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IOWA MAN V OWN DE/ Waterloo, la., Oct. 14.?At the , ago of SC William T. Whitney, weal-: thy retired farmer and one of the t few remaining survivors of Iowa's; pioneer days, looks back on life as a disappointment. He welcomes death, and has made j all his preparations for it, even to j the writing of his own funeral ser-! mon. A tombstone already has been cut | with Whitney's name and the date of his birth?1835. A grave has been dug, cemented up with solid concrete sides and a bottom to a thickness of eight inches. A mason is under contract to construct a cover of cement six inches thick and to face the grave with two layers of brick * after Whitney is buried. "IH be placed in that hole to sleep," says Whitney, "and I want to be assured that my rest will be unbroken." Whitney, for many years a close friend of Alexander Graham Bell and Mark Twain, says he is an unbeliever. I No minister will officiate when' Whitney is buried. The funeral docutViof Via Viitvicolf Viacs writtpn will lliCUto V4MAV ??V be read by a personal friend. "If I -write what I believe, I shall not please my friends,' reads this strange message. "If I write to, please my friends, I shall be false to j myself. So without wishing to be odd ( it seems best to die and be buried inj silence. i "I have no disposition tc criticize j others. They have as good a right toj their opinions as I have to mine. On- j ly ignorance is arbitrary. Humanity is my religion. I know nothing beyond the skies. I leave the dead, where nature leaves them. "We cannot say whether death is a wall ora door, the beginning Op the end of a da.y If there is a world of joy, so much the better. "Love is the only bow on life's dark clouds. Without it we are less than beasts?with it earth is heaven LET THE GIU ADVISES J! New York.?Mrs. William Atherton Du Puy, National President of ' the League of American Pen Women which has 5,000 members, is in New York this week to talk to the New York branch of the league and also to tell New York what a mistake it makes when it runs down the present dtay American girl. Ths last is a little private mission of Mrs. Du Puy and she is snaking a nationwide appeal for justice for the young thing who wears not much of any thing in the way of clothes, paints her cheeks, powders her nose and plays her share in petting parties. Mrs. Du Play's ire has been aroused fcy an article by Elinor Glyn in the Cosmopolitan on the American girl. Mrs. Dai Puy says Mrs. Glyn J hasn't a fact to go on, that the trouble with her is that she is getting too old to understand. She even calls her "Miss" Glyn, and reads into the article the wailisg of a blighted old maid. ; "The trouble "with the American girl," says Mrs. Du Puy, "is too much criticism. Miss Glyn's article is what I call a vicious attack. She says n d man will marry the 'cigarette smok ing, senseless American girl of today/ Now if she would only mention 5??U..?1 aw WA some maiviuutti K'11 v>i only take action in the name of the Amercan girl, we could sue her and take away from her some of those good American dollars she is taking from this country for writing that' article. "It is not true that the American girl is not marrying'. The Govern- j ment statistics show that there werej more marriages last year than for a long time and they expect to have a million and a half marriages this coming year. One of the troubles with peopile generally is that they! have the habit of talking about wo-1 men. She has been damned from the days of Eve and people don't know how to stop it. Then the older people hold to the "ways of their own generations. Every generation complains of the next. 'Girls don't hold anything sacred," they say. A Washington woman I know says that her grandmother made that very remark to( VRITES t V'TH SERMON( POLICE ENDS A CLASH OF NEW ORLEANS MOBS v New Orleans, Oct. 13.?Four ar- ? rests followed a series of riot calllast night when police put an end to a clash between 25 white youths c and an equal number of negroes, n who, according to statements made ^ to the authorities, have been going under the name of the "Black Ku Klux Klan" and have caused uneasi t j ness ior several aays. Two white boys and two negroes ^ all charged \vilh disturbing th-. peace, were taken into custody. In the fight that preceded their ar- ? rests, a number of shots were fired and sticks and stones are alleged to have been used freely. The police found no indications that any one had been injured seriously, although the boys in custody bore signs of having been roughly used. , 11 e This is a true story of an adven- . I y ture of two lady artists in sunny 6 Spain. They were walking and arrived at a little country inn, hot, dusty and thirsty. They couldn't talk Spanish, but wanted some milk c badiy, so one of them drew a most beautiful high-arty cow, while the F other jingled some coins. The *1 Spaniards looked and a boy was tl sent off post haste. In half an hour c the boy returned, hot and trium- tl phant?with two tickets for a bullfight.?Pipe Progress. it and we are gods." Whitney, after family sorrows in c his. early life, spent years with a ?| tribe of western Indians, later roam- 3 ing all over the we?t, in Panama and 3 Mexico, and finally returning to 3 Waterloo to die. iJ jj "Life is a disappointment. I con sider it a -misfortune to have been 12 born," he says. "I am waiting fori death. But death mocks me and seems to say 'I am in no hurry for you.' " LS SMOKE | ARS. DU PUY\ ! her and her sister when they wete girls bcause they laughed at her oldfashioned what-not with great big shells on it. "I tell the Pen Women wherever I speak that they must be just to the American girl. You would not believe it, perhaps, but my remarks are j ? not favorably received. If you only r knew how many times I have been jj asked triumphant, y: 'Well how J about the girls who park their cor- * sets in the dressing rooms when they go to balls?' From every part of the country I hear that. I always say in ? answer?" ; "IHd you ever see corsets parked J in dressing rooms?" ' "And I also say. 'What if they did t do it?' I don't want my daughters to'I wear corsets. Miss Glyn says that I the girls are trying to appeal to the [ senses of men when they wear so J few clothes. Well they would have J been in her day but not now. She j J says girls are lazy and idle and do J nothing but kiH time. There never j was a time when they did so many things. They are athletic, they swim j. and take part in all sorts of athletic !JJ sports and they can't see that it | makes any difference if they wear J short skirts on the street after they I have been wearing them on the I beach. It is only the froth and dregs ? of our girls who are not worth while; ? the rest of them are everything { that they should be. [ "Yes, I'll admit they do have J some petting parties, but they only J <b in public now what tfcey used to do in private and then they deceived and cheated, and that was the worst ? of all for it affected their characters. J And think of all the kissing games there used to be for the young pro- J pie! I "Elinor Glyn says the girls won't U study and they have no religion. L .Now that is an wrong again, i Know y that at the George Washington Col- |j lege in Washington their biggest sessions are those that begin at 5:30 in S the afternoon for the girls in the 5 Government offices. The girls are 3 wild to learn and they are taking 3 up domestic science with their other 3 studies. 'P iEARS OF PLOT TO BOMB CHICAGO POST OFFICE ^hief Fitzmorri? Rushes. Detective) To Guard Building, But Nothing Happens Chicago, Oct. 14. Following a earning received early this morning hat the Chicago Post Office was tc e blown up, more than one hundred leputy United States Marshals, SeO ./* * ?** rv ftOrtM + rt nM/J vvTll* AS* . ItZL OCT! V IV.c: ?iiu V1WJT lan stood watch over the building to revent a recurrence of the fata] ombing of September 4, 19i8. Up a a late hour tonight no bomb was ound. Chief of Police Fitzmorris, in pening his mail, came across a letsr written in Italian. When transited it proved to be warning to the ffect that the writer knew of a plot 3 blow up the building on October 3. The Chief immediately ordered everal squads of men to guard the uilding. A thorough search was made of the >epartment of Justice, but no exploive of any kind was found. All of he entrances to the buliding were ntire building by agents from the matched by men, and every person ntering with a package was made to isplay the contents. The parcel post secilon was espeially well guarded. Charles Nagle, custodian of the 'ederal Building, announced tonighl hat a strict watch will be kept foi he next few days, and that no one arrying packages will (be allowed or be elevators in the building. The Australian government paid s soldiers the best salaries during le World War. R I Frocks t j Sm fi 5 jj BECAUSE its fabr jj ing new frock must fj eration. Fashion o G its texture be not o p touch, but it posses fi interpret the lines c fi must be brilliantly 5 tinted. Wherefore,' C HTVinfnTrnv> ifo M WHaLCVCl 1 Lo jj selection from the Is C son & Henry's in a | crepes and novel w< 3 deeply shimmering ?j ish. Crisply chic Ts 5 patterns in tub silks fj Suits ? R At worth while savi | All of the most ws 5 everv Coat and Suit 1 , v : ] but once in a season ! 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