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[%iit ^WpUlljilnlrt T' iiniIn r lines of the '"JWate of Illinois cannot be changed by * <•' action of the constitutional convention, ,, I \ ,|Jiat body decided when it rejected the V >„|irticle which would change the pres- < t^nt boundary between Illinois and Wisk'\- ,}; jponsin, over which there is some ques- **ion- Delegate Elam Clarke of Wauke- Y - :, spoke against the adoption of the £ riirticle, declaring that inasmuch as the \ >)erritory of state was granted by congress, the convention was without v.V, ]>ower to act. He recommended a com- ^llssion be named to meet with a Wls- ^ otil'onsin commission to discuss the matf'-'- C' *ter In dispute. The claim now is If ^nade that the boundary line takes '.jfrom the state of Illinois some territory near Beloit, Wis., and likewise "udds to this state a similar tract be- " longing to the state of Wisconsin. The C, convention adopted the article on dis- ' -frlbution of powers providing that the :? 'executive, legislative and Judicial de- F"" Jinrtments shall function separately r • ^ .and the powers of one to be frCfe from , the other. i „• Springfield.--Cement manufacturers Expressed their willingness to do their -|)it toward maximum highway conifctructlon In Illinois in 1922 when tliey " • /"Offered to supply 4,000,000 barrels of ^-O^^rement to the state at prices ranging -from $1.30 to $1.40 a barrel. The low- #st bid, offering 000,000 barrels at $1.90 .•'•'/.ivjfe barrel, was a reduction of 25 cents ft barrel from the bids made January which were rejected. More than 1,- *#00,000 barrels of cement will be needed ,£o complete the 500 miles of improved . ^|iighway which the state already has S-:<|inder contract for construction this f-ear, according to the manufacturers, and 3,000,000 or more barrels will be / fieeded for the additional mileage con- 2*.' lemplated in the 1922 program. Springfield.--Illinois coal mine union j- officials accept the invitation of the •tate's operators for a joint conference „ Ithat may come as the first break in H: i' the deadlock that has made an April } * strike seem Inevitable. This prom- ' Ises a settlement so far as Illinois is ^ concerned. Theoretically the accep- 'j- itance will be subject to approval by tTohn L. Lewis, president of the United Pfe? Ikline Workers of America; actually it Nvill be definite and final, according ?C V, -|o Frank Farington, president of the f** "Illinois mine workers. j!T •-Springfield.--Two thousand teachers < i jfrom all the counties, comprising the fcsV; .^Bouth central division of the Illinois •^Teachers' association, are expected to attend the annual convention of the division at Springfield March 10 and i. 11, officials of the organization an- ^ ?;nounce. L M. Allen, superintendent , 0f the Springfield schools, Is presi- V J v- dent of the division, and E. S. Prultt, v Sangamon county superintendent, is 1-^ , treasurer. 'i%ii-^i Springfield.--There are 6,234 men and women In the 44 largest cities of l ^ minois who are unable to say how old :^rv{;-f'they are, according to figures compiled by the census bureau at Washington. Of that number 3,591 are men and 2,- 4tc 733 women. Native born white men and !'} i; women are In the majority, numbering hil 4,386 in this class. Of the 6,324, Chi- ." * .•(cago has 2,771 men and 2,007 women-- 'f ;j<i\ a total of 4,77a pjf Springfield.--Director W. H. H. Mil- (er of the department of registration 0,*'* an<* education ordered that "four years' high school education or its "y equivalent" shall be required of all applicants for stattf license as chiropractors, osteopaths or napropaths. Another requirement to be added soon, he said, would demand at least 12 months' training in a professional school. Peoria.--Attack upon the new law »f Illinois, which limits the width of machinery using the hard roads and prohibits the use of lugs and cleats lpon tractors and threshing machines, featured the annual convention of the Illinois Brotherhood of Threshermen, »t Peoria. Springfield.--Animated by a "desire :o check the theft of motor cars, £he Springfield Anti-Auto Thief association was organized by 100 owners of automobiles and will operate along the lame lines as the Anti-Horse Thief asjociation of former days. Aurora.--Bond issues providing for the expenditure of $350,000 for a new water works system and to pay' in part the cost of a new bridge over Fox river will be submitted to Aurora roters at the elect lou April 11. Centralia.--Construction of commuilty fruit-packing houses at all local anits early enough to handle this fear's crop was favored at the first annual meeting of the Illinois fruit exchange recently held In Centralia. Newroan.--A new packing plant with a capacity of 1,000.000 cases of corn annually will he built at Newman ghortly. It Is expected to be in operation by August. Belleville.--Miss Susie Wolf of Freeburg is the first woman bank cashier in St. Clair county. 8he has been elected to that position by the stockholders of 'he First "National bank of Freeburg. Frpeport.--Charging the city lire department was slow in responding to an alarm of fire sent In from his house. Charles Younger has asked the city to reimburse him to tlie amount of $600, which sum it is said represents the difference between the amount of Younger* s loss and the sum he received from the insurance company. Chester.--The business section of of the MBMfcv-iaiiMf % stattHdl ihgWfag flw tWi» p#witl<>o of OlifiOla, Q,||S,280, included 1,206,- 951 roirtjli llillil white persons, Of whom 1,117,928 were twenty-one years of age and over, and of this number 200,440 were born In Germany, 149,- 983 In Poland, 102,528 In Sweden, and 101,722 in Russia. Of the natives of Germany, 79.6 per cent were naturalized ; of Poland, 35.2 per cent; of Sweden, 78.1 per cent, and of Russia, 43.9 per cent. For the natives of othec foreign countries the corresponding percentage ranged from 24.8 for persons born in Greece to 74.2 for those born in Ireland. Of the total white population of Illinois, . twenty-one years of age and over, 29.8 per cent were Immigrants and 16.8 per cent were naturalized immigrants. Springfield.--Exemption from income tax for heads of families was raised from $500 to $1,000 by the constitutional convention. The $500 exemption for single persons was retained. These exemptions were granted only on incomes from personal services, wages and salaries. The convention also adopted section eight as revised in the revenue article, providing for certain property exemptions from taxation. The section which was drafted by a special committee and reported to the convention exempts public property, household furniture up to $500, property of agricultural and horticultural societies not organized for profit, war veterans' societies, cemeteries not operated for profit and charitable or religious institutions, including parsonages owned and occupied as such. East St. Louis.--Illinois organized farmers lead farmers of all other states in organization and support of national co-operative commodity marketing plans, F. M. Simpson of the Illinois Agricultural association, announced in connection with the results of the Producers Live Stock Commission association at East St. Louis. With 11 Illinois counties being organized Into the fanner-owned marketing corporation, he said that Illinois was averaging nearly four hundred new members a week. Plans are now being worked out for national dairy and fruit co-operative concerns. Los Angeles, Cal.--Mrs. Eliza P. Donner Houghton, one of the last survivors of the Donner party, many of whose members starved to death while on their way across the plains to California 75 years ago, is dead at her home in Los Angeles, aged seventyeight years. Mrs. Houghton was the daughter of Capt. George Donner and the widow of Col. S. O. Houghton, California representative In congress and attorney. She was born In Springfield and was only three years old when she saved from tS* fate which overtook many of the members of the Donner party. Chicago.--A new counterfeit $2 fed* eral reserve bank note is In circulation, according to a bulletin of the Illinois Bankers' association. The note, which Is on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Is descril>ed in the bulletin as a "deceptive photo mechanical production on two pieces of paper, between which very fine threads have been distributed. The portrait of Jefferson Is rough and lacks the lifellkeness of the steel engraved genuine. The whole note has a faded appearance." Springfield.--All classes of farm animals in the state of Illinois depreciated 21 per cent in value in 1921, according to valuations tabulated by the office of the agricultural statistician for the state of Illinois. On January Dozen Others Injured at PainesvMe, 0.--Victims Returning . * . From Dance., Express Crashes Into Machine and Hurls It Across Rails In Front of Another 8peeding Train-Gas Tank . Explodes and Fires Wreckage. Cleveland, O.. March 6.--Fourteen persons were killed and a dozen others injured late at night when a New York Central express train, eastbound, crashed Wo a crowded motorbus at the St. Clair street crossing in Painesville, 25 miles east of Cleveland. Dead and dying were hurled along the railroad right of way for several hundred feet and bodies of three of the victims were on the locomotive pilot when the train was brought from Its sixty-mile-an-hour speed to a halt, 400 yards from the Qcene of the collision. A few seconds after the first collision, westbound train No. 8, speeding for Chicago, crashed into the wreckage of the bus, which, with some of the dead and injured, was thrown into its path. The motor bus, owned by the Parrlsh Truck company of Falrport, had just left its stand at Main and St. Clair streets, Palnesville, for its last trip of the night. Many of the passengers were returning from a lodge meeting. Others were homeward bound from a dance. The driver of the bus was among those killed. As the automobile moved onto the six-track crossing from the shadow of buildings, obscuring the •lew at the edge of the tracks, the express train was only a few hundred feet away. The train, which makes no stop at Palnesville, was* moving at terrific speed. Women passengers of the bus screamed, but none had time to jump out before the engine splintered and shattered the automobile. - Frank Vandlz" of Buffalo, the engineer, had slammed on the emergency brakes, but the train went onward, carrying debris on the engine front until its momentum could be halted. Optimism t« Keynote of Monthly The first American appointment by the new pope was that of Rt, Rev. Patrick Barry to be bishop of St. Augustine, Flu. He succeeds Rt. Rev. M. I. Curly, im*w archbishop of Baltimore. BACK NEW BONUS PLAN House Committee Approves Serv- *§$£ Certificates. -"AChairman rm HARVEY CHURCH IS HANGED '>fv By 5$; Chicago Youth Who Killed Twe Auto Salesmen, Pays Penalty fOr Crims on the Gallows. Chicago, March 4.--Harvey W. Church was hanged here for the murder of Edward J. Daugherty and Carl Ausmus. Church's execution followed one of the hardest legal battles ever staged In Illinois In an attempt to save a convicted murderer from the gallows. A few months back. Church, a carefree youth, killed two automobile salesmen, Bernard J, Daugherty and Carl Ausmus, to gain possession of a new car. He lured them to the basement his home, beat them over the head with a baseball bat, buried one alive and threw the other, handcuffed, Into the river. 1, 1921, the estimated total farm value | USE PLANES IN RELIEF WORK of all classes of farm animals was Food Hauled to 8newbound Michigan Twws Travarx City Receive# Supplies. $306,347,000 while on January 1 of this year it was $242352,000, a redaction of $63,986,000 or about 21 per cent; JoUet.--A blow at dealers in "blue I Traverse City, Mich., March 8.-- sky" was struck by the Appellate Airplanes from Grand Rapids are becourt of the second district recently | ing used here in an attempt to carry •> /Wiw v"; when it decided that common law trust companies are amenable to the securities law of the state. Secretary of State Rmmersou told the Jollet Chamber of Commerce. The decision, written by Justice Partlow, removes one of the obstacles In the way of efficient administration of the act, the secretary said. Chicago.--Sidney Spielman, owner of the Illinois Staats Zeitung, a German language newspaper published th Chicago, and Arthur Lorenz, said to be the author of an article printed In it, were held on bond to the grand Jury after waiving examliiatlon. The American Legion had called attention to the editorial which was said to reflect on former service men. Pinckneyville.--Seven prisoners escaped from the Perry county jail at Pinckneyville through a tunnel which they dug with a razor. The men used steel from their shoes to saw the bars of their cells. Sheriff Thimmig was not aware of the delivery before one of the prisoners, Sam Gilmer, negro, was recaptured at Duquoln. Wheaton--The state convention of the Christian Commercial Travelers' relief for the surrounding districts cut off from all communication by the huge snowdrifts, and which are believed to be in danger of a serious food shortage. At Sutton's Bay the reservation Indians are eating their dogs. Settlers nearby are subsisting on the flesh of the cattle killed by the blizzard. Traverse City faced a food shortage, but a relief train forced Its way through the drifts, the first train since the storm. > s* Fordney Reports New Scheme to Aid War Veterans- Could Borrow From Banks. Washington, March 4.--Unanimous agreement to eliminate the cash feature of the soldiers' bonus except In the case of men whose adjusted service pay would not exceed $50, was reported by the special subcommittee of Republican members of the house ways and means committee. In lieu of cash for the other service men It was agreed to add a new provision to the bonus bill under which the men accepting adjusted service certificates could borrow Immediately on those certificates from banks a sum equal to 50 per. cent of the total adjusted service pay, computed at the rate of $1 a day for domestic service and $1.25 a day for service in foreign countries. Thfs official statement of. the agreement of the subcommittee was issued by Chairman Fordney: The subcommittee, consisting of chairman Fordney, Messrs. Green, Longworth, Hawley, Treadway ami Copley, have tentatively agreed upon and prepared a provision to be submitted which in substance la aa follows: "The elimination of the cash feature of the bonus bill where the veterans are entitled to more than $50 adjusted service pay, but adding a new loan provision to the adjusted service certificate title which will enable holders of such certificates to borrow from any national bank or bank or trust company Incorporated under the laws of any state 50 per cent of the sun. of the adjusted service pay prior to September 30, 1925. This date was fixed because after that time the bill as originally drafted by the committee provides for a larger percentage of loan by the government and has not been changed by the subcommittee." DR. WORKS SUCCEEDS HAYS Reports Prom 231 of the Principal Industrial Centers, With Few Ex- . captions, 8how General Im. provement of Conditlona. Washington, March 7.--Optimism ie the keynote of the monthly Industrial Wirvey of the employment servlee, Depart m out of Labor, reporting on the situation throughout the nation in February, "Employment increased in all industries except textiles," Is the summing up of conditions generally, "and the textile Industry is held back only ou account of the strike controversy In the New England district "While the Joints of industry are still stiff, yet there is a resilency to business that is very encouraging," says Director General Francis L Jones, to which he added: "And with every Indication of permanency." The basic industries, food, iron, steal and metal products, railroad repair shops and vehicles for land transportation, all made substantial gains. Reports from 231 of the principal fbdustrial centers, with but few exceptions. show a general improvement in employment condition^ and breathe ant encouraging spirit of hope and confidence in the future. Weather permitting, March will usher in an era of great activity." The monthly survey la based on actual figures taken from the larger Industrial pay rolls of the country, estimates and guesswork being totally eliminated. "The resulting figures on account of their authenticity have a real value aa an index to industrial conditions," says the depaHtment. Employment increases are reported in 44 cities out of 85 surveyed, and 21 cities report employment decreases during February over January. |Sioux City, la., reports the largest increases of employment over January with 27.3 per cent; Omaha Is next with 26.9; Johnstown, Pa., 22.5; New York took on more help In February, as did Detroit, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Denver, Indianapolis, Seattle, Wash.. Portland Ore., Newark, Rochester, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Cincinnati, PittAargh and Cleveland. - f Manchester, N. H., In the textile district, reported the largest percentage of decreased employment over January with 06.3 per cent. Memphis was next with 11.3; other cities that reported slight pay-roll decreases were San Francisco, Kansas City, Mo., St. Paul, Youngstown, Louisville, Phllahelphln, Chicago and Boston. Segregated statistics of industrial activity show that 1,426 firms employing 50i or more, located in 60 principal cities, employed 1,556,507 workers on January 31, and these same concerns reported 1,666,401 • employee* on February 28, a net Increase of 8,804. There are persistant rtmtori in Chlr cago that Francis J. Houlihan will appointed to the federal bench in the northern district of Illinois to succeed1 Judge Lnndls. Mr. Houlihan Is fiftyseven years old and was born in Ojf> densburg, N. Y. He has lived in Chicago for 80 years. Washington, March i-For^w week •ndli»* March 1 U2S.-HAY~-Quotfd March l: No. I timothy, N«W York W, Philadelphia |23, Pittsburgh 9% Chfea«o Has: ESJ&w: Kansu Clty |».«0; City IJ1, Minneapolis S16. FEBD-Quoted March 1: Bran *25.60, middlings IM, flour middlings $28.60, Minneapolis; % per cent cottoaaeM roMU $40, Memphia- 36 per cent linseed meal fHJO, Buffalo; bo. {alfalfa Kansas City; white hominy feed tOM, Chicago; gluten feed 982.65, Chicago. FRUITS AND VlBQ STABLES--Most apple markets show firm tone, demand and movement limited. New York Baldwlns A2% firm in leading cities; at per barrel; Cincinnati at fMwv; north* western extra fancy boxed, winesape ft. . ^ weaker In producing sections, at .60-2.86, generally steady in Iteta, at ^S-175. Many potato markets •trengthenin. New York sacked rows* whites at 92.15-2.36 per 100 lbs.; northern sacked stock steady In Chicago, at 9L8&4:' *0 to » cent* in other cities, 0.06- j Onlona slightly weaker. Eastern „m'ddlewestern yellow stock ranged $7.60-8 per 100 lb. sack in leading wholesale markets; weak in Chicago, at 9SJO-7. GRAIN--Closing prices In Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat, $1.43; No. 2 hard winter wheat, $1.41: No. t mixed com, 62c; No. 2 yellow corn, 62o; No. 3 white oats, 88c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa about 48%c; No. l dark northern wheat In central North Dakota, $1.32%; No. t hard winter wheat in central Kansas, $1.23. For the week Chicago May wheat up te, closing at $1.46tt; Chicago May corn tip ZUc, at 6714c; Minneapolis May wheat unchanged. at $1.4$%; Kansas City May wheat up Sc. closing at $1.S3; Winnipeg May wheat down %c, at $1.4t%. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices advanced 66 to 65 cents, heavy hogs gaining most. March 2, Chicago prices; Hogs, top, $u.»- bulk of sales. medium and good beef steera, f7.4M.W: butcher cows and heifers, $4.1M.b: feeder Steers. $6.60-7.60- light and medium weight •sal calves, $7.fc-il; fat lambs, $l$.n-UJB: shipments from 11 Important markets dortag the week ending February $4 were Cattle and calves, G6,746; hogs, 8.77S; sheep. IMS. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter markets Arm, with pdcee abewlag advances averaging about to over a week ago. Closing loest $2 More: New Yot*, Boeton and Phlm SSe; Chicago, Sftfcc. MORE SHIPS ORDERED OUT BIG DAMAGE AT FlfOjj Closes Electric and Qas Plants City, Fifty Families' Now Homeless. tfeiu^ ^ iS." .• , Dixon, 111., March. 6.--Water from the gorged Rock river rising slowly during the night flooded the furnace rooms of the Illinois Northern Utilities steam electric plant here, which was furnishing power for Dixon. Sterling, Freeport, Oregon, Polo, Ashton, Nachusa, Franklin Grove, Forreston and many other smaller cities, forcing It to suspend operations. Dlx- Colorado Man Appointed Postmaster : Q«neral by President . Harding. * Wa*M«gton, March S.--<WBel<t %nnouncement was made at the White House that Dr. Hubert Work of Colorado is to succeed Postmaster General Will H. Hays, President Harding asked congress to appropriate $1,110,000 to cover deficiencies in the Post Office department. Previous appropriations, he said will not cover all expenses of the department during the coming year. The principal Item on the supplemental list was $1,000,000 for new mail bags. FOUR SLAYERS DIE IN CHAIR Men Electrocuted at Naahville for -."IfilNsr of Knox -• La* May. on is securing electric power from the association of America, better known I public service company of Joliet. Fifty as the Gideons, will be held at Dan-1 families were forced to flee from their viJle, April 29 and 30. Galesburg.--Hedding college will remain at Ablugdon, trustees of the college decided. Abingdon agreed to I ly^oes. 2,000,000 for Seed Grain. TTttShlngton, March 0.--An build a gymnasium and a new science I priation of $2,000,000 to purchase seed hall for the college and to assist In a drive for enlargement of student body. Springfield.--Substantial character of the foundation of the state capltol I at Springfield was proved a few days of I ago when workmen, under direction grain for the farmers of the northwest who lost their crops because of the drought last year, fras authorised by the house agriculture committee. Bteeleville was virtually destroyed by ! of State Auditor Andrew ltussel, cast fire. The damage is estimated at near- j away their steel chisels ai d took to ly $100,000. The telephone exchange ! an acetylene torch lr an effort to drill was wrecked, thus cutting off tele- J a hole through a 3H-incb wall of Jollet plume communication. ! llmcstoue. Urbann. Plans of farm building* I I'eoria.--Ninety per cent of the pamay wow be secured from the depart- pita of the public and parochial schools meut of farm mechanics, University of I of Peoria Are systematically saving Illinois, it was announced. "The build- money. Last week 43 per cent saved lugs on many farms have been poorly j $1,496.68, bringing the total for the planned, poorly built and poorly ar- school year to $30.(W2.ee, The num- Kln of Redmond Slain. Belfast, March 6.--Max 8. Grssn, chairman of the Irish prison board, was shot and killed in Dublin, a Dublin message announces. Greeu wan a j son-in-law of the late John Redmond, > Irish Nationalist leader. Nashville, Tenn., March 3.--Charles H. Petree, Tom Christmas, Otto Stevens and John McClure were electrocuted at the state prison, all In the space of 25 minutes, for the murder of George Lewis of Knoxville on May 90, 1921. The men,went to their deaths with prayers on their lips, and all except Petree met death calmly. Oenby Places Fifty Additional De> stroyera and Many Other Ves> sals Out of Commission. Washington, March 7.--Secretary Denby announced that he ordered 50 additional destroyers and nearly three score auxiliary naval craft placed out of commission to conserve fuel. The destroyers are in addition to the 100 ordered out of commission some days ago. , Secretary Denby said the ships ordered out of commission were in addition to 92 other ships of the navy placed out of commission since he took office a year ago. The department in that time, he added, has sold 257 obsolete or auxiliary naval craft and now has on sale 86 additional ships. U.S. FARMERS TO TEACH RUSS Henri Batallle, Dramatist, Paris, March 4.--The death is announced of Henri Batallle, the dramatist. One Hundred and Fifty American and Canadian Tillers of Soil doing to Rusaia. , New York, March 7.--When the Steamship ' Esthonia of the Baltic American line sailed from New York for Libau, among its passengers was a group of about 150 farmers, bound for soviet Russia, where they are to receive grants of good agricultural land--3,000 acres, they hope--on which they will establish a model farming community. Sixty of these farmers came from the wheat regions of British Columbia and the others have been gathered by the Society for Technical Aid to Russia from air parts of the United States. ranged, which has resulted In a direct Umh to the owner," said Prof. E. W. fjehmann, head of the department, In VBafchig tbe announcement. Jfockforri.--Drys of Rockford will have a complete ticket for members of -• ttoe Wliuifba^o county board tu the tcviiihip election to be held April ber of accounts opened by pupils at the school depository number 10.458. Mollne.--Establishment of a model village on the Illinois side of the Mississippi river, nejir Mollne, by the Big Raid on N. Y. Scowa. Hew York, March 6.--Two scows foil of bottled whisky of a brand popular in pre-Volstead days and worth $432,000 were seized In West [Cbeftter creek and seven men ' ing the crew arrested. Kills Self to Avoid Scandat. Detroit, Mich., March 6.--Relenting Brotherhood of American Yeomen, as I and brooding over his father's peremp» a refuge for 1,600 fatherless Vfr-I I tory order that he must continue to motherless chlldron, is under cob- I attend school, Arthur Coleman, foursideration. I teen years old, shot and killed himself ; •• ms boms bars..^X . "'a ,v Minlstsrs Immune From Alien Law. New York, March 7.--Wives and minor children of ministers of any religious organizations, as well as ministers themselves, are Immune from the provisions of the Immigration quota law. Federal Judge Mack held. Submarine Saves Five. ... New London, Conn„ March 7>» United States submarine S-19 rushed to the burning fishing schooner Grace Clinton in Block Isiand sound and saved the five men aboard. The submarine brought the crew to this port. Boose Halts Gotham's Flu. Hew York, March 4.--Federal Prohibition Director Ralph A. Day aa* nounced the Influenza epidemic in February bad caused an Increase of 10,- 000 gallons over January withdrawals of whisky. . - c ' W - r r$k U. S. MARKET REPORT arketgram o Markets and Crops. of city SEEK FATHER AND TWO SONS Detroit Police Hear of Parent's Threat "lo Do Away With the . • Boys." ^ » axtrolt, Mich., March 8.--At th* r» quest of Mrs. Barbara Besse police began a search for her husbanJ, Ray Besse, and their two children, Ralburn, eight, and Lleudonie, six, who disappeared after Bessie Is alleged to have threatened to "do away with the boys." Besse was last seen, so far as the police could learn, walking hand in hand with the children toward the Detroit river. Near the water's edge at Orleans street the officers reported they found the footprints of two small children and a man. Besse, according to his wife's statement to the police, had been drinking recently. EGYPT IS GIVEN FREEDOM British Protectorate Over Country la aft an End, Premier Lloyd George Tells Commons. London. March 2.--Prime Mlnlstei Lloyd George announced In the boost of commons that the British protectorate over Egypt was free to work out such national Institutions as might be suited to the aspirations of het people. Mr. Lloyd George said It wa« for the Egyptian government £» f£tn the necessary legislation. pt-fpipfc. ouMoa^, ao 1 _ ber daSMkm ami good health ia •air. IteA&mV Vegetabfc Cygw^jotttfae nwficfaejwi eaa lira. Sacdeott Mf Cudcura Soap OeuntNSkfai and Keeps it Clear Which? I expect to get as many pieces dt gum as I put pennies in the slot machine. I think when I go to a "musical comedy" that 1 am going to see and bear both comedy and music. I have secret hopes that some day there will be no reformers, reds, over charges or jazz. I go to lectures with the vieif ol gleaning bits of information. I have faith that the Modem ts old-fashioned at heart. I am an optimist--(or imla fed?). --Dartmouth College Jack o* Lantern. When It comes to stepping into a fortune no man objects to putting his foot Into it. - v , • • - • • • ' ^ ' Kdlson has produced nickel tfeflb* ner tlian paper and has had a b^ok printed on It. Laziness is not at the bottom of shlftlessness so much as Inability to make a plan. About the easiest thing in. the Is not to become a millionaire. SENATE -RATIFIES YAP PACT All Reaervations and Amendments Rejected by Upper House of Congress. Washington, March, 8.--The Yap treaty was ratified without reservetions Or smendments by the senste. The vote for ratification was 67 to 21 Doctor Work in Cabinet Washington, March. 4.--Official announcement was made at^the White House that Dr. Hubert Work of Colorado Is to succeed Postmaster General Will H. Hays, whe retires from the albioet on Mart* * - m Irish Hoist Red Flag. Tlpperary, March 7.--The load branch of the Irish transport workers' union seized the gas works here and hoisted the red flag. The manager of the works was replaced with att 1 ployee who had been dismissed. Northwestern U. Gets $600,000. New York, March 7.--Northwsetern university has been given $300,000 from the John D. Rockefeller general educational fund, according to the announcement made here. The donation Is toward the $2,000,000 fund. Vai^ar College Horses Burned. Poughkeepsle, N. Y„ March 4.--Vaasar college lost all its horses In s lire which destroyed a large barn on the college grounds. Sixteen horses were burned. The loss was estimated at Jbout $80,000. ^ • U. S. Navy at Awaher. Washington, March 2.--The American navy was virtually brought to anchor by action of the house appropria- 0os» cemiMttee In cuttlng^jhe relanarnl appropriation for navy foel ^ najOOQj^ t* $6^82^ ... Lived 11S Yeare. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., March 7.-- Mrs. John Whalden, whose Indian name Is Wahsaya Ogebayauquet, died at her home, near here, at the age of 118. She was born within a aUM'sthrow of where she died. > ~ j y-T-*:r. Woman Msyor Hit by Msn. Falrport, O., March 7.--Dr. Amy Kaukonen, mayor of this village, hai a black eye, according to village officers, the result of being struck In the face by ao ujiiuciitlKci.' bjkb, v?!«© caped. . . Three Killed; N Hurt In IHel. London. March 4.--Three person* were killed and 24 others injured, some seriously, in a disturbance at Tania, Egypt, 55 miles south of Cairo, says a Central News dispatch from Cairo. Native soldiers restored ordes; For s New Naval Reaerve. Washington, March 4.--Complete reorganization of the naval reserve It proposed In a tentative bill prepared by the Navy department and forwarded to officinls of the Naval Reserve assti &fttlon by Secretary Dei^by, It hardly pays to be a prodigal- aft* ; unless you are partial to veaL i Marriage will often sober a lainfr who Is intoxicated with love. If yon do not scale the WflWh |< yon cannot view the plain. ^ r-"' f While there is life there It tf everybody but the undertaker. Fine feathers may not make4 ftM birds, but they make costly hats. - Many are willing to give advice; 1ml few are willing to lend assistance^ "Good times" must be paid for. Mm Sure Belief FOR LLANS Stand 73* HPETROLEMM JELLY Ji-»-- • - -• •an tttk rPISOSi tAVS AMP SAMS SCMdf W. II, CHICAOO.HO. te-1922.