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■ r A. S;~ :-r> n •. I inventor, who has submitted to the naval authorities a device calculated to destroy * Tie- t r\ i--rt of Brest, which is likely to bo the port of entry for the American troops that are of tie - new polieetnen of IVtrograd about to examine the papers of a pedestrian. 4—Life * .- -■ /•-.I German steamer Cincinnati about to be put on the U. S. destroyer Jenkins. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK American Destroyers Already Are Taking Part in the War on German Submarines. GUNBOATS FROM JAPAN HELP Ch*r:c:ier Hollweg Refutes to Dis cus* Teuton Peace Terms—Cabi net of D<etracted Russia Re constructed—British and French Still Hammer ing at Hindenburg Line. B) EDWARD W. PICKARD. TL-- Amen.-au navy i* represented ..i.\in«-ri< titi war ship has had u light wilb u Oeruntu submarine. So much was r«-v .!■*• 1 'll Wednes day »■> the British -h.i.rally, wlu.-h aiuaomi- -il the ,.rr«tior :n British wa ter* »t „ ..lrou of American de •tr-ver- It mentioned the "brush" with ih submarine, but did hot tell th>- n- .it. Both tin* British and the Aim ri- ae rutvai aus h irltle* maintain a jr.ui j i.t «. cnee cuucerullig the cap ture nr ■i. »trui-iiou <rf l-l"iit>. 1! • -r» •*liieh ur.- under the r •.i 1 . 1 ‘ . T A - .. ml W . S ». armed at Queenstown aud wen- iu.{ertr.| by a Brill'll ortuvr. sin ’* • Amerieau commander »li- !-■ • ii : in- ready i«r business. “\V.- ■•an s..rt at uu.v," reiilied the Aiueri.au. slid they did. There 1* to !■■ .live S<line of llies.' .s.-str ">era t««ik pan In the re rent flip. >i on th. lienuau suhuia rtne l.js Ztebrngge. The American vessels and their IsiaSliC w el ixitae at tyuei :.sunsii, and Vice Admiral Benny and Admiral Mayo exchanged 4-wugrs < uia! ory eabl.-gra ms. Japan also !~gau taking no active jwrt :u the nurture iu Europe last »..i, A nuint-er of Japuuese gun U«il> arrn d at Mar .lile to aid in lh. :.gnt . »u >:..anues aud to convoy I r. ie'h l.e-f hi.ntmeu. and it was uu 4i8W mlly »tu!.-.| that a contingent ot Ju;*n.'.- tr.».jis uas landed ut the *u: . js'ft and would tight on tile west front alongside the ltu-siau division that lias bc-n there for some lime. DJHO<ny Vsp vur «rrnic■. With ii<* Illusion- as to the serious n* -*» of the task confronting it. the a<lu ,.*!m!ioU is pro*eedittg steadily In it* preparation for the part the I ,.te<J sijtes i» to play in the war. l*:*-si<i**nt Wilson lias ordered the reg u.ar army brought up to full war »tr» ir'L. and all the tuachiuery for tnhung the great selective draft army is ready. All out the country the trail.. ug camps for officers were open.-d at tie beginning of the week, and thousands of efficient young A. * r an' are being drilled In tile du ties of eoi.iiuandlng officers. The sale •4 "1 i rt> ls*ie!' in den*ruinations a* low a* SSU is in full swing. To pro ve** for the country* own cxjh-usc* as a le-ii.g* rei.!. the appropriations com min*- submitted to til** senate the great*-*! war budget lu the history of tl • !.:*• • ■ the U>!ai la-jug nearly glMUMMI All the Week the house debate*! tiie war revenue bill. i its’) mg the be heats of the house au<l dl*regnr*!ing tiie wishes of l*resi d- nt Wi!*--u an*l the advice of the war iSeparttnent. the house and senate con feree* wrote Into tiie army conecrip t.oti bill the Harding amendment au thorising the acceptance of the volun i..r <iiri«i*>us which Colonel Itoosevelt t : *.» ti raise. Both senate and b iii-eepled the report. Tins put *■ ■* . up t** Mr. Wilson the ilecisiou wh* •* • r **r not Colonel Roosevelt is to be sent t<* Kuro|>e in Command of Amen<-sn sobtiera. A-. ' I by •ritielsms of con giess for it* ali.-g.*| dilatoriness In the matter ut war legislation, many setia t.tr* on Wednesday bitterly attacked tie- war policies of the government Th.-ir e-js-etal target* were Secretary of War Baker, the advisory eommis of tlie Council of National De fense, tlie car efficiency committee of the American Itailwny association, pro l-"sal of a f<HHl dictatorship and plans for fixing maximum and minimum prices. The outbursts of the senators showed they were speaking in large measure in behalf of the business con cerns of their respective localities who, they asserted, had had no chance to get government contracts. Trading in Futures Stopped. Fond supply matters in America moved rapidly toward a crisis last week. Actuated presumably by the inxestigatious of the government into gambling in foodstuffs, and by the tre i mendous rise iu tlie price of wheat, I the Chicago board of trade and the ! grain exchanges of several other mid dle West cities put a stop to trading in futures. Wheat and flour prices j fell promptly and decisively. The gov ernment gathered tlie necessary data for prosecution of the wheat gamblers, and then got after tlie butter and egg men. The government also came to [ tlie conclusion that tlie exorbitant prices of wheat and Hour were due in part to the gigantic wheat buying op erations of Great Britain and France, and asked them to dispose of their im nieiise holdings of grain for future de livery. They seem willing to agree I I" tlii- if they are assured that they will receive the wheat thty need from tin* coming crop. All in a position to know scout the idea that there will be an insufficiency of food in this country. Tlie problem i i- to regulate the distribution and the ; i x|«*rt.s. Hollweg Won’t Talk of Terms. Hie imperial rulers of Germany nre ■ not yet holding out an available perch ujmm which tlie dove of peace might alight. Stubbornly resisting the prod ding of both the pan-Gerninns and the Socialists. the chancellor. Doctor Ifoll ■V. g, on Tuesday told the reichstag and tin- world that the time was not fitting for it statement of Germany’s war aims or peace terms. The uiill tary situation of tlie central powers, lie declared, was satisfactory, and he intimated that they were ready to grant liberal terms to Russia, if that strug gling nation desired to get out of the conflict. Rut be asserted there was no reason to believe England and France would at present listen to any proposi I tions from Germany, and to make any would be construed by them ns an evi dence of weakening. On the whole, the chancellor’s speech was bold and defiant, and his position does not seem to lie weakened, despite the continued attacks on him. The most startling of these attacks last week was made by Georg Ledebour, Socialist leader who warned the reichstag that events must happen in Germany as they have in Ru.oiti and that the people must si ion introduce a republic in Germany. Though such sentiments are support ! ed by many, it is likely the mass of i opinion In the empire is better repre sinted by Iierr Roesicke, president of I the German Fanners' union, who de tunin'ed the Socialist alms as sinister and anti-national, and as tending to a prolongation of the war since, as he declared, the entente based tlielr hojm's on German disunion. “President Wilson.” Herr Roesicke , continued, “wants Thu peace with the Hohenzollerns. hut the monarchy is too deeply rooted in German hearts for the malignity of the entente or of president Wilson to be capable of de stroying it." Developments in Russia. Official advices to the state depart ment during the week showed the Ger man government’s efforts to disrupt the provisional government of Russia are unabated and are meeting with some success. The share in the gov ernment offered to the council of work men’s anti soldiers’ delegates was at ! first refused and later accepted on conditions that were rejected by the government. The council, neverthe less. stands firm for continuance of the war and issued a manifesto to the soldiers pleading with them to go on fighting for revolutionary Russia and to give up all thought of a separate peace. It told them it would lead them toward peace by another way—by call ing for revolution of the workmen and peasants of Germany and Austria Hungary. Among the actual results last week of the disorganization in Russia were the resignations of Minister of War Guchkoff and of Generals Brussiioff and Gurko who declined to serve when their orders were subjected to the ap proval of committees of soldiers. These resignations, were followed speedily by that of M. Paul Milukoff as minister of foreign affairs. He left tlie cabinet altogether. Tereschtenko succeeded him, and Kerensky, who was minister of justice, became min ister of war and marine. Following the retirement of Pro fessor Milukoff, who is disliked bjBtlte radicals, it was officially announced that tlie government, the executive committee of tlie dunia and the coun cil of workmen’s and soldiers’ dele gates had agreed on these three card inal points: The unity of the allied fronts; the fullest confidence of the revolutionary democracy in the recon structed cabinet; a plentitude of pow ers for the government. This sounds encouraging, but the fact remains that the army is disinte grating, owing to the preoccupation of tlie individual soldiers with the land division, the food shortage, their fa tigue and other personal matters. The United States began giving con crete aid to Russia on Wednesday, when Secretary McAdoo gave to its charge d’affaires $100,000,000 of tlie allied loan, with the specification that the money be spent if 1 this country under the supervision of the treasury department. Tlie American mission to Russia, headed by Mr. Root, was given its instructions, but it cannot rt-.fWi Petrograd for about two months. Belgium got a share of the loan when Mr. McAdoo handed its repre sentatives a credit for $45,000.01X1. Italian Offensive Begun. With the passing of winter condi tions Italy began a vigorous offensive on Monday, attacking the Austrians along tlie entire Isonzo front. Tlie enemy fougtit back sturdily, hut was forced to give ground in the region of Plava, north of Goritz. In this Italy is only anticipating a grand assault which tlie Austrians had been prepar ing to make. Tlie fighting continued throughout the week with varying for tunes, tlie Italians slowly pushing their way toward Trieste, their ob jective. iieieitseu ieixi|>oruriij iruui me ne cessity of guarding strongly the east ern front, Germany brought from there to France a large number of comparatively fresh troops and threw them into the struggle against the British and French. General Haig’s men are now confronting greater en emy forces than at any time Jn the past, but before the week ended they were in full possession of Bullecourt, the village for which the Germans fought so desperately because it pro tected Queant, the southern end of an important line of defenses. On the French front the most violent fighting was about I.affaux mill, a posi tion even more important than Bulle court. Again and again the Germans made desperate attempts to regain this ground, but the French repulsed them with terrific losses. Many burning villages behind the German front north and south of St. Quentin indicated an intention of the Germans to carry out a further re tirement. St. Quentin itself lias been burning for some time. General Petain on Tuesday was ap pointed commander in chief of the French armies in France. General Ni vel le was given command of a group of armies, and General Foch became chief of staff of the war ministry. Pe tnin gained fame and high popularity by his defense of Verdun. In Great Britain, too. there was a shake-up. a general staff for the navy being formed in response to the at tacks on the admiralty. Admiral .Tel lico heads the staff. A gratifying decrease in the number of vessels sunk by submarines, was reported by the British admiralty. Whether this is due to the increasing attacks on Zeebrugge by sea and air. or to the recent destructive fire at the Wilhelmshnven wharves, or to the large number of U-boats caught in the British nets—reported to be between SO and 100—is not known outside of Germany. The United States lost one of its most distinguished and honored citi zens in the sudden death of Joseph H. Choate, eminent lawyer and former ambassador to Great Britain. TALK OF KAISER ABDICATING -r Sovere gns of Germany and Austria Discuss Plan at a Meeting in Homburg. Loac-iou.— Lord Esher in a letter from Frame throws startling light, the I laity News says, on the position of the tiertnan iiujierittl family in the face of the recent political develop ment*. He quoted from a letter writ ten from Kerim by a Polish officer to a friend in Switzerland describing the discussion in the reichstag on the pro l>osal to limit the kaiser's powers and proceeds: “This interesting letter went on to state that the abdication of the Ger man emperor was mentioned at Horn hurg at a recent meeting of the sover eigns of Germany and Austria and that in government circles and in public reconstitution of an elective federal empire is openly discussed as an alter native to a German republic, which for many reasons appears more difficult of realization.” The writer adds that the unpopu larity of the crown prince is so general that were an imperial form of govern ment to be retained on an elective basis Prince Iiupprecht of Bavaria would command more votes, even in Prussia, than the present heir to the throne. Daylight savings is being tried again in the United Kingdom, clocks havin'* been put forward on hour on Ajkll 8, the former time to be resumed Sep tember 17. MINOR NOTES FROM ALL PARTS OF NEBRASKA DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. June 4 to 7—Nebraska State Dental Society Meeting at Omaha. June 5 to 7—Nebrasku-lowa Funeral Directors Joint Meeting at Omaha. June 5-G-7—State Association of Post masters' Meeting at Lincoln. June 12. 18 and 14—Semi-Centennial celebration tit Lincoln. June 15 to 24—Nebraska State Holi ness Association camp meeting at Lincoln. June 1S-20—Nebraska Press Associa tion Annual Convention at Omaha. June l!i—Annual Meeting State Phar maceutical Association Meeting at North Platte. June 19-20—Nebraska State Sunday School Convention at Omaha. June 25 to 27—International Ass n, of Railway Special Agents and Po lice Meeting at Omaha. June 25 to 80—State Golf Tourna ment at Lincoln. The government should take over the country’s wheat supply and set the price at $1.50 a bushel, declared Paul F. Skinner, president of the Skinner Manufacturing company of Omaha in a public statement, lie said the wheat prices are being kept high by speculators. Praise for the federal reserve hank system and a pledge to aid the gov ernment In any possible way were the dominant features of the meeting of group No. 1 of the Nebraska Rank ers’ association, comprising fourteen southeastern Nebraska counties at Lincoln. The Burlington railroad company announces that all employes receiving less than $250 a month, excepting those whose wages are fixed hy agree ment, and laborers whose wages re cently were raised, will receive a 10 per cent advance. First of any customers outside of the banks announced to buy war bonds, the “Liberty Loan," is the Omaha Commercial dub. It has authorized its treasurer, to take $2,000 from its treasury and invest in these securities. Teaching of the German language in the public schools of Nebraska, made possible by the passage a few years ago of the Mockett law. will probably be abandoned next year in all schools, according to reports. Two barrels and two kegs of high proof whisky and fifteen barrels of bottled beer were found in the cellar of a Pender resident. The man was arrested on a charge of having liquor in his possession illegally. Fr<*i 1 Fuller of Hazard scored a new mark for clipped lambs, on rite South Omaha market when lie sold a batch for $10.45. or 00 cents better than the best price ever paid before. Orleans is soon to have a new pub lic library, the cornerstone for the structure having been laid a few days. Nebraska Masons were in charge of the ceremony. It is announced that the Ak-Snr Ben festival held in Omaha yearly will neither be abandoned nor cur tailed because of the war. Members of the Fremont branch of tlie Navy league have undertaken to knit a packet for each sailor on the battleship Nebraska. The Lincoln Drug company, of Lin coln. is the first drug firm in Nebras ka to secure a permit to sell liquor under the prohibition law. The Union Pacific conservation special, which toured the state just recently visited fifty-six towns, trav eled S50 miles and 22.000 persons at tended the meetings. It is announced that the annual Nebraska tennis tournament will be held at Superior July 23 to 28. ns sanctioned hy the United States Na tional Lawn Tennis association. An unknown supporter of the Grand Island chapter of the lied Cross has offered $100 in prizes for the best po tatoes grown this season. Twenty-five dollars is offered for the best bushel. $20 for the next best. $15 for the next. $10 for the next and then six $5 prizes. Organization of a nation-wide “Barefoot Brigade” to save shoe leather is being advocated by Omaha’s city garden supervisor. Ev ery boy and girl in the Enited States would become a member by going barefoot in the summer. The skeleton of a man was plowed tip by a farmer at his place near Win nebago while breaking sod in the field. His plowshare struck the skull at a depth of about four inches. To all appearance the body must have been buried more than fifty years. The Boy Scout movement in Omaha is growing rapidly. It is now made up of thirty-three troops, 075 Scouts, while nearly twenty-new troops are in the process of organization. Four months ago there were eight troops and 100 Scouts. The Burlington railroad has a force of men at work grading a new right of way for the Columbus branch ns it enters the city from the east, tiie aim being to straighten the curve and make the signal lights visible. Farmers of Seward county have a well developed organization to com bat the gopher pest, and it is be lieved the campaign will stop a loss of more than $60,000 a year. A force of men is at work on the foundation of the shirt factory nt Beatrice which M. E. Smith & Co. of Omaha will soon establish. Directors of the South Omaha Live Stock Exchange have decided to re lease about 300 of their employes for farm work. The men are to be paid their salaries less the amount paid them for farm work. Leo Phillips, found guilty of as sault on Mrs. .T. F. Davis, in the dis trict court at Aurora, was sentenced to a term of from one to five years in the penitentiary. The cornerstone of Cozad’s new $40,000 public school building was laid the other day, with the Masonic order in charge. Tlie Nebraska Grand Lodge A. O. U. \V. of Nebraska failed to reach an agreement during the recent session at Omaha and adjourned with both insurgents and regulars claiming a rate victory. The insurgents claim the adoption of the Sunbeam rales, which is about 25 per cent below the N. F. C. schedule adopted last January. Regulars claim the resolution, which received a majority vote, required a two-tldrds vote; therefore, did Pot pass. The court may be called upon to decide the controversy. John Stev ens of Beaver City was elected grand mastqy workman. Lincoln was chosen for the 1010 session. Nebraska faces the prospects of a lumber famine during the next six months, according to prominent deal ers over the state. It is said that the mills have tightened up on shipment because of prospects of large de mands by the government for ship building. One Omaha firm lias been forced to lay off 100 salesmen, be cause of the uncertainty of tilling or ders. Nels Merrymnn. proprietor of one of the biggest wheat farms of Nebras ka.. located near Kearney, owns more than 25,000 bushels of wheat—all he has produced in the last two years. “I haven't sold a bushel in two years.’’ be said. "The price is satisfactory, but I am going to look out for my neighbors who haven’t got enough wheat for seed.” The first test case of Nebraska’s dry law was held in the district court at Omaha a few days ago. when an Omaha druggist who was fined R100 and costs in police court for having a barrel of alcohol in his cellar, appealed to the higher tri bunal. The lower court’s decision was upheld. The case may he ap pealed to the supreme court. The biggest man in the United States army—in weight—is reputed to he Roy I,. Stone of David City. He en listed in the field artillery. He weighs 250 pounds. The maximum weight under the rules is “lOO pounds. His surplus was waived by the recruiting office, because lie was physically per fect otherwise. A government army balloon en route from Fort Omaha to Junction City was fired upon near Liberty, by a farmer, one of the bullets pierc ing the big air hag. The balloon landed near Odell, south of Beatrice, and the men in charge secured tlie farmer's name. He offers no expla nation for the shooting. The South Omaha market Is tight ening its hold on second place for the big ntarekts. and is now far ahead of Kansas City, which nosed out about two years ago. The Omaha market leads the Missouri city by well over 000,000 head, with prospects of a lead twice this size by the end of the year. Trading in futures has been discon tinued on the Omaha grain exchange. The grain business, resttltingly. has resolved itself into purely a supply and demand proposition. The man who has grain to sell hunts a cus tomer. and the man who desires to buy finds one who has strain to sell. C. It. Lamm of Gering sold a ship ment of lambs on tlie South Omaha stock market last week which netted hitn $20 i>er hundred pounds. It was not only the highest price ever paid for fed lambs on the Omaha market, but tlie highest ever beard of before on any market in the country. The Alliance chapter of tlie Red Cross society has been active, raising $500 recently by a tag day. The chapter’s membership is growing rap idly. Dogs anil chickens are causing so much trouble in Fremont that a cam paign of enforcement of the dog and chicken ordinance is now under way. The Fremont gun dub has leased its grounds to a farmer who will plant tho ground to beans and corn. The tract comprises ten acres recently purchased by the club. A Grand Island merchant otTered the kids of the town the other day the weight In oranges for all the dandelions brought to the store. With in the time set for delivery over 5,500 pounds of dandelions were delivered. Eighty boxes of oranges were carried awav bv the kiddies. i tvenraska is ineiuoea in a list ul ! states given out by Postmaster Gen eral Burleson in which it will be un | lawful to mall letters, postal cards or publications containing liquor ad I vertisements under the Reed law. . The act is effective July 1. It Is reported that more than I $1,500 worth of automobile tires and * accessories have been stolen from ; cars on Omaha streets during the i past month. The method employed i by the thieves, is to carry jacks and I pry up the wheels so that the tires can be removed. A. C. Watson of Plainview con tinues to top the South Omaha mar ket with his cattle. Just the other day he sold a shipment for $18.10 per hundredweight, the highest price ever j recorded up to that day. Women voters in Douglas county : under the new suffrage law will not | he compelled to tell their exact ages. | Election Commissioner Moorhead an 1 nouneed. All they will have to say when registering will he “over 21.” C. E. Gunnels, who has been the county agricultural agent of Seward for the past year, will leave June 1 to take up the management of all the farm extension work in Nebraska. The first municipal Boy Scout troop ' established in the United States was l organized at Ralston an Omaha | suburb. Grand Island merchants are con ! sidering means of curtailing the prac tice of extending credit to customers | for more thnu thirty days. Extension of credit is to mean payment on the next pay day. Red Willow county farmers who live near Tndianola were the first group of farmers to receive a loan from the federal land hank of Omaha. The loan amounted to $83,000. The Masonic lodge of Wymore has purchased lot 2, block 25 in Wymore and expects to erect «r fine Masonic temple on the place. wfslicl mm gy HASY I CLOUD KING’S JOKE. “rtillie Brownie.” said Daddy, “was talking to Peter Gnome. -- “‘I am not quite sure, ut* »;uu, ‘whether it is too ear'y in the sea son for ihe first spring hath.’ “ ‘Whatever <lo yon mean?’ asked Peter Gnome, his eyes opening very wide and his fore head raised up high. »• * T llief I _ ,-,-3 ‘ . " what I say. Peter, Billie Brownie Felt replied Billie of !t" Brownie. ‘Are you growing a little deaf?’ “ ‘Certainly not.’ said Peter Gnome. ‘Rut when we take at least a good hath every day whether it is spring or summer or winter <>r autumn. I can't really, for the life of me, understand why you are wondering about a first spring bath.’ “‘Oh, oh, oh,’ laughed Billy Brownie, ‘that is as good a joke as I ever heard.’ “ ‘Glad you think so,’ said Peter. ‘Suppose you explain my own joke to me then.’ “ ‘I will,’ said Billie Brownie. ‘1 meant I wondered whether it was too early in the year to have a dip in the pond down yonder. Not just a bath, but a spring swim. You know a good water fight and swim aud dive, eh, Peter?’ “ ‘Oh,’ said Peter, ‘that is very dif ferent. Well now, I would have to give that a little thought before I made up my mind about it. I could not tell just offhand whether I think it would be too cold or not. I would have to feel the water first with one hand, and then with ihe other. Then I would have to let the hand remain wet in the breeze to see if the breeze were warm or chilly.’ “ ‘You’d have to do quite a lot,’ said Billie Brownie. “ ‘That’s so.’ said Peter Gnome. ‘I don’t want to catch a cold. It’s so ex tremely disagreeable to sneeze. I never thought there was any fun in that— never.’ “ ‘I don’t suppose anyone thinks it is fun to sneeze,’ said Billie Brownie. “ ‘You’d think-so,’ said Peter Gnome, ‘to see the way some animals and creatures do such silly things and then all that follows is a sneezing attack. I don't believe in being fussy but I do hate to sneeze.’ “ ‘Well, no one is asking you to sneeze,’ said Billie Brownie. “ ‘That is quite true,’ said Peter Gnome. ‘No one is asking me at all. I am just thinking whether I can go with you for the dip and whether I think you should go.’ “ ‘Are yon going to be a doctor?’ asked r.illie Brownie gravely. ‘You seem to be taking medicine ahead of time!’ “Peter Gnome laughed and they linked arms and went to look at the pond and to feel of tt»; water. First Billie Brownie felt of It, and then Peter Gnome put his hand in. “‘I am not at all sure what to say,’ said Peter Gnome. “ ‘Neither am I,’ said Billie Brownie. “They stood by the side of the pond feeling the water and then looked at each other. They did not seem to be able to make up their minds just what to do. “,Tust then the Cloud Fairies were i talking. ‘Look at Billie Brownie and Peter Gnome,’ they said. ‘They do not know whether to go for a dip or wheth er to stay out.’ “ ‘Oh. what a joke,’ said the King of the Clouds. ‘I shall have to call out the army of raindrops and see what they are up to. Raindrops! Rain , drops!’ he called. “ ‘Hello,’ called the Raindrops. “ ‘How about a little exercise?’ asked | the King of the Clouds. we re in neeu of it sadly,’ said the Raindrops. “ ‘Well,’ said the King of the Clouds, Til give a prize to the one who gets to the earth first!’ “Off the rain drops scampered, and’ so quickly did they rush down to the earth that it was just like a _. . _ . cloudburst. They S,r"p,y Got “And Billie Drenched. Brownie and Peter Gnome got soaked! they simply got drenched. And how the Cloud Fairies and the King of the Clouds did laugh. “‘Well, that was a good joke on us.' said Billie Brownie, as they hurried home. “ *#es,’ said Peter Gnome, ‘we got drenched without any swim at all. I imagine the Cloud King must have decided it was warm enough for the spring dip and as we were so unde cided he thought he'd give us the bath without the trouble of our making up our minds about it!’ “ ‘That's just it,’ chuckled the King ol the Clouds, as he called back the Raindrops and old Mr. Sun came out." Crow Has Cause. Which are the mos. contented birds? Crows, because th ?y never complain without caws (cause). Talking for Effect A good conversationalist Is not one who'talks for effect. It Is generally easy to pick out the girl who is talk ing in order to m .ke an impression, who says not so much what she thinks, ns what she imagines her lis teners will consider clever. No one talks well who is given to conversa tional posing.—Girls’ Companion. Marries and Remains Single. Who may mnrry many a wife and still be single all Ms life? A clergy man. PREPARE MORE LAND “Seed and Feed” the Slogan of the Year. The papers are filled with the appeal for soldiers, sailors and fanners, and all are timely, all are necessary. The sailor is needed to man the ships that protect the shores, police the seas and clear the ocean of tormenting and meddlesome masked buccaneers, to give help to the allies, to make more efficient the present fighting units that are keeping free the sea lanes and ocean routes. The soldier is required to keep alive and intact the unity of the nation and the freedom of the world, to protect the lives of its citi zens from incursions without and raids within, to guard the honor and pre serve the dignity of the great United States, to render not only sentimental but practical assistance to those who for two and a half years on the bat tlefields of Flanders and the steppes of the East have been fighting for the freedom of the world against a domi nant autocratic and militarist Prus sianism, which, were it to Decome suc cessful, would mean autocratism, mil itarism and Prussianism, and a “get off-the-sidewalkism” over the entire world. The allies are proud to wel come these new accessions to the fight ing forces, which mean an earlier ter mination of the war and the dawn of an era that will be historic, one that we will all be proud that we lived in. Throughout all Canada, Great Druuin. r ranee, ana an me aniea coun tries, when the news was received that the United States had entered the war, a thrill went up and down the nation’s sides, and the pulses throbbed with a new life, keenly appreciative of the practical sentiment that had brought to their sides an ally of the strength and virility of the United States. But the soldier and the sailor need to be fed, and therefore the cry for agricultural enlistment. The strength of the fighting man must be main tained. In his absence from the field there comes the necessity for provision to take his place. The appeal for farm help is well timed, opportune and im portant. There are vacant lands a plenty in the United States that, given a fair opportunity under competent ad visement and reasonable help, will pro duce abundantly. Western Canada also provides an excellent field for the prosecution of work in growing wheat and other grains, and while it is not the desire of the Canadian Government to draw from the resources of the United States, believing that it is the duty of every patriotic citizen to do all he possibly can to build up the stores of depleted foods and making use of every energy at home, the wish is to lay before the public the fact that Canada has millions of acres of excellent land capable of producing wonderful crops. If for any reason the reader, having patriotism and a love of his country in his heart, and a desire to forward the cause of the al lies, cannot avail himself of the oppor tunities afforded in the United States, Western Canada will he glad to ren der him any assistance It can In locat ing him on its vacant arens, where large crops can be grown at minimum of cost. Let us grow the grain, raise the cattle, produce the food to feed our soldiers, our sailors and provide food for our allies, no matter whether it is done to the North or to the South of the boundary line that In the object itt view should not be known as a boun dary. Let us keep up the spirit of pa triotism, whether it be growing grain in the United States or in Canada, but Canada, fully nlive to the necessity, joins in the appeal of its allies—the United States—for more food and more food.—Advertisement. storage tggs. The assertion by dealers that "after all there is nothing injurious about a storage first egg—in fact, it is as good ■.Pi a fresli egg,” is not borne out by so good an authority ns Dr. Harvey \V. Wiley, who, when questioned on the stand in Washington on the subject of eggs that had been in storage six months, said: “The amount of nutriment would probably be diminished by a very con siderable quantity. 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