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• * . *»v t - j «<»• "V#* H » 4 . H j « * • . - • < • ^ v , , • • . • ^•v." *.... tx. *- ' •. tJRINO the first week tn February, 1910, the Cuban National Horfcicuitir ral society, an organization the mem­ bership of which is almost exclusive­ ly American and Canadian, held its fourth annual meeting in Havana. In connection, a horticultural show was open; among the exhibits were cit­ rus fruits from every section of the island. The fruits were large, juicy, clean, thin-skinned, heavy, beautifully colored and delicious in flavor. Flor­ ida had sent across grape fruit and oranges from famous orchards of the peninsular state, to facilitate invidious compari­ son, and the comparison, when made, showed that Cuba can produce citrus fruit of first-class qual­ ity, and, moreover, that she is doing so. Citrus-fruit culture is the principal interest of American and Canadian settlers throughout. Cuba. Cubans and Spaniards are growers of no citrus fruits save pineapples--the grape fruit and orange groves belong to the English-speaking colonists. Orange and grape fruit culture is the business which has been boomed mercilessly by land companies advertising largely and some­ times unscrupulously all through the United States and in Canada during the past ten years. Their customers, arriving in Cuba, have insisted upon growing nothing but grape fruit and or­ anges, even in regions where other crops would assuredly have proven more immediately profit­ able if not the better investment in the long run. For instance, there are Americans and Cana­ dians growing citrus fruits in the heart of Vuelta A ha jo and in other parts of P1 n a r del Rio province on lands that might be made to produce tobac­ co of the qualities which have made western Cuba famous the world around for this one crop, were the owners willing to co-operate with Cubans on the par- tldario system, accord­ ing to which the new­ comer furnishes the re­ quisite capital and the native furnishes the skill no less necessary to success in the deli­ cate undertaking. It Is a notable fact that few Americans or Canadians who themselves do the actual work in their to- WPIGH 4 S V < s\ 4 ** „ IS -i. \ Iff fPiSt TRY FOR STATE iBMMWa >'W"" P«lfti 'fe&JC" w ' \/$±£^or pjtir$ l -mime- , ft u> " ...." cmj} bacco fields have found this crop profitable. There are "tricks in the trade" of which Cubans are masters, especially those persons whose fam­ ilies have for generations out of mind engaged In tobacco culture entirely. They seem to be pos­ sessed of an intuition which enables them to handle the seedling, the plant and the leaf, when germinating, when maturing, and especially when curing, in a manner to insure a better outcome than any foreigner is likely to compass. To grow the very best tobacco requires capital. The ven­ ture is a gamble, the result of which, however, Is known in a single season. If the planter wins, he probably rakes in "big money." If he loses, at least it takes him only months, not years, to find it out. In the Isle of Pines, which was formerly a cattle and hog country, producing especially val­ uable draft oxen for sale in Cuba proper, Ameri­ can citrus-fruit growers consume large quantities of canned condensed milk, at high prices, as' well as large amounts of canned meats and vegetables, despite the fact that some good pasturage exists, while still more could doubtless be planted, and the further fact that fine vegetables In remark­ ably large variety can be grown along the river banks, or, really, almost anywhere else where irrigation is possible. They also Import hay and feed at ridiculous cost. All this into a region where corn at least can be grown and large herds used to "find" themselves. In central, but most particularly in eastern Cuba, Americans and Canadians are developing groves in lands admirably adapted to sugar cane, which is a quick, certain and profitable crop, sold either in the field, or cut and delivered wherever there is a mill near enough to buy up the cane. They arc growing their trees on sites natives would assuredly prefer for coffee and cacao, or, more wisely, for the numerous indigenous crops (names, boniatos, etc.) for which there is con­ stant and remunerative demand. American and Canadian settlers in Cuba, in­ cluding the Isle of Pines, are citrus-fruit mad. In Plnar del Rio, in the Isle of Pines and in central and eastern Cuba there is, nevertheless, in their madness so much method, plus grit and utter in­ ability to realize the odds they are "up against," that It seems to be very probable they will suc­ ceed regardless. Money, time and hardship are to them no object at all. Plnar del Rio Is a province possessed of most fertile lands in certain districts. There are among the foothills and in the. "Organos" them­ selves rich valleys; unfortunately, some of the choicest are as yet almost inaccessible. There 1b good land always along the streams, and arable areas are to be found, here and there, every­ where. Also here and there and everywhere there are worn-out fields, sun baked through years, which wear, however, to the inexperi­ enced eye, the aspect of virgin, though lightly wooded or sa­ vannah lands; there are also other sections--desolate palm barrens--where no man save the sort who purchase real es­ tate "sight unseen" would think of attempting to grow anything. There are, too, south of the mountain range, on the plain which drops gradually from its skirts to the Caribbean sea, certain sandy, gravelly reaches, poor in plant food. It Is here, however, with proper fertilization and care, that growers are developing orange and grape-fruit groves. These lands will produce the trees, if food to support them is supplied in the shape of fer­ tiliser, and the trees will bear citrus fruit of the very best quality--bright colored, weighty, full of juice, inclosed in smooth, thin rind. No fair- minded person can longer doubt that they will do so after Beeing fruit of the quality which growers located at Taco Taco exhibited at the latest horticultural show in Havana. These gen­ tlemen had, however, the money to keep their trees properly nourished. Many others who have failed to succeed as they are suceeding owe that failure to the fact that they did not have the money to do as much for their groves. Some land companies doing business In west­ ern Cuba deny overtly or by implication that fer­ tilization is necessary, but no prospective owner of a citrus-fruit grove in western Cuba can afford not to include in his estimate of expenses the cost of fertilizing early and often in amounts properly augmented as years pass. Fertilizers in general use in the groves of the region mentioned cost, on a fair average, about $45 a ton. This is the situation in the Isle of Pines, as well as In the western and central mainland of Cuba. "The soils are all poor in plant food com­ pared with the average soils in the United States, and the gravel ridges are especially so," states Mr. H. C. Henricksen, secretary of the Cuban National Horticultural society, referring particu­ larly to the Isle of Pines, "but I have never seen the effect of good fertilizers so sharply outlined as in these very soils, and from experience in Florida and Porto Rico I would predict an abun-. dant crop of fruit of superior quality wherever the groves are properly treated." The vital question In these regions is, then, whether the owner is able to afford proper treat­ ment. He will, save In exceptional cases, where the soil Is too "American" for any use whatso­ ever, get his crop provided he has the money to supply enough fertilizer. For there are richer lands in Cuba than those on which Americans and Canadians are develop­ ing their groves In western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. Along the Cauto river, to mention but one locality, there are exceedingly deep, fertile, vir­ gin soils which need no fertilizer tp produce cit­ rus fruit groves. Such lands must, at the very commencement, be cleared, at some expense, of the thick woods that cover them, and groves* once planted, must at all costs be kept fairly free of weedB. Secondary crops--corn, for instance-- may be grown between rows without detriment to the trees; in fact, it would seem wiser to do Yeaehers From Various Parts Take Examination. UNDER CARE OF U. J. HOFFMAN t-. "* „ 11 j 1 --i . Theee Taking the Test Are Appli­ cants for Certificates Which Will Entitle Them to Teach In Any Dletriet 8chool. Springfield.--Fifteen teachers from, rarlous parts of the state took the teachers' examination for state cer­ tificates under the supervision of As­ sistant Superintendent of Public In­ struction TJ. J, Hoffman. The exam­ inations were held In the old supreme court room In the state house. Those taking the examination here are applicants for general certifi­ cates, which will entitle them to teach In any school district In the state. Examinations are devoted to educational psychology and principles and methods of modern reaching. Other examinations were begun of applicants for state elementary, state high school and state supervisory cer­ tificates, the examinations being held at the University of Chicago, the state university at Urbana and the normal schools at Normal, Carbon- dale, Charleston, DeKalb and Ma­ comb. vgrr ftoiAjr " Of so than otherwise, for, exactly the opposite of the case in the west, these far eastern lands need to be reduced. They are almost too rich, and the fruit of trees they produce, particularly young trees. Is apt to be coarse-skinned, too big, and pithy. These defects, nevertheless, time remedies, for as groves age they lessen the supply of plant food. Eventually it will become necessary to fer­ tilize the trees, and then growers, by selecting their fertilizer, can control the quality of their fruit. They have, meanwhile, acquired their grove without the expense for fertilizer the grower in the west has been put to in order to produce his. He, on the other hand, has been to less expense than the man in the east in the matter of clear­ ing, and he has not had to sit up nights weeding to keep his grove from disappearing under a tangle of tropical vegetation. The obvious conclusion, is therefore, that six Is one-half dozen. Groves in both eastern and western Cuba will produce trees and good fruit, but neither will do so for any owner not willing to pay the price under one head or another In cash and also in hard work. It is conservatively estimated that no man should undertake even a five-acre grove anywhere in Cuba unless he has at least $5,000 where he ca.n lay his hands on it. If he is a lively, capable man he will probably not need that amount of money, but no matter what his ability he should be able to command at least that sum before em­ barking in the citrus fruit business" here. He may need it all, and more. While no complete statistics are available, it is the writer's impression that, in western Cuba, including the Isle of Pines, the acreage of or­ anges is more than that of grape fruit, while in the east it would seem that the grape-fruit acre­ age is the larger. The older groves seem, usu­ ally, to be orange groves; the younger the grove the larger the proportion of grape fruit in it Problems of transportation to market demand careful study from all growers, prospective or established. Groves situated at a distance from railway lines are handicapped at the start, for, although there are many good roads in Pinar del Rio province, and all over the Isle of Pines, every foot of haul counts, and where the roads are not excellent, It counts heavily, most especially In wet weather. Americans and Canadians have plunged head­ foremost into citrus-fruit culture In Cuba. They are building up against odds, by their indomitable courage and optimism, an industry into which preceding owners of the lands they hold did not venture. The Spaniards and Cubans did not so venture may have been because they were blind to the possibilities, lacked specific knowledge, or the energy required; or possibly they were outmatched by adverse conditions in past dec­ ades. Then again, it may be they were deterred not by these things at all, but by a true under­ standing of basic conditions here; by a realiza­ tion of difficulties in the way of competing, not to say controlling, in the markets where the citrus fruit of Cuba must be sold; and, especially, by a keen appreciation of more profit to be made more quickly and inexpensively elsewhere. In fine, they may have been governed by caution, which does not notably distinguish the Anglo-Saxon when engaged in opening up fields to him new. New to him, be it noted, but in Cuba's case not in themselves either new or untried. This Island Is not a virgin wilderness In toto. It has been under the domination of white men for 400 years. Not all these white men were idle and Incompetent. They appreciated the country and In developing itB resources--not to the fullest ex­ tent possible nowadays, to be sure, but as far as was possible to them In their times--they made fortunes. The Spaniards devoted all the energies they had for agriculture in Cuba to sugar cane and to­ bacco In the eastern and central provinces, and especially to tobacco in the west. For four cen­ turies they held fast to these two products, thus demonstrating that they were possessed of no more versatility than the American and the Ca­ nadian who, in Cuba, insist upon discovering no future save in citrus fruit. From tobacco and from cane the Spaniard, and the Cuban with him, has wrested the "wealth of the Indies." "Rich as a Cuban planter"--planter of cane and tobacco, not of oranges and grape fruit--Is a significant English phrase. To attain to the wealth and the ease it implies has been the ambition of the adventurous and the avari­ cious from 1492 to the present time. Pass State Pharmacy Test. The state board of pharmacy made public the names of those who passed the July examination in Chicago. The list shows that thirty-two of the fifty applicants for assistant pharmacist were successful, twenty-six of the sixty-nine candidates for registered pharmacists and the one applicant for local registered pharmacist, as fol­ lows: Assistant pharmacists--B. D. Bur- ley, Phillip Deitch, Alfred E. Dahl- berg, Martin Fox, Morris Fox, James C. Graham, Julius T. Gereche, Robert L. Ironside, Raphael Jacobson, Jacob Kohn, Rupert L. King, Louis C. Kvitek, Joseph Langerman, Benedict G. Levin- son, Urban J. Lewis, John McNulty, Erwin J. Mark, French B. Reld, Louis Rosenfield, Herman Schlachet. A. M. Serritella and Louis R. Wernecke. all of Chicago; Perley Burrltt, Evanston; John F. Kelley, Highwood; Lester R. Mason, Peoria; Harry S. Miller, Pala­ tine; Henry O, Peters, Peoria; Thom­ as Ross, Coal City; Arthur H. Schroe- 4gr, Mount Olive; Benjamin S. Schild- berg, Mendota; George H. Stoutin, Springfield, and Clarence A. Tay, Bloomington. Registered pharmacists--Joseph J. Barrash, Samuel Barback, C. Clifford Cummings, E. Arthur Edlund, Ben­ jamin Feldman, Joseph Halpert, George C. Hansen, Herbert E. Jago, David S. Katz, Chris W. Lee, Emll E. Lehmann, John J. Liska. Cooking School or prace of Research? -45j*resident E. J. James of the uni­ versity of Illinois and the State Farm­ ers' Institute and Domestic Science associations have defined in radically different terms their conceptions of the function of the university domes­ tic science school. The controversy hinges on whether domestic science at the university Us just a plain cooking school or an institution of investiga­ tion and original research into the science of foods and their prepara­ tion. President James holds to the idea the school is one of research. Mrs. Henry Dunlap, wife of Senator Dun- lap and head of the state domestic science department, voices the theory of the Farmers' institute and her as­ sociation when she says the domestic science department at the university is a cooking school, and that the girls who go there should be taught the fundamental principles of housekeep­ ing and of cooking. It is likely the controversy will be carried into the next legislature. The Farmers' Institute and the Domestic Science association have not broken away openly from the university, but this threatens to be the result if the controversy is much longer prolonged. Wins 8ult Against Tribunes. Attorney George W. Kenny of Springfield, recently indicted at Rock Island in connection with the Frater­ nal Tribunes investigation, obtained a judgment against that organization In the circuit court here for $5,990. The case was appealed to the appel­ late court by the Tribunes. Kenny alleges the society owes him $2,910 for sums advanced to officers of the organization, as well as an attorney fee of $3,080. Kenny since his indictment has been acting as attorney for persons who have claims against the society. In each case the Tribunes society has defaulted and for the last three months has paid no death claims. f~hr-, : >.'ii py "Epistle to the Joy Riders -#'* " * -- Not Upon the Buzz-Cart When '* If !• Red and Giveth Stinkum tp the Hreeze. automobile Is a fine bird, but :|t sucks blood. It has a song that Jure* men to destruction and women to vain pride that corrodes their hap­ piness. Look not upon the buzz-cart #heo It Is red and giveth stinkum to breeze; for it chaweth scads and ducats like a hay baler; also mazuma and sesterces, and rocks and dough it lappeth up like a house afire. When the devil-wagon cham- peth and snorteth, flee to the moun­ tains of the HepBldam and crawl In a hole; or the old boy will get you and carry you to- the poorhouse. Man goeth forth in the morning chugging and shaking with pride; a halo of blue smoke circleth him as a wreath; he patteth his belly with pride and saith, behold, I am a six-cylinder bute; even a lallapaloolu am I In my pride. When lo, the sheriff campeth on the front door of the shop and swlpeth up his substance in a night and a Mis­ souri mule, hauleth off the available assets to the auction. The auto is a mocker and the touring car is raging and whoso is deceived thereby should soak his noodle in lye. Vessels of wrath fitted Into destruction are the devil-carts that eat man's time and sap his securities and In the ead turn over in a ditch and make his family Into hamburger steaks. Woe is his name who dallies with them; even pants is he called in the marketplace who twists the brass wheel and wlnk- eth with the other eye at fate.--Em­ poria (Kan.) Gazette. Patient. "He's very patient with |*r." "Sff* "Yes; he never even loses his tem­ per when his wife brass about her ar­ istocratic ancestry." Fire Commission to Prepare Report. After sitting in twenty-two sessions and hearing testimony from repre­ sentatives of all fire insurance com­ panies in the state and from experts, the members of the Illinois fire com­ mission adjourned Wednesday In Chi­ cago until early October. At that time the members will meet In this city and will make to Governor Deneen a re­ port of their findings. The commission, of which E. A. Hall of this city is a member, was ap­ pointed to Investigate the operations of fire Insurance companies. State Food Contraots Let. Contracts were let by the state board of administration for supplies for state charitable Institutions as fol­ lows: 6,300 pounds barley, to Oakford & Fahnestock, Peoria; baking pow der,, Oakford & Fahnestock and Du rand & Rasper, Chicago; 45,600 pounds rolled oats, Durand & Kasper Mid Jobst Bethard, Peoria; 20,400 pounds crackers, W. M. Hoyt, Uhica go; 21,900 poundB hominy, Campbell ft Holton, Bloomington; Oakford & Fahnestock and Reid, Murdock & Co., Chicago, State Miners Demand More Pay. At ft mass nkeeting of 3,099 miners here T. L, Lewis, national president of the union, and the committee which was selected to effect a compromise of the Peoria agreement were rigorously de­ nounced. John H. Walker, state president, was the principal speaker. He was given a great oration as he reviewed the history of the strike and con­ demned the attitude of the national president. Resolutions were adopted by the mass meeting with a whoop. Thsf condemn the national president for the proposed compromise; condemn the present scale; protest against the engineers and pumpmen returning to work; protest because district 12 was not given representation on the com* mlttee of five for the adjustment of the affairs of Illinois, and approve the course taken by those who opposed the compromise. Acceptance of the terms of the com­ promise, according to President Walker, means an acknowledgment by the miners of the state of Illinois that they are defeated. "If you adopt this contract," said he, "you will have to work on until the operators get ready to give yoa more. "If the miners want that kind of an agreement, then they can get some­ body to write that kind of an agree­ ment for them," he said, by way of letting them know he would resign If President Lewis' proposition was ac­ cepted. Duncan McDonald, secretary-treas­ urer of the state organization, said he had no desire to criticize parties not present, but that If the men who signed the compromise were present he would have some warm things to say for their benefit. <• He said the operators of Williamson and Franklin counties w«r« well able to pay the demands of the miners of those two counties, for the reason that the strike of two years ago in Alabama was caused by the operators of those counties sending coal to Alabama at such a low rate the mi­ ners there were unable to dispose of their coal and a reduction of 20 per cent in wages was announced by the operators. He said the same thing held good in Missouri, where opera­ tors were unable to sell coal from their mines In their own home towns. This shows conclusive!?; he said, the operators of these two counties are able to pay the demands. McDonald declared the Illinois Cen­ tral, Wabash, Missouri Pacific, Big Four and New York Central railway systems owned and controlled coal fields in the state of Illinois, but made more money by hauling coal over their lines into the state than If their own mines were working. He gave the first announcement of a check for $15,000 received from the national headquarters of the miners, saying this means 37% cents for ea£h miner in the state. Here cries of "Send it back, send it back!" were heard and he was forced to await un? til this commotion ceased. McDonald said there would be 10,- 000 more men working in Illinois to­ day if the Chicago and Indianapolis conferences had not been called. Returns have been received from about twenty locals throughout the entire state on the referendum vote. They include three locals in Spring­ field, two at Virden, two at Chris­ topher, two at Benton, two at Eldora­ do and one each at Pawnee, Marlon, Staunton, Tushorn, Middletown, Bre­ ton, Carbon Hill, Ladd and Spring Valley. It 1b estimated by President Walker and Secretary-Treasurer Mc­ Donald that the vote now stands al­ most unanimous against the adoption of the compromise. Legislation League Is Incorporated. Under the significant head of "not for profit," articles of Incorporation were Issued by Secretary of State Rose to the "Direct Legislation League of Illinois," the incorporators being George E. Lee and R. G. Nouna- macher of Springfield and Margaret Dreler Robins Of Chicago. The purpose of the organization, as set forth, are to "secure constitution­ al power in the people of Illinois for the enactment of laws by initiative and referendum, and the mandatory reference of acts of the legislature for direct vote of the people thereon, up­ on popular petition therefor, and to secure petitions for and referendum upon sueh legislation or question of public policy as may be authorized by the board o? directors of the league.' The board of directors, as named for the first year Is as follows: James Mullenbach, Morris F. Doty, James P. Cadman, Henry M. Ashton, Raymond Robins and Margaret Dreier Robins, all of Chicago; Joseph Farrls, Willis J. Spauldlng, Frank H. Bode, George E. Lee, Mary Lee and Joseph B. Per­ kins of Springfield. Early Trial for Graft Case. It was announced that It was poe- sible the graft case growing out of the legislative furniture deal would go to early trial without the formality of an attack on the indictments re­ turned against State Senator Pember- ton, Representative Clark and A. B. Johnson. Eight Eligible for institution. Secretary Joseph C. MaBon of the Illinois civil service commission has announced a liBt of eight eligibles from the examination June 22 for state Inspector of Institutions. In the list are three from this city. The list, in the order of ranking, follows: Paul Wander, Miss Vella Martin, Chicago; Royal F. Moss, Morris; Paul L. Skoog, Springfield; Miss Maude E. Wilson, Chicago; Mrs. Marie L. Powell, Springfield; Arthur J. Straw- son, Rogers Park, and Forest N. Skoog, Springfield. Antl-8aloon League In Campaign. Though candidates have not been picked by the Anti-Saloon league of Illinois, that organization has laid the groundwork for a lively campaign at the coming legislative elections over the state. Sympathetic with the efforts of the Peoria and Lincoln conventions to purify Illinois' politics, the league, according to Legislative Superinten­ dent E. A. Scroglu aud Superintendent Shields of Chicago, Is preparing to make war against all candidates who fail to pledge themselves to tie cauae of local option. NEWS NUGGETS FROM ILLINOIS Galesburg.--"Galesburg will have a population of 75,000 in 25 years from now," was the statement made by G. H. Rottger of Springfield, state mana­ ger of the Bell Telephone company, before the members of the street com­ mittee and Mayor Sanderson at a com* mlttee meeting when the matter of placing the company's wires under ground was considered. Mr. Rottger further stated that the Central Union Telephone company at this place is making them of sufficient capacity to last for twenty-five years and in so doing is planning to take care of a business that will be gained from a 75,000 city, as it is believed by the company that Galesburg's population will easily reach that number by 1935. The purpose of the meeting be­ tween Mr. Rottger and the street com­ mittee at this time was because the company is anxious to begin the work of placing its lines underground at once. A few weeks ago the company introduced into the council an ordi­ nance relating to its wirss in the un­ derground district. On the city stat­ utes is an ordinance requiring that all wires in the underground district must be underground by October 1. Pana.--C. Hogan, a miner, aged about twenty-two years, was arrested on a warrant sworn out by R. D. Call of the miners' union, charging him with having entered the hall of local union No. 101, U. M. W. of A., and carrying away the official seal of the union, together with a book contain­ ing a large number of duplicate com­ missary orders, which had been i&ued by the local to miners here. Hogan succeeded in passing some of the orders, upon which he received some money. He was taken before Judge Pierce and his bond fixed at $500. He failed to give bond and was remanded to Jail. He was taken to Taylorville, where he will be held In the county jail and later will be re­ turned to Pana and taken before Judge Pierce for trial. Taylorville.--Jacob Bilyeu, residing a few miles south of Moweaqua, has found a new use for Angora goats. Two years' experience in raising them has taught him that they are a time­ ly animal if a family would keep itself In fresh meat the year around. He be­ gan two years ago with a flock of 14 and has now, from natural increases and the purchase of a few additional animals, a flock of 100. The Bilyeu family has eight children and the goats are slaughtered as they are need­ ed or relished. Mattoon.--Reports from Illinois Cen­ tral freight agents on the south end of the Peoria division indicate that the Poseyville melon crop will begin to move about the first of August. The canteloupes will be ready to move about August 1, the watermelon crop will come on some ten days later. Peoria division officials esti­ mate that there will be 200 carloads of canteloupes and 450 carloads cf watermelons from the Poseyville dis­ trict. This indicates a crop of about fifteen per cent, less than the 1909 crop. Litchfield. -- Montgomery county's Old Settlers' picnic this year will be held at New Douglas. The event will stretch through two days, August 16 and 17. The various committees in charge of the details have been ap­ pointed and are at work. The eom- mittees, as appointed by President E. W. Jones of the association are: i Speakers ard entertainment, J. F.i Long, John Gehrig and Dr. B. H. Mc» Kinney.; stand privileges and conces­ sions, William McMullen, I. A. Olive; soliciting, A. L. Klnzer, L. T. Ken­ nedy; music, Oscar Latowsky and L. T. Kennedy; grounds, E. W. Jones, Thomas Lowry and M. Ellis. Morganville.--The Morganville pic­ nic, one of the largest annual gather­ ings held in central Illinois, will take place this year on August 6. President D. E. Abel of the Picnic association announces a program of addresses and other amusements for the entertain­ ment of visitors. Howard B. Austin of Blue Mound will deliver the ad­ dress of welcome, and other speakers are Ben F. Caldwell, James M. Gra­ ham, H. Clay Wilson of Springfield and others. 1 Pleasant Plains.--The large resi­ dence of J. W. Ward, one of the best- known citizens of the vicinity, was burned to the ground: The origin of the fire is unknown. Practically all the household goods were burned. No one was at home at the time. Mr. Ward is in Beardstown and Mrs. Ward is in Springfield in a hospital. Centralia.--The Trades and Labor assembly of this city will conduct a general labor celebration Monday, Sep­ tember 5. Elaborate plans for the event are under consideration. De Kalb.--Clifford Hunt's barn was struck by lightning and burned, seven horses being consumed. The wind blew burning hay to the roofs of surrounding residences, hut the heavy rain helped the firemen In preventing greater loss. The loss Is $3,000; insurance, 91,500. Taylorville.--The faculty of the Taylorville township high school has been secured for the 1910-11 term, which begins the second Monday in September. The members of last year's faculty who remain are J. E. Wooters, the principal; Miss Lowry and G. R. Cornell. Ottawa.--Abel Anderson of Som- onauk was Instantly killed and his brother-in-law, Neely Johnson Leland, seriously Injured when their automo­ bile turned turtle six miles south of Ottawa. The accident was due to a broken steering gear. Mrs. Anderson and seven children were uninjured. Hamilton, O.--rln a second attempt to break the 44-hours* endurance rec­ ord for spherical balloons, George Howard and Walter Collins of Cin­ cinnati ascended from here in the bal­ loon "Drifter." Jean Arnet of Hamil­ ton accompanied them as a passenger. A light breeze carried the balloon ^ southeast. Kewanee.--As a memorial to his parents, A. C. Shallenberger of Wyoming has given a fifteen hundred dollar lot and $10,000 in cash for th» erection of a public library In Toulon, 111. The donor Is a brother of Gov* ttroor Shallenbaraar of Nebraska.