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•* -'A ILLfWMS jli.UNOI8' VOTf FOR J PRCtlOENT ANQ,GOVERNOR ^ Koa*mtr-- H*rdln* Cm lAlex/uideV « iBond ,.n,J TBoone .»M Brown Bureau Calhoun .... Carroll ..'... CSS* * Champaign.. 13,746 Christian .. 6,410 dark ....... CUy CBnton ;.... Colea ...w„ 8.088 8,669 4,906 aMi 1.874 1,110 6,066 3,960 2,152 l,ao4 4,^04 7.148 s,on 1,5X1 414 toe TVS 691 2,862 4,597 6,997 1,868 921 MM 6.1ft Small Levia 6,406 1,66! OPOk ....;... flK.846 254,4a Crawford .. 8,641 2,427 Ccunberliijid. DeKalb ..., DeWltt Douglas .... Dupapo ,-i^ ®fl8H • Miti; BSflwardn: »««*'* Kffirtghank Fayette ..... RSkita"25-., Fulton ...... Gallatin .... ' Grundy f.«« Hamilton , Hancock 4.,.^ .6,926 8.031 4,400 338 « 6,679 3,002 a 4.996 7,966 6,170 w 618 ; 4.668 874 Hardin Henderson.. Sfenry Xnoquols 1,566 '8,741 12,076 3,992 Jackson .a,' 7,723 Jasper .^» Ssfferson Jersey 1.300 8.098 ..ir 2,867 Jo Davl«M.. ,1,788 Johnson .... 8,872 Kane ....... 6,141 Kankakee ... 11^76 Kendall .... 8.464 Knox 11,846 Lake 4. 10,196 LaSalle .J.. ».286 Lawrence ... 4,716 Le« 7.312 Livingston.. /10,173 Logan ...... 7,006 MacOn 14,186 Macoupiri .. 7,480 Madison 16,684 Marion 2,840 Marshall. ... 8,204 Mason .....v 3,833 Massac 3,649 MacDonougb 1,436 McHenry ... 3,667 McLean .... Menard ..... » Mercer Monroe ..... •Montgomery Morgan 14.836 1.819 3,887 3,402 6,336 .. 7,790 .. 8,027 .. J.291 15,14a .. • 6,692 .. 4,293 ....4:4,4.742 Moultrie Ogle ... Peoria . Berry .. Watt ... Pike ... Pelk 777 Ptilaskl ...Js, 8,966 Putnam .... 297 . Randolph .. 6,717 Richland^ .'ft ' 4,191 iRock Island. 8,767- Sallne 2,692 Sangamoa...« vtt,48» Schuyler ... 2,646 Scott 1,338 Shelby ...... 6,116 Stark 1,368 St. Clair..... j.K.715 12.753 Stephenson., 1),518 2,784 ^499 3,606 ~ 2.610 3,738 1,142 24U 714 2,104 46 2,075 4,367 2,392 3,390 UU 739 8,064 6.494 ?4fi 3.7^ JB 6,169 447 797 728 (.280 943 744 8,46V 906 4,271 1,134 2,418 1.908 486 1.187 *>*** 2,494 440 2.706 1.666 6,326 3.726 1,628 3,0® 3,_)o 6,888 6,224 6,401 1,580 2,260 2,592 684 861 612 6.667 1,222 1.066 1.400 3.169 4,263 2,415 1,769 8,138 2,967 1.909 3,645 161 2,267 161 2.998 3,635 916 1.529 9.781 1.822 1,094 4,849 286 4,908 3.586 4,526 1,600 1,739 1.804 4,847 1,148 12,689 4.834 2,018 428 4,056 7,090 487,196 S34.09S 3.336 2,517 3,273 1,691 866 1,871 686 774 729 1,007 6.619 3.876 1,343 276 *291 5,696 2,973 4,164 319 2,070 9,268 6,407 2,967 3,326 6,693 4.686 7,860 9,064 613 4,4® 869 6,166 1,614 2,680 11,486 4,089 7,558 1.260 2,934 8,782 I.747 2,971 6,710 10,560 3,292 II.123 9.272 20,304 4,644 6,976 9,661 6,667 12,619 " 7,107 15.783 2.846 2.847 3,511 3,617 1,435 2,692 13,693 1,420 3,718 3,400 4,806 7.273 2,830 8,894 18,862 4,678 4,027 4,359 • 770 3,940 287 5,530 4,089 3,543 2,579 1,925 937 ?25 1,166 4,023 6,585 • 772 2.866 8,901 1,325 6,020 5,310 447 906 764 6,248 931 836 8,072 1,199 4,331 1,161 2,257 2,266 567 1,134 1.869 3,701 61A 3.075 2,709 7.96C 3.801 2.292 3,576 3,742 8,584 5,458 8,777 1.520 2,472 2,929 709 892 709 6,966 1.109 1,281 1,421 3,530 4,421 2,612 2,242 9,39'j 2,423 2,186 3,784 162 2,336 171 2,859 3,620 1,070 1, 18,150 11,058 Taxewell vs.-- Union •: ^!o36 Vermilion.... 6,783 Wabash .... warren .... Washington. Wayne ..... White -x.Whlteelde .. 10,807 Will 18,191 Williamson.. 6,442 Wlanebaco... 19,144 ,^*oodford .. 2,139 1,243 6,317 8,264 8,483 1,984 1.078 5,975 1,320 8,821 8,373 7.184 2,025 6,336 870 6,801 8,524 3,465 36 9.934 15,406 5,442 16,574 2,004 1,845 1,033 6,046 313 8,191 8,184 3,784 2,614 4,025 934 1,639 •714 2.132 46 3,017 9,460 2.392 5,894 621 cordlqpl survey lhten» Wh «Total» ....1483,243 443,609 1.0M.787 616.788 "Slowly arriving: figures from belated precincts downatate tend to increase aUrhtly the pluralltlea for Harding, Mc- Kmley and Small aa reported, when 48 precincts In Chicago and 260 precincts downatate were not tabulated. The indies Ileus, remain that Harding's plurality te Illinois will be about 840.000. that Mc- Xlnley'a lead for United States senator *111 be approximately 770,000, and that 11 wlpa for governor by 601,000. Springfield.--More than 75 per cent <Sf the world's supply of fhforspar is «Bined in the counties of Hardin and Jo Davis, In southern Illinois, according to .the state department of mines Slid minerals. Fluorspar 1b nsed in the manufacture of steel. Lead and zinc are always found with it Statistics • trikow that from seven mines 207,576 tins of ore were mined last year. Sprtingfleld.--Only 497 out of a total of 35,023 teachers in Illinois are receiving more than $3,000 a year, according to the educational press bulletin issued by State Superintendent Blair. The report also shows that 88,- •4 of the total number employed receive less than $2,000 annually and 90,583 are paid less than $1,500 an- Mially for their services. 'Springfield.--The grand lodge of Stlnois Independent Order of Odd Fellows will hold its sessions in the ' state arsenal here November 15 to 18. Hon then 5,000 members are expectitfe to attend the ceremonies. Galesburg.--While riding to the tMHIs, where they were to cast their first ballots, Mrs. Sarah Gardner, eighty, and Elijah Tucker twenty- ' tkrat, were struck by a fast Santa Fe -.tffMgpger train and killed. Terre Haute.--Papers valued at set- «ral thousand dollars, stolen from the Farmers' State bank of Newark, 111., October 13, were recovered here in two sacks found in a coal car la the local » railroad yards. . ^ £ - Mount Vernon.--Hie JHfnfflg State Dairymen's convention will be held in this City from January 11 to January 31. Elaborate plane are being made far the meeting. Chicago.--Chicago's subtreasury has ' dosed Its* doors after operating for 46 years. All its business will be transacted through the^ federal reserve bank. All the 50 employees except Robert I. Hunt, sub treasurer, will be retained by the reserve bank. Mr. Hunt will return to his home in Decatur. Funds amounting to $8,000,000 fftere transferred. Aurora.--The chamber of commerce lias approved of tbe plan to raise a land for a World-war soldier memorial by taxation. It is proposed to cbtain tins money by free-will offer- * logs instead of a drive for that purpose to be started on Armistice day. Springfield.--Blanks to be filled out ' kf employers who hire more than five persons will be mailed by the state Department of Labor. \Illinois is said te be one of the few states where acf curate information as to the number at persons employed In specific lines 1 «f work is available. I in Illinoft year, acfitement and St^te Supers S. E. Bradt. fluit work op I miles of hard roads since ^January 1. 192Q, miles of road contracted for, but uncompleted. As it is not expected that much more work may be done this year, the schedule of work then completed marks the virtual record for the year. Mileage has been distributed as follows: Lincoln highway, 51 miles; Dixie highway, 44 miles; National Old Trails, 53 miles; Chlcago-St. Louts road, 107 miles; Chlcago-Waukegan road, 6 miles; State aid work, 38 miles. ^ Spring-flfUd.--According to the weekly crop report of the state bureau at estimates, the corn crop In Illinois is made. Yields will be even, due to droughts and the ravages of the chinch bug in certain sections. Seeding of winter wheat is reported completed, while young clover Is making a very good start due to the recent rains. Clover for seed has been destroyed to a considerable extent by grasshoppers and it is 1>elieved that the crop will be much smaller tlian anticipated some time ago. Farm labor has been equal to the demand. Hog cholera still continues to increase slowly. There has been mtfch less plowing thl3 fall as a result of the dey, conditions of the soil. Springfield.--Enrollment at the state normal schools at Normal and Charleston has fallen off sharply In the last three years, according to statistics made, public by William H. McLain of the state department of finance. Tabulation of attendance at the Illinois State Normal university at Normal is as follows; In 1915 there were 964 students in attendance; 1916, 1,150; 1917, 1,835; 1918, 1,000; 1919, 732; 1920. 871. At the Eastern Illinois Normal school at Charleston the attendance for the last five years is as follows: 1915, 595; 1916, 684; 1917, 754; 1918, 586; 1919, 485; 1920, 487. Springfield.--Governor Lowden has appointed the following Joint commission to consider proposed amendments to the state mining laws and report to the. next general assembly. Operators, A. te. McLaren, Marion; Rive Miller, Hlllsboro; H. C. Perry, St Louis. Miners, Joseph Sommers, Zeigler; Dennis Marifield, Duquoin; Charles McMahon, Carrier Mills. Charles E. Woodward of Ottawa, presld^pt of the state constitutional convention; Thomas Hudson, Galva, and P. H. Donnelly of Chicago, formerly of Springfield, are the three men not affiliated with the miners or operators. Springfield.--Appropriation of $100,- 000 as an emergency fund for the state Court of Claims will be asked of the next general assembly to remedy the present cumbersome system which sometimes ?equlces that claimants wait almost three years for settlement of their claims. Recommendation that this fund be cfeated will be made by members of the court, who lately have heard an unusual number of complaints f^om widows and children of state employees killed or incapacitated in service and from persons from whom inheritance tax has been collected wrongfully. Chicago.--The contract for the first water link between Chicago and the Gulf- of Mexico was awarded a few days ago at Chicago. Green & Sons company was given the Job of building the first lock in the series of six which will open 63 miles of waterway between the Illinois river and the drainage canal. The contract price is $1,373,115. The first lock will be bnilt at Marseilles. Bids for the second lock will be opened November 22. It Is estimated that the work will be Completed within two years. Springfield.--Under the title, "The Passing of Men Teachers," State Su perintendent of Public Instruction F. G. pialr has issued a table showing to what extent men have been forced from the teaching profession by the trend of salaries. Back in 1880 men teachers were 39.7 per cent of the total. In 1900 there were still 26.9 per Cent of them men, but last year only 12.8 per cent of Illinois' teachers were men. Chicago.--Revival of building to supply much-needed housing facilities Is expected to follow an agreement just signed by officials of the Chicago Building Trades council, under which all disputes between now and May 1, 1922, are to be settled by arbitration. This action Is the result of two weeks' negotiations between labor leaders, contractors and the housing committee of the real estate board. Edinburg.--Voters of the community who invalidated the Edinburg community high school district at a previous election by voting to erect the school on land later found to be within the banks of a river, went further in their third election recently and voted an 85 plurality against the school. Rockford.--A special election is to be held on December 14 to decide whether or not the city of Rockford is to have a $1,500,OQP-bond issue for new school buildings. The resolution to have the matter plaped on the ballot vi3 passed by the school board. WestvtUe.--By a decision of the Supreme court, cities and villages of IlllnolsTnay not impose a license for the sale of soft drinks. When the saloons wete closed here the city council adopted a license requiring all dealers of near beer to pay a license. Decatur.--Effingham county, for the first time since It was organized 1| 1831, went Republican, with the siagle exception of state's attorney. Free port.--A course In auto mechanics Is now taught all boys of Freeport hlgfe> school who desire to take advantage of it. . Danville.--A meeting «f the miners' examining board will be held here Novembd 17. Other meetings for tbe month are |cheduled as follows: Duquoin, 11th; Marion, 12th; Percy, 13th; ColllnsvlUe, 15th; Canton, i<Wi; Peoria, 19th; Springfield, 22nd. Springfield.--The Benld-Wilsonville Transportation company, with principal offices in Wllsonvllle, incorporated to operate a motor bus line for passenger, express and freight business between Benld and Wilsonville, both In Macoupin county. The capital stock of the company is $10,000. Hnism Strange Stbry of trii^r of Buitoa., Made by Tw« Wat-, ship* at Sea. TO OTTAWA MINT Secretly Shipped Acmes Dominion In Heavily Guarded Special Train-- Hitherto Unpublished Romantic - 8tory of the War. Victoria, B. C.--Stories of a secret transfer of millions of dollarsvof Russian gold from one ship to another in half a gale at sea off the Canadian Pacific coast and of a rush trtp with the money across Canada in a heavily guarded special train, disguised as a Bilk express were published the Victoria Colonist recently as part of the hitherto untold history of the World war. | Two recent newspaper dispatches, seemingly unrelated, the Colonist said, recalled the "hitherto unpublished and romantic strifty" of the gold shipment. One dispatch from Europe said a Mr. Novitsky, former assistant to the minister of finance of the all-Kussian government, had hinted at the huge amounts of gold shipped through Vancouver, B. C., during the war. Including £60,000,000 from Vladivostok. Warships Figure In 8tory. The other dispatch said the Canadian cruiser Rainbow had been sold to a Seattle firm. The connection, the Colonist said, was in the fact the Rainbow transferred a big shipment of the gold at sea from a Japanese wsrshlp and brought It Into Vancouver. Russia's gold, the story continued, came in several shipments, the first of which amounted to about $45,000,000. It was In the form of bullion In boxes about fifteen inches long, and was loaded at Vladivostok early In 1916 for transfer to the Ottawa (Canada) mint. A big Japanese warship with Novitsky tn charge of the bullion, carried the money across the Pacific. Rainbow Gets Treasure. The treasure ship never touched a Canadian port, however, for far out at sea the Rainbow, In a near-gale, met the warship and the precious freight was transferred between the heaves of the rollers. The warship turned back and the little cruiser steamed Into Vancouver, arrlvlngat the Canadian Pa dfic dock at three o'clock on a dark and wet morning. Awaiting her were officials of the Ddlatoion Express company, who had come out from Montreal in their private car- A pickeif crew put the money on a special train of five express cars, which had been switched Into the Canadian Pacific dock. Each car was loaded with $9,000,000 to gold. Greatest Caution 'Used. Every door was guarded' and barred and the transcontinental trip started. A telephone system connected the whole train, and whenever a sentinel wished t<> moVe from one car to another he did so on release from the official car. The doors wove never was p*ricitt£d to the train Modows while ,#flhl6g through towns. At night the in darkness, and at each divisional point, when engines were changed, detectives guarded the platform until the Journey was resumed^ As an additional precaution' the train was operated at irregular ^>eeds on different legs of the trip. Sleighs backed up to the train at Ottawa and the gold was unloaded and ^aken to the mint under direction oC Novitsky. The train was the first of several which passed through Vancouver during the war. In August. 1916, another train carried $50,000,000 across Canada, and in January, 1917, $177,000,000 made the trip. Fly Caused His Death. s Rochester, Ind.--The fly which caused John Phillips' "death never touched him. Phillips was milking when the fly bothered the cow. She kicked' and he died of tetanus. War Kaiser Tafced of Second Clash While First Was Raging, WORLD SUPREMACY Parliamentary Leaders Stunned by Unexpected Display of Imperial '" v^lMentality--Was Hardest '• Blew to Old System.. Berlin, Germany--Former German Emperor WOllam confidently expected to emerge victorious from the world war and then marshal his continental armies against Great Britain in what he termed "thi second Punic war," says Mathias Erzberger In his volume of war recollections just published at Stuttgart. The emperor evidently used the term "Punic war" In the sense of a conflict for world supremacy between two great nations. Herr Erzberger, who was formerly minister of finance but who has temporarily retired from public political activities, set forth in detail the meeting between the emperor,^ William, and the relchstag leaders after the fall Of Revealing the Country's Populatioii* W. H. Hunt (left), statistician, reeding the official figures of the total population of the United States to reporters and members of tbe census bureau. Chancellor von Bethmanff-Hollweg and following the adoption of tbe pefcee resolution in July. 1917. "Compromise* Means "Take All." He says the emperor became enthusiastic over the phrase "peace or compromise," which he assumed was what the relchstag majority demanded. "Excellent word -- 'Compromise.' William stated. ""It means that ^we take the money, raw products, cotton, oil and ores out of the pockets of our enemies and transfer them to our own." The parliamentary leaders, Herr Erzberger continues, werfe astonished by this unexpected display of Imperial mentality and felt that they were being made the victims of his mockery, The emperor's further remarks were In the same channel, he declares. William asserted that the United States and Great Britain had entered Into an alliance for the purpose of reckoning with Japrin after the war, He was also reliably Informed that Russia would Join JapAn In warding off the Anglo-Saxon blow. He admit ted that Great Britain would not emerge from the war defeated, but said the final,accounting would come when he led his continental armies against her in "the second Punic war/ Promised French Entente. The amazement of the parliamentarians grew as the kaiser continued, Herr Erzberger reports. The monarch asserted that "a complete understanding would be reached with France when the war was over." . Referring to a battle in Gallcla which occurred onty a few days previous, tb« kaiser claimed that the Prussian guard under the command of hlfe son Fritz had "brushed the democratic dust off the vests of the Russians." "Wherever the guards appear there Is no longer any democracy left," he exclaimed. The Roumanians got their just desserts, the war lord told Herr Erzberger when the latter suggested that the poor Roumanians had probably lost everything but their shirts. Herr Erzberger adds that thp wholf meeting between the kaiser and parliamentary leaders was npt only a grave misfortune, but it proved "the deepest cut with the spade that ultimately resulted In the overthrow of the prevailing regime." - Hje concludes the chapter with the statemepl that the relchstag veteran* who up to that time were opposed to the parliamentary system, that very night openly avowed that the old system would Inevitably plunge Germany Into disaster. States Supreme Tribunal Says Spirits Can Be Stored • Anywhere, MUST BE LAWFULLY ACQUIRED Court ftutes in ^ Favor of |ian With Stock for* Hie Pereonal Consumption-- Can Take Booze From Warehouse to Home. - Ostrich Chick Whips House Cat and Dog Vancouver, B, C.--Jonathan. tlie first ostrich chick hatched la Canada, Is progressing under the care of Zoo Manager F. Green in Stanley park. It was at first believed that the valuable bird could not livd and it was takea from Its parents and placed la the Green home. Appearance of weakness proved deceptive, for Jonathan quickly licked the house cat and secured a decision over the family spaaleL , Cow's 4«0 Is Petal* Wlnsted, Conn.--A herd «f owned by Fred Helmer of Piatt Hill got jagged on <cider apples and one died from the effects of the debauch. Helmer played the role of nurse this morning, fastening burlap bags soaked in hot watec. about the head* of the WHITE CAPS IN SOUTH Force Thousands of Negroes to Work in Fields. Cotton Crop Saved by Action of Night Ride re Wearing the Qarb of the Kuklux Klan. Greenville. S. C.--While the old Kuklux Klan of reconstruction days Is being revived in sqme parts of the South In a fraternal spirit for law hnd order, the hooded night raiders in long, flowing white gowns have actually made their appearance In South Carolina as a means of forcing certain planters to pay less for cotton picking and also forcing thousands of negroes to work. White Cape, several hundred strong, with horses and riders dad in the Kuklux^ Klsn garb, have ridden Into several towns In tbe state, principally in Florence county, and as a result-the cottoh fields the next day were thick with cotton pickers end the housewives have ell the help la %e way of cooks end wash they desire. Farmers now see a pay out of the ruin which faced them by tbe deterioration of cotton turning blue in the fields for a lack of pickers. The White Caps appeared In Lake City for a second time. First they called on some farmers who had been prying $s much as $1.50 a hundred pounds for picking cotton and suggested to them that this tras too much. The price fell to SI In; a , twinkling. Tbe cavalcade then proceeded to the negro section and threw out severs! bints to the effect that more work and less loafing around would be required. Hence the new hordes of pickers and multitude of cooks and washers today. rr Diamonds have, been tierovered ta fallen meteore. , I „ •• Ml 1.1 --I. • ,»i TEACH SERBS ENGLISH Now Made Compulsory Subject in Normal Schools. A J ' " . ' Dominating Language, Apart From Native Tongue, Hitherto Hae < Been German. , " ; Belgrade, Serbia.--English It feeing Introduced throughout tbe schools of Serbia. It is now made a compulsory subject in the normal schools. The first courses in English, which were inaugurated In Belgrade a year ago under an American teacher. Dr. James Wild of Chicago, have yielded such excellent results that the government has decided to make the language a part of the curriculum of all schools. > Heretofore the dominating language of the Serbians, apart from their native tongue, has been German. Tbe Germans were quick to see the advantage of introducing their language as .a means 'of acquainting tbe school children with the ways and customs of the German people. The pupils were given little chance to acquire the things that go to make up the life and culture of Anglo-Saxon civilization. A very large proportion of Serbia's school tepchers were killed In war, 800 having died during the Bulgarian occupation. Scores of school buildings were destroyed, and most of the school books printed In tbe Serbian language were deliberately confiscated and burned by the Bulgars. Even Bibles were carried off, the object of the Bulgarians being* to displace all books In the Serbian langhage with publications In their own language. Notwithstanding these disasters, out of 2,100 schools In Serbia nearly 2,000 have reopened. So great is the thirst for education in Serbia that It is a common thing for children in the country districts to leave their homes before daybreak and walk for several hours to reach school, not returning . ^ / home until late in the evening. The school buildings, owing to the ravages of war, often are without window panes, heat, desks, books and even writing materiaL So great is the shortage of teachers and the influx of pupils that the former have to work from dawn until uight, taking their classes in "relays." Wedding Party Fans irr Cellar;'Floor Collapses Corning, N. T.--Forty persons were dropped into the cellar of the home of George Coats when the floor gave way In the midst of merry-making following tbe marriage of Mr. Coats' daughter. Exploding lamps set lire to the debris. The grandmother of the bride was injured Internally, and the bride and several guests were bruised and burned. ,/Washington, Nov. 10.--Liquor lawfully acquired by a person for his personal use may be stored in a place other than his home under a ruling by the Supreme court. The court's decision was an appeal brought by WUliam G. Street of New York city from lower court decrees refusing an Injunction prohibiting federal prohibition officers fiym seizing liquor whicV he had stored in a room leased from a safe deposit company. The court-declared congress did not intend to, prohibit such storage when th^ liquor was lawfully acquired for a lawful purpose. The decision was rendered by Associate Justice Clark. The lower court, in upholding the portioh of the enforcement act interpreted by prohibition enforcement officials as prohibiting storage except in the Ijome, held that congress, under the police power delegated by the prohibition amendment, had authority to prohibit any transportation of liquors and that in order to reduce the neces-1 slty for transportation to a minimum, ^lt had the power to legislate as to the places where liquor mjght 'lawfully be possessed. * " Justice Clark also held that the transportation off lawfully acquired liquor from k warehouse to the home of the #-owner, did not constitute "transportation" within the meaning of the enforcement act. Commissioner Williams of the Internal revenue bureau land Prohibition Commissioner Kramer declined to comment On the court's deci^Jon. Chicago, Nov. 10.--The state search *and seizure law, making it illegal to transfer liquor, 1% not Invalidated by the Supreme court's ruling. Any lawfully acquired liquor can be stored or transported under the Volstead act, according to federal officials here. The chief conse<£]enc£ of the Supreme court's ruling will be that persons transporting liquor are how subject to arrest by the police only. Canada Great Possibilities. I Soil, Climate, and Weather Cendltleft* . All Factors In the Production Unrivaled Fruit, Vegetables \ ' * ' ^ Flowers as Well . : K5 as Oram. and ROOT 0; K.'S THE LEAGUE Declares Any Deal Abandoning the - Versatile Treaty Would Bplng Chaoe and Dieaeter. Washington, Nov. lO.-^The coolness between President-elect Harding and Ellhu Root, which has silenced all talk of that eminent Republican being considered for secretary of state, Resulted from a cablegram stating that "a n«hv deal abandoning the treaty of Versailles is impossible and that to attempt It would bring chaos and. general disaster " involving the . United States," sent by the forme;- senator to the presidential candidate during the beat of the campaign, it was teemed herft. a I . * , MANY KILLED IN VUCATAN ^ f Election Fights Result in Numerous 1 Deaths anfe Barbarities--Man ^ Drinks Blood of Victtm». Mexico City, Nov. 10.--Reports continue to arrive of disorders in Yucatan, where, messages say, many were killed in election fights between the socialists and liberals. According to' Deputy Manzanllla the socialists killed 158 liberals and barbarities.of all descriptions are charged against the fighting factions. One socialist, was accused of drinking the blotKl of,» lib erallst victim. v 6. 0. P. HOUSE MAJORITY 182 ^stated Returne Add Two More Con. gresemen to Liet--Democrats * Have 126 Votes.' Washington, Nov. 10.--The Republican majority In the house of representatives was moved up to 182 by receipt of belated returns showing the election of Republicans In the Third New York anil Fourth Oklahoma districts. < Tbe house now' stands: - Bepubllcans, 90S; Democrats, 12$. Soft Coal Output Boosted! Washington, Nov.-10.--Soft coal production for the week of October 30 was 12,338,000 tons, a new maximum for the year, figures .jpade public by the United States geological survey show. ^ * U. t>lhlp So Me for |1,7SM00.> Washington, Nov. 10.--8aie of the >,400 deadweight-ton steel cargo steamer, Charles M. Crnmfl, to the Atlantic. Gulf & Pacific Steamship company of Baltimore for $1,730,000 was announced by the shipping board. k Many a rich girl makes a poor ««£ Herding Off to Panama Nov. 1*. Point Isabel, Tex., Nov. 10.--President- elect Harding will sail from New Orleans, November 18 for the Canal Zone on board a United Fruit company steamer. Returning, he will be landed at Norfolk December 4 .ks . .111JM Record Corn Clip. * Washington, Nov. 10.--A record erep of cfcm, exceeding the previous larfest crop by y5.000,000 bushels, was announced by the Department of Agriculture, placing production this yeafr at 3,199,102,000 bushels. Constitutionalists Win in Italy. ^ Rome, Nov. 10.--Municipal elections at Milan, Naples. Barl, Palermo. Pisa, Genoa and Florence were held and constitutional candidates were successful at all the cities. Nft aatoward incidents are reported. As recently as last month-^-to cor» rect, It was the 18th of October, a time' of year when one naturally looks*$or the "frost upon the punkin," and is inclined to wander through the woods in search of the ripened nuts, and admire the beautiful colorings that the autumn atmosphere has bestowed tfpoa thp leaves; when one goes to his closet, or maybe his pawnbroker, to And his heavy clothing--it was that I found myself the guest of a Western Canada housewife in her beautiful home 0®j the outskirts of the pretty little town of Moosomin, Saskatchewan. The dinner! That's what Mrs. Wilde called It I should have termed It a banquet. There were mallard, duck, cooked to a* turn, baked potatoes--and such big; mealy fellows they were, too--cauliflower-- and say, did you ever taste one of those Western Canada cauliflower?-- then dessert. What was tho dessert? I can see It now. Strawberries, strawberries that bad been picke<| that morning. Help yourself to the cream--and It was cream that Is cream. But what I wanted to write about was the strawberries picked on the 18th of October. As I ate, and turned my back while a second helping was placed in front of me, I could not but think how this goes to refute the once accepted Idea that the climate of Western Canada Is such that the ripening of strawberries at any season Is one of tbe things that might be looked upon as next to impossible. Fortunately It is rapidly giving place to onfe which acknowledges that * our Sister nation to the north possesses a climate that makes It quite possible to develop and ripen strawberries even iji October. But there Is more to add. On October 14, jugt a fe# days previous, Mr. A. B. Smith,, near the same town, plucked a splendid mess of green corn from his garden. Near RocauviUe, Saskatchewan, frlld raspberries were picked during the same week. The fact of ripening fruit at this date may seem of little moment, but when you arestold that corn did not suffer from any4 vagaries of weather, more attention may be paid to (L The question of Western Canada's climate Is ao longer the bugaboo It once was, and not so very long ago, either, \fhen it caused thinking people to think, ana unquestionably prevented many going to Canada who under other dltlon8 would have gone. „ •, In various parts of this country, at different state and county fairs, tbe^ government of the Dominion of Qtnada, duflng the past few weeks, installed exhibits of the grains aad grasses grown in Western Canada, and at the same time showed fruits and vegetables that were grown there. None of these was placed In competition with the home-grown article. But to Judges and ethers there came the full understanding of what It would mean ^o the local exhibitor If they were. The Western Canadtah--and many of tbe exhibits were grown by former Americans--does not lay claim to any special dispensation of intelligence In the matter of the culture of Hie articles placed on exhibition, but willingly gives credit to the soli, the climate, and such other Indigenous conditions as the country as a whole possesses, as being factors that bring about the largest yields of the best of wheat, oats, barley, flax and rye, as well as vegetables. As is pointed nut by the gentlemen In charge of these exhibits, and quite evident to al^ the' possibilities of growing vegetables and grain such as are shown can only exist where conditions such as bare beaa< mentioned exist . In speaking of eating fresh strawberries and green corn In the mlddloof October I should not fall to refer to tbe beautiful bouquets that adorned^ tbe table, the sideboard, tbe window sills, and almost every other available vacant place In the room. Flowers .l-- 4here were asters, phlox, gladioli, peonies, poppies, and I efcn't remember the names of them all, but they wero there. Taken right from the garden* ' having a fragrance that gave tbe roooa "tropical colors, and filled It with marvelously delightful perfumes. It waa a very pretty sight Then I went oat Into tbe garden and took a photo of It It was simply wonderful. I asked th» good lady how she managed It. 8ks said she had always been 'fond of flowers. In her old home. In one at thfr central states, she carried on garden horticulture, and had been acknowledged successful. "But my!" she sald^ "I never got such bloom, and such a variety as I do here." She admitted It was a lot of work, the watering tW weeding, the hoeing, but such work was a pleasure. Well, such is some ef tbe Itffc la Western Canada, and as I left tt* fahu home 1 concluded that much-of our surroundings are as we ourselves make 4bem.--Advertisement. I?:'*.? *v 'S A : . - f t * - ' . m Chinese Barbere. , The Chinese are not accustomed t» tipping the barber. As a matter ef fact the Chinese barber is very modest in his prices, and his patrons can tain a hair cut, a head shave, a facn shave, and in addition have his shoal* ders and {mck massaged, all for a cam total of less than % cents. Tbe straight razor nsed by Chinese barbers is a trtangular shaped blade wtth straight handle, folding up as does tbe American straight razor. The blades made from old rails or aay other cred» steel which has outlived lt»usefulness hi other directions. , ^ --.-te. . t Predicament. •Tm la a predicament." •What'a the trpubleT* "I'm running for office." "Well?" r « • "1 can't make up my mind what to do. You see, I cant think up any real good reason %by I should *>e elected and J hatq to conduct a mud-slingtni campaign and spend all my time tenlag tbe people why the other (eilMK ahouMnt be.**--Detroit Frpe Pran> -1 Ji 15i