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Louis Semi-weekly Kojiublic Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean t. Louis Wooklv Glohe-Dunioci'iil New York Weekly Tribune Cosmopolitan v'ubnthlv) JANUARY 21,1903. 1 75 1 75 I 50 1 75 Announcements. Circuit Judge. It.

McKLVAIN announces himself as a nuulidato for the ofllce of Ctiicurr JL'DOK, subject to the choice of the Re publicans of the llr.it judicial circuit. Some Verseless Verse. They've iriiide a wireless telegraph, A horseless carriage, too, And there's no way of tolling what The mind of man can do. We'll soon be outing honloss eggs, And drinking cowles's milk, And wearing clothes of sheeples.i wool, Or, mayhap, wormless silk, How would you like a treeless pouch, Or a piece of hoglesH pork 1 I'd bo content if they'd invent A kind of work-loss work! They'll yet make wireless telephones, Or, maybe, noiMclesanoi.se, And I'm afraid if they keep on They'll yetjnakc clndloss boys! News, NEEDED SCHOOL MEASURES. Proposed Changes in School Laws.

OKFICK OF Co. Supr. SCHOOLS, 1 January 0,1903 EIJITOK FKEK PUES.S: In 1903 the Illinois State Teachers' Association appointed a legislative of twenty-live, one mem- Mwr ii" om each oon Tessional district, the general discussion among threc ed chan in our school law'. Fi rs measure providing lor an annual appropriation from the state treasury of for public schools. meagre providing foi 1 free ami free school supplies the measure is adopted by 'local boards.

measure providing' for free transportation of pupils in districts of over four square miles wherever such measure is adopted by vote of the people. In order to enlist public support the Committee decided to distribute to county superintendents petitions for these various measures to be signed by teachers, separate petitions to be signed by voters. A fe days ago I received a package of these petitions winch have been placed with all school principles and city superintendents of the county, and those wishing to sign such petitions will find them with those persons, also they may be found in my office until January 25th. It is desirable that all petitions be returned to the State superintendent of public instruction no later than February 1st. Very respectfully, EMMA M.

BUYAN, Co. Supt. of Schools. Representative Charles Luke of this district was accorded the honorof placing Congressman J. R.

Williams in nomination for United States senator in the Democratic caucus at Spring- Held last week. Judge Martin W. Shaefer of Belleville has tendered his resignation as circuit judge to take effect about March 1. Gov, Yates will appoint his successor for the few months of the imexpired term. The spirit of speculation has infected the country; farm lands in the west have been bid up by purchasers with borrowed money; too many town lots and new sky scrapers everywhere held at high prices are mortgaged by nominal owners looking for continued prosperity advancing values to "win out" and too many persona are living beyond their means in the expecta- tio'n that their income will catch up later.

In short, there has been too much borrowing and credit is so seriously inflated that a shock of any kind which would cause a sudden demand for the redemption of these credits might have unfortunate consequences. of Pans Mustered Out. Mt. Vornon News: Company of the Fourth regiment, I. N.

of Paris has been mustered out of the service, and if reports are true it was an act of dirty political vindictiveness that ought to cause a blush of shame upon the face of any half way decent politician. The company has been organized for 25 years and has furnished some of the best military men in the State. It did service in the Cuban war and some of its members served in the Philippines. Waterloo Republican: Col. W.

R. Morrison, while still very ill, has had more rest, and is progressing somewhat. Dr. Bryson was called in consultation with Dr. Sennotfc last Friday, and a surgical operation is recommended.

The Colonel is suffering with prostatitis. Cairo Argus: Capt, J. Baker, U. A.j son of the late Judge David Bakev, has been promoted" id Colonel and ordered to special duty in the Pilillippiues. The Colonel was' born and raised in Cairo, and Cairo5te3 will naturally be pleased to learn of his merited promotion.

Anna Democrat: It has been, currently rumored that the appointment of a postmaster in Anna has been deferred for political reasons until after the judicial election next June. So the dozen or more applicants will have to possess their souls with patience for a while longer. Charleston Plaindealer: Will Vastine, a brakeman on the west end local, was taken suddenly ill yesterday at his room at the home of J. R. Corder on South Twenty-first street.

His condition is considered dangerous and his mother, who lives at Carbondale, has been telegraphed for. Centra-lia Sentinel: Percy Condit left last week for El Paso, where he goes in tho hope of recovering his impaired health. He is suffering with a throat affection and hopes to find speedy and permanent recovery in the balmy clime of the south-west. Mrs. Condit and the baby will remain here for the present.

Independent: Robert Winnings of CartervJlle was quite seriously bruised while at work Sunday afternoon in Sam Brush's coal mine atDewmaine. He was caught beneath falling slate. It was first thought he was fatally 'hurt, but when examined the wounds were found not to be serious. He is a son of James Winnings of Carterville. 'A statement is going the rounds of our exchanges that an effort is being made to get a bill through the legislature redistricting the judicial circuits in the State and to make the change operative in the coming judicial election in June.

It is stated that if this is done, this district the first, will remain as it is now with the addition of Franklin and Randolph counties. After two days spent in wrangling before Judge Dwight at Salem last week, the last of the cases against OrraF. Havill for embezzling funds from the Southern Illinois penitentiary at Chester, were thrown out of court. The basis for this action was the technicality that the defendant had already been tried once on the same charge. This will likely end the matter for good.

The Season for Coughs, Colds and Lung Troubles- Is now here and we can recommend OUR SPECIAL White Pine and as a safe and effective remedy for i these troubles. For pain in the Chest Side or Back use our Belladona and Capsicicum Plasters For Grip, Hoarseness or Sore Lungs try our Rock, Lemon, Glycerine and ALL THE POPULAR COUGH REMEDIES IN STOCK AT I A Bunch of Hits. Prom Our Exchanges. B. Patten Son The discharge of every duty to-day increases the opportunities of tomorrow.

Instead of going to The Hague with his troubles Castro is likely to carry them to the If the Monroe doctrine gets out of this scrape without serious injury, we may expect it to appear on the lecture platform. It seems that Great Britain has more money to spend for vain show in India than she has to spend for food to feed starving Indians. Mr. Edison, the great inveotor, is now working on the problem of getting 1 electricity from coal. How to get the coal is a much weightier problem at this writing.

The difference between a labor union and a corporation has been distinctly defined by an Ohio court which has decided that a union has no right to ruin a man's business by illegal methods. A contemporaiy bewails the fact that Bret Harfce left an estate of less than But Bret Harte left something Chat all the wealth of Standard Oil and "mergers" cannot honored name. If; has been decided that cigars, breakfast foods and mixed drinks can not be named alter the president. This will go a long ways toward making the masses more content with a Republican form of government. A good many million people who feel that they have been working for J.

Pierpont Morgan a long time will doubtless feel disappointed if they fail to participate in the reported division of his annual profits among his employees. The dispatches inform us that Mr. Morgan "made $42,000,000 Jaafc year." The man who declared that "language was given us to conceal our thoughts" gave utterance to an axiom. Mr. Morgan made nothing last year; he merely absorbed that other men made.

If agriculture is without opportunity' to pile up wealth it has its compensations for the loss. The life of the farmer may be one of toil, of patient endurance, of comparative isolation from his fellow man, but it is one of the greatest independence. The man between the plow handles is the freest man on earth. Congressman Crumpacker (Republican) of Indiana says: "I am not now in favor of paying one for the construction of ships. The principle is wrong.

We have no right to create a fund by taking money from the farmers and from those engaged in manufacturing and other industries by levying taxes upon them and putting it into the pockets of the The monstrous greed for the trusts, of which Rockefeller is at present the chief personal exponent, would be more tolerable if this insatiable "capitalist" were not continuously posing as a philanthropist and a truly good man; if he were not, by his contributions, demoralizing men and moral standards; if he were not degrading religion and education by his tainted offerings and if he were not so generally accepted by the recipients of his guerdons at his own estimation of himself. Dispatches from Dehl read more like a scene from the Arabian Nights than one of sober twentieth century happening. It was a great day in the history of the British occupation of India, but behind the glittering pageant might have been seen the dread skeleton of famine, and beneath the tramp of marching feet might have been heard the muffled rage of a mighty nation which now bowed in servitude to the foreign lords whom, ostensibly, they delight to love and serve, will some day seize the opportunity to repeat the horrid scenes in 1857 The tariff on coal protects nobody outside of the coal trust. It does nob protect any one single wage earner in an anthracite mine or in a bituminous mine. It merely enables multimillionaire coal mine owners to wring somewhat larger profits out of the shivering misery of the public.

The tariff on beef protects no farmer, no cowboy, no man who with his hands does the work of a It protects half a dozen enormously rich and closely combined monopolies in Chicago and Kansas City and that is all. It protects them by leaving unprotected to their rapacity all the men, women and children in the United States who eat beef, or who would if they could afford to pay for it at the artificially enhanced trust prices. It takes more than 9 per cent to do business these days. Anyway we are going to run a 9 sale for 9 days commencing at 9 a. m.

Jan 29. Bercher Hammet. PBRftOMAL. Elder -H. G.

Bennett was in Ava Tuesday. A. McCormick was a passenger to Newton Monday. John T. Galbraith is a Springfield visitor this week.

Miss Millie Hodge visited friends in Murphysboro Friday. Prof. 13. L. Blake of Grand Tower was in the city Saturday.

H. Ashley, of was in the city Sunday. Miss Nellie London visited Miss Nettie Binkley of Marion last week. Mrs. F.

F. Scheutte returned Saturday from a ten day's visit at Pa-na and St. Louis, Joseph Shipley, of Buncombe, is visiting Mr, and Mrs. T. B.

Stewart this week. Mrs. Bert Atkins of East St. Louis is visiting her brother, Claude Dixon, and family. Miss Gertrude Kirkham went to Anna Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs.

Dr. Willarcl. Misses Helen and Fannie Hill, of Murphysboro attended the "Christian" Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs, D.

S. Bailey of Rantoul spent Sunday in the city with Mr. and Mrs. 0, F. Bailey.

George F. Ort, of Cairo, spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs, C. W. Smith, at the New Hundley. Mr.

A. S. Johnson returned Wednesday from a ten days' visit with friends at Paragould, Arkansas. Mrs. Chas.

W. Little and daughter- returned Saturday evening from a visit with friends at Kinmundy. Mr. and Mrs. G.

R. Huffman spent Sunday in Murphysboro, guests of the former's brother, Stewart Huffman. Mr. and Mrs. W.

P. Slack were in Anna Sunday to see Mr. Slack's mother, who in very poor health. Dr. and Mrs.

J. C. Etherton of Murphysboro spent Sunday the city with his mother, Mrs. Helen Ethui- ton. Mrs.

W. H. Phillips and daughters, Mrs. Daniels, -and Mrs. Lewis visited Mrs.

W. R. Ledbetter of Murphysboro Monday. County Judge WiUard F. Ellis expects to attend the state meeting of County Judges at Springfield next Wednesday.

Mrs. Harrison Brewster, of East St. Louis arrived Saturday evening because of the illness of her mother, Mrs. Walker. Ed Earth returned last week from Columbus, Ohio, and will remain until about March 1, when he begins his regular spring trip.

Mrs. Hiram H. Hall and grandson of Chicago arrived-in the city Saturday to visit her husband, H. H. Hall, and daughter, Mrs.

A. H. Rogers. Train Dispatcher J. H.

Johnson and family left the city Tuesday for St. Louis, where they will remain, Mr. Johnson being succeeded as a dispatcher here by a Mr. Knapp. Mrs.

and Mrs. H. H. Bercher and daughter returned Wednesday night from their visit at Tuscola and other points'in fcne -'northern part nf State. They report snow a foot deep at Tui- cola.

In a letter received last week, James M. Evans of Joplin, states that lie expects to visit Carbondale in the near future on his way home from a business trip to Chicago and Grand Rapids. A party of St. Louis lumbermen with their families passed through this city Sunday afternoon enroute to New Orleans. They occupied the private car of the 2nd vice-president of the Cotton Belt.

Prof, and Mrs. Troy Felts were in Murphysboro Monday evening to attend a celebration of the tenth wedding anniversary of Dr. and Mrs. J. C.

Van Orman. Mrs. Van Orman is a daughter of Tom Logan and was a school day friend of Mrs. Felts. Mrs.

Ransom Youngblood and daughter, Carmen, returned to their home in Salem, Thursday, the latter having recovered somewhat from her recent illness. Judge Youngblood received word Monday they had reached home in good shape. Library Association. The annual election of officers of the Library Association will be held in the library room, Monday afternoon, January 26 at two o'clock. Excellent dramas-elaborate costumes from Sb.

class drills at opera house January 23. Chicken Pie Dinner. The ladies of the Baptist church will serve a chicken pie dinner, Thursday of this week at the church. Dinner, 25 cents. $1.50 the pair Men's Satin Calf, lace or congress Shoes.

Plain or cap toes. $3.00 the pair Men's Vici and Box Calf Shoes, lace, cap toe, leather lined if you want them. $2.50 the pair Men's Vici. Box Calf Velour Calf Shoes made- up on all shapes. $3.50 the pair Men's Vici.

Box Calf, Yelour Calf and Enamel Call Shoes with or without Calf linings. $4, $5 the Men's Shoes of every style and description. Positively the best Shoes for the money made by any manufacturer. Unconditional guarantee given with every pair sold. We will do our part towards making 1903 a prosperous year for you.

THE LEADER'S SHOE STORE At Earth's Old Stand. Each succeeding- year has brought us increased business, and this demonstrates the fact that patrons find our store a satisfactory- place to trade. Our motto has always been Good Goods at Right Prices A long experience in the grocery trade enables us to select the dependable brands in all lines Canned Goods, Goffee, Tea and in fact everything needed for the table. Everything the market affords in seasonable and Vegetables. We are especially proud of our which are delivered fresh from the ovens daily.

Telephone your orders to SHEbTON'S 'or- GROCERY and BAKERY We Want Your Trade. Why So? Because it will pay you to trade with us. Why So? Because we can furnish you with almost anything in the Furniture line, that you may need and at prices Your tronagewill be fully appreciated while we guarantee satisfaction in quality, style and price on every sale. astonishingly low. Will you call us by 'phone? Drop us a line? Call on us? Or, shall, we call on you? Bryden Furniture Go.Jj N.

and Embalming a specialty. Calls attended to at any time, day or night. 'Phone numbers, store 53: residence 97. J. C.

BRYDEN, Licensed Embalmer..