The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1917, Page 4

BASIL M. MANLY ! \ GTON, Sept. 1—Can/office, and a 4 deadlocked on the bat-| whose tnformation 3 of Europ continue to} can be relied on, ht indefinitely? Is it true, a8! “pring their statements toeth Stated, that both the central! or, analyze them, and you will ‘And the allies have more boys! have more exact information than to military age every year you can secure from any other annual losses, and can! ayatiable source.” * carry on this war, if 20 or 50 years, with | svene te Forte tng armice? Here, then, are the facts as | ‘euch enormous forces ag| have gleaned them Yrom these mil-| the trenches on the Western | tary authorities, They are not i, Will the addition of 500,000,|™Y views, but simply my analysis & million, American troops | thelr conclusions. any appreciable effect? | Netther group ts in the slightest | ‘order to get the correct an-| danger of collapse as a result of to these questions, | went | permanent military losses in the to War department officials.|form of killed, prisoners and in ay know, because thoy have been|capacttated. Out of tho wounded act facts by our allies; | and sick now in hospitals, and the are under the strictest or. Young boys who can be called up to tell. leach year, they can fill In the gaps. Writers Tell Story But there ts a whtle difference @ can’t talk,” they told mo,| between the situation of the two can tell you where to get groups th this respect. want. In the military! At the present rate of casualtios of the different countries|the Germanic powers can matntain find articles by military au-/ their armies at about their present who discuss these ques-|etrength for an indefinite period: | accurately as we could if} BUT THEY CANNOT INCREASE} THEIR SIZB WITHOUT CRIPP.! fe Col. Feyler, of the! LING THEIR INDUSTRIES AND! army, one of the world's CHECKING TH military authorities; Hil number of others, and judgment i re AND MUNITIONS of England, who has | TRENCHES. remarkable access to TO THE FLOW OF FOOD | 4nce sistance of the United States can annually increase thelr armies’ by half a million men without en croaching on: thelr present labor forces. The figures on which these state the ments rest are presented tn form of a “Manpower Balance Sheet.” So much for the numerical man power, How about their actual fighting power? Both groups of nations are losing their fighting men at such a rapid rate and are so largely replacing them with men weakened by wounds, by shell-shock and dit tl by next spring their actual fight: Ing power for defense or attack will be only a fraction of what It has been. Germany, Austria and France have already used up t reserves of fresh troops and have only the young boys who will be called up, but they are not numerous enough even to replace the permanent i s, much se the rtial disabilities which unfit a man for first line work, A glance at the “Manpower Bal shows why this must be tru You will » for example, that while Germany can replace Great Britain, France and Italy,/over a tmiliion men next year, 480, THE SEATTLE S 130T Seventh Ave, Near Union St. OF SCHIV’S NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSrArEns|/ ‘Trlearaph Newe Service of the United Mrese Assectation At Seattle, Wash. Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter. Gut of city, 35c per month up to @ mom; 6 moa. $1.90; year $3.50 By carrier, city, 300 a month. Dally by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Mate 600, Prive euchanar conwecting al! departments, 2 Noble Words of anz Sigel : these days of subtle influences against this govern- and its war, when many German-Americans have dis-) made their fortunes here, people often wonder what d Germans of 1848 would say were the Germans who came to this country be- they could not make Germany free, the Germans who} ly fought in the Union armies to preserve the Union the blacks. | 4 Speech he made to German-Americans was in Ger- , and a paragraph bears upon this very subject. Sat almost appears as if the old soldier had a prophetic Hi Man in this country with a drop of German blood: “Politically fam an American and nothing else; T am proud to be a German. I would consider less than a man were I to forget the tremen- Sacrifices made by the immigrant Germans.in ise of their new Fatherland. Shall this blood flowed in vain? Shall we now attack this to which we gave all we had to give? This is our country, our interests are its interests we are, here will our descendants be, here we li stay. The Union, now and forever.” If a man can’t fervently echo the last three sentences he 4 phrased, he may be a citizen by birth or naturaliza- bm, but he is an enemy alien in heart and in fact. are some facts that ought to be known in connection attacks of Col. Robert M. Thompson, president of the ge, on Secretary of the Navy Daniels: onel Thompson is chairman of the board of directors International Nickel Co. The cost of nickel is more the cost of armor plate and enters largely into many “of munitions used by the navy. Some of the directors International Nickel Co. are directors and large stock |I came home Lena, as per usu of the most notable of these was old Franz Sigel. | commenced her nagging. | di in munitions plants, steel companies, and other con- } interested in war contracts. Thompson himself is a of the Oxford Copper Co. il these directors of International Nickel have been hard their pocketbook nerve by Secretary Daniels’ low-price Daniels has hammered down the price of armor-plate Ojectiles to a point where there are no more exorbitant only a fair margin. He has cut the price of copper navy half in two, as compared with the open market He has insisted on getting steel at cost, plus a fair less than half what the steel companies have been ; the allies. and the public In other words, Secretary Daniels has forced Col. Thomp- Pand his fellow directors of the International Nickel Co his associates in the Navy league to give up millions dollars of war profits. = Naturally they are sore; naturally they would like to edit Daniels; naturally they would like to ses him lat is al! there is to the attacks of the Navy league on Daniels and his administration of the navy depart- ne of his periodic campaigns l, Thompson starts o es ickening of It it is reported upon pretty reliable authority that feeling German autocracy is becoming widespread and strong Of i the nations in the war, Turkey is in the sorriest for it is heads-you-win; tails-I-lose, with her. The will surely kick her out of Europe and, if Germany Turkey will make only a nice, warm spot in the sun those autocrats to sit on. folk of Turkey must have become simply raven- during three years of war. ‘The job of holding her allies to it must be one of G 8 great worries about now. EDITORIJALETTES | © OUR GENEROSITY never should exceed our abilities.—Cicero. TAMMANY HALL favors city-owned public utilities for New Service must be a great comfort to the eugenis ting matrimony need not become downhearte men. but tadi |. The GERMANY DEMANDS from Switzerland gold in return for coal t nice little neutral country in autocracy’s pinchers! “ED. K's." COLYUM CONSERVATION Mother cute the beans in twe, Serves « dandelion stew Aso chef's hore d'ccurre; Puts us all oa meatless days, Wheaties —eatlene days i Meiping Mr. Hoover. themselves all German and not American at all, except CONFESSIONS OF A HUSBAND Dear tear-moistened little book, | you see as where | get off at Dear little book, you are the only | Keston. = one that understands me as I've | Aesistan told you a thousand and then some times before. This morning when | | “ STAR-SATURDAY, SEPT, 1, 1917, PAGE 4 (UROPE IS EXHAUSTED; U.S. CAN TURN TIDE ‘ the information of the British war, on the other hand, without the a» DEATH'S DEBITS AND CREDITS | CAN }000—nearly half must be filled with men now fi weakened wrecks to take the place “i ” nici to hospitals in the next year, lost 'Man-Power Balance Sheet! of the Principal } eae ie ti cei hated eae Belligerents. ) At least half as many men as are now in each of the armies—2,600,- GERMANY. 000 for Germany, and 1,500,000 for France thru the hospitals next year, Sixty will pass out of the armies Auxiliaries, Second of these gaps; because the mass of the German hospitals—patched-up and disease-|they cannot be depended on of vigorous men now in the front) trenches, who will die or be sent! {ng on all the armiys. one-tenth thg German army, but rooed brn y would p Boe practically all the for|fresh troops the kaiser can fecure strenuous action. in the first half of next year from , purces, emember, too, that aie ts tell: I, Pomany trom the military stand- 1914 are| Point Is in the position of a prize er who has fought twenty is with an antagonist f equal 4 «kill, and now Kees @ fresh army has reached a stage wh who joined the army in fons now 48, and this three years has | feb [told on them more than ten years | rounds ze an lof peace will do; yet no nation per-| "ize and he ig won mits them to be mustered out 50 | heavyweight, your Unel y | stepping into the ring with blood in while men over forty mado up only | "ter J ee | 15 per cent of the armies of 1914-15 his eye and a knockout i yg rate troops, and tat. }|per cent of them will return to|today they ‘are 22 per cent of the |his right. mite 4 PRESENT FORCE 3,500,000 1,500,000 | 6,000,000 {| Service, but what will they be worth | whole. Give Kaiser Knock-out ; pinioaat r a i itil c {for strenuous attacks or tenacious! jy next year, therefore, Ger In a chess game it is not neces ; LOSSES (Annual) jdefense? Military ®xperts count | many, Austria and France will each | sary with experlenced and tar-#ight- “Permanent (Killed, prisoners, 3) chespltal return” as worth ® £004 have dnly a few hundred thousand |e4 players to accomplish an actual $ 50.0 50,000 ?| deal less than half an unwounded en who have not’ been|checkmate, but merely to demon- ete) 50,000 9 fighting men who | Brees Partial disability . - 200,000 200,000 {| man. |weakened by wounds, shell-shock| strate assured and unbreakable | Germany Hit Harder lor disease, and England will have| strength of pieces and pawns to Total " 1,150,000 1,150,000 | Remember that wounds, shell-|made large inroads on the fresh|bring about the capitulation of the shock, death and capture, fall al-| troops now in her depots or train-| antagonist. ‘& REPLACEMENT most entirely on the front Mne {ng camps It is the same way in wer. fe Wounded now in hospitals etc. 220,000 160, 000 480,090 }| troops, the pick of the army, and Sammies May Decide War casily within the power o' . New Recruits. .....—._----_— 440,000 170,000 610,000 }) you wilt understand why, altho each| For this reason, if tne United | United States to make the demon. 76 of the armies ts larger than ever states can put 500,000 fresh troops | stration of assured and w seer Total a $30,000 1,090,000 |before, it 1s merely a #hell of it#|on the western front for next year's | military and industrial yeep eS FRANCE. | former nelf with w rotting core. | campaign, they may have an {m-|#0 clear within the next, belt Feet | THIS L088 OF FIGHTING MEN | portant if not a decisive effect. In at & SORTS hor evan ane fe PRESENT FORCE BEY 2,200,000 800,000 3,000,000 }/1g HITTING GERMANY HARDER |this I am considering only the mill-|German people, bu THAN ANY OTHER NATION. In| tary result, entirely apart from the| Lords. si } LOSSES (Annual) * ‘order to meet it she has been/|effect that their presence will sure- LL-SPEED-AHEAD IN AMER- } Permanent 90,000 990,000 || forced within recent months to|ly have on the morale of the allies |ICA’S PROGRAM | WILL. } Partial disability - 100,000 100,000 }! form “storming troops,” #pecially|and the central powers. BRING GERMANY TO THE SUR {|picked from the best in all the| Five hundred thousand American RENDER POINT BEFORE THIS Total —+ weve 490,000 490,000 |) regiments and reserved for attacks |troops would be numerically only! TIME NEXT YEAR. REPLACEMENT { } From hospitals nics LO0LG0: 80,000 240,000 66 ° 99 — New Recruits 210,000 80,000 290,000 P rs I P Next Novel ) Total ..__. — 370,000 160,000 630,000 ?| e uas V e eggy “The ters { BY CAROLYN WE = = BY MARAVENE THOMPSON : GREAT BRITAIN. Copyright, Paget Newepaper Service PRESENT FORCE — 1,500,000 1,900,000 3,400,000 | nrg eer (Continued From Our Last Issue) {head. © ’ | “I Just won't. If there's anything LOSSES (Annual) o 0,000 Three hours later, Trowbridge | That's not her way of putting the matter with you, I'll get doctors Permanent nmmemnewee 900,000 200.000 {| examining a new-rtyle reaper |up a game, and you know it, What |here pretty quick to treat you; and Partial disability ————-—_ 60,000 60, heard his father-n-law’s volo | Pegey wants sho goes after with if there fsn't, you shan't He here on 4 260,000 “Bout time fer the ladies’ ridin’| might and main. Where another like this any longer. Come, I'm go- TORR) anaes teen 260,000 260,000 {| match, Ed. Better be makin’ fer| woman would cry and nag, she just | ing to take you downstairs. Do you ~ the small ring if y’ want t’ see it." smiles and everlastingly husties. hear me, Peggy?” REPLACEMENT 98,000 42,000 144,000 }|. Something in the tono arrested No, it’s not that. What did| ei a 334.000 128,000 462.000 {| Di#, attention Quickly, veionger 77 CHAPTER XX. New Recruits . » es ingly, he —— . Paces th “No more than she had already! «The jig’s up, Peggy,” said he Total 430,000 176,000 606,000 ) crowd to the fence tha told you--that #! n't sick and {8| quietly, “I'm going to get you into ST be ite | imply lying in bed because these Qhings and carry you down- | Peggy was riding almost opposite wants to, Now, what is {it she's stairs. Come, sit up!” him—Peggy, all Joy and tenderness been wanting lately that you've re- Editor’s Mail TO HELP HOOVER Fditor The Star Just as @ sv since Mr. Hoover and b ag pin are so unselfishly and patriotically donating their serv fees to the people in the fight against food sharks, would it 1 be a good idea for the men a women of the ¢ auntry who do not “What do you mean by comin¥! ¢, to the trenches to do their bit and between sobs I eked ow ‘Lenaj my dear, don't be so hares! of what might happen and wanted to forewarn his/r didn't want to come home, but the " words might well be taken to heart by | boys just drag me along.” book, I never kinda lucky for falling in on trea! of % and I put it in my know I didn't lost it, the way home this a. m for a toothpick and it there. tripped over the hall carpet. Lena had on a new shirtwaist becau: on leave this country. If he can’t live up to the senti-|ronignt at supper I never saw be- fore. Don't mind the tears falling on your pages, dear little book, but I must have my little cry and you alone understand. NoWw—1'M ALL CLEANED uP FOR What's Looks as tho we'd have to spend for milk all we're going to save on | coal. the use of anything? . to . be robbed, but We hate it and the public ought to keep this in mind whenever |there’s one thing that could recon. clle us to an exorbitant milk {t would be assurance part of the extra price would go to the unfortunate wretch who “pails the cow.” . price for that Remembering this clammy chore of boyhood’s winter morns we mar- vel that any farmer's son where | | Always more or less hungry, |!#n’t such a new even think of claiming exemption from service in the trenches. eee CAMOUFLAGE AGAIN Now patrons, this camouflaging, It's been cavort ing around these quarters for some time, but It’s never been labeled The butcher puts his wrists on the ¢r-| scale with the round steak, and the camouflaged wrists toll up also as |round steak | THE EXPOSURE of so many young men as physically unfit! ca The grocer camouflages the ber. ries to look like a healthy boxful | by putting the big boys on top, and| it looks like a quart box but it's been camouflaged; the bottom. has been given a lift. The salve among the vacation Wilburs Not strange, inasmuch as Tammany expects in turn to own/and Tessles- y'know, around the | beaches, etc. A Wilbur hung up in notey toms monflages himself to some Tessie con- as a regular devil millionaire’s son © no and she vise worser, and, when the! (BULLBROS. twin weeks are went neither one lets loose on the camouflage, He hikes back to reading gas meters and she hie k to the glove stall, there are cows in the family should | summer | time is harvest time for camouflage | jhome at this hour?” was her greet- by helping Hoover? be done very effectively by for Could it not ‘m- ling clubs among producers and | | }lot more profitably fn an effort of consumers, who could, thru some central organization, get in closer ave any and am/law? I believe if ful information could be collect jong way in reducing the cost the consumer, without the producer's price. It strikes me that could put the papers would Yesterday I won the baseball pool | boost the Wea and “Helping Hoo- o “xf baron ver” clubs could be formed thru pocket with the toothpicks and 1| out the country, that a lot of use ed I reached | Which would be of great benefit to was still|the government In fighting these It must have fell out when I| Sharks, and that they could go a to lessening the people in their time a whole) this kind than {n kicking or groan ing about the high price of food, especially since they are convinced that good share of thoroly iy is caused by unscrupulous manipy lation. while and care to give it space, If you think the idea worth | for one, will assure you of my co. operation, and as your sta nd ma to be always on the aide of the people against organized graft, and beautiful youth, on—not Um- pire, enfe and reliable Umpire, but the Brate, the worst-tempered sad- dle-horse in the county, a slender ungovernable | Doesn't Agree With | Father on War Work Ralph D. Hohn, 1205 Olive at.,/ lem handsome, who bas claimed exemption from | bay that passed quickly from owner military service on the ground that|t© owner, leaving their broken bones behind him as souvenirs. he is the representatite of Eastern The Brute! Mra. 'Prowbridge was steel compantes that supply steel h to shipyards in Senttle, says that | “ding the Brute! went swiftly over he does not concur in the views|the crowd. And the crowd leaned expressed by his father to The Star | forward, bated-breathed, thrilling on nelect ner /@xauisitely over possible danger a recent interview vice The elder Hohn sald, “War was hell,” and that he did not want his son to go, and that bis son did not want to 0. Ralph Hohn sald Friday that he felt that he was of more value to Men in the vicinity of Trowbridge looked at him strangely. Had Big Ed lost his senses, that he allowed his wife on the Brute? Around and around the half-mile ring they all cantered, each going |much where her fancy dictated, at Dear book, ‘sawful, she doesn’t/touch and do everything in their), t at home than at the the outer edge, or inner, or across get me wtall. Then she put up a| power to offset the influence which |?o. 80g that he was equipping |{h® Ting, or aslant it, only that all holler about the way I spend my (the food grafters will use to ob! 1 si uiance at his own expense, "ceded always the one way. A = money, but you know me, Iittle/struct the working of the food | bison jtle while—then men versed in “points” began to lean forward and draw quick breaths. Eve was sit- ting her horse prettily, correctly; but Mrs. Ed was riding hers! And ‘gad, what riding! How she yielded towevery move of the Brute—and at just the precise moment! And the poise of her head, and the set of her shoulders, and her back— was {t possible that a back, sup ple when it should be supple and jonly then, straight where upright ness was needed, yet never rigid, could make all the difference that it somehow was making between her riding and Eve's? And no mat ter what gait, pacing or loping or trotting, Mrs. Ed was equally one with her mount—and Mrs. Ed only was borne in upon Eve's amazed |Release 19 Workers Dy United Preee Leased Wire SPOKANE, Aug. 31.--Nineteon Industrial Workers arrested after a drunken brawl Wednesday and held as military prisoners will probably be released late today Authorities believe the evidence iagainst them {s too weak for suc cessful prosecution. —DAILY— EXCURSION | admirers. Mrs, Ed atrot was a joy- ous vision, while Ev Speedily the great mass, know Round Round Ing no contestant personally and 8 only urving, playing no favorite, had for the slender, delicious! pliant figure on the Brute, riding Trip Trip if convinced that it would work *. ag nonchalantly as tho alone in a Get, TL anew 768 ened ge 8 lene —tO— country lane, her heavily curtained way in launching the movement; hence my reason for writing you Cc. STOHT. To Tacoma Through the West Pass The & & Tacoma on her 1:00 m. trip to Tacoma make that run thr tne P wn popular titoh trip dy Munday efternoon Round Trip— 60c Tacoma and Indianapolts every two 60c — «8 et Round Navigation Co. We Render an Exceptional Service In COLLECTIONS TRUSTS GENERAL BANKING GUARDIAN TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK it Ave. at Columb! Thoroughness Characterizes our methods Accounts Bubjec Cordially t Invited. Peoples Savings Bank Just Printers 1018 THIRD MAIN 104: to Check Are eyes looking out dreamily, a faint little smile on the childishly parted red lips ‘The cheering and rooting began BREMERTON softly, then louder and louder, yet: Most Scente Trip on Puget “The bay! The bay! Put ‘t on Sound. Fine View of Munict- [ithe bay! The bay—the bay!” pel Bathing Beach, Country From five thousand throats it Cee torched: Old Kel. fg; Tose ina mighty roar. They had 4 Tiome, Mount Rainier, | been thrilled at first by possible Olympic Mountains, hour's Ride. NAVY YARD ROUTE S. 5. H.R. Kennedy, Kiteap EL, Tourist, Colman Dock 6:15, 8:0 11:30 «& m, etc. One M| danger, but that had quickly passed as they that the little horse had ymehow found his mistress. The hoarse shouts were tributes to pure horseman Mrs. Ed Trow dawson saw Eg eae was ed three to one, Old Rube would never dare pass over such superiority || The whistle sounded again, Obe REAL PAINL diently Mrs. Ed turned her horse i and loped toward—not the judg stand, but the outer gate, raising her hand peremptorily for the gate. keeper to open {tr And the crowd saw the joke—the delicious effrontery of outriding her rival and leaving the blue ribbon to fall, as a matter gf course, to its foreordained recipf™nt—and laughed till it cried But the gate did not open. There were too many people jammed against it, for one thing; and, for another, the gate-keeper had been signaled from the Judges’ stand not to. The whistle sounded again, But Mrs, Ed still sat her horse, non- chalantly waiting for the gate to open. And the awarding judge, with what dignity he could muster, waddled from the judges’ stand to Mrs, Ed and tied the blue ribbon around her arm. And pandemo- DENTISTS | | introduce our In order to d (whalebone) plate, which fs the! lightest and strongest plate known, does not cover the roof of the| mouth, if you have two or three teeth left in the mouth; guaranteed 15 years. Gold crown .. ++ $3.00 $15 set of teeth (whalebone) $8.00 | nium fet looas $10 et of teeth $5.00) As she rode out thru the gate, Bridge work, per tooth, gold $3.00) cleared now for her triumphal exit --$3,00 | ber eves leaped quickly from face ($1.00 up | 19 face. looking~looking—ah! She slid from her horse into the 50¢| eager arms “Pretty Peggy lo That night Peggy made a record White crowns .sceeeseees Gold fillings .. Silver fillings Platina fillings All work guaranteed for 15 years | Have Impression taken tn the morn-|of the riding match in her diary ing and get teoth same day, Exam-| Jy, conclusion she wrote {nation and advice free. dds hag ARE “I wish I knew tf I really did this and Seo Samples of Our Mate! for Daddy, or just to show Ed that ane Bias Wee eee! «If could ride. TUp awtilly hard to the Test of Time, Most of our present patronage te| KNOW sometimes if I'm doing recommended by our early custom. | Something to please myself or ers, whose work {s still giving good/ some one else.” satisfaction, Ank our customers who >TE: . have tested our work CHAPTER XIX When comin to our offic 6 sure you are in the “Well?” right place. tring this ad with you. Nothing from a professional m4 | diagnosis chuckled the doctor. | OHI Cut - Rate [Sit trom the man’s. ‘the ‘bosom . friend of the family's, T should say | Dentists the witch is putting up a game on 207 INIVEENSITY st, you, Ed.” Oppoai Wraser-Patersea Co, Edwin Trowbridge shook his | Pegey sighed—a long, lingering \sigh—and turned ber eyes re luctantly from the blank wall to jher husband's face, The man's ‘eyes, deeply gray and clear, met hers steadily. But it was not their steadines that caused Peggy's blank stare to leap to sudden ca- ressing tenderness, It was the hurt she saw there—the boyishly ‘wounded spirit that shone thru them. Hurriedly she fumbled for a printed card under her pillow; then, clutching {t tightly, reach her hands toward him with @ pret- (ty motion, He laughed joyously, and envel- oped her in a greatcoat and |lifted her to his arms. For a mo- @ stood still, his mouth on level with hers—wailting A jshamed little smile, and Peggy's Ups went to bis. “It wasn't because I dién't want to kiss you yesterday, darling,” she” whispered. “Only—” “He laughed again. Peggy, was her own shining self, ber thon y= moment nothing else mat Ho tossed her to his shoulder, ran \down the steps and dropped her into a deep-seated rocker before jthe fire. Then he seated himself and looked at her squarely, a smile lin his eyes. “Now tell me all about it.” said jhe, “and let's get this matter out lof our systems we have s'teen jothers. Start ‘er up, Peggy.” Half shyly she turned to her hus and. fused her? Come, it's the doctor | who's asking. And I know there's |something. The only question is what?” Electricity,” came the answer slowly, after an evident struggle to avow it. “When she spoke about wanting electricity in the hou and having an electric range and fron and other electric frills, I de- cided she had gone clean mad over ;this modern convenience bu: ness | “And sat down on {t, of cour laughed the other. “Can't say's I | blame you there. Euydwater, seven | miles, is the nearest electric sta-| tion, isn't it? Take some money to pay for the wiring, and the cost ‘way up. Whew!" ‘o—-it isn’'t—that. Uproar Falls ‘Il furnish power not only for the house but the farm—and, as I look into ft, I find there's no end of uses that electricity can be put to on the farm.” “By George! The Falls! That's right.” He twinkled. “You go tell Peggy that and I guess she'll stop \staring at the blank space on the Haring at the blank space on all! You saw her, then! What—does {t—mean? * * © No; it's not a trick, I know Peggy too | well to swallow that,” he reiterated | doggedly. “Then I don’t know what it fs,” sald the physician frankly. He jstcod a moment in thought. “Let ther alone till tomorrow; if she’s |not up then, lift her bodily, if nec-|> jeesary, and bring her down here.” | dwin Trowbridge went at once to his wife's room, and, strapping giant that he was, his knees trem- bled weakly under him. He enter- the You know, I—wanted—electric- it “Um-m! So that was {t.” He stood looking out of the win- dow. But of the stretches of snow ed the room softly, and stopped and the beating sleet he saw noth- |half way between door and bed, ing. Why did he so persistently | jsuddenly all atremble with the refuse his wife's requests to im- prove the house and add the sim ple conveniences she wanted? He was amply able to give her what she asked—doubly, trebly, Even had it been necessary to bring the electricity from Endwater, it would not have mattered. Yes—why not? why not—why not? he asked him- self savagel, And out of the clutter of his mind, things half forgotten and things there without his knowing why or whence they came, there arose the answer, and clearly, as it does sometimes when the soul has been roughly shaken. He worshiped the “gods of things that are,” and Peggy the “gods of things to be.” He went to her, and lifted her up, and seated self in her chair, I'm—'with her closely in his arms, (Continued In Our Next Issue |sickening fear that had been his jevery time he entered the room |since the day before yesterday— jthe initial day she refused to get jup. Yet the rogm was most invit- jing; warm gray walls with a nar- |row border of pink roses outlining ceiling and doors and windows; fur- niture of rare old mahogany, with jquaint carving and vjolet-hued lass knobs; on the walls innumer- able pictures of a baby—a babr | laughing, a baby with fat, dimplee |body, a baby in long clothes and | short clothes and no clothes at all, }and each beautifully artistic in | pose and workmanship and frame | “Ed, dear, please—go—away,” Ishe sing-songed, as between baby jlullabies, “I—mustn't—be disturb- get — up — when ‘ An Index of Inspiration A Savings Pass Book is an index to your life. The persistency with which entries are made denotes your desire to provide comfort, health and happiness for the coming years. The totals telling of’ growing principal and interest mark progress and protection for the future. 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