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served. Anna flushed Usually she never
minded Bellies criticism. But her mother
and brother and father had rerna rked the
same thing. And Anna herself had hated
the hat as soon as she found herself out
side the shop. And also she had paid
twice as much for it as she could af-
ford. So she was annoyed.
Il don't particularly admire yours"
snapped Anna.
Ordinarily Belle wouldn't have been
offended. But she was cross. She re-
torted; Anna snapped again; and five min
utes later Belle. her face flushed with
anger, was tearing through the heavy
rain to her own home. The next day
when they met at church Anna, glancing
up furtively TO see if Belle Intended to
be friendly again. saw a flushed, angry
face. Belle, glancing furtively around d
moment later to if Anna We're re-
morseful. met two cold eyes. And after
that neither would make an advance.
Every week made the breach wider
The months hurried into years And it
remained. Each suffered. but neither
Then the little girls were born. Each
looked furtively at the other baby and
was glad and proud that her own was
the prettier. The babies grew. became
three years old. five and six years old.
and started to school. BY that time the
Tracys had moved north to be near the
lumber yard. so the children attended
the same school. Both were pretty little
girls who resembled their mothers, and
both kept the remainder OF the school in
ferment of envy over their clothes
Dainty lace frilled dresses. white buck
skin shoes. hair ribbons-Anna was de-
termined that her child should outshine
Bellies. and Belle was equally determined
that she shouldn't.
The teachers frowned thoughtfully in
private. The effect upon the other chill
dren, whose mothers had not the same
money or the same spirit, was not good.
One, younger and more impuisive than
the others, threatened at teachers
meeting to write plainly to Mrs. Jerrod
and Mrs. Tracy just what she thought
of them. But the others dissuaded her
The years went on. Small Anna strut
ted to school pretty picture. Small
Belle was a little peacock and preened
herself with frank conceit. Both were
pretty, and when they were playing fast
and hard forgot vanity. Then they were
simply two gay children. spoiled, but
favorites i'm the playground, as their
mothers had been in that same play
ground twenty years before.
And while each at times reflected the
parental attitude, at times they forgot
and, by some Unborn affinity. sought each
others company and exhibited great sat
isfaction in it.
But neither mother knew that. If either
had-well, Belle probably would have ig-
nored her husbands convenience and
moved back to the south side. And Anna
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likely would have ordered her daughter
to quit speaking to small Belle.
If Belle had known that when she gave
her daughter a party on her ninth birth
day-a glorious affair of pink ice cream,
candies and four kinds of cake-small
Belle said. regretfully, to small Anna,
I wish / could invite you. but my mann
ma doesn't like your mamma and at
that small Anna replied, scornfully, hid
ing her sorrow. Never mind, ! don't
want to come to your old party. My
mamma feels the same way perhaps
the feud would have ended
The next week Anna gave more glori-
Gus party for her daughter, who boastful-
ly described it to small Belle. who, in
turn, was ScOrnfu1
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Women's Vote Grows.
(THE END.)
To the Editor Of The Star:

The official organ OF the National AS
ISOLATION Opposed to Woman Suffrage
says in its August issue: I'm Massachu-
sets, where women have had the school
vote for many years, the women's vote
has steadily fallen off," In the twenty
years from 1890 to 1910 the women's
school vote averaged 1900. In 1911 it
rose to %. 755, and in 1912 to 1927
This is fair sample of the glaring in
accuracies which the opponents Of equal
suffrage scatter broadcast
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
President Massachusetts Woman Suffrage
Association. 1hilmark, Mass.
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THE EVENING STORY.
THEIR DAUGHTERS.
Copyright, 1918. by W. Werner,

Copyright, 1918. by W. werner.)
The feud was silly. Each woman in
her heart was ashamed of 1t. Ten years
before Anna Ream and Belle Wiskins
had sat together in high school. got their
lessons together. planned their graduation
gowns from the same fashion plate, and
agreed solemnly that when they were
married they would live in houses side
by side and raise their children with the
benefit of the others counsel
Three years later they were married
They each had baby girl a year old,
and when they passed on the streets of
the small city where they had grown up
together Anna Jerrod's brilliant brown
eyes snapped with something perilously
like hate and Belle Tracy tilted her
pretty white chin to an angle that en-
pressed absolute scorn. And they did not
speak.
Each had pretty cottage-Anna in
the north end of town, Belle in the
south. Their husbands We're casually
civil, neither having any dislike for the
other. but each debarred from making a
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AGREED SOLEAfNLY THAT WHEN
THEY WEIRD MARRIED THEY
WOULD LIVE SIDE BY SIDE.

friendly advance by his wifes attitude
Will Jerrod had been born in the town
and grown up with the two girls. Everett
Tracy had come In three years before to
take charge Of the new lumber yards.
Will Jerrod was an architect.
Each man made q comfortable but not
luxurious living. Anna knew that her
parlor was furnished about the same
style Is Bellies. Belle knew that while
her piano cost a hundred dollars more
than Annals, Anna had better rugs. They
moved in the same set, but hostesses
learned not 10 put them at the same card
table.
They don't speak, you know" Mrs
Gillett. wife OF the bank cashier. ex-
planned. YEARLY. as for the seventh time
she arranged the places at her dinner
table SO that neither Will nor Belle nor
Anna nor Everett should be next or face
each other.
.'Why?" asked the girl from another
town who was visiting her.
mo one knows. And they won't tell"
OF course. they wouldn't tell Each
was ashamed. The beginning had been
10 trivial A rainy day when both felt
dumpish and Anna was irritated because
a dressmaker had spoiled new dress
and Belle had been cross because her new
shoes hurt her. and an liberated tooth
shot pain, and the rain had drenched a
maline toque. They were in Annals bed
room.
Il don't think you look particulars.
we'll in that green hat" Belle had OBJ
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And two teachers who happened to
overhear sighed
!. happened tnat Tor two or three years
Anna and Belle had not met eycent on
the downtown streets. where it was easy
TO see each other. or at parlors, where
one could be busy in conversation with
some one else and so have preoccupied
eyes
They met one afternoon on a deserted
SIDE street as they passed the high board
fence of vacant square of ground much
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reapers was the need next recognized,
and this WAS
1hraSher Invention patented in 1875
Follows Harvester. - ~ ." , riae"t sor
binding. This was found Objectionable
in the handling of the grain and single
thread bind-twine was substituted. BY
1889 this had been perfected. and by 1854
all steel machinery was in use. By 1880
the complete harvester. including ball
bearings for all of the parts, was In full
working order These machines depended
upon horses for propellng power. Now
the motor is replacing the horse on many
great modern farms.
Thrashing by hand with the old-time
fiall was a more tedious and laboriouS
process than cutting the grain with Il
scythe, so the invention of teh thrashing
machine was almost necessary as the
reaper, and il was patented about the
same time. In 1881 the first patent WAS
awarded for a machine for thrashing anu
cleaning the grain.
These portable thrashng machines have
been familiar figures in farming regions
for the past half century A machine will
travel from farm to farm. caring for
grain in a few hours which would have
taken a number Of men several weeks to
thrash less perfectly. Now the great
farms Of the west employ a combined
harvester and thrasher which in a few
minutes cuts. thfdsneS, WlnnOWS ana
puts in sacks the wheat. at cost OF
l.2o an acre.
Strange to say. the development OF
machinery for preparing the ground and
sowing the seed came after that for
harvesting the ripened grain, but this.
too, was essential to the furnishing Of
the present worlds bread supply.
The early pillow used by the American
colonist was OF wood. sometimes strength
ened by an iron plate. The first all-iron
pillow, invented in 1T97 by Charles New
bold OF New Jersey, was received with
disfavor by the farmers, who believed
that the iron would poison the soil
The cast-iron pillow. with changeable
parts, was invented in 1919, and it was
used until the invention of the Oliver
chilled iron pillow which is now SO well
known. Steam plows are being used for
the great western wheat fields. Some of
them have a Sixty-horsepower engine
and can break from eighty to a hundred
acres in day.
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age yield was raised to twenty-one
bushels an acre. and by the supply of
complete fertilizer, including all the
elements. the yield rose to thirty-five
times the average yield of American
wheat fields. In this connection it must
be noted. however. that in England the
grade OF American wheat is recognized
as the standard of 100, while that of the
homegrown is only sixty-five in COM
parison.
j: x
Tie development o. American ma
chinery has had a most important in
American Machinery the increase
Important Influence. raised white
bread. because it. has made possible the
handling Of grain with a speed and
facility which would have been impossi
Bile under the older methods Of harvest
ing and handling. 1t is said that the in
ventor of the reaper has been as great
a benefactor to humanity in the produc-
ton of food as was the inventor Of the
cotton gin in the production of clothing.
The mechanical reaper doubled the
production of wheat per capita in this
country, and also released a large pro-
portion of the agricultural population
for other industries. thereby indirectly
aiding in the industrial advancement Of
the country.
The first reaper was invented by Obed
Hussey in Ohio in 1913. but little notice
was attracted to it. Other men had the
idea I'm mind and the machine was
patented by Cyrus Mccormick i'm 1881.
The first Mccormick reaper was pro-
PEELED by horses and the motion for OPP
Grating the different parts was derived
from the outer of two wheels. 1t includ-
ed a serrated reciprocating blade for cut
ting the grain, operated in fingers for
supporting the grain being cut, and a
platform to receive the cut grain depos-
tied upon it by sort of reel This ma
chine cut grain slowly and imperfectly
as compared with the great and intricate
harvesting machinery in use today. but
it worked an agricultural revolution
In 1858 the March brothers of Illinois
invented machine which would deliver
a swath of grain into a receptacle in the
machine where two men standing could
bind it as fast as it was cut.
BY 1865 fifty of these machines were
built. The scarcity of farm help due to
the number of men enlisted as soldiers
during the civil war was influential in
establishing the use of both the harvester
and the binding machine which could
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Tie development o. American ma
chinery has had a most important in
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made possible by the wonderful American
machinery. have gone far toward estab-
fishing the first requisite The second
that of moisture, must be largely unde-
terminate each year because of the vary
ing quantity of rainfall.
The means by which the strength of
wheat usually has been determined was
the baking of sample leaves of bread
from small quantity of flour milled
from a consignment A strong flour makes
large, we'll raised loaf. uniformly po-
rous in texture Weak wheat makes
small fiat loaf. This test is not accurate.
however. because of the various condi-
tons entering into the process of bread
making.
The farmers part in the production of
bread concludes only with the delivering
of the wheat either to the miller or the
commission merchant. He has all the re-
sponsibility of preparing the soil. in
which process he has all the help which
modern science can give regarding the
fertilization to be added to supply any
lacking chemical quality.
Great natural water falls, such as
Niagara Falls, have been made to drive
dynamos and
Fertilizers to Aid the. electricity
in Enriching Fields. has been emu
pioyed to combine the free nitrogen of
the air with some other product which
will give to the farmer the chemical
quality his soil requires. Formerly large
quantities of guano from Peru and nj
trate of soda from Chill We're imported
for the development Of American wheat
land. With the threatened exhaustion of
these products came the chemical devel-
opment Of two new heterogeneous ferti-
liZers. which can be supplied at price
quite within reach of the average farmer.
In Norway and Germany as we'll as in
this country great electro chemical lab
Oratories operated by natural water pow
err have been established which are sup
plying fertilizers to aid the farmer enrich
his wheat field.
The effect of supplying additional
nitrogen to the soil has seemed almost
impossible. but Is attested by actual
chemical experiments. Tests made show
greater gain In England than in the
United States, probably because the
smaller farm areas of England develop
more concentrated methods of work
When the average crop was thirteen
bushels an acre without the use Of fer
tilizer. it was increased at an English
experiment station to fifteen bushels by
the Introduction of fertilizer contain
ing phosphorus, lime, potash and all the
other elements OF plant food except
nitrogen.
When nitrogen was supplied the aver
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James f. Ryan. sixty years old, a re-
tired grocer. is dead at the home of his
William f. Nuzum He
drank a disinfectant by mistake
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care for a large crop of grain with three
or four men.

The automatic binding attachment to
reapers was the need next recognized.
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disposing of a fine collection of paint
ings gathered by the aforesaid mil
lionaire from the art centers Of the
world.
This is the situation when the cur
tain goes up on the first act of off
Ger 666." the farce which will be pre-
scented at the Oliver Saturday matinee
and night, Sept. p.
In working out the story of the
play. the rich young man induces a
policeman on his block to lend him
his uniform, and while he is masquer-
aiding as a copper" to catch the
burglar, the real officer becomes the
milliOnaire's cook. The burglar. in
the meantime is allowed TO continue in
possession Of the bachelors quarters,
but is eventually trapped and com
PEELED TO return his plumber. All these
events are worked out with speed and
precision during the three acts in
which Augustin MacHugh, the author
of Officer $685. takes 10 tell the
story that is said to be chOck full OF
surprising situations. smart chatter
and Snappy epigrams.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-20
"THE BLUE MOUSE"

Get Ready! Get Set! Go, by all
means TO the Auditorium next week,
for it is to be fun week at the pop
ular playhouse and rollicking comedy
will be the order of things as the
Grayce Scott players will present one
of the funniest plays ever written,
THE Blue Mouse"
The late Clyde Fitch wrote many
plays and wrote with remarkable ra >
pidity and wonderful success, yet no
play that bears his name proved so
popular and such a laugh producer
and chaser of the blues as the comedy
which ran for one year at the Lyric
theater, New York, and which the
popular players VIII present here be-
ginning with next Sundays matinee.
The situations of the play are
unique. the fun begins with the rise
of the curtain and you will never stop
laughing until long after you have left
the theater The story concerns Au-
gustus Lewellyn. the president of a
railroad, who has weakness for pref
~ women. and his secretary, Angus
tus ROllette who is ambitious TO be
promoted To be division superintend-
ent of the railroad. Rollette has Sc
cretly been married and is seeking the
promotion in order to make a hit with
his father-in-law. Knowing Lew
ellyn's weakness, Rollette. for stipu-
lated sum engages a celebrated Salome
dancer known as the Blue Mouse"
because Of her size and the color of
the gowns she always wears, to APP
pear as his wife and weedle the old
man into promoting her supposed hus-
band.
OF course Lewellyn, in the presence
OF the Blue Mouse" forgetS that
there is a Mrs. Lewellyn and that she
is very jealous. until she happens In
his office and then the real Mrs.
Rollette appearing on the scene to-
gether with several others who hap
pen TO show up at the wrong time, a
series of complications follow that are
guaranteed 10 exceed the speed limit
on hilarity and 10 make ones sides
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-20
TRAVEL LECTURE

The travel-lecture season will be
opened this fall by Mr.. r. " Newman,
who comes to the oliver opera house
on five successive Tuesdays, beginning
October IA. The new subjects will
embrace London" Paris" Rome. -
Florence and Venice" and Vienna, f."
EurOpe's most interesting cities Mr.
Newman spent six months in these
cities during the past spring and sum-
mer. so that his color views and mo-
tion-pictures are all new and will
show the objects of greatest interest.
from a literary historical and artis-
tic viewpoint IT is Mr.. Newman's
purpose to portray different phases
Of the life from those before present
ed by travel-lecturers.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-20
THE COLUMBIA

Last night was amateur night at
the Columbia and il proved to be one
continual round of laughs applause
and an occasional shout of Get the
hook" Some of South Bends best
talent-and otherwise-wa on the
boards and it was greeted by a ca
pacity house.
The first on the bill was Leeper and
Thompson, in a comedy" sketch
but their comedy was too deep. in
fact so deep that they were afraid to
come on when the prizes were award
ed. Following them was Pauline
Fogler in solo. "RObt. +. Lee" and
she was awarded the third prize
Next came two little tots. Harold and
Bernice Bourbon, who sang some very
pleasing songs and at the finish were
given the second prize. Prof. .
Powers added to the fun by getting
out Of box with a false side. Little
Miss Irene Hepner sang Smoky
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-20
SAYS He: ALMOST
LOST HIS JOB
An EIkhart Man, Who Fills a
Responsible and important
Position, Nearly Loses 1t on
Account of III Health.

Mr.. w. H. Martin of Elkhart, Ind.
who has suffered from Epilepsy for
many years, in a letter TO the public
tells OF the pitiful condition he was in
and recommends others who are SUI
terlng TO seek the source from which
he found relief. MIR. Martin writes as
follows:
To the Public
Il am so pleased over the results
of treatment given me by the United
Doctors, that 1 feel il my duty as well
as a pleasure TO write a testimonial
in the hope that IT may be the means
OF getting some other poor unfortun-
ate 10 place where they can not only
get Keller, and cure, out get ii on sci
entiflc principles. 1 was q sufferer for
long time from an affliction called
Epilepsy and for six months before
came TO the United Doctors, | was
having one and two attacks a week,
gradually growing worse until l got
so that when / had them l would tall
whenever a seizure came on me.
have an important and responsible
position in a factory here and my con-
ditiOn had got to the point where
would lose my job If something wasn't
done.
I'm my desperate state 1 called on
these noted specialists on Apr. 9Th
1913. The physician in charge gave
me a most rigid and thorough exami-
nation and after he was through he
offered me great encouragement.
went there expecting 10 be turned
down, as they positively refuse to
treat cases they are not certain of
handling successfully. Imagine the
Joy of myself and wife when yhe Doc
tor gave me his assurance. 1 have
taken their treatment regular and
now after six weeks treatment have
had but one attack and that a very
light one Quite different from hav-
ing two and three attacks a week.
The officials at the factory where
work. my friends and relatives. as we'll
as myself are rejoiced at my present
condition and l feel sure Of getting
/ permanently we'll.
"The mystery of the whole business
is, that / haven't lost a days work
since l began their treatment, and !
/ would recommend all sufferers to call
on them for an examination, which
is free. Me and my wife can't say
too much for the United Doctors and
their methods.
"W. H. MARTIN"
319 Jackson ST.
DR.. Bartlett the specialist in charge
OF the South Bend Institute OF the
| United Doctors has for many years
made a careful study OF the various
| forms of Epilepsy with the result that
ne has been enabled 10 relieve many
unfortunate people who were suffer
ing with this dreaded disease. II YOU
are suffering from Epilepsy or any
chronic disease OF the nervous sys-
TEN or internal organs, you should
embrace the opportunity now offered
you and advise with this specialist in
regard 10 your case.
The doctor Will see you at any
time between the hours OF 9 and u
a. m and p. m. and y. m. and
Sunday from 10 10 u a. m, at the
South Bend Institute which Is located
on the second floor OF the Toepp
building opposite the post office. His
consultation and examination are alb
soIutely free and he Will not accept
luour case unless you can be benefited.
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Ookums" in a pleasing manner and in
answer TO encore sang another num-
her, earning first prize. Joe Cans
and Battling Nelson" did a four
round sparring match but the Negro
lad was too much for the white. Miss
Loretto TIepner sang a comedy song.
II Didn't Ask, He Didn't Say, So I
Don't Know" which concluded the
amateur feature OF the bill
Manager Hull was so we'll pleased
with the showing made by the local
people that ne has decided TO put on
an amateur night at the Columbia
every Friday.