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The Washington times., 1917-05-09
D. c. RED CROSS
TO GIVE $4,000
Check to Be Given to Mar
shall JOfre Next Week.
Big CONTRIBUTIONS EXPECTED
-Four Thousand New Members In
the Last Month.
BIG CONTRIBUTIONS EXPECTED

When Marshal Joffre returns to
Washington next week he Will be
handed a check for $4,000 from the
District Red Cross for the orphans Of
the soldiers and sailors of France, as
the first contribution to France from
the Washington war service fund now
being raised.
This action was decided upon at q
meeting OF the finance committee to-
day. 1t was done in view OF the gen
eral desire to give Marshal Joffre a
remembrance from Washington to the
land OF Lafayette. The gift will be
made under the stipulation Of the
American Red Cross, that part Of the
war service fund being raised is to
be used for the care OF dependents Of
sailors and soldiers in the United
States and among our allies.
Expect Big Amounts.
At the meeting OF the finance COM
mittee today encouraging reports
came from committeeman and CO.
operating organizations, indicating
large amounts to be sent in before
NhN Gnu Vi "NGh. Inc ANNOUNCE
ment was made this morning that not
more than 2 per cent OF the popula-
ton OF Washington has subscribed to
the war service fund.
Within the past month more than
1000 new members have Joined the
District chapter of the Red Cross, al
though no campaign has been made.
The dues for membership vary from 81
to 1000, but none OF the money re-
ceived from membership dues can be
used in the war service fund.
Miss Moore In Charge.
Miss Frances Moore has been ap-
pointed chairman OF the committee
to have charge OF the campaign for
funds during Mothers week, which
will begin Sunday, Mothers Day, and
continue until the following Saturday
night. Special efforts will be made
to encourage gifts in honor Of
mothers.
Another large report containing sub
scriptions was received today from
the Washington Rotary Club. This
organization has only been working
in the campaign for. ten days. but al
ready have turned in more than
$4,000.
The subscriptions reported today
were:
The Washington times., 1917-05-09
WOMEN ARE BOSSES HERE
Hold Every Civic Office In Kansa,
Town.

VALLEY CENTER. Kan. May O.
The dominance of women in the gov
eminent of Valley Center is complete
today. The mayor, Miss Avis Francis.
who. with an entirely feminine coun-
ell, recently was elected, has just
named Mrs. William Goodrich city
marshal and Mrs. George Bright
street commissioner. There are now
no men in the employ Of the city.
A municipal program calling for
clean streets and alleys was an
nounced by Mayor Francis.
The Washington times., 1917-05-09
WANTS FISHERIES VESSELS.

Secretary Daniels has before TIE
HOUSE COMMITTEES on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries today a written request
for legislation authorizing the Bureau
OF Fisheries. Of the Department Of Com
merce. to turn over its vessels 70 the
Navy for use during the war period The
Secretary Of the Navy suggested early
legislation authorizing the transfer.
with the proyiso that nsheries vessels
used by the navy during war shall b.
to the Department Of Com
merce as soon as the war ends.
The Washington times., 1917-05-09
RECALLS GEORGE III'S DAY
Food PRECIPITATION Of Enaland's
King Like Predecessors.

LONDON. Nav 9.-King Georges
food proclamation issued on Wednes.
day Is almost Identical with one is
sued by George III in December, 1900,
the main difference being that the
older proclamation called upon the
people to reduce the consumption of
bread by at least one-third Instead OF
one-fourth.
George Hrs appeal, moreover. was
issued in response to q request by
Parliament.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10

Triomphale quarter, the other Santa |
Maria Liberatrice in Testacclo, and
both of them popular quarters where
anticlericalism has always been
strong. If nothing else, it is one more
testimony to the religious organlza-
ton OF Rome in the last pontlflcate.
Famous Church in Danaer.-AThe
constant procession of heavy automo-
bile trucks past the famous Alx-la-
Chapelle Cathedral has so shaken the
historic structure that the roof, par
tlcularly the vault over the choir,
threatens to fall inward. The dis
coVery OF the precarious condition OF
the arched roof was made recently
when the work OF repainting the
choir vault was undertaken. Careful
investigation revealed that unless
steps are taken Immediately irrepar-
able damage may be done. The state
mas been appealed to furnish the
necessary funds, since the Charlie
magne Society, which cares for the
edlflce and was arranging for the re-
painting of the choir, does not feel
Itself able to finance so serious an
Undertaking as the repair OF the en-
tire roof The repainting work has
progressed far enough to reveal in
the dome of the choir, covered over
by layers Of plaster, old paintings
that apparently date from the fif-
teenth century.
Cardinal Mercier's "Manual of Phil
sophy."--Cardinal MERCER has writ
ten an interesting preface to an Eng
fish edition of his Manual of Phil
osophy,' which is to appear in a few
days. After thanking the translator
Tor his labors, he says that the in
formation Of a philosophical course
has been one of the chief detectives
| OF his professional career, and present
events have only increased its impor-
| lance III his eyes. The Anglo-SaXon
countries have submitted to the in flu
| ence OF empiricism and numerous are
the spirits which cover, in the name
OF aSnotlcism, their disdain for the
realities of metaphysical order.
others, disciples of Kant, seek in a
nebulous idealism, tinged with sub
JectlVlsm and monism, limit to the
aspirations which raise them above
the region of pure sensible expert
ence. The events of the last two
years have shaken souls, and caused
the need of the ideal to become more
| imperious."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
RamSey-ss.
Wabasha, Minnesota, corporation,
plaintiff, VS.. Bankers Home Mortgage
company. corporation, L. d. Moore
and Ed: Madison, Defendants.
Notice is Hereby Given, That by vir-
tue, of an Execution to me delivered,
and now in my hands, issued out of the
District Court in the City of Minneapo-
lis, County of Hennepin and State of
Minnesota, upon a Judgment rendered
In said Court on the 18th day of July,
a. D., 1916, in favor of the said Farmers
Merchants State Bank of Wabasha,
Minnesota. a corporation, and against
the said Bankers Home Mortgage Com
pany, corporation, l.. D. Moore and
Ed. Madison, l have levied upon the
following described real property of the
said Defendants, towit:
Lot Ten 10), Block One ~, Paul
Martins First Addition to the City OF
st. Paul, according to the recorded plat
thereof on file in the office of the Reg
lister of Deeds in and for Ramsey Coun-
ty, Minnesota.
And that I shall on Monday, the 10Th
day of March, A. D. 1917, at ten o'clock
in IN, the forenoon of said day, in the Sher-
ifs office, in the Court House, County
of Ramsey, City of st. Paul. and State
of Minnesota, proceed to sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder for cash
aforesaid Bankers Home Mortgage
Company. a corporation, L. d. Moore
and Ed. Mattison, in and to the above
described real property to satisfy said
Judgment and costs, amounting to One
Thousand Six Hundred Thirty-seven
and 100 ($1,637.0O Dollars, together
with all accruing costs and interest on
the same from the 29th day of July, A.
d. 1916, at the rate of six per cent per
annum.
Dated at st. Paul, Minnesota, Janu-
airy goth, a. u. 1917.
JOHN WAGENER.
Sheriff of Ramsey County, Minnesota
Jno. 3. & u. +. Foley.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10

Irish Girls in EngIand.-A larg
number of girls and women from til
rural sections of Ireland have bee
induced to go to England to wor
serious scarcity of labor, particular
in relation to munition manufacture
English agents have been touring Ire
land in search of female workers
Offering unusually large wages 80
the period of the war" An Iris
newspaper estimates that betwee
twelve and fifteen thousand accepte
the offers.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10

Missing Crown Jewel.-One of the
jewels OF the imperial crown, which
was reported missing after the
coronation Of King Charles, has been
found in the Cathedral at Budapest.
1t was not known until after the loss
was discovered that the settings of
several of the stones were loose. A
thorough overhauling of the crown has
now been ordered.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10

Carmeiite Nuns Two Miracles APP
proved.-On February 26 there took
place in the presence of Pope Bene-
dict the solemn reading of the decree
OF approval OF two miracles alleged to
have been wrought through the inter
cession of the Venerable Anne OF st.
Bartholomew, a Carmelite (Discalced)
nun. The Holy Father congratulated
the order upon the decree, and urged
that the lesson to be drawn from the
happy event is the incubation of the
spirit of prayer.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-03-10
OLD WORLD NEWS

"Rome" a Monthly" Rome, the
weekly Catholic journal published in
English in the Eternal City, will for
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02
THUS LIEUT-GEN. BRIDGES, WITH BRITISH, CHARACTERIZES IT.
 WAR CONDITIONS CHANGE.
NATION AGAINST NATION
Lord Kitcheners Personality Alone Prevented Early Abandoning of Volunteer System and General
 Resort To Conscription.

Washington.-Lieut Gen. Bridges, a member of the British commission, declared here in a talk with newspa- per corresonpdents that the British democracy had become almost fanat- ical" over universal military service.
 The volunteer system under which the empire entered the war, Gen. Bridges said, has cost the lives of the most valuable citizens, crippled indus trial mobilization and immeasurably sct back Englands efforts in the war.
 War" said Gen. Bridges, ''is 10 longer a war of expeditions, but is a case of nation against nation. Men, women and children are equally drawn into it's vortex, the women and chil- dren being forced into industry and fed on half rations in order to supply the men at the front War has be- come an immensely democratic busi- ness and needs the full effort of every member of the community, directed along the lines most necessary to be saved"
 Gen. Bridges talked freely of the diff faculties which had beset England 1t the beginning of the war.
 "The source of our greatest difficult ty," said Gen. Bridges, was the send ing to Europe of practically our whole trained army as an eXpeditionaTy force This robbed us of all training officers for our new armies and it was only through returned wounded off cers and the withdrawal of others that we were able to build the skeleton of our new forces. At the same time we allowed most of our better class youths, university men in many cases, to enter the ranks, which withdrew them from the officers class and plac- ed that responsibility on far less we'll equipped persons. The wastage of the best blood of the nation was enormous.
 "It is my opinion that if it had not been for Kitchener's immense person. ality we should have had conscrip- tion within few months. If Lord Roberts proposal for universal service i had been enforced we should have saved enormously, not only in men, but in industrial efficiency. The great majority of army officers would have done anything to have gotten rid of the volunteer system with which the
 country was at first saddled." Gen. Bridges estimated eight
 months as the necessary time to train
 a division.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02

shaking smile, you turned some trick on that Calabasas crew-some fight" Bull chuckled.
 Bull, is old Duke Morgan a Repub- lican?"
 Bull looked surprised at the turn of De Spain's question, but answered in good faith: Duke votes most any ticket that's again the railroad"
 How about picking q couple of good barnmen over in the gap, Bullp
 What kind of a job y got?"
 "See McAlpln the next time you're over at Calabasas. How about that girl that lives with Duke?"
 Bulls face lighted. "Nanl Say shes little hummer"
 'I hear she's gone down to Thief river teaching school"
 Game by Dukes less'n three hours ago. Seen her in the kitchen makin bread"
 "They're looking for a schoolteacher down there, anyway. Much sickness in the gap lately, Bull?'
 "On'y sickness I knowed lately is what you're responsible for y'self," re- torted Bull with a grin. "Pity y left any chips at all from that Calabasas job. eh?"
 "See McAlpin, Bull, next time you're over Calabasas way. Here"-De Spain drew some currency from his pocket and handed a bill to Page. "Go get your hair cut. Don't talk too much wear your whlskers long and your tongue short"
 "Right-or
 "You understand"
 'Take it from old Bull Page, he's q worlds wonder of sucker, but he knows his friends"
 But remember this-you don't know me. If anybody knows you for friend of mine, you are no good to me. See?"
 Bull was beyond expressing his com prehension in words alone. He winked, nodded, and screwed his face into thousand wrinkles. De Spain, wheel ing, rode away, the old man blinking first after him, and then at the money in his hand. He didn't profess to un- derstanc everything in the high coun- try, but he could still distinguish the principal figure Slat the end of bank note. When h$ $tramped to Calabasas the next day bnterview McAlpin he received more advice, with a strong burr, about keeping his own counsel, and little expense money to run him until an opening presented itself on the pay roll.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02
CHAPTER xV.
Strategy.

One week went to repairs. To a man of action such a week Is longer than ten years of service. But chained to bed in the Sleepy Cat hospital. De Spain had no escape from one week of thinking, and for that week he thought about Nan Morgan. And the impulse that moved him the first moment he could get out of bed and into a saddle was to spur his way hard and fast to her; to make her, against a score of burly cousins, his own; and never to release her from his sudden arms again.
 With De Spain to think was to do; at least to do something, but not with out further careful thinking, and not without anticipating every chance of failure. And his manner was to cast up all difficulties and obstacles in a situation, brush them aside, and have his will if the heavens fell; and he tine work every day. to do one par tcular thing-to see, talk to, plead with, struggle with the woman, or girl, rather-child, even, to his thoughts, so fragile she was-this girl who had given him back his life against her own marauding relatives.
 His friends saw that something was absorbing him in an unusual, even an extraordinary way, yet none could ar rive at certain conclusion as to what it was. The one man in the country who could have surmised the situa- ton between the two-the barn boss, McAlpin-if he entertained suspicious, was far too pawky to share them with anyone.
 When two weeks had passed without De Spain's having seen Nan or having heard of her being seen, the conclu- sion urged itself on him that she was either i'll or in trouble-perhaps in trouble for helping him; . moment
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02

you did for me tonight--to think of your heinz shot down like dog. when you were only trying to get away"
 II wouldn't have had you take, a ride like that for forty belts r rs5B "McAlpin showed 1t to me the last time I was at the stage barn. hanging where you left It." He strapped the cartridges around him.
 You should never have taken that ride for 1t. But since you have" He had drawn his revolver from his waistband. He broke 1t now and held 1t out. Load 1t for me, Nan"
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02

the precipice when the narrowing ledge left him only inches under foot ; clinging with torn hands to every fa- voring crevice, and pausing when the peril was extreme for fresh strength, De Spain dragged his injured foot across the sheer face of Fl Capitan in the last shadows of the days failing light.
 Spent by his effort, De Spain reached the rendezvous Nan had indicated, as nearly as the stars would tell him, by ten o'clock. It was only after a long and doubtful hour that he heard the untitled footballs of horse. He stood concealed among the smaller trees un- til he could distinguish the outlines of the animal, and his eye caught the fig ure of the rider.
 De Spain stepped out of the trees, and, moving toward Nan, caught her hand and helped her to the ground.
 She enjoined silence, and led the horse into the little grove. Stopping well within it, she stopped and be- gan rearranging the mufllers on the hoofs.
 I'm afraid I'm too late" she said. How long have you been here?' She faced De Spain with one hand on the ponys shoulder.
 Did you have any fallsT'
 You see I'm here. Youl How could you get here at all with horse?'
 ''They are hiding on both trails out side watching for you-and the moon will be up" She seemed very anxious. De Spain made light of her fears. "Tll get past them-rve got to, Nan. Don't give 1t thought"
 "I don't know what you'll think of me" He heard the troubled note in her voice.
 What do you mean"
 She began to unbutton her jacket. Throwing back the revers, she felt inside around her waist, unfastened after q moment and drew forth leath- ern strap. She laid 1t in De Spain's hands. This is yours," she said in a whisper.
 He felt it Questioningly, hurriedly, then with amaZement. Not q car fridge belt :" he exclaimed.
 Its your own."
 "Where-?" She made no answer. "Where did you get 1t, Nan?" he whis- pered hurriedly.
 "Where you left it."
 "How?" She was silent. 'When?'
 "Tonight."
 "Havc you been to Calabasas and back tonight?"
 Everybody but Sassoon is in the chase" she replied uneasily-as if not knowing what to say, or how to say 1t. "They said you should never leave the gap allve-they are ready with traps everywhere. l didn't know what
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02

boss, standing in the doorway at the Calabasas barns, saw a horseman rid ing at a leisurely pace up the Thief River road. The barnman scrutinized the approaching stranger closely. There was something strange and something familiar in the outlines of the figure. But when the night rider had dismounted in front of the barn. door, turned his horse loose, and, limp ing stifIly walked forward on foot, the man rubbed his eyes hard before he could believe them. Then he uttered an incredulous greeting and led Henry de Spain into the barn office.
 "There's friends of yours in your room upstairs right now," he declared, bulging with shock. De Spain, sitting. down. forbade the barnman to disturb them, on'y asking who they were.
 When he had asked half a dozen more leisurely questions and avoided answering twice as many, the barnman at De Spain's request helped him up stairs. Beside himself with excite ment, the night boss turned, grinning, as he laid one hand on the doorknob and the other on De Spain's shoulder.
 "You couldn't have come" he whis- pered loudly, "at better time."
 The entryway was dark, and from the silence within the room one might have thought it's occupants, if there were such, wrapped in slumber. But at intervals a faint clicking sound could be heard. The night man threw open the door. By the light of two stage-lamps, one set on the dresser and the other on q window ledge, four men sat about riclety table in life and-death struggle at cards. No voice broke the tense silence, not even when the door was thrown broadly open.
 No one-neither Lefever, Scott, Frank Elpaso nor McAlpin-looked up wheA De Spain walked into the room and, with the night man tiptoeing be hind, advanced composedly toward the group. Even then his presence would have passed unnoticed, but that Bob Scott's ear mechanically recorded the limping step and transmitted to his trained intelligence merely notice of something unusual.
 Scott, picking up his cards one at a time as Lefever dealt, raised his eyes. Startling as the sight of the man given up for dead must have been, no muscle of Bob Scotts body moved. His expression of surprise slowly dis solved into a grin that mutely invited l the others aS he had found ont for himself. to find out for themselves.
 Lefever finished his deal. threw down the pack, and picked up his hand. His suspicious eyes never rose above the level of the faces at the table; but when he had thumbed his cards and looked from one to the other of the remaining players to read the weather signals, he perceived on Scotts face an unwonted expression, and looked to where the scouts gaze was turned for eyes, at the sight of the thinned, fa- miliar face behind ElpaSo's chair, starting, opened like full moons. The big fellow spread one hand out, his cards hidden within it, and with the other hand prudently drew down his pile of chips. "Gentlemen," he said | lightly, this game is interned." He rose and put silent hand across the table over Elpaso's shoulder. Henry" he exclaimed impasSively, "one ques- tion, if you please-and only one: How in thunder did you do it?'
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02
U. S. Saves S85O,0oo.

Washmgton.-The government has saved SS50,000 on cartridge cases bought for the navy under the recent agreement made with copper produc- CTS by Bernard Baruch of the Advls- ory Commission of the Councilof Ma tional Defense. MT Baruch is work ing on similar agreements with lead, zinc and oil producers.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02
Younq Roosevelt To Fly.

Washington. Quentin Roosevelt, youngest son of Colonel Roosevelt, has enlisted in the Signal Officers Re serve Corps. He received his papers at the War Department, and will be sent immediately to the aviation school at Mineola, l.. I.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02

later he was laying plans to get into the gap to find out.
 Nothing in the way of a venture could be more foolhardy-this he ad- mitted to himself-nothing, he con soled himself by re1ecting, but some thing stronger than danger could jus tify it. Of all the motfey Morgan fol- lowing within the mountain fastness he could count on but one man to help him in the slightest degree-this was the derelict, Bull Page. There was no choice but to use him, and he was easily enlisted, for the Calabasas affair had made heroic figure of De Spain in the barrooms. De Spain, according ly, lay in wait for the old man and intercepted him one day on the road to Sleepy Cat, walking the twenty miles patiently for his whisky
 "You must be the only man m the gap, Bull, that can't borrow or steal horse to ride" remarked De Spain, stopping him near the river bridge
 Page pushed back the broken brim of his hat and' looked up. You wouldn't believe it," he said, impart- ing a cheerful confidence, but ten years ago had horses to lend to every man tween here and Thief river" He nodded toward Sleepy Cat with a wrecked smile, and by a dramatic chance the broken hat-brim fell with the words: They've got 'em all.''
 "Your fault, Bull"
 "Sayw Up went the broken brim, and the whiskied face lighted with e
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02
To Aid Stricken France.

Washington.-Half q million dollars to aid in the reconstruction of homes in the devastated portions of France, Belgium, Serbia and Russia was ap- propriated by the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- tional Peace in annual session here.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02
Valves Patent Riuhts.

Detroit, Mich.-Henry Ford, at the request of the British government, has waived all patent rights on his farm tractor. so that Great Britain can manufacture tractors for use in the British Isles and France.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02
"SIackers" Can't Escape.

Washington.-Men of military age who have married since state of war against Germany was declared will not escape their obligation of military ser vice under War Department policy formally announced.
The Ozark spectator., 1917-05-02

"Suffs" Lose in Pennsylvania House.
 Harrisburg, Pa.-The proposed suf- frage amendment to the Pennsylvania constitution was defeated in the House. lacking three votes of the num- ber necessary to pass it. s.J