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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-08
CHEMISTS WILL
TEST GARBAGE

Washington, d. c., June 6.-"Have
your city food chemist analyze your
city garbage from week to week and
publish prominently what he finds
as an index of food saving or waste
in your community" is the sugges-
ton the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture is making to municipal au-
thorities throughout the country.
Where there is no official chemist,
the department points out, local
chemists capable of determining per-
centages of fats, protein, starch and
organic matter wasted in garbage
can render great service to the ma
ton by volunteering to make these
analyses in their localities.
Vast amounts of bread, meat and
edible fats are wasted in garbage
and tons of valuable feedstuff for
animals are lost to the food supply
of the nation by usual garbage re-
duction or disposal methods. One of
the first results from the careful
analysis of city garbage should be
the passage of more rigid enforce
ment of garbage ordinan-
ces, requiring that no glass, tin,
wood, burnt matches. paper, string,
or inorganic trash be mixed with the
vegetable material, meat scraps, or
bones which can be used for feed.
This dual collection of garbage
and trash is being rigidly enforced
by Germany in all cities of 10000
people. Garbage so collected from a
population of 100000 people in
Germany, although the German
garbage pail always has been far
leaner than the American one and
is especially light at this period, fur
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-08
ssThe InSider''
By Virginia Terhune Van de Water

had driven coming down to the viii
lage. The road was one that 1 had
been over several times in the day
light. At night it looked new and
strange.
We had gone but short distance
when my companion spoke in an al
tered tone.
Elizabeth" he began, II want to
talk with you quietly and calmly for
little while. This 1 could not do
this afternoon. l spoke too impetu-
ously, perhaps, but, as / told you
then, had had hard time in town.
are painful. / had to go all over
them to-day, and the experience
shook me a bit"
"I hope" ventured as he paused,
that the matter is settled satisfac-
torily now"
"No-that is, yes-at least, it will
be within a little while-before the
Fall, at any rate. Meanwhile, want
to forget all about it."
81 hope you can" | murmured, at
loss what to say.
The best way to forget it is not
to speak of it," he said. II just
wired my lawyer to go ahead with
| it and to leave me alone unless nee
essary to bother me. That's what
lawyers are for.
"And now that that is off my
mind 1 want to come back to what
matters most in the world to me,
my dear-and that is you!"
please, Mr.. Norton" l began, but
he interrupted me.
Elizabeth" he begged. "I have a
favor to ask of you. 1t is that you
will let me say to you here and now
just what l have to say, and, no
matter what you feel, just hear me
out to the end"
Tiff you insist" I muttered.
1T will make it easier, dear" he
pleaded. Il will try to be brief"
Without waiting for futher re-
sponse, he went on.
You don't know anything about
me, Elizabeth but there is not much
that would affect you one way or
the other-even if you loved me, as
you told me honestly and as 1 know
already you do not. But as you do
like me, you will let me tell you
what you have a right to know.
In the first place, one thing that you
may not be aware of and that you
may hear later, is that have been
married twice"
She Already Knows
He paused. Yes" l nodded, 81
found it out-accidentally."
"Ah," he exclaimed. Then you
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-08
CHAPTER XII.
A RPDrieVe.

Smiths blood ran cold and there
was a momentary attack of shocked
CONSERVATION, comparable to nothing
that any past experience had to offer
But there was no time to waste IN
curious speculations as to the why
and wherefores. Present safety was
the prime consideration. With Josiah
Richlander and his daughter in
Brewster, and guests under the same
roof with him, discovery, identifica-
ton, disgrace were knocking at the
door. He could harbor no doubt as to
what Josiah Richlander would do II
discovery came. For so long a time
as should be consumed in telegraph
ing between Brewster and Lawrence
vile, Smith might venture to call
himself free man. But that was the
limit.
One minute later he had hailed a
passing autocab at the hotel entrance
and the four miles between the city
and Colonel Baldwin's ranch had
been tossed to the rear before he re-
membered that he had expressly de-
clined a dinner invitation for that
same evening at Hillcrest, pleading
business to Mrs. Baldwin in person
when she had called at the Office
with her daughter.
Happily, the small social offense
went unremarked, or at least unre-
buked. Smith found his welcome at
the ranch that of man who has the
privilege of dropping in unannounc-
ed. The colonel was jocosely hos
pitable, as he always was; Mrs.
Baldwin was graciously lenient-was
good enough, indeed, to thank the
eleventh-hour guest for reconsider
ing at the last moment; and Coro-
na-
notwithstanding all that had come
to pass; Notwithstanding, also, that
his footing in the Baldwin house
hold had come to be that of a fam
lily friend. Smith could never be
quite sure of the bewitchingly win
some young woman who called her
father "colonel-daddy Her pose, If
it were pose, was the attitude of
the entirely unspoiled child of ma
ture and the wide horizons. When
he was with her she made him think
of all the words expressive of trans
parency and absolute and utter un-
concealment Yet there were mo-
ments when he fancied he could
get passing glimpses of a subtler
personality at the back of the wide
open, frankly questioning eyes; a
wise little soul lying in wait behind
it's defenses; prudent all-knowing,
deceived neither by its own prepos-
sessions or prejudices, nor by any
of the masqueradings of other souls.
Smith, especially in this later in
carnation which had so radically
changed him. believed as little in
the psychic as any hardheaded young
business iconoclast of an agnostic
century could. But on this particular
evening when he was smoking his
after-dinner pipe on the tiagstoned
porch with Corona for his. compan-
ion, there were phenomena appar-
entity unexplainable on any purely
material hypothesis.
Ito BE Continued)
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buck. Lay you down, about six feet
underground, is what I meant"
''Pshaw!" exclaimed the one whose
fears ran in a far different channel
from any that could be dug by mere
corporation violence. This is Ameri-
ca, in the twentieth century. We
don't kill our business competitors
nowadays"
Don't we?" snorted Starbuck.
THAT will be all right, too. Well
suppose, just for the sake of argu-
ment, that my respected and respec-
other silk-hatted old money-bags
happens to be paying Crawford STAN
tons salary and commission,
wouldn't send out an order to have
you killed off. Maybe Stanton, him
self, wouldn't stand for it if you'd
put it that barefaced. But daddy-in-
law, and Stanton, and all the others,
hire blacklegs and sharpers and gum
men and thugs. And every once in a
while somebody takes a wink for a
nod-and bang! goes a gum
well, what's the answer?" said
Pete Simms.
'Tote an arsenal, yourself, and be
ready to shoot first and ask questions
afterward. That's the only way you
can live peaceably with such men as
Jake Boogerfield and Lanterby and
Simms."
Smith got out of his chair and took
a turn up and down the length of the
room. When he came back to stand
! before Starbuck he said: "I did that,
Billy. I've been carrying a gun for a
week and more; not for these ditch
pirates, but for somebody else. The
! other night, when l was out at Hill
crest, Corona happened to see it. I'm
| not going to tell you what she said
| but when I came back to town the
next morning, I chucked the gun in
to a desk drawer And hope I'm go
ing to be man enough not to wear it
again."
Starbuck dropped the subject alb
ruptly and looked at his watch.
"You liked to have done it, pull
ing. me off up here" he remarked.
I'm due to be at the train to meet
Mrs. Billy, and I've got just about
three minutes. So long"
Smith changed his street clothes
leisurely after Starbuck had gone,
and when he went downstairs stop
ped at the desk to toss his room
key to the clerk.
The hotel register was lying open
on the counter, and from force of
habit he ran his eye down the list
of late arrivals. At the end of the
list, in sprawling characters upon
which the ink was yet fresh, he read
his sentence, and for the first time
in his life knew the meaning of panic
fear. The newest entry was:
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Copyright by Chas. ssssaners Sons
'(Continued)

"Corry's a mighty fine little girl.
John" said Starbuck slowly. ANY
one OF a dozen fellows I could name
would give all their old shoes to
swap chances with you"
THAT isn't exactly the kind of ad-
vice I'm needing" was the sober re-
Joinder.
mo; but 1t was the kind you were
wanting, when you tolled me of up
here" laughed the eX-cowpuncher.
II know the symptoms Had 'em my
self for about two years so bad that
I could wake up in the middle of the
night and taste EN- Go in and win.
Maybe the great big stumbling block
you're worrying about wouldn't
mean anything at all to an open
minded young woman like Corona;
most likely it wouldn't"
IF she could know the whole
truth-and believe it." said Smith
musingly.
You tell her the truth, and she'll
take care of the believing part of it,
all right You needn't lose any sleep
about that"
moved his pipe to say: II haven't
the nerve, Billy, and that's the plain
fact have already told her a little
of it She knows that L"
Starbuck broke in with a laugh.
Yes; it's shouting pity about your
nerve! You've been putting up such
blooming scary fight in this irri-
cation business that we all know you
haven't any nerve. If had your job
in that, I'd be going around here
totlng two guns and wondering If l
couldn't make room in the holster
for another"
Smith shook his head
Il was safe enough so long as
Stanton thought / was the resident
manager and promoter for a new
bunch of big money in the back
ground But he has had me shadow
ed and tracked until now 1 guess
he is pretty well convinced that /
actually had the audacity to play a
lone hand; and a blufing hand, at
that That makes a difference of
course. Two days after / had climb
ed into the saddle here. he sent a
couple of his strikers after me.
don't know just what their orders
were, but they seemed to want to
highland they got it. 1t was in
Blue Pete's doggery, up at the
camp"
"Guns?" queried Starbuck.
Theirs; not mine, because / didn't
have any. l managed to get the
shooting irons away from them be-
fore we had mixed very far"
You're just about the biggest,
long-eared, stiff backed, stubborn
wild ass of the wallows that was ever
let loose IN a half-reformed gun
country" grumbled the ex-cowman.
You're fixing to get yourself all
killed up, Smith. Haven't you sense
enough to see that these rustlers will
rub you out in two twitches of a dead
lambs tail if they've made up their
minds that you are the High Line
main guy and the only one?"
"Of course" said the wild ass
easily. IF they could lay me up for
a month or two"
Lay up nothing" retorted Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-08

nished briquettes rich in protein
which when fed to dairy cattle pro-
duced 100000 to 100000 quarts
of milk daily.
In most American cities, however,
garbage is sent to reduction plants
where all the fat and oil it contains
is recovered for use in making soap
or greases.
The residue after the oil is extract
eu is used as fertilizer or dumped
into the ocean. This practice has
been highly profitable because the
American garbage pail is very rich
IN lat, American garbage averaging
3 per cent of fat, while German gar
page rarely shows even / per cent.
or fat, as the German people never
nave been wasteful of animal or
other fats. Another reason for the
use of the reduction method is that
In many cities ordinances prevent the
use OF garbage for feeding animals,
particularly dairy cows, although
there is no valid hygienic objection
to the use of dried and properly
sterliZed garbage as food for cattle
or hogs.
less Fat to BE Wasted
The department specialists believe
that as the thrift idea gains ground
less and less fat will be thrown into
tne garbage pail and are hopeful
that the time is not far distant when
the amount of fat will make reduc-
ton for the recovery of oils hardly
worth while. This will mean that Il
lot of excellent and valuable food
stuffs now being wasted as food will
never get into the garbage pail Even
when all fat is eliminated, however
and waste of bread and cereals and
meat has been reduced to a mini
mum, the garbage pail nevertheless
will contain in the form of parines,
plate scraps and trimmings vast
amount of material which should be
conserved and used as feed for hogs,
cattle, or poultry. First, however,
the people must face the facts and
know the truth of their waste, and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-08

Ito Be COntinued)
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know that Toms mother died when
he was young and that later I mar
ried Grace's mother, and that
She"
He hesitated. then, slowing down
the car, brought it to full stop.
Shall we get out for a few min
utes?" 1 nodded and we stood look
ing across a clearing. He scanned
my face anxiously. almost fearfuly.
In the moonlight his face looked
white and strained. 1 spoke quick
ly, for l hated to see that express
ion.
THAT Grace's mother died when
she was only a baby? Yes, 1 know
that, too"
He drew in his breath so sharply
that it sounded as if he gasped.
Yes, yes" he murmured, start
ing the car again and driving very
yes. You don't mind If 1 don't
talk any more about that, do you?
Except to tell you that she was deli
cate and nervous and that Grace
was once like her in health and
constitution-before you came. You
have saved her from growing more
like her poor mother-as, dear, you
can save my happiness II you will.
The past is dead and bygones are
bygones."
Perhaps had I not promised Mrs.
Gore to ask no questions about her
dead sister l would have asked some
questions now. But 1 had promised
and, after all. what difference did
1t make to me? The poor young
mother was dead.
"Since you know all this. there is
nothing more to reveal" my COM
panion went on, except to beg that
you will let me love you. You can't
help my doing it, anyway And
Elizabeth, if / promise not to press
you for your answer. will you try
to learn to care a little bit for me?"
ITO Be Continued).
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CHAPTER LIV.

Copyright, 1917, Star Company
If 1 had been afraid that my en-
ployer would at once renew the
subject of our brief conversation of
this afternoon, my fears were soon
laid at rest. 1t was evident that,
for a while at least, he meant to
avoid any dangerous or serious top
les.
By the time we had left the house
he began to talk about the car he
was driving, dilating on its good
points and comparing 1t favorably
with the large touring car and with
the limousine that was Mrs. Cores
favorite equipage.
AS l listened it was difficult to
realize that this was the man who
had told me only few hours ago
that he loved me. His manner was
as matter of fact as if Tom and not
l, had been his companion.
When we reached the station in
which was the telegraph office he
alighted.
Are you afraid to stay here
alone while 1 take in this tele-
gram" he asked me.
Afraid" 1 scoffed. "Of what?"
Il don't know" he smiled. But
some girls and women are nervous
about being alone anywhere after
dark"
glanced at the lighted platform
at which he had stopped the car.
1 hardly think anybody will kid
nap me here and now" 1 smiled.
He was gone but a few minutes.
then, returning took his seat and
started the automobile in the oppo-
site direction from that leading di-
rectly home.
Il am not going to kidnap you,
either" he said pleasantly. But 1t
is only a few miles further around
the hill over yonder, and the woods
are lovely in the moonlight. You
don't mind getting home fifteen
minutes later than is absolutely
necessary, do you?"
NO 1 answered, IF you think
best"
You are warm enongh?" he
asked.
A Thrilling Ride
Yes, ! told him, wondering if he
had had this detour in mind when
he had insisted on my taking the
faprobe.
He drove more slowly than he
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-08
Fashions of To-Day By May Manton

NF course new negligees are
I in demand. There is
- never an opening season
that does not call for one and
here is a model charmingly
adapted to the warm weather!
1t can be made of lace or OF
embroidery or of bordered ma
terial. 1t is just as dainty as
it can be and at the same time
it is quite simple. In the pic
ture, a simple lace is used in
combination with crepe de
chine, but this model is just
as good for muslins and fot
voiles and for similar ma-
terials adapted to Summer wear.
The little bit of shocking at the
front is done with color and the
color matches the sash and the
ribbon bow knots that are ap-
piled on the skirt. If you want
something a little bit sturdieri
it would be pretty to use
white pongee and to trim with
bands of lace.
For the medium size will be
needed, SIS yards of material
60 inches wide with 8 yards Of
flouncing 22, 334 yards Of
banding and 3s4 yards of edging.
The pattern No. oo77 is cut
in three sizes, "a or SO, 38 OF
40, az or "A bust. 1t will be
mailed to any address by the
Fashion Department of this
paper, on receipt of fifteen cents
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-08
Josiah HIGHLANDER and daughter,

Josiah HIGHLANDER and daughter,
Chicago"
Smith was not misled by the place
name. There was only one Josiah
Richlander" in the world for him and
he knew that the Lawrenceville mag
nate, in registering from Chicago,
was only following the example of
those who, for good reasons or no
reason, use the name of their latest
stopping place for registry ad-
dress
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-31
OPEN HOUSE AT
THE Y. M. c. A.
The public Is Invited to See LOT
Of Games and Stunts Tomor-
row Afternoon at the
Gymnasium of "Y.'

A cordial invitation is extended to
the public to attend the open mouse
at the Y. NJ. c.. A. tomorrow. Begin-
ming at three o'clock in the after
noon a program of games and stunts
will be carried out in the gymnasium
and opportunity will be given all
those present to participate in some
Of the activities The program IN
cludes a. race or two put on by the
BOYS of junior age, some clown
stunts, marching, a yolley ball game
between the single men and the mar
ried men and basket ball game
between a picked bunch OF hlgh
school boys and another picked team.
An orchestra has been secured TO
give a musical program, and the
afternoon gives promise OF being a
lively one. The committee In charge
desires that special mention be made
that the ladies are especially invited
to this affair.
The evening will be devoted to
playing off the city championship Of
the indoor baseball season. Huls-
RAMPS meet the st. PauTs church
team at 1880 which may be the final
and deciding game. Huiskamps won
the first game of the series last
week. but the score was very close
and good game is expected tomor-
row evening.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-31
WEEK Of PRAYER
BEGINS TONIGHT
First of Series Of Services VIII be
Held In Trinity M. e. Church
This Evening at 1880
O'clock.
LOCAL CHURCHES UNITE
These Meetings Are In the Nature Of
Union Gatherings and Invita-
ton is Extended to All
to Attend.
LOCAL CHURCHES UNITE

Week of prayer services under the
auspices Of the Keokuk churches will
begin this evening with the first serv-
ice in the Trinity NJ. e. church, led by
the Rev. s. G. Benninger OF the First
Methodist Protestant church. The
topic, will be Thanksgiving and Con-
fession. The services will be held in
the basement OF the church building,
with entrance from the Tenth street
side. This is done to help conserve
the coal.
The other services and leaders and
topics for the rest Of the week are.
Tuesday January /, at the First
Christian church. Topic, The Chal-
lenge of 1918. Leader, the Rev. J. H.
Matthias of the First Baptist church.
Wednesday. January 2, at the United
Presbyterian church. Topic. The
Church Universal. Leader, the Rev.
F. w. Long of the First Congregational
church.
Thursday, January 8, at the First
Baptist church. Topic, Christianity
and the World Crisis. Leader. the
kew. F. J. Swanson of the Swedish M.
e. church.
Friday, January 4, at the Westmin-
|ster Presbyterian church. Topic. Mis-
sions, Home and Foreign. Leader. the
Rev. F. c. Edwards of Trinity M. E.
church.
cordial invitation is extended by
the pastors Of the city to all to attend
these services.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-31
Government Sends Out Details of the
Plan for Checking up Its Strangers
From Germany and
Austria.
POLICE TO HANDLE PLAN
They Will Secure Estimate Of Number
Here, and Will Attend to Regis
tration on Proper
Days.

Alien enemies in Keokuk must pc
registered. The registration Will De
handled by the government of1ciais
through the police departing nt or the
city of Keokuk, according to advance
information received today by Mayor
Lotion and Chief Charles H. Henne-
mann. The aliens will include both
German and Austrian, 1t is believed
although only German aliens were
spoken of in the first letter. Mayor
Lotion has written to Thomas w.
EGregory, attorney general OF the
United States, that he could count
on Keokuk's cooperation for this
registration.
A letter received from the depart
ment of justice this morning outlined
the plans for registration. The po-
lice department through Chief Hen
nemann will make an estimate OF
alien enemies in the city. This esti-
mate will be forwarded to N. r.
Reed, U. S. marshal for the south
ern district of Iowa, who in turn for
wards the estimate to the depart
ment of justice Blanks necessary
for registration will be sent back to
the police department, and on
special day set apart for that pur-
pose alien enemies will register at
the police station.
The government is going to have a
line on the strangers WITHIN its gates
that will prove very valuable in case
any of these strangers get too in
quisitive and try to pry the lid of
of official secrets with money or
bombs. The registration will be a
safeguard to the government and will
give the officials chance to get a
line on the men so that they will
know who they are in case they
should ever need any information
along such lines.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-31
MYSTERY OF
MADAM H
Suspect Is. Released and Police Start
Out to Find German Spyette
Some Other
Place

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31.-The mys-
terry surrounding Nine. III sought
as the associate of Franz Schulen-
berg, alleged German master spy, ap-
peared only to deepen today while
federal and state authorities follow.
ed fresh trails.
One led to Richmond, Cal. There
the attention of officers was turned
toward finding out what Mrs. Frieda
Sodern knows of Schulenberg. Mrs.
Sodern conducted a confectionery
stand at Camp Rincon, a summer re-
sort which Schulenberg is said to
have frequently visited while at his
mountain cabin. There is now nc
doubt by investigators that the mys
terious Nine. H" accompanied Schulz
enberg on many trips to the lonely
rendezvous in the Sierras. Dozens OF
witnesses have testified to seeing a
woman answering her description
with Schulenberg.
Miss Beebe Bean, arrested at Sea
Beach masquerading as man, has
been released. She was in no wise
connected with Schulenberg or Nine
"H," the authorities declare.