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ICome Ob In," as the latest of the New Y«-k revue* is called. 1b much like all the ©triers. It contains the same procession of specialty mongers, the same cacophony of rag-time, the same gangway out into the audience which refreshes tired busi­ ness men with a thrilling worm's-eye view •of dancing girls' knees au naturel. And up and down this straight and narrow pathway of the chorus there is the custo­ mary parade of the same haughty beau­ ties of Broadway. '> Only in one item is there a deviation from the usual formula: the costumes. For several years past the revues at the theater (the Columbian) - have been caparisoned with the decadent colors and bizarre designs of the exotic Mr. Grenville Melton. I knew there had been a change for the better as soon as 1 ' nw the first number, for these dresses have the stimulating quality of a healthy Mid vigorous imagination, as well as a vivid decorative value. They are exceed. Ingly smart, of course, or else they would Aever do for a Broadway revue, but they are also alive, while those of Mr. Melton wore invariably sickly. Curiously enough the name of the new costume designer has a. special interest for Chicago. She is Doris Dane, who participated in "The Girl tfpstairs" at the Globe. Miss Dane's! Stage experience here was brief, but nev­ ertheless her striking success in her new profession will probably cause the forma­ tion of a large and enthusiastic "I-knew- Iwr-when" club. 1 Jimmy expected to produce an effect With it. But what he did produce ex­ ceeded his wildest anticipations. The thing came out in the three o'clock edition, and before be left the office that afternoon he had rcccivcti crcr the telephone six Invitations to din­ ner ; three of them for that night. • file declined the first two, on the ground, at an enormous press of work inci­ dent to his fresh return from a fort- atght In New York. But when Violet "Williamson called up and said, with a reference to a previous engagement that Was shamefully fictltous: "Jimmy, you haven't forgotten you're dining with us ta&lght, have you t It's Just us, so you r needn't dress/' he answered: "Oh, no, I've got it down on my cal- . «ndar all right Seven-thirty?" » :r- ' Violet sniSkered and sold: "Ton : %i|alt I--Or rather, don't wait. Malcalt •even." Jimmy was glad to be let off that ^^•Ktra half hour of waiting. He was * impatient for the encounter with Vio­ let--a state of mind most rare With 3fclm. He meant to wring all the pleas- ve out of It he cduld by way of re- i ^*enge for Violet's attitude toward Hose after her presence la the Globe Chorus had become known--for that jfc|tlpg contempt which was the typical ' (attitude of her class. Violet said, the moment he ap­ peared in the drawing room doorway: "John made me swear not to let you tell me a word tiritll he came In. He's •Imply burbling. But there's one thing he won't mind your telling me, «Uid that's her address. I'«n simply per- tahlng to write her a note and tell her fcow glad we were." Jimmy made a llttje gesture of re­ gret. He'd have spoken too, but she didn't give him time. "You don't mean," she cried, "that jjnm didn't find out where she lived ^i^hlle you were right there in New £ -York!" , John came In just than, and Violet. ^ .< fkk t »* "j.if* r** _ ," »"f<i11 ' s?; - - ' 'Cr •' ' !fe;- ¥ f r< </ m. • i . pL7' V: i ; turning to him tragically, repeated, "He • doesn't even know where she lives!" I t " O h , I ' m a b o o b , I k n o w , " s a i d J i m - ay. "But, as I told the other fire .. | Violet frowned as she echoed. The l ather five--what 7" • ' J7mmy turned to John Williamson fiith a perfectly electric grin. V "The other five ' of Rose Aldrlch's '"{feHends--and yours," he said, "who Called me up this afternoon and Invited itte to. dinner, and asked for her ad- " €ress so that they could write her f»tes and tell her how glad they ere." John said "Whoosh 1"--all but upset tchair, and slammed It out of the way order to jubilate properly. Violet stood looking at them tioughtfully. A little flush of color as coming up Into her face. "You two men," she said, "are try- . tog to act as if I weren't In this; as If $ weren't just as glad as you are, and jjiadn't as good a right to be. John kere," this was to Jimmy, "has been • jgfloating ever since he came home with ithe paper. And you . . . Did you mean fne by that snippy little thing you said about the'I-knew-her-when club?' Well, ^wu'll get your punishment. There's |fUnner! But you won't be allowed to eat. You'll have to begin at the begin­ ning and tell us all about her." Jimmy, his effect produced, his long- jnedltated vengeance completed by the > Isare of color he'd seen come up in ^ Violet's cheeks, settled down seriously fa the telling of his tale, stopping oC- onally to bolt a little food Just be­ te his plate was snatched away from but otherwise without lntermls- - ^ He'd suspected nothing about the ^ oo that opening night of <>a lv" nntii a rmllMttnn ixf t * - 1 • .. now amazingly good they were.wade him search his program. The line "Costumes by Dane" had lighted up in his mind a wild surmise of the truth, though he admitted it had seemed al­ most too good to be true. Because the costumes were really wonderful. He cast about, he said, for some way of finding out who Dane really was. Aud, having learned that Galbraith was putting oh the show at the Casino he looked him up. Galbraith proved a mine of Infor­ mation--no, he was more like one of those oil wells technically known as a gusher. He simply spouted facts about Rose, and couldn't be stoppefl. She was his own discovery. He'd seen her possibilities when she designed and executed those twelve costumes for the sextette in "The Girl Upstairs." He'd brought her. down to New York to act as his assistant. She worked for Gal­ braith the greater part of last season. Jimmy had never known of anybody having just that sort of job before. Galbraith, busy with two or three pro­ ductions at once, had put over a lot of the work of conducting rehearsals on her shoulders. He'd get a number started, having figured out the maneu­ vers the chorus were to go through, the steps they'd use, and so ou, and Rose \vould actually take his place; would be In complete charge of the re­ hearsal as the director's representa­ tive. The costuming last season had been a side issue, at the beginning at least, but she'd done part of the costumes for one of his productions, and they were so strikingly successful that Abe Sliuman had snatched her away from him. - *, r ' . "The funny thing Is the way she does them," Jimmy said. "Everybody else who designs costumes just draws them: dinky little water colored plates, and the plates are sent out to a com­ pany like the Star Costume company and they execute them. But Rose can't draw a bit She got a mannequin--not an ordinary dressmaker's form, but a regular painter's mannequin--with legs and made her costumes on the thing; or at least cut out a sort of pattern of them In cloth. But somehow or other, the designing of them and the execu­ tion are Inore mixed up together by Rose'S method than (by the orthodox one. She wanted to get some women In to sew for her, and see the whole job through herself; deliver the cos­ tumes complete,' and get paid for thein. But It seems that the Shumans, on the side, owned the Star company and raked off a big profit on the costumes that way. I don't know all the details. I don't know that Galbraith did. But anyhow, the first thing anybody knew, Hose had financed herself. She got one of those rich young bachelor wom­ en in New York to go Into the thing with her, and organised a company, and made Abe Shuman an offer on all the costumes for 'Come On In." Gal­ braith thinks that Abe Shuman thought she was sure to lose 4 lot of money on It and go broke, a ad that then he could put her to work at a salary, so he gave her the job. But she didn't lose. She evidently made a chunk out of it, and her reputation at the same time." . Violet ,was immensely thrilled by this recitaL "Won't she be perfectly wonderful," she exclaimed, "for the Junior league show, when she comes back!" Jimmy found an enormous satisfac­ tion in saying: "Oh, she'll be too ex­ pensive for you. She's a regular rob­ ber, she says." "She says!" cried Violet "Do you mean you've talked with her?" "Do you think I'd have come back from New York without?"• said Jimmy. "Galbraith told me to drop In at the Casino that same afternoon. Some of the costumes were to be tried on, and 'Miss Dane' would be there. "Well, and she came. I almost fell over her out there In the dark, because of course the auditorium wasn't light­ ed at all. I'll admit she rather took my breath, just glancing up at me, and then peering to make out who 1 was, and then her face going all alight with that smile of hers. I didn't know what to call her, and was stammering over a mixture pf Miss Dane and Mrs. Aldrich, when she laughed and held out a hand to me and said she didn't remember whether I'd ever called her Rose or not but she'd like to hear someone call her that and wouldn't I begin?" Jimmy eifplatned there hadn't been any chance to talk much. "The cos­ tumes began coming up on the stage just then (on chords girls, of course), and she was up over the runway in a minute, talking them over with Gal­ braith. When she'd finished, she came down to me again for a minute, bat it was hardly longer than that really. She said she wished she might see me again, but that she couldn't ask nie to come to the studio, because It was a perfect bedlam, and that there was no use asking me to come to her apart­ ment, because she was never there herself these days, except fbr about seven hours a night of the hardest kind of sleep. If I could stay around till her rush was over . . . But ,then, of course, she knew I couldn't." "And you never thought of asking her," Violet' wailed, "where the apart­ ment was, so that the test of us, if we were in New York, could look her up, or write to hef from here?" "No," Jimmy said. "1 never thought of asking for her address. But It's the easiest thing in the world to get Cull , UP He kftpiyV •*Wh«t makes you think he knows?** Violet demanded. "Well, for one thing," said Jimmy, "when Rose was asking for news of all of you, she said: *1 hear from Rod­ ney regularly. Only he doesn't tell nie much gossip.'" "Hears from him!" gasped Violet "Regularly!" She was staring at Jim­ my In a dazed sort of way. "Well, does she write to him? Has she made it up with him? Is she coming back?" "I suppose you can just hear me asking her all those questions? Casu­ ally, in the aisle of a theater, while she was getting ready for a running Jump Into a taxi?" The color came up Into Violet's face again. There was a maddening sort of jubilant jocularity about these men, the looks and almost winks they ex­ changed, the distinctly saucy quality of the things, they said to her. "Of course," she said coolly, "if Rose had told me that she heard from Rod­ ney regularly, although he didn't send her much of the gossip, I shouldn't have had to ask her those questions. I'd have known from the way she looked and the way her voice sounded, whether she was writing to Rodney or not, and whether she meant to come back to him or not; whether she was ready to make It up If he was--all that. Any woman who knew her at all would. Only a man, perfectly in­ fatuated, grinning . . . See if you can't tell what she looked like ahd how she said It" , Jimmy, meek again, attempted the task. "Well," he said, "she didn't look me In the eye and register deep mean­ ings or anything like that. I don't know where she looked. As far as the inflection of her voice went, it was just as casual as If she'd been telling me what she'd had for lunch. But the quality of her voice just richened up a bit as If the words tasted good 'to her. And she smiled, just barely, as If she knew I'd be staggered and didn't care. There you are! Now interpret unto me this dream, oh, Joseph." Violet's eyes were shining. "Why, it's as plain," she said. "Can't you see that she's jusjt waiting for him; that she'll come like a shot the minute he says"*the word? And there he is eat­ ing his heart out for her, and In his rage charging poor John perfectly ter­ rific prices for his legal services, wben all he's got to do is to say 'please,' In order to be happy." THE MeHENRT PI.AINDEALER, McHENRT, HX. returned Rodney'n «.>a pretty Ptinir. as! "I'd like to Know ^ou mean d| •was natural enough, since Rodney'* ,grln had distinctly brightened up at sight of him. Eleanor said, rather negligently: "Hello, Rod. We're just dashing off to /lie Palace to see a perfectly-exquisite little dancer Bertie's discovered down there. She comeB on nt half past nine, so we've got to fly. Want to come?" "No," Rodney said. "I came over to see Jim. Is, he at home?" The maid was holding out the coat for Eleanor's arms. But Eleanor, at Rodney's question, just stood for a second quite still. She wasn't looking at anybody, but the expression in her eyes was sullen. "Yes, he's at home," she said at last "Busy, I suppose," said Rodney. Her Inflection had dictated this reply. "Yes, he's busy," she repeated ab­ sently and in a tone still more coldly hostile, though Rodney perceived that the hostility was not meant for him. She looked around at Bertie. "Walt two minutes," she said, "if you don't mind." Then, to Rodney, "Come along." And she led the way up the lustrous, velvety teakwood stair. He followed her. But, arrived at the drawing room floor, he stopped. "Look here," he said. "H Jim's busy CHAPTER XXIII. Rodney Gets a Clear View of Himself. It was Rose herself who began this correspondence with Rodney, within a month of her arrival In New York. If Rodney had done an unthinkable thing; if he had kept copies of his let­ ters to Rose, along with her answers, 1 "You Two Men . . . Are Trying to Act as If I Weren't In on This." In a chronological file, he would have made the discovery that the stiffness of those letters had gradually worn away and that they were now a good deal more than mere pro forma bulle­ tins. There had crept into them, so subtly and so gently that between one of them and the next no striking dif­ ference was to be observed, a friend­ liness, quite cool, but wonderfully firm. She was frankly jubilant over the suc­ cess of her costumes in "Come On In," and she Inclosed with her letter a com­ plete set Qf newspaper reviews of the piece. It was a week later that she wrote: "I met James Randolph coming up Broadway yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock. He's changed, somehow, since I saw him last; as brilliant as ever, but rather--lurid. Do you sup­ pose things are going badly between him and Eleanor? He told me he hadn't seen you forever. Why don't you drop In on him?" It was quite true that Rodney had seen very little of the Randolphs since Rose went away. When It came to confronting his friends, In the knowledge that they knew that Rose had left him for the Globe chorus, he found that James Randolph was one he didn't care to face. He knew too much. He'd be too infernally curious, too full of surmises, eager for experi­ ments. | But Rose's letter put a different face on the matter. The fact that she'd put him, partly at least, In possession of what she had observed und what she guessed, gave him a sort of shield against the doctor. So one evening about nine o'clock he slipped out and walked around to the new house which Bertie Willis had built for Eleanor. Rodney reflected, as he stood at the door after ringing the bell, that his own house was quite meek and conven­ tional alongside this. Bertie had gone his limit. The grin which his reflection afford­ ed him was still on Rodney's lips when, u servant having opened the door, he found himself face to face with the architect. Bertie, top-coated and hat in hand, was waiting for Eleanor, who was coming down the stairs followed l*er He '"'A '4^ * isafi Oh, don't be too dense, Rodney!" she said. "A man has to be 'busy' when he's known to be in the house and won't entertain his wife's guests. Go up, sing out who you are, and go right in." Sjae gave him. a pod and a hard little smile, and Went down­ stairs again to Bertie, Rodney found the door Eleanor had Indicated, knocked smartly on It, and sang out at the same time, "This Is Rodney Aldrich. May I come In?" "dome In, of course," Randolph called. "I'm glad to see you," he add­ ed, coming to meet his guest, "but do you mind telling me how you got In here? Some poor wretch will lose his job, you know, If Eleanor finds out about this. When I'm in this room, sacred to reflection and re­ search, It's a first-class crime to let me be disturbed." It didn't need his sardonic grin to point the satire of his words. " Rodney said curtly: "Eleanor sent me up herself. I didn't much want to come, to tell the truth, when I heard you were busy." "Eleanor!" her husband repeated, "I thought she'd gone out--with her poo­ dle." Rodney said, with unconcealed dis­ taste: "They were on the point of go­ ing out when I came in. That's how Eleanor happened to see me." With a visible effort Randolph re­ covered a tnore normal manner. "I'm glad It happened that way," he said. "Get yourself a drink. You'll find any­ thing you want over there, I guess, and something to smoke; then we'll sit down and have an old-fashioned talk." The source of drinks he Indicated was a well-stocked cellarette at the other side of the room. But Rodney's eye fell first on a decanter and siphon on the table, within reach of the chair Randolph had been sitting In. "I don't believe I want anything more to drink just now," Rodney said. And. as he followed Rodney's glance, Ran­ dolph allowed himself another sardonic grin. The preliminaries were gone through rather elaborately; chairs drawn up and adjusted, ash-trays put within reach; cigars got going satisfactorily. But the talk they were supposed to prepare the way for, didn't at once be­ gin. Randolph took another stlfflsh drink and settled back into a dull, sullen ab­ straction. Finally, for the sake of say­ ing something, Rodney ' remarked: "This Is a wonderful room, isn't It?" Randolph roused himself. "Never been In here before?" he asked. "Well then, hefe's two more rooms you must see." The first one, opening from the study, exfrtalned Its purpose at a glance, with a desk and typewriter, and filing cabi­ nets around the walls. "Rubber floor," Randolph pointed out "felt ceiling; ab­ solutely sound-proof. Here's where my stenographer sits all day, ready-* like a fireman. And this," he conclud­ ed, leading the way to the other room, "is the holy of holies." It had a rubber floor, too, and, Rod­ ney supposed, a felt celling. But Its only furniture was one chair and a canvas cot. "Sound-proof too," said Randolph. "But sounding boards or something In eV the walls. I press this button, start a dictaphone, and talk in any direc­ tion. anywhere. It's all taken down. Here's where I'm supposed to think, make discoveries and things. I tried It for a while." They went back* Into the study. "Clever beasts, though--poodles," he remarked, as he nodded Rodney to his chair and poured himself another drink. "Learn their tricks very nicely. But, good heavens, Aldrich, think of him as a man! Think what our Amer­ ican married women are up against, when they want somebody to play off agr.lnst their husbands and have to fall back on tired little beasts like that. Eleanor doesn't mean anything. She's trying to make me jealous. That's her newest experiment But it's downright pitiful, I say." Rodney got up out of his chair. It wasn't a possible conversation. "I'll be running along, I think." he said. "I've a lot of proof to correct tonight, and you've got work of your own, I expect." < "Sit down again," said Randolph sharply. 'Tm Just getting drunk. But that can wait I'm going to talk. I've got to talk. And if you go, I swear I'll call up Eleanor's butler and talk to him. You'll keep It to yourself, anyway." He added, as Rodney hesi­ tated, "I want to tell you about Rose. I saw her In New York, you know." Rodney sat down a'galn. "Yes," he said, "so she wrote. Tell me how she looked. She's been working tremen­ dously hard, and" I'm a little afraid she's overdoing It" "She looks," Randolph said very de* Uberately, "a thousand years old." He laughed at the sharp contraction of Rodney's brows. "Oh, not like that! She's as beautiful as ever. Her skin's still got that bloom on It, and she still flushes up when she smiles. She's lost five pounds, perhaps, but that's Just condition. And vitality! But a thou- •onH ryin aIH liiat fha a* ma ** that," said Rodney. "Why, look here," Randolph natdL "You know what a kid she was when you married hen Schoolgirl! I use4 to tell her things and she'd listen, ail eyes--holding her breath! Until I felt almost as wise as she thought I was. She was always game, even then. If she started a thing, she saw it through. If she said, 'Tell It to me straight' why, she took It, whatever It might be, standing up. She wasn't afraid of anything. Courage of Innocence. Be­ cause shfc didn't know. Well, she's courageous now, because she knows. She understands---I tell* you--every­ thing. "Why, looK here! We all but ran Into * each other on the corner, them of Broadway and FOrty-second street; shook hands, said howdy-do. If1! had a spare half-hour, would I come and have tea with her here at the Knicker­ bocker? She'd nodded at two or threfe passing people while we stood there. And then somebody said, 'Hello, Dane,' and stopped. A miserable, shabby, shivering little painted thing. Rose said 'Hello' and asked how she was getting along. Was she working now? She said no; did Rose know of an& thing? Rose said, 'Give mje your ad­ dress, and If I can find anything I'll let you know.' The horrible little beast told her where she lived and went away. Rose didn't say anything to me, except that she was somebody who'd been out in a road company with hef. B u t t h e r e w a s a l o o k I n h e r e y e s . . . ! Oh, she knew--everything. Knew what the kid was headed for. Knew there was nothing to be done about it She had no flutters about It, didn't pull a long face, didn't, as I told you, say a word. But there was a look Ip her eyes, sftmehow, that understood and faced--everything. And then we went In and had our tea. "I had a thousand curiosities about her. I'd haVe found out anything I could. But It was she who did the find­ ing out. Beyond inquiring about you, how lately I'd seen you, and so on, she hardly asked a question; but pretty soon I saw that she understood me. She knew what was the matter with me; knew what I'd made of myself. And she didn't even despise me! "I came back here to kick this thing to pieces, give myself a fresh start. And when I got here, I hadn't the sand. I got drunk instead." He poured himself another long drink and sipped slowly. "Everybody knows," he said at last "that down-and-outs almost invariably take to drugs or drink. But I know why they do." That remark stung Rodney out of his long silence. During the whole of Ran­ dolph's recital of his encounter with Rose he'd never once lifted his eyes from the gray ash of his cigar.. He didn't want to look at Randolph, nor think about him. Just wanted to re­ member every word he said, so that he could carry the picture away Intact (TO BE CONTINUED.) ENGLAND NOW CHEWING GUM Foreigners for Years Refused to Adopt American Product, but Situation Suddenly Has Changed. For a great many years American chewing gum manufacturers have en­ deavored to teach foreign countries to appreciate their product. The stuff that wags the American jaw has been advertised assiduously :n France, Eng­ land and Germany, but with small success. The non-American couldn't understand it. He tried to swallow It and when he couldn't he gave It up as incomprehensible nonsense. Over In London, where It was called "Ameri­ can Chewing Can^y," many shops called attention to It, but the British­ ers passed it by . and went on buy­ ing toffee and lollipops and Turkish delight. Suddenly, and without warning, the situation has changed. Remarkable figures recently published appear to in­ dicate that England has Incontinently become a nation of gum chewers. Manufacturers report that within six months they have Increased their monthly sales from 3,000,000 to 20,000,- 000 sticks. And the English newspa­ pers cannot understand it The explanation seems simple. It la said that the largest amount of chew­ ing gum is used in the army, and the next largest amount in the navy. Dur­ ing the last great advance, it was is­ sued as an army ration. Somehow ot other the soldiers discovered that l( steadied their nerves to have some­ thing to chew on in time of stress; and of course It has the effect of keeping the parched throat moist. II Is more than probable that the Cana­ dian soldier Imparted this information to the EngUsh Tommies--and experi­ ence did the rest.--Cleveland Plait Dealer. Gray Squirrel <a Pest. The American gray squirrel Is likely to prove a pest in England, ns the experience has been with the imported rabbit in Australia, and the English sparrow and starling In the United States. Of Its Introduction Into Rich­ mond park, Sir Frederick Treves re­ ports that It has not only driven out the red squirrel, but it has spread into neighboring gardens, where it Is doing great damage, especially to the buds and shoots of young fruit trees, peas and strawberries. Though Its destruc­ tion has been ordered, it may have scattered so far already that control will not be easy. Woman Carpenters in France. A few women are being employed as carpenters in France as an experimen­ tal measure. They are housed in army huts built by the contractor for them, and work under a forewoman, who Is herself directly under a French mana­ ger. A housekeeper-cook and a woman supervisor have been engaged. Their output and their pay Is about half that of men. They do lighter work of car- pentry. Pay Her to Wait. Shoe Salesman--But, my dea> Madam, you had better purchase a pair while they are only twelve dol­ lars. The price will soon go to twenty*- five dollars. Complacent Customer--Oh, then I won't take any Just now. If they go that high HI Just wait for my sec­ ond childhood and then I can go bar* WARSHIP BtOWIi UP TO IftSM KILLEO WHEN BLAST DESTROYS BRITI8H DREA9* NAUGHTVANQUARO. CAUSEOFDISASTER UNKBOVIfN AMiriii$inikirig fhternal^ txpYosttili Occurred While Craft Was at An- - --0n,y Ninety-Five f^ . [, •-5|Cpaw' Escaped Deat^. : London, July 10.--The British battle­ ship Vanguard was blown up and sunk on July 9, says an official statement Is­ sued on Friday by the British admir­ alty. An Internal explosion while the ship was at anchor caused the disaster. Only three men of those on board sur­ vived and one of them has since died. Twenty-four officers and 71 men, how­ ever, were not on board at the time of the explosion. - , I.;1 The official statement reads: %. ^ ^ "H. M. S. Vanguard, Capt. James*D. Dick, blew up while at anchor on the night of July 9 as the result of an In­ ternal explosion, "The ship sank Immediately and there were only three survivors among those aboard ship at the time of the disaster--one officer and two men. The officer has since died. There were, how­ ever, 24 officers and 71 men D.ot on board at the time, thus bringing the total number of survivors to 97. "A full inquiry has been ordered." The Vanguard displaced 19,250 tons and her complement before the war was 870 men. The Vanguard belonged to the St. Vincent class of dreadnaughts and was launched in March, 1909. The Vanguard was 636 feet long with a beam of 84 feet and a draft of 27 feet. Her armament consisted of ten twelve-inch guns, eighteen four-inch and four three-pounders in addition to three torpedo tubes."" * "' " SAYS GERMANS WANT PEACE Independent Leader of Hungary As­ serts Liberties Must Be Granted In Every Country. > Amsterdam, July 16.--Count Michael Karloyi, leader of the Hungarian In­ dependent party, speaking in the house of deputies, says a telegram from Budapest, declared: "The central point of the present crisis Is the question of peace. Every t-ne in Germany wants peace, but It Is not enough to desire It, the nation must negotiate for it. Count Czernin (Austro-Hungarian) foreign minister, has not confined himself to mere words, but has openly declared that we are ready for peace without an­ nexations. One of the prerequisite conditions of pence Is the democrati­ zation of every country." In a continuation of the debate Baron Julius Beck said: "There Is no war policy today, but only a peace "policy. The peace must be honorable, guaranteeing Hungary's frontiers and. her political Independ­ ence." j Count Moritz Esterhnzy, the pre­ mier, replying to Baron Beck, said the new Hungarian government stands for the continuance of the alliance be­ tween the dual monarchy and Ger­ many, ns did the government which it succeeded. "r "We are waging this war as a de­ fensive war. Our peace aim is not conquest. We do not leave our ene­ mies in doubt about this. On the con­ trary, we testified clearly before the whole . world our readiness for peace." . 30 HURT IN I. W. W. FIGHT German Agents Blamed for Clash With Aliens at Lead Mine; U. S. Orders Teuton Members Interned. Flat River, Mo., July 16.--Thirty or forty men were reported injured, sev­ eral probably fatally, In rioting on Friday night between Americans and foreigners employed in the lead mines here. Several hundred shots were ex­ changed, windows and doors of shaft- houses were broken and the homes Of the foreigners were stoned by a mob of about a thousand Americans which " moved swif#y from shaft house to shaft house in an effort to drive all foreigners out of the city. Five lead mines are said to be in danger. These are properties of the Doe Run Lead company, the St Jo­ seph Lead company, Federal Lead company, St I^ouis Smelting A Refin­ ing company and the Des Loge Con­ solidated Lead company. Seattle, Wash., July 14.---The United States has decided to take out of the I. W. W. organization that part of it which Is German or dominated by Ger­ man influence. United States District Attorney Clay Allen announced. The meet will be interned. Money to Red Croea. Washington. July 17.--Postal em­ ployees throughout the country have contributed $5o,994.81 for Red Cross work. The reports to r*>stmaster Gen­ eral Burleson are only partial. 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