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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03
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PISA By jaime Phelps
CHAPTER CXXXIX.

CHAPTER CXXXIX.
That Tom even believed me in part
was sort Of comfort. But my tears
fell fast as 1 stood before him and lis
tened to his ultimatum. 1t was such an
awful way to dispose of my life. To
send me back home like a child who
has been naughty and must be punished.
Yet l realized as 1 gazed at Tom
thru my tears that nothing l could saw
would help. Only he must not be al
lowed to believe / had been otter than
horribly foolish and unjust. 1 would
die if l could not make him understand
that never had | been unfaithful, never
had an unfaithful thought.
Many times had thought myself un-
happy, often I had rebelled at what
now looked like non-essentials that
when real trouble was upon me / was
dazed, unable to collect my thoughts
or cope with the situation.
Tom did not speak again, but busted
himself at the desk. He went all thru
the bills | had given him once more,
and when 1 could endure the silence,
his absolute Inconsistencies of my
presence no longer, 1 went quietly up
stairs and threw myself on the bed in a
perfect agony of remorse.
How could l ever have thought my
self unhappy until nows What should
l do in the terrible days to come when
should be separated from Tom2 Every
thing seemed to grow small, to dwindle
into nothingness compared to this awful
thing | had brought upon myselfa. Not
once did | blame Tom, not once did I
blanc Tom, not once ds9 l have an un-
kind fought toward him because of his
attitude. My self-reproaeh was too keen,
my feeling of remOrse too intense.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03
Y jaime Phelps
REAL UNHAPPINESS
Tom Telegraphs Mrs. Werner.


Tom did not come upstairs until the
dawn was breaking. Then he went to his
chiffUnier, took out his clean clothes
and passed directly into the bathroom,
He never even once glanced toward the
bed. | was holding my breath and
watching him through half closed eve
lids.
When he came out he was dressed for
business. He went into the children Is
room and l heard Junior s voice in han
py surprise at the early visit. Then the
door closed and l heard Tom 90 down
stairs. His voice and Norah's floated
up to me, and suddenly realizing that
he might leave the house before / saw
him jumped up, bathed nv face. took
off the rumpled clothes in which l had
lain for the last few hours of the night.
and put on fresh morning gown. Then
/ almost ran down the stairs. At the
bottom l stopped, suddenly afraid.
What should 1 say to hint
Good morning, - he said graveIv. as
| timidly advanced into the room. 81
thought YOU were sleeping, so had No
rah give me my breakfast
81 haven't slept at all, - answered.
not knowing what to say to this quiet,
stern-faeed man.
81 will telegraph your mother to ex-
peet you. Be ready to take the two
o'clock train. I win come up and help
you with the ehildren,'' and before /
could gather my wits TO reply he had
closed the front door and I heard the
elevator stop for him.
l ran to the windew and watched
him walk along down the street with
bis free swinging stride.
Was l never to so watch him agains
The tears blinded me so that could
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
g a s T O Fri a

not see and turning from the window
| caught Junior in my arms. and cried
over him until l frightened the moor
little chap almost to death.
Junior Wants Daddy To Go Too.
" We are going to see granny, 1 told
MN, when, finally because of his plead
ing L controlled my sobs. "You and
little sister and mother -
- wants Daddy to go too" he de-
elared. Is daddy going wiv us9''
:, No, dear, daddy ism t gcing,'' 1 re-
plled, the tears starting afresh.
Then going to stay wiz daddv.''
the little fellow stoutly maintained, -
But don't you want to see the dog
gles and the dickens, and plav out in
granny's big yard?" 1 asked him.
Um-yes, but wants daddy too
Perhaps if you ask i'm he will come
after while and play with the doggies
with you," 1 replied, a sudden hope
that ON might relent because of the
children flashing over me.
"All right, then I'll go wiv you, +"
he said gravely.
All day l packed my tears flowed.
Norah tried to comfort me not knowing
their cause.
You II be sick abed Mrs. Randall if
you don stop crying. Perhaps your
father viii be better when we get
there, she said, so letting me know
that Tom had saved me by allowing
her to think it was because of father
illness we were going.
Durlng the morning Tom sent up an
other trunk. He realized that the two
we had would not held all I should
have to take. 1 hoped there would be
message but there was nothing but
my name and address, and the order
to deliver by eleven o'clock.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03
80 Editorial Page of The Capital Journal -

1t develops now that mllers have been charging for
flour at rate of about $500 bushe for wheat although
they have not paid than half that for their supplies
Bakers have raised the price of breadtaking the
of proportion to the increased cost of
flour, thus taking advantage of the country's mis-
fortunes. The government having fixed the price of
wheat will take care of the millers but declines to fix
the price of Bread leaving it to the people to fight the
bakers trust This probably be done most effective
y during the by the of the country baking
their bread They used to do this and could do it
again. While the is the price of living is boosted
by every unscrupuous speculator in foodsus who
keep out of the clutches of government supervision
Bake bread at home" would be splendid slogan for the
housewife at this time---and if it was adhered to the
bakers trust would soon be forced to dissolve.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03

Senator Gore is perfectng an amendment to the con-
stituon OF the United States which he proposes to Offer
requiring "a referendum declaration of war except
in of invasion such danger is so imminent as
to admit of delay" This is perhaps the most imprac
tca suggestion made by the ultra hysterca the sub
ect of war; AS matter Of fact most in such
way that the submission of the matter of declaring
would be giving the opponent decided advantage. 1t
would be notification that intended to make war if
for it. AS it s the people through their representatives
in congress the sole judges to whether not
should be declared Since the present war started
the president has been given many autocrac powers sim
ply because they necessary to the proper prosecution
of the war; At the time the right to declare
entirely with the people through their represen
tatives and is safeguarded that cannot easily be
entered nto and it is safe to say this country will
declare war until "the danger is so imminent that
reference to the people would be impractical, in fact
impossible.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03
THE OLD MAN.

Backward, turn backward
o Time in thy flight,
Make me a boy again,
So l can fight,
Make me boy again,
just twenty-one,
So 1 can shoulder
A knapsack and gun.
Give me the muscles
l had years ago.
Give me a step that's
Not wobbly and slow.
Give me the strength that
| may play my part,
All that have now for
War is the heart.
Give me the vim and
The vigor of youth.
III fight till doomsday, and
That is the truth.
Trun back the decades and
Give me a chance
To sail with the legions for
Far away France.
What a chastisement it
Is to be told:
Back to the fireside,
You are too DID,"
Time you re criminal,
That s plain to see,
You we made a confounded
Old Stacker of me.
--Exchang
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03

The kaiser has promised Argentine that no more of
her ships will be sunk by his submarines long they
"scrap Of paper" If the kaiser keeps his word then
Argentine ship her entire crop to England long
she does so in her ships without danger of inter
ference is ridiculous to suppose the kaiser would
permit this and it is fair to presume the promise is made
for the immediate effect it will have on the people of
Argentine
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03
FOUR AUTO VICTIMS.

Ashland, Or. Sept. 3.-The glaring
headlights of an automobile claimed
four victims here today.
Jack Robinson of Portland and J..
w. Mcdonald are dead and two other
men are in local hospital, slightly in
jured. J. L. Davis who was driving
truck in which Robinson and the
others were riding, was blinded by the
lights of a passing machine and ran
off the road.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03

sar ddn Fce tp p1 @ 1U d dSr hra w a
and brokers admit. Wonder what price these fellows
have been figuring for the wheat they were usingev
IDENTIFY great deal more than they were paying the
farmer for it.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03

1t is proposed to grant troops at the
front the franking privileges. And if
they send back lot of bulky junk,
they won't have anything on the cook
stoves and Jersey cows that congress-
men have been known to franak home.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03
Rippling Rhymes
by Walt Mason
SEPTEMBER AGAIN

Once again Septembers smiling in man.
ner most beguiling, once again she brings
refreshment to the jaded human jays, who
have suffered through a season that was
hot beyond all reason, that was but COM
bination of lot of sizzling days. AS when
one who's lost, forSaken, suffering for bed
and bacon, sees a lighted cottage window
that invites him to repose, so delegate or
member looks upon the mild September,
which, with her refreshing GOODNESS, is a
balm for all his woes BY the heat of sum-
mer smitten, by the flies and skeeters bit
ten, man is. at the end of August. near the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03

Flour dropped today at all Northwest milling points
40 cents barrel and is quoted at $1140 per barrel The
miers promise still further reductions the
wheat begins to in The bakers may be forced to
reduce prices also. In fact the situation is very
promising"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03

With Reed and Stone in the United States senate about
all Missouri show in the way of real patriotic repre-
sentation just is her mule.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03

limit of his nerve; then September comes serenely after
months that soaked him meany he would load her down
with poses, he admires her every curve She is like
drink of water to the wanderers who toter on es long
and dusty highway with their feet and bosoms soe she
is like slice of slumber to the oing guys whose number
hard of computation the sands upon the shore
She's soace and guerdon to all skates who bear their
burden she's basam for their bruises she's tonic for
their sous every feature of her peases autumn tnts
and frosty breezeset boost the calm September while
the knel of summer tolls
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-09-03
And He Did

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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
MOTOR DRIVERS ARE
WANTED FOR SERVICE
Red Gross Today Issues
Urgent Call From
Washington.
Especial 70 TIE T1MEs.l

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 30
Twenty experienced motor truck driv-
ers, twenty helpers and ten expert me
chanics are needed at once by the
American Red Cross for service in
France. according TO a cabled request
Just received by the Red Cross War
Council from Major Grayson NJ. P.
Murphy in charge OF the Red Cross
mission to France.
The mechanical squad will include
master carpenters, body builders.
painters. machinists and electricians
two each. The trucks for which driv-
ers are sought are of two-ton capacity
and will be used in the rapid transfer
of Red Cross supplies from seaports to
their destinations, a service made nee
essary by the congested condition of
the. railroads in France.
Volunteers beyond military age have
been asked for this service by the
American Red Cross to work without
compensation and Red Cross officials
are hopeful that employers OF motor
drivers and the other expert help re-
CURED vigil contribute the services OF
the men, paying their salaries while in
Red Cross service.
The Red Cross will Fay the trans
anu -lNlHg expenses Oh the
men while abroad It is the intention
when the men are recruited to give
them intensive mechanical training.
some drill and if possible some prelin-
mary instruction in the French lang
uage.
This contribution to the American
Red Cross by employers Of skilled la
Dor would be similar to the contribu-
tiops of largo ORGANIZATIONS to the Rad
Cross staff at headquarters which in
cludes nearly seventy five volunteers.
many OF whom are paid by outside or
CARNATIONS while working for the Red
Cross.
Offers of assistance along the line of
these Red Cross needs should be made
to A. w. Staub. director OF the At
lantic Division of the American Red
Cross. Metropolitan Tower. New York
City. or to the nearest Red Cross
chapter
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
GRADS GREET
COLLEGE HEAD
Dr.. VIM. L. Bryan of I. U.
Meets Friends From Re
gion Cities Here.

Keep the colleges going" is the key
note OF the president o Indiana univers-
ity tour over the state.
DR.. William L. Bryon in behalf of the
colleges il meeting the people and ex-
planning the urgent need Of the educat-
ed man and woman in the present crisis.
He visited Hammond Saturday after
noon. greeting Alumni and friends of
the college from whiting. Gary and
East Chicago.
Don't throw away educational ad-
vantages. This war is scientific one.
1t needs men and women with ability.
BY no reans should the high school
graduate stop his educational career
The graduate needs college training
now mere than ever before.
President Wilson agrees with colleg e
professors over the county on this
question: excerpts from an interview
with the president at Nee hotel by a
TINES representative.
DR.. Bryan said he did not believe that
the freshman classes of the colleges
would suffer. 1T will probably be the
upper classes that will bear the brunt
of the falling off in attendance.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
LOWELL

Mike Gorlery of Hammond. visited
Lowell friends Saturday night and yes
terday.
Mr.. and Mrs Will Mason and Mr.. and
Mrs. James Spry of Whea tfield. visited
Lowell friends and relatives yesterday.
Mrs. VIII Atwood returned to her
home in Lansing. Ill, Saturday even
ing and her husband returned last
evening They have been spending their
vacation in Lowell.
Tom yeater returned TO Lafayette last
evening where he travels for hard
ware company He returned home q few
days ago having taken sick on the road.
Mrs. Will Whiting of Whiting. Wis
tied relatives here yesterday.
Mrs. George Beckman visited friends
in Gary yesterday.
Mrs. James johnson visited her son.
Ed. and family in Hammond. yester-
day.
Cordie Ragon visited his brother Ell
mer in Hammond yesterday
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
NEW CASES FILED

2S15-Divorce: Sylvia NJ. Bullock (F. T.
Fetterer) VS.. Moses H. Bullock.
Filed on July IS.
2S16-Slander; Jacob Siegel (Darrow
and Sissman an dHodges and Ridge
ly) VS.. Louis Goodman
2317-To satisfy mtg; Gary Hobart In
vestment Realty Company. a cor
poration 90. L. Wildermuth> VS..
Sherman NJ. Booth. M of NwA
of NEA also SWA OF NV; also S1s
of SA in sec 29-36-s Apr 10. 1917.
Rec. "a p. 496.
2s18-On contract; Howard E. Ewalt 60.
L. Wildermuth) VS.. Sol G. Joseph.
FILED on July &c.
2319-Forecl r. z. mtg; Eva c. Payne
Or. r. Peddicord) VS.. Webster G.
Wright and Mrs. Webster c. Wright
his wife whose true Christian name
is unknown; John B. Green. and
Mrs. John B. Green whose treu
Christian name is unknown.
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when a gentle married a young Jew
ess. and of the alleged anger over the
marriage. 1t also recited that Carver
and his wife were deeply in love with
each other. that one child. Rosemary.
was born to them. but the defendants
intruded into this Eden of love 10 an
extent that the plaintiffs happiness
has been destroyed. his health impair
ed. and his law practice much both
cred.
Baby Is Missing.
Carver alleges that his three-year
old daughter. Rosemary. OF whom he
should have the legal custody. has
been missing for a week was kidnapped
by his wife by means and money furn-
ished by the defendants
The complaint also deals with q long
series OF matrimonial episodes in
which the wife had pictures painted
for her of how things might have been
different had she married q rich man
of her own religion, that Carver was
offered $500 not 20 appear in the di-
vorce suit, and that he. Carver. wa
threatened detectives would be hired
TO ruin his social and business career
unless he gave up the baby
Judge Bartholomew on July 10 in
Porter circuit court denied Mrs. Bern
ard Carver a divorce after a trial that
an actress, connected with the Little
Theatre of Chicago. She was gradual
ed from the Gary high school in 1910
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
st. LOUIS
1918 MOOSE
CONCLAVE
tBy JOHN c. BEcKER.1

PITTSBURGH. PA, July 25-St
Louis was chosen today as the place
for holding the thirty-frst annual in
terna tional convention OF the Loyal
Order of Moose in 1919. Two Ohio
cities. Toledo and Cleveland. were sec
ond and third. respectively. in the bal
loting Next years convention will be
held al Mooseheart. Ill. the rules Of
the order require that the annual con-
vention must be held there once every
two years. The contest for the honor
of being the next convention city had
ragged furiously for several days and
was decided by the final count of the
ballots. which was completed yester-
day at ternoon. The Lake county dele
gates will leave for home Immediately.
"Prohteering" Is Condemned.
Prizes were awarded yesterday in
various contests that have been in
progress during the past several days.
a resolution condemning "profiteerins"
in the sale OF foodstuffs was passed.
and some minor changes in the laws
of the order were enacted. Among the
latter. probably the most important
was the vote of the delegates and past
dictators TO the effect that hereafter
subordinate lodges shall be prohibited
from giving physicians services to
their members except in cases where
the annual lodge dues per member
amount to at least SIP. and then only
when the lodge is authorized by the
supreme dictator to supply such serv-
ices. This enactment. it is said will
not affect some of the older lodges Of
the order 1t was runnored and not
denied by officials OF the order that
this step was taken to counterfeit the
tendency OF a small number of physi-
clans in certain localities to squeeze"
subordinate lodges by charging them
excessive rates for services rendered.
VIII Aid Montreal Lodge.
The supreme council was authorized
to tender aid to the Montreal lodge.
which. it was reported. was affected
by the war Out Of a mem bership of
1900 only 500 remain. IL was said.
Thirty-nine have been killed in ac-
ton. % have died and 253 are already
on the firing line. il was stated.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
Board of Education Swats
Prof. William Wirt's
Enemy.

NEW YORK. July 30.--A letter from
w. G. Wilcox OF the Board of Educa-
ton to w. H Maxwell, superintendent
OF schools, regarding the Gary plan.
was made public recently. The veneer
able city superintendent, who has been
much Of the time in a sanitarium or
at health resorts on account OF a
stroke, has been opposed to the Gary
schools from the beginning He got
into the present controversy on his
own account, his friends say and has
no connection with the political scheme
of the odd guard" in the school boa I'd,
allied with Tammany Hall. to Carlyle
the coming campaign.
Alterations to Cost $1,000, 900.
The Board of Education already has
committed the public treasury to more
than $1,000. 600 of expenditures in build
ing altering schools for duplicate
sessions. and the next board. if it con-
tinues in the same policy, will have
the spending of more than $4,000 900
on that kind of schools
Mr.. Wilcox rebukes Supt. Maxwell
for q communication attacking the Gary
plan, and adds:
1t is neither fitting nor seemly that
you. a subordinate of the Board of
Education. should address such a letter
to its President
Here are the superintendent charges
There are three localities in the
Bronx so urgently in need of new ele-
mentary school accommodations that no
amount of Carrying or duplicating
existing schools will satisfy the de-
mands of the people"
school No. 81 in Brooklyn is an old
building which should be replaced by
a new building on a mel ghboring site
purchased for that purpose"
school No. 40. Brooklyn. is. a com
paratively modern and we'll equipped
and rot overcrowded building. and 10
spend money to Carlyle that school
is to divert funds that might be more
probably employed
THE high schools are in urgent need
of additional accommodation"
President Willcox's answer is that
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
Now is a Good Time to
Treat Your Catarrh

searches out the germs Of Catarrh
which infest your blood. and chases
them entirely out of your system 1t
is by far the most satisfactory treat
ment for the disease. because it
reaches down to its very roots and
gets at the cause Write to-day for
full information. and expert medical
advice regarding the treatment of your
own case. Take advantage of this
chance to-day. Address Swift Specific
Co. Dept. Q69. Atlanta. Ga.-Adv.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
WORD TO ALL,
HEALTH OFFICIALS
Letter Instructs Them to
Enforce New Law.

The state board OF health today sent
to health officials throughout the state
letter ordering them Immediately TO
begin the enforcement of the law of
the 1917 legislature which provides for
a more adequate registration of cases
of tuberculosis in Indiana.
The law was enacted through the
efforts of the state board of health, the
Indiana Society for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis and the Marion County
Society for the Prevention of Tuber-
culosis.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
CARVER SUES
HIS N|FE'S
PARENTS
Gary Lawyer Asks $4,000
From Wealthy Parents of
His Actress Wife Baby
kidnapped.

Matrimonial troubles OF the rising
young lawyer of Gary who eloped with
the rich man Sc daughter broadened to-
day.
As an aftermath of the young wifes
unsuccessful efforts to get a divorce
after she had found a career behind
the footlights instead Of one at home
with her baby and household duties to-
day resulted in the filing of a $4,000
damage suit against her rich parents.
In the complaint the young lawyer
charges alienation of affections. states
his baby has been kidnapped. this his
happiness has been blasted and the
defendants maliciously threatened to
kill the plaintiff.
J. Sold Defendant.
The suit filed in Gary superior court
today by Attorneys Kittinger and Div
en- Of Anderson Ind. in behalf o. the
plaintiff. Albert Carver of Gary. is di-
rected against Jacob and Hermine
Sold of Gary and Adolph and Bertha
Rosenak Of Gary.
The complaint is a lengthy document
that treats the troubles that arose
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30
TO WEAK
TO FIGHT

The Comeback man was really
never down-and-out. His weakened
condition because Of overwork lack Of
exercise. improper eating and living
demands stimulation 10 satisfy the cry
for health-giving appetite and the
refreshing sleep essential 10 strength.
GOLD MEDAL Harlem Oil Capsules
the National Remedy of Holland Will
do the work. They are wonderful
Three Of these capsules each day will
put man on his feet before he knows
II; whether his trouble comes from uric
acid poisoning, the kidneys. gravel or
stone in the bladder. stomach derange-
ment or other ailments that befall the
over-zealoUs American. Don't walt I'M
til you are entirely down and out, but
take them today. Your druggist will
gladly refund your money if they do
not help you. Accept no substitutes
Look for the name GOLD MEDAL Oh
every box, three sizes. They are the
pure. original. imported Harlem OIL
Capsules.-Adv.