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WW rjr̂ T • i'i. Wmm , K s . " ' ••4s_••«:•> S*-y - -* Hr̂ £ [[', , ti - *> ..;v ,§*&' '• ",i* •T-'V V? .. ' • IN JAPAN IP:} K\ HN Fnsy Tfcinft On Stffit $irTT?r**g Round die World MARSHALL P. WILDER (Copyright, ty Jw'Svpl: B. Bowles.) Japan compels a more rigorous ex­ amination at her various ports of entry than any other country. China makes no examination whatever, per­ haps on the principle that it is diffi­ cult to sweeten a bad egg. All .holders of official positions in Japan are obliged to wear European dress, and the little Japs who boarded our steamer looked, in their long, green coats, elaborately ornamented, -like schoolboys in their fathers' clothes. They are very important little people, you must know, but one of these came to grief in a manner speedy as it was unexpected. • • » Everything is so neat and clean in Japan, it looks as if somebody had got tip before breakfast to sweep and dust the "whole country. Prince Haseba, in an after-dinner spetci. at Spokane, said: "If you should visit a Japanese house you would be obliged to remove your shoes at the doorway. Japanese floors are beautifully kept I know of •ome houses where 30 or 40 servants have no other duty than the polishing of the floors.'" And Japan is the land of unrealities. The whole country is a toy shop. Everything is small. The horses are all ponies; the chickens bantams; the dogs small and shy--with apologetic manners--they wouldn't presume to bark at your heels without first ask­ ing permission; the oysters are about as large as a quarter; clams no larger than a dime; bananas not more than four or five inches long; and oranges "That you'd begin to see things! Stopping oft at that corner nights has done it--I knew it would!--A plum- hawk! Oh, Archibald! that yoo should come to this! Oh, oh!--*' And there you are!--hysterics; the telephone; the doctor; and, let us hope, a "quick curtain," as they gay at the theater. • • • You prop the casus belli on your knee and thus apostrophize it; "You call yourself a moon, do you? Why, a half-baked soda biscuit is a queen to you! And you're a night­ ingale, are you? Why, you splay-foot­ ed. wry-neck, hollow-back, shark-nose nightmare! a setting hen with the wind-cackles is a bird of paradise to you! What did that idiotic Bilkins, with his infernal 'symbols' mean by letting me in $25 for this? Yes, $25! and what's the result? Maria throw­ ing fits, and the doctor's bill another twenty-five, and nothing to show for the fifty but this dumbasted Japanese brain storm! "A symbol of happiness, eh? Well, It hasn't brought much happiness to my home! A plum tree! Looks more like a gooseberry bush. I'll bet the plums on it would sour a barrel of molasses! " 'Patriotism,' said that ass of a Bilkins, 'is sometimes indicated by a spr&y of cherry blossoms.' Well, I've seen it indicated round the 17th of March by a sprig of shamrock, and more times round the Fourth of July by a red, white and blue rosette, but nobody needed an interpreter in either case to tell what they were the 'sym­ bol' of. "Grace and quietness are Indicated by the willowy tree and the swallow, eh? Very well; I admit the willow tree. For gracefulness she's all to the good. But the swallow for quietness! Well, I've seen some swallows that wouldn't go in that class--not for nickels. One swallow don't make a summer, but two will get away with a whisky-straight in a second and a half; and three more will make a man's tongue go like a mill-clapper, while three more will bust up all the quiet­ ness left "over from a generation of country Sabbaths. "And this little game cock perched on a drum signifies""good government? Well, that's a stretch of imagination with a vengeance! Looks more like a sparrow on a pancake-griddle. Good M r A JAPANESE ARTIST DRAWS A PICTURE OF AN APRIL EVENING. about the size of lady-apples. Yes, everything is small. I never felt so much at home in my life. • • • Japanese art has had many admir­ ers and rnaqy detractors. The latter have likened their china, sprawling with dragons and alive with grinning faces, to a fit of the jim-jams; their sunflowers to jellyfish and their chrys­ anthemums to cartwheels. Its admirers claim that all<grou have to do is to study up its symbols, and then go ahead. But it strikes me that by the time you've learned the sym­ bols it would be time to die. For in­ stance, when a Japanese artist draws a picture of an April evening, a dys­ peptic moon, a nightingale and a cou­ ple of plum trees, and asks you its meaning, I'll wager that if you stood first on one foot and then on the other tor two mortal hours you couldn't give the fellow an answer. It's dollars to doughnuts you couldn't tell the night­ ingale from a fishhawk, and you couldn't tell what he was doing on the plum tree, or on the moon--it don't matter which--if they gave you the whole business--the hawk, the plum tree, the moon and the April evening government, eh? I reckon they don't need any over there, or they'd get something bigger than his drumsticks for a symbol. His purple nibs hardly looks equal to the job. I should say scratching worms in the back yard was more in his line. "Well, I've had an alcoholic suffi­ ciency of Japanese art; my reputation for sobriety with my wife is gone to the four winds; I'm fifty out of pocket, and nothing--absolutely nothing--to show for it but you! you brain-twisted, colicky, jaundiced paranoiac! "It's the furnace fire for yours!" Our Springfield Letter Special Correspondent Writes of Thing* of Interest at the State Capital. Springfield -- Emphatic denial that i Governor's Eyesight Failing Miss Nellie Sharp, the woman who gave birth to a child in the Redemp­ tion home in this city, had been an Inmate recently of the Asylum for Feeble Minded Children at Lincoln, teas made by Superintendent H. G. Hardt of that institution. The woman came to this city from Virginia, de­ claring that she had been driven from home by her parents. She told the police in this city that she had been an inmate of the Lincoln institution. Superintendent Hardt said that the records of the institution show that Miss Sharp was admitted May 20, 1S98, and that she was discharged, at the request of her father, C. M. Sharp of Virginia, October 7, 1899, nearly nine years ago. She has not been in the institution since. It was learned that this is the third time the un­ fortunate woman has been in a similar predicament. The Cass county au­ thorities have not discovered w&o, is responsible for her trouble. Indorse State Board of Charities. Resolutions strongly indorsing the policies and work of the state board of charities of^fllinois were adopted unanimously by members of the Chi­ cago Medical society and the Phy­ sicians' club of Chicago. These two societies embracing 2,000 or more rep­ resentative doctors of the city, held a joint meeting for the discussion of the true situation in regard to the present administration of state institutions. Thrt-e were six speakers and each one strenuously supported the board and the administration's work in state charities and attacked those who have criticised it. Those who spoke were Dr. Hirsch, the veteran member of the charities board; William C. Graves, secretary of the board; Dr. F. P. Nor- bury, ex-president of the state confer­ ence of charities; William B. Moulton, president of the Illinois civil service, commission; Dr. Richard Dewey, ex- superintendent of the Kankakee In­ sane asylum, and Dr. E. Pettit. Dr. Hirsch vigorously defended the board of charities and criticised the investi­ gating committee, both as to its mo­ tives and methods of operation. Would Abolish Fee System. An appeal to the Illinpis bar has been made by the Illinois Law Review to take up the question oT the nomi­ nation of a suitable candidate for su­ preme court clerk at once and see to it that the position be taken out of politics. It remarks the fee system is the root of existing evils, the office being so valuable, paying from $25,000 to $50,000 a year, it has become a big element in the division of political spoils. It is recommended the next legislature put it on a salary basis, but in the meantime, to cover the next six years, that every effort be made to secure the nomination by all parties of the right kind of candidates. Gov. Charles S. Deneen was in Chi­ cago recently and spent a good part of his time in the hands of oculists. His eyes have been failing until now, he admits, it is almost impossible for him to read the bill of fare in a res­ taurant. Thus far he has escaped the burden of eye glasses, but admits now that he has reached the need of them. But for Dr. Richard Edwards, whose death occurred at Bloomlngton a short time ago, Illinois might have present­ ed an unbroken succession of Repub­ lican governors for nearly a half cen­ tury. In the opinion of many poli­ ticians it was his education bill, known t^s the famous Edwards school law, parsed by the legislature in 1890, when he was state superintendent of public instruction, which defeated the Republican ticket in 1892 and made John P. Altg^ld governor over Jo­ seph W. Fifer, who was a candidate for re-election. It was the irony of fate that Dr. Edwards, a townsman of Fifer, and one of his closest friends, should draft a bill offensive to the supporters of the parochial schools and thus, it is generally thought, be the chief cause of the governor's de­ feat NEWS OF ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST PROM ALL OVER THE STATE. KNEW GREAT PRESIDENT M. W. Gowdy, In His Youth Lincoln a Davis Recently Deceased, Drove Stags with Senator David ssengers. isfefeSer Moline.--M. W. Gowdy, 76 years old, died at his home. When a lad, he drove a stage coach between this city and Peoria and was a familiar figure in this part of the state. Among the many famous men who rode with Mr. Gowdy were Abraham Lincoln and United States Senator Davis. It is said that Mr. Lincoln al­ most always rode upon the box with Gowdy when making a trip. HANGS HIMSELF WITH NECKTIE. Foreigners Study State Schools. With a view to investigating educa­ tional methods in the United States, Dr. Rual B. Diaz, commissioner of ed­ ucation of the Argentine republic, is making a tour of Illinois. Dr. Diaz, in company with Henry W. Crees of Bir­ mingham, Eng., called on State Su­ perintendent of Public Insti'uctibn Francis G. Blair and spent some time discussing educational topics. The vis­ itors are making an especial study of the conduct of rural schools. Illinois is one of the few states in the union which have a system of state super­ vision of rural schools and the two visitors were particularly interested in the explanation of its workings. From this city they went to Macomb to study the methods in vogue there al the advanced rural school conducted in connection with the state normal uni­ versity. A Clutching at the Bunch of Chains. --to take home to your wife for a birthday present. For, my dear fel lowman, that picture means happi­ ness! yes, happiness. And if you can't |ee the artist's meaning, and--what's more to the point--get your wife to •ee it, you'd better stay right in the artist's studio and-- But you won't! You'll rush straight home with the picture under your arm, and yoti'll rush up to your wife and, in an insane endeavor to expatiate on the complex beauties of the thing, you'll "Look, Maria! Just see this! A pres­ ent for your birthday--didn't forget JTOu, did I? Here you are--great! JUxtk at the willowy moon, and the a&ghtingale sky, and the plum-hawk--" And then she'll burst Into tears, and My: "I knew ft! I knew it! I've seen it coming! Oh, I knew it!" M "XBOV what, tor heaven s sake?" |§5 ' - On the other hand, no style of art is so fascinating to occidental minds. The daintiness of conception, the charm of color, the spring-time fresh­ ness of atmosphere that pervades each and every effort of the oriental work­ man possesses a charm wholly indi­ vidual and one which it is difficult to resist. As I have said, the scheme must be studied, the symbols learned; but to the dilettante this is ever a wellspring of pleasure, and one that will never go dry. "The system of threes" or of "ones," once learned, captivates the fancy-- for things artistic are nothing if not fanciful in this oriental land--and holds the imagination in spite of oneself. The art-etiquette, so to «peak, of a Japanese interior is enchanting, when one has learned it. There is only one bunch of flowers--sometimes only a single expressive blossom--in a room. There is but one picture. But this oneness must be at just such a time and in just such a place. Can you not understand why? Love is not always responsive to love's demands. Soli­ tude, at times, is sweeter and more to be desired. So the picture is hung; the flower placed. Every flower has a meaning. Cer­ tain flowers must never be seen to­ gether. Certain others must never be seen apart. Then, again, everything goes in threes--blossoms, boughs, or sprays. Even furniture has a mean­ ing. The details of this etiquette are endless and, to the occidental mind, bewildering unless one "has imagina­ tion," or at least an esthetic sense to which its poetic features can appeal. In the matter of coloring alone Jap­ anese art leads the world; the secret is their own. Their slides, etc., nota­ bly those by Kimbel, Japan's greatest' colori8t, are unsurpassed by any here­ tofore attempted. Though Japan is the land of beauti­ ful bric-a-brac, none is ever displayed. The precious vase, rich with gorgeous lacquer; the picture, beautiful with poetic symbols; the carving, that has taken years of patient cunning to create, these are never displayed on wall or cabinet, but locked away in safe or storeroom to be brought out as a special honor to guest or visitor whose coming their host wishes to celebrate with the highest rites of eastern hospitality. "If we had our precious treasures always before our eyes," they say, "they would then become too common, and we should tire of them, and that inmost never be!" » Seek Release of Merritt Chism. The culmination of efforts to secure the release of Merritt Chism, the Mc­ Lean county man who murdered his wife over five years ago, came when Gov. Deneen heard arguments for the prisoner's release. Former Gov. Rich­ ard Yates appeared for Chism, wbile the state was represented by William Bach, state's attorney of McLean county. Practically no new arguments were advanced for the man's release other than those urged at the time of his trial as extenuating circumstances. Charter Is Cause of Muddle. Another muddle as the result of a special school charter has come to the notice of State Superintendent of Public Instruction F. G. Blair. B. E. Decker, county treasurer of schools in McDonough county, failed to make his annual report in time and* forfeited the share of the distributive school fund. The state superintendent remit­ ted the forfeiture as the law permits. Decker then desired to know if he could turn over the amount allotted to the Macomb district to the treasurer of that district who had not yet filed his bond. He was informed that the law provides that no part of the dis­ tributive fund shall be paid to any treasurer unless said treasurer has filed his bond and Decker was in­ structed to hold the fund until the of­ ficial in question complied with the law. Report Criticises Railroads. The methods adopted by the rail­ roads of Illinois in arriving at the pro­ portion of their business in this state are severely criticised and condemned by the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse commission in the annual report of that body. In discussing the methods adopted by the mads in determining the proportion of all the earnings and expenses credited to this state, the re­ port says the methods "have not the remotest semblance of accuracy." Parole Breaker Must Return. A requisition was issued from the executive office on the governor of Wisconsin for the return to Joliet pen­ itentiary of William Hardin, wanted for breaking his parole. Hardin was sent to the penitentiary June 6, 1903, from Cook county for robbery. A year later he was released on parole and broke it by leaving the state. For an offense committed in Wisconsin he was sent to the penitentiary in that state, where his sentence expires on March 20. _ Saloon Issue Put on Ballot. The state election commission de­ cided that the petition of the Anti-Sa- loon league, asking that the question of licensing saloons be placed on the ballot at the city election at Spring field next month, contained the legal number of registered voters and or­ dered the question to be placed on the ballot. Expected to Take Stump Soon. Both Gov. Deneen and former Gov Yates are expected to take the stump within a few days. Gov. Deneen said that,he had not yet decided just when he would resume his speaking cam paign, but probably would determine that in a few days. Plan New Drainage District. A petition will be filed in the county court soon asking for the creation of a new drainage district in the lowlands adjacent to the Sangamon river from Niantic 20 miles west. Attorneys for the executive committee of the peti tioners have been instructed to com­ mence legal proceedings and an nounced their intention of filing a pe tition. Drainage districts along the Sangamon are organizing with great rapidity, and the property owners are almost unanimously in favor of the drainage system. Springfield Man Under Arrest. John C. White of Springfield, for­ merly employed by the Springfield Consolidated Railway company and later as collector for the Central Union Telephone company, was arrest­ ed in Peoria on a charge of forgery. White is alleged to have forged a check for $15 on the Farmers' National bank of Pekin, for the purpose of pur­ chasing a dress for his young bride. Chicago Lawyer Attempts Suicide at Pontlac Hotel. Pontiac.--David Ryder, a lawyer, giving his home as Virginia, 111., at­ tempted suicide here by hanging him self with a four-in-hand necktie. Ryder said he had agreed with his brother in Chicago to go to Dwlght and take the Koeley cure, but before he left they had quarreled and he be­ gan drinking. He remembers no more until he found himself at the* depot In Pontiac. He had taken a room where he could not sleep and became despondent. Flood Problem Solved. Elkhart,--The people in the Lake Fork drainage district are being given a practical demonstration of the ad­ vantages of having a quick outlet for the water from their land. Along the 11 miles of the big ditch already com­ pleted, the water ran quickly off the land, while below there are thousands of acres under water and the work­ men have to get around with hip boots on. Seven miles of the ditch remain to be completed. Arrested for Defrauding Bank. Danville.--Henry Schoenfeldt of Riverside. Ind., was arrested here, charged with defrauding the First Na­ tional bank of Tipton, Ind., of a large sum of money by uttering a fraudu­ lent check. He was taken to Tip­ ton by an officer from that place soon after his arrest. Schoenfeldt is also said to be wanted in various towns in Missouri and southern Illinois for forgery. Glucose Company Bankrupt. Blomington.--R. E. Pratt of Chi­ cago was appointed receiver for the United States Starch and Glucose company by Judge John in the Macon county circuit court. The company has plants near Decatur, 111., and at Lititz, Pa. There is a mortgage of $10,000 upon the plants and the in­ debtedness is said to be about $30,000 CLIMATE IS IDEAL GREAT WEALTH ACQUI GROWING GRAIN. IN Sunday Will Not Preach in Chicago. Decatur.--A committee of six busi­ ness men claiming to represent $100,- 000 came from Chicago to urge Rev. W. A. Sunday to conduct a series of meetings there under the auspices of the Laymen's Evangelistic association. This Mr. Sunday will not do. He does not think he can do the good in Chicago that he can In smaller cities. Anna Asylum Contract Is Let. Anna.--Valentine Jobst & Son, Pe­ oria, were awarded the contract for the construction of the new building at the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane, the contract price being $45,798, the building to be completed in nine months. The building is to be fireproof, of brick and re-enforced concrete. Work will begin at once. Shoot Depot Defender. Streator.--In attempting to prevent two tramps from ransacking em­ ployes' clothing hanging in the Santa Fe depot here, Lincoln Davis, son of E. M. Davis, mayor of Streator, was shot. The robbers escaped with a small" amount of booty. The youth was seriously but probably not fatally wounded. Writing from Saskatoon, Saskatche­ wan, Canada, W. H. Ellwanger, who was .formerly a resident of Green Mountain, Iowa, says: "The climate in summer is ideal for growing grain. Long, clear days of sunshine, no bad storms. We never need to guard against cyclones; I never saw a better climate in my life. We made more money during the season of 1906 than any previous five years in central Iowa--one of the best districts in the state." But Mr. Ellwanger was a resi­ dent of the town, and it might be more interesting to read what a farmerhas to say about Western Canada. TVom hundreds of letters all filled with words of praise, recounting success in Western Canada there has • been one selected. It is as follows: Paynton, Sask., Canada, Dec. 10th, 1907. To Whom This May Concern: I moved to this address February 3, 1907, from Montgomery, Iowa, and took a homestead 35 miles north of Paynton. It was cold when I moved here but it did not stay cold long; it broke up the 8th of February, iand was not so cold after that but the spring was late on account of the heavy snow fall, but in spite of the late spring I saw better grain than I ever saw In the states, raised this year. I helped a man hnish sowing oats the 4th of July and they made fair oats. In a good year oats will go 100 bushels to the acre and wheat 25 to 50; all root crops do well here. I saw turnips weigh 7 and 8 pounds. I raised potatoes this year that measured 11% inches one way and 18% the other in cir­ cumference. This is a fine stock coun­ try; hay in abundance, good water, plenty of fuel, free' and plenty of building material--the government gives us timber to saw into lumber and we can get it sawed for about $6.00 per thousand. All small fruit grows wild here, then there are ducks, geese, grouse, pheasants, deer, moose, elk and flsh in abundance. I was over to Turtle Lake yesterday where there is lots of fishing being done this win­ ter. I saw about a carload of white flsh In one pile. I gave 25 cents for 86 pounds of flsh. What do you think of that, Brother Yankee? I think this is a fine place both to make money and to live. There was an old man up here visiting his brother-in-law. Now this man owns land close to Des Moines, Iowa, and is in good circum­ stances, but he took a homestead and says he will be contented If he can only put in the rest of his days in Canada. He would get up in the morn- and look out of the door and say: "Well, who wouldn't live in Canada?" Now I have been in 13 different states in the United States, and I never saw the chance that there is here for a man that has a little muscle and a little brains. Three cheers for Cana­ da! (Signed.) W. A. SPICE." This is the temperature through November. I took it myself so I know it is right, in the shade: Morning at TEN YEARS OF BACKACHE. ^houMttds of Women Stiffed la ths Same Way. Mrs. Thomas Dunn, 153 Vine St, GQ- Inmbus, Ohio, says: "For more than teflf* years I was in misery with back* ache. The simplest housework complete iy exhausted me.' I had no strength or ambition and suf­ fered headache and dizzy spells. After these years of pain I was despairing of ever being eured when Doan's Kid­ ney Pills came to my notice and their use brought quick relief and a perma- nent cure. I am very grateful." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. A PERFEQT TERROR. "He's a great reformer, isn't he?" "Oh, he's worse than a reformer. His ideas would upset the whole so­ cial and business world. He said II he had his way he'd put in gaol every­ body who ought to be there." EYESIGHT WA8 IN DANGER Prom Terrible Eczema--Baby's Head a Mass of Itching Rash and Sores --Disease Cured by Cuticura. 'Our little girl was two months old when she got a rash on her face and within five days her face and head were all one sore. We used different remedies but it got worse instead of better and we thought she would turn blind and that her ears would fall off. She suffered terribly, and would scratch until the blood came. This went on until she was, five months old, then I had her under our family doc­ tor's care, but she continued to grow worse. He said it was eczema. When she was seven months old I started to use the Cuticura Remedies and in two months our baby was a different girl. You could not see a sign of a sore and she was as fair as a new­ born baby. She has not had a sign of the eczema since. Mrs. H. F Rndk®, LeSueur, Minn., Apr. 15 and May 2, '07."* Date 1 Morning at Sunrise 27 At Sunset 37 Data 16 Morning at Sunrise 28 At Sunset 35 2 36 40 17 12 20 3 26 37 18 12 29 4 29 34 19 20 33 6 27 36 20 12 24 6 80 38 21 18 27 7 12 30 22 16 28 8 28 34 23 15 27 9 17 16 24 18 22 10 2 13 25 8 20 11 5 26 26 32 28 12 28 20 27 20 16 13 7 11 28 8 14 14 21 18 29 18 20 15 20 31 30 18 27 Central Illinois Teachers to Meet. The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Central Illinois Teachers' asso­ ciation will be held Friday and Satur­ day, March 27 and 28, at Quincy. T. M. Kilbride, principal of the Stuart school of this city, is vice-president of the association. Saloon Fight on at Farmersvllle. Farmersville*.--The fight against sa­ loons in this village will be formally opened March 19, when Father E. A. Brodman of Witt will deliver an ad­ dress under the auspices of the Anti- Saloon league. A spirited campaign will be waged by both factions. There are four saloons in the village. New Trustee Is Appointed. Gov. Deneen appointed former Rep­ resentative J. W. Simonson of Port Byron, Rock Island county, a trustee for the Western Asylum for the In­ sane, to take the place made vacant by the death of Frank W. Gould of Moline. Deserter Would Return to Army. After having deserted from Com­ pany I, Sixth United States infantry, nearly six years ago, Peter Peterson called at the Springfield recruiting station and asked for release papers and a chance to re-enlist in the serv­ ice. Acting under instructions from the war department, Lieut. Richmond Smith refused both requests. Peter­ son deserted the colors at Ft. Leaven­ worth in the fall of 1902 and no trace was ever found of him until he called at the army recruiting station. He is not liable to Imprisonment. Pick Expert Corn Judges. Announcement has been made by* the Illinois Corn Growers' association that out of 121 men who took the ex­ amination for expert corn judges in Urbana recently, 57 received certifi­ cates. Among those who were award­ ed diplomas wore: Charles Ladage, Springfield; John Schroder, Loami; Elton Gordley, Mt. Sterling; W. J. Rapp, San Jose; W. C. Young, Fancy Prairie; R. E- Shaw, Fancy Prairie; Elmer Criss, Pittsfield, and H, R. Es- aelman, Havana Smith May 8ucceed Ridgely. Frank L. Smith of Dwlght, collector of internal revenue in the Springfield district, is declared to be slated for comptroller of the currency to suc­ ceed William Barret Ridgely, whose resignation is expected, aB it is de clared he is to become president of the reorganized National Bank of Com­ merce of Kansas City. Gossip has it that the support of Senators Cul lom and Hopkins has been promised to Col. Smith. Lawrence O. Murray is his most formidable opponent. What's a Widower? Is a widower a married or a single man? This question continually crops up and it is continually being answered both ways. Certainly a widower is married--he is not a bachelor. That ie one answer. Certainly, on the other hand, no matter what the man once was, he is single now. That is the other answer. Thus In all match games of single against married men --games of hockey, football, baseball, cricket--the poor widower 1b tossed from one side to the other like a shut tleclock. The solution depends solely upon his skill. Defeat Labor Party Project. Duquoin.--The annual Seventh sub- district convention of United Mine Workers adjourned. A resolution wa? introduced and rejected favoring the organization of another political party to be known as the Labor party. The measupre met with unanimous deuva- ciation. 8ult Against Coal Company Dismissed. Taylorville.--The $5,000 damage suit of John McGramm against the Stonington Coal company was dis­ missed. Leaves $75,000 to Church. Joliet --John D. Shreffler, 91 years old, died, leaving his entire estate of $75,000 to the Plainfleld (111.) Method­ ist Episcopal church, which he organ­ ized 60 years ago. Many relatives are remembered with gifts of furniture and trifles. Pittsfield in New League. Pittsfield.--Pittsfield will be a mem­ ber of a baseball league comprising Barry, Mount Sterling, Hannibal and other cities of western Illinois and eastern Missouri. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of thli paper will be plewed 1e«n» that there least uu« dreaded disease that ictenc« has been able to cure la all Its hUgea, aud that In Catarrh. Hall 's Catarrh Cure U the only positive cure now known to the luedleal fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dlneate, require* a conMltu- tlonal treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cur# li takeu In ternally, action directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby deittroyhitt the foundation of the disease, and nlvlii« the patient strength by building up the constitution and uMlnt- lng nature In doing Its wort. The proprietor* Have •o much faith In Its curative power* Mint, they offer One Hundred Dollar* for any case that It fail* to cur*. Send for lint of testimonial*. Add rest F. J. OUENKV * CO., Tol«4o,d, Sold by all Druggist*, 75c. Take Hall's Fatally Pill* fur oonstlpstiM. Freed of Murder at 73. Springfield.--A Jury acquitted James Roberts, 73 years old, of the charge of murdering his employe, "Franklin Larkin, operator of a sawmill. Larkin was found dead from stabbing No­ vember 18, 1907, half way between this city and Sherman. Old Soldier Is Found Dead. Dixon.--Dennis Connolly, an old sol­ dier, who returned to his home here from the Soldiers' Home at Quincy a few days ago, was found dead in his home by a letter carrier. Papa's Pet. "Fifteen-two and a pair makes four, said Subbubs, who was playing crib- bage with Popley. "What have you In your crib?" "Ah!" replied Popley, absent-mind­ edly, "just the sweetest little ootsums- tootsums girl in the world." In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S F00,T EA®^ A powder. It cures painful, smart lng, nervous feet and ingrowing nalls^ It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all Druggists, 25c_ AcS?P^ °° stitute. Trial package, FREE. Ad dress A. S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y. He who gives pleasure meets with it; kindness is the bond of friendship and the hook of love; he who sows not, reaps not.--Smiles. "Brown's Bronchial Troches'* have a direct influence on the throat, relieving Coughs, Hoarseness and Throat troubles. Free from opiates That only which we have within can we see without. If we meet no gods It is because we harbor none.--Emer­ son. value in Lewis' 5c cigar. Your or Lewis' Factory, Peoria. 111. You always get full Single Binder straight deiuer There is nothing to be gained by being a knocker. The Hottentot Tot. If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot To tot ere the tot could tottery Ought the Hottentot tot To be taught to say "aught" Or "naught," or what ought to be taught her? Or- If to hoot and toot a Hottentot tot Be taught by a Hottentot tooter, Should the tooter get hot if the Hottentot tot Hoot and toot at the Hottentot tutor? --Charles S. Putnam, in The Sunday Mag­ azine. The Irrigation Department, 06 Home Insurance Bldg., Chicago, re- orts that hundreds of applications have ^een received for the public lands men- tioned in the last issue of this paper. To refuse to yield to others when reason or a special cause require it is a mark of pride and stiffness.--Thom­ as a Kempis. Proof is Inexhaustible that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound carries women safely through the Change of Life. Read the letter Mrs. E. Hanso% 804 E. Long St., Columbus, Ohio, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: •' I was passing through the Change of Life, and suffered from nervous­ ness, headaches, and other annoying symptoms. My doctor told me that Lydia E. 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