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0. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Page Twelve. THE DECATUR REVIEW FOUR WABASH CARS DITCHED AT HOMER Switch, Thrown Too Late, 1 Is Cause of Accident. GOULD'S DREAM TRUE Wabash Connected With the Coast by System, 1 Four heavily loaded cars were ditched on the Wabash at Homer about 3.20 p. Wednesday in making a running drop of some cars As a result about sixteen rail-lengths of track was torn up and a considerable delay to traffic resulted.

The Continental limited westbound and the LaFayette accommodation eastbound had to be detoured over the Illinois Central and Big Four via Tolono and Champaign. The accident was caused by the tardiness in throwing a switch under the cars. The train participating in the tiewas eastbound freight train No. 62, Engineer Homer Belding and Conductor Charles Webber. GOULD'S DREAM TRUE.

But Not Through System Likely, tadependent One of George Gould's many dreams bids fair to come true, only in a manner not contemplated by Mr. Gould. It is well known that when Gould acquired the Western Maryland, it was his intention to connect the Wabash and this road 60 as to gain a seaboard outlet for the Wabash. His plan was carried by means of the Wheeling Lake Erie and the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal and the West Side Belt Railroad of Pittsburg, but just as he got these roads into operation and his dream appeared about to be consummated financial difficulties overtook him and his system fell apart, NEW RAILROAD SYSTEM, Now it is planned to form a new independent railroad system, with a total of 1,200 miles, extending from Baltimore to Pittsburg, and including the former Gould lines. It is given out that the only thing that hinders the immediate putting in effect of the plan is the lack of a decision on the part of the supreme court of the United States sustaining the right of rallroads to haul products of enterprises which they own or control.

A supreme court decision to this effect is expected to be handed down shortly. It this new system becomes realaty, the former Gould lines will pass from under the receivership and will form a valuable link for the Wabash, though not part of the Gould system, MANY TREES SHIPPED, Nurseries From all Parts of Middle West Represented, The large number of trees being ship. ped by express has attracted considerable attention lately. In the list is every varlety of fruit tree, together with the usual assortment of shade trees. They 80 to people who are figuring on doing some planting this year.

Nurseries all over the middle west are represented in the list of shippers, The trees are always packed in straw and in their covering have the appearance of narrow straw cone. Wabash Earnings Increase, Wabash earnings for the third week of March show an increase of $42,947 over the corresponding period of 1908. Gross receipts for the week were 204. Since July 1, 1908, the gross receipts have been $18,693,625, a decrease of $586,625 as compared with the corresponding period of the preceding 11s- cal year. Concrete May Solve Problem.

A concrete cross tie that is said by many railroad men to be a probable soIntion of a very important problem In railroad construction has been patented by Charles Israel of Paris, tie 18 to be given a practical test on the Vandalla, near MoKeen, shortly. It is said that these ties can be manufactured for about $3 aplece, that they near out, and that they give more then the old wooden ties. It is also claimed that they can be so manufactured as to absolutely prevent spreadlag rails. Delano's Special Through Decatur, President F. A.

Delano and a party of Wabash officials passed through Decatur, Thursday afternoon, en route from Chicago to Hannibal. The special was handled through here as second No. 15, leaving here for the west at 2.30 p. m. Conductor Ashley and Brakeman Muncie had charge of the train west.

Mr. Delano and his party are going west for the annual inspection of the Wabagh lines. Four days are to be devoted to the Wabash lines west of the Mississippi river. A week is to be devoted to the lines east of the river. The party is to be in Decatur for three or four hours next Tuesday.

Tramp Loses Both Legs. Harvey Hiser, personally conducted tourist, had both legs severed knees at New Haven, on the Peru division, Wednesday morning, by falling beneath the cars. Hiser and his brother were riding freight train No. 83 and when the train stopped at New Haven they got off and hid behind some ties to keep out of the sight of the trainmen. When the train started again they made a rush to get aboard.

The brother got on all right, but Harvey's hand slipped and he fell beneath the wheels. As soon as the train crew learned of the accident the train was stopped and the inJured man dragged from under the wheels. He was put aboard a passenger train and taken to a hospital at Ft. Wayne, The two men rave their homes as Dayton, Obio. Wabash Hospital.

C. Gardner, a machinist helper from Springfield, is at the Wabash hospital for treatment. J. Posch, a Decatur laborer who has been receiving treatment at the local hospital, went home Thursday 64 TRACTION DISPUTE STILL UNSETTLED Union and Company Submit Names to Each Other Without Avail. Lest you forget it, it is in order to remention that the street railway company and the union employes are still engaged in the effort to arbitrate their differences, Dickerson McAfee and Charles Masterson have been, engaged for weeks trying to secure 8 third arbitrator.

They do not seem to be any closer nOw than they were weeks ago, when they started in a second time after Dr. Cass Chenoweth withdrew from the first arbitration. LOOKING FOR THIRD MAN. The difficulty now experienced is to get the third man, Mr Masterson for the employes has turned in twentyeight names; Mr McAfee for the company has suggested twenty-one names and is now engaged in preparing other list The two sides were about to agree on one name submitted over a week ago, Before taking the final step the man was approached in relation to the matter and he told them he could not serve. There is the big difficulty in the matter, the man who is acceptable to both sides usually does not want to get mixed into the affair.

It may take a long time yet to get a third man who will serve A MAN WITH A JOB. 1 1e whole thing has proved something of a trial for Mr. McAfee. He has a good many other matters to look after, In all since January 26 he has and missed being in of Decatur tuts on ten days, one week that during an adjournment of the arbitratien that was then under way. In some fashion he is compelled to try to keep in sight of his other duties.

Those other duties are numerous, For the McKinley interest he is franchise and right of way man, general utility man and general oll4on-the-troubled waters man for both the Illinois Traction system and the Western Railways and Light company. NEEDS A FLYING MACHINE. He keeps up the best he can on all that work nowadays by correspondence, long distance telephone, telegraph and quick trips out of and back to Decatur. He is wishing they would hurry up the perfection of the flying machine, for ag soon as that is done the company will buy one for him, and it will be his own private flying car. However, he does not want one of the til It is made entirely safe not machines unanxious to do any flying here if there are any chances to be taken, he expects to fly throughout all eternity and he does not want to hurry the performance now.

Mr. McAfee Is bearing up well under all the widely scattered and important burdens they have placed on him; he absolutely refuses to lose any flesh. ISSUES CALL FOR STATE GATHERING A. H. Mills Prepares For Sunday School Convention in Peoria.

Mills chairman of the executive committee of the state School association, has issued the Sunday, cial call for the fifty-first annual convention to be held in Peoria May 25, 26 and 27. Each county is entitled to ten delegates, besides the county officers. This convention will complete fifty years of organized Sunday school work in the state and something in the nature of a jubilee will be held to celebrate the golden anniversary. VISITING ALL HOMES. A plan to have all the homes in the state visited in the interest of the churoh and Sunday school was set on foot some time ago and it has had good effect on the Sunday school's increased attendance.

It is to be hoped that the work will be completed before the convention The mens class movement is to be given special attention in the convention. On one day of the convention there is to be a parade of men representing Sunday schools. EXCELL IN CHARGE. 0. Excell, who has had charge of the singing at the conventions for many years, will again have charge of the music.

W. Merrits, of Tacoma, Wash, Joseph Clark and W. C. Pierce are prominent speakers on the pro. gram DEEDS RECORDED.

tract Harry in Shlaudeman to Henry Shlaudeman, block 4, 23, C. 10, of 2 east, and block 5, and lot 4, 10, W. I Lundy to W. Pickle, tract in 2 east, $11,125. 10, S.

Connard to A. J. Waldron, lot 5, block 1, Pythian Home addition, $J25 8, W. Selbert to E. F.

Dunn, lot 17, block Urban Place, $500 Margaret Pyke to Lulu McDonald, lot 12, Emily block F. 1, Simpson's addition, $3,800. Isbell's Isbell to Samuel Overman, lot 2, addition; $400. feet Ada off L. the Zimmerly to Albert C.

Conel, oast end of lot 18, block 4, J. 45 Warren Ca's ninth addition, $667. P. quarter, H. Conard to John Simpson, hair, south southwest quarter, 13, and south southwest half 14, 14, 1 east, $10 000.

block Kleefield to Strohm, lot 3, Frederick 4, Carver's addition, $1. J. E. description, Strohm Ida E. Kleefield, same $2.

half J. lot Rammel block to 11, W. Stonebraker, south Strohm to Ida M. $1 Douglas, 200. tract 13, Maroa; J.

in 10, 16, 2 east, $2. E. Strohm to Mary A. Lilly, tract in 16, 2 east, $2. 10, MARRIED.

CAMPBELL-RICHARDSON. Robert W. Campbell and Laurel B. Richardson, both of Lovington, were married at the residence of the bride's aunt, Mr and Mrs. E.

B. Lunsford, 1024 North Morgan street, at Thursday morning. Rev. A. P.

Cobb officiated The couple went to Chicago on a wedding trip and when they return they will reside la Lovington, where the groom is superintendent of the coal mine Thursday COLLEGE WORKERS MEET AT MILLIKIN Thirty or Forty Y. M. C. A. Presidents to Attend a Conference Here.

Thirty to forty young men, representing nearly every college in Illinois, are expected to arrive in the city this evening and Friday morning to attend the annual Y. M. C. A. college presidents' conference which opens here tonight.

PRESIDENTS EXPECTED. Among those who will be here are: Shurtleff-H. F. Gilbert. Armous Institute-C.

A Carlson. Hedding College-R W. Stocking. Carthage--L R. Little.

MaComb--Lester Smith Monmouth--Robert Quay. Chicago Dental College--Ralph Carpenter, Eastern Illinois Normal--C F. Snapp Northwestern College-A D. Stauffacher, H. H.

Zenner. Bradley Polytechnic- -C. A Atwood Physicians and Surgeons', ChicagoF. Inks. -L.

Birkhead Wheaton--R. Osburn Illinois College, Jacksonville--F. W. A. Colton, Lincoln' College--W.

R. Cremans. nolds. Albion -Albert Walton, Paul Rey. nolds Lake -C Bradfield Chicago Theological- -Luke Stewart.

Illinois Wesleyan--F. Ficker, Stewart. University of Illinois-Wm McKnight, Hall. SIX FROM U. OF I Professor W.

Yerkes of Effingham IS also expected attend. W. Butcher, a student secretary, will also be here from Chicago. The University of Illinois will be represented by six men. The opening session will be held in the M' CA room of the 745 o'clock tonight.

"Dad" university Elliott at will talk on "What This Conference Should Mean to Us" I. Brown, state Y. C. A. secretary, will then talk on "The Aim, the Place and the Work of the Student Association Accommodationg for all the visiting delegates in the way of rooms have been secured The local students have come forward generously in this matter, Millidek Officers Elected.

Chief officers of the 1910 university Millidek were elected at a meeting of the M. U. Junior class Wednesday They are. Editor-in-Chief-Miss Flora Ross. Business Manager--James Wasem.

Both are prominent in the affairs of the school and are expected to hold their new positions with credit. NEW MEMBER IN HOUGHTON CLUB Now Has Two Doctors and Not a Stu- gle Lawyer. Last night at a meeting of the Houghton Lake Fishing club Dr. Cass Chenoweth was taken into full fellowship with the club and took up the single vacant share of stock. The membership is now full With the addition of Dr.

Chenoweth it contains two physicians, Drs Chenoweth and Myers, but there is not a single lawyer on the roster. club main. taing that while the vicinity of Houghton lake fairly teems with bounding health any member is much more likely to break a leg than he is to break a statute and that while the presence of a lawyer on the staff might be some incentive to some member to transgress the law in order to give the legal member something to do, he is not going to take any risk with his neck or limbs out of consideration for the doctor The lumber is now on the ground for the new club house, and it is expected that the work will soon be started HEAR OF GRANDSON'S DEATH IN CHICAGO Dr. and Mra. H.

C. Jones WIll Attend Funeral Friday, Dr Jones this afternoon received word from Chicago that his grandson, Herbert C. Jones, had died there at noon, The child would have been twenty months' old Saturday. He was the son of Mr and Mrs. Lindley Jones.

The baby died in the Ravenswood hospital, where he had fering from appendicitis for two weeks. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon from the residence, 2804 Paulina street. Dr. and Mrs. Jones will attend it MAN'S ASHES SEIZED FOR RENT Remains Are in Box With Keepsakes Stored by Widow, Chicago--After Felix Stahn died at 1015 North Lincoln street his widow had his body cremated.

Lacking a suitable place to keep them in the new abode she took, Mrs. Stahn placed the ashes of the departed husband in a box, together with articles she treasured as keepsakes of him. The box was sent to the storage rooms of W. W. Young, a Kensington expressman.

At the time of the death of Stahn he owed Mrs. Barbara Bark $62.50 for rent of a home at 252 West One Hundred and Sixteenth street, which he and his wife had formerly occupled. But Mrs. Bark did not know of his death, and when she heard that the box had been stored decided it was valuable, a distress warrant and had it secured, Yesterday when Mrs. Bark was in.

formed as to the nature of the contents of the box she almost fainted. Inciden. tally she was glad to relinquish her claims, as, instead of appearing before Municipal Judge Maxwell for trial, the dow and her former landlady settled the case out of court, MARRIAGE LICENSES. Elizabeth Stine, .20 Romanza True, 23 Laurel Robert W. Campbell, B.

Lichardson, Evening, March 2, 1800. RAILROAD GOSSIP. A bridge and building gang is now employed at the roundhouse making minor repairs In the list were repairs to the east wall of the roundhouse where car was shoved through It some months ago, repairs to one of the big doors, damaged, by an engine pilot, and repairs stairs leading to the roundhouse offices, worn out by near ly thirty years of use. Brakeman Shuckrow of the Wabash passenger service reported for service, Thursday, after being off a few days on account of the death of a relative. Brakeman R.

V. Roderick of the Wa. bash, who has been on 1 the sick list for some time, has reported for service, Brakeman 0. J. Pickard of the Wabash is in service again after a short vacation, Fireman Walter Crabtree 10 back on the Taylorville coal runs after a few days of passenger service.

John Knowiton, night roundhouse toreman for the Wabash and his wife and daughter, Miss Hoberta, leave Thursday for Ban Antonio, Texas. Brakeman John Rambo of the Altamont branch passenger service is on the and John Beagle of Decatur, is working in his place. Rumor has It that the Illinois Central 18 to assume control of the Tennessee Central. The has $6,160,000 percent notes due in May, In Wall street reported that bonds are to be issued to retire these notes on their maturity. W.

J. Young, known to many local Illinois Central men, has just been appointed 1m- port and export agent the Illinois Central Mr. Young has been in the Illinole Central service forty-five years. Otto A. Zimmerly, formerly clerk in the office of Superintendent C.

R. Wescott of the Springfield division of the Illinois Central, now in the government employ in Washington, has written to friends that he likes his new work. SCRAPS OF GENERAL RAILROAD NEWS The first through train over the San. ta Fe's new low grade line from Mulvane, to Rio Puerco, N. has just been run.

The Chicago, Milwaukee St Paul, is to expend $500,000 for new passenger equipment, including twenty-five combination baggage and mail cars, fifteen passenger coaches, ten sleeping cars, and five dining cars. Traffic officials of western roads have determined to contest the order of the interstate commerce commission reducing the class freight rates from Ohicago to Denver by amounts ranging from 26 to 6 cents per hundred pounds on the various classes. The Louisville Nashville railroad has planted several thousand catalpa trees along its right of way near Carmi, for use later as tie timber. Representative Esch of Wisconsin has introduced a bill in congress requiring all passenger coaches to have steel frames. The Chicago, Milwaukee Puget Sound railroad is to be completed April 1, 1909, It is 1,400 miles long, extending from Mobridge, S.

to Tacoma, and has been built in three years at a total cost of $85,000,000, a record for rapid railroad construction. WOOD STREET BOYS ORGANIZE BALL TEAM They WIll Play Teams From Other Schools of City, The boys of the seventh grade of the Wood street school have organized a baseball team. Lloyd Beldon has been elected manager, Jacob Greenberg captain and Thad Montgomery treasurer. The boys will play teams from the other ward schools. The nine will be called the Wood street team JUDGE SMITH SPEAKS.

Judge 0. W. Smith gave an interesting address on Delinquent Children" at the meeting of the Warren school mothere Wednesday afternoon Music was furnished by the school pupils. Following the address a short business meeting was held. The next meeting of the club will be held the third Wednesday an April At this meeting arrangements will be made for some kind of an entertainment to be given by the school to raise money.

TEACHERS' PLANS. Miss Mayme Williams of the Warren street school will spend next week's vacation at her home in Racine, Wis. Miss Alice Musick, another of the Warren school teachers, will spend the week at her home in Delavan, Miss Clara Long of the Wood street school will visit her folks in Bradford, Ill, during vacation, From the H. Durfee school, Miss Mary Quatman will go to her home in Altamont, Miss B. Wilma Green will go to Tallula, Miss Della Daton will visit in Springfield and Miss A.

Chand- I ler will go to Macomb. Miss Reba Perkins from the Jackson street school will visit friends in Chicago and Misses Edna Stivers and Lucile Nelson from the Pugh school will also visit in Chicago. ENCAMPMENT HOLDS INSTRUCTION SCHOOL Odd Fellows Confer Three DegreesVisitors Here. Decatur Encampment No. 37, 1.

0. is holding a school of Instruction today. The Initiatory and golden rule degrees were conferred on a number of candidates in the afternoon. Tonight the royal purple degree will be conferred. The Daughters of Rebekah will serve supper in the A.

R. hall at 5:30 o'clock. Charles Brainard of Peoria and Del Baldwin of Mattoon arrived in the morning to attend the meeting, and other visitors will be present tonight. Two carloads of Odd Fellows came from Monticello this afternoon to attend the school. There were about seventy-five in the party.

K. and of S. Box Social. The Knights and Ladies of Security held a box social Wednesday evening In the engineers' hall. A program was given and there were other ments, among them a grab bag Ice cream and cake were served.

The cial was preceded by a meeting of the lodge at which several candidates were Initiated, 4 GOT FOOD SAMPLES IN Two State Inspectors Here Two Days. I FEW VIOLATIONS NOW 7 Everybody Is in Favor of the Law. J. H. Loy and Houser, state pure food inspectors, are In Decatur.

They were day Wednesday and will be here all of today. They are on active duty and in spite of the rain Wedmanaged to inspect a number of groceries. By night they had accumulated a choice collection of souvenirs in the shape of canned and bottled goods of experts in board which will be chorwarded to the board will pass upon these samples and further action will depend upon its conclusions. Prosecutions, of course, may or may not follow. TECHNICAL VIOLATIONS.

There were perhaps a dozen samples gathered up in Decatur. Each sample is or is supposed to be violation the pure food law, but only few of are believed to be Impure or adthem ulterated food. They indicate a fallure to comply with the letter of tho law rather than a disregard for the law. COMPLY WITH LAW. The stores from which they were taken are among the leading downtown groceries Mr Loy, who is one of the oldest of the squad of state Inspectors, and who has inspected Decatur before, says that the grocers in this city show a gratifying disposition to comply with the law and the stores have made a marked improvement since he first inspected them about a year ago.

LABELS WRONG, Some of the samples taken were the highest priced goods of their class in the city. There was no suspicion of their purity but they were not properly labeled The law requires that the label shall bear the name and address of the manufacturer or Jobber. On some of the samples taken the only thing to indicate the manufacture was a trade mark or monogram While this to the dealer may be an emblem of purity it is not the name and address required by the law This was found to be the case with a number of fancy and high priced articles of foreign production. OLIVE OIL SARDINES Several cans of sardines 3 were It was admitted that they ware seized merely on suspicion They wore labeled, "Put up in pure olive oil." If they had been labeled, "Put up in pure cotton seed oil" they would have been given a clean bill of health without question But the olive oil sardine goes to the chemists on general principles and it has been found few of the sardines so marthat very have any olive oil in them Olive oil, 1S in fact, scarce and high and the cotton seed oil may be just as good but pure food law contemplates that the shall be allowed to use his customer own judgrient as to whether it is just as good or not. CONDENSED MILK.

Some condensed milk was seized. The question of purity was not raised in this case but it was a question of standard. In 'other words, it was a question of whether the milk was sufficiently condensed The law requires that condensed milk shall have a certain per cent of butter fat. This brand was a new one on this market and the can was a suspiciously large one for the money. NO FLAGRANT VIOLATION There was not in the entire lot a of suspected flagrant case adulteration except the sardines, in which it was that the packers may have thought been a little lax In their use of the word "olive" These sardines are mostly packed abroad and the packers not have heard of the may language requirements on food labels In Illinois But they will hear of them and some of them have already done 80.

A good many sardines are now found packed in cotton seed oll and the label says SO NOT SEIZED "Seized" is hardly the right word to use in connection with the samples taken by the inspectors, They simply buy them from the dealer at the regular retail price It is not meant to work any hardship on the dealer and generally he is found ready enough to assist the inspector, Two samples of each questionable article are selected Both of them are sealed with the pure food commission's label, which is signed by the inspectors and by the dealer and further shows the date and location of the dealer. One of these is taken by the inspector and the other is left with the dealer The latter is Intended as a protection the dealer who may want to have the sample inspected by a chemist of his own selection and use it for evidence in court or with the jobber or manufacturer ABUSES CORRECTED. Mr. Loy says that a good many rank abuses have been corrected by the pure food act the beginning many adulterations were to be found, but these have almost entirely disappeared There Is the item of maple sugar, which has been completely reformed Formerly all maple sugar was labeled "pure maple sugar." Now most of it is labeled maple and cane sugar, which of course it was before One Indiana wholesaler whose territory extends into eastern Illinois died hard on the maple sugar proposition His brand was labeled "Vermont maple sugar." This was found to be blended with cane sugar and of course would not pass muster Then he marked it "Vermont style maple sugar," but this did not change the ingredients. Now 1 he marks it "maple and cane sugar." SIZE OF TYPE.

violation of the law was 1 in Another the type in which the label was printed. In the matter of maple sugar the manufacturer's label might show in large capitals, MAPLE SUGAR 10 PER CENT. Under it in letters of microscopic size would appear another line, Cane Sugar 90 Per Cent. little The perpetrators of this evasion were quickly Ingenious caught up promptly hauled over the coals. Nothing more of that kind is now to be seen.

NOT THE WORST. But these were not the worst sort of adulterations. Foods of some kinds were adulterated with things which were not foods at all, with ground oyster shells, with the ground pits of certain fruits and again with things which positively deleterlous. commission has been The comparatively gentle in the matter of labels, striving to educate rather than to punish severely, but adulterations of the last mentioned kind were punished vigorously and severely, ALL FAVOR THE LAW pure food law, says Mr. The Loy, is one law everybody is in favor of -the public, the dealers and in most cases the manufacturers.

Most manufacturers prefer putting out a pure article rather than an adulterated one and do not object to labeling it just it is so long a as what everybody else is on the game basis Of course, no honest manufacturer wants to put out an article that is unwholesome or deleterious, and food products of this class the law will drive from the market absolutely. PEOPLE CARELESS It has been found that the people do generally are not careful buyers They not read the labels Maybe that they have been educated to the notion that the label did not afford much clue to the contents of the package, anyway, and that it was not worth while to read it But labels on foods in Illinois have come to mean something and they are worth reading 'many buyers, too, are disposed to select the biggest package that they can get for their money. They do not consider, for instance, that a can of condensed milk may contain legs milk than another of two-thirds the size, and that the extra bulk may made up of water The matter of dairy products is one that the commission is looking after most sharply. This has been the longgest, hardest fight of all and the war is still on. Scraps of News GET MANY GEESE.

The Powers brothers have made two or three trips their preserves on the Illinois river th'3 spring They have gone after geese each time and were very successful There are plenty of ducks there, but they did not pay any attention to them. FATHER NEAR DEATH. Mrs. Chester A. Smith received a telegram Wednesday night from Ithsaying that her father, A B.

Wood, was not expected to live Mrs. Smith left Wednesday night for Ithaca. INFANT HAS PNEUMONIA. The infant of James Trimby, west of the city, Is dangerously ill with pneumonia, SECOND OPERATION. James Logan of the Gebhart dry goods store underwent an operation at St.

Mary's hospital Thursday morning This is the second operation in the past month. CARNATION CLUB. The Carnation club of the Peter's A. M. church will give an entertainment in the church Thursday night for the benefit of the trustees, HOME APRIL 1.

C. Hurst, who has been in the cast buying goods for the Morehouse Wells company, will arrive home about April 1, DRUNK RECORD. One drunk was arrested by the police Wednesday night, making a total of 319 since midnight May 7, as compared with 810 during the same period of 1907-8. VISITOR. Mrs A Joncs of Clinton spent Wednesday with Mrs James Williams, 1028 Last William street BANK CLEARINGS Bank clearings for the week ending Thursday, March 25, were $358,656 51.

For last week they were $428,046 43, and for this week last year they were $377,760 25. SHERIFF'S BIRTHDAY. B. 0. McGorray, sheriff of Macon is 51 years old today county, IMBODEN 58 Imboden, the veteran Decatur atock raiser, known all over the country, is 53 years old today.

GIRLS WILL BE SENT TO GENEVA SCHOOL. Viola and Carrie Young in Mischief Again, Viola and Carrie Young or Sheldon, two young girls recently in the county court for running the streets too much, are now to feel the weight of the law. The truant officers and one or two others who have interested themselves in the case will ask Judge Smith to send the girls to the Geneva school, The girls came under the court's eye this time because of the discovery that two young boys living in their neighborhood were out of school on their count. One of the boys is 11 and the other 14: The girls are slightly older. The girls' mother is a widow, Mrs.

Anna Young Her plea secured the lease of the girls in their former difficulty. MEETINGS. dies Decatur Lodge No 3034, Knights and Laevening, of Honor March -Regular meeting Thursday 25, 1000, In Red Men's hall Order of the White Cross-Regular meeting 0. of Decatur Council No 35, this evening In 7 I. 0 hall, over Horrall's drug store at 30 Installation of officers and refreshmenta.

K. of P. 30-Full attendance is tonight. expected Full in Coeur uniform de and Leon ball at 7:15 sharp rank of knight. side arma, Work in 4 LETTER TELLS OF MA.

STRAIN'S END Last Days Peaceful and Contented in California Town. The following letter came today from the Rev. J. Campbell, pastor of the Congregational church in Sierra Madre, Cal Rev. Robert W.

Sir and Brother. Dr. Loba of Pasadena told me today of your kind Inquiries regarding Horace L. Strain, a former pastor of the Decatur church. of his death this morning you have doubtless been apprised.

Let me add a word or two about these last days. In quite a providential way I met him the very day he came to California and I have been with him a good deal since then. I knew him as a boy and watched his development with great delight. His religion was of the highest type, sweet and natural, a part of himself. He said to his nurse the night before he passed out and up: "The question of my relation to I settled, definitely years ago Christ and since have always walted for indications of His will to know what to do" SATISFIED WITH CHANGE.

Two weeks ago he was taken at his own urgent request from the hospital at Pasadena to this beautiful foot hill town With the change he was premely satisfied As he lay on his bed in his tent house he could see Mt. Wilson to thee north and San Gabriel valley to south One day he said to me, "This is heaven" It was surely heaven's ante-chamber. On Tuesday last his physician told us that he was going down like snow bank in the spring "I would give my right hand to save the noble tellow," he added, "but it can't be done." LITTLE DISCOMFORT. He continued cheery and optimistic to the last. He had very little, pain or discomfort and died almost without a struggle We had some close communings although nothing was said directly about his going--it was implied in all that was said.

I happened to repeat to him a little couplet that floated through my mind three years ago when I lay sick. It was: "His love enfolds His power upholds me." And these words were on his lips as his spirit passed to the eternal home. What a brave little woman his wife has proved herself to be! She has given him herself as such women do. The burden laid upon her. It was heavy one, but that she will bear it sweetly I have no doubt.

The funeral will in all probability be held at Pasadena on Thursday morning and Mrs Strain will get to Galesburg with the body on Sunday morning next I thought his Decatur friends might wish to get these few lines which I have written hastily at the close of the evening service. Sincerely yours, March 21. JAMES M. CAMPBELL. DEATHS.

-4 GROOVER. The Infant child of Mr. and Mrs Guy Groover died at 7.30 Thursday morning at the family residence, 1035 North Water street, aged four days The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning from the residence. Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery. Coroner Buxton an inquest over the body this afternoon.

The jury's verdict ascribed the death to asphyxiation. It was the opinion that the child had smothered in a spasm. Mechanicshurg Death, J. Wesley Veatch, a prominent restdent of Mechanicsburg, dropped dead very suddenly Wednesday morning while on his way to the postoffice at that place, the cause of death being heart trouble. LIBRARY BILL UP NEXT WEEK Mrs.

George Bacon and Mrs. Alice Evans were in Spriggfield Wednesday in the Interest of a state library commission. Though nothing much is being done on account of the deadlock they think they will get their bill introduced into the house next week. Senator Douglas W. Helm will introduce the bill and will keep Mrs.

Bacon informed as to what is being done with Bacon and Mrs. Evans also saw Superintendent Blair and he spoke very encouragingly of the bill. The prospects for its passage are aging. PHILO. Walter Lowry went to Champaign on bust.

ness Wednesday Herbert Trost is clerking for Hogan and Cain during the absence of Frank Cain who tore the ligament loose in his knee while jumping recently, DEMOCRATIC TICKET. The Philo Democrats met and nominated tho following ticket: Supervisor -Mike Lowry, Town clerk-T. A. Penman. Assessor--William Moran.

Collector--Joseph Perry. Justice of peace-W. H. Reibey, Constable -Harry Mast. Highway -Carl Odebrecht.

School trustee--Jake Plotner. REPUBLICANS ALSO The Republicans met shortly after the ticket: Democrats and nominated the following Supervisor--Isaac Brewer. Town -L. E. Hazen.

Assessor-David Reed. Collector--J. S. Woodcock. Justice of peace--Hugo Neman.

Constable--Jesso Edwards Highway commissioner--James Adama School trustee--Albert Odebrecht. GOODS SOLD FOR DEBT. Thomas Ennie sold the goods which belonged to WIll Green, who was arrested for stealing, res-ntly, last Friday. The sale amounted to $46, of which $25 will cover the debt and leaves Green the balance. Mias Maude Telters of Tuscola, Is visiting John Grothe and family, Charles Lowry and Dave Gadfrey went to Champaign last Sunday evening, WRITE GODSELL.

John Godsell is kept busy looking after the interests of his ball team. Any team wishing games can have them by writing to Godsell, Dan Cahill was in Champaign last week. lost over Record-Herald "Yes, sir, I once Chicago "Whew! $80,000 in less than two weeks." do it?" That was going some. How did you "By not buying 10,000 shares of a certais stock that went up $8 a share without single setback." 64.