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>18 J>y the conadoption of general asto lawt encouraging e*«%^pftwrlElng the legisla- |p classify Hoar taxation areas detc forest culture, dstown.--Total damage of the Hl|» this section Is estimated at T®";" ^SfyB0i>,OOO. This figure State Sena- ^ C- M,,ls of Virginia reported to Small In urging the execu- CaU a speclal s^sion of the assembly. DantageJji-B^ardsalone will be about $1,000,00ft. '* Venice.--Three arjned and |fe,;.;:i#*n#ien entered the police station P^i "held up the night sergeant, Luther gte ' Alvey, and forced him to release J. C. , Thomas, an escaped convict, who had v , been arrested. Thomas escaped from Jtfce Chester penitentiary in 1915. He * .^as being held for the penitentiary ^v^nuthorittea, ' ' 14 Champaign, genlce In the $10,008 •jjp-^jlwlt filed by William Gilmore, law i' v student at the University of Illinois, v- ^gainst J, K. Flaherty, president at i' .j^e senior class, was obtained a few ;\^Jays ago. The suit Is tlie oaigrovrth a declsioif of the senior cfass to '"%'arry canes. Members of tfie law club ^ .^declared the seniors were Infringing ',.w a custom adopted by the club. Springfield.--C. C. Adams of Peoria I^as elected president of the Illinois p_.Music Dealers* association at the first convention, recently held In > fftpttogfield. Other officers chosen --jtorere: First vice president, J. Bart Johnson, Jacksonville; second vice ? • v^resident, F. P. Watson, lit. Carmel; ^secretary, J. P. McDermott* Decatur, - .and treasurer, Lioyd Parker. Harrisy*; f%Urg. Springfield.--Popularity of better l|s #>aby conferences to be held In conjunction wWh county fairs Is spreading I*;' throughout the state, according to an S" -^announcement of the "state department public health. The department says ^fchat already It has received numerous /' Requests for assistance in conducting ; j^Buch conferences from county fair associations in counties where fairs will >•; l>e held next fall. Beardstown.--Charging the Chicago nltury district with constant violatlon of federal permits regulating the . /. flow of water from Lake Michigan Into '.the drainage canal, the flooded city of *|)jj£??Beardstown, embittered by two weeks *>f suffering, has reopened the ancient ifeud between Chicago and the Illinois jP ylgrfver valley. Aroused over a report •Iflby A. D. Millard, a civil engineer regained to Investigate river conditions * |s<Bhove Beardstown, Mayor Perry and ,- J^ lf^iis "flood committee" decided to begin j M ^thelr preparing-- campaign against 3^-flfuture floods with a war on the sani- ^ :^:;tary district, t 3 Shelbyville.--In hotter- of Abraham & vjLineoln, the board of supervisors of p^KShelby county adopted a resolution to '^designate the public square in Shelby ^; e:Vllle as Lincoln square. Tablets in - fionor of Lincoln and Samuel W. ^Moulton, father of Illinois' first public school law will be placed In the square. s^The court house of Shelby county Is located In the public square. In fffirf&hls plot of ground also was located ^t...^the first brick court house of the •?"^«ounty in which Lincoln, Anthony •< . .^Thornton, Samuel W. Moulton and jfVy *»ther notables practiced law In the ^«%?40s and '50s. i , ~ Chicago.--Illinois' coal mining ln- '• K^Nlustry, closing of which April 1, by the ^"•^nation-wide strike threw 90,000 mincers and several thousand other em- *: f :i|ployees out of work, Is one of the Jwonder developments of the state. **" *, ^The 1840 United States census credits ^j-'h^coal mining in Illinois with a capitali- 0;. \ ization of - $120,076, with 152 employees "J" "jand an annual production of 427,187 . "bushels of coal. The 1920 census lists ; J?®28 mines, with an annual production ;=of 73,920,658 tons, while the capital ^Invested reaches into hundreds of ^millions. One Illinois county alone-- r. Franklin--producing more coal than JX*;any other county In the world, turns ,^'jout 12,000,000 tons yearly, and has an J ' ^annual pajr roll to miners of $17,500,- Kp.. "^000. ' Urbana.--The twenty-eighth annual ' llnterscholastlc meet to be held on Illif" 1 * tools field May 19 and 20 is expected to ;; "'draw more than 700 athletes to UrfXi,-,." bana. Fifteen track and sir field 1',; ^events will be on the card this year. The meet will be divided into two v" £55 J 'jj and the tl :e cau be h "'Frank Fatti with Illinois when such a ci is '-not very far ton, president of the ntinols told newspaper reporters, * Springfield.--Fifty Ii wlim and j less flood refugees of^®((iaft coi wired Governor Small aimttfc thnt be given employment on the hatA roads in that part of Illinois., Thgifc message came from Anna, the count? seat, and said there were numerapi, other men who had been entirely deprived of a livelihood by the flooded Mississippi. '• Oregon.--Locating a wolf den upon his farm near here, Wllkey BnketkCn was lucky enough to Igill the o|d animals and also capture 11 cute. The Ogle county treasurer paid the farmer $110 in bounty. Engelken hM been the leading bounty collector tn this city. During the last three years he has been able to kill or capture no less than 83 wolves. Springfield.--Taxes; of (SOO.OOO assessed In 1918 against the Pullman company were declared void In a report tendered the Superior court by Master in Chancery Pollack. The equalisation board increased the valuation of the company's capital stock from $5,515,174 to $11,267,428, and raised Its taxes "nearly 100 per cent, The case was appealed to the courts. Springfield.--T*y representatives of the state recently went to Old Fort Massac to survey the land adjoining the Old Fort Massac parte, which has been purchased from former State Senator Reed Green of Cairo. The state purchased the 100 acres for &3,- 000, the amount having been appropriated by the legislature for the purpose. The land lies on a bluff adjoining the bank of the Ohio river. Danville.--The Illinois Association of Banking Industry, ht a three-day session, chose the following officers: Walter Spitz, Danville, president; M.* O. Densby, Chicago, vice president; George Geissler, Jollet, re-elected treasurer. C. Steger, Cairo, and Fred Mestner^>f MattOon were elected to the board of directors. The executive committee wllV decide on the city to entertain the convention next year. Danville. -- Hedrick, Ind., almost wiped off the may by the floods and cyclone, Is to be rebuilt at once. More than 100 volunteer carpenters, armed with their tools, left here by train for Hedrick to begin the task. They were given a rousing sendofT. "Rebuild Hedrick" has become the slogan of the people of the vicinity. Recently the churches raised more than $10,000 to be used for this purpose and the fund is growing. Urbana.--An Increase of 258 per cent In the wheat yields and an Increase of 131 per cent in corn yields In southern Illinois Is a result of the soil treatment composed of limestone, organic matter and rock phosphate. In the corn belt, the "wheat yields have been Increased 29 per cent, and the corn yields 36 per cent by the same methods. This remarkable achievement on the part of the University of Illinois is the substance of a report Issued from the university on the work of the university's experiment fields in solving the soli problems of the state. - Springfield.--Governor Small named the remaining two members of the Illinois deep waterway commission. The commission represents the • state at conventions of the lakes-to-the-gulf waterway. The members appointed are: State Senator Martin B. Bailey of Danville, Representative Charles E. Moore of Iiindsboro, Douglas county. Governor Small also, appointed Miss Bridget H. Sullivan of Chicago as public guardian of Cook county. Miss Sullivan Is a member of the law firm of Laird, Seheyer & Suilivan^fieorge H. Pauk of Quincy was appointed public administrator of Adams county. Springfield.--After another lengthy recess, the members of the constitutional convention returned to Springfield determined to complete their task, pass Anally on the articles in the new proposed constitution and get away early In May. The convention has been adjourned since March 14, when it was decided that primary campaigns were taking up time and attention of the delegates and that It ^would be impossible to have a quorum In attendance. President Charles Woodward declared that lie expects a sufficient number of members to remain on session days to finish framing the new code In a couple of weeks. Springfield.--Sheriff Edward Lashbrook of Schuyler county and two of his deputies were killed in a battle with Subdivisions. Class A Including athletes «,len ^lon hands near the Frederick from schools of an enrollment of more deP°t. four miles north of Beardstown. 'than 400 and Class B taking in ath- j The shots were fired when the offlletes from schools with an enrollment "Z "-•"^yamder 400. In addition to the Inter- ^- ' ^ scholostlc track events, numerous other athletic features will cntertaiu the > host of high school visitors who year- ' '\jly attend the Interscholastic meet. A " track meet between Illinois and Wls- ,.^^i|coBSiii and also a baseball game between these Institutions will be held. Last year, 106 high schools of the state, represented by more than 000 athletes '^participated In the- meet. Champaign ">• won the Class A events and Forrest the pinss B division events. ; Springfield.--The Sangamon coun- B**arm bureau telegraphed Senator s/jfr ^William McCormlck at Washington to ^support the movement for a 10-cent j tariff on each gallon of "Blackstrap" molasses imported Into the country. ' The molasses are used by distillers of Peoria in the nuking of alcoho'. The price is so cheap that the distilleries use It in preference to corn, thereby killing the market for a large «v. A,Vrart of the damageS corn of Sanga- V'-^nion coynty and this section «£ the state. • . * [Jiey&t Rockford.--Familiar "white wings" * ^ with their carts and brooms have bw® banished from Rockfortl'S busl- :;i-ess streets, and in their stead motor- -^driven sweeping machines have been - Vput into use. ^ Pe°ria.--The government opened its • ~ against Peoria druggists and doc- ' ^Itors who are alleged to hav« entered Into conspiracy to beat the legal is- '^Isuance of whisky penults for faedicinal -I$! pur|* >ses. Six fdruggists have cers attempted to quiet a disturbance among the aliens, who are quartered in cars along the Chicugo, Burlington ft Quincy tracks at Frederick. Following the shooting of Sheriff Lashbrook and Deputy Frank Utter and Carl Neff, 30 of the foreigners boarded a train bound for flood-stricken Beardstown. The officials of Cass county were notified of the shooting and awaited the arrival of the train. Twenty-seven surrendered, while three made their escape after a chase through the flooded city. Waukegan.--The trial of Gov. Leo Small is In progress at Waukegan. The first venire having been exhausted, an additional 100 names were submitted for jury service. The trial may continue two -or three months. Springfield.--Resolutions urging the members of the Springfield Milk Producers* association to come under federal supervision, were passed at the annual meeting of the association. It was pointed out that if herds were under the supervision of the federal authorities, it would make for a general Improvement of the dairies. Hoopeston.--The mystery of the 31s- $ppea ranee several weeks ago of Gertrude Hanna, twenty-five, was solved when her mutilated 1/ody was found In the basement of an unoccupied church parsouage at Hoopeston. Spr|ngfield.--One election year in Ilttnohr is ttie decision of the constitutional convention. By a vote of 54 to 9 the dtlegates have voted to physicians and two make the first Tuesday after the first been indicted and j Monday In November the only election : authorities say laure arrests will 'lay of the year, and tj make that I tiaj « legat holiday. - , General Wood, when he Inspected his future summer home as governor of the Philippines, was highly delight* ed with this charming garden, approached by many flights of stone steps from the governor's residence. Natives originally planned the amphitheater, which is ee * UU site at Bajniot province of Bangui ?Xv5?.3?' P& ',r- <• Work of Schools for the Blind Is ^$fnplified by Adoption ot ^ Uniform System. ^ NTS ME PUCE OF IMES Enabies Blind to Reoelvs Tmlnlng Through WhlehThey May Iscomo •olf-Supportlng--Many looks Published. New Tork.--The Braille system of embossed' type has now been adopted by all schools for the blind lu this country, and since 1919 no new book has been embossed In any other type. Dozens of embossed types for reading by the finger have been designed from time to time; the first practical one rras devised In France 136 years ago by Valentin Hauy. Three systems retained popularity for many years, but as this made It necessary for the blind to learn three different types, the leading educators of the country decided to make one System universal, and unanimously decided on the Braille. Much Ingenuity, effort and money have been expended In devising these systems to enable the blind to read and receive training through which they may become self-supporting. All may be divided into two groups-- those composed of lines and those composed of points. In general the line types, which came first, were Imitations of characters that had sur-, vived as best adapted to reading by the eye. The point types, the characters of which are merely different arrangements and numbers of similar points or dots, represent arbitrary systems justified both as being generally more tangible than thtf lines, and as being writable as well as readable by the blind themselves. The point systems have gradually driven out the line types, with the exception of the Moon type, which Is so large and coarse that anybody having the least patience can learn to read with tho finger. Agreed on a Midway Typo, The type adopted Is called the Revised Braille, 1%, as the British have been using this type In two forms, one In full spelling and other highly contracted with many arbi- Most Popular trary abbreviations As textbooks and literature should be models of good usage, the leading educators of the blind in this country agreed on a type between the two. This American grade is a simplified typo and can be read by anyone who knows either type." The music notations for the blind are now the same everywhere, as are the mathematical and the chemical notations wherever English Is used. In this way duplication of scores and tables may be avoided through international exchange. The printing of embossed books for the blind began with the founding of the first school In this country in 1830, books were made us funds were available until 1879, when congress grantod the American Printing House for tho Blind at Louisville an annual subsidy of $10,000. This house at once became the greatest producer of tts kind in the world, and continued to be such into the present century, when the number of blind pupils tn the schools drawing upon this source for books had more than doubled. The cost of production nnd tho increase in demand eventually made the output of this house Insufficient, and In the emergency several of the schools put up emergency printing presses and assisted one another. One endowed enterprise set about manufacturing writing appliances and table games for the tyind and selling them at less than cost. In 1919, however, congress increased Its grant to the American Printing House from $10,000 to $50,000, which made possible the enlargement and improvement of the plant and the increase In the number of hooks to each school. Spreading Knowledge. In a report on the work to educate tho blind end distribute books among them, Edgar E. Allen, director of the Perkins institute and Massachusetts School for the Blind, writes: "Most schools are glad to circulate their embossed books beyond their own pupils and do so as far as th«f can. But the reading hunger of the blind outside of Institutions is cnlefiy satisfied by circulating libraries located ,here and there throughout the country. Libraries and schools interested have collected much literature, and some authors have been Induced to meet the cost of publishing a book or two In Braille. "By far the largest number of mud J and partly blind pupils h» the United States, GS elsewhere, attend the resl- | dentlal schools commonly called tnstlj tutlons. There are now 45 such A&ools, with a total attendance of about 5,000. Tho day-school movement started in Chicago considered all tts pupils blind, and taught them aa^such for years until In a few dtlM certain of the semi-blind were segregated and taught as semi-sighted pupils, chiefly through tho eye Instead of the fingers. "The movement for, such segregation is scientifically cor+ect, and represents a great educational advance In the proper methods of reaching children not suffering from blindness but from seriously defective eyesight" GETS HIS DELAYED MEDAL When Capt. Paxton HIbben was secretary to the American embassy In Petrograd In 1906 he was awarded a medal by the emperor of Japan for his services among Japanese prisoners of wnr. The medal has just reached him, and Gen. R. L. Bullard Is shown pinning It on his breast. During the late war Captain HIbben served overseas with the Three Hundred Thirty-Second field artillery and he Is now secretary of the American committee for the relief of Russian children. Aged .Couple Keep Secret Lewlston, Pa.--Joseph B. Hostetler, seventy-three years old, and his bride, Lizzie Y. Hostetler, seventy years old, announced their wedding the other day after having kept the secret one month, as arranged by the couple prior to having the nuptial knot tied by Rev. John K. Byler, an Amistl preacher, who lives near Belleville. Resort of Thirsty Americans Destroyed by Fire ssssss This striking photograph shows the view from the harbor during the burning of the big Colonial hptel at Nassau, Bahama islands. The loss was estimated at $2,000,000. The hotel was a favorite stopping place of thirsty Americans since the advent of prohibition. ARMENIA BADLY IN NEED OF FOOD Supply Is Exhausted, American Relief Workers Report. Brood Is Mads Prom all Sorts ef tafcstlnoca-- Break-up of Winter Hi» veals Terrible Condition*-** • K Seed Grain Needed. ! New York.--A cablegram received by Charles V. Vlckrey, general secretary of Near East Relief, dated Alexandropol, tells of how investigation by American relief workers has revealed terrible starvation among refugees and orphans with the break-up of winter in the mountain villages of central Armenia. Foodstuffs throughout the area are exhausted, the cable says, md continues: "Bread is made from ali sorts of substitutes, Including flax, chaff and sawdust, having no appreciable food value. The people are extracting un- :ed materials (no old roiwm and * "i j. giving It to the children. Health conditions are critical. Gastric and intestinal troubles prevail, due to malnutrition. A large per cent of the peopl«are suffering from skin diseases. One-fourth of the adults are Incapacitated and bedridden. "In tho villages visited there are 1,500 orphans who should be removed immediately if they are to live. Even In small villages the weekly death list Includes ten children. In many villages all children have lost their hair during the wilier. Several cases were so desperate that the people resorted to eating human flesh, which practice was sharply punished by the authorities. Officials said they are doing ali they can to prevent it, but the people lose their senses from hunger. At Mahmsudchuk a family of fifteen persons was visited a month ago. Now only three of the family remain. The dead include all the male members of the family. Gjreat anxiety' is expressed about --ciiring ami . grain ier spring planting. The head man of tho largest village said: 'If we can secure seed we shall be on our feet by midsummer. If we don't get seed we are doomed to death." Near East Relief has sixty American relief admlnlstratortC doctors and nurses In this area. During the winter, however, their supplies and resources have been so reduced that they have been able to do little more than care for the large number of orphans already accepted in institutions, a single orphanage numbering 18,000 children. Secretary Vlckrey declares that not only the lives of the orphaned children this spring, but the food supply for the entire population next winter depends on the prompt dispatch within the next few weeks of grain for food and seed from the United States. »>.?& tA Immune. , Once there was a conductor who was not satisfied with his wages, and left The ne*t day, while looking for a job, he happened to step on the third rail. Did he get killed? No. He was a nonconductor.--Science and invest- 0L." 4 I , ..... TrstUe uilfwer • Swpect ft ' r| Appficanta for Insurance Reject td. Judgfaag from reports bom druggkls who are constantly in direct touch with the asMMr there is one preparation that has JjfMn veri successful in overcoming these euodfiionB. The mild and healing lafloence ef Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-fyot is Seen us Wild. It stands the highest for ! Its nnubble record of success. ' An examining physician for one of the prominent Life Insurance* Companies, in an Interview on the subject, made the astonishing statement that one reason why so many applicants for insiiuim are rejected ia 1 Motuae kidney treat* is so common to the American people, and the large majority of those whose applications are declined do not even suspect that they have the <!:sease. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp .Root is en sale at all drugstores in bottles of two sine, medium and targe. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer 4 Co., Binghamton, N< Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sore and mention this paper. Advertisement. Weapone Laid Aside. "Nobody tries to stop card playing in Crimson Gnlch." "It's valuable for Its social Influence," replied Cactus Joe. MI thought friendship ceased In a poker game?" 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