THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUUUST 27, 1915.
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THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG
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Had your "muny" ice yet?
The bootleggers will not complain that the
' police are letting them rest s
That Brest-Litovsk treaty begin to look like
t liability rather than an asset for the kaiser.
If "paper bullets" are required to subdue the
Impatient bolsheviki, plenty will be supplied.
Any time the weather man gets tired 'of this
hot spell, the rest of us are willing; to call it off.
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fHitchcck defending the administration, es
pecially Secretary Baker, must have made the
angels weep. V "
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Wonder what done the German war lords are
feeding the people at home to keep them com
placent and submissive. , .
American soldiers are making themselves at
home in Vladivostok, as well as elsewhere, prov
ing the adaptability of the Yankee boy.
The Salvation Army comes next on the list of
drives, so get ready for it. The money goes to
help the lassies in their work at the front
Though' solicitation has stopped, rest assured
that The Bee's frei milk and ice fund is working
for the good of the little tots all the time.
Sunday contributed its customary list of auto
mobile disasters. This weekly record could well
be dispensed with, but it is up to the drivers.
i Saw-too'thed bayonets have been found among
arms captured from the Huns, but these are mild
things compared to some of their other contribu
tions to war, ..- : '
The only bad luck foreign officers have had
with American. troops' comes when they order
them to the rear. That is something our boys
do not understand. ' ,
- , The teaching corps of the public schools is
being ruthlessly depleted by the war's upset of
the labor situation, but we may depend upon the
faithful army of school teachers to start the les
sons according, to schedule next week.
THE MUNY ICE PLANT. ,
Our municipal ice plant is about to begin
operations and, having invested our money in it,
there is every reason why we should do every
thing to make it. an unqualified success.
Omaha, without question, can manufacture
and store tee just as economically. and just as
cheap in its municipal plant as can 'anyone else,
provided the plant Is conducted under competent,
honest and efficient direction. The measure of
succejs, however, and extent to which the bene
fits will be spread through the community will
depend almost wholly on the method of dlstribu
tion. ,
It is obvious that the cash-and-carry plan must
necessarily be limited to the patronage of people
in the immediate neighborhoods and possible in
dependent ice peddlers. Eventually, if the muny
plant is to serve the entire community, it must
take on systematic home distribution, either by
districting the city with a licensed delivery
agent for each district, or by creating a muny
delivery organization that will put the ice in the
ice box of each household that wants it at prac
tically cost Drice.
The real problem of the municipal ice plant
is the problem of delivery and those charged
with its management should apply themselves to
its solution.
British Making Good Headway. v
Unless the map is very carefully followed in
connection with the brief bulletins from the
Flanders front, the observer is likely to miss the
huge importance of the battle now going on
there. The British steadily advance against the
most determined resistance of the Bavarian ar
mies and gain a mile or two of ground each day.
Each of these gains is significant of the failure
of the Germans hope to just that extent.
Whether it Be a rear guard action, to cover a pre
determined withdrawal, or whether it bears a
more definite relation to the general engagement,
the retirement of the crown prince of Bavaria
under the assault of Marshal Haig means that the
prospect of turning back the foe line from the
North Sea is steadily improving. As the battle
gets nearer to the old Hindenburg line the likeli
hood grows of that frontier going into the dis
card. Considerations that withheld British ef
fort in that sector after the failure at Catnbrai no
longer exist, and the thrust that failed then for
lack of proper support may now be carried
through. The magnificent push of the British
apainst the concentrated armies before it 'is one
of the features of the year, and its steady success
mqans much for the Allies' program.
While the British were pounding one end of
the line into pulp and the French were riddling
Ihe center, the Yankees were busy on the other
flank, making the triple effort a complete suc
cess. Lud)endorff does not understand the tactics,
but he knows they are rapidly putting his army
on the whizzer.
Prisoners tajcen by Yankees and British lately
ire dispensing a pretty fair line of German peace
propaganda, their tales of weakness in the kaiser's
trmy sounding very much like some of the stories
tent out from Berlin concerning revolts and the
like jus( before the late big drive. It is safe to
discredit any story from Germany until it is well
backed up by trustworthy proof.
Jarvis Offutt.
Another. blue star has turned to gold in Oma
ha, one of the city' boys having paid his life
in redemption of his pledge to humanity.,. He'is
not the first, nor is it likely he will be the last,
but he is only a type of the splendid youth who
are giving all to make the "world safe for those
who are left at home. Jarvis Offutt. like Quentin
Roosevelt, is distinguished only by reason of the
fact that his name is perhaps a little better
known to the community. He sought service,
just as did the other boys who have gone into
the ranks, and went about his work with the en
thusiasm of high-spirited youth, unselfishly giv
ing everything. That is all, and those who knew
him, who knew his father, and who know his
grandfather, know that he went to his fate upheld
by faith and courage, undaunted by terror of the
foe, hoping only to help in establishing liberty
for the world. Of such are the boys of America,
and on them is built our future, as sure a foun
dation as a nation resting on God could have.
Judicial Opinion on Lusitania Crime.
An American admiralty court has passed up
on the sinking of the Lusitania, fixing responsi
bility for that crime, and giving definite status to
the long established opinion of the world. That
a popular verdict had been returned against trie
German authorities is not in itself enough to fin
ally convict them, but when a court, after long
and careful inquiry into all the aspects of the
case and the facts bearing thereon gives its de
cision, substantially supporting all the people
have believed, doubt is removed forever. Judge
Mayer, in the admiralty division of the federal
court of New York, holds the German government
responsible, legally as well as morally, for the de
struction of that vessel and the loss of life and
property thereby entailed. He finds that the
Lusitania was not armed,- that its cargo did not
contain explosives, and that its master was with
in his rights and wholly warranted in sailing on
schedule time from a neutral port He also finds
that the act by which the vessel was sunk was
one "of the most indefensible of modern times?'
Liege, Louvain and the Lusitania will haunt
Germany as long as history is written and read.
Pershing's Pledge to the Church.
A manly modesty.born of courage and char
acter, marks the pledge given by General Persh
ing to the church, which is no less to the world,
on behalf of himself and his comrades in arms.'
It is, just such a message as would be expected
from an American soldier, no matter what his
rank, and as such is in strong contrast to the
flambuoyance and hypocrisy noted in the mes
sage of the kaiser to the German bishops. Only
one who is conscious of the strength and justice
of his cause, animated by lofty purpose and filled
with earnest determination, is worthy of repre
senting America at this time, and such a man is
f Pershing. "Your message of Loyalty," he writes
to the churches, "draws this reciprocal message
of loyalty to" you. May we prove ourselves
worthy bf it", It is this spirit, which permeates
the whole people, that lifts up the army of the
United States and sets it above mere numbers,
faking it a vital force, an agency of lining power,
which can not fail in the great work ahead of it.
The simple language of the Pershing message is
an inspiring pledge of victory for the right.
' Base ball magnates are much concerned over
whether the game can be revived after the war.
If it is to be accompanied by the wrangling that
marks it now, it will be as well to let the profes
sional game, slumber.
Automobile makers have received their in
structions from the War board, which is sufficient
notice that this country is eventually going to
reach a war basis.
. A Lost Art Reborn of Wdr ! . C
Letter Writing Attains a . Volume Never Known Before
All at once the letter has returned to us;
the letter which is not to be read and thrown
aside; the letter which has more than mere
personal value; the letter which the natural
fitness of things decrees shall be more or
less circulated and shall be preserved. A
new bud, iq other words, shows where Jiad
been a looped Jimo of literature.
In mere volume the letter writing of
today, beyond all doubt, incomparably ex
ceeds anything the world has ever known.
There is separation of friend from friend,
loved one from loved one, past all precedent,
and a yearning to communicate, intensified
by harrowing uncertainties, by quickened
emotions, by riches of novel and stirriri ex
perience. - ' .
It may rise almost to the proportions of
a problem this new proclivity toward letter
writing; which shows itself, apparently, in
its most aggravated form among the "jackies
of the battleships. So at least one burdened
censor imagines. A glimpse of his labors
gives a new idea of the immense activity in
the field of artless effusions. He groans over
the unconscionable number and length of the
letters with which Tack Tar favors his wide
and elastic circle of friends, but at the same
time he grudgingly admires. They are, he
admits, good letters; often surprisingly good
letters, even though their subject matter
may be unpromising the mere daily routine
of life upon shipboard "somewhere in Amer
ica" with the food featured.
Jack Tar enlarges much upon what he haj
to eat; which shows that he follows the line
of his real interests and so writes real let
ters; letters in which there is the gusto which
is the hallmark of good letter writing.
Gusto is what has returned to letter writ
ing; or call it, rather, in its higher manifesta
tions, inspiration. There is an urge of heart,
mind, soul, circumstance, toward expression
in that form--to its incalculable elevation
and enrichment The best literature of our
day, it is perhaps safe to predict, will be let
ter literature; literature no less because not
written as literature, but as intimate per
sonal transcripts of experience, physical and
spiritual.
The "good" letter is with us again; the
letter into which the writer puts the best
that is in him; the letter which is at once
spontaneous and worked out, written with
a care, to write worthily, not dashed off as
a thing which matters little; the letter full
of the self-expression which is the very life
blood of literature and of the "atmoshpeK."
which is its vital breath.
We think of the eighteenth century as
the great letter-writing age. We have had,
of course, published letters enough forming
a sort ot autobiographical addition to the
lives of more or less distinguished men and
women; letters in many cases-of undeniable
charm and value, simply because they .ould
not well be otherwise. But the letter as an
end in itself, the letter taken seriously as a
form of literature, has, a good many years
since, practically passed away.
Anne S. Winston in New, York Times.
It was Derhaos the advent oi the postage
stamp that sounded the knell of, the "good"
letter. Not seldom in letters of the older
day ther. cropped out what must have been
a rather ' general feeling that the one who
received and paid for a letter was entitled to
what is crudely termed "the worth of his
money," in matter of interest ana happy ex
pression. The writer ransacked his brainfor
opposite news and zestful particulars. In.
made with care the proper compliments-- In
a word, he deliberately did his best for his
freind and 'his friend's friends into whose
hands the production might be expected to
pass. For, naturally enough, "good" letters
circulated, and were intended to circulate.
Fancy the recipient of one of-Horace Wal
pole's letters those brilliantly polished ag
glomerations of anecdote, gossip, scandal,
wit, cynicism and dandified philosophy
skimming it over, and throwing it aside done
withl As a matter of fact, during his life,
a collection of his letters was actually pub
lished in Paris; apparently letters belonging
to his ordinary friendly correspondence.
Horace Walpole was what we might call
a professional letter writer, and so, it may be
objected, not fairly to be taken as represen
tative of the letter writers in general of that
day.' He is, however, in a way, representa
tive. What he did supremely many aspired
to do, and all who wrote letters at all felt a
certain obligition to do, after some fashion.
Decidedly in succeeding generations the
letter fell on evil days. People could too
easily see each other; other mans of com
munication were too manv: ta uv nothinc
f the malign influence, cited already, of pre
paid postage, in lessening the sense of obli
gation to make a letter worth while. Actual
letters became comparatively , meager and
devoid of carefully cultivated graces.
Probably enough the "good" letter, has
not ' come to stay. The conditions which
make it "good", will not, please heaven, en
dure. But while it is with us. and oresaeed
already by "Christine," there will be, it is
fairly certain, a revival of the novel in letters
as a favored fictional form: discarded in cart
at least because too flagrantly lacking in !
plausibility when compared with the meager
actualities of contemporary letter, writing.
The novel in letters will return, but that
again will not endure. What will endure
will be a priceless mass of human documents
a mine of wealth for the future historian who
would look below the surface of things; a
mine, too, of sheer human interest for those
who will come after us. Our time will live
to future times in' its letters as the eighteenth
century lives to us; as vividly, and more
nobly. For ours are heroic days, and days
of returning spiritual vision. Our "good"
letters are good with more than gusto and
more than art; good above all as showing
what we term morale what manner of spirit
is being born in us. In these great days we
are "unashamed of soul," and-what is more
unashamed of souls. SThat our letters tend
"so to testify, of itself makes them note
worthy.
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7 J'A
American Soldiers See and Believe ,
Characteristic Instances of Hun Cowardice and Murder
i Stars and Stripes,
The experiences the American soldiers
have had in their share of the fighting be
tween the Marne and the Ourcq have spread
far and wide through their ranks a growing
anger at the Germans. , . ' ...
They have been seeing with their own
eyes and feeling with their own -flesh some
things they had read about and never be
lieved. Go up through the country north of
Chateau-Thierry and you will find they have
a very real quarrel with the German army.
They have 'learned about kultur from them.
It fs easy to guess the emotions of a
Yankee platoon, whos'j members have been
cut down right and left by some hidden ma
chine gun nest, when the gunners run out of
ammunition and thereupon, in the most con
fiding and appealing manner, shout "kame-
rad!" and want to call the fight off. ,
It is easy to guess the emotions of those
Yankees who have seen with their own eyes
German machine gunners chained to 'their
guns to guess the anger and contempt they
have for each soldier who has to be chained
and for the commanders that will chain him.
More than one Yankee outfit Jias been wit
ness to this thing. . -, f
cut their feelings take on still another
color when, as they are slushing through a
golden wheat field, they look uo proudly at
the airplanes bearing the French colors, only
to learn a few moments later that they are
masked uerman planes from which gunners
pour fire into 'heir ranks.
And when they found dead in the field
a hospital corps boy who had been tending
Nebraska1 sWar Stamp Record
That the wav to do a thing is to do it. Ne
braska continues to show in the matter of
War Savings stamps by keeping so far ahead
of the other states that there is not even a
second. Her purchases are $17.85 for every
person. Iowa comes next with but $9.46 for
each inhabitant.
New York has done so well in Liberty
loan and Red Cross drives that it need not
feel disheartened over a record of only
$24,536,000. or $5.01 each, up-state, and $24.-
633,000, or $4.17 each, in the city. Yet if
the Empire Mate had done as well in pro
portion as Nebraska it would have contrib
uted $185,000,000, instead of only $49,000,000,
to the nation's total of nearly $600,000,000.
The advantages of the stamp system of in
vesting money are too clear to need argu
ment A single quarter can thus be laid
aside for a rainy day; the stamps can be
cashed in without loss by market fluctua-
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lions; anu mere is no lussing wim suuscrip
tions or conversions of different issues. Still,
even with a good article to sell, Nebraska
deserves great credit for devising and inspir
ing the most effective War Savings stamp
selling organization in the country. New
York World.
Published in France.
them indefatigably from the first and who
was shot by a sniper while he was busy at
his task in broad daylight in an open field.
They found him with one hand raised
over his head and with his fingers still clutch
ing the scissors with which he had been cut
ting a bandage from a wounded comrade's
shirt. The brassard showed clear on his
arm, but it did rot save him.
By chance the same band with its cross
of red upon a field of white did not save a
little group of German soldiers caught, pad
dling up a path with a litter that bore some
thing stretched out under the blankets. The
boches wore brassards on their arms and they
were carrying the litter most tenderly, but
the Yankees who stopped them thought to
peer under the blankets. The tenderly car
ded burden was a German machine .gun, be
ing taken to a place of safety.
It never got there.
The feelings such episodes as these en
gender are not abated any when, as happened
many times during the fighting this week and
last, Americans at work with the litters in
the field or with the bandages in the regi
mental aid stations find the wounded brought
in all mutilated as from the tearing force of
something they believe to be an. explosive
bullet
Nor are they abated by such stories as
those brought back fresh from the bitterly
contested streets of Sergy stories of Ger
man machine guns set up and fired from the
village church, setup and fired from under
the protection of the Reu Cross building es
tablished there stories of American wound
ed bayoneted where they lay.
What Have We Done?
At the convention of the International
Dancing Masters' association held in Chi
cago, plans were announced for a "dancing
masters' unit," soon to embark for France
"to instruct American soldiers regarding the
newest steps." '
It has been said of the A. E. F. that it is
a large and patient body of men completely
and bewilderingly surrounded by grapho
phones, movie cameras, canteens, investiga
tors, uplifters and professional entertainers.
The A. E. F. is getting larger every day.
Also, it is getting leJs patient. And an
nouncements like the foregoing are not ex
actly calculated to increase its stock-in-hand
of the Job-like virtue.
We have been polite to most of the in
vestigators. We nave been respectful to
most of the uplifters. We have looked in
terested and pleasant for most of the profes
sional entertainers. But as for this proposed
offensive of the dancing masters
O Lord, O Lord, what have we done to
deserve such a visitation? Stars and Stripes
(published in France). . ' -
One Tee Ago Today tn the War.
Germana tailed In counter-attacks
at Verdun.
Italians defeated large Austrian re
serves on, Balnsizza plateau.
President Issued order forbidding
shipment of any goods to European
neutral countries except under license.
The Day We Celebrate.
. John H. Harte, " contractor, born
1854. -.
Owen Johnson, author, born in New
Vork City 40 years ago.
Charles O. Dawes, former comptrol
ler of the currency, horn at Marietta,
V., 53,years ago.
Herbert Charles Sadler, naval arch!
t?ct Born in London, England, 46
yars ago. -. k - .J .;.
This Day tn History.
1712 The last land engagement of
the American revolution occurred near
Charleston.
, 1800 Gen. William fe. fiarney, who
had a career of nearly 60 years in the
United States army, born near jiays
. hnrn. Tenn. TiA ait Orlando. Fla.
Jlav . 1888 s-" : V
183 9 Gen. Emory Upton, famous
as .the author of "Upton's Tactics."
' horn at Batavia, N. T. Died at San
CranrlwA Uarch 1. 1881.
- 1871 Sixty lives lost In an 'explo
sion 'on the cteamer Ocean Wave at
- 19 4 Germans occupied Lille, RoU-
i&jt ana vaienclepi
J ust SO Years Ago Today
The Omaha and St Paul base ball
team will play their last garr today.
Gilmore's 'Twelve Temptations" is
TWELVE
TEMPTATIONS
4 hQ
the attraction at Boyd'a opera house
this week. N- : t
Plitns are being made for the trip
.to Salt Lake naxt mcnth to witness
the production of "Mr. Sampson of
Omaha." ' '
Acting General , Manager Kimball
of the Union Pacific will leave for the
seaside this week.
The work on the extension of the
cable line on Tenth vtreet to the Un
ion Pacific depot Is progressing and
It fs thought that in a few duye the
cable cars will be in operation o' the
same. . - ' n
Charles. W. Cochran c-f the Repub
lican left for a week's visit at his old
stamping grounds at Cedar Kapida,
la., ana vicinity, . -.
Over There and Here
Men of German and Austrian de
scent in Chicago are cluttering court
dockets with petitions to change their
names. , . x
The postofBee branch at the Great
Lakes naval station sent out 1,340.000
letters and cards last weeV Sailor
boys are air right and industrious
writers. "n V
To keep our' soldiers in smokes the
American T. M. C A. canteens in
France require 200,000,0,00 clgarets
and 4,500,000 cigars mohthly. One
recent shipment of tobacco weighed
1,337 tons. '
One of the kids who sold score
cards in the base ball parks ofNew
York a few years ago and cherished
the honor of having spoken t Christy
Mathewson, has been Identified at the
fighting front as a member of the
French Legion and wearing the Croix
de Guerre -on his faded blouse. In
five years he has rambled over 26 dif
ferent i countrlea Carrying-a mes
sage i across a gun-swept field after
three runners had fallen won him the
French docoration.' , V -
In the. early days of July, when the
Huns thought they were headed for
Paris, an-American engineer with, a
$15,000 locomotive in his, care saw
them coming and got busy with 'the
safety valve and oil fuel. Half an
hour later, while the enemy were ex.
amining and chuckling- about the
prlxe the boiler blew up, scattering
the pieces of 60 Huns over the sur
rounding territory.. Star and Stripes
says the engineer Woi the French
t Croix de Guerre. ' V-
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Center Shots
New York World: "Dollar hair
riitx" urn su?ee9ted to meet the bar
kers' higher cost of living. With
everybody else trimming, tne consum
er, why should" the barber neglect the
congenial, operation T
Minneapolis Tribune: The rice
profiteer was the cause of the riots in
Japan. Over here the man who
hoards grain turns over the price to
the Red Cross. It is becoming less
and less attractive as a means of get
ting rich. :.
Brooklyn Eagle: .Charles W. Bry
an, brother of William Jennings, seems
to have been whipped by Keith Ne
ville in the fight to et the democratic
nomination for governor of Nebraska.
The Bryans are a lot too "dry" to suit
Nebraska's cities. ; ,
Baltimore American: The specta
cle of 60 Prussians waiting for the
Americans to come and capture them
is a good Joke on the kaiser after, his
assumption- that", the Americans
couldn't fight Even he might see
the humor in the situation. ,
Louisville Courier-Journal: Ac
cording to a German "wireless," the
German people and soldiers are .being
regaled .ith the news that New York
is the scene of furious riots against
war and troops are embarked only
under heavy guard. One story may
be good till another is told, but how
good Is this one, even in . Germany,
following the story that Js'ew York has
been totally destroyd by German
invaders?.
Twice. Told Tales
Couldn't Spare the Time:
An elderly pair (were making their
first visit to a New York playhouse.
Well. Sarah." remarked the old
gentleman at the cdnclusloc of the first
act "don't you think we'd better be
a-leavlh'?"
"Why no, Hiram, the show ain't half
over yet." . ;
"Well, it says on this here program
that threef days elapse between the
first and second acts, and. I'm durned
jf I want to stay here that long."
New York World.
Faith and Thrift
In that part ot Kansas where they
need rain certain church, congrega
tions have united , to petition for it
"Didn't I see ypur husband going
to church today?" one Kansas woman
inquired of another. , -
"Yes, he went to ask for rain."
His faith must be. pretty stoni,,
Yes, he wore his raincoat and took
his overshoes and , his oldest 'um
brella." ' -V ) '
-It didn't. rain." ' '
".No, biit he brought back a much
better umbrella than the one he took
away."-MCleveland Plain' Dealer. "
First Hand Knowledge.
'The kaiser should have known bet
ter."' . - '
"What do you mean?"
He had an , American dentist
didn't he?" . , . - s v
' k"Yes." V '
'Weil, he-should have known that
the Yanka can drill." Baltimore
American. . . v. - - -v
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Why Not Ask the World-Herald? ,
Omaha, Aug. 25. To the Editor of
The Bee:, Numerous letters, which
have been written to the Omaha
Jorid-Herald and Nebraska State
ournal for publication in the public
letter columns, have been refused.
in composition these letters were as
readable as the. average appearing in
these papers. In content . the ideas
(expressed concerning the prosecution
of the war were such as any citizen
has a right to e-ress and present for
discussion. Why were these letters
not published? If these letters can
not be, published, hW much freedom
of speech ' perjilsslblo in America?
The peoole ought to know.
' f HOWARD SMITH.
Where Grant Got His Army.
Manley. Neb., Aug. 23. To the Ed
itor of The Bee: In The B of the
13th I read the letter by Jonathan
Edward, "Men for the Army," which
I think tells the truth about the boys
of the blue during tht grea civil war.
I was one of them, but 19 years old
hen I enliste'd, in August 1862, and
served to the close of hat great, strug
gle to save our grea. nation frc dis
solution. My jgiment went out with
i.ouu strong, ana 80 per ent or us
boys were not 21 years old. I was
excused from duty for three days in
all the three years I served. Never
had a furlpugh and never asked for
one, and never heard any rumbling
among cur boys about anything. Was
on guara with squads from one week
to 10 days at a timfe in storms and all
kinds of weather, and was always
ready oi my rations of hardUck, fat
meat and coffee, and ready for any
kind of duty, and for the first year and
a half got 113 a nun'.r and the bai-
ance pf the dme got $18, and never
drew any pay for the mst nine months'
service until we were paid off and dis-
cnargec. Never heard of anv con-
servatlon of food or coaj during that
grea". war. Those whom we had left
at home needed rfhe best so that they
couia siana up ana raiso fsod for all
of us. I km yours respectfully,
W. B. ESSICK.
prla of
ald Mr.
SMILING LINES.
"I can't understand why tha
soma commodities have doubled,"
uuDwaite.
"You are an ultimate consumer aren't
you?" aaked Mr. Twobble..
"Of course."
"It Isn't Intended for you to understand."
Birmingham Age-Herald.
"Mayme told me that iij all their married
life she and her husband never had a single
disagreement"
"How long were they married?"
"He was ordered abroad with his regi
ment the week after the wedding." Bal
timore American.
Redd This is aome car you've got.
Greene Isn't It though?
"Don't you like to hear the engine talk?"
"Sura I like to hear It talk, If It don't
knock." Yonkers Statesman.
t As nearly as I can determine." said the
superclllious young woman, "you are what
fney call a literay hack."
"No," replied the young man wearily,
I m not even a hack. I'm a jitney."
Life.
"Why so downcast?"
"Nobody cares for me."
"Cut It out. If you think nobody cares
for you, you'll get so glum that nobody
will care for you." Kansas City Journal.
"I'm surprised to see you supporting' Flub,
dub In politics. But It is evident that he
has risen In your estimation."
("Why do you say that?"
"A month ago you swore he wasn't worth
two whoops, yet now you are calling for
three cheers." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"When they take woman away from the
co-educatlonal college," said the speaker,
"what will follow?" '
"I Willi" cried tha voice from the audi.
enoe Judge.
'Cynic So your airship waa wrecked In
the Dllszard. I thought you considered It
perfect.
"The shtp was perfect," replied the In
ventor stiffly. "The air was at fault."
Buffalo Express. '
"Where you goln'. Charlie?" asked a
mend of an old horseman who had kept
ap with the pace of civilisation and had
bought an automobile. ,
"Oh, I'm Just out to let the crittur
stretch her legs a bit and take the kinks
out of the gasoline." Indianapolis Star.
"Do you believe in astrology?"
"Yes; an astrologer pnee told me that
I woulj meet with an accident, and next
day 1 fell off the water wagon." Boston
Transcript.
"Why do they prefer single men to mar
ried ones for the army?"
"Because they would rather have those
who don't know so much about the horrors
of war." Baltimore American.
Why Oscar Went to War
Our board has a scant half-dozen
Africans "on its lists but they have
furnished their full share of colorful
incident We had our merriest morn
ing when Oscar William Davis, look
ing much like a well-groomed milk
chocolate; appeared with his imposing
wife, Amanda, . to claim deferred
classification. We were suspicious of
Oscar, and we had evidence that tne
degree in which he supported his wife
waa in inverse ratio to her own earn,
ings. ' .
Amanda wept convincingly, and ar
gued wltft the stirtltng verbiage of
her race. Life simply would not be
worth living for her if he were taken
away.
"But" it was put to her, "isn't it
true that you worft as a maid at. one
of the hotels?"
.'Yes, suh, ah does occupy myselt
ocsBsionally with - & little, lucrative
employment, but what ah makes ain't
Just exactly enough to keep me in
clothes."
"And don't you knew your husband
will have to send you $15 a month of
his pay as a 'soldier, and that the gov
ernment will send you another $15?
Won't that be sufficient, , with your
earnings?" i
Amanda's eyes opened wide in un'
belief. "Po you mean to tell me.
suh, that tlte gov'ment's gwine a send
me thu'ty dollahs a month if dat nig
ger goes t,o wah?"
Being assured that such was the
prospect she turned slowly to where
Mr. Davis had shrunk fearfully Into a
far corner.
"Shame on you, Oscar!" she
shouted, pointing an accusing finger
at him. "You'se agwine serve your
Uncle Sam from dis minute. You go
home and pack youah trunk-."
And in an aside to a dusky friend
who had eome with her she was heard
to say, "Why, that fool man done cost
me moah'n thu'ty dollahs a month."
"Reflections of a Draft Board Man,"
in August Atlantic.
Why the Boss Thundered.
An Indianapolis business man ol
mature years received a letter from
his secretary, and after trying in vain
to read the written wordsr told the
secretary to send it to Fort Wayne, '
whence it came, and to inform the
sender he had betier learn to write.
"But, sir, this is a letter -you wrote "
and sent to Fort Wayne," tin- secre.
iary replied. "They sent it4back, say
ing they could not make it out"
'Well, send it back and tell them to
learn to read," thundered the boss. "
Indianapolis News.
LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
v.
Girls! Make bleaching lotion
if skin is sunburned,
tanned or freckled
SEMPER FIDELIS.
Where the cold winds blow from the drlft
lce Una
To the wastes of the Murman shore;
Where the tides aweep round from the black
North Cape
To the White Sea's narrow door;
Where tha narwhal breeds,
Where the fur-seal feeds,
Where the sands blow smooth and clean;
You will find In camp, in a dog tent damp
The United Statea Marine.
Where the earth bakes whits and the patm
tree .droops
And the shark fin cleaves the tide;
Where the horned-toad squats and the snake
bite rota '
And tha outlawed Greasers hide;
Where the night-damp chills.
Where the fever kills.
Where the drinking water's green;
You will find on deck, dirty work to check
The United, States Marine.
Where the Godless Hun blows his poison gas
O'er the corpse-strewn fields of France;
Where the Red Cross nurse and the wounced
man
With the Boche have a damned small
, chance;
Where the outraged maid
For her white soul prayed.
Where the family larder's lean;
Will .the world be freed from the kaiser's
, breed
' By the V. S. A. Marine.
George W. Bonte. In N. T. Herald.
Squeeze the juke of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
of Orchard White, shake well, and
you have a quarter pint of the best
freckle, sunburn and tan lotion, and
complexion beautifier, at very, very
small cost. '
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of Orchard
White for a few cents. Massage this
sweetly fragrant lotion into the face,
neck, arms and hands each day and
see how. freckles, sunburn, windburn
and tan disappear and how clear,
soft and white the skin becomes.
Yes! It is harmless. Adv.
JOU 1
Hair
Tinting
So Easy Now
With
"BROWNATONE" J
Yon-can touch tip the gray I It
spots, or tint your balr to I U
Yon-can touch tip the gray
spots, or tint your balr to
any shade from light gold
en brown to the deepest
brown or black. Easy
and simple to apply, in
stant and sore in results.
ABSOLUTELY
HARMLESS
and has none of the fault
of the old fashioned "hair
dyes," or so-called "restor
ers," as it is entirely free
from sulphur, lead, silver,
mercury, einc, aniline, coal
tar products or their de
rivatives. ,.-
A sample and a booklet
will be seat 70a (from
manufacturers only) upon
receipt of 10c.- Mention
shsde desired when writ
ing or purchasing. AH
leading drug; stores sail
"Brownatme." Two sizes.
33c and $1.15.
D . t I.
TheKenlon PharmaealCo.
suits i, e-pin blag.
vevugwat swy.
L
latch Your Stomaol
ummer iimi
In f he S
Hot eummer days upset th
strong stomachs as well as weak
' ones. '
Your vital forces reach their
lowest level when the weather Is
the hottest Then the danger is
the greatest" v ,
Yol can't guard your stomach
and bowels too carefully "through
the long 'hot season Don't take
any chance Indigestion sour
stomach that wretched -bioated
' feeling belching food repeating
. pains that claw at stomach and
bowels and an endless train of
'stomach ills that make life mis
erable are greatly aggravated in
the hot weather. ' - t
. This year of all , others it is
vital that we keep our strength
and fuli power at work The ex
tra war work change of diet al
must be looked alter because they
hit ua in tne stomach. ' And now
it is good news to tell you thai
tenBof thousands are now usina;
EATONIO for tall stomach and
bowel ailments caused by too
much acidity with such truly won
derfu. - results that every one
should always have it in the house.
EATONIC Tatiete stop the cause of
indigestive and dyspeptic ailments bv
neutralizing the poisonous fluids, acida
and gases .argely the result of euper
acidityj This mattes tne stomaca
pain-free and ready to perlorm :ta
proper work.
Yon can have a good appetite in hot!
weather .to eat the things vou jke
when yon want them if yon take one
or two-EATONIO Tablet after each
mea.. Such, quick, wonderfui relief
would seem unbelievable bat for tbe
tact that thousands ot sufferers every
where have received marvelous results
from EATONIO. Obtain a jirge box
of EATONIO Tabieta from your own
druggist who yon know and eantrnsc.
It they taL, go back to him and he will
glaLy refund your money Do this
today Yon wilt then know what reai
stomaencomtort means in hot weaUstsV
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