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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-11
CHAPTER XIV.

Except for the vacuum where the
core and heart of it all ought to have
been, Roses life in New York during
the year that put her on the highroad
to success as a designer of costumes
for the theater was q good life. broad
ening, stimulating, seasoning. It rest
ed, to begin with, on foundation of
adequate material comfort which the
unwonted physical privationS of the six
months that preceded ii made seem
like positive luxury.
For several months after she came to
New York to work for Galbraith she
found him q martinez. She never once
caught that twinkling CLEAN of under
standing in his eye which had meant
so much TO her during the rehearsals
OF 1.-THE Girl Up Stairs" His manner
toward her carried out the tone of the
letter she'd got from him IN Chi
cage. 1t was stiff, formal, severe. He
seldom praised her work, and never
ungrudgingly. His censure was rare,
too, to be sure. but this obviously was
because Rose almost never gave him
an excuse for ii. Working for him in
this mood gave her the uneasy sensa-
ltion one experiences when walking
abroad under sultry, overcast sky,
with murterings and flashes in it. And
then one night the storm broke.
They had fingered in the theater
after the dismissal of a rehearsal, TO
talk over a change in one of the num-
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CHAPTER XIV.
CouIeur-de-Ros


1t was altogether fortunate for Rose
that she had attempted no prepare
ton, because the situation she found
herself in when she'd opened the door
for her husband, shaken hands with
him, led him into her sitting room and
asked him to sit down, was one which
the widest cast of her Imagination
would never have suggested as a pos
Sible one for her and Rodney.
1t was his manner, she felt sure,
that had created it; his rather formal
attitude; the way he held his hat. 1t
was the slightly anxious, very deter
mined attitude of an estimable and
rather shy young man making his first
call on a young lady upon whom he. is
desperately DESTROYS of. making a ia
vorable impression.
And he was Rodney. and she was
Rose. 1t was like an absurd dream.
won't you smoker" She asked sud-
denly, and hurried on when he hest
tated. Il don't do it myself, but most
OF my friends do. and 1 keep the
things" From drawer in her writing
desk she produced a tin box of ciga-
rettes. They're your kind-unless
you've changed" she commented, and
went over TO the mantel-shelf for an
ash tray and a match safe. The match
safe was empty and she left the room
TO get fresh supply from her kitchen
On the inner face OF her front door
was a big mirror, and In Ii, as she
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-11
China's Income Tax.

China has an income tax fashioned,
in many particulars, after that of the
United States. 1t has but recently
gone into effect and promises to add
much to China's income, the people
responding Loyalty as they did awhile
ago to the patriotic defense fund. The
law requires that the tax must be paid
by merchants, government officials,
bankers and professional men and
specifies, PawnbrOkers, shroffs, salt
merchants and firms given special priv
ileges by the government shall pay at
every year end incomes under $1,000
excepted), per cent over $1,000; J
per cent over 100000, . per cent over
81 100000. Clerks are required to pay
monthly" 1t is proposed later to ex-
tend a nominal tax TO those having
smaller incomes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-11

ing all the while, it was love that had
made her world go round. The same
attraction that James Randolph long
ago had told her about. All she'd ac-
compliShed in that bitter year since
she left Rodney had been TO make an
other man fall in love with her!
1t was natural, of course, that the
relation between them, after that,
should not prove quite so simple and
manageable. There were breathleSS
days when the storm viSibly hung in
the sky; there were strained, stiff. self
conscious moments of rigidly enforced
politeness. Things got said i,~spite his
resolute repression that hal, as reso-
lutely, to be ignored. But in the inter
walls of these failures there emerged
"a new thing-genuine friendliness,
partnership.
1t was just after Christmas that Abe
Shuman took her away from Galbraith
and put her TO work exclusively on
costumes. And the swift sequence of
events within month thereafter
launched her in an independent bust
ness: the new partnership, with the
details Of which, through Jimmy Wal
lace, you are already sufficiently ac-
quainted.
Her partner was Alice PercSini. She
was the daughter of rich Italian
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came back through the unlighted pas
sage, she saw her husband. He wag
sitting just as she'd left him, and as
his face was partly turned away from
her, it could not have been from the
expression of it that she got her revela-
on. But she stopped there in the
rk and caught her breath and leaned
eek against the wall and squeezed
the tears out of her eyes.
He stayed that first evening a little
less than an hour, and when he got
up to go she made no effort to detain
him. The thing had been, as it's I'M
broken surface could satisfy, a highly
successful first call. Before she let
him go, though, she asked him how
long he was going TO be in New York.
and on getting a very indeterminate
answer which offered a minimum of
two or three days" and maximum
that could not even be guessed at, she
said:
Il hope you're not going to be too
dreadfully busy for US to see lot of
each other. I wish we might manage
il once every day."
That shook him; for a moment,
she thought the lightning was going
to strike, and stood very still holding
her breath, waiting for it.
But he Steadied himself, said he
could certainly manage that if she
could, and, as the elevator came up in
response to her ring, said that he would
call her up in the morning at her office.
AS she cuddled her cheek into the pill
low that night, Rose smiled her old,
wide smile She was the happiest per-
son in the world.
That manner of Rodney's lasted-re-
Cured at least, whenever Rose and
he were together-almost unaltered, for
two Whole days. There was visit
of his to her workshop, where he lis
tened intently to her explanations OF
her tools and her working methods.
There was q luncheon, at which, I'M
wincing, he made her tell him the
whole story of her success; and a
dinner and theater, after which he
brought her home in a taxi, and, hav-
ing told the chauffeur to wait, formal
ly escorted her to the elevator. But
with the last of the next days light,
the ice broke up and the floods came.
She had taken him to a studio tea
in the upper sixties just off West End
avenue, the proprietors Of the studio
being a tousled, bearded, blond an
archist of a painter and his exceed
ingly pretty, smart, misunderstanding
wife.
The two men had instinctively drawn
controversial swords almost at sight
of each other, and for the hour and a
half that they were together the COM
bat ragged nightly, to the unmixed
satisfaction of both participants. The
feelings of the bystanderS were per-
haps more diverse, but Rose, at least,
enjoyed herself thoroughly, over seeing
her husbands big, formidable, finely
poised mind in action again. The talk,
of course, ranged everywhere: social
ism, feminism, law and it's crimes,
art, and the social mind.
It was half-past six or thereabouts
when they left the studio, and the late
May afternoon was at its lOveliest. II
want to walk" said Rose, latter that
tea, if I'm ever to want any dinner"
He nodded a little absently, she
thought, and fell in step beside her.
There was no mention at any time Of
their destination.
CTO BE CONTINUED.)
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Petrograd-Gen. <vanoff swore that
! Gen. Sukhomlinoff, former comman-
der-in-chief of Russia's armies under
the old regime, had sent military Sc.
crets to Berlin from Petrograd and
Warsaw. He testified in the court
martial against the former officer.
Bay City = Mr.. and Mrs Andrew
Lupo and their three daughters were
burned to death in fire which de-
stroyed their fruit store at Bad Axe.
The only persons to escape from the
building was George Woodhall, who
slid down rope.
Paris = Baron Charles De Broque-
vile, the Belgian foreign minister, has
received 100000 francs from the Penn
sylvania Belgian relief committee, to
be RENTED to King Albert. The mon
ey is for the relief of needy Belgians.
Oakland-Mrs. Mildred Pollak set
new coast women's record for the
plunge when she covered fifty-five feet
more than twelve feet better than the
previous record, held by Miss Gerard
Culton.
Toronto-The military conscription
bill for the Dominion of Canada be-
came law when it was signed by the
governor general here. The bill was
brought from Ottawa by special mes
senger.
Washington = Miss Anna ToIman,
Smith, for forty years connected with
the federal board of education and
known to educational workers the
world over as a specialist in foreign
educational systems, died here.
Chicago-S tanislaus Szwajkart, edi-
tor-in-chief of the Polish Daily News
for twenty-five years, was officially
advised by the Vatican that he had
been made Knight of st. Sylvester.
Washington-Pre Wilson rode
at the head of parade of the drafted
men of the District of Columbia, who
have been accepted for service in the
National army.
East Orange = twenty-five women
organized as "the first aid corps for
damaged Clothes" left here for Sea
Grit. They have volunteered to repair
the uniforms and clothing of state
troops encamped there.
Spring Lake-George H. Hartford,
president for many years of the
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea company
and former mayor of Orange, N. j., his
home, died here at the age of "a.
Washington Coal operators are
making a concerted drive against gov
eminent control limitations of in
functions against President Wilson's
bituminous prices were heard.
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Grain, Provisions, Etc.

FLOUR-Market unsettled; prices are
now in the process of revision to meet the
governments basis on wheat; special
brands, in wood, quoted to retail trade
$12 per Dbl
HAY-Choice timothy. s21 .Oo622. 90. No.
/, $19OOq20.0O; No. 2, $17.5O91S5O; No. 8 red
top and grassy mixed $15.OO@1650; light
clover mixed, $17.0oq1S.0O; heavy clover
mixed, $15,0O@16.0O; clover hay, $1400016 90;
new timothy, choice, $1S.00120O0 No 1.
$1S.O0G2O00; No. 2. $16.00Gl17.00; No. 2. $1,000
Q15.0O; threshed timothy, s1o.0O@14,O0.
BUTTER-Creamery, extras, 4116c: ex-
ira f1rsts. $410411ze; f1rsts, 391k94O1bc: sec
onds. SSaS9c; ladies, S61z@37c; process,
s91ac; packing stock. 341@d3512c
EGGS-Fresh first, 361a@37c; ordinary
firsts, S41k635c miscellaneous lots, cases
included S3166361Ac; cases returned. S21bD
351ac; checks, 1S@5c; drties, country re-
ceipts. 3lQSSc; extras, 1@42c; storage
packed, 351k6371hc.
LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys, 1sc; fowls,
general, 2Od25c; No. 1 recandled, 2S93Oc:
city recandled, 22Q23c; heavy stock. 4c:
roosters, lie; spring chickens. 241ac: ducks
2O622c.
ICED POULTRY Turkeys pc: fowls,
22@231sc; roosters. 171hc; spring chickens.
22@23c; ducks, 15616c; geese, S@12c.
POTATOES = Minnesota, Early Ohios.
bulk. s1.OO@1.12 per bu.; Jersey cobblers.
$1.1501.20 per bu.; Wisconsin, red, 9Oc0
s1.OO per bu.
CATTLE-Good to choice steers, SIS. 400
1915; yearlings, good to choice, s1050614. 90:
fair to good steers. s9O0@125O; range
steers, $9.50@12.50; stockers and feeders.
t80069.75; good to choice cows, Ss.o0910 %:
good to choice heifers, $9.0o011.0O fair to
good cows. s6.75@7.75; Gamers. $5.25Q5. IS:
cutters, $6.0097.15; bologna bulls, $1,000
$780, butcher bulls, T.25@1O.00; heavy
calves, $75OQ1O.OO; good to prime calves.
S12.O0015.75.
HOGS-Prime light butchers, $17.sOQ1S. so;
fair to fancy light. $1725@1S15; medium
weight butchers, 200@250 lbs, $1S.25611S.60;
heavy butchers. 24004OO lbs, SIS. 2001S.6O;
choice heavy packing. s1T.25@17.75; rough
heavy packing. $16.75617.3O; pigs. fair to
good. 130O61450; stays, s17.00@1S.5O.
SHEEP-Good to choice wethers. 5000
1875: good to choice ewes. $S.00G1050;
yearlings, s10.0001S.25; feeding yearling
ewes, s13O001525 western lambs good 70
choice, $16.00617.50; native lambs, good to
choice $15.5O@17.10; feeding lambs, s14.OO9
1850.
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aloud. If he'd been watching
Roses face he wouldn't have gone so

thinking aloud. If he'd been watching
Roses face he wouldn't have gone so
far.
swell, If it's Ike that she said,
and the quality of her voice drew his
full attention instant1y-"if love has TO
be like that, then the game doesn't
seem worth going on with. You can't
live with it, and you can't live-with-
out it," Her voice dropped a little, but
gained in intensity. "At least 1 can't.
/ don't believe 1 can." She stopped
and faced him. what can one do?'
she demanded. She turned away with
despairing gesture and stood gazing
out, tear-bllnded, over the little valley
the hilltop they had reached com
manded.
You want to remember this" he
said at last. I've been talking about
myself. 1 might have benr different
If my first love affair had oeen an al
together different thing. And I'm not,
thank God, a fair sample"
my love affair brought me a home
and-kids," she said. "There are two
of them-twins-a year and a half old
now; and went off and left them |;
left him. l thought that by earning my
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-11
WHEN TAXPAYERS FOOT BILL
Lead Pencils Are Not Treasured by
School Boys Now as They Were
in Days Gone BY.

"Hello!" said I, whats that?" And
I stopped to pick it up.
THAT" replied the boy, who hap
pened to be passing through the school
yard with me. "That is nothing but a
lead pencil"
But it is whole one" said 1, 'and
with a rubber on the end"
81 know it," said the boy.
"What? Do you mean to tell me
that you have seen this here befOre?"
Eyes, everybody's seen it."
"All the children in your school have
seen this lying here day after day, and
not one boy has picked it up?"
"Of course. What should we pick it
up for? There's plenty in the school
house; the town buys EN-"
I had been given text for long
meditation. Not pick up whole new
lead pencil! And pencil with a rub
Der on it!
When 1 was boy we priced even
slate pencils. A boy who hooked any
body's slate pencil was baited until he
gave it up; but a lead pencil-we
fought for lead pencils as the Greeks
and Trojans fought for Helen. We
secured the countryside for old horse
shoes to sell to the blacksmith for
money enough to buy a lead pencil;
and, having it, we cut our private mark
on it, guarded it, kept it as our last re-
source in trade. Many a time precious
fU-O-iDch load naOci1 has tIIrDpd an inn
portant jackknife trade one way or
the other. 1 never had but one lead
pencil at a time, and often hardly that,
until was fifteen years old; and these
ten-year-olds scorn to pick up whole
one with rubber! Think of it! The
best eraser had was a piece of rub
ber-boot heel Exchange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-11
Art of Hanuinn Pictures.

Pictures should have strong base
below, a large centerpiece above, and
higher point above this, thereby
meeting architectural demands. A sofa
against the wall, or a bookcase, or a
large table may form the base, With
an important picture as the center
piece, either square or oblong. At all
events the base should be wider than
the structure above, and there should
be a higher point of apex. The hest
of ones pictures should be placed
over the fireplace.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-11

New York-The exhibition of post
ers designed to attract subscriptions
to the second Liberty Loan will be
continued at the art alliance of
America. A hundred or more of the
best ones viii be forwarded TO Wash
ington for the treasury department to
pass upon.
Boston - An investigation has been
started by the state attorney generals
office into the conditions revealed by a
recent report of the federal trade
commission which charged that coal
dealers in this city made unreasonable
profits .ast spring.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-09-11
Speedy ENOUGH Then.

'New York's shortstop," says the
maker of baseball metaphors, sis nc
ice wagon" He evidently sought to
imply that an ice wagon had TO speed
possibilities. The man never saw one
disappearing round the corner on 3
hot day. just after the despairint
housewife has discovered that the re-
frigerator is almost empty.
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own way, building life that he didn't
surround, as you say, could win his
friendship. And have his love be-
sides. I don't suppose you would have
believed there could be such a fool in
the world as was to do that"
He took while digesting this truly
amazing statement of hers. But at
last he said: "No, wouldn't call you
a fool. 1 call a fool a person who
thinks he can get something for moth
ing. You didn't think that. You were
willing to pay-a heavy price it must
have been, too-for what you wanted.
And I've an idea, you know, that you
never really pay without getting some
thing"
81 don't know" she said raggedly.
Perhaps :"
There was a seven-thirty train to
town, and they finished their walk at
the station. She got back to her apart
ment about nine. Two corners of
white projected from under her door,
"a visiting card and a folded bit of
paper. 1t was Rodney's card, and on
it he'd written: "Sorry to have missed
you. I'll come back at eight"
Her shaking fingers fumbled pitt
fully over the folds of the note, but
she got it open at. last. 1t was from
him, too. 1t read:
Dear Rose: This is hard luck. 7 sup
pose you're off for a weekend some
where. / want very much to see you
When you come back and have leisure
for me will you call me up? 1 know
how busy you are, SO I'll wait until I
hear from you. RODNEY.
When the telephone girl switched
her to the information desk, and the
information clerk said. 'Mr. Rodney
Aldrich? Just a moment" and then !:
Mr.. Aldrich is in fifteen naught five,"
the dry contraction in her throat made
it impossible for her to speak. She
couldn't answer his first Hello" and
he said it again, sharply, Hello, what
is it?"
And then suddenly her voice came
back. A voice that startled her with
its distinctness. Hello, Rodney" she
said. "this is Rose"
There was a perfectly blank silence
after that, and then the crisp voice OF
an operator somewhere-"Waiting
"Yes," she heard Rodney say, get
off the line" And then to her: ST
came to see you this afternoon, and
again tonight"
"Yes, know" she said. 81 just
this minute got in. Can't you come
back again now?" How in the world,
she wondered, could she manage her
voice like that! From the way it
sounded she might have been speaking
to Alice Perosini; and yet her shak-
ing hand could hardly hold the re-
ceiver. She heard him say:
''Its pretty late, isn't it? 1 don't
want to You'll be tired
and :"
Its not too late for me-" she said,
'only you might come before it gets
any later"
She managed to wait until she heard
him say "All right" before she hung
up the receiver. Then a big, racking
sob, not to be denied any longer,
pounced upon her and shook her.
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MARKETS
Milwaukee. Sept. <. 1917.

Milwaukee, Sept. 5, 1917.
Butter = Creamery, extra, 411bc:
prints, Acc; frsts, 37@SSc; seconds,
S4@36c; process. 3S939c; dairy,
fancy, 36@37c.
Cheese American, full cream
twins, 23@2312c; daisies, 231k024c;
Young Americas, Csc; longhorns,
24h@25c; brick. fancy. 241a@25c.
Eggs-Current receipts, fresh as to
quality. 34QS5c; dirties. seconds, ESQ
27c; checks, 24@26c.
Live Poultry - Fowls, fancy, 21@
22c; ROSTERS, old, 15@16c; broilers,
24@25c.
Wheat-No. / northern, 2.30@2.3S;
No. 2 northern, 220@2.30; No. 8
northern, 2.10@2.20; No. 2 hard, 2.22
OPS.
Corn-No. yellow, 204@2.05.
Oats-No. 8 white, 57@5Sc; stand
ard, 57@5Sc; No. 4 white, 56@57c.
Rye-No. 2. 1.79@1.SO; No. 8, 1.7S
@1.79.
Hay-Choice timothy, 17.50@1SOO;
No. timothy, 17.00@17.25; No! 2 TIM
othy, 15.O0@16.5O; rye straw, $500
1000.
Potatoes = Minnesota, early Ohios,
sacked, on track, 1.00@1.05; Wiscon-
sin, red or white, 90c@1.00.
Hogs-Prime heavy butchers, 1850
@18.75; fair to prime light, 1920
1900; pigs, 1O.00@15.0O.
Cattle. = Steers, 7.S5@1275; feed
ers, 8.6O09.75; cows, 4.O0@8.5O; heif-
ers, 5.5008.75; calves, 14.50@15.50.
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Minneapolis. Sept. 5. 1917.

Wheat = No. 1 hard, $50; No
northern, 235@2.40; No. northern,
2.30@235.
Corn-No. yellow, 1.97@1.9S.
Oats-No. 8 white, 55056c.
Rye-1.75@1.76.
Flax-3.43@3.48.
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Isn't 1t queer? The head Of the fam
lily has to foot tie bills
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Dear Rose: This is hard luck sup
pose you're off for a weekend some
where. / want very much to see you.
When you come back and have leisure
for me will you call me up? 1 know
how busy you are, so I'll wait until I
hear from you. RODNEY.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-12-13
WRIGHT SCHOOL

Mrs. James Edwards and children
and Miss Dorothy Springer spent a
few days last week in Clare.
VIM. Leonard and family has
moved from the Veeder farm TO Alma.
Mrs. Pat Whitcraft is entertaining
her mother this week.
Earl Cox maze business trip TO
Ithaca Saturday
Mrs. Vancore and daughter were
Mt. Pleasant visitors one day last
week.
Dell Wright, who has been on the
sick list is better at this writing.
Willie O'Brien of Forest Hill spent
Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Clarence
Ferris.
Pat Whitcraft and John Shong
made a business trip to Forest Hill
Monday.
Monthly report of school district
No. 4. frac., Pine River township.
Number of pupils enrolled. 30; num-
Der of days absent, rs; number of
days taught, 20; average daily at
tendance, 26; pupils neither tardy
nor absent during the month We're:
Ruth Lent, Dorothy Fookes, Merle
Leland, Alvin Pellot. Loretta, Barry,
Myrtle Adams, Eulla Lentz, Erwin
Webb. Opal Crum-
MARION hartley,
Teacher.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-12-13
NORTHWEST SEVILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson of Mt.
Pleasant are spending few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. G. Barkey.
Lee Loomis and Carl Dickerson
were in Saginaw on business Satur-
day.
Iva Dickerson who attends school
in Shepherd spent Saturday and sun
Gay at home.
A. Ingraham visited relatives IN
lonia from Thursday until Saturday
noon.
Mrs. John Hagerman has been very
sick for the past two weeks. Dr.
Highfeld of Rverdale is attending
her.
Mrs. M. Wager. who has been stay
ING at j. Dexter's returned TO her
home at Marion.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-12-13
A RED CROSS CHRISTMAS

The War Council OF The Amer
lean Red Cross has conceived
that a great national purpose
will be served by having mem
bership in the Red Cross almost
I rs universal as citizenship.
Although pledged as a nation
10 the national purpose during
this great crisis. II viii not be
granted TO large percentage
or us TO play part in the light
ing branches or our counlrys
service
All OF MS, however. can ~
identified with the Red Cross.
which in these times when whole
nations are organized for war
fare. is big enough and strong
enough to carry some Of the bur
den for our soldiers. our sailors
and our Allies.
We want a Red Cross OF three
quarters OF million members
I'm Michigan We want the
i strength and support tnat VIII
grow from this army OF mem
. bers.
Christmas time has been set 10
] attain this goal. because the Red
Cross and Christmas spring
from the same spirit. aud these
two great symbols OF mercy,
sacrifice and cheer may well be
united On this. our first Chris
mas in the war, the Red Cross
; symbol Will add. not "A spirit or
detection. but the thought OF
serious purpose and sacrifice
which through accomplishment
. il represents.
IL Is hoped that from hi
, Christmas campaign of 1917
will grow a permanent custom,
which will increase the signi-
icance both OF Christmas and
\ The Red Cross
.