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t PINE STUMPS WORTH MONEY TOWN LIVES WITHIN ITSELF Can President Veto WASHINGTON. Snit to compel Secretary of State Balnbrldge Od by to promulgate Immediately the Joint resolution of congress declaring the state of war with Germany at nn md lias been filed in the district Su preme court In "Washington by Harry 1 S. Meeartney, Chicago lawyer. The suit was based on the ground that the president has no veto power over n Joint resolution of congress. Kecentlv Macartney mailed a print ed pamphlet to the members of the executive committee of the American liar association suggesting that the committee Tender to the country at largo its service In making up a "case Mated" for the Justices of the Su preme court, asking an advisory opin New Wage Campaign WORKING on ti e principle that no one can do eflicient work unless ho receives a Jiving wage, officials 'of the National Federation of Federal Km ployees 1ms opened a natloir-wide drive for" a reclassification of the en tire civil servier' and a minimum wage of n day. To bring concerted pressure upon congress this fall, , an attempt, will be made to organize ev ery federal employee -und Increase the membership to KKMHK). This action follows a meeting here of the executive 'council, at which plans wen made for a campaign , to secure better employment; conditions for all federal government employee. Hiirles r. Nag. custodian of the federal 'building in Chicago and vice president of the federation, has been placed in 1 arge of organizing the central west. fn his territory there are already local unions of federal employees affiliated with the national federation. "What wo want." said Mr. NagI, "is n square deal. We have not had It. .More than one-half of the men and wrnucn I employ recelvo'loss than a day. They have to do outside work to make a living. "I want u -rc-classi Mention in the whole civil service with a minimum high- enough that an employee can Both Parties Have Endorsed Good Roads -3 RK;A1U)IJ:SS of which party wins in the presidential election this fail, American motorists are congrat ulating Themselves that highway de velopment will U continued. In their platform both the Republican and I democratic parties Luve placed them selves flatly on record as favoring fed eral appropriation to assist in good roads work. The Itefnihlicau pirty' good oreads plank said : "V favor liberal appropriations in cMper:itioQ with the states for the construction f the highways, which will bring nNmt a redaction in trans ortation cost, better marketing of farm product, improvement in rural postal delivery, as. well as meet liif needs of military defense. Heroic Western Miners Get Gold Medals Till! Joseph A. Holmes Safety asso ciation, tre hero commission for the mining industry, has announced the awards of gold medals to miners for special deeds of bravery in the having of human life during the last three years in the United States. It Is expected that the formal award of the medals will be made by Dr. Fred rick C. Oottrell. director o$ rfie bu-re.-ui of mines and president of the as sociation, during the -International first aid and mine rescue contest at Denver. Colo.. September 0. 10 and 11, at which miners will be present from nil parts of the country. Tie men who will be awarded gold hero medals are: John ' IV ".rdman of Kutte, Mont., safety engineer forAnaconda Copper compar.y, who -lone-handed saved th,ee miners from death by poisonous gas in the West Colusa mine. Daniel Kionvltch of Kiwabik, Minn., nn employee of the Kalkan Mining company. A' fire broke out in the Kel jrrr.de mine. Four times Kionvltch drove his? electric locomotive through mo-e und gases, bringing out help- Joint Resolution? ion on the three following questions: "Was not the peace resolution adopted by congress In May R vnlid exercise of over and would not its acceptance by Germany legally con summate peace? "Have not the pple. at large, In their sovereign caiacity, the right t consummate ieace by a vote upor such issue? "Has congress legal power to bind the nation to accept the League of Nations or can only The electorate of the people 'egally adopt the same?' He announced lie Immediately would institute mandamus proceed ings and yield direction of the Issue to the higher irofessional authority of the bar association should It de sire. He hopcF to get action on his pro posals In time to have congress called into a short session in September for the purpose of issuing the call to the people to vote upon the issue at tlw coming November election, providing the opinion of the justices should lie against the validity of the congres sional 'peace resolution, yet in favor of the iKwor of the people to control the matter. of Federal Workers have his dinner pall full. Wo want to get the benefits of the retirement act for all employees, so that they will have a little to live on when they can work no more. As a result of the efforts of the na tional federation the Republican and democratic parties have endorsed pro visions to remedy inequalities and in justices in the civil service pay scale. "Wo want to see the Nolan min imum wge bill pass congress. We want to see the men rated according to skill, training and responsibility, on a merit system administered' by a cen tral agency on which employees have representation.' The, National Federation of Federal Employees is one of Ave trade unions composed exclusively of government employees. Its membership comprises UK! locals. The Democratic party was just as specific in the plank adopted at the San Francisco convention. The plank said in part: "Improved roads are of vital impor tance not only to commerce and indus try, but aiso to agriculture and rural life. We favor a continuance of the present federal aid plan under exist ing federal and state agencies, amend ed so. as to include as one of the ele ments in determining the ratio in which Uthe several states shall be en titled to share in the fund the area of any public lands therein." This definite action of both parties, the good roads enthusiasts declare, proves conclusively that motor trans portation :has been recognized as a definite factor in the nation's economic fabric and that everything will be done to utilize its value to'the utmost. Good roads construction is favored, moreover, by both the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees. Kach is an ardent good roads booster and believes that highway develop ment is necessary for the economic welfare of the country. So here is one thing on which both parties agree. less men who finally fully recovered. James Collius and James Dilimirk of Mullen. Ida., employees of tle Gold Hunter Mining and Smelter company. While endeavoring to reach two en tombed men In the mine, they them selves were caught by a cave In and were imprisoned for 15 hours. Michael Conroy, Peter Sheridan and James D. Moore.-miners for the North Kutte Mining company, at Kutte Mont., sacrificed their lives In trying to save others. The nearest living relative of each will receive the gold medals and the diplomas. These diplomas- recite In full the details of tlw saerißc. Those Left in Cut-Over Lands Are in Demand Yield Many Valuable Products. Increased demand for naval stores and a slight falling off in the supply have together called attention to the value of the stumps left in the fields in cut-over lands of the south. A Washington letter of July 0 told of the result of Investigation by Clement S. Fcker, vi o president of the south ern settlement and development or ganisation, in the South- Atlantic states, from which he learned that the stump left in the fields do not die with, the cutting down of the tree, but, on the contrary, continue to draw from the soil sap rich with the elements of naval stores. From these old stumps may be dis tilled some twenty or twenty-five dif ferent by-products. Including rosin, turpentine, pine and other oils, acetnt, tar, pitch, alcohol and others. Ky one process rosin and paper pulp may be procured. Other processes leave a residue of valuable charcoal- It seems that the destruction by fire of these stumps In the c.' earing up of the land Is uneconomical. They ran be sold for enough to pay for the clearing and leave ti surplus, so that we may yet see manufacturers of naval stores bar gaining with the owners of cut-over land for the stumps upon it and ex tracting them themselves. GIVE COLOR TO LANDSCAPE Though the Daisies Grow Like Weeds, They Have a Beauty Too Lit tle Appreciated. They lift 'their heads to heaven, Peeking to mingle with the stars mil lions of them, scattered in wild profu sion over meadow and pasture land. Men walk-on them, tramp them down but they rise again, serene, confident, marching the 'light which gives them life. Daisies'! Our fields are full of them. From afar their white heads give color to the landscape. Hieir yellow cen tered blossoms, blown by the wind, wave obeisance to the day and, by their graceful beckoning, invite us to tjike them Jiome. Daisies! Our empty vases call for them; our umbrella stands, our jardi nieres, vearn for their beautiful blooms. And they are so near to us, so easy to get, that it seems a pity to waste their beauty in an unfrequented field. f.et them for the house, for the office, to wear. Kven though like weeds they grow, Uul's love shines from their faces and blesses the corner they fill. Toledo I Made. Huns Polluted Interned Ships. The condition of the interned ships, after their luTinan custodians had left, was something indescribable ; they ro lled id great discredit upon Cerman seamanship, for it would have been impossible for any people which rfally loved, ships -to permit them to deterio rate as had these vessels and to become such cesspools of .filth, says Rear- Admiral William S. Sims in the World's Work for July. For three years the Germans had evidently made no attempt to clean them ; the sanitary conditions wert so bad that our workmen could not sleep on hoard, hut had to have sleeping quarters near the docks; they spent weeks scrubbing, scraping and disin fecting, in a finally successful effort to make the ships suitable habitations for human beincA Has Never Seen His Country. The only United States marine in the world who has never seen the United States is on -duty at the American le gation in Peking, China, lie is Private C. W. vF. Childress, who was born of American parents in China. When he became of age a few weeks ago he de cided to join t4ie marines and enlisted at the legation. Childress is a tall, good-looking young man who can speak the Chinese language like a native. His services as an interpreter are especially valu able to the marines. Through associ ation with his parents and other Amer ican residents of China he Is thorough ly familiar with the traditions and cus toms of the United States. He is look ing forward to the day when he will see the country whose ilag he serves. White Mule. Dixon II. Hynum, assistant city at torney, comes forward with an expla nation as to how "white mule" got its name. Mr. Pyniim, who did govern ment legal work in the southwest, says that the term come Into use in con nection with the efforts of the govern ment officials to stop the traffic of liquor among the Indians. . Whenever an Indian was caught with liquor, he invariably told the same story as to how he, got it. Kvery Indian. .t seamed, got his liquor from "a one-eyed negro on a white mule riding west. Indianapolis Star. Women Now Eligible to V. C. A royal warrant consolidating and extending provisional royal warrants regarding the Victoria Cross was pub lished recently in the London (Jazette. The principal feature is that women art now made eligible for decoration, it being ordained that matrons, sis ters, nurses and the staff of the nurs- Ing services ami other services per taining to hospitals and nursing, and civilians of either sex serving regu larly or temporarily under the orders, direction or supervision of any of the armed forces of the crown, shall be eligible to the cross. 1 C! jorrows of a "Poor Little Rich Boy" K AURORA, 111. . Daniel Volintine, Aurora's "poor little rich boy," who was left 51,000,000 when he was 14 and fount himself an unwilling husband at IS, is at last free to marry the sweetheart of his school days, Miss Mildred Wessner. Judge Adam A. Cliffe in the Kane county circuit court at Geneva granted his plea for an annulment of his mar riage to Nora Udstad Volintine. The latter is .said to have withdrawn her opposition following a settlement of approximately $10,000. Volintine, who Is now 23 years old, told Judge Cliffe he was attending the Northwestern Military academy at Lake Geneva, Wis., when, on Oct. 27, 1015, J. Iiruce Anteil, .now assistant state's attorney of Kane county, and Dr. Eugene Pritchard, the Volintine family physician, appeared at the school and told him he would have to marry Miss Udstad.. A warrant had been taken out for his arrest, he said they told him. He said he was brought to Chicago "One of the Ridgelys of Springfield" SPRINGFIELD, 111. It will be many a day before the old-timers of this city stop talking over "the Ridgely case." A strange story of hidden identity was told in the court of Judge Denis E. Sullivan in Chicago when the judge entered a decree which made it pos sible for Robert Edwards to become Robert Edwards Ridgely and legally assume his place as "one of the Ridgelys of Springfield" a leading family in ;he Illinois capital. Attorney David R. Woodworth, rep resenting the young man, told the story. "Young Ridgely Is a son of Edward R. Ridgely, a national bank exami ner, who died a few years ago," the attorney said: "lie is also a nephew of the late William P.arrett Ridgely, comptroller, of the currency in 100S, and a nephew -of Mrs. William A. Vincent, widow of the late1 judge." Attached to the petition for a change of the name was a certified copy of a marriage license issued in Little Rock, Ark., in October, 1SS3, to IM ward Ridgely ami Miss Fannie Clark. According to the young man's petition, he is a son ,of that union, having been born in St. Louis. "After the civil marriage in Ar kansas," said Attorney Woodworth, After the Fashion CHICAGO. The domestic schedule a la Fannie Hurst calls for hus band and wife to breakfast together, twice a week. Every Sunday has been the rule with Mrs. Irene Hatfield ever since the monotony of home drove her into the whirl of commerce. Now her 2-year-old daughter has been allotted by her physician a very short time to live, and Irene's hus band, U. C. Hatfield, who manages a printing establishment at 0157 Went worth avenue, cannot find her. About a month ago his wife announced she wanted to work. He had taught her how to operate a typewriter. "She started out one Thursday and found herself a job and a fur- Who Got the Drop NEW York. A . bullet which shat tered several diamonds in a $100, .H) diamond necklace is causing a controversy between Mrs. Ournee Munn, daughter of Rodman Wana maker, and the American Express company. Mr. Munn purchased the necklace od sent It to his wife in Radnor, Pa., but before she received it a bullet had been fird into the package caus ing several thousand dollars' damage. Mr. Munn claimed damages from the express company, butMhe latter, set ting forth that a receipt from the Munn housekeeper shows the package was delivered in good order, has re fused to accept responsibility. Roth sides have called in experts to decide whether the shot might have been fired into ttje package before or after the outer wrappings had been removed. The company's theory Is that somebody, after removing the wrapping, tired at the box, fearing It mtfiht be a bomb. The wrapping was ISN'T in an automobile, ami that Miss Ud stad joined the party here. They then drove to Crown Point, Ind., where, he says, Amell told him be would have to swear he was 21 years old In obtaining a license. The mar riage was performed and young Volin tine went back to school. Four months later a baby girl was born to Mrs. Nora Volintine. Young Volintine denied parentage and pro duced Gustave Anderson of Grand Rapids, Mich., who admitted he was the child's father. Mrs. Volintine then obtained alimony of $S0 a month. When America entered tlfe war young Volintine went Into the army and was studying aviation when the armistice was signed. During his ab sence, Mrs. Amnion Wessner and her daughter, Mildred, occupied his home. In the meantime the court had re duced Mrs. Volintines alimony from $80 to $00 a month. She tiled suit for $."30,000 damages against Miss Wessner and the latter was ordered to come into court and explain who purchased automobiles, diamonds and line clothes for her. "Mildred and I have been sweet hearts for years," Volintine said. "Now I hope we will be married be for long.' "Our engagement never has been broken,' said Miss Wessner, who is now 22. "We were engaged long be fore Dan was forced Into this elope ment with this other girl. We became engaged Dec. 23 1914." "there was a fashionable church wed ding in Springfield, after the birth of the boy Hubert. "With his birth his parents strange ly hid his existence from friends of the family in Springfield. The boy himself, through 1 the years of his childhood and education, was told by his father that he was the son of a very dear friend of the father's, named Edwards. "It was not until Robert's pres ence was necessary in a contest over the will of his grandfather, Charles Ridgely, that the son learned his real identity. Then his father and Judge Vincent produced him in court as one of the heirs of the elder Ridgely's sr,00O,000 estate." Eventually, the attorney said, Rob ert will receive a portion of the es täte. . Set by Fannie Hurst ntshed room" said Hatfield. "She would not tell me, where they were. If I ever wanted to reach her, she said, I need only address a letter 'General Delivery, Chicago.' "There was no trouble between us. Irene used to come home everv Sun- day. The last Sunday she was mel ancholy cried all day long. She'd had spells of that kind ever since our fu$t oaoy died." When the baby became sick, Hat field hurried it to the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Emma Anderson of 40GI North Mobile avenue. Then he began to search for his wife. A general delivery letter was dis patched. No reply. Hatfield procured classified newspaper sections of the date when his wife left home. He checked up over 200 addresses appear ing in the "furnished rooms" column, trudging from place to place In a tireless, fruitless pilgrimage. Not even a trace of his "lost" Irene. Hatfield Is nearly frantic, for the doctors tell him that before long little Shirley will be toddling on the long, long journey, unblessed by a mother good-by kiss. on These Diamonds? replaced when it was discovered what the box contained, they allege, and some one poktnl his finger through the paper to make It appear that the shot had been fired while the package was Intact. Anyway, the Wanamakers are bomb shy. A bomb was delivered at the Wanamaker home at Tuxedo In an Innocent-looking wrapping. Albert Gus tave Kurth, a former butler In th home, who had been discharged, wai arrested and sent to prison Selbo, on th Island of Santo Domingo, Entirely Without Accommodation for Travelers. The town of Selbo, on the Island of Santo Domingo, notorious for Its ban dit tribes, is one of the few communi ties on the island that has no hotel ac cmmodat!ons, the unhefriendil stranger finding nothing but miserable thatched huts with nests on three leg for beds, and a ragged old negro crone for a servant. Selbo is the nmst out-of-the-way, astonlshed-at-strangers, un- ncqua!nted-wlih-tho-wor'd town of any size that can be found in the West In dies. Though a large detachment of United States marines camp at Its bandit-threatened floor,, the people show unbounded surprise to see Amer ican civilians, flrotips of almost fop pishly dressed men lounge in the streets, yet the town Itself Is little short of filthy. A curious old church, a part of It built 400 j ears ago, on the top of which is the marine wireless station. Is the only building of Importance. From the top of this church Sei bo is seen to be surrounded by low hills, everywhere wooded, without a hut out side its compact mass, described by Harry A. Fraack in the Century Mag azine, as having "its skirts drawn up like those of a norvmw old maid in constant dread of mire." The town also has the proverbial garrison house that seems like a fort of the medieval ages. BEYOND THE POWER OF MAN Vainly Does He Attempt to Still a Woman's Tongue or Stop Her Garrulous Fingers. A woman's talent amounting al most to a genius for letting her hus band know that he is not much of a fellow in her estimation, would seem to be seriously impaired when she hap pens to he a deaf mute. Iut. aeeotd- ing to the testimony submitted in a divorce ease tried In eourt recently, feminine ingenuitv refuses to admit any handicap in this oldest of all games. She annoyed him in the sign language. The husband, being merely a m:in, did not adopt the simple expedient of tying her hands together when ho wanted a littlesoul quiet. He failed to have recourse to the obvious expe dient of shutting his eves when she lingered to him that she thought he was the biggest donkey in er at ion. Thus he proved once. more that man trul is a creature of a lower order. He can build ships and fighf wars, till the soil and manage big industries, but when it comes to stopping a woman's tomrue or her garrulous lingers, he is not there'! lie! roit News. Up-to-Date Lone Jack. Confining himsvlf to an actual Ut of community calamities. Mayor King of Lone .lack. Mo., reasons convincingly that the blowing up of the local elec tric light plant, the quitting of his job by the jitney bus driver, the departure from the midst of them of the sole barber and the robbery of the local bank all in a short spate of time indicate the secret arrival of a jinx in town and a high-pressure distribution of his malign influence. Hut it is to be observed that 2" per cent of Lone Tack's ills Is due to preventable acci dent and 2,1 per cent to crime of un usual magnitude and daring, while 50 per cent is due to labor troubles. Life within Lone .Tack is only typical of the larger life outside of Lone Jack. It is a cross section of a status pre vailing in the entire country; indeed, throughout the world. Lone .Tack is just up to date. St. Louis Host-Dispatch. Rudyard Kipling's Autograph. They say that a bank check bearing the Signatur of Rudyard Kipling fetches a bigger price for its autograph than for the amount of money named in the check. Hrobably much depends on the size of the check. A distin guished poet of Hosten once sent a poetic contribution to a well-known periodical. It was promptly accepted and published and in due course he re ceived a check for $. for It. Instead of cashing the check he had It mounted. framed and hung up In his library for the edification and amusement of his friends. Possibly Mr. Kipling may have had similar experience to verify the current item aboht the autographic and cost .value of checks sent to him. Roston fllobe. Overeducated. "It was too much education that landed me here, mum,' said the bur glar to the visitor at the penitentiary. 'I had an assistant who was born In Hoston. One night "we had a good second-story job. but he queered the whole thing at the last minute." "How do you mean?" asked the vis itor. "When 1 told him to climb up the down spout, to get the swag out of the second -tory HI said: I refuse to do anything so paradoxical;' and just then the eopju-r woke up and collared ws." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Acidity of the Stomach. The commonly received belief that too acid gastric juice is the cause of ulcer of the stomach has been abso lutely disproved. Dr. Frank Smithies In his address as chairman of the sec tion on gastroenterology, American Medical association, summed up this proof. Such ulcers have been found when the gastric Juice was either ab sent or lacking in acidity, others have healed in the face of great hvperacid-