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, f y.i; ; * * »'-* >i£ *t*V _d- * A, *.J,VJ^" * *• ^ ^ M'HENRY PL AINDE A LER, M'HENRY, ELL." 1&s&* UNVEIL TABLET IH HE CAPITAL CITY -«• UNITED STATES DAUGHTERS OF 1#1? IN CHARGE OF THE -- • - CEREMONIES. " -'" WAR HEROES ARE HONORED Address** Arc Delivered by Gov. Ed­ ward F. Dunne, President James of the Unlvei-alty, and '"Others. Springfield.--"With the * ceremonies under the auspices of the United States Daughters of 1812, a bas re- " lief tablet, authorized by the Forty- eighth general assembly, and dedicated to the soldiers of the War of 1812, was unveiled in the state library at Spring­ field. The design is the work of Miss Nel­ lie W. Walker of Chicago, great grand­ daughter of David W. Walker, a chap­ lain in the United States army of the War of 1812. Addresses were made by Mrs. Rob­ ert Hall Wiles of Chicago, of the com­ mission appointed by the legislature; Governor Dunne, who accepted the tablet in behalf of the state; President Edmund J. James of the University of Illinois, who is a grandson of Anthony Wayne Casad, a corporal in the War of 1812, and by Mrs. Samuel Williams Werle of Chicago, president of the United States Daughters of 1812. Miss Victoria Bender of this city, a great granddaughter of Dr. Diodorus Hol- combe, a surgeon in the army of the War of 1812, unveiled the tablet, which Is six by four feet in dimensions and bears the figure of an Illinois pioneer wearing a coon skin cap and carrying a flint lock rifle. Others who spoke were Mrs. Qeorge R. Page of Peoria, state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolu­ tion; Mrs. B. R. Blake of Chicago, state president of the Dames of the Loyal Legion; Miss Nellie W. Walker, the sculptress, of Chicago, and Mrs. C. J. Doyle of Springfield, regent of the local chapter of the D. A. R. Ernest Carter of this city blew assembly on the bugle and Rev. George T. Gun- ter, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of this city, offered the invo­ cation. Mrs. George Sorgatz of this city sang '.'The Star-Spangled Banner." Attention of the guests was called by Mrs. Wiles to a silk banner, em­ broidered by the ladies of New Or­ leans, and captured during the Civil wfcir by a troop of Illinois cavalry from a Southern troop, which was dis­ played near the bas relief tablet The banner WEB said to have been made during the War of 1812 and presented to Andrew Jackson and his command before the battle of New Orleans. ft£rs. Wiles said the banner had been hang­ ing in the museum of the state for fifty years. Mrs. Wiles, who represented the other two women on the legislative committee; Mrs. Francis W. Walker of Chicago and Mrs. Robert W. Col- ville of this city declared that no com­ memoration of the valiant service of the soldiers of the War of 1812 had ever been made by the state and that the recognition being given was both fitting and imperative. "The state of Illinois has waited one hundred years to honor the vmen who gave up their lives to save their homes and their nation," Mrs. Wiles said. "It is eminently fitting that we come here this afternoon to pause a moment for a look upon the early and hallowed history of this state and to discover the inestimable service ren­ dered us by our forebears." Governor Dunne accepted the tablet In the name of the state and said it had given him pleasure to sign a bill making appropriation for the expense of such a design as was being un­ veiled. The address by President James of Urbana touched on the historical sig­ nificance of past wars in which the United States has been engaged and advocated preparedness for any exl gency. He stated that his study had convinced him that neither great pre­ paredness nor great unpreparedness were to be desired, but that a golden mean offered the safest national con­ dition. "The United States has never been prepared for war when the time for war has come," declared President James, "and we have suffered as a nation because of it. Any country which has wealth and makes no effort to fortify itself against the aggression of an enemy is courting war and is contributing to the encouragement of war." Dr. James said he believed a time of world empire would come, but that this time was relegated to distant fu­ ture when race amalgamation Is re­ alized, and when all men, springing from the original Adam, will agaii^be merged into a single great family. Articles of Incorporation. - The following corporations were li­ censed by Secretary of State Steven- aon: The Lansing Commercial club, Lan­ sing; to advance commercial, indus­ trial and public interests of village of Lansing. Incorporators--Alfred Van Steenberg, Henry F. W. Schultz, Will­ iam Winterhoff, Frederick Vierk, Jr., and others. Western Wet Wash Laundries, Chi­ cago; Maynard, Leslie T. Lewis. Thos O. Gibbs. Stauder Engraving company, Chi­ cago; capital, $18,000. Incorporators-- ' iFrank Stauder, Andrew Stauder and Prank Stauder, Jr. The Bert P. Snell company, Chi­ cago; capital, f20,000. Incorporators-- Clinton C. Collins, Joseph M^n^i and Otto C. Bruhlman. Colonial Cordage company, Chi­ cago; capital, $1,000. Incorporators-- William R. T. Ewen, Jr., Raymond 8. Prultt and A. C. Palmer. The Goodman Rag and Metal com­ pany, Chicago; capital, $1,000. Incor­ porators--Abram Z. Zietlein, Robert Edelson and Samuel Soitser. | Way Ask Stats to Advance Rates. Illinois railroads are considering an attack on the two-cent-a-mile inter­ state passenger rate which has been in effect in the state by legislative enactment since 1907. An effort 'will be made to raise the legal rate to a two and a half-cent basis correspond­ ing to the rate on interstate traffic eastward. Stat* Building Is Favorsd. The forty-ninth general assembly will be asked to appropriate approxi­ mately $500,000 to acquire a site ad- Joining the capitol and to begin the construction of a new state building to be known as the Centennial Memo­ rial building. The. dedication of the building, ac­ cording to present plans, will be a prominent feature of the 1918 centen­ nial celebration. • These plans were made by the state education building commission, the Illinois centennial commission and the state art commis­ sion. A subcommittee consisting of State Secretary Stevenson, Logan Hay of Springfield and Prof. EL B. Greene of the University of Illinois in to report February 13 on the probable cost of the land under consideration and also on how much Springfield residents will contribute toward the. cost. The recommendations made to Gov­ ernor Dunne by the state art commis­ sion for the acquisition of three square blocks of ground south of the state- house grounds were approved. No ac­ tion was taken toward a new state building in Chicago as the education building commission is limited to an investigation of the Springfield situa­ tion. A bill probably will be introduced in the legislature providing for a state building in Chicago to save the $72,000 a year rentals now paid there for state department quarters. Members of the Joint commission estimated that by in­ creasing the state tax rate one cent on |100 of equalized assessed valuation of property, the cost of a new $1,000.- j 000" state building here could be met without any appreciable burden upon the taxpayers. Governor Dunne declined to com­ ment upon the committee's recom­ mendations. It is hia desire to hold down the total appropriations of the present session to the lowest possible total. Halt Killing of 8tate Herds. Illinois' activity in the killing of live stock which has been exposed to, or supposed to have been exposed to, the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease, is temporarily halted. This was de­ termined at a conference between Gov­ ernor Dunne, State Veterinarian O. E. Dyson, a number of visiting veterin­ arians and several members of the legislature. The situation came to a crisis when injunction proceedings were filed •gainst the state veterinarian and others instrumental in bringing about the order, restraining them from di­ recting the slaughter of a herd of 42 cattle at the state girls' school at Geneva. The slaughter of the ani­ mals, which have been exposed, was to have taken place with federal rep­ resentatives doing the killing. Just what action the state officially will determine upon has not been hinted. For the present, however, it was stated there will be no more kill­ ing, at least until authority in the matter is fully determined ahd until a better understanding, if possible, can be had of the foot-and-mouth dis­ ease. . Up to this time something over a million dollars' worth of live stock bas been killed in Illinois. For this t&e state must pay half the expenses. The government foots the other half Of the bill. Already there has been introduced in the senate a bill ap­ propriating a million dollars to cover the state's share of the oxpense. "It may be we can find some method of preventing the spread which wHl serve the state better than killing anl malB," said State Veterinarian Dyson. "We know the dangers t>f the disease and until now we have acted In what we believed the best interests of the state and its live stock industry." At the morning session of the con ference on the foot-and-mouth dis­ ease Governor Dunne displayed a dis­ position to back up unreservedly all that Illinois state authorities have done thus far in their efforts to eradi­ cate the foot-and-mouth disease. Dr. Dyson was commended for the part he has played in the situation, as well as members of the state live stock commission, who have closely co-oper ated. Governor Dunne last evening issued a proclamation placing under quaran­ tine the counties of Kane, Caiyoll and Whiteside, in which an injunction has been brought to bear against state authorities restraining them from kill­ ing cattle which have been exposed to the foot-and-mouth disease. The gov­ ernor ip his proclamation refers to the stopping of the efforts of the state authorities in their endeavors to stamp out the disease, and designated the Quarantine as a necessary stepi. URGES U. S. LICENSE UNTERMYER THINKS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD CON­ TROL HUGE FOUNDATIONS. POWERS SHOULD BE LIMITED Federal Commission on Industrial Re­ lations Starts investigation of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Sage and De Mlrsch Foundations. New York, Jan. 20.--Federal in cor poration for the Rockefeller founda­ tion and for other foundations en­ dowed to help humanity was advocated here on Monday by Samuel Untermyer, famous corporation lawyer, before tin federal commission on industrial re lations. This commission, the chair man of which is Frank P. Walsh ol Missouri, has begun an investigation of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Russell Sage and Baron <$e Hirsch foundations to determine whether or not they should be regulated by the United States government, and Mr. Untermy er was the first witness. The power and importance of these foundations can be gathered from the fact that they control about $300,000, 000. Otfter recommendations by Mr. Untermyer were: 1. That the charters given to the foundations by the United States gov ernment should belimited. 2. That the size of the foundations should be limited. 3. That the foundations should not be allowed to accumulate their In come. Mr. Untermyer said that the foundations were doing much good and no harm, but that they "gave a fair example of the evils of the vice of state legislation." He declared that the foundations were not satisfactory wholly because they were % operating under state charters. The govern­ ment, he believed, should have sound control over them and should have a hand in the selection of trustees to administer them. The labor unions, Untermyer said, can never relieve' labor conditions. "What we need," he asserted, "is governmental regulation." The witness then went into a dis­ cussion of life insurance companies Untermyer urged, as remedies for present industrial conditions, insur­ ance against sickness and invalidity, insurance against unemployment, old age pension, life and accident insur­ ance and maternity benefits. In reply to questions, Mr. Unter­ myer said that he believed practically all the railroads in the United States were controlled by one or the other of the groups of banking houses. Roger W. Babson, statistician, was called at the afternoon session. He said he believed the principal menace to capital and labor was absentee ownership. "It has been my experience that there seldom is labor trouble in plant when the owner resides is the same town," he said. He thought that the annual meetings of big companies should be held at the mills and there should be labor representatives of the boards. TURKS DEFEATED BY RUSS NEWS OF THE STATE Salem.--Capt. J. F. Donovan, com­ mander of the Marion County Soldiers and Sailors' Reunion association, died at his home at Kinmundy. He had been postmaster at Kinmundy under the Republican administration for the last 12 years. Clinton.--John Packard, aged eighty years, fell down the stairs of the Cack- ley building and suffered a broken neck, killing him Instantly. Pana.--Harold Hlgglnbotliain and Elmer Funderburk, members of promi­ nent Christian county families, have been sentenced for robbing the post oQlce at Ciarksdale. Higglnbotham was given a two-year term in Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, and Funder­ burk an indeterminate term in the state reformatory at Pontine. Morris.--Game Warden E. H. Wer­ ner and his assistant are busy looking fo* game law violations in Grundj county.- Farmers rw.Wasted i mwfc be wdnstoi Petrograd Claims Enemy Was Routed at Battle of Karaurgan--Adri- anople Evacuated. Petrograd, Jan. 20.--The batt\le of Karaurgan has ended in a complete victory for the Russians and remnants of the defeated Turkish army are in full flight to Erzerum, it was officially announced here. The fleeing Ottoman soldiers are being pursued by the Rus­ sians. The Tu^rks are abandoning guns, ammunition and food supplies. The official report from the .Russian general staff states that the defeat of the Turks is the "greatest victory won in the Caucasus." The battle for the main position at Karaurgan lasted for three days. The Russian victory waB won in a driving snowstorm. In a dispatch to Reuter's Telegram company in London from Athens the statement is made that Adrianople, af­ ter Constantinople the most important city in European Turkey, has been abandoned by the Turkish garrison. Russians, while purusing defeated Turks, found 9,000 frozen to death. ILLINOIS LIQUOR FOE DEAD Charles S. Tate, Once Gambler, Then Missionary, Passes Away at Rockford. Rockford, 111., Jan. 20.--Charles S. Tate, founder of the Knights of Daniel, a fraternity for boys, died here on Mon­ day at the age of fifty years. Mr. Tate, who was formerly a saloonkeeper and gambler, became a mission work­ er in citieB of the middle West and was active in local option campaigns in Illinois. "Orys" Lose Another Fight. Washington, Jan. 20.--The right to Include prohibition as a rider in the District of Columbia appropriation bill ended when the senate refused to adopt Sheppard's motion to suspend rules and include the amendment. Storm Wrecks British Stumer, Cromer, England, Jan. 20.--The steamer George Royle of Sunderland was wrecked 'near North Sherringham in a terrific storm. Several bodied have been washed ashore. A report from Sherringham says 17 are dead. Long Respite for Frank. Washington, Jan. 20.--Habeas cor­ pus appeal of Leo M. Frank, convict­ ed murderer of Mary Ph&gen in Atlan­ ta, Ga., was docketed in the Supreme court. In usual course of business it would not be reached until 1916. Cutters Save Lives and Ships. Washington, Jan. 20.--Four hundred and seventy-six persons were saved from the sea and 210 ships with car­ goes valued at $9,053,551 were aided hy U. S. revenue cutters during the fiscal year ended June SO, 1914. NEWS OF ILLINOIS Galesburg.--By repeating 1,0.86 Bible •erses from memory, Helen Lynn, ten years old, won first prize in the annual church contest here. Danville.--On account' of the high price of wheat and the prospective rise In flour, the Master Bakers' asso­ ciation of Danville has ralBed the price of loaves from five to six cent?. Champaign.--W. M. Lewis, field sec­ retary of the Navy league, and Com­ mander Moffett of the United States navy addressed the University of Illi­ nois students. President James pre­ sided. Danville.--Everett Bailey, brother of State Senator - Martin B. Bailey, died at the county farm near here. Mr. Bailey was formerly consul to Mexico, stationed at Escanada, and was also the constructor of the Te- huantepec railway. Quincy.«--The annual report of the Quincy post office shows that receipts for last year were $186,957.54; oper­ ating expenses, exclusive cf railway mail service, $82,923.74. Receipts in 1913 were $183,485.97 and operating ^xpenses, exclusive of railway mail service, $80,055.21. Harrisburg.--Saline County Coal company mine No. 8 broke the county record for hoisting coal here. In eight hours 81 railroad cars were loaded. * total of 3,388 tons. There is not a mule employed in the work, electric motors being used to haul the pit cars, which have a capacity of four tons. This mine operates the year round. 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. Jacksonville.--Mrs. Cora Hull Be- craft committed suicide by jumping in front of a C., P. & St L. passenger train near the car shops. Mrs. Be- fcraft attempted suicide last Sunday when she jumped into a cistern, but the water was so cold she called for help, and was rescued. The woman Is reported to have been mentally un­ balanced. Alton.--Fred Tracy and Jack Em­ ery, arrested for robbing the Bee Hive saloon and locking Bartender Joseph Stout in the ice box, escaped jail with a grain door lrdn. They bent up the bottom of the cell doors and broke the main bolt In the lock of the outer door after robbing the saloon of one dollar. They ordered customers com­ ing In the saloon to hold up their hands until they escaped. Chrisman.--With three women and a minister serving as jurors, the jury returned a verdict of guilty against Guy Nlghtlinger, charged with boot­ legging, at Newman. The jury had been out all night. Mrs. Green, one of the two women jurors, when asked whether she would give an impartial hearing, stated: "I can give him a fair trial. I prayed for him this morning." Nlghtlinger waB fined $150 for selling liquor in an old elevator during the Newman horse show in September. Jacksonville.--As a result of the re­ porting to the county physician of eight cases of smallpox in Waveriy, 18 miles south of here, Superintendent Gillett of the Illinois State School for the Deaf has issued orders that pu­ pils must be vaccinated. The superin­ tendent, in issuing the order, told the children that this action was made necessary by the nearness of the dis­ ease to Jacksonville and vicinity. The work of vaccinating the children will be begun at once. fihelbyville. -- Edward B. Sanner, wfealthy land owner of Penn township, this county, gave each of his children a warranty deed to a tract of land, ranging from eighty to one hundred and sixty acres. The land is w<>rtb $150 an acre. One thousand and nine­ ty acres were Included in the deeds, the total valuation being $16,500. The nucleus of Sanner's real estate hold­ ings in the northern part of the county was a half section of swamp land giv­ en him by his father, the late Samuel Sanner, In 1866 as a reward for look­ ing after the farm while his brothers were in the aru»y. Frankfort.--Miss Esther Bruggerman, telephone operator here, who fought an hour and a half with a man in the office at night far her life and honor, was induced to tell of her thrilling experience. Earfr in the battle the girl threw open the key to the Joliet office, 12 miles away, to call for aid. She never got the call, but the girls in the Joliet exchange listened to the whole , battle, punctuated by the girl's screams, the man's curses and the crash of furniture. "I will not appear against the man," said Miss Brugger­ man. "He is a* conductor on an inter- urban train which passes my window on the Joliet & Chicago Heights line. He often waved at me, and I smiled at him just once. I am sorry now." Galesburg.--U. P. Aiken, night jan­ itor of the Union hotel, aged sixty-five, was brutally murdered when someone crushed In his Bkull with a blunt in- trument or an ax. Robbery was prob­ ably the motive, as Aiken's watch and money were gone. The murder oc­ curred In a room near the furnace, and Aiken's body was in bed when found. Peoria.--Adopting a neutral policy In the present European war, the big Keystone Steel and Wire company turned down a contract calling for thousands of dollars' worth of steel aeroplane arrows such as are used by the French government Galesburg.--Clarence Lass, the crip­ pled son of John Lass, former superin­ tendent nt the Galesburg division of the C.. B. & Q., fell while trying to get on a street car, and received fatal Injuries. Y oung L&55 kne n'u to every one of the older employees of the Burlington system, he often tak­ ing trips with them on their runs. Alton.--William Canter, seventeen years old, while hunting, grasped his gun by the muzzle and struck at a rab­ bit The Jar of the stock striking the ground discharged the gun and the charge of shot struck him on the in­ side of the leg. READY FOR STERN WAR WEST INDIAN I8LAND8 ARM DEADLY STRIFE. FOR Take the Prospect of Bslng Involved to ths Europsan Conflict Vary Ssriously--Forces Liks Thoss ' of Comic Opera. • cargo of war tales hss arrived from the West Indies. Every native there sleeps with his gun under his pillow. Little specks of island that no one ever heard of north of the tropic of Cancer are throwing up towering earth­ works and barefooted natives, yester­ day's nobodies, are today generals; roustabouts are soldiers; every town has a guard; every island distrusts every other island. Ten thousand rusty flintlock muskets rule the land, and from the sea come tales of strange men-of-war threading in and out among the islands, always seeking and never finding one another. "Every native on the Island of St Lucia Is happy these days, for he 'totes' a gun, rides on a bicycle and marches behind a btass band, and the government pays for it all," says the purser of a West Indian steamer re­ cent^ docked in New York. "Some of the strangest looking bi­ cycles I ever saw have been com' mandeered by the authorities. Some of them are the old high-wheel affairs that our daddies rode; some of them have no tires; most of them are red with rust and all of them squeak, heard the troops coming two blocks away. The arms they carry are in ths same class. "At Barbadoes, every negro and Chi­ naman on the island has joined the army. They have what they call a 'life guard,' to protect the place. What they are afraid of I don't know, but I heard that they have been told the kaiser was planning to send his fleet over to capture the possession. "That was enough for those hatlves. They threw up a line of breastworks and they fire a cannon every time a ship 1b sighted. They have burnt up a lot of powder that way, I understand. Whenever that old cannon cuts loose the army come lickety-split for the shore. They line up behind the breast­ works with their muzzle-loaders and their derringers and you've got to show them that you don't mean any monkey business. "At Dominica, near St. Thomas, the natives have built a little fort just to fight the German navy when it does come over. There are not enough white men in Dominica to hold a meeting and not many more colored. In the center of their fort they have planted a tall flag pole. Every morning at daylight a man pulls himself up to the top of that flag pole and feticks there, looking out to sea. He is look­ ing for the German navy. Two hours later he comes down and another man takes his place. This has been kept up every day for weeks, from dawQ till darkness. "English, French and German war» ships chase each other around the is­ land, and it's no wonder the natives are fidgety. At St. Lucia there were 19 ships tied up, all afraid to stir out­ side the harbor." History of ths War. "When the history of this war comes to be written," is a constantly recurring journalistic phrase, as if the story of this great conflict could ever be written. You may be fairly certain that no one under the rank of an archangel, in close touch with omnis­ cience, will ever write the full his­ tory of the world war. Down below there Isn't the knowledge, and there isn't the time. There will come sec­ tional accounts. But if in the fullness of time a world syndicate succeeds in getting some million tons of print within covers, the public will (one hopes) be thinking of something else. Yet the literature of the war as a personal drama is the domain of the private soldier, and the best letters from the front have been written by the private soldier. On that side of the literature of war the editor of the Book Monthly has his eye. He is a specialist on the "Epistles of Atkins," and already he has been gloating and gleaning with some thousands of sol­ diers' letteni before hiui.--LonduU Chronicle. MUSIC PAINFUL TO BISMARCK "Melodies Cling Is Me," 8sld ths Chsncellor, "and I Find It Diffi­ cult to RslsaaS Myself." Talking of the arts, Bismarck aald: "Of music I am very fond, but now 1 have to abstain from hearing it be­ cause tears come only too readily into my eyes. My heart is stronger than my head. Indeed, what self-control I have has been bought by experience." Many instances occurred during our conversations which gave the truth to this assertion. The extreme mobility of his coun­ tenance and the various shades of ex* presslon which passed over it told of a sensitive, emotional temperament "But I have a flre within me still which burns at times with fury." Upon that I asked: "Are you in reality the Iron Chancellor?" "No," he said, "not natur­ ally; the iron I have created to use when necessary " A«d that I believed to be true. I asked him if he knew Wagner per­ sonally. "Yes," he answered; "but it was quite impossible for me to care for him or to .encourage his society. I had not time to submit to his insatiable vanity. Before breakfast, at breakfaaj, before and after dinner, Wagner de­ manded sympathy and admiration. His egotism was wearisome and intoler­ able, and his demand for a listener was so incessant that I was. obliged to avoid his company. I was too busy with my affairs to be able to give him all or even a portion of the demands he would have claimed upon my time But I admire his music greatly, though I have been compelled to give up go­ ing to the opera, because the beautiful and touching melodies I cannot get Out of my head; they cling to me, and I find it difficult to release myself from them, and now it tires me to be so much moved."--From "Conversations With Prince Bismarck," by W. B. Richmond, the English Painter, in the North American Review. Splendid Memory. Recently Philip O'Day, a coal deal­ er of Brooklyn, died and it was found that for nearly twenty years he had kept complete tally of his business in his head. He had not the slightest knowledge of arithmetic, as taught, but according to his own methods was able to remember who owed him and whom he owed, dojra to a cent His sons associated with him in the business kept a private account book, but they never dared let their father know about it. Just before his death the coal merchant told them the names of all debtors and the amounts due. Even in his dying moments he spoke with scorn of the need his sons found for using pencil and paper to take down what he told them. After their father had passed away the sons found his memory was even better than their account book, for they had neglected putting down certain sums the old merchant,-had reported to them. M' Sanitation In Country Schools. Insanitary rural schools result in physical defects which cause needless suffering and hardship in later life, says the United States public health service, in a bulletin recently Issued. "The necessity of extending to rural schools the same sanitary advantages now enjoyed by urban schools is ob­ vious," declare the investigators. "This neglect of Sanitary precautions ob­ served in rural communities is un­ doubtedly due to lack of sanitary knowledge. Instructing the people In the value of sanitation will naturally serve to make them adopt measures such as are now in force in cities for the proper construction and main­ tenance of school buildings and the regular medical inspection of BChool children. School hygiene has a great economic value, in that it serves to prevent the spread ^.of disease and makes the children now in the schools healthier members of the community and the country at large." MOTHER! LOOK AT If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs" A laxative today saves a sick child) tomorrow. Children simply will notlj take the time from play to empty their* bowels, which become clogged up witht waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If coat­ ed, or your child Is listless, cross, fev­ erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment give a tea spoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," then don't worry, because It Is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours; all this constipation poison, sour bile, and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thor­ ough "inside cleansing" is ofttlmes all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given in any sickness. * Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. A&k at the store for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv. Cutting Down the Laughing 8tuff. Yeast--I see a new step-ladder that has six legs and cannot be upset, and clamps to prevent a cow kicking or switching her tail while being milked, have been patented. Crimsonbeak -- If they keep on there'll be nothing left for a fellow to laugh St NO MORE GRAY HAIRS * Restore Youthful Color. No One Will Know You're Using Anything. Physicians advise against harmf ulhair stains and dyes. But vhy use them when yon can bring back the natural, youthful color with Hay'a Hair Health? This is accomplished by the action of air, due to an element con- tained in this famous preparation. Absolutely harmless; so positive in results that druggists will refund money if it fails. Keeps new gray hai rs from showing. Routs dandruff; tenet •calp; makes tli e hair strong, vigorous and beau tlfui. !8c, 60c and $1.00 at drug stores or direct on receipt of price and dealer's name. Philo Hay Specialties Co., Newark, N. J. Adv. The New. York Standard. "New York is mighty hard on clothes. Of course I'm a good deal of a stranger, and I haven't many Invi­ tations, and so don't need so large a wardrobe as I did In Dallas, but still I have to dress better than I did there. The standard is higher. There never is a time when you can just put on any old thing. In New York people dress up to go to market, or to early church. When John takes me to the theater I've got to look nice, or I couldn't enjoy the play. If I walk down the avenue in a suit that isn't Just right, I am self-conscious and pessimistic. I see nothing but the reflection of my 'tacky' self In the big windows. I simply must dress well, if it takes all my time. Isn't the war news awful? I've read only the head­ lines, but won't It be funny if next year we have to get our fashions from Berlin?"--From the Atlantic. Coroner's Ancient Nuisances. Somebody Invented coroners three centuries before Columbus discov­ ered America. It w%s a job of much distinction and there were no feeB at­ tached, says the Philadelphia Ledger. * But even when Oliver Cromwell was a lad, folks in England began to abuse coroners and .call them grafters, or whatever It was they called folks In that day who got something for noth­ ing. And Blackstone, whose name Is often used as a synonym for common law, declared that coroners were not only an unnecessary nuisance but that they often stood in the way of justice. Several states are now trying to abolish coroners, but progress is slow. If it were aB easy to eradicate an old office as a new one, I fear no coroner would survive the slaughter. When I asked an eminent Judge what cor­ oners are good for, his reply was: v "To draw salaries." 8erved His Country Wsll. Alfred Sully, soldier, was a distin­ guished son of a distinguished sire, born at Philadelphia, January 2, 1821. His father was Thomas Sully, the fa­ mous portrait painter, a pupil of Benja­ min West painter of many of the great men of his day and ranking sec* ond only to Gilbert Stuart The son, however, had ambition for the life military, was graduated from West Point in 1841 and was immediately ap­ pointed a second lieutenant in the Second Infantry. He campaigned against the Seminoles in Florida, was In the Mexican war, and for conaplcu-- , , 4 ^ ous services at the siege of Vera CrasgV*^' was promoted to first lieutenant and captain. At the outbreak of the Civil war he was appointed colonel of the First Minnesota volunteers, was a lit­ tle later given command of a brigade, distinguished himself at Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill, was promoted to briga­ dier general of volunteers and led his< command with conspicuous gallantry at South Chancellorsvllle. After the war he was engaged in Indian cam­ paigns in which there was savage fighting. He was brevetted brigadier general in the regular army and major general of volunteers. 11 1 Memorial Afloat. The Nieuw Amsterdam «-f ths Hoi- M»sd As3vric°n w|n retain a per­ manent memorial of one of her war­ time experiences. There has been unveiled in he main companionway a bronze tablet presented by the pas­ sengers who sailed In her from Rot­ terdam to New York on August 8-17. It is erected "in grateful apprecia­ tion of the successful efforts of both the company and the captain to render safe, comfortable and pleasant a hazardous voyage, when American citizens were compelled to leave Eu­ rope on the outbreak of the war." The design of the tablet includes, of course, the crossed flags of Holland and the United States, and also sprays of laurel symbolizing the: accomplish* ment of the^ captain's purpose, and spray# of oak leaves indicating the sturdy eharacter of ths Dutch. ehester Guardian. *~ 8oldiers of the King. The change which education has made In the British army in the last quarter of a century comes out again in the craving of the King's Liv­ erpool regiment for magazines to read --"always acceptable In the trenches and defenses." The illiterate private of Mr. Kipling's early stories has van­ ished, leaving in his place a man as physically capable and as high-spirit­ ed and also of quieker and better-fur­ nished intelligence, who has tri­ umphantly shown himself to be able tb make a success of the new military training, with its wisely bold policy of evoking the- soldier's capacity for making the best use of himself on the battlefield. The needs are not those of the old Mulvaneys and Lea- royds--if these ever existed--but those of sensitive, highly-civilised men.-- Manchester Guardian. Effective Wster Sterilizers. Two ozone Tfrkter-sterillEing plants at Nice supply 40 and 80 gallons of at> solutely germ-free water per second. The ozone generator Is of copper plates, with glass sheets between, and the air between the plates is decom­ posed by a silent electric discharge ol 70,000 volts. The nitrogenous products being removed by a filter, the ozone la passed into a chamber into which the water tails as rain through gravel-cots sred netting. The 8old!ers Havs Toothacfts. From accounts which have come> from the front, toothache would seem to be one of the hardships of cam­ paigning in the trenches. The secre­ tary of the British Dental association says that a start has been made to provide an efficient staff of dental snr- - geons for' service at the front 8ix dentists, who have been given the temporary rank of lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical corps, have left for France, and further drafts of qual­ ified men are being chosen, if they are not actually on the way, for service near the firing line. They will also h^ve the temporary rank of lieuten­ ant--London Telegraph. Too Severe. " 'Man was made to mourn.*" quoted the philosopher. "That's right," snapped ths misogy­ nist "And woman was put on earth to see that he does it" BAD DREAMS Caused by Coffee. "%'f • •*.» • 'M •' 'xM 3 -'1$ •^4 • yM "I have been a coffee drinker, mors or less, ever since I can remember, un­ til a few months ago I became more and more nervous and irritable, and finally I could not sleep at night for I was horribly disturbed, by dreams of all sorts and a species ot distressing nightmare. "Finally, after hearing the experi­ ence of numbers of friends who had quit coffee and were drinking Postum. and learning of the great benefits they had derived. I concluded coffee must be the cause of my trouble, so I got some Postum and had It made strictly according to directions. "I was astonished at the flavor and taste. It entirely took the place of coffee, and to my very great satisfac­ tion, I began to sleep peacefully and sweetly. My nerves improved, and I wish I could wean every man, woman and child from the unwholesome drug* drink--coffee. »"Feopi« do uoi really •pyTSCiSw 5T realize what a powerful drug it Is and what terrible effect it has on ths hu­ man system. If they did. hardly a pound of coffee would be sold. I would never think of going back to coffee igaiip I would almost as soon think of putting my hand la a fire after 1 had once been burned. Yours I* heslth." Postum comes la two forms: Regui«r Postiim --1 EUSt bQ boiled. 15c and 26c packages. Inatant Postum--is a soluble pow­ der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup oi hot water and. with cream and sugar, makes a delicious fcSYerac* Instantly. 30c and 50c tins. The cost per cup of both Mail It absut the sams> -Ifcare>»&saaoa" for Postum. --fci q«n--k am f-"/ 'i •U.&M.'.'