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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
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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. ,
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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\
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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
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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.
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Utah Judge Says Mormons Should
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Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 16.?
Any members of the Mormon Church
who have plural wives still living
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; declared Judge Page Morris, Minne?
sota Federal Judge, who is presidI
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