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: l~"|f# fWf r-- ̂ pf . |^V<^T iPf¥] il •W^i*SO ?WWB M HENRY i PLAINDEALER, M HENRY, ILL. AL ILLINOIS LTRY f H A R R Y K I N G T O O T L E Il lustrations by Ray Walters svKopai*. O'oHa Kerv * tfn. who has spent mont or her stfe «--• - Cop)tl«bi bj A. C. UcClui & Ca. qti terror and set her heart to beating j buy them.' And I, like a leper, must high with sudden fear. "But not this, ever cry, 'Unclean, unclean,' and see at her father 8 home in l3e!m»^u. David Kerr Is the political bo®a of the town, and to anxious to prevent his daughter learning of nls real character KendalL repesenttn* the Chicago packers is. ne- goU&tlng with Judge Gilbert, IOrf 's chief adviser, for a valuable franchise. They fear the opposition of Jot WrlKht editor of the reform paper. Ken &*kg th,: ag. slBtance of Judpe Gilbert In Introducing Gloria to Belmont society, and premises to help him put through the packers' franchise and let him have ail-"the Kraft. 0 God! Not this." She repeated the pathetic words of Little Ella. " 'There's enough of us drops In Bel­ mont to fill a pretty big bucket'--oh, it can't be my father! It can't he my father!--He has a daughter--It's all a horrid mistake. There must be an­ other David Kerr. I'm sure." Gloria sprang from her chair and Gloria meets Joe Wright at tha Gilberts, i seized the sleeping woman roughly by It appears they are on Intimate terms, - ! having met previously in a touring party In Europe. The Gilberts invite 1 loria to stay with them pending the ref»rnl«Itlagf of the Kerr home. Wright begin* his fight against the proposed franchise in ' " col­ umns of his paper, the Belmont Ntowa. Kerr, through his henchmen, exerts %t- ery influence to hamper Wright in the publication of his paper. Gloria realize® she is not being received by the best so­ ciety and Is unhappy. She takes up set­ tlement work. Kerr and his lieutenants decide to buy Kerr's paper and ask Hie editor to meet them at Gilbert's office. Calling at Gilbert's office to solicit a do­ nation Gloria meets Wright. He proposes and Is accepted while waiting to be called Into the conference. Wright refuses to sell his paper and declares he will light to a finish. The Belmont News appears with ft bitter attack on Kerr. Gloria calls Wright a coward and refuses to listen to any explanation from him. Broken-heart­ ed, Gloria decides to plunge more deeply Into settlement work. She calls on a sick girl of the underworld, named Ella. CHAPTER XVIII,--Continued. Little Ella had come to realize soon after they had met that she was deal­ ing with a fledgling. Hence she bore with her and answered her question patiently. . "Gosh! Little time he spends col­ lecting money down here." Her tone indicated clearly that he spent no time at all. "What's the cops fer? What's Mike Noonan fer? He's got other things to do himself. I oncet knowed a young lawyer, an' he to!" me the boss got his from the big gamblln' houses, an' the street car comp'ny, an' the 'lectric light comp'ny, an' big tilings like that." "Then you're Just a drop in the backet." The magnitude of the "sys­ tem" was just beginning to dawn on Gloria. She now saw that its ramifi­ cations were many, that there must be much that even this woman, for all her knowledge, could know little of. While she could not learn all from Lit­ tle Ella, she could learn enough to make her father investigate. "There's enough of us drops in Bel­ mont to fill a pretty big bucket," the girl admitted. "Gimme a drink o' wa­ ter, will yoa? I never was so dry at a Dutch picnic." Gloria poured a glass of water for her. Then, feeling that she had not been considerate in asking the girl to tax her little strength by the recital of « story that sadly wasted her vital en­ ergy, she begged her to rest "You're still a bit feverish. Lie down now and rest. Try to go to sleep, and I'll sit here and read." Soon her patient seemed to sleep, and Gloria picked up a book and tried to read. The revelations to which she had listened made all possibility of concentration upon the printed page out of the question. Suddenly It oc­ curred to her that she did not know the boss' Lame. Just as this came in- t o her mind, the girl turned restlessly and opened her eyes. Finding that she was awake, Gloria asked: "Tell me, what's the name of the hat?" Little waa not 'u7e bOss ? I "What's •want to tt ' iJ . 'cither." "His name? Oh, it'B Kerr. He's ol' Dave Kerr. Ever hear of him?" Having roused herself sufficiently to Answer the question. Little Ella sank <again into a dote. As for Gloria, it almost seemed that Hub words meant nothing to her at all. So slowly did her mind accept this ln- The Picture Was Th ler Father. telligence that the fall dT the book un- noticed to the floor did not seem re­ lated in point of time. Yet in fact it told that her mind was intent upon one question: Who was the boss of Belmont? "Kerr! Kerr! Old Dave Kerr," •till rang in her ears. "The boss? Dave Kerr? I wonder what relation--" The very Ignominy of the thought re- atralned her. "No, no, no. It's all a mistake. It can't be-- I couldn't be­ lieve It. There can't be any relation of my father's--my fa-- It's absurd. he arm "Listen to me. Tell me something more of David Kerr." Sfhe shook Little Ella into a con­ scious state and repeated the question. "Which David Kerr is it?" "There's only one I know of." an­ swered Ella. "He's got a real estate Office on Fifth street." "What!" The net of circumstances was be- lnS dr«Wn tighter and tighter about one man, and that man her father "Are you sure he's the man, girl?" Gloria asked the question in as sub­ dued a manner as possible. Suddenly she had became afraid. She did not wish to arouse suspicion. "Sure, h#'« the man." It tried one's patience to be roused from sleep, and then to meet with contradiction was enough to make one petulant. To set­ tle the question so that she could go back to sleep, little Ella added: "Look on my hureau and you'll see a program of the JQave Kerr Demmy- cratic club ball." Gloria walked over to the bureau with its jumble of oddaTand ends, and began to turn over the. things me­ chanically. "No, not that. Look behind that photygraft. That's it. That's his pic ture on the front." Gloria gave one look. Tfc* picture was that of her father. For a time Little Ella chattered drowsily, but Gloria did not hear. She was prostrated by a grief that numbed her every faculty. The foundation of her faith had been swept away. What she beheld Beemed to burn It­ self into her brain. On the cover of the program were the words: "Annual Ball. David Kerr Democratic Club," and the picture of her father. It wae the truth; her father was the boss of Belmont. So different was her posi­ tion from that pinnacle on which she had thought herself to be that the whole world would have to go through a revolutionary orientation. There was nothing in her life which would not have to be adjusted anew because of this revelation. As she turned the pages of the pro­ gram, pages filled with liquor and sa­ loon advertisements, her thoughts were all of herself. Resentment and anger there were, directed toward her father, but now in the first moments when she saw herself as Belmont ^aw her humiliation conquered alL other emotions. H^r first thought, of Joe Wright was that he had kejjfc the truth from her. She could notJ grow more sick at heart, compar^.ively feeling was out of the question because she was completely crushed, but she saw as in a book that been written and laid awavr*as finished, the sacrifice he had Jfnade for her, the supreme re- nunfijt(ulon he had made because he ould not denounce her father before her. The thought of how different her home-coming had been from what she had planned made her laugh hysteric­ ally. Then when she recalled the few staunch friends she had made she clutched wildly at the hope that after all it waa untrue. "It's a lie, every word of it, a lie his enemies invent. What big man but has about him envious wasps that prick and sting? Judge Gilbert, Mr. Kendall. Doctor Hayes, they'll all say that he--Joe Wright! What of him? What will he say?" She put this man that had loved her In one balance and the other men in the other. He outweighed them all. and the momentary hope was gone. She could see it all now. As the baf­ fling attitude of Belmont revealed it­ self to her bit by bit she buried her face In her arms and sobbed. "And I was so proud, oh, bo proud!" moaned the daughter of David Kerr. "Joe! Joe! You did love me!--I sent him away, and I never understood Now I can see it all. The social slights --the cold disdain I could not under­ stand--the whispers that died away before they reached my ears--all, all. all because I was David Kerr's daugh ter, David Kerr, the bosB of Belmont." Her father's name exercised a fasci­ nation over her. Again and again she repeated it, her lips curling with scorn. "David Kerr, the boss of Belmont!" she cried with a contempt that wrung her heart. "David Kerr, the king of underhand manipulators! David Kerr, the man these wretched women look to for protection--and pay him for It!" This new thought was a poisoned arrow that sank into her heart. As she dwelt upon it her eyes fell upon her handsome tailored coat and her beautiful hat she had laid aside. "And with the money these unhappy creatures pay, he--he--God in Heaven! Where did the money come from for these clothes I wear? What shall I do? All these years, and I never knew!" Where the money came from to pay for her handsome clothes wracked her as poignantly as would a great phys­ ical pain. Her thoughts were lncoher- tbose whom I would love flee ever on before me." This made her think again of Jete Wright. Surely he had loved her be^ yond all reason to have wished to marry her, the daughter of such a man. f, "Joe, poor old Joe, how be hat? suf­ fered because of me." She had chosen in her blindness not to listen to bim and now he was gone forever. She had obeyed the dictation of pride and stifled the prompting of love, and now her punishment seemed greater rhan she could bear. "He did love me. He knew, and still loved me. And I drove him away. Well, it was better so; but he did not love me--once. It's better so--for him." It was now a far more grievous pros­ pect than that of the long years which had confronted her when Bhe had real­ ized the previous day how solitary was to be her way. Then she had had po­ sition, power, and pride; now these had been stripped from her, and noth­ ing had been given her in their stead. In a passionate flood of tears she sank to the floor and cried as if her heart would break. Through it all Little Ella slept, not knowing that in her room was being enacted a tragedy of the heart more profound than any she with all her shallowness could live in a century of heartaches. CHAPTER XIX. Grief made Gloria insensible to the flight of time, and how long she had been prostrate on the floor before sounds on the stairs aroused her she did not know. Thinking that it must be Mrs. Hayes returning with a phy­ sician, she rose hastily anjd tried to remove all traces of her Aars. She wished above all to avoid eAlanations, and if none was asked sro did not wish to have her grief mistons trued. But it was not Mrs. Hayes, for Gloria could hear the heavy tread Juscending to the floor above. Little Ella was restless and rolled and tossed in her sleep. The daughter of David Kerr looked with pity upon her. Her discipline was too new, her spirit was still too untamed for her to understand fully the kinship of the human race. Although she recognized that she was herself without the caste she thought was hers, she had not come to know that on the last great day there would be only the J'\igment of the just and the unjust, .ot of the high and the low, of the ,'ch and the poor, of the wise and the* ignorant, of the master and the servant. "Poor girl,"^Murmured Gloria, "you shall see tha'.V®5 understand." There v 1.3 nuch which she could l ea i i fr<?t*:h i s bit of flotBam cast up \ j an unkyd sea upon a cheer­ less si ore. SeeiiV^that Little Ella w&* '.jot sleeping s^todlv, her desire to know more pot better of her duty as a nurse. She ^Dok her gently, and soon was rewarue^y seeing her eyes open. "What you want?" a^ tient. "Time to take your m ria answered unblushlngly only a subterfuge, and it receive the profuse thank evoked. "How are we going to be^tn to things right down here?" Gloria kXfcod when Little Ella had Bunk back 1^ her pillow. "Begin?" The girl did not untie stand. "Yes, you and I. Things can't go on as they are." "Why, begin with the boss, of course." Gloria could not have been sts&bed by a more cruel reply. "Ah, yes," she sighed, "but how?" "That's up to you and yer pa." Little Ella recognized that the boss was out of her sphere of Influence. "Yes, yes, I know. Tell me--does- David Kerr," she spoke the name with an efTort, "aver--come down here?" "Him? Naw. We never see nothin- o' him." His daughter gave a sigh of relief. "We don't know nothin' 'bout pa­ nts was her to him much. We don't see him, but we feel him. He lives alone, oat in the country." "Then can he really know?" "He's a man, ain't he?" demanded the woman of the streets fiercely. "He kfipsws, but what does he cafe? I wisht he liid a daughter." "What's that?" Gloria asked. The manner in which Little Ella had spoken made her catch her breath with a feeling that was akin to dread. "I wisht he had a daughter, an' that she'd have to suffer what we down here suffer." Gloria held up her hand, bidding her cease from even thinking such a thing. "No, no, no, not that." "Why not?" the other went on dog­ gedly. "Could she be any better'n I was oncet? I tell you, I'd like to have a daughter of his here, and watch her struggle to keep the breath in her body." "Have you no mercy?" begged Glo­ ria. "What mercy hev I had shown me by Noonan--'cept fer his own profit? What mercy from David Kerr? Wouldn't he laugh to see a daughter o' his in this hell-hole?" Gloria convul­ sively covered her eyes with her hands as if to shut out even the thought of such a sight. Little Ella went on harshly, "What a joke it would be! But I'd laugh. I'd watch her, the little darling, to see that she paid the price as I've done." Gloria could stand it no longer. "Stop, you senseless girl. You make a mockery of pity and compassion. It's absurd to vent your rage upon some­ thing that doesn't exist David Kerr has no daughter." Little Ella accepted thiB answer without question, unmindful that a short while before her visitor had de­ nied all knowledge of the man. "I wisht he had," she said regret­ fully. A door slammed suddenly overhead. "Aren't you afraid here alone?" Glo­ ria asked. "Naw. I ain't scared in the daytime, an' at night I'm out most o' the time." The sound of a scuffle on the floor above brought both women to atten­ tion. There came a sudden, smothered cry for help which made Gloria's blood run cold. Then there was a heavy thud as If some one had been felled by a blow. "What's It all about?" she cried, springing to her feet in terror. "Nothin'. Stay where you are. We're safe as long as we don' open that door." The sounds of the affray grew louder. Again came the cry for help. "What's going on' I must know. Some one'B in trouble. Didn't you hear some one call?" "They're maybe just foolln'." Ella was listening intently. "Don't you butt in." "But I can't stand here doing noth­ ing. I must see what's the matter." One could never accuse Gloria of lack of courage. She had never 6een the horse Bhe was afraid of, and a sail­ boat in a heavy sea made her laugh the more the louder the wind whistled through the rigging. Her feeling of personal power, inherited from her fa­ ther, had been strongly developed. She had by this time overcome her first fear, and now she intended to know what the trouble was all about Some me was in distress and to do what she t vild was her one thought as she sMt*ted toward the door. "Better not open that door," Little ^CTla pleaded 'V V. on u •XHIBIT THI8 YEAR WILL OPEN IN 8PRINGFIELD ON JAN. UARY 5. TO CONTINUE FIVE DAYS It Is Expected That tl>e-^"Number of Entries Will Be Greater Than Ever Before--University of Illinois to Be Represented. Springfield.--The Illinois State Poul­ try 6bow, to be held in the state arsenal January 5 to 10, 1914, promises to exceed all previous shows of its kind, if Inquiries for catalogues from prospective exhibitors can be taken as a criterion. The record has been broken as to the number of entries received so long in advance. The attention of Sangamon county exhibitors is called to the fact that all entries for this show must be mailed on December 26, as the rule of the American Poultry show is so strict that the secretary will not be allowed to receive an entry mailed after that day. Catalogues and extra entry blanks may be had by inquiring at Sell & Coe's drug store, corner of Fifth and Jefferson streets. A number of state specialty clubs will have their annual meeting^ at the state show. Among them are the meetings of the S. C. Black Minorca club, the S. C. Buff Orpington club, the White Wyandotte club, the Columbian Wyandotte club, the Ancona club and the Houdan club. Announce Baptist Changes. ^ The, Illinois Baptist Bulletin, ®* of> Sficial denominational organ of the Illi­ nois Baptist state convention, has an­ nounced the following changes In the pastorate of churches, most of which will become effective in January: Eev. L. W. Hostetter has resigned *8 pastor of the churches at Bushnell and Adair and will engage in evangel­ istic work; Rev. T. J. Wright, former­ ly pastor of the Bethel church, has ac­ cepted a call to Iowa; Rev. Harry A. Belton, until recently pastor of Flora, has entered upon the pastorate of the First/Baptist church of Divernon; RevfGeorge H. Yule is the new pastor of/the Humboldt Rark Baptist church, Chicago; Rev. A. R. Finley has re­ signed the pastorate of the Marley Baptist church, to accept a position as member of the Westfleld college faculty; Rev. J. S. Ebersole, pastor of tl}0 Immanusl Baptist chsrch of Oma­ ha, Neb., has accepted the pastorate of the North Shore Baptist church Chicago; Rev. J. M. Pengelly, for sev­ eral years pastor at Toulon, is now at Moweaqua; Rev. Ralph Morphatt of Chicago has entered upon the pastor­ ate of the church at Marengo; Rev. Edwin Lyle, formerly of Savannah, has accepted a call to Shenandoah, la.; Rev. Charles W. Brown has re­ signed the pastorate of the First Bap­ tist church at Loda, to enter school at Chicago; Rev. J. W. Clevenger, D. D., has left the pastorate of the Normal church and will go to Greensburg,' Ind., as pastor; Rev. A. O. Broyles, pastor of the First Baptist church at Pekin, has resigned there, to accept a pastorate in Iowa. Hew York I Cabman, Who Lost Reason iri 1908, Now Assem­ bling His Fortune. WAS WORTH $500,000 Broke Down Under Strew of Activi­ ties and a Nervous Disorder. Devel­ oped Insomnia--Recovery Is of; Na­ ture to Excite Wonder, Will Not Call Special Seealon- Governor Dunne will "stand pat" on the belief that a special session of the legislature will not be necessary to the qualification of his appointees to the new state utility commission, which takes charge of the state's utilities af­ fairs February 1. The governor's position was fortified by an opinion from Attorney General These meetings wfll | Lucey, in which the attorney general bring out a good exhibit of these va­ rieties. One of the features of this show this year will bo the national meeting of the Rose Comb Black Minorca club, of which J. S. Bales or R. 2, Springfield, is one of the directors. Entrien have already been received from several states, and many states will be repre­ sented before the entries finally close. Lloyd C. Mishler, secretary of the club at North Manchester, Ind., is striving hard to make this the banner exhibit of the club. J. H. Mlnshall of Brant- ford, Ontario, has been employed to pass on Minorcas, and he will also pass on all varieties of Leghorns. The University of Illinois will have an exhibit under the supervision of Prof. D. O. Barto, and this should at­ tract considerable attention to the work that is being done at Urbana. No poultry breeder can afford to miss hearing Prof. A. C. Phillips of Purdue university, Ind., speak on the subject "Problems and Profit in Poul­ try." Professor Philliptr Is a forcible speaker and is one of the best poultry instructors in the country. Equally as good will be the address of Prof. R. C. Lawry formerly assistant instructor in poultry at the New York experiment station, and now manager of the Yes- terlaid Eggs Farms company of Pa­ cific. Mo. He will speak on the sub­ ject, "The Poultry Business of the Fu­ ture." These addresses will be the feature of the banquet to be held at the St. Nicholas hotel on Wednesday night. The demonstration to be given by Professor Phillips of trussing a fowl for the oven will be a feature that every housewife should be sure to see. This will occur Wednesday afternoon. George H. Rudy, breeder of Perfection Wyandottes, of Mattoon, 111., is spe­ cially preparing a young White Wyan­ dotte cockerel for this occasion. says that the new members of the commission can be appointed by the governor and assume their duties with­ out first being confirmed by the state senate. Lucey ln^jjipplnion also says that the office of utility commissioner will be a "vacancy" under the law after January 1, the date on which the new utility law goes into effect, and can be filled temporarily in the recess of the legislature as provided in the constitu­ tion. The confirmation of the five ap­ pointments would therefore come at the next regular session of the gen­ eral assembly. Even an she spoke, they heard a W)r slam at the head of the stairs •\rve. Some one lurched heavily to • • * (jJHrway. and then to their hor- ol Vtfhey knew it by the sound Just as ^11 as If the 6cene had been en- acted\before '.heir eyes--the man trippec^nd plunged down the narrow stairs. BE CONTINUED.) ipropriate Plan. "I'd like fc^^lpin an economical ali­ mony club." tse? ij means ."For what "To husband ' PUT BEST FOOT • There is common Bense in tie homely%4v1ce No Better Advice Can Be Given Than to Present a Brave Front to the World. FORWARD a brave front to the, world common Bense in tj'e hon to put the best foot forward. "~It would be maddening, the suspicion of such a thing. Why, my father's the I ent, skipping from one horrid phase MUl of honor." I of the situation to another. Though Without warning, Joe Wright <-a-nii they were Iron Clothes With Their Feet A wri te r in the Wide World If every pair for whom wedding zine nays that the most curious slg*t bells are to» ring this June would r he saw at Cairo was men ironini take to heart the thought that their i clothes with their feet! The men private affairs are their own, not to i were employed in the Dative tailoring be told to outBiders and not paraded establishments Except for a long to the world, they would insure and ; handle, the irons were Bhaped like the safeguard their self-respect and the • ordinary flat iron, only larger. A solid permanence of their home. , blo<* of wood rested on'the top of Succesesful in Examination. < Announcement was made of the list of candidates who passed the examina­ tion conducted this week by the state mining board for various positions. The list follows: Mine examiner--R. Wj McCullough, Mapleton John Walters, West Frank­ fort.. John A. White, Virden; G. W. Foreune, Caseyville; Dallas Bauswell, Hlllsboro; Robert Livingston, Spring­ field; David Nelson, Westville; Wil­ liam S. Krelvenas, Weetville. Hoisting engineer--Harry B. Wil­ liams, Elkville; Floyd Walters, West Frankfort; Lewis Satterfleld, Pana; John Ambuhl. Centralla; Allan F. France, Sparta; George Zellers, New Baden. Mine manager, first class--it. B. Brush, Marietta; James Harbaugh, Chesterfield; William A. Scott, Pe­ tersburg, John A. Atkinson, Kewanee; Peter P. Mutchler, Mapleton; Joe Fussner, Brimfleld; Roy May, Lewis- town; R. w. McCullough, Mapleton. Mine manager, second class--Clar­ ence E. Montleth, Willisville; Oliver M. ITrbaln, DuQuoin; John Stewart, Cherry; James R. Wilson, West Frankfort; Benjamin Parkinsoh, Liv­ ingston; William Grant, Pekin; Mil­ lard F. Baker, Murphysboro, The temptation may arise when first there is a little friction to seek sympathy from mother, sister, or inti­ mate friend. That temptation should be trampled under foot. Confidential friends are not Inva­ riably to be trusted. With or with­ out the best intentions the third party intruding In the affairs of a married couple is in peril of making mischief. Make- it a rule to confide wholly without secrets or reserves In one an- from the hour that you become ad and wife, and you will have to fear, though the four winds i blow around your house. It tand against any tempest and taw the iron, and on this the men placed one foot, guiding the iron in the de­ sired direction by means of the an e por ^ sake of convenience, Ironing boards were raised only a few Inches from the ground, and however strange the method Beem to oa, was done VkT>' wel1 expeditiously. Articles of Incorporations. Secretary of State Woods issued certificates of incorporation to the fol­ lowing: * Live Poultry Transit Company, Chi- i «ag>p; capital, Jl,800,000. Incorpora- i Urs, F. X. Mudd, John R. Gott and WI1- llua Bl Gibbs. Amy\I»ewis Hospital, Carbondale; capital, $10,000 Incorporators, J. S. Lewl», RoBcoe Lewis and J. W. Bar- Chicago Magic Company, Chicago; capital, Ii,**). Incorporators, Alice If. Leach, H. 6- Halne and F. LL Nees. Katherine Schuster School of Lyric W 0°und'rln8 "Space" Is. hand furniture "To™Ta'taV"^ g^SWUW°eUdTd *Dd8 °f hou^old South M h'r# U 8UCh a 8h°P wSich the a one 8tory shack. in e wL° tner da> P°8ted thl» tt-e Window; # ... ... --ai keti Spare for rent.' i itKTt must „ Diction and leal, J2.600A Brady, Paul Kllngesm: pany. Chics corporators, Michael F. Cure a Ready-Ryan A Of oago; capital, $2(> t> F. W. Snider, A. S Menn. Chicago; cap- jporators, Wm. N. kand M. Schweitzer. Truck Com- $350,000. In- Kllngesmlth, k P Tllley. any, Chi- 2or Benefit Seen in Fair School. A friendly competition among boys of the various counties who wish to come to the 1914 state fair boys' school Is suggested by State Superin­ tendent F. G. Blair. Mr. Blair has addressed a letter to the teachers at large over the stj^te on the subject in the following lan­ guage: "The Illinois state board of agri­ culture has for the last four years been conducting a boys' state fair school in connection with the great state fair held in Springfield In Oc­ tober. During that time over 800 boys have taken advantage of the op­ portunity thus afforded by the board, and they are loud in their praise of the benefits that they received by their attendance at the school. "The commission In charge of the school is striving all the time to In­ crease the efficiency of the school and reach more of the boys of the state and at the same time to make the school helpful to the teachers In gen­ eral by making It a kind of a goal toward which many boys may work for an opportunity to increase their fund of knowledge and to widen their field of vision. "The ambition of every boy should be aroused to see the best achieve­ ment at the Illinois state fair of the most successful men and women in every department of human activity connected with the home, the farm, the school, the factory and the vari­ ous industries that have made this the premier agricultural' state. "The boys' state fair school pro­ vides the opportunity for seeing tQ the best advantage the millions of excellent exhibits assembled each year at the Illinois state fair. "Any boy of the state Is eligible to attend the school who Is over fifteen and under twenty-one years old. The farther he has pursued his studies in school the better he should be able to do the work. The school has been made up of boys half of whom have been from the farm and half from town. New York.--James Hefcron, known as Delmonico Jimmy because he had the cab privilege of Belraonico's for mox*e than 30 years, and who lost his mind in 1907 through an attack, de­ scribed by physicians as "extreme raBthenia," has regained his mental faculties through an accident, and la Mow recovering sotmt of his fortune, estimated at $500,000, which dft&p- peared while he was unable to direct his affairs . This became known the other day when Supreme Court Justice Seabury signed an order discontinuing' four suits brought by Hebrost against the atock exchange firm of. Wassennmn Bros., for an ^dcounting ot, tlje pro- "ovdds stock whTcflrwceiP ifetd for his account when he lost-his reason. In his suit It developed that his account was operated by a member of his fam­ ily without his permission or knowl­ edge, and the Wassermann firm made a settlement for $27,000. Hebron's recovery was of a nature to excite the won<!er of physicians. He Is now 59 years old and previous to the time his mind,became clouded he was most active. While maintaining his livery business at Celmonico's, he car­ ried on a real estate business and worked in Wall street. The big men of the street called him Jimmy and he knew most of them by their first names. In May, 1907, he broke down under the strain of his activities. A nervous disorder developed insomnia, and he went to Europe for treatment. An op­ eration was performed on him In Dub­ lin, but he did not get better. His mind was gene. He was helpless and use­ less. His business interests fell away, and he was content to go about with his wife, letting things take their own course. In May, 1911, exactly four years from the time hia illness began, he Leveneon to Have Two Assistants. Michael J. Levenson, chief detective representing the Illinois Mercantile Manufacturers' Detective and Protec­ tive association, is making final ar­ rangement to Install two private de­ tectives to take care of the interests of the association In Springfield and surrounding territory. One hundred merchants are members of the organ­ ization in Springfield and Mr. Leven­ son hopes to Increase the membershii to 400 within a short time. Stubbed Hie To and Mrs. Hebron wem| ville, N. J., on a visit which they rode had ing and In reaching th. had to cross the tracks his toe and fell upon ; he got to his feet hie pletely restored. As i "I got up, and as RL 'Richard was himself "I was as sound said Mr. Hebro and a new horl immediately be affairs again ant several firms. and others have others give promise think most of them fact that I was not mys| four years. I am flftj now, but I feel as we] "C00N MEAT" John F. Ridgeley's Happy Until th« Dlvu!fl< Reorganization of Militia. Reorganization of Illinois state militia, in accord with suggestions made by the war department at Wash- lnton, is provided for In an executive order Issued by Governor Dunne andj Adjutant General Dickson, and which* takes effect January 1, 1914. The re­ organization plans do away with di­ vision headquarters at Chicago and brings all the mllltla of the state di­ rectly under the supervision of the adjutant general's department in Springfield. Maj. Gen. Edward C. Young of Chi­ cago, commander of the division, and Gen. Edward Kittelsen of Rock Island, commanding the Third Brigade, to-' gether with several aides, leave the service. With the above exception the reorganiffttlon affects no . other off! cers othvijfcau ii. ,> ri»w cases there m^ank v