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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13

"Bless my mcconnell" exclaimed Mrs.
Beggarstaff Indignantly. "No! Who
Is he-or sheT"
II don't know; that's why I asked
you-who know everybody. One Ques-
ton more: What do you know about
your friend Mr.. CravenT"
"Tad Craven" exclaimed the Dowa-
ger Dragon in blank amazement.
whats he been doing"
Nothing very desperate: only max
ing love to Mrs. Merrilees. Think
she'll marry himY
Couldn't say. She's a flighty crea-
ture, and Tad's tremendously amusing.
What concern Is it of yOurs?"
"None whatever. You haven't told
me what you know about him."
"Why-of course what the world
knows. He's an entertaining little
man who came out of nowhere to cheer
us up about fifteen years ago. Never
was heard Of before one fine morning
when we all woke up to find he be-
longed. No money, SO far as I know
or just enough to enable him to live
well without working too hard. Nova
days New York teens with just this
type Of unaccountable persons-de-
cent, diverting, well-bred, and three
quarters idle. That's all-except /
like the man."
"You never heard he a married?"
HE isn'tl" Mrs. Beggarstaff ex-
claimed, dumfounded.
II don't say SO. I only wonder. OF
course, If you never heard he was mar
ried, you never suspected him Of hav-
ing a daughter-you're too pure
minded"
"Thank you for nothing. What are
you driving att"
"And II he hasn't a daughter, who
in thunderation is LydiaT
"Quoin," said the Dowager Dragon
solemnly, II warn you, If you keep me
On tenterhooks another instant"
"Here you are, then." the detective
interposed hastily; "but keep 1t to
yourself. Yesterday afternoon, when
1 was killing time in the wireless
house, a message came in which
read over the operators shoulder as
he wrote 1t down. 1t was for Craven,
and ran something like this: Lydia
disappeared. What shall I do? Await
ing advice before notifying police
Signed, Hicks-Lorrimer.' And after
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13

~ @Sp .0's
steps.
a while Craven's reply was brought In
for transmission, Keep away from po-
lice. If girl doesn't return, wire me
New York Saturday. Addressed,
'Hicks-Lorrimer, eleven King Charles
court, London, West Now who Is
Lydia to Craven II not wife or daugh-
ter, that wireless messages must adj
wise him Of her disappearance? Not
his wife; for he refers to her in his
reply as the girl II his daughter,
he must be a widower."
After a thoughtful moment the Dow
ager Dragon exclaimed, "Quoin! This
Joachim brooch-has 1t struck you that
the cameo bears a resemblance to any
one we known
"Craven, Of counsel Now you men
ton 1t, a distinct resemblance"
"This Miss Carteret says her father
gave 1t to her because Of Its likeness
to him."
"What did you say the name was, In
full7"
Lucy Carteret. But whe she told
me she tripped and stumbled over
something that sounded suspiciously
like Lid Lid for Lydia, chr"
Lucy Carteret-Lydia Craven" the
| detective unused aloud.
Help me up" the Dowager Dragon
demanded excitably. I'm going down
stairs this minute and have a good
look round hat cabin, II the girl isn't
awake. Quoin," she added with AMI
nation, as the detective gave her his
hand, IF 1t turns out as we think
"Hope" he suggested. smiling.
"For my part, hope. If 1t turns out
as we hope, this voyage is going to be
most amusing. And I was afraid OF
being bored!"
"Then," Quoin reminded her, "you
ought to be very grateful to me-"
II love you for it, Mrs. Beggarstafl
declared ardently.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13
WHY

II It takes nine tailors to make
q man, why should too many
cooks spoil the BROTH
And II the worst Is yet to
come, why does every cloud have
q silver lining7
Which Is best, to count your
chickens before they are Matched
or look before you leap?
If you should look not upon
the wine, how is 1t that a little
wine for the stomach's sake is SO
frequently urged?
Is travel the greatest educator,
or doesn't a rolling stone gather
any moss?
If all things come to those who
wait, why is 1t that nothing ven
ture nothing have2
OF course, a patient waiter
may be no loser, yet time and
tide, 1t is said, wait for no man.
Everybody knows that a stitch
in time saves nine, also that it is
never too late to mend.
What goes up must 60 down
food prices are very much higher.
Age is a great improver, yet
the good invariably die very
young.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13
Use for Apple PeeIs.

Delicious apple Jelly can be made
from the Feelings Of apples. Put the
Feelings into a jar, cover with cold
water. and let cook slowly In the oven
I'LL the Feelings are tender. Then
strain, add one pound Of sugar for
each pint of liquid, and boil till 1t
jellieS.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13
(TO BE C~oNTINUED.)
Few individuals honored.

France delights in naming its streets
after some particular building, OF some
happening, or a great victory, and this
Is also true to a certain extent IL
Canada, where there Is only n CAPT
tai city which commentaries an indi.
vidual. This Is Charlottetown, the
capital Of Prince Edward Island. The
Charlotte so remembered was the
daughter and only child Of George Nv
who died only a year after her mar
riage in 1817.-Philadelpha NORTH
American.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13
Vexatious.

~ certainly would like to pick up q
newspaper that wasn't full Of big black
headlines" said the fractions man.
"Tired of reading war news?'
Eyes. And to make matters worse,
I've reached the point where I believe
nearly everything I read"
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13

little girl Of eleven or so, with her
party dress. 1t Is Of pink satin ribbon
a little more than an inch wide, shirred
over a fat elastic band, and 1t extends
all around the head. The small fiat
rosettes at each side may be centered
with beads or little cabochons. since
this Is an adOrnment for high occa-
sions.
Plain ribbons in light colors have
the preference for ornaments Of this
kind; But for everyday and school
wear darker colors and plaids may bs
depended upon al a safe choice for
fall.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13
MRS. BEGGARsTAFF DISCOVERS THAT LUCY cARTERET
OWNS A BEAUTIFUL NECKLACE WHICH HAD
BEEN STOLEN FROM A VALUABLE COL
LECTION SOME TIME BEFORE

A beautiful. welIbred English woman. nervous and suspicious.
finds when she boards the steamer Alsatia, bound from Liverpool
for New York, that her stateroom mate is Mrs. Amelia Beggarstan,
a fascinating wealthy American widow of about sixty years. The girl
says her name Is Lucy Carteret and that she is going to America to
meet her father, who has lived there many years. Something about
the girls manner makes the widow wonder what's the trouble. She
is much surprised to find Lucy possesses a magnificent necklace which
the girl said her father had given her for Christmas.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13

Do you believe that Lucy Car
teret 10 telling the truth and
that she 10 an honest, hloh-elass
girl; or do you think she 10 one
Of band Of shrewd erooks7
The next lnstallment brInes I'm
portant developments.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-13
GI &aMsA
II
Dooekln 0lovUA

The latest gloves IN made Of pale
tan dosskin and they are very wide
at the wrists. These gloves are drawn
on yer . coat sleeve. the wide wrist
diving Q pauntlet e6bec&
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22
BY PAUL PURMAN.

The prince Of southpaws is now
through.
Edward s. Plank, the greatest of
them all, has pitched his last major
league game, If reports from several
Of his friends are to be believed.
Suffering from a nervous break
down and preparing for minor oper-
alton, there is little chance that
Plank will ever toe the rubber again.
When Plank left the Browns few
weeks ago he was reported to have
gone to his home in Gettysburg, Pa.
He really went to Philadelphia hos
pital.
Plank will be forty-two in August.
He is one of the oldest men in the
game in point of years and of service.
This was his 18th season in baseball,
and he holds the record for all time
for lefthanded pitchers in point OF
continuous service.
Plank's long stay in baseball Is all
the more remarkable when his physt
cal and mental characteristics are
considered. He is bundle of nerves
and compared with other veterans of
the game is physically almost a weak
ling. :,
The only other men in baseball
who approach Plank in age are La
joie and Wagner, both men with Won
derful physlques and of phlegmatic
dispositions.
AS a pitcher there are few who ap-
proach the veteran in skill and cum
ming.
During the last two or three years,
as the old arm was gradually weak
ening under the strain of constant
pitching, he developed slow ball,
which he had never used in his ear
lier years. He studied batsmen and
scarcely ever wasted a ball.
It was his superstition that a pitch
err only had so many pitched balls in
his system and when he had run out
Of these he could no longer pitch
effectively.
From che time he entered the
league In 1901 with the Athletics un-
til his last game this season, Plank
has never lost his uncanny ability to
outwit batsmen.
II is not strange that Plank him
self should be the first to realize he
was slipping. ..
Plank has pitched very little this
wear, the records showing he has won
two and lost one game. Several
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22

weeks ago he went to the clubhouse,
packed his clothes and said he was
going home.
81 guess the club is about to lose
another player" he told friends on
the team.
Later, however, he joined the
Browns at Washington, and although
he was taken out in the seventh in
ming was given credit with a victory.
Manager FieIGer Jones still hopes
that the veteran nay be able to finish
the season with the Browns, but
Plank doesn't believe he can.
We call to mind only one pitcher
who outlasted Plank in years of SER
vice-Cy Young, who was up there"
for % years.
Young, however, broke in several
Years younger than Plank, who was
rs when he pitched his first major
league game. Young was a right
handler too, and records show that
rlght-handed pitchers last far longer
on the average than s"rthpaws.
No other southpaws have nearly
approached Plank in years of service.
Hooks Wiltse and Doc White came
closest with 10 years in the big
leagues.
Plank's greatest ambition was to
outlast Cy Young in the major
leagues. On his 41st birthday, last
August, he said he hoped to pitch eff
fective bali for 10 years more. That
dream is shattered,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22
GRANT Town and
ClNS(]L. SUNDAY
Game Will be Played on
Grant Town Grounds and
Will be Good.

ait Town fans are to be treated
Is real baseball game Sunday when
TIA Consolidation Coal company team
clashes with the Grant Town nine
TIiis Is the second game between the
two teams, the miners having been
victorious in the first game, which was
pIayad on the Traction park diamond
md probably will prove even more in
teresting than was the first one, since
the Grant TOWERS are determined to
ma q use OF whatever advantage their
familiarity with the grounds will give
them and get revenge for their form
81 defeat,
Grant Town has added number of
men to her line up since the form
81 game with the miners and has
Won Six consecutive games. Hines
ana Hawkins will be the battery for
Grant Town and they are formidable
pair TO buck up against" The game
win begin promptly at 3 o'clock and
VIM be followed by a flag raising.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Rasnlts YekfardaY

Cleveland, ]; Chicago, 0.
New York, s.; Boston, 4.
Deroit, s; st. Louis, 4.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22
Glll0BAI.SII'.EBALLI At !.
THE GUARD CAMP.
AIartiilsburg Lads Were Too
Much for Company 1
Yesterday.

Company r Of Martinaburg won
HON Company Of this city in we'll
played contest at the camp yester'
day, the score being 1915. Ranking
sergeant Of Company l, May, tapped
the pin for homer which featured
the game! Only six inning we're play.
ed last night but another game will
Be played later between the two teams
md IL Is hoped to get it started in
tirne TO play a full nine inning game.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22
CHURCH LEAGUE GAME

Church league game will be played
81 the East Park diamond at 8 o'clock
lhis evening between the Diamond
Street u. .. and the Mining Machine
company nine. The Methodists are
leading the league while the Machin,
lssH constitute the rear guard but some
nltefati IONS IN the formation are ex.
pectsd ID result from the game to-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22

1915 with the ST. Louis Federas
"*1917 with the Louis Americans,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22

Don't be a clam. A clam never
moves; it never progresses. Don't
be a clam. Use Guyandotte Club Cot.
fee-a combination Of the finest cot.
fees arown.-AdVt.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22

hiiadelphia, 8; Washington, 0.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22

NEW YORK Teafy Bill stole
two hors shoes and was arrested. ne
swears there Is no luck inihorseshoes.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22

Games Scheduled Today
Philadelphia at Washington.
Cleveland at Chicago.
81 olts at Detroit,
BORON ct New York.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22

Trinket Coffee. A popular coffee
at a popular priee.-AdW
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22

Games Scheduled Today
Chicago at Pittsburgh.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia.
Cincinnati at st, Louis.
New York at Boston,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-06-22
Baseball at a Glance.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
+ Results Yesterday

4 Chicago LII PltCsDur8n, e.
New York, a; Boston, 0.
brooklyn, A; Philadelphia, 2.
Cincinnati. Z; St. Louis, /. 49,.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06

state game board, talking from Steele
this morning, advised that it began
raining there early Tuesday afternoon
and was still at it.
CONVICT WAS HUNGRY
After hiding for two days In cor
ner of the prison warehouse, watch
ing for chance to, ascape,ea colored
convict, discovered yesterday was
rather glad to be found, as 'rhis two
days without food had given him
splendid appetite.
SHORTER VACATIONS
Capital employees must be on the
job when the whistle blows at 900 a.
M, and must not leave off work at
noon and In the evening until quitting
time has come, rules the state board
of auditors Inothe interests of econ
omylit also, has reduced full.pay va
cations, to two, weeks, though en-
ployes may take a full month at half
pay, if they prefer. A time clock.
which everyone, from Judge Robinson
down, must punch, is expected to be
the next development of the economy
campaign.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
remember! ACT!

The two most important dates
ahead of us are June 8 and 8, which
are to be Liberty Loan days for WON.
en- and children.
What is the war primarily for, save
for the women and children? The
mothers of posterity and posterity
first, always. 1t is so when the pas
senger ship is sinking. 1t is no less
so as you work in your Office, in fac
tory or in field We are in this war
to stop the destruction of homes, and
to give posterity greater opportuni-
ties for happiness. We call it a war
for worldwide democracy, but in true
democracy and in the danger of the
spread Of brutal autocracy, as in all
other dangers, it is the women and
children first.
We ought to show the world that
we realize this by seeing to it that
an extraordinarily large number of
Liberty Bonds are subscribed for on
June 8 and 9. Man, your wife, or
mother, or sister, or sweetheart is in
danger. Fight for her with a bond!
Remember the outraged mothers,
wives and sisters of France. Young
man, or maybe old man, the Lord has
blessed you with a baby. Fight for
1t with bond! The walls of hungry,
homeless orphans rise throughout fair
Europe. Let American manhood write
across June and 8 a warning to the
debasers of women and children that
can be read throughout the world!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
The Cons Opinion,

The late Mr.. Henniker Heaton's use
Of questions in the house Of commons
did not commend itself to all his fam.
lily. One of his sons, a small midship.
man, did not fail to express his views
on the matter. One day, when the lat.
ter was home on leave, his father said
to him:
Il am always very glad to get your
letters, but 1 notice you never tell me
ANYTHING of interest about the navy"
mo, thank you," replied the small
midshipman; too many Of our fellows
have had their careers simply ruined
by .thear fathers asking questions in
parliament Z"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
:. :: !: s: s: :: I: : I: : !: :: : I: = >
:. Grandeur has a heavy tax :
= to pay.-Alexander Smith. :
:. :: :. :. :. :. : !: :! : : : :: ::
CHERISH IDEALS.

A Minneapolis girl went to Chicago
with the idea that she was destined
for a career She had shown tai
ent in her high school days. Now
she is in Jail for stealing from a
home where she had sought work as
domestic helper after failing to get
a start in the line she wished to pur-
sue.
There are a lot of girls and boys.
too, who are so eager for careers
that they are not learning how to
live. They mistake a dream for an
ideal.
A dream is something we wish for;
an ideal is something we work for.
A dream makes commonplace du-
ties dreary and distasteful, while an
ideal makes them interesting and at
tractive because they are the solid
foundation upon which one may stand
in reaching up for the IDEAL The
dream leads to neglect; the ideal en-
courages performance.
Here is some sound commencement
time advice to boys and girls who
are determined to seek careers.
Don't do it.
Rather, remember that today is the
great adventure and the great oppor-
tunity. Don't get your heads SO far
in the clouds that your feet stumble
You can never find your career; it
must find you. If you have made d
safe, solid road as you 60, your des-
tiny will travel surely over it and
catch up with you from behind.
That neighborhood girl who sought
q career and landed in a cell looked
:: too far ahead. she}tried to reach the
sunny uplands Of success without first
learning how to climb. .t,,,.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
FOR RENT-Furnished apartment for
the summer; use of piano Apply
Thursday, Apt 10, Person Court
6-6.1t
Couldn't Blame Him,

There is Cleveland park boy who
has been trying to get good mark In
geography, inasmuch as the teacher at
the John Eaton school has been giving
him only "fair" in that particular
branch Of his scholastic work. So the
lad has been going over and over the
book, learning the lessons BY heart.
IN this particular, text book the author
seems to, have had the word "accessi.
BILE" on the brain, for In every lesson
something is found to be accessible.
Either the farms or the rivers or the
bays or the mines seem to be accessl.
bic to something or other. In the lat.
est lesson the forests are accessible"
The boys father, also going over the
lessons, asked his son II he knew what
It meant to sa1 h{d Tor III were &C.
cessible, and the boy didn't waver an
instant. He came back strong:
"Why, certainly. Anything that can
be easily cut by axes is accessible."-
Washington Star.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06

- Headed by Elihu Root, former sec
rotary of state, one of the most DIS
tinguished groups of Americans ever
in Bismarck looked over the city from
the Northern Pacific station viewpoint
last night. r. ~
). No, no., Scratch out last night
Friday, May 18th, it should be.
This news is a little old, but it 10
the kind of news the government
deems it inadvisable to give out, SO
the Bismarck Tribune, in pursuance
of a voluntary policy of cooperation,
did not print it at the time.
Now that Mr.. Root and Major Cen
eral Hugh l.. Scott of the army and
Rear Admiral James H. GlennOn Of
the navy and the group of distinguish
ed associates that comprise the Rus
sian commission are reported to have
crossed the Pacific safely, and TO be
on their way overland across Siberia
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06

prices on hides automatically 10 per
cent and that the export shoe bust
ness will be brought oan end, thus
Gripping an enterprise which would
produce large revenues directly to the
government through taxes on incomes
and excess profits.
At the other end of the line the
consumer, who is already paying In
the neighborhod of 100 per cent more
for shoes, must add not only the 10
per cent increase on hides, but an adj
ditional increment of taxation for
every stage of handling between the
manufacturer and the consumer.
There are many examples in the
house which will automatically make
readjustment of all business con-
tracts necessary and by the time the
increase reaches the consumer, 1t
will have multiplied itself several
times, thus making horizontal rails
ing Of the cost of living, already
mountain high
1t is to be hoped that the senate
will lift the burden of taxation from
consumption. Let the business men
of the country feel that the more en-
ergy they display, the more business
acumen they possess, the harder they
work, and the more wisely they plan,
the larger the revenue.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
TAX UNsCIENTIFIC.

Claude kitchin, chairman of the
ways and means committee confessed
~thatahe would vote for the revenue
bill with his eyes shut and that the
horizontal increase of 10 per cent on
imports. already paying a tariff tax,
and on all articles now on the free
list was, unscientitic and indefensible.
Before the revenue bill becomes a
law there should be friends enough in
the house and the senate to make it
scientific and defensible, for it will
have to be defended on the stump
by those who impose this tax in their
effort to secure reelection from those
upon whom its burden falls
Evidently the ways and means CON-
mittee underestimate the patriotism
of the business men of the country In
considering them unwilling to pay
heavy income taxes. The protests
have been most bitter at the unscien-
tifc tinkering with present product
i've enterprises, especially in this
horizontal increase of tariff rates, in
Guiding taxes on raw materials. What
the business men of the country want
Is that their productive energies be
left unimpaired, that no monkey
wrench be thrown into the machinery
of production and that they be allow
ed. or even compelled, to contribute
heavily from profits and incomes, feel.
ing that their productive energies are
devoted to the task of financing the
war
Take the single item of a 10 per
cent on hides, now on the free list.
Shoe manufacturers contend that this
will produce comparatively small
revenue for the government, while
enabling the beef trust to raise their
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
Shudderlna.

Shuddering is. done by clenchlng the
Jaws and running culver down the
spine. 1t is important TO be able to
shudder well at q time when there is
so much news Of q shuddering nature.
A few moments spent each day in the
simpler exercises Of shuddering will
soon make you proficient. Compose
your features and: sit quietly for a
while. Then think Of something hor.
rible. You may not be able to shud.
der at first, but in time you will find
you can shudder at any length on slight
provocation. 1t Is always embarras-
sing to be unable to shudder well when
you are giving sympathetic ear to a
friends account Of his operation.-De.
troit journal.