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EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Part* of
Globe and Told In Short
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Domestic.
Yielding to the urgent request of
President Wilson, senate and house
conference on the food control bill
eliminated the provision for a food
board of three members instead of a
single administrator and consented to
make one more effort to agree regard¬
ing the section creating a war expen¬
ditures committee of congress, is the
gratifying news sent out from Wash¬
ington.
Internal Collector A. O. Blalock of
Georgia, who, it had been stated, was
slated for removal, because of the ac¬
tion of the Georgia senators in the
national congress, will hold his job,
it is positively announced by the au¬
thorities in Washington.
There has been some protest made
to President Wilson that the food con¬
trollers in various states will work
without salaries. It. has been pointed
out that this will prevent many of the
best qualified men in the country from
giving their time to this work, which,
many contend, is the most important
of all war measures.
Uncle Sam’s embargo grip on the
Kaiser's throat, which is being felt
on both sides of the Atlantic, is tight¬
ening day by day.
Protests from Holland and Scandi¬
navia and from American exporters
are reported against Uncle Sam’s em¬
bargo.
Information comes from Washing
ton that Italy only waits supplies from
the United States before launching the
most violent offensive against the Aus¬
trians yet attempted.
Report? are to the effect that the
United States still lacks ships to send
coal and munitions needed to the al¬
lies across the seas.
Secretary Robert Lansing, in a re¬
cent speech in New York, said that
the United States must crush Ger¬
many to save (be world.
Congressman Kitchin of North Car¬
olina says that In raising the addi¬
tion five billion dollars for war pur¬
poses no new burden must be placed
on the poor of the country. He is
the majority leader of the house.
President Wilson emphatically de¬
clares that all executive boards must
adjust claims dispassionately; there
must be no exercise of sympathy, af¬
fection or favoritism.
Civil service employees, either in
state or national service, cannot claim
exemption on that ground. They will
take thejr chances along with other
men.
Information from Washington is to
the effect that many congressmen in¬
sist that in raising further necessary
funds to conduct the war, ability to
pay must be the only standard upon
which the tax will be assessed.
The sentiment is growing through¬
out the country that no further tax
must be placed on the poor, as that
arm of society is not only furnishing
the men to fight the war, but is in
directly supplying the largest amount
of money to equip the forces.
European.
Because the Russo-Roumanian forces
in the Putna sector have struck the
Germans with such violence, the ad¬
vance of the Germans on the retreat¬
ing Russian in the Tarnopol region
has been noticeably retarded.
The British house of commons, by
a vote of 148 to 19, defeated a peace
resolution introduced by a Socialist
Labor member of that body. A whole
evening was spent in discussing the
move, but the English mind is clear¬
ly shown in the vote.
Charging fearlessly over a shell-torn
field when their men comrades had de¬
serted, Russian women fighters in
their first battle took 102 prisoners—
two of them officers. This action oc¬
curred on the Dvinsk front.
The allied powers are urging the
United States to hasten the manufac¬
ture of aircraft, as the Teutonic air
forces are multiplying with each suc¬
ceeding day.
Between Chevreaux and Hurtebise
the French have regained all positions
lost during the first few days of the
fighting.
The French hold all the plateaus
of Craonne and Californie and the
Casemates. At some points they have
even extended their lines beyond their
original positions before the German
crown prince.
The conference of the allied powers,
concluding a recent conference in Par¬
is, announce to the world that the al¬
lies are in the war to the end, what¬
ever that_ end may be. No amend¬
ments were made to the already well
known intentions of the allied powers.
Militarism must go.
Food control legislation has encoun¬
tered another delay. This time Re¬
publican Leader Mann blocked the
measure, preventing it from going to
conference. He wants a joint com¬
mittee of congress to control expen¬
ditures written into the bill.
Two hundred and fifty guns were
massed over the two mile front on
which the German crown prince tried
for the seventh successive night to
wrest ground from the French lines on
the Chemin des Dames—the most con¬
centrated. violent assault of all the
seven days’ fighting. The assault was
a failure.
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John Annan Bryce, referring, in the
British house of commons to the re¬
cent statement of Lord Robert Cecil,
minister of blockade, that the dis¬
memberment of Austria was not one
of Great Britain’s war aims, said that
the statement would create difficulties
because Great Britain’s engagements
with her allies could not be continued
if the Austrian empire was tc. oe main¬
tained. Indeed, said he, Italy, on the
strength of these entanglements, would
not be content merely with a rear¬
rangement of the Trentino region.
Foreign Secretary A. J. Balfour of
Great Britain says this is no time for
definite announcements as to what
will happen in Europe regarding cap¬
tured territory by the allied powers.
Because every ministerial statement
in the past has been treated as a
pledge, it is dangerous to accede to
requests for definite announcements.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs Balfour
told the British house of commons
that, he would be doing the world
a mighty poor service to attempt to
define the position now of the future
policy of the English people to a read¬
justment of the map of Europe.
English statesmen say that England
and her colonies entered the present
war to defend Belgium and France; to
prevent them from being crushed sim¬
ply because they were small, and be¬
cause an ambitious nation coveted
iheir manufactures and agricultural
fertility.
Russian women soldiers, every one
of them, has a dose of cyannide of
potassium which they swear they will
swallow if taken prisoners. The wom¬
en regiments are growing so rapidly
that ere long it is probable that one
hundred thousand of them will be in
the regular line.
Premier Kerensky, it seems, has re¬
stored such a measure of discipline
among the mutinous Russian soldiers
that Petrograd reports now that the
Russian have reached their own soil
they will stand and fight. It is point¬
ed out that Russia whipped Napoleon
by retreating,
Mathias Erzberger, one of the lead¬
ers of the German Clerical center, is
reported as saying: "If I could talk
with Lloyd George or Mr. Balfour,
we could in a few hours reach an un¬
derstanding which would enable of¬
ficial peace negotiations to com¬
mence.”
Dr. George Mfchaelis, the German
imperial chancellor, declared to a
large number of newspaper men that
it is clear that England wants to con¬
tinue the war, predicating this on the
statement made by Sir Edward Car
son in Dublin recently th#t negotia¬
tions with Germany would begin only
after the retirement of German troops
beyond the Rhine.
German Chancellor Miachaelis says
“it would be of the greatest import¬
ance for the enlightenment of the
whole world regarding the true rea¬
sons for the continuation of the san¬
guinary massacre of nations for It to
be known that written proofs of our
enemies' greed for conquest have since
fallen Into our hands.”
The center Russian armies are en¬
tirely out of Galaeia and the north¬
ern and southern armies continue to
retreat.
Evidently the preparations for the
"blood and iron” policy of the gov¬
ernment against the disaffected troops
will shortly he put into full force, for
Minister of War Kerensky is on his
way to the Russian headquarters to
confer with the military leaders to
formulate plans to stay the retreat and
compel the troops to fight.
The Roumanians and Russians in
the Carpathian region are still com¬
pelling the Teutons to give way be¬
fore their vigorous onslaught.
Washimrton.
The peace interview of German
Chancellor Michaells is regarded at
the state department as another at¬
tempt to bolster up public opinion at
home, appeal to the peace sentiment
in enemy and neutral countries and
to create dissension between the al¬
lies.
The Russian embassy in Washington
states that the peace interview of Ger¬
man Chancellor Michaelis is wholly
incorrect in fact. If it is taken seri¬
ously it would fasten on France re¬
sponsibility for a campaign of con¬
quest. which the whole world knows
is untrue.
Because of alleged repeated viola¬
tions of the press censorship rules,
more drastic orders have become ef¬
fective, which will prevent mention of
the arrival of American troops in Eu¬
ropean ports, and will prevent the
making public of important military
movements.
Harry Chapman Gilbert, son of a
white house police guard, is the first
man in the country to he accepted
for service in the new national army
under selective conscription.
A $150,000,000 dollar deficit is re¬
ported in the executive departments
for this fiscal year. This is due to
the war.
Many details are to be worked out
in the conscriptive service before any
men can be actually sent to the train¬
ing camps, but it is believed a consid¬
erable number will be in camp early
in August.
The United States’ bill for the first
year of the war will total seventeen
billion dollars, according to Senator
Smoot, who has been investigating the
subject.
No attempt is being made in official
Washington to minimize the serious¬
ness of the situation in the war the¬
aters of Europe.
All official Washington has taken
on a serious aspect, because any hope
of a short struggle in the world-wide
war has gone glimmering with the
Russian fall-down. But the tone is op¬
timistic—"the United States is in the
war, and will go through with it.”
Saiali Businesses Net fleretefore Taxed
Are Expected in Bring $300,000
into ^ite Treasury
PROFESSIONAL fAX
Two Increase* Recommended For The
University Of Georgia—Not a
Single Reduction
Atlanta—
The ways and means committee bill
for the revision of the general tax act
which will probably he introduced In
the house by Chairman L. R. Akin,
representative from Glynn, will in¬
crease the revenues of the state by
approximately $500,000 annually, ac¬
cording to rough estimates of mem
hers of the committee, providing it
goes through the house in the form in
which it will be submitted. Of this
amount small business concerns not
heretofore taxed by the state are ex¬
pected to produce approximately three
hundred thousand dollars.
The senate finance committee, which
is expected soon to bring forth a bill
in the upper branch of the assembly
revising the general tax act, it is un¬
derstood, wii) make provisions in its
bill for an increase of somewhere be¬
tween three hundred thousand and
four hundred thousand dollars.
Not by the broadest possibility will
either of these bills go through the
legislature unchanged, but whatever
changes are made it is certain that the
revision of the act will produce an
increase of several hundred thousand
dollars in the state’s revenue. Instead
of either bill passing in its present
foriii, it is a certainty that there will
be a number of bitter fights over vari¬
ous items on which taxes have been
increased, and new items which have
been added.
These bills, in fact, are going in to
their respective branches so late that
there !b a strong likelihood of the tax
revision bill being a last-minute bill
in its passage, which, due to the short¬
ness of time in which to consider the
bill, the first attempt at revision of
the general tax act since 1909, will
serve tffat. to enliven the fight.
To produce the $300,000 increase in
revenue, which small business con¬
cerns are expected to bear, the ways
and means committee has added to
the tax act a list of approximately
one hundred and fifty new classes
of small businesses which heretofore
have n<H Jteen taxed by tbe state.
Many ftfCrest', such as the street gas¬
oline and oil stands, have come into
existence generally since the last re¬
vision of the act. In addition to the
new items of this character, the old
tax has been raised on certain other
classes of small businesses.
After a stiff fight an increased tax
was recommended on loan companies,
both domestic and foreign. An effort
to increase the tax on banks was de¬
feated.
Professional taxes come in for a
genera! increase, the revision bill
calling for a tax of $15 for lawyers,
for instance.
A license tax of $10 for the state
and $5 for the county is placed upon
guano agencies, heretofore untaxed
in this manner.
The revision bill of the ways and
means committee, while it provides for
no very material increase on so-called
invisible taxables, makes an attempt
to render such property more readily
discoverable for the purpose of collect¬
ing taxes upon them.
Urge Creation Of Market Bureau
With some changes the market bu¬
reau bill, advocated by the state de¬
partment of agriculture and introduced
in the house by Representative Che¬
ney of Cobb, was approved for pass¬
age by the general agriculture commit¬
tee No. 1.
The most important change in the
measure was in the amount of money
provided for the support of the bureau.
While the bill originally carried an ap¬
propriation of $56,000, a committee
amendment adopted cut it down to
$15,000.
A number of measures were acted
on favorably by the house committee
on constitutional amendments. One
of them was by Mr. Akin of Glynn,
providing for the increase in salaries
of judges of the supreme court and
court of appeals from four thousand
to five thousand dollars per year.
Another very important measure,
which has the support of the Dorsey
administration, and which met with
unanimous approval, was by Represen
tative Mullins of Mitchell, the purpose
of it being to relieve the general as
sembly of a vast amount of so-called
local legislation by giving city and
county communities the power to leg
islate on these matters for them
selves.
Doctor Arrested In Drug Dragnet
Charged with having issued 5,000
prescriptions for narcotics in defiance
of the anti-fiarcd^c law. since April 3.
last, Dr. L. P. Pharr, of College Park,
was haled toefori bited States Com
missioner W. Oil iitt Carter as a
part of Revenue :ent E. C. Lellow
ley’s campaign , st the illegal
traffic in drugs.
In spite of the fact that numerous
witnesses, sthe majority of whom are
drug addicts, apjfeared in behalf of
Doctor Pharr, Mr. Yellowley said that
be has sufficient evidence.
FORTUNES IN MICA ABE
BURIED IN NORTH GEORGIA
Familiar "Isingglass” Is In Great De¬
mand by Government For
Munitions
Atlanta—
A fortune in mica is awaiting the
north Georgia landowner who will
mine it, according to Frank Reynolds
of the Georgia chamber of commerce.
Mr. Reynolds is in close touch with
the market, and from buyers the coun¬
try over has received urgent requests
that be call the attention of farmers
in north Georgia to the practically un¬
touched field at their very doorstep.
Mica is nothing more than "isin¬
glass,” which is scattered tbe length
and breadth of north Georgia and is
especially abundant in the mountain¬
ous parts of the Blue Ridge. Every
man in the section knows it, but com¬
paratively few know its value. Farm¬
ers have turned it up in their fields
as they plowed, pedestrians have
kicked lumps on every mountainside
in the state. And while it lies there
untouched, the government is desper¬
ate to pay $4 a ton for the best grade
and can’t get it at that.
Mica is one of tbe most important
of materials in the manufacture of war
munitions. It is used in insulation of
all kinds and is particularly needed
for insulators on magnetoes of the
thousands of airplanes which the Unit¬
ed States must build.
Heretofore the United States has ob¬
tained mica from India and South Afri¬
ca, paying a duty of 30 per cent. The
north Georgia man who mines mica
will be free from this duty, so that,
after the war the government and oth¬
er buyers will continue to take all
he can give them.
Mr. Reynolds, familiar with the al¬
most unlimited mica resources of his
own state, thinks this is a splendid op¬
portunity for the farmer to get busy.
His crops laid by and both his land
and hig time idle on his hands, he
can take his pick and shovel and "go
to it.”
Mica mining is probably the easiest
and simplest in the world. It requires
no great process of reflnfng—merely
to bake the clay out of the mica. It
can be sold right on the ground, for
buyers are now scouring the Southern
states for it. England,, it is said, is
using all the mica she can get. So
is the United States. So are hun¬
dreds of private electrical concerns.
Mr. Reynolds believes that Geor¬
gians are overlooking a good bet here.
He points to the county of Upson,
where mica is being mined success¬
fully by eight men, and then to the
scores of other Georgia counties where
there are no mica mines at all.
"The Georgia chamber of commerce
will be glad to furnish information to
all citizens about tbe mica market,”
said Mr. Reynolds. “AH north Geor¬
gians can obtain from our Atlanta of¬
fice information that will put them in
direct touch with buyers.’*
Suffraglat* Win Skirmish In Georgia
Georgia Suffragists won a prelimina¬
ry skirmish before the Georgia legis¬
lature when the senate constitutional
amendment committee acted favorably
on the suffrage amendment introduced
by Senator Elders. The vote was
8 to 4.
The bill was considered by the com¬
mittee at a forty-minute session during
which several speeches advocating
votes for women in Georgia were made.
After the speeches the commute* 1
went into an executive session for a
few minutes. The announcement of
the vote brought loud cheering
A delegation of about fifty Atlanta
Suffragists attended the committee
meeting. Their spokesmen included
Prof. E. L. Martin, Mrs. Mary L. Me
Landon, president of the Georgia Wom¬
an's Suffrage Association, and Mrs.
'•’ranees Smith Whitesides, president of
the Equal Suffrage League of Geor¬
gia.
Mrs. McLendon urged that women
be given the ballot for the sake of
democracy and that such was in keep¬
ing with the principles for which the
country is now struggling.
State Asked To Pay For Silver Service
A bill was introduced in the house
with the signatures of sixteen repre¬
sentatives to pay C. W. Orankshaw, an
Atlanta jeweler, a long overdue debt
of the state in providing a silver set
for the battleship Georgia. The set
was furnished at the time the battle¬
ship was commissioned in 1907, under
the administration of the late Joseph
M. Terrell as governor.
It cost $2,065, part of which wat
subscribed for by a number of Geor¬
gia cities, which have long since paid
their debt, and the balance, $1,300, was
the portion of the state. The bill pro¬
poses to pay it with accrued interest,
now amounting to $2,210.
A bill to pay Mr. Crankshaw has
' been introduced at every session of
! the general assembly since that time,
j ; but it has so far failed to get through,
although the last house did pass a bill
authorizing the payment of a portion
of the amount. The measure failed
to pass the senate.
Printing Measure Aimed At The Ring
Discussing the testimony of Doctor
Graham of the Index Printing com¬
pany, state printers, given in executive
session of the house public printing
committee, when Doctor Graham
charged that a certain board of the
Atlanta Tvpothetae constitutes a trust
which, until August 1, 1916, made it
impossible for the state to receive
! competitive bid upon its printing
j contract. Secretary of State Phil Cook
declares that the bill now pending will
undoubtedly break up the ring.
GREAT BRITAIN TO
STAND BY FRANCE
No Peace For Tbe World Till Germaoy
Is Made Powerless Or Free,
Balfour Tells Commoos
DISCIISSS ALLIES’ WAR AIMS
France Not Fighting For Alsace-Lor
raine Alone, But For Very
Existence
London.-—John Annan Bryce, Liberal,
referring in the house of commons to
the recent statement of Lord Robert
Cecil, minister of blockade, that the
dismemberment of Austria was not
one of Great Britain’s war aims, said
the statement would create difficul¬
ties because Great Britain’s engage¬
ments with her allies could not be
continued if the Austrian empire was
to be maintained. Italy, on the
strength of these entanglements, Mr.
Bryce said, would not be content
merely with a rearrangement of the
Trentino region.
The references by Mr. Bryce and
others to Great Britain’s war aims,
including Noel Buxton, who said that
an unfortunate impression had got
abroad in Europe as a result of the
speeches in the house of commons last
week, that Great Britain favored a
policy of annexation, but would not
define her aims, brought an interest¬
ing reply from A. J. Balfour, the for¬
eign secretary. Mr. Balfour said the
government had been asked to de¬
clare its policy, but he w<ps not sure
if that would be a wise course. The
broad questions animating the gov¬
ernment, had been expounded by the
late and present premier, the foreign
secretary and others who held high
office during the past three years
When every ministerial statement was
treated as a pledge, it was dangerous
to accede to requests for definite an¬
nouncements.
Impossible To Tell What Will Happen
With respect to the Jugoslav and
Austrian question, said tbe secretary,
it was impossible to foretell the posi¬
tion in which tbe world would find
Itself when these problems came to
be decided, and he would be doing a
very ill service to the country were he
to attempt to define the position now.
The government believed that the na¬
tionalities composing that heteroge¬
nous state should be allowed to de¬
velop along their own lines and to
carry on their civilization in their
own way.
Entered War To Defend Belgium
"As everybody knows,” continued
Mr. Balfour, “we first entered the war
to defend Belgium and prevent France
from being crushed before our eyes.
Nobody with the smallest knowledge
of the facts supposed that Sir Edward
Grey, formerly foreign secretary, and
the government, of which he was a
member when he made the fateful dec¬
laration on August 3, 1914, made it
with the smallest thought of the great
problens which the course of the war
has opened up. We did not enter the
war for any selfish purposes, certainly
not for imperialist aims or to get in¬
demnities. Our purposes were com¬
pletely unselfish; therefore, we stood
in a different position from any of
our allies. We hoped to see Europe
freer and more stable.”
Crush Germany To Save The World
Madison Barracks, New York.—In a
speech here before seventeen hundred
members of the officers’ reserve corps,
Secretary of State Robert Lansing,
emphasizing the peril of German im¬
perialism to the United States and
the world, declared his belief that the
German people would not cast off the
yoke of autocracy “until the physical
might of the united democracies of
the world has destroyed forever the
evil ambitions of the military rulers
of Germany.” That, he added, is the
only way to restore the peace of the
world.
Blalock Is Not To Lose His Office i
Washington.—Publication in Geor¬ :
gia that A. O. Blalock, internal collec¬ |
tor, is slated forr removal has occa¬
sioned surprise and aroused resent¬
ment in administration circles in
Washington. The published story is
without a scintilla in foundation, ac¬
cording to Internal Revenue Collector
Osborne.
Peace Speech Is "Hollow Affair”
Washington.—German Chancellor
Michaelis’ peace interview is regard¬
ed at the state department as another
German attempt to bolster up public
opinion at home, appeal to the peace
sentiment in enemy and neutral coun¬
tries, and create dissensions between
the allies. At the Russian embassy,
it was stated to be wholly incorrect in
fact. State department officials say
that Germany attempts by innuendo
to fasten on France a vast campaign
of conquest.
Russo-Roumanians Beating Germans
Petrograd.—Russian and Roumanian
troops have put such force behind their
offensive in the Putna sector that the
pressure of the German advance into
Russia in the Tarnopol region is no¬
ticeably lessened. In Galicia, the
Russian troops forced back at the out¬
set of the breakdown in Tarnopol, re¬
tired in good order across the Rus¬
sian border. Premier Kerensky has
been at the front conferring on the
military situation. Tbe conference at
Moseow has been postponed.
WOMEN OF
MIDDLE AGE
Mrs. Quinn’s Experience
Ought to Help You Over
the Critical Period.
Lowell. have Mem.— "For the last three
yean I been troubled with the
Change the bad of Life and
common at feelings that
time. I was in a
very tion, nervous condi¬
with headache#
and pain a good
deal of the time so I
was unfit to do my
work. A friend
asked me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham’#
11 Vegetable Com
and it has helped pound, which I did.
me in every way. I
am not nearly I so nervous, no headache
or ukham's pain. Vegetable must say Compound that Lydia is tbe E.
best —Mrs. remedy any sick Quinn, woman can take. ’
Margaret Rear 259
Worthen St, Lowell, Mass.
Other warning symptoms are a sense
of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, dread of impending evil,
timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation
of the heart, sparks before the eyes,
irregularities, appetite, weakness, constipation, inquietude, variable
and
dizziness.
If you need special advice, write to
(confidential), the Lydia E. Lynn, Pinkham Mass. Medicine Co.
AGENTS wanted to sell our Patent Electric
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No Malaria, mosquitos, Boll Weevil. Good
schools, churches. conveniences. Ten
rooms, fruit, lot hundred by two ten. Block
of square K. N. ETHERIDGE. Jackson, Os.
Peas, finest seed, Taylors, early. Black 60
day. Clays tn new Trippk* B. Seamlesa
bags, $3.25. Essex* ^Service Poiand-China, Duroc pigs.
Sows in farrow, boars. J. E. COUL¬
TER, Connelly Spring*, N, C.
Pride.
An oldish man with a waistline like
the equator paused on the street to
confer a somewhat patronizing greet¬
ing on an oldish woman.
“Well, well—I was afraid you had
gone by the (ward ’ How are you get
getting along?”
“Oh, making money and taking oa
fat!”
The only thing worth noticing about
the small interchange was that the
woman was a positive bone, and she
sure didn’t look as if she were making
money.
Which seems to show that the Spar¬
tan kid with the fox under his jacket
isn’t in a class by himself when it
comes to the pride that fibs and makes
no sign.—Washington Star.
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The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
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these fragrant, super-creamy emol¬
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coming serious by keeping the pores
free from obstruction. Nothing better
at any price for all toilet purposes.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
How Women Fish.
It doesn't serve to mellow a man’s
disposition to take a woman or two
into the boat when he goes bass fish¬
ing. For women always want to fish,
yet never could they or would they
stick those horrid, nasty, wriggling
angleworms on the hook. So, between
baiting their hooks and removing the
perch and pumpkin seeds and strain¬
ing your spine to keep the boat from
turning turtle and the lines from get¬
ting snarled up, you have a most en¬
joyable outing, do you not? Yes, yoo
do not! I’ll run the risk of answer¬
ing that question for you, “Zira” writes
in Cartoons Magazine. And then, when
you finally hook a five-pound bass
weighing at least three pounds and
eight ounces by his own standard
scales, and play him for twenty mln
utes against their earnest entreaties
not to bring that big, ugly thing into
the boat or else they'd jump out!—
you calmly ease up on the line and
give him slack, also his freedom, do
you not? Yes, you do not! And when
the day is spent, they tell you what
a gorgeous time they have had and
make you promise to fetch them again,
and you promise, of course, do you
not? You do like—heaven.
Place for Him.
"But isn’t your son rather young to
join the army?” “Well, he is very
young, but, then, he’s going to join the
infantry."—Boston Transcript.
When you lose a friend by lending
him a small sum of money you get the
best of the bargain.
San Francisco has a war inventions
board.
POST TOASTIES
are the newest and
best in corn flakes
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