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War Assures Closer Relations
Between Americans and British
Sir Thomas Lipton, Great Yachtsman, Merchant and Friend, Welcomes Yankees Who Have
Always Beaten Him Into the Strife—Wants Two Nations to Become Fast Friends For
ever—Praises Work of Fleet—Thinks Common Cause Will Give People Better Under
standing of Each Other.
By Edward Marshall.
(Copyright, 1917, by Edward Marshall Syndl
. dicate, 1 nr.j
London, July 5.—Sir Thomas Lipton
eat smiling in his splendid country
place near London. He has smiled con
tinuously since the United States en
tered the war.
“What made it hard for me," said the
■world celebrated yachtsman, “was the
fact that I am just about as much
American as British. So till the States
came in I was partly at war and partly
struggling (wholly without success) to
be benevolently neutral. The only rea
son I am not a naturalized American
citizen is that there is so slight a dif
ference between good Britons and good
Americans that to me it seemed foolish,
by becoming a voter in your country,
to abandon my right to challenge for
the America’s cup.
"When I say .hat in these days I am
delighted to reflect because the United
States actually is in the war I am very
feebly voicing an emotion for the ex
pression of which I find it difficult to
choose adequate words.
"I have specialized in two things.
First of all, I am a merchant—a pur
veyor of food. Well, the United States
Is the greatest food purveyor in the
world. That makes me like her and
that makes me glad that she is in the
war. Second, I am a sporstman, and
in the United States I have found the
finest sportsmen in the world. That
makes me like her and makes me glad
that she is in the war.
“ft pleases me to have a chance to
talk to my good friends. And the mes
sage that I especially would wish to
send to them may be summarized in
your own word'hustle.’ It’s a fine word
and I know just what it means to those
who know as well as I do. I hope I
have made them ‘hustle,’ and I know
that they have made me ‘hustle.’ That
they have always ‘hustled’ fastest gives
me courage and delight at this time, for
those who in building yachts and sail
ing them have been able to beat the
best boats and the best men I have
been able to get on this side surely will
be able to ‘hustle’ fast enough to help
us beat the Huns in the great war.
“Now is the time for you to show
your speed. My good friends in
America have joined us as competitors
in the greatest race the world ever has
known—the race of civilization against
barbarism, the race of sportsmanship
against Hunnishness, the race of liberty
against oppression.
Welcomed by Sir Thomas.
' "I welcome you to our side, as you
ever welcomed me to yours, and I am
proud and glad that we are sailors In
the same crew straining to win the
same great race—straining to win it
and, also, sure that we are going to
■win it”
His welcomes have been practical,
by the way. In great groups American
nurses, American doctors, American
soldiers, American sailors all have been
entertained at his superb country place.
“A'fine quality in Americans is that
they recognize hard facts,” Sir Thomas
went on. “They know, thank God, that
a successful war means a war con
ducted with as tew delays as possible.
They know that 100 men sent to us
today will be as valuable as 1,000 men
sent to us 12 months hence; they know
that one ship launched today will be
of greater moment than a fleet launched
IS months from now.
“One of the many things I trust Im
plicitly (in the American is his sense
of values. You are a fast people. I
have learned that to my cost. Some
times I have wished that you might
slow down for a bit. until I had ‘lifted’
the great cup and got it safely to this
side; but now I’m praying that you
won’t slow down. Speed up! America!
Speed up! That’s the message of your
old friend and one of your best wisherk
—Tom Upton!
I’ve seen your vessels in British
waters with their war paint on. It
did the sailor's heart In me deep good.
More power to you! Some of us know
the magic work your sailors did the
first week they were in action. Even
the general public, whieh for a time
must get its news censored so that
the enemy may not find out too much,
knows that your sailor boys and the
good craft they sail in magically re
duced the sinkings by enemy subma
rines within seven days of their ar
rival. It is impossible for this British
people to be half grateful enough to
you for the marvelous results which
you have already accomplished—and
you won them in the Yankee way.
You have won them quickly. And you
have only just started.
Appreciation of Yankee Fleet’s Work.
"Personally I have been sorry that
the good work of the American fleet
has not been more extensively made
public. But we shan't be unfair. Some
day tlie story will be told and it will
be told by Englishmen. They’ll give
credit where it’s due. That’s true of
Englishmen. They ‘play the game.’
We Anglo-Saxons all and always play
the game—you on your side, we on
ours. One of th.e big things this war
may accomplish is a thorough un
derstanding of Americans by English
men. That has never existed. The
English are not enterprising. They
are not curious. They are great trav
ellers, but they travel In their own
great emnire. Most of them feel slight
curiousity about America, while one of
the best traits in every American is
his keen curiosity about England and
ev.ery other part of the globe. It ex
plains why you learn so much and ure
so wise. You come here by thousands,
but not many Englishmen go to you.
I hope that after the war this will be
changed. The more Englishmen come
Into contact with Americans the more
they will like them.
“One of the most agreeable tilings
which I have got to look back upon is
that 1 rather early learned to know and
love America. I learned, among other
things, that if you do an American a
good turn he will repay you a hundred
fold—or die in the attempt. An Eng
lishman does rather well if he asks a
visiting American to lunch. An Ameri
can feels that he is inhospitable if he
when the month is up the Englishman
home to stay a month with him—and
when the month is us the Englishman
probably will find his luggage nailed
to the floor- by a host who hopes that
he ma-- have to stay a second month.
No other people ever was so hospitable.
“I hope that from now on England
will take toward Americans that atti
tude which Americans long ago took
toward Englishmen. When an English
man has landed on your side you have
made him feel at home. There are signs
that Englishmen may copy in the fu
ture the American hospitality, and if
they do the inevitable result will be
very much worth while. I would say
this if the nearest American were 1,000
miles away. Don’t feel that I am say
ing it because it is to be quoted in an
American newspaper. Britain must
learn to welcome you from the United
States as members of her own great
family. We have treated you as if you
were mere foreigners.
Poor and Rich. He Likes Us.
“No one man from this side, 1
imagine, has had much more expe
rience with the Americans and the
great land they live in than myself,
Tom Lipton. I'm proud and pleased
that on your side so many call me
‘Tom.’ I have traveled within your
boundaries as a poor boy must travel,
and I have traveled there as princes
may. Thus I have learned that you re
spect a man not for what his wealth
amounts to, but for what he himself
amounts to.
“You have been my winning oppo
nents. 1 have had the best designers
that this side could produce and I have
spent whatever money could be spent
to beat you, bpt you've beaten me.
Hard luck,’ your people always say to
me. I know it’s not hard luck, for every
time I have been beaten by a boat bet
ter than my own. My hat is off to you.
If I hadn’t taken it off you would have
taken it off for me. It’s no wonder that
I'm mighty glad you’re in this war with
us. Heaven knows I’m quite aware that
you’re a really great people.
"There's a great Stars and Stripes
hanging in the hallway of my home.
It was made for me by some delightful
American women; I like to stand before
it and salute respectfully. I ahi mighty
glad that it is flying now on the same
side I am working for. I didn’t like to
see it hanging neutral It always made
me so uncomfortable when it was fly
ing on the side which was against me
in yacht races. To me the word
'America' means ’winner.’ Can you
blame me?
“But that was sport and this is dead
ly. grimly, splendidly serious. In seri
ous things we work together. We al
ways shall, I hope, sailing not as com
l>etitors, but as a team. Thank God
for those ideals of decency which ani
mates alike both branches of the Anglo
Saxon race. If they had animated all
the world there never would have been
a war like thir.
“1 am glad to have the American fleet
ir. vhese waters for a good rnapy rea
sons. One of them really has nothing
whatever to do with the fact that the
presence of the fleet here is a vast safe
guard to our food and a guarantee that
We shall win the war. J have said that
Britain knows less about Britain than
America knows about Britain. The
presence of the American fleet here
means that she will have a chance to
learn more.
“A few years ago I had a party of
Americans on my ship. Among them
were Edward Morris and his wife, of
Chicago, and Lady Hendry. We were
looking at the British fleet and the
Americans were interested, but not pro
foundly impressed.
“This attitude annoyed me and I
started to see what could be done. A
vast bulk of battleship which I could
not identify hove into sight as we sailed
along, and I saw in it my chance.
There was a ship which must astonish
even an American. It astonished me.
I didn’t know that Great Britain had so
great a ship.
“ ‘That will shake those Yankees up!
A British ship like that will rouse them.’
I thought, grinning. I returned to my
friends from the United States.
’’ ‘There you are! How’s that for a
real fighting machine?’ I said proudly.
•There you have—’
“At about that moment we came lensr.
side of the mighty vessel. She was,
indeed, a mammoth fighting craft, thfe
greatest of the world’s battleships. But
her name was Delaware and she flew
the American flag. I stood gaping, and
my state was somewhat emphasized
when one of the Americans turned to
me and said as if causally:
“ ‘Can't imagine what our people
could have been thinking of to send one
of our littlest ships across to show vou.
Now wouldn’t you have thought that
they’d have sent a really big boat?’
"The quarrel of 1776 is over now, al
though it really lasted from its start
till this year of our Lord. I hope some
people on your side are glad that it
has ended. I know that I, on this side,
and I am one of thousands, am gladder
over that than over any other thing
which has occurred since the beginning
of the war.
“When I think of what America can
do i'n the way of food supply I like to
think of that which she already has
done in the way of a munition supply.
Your iron and steel production was a
mere commercial matter till the war
came. But your capacity increased im
measurably under the stimulant of the
needs of righteousness. It will be the
same with food. The world didn't
know your vast importance till this war
came. When our young men marched
away, leaving the farms bare and the
growing workshops hungry for more
men, not only in the home country but
in the great dominions, you loaded up
our ships with your great surplus magi
cally multiplied and sent it overseas in
such a mighty quantity that not even
the Hun submarines could starve us or
Kruppa’ 50 years of preparation swamp
us. Thus you saved us even before you
entered the war.
“I know the wonders of your great
food packing houses because I myself
was one of your American packer:,.
Didn’t know that, did you? Weil, for a
long time I was the owner of one of the
big Chicago packing houses.
“It is fortunate for civilization that
America is organized for food supply.
You have developed an especial genius
for that. The great necessity is that
you should increase your f aod produc
tion so that you still can supply your
own needs while figuring on more for
the allies. Food from America is more
important than 16-inch guns from any
where, and we thank God that the food
producing capMuty of the United
States, with its vast reach from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, is unlimited.
You have the men, you have the land,
you have the implements and the skill.
Agriculture in tho United States has
been scientized buyond anything that
has been done elsewhere.
“Under the stimulant of our great
need your production will be wonder
fully increased. As a matter of fact
we are proud to make acknowledgment
of the fact that we are singularly de
pendent upon you. When the war has
been won it will be found that the
United States has played an immense
part in its winning and no one will
grudge credit where credit is due.
“You littve an especial genius for the
I invention of labor saving agricultural
machinery; everything of the sort on
the farms of Europe is of American
origin.
•'And you have another great advan
tage. You have Hoover. In his work
for Belgium he has had more experi
ence in feeding millions than any other
man in all the world. That he has been
placed in charge of the great task of
furnishing food from America for the
allies is a guarantee of high efficiency.
He will find his new job easier than his
old one, for he will be dealing with
friends , while his task in Belgium, of
feeding the starving victims of German
ruthlessness, meant not only that he
had to supply and distribute the food,
but that he had to do so while working
in conjunction with bitter, though veil
ed, enemies. And there, too, he had to
feed a starving population directly.
"In his new position he merely will
need to see that the food goes forward.
He will be dealing with the govern
ments, not directly with the hungry
people. America has been the greatest
food purveyor in the history of the
world since this war began and Hoover
is the greatest food general in the
world’s history. For a man on this side
to suggest American procedure would
be An impertinence.
“An immense thing has occured in
the establishment of what amounts to
an offensive and defensive Anglo
American alliance. Two of the great
est and the most unselfish nations of
the world have combined for unselfish
greatness; that in this union France,
the cradle of European freedom, forma
a third, is an additional glory and a
guarantee.
"England has done much for the
world's progress; America has done
much. Neither works in this war by
the motive power of greed. By acting
conjointly they will be able and will
have the wish to see to it that the
smaller powers are treated fairly in
the future and that the world is a safe
place to live in.
"That there ever should have been
the slightest friction between Britain
and America has been as unnatural as
it has been unfortunate. Never has
there been a year for a long time
which did not pour millions sterling
(and a million sterling is $5,000,000)
from the pockets of American tourists
into England, Ireland and Scotland.
The most palatial business and hotel
establishments in England would have
been closed long before the war had
it not been for the patronage of Ameri
cans.
"You are far more up to date in your
trade methods than the Englishman
ever has learned to be. Let me give
you an illustration which will show
you how easy it will be for you to cap
ture German trade after the war. It
will be difficult for England, because
she is less adaptable.
"In India the hens lay little eggs,
which in a British egg cup sink so low
as to be hard to handle. Often I had
noted this and wondered why English
manufacturers had not made little egg
cups for use in India. One day in Be
nares I saw a small mouthed egg cup
which held the egg well up, conven
iently. Enterprise at last, I thought. I
was right. But it was German enter
prise. That’s a tiny illustration of the
sort of chances which an adaptable peo
"An Englishman suggested jn one of
your interviews last winter that the
pie like those of America can find in
parts of the world. Trade? There are
uncounted quantities waiting every
where in the British empire to be picked
up by you.
“Germany tries to sell folk what they
wmnt; England tries to make them buy
that which she wants to manufacture.
But Germany scrimps and saves and
tricks to the detriment of quality. Your
chance is to study foreign field's while
this war progresses and after it is over,
and with your admirable methods and
adaptable psychology to find new fields
which will produce astonishing mil
lions.
newspapers of the two nations should
arrange reciprocating visits. That plan
would be admirable. There is some
thing for one of your very rich men to
finance.
"There are no people in the world bet
ter than Americans. Some Englishmen
have not always thought so, and the
frills they have put on with you have
been very sad affairs. They have be
gun to take them off. They will be all
off, I am certain, ere the war ends. Thev
never would have been put on at all if
Englishmen had known you better, any
more than many times your fierce twist
ers would have twisted our poor lion's
tail if they really had understood the
basic truth that we are all alike, that
we are just the same sort of people,
prone to err but trying hard in the
main to do the right thing.
"Our principal difference in psy
chology is that you in the United States
never feel that you have nothing more
to learn. Another difference is that you
in the United States always do your
level best.’ I like that expression, as I
like much of your slang. An English
man defeated for parliament verv likely
may say with truth that if he could but
try it over he would work harder. An
American defeated for congress never
can say that. Always he has done his
'level ’ est.' You'll do your ’level best'
in tbs great war, and the level of that
bes’ will be a high one.”
f . .
JNCLE wiggily and the blue
bird.
"Now do be careful today, won’t you.
Wiggy dear?” begged Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady house
keeper, as the bunny uncle started
away from his hollow stump bungalow
one morning on his way to look for an
adventure.
“I’ll be as careful as 1 can,” he prom
i ised.
! "And don’t let any bad old alligators
: catch you,” went on Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy
! as she brushed some dust off the end
j of her tall before she went In to bake
the carrot pies for over Sunday.
"Not if I can help it they won’t catch
' me,” Uncle Wiggily said witti a laugh.
! Then on he hopped, over the fields and
, throught the woods until he came to a
! little dingle dell. It was called a
i dingle dell because there were blue
j bell flowers there that dingled, and it
! was called a dell to make it rhyme with
| bell. And there you are. No prettier
j place could be imagined.
“I’ll jus* sit down on this green
| mossy log. that is soft like a sofa pil
[ lotv, and rest. After that. I’ll look for
| an adventure.” said the bunny.
I Uut Uncle Wiggily bad not been rest
I ing for more than two cricket chirps
1 (by which animal folks tell time in
[ stead of by watches) when, all of a sud
| den. he heard a sad voice crylnir:
‘"Oh, woe is me! Oh, sadness! Oh
unhappiness! Oh, what trouble 1 am
in!"
"Ha! I might have known It!” said
Uncle Wiggily, twinkling his pink nose.
“No sooner do I get here than 1 have to
help some one out of trouble! But 1
like it! I wonder for whom I shall have
the pleasure of being helpful now?”
So he looked around and there he saw
a poor bluebird caught in a tangle of
wild grape vines. The bird had flown
In among the vines, looking for some
thing to eat and Its legs and wings were
all caught fast.
“Ha! No wonder you are sad!" kind
ly said Uncle Wiggily. "It is no fun to
be tangled this way. Just keep quiet
and I’ll sot you free.” f'
Then, using his red, white and blue
barber pole striped rheumatism crutch,
Uncle Wiggily poked aside the wild
grape vines and set the bluebird free.
"Oh, thank you!” chirped the pretty
creature as it spread its wings to fly
away. "Some day I hope I may do you
a favor.”
“As to that!” spoke Uncle Wiggily.
with a low and polite bow, “I did rmt
set you free so that you could help me
I did it because I could not bear to sec
you suffer.”
Well, we’ll see what happens,'' sang
the bird, and soon it was lost to sight
high in the air.
Uncle Wiggily rested awhile longer
on the mossy log anil then he traveled
on. He had not gone very much far
ther before he came to a little kennel
house, where Mrs. Bow Wow, the dog
lady, lived. She was standing in the
door as Uncle Wiggily came long and
she looked rather sad.
"What is the matter, my dear Mrs.
Bow Wow?” asked the bunny gentle
man.
"Oh, It's Jackie,” answered the dog
lady.
“What has he been doing?" asked Mr
Dongears. “Has he been digging up
the front lawn, looking for bones, or
has he run away again and joined the
circus as he and Petie once did some
time ago?"
"Neither one,” answered Mrs. Bow
Wow with a sigh. "Poor Jackie Is
rather ill and peevish. He Is not so
very sick, but everything frets him and
Dr. Possum says he will not get l" tter
until he is happier."
Why is he unhappy?" asked Uncle
■Wiggily.
“Well, Just now he is unhappy be
cause the sky is covered with clouds
and isn't blue and pretty," said the dog
lady. "Jackie would like to see it nice
and clear. But it looks like rain. I'm
afraid.
"I'm afraid so, too," spoke the bunny
‘Still, \ye cannot have blue sky always.
We must take our share of clouds. But
I’ll come in and sea if I can't cheer up
Jackie."
The rabbit gentleman tried, hut the
! little puppy dog did not smile, even
when Uncle Wiggily twinkled his pink
nose, like frosting on a strawberry
shortcake.
“I want to see blue sky anil have the
clouds go away,” whined Jackie. "I'm
so unhappy."
“But I can't make the sky blue," said
Uncle Wiggily. "Nq one can do that.
You must not fret.”
But Jackie did fret and when Dr.
Possum came the animal doctor shook
his head and whispered:
"Unless Jackie gets his wish r --d sees
some blue sky, he may be very ill. I
know it seems a silly thing, but some
times when animal children are ill, es
pecially puppy dogs, tney never get
better until they stop fretting.”
"Well, I don’t see how I can make the
sky blue when It is covered with
clouds," spoke Uncle Wiggily. "Neither
I, nor any one else, except one of the
kind winds, can blow away the clouds.”
■'Perhaps not blow away the clouds,"
said a little voice outside the window
where Uncle Wiggily was sitting. “But
we can cover up the clouds for a time
and make It look as though the blue
sky were there, if you want uu to."
“How can you?” asked the bunny.
“Very easily. Watch," was the an
swer. And then up flew the bluebird
whom Uncle Wiggily had saved from
the tangled grape vine. And, calling to
hundreds of other bluebirds, they all
flew high in the air. Their blue wings
spread out under the clouds, hiding;
them from sight, and when Jackie
looked he saw only a big sheet of pretty
blue and he thought it was the blue
sky.
“Now I am happy," he said, and he
fell asleep, soon to awaken all better,
and not a bit fretful. So, after all, the
bluebird did a favor for Uncle Wiggily
and Jackie, you see, and brought hap
piness.
And if the cherry tree doesn’t go over
in the apple orchard and forget to come
back at pie time, I’ll tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and the yellow bird.
Westward Ho.
In my old auto, worn and rusty, I
jog along the highway dusty, to where
the hills of Colorado provide a cool and.
grateful shadow. For bards must have
a brief vacation, whatever perils face
the nation. Through many little grads
I wander, and often stop, some coin to
squander, my auto to refreshments
treating—the oil and gas it's fond of
eating. And everywhere 1 hear men
spieling, with fervid patriotic feeling.
Their optimism's so exalting 1 have
excuse for frequent halting. "Through
out this war's unholy revel the kaiser’s
held the allies level.” I hear the garage
sages saying: ”in fact, he beat them
all at slaying; it surely looked as
though the sinner might in the end
come out a winner. But now that we
have grabbed our sabres, and borrowed
shotguns from the neighbors; the out
look will be pretty chilly for Hinden
burg and Silly Billy. We, as a people,
take no pleasure in squandering our
blood and treasure, but when we're
driven into scrappln’, you bet that
something's bound to hajjpen, and soon
tlie Prussians will be wishing they’d
balked at war and gone a-fishing.”
FARM WITH AN ELEPHANT.
When practically ail the farm horses
and farm men in Sussex, England, had
been drafted for war service. Lloyd
George, a trained elephant, was drafted
from Sanger's travelling circus to help
the women plow, plant, reap and har
vest.
Pitching hay is child's play to Lloyd
George. He prefers his trunk to a
pitchfork and he can do as much work
as three farm hands, The only trouble
is that he generally eats about one
bale of hoy while doing an afternoon’s
work.
Lloyd-George makes an excellent
plow horse, fie is steady and reliable
and his furrows arc true. He draws
a two-horse plow and keeps right along
regardless of tree stumps and other
snags until the harness breaks, as it
often does. When his day's work is
done, instead of homeward plodding his
weary way, Lloyd-George sits down to
be petted by the ^farmer's daughter.
As Soon as a Man Is Right.
Emerson.
I look on those sentiments which make
the glory of the human being, love, hu
mility, faith, as being also the Intimacy
of Divinity in the atoms; and that us soon
as the man Is right, assurance and previ
sions emanate from the interior of Ids
body and his mfiul: as, when flowers reach
their ripeness, Incense exhales from
them, and us a beautiful atmosphere Is
generated from the planet by the averaged
emanation* from all its rocks and soils
A Ready-Witted Parson.
The evefiing lesson wo* frofrt the
Rook of .lob and the minister laid .lost
read: “Yea, the light of the wicked
shall he put out," when immediately
the church was In total darkness."
“Brethren." said the minister with
scarcely a moment’s pause, “In view of
tlie sudden and startling fulfillment
of tilts prophecy, wo will spend a few
minutes In silent prayer for the elec
tric lighting company.” Boston Tran
script.
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U Is all right to conserve food b.v
eating corn. If we do not dine too often
with the chickens.
!PARAFFIN ^AiTbTcUEANED
| Do Not Throw It Away Because It
Has Become Dirty, Says Specialist
of Agricultural Department.
Paraffin that has become unclean
through usage In canning and preserv
ing may be cleaned and reused.
Don’t throw It away because dirt
and trash have become mixed with It.
Many times It can be cleaned with a
brush In cold wafer.
If this does not remove all the dirt*
says a specialist of the United States*
department of agriculture, heat the
paraffin to boiling and strain it through
two or three thicknesses of cheese
cloth placed over a funnel, or a thin
layer of absorbent cotton over one
i Idckness of cheesecloth may be used
i as the strainer.
One straining should be sufficient}
ordinarily, but If the paraffin still la*
| unclean, heat and strain again. Any
paraffin lodging in the strainer may,
j be recovered by beating the cloth and
| pouring the hot liquid Into another
: strainer !
The fellow who marries the woman
who never smiles need not expect a
hilarious time on the matrimonial sea.
Don’t Poison Baby.
FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have
PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce
sleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP
FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who
have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda
num and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists
ar j prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or
to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of “narcotic”
is: “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison
ous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death." The taste and
smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names
of “ Drops,” “Cordials,” “Soothing Syrups,” etc. You should not permit any
medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know
of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOIJ
CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature
of Chas. H. Fletcher. .
Genuine Castoria always bears tho signature of'
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At the Summer Resort.
Stella-—Hello, Frank.
Bella;—Now, there you go calling
him Frank. I am his fiancee and I
want you to understand, dearie, that I
pm the only one around her who has
the Franking privilege.
Love at first sight may eventually
cause the victims to wish they hud
consulted an oculist.
Advancing Civilization.
As a proof that civilization is ad
vnnclng, it may be pointed out thai
African traders, who used to supplj
Uganda with rum, calico, brass wire
and beads, are now doing a flourish
ing trade in wrist watches.
Tlie reason the big fish always gets
away is because he Is usually cleverer'
than the fisherman.
Canadian rarmers
Profit From Wheat
The war’s devastation of
European crops has caused
an unusual demand for grain
from the American Conti
nent. The people of the world must
be fed and wheat near $2 a bushel
offers great profits to the farme;
Canada’s invitation is therefor
especially attractive. She wanl
settlers to make money and happy,
prosperous homes for themselves by
helping her raise immense wheat crops.
Yon can (ret a Homestead of 160 acres FEEE
and other lands at remarkably low prices. During many
years Canadian wheat fields have averaged 20 bushels to
the acre many yields as high as 45 bushels to the acm.
Wonderful crops also of Oats, Barley and nag.
Mixed farming as profitable an industry as grain
ing The excellent grasses full of nutrition are the
food required for beef or dairy purposes. Good ad)
churches, markets convenient, climate excellent.
There Is an extra demand for farm labor to replace
many young men who hare volunteered for the war. 1
Government Is urging farmers to pnt extra acreage Into
grain. Write for literature and particulars as to reduoed
railway rates to Supu of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada.or ■ *rv\VV
M. J. Jokaetese, Drawer 1(7, Watcrtowa, S. D.t y
”. V. Bennett, Room 4, Beo BoiMiog., Omtkt, Nek.,
A it. A. Garrett, 111 Jackets Street. St. Pool. Hka ‘vIRHWe.
Canadian Government Agents
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Aroused, Then Mollified.
Mr. Binks—I met a woman today
(hat I thought a good deal of onee.
Mrs. Binks—Oh, you did?
“Yes. I used to do my very best to
please her.”
“Humph!”
“I did everything I could to win her
pffectiou.”
“My goodness!"
“And at last I flattered myself that
t succeeded.”
“YVhn”—
“She granted all that I asked, and by
so doing made me the happiest man
alive.”
“Merciful”—
“I asked her to come up to the house
with me today, but she had some shop
ping to do, and cannot get here until
supper time.”
“Mr. Binks, I am going to my moth
er.”
“She isn’t home, my dear. It was
your mother that I met. She gave me
you.”—Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Ugh!
He started to take a nap In the har
per clmir but awoke with a terrible
start.
“Have a bad dream, sir?" asked
the sympathetic barber.
"You bet I did. I dreamed the boy
was blacking my white shoes.”
The average girl believes that an en
gagement is one continuous round of
pleasure. And very often it is.
POST TOASTIES
are the newest and
best in corn flakes
I'lllllilililllh'TTR 'TT7
OLD FALSE TEETH WANTED
Wo pay *2 to *16 per not (or old (ala* tooth. Doesn’t
matter It broken. Send by panel poet and receive
check by return mall. Bank reference. Maier'o
Tooth Specialty, 3007 B. Fifth St, Philadelphia, Pa.
SIOUX CITY PTQ. CO., NO. 31-1917.
Ready for Reat of It.
Mr. Curd is Inclined to pessimism,
particularly In the morning. At all
times he looks upon the works of the
boarding house cook with susplclai.
“Wouldn’t you like a nice stew this!
morning?” inquires the waitress.
“Naw 1”
“We have porkchopmuttonchopliver
enbaconhamenaggstoo—”
“Naw-w!”
“Let me bring you a nice fried sole,**!
she persisted.
“Sure, you might as well bring the
sole,” he snarled. “I ate the uppers
yesterday.”
The Trouble.
“Whatcha looking so blue about,
old top?’'
“Oil, my wife wants more clothes,
though all the year her wardrobe has
been oversubscribed.”
Cav,a Granulated Eyelids.
Oa Eye* inflamed by expo
*ure to Son, Oast and wind
gL* « w quickly relieved by Murine
B . V Eye Remedy. No Smarting,
dr just Eye Comfort. At
Druggist* or by mail 50c per Bottle. Murine
Eye Salve in Tube* 25c. For Seek of tbe Eye
I FREE ask Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago