ALL SUCCEED WITH MISTAKES
While One May Fail in Every Other
Endeavor One May Make a Splen
did Record for Errors.
Mistakes are things anybody can
make successfully, writes Strickland
■Jillilan in Farm Life.
I have known people who seemed
to fail at every other kind of manu
facturing, who could make as splendid
specimens of mistakes as one could
wish to see.
Yes, and do it easy!
I have made mistakes.
Yep, I have.
I used to think I made none.
Xow, I list that thing as one of the
biggest mistakes I ever made or knew
about.
These days I find myself wondering
i if I am not the fellow who Invented
i them.
^ Sometimes a fellow takes a miss
that nobody else would take, and after
wards finds out It was a miss-take.
Anybody under twenty never admits
that he has made a mistake.
Andvhe is usually honest about it.
If anybody goes wrong, blame It
auto somebody else.
After twenty-five be begins to think
of a few he made when he was eleven.
By tiie time lie is forty-five he will
forget the mistakes he made in early
youth because, in looking back over
the trail, the little ones of childhood
are completely hid by the whoppers be
has made since he was thirty-five.
1 don’t know why people have to
make mistakes.
But they are built that way.
I believe 1 never made the same mis
take twice.
This encourages me.
For as I look back over a mistake
dotted career, I believe I have reached
the point at which I cannot make any
mistakes without repenting.
But that may be a mistake.
State of Ohio. City of Toledo, Lucas
County—ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney
& Co., doing business In the City of To
ledo. County and State aforesaid, and that
?aUi firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN
DRED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrh
that cannot he cured by the use of
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A. D. 1866.
fSeal) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public.
HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE is tak
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Mistaken for Patriotism.
A small youngster has been drilled
bv his mother in politeness and cour
tesy toward the opposite sex until he
is a model for his years, relates the
Indianapolis News. It is quite us
natural for him to rise when a woman
enters the room as it is for the aver
age boy to sit still. One day he was
■playing with a companion of his own
age who is quite as bright, but hasn’t
enquired all the rules of etiquette
along with infantile diseases. This
hov’s mother came into tjie room sev
eral limes in the course of the morn
ing. and each time the polite young
ster rose to his feet and stood until
/site hud gone. After a time the other
T youngster noticed this strange proceed
ong, and said curiously: “ Say, d’ you
think my mother is the ‘Star-Spangled
Banner?’ ”
It’s Too Bad.
lie' was young and handsome.
She was younger and beautiful.
She seemed to hang over every word
be spoke.
Suddenly his handsome face dark
ened with repugnance.
“It’s too bad!” he exclaimed.
The beautiful girl paled.
Nevertheless, her sensitive nostrils
quivered. She knew he was right.
So site took the egg away and
brought him another. And she didn’t
charge it on the check!
Likely.
The man who does what he likes
when lie likes in the way others will
like is likely to be liked by all.
Speaking of women’s complexions,
seeing isn’t always believing.
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Back of the American Front.
‘Pershing’s Professionals’ Soon;
Learn to Distinguish Various
Types of Shells by Their Sound
—No After Vibration Felt.
By GEORGE T. BYE.
What are the sounds that "Pershing's
Professionals" are hearing at the front?
1 have read a scientific treatise on the
subject of cannon language, running
Into several thousand words and hav
ing a number of illustrations that
seemed to he free-handed drawings of
dull saws, described as diagrams of
howitser sound , avea—"shivers would
have been a better word. 1 emerged
from this technical jungle with only the
eighth and ninth lines, reading: "There
Is a preliminary crack, very distressing
to the ear, followed by a deep booming,
not unpleasant, that is the true sound
[if the explosion."
1 had no seismographs with me these
last few days along the firing line, nor
listening or recording apparatus of any
kind save a pair of diligent but fatigued
ears. From their testimony it is iny
purpose to argue with the scientific
treatise as quoted above.
I have heard nothing hut the
“gr-r-room's" of big guns and the
“gl-luds's" of their shell explosions,
with no preliminary distressful cracks:
and the deep notes only became pleas
ant when distance lent favor, when dis
tance permitted one to rise unabashed
from his stomach, coolly survey the
spout of dirt and smoke, and to make
merry in a very steady voice, “Fritz is
sneezing badly this morning.’
Never shall it be said that an Ameri
can bends a proud knee nor flattens a
haughty stomach to the unspeakable
kaiser, yet may we prostrate ourselves
with suitable dignity, and with no les
' sening of our loathing for the master
wretch, when one of his shells comes
our way. For you can hear them com
ing, rushing toward you with a louder
and louder hum, skewering through the
air with asound like “z-z-z-zin-n-n-ng.”
It is no wonder that you can hear them
for they have the weight of a seven
passenger automobile and spin or re
volve as they flash through the air.
Failures are “Duds."
They are called "duds" if they do not
explode: and “dud” very well describes
the sound of their falling. If you are
near a live one when it crashes open,
the report is a mighty “glung." Some
distance away the sound has the reso
nant “n” left out and is only a flat
“glug” or “gltid." There is no tonal
effect of putting and blowing that
would make the noise “plud” or “blug.”
The shell bites Into the earth, It’s true,
hut it does so with all teeth showing,
and one gets the “nolar ‘ gr-r-rm" first
and every time. My fatigued ears insist
upon this.
A tremendous mallet falling upon a
huge anvil in an auditorium would give
a suggestion of the big noises on the
front. The sounds are so great that
they really make a vaulted hall of the
trench area. The heavens are brought
down to the status of a ceiling. But
when this figurative mallet smites the
anvil, there is no after vibration; the
trees on the front are cracked stumps,
the houses no longer standing, and
: there is nothing to carry a vibrating
I after sound. The only after effect is a
i sharp, and sometimes distressing, shlv
1 ering in the air due to the vacuum of
the explosion.
| The other sounds of the front are
more commonplace. I probably should
except the siren that notifies of a gas
attack or bursting of gas shells. This
; Is of the type of wailing horn that our
fire chiefs use on their automobiles.
In some trenches the call for gas
masks is given on a gong made from
a shell case.
Then you qan hear at any time of
the day or nistht the clumping of heavy
shoes on the trench duck boards, either
of the feet of your friends or enemies.
This sound, of course, doesn't come
from the saps which are padded with
burlap.
Blast Cut Spies
I heard a ripping detonation one day
quite far back from the first line. I
wondered if a Bosche long range shell
were following us. Egyptians were
blowing up dug outs on old battle fields
that looked suspicious. Several of these
dug outs had been found to contain
spies supplied with rations for several
months and underground telephone
wires. This explosion had an ordinary
blasting sound.
On another day I had an unusual
j fright. The motor car I was in was
l racing from the front and approached
; a cross roads that would take us
1 quickly from the "hot area." All at
once we heard a ripping rumble, and
; I turned cold.
| Germans make a specialty of shell
' ing cross roads when they're expect
ing an attack. Two American newspa
| per men had escaped being subdivided
I into smithereens by only two seconds
the day before at a cross road.
The rumbling became louder and I
remembered my facetious first des
cription of a shell burst; that it
sounded exactly as if some one had
picked up the Rome hotel in Omaha
and thrown tt at Pike’s peak.
Louder * * * then we were at the
corner and saw an American steam
l roller crushing down rock. A labor bat
i tallon was repairing destruction done
to that road by the German shells on
| the day previous.
American War Bread.
^ From the Springfield Republican.
The United Mtates is to have a war
bread, and Mr. Hoover and his associ
ates are studying just how it shall be
made. It has been decided to uso 85 per
cent of wheat flour and 15 iter cent of
other grains, (’or this 15 per cent, rice
flour, potato flour, rye, corn and other
ingredients are being considered. The
effort is to preserve the wheaten flavor
so that the result may be palatable as
well as nourishing. The official food
l conservator of Connecticut has been
trying flour made in Tennessee con
taining four-fifths wheat flour to one
fifth white corn which is said to
bake into very pal.Me bread. It has ttie
appearance of fine t ake in the texture
! and crust, and Hartford reports favor
I ably
Negro Woman Builds Palace.
From the New York Times.
To own a country estate on the banks
of the Hudson has been the dream of
many a New Yorker. It is a dream
come true in the case of Mrs. Sarah J.
Walker, the city’s wealthiest negro
woman. Mrs. Walker, or Mme. Walker,
as she is more generally known, has
built a $250,000 home at Irvington.
Twelve years ago she was a washer
woman, glad of a chance to do anyone's
family wash for $1.50 a day. Her
friends now acclaim her the Hetty
Green of her race. They say she has a
cool million, or nearly that.
Ground for the Walker dwelling was
broken eight months ago. and a large
gang of workmen have been kept busy
ever since. Although the house is near
ly completed, it will not be ready for
occupancy, for several months. When it
Is finished it is to be one of the show
places on the Hudson. Of late Mmo
Walker, in her high powered motor ear,
has been a familiar visitor in Irvington.
On her first visits to Inspect her piop
crty the villagers, noting her color, were
frankly puszled. Later, when it became
known that she was the owner of the
pretentious dwelling, they could only
gasp in astonishment.
"Impossible!” they exclaimed. “No
woman of her race could afford such a 1
place.”
To say that the village, when the re
port was verified, wax surprised, would
be putting the case mildly. "Does she
really intend to live there, or is she
building it as a speculation?' the peo
ple have naked. It may be said for Mine.
Walker that she intends to make Irv
ington her permanent home, and is pre
paring to furnish the house in accord
ance with her tastes.
Although she has made money in her
hair tonic business, she has also made
it through good investments. She is the
owner of considerable real estate in
this state, the west and the south. Un
til recently she owned a $00,000 borne in
the northern part of this city. She lias
made a gift of this home to bev daugh
ter. What wealth is tiers, site says, had
jeen acquired thiough perseverance,
persistency and hard work. ' Persever
ance.” she remarked the other day. “is
my motto. It laid the Atlantic cable: it
gave us the telegraph, telephone and
wireless. It gave to tile world an Abra
ham Lincoln, and to a race freedom. It
gave to the negro Booker T. Washing
ton and Tuskegee institute. It made
Frederick Douglass the great orator
that he was, and it gave to the race
Paul Laurence Dunbar, and to poetry
a new song." Of her race Mme. Walker
is passionately fond: her race and her
family are the great interests of her
life.
Find Old Buddhistic Manuscript.
From Japan Society Bulletin.
In the city of Matsue there lived an in
dustrious maker of clogs named Jisuke.
whose family had possessed for genera
tions a quaint manuscript of vellum, the
origin of which was unknown. It re
cently occurred to the present owner that
the parchment might have value He
first submitted it t.o the Tokyo Imperial
university, where if was pronounced a
sacred Buddhistic writing of the 13th cen
tury. Jisuke was advised to take it to the
Nichieren Sect college, where he was in
formed that it was on original manuscript
by Niehiren (1222-12.S2), founder of one
qf the many sects of Buddhism. The writ
ing was in Xichircn*s own hand and was
executed when he was 3S years old. The
manuscript was pronounced so valuable
that its value was conservatively esti
mated at 100,000 yen ($50,000).
The Real Supermen.
W. R. Thayer, in the Saturday Evening
Post.
A grotesque conundrum suggests itself:
If it took the Germans, by devoting their
chief attention to ml’itarism, 40 years to
organize a magnificent army, and if it has
taken the English, a non-militarist nation,
two years '.o organize an army equal and
in some respects superior to the German,
who are the supermen?
Perhnps I am not deferent enough to
the superman: bm I deny that anything
—whether made of flesh and blood or of
steel—should be an object of i everenee,
much less of worship. If 1 were hunting
for a superman 1 should look for him in
someone who achieved great vie lories
against great odds. This has not been
true of the Germans in the present war.
Hindenburg in east Prussia and Poland,
Maekensen in Galicia ar.d the Balkans,
Fulkenhayn In Rumania., and the gen
erals who led the dash into France and
Belgium—all had great odds in their favor.
As soon as the allies rose anywhere near
to an equality with them the German
spectacular successes ceased.
Horse a War Factor.
From the National Humane Review.
There are 4,500,000 horses engaged in
this war. On the western front the
losses have averaged 47,000 horses a
month. In eight hours’ fighting along
a three-mile front at Verdun the
French lost 6,011 horses.
More than 1,500,000 of America’s
horses have been purchased for serv
ice with the allies. In the first seven
months of 1917 the value of horses
shipped to Europe from American ports
was $25,327,333. For the month of duly
alone the value was $1,377,202. Wast
age of horses means an enormous
money loss, which mere money cannot
now replace. Thirty-three thousand
horses have died In America while
awaiting shipment and (i.OOo have died
at sea in course of transit.
In nine weeks the British captured
332 German field and heavy guns and
lost none. The German losses are
partly due to lack of horses.
America, with an army of 2,300,000
men, will require 750,000 horses to be
gin with, and shipload after shipload
to keep the force up to the strength.
The total need will exceed 1,000,000 a
year under fighting conditions, and
may even be vastly’grcater.
AMERICAN TELLS
OF RUSSIA’S ARMY
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Major Stanley Washburn, U. S. \.
After three years of service as
special correspondent with the Rus
sian armies at the front, Maj. Stan
] ley Washburn, of the American
armv, has be^un a tour of our 1
est cities with Russian representa
tives to toll of the present military
situation in Russia. Maj. Washburn
is said to know more about the mili
tary aspects of Russia than ar.y
other American
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Why use ordinary cough remedies,
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False Limbs for Animals.
A new invention of artificial legs
for horses, mules and dogs was of
fered to the Philadelphia brunch of
the Bed Star Animal Belief by a
French-American veteran who refuses
to disclose his name.
This man, who. since the war start
ed, has taken 21 trips to Kurope with
horses for France, claims that al
though the horse or mule will no long
er he good for active service, It may
be list'd for light farm work if these
legs are used.
The leg, or crutch, which has been
used successfully In the United States.
Is made of steel, with a special
quadrant spring imitating the ver
tical nud lateral boxings of the ankle
and fetlock. By means of this many
crippled horses and mules, which
would otherwise be killed, will be
given a chance to live.
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Venice Was Prepared.
In each of the 30 or more air raids
made by Austria on Withe, that city
\ was prepared. Tito electrical micro
; phones at the Venice observation sta
tion are said to have be< i able to de
tect the sound made by the planes a«
they left Trieste, 00 miles away.
“YES, I THINK SO.
Most any good soap ill do, but Red
I Cross Ball Blue is the only blue.
Makes the greatest difference. My
clothes are a dream—snowy white. I
can't use liquid blue. No, not me. Give
me Red Cross Ball Blue and I’ll show
you some beautiful clothes.—Adv.
Great Feat.
The Kid—The sailor in this hook
piust ho an acrobat.
His Ma—Why, dear?
The Kid—Because the book says:
•‘Having lit his pipe ho sat down on
his chest.”
In the great world’s contest, the
kaiser is entitled to the final game on
i his home grounds.
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Shopping.
"I never saw a woman so crazy over
shopping as she is."
“Is site really V"
“Why, the other day she went to a
prominent surgeon and priced a num
ber of his operations.”
Ridicule seldom kills unless the
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As It Used to Be.
“When we drunk from the same can*
1 teen,” roared the old veteran.
“Grandpa,” Interposed his grand*
j daughter, “tlie sentiments of that song
are praiseworthy, but I fear they may
| tend to counteract certain health rules
I have been trying to teach little Wal
do. Don’t you know any songs about
’ sanitary drinking cups?”
i
Cleveland claims 1,098,000 popula
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A woman always acts surprised
j when a man proposes to her.
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Continue Winter Fishing.
Owing to the establishment of addi
tional cold storage plants In New
foundland, it is probable that the win
ter fishery will be continued in Plu
centln, Trinity and Ronavjsia bays, ns
well us on the southwest coast, until
the ice obstructs operations. It is said
that tliis is an opportune time further
to develop turbot fishing in be deep
waters of Trinity bay.
To beep clean and healthy tr.Ve Dr.
Plerje’s Pleasant Pellets. The) regu
late liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv.
When a girl gives a man a kiss it is
because she hopes for reprisals.
j There are some sins which we can
forgive—they are our own.
A True Sport.
lhictor (to anaemic patient)—You
must take au interest in outdoor
sports.
Patient—I do already, doctor. They
provide my main reading every day.
When man was given dominion over
the beasts it Implied self-control.
Success will go a block out of its
way to dodge a lary man.
CHILDREN’S COUGHS
may be checked, and more serious condi
tions of the throat will be often avoided
by promptly giving the child a dose of