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Jacksonville (City and capital of Morgan co)

a city and capital of Morgan co., Ill.; on the Wabash, Chicago and Alton, the Chicago, Peoria ton and Quincy railroads; 34 miles W. of Springfield, the State capital. The city, which is popularly known as the "Athens of the West," is the seat of Illinois College, Illinois Woman's College, Illinois College of Music, Illinois State Institutions for the Education of Deaf JACMEL Mutes and the Blind, State Central Insane Hospital, Passavout Memorial and Our Saviour Hospitals. The city is the trade center for Morgan, Scott, and parts of Green and Cass counties; is largely concerned in the agricultural industry; has manufactories of woolen goods, candy, steel products, machinery, woven wire, pumps, and wind mills, boilers, brick and tile, paper, and flour. There are a National and other banks, daily, weekly, and semi-monthly periodicals.

Pop. (1900) 15,078; (1910) 15,326; (1920) 15,713.

JACMEL (zhäk-mel'), a seaport on the S. coast of Haiti, 30 miles S. W. of Port au Prince. It has a good anchorage. Pop., estimated, 10,000. JACOBS "The lege, Philadelphia; College of Pharmacy, New York; and the School of Medicine, Paris. Among her works are:

Value of Life"; "Hysteria, and_Other Essays"; "Studies in Primary Education." She died June 11, 1906. JACOBIN CLUB a a (jak'ō-bin), political organization, which bore prominent part in the French Revolution.