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A ' ~ • • • r»W4 > "" M'HEXRY PLAIXDEALER, M'HEXRY. ILL. •.&? i vv&r F E GATHERING WILL BE HELD IN ^.fH%e«TY OF DANVILLE 0C- ' ' TOBER 23-26. • At gooo attenpanci^p^teo of linn •J - • • • -:r* < Btijates ^rom All Parts of Illinois to Attend Convention of the Illi­ nois Association for the Pre; vjgftion of Tubermiloril. I Springfield.--The annual meeting of the Illinois Association for the Pre- ^ ventiou of Tuberculosis will be an ira •s yortant feature of the twentieth state J Conference t>f Charities and Correc > tion, to be held in thi city of Danville on October 24, 25 and 26. "The First Steps in an Anti-Tuhercu- losia Campaign" will be the principal topic at this gathering. Stereopticou views of steps in the prevention of the white plague will be shown, with spe­ cial attention to the methods found most practical in smaller communi­ ties. Delegates'-from ail sections of the state of Illinois are expected to at­ tend the Danville meeting the letter part of this month. Fewer State Coal Mlnea. A total of 75,807 men are employed in the 779 coal mines of Illinois, ac­ cording to-the annual report of the state mining board for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915. These mines, in 62 coal-producing counties, produced during the year 57.- 801,694 tons, 56,173,176 tons of the to­ tal output coming from 281 shipping or commercial mines. There is a decrease of 16 in- the number df mines operating as com­ pared to 1914. A total of 123 new mines were opened, while 139 were closed tor abandoned. Of the output j. 1,100,890 tons were supplied to loco­ motives at the mines, and 41,461,218 tons were shipped and 2,000,000 tons need at the miner. • • ' «wy Stock Shipments Under Ban. Absolute prohibition of tbterstate shipments of cattle, sheen or swine originating within the quarantine por­ tion of the state of Illinois, except for Immediate slaughter, is ordered in ad­ vices received here from State Vet­ erinarian Dyson. The following. classification of terri­ tory relating to the foot-and-mouth disease is made: Restricted Areas -- Counties of Boone, Carroll, Cass, Champaigrt, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Dekalb, Dewitt, Douglas, Dupage, Edgar. Ford, Fulton, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Hen­ derson, ftenry, Iroquois, Jo Davies, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lee, Livingston, Logan, McHenry, McLean Macon, Marshall, Mason, Menard, Mer­ cer, Morgan, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria. Piatt, Pike, Rock Island, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Ste­ phenson, Tazewell, Vermillion, War­ ren, Whiteside, Will, Winnebago and Woodford. Free Area--Counties of Adams, Alexander, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Crawford, Edwards, Effing­ ham, Fayette. Franklin, Gallatin. Ham­ ilton, Hardin, Jacksoa, Jasper, Jeffer­ son, Jersey, Johnson, Lawrence, Ma­ coupin, Madison, Marion, Massac, Mohroe, Montgomery. Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Richland, Saline. St. plair. Union, Wabash, Washing­ ton, tVayne, White and Williamson. Portions of Cook, Dupage, Hancock, Whiteside, Bureau, La Salle, McDon- ough and Putnam counties are placed In the closed area. Roads Heard by Equalizing Body. < Meeting in executive session, men*- fars of the railroad committee of the state board of equalization heard at guments from representatives of sev eral railroad systems operating in Illi­ nois on questions of interest to the roads. Defending the road's assessment ot the 4talue of the Hannibal bridge, F. B. Winston of the Wabash railroad ap peared and stated the bridge bad $>een assessed nearly $400,000 by local authorities^ The means aged in as­ sessing was declared to have been correct. The Wabash leases and operates the Pike County railroad, the only muntci- pally-owned system in the state. It is six miles in length, and was built at a cost of $110,000. The Wabash people showed that the road had been as­ sessed at $270,000 as a part of the Wa­ bash main line, at a cost of nearly three' times the amount required in the building. Representing t&e Louisville & Nash­ ville railroad, J. M. Hamil and H. M. Bradford appeared before the commit­ tee and stated that the Illinois rail­ road assessments had been increased nearly $75,000,000. Opposition was registered to further assessment increases on the grounds that the roads are paying more than their proportion of taxes in compari­ son with other property in the state. Reductions on the O'Fallon and fctoaw- neetown branches are asked A reduction of one-half in the as­ sessment of the Galesburg and Ke- wanee electric lines was asked by Mr. Hay ward of the company. The earn-, lings of the road, he said, Justified such * cut. . Poultrymen to Aid Exposition. All Illinois, that part of-it at least which is interested in the poultry in­ dustry, has been asked to co-operate with exposition authorities at San Francisco, Cal., to the end that the showing of birds there will be the . greatest in the world's history. The speciakjidvantage in this state will lie in the fact that shippers of birds will have their express paid, as the exposition commission from this state has set aside money enough to pay all such charges. Arrangements have been made for , the starting of express cars from Peoria about November 10. They will be equipped with stationary coops and other appurtenances necessary, and will be in charge of competent men. Haste of action on the part of pros­ pective nHn<^s exhibitors will be nec- v essary from the fact that entries will close October 15. That will barely give exhibitors het£ time to write and enter their birds.' T. E. Quisenbury. department of live stock, Panama-Pa- 1 cific exposition at San Francistio, is the person to whom all- applications for entry should be sent. Incorporations. The flowing corporations wefe licensed by Secretary -of State Steven- son: Danvaca Telephone • compadfc'v D4n- -' * vers;' coital $5,000. Incorporators-- lv' " Gilbert Wiley, Rosa May Wiley and CharleS T. McKinney, Henderson-Wallace Coal company, Marion; capital $25,000. Incorporators r--George A. Wallace, Theodore Hud- _. son and Zach Hudson. H. O. Foul sen company, Chicago; i&C* < aP5tal $2,500. Incorporators--Ells V. pf^Sheehan, William J. Dillon !>•:$*f -v Hubbard Woods Motor Car 6dm- ; pany, Hubbard Woods; capital $5,000. Incorporators--F. J. Haarth, August C. '-^^1 Pearson and William N. Schneider. 1 T h e M u t u a l M o t i o n P i c t u r e P r o d u c - ^* ing company, Chicago; capital $10,000. Incorporators -- Richard I. Gavin, George R. Neff and Jessie Hamm. " Perry Telephone company. Perry, •: .^capital $2,600. Incorporators--John ^^.lohnson, James H. Hill and George 1 .-'V:Wauner. ! Pr°ducts company, Chica- go; capital $10,000. Incorporators--M. Moran, Peter P. UeJfer awl Joseph Braon. Farmers Warned of Hessian Fly. The experiment station at the Uni­ versity of Illinois has just issued, for the benefit of the farmers of the state, an fmportant circular on the present state of infestation of the rapidly growing volunteer wheat in the fields by the Hessian fly. The circular is prepared by State Entomologist Ste­ phen A. Forbes, and is as follows: "Last year I sent to a thousand Illi­ nois papers a brief notice of that fact that the volunteer wheat growing in the stubble fields was very heavily in­ fested throughout the state by an early generation of the Hessian fly, present there in all stages from the young larvae or maggot to the winged insect just beginning to emerge and lay its eggs on the leaves of the young wheat of the regular sowing. Farmers were consequently earnestly advised to plow under all volunteer wheat without delay, to prevent a disastrous infestation of the new crop. How gen­ erally this warning and advice took effect last fall I have no means ot knowing; but the conditions of this year require me to repeat both with increased emphasis. "The unusually wet summ£r through­ out the state has given extraordiuary opportunity for an abundant growth of volunteer wheat, and this is now wide­ ly and heavily infested with the Hes­ sian fly about two weeks earlier than was the case last year. My field men in central and southern Illinois have been reporting the presence of the fly in volunteer wheat ever since the mid­ dle of August; and a summary of the latest of their reports, put into oiy hands, will illustrate the conditions found. .From September 3 to 11 Mr. S C. Chandler searched 25 fields of wheat stubble in the counties x>f Randolph. Johnson, Perry, Marion, Jefferson. Wil­ liamson, White and Saline. Carefully examining 741 plants of volunteer wheat in these fields for eftgs and larvae of the Hessian fly, be found 6,047 eggs--averaging a lit'le over eight to the plant--and 666 larvae or maggots, a little less than one to the plant. "Field reports began to reach ate late in August from central Illinois lo­ calities to the effect that the oldest maggots in the volunteer whsat were then beginning to change to the flax­ seed stage1; and with the weather of the present time, these are probably already beginning to send forth an early fall generation of the winged in­ sects ready to infest young wheat. "It thus clearly becomes the duty of every Illinois farmer having volunteer wheat growing in his stubble or along the borders of his newly-plowed fields, to destroy these plants with t^e least possible delay, thereby both protecting his own crop from immediate infesta- tiom from the winged flies which are beginning to come out. and doing his part as a member of his community to save next yearns crop from serious in­ jury." STATE NEWS BRIEFS * Springfield.--Chicagoans were elect­ ed heads of the Liquor Dealers' Pro­ tective association of Illinois at Its session. They are: President, Ernefci Knude, reflected; secretary, Michael J. McCarthy, re-elected; auditor. James Keegan, re-elected; district trustees Frank Cato, Theodore Wegna anc Fred Moench. By resolution the asso­ ciation condemned wholesalers send­ ing oi unconsigned packages of liquor out in wagons to be sold from house to house. Aurora.--A pretty girl standing in the road near Bald Mound, west of here, attracted considerable atten­ tion. She was holding a surveyor's sfghting pole. The young woman is Miss Julia Fagan of St. Charles, who is employed In the office of County Surveyor Charles Lamb and has made^ a study of road work. Miss Fagan wears a short skirt and stanch little boots. Her principal work is the hold­ ing fit the gorgeous red and white sighting pole, but she expects "to run the chain" herself soon. She is a daughter of Asa Fagan of St. Charles. Forreston.--More th»"» two thousand people attended the aunual mission feast at the German Presbyterian church near Forreston. The people gathered to celebrate three separate occasions, tlie fiftieth anniversary of the church, the annual mission feast, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of Re / Henry Smith as pastor. • A ifora.--The second week in Oc tobtr has been designated as "tree trimming week" here. Expert tret- trimmers are to b*. engaged to is struct the people in tree-trim n*na- GERMAN OFFICERS QUESTIONING PRISONERS^ This photograph was taken at a crossroads near ivangorod, Russia, while German omcers were examining Rus­ sian soldiers that had been captured. SMASHED BY A ZEPPELIN • * NOTED PASTOR IN TROUBLE Rev. Dr. Newell Dwlght Hillis, suc­ cessor to Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott in the historic Ply­ mouth church, Brooklyn, is involved in financial difficulties which, as he admitted to his congregation, are due to his ambition for wealth and power. Doctor Hillis is here seen in his pulpit. TWO RUSSIAN BARONS HERE mm What the bombs dropped from the German Zeppelins in their recent raids over London did to the buildings where they fell is well illustrated by this photograph of a house in Shakespeare road, badly wrecked and seem­ ingly about to collapse. SIXTH CAVALRY GETS A MASCOT m INTERNATIONA NIW5 StRVlCT iiwrrriwii Barons Jacques and Richard de Stackelberg, sons of Baron and Baron­ ess de Stackelberg of Russia, photo­ graphed in New York on their arrival for a grand tour of America. This young burro strayed from the Mexican lines into the United States and the boys of the Sixth cavalry, U. S. A., adopted him as a mascot. The More the Merrier. "Who is that old fellow who says everybody ought to own a home?" "That's old Mr. Graapit. I fear fce'a' talking frotn a selfish motive." MYes." ? "He holds a mortgage on more homes than any other man in town.'* BRIEF INFORMATION The first steamship crossed the Atr lantlc in 1833. Prussia was the first modern coun­ try to adopt universal military serv­ ice. More fatal trninway *ccWenta oc­ cur in London on Sandays than oa any other day. The tusks of the African elephant sometimes weigh as much ar 100 pounds «8ch. and reach a leng*V "if eight or nine faot. Mistreating Hie Wife. - "I understand Mrs. Daubson posed for a number of Daubson's paintings." "Yea There never was a more striking case of wifely sacrifice." "Surely, you exaggerate her serv­ ices." "Not at all. I've seen the pictures." The state of Ohio has abolished 1,493 saloons since its new liquor li­ cense law became operative a year ago. This is exclusive of those forced to close because of the proportion to population restriction of one bar to each 500 residents. The Berlin Red Cross society has established many eating, rooms in which dinners may be obtained Tor very little money. At the outbreak of tbe war 20.000 persons ate in these hails daily, hut that number fcas*u»v been reduced to about 1,500. ' Parish Registers. The origin of parish registers dates back to 1538, when Cromwell, Henry VIII's general, issued an injunction to the clergy to keep a record of births, marriages and deaths. And the explanation of the gaps in ancient -parish registers lies in the fact that during William Ill's war with France they were used to assist on the collec­ tion of a tax on births and marriages, which was frustrated by the parish clerks, for, as one of them naively notes in his register: "No entries were made for some years to avoid the tax." Well Answered. A snobbish young Englishman vis­ iting Washington's home at Mount Vernon was so patronising aa to arouse the wrath of guards and care­ takers; but it remained for "Sfhep" Wright, an aged gardener, to settle the geutleman. Approaching "Shep" the Englishman said: *Ah--er--my man. the hedge! Yes, I see. George got this hedge from dear old Eng­ land.' "Reckon he did," replied "Shep " "He got this whole btoomtaf t couuiry trom England." SURE TO FIND FAVOR m PARISIAN PROCK OF REALLY EX QUI8ITE DESIGN, Model May Be Made Up Into Dresses for All Occasions--Plain 8oft Taf­ fetas Probably the Beat Ma­ terial to Use. Of all the fetching frocks that Paris has sent over to America for our use during the coming months, none will be used so much as the one inv4his pattern, it appears with the jacket below the waist line. an<i also attached in a pepium, as illus­ trated. These patterns are shown with as little trimming as possible in order that the student of styles may get the iull effect of the lines of a dress. Trimming may be applied according to the figure; but let me warn you that the way in which it is applied makes or mars your appearances Frocks of this sort are made, up into dresses for all occasions, but the model is a favorite for afternoon, tail­ ing. and for the theater. It is the thing for morning wear about town. The material par excellence for the model is silk, although satin, poplin and bengaline are all used for after­ noon dresses of this sort. The new plain soft taffetas, which are of pure silk and durable as well <; Tv - :\V?, Paris Sends Gathered Frocks. as supple in fold and graceful in line, are admirable, built in this sort of gown, and trimmed around the skirt with bias folds and with groups of little ruffles or corded Bhirred bands, Often the fullness of the skirt is slightly shirred over a cord at the bottom, and this gives a very quaint look to the dress. Where the skirt is corded and shirred, or ruffled, the same idea must be carried out in the jacket. A little ruffle at the waist line and on the edge of the illustrated Jacket, the fronts, and above the sleeve cuffs would accompany ruf­ fles on the skirt. Any other skirt trimming would be repeated in the same way. This full gathered, skirt is often adapted to plump figures by means of a shirred top from waist to hips, and it is also plaited on such |lg- ures. It is a mistake for a plump wom­ an to wear gathers directly from the waist line. This makes her stout­ ness all the more apparent, while, on the contrary, fullness lower down re­ lieves the impression,-<-Lillian Young ia Washington Star. DIETING TO RfDUCE WEIGHT Lettuce, Dry Toast and Minced Beef Employed by One Woman-- Onions for the Complexion. A woman who wished to reduce her weight says that she has done so by subsisting almost solely on lettuce, dry toast and minced beef. A girl to improve her complexion has partaken largely of onion SOUP> and onions, too, as a vegetable. Some one had told her that the South Sea islanders, who have the wist complex­ ions in the world, live almost entirely on onions ; and, well, this girl s com­ plexion has improved since her ex­ periment. Other women have started deep breathing exercises at their open windows, or shower baths followed by the "salt rub," or are taking all kinds of kitchen physics, such as barley and lemon water, thin gruel made with cream (one doctor describes this as FABRIC AS BASIS OF FASHION Material as Well as Cut of Gown 8hould Convey the Elusive Charm of individuality. "Fabric is the very basis of fash­ ion.' says Mrs Helle Armstrong Wbit ney. yet the average woman knows Ut­ ile and cares less about the maiertaJ of her clothes She decides that she wants a blue suit, since she sad orown last year and wants a cnange; there­ fore she sets out in quest of a blue suit ot a certsin price and the nrevaii ing mode: it doesn t matter tn the least to her if the maierial be shoiiitv and tbe mode wretcbedly unbecoming to her; sbe buys that blue suit ani wears it and often never discovers what s commonplace effect she ore­ duces in it. Two things our American women should learn--(be value ot go<><i >sisr:c? and tbe charm ot tmti v i d u a l i l y . L e t h e r r e m e m b e r t h a t t h e plainer tbe garment is. the better ibe material ought to be. This v^ttrs styles are unusually tftversiheu aou •ach wosaaa will have a apieodMl jp - " ̂ V". V' I MfumtTrcmagg >• A. . In This Coiffure Originated by Rosa Pachan the Hair Is Slightly Waved and Combed Backward, Leaving a Small Bang Over the Forehead and Temples. The Side of the Bang Is Curled. The Hair Is Drawn to the Back (Leaving the Ears Uncovered) and Twisted Into a Small Knot. "worth $5 a cup" for the delicate), of borage tea. camomile tea imbibed to induce sleep the last thing at night. And there is the pineapple juice craze, which has also caught on. A certain American official has had $ hand in this with his verdict that "If you have one foot in the grave, and are a nervous wreck through attacks of indigestion, drink plenty of pine­ apple juice. It Is the very best tonic that nature has ever offered man, and is even a better weapon against old age and decreptitude than the sour milk diet of the Bulgarian peasants." There 1b a prejudice against the sour milk, so much appreciated abroad, and which tastes almost ex­ actly like junket You simply pour fresh milk into open soup plates and stand them in a cool larder until the milk has turned into a jelly, which happens pretty soon. Partaken of with a little good cream, browned brown bread crumbs and sugar, sour milk is very wholesome; really some­ thing of a delicacy, and hundreds of peasants in mid-Europe simply and Sttpye and have their being apos it. ' > • - re- - • . , -i , ' i, > IN POPULAR WHITE SERGE Charming Little Frock That Will 8at* iafy the Small Wearer as Wall as Her Mother. serge designed in the style of the sailor suit ahowa distinctly by its originality t h • ever - recognised French touch. Very simple it ia, c o m f o r t a b l e a n d , distinctly child* ish. It has a loose full blouse, a lit­ tle more roomy than the usual sailor blouse and having a small sailor collar ot blue silk. The blouse is laced at the front and both sleeve and blouse are trimmed with the blue taf­ feta. The short kilted skirt has an occasional wedge-shaped piece cut from the bottom edge and is bound with the blue silk. vr , - \ '3 SACHET THAT FITS THE HAf Latest Idea of the Dainty Woman tainly Has a Good Deal to Recommend It. , "The soft breeze blew the elustvo perfume of her hair in his face." Ab. how romantic! So much so that you find many a maiden surreptitiously perfuming her tresses by means won­ derful to behold and still more won­ derfully concocted. But the dainty woman realizes that her hair might just as well have a pleasant odor as to suggest oil and perspiration, and the following suggestion for a hat sachet will not go amiss. It is a little round pad just the size of the usual hat crown, and It contains a piece of cotton into which has been baked in a very cool oven a bit of one's own elusive perfume. Be most sure that it is "elUBlve." for no one would care to have their fellow men and women going around with puckered noaea wondering what one has under her hat. Tbe covering of the sachet ~iay b • of natural-colored or plain white linen cross-stitched in a Simple sign. m-M -f > portunity to select a garment suited especially to her." Hidden Sweetness•-'-'•'•f The prettiest receptacle favorite sachet can be fashioned from some crochet cotton and a bit of chif­ fon. If one's crochet needle is not un­ wieldy. a few stitches wi!! make a small crocheted (lower basket, much like the little crocheted favor basket* that have been tn vogue for some time, only flatter, into the little basket ia packed a tuft of cotton into which ha* been baked a bit of the favorite pow­ der. and tbe top is crowned with pint chiffon roses. A bow or ribbon or a silk cord bides a small gilt sarety pta by which the miniature basket may be attached to any dainty piece of lin­ gerie. or even tbe corset. A set of these, with,.various flower trimming*, would make a- most acceptable gift for a bride-to-be. Mr. Meek* HiigisstliU^;^^ "Why not have a training caaa^" whispered skimpy little Mr. SI eel, "where henpecked husbands ca^hMurft how i* defend thsaaalv--f ' 4 . i " > 5 - ? * , i ' ' 4:i§ :4: