls. It is stated that the mattei has been settled and that all have pledged their support to their young leader. Flyer Over Bank; One Killed. Cairo.--Mobile & Ohio fast pttssea* ' ger train No. 1 from St. Louis jumped the track at Waterhouse, near Jones- boro, and. although the engine, bag­ gage, mail and express cars a&4 all the coaches except the sleeper and the diner, rolled down the embankmel^* not a passenger was fatally injured/ Clerk Cannot Recognize Crows. Decatur.--Town Clerk Coltrin does f/ not know a crow's bead when he sees >' one. and as he is required to pagr • bounties for all the heads that are brought to him he is in a dilemma. : He is afraid somebody will unload ^ , blackbird and other scalps upon him. and has asked for an assistant. ™ Likely to Be Lively Session. Unless the legislative managers oJ the state succeed in screwing the lie down on the general assembly wher it meets, the legislature is likely tc start with a good deal of unexpected business. It is supposed to meet anc consider a deep water way project There are several other proposition} which seem likely to come up before it.* Speaker Shurtleff is said to b« willing to allow considerable discus sion of his Chicago restriction issu« in the lower house, and plans are sale to be afoot to review this question. Ltbel Suit Against Hearst. Chicago.--Jacob J. Kern, former state's attorney, brought three suits for $100,000 each against W. R. Hearst's two Chicago newspapers, charging libel in statements published concerning him and his relations to the failure of Stensland's Milwaukee Avenue state bank last summer. Oil Is -Found at Medora. Medora--Oil was found at this ptaos on the farm of Arthur Rich, several hundred yards from the public school, while men were drilling for gas. From: the statement of experts who are hers th«.!^iipply seeing to be inexhaustible.' Moro wells will be sunk in the near future. , i Killed Under Falling Corn Crib. - Fsirbury.--Charles W. Ollenziefy farmer, was killed at his home two miles southwest, when caught under a falling corn crib he was moving. Industrial Traffic League. Cooperation with the railroad com panies, the shippers and the interstat< commerce commission and the weld ing together of interests that ar« mutual to all, is the purpose of th« National Industrial Traffic league, ai organization which was perfected i« Chicago. Local railroad officials loob toward the new organization as be ing one that will ultimately act aa a mediator for all differences tha! arise between the commerce commit sion, the railroads and the shippers. Lay Corner Stone fer New Church. Freeport.--la the presence of tF^r large assemblage the corner stone of the new Trinity United Evangelical, church, of Fr^eport, was laid. Rev. W. H. Fouke, of Harrisburg. Pa., waa the principal speaker. The structure* cost 920,000. ** »» « Killed by BuHingto»-T»sl». '•£ ^ Princeton.--M. T. W. Lathrop. as* of the pioneers of Bureau county aoMft a well-known resident of Princeton, was struck by a Burlington paaeeafSS train and instantly killed.