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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-22

He Hardly Stirred From His Room
months. But when the manuscript
Law before him he knew thathe had
at last achieved what he had always
hoped to achieve.
He sent it to his publishers andr7
went to see Lesbia. He meant to tell
her about his long struggle for her. to
ask her if she would share his life,
that of a failure. And he always re-
membered her look, her words,
sobbed out despaiTingly:
'eYou waited too long! You should
have told Inc years ago. I am en-
gagged to be married"
At once the mans plans feb crUm-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-22
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BY John AIIardyce
''Haow's that gardfng of yOurn, Mr..
Rochester," inquired John Roches-
ter's neighbor, surveying the little
strip of spaded ground over the fence.
.'Wa'al, swan! Coming up, amt it?'
Its mighty SLOW" said John
Rochester, impatiently.
The old man tugged at his goatee
refectively. 'I dunno" he said.
PLANTED it two weeks ago, didn't
YOU? You got to wait and have pa
tience, you know. They say all
things come to him who knows haow
to wait"
He stalked away over the flats,
leaving John Rochester standing
moodily in his little garden strip be-
side the tumbledown colonial house
he occupied alone.
The proverb came home to him
with bitterness. All things come to
him who waits! He remembered Les;-
bias despairing cry that morning
when he last saw her:
But you waited too long, John!
You should have told me years ago"
John Rochester had inherited lit
tie money from his father, the bulk
going to his younger brother, who
displayed that business aptitude
which he had never possessed. John
was nothing but an author. He never
aimed at anything but the scribbler's
trade, but he had that fatal fire
which cannot be quenched, though
it can be dampened. For Is years
he had toiled, struggling to win fame
and achieve success.
At 80 a little sport of popularity
with his stories had enabled him to
turn to novels. But here he failed dis
maIly. The critics roasted him I'M
mercifuIly. They condemned the very
qualities which John aimed to put
into his book to please the public.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
TEXAS HURRICANE DEATH
TOLL NOW TOTALS 25d
IS Persons Missing, All Believed to
Have Perished In Storm at Calves
ton-Damage $4,000 900.

Galveston, Aug. ga total of ESQ
known dead, residents of southeast
Texas coast points and crews Of craft
of all kinds wrecked; IS persons miss
ing, many of whom are believed to
have persisted, and property damage
close to $4,000, 900 was the toll taken
by the hurricane which swept this Sec
ton last Monday and Tuesday, Aug.
1917.
These figures were reached from q
careful compilation made of what are
considered the most authentic reports
Of loss Of life and property received
since the cessation Of the storm.
OF the known dead. 1874 we're resi-
dents of the gulf coast section and 81
were drowned when the vessels they
we're aboard sank. Forty-three Of the
missing were members of the boat
crews. Those who perished on Calves.
ton island, including eight in the city
proper, numbered So and 10 we're still
reported missing from the island. Gal.
veston's share Of the property loss
was placed at approximately six mil.
lion dollars.
Reports received here from all over
the affected section were that the
cities and towns gradually are recov.
ering from the disastrous storm and
that conditions again are approaching
normal throughout the gulf coast.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27

The city council of Indianapolis re.
Gently passed an ordinance requiring
that all fruits and vegetables sold in
the city be sold by weight instead of
by measure. The ordinance had the
approval and support Of all the gro
GERS of Indianapolis who believe the
new law will aid in checking the &C.
tivities of dishonest peddlers and
hucksters in giving short weight and
measure. Under the ordinance pota.
toes, apples and other fruits and vege.
tables are to be sold by weight, but
radishes and similar vegetables that
have been sold in punches will not be
affected, nor will berries and other
fruits that are sold in standard size
boxes be affected. The same excep
ton applies to bananas and similar
fruits.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
Germans Capture Fort.
PACIFIC MAIL SHIPS QUIT.
Atlantic Transport colors Rise, Mark
Ing Old Lines Passing.

ing Olo Lines RAISING.
San Francisco.-The five-barred, red
white and blue house flag Of the Pa
cific Mail Steamship company was
lowered from the foremost of the liner
Mongolia as the ships clock struck
eight bells August 81, and the colors
Of the Atlantic Transport company, to
which the Mongolia and four other
vessels of the line have been sold,
were hoisted in its place.
Meanwhile stevedores we're loading
into the lowermost of the Mongolia
five below-deck "stories" the last
cargo the former pride Of the Pacific
Mail service will carry across the Pa
cific.
No special ceremony marked the
change and no official Of either Of
the steamship lines was present. A
half dozen bystanders witnessed the
transposition, which eliminated from
the transpacific lanes the flag which
had been a familiar sight there for 60
years.
The Pacific Mail Steamship com.
pany was the Oldest transpacific line
It instituted the first regular service
around Cape Horn; ran the first
"side-wheelers" across the western
ocean, and was among the first to op'
crate the modern liners of today.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
SPORTING ITEMS

Football practice began at the Uni
versity of California August %.
Patrick Mcfarland and Michael Glib.
bons are going to meet in the ring next
month after all-maybe.
Frank Bogash Jr., the worlds cham.
pion pacing gelding, won the free-for.
all event, the chief feature of the
Grand circuit meet at Montreal, Sat.
urday. Time, 2:04.
R. Norris Williams H., of Philadel-
phia, national tennis champion, defeat
ed Maurice Mclaughlin of San Fran
cisco Saturday in the final match of
the Casino cup meet.
Victor Pearson, otherwise known as
Barney Oldfield, of Priest River, Ida
no, challenges the world for race to
Priest Lake in Henry" He holds
the record at present. Address his
manager, Major Denton, Priest River,
Idaho.
The Seafarer, owned by L. A. Norris
of the San Francisco Yacht club, start
ing from scratch, won the handicap
for schooners in the international
yachting regatta of the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition. The arbitrary handi-
cap for yawls, sailed over the same
course, was won handily by the Or
tuna Of the Seattle Yacht club.
With William F. Hoppe holding the
AL, 1871 and 1872 balkline champion
ships so securely that there apparent
ly is little chance Of any Of the veter-
ans or younger players taking the hon
ors from him, contests for the worlds
title no longer attracts as in the palmy
days of Jacob Schaefer, Frank Ives,
George Slosson and other famous
GUESTS.
Gilbert Anderson Saturday won the
sixth annual 301-mile road race for
the Elgin national trophy. His time
was 3:53:25, an average Of 77.25 miles
an hour, or nearly three miles faster
than the record established by Ralph
De Palma, who won last year, when
Anderson was second, and two miles
faster than Cooper's record the day
before.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
Will Aid Cotton Producers.

Washington.-Treasury officials an
nounce that in view of the action of
the allies in putting cotton on the con-
traband list, he would, If it became
necessary, deposit $30,000,00O or more
in gold in the federal reserve banks
at tAlanta, Dallas and Richmond for
the purpose Of enabling the reserve
banks to rediscount loans on cotton
secured by warehouse receipts made
by national banks and state banks be-
longing to the federal reserve system.
The gold would be deposited tempo
rarily, at least, without interest
charge.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
STORM VICTIMS PICKED UP.

ST. Louis Loss One White Woman and
10 Negroes-lillnols Farmer Killed.
st. Louis.-Eleven bodies of victims
of the flood that swept a narrow sec.
ton of st. Louis and suburbs Aug. 20
were recovered next day. and the
death roll from the gulf storm that
struck this section was increased by
one.
A farmer persisted near Edwards
vile, ILL.,, when his home was swept
away by a rise in Cahokia creek, and
another man persisted when boat in
which he was rowing with three 9th
ers in East st. Louis capsized.
OF the IL dead in St. Louis and sub
urbs one was white woman and 10
negroes.
The Desperes river was responsible
for most of the destruction Of property
and all the loss of life on the Missouri
side Of the Mississippi.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
0rIef Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are OF Legitimate Interest to
i Al the People.

The first public coronation of the
Japanese emperor Is set to begin NO
vember 10 at Kyoto.
Miss Grace C. Strachan, district
superintendent Of schools Of Brooklyn,
N. Y. has resigned from the National
Education association.
Eleutherics Venizelos fas asked for
an audience with King Constantine.
and It is certain that he will inform
the king of his willingness to form a
new cabinet.
An unknown negro at CONSTANT, La.
was lynched by armed men Saturday,
following an attempt made by the ne
gro to assault the 17-year-old daugh-
ter of farmer.
Persons arriving from Brussels re-
port that there were 200 arrests there
recently of Belgians who were dem
onstrating their grief on the anniver-
cary Of the German occupation.
The foreign office at Paris. upon rec
0mmendation Of the ministry OF war
has awarded a gold medal to Mrs. w
X. Vanderbilt Of New York. president
OF the American committee for cloth
ing the wounded.
Orders for six 12,000-ton steamers
have been placed by the Osaka Sho
zen Kaisha with an iron works con
Germ in Osaka, Japan. The vessels
are to be 425 feet long and 56.6 feel
beam.
The story of the sinking Of the Brit
ish submarine E-13, recently Is told
IN an announcement from the admi
rality:
"A report has been received from
Lieutenant Commander Layton, com
manding the ELS, whose grounding OF
the Danish island of Saltholm wa
published yesterday. The lieutenan
commander reports that the subma
rine grounded in the early morning o
August 10. All efforts to refloat he
failed.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
German Soldiers Stylish.

Paris, Aug. 25.-Baron d'Estournel-
les de Constant, who has been visit
ing the camps of German prisoners at
Belle Isle, in writing for the Temps
a description of what he saw. declares
that every officer has an orderly who
blacks his boots, brushes his clothes
and does his washing or has 1t done.
All the officers wore spotless linen
and are freshly shaven. They observe
among themselves a most correct dis
cipline.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
General carranza Obstinate.

Washington.-Carranza's purpose to
ask for recognition of his government
by the United States and Latin-Amer-
lean republics was further indicated
Monday by replies received from Cen
eral Obregon and other Carranza ad-
herents to the Pan-American appeal
for peace conference in Mexico. Gen.
eral Obregon emphatically declared he
would stand by Carranza, asserting
that the United States and the Latin
American republics had been misin-
formed regarding the strength Of the
Carranxa movement.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
COTTON MADE coNrRAsANp.

England Announces That Steps Will
Be Taken to Protect Market.
London.-Cotton has been declared
absolute Icontraband by Great Brit
ain. according to statement issued by
the foreign office Saturday.
The statement declares the govern
ment proposes to initiate measures to
relieve depression which might tenn.
porarily disturb the cotton market be.
cause of the contraband order.
It was learned upon inquiry at the
foreign Office that the French gov
eminent has issued similar notice.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
France Cares for Thousands.

Paris, Aug. 24.-France has expend-
ed 100000 during the first year
Of the war in feeding the wives and
families of modified soldiers and
workers thrown out of employment.
There are at present 100000 persons
receiving allowances from the state.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
Later Report.
wARsH,Ps GUARDED LINER.

Passengers Of cymrlc Describe Protee-
ton system In War Zone.
New York.-Passengers and crew
Of the White Star liner Cymric assert
cd upon their arrival here Saturday
chat the Cymric had been conveyed for
% hours after leaving Liverpool Aug.
II by relays Of British warships. five
IN number, and that she had not been
permitted to sail unaccompanied until
The war some had been left behind.
Tho Cymric took virtually the same
course - the Arabic, which was sunk
THURSDAY by q German submarine.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
Property Loss Exaggerated.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ferguson OF
Texas telegraphs President Wilson
that the loss Of life from the tropical
storm along the Texas coast will not
exceed 300, and that estimates Of the
damage have been greatly exaggerat'
ed. He said the situation was under
control.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

| FANIT1S SOASl NE w . |
Mayor James Rolph Jr. of San Fran
cisco announces himself as candi"
date for reelection.
Six hotelkeepers of Vancouver, B.
c., were arrested Saturday charged
with receiving liquors stolen in day
light from a warehouse there by a
band of thieves.
Mrs. E. D. knight of San Francisco
was Saturday elected president of the
Women's Federated Clubs of Califor-
MIA by the state executive board to
succeed the late Mrs. Emily Hopping.
who died recently.
Governor Withycombe of Oregon
has appointed so delegates from towns
in Oregon to attend the international
irrigation congress to convene at
Stockton, Fresno, Sacramento and San
Francisco next month.
Suddenly seized by fit of insanity
Mrs. Cora Maud Anderson, at Victoria,
B. c., stole out of her bedchamber.
and, obtaining an ak, returned and kill
ed her sleeping husband, George An
derson. She then drowned herself.
The closing day of the Episcopal
synodical meeting at Oakland, CAL, re-
Gently was marked with a testimonial
to President Wilson requesting an
amendment to the federal constitution
as a basis of federal marriage and
divorce law.
Forest fire smoke hangs like a pail
over the coast of British Columbia
from Alert bay to the international
boundary, a distance of $50 miles, and
there are no indications of it lifting.
For days the army Of fire wardens
has been fighting the flames, but the
lack Of rain is severely handicapping
their efforts.
Frank Randolph, a machinist, 81
years of age, was shot and killed at
San Francisco Sunday by his 19-year.
old son George, following a quarrel
in which the father is said to have at
tackled the youth, who was protecting
his mother from abuse. The bullet
that killed the father shot away four
fingers of the mothers left hand.
After being out 81 hours, the jury in
the case of the United States Cashier
company returned a verdict Of guilty
in the United States district court al
Portland against the six officers and
statesmen whose fate was left in theil
hands. A recommendation for elem
ency was made for Oscar Campbell Of
Eugene, a director. The defendants
were charged with conspiring to use
the mails fraudulently in the sale o.
stock.
Abraham Ruef, once power In SaI
Francisco politics, was paroled Satur
day from San Quentin penitentiary b,
the state board Of prison directors
Ruef spent three years five months
and Is days behind prison walls. H,
was sentenced March z, 1911, to 1.
years. imprisonment for having offer
, ed bride. With full credits for goot
behavior his 14-year sentence was au
tomatically reduced to eight years AMI
| 10 months. He has served half Of this
J the minimum requisite for parole. Blu
J in addition to his prison term, Rue
J spent three years in the San Francis
| CO county Jail after his first indict
ment in November, 1906.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
GERMANS LOSE
RIGA SEA BATTLE
FORCED TO WITHDRAW FROM
THE BAY AFTER A FIERCE
ENGAGEMENT
BATTLESHIP MOLTKE SUNK
pedo Boats Lost-Russian Loss 10
smaiI-Was Aided by Several
British Submarines.

London, Aug. ga dispatch to the
Central News from Petrograd says:
1.-THE president Of the duma has an
nounced that the Germans had lost
the battleship Moltke, three cruisers
and seven torpedo boats in the Riga
battle"
The announcement Of the president
of the duma as sent was as follows:
Tells Of Victory.
"In the Riga battle the Germans
lost one superdreadnaught, the Mott
Ike, three cruisers and seven torpedo
boats.
1.-THE German fleet has withdrawn
from Riga bay.
"The Germans tried to make a
descent near Pernpvin (PernigeD on
the east shore of the gulf of Riga,
some IS miles north of Riga. Four
barges crammed with soldiers took
part in the descent. They were re.
pulsed by the Russian troops without
cooperation of the artillery, the Ger.
mans being exterminated and the
| DargeS captured.
The German battle cruiser Moltke
was vessel Of $4,000 tons, and car
lied in ordinary times complement
of 1907 men. She was sister ship Of
the famous Goeben. which became q
part of the Turkish navy after the
commencement of the war and was re
christened Sultan Selim.
The Moltke was 500 feet long, ant
was armed with 10 11-inch guns, ant
10 6-inch guns and IL 24-pounders. II
addition, her armor included four 20
inch torpedo tubes. She was built ii
1911, and had a speed Of about 2,
knots.
The Moltke was in the battle will
the British fleet in the North sea las
January when the German armore,
cruiser Bluecher was sunk. In 1911
the Moltke was in the German squad
ron which visited the United States tt
return the visit of the United State
battleship squadron at Kiel during 1t
trip around the world. The cost o
the Moltke was about $12,000.000.
Petrograd 10 Rejoicing.
"Petrograd INDUCED in pardonabl
rejoicings Sunday afternoon. The des
perate efforts Of the Germans to ur
set our military plans by creating
diversion on the Esthonian coast ha
signally failed. According to the new
received they sustained heavy losse
during the operations connected wit
the forcing Of the gulf Of Riga.
"Aided by British submarines W
we're able from the shelter of the grea
ard little towns to harass and crippl
and finally to drive the enemy out O
the gulf.
"The losses of the gallant Balti
fleet we're small, In no way impairin
its efficiency, and so long as this l
preserved no serious danger can i'm
mediately threaten Petrograd."
Germans Capture Fort.
London, Aug. 23.-The German ns
val reserves in the Gulf Riga an
the Baltic sea, the German success i
occupying the fortress of Ossowet1
and q British naval battle of fthe Gel
, man naval base at Zeebrugge toda
furnished q series of new features
which temporarily diverted attentio
from the gravity Of the issues CROWN
out Of the sinking Of the White Sta
line steamship Arabic by Germa
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
HOW GERMANS GOT "ARAsIc."
First Definite News Comes Of Sinking
Of Another Craft, the Dunsley.

Liverpool, Aug. 23.-According to
survivors of the steamer Dunsley, tor
pedoed by German submarine just
before the White Star liner Arabic
was sunk recently, the underwater
craft hid behind the Dunsley's sunk
hulk in wait for the larger vessel. The
survivors declare they had been or
dered off their ship and were in life
boats when the submarine concealed
herself from the approaching Arabic.
It is stated that when the liner came
close enough to make an attack pos
sible the submarine submerged, went
around the Dunsley's stern and
launched the fatal torpedo Survivors
say the German boat, which came up
alongside the Dunsley, bore no num-
Der.
No previous definite statement as to
the fate of the Dunsley has come from
had been torpedoed, but it had not
been known whether she succeeded In
reaching port with her passengers.
Wilson Waits Arabic News.
Washington, Aug. 23-Judgment
still is suspended by the United
States government on the torpedoing
of the liner Arabic with loss of two
American lives.
It was understood that the all-im-
portant report awaited before the Uni
ted States determines whether Ger
many has committed q deliberately
unfriendly act" is expected from Am
bassador Gerard at Berlin. Cabled
statements Of American survivors ap-
parently have left no doubt that the
Arabic, with Americans on board, was
torpedoed without warning. The ques-
ton now is whether Germany will set
up q claim that the maneuvering Of
the ship Just before she was attacked
led the submarine commanded to be-
lieve that she was attempting a hostile
act against him.
Captain Finch sIames Germans.
Liverpool-Captain William Finch
of the sunken White Star line steam
er Arabic on Monday said:
"There is not the slightest doubt
that the Arabic was sunk by a tor
pedo," said Captain Finch. Neither Is
there the slightest doubt that it was
fired at the Arabic deliberately. It is
quite true that we never saw any SUBJ
marine nor any periscope, but l saw
the white streak made by the passage
Of the torpedo through the water-a
white streak that commenced with air
bubbles in the water 800 yards from
US, at the point where 1t was dis
charged at US.
There was no mistaking that white
streak, which ended in a torpedo en-
tering the ship and causing the ex-
plosion which sank the vessel. was
not alone in seeing 1t. The chief Of
ficer. the second officer and many
passengers saw 1t. No one can doubt
for moment that 1t was deliberately
fired at the Arabic. Those aboard the
submarine evidently saw us and got
into position ready to release their
| -. A.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27

"Will you please tell me where I
can see the candelabra"
"All canned goods Is on the next
floor" replied the new clerk.-Har-
per's Magazine.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
German Cruiser Sunk.

Petrograd, Aug. GA British sub
marine has torpedoed and sunk Ger
man cruiser in the Baltic sea. This
statement is made in an official an
nouncement
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-08-27
FLOOD DELUoEs
ST. LOUIS SUBURB
Bcore Of Lives Feared Lost and Many
Houses Are Swept Away.

st. Louis, Aug. 23.-The Meramec
river, lined on either side of its banks
with pleasure resorts, club houses and
summer cottages, went several miles
out of its banks Sunday, swept away
most Of these buildings and increas-
dng to a, 1t is reported. the number
of lives lost in the vicinity Of st. Louis
- q result Of the flood which follow
ed the recent rainstorm here.
The Meramec rose at the rate Of q
foot an hour, following 40-hour rain
fall.
Six persons were said to have been
drowned 1t Valley Park and two at
Merameo Highlands.
Later Report.
st. Louis, Aug. 23.-The receding OF
the Meremac river today failed to
substantiate reports to the coroner
Of st. Louis county that IL persons
were drowned Sunday.