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WHETTEY I*LAITfDEA:tER, 3THE7TKT, ft*,; " % The Last Shot M (Conrrid*. MU. *T Ctaftae Scritaoefs Som) SYNOPSIS. w ...• Si/Safes*..- At their home on the frontier between the Browns and Grays Marta OalUuid tma her mother, entertaining Colonel Wester- llng of the Grays, Bee Captain Lanstron of the Browns Injured by a fall in his aeroplane. Ten years later. Westerllng, nominal vice but real chief of staff, re-en- forces South La Tlr and meditates on war. Marta tells Jiim of her teaching children the follies of war and martial patriotism, and begs him to prevent war while hei Is chief of staff. Lanstron calls on Marta at her home. She tells Lanstron that, she believes Feller, the gardener, to be a_ spy. Lanstron confesses it is true and shows her a telephone which Feller has con-= cealed In a secret passage under the tower for use to benefit the Browns In war emergencies. Lanstron declares his love for Marta. Wesierllr.g and the Gray pre­ mier plan to use a trivial International affair to foment warlike patriotism ana Strike before declaring war. Paitow, Brown chief of staff, reveals his Lanstron. made vice chief. The army crosses the border line andattecKa. The Browns check them. Artillery. L*L~ fontry, aeroplanes and dirigibles engage. Marta has her first glimpse of war in WE modern, cold, scientific, murderous bru­ tality. The Browns fall back to the Gal- land house. Marta sees a nlgljt attacK. The Grays attack in force. Feller leaves his secret telephone and ijoes J?,aclL,to nls •una. Hand to hand fighting. The fall back again. Marta asks Lanstron over the phone to appeal to Fartow to stop the flighting. Vandalism in the Galland house. Westerllng and his staff occupy the Gal­ land house and he begins to woo Marta, who apparently throws her fortunes with the Grays and offers valuable information. 8he calls up Lanstron on the secret tele­ phone and plans to give Westerllng infor­ mation that will trap the Gray army. Westerllng forms his plan of attack nppn what he learns from her. The Grays take Bordlr. . CHAPTER XVI--Continued. "This is like you--like what I want you to be!" he said. "You are right." He caught her hand, inclosing it en­ tirely in his grip, and she was sen­ sible, In a kind of dated horror, of the thrill of his strength. "Nothing can atop us! Numbers will win! Hard lighting in the mercy of a Quick end!" he declared with his old rigidity of flve against three which was welcome to her. "Then," he added -- "and then--" "Then!" she repeated, averting her glance. "Then--" There the devil ended the sentence and she withdrew her hand and felt the relief of one es­ caping suffocation, to find that he had realized that anything further during that interview would be banality* and was rising to go. "I don't feel decent!" she thought. "Society turned on Minna for a hu­ man weakness, but I--I'm not a human being! I am one of the pawns of the machine of war!" Walking slowly with lowered head •a she left the arbor, ehe almost ran Into Bouchard, who apologized with the single word "Pardon!" as he lifted his cap in overdone courtesy, which his stolid brevity made the more con­ spicuous. "Miss Galland, you seem lost In ab­ straction," he said in sudden loquac­ ity. "I am almost on the point of accusing you of being a poet." "Accusing!" she replied. "Then you must think that I would write bad fcfa try." "On the contrary, I should say ex­ cellent--using the sonnet form," he re­ turned. "I might make a counter accusa­ tion, only that yours would be the •pic form," answered Marta.."For you, too, seem fond of rambling." There was a veiled challenge In the hawk eyeB, which she met with com­ monplace politeness in hers, before bo again lifted his cap and proceeded on his way. • » e • e • • For the next two weeks Marta's role resolved Itself into a kind of routine. Their cramped quarters became a refuge' to Marta in the trial of her secret work under the very nose of the staff. With little Clarissa Eileen, they formed the only feminine society In the neighborhood. On sunshiny days Mrs. Galland waa usually to be found in her favorite chair outside the tower door; and here Minna set the urn on a table at four-thirty as in the old days. No member of the staff was more frequently, present at Marta's teas than - Bouchard, who was developing his social instinct late in life by sit­ ting in the background and allowing others to do the talking while he watched and listened. In his hearing, Marta's attitude toward the progress of the war wae sympathetic but never Interrogatory, while she shared atten­ tion with Clarissa Eileen, who was in danger of becoming spoiled by officers who had children of their own at home. After the reports of killed and wound­ ed, which came with such appalling regularity, It was a relief to hear of the day's casualties among Clarissa's dolls. The chief of transportation and supply rode her on hi« shoulder; the chief of tactics played hide-and- seek with her; the chief engineer buUt her a doll house of stones with his own hands; and the chief medical officer was as concerned when she caught cold as If the health of the army were at stake. "We mustn't get too set up over all "this attention, Clarissa Eileen, my ri­ val," said Marta to the child. "You are the only little girl and I am the only big girt within reach, if there •were lots of others it would be dif­ ferent." Bouchard was losing flesh; his eyes vera sinking deeper under a heavier ' frown. His duty being to get Infor­ mation, he was gaining none. His dvty being to keep the Grays' secrets, there was a leak somewhere in his own department He quizzed subordl- , nates; he made abrupt transfers, to no •wall- Meanwhile, the Grays were taking * the approaches to the main line of defense, which had been thought rela­ tively immaterial but had been found shrewdly placed and their vulnerabil­ ity overestimated. The thunders of batteries hammering them became a TOTitine of existence, like the passing of trains to one living near a railroad. Tim fftt&a wa«U on white tea mm be­ ing served; they ushered in dawn and darkness; they were going when sleep came to those whom they later awak­ ened with a start. Fights as desper­ ate as the one around the house be­ came features of this period, which was only a warming-up practice for the war demon before the orgy of impending assault on the main line. Marta began to realize the immen­ sity of the chessboard and of the forces engaged in more than the bare statement of numbers and distances. If a first Attack on a position failed, the wires from the Galland house re­ peated their orders to concentrate more guns and attack again. In the end the Browns always yielded, but grudgingly, calculatingly, never be­ ing taken by surprise. The few of them who fell prisoners said, "God with us! We shall win In the end!" and answered no questions. Gradually the Gray army began to feel that it was battling with a mystery which was fighting under cover, falling back under cover--a tenacious,' watchful mystery that sent sprays of death into every finger of flesh that the Grays thrust forward In assault. "Another position taken. Our* ad­ vance continues," wae the only news that Westerllng gave to the army, his people, and the world, which forgot its sports and murders and divorce cases in following the progress of the first great European war for two gen­ erations. iHe made no mention of the costs; hiJ casualty lists were secret. The Gray hosts were sweeping for­ ward as a slow, Irresistible tide; this by Partow'8 own admission. He an­ nounced the loss of a position as promptly as the Grays its taking. He published a daily list of casualties so meager in cpntrast to their own that the Grays thought It false; he made known the names of the killed and wounded to their relatives. Yet the seeming candor of hiB press bureau included no etraw of information of military value to the enemy. Westerllng never went to tea at the Gallands' with the other officers, for it was part of his cultivation of great­ ness to keep aloof from his subordi­ nates. His meetings with Marta hap­ pened casually when he went out into the garden. Only once had he made any reference to the "And then" of their interview in the arbor. "I am winning battles for yon!" he had exclaimed with the thing in. his eyes which she loathed. To her it was equivalent to saying that she had tricked him into sending men to be killed in order to please her. She despised herself for the way he confided in her; yet she had to go on keeping his confidence, re­ turning a tender glance with one that held out hope. She learned not to shudder when he spoke of a loss of "only ten thousand." In order to rally herself when she grew faint-hearted to her task, she learned to picture the lines of his face hard-set with five- against-three brutality, while in com fort he ordered multitudes to death, and, in contrast, to recall the smile of Dellarme, who asked his soldiers to undergo no risk that he would not share. And aftjer every success he would remark that he was so much nearer Engadir, that position of the main line of defense whose weakness she had revealed. "Your Engadir!" he came to say. "Then we shall again profit by your Information; that is, unless they have fortified since you received it." "They haven't. They ha<J already fortified!" she thought. 8be was al­ ways seeing the mockery of his words in the light of her own knowledge and her own part, which never escaped her consciousness. One chamber of her mind was acting for him; a sec- and chamber was perfectly aware that the other was acting. "One position more--the Twin Boul­ der Redoubt, it is called," he an­ nounced at last. "We shall not press hard in front. We shall drive In masses on either side and storm the flanks." This she was telephoning to stron a few minutes later and having, in return, all the news of the Browns. The sheer fascination of knowing what both sides were doing exerted its spell in keeping her to her part. "They've lost four hundred thousand men now, Lanny," she said. "And we only a hundred thousand We're whittling them down," answered Lanstron. "Whittling them down! What a ghastly expression!" she gasped. "Yon are as bad as Westerllng and I am worse thah either of you! I--I an nounced the four hundred thousand as if they were a score--a score in game in our favor. I am helping, Lanny? All my sacrifice isn't for nothing?" she asked for the hun­ dredth time. "Immeasurably. Yon have saved us many lives!" he replied. "And cost them many?** ehe asked "Yes, Marta, no doubt," he admitted; "but no more than they would have lost in the end. It is only the mount­ ing up of their casualties that can end the war. Thus the lesson must be taught" "And 1 be of most help when the attack on the main defense is began?" "Yes." "And when Westerllng finds that my information is false about Engadir-- then--" She had never put the question to him in this way before. What would Westerliug do if he found her out? "My God. Marta!" he exclaimed. "If I'd had any sense I would have thought of that in the beginning and torn out the 'phone! I've been mad, mad with the one thought of the nation--inhu­ man in my greedy patriotism. I will not let you go any further!" It was a new thing for her to be mUyiftg blttj she did as tfca strange effect of his protest on the abnormal sensibilities that her acting had developed. "Thinking of me--little me!" she called back. "Of one person's com­ fort when hundreds of thousands of other women are in terror; when the destiny of millions is at stake! Lanny, you are in a blue funk!" and she was laughing forcedly and hectically. "I'm going on--going on lik« ono in a trance who can't stop if he would. It's all right, Lanny. I undertook the task myself. I must see It through!" After she had hung ap the receiver her buoyancy vanished. She leaned against the wall of the tunnel weakly. Yes, what if she were found out? She was thinking of the possibility seri- obsly for the first time. Yet, for only a moment did she dwell upon it be­ fore she dismissed it in sudden reac- tlon. "No matter what they do to me or what becomes of me!" she thought. "I'm a lost soul, anyway: The thing is to serve as long as I can--and than I don't care!" CHAPTER XVII. Thumbs Down for Bouchard. Haggard and at bay, Bouchard faced had sought to trace it, only to find every clew leading back to the staff. Now he was as confused in his shame as a sensitive schoolboy. Vaguely, In his distress, he heard Westerling asking a question, while he saw all those eyes staring at him. "What information have, wo about Engadir?" "I believe It (to be strongly forti­ fied!" stammered Bouchard! . "You believe! You have no infor­ mation?" pursued Westerling.. "No, Bir," replied Bouchard. "Noth­ ing--nothing new!" "We do seem to get little informa­ tion," said Westerling, looking hard at Bouchard In silence--the com­ bined silence of *he whole staff. This public reproof could have but one meaning. He should soon receive a note which would thank him politely for his services, in the stereotyped phrases always used for the purpose, before announcing his transfer to a less responsible post "Very little, sir!" Bouchard replied doggedly. "There is that we had from one of our aviators whose machine came down in a smash just as he got over our infantry positions on his return," said the chief aerostatic officer. "He the circle of frowne around the pol- was in a dying condition when we ished expanse of that precious heir loom, the dining-room table of the Gal­ lands. The dreaded reckoning of the apprehensions which kept him rest­ lessly awake at night had come at the next staff council after the fall of the Twin Boulder Redoubt. With the last approach to the main line of defense cleared, one chapter of the war was finished. But the officers did not man­ ifest the elation that the occasion called for, which is not eaylng that they were discouraged. They had no doubt that eventually the Grays would dictate peace In the Browns' capital. Exactly stated, their mood was one of repressed professional irritation, Nol until the third attempt was Twin Boul­ der Redoubt taken. As far as results were concerned, the nicely planned first assault might have been a stroke of strategy by the Browns to drive the Grays into an Impassable fire zone. "The trouble Is we are not In- formed!" exclaimed Turcas, opening his thin lips even less than usual, but twisting them in a significant manner ae he gave his words a rasping em- phasfs. The others hastened to follow his lead with equal candor. "Exactly. We have no reports of their artillery strength, which we had greatly underestimated," said the chief of artillery. "Our maps of their forts could not be less correct if revealed to us for purposes of deceit Again and again we have thought that we had them surprised, only to be surprised our­ selves. In short they know what we picked him up, and, as he was speak­ ing with the last breaths in his body, naturally his account of what be had seen was somewhat incoherent. It would be of use, however, if we had plans of the forts that would enable ue to check off his report intelli­ gently." ,"Yet, what evidence have we that Partow or Lanstron has done more than to make a fortunate guess or show military insight?" Westerling asked. "There Is the case of my own belief that Bordlr was weak, which proved correct." "Last night we got a written tele­ graphic staff message from the body of a dead officer of the Browns found in the Twin Boulder Redoubt," said the vice-chief, "whioh showed that in an hour after our plans were transmit­ ted to our own troops for the first attack they were known to the en­ emy." "That looks like a leak!" exclaimed Westerling, "a leak, Bouchard, do you hear?" He was frowning and his lips were drawn and his cheeks mottled with red in a way not pleasant to see. Stiffening In his chair, a flash of. desperation in his eye, Bouchard's bony, long hand gripped the table edge. Every one felt that a sensa­ tion wae coming. * "Yes, I have known that there was a leak!" he said with hoarse, painful deliberation. "I have sent out every possible tracer. I have followed up every sort of clew. I have trans­ ferred a dozen men. I have left noth­ ing undone!" "With no result?" persisted Wester­ ling impatiently.* "Yes, always the same result: That the leak is here in this house--here in the grand headquarters of the army under our very noses. I know It Is not the telegraphers or the clerks. It is a member of the staff!" "Have you gone out of your head?" demanded Westerllng. "What ataff officer? How does ha gst ths infer mation to the enemy? Name the per­ sons you suspect here and now! Ex­ plain, if you want to be considered sane!" Here was the blackest accusation that could be made against an officer! The chosen men of the staff, tested through many grades before they reached the inner circle of cabinet se­ crecy, lost the composure of a council. All were leaning forward toward Bon- chard breathless for his ahswer. "There are three women os the grounds," said Bouchard. "I have been against their staying from the first I--" He got no further. His words were drowned by the outburst of one of the younger members of the staff, who had either to laugh or choke at the picture of this deep-eyed, spectral sort of man, known as a woman-hater, in his revelation of the farcical source of his suspicions. "Why not include .Clarissa Eileen?" some one asked, starting a chorus of satirical exclamations. "How do they get through the line?" "Yes, past a wall of bayonets?" "When not even a soldier in uni­ form is allowed to move away from his command without a pass?" "By wireless?" "Perhaps by telepathy!" "Unless," said the chief of the aero­ static division, grinning, "Bouchard lends them the use of our own wires through the capital and around by the neutral countries across the Brown frontier!" "But the correct plans and location of their forts and the numbers of their heavy guns and of their planes and dirigibles--your failure to have this information is not the result of any leak from oiir staff since the war be­ gan," said Turcas in his dry, pene­ trating voice, clearing the air of the smoke of scattered explosions. "AI1 were staring at Bouchard again. What answer had he to thiB? He was in the box, the evidence stated by the prosecutor. Let him speak! He was fairly beside himself in a paroxysm of rage and struck at the air with his clenched fist " Lanstron!" he cried. "There's no purpose in that He can't hear you!" said Turcas, dryly as ever. "He might, through the leak.** said the chief aerostatic officer, who con­ sidered that many of his gallant sub­ ordinates had lost their lives through Bouchard's inefficiency. "Perhaps Cla­ rissa Eileen has already telepathically wigwagged it to him." To lose your temper at a staff coun­ cil Is most unbecoming. Turcas would have kept his If hit in the back by a fool automobilist. Westerling had now recovered his. He was again the su­ perman in command. "It is for you and not for us to locate the leak; yes, for you!" he said. "That is all on the subject for the present," he added In a tone of mixed pity and contempt which left Bouchard freed from the stare of his colleagues and in the miserable com­ pany of his humiliation. (TO BE CONTINUED.1) BUDGET READY & .4, ' ,.V - ESTIMATES OF RESOURCES AND EXPENDITURES MADE SY NEW BUREAU. WILL HELP THE LEGISLATORS Economy and Efficiency Expected to Result From Illinois Wan--Open­ ing 8ession en Jan­ uary (L Bouchard Faced the Circle of Frowns. are doing and We don't know what they are doing!" said the tactical ex­ pert. There the chief of the aerostatic di­ vision took the defensive. "They certainly don't learn our plans with their planes and dirigibles!" he declared energetically. "Hardly, when we never see them over our lines." "The Browns are acting on the de­ fensive in the air as well as on the earth!** "But our own planes and dirigibles bring little news," said Turcas. "I mean, those that return," he added pungently. "And few do return. My men are not wanting in courage!" replied the chief aerostatic officer. "Immediately we get over the Brown lines the Browns, who keep cruising to and fro, are on us. like hawks. They risk any­ thing to bring us down. When we de­ scend low we strike the fire of their high-angle guns, which are distributed the length of the frontier. I believe both their aerial fleet and their high- angle artillery were greatly under­ estimated. Finally, I cannot reduce my force too much in scouting or they might take the offensive." "Another case of not. being in­ formed!" concluded Turcas, returning grimly to his point He looked at Bouchard, and every one began looking at Bouchard. If the Gray tacticians had been outplayed by their opponents, if their losses for the ground gained exceeded calculations, then it was good to have a scape­ goat for their professional mistakes. Bouchard was Westerllng's choice for chief of intelligence. His blind loy­ alty was pleasing to his superior, who, hitherto, had promptly silenced any suggestion of criticism by repeating that the defensive always appeared to the offensive to be better Informed than itself. But this time Westerllng let the conversation run on without a word of excuse for his favorite. Each fresh reproach from the staff, whose opinion was the only god he knew, was a dagger thrust to Bou­ chard. At night he had lain awake worrying about the leak; by day he NOTHING NEW IN JOKE LINE Foolish Is the Humorist Who W$iuld Insist That This "Has Never Been 8prung Before." V | A reader of the Docket in New York city cut out the Item relating to the disolution of partnership, In which one partner makes the statement that "those who owe the firm will settle with him. and those that the firm owes will settle with Mose," and sends It back to us with this notation: "This Was an old chestnut when I lived in , which was in 1855." To this charge we enter a plea of confession and avoidance. We con­ tend that the courts will take Judicial notice of the fact that there Is nothing new under the sun, and In our judg­ ment the jokesmith Is well within his rights In resurrecting a Joke which was old in 1855. The incident brings to mind the fol­ lowing story : "The editor of a Minne­ sota newspaper back in the '80s con­ cocted the following: 'Yon Yonson put four sticks of dynamite In the stove last Sunday to thaw them out. The handles were nickel plated and only coBt $10.'" A professor of English literature ti\ an eastern university ^rote a very Interesting article on this joke, claiming that it represented a distinctly American brand of humor, and that it could not have happened in any other country or at any other time. But alas for the professor of Eng­ lish literature--for there is noththg new under the sun. Reference to II Chronicles, Chapter 16, Verses 12 add 13. produces the following:' 12. And. Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was ex­ ceedingly great; yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. 13. And A«a slept with his fathers. --West's Docket ACCOUNTS FOR OLD LEGEND Simple Explanation of the Myth That Surrounds ths .> i Golden Fleece. . V" Would Handle Wheat fp Strife'; Australian wheat at the present time, is transported in bags, a system which involves not only a considerable cost, but is also uneconomical in the use of labor. In consequence, the gov­ ernments of New South Wales and Vic­ toria are considering proposals for handling it In bulk, based upon the re­ ports of engineers, who made Inquiries as to this method in Canada, the Uni­ ted States and South Africa. The ex­ perts also say that the change would result in a large extension of the growing areas. It is understood, how­ ever, that the steamship lines, which have been approached on the subject are not agreed that under existing cir­ cumstances the shipment of grain in bulk is practicable, though it Is be­ lieved that if adequate supplies were guaranteed the necessary space would ho readily forthcoming. ) In the legend of the Golden Fleece lies hidden the record of an ancient method of the Tibareni, the sons of Tubal, for the collection of gold The north coast of Asia Minor produced large quantities of the precious metals, as well as copper and iron. Gold was found in the gravel, as often happens still in streams draining from copper regions. The gold In ^ copper ores, originally containing Insignificant amounts of the precious metal, ac­ cumulates In the course of ages, and sometimes forms placers of astonish­ ing richness. The ancient Tlharenl washed the gold-bearing gravel, first by booming, which concentrated the gold into rela­ tively small amounts of sand. This was then collected and washed through sluices having the bottoms lined with sheepskins. The gold would sink into the wool, while the sand would be washed away in the swift current The skins were removed from the sluices, the coarsest gold shaken out, and the fleeces, still glittering with the yellow metal, were bung upon boughs to dry so that the rest of the gold might be beaten from them, and saved. The early Greek mariners, wit­ nessing this process, carried home tales of the wonderful riches of a land w^ere a warlike race of miners hung golden fleeces upon the trees in the grove of Ares. After so many millenniums the metalliferous country of Tubal-Cain is once more coming into prominence. The natives still cull the high-grade copper ore, and break it into smalla, which they cover with wood and roast to matte; they still work the matte in forge-like furnaces to black copper, which they ship to Alexandretta and to Euxine ports. They still make the famous carbonized iron that was cele­ brated as Damascus steel because it was distributed through this mart to the rest of the world after receiving a finish by local Damascene workmen. These decadent methods, that give a hint of the approved practice of the father of metallurgy, will soon become wholly extinct, for the modern miner is studying the disseminated copper ores of the Black sea coast and threatening to rekindle on a magnifi­ cent scale the smoldering fires of Tubal-Cain .--Argonaut Algeria's River of Ink. In Algeria there is a river of Ink In the upper part of its course it flows through beds of decaying moss In the lower part through strata oi iron ore, and thus, through the combl* nation of the two, its waters acquire very nearly the color and something of the taste of black ink. Springfield.--When the forty-ninth general assembly meets, January 6,, it will have, for the first time in the history of that body, its estimates of reuouroea and expenditures ready made. This forehandedness results from the action of the last legislature in providing for the preparation of a budget during the interim between sessions. Near the close of the last session a law was passed, with the sanction of Governor Dunne, providing for the es­ tablishment of a joint legislative ref­ erence bureau, composed of the gov­ ernor, the chairman of the committees on appropriations of the senate and house and the chairmen of the oom- mltteea on Judiciary of the senate and house. The bureau was organized by the selection of Flnley F. Bell as secre­ tary. Since its organization every available source of information has been drawn upon for the purpose of collecting and keeping in such man­ ner as may make the same accessible and useful all law, reports, books, periodicals, documents, catalogs, check lists, digests, summaries of the laws of other states upon current legisla­ tion, and all other printed or written matter as may aid members of the general assembly In the performance of their official duties. To date the most important work of the bureau has had to do with the preparation of the budget as provided tor by the creating act. To form Bome conception of the Im­ portance of the budget It 1s only nec­ essary to reflect that the expenses of the state government range around $20,000,000 annually; that there are 133 distinct departments of the state government and that there are in sev eral of those departments other sub­ sidiary or branch departments; that the officers and persons employed by the state constitute a modeBt army, and that the materials and supplies required for the state services are of Immense cost. In the practical construction of the budget departmental estimate forms were preared by the bureau and for­ warded to every department, aboard, bureau, commission or institution which requires an appropriation for its conduct These forms were required to be filled out in duplicate by the superin­ tendent or other officer in charge of the department or commission and re­ turned to the bureau within a fixed time. ' The preparation and virtual publica­ tion of the budget, through which all members of the legislature and all de­ partments of the state government especially are advised in advance, giv­ ing a sufficient time for full compari­ son and adequate consideration, it Is thought will have a salutary effect upon the quantity and quality of pub­ lic expenditures. It gives the legis­ lator ample time and opportunity to consider the value of every depart­ ment of state government. With such complete data as the budget furnishes him and with the necessary time to digest and consider it he is enabled to act much more Intelligently than in the past. Miners Elect In Illinois. Results of the Ilinois Mine Work­ ers' election, held December 8, were unofficially announced from the state headquarters In Springfield. Frank Farrington, candidate for the state presidency, opposed by Adolph Germer, is declared elected by about nine hundred votes. Other officers declared elected are: International board members, John Zimmerman, Springfield; vice-presi­ dent, Frank Hefferly, Colllnsville; sec­ retary-treasurer, Duncan McDonald; executive board members, first dis­ trict, Mitchell Pietrak, Oglesby; sec­ ond district, Pio Franoky, Spring Val­ ley; third district, George L. Mercer, Canton; fourth district. Evan Evans. Danville; fifth district John Glen- wright, Riverton; sixth district, Ben Williams, Taylorville; seventh dis­ trict, James Shaw, Virden; eighth district, Mose Johnson, Troy; ninth district, Ed Djobbins, Belleville: tenth district, Richard Lawson, Duquoin; eleventh district, J. W. Jerrard. John- eon City. Favor Memorial Building. Springfield.--The educational state building commission, consisting of the state officers and representatives of the state libraries, passed a resolution favoring the purchase of a site and the erection of a state memorial building to be completed in time for dedication in 1918 on the occasion of the state' centennial celebration. It Is recom­ mended that the total cost o? the build­ ing and site shall be $1,000,000 of which 8500,000 shall be appropriated by the coming geueral assembly in or­ der that a start may be made at once, and the remaining 8500,000 shall be appropriated by the Fiftieth general assembly. Governor Dunne, a member of the commission under the law, asked to be excused from voting in order that he may be free to act as he sees fit. The governor Is said to be opposed to the erection of the building, because it might interfere with the plans for a Chicago building for state depart­ ments. rM Illinois Warden Suggests Reform. The fresh air cure for first offenff-' ere, dungeons, cell houses and the stone quarry for hardened criminals-- this is the program E. M, Allen, w&r- den of the Illinois state n-Lson, hopes to work out if the state legislature sweeping vjgj appropriates $1,200,000 for the recon- struction of the Joliet penitentiary. . J Allen has submitted to Governor SMStfils' Dunne a plan advocating changes in the state's penal system. He would have all but about four hnn-K'.^g^ dred of the normal prison population|r-j of 1,600 convicts live In cottages and work in the open air. The 400--the professional thieves, highwaymen and murderers who live by crime, he would". confine as at present In cellhouses under heavy guard and with the threat^ of solitary confinement in a dungeon for disobedience of prison rules. This new scheme of conducting a prison would have doubly beneficial ; -t-v m- : • • j. - 'iifr i~ Incorporations. Secretary of State StevenBon issued certificates Of incorporations to'the following: . Plowman-Sollitt company, Chicago; capital, $5,000. Incorporators--Albert G. Miller, Samuel B. Hill, William Scott Stewart. The Bakers' Buying association. Chicago; capital. $600. Incorporators --Paul Busse. Frank Wenninger. Bern- hard Will man. East St. Louis Humane society, East St. Louis; name changed to St Clair County Humane society. American Chili company. Chicago; capital, $2,500. Incorporators--M. N. f nrfaiman. Jacob Cohen, Alice Seipa. Federal Motor Truck Company of Chicago. Chicago; capital, $10,000. Incorporators--M. L. Pulcher, JS. R. Lightcap, J. F. Bowman. Charles F. Mellish. Thomas E. Reeder. Gleason-Wheeler company. Thlcago; capital, $5,000. Incorporators--N. C. Collins, R. M. Babbitt, Frederic C. Payne. The Groff-Fulton company, Chica­ go; capital, $10,000* Incorporators-- S. M. Ashcraft. G^r. Rftlhtmi. & M. Ashcraft, Jr. results, the warden declares. It would 1 }' give first offenders a fresh lease on5 ' *">^1 life and at the same time isolate them ^ from the hardened criminals. The penitentiary In this way would attempt^', ^ r '.yj. to remedy defects, the warden says," instead of becoming a school to'4< crime- * Allen would extend the aystem ofr having "honor" prisoners work state roads, the experiment having£$£?^^ fe proved very satisfactory thus far. He SV 5^ would keep the prison stone quarry^ * operation, forcing hardened criminal^., to break rock for the state highways^0;'^ Manufacturing inside the prisoiM;J|yp walls for private firms he would abol* '^2 ish entirely. He would retain thi prison shoe factory with the under--' standing that boots and shoes be ^ made only for inmates of state instl* * \ ^ . •;,J tutions and not be put in the market ixi J| competition with other labor. He would have more convicts a^ , '*• ^ work on the prison farm and extendc this Idea so that prisoners could sup* , ^ ply all state Institutions with meal"- \ ^ cereals and dairy products. The cot* t he would have built inside ^ ' :L Ma? tages high stockade. lltlnolsans Pasa Mine Tell. * v p The following passed eiamlMattpft;, held In Springfield, December 14, by • the state mining board: Hoisting Engineers--Allie Powell# Springfield; Ezra Miiier, Duquoin; Dwlght D. Elliott, Stonington; Robert King, Herrin; Ross Parr. Astoria;^ George Wahlmann, Campbell Hill;:- Louis Selotto, Witt; William Piator, m ,r Millfltadt. ; if •: \ Mine Examiners--Janes Staunton; W. F. Brankman, Maas coutah; George Bauduln, Assumption; . J R o b e r t S h a n n o n , G i l l e s p i e ; W f l l t a w / J j Cowle, Gillespie; Lawrence Kalten^ ^S^ bronn, New Baden; D. W. Mitchell, m Royal ton; George J. Haydon, IHvarf Mine Managers. First Clasa--Walter ^ Griffith, Dunfermline; William Hogan#;,, - 8t. David; JameB McSherry, Duquoin; C. O. Wellington, Duquoin; Jamea 1 En right, East Peoris; R. E. McLain^^^ Klncaid; Samuel Watts, Klnealdfct^' vlj James Blue, Thayer; R. J. Nelson»..f',l , Springfield; John McGurk, Staunton; .;,^; E. B. Monnahan, Dlvernon; R. J. Peek* Girard; Mack Elders, Cartervill®;" ^ William Van Hose, Clifford. 0 Mine Managers, Second Class--Wil» lis Clayton, Avon; Elmer Myers. Car^ ^ tervllle; Charles Oltraan, Hampton;? , ' Fred Rheellng, Mineral; Claude E^f/^,,' P i t c h f o r d . R o c k b r i d g e ; W i l l i a m E d V y ^ dington, De Soto; John Mitchell*. Streator; D. F. Ratigan, Exeter; Ed-3/.V^ ward Jackson, Athensville, Andrewv Soper, Cutler; George Griudle, Cuba;,v > Edward Potter, Mapleton; A. Z. Oet* ken, Betbalto; Andrew IJhren, Strea*;^ tor; John C. McGrann, ColckMty^f^i^ NEWS OF THE STATE Pana -- Fire in the weat entrance Big Peabody mine, at Taylor Springs. ; j west of Panfe, 18 months ago. started anew.and threatens destruction of th<* ^J| plant, which In busy seasons employs ,'£l 400 men. Every available miner in Taylor Springs and HUlsboro is fight* ing the flamea. The lose will fca great jfi' Moline.--Moline has become unpop* ular with the knights of the road;-,; -u jSMjj since the adoption of the plan whietL. i. ..^ requires that they work two hours v i : j each morning for their night's lgdgjAg and morning meal. ; ' -- j LewistSwn.--Lewlstown Is In tnH " throes of a sensation caused by the * arrest of Rev. Wesley Fleming, evangelist, who has been doing suo- cessful work In Water ford and Liver^ pool townships in protracted meeting^*'\,^f" He is charged with violation of Qkt Mann act .:, M' pana.--Lemuel Wikoff. aged eighty^ * one. wealthy retired farmer. bank«fc ^ land owner and early settler of Mtook county, died at his home at Maroa. Wikoff was a native of Butler county* J Ohio, bat came to caatral Oltnato i»:V.; w 1854. r •': '4 Taylorville.--Harold Hlggtabothai* and Elmer Funderburk. both of ClarW dale, Christian county, who are said to have robbed the poet office at that place, were arrested in Tavlogrltl* W Chief Deputy Uttitod StfttsU Marstttl. Dressendorfer. \.<t4 +J..&• •• & ..£L