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Bought your Liberty bond yet? Don't delay.
' Dynamite under an Omaha bridge is another
: proof that no ipiexare in action in this country.
The democratic senator from Nebraska is
more than worried; he feels the crown of martyr
dom settling where hiSylaurels formerly rested.
Holland seems to be getting its Dutch up at
last. The Netherlands have been quite patient
with the kaiser, but too much seems to be
' enough. '
.
f Ludendorff says . France has dug its own
p grave, but he -does not appear to realize that
la brave people-would rather be entombed than
;. enslaved. "
When a Methodist minister can say "Amenl"
to a curse on the kaiser it is poor time to ask
, tolerance for men who apologized for the
Lusitania. ,
;l Putting in your coal for next winter ahead
of time helps two ways. It will keep the miners
I busy during the summer .and stave off worry
. next fall. "
, Mayor J'Jm" is not letting any grass grow
guilder lnVfeet, as his assumption of control of
;the police department indicates. But then some-
body had to be head.
4 "Dave" Francis is to be rescued from the bol
'Isheviki and made United States senator from
'.'Missouri, thus securing the people of that state
!J!one truly loyal man in the senate.
A genuine sense of sorrow is felt in The Bee
office over the death of "Harry Hunter, who
; was for many years connected with this paper
in capacity of reporter, city editor and editorial
writer. Those who worked with him recall many
i - happy incidents of the association, and recount
numberless stories of his work and. ways,
ij Journalism lost a faithful worker when V. H.
; " Hunter passed on.
! ' British Naval Activity.
Certain sigfy point to a possible greater activ
ity on part of the British navy. The "grand
, fleet" has not been inactive, but has followed a
1 ' definite program from the beginning of the war.
' It has kept the German fleet pretty well cooped
up in the fastnesses of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven,
saving commerce from the danger of surface
' piracy at least. It met the only serious attempt
to emerge with vigor and won a decisive victory
; at the battle of Jutland. Since then the kaiser's
' sea warriors have shown no inclination to try
- conclusions with the waiting Britishers. Now it
looks-as if something more aggressive were to
v be attempted by the navy. It has not been ex
pedient to risk disaster, because of the terrible
consequences a defeat would entail, but the
( challenge of a German threat to venture out
once more is readily accepted. Cleaning up the
Skagerack, plugging the fairway at Zeebrugge
i- jand Ostend and similar bits of preparation show
"that men who watched the North Sea for the
last four years still are vigilant, and will not be
f caught napping. German seizure of the channel
ports will not be accompanied by ari immediate
'descent of German troops on British soil.
TOLERATION FOR HITCHCOCk.
A defender has sprung up to champion the
cause of Senator Hitchcock in his 'pTt.tnson
to the chairmanship of the senate's committee
on foreign relations. This is Samuel Unter
myer, New York lawyer, who, speaking at Tren
ton last Friday, without naming the. senator, re
ferred to him as "one of the ablest and most cour
ageous men in the United States senate," apolo
gizing for his prewar record in the senate.
In order that the value of this defense may be
fully appreciated, it is only fair to state that
Mr. Untermyer was the chief counsel for de
fense of Captain Boy-Ed and Captain von Papen,
German spies, convicted in New York. The plea
he makes for tolerance of Hitchcock he made for
the captured spies of the kaiser. He asked the
court to tolerate their plots for destroying lives
and property, just as he now asks the American
people to tolerate Senator Hitchcock's efforts
to lay an embargo on shipments to our allies,
to close the door against their securing any
financial assistance in this country, and to other
wise aid the kaiser in winning the war.
We are asked to look with toleration on the
comment made by Senator Hitchcock at the time
of the sinking of the Lusitania, to the effect
that money would be reparation for the lives of
Americans then murdered by the kaiser.
We are asked to condone a course of "ability
and courage" tftat won this commendation from
the German-American Alliance in Nebraska:
"One of our principal duties must he this, that
we shall aid in the re-election of United States
Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock."
It is not surprising that Untermyer should
come ao the defense of Hitchcock.
Our "Pure and Healthful National Life."
The disloyalists are so few in number, so
despised and execrated, so weak and futile,
that they are not a drop in the brimming bucket
of our pure and healthful national life World
Herald. If that is true, agents of the intelligence de-
partment of the army and navy who have to
deal with spies and traitors are sadly at fault.
One of these men, testifying before the senate
committee on military affairs last Friday, said,
"the situation is most serious and can not be
handled tinder existing laws." Twenty thousand
aliens in New York have refused to comply with
the law requiring their registration.-.Captain Mc
Auley of the navy told the committee that, "de
spite the united efforts of the Department of
Justice and the army and navy intelligence forces,
little progress is being made against spies and
propaganda." Judge J. F. McGee of Minneapolis
said "the efforts of the Department of Justice
have been a ghastly failure in Minnesota." One
hundred and four thousand citizens of Wiscon
sin voted for Victor L. Berger for the United
States senate, knowing that he is under indict
ment for sedition at Chicago. If the editor of the
World-Herald knows what he is talking about, a
lot of really patriotic and intelligent people are
wofully mistaken. The solemn truth is, our na
tional life will not be cleansed by apology for
treason, open or covert, nor by shutting our
eyes to a condition that authorities deem serious.
The Big Push of Bethlehem
How Charles M. Schwab was Enlisted by
Kitchener for the War .
B. C. Forbes, in Forbes' Magazine.
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Civil Authority Supreme in America.
President Wilson's opposition to the Cham
berlain bill asking that spies be turned over to
the military courts is based on the constitutional
supremacy of ivil law in America. No question
is raised as to the soundness of this conclusion.
It was not the purpose of the bill that civil law
should be entirely superseded, nor did it go to
the extent of suspending the writ of habeas
corpus. Our constitution provides an accused
person with every safeguard for his defense, and
secures him in all his rights, and these will not
be denied any. The bill to which the president
enters his objection was intended to secure more
vigorous and certain punishment of offenders.
Attorney General Gregory defends his depart
ment with the statement:
In some instances hysterical persons con
demn the government bitterly because spies arr
not summarily stood up against a wall and shot,
being seemingly forgetful of the fact that the
civil branch of the government has no power
to do this, and that the military has that power
only under very unusual circumstances.
The attorney general also says "the duties
of the department are too engrossing to permit
it to deny or explain the many misstatements or
groundless charges made," all of which may
easily be understood. But this does not alter or
detract from the fact that our course with con
victed spies has been extremely lenient. Amer
icans are not savage or bloodthirsty in any sense.
They believe in merciful treatment for all offend
ers, and only in extreme cases do they ask for
extreme penalty. Many are inclined, though, to
look upon public enemies in time of war as per
sons who are dangerous to private as well as
public interests, threatening to liie and property,
and therefore deserving of punishment in some
adequate form.
If Mr. Wilson is honored among his country
men and throughout the world today, it is be
cause of his high ideals and his earnest devotion
to them. It is not always practical, however, to
deal with a German spy on the basis of human
itarianism as exemplified by our president. War
requires some stern measures, to be exercised
by us only in self-defense.
A
When Lord Kitchener was made British
secretary of war one of his first important
acts was to dispatch an S. O. S. cablegram
to Charles M. Schwab beseeching him to
hasten across the Atlantic for a conference.
"Coming," cabled the master of the great
Bethlehem steel and ordnance works.
Hastily ordering a trunk to be packed,
Mr. Schwab made a dash for the White Star
line's pier and climbed aboard the giant
Olvraoic. on October 21. 1914,
Opportunity had knocked at Charles M.
Schwabs door.
He had toiled laboriously for years to pave
the way for opportunity's coming. For 10
years he had virtually withdrawn from the
social world and had devoted his days and
nights to creating at south Bethlehem
greater plant than that of the much-vaunted
KruoDS ot Germany. Wot only so. Mr,
Schwab, with foresight and business diplo
macy amounting to genius, had been caretul
many years before this to make Kitchener's
friendship and to acquaint Kitchener with
what Bethlehem Steel could do. During
Kitchener's memorable visit to New York
he was entertained by Mr. Schwab and
learned more about the products and the po
tentialities of Bethlehem.
At 6 o'clock in the evening of October 29,
Mr. Schwab reached London, without tak
ing time to go t6 a hotel he sped direct to the
war office. Word had been gassed to the con
fidential attendants Hjiat tne great American
steel master and armor-maker was coming,
and the moment he appeared doors were
opened for him as if by magic doors that
were being vainly besieged by hundreds of
manufacturers and others, all anxious to get
the ear of the mighty Kitchener or some
other personage in authority.
Kitchener was ready for'him.
He rose and greeted Mr. Schwab very
cordially but very briefly.
Then he motioned to the only other chair
in his office apJrt from this chair, the one
occupied by Kitchener and a large fiat-topped
desk, there was nothing in the whole' vast
room in the way of furniture except an army
bed, the only bed which Kitchener's body
knew night after night during these terrible
days, for the war lord worked literally night
and day and had no time to leave his office
for sleep. It was just after the annihilation
of a great part of Britain's little army at the
battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat.
Without loss of a moment Kitchener got
down to business.
How many shells could Schwab supply
a million?
Yes? Schwab could turn out a million.
How long would it take how quick could
they be shipped?
Ten months.
Good. How about guns?
Yes, Schwab could supply guns in quick
order.
Good. What else could Schwab provide?
Schwab told him.
Good.
What about prices? asked Mr. Schwab.
Quick delivery was more important than
any quotation of price. Get the stuff under
wav and he would get his price, Schwab was
told.
It was war times, and was not his company
entitled to a war profit? suggested Schwab.
Certainly.
It was to be a long, titanic struggle Kitch
ener confided. He counted upon it lasting
five years. (A prophecy to be fulfilled?) lie
realized very fully that Schwab's was the
only huge free ordnance plant in the world,
and he was anxious to have Mr. Schwab's
pledge that control of Bethlehem would not
be sold as long as contracts were being filled
for the British.
Would Mr. Schwab sign an agreement to
that effect?
Control of Bethlehem had been valued by
certain other interests not British as be
ing worth to them $100,000,000. That sum
was offered Schwab for his Bethlehem hold
ings. Here he was being asked to sign a
solemn compact to refuse $100,000,000 or any
other number ot millions of dollars without
any monetary compensation. Did Schwab
hesitate to cast aside the $100,000,000? Not
for a moment.
He assured Kitchener he would sign such
an agreement and signvit he did.
Under the Atlantic ocean on the night of
that epochal interview between the greatest
military genius in the world and the greatest
steel manufacturer the world has ever known
came messages- of the mightiest importance
to Mr. bchwab s right-hand executives, mes
sages that were to make industrial history in
America. Within 24 hours the Bethlehem
Steel company's plants began to buzz and
hum as never before. Gigantic preparations
were at once begun for the production of th
enginery of war on a scale that neither the
United States nor Germany had never before
known, preparations that were to ex'tend and
expand until Bethlehem's output was to
dwarf that of Germany's munition-making
idol, Krupp s.
It must suffice merely to say that the need
for feverish haste was so urgent that Mr
Schwab took the first boat back to th
United States in order to speed up produc
tion without counting cost.
The miracles Schwab then and has sine
wrought constitute a chapter without parallc
in the whole history of the world war.
Not only was every contract entered into
with Kitchener filled and filled successfully
ahead of scheduled time, but, instead of fur
nishing 1,000,000 shells in 10 months,
Schwab's plans were developed so extraordi
narily that by and by the output reached
1,000.000 shells every month.
Within two years from the day Kitchener
and 5chwab had their first memorable con
ference the Bethlehem works had supplied
Britain with $300,000,000 -vortli of war ma
terials, an achievement never matched by
any other industrial plant.
One of Mr. Schwab's most cherished pos
sessions, one which he would not exchange
for millions of dollars, is a' letter from Kitch
ener in which he conveys to the steel master
the thanks and gratitude of the British em
pire for the services he had rendered it at
the most critical period in its history, and
begs that this expression of gratitude be
conveyed by Mr. Schwab, not merely to his
executive associates, but to the thousands of
workers whose hands had produced the ma
terials which had contributed so invaluably
to preserve civilization.
When Germany, and indeed the whole
world, was acclaiming the feat of the German
submarine which crossed the Atlantic under
her own power, one man had to indulge in
smiles. The newspapers both in Europe
and in America hailed Germany s feat as an
unprecedented triumph in submarine con
struction and seamanship, lo think that a
fubmersible boat had been able to cross the
Atlantic under her own power it was al
most un!..lievable.
Why was Mr.' Schwab moved to quiet
laughter?
He had built and sent across the Atlantic
before that time under their own power no
fewer than 20 submersiblcs!
And others have crossed since then, some
going to the Baltic, some to the Mediter
ranean and some to British waters.
These facts and they are facts will af
ford some idea of the part Charles M.
Schwab and his plant have played in the bat
tle of civilization against barbarity. Indeed,
when the whole truth can be written by the
allied governments, Schwab's place in the
world's roll of honor will be such as to
astound those of his own countrymen who
have failed to see him in the true perspective,
One Hundred Years of
Common Sense
April 28, 1818, just 100 years this month,
an international event of the utmost moment
took place, though little is made of it in tlie
histories. Great Britain and the United
States, four years after the close of the war
of 1812, the Treaty of Ghent having been
signed in 1814, agreed to do away with ships
of war on the Great Lakes. This agreement
was called the "Rush-Bagot Arrangement."
The Treaty of Ghent was a treaty of "no
annexations and no indemnities." Both
countries were glad enough to stop the fight
ing. But shortly thereafter, John Quincy
Adams, then minister to England, informed
President Monroe, that Great Britain was
planning for more and more war vessels on
the Great Lakes. President Monroe saw that
the United States must do the same, and
that the "rivalry of armaments" would be
inevitable. He wrot Mr. Adams pointing
out that vast expenses would be incurred by
both countries, that the danger of collison
would be increased, and that the situation
would be "a constant stimulus to suspicion
and ill-will." He suggested that both coun
tries should "abstain altogether from an
armed force beyond that used for revenue."
For many months Great Britain refused
to assent to these views. Mr. Adams wrote
that the proposal appeared "hopeless." But
the president persisted. Finally good sense
triumphed over tradition and an agreement
was made to do away with ships of war on
the Great La.kes, except for a few revenue
cutters 6r patrol vessels for "police work"
A tacit understanding followed that no addi
tional forts would demarcate the frontier
lines.
The success of this Rush-Bagot arrange
ment has been great. The argument that
"where nobodv is loaded, nothing explodes
has been found good. The centenary o so
fortunate and, statesmanlike a provision
would seem to demand observance of some
kind. Minneapolis Journal.
People and Events
Shortage of men to hold down conductor
jobs on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system
eased the rules of admission and let in i
flock of knockdowns. In most cases re
ported business between the conductors and
the company is on a 50-50 basis, but the lat
ter is not ciuite sure of an even split. Still
the company hopes to break event if the pow
ers allow 6-cent faresf
A foretaste ot what's in store for mere
man was thrown on the political screen at
Oneida, N. Y., last week. Mrs. Carrie Daw-
lev failed to persuade f apa Dawley, candidate
for town treasurer, that home was his proper
sphere of usefulness, so she hopped onto the
opposition ticket for the same job and beat
him shamefully. Where Carries sits in the
Dawley household there is the head of the
table.
With more nerve than discretion one
Huber Jarhoe, convicted of using the mails to
defraud, hopped up to the bar for his medi-
. t..j" t 4 .- r-t.:-.-
C111C in J UUgc l-iduuis tuuit in vuii.agv, aiiu
remarked: "Mayor Thompson says your
honor is without judicial temperament.
think that is about the truth." The judge
made a record of the convict's authority and
handed him five years for meditation and
hard labor.
Editor Gene Huse of the Norfolk News
for some weeks past has been doing New
York City, combining business and -pleasure,
besides seeking war dope to adorn his
capital pyramids. Rewards were few. Peo
ple didn't seem to know much about, the war
and rarely talked about it. "My impression
is," Mr. Huse writes, "taking an average,
there isn't nearly the patriotism and general
willingness to serve here that there is at
home. And when the time does come to
have to get down to .sacrificing and serving it
will come more from a spirit of fear than
true patriotism." The impression fairly
weights the contents of the melting pot
TODAY 1
One Tear Ago Today In the War.
? - President Wilson signed ?,000,000,
",000 war bond bill.
French mission headed by Marshal
vJoffre arrived In United States.
Washington announced that 30,113
iimen had volunteered for the army
I since April 1.
The Day We Celebrate.
; Byron Clark, solicitor for Burling
ton company, born 1856.
R. C. Peter,1- president of the Peters
"Trust company, born 1863.
, General Henri Phlllippe Petain, the
French commander who saved Ver
"dun from the Germans, born at
5 Oauchy-a-la-Tour, 62 years ago.
Senor Don Joaquin Mendez, minis
. i tr from Guatamala to the United
'.States, born in San Salvador, 56 years
r' John I. Stoddard-, traveler, lecturer
r and writer, born at Brookline, Mass.,
468 years ago.
sTliU Day In History.
1845 China issued an edict permlt
'.ting foreigners to teach the Christian
. religion.
'Si' 1862 After a long bombardment.
1; F&rrAgut's fleet forced a passage of
.'the batteries on the Mississippi below
, New Orleans.
I ; 1877 Russia declared war against
'Turkey and aentv its troops into the
(Turkish dominions in Roumania and
Armenia. ,
' 1898 Spain formally declared war
T-ainst the United States. . .. i
Just SO Years Ago Today
Just SO Tears Ago Today.
General Crook will leave for Chi
cago by the first of next week where
he will assume control of the division
of Missouri.
At a meeting of the Bricklayers'
union a donation from the Plumbers,"
Gas and Steamfitters union was re
ceived and accepted and a vote of
thanks therefore returned.
W. L. Howland opened, a new gro
cery store on N street
P. S. Kustis. general panenger and
ticket agent of the B. & M., left for
Chicago.
The first shoot of the season by the
Omaha Gun club took place on the
club's grounds.
The North Presbyterian church so
ciety filed an article with the county
clerk, statins that by vote of the
members of the church It hereafter be
known as the Second Presbyterian
church.' . .
"Over There and Here"
England has installed a "pig con
troller." Trospecta for big business
are tine. 1
Tobacconists and match dealers In
the British isles are obliged to sell
goods at official prices and post the
price lists on their show windows.
Swiss reports have it that Germany
is buying up American paper money
in neutral countries and using It as a
bracer for the spineless mark.
Conservation in Britain reaches to
the waste of training camp kitchens.
Out of it the government secures
quantities ot glycerine and tallow and
utilized tor powder and soap.,
Flint, Mich., outclasses Minneapolis
in the proportion of unregistered men
rounded up. Minneapolis scored' a
run of 1,500 alleged slackers, but
Flint's drive netted around 6.000.
The American Medical association
is conducting a survey of the profes
sion for the purpose of aiding the gov
ernment in its coming drive for 6,000
physicians and surgeons. Secretaries
of state medical associations will get
together next week and map out
where medical talent may be bad.
Air raids on London caused an
exodus of tenants from the .southern
and eastern sections ot the city to
northern and western suburbs. Land
lords took advantage of the demand
and boosted rents to unheard-of fig
ures, in some instances as much as
300 per cent. Where the rack renting
law obstructs the grab, a loophole is
found in the sale or transfer of the
property. Parliament is urged to
plug the hoi. 1
Editorial Shrapnel t
Minneapolis Tribune: Von Hlnden
burg apparently has been too busy to
send his regrets for being unavoid
ably dotained from keeping hia dinner
engagement in Paris on April 1.
Baltimore American: To talk and
tinker is a characteristic essentially
American. With a crisis at hand- let
us come to an agreement on aircraft
requirements, cease haggling over
minor changes, get down to earth
and fill the skies with conquering
planes.
New Tork World: The German
long range gun has now made a happy
chance shot on a maternity hospital
in Paris. If, in General Bernhardi's
cheery phrase, "France must be
crushed so that it will never cross
our path again," a maternity hospital
is a good place to, begin.
New York Herald: The executive
committee of the German-American
alliance has decided to dissolve that
organization. It was organized under
a charter granted by congress. If
there is any "string" to that dissolu
tion, or any suspicion of one, congress
should lose no time in cutting it
Louisville Courier-Journal: Of
course the word of the divinely ap
pointed and divinely anointed Kaiser
Bill cannot be questioned, and it must
therefore be agreed that the Lord is
on his side. Conversely, it would
seem, the devil must be on our side.
He would-be most ungrateful were he
not considering the multitudes of the
kaiser's subjects we are sending to
aim every dav. '
Twice Told Tales
It Wasn't AH There.
Speaking at a dinner. Senator
Fletcher of Florida referred to the
difficulties thai the book agent has to
contend with, and told the following
story as an example:
Some time ago a book agent went
to a country house with a dictionary
he had to sell, and after eloquently
exploiting its many virtues, he
handed it to the woman who answered
his ring for inspection. Carefully she
turned every page.
"I don't want it, young man," she
finally said in a decided voice, handing
the dictionary back. "You needn't
think that you can work off a book
like that qn me."
"I don't quite understand,
madame," was the perplexed rejoin
der of the agent. "What is the mat
ter with it?" ' -
"It's not all .there, that's what's
the matter with it," declared the
woman. 'It hain't got no index."
Philadelphia Ledger.
Wrong Diagnosis.
A man called upon a physician for
advice. The physician diagnosed the
case as one of nerves and prescribed
accordingly. The fee was $5 and the
prescription" $2. The man had only
$5. He said to the physician.'
"Doc. $5 is all I have. Lend me 82
and 1 11 have the prescription tilled.'
1 ne physician gazed at tne man tor
a moment, then said. "J have m:uie
a mistake in mv diagnosis. Your
nerve is all right. You are afHk'ted
with an enlarged gall. There is no
Complains of Petty Thievery.
Omaha, April 20. To the Editor of
The Bee: It may interest you to
know that tne wona-Herald. a few
days ago, published a notice that they
would issue an early mail edition
Sunday nights. Not as an extra, at the
regular price of 2 cents. The notice
said "pay no more."
Tonight I offered a newsboy 2 cents
for a copy, which he was wildly call
ing "extra," and was refused a paper,
I paid 5 cents, although the 2-cent
mark was printed on the paper, be
cause I supposed sonething of extra
ordinary of news value had occurred,
but found I had been fooled. The
word "extra" appeared at no place
on the paper.
I questioned the newsboy who said
he sold for another lad at Twenty
fourth and Farnam streets, under or
ders to get 5 cents per copy, and to
cry "extra."
Here is an example of petty thievery
that ill becomes our sanctimonious
World-Herald. I wish there were' some
way of prosecuting such misrepre
sentation and graft on the part of a
newspaper that professes to be the
patron saint of its contemporaries.
Your truly, M. W. REESE.
No Way to Treat a Speaker.
Omaha, April 22. To the Editor of
The Bee: At several moving picture
theaters during the recent third Lib
erty loan drive, I have noticed that
when the "Four-mlnute-men," started
to speak and throughout their talk,
there was a constant movement of
people getting up and going out, or
coming in and finding seats.
It struck me as being a very poor
reception for men of such caliber, who
give-their time, effort and ability to
such a cause.
To say the least, it was an act of
careless impoliteness, to treat these
'Four-minute-men' as we would a
street faker, by failing to give them
a courteous, attentive audience.
If one has time to spend in a pic
ture show, he certainly can spend a
few more minutes in listening to
these men, who while there, are rep.
resenting the government and doing it
not for their own benefit, but for
yours, mine and for the whole world's.
GEORGE L. RUSHTON.
hat been learned from experience. "Lakea
are much pleuanter to swallow when 7011
fall In." Christian Register.
Colonel Grlrabattle Why an KayT To
were In deep mourning the lpct time I saw
you. .
Tha Widow Lookabout I was. f But
sine the soldiers began to rendezvous her
I've been called to tbe colors. Judge.
WHEN THE FLEET PUTS OUT.
CHEERY CHAFF.
'I wonder why It is Impossible to keep
one's neighbor's hens out of one's garden."
I suppose they want to know, with the
propensity of old hens, if everything in It Is
coming up to scratch." Baltimore Ameri
can.
"Prosperity has ruined many a man,'' said
the morallzer.
'Well," ruminated the reprobate, "If I
was goln' to be ruined I'd prefer prosperity
to do It. Kansas City Journel.
Minneapolis Journal.
(Following Is a poem written by Garrett
Bernard, now stationed In the navy yard
at Philadelphia. He lost his mother at
the age of 10 and his father soon after.
woman In this city who has been corre
sponding with him has made hlra feel now
that there Is one who cares when his "ship
comes in from sea."
Great multitude, who shove and crush.
Who smile through tear dimmed eye,
Line curbs and windows, waving flags,
To bid the boys goodby.
With martial music from the band
The khaki lads sweep past.
While parents wave and cheer and weep,
While sweetheSrts stand aghast
Thus goes one army. But w know
Still other boys mjjst go;
Good fellows, too both proud and brave!
Tet they are Bent devoid of ahow.
No blaring bands! No waving bands! -
'Tis lonesome as can be.
At night time in the navy yard
When the fleet puts out to sea.
8hore leave Is o'er some hours befors.
So those whose homes are near.
Still think In privacy of all
They hold most close and dear.
But wait! Do all have folks to leave?
Nay, many there are like me,
With no one living now to care
When my ship puts out ot sea.
0 for a fluttering handkerchief!
O for a heartfelt sigh
At the gangplank! O for a farewell &la
When the order comes "Stand by."
1 crave a pair of clinging arms
To thrill the soul in me,
To hold tight as they'd forbid
The ship to put ot sea.
In spite of guards, police aiid mich.
Some suffering femlnpaiTiearts
Plunge madly down tH gloomy pier.
Just as the vessel staffs'. ,
With anguished glance they sean th crew;
But, ah! 'Tis not for me. .
Since mother died there' no en now
Cares when I ro to sea.
Ah, well perchance way "orer there.''
Where submarines may roam.
Til do my bit as well as those
Who have some folks at home.
Home! God, that wondrous plac
Which mother made for me!
Henceforth 'tis where I hang my hat
When the fleet puts out to sea, '
:!
The greatwehlps carry pondrou gun, '
And thousands of tons of coal;
But the heaviest thing of all on boar 4
Is a lonely sailor's soul.
When we come back some leap ashore
Into, the yearning arms they ee
But I will sleep, for no one care
When my ship comes In from sa.
'On of our members lost his reason
last night."
"How terrible! How did It happen?"
"Why, he had one when he left the club,
but he forgot It before he got home."
Judge.
"We'll have to mor on," said Eve
sadly.
Tes." replied Adam. "What hurts my
feelings most is to be the original failure
an amateur gardener." Washington
Star.
"Can't I have ray uncle restrained on a
lunacy charge?" A
"I fear not."
"He's burning up his money."
"We might try to get a warrant for
arson,' suggested the young lawyer doubt
fully. Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Life," said the unsuspecting young man,
1 what we make It." .
"Then," said the coy maid, "suppose you
make It diamonds, and I'll make It hearts."
Pittsburgh Press.
"S the German have a gun with a
rmnge of seventy-odd miles."
I suppose next thing they will be con
templating a drive against Mars with a
view of annexing th planet.'' Puck.
'Just sk Dr. Jones to run round te my
place right away. Our cook fallen down
stairs, broke her leg; the housemaid's got
chlckenpox and my two boys have been
knocked down by a taxi."
"I m sorry, sir, but the doctor was blown
up In yesterday's air raid and he won't be
down for a week." London Punch.
Can any little boy," asked the new
teacher, Vtell mo the difference between a
lake ana an ocean?"
'I can," replied Edward, whose wisdom
to feel
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-St. Louis "Globe-
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