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W.mWfm91 i $fr The Commoiief VOL. 19. no. 12 7 11 IV I r I HAY-FEVER I will pladly tell fluflferors how I nan vuvm ui , ... by Hlmplo homo troatmont, If you win wrlto mo nt onco. Bond no money. niSIlTHA O. OAIlIMBNTiail , lox a IIollyTooilf Onl. who holpod with tholr export advice in each part of tho varied settle ments Bought in ovory transaction to justify the high confidence reposed in them. DUTY IN DAYS TO COME And that confidence, it seems to mo, is the raoasuro of our opportun ity and of our duty in tho days to come, in which tho now hopo of tho peoplos of tho world is to bo ful filled or disappointed. Tho fact -that Amorica Is the friend of tho nations whothor they bo rivals or associates, is no new fact. It is only tho dis covery of it by the rest of tho world that is now. Amorica may bo said to have roachod her majority as a world! power. 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Bend attached coupon ' jday "and wo will over peoples whom they feared wo might exploit, not servo ana assist. But wo have not exploited them. Wo havo been tholr friends and havo sought to serve them. And our dominion has boon a menaco to no other nation. Wo redeemed our honor to tho utmost in our doalings with Cuba. Sho is weak but absolutely froo; and it is her trust in- us that makes her free. Weak people over stand ready to give us any authority among them that will assuro them a like friendly oversight and direction. They know that there is no ground for foar in receiving us as their men tors and guides. Our isolation was ondod twenty years ago; and now fear of us is ended also, our counsel and association sought after and de sired. There can be no question of our ceasing to be a world power. Tho only question is whether wo can re fuse the moral leadership that is offorod us, whether we shall accept or reject the confidence of the world. HAND OF GOD DID IT Tho war and tho conference of peace now sitting in Paris -seem to mo to have answered that question. Our participation in the war estab lished our positin among tho nations and nothing but our own mistaken action can alter it. It was not an ac cident or a matter of sudden choice that wo are no longer isolated and devoted to a policy which has bnly our own interest and advantage for its object. It was our duty to go in, if we wore Indeed tho champions of liberty and right. We answered to the call of duty in a way so spirited, so utterly without thought of what we spent of blood or treasure, .so effective so worthy of tho admiration of true men everywhere, so wrought 6ut of the stuff of all that was heroic that tho wholo world saw at last, in rtho flesh, in noble action, a great (ideal assorted and vindicated, by a nation they had deemed1 material and now found to be y compact of the spiritual forces that must free men of every nation fro.ii every unworthy bondage. 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There was no other representative at the peace table that had the autho rity of an impartial and an unselfish arbiter as fully recognized by justice and truth as Woodrow Wilson, and history will acclaim his action as having been actuated by the loftiest motives of altruism, of disinterested purpose to serve the peace and hap piness of the world and to remove as far as possible every seed that might grow and fructify into another cause for war and bloodshed. Chat tanooga Times. THERE IS NO JOY IN BOOZEVILLE, j6hT BARLEYCORN STRUCK OUT A M J ' V -J" . "tCMT" Somewhere the bands are playing and somewhere hearts are light, 5 no y ln the U. S. A. which bears an arid blight; wuon Old John first swung at the "pill" a few short years ago, Local option! " cried the Umpire. John's head drooped sad and low. The next time that he came to bat he looked quite grim and stern; The Umpire said: "Get busy, John," and showed not much concern; The ball whizzed by, John fanned the air 'twas plain he'd lost his heatt The grandstand moaned, the bleachers groaned. "State wide!" the UmP said. Once more John tried to show his Bklll, but when he took the stick The grandstand said: "He's groggy!" and the bleachers cried, "He s sic. He fanned again and missed the hall. Oh, what a dismal sight! You re out!" the Umpire cried to John., 'VYou're out, oldboy." "GOODNIGHT!",- ', ,, ,, . .. Louisville Times. CHARLES HAMILTON MUSGROVto. ia P & A J 4j