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4P9B^<-|>£^ .?jjl •?-i; iPFFTm^E^fl - %Y ..^••:V- sr:«•••'.. • #? •n*&': .m-M f i : ^ r ] ¥ ^ - : - r t f ^ - : l b i THE MeHENRY PLAINDEALER, McHENRY, ILlfe *: -'? ;.i1', O.'-i V,, •'." :-sT r'.' '- ;4'v£'?•-*• •'&»*'?••' >?..* Ir • «. ?'\ V '• 't"< :;.'v?i74^: is-'"•..' •:'<v! <£;••- ri--f..>L V..T-':s .-ft TO rest 5K0 COG V. AGRICULTURAL •**•experts predict short corn crop this J year. Farmers ad­ vised to test every grain of seed in order to avoid loss -situation serious By P. G. HOLDEN. HERE* will be a short corn ci-op this year and mil­ lions of dollars will be lost to the farmers if great care is not taken In selecting and testing the best ma- tured corn for this season's /41aX PlantIne- We may well take the warning to heart, for this section of the country lives and pros­ pers largely on the production of its land, and follow the advice of agricul­ tural scientists who can tell oUr peo­ ple how to escape heavy loss. This advice will work no hardship and no expense if followed. It will require a little careful work and sharp watch­ ing at a season of the year when the farmer is not overburdened with labor. Nineteen fifteen was a bad year for corn. A cold, wet season retarded the growth of the grain. The crop in many parts of the corn belt was Immature; it contains an excessive amount of water and is unfit for seed. The scarcity of seed corn is really the most serious ̂ jn many years. You farmers may say you are going to use seed from your 1914 crop. Don't trust it. The grain may have been damaged by the frost during the hard 1 I MM/.t-fl III" IMHI. VHHI . Duu'l LiUob it--test it. The high price of corn, too, on account of the war has near­ ly exhausted the 1914 crop and this source of supply then is not reliable. Missing Hills, Weak Stalks. There are about 800 kernels on the SYerage ear of corn. One poor seed means 800 weak, moldy or dead ker­ nels. If these are planted it means missing hills and weak stalks produc­ ing little or nothing. According to reports just received, every indication points to very serious trouble with seed corn, especially in sections lying north of central Illinois and in North Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michi­ gan and Iowa. •/ This community ought to get busy right now, for the prosperity of our community--our merchants, our bank­ ers, our builders, our workers--de­ pends on the prosperity of the farmers hereabouts. We ought to start a seed corn campaign. The county superin­ tendent of schools can reach the farm­ ers through the rural schoolteachers, who in turn will see that the children carry the message home. You bank­ ers, merchants and implement dealers who trade directly with the farmers ought to write personal letters urging them to go into this matter scientific­ ally. In short, all of us ought to mo­ bilize our forces, just as our nation would have to mobilize all its re­ sources in case of war. You farmers must not use PQor seed this spring. It means too much to all of us. Poor seed means not only a poor stand and a portion of the field idle, but that you must cultivate missing hills, one-stalk hills, and poor, worthless stalks, and receive nothing In return. Don't Work for Nothing. Thousands of people every year work more than a third of every day on ground that produces nothing. Do not depend for Beed on the occasional good ears selected during the husk­ ing period. The corn will be injured by freezing before it is husked or be­ fore it has had time to become dry after husking. Select the best ears, if you have not already done so, and string them on binder twine and hang up. Do not store seed corn in barrels or boxes. It will "gather moisture" and mold or freeze. Do not store over the stable. Do not put immature or fresh­ ly gathered seed corn in a warm room, on the floor, or in piles. It will either sprout, or mold, or both. It should be hung up at once, and the windows opened to allow the freest circulation of air. Do not depend on the crib for seed corn. • One day devoted to the seed corn, at the proper time, may be worth more than ah entire month of hard work next summer put on a poor stand of corn. • The attic is a good place to hang up the seed corn. There should be a cir­ culation of air through the room. A space three by eight feet will hold 200 strings of corn, twelve to fifteen ears to each string, or about enough to plant 200 acres. Three-fourths of this INTERESTING ITEMS A novelty for smokers is tobacco packed' in paper cartridges to be smoked in any pipe or in specially de­ signed tubes which resemble enlarged cigar holders. William Frederick Allen, who died recently at his home in Orange, N. J., at the age of seventy years, was the Inventor of the present method of com­ puting standard time in this country, which system has been adopted in nractically every civilized country. corn may be discarded after testing, but there will be enough seed to plant fifty acres, more than the average acreage on each farm. There are sev­ eral objections to the average cellar. It is apt to be too damp, and the corn must be well dried before putting in the cellar, and it must not be corded up or put in piles, but hung up. Will) Your Seed Corn Grow? It is only good business to know that the seed that you put into the ground will grow; and the only way you can tell good seed is by testing it. You fiiri't t<?!' hy mArAlv looking at it. If you want profitable yields, you must plant good seed. ^he ten million acres of corn plant­ ed in Iowa every year are grown in 217,000 farms, an average of about forty-six acres to each farm. It will take about 600 ears to plant forty acres. Twenty-four hours' time of one man, two days' work, will test six kernels from each ear to plant forty acres. Yet, because it 1b "too much bother," most of us pick out 600 ears, look at them, guess that they will grow, and plant them. As a consequence, more than twelve acres out of each forty acres of corn plant­ ed produce nothing. This is worse than useless, because one must plow, plant and cultivate these twelve acres and get nothing in return. By testing you get rid of the bad, weak, and moldy ears. Testing does not hurt the corn. It costs but about ten cents an acre, and can be done at a time of the year when other farm work is not pressing. By testing you have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Discard Poor Ears. In the winter, during a slack season or in the early spring, from February 20 to March 20, select the best ears from the corn you have stored in the fall and get ready to put them through the test. The sawdust germination box is no doubt the best method for testing seed corn. It costs nothing but a lit­ tle time and labor. It furnishes near­ ly natural conditions. It is not es­ sential that the box be of any particu­ lar size, although about thirty inches square and four or five inches deep will be found convenient. This size Will test 100 ears at a time. The sawdust is light, clean, and easy to get and handle in February and the first of March, when the test­ ing should be done; is a good noncon-' ductor of heat and cold, so that the temperature is kept even during ger­ mination, and holds the moisture so perfectly that there is no danger of drying out. The number of boxes required will depend upon the amount of seed to be tested and the time limit. After the germination boxes are made, inspect carefully the ears you are to test from the standpoint of the kernel. Take two or three kernels from each ear, about a third of the length of the ear from the butt. Lay them germ-Bide up at the tip of the ear from which they were taken. If the kernels are small, wedge-shaped, nar­ row, shallow, too deep, or if they show immaturity, starchiness, a ten­ dency to mold, or if the germs are small, or shriveled, discard the ear. Remove six kernels from six differ­ ent places on each ear you have se­ lected to test, taking two from near the butt on the opposite sides of the ear, two from near the tip, turning the ear enough BO as not to take two kernels out of the same row. How to Test Seed Com. Fill the box about half full of moist sawdust, well pressed down, so as to The examination of fairly accurate records has convinced scientists that there has been no appreciable change in the climate of northern Europe in 1,800 years. Instead of a wind shield that might interfere with the vision a motor cy­ cle can now carry a device that de­ flects the air currents and dust above a rider's head. The attorney general of New York state is handling 8,233 cases, involv­ ing over $150,000,000 in money and property /ourgupjzgD carur JZAR3 u&e rma leave a smooth, even surface. The sawdust should be put in a gunnysack and set in a tub of warm water for at least an hour (or still better, over night) so that it will be thoroughly moistened before using. Rule off a (sheeting), about the size of the box, into squares, two and one-half inches each way. Number the squares, 1, 2, 8, etc. Place the cloth on the saw­ dust and tack it to the box at the corners and edges. Use care that the kernels do not get mixed with those from the ear next to it. After the kernels are removed, boards may be laid over the rows of ears to keep them in place until the result of the germination test is known. Place the six kernels from ear No. 1 in square No. 1 of the germination box; from ear No. 2 In square No. 2, and so on with all the ears. Lay a piece of good cloth (a good quality of sheeting) on top of the kernels and dampen it. Press the cloth down gently with the palm of hand, being careful not to misplace the kernels in the squares. Now place over this cloth another cloth of the same material, consider­ ably larger than the first one (about six feet Bquare), and fill in on top with two or three incheB of moist, .warm sawdust. Pack it down firmly with a brick or with the feet. The edges of the cover should then be folded over the sawdust in the box to prevent drying out. Now set the box away until the kernels sprout Keep in an ordinary warm place, like the living room, where it will not freeze. The kernels will germinate in about eight days. Remove the cover carefully to avoid misplacing the kernels in the squares. Examine the kernels in each square in the germination box, and discard all ears whose kernels in the box are dead, moldy, or show weak germina­ tion. Caring for Seed Corn. If the kernels show weak, spindling sprouts, or a part of them are very weak and uneven, the ear should be thrown out to make place for an ear whose kernels give strong, vigorous sprouts. Remember that the kernels which are slow to Bprout, and are weak, will be behind the strong ones in the field. After the seed has been sorted, test­ ed, shelled, and graded for the planter, and the bad kernels removed, it should be placed in half-bushel sacks and hung up in a dry place. Put in sacks, separate from the rest, the seed from the best 100 ears. When planting, use the seed from "the best 100 ears" on one side of the field from which to pick your seed corn for the next year's planting. We cannot afford to neglect this im­ portant work. If every farmer would test every ear of his seed corn in (he winter in the way described above, the yield would be wonderfully in­ creased. No other time will be so profitable to the farmer as that spent in testing the vitality of his seed and in grading to insure the planter drop­ ping the proper number of kernels in each hill. It is possible for every­ one to do this work. It will cost noth­ ing but the time, of which there is plenty at the season when the work should be done. 3:>? allli •JV v -.o NVO S Mgv. i '•S ^ 85 V- ,• • v ^ ILLINOIS STATE NEWS Low-Grade Melody. Walker--I'm thinking seriously ol investing in an automobile. Ryder--Well, I've got a little beauty that I'll sell to you for a mere song. Walker--For a mere song, eh? To the tune of what? Ryder--"Old Hundred." He Knew. Professor--Tell me what are Bome of the uses of hot air? * . • Student (absently)--Well, in of«ory it is especially useful in warming up an audience to the subject. Eldorado.--George Buckalew, thirty- eight years old, of Crayneville, Ky., a machine man in Watson coal mines, three miles west of Eldorado, was killed by falling coal. Bush.--The new $20,000 high school was dedicated by W. H. Boota of Springfield, assistant superin­ tendent cf public schools. The school adjoins the new Y. M. C. A., which cost $26,000. Elgin.--Alonzo A. Jones, ninety-five years old, said to have been the oldest member of the G. A. R.. died at his home here. He was a member of the Elgin post No, 49, G. A. R., and served in the Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volun­ teer infantry. Chicago.--The sixteenth annual Na­ tional Automobile show was opened Saturday in the Coliseum, with hun­ dreds of dealer?, prospective buyers and casual visitors filling the wide aisles between the exhibits. This- year's show is the largest and costli­ est auto display ever staged. Visitors declared that it eclipses the recent exposition In New York. - Decatur.--Over 300 leading Meth­ odists from all over the Illinois con­ ference attended an evangelistic con­ ference here, the purpose being a for­ ward movement in evangelistic work. Among the morning speakers were Mishap McDowell of Chicago, Bishop Henderson of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Kev. J. W. Van Cleve, superintendent of the Decatur district. Chicago.--A bandit, accompanied by n woman, in broad daylight robbed the tourist agency of Thomas A. Cook & Sons of $900, wounded the cashier, killed a policeman, and escaped. Ac­ cording to the police, the deed was the most daring of years in this city. It was accomplished on one of the busi­ est streets of the downtown district at an hour when the thoroughfare was congested with automobiles and work­ ers on their way home. Springfield.--Officers of the Illinois Stock Breeders' association were oletced here as follows: Presi­ dent, Charles Adkins, Bement; vice- president, J. Y. Caldwell, Williams- ville; secretary-treasurer, Dr. A. T. Peters, Peoria. This city was select­ ed as the place for the 1917 meeting. Mrs. Scott Durand of Lake Forest, who spoke before the night session, told the stock breeders that when she gets her money from the state legis­ lature to reimburse her for cattle slain by federal authorities she will W«»y noftlo Galena. -- Posses of .farmers are searching for the slayers of Herman Running, a recluse, seventy years old, who was found dying at his cabin in the hills a few miles north of this city. A splinter had been driven into his brain. It is believed by the author­ ities here that the aged miser was murdered for his money. Many stories have been told to the fact that he had an enormous fortune buried Bome- where about his cabin, and it is be­ lieved that the murderers had heard these tales and killed him in the hope that they might find his cache. Springfield.--Eighty per cent of the corn in northern Illinois is soft, ac­ cording to B. M. Davison, secretary of the state board of agriculture, who said the cause was early froBts and heavy late rains, which retarded the ripening of the grain. "If the corn is fed as part of a properly balanced ra­ tion, cattle shoui '. not be affecieu be­ yond a slight Intestinal difficulty," said Mr. Davidson. "The real trouble will start in the spring and summer, after the corn has dried out. This will de­ velop a black dry mold, which will kill hogs as fast as it is fed to them. The mold makes the stock swell up until they fairly burst." Only a slight per­ centage of the corn in the central part of the state is soft, according to Mr. Davidson, and virtually none in south­ ern Illinois. Chicago.--State Superintendent of Insurance Rufus M. PottB scored a vic­ tory in the antitrust suit brought by him against the Aachen-Munich Fire Insurance company and 102 other fire insurance companies when Judge James A. Creighton in the Sangamon county circuit court overruled a de­ murrer by the defendants to the com­ plainant's bill for injunction which charges that they are operating in Illinois under a rate fixing combine in restraint of competition. Judge Creigh- ton's decision means that all of the defendant companies will have to go to trial in the injunction suit. The defendants claimed in their demurrer that there was no equity in the bill of complaint and that Insurance Super­ intendent Potts had no right to bring the suit. They contended that the proceedings would have to be started by the attorney general. The court in giving its decision ruled that Super­ intendent Potts was the proper official to bring the suit and held that the attorney general should act as coun­ sel for the complaint. Centralia.--The grand jury returned 31 indictmentB, 18 of which were against alleged Centralia bootleggers. State's Attorney Finn stated that moBt of the cases will be set for the pres­ ent term of circuit court. Springfield.--Good roads champions won in the house when that branch of the legislature passed the senate bill validating the $2,000,000 good roads bonds ratified by Cook county voters, upon which there was a cloud. The bill now goes to Governor Dunne for his signature. The bill eliminating the March 21 registration, saving $200,000, passed the house. Murphysboro.--Dr. C. C. Grizzell, a Mason, and one of the oldest practi­ tioners in southern Illinois, died at his home here. The funeral will be held in Murphysboro and the- body will be buried at Ava. Duquoin.--Mr. and Mrs. Wesley F. Fallon, pioneer residents cf this city, observed their golden wedding anni­ versary. Telegrams and letters of congratulation were received from rel­ atives and friends in Duquoin, Kansas, Roswetl. N. M., and East St. Louis. Mr. Fallon served with the Union i-my and tor years has been a justice y* the peace here. NOT AN EASY JOB THi* e* SySljKS Sfttme I ^ N-\-V WASHINGTON VTA*. HITS BAN ON TRADE SENATOR SMITH WANTS COTTON EMBARGO LIFTED. X. Seorgia Statesman Says Noncombat- ants in Teutonic Nations Should Be Supplied--Not Contraband. Washington, Jan. 22.--Great Brit­ ain's interference with neutral trade waB the subject of a vigorous and ex­ haustive speech in the senate on Thursday by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, who pleaded for action to prevent England from advancing her awn trade at the expense of the Uni­ ted States while attempting to destroy Germany commercially. He declared the rights of citizens of the United States and other neutral nations were being recklessly disregarded and em­ phasized particularly what he de­ nounced as Great Britain's lawless trflstmpnt nf American cotton trade. Discussing the actioil of the allies In proclaiming cotton as a contraband, thb senator asserted that cotton had not been used or needed by Germany or her allies in the manutacture of war munitions for more than eight months. "Shall we quietly continue to fur­ nish Great Britain what she is com­ pelled to obtain from the United States while the commercial rights of citi­ zens of this country are trampled un­ derfoot?" asked the senator. "Grept Britain cannot continue the war with­ out munitions from the United States. "The administration has forcefully brought to the attention of Great Brit­ ain the rights of citizens of this coun­ try. It has been demonstrated that citizens of neutral countries have the right to ship foodstuffs and cotton in unlimited quantities through the neu­ tral ports of northern Europe to the noncombatant Inhabitants of Germany and Austria. "The congress of the United States slept over the rights of shippers of foodstuffs last winter. This was, per­ haps, because the prices were good, perhaps because we did not investi­ gate the subject. The lawlessness of Great Britain has Increased greatly. "By firmness, but peacefully, neu­ trals can easily obtain their rights from both belligerents." $70,000 BANK DRAFTS STOLEN Thieves Secure and Loot Pouch Being Taken From Post Office in New­ ton (la.) to Train. Newton, la., Jan. 24.--Bank drafts with an estimated value of $70,000 and a small amount of money were in a mall pouch stolen and rifled here after the outbound mail left the post office. Three arrests were made, the prison­ ers being held for investigation. The robbers who took the pouch from the depot burned it after they had rifled it. A Bteel hasp which had been on the sack was found in a clump of bushes near the edge of town. An ef­ fort is being made to stop payment an the bank drafts. GEN. WOOD WARNS U. S. ARMY CHIEF ASKS FOR UNIVER­ SAL MILITARY SERVICE. Urges 210,000 Regulars for American Force--Country Is Utterly Un­ prepared for War. Washington, Jan. 21.--MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood told the senate mili­ tary committee on Wednesday the coast line of the United States was open to attack by any well-organized foreign army, despite its equipment of forts, mines and submarines, and that the oceans formed no serious barrier to invasion. He declared that in the country's present state of utter unpre- paredness for war a trained force of 150,000 men could Inflict Incalculable damage before an army could be as­ sembled to meet it. Emphasizing his convictions that troops cannot be improvised to meet regulars, General Wood declared iim fundamental basis of any policy of adequate national defense must be the principle that with suffrage goes an obligation for military service. As to the immediate needs of the regular army, General Wood ex­ pressed the opinion that the force of regulars with the colors should be maintained at 210,000. Reverting to the condition of the country to face war with a first-class power, the general said the United States was utterly unprepared and knew nothing of the problems It would have to meet. At least 2,000,000 men would be needed, he declared, and they could be obtained, he be­ lieved, only by conipulsory service. SPARKS FROM THE WIRE Marshal Ousted; Let Spy Escape. Washington, Jan. 24.--F. J. John­ son, deputy United States marshal, who was in charge of Ignatius T. T. Lincoln, confessed German spy, when the latter escaped from custody in Brooklyn last Saturday, was removed from office by direction of Attorney General Gregory. - 2,000 Shopmen Get Increase. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 25.--About two thousand shopmen of the Delaware & Hudson company between this city and Scranton, Pa., have been granted an increase of pne cent an hour, to take effect February 1. Choir Boy Robs Big Church. Philadelphia, Jan. 25.--George F. Davis, seventeen-year-old choir boy at the St. Mark's Episcopal church, is in custody following the finding on Saturday of church property valued at $10,000 in his home. Chicago, Jan. 22.--John J. Halpln, convicted of accepting bribes from criminals while chief of detectives, on Thursday was sentenced to "one to five years" in the Joliet penitentiary. He went to the county jail through failure to get a supreme court writ staying sentence. Captain Halpln's at­ torney will go before Judge Orrin Carter of the supreme court asking a writ of supersedeas to stay sentence pending supreme court action on the appeal for a new trial. Halpln was convicted of accepting bribes from criminals. London, Jan. 22.--Reports that the entente allies have delivered an^ulti- matum to Greece demanding an im­ mediate dismissal of all diplomats of the central powers were strengthened by dispatches from Sofia. The critical situation in Greece is greatly Intensi­ fied despite the official denial of an ultimatum issued here. A dispatch to the Star from Sofia says: "France and Great Britain have pre­ sented an ultimatum to the Greek gov­ ernment requiring the dismissal of the diplomatic representatives and consuls of the central powers. Peking. Jan. 24.--The rebels in the province of Yunnan have defeated a body of government troops and are moving northward. Athens, Jan. 24.--Austria has of- j fered peace terms to Serbia, according f to reports received here from a re- { liable source. WOULD HAVE GAME REFUGf • Writer Tells of Remarkable Possibly 'Mm of ttle Gatun Lake Region for the Purpose. While there is little likelihood of any species (of fauna) living within the jungle becoming extinct, it would require but JifctJe effort to make tbt Gatun Lake region a wonderful out­ door zoological garden that would prove almost as interesting to visitors as the game refuges along the govern- ment railroad in British Blast Africa. Wliile breakfasting on the hoiuw* boat a strange, uncouth sound cam* from the hills to the west, rising and falling in a torrent of guttural notes* It was the first greeting of the "black howler," the largest of the South Amei^can monkeys, whose uproarioos conduct, whether in tribal converai^. tion, In protestation against man <Kt the weather, was a source of aatonisfe* ment thereafter. My friend Fuertes, the Mrd artlil and naturalist, whose mimicry of bird notes is quite equal to the fidelity 0C his brush, declares that the noise of the "howler" is by far the most strife. ing sound in the American tropic^ being "a deep, throaty, bass roar, with something of the quality of grunting pigs or of the barking bellow of a bull alligator or an ostrich. The noise wai as loud as the full-throated roaring of lions, and its marvelous carrying pow­ er was frequently attested when vf* heard it from the far Bid# of soniii great Andean valley. It is a popular belief on the isti^-' mus that the "black howler" is an i||». fallible weather prophet, and esj*^- cially so in predicting a shower. *- So far as we could discover. It WAS only when the clouds blackened over­ head and the first preliminary drops began to fall that this prognosticatqr considered it safe to commit himseU in the forecast.--George Shiras HI, ^ - the National Geographic Magazine. Cases of Longevity. Of the oldest living people at present time is Captain Diamoqd, who has just completed his one hhndred and nineteenth year. He is to tw mentioned first on account of an e»* traordinary lissomeness. He directs a gvmnastical institute in California^ In Germany there exists a woman, widow of a clergyman, named DucWh wicki, in Posen, who has reached her one hundred and thirty-first year. Bnt she is very stiff. The Russian sub- officer Budnihow has celebrated hfS one hundred and thirty-third birthday anniversary. In 1812 he fought against Napoleon. A Russian in Tomsk is aged one hundred and forty-six years. He must be the oldest man alivs. Franz Drachenberg. a Norwegian, now dead, attained the age or one hundred and forty-six. An English farmer named Thomas Parr, who died in 1638w lived one hundred and fifty-two years,' and had lived under ten English rul> ers. Josef Surrington, who died In 1797 in Bergen, was one hundred and sixty years old, and had two sons, tha one son one hundred and three years old and the youngest nine years of age. An Englishman named Jenkins died in 1670, at the age of one hundred and sixty-nine, and when he had reached one hundred years was still • champion swimmer. At one time h* had to appear in court to testify co?* cerning something that had takqn place one hundred and forty years be­ fore. He left two sons, who reached the respective ages of one hundred and two and one hundred years. Thomas Cam, an Englishman, reached the age of two hundred and seven years. Methuselah, as we all know, Is said to have reached the age of niua hundred and sixty-nine yean I-- nental News. Electricity in a Sandstorm. A curious story was related by Mr W. J. Harding King In a lecture 0a "The Nature and Formation of Sand Ripples and Dunes," at a meeting of the Royal Geographical society in Lon­ don. "Electrical phenomena in connection with sandstorms are often very marked," said Mr. King, who has spent seven winters in the Algerian Saham and the Libyan desert. "One evening,** he continued, "after an unusually bad sandstorm in the Libyan desert, when I picked up a woolen burnous and shook it to get rid of the sand, tt blazed literally all over with sparkv and when I put my finger near mjr blankets I drew a spark that I could very faintly feel. "I have heard on rather doabtfal authority, of a brush discharge about six inches long on the ears of a camel during an unusually bad sandstorm from the south. When this hot south wind is blowing the air is probably ua- usually dry. and this, of course, would contribute to electrical phenomena. It Is possible that electricity from these storms may account for the high per> rentage of ozone that Luttel found in the air of the Libyan desert." Colonel House Leaves Paris. Paris, Jan. 25--Col. E. M. House, President Wilson's personal represen­ tative, spent Sunday as the guest of the American ambassador and Mrs. William Graves Sharp. He left later for Switzerland. Raid Homes Seeking Liquors. Seattle, Jan. 22.--The homes of two wealthy lumbermen were entered by deputy sheriffs and large quantities af wines and liquors confiscated, in­ cluding old champagnes valued at more than $60 a quart. Chicago Train Is Wrecked. Trenton, Mo., Jan. 22.--Louis (Jol­ lier, engineer, of Trenton, Mo., was killed and four trainmen w;ere injured near here when a double-header train on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad was derailed. Norwegian.City Swept by Fire. Copenhagen, Jan. 25.--Most of the old Norwegian town of Molde has been reduced to ashes as the result ot a conflagration which swept the town | on Saturday. Almost 2,000 persons are homeless. Capture Much Territory. Amsterdam, Jan. 24.--The German allies have captured 29,140,000 square miles of territory since the war began. The other captures by the German allies include 3,000,000 prisoners and 19,000 guns. Deficiency Bill Passes. Washington, Jan. 24.--The hoase passed the urgent deficiency bill, ap­ propriating approximately |12,l'00,G60 to make up deficiencies In varisus government departments for tie feat fiscal year. Marrying Off the "Broken Heroes.'* A League for the Marrying of Bro­ ken Heroes has been formed In Eng­ land, and its founder, a Bristol clergy* man, is bunting for women who are prepared to take "broken heroes" to their hearts. There is a sharp dt» vision of opinion on this Interesting ; ;; | human problem among women who ^ lead various "movements." Sylvlsl^--^ Pankhurst says, "Marriages ought to be made in heaven. I don't think the^ league will serve any useful purpose."?' Lady Limerick, on the other hand. finds the idea "splendid." and believes that the "utter darkness of these livesi, , can be dispelled only by a woman'a.fv f love." The Marchioness Of Townshend, ^ calls the plan "ridiculous" and "would^| not think much of a girl who joined| : ^ the league." Lady Byron, however. iai»<' • "*/ ;; In favor of it and thinks "it might beK' .'If j carried out in all classes of society."1 We do not know yet what - "heroes" think.--Harper's Bazar. tiu-a Note Voyaged Sixteen Years. m * -1 -»• - ' 'is The oldest note ever cast up from^ •' . :V, the sea was picked up a few days agof-'* * £ on the ocean besch near Moclips, Wash. It was thrown overboard in a^ bottle from the schooner Transit, en route from Honolulu to San Francisco, August 10, 1899. The note is ip perfect" condition, despite !ia sixtftQ yesrsT vsp age in the bottle.