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These fall rains are. taking the terror out of
next summer. "
Omaha cleaned up well on the war work
drive, but that is a habit we have.
Just be patient ft little while longer, and the
fruitof victory will be secured. Overhaste may
destroy it.
The Czecho-Slav republic is a fact now; it
has commenced to borrow money ,from the
United States. r . v
- Our French friends are ge,tting ready to fete
President Wilson on his arrival in Paris. Will
they be disappointed? ' -
i If the German army couldn't stop the Amer
ican soldiers, how can the weather man hope
i arrnmnlish that feat? )
' Johnny foil be marching home very shortly
now, and will find all set tO' give him- the
proverbial hearty welcome. n
' Any leup in the tax bill will be appreciated
bx a nation whose resources werebeginning to
feel the strain of big doings. ,
ONE VERY PRESSING PROBLEM..
Most pressing of all the after-the-war prob
lems is that of getting away from the high cost
of everything that goes' into the material side
of life. This state of affairs is easily ascrtbable
to the inflation of money, incident towar activ
ity. But merely to assign thecause will in no
way aid in discovering or applying the remedy.
Irritation that was suppressed while the war
bore heavi(y on the people is showing its pres
ence in many ways, and is not in any sense
being allayed by some unwise utterances on
part of men who should know better. Wise
thought is being given the problem, that pru
dent action may follow and relief be given at
the earliest possible moment. Sudden dis
turbance of existing conditions will invite dis
aster, so we may expect to see the price level
maintained for many months. This naturally
carr;es with it the wage scale, as the two must
go together. Gradual return to a lower level
will eventually be accomplished, and may be so
brought, about without violence if ill keep their
wits. 'Our national life sustained the severe
shock of sudden turn from peace to war;" it
surely can survive the reversal of that process,
but the good of all requires that the change be
gradual. Patience and a little forbearance unti)
definite plans can be fornhilated will help every
body to bear a burden that must fall equally
on all if progress is not'to be seriously disturbed.
I TO DAY 1
One Year Ago Today in the War.
British and German light cruis
ers came into action off Helgoland.
Austro-Germans crossed the Piave
at Zenson, but were annihilated.
Afterv heavy lighting the tolshe
viki troops gained a decisive victory
in Moscow.
The Day We Celebrate.
Giuseppe Campanari, operatic bar
itone, born in Venice, Italy, 59 years
ago. v i
Col. Jacob C. Johnson, U. S. A.,
inspector-general of the first Amer
ican field army, born in Ohio, 46
years ago.
Henry A. Shute, New Hampshire
jurist and author, born at Exeter,
N. H., 62 years ago.
Rt. Rev. Matthew Harkins, Cath
olic bishop of Province, born in
Boston, 75 years ago. , i .
In Omaha 30 Years Ago Today. ,
The Home Circle 'social club op
ened its eighth season with axmot
brilliant party in Masonic hall.)'
The garrison hall at Fort Qmalja
was the scene of an elaborate recep
tion tendered Lieutenant and Mrs.
Four jor the Peace Council. v
Announcement from Washington of four
names of men who may sit on the peace coun
cil, representing America, is not official, -but
may be taken as fairly indicating the president's
selection, It is not likely the White House
would put these forward tentatively unless the
decision to appoint them really had been
reached. ' It is also clear that the four named
are the ones who obviously would have been
mentioned even by the casual, had a request I A surprise -party was tendered to
In. i r t i. -r:-i -i
been made for suggestions. However, he list
The proposed Order of the) Gold Star has
much merit in it and should be made a perpetual
memorial for real Americans.
Pilsudski is the name of the new head of
Poland. VVe begin to -understand why Freedom
shrieked when Kosciusko fell.
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S,The British food commissioner sticks to his
guns; just like his Yankee compeer, but that is
not bringing prices down any.
, The European deck is being pretty well
stripped of kings and queens right now, but the
other cards have moved up in value. -
Vhy should excess profits escape taxation
now any more than in war time? Secretary
McAdoo's proposal to exempt: them hardly is
good. '
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If has been suggested by a noncombatant
that the Huns be required for a time; at least
to subsist on apples from the orchards of north
ern France. " ,
1 Restriction .on price limit on shoes has been
removed, the War board believing supply and
demand will serve to regulate the business. We
will see whether it does,
'French and Yankee soldiers are hustling
along to occupy Metz, and so reassure the popu
lation of Mulhausen and other1 towns therea
bouts that the new order of things means peace.
"Now, if ever the world is going to have an
illustration of the vicious circle in relation to
inflated 'prices, and the chances are that every
body will suffer' some before its effects disap-pear.
" Now we know why the Germans grabbed all
the rolling stock from the railroads they seized
in Belgium, France and Russia. They wanted
the cari to haul food to the starving women
and children at home. '
The Los Angeles police magistrate has ruled '
that kissin in public is not a crime, thereby
increasing the attractions of the southern Cali
fornia climate and adding another persuasion
to the boomer's long list.
Secretary Burleson proposes to go ahead
with the wires of the country just as if he really
owt.ed them, If he gets the service into 'the
came fix he did the postoffice it will be an awful
black eye for public ownership. v
"You only t had to come out to get it," re
plied Admiral Wemyss tb a German naval offi
cer, who thought the German navy should not
be surrendered because it had not been beaten.
And that tells the whole story. s
1s incomplete as yet, and some notable names
might well be added. That of William Howard
Taft would add greatly by the feeling of confi
dence it would inspire. '
' Elihu Root deserves the first place because
of his pre-eminent and admitted qualifications
of ripened statesmanship and experience. His
public service and private character mark him
as particularly fitted for such a duty. Robert
Lansing served his apprenticeship jn statecraft
under a master, and his experience in the de
partment of which he has been head for the last
three years has given him accurate knowledge
of details of all that is involved in the present
war as well asa comprehensiveunderstanding
of the bioader problems of international rela
tions. Of these two no criticism will be made.
Judge Brandeis may meet opposition from
some, for the same reasons that he was assailed
when nominated for the supreme bench. These
do not affect his standing as a jurist, nor will
they carry any weight with thinking people.
His presence on the delegation representing
America, on the other hand, will carry assurance
to a great body of the world's citizenship that
its status will have sympathetic consideration.
Colonel House will represent the president,
unless Mr. Wilson decides to attend in person.
Further word from the White House as to the
exact makeup of the body that will represent
the United States at the great gathering will be
awaited -with deep interest.
True to Form
To the .German Red Cross nurses who stole
the food thar'was sent to the British prisoners
are now added the German prison camp keepers
who ateal the clothes sent to the American pris
oners and sell them. This is true to form. For
the men who stole the altar vessels and dese
crated the cathedral of Laon by turning it into
glutting their hate in any wayfthat hutnanity
may recoil from! But a people .learned in his
torical comparisons, who betieved they had in
herited atl the rights "bf the. Roman empire,
- might have been supposed to know of Titus and
the sack of Jerusalem and to recall that history
has ever held against him as the crowning in
famy' the looting of the temple at Jerusalem and
the exposing ot nis sname m me impensnaoie
marble of the arch in the Forum that looks to
ward the Colosseum, recording and glorying in
the deed. But, blinded by their own bloodthirst
and greed, the Germans have not hesitated to
put on record their long rule of rapine. The
' world will perhaps be all the better for it if they
- continue true to form to the last; for a maudlin
and besotted pretense of virtue at the eleventh
hoar would but disgust Oa the other hand,
the continuance ot the Wond beast type ot aeeas
inexorably marks oat the course that the na
tions will have to pursue to exorcise the evil
that calls Itself kultur and is above all things
; abominable . even to the last Philadelphia
Mustering Out the Soldiers.
Orders from the general staff for muster out
within two weeks of 200,000 men now in military
service is an indication that the war is about
over. The great job of getting the soldiers back
into their status as civilians ha commenced with
commendable promptness, and will doubtless
be carried on with all due celerity. The first
units to be dismised from further service are
those least needed in times of military inaction.
General Pershing will determine the time and
order for returning men from abroad, and will
doubtless act when he believes conditions war
rant the 'movement. ' Details of the plan for
demobilization so far disclosed show foresight
for the convenience of the men, and properly
carried out will avert any serious disruption of
industry. The important 'fact is that the mil
lions of young meli who were caught up in the
service of war are now to come bajk into the
ways of peace, better and stronger for their
short but vivid experience in the army. '
Preserving the Monroe Doctrine.
Senator Poindexter's objection to the prp
posed league of nations on the grounds that it
would abrogate the Monroe doctrine deserves
examination. K President Monroe's utterance
was directed against an unTioly league of nations
designed to destroy democracy. The United
States could not then intervene in European
affairs, but it was strong enough to prevent any
attempt by European "nations to interfere di
rectly r indirectly in the New World. Great
Britain, already fully established on democratic
grounds, stood by us in this, and North and
South America wcrt made secure for self
governing people.
1 Preservation of this doctrine has occasioned
much friction, and even war has narrowly .been
avoided on several occasions because of it. This
is one of the brightest chapters in pur history.
But has not the downfall of autocracy in Europe
so altered the. situation that the' Monroe doc
trine may be preserved without its compelling
us to' hold aloof from association with other
democracies when acting together for the com
mon good?
The danger Senator Poindexter sees is more
apparent than real. Violation of the Monroe
doctrine now could only come through such
movement as a league of nations would effectu-
Jly prevent. It is inconceivable that such a
league 'could so bind the United States as to
render it impotent ,when injustice was being
done one of the smaller American republics.'
Justice to all is the aim now of the nations
of the world, and it well can be obtained
through some such organization as that pro
posed, and doctrine set up almost a century ago
to meet secret plans of despots, conniving to
destroy free governments, might well be laid
aside, if such suspension will, help, to perpetuate
its ends. .
Rioting Hun soldiers in Brussels-are giving
especial attention to their own officers. All the'
hatred of forty years of brutal training is being
visited on those who were unfortunate" enough
to survive the war and fall into the clutches of
the me.n they abuse - ; '
Towsley by the military of thecity
and tort.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens at
thekf home, 1214 South Thirty
third, street. V
. The residence of George A. Hoag
land was a scene of gayety, the oc
casion being a reception and ball in
honor of the debut of the host's
daughters. Miss Laura and Miss
Anna Millard.
Miss Stella Singer was tendered
a pleasant surprise by her several
friends.
F. A. Smith of Philadelphia is
visiting friends in the city. '
This Day in History. ' .
1787 -Sir Samuel Cunard, fqunder
of the Cunard line of steamships,
born at Halifax, N. S. Died in Lon
don, April 28, 1865. .
1866 The union of Vancouver . Is
land to British Columbia was pro
claimed. 1903 Canadian mounted police
occupied Herschel Island, and hoist
ed the Brtish flag.
1907 Secretary Root opened the
Central American peace conference.
1910 Ralph Johnstone, who
made a world's record for altitude
at Belmont Park, was killed by a
fall with his aeroplane at Denver.
1914 Russians forced the Ger
mans to fall back along the whole
front in East Prussia.
1915 British hospital ship, Anglia,
sunk by a mine and nearly 100 sol
diers drowned. '
Timely Jottings and Reminders'.
One hundredth anniversary of the
death of Queen Charlotte bf Eng
land, whose memory is perpetuated
in the name of the Charlotte Islands
off the western coast of Canada.
The week beginning today , has
been set aside for observance of
"Christian Enlistment Week" by all
the 'Baptist churches in the North
ern Baptist convention.
Storyette of the Day.
Dr. Adolph Pisto, of the Bureau
of Animal industry, Department qf
Agriculture, returned to Washing
ton after an inspection trip cover
ing nearly the4entire country.V '
Doctor Pisto said everywhere he
iwent the question of politics was
secondary to the discussion of the
personal qualities of Woodrow Wil
son as statesman and diplomat.
'11 heard the president discussed'
in many ways," said Doctor Pisto,
"but a story I heard in Louisville
came nearer than any other to eoit
omizing what some persons think
of the president."
"Two Kentucky colored men were
I arguing about Mr. Wilson. One of
them insisted that leddy was tne
greatest man in the world and said
he was 'fer him fer anything.'
"The other shook his head, with
due solemnity, and remarked:
-"T'se a 'publican th'u an' th'u,
but any man what kin set th' clocks
back an hour and aive th' railroads
to his son-in-law, believe me, ,I'se
fer dat man.' "Philadelphia Ledg
er. OVER THERE AND HERE
A casual Rlimpse of the run of the'
war cards shows Switzerland slowly
and surely filling a flush of back
number kings. Constantine Is on
hand, Karl and 'Wilhelm are on thd
way and Ferdy the Bulgar watch
him Trot in. ,
For months past letters from the
fighting Yanks, whenever indulging
in prophecy, invariably said in as
many words, "The war will be over
by Christmas." Undoubtedly the
words conveyed the general belief
of the men at the ..'ront. Action
supplementing belief makes for .re
ality. A letter from a Missouri soldier to
the home folks glimpses the speed
of the Huns in their getaways from
the Yanks. One of the dugouts
hastily 1 abandoned was equipped
with electric light, nice, comfortable
bunks, lots of food and drink. "By
the way,' adds the soldier, "Ger
many still makes good beer; we
gathered In some of it."
Private Lee Downey of Rockland,
Mass., writing from France, com
plains that "it is hard to get some
thing to read here. A fellow occa
sionally gets a home paper, and
when he gets through with it I de
vour everything in it, even to the
help wanted ads. although I've got a
steady Job." Doubtless there are
thousands of Downeys hungry for
home news over there. It is the
auty of friends to send them a
steady feast . '
Our later-day messioniers may
experience difficulty in picking from
the deluge of war scenes one or more
to immortalize on canvas. To the
lay mind an event in prospect will
overshadow all that have gone be
fore. That is the coming spectacle
of a member of "my unconquerable
army" bearing the white flag to Mar
shal Fochl The death throes of a
mighty egd affords much consolation
for grievous wounds. Wreaths of
fame awaits the brush which por
trays the historic event on the spot
V
The New Watch on the Rhine
' By T. j. FITZMORRIS.
A roar like thunder strikes the ear.v
Like clang of arms or breakers near,
" "On for the Rhine, the German Rhine!"
"Who shields thee, my beloved Rhine?"
. 'wThe first four lines of Germany's national
hymn fairly trumpets war conditions as they
exist today.- Tumbling thrones, 'of autocracy,
the flight of kaisers and princes and the throes
of revolution may be likened to "a roar like
thunder," though in reality an earthquake. TJij
retiring army of the Potsdam dictator, beaten
to its knees, lends new significance--to the cry,'
"On to the Rhine," for it is headed in that di
rection and beyond' with as much' speed as
wearv limbs and crippled transport can muster.
,"Who shields thee, my beloved Rhine?"
The victorious armies of the allies and the
United States.
By the terms of the armistice signed last
Monday the allies will occupy and garrison all
crossings on the west bank of the river, and
guard the bridgeheads on the east bank, from
Switzerland to Holland. To guard against a
possible come-back a neutral zone is created on
the east side of the river ranging from 18 to 25,
miles in depthi Within these limits are em
braced the major portion of the industrial life
and war-making impulses of the defeated em
pire. West of the river, principally in the re
conquered provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, lie the
coal and iron mines, for possession of which
Prussia made war on France in 1870-71 and ad
vanced the empire from the fcMirth to the second
rank iif steel production. Manufacturing mil
lionaires as a result developed in the Rhineland
as rapidly as in the oil regions of the United
States, flourishing-and waxing arrogant on the
increment of stolen goods.
The territory neutralized and occupied em
brace practically all important cities and towns
on the Rhine. Excluding Strassburg, which
reverts to France, the list embraces Essen, Dus
seldorf and Cologne on the nrth and Bonn,
Coblence, Mayence, Mannheim, Frankfort and
Karlesruhe on the south. "Inclusion of Essen
is a particularly happy arrangement". Essen is
the municipal name for the Krupp works, the
principal cannon shop of the world and the
greatest war promote among the saber-rattlers
of Germany. Next to Essen as a war profiteer
stands Dusseldorf, also a huge collection of
steel fabricating plants. West of the river are
many great munition plants and steel plants
wf the empire, the makers of poison gas and the
plutocrats born of the rape of France in 1871.'
To the allied army of occupation, particu
larly the American section, a camp on the
Rhine possesses unusual interest. Scarcely any
'other region of Europe equals the Rhine valley
in historic interest, legendary lore and scenic
charms. .It is a stream of varied aspects, and
in normal times carries a huge traffic. Victor
Hugo, whp wrote perhaps what was the finest
article ever written about it, said: "The Rhine
is unique; it combines the qualities of every
river. Like the Rhone, it is rapid; broad, like
the Loire; encased, like the Meuse; serpentine,
like the Seine; limpid, and green, like the
Somme; historical, like1 the Tiber; royal, like the
Danube; mysterious, like the Nile; spangled
with gold, like an American river; and, like a
river in Asia, abounding in phantoms and
fables."
In the destinies of Europe the Rhine, says
Hugo, "has a sort of providential signification.
It is the great moat which divides the north
from the south. The Rhine for 30 ages has
seen the forms and reflected thu shadows of
almost all the warriors who have tilled the old
continent with that share which they called the
sword. Caeser crossed the Rhine in going to
the 'south; Attila crossed it when descending
from the north. It was here that Clovis gained
the .battle of Tolbiac, and that Charlemagne and
Napoleon figured. For the thinker
who is conversant with history two great eagles
are perpetually hovering over the Rhine that
of the Roman legions and that of the French
regiments. The Rhine bore at one
time upon its surface bridges of boats, over
which the armies of Italy, Spain and France
poured into Germany."
As late as July, 1914, two bridges of boats
were in use on the river one at Coblence and
one at Cologne.
Rising in the highest Alps, the Rhine
traverses some of the richest country in Europe
for a distance of 900 miles. It is navigable for
large steamers to Mayence and for small boats
almost to the Swiss line. Like' a mighty tree
in form, it gathers its waters from countless
streams, courses through mountainous rocks
and plaiiis and reaches the North Sea through
the Waal, Yssel, Leek and Vecht rivers in Hol
land. Majestic as the Rhine is in commerce
and history, it loses its greatness, and almost
its identity, in Holland, reaching the ocean as
a -small stream bordered by sand dunes.
For the visitor the Rhine from Mayence to
Cologne possesses the chief interest. Before
the war that section rarely missed the globe
trotter. It Was featured by touring agencies
and in travel literature, and usually fulfilled ex
pectations. On both sides of the gorge through
which it flows serpentine-fashion, are vine-clad
hills, some gently sloping and. terraced, others
of rugged rock rising to ''a height of 700 feet.
Castle truins on crests and slopes lend a pic
turesque variety to the scenery and grip the
seeker for baronial lore. A swift-flowing
stream between rock-lined banks, a railroad on
each, and cities, towns and villages at short in
tervals, maintain interest from start to finish.
Bingen "Fair Bingen on the Rhine" awak
ens memories of recitation days at school and
emphasizes the superior value of a poet as a
publicity agent. Across the river on the east
rises the great national monument of Germania,
crowning the rocky crest of Neiderwald, 700
feet above the water. Another gigantic national
monument to Emperor William I rises on the
river front at Coblence on a neck of land formed
by the junction oMhe Moselle. Coblence was
the favorite retreat of Empress Augusta, the
first empress of Germany, and the monument is
largely an expression of municipal gratitude for
royal favors. The city is ringed with forts and
barracks, which will be useful for the allied
conquerors. Overlooking Coblence on the east
bank stands the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, re
puted to be the largest in the Rhine valley, if
not in Germany. The name signifies "The"
broad stone of honor," derived from the level
rock shelve on which the castle of Ehrenbreit
stein tands. To the tourist on the river the
fort looks like a huge rambling structure of
brick, and was said in pre-war days to caVry
provisions for a siege of six years.
Around the Cities
Sioux City's moral squad works
overtime nearly every night Its a
large Job and must be done In the
dark.
Los Angeles authorities have torn
down six miies of billboard advertis
ing and are still on the Job. An
ordinance for civil betterment gave
the municipal axe the legal swing.
New York's .political sporting
blood almost touch the zero mark
as the fall campaign Just closed.
Betting on the result was the small
est the city has known, less than
$50,000 changing hands.
flection results and the war's fin
ish heartened Chicago saloonists and
they are flocking to the captain's of
fice with the Quarterly installment
t license money. The boss of the
license bureau expects every one of
the 5.631. saloonists in the city to
come across.
Eleven Chicago Job printing shops
have received word from Washing
ton to cut out the little game of
pulling the nether members of Uncle
Sam in railroad Job work prices. An
understanding to smother competi
tive bidding riled General Manager
McAdoo, who swung the vocal club.
Educational authorities of 'St.
Louis plan to make up for some of
the school time lost on account of
the "flu" by adding 25 minutes a
day to the school hours. This will
account for 15 of Hie 26 days lost,
and the balance is to be absorbed
by modified methods of instruction.
The planning commission of Sioux
City looks ahead to a city of 250,000
population and plans accordingly. In
a preliminary report the commission
says the business section "could not
possibly expand on the south or east
and that expansion on the north is
not practical, so therefore the busi
ness section, must move west." Perry
creek, the one obstacle in that di
rection,, must be eliminated. Flood
control of Floyd river is also a fu
ture necessity.
6nce in a while Justice hits the
right gait in Chicago police circles.
On Monday last one of the cops on
duty took on aeautiful Jag, regard
less of regulations, and cheered and
danced in reckless fashion until
brother cops took him in, minus
star and coat. Some one whispered
to the chief: "He has three sons in
France and has Just had word that
all three are alive and well. Then
came news of the war's end. Can
you blame him?" "Not for one Jug
ful," whispered the chief, as he or
dered the offender back on duty and
the offense stricken off the blotter.
CENTER SHOTS.
Between Bingen and Coblence rises 'the
fabled rock of liorlei, 450 feet high, jutting into
and forming a sharp corner of the river." In
tourist times' the steamer ballyhoos point out
the rqck and rehearse the legend with varia
tions. Lorlei, the sweet singer of the legend,
a beautious maiden whose charms grow with
the years and yarns, is pictured seated on the
crest of the rock, stringing a harp with one
hand and the other brushing back flowing
tresses as long as a hair restorative ad. Atlther
times the siren is supposed to occupy a ,cave
in the rock, out of which issues the fascinating
melody, supposed to lure river sailors to death
in the whirlpool created by the rock. The
charm of the legend depends largely on the
telling, and is too often wrecked by unromantic
scoffers who inquire: "WheYe is Lorlei now?"
Moreover, a railroad tunnel under Lorlei's seat
or through the cave Wmewhat mars the ro
mance of the vision.
North of Coblence is Bonn, the noted college
city, wherein the abdicated William learned the
rudiments of his disastrous career. Beyond is
the level plain dominated by Cologne, the
metropolis of the RJiineland. Here the broader
and slower-moving river reflects 'the shadows
of the great cathedral nearly and the monster
Hohenzollern bridge,' "'carrying on. its shore
abutments heroic equestrian statues of the First
William and the la" , ;
Detroit Free Press: Doctors ad
vise taking an hour at each meal.
We'd like once more to see all the
food it would take us an hour to
eat.
1 St. Louis Globe-Democrat: When
ever the Associated Press announces
one of the greatest events in world
history, it takes care to ascertain the
facts.
Minneapolis Tribune: For those
who knew them in the ante-bellum
days it would be interesting to ob
serve the mien of the returned Ger
man war mongers in the streets of
Berlin now.
Philadelphia Ledger: With some
thing like $1,000,000,000 worth of
German property in its hands, the
United States will be able to see that
at least a part of the heavy in
demnity to be imposed on Germany
is duly paid.
Brooklyn Eagle: "Americaniza
tion of our factories" is a legitimate
aim of A. Mitchell Palmer, custodian
of alien property, who has been sell
ing German-owned plants. He hopes
to have about $1,000,000,000 laid
aside to help in paying war claims
assessed against Kaiserdom later on.
Baltimore American: Italy will
have the proud satisfaction of know
ing that the Irredenta was reclaimed
by force of arms taken by conquest
from the enemy, and not ceded by
peaceful negotiations. Over such an
enemy the rtiumph of might is a
double one.
Philadelphia Ledger: War activi
ties and war expenditures can hardly
be stopped at once, as Senator Mar
tin demands; but the waste and ex
travagance that have characterized
them cannot be stopped too soon.
Here is a duty which congress ought
to take up in a fair and nonpartisan
spirit.
Brooklyn Eagle: Many Americans
as well as many Englishmen
will accept the London Express in
terpretation of the vote to restore
republican control in our congress,
viz., that the Americans once satis
fied to be behind Wilson in pushing
the war, now want to be in front of
him. Not apathy, but eagerness
caused the shift of sentiment
New York Herald: It once was
held that the British press was on
able to understand America and the
American people. Now, however,
the London Daily Express says:
"The victories of the republicans In
Tuesday's election show that the
American people are not only ready
to follow President Wilson, but anx
ious to get In front of him. America
is for victory unqualified and com
plete." ODD BITS OF LIFE.
In six flays 813 carloads of Arro
stook potatoes have been shipped out
of Maine.
Cloth made out of banana fiber Is
the latest move in conservation of
material. What kimonos it ought
to make something to slip on.
Mrs. Julia Richard of Landis, Ark.,
not only makes the clothes worn by
her family of Ave, but also spins the
cloth she uses for this purpose.
A pair of steers sold by Rawlin
Trott of Woolwich, Me., for $450
weighed when Hmssprl 2 80(1 nnnnHa
j and furnished 2,400 pounds of meat
One-tenth of all the sheep owned
in Maine are on the farm of Wil
liam B. Kendall! at Bowdoinham.
.mnd .on another big farm at West
Kennebupk.
, Oxford county, Maine, has a rec
ord of two girls who walked two
miles and picked blueberries for 11.
days out of 13 and' sold more than
$50 Worth at 15 and 20 cents a quart
this season.
Oakland, Cal., has Just had a land
show, at which one evening they had
Atug-of-war between a giant traetr
t..u a. giaut ica ii i uuisca " 1111.11
means a whole lot of horses, and not
merely two enormous ones.)
A young Chicago bank clerk
named Cross, filling out his question
naire, wrote, in answer to the query
a to whether he had any children,
"One expected." Instead of one,
two arrived, , both red-headed like
the father. :One has been named
Red Cross and the other Chris Cross.
A peculiar state of affairs Is re
ported from Eaatport andr vicinity,
where the Canadians, coming over to
dispose of their flsh and to trade, re
fuse to take their own Canadian
money in change. Canadian cur
rency has been at a 2 'per cent
discount, but Eastort merchants
have agreed to accept it at par.
A policeman called on for help at
Greensburg, Pa., killed a boa con
strictor that had driven the Janitor
of an office building out of the fur-r
nace-room, where he had Just start
ed a fire In the furnace. A fruit
merchant next door recently re
ceived a big consignment of tropical
fruits tnd it is believed that the
snake was brought to Greensburg in
a barrel of fruit and hid Itself among
the boxes of kindling in the furnace
room,
v Signposts of Progress
The latest material from which It
is proposed to obtain a supply of
motor fuel Is straw.
An electric heater has been in
vented to prevent moisture collect
ing on an automobile windshield.
A recent patent covers a process
for making disk phonograph records
with an electriealy heated cutting
stylus.
A chapel of Typographical union
No. 6, of New York City, famous as
Bix Six, has upset all precedent by
electing a woman, Miss Emily Tarr,
as chairman.
A motion-picture camera has been
Invented for taking portraits, which
are separated and mounted in book
form,the appearance of motion be
ing Imparted as the pages of the
book are turned rapidly.
The Samoa factory, in Glostrup,
Denmark, is making binder twine
out of paper which is claimed to be
Just as good as ordinary binder
twine. The factory is also making
stair runners and carpets of various
colors and patterns out of paper.
Cotton growing in South Africa
has been receiving considerable at
tention within recent years, and
while the industry is still in its in
fancy, the prospects for rapid de
velopment are reported to be ex
cellent. Small women make the best fore
women, according to superintend
ents of munitions and other war
time factories i where women are
largely employed. The small wom
an is declared usually to have great
er force of character and a better
brain.
Curtis Hart, a young bachelor
rancher who lives neai Stillwater,
Minn., has a corps of farm helpers,
of whom not one is a man. Miss
Ida Blakely rides the mower and the
reaper and has charge of the im
portant machinery. She is an ex
perienced horsewoman. Mrs. Lottie
Cell, a young war bride, and Miss
Frances Hart, sister of the boss,
handle the buck rigs. Meanwhile,
he woman cook insists she has the
ardest Job in the outfit.
HERE AND THERE.
Two four-ton motor-trucks have
hauled a 14-ton tank slung between
them on a cradle, up a 12 to per cent
grade near Coalinga, Cal.
Because a man fixed a lock for a
woman neighbor and did not send
her a bill she left him in her will
$5,000 that enabled him to leave a
New Jersey almshouse.
The present Japanese dynasty is
by far the oldest in the world, for
Yoshihito claims to be the 122d
monarch of an unbroken line dating
from the seventh century before the
Christian era.
The steamer Mariposa delivered
at Duluth a cargo of several thou
sand tons of ferro-manganese ore,
valued at more than $1,000,000. The
ore is for the iron and steel working
industries in the tempering of ordi
nary ores from the Minnesota iron
ranges.
C. L. Lindsay, a farmer of Chima
cum, Wash., found himself unable to
get farm hands at any price. When
it seemed that his crop would be a
total loss he went to Fort Worden
and laid his predicament before the
commanding officer, with the result
that the latter granted furloughs to
six men, who helped the farmer in
the harvesting.
A recent bill from a hospital for
$110 for a childbirth case is con
trasted with a bill for $8 rendered
by a Salem doctor in 1833 for sim
ilar services. The child born at that
time is now 85 years old, Is vice
president and treasurer of the Dor
chester Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany of Boston and is at his desk
not later than 7 o'clock every morning.
Full Grown Men
In his speech at Madison Squire
garden on Sunday Secretary Baker
of the War department spoke nine
times about "boys" when he meant
soldiers in our army; he quoted
himself as addressing a wounded
man as "my lad." The effect of this
reiteration became very tiresome
in the printed speech; it may have
been less irritating when moderated
by the oratorical skill of the secre
tary. It is pretty presumptuous to call
the full grown, two fisted, husky
men who wear khaki in France
"boys." A great many of them
achieved man's estate before they
quit civilian life; all of them are
doing men's work now. To refer to
them as if they were college under
graduates of pupils in a high school
betokens a cloudy comprehension of
their stature physically, mentally
and socially.
Civilian visitors to the camps in
this counUy and abroad report that
speechmakers who address tlje sol
diers assembled before them as
"boys" and refer to them as "boys"
are politely but rather coolly receiv
ed, so far as the passages of their
addresses in which the word is in
corporated are concerned. The sol
diers prefer, and naturally, to be
spoken to and of as men, which they
are by every standard of measure
ment that can be applied to them.
The impulse to concentrate affec
tion of soldiers in a diminutive an
pellative is hard to resist, but it
should not be indulged. The Bul
garians, the Turks, and the Austro-"
Hunjrarians have been licked by
and have surrendered to full grown
men. and the troops that are attend
ing to the Germans north of Verdun
and elsewhere are not "boys." New
York Sun.
THE FALL OF A DESPOT
Tl done but ytfrfly a Kin!
And arm'd with Klngi to itrlv
And now thou art a namelesi thins; (
So abject yet alive!
Is this the man of thousand thronee.
Is this the man of thousand thrones.
Who strew'd our earth with hostile bona.
And can hs thus survive ?, .
Since he miscalled the Mornlns Star,
Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
Ill-minded man, why scours thy kind
Who bow'd so low the knee?
By gazing on thyself grown blind,
Thou taugh'st the rest to see.
With might unquestion'd. power to save-
Thine only gift hath been the grava,
To those that worshlpp'd thee;
Nor till thy fall could mortals guose
Ambition's less than littleness!
Thanks for that lesson it will teach
To after-warriors moe
Than high Philosophy can preach.
And vainly preach'd before.
That spell upon the minds of men
Breaks never to unite again,
That led them to adore
Those Pagod things of sabre sway,
With fronts of brass and feet ot clay.
The triumph and tha vanity,
Tha rapture of the strife , .
The earthquake voice of Victory,
To thee the breath of life;
The sword, the sceptre, and that sway
Which man seem'd made but to obey,
Wherewith renown was rife
All qucll'd! Dark Spirit! What must b
The madness of thy memory!
From Byron'i "Ode to Napoleon
Bonaparte."
SAM TO PEACE.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Butcher This pound of butter you sent
me Is three ounce short.
Grocer Well, I ' mislaid the pound
weight, so I weighed It by the pound of
chops you sent me yesterday. Boston
Transcript.
"They say." remarked the morallzer,
"that aggressive and impulsive people
usually have black eyes."
"That's right," rejoined tha demoralizer.
"If they are not born with them they
manage to acquire them later." Indianap
olis Star.
Peace! Peace! Hurrah the war ends;
Whoop, bang! We'll sugar off!
Have coal to toast our bunions,
Relieve that cough-up cough!
Have wheat flour bread, an' pancakes,
Instead of substitutes,
Drink real tea an' coffee.
' No more dogberry roots!
No ezarry hens a-struttln'
Their eggs 10 cents a shell!
No steers an' sheep a buttln'.
Cause steak's five cents a smell!
No grocer with card scepter,
Nor yardstick in a store;
Ole Galser has toboggoned.
The world has peace once more.
Peace! Whoop! No Kaiser Hoover
Compellin' eatless eat.
Commandln' drlnkless drlnklo'
An' nanta with seatless seat!
We've eat, an' drunk, an' dreamed
Our victory la complete;
We've had a meet and made peace,
Let's have a piece of meat!
Afton. N. T. LU B. CAK
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"Bobby,"' said the minister to a little
fellow aged 6, "I hear you are going to
school now."
"Yes, sir," was the reply.
"What part of it do you like best?"
"Comln' home," was the prompt answer.
Louisville Courier Journal
"Some accounta ot aviation stunts are
vary surprising "
"That's so. Sometimes they are abso
lutely lncredlous, and I have heard tales
that left me in a state of purtrefaction.
Baltimore American.
"I waa Just wondering."
"What?''
"If Diogenes didn't start this fad of
being photographed sitting in a tub with
a baby." Florida Tlmea Union.
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