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•ismm • M'HM'RY" "PL AJNDfe AL'ER;1 Tlx,; % INSURANCE LAWS S f f \ • ' ' .,,i; RECOMMENDATIONS ARK MADE jf»:< £j£UBLIC BY STATE 8UPERIN* TENDENT POTTS. TO GOVERWp,. DUNNE aKu-fSuggests Standard Form of Policy, Prohibitlo.n of Agreement or Com­ bination, and Abolishment of Underwriters' Agendo*. Cuts Pay of Absent Employee#. • Speaker Shanahan saddened the hearts of patronage seekers and pros­ pective members of the "third house" by the announcement that all house payrolls will date from the time the payroller begins work Instead of from the opening of the session. The dec­ laration was a Jolt to mAny of the old timers who have made a practice of coming to Springfield after the assem­ bly was well under way and then re­ ceiving pay from the start. The speaker's rule does not apply, of course, to the few house employees who have been on the Job since the -assembly convened. These employees were assured of their positions, had no competition for the places, and hare given service from the outset Springfield.--Some radical changes in the insurance laws of Illinois are recommended in a report submitted to Gov. Edward F. Dunne by Judge Rufus Potta, state insurance superintendent. Forty recommendations are contained in the statement; ' The report contains an appeal for a state system of fire insurance, and also recommends the creation of a commis­ sion to investigate insurance compa­ nies, with a view of having the state enter the Insurance business. While this work is in progress, it is re­ quested that the state assume con­ trol over fire insurance rates now charged by companies doing business in Illinois. Among the recommenda­ tions made are: A standard form of policy. An insurance limit of 85 per cent of the standard form of policy. Prohibiting any agreement of com­ bination among companies for the es­ tablishment of uniform rates. The abolishment of underwriters' agencies. The fire recommendations made to the governor are as follows: "As a result of my recent investi­ gation of fire insurance conditions and rates in Illinois, I am convinced that the only way to bring effective and permanent relief to the public from oppressive practices existing in the fire insurance business, and extortion­ ate fire insurance rates, and provide ah equitable distribution of the annual fire loss, is a system of state lire in­ surance. '1, therefore, recommend that a Joint legislative - committee be ap­ pointed as early as can conveniently be done during the present session, which committee shall be duly author­ ized and empowered to Investigate and examine into the business of fire in­ surance, and the business and affairs of all fire insurance companies and agencies and organizations thereof, 'doing business in the state of Illi­ nois, and anything affecting or In­ fluencing the business of such com­ panies or organizations. "Also to inquire into the Internal management, doings and acts of all Insurance companies, including all in­ vestments, the personal interest of of­ ficers of such companies or organiza­ tions in such investments: the busi­ ness or other relations between such companies or organizations; the con­ tractual relations of said companies or organizations with their policy holders and others; the salaries, com- • mission and other compensation paid to officials or agents of such compa­ nies or organizations; the cost of fire Insurance, the premium rate; the method of making and applying such rate: the methods of the classification of risks, and accumulation of statistics by said companies and organizations; the expenses of said companies and all their agencies of every kind and character, together with a comparison of the cost and security of fire insur­ ance under the present system, and the probable cost and security of state •fire insurance; and also any o*her questions or phases of the said busi­ ness of fire Insurance, or the opera­ tions of fire insurance companies or organizations that said committee -may deem necessary or proper to be Inquired 'Into. I recommend that said committee shall conclude Buch inves­ tigation as early as the same can be completed, consistent with thorough­ ness and full accomplishment of its purposes, and file Its report with the governor, and a duplicate with the in­ surance superintendents, not later than January 1. 1816, and also file the evidence and exhibits accumulated dur­ ing the same, all of whloh shall be pub­ lic documents. Illinois State Quilding Opened. According to word received from S^n Francisco, Cal., the Illinois state building at the exposition, which is a veritable Lincoln. museum, was dedi­ cated with elaborate ceremonies. The collection of relics and pic- turns of Abraham Lincoln, which is the leading feature of the Illinois building, is truly marvelous. Under glass cases are pictures, documents and lattara showing the chief periods in the life of the Great Emancipator. From his ancestry down through his life in the forest cabin, his work as a surveyor, his marriage and domestic life, his career as a lawyer and de­ bater, to his life at the White House during the trying days of the Civil war, and ending with the assassina­ tion and death in Washington, the vis­ itor is given a close and intimate riew of the man as he was. The state of Illinois has spent a small for­ tune to gather the Lincoln pictures, authoritative details and the relics which are today shown to the public. President Moore met the Illinois commission at the gate and escorted its members to their building. There Adolph Carpen, chairman of the com­ mission, spoke, and a recital was giv­ en on the pipe organ in the building. The poBt of official hostess of Illi­ nois will be filled during the exposi­ tion by the wives of the commission­ ers in turn. TURK FORTS RUINED EX-HEAD OF ROCK ISLAND AND FRISCO COMMITTEES TELLS ji QF DUAL PAY AND GIVEN CASH AND DARDANELLES FORTRE8SE8 FALL BEFORE HUGE GUNS. ks T -• . Farmers Hear Soil Experts. . The twentieth annual session of the State Farmers' institute was held here. • In Mayor O. M. Karraker's address Of welcome and Mrs. M. S. Whitley's (greeting to the woman's household sci­ ence department, the city was virtually turned over to the visitors. A. N. Ab­ bott presided over the opening session Mrs. Lena Stevenson Mann presid­ ed over the ladies' department <8tate Treasurer Takes Office. State Treasurer Andrew Russell of Jacksonville took cliarge of the office to which he was elected last Novem­ ber and which he would have assumed {he first of January had it not. been -•ifar the legislative IfHeads for Illinois Flag. Illinois should have a flag, accord- 1sg to statements of Mrs. George T. Page of Peoria, state regent of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion in an address at the Blackstone . UtOtel,. Chicago. * "The flag shoqtd be used by the gov­ ernor on all state occasion* atid wher­ ever Illinois is represented," she said. "Many other states have flags and Illi­ nois should not be behind them. We already have named a committee ^vhose duty it will be to select a state ]$ag from a number of deslgns.t ^ Articles of Incorporation. The following corporations were ls- •'••ifbed by Secretary of State Stevenson: North Avenue Auditorium, Chicago; t<pppital, 11,500. Incorporators--James •It Wright, Bernard Stenge and Ben- f ' limine J. Samuels. Midland Wool company, Chicago; • ><mpital, $5,000. Incorporators--A. J. Coxeter, McCain Belnart and P. I* AM mil It Jp. Johnston City Bottling company, '•Johnston City; capital, $20,000. In- •Ssrponitors'- John Viscount, Firt <>ear« aSd J. H. Colombo. . > ,^' v Quarantine for Measles. To the health officer1 alive to the facts and awake to his responsibili­ ties there is nothing more perplexing and little that appears to be more in need of correction than the present day almost universal indifference to measles. As a destroyer of child life measles holds a position very close to the top of the list In Illinois last year up­ wards of 650 little graves were dug on account of this disease, or exactly two hundred and thirteen times as many as were dtig on account of that terribly dreaded disease, smallpox, and smallpox was quite prevalent through­ out the state, too, some 4,051 cases be­ ing reported. Ih Illinois at the present time there are thousands of cases of measles and, dally, numbers of deaths are occur­ ring. The widespread prevalence of the disease Is in largest measure due to improper handling of the cases, to t' loraeneBS of quarantine, and is in di­ rect proportion to the ignorance, care­ lessness, indifference or lawlessness of parents and attendants. The suppression of measles is a matter of rigid quarantine, of strict isolation of the infection bearer. The state board of health, believ­ ing that the time has arrived to clamp down the lid on meases, has recently formulated and promulgated rules of quarantine for measles which must be observed throughout the state of Illi­ nois, the penalty for violation of these rules being a fine of upwards of $200, or imprisonment in the county Jail, or both, In the discretion of the court. The new state rules governing mea­ sles briefly stated are as follows: 1. Ml cases of measles must be im­ mediately reported to the local health authorities. 2. The front^and rear entrances of the premises must be placarded with % red warning card. 3. The patient must be quarantined for at Least 14 days after the begin nlng of the disease, or until all infec­ tious discharges have ceased. Visi tors are prohibited. Susceptible chil­ dren of the family must be confined to the premises but may be permitted the freedom of an inclosed yard In which they do not come in contact with other children. 4. The patient must be excluded from the beliools and places of publio gathering for at least three weeks from the onset of the disease. Sus­ ceptible children of the family must be excluded for at least 18 days from date of last exposure. - 6. The sale of milk and food stuffs from infected premises Is prohibited. 6. Before quarantine is raised the patient must be given a disinfect­ ing bath ' and a complete change of clothing must be made. 7. Public funerals 'are prohibited. However, adults and nonsusceptlble children may follow the remains to the grave, provided they do not enter the carriages occupied by persons who have been in the infected building. STATE NEWS BRIEFS Peoria.--Governor Dunne called a special primary election for April 6 and a special election June 7 to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna­ tion of County Judge Clyde IB. Stone of Peoria county. Carbondale--The Republican Ju­ dicial committee of the First Illinois district in Carbondale has called a delegate convention for March 24 at O&rbondale to nominate three candi­ dates for circuit Judge. Purchaser of Line Upholds "Million Dollar" Salaries, But Wouldn't Own Road Now--Others Tell of Gifts--- Less Legislation Needed. Washington, March 1.--An annual salary of $37,500 as chairman of the executive committee of the Chicago, Rock Island ft Pacific railroad, the same amount tor serving simultane­ ously as chairman of the executive committee of the Frisco system and a guarantee of $500,000 additional con­ stituted the compensation pledged to I,. F. Loree when he left the presi­ dency of the Baltimore & Ohio road to Join the Rock Island forces. He held the new places t§n months in 1904 and then was asked by Daniel G- Reid to resign. Comp!yirig, he received in settle­ ment cf his agreement with Mr. Leeds $450,000 in Rock Island railway bonds. Mr. Loree testified to this effect on Friday at the Interstate commerce commission's investigation of the Rock Island's financial affairs during the Reid-Leeds-Moore control from 1901 to 1914. Criticizing payment to C. H. Venner of $250,000, J. W. Folk, counsel for the commission, brought out the fact that Rock Island people did not like this transaction. R. A. Jackson, then gen­ eral counsel for the Rock Island, sent this telegram to Robert Mather, presi­ dent: "United States circuit court at Springfield, 111., has just committed Venner to Jail for six months and fined him $1,000." Mr. Mather sent this answer to Jackson: "Message received. Couldn't we intervene and ask the court to send Jim Ham with him?" James Hamilton Lewis, now United States senator for Illinois, was counsel for Venner In his suit' against the Rock Island. Another witness was Mr. Reld him­ self, who defended the "big salaries" paid to Rock Island officials, declared that he would not now accept as a gift the control of any western or southwestern railroad and that when he and his associates took over the Rock Island It had a "surplus" of $8,000,000, "but no railroad," being merely a "streak of rust" He said also a man capable of operating an 8,000-mile railway was worth $1,000,- 000 a year. The commerce commission Itself was held responsible for the financial troubles of the Rock Island railroad by Mr. Reid, who contended the trou ble was not caused by the takisg over of bad securities or by payment of heavy salaries and bills, but by the rulings of the commission, which pre­ vented advances in rates to meet higher wages and costs of improve­ ments. R. A. Jackson, general coucsel for the Rock Island from 1902 to 1910, also told the commission he had been asked to resign by Mr. Reld and had no knowledge of why. While he had no agreement, he had received $100,000. C. H. Warren, assistant to President Leeds in 1902-4, said he had been in­ duced to go to the Rock Island under an agreement that he receive stock worth a minimuitt of $150,000 at the end of two years. When he left the company "because the situation be­ came unsatisfactory" he was given $50,000 cash and New Jersey holding company stock having a face value of $205,000. Mr. Reid said what the railroads needed was "more rates, more tariffs and lesB legislation." Transports With a Large Army Sent To Take Sultan's Capital From this Land'Side. London, Feb; 27.--The forts at the entrance of the Dardanelles have been reduced after an all-day bombardment by the Franco-British fleet according to an announcement made on Thurs­ day by the admiralty. The announcement states: "The weather moderating, the bom­ bardment of the outer forts of the Dar­ danelles was renewed on Thursday morning. After a period of long range firing, close range firing was adopted. "All the forts at the entrance to the straits were successfully reduced . . ' The operations are continu­ ing.- This means that the bombardment and possible capture of Constantinople by the allied fleet, which has been reported to Include 40 warships, is imminent and that the fleet is at pres­ ent smashing its way through the straits. The Dardanelles forts, for years con­ sidered among th® strongest military barriers in the world, have been sub­ jected to almost incessant battering by the shells of the battleships' guns since laBt Friday, when the supreme effort to force the straits was com­ menced. Before that there had been several attacks on the fortifications. The bombardment was continued all ^day Saturday and Sunday, and more than two thousand shells were dropped on the forts in that time. Bad weath­ er for the time compelled the cessation of the efforts of the fleet to reduce the forts, but the bombardment was resumed Monday afternoon, again to be ended by bad weather until Thurs­ day. Constantinople reported that the bombardment had been almost without effect but the official announcement of the British admiralty said that the forts were unable to reply because the ships were out of range, and that five of them were reduced by Saturday night The attack on Constantinople will be simultaneous, it is believed here, with an effort on the part of the Rus­ sian army to take the Turkish capital from the land side. It was announced last week that Russian transports had been sent with a large army to the Turkish port of Midi, 60 miles noth- west of Constantinople, for an over­ land march against the gates of the capital. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS COW EATING BEAR CAUSES BIG FUROR New Moline.--G. O. Diets was elected first judge of Moline's city court, and G«orge A. Schrade* first clerk, each to serve four years. $oth were can­ didates on the Republican ticket Elgin.--Walter W. Bartlutt, mail carrier here for many years, was un- d«r arrest, charged with stealing 150 letters, said to have been found in his locker In the post office. He was taken to Chicago and arraigned before United Stated Commissioner Mason and his bail £xed at $1,900. Bartlett was said UlnciM -A 3 SLAYERS ARE EXECUTED Murderers of Women Die In the Elec­ tric Chair at Ossln- Ing. N. Y. Osslning, N. Y., March 1.--In a triple execution in Sing Sing prison three slayers of women were put to death in the electric chair on Friday. The three men who paid the penalty for murder were Robert Kane, Oscar Vogt and Vlncenza Campanelll. Only 25 minutes and 10 seconds were con­ sumed In putting the three men to death. All marched in to the death chamber with heads erect and with­ out faltering. 15,000 RUSSIANS ARE TAKEN Germans Capture Przasnysz and 10,- 000 of the Czar's Troops--Russ Reinvade Bukowina. Berlin, Feb. 27.--The capture of 10,- 000 Russians, twenty cannon, machine guns and a great quantity of war ma­ terials at Przasnysz, as well as the city Itself, was announced by the Ger­ man war office Thursday. The capture of 5,000 Russians In battles north of the WelchBel (Vis­ tula river) Is also reported. London, England, Feb. 27.--Russian troops have reinvaded Bukowina and re-occupied Sadagora, on the railroad four miles north of Czernowitz, ac­ cording to a dispatch received on Ttyhrsday by the Evening News. MANY PLUMBERS ARE GUILTY Convicted of>Trade Restraint by Jury In Federal Court In Des Moines-- Sentences Later. Des Moines, la., Feb. 16.--All 86 master plumbers who have been on trial here since February 10 on charges of violating the Sherman antitrust law, were convicted by a jury in the fed eral district court on Wednesday. Judge John C. Pollock will pass sen­ tence later. The men are residents of Iowa, Ne­ braska, Missouri, IlUpols, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota. They are members and officials of the National Association of Master Plum­ bers and of the state organizations of that body. SOUGHT LIFE OF DIPLOMAT Man Who Attempted to Murder Turk. Ish Minister of the Interior Is Executed. Constantinople, via Berlin and Am­ sterdam, March 1.--An unsuccessful at­ tempt was made to assassinate Talat Bey, minister of the interior, in Stam- boul. Three Bhots were fired by the assassin, without effect The would-be assassin was executed. Von Pohl Will Lead Fleet Berlin, March 2.--Admiral von Pohl, chief of the admiralty staff, has been selected as the successor to Admiral von Ingenohl, whose removal from command of the German battle fleet tis made known last week. Opera Singer Drops Dead. • New York, Maroh 2.--Rudolph Ber- ger, aged thirty-six, the Austrian tenor who has been singing at the Metropolitan opera house, died sud­ denly on Saturday from paralysis of the heart at his apartments. Dies Making War SpeeclL Milan. Italy. March 1.--Slg. Mosti- Trotti, radical deputy, died while de­ livering a speech in favor of the in­ tervention of Italy in the war. One person was killed and many wounded In riots in favor of neutrality. Britifh Warships Damaged. Berlin, March 1 (by wireless).-- The Cologne Gazette publishes a let­ ter from Montevideo which says an Argentine steamer reported seven British cruisers lying severely dam­ aged ai th* Falkland Wind* MAKES NEW TARIFF RATES Important Rulings of the Interstate Commerce Commission Are Made Public. Washington. March 1.--The Inter­ state commerce commission suspend­ ed from March 1 until June 29 new tariffs of railroads east of the Missis­ sippi and north of the Ohio and Po­ tomac rivers, Increasing rateB on glu­ cose and corn sirup In carloads from Chicago and other points to the east­ ern seaboard and Interior eastern points. The proposed increase amounts to four cents per hundred pounds on domestic traffic and one and one-tenth cents per hundred pounds on export traffic. Liner Escapes From Foe. Halifax, N. S., March 2--The Allan liner Grampian was warned of a German submarine. The Grampian was sent at top speed on a zigzag course until the danger zone was passed. A freight steamer was torpedoed; * ---------------- • /> Famous Psrls Resort Buris*. . Paris, March 2.--The Moulin Rouge, the famous resort along the Paris night coast, burned. The entire fire department was called out, but a high wind fanned the blaze and the building is almost a total loss. Favors Purchase of MontleeHo* Washington. Feb. 27.--President Wilson Thursday sent a letter to Rep­ resentative Underwood and Senator Kern, indorsing the resolution to pur­ chase by the government of Monti- actio, the home of Thomas Jeffanoo. Plum for Detroit Man, Washington, Fab. 27.--President Wilson Thursday sent to the senate the nomination of Richard I. Lawson of Detfoit Mich., to be collector of custom* for customs collection district If*. 3%/ . Grayville.--The Christian church of this city has extended a call to Rev. Albert Buxton of Texas. Harrisburg.--O'Gara coal mine No. 8 closed for an indefinite period, throwing 300 men out of employment. Springfield.--W. H. Oliver of this city caught a grasshopper jumping around in his front yard. Anna.--Rev. C. W. Culp, pastor of the First Baptist church for the last three years, will accept a call io the FirBt Baptist church at Duquoin. Alton.--The stock barns at East Al­ ton for housing 10,000 war horses to be shipped to the coast are almost completed. Mount Vernon.--Mrs. George Shoop of Mount Vernon was burned to death in Trilby, Fla., according to informa­ tion reaching this place. Grayville.--An unidentified man, abput twenty-four years old, was run down hnd killed by a Southern rail­ way train near Browns, nine miles north. Galesburg.--Local authorities ar­ rested Earl Keith, wanted in Janes- ville, O., for the alleged theft of $5,000. It is understood that% Keith will go back without extradition papers. Pana.--Frank Peck, fifty-five years old, a farmer, was found dead in bed at his home near Cerro Gordo with a bullet hole in his head and a revolver at his side. Mendota.--Dr. H. B. Leonard ar­ rived here to inspect farms in order to lift the hoof-and-mouth disease quarantine in La Salle county. No new caseB have been reported. Pana.--Committees of the Second supreme court district and Fourth judicial court have called the Demo­ cratic convention of the Second dis­ trict for Pana on March 19. Taylorville.--The commission form of government was defeated here by a majority of 300 votes. The vote, particularly that of the women, was light It was the third time the ques­ tion has been defeated here. Bloomington.--Ald^n Barnes, a re­ tired farmer who invented the check rower for corn planters In 1872, which still is in use, is dead here, aged sev­ enty-five years. He was an extensive land owner. Salem.--Luclen 0. 8torment, candi­ date last November for the state legis­ lature on the Progressive ticket, died at his home In Stevenson township. He was thirty-three years old and la survived by his widow and five children. Eureka.--Mrs. Catherine McDonald has received word of the death of hei son, Corporal George McDonald, ill the General hospital at Versailles, near Paris, France. He was a mem ber of the Canadian expeditionary force and was wounded February it and died February 14. McDonald was thirty-five years old. Sandoval. -- Miss Fern Davidson eighteen years old, was shot in th* arm when a strange man attacked hei near her home. He was concealed and as Miss Davidson passed he jumped out and caught her. Her screams and her resistance were so violent he drpw a revolver and shot her. The bullet entered at the wrist and emerged at the elbow. Miss Davidson's mother heard her Bcreams and went to her rescue, but the assailant escaped. Jacksonville.--Sensational develop ments are expected as the result of the finding of the body of a baby, about two days old, wrapped in an apron, by Horace Massey, a farmer. Pupils attending the Maple Grove school had discovered the bundle ly­ ing near a telephone pole and had in formed Mr. Massey of the find. He Investigated and reported the case to the authorities. A coroner's inquest will be held. Springfield.--A* delegation from De­ catur called on Governor Dunne In the interest of the candidacy of J. A. Buckingham of Decatur for appoint ment as a member of the state board of pardons. Since the appointment of Lewis G. Stevenson of Bloomington as secretary of state, on the death of the late llarry Woods, there has been a vacancy on the pardon board. As Mr. Stevenson was chairman of that body. It is probable that the man who Is ap­ pointed In his place will also be chair­ man. The governor Is expected to make the appointment next week when he sends the list of appointments to the senate. Decatur.--While tearing up a floor in the library of his big brick man­ sion to InBtall a lighting system. S. J. Hanks, a well-to-do farmer, resid­ ing eight miles north of here, found the floor packed with honey, some of it being almost black with age. Holes bored in the floor of other rooms showed that practically all the floors were full of it The house was built years ago, and, according to Hanks, has been the home of bees for 20 years. It was the first time he had ever molested them. They found their way In through ventilators near the top of the bouse and down between the double brick walls. Danville.--William Henry Smith, seventy-five years old, a veteran of the Civil war, died at St. Elizabeth s hospital here, as a result of Injuries puttered when he was struck by a street car. He was a pioneer resident of Tilton, a suburb of Danville, and was a favorite among the children of the village because of the interesting stories he told of the war. He leaves a widow and two children. Elgin.--Two jjtney huses have been put In operation In Elgin as an ex­ periment by a private motor com­ pany. If the plan pays. 12 busea will be operated. Qulncy.--Fire here destroyed Jar- rett Ice houses, burned main electric wires and shut off all current over entire city for several hours. Danville--Fire at Catlln, eight miles southwest of Danville, destroyed the post rflHce, a dry goods store and butcher s3top. The town was in danger of a gereral conflagration when all of the automobile fire apparatus of Danville reached the scene. The losses »~e about $15,000, with very little insurance. With what fixtures were sa~«d from the destroyed post office a new office was Immediately opened in the town halL Jersey Farmer Interferes and Has Time of His Life. New York.--According to Informar tlon brought by courier from Mon­ tague, an outpost in the wilds of Sus­ sex county, N. J., that section is be­ ing ravaged by cow-eating black bears, who are not above taking a chance on a well fed farmer. The other day, so 'tis said, an unusually woolly bear chased "Bill" Cummings, a well-known settler, up a tree, after he got tired of having "Bill" chase him. An armed force of neighbors shooed the bear away and helped "Bill" out of the tree, where he told of a wild chase You won't like heavy tobaccos after you once try the plenty mild but fully satisfying taste of FATIMA Cigarettes. They outsell other 15c cigarettes by millions! DUUmctively Individual" 1- Chased Bill Up a Tree. through the underbrush. The bear in question, probably the most impolite and daring ever seen about Montague, 1b reported to have waddled into the corral of Charles JenningB, where it fastened its teeth In a calf. Mr. Cum­ mings on his way to Jennings' home saw the theft and yelled "Shoo there, boss," with little or no effect Enraged at this he gave chase to the bear, which fled, still clinging to the calf. After a wild chase through the dense forests which litter Sussex county, particularly near the curb lines, the bear lost jiis temper and the calf at the same time and turned irri­ tably toward his pursuer. Mr. Cum­ mings noting the angry expression in the bear's eye hurried to the nearest giant of the forest and crawled to the highest branch, from whence he %as releaBec| by his neighbors. The bear got away. ' 'H SEVEN HOURS AT MOVIES Georgia Bride Obeyed Her HuabaiKft Order to Wait Until He Re­ turned. Athens, Ga.--R. E. Burton of Col­ bert, married only a few weeks ago, lost his wife in a motion picture house here recently. In Athens for shop­ ping, he decided to buy his bride a gift and took her to the "movie" to wait until he had done his purchasing. Returning, he searched the- picture house over three times, and, failing to find her, reluctantly left for his home on the evening train, hoping that she had found a car or buggy among the relatives here for the day, and, having missed him, was on the way to greet him at home. He failed to find her at home, and nobody had seen her. The young man was almost prostrated with anxiety and uneasiness. In the meantime the young wife sat patiently awaiting his return--from four o'clock in the after­ noon until the house closed at eleven at night She saw him enter the house, she stated, and wondered why he did not Join her and sit a picture through. She spent the night with friends here, who phoned her hus­ band's relatives, the nearest way they could reach him, about midnight MAN ON LEDGE IS LASSOED Drug Victim Crawls Sixty Feet on Five inch Projection of Denver Hotel. Denver, Colo:--Two companies of firemen were called out to rescue W. A. Tracy from a five-inch ledge skirt­ ing the seventh story of a downtown hotel. Tracy, who. according to the police, was crazed with drugs, had climbed out of a window and crawled about sixty feet along the ledge when discovered. While firemen were at­ tempting to rescue Tracy with ladders a member of another department las­ soed him from a nearby window and dragged him to safety. , Kissing Microbes. .£:.•/ ft ^ Belle--I see a Swiss scientist clares that microbes do not exist HpTf .u| mountain air at an altitude of ovef^ ^ 2,000 feet How dotyou suppose he'<( t # ' | discovered that? ^ a.'l Beulah--Oh, he's probably dofai some kissing at high altitude." , <-5 fa?*;,""""""" IF BACK HURTS CLEAN KIDNEYS WITH SALTS Drink Lots of Water and 8top Eating' Meat for a While If the Bladder Bothers You. Meat forms uric acid which excite* . j and overworks the kidneys in their1 ^ efforts to filter it from the system. ' Regular eaters of meat must flush th# kidneys occasionally. You must re* lieve them like you relieve your,boww els; removing all the acids, waste anC poison, else you feel a dull misery i& the kidney region, sharp pains in the4 back or sick headache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is bad you hava rheumatic twinges. The urine iii cloudy, full of sediment; the channels often get irritated, obliging you to get up two or three times during th* night | To neutralize these irritating add* and flush off the body's urinous wast* get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take a tablo» . spoonful in a glass of water beforft breakfast for a few days and your kl&t neys will then act fine and bladder disorders disappear. This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been UBed for generations to cleam and stimulate sluggish kidneys and stop bladder irritation. Jad Salts la Inexpensive; harmless and makes a - delightful effervescent lithla-water drink which millions of men and. women take now and then, thus avoid­ ing serious kidney and bladder die* eases. --Adv.* . f Shoots at Ghost; Wounds Self. Aurora. 111.--Daily B. Driver was re­ turning to his home after spending the evening with friends. While driv­ ing past a graveyard a white cow that had been grazing started toward his horse. Driver instantly thought of graveyard ghests and drew his revol­ ver and fired repeatedly, and a bullet passed through his right thigh, an­ other tore a hole in his horse's ear and a third hit the cow in the neck. Nature balances things by marrying a fussy woman to a quarrelsome man. Love makes the world go round, revenge tries to square it w ; ^ Land NOW! FOR 1915 CROPS • 3f tM't wait for warm weather. 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