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Hnt Worttt Ttrhn te n n'lttiaaa In 4lin ntnr. ,i tfon-day murder trial has not been fol- lowed by the suspension of thp officer from the force. There Is an esprit de rorps. In the police bureau that phrase will deicrlbe It as harmlessly as any other which seems to Impel the men In authority to stand by the, officers when they Ret In trouble. The burden of proof Is on the people outside of the force when an officer is nccusd But ordinarily esprit de corps is sup posed to Inspire the men in an organization to be so proud of Its spotlessness that they are the first to Insist on the expul Ion of an offender against Its standards and traditions. Can It be that Auerbach has not violated ny of the standards of Hie bureau? General Pershing ban on beards In the army still further extends the doctrine of "safety" first. THE BRITISH-AMERICAN DRAFT PART. NERSHIP rpHB most slRnln,cant and substantial ei-- dence of the complete co-operation and confidence .existing between this country and Great Britain Is the new draft treaty. It Is certainly one of the most remarkable Instances of International governmental partnership that has ever been planned. By this treaty the United States will be empowered to draft Into our own army British and Canadian subjects In this coun- e3W4."y within the British draft ng je, twenty r "i.l. Amp A(t.t,iiiai Aaia Innlnad'A 1 ! OUT ivaij'tvui jtmo iiii,iuoi Ci Similarly all Americans In Canada and Great Britain within American draft ape twenty-one to thirty-one will be subject to draft for the British army. Americans In Canada or Great Britain and British or Canadians In this country may leave to serve In their own armies sixty days after the treaty J shail be ratified. Exemption may be granted SV certificate Issued by the diplomatic rep- iW resentaflves of each Government In un- are exempt until British conscription Is applied In Ireland. -&' This Is one more step In the complete military union of this country and Great 5ts .omaun jor me purposes or mis war. it is V'pKfl the logical sequence of the brigading of ,, "WjJJ " English and American troops In the same 1)Sft un'ts 'n France. It may bo In order to . 'Jlfw'i auarrest that Berlin naners rnnv hut wo L ftsfaS oubt whether they will care to. 3iTii Naturally the standard of White rtussla lIMi"3 mnn be the fla8 of truce. w? '$ THEY CARRIED ON! "VH i .. . . J$r M " cuppea pnrases in which General -.7;. i - k X7Aa.lnw .nn..t . ..... m.4 l.lu rfikSi ciiiuif. i ci'ui ia iiit- uvvaiu ui uisliu- KKZ BU111CU DCI1RD LlUOBCa IU ClOVCIl Ui HIS ,'aen tor extraordinary valor on the battle front nearest Paris nresent thn tniA nn- i r ip adorned picture of modern war. Brilliant, exhilarating Impacts are rare. The Ameri- JW "J"""" """ -""B "- ........ .c ray, 'ji&j .Sttle of the poetry of war. Their Held (?. of operations was swept by Are much as .14.. i . nainai nrnn nisnnr'n snon rnamaa niaa rrrm B t.,1 k city street Is swept clean by a rain tor- ('r'-W'Ttnt, They experienced something of the B BSfS nra mai iuus upon a solitary man .'tjtV:.! i, ..--. ..- ... .. Wn'ii? Some were wounded and unconscious. rfS-aSj'But they pulled themselves together and SgS'sjifent to the aid of the wounded. Others, i'TM'isjrho must have felt in their momentary Isolation as If they were the last men alive sttn the world, calmly dropped Into shell iioles and fought off superior forces until vViav aura rplleiveri Amniitnnro Hplttara fT "'" .--,- ,... , ....,,,, Jfvjwent forward over shell-swept rpads and SJwere shot. They continued, found the men jYrtgwho needed them, returned and were shot JWHagain when their cars weren't blown from Rounder them. Officers and enlisted men were equally gallant. No one can say what mystic ngni leaus sucn as mese. A voice i'lai within them. That Is all. N'n Anirlpm &j5: .u. . , . .. :: ' jmmn reau mc tunuai icuii ui iiivir acnieve- l?74MiMta wlthnllt fplinf- thnt r.V.1 vf.1i. a.111 -: ei-sists to Illumine the world. . i 'if , The shipping chiefs are worried about finding enough names for the esxels they're launching. You provide the ships, boys, and i'H keep, the dictionary busy. Kven If we va to steal a few names from the Pullman THE WAR IN NEW YORK SW YOBK Is still meditating on tha I . possibility of a bombardment by air sts or submarines. And it is observ- that New Yorkers are not flustered t,th prospect. They have endured much at are ,trench-hardened. They have had (fjtaten to Mayor IJylan's speeches and 'rBroadway musical shows. They stlli about, undisturbed, wearing their funny ei, speaking their curicus languages. their fantastic food. - Secretly the ; tiwellers may yearn to be bombarded. ia a plague of summer in the lnea le city. , iild4he Hun begin to pop bombs at vJTorlr, clever theatrical managers are M wing to suaaen ricnes ay beiiiim (of .tUmlMlon, And in that ovent ifr- who rush over ana see n UI' be noanbelled, o doubt, to at soaiyera m il'M'xW,. PRO-GERMANISM'S LATEST The Nonpsrtlsan League Debauched by Self-Seeker to the Purposes of Un American Propaganda THE disbanding of the German American Alliance has not left the Oermcns. without a powerful propa gandist organization in this country. With a subtlety characteristic of all their conduct they have been converting to their uses the Nonpartisan League, which was organized in North Dnkota in April, 1915. The league is supporting Charles A. Lindburg for the governorship in Min nesota, where its organizers have been indicted and some of them convicted of violation of the espionage act and with interfering with the draft. Lindburg opposed the entrance of America into the war and in July of last year he published a book in which he charged that this country was forced into thd conflict by the capitalists for their selfish ends and that the young men were asked to fight nnd die that the rich might bo made richer. The league in the beginning was or ganized as a protect by the farmers of North Dakota against the control of the State by the railroads and the grnin ele vators. Its founder is A. C. Townlcy, a man who raised flax and was for a time known as the flax king of his part of the State. There came a bad year, his crop was poor and he failed for $80,000. He and a few other men, who charged their misfortunes to the railroads and big busi ness, met in Bismarck and planned an organization of farmets, who should con trol the Legislature and pass a lot of laws similar to those which the old Farmers' Alliance demanded and others which tho Populists favored. They wanted the State to take care of them. They wanted State-owned elevators to handle giain not only in North Dakota, but at tide water. They wanted stock yards, pack ing plants and cold-storage houses owned by the State. They wanted State insur ance against damage from hail, blight, black rust and other things which injured crops. And they wanted farm improve ments exempted from taxation. They succeeded in electing a maj'ority of the lower house of the State Legisla ture in 1916 and they passed a law pro viding that farm improvements should be taxed on an asessment of 5 per cent of their value, and that the property of banks and railroads and other "capital istic" enterpiises should be taxed on a 30 per cent assessment. This was gratifying to the farmers and the league began to grow. It has ex tended into eleven States in the North west and its agents have been busy in Pennsylvania, New Yotk and New Eng land, where they are attempting to bring about a union between the farmers and the labor organizations for the election of members of the Legislatures pledged to their program. It has 200,000 mem bers, who pay an annual fee of $8 for the privilege of belonging. The organ izers are securing between 1000 and 2000 members a week, and receive 54 of the annual fee from each new member as pay for their services. As originally planned, the league was one of those wild socialistic organizations which have been popular with the farm ers of the West for two generations. It was Bryanistic in its economic ignorance and in its humanitarian idealism. The belief of some of its members that this was a capitalists' war and their hostility to capital evidently suggested to the Ger mans that it could be used for their pur pose. Here was an organization ready to their hand through which the war could be made unpopular. The reports from Minnesota indicate that its membership there is made up largely of the pro-Germans and that the first members obtained by the organ izers in new communities are the Ger man sympathizers. And the nomination by the league of Lindburg, who says in his bosk that "we have been dragged into the war by the intrigue of the specu lators," confirms and justifies the suspi cion in which the organization is held. It is at best anti-war and is part of that movement In which Mrs. Rpse Pastor Stokes was active a movement which the judge who sentenced Mrs. Stokes described as a systematic pro gram to create discontent with the war, disagreement with the causes and jus tice of the war, loss of confidence in the good faith and sincerity underlying the conduct of the war and its ultimate aims, thereby to cause withdrawal -of support at home and relaxation of effort and effectiveness in the field. At worst it is anti-American becaute pro-German. There are doubtless' many loyal and patriotic Americans among the members, who joined because they wanted the State to help them. But; there is no doubt that many of the men directing the policy of the league are disloyal. The Attorney General will fail in his duty unless he warns the honest farm ers of the country of the nature of the society which is seeking their member ship and unless he takes steps to prose cute the guilty among the officers. Yes, the good old five-cent 'piece of Ice has returned once more. But how changed ! OUR FLIERS OVER GERMANY AMoK'Q the wr. reports from the front .Is a brief bulletin which tells of the first all-Amerlcan air raid of a German city. This particular cable Is one that will be generally read with mingled emo tions. Civilization hesitated long before it consented to a war of reprisals. But Ger many made such a war Imperative and now she 1b In a way to learn how terrible the wrath of the patient can actually be. It may be worth remembering that the jsaoptaja the German ""city Jhat haav,Jutt' KB mmm w.wwyf .i-jw.yhi.iii airplanes are the same who sang and cele brated when the Lualtanla was torpedoed. It Is the ghost of that ship that has re turned to hatlnt them In the air. We In this country know only a part of what has been achieved In our own air Bervlce. Ger many may realize what we have done be fore we ourselves are able fully to under stand or appreciate It. It Is from the air that full retribution is likely to fall 'upon Germany. And the Germans already have cause to remember that Nemesis usually travels with the speed of wings. Uncovered refuse In summer Is evidence of a "fly" program whose progress Is much more of a scandal than a complete break down would be. MOBILIZING LABOR rpiIE necessity of securing labor for all the war Industries Is admitted. It Is up to the Government to secure It. Every time it has suggested conscripting labor there has been strenuous objection from the labor organizations. Tho Governmenthas evolved a new plan, to go Into effect on July 16, which It hopes will accomplish the desired end without stirring up any hostility. In brief it Is that all unskilled labor needed by war In dustries which employ more than 100 men shall be obtained through central bureaus In each State nnd that there shall be no bidding of one Industry against another. This much has been decided. The War Policies Board of the Department of Labor Is considering the standardization of wages. Whether It will agree on n fixed wage be fore July 15 Is not 'known. The board also Is considering the extension of the plan to skilled as well as to unskilled labor. If the war Industries are short of help the non-war Industries are to be asked to give up their laborers that the demands of the shipbuilders, the munition factories and the rest may be supplied. And all labor Is to be obtained through the Government emplojment bureau In which the men are to be registered., It Is assumed that the men will willingly go where they are sent nnd will continue to work at the Job found for them by the bureau. The object Is to mobilize labor so that It can be sent where It Is needed. The plan cannot succeed without the hearty co-operation of both employers nnd em plojes In non-war industry. If it does suc ceed, according to Louis F. Post, the So cialist Assistant Secretary of Labor, "by the time the peace treaty Is slrfned the old division between employers and employes as distinct classes will have passed away." No, Siizan, the passing of a bill In the Holland Parliament to make the 7.uder Zee dry Is not a victory for the prohibitionists. DISCOURAGING FACTS THAT POINT THE WAY TO VICTORY NO CONTEST was eer won by over estimating one's own strength and underestimating the strength of one's op ponent. We cannot win this war by shutting our eyes to the strength ot Germany and by concluding that we have an easy task. The assertion of General Stein to the Reichstag that the Germans outnumbered the enemy In the recent battles Is now virtually admitted In France, England and the United States. We are beginning to believe with General Maurice that General Foch's reserves existed chiefly on paper. The gravity of the situation Is admitted by President Wilson, by Mr. Asqulth and by the correspondents at the front The fact that the correspondents are allowed to write about It proves that the war board, has decided that It la useless longer to attempt to keep the truth from the public. The Inability of the Germans to break through does not mean that we are win ning the war, nor do the reports of starva tion in Germany which have lately been sent out of course, with the knowledge of the German censors Indicate that Ger many Is really starving. If the Germans can persuade us to believe that they are on the verge of -a breakdown at home they think they can induce us to slow up In our war work and in sending troops to France. Germany Is suffering from lack of certain kinds of food, but she has enough to keep her people alive and in fighting condition. We must act as though this were abso lutely true, even if it be 25 per cent false, and we must prepare to defeat a' vigorous, enthusiastic enemy by hurling our whole strength into the battle line. We can win In no other way. Evidence that the Pe A Hitter l'lll ruvian bark la mild ' compared' to Its bite la now afforded Germany by the way the liberty-loving Latin republic has finally fol lowed up a 'severance of diplomatic relations with a seizure of the Kaiser's merchantmen. All that we have heard Too Costly 1 about the exorbitant cost of the necessities of life In Germany Is lerlfled by the state ment of a Socialist in the .Reichstag, who has Just declared that Iron crossej are now pur chasable at forty cents each. , "I am not opposed to General Hancock the Rtatue because Found Oat Buchanan was a Southerner or a Demo crat." said Senator Lodge. "He was neither." In thus running counter to history with re spect to "ten-cent Jimmy's" political affili ations, was the gentleman from asachu setts Implying that no President could really be at the eame time a Democrat and a Penn gylvanlan? ' "That lying German The Orcheatraj Will Now JMur (ha AntU Chorus general with his tune about Allied losses Is giving grand opera a good boost, anyway," "How's that, Mr, Bones?" "Well.jjist natu rally; any one who knows theHru'th turns to Hammersteln." The best way for the "melancholy Dane" to cheer up Is to let Uncle Sam buy ythat Idle fleet. . , The present period of Germany's drive Beems to be entirely ot the orthodox "full stop" variety. ' r A correspondent says he saw a huge ship shiver. Even when It Is wrapped In a blanket ot fog and being rocked In the cradle of the deep? Unbelievable! The first thing we know Germany will be sore on strife of any Kind. Her business men are now lamenting ittve prospect of a future "economic war," wnue ine present matlv ona la ao dlartsatef ui .to her sansrils I tj. ' . 7' ' ti ':; . :'i. jji. ..' t. . j i i M.'smilslt " "T 'J vitf'iV jptfc THE HIGHWAY BUILDERS (Arthjir FVII rnona Ensileh clared that h chairman of tha Hou of Com. Channel- tunnel committee. rrtmmllts. ns- h thought It would lm practical for a. throuch railway to b constructed from T.nnSAn tn i'nnstnntlnnnl with vfanlnia In Calcutta, Cape Town and Pekln. London Dis patch.) ARTHUR FELL, you'll lend diversions -To the futurists' excursions On tho day When your most ambitious plan'll Bring n tunnel through the Channel And the way Will be open to Rhodesia, With its diamond mines to please you, And a train Will be whizzing toward Colombo, With its elephants like Jumbo, Eating grain; And n Pullman seat you seek in Through expresses clear to Pekin Or Madras; And the bridge that's born of hope'll Modernize Constantinople, And you'll pass Through tho hills of Asia Minor In a well-appointed diner; And the chap, Who takes "dejeuner" in Dover, Will be catapulted over Half the map, Till at suppertime he'll have a Fleeting glimpse of tropic Java Singapore, Mandalay or Sourabaya, Or perhaps n Himalaya; And the door Of the Ea'st will be so handy That n trip to Seoul or Kandy Will be done With such ease that leaps to Cairo Will seem travel f,or the tyro Just for fu.. This we'll grant you, man of vision If you'll paidon the incision That we make With reflections disabusing To the rnrrent of your musing As avc take This position: rail nor skywny Holds a candle to the highway Or a pin That humanity is clearing, Ever dauntless and unfearing, To Berlin! H. T. CRAVEN. THE ELECTRIC CHAIR The Leviathan rpHERE is something peculiarly satlsfy - ing to us In the thought ot tho Levia than, which used to be Germanj's crack liner Vaterland, painted smoky gray and running back and forth between here and France loaded with troops. The other day we were efosslng on the ferry from Jersey City to Manhattan. There was a spanking breeze hustling down the Hudson; those leaping sk scrapers all stood. tiptoe in the danling sunshine; com muters were busy holding down hats nnd petticoats. And then, far up the liver, looming over the Hoboken dock roofs, wo saw the three dark funnels. The Levia than was In, taking on another load of soldiers. It gave us a thrill. It keeps on tingling every time we think ot it. An ocean liner Is a heart-bustling sight anyway, as she comes sliding in from the blue, immeas urable sea; but When jou think of the Leviathan, the Kaiser's own pet, slipping quietly to and fro, putting a crimp in his plans. It gives us a tremulous little throb something between n laugh and a prayer. God bless the Leviathan and good luck to her! Ships; have an honor and a mys tery of their own, and we Imagine she is proud of having a hand in punishing the men who smirched nnd fouled the ancient tradition of the sea. When we Bee her we think of another queenly ship whose lovely profile was once familiar In New York harbor; a ship with tall red funnels and a ruffle of white foam at her stem. S.hlps, as we said, have an honor of their own. Youjwill notice that no ono has ever called those shark-boats "ships." And the Leviathan is the avenger of the Lusltanla. She has a great heart In her, that fine ship; a heart that not even the Hoboken spies could corrupt. She is an instrument of honor in the hands of true sailor men. When .we sce ner Bra' funnels they 'seem a kind , of sjmbol of nil we fight for. She thrilled us a year ago when we first saw the Stars and Stripes at her stern. She thrills us still. She always will. Doctor of Immortal Boyhood PRINCETON did a genial thing In con ferring an .honorary degree upen Booth Tarklngton. Tarklngton has become a legend at Princeton. He was Teputed tho most debonair and delightful undergrad uate of his day (class of '93, wasn't It?). Then he wrote "Monsieur Beaucalre," one of the most delicious bits of romantic prose this continent has Inked, By the tlmo the public had sized him up as a whimsical doer of trifles he started serious realistic novels. And then, upon an un suspecting world, he burst the laughing gas of Penrod. The world Is grateful to -Mr. Tarklngton for Penrod. Not since Tom Sawyer "and Huck Finn Has there been so faithful, so laughable, so utterly true (and therefore so utterly amusing) a portrait of the intri cate world wherein boyhood plays its grave pranks. Every one has read about him, and read him again, and read him aloud. He Is become a national figure. Not even the marvelous portrait of Willie Baxter In the throes of male ftapperhood ("Seven teen") has banished Penrod from our hearts. Penrod and his "limited bachelor set" will live as long as trousers (both short and long). We don't know just what kind of doct6r they made Mr. Tarklngfon. But he is most endeared to us all as the limner of Penrod. We hope that degree was Doctor of Im mortal Boyhood. Battle Hymn of the Kaiser , II IN the, midst of battle In my motor carnage rode, Where the deadly telephones rattle And the bulletins explode. I, I In the midst of fighting, Where the "field) kitchen stands at bay .And,thetff their nails are biting, ISM GHaUBUaaVHUSYtt ,. - & - . ,-i. . .- . li!. iISC5jJ5L jr tVWW Ja JEjC Jkwr Vask ' Parr When New York By Our Special THERE Is ono good thing that the sub marine scare has done for us. No one, except Those Wo Really Love, will come to visit us at our apartment any more. Per honally wo h.tve always suspected that what appeared to be popularity was teally only the apartment, and now we are sure. When wo first moved In and people came In for luncheon and stayed for tea and dropped In for dinner and thought nothing of running in fiom farthest Jersey to spend the night with us and demanded eggs for breakfast when there 'weren't any in tho houso we were thrilled nnd flatteied. But later It developed' that what they really craved was our couch by the window,, f i om which you gain a peerless view of Gramercy back yards and fnt cats slttl: on the' tops of fences. There Is a bieeze, too, that sweeps across the chair, and we are mercilessly adjacent' to tho "L" and the subway. B UT recently all this has been done aivay vvitli. Our Invitations are con- stantly declined nnd there is every proba bility that wo shall be able to sleep In-our respective beds during the summer instead of taking the front room so that guests may have them. When tho word passed that U-boats were lying in New York har bor our families Evelyn's lives In Pennsyl vania and our own further west bom barded us with telegrams to seek shelter, to give up our Jobs, to go to Connecticut, to do anything but remain In New York. And we. fatalistic with tho melancholy se curity of,' a three months' lease, only laughed' bitterly and by expensive night letteis sent C. O. D. bade them hush. B UT Tuesday night things really looked us to dim the lights and gave minute and depressing details about siren whistles which would blow at stated Intervals In case of danger. We vyere Instructed to go Into the cellar and to open all the windows. Evelyn, who has a scientific mind, said this last was to guard against concussion or percussion, I forget which. Anyway It seemed a rash thing to do when thieves might so easily break In and steal by run ning up the lire escape. We have a dozen Bllver knives and foiks that the family yielded up when It seemed obvious that we were not going to marry after all and hence would not need a regular trousseau. Had we locked tho flre-esijape window so faithfully these many nights only to have our morale broken by a possible German airplane? We decided not. THEN vve inspected the cellar. This was rather difficult, as It was full of beds left by tenants who had taken the bull by the horn, so to speak, and had automat ically banished guests by banishing the beds. There were so many of both tenants and beds that there was really no place to stand. No ono admitted to being nervous and we talked lightly and laughingly on 'ther topics. The sound of our forced mer- Iment seemed to Irritate William, Ihe col ored boy who runs the elevator. William has an Inkling that vve are connected with the press and he probed us with questions as to how soon the'Germans might be ex pected to attack the city and. If worse came to worst, how would they treat a' poor colored boy? We told William coldly 'that vve were not, acquainted with the Im perial Government's view of the race prob lem. BUT we were worried, none the less, and drew the shades down tightly while' we ate dinner. Tuesday was a hot night, it you reraeirdjer.-and there was. soraet.hlp l4i.etirruyAapU the ,whj EVERY RIVET COUNTS 7 Doused the Glim Correspondent pressed excitement had begun to get on our nerves. Evelyn wanted to go too, but we told her that a woman's place Is In the home, and sho was persuaded to write let ters while we sallied forth In quest of ndventuie. The Metropolitan Tower gave us an unpleasant shock; It was so very near and there was no doubt about It being a good target. Near us was the Children's Court and a hospital, a veritable happy hunting ground for Huns. We made straight for the newspaper office, knowing by experience that if anything were afoot they would know all about it. All the reporters were there In shirt sleeves and thousands of editors they are sometimes used In emergencies and high above the city desk hung the cheerful slogan: "In' case of airplane raids members of tho staff are' tequested to telephone the office." WHY, wo : what to demanded, and what for and were, wounded what then? No .one seemed to know exactly and their vagueness only made us the-more uneasy.- A friend asked us to the movies and normally we should have accepted with alacrity, but there seemed something like fiddling when Rome was burning to go to the movies on such a night. So vve went Into a drug store instead and had a chocolate malted milk. Two officeis of the Brltlsl) navy ordered pink Ice cream and all the sailors and the subway guards were Clad In Jaunly white suits. It .suggested a scene from a comic opera. Once we thought we heard a Zeppe lin, but It was only a mall truck, lumbering up Park Rovy. So we went home again. WILLIAM was on the front door step, gazing at the sky. We assured him there was nothlng'ln It but stars and asked him kindly to Illuminate the elevator. There is nothing more undermining than an unllghted elevator. He yielded momen tarily, but switched off the globes Imme diately nnd sank to the ground floor. Eve lyn was still up and had grown discour aged waiting for an airplane, so had put up the shades again. We rebuked her sternly, but she said what difference did, one window make when all thestreet lights weie on and atiy Intelligent. German could find his way around, rpartlcularly,slnce they were nearly all North German Lloyd stew ards before tlte war anyway and knew New York like a book. We decided .to sit up"" all night In case there should be an attack. It was bad enough to be bombarded, Evelyn said, but to be killed and never know It would be hideous." So we lay In the dark listening to the cats In the back yard there are some twenty otthem who sere nade us nightly and to somebody's VIo trola, and once we thought wo heard a siren, but lt was only a fire engine going peacefully to a fire. "ITTTE READ the next morning, in the ' paper that airplanes had patrolled-'the city all night long. They '-were our own, of course, but still It was humiliating not even to have heard them! B.- W. Um tle Price There Is probably no truth In the rumor that the Kaiser Is so anxious to' get to Paris that hq was seen recently buying tickets ffom speculators. St. Louls-PostDlspatch. Viewpoint Probably about the hardest thing of all would be to persuade a candidate for some minor office that nothing matters now but winning the war. Ohio State Journal. Flaying the Numbers This telephoning game I grtjat, It's something like roulftte.V .4il.V LWU SSHK1M a .'aiaTZ-Zj ) ,TL In the Milwaukee Sentinel. A FOOLISH SONG AS I was going along, going along, ilThe sky was blue, the meadows,"! bright, The river, too, all flecked with light! . I smiled upon the pretty sight As I was going along. a Am T n n fvlnav nlAnn tYnlftsir1 rm.las.aAts fxa X ntvj Buiiie, aiunbi sums .&, There came a mra, mere came a preeze, j. The thicket stirred with melodies And never songs were sweet as these. As I was' going along. As I was going along, going along, I met a maid who led a lamb, And I delayed fool that I am! For her eyes In limpid laughter swam As I wna going along. 3 ? As. I was going along, going along, 1 thought of breeze and bird and maid, . The Bunny trees, the tender shade,, j And out of them a song I made As I was- going along. Paul Scott Movvrer, In "Hours of Frarice.'J Significant rhrases ty Every great war has its striking ana " - ,,t ..i v.. .. ri..li itf.H .-!...' ? rigni u oui on mis line u u lanes au buih- t, mer" and "The colored troops fought bravely" ', stood out prominently. The "I regret to "j report" of the South African war Is well vf remembered. In the present war. and'U. especially since 'tho beginning of the great'ii uerman onensive in aiarcn, tne pnrase tnaiyvr most often recurs in thej news dispatches' 4f from tha front is, "The ground was littered i isfWVs. hatno rt flaVMBn 4 a nit I TVi alavnlfl. "TK rflncfl nt this Is. for the time belntr. lost on -' the ceoDle of Germany, who are kent in ignorance of tnelr terrible losses, but It vn wait Ifnntun in tha nannlli ftf the a11la4 ss.ni.n ""'KM V "Iiw"" w " sr-"- ; WUH- J1m ircB. iji upeiiH liid uiiiiuttie ueicai una coi t lapse ot tne rrussi&n military system.- -2, Sprlnefleld Union. L i w ..,' -- 0H useless uccupauoqs - luuiltllll mo uutca ill owioa vuccan, ff Counting chickens before the incubator's ,V- bought. . & v,wmikinsi Ui. alec Countlne on the weather balnr a-nnn fori m. -w. rjlcnlc. I Counting the gray hairs in one's head. vuuiiuuB mo pennies, unpins ilia uoil&rvt 1 will take care of themselves they won't. ""J Counting on a cron without working tor It. Farm Life. I Well follow Suit - -i ' King George announces that he Is not having any new clothes made this summer. That gives us some distinguished company, r ' Detroit Free Press. Blood Will Tell Cnrinlnti aH T 1HT W an A ulnar An Amll kjs.tu.s-it ., lit s ssu nim. v a 111,111 a X A Bolshevik, who can even go so, far some "ri times as to speak the Russian language. .lt Y3 Issasrsli-Kvlia v A tva TTapalrl irt,l Ominous for the Hun Hordes Fpch Is. fully as talkative as Grant was JajVg ot, iiosion iieraiQ. VifM What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Who was Cardinal da RetsT X. What la tha 'capital of VlrsinlaT S. Who la Secrclarr of Coonntrce? 4. Where la tha Ourcn Blterf B. Whst la the real meanlns of "A. E, V As-al what I th hi mannlnaT aUimMlma ar4wanV -! fl. Who Is In command . of the United Btatat V ' fleet In foralsn waters? iTJv 1. What Is a pourbolraf t. Whrra Is Camp MrClellanT S. Whtu waa tho battle ot Bunker HlUt 10. Who Is tho most celebrated American essaj; isaj r Answers In Saturday's flute 1. The Marseillaise la tha national air of JFraaoa.'VJ iXnar Day. Juns 14. Is the annlvcrsarr of"., June 14. 1771. when Conrress adopted tW'.J latlnnut banner. i M 3. -Western Bescrto University Is jit CIweA-: land. O. ?J 4. Khaki, a dost colored cloth frequently twos): for military uniforms. 7 '""i 5. Tbo dollar mark Is usually explained as a suDcrlmpoalllon of tho letters "U. 8." i , . Charles V. Morphr I tho chlst o( Tamsuay ' sail. r i- m T. Gasoral von Hater,, ana of Uo Oorau oaaos tendon In fH CM drttt, '..' ! 5i . Mt !' Be t v,-! ri!. ri-'i mi 1 m A I--VV Artr,i. "a WW i" i,.- , r ' M x.
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