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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
BUSINESS CHANCES

INVESTORS MAGAZINE FREE TO You.
$40 invested with US has made others
ment Journal" tells how this was done
This magazine gives facts about the real
have started on the road to fortune We
will send it three months FREE If you
want to make money. write for this mag
azine today Hoffman Trust company csc
Carter Building, Houston, Texas.
WANT to hear from parties owning proven
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for oil and gas development. VIII give
slider property 160 acres and upward
Quick development. Submit sketch map
and full particulars. Ralph DEVELOPMENT
Company. Box 9o6 Tulsa. Okla
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FOR RENT-HOUSES


FOR RENT.
1U3l Buchanan. r, modern garage.
1900 Van Buren,, +, gas ell light
1112 West 9Th. Z r, bath, ell. light. barn
6l3 buchanan. r. CRATE, bath, barn.
1243 Lane, r. modern.
1904 Clay, cottage, r, toilet, ell. light.
1926 Jackson. r. End floor
]. u. TORRINGTON, 100 W. 9th. Tel 22s.
FIVE-ROOM house, new bath, newly pa
pered, cement basement 1920 Kansas
avenue. Key first door north SIG. Phone
3145. f. L. Roudebush, 623 Kansas ave
TENTH AND TOPEKA AVF-3 rooms and
BATH steam heat. furnished $40 Geo.
NJ Noble & Co. Phone IA.
GOOD 7-room house, 1910 Kansas ave, SIS.
Phone 800
FOR RENT-House large rooms $3.50.
1904 East Sth.
FOR RENT-5-room house. S12 S27 FIJI
more. Call 80 Fillmore.
FOR RENTING cottage and apartment.
modern except furnace Phone 2525 Red.
FOR RENT-New 6 room house strictly
modern on West 18th st. Phone 1868 Red.
1176 BROOKS AVENUE-Six rooms, three
lots, barn. garden Phone 1913
EIGHT-ROoM modern house to rent. 412
Monroe street.
FOR RENTED West 9TH Four-room
house. Phone 475S Blue
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

WANTED-Postion on farm by man sno
wife with one child, experienced, reIer
ences W. NJ. Martin, 10th and CaliIorni3
ave, Route No L, Topeka. Phone 1lIe h-3.
WANTED-Position by refined lady as
housekeeper In hotel or family where
will be treated nicely; reference. Address
Housekeeper, care Journal.
WANTED-A position by competent
house wife. Phone 1855
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WANTED-AGENTS

~~--N-~----~-~-~-~---------->>-
AGENTS-S6o a week to special arenfs r.
travel by automobile selling our line of
new patented, household specialties We
furnish automobile FREE. Write TO-DAY
for particulars: 2. D. Conway, Sales Mgr.
"A American Bldg. Cincinnati. O.
$50 WEEK to special agents to travel
by automobile and introduce 3OO-candle
power coal oil lantern for farmers, dairy
men, etc. We furnish the auto free.
Write for particulars. Thomas Mfg. Co.
3661 Rex st, Dayton, Ohio.
two years service. one agent Who never
listed Florida. but sent buyers, and we
fleSeG ms deais, Write us. Bills, Ewing
AGENrS-Ex Experienced, to sell oil stock
and town lots combined 30 per cent com
mission: well drilling now near lots
hurry. + o. Box DO. Muskogee, Okla
AGENTS. average 500 weekly. Sell several
IN every house. Send dime for samDle
100 per cent profit. Grand Sales Co 1O05
;. 1Irand- St Louis.
OkIRAIT MEN working independ dent
=, write Tor catalogue. 24-hour service
hooerts. Wholesale Portraits. Kansas CITY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
FOE RENT-FCRNIsHED ROOMS

-
fOR GENTLEMAN-One furnished room
,o WIN or without board. Phone 1874.
ONE TO FOUR ROOM LIGHT HOUSE,
keeping suites, electric lights strictly
MODERN, g to So, close in Phone GIG.
a BEAUTIFUL large furnished sleeping
room, modern. walking distance. Phone
9943N SOC West Sth.
NEATLY furnished modern room near
90 santa I re offices, vacant March 1st Phone
East 10th ST
TWO large furnished housekeeDing rooms
eneap. Inquire 306 East 10th.
: STRICTLY MODERN furnished rooms
9o4 1opeka Ave Phone 313S Blue
FOR RENT-Furnished room Go Kansas
ave, upstairs. Phone 1T6T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
First published in The Topeka State
Journal, Saturday Feb. "a. 1911


Journal, Saturday Feb "a, 1911
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE CHI
CAGO. ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC
RAILWAY COMPANY, AND ALSO TO
CREDITORS OF THE RECEIVER OF
SAID COMPANY
NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant
to order entered by the District Court
of the United States. in and for the North
District Of Illinois. Ea stern Division on
the tenth day Of February. 1917 in a cef-
tain consolidated cause in equity therein
pending. entitled American Steel Foufl-
dries, complainant, against The Chica 60.
Rock Island and Pacific Railway Cofnraiiv
defendant. and Bankers Trust Company,
as Trustee, complainant, against The Chi
cago. Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Company. defendant said consolidated
cause being numbered AS, (which said or
der was amended by said Court on Fehru-
airy Is. 1910 all persons having claims
against The Chicago Rock Island and Pa
c1fic Railway Company, or against the Re
eeiver of said Railway Company. were and
are directed and required forthwith to sub
nit such claims for hearing and determine
ton, pursuant to said order. TO the under
signed, Special Master. appointed by said
court. at his office. No. 1928 139 West Van
Buren, Street, in Chicago, Illinois. and so to
submit the same in any event prior to the
tenth day of April 1917.
The proceedings in respect of such claims
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PERSONAL
GALLSTOMES

Their cause. prevention and home treat
ment. Write for FREE BOOK of interest
to any sufferer from stomach, abdominal
or gal. troubles. Address Gall Stone REM
cry Co., Dept D-53 219 S. Dearborn St
Chicago. Ill.
FITS-I cured my daughter by simple dis
covery; particulars free. z Lepso Ia
Island ave, Milwaukee, Wis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
WANTED-TO RENT

WAITED to rent would buy, modern 6
or 7-room house on West Side with yard.
Address House, care Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
LEGAL.
First published in The Topeka State
Journal, February %. 1911
LEGAL.
STATE OF KANSAS

STATE OF KANSAS
GOVERNORS OFFICE.
WHEREAS, on January %, 1917, Rever-
end l.. NJ Potts, pastor of the Methodist
Church at Emporia, left Einporia and was
last heard of on January "a, 1917, at New
Orleans. Louisiana, and
WHEREAS, the said Rev. l.. NJ. Potts
having considerable money on his person,
1t is suspected and believed that he was
killed by some unknown person or per
sons,
NOW. THEREFORE,, 1, Arthur Capper.
Governor of the State of Kansas, by virtue
Of the power vested in me By law, do
hereby offer a reward of
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for the arrest within ninety f90) days, and
final conviction thereafter, of any person
or persons who may have murdered the
! said L. NJ. Potts; said reward to be paid
upon final conviction of said person or
persons
IN TESTIMONY WHERE
OF, / have hereunto SUBJ
scribed my name and caused
to be affixed the Great Seal
[Seal.l of the State of Kansas Done
at Topeka, the capitol, this
21st day of February A d.
ARTHUR CAPPER,
Governor.
BY the Governor:
]. I. BOTKIN.
Secretary of State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
MONTANA LANDS.

MONTANA 640-ACRE HOMESTEADS-
New town, business opportunities. Send
25c for maps and information Address
L S. Commissioner. Outlook Mont
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FOR RENT-Farm. 50 acres. II miles g w
of Topeka. Small pasture. some fruit
cottage, i rooms, barn. cave, plenty of
water Immediate possession. j. Z. Tor
rington. 100 w 9th. Tel 22S
FOR RENT-10 acres. improved close in
Chas. 7. Nichols. Phone 2e62
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
NEW MI ! DERN HOUSES
BARGAIN, By OWNER

Will sell at a bargain. strictly modern
Groom home. sleeping porch, garage and
driveway, nice yard. Almost new and in
good condition. Best reasons for selling.
Address Home, care Journal
FOR SALE-6 nice corner lots on 18th be-
tween BeIyue and Golden ave. cistern
well, barn. blocks to car line $3.50. Terms.
A. L. Furman, 106 West Sth, Topeka, Kan.
1154 CLAY ST. cottage, 6 rooms and bath
great bargain if sold at once cash or on
payments. Call Col East 18th avenue or
phone Go 160I.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
FOR RENT-APARTMENTS.

STRICTLY modern apartment ) rooms
bath, sleeping porch, 517 and 519 West
9Th Phone 21S.
FOR RENT room apartment modern
also one furnished room. gentleman pre-
ferred. Inquire 4O6 Quincy st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
MISSOURI FARMS,

16 HENS, So fruit trees. 1876 grape vines.
10 Missouri acres Sacrifice $3.50 81
down, monthly S470 Curran, 705 Olive,
st. Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
Will SON & NEISwANGEE
CANADA LANDS.

Alberta RANCH for sale-1o,2es acres
in southern Alberta. 1.50o cultivated,
fenced buildings well watered. full line
machinery. 700 cattle 65 horses, 100 hogs
and 400 sheep Price 5000 per acre in
Guiding everything 100000 cash. balance
five equal yearly payments interest 6qe.
Lougheed & Taylor, Limited. Calgary,
Canada
ALBERTA IMPROVED mixed farming
section. S25 per acre Terms. Tele-
phone. Five miles good town. ereamerfes,
roads, schools. water. Owner, Alfred
Smith 0ias. Alberta.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
LEGAL,

before the undersigned. Special Master,
will be in accordance with the directions
contained in said order.
Dated at Chicago. Illinois, this 23rd day
of February, 1917.
HERBERT A. LUNDAHL.
As Special Master in Chancery appointed
in said consolidated cause.
Room 1925, 139 West Van Buren, Street.
Chicago Illinois.
First published In Topeka State Journal
Saturday, February 10, 1871
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
NOTICE

Topeka, Kansas, Feb. TO- 1917
Notice is hereby given that the State
school Book Commission invites PROPOSE
lions for furnishing for a term of five
years to the schools of Kansas, as provided
by law. the following high school text
book in Algebra covering three terms of
high school Algebra. The School Book
Commission will consider propositions for
furnishing manuscripts or plates for books
to be published by the state, or PROPOSE
tions from book publishers to furnish these
books for the schools of the state. All
propositions should be in the hands of
w. II. Smith, chairman of the School Book
Commission, not later than 8 90 q. m.
March 13, 1917. The Commission reserves
the right to reject any or all bids.
w. D. ROSS,
State Supt. of Public Instruction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
wANTED-MALE HELP.

wANTFD-Farm and dairy hands, married
farm help; quarry men; bridge carpen-
tiers and helpers for March 1st; foreign
laborers, pipe line; blacksmith helper; arm
walters; man and wife cooks; 2nd cooks
restaurant and hotel help, etc. Furman
Employment Office, log West sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
FOR EXCHANGE.

INdEPL ElENTS
$4,000 worth of implements to trade
for city property.
w. T. DAWSON
T25 Kansas Avenue. Phone 415
EXCHANGE-S-r modern house in X.
G.. Mo, good repair. well located. $500,
clear. Want S0-acre farm north Kansas.
A. L. Furman, Topeka, Kan. 100 West sth.
EXCHANGE for Topeka or Manhattan
residences, 169-acre farm. Address
Owner. Route 3 Box 4. Mankato. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24

PERMANENT PosITIoN-Good salary,
commission extra man. 2S-35 years, mar
RED Apply by letter stating previous ex-
perience and giving reference. Box Nj, ~.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
PUBLIC SALES

FEBRUARY 27-Public sale on the Null
vane Ranch, Az miles southwest of
Maple Hill, IS head of high-grade Short
springers; A yearling heifers. All THE
cows bred to good registered Short Horn
bull and is a good bunch of stuff: 20
shoats, weight 10 to 60 pounds each. Sale
to be held under cover in case of bad
weather. Free transportations to and from
auctioneer.
c. o. ANSEL,
General Auctioneer.
Res. Phone. 2251 Red. Office &c
AT your service at all times.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
2O61 Lincoln Street. Topeka. Kans
CLEAN SWEEP PUBLIC SALE.
FEBRUARY 90 1917.
On P. H. Adams farm, miles
northwest of Topeka on lower Silver Lake
road. ~ mile west of briekyard bridge, all
machinery, choice dairy cows. fresh. Extra
good mules and horses. Pure bred hogs
one auto.
J. F. BUCHANAN
C. o. 4Ansel. Auctioneer.
Kansas Reserve State Bank. Clerk.
CLEAN SWEEP PUBLIC SALE.
THURSDAY, MARCH /, 1917.
One and one-half mile south of Topeka
on Topeka avenue, u mile south of Avon
dale school house, all farm machinery,
choice Holstein heifers, Duroc brood sows,
shoats and one male hog chickens; every
thing sells. T. PORTER,
e. o. ANSEL, Auctioneer.
Kansas Reserve State Bank Clerk.
CLEAN SWEEP PUBLIC SALE.
IL miles southwest of Topeka on the
Killinger farm. Wednesday, February %.
1917, all farm machinery, horses, cattle
| ing the state. j. A Shumate. c. o. Ansel.
Auctioneer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
FOR RENT-OFFICE ROOMS

FOR RENT office rooms near transfer
station. So month: house to rent. A L.
Furman, 106 West Sth. Topeka
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INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY.

Party with $1,000 can make investment
in local business that will pay him - per
cent per annum For details write to E.
s., care State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24
ELECTRICAL WIRING.

LET ME figure your electric wiring an
after O'Clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24

CURT AIN CLEANING,
PHONE 21l7 WHITE-Mrs. Sue Engle for
curtain cleaning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24

WANTED-znd cook, S35 mo, board and
room. Combination cook and waiter, 81
week; fry cooks; man and wife cocks
1OR West Sth
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FOR s.lL-HoUsEHoLD GOODS.
FOR sALE--MoToRCycuEs

FOR SALE-Harley Davidson MOTORCYCLE
with side car. 1916 model. 3 speed. cleo
tr1c- Cost new. with all equipment S400.
Good as new now; will sell complete $3.50.
See Bob Brown at Brunt- Martin Drug Co.
FOR SALE-Twin cylinder indian tnoto-
cycle. fine condition. easy started, cheap
Cab at COL East 4th st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-24

EOIs S-tLE-1IISOELIA
TEAM FOR SALE-Weight 1000 harness
and wagon. L cow, calves and chickens
Phone 2426N2.
HARP for sale Address Harp, care Jour
GOOD BICYCLE, new tres or trade for
boys bicycle. 1882 K-2.
1852 HASTY AUTO EXPRESS.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-25
SIGNAL Fills Twofold Purpose.

Near a dangerous curve in Loring
avenue, at Salem, Mass, a cOnspicu-
Gus warning signal has been erected
for the benefit of motorists. 1t con-
sists of a tall, brightly painted wooden
figure, representing an officer with one
hand raised and the other holding a
red flag. Because of its size and
color, the sign cannot escape notice,
and therefore doubtless has a great
er effect than would a more conserva-
tive sign. 1t was installed by a tire
company beside one of the latter's bill
boards, and thus performs the two
fold function of calling attention to
the curve and s~o-and-so's products.
Somewhat similar advertising schemes
have been used elsewhere to good adj
vantage.-Popular Mechanics Maya
zine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-25
"Lorna Doone" Went Beqqinq.

1t will surprise many to whom
Lorna Doone" Is a classic to learn
that Blackmore's great novel became
popular in this country before it was
known in England, where it went beg
ging. This fact is disclosed in some
"reminiscences of the Harper house.
1t related that 1t was not until after
1874, when Harper & Bros. published
1t in New York, that Lorna Doone"
appeared in the land of her birth.
Marston, the English publisher of the
novel, said that it hung fire for some
time with them, until the engagement
of the Marquis of Lorne to Princess
Louise was announced, and then 1t be.
gan to sell. In some unaccountable
way, Marston said, the English public
apparently associated the title with
the name of the marquis and so be-
gan to read the book. Blackmore was
better known among his neighbOrs at
TeddingtOn on the Thames as a fruit
man than as a novelist. The fact that
he was a successful market gardener
explains the wonderful knowledge he
displayed in Exit and Kitty" of the
plaques and profits Of a fruit raising
business. The pictures of Corney
richardson's gardening experiences
were evidently drawn from life.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-25
LABOR SHORTAGE IN ALASKA
Wages Are Mounting Higher. Ordinary
Laborers Being Paid as Much
as $t2 a Day.

An Alaskan correspondent writes
that the shortage of labor in interior
Alaska has become acute, and in con-
sequence employers are bidding
against each other for the services Of
such laborers as are to be had, with
the result that wages are mounting to
unprecedented figures. This condition
is especially noticeable in the Fair
banks district, where as much as S12
a day has recently been paid for ordi-
nary pick and shovel laborers. There
are not nearly enough workers to fill
the available jobs, and instead of i'm
prOvement the condition Is expected to
grow worse.
The Alaska road commission, which
received an appropriation Of 100000
for the building of roads and trails this
year, is in the market for a large force
Of labOrers, and where they are to
ONT from nobody knows. Moreover,
mining operations are just beginning
In a large way, and this industry will
require more men than the present la
boring population of the Fairbanks
region, and if they cannot be had the
industry will suffer severely. Similar
conditions, but less severe, existed last
year, and were due to the draining Of
the labor resources by the government
railroad, which is still short of men.
AS in all former years, many laborers
will undoubtedly come in from the
states, but not enough are expected to
even fill the wants of the railroad COM
mission, much less to adequately re-
lieve the needs of private employers.
What is true of the interior labor
shortage was also true in u less degree
of the coast regions until recently. OF
1000 laborers sailing from Seattle to
Alaska last spring not q half dozen got
as far as the interior, the men finding
jobs in the coast regions. Should some
means not be found to relieve the labor
shortage in the interior It's develop
ment will be affected more seriously
than last year, when a shortage of la
Dor resulted in many ventures being
abandoned. Many mining companies
were unable to complete their seasons
operations, and not d few business
men went broke because of inability
to fill their contracts.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-25

As one traces the p%roverbial com
ments on dogs through the ~concentrat-
ed wisdom of the nations, their SINH
larity is most impressive, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. For example,
the Latins told one another to BE
ware of a silent dog and still waters"
concluded that dumb dogs and still
waters are dangerous" and character
lied an insidious traducer as "a dog
that bites silently"
The Russians, who we're slightly in
fluenced by the Latin races, say that
"dogs bark and the wind carries it
away" but the French, Spaniards, Ger
mans and English, who have inherited
more than they wish to acknowledge
from ancient Rome all agree that
barking dogs don't bite" and we have
also in English the warning to "have
a care for a silent dog and still water"
which Is clearly a free translation of
the Latin original.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-25
NOT AWAKE TO THE CRISIS
Patriots, Who incidentally Are Rum
ming for Legislature, Are Very
Badly Discouraged.

sour citizens don't act as If they
fully realized the crisis confronting
them. Some of the time they actu-
ally seem to be asleep to the fact
that we are at war" grumbled the
landlord of the Petunia tavern to the
Kansas City Star. "Of course quite
a number of the lads have en-
listed, and registration went off
without a bobble. The good old
mothers in Israel are knitting socks
and wristlets like mad. The girls are
getting ready to be nurses and gig
Cling a good deal about it. Two grim
young doctors will go to help kill Ger
mans, and a pln-feathery dentist who
has volunteered is clacking his instru-
ments mighty ominously. We didn't
have to be dinged at any more than
other communities to get us to buy
Liberty bonds and contribute to the
Red Cross. And Theodore Pappa-
kryiacocOpulous, the Greek, who has
only taken out his first papers, got In
a hurry and set a Red Cross day of
his own, and gave the entire receipts
of his candy store for that day to the
cause.
"But when one of the town busy
bodies calls a grass mass meeting and
demands that we come and expose our
patriotism to the world, comparatively
few of us attend. Those who do listen
calmly to the band, and then when
Hon. Bray Louder, Hon. Rowland
Rave and other blatherskites arise and
shout about the gur-rand old ful-lag
and incidentally consent to run for
the legislature if earnestly solicited by
their many friends, we either go TO
sleep on them o. gaze fishy-eyed for
a while and then mizzle off home. I
understand that the Huns are pretty
badly discouraged about u.s."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-25
Historic Relics Unearthed.

An extraordinary find of historic
pottery and relics has been made by
Early Morris, e~xcavating Pueblo ruins
in Aztec, San Juan county, n. NJ, with
a force of % men, for the American
Museum of Natural History.
The discovery includes go pieces Of
rare pottery, more than 10000 carved
red and black stone beads, baskets,
mating, knives, battleaxes and other
stone implements. Turquoise beads,
mosaics and shell ornaments are
classed as among the finest ever exca-
waited in the Southwest.
Grains of corn, with cobs, tassels
and husks, we're found intact, as were
also beans and bean pods, pumpkin
seeds, pine cones, cotton fiber, yucca
leaves, rushes, cotton yarn and cloth
sandals. snowshoes, beaver teeth and
bones of animals and human beings,
one skeleton in a sitting position indi-
eating the man had been d~ecapitated.
The find was made in underground
communal dwellings buried for cen
turtles.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-25
We
Stacker
BY Alice Z. Ives
BY Alice z. Ives
Copyright, by W. q. Chapman.)

Jack Davies insisted on setting the
wedding date a whole month ahead of
time. Polly stood out stoutly against
the change in time, said she couldn't
possibly have all her dresses made and
set up no end of objections to the
change of date.
But" persisted Jack, "Tve got to
go away on business, and it's liable to
happen just at that time and send all
our plans galley west, anyway"
81 didn't suppose business ever in
terfered with weddings" pouted Polly.
swell, it ought not to-" %temporized
Jack, "but sometimes it does. I'm
afraid this Will"
81 don't believe it's business. You're
afraid I'll run off with Avery Dean be-
fore the ceremony"
There was such a provocative twin
kle in Polly's eye that Jack caught her
In his arms and kissed her into silence.
Polly had expected him to be q bit
Jealous, and was disappointed.
"YOu're mighty sure of me, aren't
your" And she smoothed back her
hair with another provocative glance.
swell, 1 hope So" rejoined Jack. "If
I couldn't rely on your promise, If l
didn't think you meant what you said,
I'd never want to see you again."
Polly looked up, a trifle frightened
at his serious tone.
I was only joking" she said. "But