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H*® •#Will Irwin _ AUTHOR OF THE CITY THAT WAS, ETC, _ ILLUSTRATED BY Harry K .Grissmger "Copyright oia. BOBBS-merrillC? m. iCw w' ^ 1 ' > ' 'J *5= WSS $ m f», f^irr? • ;> ;• Wm 4-.f^" P- ll£ 0*S>: fevV. ^Vi 1 jp^:- ' ?v': -S® Si- w-y SS& • "Tommy North, returning to his room In Sbfrs. Moore'e boarding house at 2:30 a, m.. fiter-overs the body of Capt. John Hanska, '(another roomer, with a knife wound on Ills breast. Suspicion rests upon a man Iving the name of Lawrence Wade, who ad been heard quarreling with Hanska. luring the excitement a strange woman ...'ho gives h^r name as Rosalie L<eGrange, Appears and takes into her own home •across the street all of Mrs. Moote's ,(boarders, including Miss Kstriiia, an in- jvaliil, whose brother waa a favorite ptrpong the other boarders. Wade is ar- e6ted. Mrs. LeGrange, who, while plying ier trade as a trance medium, had aided 'olice Inspector Martin McGee several imps, calls at his office to tell what «he innws of the crime. While she is there, 'onstance Hanska, widow of the myrder- mAn. whose existence had been un- tnown, appesri*. Mrs. Hanska, «ays she lad left her husband and discloses the tact that Wade represented her and vis- ted Hannka on the night of the murder !n an effort to settle their affairs. 9he inits Wade 'was in love with her. Wade . held by the coroner's Jury for the death if Hanska. Tommy North, who had been ield by the police, is released and re- .urns to Mrs. LeGrange'a house. He be. romes infatuated at once with Betsy Bar- iara. and at her urging prepares to es- ablish the Thomas W. North Advertising lAgency. Mrs. I^eGrange. with Inspector (McGee. examines the house where Han- iBka was killed and finds on the Are es- icape outside Hanska's window a red shoe, {button, which she conceals. Mrs. Le- terange secretly examines the shoes of her jbonrders In search of one the red button (will fit. She pretends to go into a trance ton Miss Estrilla's room and communes {with spirits. Rosalie Becures from In- ppector McGee the services of an ̂ -Italian (detective, to work under her direction. (Rosalie find* evidence to show that Es- wrtlla's real name Is Peres and that they Wormerljr lived in Port of Spain. Rosalie %gOf-s into another trance In Miss Estrilla's troom and gains the young woman's con­ fidence. In succeeding seances Rosalie ends Miss Estrilla to believe she is talk- ng with the spirit of John Hanska, and ts information that leads her to pre- ro for a supreme test. With Inspector _ cGee and detectives at the windows. Rosalie, in a final seance, leads Miss Es- itrilla to tell, in a supposed conversation [With the spirit of Hanska, that her broth- «r Juan held the knife that pierced Han- jCkft's heart. Confronted by the officers Sfivs Estrilla makes a full confession. She jtells how Hanska secured possession of jher jewels and fled to New York, and ifiow she and her brother Juan had traced iitni to Mrs. Moore's house. *fC;- m* m- *"* "t 0 ^ CHAPTER XVII--Continued. "I got the window catch open with • k~: ^penknife--it was old and looee. I went over the whole room that night and .'gll'.v ^ iagain on another night--and found •jiiii3? . nothing. I did discover a little strong- feoxvin the top drawer of the dresser. s cL '* iay wide open. It had a curious (lock. In that, I was sure, he would pat the jewels if he ever wanted to Eiove them. There was no sign of the ill of sale. It occurred to me, then, jthat Captain Hanska might be carry­ ing it on his person. I knew him to lie a very sound sleeper--he had boast­ ed to me of that, and he proved it by •deeping through a Are at his hotel "when he was in Port of Spain. So I <did a dangerous thing. Without speak­ ing to Juan, I went down the fire es­ cape at two o'clock in the morning of i* night when Captain Hanska at jhame, and looked through his pockets. 5 eves examined all the papers is his "wallet by the light of the electric "torch. But it was not there. Juan, when I told him, was angry with me jfor taking such a risk. He made me .promise never to enter the room •gain unless Captain Hanska was '•way. And then we found that we must iaiek quickly, or lose our property for- lefrer. Juan was watching Captain : Hanska, following bis movements v*ry closely. That day--the day a^d , bight when everything happened--the . (captain visited a Jeweler in Maiden (Lane--I think you call it. He stayed a long time. Prom there he went to a bafe deposit bank. When he came out, Ihe had a package in his pocket--Juan Could see his coat bulge. Juan was ' Afraid that he would go straight back to the Jeweler and make the sale; and then our last hope would have been pone. Instead, Captain Hanska went po a cafe and sat alone a long time, ^ drinking. When he left that place, he ~"*"t®turned to Mrs. Moore's. And the ,.,,4|hape of his pocket showed that he '(•till carried the package. . "It was plain to us that the package : Hjontained the jewels, and that he in­ tended to dispose of them at once-- probably the next morning. That night the Jewels would be in his room--and It was our last chauce. Juan came to me me just after dinner. We talked it all over, and made our final plans. In -tike first place, it seemed best for Juan to do the work himself. I am a woman, and very weak with grief and Illness. I could do nothing in case I •was discovered. Though Juan had /teever been in the roorr 1 i-ould tell 1dm exactly where tc iook--there seemed no doubt that Captain Han- r Ska was keeping th« strong-box for . that very purpose. Then we considered another thing W: i'r /;^'.r*ii-how we should both get away. At we decided that I should leave "*fre house early, and that Juan, after |H0RT SENTENCES FOR HIM ,. , %frlter Gives Good Advice to His Fel- lowrts In the Following 8imp!e Werda. WriKwto who wish to impart to their ; productions power and pungency, who Wish to keep the reader's attention "f. tipon the tiptoe of activity, who desire to escape the imputation of pedantry And who seek to surcharge their senti- ' Jpaents with sparkle and spirit will do well to bear in mind constantly that long, lingering sentences, unduly over- 'burdened with an abundance of f>tarasea, clauses and parenthetical ob­ servations of a more or less digressive , character, are apt to be tiresome to the reader, especially if the subject- jpiatter be at all profound or ponder- i>us. to place an undue strain upon b|a powers of concentration and to leave - vim with a confused concept of the Ideas which the writer apparently has 'Vt>een at great pains to'concentrate; YVhile short, snappy sentences, on the •tber hand, with the frequent recur- L-Wenee of subject and predicate, thus ^•caUing and eapha^zing Uiej idea to should follow me. But he did not dare to make the at­ tempt before one or two o'clock in the morning, when Captain Hanska would surely be asleep--even the heaviest sleepers sometimes lie awake a long time after they go to bed. Mrs. Moore, we knew, was very watchful--ehe was afraid of burglars and she had a habit of running to her door whenever any­ one, entered or left daring the night. She would know that I had gone out; if Juan left at one or two in the morn­ ing, Mrs. Moore would take alarm, knowing as she did that I was out. of the house. Being nervous and igno­ rant, she waa likely, we felt, to seize hhn or to give some sort of an alarm. We were thinking of every possibility, you see. These things are necessary for me to te$l, that you may under­ stand what happened later." (This in answer to an objection of Inspector McGee, who was urging her to come to the point.) "At about ten o'clock; we decided Just what to do. "Juan and I are about of a size. I am large for a woman. He Is small for a man. We do not resemble each oth­ er in the upper part of the face, but our mouths and chins are very much' alike. It was one of our games at home to dress in each other's clothes. "I would put on his ulster, pull his hat far down over my eyes, and fool people into believing that I was he. Further, his voice is light, and he can talk in falsetto. This was an old family game. We played eternally on the resemblance in the charades and theatricals that Engliah people are always getting up. "This was our plan:' We were to change clothes. We had heard people singing in the parlor all that evening. The boarders all knew that Juan some­ times sang falsetto in fun. I was to watch my chance when the hall was vacant, pass the parlor, sing just a lit­ tle in my own voice to make them be­ lieve I was Juan einging falsetto, and go to his rooms, where I was to wait. The night was rainy. It was natural, therefore, that I should be bundled up in a mackintosh and have my hat pulled down over my eyes. "Dressed in my clothes, Juan was to enter Captain Hanska's room, get the jewels, leave by the door, go down the stairs and join me. I used some­ times to get a little outdoor exer­ cise in the early morning when I need not fear meeting Captain Hanska, and when most of the city lights' are out, so that the eyes have less strain. If Mrs. Moore waked, looked out, and saw Juan in my clothes, she would think it was I going for my exercise and take no alarm. "In case Juan failed, he waa to go back to my room and telephone to me, speaking Spanish and imitating my voice. Then, atlll dressed as Juan, I was to return to Mrs. Moore's early next morning and change clothes--but that part of our plan does not matter. "We began everything just as we planned. As I went down the stairs, I passed Mrs. Moore. In the hall, I saw a young man--Mr. Wade, I believe. I showed myself at the door and looked in, and eang a little. By the way they laughed and spoke, I knew that I had- deceived them. "I went straight to Juan's rooms. The elevator man in his hotel was fooled Just as much as the boarders, it seems. I waited there a long time. 1 Then Juan telephoned to me, talking in Spanish and calling me Juan, as if he were I. He said that Captain Han­ ska had been murdered and for me to come at once to him--that he needed me--he said it all ae a hysterical wom­ an would. Somehow I managed to do as he asked. I had to pass Captain Hanska's door. I heard people ma­ king a noise inside. Of course 1 did not enter. But right by the door I saw something bright. I knew it at once-- it was one of my diamond buckles-- one of the jewels which Captain Han­ ska had stolen from me. I picked it up, and went on to my room. Juan was there--in my dress. He kept me from fainting or dying while we changed back to our own clothes. I knew the rest from Juan. (At about thie point, occurred one of those irruptions of expletives, brok­ en sentences, pleas, prayers, which al­ ways mar a confession for legal pur­ poses, and is, therefore, edited out by the police before the finished typewrit­ ten statement goes back to the witness for his signature. This extraneous matter, you see, tends to create in the minds of unthinking persons a false sentiment for the criminal.) "Juan said that he waited until after one o'clock. The house was quiet. From the window of the lumber room, he crawled to the fire escape. Theft window had a spring catch--you had onto', to pull it down and it locked of itself. Since he intended to l^tive Cap- ta\n Hanska's room by the?«|oor, he closed this window behind him in or­ der to cover up his tracks. That win­ dow of the captain's room which led to the fire escape, was open for venti­ lation. The rain was drifting through it. It occurred to Juan that every­ thing would be safer if he clcsed it-- he was afraid that a gufjt of wind might blow spray into Captain Han­ ska's face, and wake him. He did that; and he fastened the sash with the catch. Captain Hanska was asleep, breathing very heaviiy. Remember that. "You have seen the room. The bu­ reau, where I found the strong-box, was In the corner farthest from the window which Juan had juet entered. Between It and the window were a table and Captain Haneka's bed. Juan carried our pocket electric torch. He turned it on the inside of the top bu­ reau drawer. The box was there. Also, the key was in its lock. Juan thought it would be better to take the jewels out and leave the box. By doing that he could find whether the bill of sale was with the jewels, or whether he would have to search further for it That was his great mistake. It was a trick box. Inside waa an alarm-bell which rang whenever the cover was lifted. "Juan opened it; the bell rang. Cap­ tain Hanska awoke at once. Juan had no time to move, before Captain Han- eka pressed the button at the head of his bed and turned on the electric light. It must have bewildered him for a moment when he saw what ap­ peared to be a woman standing by his bureau--but Juan held the strong-box in his hands. When he saw that, the captain came at htm. Juan is a small man. Captain Hanska was big and very powerful. Just then, Juan saw on the table between them that great knife. "Juan is a swordsman. He picked up the knife to etop the captain by threatening him with it--held the point toward his chest. Captain Hanska was a brave man, and very violent in anger. He had one of his terrible spells of temper now. He began to curse Juan. And then his hands went up to his head all of a sudden, and he. tumbled over with all his great weight on the point of the knife. Juan did not thrust--he is sure now he did not thrust--he only held the knife steady --but it pierced Captain Hanska through:" fin this place, Detectiye Kennedy bad to edit the statement a 4, \ be expressed as the development of the thought proceeds, like numerous signposts upon an untraveled road, these frequent breaks having the ef­ fect of taking a new hold npon the reader's attention, oases in the desert of words, as it were, will be found tp be much more effective, much more conducive to clarify and far better calculated to preserve the contact, the wireless connection, so to speak, be­ tween the writer and the reader/pro­ vided, however, and it is always very eafy to err through a too strict and literal application of a general rule, that the sentences are not so short as to give a jerky, choppy and sketchy effect and to scatter the reader's at­ tention so often all to send him wool­ gathering completely.--Ellis O. Jones in Life. ---- . p'b; Ants Which fyant and v The extraordinary habits of the lulif- vester ant have been known to nat­ uralists. Certain species not only har­ vest and store in granaries the seeds upon which they feed, but actually j plant and cultivate an annual crop | of thelTy food , seeds. Still m«ra jq* "In the Hall I Saw a Young Man.* great deal in order to make it seem­ ly for the official archives.) • * * • • • • We will leave for a moment the po­ lice statement. "Fell on it?" asked Martin McOee.' "What's that you're trying to give us?" "On my soul and my mother's," sol­ emnly declared Miss Estrilla. "Don't you see--can't you understand? A doctor in Port of 8pain had warned him of it--Juan has done nothing since--nothing--but read medical books--he was dead before he touched the point of the knife--if Juan stabbed him, he stabbed a corpse--Captain Hanska died of apoplexy caused by his anger!" During these last dramatic stages of Miss Estrilla's narrative, Rosalie Le Orange had slipped into the room. For a moment, Miss Estrilla gazed full up­ on her betrayer. For a moment, all that the tropics had given her of storm and flame glared from her eyes. Then that light died away. Thereafter, it markable stories are told of an ant that Is common in Dalmatia, the Mes- sor barbarus. According to Dr. N»- ger of the Dresden forestry school, this ant not only cuts leaves and gathers seed, but actually makes makes bread or biscuit! The seeds are first sprouted, then carried into the sun and dried, then taken back to the underground chambers, where they are chewed into a dough. The dough is then finally made into tiny cakes, which are baked in the sun, then care­ fully stored for future use. From these observations 1t would appear that the art of cooking is not confined to the human race. Friend of Young People. lime. Fallleres is said to be a typical great lady, having for forty years lived the life of a wife of a senator, cabinet minister, president of council, president of {he senate, and for seven years wife of the chief of state. 8he and her husband have been much in terested in a sort of philanthropy that enables French young people to get raprried, the tot it to his cradtSk youth beginning to save :radlft r was as though Kosiflie had not "t>e«n. If Miss Estrilla's ftlance, wandering from one point to ancth^r in her effort to concentrate on her narrative,- touched upon Rosalie's figure, they looked straight through it. Rosalie moved by imperceptible stages to Detective Kennedy's table. Casually, she picked up a fountain pen and a sheet of paper, and wrote: "New York, Nov. 18, 190--. "I am telling to the police all I know of my part in the death of Capt. John H. Hacreka. I have confessed that we followed him to America to get jewels, and that it was my brother Juan who appeared to have stabbed him." r; The inspector w*js questioning gently now upon the apoplexy theory, hoping to trap the witness into an in­ consistency. While ehe talked, Hiss Estrilla (or Senorita Perez) paused from time to time as though gathering strength. Rosalie waited for such a pause. Then she braced the paper on a book and slipped up to Inspector McGee. "You've forgotten this," she said, "you were goln' to git it signed at the very first, you know." Inspector McGee's expression prayed that he was puzzled. But he had be­ come accustomed to following Rosar He's mental flights without knowledge of their destination. He nodded, there­ fore, and gave book, paper and pen to Miss Estrilla. If was the best possible compliment to the inspector's third de­ gree methods, that she signed without a protest. Rosalie took the paper si­ lently ; but she did not deposit it where it belonged--among the official papers on Detective Kennedy's table. As she resumed her station outside the door, she was folding it in her fingers. The police went on, then, with their searchings and questionings. They failed to notice, so absorbed were they, the sound of retreating footsteps on the stairs. • • • >• * * • * We resume, with the painstaking Detective Kennedy, the statement of Margarita Perez, alias Estrilla. "It was apoplexy. But Juan did hot know it yet. He only knew that Cap­ tain HanBka had fallen on the knife and died, and that it would loot like murder. He understood your law, he knew that to get our property he was committing what looked like burglary, and that a burglar who commits mur­ der cannot plead self-defense. He wait­ ed by the window to see whether the- fall had disturbed the house. No one stirred--probably an elevated train wae passing at the time it happened. Frightened as he . was, he still thought of the Jewels, and decided tc take them, whatever the risk. He exam­ ined the box; the bill of sale was there. Circumstances had changed now; an empty strong-box in the room of a man who appeared to have been murdered, might set the police on the track. He thought of this. So he took the box, open- as it was, switched off the elec­ tric light, and started to leave by the -door. The catch of the spring lock was on. To lock the room from out- Bide, he would have had to slam the door--you know how a Bpring lock works. That would have made a great deal of noise. It might awaken some one, who would hear footsteps going from Captain Hanska's room to mine. He put the box under his arm and fastened back the catch of the spring lock, so that he could close the door without sound. Of course, that left it unlocked. In doing all this, it seems, he spilled out of the box the diamond buckle which I found on the stairs. Juan went back to my room be­ cause he wanted time to think. His first idea was to leave the house dressed in my clothes, juet as we had planned, and join me. Then we would escape together. But he knew that the police generally catch fugitives from justice in the end. We were in a strange country. We had no friends to help us. If we were missing from the house in the morning, if we were caught escaping, every one would be­ lieve us guilty. Then he had another idea. If I could return, still disguised as Juan, after the body was discov­ ered, he would have a perfect alibi. While he was thinking about this, Mr. North came home and fell into the blood, as you know. "Immediately, Juan heard some .one calling murder from below. That was his chance to carry out his plan. He telephoned me. I came. I have told you about that. He changed to hlB own clothes. I made him go down­ stairs and 'offer to help. My clothes, which Juan had worn down the fire escape in the rain, were still a little wet I looked them over carefully; SEES BLACK PERIL IN AFRICA Rider Haggard Believes Races Must at 8ome Time Meet In Struggle for Supremacy, <• my mind the great qaeatkm of the future of southern Africa is npt, as so many suppose, that of the politi­ cal dominance of Englishman or Boer, but of the inevitable though, let us hope, far-off struggle for practical su­ premacy between the ^rhite blood and the black. We may wonder what are the thoughts that pass through the mind or some ancient warrior of Chaka's or Dingaan's time, as he suns himself crouched on the ground, lor example, where once stood the royal kraal, Du- gtiza, and watches men and women of the Zulu blood passing homeward from the cities or the mines, bemused, some of them, with the white man's smug­ gled liquor, grotesque in the white man's cast-off garments, hiding, per­ haps, in their blankets, examples of the white man's doubtful photographs --and then shuts hi6 sunken eyes and remembers the plumed and kilted regl- tttltoof ; the «hoa» tharwtfr of M ones there in the closet. By the time they came to take me away to'this house, no one would have known that, my garments had been out in the wet. ' •"When they moved me, I took away the jewels and the strong-box in my bedding. L$ter Juan dropped the box into the river, and sent the jewels to my cousin in Caracas. "It was his plan to leave the country •as soon as we might do so without- attracting suspicion. But when they arrested Mr. Wade, I could not agree to that--1 could not have his death on my soul. Juan was Imploring me to leave; but I told him that I would not until Mr, Wade was released or acquit­ ted. If it came to the worst, I would confess. I persuaded Juan that I was right. That is why Wf etayed.< , W# had no other reason. "I make this statement without hope or offer of reward or immunity, solely in the interest of juetice. "MARGARITA PEREZ." . I reiterate--this narrative, which to you tnay seem to run so plainly and simply, was broken all along the way with police questions, with exclama­ tions, with hesitations, with parox­ ysms, mental and physical. At times, the voice of Miss Estrilla (or Senora Feres j was a mere whisper of horror. At times it swelled to a full poignant note as she tried to make her points in Juan's defense. Now, as she fin­ ished, it simply ran down until !t was silence. And with the tired motion of a child who falls asleep, she v quietly fainted. " • "Here, Kennedy, get some water!" exclaimed Inspector McGee. "Mrs. Le Grange--Rose--Mrs. Le Orange." Receiving no answer, McGee searched the tiall. She wae pot there. He went downstairs, calling. He had reached the second floor landing when Mrs. Leary'e voice answered him from below. "She went out a quarter of an hour ago," called Mrs. Leary. "You said we were to do what she told us, so I let her through. Wasn't that all right, chieirr - .. .•/ • •' •/« ; :rk:-- Chapter xvii&'/:\>;.; V 5/-V' . *V-: A RllSe. • Whfe&«b#&fte Le Hotel Deidrich to the taxicab chauf­ feur, her object--she followed here but an old instinct--was to cover her tracks in case of many contingencies. She dismissed the cab, however; at the north door of the Deidrich, walked through the lobby to the west en­ trance, walked out "on Broadway, walked a block south. There, spying another taxicab whose meter displayed the red sign "vacant," She comman­ deered it, and announced her real ob­ jective. "Casino--Central park--go fast;" she said. During the drive ehe Btared straight ahead and talked In low un­ dertones to herself. This was an old habit, born of her half-believed, half-assumed "medium- ship" in her days of active practice. In these later days she was atlll wont to argue out In soft phrases of her lips the problems of her soul. One who had overheard these scattered phrases now would have known that she was still lighting for a decision. "Well, ain't the world been good to me lately?" she was saying as they swept into tho Park entrance. "Can't I afford to take a chance with myself --an' happiness ?" And then, "Oh, how will Martin look at it--Mariiui" A little later, as the taxicab took the rolling drive beside a& park lake, she was saying: "I couldn't bear it if he was sent to the chair--I could never live through it--I'd die, too." It seemed that upon this statement she made her decision, for she talked to hprself ho more un­ til the taxicab rolled up before the Casino and stopped. And as ehb rose, her smile broke out for the first time in that passage. But it was a grave smile, whose softness did not reach to her eyes--as though one smiled with the humor of God at the tragic comedy In this world. "An' she called me a traitor--an' she'll always believe it, what's more." she said. The plaxza of the Casino, so gay and colorful in summer, lay bleak and bare now under the cold November wind and fading afternoon light, so that Ro­ salie, sensitive to physical impressions what with the tensity of her soul, shuddered as she passed from the steps to the door. Within, only a few lights were on; the restaurant, plain­ ly, was letting business fade away to­ ward its winter quiescence. Near the door sat a couple; then two men; and there, in the remote corner, was a glint of golden hair which could be only Betsy-Barbara'e. Opposite sat the fo­ cus of her search--him whom Betsy- Barbara still thought to be Senor Es­ trilla. He was smiling just then, and hlB hands were playing in swift, ex­ pressive little gestures. As Rosalie Le Grange waved aside the head waiter and took her Interminable journey across the room, it occurred to her that however she finished and tied this complex web of hers, these might be the last smiles on hia lipe for iwsiiy a Weary day. (TO BE CONTINUED.) u ,v , u ments making the same ground shake as, with a thunder of salute, line upon line, company upon company, they rushed out to' battle.--Sir H. Rider Haggard in the London Ttmea. r ..„i - MM Women in War. What a splendid courage and un­ flagging zeal in their country's cause the Boer women showed in the SouUi African war has never been so fully realized as it will be now by all who read the remarkable record just pub­ lished under the title of "Petticoat Commands." This is practically the diary done in narrative form of a girl who. with her widowed mother, out­ witted the English officers and men and helped their countryman. They were clever, cultivated and kindly wo­ men, simply aglo^v with patriotism; and to road %v^t they did and how they did it makes one realize afresh what wonderful creatures women are. Let scientists say what they will# women are in no way inferior to men, and in many ways vastly superior. In resource certainly, In tact often, in jinn ,1 JOINT MEETING ^ILL RE HELD IN SPRINGFIELD O# MAY 6. ' Automobile*. : • James J. Brady sent " '"Ifc^r'thefcr . ...listing and. all atuotenobiles in the hands'^ of dea£ PLANS WILL BE FflRMVLATED On ttrtr BtfHs Named We Mate Educa*- tional Building Commission Will Confer With Committee QI ..vi;Centennial AtoMdiatton. m Springfield.--A joint meeting 6f the state educational building commission and a committee of the Illinois centen­ nial commission will be held Wednes­ day afternoon, May 6, at* which time plans will be formulated for the, new 'state building to be asked at the gen­ eral assembly next winter. Arrangements for the meeting were made at a session of the centennial commission. State Superintendent of Schools Blair, who ?.s secretary of the building; commission, met with the cen­ tennial commission and the date for the Joint meeting was agreed-upon by all parties. It, is the intention of ths jofut com­ missions to decide upon plans Cor a new state building, to be unai^mott&ly recommended to the next legislature, *lth the idea of securing a preliminary appropriation next winter in order that building operations may start at once. ' The discussion at the centennial commission meeting indicates that in­ stead of asking for one large building it is probable that the legislature will be asked to provide for the purchase of a tract of land near the state house, upon, which future buildings for state use may be erected as required. It Iar$; not unlikely that the Joint committees will report in favor of a comprehen­ sive scheme for the construction of one building after another, as needed, with all fitting together in an harmo­ nious plan of architecture and group­ ing. Governor Dunne is chairman of the ptate education building commission, and State Senator Logan Hay of Springfield is chairman of the building committee pt the centennial commis­ sion. ' • '* The centennial commission also pro­ vided for the preparation of five vol­ umes of historical publications, in ad­ dition to the preliminary volume on "Illinois in 1818," which is now in course of preparation by Prof. Solon J. Buck of the University of Illinois. These six volumes probably will con­ stitute the entire list of publications undertaken by the centennial commis­ sion. The five volumes will constitute a complete and authorltive "Centen­ nial History of Illinois." An editor-in-chief and sub-editors of. the proposed publications will be se­ lected by the publications committee of the commission, of which Dr. Otto L. Schmidt of Chicago is chairman. Printing of the books, however, will not be undertaken until after the legis­ lature makes appropriations for the purpose. . Owing to the serious illness of Sena­ tor C. S. Hearn of Quincy, chairman of the centennial commission, Senator K. S. Magill of Springfield was elected temporary chairman and will direct the work of the commission until Senator Hearn is able to take hold again. Res­ olutions of greeting to Chairman Hearn were adopted by the commis­ sion. According to the statement of ..the state auditor some dealers are not re- porting autos sent them ostensibly on consignment. "It is doubtful if any of the manufactruers," says the state- ^ ment of Auditor Brady, "would ship \ cars to dealers unless at least a partial payment has been made on same. Such automobiles are to be listed a&d as­ sessed'at the place where the agent's ' vv J M ' UUBH16S& ID cm«icu uii. ' 4 , This will result In a considerable in- siflM Crease in the assessment in numerous AAHnflA* a# iVi/J o+rt t ft 4m ,Cav\ wuuviup wi vuv uvw«>v> f w* vtviuiai tjt iu Chicago, whereL it is Bald, thousands >. of automobiles in the hands of dealers are not assessed. Thfe* statement of Auditor Brady fol» hU-j lows:- }? "Statements have been made to the auditor, of public accounts that auto- v_ mobiles are being shipped into this ' state, ostensibly on consignment, and .'t V, that some dealers are not reporting these automobiles in their returns- , bile manufacturers would ship automo- ' biles to dealers unless at least a par- ; tlal payment has been made, and any - title resting with the manufacturers would be simply one to safeguard th# property of th<J manufacturers. Auto- 1-T:v mobiles In the hands of the agents are i1. to be listed and assessed at the place where the agents' business is carried on, the only exemption made on con- signed property being in the case /fr,', where consignment is made for the ; sole purpose of storing and forward- ' : vjyf tng. : v "In view of the numerous Complaints 1 of evasion of assessment on automo- biles your attention i3 hereby called to the necessity of listing and assessing all machines found in your county. "Yours very truly, - "JAMES J. ^RADY*". ^iiiditor of Public Accounts,? Appointed by Governor Dunne, < Governor Dunne made public the * list of delegates appointed by himself ' to the annual convention of the Na- tional Association for the Study of ." ^ Epilepsy and the Care and Treatment v..; of Epil6ptlcs, to be held in Baltimore, " '•.• f Md., May 25. Two Springfield physi- -3^*4; clans are named by Governor Dunne to have part in the sessions of the convention. . They are Dr. Frank P. rf Uorbury, former alienist for the state board of administration, and Dr. , George A. Kellef. The gathering in Baltimore will bring together a large number of the ,,1 leading authorities of the United ' States on the care and treatment of epileptics. Chicago will have the big- r, gest representation in this state, al- though other cities harboring state hospitals will send delegates, The p* association embraces the entire |'v United States and will, It is expected, ^ be one of the most productive gath- erings of its kind ever held. :*? The complete list, of delegates is as follows: 1|| Chicago--Drs. C. J. Walen, V. A. |||j Bergerson, Johti B. Ellis, George , Leininger, W. F. Schults, C. T. Gar- s|?.; j rard, Archibald Church, H. T. Patrick, n'AmiAv VtAsifot TuHua ririnlrAf. Pftfflr the Swat-the-Fly Campaign. Illinois has officially swat-the-fly campaign for 1914. W. Scott Matthews, state pure food com­ missioner, has prepared a pamphlet in which he recounts the history of ttfc fly and reproduces the state­ ments of experts to the effect that It is more deadly to human life than the tiger or rattle snake. One hundred thousand of these pamphlets will be distributed through the women's clubs and the schools. Mr. Matthews has received the indorsement of F. G. Blair, state superintendent of public instruction, and county superintend­ ents have promised their co-operation. A feature of the book is a working model for a fly-trap. Pupil/i in man­ ual training department^ . wJJI t h e * , : •• - f J -i Favdf «6ipftir Col0rt^: ^' In a report submitted to Governor Dunne and the board of administra­ tion, A. L. Bowen, executive secretary of the state charities commission, rec­ ommends that the new State Hospital for the Insane, at Alton, and the epi­ leptic colony, at Dlxon„ be constructed on the colony plan, using one-story buildings for certain types of the in­ sane and one-story buildings for all types of epileptics.' The Yecommenda- tions are based on what Mr. Bowen saw on a recent trip of,investigation ht the Bast' ' -- A- Guards Against Fire At the direction of Secretary of State Harry Woods, a large number of fire extinguishers which have lain about the capitol unused for a number of years are being recharged, prepara­ tory to steps toward compliance with the orders issued a short time ago by the state fire marshal's department. Fire Marshal Bennett, after an ins­ tigation, directed the secretary of state to see that certain fire hazards wore removeo. This will be done and the fire fighting apparatus which is on hand will be gotten into afcape. ; --- -• •, t-aaw Chicago Bank Statement. > The condition of the 85 state banks in Chicago at the commencement of business April 4, 1914, was made pub­ lic by Auditor of Public Accounts Brady. The last statement shows loans on collateral security to the amount of $200,819,386, a decrease since January 14 of 114,657,259. "Other loans and discounts" total $120,755,854, an increase since the last report of $13,363,450. Savings deposits, subject to notice, amount to $242,347,336, an in­ crease of over one million dollars tln« January O'Orsay Hecht, Julius Grinker, Peter g Bascoe, Sigmund Krumholz, Sidney Y Kuh, Ralph G. Hammill, L. Harrison Mettler, V. H. Holmes, G, W. Hill. Jarr.es C. Hill, A. B. Heym, A. C. - Stevens, Q. R. HasBln, Wijliam ^ Healy, Richard Dewey, Harold M. > Moyer, Thor Rothsteln, Melville T. Hardie, Nelson Percy, James L. O'Connor, Frank * Byrnes, George . , ' . Rubin and Charles L. Conroy. - • Other cities of- the state were rep- resented as follows: Dr- J- V'J Gahgan, Eglln; Dr. P. M. Kelly, Kan­ kakee; Dr. H. B. Carrlel, Jackson­ ville; Dr. A. R. Goodner, Anna; Dr. J. A. Campbell, Watertown; Dr. Ralph T. Hlnton, Peoria; Dr. George K. JFarriss, Menard; Dr. Thomas H. Leonard, Lincoln; C. P. Gillett and Prof. R, W. Woolston, Jacksonville; Col. John E. Andrews, Quincy; Mrs. Nettle F. McGowan, Wilmington; C. E. Bassett, Normal; Mrs. Carrie S. O'Connor, Geneva; and Col, C. B. Adams, St. Charles. Central State Farmers All through central Illinois tBS %jj| farmers are busy In the fields getting their oats crop injto the ground. In - . ̂ many instances the teams are In the field before sunrise. Plowing for corn has begun on a few farms, and the wheat crop prom­ ises unusually well. Farmers say that with a week of warm weather the wheat will be high enough to hide ^ a rabbit. No visible done to fruity '•?%',£ ?r$'t ^ y- 'l jSv" 4V "•:IO m • j. .r£-.f Doctor Drake Is it- Governor Dunne appointed Dr. C. St. Clair Drake of Chicago as a mem­ ber of the state board of health, to eucceed the late Dr. J. A. "Egan. Doc­ tor Drake is assistant chief of the bureau of vital statistics in the de­ partment of health in Chicago. At a meotipg of the board he will be elect-^ ed secretary.' ' J!, State Iricoi poratfoni. Secretary of State Woods issued cer- tificates of incorporation to the follow- ^ ing: Cut Rat^ Grocery company, Strea- tor; caplt*., $10,'BOO. Incorporators-- Ortoh L. D..mfee, Edward V. Raneford and Paul Baude. Evans & Co., Chicago; capital, $10.- 000. Incorporators--C. C. Pickett. John C. Williams and A. C. Jones. • The Gosso company, Chicago; capi­ tal. $25,000. Incorporators--Anthony Thomas Weber, Charles F. Hahn and Alton E. Gosso. j Austin Democratic league, Roger C. Sullivan for United States Seaortor, Chicago. Incorporators--Abe Abram, M. F. Smith, John J. Wheeler, Daniel V. Harkin and others. G. A. Barnes company, Elgin; capi­ tal, $7,500. Incorporators--Frank Taft, G. A. Barnes and Frank Clark.1 Louis Hoffman, Chicago; capital* $2,400. Incorporators--Lester Bauer, Arthur Donoghue and Leo E. Loweo- thal. - Thfe Sure-Fit Tailors, Chlcagtf; capi­ tal, $2,500. Incorporators -- Barney G^rapofi, Beckie uumport and H. L» ; * : v : . iSStt-'K iW life"