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Itili. » , . «• x t * i f , *' ^ t l •>• ""< * v ^ o. portant Date* In Hlritory. n anticipation of tpe state «en*< nial, which it is planned to eel* ate in 1918 in an elaborate wayj as been suggested that residents the state generally, find school chil* n In particular, familiarize them- ves with the more important dates I events of the territory now com.?' ,|ing j^hfe state of Illinois, the following data has been com* flded as fnmtnhtw u "thumb nail"* SURVIVORS OF EMDEN ON BEACHED VESSEL , MIf ***? s ~ * v y£f ' ' ' ' ,- 'U <&*;•; - * ' *'/ Illinois, Though Known C3 ' General Farm Crop Eta .. -..,, ft? { Wlgh in Several Ot!1 Branches. l\Z '•••••••'- £?;:' r *. . , ' state# e inten- well.i e of the It is the oted tot New exceed Ohio an •><fe * '}Ma '• ,•'••?•&• ..Springfield.--Illinois, la« «hefly as a general larm c iranks high in many of the sive branches of agrfcult In vegetable growing it is \ leading states of the union. thii'd state in the acreage vegetables being ^xceedeo York and Ohio, and fourt' Of the products raised, b#rl In this respect by Now-^wl - Pennsylvania, in the ortior named ,®7en ^ew York, the leading vegeta^l atat.e, does not produce twice as man; Vegetables as Illinois. Prom 1899 • i. 1&09 there was an increase of 7 '"•.<per cent in the value of fie vegetable Produced, and 8.5 per *jcent In th •creage devoted to the i. In valu tlon of the more import? nt crops, th< •taje ranks as follows: Second ii rhubarb and sweet cori^ third in as] paragus, beets, pop corn, parsnips am pumpkins; fourth in c irrots, caull flower, cucumbers, hori ^radish, lei tuce and radish. These facts lead to soi^e interestin • -ionclusions. The business is alread ®f large proportions; it is growin rapidly; and It it steadily becoming --taiore intensive In nature. These ci <jumstances are the result of a nu tier of causes. Population is increa lug rapidly, and more fapldly in t cities than in the couatry. Meat becoming too expensivd for ordina people to eat, and veg<?,ahles are r placing it to a considei^.ble extent i the diet. Furthermore,j the healthf properties of vegetable^ are becoming well recognized and ma Increasing their consuq • lor this reason alone, j > Everything indicate^ «rease in the demand £or vegetables. With rapidly growing cities, with lilgh priced land, with i market tend­ ency toward more intinsive agricul­ ture and the fact that 8 well-managed market garden will pa* a reasonable profit on land so high in price that ordinary crops will n«t yield a fair rate of Interest on it, prospects tor vegetable gardening ire bright, in­ deed. ( m To meet these rapidly changing con­ ditions vegetable growers must adopt ^.better methods. Fornerly gardeners cpuld reap-good profits with very ordi­ nary methods and ratter crude equip­ ment. The more prof ressive garden­ ers, however, have be^n aware of the changes taking p]ace and have grad­ ually changed thel&im thods of accord­ ingly. We have in Illlaois many gard- «S8 which are models of expert man­ agement, and their owners are among the best business m«n of the state. But this is not true of the business as a~ whole. The very fact that many growers are rapidly adopting more im­ proved methods-maki! it increasingly difficult for those who cling to the old standards.' It is the purpose of this paper to call attention to some of the more important opportunities for mar­ ket garden improvement y persons are ption of them a steady in- Quarantine in State Raised. ^ The federal foot-acd-mouth disease] quarantine has been removed uncon- -dltionally from these counties in/| Illinois: ~ "Alexander, Bond. Calhoun, Craw­ ford, Clay, Franklin, Gallatin, Effing­ ham, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Ham­ ilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jasper, Jeffer-] •on, Jersey, Johnson, Lawrence, Ma­ coupin, Madison, Marion, Massac,! Montgomery, Monroe, Perry, Pope. I Pulaski, Randolph, R'chland, St. Clair,] 8aline, Union, Wabr.sh, Washington,! Wayne, White and Williamson. In thd following counties, nponl which the quarantine is modified, cat-1 tie may be received and shipped for] Immediate slaughter: •Brown, Clark, Christian, Cumber-1 **<>. Greene. Pike, Shelby and ScettJ State Treasury Gets $600,000. The state of Illinois is richer over $600,000 as a result ot the reorganisa­ tion and consolidation with a number Of other roads of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the New York Central and Hudson River road. A fee of $300,000.45 was paid under prot 'test to the secretary of state, in add tibn to a fee of $319,000 paid the util ties commission. Secretary of St>"5 | held that, the consolld«"On is In effect the formation of a nty* cor­ poration and therefore subjec^to the same fee as in the case p» a new <59|Tporation. _ v ' ' •' 4Hli«l«a «t Incorporation. i; Secretary of State Stevenson issued certificates of Incorporation to the fallowing: •George W. Jackaon Construction OQknpany, Chicago; ^capital, $600,000. incorporators--George W. Jackson, JTohn T. Fanning and Thomas C. Jack- ®Bon. The Hudson Store company, Hud- aon; capital, $6,000. Incorporators-- r. A. Ensign. A. W. Skinner, Frank Maple, William Humphries and W. H. Messer. R. J. Wade & Co., Chicago; capital, $10,000. Incorporators--Ralph W. W<^dbury, Homer W. Woodbury and aso Harris. 3iebens Brewery company, Chicago; ^ipital, $25,000. Incorporators--Mich­ ael Sleben. William F. Steben and Bar­ nard F. Sieben. Treble Cleff Musical Movies Com­ pany of Illinois, Chicago; capital. $2,- ded as furnishiHg a hfcory of the state: 'he name Illinois comes from a p^erful tribe of IndianR, the "Hiiwi * niaing men. a 1673 Father Marquette and Louis jet discovered the upper Mississippi i«r and first explored Illinois, n 1679 La Salle built Fort Creve our on Peoria lake; later destroyed ) Indians. i 1682 La Salle and Henry Tontl It Fort St. Louis at Starved Rock. i 1700 the first white settlement in lois was made by. Tamarora and skoskia by the French. < 1717 Illinois colony was annexed ne province of Louisiana governed )i New Orleans. i 1718 Fort Chartres was built near Nk^skia; was the greatest strnc- of its kind on the western conti- t, yet never fired a hostile shot. i 1763 Illinois was ceded to Great ain by the treaty of Paris. 1768 the first court held In Hli- eonvened at Fort Chartres, De- lber 9. « a 1778 George Rogers Clark, com- 8ioned by Gov. Patrick Henry ot ginia, captured Fort Kaskaskia ii the British on July 4; stars and pes first raised over Illinois. n 1779 this territory became Illinois nty, Virginia. 1783 Samuel J. Seeley taught the school in Illinois at New Design Monroe county). 1790 Virginia having surrendered iiti to Illinois, it was organized into :lalr county of Northwest terri- with regular local government, )i§al at Marietta- 1800 Illinois was included in Indi- terrltory. -Fort Dearborn was con- ted in Chicago. 1809 Illinois and Wisconsin and of Minnesota formed the Dew Illi< territory, governed by the house epresentatives and a legislative cil. 1813 Illinois became a state; ;e were 16 counties and the cap­ ias Kalkaskia. [ J 320 the capital was moved to ijalia. 1833 Chicago was incorporated lage and in 1837 took out its flrpt er as a city. 1837 the state capital was moved ringfield. 1839 the first railroad in Illinois completed from Meredosia to gfield. 1848 the Illinois-Michigan canal completed. 1865 a law was passed for maln- ce of public schools by ^axatlon. 1856 the IllinoiB Central railroad ompleted from Centralia to East que and Cairo to Chicago. 1857 the state normal school at ington was established. 11858 thet famous Lincoln-Douglas es were held. 1860 in "The Wigwam" at Ohl- May 16, Lincoln was nominated esident. 861 U. S. Grant was made brig- i general of the Union army at Aug. 23. 865 Illinois was the first state fy the thirteenth amendment to nstitiition. 867 the Illinois Industrial uni- was established; now the Uni- of Illinois. 70 the present Illinois constltu- adopted. |L871 Chicago fire started, Oc- i576 the present state house was and occupied. 93 the World's Columbian ax- was held in Chicago. ^00 the Chicago drainage canal ened. 08 the present divaet primary law was adopted. of J leport Is Discussed. Iman C. J. Dittmar of the state game commission has Issued rt of the department's work year in which he declares present conservation organ- inadequate. x district wardens and the ties wardens, it is argued, are lgh. Mr. Dittmar says thero be a deputy in each of the [ties of the state. ceipts of the commission for fiscal year totaled $106,016.73, [disbursements were $153,909.- a balance in the treasury P.20. (S OF THE. STATE One lu given *i Little • each we t luinc* lrder at beer: huittec Hi i; !"• <**< fPKSSro ie.-»-Tbe Superior Coal com­ be, which has been closed April, *kB been reopened- ed and fifty miners were (loyraent It is reported the mine wtll operate four days r Incorporators--Isadore Wagner, C. Honeck and G. D. Rose. fti Chi-: West Siuc Teaming company, ea.go; capital, $1,000. Incorporators-- Hale Hubbard, Rishard Poaton an# Qenjamin EL Cohen. s , )•r ^ i i The thlrjl Ray Pfanscbmidt has been set for January eton. The boy prisoner tenced to death and once ir the alleged murder of sister parents and a school-teacher Septen^et, 1912. * i -- rseyvi',e>--The residence, con- and Kk> in money, property of >n 8hat, residing 16 miles north- of Jemyville. were destroyed by Shaw vap at work in a field and led the hfeuse In time to rescue W«kfe. A .--I^w Henson, who. it Is al!< was PiKtonsible for worthless afloat in\6linton last summor oystified [merchants, has been ^determinate term lectin!? frf transfer lo Havana church ]lfts. Rev. Arthur decision to with* thodist denomina* Presbyterian e. He the Presbyterian on January iw. i v. ; , ;; ed to an> nitentiar ingtou. mine toil other inounced dra^im the tiong j0jn will* charge chuif t WhiteJii This photograph of the surviving men of the crew of the German cruiser Emden was taken by officer on board the vessel after it had been run aground as a result of the battle with the Sydney. FIGHT BETWEEN GERMAN TAUBE AND FRENCH AERO an Australian WAfiMiflMMUl MiMmatfififififUMifiiMifififuamnaHf twiHiiHiiwiwnuMtwiiBiHiiwtMwuBtMiiuitiaanaaian This remarkable photograph shows a French war aeroplane pursuing a speedy German Taube, aboard the former being in the act of firing on the foe with a machine gun. the gunnel V' FRENCH SCOUT IN A TREE VILLA IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR General Villa seated in the preeideni'e chair in the national palace, Mexi­ co City. At his left, with an enormous sombrero in his lap, is Emillanq Zapata. CZAR INSPECTING HIS COSSACKS ' French Bcout in a high tree viewing the surrounding country on the road to Ypres, where the Germans and al­ lies have been fighting fiercely. Novel' Means of Communication. | Wounded British soldiers in the hands of the Germans have bit upon a novel way of communicating with their families and friends at home. They subscribe small sums of money to the German Red Cross society, but as few of them have any cash they fill up a draft or sign a check to be sent to London and honored. On the back of the draft the banker is requested to communicate the news of the drawer's safety to his home. Tommy Atkins thinks it is well worth a dollar sub­ scription. . No More Private Automobiles in Berlin. The day of the private automobile is over in Berlin, for the war department has absolutely forbidden the sale of tires to the public. There seems to be greater fear of the lack of shoes for' military motor cars than of the lack of gasoline. The order reads as follows: "Forbidden is every sale and the giv­ ing away of all tires of every kind for private motor business and automobiles this applies only to unused shoes, hut to defective ones and to already used shoes. Not only are the dealers forbidden to dis­ pose of these goods, but the factories are forbidden to deliver any to agents or dealers, even to the extent of stock­ ing them up for future sale. They are forbidden, moreover, to carry out any contracts for the delivery of tubes. The disposal of shoes] tak© place when permission given by the inspection divisk :" .r. branch of the war department which deals with air and power transporta­ tion. Permission will only be given In those cases in which it is absolute­ ly necessary to keep up a public trans­ portation system, or where a business or a medical practice cannot be car­ ried on without the aid of vehicles using tires. The manufacture of tires for bicycles without power is. abso­ lutely forbidden." , This signifies that the weil-to-dw peo­ ple of Berlin and elsewhere must fi^e up their automobilesi STATE NEWS fwi SFSK&»- Clinton.--John C. Packard, known as "Uncle John," oldest soldier in cen­ tral Illinois, fell downstairs and died of a broken neck. Chadwick.--On the Roderick Chis- holm farm 265 head of cattle and 320 hogs, infected with the foot-and-mouth disease, have been condemned. Richview.--John E. Hahn, president ol the German State bank of Hoyles- ton, died from heart trouble. Ha was seventy-three years old. Danville.--Ed Hollett, a passenger conductor on the C. & E. I. railroad, was found frozen to death in a freight car at Dickinson. Ind. Sterling.--Mayor Piatt and members ot the police force have been sum­ moned before the grand Jury investi­ gating sales of liquor In this "dry" city. Harrisburg.--John Reinbolt died from a gunshot wound received. I* Womack is said to have shot, at James Griffith and the builet went wild and struck Reinbolt Decatur.--Lack of observance of quarantine has cauuetl the foot-and- mouth disease to spread in Moultrie county, according lb authorities there, who believe, however, they now have it under control. Nearly one hundred cattle and hogs on the farm of J. B. Davis, W. P. Strlcklan and Elmer Selock will be killed. 8prlngfield.--Directors of the Illi­ nois State Teachers' association in a preliminary meeting surveyed tha work of the sixty-first annual state meeting. An old-fashioned contest in spelling will take precedence over all sessions of the educators. This "bee" will be participated in by pupils from 96 counties of Illinois. Centralia.--Two Centralia women, Mrs. S. Legried and Mrs. Cora Babb, barely escaped death by burns. When lighting a match to start a fire In the kitchen stove the clothes of Mrs. Le­ gried became ignited. Mrs. Babb, wife of a painter, was washing clothes with gasoline. An explosion followed, throwing her across the room. She was burned about the face and arms Carbondale.--State ' Superintendent of Public Instruction Francis G. Blair will hold the annual conference with the county school superintendents of southern Illinois at the Southern Illi­ nois State Normal university here January 20 and 21. On January 21 the board of trustees of the Normal Uni­ versity of Carbondale will meet to spen bids for a new heating plant. Chicago.--:Foot-and-mouth disease id held responsible for a decrease from last year of $19,000,000 in the value of live stock received during 1914 at the Union stockyards here, the largest in the world, according to a report by the Union Stock Yards and Transit company, which handled the animals. The shipments totaled 14,- 696,000 head, worth nearly $390,000.- 000. Pana.--Mrs. John Barlow of Witt, sixty years old, was burned to death as the result of an explosion while she was using liquid stove polish on the kitchen range in her houie. Her clothing caught fire and in trying to extinguish the flames by wrapping her in bed quilts, her husband was burned severely. Mrs. Barlow died a few minutes after the explosion. Duauoln.--Three men have been ar­ rested at Wlllisville, charged with complicity In the lynching of an Italian coal miner at that place several months ago. Another who Is being sought by the county authorities is said to have fled to )kl^homa. Ed Beisner, Nelson Osborne and Thomas Browning, the men arrested, were taken to the jail at Chester to await trial in March. , Pana.--Mr. and Mrs. it. P. Weakly of Pickaway township, northeast of Pana, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a family reunion, in which 60 of their descendants took part Beginning 50 years ago as a tenant, Mr. Weakly owns more than five hundred acres of the best land in central Illinois. His home is known as Cedar Grove farm. Land he bought 40 years ago at $35 an acre is valued at $225. Joliet.--When <the safe of the Chi­ cago & Joliet Electric railway was opened it was discovered someone evidently familiar with the offices or clever cracksmen, had opened it after the cashier had receipted for the night's returns made by conductors. The thief secured $760 in money. A large amount of this Is in fractional currency. The doors to the office were securely locked and t£e windows were boHed as usual. Pana --A holiday epidemic of pta malue poisoning developed at Blue Mound and four persons are near death. Fred Beau, fifteen years old. was stricken with acute ptomaint. poisoning as a result of eating cheap Christmas candy. Dwight Dragoo, Raymond Nichols, Mrs. Luther Nich­ ols and Grace and Ella Kester are ill as a result of eating canned pears. The condition of the last four is re­ ported to be critical. East St. Louis.--The East St. Louis police were notified by the police of Indianapolis, Ind., that George W. Moore had been placed under arreBt there. . There Is a warrant out for Moore,'charging him with responsibil­ ity for the death of his uncle, James Moore, of this place. Joliet.--Wilbur Marsh, colored, hsld in the county jail here pending action by the grand Jury on a charge of robbing a Wells-Fargo express wagon, sawed the bars of bis cell and | escaped. He was found two ml lea i away by police and returned to Jail | before being missed by the officials. Chicago --As an additional precau­ tion to prevent the spread of foot-and- mouth disease among live stock, an order requiring the sterilisation of all skimmed milk and other by-products of milk was issued by the Illinois board of live stock commissioners, through Dr. O. E. Dyson, state veter­ inarian. "No skimmed milk or other J by-products of milk," the order reads, "shall be permitted to leave cream- I Mies or similar establishments usti! ; such by-products have been sterilised ( by being heated to a not leas than 213 degr». EVIL THUMBS" HIS CURSE it Indian Praises Ailsh as &urj}sqnft Eliminate Cause «f (rife -. Ostrscism. Hah be .praised! ian Singh is without his "devtif thfmbg," extra ones that grew upo» . hands. They were taken from him other day by Allah, he .says, but> thi ea-geons In the receiving hospital Bay differently, and say it in a very* tedh ileal and convincing way. From the time of his youth in tte^ village Tuse, district of Ludhiana, Pmh jab, India, Gian Singh has not foundi favor in the eyes of his relatives, and* alwars the little boys with whom ha* played reviled him by fining hlta "Devil Thumbs." It "was a malformation of the thumba from which he suffered, not an uncom­ mon, thing in the United States, but ft horrible visitation and curse in India. * Never could he be a favored son of Allah. Wften he had a chance he came to' Amelica, but hjs friends took his com­ panion ship without grace, and when an affair of chance was undertaken, by them recently, and they lost, they cursed Gian Singh roundly, and, by the fusion* of their race, spat upba him.' Sa-great was Gian Singh's distress that' he came to the receiving hos­ pital, and asked if some deliverance could not be given him from the cursa he bore. The surgeons re-. marked "easily." Tha other day Gian Singh and hit friend, Omar, came to the hospital A moment for anesthesia, the quick and tense activity of the surgeons, slid Gian Singh was being wheeled back to his bed in the ward. As he was trundled along, he awakened for an instant Instantly he held his hands high, so he could look upon them. There "was the thumb, one thumb on his right hand. His left was the same. With a sigh, he renewed his dreams in anesthesia, only to mut­ ter, "Allah be praised!"--Los An­ geles Times. - * Acting and 8lnging, % Another question relative to lng a role is: "Is there any differ­ ence between studying characters for acting and for singing?" Here again I must quote myself. I need the music to Inspire me. Many persons have told me that if I would leave the operatic stage for the drama I would be tha greatest actress the World has ever seen. I don't believe it. I don't think ail of this could be brought out of me without the music, because it is tha music which does bring it out. Tha case of "Salome" is quite in point here. I went first to see it acted without any music, because I thought it would be interesting to act it, if I never sang It. It was Just a commonplace drama, that's all; but when Strauss put the music to it it became strong, tense, magnificent--in brief, a new thing! Nor was I the only one af­ fected that w&y by the change. In Parts, where it was created, everyone said, wften Strauss had put music to the drama: "The hand has found Its glove."--Mary Garden in the Amari- caa Magaaine. Monument Shone as Qhoaft. "Ise seed dat ghost dar ev'ry night foh a weak," declared Henry W. Locksmith, a local colored man, as he stood With chattering teeth on North Hanover street, With his eyes riveted on a white object in Potta- tewn cemetery. Henry was frightened sure, and Robert C. Hawk, a weU- known printer, to whom he had told his story, saw, too, the ghoBtly figure- Hawk, however, ridiculed the Idea of such things, and the colored man became angry, but finally agreed to accompany bim Into the cemetery. The "ghost" never mov^d,. and tfcfts caused Locksmith to *o(e along vers v 4 slowly behind. Hawk braced him up with words of encouragement, and when they came close to the "thing in white" they found that it was a highly polished granite monument upon which the refiection from a distant arc electric light had played and made it seem pure white,--Pottstowu (Pa.) Dispatah *ay*ha Philadelphia Record. \ < Poor Chinese Business Rule. / J; It*1 is an established custom lii' China that a new company must pay dividends to its shareholders from the first year of its existence, and this forms invariably a clause of tha articles of association. Some con­ cerns which foil to realize a profit have to contract a high interest loaa in order to pay dividends in full. It is this practice that compels com­ panies to contract lpan after loan u»* til they are plunged into a helpless state. Furthermore, when a new company is established, it is from tha .«tart tied down to a system of com­ mission paying. In every purchase as well as in every sale of the com-- pany a commission goes with it. which is therefore counted into every pay­ ment and receipt, thus occasioning tho need of an unnecessarily large amouat. of capital. Varying Gains In Weight The average gain In weight varlsf much with the season of the yealrr From December to May it is fairly uni­ form, but low, being 226 to 260 grammes. It rises rapidly and stead­ ily from May to September, during whteh month it reaches the maximum of 380 grammes. It falls from Octo­ ber to December, which is the monta showing the smallest gain in weight. The average gam In weight in Sap* tember is almost double that tn D> cember, and there can be little doubt that gain in weight is. as a rule, companied with improvement in' patient's health History Of Pctroliur Soumania holds the sat production of having put it on the Two years later piuuuwuil it* t.rsi Ions. Italy ^ as aj isg year, months, out* quickly toll countries