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SUN DAY MORNING PAGES 9-16 PART 2 ATUB A2LB F5 TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SUNDAY, WAY 1, 1904 -SIXTEEN PAGES NO. 234. Beautifying Backyards. New Faces In the City Council. Willskey Jn the Fifth, and Goodmiiler in the Sixth, the Only Ones Having a Contest Peake of the Fourth the Father of the Council.

members from that district have been ready to swear that they had made no mistakes and that they had done just exactly the thing that most pleased their constituents, they have been surprised to learn that they -were no longer in favor. It does hot necessarily follow that the member, was recreant to his trust, but it does' show that the Third ward contingent is difficult to pieace. The effort that Alderman Mcintosh had before him when he made the race for the nomination is not a circumstance to the task that he has in trying to keep solid with the men who gave hint, the place on the republican ticket. Harvard's Gardener Explains Principles which Amateurs May Make Their Gardens Bloom. Every Man His Own Landscape Architect.

democratic ticket; for Goodmiiler was elected. That is why some of the Sixtn ward men are They remember how the job worked against Weiss and Dick and say Schlem was unwittingly handed a gold brick. Leaving the question of politics out of consideration and with no disparagement of Schlem, it is not likely that the people of the Sixth ward will suffer any by reason of their choice. Charles Goodmiiler is an industrious young man of good character and is popular in the Sixth ward. When a boy he went to work in the planing mill of tne Mills Lumber company.

He has now been there for fifteen years and is in charge of the first floor of the mill. His record there is to his credit and judging from that it is safe to say that he is a trustworthy young man. The only real r-onteiits Jn the alder-manic elections Tuesday of last week amateur's garden may be planted either, politicians there to the square inch than there is in either the Fifth or the Sixth and that is saying a great deal. The third is likewise fickle. More times than once when council were in the Flfth-and Sixth wards.

While the full strength of these "ward-wan not polled the vote was heavy at v. compared with that cast in the othei wards. In the Fifth there was a three-cor-- Tiered fight The man who had been Belected as the victim waa the success-. ful one. oT the chagrin of the plotters Ijouis Willskey, the democratic nominee, was elected.

mi tiful purples and blues, with red veins and green-tinted keel: the scarlet Lychnis, on catchfly; primroses and cowslips; the brilliant poppies, peonies, and irises in particular the German iris, which will flourish almost anywhere, and- the Irish laebigata, a Japanese importation that is a particularly fine plant for the late summer, and which requires more water than the Tehtonic kind needs. When profosion of color is desired there are always the geranium san-guinea, which creates good masses of red. and, in June, the Baptisla austra-lis, which bears fine racemes of blue. Of the compositae two excellent specimens are the Erigeron speclosus, otherwise known as the fleabane, with its great blooms of violet purple measuring two inches or more across the top and the Aster alpinus, the blue daisy of the early summer. Hardy perennials that is, flowers which come up year 'after" year are especially for city backyards, because they can be grown in artifioial rock gardens or in the rough soil that is usually found in such places.

The large-growing perennials are also very' useful for producing a sub-tropical effect. For the latter purpose the suburbanite should especially consider the sunflower; the various Silphiums" embracing the compass plant, the cup plant and parairie dock; brownish Boconias; 'the Arundo donax, with its long, slender leaves; spinkard and other varieties of Aralia; the Rheums, a kind which we regard as better adorning a pie-plate than floater garden when we think of common but which has numerous other varieties effective for ornamentation; the stately, gracely Centaurea with its silvery leaves; blue or white Eryngiums, and the blue Echinops, belonging to. the end of summer. For lawn beds there are numerous hardy and half-hardy perennials that are attractive. In early spring one may consider Siline pendula and forget-me-nots; the phloxes and the Stellaria hol-ostea a dainty, star-like white blossom.

Then, while the summer is still young, the dwarf Veronicas come in, followed by the peonies and irises. For the late season there is a long list in which many old-time favorites appear. One must include here the pale blue-monkshead, the delicate anemone; the Helenium which puts forth its many-petalled yellow blossoms, the New England asters; black-eyed Susans; noble stone-crop, which puts forth its thick injate. summer -and early autnmn, in colors ranging from a rosy fleshrtlnt through carmine to shades of deep purple; the day-lillies and the orange yeilow sundrops. And to such a list, the suburbanite must add in large letters the glorious foxgloves and hollyhocks.

About' the borders of flower beds the wise amateur will set out bulbous plants; Alliummoly, a brilliant old-time flower of the early summer; the de-. varieties of crocus, snowdrops, hyacinths and lillles; the many species of narcissus; meadow saffron, dainty Erythroniums, including the dog-tooth; VbotauHfiil onHn? flrtWAi-inpr Kmiilla sanrl W. T. PEAKE. In Consecutive Years of Service, the Oldest Member of the City Council John W.

Brant, the new member from the First ward; had no opposition in seeking the nomination and practically none in making the race for elec-. tion. That condition was unusual in the First for often the contest is foi the republican nomination. The heavy JOHN W. BRANT.1 First Ward.

republican majority there assures the election of the man on that ticket ana while the contest between the republican and the 'democrat attracts little attention, the scramble for the republi can nomination is often a hard one. Alderman Brant is an engineer in the passenger service of the Wabash and has lived in Decatur lor many years. BEST WAY TO PLANT TREES. Certain Rules Should Be Followed Gen erally Unknown to Novice. According to a veteran nurseryman, "planting trees'" and "setting them out" are generally understood to mean the same thing, but there is a difference.

The expert knows there certain rules that govern the life of a. newly planted tree. The novice doesn't know and he simply sets the tree in a hole, shovels in the dirt and trusts to luck and Providence, to do the rest. In set ting out trees the holes should be dug large enough to spread the roots out in their natural positions. If the soil or the subsoil is clayly, sandy or poor, some good- soil should be thrown into the hole five or ix inches deep, at least on which the tree roots should be placed.

Then shovel on a little fine dirt at a time, gently working the tree up and down, so as to sift it well among the small, roots. As soon as the roots are covered pack the earth with the feet, being careful not to bruise the bark of- the tree. Do not set the tree any deeper in the ground than it was before. Before planting take a sharp knife and cut off sill bruised or broken root extremities. The tree should also be trimmed it is termed, "cut back" that is, the long branches should be shortened a foot or more, according to their growth.

Pile up the earth around the, tree'-a. Jitle higher than the sur rounding surface. Do not do this in conical shape, but level it off, otherwise the rains will run off and the newly planted tree will not receive sufficient moisture. After a while the earth will settle even with the surface. Never put on so little dirt that there will be depressions around the tree trunks to gather and hold water.

In the coun try the aim, is as far as possible, to set out trees whose products will be valu able, such as fruit and nut trees. Such trees are attractive in foliage and thus possess both beauty and utility. They are far greater value than trees which are prized only for their handsome ap pearance. i In the spring the average householder's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of gardening. True he may not be able to do very much at it.

The means at hand are perhaps exceedingly limited. The back yard which the whole family forsees beautified beyond the wildest dreams is perhaps only ten by 15 feet-Its supply of soil may be poor and scanty. Probably neither the man nor his wife was properly trained in youth by study of books on "How to Tell the Wild Flowers from the Minerals and similar treatises which are nowadays so popular. Both may even be ignorant of the subject matter of Brid- gett Wigrs monumental work on 'Queer Bugs I Have Saw in My Cab bage Patch," and, -quite likely, neither of them has ever experienced the delight of taking the Kneipp cure across the neighbors lawns on a dewy May morning. whether behind the times, up with them or a decade or two in advance of them, even the most conventional American man and wife find themselves longing in the early spring to become landscape architects on a small scale.

And there's no reason why they shouldn't become such so," at least, Robert Cameron, the head gardener of the Harvard Botanic Gardens, says, Mr. Cameron has been many years conducting the practical work in this notable department of the university on a fine old estate owned by Harvard, and has been raising more plants and shrubs than most people ever saw. -He believes thoroughly in the bak yard beautified behind the house beautiful. A few of the very rich in this country are able to engage landscape architects to make their estates worthy of being written Alp with gorgeous illustrations in the magazines. Mr.

Cameron finds, however, that there are a few simple principles which, if followed consistent ly, will enable- anybody who- is willing to take a little pains in the adornment of his place to get favorable results; and this spring, he holds, is the right time to begin. Let the suburbanite business man, he thinks, remember the maxim which ha sticks over his office boy's desk and "Do It Now." "The smallest lot of land attached to a house," says Mr. Cameron, "may if given thought and consideration. be made into a landscape picture. The great trouble with most owners of small lots of ground is that they do not understand how to plant In order to get the most pleasing effects.

The area is usually covered all over with trees and shrubs and hence the work is meaningless. "In making up his landscape, picture the amateur artist must have a canvas to work upon. The canvas in this case is the green lawn. The lawn is the first requisite, and it should ordinarily pre sent a little unbroken stretch in the center of the The beds and borders should be thoroughly prepared before planting begins. If the soil is poor or lacking humus, a liberal quantity of well rotted barnyard manure should be worked into it.

"The plantations of trees and shrubs, should be confined to the outer edges and margins of the lot; and, as a general rule, all shrubbery should be in irregular masses. The eye is not pleased with the sight of two clumps of bushes of exactly the same size. Above all, openings should be left wherever there is an especially pleas ing vista. Many people make the mis take of entirely shutting 'their gar dens in. Vines and dwarf shrubbery ought to be planted- near the house and the piazza so as to bring them into close union with the green lawn.

"Only the hardiest ornamental trees and shrubs should be used by amateurs those requiring no protection in win ter and blossoming abundantly during the season. Shrubs suitable for the Poor Isabella II. Poor Isabella H. will find few historians to say a good- word for her. She was not a very old woman, but she.

had been thirty-five years on the throne when she was driven out and but for that accident would have almost equaled the record'reign of her forbear, Louis XIV. For Spain it means a period of backstairs politics, of civil war and petty revolutions, of internal decay and rapid falling from the place she had to Miss Iva. Small -of 10T9 Forest avenue. Roberts was a volunteer in the army and went to the Philippine Islands. He first met Miss Small at the Salvation Army hall in Decatur a few weeks before he died and their marriage was planned.

Roberts was twenty-four in the spring or the fall. A good list of shrubs for small grounds, graceful in fofiage and moderate in size, is the For the back-ground of tall shrubs, mock or anges, Philadelphus grandiflora and Pyrus coronaria, lilacs of hardy sort. tall Deutzias, shrubby Hebiscuses, Vi burnums, cornels or dogwoods, snowballs, Tartarian honeysuckles, privets. and tail, barberries. "For the center of the' beds, Which have been prepared within the grounds, use medium sized shrubs such as Japanese quinces, Weigelicas, Spiraseas, Barberis Thunbergii, Forsythias, Hydrangeas, Symphorocarpos or snow-berry, Rhototypos Kerrioides, Rosarug-osa.

"In front of the borders, making a transition from the smooth lawns the tall shrubs, among which the saf est are Deutzia gracilis, Kerria Japonica. Ribes aureum, Spiraea Anthong WaX-erer, Spiraea Thunbergii and S. Reev-esiana. "For very cool shady spots, as under a clump of trees, the best varieties are rhodendrons, azaleas and kalmias. Good shrubbery climbers for the piazza and house are the Wisteria sinensis, Dutchman's pipe, Aristilochia sipho Abebia quinata, Clematis paniculata, Farquhar rose, sweetheart- white climbing rose and crimson, rambler rose.

"Any. of the foregoing varieties. which are very useful in the northern and central portions of the United States, may be obtained from good nurserymen." So much for the shrubbery from which the amateur landscape architect will do well to select the leafy adorn ments of his backyard, But it's a weak enthusiast who will not also demand flowers. A long series of beautiful blooms to keep his garden brilliant from the first days of spring to late autumn are what the suburbanite wants. To be wholly satisfied with his efforts he must make such a selection that when one sets of blossoms goes to seed an other takes its place.

And there is almost no limit, as Mr. Cameron states, to the number of hardy plants that the amateur can profitably use in his garden. In fact the greatest danger is that he will select too many and choke the onen spaces of his cen tral. lawn. Flowers should be of the nature of fringes or employed in small masses; the garden picture must have plain, unadorned tracts where the eye will rest upon nothing but smooth green.

A good sized list of these hardy plants has been prepared and, since it bodies the results of long experience and experimentation at the Harvard Botannical Garden, it is likely to be of considerable value to the amateur gar dener. Mr. Cameron in some instances has to use the Latin names of these plants as gardeners do all over the world but the English is given where it may be, and often the everyday nick name of the flower is Early among the bloomers that the amateur is likely to be successful with are the Alyssuc saxatyle. popularly known as golden tuft or gold dust: the nodding, columbine a particularly pretty- species of which is the Rocky Mountain columbine, with its blue and white blossoms fitting well into the margin of a fixed border; the hock cress; the dwarf phlox whose profuse pinkish purple and white blossoms come out. in April and May; Jacob's ladder; sweet William, belonging to the same family of carnations and lifting dark purple and white a good two feet above the soil; the blue nare-bell Campanula carpartica; the showy larkspur; bleeding heart Dicentra spectabilis one of the most graceful hardy plants of the early summer; the bitter vetch, or Orobus, revealing beau held among nations.

Yet in a way Isabella was not a bad sort of a woman. She had many of the good qualities of the. women of-the south; she was kind hearted, charitable, generous often, pious according to her lights, with some artistic taste, and at times with glimpses of shrewdness and intelligence. A kind of stout, good-humored, sensuous "White Queen," whose easy-going ways, unfortunately, caused bloodshed and ruin to her couri- MISS IVA SMALL. years old and Miss Small is nineteen years old.

Ray Brom who killed Roberts is still at large. The officers are trying to find him but since he escaped from jail at St. Joseph, Mo, he has not been located. 0 opposition. Political jobs have been framed to retire him and sometimes there was a suspicion even among his friends that they would succeed but while his majority was reduced he came out of the contests a He has served on some, of the most important committees and while not given to speech-making in the council meetings, he Has influence in the committee meetings and the men who serve in the council finally recognize the fact that there is where the most important work is done and that is where they accomplish what they go after.

the election of'Goodmilier. During the weeks that preceded the nomination of candidates there were many aspirants on both sides of the political fence. On the republican side this' apparently narrowed down at last to William Dick and Al Weiss. There were rumors that Will Schlem was to be a candidate, but there was nothing on that score. On the morning of the primaries, however, Schlem formally, announced.

Evidently he had been planning for the coup and his forces were organized. He and his friends went in and swept the platter. Some of tne politicians outside' of the ward had helped in the trick and they smiled when they thought how well their scheme had worked out. The democratic leaders in the ward wanted to hold that seat in the council and after a number of conferences decided that Goodmiiler was the most available man. All of the other democrats who wanted the nomination submitted to the scheme and the nomination was handed to Goodmiiler.

Some of -the fellows who had helped Schlem land the republican nomination evidently believed that that was all that was necessary and that the election would take care of itself. They counted wrong. The Schlem forces had workers out and hauled many voters to the polls butrwhen the ballots were counted it was evident that some of the fellows that had been nauiea in tne republican carriages had voted the law and went to jail for a misdemeanor. His story is that while he was in jail he sent money to Dimmock as a commission for the privilege of renewing the loan on the ring, but the messenger came back with the word that as Wilson 'was in hard luck there would be no commission demanded and the ring would be held for him. Later when Wilson made a demand for the ring he was told that it had been sold to make good the loan.

In the first place Wilson had given a mortgage on the plunder in his Franklin street place and that was foreclosed. When the case came to trial an odd thing developed. The list lot goods in the mo'rtgage was typewritten. After this mortgage was g'iven Wilson bought other goods and added them to his equipment in the pool room. In that list was a mirror.

When the case was called for trial the mirror had been added to the original list in the mortgage. That was type written but the ribbon used when the "mirror" was added was of a different color. The records in the justice office where the mortgage was ac knowledged did not contain the word "mirror. Wilson sues to recover frpm Dim-mock the difference the sum of his loan and the value of the diamond ring. After hearing all of the evidence Justice" Keeler took the case under advisement.

Jack Deck appeared for Dimmock and R. Gray for Wilson. MISS GRACE STOUT DEAD. Young Lady Well Known In Decatur Passes Away at Chicago. Mrs.

J. P. Stout and daughters. Misses Mabel and Anns Stout and Mrs. Maine McKay of Maroa, went to Chicago Wednesday -where they were called by the- death of Miss Grace eldest child of Wm.

H. Stout Miss Stout has been ill since October, with consumption and died Tuesday evening. She was seventeen, years and two days old. She has many friends in and around Decatur who will be grieved to hear of her death. Miss Stout was a grand daughter of J.

P. Stout and also'Dr. J. C. Hall, both of this city.

wiiiBiiey cujiuucis a- saioon ana a grocery store on Mortn Calhoun street in the Witt building. He is a native Germany and i-nme to this country thirteen years uto when he was 14 vears old. Since Ihen. with the exceotion of county and the time that he has spent In the army he has lived In Decatur. Ills business Is that of nurseryman ii but recently he embarked in the saloon and grocery business.

Willskey has served two enlistments In the United States army three years as a regular and fourteen months as a volunteer during the Spanish-American "war. When he enlisted In the regular army he was assigned to the Fourth Infantry. years of his service was 1111' land Washington, at Ft. Sher-niA Ft. Spokane.

The last of his in garrison duty at Ft. Sheridan, Chicago. He received an honorable discharge from the regular army in 1897 and early the next spring when the Spanish war began he enlixted in the Fourth Illinois Volunteers-' His regiment was in camp at Savannah, and Tampa. Pla for about six months and was thon nt 1n Havnnn Cuba, where thev lid police duty for six months. The A LOUIS C.

WILLSKEY. Fifth Ward. (jjilnent was then mustereil out ana k-jllikey was again honorably dis- ana came nome. mure men nas niai rieu. lie ueciart's liun.

him xpevience In the army was of not a tie lvalue to mm ana saia, dome men mpaiit about the treatment they got tha regular army. it Is mere me me us anv other place. If you act is mUi you are treated as a man. All at is necessary is for you to behave Uurself and you will get fair treat- ent. Twice I offered my service to government and I do not regret it.

ut for the fact that I am married and ve a family I would just as lief serve ain if there was a call for troops, it now that I have a family depend-x on me I would hesitate about en-ting on that account." ALEX. MclNTOSH. Alex Mcintosh is the new member the Third ward. All of his race is for the nomination and he came in that with flying colors and it worth something to do that 1" the fiird ward because there are more BANQUET PLAN rangerr.ents for Social Function at C-. P.

Church 1 hursaay evening are Complete. HE SENIORS ARE THE HOSTS. 'oasts and Feasting Will be the Order of the Evening. The arrangements for the banquet A-hich the members of the Senior iompany of the Decatur Cadets are to (rive to the Junior company are being completed. The banquet will -be neia Thursday night and it promises to be It "swell" affair.

The members of both of the boys' companies and the members of the Decatur Girls" Drill Corps, Rev. J. W. McDonald and wife. Superintendent Coltra of the Sunday school end wife and Dr.

Houston Spyker. the curgeon of the Cadets and wife, and Commandant James M. Cowan and staff. The Decorations. The decorations will be especially pretty for the banquet.

The spread will be held in the basement of the Cumberland Presbyterian church and the room will be decorated with flags and bunting. Palms and cut flowers will tke a prominent part in the din-orations and a large bunk of ferns will be arranged at each end of the banquet roosn. The tabl will be prettily dec-oraked with citrnations and edsed with Ls. Carnations will be given as i no i oasts. Will Andrews, the first sergeant of the junior company, will act as toast- master ana me louawmg luasis win be responaea 10: -Ttit Eovs of the Decatur Cadets We Know Them," Jdlss Pearl Rec- rd.

-tne Cipau V4 me i.tiui vn la Tm11- i Will Peake, who was re-elected a council member from the Fourth ward, in consecutive years of service is the oldest member of the council, and with the beginning of the city's new fiscal year enters upon his fourth term as an alderman. There are few men who have served more consecutive years than Alderman. Peake. Two or three terms is as mans as the majority care to stand for If their constituents do not in that length of time get anxious to make a change. During his years of sen-ice Peake has had some lose.

races for his official existence, but the last was an off year and he Avon without Charles H. Goodmiiler. the new member of the city council from the 'Sixth ward, is the youngest member of the council, being only 26 years old. To some of the men in the Sixth ward there is something amusing in the CHARLES H. GOODMILLER.

Sixth Ward. Sixth ward campaign which ended in first lieutenant of the Senior company of Cadets. "Our Musical Boys," Miss Lura File, the director of the mandolin and glee clubs of the Decatur Cadets. "Our Cooks," Mrs. W.

A. Cash. "The Future." Rev. J. W.

McDonald. The glee clubs of the Decatur Cadets and the Decatur Girls' Drill Corps will furnish music during the intervals between the toasts. The Menu The banquet will commence promptly at o'clock and thenollowing will probably be the menu: Bullion de Lithla. Pickles Olives Celery Beef Loaf Cold Boiled Ham Boston Baked Beans a la camp Salad Jelly Mashed Potatoes Bread and Butter St. Louis Ice: Cream Chautauqua Cake Salted Almonds Mints Cheese Toasted Crackers Coffee The Committee.

The committee from the senior cadets who had charge of the arrangements for the banquet is composed of Bert Dickson, Paul Armstrong, Ralph Richmond. ArtConnell. Rex Large and George Scanlan. Mr. Cowan is assisting the committee.

JUSTICE KEELER CONSIDERS A Chattel Mortgage Typewritten in Two Colors of Ink FIGURES SOME IN THIS CASE. Justice Keeler is scratching his head and trying to figure out a problem which was submitted to him in the suit of W. Wilson vs. K. Dim-mock, who held a mortgage on some personal property belonging to the plainiiff.

After Wilson had made one loan secured by a. chattel mortgage, to start a pool room on -Franklin street, he found himself short of cash and borrowed some money giving a diamond ring valued at 5150 as security. Then I Murder Prevented Their brilliant tulips. To make good use of these and many other growths all that is needed, Mr. Cameron says, is to start with good taste and a knowledge of when and where to plant the different seeds and bulbs to best -advantage.

The former asset is seemingly a difficult one to ac- quire, but the latter comes with long practice and study of manuals, soils, fertilizers and the weather. And when next winter's frosts comes around the backyard gardener will find he has gained in health and knowledge of things beautiful all this for 'a, small outlay of time and money. try. Moralists may, hesitate to judge her harshly. She had the bad Naples Bourbon blood to contend with, for her mother, Maria Cristina, was the sister of King Bombay, and of the Duchesse de Berri, and she had the.

democratic family liking for low company. Her bringing up was wretched and her early surroundings execrable, and she might have been a much worse woman with some excuse, She was one of the old-time southern Bourbons. They had many faults, but were pleasant people to get along if you closed your eyes a little to morality and steered clear politics and religion. New oYrk Sun. SHADRICK IS THE VICTiM.

His Attorney Declares Shadrick Holds the Short End. R. Gray who is attorney for John Shadrick says that the story of the shooting on South Broadway and the Causes which lead to it have been misstated in Gray declares that Shadrick held the short end of the stick in a grocery store partnership affair with J. P. Nelson, about which the trouble occurred.

Gray says that in the interest of Shadrick he made a "buy or sell" offer and that it was snubbed, that he offered to submit the dispute to arbitration but that failed, that he made every offer that any one disposed to be could think of, and that all were rejected. Also he- Bays that the sum involved is small but that it means much to Shadrick; that if he went into the courts the costs would eat up what little there is and Shadrick would get nothing. He says further that Shadrick in tryiHg to prevent the removal of the goods from the store was merely seeking to save himself from complete loss. In view of the present situation Gray admits that so far as saving anything is concerned Shadrick might as well have got into the courts and let the costs eat up the stock, for from all indications he stands to get nothing. The detail of the story that is related in this affair is enough to fill a large volume -and would be amusing when heard from the witness stand if the case ever gets into court.

After saving up money for a-rainy day many a -man blows it in some night. If a man really loves a woman the dcesn't have to conceal her age. RICHARD L. ROBERTS The case of' Richard L. Roberts, the young Wabash fireman who died during the past week as a result of being stabbed by Ray Brom at the Railroad Y.

M. C. A. attracted a good deal of Interest on account of the fact that he was last Sunday to have been married I Wilson fell into the clutches the Subscribe for The Herald. -V- A -11-.