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Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued to the
following:
BENJAMIN W. Wilson. jr. and Evelyn L.
Blake. both of Richmond. Va.
Henry Cassell and Mildred Rucker,
Jimmie Graves and Maggie L. Parker.
John J. Cannon and Anna l.. Nagle.
:, John T. Kidwell, of this city and Mary A
Henneberger OF Silver Spring Md.
Leonard Williams and Ernestine Taylor
Kelroy 6. Watkins and Helen NJ, LIBBY
Carl c. Cottrelr and Marguerite T. Petit.
Thomas H. Haislip of this city and Beulah
Chester r. Sherman of Kingman. Ariz
and Ida NJ Campbell of this city,
Thomas F. Hearty and Margaret E. Getz
both Of Baltimore. Md.
) James v Hasson OF Aurora Hills, Va and
Bernard J Getz u and Grace M seabold
both OF Baltimore. Md
William r. Keller, and Jennie McKew,
both of Baltimore. Md.
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Reginald O. Rause and Lillian s. Bundy
both of Richmond va
Philip Morgan and Elizabeth Brown. botf
David O. Seek. jr... of Hyattsville. Md.
and Ann W. Taylor of Branchville, Md.
Roger A. Thomas of Baltimore. Nd, ant
David Gray and Viola Wilson.
., Clarence E. Washington and Tritty NJ
Taylor.
Oliver Shelton. Of this city and Verona
Blackstoe of Philadelphia. Pa.
Marion g. Scott of Pals Va.
william a. Schultz of Richmond Va. ant
Mary l.. o Neil of this city.
George A. Boehmer and Elizabeth NJ Ryan
Howard W. Young ' and Florence Digs.
II EdWard j. Stevens Stevens, Of C1ttage Hill D c.
Irving Goldberg and Helen. Suratt.
EnOch F.. Stewart and Thelma E. Davis.
- Joseph Allen Of Norfolk. Va. and Agnes
Watson b. High and Dorothy j. West
ling. both of Lebanon. Pa
Paul F. Fox and Martha l.. Young.
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Secretary of Agriculture, MIR. Jardine,
Will Spend Week End in His Home
In Manhattan, Kans.

/" HE Secretary of Agriculture,
Mr.. Jardine, is today in En-
poria, Kans., and will go TO
Il Manhattan to spend Sunday
in his home there. The Secre-
tary will be at Osawatomie, Kans.,
Labor Day and will probably start
East the end of next week.
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years a practicing attorney in Chi
cago. She is the mother Of four
children. all university graduates and
two of her sons practice law with
their father and mother.
From its ranks Of women Illinois
has also chosen a Circuit Judge, two
assistant attorneys general, an as.
sistant United States attorney and
two assistant States attorneys.
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Past Noble FafherS ASSOCIATION OF
the District Of Columbia will meet
Sunday, 3 pm, at Odd Fellows Hall,
1906 NJ street.
The District of Columbia branch of
the National Womans Party will
meet tomorrow, 8 pm, in the garden
Of the national headquarters, % First
street northeast. Mrs. Robert Walk
err of. Maryland will address the gath
ering and Mrs. r. L. Ransome will
be the guest Of honor. Mrs. Emile
Berliner, chairman, being out of town,
the vice chairman, Mrs. Andrew
Stewart, will preside. Members Of the
American University Club and Of the
National Woman's Party are invited.
The Wild Flower Preservation So
ciety will have Labor day trip tC
Upper Marlboro, leaving Eighth street
and Pennsylvania avenue tomorrow
at 2 PM DR.. Wherry, leader.
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Miss Schaeffer to Be
Bride of Mr.. Little Today.

A wedding Of interest to Washing
ton will take place this afternoon at 4
o'clock in the Northern Methodist
Church. at Hyattsville, Md, when
Miss Florence Schaeffer, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Schaeffer Of Belts
vile, will become the bride of Mr..
Francis c. Little, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Ernest Z. Little Of Hyattsville. The
Rev. Herman Mckay will officiate in
the presence Of the immediate families
and intimate friends.
The bride will wear a gown Of old
rose georgette crepe trimmed with
rosebuds and will carry Sweetheart
roses. She will be attended by her sis
ter, Miss Dorothy Schaeffer, who will
wear nile green georgette crepe. Mr..
Ernest w. Little will be best man for
his brother.
Immediately following the ceremony
Mr.. Little and his bride will leave for
Baltimore. from where they will sail
later in the afternoon for Jacksonville,
Fla. Upon their return they will
make their home in University Park
where the bridegroom has recently
completed a new home.
Col. and Mrs. H. c. Davis of Nor.
folk. arrived in Washington today, and
are at the Willard, where they plan to
make a short stay.
Mai Arthur Williams is at the
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Dulmage-McDOwell
Wedding Announced.

Neuu1IlS AHIlOunceu.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mcdowell an
nounce the marriage of their daugh-
ter, Elizabeth katherine. to Mr.. E.
Bradbury Dulmage of Mount Holly,
n. j., Wednesday, September l. In
Danville, Va.
Col. Charles Cyrus Coombs, past
grand master of Masons Of the Dis
trict, accompanied by Mrs. Coombs
and their son, Mr.. William Leslie
CoombS. are back from a fortnight $
motor "trip to Canada. They visited
Montreal. Quebec, Three Rivers and
Sherbrooke. and returned by way of
Lake Champaign. Lake George and
the hudson Valley, stopping in New
York and Philadelphia.
Col. and Mrs. Henry May have
with them for the month Of Septem-
her at Sunnmede, Southampton, their
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry S. Black.
Former Senator Gilbert NJ. Hitch
cock and his daughter, Miss Ruth
Hitchcock, who have been spending
some time at the Aspinwall Hotel In
the Berkshires. have left for the
Wianno Club. Cape Cod, where they
will be for several weeks.
Mrs. William l.. Marshall, widow OF
the late chief of engineers, L. ). A.,
returned Tuesday from Atlantic CITY,
where, With her granddaughter. little
Miss Betty Knapp, she had been Tor
several weeks.
Mrs. Knapp, wife of Lieut.. Comdr.
John Harrison Knapp, L. S. N, and
daughter of Mrs. Marshall. came to
Washington Tuesday from Bel Air,
Md, where, with the younger mem
bers of her family, she has been for
some time.
Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe Boiling enter
tanned at dinner at Wardman Park
Hotel last evening. when their guests
Included their daughter. Mrs. j. r.
Bovd: her sister-in-law. Mrs. Laura +.
Poyd. and the latter's brother-in-law
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.Oben Saturday Until 6 Pm.

Maj. Arthur Williams is at TIL
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tary will be at OSaWatomie, kanS.,
Labor Day and will probably start
East the end of next week.
Swiss Envoy and Mime. Peter
Return from Northern Trip.
The Minister of Switzerland and
Nine. Peter and their niece, Mile.
FRANCHISE Pfaeffii, returned to Wash
ington yesterday from a motor trip
of several weeks in the North.
The Minister of Poland, Mr.. Jan
CiechanOwski is at the RitZ-Carlton
Hotel in Philadelphia. where he went
to attend the celebration of Poland
day TO be held tomorrow at the SeSQui-
centennial. Tomorrow evening a din
ner will be given in honor of the
Minister by Polish residents of Phila-
delphia. The Minister and Nine.
Ciechanowska have been spending the
Summer at Manchester-by-the- and
the Minister made the trip from the
resort to Philadelphia by motor.
The Speaker Of the House of Rep
resentatives, Mr. Nicholas Longworth
who has been the guest of former
Gov. and Mrs. Il. Livingston Beck
man at Newport, left last evening for
New York, where he will remain d
short time before joining Mrs. Long
worth and their daughter Paulina in
Cincinnati.
The charge daffaires of Persia and
Nine. kazemi have returned to Wash
tngton after a ten-day stay In New
York and Canada.
The assistant naval attache of the
British embassy and the Honorable
Mrs. Knothe have gone TO New
~ -.
week end at the Wentworth Hotel.
They have been spending the Sum-
mer at Manchester.
The second secretary of the Polish
legation and Nine. Orlowska will re-
turn to Washington Monday. after
spending Il vacation at Breton
Woods, y. ii. Mrs. s. Il. Harris.
mother of Nine. Orlowska, spent
some time with her SON law and
daughter, and is now in New York.
Mrs. Mckenzie Moss. wife of the
Judge of the United States Court OF
Claims. accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. n. ID. Brewer. who has been
visiting her al Wardman Park Hotel,
left today by motor for Mrs Brewers
home in Bowling Green, Ky. Judge
Moss, who has been spending some
time at Onawa Lake, Me-, is expected
TO return to the city the first of the
week.
The Assistant Attorney General and
Mrs. O. r. Luhring will leave tomor-
row 10 visit Mrs. Luhring's brother,
Mr.. Staney Evans, on his ranch in
Washington State. They will later at
tend house party given by Mr.. c. B.
Bradley in San Francisco and will
visit in Los Angeles before returning
10 Washington in October
Frau Won Lewinski. wife of the Ger
man consul general in New York.
sailed today aboard the Columbus for
Germany. and was accompanied by
Mrs. Dallett Wilson. Frau Won
Lewinski will visit in Berlin and
Paris and will sail for this country
aboard the Columbus October 10.
The attache of the Rumanian 1ega-
ton. Mr.. d. DimancescO, has returned
to this country after spending three
months in his home in Rumania, and
IS at the Ambassador in New York
for a few days before coming to
Washington.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph 4. Lafferty
and their two sons of Kansas City
Mo, have taken an apartment at
Wardman Park Hotel
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Clears away itching
rash in two days
Uses Resinol now for all
kinds of skin ills

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 4:-"On July
20, 1917, just before l was called to
service in France, l was advised By
my druggist to use Resinol ONT
rnent for a rash which l had on my
arm. 1t relieved the itching and
the rash was gone in two days.
Later | cured two friends Of mine
who were suffering from some
kind of skin trouble. We all agreed
that it was 100Go stuff for anything
like a breaking out.
While in France had bunch of
boils that nothing seemed to cure
until l had the doctor fix the little
place up latter a treatment with a
knife) with Resinol. Needless to
say, ] soon lost all my boils and
from that time on / became the
outfits boil and pimple doctor.
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Subscription Dinner
At WOmcn's City Club.

SuDSCIIpt1Uu lyHEUCE
At WOmcn's City Club.
The business and professional wom-
ems section Of the Women's City Club,
% Jackson place, will give it's monthly
subscription dinner Wednesday at $50
O'Clock. The guest Of honor and
speaker will be Col. James Franklin
Bell, Engineer Commissioner of the
District Of Columbia, who will have
for his subject, washington Of the
Future" Miss Fay Bentley will pre-
side.
Miss Alyce L. Kennedy and Miss
Arminta &. Kennedy of Lynn, Mass,
are spending a few weeks vacation in
the Capital with their sister, Mrs.
f. L. Linn, and also with Mrs. p. E.
Huffman. They expect to return by
boat to Boston the latter part Of Sep
TENDER.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Kicker are
spending some time at Natural Bridge,
Va, and are at the Natural Bridge
Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph 7. Lafferty
and their two sons of Kansas City.
Mo, have taken an apartment at
Wardman Park Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond =. Johnson
of Kalorama road have as their house
guest Miss Emily Johnson of Pax
ton, Ill.
Mr., Samuel p. Floore, who has been
in South America for several months
connected with the Tacna-Arica Com
mission, is again in his home at 1902
Hobart street.
Mr., William Lawler of Ais Shepherd
road, Brightwood, is spending the
week end and Labor day at the Tray
more, Atlantic City.
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and sister. Dr. Juan J. DiaZ and Seno
ra de Diaz of Panama.
Mrs. Richard c. Dean and her sis
ter, Mrs. William III. Woodward, are
at Osterville, Mass. where they went
by motor after visiting Stockbridge
and other Summer resorts In the New
England mountains.
Mrs. Dean is president of the Gen.
tlewomen's League, organized and
maintained to aid gentlewomen who
must have an income from their
handiwork with needle. paint brush
or their culinary ability.
Miss Frances Powell Hill was hos.
tess at a bridge party last night in
her apartment at 1903 Connecticut
avenue for her niece Miss Emma
SOuthgate Beale Of Wilmington, Del.
The guests included Miss Mary Hoge
Miss Betty Hoge, Mr. William S.
Hoge, Sd; Mr.. John Abraham. Mr..
John Duvall, Mr.. Robert Burton and
Mr. Joseph Berrall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew J. Miller
entertained at dinner last evening at
Fassifern Farm, Hot Springs, in honor
of Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Henry A. G..
Derubio, who have arrived at the
resort for a twomonth stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Hayes of Boston
are passing few days at the Willard.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. c. Fisher and
their son have closed their George
town home and started on a three
week motor trip. They will spend a
week in Atlantic City and then drive
through the Berk shires.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Alcock
of Chicago have arrived in Washing
ton and are at the Willard, where
they will remain until next week.
Mr.. Coleman Jennings has returned
from a months visit to California.
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Hotel Aston, in New York, before &c
ing to West Point.

Hotel Astor, in New York, before 60
ing to West Point.
Lieut. Earle HI. Tonkin of the Army
Air Corps, has returned to his apart
ment at Wardman Park Hotel, after a
trip to Santa Monica. He made the
return voyage in the new Douglas air.
plane built especially for Maj. Gen.
Mason NJ. Patrick, chief Of the Air
Corps, and was accompanied by Lieut..
Philip Barnes.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. H. Moore Of Chi
cago are at the Willard for short
stay. They arrived there today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Wood have re.
turned to their apartment at Ward
man Park Hotel after a several weeks
sojourn at Glacier National Park.
Mrs. Charles r. Shepard, who is
spending vacation in the Berkshires.
was the honor guest at luncheon
yesterday Of Mrs. J. Frederick
Schenck.
Mrs. George w. Evans Of 91S Nine.
tenth street, has returned from visit
in Waynesvi!le, n. c.
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never went near the girl but followed the
Gowk to old Soames' house and then did
an act of fool play. Got back to find
him pacing the roonl-strong, silent man
and all that-but couldn't get word out
of him. But it was written all over him
that Soames had told him the name of
the person who'd bought Monks Yielding.
Lord, it was bright idea of mine. telling
Comstock was the new owner and
leaving it at thatw
at has certainly been most useful"
Cor ten years now Mr. Brummelton's
brightest ideas had automatically become
Rertha's; but he bore no resentment.)
"It's been the cream of the whole lay
out. He tore round to see the girl again
directly after breakfast this morning and
tore back-wasn't gone half an hour.
Broke it to me with averted face that
Drew had bought Monks Yielding and
wasn't coming to dinner We mingled
our tears, l. can tell you; but got ques-
ton or two in. He let out there's a deed
hanging to the purchase-Soames told
him that-and he told me he has guessed
it's deed of gift handing the place over
to someone else. But he don't know the
truth; you can see that with half an eve.
He'd be blushing all over his silly face if
he did"
Exactly! That is the other great adj
vantage of this miraculous doCumentw
Bertha looked at Mr.. Brummelton. and he
cXpOundcd further. "ComstoCk. as we
know, must suspect me; and Yielding has
now discovered that the other conspirator
the new Owners, on paper anyway,
Miss Drew. Therefore it follows as night
the day that Yielding must believe Miss
Drew's deed of gift to be one making
Monks Yielding over to me. Could any
thing be happier"
Bertha was noddng thoughtfully.
"He didn't tell me he suspected it was
you" she said after pause. "He said,
Some friend or other, all very beastly
and disturbing and don't worry your dar-
ling little head about it'-that's the kind
of tripe got for hours on end. Oh, pshaw,
am sick of him! Then he tore out again
to bail Comstock out and take him to a
solicitor, and | came round here to spend
the day with my old nurse, who"
A dull buzz, three times repeated, inter-
rupted her. In the floor under the arm
chair a muffed alarm bell was vibrating.
Someone to see the house." said Mr..
Brummelton without concern. But Ber-
tina Larogni swore.
"We've got nearly an hours work yet.
The first line for you to work out is how
stand with ComstOck, in case run up
against him before the deals through, and
there's a lot more haven't got absolutely
clear"
Mr.. Brummelton was throwing over the
armchair and the stove a piece of dirty
sacking. His movements were lcisurely.
This incursiOn will doubtless only oc-
cupy few minutes" he soothed her, land
| have already been working on Com
stock"
But I've got to have another shot at
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the diamonds. After all, they were uncut!
There was minimum of risk. ! was
sorry to read that he had been so-dif-
fcult"
"Oh, Zedh. Hes" Bertha Lar
ogni's opinion of the "fence" was in such
crashing contrast to the witchery of her
smile that Mr. Brummelton caught his
breath in rapture. "Stil, he paid it over
on the nail. And if the girl agrees to-
day, Soames can tie the red tape to-mor-
row, and | can stick my farewell note
into the Gowk's shaving mirror and he in
Monks Yielding for good by evening"
"There is another aspect of this deed
of-Sift incident" meditated Mr.. Brum-
melton further. yielding and Comstock
are doubtless inclined to suspect the lady
who called herself the new owner"
(Which they are" cut in Bertha She
laid hand on the open diary and sum-
married her latest entry. yesterday
after Petcr'd gone round to break her
heart, he went on to MandersOn's; Com
stock turned up there and did his song
and dance. | couldn't get any details
afterwards because the devil of this fairy
baby, gOo-goo eyes business is that you
daren't talk business all of a sudden; and
when the Gowk came back from Mander-
sons he wouldn't say more than that Com
stock was in the sOup-he called it mud;
| forget why. He said nothing at all
about the Drew girl, then, and it wasn't
safe to press it."
"You think she told him nothing about
her purchase"
Sure of it. He'd have told me if she
had, whatever else he didn't say. And it
was in my mind to dash to her place after
dinner and clnch the deal, but ! couldn't
see any safe way of knowing that my
dear Petie-boy's Miss Drew had bought
Monks Yielding before my Petie-boy knew
it himself"
Tf | may remind you, you cannot he
too careful in your use of information
supplied by Lenpile. The lady will almost
certainly have inherited that ancient
prejudice against bribing subordinates."
Brummelton's mouth twisted.
"That's Just your way of putting it,
Professor; but ! know what you mean.
I'll take care. took care last night
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A Woman's Battle Against Great
Odds for the Heart and Honor
of the Man She Loves
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.

A NASTAs1A t"STACEY'O DREW awaits
"A Peter Yielding, who is about to return
from Africa, where he had gone 10 recoup his
fortune Both had been friends since child
hood. and Stacey. believing that woman
always knows when she is loved. thinks he is
returning Ia marry her. But Peter returns
with Roberta cRobin') Larne. whom he met
and married in Africa.
Stacey is stunned the fOndest of her
dreams is crushed She had secretly bought
an option on Monks Yielding, Peters home
beloved to both of them When she learned
that Peter was about to return she had pur-
chased the place intending it gift to
Peter as from the bride to the groom for
their home after marriage. Now she is faced
with the humiliation of letting him know
this.
Robin" Peters wife. is really the leader
Of gang of crooks. A man named Brum-
melton. who for a short time occupied Monks
Yielding a tenant, had discovered that the
estate contained a rich deposit of manganese
ore. BrummeltOn. as Robins lieutenant. tries
to buy the place but fails. Robin then mar
ries Peter as last resort to get Monks
Yielding.
Charles Comstock, war buddy of Peters,
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is occupying Monks Yielding when he is robbed
of a large quantity of diamonds belonging 10
the firm for which he is working. ComStocE
tells Peter that he suspects Brummelton ana
woman who visited Monks saying she was
the new owner Of the place.
In her frantic effort to hide from Peter
that she loved him and that she had intended
to give him Monks Yielding as a gift, Stacey
has mad" several mistakes which lead Peter
to believe that it is she who is in league with
BrummrltOn. II" accuses her of this. Stacey is
almost Frustrated by the injustice of his lack
of faith in her but thinks only of keeping
from him the truth of her having made Monks
Yielding over to him a wedding gift.
COmstOCk is accused by his employers OF
stealing the diamonds. He is aware that some
one is plotting against him and Peter to
obtain possession of Monks Yielding to ex-
plot the ore which he also in the meantime
has discovered, and tells Peter.
Robin tries to get Stacey to sell her Monks
Yielding when they meet in the Office of
Soames. lawyer for both Peter and Stacey.
Stacey is not aware that Robin is Peters
wife and refuses to sell. Robin then repairs
to the rendezvous of the gang to confer with
Brummelton on means of forcing Stacey to
sell and to discuss the sale of the diamonds
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CHAPTER XVI.

DERTHA LAROGNI, after shutting the
r door in the wall silently behind
- her, began to edge back to the open
space by the window While she moved
she listened intcntly In spite of her
prcmonition of danger she was able to
feel a certain satisfaction in Block-hc
was playing his part very creditably
"USeter be two rooms, but it was thrown
into one by the last tenant and used as
iimnashum. The owner is using it tenn
auction lots. I'm told. They'd be cleared
away, of course, if YOU was to find the
place suited you"
But keep telling you came in Len
piles nervous tenor, that I'm inspecting
the house on behalf of a client"
That's right" said Block indifferently.
"Well, it's nice house, though of course,
the neighbOrhood isn't what it uSetcr be,
and. in my opinion. the owner ought to
take that into consideration and not stick
out for a fancy price. like he does"
Bertha noticed that Lenpile did not ask
the price.
Seventeen thousand pounds he wants"
went on Block with the same careful in
difference, land won't take a penny less.
I've lost count of the parties that have
come looking at this house and as good as
told me was lying when | mentioned sew
entCcn thousand. One of en- went so far
as to, say it was case for mental spc-
cial. Wot say?"
Lenpile repeated his request.
Il should like to measure this room,
please"
Block was obviously taken aback.
Measure it" he echoed. you couldn't
hardly measure it as it is now, could you?
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