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mB- 'iL-iJiii.-:„ '3^^.r^?^.%.'#«l: wrtnrwvwiy j»"# ' A' *nsrTOjB».A T P» •I#**WWWV" • ;'"#f ^*&'V.:"h'Z'-ty**' %'•;,*: P-- i-vV^S F R E D E R I C K story of two regtmedte, and particu- that kno!! half a lifetime. He looked larly of two companies, and that it *tory enough. If you would grasp the whole, multiply the conflict on the knoll by ten thousand. There had been the engrossment of transcendent emotion in repelling (Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner's Sons) SYNOPSIS. At their liomc on the frontier between the Browns and Grays Mart a Galland and her mother, entertaining t'olono! Wester- ling of the Grays, see Captain Lanstron, staff Intelligence officer of the Browns, injured by a fall in his aeroplane. Ter. years later. Westerling. nominal vice but real chief of staff. reinforces South I»a Tir, meditates on war. and speculates on the comparative ajjes of himself and Mar- ta, who is visiting in the Gray capital. Westerling- calls on Marta. She tells him of her teaching children the follies of war and martial patriotism, begs him to pre­ vent war while lie is chief nf staff, and predicts that if he makes war against the Browns he will not win. On the march with the 53d of the Browns Private Stran- Bky, anarchist, decries war and played- out patriotism and is placed under arrest. Colonel Lanstron overhearing, begs him off. Lanstron calls on Marta at her home. He talks with Feller, the gardener. Marta • tella Lanstron that she believes Feller to be a spy. Lanstron confesses it is true. Lanstron shows Marta a telephone which Feller has concealed in a secret passage under the tower for use to benefit the Browns in war emergencies. Lanstron de­ clares his love for Marta. Westerling and the Gray premier plan to use a trivial in­ ternational affair to foment warlike pa­ triotism in army and people and strike be­ fore declaring war. I*artow. Brown chief of staff, and Lanstron. made vice, discuss ttle trouble, and the Brown defenses. Par- tow reveals his plans to Lanstron. The •Gray army crosses the border line and at­ tacks. The Browns check them. Artil­ lery, infantry, aeroplanes and dirigibles engage. Stransky. rising to make the anarchist speech of his life, draws the Gray artillery fire. Nicked by a shrapnel splinter he goes Berserk and fights--"al! a man." Marta has her first glimpse of war in Its modern, cold, scientific, mur­ derous brutality. ^ CHAPTER X--Continued. u .jQv, SEP* . This was the very thing to whip< her thoughts back, from the knoll. He was thunderstruck at the transforma­ tion: hot color in her cheeks, eyes aflame, lips curving around a whirl­ wind of words. "You name the very reason why I wish to stay. Why do you want to save the women? Why shouldn't they bear their share? Why don't you want them to see men mowed down? Is it because you are ashamed of your profession? Why, I ask?" The problem of dealing with an angry woman breaking a shell fire of questions ovef his head had not been ready eolved in the captain's curricu­ lum, like other professional problems, nor was it mentioned in the official instructions about the defenses of the Galland house. He aimed to smile soothingly in the helplessness of man in presence of feminine fury. "It is an old custom." he was say- in*. but she had turned away. "Lanny's plan--mow them down! mow them down! mow them down!" she went on, more to herself than to him. / Was there nothing for her to do? Could she only look on in a fever of restlessness while action roared around her? The sight of several au­ tomobile ambulances in the road at the foot of the garden stiiied the j throbs of distraction in her temples with an answer. The wounded! They were already coming in from the field. She hurried down the terrace Bteps. file major surgeon in charge, sur­ prised to find any woman in the vi­ cinity, was about to tell her so auto­ matically; then, in view of her inten­ sity, he waited for her to speak. "You will let us do something for them?" Marta asked. "We will make them some hot soup." He was immediately businesslike. No less than Dellarme or Fracasse or Lanstron or Westerling, he had been preparing throughout his professional career for this hour. The detail of caring for the men who were down had been worked out no less system­ atically than that of wounding them. "Thank you, no! We don't want to waste time," he replied. "We must get them away with all speed so that the ambulances may return promptly. It's only a fifteen-minute run to the hospital, where every comfort and ap­ pliance are ready and where they will be given the right things to eat" "Then we will give them some wine!" Marta persisted. "Not if we can prevent it! Not to start hemorrhages! The field doctors have brandy for* use when advisable, and there is brandy in all the ambu­ lances." ,, Clearly, volunteer service was not wanted. There was no room at the immediate front for Florence Nlghtth- gales in the modern machine of war. "Then water?" The major surgeon aimed to be pa­ tient to an earnest, attractive young woman. "We have sterilized water--we have everything," he explained. "If we hadn't at this early stage I ought to be serving an apprenticeship in a vil­ lage apothecary shop. Anything that m^anB confusion, delay, unnecessary excitement is bad and unmerciful." Marta was not yet at the end of her resources. The recollection of the dy­ ing private who had asked her mother for a rose in the last war flashed into nind. yjv -You haven't any flowers! They ; won't do any harm, even if they aren't sterilized. The wounded like flowers, don't they? Don't you like flowers? ..^JLook! We've millions!" "Yes, I do. They do. A good idea. Bring all the flowers you want to." done their duty, and they had the proof of it in the coming souvenirs of scars. Some of the forms on stretchers had peaceful faces in unconsciousness of their condition. Others had a look of wonder, of pain, of apprehension in their consciousness that death might be near. The single word "Shrapnel!" by a hospital-corps corporal told the story of crushed or lacerated features, in explanation of a white cloth cover­ ing a head with body uninjured. Many of the wounded looked at Marta even more than at ttre flowers. It was good to see the face of a wom­ an, her eyes limpid with sympathy, and it was not what ehe said but the way she spoke that brought smiles in response to hers. For she was no solemn ministering angel, but high- spirited. cheery, of the sort that the major surgeon would have chosen to distribute flowers to the men. Every remark of the victims of war made its distinct and indelible impression on the gelatin.of her mind. like my blue aster better than that yellow weed of yours, Tom!" "Ytm didn't know Ed Schmidt got it? Yes, he was right next to me in the line." "Say, did you notice Dellarme's smile? It was wonderful." "And old Bert Stransky! I heard him whistling the wedding march as he fired." "Miss, I'll keep this flower forever!" "They say Billy Lister will lire--his cheek was shot away!" , "Once we got going I didn't mind. It seemed like as if I'd been fighting for years!" "Hole no bigger than a lead-pencil. I'll be back in a week!" "Yes; don't these little bullets make neat little holes?" "We certainly gave them a surprise when they came up the hill! I won­ der if we missed the fellow that jumped into the shell crater!" "Our company got it worst!" "Not any worse than ours, I'll wa­ ger!" "Oh--oh--can't you go easier? Oh-h-h--" the groan ending in a clench­ ing of the teeth. "Hello, Jake! You here, too, and going in my automobile? And we've both got lower berths!" "Sh-h! That poor chap's dying!" Worst of all to Marta was the case of a shrapnel fracture of the cranium. "Why You Want to Women?" Save the with the resulting delirium. In which the BufTerer's incoherence included memories of childhood scenes, mo­ ments on the firing-line, calls for his mother, and prayers to be put out of misery. A prod of the hypodermic from the major surgeon, and "On the operating table in fifteen minutes" was the answer to Marta's question if the poor fellow would live. Until dark, in groups, at intervals, and again singly, the wounded were coming in from a brigade front in the region where the rifles were crackling and the shrapnel clouds were hanging prettily over the hills; and stretchers were being slipped into place in the ambulances^ while Marta kept at her post. "We shan't have much more to do at this station," saida the major surgeon when a plodding section of infantry in retreat arrived. the charge. What followed was like some grim and passionless trance with triggers ticking off the j slow-passing minutes. Dellarme aimed to keep down the fusillade from Fracasse's trench and yet not to neglect the fair targets of the reserves advancing by | rushes to the support of the 128th. Reinforced, the gray streak at the bot­ tom of the slope poured in a heavier fire. Above the steady crackle of bul­ lets sent and the whistle of bullets re­ ceived rose the cry of "Doctor! Doc­ tor!" which meant each time that an­ other Brown rifle had been silenced. The litter bearers, hard pressed to re­ move the wounded, left the dead. Al­ ready death was a familiar sight--an article of exchange In which Del­ larme's men dealt freely. The man at Stransky'e side had been killed out­ right. He lay face down on his rifle stock. His cap had fallen off. Stran­ sky put it back on the man's head, and the example was followed in other cases. It was a good idea to keep up a show of a full line of caps to the enemy. Suddenly, as )>y command, this fire from the base of the knoll ceased alto­ gether. Dellarme understood at once what this meant--the next step in the course of a systematic, irresistible ap­ proach by superior numbers. It was to allow the ground scouts to advance. Individual gray spots detaching them­ selves from the gray streak began to crawl upward in search of dead spaces where the contour of the ground would furnish some protection - from the blaze of bullets from the crest. "Over their heads! Don't try to hit them!" Dellarme passed the word. "That's it! Spare one to get a dozen!" said Stransky, grinning in ready comprehension. He seemed to be grinning every time that Dellarme looked in that direction. He was plainly enjoying himself. His restless nature had found sport to its taste. The creeping scouts must have sig­ naled back good news, for groups be­ gan crawling slowly after them. "Over their heads! Encourage them!" Dellarme commanded. After they had advanced two or three hundred yards they stopped, shoulders and hands exposed in silhou­ ette, and began to work feverishly with their spades. "Oh, beautiful!" cried Stransky. "That baby captain of ours has some brains, after all! We'll get them now and we'll get them when they run!" But they did not run. Unfalteringly they took their punishment while they turned over the protecting sod in the midst of their own dead and wounded. In a few minutes they had dropped spades for rifles, and other sections either crawled or ran forward pre­ cipitately and fell to the task of join­ ing the isolated beginnings into a single trench. Again Dellarme looked toward regi­ mental headquarters, his fixed, cheery smile not wholly masking the appeal in his eyes. The Grays had only two or three hundred yards to go when they should make their next charge in order to reach the crest. But his men had fifteen hundred to go in the val­ ley before they were out of range. After their brave resistance facing the enemy they would receive a hail of bullets in their backs. This was the time to withdraw if there were to be assurance of a safe retreat. But there was no signal. Until there was, he must remain. The trench grew; the day wore on. Two rifles to one were nowv playing against his devoted company, which had had neither food nor drink since early morning. As he scanned his thinning line he saw a look of blood- lessness and hopelessness gathering on the set faces of which he had grown so fond during this ordeal. Some of the men were crouching too much for effective aim. "See that you flre low! Keep your heads up!" he called. "For your hom^s, your country and your God! Pass the word along!" Parched throat afjer parched throat repeated the message hoarsely and leaden shoulders raised a trifle and dust-matted eyelashes narrowed sharp­ ly on the sights. "For the man in us!" growled Stran­ sky. "For the favor of nature at birth that gsfve us the right to wear trou­ sers instead of skirts! For the joy of hell, give them hell!" "For our homes! For the man In us!" they repeated, swallowing the words as if they had the taste of a stimulant. But Dellarme knew that It would not take much to precipitate a break. He himself felt that he had beep on at his watch and it was five o'clock. For seven hours they had held on. The Grays' trench was complete the breadth of the slope; more reserves were coming up. The brigade com­ mander of the Grays was going to make sure that the next charge sole* At last Dellarme's glance toward regimental headquarters showed the flag that was the signal for with­ drawal. Could he accomplish it? The first lieutenant, with a shattered arm, had gone on a litter. The old ser­ geant was dead, a victim of the colo- nial wars. Used to fighting savage en­ emies, he had been too eager in ex­ posing himself to a civilized foe. He had been shot through the throat "Men of the first section," Dellarme called, "you will slip out of "line with the greatest care not to let the enemy know that you are going!" . ^Going--going! Careful! Men of. the first section going!" the parched throats repeated in a thrilling whisper. "Those who remain keep increasing their flre!" called Dellarme again. "Cover the whole breadth of the trench!" Every fqurth map wormed himself backward on his stomach until he was below the sky-line, when fiis, stiffened limbs brought him to hie feet and he started on a dead run down into the valley and toward a cut behind an­ other knoll across the road from the Galland house. The others followed at Intervals. Once across a road and up three se­ ries of steps of the other garden ter­ race, behind a breastwork of sand­ bags, the company rested!" Most of them had fallen asleep on the ground after finishing their rations, loge of men In animal exhaustion. Some of those awake Were too weary to give to each other more than a nod and smile. They bad witnessed too much horror that day to talk about it. But Stransky foraged. Marta. coming out on the veranda, saw him. * "You are tired! You are hungry!" she said with urgent gentleness. "Come in!" He followed her into the house and dropped on a leather chair before a shining table in a room paneled with oak, wondering at her and at himself. No woman of Marta's world had ever spoken in that way to him. But it was good to sit down. Then a maid with a sad, winsome face and tender eyes brought him wine and bread and cold meat and jam. He gulped down a glassful of wine; he ate with great mouthfuls in the ravenous call erf healthy, exhausted tissues, while the maid stood by to cut more bread. "When it comes to eating after fight­ ing--" He looked up when the first pangs of hunger were assuaged. Enormous, broad-shouldered, physical, his cheeks flushed with wine, his eyes opened wide and brilliant with the fire that was in his nature--eyes that spoke the red business of anarchy and war. "Say, but you're pretty!" Springing up, he caught her hand and made to kiss her in the brashness of impulse. Minna struck him a sting­ ing blow in the face. He. received it as a mastiff would receive a bite from a pup, and she stood her ground, her eyes challenging his fearlessly. "So you are like that!" he said thoughtfully. "It was a good one, and 1 you meant it, too." "Decidedly!" she answered. "There's more where that came from!" Then little Clarissa Eileen entered and pressed against her mother's Bkirts, subjecting Stransky to child­ hood's scrutiny. He waved a finger at her and grinned and drew his eyes together in'a squint at the bridge of his nose, making a funny face that brought a laugh. "Your child?" Stransky asked Minna. "Yes." "Where's her father(? Away fight­ ing ?" "I don't know where he is!" "Oh!" he musfed, "Was that blow for him at the same time as for me?" he pursued thoughtfully. "Yes, for all of your kind." "M-m-m!" came from between hie lips as he rose. "Would you mind hold­ ing out your hand?" he asked with a gentleness singularly out of keeping with his rough aspect. "Why?" she demanded. "I've never studied any books of eti­ quette of'polite society, and I am a poor sort at making speeches, anyhow. But I want to kiss a good woman's hand by way of apology. I never kissed one in my life, but I'm getting & lot of new experiences today. Will you?" She held out her hand at arm's length and flushed ^lightly as he pressed his lips to It. ' "You certainly do cut thick slices," he said smiling. ' "And you certainly are pretty," he added, passing oat off the door as jauntily as if ne were ready for another fight and just in time to see the colonel of the regiment come around the house. He* stood at the salute, half proudly, half defiantly, but in nowise humbly. "Well, Major Dellarme!" was the colonel's greeting of the company com- "Major?" exclaimed Dellarme. "Yes. Partow has the power. of the aviators have Jron crosses al­ ready apd promotion, too; and yot* are a major. Company G got into a mess and the whole regiment tirould have been in one unless you held on. So I let you stay. It all came out right, as Lanstron planned--right so far. But your losses have been heavy and here you are in the thick of it again. Your company may change places with Company which has had a relatively easy time." "No, sir; we would prefer to stay," Dellarme answered quietly. "Good! Then you will take this battalion and I'll transfer Groller to Alvery's. Bad loss, Alvery--shrapnel. The artillery hag been doing ugly work, but that is all in favor of the defensive. If we can hold them on this line till tomorrow noon, it's all we want for the present," he con­ cluded. "We'll hold them! Don't worry^" put in Stransky. If a private had spoken to a colonel in this fashion at drill, without, being spoken to, it would have been a glar­ ing breach of military etiquette. Now that they were at war it was differ­ ent. Real comradeship between officer and man begins with war. "We shall, eh?" chuckled the colonel. "You look big enough to hold any­ thing, young man! Qere! Isn't this the fellow that Lanstron got off?" "Yes, sir," aqswered Dellarme. "Well, was Lanstron right?" "Yes, sir." ""Wonderful man, Lanstron!" "He knows just a little top mifch!" Stransky growled. * * * * * * * As Fracasse's men rose from their trench for the final charge and found that the enemy had- gone, an officer V\s,.XV CHAPTER XI. | At the Galland House. I Every unit engrossed in his own ! work! Every man taught how a weak ' link may break a chain and realizing I himself as a link and only a link! The The major surgeon's smile to Marta caPtaJn of engineers forgot Marta's ex- Has not altogether on account of her istence as an error of his subordinates suggestion. "It ought to help anybody caught hiB eye, and he went to caution who was ever wounded anywhere in 1 axmen to cut closer to the ground, the world to have you give" him a as stumps gave cover for riflemen. For /flower!" he was thinking. j the time being he had no more interest She ran for an armful of blossoms In the knoll than in the wreckage of • aud was back before the arrival of the ! the dirigibles which were down and 'first wounded man who preceded the ' out of the fight. Procuring Rest for Brain English Physician Gives Advice Those Who Suffer From Lack of 8ound Sleep. to stretchers on foot. He w^s holding up a hand bound in a white first-eld bandage which had a red spot in the center. Those hit in hand or arm. if After all, the knoll was only a single point on the vast staff map--only one of many points of a struggle whose progress was bulletined through the the surgeon's glance justified it, were sittings of regimental, brigade, divi- sent on up the road to-a point a mile j sion and corps headquarters in net re- distant. where transportation in requi- ! suits to the staff. Partow and Lan- flttioned vehicles was provided. Thwc stjon overlooked all. Their knowledge men were triumphal,in their cheer- made the vast map live under their They were alive; they had | eyes. iiut. our concern is with the Many men and women, especially those past their first youth, find diffi­ culty in procuring the sound, restful sleep so necessary to keep mind and body fit. \lthough physically the bqdy Is tired out, the brain is as. alert as ever, and perfect oblivion is im­ possible. An English physician gives some Interesting advice on the matter. "In­ somnia," he states, "is one of the pen­ alties of the Increasing strain mpdern life throws upon our bralnB. The man who works with his muscles and lives In the open air is rarely a vic­ tim .of sleeplessness. "The essentials for a good night's rest are mental repose, a requisite amount of muscular fatigue, comfort able body heat, and plenty ol{ ven*" tilation. • «• - j "The most difficult to secure 1b lessened brain activity. An excellent plan is to take a brisk ha,lf-hour's walk just before bedtime, followed by a hot bath and a rubdown, and th$n a cup of warm milk and a biscuit or two as one gets Into bed. "If In addition, the mind be fo- cussed on some pleasant but not ex­ citing topic, a night's rest is assured to all but the most chronic sufferer. "The type in which the sleeper sud­ denly awakes an hour or so after hav­ ing^ fallen asleep usually means that more outdoor muscular exercise is required." Gaming Into Her Own. Woman is certainly coming into her own. Even in tender romance she Is exerting an influence. The yOung man had just been ac­ cepted. in hit rapture he exclaimed: "But do you think, my love, I am good enough for you?" His strong-minded, fiancee looked sternly at him for a*moment aqd re­ plied^ "Good enough for me? You've got to be!"--Judge Want to Kiss a Good Woman's Hand by Way of Apology." of the brigade staff brought instruc­ tions to the colonel. "The batteries are going to emplace here for your support in the morning. You will move as soon as your men have eaten and occupy positions B-31 to B-35. That gives you a narrow front for one battalion, with two bat­ talions in reserve to drive home your attack. The chief of staff himself de­ sires that we take the Galland house before noon. The enemy must not have the encouragement of any suc­ cesses." "So easy for Westerling to say," thought the colonel; while aloud he acknowledged the message with proper spirit. Before the order to move was given the news of it passed from lip to lip among the men in tired whispers. Since dawn they had lived through the impressions of a whole war, and they had won. With victory they had not thought of the future, only of their hunger. After the nightmare of the charge, after hearing death whisper­ ing for hours intimately In their ears, they were too weary and too far thrown out of the adjustments of any natural habits of thought and feeling to realize the horror of eating their dinners in the company of the dead. Now they were U go through another hell, but many of *hem in their ex­ haustion were chleft; concerned as to whether or not they should get any sleep that night. • • • • « » • • The satire of war mali «s the valet's son a hero; the chance of war kills the manufacturer's .son and lets the day-laborer's son live; the sport of war gives the latent' forces of a Stran sky full play; the glory of war brings Dellarme quick promotion; the glam­ our and the spectacular folly of war turn the bolts of the lightnings which man has mastered against man. Per­ haps the savage who learned that he could start a flame by rubbing two dry sticks together may have set flre to the virgin forest and wild grass in order to destroy an enemy--and natu: rally with disastrous results to him self if he mistook the direction of the wind. Marta Galland's thoughts at dusk when-she returned up the steps to the house were of the wreckage the hot whirlwind of war left. She was see­ ing fathers staring and mothers weep 'Ing. Her experience with the wound ed drawing deep on the wells of sym pathy. heightened her loathing of war and of all who planned and ordered it and led its legions. She had been en­ gaged since dark In completing the work of moving valuable articles from the front to the rear rooms of th? house, which lia*h been begun early it the day by Minna and the conchmaa <TO BE C»NTI£AJttJa^ f Convention* Meet in-Danville. *,r! s The '°Howlng officers were elected' conference of the Central 1111- v v|%jbi8 Lutheran Teachers' association in Danville: President, Professor Gross, Buckley; vice-president, Pro­ fessor Eigmann, Wardsaw; secretary. Professor Hoeltze, Rock Island; assist­ ant secretary, Professor Rumga, ^Springfield. Papers dealing with school problems were read by Pro* Springfle ILLINOIS BODY ENDS CONVENTION E ASSOCIATION OF GRADU­ ATE NURSES ADJOURN JN NEW OFFICERS : •. SELECTED 1| orla. MIs^ Helena McMillan of Chicago la Named President--Miss Lucy A. Mount of Jacksonville, Flrat Vice-Presideitt Springfield.--The Illinois State Asso­ ciation of Graduate Nurses heretofore in reality a Chicago institution, closed its eleventh annual meeting, the first held downstate, in Springfield, with state-wide organization plane perfected and the first non-Chicago member elected to office. Miss Lucy A. Mount of Jacksonville is the new first rkte-presldent, who bears the distinction of being the first downstate officer of the Illinois nurses. Chicago, however, retained control of the association, as the ef­ fort made by other nurses to revise the by-laws and take the organization from Cook county was deemed uncon­ stitutional. With 38 Chicago dele­ gates as against 28 of the rest of the state, the election and all other mat­ ters went as the metropolitan nurses wished. The election which closed, resulted in the following being chosen as offi­ cers for the Ensuing year: President--Miss Helena McMillan, Chicago. Vice-President -- Miss Lupy A. Mount, Jacksonville. Second Vice-President--Miss Anna Jorgensen, Chicago. Secretary--Mr^. W.' B. Bache, Chi- cago. Treasurer--Miss Catherine Thomp­ son, Chicago. The parting words passed between the downstate visitors was "organize your community," and they all left their eleventh meeting with need of organization deeply impressed on their minds. Springfield, although the first registered nurse center in Illinois, is the southernmost point in the state which has at least a semblance of a nurse organization. To aid in the community organiza­ tion a number of the sixteen districts in the state were re-districted. Up till this time some of the district bimonth­ ly meetings have been unenthusiastic because of lack of attendance, caused by the inconvenient arrangement of the districts. To alleviate this diffi­ culty the thirteenth, which includes Sangamon, was enlarged to include Macon county with Decatur. Boone county was added to the second, Adams to the'fifth, and several other combinations and .substitutions. E&ucator* to Meet at Champaign. Ulany able speakers are included among the number who will deliver addresses before the State School Board's association and City Superin­ tendents' association, which will meet in the city of Champaign on Wednes­ day and Thursday, November 18 and 19. State Superintendent C. JF. Blair will speak from the point of general school needs throughout the state. Among the others who will speak are as follows: Henry S. Curtis, former secretary of the Playgrounds Association of America, who will speak concerning school playgrounds; Dr. L. D. Coff- man, secretary of the State Teachers' j^Bsociation, who will discuss the main points *of the forthcoming school sur­ vey of the Btate; Principal S. A. Cour­ tis of Detroit, Mich., author of the fa­ mous Courtis Tests, will discuss standard tests in arithmetic; F. E. Williamson of Urbana board of educa­ tion, who will discuss present legisla­ tive needs; Doctor Bobitt of the Uni­ versity of Chicago, who will present some of the modern methods of school administration, and Superin­ tendent R. G. Jones of Rockford, Mine Workers to Vote December 8. The first election since the officials of the United Mine Workers of Illinois have redistricted the state will be held December 8, with one of the largest lists of candidates in the his­ tory of the organization. All of the subdistrict organization's have been abolished. Instead an executive board member from each of the newly-creat­ ed districts will be elected. Milk Producers Meet. The Southern Illinois Milk Pro­ ducers' association met in the court­ house at Nashville and elected the following officers: President, John Smith; secretary and treasurer, Julius Goii»g of Okawville; vice-presi­ dent, Peter Dintelman. The associa­ tion has 225 members in the county. Its purpose is to get higher prices for milk. Illinois Day Will tie Observed. Illinois' birthday anniversary, which is December 3, will be celebrated in the city of Springfield according to plans which are being made by the Commercial association. A letter out by the Commercial association at Chi­ cago asks associations in other cities 1 to observe the date of the entry of Illi-' nois into the Union. It iB planned lo­ cally to make the event a notable af­ fair with a big public meeting, at which prominent ppeakers will deliver addresses. ' 8tate Poultry Show January 4-9. Officers pf the State Poultry asso­ ciation are completing plans for the annual show in this city which will be held in the state arpnory, Spring- ' field, January 4-9, 1915. In connection with the big meeting Secretary Theo­ dore S. McCoy of Golconda issued the following statement: "The officers and exhibitors of the state show are well pleased with. Springfield as a show town with one exception and that is in the matter of attendance. "One of Springfield's business men, John H. McCreery, has always shown his appreciation of the show each year by having all of his employees visit the show in a body. With the same loyal support shown by a num­ ber of the business men of the city the only objection that can be ufged against Springfield would be, removed. A poultry show needs door1 receipts to live. _ j "The show this year will be the celebration of the twenty-first anniver­ sary of the association and steps are being taken to make it the best ever held by the association. "The $100 championship stakes of­ fered for males and females of every variety of poultry, ducks, geese and turkeys offers an opportunity to shoV for the largest money ever offered by a poultry association. "The state meeting of the Buff Rock club, the S. C. Black Minorca club and the state meeting of the S. C. Whit# Leghorn club will make the exhibit especially attractive. "The sales department will be a spe* cial feature of this show as it was last year and it has been adopted by many other associations, as well as some of the other features which have become a fixture at this show. Every exhibitor is invited to put a price on his entries and we will help dispose of them through this department with­ out cost to the seller. "Catalogues will be ready to mail November 15 and if you have not al­ ready written for a catalogue send ar postal card at once to Theodore 3. McCoy, secretary, Golconda, who will- be glad to forward you catalogue and entry blank." Incorporations. f. Secretary of State Stevenson issued certificates of incorporation to the fol­ lowing: Austin Coal and Coke company. Chi­ cago; capital, $5,0OO. Incorporators William T. Carlin, Samuel N. Rosen­ berg and William H. Holly. McKlnney Tractor company. Belle­ ville; capital, $200,000. Incorporators -r-Edward Abend, Gk A. Becker and H. E. Kniephamp. . The Elm society. Cartervllle. In­ corporators--John M. Taylor, John M. Hicks and Robert Winning, Jr. The Riley Joplin Cut Stone com­ pany, Chicago; capital. *10,000. Incor- porators--Carl C. Seberg, William S. Leslie and William Bluemer. r a. Matthews Advertising corpora-v tion, Chicago: capital $12,500. Incor­ porators--Richard A. Mathews, Ed­ ward F. Wilson and Arthur M. Nelson^ Theodore Renz & Sons couiapny, Chicago; capital, $16,000. Incorpora­ tors--Theodor Renz, Geoge Renz and William E Renz. j. A. Harrison & Co., Hey worth; caj* Hal, $40 ,00;). Incorporators--J. A. Har­ rison, A. b. Harrison and W, W. Whit- more. Chicago Woman la Elected. Mrs. Charles H. Zimmerman of Chi­ cago was elected president of the Illi­ nois Federation of Women's Clubs at the convention at Springfield. Mrs. Zimmerman, the new president, has been prominent in club work. She is vice-president of the Sixth dis­ trict of the federation and president of the League of Cook County Clubs. Candidates for the other twa offices voted on were elected without opposi­ tion. They were: Corresponding secretary, Mrs. George Thomas Palmer of Springfield. General federation state secretary, Mrs. Frederick A. Dow of Chicago. The federation passed on several resolutions. This is considered the most vital work done at the conven­ tion. The resolutions adopted: Petition the legislature to call a constitutional convention to frame a new constitution "in harmony with the wisest thought of the day." This contemplates full suffrage for women. Indorse the peace moveme-t, with the proviso that permanent peace can­ not be established as long as the deci­ sion for or against war rests with- men. Urge the legislature to establish a state censorship board for moving pic­ tures. Urge a law permitting small towns to dispose of garbage by contract. Recommend wider use of school- houses as social centers and urge the trustees of the fund provided by the Smith-I.iever bill to spend 55 per cent of the amount allotted to Illinois for teaching young persons agriculture and domestic science. Indorse a movement to collect funds among the clubs for the support of the Park Rid«e school. Many Meetings for 8pringf!eld. The Commercial association hail the following conventions listed for De­ cember and the coming year, more of which are pending: State Teachers' association, December 29-31, 1914; State Poultry association, January 4-ft, 1915; State Medical association. May 18-20, 1915; United Traveling Men's association in May, 1915; Knights of Pythias, state meeting, week of Octo­ ber 19, 1915; Pythian Sisters, state convention, week of October 19, 1915; Anti-Horse Thief association, October 20, 1915. Illinois Taxes Increased- Figures on the taxable value of property in Illinois for 1914, as made known by the state board of equalisa­ tion, showed: Personal property, de­ creased $5,498,873; land value, to-, creased $551,091; city lots, incrcnsed over 1913, $60,978,835. The assess­ ment on the Chicago & Northwester® railroad was innrfijised $4,000,000 and on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, $2,000,COO. The Valuation of the NorUh western station la Chicago vac tais|#; *l,500,m ih.