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MY PLUM RE BAVI0 GMAffAW PM1MJLU SfS CHAPTER XXXI& co^rw/otrro /sod Coh**h r. Ammtr wcgsr. mPMamt. etc. :«r-m ••-i iv, . A "8pasm of Virtu#.* ; ' I lorced upon Goodrich my place as chairman of the national committee and went abroad with my daughters. W* stayed there until Scarborough :Was inaugurated. He had got his nomination from a convention of men Who hated and feared him, but who (tared not flout the people and fling away victory; he had got-his election because the deflections from our ranks .& the doubtful states tar outbal­ anced Goodrich's extensive purchases there with the huge campaign-fund of the interests. The wheel-horse, Parti­ sanship, had broken down, and the leader, Plutocracy, could not draw the ^harlot to victory alone. v As soon as the election wag over, our people began to cable me to come bome and take charge. But I waited titntil Woodruff and my other faithful lieutenants had thoroughly convinced Sail the officers of the machine how desperate its plight was, and that I •lone could repair and restore, and that I could do it only If absolute Control were given me. When the •hip reached quarantine Woodruff $ame aboard: and. not having seen 'Him in many months, I was able to sfcee, and was startled by, the contrast between the Doc Woodruff I had met on the train more years before than I> cared to cast up, and the United States Senator Woodruff, high In the councils of the party and high in the «6 teem of its partisans . among the people. He was saying: "You can Slave anything you want, senator," tod so on. But 1 was thinking of him, of the vicissitudes of politics, <qf the unending struggle of the foul atream to purify itself, to sink or to saturate its mud. For we ought not to forget that if the clear water is *pturated with mud, also the mud is Saturated with clear water. - A week or so after I resumed the Chairmanship, Scarborough invited i»e to !unch alone vwith him at the "White House. When I had seen him, four years before, just after his de­ feat, he was in high spirits and looked J #. youth. Now it depressed me, but ••"gave me no surprise, to find him worn, - 'tod overcast by that tragic sadness Which canopies every one of the seats Of the mighty. "I fear, Mr. President," •aid I, "you are finding the men who ' "Will help you to carry out your ideas . . as rare as I once warned you they were." "Not rare," was his answer, "but hard to get at through the throngs of ||aal-worshlpers that have descended \ upon me and are trying to hedge me In." "Fortunately, you are t free from political and social entanglements," riaid I, with ironic intent. He iaughed with only a slightly con­ cealed bitterness. "From political en­ tanglements--yes," said he. "But not from social toils. Ever since I have ' ' been in national life, my wife and I Have held ourselves socially aloof, be- • cause those with whom we would J- naturally and even inevitably asso- i date would be precisely those who" v Would some day beset me for immun­ ities and favors. And how can on* bold to a course of any sort of justice. It doing so means assailing all onje's friends and their friends and rela­ tives? For who are the offenders? . They are of the rich, of the successful, of the clever, of the socially agreeable tod charming. And how can one en- b> force justice against one's dinner com- panions--and in favor of whom? 'Of the people, voiceless, distant, un­ known to one. Personal friendship on the one side; on the other, an ab­ straction." "I should not class yon *nw>ng those lSkely to yield many inches to the so­ cial bribe," said I. * "That is pleasant, but not candid," - feplied he with his simple directness. "No man of your experience could fail to know that the social bribe Is the ' arch-corrupter, the one briber whom it Is not in human nature to resist. But, as I was saying, to my amazement, in spite of my wife's precautions and niine, I find myself beset--and with irfhat devilish insidiousness! When I refuse, simply to save myself from > flagrant treachery to my obligations of t duty, I find myself seeming, even to my wife and to myself, churlish and priggish; Pharisaical, in the loath­ some attitude of a moral poseur. Com­ mon honesty, in presence of this so­ cial bribe, takes on the sneaking ' seeming of rottenest hypocrisy. It Is „ Indeed hard to get through and to get - At the men I want and need, and must pbd will have." r "Impossible," said L "And if you v could get at them, and if the senate would let you put them where they «em to you to belong, the temptation would be too much for them. They ^ too would soon become Baal-worship- . «rs, the more assiduous for-their long .. %|>stinence." /&•¥• "Some," he admitted, "perhaps ";'nio8t. But at least a few would *stand the test--and just one such would re­ pay and justify all the labor of all the search. The trouble with you pessimists is that you don't take our • ancestry into account. Man isn't a lillfng angel, but a rising animal. So, every impulse toward the decent, every gle^m of light, is a tremendous Sain. The wonder isn't the bad but the good, isn't that we are so imper­ fect. but that in such a few thousand years we've got so far--so far up. 1 know you and I have in the main the same purpose--where is there a man Who'd like to think the world the worse for his having livedf But we work by different means. You believe the best results can be got through that in man which he has inherited from the past--by balancing passion against passion, by offsetting appetite j*fith aboetlte. I hope tor results froai that in the man of to-day which is the seed, the prophecy, of the man who Is to be." "Your method has had one recent and very .striking apparent success," said I. "But--the spasm of virtue will pass." "Certainly," he replied, "and so too will the succeeding spasm of reaction. Also, your party must improve itself --and mine too-^as the result of this spasm of virtue.** "For a time," I admitted. "I envy you your courage and bope. But I can't share in them. You will serve four stormy years; you will retire with friends less devoted and enemies more bitter; you will be misunder­ stood, maligned; and there's only a remote s possibility that your vindica­ tion will come before you are too old to be offered a second term. And the harvest from the best you sow will be ruined in some flood of reaction." "No,"" he answered. "It will be reaped. The evil I do, all evil, passes. The good will be reaped. Nothing good Is lost." "And if It is reaped," I rejoined, "the reaping Will not come until long, round and struggling with the gig gling age. HN^shall like each other I'm sure," wasPher verdict. "We'll get on well together." And Frances smiled, and Ellen nodded. They evi­ dently thought so. too. "I want you to teach them your art," said 1, when they were gone to settle then^l^, ̂ ̂ alone. "My art?" . " • r;*'• / "The art of b&fhi: toe's self. I am sick of men and women who hide their real selves behind a pose of what they want others to think them.", "Most of our troubles come from that, don't they?" "All mine did," said I. "I am at the age when the very word age be­ gins to Jar on the ear, and the net re­ sult of my years of effort h^-I have convinced other people that € am somebody at the cost of convincing myself that I am nobody." "No, yoy are master," she said. "As a lion-tamer is master of his lions, lie gives all his thought to them, who think only of their appe­ tites. And bis wnole reward is that with his life in his hand he can some­ times cow them through a few worth- leas little tricks." I looked round the attractive reception-room of the school. "I wish you'd take m® In, too,? I ended. She flushed a little, then shook her head, her eyes twinkling. "This is not a reformatory," < said she. both laughed. ' As I did not speak or look away, but continued to smile at her, she be­ came uneasy, glanced round as If seeking an avenue of retreat. "Yes--I mean just that, Elizabeth," I admitted, and my tone explained the words. She clasped her hands and started op. "In me--In every one," I went on, "there's a beast and a man. Just now --with me--the man is uppermost. Our Springfield Letter Special Correspondent Write* of Things of Interest at the State Capital. Springfield.---'fiat the_ stoie banks in Illinois are following the same con­ servative policy as shown, tin the re­ cent report of the condition of Chi­ cago banks is proved in the statement issued by the state auditor of public accounts. In the report of the condi­ tion of the 398 state banks It is shown the total amount of loans and dis­ counts was $32,530,670.35, or a de­ crease of $28,554,532.77 over the same item for the previous report. The total resources of all the state banks, according to the report, amounted to f54<5,401J282.5l, or a net decrease of $29,708,146.09, as compared with the previous report. Among the interest­ ing items in this class are the United States bonds which, with a total of $667,767.98, show an increase of $113j- 650.S3. The total amount due from And we national banks was $36,626,211.08, or a decrease of $14,009,547.95. In the liability column, there is a decrease of $14,648,615.09 in time savings depos­ its, as compared with the earlier re­ port, when this item totaled $197,183,- 382.52, Time certificate deposits show a total of $40,691,402.27, or an increase of $142,806.91 over this Item in the early report The total capital* sur­ plus and undivided prbflts were $88,- 456,901.58, an increase of $2,318,230.85 over the previous amount. The total deposits were $421,856,148.19, a de­ crease of $35,060,711.69, and the total amount of cash and due from state banks was $130,325,804.23, a decrease of $9,503,366.75, making the per cent, of reserves to deposits 30.89 per cent. "Let Us Help Each Other." long after you are a mere name in history." Even as I spoke my doubts I was wishing I had kept them to myself; for, thought I, there's no poorer busi­ ness than shooting at the beautiful soaring bird of illusion. But he was looking at me without seeing me. His expression suggested the throwing open of the blinds hiding a~man's In­ most self. * "If a man," said he absently, "fixes his mind not on making friends or de­ feating enemies, not on elections or on history, but just on avoiding from day to day, from act to act, the condemna­ tion of his own self-respect--" The blinds closed as suddenly as they had opened--he had become conscious that some one was looking in. And I was wishing again that I had kept my doubts to myself; for I now saw that what I had thought a bright bird of illusion was in fact the lost star which lighted my own youth. CHAPTER X*XIV. "Let Ua Help Each Other." In the folowing September I took my daughters to Elizabeth. She looked earnestly, first at Frances, tall and slim and fancying herself a wom­ an grown, then at Elleu, short and And he wants to stay uppermost Elizabeth--will you--help him?" She lowered her head until I could see only the splendor of her thick hair, sparkling like black quartz. "Will you--dear? Won't you-- dear?" Suddenly she gave me both her hands. -'Let us help each other," she said. And slowly she lifted her glance to mine; and never before had I felt tlhe full glory of those eyes, the full melody of that deep voice. And so, I end as I began, as life begins and ends--with a woman. In a woman's arms we enter life; in a woman's arms we get the courage and strength to bear it; in a woman's arms we leave it. And as for the span between--the business, profession, career--how colorless, how meaning­ less it would be but for her! THE END. One Man 8ession Continues. Without immediate prospect of be­ ing able to transact any business the Illinois legislature met and continued holding one-man sessions for another week. In the meantime Gov. Deneen continued his campaign for renomina tion, Incidentally saying caustic things about the general assembly's attitude on the primary elections law. The ut terances of the executive during the past few days, it is believed, will have considerable effefct upon the members of the assembly when the return Few* of them believed the governor would make the primary fight an Is sue in the pre-convention campaign T%e governor's action in relation to the navigability bill i3 also likely to bring about something in the legisla ture. Opponents of the governor are making campaign material out of the fact that, while the governor has dis avowed the action of the canal com missioners in making the grant to the Economy Light & Power company and is industriously trying to have It set asidfev the commissioners are still in office. His friends point out, however, that to put the commissioners out at this time might be fatal to the Inter ests of the state in forthcoming lit! gation, and Gov. Deheen is not con vinced that the commissioners were guilty of anything more than an error of judgment. Test Caee Against Road. Through a test case brought against the Illinois Southern railroad at Ed- wardsville by John Meyers of Sparta, the validity of the two-cent passenger fare law enacted by the state legisla­ ture last spring will be determined. The suit will be heard soon. The suit was first instituted July 1 in the cir­ cuit court at Chester. It was un­ known to Gov. Deneen or the attorney general's office, and is believed to be a prearranged plan oh the part of the combined railroads for a. test case. Meyers is the city marshal of Sparta. The Illinois Southern railroad is con­ trolled and operated by John R. Walsh. On July 1 Mayers was charged three cents a mile for a ticket from Sparta to Salem. He then brought suit - The Illinois Southern did not put the two-cent passenger tariff into effect until July 2. That the Illinois railroads have intended to enter a contest is certain. The presidents of the roads have held three meetings, and the general counsels several. Automobiles Replacing Camels. It will surprise some people to learn that automobiles are very much in use in Egypt, being coasidered a far less costly and difficult means of convey­ ance than camels.. Consul General L. M. Iddings, of Cairo, reports that cars registered in Cairo now number 264; last season, 75; in Alexander. 127, as compared with 120 last season. Love Feast Talked Of. Indications are strong that a "love feast" of the Illinois Republicans will be held In Springfield before the first of the coming year. If so, it will be the first to be held for some time. Roy O. West, chairman of the state cen­ tral committee, says that he would call a meeting if a meeting was want ed and he added that a number of poli ticians were desirous of a gathering that would bring all the candidates to­ gether and give them a chance to talk Apparently the entire matter rests with Cannon. He will be consulted and if he does not wish to come home after congress takes its holiday recess there probably will be no "love feast.' C. P. Hitch, the member of the cen tral committee from Cannon's dis trlct, is said to be in favor of a "get ting together" of the plans, and others interested in the management of Can­ non's campaign are also desirous of a meeting. Signs Salary Measure. Gov. Deneen's approval was at­ tached to the Cermak bill doubling the compensation of"members of the gen eral assembly. It was the last day allowed the executive to act upon the measure whlcl^ was brought here by his assistant. Secretary George H. Faxon, for the purpose. It was with reluctance that Gov. Deneen approved the act: The executive has ̂ contended that anti-pass legislation should go hand in hand with increasing the com­ pensation when salary is increased to $1,000 a year. He believes they should be free of corporation favors. He hesitated, however, to veto the bill while acknowledging Its justice; and finally decided to make It a law. MADE SANE BY OPERATION, Physician's Reason Lost in A£e(<lent Permanently Restored., Dr. Dernar® Hollander, a well- known London physician, describes a remarkable cure of insanity by oper­ ation. His patient a doctor, received a kick from a horse on the right of the chin, followed a year later by a heavy fall from a bicycle on the right side of his head. Soon the doctor's character changed completely. He suffered severely from headache and neuralgic pains, which incapacitated him from work. He became emo­ tional, irritable, very profane, and de­ veloped suicidal tendencies. His strange conduct frequently led him into difficulties. After suffering for seven years and trying all possible medical treatment, he consulted Dr. Hollander, who, believing the seat of the disease to be in a circumscrib­ ed part of the brain, advised opera- tion. On trephining, a morbid condi­ tion of the skull In this region waa discovered, and an excess of cerebro­ spinal fluid, which had prevented the brain from pulsating. Three weeks after the operation the patient was • well, and has remained in perfect mental and physical health ever since. Awful Break. Tfce man of the house had shown the caller the leaky roof, the insecure foundation, the Unfinished upper rooms, and the generally wretched condition of the premises. "Now, said, "I think you ought to make the assessment about half what It was last year." "*You must have misun­ derstood me, Mr. Gimpswitch," re­ marked the caller. "I didn't say I was the assessor. What I said was that my name is ElsessOr. I am thinking of buying some property la this borhood." Governor Warns Legislators. "Members of the genera! assembly who Ignore the demand of their con­ stituents and attempt to prevent the passage of a primary election law will have to answer to the people for their action," warned Gov. Deneen in addressing a recent meeting. "If the legislature is adjourned sine die with­ out the passage of a primary act, it will be sine die adjournment forever for many of those members who are responsible for the* failure to make good." Wisdom In Frankness. There is no wisdom like franknesa --BeaconsfleW. • Health Bulletin on Antitoxin. Several pages of the current issue of the bulletin of the Illinois state board of health are devoted to the diphtheria antitoxin furnished by the board. Much attention also is given to the communication of a physician in * re­ cent issue of a prominent medical journal, in Which the reliability of the antitoxin furnished by the state board of health was questioned. It is shown that this antitoxin, which is supplied free of all charge, to the rich and poor alike, 13 prepared under United States Deneen Talks of Platform. In stumping the state Gov. Deneen has spoken'of the three planks of his former platform and said all had been carried out except that regarding the primary law, and that he was trying to provide one now. He emphasizes a statement that the insane asylums, reformatories, and peuitentiaries are run under civil service- lines, and that the inmates are better cared for than ever before; that he was succeeding In having condct labor put out of com­ petition with outside labor; and that 23 miles of rock roads had been made throughout the state without cost to th-e people. He asked votes for the Is­ suance of bonds for the tdeep water­ way, and showed how the $20,000,000 could be paid, without a tax on the people, from the revenue derived by sale of electric power that the water­ way would produce. Secretary in Springfield. Godtrey C. Knobel, field secretary of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid society, paid his annual visit in the interests of the society. A large num­ ber of prominent residents of Spring­ field are Interested in the work, and plans are making for an active cam­ paign in the capital city the present month. At present the affairs of the society are In a flourishing condition. Its Influence is growing rapidly. The object of the society is to rescue and care for homeless children and to avoid, so far as possible, the large in­ stitution. Tl<feniinoi8 Children's Home and Aid socillif has the sanction of the state board of charities in its work and the records of the latter or­ ganization show that of all children placed in good homes last year, the Illinois society did 48 per cent of the work. Frank O. Lowden as Head. The Alumni of Iowa university in Illinois, a fraternal organization, was formed and a constitution and by-laws adopted in Chicago where 60 alumni of the university met, many of them for the first time in more than a quar­ ter of a century. Officers were elected as follows: President, Frank O. Low­ den of Oregon; first vice president, F. S. Hebard, Chicago; second vice president. John P. Hand, Illinois su­ preme court, Cambridge; third, vice president, Rush C. Butler, Chicago; secretary and treasurer, M. L. McKin- ley, Chicago; corresponding secretary, S. R. Watklns, Chicago. NEWS OF ILLINOIS f TOLD NO TALE OF TRAGEDY. Wabash Road Found Guilty. In a decision finding the Wabash Railroad company guilty of willful dis­ crimination against the Galesville Grain and Coal company, the Illinois railroad and warehouse commission holds that it has authority to inquire into complaints charging discrimina­ tion either in rates, distribution of cars, or any other matter involving the rights of shippers. Unequal dis­ tribution of grain cars was the specific charge in this case. Bottle HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. in River Merely Scheme Clever Advertiser. SUtCtDE OF A BANKER R. P. Easton, of Herscher, Shoots Self In Bank--Friends Unablefto Ex­ plain Action. Herscher.--A few minutes after get­ ting his evening mall, R. R. Easton, 48 ye'ars old, cashier of the State Bank of Herscher, committed suicide in his bank the other evening by shooting himself in the head. His of which an'°Med a tale of pity. body was found lying In the window of the bank by a boy who passed the place shortly before nine o'clock. A revolver was lying by his head. The boy called the night watchman, who broke open the door and then notified the coroner at Kankakee. Easton's suicide has created a sensation In the entire county, as he was well and fa­ vorably known. He had been cashier of the bank since its organization, and was one of its stockholders. Passengers in the first cabin were telling yarns about voyages down tha Mississippi, This led a hearer to tell the following narrative of a trip he once made on the stream: On the morning of our third day out from St. Louis the most summery of all the girl passengers saw a bot­ tle floating down the river. Imme­ diately there flashed across her mind all of the many stories she had heard of shipwrecked persons heaving bot­ tles into the sea, the subsequent find- -4 "i. TOWN WITHOUT FUNDS. No .Pay for Officials and Employes of Assumption--Much Cash Due. The captain of the steamboat waa ap­ pealed to and a boat was put off after the bottle. It was soon overtaken ai^viW brought to the steamer. ^ "Isn't it awful?" said one erf the ° ^ j girls. . , j "Perfectly dreadful," remarked an- , other: "I wonder If thy're dead?" said • • 4 third. The captain opened the bottle and found a piece of paper. With trem­ bling hand the sheet was extracted. The passengers were all forward by this time, and were standing with bianched faces to hear the reading of , the missive from the "Father of ters." The captain began: A: ' ,. _ , • , , i "The steamer Yantic, with 30 exchr- Assumption^--Tangled municipal af- ; 8lonists aboard> went on a 8nag ln ^ fairs, the inability of the councilmen , Litt;e river ye8terday. All of those on to agree and the subsequent resigna- j board got off lnto the water floatilkg recently i down stream on boards for several miles. I got off on a cask and floated a long distance, landing, with 15 other passengers, on a small island. "We were cold and cramped, and two of the party were seriously ill. Luckily I chanced to have a bottle of Mustgo's Malaria Mystifler In my pock­ et and, by administering this sovereign remedy in liberal doses, we were all made to feel like new beings. On saM by all druggists." Later in the day two more bottle* were gathered in. They contained fw same tile of woe. tion of the mayor which placed this village in the limelight, have been brought to a climax. Here­ tofore the squabbles of the city offi­ cials were taken lightly by the citi­ zens, but developments demand seri­ ous consideration. The village is $9,004 in debt and unable to pay expenses. The officials are in a quandary. City Clerk Havrefleld made a statement which shows the city's liabilities an $9,047.17. HELEN DIXON "TURNED DOWN.* Stenographer Who Secured Employ* ment Finds "No Vacancy." " Bloomington.--Helen Dixon, the stenographer who went to Chicago to enter the office of a life insurance company, returned here disconsolate. When she reached Chicago she was told "a mistake had been made" and there was no vacancy for her. The clubwomen here say the insurance Company made a bona fide offer to them and cannot understand their ac­ tion in refusing now to employ MisS Dixon. The young woman will remain ln; jail here until another situation is offered her. Dr. F. M. Crane Expires. Pittsfield- Dr. F. Marion Crane, 45 years old, died after a lenghty Illness with heart trouble. Decedent was one of Pike county's most widely-known men. He was a prominent Mason and a member of the Modern Woodman lodge. Joliet Alderman Missing. Joliet.--Howard T. Keltie, alderman of the Seventh ward, and a man of af­ fairs in Joliet, disappeared from his home. Some of his friends believed that he labored under a mental ab- beration. Financial difficulties were also hinted at. Work Started on Cutoff. Virden.--Charles Van Wormer, wjh® has the contract for grading for the cutoff through this city for the Chica­ go, Burlington & Quincy railroad, be­ gan the work and wiil, as soon as pos­ sible, put 15 or 20 teams at work. County Deeters Meet. One of the most enthusiastic meet­ ings ever held by the Sangamon Coun­ ty Medical society took place the other evening at the Illini Country club. The members of the society were the guests of Dr. Arthur Prince. The speaker of the evening was Dr. Edward Brown, who read a paper treating "Tubercu­ losis." The treatise was very mterest- IngB. instructive and nearly every phase of the subject was covered. Rockford Y. M. C. A."to Disband. Rockford.--The Rockford Young Men's Christian association, formerly one of the most important in the state, voted to disband January 1. Lack of financial support is given as the cause. Humor of London's Bishop. The bishop of London's humor, tender and kind, now sardonic and cruel, made him many friends la America. "The bishop amused me," said clergyman, "at a dinner of divines !a New York. We divines are a modeit lot, but occasionally our self-restraint gets the better of us, and then we brag and boast and make ourselves <rl(Uo- ulous. "A Boston divine at this dinner got to telling us about a begging sermon he had recently preached. "'I don't wish to brag or boast,' he began, 'nor would I have you think me conceited, but, gentlemen, I assure you--' "And then at great length he told » how women had wept at his begging sermon's pathos, strong men had emit' ted hoarse sobs, and in an avalanche the contributions had poured in--gold and greenbacks, checks, even jewel* and watches and great heaps-- "But here the bishop of London leaned forward with a twinkle in bit eye. " 'By the way, brother,' he sgML^ 'could you lend me that sermon?"' . ' MI i Asks *1,950 for Man's Life. TaylorviUe.--S. Stogdell, adminis­ trator' of the estate of John Burgess, has filed suit in the circuit court for $1,950 damages against the B. A O. S. W. for the death of John Burgess. Lightning Hits Courthouse. Petersburg.--In the electrical storm lightning struck the roof of the court­ house and tore off a small portion of it. The flag pole of the courthouse was also hit. Useful and Ornamental. They were talking in the yacht clnh about the Lipton challenge. A famous old skipper, as he put down his tea cup in order to wipe from his long white beard a smear of honey, said: "I'd get rid of these whiskers if they were not so useful. I have to wear them, though. The skippers of all racing yachts wear whiskers. Socaly, you've noticed it? "They wear whiskers to tell the wind's direction by. A sephyr the hand, even the moistened finder emit feel, is revealed by the whiskers, aad the soft hairs rustle softly, and their owner's watchful eye knows where the wind is coming from." He moistened a napkin, swearing Impatiently. "Frightful nuisance. Isn't It?" h* said. "I can't get the honey out at all. Sticky stuff. I wish I had beard. But then--in races--" Dipping his beard In a fingerbowl, he Washed diligently but vainly. Saloonman la Fined. Taylorville.---James Taro, proprie­ tor of the Opera House buffet, was fined $20 and costs for selling liquor on 8unday. The Queen of Slam. Next to King Chulalongkorn, the most powerful personality in Siam ta undoubtedly the queen, a capable and energetic woman, and altogether a remarkable personage. The position of women in Siam contrasts favorably with that among other oriental pe«v pies. The ordinary woman possesses such a robust physique and erect bear- . , Ing that a stranger easily mistake* her T{t Shotgun Discharge Fata.. J e8pecially as her hair la Litchfield.---The accidental discharge ; sjj0rt cr d and the dress of both of a gun in the hands of ^r husband | ̂ gia nar In the geQera, Itusi. proved fatal to Mrs. Joseph Miller of | negg of ,.fe ^ average Siame8< ore. ^ i'woman is often superiqr to the man; she understands thoroughly economie Fire Destroys Jacksonville Home. Jacksonville.--Fire partially de­ stroyed the home of Dr. C. A. Stew­ art. The origin is unknown. Law Students Pass Tests. Mount Vernon.--Out of a class of 44 taking the law examination here, 34 ; both government and society toward as well as domestic household affairs* and enjoys a considerable share ot freedom. Polygamy is fast dying «!ttt in the lower classes and gradually decreasing among the rich. What Is peculiarly hopeful is the attitude passed. female education. Always Want Cksh. State's attorneys of Illinois are pre­ paring to fight the recent decision of Attorney .General Stead to the effect that state's attorneys now in office are not entitled to the increase in fees provided for by the new law of the Forty-fifth general assembly. State's Attorney J. Burt Miller, of Kankakee county, and State's Attorney Frank Reid. of Kane county, officers of the stati' association, were in Springfield looking after a test case which was looKiiu; a flk'4jpth e supreme court. Girl Tagged from England. Aurora. -- Genuine Robinson, six years of age, arrived in Aurora from Newbury, England, to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Norcross in Union strefet. Pinned to her little coat sleeve was a note. Scientists Organize. Organization of the Illinois State Academy of Sciences was effected when 100 educators and students gath­ ered in the senate chamber at the state capitol, elected officers * and adopted a constitution and by-laws. Officers are President, T. C. Chamber­ lain, LL. D. University of Chicago, Chi­ cago; vice president, Henry Crew, Ph. D., Northwestern- university, Evans- ton; secretary, A. R. Crook, Ph. D., curator State Museum of National His* tory, Springfield; treasurer, Dr. Hesa Prank Causes Girl's Death. East St. Louis.--Pauline Scraut, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Scraut, died from burns. A six- yeaf-old boy playmate, in a spirit of fun. slipped a lighted paper under her dress. Wills Cash to Boy. Minneapolis--Mrs. Lucinda Bryant, an aged negress living in Jacksonville, ril., has willed her homestead and sev­ eral thousand dollars' worth of other property to a two-year-oid Minne­ apolis boy who is the grandson of her mAster in slavery da . s. lfc£&*e, aad la oj £be highest quality. 1 leT* Chicago. Man Identified by Brother. Bloomington.--Benjamin F. Bowers, of Troy, O., arrived in this city and identified the body of the maa&found slain near Leroy. as that of hla brother, George F. Bowers. / . ; • m Business Instinct. The sexton of a "swell colored-.-• church" in Richmond was closing the windows one blustery Sunday mora-> v ^ ing during service when he was beck* * ^ oned to the side of a young negreq||,' the widow of a certain Thomas. , "Why is yo* shettin' dose winders, Mr. Jones?" she demanded, in a hoarea whisper. "De air in dis church is suf- • focatin' now!" • • . "It's de minister's orders," replied V the sexton, obstinately. "It's a oold ^ day. Mis' Thomas, an' we ain't gain' to ^ take no chance on losin' any o' d*^- lambs of dis fold while dere's a big _ a debt overhangin' dis church."--Hai^ \t'-\ ' per's Weekly. v -t ^ "4s"; Origin of Card Catalogue*. vk,.*, The London Book Monthly gives tilt: 4, following account of the origin of the' card catalogues now in use In all large " w * libraries. A French abbe of the revo> lution indexed his books by writing their titles on playing cards. On each card he placed a title and then fee placed them endwise In alphabetical order on a tray, and that, it is said, le the beginning of the'card catalog which in the middle of th«< lust c<*a- tujv was applied to library > '.v, ' 5