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    THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3. 1918
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te them. Addreaa cbaafed aa of tea aa reejueated. -
That Liberty' loan parade is open to every
body who can walk. Take a short stroll for Old
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jiory.
I Incidentally, don't forget that million dollar
ichool bond issue must be ratified by popular
s vote next Tuesday.
Save, the wheat flour; remember the French
soldiers are fighting en short rations, and de
fend on us even for that. .
Details of events on the plains of Ficardy add
luster to alt the allied arms. Heroism never
reached to greater heights than 'there, . ,
Of course, the name does not suggest any
thing in particular, but General Payoff has been
authorized td 'organize the bolshevik army.
Do you suppose 'the two bodies at Lincoln
have renewed the old-time understanding that
one or the other would kill any measure both ob
jected to? ' ;.: Y ' 1
Our own ordnance experts have designs for
a gun that will shoot 105 miles, but -Hvhat ' the
country really would like to see is a few guns
that can be used in battle. , , v
, rsftj-
One of the worst things' charged against Bill
'Ure is intimate ,. association with "Fee-grabber
Bob" Smith. Mr. Ure, however, doubtless realizes
that this is a liability instead of an asset.
, 'Another miller, who thought the food regu
lations did not Mean what , they say has lost
dis license1. In , time the dealers on food wifl
, find out that rules are rules, and apply to all alike.
I The kaiser regrets very much the, fact that
my church should be hit, but if the French will
Insist on having these sacred edifices It is their
own lookout if they are destroyed in the process
f establishing kultur. :'. ".;
So far the democrats at Lincoln show1 no sign
of intent to modify the ridiculoussproposal for
extending to alien enemy voters the right to
participate in the election of two more legislatures,
two more" congresses and another president. One
Kuess as to why this is so. , ,
The; action of the, state senate, snuffing out
the resolution to ratify the national prohibition
amendment because not included in the gover
nor's special session proclamation, probably also
snuffs out the threatened resolution of censure
on Senator Hitchcock for his pro-German activi
ties and katser-lick-spittung performances. (
Strengthening Control of Food.
The federal government appeals to be mov
ing steadily to control of the great meat packing
industry, that it may have1 more directly over
sight of production and distribution of meats,
Hrtur far ttiia will r Yrnrlr1 i nr nflitn,ji
the growing of meat animals is yet to be de
termined. Up to now the only effort at price
fixation in this line has been assurance that hogs
would not be permitted to go below $15.50 per
hundred pounds of live weight. This decision
was reached at a time when food and other Items
of cost were high, and perhaps will be modified
if any recession of prices occurs. Live, stock men
are urging that some guaranty be given them of
assured profit on what they produce. It may be
brought about Jhat the government will take
cogpizance of all circumstances, and through
'assuming control' of the great packing houses
- do something in the way of establishing prices
for live stock. Whether" this is desirable must
be developed. What experience the country al
ready has had in this line has not been entirely
satisfactory. Closer control of foods, both for
source and distribution, may be necessary, but,
with profiteering eliminated, something must be
left to the, operation of the normal laws of trade,
WHEN THE FLAG GOES BY.
A correspondent writes to The Bee, comment
ing on the fact that while a parade went along
the streets of the city lately, only a dozen men
saluted the flag as it passed. He notes the act
that one young army officer and one former
National Guard officer were among those remiss
in doing reverence to the colors. This is con
trasted against the. action of School patrons in
forcing a young woman to resign as teacher for
failure to salute the flag because of her religious
scruples. Here is cause for sober' thought
When the flag goes by 100,000,000 people go
by, in their strength and majesty. The Declara
tion of Independence, the Emancipation Procla
mation, the Monroe Doctrine, all the history and
achievements of our great country go by when
the flag passes. The hope of freemen every
where, the happiness and safety of our homes,
the preservation of justice and liberty in all the
world, our past and our future greatness and
prosperity are wrapped up in that flag. It means
all that our nation ever did or ever can mean.
When the American citizen salutes the ban
ner of his country he does homage only to him
self. The act i simple, requires no posing,
exacts no tribute save that of self-respect.
Let us hear a little , less of compelling
foreigners to kiss the flag until Americans get
so they can lift their hats when the colors go
by on the occasion of formal parades. The man
who can not reverentially uncover to Old Glory
has no right to chide an alien for lack of pa
triotic impulse.
Treasury War Operations.
Some figures from the Treasury department
may te of interest in connection with the drive
for the third Liberty loan, 'soon to commence.
The public mind is bewildered with the talk of
billions that have been or are to be expended in
connection with the war; financial operations
having kept pace with military maneuvers, on a
scale far beyond comprehension of common
mortals.
The ordinary expenditures of the govern
ment from July 4, 1917, to March 16, 1918, were
$4,233,261,000, or over $13,000,000 a day. These
futures do not include $3,621,830,000 loaned to our
allies, a good investment, nor $22,000,000 used to
purchase bonds of the farm loan banks, another
good investment. Total disbursements of the
government for the period mentioned were $11,
274,575,000. Actual expenditures on war account
amount to a little more than three and one-half
billions of dollars.
The receipts of the Treasury in, this same
time were $11,017,257,000, derived from all
sources, including bond Sales and issuance of
certificates of Indebtedness. Revenue to the esti
mated amount of $2,500,000,000 will be due June
15: some of this already has been paid into the
Treasury, but by far the largest part is yet to fe
collected. Bonds, certificates of indebtedness,
war savings certificates and thrift stamps had
been Issued by the Treasury, up to March 12 in
the amount of $8,560,802,052.96.' Appropriations
for the War department since the declaration of
war total $7,464,771,756.48, ' and ' of this $3,006,.
761,907.15 had been withdrawn fi-om the
Treasury, For the navy appropriation amounting
to $1,905,620,919 was made, and $1,881,000,000
expended. , -
In announcing the loan, Secretary , McAdoo
called attention to the fact that expenditures had
fallen slightly below estimates, and gave it as
his opinion that the sum asked would be ample
for Treasury requirements for the remainder of
the calendar year. This, however, is but con
jecture, and may not be borne out by experience.
The figures are eloquent and require little em
phasis other than is carried by, them.
Seizure of the Dutch Shipping. ,
In order to fully understand the protest of the
Dutch against the seizure of their shipping by the
United States and Great Britain, two points
must be realized. Greatest of these is that it
has been Germany that has sought to prevent
traffic at sea, neutral as well as belligerent; that
it is German power that has been exerted to shut
off food and other supplies from neutral nations,
We are fighting for the freedom of the seas J Ger
many is .seeking to establish control of the wa
terways of the earth. 'The other point is that,
while Holland no doubt was under duress , of
German threats, its course towards the United
States had become decidedly unneutral, In with
holding ships from service because they did not
care to risk German displeasure, the Dutch as
sumed the atttyude in which Americans would
have found themselves had the Hitdicock resolu
tion for an embargo on munitions been adopted,
by congress. If that had gone through, Germany
would have been victorious long ago. If the
Dutch ships had been permitted to remain idle in
harbor1, they would thus have contributed to the
stalemate at which the, Germans now aim. The
action of the 'American government in thismat
ter is in conformity to international law, embod
ied, in The Hague agreements. Holland is in a
most embarrassing situation, but it tne uutcn
were to show sime firmness towards the Ger
mans it might support their present protest
against America with more of dignity.
The U-boat has not been entirely overcome
but Jhat is no reason for despair. Rather, it
should encourage us to greater efforts.
, Underground In Nq Man's Land
Vast System of Tunnels and Gallerks on Battle Front
Philip Gibbs in London Chronicle.
I went out into a world the other dav I there were little white shoots from these
where no shells, bursting high or bursting
low can have any effect upon our men who
live there.
No German barrage can "put the wind
ud. because m this, world there is no wind.
Visibility may be good or bad, but the enemy
has no observation here, though he is on
top all the time.
1 went out into No Mans land bevond
our lines, and was as as safe as in the Strand
at home, though only a few yards away from
the enemy's outposts. Fqr this world into
which I went, leaving the blue of the sky
and the noise of things that "go off" sud
denly, was deep underground. ,
It is a place oT loner calleTies. 60 feet be
low the outside earth, in which one may
walk for hours and hours and not come to
the end of them. I walked for hours and
hours, and my guide, who knows these tun
nels blindfold, pointed to the entrancef an
other gallery and said, "That leads 'to an
other part of the front, and would take an
other day to explore."
My guide was one of the, officers of the
Australian Tunneling company, which dur
ing the past two years has done a great part
of the work in boring the subterranean sys
tem below some section of our battle line.
They are mostly miners from the goldfields
of western Australia hard, tough, fellows
with a special code of their own as regards
their ways of discipline and work, but ex
perts at their job, and with all their pride in
u ana a courage wnicn woum irignten ine
devils of hell if they happened to meet in
the dark.
When thev first came over with their
plant the Germans were mining actively un
der our lines and blowing up our infantry in
the trenches. It (was the worst terror of
war before poison gas came, and I used to
pity our poor officers and men wqo knew,
and hated .to know, that the enemy was sap
ping his way under them, and that at any
moment they might be buried in a crater or
hurled sky high. '
It is many months now since the enemy s
mining activities were reported in our com
muniques. They were beaten out of the field
by British, Australian, Canadian, and New
Zealand miners, who fought the Germans
back underground from gallery to gallery,
blowing them tip again and again whenever
they drew near, and racing them for the
possession'of the leads whenever they tried
to regain part of their destroyed systems. ..
I he Australian tunnelers had a race with
the German then, and the lives of many men
depended on their speed. They could hear
him tamping or charging the mine. But they
drove- in at three times his speed of working
when they are "all out" they can do that
every time blew in the ends of one of his
galleries, and then broke through his timber
into the tunnel.
The dash through of the Australian tun
nelers With rifles and revolvers was art ex
citing adventure. The enemy had escaped,
but their system" was destroyed before they
could touch off their mines.
The Germans know now that thev are
beaten underground, and it is an hoior of
which this Australian company is proud that,
apart from their own casualties, not a single
imaniry soiuicr oi ours nas lost nis me ay
hostile mining since they challenged the en
emy and beat him in this part of the battle
front. ;
It Is an uncanny thirtg to walk through
this subterranean world. It reminded me
yesterday of. "The Tim'e Machine," by H. G.
Wells,, where the traveler in the fourth di-
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mension goes aown tnc enait ana discovers
the underground oeonle. and hears the throb
-of mighty engines and, feels the touch of sof
bodies in the darkness.
It was dark in the beginning of the tun
nels, and down some of the galleries running
out to the fighting points, and men pressed
against the chalk walls to let us pass, and I
heard their breath, and sometimes there was
the clank of steel hat against steel hat.
Here and there for 500 yards or so the
tunnel roof was so low that one had to walk
half doubled, and even then hit one's head
sharply against the timber props. A candle
held by the man in front was the only light
jn the blackness. But presently the under
ground world became more spacious and
lightened. A tall man could walk upright,
and long galleries were tit by bulbs of elec
tric light.
On each side of the galleries were rooms
caryed out of the chalk. They were fur
nished with wooden tables and benches, and
the miners were playing cards there. A
fuggy smell 'and a dampish mist crept to
wards us, and . my guide said, "There are
a good many men hereabouts."
Through holes in the chalk walls I looked
into caverns wher men lay asleep in bunks.
The voices of men, yawnings and hummings
and whistlings came through chinks in the
rock, to the silence of the galleries. Later
on. after much more walking, there was a
queer thrbbbing and whirring, and in a big
vault was a power house, with three electric
engines providing the light of the galleries,
Not far away was a room from which a
force heat came and a smell of good food
cooking. It was. the kitchen, with big stoves
and ovens, where meals were being cooked
bv sweltering men within a few yards of the
front-line trenches. In a little while a' big
electric fan will blow a draught through the
kitchen and take awav the heat.
' In other rooms were field dressing sta
tions, and we came to a subway with trolley
lines, down which the wounded are brought
V r . ... r .M i ,t.. .1
irom iqe oaiiieneiu up auovc, su mai mcic
is none of that stumbling and drooping and
danger of death on the way, as when
Stretcher bearers have to carry men over
shell cratered land and- down narrow
trenches under fire.
The roofs of the tunnels were richly
colored with a reddish fungus, which hangs
down like stalactites, and by a queer freak
nf life which oersists by the stubborn desire
of nature some of the square planks used for
propping up the galleries had sprouted, and
We went deeper down and further for
ward. In one room men were listening like
telephone operators, but the instrument in
their ears tells stranger tales than those that
travel along overhead wires. They were lis
tening to the sounds of German life, in other
tunnels like these, the sounds of men walking
and talking and filling sandbags and moving
timber.
The listeners are so expert that they can
tell by the nature of the sounds exactly what
the enemy is doing through a chalk wall 70
feet thick. Their knowledge of the enemy
life is so exact by this means that when they
captured some of his galleries they found
them exactly as they had mapped them out
beforehand by the indications of sound.
Presently we' went into one of the fight
ing points driven out beyond the lateral gal
leries. And my guide said: "Here we will
be quiet, because we don't want the enemy
to get suspicious. We are now 'out in No
Man's land."
It was a safe, and pleasant way of wan
dering into No Man's land. The war
seemed a world away. It was only some
hours later, after a good lunch with good
fellows in the bowels of the earth, when we
came up to the surface of the earth and saw
the sky again and the dreary waste of the
battlefield and heard the cry and crash of
scattered shells that we remembered our
whereabouts and this business above ground.
The Australian tunnelers live below
ground for the greater part of their life, and
some of them have the pale look of men who
are Out of the light In their spare time
down below they play cards, and yarn of old
days in the goldfields, and carve laces m tne
chalk, as one man had carved the face of
Shakesoeare "Old Bill." as he called him
Thanks From Boy Scouts.
Omaha, March 30. To the Editor
of The Bee: At a meeting of the
executive board of the Omaha Boy
Scouts Friday noon I, was directed
by a unanimous vote In behalf of the
board to extend to you our sincere
thanks and appreciation for the splen
did co-operation you have rendered
with those interested in the Boy Scout
drive, which came to such a fine, suc
cessful close Tuesday aight. Realizing
as we do the shortage of space due
to big war news, we feel that you
gave us an exceptional amount of
room In your columns. Again thank
ing you for your co-operation, I re
main. C. II. ENGLISH,
Scout Executive.
pxartlv like the Stratford bust.
It is a strange life in this modern world
below the fields of death, and there is a
sinister purpose at the end of the. tunnels,
but these men, by their toil and courage with
picks and explosives and listening instru
ments, have saved the lives of many hundreds
of British soldiers, and long after the war is
finished this underground world of theirs will
remain as a memorial of their splendid
labor. ' ' '
Prices of Farm Products
After, War
From- the point of i view of the German
propagandist it is good service to discourage
farmers in North America from extensive in
crease in ' crop production. It is easy to
point to the wheat that is being held in
Australia and predict an era of low prices,
immediately after the war comes to an end.
In view of its many activities for the wel
fare of Berlin, it is surprising if the German
American Alliance has overlooked this field
of propaganda. f
Farmers should, be, impressed with the
fact that there is a war and. after three years
and a half of fighting, no basis exists on
which peace could, be founded. The western
allies realize today, better than ever before,
that a peace made now coulq only be a tier
man peace, with all their sacrifice of life and
savings losit. This country has but one war
aim the complete overthrow of Prussian
militarism. Peace cannot come until that
end is secured, It may take years; nobody
knows. But in the meantime we have -but
one duty, and that is to fight. ,
So . long as we tight, tood must be at a
premium. Wheat; meat ana oeans are me
important war foods, and they cannot be
cheap. For this year at least the world's
food must come from. North America. In
another year the United States must pour
men and munitions like a tidal 'wave into
France. .It will tax the shipbuilding enter
prises to furnish the transportation, so that
not many vessels will be sent to Australia
so long as America, only one-iounn tne dis
tance, can furnish the food. '
. Peace does not mean an immediate re
sumption of industry. Transportation will
be crowded to the limit, and i demobilization
must be a long and tedious' process. Even
then people will have to eat while the work
of rebuilding Europe goes on. The land will
need rebuilding, also before it yields its ac
customed crops. Europe's agriculture will,
prove to be one of the worst hurt victims of
the war. These facts point to high prices for
years after the war. " v
warmers of JNorth America snouia not be
disturbed by disloyal whisperings founded on
lies. ' Prices may be high for years to come.
The man who grasps the , opportunity now
and plants all he can is the one who will win
the prize. Wall Street Journal.
People and Events ,
Observing Monday as a foolless day gives
April a patriotic start.
The ashpiles of winter stick to the lap
of spring. The shameless things! "v
1 Congressman La Guardia of New York
City, also aviator for Italy, comes out for re
election next fall on an "anti-yellow, anti
socialistic, anti-German and true-blood-American
platform." The hyphens in this
case ring true. Viva, La Guardia 1 .
Joseph L. Bristow, former United States
senator from Kansas, once more throws his
ha.t in the senatorial ring. Joe promises to
dd things if he gets in. He is not for war
now that the country is in it, but wallops
the War department in front and rear.
A revolution h taxation impends in Mis
souri. Assessed valuations of real and per
sonal property reported by 1 14 counties to
tal $3,236,000,000, which is estimated to be
85 per cent greater than the valuations of
1916. The State Board of Equalization, now
at wbrk on the returns, is said to plan a fur
ther boost of $750,000,000. St. Louis city
and county and Kansas City and Jackson
county are assured a, lift calculated to pro
duce a succession of screams in the tax-dodg-
ing belt. (
Right You Are, Mr. Welch.
Omaha, April 1 To the Editor of
The Bee: A few weeks ago a young
woman - was discharged from her
position as a teacher in a public
school " because she rerusea to sa
lute the flag." She was a member of
a sect known as "Soul Sleepers."
On the Saturday afternoon of the
parade of Boy Scouts recently, Scout
Executive English and myself march
ed directly back of the scouts carry
ing the flags. -
We decided to each watch his side
of the street for salutes to the flag
and in the entire line of march of
about 40 blocks we counted exactly
12 men in civilian clothes who re
moved tftejr hats or in any way recog
nized OldXJlory as it passed.
Now, I know it does not necessa
rily mean that a man is unpatriotic
because he does not salute the flag,
but I would not expect an unpatri
otic man to do so, and if every pa
triot does it we can see where and
who the others are and it is mighty
encouraging to the soldiers, sailors,
Scouts and other citizens to see it
done.
We were asked in a recent address
to do everything we can to show our
patriotism so that our enemies will
not be encouraged by a show of in
difference. '' '
Would the kaiser be much fright
ened by American patriotism had he
noticed,' or one of his numerous spies
reported, this apparent indifference,
particularity if he had noticed one
second lieutenant of the United States
army and one ex-captain of the Ne
braska National' Guard whom we
passed twice without a salute, thotigh
one major and all other officers and
privates saluted every time?
I believe that a little publicity at
this time as to what is the right
thing to do would receive the hearty
support of the community and there
would be no more "Soul Sleepers."
I would like to see action at once
before the third Liberty loan parade.
Yours for America first,
JOHN W. WELCH.
SMILING LINES.
Mr. Leader I can't do without my ma
tutinal coffee.
Mrs. Newrlch Is that a good brand?
We've tried ao many that are poor Boston
Transcript.
"There's one thing I will say for our na
tional anthem." s s
"What's that?"
"It's a good thing the tune Isn't as hard
to remember as the words are." Detroit
Free Press.
"Flubdub doeen't think much, of Plunlt
vllle hospitality. He's always abusing that
town."
"It's his own fault. I don't know what
he did, but they ha4 to put him In Jail."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Stella Jack Is so strong, dear boy.
Bella How so?
Stella Yesterday I had a letter from him
at the training camp and he said he had
just pitched a tent. Florida Times-Union.
She You're heard of people's hair turtrttig
white In a single night?
Her Maid Yes, miss, but that isn't the
color It generally turns whrn It happens as
quickly aa that. Baltimore American.
One Year Ago Today In the War. .
British House of Commons cheered
the name of President Wilson.
French advanced within two rhiles
of St Quentin on the south and cap.
tured whole German line for distance
of eight miles.
Th rnv VT Celebrate.
Paul B. Burleig-n, banker, and
broker, born 1871. ,-, v. ,
" ' Richard W. Jepseri, grocer, born
1892.
, Harriet Prescott Spofford, author,
born at Calais, Me., 83 years-ago.
John Burrouiha. American natur
alist, born at Roxbury, N. Y, 81 years
ago. - - '
. Reginald De Koven, composer, born
at Mlddletown. Conn.. 57 years ago,
Andrew J. Peters, mayor of Boston.
born at Jamaica Flam, .Mass.,
. years, ago.
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This Day In History.
1755 Simon Kenton, a daring
" Virginia, Died April 2S, 1828.
pioneer of the middle west, born in
1782 General Alexander Macomb,
commander of the United States army,
1 1841, born la Detroit Died in Wash
ineton. D. C Jun 25. 1841. '
1818 Seventeen British barges and
four American Vessels engaged in con-
. filet in Chesapeake Bay.
-1871 Communists were defeated
in severe street fighting in Paris.
1st 8 Thomas F. Bayard, first am
haseador of the United States to Great
Britain, took the oath of office.
J ust 30 Years Ago Today
The annual parade of the city Are
department was an imposing spectacle
and was witnessed by throngs of peo
ple. -', i
George Barker and L. L.
commenced a chess contest
1 Jewell
of five
games in the rooms of the Elk club.
A new sporting organization, to be
christened the Crib club, has been ef
fected and a meeting will be held to
day for the purpose of electing officers
for the current year.
' The South Omaha Base Ball club
has ordered new uniforms for tne sea
on. ; ' ' . '
Tha work of raisin buildings on
th south side of N street to the
proper street grade is tinder headway,
The building of the 12-inch waring
sewer in the alley between Farnam
ni Tinnfflfla' atrets and west from
Fourteenth to Eighteenth street wan
resumed by Major aicvauiey,
Here and There
It costs the United States $167 to
equip an infantryman for service in
France. That la the price paid for
his tools of war only.
Lieutenant Bachpapa of the Italian
army recently attained a height of
T.026 meters (23,048 feet) in an
Italian airplane, mounting to this alti
tude in 65 minutes. This is claimed
as the world's altitude record.
Asphalt, with which so many roads
are payed, was found by accident
Many years ago in Switzerland nat
ural rock asphalt was discovered, and
for more than a century it was used
for the purpose of extracting th rich
ores of bitumen it contained.
The loss of life in the British forces
at the front, from all causes, is only
a little more than 2 per cent a year.
Of the 2,600,000 babies born every
year in the United States, more' than
350,000 die beiore tney are a year
old. That is more than 14 per cent.
There are 160 cities in the United
States with populations in excess of
50,000, and practically every one of
these cities has hundreds of acres of
park land. These park acreages, the
government believes, could , easily
maintain 150,000 sheep each summer.
The annual property loss in the
United States due to lightning, ac
cording to the National Lumber Man
ufacturers'' association, is approxi
mately $8,000,000, chiefly in the rural
districts, while the average number of
persons struck by lightning is 1,500,
one-third of whom are killed outright
and the remainder permanently in
i jured. . r . ' ,
Editorial Snapshots
Baltimore American: Hemp is sug
gested as a good remedy for treachery
and traitors. At any event it would
not give them too much rope. J
Washington Post: If there were
anything in the sayings of Bill Hohen
zollern, providence would soon have
to go on the defensive. ,
Loul8villeCourler-Journal: It is be
lieved that 200,000 Germans have been
killed since Saturday of last week. It
would cleanse the world if such a bat
tle could progress 100 days.
Minneapolis Journal: We have
failed heretofore to measure up to
our promises. Shall we not now go
forward unitedly, unselfishly, deter
minedly to keep them, and more than
keep them?
xiinnonnnlln Trihiina! Germany is
strongly opposed to annexations, but
you Will notice tnat. in tbcujjiiub
boundaries" the grain fields of Russia
and the oil fields of Roumania have
been taken over by tne uerma.ns.
koto Vnrlr Herald: Even to Wash
ington ears the blasts from the Skoda
mm Tuhih i endiriB' its death-dealing
shells into Paris should speak more
clearly of the always obvious attitude
of Austria than do the echoes of Count
Brooklyn Eagle: Hundreds of peo
ple with German names are rushing to
court to have them wiped out They
o thav fast rtl fold shoulder Of SU8-
plcion the moment their names are
heard, ueiore lnmcung uu
many worthy people the military men
rr Roriin miirnt hfiva taken thought
But the last thing they think of is
i German aos9ft , 4 ' 1
Twice Told Tales .
Not Hard to Do.
Th rnnvM-sation in the lobbv of a
Washington hotel turned to the sub
ioft nf cfflr-ltniv. when this haDDV
little incident was related by Senator
George Sutherland of utan:
"One, nvenlnff a vni in or man attend
oil a rirma. whnr one of the bisr fea
tures of the show was a "beautiful
lion tamer. Entering the ring, ioi-
lowed by the lion, the fair charmer
nWnri a. lnmn of suerar between her
lips, which the king of the forest took
from her with his teetn. instantly
the youth sat' up and began to take
notice.
"Great stunt all right.' he en
thusiastically shouted to the per
tnrmar 'hut T ran rln it. tool' -
" nf HMirse aonrnfullv replied the
pretty performer, who didn't like hav
ing her act minimized, out uu job
really think you can?
'Mnst nmiredlv.' was the tirompt
rejoinder of the young man, 'just as
well as the lion.-" tnuaaeipnia
Telegraph. j '
Science With the Bark On.
. a nrnfasanr In an educational Insti
tution of the city was examining some
Students in nygienio science. v
"The great city agglomerations vlti
ara th ntmnsnhere." he ESid. "Mor
biferous germs, escaping from in
habited interiors, contaminate the air
around about In the country, how
ever, the atmosphere remains pure
YI7W I. Vi o t Tnn on'" s 1
'Because,' said Jones, "the people
in the country never open weir win
dows." London Tit Bits.
"That prima donna didn't seem at all
angry?"
''How did you get that Impression?" In
quired the weary manager.
'"She never once raised her voice.-'
"Well, you don't think she'd waste a high
note on me, do you?" San Francisco Chron
icle.
Seeing the Light of Duty
Our easy-going ways, provincial
vision and sugar coated prosperity too
often blind men to the duties and re
sponsibilities of citizenship.
The ca1 of Jacob Schiermann f
Clay county is typical of many prosr
perous farmers who are "loW
awakening and passing from indif
ference to energetic support of war
measures. The Clay County Sun,
which details the story of Jacobs
awakening, ascribes his indifference
to national affairs to localized habits
characteristic of natives as well as
alien born. Some food rules were
obeved, if convenient, others resisted,
"I got a little pigheaded" says Jake,
when he was ordered to return to the
millers 20 sacks of flour which the
family held in excess of immediate
needs. The jolt hurt pride for a while.
It also started Jake's gray matter
working on another tack.
A community rally on war saving
stamps increased the light of pa
triotic duty which Schiermann had
already visioned. He subscribed lib
erally. At the same time a disturbing
thought sank in why give money and
refuse to surplus flour? Loyalty won
and the 20 sacks of flour went to the
county food administrator.
"In addition to this," relates the
Sun, "Mr. Schiermann came in 10 see
us and imform us that just as soon as
his new wheat crop was out of the
ground far enough to give promise of
returning him seed for another year,
he would place on the market at the
prevailing price 200 bushel of choice
seed that he has been saving for an
emergency.
"Thus Jacob Schiermann finished
the story of his introduction to those
higher conceptions of citizenship
which are, as yet, not all clear to
some of the foreign born of this coun
Why the
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tarn Fi fi
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lord uhirh Acscrfhtt
pianoforte construction
fail to conirey a true
idea of musical
(uality.'
To hear
flu? Mason &Hamlh.
is tKc only way to re
alize that it Is a" jewel
of imperisHabe tone"
as distinguished from -instrument?
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you wAy !
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UiiQtfst Praised
1513-1515 Douglas Street
April, 6th, Third Liberty Loan
Drive. Are You Ready?
IS YOUR FAMILY
FREE FROM COLDS
Prospective Emnloyer Why did vou leare
your last place? K
Chauffeur The j,Tiy I worked for went
crazy. Started shingling his house when his
car needed new tires. Boston Transcript.
THE LISTENING PATROL.
PatrlcR MacglU'a "Soldiers' Songs."
With, my bosom friend, Bill, armed ready
to kill, ,
I go, over the top as a listening patrol.
Good watch we will keep It we don't (all
asleep, -
As we huddle for warmth in a shell shov
eled hole.
In the battle lit night all the plain Is alight,
Where the grasshoppers chirp to the
frogs in the pond, t
And the star shells are seen DSnttng red,,
blue and green.
O'er the enemy trench just a stone's
throw beyond. "
s
The grasses hang damp o'er each wee
glowing lamp
That is placed on the ground for a fairy
campf ire, ,
And the night oreeaes wheel where the
mice squeak and squeal.
Making sounds like the enemy cutting
j our wire.
Here ' are thousands of toads In their an
cient abodea.
Each toad on Its (tool and each, stool In
its place,
And a robin aits by with a vigilant eye
On a grim garden spider's wife .washing
her face.
Now Bill never sees any marvels like these,
When I speak of the sights be looks up
with amaze, i
And be smothers a yawn, saying, "Wake
me at dawn,"
While the pustman. from Nod sprinkles
dust In his eyes. '
But these things you'll see if you come out
with me.
And sit by my side In a shell shoveled
hole.
Where the fairy ells croon to the Ivory
moon
When the soldier Is out on a llsttnlng
no, ml .
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