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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31
DEPENDENT Wife
WILL EXEMPT man
PRESIDENT ORDERS THAT WIFE
SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO
SUPPORT SELF.
MANY PROTESTS CAUSE CHANGE
II Wife or Children Are Dependent On
Mans Earnings for Support He
Will Be Discharged.

Washington-Presid Wilson Sat
urday ruled that wives Of men select
ed in the draft should not, because
they had employment before marriage,
be thrown upon their own resources
or upon charity of their own or their
husbands parents for support.
He ordered that all men upon whose
labors their wives or children depend
entirely for support should be exempt.
His action was taken in response to
nationwide protests against the inter
probation placed on the draft law by
Provost Marshal Gen. CrOwder's Office
that a woman whose parents or whose
husbands parents were able and Will
ing to support her and her children,
or who was qualified to gain her own
support, should be thrown upon those
resources and her husband sent to
war.
Provost marshal Crowder explained
that part of the law pertaining to de-
pendents, as follows:
at means" he said, that if man
has been dependent for the support OF
his family not on his own efforts and
labor, but on the assistance which was
given him by his own or his wife's
parents, he will not be subject to ex-
emption. But if his wife and his chill
dren if any, are dependent upon his
own earnings for their support wheth-
er either has parents able to support
the wife and children, he will be dis
charged
1T must be understood. however,
that this does not apply if part of his
income on which he supports his wife
and children is derived from continu-
ing source-that is legacy an es-
tate, land holdings. stocks, bonds or
similar holdings, the income from
which would continue to flow in to the
wife during his absence and adequate
ly support her. The same is true il
she has such source of income.
But, If the livelihood of the woman
and children, If any, depends entirely
or principally upon the mans earnings,
he is subject to discharge"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31
PORT OF STOLEN AUTOS FOUND
Raid on Little Italy" DiscIoses Many
Missing Machines.

Detroit automobiles
stolen during the last six months were
recovered, and six Sicilians arrested,
charged with grand larceny and car.
rying concealed weapons, by squad
of 20 detectives. led by Edward H.
Fox, chief of detectives, and Inspec-
tors William p. Rutledge and James
Sprott, Saturday. Twelve other sus-
poets were picked up in raids.
Disappearance of automobiles in
various parts of the city during the
last three months were traced to the
Italian district several days ago and a
systematic cleanup was planned. Cap
tain Fox is certain most of the cars
being stolen are in the Italian district
After the roundup of the machines,
there was a rush to- headquarters by
persons who had reported cars lost
Many identified theirs.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Mason-Edgar Adams, Of this city,
joined a Canadian unit, fought and
was invalided nome. Then he joined
the Michigan National Guard, went to
Mexico and was invalided home Now
he has enlisted in the home guard
Cadillac-Mrs. o. Hominga and her
small son were injured by an auto
mobile driven by Charles Anderson,
of Hobart, who in trying to avoid col
liding with a bicyclist, drove on the
sidewalk.
Port Huron--One man who appear
ed before the local examining board
for examination for the new army had
his teeth pulled, so he would be re.
jected. Other cases where men have
purposely manned themselves or cul-
tivated diseases through which they
might be exempted have been found.
board members say.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31
European War News

Riga. the gateway to Petrograd, Is
In peril from the Germans, If 1t has not
already fallen into the hands of Hin
denburg's men. The rumor of the fall
of the Baltic seaport has been current
in Washington all day.
The Leyland liner Devonia, which
left an Atlantic port on July %, has
been sunk, presumably by German
submarine. officers of the line at
Boston confirmed the report that the
vessel was lost.
Eleven persons are reported to have
been killed and thirteen injured at
Dover In a raid by ten German air
planes. Two Of the enemy machines
in Kent county, England, were
brought down.
British casualties reported to Lon
don in the week ending Tuesday aggre-
gate 14,243 officers and men. OF this
number 2,ST13 soldiers lost their lives.
The French made an attack on the
left bank of the Mouse, between Avo-
! court wood and Dead Mans hill. The
Paris war office announced the capture
of Hill 3O4, Camard wood and the for
titled works between Haucourt wood
and Bethincourt.
The Italians continue to gain, says
Rome. Their prisoners now exceed
$4,000. The Austrians are said to be
preparing TO evacuate Trieste. An
Italian estimate is that the enemy's
total casualties In two days reached
10000.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Articles OF impeachment adopted by
the house were presented to the Texas
senate and Immediately James +. Fer
guson ceased 10 be governor of Texas
and William L. Hobby became acting
governor. The impeachment trial of
Ferguson Will begin August 20.
Because OF the strike of smeltermen
at the Washoe works ut Anaconda,
Mont, the Anaconda Copper Mining
company announced another shutdown
of its properties in Montana.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

dress congress on peace at the same
time he makes reply to Pope Benedict's
proposals. In that way he would take
the national legislative body at Wash
ington into his confidence and at the
same time inform the country on the
question.
Col. Carl Reichmann, whose nominal
. ton as brigadier general had been held
up. specifically denied before senate
military subcommittee at Washington
that he ever had said the army draft
law would be so unpopular as to cause
civil war or that American troops
should not be sent to France.
Henry A. Garfield, coal administra-
tor, gave warning at Washington that
all the machinery of the government
will be used to carry the benefits Of
prices the president has fixed on coal
through TO the consumer, and that If
necessary to accomplish this end the
government will take over the mines.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
announced at Washington a new credit
TO Russia of $1OO,0OO,OOO. This brings
the total Russian credit up to $685.
100000.
The senate at Washington rejected,
ment 10 raise 1858, 7S4 900 from indi-
viduals' incomes instead of $3.50, 1884,
600, as proposed I'm the war tax bill.
Prices of anthracite coal were fixed
in statement issued at Washington
Garfield, president of Williams col
lege, was named coal administrator.
The anthracite prices, effective Sep
TENDER 1. range from "a to So per ton
(2,240 pounds) f. o. b. mines. Jobbers
are allowed TO add profit of not more
than 20 cents per ton east of Buffalo
and 80 cents west of Buffalo.
Seventy-five million dollars more tax
was laid upon wealth. BY vote of 80
TO 81 the senate at Washington adopt
ed the LenroOt amendments imposing
much higher taxes upon individual in
comes than the senate finance COM
mittee planned.
A singing rebuke was the reply of
Secretary Of Commerce William G.
Redfield, of Washington, to j. z. Van
Dyke, of East Orange, N. j., who wrote
the secretary asking him to support
the La Toilette peace resolution. Red
field flayed his correspondent as ex-
hibiting nothing of the American
spirit"
Fiat feet do not necessarily dis
qualify man for army service. Pro-
vost Marshal Crowder, Of Washington,
in telegram to the state governors,
called attention to the army physical
regulations, which specify that "a
broad, fiat sole is common in laboring
classes, particularly among negroes
and is In no way disabling"
Eu1ano1$, Wn>- No4ue
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31
Foreign

DIR. George Micbaelis, the German
chancellor, is reported in Central
News dispatch to London from Amster-
dam, TO have said TO the reichstag
main committee that the German reply
to the papal peace note would be
based on aiming ut peace by compro-
mise agreement, In line with the peace
resolution adopted by the reichstag.
Violent rioting took place in BARGE
Iona, Spain, and the neighboring
towns after a general strike was pro-
claimed.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
U.S.-TeutOniC War News

". D. SubOIbIC w OI views
News of running fight between an
American liner, which escaped and
U-boat in the Irish sea, in which 50
shots were fired. reached an American
port with the arrival of sister ship of
the liner.
Financial circles In New York
learned the government is taking steps
TO control millions of dollars in Ger
man-owned cash i'm Wall street banks,
and has blacklisted all German banks
in South America. This will prevent
financial connections through which
German agents might be able to get
funds for their operations.
National Guardsmen from Wyoming
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana will form the third Guard divi-
sion sent to France. This became
known at Washington when IL was an
ncunced the northwest contingent will
encamp at Camp Greene, Charlotte,
$. e.
Five United States navy gunners as
well as the imprisoned captain of the
Standard OIL tanker Campana may
have died in the German submarine
U-2, which sank the vessel, according
TO Third Officer J. III. Bruce, who, with
40 members of the ships crew and
eight of the gun crew, arrived at an
Atlantic port OH q French steamship.
Aliens who are exempt from draft
under the CONSUMPTION law will be
forced TO fight in the war with Ger
many as a foreign legation If a bill
which Representative Stephen G. Por-
ter of Pittsburgh will introduce in
the house at Washington becomes
law.
Major General Pershing, command
er of the American expedition in
France. returned to his Paris head
quarters after witnessing the French
offensive on the Verdun front with
General Petain, the commander in
chief of the French armies.
Fifteen Germans were arrested at
Trip, S. d., by federal officers,
charged with violation of the espion-
age act.
Domestic
Threatening the entire eastern end
Of the business district of Muskegon,
Mich, and causing loss estimated at
gin swept the plant of the Peoples
Milling company.
The first break in the food embargo
to European neutrals came on cOndi-
tons imposed by the United States.
Under agreement to furnish some of
the cargoes for relief to Belgians, the
government will permit score of
Dutch grain ships to carry their car
goes to Holland.
Gen. James Parker, commander of
the southern department, issued or
ders for the return to their station at
Columbus, N. NJ, on the border, of the
battalion of the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry at Houston and the
battalion at Waco.
Orlando A. Somers of Kokomo, Ind,
was elected commander In chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the last
session Of the annual encampment at
Boston.
Twelve white men, civilians, police
officers and National Guardsmen, were
killed and more than q score OF per-
sons wounded In the outbreak of negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry at Houston, Tex. II
Is not known how many negroes are
dead. Capt. J. w. Mates, Battery A,
Gaoonh Illinois Hald artillaru $780,
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31
W0ShingtOn

President Wilson may decide to adj
dress congress on peace at the same
time he makes reply to Pope Benedict's
proposals. In that way he would take
the national legislative body at Wash
ington into his confidence and at the
same time inform the country on the
question.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Fifteen Germans were arrested at
Trip, S. d., by federal officers,
charged with violation of the espion-
age act.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

A verdict of guilty was found Mt
New York against Kalman Gruher,
ago-between" for Dr. s. J. Bernfeld
and Louis J. Chercy, members Of ex-
emption board No. 90, who pleaded
guilty to receiving brides for granting
exemptions. He was sentenced to two
years In the Atlanta penitentiary.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

b. ID. Whitelaw, son of a manufac-
turer mt ST. Louis was slain In run
ming battle with Patrolman Bert Stan
ley after he and two other men had
held up bartender and six men In a
saloon.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Major General Pershing, command
er of the American expedition in
quarters after witnessing the French
offensive on the Nerdun front with
General Petain, the commander In
chief of the French armies.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Ohios defense council blamed Ger
man sympathizers for the closing of
FIVE Ohio mines with a production of
400 900 tons daily.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Aliens who are exempt from draft
under the conscription law will be
forced to fight in the war with Ger
many as a foreign legation If bill
which Representative Stephen G. Por-
ter of Pittsburgh will introduce in
the house at Washington becomes a
law
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Twenty-seven L W. WIS are In jail
at Cleveland, o., as a result of spec
tacular raid made by federal officers
and detectives on "the Finnish slack
ers' nest" on the West side.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31
Domestic

Threatening the entire eastern end
of the business district Of Muskegon,
Mich, and causing n loss estimated at
close to $150,OO0 fire of unknown ORR
gin swept the plant of the Peoples
Milling company.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

British casualties reported to Lon
don in the week ending Tuesday aggre-
gate 14,243 officers and men. OF this
number 2S13 soldiers lost their lives.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Gen. James Parker, commander of
the southern department, issued or
Columbus, N. NJ, on the border, of the
battalion of the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry at Houston and the
battalion at Waco.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

News of n running fight between an
American liner, which escaped and a
U-boat In the Irish sea, in which 81
shots were fired reached an American
port with the arrival of sister ship OF
the liner.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

The first break in the food embargo
to European neutrals came on condi-
tons imposed by the United States.
Under agreement to furnish some of
the cargoes for relief to Belgians, the
government will permit score Of
Dutch grain ships to carry their car
goes to Holland.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-08-31

Federal Judge George A. Carpenter
at Chicago cleared the way for the
prosecution of disloyal spellbinders In
q far-reaching decision at the prelim-
mary hearing of Adolph Germer, ma
tional secretary of the Socialist party,
who Is charged with violating the se-
lective service act. Judge Carpenter
held Germer in $1,000 bonds to the
limited States grand Jury.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-06

the mother shown in the birth figure, for
Saturn herein again registers against her as
it did few years back in its premolishment
Of the Titanic disaster. As shown in the
child's horoscope this unpleasant augury
eliminates i'll relation to the mother in Jan
nary, 1920, or very shortly before, and in the
way of very critical illness, in which her
life will be despaircd of, at which period
both his Sun and Moon come into atfliction
with Saturn in the parental quarter of the
heavens.
But although he wcds in his twentv.eghth
year, he will, when he is twenty-three, be
violently in love with the same girl with
whom his lfbrothcr is in love and who is
destined to become John Jacob Astor's wife
Here will come the greatest danger that
menaccs the future OF the haf-brothers The
girl the two love will first promise herself
TO Dick. This will be before she has met
young Aston When she meets the brother
OF the man to whom she has plighted her
self, she will realize her mistake There will
be dramatic and dangerous situation be-
tween the two men, but Dick s control of his
own spirit will solve the problem for them
aud he will give up his love to John
AT the age Of twcnty-eight he and his
brother have already become powers in the
financial world Of America They are now
destined to come into sharp conflict with the
greater Astor wealth, controlled by Vincent
Vincent although kindly disposed to his
own half-broiher, is swaycd by the power
fu! interests that make up his group just
as he is about to ruin the two his then aged
mother Mrs. Ava Astor, will step in and
save them This action on her part will cost
large part Of Vinccnt's fortune and make
this group Of the Asor wealth forever sec
ondary in business power in the United
States.
This much the stars say and alas, more
clearly than anything do they point that he
will never be happy through his heart but
through his head, and that, although he will
have many millions and power he will leave
none behind to enjoy them.
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virtue Of the higher and remoter side Of
his nature given him by his previous ncar-
nation. is compelled by the very reason Of
this 10 seek his polar opposite He finds this
III his haf-brother.
The first cemcnting Of their future unity
happens in the Dick boy s sixth year, when
the stars show that his brother will save him
from the attack of some ANIMAL should
infer II mad dog. Thereafter they live to-
gcthcr mcvcntfuIly until 1890 when Dick
in his turn saves John jacob from drowning
a fate which also threatens Vincent Aston.
Young Dick will he precocious and will ma
turc far more quickly than his more orna-
mental brother. He will carly see the value Of
the combination of his own brains and talents
with John Jacob s social position and
wealth. And he will cause his half-broher
also 10 sec this.
Women figure largely and unhappiy in
his life. Although possessed of an inherent
magnetic capacity 10 attract, he is repeated
~ the victim Of feminine insincerity. He
will marry in his twenty-cighth year His
marriage will bring great social and fnan-
cial advantage but the union will lack in
both Felicity and ncrmancncy. A second If
indeed not third, marital experience is de-
noted. In this respect he makes amends for
the monasic or celibatc predictions of his
former existence
This same Saturn plays similarly havoc
in his domestic life, as it did in that Of the
mother, though not necessarily identical as
to episode. but with the destructive tcnden-
cics acccntuatcd by the presence of Mars
in the marriage section. There is a sort Of
astral primogcniturc that manilcsts in the
horoscopes of children by which one may
read much Of the scrolls of parent There
is a closer sympathy for the father than for
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-06
By Professor Sothnos Letillier.
The Horoscope of Baby Dick.

By Professor Sothnos Letillier.
IT" HERE occurred on Wednesday, April
II, q birth fraught with important
future consequences to this country.
That afternoon baby boy was born TO Mrs
Madeleine Force Dick, the widow of Colonel
John Jacob Aston, who was one of the not
able victims Of the Titanic disaster on April
Is, 1912.
Here. to begin, was most curious and in
teresting condition. Mrs. Dick IS second son
was given her on practically the same date
that her first husband was taken from her.
What say the stars as to the meaning of this
Again. consider the problems in Nine AS
tor-Dick s own home. There growing is
the fve-year-old son of herself and Colonel
Aston. John Jacob he is named after his
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-06

arr seen in the character
Of little John Jacob Aslor.
He IS, and always will he,
pleasure loving. advcntur-,
Gus, strongly inclined TO
luxuriousness. The Dick
child, though Sedate by
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-06

and these two in combination constitute the
Microcosmic Cross
The venerable Saturn frowns down from
the apex Of this figure, not so much with
"malicc prepcnsc" as criterion Of the old
er soulhood of this child. This child comes
from Whenceward that would justify
lively sense Of awe Could one but peep be-
hind the veil to very distant scene Of pre-
vious earth activity one might see him
clothed in vestmcnts Of consccratcd service
as philosopher or priest. ascetic or reclusc,
trcading the ways of counsel and meditation.
How this priestly atmosphere. sweeping out
of an Oriental past, will be clarified by con
tact with modern civilization is what makes
the horoscope Of the little son Of Mr. and
Mrs. Dick Of such unusual interest
Curiously too, are the lives of Vincent
Aston and Of the first Mrs Aston blended
with those Of these two sons Of Madeleine
Force.
The first signs of the purposes of Destiny
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-06

father. lie is an Aston through
| and through. with all that it i'm
#plies Of social position. lie has Il
/ fortune in his own right--one
THAT cannot be taken away from
I, him as his mothers fortune was
aiken from her when she decided
Ito leave the tents Of the Astors
! for that Of her new husband
RThe Dicks are cstimablc, we'll
born. moderately wealthy folk
but no one will pretend that they
rank with Astors in the curious
lists of American aristocracy.
Indeed little John Jacob. when
he grows up. will be able to enter
and he welcomed through doors
that his own mother will not be
IA bic 10 pass.
And this will be equally true
of little half brother Dick, just
born. There will be household
i'm which one boy will have great
wealth, tho highest social position, entl
Everywhere, quite like royal prince. A
side by side with him will be his lit
brother. not rich, comparatively, and c
tainly with none of the Astor social RICH
What will come from all this? What do t
stars say?
Of John Jacob Astor and his half hrotl
will be created the future financial rulers
America. They say that without the oil
each would be more or less ineffective. F
that together one multiplying the faults a
,upplementing the other the half broth
will conquer the world as long as they sta
ogether.
First let lis consider the horoscope
Extraordinary one Let me explain that
meridian Of the figure given herewith r.
'esents the Zine of fire." or the aver
through which the ego reincarnates 1t
'eals through the specific point of the
lilac which it intersects somewhat Of
souls status, or the individuality II
brought into manifestation. In the ira
verse beam is portrayed the PERSONAL
little John Jacob Aston Whose Deficiencies
Will Be Neutralized and Virtues
Emphasized by His Half Brother.
The diamond drill., 1917-04-28
Cats and Dogs.

If any man knows why there should
be a tax on dogs and none on cats, let
him step forward ana explain. Cats
spread disease a thousand times worse
than dogs. Cats climb trees and catch
birds, while even bird dog will do no
worse than point toward them. Cats
bite as often as dogs and they scratch
a great deal more frequently. A black
cat crossing your path is bad luck, and
you never give black dog a second
thought. There IS no reason why dogs
should be Disseminated against. If
there is TO be law imposing tax on
dogs, there should be an amendment
that will include cats from the time
their eyes are open until they give up
the last of their niHe lives,-Columbus
Republican.
The diamond drill., 1917-04-28
Cows That Bathe.

II is reported that almost every day
an unusual scene may be witnessed
on Loeb Dutch, Rosshire, New Bruins
wick, where a number Of COWS swim
over TO an islhnd IN the loch, about
300 yards from the mainland, feed
there and return In the evening. They
are never driven, but take their bath
entirely of their own free will. II the
wind Is against them on their return
journey and the sea is rough, II some
times is necessary for a man 20 put
out In a boat and help them over In
turn by holding out his hand under
each cows chin, since they become
dazed II the sea dashes in their faces
and swim In circles instead of going
straight ahead