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imagine, really. I've gone through a
battle, too. It's my battle with the East."
Quaint words for an fastener to hear!
/ thought of those ladies' who used to
moan, "Oh, if you could only see Raj
nier," as they looked at tie Neapolitan
goats
"Why did you leave the West thenp
/ asked. 1t was the very same question
/ used to ask the elegiac ladies abroad.
Miss Dunbar, however, had a reason.
"Well," she answered slowly, II came
East because wanted to learn to write.
had gone to little Western college and
I felt 1 ought to have a post graduate
course IN English. So came to New
York and took a course at Columbia.
There wasn't day when / wasn't so
homesick that felt must take the train
to Olympia"
"OIympia?" 1 asked wonderingly. I
felt suddenly as if 1 should lapse into a
Homeric verb.
'Yes," she answered, chat is the cap
ital of Washington. I have always lived
there, for my father was Chief Justice of
the State for many years. He was
very wonderful person." she added rever-
emily, "Oh, no, that isn't a daughterly
prejudice-he was like the West-big and
honest and courageous-and it's a matter
of history that his dissenting opinions
often became laws in the course of time"
"Ah, then you inherit your eourage?' /
asked.
''If l have it certainly do" she re-
piled with gesture of very fine, delicate
hands. IAN my ancestors have been
pioneers-going out to the West before
there were any railroads, fighting the
wilderness at every step-indeed, my
mothers father was killed by Indians, the
Indians that he had always befriended.
You see" she added after minute, "my
grandfathers were pioneers of the West
they fought their way there Now,
I'm pioneer of the East And don't
believe'-this with another twinkiing
smile-"that they fought the West much
farther than fought the East"
"Tell me more about that" said I.
was beginning already to have more SYM
pathy with the Rainier mourners by the
Bay of Naples.
SWELL" said she, II hated New York.
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Italy's second army on October "A, 1917,
at the Piave. Perhaps it would be more
accurate to say for having shaped the sue
cess of the retreat of the Italians after
that catastrophe.
Mr.. Trevelyan is one of the increasing
number of Britishers who sincerely hope
for closer intimacy, emotionaHy and in
telleetually, between his countrymen and
the Italians. He knows the sensitiveness
of the Italians He has obviously been a
close observer of their temperament. and
he is convinced that the relations which
he wishes to suecor can be facilitated by
praise. 1t is the consensus Of opinion
that praise is an emOlient and a cement
that must be used with diseernment with
nations as well as individuals. However,
is to be hoped that these efforts of
Mr.. Trevelyan's-offset, In a measure at
least, the effect of some of the irritants
that were applied to the Italians after the
beginning Of the Peace Conference.
The chapter that the average reader
will turn to with the greatest keenness
is the one entitled Cdporetto and the Re
treat. We have no hesitation In saying
that the gist of the real truth concern
ing Caporetto IS contained "A that chap
ter, and if the author had not eovenanted
with himself not to say word that could
hurt the most sensitive or erethitic feeling
of church or state, individual or party,
soldier or civilian, his qualifications as
historian and psychologist, observer of
events and interpreter, would have per-
mitted him to make acceptable state
ment and Interpretation OF one of the
most lamentable defalcations and one of
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Trevelvan's History of Italy's Part in the War
]

the most marvellous reeonstructlOns that
the world has ever seen. As it is, he Jver-
handicaps himself. In a few pages he
sketches the part played In those extraor-
binary occurrences by the mentality and
character of the Italians as a race; the
merits and defects of its political and
educational system; the relation of the
different classes and parties to the war;
the enemy propaganda; the grievances of
the soldiers at the front; the marvellous
strategy of LudendOrf and the tactics of
the German army; the actions of Cadorna
and his subordinates, and the advent of
the Allies. In his lines and between his
lines the careful reader can find an ade-
quate description of the Caporetto dis
aster and of Its real causes. He may also
get hints of the factors that led up to that
event, which viii always be one of the
glories of modern Italy, VIZ: the devel-
opment of determination to win the war
which was as unitarian on the part of the
Italian people in June, 1918, when their
army made its wonderful resistance on
the Pave, as if it had been concentrated
in the heart of their best beloved recent
patriot, Cesare Battisti. 1t WIS then that
the finishing touch of the struggle for
United Italy, which began with the adj
vent of Mazzini practically a hundred
years before, was given
If Mr.. Trevelyan's book had no other
merit than this chapter, it would still be
a welcome contribution to the literature
of the war.
SCENES FROM ITALY'S WAR. By
G. NJ. TREvEEYAN. Boston: Houghton
Mifiin Company.
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She Came Out of the Kitchen!

1 was so homesick for the West-there
wasn't night when didn't dream of
the mountains nor a day when I just
didn't spatter the streets of the big,
strange city with tears of loneliness"
'Yet you stayed. Whyr
Because" she answered, II knew 1
could learn more here in the East
know it meant my own development. Yet
things did get harder. In the first place,
my money gave out and 1 did-what do
you suppose / didp
shook my head.
"Why," said she merrily, Il began
cooking for woman for my board. I'm
a good cook, you know, and I could get
a recommendation any time. = But If did
make my work at Columbia harder and
having no money IS always rather forlorn,
isn't it, One night, remember, friend
of mine invited me to SIT In box at the
Metropolitan given her by Mrs. j. P.
Morgan, so after had cooked the din
ner and washed the dishes I got myself
into evening clothes and went with her.
That was so funny that it did cheer me-
well" she concluded, ito make long
story longer, / got into the habit of send
ing some stuff to one of the evening
papers here in town. They took nearly
everything 1 wrote and finally offered
me job. had stayed away from them
for month before this offer. all the time
you see was terrified for fear something
was going to keep me in New York away
from my beloved West. When it did
come I hesitated for long time. Then
l finally decided must-that this New
York experience would develop me as a
writer; that l couldn't afford not to be
plueky.> So took it and / went to live
in settlement house for factory girls.
The meals were terrible, the summer
months with their terrific heat made me
physically sick, never was there a mo-
ment when 1 didn't long for my mount
aims and my friends IN the West Yet it
was worth it all-the struggle. For / did
learn a great deal through my newspaper
experience here"
"Yes," I interrupted, %snd the greatest
thing you learned was winning the battle,
for if it had not been for that you could
never have written so well Of how Rich
ard Byrd, the aviator, won his battles
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volume does not purpOrt to be history
of the British Red Cross IL Italy, but a
narrative of some phases CT Italy's war,
it would be acceptable to many readers,
l am sure, was there less detail Of the
conduct of the personnel. Some OF the
writer's personal references have an anus
ing aspect at the present time, partieu-
larry the one describing the "thin, aquiline
form of Mr.. Wickham Steed, the evil
genius of the House of Hapsburg, and the
avenging angel of the races oppressed by
the Dual Monarchy" "He had come to
the right place at an historic hour" The
traditional satan has vanished for the
average Italian, and Mr.. Wickham Steed,
formerly resident correspondent Of the
London Times in Italy, later editor of
New Europe, and latest, shadow of Lord
Northcliffe and editor of the Times, has
taken his placel
The distinct note of Mr.. Trevelyan's
book is praise, praise of everybody and
everything, particularly of everybody from
the King down to the Duke Of AOsta, from
Gen. Hamilton, whom, ''if any one in the
world could replace as the Italian COM
mandant of the British troops in Italy it
was Lord CaEan," to Mr.. Marriage, the
mechanician of the ambulances under his
direction. The only name that we miss
in this pecan of praise is that of Gen.
di Robilant, who was currently credited
in the latter part of 1917 and the early
part Of 1918 with being responsible
equally with the Duke of Aosta for hav-
ing stopped the advance of the Austrian
troops after the colossal defalcation OF
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By CORINNE LOWE.

WYE Fasteners are awfuIly apt to
w think that what happens to a
person west of New York doesn't matter
one iota. Our conviction has been deep
ened undoubtedly by those romance eurd-
ling folks from Seattle who, shifting at
Lake Lucerne OF CHANGING patrOnizngly at
the crescent blue Of Naples, have always
capped every European landscape with
the remark, "Oh, if you could only see
Mount Rainier and the Seattle roses!'
1 myself, when abroad, used to become
very violent on the subject of Western
enthusiasts. / called them Europe spoil
ers and made various remarks about van
dals who instead of taking away wares
always brought them along, That l have
come to know the hold whicf, the Cascades
and the Olympics take upon The magma
ton is due to my meeting with Ruth Dun
bar, author of The SwaIolr. For Miss
Dunbar comes from the State of Wash
ingtm and, though she has lived in New
York city for the past four years, her
spirit has never moved from the ghost
peaks that follow Hoods Canal or the
great lonely dome of snow breaking
through the mists of Puget Sound.
The mountains and the deep hearted
frs and the rivers-this Western sweep of
landscape-are all felt in Miss Dunbar's
first book, The SwaIlop. There is more
in the novel, which, though slight in size,
is to me one of our most valuable con-
tributions to war literature. Told in the
first person, this story of a young Amer
lean aviator who went to France before
Americas formal entrance into the war,
has tremendous grasp of that batting
courage which we women are polite enough
to call masculine. From first to last
The Savalloao is a tale of battle. And
whether Richard Byrd is fighting against
seasickness and thugs on the mule boat
which took him to Europe, whether he is
trying to get his airplane back to French
soil after the German bullet has exploded
in his thigh, or whether-most terrific Of
all-he is trying to keep himself alive
through all the suffering in French hos
pital, we see the Overcoming spirit"
which his creator has claimed for him
"How did you ever do it ?" 1 asked Miss
Dunbar as she sat in her apartment On
Washington Square. Glow did You, n
woman, imagine so wildly a mans
pluck 2"
l really need not have asked her. If /
lived in the time of Jane Austen, I should
say that Miss Dunbar's face was "a won
derful combination of strength and gentle
ness" Writing to-day, celebrate her by
saying that she has one of those grave,
deep, dark faces seeing far and going
far-which the early Florentines put
down fer US ON canvas She might be q
portrait by Bottieelli.
'Well," she said with a little twinkle
the twinkle of humor that runs straight
through her book-"it wasn't so hard to
e : q : = e =
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By JOSEPH COLLINS,

Medical Director of the American Red
Cross in Italy.
MR.. G. NJ. TREVELYAN has special
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SCENES FROM ITALY'S WAR. T
G. NJ. TREvEEYAN. Boston: HoughtC
Mifiin Company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-19
TO TRY BANDITS
Gang Alleged To Have Robbed
q. S. Sailors Captured.
General Gomez Denies Car
rama Troops Unreliable.

Mexico City, Aug. 19.-General
Arnulfo Gomez, commander of the
federal forces at Tampico. today in
dignantly denied the charges of for
eign oil companies regarding the dam
ger of attack If Mexican escorts were
provided. He declared there was no
truth in the charges that Carranza' S
troops were unreliable.
The party of bandits held response
BILE for the attacks and robbery re-
Gently committed on four launches OF
prominent petroleum companies, and
also suspected of being guilty of rob-
bing the launch from the American
cruiser Cheyenne, were captured near
Tampico Sunday. One of them con-
fessed he had participated in both at
tacks.
One of the assailants of George Nc
Donald also was captured. McDon-
aid was reported killed, but has ar
rived at Tampico safey.
The bandits have been promised a
quick tfial.
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FIRES ON FARMS
They Are Causing HuSsey Most
Concern at Present.
$4,000 Worth of Grain De-
strOyed in July.

The monthly report of the state
fire marshal, L. T. Hussey. issued to-
day, reveals that during July the har-
vest field fires took precedence both
numerically and in total damage, over
all other kinds of fires in the state.
The report states there were 10 fires
of grain and hay with loss aggregat-
ing $63,S22, and there were seven
threshing outfits burned with a loss
of S11.249.
Other figures in the report which
reflects on the harvest fires is that
during the month there were As fires
of unknown origin, with a loss of SEA
Jos. Many of these fires were those
of grain stacks.
In the classification of fires. dwell
lings. which almost invariably take
the leading role, in July scored sec
ond place with a total of Sc and a loss
of S47. .430. and ciased as fourth nu-
merically came stores with II fires
and a loss of $58,890.
With As fires of unknown origin
leading in the classification of causes,
both in numbers and total DANA ges,
sparks from combustion is second in
the list of causes. with 80 and a loss
of S37,070 to their credit. Sparks
alighting en- roof caused ten fires
loss S1,572.
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few WANT HASH
Army Canned Goods and Bacon
Are Going Fast.
Hundreds of Orders Placed by
Topeka Consumers.

Please. Mister, won't you buy some
hash? 1t isn't selling worth 'cuss'
according to Postmaster w. o. Rigby,
who is receiving orders for thousands
of dollars worth of government army
food from Topekans. Corn beef and
similar articles are also moving slowly,
but the supply of canned corn, canned
peas, bacon. canned cherries and beans
in 100-pound bag bids fair to be ex-
hausted in a short time.
Hundreds of orders have been
placed and hundreds of price lists are
being given out daily. No word has
been received relative to the reported
decrease in postage rates and no ac-
tion can be taken until official noti-
fication is received. In case of a re-
ductlon in postage, it is probable that
the excess already collected will be re-
funded to the purchasers.
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Whole Day Spent in Getting
Statements From Him.
Alleged Murderer Playing Soii-
taire When Lawyers Called.
EXPLAINS HOW HE GOT JEWELRY
Many Questions Asked Him
About Woody Youth.
Old wrestling Partner Calls on
Maple Hill Suspect.

Rufe King, accused of the murder
of three men at Maple Hill, today told
in detail his connection with the dis
Woody and Reuben Gutshall, whose
bones. it is claimed were unearthed
on Kings alleged murder farm. Otis
Hungate. a Topeka attorney, John
Martin, county attorney of wabaunsee
county and Assistant Attorney General
McNeill questioned King. A stenogra-
pher took notes on every statement
the accused murderer uttered.
King began his story at 9 o'clock
in the morning and at a late hour
this afternoon he was still under a
gruelling examination by the three at
torneys who will prosecute him.
Sheriff Baker of Wabaunsee county,
was present at the Shawnee county
Jail while the examination was being
conducted. Before the examination
started. the sheriff served a second
warrant on King in which he is ac-
cused of the murder of John Woody.
How He Got JeweIry.
Attorneys refused to state whether
Kings explanations held water in
their eyes. They began with the dis
appearance of the peddler. King ex-
planned his possession of jewelry
owned by the peddler by saying that
the man had given 1t to him to keep
until he returned to Maple Hill the
next year.
From the story of the peddler, the
attorneys led King to the story sur
rounding the disappearance OF John
Woody, who slept in Kings livery barn
and who disappeared as mysteriously
as Reuben Gutshall.' King claimed
Woody left for Ollahoma and wrote
| To him from that ne
At a late hour this afternoon the
| Woody disappearance and Kings ex.
PLANTATION of It was being heard by tht
attorneys.
King was playing solitaire in his eel
at s o'clock this morning. He took ar
interest in nothing expecting tele.
graph dispatch in a newspaper which
stated that officers were in Colorado
| looking for his wife,
They probably have found her by
now" 81 King.
Befriended Indian Boy.
King spoke of story in the STATE
Journal in which it was stated tha
residents of Maple Hill accused hin
! of making away with an Indian lad a
Maple Hill.
I've been trying to think wher,
that dope came from" he said. "On'
! time 1 found a poor little Indian devi
at the depot. munching an ear Of raw
corn. 1 gave him a feed and sen
him to Topeka with Jim Hatch .
| Maple Hill. The kid had run ava.
| from the reservation and Hatcf
| promised to send him home from
! Topeka"
| Henry Flock, a German farmer liv
ing near Maple Hill. called a. tn,
county Jail to see King this morning
He was referred to the attorney gen
eral for permission to pay a socia
visit
Flock speaks broken German anC
says he used to keep a horse in King
! barn. They both liked wrestling anC
! Flock says he threw King severa
| times.
You see, I'm a married man whit
went home by daylight" said Flocl
in telling of the village wrestling
bouts he staged with King.
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STORM PETROCRAD
British Fleet Sinks BO1shevik
Submarine Ship.
Other Ships Reported Lost in
Big Naval Battle.

Stockholm, Aug. 19.-The rein
forced British fleet which has been
engaged with Bolshevik war vessels is
concentrated against Kronstadt, the
naval port of Petrograd, a dispatch
from Helsingfors says.
The city of Kronstadt, it is said. is
burning.
The Bolshevik submarine depot
ship Viatka is reported to have been
sunk in an engagement off the Toll
boukin light house. several miles
northwest of Kronstadt
Sink Four Rcd Ships.
Helsingfors, Aug 1s.-The Bolshe-
vik battleship Andre-Pervosan, the
battle cruiser Petropavlovsk, a trans
port and a guardship are reported to
have been sunk during an engagement
with the British fleet in the Gulf of
Finland on Sunday.
The British are said to have lost
three motorboats and to have had
eight officers and three men killed.
The Andre-Pervosvan was reported
as probably sunk by a torpedo near
Kronstadt on June 19. At the same
time it was said the Petropavlovsk
had hoisted the white flag.
The Pervosvan was 454 feet
long, carried normally a crew of 933
men and was armed with four, 12-inch
guns, fourteen S-inch guns, twelve, Az
inch guns, and a heavy minor battery.
She was built in 1907.
The Petopavlovsk was $50 feet long
with a displacement of 23,370 tons.
She carried twelve 12-inch guns and
the usual batteries of smaller weapons.
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BANDIT FROM TOPEKA?
Mexican Outlaw Who Held Flyers
Once Lived Here.

Jesus Renteria, the Mexican bandit
leader who held the two army flyers,
may have organized his gang in To-
peka three or four years ago. Angus
tin Alba, city detective, stated today
that a Jesus Renteria, q gambler, was
in Topeka at that time.
He was restless and few knew
much about him." said Alba. II al
ways watched the fellow closely but
never could get ANYTHING from him.
He was a great gambler and always
won. No one could get anything out
of him about his past He worked a
little, travelled more and finally dis
appeared"
The dispatches state that Renteria
claimed at one time to have worked
on the railroads in Kansas.
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VII IN - - - 1--WE
Captain Escapes From Bandits
With Lieut.. Davis.
Had Paid $500 for Release of
Lieutenant Peterson.
READS LIKE "MOVIE" THRILLER
Officer Went With Money When
SignaIed by Flares.
Alone and Unarmed He Met
CaptOrs at Rendezvous.
AVIATORS LANDED IN MEXICO
MistOOk COnchOs River for the
Rio Grande.
Tried Once To Escape, but Were
Threatened With Death.
HOW He FOOLED The MEX

Maria, Tex, Aug. 19.-The ruse
by which Captain MatIack saved
$500 of the SIS, 900 demanded for
the release of the United States
flyers was contrived on the spur of
the moment after he had escorted
Lieutenant Peterson across the
border.
'T just decided there was no use
in paying those Mexicans that other
$500 after 1 had Davis, so told
him to jump on behind on my
horse. L spurTed him hard and
we made n wild dash for the bor-
der and made 1t. They called for
us to halt, but / said GO to h
and crossed
Lieutenant Peterson crossed to
the American side at 1915 O'Clock
this morning and Captain Matlack
brought back Lieutenant Davis
forty-five minutes later.
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opening speech to the senate foreign
relations committee Is printed in full ON
page 81
Washington, Aug. 19.-The
senate must accept the peace
treaty and the League of Ma
tions covenant as they stand, or
reject them utterly, President
Wilson told the senate foreign
relations committee at the White
House today.
In a conference unprecedented in
history in the open publicity given the
discussions and in the persons of the
cOnferees, the president told the sena-
tors that there could be neither
amendment nor reservation in the rati-
fication resolution IL the senate would
avoid sending the pact back both to
the allies and Germany for recon-
struction and reacceptanoe.
Would Interpret Article Y.
The president added. however. with
reference to article X;
Il do hope that We are az liberty,
contemporaneousiy with our accep-
tance of the treaty, to interpret our
moral obligations under that article"
In a prepared statement to the COM
Inlttee the president also 0eClareQ
there could be no reasonable obtec-
tions to interpretations accompanying
the act of ratification. providing they
do not form part OF the ratification
resolutions.
Must Stabilize the World.
The epochal conference between the
president and the committee members
was expected to last thruout the day
In addition to emphasizing the fact
that in his opinion either amendment
or reservation would throw the treaty
back into the turmoil of new negotia-
tions. the president urged on the COM
mittee the imperativeness of speedy
ratification. declaring that the Aus
trian. Hungarian and other treaties
still to be completed are delayed by
waiting disposition of the German
treaty. and that American prosperity
awaits the restoration of peace.
Most of the interpretations, the
president said. seemed TO him to sug-
gest the plain meaning OF the instru-
ment itself"
Explains Article Ten.
The much discussed Article ten, the
president told the senators. was not OF
doubtful Interpretation when read in
connection with the whole covenant.
The council. he said, could only "ad-
ra,rr
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OK. DEFENSE PACT
FrancO-American Treaty Con-
stitutiOnal, Committee Finds.
Finds Nothing Conflicting With
Congress War Making Power.

Washington, Aug. 19.-The pro-
posed Franco-American treaty by
which the United States would go to
the aid of France in the event of an
unprovoked attack by Germany is
constitutional, the senate Judiciary
subcommittee decided today.
The committee found nothing in
the proposal that conflicts with the
war making power of congress. Sena-
tor Walsh, Montana, was ordered to
make a favorable report to the full
committee. The vote was unanimous,
with Fall, New Mexico, absent