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THE TWIN CITY STAR. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. 8. ATTACK ON FRONT OF TWENTY MILES AMERICANS ADVANCE SEVEN MILES IN SECTOR NORTH- WEST OF VERDUN. FRENCH TROOPS CO-OPERATE General Pershing Reports Capture of Twelve Towns and More Than 5,000 Prisoners in Initial London, Sept. 27.—American troops have taken over a new sector in France and in conjunction with the French have forced the Germans on the defensive on still another battle front. The gauge of battle has been thrown on a 40-mile river extending from the Sulppe river in Champagne, 15 miles east of Rheims, eastward through the Argonne forest to the Meuse river, northwest of Verdun. In the first stages of the battle the Allied lines were pushed forward for material gains—that portion immediately northwest of Verdun held by the Americans to a depth of seven miles and that of the French to the west nearly four miles at certain points. Under the terrific bombardment preceding the commencement of the battle the Germans hurriedly quit numerous positions, and into these the Americans and French went unimpeded. At last accounts the Allied attack was progressing favorably. Many French villages and German strong points had been captured. Entire Front May Be Shaken. Taken in conjunction with the Allied offensive, which has materially bent back the German front in Flanders, Artols and Picardy and along the Alsine, the new drive of Marshal Foch in the south will bear important fruit if it meets with success. Driving northward the entire western battle front would be shaken and of necessity be compelled to readjust itself. Lateral railway lines of great importance to the German positions between Laon and Verdun lie directly in the path of the advancing Franco-American forces. Vouzières, an important railway junction on the main line from Laon to Metz, is but 12 miles north of Servon, which actually is in the hands of the French. The Americans, through the capture of Gerocourt, northwest of Verdun are in the Meuse valley, which leads northward to Sedan, and a little farther west at Varennes, have won the Aire valley, which winds in a northwestly direction to Vouziers. A successful advance along these two valleys for any appreciable distance would be disastrous to the German lines from the North sea to the Swiss frontier. Northwest of Verdun, Montfaucon, a German strong point of great resisting power is said to be in American hands, as likewise are several other villages between the Meuse and the Aire. Around St. Quentin, both the British and French armies have made further advances against the Germans and repulsed heavy counter attacks. In Flanders and also near Arras the British have advanced their fronts. GERMANS OFFERING STUBBORN RESISTANCE General Pershing Reports Capture of Twelve Towns and Over 5,000 Prisoners. Washington, Sept. 27.—Attacking over a front of 20 miles west of Verlin in co-operation with the French, the American first army advanced to an average depth of seven miles and captured 12 towns and more than 5,000 prisoners. Four of the towns were carried by storm by Pennsylvania, Kansas and Missouri troops of Major General Liggett's corps, General Pershing said in his official statement on the battle received at the War department. The enemy offered stubborn resistance. Troops of other corps forced their way across the Forges brook, took the Bols de Forges and wrested eight towns from the enemy. CROSSES ARE AWARDED TO THIRTY-FOUR MEN General Pershing Honors Soldiers For Extraordinary Heroism in Action. Washington, Sept. 27. — General Pershing reported the award of the distinguished service cross to 34 enlisted men and officers of the American expeditionary forces and to one member of the French army for extraordinary heroism in action. One of the crosses was awarded posthumously to First Lieut. Ray C. Dickson, West Bend, Wis. SINGLE COPIES 5 CTS. PRINCE AXEL Prince Axel of Denmark, commander of the Danish navy, is making a tour of the principal points of naval activity in America. His staff accompanies him. TURKEY FEELING PRESSURE OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT MAY SEEK SEPARATE PEACE. Public Intimation In Constantinople Becomes So Great as to Worry Sultan. Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 27.—Public irritation in Constantinople has become so great, according to a dispatch from the Turkish capital to the Lausanne Gazette, that rumors are again spreading that the Ottoman government will seek a separate peace. The sultan himself, the message says, would seek a separate peace if he could obtain favorable terms from the Entente Allies. Roumania Near Open Revolt. Rome, Sept. 27.—The situation in Roumania, according to information received here, has become alarming for the Central Powers. The Roumanian peasants, made enthusiastic by the victories of the Allied countries, are beginning to resist openly the German and Austro-Hungarian military. Revolts have occurred at a number of places and the Roumanian government has sent agents to Berlin and Vienna to obtain a mitigation of the Austro-Hungarian rule. The Roumanian government is reported to have said that if its request was rejected it will be unable to guarantee the maintenance of order. SERBIANS LEAD ALLIED INVASION OF BULGARIA British and Greek Forces Are Fighting Their Way Over Mountain Range. London, Sept. 27.—Veles, 25 miles southeast of Uskub in Macedonia, has been captured by the Serbians. Allies Invade Bulgaria. Saloniki, Sept. 27.—Invasion of Bulgaria is under way. British and Greek units are forcing their way over the Belachista mountain range on the Bulgarian border northeast of Dolran, says a British official statement issued here. North of Lake Dolrar the Greeks are nearing the crest of the mountains. Dzuma Ombasi has been reached by the British. GERMANS IN BALKANS SET FIRE TO HOSPITAL Retreating Force Starts Blaze Which Cremates Over 100 of Their Own Men. London, Sept. 27. At Troyabt, in the Balkans, the Germans burned their depots, the fire spreading to one of their hospitals, where over a hundred men were burned. The Bulgarians continue to commit atrocities on our soldiers who have fallen into their hands. One of our patrols of four men has been found near the village of Veprtchane horribly massacred. IOWA REGIMENT LOSES 1,400 OFFICERS AND MEN Half its Effective Combatant Strength Put Out of Action in Eight Days. Des Moines, Sept. 27.—During eight days' fighting ending Aug. 3 the 158th infantry, Iowa's unit in the Rainbow division, "lost 1,400 officers and men, or about 50 per cent of the effective combatant strength," according to Col. E. R. Bennett, its commander. This information is contained in a letter from the colonel received by Lafayette Young, Sr. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., SEPTEMBER 28, 1918. CROWDER CANCELS LAST DRAFT CALL CROWDER CANCELS LAST DRAFT CALL EPIDEMIC OF SPANISH INFLU- ENZA IN ARMY CAMPS IS REASON GIVEN. Registrants From Every State and the District of Columbia Had Been Ordered to Entrain From Oct. 7 to 11. Washington, Sept. 27.—Because of epidemics of Spanish influenza in army camps, Provost Marshal General Crowder cancelled calls for the entrainment between Oct. 7 and 11 of 142,000 draft registrants. In cancelling the call General Crowder acted upon instruction from General March, chief of staff. Every state and the District of Columbia had been assigned quotas and the men were to have gone to practically all of the camps in the country. 6,139 New Cases Reported. During the 24 hours ending at noon Thursday, 6,139 new cases of influenza in army camps had been reported, with 170 deaths, resulting chiefly from pneumonia following influenza, and 723 new cases of pneumonia. Camps Kearney and Eustis were added to the list, leaving only 13 free from the disease. The total number of cases of influenza in all camps was placed at 35,146 with 3,036 cases of pneumonia. One out of every four men at Camp Devens, Mass., has contracted influenza, it was announced and 10 per cent of the cases have developed into pneumonia. Greatest Increase at Dix. The greatest number of new influenza cases, 1,007, was reported from Camp Dix., While Camp Devens reported fewer new cases, pneumonia showed an increase there, 309 new cases and 83 deaths being reported. Boston Tests New Serum. Boston, Mass., Sept. 27.—Much interest was manifested in experiments being made with a new influenza vaccine produced at the Tufts college laboratories. There are 50,000 cases of influenza in Massachusetts in the judgment of Bernard W. Carey, epidemiologist for the state department of health. STATE IS UNABLE TO COPE WITH EPIDEMIC Massachusetts Health Commissioner Asks Federal Aid to Fight Influenza. Boston, Sept. 27.—An appeal for federal aid in overcoming the epidemic of influenza ravaging Massachusetts was made by Dr. Eugene R. Kelley, state health commissioner. In a telephone conversation with Col. Allan J. McLaughlin of the public health service at Washington, and later in telegrams to each member of the state delegation in Congress, Dr Kelley urged that assistance be sent here even if it became necessary to go to the extent of obtaining congressional action. AMERICA'S WAR DEBT NOW $19,000,000,000 With Daily Cost Close to $59,000,000 This Month Will Break All Records. Washington, Sept. 27.——America's war debt will reach the $19,000,000,000 mark the day she reaches her Fourth Liberty loan. With daily expenditures ranging close to $59,000,000, this month's war cost will break all records. The nation's burden for Sepember is placed at $1,775,000,000 which, according to unofficial figures exceeds the monthly expenditures of any other belligerent. ALLIES HAVE DIVIDED BULGARIAN ARMIES Capture of Prilep by French and Serbians Proves of Great Importance. London, Sept. 27.—Capture of Prilep by the French and Serbians has split the Bulgarian armies into three parts according to information received here One portion of the enemy forces is northeast of the Vardar, another is east of the Vardar, while the third is west of Prilep. The latter is retreating toward Albania. Chapin Pleads Not Gullity. New York, Sept. 27.—A plea of not guilty on the ground of insanity was accepted by the court in the case of Charles E. Chapin, former city editor of the New York Evening World, who confessed to killing his wife in their apartments in a local hotel. MRS. JOHN W. DAVIS Mrs. John W. Davia is the wife of the newly appointed ambassador to Great Britain. RULING AFFECTS CLASS ONE MEN CANNOT MAKE APPLICATION FOR COMMISSIONS. Physically Fit Registrants Will Be First Inducted Into Service as Washington, Sept. 27.—Physically fit men between 18 and 45 years of age who are placed in class 1 by local draft boards or who would be so placed except for occupational deferment, cannot become candidates for commissions in the army until they have been inflicted into service as privates, under rulings of the adjutant general made public and superseded previous orders on the subject. Registrants placed in the subdivision of class 1 reserved for limited or special service, however, may be commissioned direct from civil life and no barrier is interposed to the commissioning of men direct from civil life, providing their local boards have given them deferred classification on dependency grounds. Qualified registrants who have applied for commissions on army staff corps and who are desired by a certain corps, may have their classification and physical examinations by local boards advanced on presentation of a certificate from a chief or corps or department of the army. In cases where it is desired to commission a class 1 man, he may be inducted into service immediately and promoted thereafter. REIGN OF TERROR DECREE REPORTED RESCINDED Bolshevik Premier Desires to Reinstate Orderly Government in Siberia. Amsterdam, Sept. 27.—The Bolshevik decree of a reign of terror has been rescinded, the newspaper Mir declares, according to a dispatch from Moscow. Another dispatch says that the central executive committee of the soviets discussed the question and that Premier Lenine said he desired to reinstate an orderly government. The majority supported him. BRITISH 200 MILES SOUTH OF ARCHANGEL Enemy Is Reported to Have Been Cleared from Both Sides of Dwina River. London, Sept. 27.—British troops under General Poole have cleared both sides of the Dwina river in Russia to a point 80 miles south of Berentskala, according to authoritative information received here. (Berentskala is about 150 miles south of Archangel. The Allies apparently control the Dwina half way from Berentskala to its junction with the Suchona river.) CONFEDERATE VETERANS PLEDGE LIVES TO CAUSE Adopt Resolution Placing Their All at Disposal of Nation to Win War. Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 27.—Zeal of the days of '11 flaraxed out anew here when the Confederate Veterans, meeting in annual reunion, unanimously adopted a resolution pledging their entire resources and their lives, if necessary to win the war against autocracy. The Sons of Veterans adopt 1 a similar resolution. A PROCLAMATION By the President of the United States of America. Every day the great principles for which we are fighting take fresh hold upon our thought and purpose and make it clearer what the end must be and what we must do to achieve it. We now know more certainly than we ever knew before why free men brought the great nation and government we love into existence, because it grows clearer and clearer what supreme service it is to be America's privilege to render to the world. The anniversary of the discovery of America must therefore have for us in this fateful year a peculiar and thrilling significance. We should make it a day of ardent rededication to the ideals upon which our government is founded and by which our present heroic tasks are inspired. Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do appoint Saturday, the 12th day of October, 1918, as Liberty day. On that day I request the citizens of every community of the United States, city, town and countryside, to celebrate the discovery of our country in order to stimulate a generous response to the Fourth Liberty Loan. Commemorative addresses, pageants, harvest home festivals, or other demonstrations should be arranged for in every neighborhood under the general direction of the secretary of the treasury and the immediate direction of the Liberty Loan committee, in co-operation with the United States bureau of education and the public school authorities. Let the people's response to the Fourth Liberty Loan express the measure of their devotion to the ideals which have guided the country from its discovery until now, and of their determined purpose to defend them and guarantee their triumph. For the purpose of participating in Liberty day celebrations all employees of the federal government throughout the country whose services can be spared may be excused on Saturday, the 12th day of October, for the entire day. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done in the District of Columbia this 19th day of September in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-third. WOODROW WILSON. By the President: GERMAN'S VAIN EFFORT TO BILITTLE AMERICAN POWER. Poster Widely Circulated in Kaiser's Empire, and Reproduced in This Country, Shows Morale of Huns Is Being Shattered. A poster recently issued by the imperial German government in an effort to belittle the participation of America in the war and thus strengthen the morale of her people form the text of one of the most striking pieces of literature that the bureau of publicity of the war loan organization has prepared for use in the forthcoming Fourth Liberty loan. The title of the poster is "Can America's Entry Make a decision of the War?" Integral sections of it attempt to convince the render that America's army cannot take the place of Russia's withdrawn forces; that the United States cannot build enough ships to have any effect on the result of the war, and that the U-boats will destroy virtually all the ships that America can build when those ships attempt to cross the ocean. A French poster also is reproduced in the German poster and the meaning so twisted as to make it appear that France is very badly in need of food. Two millions of the booklets have been printed and will be distributed in various parts of the country, particularly in theaters where Liberty Loan speakers take the book as their text. The enormous figure of a Russian soldier is the first object on the poster to strike the eye. He stands with hands in his overcoat pockets, indicative of the fact that he is through fighting. Beside him stands Uncle Sam holding a small figure, designed to represent the United States army, in his right hand. In his left hand Uncle Sam carries a banner which bears the inscription, "America threatens to send transport of one-half million men. But it cannot ship them!" Below Uncle Sam are these words: "It is impossible for America to train and fit out in time for the European war a suitable and sufficiently large army and provide it with the necessary reinforcements." The catchline of this section of the poster is "Russia's army of millions could not down Germany," and on the skirt of the Russian soldier's overcoat are printed these words: "Russia used up altogether fifteen million men in vain!" NO. 29. On the opposite side of the poster is this catchline: "England's sea power and England's merchant marine have not decided the war!" Below this line appears a huge figure intended to represent the English shipping facilities at the outbreak of the war, which bears these words: "England went into the war with twenty million gross registered tons of freight space." Alongside this figure of a ship is a drawing designed to show Ucle Sam carrying the United States tonage under his left arm. The caption above Uncle Sam reads: "Can America replace England on sea?" On the ship which Ucle Sam carries is printed this inscription: "Three million gross registry tons," and below that is another inscription which says: "At the beginning of the war America had only a tonage of three million gross registered tons." Commenting on these statements, the poster further declares "America cannot increase her gross registered tons for 1918 by more than two to two and a half million tons. Our U-boats sink twice as quickly as England and America can build!" The answer of the publicity bureau to the two sections of the poster referring to the transportation of men and the building of ships follows: "At the moment the bulletin boards of Germany scoffed the possibility of America sending a force to France, there were already more than a million fighting men overseas, and transports, walled about by the American navy defying the cowardly submarines, were bearing 'every month hundreds of thousands more. The gauge is set and the summer of 1919 will see 4,000,000 fighting American men in France. Nor will there be a lack of ships to transport and sustain them. The Liberty Bond buyer is fast giving to America a merchant marine that will be the peer of any in the world. America launched in July alone-635,011 tons. Losses to allied and neutral shipping combined, from every cause, for the last six months, amounted to 2,089,393 tons. "The distance from New York to England, the Boche points out," comments the bureau of publicity publication, "is two hundred times greater than that from England to France, from which he spells 'Opportunity for the German U-boats.' Pitiful is this boast in face of the facts. Instead of the U-boat being an unconquerable engine of war, as the Hun confidently expected, it has become the slinking foe of fishing smack and other isolated craft. The vast army of Liberty Bond buyers, thirty millions strong, has built an unbroken bridge over the Atlantic ocean into the heart of the enemy's strongholds. Across this bridge there are streaming our millions of fighting men, as good as the world has ever known, munitions and equipment that have been wrought by those back home, whose determination is that the American fighting man shall lack nothing that he needs." As a back-handed slap at the French, the German propagandists have reproduced a French poster which pleads with French people to eat less in order that the United States may send over more man power. The French poster pointed out that if every person in France would save a hundred grams of food a day that the American reinforcements could be increased a division a month. The French catchline on this poster was "Does France want wheat or men?" and the German poster remarks "Also the allies are now beginning to have their doubts." In a further effort to convince the German people that it will be impossible for the United States to transport troops to France, the German section of the poster says that ten tons of freight space are required for every soldier in crossing the water. The truth is that a soldier requires less than one-half this amount of space. Summing up all the falsehoods which the German poster contains, the booklet says: "The War Lord of Germany may have the futile hope that his people will devour in the place of food, such statements as the foregoing. Falsehoods, however, are poor substitutes and are likely to aggravate rather than appease when the deluded people of Germany learn that every requirement of the American soldier will be met by his patriotic and unqualified support back home. If a single soldier required ten tons of freight space, it would be given him. But the truth is he requires less than one-half of that. "As for Germany's statement that even if the United States built from two and a half million gross registered tons in 1918, it would not mean deliverance for the allies, no further comment is needed than that by July of this year the 2,000,000-ton mark has been passed. If further refutation of the Hun boast of his U-boat prowess were needed, it might be stated that less than 500 American soldiers have lost their lives in the present war as a result of U-boat attacks." Closing the booklet is this striking quotation from Secretary McAdoo: "The Fourth Liberty loan is the barrage which will precede the victorious thrust of our army." STUDIO CAMPAIGN Ladies! Did you ever think how much help you can render your Uncle Sam if you know how to run an automobile? Did you know that it is as easy to run a farm tractor as it is to run an automobile? This lady takes frequent rides in her tractor to help raise Uncle Sam's crops. JUST FOR A SMILE JUST FOR A SMILE A group of old ladies were talking and knitting on the veranda. The conversation got around to how much each weighed at birth. One old lady said: "Well, I weighed just $3\frac{1}{2}$ pounds." The others gasped, and one of them asked: "And did you live?" "They say I did," answered the other woman, "and done well." A man in a uniform "And the other is any poor boob who is obliged to stand for the kalser's government." One Ought to Have 'Em. A stranger who stopped recently at a farmhouse in a country town not a hundred miles from Boston to inquire for a boarding place, asked a man if there was any place in the next village where they kept transients. "Yes, I guess so," said the man, deliberately; "there are two stores." The Painful Part. Jones doesn't want his wife to go away. "Feels the separation, no doubt." "Yes, from the necessary coin." T "Am I the first man you have ever loved?" "Now don't be absurd. I've been here at the beach six weeks." "He looks to me like a man who had loved and lost." "He looks to me more like a man who had loved and won." Silk-Producing Insects of About 200-Different Kinds The number of species of silk-producing insects is very large, probably more than 200, very few of which are of any practical value to mankind; while those portions of the caterpillar family which unite their silken tissues to form a family tent have not only defied the ingenuity of man to unravel their handiwork, but have made his industry contribute to their support by foraging upon fruit-bearing and ornamental trees. The spider family, notwithstanding many attempts to reel their beautiful threads, still monopolize their products for purposes of locomotion and snakes for unlucky insects. Deepest Place in Ocean. The deepest place thus far found in the ocean is off Mindanao, Phillipine islands, 32,088 feet, and the highest mountain, Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, 29,002 feet, a difference of about 11½ miles vertically. Popular Science. An insulated rifle barrel enables the gunner to handle the weapon without regard to the temperature of the barrel. The presence of submarines has been betrayed by the actions of sea gulls, which follow them as they do other boats. France suggests that the name "Eau de Cologne," which is claimed as a French product, be shorn of its German character and that this popular perfume be renamed "Eau de Provence." No Cross of Gold Found When Lake in Moscow Was Drained to Find Treasure If all the lakes in the world dried up, what would we find in their beds? The question is raised through a recent allusion to Lake Semievo, in Moscow, which for a century was said to contain a cross of pure gold 15 feet in height. Napoleon—so the story ran—tried to carry it away with him as a war trophy, but, when disaster came upon him, lost it in the lake. About seven years ago, relates a writer in Answers, the lake was actually drained, but no cross was found, although the bed was scattered with other relics of Napoleon's retreat—remains of carts, horses, uniforms, etc. There are many similar stories from other parts. In the depth of a South American lake over $5,000,000 worth of gold is said to have been thrown by Peruvian priests when fleeing from the Spaniards, and the bed of the Danube is the supposed hiding place of Attila's wealth. Attila ordered that on his death the Danube should be temporarily diverted from its course and that he should be buried under the river bed with his enormous fortune. This was done. And after the river bed had been diverted and then brought back again to its original channel, the slaves who had performed the work were killed, in order that the secret of the location should never be revealed. How to Prepare Candied Fruits and Vegetables 1. Select products of uniform size and ripeness. 2. Wash. 3. Cut fruits in halves, quarters or smaller sections; cut vegetables in narrow strips about $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches in length. 4. Drop in a sirup cooked until it spins a thread. To prepare a spiced sirup, boil whole cloves and whole cinnamon in three-fourths of a cupful of water 15 minutes. Strain out spices. Add to strained spiced water one cupful sirup and two teaspoonfuls vinegar. Cook until it spins a thread. To prepare ginger sirup, add a few pieces of dried ginger root, which can be purchased from a grocery or a drug store, to the sirup in which the fruit is cooked. 5. Allow to cook until transparent. 6. Drain. 7. Dry in slow oven; finish drying over kitchen ringe. 8. Roll in minimum amount of granulated sugar. (May be omitted for fruits.) Hard to Hit Nail on Head With Definition of Humor Endless are the definitions of humor, its shading off from wit, the nature of its appeal. But none of them really satisfies. No nice little formulas or prescriptions will guarantee a jest's success. It is as vain to furnish humor unless there be a sense to perceive it, as it is to supply a reason when there is no understanding to give it due weight. Nothing is more precarious—more dangerous—than to recommend a new book of humor. When you expect a laugh you may get only an amused stare. Big Grain Crop in England. England's grain crop this year will be the biggest since 1868, Sir Charles Fielding, director general of food production, informs the Daily Mail. Several thousand soldiers are working on farms, and other harvesters include schoolboys, undergraduates, boy scouts, village and college women and girls of the land army. Belgian and Serbian refugees and German prisoners. City clerks are spending their vacations on farms. Carnegie Began as Telegrapher. Andrew Carnegie, the multimillionaire, is a Scotchman. He began his business career in this country as a telegraph operator and during the Civil war was superintendent of military railways and telegraph lines in the East Industries declared to be nonessential in the District of Columbia, which may be given similar designation elsewhere in the country, have been announced by the community bureau of the United States employment service, under direction of the department of labor. The following industries were classified as nonessential to war work: Automobile industries accessories. Drivers of pleasure cars—cleaning, repairing and delivery of same. Sight-seeing cars. Automobile trucks engaged in work other than fuel or government work. Teaming other than delivery of products for war work. Bath and barber shop attendants. Bowling alleys, billiard and pool rooms. Bottlers and bottle supplies. Candy manufacturers, cigars and tobacco. Cleaners and dyers. Clubs. Confectioners and delicatessen establishments. Builders and contractors not engaged in the erection of structures for war work. Dancing academies. Mercantile stores. Florists. Fruit stands. Junk dealers. Livery and sales stables. Pawn brokers. Peanut venders and establishments. Shoe-shining shops. Window cleaners. Soft drink establishments. Soda fountain supplies. The men at this time to be released from these establishments, it is explained, are the laborers, porters or janitors and other unskilled workers, who may apply to the United States employment service for work in essential industries. Price of Clothing and the Supply of Wool Since Under Control of the Government Somewhat in contrast to repeated declarations that woolen clothes will be scarce is an official announcement from the war industries board, which says that the government control of wool and woolens has reached a stage "which makes possible the assurance to cloth mills and to clothing manufacturers, jobbers and retailers that wool will be equitably distributed to meet both government and civilian requirements. The price will be regulated to assure a fair and reasonable profit to the industry, but a range of prices will not be permitted which will allow abnormal profits with the consequent unjustifiable hardship to the consuming public." It is declared that the present speculative movement in cloth and clothing will undoubtedly compel definite penalizing action if persisted in. Especially does the statement insist that there are ample stocks of woolens and no cause for inflation. No dealer should try to buy beyond his present needs, it is asserted, because there is no reason for it. This significant announcement is made: "There is no official warrant for statements or rumors to the effect that it will soon be impossible to buy woolens or woolen clothing sufficient to meet actual requirements of the civilian population." All of which ought to bring relief to the people. One of the reasons for an advance in clothing for both men and women is the higher price of findings. Tailors cannot make clothes as cheaply as they could a year or so ago, but there seems no reason for the rumor that woolen clothing is about off the market, and that greatly increased prices are necessary for fall and next spring.-Indianapolis News. OH, FRANCE! DEAR FRANCE! Oh, France, dear France, Could I but give As longs my heart to give to you You'd have your dead alive again, I'd give you back Alsace-Lorraine And every hill and fertile plain That is your due! Oh, France, dear France, My gift is small So little is my very all— But these my hands I offer you, And all a loving brain may do And all a heart's desire true, Whate'er befall. Oh, France, dear France, Full well I see The hour of your ecstasy. I know your honor, clear and bright, I know your future crowned with light. Oh, France, dear France, yours is the right Of Victory! —Ethel Watts Mumford of the Vigilantes. Trees Lean With the Wind; Nature Strengthens Roots Nature makes no mistakes in anchoring trees. When the winds press harder against one side of a tree than another, nature strengthens the roots on the side where the greatest strength is required. In countries where they have pretty constant winds from a certain direction you will find, all of the trees leaning away from the direction of the winds. If the south winds prevail for the greater part of the year the trees lean to the north and the greatest root growth is to the south. FAREWELL TO EBBETTS FIELD AS UNCLE SAM TAKES IT FOR COLD STORAGE PLANT FAREWELL TO EBBETTS FIELD AS UNCLE SAM TAKES IT FOR COLD STORAGE PLANT © Western Newspaper Union No more will the bleachers roar at the umpire or go wild over a home run at Ebbetts field, the big baseball diamond of the Brooklyn Nationals, as the government has commandeered it as a cold storage plant. According to Charles P. Ebbetts, owner of the club, Uncle Sam will try to make good use of it for the army and navy. Other famous ball fields, including the Polo grounds, home of the New York Giants, may also be taken over for similar purposes. It is heartbreaking to the fans, of course, but they realize that it is not a good-by, but an au revoir, to baseball. COMPARATIVELY YOUNG MEN CALLED VETERANS Arthur Fletcher of the Giants, Zach Wheat of Brooklyn and Tom Clark of the Reds, are the oldest players in point of service on their clubs in the National league. The three men all joined their respective teams in 1909. Now that Hans Wagner has retired from the diamond, Max Carey is the veteran player on the Pirates. He joined the club in 1910. Dick Rudolph did not become a Brave until 1913, but he has been with the club longer than any other of the present members. Two other players who are now the veterans of their teams joined their clubs the same year. They are Jim Vaughn of the Cubs and Bill Doak of the Cardinals. SHORE STARS IN NAVY EXAMS Former Boston Red Sox Pitcher Picked to Take Special Course at Naval Academy. Ernest Shore, former pitcher for the Boston American league club, passed his examination at the Harvard school for ensigns with such high marks that International Film Service Ernest Shore. he was one of five picked to take a special course at the Naval academy at Annapolis, it was learned. Shore who enlisted in the navy with other teammates many months ago, was later transferred to the ensign school at Harvard. FOOTBALL BOOMED BY PITT Interest of Alumni and Public Being Maintained by Efforts of Publicity Committee. University of Pittsburgh football authorities have adopted a novel but sensible plan for interesting their alumni and the general public in their football situation. They have called attention to the testimony of President Wilson, Secretary Baker and Walter Camp, the latter in charge of training camp activities for the navy, that college sports mean so much in the development of soldiers, and more particularly the advantage they give to those men seeking commissions. Adams Has Gone Over Platt Adams, who won the world's standing high jump championship at the Olympic games in Stockholm and was second in the standing broad jump, has joined the host of noted athletes who have gone to France for the Y. M. C. A. He will instruct our troops in track and field events and also in baseball. To Build Roque Courts. Indlauapolis will construct four roque courts in Garfield park But Ray Schmandt's Check Covered Many Miles Before Reaching Him at Camp Pike. Ray Schmandt, the former Brooklyn second baseman, is at last to receive his check for $50 for hitting the "bull" sign in Philadelphia last April. Schmandt pasted the sign with a fine drive and earned the bonus, and his check was soon ready, but it has had a hard time catching up with him. The check was forwarded to Brooklyn and was to have been presented to Schmandt with much pomp and circumstance at Ebbetts field, but before it arrived he had been called by his draft board and had gone to St. Louis to see his family. The check was forwarded to St. Louis, but he had left for Camp Pike, Ark., in the meantime. His family forwarded it to Camp Pike, where he is a member of the Tenth training battalion. TRUISM ON BASEBALL GAME Pitched Balls That Are Near Enough to Be Called Strikes Are Good Enough to Hit At. Major league batsmen who made a practice of heckling the umpires for doubtful balls and strikes never found any sympathy with Fred Clarke. The ex-Pirate leader once expressed a truism which should be drilled into every boy who gets into the national pastime. Wilbur Cooper brought out Clarke's little line following an argument in one of the games played by the Pirates at Jacksonville. Several of the Pittsburgh batters were complaining that the umpire "missed" some that were an inch or two from the corner of the plate. "Well, boys," remarked Cooper, "I feel the same as Cap Clarke on pitched balls. If they're close enough to be called strikes, they're good enough to hit." COLLEGE PLAYERS IN FAVOR Team at Fields Point, R. I., Made Up Almost Entirely of Men From Brown University. The Bethlehem Steel company is not confining its enlistments of ball players to the professional ranks. The team that represents its plant at Fields Point, R. I., is made up almost entirely of college men, most of them from Brown university. They may know little about building ships, but they can play a pretty good brand of baseball, which seems to be the main item. POSTWAR SPORT BOOM SEEN BY PILKINGTON Jim Pilkington, president of the Association of Amateur Oarsmen, sees a brilliant prospect for all athletic sports when peace is declared, says the Great Lakes Bulletin, official naval station publication. Pilkington, whose active association with the government body in rowing goes back to 1876—within a decade of the end of the Civil war—believes that conditions following the great war will be much the same as those which were experienced here in the reconstruction period. "The Civil war, or rather the ending of it, gave sport its impetus in this country," said Pilkington. "Because Uncle Sam is practically making athletics compulsory in the land and naval forces, hundreds and thousands of young men who never before engaged in sport have become active and enthusiastic athletes. It is easy to see what the result will be when the war ends." Christy Mathewson, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, is to go abroad as a member of a chemical warfare service unit that will do line work in France. DICK RUDOLPH BEEN PITCHING 14 YEARS Passing of Time Doesn't Seem to Feaze Boston Star. Started Twirling for Fordham College in 1905 and Rose Rapidly—Manager McGraw Once Sent Him Back to Minors. Dick Rudolph, star heaver of the Boston Braves, has been pitching for 14 years, but the passing of time doesn't seem to feaze him. He started pitching for Fordham college back in 1905, and two years later he was on his way to stardom as a member of the Toronto club of the old Eastern league, after having had a bit of additional seasoning with a semi-professional club at Rutland, Vt., and with New Haven in the Connecticut league. His first full season with Toronto was a busy one, for he took part in 31 games, winning 13 and losing eight. After that he developed rapidly, and on three occasions won more than 20 games a season for the Maple Leafs. In 1911 Rudolph was given a trial by the Glants, but John McGraw did C. W. Dick Rudolph. not believe he was ready for the big show and sent him back to the Toronto club. That decision was one of the mistakes McGraw has made in judging players, and he has regretted it ever since, for in 1913 Rudolph was traded to the Boston club, and what he has done in the way of standing National league batters on their heads is too well known to repeat here. Rudolph was a holdout this season until late in May, when he finally came to terms with the Braves and signed his contract. In his first start of the season he beat the Reds, letting Matty's team down with one hit, and he proved conclusively that he has lost none of his cunning in the box. Early in the spring he tried to purchase his release from the Braves for $10,000, but could not put the deal over. Manager Stallings knows well what he is worth. INMAN IS CALLED TO COLORS English Pocket Billiard Champion Has Been Ordered Up by British Canteen Board. Melbourne Inman, the English pocket billiard champion, is the latest of several players to be called to the Photo by Western Newspaper Union Melbourne Inman colors. He has been ordered up by the English canteen board, and will have charge of all billiard tables at the canteens and recreation rooms in home camps. LEW TENDLER TO JOIN NAVY One of Leading Contestants for Lightweight Championship Will Enlist at League Island. Lew Tendler, one of the leading contenders for Benny Leonard's lightweight title, will soon enlist in the Naval Reserve at League island, according to an announcement made by his manager. He will act as boxing instructor, also. Golf Clubs in Country. There are, it is estimated, 3,000 golf clubs in this country. The Wants of Arline By IMES MACDONALD (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) It seems to be human nature to feel that the other fellow's life or occupation is happier than your own. The stenographer trips into your office and sits down to her typewriter, with a sigh—she has a friend who is married and has nothing to do but take care of a "darling little apartment"—while that friend sits dejectedly at the littered breakfast table after husband has gone to the office and wishes she could cast off the drudgery of her housework and once more enjoy the privilege of independence and a job. The pretty little shopgirl straggles wearily out of the "employees" entrance of the great store with hundreds of others on the way to the crowded car which is to take her to her drab and uninteresting home, casting envious glances at the girl in the magnificent limousine which has just slid up to the curb on the far side of the street. While at the very same time the girl in the limousine watches the chattering shopgirls who romp along in gay groups—such bright, dancing-eyed, light-footed things! Such is the resiliency of youth that in spite of the long, tiresome hours of toll behind them, they troop out and along the street with a joyous abandon. Arline Granger, sitting there in her car of splendor, envied girls like this. Hastily she slipped out of the magnificent furs which would have made her conspicuous, stepped to the sidewalk CORTO Purely Accidental. and walked quickly up the street and across toward the entrance of the great store, where she joined the throng of shining-eyed workers. Just then George Bart turned the corner below and bravely breasted the wave of femininity which poured toward him. The talented George wrote advertising copy for the Addington company and was that very week the proud possessor of a raise in salary. Perhaps that's why he smiled, but it was not the reason why so many of the bright-eyed girls whom he met smiled back at him. They neither knew nor cared about his talent or his pay-check—never even hoped to see him again, but George was good to look upon and so they smiled. And so did Arline faintly when she saw him coming, for she also found him good to look upon. George caught Arline's expression and at that same identical moment he realized that she was different. Of course, the girls one loves are always different—but George didn't worry about that, he just smiled right straight down into her heart and when she would have turned away from him George barred the way. "Please," he said gently but firmly, "please don't be offended—but you shouldn't have smiled, you know." She inspected him for an instant curiously. He really did look well-bred, and Arline had a sudden desire for adventure. "Did—did I smile?" she laughed, a little confusedly. "You did," said George emphatically. "And how could I ever expect to see you again if I let you pass without a word? This is an awful big town to find anybody you don't know in." "And is it so entirely necessary to your happiness that you see me again?" said Arline with a certain dignity that was more daring than diguified. George looked at her earnestly. She was different. He was sure of it now. "Don't tease me," he said, walking along beside her. And the reckless Miss Granger could never explain just how it happened, but it was probably because George was so persistent and a talented persuader—but anyway she found herself seated opposite him in a certain well-known restaurant some two hours earlier than her regular dinner hour. George accepted her culture as a matter of course—he took her entirely at her face value—and Arline's face value was exceedingly high. But she wouldn't tell him her name nor where she lived nor her telephone number. And after dinner was over he obedi- early took her to the subway and said good-by—at the same time slipping into her hand his business card that bore the 'phone number of the office. "In case you want to see me again," he said—and she slipped through the gate and entered the train and was gone. A week later she did 'phone him. She had put it off as long as she possibly could, but George didn't know that. All he knew was that late that afternoon she again sat opposite him at a small table and smiled upon him in that delightfully cool manner of hers—and that was enough. Several times these little dinner meetings occurred during the next two months, but George found out no more about Arline than he had known in the beginning. Arline was wise enough to wear her plainest, simplest clothes and she took advantage shamelessly, for she quizzed George until she found out all about him from the time he'd learned to walk—on up. But eventually George got insistent. "Why can't I come to your house and meet your mother?" he asked. Arline shook her head. "You don't seem to realize how much this means to me," he accused. "It can't be that you are married!" he said desperately. Whereat Arline laughed outright: "Of course not, silly!" "Then why can't I come to see you?" he persisted. "You are an impetuous young man, and if you don't behave—I'll never meet you again." Which was of course a threat which she never could have carried out. The next time he saw her it was purely accidental. Clad in all her splendor she was stepping from her limousine on the avenue in front of an exclusive shop. "Arline!" he spoke, and there was a world of hurt protest and appeal in his voice and eyes. She turned and met his look with that little fascinating quirk of her eyebrows which he loved so well. His eyes traveled from her own stunning person to the expensively appointed car and then back again to her. The whole story was there. Her beauty had caught the fancy of some rich beast—and like so many other girls she had been unable to withstand the lure of luxury. His Arline! It was hard to believe, "How could you?" he murmured, standing close to her there. "How could you when I loved you so? Fifty a week isn't much, but we could have married and been happy, Arline. All the limousines in the world, dear, are not worth the soul of one girl like you, dear." She was startled at the break in his voice—the tears that stood in his eyes—and then suddenly his meaning flamed over her. From shopgirl to limousine in the space of a few weeks was hardly a legitimate possibility. "George—you dear, sweet thing," she said with her hand on his arm, "I've only been teasing you. I'm just a naughty venturesome poor little rich girl whose father indulges her extravagantly. I'm Arline Granger, George." "I'm glad I was mistaken about that other, Arline—you don't know how glad," said George, "but I can't help being sorry about all this," he added with a gesture toward the car. "You're used to having everything you want—and—and I couldn't give it to you." "Yes," she laughed, "I am used to having everything I want—and I want you, George, for my husband." Now you can't kiss a girl on the avenue in broad daylight—it isn't done! So George and Arline climbed into the limousine and—drew the curtains. How Brave American Died How Brave American Died. Shrapnel shattered his right hand. Still he continued to rally his men, urging them on to greater efforts. Bullets seared their way through an arm, but he did not flinch. Hurtling steel tore its way through his limbs, felling him at last. But until the end his shout was "Onward!" And that is why Major Edward B. Cole of the United States marines was posthumously cited by General Pershing. It was in the battle of Bols de la Brigade de Marine that Major Cole, fighting to the end, received the wounds which resulted in his death. And it was the sort of encouragement he gave that sent the "devil dogs" on to a victory that caused the French government to change the name of its every map to conform with a new name, in honor of the soldiers of the sea. So great was Major Cole's valor that he earned the distinguished service cross, and the gratitude of fighting men who will not cease their blows against the Hun until the beast is on his knees. Major Cole is survived by a widow and two fine sons, who possess the qualities that made their father a hero. That Ended Argument. Genevieve and her brother Walter were vehemently disputing as to which had had the harder attack of measles. Walter seemed to be having a little the better of it, at least in noise, and at last his sister burst out in intense indignation: "But if I hadn't got them at school and brought them home to you, you never could have had them at all, so there." As Usual. A divorce scandal was being discussed in the presence of British Ambassador Reading. "Poor Smith," a banker sighed. "To fall at the age of sixty-nine! He'd climbed to the very top of the roarful ladder, too. In fact, he was a Sunday school superintendent. How strange that at sixty-nine Smith should fall from the ladder's top!" "But wasn't there a woman at the bottom of it?" asked Reading. WHAT CAN WE DO? "Conservation Tailleur" and Wool Suit 1920 The bureau of aircraft production of the war department has requested the Red Cross to give publicity to the vital need of walnut for use in making airplane propeller blades and gun stocks. All chapters in central division are requested to see that this need is made known as widely as possible by posting this notice on their bulletin boards and including this item in the Red Cross news printed in local newspapers. Walnut has been found to be the best wood for propeller blades and gun stocks. Trees are found throughout the United States, usually in small groups, and the government wants information as to their location, to give the owners an opportunity to demonstrate their patriotism in a practical way. A part only of the lumber from each tree can be used and the government cannot buy the trees direct from the owners. The trees should be sold to a sawmill having a government contract for lumber for propeller blades and gun stocks. If owners of trees do not know of such mills, they may write to the Ordnance Department, Procurement Division, Small Arms Section, Washington, D. C., giving number and location of the trees, and they will be notified how to dispose of them. Emphasize the fact that information in regard to a small number of trees is most valuable. The government "Conservation Taill In the light of experience the tailored suit of wool cloth has proven that there is nothing to equal it for giving general satisfaction. Some other fabrics make suits as durable and as good looking but they do not seem to fit in everywhere and against any sort of background as wool does. However, there may come a time when there will be no wool to spare, after the needs of the army are supplied, and we will be obliged to wear something else. Manufacturers are already experimenting with other fibers and have turned out a few new fabrics that look practical. The most noteworthy of these materials is tricotine or tricolet, woven of a heavy, silky fiber that is strong and supply. It has the brilliance of silk and the strength of wool and is especially handsome in black and in dark tones of brown and blue. It is used for gowns and suits. For the first, handsome fringes are wonderfully effective as a trimming, while braiding seems the best finish for suits. The suit at the right in the picture is a "conservation tailleur" of tricotine with collar and tunic waistcoat of crepe. It earns its patriotic title because it is not wool and compels enthusiastic praise because it is handsome and cleverly designed. The collar and waistcoat are braided and might be embroidered, for both these decorations find themselves against just the right background in tricotine. The coat fastens across the waistcoat at the front with two diagonal straps that button at the left side. There are still plenty of wool suits to be had—just how long the supply will last no one can tell. One of the best of those shown for fall appears at the left of the picture. It is taupe broadcloth with convertible collar and --- wants every tree available. Keep this item handy to give information to anyone in your community who may inquire of the Red Cross about disposing of walnut. Scarfa. Already there are indications that scars will be an accredited part of next winter's suits—that is, wide scars that are wrapped around the neck as a part of the suit. We had some of these scars last winter, sometimes coming from only one part of the coat collar and wrapping well around the throat. Sometimes, too, they were the ends of a skating cap that were wrapped, scarlike, around the throat. In the new suits they are sometimes separate, but of the same material, and sold as a part of the frock. Sometimes they are fastened to the coat, under the collar. Frocks for Little Girls. For little girls, some of the prettiest new frocks are figured organdie and volle. The organdie ones are newer than those of volle. They are prettiest when made with fichus and little turned-back cuffs. Some of them have shirred pockets, edged with tiny rufflings or plaiting of white. Use Heavy Italian Lace. Many Jersey dresses are trimmed with heavy Italian lace. eur" and Wool Suit deep cuffs of Hudson seal. The coat is almost three-quarter length and double breasted, with a wide belt that fastens at the left side. There are pockets at each side camouflaged successfully by a bit of drapery and guarded by a company of small buttons set in a precise row before them. This is something new in the management of pockets. Julia Bottomly Hatter's Plush In Vogue. Hatters' plush, always a becoming material, is employed on some of the smartest models. Panne and Lyons velvet are used, silk duvetyn as soft as baby fur is made into hats and into trimming for hats. And to further emphasize the general softness and flexibility of the millinery of the coming season, beaver is used very much in combination with other materials. It is used on hatters' plush and on velvet to form bands and brim tops and brim facings and even in the form of flowers. It is of such a new softness that it is hardly recognizable. One of the new long side models in dark blue panne has a round sort of folded in crown with a two-inch band of beaver and a brim edge of beaver. The only trimming on it is a very handsome tassel attached to a small round silk ornament placed at the right side swinging out on the long side of the brim, but not extending over it. Skirt of Navy Blue Satin. A smart separate skirt recently seen is of navy blue satin, having a wide girdle of the satin outlined with red worsted embroidery stitches. This combination of color and material is very smart and effective. WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS WASHINGTON.—A man rang the bell of a house in the first ward and asked the woman who answered it if she was Mrs. Blank. The woman smiled engagingly and said that she was Mrs. Blank's sister, and invited him in. The man preferred to stand at the door. There was a draped portiere at the parlor grill, and the man couldn't help seeing on its floor a squirming heap of children piled on top of one another and under the kicking arms and legs of a woman who scrambled free and stood up laughing, while the sister voiced embarrassment from the door. "Come, children, mamma has company—finish your game with me." The mamma, woman, still shook The maidman woman, still thick- ling, patterned her hair and straightened herself "I have a bill here, madam——" "Another?" "It is for the rent. We let it run over this owner is a woman who depends on the income wants her house or her money by ten o'clock in "Oh, but I can't move. I really cannot. For a and besides this is the dearest old house—there children to play in—the sun gets in there even always pay, sooner or later." in chuck- straightened herself ham——” let it run over this bends on the income by ten o'clock in really cannot. For the best old house—there gets in there even o' ling, pattered her hair and straightened herself into social form. "It is for the rent. We let it run over this month, as usual, but the new owner is a woman who depends on the income for her own expenses, and she wants her house or her money by ten o'clock in the morning. "Oh, but I can't move. I really cannot. For one thing, I haven't the money, and besides this is the dearest old house—there's such a lovely yard for the children to play in—the sun gets in there even on rainy days—and, besides, I always pay, sooner or later." "Sorry, madam, but business is business." She saw by his face that he meant it. And then she saw that it was a peculiar face; that he had a long white side tooth that lifted his lip when he spoke, and that he had gray hair to match the gray of his suit. She saw by his face that he meant it. And peculiar face; that he had a long white side too spoke, and that he had gray hair to match the one. When the engaging sister came down and standing in the dark of the hall trying her best arms and scooped her in. Then she asked: "What on earth is the matter—who was the And the mamma woman trembled out: "The Probably Her First Experience A REAL estate agent was showing a house—a down and the balance in monthly installment who was looking over the premises with his wife. it he meant it. And long white side toot hair to match the latter came down and all trying her best n. Then she asked: matter—who was the trembled out: "The first Experience showing a house—s monthly installment emises with his wif When the engaging sister came down and found the mamma woman standing in the dark of the hall trying her best not to cry, she reached out her arms and scooped her in. Then she asked: "What on earth is the matter—who was that at the door?" And the mamma woman trembled out: "The wolf." Probably Her First Experience With Business Probably Her First Experience With Business A REAL estate agent was showing a house—six rooms and bath; so much down and the balance in monthly installments forever after—to a customer who was looking over the premises with his wife. The deal was satisfactory from every angle until it came to the point where the husband, in a gust of loving thought, happened to mention to the agent that he would make the house over to his wife. But the wife objected: "Why, Bert, I'm surprised at you—to saddle me with a responsibility like that! I'm famished for a home of our very own, but if I've got to be tied down to— "Say, old girl, climb down to com- in your name in case anything should happen "No, sir; I may be foolish when it comes much for that. You've got to do all the signing The men grinned at each other and the hust of his business-lacking old girl, who was rather "You don't understand, Nettie. What I me you, is, in case anything should happen to me— "That settles it, Bert Blank! I'm ready am do my share of saving and all, but when it com- shoulders—say, since you are so set on not havin Mr. Agent will let you shove it on to him." Sounds silly, of course; but, to quote the ag at all a rare occurrence among women who are with business. All they know about buying a dr a long time and means years of self-denial and derstanding, they talk at the unknown. lish when it comes to do all the signing a other and the husb girl, who was rather Nettle. What I meauld happen to me— thank! I'm ready am ill, but when it comes so set on not having b it on to him." but, to quote the age long women who are about buying a dress of self-denial and unknown. "No, sir; I may be foolish when it comes to business, but I know too much for that. You've got to do all the signing and everything." The men grinned at each other and the husband man patted the shoulders of his business-lacking old girl, who was rather a callow young one. "You don't understand, Nettle. What I mean, as Mr. Agent here can tell you, is, in case anything should happen to me——" "That settles it, Bert Blank! I'm ready and glad to go in with you and do my share of saving and all, but when it comes to putting the house on my shoulders—say, since you are so set on not having it in your own name, maybe Mr. Agent will let you shove it on to him." Sounds silly, of course; but, to quote the agent, ignorance like that is not at all a rare occurrence among women who are having their first experience with business. All they know about buying a dreamed-of home is that it takes a long time and means years of self-denial and signing of notes, and, not understanding, they balk at the unknown. "And There Followed a Mist and a Weeping Rain" THE brief chronicle of a case of pride before a fall, etc. She had done a lot of canning, as per instructions from the department of agriculture and the food administration, and she was mighty proud of her work. There was jam, ved a Mist and case of pride before a reactions from the depe- was mighty proud "And There Followed a Mist and a Weeping Rain" THE brief chronicle of a case of pride before a fall, etc. She had done a lot of canning, as per instructions from the department of agriculture and the food administration, and she was mighty proud of her work. There was jam, and toll, and marmalade, and about. and jelly, and marmalade, and about everything else in the canned line one could desire. All the canning was not fruit by any means, however. Cans of beans, corn, etc., vied with the fruit display. But the woman was particularly proud of her canned cherries. She lost no opportunity to call attention to them, and even her best friends had to admit that she was perhaps a bit too eager to talk canned cherries. Then one day she took a prize can of cherries to a meeting where there was a demonstrator of the department of agriculture, a canning expert. of cherries to a meeting where there was a demo agriculture, a canning expert. The woman was pointing out the merits of when along came the expert. "May I see your cherries?" asked the expert. With the intuition of her sex, the cherry wanted to find fault. But she felt perfectly safe proudly passed over the prize cherries. "They are beautiful cherries," said the exp and that: The woman beamed. "But," continued the expert, sweetly, "what What, indeed! Little Jap Suddenly Separated CHANCED to witness a case of strained int evening. It happened on a busy street in the these new business streets that have grown up by needs o there was a demo ing out the merits of ?" asked the expert her sex, the cherry c e felt perfectly safe. e cherries. berries," said the exp pert, sweetly, "what ly Separated case of strained into a busy street in the that have grown up by The woman was pointing out the merits of her champlon jar of cherries when along came the expert. "May I see your cherries?" asked the expert, in her sweetest tones. With the intuition of her sex, the cherry canner sensed that the expert wanted to find fault. But she felt perfectly safe. This was her prize jar. She proudly passed over the prize cherries. "They are beautiful cherries," said the expert, turning the jar this way and that. The woman beamed. "But," continued the expert, sweetly, "what about this worm?" Little Jap Suddenly Separated From "de Gang" Little Jap Suddenly Separated From "de Gang" CHANCED to witness a case of strained international relations the other evening. It happened on a busy street in the residence section, on one of these new business streets that have grown up by necessity to supply the daily needs of those whose homes lie all around it. A Japanese shop was closed up tight. A band of boys dressed in khaki suits came along just then. They were small boys, not a one over ten years old, seemingly. Prominent in the "gang" was a little Japanese, his straight black hair and gleaming dark eyes strangely different from the blond heads of most of his companions. Just as the boys went by the Japanese store the door of that establishment, seemingly shut forever, suddenly shot open, and a Japanese woman appeared. "Come in here," said the woman, in English, and then began in Japanese. She grabbed her son by the arm and yanked him through the door, talking excitedly the while. Japanese ever, suddenly shot e woman, in English the arm and yanked ing. looking at the tea in In tones of woe and used an accusation: lishment, seemingly shut forever, suddenly shot open, and a Japanese woman appeared. "Come in here," said the woman, in English, and then began in Japanese. She grabbed her son by the arm and yanked him through the door, talking excitedly the while. The door shut with a bang. Outside, the boys stood looking at the tea in the window, and at the great vase, and other articles. Outside, the boys stood looking at the tea in vase, and other articles. Then the leader spoke. In tones of woe and others, and in his tones I sensed an accusation: Then the leader spoke. In tones of woe and utter disgust he said to the others, and in his tones I sensed an accusation: "There, now, we've lost him." The door shut with a bang. BILL "THE WULF" ed herself into social form. over this month, as usual, but the new income for her own expenses, and she clock in the morning. not. For one thing, I haven't the money, use—there's such a lovely yard for the there even on rainy days—and, besides, I business." at it. And then she saw that it was a side tooth that lifted his lip when he watch the gray of his suit. down and found the mamma woman her best not to cry, she reached out her asked: so was that at the door?" out: "The wolf." Experience With Business house—six rooms and bath; so much installments forever after—to a customer with his wife. The deal was satisfactory from every angle until it came to the point where the husband, in a gust of loving thought, happened to mention to the agent that he would make the house over to his wife. But the wife objected: "Why, Bert, I'm surprised at you — to saddle me with a responsibility like that! I'm famished for a home of our very own, but if I've got to be tled down to—— "Say, old girl, climb down to common sense. It is only that I want it happen to me." it comes to business, but I know too signing and everything." the husband man patted the shoulders as rather a callow young one. that I mean, as Mr. Agent here can tell in to me——" ready and glad to go in with you and then it comes to putting the house on my not having it in your own name, maybe him." note the agent, ignorance like that is not who are having their first experience lying a dreamed-of home is that it takes mental and signing of notes, and, not un- Mist and a Weeping Rain" be before a fall, etc. She had done a lot in the department of agriculture and the city proud of her work. There was jam, WHAT ABOUT THIS WORM? as a demonstrator of the department on merits of her champion jar of cherries the expert, in her sweetest tones. the cherry canner sensed that the expert directly safe. This was her prize jar. She and the expert, turning the jar this way, "what about this worm?" Separated From "de Gang" trained international relations the other street in the residence section, on one of down up by necessity to supply the daily needs of those whose homes lie all around it. A Japanese shop was closed up tight. A band of boys dressed in khakl suits came along just then. They were small boys, not a one over ten years old, seemingly. Prominent in the "gang" was a little Japanese, his straight black hair and gleaming dark eyes strangely different from the blond heads of most of his companions. Just as the boys went by the Just as the boys went by the Japanese store the door of that establishment shot open, and a Japanese woman in English, and then began in Japanese, and yanked him through the door, talking to the tea in the window, and at the great of woe and utter disgust he said to the usation: "There, now, we've lost him." PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... $125 THREE MONTHS ..... .65 ADVERTISING RATES. One Inch—1 Insertion—One Dollar. Liberal discount given on 3, 6, 9, Months, or 1 year contracts. We do not run free ads, or over-run the time contracted for by our advertisers. We respect their right to advertise at intervals, and rather have them do so, than to run continuously an "adv." and an increasing account. Write all Checks payable to THE TWIN CITY STAR 1317 North Sixth Ave. MINNEAPOLIS - MINNESOTA Send your subscription. Our prices have not changed because of the war. Let your dollar do its duty and The Star will reach a higher standard of service and better circulation. A DEPOSIT IS REQUIRED ON ALL POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Let us not draw the color line. Reciprocity between the races will be the salvation of the Negro. FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN ANSWER WITH CASH AND CONFIDENCE. HERE IT IS. "BUM" POLITICS. We know no word better fitted for the colored politician in Oregon than "bum politics." For years and years the colored politician has voted for the Republican party and handed out political cards, orated, expostulated and split oceans of printer's ink to help elect some office-seeker and like the "bum" who is out of work, the colored politician is still "splitting wood" for a livelihood and tramping on in the same old rut. "Bum politics," to say the least. And it will ever be thus just so long as the colored politician and voters continue to support parties and not men. Now the best way to change the whole "bum" local machine, which has dominated politics in the interest of a favored few (and the colored brother completely excluded) is to pick out men for whom to vote at the coming election and let the "party" go to the "pow-wow." And if this doesn't bring political leaders to their senses where will they recognize a man by his worth and not his color, nothing else will. Think it over.—The Portland (Ore.) Advocate, Sept. 21, 1918. RACE DISCRIMINATION. A complaint has been made to Pres. B. S. Smith of the N. A. A. C. P, that a Negro woman of this city, having a license as an elevator operator, was not employed at the New England Annex Bldg., apparently on account of her color or race. Several white ladies applied for the position and not one had a license. One was hired (without a license) and the woman with a license turned down. Another complaint was that the General Electric Light Co. refused to employ a Negro who answered an adv for an elevator man. There was a recent drive for members and the N. A. A. C. P. is strong enough to make a fight against these conditions. The president will investigate these cases and the Star wants a report given publicity. We have not joined the national attack on the N. A. A. C. P. because it has done good work; but there is need of some public activity in this city, and if the association cannot stop race discrimination now we have no hope for results hereafter. SELFISHNESS IS DISLOYALTY. Any person, who seeks honor or personal gain in connection with any war activities is a war profiteer, and is guilty of the worst form of disloyalty. Every personal sacrifice is a patriotic effort. It is the duty of every honest citizen to do his best to bear the Nation's burden without complaint. This is no time for obstructionists. Those who have grievances may complain, in order that better progress may be made. The slacker and chronic kicker is always a detriment. While petitions of redress to proper authorities will always command respect and investigation, let us not forget that every one is asked to do his share to win this war. There is a satisfaction in having done our duty. There is honor enough for us all, if we do that which is expected of us. The patriot knows no self-preservation, the profiteer no self-sacrifice. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. OUR UNCHANGED POLICIES. Now that the candidates for office are entering the race in the coming primaries, and The Twin City Star has always taken an active part in discussing the political situation and presenting the issues of the campaign; it will try to maintain its former policies of giving a fair expression of the attitude of all office-seekers, so far as the Negro is concerned. It does not (for revenue only) write up every candidate as "a friend of our race" or "the right man in the right place." It gives each the advantage of the columns under "paid advertisements." The Twin City Star intends to expose any candidate whose record has been against the Negro. Its editor has a fair knowledge of the history of several campaigns and has made a study of the value of the Negro vote. He is not bound by any individual or party, and has stood, at all times, for the political recognition of Negro voters. The Twin City Star is a paper with a worthy purpose, recognized by its readers as a reliable source of information, an intelligent and fearless advocate for equal rights for all men. We have never known two injustices to make anything right. The Saturday News has prospered by being as just to the white man as it has ever been to the Negro. We have never gone off half-cocked upon any proposition. Whenever we grope, we are in search of the truth. We want to be right and avoid as nearly as possible being wrong. We are not for the Negro right or wrong. We want him to be right. We complain because a majority of white people will always side with a white man when a question arises between him and one of our color; still certain colored newspapers, without making any investigation whatsoever as to the evidence, would have the entire Negro race do identically what they condemn the white people for doing. Because the white people do wrong is no reason why the Negroes should do wrong. The best preparedness to receive justice is to be just yourself.—Hopkinsville (Ky.) Nows. TUSKEGEE OPENS 38TH SESSION. To Be a Students' Army Training Camp. Tuskegee, Ala., Sept. 14.—Tuskegee Institute opened its 38th annual session_Tuesday, September 10th. More than 1,500 students have been granted admission this year, and the first day's enrollment was one of the largest in the history of the school. Dr. R. R. Moton, principal, announced today that the War Department through the Committee on Education and Special Training has asked the institute to continue the training of soldiers in contingents of 400 each. These soldiers are being trained in trades but their work will not interfere with the regular work of the students. Principal Moton also announced today that he had received word this week from the Committee on Education and Special Training, Washington, D. C., that Tuskegee Institute has been selected as one of the institutions to conduct a student's army training Camp. Inquiries and applications from all parts of the country are already coming in. With the training of the soldiers and the regular students, Tuskegee Institute will have fully 2,000 persons regularly under instruction here this fall. Some people think an editor should know about their business without being told and it should appear in the paper. The editor knows the things, you do not want in the paper. If you have something you want published—send it in. The other will find its way. We have some among our advertisers and subscribers who are a credit determined to stem the tide of prejudice and safeguard our rights; the association must be strong in numbers and in financial resources, and it will be a greater power throughout the nation. The membership fee is only ONE DOLLAR a year, one half of which is remitted to the New York National Headquarters and the other remaining half is retained in our treasury for local expenses. Will you not become a member and help the Association to make America free for black humanity? You must not be a slacker and you cannot be a conscientious objector. Have your dollar ready for the drive; let Minnesota be in the race by sending no less than 500 memberships. "ENLIST OR WORK" CAMPAIGN. The military authorities intend to push the enlist or work campaign among the Negroes. There are many idlers who have no lawful means of support. They will be drafted into the industrial army. Get work, gentlemen of leisure, even if as a side line. SUBSCRIBERS WANTED — Make the Twin City Star a live and dependable weekly Negro newspaper by sending your subscription. THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY. If you wish to add to your income you can do so by accepting an agency for The Twin City Star. Good commission to competent agents. Use your spare time in soliciting ads and subscriptions. Only honest and intelligent agents wanted. Call Hyland 1205. ADVERTISE IN THE STAR THE TWIN CITY STAR, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. PEOPLE EQUAL TO TASK, SAYS ARTHUR ROGERS Ninth Federal Reserve District Will Buy Any Amount, Says Liberty Loan Chairman. DRIVE BEGINS SEPT. 28 Belling in Northwest to Be Completed In Five Days—Local Organizations to Carry Out Details—Workers Behind Fighters. "The people of the Ninth Federal Reserve District will buy the amount of Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds allotted to them, whatever that amount may be. They would buy these bonds even if they did not bear any interest." This strong statement was made by A. R. Rogers, chairman of the Liberty Loan Executive Committee of this district, after careful consideration. In explaining his confidence in the loyalty of the people of the Northwest, he said: "I am thoroughly convinced that the EXCITING WORKSHOP MILK MILK MILK AMERICA'S TASK IN FRANCE. The above picture of a French tow finding as they drive back the destruc't more of this cruel waste and help those who are in danger. He asked to provide the money. These obes does his duty during the Fourth Libert The above picture of a French town is typical of what the Americans are finding as they drive back the destructive hordes of Kalserism. It is to prevent more of this cruel waste and help those who have suffered by it to regain their dignity. A much more real and important task is asked to provide the money. These objects cannot be obtained unless everyone does his duty during the Fourth Liberty Loan, September 28th to October 2nd. people of this great part of the country will do whatever their Government asks them to do in this crisis. I believe this after working with these men through two Liberty Loan campaigns and having pretty well learned their processes of reasoning and their inclinations. "I do not have this faith in the people of the Northwest because I think all of them are patriots, or are anywhere near perfect. "I do know, however, that a large majority of the men in these Northwest states understand what this war means, what part the United States Government must take in this war if it is to be brought to a successful conclusion. Coast submarine . . . 850,000 Sea-going submarine . . . 1,430,000 Cost of Various Kinds of Ammunition. 1-pounder cartridge . . . $0.72 6-pounder cartridge . . . 1.70 3-inch shell . . . 3.00 4-inch shell . . . 8.00 5-inch shell . . . 13.00 6-inch shell . . . 18.00 14-inch shell, from $80.00 for common shell to $580.00 for armor piercing. Tortoises, $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 each. Cost of Various Guns, Based Upon Late Contracts. Gun and Mount Complete 3-inch (23 calibre) . . . $4,000.00 3-inch . . . 15,000.00 "They know that the people of the United States, individually and collectively, must stand by their Government if it is to accomplish its great ambition and bring harmonious peace to the world. "They know that America must finance her Allies and that if America furnishes the money it means victory. Every American must do his full share. I know that the men and women of the Northwest appreciate their duty to their Government and will perform it at whatever cost to themselves. They have learned that everyone in America must get under the load which America is carrying for the democracy of the world. "Realizing all' this and feeling strongly the righteousness of the cause, we are soldiers, and whatever the Government in which we are stockholders asks us to do, we will do. "The actual work of selling bonds in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive in the Ninth District will begin Sept. 28 and will be completed just five days later. The work of organization throughout the district is being done now. The county chairmen in all counties are perfecting local organizations, making the allotments and arranging all the details that will make the actual selling of bonds compara- TOMMY SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1915 These stalwart Americans are only practicing, but a million or more of them are only waiting a chance to practice in deadly earnest through the German lines. Our boys are proving daily that they are the best known exponents of the fighting that requires brains, muscle and nerve. Every man, woman and child who buys honds in the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign will be helping these men make "the world safe for democracy." tively simple. In a great many counties, probably in the majority of them, individuals will be notified where and at what time to buy the bonds allotted to them and their subscriptions will be promptly made without solicitation. "How ever a county committee decides to carry out the details of its campaign will not be material so long as the results are obtained. All any county has to do is to subscribe the amount allotted to it and to secure it properly, and without resort to any methods that cannot be justified. "We have a great big task in front of us, but the people of these states are equal to it. They are not going to fail to loan the money necessary to their Government when millions of our young men are gladly giving the service which may mean their lives." WHERE THE MONEY GOES. Billions are big. The average layman finds a million hard to comprehend. As an aid to understanding why your Government must have so many billions of its people's dollars, Paymaster General McGowan, of the United States Navy, gives the following list of the costs of various kinds of supplies and equipment in the Navy. There are only about a million men in the United States Navy now. Estimated Cost of Various Types of Vessels Now Under Construction. Battleship ..... $23,075,000 Battle cruiser ..... 24,900,000 Scout cruiser ..... 7,220,000 Destroyer ..... 1,590,000 A ern is typical of what the Americans are e hordes of Kalserism. It is to prevent who have suffered by it to regain their in Permanent American at home are ects cannot be obtained unless everyone Loan, September 28th to October 2nd. Coast submarine ..... 850,000 Sea-going submarine ..... 1,430,000 Cost of Various Kinds of Ammunition. 1-pounder cartridge ..... $0.72 6-pounder cartridge ..... 1.70 3-inch shell ..... 3.00 4-inch shell ..... 8.00 5-inch shell ..... 13.00 6-inch shell ..... 18.00 14-inch shell, from $80.00 for common shell to $580.00 for armor piercing. Towards, $5,000.00 to $10,000.00 each. Cost of Various Guns, Based Upon Late Contracts. Gun and Mount Complete 3-inch (23 calibre) ..... $4,000.00 3-inch ..... 15,000.00 4-inch ..... 22,000.00 5-inch ..... 33,000.00 6-inch ..... 40,000.00 8-inch Howitzer ..... 22,000.00 14-inch (50 calibre) ..... 166,000.00 16-inch (45 calibre) ..... 215,000.00 16-inch (50 calibre) ..... 256,000.00 Airplane machine guns ..... 560.00 Rubber boots, pair.....$2.45 Blankets, each.....6.50 Jerseys, each.....2.75 Jumpers (blue), each.....4.00 Jumpers (dungaree), each.....1.00 Jumpers (dress), each.....1.70 Jumpers (undress), each.....1.00 Leggings, pair.....1.00 Neckerchiefs, each.....1.20 Overshirts, each.....5.50 Overcoats, each.....18.00 Shirts (blue P. O.), each.....4.50 Shoes (high), pair.....5.00 Shoes (low), pair.....4.00 Trousers (blue), pair.....6.00 Trousers (dungaree), pair.....1.10 Trousers (white), pair.....1.10 Undershirts (heavy), each.....1.50 Undershirts (cotton), each.....40 The cost of the Navy per man per day during the first six months of the fiscal year 1918 varied from $0.49, on the larger types of vessels, to $0.52, on the smaller types. TOMMY HARRIS FIRST MUSICAL CONCERT AND GRAND BALL 40 Pieces 40 Pieces LIEUTENANT WM. H. HOWARD, Director Bandmaster, 16th Battalion Band, M. H. G. CHAS. MINOR, Assistant Director. Tuesday Evening, October 1st, 1918 Daniel Hall, Cedar Ave. and Fifth St. S., Minneapolis. PROGRAM, 8:30 SHARP. SELECTION.....The 16th Battalion M. H. G. Band MALE QUARTETTE SANOPHONE TRIO SAXOPHQNE TRIO Andrew Quinn, Charles Neighbors, Henry Morgan VOCAL SOLO Chas. Crosby MONOLOGUE Chas. Miller LADIES' QUARTETTE. Mesdames Sexton, Mason, Arthur, Glenn SKETCH Eddie Davis and Clint Davis Spectacle from Ridiculous to the Sublime assisted by MALE QUARTETTE SELECTION.....The 16th Battalion M. H. G. Band GRAND MARCH. 11 Q'CLOCK J. C. Trevan, Chairman; Wm. Moden, Howard Curry, F. W. Brown, Jake Collins. The proceeds for this entertainment will be used for securing uniforms, instruments and music. We know that the loyal citizens of Minneapolis and St. Paul will rally to our support. JAKE GILES, Floor Manager. Admission, 50 cents. Taxi, 1:30 A. M. Service Flag Dedication Service Flag Dedication Our Minneapolis friends are most cordially invited to the Grand Dedication of a Service Flag, at ATTY. GEORGE' H. WOODSON, of BUXTON, IOWA Program under the direction of Chas. H. Miller at 8:30 p. m. sharp MURRAY'S JAZZ ORCHESTRA DANCING TILL 2 A. M. ADMISSION 50c BEN MARIENHOFF For 28 Years at 318 Hennepin Avenue. Tailor to Men IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WOOLENS AT POPULAR PRICES Your Patronage Desired. Drex 1269 J. & H. W 3753- High Grade Dry Wash OUR WORK I POPULAR PRICED SPECIAL SAN WE FIX 'EM W Men's Sewed Soles ..... Ladies' Sewed Soles ..... Men's Nailed Soles ..... Rubber Heels ..... Ladies' and Boy's Nailed SEVEN CORNERS' 1424 Washington A A & H. Wet Wash Launcher 3753-55-57 Cedar Avenue Grade Specialists in Wet Wash and Family Launderer WORK IS OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT R PRICED SHOE REPAIRING. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT. 1 Soles ..... $1.00 2 Soles ..... .85 3 Soles ..... .85 40 Boy's Nailed Soles ..... .65 BORNERS' SHOE REPAIR SHOP. Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis. JOSEPH The Waiters' and Porters' Club High Grade Specialists in Wet Wash Dry Wash and Family Laundering OUR WORK IS OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT POPULAR PRICED SHOE REPAIRING SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES SEVEN CORNERS' SHOE REPAIR SHOP. GLOVER SHULL, PRES. 311 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS EDDIE BOYD, SECY LEE WHEELER, MANAGER South S 212 Elev th Side Barber S EXPERT BARBERS; UP TO THE MINUTE. CIGARS, POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES IN CCNNECTION. RACE PAPERS—SHOES SHINED. THOMPSON & CARVER. Props. ADMISSION 50c OFF venue. ENS Automatic 61809 A laundry the Wet Wash undering INSEMENT OSEPH DAHL, Prop. Club Shop IMPORTANT NOTICE Unless notes are written plainly and properly arranged they will not be inserted. Many people send in notes regardless of names, initials or composition. Arrangement by the publisher will be charged for. Free notices must be correctly written. N. A. A. C. P. BUTTONS. Every Member Should Wear One. It is the express wish of the Central Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. that all members should wear a button showing their connection with this organization, that stands for the rights of our race. I have therefore in conformity with that desire received 100 buttons which will be sold to members at the small figure of thirty-five cents (35c) each. The button is very beautifully and artistically made and one which every member should be proud to wear. The Secretary will always have a number of these buttons with him and will take no offense if stopped on the street or anywhere else to purchase one. Let each member have a button. Wear it in a conspicuous place, be prepared to tell what it stands for when questioned and thus advertise the Association for the advancement of colored people. A general meeting will take place as early as is convenient and members are kindly asked to watch the Twin City Star for announcement. R. AUGUSTINE SKINNER, Secretary. A Cash, Deposit Required on All Advertisements. Notices of Entertainment, etc. Must Be Accompanied by Cash. Let Your Dollar Do Its Duty! Mrs. Mitchell, 1828 4th Ave So., has a desirable furnished room, will rent to lady or gentlemen. Conveniently located. Cars pass the door. What has become of the Colored Y. M. C. A.? Who knows? Company D of the Home Guards is arranging for a big event at an early date. NEW MANAGEMENT FOR THE ATTUCKS HOME Atty. Hammond Turner is attempting to reorganize the management of Attucks Home. Several meetings have been held, and the repeated custom of sending delegates (?) from various local organizations is being carried out. Atty. Turner speaks in very uncomplimentary terms of the present system and hopes to perfect plans to maintain a desirable institution. TO DEDICATE SERVICE FLAG. There will be a Service Flag unfurled at Bethesda Baptist Church on Sunday night, Sept. 29, under the auspices of the Ladies of Biddle Chapter, G. A. R. Mrs. Mary E. Pope, president. The public is invited. An appropriate program of special interest has been arranged. JACKSON-MURPHY. Miss Eva Venona Jackson and Mr. Albert L. Murphy were married on Sept. 25 at 9 a. m. in St. Helena's Roman Catholic Church by Rev. Rowan. They left the same evening for Willmar, Minn., to reside. Mrs. Murphy is the daughter of Mrs. Miles Jackson, and is a native Minneapolitan. Mr. Murphy is an employee of the Great Northern Ry. Mrs. Albert A. Ford is expected to return home next week after a lengthy visit to Portland, where she was the guest of Mrs. Victoria Johnson, mother of Mrs. Barney Johnson. Mrs. Ford was also a visitor to Carson Springs and Seattle to see her brother, Mr. Harry Duvall. Mrs. G. P. Simms has returned to the city from her summer stay at Annandale, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Pierce are the proud parents of a bouncing baby born a few weeks ago. Mr. Fred Parkinson returned Saturday from Isle Royal, Mich. where he was a companion for one of our wealthy residents. Fred is an able musician and has enlisted (under his old teacher, Prof. Howard) in the 16th Battalion Band. Messrs. Lee Wheeler, Glover Shull and Benj. Carr were among the last visitors to Camp Dodge before the boys left for eastern points. NEGRO NURSES WANTED. Major-Jose H. Sherwood, 971 St. Anthony Ave., St. Paul, will be glad to receive the names of any graduate nurses among the colored women. He has been requested to forward such information to proper authorities for the organization of Colored Rad Cross workers for overseas service. Secretaries of Lodges may send notice of their newly elected officers for free publication and office information. Wanted—A live, honest, correspondent and agent. Apply to Twin City Star. SMOKE THE RELIABLE SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR THAT'S ALLI Rev. J. H. Henderson of St. James A. M. E. Church has been assigned to Institutional Church, Chicago. Rev. Henderson made a grand record as pastor in St. Paul and the people of the Twin Cities regret his leaving. He is one of the highly intellectual clergymen of his race, an educator and an orator, whose strict adherence to Christian principles and fearless defense of right won for him the title of "Little Giant." Chicago is fortunate in having such a valuable addition to her clergy as Rev. Henderson. Atty. W. T. Francis of St. Paul has returned from a three weeks' visit to New York, Washington and Chicago. He was in consultation with the prominent leaders and had a conference with Secretary Emmett J. Scott on matters of importance to our race. Gopher Lodge of Elks of St. Paul initiated seven members on Wednesday night. Exalted Ruler J. F. Coquire is being able supported and Gopher Lodge is fast regaining her membership. Grand Esquire P. H. Southall conducted the initiations. Brother Doy Faucetti proved an excellent master of social sessions. Messrs. B. C. Archer, Geo. W. Wills and A. V. Hall of St. Paul are preparing to enter Y. M. C. A. work. ST. PAUL HOME QUARDS. Companies A and B of the 16th Battalion; M. H. G., will hereafter meet every Wednesday night in the old Capitol on Wabasha street. The Armory is used for the National Guard. Mr. James P. Taylor, employed as chef for the Canadian Pacific Co., has returned from Western Canada to spend a while in Minneapolis. He reports a prosperous outlook for our people in the Canadian Northwest. Mrs. Albert W. Morris has gone to Vancouver, B. C., to visit her husband. Editor Chas. Sumner Smith and Hon. W. R. Morris attended the organization meeting of the Minneapolis War Council at the Radisson Hotel on Sept. 26. HOME GUARD NOTICE— Co.'s C and D of Minneapolis. Company C—Regular drill nights every Monday and Friday. Assemble at 8 p. m. in Room 30, Courthouse. GATE, GATE, GATE CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS SEE McDFW! for real estate. N. W. Nicollet 1534 JOSEPH YOUNG Loans on Real Estate and Chattles 818 Metropolitan Life Bldg. Minneapolis, Minn. HOUSE FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Five rooms, modern except heat, on car line. $11.00 per month. Call Main 2040. FOR RENT. Two rooms, furnished or unfurnished; suitable for light housekeeping or bedrooms. Mrs. Alice Brower, 2426 5th Ave. So. Call South 4474. NICE FRONT ROOM For Rent—Suitable for two; gentlemen preferred. Snelling and 4th Ave. car lines pass the door; good location; walking distance. Call So. 117 before noon. Mrs. E. A. Mitchell, 1828 4th Ave. So. MODERN FLAT FOR RENT. Modern Five Room Flat, 1st floor. Good location; walking distance. Apply J. S. Wright, Main Postoffice. Tel. N. W. 19 W. EVERY DAY is BARGAIN DAY at the ROOT & HAGEMAN STORE, 407 Nicollet Ave. READ THIS CAREFULLY. If you receive a newspaper by mail and do not wish to pay for it, just refuse it by informing your postman. Then it will be returned to the publisher and he will be notified to discontinue sending it. There is no reason why a person should pay for a paper forced on them, but every reason why it should be paid for when ordered and accepted. Reliable and intelligent agents always wanted to solicit business for THE TWIN CITY STAR; also correspondents in principal cities. A chance to earn a good living. Write The Twin City Star, Minneapolis. Do not forget to send the money to the Star which you owe for subscriptions. Mr. Joseph Young has opened a loan office in 818 Metropolitan Life Bldg. He has negotiated several substantial loans on residence property in this city. Owing to the increasing business he has secured an office with Atty. Wm. R. Morris, where he will make loans from $10.00 up, including chattel mortgages. Mr. Young has made a study of real estate values during his residence in this city, and is financially able to meet the demands of the trade. Are you a delinquent subscriber? If so, why not send your subscription? --- ARCHBISHOP JOHN IRELAND PASSES AWAY DEATH FOLLOWS ILLNESS OF YEAR END COMES PEACEFULLY FOLLOWING RELAPSE—HEALTH FAILING SINCE JANUARY. AWARE SUMMONS WAS NEAR Catholic Prelate's Last Hours Lighted By Smile Which Had Been Charmingly Characteristic Through Life —Foremost Northwest Figure. St. Paul, Sept. 25.—Archbishop John Ireland died Wednesday morning at 8:55 o'clock at his residence, 226 Summit avenue, St. Paul. The eminent Catholic prelate had been ill almost continuously for nearly a year. He suffered a relapse ten days ago and became gradually weaker until his death. The end came peacefully. Knew End Was Near. Archbishop Ireland was aware for more than 48 hours before his death that the end was near. His countenance was continually lighted with a smile, which throughout his life had been one of his most charming characteristics. He said several times during the last two days that his life work had been accomplished and that he was ready to go. His recent serious illness became known last Thursday when Father Thomas A. Welch announced that the archbishop's condition was very low. He sank gradually Friday and on Saturday hope was given up by those at his bedside. Went South for Health. The first information that the archbishop's health was failing came last January when it was announced he was going to Florida for his health. En route, he was snowbound at Chicago for one day. This is believed to have been very detrimental to his physical condition. He gradually became better and early in April returned to his old home at 977 Portland avenue. On April 20 it became known that the archbishop had suffered a relapse. Physicians in attendance at that time announced that the strain of the long trip to Florida had been more detrimental to him than the climate was beneficial. Rallied From Illness. Named From illness. Archbishop Ireland rallied from that illness and was able to leave his bed late in May. In July he moved to his new home at 226 Summit avenue, which had been bought by communicans of the St. Paul diocese. Archbishop Ireland was honored on May 15 by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by being elected commander of that body at a meeting at the West hotel. It is the highest gift within the power of the Loyal Legion, a militant and progressive body composed exclusively of officers of the Civil war and officers' sons. Eighty Years Old. Archbishop Ireland was 80 years old September 11. He spent the day at his residence, but there was no celebration of any kind. He received a few of his friends and many congratulatory messages from various parts of the country. His new home on Summit avenue is considered one of the finest structures on the avenue. It is built on the eminence overlooking St. Paul and the Mississippi river, while the front of the building faces the St. Paul cathedral. Stimulants Prolong Life. It was learned Saturday night that stimulants had been used to keep the archbishop alive since last November. Oxygen has also been used during the past week in an effort to sustain life. Mother Superior Seraphine, sister of Archbishop Ireland; Bishop Thomas O'Gorman, of Sioux Falls, and Bishop James Trobec of St. Cloud, Minn., had been at the bedside of the prelate since Saturday. Foremost Figure Gone. The passing of Archbishop Ireland removes a foremost figure in Minnesota and the Northwest, a national figure for many years. As priest, army chaplain, colonizer, temperance advocate, educator, diplomat, friend of presidents and popes, and leader in religious thought, he had been among the most widely known Americans of his time. Erection of the Pro-Cathedral of St. Mary in Minneapolis and the new Cathedral in St. Paul, both works of the last decade, was a crowning achievement of the archbishop's. He had seen the arch-diocese of St. Paul develop from a log chapel erected by his church in St. Paul to a great missionary field with six suffragan bishops and great edifices as monuments to his zeal and faithfulness. Thirteen New Ships Delivered Washington, Sept. 26. — Thirteen ships of all types of 55,900 tons dead, weight were complete and delivered to the Emergency Fleet corporation during the week ending Sept. 20. The figures show there were six steel ships of 21,400 tons capacity and seven wood and composite ships aggregating 24,500 dead weight tons. ARCHBISHOP JOHN IRELAND. P. P. JOHN IRELAND, archbishop of St. Paul, held such a keen and active interest in general affairs in the United States during the last half century that he was noted as a publicist as well as for his religious zeal. He was one of the most distinguished of the Roman Catholic churchmen of America. There were few fields of intellectual, political or spiritual endeavor in which he failed to take a positive stand, making himself at times the center of a controversy. Born in 1838 in Ireland, a carpenter's son, he was carried with his parents in the tide of Irish immigration to America while he was a child. Altar service in Burlington, Vt., and a jolting trip west on a prairie schooner were among his boyhood memories, bringing him finally to St. Paul, Minn., in 1852, when Indians in gay blankets stalked the streets of that frontier town. One evening the missionary, Cretin, first bishop of St. Paul, while watching from his window some boys of his parish at play, called to John Ireland and Thomas O'Gorman, who later became bishop of Sioux Falls, to come into the church. He asked them if they wished to become priests. Both young Ireland and his playmate declared that priesthood was their ambition. Bishop Cretin sent them, in charge of a guardian, to France, where they were educated by the Marist Fathers. When Ireland heard of the outbreak of the Civil war in America he returned homeward, fired with as much patriotism as religion. After being ordained a priest in St. Paul Father Ireland eagerly accepted an appointment as chaplain in the Fifth regiment of Minnesota volunteers. He was ardent for the Unionist cause and shared every hardship of the soldier's life. At Iuka he gave yeoman's help by rushing ammunition to the front when it was sorely needed. He was stricken with fever after less than a year's service and returned to a St. Paul pastorate. Father Ireland soon attracted national attention through his work for temperance. The story is told of how on one January night in 1869 three drunkards staggered into his doorway and handed him a rumpled sheet, which read: "For God's sake organize a temperance society." The paper was signed by seven men, including a saloon keeper. Those were the days when St. Paul was filled with border turbulance and the riot of drink. The next Sunday Father Ireland began his campaign by organizing a temperance society of eighty members. He made hut to hut visits to St. Paul's Shantytown, throwing whisky bottles out of the squalfd doorways. The work he thus began he extended throughout the Northwest and he traveled over the whole country, preaching temperance. He even carried the battle back to Ireland and Great Britain. His energy was so abundant and his zeal for work such that the term "consecrated blizzard," as applied to him by one of his admirers, was accepted by many others as a peculiarly happy expression. Archbishop Ireland at one time conceived the idea of consolidating the Catholic parochial schools and the public schools. The plan was tried at Faribault and Stillwater, but friction which the archbishop could not relieve arose and the scheme was dropped. He was founder of the Hill seminary at St. Paul and St. Thomas college in the same city, the latter being one of the largest religious military schools in the country. To the seminary he gave his highly prized private library, one of the most comprehensive in the Northwest. One of his early works MARY was the founding of a colony of 900 Catholic farmers in Western Minnesota in 1876. Father Ireland became bishop in 1875 and archbishop in 1886. He received support from many of his admirers for appointment as the fourth American cardinal.' Celebrating his golden jubilee a few years ago the priests of the diocese presented him with a purse of $100,000. Archbishop Ireland's influence was felt outside of church circles and numerous honors were accorded him. He was president of the St. Paul Law and Order league; was prominent in 1898 when, at the request of Pope Leo XIII., he used his utmost efforts to have the differences between the United States and Spain settled without recourse to arms; and he delivered at Paris the address at the presentation of the statue of General Lafayette by the school children of the United States to the republic of France July 4, 1900. The Philippine problem attracted the attention of Archbishop Ireland and he was called in as an adviser by William H. Taft, then governor of the Philippines. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Yale, France made him a commander in the Legion of Honor, he acted as national chaplain of the Grand Army of the Republic, was a lieutenant in the Loyal Legion, was for several years president of the Minnesota Historical society, and was founder of the St. Paul Catholic Historical society. He was the author of "The Church and Modern Society," which was written in 1896. As a constructive educator he ranked among the foremost churchmen and he was instrumental in having educational institutions in Minnesota placed in the front rank. The history of the Catholic church of the Northwest and its institutions shows the magnitude and importance of the work accomplished during the ecclesiastical career of John Ireland and largely through his instrumentality. The archdiocese of St. Paul was his fruitful vineyard and the grand new cathedral is his enduring monument. As a speaker Archbishop Ireland was direct and magnetic, with a deep sense of humor. One of the phrases which has often been quoted as characteristic of his particular endeavor in life is this: "The watchwords of the age are reason, education, liberty, the amelioration of the masses." On the occasion of Archbishop Ireland's fiftieth anniversary as a priest the St. Paul Pioneer Press said: "No other prelate in the history of the country has had just this particular experience, this especial opportunity for greatness. The Roman Catholic church in America and St. Paul has had great men, devoted servants, priests who were statesmen in their upbuilding of the church. But no other diocese has grown from the frontier void to the fullness of modern life in fifty years and under one superior. When John Ireland came to St. Paul's landing it was little more-than a trading post in the emptiness of a great wilderness, and he was but a small boy who might have been lost in the human flotsam of that unanchored time. But as strong and spiritual men had come into the wilderness to claim it for the church, so some instinct in this boy reached back into the world of culture, wisdom and tradition, and claimed these for his own. It is one of the miracles that a boy who seemed but as other boys in the frontier village so many years ago should become one of the leading churchmen of the world." --- Nothing Changed But the Price Sight Drafts Still the Same Fine Old Cigar You've Always Liked When your dealer asks you six cents apiece for your old friend Sight Draft, don't get the idea that he is trying to put something over on you. The plain truth of the matter is that our labor and other manufacturing costs have increased so much that we had the choice of cutting down the size of the Sight Draft cigar, using inferior tobacco, or raising the price one cent. We believed you would rather have the same old Sight Draft quality, the same old size, even if it cost you a penny more. 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Main 2259 Minneapolis NO HOT WATER "Let's move into a modern house." A Gas Water Heater Solves the Problem. Sold by The Minneapolis Gas Light Go. Are you a delinquent subscriber? If so, why not send your subscription? SMOKE THE RELIABLE SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR THAT'S ALLI ARMOR for MODERN FIGHTERS Casque Lunettes Masque Many Models Have Been Made and Are Now Being Tried Out by Americans at the Front. MANY a visitor wandering through the labyrinthian delights of the Metropolitan Museum in New York and coming upon the collection of arms and armor in the main gallery has reincarnated a past of tall knights and gentle ladies, has fancied himself a Launcelot or Guinevere, in the city's splendid collection of mail and plate, of decorative trapping, battle axe, spear and broad or long sword. And many, no doubt, have stood in fascination before the medieval armorer's workshop set in a paneled recess of carved oak to the left of the gallery, a miniature bit of Old World charm, worn anvils, hammers whose stroke has rung through centuries of steel on steel, modeled knights in the gay panoply of the Middle Ages, and the accountures of a warfare when combatants clashed to the sound of trumpets. But only a few of the visitors to the museum have been fortunate enough to get lost in the cool, corridored basement and find, tucked away in an inconspicuous corner, a complete practical armorer's shop, where a master armorer plies his inherited art with a skill that puts him on a level with some of the great master armorers of the Middle Ages, writes N. H. McCloskey in New York Tribune. This artisan is M. Daniel Tachaux, and those few who have been permitted to swing open his shop door—a door quite like many another along the corridor—may well count themselves among the fortunate blessed, for they have seen a shop like no other in this country—a show now closed to the public and guarded by all the impassable and invulnerable barriers of government regulation. For here, in a workroom originally established for the purpose of cleaning, repairing and, in some rare cases, restoring pieces of defective armor, M. Tachaux and his young French assistant, Sergeant Bartel of the ordnance department, are carefully working out designs and models of defensive armor that can be worn by the allied soldiers, and which it is expected will result in cutting down to a very great degree, as the helmets have already done, the percentage of killed and wounded in this present war. Forty Models Now at the Front. Porty Models Now at the Front. When the war broke out Mr. Robinson, director of the Metropolitan Museum, learning that the government was in need of models for the preparation of armor, obtained the sction of the trustees in placing the department of armor at the disposition of Secretary of War Baker. Bashford Dean, curator of the department and a man who has given his life to the study of the subject, was commissioned as a major and immediately sent abroad to report on the status of armor—what was already in use and what additions might feasibly be made. He returned to the United States late in January of the present year, and has since kept the armor workshop of the museum busy, on holidays and weekdays, turning our models in accordance with the suggestions of General Pershing and the ordnance department. After careful and patient experimentation by experts forty models have been made, and are even now being tried out on the fighting front. Here in the little workshop where the sun comes in through miniature panes and is deflected in myriad colors by small tools, age old; bits of brass and bronze, steel bright from pounding and armored suits wrought with the intricate traceries of medieval decoration, M. Tachaux plies with deft skill and the ease of long practice the very tools used by his ancestors and handed down from father to son through hundreds of years. The museum has collected from all parts of the world, the implements used in the fabrication of ancient armor, comprising some ninety kinds of anvils and "stakes," several hundred different types of hammers, curious shears and instruments whose use would be quite unknown were it not that six armorers—heirs of a past skill — are living today. One of these is in Dresden, one in Switzerland, two in Japan, one in London and the other America has in the person of M. Tachaux, who has collected about him the dusty romance of an almost forgotten art and Fishing With a Shovel Fishing with a shovel is the latest had to develop in Milwaukee—and right in the heart of the city, too. Paul Irigl, proprietor of the saloon at the east end of the Oneida street bridge, which closed one day, started the new sport the next. While looking over his former place of business he saw a number of fish swimming near the surface of the Milwaukee river, next to his saloon. for MODERN ERS Casque Lunettes Masque Joint Protector Gorgerin Cuirasse Haubergeor Knee Protector The armor of a modern soldier if he wore all that has been Provided In this corner of an ultramodern city has labored to preserve the relics of those storied centuries when knights were bold and ladies passing fair. Now, thanks to him who has kept alive an art long considered dead, this country is able to benefit by the advice of an expert in metals, and no longer does M. Tachaux labor over ancient pieces, but bends all his efforts, all his cunning and all his knowledge, to the making of armor that can be worn by the modern soldier — armor heavy enough to be invulnerable, light enough to carry. Revive Work of Old Masters. This question of weight and therefore practicability of armor for the man on foot—the man who makes a charge—reverts to the time of Louis XV of France, when the use of defensive protection had practically disappeared and an attempt was made to revive the steel helmet. Indeed, the development of armor from the time of side arms until the use of firearms is one of exceeding interest at this time, in that the government is reviewing the work of some of the greatest of the old masters in armor making, with a view to reinstating the best and most feasible of the old methods of defensive protection. The use of armor dates back to the ninth century B. C. and became more elaborate and complex until the introduction of gunpowder. The helmet was the first body protection to appear and was followed by the cuirass—the latter being used by the Greeks and Romans and reappearing at the time of Charlemagne in the form of a waist-coat made of overlapping metal scales and of rather imperfect execution. What Norman Warrior Wore. In the eleventh century, according to the Bayeaux tapestries as well as the seal of Richard Coeur de Lion, we find the coat of mall assuming first the shape of a redingote and later that of a bathing suit, completed by a helmet conical at the nose. This, together with the use of leather plates on the feet and hands, constituted the equipment of a Norman warrior. A study of the sculptures of the Reims cathedral and the evangelarium of St. Louis (National library) points to the development, in the twelfth century, of a perfected coat of mail, a metal combination united with the helmet by a passe-montagne of steel links; the whole, constituting a hauberk, protected the warrior with the haube—a cylindrical helmet made of pieces of forged metal adjusted by rivets and pierced by two peepholes. At the beginning of the fourteenth century$^8$ the desire to protect the joints caused the placing of metal plates at shoulder and knee. The haube disappeared and was replaced by a helmet of a type called Bassinet, with a movable visor pierced by holes to permit sight and ventilation. By the middle of the fourteenth century chain armor had disappeared to a considerable degree, and plate armor was taking its place, the plates at the joints being Drig went into the basement of the place and among the rubbish found a long-handled coal shovel. With this he pried open a window facing the river and climbed onto the two-foot dock. By stooping and leaning over he was able to land six suckers, each a foot long, with the shovel. He lost a nice bullhead. No Restriction on Ostrich Flesh. Ostrich flesh is meat which is not very popular at the present time, but it was once considered one of the extended to the interarticular portions in such a way as to inclose the limbs in metal greaves; the hands were protected by an articulated gauntlet and the foot by an iron shoe or solletet. The body was still covered by a shortened coat about the length of a walstcoat—called the hauberge—and the whole outfit was known as a "harness," to which was soon added a steel corselet, prolonged over the abdomen by a sort of skirt of interwoven metallic rings—the "tusselles." Invulnerable But Helpless. Finally, in the reign of Charles VII, the complete cuirass appears, augmented by shoulder pieces and the gorget, which united the armor to the round helmet. The knight was now practically invulnerable, but so weighted down and so awkward of movement that once dismounted he was at the complete mercy of his foe. To lessen his chances of being mounted, therefore, his horse was equipped with armor, the tout ensemble being a sort of medieval tank. The man on foot, however, needed greater freedom of movement, and so wore considerably lighter equipment, namely, helmet, shoulder pieces, shield, arm and thigh pieces, knee pieces and a short coat of mail—or haubergeon—to which was added, in many cases, an abdominal demi-cuirass. This equipment may appear again on the modern soldier practically as worn by the foot soldier in the reign of Charles VII. The elaborate armor of the knight —which, in its completion, had meant the patient acquisition of centuries— was made useless in the space of some ten years by the introduction of gunpowder. As early as the beginning of the fourteenth century, projectiles had become capable of piercing the armor in use at the time, and little by little the use of such defense disappeared, the tendency being to substitute fabric for metal protection. This gave birth to the epaulet, horse-tail plume, the shako and the bearskin cap. With modern wars, a new device sprang up —namely, individual protection by means of the invisibility of units and scattered formations. From this originated the idea of the service uniform. Such methods of individual defense were quite satisfactory for combat at great distances; but in stationary fighting or in trench warfare it is quite another matter, and once again the question of individual armor has arisen, and already we see its use in the shape of the steel helmet, the heavy breastplate worn by the German soldier, the lighter breastplate worn by the English, the armored waistcoats of the Italians and the trench shields used by all armies. The idea of the new armor is not, like that of the Middle Ages, to give complete protection. It is rather to deflect than to stop missiles, and it does this with a sheet of metal that would be easily pierced by a bullet striking it at right angles. finest dishes ever made. The meat is rather hard to digest, though even if this were not the case it is doubtful if it would ever lay claim to rivalry with ham and eggs or pork and beans. At any rate it has one big advantage in that it is in no wise affected by food regulations, and the lover of this dish may consume it to his heart's content without fearing the wrath of the food administrator or having his conscience smite him for devouring something that the soldiers could use or need. (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Dreaming of unlimited wealth is a very fascinating form of diversion for the average body. Even as little children, games founded on the theme, "You know what I'd do if I had a trillion million dollars," always seemed the most fun. What wonderful times we could have and what wonderful things we could do as we simply drew at will upon imaginary and unlimited sources of treasure! But different desires foster thoughts of this pocketbook eternally full. Some dream of a wardrobe permitting a new garment each day; others of the power coincident with high social position; while some aspire to help those less fortunate. With Malzie Sloan, however, it was neither a case of style, society, nor sympathy. Forced by the precarious earnings of a rheumatic father to increase the family revenue, she had been obliged at the age of fourteen to regard the elementary grades as a fitting limit of education and she had accordingly nipped a great desire to attend high school before the bud had had an opportunity to bloom forth into the flower of decision. An innate dislike for the drudgery of manual labor helped to make attendance at night school less burdensome and it surely seemed a step forward as she diffidently entered the offices of Franklin & Co. to apply for the position as stenographer. The very sign on the door, "Stocks and Bonds" seemed to spell realization of her dreams. For Maizie Sloan dreamed of comfort—comfort in every sense of the word. "Wouldn't it be great to sleep as long as you wanted to," she thought as six o'clock every morning found her trying to lace her shoes with eyes half closed. "Wouldn't it be grand not to have to wash dishes," accompanied the scouring of greasy pots. "Wouldn't FR "I've Come Back." It be nice to have a laudress do your stuff," made the work lighter as knuckles reddened on the ridges of the scrubbing board. Malzie brushed the front of her shiny skirt of blue serge. She hoped the ripped seam where she had sewed it with black thread would not be noticed. She did want that position with the many additional comforts the larger income would bring. Already she had figured out what she would do with the extra hour in the evening. To be through at five o'clock! "Mr. Franklin will see you now," announced a girl at the switchboard, and Malzie came back to earth. Again the skirt was hitched up at the belt and a quick touch assured her that the mended seam was invisible. "Sit right down," invited her prospective employer, and as he glanced at the card of introduction from the agency, added, "Miss Sloan." Maizie clasped her hands very tightly to see if she could feel them. The walk across the velvety rug, the courteous invitation to be seated, and Mr. Franklin's eyes of soft brown, had taken her by surprise. She loibked up. "Have you had any previous experience?" "No, sir, but I'm willing to learn." Perhaps fate was kind or perhaps Mr. Franklin was not able to refuse Maizie's wistful, appealing gaze, but the position was open to her if she cared to accept. Cared to accept? Maizie took off her black straw sailor hat. "I'd like to start in right away," she announced. And Malzie did learn very quickly. It did not take the switchboard operator very long to discover that when Mr. Franklin telephoned into the outer office for a stenographer, it was Malzie Sloan he meant. He seemed to like her neat, tidy appearance and her accurate, painstaking work. Of course, it was not because, as the girls in the outer office gossiped, he liked her personally; although when a single man of thirty exhibits a preference for a particular female assistant, the indications would seem to point that way. But whatever favor Maizle found in her employer's eyes did not seem to affect her in any particular. She was learning to her surprise that the increased income did not necessarily carry with it surcease from work and that her position demanded an immaculate appearance unthought of in the factory. So the extra half hour of sleep in the morning went for a more elaborate toilet and the evening was devoted to the washub over which she alternately scrubbed her two white shirtwaists. But Maizle continued to dream of that Utopla where work was nonexistent. "Mr. Franklin wishes to give you some dictation, Miss Sloan," called the operator, as she pulled the plug out of the switchboard. With notebook and sharply pointed pencil in one hand, Maizle patted her hair into shape with the other and crossed the rug. Somehow she could not become accustomed to its cushiony softness. Mr. Franklin fussed with his watch charm. "Just a short letter," he apologized. Malzie sat motionless, pencil polished ready to inscribe the mysterious lines and curves which she alone could decipher. "It's to—it's to—" he stammered, "it's to Miss Malzie Sloan." Mr. Franklin gulped. Malzie was surprised but glued her eyes to her book. "I beg to advise you," he began very quietly, "that sometime ago I delivered to you my—heart. Will you kindly acknowledge receipt," he hurried on, "and let me know if it meets with your approval?" Mr. Franklin did not quite anticipate that his stenographer would get up and leave the room. But how was he to know that Malzie wanted to marry him—not because she loved him, but because his money could make her dreams come true? And how was he to know that she flew from him to avoid committing this insult to her ideal of honor? He thought he had frightened her into refusing him. That is why later he was filled with surprised gladness as he read her answer: "Dear sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your consignment and wish to advise it meets with my hearty approval. When do you wish payment made?" The days flew by very quickly for Malzie. With funds supplied by her future husband, she prepared a dainty trousseau and never were her dreams so vivid as when she thought of her approaching marriage. Servants she would have, one for every finger. She's eat her breakfast in bed. She wouldn't lift a pin from the floor. It was an exquisite day in May. There was a song on her lips as Malzie entered Mr. Franklin's office. As she opened the door she saw first the ugly frown on his forehead. "What is the matter?" she exclaimed quickly, coming to his side. "I've invested heavily in Condon Silver and the market is very low. I shall lose everything and be drowned in debt." Maizle reeled. Down went the aircastles! Smash went the dreams! For what did she need a penniless husband? Why should she marry poverty? She ran from the room. She ran through the outer office. She ran down the nine flights of steps. She ran through the streets. From sheer exhaustion she rested in the city park. What discouragement! What disappointment! What disillusion! Why had she been she one to suffer? Had she not been happier before luxury had seemed within her fingertips? Why had destiny been so cruel? Malzie sat and cross-questioned herself until cool shadows hid the sun below the horizon. As she arose from the bench, she noticed her ring. It was worth a large sum of money. It was hers and she did not have to return it. It would recompense her for her suffering. She fingered the stone dejectedly. It sparkled so brilliantly. Malzie rubbed her eyes. Was she awake? For the luster of the diamond seemed to reflect the features of her employer. She had not thought of him before. He had not come into her mind until then. "Drowned in debt," re-echoed in her ears. Why was she not trying to save him, then? Why was she not by his side helping him to buck the current? In a flash it came to her. "I don't want him because I need him. I don't want him because he needs me. I want him because I love him." She said it out loud and the policeman walking his beat smiled as he caught the end of her words. Malzie ran at full speed back to the office. She closed her eyes as she turned the knob. She had not the courage to face him and confess. She pushed the door open with her foot and burst in upon him with arms extended to feel the way her eyes, tightly shut, denied her. "I've come back," she cried out. "I've come back because I love you. I don't want your money. I don't care if you're poor. Just let me help you." He took her into his arms. "How I longed to hear that, Malzie, dear. But its all right now—the market's gone up. You're safe." "Safe because I love you," she answered. Hard Task Ahead. "Perkips looks worried, doesn't he?" "Yes; he's borrowing trouble," "About what?" "Oh, he's fretting about the number of explanations of the war sure to be printed when peace is declared. He'll be forced to read 'em all because he's a book reviewer, you know."—London Answers. Except. All the world loves a lover—except sometimes the girl the lover loves—Idaho Daily Statesman. LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 29 REVIEW. **SUBJECT-What It Means to Be** Christian. **SELECTION FOR READING-I John** 3:1-24 GOLDEN TEXT—My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed, and truth—I John 3:18. Perhaps the best way to review the lessons of this quarter will be to take the several lessons and note their bearing on the subject chosen for review; namely: What it means to be a Christian. In order to get the best results, assignment should be made of the several lessons to different parties to come prepared to give the teaching of the particular lesson on the subject. The following is suggested as a possible way of presenting the matter. Lesson I. It means that each individual must exercise faith in Jesus Christ as a personal Savior. One may have his heart opened by the Lord while listening to the Word of God at a stated meeting, like Lydia, or be convinced through the manifestation of the mighty power of God, as the Philippian jailer. In all cases it is the one Savior and the one faith. Lesson II. It means that those who have really exercised faith in the Lord Jesus Christ will attentively read God's Word. Even a great statesman like the Ethiopian Eunuch will be blessed in its reading, for the Word of God converts the soul, makes wise the simple, puts gladness into the heart, enlightens the eyes, satisfies the longing soul, warns against dangers, and brings reward to those who obey its precepts. Lesson III. It means a life of personal prayer and communion with God. The one who has become a child of God has the glorious privilege of coming to him with his needs with the assurance that God will supply them. God is more willing to give to his children than any earthly father is to his children. Lesson IV. It means a life of obedience to the Word and will of God. Prompt and definite obedience will be rendered, even to the separation from business, and the ties of nature, when such stand in the way. Peter, Andrew, James and John obeyed, and it meant to them great spiritual blessings. From fishing for fish, they were promoted to fishing for men. Obedience to God pays. The discipline of Christ will treasure up his words. Lesson V. It means growth in grace. Jesus himself grew in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man. Merely accepting Christ is not enough; there must be growth. Lesson VI. It means a life of helpfulness to others. One who has been made a partaker of the Divine nature will, like his master, give himself in helpful service to others. He will be a neighbor to the needy and unfortunate, even as the Good Samaritan. Being good in himself, he will be doing good to others. He will use every opportunity to do good. Lesson VII. It means attendance at the place of worship, receiving the teaching of the Word of God, partaking of the communion, and rendering service in some capacity in the church. Lesson VIII. It means confessing Christ before men, and waiting with expectant hope for the coming of Jesus Christ from Heaven. The grand incentive for faithfulness in witnessing for Christ is the assurance that he will come again. Lesson IX. It means that we will give of our possessions to the poor and needy, love our enemies, and refrain from censorious judgment. God estimates our gifts, not by their size but by what we have left. Lesson X. It means that one will strive to conquer his evil propensities, not allow covetousness to master him as did Ahab, and separate himself from those who walk in darkness. He will exercise great caution lest he become overcome by the devil. Lesson XI. It means being holy and true, in order that we may preserve from corruption the great mass of men and enlighten those in darkness, preaching the Gospel to every creature, conscious that the presence and power of Christ will abide. Lesson XII. It means that every talent entrusted to us will be put to use, so that when the Lord comes we can make an account to him which will secure his commendation and reward. The Greatest Teachings There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion; no orations equal to those of the prophets; and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach. —Milton. Favors Bible for Every Soldier. In a letter to the American Bible society Major General Wood says: 'Godspeed and all success in the work you are undertaking. I earnestly hope that you will be successful in placing a Bible in the hands of every soldier.' Promises in the Bible If there is one fact, or doctrine, or command, or promise in the Bible which has produced no practical effect on your temper, or heart, or conduct, be assured that you do not truly believe it—Payson. "Pro Patria" By JANE OSBORN It was a good half-hour after the last of the evening "office hours" neatly painted on the frosted glass sign that was affixed to Doctor Burton's front door; and so usually monotonous were his evenings spent in the little neighborhood of Farnamtown that he experienced no little surprise when he heard a ring of his front door bell. He had the evening paper in one hand, his carpet slippers on his feet and his shell-rimmed spectacles hanging perilously over one ear when he went to the door. It was his neighbor, Miss Margaret Kellogg—Margaret Kellogg, noted in the neighborhood none the less for her success as teacher of the "infant class" in the one church of the neighborhood than for her dressmaking establishment that consisted of one very young sewing apprentice, a long pier glass in her front parlor, a half-dozen well-thumbed and not too recent dressmakers' journals with French names and glaring colored designs, and enough orders for dresses—quite different from those portrayed therein—from the women in the neighborhood to secure for Margaret a very meager income. She was not yet thirty, but her many years of self-reliance and self-support led people to think of her as considerably older. "Ive been given the street to canvass for the new Liberty loan," she announced, when she had taken a seat rather primly in the doctor's cluttered study. "I don't like prying into people's affairs, but it seemed that somebody had to do it, and when they asked me I didn't see my way clear to refuse. Are you thinking of taking out one of the new bonds, doctor?" It was an embarrassing moment until the doctor, assured by the level, frank, blue eyes of the girl seated before him, decided to tell her just how matters stood. He had been hankering to make a breast of the situation to some one and now he had an excuse. After all, if he had canvassed the entire neighborhood of Farnamtewn for a sympathetic soul to whom he could with least embarrassment tell his predicament it would have been to this very Margaret Kellogg. "I would like to subscribe as much as anyone in town," he said, "but I'll tell you how it is. I've been here—let me see, three years. When my uncle, old Doctor Murray, died I felt that there was as good an opening here as anywhere else, and I hankered after the life of a country doctor. I found a considerable mortgage on this old place of his and I've had to keep paying off that. Then his equipment was entirely out-of-date, and way off from hospitals, I felt there were certain things I had to have. And, well, you know that Farnamtown isn't very prompt in paying its bills, and since the war a good many people have left here to be nearer the ammunition works and the practice isn't so large as it was to begin with. So, you see, Miss Margaret, I'd like to do it, but I can't. I can't even promise to take a single bond, not this trip. I'd give up the place here entirely, only somehow it seems that the people need me. I may be called to the front, but so far it hasn't seemed possible. I'm putting Ted through college, and there's my mother, who is staying to keep house for him till he's through. I didn't like to get exemption, but I had to, and now unless I'm called as a surgeon I'll have to stick it out here." Margaret had listened attentively. She was aware of the fact, for every one in Farnamtown knew his neighbor's business, that when the doctor undertook to subscribe to two bonds on the previous issue he had dispensed with the services of his one man of all work, and since that time he had been running his own small car and no doubt cooking his own meals, cleaning his own house and hoeing his own garden. She knew also that Farnamtown was "slow pay," and she knew that people had especially imposed on the young doctor, who, because he had bought new equipment for his office and went about in an automobile—howbeit the least pretentious of its tribe—instead of in the old doctor's buggy, they imagined to be possessed of untold wealth. Hence payments were deferred more than ever and, though they would have expected the butcher or baker to suspend service had they kept him waiting for payment as they did the doctor, they would have been mightily offended if the doctor did not rouse himself from slumber to soothe their aches and pains in spite of bills gone overdue for two or three years. So after Margaret Kellogg had stayed just long enough, as she told herself, to indicate that she "wasn't miffed because he didn't subscribe," she went on to her next neighbor and so back to her little cottage down the street. It was two months later. It was eight o'clock, just after the last of the doctor's office hours, and a lamp burned in Miss Kellogg's front parlor, where she was picking out long seams on a dress she had put together for the minister's wife who had decided, after it was almost done, that she wanted it made in quite another way from the original plan. And picking out was difficult on the double-stitch machine. There were so many changes of mind among the feminine population of Far- namtown who patronized Miss Kellogg that when she cashed in her old machine a few years before and got a new one she had threatened to get a "single threader," but loud had been the objections. Her patrons didn't want to run the risk of having seams come undone in church or at sociables, as they had heard of their doing when sewed in that careless manner. The doctor had never called on Margaret before except professionally once or twice, and this was not exactly a social call. He had been designated by the local authorities as one of those to help with the Thrift stamp canvass and he had, much as he disliked to do it, to find out from each person on the street just how much he or she would invest in Thrift stamps before the first of the next year. Margaret didn't hesitate in explaining so long as she might had she not heard the doctor's confidences two months before. Her excuses were much the same. Farnantown was slower pay than ever and thread and findings were getting higher every day. What if she did charge a little more to cover the increase? If the ladies didn't pay till year after next that really didn't help. So except perhaps for one or two stamps she could make no promise. She would like to dispense with her one apprentice and save her small wage, but she was an odd little girl—daughter of a poor widow—and if Margaret didn't employ her goodness knows who would; and then what would become of her? If there were only something she could do to earn a little extra every once in a while—she had heard of people doing that. So had the doctor and he, too, wished that in Farnamtown he might find some simple task to perform by which he might earn the little necessary to make his small subscription to government loans and Thrift stamps. Now they had both told each other their little predicament and somehow they felt that there was something between them that did not exist between them and anyone else in Farnamtown. The doctor rose and as he passed the kitchen door, he sniffed ever so slightly. Miss Margaret told him he smelled cherry jam. She'd just been putting it up; that is why she had to pick out the seams so late. He sniffed again pleasurably and then in a twinkling she stood beside him with a slice of her light, oatmeal war bread and a little saucer of fresh cherry jam to be sampled. That was how it began. The doctor said he had some cherries going to waste on his place. He couldn't sell them and he couldn't eat them all. He smacked his lips over the sample and said he could well afford to pay a little to have his cherries converted into food for next winter. And that was how Miss Margaret made arrangements to earn her bit toward buying Thrift stamps. It was very little, but the doctor felt he was not rash in spending it. Besides, he could send some of the jars to his mother and brother to help provision them as well as himself. The doctor brought the baskets of cherries in stealthy and Margaret told none of the neighbors of the arrangement. And then one day when Margaret had to have some repairs made on her old house—there was a leak in the roof that needed soldering and there were some loose drains and one of the front stairs had grown old and sagged out of place—the doctor asked her why, if she had to pay one one for doing the work, he couldn't come and do it himself. "It isn't exactly surgery, but I've always been fond of tinkering," he said. And that made it possible for the doctor to begin payments on the next bond. It was the last evening of the repairs on the sagging step, which the doctor did by stealth to keep the secret from the neighbors, as Margaret had kept hers about the cherry jam. Then, not with the greatest fluency, but with sufficient explicitness, the doctor told Margaret that they simply must unite their forces still further. He didn't ask her to marry him, as he had intended to; he simply told her that she had to. And Margaret's mind ran on, woman fashion, and predicted the buying of more stamps and more bonds. They could live in one house and both keep on with their work, and there would be only one furnace to keep coaled, and that would make-possible a real show of patriotism. And the plan might have worked had not the announcement been made the very day following that poor little Farnamtown had been chosen as the site for a new hospital and that Doctor Burton had been appointed one of the resident surgeons—and that meant opportunity to do his bit as he had dreamed of doing it, and incidentally enough to make possible increased consignments to the brother and mother and enough left besides to send to oblivion forever the symbols of the "establishment" in Margaret's front parlor. White oilcloth will change a dark, dingy kitchen to one that is clean and bright. A gard of it will save you from looking at the worn off paint at the base of the dish closet or the inside window ledge of kitchen and bathroom. A strip along the wall beside the sink will catch spattered drops of dish water or drainings and may be easily cleaned with a lightly soaped cloth. A yard of it will cover the top of the kitchen table, with some to spare. A length of a few inches more will make the tops of washtubs sightly and convertible to table uses. The top of the refrigerator covered in this way will be taken as a guarantee of sweetness and cleanliness below. IN THE LIMELIGHT CHIEF SEA SCOUT James Austin Wilders, chief sea scout of the Boy Scouts of America, took his first degree in scouting from General Byng, the hero of Cambral. Later he visited Baden-Powell, and became so enthusiastic for the movement that he wrote to his home in Hawaii that he intended to inaugurate it there just as soon as he returned. When he arrived in Hawaii he was met by a boy scout troop. As soon as the boys in Hawaii heard what he was going to do they became so impatient that they couldn't wait for him. The sea scouts, of whom Mr. Wilder is now chief, is a new organization designed to meet a new development in American life. We now have the second greatest navy and we shall soon have the greatest merchant marine in the world. Where are the Americans who will man this fleet? It now costs Uncle Sam $2,000 to turn a landsman into a full-fledged jackle. But most of the training necessary can be done ashore. Lashing is a boy scout specialty. The swinging of lifeboats can be learned at any pier. It doesn't require a cruiser to teach oarsmanship and swimming, first aid to the injured or the fundamentals of discipline. the training necessary can be done ash The swinging of lifeboats can be learn cruiser to teach oarsmanship and swim fundamentals of discipline. To be a sea scout one must be a th natural sailors of the organization are degree. That Uncle Sam will need the and more appreciated, and equipment for being loaned or donated. To be a sea scout one must be a thoroughly qualified scout first, and the natural sailors of the organization are clamoring to be admitted to the new degree. That Uncle Sam will need those natural sailors soon is being more and more appreciated, and equipment for a full course in sea scouting is rapidly being loaned or donated. JAPAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER A. H. sanitation in the department of home where he won the degree of doctor of M Returning home in 1892 he was pro- tion bureau. With his appointment in of Formosa his opportunity for demon 1906 he was made a baron and was give same year he resigned his post as civil his duties as the first president of the Railway company. In Manchuria he proved as succe- culent cabinet, organized in 1908, Goto was m sanitation in the department of home affairs. Then he went to Germany, where he won the degree of doctor of medicine from the University of Berlin. Returning home in 1892 he was promoted to the directorship of the sanitation bureau. With his appointment in 1897 to the post of civil administrator of Formosa his opportunity for demonstrating his real abilities arrived. In 1906 he was made a baron and was given a seat in the house of peers. In the same year he resigned his post as civil administrator of Formosa and assumed his duties as the first president of the then newly organized South Manchuria Railway company. In Manchuria he proved as successful as in Formosa. In the Katsura cabinet, organized in 1908, Goto was minister of communications. HE LISTS ENEMY ALIENS Rufus W. Sprague, Jr., is the man who made the plans and organized the machinery for the registration of more than 300,000 German males, enemy aliens, who live within the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam. By these same plans about the same number of German women were card indexed later. Mr. Sprague is now the head of the New York port enemy alien bureau. All the alien enemies within this district come under the jurisdiction of Mr. Sprague. If, after registering, they do not behave, or if they fall to register and are caught, it is his duty to see that they join kindred souls in one of the internment camps. Mr. Sprague was born in Boston in 1875 and after a preparatory course in the Boston Latin school went to Harvard. In 1896 he received his A.B. and four years later was graduated from the Harvard Law school. Then he went to New York and began practice in 1900 as junior counsel society. Three years of this, and he for Coe. A few years later the present l formed. Then he went to New York and began practice in 1900 as junior counsel for the Equitable Life Assurance society. Three years of this, and he formed a law partnership with Walter E. Coe. A few years later the present law firm of Russel, Coe & Sprague was formed. CHAMPION NAVY RECRUITER CHAMPION NAVY RECRUITER C. MOVY bly and alone, speaking from the prece an orange crate. Later, as some of was sufficiently courageous to enter cruits through her patriotic talks. bly and alone, speaking from the precarious perch afforded by a soap box or an orange crate. Later, as some of these failed her from time to time, she was sufficiently courageous to enter the nearest saloon and there seek recruits through her patriotic talks. S more. Lashing is a boy scout specialty, need at any pler. It doesn't require a swimming, first aid to the injured or the thoroughly qualified scout first, and the clamoring to be admitted to the new nose natural sailors soon is being more or a full course in sea scouting is rapidly With the resignation of Viscount Ichiro Motono as minister of foreign affairs, the Downing street of Japan received as his successor a statesman totally different in type from those who had successfully held that portfolio. Baron Shimpel Goto, the present foreign minister of Japan, unlike his predecessors in the foreign office, is not a diplomat by training. He had never occupied any position, important or insignificant, in the consular or diplomatic service. In his school days he never studied international law or political theories. On the contrary, he was educated and trained to become a physician. Baron Goto was born in 1857. Graduating from a local medical school, he was attached to a public hospital of which he eventually became the director. In 1883 he became assistant director of the bureau of he affairs. Then he went to Germany, medicine from the University of Berlin. promoted to the directorship of the sanita-1897 to the post of civil administrator instructing his real abilities arrived. In even a seat in the house of peers. In the administrator of Formosa and assumed then newly organized South Manchuria successful as in Formosa. In the Katsura minister of communications. JOHN B. HARRIS unsel for the Equitable Life Assurance formed a law partnership with Walter E. law firm of Russel, Coe & Sprague was The United States navy is to have its first petticoated junior lieutenant in the person of Mrs. George Alexander Wheelock, chief yeoman and champion recruiter of the world. The bestowal of this rank is Mrs. Wheelock's reward for the 17,000 young men she has brought into the service in the past 18 months through her oratory. She has made recruiting speeches all over New York city, in Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Columbus, Allentown and many other large places. She has given up her luxurious home for days at a time to "go on the road" in behalf of the navy. Her attractive auburn-topped figure has become an important feature of recruiting rallies. The champion recruiter was not always accompanied by an escort of bluejackets and a band when she went recruiting. She began the work hum- carious perch afforded by a soap box or these failed her from time to time, she the nearest saloon and there seek re- TALES FROM BIG CITIES NEW YORK.—There is a little cafe down on Houston street that is patronized by the canalille, the curious and the small sprinkling of the Broadway opulence. The wine is red, yellow, purple and white, and flows from various and the parasite becomes heroic. There are squalls and sunshine, tears and ribald laughter. And then at 12 when the lights go out the false joy is stripped of its mask and crumbles into black despair. In the center of the cafe is a small polished spot where dancing is permitted. It is always so crowded that all the dancers can do is mill about like the crowds at the gallery entrance of the Metropolitan when Caruso sings or Chalif dances. An electric apparatus throws various colored rays on the dancers. The other night a spark from the machine fell into folds of chiffon worn by one of the dancers. There was a flash of flame and a scream. Pandemonium reigned and then on the fringe of the crowd someone charged into the thick of it. He grabbed the frightened girl away from hysterical men and women skillfully extinguished the fire. The crowd fell back. The rescuer was a clean-limbed young American sailor who had dropped into the place with a group of rubberneck tourists. The fiddlers struck up the "Star-Spangled Banner" and the young man, abashed, rushed from the place, not even stopping to get his hat. Outside he said to a policeman: "I don't want to be found here among a bunch of nuts." Boy Soldier of Fortune Laughs at War's Mishaps Boy Soldier of Fortune Laughs at War's Mishaps BOSTON:A real soldier of fortune is Fred W. Thomas, a youth not yet in his twenties, now in a Red Cross hospital, where he was taken following the torpedoing of a ship on which he sailed recently. This adventurous home and enlisted in the British transport service. But this proved too tame for him, so he enlisted in a bombing squad of the Sherwood Foresters, from which he was honorably discharged upon Secretary Lansing's plea. He succeeded in enlisting again and was assigned to a British mine sweeper. It was blown up, the youngster receiving a skull fracture. He returned to America, incapacitated for further service, but persuaded a Passaic surgeon to operate and relieve the injury. The operation proved so successful that Thomas almost immediately enlisted on the Hattle Gage, a constewise freighter, which was sunk by a German submarine the day after she put to sea. Then he returned home, bid his mother good-by and re-enlisted in the British army in New York. He was sent to a training school at Quebec. He was on his way to Europe when the ship was torpedoed, again landing him in the hospital. Careers of Precocious Bandits Nipped in the Bud Careers of Precocious Bandits Nipped in the Bud CHICAGO. Baby banditry in Chicago ain't what it used to be, Watson. Ask George Kirkwood and Kaleman Patakue, two eighteen-year-old highwaymen who are held at the Fillmore street police station. George and Kaleman told of their exploits and their prellim new conferences. erly. He registered fear and gave up his cash, but it was only 23 cents. "Keep your paltry cash," said Bandit Patakey, majestically. "It will never be said of us that we take the money of the poor." They decided they were on the wrong stamping ground. They went over toward Garfield park. It was then two o'clock in the morning. "Here you, where you going? Come here," demanded Patrolman Edward Reindeau. Out came one of Patakey's trusty gats. He now had both of them. "Back up, you big 'bull,'" he roared, "or I'll drill you." The copper failed to retreat. He knocked the gat out of the bandit's hand and knocked the bandit down. George beat it. He was caught by Detective Sergeants Curtin and Roche, attracted by the sound of shooting as the policeman fired over George's head. Comedy now came close to tragedy. Bandit Patakey drew his other revolver, surprising Patrolman Reindeau, and had jammed it into the patrolman's side when the policeman succeeded in turning his hand and wrestling it from him. Sailor to Get Wooden Leg That Has Traveled Far SAN FRANCISCO.—How a wooden leg lost by its owner traveled almost around the world and was finally restored was told in the barge office by Patrick H. Quinn, United States shipping commissioner. According to Mr. signed up for a voyage to foreign waters. Things went well with Egan until he struck up an acquaintance with a man named Stupy. Stupy singled out Egan from among the crew and they were shore companions when the vessel reached San Pedro. Stupy and Egan imbibed freely there. When Egan got his bearing he discovered that his leg was gone and so was Stupy. That was seven months ago. The Westboro went to France, England, South America, Panama and other ports without Egan. To each port Egan sent a letter, beseeching the captain of the vessel to send back his leg. Egan wrote the commissioner all about his escapade with Stupy and Mr. Quinn became interested. He tried in many ways to locate the missing leg. T. S. Trice, who is employed in the United States shipping office, also took a hand in the game. When he entered the office the other day he espied a long bundle, directed to J. H. Stupy, SS. Westboro. The name was familiar to Trice. He looked up his files and found that Stupy was the man who had been with Egan when the two had started out to drink San Pedro dry many months ago. The commissioner sent the limb to where Egan is waiting patiently. A long-haired Bohemian leads the orchestra and is repaid for his plaintive notes by the showers of small change from the diners. At about ten in the evening sentiment reaches the high tide. It is the hour of illusions. Flushed by the wine, the motley crowd turns selfishness into courage and the parasite becomes heroic. The ribald laughter. And then at 12 when stripped of its mask and crumbles into. In the center of the cafe is a smal mitted. It is always so crowded that at the crowds at the gallery entrance of Chalff dances. An electric apparatus throws varl other night a spark from the machine for the dancers. There was a flash of fam and then on the fringe of the crowd so grabbed the frightened girl away from the extinguished the fire. The crowd fell back. The rescue sailor who had dropped into the place. The fiddlers struck up the "Star-Spice abashed, rushed from the place, not even said to a policeman: "I don't want to go." Boy Soldier of Fortune L BOSTON.—A real soldier of fortune h his twenties, now in a Red Cross h the torpedoing of a ship on which IT'LL TAKE MORE'N THIS TO KEEP ME OVER HERE - home and enlisted in the British trans- for him, so he enlisted in a bombing a which he was honorably discharged u ceeded in enlisting again and was assign- blown up, the youngster receiving a sh incapacitated for further service, but p and relieve the injury. The operation proved so success enlisted on the Hattie Gage, a constri man submarine the day after she put it. Then he returned home, bid his mo- ish army in New York. He was sent t on his way to Europe when the ship w hospital. Careers of Precocious B CHICAGO.—Baby banditry in Chicago George Kirkwood and Kaleman Pramen who are held at the Fillmore street told of their exploits and their preliminary conferences. "Huh, what's the use of workin' for twelve bucks a week when we can go out with a couple of gats and make a hundred iron men an hour?" queried Patakey of George. George opined there was logic in it. They got the gats, also masks and flashlights. Under the Chicago and Northwestern track subway at Kinzie street and Kedzle avenue they started their career. The first victim reacted prop- erly. He registered fear and gave up "Keep your paltry cash," said Bane be said of us that we take the money They decided they were on the wi- tward Garfield park. It was then twi- "Here you, where you going?" Co- Reindeau. Out came one of Patakey's "Back up, you big 'bull,'" he roar The copper failed to retreat. He i and knocked the bandit down. George Sergeants Curtin and Roche, attracted man fired over George's head. Comedy now came close to traget volver, surprising Patrolman Reindeau, side when the policeman succeeded in him. Sailor to Get Wooden Le SAN FRANCISCO.—How a wooden around the world and was finally v Patrick H. Quinn, United States ship IF I KETCH THAT THEVING WALRUS ILL BREAK TH'LEG OVER 'IS BINNACLE— signed up for a voyage to foreign wate he struck up an acquaintance with a Egan from among the crew and they reached San Pedro. Stupy and Egan imbled freely the covered that his leg was gone and so The Westboro went to France, Englans ports without Egan. To each port Egan the vessel to send back his leg. Egan escapade with Stupy and Mr. Quinn to locate the missing leg. T. S. Trice, who is employed in the a hand in the game. When he entered bundle, directed to J. H. Stupy, SS. We The name was familiar to Trice. Stupy was the man who had been with drink San Pedro dry many months ago I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE AMONG A BUNCH OF NUTS are squalls and sunshine, tears and then the lights go out the false joy is black despair. All polished spot where dancing is peril the dancers can do is mill about like the Metropolitan when Caruso sings or various colored rays on the dancers. The fell into folds of chiffon worn by one of me and a scream. Pandemonium reigned someone charged into the thick of it. He mysterical men and women and skillfully was a clean-limbed young American he with a group of rubberneck tourists, angled Banner" and the young man, then stopping to get his hat. Outside he be found here among a bunch of nuts." Laughs at War's Mishaps is Fred W. Thomas, a youth not yet in hospital, where he was taken following the sailed recently. This adventurous youngster has set to work the machinery of the state departments of two countries by his efforts to fight. Secretary Lansing had him released from the English army, upon his mother's plea of his extreme youth, but Thomas ran away as soon as he reached home. He sailed on a munition ship from this port to Italy and made his way again into England, where he enlisted in the engineers immediately he learned the United States had entered the war. In 1916 Thomas ran away from port service. But this proved too tame squad of the Sherwood Foresters, from upon Secretary Lansing's plea. He suc- gned to a British mine sweeper. It was skull fracture. He returned to America, persuaded a Passaic surgeon to operate sufficient that Thomas almost immediately see freighter, which was sunk by a Ger- to seen. other good-by and en-litened in the Brit- to a training school at Quebec. He was was torpedoed, again landing him in the Gandits Nipped in the Bud o ain't what it used to be, Watson. Ask atkatey, two eighteen-year-old highway- et police station. George and Kaleman. I WONDER IS DIS TH'WAY JESSE JIMMIE HELD UP HIS MEN? his cash, but it was only 23 cents. Ditit Patakey, majestically. "It will never of the poor." Strong stamping ground. They went over o'clock in the morning. Some here," demanded Patrolman Edward trusty gats. He now had both of them, red, "or I'll drill you." knocked the gat out of the bandit's hand he beat it. He was caught by Detective by the sound of shooting as the police-ly. Bandit Patakey drew his other re- and had jammed it into the patrolman's turning his hand and wresting it from leg lost by its owner traveled almost restored was told in the barge office bypping commissioner. According to Mr. Quinn, Daniel Egan, an able seaman, four years ago while crossing a railroad track in Oakland, Cal., had his leg cut off. Egan couldn't get work as a sailor and for three years he scrubbed, washed and cleaned out saloons, saving every penny until he had accumulated enough money to buy a new leg. The good ship Westboro was looking for men and Dan, with a quick step, walked to the pier, where the ship was moored, and straightway ers. Things went well with Egan until a man named Stupy. Stupy singled out were shore companions when the vessel there. When Egan got his bearing he diswas Stupy. That was seven months ago, South America, Panama and other sent a letter, beseaching the captain of wrote the commissioner all about his became interested. He tried in many the United States shipping office, also took the office the other day he espied a long westboro. He looked up his files and found that Egan when the two had started out to go. The commissioner sent the limb to The Princes of Germany are Shaking Dice for the United States By HERBERT QUICK ly can the war be won. Unless it is won, you possess is lost, and with it the American soul is lost Buy Bonds, for so only can the war be won. Unless it is won, everything you possess is lost, and with it the American soul is lost WE MUST buy bonds to the last cent of our ability, because our country is fighting for its very life. Make no mistake, citizens of America, the crisis is just that—we are fighting for our very life. We must fight this war through. We must fight it through to a peace the basis of which will be written by us and our allies. Germany must not write a single clause in the Treaty. She must be whipped until she will sign a treaty every word of which will be drawn by the Allies. Germany must not be allowed to dot an i or cross a t. Why? Because Germany has become nothing but a robber empire, a murderer empire, an empire every purpose of which is the enslavement of the rest of the world. Such purposes admit of no compromise. We must conquer or die. If we do not conquer we shall, nevertheless, die and die slaves. Germany began with the intention of robbing France of her iron, her coal, her best land and her great factories; of making Belgium with her rich mines, great cities and immense factories a part of Germany; of gaining the Belgian coast, from which she might conquer England, and of combining under her flag the hordes of Mohammedan Turks, and all the Balkan States, so that she might train soldiers in countless millions, build navies to sweep the oceans, and conquer the world. THE TWIN CITY STAR, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. This war was to be a step toward world conquest. If we do not fight the war through to complete victory she will still keep on and she will succeed. She will surely succeed! Russia with her nearly 200,000,000 people lies prostrate at Germany's feet. Germany could now give up the Balkan States, give up Belgium, force Austria to yield up the Italian territories, give up conquered France, yes, she could give up these, and even Alsace-Lorraine, and if allowed a free hand in Russia, she would still have won a victory greater than any of which she ever dreamed at the beginning of the war. Give her control of Russia and she can, and will, within a few years come back with power to take back Alsace-Lorraine, crush poor Belgium once more and destroy exhausted France, sweep every vestige of resistance from Europe, Asia and Africa, and then what? Then she will thunder at our doors—from Asia she will invade us on the West, from Europe on the East, and from Mexico on the South. If Germany has control over the terms of peace, we who read this will live to see one of the Kaiser's six sons Emperor of America. The time to whip Germany is now! It is now or never! The Princes of Germany are shaking dice for the United States! It will take money, money, money, that we may send men, men, men!