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What Did He Mean7
Until three o’clock this afternoon
Warden Hanley of the Tombs prison
was a perfectly contented warden, says
a New York correspondent. He had
been told twice during the morning
that a man with a frock coat and a
silk hat had called to see him, and as
the man was to return at three o’clock,
Mr. Hanley out short his tour of Jfie
prison and returned to his office. He
found that the caller had called, fumed
and finally left this note: “’Thirty
years ago my father, who was of me
dium height and undoubtedly punctual,
was employed ns a heat denunciator in
a metal mill in Pittsburgh. For years,
or at least for a considerable time, he
told no one. However, it was common
rumor. Now, after all these years,
does it seem that a man would delib
erately take any such action? What
would be his motive? I ask you as
a humanitarian to discuss this with no
one. Merely use it for your own infor
mation and proceed likewise. I leave
for Pittsburgh at four o’clock, but trust
you implicitly.—A Friend. At a late
hour Warden Hanley, having read the
note through 92 times, was reading it
through for the ninety-third time.
Too Much for Him.
“Conscription lias, maybe, saved the
country,” growled the strapping young
soldier, “but what -1 object to is the
company it drives a man into. 1 am a
practical plumber by trade, an honest
workman, yet I’m compelled to suffer
the society o’ sicli professionals as a
lawyer, a minister and an auctioneer.”
“No’ a laid selection, Jock,” re
marked his friend.
“Oh, maybe no’ in a way; but when
the minister and the lawyer start an
argument on Egyptian law in the mid
dle o’ the night across half a dozen
beds, with the blessed auctioneer as
umpire, what chance lias even a prac
tical plumber o’ stoppin’ the gas leak?’’
Real Sporting Blood.
’Pile kind-hearted woman stopped to
reprove the youngster who bad chased
a eat up a tree.
“You badboy! Suppose you were a
cat, would you like to have anyone
. chase yon in that fashion?”
“Gee, wouldn’t I, though, if I could
climb like that!” said the youngster,
grinning.
A lean woman and a fat one nearly
always envy each other.
The Danger
Zone for Many Is
Coffee Drinking
Some people find
it wise to quit coffee
when their nerves
begin to “act up.” '
The easy way now
adays is to switch to
Instant
Postum
Nothing in pleas
l ure is missed by
the change, and
greater comfort fol
lows as the nerves
rebuild.
• Postum is economical
to both health and purse.
“There’s a Reason’*
WITH THE ITALIANS IN THEIR LATEST DRIVE AND ON THE SEA J:
Above: Hauling artillery piece up the Trentino Alps. Lower left: Italian anti-aircraft gun. Right: Monster
Italian gun being carried across a deep valley in Trentino Alps by means of a cable.
These pictures, just received in this country, give some idea of the gallant fight against odds which the
Italians are making. Two of the photos illustrate the recent drive in the Trentino Alps, which resulted in the
capture of several nigh peaks. The anti-aircraft gun is the latest type in use by the Italians, and has been suc
cessful in driving off enemy planes.
Yarra Bank, Its Significance.
_
Famous Melbourne Center Is to Australia What Hyde Park
Is to England or Madison Square to the United States.
From the Christian
Yarra Bank, close to Melbourne, has
gained a curious notoriety. It is to Mel
bourne something of what the marble
arch corner of Hyde park is to London.
Along its uncultivated stretch there gath
er, every Sunday, a crowd of speakers
and lecturers, all of whom address them
selves to the little bod.es of satellites
grouped around them. As in Hyde park,
every sort of theory from evolution to
eternal punishment, and from prohibition
to socialism is preached. It. is here that
some of the most violent attacks upon Mr.
Hughes have been launched by the speak
ers of the I. W. W. organization,, and the
tenor of those speeches shows a rancorous
hatred of the prime minister which it is,
at first, difficult to account for.
Mr. Hughes, of course, is a man who
has known how to culivate, to the full, the
epigram, codified by Whistler, of “the
gentle art of making enemies.” His man
agement of the. conscription bill was a
tolerably good illustration of this. The
conscription question was possibly the
most vexed in the whole country, and into
this turmoil of argument and counter
argument, of invective and vituperation,
the prime minister flung the referendum
on recruiting. He might have submitted
a bill to parliament. It would probably
have passed the House, though it equally
probably would have been rejected in the
Senate. If it had been, an arrangement
might have been reached, by the ordinary
methods, between the houses. But Mr
Hughes was in a hurry. He could not
brook the delay of debates, and later pos
sibly of conferences. The result was his
direct appeal to the people, who an
swered that appeal In the negative. Mean
time Mr. Hughes' hurry had involved aim
in a worse difficulty than this. Antici
pating an affirmative vote, he had actu
ally proceeded to call up the men eligible
under the defense act. This decision set
the oountry on fire. So fiercely was the
fire fanned by popular animosity that, on
the very morning of the election, the
prime minister was fnrced to recall hts
regulation.
Then came the Bplit in the labor party,
and the appeal of the prime minister to
the electorate, which resulted In a fusion
of parties that placed Mr. Hughes once
more in power, and the labor organiza
tions In a minority. The defeat of the la
bor organizations was even more severe at
the poll* than the defeat of conscription
had been at the referendum. The position
was, Indeed, a peculiar one. For some
years past the labor caucus, acting
through its officials, had claimed to direct
the policy of the commonwealth govern
ment, which was a labor government.
This was, of course, unconstitutional. It
made the labor caucus the director of the
policy of the country, quite irrespective of
the desires of the electors. When, there
fore, the labor party was defeated In the
elections, the caucus rule fell with It, and
there was substituted In its place a ma
jority formed of a fusion of the other
parties in the houses with that portion of
the labor party which had followed Mr.
Hughes.
So far there was nothing peculiar In the
situation, since it followed the lines
which might have been anticipated from
the moment Mr. Hughes threw down his
gage to the labor caucus. But under the
surface there was obviously something
more than this. It Is impossible to Ignore
the fact that the opposition of the labor
party to conscription, seeing that con
scription had been Introduced by one of
the most popular of labor representatives,
who had become prime minister of the
commonwealth In a labor ministry, was
founded on something far stronger than
a mere dislike of conscription. From the
democratic point of view there Is, Indeed,
obviously nothing to be said, other than
academically, against conscription In the
present crisis. This has been abundantly
proved by the great democracies of the
world. The republic of France has sub
mitted to conscription as an absolute
necessity ami has Indeed found as a leader
on the occasion the principal antimilitar
ist in the country, Gustave Herve. The
labor party in Great Britain has warmly
supported the government In what it too
has decided is a necessity of the hour,
and one of the principal labor leaders has
taken his seat in the war cabinet which
has enforced conscription. The democracy
of the United States of America has ac
cepted conscription, in the fornr of the
selective draft, loyally as a necessity oi
9 *
Science Monitor.
the hour. The Dominion of Canada, with
the exception of the Province of Quebec,
is strongly in favor of the same policy
whilst, as has been pointed out, in a com
pletely democratic country like Australia
only a certain section of the labor party
itself has withstood the demand.
Draft Was Known to Moses.
From the Chicago Tribune.
I Registration for a selective draft Whs
i known thousands of years ago. The first
chapter of Numbers tells how Moses in
the second year after the exodus from
, Egypt was eomiriafjded to choose from
! among the various tribes numerators to
. tabulate the names of the men more than
f 20 years old, who were able to go to war.
I The passage, in part, follows:
; “Take ye the sum of all the oongre
! gation of the children of Israel by their
i families, by their fathers’ houses, ac
! cording to the number of the names,
every male by their polls: from 20 years
of age and upward, all that are able to
go forth to war, thou and Aaron shall
number them by their hosts. And with
you there shall be a man of every trible.
(Here are mentioned the. men who are
to assist in the registration).
“And Moses and Aaron took these
men that are mentioned and they as
sembled all the congregation together
| on the first day of the second month,
j and they declared their pedigrees after
I their families by their fathers’ houses,
j according to the number of the names
, from 20 years old and.upward.”
Tennyson Named the Empire.
From Answers, London.
Although H. G. Wells has been singing
the praises of “our crowned republic,” it
was Tennyson who gave us this phrase.
The difference between our form of mon
archy and that which has fallen in Rus
sia, and that which is doomed to fall in
Germany, is great. Who supposes that
the kaiser, had he included Australia in
his dominions, would have allowed that
congeries of colonies to amalgamate
under such a title as the “Commonwealth
of Australia?” That fact alone is proof
positive that, although we have a king,
we are true republicans.
We do not alw’ays realize that our
constitution Is less than 100 years older
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ban the famous American constitution,
which was avowedly framed on the Brit
sh model, although at the time they were
it war with their mother country.
, It was the bill of rights, by which par
lament voted “Dutch William” and his
wife Mary joint sovereigns of England,
which made this realm a “crowned re
public.” From the moment the bill of
rights gave the house of commons the
sole right to levy taxes, and that house
resolved only to grant the crown annual
supplies, the backbone of absolutism
such as Russia has known, and Germany
still knows, despite the mockery of ‘ts
reichstag — was broken, and the nerve
centers of tyranny were paralyzed. Hence
forth we were a “crowned republic. *
White Bread an “Invader.”
From Answers, London.
We all mourn the death of the white
loaf. We look with disfavor upon its
brown miccessor, and we think of this
dingy edible as something new—“owing
to the war.” We have forgotten that
with our grandfathers a quite white loaf
was a rarity.
• English millers had the shock of their
livfes when they discovered the white
ness of foreign flour. Nothing could
be produced by our mills to satisfy the J
baker, who In turn had to please his cus
tomers with white bread. Imports of
flour increased alarmingly, and all be
cause the British public were enamored
of white bread.
Rumors of wonderful machinery pro
ducing white flour in Budapest caused
English millers to visit Austria-Hun
gary. The result of this deputation was
that In 1878 the first complete plant to
reduce wheat to white flour was installed
in England.
So started the home manufacture of
white bread. We have had to bid fare
well, not to an old friend, but to a^k enemy
alien Invader.
Piute.
T have
The largest goat ranch in the world.
It contains
All the bucks that have been passed
Since the dawn of history.
And it is growing tremendously
All the time,
Because I cannot get rid of a buck,
There being nobody for me to pass it to.
Can you guess who 1 am?
Yes, you are right;
I am that notorious plutocrat,
The ultimate consumer!
—Chicago News.
Change.
Ruth is an alchemist I know.
And so I’ll have to drop her,
For every time I’m out with her
My silver turns to copper.
—Widow.
>EA SOLDIERS GOOD SHOTS!
rhere Is a Story From Vera Cruz That i
Tells ov the Marksmanship of
Uncle Sam’s Marines.
The marines know how to handle n
■ifle- do per cent of the force are (mol
ded, listed shots. There Is a story
from Vera (’rax that tells of good
Ihooting and a sure eye, Henry lteu
terdnhl writes In the Youth's Coip
janlon.
Our bluejackets were marching up
:he street from the plaza between rows
>f low two-story houses. A well
iressed Mexican, with a newspaper
iver Ills knee, was silling on the bal
cony of his house, apparently Intent on
watching our sailors advance; hut hid
den under the paper In* held a big re
volver, and as our men went by lie
Bred. Tin* bullets were striking, hut
our officers could hardly suspect a
well-dressed Mexican, reading a paper
mill looking peacefully on from his
awn house, of being Hie sniper.
Dropping his tut per, the Mexican
went inside to reload. When he came
out again on ihe balcony the glint of
tin* gun caught the attention of Dler
tenant Colonel Neville on horseback in
the plaza, 1,000 or more yards away.
Through his eight-power tieldglass the
colonel saw plainly the Hush of the
shots under the newspaper..
“Cel hint,” he said, turning to Ids
orderly.
The man raised his rifle, pressed the
trigger—and the Mexican fell out of
Ids chair.
“Cot him, sir,” said the marine.
De Profundis.
At the summer training camp at
Plntfsburg last summer an undersized
“rookie” was one day struggling along
through mud that threatened to engulf
him and his park. The company were
ringing, and when they came to the
chorus he joined in with growls and
grumbles that seemed to come from
well down toward his belt. Beyond
doubt, melody was not ids forte. A
Mg, hulking sergeant came along.
“What’s the matter? What are you
howling about?”
‘Tm singing bass,” explained the
(•rookie.’
"Don’t do It. tny boy,” snld the ser
geant ; “you’re too deep down already.
You come up to surface and get the
nir.”—Youth's Companion.
The ultimate consumer knows n
number of other things which are what
Sherman said war was.
FRECKLES
Now Is the Time to Get Rid of Tlieno
t'gly Spots. I
There’s no longer the slightest need of f
feeling nthamed of your freckles, as the
prescription othlne — double strength — is
guaranteed to remove these homely spots. s
Simply get an ounce of othlne—d>ub!o
strength—from your druggist, and apply a
little of It night and morning and you ;
should soon see that even the worst freckles
have begun to disappear, while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely. It Is 8c’u1of» '{
that more than one ounce is needed to com- f
pletoly clear the skin and gain a b-autifit!
clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
othlne. as this is sold under guarantee of
money back If it fails to remove freckles.-*’
Adv. j
Sublime Orders. \
Colonel Corkl xvns, ns colonels gir.
not a lunl old stick to have about a
regiment, says London Ideas. Ben al
ly lie bud three men of ids company in!
to help 1dm remove the grand piano,
and. as lids gift of Aunt Elista's wa*
of hefty build, lie signed a blank order
that the men might obtain beer from
the canteen ; leaving the amount there
of for the warriors to fill In them
selves.
Here was n dispute.
‘•I*ut down six pints,” suggested
Private Dumps.
“More like a barrel!” growled one
of Iho others.
But at lust the sergeant came along
with the right idea. He tilled the pa*
per up tlnisly:
"Please till these men with beer.” ;
Between Friends.
Hailie was great friends with a
neighbor boy named Bruce. They lived
in tiie country and bad a tulle to walk
lo school, and always went and re
turned together. One day, after school,
Hallle went home alone, Bruce having
stopped at Ids own home just below
our house. He was in a disheveled
condition, and on being questioned,
| confessed that he had been fighting, ,
| and that he had come out second best,
“But," sntd Ids mother, in a puzzled
! lone, "I thought Bruce was yourf
friend.”
"Yes, he Is,” replied Hallle, plaintive
ly. "1 don’t know what he would have
done to me If he hadn't been my
friend."
Has a Fine Edge.
Wigg—Is she very keen In money
matters?
AVngg—AVell, her husband says lt’»
wonderful the way she cuts Into hl»
income.—Town Topics.
Fretting is a perpetual confession of
weakness.
Save the Babies
INFANT MORTALITY is something frightful. We can hardly realize that
of all the children born in civilized countries, twenty-two per cent.,
or nearly ono-quarter, die before they reach one year; thirtv-seven
per cent., or more than one-third, before they are five, and one-half before
they are fifteen 1 ■ --
We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would save
many of these precious lives. Neither do we hesitate to say that many
t ' jliuill VI uivipuuiv* IUOJ OIV| UI VVUOIUVIBVIV IJUaUHUWt
deadly poisons. In any quantity, they stupefy, retard circulation and lead '
to congestions, sickness, death. There can be no danger in the use of Cas
toria if it bears the signature of Cbas. H. Fletcher /j
as it contains no opiateB or narcotics of any kind. /'Tv , 7‘
Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of j
Raise High Priced Wheat
on Fertile Canadian Soil
Canada extends to you a hearty invita
tion to settle on her FREE Homestead
lands of 160 acres each or secure some
of the low priced lands in Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta. This year wheat is higher but
Canadian land just as cheap, so the opportunity is more at
tractive than ever. Canada wants you to help feed the world
by tilling some of her fertile soil—land similar to that which
during many years has averaged 20 to 45 bushels of wheat
to the acre. Think of the money you can make with wheat
around $2 a bushel and land so easy to get Wonderful
yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed farming !
in Western Canada 13 as profitable an industry as
wain growing.
The Government this year is asking farmers to put in
creased acreage into grain. There is a great demand for
farm labor to replace the many young men who have
volunteered for service. The climate is healthful and
agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good schools and
cbjmshes convenient. Write for literature as to reduced
UAKjlMttatnSupt.of Immigration, Ottawa, Can., or to
Hal
Strwt. St Paul. Mias.
Canadian Government Agents
Recess Was Called.
A real estate agent was testifying In
eourt recently In a case Involving the
exchange of a picture show for a farm.
It was contended that the theater was
not worth what it was represented,
owing to its location. The attorney
asked the witness to stnte what the
surroundings of the theater were.
“Next door to it was a shoe shining
place,” lie answered, “then came a
garage, and next was a saloon, and
that’s us far as I got.” When the ex
citement subsided, the judge observed
that: that was a good place to stop, and
the customary midsession recess was
called.—Indianapolis News.
Contrary Yearning.
“Has your new neighbor found out
all about how you are living?"
“No, but she's just dying to know.”
The happy fanner is going to fight
it out along the plow line if it takes
all spring.
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