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civilized young person, the beneficiary
through her marriage with Rodney, o
a piece of unmerited good fortune.
When she got Florence McCreai
answer to her letter, she took thu
first occasion to get Rodney off BY
himself and talk a little common
sense into him.
"What about where to live, Rod
ney?" she asked. "Made up your
mind about it yet? 1t is time someone
with q little common sense straight
ened you out about this"
Harriet couldn't be sure from the
length Of time he took seeing that
his pipe was properly lighted, wheth-
er he altogether liked this method of
approach or not.
Common sense always was q sort
of speciality of yours, SIS" he said at
last, "and Strengthening out. You
were always pretty good at it," Then
out of a cloud of his own smoke,
Fire away"
swell, in the first place." she said,
''if you had your house today you'd be
lucky if the paint was dry and the
thing was fit to move into by the first
of September"
"But we've got to get out of here,
anyway, in October. And that means
we've got to have some sort of place
to get into. 1t is an awkward time,
I'll admit"
"No, you haven't" she said. "You
can stay right here another six
months, if you like. I've heard from
Florence. When 1 found how things
stood here, I wrote and asked her if
she'd lease for six months more if
she got the chance, and she wrote back
and simply grabbed at it.
Rodney smoked half way through
his pipe before he made any comment
on this suggestion. 'This house isn't
just what we want" he said. SIN the
first place, it's expensive"
Harriet shrugged her shoulders,
picked up one of Florence's poetry
books and eyed the heavily fooled bind
ing with a satirical smile before she
replied.
'Td an idea there was that in It,"
she said at last. Freddy said some
thing. Rose had been talking
to her." Then, after another little
silence and with a sudden access Of
"You don't want to go |
and do a regular fool thing, Roddy. |
You're getting on perfectly splendid
y. But if you pull up and go to live in
/ barn somewhere and stop seeing any
that count, mean"
Rodney grunted. you're beyond
your depth, SIS" he said. "Come back
where you don't have to swim. The
Expense isn't capital consideration.
I'll admit that. Now go on from
here"
''That's like old times" she OBJ
erved with not ill-humored grim
zee. Il wonder If you talk to Rose
Ike that. Oh, I know the house is
ather solemn and absurd. It's Flor
nee herself all over, that's the size
+ 1t. But what does that matter for
TX months more?
He pocketed his pipe and got up
ut Of his chair.
There's something In it." he ad-
lifted. "Tll think 1t over"
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CHAPTER XII.
The Door That Was to Open.

ne LOOT NAT was TO Open.
What a silly little idiot she'd been
not to have seen the thing for her
self! She'd been, ell the while, beat.
ing her head against blind walls when
there was a door there waiting to
open of itself when the time came,
Motherhood There'd be a doctor
and a nurse at first, of course, but
presently they'd go away and she'd
be left with baby. Her own baby
She could care for him with her own
hands, feed him-her joy reached an
ecstasy at this-from her own breast.
That life which Rodney led apart
from her, the life into which she had
tried with such ludicrous unsuccess
to effect an entrance, was nothing to
this new life which was to open before
her in few short months now. Mean
while, she not only must wait
she could well afford to.
That was why she could listen with
that untroubled smile of hers to the
terrible things that Rodney and
James Randolph and Barry Lake and
Jane got into the way Of hurting
across her dinner table, and to the
more. mildly expressed but equally
alkaline cynicisms of Jimmy Wallace.
Jimmy was dramatic critic on one
of the evening papers as well as bit
of a playwright. He was a slim, cool,
smiling, highly sophisticated young
man, who renounced all privileges as
an interpreter of life in favor of re-
naming an unbiased observer Of 1t.
He never bothered to speculate about
what you ought to do-he waited to
see what you did.
Well, in the light of the miraculous
Rose could listen undaunted to the
tough philosophizings her husband and
Barry Lake delighted in as well as to
the mordant merciless realities with
which Doctor Randolph and Jimmy
confirmed them. She wasn't
Indifferent to it all.
"Jim's pretty weird when he gets
going" Eleanor Randolph said to Fred
erica, on the next day after they had
been dining at the Aldriches', "but that
Barry Lake has a sort of surgical way
If discussing just anything, and his
wife's as bad.
eve never got off women all the |
evening. Barry Lake had their his
.ory down from the early Egyptians,
md Jim got Off string Of patholog-
cal freaks. And then Rodney came
tut strong for economic independence,
,nly with his own queer angle on 1t,
# course. He thought 1t would be a
Inc thing, but it wouldn't happen I'M
II the men insisted on 1t. When a
,lrl wasn't regarded as manageable
Inless she had been trained to trade
# q profession, then things would be-
in to happen. I think he meant 1t,
90.
swell, and all the while there sat
lose, taking 1t all in with those big
yes of hers, smiling to herself now
nd then; saying things, too, some
ines, that were pretty good, though
obody but Jimmy seemed to under
tand, always, just what she meant.
'hey've talked before. those two. But
he was, no mores embarrassed than !
3 II we'd been talking embroidery
titches."
So far as externals went, her life, !
rat spring, was immensely simplified.
he social demands upon her, which
nd been no insistent all winter,
topped almost automatically. The
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RECORDS WILL AID BREEDER
Dairyman Must Answer Various Cues.
tons Asked by Prospective Buy
err of Herd Sire.

(By L. W. WING, JR., Missouri Agri-
cultural College,
The present sharp competition in the
dairy business and the increased price
of feed force the successful dairyman
to secure the greatest return possible
from his outlay. If he has registered
cows he expects more for his progeny
than if he had only grades. But to
obtain more and enough more to pay
to keep purebred stock, the dairymen
must be able to answer the following
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-07-20
VALUABLE HINTS FOR DAIRY
Overlooking Causes More Trouble
Than interchangeable Change
to Skim Milk Gradual.

(By H. H. KILDEE, University Farm, st.
Paul)
In rearing and developing dairy
heifers:
Don't overfeed. Twice as many
calves are stunted by overlooking as
by undertaking.
Don't change suddenly from whole
to skim milk.
Don't keep calves in damp, dark,
crowded, poorly ventilated barns.
Don't feed milk in dirty pals.
Don't be irregular as to time of feed
ing. temperature or amount of milk.
Don't feed too much alfalfa hay be-
fore the calf is three months old.
Don't let calves suck each other
after drinking milk. They should be
placed in stanchions and fed grain.
Don't make calf go without water
because it has had milk.
Don't let calf drink foaming milk
Just from the separator.
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GIVE RIGHT AMOUNT OF FEED
Careful Feeders Study Individual AMI
mails and Keep Them At Their
Maximum Production.

Many careful feeders have their
cows giving the most milk four or
i've weeks after the freshening time.
They study the individual animals and
epdeavor to keep them at their maxi
Hum production by giving just The
light amount Of feed and no more.
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COMES EVENT ROSE ADRICHS
REALIZES THAT W0MANS FINEST MOHERHOODBUT
PLANS AWRY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-28
yellow Commanders Offer
Force for Real Fighting.
Soldiers Will Be Prepared for
Trenches in France.
ACTION DIFFERS FROM JAPAN
Undivided Front to Germany Is
China's Fearless Attitude.
Hostile Movement i'm South
Provinces a Fiasco.

Peking, China. Aug. &S--Gen-
erals Lo Pei-Ching. Lung Chi-,<wanG
and Kuchin-Tan, commanding $4,000
troops of Yunnan, Kwei-Chow and
Kwang Tung provinces, have offered
forces for service in Europe. The
provisional governments of YunnaI=
and Kwang Tung have given official
recognition of Peking's decla aration of
war against Germany, apparently
having been reconCiled to the govern
ment of the acting president, General
Feng Kwo Chang.
The hostile movement in the south
ern provinces is now plainly a fiasco.
Eighteen provinces have approx ed
the project for a national council
which probably will be esta blisheG
within a fortnight. The press gem
orally is urging China to present an
undivided front to the enemy
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CAN'T GO? SEND FID0!
America DEGREES That Dog kingdom
Can Do Its Bit.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-If you can't
go to war, send Fido.
Secretary of War Baker. Surgeon
General Gorgas ard the war college to-
day advised that Fido. Spot and all
their kin ir Anne lean dogdom should
do their bit
They endorsed the bill introduced
in the senate by Senator Brady, Idaho,
providing that the army get one thou
sand patriotic American dogs for war
service in France.
Most of them are to be recruited
by voluntary enlistment Your dog
will be welcomed. After training at
selective service environments in this
country the dogs would be used as
camp guards, trench sentries, scouts
and aids to Red Cross workers in re-
covering wounded on the battle fields.
Thousands of Alaskan dogs already
are at the French and Italian fronts.
Eng1and's and Germany's dogs are do
ing their bit.
European armies have 1900 dogs
in service" said Senator Brady today.
Their ability to perform certain serv-
ices is marvellous They can pick out
a wounded man in the blackest night
on a battlefield. They quickly dis
tinguish between friend and foe and
also are valuable couriers. Their
obedience is unquestioning, their keep
little and their value fully proved"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-28
That Is Charge James Hilton
Makes i'm Divorce Plea.
He Says She Left on Train
With Another Man Saturday.

James Hilton says his wife, Lilly,
did a lot of things a wife should not
do, then capped the climax by running
away with another man, and he names
him, last Saturday. He says she and
the man went west on a Santa Fe
train about noon and that SO far as he
knows they are still going. He wants
a divorce.
Hilton says he complained to the
police about his wife leaving town in
company with another man but that
he got no satisfaction. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hilton were married February22, 1906,
and numerous things have happened
since to disturb their domestic rela-
tions. Hilton says there were days on
end when mis- wife refused to prepare
his meals; that she admitted, in fact,
declared, that she had no affection for
him. that she remained out late at
night and spent much time with other
men. All thse things disturbed him,
but he stood hitched until the unan-
nounced departure of Mrs. Hilton and
a man on a Santa Fe train headed
west.
All Hilton asks for is a plain. ordi-
nary divorce.
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Nationwide Intestinal Trouble
Worries Germany.
Mortality Rates Jump From so
to 100 Per Cent.
TRYING TO CONCEAL TROUBLE
Cities Stop Publication of Death
Lists in Empire.
Tuberculosis Ravaging People
Due to Their Lack of Food.

Berne, Aug. 28.-Germany is suf-
fering from an almost nationwide
epidemic of dysentery.
German mortality rates have jump
ed from fifty to a hundred per cent
since the first of the year. Tubercu-
losis is ravaging the people, due to
their weakened condition thru lack of
proper food.
The German government is making
frantic efforts to conceal the dysen-
terry epidemic. All German cities
have stopped publication of mortality
statistics. The tuberculosis rate is
said to have nearly doubled in the last
few months. Every effort is being
made to reassure the German public.
Scores of reports have reached here
recently of local outbreaks of dysen-
terry in Germany. From information
obtained today it appeared these have
been merely local breaks as compared
with the present practically universal
spread of the scOurge.
Dysentery comes in part from lack
of proper diet. 1t is in order to con-
ceal this lack of food that the Ger
man government is making such -eX-
traordinary efforts to suppress all de-
tails of the epidemic.
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ANOTHER CHANGE
IN CHANCELLORS
FOR THE GERMANS

Copenhagen, Aug. 2S.-The possi-
bility of another change in imperial
chancellors in Germany is discussed
by George Bernhardt in the Vossische
Zeitung. He says it plainly is evident
already that the appointment of mi
nor official like Doctor Michaelis
without great political experience was
a great mistake and the desired results
are not likely to be reached quickly
under the new administration. Par
lament, he argues. must take the mat
ter of international reforms and peace
into its own hands Mr. Bernhardt
still hopes that Chancellor Michaelis
will see the error of his ways and
avoid the necessity for another change
in the chancellorship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-28
IN farewell CONCERT
Program for Radio Entertainment To-
night Is Announced.

Company A, Signal corps, (radio)
will give a farewell entertainment to
the people of Topeka tonight at the
high school auditorium. The program
will be supported by the Modoc club.
under NJ. c. Holman. Miss Beulah
Hall. violiniste. and B. P. Bartlett,
soloist. A canteen will be run in front
of the building. The proceeds from
the canteen will be applied to the
company mess fund. No admission
will be charged for the entertainment.
Following is the program:
Chorus, March OF our Nation. Geibe
Modoc Club and Orchestra.
Violin solo, ,Hejre Kati". ...... Hubay
Beulah Hall.
Major Anderson. Stafford Thatcher
Dale Burdick. Bert Swink
Bass solo, Border Ballad" .Cowen
B. p Bartlett
Bert Swink.
Chorus. Swing Along. Cook
~ Modoc Club and Orchestra
Scotch character song. g.........S Selected
Tom Powell.
Gu1tar duet. Hawaiian and Negro
Melodies ~
Bert Swink and lyle Anderson
Chorus. America Forever Paul
Modoc Club and Orchestra.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-28
ONE OLIVE BRANCH
Wilson's Message Only Light in
Russian Conference.
Delegates, Usually Glum, Cheer
the u. S. Note Wildly.

Moscow. Aug 28.-President Will
sons message to the Russian confer
ence electrified that assembly today.
His promise that America would aid
new Russia with all moral and ma
terial power" was greeted with thun-
derous cheers. His entire statement
produced a deep impression coming
as it did after speeches by cabinet
officials had barred Russia's grave
need of financial, industrial and moral
aid
The presidents cable was received
at midnight. The conference had la
bored for long hours before that. The
great hall of the meeting was stilled
as the tired delegates prepared to
leave.
The message was read amid si-
lence that bespoke eager attention.
Then came a storm of cheering. Ev-
cry delegate in the hall arose to his
feet. The bedlam of sound continued
for several minutes.
1t was the first time since the con-
ference assembled that there was any
unanimity of action. Even the cadet
party members Joined in the demon
stration. Heretofore they have sat
solidly. most glumly, applauding no
speakers except those of their own
party.
The chasm between these quiet ca
det forces and the workmens and
soldiers representatives was just as
wide early today when the session
concluded as it was in the preceding
meeting.
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KILL ONE CENT TAX
Postage Sections of War Bill EIim-
mates Lctter-Postcard Levy.

Washington, Aug. 28.-In resuming
consideration today of postage sec
tions of the war tax bill, the senate by
a vote of SO to % struck out the pro-
visions levying a one cent tax on let
ters and postcards designed to raise
s50,O00,O0o in revenue. A provision
giving American soldiers and sail
ors abroad he privilege Of mailing
letters free was retained.
Eight amendments to ,at war tax
providing for levies on war profits
ranging from rs down to 4S per cent
were introduced today by Senator La
Toilette.
The entire section ievying taxes on
first class mail was eliminated on mo-
ton of Senator Hardwick of Georgia.
The senate then proceeded to the pc
riodicai tax provisions.
Senator Smoot announced that he
would seek later to reconsider eIimi-
nation of the letter tax section.
This marks another victory for the
forces contending against imposition
of heavier taxes on the people. About
s50O00.000 revenue to nave been
raised annually thru the postal in
crease. must be made up elsewhere
Senator Weeks Massa ndsetts. at
tackled increased postal rates on news.
papers and magazines AMI profit tar
on publications
From the standpoint OF equity ane
Justice said Weeks. '-the publisher.
of the country may well say "a plague
on all your houses
Everyone. from the presiden
down who has had anything to d,
with revenue legislation. has reiter
ated that taxes should be .evied tina
they would not materially damage an,
enterprise. This legislation woult
damage a great industry and there
/ fore it should not be passed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-28
BANDITS GET PAYROLL
Two Killed by Five Robbers at Chi
cagO Iron Works

Chicago, Aug. 2S.-Two rnen carry
ing $500, the payroll of ne Winslow
Brothers Iron Works, were shot to
death in front of the plac.t today by
five bandits who escaped with the
money in automobiles.
Louis Osenberg and Barton Allen
the slain payroll messengers. were re-
turning from a bank in IN automo-
bile. As they stopped in front of the
entrance of the Iron Works a car con-
tanning the robbers drew up.
Three of the bandits lcaped from
the machine and opened IRE with re-
volyers. Osenberg and Allen fell with
bullets in their heads. The bandits
fired more than twenty shots. A score
OF persons witnessed the killing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-28
DECLARE WAR ON U. S.?
Austria and Allies of Germany Don't
Like Italian Aid.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-The possibil-
ity that Austria and perhaps other
allies of Germany soon may declare
war against the United States because
of the financial aid given to Italy is
recognized by administration officials.
1t is carefully explained today that
there is nothing in the existing stu
alton, either diplomatic or military.
that would cause the United States to
take initiative, but that an anomalous
state of affairs which may result in
broadening the war does exist was
not denied Relations of the United
States with Germany's allies are de-
fined as still in a state of broken dip
lomatic relations.
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j. c. Ernshaw. One of H0Over's
Men, in the City.
He Is To Visit All Food Stores
and Meat Markets.
MAKE A DETAILED SURVEY
This One of Cities Upon Which
Statistics Will Be Based.
List of All Stores Obtained
From Food Inspector.

j. c. E,rnshaw. working under the
direction of Herbert Hoover, national
food director. arrived in Topeka today
to make a survey of the grocery and
meat stocks in Topeka. He will be
assisted in the task by Alva Ice, food
inspector for the state board of health.
and Miss Annette Nicoll, city food in
spector.
Topeka has been selected as one of
few cities in the country in which
the government will make this survey.
recent federal act makes it com
pulsory upon merchants to cough up
their inmost secrets of supply and de-
mand, cost and amount of stock on
hand to the government.
The figures obtained in Topeka and
other cities, representing other dis
tricts in the east, west north and
south, will be used by government
statisticians as a basis for an estimate
by the department of agriculture's bu-
reau of markets of the amount of food
products in the hands of retail deal
ers. detailed survey also will be
made il New York City. which is to
be handled as a separate problem.
Gets List of Stores.
Upon his arrival in Topeka. Ern-
shaw called upon Miss Nicoll and OBJ
! tanned from her list of all the butch
| ers and grocerymen in the city. Then
he went to the postoffice to ascertain
If detailed instructions relative to his
| work had arrived from Washin gton.
Uiltil these instructions are received
Erlshaw is more or less in the dark
as tC bis next step in making the sur
Vay
| The survey of stocks, as Ernshaw's
| Topeka survey is classified, is one OF
four branches of the great task of es-
timating the country's entire stock OF
| food on hand between now and Sept
Is. Other surveys will cover stocks
on farms, in wholesale commercial es-
fablishments and storages in the
homes of consumers.
Work In Large Cities
Aside from New York. the largest
city selected is Cleveland, Ohio Its
county, Cuyahoga, was chosen as CEN
| trally located with reference to large
industrial centers and as a typica
manufacturing and commercial cen.
| ter
The second group included Dallas
Tex, and Altoona, Penn, with its
outlying towns. These are thought tC
represent conditions as they exist in
a city which depends on manufac-
turing, and one depending on agricul
ture. Topeka, too, is held as a city
fed to a great extent by money from
the farm and it is included as one OF
the middle west cities upon whose
storage of groceries and meats a basi.
for the estimate will be made.
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The temperature today averaged 8
degrees below normal for this date.
The wind was blowing eoght miles an
hour from the north at o'clock this
afternoon.
Fall after making its debut N To-
peka will give way to summer today,
according to S. d. Flora, local mete-
orologist Monday night was the first
touch of fall recorded On the weather
reports of this section for this year
The mercury fell to So degrees anC
started on race with records of the
early fall of 1891. when the mercury
fell to 40 and nearly a week of gem
timely cold weather was recorded.
The forecast for tonight and We'd
nesday, however, promises a return of
Continued on Page FfveJ
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FIRST 5 PER CENT CHINA MEANS IT! !WFE RAN away!
Initial Call Includes Men o
Previous Training.
Cooks and Others in Camp Or
ganizatiOn Are Needed. d

Washingtons Aug. 2a---The first .
per cent of Amerfca's army will com
prise men of previous military train
ing cooks and others Schooled in
amp organization work. . No negroes
will be included.
This unit. which begins entraining
September 5, will be selected from
those making up the initial quota in
each district. District boards. how
ever, have been warned to see that no
man not subject for call in the first
draft be sent to ca mp.
Drafted men all over the country
are urging that they be allowed to go
in the first 5 per cent
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TO FIX PRICES TODAY
Hoover's Committee Expected tO
Allow $2.IO Bushel for Wheat

Washington, Aug. 2s.-Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover's fixing committee
will report today on the price to be
charged for the 1917 wheat crop. The
figure is expected to be about S2-10
per bushel.
The committee held a lengthy meet
ing Monday afternoon when reports
submitted by Investigators were ana :
lyzed. Immediately after fixing prices
for the 1917 crop DIR. Garfield will
take up rye prices, and then will tnrn
his attention to the duties thrust upon
him as coal controller.
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HUSBAND FINDS
WIFE, NIGHTIE,
AND YOUNG MAN

New York. Aug. 2S.-Not even a
hot midsummers night was excuse
enough for Mrs. Louis N Praeger's 5
wearing of an exceedingly thin nightie
while talking to a medical student,
her husband declared today in filing
a divorce suit. Praeger says he found
MS wife. the nightie and the student
when he unexpectedly returned home
from out of town