The Weekly Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • 4

ar i THE WEEKLY PANTAGRAPH JULY 4 1902 ESTABLISHED IN 1846 Ksteted second class matter at the Bloom ingtflfi Bloomington HL RATES SUBSCRIPTION Daily lOeents a week Weakly 1100 a year strictly In advance PANTAGBAPU Blooming 0 a DAVIS Phofbiktoa Messrs Cleveland Watterson Bryan and Hill could get a good hint at least from the merger plan The man who the boat has three deaths to his credit in Michigan and the season has uiily fairly begun All ages have had their fools but the boat rocker is the culmination uf them all The improvement in the condition of King Edward justifies the belief that the coronation may occur at an early date An immense pecuniary loss has been bus talned by the failure of the first pro gram but the English seem to be willing to bear it and to submit to another heavy outlay if they can only bo assured of tho king's health The state penitentiary of Kansas is manufacturing binder twine for the farm ers and turning out a good quality The farmers send in their orders direct to the penitentiary and the warden announces that not an order thus far received has been turned down He dues not mention the price at which be Is selling but pre sumably ft is satisfactory as no com plaints are made on that account Reports "of damage to growing crops by the heavy rains are widespread but it Is befit to believe that the damage in most cases has been over stated A few days of sunshine would go far toward restoring things and putting a new face on the wet and gloomy fields With favorable weather from this time on the big June rains would be almost forgotten In a few weeks A Chicago paper declares that the re cent jury bribery trials in that city have demonstrated that the number of men willing to go upon a jury bought and perjured for the paltry sum of 15 was practically unlimited To have crime of this kind is bad enough but to have it dirt cheap seems still worse It is in deed a low condition of public morals that puts men In the scale at less than the same weight of dressed beef or pork An insurance man in a recent address at a merchants association meeting in the west called attention to the fact that the annual fire loss in the United Stales Is about $150000000 In ten years enough property goes up in smoke to pay the national debt The greater part of this immense loss is due to carelessness In other words with proper foresight and cars upon the part of everybody in the United States the country would be rich er by $150000000 every year Kansas CftiTto" have the largest cot ton mill In the world with 500000 spind les and 12000 looms buildings will be 1450 in length by 750 in width three stories high and the total area of the ground covered by the plant will be 2000 acres To conduct this immense mill will require 4800 operatives with a pay roll of $2450000 a year More than $3000 000 capital has already been subscribed to the enterprise Tests have been made to determine the practicability of using oil as fuel on lake steamer instead of coal and the claim is made that a great saving of cargo space will be effected It Is claimed that three barrels of crude petroleum weighing 300 pounds will give the same amount of heat as a ton of coal and that the heat obtained from oil is found to be practi cally unlimited A great gain may be effected also in its use by the elimination of much of ths annoying smoke Incident to the use of coaL Possibly the recent discoveries of vast supplies of crude oil may mean great deal In the fuel prob lem of the world The frequency with which supreme courts recently have declared void laws enacted by the legislature should serve to sober the men who aspire to the po sition of lawmakers at the hands of the people Great inconvenience and heavy loss of money follows the setting aside of these hastily enacted and lU digestod measures In Ohio tire knocking out of a batch of laws put on the statute book last winter may necessitate an extra session of the legislature In Illinois a similar emergency has almost arisen by reason of the failure of an Important measure that was tested In the courts When lawyers of ability nf either party are elected to the legislature they should be plated on the judiciary committee and gtwn a chanoe free from party dictation to pass on measure prepared for the statute books The ooavtotion of a number of Chicago jury bribers has caused a great deal of comment on the ways of certain cor porations aid their attorneys In influenc ing the course of justice The Chicago Rocord Hexald declare that the reve lations in this trial as a ell as that of the 8Bivaa case are sickening and that they show that the way to the cmirts is blocked by tho refuse of humanity mis erable hangers on cheap politicians and teafaro who will not tr to make a liv teg bonestly and who are the regular stock in trade of a certain class of dta frnsre? lawyarn The sama paper declares that tewyors of this class are sometimes purpreety retained by wealthy corpora tions because of their capacity for dirty work It ta to be hupd that the convic tion of th nan cwrruptors of juries may serve to pat a check upon their work As people we have not fully demon strated our carer It tor oekf govornmeat ustll wc Lave struck terror teto th to Whole scoundrelly park whe make the tribunate of juetic the market place of ccnoption Under the fee yysttm tho Toledo Btade dvetare that the official in a number of counties la Otto rew He compensation far ta exeeas of salaries pant coamresmm fatted States senators eaWtaet officer sad minister to foretea roast rtea The Blade deciares the revponslbtlitiro and the latent regutred are seek ro to com AMMsd the tew sums which many of thorr eflkera receive saytng nothing of the burden which taey impow on Ilti gnat and tax payers it ha often hap pened ta other state beside Oho thlt roes Whose tairots and training wcrahtst romasad mars than ordinary wage ta slty busdnero purwilt have suddenly bora etevalsd to fort one by being pat into some office with an ample fee sys tem Statesmen have served the public with distinguished ability and have died poor as a result of their sacrifice of busi ness prospects for the people's good And yet thia same people will deliberately vote money lavishly into ordinary private pockets out of their own for it must be apparent to nil that every dollar paid an official through fees above a fair salary is so much token from the public treasury and so much added to the burden of the tax payers The Populists have practically dissolved as a party One clement has gone Into the straight Democratic ranks and the other has joined tho Republicans A few years ago the Kansas leaders were writing magazine articles to riiow hnw their movement was to sweep the coun try and engulf the old organizations But a revival of business has ft the new party without an excuse for its existence and it dissolves under a natural law and from a position of control in a half dozen large states it gives up the fight with scarcely a member of Congress a state officer or a legislator to its credit One good thing illustrated by the party is that men may change th lr par ty relations promptly when they get tired of them and find new affiliations There is a good deal of independence in the American citizen after all and the polit ical movement that is to command his permanent support must command his re spect There Is nothing sacred about party ties that cannot be ignored at the demand of patriotism and good govern ment An interesting suit is in progress in the United States court at Indianapolis in volving the character of the Chicago Board of Trade The board brought uit against an Indianapolis firm of brokers for stealing its quotations for use in bucket shops The defendants make the counter charge that the Chicago board Itself Is operating a bucket shop on an extensive scale in violation of law and that it has no light to the protection of the court A decision of the United States court is also quoted to the effect that bucket shops are the offspring of the Chicago Board of Trade and kindred organizations to which they look for mis tuuance and life and that they can only be effectually suppressed by striking at the rout of the evil Tho federal court is again called upon to define the exact status of the Chicago Board of Trade and show wherein it differs from a bucket shop it it differs at all If its status as a legitimate trade organization is sus tained it follows that it has the right to control its quotations and limit their use to approved offices PHYSICAL AMERICA The personal conflict in the Senate of the United States Monday between Messrs Bailey of Texas and Beveridge of Indiana in which the Indiana man is im ported to have got much the worst of it suggests an observation or two It is apparent that Physical America is in evidence today as never before The country is on its muscle Tho president of tho republic himself is an athlete and a promoter and patron of athletic con tests It is understood that he would bo willing to put on the gloves with any man of his weight and in all sports command ing physical prowess he Is ever ready to take a hand ollowing his eminent ex ample there has been a perfect revival of ail contests calculated to train and test the physical man The demand for box ing gloves was never so great while dumb bells have more than kept pace with other features of the iron trade The hammer thrower the golf player the weight lifter the base ball and foot ball champion the amateur boxer never counted for bo much a now The con tagion has spread through every rank and station of society The time may have been when the fellow who could do a hole neighborhood in a fisticuff was look ed on a coarse person belonging to tho outer walks but he is In college now and no function or entertainment in our best institutions would dare to leave him out Muscle slaps intellect and culture on tho back with the utmost familiarity and de mands the time of day The athlete walks the halls of learning disparts him self in the society of the most refined la dles and is the recipient of Mattering attention on every hand The pale spin dle legged collegian Is no longer the fa vorite with young American girls They demand chest measurement and a plent eous display of biceps and calves All physical strictly muscular prowess and skill never had such appre ciation and praise as now The man who thraahus the fellow who offers on insult to himself or to a woman is let off with the lightest reproof of the law if the courts notice the matter at all while he is surs of the warm commendation of the public This is the way It works among the people generally Now look at the mani festation of the same spirit 'by the gov ernment We are strengthening and for tifying the republic on the physical side as never before We are training armies and building nuvivs to match the world We me spending hundreds of millions to be in fighting shape Tira nation is liter ally up before breakfast practicing with the dumb bells and health lift and forti fying its wind and limb We are ready for a fight and want it understood We van lick any little pwple or big people that gives us offense or that fails to keep faith Th military or combative spirit is dominant everywhere ColL ge and school have their uniformed cadets and the Idea of fighting is inculcated from the beginning Is ft any wonder under such conditions that senators at Um United States shook! cams to blows when sharp controversies artes? Senators spring from the people and no one van claim that they ae ex empt iron th prevailing spirit of their Ume Indeed they aie rightly suppu to be reepensive to lira ak utlmenl of the day and if they do not exchange blows when smarting under insult they would hardly to be logical So when the bombastic setuuor from Indiana an insult to the hot headed senator from Texas and refuw to apologise hat has the Texan to do but report to force? Up to statpiy makiasr a pereonal appikatkm of the military and combefire spirit of the country White Senator Bailey there fore may bare offended against the writ ten rule tei choking Senator Beveridge he may at hast plead that ha I a victim of prevaUiffg trnd'cUra On the other hand th senator from Indiana a rest spictMrt Champix of physical armament and aaUanal roterourara can have no ob jection to a concrete application of tte own tagte Indeed he te reported a tak ing th maltsr very lightly Nothing hurts a self mad martyr Uks being Ignored This is the great anniver sary and the day on which Americans are supposed to refresh themselves with patriotic memories and renew their faith in the republic In many public assem blies will be heard dissertations on the government as exemplified In this great union of states and on the problems yet to be solved before there Is a complete realization of our mission as a nation Out of all this discussion and all the thoughtful reflection of the people on the questions affecting our social and politi cal life It Is right to suppose the country will take renewed strength and hope Everything may not go exactly right and Injustice may he done but the people are willing to hear it told and they are an xious to right the wrong where there is wrong As Americans we should rejoice in all we have gained and especially in that freedom of discussion and action which us to advance continually to higher ideals as a people The praise and the reproof the rejoicing and the sorrowing that may find expression on the ourth may therefore be all proper enough since they all tend to bring us to a justor way an to a more perfect unity as a nation The highest measure of good government is that which insures the greatest pleasure and happiness to the people and the ourth is a good time to compare notes to the end that the right may be strengthened and the wrong avoided bet every citizen reflect on how much he owes to our beneficent form of government and how much he can do to make it more beneficent until the day will be eventually celebrated with no element of the people dissatis fied or deeming that they are discriminat ed against AROUND HOME Several Mansfield boys have been fined $5 each for catching on moving cars county has paid more than $3000 for the relief of the Indigent poor since January 1 Michael Harrigan of Peoria was fined $25 and $40 in costs for tax dodging and paid up Phalen an Illinois pioneer died Saturday at Decatur She was 83 years old Dr Van Sant gave tho Peoria fire de partment $50 for their heroic work dur ing the fire In his building The pension of Henry Brown of Lin coln bus been rc ratcd so that he now gets $100 per year Culbertson will soon build a new elevator in place of the old one he owns at Delavan Cover of Pontiac has been allowed a pension of $8 per month and $1395 of buck pension Pontiac got a half carload of Mis souri watermelons Wednesday the rest of the lead going to Joliet Charles McDonald of Peoria was ar rested by the Sinclair Pocking Company charged with embezzlement A McClure has sold his banking business at Mahomet to Buscy of Urbana who took possession July 3 Hall has sold his residence property in Hoopeston to II Chace for $2800 and moved to Champaign Capt Agey who managed the Arlington hotel at Hoopeston for three years is In the hospital for the Insane at Kankakee Charles Parker of Parker Squires Green Valley purchased the Brook bankrupt stock at auction in Delavan for $1370 Utter Arie has issued fifty two ap plications for insurance in the North Champaign County Mutual Insurance Company since April 1 John Schmidt of Tremont has se cured the contract for building a bridge over Prairie creek in Elm Grove town ship for $750 Treasurer Cress of Tazewell county ha just turned over that county's state tax $75UU0 to the state treasurer A Talbot of the University of llllnute has been chosen treasurer of the society for the promotion of engi neering science The Piper city council has appropri ated $100 nnd the citizens donated $700 to improve their park ive thousand dollars worth of cement walks will also be laid New York insurance company that carried the risk on the Emden bank has given $200 to A Sanford th Delavan watchman who was seriously wounded while trying to arrest the men that robbed the Emden bank Charles A Allen of Hoopeston I salff to have become A millionaire by the recent discovery of a very rich Ari zona copper mine owned by a company in which Mr Allen lias a controlling in terest The new mine is In the vicinity of Senator Clark's fabulously rich mine Champaign county Republican cen tral committee in its meeting Joly 1 failed to select a candidate for county superintndent as It had power to do and instead called another county con vention for mxt Monday The three men in the race for the place arc Watts Grant Thornton and Rowdftch San Joss Steinmeyer of Claloma Neb is visiting with her college mate Mr John Bockwitz Ddith Westcnkchlcr of St Charles Mo Is visiting with relatives In the city Mabel Hollinger left Tuesday evening for Rlchlajul Kan where she will spend the wmnur with relatives German Epworth League will met for a social gathering at the home of George Smith south of lite city Wednesday evening Mr and Mrs Lfnbarwer who had called to New Jeray on ac count of the severe lllneas of Mr Uh mother will return July 4 Dr Addick prei of the Central Wesleyan Unite War renton Mo fUted the pulpit at Ger man church Sunday mornf Mrs red Brust a former aMent of San Jose died nt her home ti Cort land Nib on Saturday June of dropsy and heart failure Rev A McCarty and a ruznter of Epworth Ltaguors of th English chureh at tended th Epworth Iraagu convention at Ltacoln this wrak Mister band clothed In their uniforms will dip ne music to th citi zens of San Jose July 4 and will give minstni show In opera bouse at night George Eusenroth ot Davsaport la died very suddenly on riday Jen 27 uneral services and Intenarat were held tn Quincy HU July Mr Eusun roth was a former minister of th Ger man church rf this city State of Ohio City at Toledo Lucas a rank Cheney makes oath that he te senior partner of the firm of Cha in A Co dedng teurtnee ta th city of Toledo county and state aforeaaM and that firm wfll pay th sm of ro hundred dollars for each and erery roro of catarrh that cawnci cured by tbs use of Catarrh Cure RANK CHENEY Sworn to before me and subscribed ta my presence thta 4th day of December A H99 A GLEASON (Seal) Notary IXibtte Hall Catarrh Cm to taken mtmmAy and eets dtreetty ro the Wrod and mu coo surface et th srssssa Bawd for UsttiBoulata free CHRNET at C(X Tsiedst Sold by tauAgtota Tfce Hall's baQr IS are ths bssU GENERAL ARM NOTES load of prime Kansas steers sold at $850 in Chicago Monday Schirling of Petersburg got $845 for IS steers averaging 1374 pounds Wed nesday A TIoblit of Atlanta suld a load of 134S pound steers in Chicago Wed nesday ut $835 Harris Sons of Champaign sold 4S head of cattle Wednesday in Chicago at $840 they averaged 1652 pounds Buth President II Coolidge and Secretary A Hostetter of the Illi nois Institute attended the meeting of the national organization of farmers' institute workers The receipts of hogs at Chicago for Jun eshowed an increase of 66319 over June in 1901 There were 24263 more sheep marketed this year than last for June The horse receipts show a de crease of 1647 head for the same month An Areola dispatch reports that a systematic canvass in all sections of the country where broom corn is raised shows a shortage of about 35 per cent this season and the price of broom is now strong at $110 and $125 It Is esti mated the new crop will open at $150 a ton Six hundred tons have been shipped from the Arcola region the past two weeks The United States Department of Agriculture Is starting a new branch that of farm management and Mr Splilrnan who has the work in charge visited a number of prominent farmers at Champaign and the Illinois Agricul tural College this week in his rounds to gather information from practical men for use In his work A bureau of infor mation will be kept and bulletins will ba issued isher Dan Hazen sold his fine driving team Wednesday to parties at Saybrook James Lynch will spend the ourth with friends in Gilman Mr Ora Gilmore has entered his horse Allen in the 2:24 trot at the Pekin races Mr Harry Allen expects to move into his new building with his harness outfit Monday Dr A Sale is entertaining his slaters Mrs A Ward and Miss Eva Sale of Champaign Mrs A A Marsh will be the guest of her daughter Mrs Vennum in Champaign over the ourth Miss Daisy Morris arrived from Le roy Tuesday and will spend the summer with her sister Mrs Gilmore Dr II Dowd and family will spend the ourth in Indianapolis and from there will go to visit about two weeks with relatives in Ohio Mr Vennum attended the Pro hibition state convention at Peoria Tues day and Wednesday being a delegate from Champaign county isher will celebrate In a singular sort of way One man Mr Harris the saloonkeeper is the only one going to celebrate He has ordered about $50 worth of fireworks and expects to have other amusements Tira Lewis roofing company of Springfield have had quite a lot of work here having put roofs on the Rome Kel ley Dreyfus Allen Sale and buildings and also the lumber yard They will also put Vennum's roof on his double building Rantoul Mrs Harry Snider spent Tuesday in Paxton Great preparations are being made for tho celebration Osborne has decided to lo cate permanently in Rantoul Collison and children are spending the ourth in Saybrook of the babies In the nursery of the Rantoul home died last riday morn ing of the Christian church will publicly install their new officers Sunday night Mrs James Coon and son Oliver re turned Monday from a visit of severe 1 weeks in Leroy pleasant reception was tendered Rev Blood and wife Tuesday eve ning by the members of the Congrega tional church They had just returned from their wedding trip At a meeting of school board on Wednesday afternoon the remaining va cancy In the pubJh schools was filled by tira employing of Miss Elizabeth Towle of Decatur who was assigned to the third grade Mis Keller of Normal was OAudgxrad to the seventh giade Miss Handley of Paxton to the second primary Mis Thompson of Rantoul to the new room Miss Davis of Urbana to the fourth grads and Miss Smith of Homer to the first primary Easton Meaves new dentist has ar rived and opened hts office for work Badger a theological student to announoed to preaoh next Sunday eve ning Dr 3 Kcnnelley received word Wednesday tnat hto father aged 91 years had died in Joliet Tira doctor left the same day for the funeral the sunshine of Wednesday harvret began quite merrily Wheat is becoming dead rip Wheat In the shock was wet through and may mold some Mrs Haynes who died Monday was buried Thursday afternoon at Walker's Grove She was 72 old and the mother of seven eons and one daughter On of the eons Charles Haynes had the misfortune years ago to a weU of losing both orrest Hinman 1 Visiting In Peoria Minnie Darto 1 spending week at Risk Imboden and wife will eprod the ourth at Canton Mira Charlotte Bowman of Ponttee is visiting Itotne of Robert Haekley Morrissey of Galesburg is visiting Miss Lizzie Branz Amsbary of Wellsville te visiting at home of A Duckett Mtee Ura IteWBon at ionttao spent a few days this week at tb hero of her uncle A HtoeL Brans returned Tuesday night from Joliet where she had been vtolttag her daughter Mr IL let cher Kappa Eberly returned from West on oa riday evening were service held here on Sunday on account of the rain Mackinaw ha beta higher this week than at any ttm for many years Minnie Rpawr Is borne from Austin to vpemi the summer with her mother IL Hough returned to bar home ta La Creese Wis ro Weda day Covet Anna Mills to vtetttag at Tower urn BL Mr and Mre Umpbray are parents of a boy baby Austin Bmjamin ta quit XU with typteeM fever John Barclay has been suffering weeks with a teton on to finger Mre MUM has returned from a vtalt with her sister la Huron Dakota Mtaee Ubbte Hsffmr sad Hattte Harvey wffl spend lb ourth vtatttag ta Towanda Mm Kate aad Mr Xraath and dstegttoar of Deiroju mother and ale tar of Mr Geary 'P Kanffmsw are th teneTa gsesta a her bene eroth bar Atlanta Montjoy nnd family arrived home from Colifornla Sunday Miss Irene Bramble of Decatur is visiting at the home of A Cheno weth Lillian Brown of ort Scott Kas is visiting with Miss Myrtle Hor rom Miss Leah McKenzie of Edinburg is visiting with her grandparents Mr and Mrs James Shores Arthur Haise and his friend Oliver Nafelger of Dwight are visiting at the home of Charles Haise Miss Edna Bunn and nleoe Miss Ma rlon Bunn of Decatur are visiting with Mr and Mrs Burke Montgomery and Ezra Kenyon are in Plkck county this week looking after their land interests at that place Rev Mr Lappin and family returned home Thursday after an extended visit with relatives and friends southern Illi nois Andrew Turner of Pasadena Cal returned to his home Monday His son Ray went to Ohio for a visit before re turning home musical and literary entertain ment will be given at Murphy hall July 4 Immediately after the display of fire works It la given under the auspices of the Cemetery Association oosland Dr Lowery made a business trip to Homer 111 the first of the week Miss Bessie Arens returned Monday after spending a month visiting in Chi cago Larkin and Zerbe made a business trip to Champaign Tues day McKay will spend the ourth with his wife who Is visiting in Normal III Lillie Zerbe returned from Champaign where she had been spending several days Mayall will return to his charge in Missouri on riday after spending about ten days with his family here Mr and Mrs Charles Taylor and daughter May left Thursday morning to spend the ourth with relatives in Porter county Ind The day services that were to have been held in the church Last Sunday night were post poned till next Sunday evening on ac count of the heavy rain of Saturday and Sunday Hopedale A Davis went to Galva Wed nesday to visit relatives Crescent ball club of Blooming ton will play the Hopedale club July ourth Bertha Ireland and Mr Ralph Simpson were united tn marriage Wed nesday at 3 by Rev Mr Gooding and left on the 3:30 train for Colorado Weldon oats harvest has begun Brod rick photographer to located here for a month or so Born on the 2d to Mr and Mrs rank Cavender a 9 pound boy Edw Reed and wife or Ursa 111 returned to their home on Thurs day and Mrs Ira Nixon started Thursday for Chicago where they will spend the ourth and visit with friends Oscar Moorclraad is now located in the Gray building next to Dr Barr's of fice where he will continue the tinning business Mrs John Nichols of Logan Ill Mi Nathan Robertson of Dana Ind with her little daughter lossie and Mr William Mott of St Bernice Ind visiting Rev Reed and family Roanoke July 1 to Martin Clarke and wife a son Born to red Emmerlinn and wife June 30 a son June 26 to Benjamin Stoller and wife a son Bessie Sutton of Clinton was a business caller Saturday Chris Claudin Is again working with the isher carpenter force Slathe property on North Main street was sold Saturday to Paul Audi! for $1270 handling flreworks cartrMges Monday forendon Arthur Veaus acci dentally discharged one In his hand and making a painful wound Hassemann's leaae on the elec tric light plant and mill expired June 30 Isaac Johnson new owner has taken charge Word was received here that Roy Powell had both arms broken by filling from a box car at his home tn Vernon The car was not in motion when the ac cident happened races were run Wodnesd ty for a quarter mile heat The first was between the horses of Reuben Reese an Isaac Ramoey The second was between' the horses ot Reuben Itoese and rank York Reese hors won both races Broadwell Lee Campbell and soft are shingling Mr house John Kline has had several sheep kilted by the dogs the past few nights an Improvement has been at Christian church by the addition of a new oarpet The Mutaaltetephone has 'been moved from Mrs Reyner's banding into A Kistan Viola Altman of lAnooin rtaum cd riday after a week's visit At her uncle's Mr Isaac Love Leroy Wiggins and Jdhnsoa of the Salvation army made a business trip to Arrowsmith Wednesday Osoar Bonnett and wife will leave for southern Kansas soon Mr Bonnett may purchase land In that rtaie II Idea has opened his nror furniture and undertaking bustaero the Keys buUdlag and tbe store presents a wry inviting appearance vtartore are In the elty Trom foreign points renewbtg and visiting reteUvro and will attrotd ouf ourth of July oetebratbm Leroy Laconic ha changriA its Aame to the Leroy Bagla The first edi tion came out last weir and to a rery neat sheet It continues under th4 old msnagMnent Stbtey Beagty and wife left morwtag for Walla Wash farmer of this township Ibok blue over th prospect for crops Anderson went to Pprtagfiekl riday to consult Dr Print hi regard her eyre crow are taroy putting aad it win take them soaad tin before they are through Dr A Albright teft Saturday for Chlrero and fw Otto Hckener has pw etased the effire and precRlce New Mefljmd JSourth win not eotebrated hare this year Rteare ef Derate? ha bran vtafttog 'hto daughter Mra Alton Cbiaea this week CaMweU OianWr vMted ftfeads and retetfrew hare th first cf th week tec Wicker does not seers to ft jprero wrL tf roy rod to in awrttiraJ roonwwm Mt th 10 MM Btna Mrraldra test To inlay ewwtag ware MgW arorotataad tenets a rontractar et $mfw las Ora for bwlWng IM teoaaa tetteaa cteech WactowUl be gin at once and pushed to completion 0 McKennan of Connersville Ind visited here Monday He used to be in the drug business here about twelve years ago and now has a drug store In Connersville Incessant rains here from riday until Monday caused all the creeks near here to overflow the bottom lands ruin ing many hundreds of acres of corn and floating away some wheat in the shock Tho erreks were the highest In years Mason City Branch is in Springfield Judd Mitchell is visiting in Chi cago Sikes is in Chicago at present Meeker now occupies his new residence on the west side Radebaugh Is the guest of her son Garfield in Chicago Swingle of Jacksonville is visiting home folks here Mr Jefferson Donavan is at Kramer Ind ut the mud baths Mliby is the guest of kindred and friends In Evansville Ind Mesdames and Corsson were Peoria visitors Wednesday and Thurs day Thomas Jr and family of Peoria are visiting relatives and friends here William Conroy and sister of Chicago are guests of kindred and friends in this city and Mrs Burroughs and niece are at Point Chtoutauqua for the season and Mrs John Sikes of Spring field are guests of the brother 1' Sikes and family Sutton read an Interest ing paper on Social Department of the Epworth before the Epworth League convention In Lincoln Tuesday The program for the celebration here today Is an elaborate one and consists of two balloon ascensions and parachute leaps base ball game two basket ball games fifty and one hundred yard dashes shot put pole vault jumping wheelbar row races etc speaking vocal and in strumental music automobile rides etc The program is to conclude with a magnificent display of flreworks in terspersed with stereopticon pictures by Prof Achlock of Peoria Colfax Leo Chapman is spending the ourth at Mackinaw Will Dortand has returned from a visit at Randolph Gilmore of Bloomington is visiting here this week Mrs George Woods who has been sick for a week is improving John Thiss visited his daughter Mrs Jennie Chapman at Paxton this week Mrs Prowdley and son George are visiting with her parents at Maren go III William Nelson of Chicago came on Wednesday to visit his daughter Mrs George Hester True and Rev Baker at tended the state Prohibition convention at Peoria this week The funeral of I Brewer was held at the Christian church on Wednesday morning Rev Baker having charge of the services The Union attended the services in a body The Epworth League of the church has elected the following officers: President rancis Henderson first vice president Ruth Wallace second vice president Agnes Compton third vice president Dwight Douglass fourth vice president Rose Murray secretary Litta Watson treasurer John Puett chorister John Williams organist annie ield ing Downs Mikel shipped a car load of hogs to Chicago Thursday Robert Hodam and wife gave gone to Gifford to spend the ourth with their parents a meeting of the Home Telephone Company Welch was elected presi dent and rank Wagner secretary Mrs Maude Alexander of Arkansas ha arrived and will spend the ourth with her mother Mrs A Scott Landis and wife have returned from Lincoln where they went to attend the Epworth convention and while there they visited the feeble minded institute and Odd Home the Presbyterian church Wednes day night was organized a Christian En deavor society President Minnie Mc Comb vice president Annie Smith cor responding secretary Vina McComb sec retary lossy Dooley organist Nellie Dooley treasurer red Schmitt Chenoa Mr II Evans and daughter who have been visiting at the home of Mr Maurice Monroe in this city departed for their home in Mankato Kas on Tuesday evening William Hotsenplllar who is manager of Kirkpatrick Lackland A Company's grain business at Ballard de parted on Tuesday evening for Colorado where he goes for the benefit of hishealth Sanborn who has been fin Oberlin attending the graduating texerctees of Oberlin college returned home on Tuesday Her son Orville San born was one of the graduate and ha Bt her daughter Saralx accompanied her home Mr ates cam home from Ptetoke br on Tuesday to attend tho tnkend sonlcM of Mrs Martha Mat tms Mr and Mrs si arairocas were her cueau while faro the tatter belBK Mrs alee' daughter Lord ot Humboldt la 1 visiting at the bone ot his son Ur Lord la this city Hudson Mr and Mrs Alford are attend ing the chautauqua Peoria this week James Gildersleeve Is unload ing his cai of lumber for hto new house Rev Thomas Lyon is no better at this time but ta growing weaker each day James Doughton had the mis fortune to one of his best horses this week William Morrow has gone Wrot Virginia to vtoft hto mother and other relarivrs and will stop off at Mans fieK and visit hto daughter Mrs Ora John on and family Prof Enoch A Gattman of Deeatur made a visit to Hudson on Satur day evening and called on his brother George Gastman and family during th time from one train to the other A very hea' shower of rain fell on Wednendav evening about I o'clock taly one tach of water fell in about twtenty minutes which turned the face of the ground into a pond of water ta a wry short time Mk Arthur BurtlS of Garden City Km is here visiting hto brother WWtam Bsrtto and family has boen beem oonftiK to the houe by sickness for severs! nuntiuk and hto brother Mr Burtts and family rod other old trfenda Jowph Siter ta building a Mrg nw bam oa hl fan three and a NWC mil northeoM th village th pRe of the owe that waa blown down on the Kth day ot April Mr Joetah mwwrh and hl wrtttnl an doing the W0IL 10rtaM Hawnwlnkte and bride were 'll! th lU8r i Twtrttr Vwr and thet th them hl enrfe wu Hatn TltftrWlrta! ever night They were twrmertrd ta the eeenlng by the Hudeon brin band ot wMeh he ta the leader Roberta In Btootnlntfon oa Tneaday Roteto to tero a vroa tion Elsie Martin went Kankakee on Wednesday George Bernhardt of Yewing Neb 19 visiting his father William Ricmenschneider was in East Lynne Tuesday Roberts purchased a section of land in Louisiana last week rederick 01 Chicago is visit ing his grandfather Mr Aolp Bessie lora and a friend from Pax ton visited in Roberts this week Charles Cooper of Bloomington 1g visiting relatives and friends here Roberts boys beat the Thawville boy in a game of base ball Wednesday The people of Roberts will celebrate at home The park is in good condition Rcbholz of Thawville vis ited his sister Mrs Martin here thig week water was higher in the dredge ditch Monday than it has even been corn in low places is nearly all dead oats are coming up since the sun ha come out and will be a god crop if fair weather continues The hay crop will ba poor owing to the bad condition of tha clover PEDAGOGICAL BLUNDER rank Hall Supt School for the Blind in School News: There is one error one pedagogical blun der that is so common and so disastrous in its effects that all others feet insig nificant beside it It is this error that makes our pretended reading a mure pro nouncing of words our study of language spiritless and fruitless our geography a study of black dots crooked lines and colored patches of paper our arithmetio mere figure manipulation It is the blun der that every one of us has committed and again and again the blun der that the best toacner avoids only by constant watchfulness the blunder that the poor teacher makes no effort to avoid It is the blunder which is itself the parent of a whole army of little blun ders that make their way into every school house and play hide and seek in the brains of the pupils often making the school work drudgery and life miserable for the teacher By far the greater num ber of all tho changes in methods of teaching during the last twenty years have grown out of efforts to avoid this one blunder And these efforts havbeen by no means fruitless The skill and thr worth of the teacher may be measured by the degree of her success in eliminat ing this mistake from her work Shew me a teacher in whose room this error is Infrequent and I will show you a teacher whose pupils are interested and whose work is appreciated by both pupils and patrons Even salaries in the lonff tun adjust themselves to the skill of tho teacher in avoiding this error But what is this great blunder that? sometimes casts a shadow that may bo felt over our school work? This blunder that is itself a promoter of the changes in methods of teaching that have recently token place in our schools? This blunder the complete elimination of which would make the schools well nigh perfect? It is the use of symbols by the teacher and the pupil that do not symbolize so far as the pupil is concerned It is the use off words figures maps phrases and sen tences for which there are no correspond ing images or series of images in minds of the pupils It is the enforced memorizing of definitions and descrip tion? that neither define nor describe ta the pupil It is the feeding of the pupil upon tho mere husks of knowledge and scolding him perhaps flogging him be cause he does not masticate and digesti them Many important changes in pedagogical practice have already come and more In sight the tendency of which is to elim inate the one great pedagogical blunder? to lead pupils into such imaging activity on the presentation of word or figure symbols as will make their work at oriOe interesting and as will lead to thinking to a discernment of relation not of symbols but of Images ideas fo which the symbols stand Care of the Colts Breeders' Gazette: The crop of gox foals dropped this season will be wellworth The mares produce the crop but the farmers must harvest it The mare may raise her foal after fashion if let alone but she will raise much better one if the owner helps a lit tle It ought not to be necessary to re mind farmers that the raising of foals in volves some little time and effort stitch in time In their treatment will savo nine surely And this treatment canno begin too early eed is the making of te foal He should early have access to a little bran and oats In a box where mare cannot get it away from him an this supplemental food will keep him growing finely And when the flies coma and the scorching sun beats down piti lessly on the drled up pastures a cool and darkened stall is the proper place for the foal In the daytime allowing the lib erty of the pasture at night A by thus taking thought can add some cu bits to the stature of hto foals Michigan Hard Hit Detroit Mich July A terrific Morn swept through the southwestern portion of Michigan late this afternoon and in the early evening killing one man in juring many and resuumg In great dam age to property Near North Adams residence of Mrs Van Patten was demol ished and bam of Rood was blown from its foundation and another house unroofed Mrs Van Pattun amt Mr and Mrs Gamble her son in law and daughter had taken refuge in the cellar and all were seriously injured Mrs Van Pattan probably fatally It is reported that a former living near Leonidas waa dashed to death against a telegraph pole Near Mendon John Bowman an aged man was severely injured by falling raft in the collapsing home of Henry Pow ers Reports from Battle Creek Mar shall Mendon Kalamasoso Dowagiac and other towns state that the wires are down and that the crops and property greatly damaged Wisconsin arm Census Washliwton July 2 The census report on agriculture tn Wisconsin for 1990 shows 169795 farms valued at $686147 666 Of this 77 per cant Is land and other improvements than building The value of farm implement and machinery i $29237010 lire stock $96227645 Thoi total value of farm property to $911712 119 total value of farm product for 1I99 which exceeds 1689 by 122 pep was $157445711 of which cent was in crops including forest prod uct cut or produced on farms Th grow farm Inoome for 1899 to H1B861MU and the gross Incom on investment ta 1 per cent Signed All Bills Washington July The records aho that every bill presented to the presldetl wa signed by Lim before ConsTc? ad journed Tht total of the bffi trtro duced tn the House is 15530 Three com mittee bandied two third th committee on war 1 on ta rend peratena A59 on military affhlrs 21ft Recover Bl Sum New York Jxity Summon were Is sued today agatnst A Rorantltal ard Samuel ried to ansa er to aettaft I th by the government to recover IL This the government It due because of altered vndar vataatiro of Imports together with al lowed by the law Minnesota Miners Cult Duluth Mtatu Juhy Or hsndred mtaera at Sparta Wciab range total tar an advent Ut.