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'*afc MeKttt, ' FTER X»X,--Continued. But I did know, and my remark was the Impulsive fling of envy. He had found out, several weeks before, what a strong undercurrent was run­ ning toward him. He was faced by * dilemma--if h® did not go tolhe con­ vention it would be said that he had •toyed away deliberately, and he would be nominated; if he went, to try to prevent his nomination, the enthusiasm of his admirers and fol­ lowers would give the excuse for forc­ ing the nomination upon him. And As he sat there, with that ominous tumult about him, he wis realizing how hard his task was to be. His companions pushed him a pass­ age through the crowds on the side­ walk and in the lobby, and he shut himself away in the upper part of the hotel. When we left, half an hour later, the people were packed before that face of the hotel which displayed the Banner of the Indiana delegation, were cheering Scarborough, were clamoring--in vain--for him to show himself. "But won't he offend them?" asked WS wife. "A crowd loves like a woman," said X. "Indifference only excites it." "Oh, I never loved that way,", pro­ tested Mrs. Sandys. "Then," said my wife, rather sour­ ly I thought, "you and Mr. Sandys .have something to live for." - And so we talked no more politics. There may be American women who really like to talk politics, but I never happened to know one with so little sense. It's a pity we men do not im­ itate our women more closely in one respect. In season and out of season, they never talk anything but busi­ ness--woman's one business. When other things are being discussed, they listen, or rather, pretend to listen; in leality, their minds are still on their business, and how they shall contrive t* bring it back into the conversa­ tion with advantage to themselves. Next day the convention adopted a wishy-washy platform much like Bur- bank's--if anything, weaker. I saw Goodrich's blight -upon it But the Victory cost him dear. That Sight the delegates realized what a blunder they had made--or thought they real­ ized it after Merriweather and his Staff had circulated among them. Few of them had been trusted by Beckett Tj|'h the secret that, with that plat­ form and with Simpson as the nom­ inee their party would have the inter­ ests behind it, would almost certain­ ly win. They only saw ahead a dull campaign, and no real issue between the parties, and their candidate, if he was Simpson, much the less attrac­ tive personality of the two. The following morning the voting began; and after seven balots Simp­ son had 3d votes less than on the first ballot. "It was like a funeral." was the verdict • of my disappointed guests that evening. A night of debate and gloom among the politicians and other delegates, and' on the opening ballot Merriweather sprung his trap. The first big doubtful state In the alphabetical list of states is Illinois. When the secretary of the conven­ tion called for Illinois' vote, it was cast solidly for Scarborough. There was straightway pandemo- fduxn. It was half an hour before any one could get a hearing. Thea. In­ diana was called, and Pierson, attor­ ney general of that state and chair­ man of its delegation, cast its vote as lh the other ballots, for Hitchens, its governor. From my box I was watch­ ing Scarborough and his immediate friends going from delegation to del­ egation, and I knew what he was about. When Iowa was called and cast its vote solidly for him, I knew he had failed. "How white he is!" said Mrs. Sandys, who was looking at him through opera-glasses. I borrowed them and saw that his gaze was fixed on a box on tl\e other aide of the huge auditorium, on a woman in that box--I had only to look u\ her to see which woman. She was beautiful of that type of charm which tl e French sum up in the phrase "the woman of 30." I have heard crowds bellow too often to be moved by it-- though the 20,000 or 30,000 gathered under that roof were outdoing the cannonade of any thunderstorm. But that woman's look in response to Scar­ borough's--there was sympathy and understanding it it, and more, Infl- nitetly more. He had been crushed for the moment--and I understand enough of his situation to understand what a blow to all his plans this untimely apparent triumph was. She was ahoiwing that she, too, felt the blow, but she was also sending a message of courage to him--one of those mes­ sages that transcend words, like music, like the perfumes qf flowers and fields, like that whien fills us afa we lwk straight up Into a clear night aky. I lowered the gfasses and looked Away--I could not bear it. •" For the moment I hated him--hated myself fof it. I beard Carlotta asking a woman in the box next ours the name of "the woman with the white plume in the big black hat in the seventh box am the other side." • "Mrs. Scarborough," 5j*a the an- awer. "Oh, is that ahe?" exclaimed Mrs. 8andys, almost snatching her glasses from me {n her eagerness. "You know who she was--John Dumont's widow--yon remember him? She javast have been an uncommon person to have attracted two such men." But Scarborough was nominated Bow. He waved aside those who trl«d to take him up and bear him to the platform. . He walked down the aisle alone and ascended amid a tease silence; he stooo 5t>«*kine eulrtriy out. His face had lost its whiteness of a few minutes before. As he stood there, big and still, a sort of embodi­ ment of fearlessness, I wondered-- and I fancy many others were won­ dering--whether he was about to re­ fuse the nomination. But an In­ stant's thought drove the wild notion from my mind. He could not strike that deadly blow at his party. "Fellow delegates," said he--a clear­ er, more musical voice than <his I have never heard--"I thank you for this honor. As you know, I opposed the platform you saw fit to adopt. I have nothing to retract. I do not like it. But after all, a candidate must be his own platform. And I bring my public record ag proof of my pledge --that--" he paused and the silence was tremendous. He went on, each word distinct and by itself--"if I am elected--a long pause--"I shall obey the constitution"--another pause--"I shall enforce the laws!" He was descending the aisle be­ fore the silence was broken--a feeble, rippling applause, significant of disap­ pointment at what seemed an antl-' his way. But the more I considered the matter, the stronger seemed to be­ come the force of the objections--It takes a far bigger man than was Bur- bank at that stage of his growth not to be cheapened by "steeple-chasing for votes;" also, the coming of the candidate causes jealousy and heart­ burning over matters of precedence, ^reception and entertainment among the local celebrities, and so he often leaves the party lukewarm where he found it enthusiastic. Further, it mes up local campaign money that oufht to be spent in hiring workers at the polls, which is the polite phrase for vote-buying as "retaining-fee" is the polite f^irase for bribe. I decided against the tour and for the highly expensive but always ad­ mirable and profitable "pilgrimage plan." Burbank's own home was at Riv- ington, and I should have had him visited there, had "It not been on a single-track branch railway which could not handle without danger and discomfort the scores of thousands we were planning to earry te and from him daily. So, it was given out that he purposed as far as possible to withdraw from the strife of the cam­ paign and to await the results in the dignified calm In which he wished the voters to determine it. He took-- after Woodruff had carefully selected it--a "retired" house "in the coun­ try." And it was in the open country. A farm garden adjoined It on the one side, a wheat field on the other, a large orchard to the rear. The broad meadow in front gave plenty of room for delegations visiting the "standard bearer of the party of patriotism" in his "rural seclusion" to hear his simple, spontaneous words of wel­ come. But for all the remote aspect of the place, it was only five minutes' drive and ten minutes' walk from a "This Campaign of Yeurs and Mr. Burbank's Must Be Coeting. an Awful Lot of Money." climax. He had merely repeated In condensed form the oath of office which a president takes at his in­ auguration. But somehow--no doubt, it was the magic of his voice and his manner and superb presence--those simple words kept on ringing; and all at once--full half a minute must have elapsed, a long time in such circum­ stances--all at once the enormous meaning of the two phrases boomed into the brains of those thousands: If this man is elected, there will be a president without fear or favor, and he will really obey the constitution, will really enforce the laws! That little speech, though only a repetition of" an oath embodied in our century- old supreme law, was a firebrand to light the torch of revolution, of revolu­ tion back toward what the republic used to be before differences of wealth divided its people into upper middle and lower classes before enthroned corporate combinations made equality before the law a mockery, before the development of- our vast material re­ sources restored to the Intelligent and energetic few their power over the careless and purposeless many. As the multitude realized his mean­ ing--I doubt if many times in all his­ tory such a sight and sound has burst upon mortal ears and eyes. For the moment I was daunted; it was im­ possible not to think that here was the whole people, not to feel that Scarborough had been chosen presi­ dent and was about to fulfill his pledge. Daunted yet thrilled, too. For, at bottom, are we not all pas­ sionate dreamers of abstract right and justice? Then I remembered; and I said to myself: "He has defied the interests. David has gone out against Goliath-- but the Davids do not win nowadays. I will elect Burbank." But where was the elation that thought would have set to swelling in the me of less than two weeks before? And then I began clearly to see that, for Jhe at least, the prize, to be prized, must be fairly won from start to goal; and to be enjoyed, must glad­ den eyes that would in turn gladden me with the approval and sympathy which only a woman can give and without which a man is alone and in­ deed forlorn. station through which four big rail­ roads passed. One of the out-build­ ings was changed into a telegraph of­ fice from which accounts of the en­ thusiasm of the delegations and of his speeches could be sent to the whole country. On his desk in his little study stood a private-wire telephone that, without danger of leakage, would put him in direct communica­ tion either with my study at Fredonia or with Doc Woodruff's privatest pri­ vate room in the party national head­ quarters at Chicago. Thus, our statesman, though he seemed to be aloof, was in the very thick of the fray; and the tens of thousands of his fellow citizens, though they seemed to come almost on their own invita­ tion inspired by uncontrollable en­ thusiasm for the great statesman, were in fact free excursionists--and ai very troublesome, critical, expensive lot they were. But--the public was impressed. It sits in its seat in the theater of action and believes that the play is real, and ignores and forgets the fact that there is a behind-the scenes. The party distributed from various centers tons of "literature." And in addition to meetings arranged by state and local committees, a series of hu^e demonstrations was held in the cities of every doubtful state. Besides the party's regular speakers, we hired-as many "independent* • oratore as we could. But all these other branches of the public side of the campaign were subsidiary to the work at the "retreat." It might be called the headquarters of the rank and file of the party--those millions of "principle" voters and workers who were for Babcock because he was the standard-bearer of their party. No money nj bribes, no patronage have to be given to them; but it costs several millions to raise that mass to the pitch of hot enthusiasm which will make each individual in it cer­ tain to go to the polls on election day and take his neighbors, instead of staying at home and hoping the party won't lose. Burbank's work was, therefore, highly important. But the seat of the real campaign was Woodruff's privatest private room in the Chicago headquarters. For, there were laid and were put. In the way of execution the plans fat acquiring these ele­ ments that, in the doubtful states, have the balance of power between the two opposing and abuut even* ly matched masses of "principle" voters. I just now recall a talk I had with my wife about that time. She took no interest In politics and rarely spoke of political matters--and both of us. discouraged political talk be­ fore the children. One day she said to me: "This campaign of yours and Mr. Burbank's must be costing aw­ ful lot of money." "A good deal." "Several millions?" "This is a big country, and you can't stir it up politically for noth­ ing. Why do you ask?" "Who gives the money?" she per­ sisted. "The rich men--the big corpora­ tions--give most of it." "Why?" "Patriotism," said I. "To save the nation from our wicked opponent" "How do Mr. Roebuck and the oth­ ers get it back?" she pursued, ignor­ ing my pleasantry. "Get what back?" "Why, the money they advance. They aren't the men to give any* thing." I answered with a smile only. She lapsed into thoughtfulness. When I was assuming that her mind had wandered off to something else she said: "The people must be very stupid--not to suspect" "Or the rich men and the corpora- tions very stupid to give," I sug­ gested: "Do you mean they don't get it back?" she demanded. "Of course," said I, "their patriot­ ism must be rewarded. We cannot expect them to save the country year after year for nothing." "I should think not!" she said, add­ ing disgustedly: "I think politics is very silly. And men get excited about it! But I never listen." Arriving at the "retreat" from the Scarborough convention, I found Bur- bank much perturbed because Scar* borough had been nominated. He did not say so--on the contrary, he ex­ pressed in sonorous phrases his sat­ isfaction that there was to be "a real test of strength between conservatism and radicalism." He never dropped his pose, even with me--not even with himself. "I confess I don't share your cheer­ fulness," said I. "If Scarborough were a Wild man you'd have a walk­ over. But he isn't, and I fear he'll be more and more attractive to the wa­ vering voters, to many of our own people. Party loyalty has been oveis worked in the last few presidential campaigns. He'll go vote-hunting in the doubtful states, but it won't seem undignified. He's one of those men whose dignity comes from the inside and can't be lost." Burbank was unable to conceal his annoyance--he never could bear praise of another man of his own rank in public life. Also he showed surprise. "Why I understood--I had been led to believe--that you--favor­ ed his, nomination," was his guarded way of telling me he knew I had a hand in bringing it about. "So I did," replied I. "He was your only chance. He won't be able to get a Campaign fund of so much as a quarter of a million, and the best workers of his party will at heart be against him. Simpson would have had --well, Goodrich could and would have got him enough to elect him." Burbank's eyes twitched. "I think you're prejudiced against Senator Goodrich, Harvey," said he in his gen­ tlest tone. "He is first of all a loyal party man." "Loyal fiddlesticks!" replied I. "He is agent of the Wall street crowd--- they're his party. He's just the ordi­ nary machine politician with no more party feeling than--than--•" I smiled --"than any other man behind the scenes." Burbank dodged this by taking it as a jest. He always shed my frank speeches as humor. "Prejudice, preju­ dice Harvey!" he said in mild reproof. "We need Goodrich, and--" (TO BE CONTINUED.) atS*r-r.v CHAPTER XX. * Pilgrims and Patriots. From. St Louis I went direct to Bur­ bank. His heart had been set upon a grand speech-making tour. He was fond of wandering about, showing himself to cheering crowds; and he had a deep, and by no means unwarranted, confi­ dence in his platform magnetism. At first I had been inclined to give him Sharp Mister Fox. About a dozen farmers' boys in New Hampshire turned out one Saturday last winter to hunt down a fox that was known to have his lair in a hill. Reynard was finally routed out, and after loading the crowd a chase of ten miles he doubled back and his trail was lost near a certain farmhouse. Hunters and dogs beat around for two hours and then gave up. When they had departed the fox left the house by a broken window. He had entered the same way and concealed himself in a chimney. There was a fireplace but no fire, and no one would have thought of looking for him up there. He was so covered with soot when he got out that he was taken for a black fox. Concession to Propriety. Som6 of the saloons in 'Liverpool, England, display the sign: "Ladies cannot bis S9£?#d. without their hats OB." -r1® Foibles of Letter Writers. The London Chronicle wants to know how you date your letters. If they are dated at all or which of the nine wayb appeals to an individual's taste or laziness. There are some persons who do not take the trouble to date their letters at all, and the Chronicle is brutal enough to add "they are mostly women." Who does not receive letters with signatures that beat the Dutch for illegibility? Or, perhaps with no address, no date, and the signature "that would puzzle an archangel and Bpllt a linotype ma­ chine." But the worst of it is so many people rejoice in their illegible signa­ ture! It lends an air of distinction to the baldest missive. The World's Classification. Don't call a man a fool because he disagrees with you. A wiser one than either of you may insist upoa puttint you both in the same class.--John A. Howland. ©AUDEN ' • • • ' * & t COWBANE. Description of a Plant That Grows In Wet Places and Is Poisonous. Along the sloughs and in wet places on many farms in the west may be found a weed from two to five feet high, with an umbrella-like blossom and with the stems streaked with pur­ ple. This is the spotted cowbane or water hemlock, sometimes mistakenly called wild parsnip. On examining the roots there wiil be found a number of tubers close together, some of them Himilar in shape to a cow's horn. An Cowbant Plant and Roots. examination o» the root will distin-. gulsh it from wild parsnip and wild carrot, both of which it somewhat resembles in its habit of growth. It is a poisonous weed, particularly dangerous to children in the spring of the year, who may chance upon the roots, and also dangerous to live stock, says Farm Life. Hence it should not be tolerated a minute on any farm. It is not worth while to cut this weed down. It should be dug up by the roots, and the roots cared for in such a way that there is no danger of either children or live stock getting hdld of them. A few hours' work will clean up any farm that is infested with this weed, and It should be done without delay. CORN SMUT. Pref. A. M. Teneyck Explains Why It le Useless to Treat the Seed. 8mut In corn it not reproduced from year to year by spores which adhere to the corn kernels, as is the case with Wheat and other small grains. The corn plant is infected with smut above the ground by means of spores or sporidia, which are brought In con­ tact with the young growing parts of the plant by the aid of the wind, rain and dew. These sporidia are devel­ oped upon decaying organic matter in the soil of the field, growing some­ what after the manner of the yeast fungus. The infection with smut may take place quite early in the season; forming a mass of spores which ap­ pear as the smut balls on the corn­ stalks and leaves. These quickly dry and the spores, blowing about, pro­ duce new infections, causing a second growth and fruitage of the fungus. It appears that bruises on the stalks, such as occur by detasseling, favor the Infection with Bmut. You will thus see that it is useless to treat the seed. There is practically no remedy for this disease other than to pick the smut balls aad burn them, and this will not prevent the occur­ ence of smut in any field, since the spores may be carried by the wind from surrounding fields. However, it may be possible to reduce the attacks of smut to some extent by picking and burning the smut balls, since if little smut is present in the soil where the corn is planted the opportunity for in­ fection is lessened. It is stated, also, that manure favors the development of smut, since it offers an abundance of favorable material upon which the smut may grow and develop the spor­ idia which cause the first Infection of the corn plants. M|u(TINQ OF CUCUMBERS. Why It Is That Often but Little Flruit Sets on the Vines.. Not a few people are pfizzled by the behavior of cucumber vines In the gardens and complain that although the vines are blossoming full, little or no fruit sets. A number of inquiries of this nature have already been re­ ceived at the Colorado Agricultural college experiment station this year. The reason for this, writes W. Pad­ dock, is as follows: There are two kinds of blossoms upon the cucum­ ber vines, as well as upon a number of other plants of similar nature. The first blossom to set, and by far the most numerous throughout the life of the plant, are what are known as male flowers. These are imperfect in their makeup, for the reason that they lack the pistil, or that part from which the fruit and seed are formed, but it bears an abundance of pollen which is necessary to the develop­ ment of the pistil of the pistillate flowers. The other, or pistillate flowers, sometimes called the female blossoms, are produced later in th'e season and are also imperfect, for the reason that they usually lack stamens, but are provided with a pistil. The pistillate flowers can readily ba told, because there is a miniature cucumber at its base, even before the bud has opened. Now, In order to produce fruit, it is necessary for pollen from the stami- nate blosSolns to be transferred to the pistil of the other class of flowers. When grown in the green house, the work of pollination must be done by hand, but out of doors, there %re al­ ways Insect visitors enough to per­ form this important work. In fact, this is one of nature's provisions by which cross-fertilization of plants la effected. Insects of many and various kinds visit from blossom to blossom, and as they go to the staminate flow­ ers their bodies become dusted with the pollen; then as they chance to visit a pistillate flower, some of the pollen is bound to be left upon the receptive surface of the pistil. This in plants Is known as pollination. The pollen grains have the power of germination much like a grain of corn. The end of the pistil is moist so that the grains' soon terminate and the germ tube finds its way down through the pistil to the imma­ ture seed which it enters and gives up a portion of its protoplasm. This process is known as fertilization. As a rule It may be stated that no fruit of any kind can be produced without this process of pollination and fertilization. Fertilization incites the immature seeds into growth, and this, of course, causes the parts which surround them, as in the case of cucumbers, to grow, and the result is what we recognize as the matured fruit, which in this case is not strictly correct. Certain conditions which are not well understood seem to keep the paint producing staminate blossoms at the expense of early fruit produc­ tion. But in a general way, we cannot materiallly hasten the formation ot pistillate blossomB. We should see to it, therefore, that the plants are kept in a vigorous growing condition by planting them, first of all, in good garden soil, and seeing that they are supplied with an abundance of moist­ ure at all times. THE SPARROW PEST. The Farm Journal Tells of Peter Tum­ ble-Down's Way of Dealing With It. There are various ways of dealing with the sparrow pest, some good, some bad, but Peter's way is at least very unique and quite effective. Last fall he dilly-dallied with corn husking until caught by a big snow storm. This was soon followed by a thaw and then a freeze up, so that half of the crop was left out all winter for crow bait. The crows took advantage of the sit­ uation and spent the winter In the or­ chards and woods near-by, taking breakfast, dinner and* supper at Peter's expense and inviting all their relations to the feast. Thus coming to feel at home in the neighborhood, in the spring many of them set up housekeeping and began to raise fam­ ilies. So after the new spring corn had sprouted and showed above the surface, each mother and father crow got busy and became a nuisance in the neighborhood. Peter had to replant twice and some of the neighbors four times. That's not all: the little baby crows seemed to need a meat diet, and to supply this want, all the nests of other birds, including sparrows, were rified by the parent crows; and thus the sparrow pest was conquered for once. Of course the plan was hard on the song birds, for the crows did not discriminate in favor of meat. Peter will not take out a patent on thlB plan, and all his neighbors hope he WU1 not try it again. Value of Nitrogen. The fertilizing value of nitrogen in a green manure mixture (peas, beans and vetches), in beet leaves, and in nitrate of soda was compared with oats followed by mustard in pot ex­ periments with two different soils. Taking the effect of the nitrate of soda in increasing yield as 100, the effect of the other forms of nitrogen was green manure 39.3 and beet leaves 36.6. The relative utility util­ ization of nitrogen by the oat crop and the following mustard crop was as follows: Nitrate of soda 100, green manure 52.5 and beet leaves 43. NEWS OF ILLINOIS . J / HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE STATE, , . i ! * ' HORSE MARKET DOOMED Science of Remodeling Wornout Naga^f^Jp Brings Ruins to Time-Honored * Enterprise--"Hoss Trade" to Be Abolished. GRAIN OR CORN SACKER. Serviceable Affair Made Out of Odds and Ends of Material. The hopper shown In the illustration was made with pieces of tin from an old self-binder, riveted together for the sides and front, and nailed to the Device for Holding Grain Sack. back which is of wood. Around the bottom I used board strips three inch­ es wide to make a box 6x8 inches square. Small hooks with sfcrew ends werd fastened in the corners on which to hang the sack. A piece of three-inch stuff three feet long was bolted to the back of the hopper with several inch holes in the top. The hopper was then hung upon a spike driven into a post beside the bin. With this contrivance, writes a corre­ spondent in Prairie Farmer, I can fill sacks as fast as one man can tie them. Middlings and Shorts. Middlings and shorts are terms used interchangeably to some extent. It has become common to find shorts consisting simply of ground-over brain, almost free from floury particles, with the sweepings and dirt of the mill edded. Such material is very unsatis­ factory for stock feeding and should be avoided. Middlings are especially useful for feeding horses, since these animals cannot utilize much crude fiber. They should be mixed with corn meal, oats or other feeding stuffs as pure middlings are a heavy feed and liable to produce colic.-- Feeds and Feeding. Fumigate. If you have a scratching room in which to drive the flock, fumigate with sulphur their lodging room. It you have no suitable place for them to go burn oil of tar or resin in thelc oresence, Joliet.--Degenerating from a time* honored institution, patronized by me#»"' who traded because it was their way / of earning a livelihood or because oit an Inclination to "swap," to a monthly - gathering of bunko men, the local' horse market, after weathering the storms of years, has been declared a public nuisance and will have to go. This is the verdict residents have re­ turned. "Doped" horses, so treated as to hide blemishes and physical imperfec­ tions, have been sold to unsuspecting- purchasers.. Horse thieves, attracted . V here by the monthly gathering, have made regular raids on stock in the * „ vicinity, and hundreds of dollar**' worth of horses have disappeared. ' A local saloon man enjoying a v political "pull" that permits him tsV-' Ty'T" .j&j conduct one of the toughest "joints??- ,7 - in the community and to consort*witli 4 ^ and befriend horse thieves, is known to be the ruling factor, and discov-^ erles made here indicate that he and: his friends have been picking up easy money through the medium of "doped" animals. % Respectable dealers, with the excep- / iflf tion of buyers from sales, barn's and ^ the stock yards in Chicago, have do- "^1 serted the market. The stock yard#* * " y' • 3 men, because they know a horse is •; . ' i'-" horse, have no fear of being victina- t' ized. j, The local market has been In opera* J|| tion between 50 and 60 years, ;•» iH there was a time when hundreds ef high-grade horses were bartered thousands of dollars changed handai CONGRATULATES STORK MAYOR. Alton Poeter Rewarded by Telegram from President. Alton.--As President Roosevelt's steamer passed Alton, 111., a mam­ moth poster placed along the river front confronted those on board, read­ ing: This la Alton, 25,000 inhabitants, 25 miles from St Louts. We have a stork mayor. When President Roosevelt reached > here he sent back the following tele* •'/ gram to Alton: ' v "Congratulations- to Alton and Wp" 26,000 people, including Its stork majr»- , or." y The "stork mayor" is Mayor BeaHr who constructed fiats and rented theas 7, only to parents with children. "Frats" Opposed by Mothers. Champaign. -- Resolutions agalnit< high school fraternities and sororities were adopted by the Illinois Mothers* Congress at the closing session henSL Juvenile court work was praised. Reports from affiliated clubs were heard, including the following froift Chicago: South Side League of Parents' clubs, Harrison School clut^ Englewood High School Parents' and Teachers' club, Englewood Woman'* club and the Woodlawn Round Table club. Special attention was given the Harrison lunchroom and the Chicago vacation schools. Dr. Bertha Ham% ton advocated segregation in classes;. Bloom Ington was selected for tin meeting next May. v/:- N'JIP To 8ue Parents, of Children. ' •.& Pana.--That the board of education 1 is determined that the children who I are bn a strike shall attend school is certain. Suits have been filed against , David Mellville, H. B. Cothern and Sherman Denbow by Truant Officer Elias Weddle, charging them with ro- ^ fusing to allow their children to ail- >• tend the church school. Owing to tho,/ congested conditions of the west . school the board rented the Freo Methodist church, but the children j kicked on attending school there and the parents sided with them. What the case may result in remains to h» seen. Will Erect Two Bridges. Pekin.--The bridge committee ai the board of supervisors and commia- sioners of highways of Grovelaqd township have awarded the contract for the erection of two bridges, one across McClellan creek to Walter Por­ ter of Mackinaw for $999; the other over Carter creek was let to the Tne- mont Bridge & Concrete company for $889. Pisgah Girl Terribly Injured. Jacksonville.--Miss Rose True of Pisgah, 18 years old. was struck by a train on the C. P. & St. L.. and as a result sustained a fracture of one of her limbs, ugly lacerations about the face and head, bruises about the body and internal injuries. The girl was found in an unconscious condition. Kewanee Eleven Organizes. Kewanee.--Prominent business men here, formed an association to back the Kewanee Regulars football team* which for several seasons has held the Illinois championship for athletic clubs. The officers elected are: Presi­ dent. Hugh Hill: vice president, S. W, Myers: secretary-treasurer, David Pofe lock, Jr.; manager: Berc R. Johnson. The team will be captained by Davjr Mallagan. one of the fastest quarter* backs in the middle west. John Pol* lock, formerly of Dixon college, has been named as coach. > . ' •<; Iff Bank President Dies. Charlestin.--W. E. McCrory, prest» dent of the First National bank of Uil» city, died after an illness of a fetr days. He was 72 *;ears old, and haft been connected with the bank for ^ years, as cashier and president. Hi was widely known in this section flit' the state. Tate and Flaherty Indicted. Peoria.--Eddie Tato and Patsy Fla­ herty, charged with robbing the school board safe, were indicted by the graoiit I