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asked Peg.
yielded him an exceedingly handsome
evenue. He had heard whispers Of Il
magistracy. His public future was as
sured.
But his private life was arid. The
handsome villa In Pelham crescent had
no one to grace the head Of the table.
save on the occasional visits Of his
aged mother or the still rarer. ones Of
n married sister,.
And here was he in the full prime
Of life.
Yielding to some uncomfortable i'm
pulse. he took her little hand IN both
of bis own.
Hawkes. was not to be denied now.
He went on in his sOftest and most
persuasive accents:
~ know one who would give you all
these-a man who has reached the
years of discretion. one In whom the
follies Of youth have merged into the
knowledge and reserve Of early middle
age: a man of position and Of means:
q man who can protect you, care for
you, admire you-and be proud to
marry you.
Miss O'Connell-nay ! say Mar.
garrett was your uncle's adviser, his
warm personal friend. We spoke free.
lily of you for many. weeks before, he
died. 1t was his desire to do some
thing for you that would change your
whole life and make 1t full and happy
and contented. Were your uncle alive
!. know Of nothing that would give
him greater pleasure than for his old
friend to take you, your young life. Into
his care. Miss O'Connell, 1 am the
man"
stop IT, she cried. whats the
matther with you men this morn!n .!
Ye'd think l was some great lady IN"
way ye're all ofern' me yer hnnds an
yer names an yer influences an yer
dignities. Stop It,: Give ND that mon.
ey an let me CO.
Hawkes. paused.
Don't give your answer too hastily
I know it must seem abrupt-one might
almost say brutal, But | am alone IN
the world. you are alone. Neither OF
us has contracted q regard for any one
else. And. in addition to that. there
would be no occasion to marry IN
til you are twenty-one. There!"
Peg suddenly burst into q parozysm
Of laughter.
Am / to consider that q refusal?
"Ye may. What would 1 be dom
marryin' the likes of you? Answer me
that?"
THAT is 6nal?" be querfed.
Absolutely, completely an entirely
final. Thank ye very much, SIR" she
added. AN may | have the f2D."
Certainly. Here 1t is.". And he hand
ed her the money.
"I'm much obliged to ye. An I'm
sorry If | hurt ye by laughin' Just now
But 1 thought We were Joktn'. l did,"
She hurried acros the room to the
staircase. When she was halfway up
the stairs Jarvis entered and was I'm.
mediately followed by Jerry.
"PegW he said gently, looking up at
her.
I'm goin, back to me father in halt
an hour" And she went on up the
stairs.
As Jerry moved slowly away from the
! staircase be met Montgomery Hawkes..
ITO be Continued.)
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CHAPTER XVI.

~ OUSIN." said Alaric to Peg. and
his voice dropped to the ca
~ ressing note Of a ,wooer.
cousin. do you know, ! am
going to do something now I've never
done before?"
He paused to let the full force OF
what was to come have its real value.
'What is it. Alaric?" Peg asked. all
unconscious of the drama that was
taking place in her cousins heart
"Sure; what is It? Ye're not goin' to
do somethin' useful, are yer
He braced himself and went on: Il
am going to ask a very charming
young lady to marry me. Eh?' ::
"Are YET"
II am" =
what do ye think O. that now|
ou-think-it-is"
He waited. wondering If she would
guess correctly. 1t would be 80 help
full II, only she could.
But she was so unexpected
II couldn't guess it In a hundred
years. Alaric-ralely | couldn't"
"Oh. try! Do try!" he urged.
81 couldn't think who'd marry you
indade | couldn't Mebbe the poor
girls blind. Is that itT
Cant you guess? No? Reallyr
mo, I'm tellin' ye. Who is it"
"You!" 49,,
Then she leaned back against the
balustrade and laughed long and IN
r~estrainedly. She laughed until the
tears came coursing down her cheeks.
Ahric was at first nonplused. Then
he grasped the situation in Its full sig
nificance. 1t was just a touch Of hys-
reria. He joined her and laughed heart
ily as we'll.
Aha" he cried between laughs.
That's n splendid sign. Splendid! I've
always been told that girls cry when
they're proposed to-"
Sure. that's what I'm doln'," gasped
PEG. I'm cryin'-laughin'. Sure. l
think I'd rather have Michael. my ter
rier-if you don't mind"
He started forward. "Oh, come, /
say! You don't that! Think
Just for one moment-of the advan-
tages"
If ye don't mind" replied Peg
meekly.
To her amazement the gloom lifted
from her cousins countenance. He
took a deep breath, looked at her In
genuine relief and cried out heartily:
II say! You're q brick! It's really aw-
fully good of you. Some girls in your
position would have jumped at me
positively jumped! But you-why.
you're a genuine little hall marked Al
brick! I'm extremely obliged to you"
lie took her little hand and shook it
warmly.
you're a plucky little girl, that's
what you area plucky-little-girl.
I'll never forget it-never. If there Is
anything 1 can do-at any time-any-
| where-call on me. I'll be ~there--right
on the spot.
"Bless you, cousin. You've taken
an awful load Off my mind. | was
really worried. I had to ask you.
Promised to. See you before you go!"
"
On the Both day Of June Mr.. Mont
gomery Hawkes. glanced at his ap-
pointmcnts for the following day and
found the entry, "A1rs. Chichester,
! Scarboro-in re Margaret O'Connell-"
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SHOE Men BACK"
Retailers WIN HolA Convention in To-
pel<a February IS, "a and Is.

The annual meeting of the Kansas
Shoe Retailers association will be
held in Topeka February 1925. Sew
eral hundred dealers are expected to
attend. Salina was selected as the
meeting place for this year but there
was a growing sentiment in favor of
a return to Topeka because of the fact
that the legislature is meeting, and
the change was made.
Officers Of the association: Presi-
dent. Schuyler Jones. Wichita; secre-
tary, Leo o. Morgan, Wichita; treas
urer, Otto A. Fischer, Lawrence; vice
presidents, Daniel Bloomheart. Cha
mute; o. NJ. Babcock. Atchison. w. I.
Fraser, Salina; Adam l.. Krause. Great
Bend.
Executive 8 m mfttee Frank
Braitsch, chairman; Garrison Bowen,
Clarence Brosius, Theo. A. Morgan,
Joe Braitsch, Deering Marshall. w. C.
Root, Jerome Jones, Leo. o. Morgan.
Legislative COMMITTEES: E. H.
Crosby, chairman; Dan Crawford. A.
r. Springer, NJ. D. Robinson.
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ITALY FACES FLOOD.
(continued from, PAGE One,

Continued from PAGE One.)
pital of Santo Spirito. near the vati-
can, have been removed to upper
floors of the building because of the
flood. Some fear is expressed that the
rising water may cause the building to
collapse.
Road to the Sea Is Closed.
The authorities have closed the
road from Rome to the sea in which
there are several deposits of carbide
and lime.
Some of these, through influence of
filtration from the flooded Tiber, have
already exploded and caused nearby
buildings to collapse. Fortunately
there are no victims as the people,
foreseeing danger, had left the place.
famous St. Angelo bridge. originally
erected by Emperor Hadrian and
which connects his tomp with the city.
The water is already over the pillars
of the bridge and troops. engineers
and firemen are at the scene doing
what is possible to check the peril.
Milo's bridge, built over 100 years
before Christ. is inundated and water
also surrounds the imposing bastlica
of ST. PauIs. The Sub1icus bridge, the
structure supposed to have been de-
fecded by HOratius and two cOmpan-
ions. is also under water. This is the
oldest bridge in Rome, having been
built in the year $40 B. c.
The bridges which have shown
signs of weakness have been closed to
traffic. Many houses in the tmme-
diate neighborhood of st. Peters have
from three to four feet of water in
the lower stories and the inhabitants
were obliged to remove their posses
sions to the upper floors.
The floods have turned the low ly-
ing quarters of the city into q second
Venice. as the streets are now all wa
terways and boats are the only means
of progress. Crowds of persons spent
the night watching the rising tide and
many recalled now rev were the
floods in the memory of man in this
section which have eQualled this.
Many congratulated themselves on the
protection afforded by the magnifi-
great works that Rome owes to mod
| ern Italy.
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T0PEkANS TO WICHITA
One Hundred Nsasons Go South for
Annual State Meeting.

Masons of Kansas have their eyes
turned toward Wichita today. The
grand lodge A. F. & A. NJ, grand
chapter r. A. NJ. and grand council
T.. $. NJ, are being held there. One
hundred Masons left Topeka today to
be in attendance.
The largest Masonic meeting of the
year, the grand lodge communication,
will begin Wednesday and continue
ter convocation began today and will
continue through tomorrow The ses-
sion of the grand council is being held
today.
Topeka will be the place of meeting
Of these Masonic bodies next year.
The custom is for the meeting to
alternate between Topeka and Wich-
ita- This is Wichita's year.
The four masters of the Topeka
lodges. who by virtue of their positions
will hold places in the Grand lodge
peka lodge No. II; Fred c. Fuller,
Orient lodge No. 81; Albert E. Andrew,
senior warden Golden Rule lodge No.
90. and Elmo E. Whittmore, Sloan
lodge, No. 225.
Charles H. Chandler. state architect
10 grand master of the grand lodge,
which includes representatives of all
the blue lodges in Kansas. Albert X.
Wilson, Topeka. Is grand secretary OF
council. William Nelson Is grand
junior deacon of the Grand lodge, and
Owen ]. Wood is chairman Of the
committee on Jurisprudence. Matthew
Miller of Topeka il chairman. of the
committee on correspondence. Chan.
dler H. Harrison is grand marsha
OF the Grand chapter.
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didn't pay. Disbursement took hold
Of him and he knew that he would
fail in a few days.
In desperation he announced that
he would charge only nickel a ride
in these cars. To his utter astonish
ment it proved a marvellous success
from the first. He then bought up
hundreds of cheap cars in San Fran
cisco and is now making "a barrel
of money" That man, the originator
of the jitney, will have 1000 cars
during the Frisco fair.
Since the adoption of jitneys in San
Francisco, nearly every other city in
the United States has taken it up. The
first appearance in this part Of the
country was in Kansas City, where the
cars are now doing a profitable BUSH
ness. And now Topeka has q sys-
tematic jitney business, one that
promises to keep going.
The Topeka jitney company is go
ling to file articles Of Incorporation
this week. They are going to build
way stations for the accommodation Of
their patrons.
That Shopping Call.
Mr.. Wells stated that in regard to
the calling of pitney cars for shopping,
the person who calls must have two
other persons with her, making a to-
tai of fifteen cents for the trip. Or
in case a woman is alone and wants
a jitney bus. she can pay fifteen cents
and have the whole car to herself
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1ODAY'S Market REPORT

Chicago. Feb. 5.-WHEAT-wheat de-
veloped strength today in consequence OF
signs that large sales had been made to
exporters; it was said also that country
offerings were smaller than has recently
been III the case a.,, Commission h9us buying
business in the speculative pit. The
mark after opening Nc off to a rise Of 2
scored an all around advance, ranging SIC
above Saturday nights level.
Subsequently prices continued to ascend.
Announcements were made that European
buying here since the clOst Saturday ag-
gregated one million bushels and that L.
100000 bushels additional had been taken
at New York. Furthermore, Kansas City
said exporters were buyers there. The close
was strong; 4A@4Ac to SIC net higher.
were covering and found sellers scarce.
The opening, which varied from 1sc down
to 1ac advance, was followed by a sharp
general upturn.
Later the market eased off, the visible
supply total proving to be the largest on
record. The close, however, was steady,
H@%c to Sc net higher
OATS-Forefgn demand for oats was on
a liberal scale. Holders showed unwill-
ingness to let go and decidedly higher
prices were soon in force.
PROvISIONS-Prov saggd owing
to a decline in the value of hogs. Trade
was very slow.
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House Swings Axe on Appro-
priatiOns for State.
Cuts $685., 800 From Budgets for
Four Hospitals.
NEARLY z MILLIONS NOW
Total House Appropriations
Amount to $1,19S,67S.9S.
Reductions Mostly in Buildings
and Improvements.

The house WAYS and means commit
tee today swung the axe on apPro-
priations for state Institutions, when
it trimmed $3S2,60O from appropria-
tons for Osawatomie, Larned. Par
sons and Winfield state hospitals. APP
propriations recommended for the
four state institutions by the mouse
financial committee totalled $S22.6OO,
while the senate has already made
appropriations for the four big chart
ties in a1-.ounts aggregating $1.SO5-
800.
True to his claim that the house and
senate ways and means committee
would be at least million dollars
apart on appropriations, Chairman
Keene today offered the house bill
slashing appropriations for the four
charitable institutions. Larned is
hardest hit by the action Of the COM
mittee and $125,8O0 was taken from
the senate appropriation for the west
ern hospital. Winfield suffered loss
of $1O6,3OO as compared with the SEN
ate appropriation. while Osawatomie's
appropriation was cut $80,500 and
Parsons 100000.
Many OF the reductions by the
house committee were for new build
ings and permanent improvements.
Larned and Parsons are both allotted
new buildings by the committee report
in the house. Yet the recommended
tions for improvements at the four
big hospitals are practically 100000
below those of the senate committee.
The dreams Of new buildings for the
Larned hospital were badly shattered
by the committee in the lower branch
Of the legislature. While that body
recommended a $4,000 for one new
cottage, 1t punctured the appropria-
tons for additional buildings in a
most heartless manner. The result is
a cut of $125,800 by the house COM
mittee.
List of Recommendations.
Recommendations of the house
ways and means committee for the
four hospitals for 1916 and 1917 are:
Osawatomie: Salaries, $4,000 a
year; maintenance, $125,OOO a year;
permanent improvements, $1,000 a
year. Total. 100000.
Larned: Salaries, $4,000 a year:
maintenance, $4,000 year; new
$4,000; tools and machinery, $1,000
a year; books and periodicals, 800 a
year. Total appropriations, $91, 200.
| Parsons: Salaries. $37,500 a year;
maintenance and repairs: $72.5oo for
1915 and $7s.5oo for 1917, New hos
pital building 1917, $4,000. Total.
Winfield: Salaries, $4,000 a. year;
maintenance. $4,000 a year, Total.
/ other appropriations recommend
ed by the ways and means committee
| today included:
Pittsburg manual training school
reconstruction. caused by fire in 1914,
| $1S9.638.9S.
! Pawnee Rock: For Maintenance
and upkeep, $500 a year; $4,000 for
pavilion Total $500.
Board of control: Salaries for
members, $500 year; secretary's
salary. $4,000 year; accountant
$500 year; two stenographers
$1,SO0 a year: contingent fund and
travelling expenses, $4,000 a year. To
tai $33,830.
State aid for weak school districts:
$4,000
Total appropriations recommended
by house committee in today's re-
ports, $1,19S,67S.9S.
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international matters, such treatment
is not anticipated from the young.
proud Americans. through whose
veins flows an immense quantity OF
German blood" The Tageblatt, how
ever, was an exception and today
warned America that she must not
conclude that Germany is afraid of
her.
1.-The tone of the American note was
quite conciliatory," said the Tageblatt,
but the tendency was not free from
onesideness. 1t is certain that the
German admiralty will not be divert
ed from Its plan of submarine war
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FLAG TO LERRIG0.
rcontinued from page One.l

CONTINUED from Page One.l
ago while in China he had need of an
American passport. He planned
trip to one of the interior provinces
of the kingdom of the dragon.
Found a British subject.
Lerrigo made application for the
passport to the American consul and
after the usual 'sred tape" examination
it was found that LerrigO was a Brit
ish subject. Further investigation
migrated to America from England
and obtained his naturalization pa
perS only a short time before George
Lerrigo had reached the age of FL.
LerrigO always under the impression
prior to this time that he was. an
American citizen owing to the natural
ization of his father had always cast
his ballot at elections and enjoyed
other privileges of American citizen
ship.
When Lerrigo, as a result of the
passport incidenty found that he was
not a citizen of the United States, he
made an effort to obtain his natur-
alization papers. Two years ago
when he visited his old home in To-
peka he consulted on the subject with
Major A. M. Harvey and J. B. Lari-
mer, two well known Topeka attor-
neys, and found that he could not OBJ
tain his papers in the regular way as
he wished to return to his work in
emma 1mme0lately. SnOulQ ne De
granted his naturalization papers it
would be necessity for him to stay in
the United States for five years and
prove up"
Would Have to "PrOve Up"
Harvey and Larimer drafted a bill
to grant Lerrigo his citizenship under
a special act of congress- Senator
Thompson introduced the bill in the
senate but it was killed by the COM
mittee. However, Thompson tried
the second time to get the bill through
the senate and was successful.
After passing the senate the bill
went to the house. where it was cham
pioned by Congressman Medley of
Kansas. Through Neeley's efforts the
bill passed the house and last Thurs
day it was signed by President Wilson.
Lerrigo was one of the leaders in
the movement to raise funds to erect
the present Y. NJ. C. A building. He
is now in China and due to the eff
forts of Major Harvey, Larimer
Medley and Thompson he is subject
of the country which he prefers and
of which until he tried to obtain a
passport in the Orient he had always
supposed that he was a citizen In
addition to being the only Kansas
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CONTINUED From PAGE ODey
ternational law in the question of
foodstuffs.
Aiming Merchantmen.
The German note adds that the Ber-
lin government has information that
English merchant vessels are being
armed and have orders to sail in
groups for protection and further that
they would try to sink submarines. 1t
declares that there was now no Ques-
ton Of searching them but the result
would be that German ships would
fight them because they are now held
to be warships. The note declares
further that Great Britain according
to the information of Germany intend
ed to use neutral flags and that there
fore neutral shipping would be in dan
ger in the war zone.
It was urged therefore that mean
while neutral shipping observe the re-
quest of Germany and go around the
north of Scotland in the course which
had been declared outside the war
zone. 1t was stated that the note re-
ceived by the ambassador today from
his foreign office and carried by him.
personally to the state department.
was not a reply to the recent Amefi-
can note to Germany in regard to the
war zone decree. A more compre-
communication is expected soon al
though it was not known officially
here when it might be looked for.
Today's note from Germany it was
pointed out, constitutes a sort of in
termediary reply. possibly presented
that the date when the war zone de-
cree goes into effect, Feb. IS is so
close at hand.
Kaiser VIII Confer.
The Hague, Feb. 15.-Kaiser Will
helm is disturbed at the growth of the
anti-American feeling in his capital.
He let it be known today that he dis
OF the Berlin press and Berlin news
papers today exercised more restraint
In dealing with the American note.
This information was contained In
dispatches from Berlin today. 1t car
ried semi-official confirmation of the
report that the emperor had invited
United States Ambassador Gerard to
his headquarters near the eastern bat
tie front to discuss a situation admit
teddy serious.
The American ambassador, the ad-
vices stated. has accepted the kaiser s
invitation He will leave for East
Prussia, accompanied by Chancellor
Won Bethman-Hollwig, and will en-
deavor to acquaint the kaiser with the
exact attitude taken by America tc
Germanys warning to neutral vessels
| that on and after February IS they
will sail English waters at their own
peril.
The kaiser at the same time desires
| to have the position OF Germany ex-
planned clearly
/ Tho majority of the Berlin paper
| today toned down their attacks upon
+ America, apparently under direction
from the government. The Lokal An
zeiger said that. while Germany might
expect nothing from the English but q
! purely shopkeeping conception" q
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London, Feb. 15.-The issue of ten
million pounds sterling ($50.000,0Q
of Russian treasury bills has 30 at
tracted bankers and insurance houses
and the applications have been SO
large that the lists were closed at
noon today instead Of being kept open
until next Thursday as had been the
original intention.
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Kansas Cry, Feb. 15.-wHEAT-Cash !:
Market SIC to &c higher. No. 2 hard, $I54
@1-55; No. 3. &l530155; No. red. $l-o0 !;
No. 8, $l541z.
4 COMMUNITIES 1kc to 1c higher. No.
mixed. 14@14hc; No. 5. 72hQ13Ac: NO. 2
white, 7S@781zc; No. 3, TIC; No. yellow
s35c; No. 8, 73c.
OATSLMarket &c higher. No. 2 white.
S11z@5Sc; No. 9 mixed, sic.
- RYE$12S
{ .HAY-Market easy. Choice timothy,
15.5O@16OO; choice prairie, $115OQ12.0;
choice ALFALFA $150O<a1660
WHEAT-Recejps III cars.
BUTTER CreAn4ery, Soc; nrsts, &c;
seconds, 25c; packing, 201zc.
!. EGGS-Firsfs. 211se; seconds, 17c.
POULTRY-Hens. 13c; BOOSTERS, 1O31c;
turkeys, 15c.
$1.2SH; September, $119K
COKN-May, 779sc; July, 79stc; Septen-
Der, 1885 @19xc.
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/; New York, Feb. f5.-BUTTER-Mark
weak. Creamery extras o. scorel.= 3O14@
SIC. .saf
3 EGGSZMarket unsettled. Fresh gather
ed extra fine, @26c; ditto extra firsts.
I CHEESE Market firm. State whole
milk held specials, 17H @1711c.
s POULTRY-AHve. easy; western chick
ems, Ice; fowls, 15k@16c; turkeys, 17@
1Sc; dressed, strong: western roasting
chickens, 11@21c; fresh fowls, 14@1s1ac;
turkeys, 14@22Hc
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New York, Feb. 15-MONEY-Me Mercantile
paper. 31a@4 PEI, cent, Sterling exchange,
4:S1 IS; for demand, 4.S1. Bar silves, 4S1Sc !;
Mexican dollars, 37Hc. Government bonds,
firm; railroad bonds, heavy. Tome loans,
steady: 60 days. .21s@2A; 80 days, 2N@3 j;
months, 3A@3H.
Call money, steady; high, 2; low, IN /;
offered at 2
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man to obtain his citizenship by q
special act of congress, he is one of
only two or three others that have
been given the protection OF the stars
and stripes in this manner