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other ten do the celebrating and
choosing.
Sometimes the whole thousand
are mere scenery. the choice hav.
Ing been made BY public sentiment
before the convention meets.
An example OF this was the con.
vention at Philadelphia which nom.
mated Mckinley for his second
term md chose Roosevelt as vice
presidential candidate.
The only uncertainty In that
convention was the choice OF tho
vice president. and quite good
deal OF dramatic interest was de.
veloped over the fight of Tom Piatt
20 foist Roosevelt on the conven-
tlon against tho latter's wNhes.
Another example OF this kind
OF convention was the one which
nominated Roosevelt for his second
term.
This fight started months before
tho convention met. when Roose-
Welt announced that those not for
him we're against him. and by the
time the convention assembled
there were enough declared" dele.
I gates 20 make his denomination a
certainty.
This Is the kind OF convention
Woodrow Wilson will have at St.
Louis. June II.
II has all been decided that he IL
10 be nominated. and the only un.
certainty is that which will sur.
round the particular wording OF the
platform declarations, with a bare
possibility that Tom Marshall Will
not be the unanimous choice for
vice president. in which case Sen.
ator Robert L. Owen or Oklahoma
may contest for tina thonor.
Quite different from this kind
OF convention is the one
which will meet In Chicago. un.
der republican auspices.
The latter resembles In some
ways several historic conven-
lions, like those which nominal
ed Blaine, Garfield and aave
Cleveland his second nomlna.
ton.
These were protraeted and un.
certain, and the nomination,
when finally made, was news
10 all the country.
In this so-called "old-fashioned"
convention, the outcome IL the re
suit Of back-room conferences he.
tween political leaders. the dele.
gates being puppets
often these conferences are ac
comnahiod by secret agreements
worked out later In the distribu
ton OF spoils. the foreign diplomat
&c appointments. and big federal
offices at the disposal Of the chief
executive
This kind OF a convention is dear
to the heart OF tho professional
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GIRL IN RED MASK
IS BEING SHADOWED

he will have to beat thousands OF
others who will be looking for her
there.
The person who wins the $50
must face the girl. look her in the
eye. and say: "You are Tho Stars
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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FRECKLE-FACt
Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly
Spots. How 10 Remove Easily

Here's chance. Miss Frecklc-
face. TO try remedy for freckles
with the guarantee OF reliable
dealer that II viii not cost you a
penny unless It removes tho
freckles: while II II does give you
a clear complexion the expense Is
trifling.
Simply get an ounce OF othine--
double strength-from any drug.
gist and few applications should
show you how easy II is to rid
yourself Of the homely freckles and
get beautiful complexion. Rare.
~ is more than one ounce needed
for the worst case
BE sure 10 ask the druggist for
the double strength othine. as this
is the prescription sold under
guarantee OF money back II 1t fails
to remove freckles.
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TEN men DO, THE
REAL CHOOSING!
Select Presidential Csndi.
dates: Other 600 in Hall
Just Look On
GARDNER EXPLAINS IT

TIE ss~~sA 81 sAS~s se~vses ~ an
sss tseras~S. ear fan~ss Wsshta1-
tee eevvesp~sAeas. telling snscsiy
hsw our pr~Ssa eaes are named vss-
can patssI ssAayss srss~is ssifs shs
~sastd~" Of ssetsssi essvssfssss.
Tsnsrvew osvdsev VIII shsw shss
the methe1s ~ which the psestasss
- actually ~hseea ere csatrevy 80
IRON
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fIV ARA,N'' H'optT
70 to make up
n national polit.
teal convention.
These delegates
meet. deliberate.
and by ballot
choose some man
to stand a. the
party's candidate
for president and
for vice presi-
dent.
SUCH rs THE
THEORY.
In pra cticc.
about 800 dele.
gates are present
10 furnish a set
ting. while tho
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-05-26

Well. we've got TO give up hope
about Kay Laurel. boys.
She's married
Kay Laurel. II YOU don't happen
to know IL. is called the most bean.
tlful American girl When she VAS
telephone operator Ia Erie. Pa.
her dulcet voice Is said To have per.
suadod many folk to have "A tele.
phone In their homes.
Then Kay worked for a while In
Doctors offic. Ia Cleveland.
Then Kay was engaged by Flor
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~ gibson GARDINER

NIT NNF"IHT
WASHINGTON. MAY 7s-A thou
sand delexatas-one delegate for ey.
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The girl first noticed her youth
full follower Thursday noon at Sec
ond ave. and Yesler way, when she
started her daily distribution OF
1000 prize and admittance tickets
for the food fair. from 1880 a. m.
TO 1880 p. m.
Tho big auto she was riding In
made It's way thru the crowd up
Second ave. The boy kept follow
ing. When the car speeded up, out
OF tho crowd. the boy would run.
Tho Star girl. and the men who
ride with her. declare that this boy
ran up and down Second ave. be-
tween Yesler way and Pine st, four
times Thursday and looked able TO
do another marathon after 1880.
He had nothing to say and didn't
even smile back at the girl dressed
In red.
He kept studying her features.
The girl declares he is cross
eyed.
IL he picks her out on the floor
OF the Arena Saturday night. after
/ she has discarded the red clothes
! hat and mask for something else
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Lexington, Neb.. April -. 1918.
Wayne, Neb.


Dear sir your card received
and will say that was Borned
In Repley Ohio. Ny parents
moved from, there when was 2
years old 20 cattet,sburu. X Y
was educated there and a.
Portsmouth Ohio. and raised a.
a Methodist Of which my par.
ents vas when about ~ cane
20 nebraska Lexington Dawson
Co about 81 years ago was on
ranches and later farmer 70
about % years different things
q short time In the above men
TONED was a Member OF Evan.
gellesi Church In early days
and now a member OF Presby-
terrain here in Lexington Neb
for about . years. have never
taken drink OF Liquor nor my
Father Gather since was old
enough to know tlll he died
you preachers ought TO get
Busy and give the delegates 20
under stand what your inten-
lions 10 II they nominate a man
Of Whisky type or one going
IL tou faced as some Of them
10 very truly--Robert c. Ross
Lexington Neb.
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LIvERYMAN OUT
FOR PRESIDENT
Runs Against Wilson in Ne.
braska and Gets
Many Votes
HE'S A PRESBYTERIAN

LINCOLN. Nsb.. May 75.--Roheri
q. Ross. . Lexington. Neb- livery
stable proprietor who received
s,<iT votes IN the Nebraska demo
cratic primary In hts contest with
President Wilson for The democratic
presidential nomination. and who
also received b.5o4 votes In his con.
test for the republican prcsiden.
tial nomination. believes be II we'll
fitted TO servo the people OF the
United States as their president,
Because OF Mr. Ross rather large
vote Ia both primaries. ". l.. GaH.
ton, OF Wayne. wrote to him asking
for a statement OF his views. train.
Ing and qualifications for the office
OF chief executive OF the nation. Mr..
Ross sent the following courteous
vspfx
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enx Ziegfeid. Jr- for his Follies
show. and everybody In little old
New York began talking about tho
sloe-eycd beauty from Cleveland.
Now comes one Winfield X. Shee.
han and weds the handsome Kay
shechRu vas police reporter on
u New. York paper
lie became secretary 60 Police
/ Commissioner Waldo. and was
prominent during tho investigation
OF the Roaanthal murder. lilo In an
official In q moving picture com.
! pAny now.
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SANDERSON'S PILLS

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The Stars "elrI-ln-the-red-
mask" 10 being Swallowed, she
declares. by a te-yearold boy In
knee trousers, who Is plotting
to get $50 easy money by pick
Inq her out Of the crowd at the
Northwest Food Fair & House
furnishing exposition at the
Arena Saturday night.
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Evening star., 1916-10-20
MONEY, CHARRED
BY FIRE, IS REDEEMED
Gas Pipe, Used as Bank, Preserves
Currency Sufficiently for Treasury
Experts to Identify 1t.

A piece of l 4 inch gas pipe, capped
at both ends, about five inches in
length. was used as bank by Chi
cago workingman. There was fire in
his home The iron bank went through
the fire with the result that all its con-
tents were burned to d char. When the
bank was recovered from the ashes the
owner forwarded it to the redemption
division of the Treasury Department.
He asked $21O reimbursement. claim
ing the pipe contained that much
money.
When the unique bank was opened
by the Treasury eXperts-who have de-
termined the value of money note
torn in thousand pieces and estab-
lished the denomination of the one-inch
ash of a piece of paper currency-they
found a mass of paper, baked black.
The claimant, Paul Deitz. Chicago
mechanic, said the bank had contained
ten twenty-dollar bills and one ten
dollar bill. making up the sum he
claimed. The experts found the value
correct. but an error in the denomina-
tions of the contents. There were nine
twenty-dollar bills. two ten-dollar bills
and two five-dollar bills. Also the ex-
perts determined the various issues.
The money has been refunded.
Evening star., 1916-10-20
LEADER OF RESCUE PARTY
is ASPHYXIATED IN MINE
Seven Others Overcome, But Are
Brought to Surface and
Revived.

FAIRMONT, w. Va, October 2O.-L.
NJ. Jones. Il mining engineer sent to
Rarrackville near here yesterday in
charge of trained crew from the
Pittsburgh station of the bureau of
mines to conduct the work of rescue
at the Jamison mine. where more than
a dozen men had been entombed by an
explosion, was asphyxiated in the
workings early today.
Jones. with seven other men, had
reached the bottom Of the shaft, where
canary birds We're released to test
the air All the birds We're almost i'm
mediate1y killed, and Jones, who had
advanced farther into the workings,
also fell to the tracks. His Companions
advancing to his rescue felt the force
of the gas, and one by one were over
come. When they did not return to
the surface another party entered the
mine and brought them out. All quick
ly recovered except Jones. who had
apparently died in the mine.
The work OF exploring the mine con-
tinued during the early hours of the
day, and soon after o'clock the body
of Matthew Allison, the chief electri-
clan, who was at work in the mine
when the exploseion occurred, was
brought out. Three other bodies were
recovered, among them Allson's as
sistant, A. W. Vance. These men, the
rescue party said, had evidently been
killed by gas as their bodies bore no
mark of the explosion
Evening star., 1916-10-20
Women Claim Police Failed
to Afford Them Protection
Against Rioters in CHICAGO

CHICAGO, October 2O.-An unpIeas-
ant feature of President Wilson's visit
to Chicago yesterday was a near-riot
in which banners borne by women op-
posing the Presidents reelection were
torn from their hands and destroyed
The outbreak occurred just after the
President had passed. but he was not
witness to IL.
Shouting shame" disgrace and
get the banners" crowd of sew
eral hundred. sprfnkled with women.
charged the banner holders. Umbrellas
and canes were used In the destruction
of the placards. Many of the women
were knocked down and nearly all
were roughly handled. especially those
who strove to retain their banners.
The excitement continued until all
the banners had been seized. With
disheveled hair and soiled ard torn
clothing. the women marched back to
their headquarters under police guard.
Charges that the police sympathized
with the rioters and failed to protect
the demonstrators were made by Mrs.
Josephine Pearce and Mrs. +. L. Mat
tice. officials of the local Woman's Re-
publican Clubs.
There were all kinds of policemen
standing about merely looking on. not
moving a hand" said Mrs. Pearce.
Some of them didn't seem to want to
help US j saw policemen deliberately
stand nearby and laugh at US while we
were being beaten and the banners
torn from our hands.
I'VE were merely standing quiet.
Evening star., 1916-10-20
GERMANS RETAKE
TRENCHES IN WEST
British Lose Positions Be-
tween Eaucourt L'Abbaye
and lie Barque, Says Berlin.
FRENCH CONTINUE ADVANCE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associat ted Press.
BERLIN, October 20. by wireless to
Sayville.-The greater part of the trench
es on the road between Eaucourt FAB
baye and lie Barque, which were captur-
Ell by the British October IS. were re-
taken yesterday by German troops in an
attack according to the official statement
issued today at the German army head
quarters.
Attempts made by British detachments
to advance last night north of Cource-
lette and east of LIE Sars, the statement
adds, failed. On the last great attack
against the German positions in the
Somme region the British used several
tanks and three of them were destroyed
by the German artillery fire, the state
ment declares.
Evening star., 1916-10-20
HOLDING UP OF PENSIONS
is CHARGED AND DENIED
Republican Accusation Met With As
sertion That It Was Prompted
by Politics.

The charge that pension applications
are being held up wholesale by the
pension office for political purposes
was made today by national republican
congressional committee headquarters,
and denied promptly and vehemently
by pension Office officials.
The statement from republican con-
gressional headquarters unequivocally
accused the pension Office heads of re-
fusing to pass on applications from
veterans of the civil war. Spanish
American war and the Philippine cam
paigns until after election.
The pension Office, through Deputy
Commissioner Tieman. made a brief re-
ply that this was all politics, and not
a word of truth" The situation. he
said. had been brought about by an or
der placing a large part of the office
force on the work of cleaning up the
new rush of applications for an in
crease under the Ashbrook widows
pension act. just passed by Congress.
Evening star., 1916-10-20
FOREIGN MINISTER TO QUIT.
Baron Won Rajecz Expected to Step
Down in Austria-HungarY.

: LONDON. October 20.-German news
papers say the visit of Baron Burian
Won Rajecz. Austro-Hungarian foreign
minister, to the German army head
quarters may be his last as foreign
minister. according to dispatch from
to the Exchange Telegraph
Company. The baron's resignation is
impending, it is said, and his probable
successor will be Baron Won Macchio,
ustro-Hungarian delegate at the Sec
ond Hague peace conference. or count
Czecsen Won Temerin. who was the am
bassador of fAustria-Hungary to France
at tho outbreak of the war.
Up to the time when Italy entered
the war. Baron Won Macchio was on
special mission to Rome on behalf Of
the Austro- Hungarian foreign once.
Evening star., 1916-10-20
GERMANS STORM
RUSSIAN POSITIONS
Capture 2,O64 Officers and
Men Along the Narayuvka
in GaIicia.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. October 20, by wireless to
Sayville-ierman troops yesterday
stormed important Russian positions
with adjoining lines on the west bank
of the River Narayuvka, in Galicia, and
repulsed sanguinary counter attacks,
says the German official statement is
sued today. The Germans captured
fourteen officers and 1850 men and
took eleven machine guns.
South of Zborow (GaIicia) German
outpost5 carried out successful enter
prises. The army of Gen. Won Terszty-
ansky repulsed advances of Russian
guard detachments. On the Upper
Stokhod Volhynia) several Russian
trenches were captured.
North of Siniawka Russian trenches
were taken on the west bank of the
Stokhod. Near Bubnow attacks made
by Russian guard troops were repulsed
with considerable loss to the enemy.
Evening star., 1916-10-20
Tear Up Nomen's Banners.

Finally. the officers hold up all I\ve-
hicies. rush. the ladies' with banners
across to the other side of the avenue
fronting the park. and there literally
turn them loose with their placards to
fare as best they may. for better or for
worse-and il is worse.
In a jiny the crowd pounces upon
them and tears their banners in pieces,
disporting gayly across the grass as
they shred them. The police meanwhile
are busy uncongealing the traffic that
blocks the avenue for half a mile, in
either direction. six columns wide
The President has of course passed
long ago to the Auditorium. where he
is making his address: the offending
banners are destroyed. the ladies de-
parted. the curious crowds finding
nothing further to divert them have
left for home. All is peace on Michigan
avenue, save the everlasting chug chug
Of the Illinois Central trains in the
freight yards over the way.
But Chicago is having one grand
time over woman exercising her first
right of suffrage in a presidential cam
paign-
Evening star., 1916-10-20
TO URGE WHEAT EMBARGO.
Chicago Master Bakers to Take Up
Bread Question With Congressmen.

CHICAGO. October 2O.-When b. H..
Dalheimer president of the Master Bak-
ers' Association of Chicago, observed
shortly after the opening of the board of
trade today that wheat had advanced
2A cents more. December at the moment
selling at s1.711z. he said:
THAT settles it; something must be
done or there will be seven-cent bread in
Chicago"
Mr. Dalheimer and a committee failed
yesterday in an attempt to bring the sub
ject to the attention of President Wilson.
I'VE will take up the question of an
embargo on expectations until the do
mestic situation is relieved with our con-
gressmen and arrange in that way to
bring it before Mr.. Wilson, said Mr..
Dalheimer.
Evening star., 1916-10-20
MUTINY IN POLISH LEGION.
Organization Recruited in Service of
Germany Reported to Have Collapsed

LONDON, October 20.-A dispatch
from Bern, Switzerland, to the wire
less press says:
''Germany's Polish legion has col
lapsed. After long efforts and coer-
Give pressure Germany and Austria
Hungary succeeded in enrolling $4,000
Poles. They were divided into six bri-
gades.
-Four brigades mutinied at the be-
ginning of October and they were dis
armed and imprisoned In the Brest-
Litovsk barracks. The remnants of the
legion. were sent to the interior OF
Austria. the troops being considered
unredAblA~
Evening star., 1916-10-20
AUSTRIANS MAKE GAINS
AT "TOOTH OF PASUBIO"

LONDON, October 20.-Niolent fight
ing is in progress on the Trentino
front, in the vicinity of Monte Pasubio.
w ednesday the Austrians gained
ground at the Tooth of Pasubio,'
which the Italians captured on the pre-
ceding day, but subsequently were
driven out, according to Rome. Vienna
reports her forces firmly held the posi-
ton. The fighting has been of hand
to-hand character.
Evening star., 1916-10-20

holding our banners and not harmfng
any one. Suddenly there was a regular
riot. They grabbed our banners.
trampled on them and knocked us
down. 1t was terrible,'
Members of the Congressional Union
compared the scene at the demonstra
ton with the suffrage parade in Wash
ington the day before President Will
son was inaugurated "The disgraceful
attack upon the suffrage demonstra-
upon the great suffrage parade. Mr..
Wilson is unfortunate that he runs
the risk of going out of Office to the
same tune by which he entered" said
Mrs. A. r. Colvin, Minnesota state
chairman of the Congressional Union.