OF PIP GIVEN WILSON British King Dines President at Palace. ALL MOST BRILLIANT Guests Eat From $15,000,000 Worth of Gold Plate Many Diplomats Seated at Festive Board. London. No more regal setting ever had been arranged In Buckingham Palace than that which greeted Presi dent Wilson and Mrs. Wilson when they were escorted to the banquet hall Friday night for the precedent breaking state dinner. Every royal formality which had at tended epochal occasions at the palace for 200 or 300 years was carried out before and during the banquet. Presi dent Wilson, with Queen Mary, led the procession into the dining hall, pre ceded by officials of the palace splen didly costumed, bearing wands and walking backward and making obei sance to the guests. Immediately behind the president and queen came King George and Mrs. Wilson. They were followed by mem bers of the royal family. At the head of the table 12 persons were seated, with King George in the middle. President Wilson sat at the king's right and Mrs. Wilson on his left.' To the right of President Wilson was Queen Mary and then the French-' ambassador, Princess Christian, the Spanish ambassador and Princess Patricia, daughter of the Duke of Con naught. At Mrs. Wilson's left sat Princess Mary, the Italian ambassador, PrinceBS Beatrice and the Japanese ambassador, in the order named. The American ambassador, John W. Davis, had the flrBt place at a side rectangu lar table on President Wilson's right. Queen Mary wore a cream-colored gown of silk with a long train and a tiara of diamonds and many other jew els. Mrs. Wilson's dress was black with spangles and was made at the White House. She wore very few Jew els. The military and naval officers were in service uniforms and wore their swords. The ambassadors were In full ambassadorial uniform. President Wil son and Ambassador Davis wore for l mal American evening clothes. The British civilian guests wore court dreBS and the Insignia of many orders. Prior to the dinner President and Mrs. Wilson wore escorted from their apartments to the great white drawing-room, where the royal' family had gnthored with their other guests. These guests were presented to Presi dent and Mrs. Wilson and the dinner party immediately proceeded to the dining hall. The scene was one of splendor. In the dining salon was a great collec tion of solid gold plalo and huge gold ornaments valued at $10,000,000. Those had been brought from the vaults for the occasion. Food Drive Held Urgent. Washington. Secretary of Labor Wilson has asked the governors of all Btatea to co-operate with him In secur ing the observance of the week begin ning January 20 as a national enroll ment week for the United States Boys' Working Reserve. This organisation, created during the war to furnish an additional agricultural labor supply, must be continued, the secretary said In his appeal to the governors, in order that food production sufficient for the requirements of the world may be secured. Army of Anti Arrives. San Francisco. A fight to the death Is being waged on Pier 46 between an army of entomologists under the direc tion of the State Department of Ilortl culture and an army of Panama black an(s. The multitude, of the little Insects arrived lu a shipment of fruit a few days ago, have spread over the pier, and each one of the vast army Is de vouring 300 times Its own weight In wooden building material each day. Teuton Wealth Flies Out Munich. The Munich Post Saturday printed a startling charge that German war profiteers, unable otherwise to get their booty out of tho country, have resorted to the use of airplanes. Ac cording to the newspaper several air planes have taken securities ot enor mous value from Frankfort to Switzer land. The Post urges the government to selce capital where It Is available, especially in banks. BANQUET El HUNS FIRE ON YANKEE FLAG Riot Starts and 138 Germans Killed Women and Children Suffer. London. Firing by German officers on an allied automobile carrying an American flag was the cause of street fighting in Posen last Friday, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen. The Germans were defeated In the fighting. About 138 persons, Including a number of women and children, were killed during the rioting. The dis patch says: ' "There was severe fighting between the Poles and Germans In Posen .Fri day, which resulted in 38 women and children and about 100 Germans and Polanders being killed. The affray originated as a result of a German officer firing on an allied automobile which was proceeding to Warsaw car rying the American flag. "The Germans Insulted the flag and che Polish guard was called out. The fighting lasted several hours and the Germans were defeated. "A delegation from the British mis sion to Posen protested to the German commander in the town, General 3chimmelfeng, but the German officer leclared that he had no control over the soldiers." Berlin. The Lokal Anzelger's Posen correspondent sayB there was street rioting in Posen Friday evening. Ger man soldiers marching through the town are said to have hauled down entente flags. A company of Polish civilian sol diers proceeded to police headquarters for the purpose of raiding the prem ises. German soldiers with machine guns dispersed the Poles, who are said to have suffered severe losses. Quiet waB restored at night. President Wilson Visits Home of Ancestors Carlisle, England. President Wil son, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, caine to Carlisle Sunday In rain and a cold, penetrating mist to visit the girlhood home of his mother. But the warmth of the greeting of the people of the town and the thousands of strangers from the surrounding coun try more than offset the dreariness of the weather. Large crowds lined the streets and cheered the presidential party lustily as it drove from the station, where the president was received by Mayor Bertram Carr and local notables, to the. Crown and Mitre hotel, where the president signed the free nian's roll. The president visited Annetwell street, where the site of his late grand father's chapel was pointed out to him and the house In Cavendish place that was built by his grandfather. Later ho attended services in the Lowther strtiet Congregational church. Here during the services the Rev. Edward Booth, pastor of the church, requested the president to come Into the pulpit and address the assemblage. This the president did, delivering a short speech in which he touched simply but eloquently on his mother. "Slackers" Show Caliber. Chicago. The "slacker marriages," performed by thousands In the early days of the selective Bervlce luw are "beginning to bear fruit in the form of deserted wives and children," ac cording to Judge WilllamN. Gemmill of the court of domestic relations. The Judge, disgusted by the many tales of woe related by war brides, who have haled slacker husbands, luto court, announced that he would soo thut as many as possible of the cul prits are sent to jull. "When the selective service act came, these fellows hurried to get a murringo llconso and tlieu pleaded that they had dependent wives. Now they are showing their real callbur by deserting the women who kept I hem out of war." School to Be Compulsory. Boise. Idaho. A bill providing that ull persons over 16 years of age who cannot read and write the English language slmll attend night school for a certain number of hours each school year until such knowledge Is attained and making financial provision for such schools in all districts was uu anlmously Indorsed by the members ;ln attendance upon the conference of superintendents and principal and of the executive board of the Idaho State Touchers' association at the closing sessions Saturday. Liquor 8eliurs Is Largs Denver, Colo. Whisky, wine and ehampagnu valued at 4500 was selied In an automobile driven by George Knorr, tu front of his home here Mon day night after a policemsn had fired several shots at hi in. A second auto mobile filled with liquor drove up and also was captured. The police say a search of the Knorr homo revealed contraband liquor valued at from $10. ooo to 112,000. The arrest la the first under the new bone dry law. TO PR0TECTT TRADE FLEET U. S. Shipping Board Will Open Per manent Offices Abroad. Paris. The United States Shipping board has decided to create a per manent world organization for the purpose of handling the government's trade fleet with the greatest effective ness. "We will open at once offices In London, Paris and Rome," said Ed ward N. Kurley, chairman of the board. "From these centers," Mr. Hurley continued, "will be directed 10 or 12 other offices, such as Shanghai, Yokohama and Bombay, in the east; Genoa, In Italy; Buenos Aires, Val paraiso, and Rio de Janeiro, In South America, and at Rotterdam and Ant werp. Take, for example, vessels bringing supplies to Belgium or France. It Is of the greatest import ance that we have a quick turn around. It may be of advantage to reroute a vessel on this side to India or to South Africa. "The London, Paris or Antwerp of' fices would have precise information and be able to consign a ship without lelay for its most efficient use. The subordinate centers are essential properly to direct our national fleet. They will be managed by. practical shipping men who will be assigned to :heir posts from the United States. "There will be no Interference with the War department's handling of ships. The service of supply has real ly done Its work admirably and we hall not have any changes to make In that. Our business will be with the trade fleet." Director-General Rossiter has re ceived instructions to proceed at once to put the plan Into effect. The French, Belgian and Italian govern ments, It is understood, will welcome representatives In their capitals with whom they can deal direct Prominent Russian Denies Czar Nicholas is Murdered Warsaw. "There is no doubt that the Czar and his entire family are alive. I am positive of this," was the declaration made to a correspondent recently by Michael de Tchltchaef, a nephew of General Skoropadskl and who has just escaped from the Ukraine after st recent trip to Petrograd, Dvinsk, Vllna and Povno. "I cannot reveal where the Czar is, because he does not wish It." he added. "He does not care to be bothered and he wants to be left alone. "His whereabouts is known to the al lied governments. ' It Is in a neutral country, Accounts of his murder at Ekaterinburg were manufactured by Trotzky and Lenlne for propaganda purposes. "It took much money and timo and also the lives of many officers to ac complish his escape. Among the of ficers killed was Count Tatichev, the Czar's former personal military at tache, who was shot Instead of the Czar. Documents describing the Czar's escape were in the hands of German Consul Koenlg at Petrograd, who for warded them to Berlin." "Go to Hell" Says Hoover. Washington, D. C Food Adminis trator Hoover, In Europe, arranging relief for the people of the war-devastated territories, has refused In em phatic terms to discuss German food conditions with Baron von der Lanck en and Dr. Hletli, who sought a meet-' lug with the food administrator. In answer to a message for a conference, Mr. Hoover sent this message: "You can describe two and a half years of arrogance toward ourselves and cruelty to the Belgians in any language you may select and tell the pair personally to go to hell with my compliments. If I do have to deul with Germans it will not be with that pair." Noisy Welcome Given Tars. The vocal welcome came later when the rugged, weather beaten tars m ho manned the ships debarked and, with Secretary Daniels and Admiral Mayo at their head, marched down Fifth avenue in the country's first great vic tory parade. Leading civilians in the rheorliix were wounded soldiers returned froml Frsnce. With the memory of 'their! own first anxious voyage still fresh In their minds they paid unstinted tribute to brothers in arms who had guarded them across the Atlantic. French Death Roll Large. Tarls. Announcement was made In the chamber of deputies Saturday that France's losses in officers and men killed up to November 1 ot the present year aggregated 1.0T1.300, divided as follows: Officers, 31.300; men. 1.04'V 000. The number of dead, prisoners and missing wss given as 4 2. too offi cers and 1.7S9.000 men. The mlsslne, segregate 3000 officers and 311.000 men. The prisoners still' living total 446.000. Carolyn CAROLYN'S SUNNY DISPOSITION BEGINS TO HAVE ITS EFFECT UPON AUNTY ROSE. Synopsis. Her father and mother reported lost at sen when the Dunraven, on which they had sailed for Europe, was sunk, Carolyn May Cameron Hannah's Carolyn is sent from New York to her bach elor uncle, Joseph Stngg, at the Corners. The reception given her by her uncle is not very enthusiastic. Carolyn is also chilled by the stern demeanor of Aunty Rose, Uncle Joe's housekeeper. Stagg is dismayed when he learns from a lawyer friend of his brother-in-law that Carolyn has bfem left practically penniless and consigned to his care as guardian. CHAPTER IV Continued. Therefore General Bolivar charged with outspread wings and quivering fan. His eyesight was not good, how ever. He charged the little girl in stead of the roistering dog. Carolyn May frankly screamed. Had the angry turkey reached the little girl he would have beaten her down and perhaps seriously injured her. lie missed her the first time, but turned to charge again. Prince barked loudly, circling around the bristling turkey cock, undecided just how to get luto the battle. But Aunty Eose knew no fear of anything wearing feathers. "Scat, you brute I" she cried, and made a grab for the turkey, gripping him with her left hand behind his head, bearing his long neck downward. In her other hand she seized a piece of lath and with It chastised the big turkey across the Jiaunches with vigor. ' f "Oh, don't spank him any more, Aunty Bose!" gasped Carolyn May at lust. "lie must be sorry." With a final stroke Aunty Rose al lowed the big fowl to go nnd he ran away fast enough. "Your dog, child, does not know his manners. If he is going to stay here with you he must learn that fowl are not to be chased nor startled." "Oh,' Aunty Rose!" begged the little girl, "don't punish Prince! Not not that way. ' Please don't ! Why, he's never been spanked in his lifel He wouldn't know what It meant. Dear Aunty Rose " "I ahnll not bent him, Car'lyn May," Interrupted Aunty Rose.- "But he must learn Ills lesson. He must learn that liberty is not license. Bring him here, Car'lyn May." She led the way to on open coop of laths In the middle of the back yurd. This was a hutch in which she put broody hens when she wished to break up their desire to set. She opened the guto of It and motioned Prince to enter. The dog looked pleadingly at his little mistress' face, then Into the worn nn's Btern countenance. Seeing no reprieve in either, with drooping tall he slunk into the cage. With one hand clutching her frock over her heart, Carolyn May's big blue eyes overflowed. "It's Just as If he was arrested," she snld. "Poor Prince I Hns he got to stay there always, Aunty Rose?" He'll stay till lie learns his lesson," said Mrs. Kennedy grimly, and went on Into the garden. Curolyn May sat down close to the side of the cage, thrust one hand be tween the slats and held one of the doc's front paws. She hud hoped to go Into the garden to help Aunty Rose pick pens, but she could not bear to leave Prince alone. By and by Mrs. Kennedy came up from tho garden, her pan heuped with pods. She looked neither In the di rection of the prisoner nor at Ills little mistress. Prince whined and lay down. He had begun to realize now that this wus no pluy nt all, but punishment He blinked his eyes at Carolyn May and looked as sorry as ever a dog witli cropped ears and an abbreviated tail :ould look. The pens nnd potatoes were cook ing for dinner when Aunty Rose ap penred again. There was the little girl, all of a dewy sleep, lying on the jrass by the prison pen. Aunty Rose would have released Prince, but, ihouch he wagged his stump of a tail it her and yawned and blinked, she !md still her doubts regarding a roon- ;rel s good nature. She cuuld not allow the child to deep there, however; so, stooping, picked up Carolyn May and carried tier comfortably Into the house, laying ler down on the sitting-room couch to tinve her imp out as she supposed, slthout awakening her. Auuty Rose came awny softly and closed the d.ior and while she finished letting dinner she tried to make no mlse which would awaken the child. Mr. Staig enme home at noon, quite is full of business as usual. To tell :h truth, Mr. Stneg always felt bash ful In Annty Rose's presence; and he tried to hide his affliction hy conversa tion. So ha tulked steadily through '.he meal. But somewhere a bout at the pie rourse, It was he stopped and looked ironnd curiously. "West mtV be exclaimed, "where"! daonnh's CarTynF of the BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT "Taking a nap," said Aunty Rose composedly. "Hum 1 can't the child get up to her victuals?" demanded Mr. Stagg. "You begin serving that young one sepa rately and you'll make yourself work, Aunty Rose." "Never trouble about that which doesn't concern you, Joseph Stagg," responded his housekeeper rather tartly. "The Lord has placed the care of Hannah's Car'lyn on you and me and I'll do my share and do it proper." Mr. Stagg shook his head and lost interest In his wedge of berry pie, "There are Institutions" he began weakly; but Aunty Rose said quickly: "Joseph Stngg! I know you for what you are other people don't. If the neighbors heard you say that they:d think you were a heathen. Your own sister's child !" "Now, you send Tim, the hackman, up after me this afternoon. ' I've got to go shopping. The child hasn't n thing to wear but that fancy little block frock, and she'll ruin that play ing around. She's got to have frocks and shoes and another, hat all jsorts of things. Seems a shame to dress a child like her In black It's punish ment. Makes her affliction double, I do say." "Well, I suppose we've got to flat ter Custom or Custom will weep," growled Mr. Stagg. "But where the money's coming from" "Didn't Car'lyn's pa leave her none?" asked Aunty Rose promptly. "Well not what you'd call a for tune," admitted Mr. Stugg slowly. "Thanks be you've got plenty, then. And if you haven't I have, said the woman in a tone thut quite closed the question of finances. "Which shows me Just where I get off at," muttered Joseph Stagg as he He Charged the Little Girl Instead of the Roistering Dog. started down the walk for- the store. "I knew that young one would be a nuisance." Carolyn May, who was quite used to taking a nap on the days thut she did not go to school, woke up, as bright as a newly minted dollar, very soon after her Uncle Joe left for the store. "I'm awfully sorry I missed him," she confided to Aunty Rose when she danced Into the kitchen. "You see, I want to get acquainted with Uncle Joe Just as fast ns possible. And he's at home so little I guess that it's going to be hard to do it." "Oh, Is that so? And Is it going to be hard to get acquainted with me?" asked the housekeeper curiously. "Oh, no!" cried Carolyn May, snug gling up to the good woman aud pat ting her plump bare arm, "Why, I'm getting 'quainted with you fast. Aunty Rosel You heard me say my prayers and when you laid me down on the couch Just now you kissed me." Aunty Rose actually blushed. "There, there, child 1" she exclaimed. "You're too noticing. Eut your dinner, that rve saved warm for you." "Isn't Prince to have any dinner, Aunty Rose?" asked the little girU "You may let him out, if you wish, after you have had your dinner. You can feed him under the tree." Carolyn May was very much excited about an hour later when a ruity closed bsck drew up to the front gate of the Stagg place and stopped. An old man with a square-cut chin mrnSl Corners Copyright, HIS, bj Dodd, Mead ft Company. Inc. whisker and clothing and hat as rusty as the hack itself held the reins over the bony back of the horse that drew the ancient equipage. "I say. younc'un. ain't you out o' ver bailiwick?" queried Tun, the hackman, staring at the little girl in the Stage yard. Carolyn May stood up quickly and tried to look over her shoulder and down her back. It was hard to get all those buttons buttoned straight. "I don't know," she said, perturbed. "Does it show?" "Huh?" grunted Tim. "Does what show?" "What you said," said Carolyn May accusingly. "I don't believe it does." "Hey!" chuckled the hack driver suddenly. "I meant, do you 'low Mra. Kennedy knows you're playing in her front yard?" "Aunty Rose? Why, of course 1" Carolyn May declared. "Don't you know I live here?" "Live here? Get out!" exclaimed the surprised hackman. "Yes, sir. And Prince too. With my Uncle Joe and Aunty Rose." "Pitcher of George Washington!" ejaculated Tim. "You don't mean Joe Stagg's taken a young-'un to board?" "He's my guardian," said the little girl primly. Aunty Rose appeared. She wore a close bonnet, trimmed very plainly, and Carried a parasol of drab silk. Aunty Rose climbed into the creaky old vehicle. . "Are you going to be gone long?" asked Carolyn May politely. "Not more than two hours, child," said the housekeeper. "Nobody will bother you here" "Not while that dog's with her, I reckon," put in Tim, the hackman. ' "May I come down the road to meet you, Aunty Rose?" , asked the little girl. "I know the way to Uncle Joe's store." "I don't know nny -reason why you can't come to meet me," replied Mrs. Kennedy. "Anyway, you can come along the road as far as the first house. You know that one?'" "Yes, ma'am. Mr. - Parlow's," said Carolyn May. Carolyn May went back into the yard nnd sat on the front-porch steps and Prince, yawning unhappily, curled down at her feet ,There did not seem to be much to do at this place. She had time now, had Carolyn May, to compare The Corners with the busy Harlem streets with which she had been familiar all her life. "Goodness me!" thought Carolyn May, startled by her own Imagination, "suppose all .the folks in all these houses around here were dead!" They might have been for all the human noises she heard. "Goodness me !" she said again, and this time she jumped up, startling Prince from his nnp. "Maybe there is a spell cast over all this place," she went on. "Let's go and see If we can find somebody that's alive." They went out of the yard together nnd took the dusty rocd toward the town. They soon came in sight of the Par low house and carpenter shop. "We can't go beyond that said Carolyn May. "Aunty Rose told us not to. And Uncle Joe says the carpenter-man isn't a pleasant man." She looked wistfully at the prem ises. The cottage seemed quite as much under the "spell" as had been those dwellings at The Corners. But from the shop came the sound of a plane shrieking over a long board. "Oh, Princey!" gasped Carolyn May. "I b'lieve he's lnnkintr inn shavings I" - If there was one thing Carolyn May adored it was curls. Suddenly Mr. Jedldiah Parlow looked up and saw the wistful, dust-streaked face under the black hat brim and above the black frock. H i.i . her for fully a fulnute, poising the jjmue Qver nis work. Then he put it down nnd came to the rtnn ne h shop. t "You're Hnnnnh Stnc"9 Vttu rj aren't you?" he asked. YeS. Sir." She Rnlrl iml .1,1, MU OlfeUCU. uenr me, he knew who she was right J-nere would not be any chance of her getting a suit of Jong curls. "You've come here to live, have you?" suld Mr. Tarlow slowly. les, sir. You see. mv nnn mamma were lost at son-ith Dunraven. It was a mistake, I guess," igueu me little girl, "for they weren't fighting anybody. But the nnnrDn got In the way of some ships that were ugiuing, m a place called the Meil terranean oce." and the Dunrawn was sunk, an i only a few fnit. saved from .t My papa and mamma weren't savea." Carolyn learns why her unele nd Amanda Parlow are now so "mad" that they do not speak as they pass each other by. Read all about it In the next Installment tTO US CONTINUED.) When Dame Fortune utterly disregards wat iwrne" dajt. I