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*» 51 t, , %.V St -ri»f.' f: *- t-.v*Vf^ "W*f \ - ' A *.. ' .. . . * ? : MAiiAH 2g~ CHAPTER XX!.--Continued. A. little ley smile just changed the «mrve of her lips. "When I was a girl, you won my lore--or took It when I gave It to you, if you prefer. : And then--you threw it away. For an ambition you weren't brave enough to pursue honorably, you broke my ' heart." I answered. "But--I loved you." . * • /"Aftd now," she went on "after your years of self-indulgence, of getting what you wanted, no matter about the cost, you see me again. Yoa find X have mended my heart, have coaxed a few flowers of happiness to bloom. You find there was a something you did not destroy, something you think It will make you happier to de- •troy." "Yes," i answered, "I came to try to make, you aB unhappy as I am. For I love you." She drew a long breath. "Well," "Can F of an servicc; to. yoa la Introducing you down town?" he asked. "No, thank you," said I. I hare a few acquaintances there. I'm not go­ ing to fry any fat this trip. My fire isn't hot enough yet" And Z Ad not. I merely called on two of the f>ig bankers and four heads of industrial combinations and one controller of an ocean-to-ocean railway system. I stayed a very lew minutes with each, just long enough to set him thinking and inquiring what the election of Scarborough would mean to him and to his class generally. "If you'll read his speech­ es," said I to each, "you'll see he- in­ tends to destroy your kind of busi­ ness, that he regards it as a brigand­ age. He's honest, afraid of nothing, and an able lawyer, and he can't be fooled or fooled with. If he's elect­ ed he'll carry out his programme, sen­ ate or no senate--and no matter she said evenly, "for the first time In what scares you people cook up in your life you are defeated. I learned the lesson you so thoroughly taught me. And I built the wall round my garden high and strong. You--" she smiled, a little raillery, a little acorn--"you can't break in, Harvey-- nor slip in." "No need," I said... "For I am In ---I've always been in." Her bosom rose and fell quickly, and* her eyes shifted. But that was lor an instant only. "If you were as brave as you are bold!" she scoffed. "If I were as brave without yeu as I should be with you!" I replied, even as I began to thrill with a hope so high that it was giddy with fear, ahe was ouce more straight and .strong and calm. "You have come. You have tried. You have failed," she went on after a long pause. And in spite of her ex­ ports, that deep voice of hers was gentle and wonderfully sweet. "Now, --you will return to your life, I to mine;" And she moved toward the entrance to the drawing-room, I fol­ lowing her. We stood in silence at the front doorway waiting for my carriage to come up. I watched her "-maddeningly mistress of herself. "How can you be so cold!" I cried. "Don't you see, don't you feel, how I, who love you, suffer?" Without a word she stretched out her beautiful white hands, long and narrow and capable. In each Of the uplifted palms were four deep and bloody prints where her nails had been crushing into them. Before I could lift my eyes to her Then: "But you love as a woman loves--herself first, the man after­ ward." "Harvey Sayler denouncing selfish­ ness!" "Do not sneer," I said. "For--I love you as a. man loves. A poor pale shadow of ideal love, no doubt, but a man's best, Elizabeth." I saw that she was shaken; hut face she was turning to rejoin her workmen. As I stood uncertain, dazed, she glanced at me with a bright smile. "Good-by again," she called. "A pleasant journey!" "Thank you,"I replied. Good-by." Driving toward the road gates, I looked at the house many times, from window to window, everywhere. Not a glimpse of her until I was almost at the road again. Then I Haw her back --the graceful white dress, the knot of blue-black hair, the big white hat, and she directing her workmen with her closed white para- sal. ---- r CHAPTER XXII. the stock market." To this they made no answer beyond delicately polite insinuations about being tired of pay­ ing for that which was theirs of cfeaaces were best 1 felt that we must put a heavy handicap on his popularity there. I had notieed that In Illinois the violently radical wing of the opposition was very strong. Bo I sent Merriweather to strengthen the vailieais still further. I hoped to make them strong enough to put through their party's state convention a plat­ form that would be a scarecrow to timid voters in Illinois and through­ out the west; and I wished for a "wild man" as the candidate for gov­ ernor, but' I didn't hope It, though I told Merriweather it must be done. Curiously enough, my calculation of the probabilities was just reversed. The radicals were beaten on plat­ form; but, thanks to a desperate ef­ fort of Merriweather's in "coaxing** rural delegates a frothing, wild-eyed, political crank got the nomination. And he never spoke during the cam­ paign that he didn't drive voters away from his ticket--and, therefore, from Scarborough. And our machine there sacrificed the local interests to the geenral by nominating a popular and not insincere reformer. When Roebuck and I descended, upon Wall street on October 16, three weeks before election, I had everything in readiness for my final and real campaign. Throughout the doubtful stales, Woodruff was in touch with local ma­ chine leaders of Scarborough's party, with corruptible labor and fraternal order" leaders, with every element that would for a cash price deliver a body of voters on election day. Also he had arranged in those states for the "right sort" of election officers at upward of 500 polling places, at lekst -half of them places where sev­ eral hundred votes could be shifted without danger or suspicion. Also, Burbank and our corps of "spellbind­ ers" had succeeded beyond my hopes in rousing paitizan passion--but here * Mostly About Money. I! went up to New York, to find con­ fusion and gloom at our headquarters there. Senator Goodrich had subtly given the impression, not only to the work­ ers but also to the newspaper men, who had given it to the public, that with his resignation the Burbank campaign had fallen to pieces. "And I fear you'll have some difficulty in getting any money at all downtown," said Revell, the senior senator from New York state, who envied and hated Goodrich and was therefore, if not for personal reasons, amiably dis­ posed toward me. "They don't like our candidate." "Naturally," said I. "That's why lie's running and that's why he may win." "Of course, he'll carry everything tiere in the east The only doubt was In this state, but I had no difficulty In making a deal with the opposition machine as soon as they had sound­ ed Scarborough and had found that If he should win, there'd be nothing In it for them--nothing but trouble. I judged he must have thrown them down hard, from their being so sore.' How do things look out west?" "Bad," said I. "Our farmers and working men have had lots of idle time these last few years. They've done too much of what they call thinking." "Then yon need money V' asked Revell, lengthened his sly, smug old face. "We must hAve four millions, at least And we must get It from those people down town." He shook his head. "1 think not," was my careless re­ ply "When they wake up to the danger in Scarborough's election, the danger to business, especially to their •ort of business, they'll give me twice fbur milliopa if I ask It" "What do yoG wish mcr to do?" "Nothing, except look after these •astern states. We'll take care of the west, and also of raising money here for our campaign during Octo­ ber out there." VA m his way up tn tie *nft. fee was rap."* idly enveloping what could, and should be called conscience. I looked at him, and once more had a qualm like shame before his moral superiority to me. We were plodding along on afemt the same moral level; but he had ascended to that level, while I had descended to it There were politicians, posing as pure before the world and even in the party's behind-the-scene, Who would have sneered at Doc's "con­ science." Yet to my notion, they, who started high and from whatever sophistry of motive trailed down into the mire, are lower far than they who began deep in the mire and have been struggling bravely toward the surface. I know a man who was born in the slums was a pickpocket at eight years of age, was a bOss at 45, administering justice according to his lights. I know a man who was born what he calls a gentleman and who, at 45, sold himself for the "hon­ ors" of a high office. And once, after he had shaken hands with that boss, he looked at me, furtively made a wry face, and wiped his hand with his pocket handkerchief! The other part of our work of prep­ aration -- getting the Wall street whales in condition for the "fat-fry­ ing"--was also finished. The Wall street Roebuck and I ' adventured was in a state of quake from fear of the election of "the scourge of God," as our subsidised socialist and extreme radicai papers had dub­ bed Scarborough--and what invalu at^le campaign material their praise of him did make us! Roebuck and I went from office to office among the great of commerce, industry and finance. We were re­ ceived with politeness everywhere. But not a penny could we get. Every­ where the same answer: "We can­ not see our way to contributing just yet. But if you will call early next week--say Monday or Tuesday--" four or five days away--"we'll let you 1 know what we can do." The most ardent eagerness to placate us, to keep us in good humor; but not a cent--until Monday or Tdtesday. When I heard "Monday or Tues­ day" for the third time my suspi­ cions were aroused. When I heard It the fifth time, I understood. Wall street was negotiating with the other side, and would know the result by Monday, or at the latest Tuesday. HP "Dont You See, Don't You Feel, How I, Who Love You, Suffer?" right. I did not argue; it is never necessary to puncture the pretenses of mon of affairs with a view to saving them from falling into the er­ ror of forgetting that whatever "right" may mean on Sunday, on week days it means that which a man can compel. I returned to Fredonia and sent Woodruff east to direct a campaign of calamity-howling in the eastern press, for the benefit of New York, Boston and Philadelphia "captains of industry." At the end of ten da^s I recalled him, and sent Roebucfc to Wall street to confirm the fears and alarms Woodruff's campaign had aroused. And in the west I was laying out the money I had been able to collect from the leading men of Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio and west­ ern Pennsylvania--except a quarter of a million from Howard of New York, to whom we gave the vice pres­ idential nomination for that sum, and about half a million more given by several eastern men, to whom we promised cabinet offices and posts abroad. I put all this money, not far from two millions, into our "cam­ paign of education" and into those inpouring delegations upon Burbank at his "rural retreat." To attempt to combat Scarborough's popularity with the rank and file of his own party, was hopeless. I con­ tented myself with restoring order and arousing enthusiasm in the main body of our partizans in the doubtful and uneasy states. So ruinous had been Goodrich's management that even at that comparatively simple task we should not have succeeded but for the fortunate fact that the great mass of partizans refuses to hear anything from the other side; they regard reasoning as disloyal-- which, curiously enough, it so often is. Then, too, few newspapers In the doubtful states printed the truth about what Scarborough and his sup­ porters were saying and doing. The cost of this perversion of publicity to us--direct money cost, I mean--was almost nothing. The big papers and news associations were big proper­ ties, and their rich proprietors were Interested in enterprises to which Scarborough's election meant disas­ ter; a multitude of the smaller pa­ pers, normally of the opposition, were dependent upon those same Inter- prises for the advertising that kept them alive. • Perhaps the most far-sighted--cer­ tainly, as the event showed, the most fortunate--single stroke of my cam­ paign was done in Illinois. That state was vital to our success; also it was oae of the doubtful states where, next to his own Indiana, Scarborough's again part of the credit belongs to Woodruff. Never before had there been so many free barbecues, distribu­ tions of free uniforms to well-financed Burbank and Howard Campaign clubs, and arrangings of those expensive pa­ rades in which {he average citizen de­ lights. The wise Woodruff spent nearly one-third of my "education" money in this way. One morning I found him laughing over the bill for a grand Burbank rally at Indianapolis--about $35,000, as I remember the figures. "What amuses you?" said I. "I was thinking what fools the peo­ ple are, never to ask themselves where all the money for these free shows comes from, and why those who give are willing to give so much, and how they get it back ass the public is!" "Fortunately," said I. "For us," said he. "And for itself," I rejoined. "Perhaps," he admitted. "It was born to be plucked and I suppose our crowd does do the plucking more scientifically than less experienced hands would." "I prefer to put it another way," said I. "Let's say that we save it from a worse plucking." "That is better" said Doc. For, on Our Spri NEWS OF ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST PROM ALL OVER THE STATE. Special Correspondent Writes of Things of Interest at the State Capital. CHAPTER XXIII. In Which a Mouse Helps a Lion. I did not dare communicate my Sus­ picions to my "dear friend" Roebuck. As it was, with each refusal I had seen his confidence in me sink; if he should get an inkling how near to ut­ ter disaster I and my candidate were, he would be upon me like a tiger upon his trainer when he slips. I rea­ soned out my course while we were descending from the fifth "king's" office to our cab: If the negotiations with the opposition should be success­ ful I should not get a cent; if they should fall. Wall street would be frantic to get Its contributions into my hands; therefore, the only sane thing to do was to go west and make such preparations as I could against the worst. "Let's go back to the Holland," said I to Roebuck, in a weary, bored tone. "These people are a waste of time. I'll start home to-night, and when they see in the morning papers that I've left for good, they may come to their senses. But they'll have to hunt me out, I'll not go near them again And when they come dragging them­ selves to you, don't forget how they've treated us to-day." Roebuck was silent glancing fur­ tively at me now and then, not know­ ing what to think. "How is it pos­ sible to win without them?" he finally said. "This demagogue Scar­ borough has set the people crazy. I can't Imagine what possesses these men of property with interests throughout the country. They are Inviting ruin." I smiled. My dear Roebuck," I re­ plied, "do you suppose I'm the n&n to put atf my eggs into one basket-- and that basket Wall street?" And I refused to talk any more politics with him. We dined togeth­ er, I calm and in the best of spirits; we went to a musical farce, and he watched me glumly as 1 showed my lightness of heart. Then I went alone, at midnight, to the Chicago express sleeper--to lie awake all night staring at the phantoms of ruin that moved in dire panorama before me. What an jn every great affair there Is a crisis I at which one must stake all upon a ' single throw. I had staked all upon Wall street. Without its contribu­ tions, Woodruff's arrangements could not be carried out. When I descended at the Fredonia station I found De Milt waiting for me. He had news that was indeed news. I shall give It here more con­ secutively than my impatience for the event permitted him to give it tc me. (TO BE CONTINUED.) TEMPLES OF SOUTH AFRICA. Great Areas Enclosed by Solidly Built 8tone Walls. The temple rutns at Rhodesia are puzzlers. The erudite folks uBed to say they were ancient, but -Dr. Ran­ dall Macivers, their latest explorer, says they were built in the Middle Ages. He says the great "elliptical temple" was the fortified residence of the great chief or Monomortapa, whose sway extended over an enor­ mous area and an extensive popula­ tion. To understand how architectural feats like the finer Rhodesian build­ ings can have been achieved by the precursors of the modern South Afri­ can natives it is necessary to assume that in those days there was organi­ zation of a far higher character than has obtained in recent years, organi­ zation under great chiefs whose pow­ er and intelligence were of a relative­ ly high order. From the Portuguese and their records this would appear to have been the case In the days of Monomortapan empire of the Mid- 4H Ages down to the close of the six­ teenth century. The organization of labor implied by the elaborate and decorated stone architecture is re­ markable. Even more remarkable than the fortified caBtles are the ter­ race walls. These stone built walla form Irregular concentric rings around the hills upon which the vil­ lages were situated, and although structurally simple, cover an enor­ mous area, extending in close forma­ tion over a space of upward of 50 square miles. Mixed His Quaker. Former Representative Charles T. Cherry was telling some men at Springfield the other day of a bag­ gage man in an Illinois town to which a number of influential Quakers wer« coming. The baggage man conceived the Idea that if the visitors thought he, too, was a Quaker business might be helped thereby. Consequently, up­ on the arrival of the delegation at th« station the leader was greeted by ths baggage man, who solicitously asked: "Has thou the checks for thou bar gage?" And yet he wondered why Um Qaakers smiled. Springfield.--Official reports made here show that the new year opens with unprecedented prosperity and prospects at the University of Illinois. The number of students already regis­ tered is greater than ever before and has passed the 4,000 mark. Last year there were 3,949 students enrolled, an increase of almost 300 per cent, in ten years, which is accounted for by Dean David Kinley as partly because of a growing demand for the kind of education the institution offers and partly because of new departments. "It is true that there are plenty of colleges," said Dean Kinley, "but no other offers ex* ctly the kind of educa­ tion that a Btucu nt can find here In the liberal and practical subjects. The smaller colleges are offering the so- called old-fashioned education. No one, even of the larger colleges, offers the advantages we provide in en­ gineering, agriculture and library sci­ ence. This institution does not draw the life from the smaller colleges, how­ ever; their enrollment Is Increasing also. Even If It did, the fact would show that they are not giving the kind of education the people demand. In the enrollment for the last univer­ sity year 52 states and territories and 14 foreign countries were represented, including the Hawaiian islands and the Philippines. Of the foreign coun­ tries, India and Mexico were repre­ sented by four ^ach, the Argentine Republic by three, Norway, Japan and Canada by two each, while Spain, Russia. Holland, New Brunswick, Italy, Syria and Colombia had one each. The attendance from outside of Illinois was between ten and 11 per cent, of the whole. If the depart­ ments in Chisago are included, 16 p6F cent, of the students enrolled in all departments were from outside of Illi­ nois. Ms • ^ : ' WEASEL ATTACKS FAMfUft % Is Finally Slain by Mother fr Chair After Giving Battle to Woman and Three Children. Trolley Sleeping and Dining Cars. The Illinois traction system is not only running sleeping cars between Springfield and East St. Louis regular­ ly every night, but Is also managing limited trains between the principal cities on quite frequent schedules, running cars with individual chair fa­ cilities and a complete buffet luneh, which is at least as good as that served by the Pullman company on short runs. The lnterurban trolley sleeping car is a novelty in its way, at least to most people. Those in use on the line between Springfield and East St. Louis, while peculiar in their construction, are entirely comfortable. The company has adopted a type which economizes room to a remark­ able extent, but which may or may not bear the test of continued service. These limited sleeping cars are built to use as chair cars in the daytime, the chairs .being arranged In pairs on either side with a fixed compartment between each chair. To see the por­ ter converting a chair car into a sleep­ ing car Is so much of a curiosity that many people are willing to make the jourhey for this experience alone. The two chairs spread out to make the foundation of a bed. The arms of the chair are dropped to the side to form additional' width of support for the mattress. Then two movable wooden screens are unexpectedly pulled out of the floor of the car and fastened at the top, forming two-thirds of.the curtain between the berth and the aisle. The barrier between the public and the sleeper is completed by a curtain forming the other third, thus making the berth practically a compartment. There are upper berths which are formed in much the same way as in the Pullman car, but which must be intended for small men only. Primary Bill Causes Spasm. Representative John G. Oglesby, chairman of the primary law commit­ tee of the house of representatives, in­ troduced a direct plurality primary bill which, if enacted, will make polit­ ical conventions things of the past in Illinois, and place all nominations for all offices directly in the hands of the people. Mr. Oglesby and At­ torney General Stead drafted the law, and they, with Cicero J. Lindly, chair­ man of the house steering committee, revised it. The bill has caused a titan­ ic political spasm in Chicago, and has thrown the esteemed senate into fits. It provides for the election of party committeemen by a direct vote and for the nomination of candidates for all offices from township to state by the people directly. It also provides for the election of national conven­ tion delegates and alternates by di­ rect vote, and national conventions are the only delegate gatherings which it recognizes in any form. The bill provides for three primaries, tjvo for municipal and township nomina­ tions and one for all nominations for the November elections. The last primary is fixed for the last Saturday, In April. For Chicago municipal nominations and for nominations in other cities electing city officers the first Tuesday in April a primary elec­ tion Is fixed for the last Saturday in Febraary, and for cities electing on the third Tuesday in April a primary is fixed for the second Tuesday In March. Candidates for state offices have their names placed on the primary ballot on filing petitions containing not more than 2,000 nor less than 1,000 signatures. Candidates for the United States senate may hav» their names submitted to an advisory vote of the people by filing petitions of not more than 5,000 nor less than 3,000 names. A maximum as well as a minimum limit is fixed to prevent the circulating of big petitibns for political effect. For all other candidates a petition of one-half of one per cent, of the total vote is required. Parties which have polled two per cent, of the total vote of the state or district in which they wish to' nominate are considered political parties within the operation of the act. The candidates receiving the highest vote cf vctcw of their party at the primaries there­ by become the candidates of the party. No conventions would be held. The party platforms would be drafted by the state central committee of eacto party, the committeemen having the privilege of calling the candidates Into conference with them on this subject The party organization also Is placed directly in the hands of the voter. County committees would consist cf a representative from, each precinct, elected by the vote of his party in his precinct. Two precinct officials wouldv be elected in every precinct and the one elected by the highest vote wouljl become the precinct cap­ tain and the representative of the pre­ cinct on the county committee. Bloomington.--Intercepted in its at­ tack on a hen and her brood of young chickens, a weasel measuring only tea inches in length turned upon Mrs. William Janes, wife of a farmer living near Chenoa, and her .three children. The battle between the little animal and family ceased only when Mrs. Janes, standing on a chair, aimed a well-directed blow at the weasel with a croquet mallet and killed it Lester, the seven-year-old sou of Mrs. Janes, was the first to notice the weasel as it was about to spring upon the chickens. Thinking to frighten the animal away, the boy rushed to­ ward it. Instead of running away the weasel tried to bite Lester in the legs. The boy rushed into the house, with the weasel in close pursuit Mrs. Janes and two children in the kitchen jumped upon chairs to escape the sharp teeth of the animal. The weasel made desperate efforts to rea«$i the mother and children, but failed. It was while the animal was rushing about the room that Mrs. Janes seized the mallet and killed it. Weasels are said to be apt to attack human beings if hungry, but this is the first instance known here of where a weasel has attacked an entire fam­ ily, The animal killed was an old one, brown in color, with a white spot on its breast. Its pelt was sent to a dealer in this citv. Burlington Bridge Denounced. The houae passed with a whoop a resolution Introduced by Representa­ tive Clapsaddle directing the state au­ thorities to call the attention of the federal government to the fact that the Chicago, Burlington & Qpincy Railroad commny maintains a bridge across the Ilmiois river at La Salle which is# too low to permit the pas­ sage of river vessels and which is not provided with a draw. Senator's Toe Broken. State Senator George B. Stubble- field suffered a fracture of one of the toes of his foot at his home in Bloom­ ington. Mr. Stubblefleld was assisting In placing wood in a cellar and acci­ dentally dropped a large log, it strik­ ing his foot. An operation was neces­ sitated. Mr. Stubblefleld will be un­ able to leave his home for two weeks. Table Sanitary District Bill. The house tabled the Chicago sani­ tary district bill, authorizing the drainage canal trustees to extend their jurisdiction of the drainage canal from Lockport to Lake Joliet. The house also smothered Senator Schmidt's bill, vesting the ownership of the water power of the drainage canal in the state. The bill declaring the Desplaines and the Illinois riv­ ers to be navigable probably will be passed by the house. It was amended to prevent any further dam work in either stream. Lobby for Joliet Canal. Spurred by the attack made on the sanitary district by Congressman Rainey before the state legislature, in which the board was accused of not doing its duty to the public, seven members of that body have come to the capital to lobby for the measure to construct a waterway through Joliet to Joliet lake. Robert R. Mc- Cormlck. Adolph Bergman, Wallace G. Clark, Henry F. Eidmann, Thomas J. Healy, George W. Paulin and Edward I. Williams compose the seven lobby­ ists. CANNON PLAYS FOOTBALL. "Uncle Joe" Kicks Off for College Boys at Galesburg. Galesburg.--"Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the house of representa-; tlves, began his football cafeer, and by the vigorous "boost" he gave the pigskin showed he was not decrepit despite his 72 years. His kick of 28 yards opened the annual game of Lombard and Carth­ age colleges. Then the speaker got out of the road to let the younger generation finish their tussle, while he went back to his long cigars. Speaker Cannon was escorted to the field, Introduced to the players, and Informed that his duty was to kick the ball aB near the goal posts as pos­ sible. ^ "Thlt's easy," was the response. m« hnvA aim trfwl #!»•*•" "Uncle Joe" took a hitch in his trousers and booted the ball 70 feet Then he tried again and did better, and the game began, Lombard ning by a score of 40 to 0. Committee Works on New Legislation. A committee of senators have ar­ rived here to go to work on primary legislation, the wheel tax bill', a state architect's bill, and the International improvement commission measure, with the hope of having them ready for action by Wednesday. The lieu­ tenant governor held that no bills oth­ er than the deep waterway measures could be considered in the senate un­ til the house had acted on the senate jpint resolution opening the session for further business. Because of this ruling the primary bill, which was on second reading, and all other bills in the senate, were sent to the committee for consideration. Mr. Sherman said that the action of the house in pro­ ceeding regardless of the provisions of the resolution by which the legisla­ ture met in adjourned session was "parliamentary indecency." To this Speaker Shurtleff replied that if any­ one were guilty of "parliamentary in­ decency" it was Gov. Deneen for rec­ ommending a number of bills not in­ cluded in the resolution of adjourn­ ment. Man Caught After Long Chaai.-- Iuka.--After following his trail over 8,000 miles through Kentucky, Indi­ ana, Illinois, Nebraska and return to Illinois, Miller and Wagner, United States secret service men, arrested Welch at Richwood, W. Va., on a charge of murdering Mrs, U. D. Deeds, near Richwood, October 20, 1905. • Welch was captured in his camp near Iuka after a fierce struggle. Several shots were exchanged before ha WBf*- rendered. Firemen to Ride Bicycles. Havana--Nine bicycles have been ^ shipped to the volunteer fire depart­ ment of Havana to be ridden by the,; firemen In responding to an alarm. The city council conceived the idea because the firemen are some distance from the center of the city. If the idea works successfully, other small cities dependent upon volunteer fire departments are expected to adopt similar methods of locomotion. ̂ Policeman Killed by Burglar. Peoria.--While attempting to arrest an unknown man who had robbed the residence of Alderman Barney Porges. of several thousand dollars' worth of diamonds, Policeman Ed Barrett wast, shot and died at St. Francis' hospital- an hour afterward. Barrett cornered the burglar and both began shooting. This is the second murder in a week of policemen attempting to arrest bur­ glars. -i"v: Will Do Clover Leaf Work. ^ The first move since the consolida­ tion of the Chicago & Alton and Clover Leaf railroads was announced when the jurisdiction of W. A. Freese, superintendent of telegraph, with headquarters at Bloomington, and the jurisdiction of W. D. Kaylor, chief engineer, with headquarters in Chi­ cago, both of the Alton, were extend­ ed to cover the Clover Leaf. Penitentiary for Seeing Ball Game. Kankakee.--Roger Forrest will have to go to the penitentiary for witness­ ing the world's * championship ball games in Chicago. Arrested on his re­ turn, accused of burglarinzing a sa­ loon, he pleaded guilty, saying that he committed the crime to get money to see the games. He was given an in­ determinate sentence to Joliet. - .-••1 M Waterway Up to Voters. The deep waterways subject was disposed of for the most part when both house and senate adopted two joint resolutions, one providing for i sider the waterway legislation pend submission to the people in the gen- ! lng at Springfield. Church Honor to Berger. Clinton.--Rev. A. G. Berger. finan­ cial agent of Mllliken university and former pastor of the Drexel Park church, Chicago, was elected moder­ ator of the Illinois synodical conven­ tion of the Presbyterian church at the session here. Indorse Joliet Canal. Chicago.--A conference of represen­ tatives of various civic organizations was held at the City club here to con- eral election next fall of a proposal for a constitutional amendment to al­ low a $20,000,000 bond issue for funds to proceed for the deep waterways work, and the other providing for a deep waterway commission to submit a ?teport on the subject in time to in­ form the people so they may vote in­ telligently on the proposed amendment. The conference adopted resolutions indorsing the plan of the sanitary dis­ trict to complete its main channel as a deep waterway to Lake Joliet, and recommended legislation to the effect that the sanitary district shall turn over to the state the water power rights it seeks upon proper reimburse­ ment to the district. Will Study School Systems. Plans for revising the educational laws of Illinois and making a study of systems followed in other states were made at the meeting of the state educational commission. It was decided to ask the legislature^ for an additional appropriation of $15,000 to carry on the work. The measure pro­ viding for the appropriation will be offered to the legislating in a short time, and if passed the commissioners will visit various states, and perhaps will go to Europe to make a study of the systems of education followed there. Five Workmen Joliet.--Five men were drowned and 20 others narrowly escaped a like death by the capsizing of a small boat in the Illinois and Michigan canal about ten miles from Joliet The men were employed in the construction work of the Economy Light & Power company at Its new Channahon power plant. : S action Foreman la Killed* <"%n^ Pontine.--Thomas Corbett, foreman, was run down and instantly kilted by- s bill e» the -Chintz ^ " i.1 > > ' . ' "