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MHEXRY PLAINDEALER, MHENBY, ILL. **<*' ••' ii>w WRAPPED IN v-S&s&fKij 4 vl it 1 WSSSfl PROFIT-SHARING «iS r#£vf EAriLIER THIS YEAR %^jjpll *HOW WILL BE FtNEflg* EVER : HELD, ACCORDING TO 8E0* t-,; , , RETARY DAVID80N. """"" SPEED PROGRAM ARRANGE? ij-v Banner Crops to Be Exhibited In the Dome Building at Exposition--* Fair Dates, September 17 to 25. Springfield.--Secretary B* M. Davi­ son of the Illinois state fair board has opened the throttle of the monster Btate fair machine and the wheels are beginning to hum as they gain mo­ mentum day by day. The offices at the statehouse are working fall tilt even at this date. The dates this year are earlier--Sep­ tember 17 to 25--and the fervent hope tt that rains will not interfere with the elaborate plans formulated by the management. No year in the history of the state fair has promised more success than this fin offering an elhibit of the re­ sources of Illinois to the public, and never have the thrillers been more plentiful or the amusements more varied. EJven a casual examination of contracts with speed demons and other documents reveals the progressive na­ ture of the annual exposition. Automobile races in which the most bloodcurdling attempts will be made to break the world's records, horse races for all comers with premiums and prizes for the winners mounting Into the thousands, aerial stunts far In advance of former years in point of daring will this year combine to bring the state fair many notches higher in the scale of perfection than ever be­ fore. The banner crops of the season will bring together in the Dome building a collection of grains and fruits not re­ cently at least equaled in any Illinois fair, and newly formed clubs and so­ cieties for the encouragement of ex­ hibitors, especially among the young, will doubtless tend to increase both the quantity and the quality of the lire stock displays. Big new barns have been put in shape for the recep­ tion of these animals. * Secretary Davison stated that never had such a maze of automobiles been booked for a state fair as will be seen this year. These machines are not go­ ing to replace farm machinery either, but to supplement it. The automobile will be found of every make--the cheap car and the expensive car--and persons considering the purchase of an automobile are urged to visit the fair for the .purpose of making an exhaus­ tive comparison of power-driven ve­ hicles before deciding on the one to buy. The fair grounds are being put in tip top condition and are even at this early date unusually inviting. Paint and varnish, lawn mowers' and land scape gardeners have transformed the spot just beyond Ridgely into a liv ing place with irresistible' attraction. It will be kept this way with more and more attention until the Friday morn Ing when the bands begin to play. Music, by the way, is a part of the state fair program. Brass aggrega tions from Bloomington, Decatur. Jacksonville and other cities will be on hand for continuous concerts. But the spectacular features of the fair are to bring the great crowds. Nothing more extravagant than the Thearle-Pain pyrotechnic display of the "War of Nations" has been con­ ceived than this extravaganza of fire built into a drama which will bring the great European war right before the very eyes of the spectators. This spectacle will be given every night be­ ginning Saturday, September 18. In addition to the battle drama, a big potpourri of extravagant fireworks dis­ plays, portraying historical and prob­ lematical events will be featured night­ ly with vaudeville shows interlarded. In the entire performance where al­ most half a thousand actors work thousands of pounds of powder are used. The speed program will begin on Friday, September 17, the opening day. Automobiles will race on this day and on Saturday, September 18. Motor features will then be withheld for the horse races until the lafet day of the fair--Saturday, September 25--when Aeroplanes will compete with automo­ biles, and the most spectacular and hair-raising feats of the entire pro­ gram will be brought out. The work in the air by the aero- planiBts who become more daring every day is sure to get thrills. If nothing happens Art Smith--holder of the international record for daring and seemingly impossible feats--will be here to make the people catch their breath. New 8tate Bodies Named. Two of the three state examining boards created by the last general as­ sembly were appointed by Governor Dunne. They are the state board of optome­ try and the state board of examiners of structural engineers. Members of the optometry board include F. W. C. Lorenz, Chicago; Dr. A. J, Lauch, Kan­ kakee; Z. C. Winkler, Oalesburg, and Harry Paul, Chicago. Those named on the structural en­ gineers' board include John W. Mus- ham, E. N. Layfield, James T. Hanley, all of Chicago, and C. C. Stowell, Rock- ford. One member remains to be appoint­ ed on each board, but the boards may organize as now constituted. Under the law creating the optometry board, all optometrists in the state must be registered. The structural engineers will now divorce themselves from the architects. Articles of Incorporation. Following new corporations were granted charters: College Hill company, Ottawa; capi­ tal, $1,500. Incorporators--Joseph M. Perrott, Edward F. Peck and John H. Norem. Edge water Printing company, Chi­ cago; capital, $2,500. Incorporators James B. Heffernan, M. T. Bacon *"<1 G. J. Baillargeon. File-O-Manufacturing company, Chi­ cago; capital. $1,000. Incorporators M. Golaad, John F. Byrnes and Elmer J. Whitty. Aurora Steel Products company, Au­ rora; capital, $4,500. Incorporators-- Axel Nelson, D. R. Furnas, A. R. Carl­ son and P. R. Sparks. Liberty Laundry company, Chicago; capital. $4,800. Incorporators--Isaac ^Harris, George A. Ravven and Samuel J. Shaeffer. Marcucilli-Marun company. Chicago; capital, $2,500. Incorporators--Joseph F. Kozlowski, C. E. Koilowski and Adam Serwat. Southwestern Bell Telephone com- ^pany of Illinois. East St. Louis; capi­ tal, $2,500. Incorporators--H. J. Pet- tengill, E. D. Ninas and J. P. Crowley. Camp Meeting September 20. Col. B. A. Frederick, commander of the central department of the United States army,, announced that the mili­ tary training camp for volunteer citi­ zens would be opened at Fort Sheridan September 20 and continue until Octo­ ber 17. Congressman Martin B. Madden of Chicago, who obtained permission from the war department to use Fort Sheri­ dan for the camp, returned from Wash­ ington, D. C. and conferred with Colo­ nel Frederick in relation to the de­ tails of the plan. Emil C. Wetten, chairman of the Na­ tional Security league, announced that 1,000 members of that organization had expressed their desire to join the camp. Among the prominent business men who will go to the camp, accord­ ing to Mr. Wetten, are Harold H. Swift, Potter Palmer, Jr., Mitchell D. Follansbee, George T. Buckingham, Edward V. Price, Congressman George E. FOBS, C. L. Dering, Dr. Martin M. Ritter, Ayers Boal, Taylor E. Brown, H. H. Merrick, N. H. Carpenter and Gen. Jacob M. Dickinson, former sec­ retary of war. Plan Parks for Children. Playgrounds will be established for children in four state institutions, as the beginning of a system which will be extended to all institutions for chil­ dren, according to an announcement made by the state board of administra­ tion. For the first time in the history of the state the children who, through misfortune or misdemeanor, have be­ come wards of the state will be given opportunities for recreation equal to those of the more fortunate children in the cities. The four institutions selected for this step by the board of administra­ tion are the Boys' school at St. Charles, the Girls' school at Geneva, the Sol­ diers' Orphans' home at Normal and the Lincoln school and colony for feeble-minded children at Lincoln. The innovation, which was fathered by Governor Dunne, is in line with other humane measures installed by the gov­ ernor, one of which was the abolish­ ment of corporal punishment at the state reformatory at* Pontiac. LORE OF ORIENT RUINS HER LIFE Pathetic End of Young American GirPs Dream of Love. SQUALOR MARKS END Daughter of Wealthy Massachusetts Parents, 8he 8uccumbs to Wiles of Chink--Then . Began t5 Years of Torment. New York.--Only a glassy-eyed Chinese idol looked on this week when Kitty Powers, cast-off wife of Fong Pong, former president of the Hip Sing Tong, of New York city, and said to have been the daughter of wealthy Massachusetts parepts. breathed her last after a vain- effort to get opium with which to stifle the thundering in her brain. Catherine Powers died in a two-by four cubby hole in a rotting sh&nty in the Chinese district of the metrop­ olis. Too proud to beg. too sick to go out of her room, with detectives constantly watching the house, Kitty died alone and forgotten. Chinatown had little use-for Kitty, and had of­ fered $5,000 for Fong Pong, now sup­ posed to be in Chicago. Vain efforts were made to locate him to tell him of the illness of the wife who forsook her home, relatives and American­ ism for him 15 years ago. - The Dream That Faded. Kitty Powers came from Roxburv. Mass., 15 years ago. She was smug­ gled into Chinatown and remained there in seclusion for four years. Ac­ cording to the police, she never left the house. Her parents, wealthy and respected, made every effort to lo­ cate her. At the end of the four years, when her body and soul had been sufficiently tortured by the de­ lights of opium and other drugs, she decide^ to become the legal wife of Fong Pong. Several detectives were always near Kitty. The district attorney's office protected her, for she knew China­ town. *gut it did not know that Kitty had no monev. that it was only what FIGHT SHARKS TWO DAYS FOR WHALE Fishermen, Lost ip Small Boats Without Food, Free Captured Monster. New Bedford, M a s s . -- o f more than half a century ago, when*6' Now Bedford whaling ships sailed the seven seas, were revived the other day with the arrival here of two open boats containing 12 men of the crew of the whaling vessel Joe B. Man- ta, who had become separated from their ship in a fog off Cape Henry. Their story was one of hardship, peril and excitement- Without food or water for four days, they spent two days in fighting . large schools of Plans to Increase Guard. In his talk to the officers of the Fourth regiment at the reception at Camp Lincoln, Governor Dunne an­ nounced a new plan regarding the state militia, which he proposed to put into effect, and under which, he de­ clared, "it would be no trick at all to raise the enlistment tc a hundred thousand men." The plan consists in paying to the men a nominal sum, per­ haps a dollar a day, at a cost of per­ haps $40 to $50 a year per man, for every night on which they drill. Governor Dunne said: "In our prep­ arations for national defense, which in these uncertain times have become doubly Imperative, two courses are open to us. We can increase the stand­ ing army or else create a larger inter­ est and membership in the state mili­ tia. The former course is one opposed to precedent, and, I think, to the wishes of a majority of the people of the United States. The latter course is the only one open to uk. I have a plan by which I believe that it would be no trick to raise the Illinois Na­ tional Guard from a membership of about seven thousand to a membership of more than a hundred thousand. If we can pay each of the men a small sum for his days of active work, say a dollar, it would prove a remarkable stimulant for enlistment. To raise our present army to a million men would probably require more than $600,000,- 000. The same end can be arrived at through the state organization under this plan at a cost of $50,000,000 per year, thus making a great saving." The governor then complimented the officers of the Fourth regiment an the soldierly appearance of their men and their camp. Immediately before the reception of the officers the gov­ ernor had been escorted from the gates to headquarters by the First bat­ talion, under command of Maj. Elijah P. Clayton, composed of Companies E, Carbondale; F, Benton; I. Vandalla, and K of Cairo. IB Schools of Sharks Were Attracted. sharks, and were finally forced to vio­ late the tradition of their calling never to lose a captured whale. According to the story of the men, a whale was sighted off the Virginia coaBt early one morning. Two boats were lowered for the chase, one in charge of Mate Joseph Brown, and the other commanded by the second mate. Each crew put a harpoon into the quarry, but while they were mak­ ing their capture they lost sight of their ship in the fog. The whale was lashed between the two boats and the men laid a course toward the coast. Great schools of sharks were attracted by the carcass, and for two dayB the men fought these scavengers with !*nces and oars. Finally they became exhausted, and the whale was cut loose and given over to the sharks. The men were without food and water until they were picked up by the .Norwegian steamer Skard, bound from Newport News for Christiania. Later they were transferred to the steamer Piedmont, which raa into Vineyard sound, where the whalemen aga'n took to their own boats and sailed across Buzzards bay to this, port. t STUNG BY HIS CONSCIENCE Kitty Died Alone and Forgotten. a few white wives of Chinamen gave her that enabled her to keep her soul in her body. WILDCATS HOLD UP TRAIN Cause Suspension of Traffic for Hour on Railroad in Pen> sylvania. Full Annual Report Issued by Prultt. The annual report of the county schools to the state superintendent for the school year ending June 15. 1915. shows that the increase of minors in Sangamon county for that period was but 129, which is trivial. The total number of people unuer the age of twenty-one years was 24,511 or nearly the same as the previous year. The report was issued by County Superintendent of Schools Edgar C. Pruitt and compiled by Frank E. Earley. Urge Uniform Insurance Laws. Uniformity of state laws governing the organization and control ot mutual health and accident insurance com­ panies was advocated at a meeting of the mutual section of the Health and Accident Underwriters' conference in Chicago. "There are hardly two states in which the laws governing mr busi­ ness are absolutely identical." declared Mlllerstown, Pa.--Traffic was sus­ pended on the main line of the Penn­ sylvania railroad for a full hour near Millerstown the other morning when a fast freight train was held up by wild­ cats. Locomotive No. 3427, with a train of dressed beef, parted at a defective coupler while passing through the ragged mountains of the Millerstown narrows and Conductor "Jack" Weav­ er of Harrisburg hurried forward from the caboose, only to find the situation in charge of %n old she-bobcat and her two half-grown kittens. The cats, evidently attracted by the scent of fresh meat, were making night hideous with their howls in an effort to attract their mate. Weaver took refuge on top of a box car, where he remained until liberated by Brakeman H. A. Hohensheit and E. S. Eckelberger, who drove the cats back into the woods with stones and clubs. Curley Sowers, a track walker, en­ countered the same cats later and scared them from the right tracks when he held his lantern in front of his face like a headlight and ran at them, nuking a noise like a ̂ locomo­ tive. ParoJed Convict Asks to Be Sent Book to Prison at Michigan City, Ind. Vincennes, Ind.--Charles Bays, fifty- one, walked into the police station her$ and asked whether he was want­ ed at ^lichigan City for violating his parole. Chief of Police Adams could find nothing in the records from Mich­ igan City, but a telegram from War­ den Ftogarty stated that Bays was wanted and to hold him. Bays was sentenced from one to eight years from Dubois county in 1910 for the theft of a half gallon of whisky. He has served three years, but his term was lengthened when he failed to report while on parole. He said he became intoxicated several months ago. failed to report, and his conscience has been hurting him ever since. He was returned to Michigan City, but local people have become in­ terested and may appeal to the gov­ ernor for a pardon. the Children The Goody That'* Good For Them The best way in this world to spend a nickel for refreshment is to get WRIGLEY5 wholesome, impurity-proof chewing gum. It's made clean and kept clean. It's wrapped in waxed paper and sealed. Its two delicious flavofs are always fresh and full strength. It is the longest-lasting, most beneficial and pleasant goody possible to buy. It aids appetite and digestion, quenches thirst, sweetens mouth and breath. Write for free copy of "WRIGLEVS MOTHER GOOSE/' a handsomely illustrated booklet in colors that will amuse young and old and remind you of this Perfect Gum. ss In it the WRIGLEY SPEARMEN have acted all the old familiar Mother Goose scenes to the "tune" of new jingles. Address Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., 1312 Kesner Building, Chicago. Chew It after every meal99 Ji PATCHES SKULL, CURES IDIOT Boy of Eighteen Had Remained Child After Fall When Four Years Old. Lexington, Ky.--As a' result of a trephining operation performed on him, Matt Bryan, an eighteen-year-old boy of Athol, Ky., has been reclaimed from idiocy. When four years old Bryan suffered a fall, which is now known to have fractured his skull, and from tliat time on his mind never improved and be remained a child mentally, amusing himself with strings, toys, etc. His right eye looked upward, giving him an expression of feeblemindedness. Following the operation, which was F. L. Sward of Detroit. "This leadn tn great confusion in the writine of noil Performed at Jackson, the young man s <«.. a. what may b. .leptedbV^, mb"1 bas brigh,er and W" e>'e Insurance commissioners in om 0eec stored to it* normal post may be refused in awother." WON RACE WITH A COUGAR McGhie, Motorist, Tells a Thrilling Yarn of an Experience In Washington. Everett. Wash.--The story of a race between an automobile and a big cou­ gar is related by S. P. McGhie, who drove the car in the unusual Sport­ ing event a few days ago, while return' ing from Mount Rainier with a party consisting or Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Pritch- ard and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Graves. Soon after leaving the National Park Inn they saw the animal coming up the road. As they approached it stopped. The road at that point runs along a high ledge, precipitous on each side, and the animal had no other chance to escape than to rim down, the road. Mr. McGhie took up the chase "step­ ping upon" his eight-cylinder car for probably half a mile. The animal saw that it was about to be overtaken, leaped to the roadside and crouching close to the rocks, snarled as the ma-' chine rushed on. Waterproof Matches. Hint for camping and lishing par­ ties. Many of you have encountered the annoying experience of finding yourselves miles from a store and all the matches in your possession so damp that they could not be used. A fact worth knowing is that matches can be made waterproof without in- Jury by dipping them in very hot melted paraffin, allow them to cool and they are ready for use. The par­ affin does not interfere with their use in the regular way and they are ab­ solutely protected from .dampness. SELF SHAMPOOING With Cuticura 6oap Is Most Comfort­ ing and Beneficial. Trial Free. Especially if preceded by touches of Cuticura Ointment to spots of dan­ druff and itching on the Bcalp skin. These supercreamy emollients meet every skin want as well as every toilet and nursery want In caring for the skin, scalp, hair and hands. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.--Adv. Seasonal Misfortune. Museum Manager--Where's the hu­ man fly? Attendant--Can't perform today. His wife's been swatting him. Time Didn't Matter. A prominent lawyer tells this tale of the hills of Kentucky. He had been in Jackson during the hearing of a big land case, and after the strain of several weeks in the courtroom had decided to take a trip up in the moun­ tains and enjoy the quieting influences of the hHis. He traveled the paths and narrow mountain roads till he found himself, at the end of several days' journey, about forty or fifty miles from the railroad. It was about nooii, the lawyer judged, for his watch had run down and he could not be exact. But in the midst of this deep con­ templation the lawyer came upon an old darky sitting upon a bowlder longside the road. "What time have you?" he asked of the old darky. "Well, suh. boss, the old watch says she's about ten minutes to twelYe," was the reply. "Is that sun time or railroad time?" again questioned the lawyer. "What differenoe does that make? One am about as fer from here as th* other."--Louisville " vnes. Limited Aristocracy. "I understand the Comeup family have a pedigree. "So they have--their prize span­ iel's." ' BEAR BESTS BULL IN FIGHT Fight Occurs in Pasture, and Neise of It Wakens Farmer's Family in Minnesota. Floodwood, Minn.--O. H. GJora, a farmer in Fine Lakes township, about seven miles south of Floodwood, reports that a bear attacked his two- year-old bull recently and lacerated the animal so badly that it had to be killed. The fight between the bear and the bull occurred in the pas­ ture near Mr. Gjora's house and awak­ ened his family, but by the time they reached the scene of battle the bear escaped into the woods. The same day a she-bear was killed by John Foote. an Indian, who lives on the weBt shore of Prairie lake. The old bear was accompanied by a cub, which Mr. Foote captured, but had to let biu> go. as he got too ̂ frisky. m When It Is. "Pa, is martiage a failure?" & "Usually, my boy, if a man ^Carries for money."--Detroit Free Press. Makes Up for lt.A "Does your furnace smoke much. Mrs. Jiggs?" "No; my husband does." very There are different causes of popu­ larity, but telling the sad story of one's life is not one of them. University of Noire Dame iOIRE DAME. UfDIM Thorough Education. Mitral Training. Twenty- one courses leailm* to decrees in Classic*, Modern Letters,Journalism.Political Economy, Commerce, Chemistry, Biology, Phantasy. Engineering, Architecture, Law. Preparatory School, ••rioas COONM. For Catalogues address BOX H, NOTRE DANE, INDIANA The Wily Professor. Clerk--See here! You told me if I took your course, it wouldn't be long before I was earning $40 a week. Professor Skinner--Well? Clerk--Well, the most I can earn is {20. Professor--That so? But, honestly, now, don't you feel that you are earn ing $40? Almost every clerk feels he earns at least twice as much as he gets."--Boston Transcript. Coal Is Dethroned. The Norfolk & Western railroad has electrified 100 miles of Its system In West Virginia, one of the heaviest coal carriers in the world. The elec- tric locomotives in use weigh 27S tons- each and two of them attached to a 4,000-ton train recently carried ttL with ease up a two per cent grade at the rate of fourteen miles an hour, a rate twice that attained by the most efficient steam locomotives formerly used on the system. WA • ' . , / v : - -W* "} y J (Explained. Cadler (complacently)--Ah, Bobby* I am glad to see my photograph' Is your sister's frame on the mantel. Bobby--Well, she had to rush sons to get it In over Tom's before yoa came. m Miabranded. "Yoa don't call your husband 'huelf any more." * " S o ; I found he was only glucose." To remove grease and dirt from AM* chinery with gasoline is the purpoM of a new compressed-aid syringe. , ; Some girls are relegated to the syll ster class because of their cuteness. Possessed. "I dont know what's the matter with her of late, she acts like one pos­ sessed." "Maybe she's engaged." This Year. i "Isn't it warm today?" ! "Yes; but how lovely and cool your ^ furs do make you look." The Remedy. "That man has an icy manner." "Then give him a few melting glances." The Croton river, which furnishes to New York the greater part of the wa­ ter consumed in its limits, was named for an Indian chief. 156 ACRE FARM ••oU=,n Jopl?B ooDIam <!IIK\ IWM per aciv land* or (arms • district kno< „ Write oie for tuiulng C. N Cruuieaburn Carthago, Mo nwnarWIII Call Kino Quarter close to Marvsrille uwnei nlll OEM In BanDer Corn Countj of Kan- IU. Liberal terms Lock Boi 60i, Marysville, Ku CHOICE IKItlOATKI) FORTY-Joining tow® jfWellinttton.tkilo . foualeby owner Also quarter Mtr Foteiun, Colo, ii' 'KhJiYTOWN, KAX A married man imagines he is hav­ ing a good time when ^e does any­ thing he knows his wife wouldn't ap prove of. • That Knife-Like Pain Have you a lame back, aching day and night? Do you feel sharp pains after stooping? Are the kidneys sore? Is their action irregular? Do you have headaches, backaches, rheumatic pains,--feel tired, nerv­ ous, all worn-out? Use Doan's Kid­ ney Pills--the medicine recom­ mended by so many people in this locality. Read the experience that follows: Aii Iowa Case Chas. D. Hayes, 1C2 Avenue B. W. Albla. Iowa, says: "I wouldn't take one hundred dollars for the good Doan's tKidney Pills have done <ne. I suffered constantly from kid- n e y trouble. The sudden and severe attacks of nain in my back were fol­ lowed by a contin­ ual. achlns throb. I tried every medicine recommended to me. but received little relief until 1 used Doan's Kidney Pilla. Five boxt^s rid mo 6f the pain and ach­ ing and. best of all.the cure has lasted.** Get Doan's at Amy Star*. SOc a Boat P O A N ' S W W V rOSTERJULBUW CO- BUFFALO. N. T. A seismograph invented by a Japa­ nese scientist registers the velocity of all earthquakes two hundred fold. Half the important European land battles of the last centuries faavs taken place In Belgium. 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