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France Hints for U. S. to Cut Debts •"•Poincare Offers to Give Ger many Benefit of Any Cut Made in Amount Due. Ily Associated Press. Paris, Aug. 14.—A "yellow book" of diplomatic documents Issued last night by the French government, brings out clearly that the United .states ultimately would be asked by the allies how much of the interallied debts it expects to be paid. The book contains 37 telegrams and letters, most of them between Pre mier Poincare and French ambassa dors. They are -dated from May 2 to August '3, and deal with the Ruhr situation, reparations, debts and the British questionnaire. Premier Poincare puts his position plainly in a June 12 messnge to the French ambassador In London. He instructs tho ambassador, among other things, to tell Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, that "it is the problem of interallied debts which prevents us from telling Ger many now the exact amount she owes us.” The message adds: "The solution of this problem is in the hands of England, first of all, and the United States afterward. The letter can be approached in a common accord by the allies when they have agreed up on a formula and it has become evi dent everything depends upon tho at titude of the government at Wash ington.” “But we are obliged to tell them,” the premier adds, “we can only pay our debts in proportion as we are paid what Is owed us. If they con sider our debts too high and they .grant reductions and alleviations, we ^111 immediately give Germany the benefit of this. That is to say, we only ask Germany for what we our selves are asked.” Utah Cloudburst Spreads Damage Flood Waters Rampage Through Farm Settlements —Man Loses Life. lly Associated Tress. Salt Lake City, Aug. 14.—Flood waters from the Wastch mountains, rampaging through farm settlements in northeastern Utah last night in the wake of a series of cloudbursts, took a toll of at least one life and caused property damage to farm lands amounting to several hundred thousand dollars. Cdtnlng with startling suddenness and Intensity, the cloudbursts, coupled with severe electric storms, sent great walls of water down low ditches and streams, sweeping through communi ties in Box Elder and Weaver coun ties In Box Elder and Weber coun farm lands. Today the flood had receded at most points almost as suddenly as It arose. Water covered farm sections, upon which last night were swept debris _jyd wreckage, today were nearly dry, “vvith rivers and streams In almost normal flow. * Farm buildings along the course of the streams in Box Elder and • Weber were swept from their foun dations last night and several frame homes were carried down the current, hut no casualties were reported from that section. The storm and the flood struck hardest at Farmington,' 15 miles from Salt Lako. The city was thrown into darkness' when water put the power house out of commission. The only fatality to be reported occurred at that city, Arnold Christensen dying from exhaustion when he attempted to save his little daughter from be ing carried down stream after he had rescued three other members of his family. Christensen’s brother, A. C. Chris tensen, fought his way through the narrow current and lifted the girl safely to shore. Girl Fails in Effort to Commit Suicide Special Dispatch to The Omaha Iter Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 13.—Dis pleased because her parents came from Pleasanton, Neb., to take her home, Myrtle Schumann. 18, attempt ed suicide by taking poison. She came to Grand Island several months ago to attend business col lege and later took a position with T~,*h§(telephono company. In the mean time she stayed with an aunt In this city. After a brief conference with the mother, Miss Schumann rushed up stairs and later opened her door to' the mother and explained that, "I've done It.” Heat Starts Frres in Ietly. Rome, Aug. 34.—Several fires be lieved to be due to the heat wave broke out today In various parts of Italy. At Bologna a hemp works was destroyed. At Flume two warehouses containing straw were burned out. At Torrt Sabini a church containing artistic treasures was burned. New York, Aug. 3 4.—All Italian ex changes have been closed until Aug ust 20, because of the extreme heat, the flnanc'al district learned today. Less Drunkeness. From January 1 to August 14. 1!)22. Omaha police made .1.174 arrests for drunkenness, and during the same period this year 2.7GB arrests on a similar charge appear on the records This information was dug out this morning In response to a letter to Police Commissioner Dan Iiuller from Arthur Pt. P. Pierre, liquor enmmls iloner at Montreal, Can. The commissioner Is checking up figures on prohibition recently pub lished In the New York Times. * Rnldter Binds Woman. Grand Island. Neb., Ang. 14.—An unusual number of robberies bad n ellmax last night when Mrs. AVIlIlam A. Horton was seized, gagged and bound by u robber, who then pro ceeded to gather up the silver. Mrs. Horton had returned from a neigh bor's. finding the men in her house. The silver was later left. on the porch. It Is liellevetl that the man (eared the loot would betray him. EDDIE’S FRIENDS_ l«icli.‘ » Night. | MOJVE &OT./M^ (Zoo'**. SOBEJUST , WEM ^R.FEEDEMAMT^ ^ Bt6AOSt X UaOULDAi'T / TiJEW TJBKJ AROUMD AMO RiM ttT EPDlE. AMD MlS / US LIKE A PAIR OR TORTOISE ' HOODtUM FR.IEMDS ' ^UELL CLASSES c---«£ COMEOUER- WELL ^ AMv/UJAM. n\M FRlfcMDS y'y' -J POM'T Put ti4e.ir (_ I '/y^\ OAJ tMC. CHAIRS AM7] ^ni 'XV'A ’ryROuJ AIGAP, ButYs _J lyv </> 1 all ooer uwe wour [ ' <•-- TRMEKiDS J w s—r Burgess Bedtime Stories By THORNTON \X. BURGESS. It nothin* costa to be polite; At least you'll know that you are right. —Old Mother Nature. The Young Chuck Is Impolite. The Long I,ane begins at Farmer Brown's barnyard. It was toward this end of it that the runaway young Chuck was making his way. By and by he came to where the bushes along the side of the Long Lane ended. The young Chuck stopped and peeped out full of curi osity. He wanted to go on, but he couldn’t without going right out in the open, and his escape from Red tail the Hawk had been so recent that he hesitated about taking any chances. So he sat down just on the edge of the bushes and stared curiously at the many things in Farmer mx.pt jAAdMfifijaES "What are you laughing at?" de manded Old Mr. Toad. f Brown's barnyard, at the big barn Itself, and at Farmer Brown's house over beyond. He couldn't imagine what those things could be, and his feet fairly itched to take him over there that he might see them close at hand. But he couldn't quite make up his mind to leave the shelter of those bushes. He was sitting there staring out with eyes round and full of wonder when he heard a little rustling among the bushes off at one side Full of curiosity, he promptly went to see what It meant. In a shady place he came face to face with the queerest looking fellow he had seen in all his short life. This queer fel low didn't see him. He seemed to be very busy. His bark was humped up, and he seemed to be having trou ble of some kind. Now and then he would stop at what be was doing and rest. Then he would hump his Court Ruling on S. P. to Stand i Government Will Not Appeal Decision Allowing Lease of Central Pacific. Washington, Aug. 14.—The govern ment will not appeal from the recent decision of the United States court at St. Paul. In which It was held that the Interstate Commerce commission had authority to consent to the lease and stock ownership of the Central Pacific railroad by the Southern Pacific railroad. This announcement was made to day by Attorney General Daugherty after several conferences with Presi dent Coolldge. at which were die cussed the various administration poli cies Involved. The proceedings at St. Paul were to enforce the mandate of the United States supreme court requiring the Southern Pacific to surrender Its ownership of the lease and stock of the Central Pacific system. Judges Sanborn, Lewis and Kenyon decided, however, that in the transportation act, which was passed subsequent to the bringing of the original suit by the government, congress had given the 1, C. C. power to approve such a merger despite provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law under which the firat suit was brought. Elliott Ih Assigned. Lincoln, Aug. 14.—Announcement was made here yesterday that United States District Judge James D. El liott of Sioux Kails bus been assigned to hear the Indictment oases against L. B. Howey und L. J. Dunn, offlrers of the City National bank of Lincoln, charged with misappropriation of the fund* of (he bank, , back again and go through the fun niest peformance. Then the young Chuck discovered something so queer that he could hardly believe what his eyes told him really was so. This queer fellow's skin had Split down the back and was beginning to come off. Under neath it was a new skin. While the young Chuck watched, the queer fel low's skin split down his legs and his arms, and one by one he pulled the latter out of the old skin. This was astonishing in itself, hut what was more astonishing was the fact that this queer fellow was ac tually swallowing that old skin of his as fast as it came off. At last he pulled the very last of it over his head and stuffed it into his big mouth. Then he gulped two or three times and that was the last of that old skin. Of course, you have guessed who it was. It was Old Mr. Toad changing his clothes. "Ha, ha, ha"' laughed the young Chuck. "Ha, ha, ha! You are the funniest looking thing I ever saw! Ho, ho, ho! I never knew before that anybody could take his skin off and swallow It.” f At the sound of that first laugh Old Mr. Toad turned and saw the young Chuck for the first time. He was Indignant. He was Indignant be cause he was being laughed at, and he was Indignant because the young Chuck had been impolite as to watch him change his clothes. He was so Indignant that right away ho began to swell up with anger. That made him look funnier than ever, and, of course, It made the young Chuck laugh harder than ever. "What are you laughing at?" de manded Old Mr. Toad,, although of course, he knew perfectly well. “1 don't see anything to laugh at." "Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho! Of course you don't because you don't see yourself,” replied the young Chuck, and laughed ha-der than ever. Mr. Toad became so angry that he fairly choked. Copyright. IttS. The next s:ory: "A L#esson From Old Mr. Toad.” | Rough-Hewn Dorothy Canfield |j <Continued from Vefterdar.) SYNOPSIS. Neale Crittenden. typical American young man. hu* grown up in Ctilontowii. n village near New York city, ha* been graduated from Columbia university and Iuin taken a position with a lumber firm. At college he fell In love with Martha M enthworth. who declined hi* proposal to wed. Mar!ha Is spending a year in Ger many with her rather. N'eale accepts Ills disappointment philosophically and licnds ill* effort* toward success in busl nesN. In France, Marine Allen, about Neale’s age. lives with her American father, wlio I* foreign agent for an American firm. Sim 1* an accomplished linguist and plnni*t. Marine and her father visit Purls, where Marlse meet* an American girl. Kugenla .Mllie, from Arkansas. They go together to M. Vnn doyer. FugenJa’a Instructor In French. A rattier stormy scene take* place when Ftigcnia expresses dissatisfaction with the instruction she Is receiving, and M. Van ilo> er tells her he w ill find another In structor for her. Alarfse’s piano teacher. Mme. de la C'ueva. urge* her to spend a year studying In Homo with an old music | master. “You see, carissima. mea, In love I a man always keeps most of himself for himself, as in ever; thing rile. You must <lo the same If you are not to be cheated in every bargain that life o<Ters you. It is a hard lesson to learn. It will cost you many tears. But tears are valuable. You cannot live and be an artist, without tears. Shed them freely and ydu will see how you will grow.” She kissed the girl and dismissed her, with another look at her watch, and then into the mirror. Marlse stumbled down the stairs, a little dizzied by the sudden re moval of that pressing, urgent, mag netic personality. To step out sud denly from under it, was like step ping Into a vacuum. Her ears rang. At the street door she paused, wait ing for the mist to clear from before her eyes. She peered out Into the quiet street, as if she were looking into life itself, the life that Madame de la Cueva had so magestically set before her. And she loathed in an ticipation everything that was wait ing for her there. With a long breath she stepped into the street, Into the road that stretched before her. She held her head high, with an angry pride. The concierge soul of the world must never know what was Inside her life. The thing to do, the only thing she saw that was tolerable to do, was to take care that she was not being fooled. Well, she thought with a grave, still bitterness, she certainly ought to knoW something about that. THE END OF AM, ROADS. CHAPTER XVI. 1903. Neale sat idly in front of the black and-white facade of the Orvieto ca thedral, trying idly to make up his mind on a matter of no Importance whatever and not getting on very fast. In his pocket was his ticket back to New York, and his ship sailed In a week. But, of course, it did not sail from Orvieto. Should he go south to Naples where most of the passen gers took ship? If he did, he could stop over four or five days in Rome. It might be interesting to revisit Rome. Or should ho go north to Genoa, where the ship was due to stop the day after leaving Naples? He took a coin out of his pocket. He'd toss us. Heads for Naples,, tails for Genoa. The coin flashed up In the sun, and fell on the stone steps. Neale stooped over It. Heads, Naples. All right. He'd In quire when he got to Rome if they didn’t perhaps run a boat-train down, Just before sailing time. As he was unstrapping his suitcase that night in his room in the Roman pension, it did not greatly surprise him to have Livingstone knock at the door and step in. Livingstone had been at that pension before, during Neale's first leisurely sauntering visit to Home; Livingstone had turned up at the pension in Florence before Neale left; he had run across Living stone in a Paris cafe sitting alone at a table, looking as much like an attache of the embassy as he could manage. Livingstone was no tourist, but one of the professional inhabitants of Europe; an American, that much he admitted, though neither hints nor direct British questioning had ever extracted from him his birth place in the states. "Hello, Crittenden,” he said, "It is you, is it? When Michele told me you had turned up again, I was sure he must be mistaken. I understood you were on tile high seas, on your way back to the land of the free and the home of bad cooking." Without being invited, he sank down in a chair to watch Neale un pack and wash, asking, "You were going back to New York, weren’t you?" "Yes, I still arn. I'm only in Rome for five days. But I won’t be long in the states. I’ll be on my way to China and the east." Livingstone was mildly Interested. “You don’t say go! Well, you might really get there by starting off to New Y'ork. But I admit I don’t see the connection. Why don’t you take a P. and O. for India?” "A little business to attend to first. A small inheritance to cash in on.” “Inheritance!” cried Livingstone, sitting up straight. "The very word makes my mouth water. Why doesn’t that ever happen to me?” The ex pression on his face was like that of the loungers In front of the cathe dral when they heard the coin drop. Through the lather of soapsuds on his face, Neale laughed. "A very two for-a-cent inheritance. An old great uncle I hardly knew—never saw him but once or twice, years ago when I was a kid. left mo his home and his little old-fashioned saw mill and a wood working plant, hack up at the end of nowhere in Vermont.” "No money!" sympathized Living stone. "But then of course you can sell all that for something. But no real money at all?” "There's what he had in the sav ings hank—about 54,000, the executor writes. Just enough to do nothing at all with." Livingstone made*a mental calcula tion. "I wouldn’t wonder if you might get 450 a month out of the whole thinfg. And that's enough. Ma fol! That’s enough if you cut comers a little. I only have 85. And then you can always give an occasional English lesson to piece out. You won’t need ever to do a lick of work or ever live in the states. Mes fe "That’s no fish story! | It’s the best cigarette. I ever tasted.” ’SMS' i* BH OUt We IT***'that hone*' d in >"• "55* llcltations! That’s the life! You'll be knowing Europe as well os I do. next. How Boon will you be back?" "I’m not coming back,” said Neale, buttoning on a clean collar. "When I’ve cashed in and got what I can out of my uncle’s business I’m going overland to San Francisco, and from there to the east.” Livingstone considered this, “Well, they do say that Chinese cooking Is superexcellent once you get used to it.” "I’m not going for the cooking ” "No? What are you going for?” “Oh, I don’t know.” said Neale rather sharply. “Because I feel like it. □ shouldn't I?” ingstone perceived that he had run on a hidden reef and backed off. “Don’t you want to come on into the salon and let me present you to the crowd?” he asked standing up and moving towards the door. "Since you were here some awfully nice people have come over from the Pen sion Alfierenti. Poor old Altlerenti died suddenly and his place is shut up for the present.” “No, thanks,” said Neale. "I’m go ing up on the roof for a smoke before I go to bed." ”Oh, yes," Livingstone remembered, “you always did prefer the terrazza and your solitary pipe to the society of the ladles. Well, there is a nice view from up there; but between a view and a pretty girl who could hesitate?” "Who, Indeed?" said Neale, dryly, going off up the stairs. Well, so here he was in Rome—just as if something had pushed him here, where least •of all places he had expected to find himself again. Odd that his year of travel should end with a second visit to the first Euro pean city that had stirred his imagi nation, that had given him a hint of what it was he had come to Europe to see. It was during his first stiy in Rome that he stopped being a dumb, Baedecker-driven tourist, that he first got the idea of what Europe might teach him better than America could. It was here that he first thought of trying to get from Europe some idea of what men during a good many centuries had found worth doing. For,‘unlike America, Europe was "The only thing not to do, the only mistake possible to make, is to stand shivering on the beach, not to plunge in and breast the waves. Breast the waves!” she showed by a wide gesture of her powerful arm what she meant. "And you can't swim with any thing or anybody hanging around your neck. The moment they begin to weigh on you . . . p-f-f-t! off with them! Nothing you can do will help people who can’t swim themselves. They'll only drag you down with them. "My dear child, remember this, that if there is an element in life fateful to the free human soul it is what is called permanence. The only per manent thing any human being should recognize is his tomb. From everything else he must climb out and go on, go on. "Above all, beware of permanence in love. It is a paradox ever to speak of love and permanence in the same breath. Life and death! They can not exist together. Woman as a rule, ail women who are not artists, make their mistakes that way. You are a woman now, and an artist. It Is the duty of an older woman and an aitlst to warn you against it. The only way not to be a life long victim of men is to take love as they It . . . for the pleasure. Men wish nothing from love hut their pleasure. It IS a vain and foolish striving to try and give them more, or to try and get more from them.’’ She took another eclair and said on a softer note, "J don't deny that women are more naturally given to the folly of seeking permanence In love than men. I myself have a weak ness in that direction." Marine looked down Into her cup to hide an in voluntary smile at this. "Each tinia 1 love, the illusion is that it Is now for eternit. Each time the wrench t*osts me tears. ... You saw my tears, my dear! “No. the only thing to do is to use It. as men do, to feed one's art. You heard how superbly 1 played that J-iszt' That Is Georges, that is the new flair- leaping up from a lamp that was burning out.” She poured another cup. and sea soned it with < are. Marine ventured to say mildly. "I’m afraid I'm rather cold. 1 don’t ... I haven't evar cared much for men." (Continued in The .Morning lire) 'T'H I> a SHyENTH _jDE?Am<A On the Screen Today. Sun—“A Tailor Made Man.” Moon—"Trailing African Wild Ani mals." World— Your Friend and Mine." Strand—"The w'oman With Four Faces." Rialto—"Rucmles of Women." Muse—"Divorce." Victoria—"When Danger Smiles.” Grand—"Doss of Camp 4." [AT THE THEATERS HOW does he do it? That la the nutation beilng a.-Ked around town about Hadji All. the unusual attrac tion at the World *th'* week Hadji actu ally accomplished what ae*-ms to be an lmpowiibiiuy He will submit to examina tions by physicians or others to prove that n swnllovring various article* he Ja indeed * "human ostrich.” Nancy rair whw« lever impersonations ore scoring a hit is a former Omaha girl who has achieved success in New York shows. Wal ter Hastings wng* comedy songs to such advantage :hat ne if. in theatric*! par ance. "stopping the show"' The entire six-act bill is lively and full of song, dance ar.d mirth. The World Road show with Francis Renault as the head.lner starts Saturday. Keep the paint brushes in turpen tine between usings. $200 Per Year and Self Help HIGHLAND COLLEGE Located in N. E. Kansas Pre-engineering. Pre-law and Pre-medical courses. Two years* university work. Fully accredited. Expenses low. Address J. L. 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