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NATIONAL SPIRIT RUNS HIGH IN PATRIOTIC PHILADELPHIA. Til mail who said “in the midst o£ tho war’s alarms” —surely had in mind the year of our Ixird 1917 —for besides the wars, the atmosphere, the papers rather, are surely full of the alarms. 1 find that one’s news horizon is bounded by the papers one reads and tc some extent one’s viewpoint tinged by the same. Now I do not care for tfie Philadelphia papers—they are apt to be stodgy, and one is like an hyster ical woman, exclaiming and railing. But mostly my news comes from them, and by news I mean war news. Is there any other news? And lately the stodginess seems to have vanished and the hysterics seem to suit me more. 1 wonder if, we here in the city of brotherly love are more thrilled at the impending war than other places? The presence of the interned Ger man vessels and their crews gave a fillip to the imagination, and when aome of them attempted an escape, excitement ran high. Previously the arrest of persons who had smuggled docks from one of the vessels into home et a German In the city startled everyone—so that until they wore sent to Georgia, dear old bone dry Georgia—we were in daily thrills. (Certainly war-fear seems spreading and catching, even I have joined a preparedness league and am going to >nke the Red Cross training for first aid. You start out intending to keep your head and not to be stampeded into feeling a lot of things about the war before it even comes—but can you? I can’t, so the notice of the Patriotic Meeting to be held in Inde- FOR SALE COTTON SEED! Selected Union Big 801 l Grown in Bartow County. cßuy at home and save Express. Inspected and passed by state inspec ors. Only 30 bushels. First come first served. Price $2.50 per bushel. Cash with order. —CALL— -1 LADD LIME & STONE CO. Cartersville, Qa. Phone 186 It's Marvelous Y ouCan Hear So Distinctly yjt\ “No, I am not visiting in the city. lam at home almost five hundred miles / away. We have just had a Bell Telephone put in and I couldn’t resist calling you by Long Distance. It’s marvel- ous that we can hear each other as distinctly as though we were in the same room, and the Long Distance rates are so reasonable! “I really don’t see how we ever man aged without a Bell Telephone. All the merchants and every one we know uses the Bell. It has saved me thousands of steps and hours of worry already. “It’s worth the cost simply to be able to sit at home and visit with friends hun dreds of miles away.” Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station. --s' By SALLY MAY AKIN SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY BOX 4, ROME, GA. / , I pendence Square, April 31st, stirred I me, and I decided to go and get some of the enthusiasm (excitement) out of my system. I went, saw, heard and I was all hut smashed —this letter was i begun the day after while full in the interest of it —my ardor has cooled, I've recovered physically from the three hours standing, but as an inter esting experience it holds in my mind. At the-front of Independence Hall was the grand stand where the nota bles, invited guests, and speakers sat; at the right of ttffe square is the Curtis building, big and modern; on the oth er two sides are the older buildings representing a more picturesque stage of architecture. At the two corners of 'he square were the recruiting stations for the Navy—a tent over which was an enormous sign, ‘‘The Kansas Needs Men,” a band in front and crowds of people all around. The papers state that there were 20,000 people in and around the square I can beileve it for I cir nlated around quite a while and at least 10,000 impended my progress toward the stand, close to which 1 was deter mined to get—l wanted to see Gerard, who was down for a speech. Ropes and many policemen kept the people off the walk and in order to get close to the stand two ropes had to he passed and I had no permit. After awhile two ladies got out of a victoria and started tow r ard the stand. The victoria was about the vintage of 1890, the ladies, though dowdy, had .what Katherine Hush calls, “the look,” so 1 recognized my chance lay in trail THE BARTOW TRIBUNE-THE CAR TERSVILL.E NEWS, APRIL 19, 1917. ing them. A word to the police fiom them and under the rope they went, with me a close attendant; a word from the police and the crowd fell back and we three in single file, (me the last one) went up to the second rope right in front oLthe stand within fifteen feet of the speakers’ stand, they passed under and I stopped, right where I wanted to be, and any how my nerve had given out and when that happens it is time to stop. I've seen two inaugural parades from a seat right across the street from the president’s reviewing stand. I saw the big historical Hudsou-Fulton parade in New York in 1909 from a seat close to Governor Hughes’ sec ton of the reviewing stand. There were fifty-two floats and forty-three bands and every band played the Star Spangled Banner as it passed the gov ernor and every one stood up, -so that one’s memory of it all is “sitting and standing.” I hung out of a fourth-story window rn Fifth Avenue with Mr. Granger in 1910 and saw T. R.’s home-coming wel come which was enough to turn his head, and did; but this time I stood with hoi polloi and saw what I saw. Presently 1 managed to get from the pavement to the grass which made me a few inches higher and I could clear ly see where Mr. Gerard was to stand. This was at 1:30. It w-as a beautiful day; the spring feel of the air was good, the scene around the square was fine —in every window, on every bal cony, on every housetop people were crowded; from every window on ev ery hand floated flags. Bands heading leng processions of school children which marched around the square and into Washington Square where they sang-patriotic songs. Slowly the grand stand filled; un fortunately the notables weren’t labled so I, with the rest of the hoi polloi didn’t know who was who. A file of Veterans came in, two ebony-hued ones among them, and were greeted with Programs having the words of America, Star Spangled Ban ner and Columbia were scattered around so that at the proper time we could sing. The crowd grew denser and swayed as crowds do. I couldn’t get my coat pushed down from my shoulders, couldn’t get my arms up. The sun grew hotter. A woman fainted and the Red Cross men got her out. Most of those 10,000 who has gotten in my way seemed pushing against my back. A nice black old woman, fiom Virginia by the sound of her voice, was impaled on my left shoul der blade—(my coat now wears her imprint). A young workman in front of me suggested that I brace myself against his shoulder—l was already plastered there —still we stood, the sun grew hotter, the crow'd surged, the crowd that was waiting for Gerard, the only man who ever called the Ger man bluff and got away with it At intervals someone would call out, ‘ Here he comes” and we would all surge forward and the police would yell, “get back, get back.” I was be ginning to think of the comfortable seats from which I’d seen other func tions, for it was 2:30 and thirty min utes after the scheduled time for be ginning. Suddenly— With a blare Across the square The Star Spangled smote the air, and with a roar the crowd greeted the strains and the sight. From some where Old Glory had been set loose and floated far above us apparently unattache*} (though three kites above li explained)—and some one yelled, ‘hats off” and “stag” and they sang and something inside welled up in my throat an<l ran out of my eyes and I could not slug! At intervals a hand somewhere would play and we'd feel enthused again and really the setting was stir ring. The old Independence Hall with all its memories in front of us was enough to stir one. At 2:45 the speakers arrived and there was a sigh of disappointment at the announcement that Gerard was ill and couldn’t come. Senator Hiram lohnson looked all the fine things I read in the paper the next day that In had said, but I didn't wait to hear them. T heard the hand in the street playing ‘‘Marching Thru Georgia” ana I left. I reached out and grabbed a policeman’s sleeve and he got me out >‘ the crowd and under the ropes. And after forty minutes I got to and across Market street and took the subway for the station. And the next day I rested —I needed it. * * The -playing of Marching Thru Geor gia seems such a stupid thing—but they don't mean it the way I feel it. And can t see why we feel anyway about it. * * * And now it is war—Philadelphia is ablaze with flags, every auto carries two or more, every person wears one or a button. Even the churches have them out. Here two of the churches have had forma! flag-raisings, ou Sun day after the services. A!1 the congre gation gathered out side and sang Star Spangled as the flag went up. All the bridges are being guarded and this morning—Easter —at the early mass at the Polish Catholic church war had intruded itself for in the procession were nine National Guardsmen; but recruiting Is slow. The papers here are having hysterics over German spies and Ex-Mayor Blankenburg and Governor Brum baugh, both German-Americans are is suing patriotic statements and pleas for “moderation and justice” so to speak. * * * The German-Americans are in a very unhappy position. It is to be hop ed that as a nation and as individuals we will hear that in mind. Take our own little tow-n. The Scheuers have been good citizens for over thirty years, having the respect and confi dence of us all; they are painfully placed, may they not be made more unhappy. * * * Two weeks ago I one night, while waiting for the Symphony Con cert, to the British-Relief Bazar. The l ilion-jack and the Stars and Stripes were everywhere and crowds' and crowds of people. The bazar re minded me of the bazars Miss Marian Smith and Mrs, Brumby used to get up for the Cherokee Club, only the people at this one didiy’t seem to be having as much of a good time. As I went down the steps I passed, and stopped -to watch a man who was gazing raptly at a picture of King Ed ward. He walked up to the picture and very reverently took off his hat and bowed—thus does one love a symbol. One of the attractions of the bazar was a reproduction of Bobbie Burns’ cottage; another a tent holding sou wniis of the battle fields in France. lan Hay spoke one afternoon at the bazar, drawing immense crow r ds. He is clear and tactful in what he says, also interesting, his “Getting togeth er" a good expression of some of the issues between us and England. Read it. * * * # A faint ripple from the Russian Rev olution has touched here. A young Russian Jew in the country only about seven months, comes to the library sometimes. 1 know the woman who is teaching him English and got her to bring him on© night to help me select some Polish books 1 wished to get for the library, and he very readily told tiro in halting English his history. He is ‘from Kiev—has been a political p’i-oner in Siberia and told some in to esting details of his life there. lie and his wife —who has herself been imprisoned—w r ere among the revoln t’.nary, or progressive thinkers, and he was sent to Siberia for having cer tain forbidden books in his house. He is highly educated, has thought a great deal and suffered much. For months he has been trying to get in touch with his wife who is in Kiev. He could hear nothing, though money had been sent. With tragic earnestness ho said, “I have been a soldier, Rus sia will not turn her soldiers loose, my wife will not be allowed to come, I shall not see my boy again.” When I said the people of Russia will be bet ter off after the war he replied, “Rus sia will never do anything for her peo ple. I came to this country for free dom, now I cannot hear anything from my wife and child.” Eater he heard. She had received the money aad wa - coming and the pathetic look left his face a little. Now—the revolution! He guesses his wife has known of it, that it was coming but couldn’t tell him. He has missed the thing he lived for — ha* taken out his first “American Papers”—and the freedom he wanted has come—to his own country. ALL CHILDREN LOVE “SYRUP OF FIGS" FOR LIVER AND BOWELS Give it When Feverish, Cross, Bilious, for Bad Breath or Sour Stomach. Look at the tongue, Mother! If coated, it is a sure sign that your lit tle one’s stomach, liver and bowels need a gentle, thorough cleansing at once. , When peevish, cross, listless, pale doesn't sleep, doesn’t eat or act natur ally, or is feverish, stomach sour, breath bad; has stomach-ache, sore throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a teaspoonful of ‘‘California Syrup of Figs,” and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, undigested food and scur bile gently moves out of its little bowels without griping, and you have a well, playful child again. You needn’t coax sick Children to take this harmless “fruit laxative;'' they love its delicious taste, and it al v ays makes them feel splendid. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bot tle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which has directions for babies, chil .tUen of al’ ages and for grown-up; plainly on the bottle. Beware of coun terfeits sold here. 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