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mfsMtr pLAijroEAiEit, .-s «-«M* v; •*. ;•-. &•#;%$& Illustrations ̂C. D l<9xxles ' COP YRI OH T 1914" ^ DOPD,A\EAD <5$> COMPANY/ SYNOPSIS- A curtoOa crowd of neighbors Invade the mystenmis home of Judge Ostr&nder, county judge and eccentric recluse, fol­ lowing a vailed ".vcrnaii who proves to be the widow of a man ttled before the Judge and electrocuted for murder years before. Her daughter is engaged to the judge's son, from \Vnom he is estranged, but the Jttiurder Is between the lovers. She plana to clear tier husband's memory and asks the Judge's aid. Deborah Scoville reads the newspaper clippings tdlling the story Of the murder of Algernon Etheridge by John Scoville In Dark Hollow, twelve years before. The Judge and Mrs. Sco­ ville meet at Spencer's Folly and she •hows him how, on the day of the mur­ der, she saw the shadow of a man, whit­ tling a stick and wearing a long peaked <-ap. The judge engages her and her daughter Reuther to live with him In his mysterious home. Deborah and her law­ yer, Black, go to the police station and eae the stick used to murder Etheridge. I3he discovers & broken knife-blade point embedded in It. Deborah and Reuther go to live with the Judge. Deborah sees a portrait of Oliver, the Judge's son, with a black band painted across the eyes. That night she finds. In Oliver's room, a cap With a peak like the shadowed one, and a knife with a broken blade-point. Anon­ ymous letters and a talk with Miss weeks increase her suspicions and fears. She finds that Oliver was in the ravine On the murder night. Black warns her ftnd shows her other anonymous letters hinting at Oliver's guilt. In the court room the judge Is handed an anonymous note. The note Is picked up and read aloud. A mob follows the Judge to his home. Deborah tells him why suspicion has been aroused against Oliver. The ludge shows Deborah a statement written by Oliver years ago telling how he saw her husband murder Spencer at Spen­ cer's Polly on the night the house was burned.' CHAPTER XMI--Continued. Claymore tavern did change own* ere. When I heard that a man by the name of Scoville had bought It, I went over to see Scoville. He was the man. Then I began to ask myself what I ought t© do with my knowledge, and • which she could not account In those I felt that if he had such doubts, they might be eased by this certainty of Scoville's murderous tendencies and unquestionable greed. And they were; but as Scoville was already doomed, we decided that it was unnecessary to make public his past offenses. However, with an eye upon future contingencies, tny father exacted from me in writing this full account of my adventure, which with all the solemnity of an oath I here de­ clare to be the true story of what be­ fell me in the house called Spencer's Folly, on the night of awful storm, September 11, 1895. OLIVER OSTRANDER. Witnesses to above signature, ARCHIBALD OSTRANDER. BELA JERFERSON. Shelby, November 7, 1898. CHAPTER XIV. The Telegram. This was the document and these the words which Deborah, widow of the man thus doubly denounced, had been given to^read by the father of the writer, in the darkened room which had been and still was to her, an abode of brooding thought and unfathomable mystery. No wonder that during its reading more than one exclamation of terror and dismay escaped her. There were so many reasons for believing this record to be an absolute relation of the truth. Incoherent phrases which had fallen from those long-closed lips took on new meaning with this unveiling of an unknown past. Repugnances for the more I asked myself this question and the more I brooded over the mat­ ter the less did I feel like taking, not the public, but my father, 4nto my con­ fidence. I had never doubted his love for me, but I had always stood in great awe of his reproof, and I did not know where I was to find courage to tell him all the details of this adventure. There is one thing I did do, however. I made certain inquiries here and there, and soon satisfied myself as to bow Scoville had been able to come Into town, commit this horrid deed and escape without any one but myself be­ ing the wiser. Spencer and he had come from the West en route to New York without any Intention of stop­ ping off in Shelby. But once involved in pfay they had got so interested that when within a few miles of the town, Spencer proposed that they should leave the train and finish the game in his own house. Whether cir­ cumstances aided them, or Spencer took Home extraordinary precautions against being recognized, will never be known. But certain it is that he escaped all observation at the station and even upon the road. When Sco- Tille returned alone, the storm had reached such a height that the roads were deserted, and he, being an entire stranger here at that time, naturally attracted no attention, and so was able to slip away on the next train with just the drawback of buying a new ticket. I, a'boy of fifteen, trespassing where I did not belong, was the only living witness of what had happened on this night of dreadful storm, In the house which was now a ruin. I realized the unpleasantness of the position in which this put me, but not its responsibility. If I were going to do anything I should have done it at first--so I reasoned, and let the mat­ ter slide. I became interested in school and study, and the years passed and I had almost forgotten the oc­ currence, when suddenly the full re­ membrance came back upon me with a rush. A man--my father's friend-- was found murdered in sight of this spot of old-time horror, and Scoville was accused of the act. I w$» older now and saw my fault in all its enormity. I was guilty of that crime--or so I felt In the first heat of my sorrow and despair: I may even have said so--in dreams or in some of my self-absorbed broodlngs- Though I certainly had hot lifted the stick against Mr. Etheridge, I had left the hand free which did, and this was a sufficient occasion for remorse--or so I truly felt. I was so affected by the thought that even my father, with his own weight of troubles, noticed my careworn face and asked me for an explanation. But I held him off until the verdict was reached, and then I told him. I had not liked bis looks for some time; they seemed to convey some doubt of the justice of this man's sentence, and . old days, she now saw explained. He would never, even in passing, give a look at the ruin on the bluff, so attrac­ tive to every eye but his own. As for entering its gates--she had never dared so much as to ask him to do so. Then the watch! Deborah knew we^l that watch. She had often asked him by what stroke of luck he had got so fine a timepiece. God! was her mind veering back to her old idea as to his responsibility for .the crime com mitted in Dark Hollow? Yes; she could not help it. Denial from a monster like this--a man who with such memo­ ries and such spoil, could return home to wife and child, with some gay and confused story of a great stroke in speculation which had brought him in the price of the tavern it had long been h!s ambition to own--what was denial from such lips worth? The judge was right. Oliver--whose in­ genuous story had restored his image to her mind, with some of its old graces--had been the victim of clrcum stances and not John Scoville. Her thoughts had reached this stage, and her hand, in obedience to the new mood, was lightly ruffling up the pages before her, when she felt a light tou<jta on her shoulder and turned with a start. The judge was at her back. How long he had stood there she did not know, nor did he say, but when upon feeling his hand upon her shoulder she turned, he was there; and while his lips failed to speak, his eyes were elo­ quent and their question single and im­ perative. "What do you think of him now?" they seemed to ask, and rising to her, feet, she met him with a smile, ghastly perhaps with the lividness of the shadows through which she had been groping, but encouraging withal and soothing beyond measure to his anx­ ious and harassed soul. "Oliver is innocent," she declared, turning once more to lay her hand upon the sheets containing his naive confession. "The dastard who could shoot his host for plunder is capable of a second crime holding out a similar inducement. Nothing now will ever make me connect Oliver with the crime at the bridge. As you said, be was simply near enough the hollow to toss into it the stick he had < been whittling. I am his advocate from this minute." Her eyes were still resting mechan­ ically upon that last page lying spread out before her, and she did not ob­ serve in its full glory the first gleam of triumphant Joy which, in all prob­ ability, Judge Ostrander's countenance had shown in years. Nor did he see, in the glad confusion of the moment, the quick shudder with which 8he lift­ ed her trembling hand away from those papers and looked up, squarely at last, into his transfigured visage. "Mrs. Scoville, I love my boy. I-- what's that?" The front doorbell was ringing. , In a flas\ Deborah was .out of the room. When the Judge at lastcame forth, it Was at Reuthcr's bidding. A gentle­ man wished to see him in the parlor. With a dark glance, not directed against her, however, the judge bade her run away to the kitchen and as far from all these troubles as she could, then, locking his door behind him, as he always did, he strode towards the front. He found Deborah, standing guard over an ill-conditiened fellow, whose slouching figure slouched still more under his eye, but gave 30 other ac­ knowledgment of his presence. Pass­ ing him without a second look. Judge Ostrander „ found Mr. Black awaiting him. There was no bad blood between these two, whatever their past rela­ tions or present suspicions, and they were soon shaking hands with every appearance of mutual cordiality; The judge was especially courteous "I am glad," said he. "of any occa­ sion which blings.you again under my roof, though from the appearance of your companion 1 judge the present one to be of no very agreeable charac­ ter." "Judge,Tm your friend;" thus Mr. Black began. "Thinking you must wish to know who started the riotous pro­ cedure which disgraced our town to­ day, I have brought the ringleader here to answer for himseif--that is, if you wish to question him." Judge Ostrander wheeled about, gave the man a searching look, and failing to recognize him as any one he had ever seen before, beckoned him in. "I suppose," said he, when the loung­ ing and insolent figure was fairly be­ fore their eyes, "that this* is hot the first time you have been asked to ex­ plain your enmity to my long-absent son.** "Naw; I've had my talk wherever and whenever I took the notion. Oliver Ostrander hit me once. I was jest a little chap then.and meanin' no harm to any one. I kept a-pesterin' of 'im and he hit me. fie'd a better have hit a feller who hadn't my memory. I've never forgiven that hit, and I never will. That's why I'm hittin' him now. Its just my turn; that's all." "Your turn! Your turn! And what do you think has given you.an oppor­ tunity to turn on him?" "I'm not In the talkin' mood just now," the fellow drawled, frankly inso­ lent, not only in his tone but in his & He Found Deborah Standing Guard Over an III Conditioned Fellow. bearing to all present. "Nor can you make it worth my while, gents. I'll not take money. I'm an honest, hard- workin' man who can earn his own livin', and you can't pay me to keep still, or to go away from Shelby a day sooner than I want to. I was goin' away, but I gave it up when they told me that things were beginnin' to look black against Ol Ostrander--that a woman had come into town who was a-stirrin' up things generally about that old murder for which a feller had already been 'lectrocuted, and knowin' sometbin' myself about that murder and 01 Ostrander, I--well, I stayed. The quiet threat, the suggested pos­ sibility, the attack which wraps itself in vague uncertainty, are ever the most effective. As his raucous voice, dry with sinister purpose which no man could shake, died out in an offen­ sive drawl, Mr. Black <>dged a step nearer the judge, before he sprang and caught the young fellow by the coat- collar and gave him a very vigorous shake. "See here!" he threatened. "Be­ have yourself and treat the judge like a gentleman or--" But the judge was not ready for this. The judge had gained a new lease of life in the last half-hour and he felt no fear of this sullen bill-poster for all his sly Innuendoes. He, there­ fore, hindered ihe lawyer from his purpose, by a quick gesture of so m\ich dignity and resolve that even the lout himself was impressed and dropped some of his sullen bravado. "I have something to say to this fel­ low," he announced. "Perhaps he does not know his folly. Perhaps he thinks because I was thrown aback today by those public charges against my son and a string of insult* for which no father could be prepared, that I am seriously disturbed over the position into which such unthinking men as himself have pushed Mr. Oli­ ver Ostrander. I might be if there were truth in these charges or any se­ rious reason for connecting my up­ right and honorable son with the low crime of a highwayman. But there is not. I aver it and so will this lady here whom you have doubtless recog­ nized for the obe who has stirred this matter up. You can bring no evidence to show guilt on my son's part"--these words he directed straight at the dis­ comfited poster of bills--"because there is no evidence to bring." Mr. Black's eyes sparkled with admi­ ration. He could not have used this method with the lad, but he recognized the insight of the man who could. Bribes were a sign of weakness, BO were force and counter-attack; but scorn--a calm ignoring of the power of any one to seriously shake Oliver Ostrander's established position--that might rouse wrath and bring avowal; certainly it had shaken the man; he looked much less aggressive and self- confident than before. However, though impressed, he was not yet ready to give in. Shuffling about with his feet, but not yet shrink­ ing from an encounter few men of his stamp would have cared to subject themselves to, he answered with a i*e- mark delivered with a little more civil­ ity than any of his previous ones: "What you call evidence may not be the same as I calls evidence. If you're satisfied at thinkin' my word's ne good, that's your business. I know how I should feel if I was Ol Ostran­ der's father and knew what I know." "Let him go," spoke up a wavering voice. It was Deborah's. But the judge was deaf to the warn­ ing. Deborah's voice had but remind­ ed him of Deborah's presence. Its tone had escaped him. He was too en­ grossed in the purpose he had in mind to notice shades of inflection. But Mr. Black had, and quick as thought he echoed her request*. "He is forgetting himself. Let him go, Judge Ostrander." But that aBtute magistrate, wise in all other causes but his own, was no more ready now than before to do this. "In a moment," he conceded. "Let me first make sure .that this man un­ derstands me. I have said that there exists no evidence against my son. This I aver; and this the lady here will aver. You have probably already recognized her. If not, allow me to tell you that she is the lady whose efforts have brought back this case to the public mind: Mrs. Scoville, the wife of John Scoville and the one of all'others who has the greatest inter­ est in proving her husband's inno­ cence. If she says, that after the most careful Inquiry and a conscientious reconsideration of this case, she has foupd herself forced to come to the conclusion that justice has already been satisfied in this matter, you will believe her, won't you?" "I don't know," drawled the man, a low and cunning expression lighting up his ugly countenance. "She wants to marry lifer daughter to your son. Any live dog is better than a dead one; I guess her opinion don't go for much." ( Recoiling before a cynicism that pierce 1 with unerring skill the one joint in his armor he knew to be vul­ nerable, the judge took a minute in which to control his rage and then ad­ dressing the half-averted figure in the window said: Mrs. Scoville, will you assure this 4han that you have no expectations of marrying your daughter to Oliver Os­ trander?" With a slow movement more sugges­ tive of despair than any she had been seen to make since the hour of her in­ decision had first struck, she shifted in her seat and finally faced them, with the assertion; "Reuther Scoville will never marry Oliver Ostrander. Whatever my wishes or willingness in the iftatter, she her­ self is so determined. Not because she does not believe jn his integrity, for she does; but because she will not unite herself to one whose prospects in life are more to her than her own happiness." The fellow stared, then laughed: "She's a goodun," he sneered. "And you believe that bosh?" Mr. Black could no longer contain himself. "1 believe you are the biggest rascal In town," he shouted. "Get out, or I won't answer for myself. Ladies are not to be treated in this manner." Did he remember his own rough handling of the sex on the witness stand? (TO BE CONTINUED.) IN LINE WITH "DE QUALITY" Mr. Ell Brown Felt Himself Entitled. Considering His Position, to Let­ ters After His Name. Ell Brown, an Impressive ebony fig­ ure in his long, black, clerical coat and collar--gift of the rector of St. James*--had come In answer to r post­ card or mine, asking him to call and whitewash my back fence. "I'se done moved. Miss Ma'y." be •aid. when he explained to me that he could not undertake the work that day. as a noon service at St. James' necessitated his presence at the organ bellows, "and I reckon I'll jes' leave my card so you can know whar to •en' for me when yer wants me ag'ln." With an expression of dignified grat- ttcation he unfolded a scrap of Church announcement leaflet, which he had pulled out of hlB vest pocket and handed me a card with the{ 1 words: Eli Brown, E. O. B.. ,J t 60 Fenchurch street. • / "What jlo. UMM ferr f e w ? . "Why, Miss Ma'y, all de quality in our congregation has letters after der names. Doctor Price he has D. D.; Doctor fiimmonds has M. D., and dere's LL. D. for some of 'em. and U. S. N. for dat Yankee off'cer; and coase I naterally has 'em, too." "But what do they mean?" I insist­ ed. "Now. Miss Ma'y. don't you know? E. O. B.--Episcopal organ blower, dat what I is."--Harper's Magazine. Preparation for Home Use. The woman who values her looks should drink at least a pint of v.ater daily, an'i preferably more, including * tumblerful, either hot or cold, the last thing at night. Distilled water is by fat the best, but if hot is not available, water thai has been boiled and allowed to stand for two or three hours till it has be­ come reaerated is moire wholesome than merely filtered water, especially in districts where the water contains undue amount of chalk, which, after boiling, will settle into a sediment from which (he remainder can fee poured off.--Philadelphia Press. ^ BEST "MAKE HASTE SLOWLY" Little Really Good and Lasting Work Has Been Accomplished Under Strain of Hurry. "The more haste, the less speed" is an old proverb that would make s j good motto for many people in these days when most of us are always in a. driving hurry, remarks the Mil­ waukee Journal. Work that is hurried isn't often well done. The letter writ­ ten" in haste sometimes proves to be illegible, or, what is perhaps worse, so nearly illegible that it results in a misunderstanding that loses far more time than it would have .taken to write correctly. One may be in such great haste to complete an article he is making that he slights some part of it. And Just that flaw may cause a break in the machinery and result in loss of time and great waste. Then there are the hundreds of times when undue haste doesn't In­ volve great consequences, but simply m3ans inferior work that must be done again) some time, and perhaps cause inconvenience and lots until it is done over. For ten article rightly made or a task n^eir done serves a better purpose than something com­ pleted in haste. People who do every­ thing hastily usually misunderstand. Some things one may catch quickly and so deceive himself into thinking that he can do the whole thing in a minute, not even knowing the import­ ant point that has escaped him. To "make haste slowly" means to ac­ complish more, whatever one Is do* leg. 8hrewd Old Man. 'You're an old married man. What do you do when your wife begins to scold?" "Encourage her. I talk back--dis­ creetly, of course. I say tantalizing things. I make foolish excuses. I stammer and get husky." - "But doesn't that make her a g" *d deal madder?" "Of course it does. That's the In­ tention. i want her to get so mad that she won'* Lave any roice left tc asl; me for money." "Gee, I wonder If I'll ever get as hardened as that!"--Brooklyn TAX AMENDMENT PLAN IS PASSED PROPOSED CHANGE IN CONSTITU­ TION WILL BE VOTED ON IN 1916. OPPOSED QY M. M'CORMICK Vote In the Lower Branch of Legisla­ ture Is 129* to 8--Sixteen of the Members Absent or _ Not Voting^, Springfield.--The state of Illinois will vote to amend the revenue clause of the constitution at the fall election of 1916. The tax amendment resolution %as passed by the house by a vote of 129 to 8, with 16 absent or not vot­ ing. This was the only one to sur­ vive of the various proposed constitu­ tional amendments which came before the Forty-ninth general assembly. All others went to defeat, while the taut amendment advocatea, whose lobby was in charge of Douglas Sutherland, secretary of the Civic Federation of Chicago, bided their t,in&- It was op­ posed by the State Federation of La­ bor, Miss Margaret Haley -nd others, and did not get through without a fight. This is the first constitutional amendment resolution to pass the leg­ islature slnra the session of 1907, when the proposition for a $20,000,000 deep waterway bond issue went through and was approved by the voters in the fall of the following year. Med ill McCormick led the fight against the resolution on the floor. Other members interpreted his opposi­ tion to be due largely to dissatisfac­ tion with the action of the house earlier in the session in rejecting the constitutional convention which he sponsored. A two-thirds majority, 102 votes, was needed to pass the resolu­ tion and it had a generous number to spare. On the final showdown the only ones who voted against the resolution were: William F. Burres of Champaign, Is­ rael Dudgeon of Morris, John Kasser- man of Newton, Christian M. Madsen of Chicago, Joseph M. Mason of Chi­ cago, Medill McCormick of Chicago, W. T. Morris of Duquoin and Richard E. Taylor of Elizabethtown. Thomas N. Gorman of Peoria brought up the tax amendment prop­ osition with a motion that the house concur in the Compton resolution passed by the senate. "There is an overwhelming demand throughout the state for a revision of the tax laws," he said. "If this reso­ lution is adopted by the house and ratified by the voters in 1916, it will give the legislature the power to en­ act laws remedying the many defects in our present system." "Adoption of thiB resolution would put off for half a century any hopes of a constitutional convention in Illi­ nois," said Medill McCormick. "It is my painful, conscientious duty to op­ pose it. and in doing so I go against the wishes of my strongest and best friends. "The district I represent Is almost unanimous for this resolution, and it is hard for me to oppose it, but my duty to the entire state compels me to do so. I believe there Bhould be a different method In taxing realty and personal property. In taxing bonds and lands, but It must be worked out oth­ erwise." "The people of my district are unanimous in favor of some relief from the present taxation system," said C. A. Purdunn of Marshall. "Tax reform will tend to lift the burden of taxation now on the borrow­ er," said William C. Maucker of Rock Island. "Now that the resolution to amend the amending clause pf the con­ stitution has been lost we should unite in support of this one." "Mr. McCormlck's only argument in urging the constitutional amendment was that the revenue section of the constitution should be reformed," said Isaac S. Rothschild. "To be consist­ ent he should support this resolution. Hte theory that the purpose of those behind the resolution is to make the tax on personal property one-fourth or one-third what it will be on real es­ tate is not correct" Tax relief was the most Important argument brought before tha house in favor of a constitutional convention," added John R. Moore. "I don't say that everybody behind the resolution wants to saddle the bur­ den of taxation on land," insisted Mc­ Cormick. "However, if this resolu­ tion does not pasB many who have op­ posed a constitutional convention will be for one." Gorman replied that the tax amend­ ment advocates had remained in the background until all other constitu­ tional propositions had been lost and that thiB was the last hope of getting any proposed amendment before the people In the next two years. Head of State Agriculture Board Dies. James K.- Hopkins, president of the Illinois state board of agriculture, died at the Wesley Memorial hospital. Mr. Hopkins was stricken with ap­ pendicitis two weeks ago at his home in Princeton and waf taken several days later to Wesley hospital, where an operation was performed. The introduction of Mr. Hopkins into the presidency of the Illinois state board of agriculture was hailed by agricultural papers throughout the state as the beginning of a new era for the state fair. He was well equipped for the duties of the position, as he had served 14 years as a member of the' state board of agriculture and also ad president and a director of the Bureau county fair. Mr. Hopkins was born in Tyrone City, Pa., in TS46. He served through­ out the Civil war as a member of Company B, Fifty-second Illinois Vol­ unteer infantry. At the end of the war he went to the Pacific coast, where he engaged dn railroad work. He returned to Princeton in 1885 and shortly after­ ward was elected mayor. Historical Body Elects Officers. With the annual election of officers, a discussion of the proposed new his-, torlcal and educational building and a Lincoln memorial program In the evening, members of the Illinois State Historical society closed their six­ teenth annual meeting in the capital city. The officers elected were: Honorary president, Hon. Clark E. Carr, Gales burg; president, Dr. Otto G. Schmidt, Chicago; first vice-president, W. T. Norton, Alton; second vice- president, Hon. Lawrence Y. Sher­ man, Springfield; third vice-president, Richard Yates, Springfield; fourth vice-president, George A. Lawrence, Galesburg; directors, Edmund J. James, Urbana; J. H. Burnham, Bloom- ington; E. E. Greene, Url|ana; Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, Springfield; Charles R. Rammelkamp. Jackson­ ville; J. o. Cunningham, Urbana; George W. Smith, Carbondale; Wil­ liam A. Meese, Moline; Richard B. Carpenter, Belvidere; Edward C. Page, DeKalb; J. W. Clinton, Polo; Andrew Russel, Jacksonville; Walter Colyer, Albion; James J. James, Evanston; H. W. Clendenin, Springfield; secre­ tary and treasurer, Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, Springfield. The project of the new state histor­ ical building was talked, and the so­ ciety agreed upon the plan of a com­ mittee to confer with the generaJ as­ sembly relative to the feasibility of the project. The life of the late Adlai E. Steven­ son and the assassination of Lincoln were the subjects with J. W. Cook of the northern normal school, and Henry R. Rathbone the speakers. Civic League Work Told. The second of a series of confer­ ences of the civic leagues affiliated with the Illinois Equal Suffrage asso­ ciation was held at Bloomington. The first took place at Monmouth. A wel­ come to Bloomington was extended by Mayor E. E. Jones and representative club women of the city. Time was devoted to reports from presidents of the civic leagues on the work accom­ plished through the organizations. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, the state president, waa to review the state work done through the civic leagues. Among the delegates were Mrs. Lil­ lian I. Dabkin, Jacksonville; Mrs. Thomas Kennedy, Minonk; Miss Effle E. Doan, La Salle; Mrs. W. F. Sheets, Danville; Miss Ethel Sparks, Mack­ inaw; Mrs. George Thomas Palmer, Springfield; Mrs. Elvira Downey, Clin­ ton, and Miss Elma D. Roseberry, Forrest. Mrs. Frank Fui^t, chairman of the reception committee of the Bloomington Civic league, was assist­ ed by Mrs. Guy McCurdy, Mrs. N. JD. McKinney and other prominent women of Bloomington. The state associa­ tion was represented by Mrs, Grace Wilbur Trout, Mrs. George A. Soden, Mrs. H. M. Brown, Mrs. E. L. Stewart, Miss Jennie F. W. Johnson, Mrs. J. W. McGraw, Mrs. H. C. Newton, Miss Margaret Dobyne, Dr. Lucy Waite, Mrs. William Severin, Mrs. Mary Busey, Urbana, and Mrs. Margaret C. Carr, Ottawa. Articles of Incorporation. The Wright Check Protector com­ pany, Chicago; capital, $1,000. Incor­ porators--Sidney W. Anderson, North Storms and A. Nelson Portman. Chicago Citizens' committee, Chi­ cago. Incorporators--Arthur B. Mc­ Coy, Edw. C. O'Brien and Charles Da­ vidson. William Hale Thompson Twenty- sixth Ward Republican club, Chicago. Incorporators--J. M. Halford, G. A Rath, John Freeding, Gustavo Beck, J. M. Straley, William Wesbry and Charles Hoysgard. Gamma Beta House Building Asso­ ciation of Kappa Sigma, Chicago. In­ corporators--Jewett D. Matthews, James A. Donovan and John E. Fos­ ter. Rock wood Badge room Badgerow company, Chicago; increased direc­ tors. County Board of Directors of A. O. of H., Chicago; directors Increased. Berledlte coinpany, Chicago; dis­ solved. _ Billdeck Motor company, Chicago; change of par value of stock. Illinois Third Vein Coal company, Chicago; $1,000,000*to $300,000. Waukegan Gets Next Meet. Delegates to the Illinois Letter Car­ riers' association pledged themselves to support President Wilson in his ef­ forts to preserve peace and "at the same tirffe maintain the honor and dignity" of the United States. Officers were elected as follows: President. W. W. Peterson, Peoria; vice-presi­ dent, F. W. Flink, Galesburg; secre­ tary', Clarence W. Becker, Springfield; treasurer, T. H. McCann, Rockford; sergeant-at-arms, A. S. Glass, Joliet; executive committee, Clyde W. Beck­ er, Moline; H. R. Parker, Elgin; O. L. Thorpe, Danville; H. C. Brohn, Qulncy; E. F. Stroble, Rock Island, and George Alback, Mattoon; organ­ ization committee, C. Al Young, Bloom­ ington; W. A. Young, Decatur; E. P. Dusinburg, Kankakee; J. W. Lackner, Evanston, and Nelson R. James, Free- port. Waukegan was awarded the 1916 convention. W. G. Dustin Heads Editors. Before the Illinois Press association adjourned in Chicago the following of­ ficers were elected: President. Col W. G. Dustin, Dwight Star and Her­ ald; first vice-president, Guy V. Petit, Reynolds Press; second vice-president, H. U. Bailey, Princeton Republican; third vice-president, Albert L. Hall, SL Charles Chronicle; secretary, John M. Sheets, Oblong Oracle; treasurer, J. B. McClure, Carlinville Democrat; aud- ifor, W. J. Smith, Waukegan Daily Sun; legislative agent, E. A. Snively. Illinois River Oelegates Named. Gov. Edward F. Dunne appointed the following delegates to the confer­ ence under the auspices of the Up-1 per Mississippi River association at Dubuque, la., June 9: H. C. Gardner, H. C. Barlow, Chicago; T. Edward Wilder, Chicago; Joy Morton. S. M. Hastings, Chicago; Henry B. Morgan, Peoria; Thomas F. Noon, Peru; IS. J. Barklow, Joliet; Frits Worm, L* Salle; Col. Fred H. Smith, Peoria, and M. W. Bussey, Charles F. Hough. Frank D. Brown and John B. Harris, Champaign. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS Duquoin,--The annual conference of Southern Illinois Methodist Episcopal churches will be held at Mount Vernon, week of September 29. Bishop James W. Bashford will preside. Springfield.--Local members of the Order of Eagles are making prepara­ tions to c?ntertaln 1.500 visitors at the annual meeting of the state aerie, June 15, 16 and 17. Carlinville.--State game commis­ sioners are having the waters seined at Beaver dam for large buffalo fish in order to obtain spawn to put in the Illinois river. Dundee.--Six Dundee churches each will receive $1,000 from the estate of the late Duncan Forbes, a pioneer set- - tier of Dundee. Mr. Forbes' estate !•' worth $100,000. - Virginia.--Mr. and Mrs. Cfcatrle* Troster celebrated their golden wed­ ding with a family reunion and din­ ner. Mr. Troster served through the Civil war with Illinois company-A. Fourteenth regiment. Murphysboro--W. J. Coppaway, half-breed Indian, was captured by Deputy Sheriffs J. W. Gibson and D. Reeder in the h'<Us South of Mur- physboro. He is charged with attack­ ing the eight year-old daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Cox, who wfere car­ ing for the three-year-old motherless daughter of Coppaway. Marion.--A marriage license was issued to Albert Drury, forty-twO ' years old, and Mandy J. Owen, fifty, both of Carterville. Before applying; tor the license Drury returned a li­ cense he had purchased on April 5 to marry Alice Bolen, forty-nine years old, of Carbondale. He explained the Carbondale woman "didn't just suit " him." . Princeton.--The cornerstone of Princeton's new $75,000 post office building was laid. Henry T. Burnap. grand master of the Masonic lodge of Illinois,' officiated. Five thousand people attended the exercises. In a speech which was greeted with patri­ otic demonstrations ex-Congressman Joseph V. Graff made an appeal for united support of the president in the crisis brought about through the sink­ ing of the Lusitania. Quincy.--Word was received that the third attempt of Harry McAdams. son of former State Senator John McAdams of this city, to end his life, had been successful in San Diego, CaL He rfhot himself. About two years a£o McAdams tried to commit suicide by jumping out of the window of a local hospital. Both legs .were broken, but he reco.ered. He also had tried previously to end his life by shoot­ ing himself. He was forty years old. His family is one of the most promi­ nent in this part of Illinois. He - leaves a widow, *uit no children. Aurora.--The Illinois Catholic union ; closed Its twenty-third session at SL Nicholas hall with a singing of "Amer­ ica." The 1916 convention was award­ ed to Springfield. Officers elected are as follows: President, August Selzer, Edwardsvllle; first vice-presi­ dent, Ludwig Shuerman, Decatur; sec­ ond vice-president, Peter Weiland, Aurora; corresponding and financial secretary, George N. Kramp, Spring­ field; recording secretary, Fred Qll- son, Chicago; treasurer, Michael Wals- dorf Chicago; executive committee, Paul Kosner, Chicago; George Lea­ ner, Bloomington, and Fred Troost. Peru. Danville.--Richard W. Sharp, a farmer of near Attica. Ind.t terrorised scores of people when he ran across the Wabash railroad bridge brandish­ ing a knife and uttering threats. Af- , ter several persons had had narrow escapes from thrusts of the knife. Sharp reached the south end of the bridge and was about to pass two women, Mrs. P. Howard of South Dan­ ville and her sister, Mrs. C. C. Jones of Girard, 111. Sharp seized Mrs. Jones and hurled her forty feet-down the hillside into a barbed wire fence. Mrs. Jones sustained only slight in­ juries, but Sharp was later arrested while hiding in s barn, and will be - prosecuted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Springfield.--You should take yoaf vacation in the middle ci January or early February if you wish it to do you the most good, according to Dr. R P. Norburyi former a'ienist of the state board of administration, who addressed the morning session of the Illinois State Mecical society here. He presented his talk with -the as­ sistance of scientifically compiled rec­ ords on a stereopticon chart and some 300 physician* of the state who were present seemed to be convinced that they should follow his advice if they wished to recuperate at a time when recuperation of the physical and men­ tal organs is moit needed. "We have an idea," he said, "that people need vacations in summer, but the need • much greater in January and Fehnt ary. For operatives in factories it hi eminently wise that the work should be light during the winter months and the highest point for speeding up , should come in June." - Danville--At coroner's Inquest for Miss Mary Moore, popular society girl killed near Alvln when racing car owned by Dan Beckwith went off high embankment, it was brought out that the girl was at the steering wheel. They had forgotten about the curve in the road. Beckwith attempted to grab the wheel, but was too late. Mise Moore was terribly crushed through the chest. Virginia.--The big hill two miles northwest of Literberry, which haa been the bane of autoists for years, is being cut down and the roadway widened. Danville.--Blood poisoning by trimming her corns too closely r* suited in the death of Mrs. Grace A*> kins of Covington, near here Jacksonville.--A few days ago a wolf was killed near this city by John Rex- roat. Many men searched for the Ut­ ter, which had been secreted by the mother, and Theodore Lacey located five whelps in a bunch of wild »vw berry bushes, and they are now la, captivity. Beardstown--The congregation Of the First Methodist Episcopal churefc has decided to ereet M4MW «tevN*» "vv'y . - - -,^'1 W; !.v^i