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. t>, ? ff M'HENRY PliAINDEALER, M'HENRV, JELL. ^ \_i__4h ^ .,, ' j ^ ^ i . \ ^ w 4** : ~ * - rr • . . . » , . .*,- ,- _.».r . , .»• .- . . . . , . , -. , ' . . . . ».. . . . . . . '• -• - •" "^f-• •• "• -••••-• ̂ . . . . . . ̂ »J. . . ' . . , . i", . V , . . . _._. i i i^.Sj. : ' : '^- :.-J.ir-iflj;:.;- W ^ y\ , > 1 • ~^5 ' ;iW:rv£ î̂ " ̂* ?*EI>KRICK PALMER li fe ' ' fe^ ' 'M: ','•'" *:*»*•&' • • $?W ,.' •• k.*-?•.•• ' v --V l§3> t'* * . * •' |t.v;::' S3? f}' « I;, „». r TOIWL)BLRV If" by Cntrlo* ScrU>&ec% SOBS) 8YNOP8I8. \ At thair home on the frontier between TO® Browns And Grays Ma.rta Galland and ter mother, entertaining Colonel Wester­ ns of the Grays, see Captain Lanstron pt the Browns Injured by a fall in his '*eroplane. Ten years later. Westerling. . Bomlnal vice but real chief of staff, re-en- • forces South La Tir and meditates on war. Sarta tells him of her teaching children e follies of war and martial patriotism. Snd oe$s him to prevent^'flr while he Is Shief of staff. Lanstron calls on Marta tt her home. She tells Lanstron that she elieves Feller, the gardener, to be a spy. - Lanstron confesses it is true and shows ^er a telephone which Feller has con­ cealed in a secret passage under the tower "lor use to benefit the Browns In war ;>Emergencies. Lanstron declares his love 'for Marta. Westerling and the Grays pre­ pare plans to use a trivial International affair to foment warlike patriotism and /?(trlk<? before declaring war. Partow, fJrown chief of staff, reveals his plans to janstron, made vice chief. The Gray ;ifnny crosses the border line and attacks. The Browns check them. Artillery, In­ fantry, aeroplanes and dirigibles engage. Marta has her first glimpse of war In Its , inodern, cold, scientific, murderous bru- ility. The Browns fall back to the Gal- ind house. Marta sees a night attack. The Grays attack In force. Feller leaves -•Ills secret telephone and goes back to his • ':'-*uns. Hand to hand fighting. The Browns ' fall back again. Marta asks Lanstron over the phone to appeal to Partow to stop the lighting. Vandalism in the Galland house. jWesterllng and liia staff occupy the Gal- v land house and he begins to woo Marta, "V;%*ho apparently throws her fortunes with '• jihe Grays and offers valuable information. • ,<phe calls up Lanstron on the secret tele­ phone and plans to give Westerling Infor- " jnatlon that will trap the Gray army. ' ^'esterllng forms his plan of attack upon .il'artiat he learns from her. The Grays take .';4pord1r. Through Marta Westerling is led concentrate his attack on the main line It Eneradir. A leak of information Is sus­ pected. Bouchard is relieved as chief in­ telligence officer and In going accuses farta. Westerling thinks him crary. The Jrays take the apron of Engadlr. Par-low dies suddenly and Lanstron succeeds the capital! It's to allow him as he died, dropped forward on the map, and in front of his desk a field of bayonets. On one face of the base will be his name. Two of the other faces will hate "God with usT and 'Not for theirs, but for ours!' The legend on the fourth face the war Is to decide." "Victory! Victory!" cried those who had listened to the announcement. Stransky was thinking that they had to do more than hold the Gray*. Before he should see his girl they had to take back the lost territory. He carried two pictures of Mlnna< in his mind: one when she had struck him in the face as he tried to kiss her and the other as he said good-by at the kitchen door. There was not much encouragement in either. "But when she gets better acquaint­ ed with me there's no telling!" he kept thinking. "I was fighting out of cus- sedness at first. Now I'm fighting for her and to keep what is ours!" , CHAPTER XIX. The Ram. In the closet off the Galland library, where the long-distance telephone was installed, Westerling was talking with the premier in the Gray capital. "Your total casualties are eight hun­ dred thousand. That is terrific, Wes­ terling!" the premier was saying. "Only two hundred thousand of those are dead!" replied Westerling. "Many with only slight wounds are already returning to the front. Ter­ rific, do you say? Two hundred thou­ sand in five millions is one man out of twenty-five. That wouldn't have worried Frederick the Great or Napo­ leon much. Eight hundred thousand is one out of six. The trouble is that such vast armies have never been en­ gaged before. Tou must consider the percentages, not the totals." "Yet, eight hundred thousand! If the public knew!" exclaimed the pre­ mier. "The public does not know!" said Westerling. "They guees. They realise that we stopped the soldiers' letters because they told bad news. The situation is serious." "Why not give the public something to think about?" Westerling demanded. "Failure Is not ii^my lexicon!" Wee-1 terling shot back. "For great gains there must be great riskB." "We prepare for the movement, your excellency," answered Turcaa. It was a steel harness of his own will that Weeterling wore, without ad­ mitting that it galled him, and lie laid it off only in Marta's presence. With her, his growing sense of isolation had the relief of companionship. She be­ came a kind of mirror of his egoism and ambitions. He liked to have her think of him as a great man unruffled among weaker men. In the quiet and seclusion of the garden, involuntarily as one who has no confidant speaks to himself, reserving fortitude for hie part before the staff, while she, under the spell of her purpose, silently, with serene and wistfully listening eyes, played hers, he outlined how the final and telling blow was to be struck. "We must and we shall win!" he kept repeating. • • * • ' • Through a rubber disk" held to' hla> ear in the closet of hie bedroom a voice, tremulous with nervous fatigue, was giving Lanstron news that all his aircraft and cavalry and spies could not have gained; nqws worth more than a score of regiments; news fresh from the lips of the chief of staff of the enemy. The attack was to be made at the right of Engadir, its cen­ ter breaking from the redoubt manned by Fracasse'e men. "Marta, you genius!" Lanstron cried. You are the real general! You--" "Not that, please!" she broke in. I'm as foul and depraved as a dealer In subtle poisons in the middle ages! Oh, the shame of it, while I look into his eyea and feign admiration, feign everything which will draw out his plans! I can never forget the sight of him as he told me how two or three four hundred thousand men were '^0 A- CHAPTER XVIII--Continued. *,Br ®P among the birds -ifepd aeroplanes. In a roofed, shell-proof •kil-r1 Chamber, with a telephone orderly at t«YV * tils side, a powerful pair of field-glasses ix t;. . ' • (ind range-finders at his elbow, and a ^ jtelescope before his eye, Gustave Fel- Vi 1 ler, one time gardener and now acting if.,,colonel of artillery, watched the burst /<v. . pt shells over the enemy's lines. While iother men had grown lean on war, he ,vlhad taken on enough flesh to fill out wr*nkles around hie eyes that i; * . vhone with an. artist's enjoyment of fi h \ r|hi8 work. Down under cover of the -fridge were his guns, the keys of the \ ^instrument that he played by calls f . ^ o v e r t h e w i r e . T h e i r b a r k i n g w a s a .-^'.avniDhony to his ears; errors of or- chestration were errors in aim. He 5®;:|^ltalked as he watched, his lively fea- I ' tures reflective of his impressions. "Oh, pretty ! Right into their tum- '• 1 mies! Right in the nose! La, la, la! J But that's oft--and *o's that! Tell ^ Battery C they're fifty yards over. Oh, beady-eyed gods and shiny little fishes --two smacks in the eame spot! \ '$%'(? Humph! Tell Battery C that the f^V*,trouble with that gun is worn rifling; 1'.Lrthat'8 wfay it's going short. Elevate it f°r another hundred yards--but it i oa£ht not to wear out so soon. I'd like W* *r. iT?* *° klclt the Maker or t^e inspector. The fellows in B 21 will accuse us of inat- -3' tention. If# time to drop a shell on them to show we're perfectly impartial In our favors. La, la, la! Oh, what * pretty smack! Congratulations!" B 21 was the position of Fracasse's company and the pretty smack the one that broke one man's arm and crushed another's head. ' mw<- £ x m.i * * i ,•** " >*}. W fi pr&.y\ iM ".w; H'#:?- ' "vt .:-iVf . -•jm -t " r-' The "God with us!" song was singu­ larly suited to the great, bull voice of Its oompoaer, born to the red and be­ come Captain Stransky In the red 'business of war. It was he who led the thunder of its verses. "I certainly like that song," be said Well he might. It had made him fa­ mous throughout the nation. "There's Jehovah and brimstone In it. Now well have our own." "But we're always losing positions!" complained one of the men. "Little by little they are getting possession." "They say the offensive always Wins," said another. "Five against three! They count on numbers," said lieutenant Tom Tragini. "There you go, Tom! Any other 'pessimists or anarchists want to be heard?" called out Stransky. "Just how long, at the present rate, will it take them to get the whole range? There's a limit to the number of even 'five millions." Then the telephone in the redoubt brought some newe. The staff begged to inform the army that the enemy's casualties in the last three days had been two hundred thousand! Immedi­ ately everybody was talking at once In Stransky's parliament, as he some­ times called that company of which he was, in the final analysis, unlimited Monarch. "How do they know?" ^ *T>o you think it's fake?" 'That sums up to pretty near a mfl- Iton!" "My God! Think of It--a million*" "f^We're whittling them down!" "It doesn't make any difference Ntftether Partow or Lapptron is chief staff!" V;, . •t,< ' "They're paring!" ' \ '"Paying tor oar fellows (nit thfcy*fe Ihilled! Paying for being in the TOong!" Stransky, his eyes drawing Inward 4ft their characteristic slant, was well fleascd with his company, and the ftettered exclamatory badinage kept OS until it was interrupted by the ar- llval of the mail. Partow and Lan •tron, understanding their machine as |«man in its elements, had chosen that the army should hear from home. "How'e this!" exclaimed on* man, reading from a newspaper, '"they're V » statue of Partow ta Watched the Bursting of 8helle Over the Enemy's Lines. "I've tried. It doesn't work. The murmurs Increase. I repeat, my fears of a rising! of the women are well grounded. There is mutiny in the air. I feel it through the columns of the press, though they are censored. I--' "Then, soon I'll give the public some­ thing to think about, myself!" Wester­ ling broke in. "The dead will be for­ gotten. The wounded will be proud of their wounds and their fathers and mothers triumphant when our army descends the other Bide of the range and starts on its march to the Browns' capital." "But you have not yet taken a single fortress!" persisted the premier. 'And the Browns report that they have lost only three hundred thousand men.'1 „ Lanstron is lying!" retorted Wes­ terling hotly. "But no matter. We have taken positions with every at­ tack and kept crowding in closer. I ask nothing better than that the Browns remain on the defensive, leav­ ing initiative to us. We have devel­ oped their weak points. The resolute offensive always wine. I know where I am going to attack; they do not. I shall not give them time to reinforce the defense at our chosen point. I have still plenty of live soldiers left. 1 shall go in with men enough this time to win and to hold." "The army is yours, Westerling," concluded the premier. "I admire your stolidity of purpose. You have my con­ fidence. I shall wait and hold the situ­ ation at home .the best I can. We go into the hall of tame or into the gut­ ter together, you and I!" For a while after he had hung up the receiver Westerling's head drooped, his muscles relaxed, giving mind and body a release from tension. But his spine was as stiff as ever as he left the closet, and he was even smiling to give the impression that the news from the capital was favor­ able. When he called his chiefs of divi­ sion it was hardly for a staff council. Stunned by the losses and repulses, loyally Industrious, their opinions un­ asked, they listened to his whirlwind of orders without comment--all except Turcas. "If they are apprised of our plan and are able to concentrate more artillery than our guns can silence, the losses will be demoralizing," he observed. to be crowded into a ram, as he called it--a ram of human flesh!--and guns enough in support, he said, to tear any redoubts to pieces; guns enough to make their shells as thick as the bul­ lets from an automatic!" We'll meet ram with ram! We'll have some guns, too!" exclaimed Lan­ stron. "We'll send as heavy a shell fire at their Infantry as they sepd into our redoubts." "Don't.( It's too like Westerling. It has become too trite!" she protested. The end! If I really were helping toward that and to save lives and our country to its people, what would my private feelings matter? My honor, my soul--what would anything mat­ ter? For that, any sacrifice. I'm only one human being--a weak, luna­ tic sort of one, Just now!" Marta, don't suffer so! Yon are overwrought. You--" I can say all that for you, Lanny," she interrupted with the faintest laugh. I've said it so many times to myself. Perhaps when I call you up again I shall not be so hysterical." Lanstron was not thinking of war or war's combination when he hung up the receiver. It was some moments before he returned to the staff room, and then he had mastered his emo­ tion. He w&s the soldier again. An hour or so before the attack the telegraph Instruments in the Galland house had become pregnantly eilent. There were no more orders to give; no more reports to come from the troops in position until the assault was made. Officers of supply ceased to transmit routine matters over the wire, while they Btrained their eyes toward the range. Officers of the staff moved about restlessly, glancing at their watches and going to the windows fre­ quently to see if the mist still held. No one entered the library where Westerling was seated- alone with nothing to do. His suspense was that of the mothers who longed for news of their sons at the front; hie helpless­ ness that of a man in a hospital lobby waiting on the result of an operation whose success or failure will save or wreck his career. The physical desire of movement, the conflict with some­ thing in his own mind, drove him out of doors Westerling was rather pleased with the fact that Jie could still smile; pleased with the loyalty of younger officers when, day by day, the staff had grown colder and more me­ chanical in the attitude that com­ pleted his Isolation. Walking vigor ously along the path toward the tower, the exercise of his muscles, the feel of the cool, moist air on his face, brought back some of the buoyancy of spirit that he craved. A woman's fig ure, with a cape thrown over the shoul ders and the head bare, loomed out of the mist "I couldn't stay in--not to-night," Marta said as Westerling drew near "I had to see, It's only a quarter of an hour now, Isn't it?" She seemed so utterly frail and distraught that Westerling, in an im­ pulse of protection, laid his hand on her relaxed shoulders. "Our cause is at Btake to-night," he declared, "yours and mine! We must win, you and I! It is our destiny!" "You and I!" repeated Marta. "Why you and I?" it seemed very strange to be think­ ing of any two persons when hundreds of thousands were awaiting the signal for the death prepared by him. He mistook the character of her thought in the obsession of his egoism. "What do lives mean?" he cried with a eudden desperation, his grip of her shoulders tightening. "It is the law of nature for man to fight. Unless he fights he goes to seed. One trouble with our army is that it was soft from the want of war. It is the law of na­ ture for the fittest to survive! Other sons will be born to take the place of those who die to-night. There will be all the more room for those who live. Victory will create new opportunities. What is a million out of the billions on the face of the earth? Those who lead alone count--those who dwell in the atmosphere of the peaks, ub we do!" The pressure of his strong hands in the unconscious emphasis of his passion became painful; but she did not protest or try to draw away, think- realize what that means--the honor and the power that will be ours? I shall have directed the greatest army the world has ever known to victory!" "And defeat means--what does de­ feat mean ?" she asked narrowly, calm­ ly; and the pointed question released her shoulders from the vise. What had been a shadow in his thoughts became a live monster, strik­ ing him with the force of a blow. He forgot Marta. Yes, what would de­ feat mean to him? Sheer human na­ ture broke through the bonds of men­ tal discipline weakened by sleepless nights. Convulsively his head dropped as he covered his face. "Defeat! Fall! That I should fail!" he moaned. Then it was that she saw him in the reality of his littleness, which she had divined; this would-be conqueror. She saw him as his intimates often eee the great man without his front of Jove. Don't we know that Napoleon had mo­ ments of privacy when he whined and threatened suicide? She wondered if Lanny, too, were like that--if it were not the nature of all conquerors who could not have their way. It seemed to her that Westerling was beneath the humblest private in his army--be­ neath even that fellow with the liver patch on his cheek who iiad broken the chandelier in the sport of brutal passion. All sense of her own part was submerged in the sight of a chief of stajK exhibiting no more stoicism than a petulant, spoiled schoolboy. While his head was still bent the ar­ tillery began its crashing thunders and the sky became light with fiashee. His hands stretched out toward the range, clenched and pulsing with defiance and command. Go in! Go In, as I told you!" he cried. "Stay in, alive or dead! Stay till I tell you to come out! Stay! 1 can't do any more! You must do it now!" Then this may be truly the end," thought Marta, "if the assault fails." And silently she prayed that it would fail; while the flashes lighted Wester- llng'e set featur%s, Imploring success. the fog, was drowned guns opening fire. In the Browns' headquarters, as in the Grays', telegraph instruments were silent after the preparations were over. Here, also, officers walked restlessly, glancing at their watches. They, too, were glad that the ihist continued. It meant no wind. When the telegraph did speak it was with another message from some aerostatic officer saying, Still favorable," which was taken at once to Lanstron. who was with the staff chiefs around the big table. They nodded at the news and smiled to one another; and some who had been pac­ ing sat down and others rose to begin pacing afresh. We could have emplaced two lines of automatics, one above the other!" exclaimed the chief of artillery. But that would have given too much of a climb for the infantry in going in --delayed the rush," said Lanstron. "If they should stick--if we couldn't drive them back!" exclaimed the vice- chief of staff. I don't think they -will!" said Lan­ stron. To the others he seemed as cool as ever, even when his maimed hand was twitching in his pocket. But now, sud­ denly, his eyes starting as at a horror, he trembled passionately, his head dropping forward, as if he would col­ lapse. 'Oh, the murder of it--the murder!" he breathed. 'but they brought it on! Not for theirs, but for ours!" said the vice- chief of etaff, laying his hand on Lan- stron's shoulder. "And we sit here while they go In!" Lanstron added. "There's a kind of injustice about that which I can't get over. Not one of us here has been under fire!" Even the minute of the attack they knew; and just before midnight they were standing at the window looking out into the night, while the vice-chief held his watch in hand. In the hush the faint sound of a dirigible's propel­ ler high up in the heavens, muffled by the Gray • • « • e Before the mine exploded, by the light of the shell burets breaking their vast prisms from central spheres of flame for miles, with the nuick se­ quence of a- moving-picture flicker, FracaBBe's men could see one another's faces, spectral and stiff and pasty white, with teeth gleaming where jaws had dropped, some eyee half closed by the blinding flashes and some opened wide as if the lids were paralyzed. Faces and faces! A sea of faces stretching away down the slope--faces in a trance. Up over the breastworks, over rocki and splintered timbers. Peter kin and the judge's son and their comrades clambered. When they moved they were as a myriad-legged creature, brain numbed, without any sensation except that of rapids going over a fall. Those in front could not falter, being pushed on by the pressure of those in the rear. .For a few steps they were under' no fire. The scream of their own shells breaking in infernal pande­ monium in front seemed to be a power as irresistible as the rear of the wedge in driving them on. Then sounds more hideous than the flight of projectiles broke about them with the abruptness of lightnings held in the hollow of the Almighty's hand and suddenly released. The Browns' guns had opened lire. Explosions were even swifter in sequence than the fiashee that revealed the stark faces. Dust and stones and flying fragments of flesh filled the air. Men went down in positive paralysis of faculties by the terrific crashes. Sections of the ram were blown to pieces by the burst of a shrapnel shoulder high; other sec- tions were lifted heavenward by s shell burst in the earth. • Peterkin fell with a piece of jagged steel embedded in his brain. He had gone from the quick to the dead so swiftly that he never knew that his charm had failed. The same explosion got Fracasse, Bword in hand, and sm­ other buried him where he lay. The banker's son went a little farther; the barber's son still farther. Men who were alive hardly riealized life, so mixed were life and death. Infernal imagination goes faint; ite wildest similes grow feeble and banal before such a consummation of bell. But the tide keeps on; the torn gaps of the ram are filled by the rushing legs from the rear. Officers urge and lead. Such are the orders; such is the duty prescribed; such is humnn bravery even in these days when life le sweeter to more men in the Joys of mind and body than ever before. Pre­ cision, organization, solidarity In this charge such as the days of the "death- or-glory" boys never knew! Over the bodies of Peterkin and the barber's and the banker's sons, plunging through shell craters, stumbling, stag­ gering, cut by swaths and torn by eddiee of red destruction in their ranks, the tide proceeded, until its hosts were oftener treading on flesh than on soil. And all they knew was to keep on--keep on, bayonet In hand, till they reached the redoubt, and there they were to stay, alive or dead. * » • • • • * "After hell, , more hell, and then itill more hell!" was the way that Stransky expressed his thought when the en­ gineers had taken the place of the 63d of the Browns in the redoubt. TJiey put their mines and connections deep enough not to be disturbed by shell fire. After the survivors In the- van of the Grays' charge, spent of breath, reached their goal and threw them­ selves down, the earth under them, a* the mine exploded, split and heave<* heavenward. But those in the rear, slapped in the face by the concussion, kept on, driven by the pressure of the mass at their backs, and, in turn, plunged forward on their stomache in the seams and furrows of the mine's havoc. The mass thlckeifed as the flood of bodies and legs banked up, in keep­ ing with Westerling's plan to have "bnough to hold." (TO BE coNnmroj • • • • • • • M M H M M + » » » » • • » < [ News Nuggets [ From Illinois TALK ON WESTERN!! Poor Mrs. 8mith. A minister was recounting some of his amusing experiences In marrying people. "There's an old custom," said he, "that the bridegroom shall kiss the bride immediately after the marriage ceremony Is over. It's a good, practical custom, for it serves more handily than anything else that I know of to dissipate the awkward pause that almoet always follows a simple, Informal ceremony. For this reason I keep the custom alive. "One day a man whom I shall call Smith came to the parsonage to be married. Mr. Smith was a pompous, consequential little man. The pros­ pective Mrs. Smith was a fine, win­ some girl. After the ceremony, Mr. Smith, in spite of his pomposity, did not seem to know just what was the next thing to do, so, as is my prac­ tice in such emergencies, I said: 'My dear sir, it Is your privilege to salute the bride.' He turned around and ex­ tending his hand formally, said: 'Mrs. Smith. I congratulate you.'" Westerling threw up his head, frown-1 ing of his hold in no personal sense ing down the objection. { but as a part of his self-revelation. "All "Suppose they amount to half the j--all is at stake there!" he continued, forces that we send in!" he exclaimed, i staring toward the range. "It's the Mineral Products of Texas. Texas does not hold first place as the producer of any mineral substance, but ranks second in the production of asphalt and third in the production of quicksilver. Since the sensational strike at Beaumont in 1901 petroleum has had first place ill tha mineral products of the state, and Texas now ranks fourth among all the states In the quantity of petroleum produced, and seventh with respect to the value of the produet. Another Quess. "One good, I hope, will come from this terrible European cataclysm," said F. E. 8paulding, treasurer of the American School Peace league. "War will be taken out of the handB of the autocrats and put into the hands of the people--the people, who,.anyway, are the ones who really have to do the fighting. "These heaven-born autocrats may really desire peace, but they go about maintaining it in such a War­ like way. Take, for example, the kaiser's peace telegrams to the czar. Why, they remind me of Shronk. "Shronk stopped his motor car at a desolate Cross-roads and yelled to a farmer who lay on a cart of fertiliser: " 'Hey, Cornsilk, is this the way to Croydon?' "The farmer raised himself from the fertilizer in astonishment. " 'By heck, stranger, how did you know my name was Cornsilk?* he asked. " 'I guessed it,' said the motorist '"Then, by heck,' said the farmer, as he drove off, 'guess your way te Croydon.' "•--Minneapolis Journal. "Isn't the position, which means the pass and the range, worth It?" "Yes, if we both take and hold It; not if we fail," replied Turcaa, quite unaffected hy WesterUnjc's m&nnar. Rubicon! I have put my career on to­ night's cast! Victory means that the world will be at our feet--honor, po­ sition, power greater than that of any * other two ^umao beings! Do you White He Waited. "Pardon, sir. Were you waiting tor anybody?" "I am waiting for some goulash that Ferdinand was to bring me" , "Ferdinand has been called to the colors a long time since." v "Then he should have notified me, the rascal." "More respect, please. Ferdinand has won steady promotion and is general now." Her Husband's Voice. Mrs. Goodoldsoul was waiting ten for her husband, who was expected home from the city every minute. Suddenly out in the street a coster» monger's donkey brayed. The d« old lady, who was n little deaf, beamed. "Run and put the kettle on. Jane,1 she cried, "The master is coming down the street. Td know his hearty laugh anywhere." Barber's Story Reoerd. During a Portland (Me.) barber's 60 years in business he has had one workman who has served for 40 years. This workman has kept a record of the number of times the, employes tells his stories. One story which b* thinks his best one he haB told 2,7V a [ times, and says it gets frattar e^M? he tells It. Aledo.--Aledo Masons burned a; mortgage of $6,000 Which was out­ standing against the Masonic temple erected in 1901. Champaign.--The national organiza­ tions of Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Greek- letter college societies, have voted to bar ilquor at all banquets. Danville.--Committees of the local bar association are preparing to enter­ tain the District Bar association Feb­ ruary 4 and 5. At that time a perma­ nent organization will be perfected. Springfield.--Three deputy state fire marshals were appointed by State Fire Marshal Walter E. Bennett. They are: Robert Harper, Edward Holland and Thomas Fk. Ryan. Champaign.--Scott Stone, accused of slaying MB wife and four children, recovered from what was thought to be a dangerous illness. A grand Jury wilii hear his case this week. Jacksonville.--Sixty head of cattle belonging to J. M. Starr of this city, comprising one of the finest dairy herds in Morgan county, has been con­ demned and ordered to ba slaughtered. Aurora.--A bob cat, more than four feet long and' a stranger to this local­ ity, is on exhibit in a store window. The animal was shot by Henry Deking, farmer, when he found it prowling around his henroost. Peoria.^--Harvesting of the ice crop for 19 IS has been practically com­ pleted here. Nearly forty thousand tons of river ice of the finest quality has been put up by the various houses along the river. Springfield.--Ralph V. Dlckerman, former assistant in the Springfield post office and member of a prominent fam­ ily, pleaded guilty in the United States court to a charge of rifling the mails and was sentenced to 18 months in Fort Leavenworth penitentiary. , Bloomington.--Due to dilatoriness of Illinois chapters of Daughters of Amer* lean Revolution in submitting designs for proposed Illinois state flag, Mrs. G. A. Lawrence, who has thiB proposition in charge, has extended time to Janu­ ary 22. Accepted design will be sub­ mitted to legislature for approval. Reorganization of Illinois State Christian Misslbn society with ap­ pointment fo Rev. John R. Golden, late pastor at Gibson City, as secretary was announced. He will have charge of home mission expenditures for Chris- tion churches in Illinois, succeeding Rev. W. A. DeWeese, who resumes ministry. Centralia. -- The Southern Illinois Veterinary, Medical and Surgical asso­ ciation convened in Centralia for its fourteenth annual meeting. The fol­ lowing officers were elected: Presi­ dent, L. A. Stout of Cobden; vice-pres­ ident, T, M. Treece of Herrin; second vice-president, C. T. Sanders of Wal nut Hill; secretary-treasurer, Frank Hockman of Ipla. Lewistown.--T. Davidson, seventy- eight, died at his home here from uraemic poison. For forty-nine years he had been publisher of the Fulton County Democrat and was one of the oldest active newspaper men in the military tract. Mr. Davidson was born at Petersburg, 111., but for more than seventy-five years has been a resident of Fulton county. Champaign. -- President Edmund James of University of Illinois an­ nounced that he has provided a fupd of five thousand dollars to be known as the Margaret Lange James Student loan fund, in memory of his wife, who died November 13. It was a wish of MrB. James that such a fund, for the aid of women students be created and that character and physical vigor as well as the actual financial need of the applicant be considered when requests are made. The fund Is different from any previous ones in this respect. Zion City.--When the barrel in Over­ seer Voliva's tabernacle was filled with money, the successor of Alexan­ der Dowie announced that he would at once Bend out. missionaries to seven cities to establish the fifth universal empire. The empire will take its place as soop as the allies end the rule of the sultan, Voliva said. The cities to which missionaries are to go, two by two, visiting every house and casting out drugs and devils, are: Kansas City, Mo.; Kansas City, Kan.; New Or­ leans, Birmingham, Ala., Houston. Tex., Philadelphia and Washington. Medora.--Mr. and Mrs. John A. Payne, pioneers of this town, cele­ brated their fiftieth wedding anniver­ sary. Payne is seventy-three years old and Mrs. Payne seventy. Before her marriage Mrs. Payne was Amanda M. Rice, daughter of the late Judge Thomas B. Rice, founler of Medora. She has lived here since her birth. Payne established the first hardware store here in 1870, and retired 20 years ago. The couple have four grown children. Mrs. S. E. Sanders of Kemper. Mrs. Robert Rives of .East' St. Louis, Charles Payr.e of Rood- house and Harry T. Payne of Aber^ deen, Miss. Springfield.--On a charge of having in his possession goods stolen from cars in interstate shipment, Louis Shaw of Litchiield was indicted by the federal grand jury. Pontlac.--F. M. Veech, alias P. Park­ er, giving his residence as Decatur, and later as Springfield, was arrested here and held to the grand Jury on charge of operating a confidence game after organizing a nest of Owls and collecting the funds. Harrlsburg.--Afti r finishing his day's work at the first job he had had in several months Desire Lets dropped dead in O'Gara mine No. 1. Alton.--Several years ago Peter Gross of Gillespie was offered 28 acres in Virginia in exchange for a horse. As he prized the horse and had not seen the land. Gross entered the trade reluctantly. While viaiting friends here he announced that coal had been discovered on his Virginia land, and that he had sold the mining rights for $400,000. ChaniDEign.--Official announcement was made thai the post office would resume delivery of mail in Champaign, which had been cut off since January 1. Only Roused properly numbered will be served. . v# You Don't Have to Canaiia---The S»mpl* Ja ̂ •V-. Js EnouQfc • * ; Lie About-: * •f . The natural resources of the coun- ;', 'M try are so vast that they cannot bejfff,, told in mere figures Man can onlyr /^ .. , tell of what tiny portions have done.| He can only say, "I am more pros-i?' perous than I ever expected to be." j;, * I And yet If a farmer expects to suc-% i >1 v ceed on land that he has been forced|£ "v; to pay $50 to $100 an acre for he oughtV*. ff,J to feel assured of attaining prosperity / ^" ,; when he finds the richest prairie at his disposal absolutely free. If he . S has a little capital, let him invest it,-,-^ ]^,y all In live stock and farm implements"^,* - ^ ---he will find himself ten years ahead ̂ of the game. Some day such a chance ' wil! not be found anywhere on tbe face of the globe. But now the Game opportunities await you as awaited the pioneer and aot one hundredth. part of the difficulties he encountered and overcame. Success in Canada is made up of two things, natural re­ sources and human labor. Canada has the one and you the other. A postal card stands between you and the Canadian government agent. If you don't hold these two forces and . enjoy the fruits of the result it is,your own fault Debt and Canada Will Not Hitched. You want a cozy home, a free life* and sufficient Income. You want edu­ cation for your children, and some pleasure for your wife. You want in­ dependence. Your burden has been heavy, and your farm hasn't paid. You work hard and are discouraged. You require a change. There is a goal within sight, v, aere your children will have advantages. You can get a home In Western Canada, freedom, where your ambitions can be fulfilled. If the Prairie Provinces of Canada are full of Successful Farmers why should you prove the exception? Haven't you got brains, experience, courage? Then prove what these are capable of when put on trial. It is encouraging to know that there is one country in the, world where poverty is no barrier to wealth; own your own car; own your­ self; be somebody. For facts write to any Canadian government agent. Advertisement. The Oldest Playwright. Bertha Mann furnished the surprise of the afternoon recently, says the De­ cember Green Book, when she tried a highly emotional role in a play . called "The Worth of a Man," at a New York playhouse. A number of btidding playwrights were presented, and she was besieged by them to play the leading part in several playB they had written. One became insistent, and partly to satisfy her, Miss Mann agreed to read the play. It proved to be a theme as old as Adam, and after the second act Miss Mann aban­ doned the task of further reading. >"You say you created this charac­ ter?" Miss Mann inquired. "The character and the play are both original with me," was the ready response. "And yet," Miss Mann added ru- minatively, "you don't look two thou­ sand years old!" SALTS IF BACKACHY OR KIDNEYS TROUBLE YOU Est Less Meat If Your Kidneys Arent Acting Right or If Back Hurts or Bladder'Bothers You. When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eat­ ing too much meat, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they be^ come sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you muBt relieve them like you relieve your bowels; removing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges, Th^ urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels oftr en get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during , the night. Either consult a good, reliable physi­ cian at once or get from your pharmnr cist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass ot water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act flna This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com­ bined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no longer irxV tates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is Inexpensive, cannot Injure and makes a delightful, effe^ vescent lithia-water drink--Adv. On the Face, Too. Mrs. Gotham--This paper says that 76 per cent of the work of manufae* ^ turing rifle ammunition for . the Uni|» ^ ' ̂ ed States army and navy is done by < women. Mr. Gothsm--Of course; wherever von smell powder, look for a LOOK YOUR BEST An to Yeur Heir and Skin, Cvtloii* Will Help You. Trial Free. The Soap to cleanae and purity, th*' Ointment to soothe and heal. Thee* fragrant super-creamy emollients pre­ serve the natural purity aiid beauty of the skin under conditions which, if neglected, tend to produce a stale of irritation and disfigurement. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Xf» Boston* Sold every where.--A|* ̂ 1 fj' The Ciu School. "He's an advertising writer of. old school." ^ "Yon mean a Unr?"--Jvdo* : :n Jii