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| ED. K's.’ | COLYUM | { THE SEATTLE STAR A9OT Bevemth Ave. N: NORTHW ES WiMwnn oF OF NEWsrarens | Telegraph News Service of the United Mrese Anssootation sor Have you eaten | oe | Greetings an yot? Entered at Seattle, Wash. Postoffice as Second-Class Matter ‘é Mail, out of city, Sc per month up to 6 € mom, $1.90; year $3.50] @ ane e! by rT . Phone Main 600, Old King Coal was a merry | | See Oey Oy enauae coanceting all Gepartmente. old soul an ar eed sabi ion sinus A merry old soul was he; ¥ — But old Uncle Sam gave his Rs “4 a prof a slam, When It Rains Bloomers ssc ont at eign De A tornado swept Ellis county, Kas., the other day. When| ma e Beohad moved on one farmer found his barn, windmill and] eee Bv@hickens had been captured by the enemy BP oc Ram py bight says So 4 And in part payment the storm had left—one pair Of molting pot is bound to yield @ cer bloomers, without a rent, in A-number one condition |tain amount of @ ea The owner of the farm wears King George whiskers, has| 4 eee two terms in the state legislature and has no pressing} “Why,” asks Ni sugar be so high, w d of bloomers. . ore “bi a » orld rhe Tt is typical of Natare’s methods She scatters gifts ue ean ever heey ene jos h, but she seems to need a traffic mamager to route her ‘paining cain Why, indeed? receive bloomers when we want eee ‘Thare x only one sort more con ‘nl i : : |tamptible than the slacker who Some have too much money and pot enough children. | mii vet neart of the soldier d vice versa. Some have health and no wealth—and, Once "the fromt. That is the sweet vice versa, Some are presidents of insurance COM-~'hoeart who lets herself by stoles by when they would prefer being farmers, and some wicld suck a specimen hoe when they would rather be wielding the golf stick. . We all want what is on our neighbor's farm, instead of} Germany may get her Pince in ; fi shy Dame|th® Sun, but not until sho has put tt is on our own, And no man can figure out why Da asses Wd tn the Ghee ure parches the wheat fields and floods the city streets; he de she leaves all the children on the East-side instead of on) Nover ide drive, were they wouldn't die for want of pure/gratulations or bereavement con- ; why she | bloomers where folk want windmills | @olences too long; they may prove oe se to be only unpleasant reminder But it is nothing to be peevish about. It is an ill tornado . . 6 blows nobody good. Maybe the owner of the farm the] Before marriage a man omers came from had lost his wife and needed a windmill. |strl he isn't worthy of her Maybe the Ellis county legislator, who seems to have all marriage he proves it things of the world except a wife, is going to get HORACE IN WONDERLANO ed, tho he himself does not yet know it, and will find (Part Two) | Bloomers useful Continuing bis “Westoa” up the Just because, with your puny human intelligence, youlstreet of Wonderland, Horace | ot understand Dame Nature's traffic schedule, do not on “ne io a cross treat -_ brought h co y Ss js pedals to a whoa to lot a gas fat account conclude she needs a new shipping sad Ns ne | cpariot mechs Fight ~ Blast best. Instead of quarreling with her, try to find Out] sonped a goodly distance back of it she means by her gifts. They will invariably lead you) the pedestrian’s path and with a Da richer and more fruitful life, just as they may lead the|smile acknowledged Horace's right cou f of way and told him to proceed elie Me cadiba without fear of being knocked down and backed up over. Well, that's what, yerzir! Hor. " D Prog 7 ace took out his bugle cloth to Within a few days Secretary of the Navy Daniels will! wipe tne chilly trickless of perspt @ campaign to have congress appropriate $350,000,000 ding down his wey, ‘ ini: < 5 a t zens, be calm, sit tie minimum to rush the building of a large destroyer flee Ih Geadees Gere tas mate 68 Sees is to be hoped congress, which so quickly saw the utility [one to the gelt pocket for his tear Urgency tor a great airplane program, will be equally|sponge, and did he gilstake Hor in this. ace’s motive and do a high hurdle All of us often dmills. postpone marriage cor tells a after SONGS DE Sammies Treat Bill Very Disrespectfull-ee BY J. HERBERT DUCKWORTH NEW YORK, Sept. 8—When the American soldiers go into battle, they will mot sing any highbrow oratorio stuff set to reinforced music, as the Ger- mane used to do when things were going thelr way. They will yell parodies of famiilar Amert- can tunes and zippy march songe written by men they un derstand, like Sousa. e 5 gett! lively fought the U-boats. Swift, seaworthy, armed heavily iat ie aakrona: nay! He re-| million copies are being run off the to combat any submarine, it has terrorized the kai- mained x -boat captains. As we get further into this war, the need for destroyers land? increase. Transports will cross the waters laden with troops, food, ammunition, artillery, oil and everything al army needs. Tt will be necessary to keep the supply steady and con- The ships will have to run the gauntlet of German Fines. Here the destroyers come in. They are the best *of war vessels for convoy purposes. They can circle a port, can throw a huge smoke screen to conceal the con yed ships and can overtake and ram any submarine on Surface. Their guns can “get” the subs, and this is not sl-chair opinion, but demonstrated fact. American destroyers co-operating with the British French have done splendid work. English admiralty of fs frankly praise them. Their only regret is America has f@ more of this splendid type of vessel. That defect Daniels trying to remedy. Some may have misgivings because the on our big battleships, battle cruisers and submarines it being rushed. But these can wait. The pressing need } fight submarines. In this neither battleships nor sub- Fines are of any use. Conquer the U-boats and the ocean problem is simple €ourse, by chance, the German high seas fleet may come but the combined English and French fleets can more presses. "Nobody ts going to try to: write popular songs for our soldiers, They won't have them. The boys are making their own songs,” says Ken neth 8, Clark, formerly of “Music al Amerie writer of Princeton Triangle club, football and reunion songs, who had done the collecting, ‘The songs most tn favor now fn the lonless as a messenger hast forgot, this is in Wonder | boy (Continued Tomorrow) =DREAMS PPENS MY! You ScaReoO ma Junn, ITS ONLY 2O'CLOCK. WHY DION'T YOU STAY LonGeER Clark, treat the kaiser {n a shock ingly disrespectful manner. the Diggest bit: “When Sammy Comes Driving Home” iin, Hurrah! Hurrah! | to win, | Murrah! Hurrah! | Old Kaiser Bill will cry for help, all in, Just let him yelp, | And he'll give three cheers Sung to “Dixie” sung to the tune “Dixie” In khaki enit and army riser, away, Germany! A man can overlook gray hairs Book But Not Finished land forget a few wrinkles, but aa Judging by his nice little book, “War and Peace Aims,” |there’s no use trying to feel kitten fiedrich of Lowenstein will get a niche in the Ger-|!8h any longer when his young som halls of fame as a financier, en if he gets basted as etch ote = ro | Beulah Stoppy tives in Pig Run,| © Friedrich admits that the allies may so exhaust them-!Penn. | @elves before the war ends that they simply cannot pay money | Anity to Germany, but this prospect doesn’t worry him.) (Prom the Loz Onglaze Herald) ny will take indemnity in the form of raw material] Bust developing. Will give free she will need—tin, wool, etc., from England; wines, demonstration for your benefit coal, etc., from France; silks, oils, etc., from Italy; grain, |%9% 8. Broadway tr, minerals, etc. from Russia. All Germany will have ro to do will be to sit on her front porch and check off the in |e bins ee in tes oceeet les as the delivery man brings them in —San Antonio Express. At is a picture to delight the kultured Teuton heart, but) veh! | | rich ought to issue a sequel to his book. America has| gy, in since his book was issued. A book like that isn’t ¢ without a word about the real gold and raw material as steel, wool, cotton, wheat, corn, meats, women, etc., tt America will have to furnish, when Germany wins—) not till then. ; cle Sam Creditor ~ Uncle Sam has lent Russia $275,000,000 but wouldn't it! } well for him to go slow with his loans in that quarter all necessity for his making a radical choice of factions that country disappears? _At this writing, one threatened result of the national con at Moscow seems likely to be civil war—a division @ sort of peace-with-anarchy party and a party for vigor- ly prosecuting the war with (Germany. tain it is that if the peace party prevails and Germany| Ss gets control, czardom, with all that that means, will fain -be, see wp in Russia. Uncle Sam would not like to be ht a& a heavy creditor to sch ® government, and to! nt this he may ‘eel forced to take sides with.the war! should civil strife break out. It appears to be a periog| 8 affairs when we ought to know where our money | Boing. | WE WEAKEN on M. Venizelom? Ho saya that Greece Isn't ready & republic, but should give monarchy another trial, Venizelos may live to be hung up by a king of Greece. —— | a. I went to thank ell ay frien4e who have oelled eee © SKINNAY! C'MON OVER! imtended to hel thet # 5,400,000.00, and einoe we ore selling so “ me reise many more Mute, I cam new eonsider « little (?) POOLISHMESS “now end then®. | Yom kaow the rest of the story. Yours fer § 6,400. '. A Thala © belleve that breaking a mirror is unlucky, while others be Heve that some certain make of golf ball will add 15 of 20 yards to their drive What are YOU kieking about? Think ef the watches that a wateh repairer has to wind every night! Thoroughness Characterize ene metheds tn every transection. and our cum tomere are accord’ every aour- tesy sennistont with saund | agi- nee fudgment. {> mty Ay agemic resultifg in 1 often We Render an Exceptional 4 Service In pr ' FOR THE easy Goneumption of neutral nations that good English As B guise destroy Gattly nectigeeeratne stump, we uce President Wiison’s embargo massage to “Fight M eclal system for t Us or Eat With Germany!” . COLLECTIONS has cured hundreds of ‘casse. af — | TRUSTS sloughing and blending ju Don't allow t A atitoh in ti your cane. I am prepared by re ern equipment and 2 tical experience to pre eat cl prices. difeane to grow truly applies te af mod ot prac uce the high je dental work at modarnte ‘THE AGRICULTURAL department GENERAL BANKING a pig. in the parlor, probably. GERMAN AVIATORS are bombing hospitals behind Verdun. Go |. It's safe. The nurses can’t fight back. legfrere no TO PAVE cloth women are going to wear gowns with one Lucky the pantaloon has not yet become general for Heme g | says everyofamily should GUARDIAN UST AND SAVINGS BANK Cor, Firat Av OHIO FIREMEN are going to knit sox for soldiers, of protecting the Sammies against this new peril? for 15 Lady attendants, |PAINLESS AUSTIN Third ond Pike ‘columbia st. STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 8 1917. - ; Y "On to Petrograd! Map Shows Teuton Path | te Here | “When Sammy goes driving to Ber Ob, Denth When Sammy comes driving home.” | This f# another «trong farertte, All aboard to can the kalser take care of this, and somewhere in the Atlantic a||{/ Look y! Look away! Look did American high seas fleet is ready and fit | ca Frid hp ige't o | i re * _ a alseriand * reigne Jone; So the answer is—destroyers and more, until we have a ‘We'll posh the kaleor off bis Second to none. hrone, | eee Look away! Look away! Look Protective guarantee on all work | PAGE 4 ' | lo grunping Rign, Hindenburg s egionn are really keoeking at the ate of Petrograd. First and fore ront, Germany thus seala up 006 { three Ruselan ports that count amt tucreases her power tn th altic, But the katsor by tals apture also selzen the pivotal volnt from which his armies cas vdvance by land or water upon the voslan capital, only S60 miles way | Woman Put in Charge of Airplane Factory SANDUSKY, Obto, Sept. 8.—Mrn. | Alys McKey Bryant, avintrix and) ubmarine diver, left here for New York to act as supertotendent of an rplane factory that makes a ape ialty of female labor, She bi connected here with a com- pany manufacturing air veranda of 4 there propped up on @ cot |the walting people. They almost! jawe off to cam the kateor, | Hoora) Hooray! In Kaiserinnd wo'll take our stand Until we can the kaiser. Let's go, let's go, let's @o and ean the kaiser, Ko, let's Kc the kalser “Back to the Corner” To the music of “Brighten the Cérner” many of the campa are now singing “Back to the Corner* lat's lot's go and can “Back to your corer, BULL you're out! The allles have licked yoo, There's no doubt Put the gloves away, You'll never flight another bout [terest in me. Back to your co (Shouted) | Bill, you're out!” | fan’ Jellies an’ ‘This one is stolen from the Brit ish “The Bells of Hell” |The bella of hell go tingaling-a ing, For you but net for mo. In heaven the angels eingeling-s- Nog— ‘That's where I'm a going to be. where ts thy sting-a- army and navy camps, according to| y victory? With @ eptrit that’s alwaya bound No ting wling-aling No ating-wling-aling, But singling. ading for me* To make {t 50.50, the British front {in France ts now ringing with the {American sentimental strain, “The | Bnd of a Perfect Day.” | President Leonard | Doesn’t Know What Real Trouble Is! PETROGRAD, Sept. The repairers Petrograd have won a that Is record-breaking tn its demands | Every watch repairer who re watch strike ceived 200 rouble a month has been raised to 300, Those who ceived 200 roubles a month has increase of 50 per cent Increases are retroactive and go back to January 1, 1917. Every watch repairer in Petrograd therefore, has received, in cold These for each year be has worked for the firm If the Jeweler who employs bim decides to go out of bual Bess, he must pay each watch maker a year's wages Toe workmen will have a board thru which they will make all contracts with thelr employers, Any workman who is elected on this board will Tacelve full wagen from bis em ployer, without belong called upon to do any work The last claune ts that, tn cane of strike, the emplovers | Mart pay the full wages of the atriters for at least six weeks. Beyond that time the workmen un dtrike without pay anes | cash, recently, at least 600 roubles | Every watch repairer from henceforth will recetve a month's vacation on full pay Fvery year hia annual wages will be increased the size of a month's pay. When he ts sick he will receive full wages for three months, If he is called to war, he will receive a month's wages and also a | bonus of one month's wages |! “Pers Copyriaht, ¥ | (Continued From Our Last Isaue) | book Redville that the announced Two days inter Weekly Sentinel there would } “house warming Saturday afternoon at two o€ lock, in the new building just completed by Contractor Joe Downs, which bullding ts said to be owned by Mrs. Ed Trowbridge, and known to be situated in front of Danis! Crow Emporium, Everyone cor dially invited.” | And they came tn droves. All | dt Redville township was there, and contingents from Hndwater and Greencastle, and from every town and postoffice in the county. All xy a crowd surged around the lit tle White two-room, two-story build ing, gaping at the innocent exterior, and pressing noses against the win fow panes to gaze at the equally inmocent looking Intertor. Dan laughed, his biggest, most cenial laugh, He knew who was ming to get done up Two o'clock arrived, the specified time for the housewarming. But Mrs, Ed did not appear. Nor did lig 14. ‘The eyes of the crowd be- «an to turn toward the road where the Trowbriige automobile should jbe coming. Then, strangely, curtously slow, jerawling along at @ enall’s pace, came the big blue touring car. | The impatient went to meet !t—and | came flying back In wild excite, ment. Sam Ichy was coming—Sam Ichy,| who had not been out of his bed for |16 years. The contest between Mre. Ed and Dan Crowder was lost) sight of in this new thrill, And a singular change of temper swept over the crowd | No one spoke aloud as he was lifted out and carried to the Iittle the new house, an eink held their breath an his voice raised. | “Friends an’ neighbors,” he began —his voice, always strong and clear, | carrying to the edge of the closely) packed throng—“you've been invit-| ed t' a bouse-warmin’. And you've) | come as etraggers come, expectin’ t’ }look in an’ admire er criticize, an’ |’ go away ag’in. Th: ‘cause I'm |a childish old man that wanted t lenjoy a Iittle surprise party—I |wanted t’ keep you wonderin’ an’ kuessin’, wo's t' make y’ all come out an’ welcome me, An’—an' I think y' all do welcome me | “We do! We do!” they shouted, | and applauded wildly; and pressed lcloser, and were quiet again —walt| ing. “Y' all know my Interest tn each Jone o' you, jest ‘8 1 know your in But, #0 far, you've! |done all th’ givin’. Nary a day that |somethin’ from eome one o' you don't find its way t' my door—pies cake an’ soup an’) |bread an’ meat—dainty victuals an’| hearty victuals, And—money. | I've) |kept a pouch between my feather ticks an’ put tn th’ bills an’ silver) jan’ gold just ‘s {t passed from your band t' mine; only it mostly was jleft, unbeknownst t' me, under my |pillow er tucked tn th’ kivers. An’ jallus I've been thinkin’ what kind |of a present I cd give you—my neighbors an’ friendw. Then, one day, I ran upon a plan—" | Sam Ichy stopped to wipe off the beads of perspiration that mottled his face. The hardest thing he had ever done was this taking credit to himeelf for Peggy's beautiful plan.| But it was for Redville—and for! Pegsy— “An’ the plan ts this: t' give you jan Information Bureau tn this cen ter of yer town, whar y’ kin git ex- pert knowledge at first hand, with-/ jout writin’ t Washington an’ mag azines an’ n apers. An’, ‘cause 1 was loc fer some one t' do this | kind o' th I found some one who {was lookin’ for this kind o° thing t' do. You'll meet her tomorrow t' a reception at the parson’s—Mre Lucy Kenyon, her name is. She } Was rat on a farm, an’ after 20 jYears o° vin’ tn cities she's come jback to @ farmin’ community— ne here's whar her heart's allus beer He fter, for six days in the week, you'll find her in this house—your house. Fer, friends, j'twas yer own money that built ‘t, an’ not a board er a nail tn ‘t that wasn't pald for by some one o’ you It cost seven hundred dollars, and har’s still dollars t’ the good t ture an’ a few little things we need.” He turned partly about an¢ potnt Jed his hand toward the door. | Thar'll be not "oh t’ sell When y' want t y’ need only! t' step into Dan'l Crowder’s store. And I think y'll find bis motto of the ‘best goods 't the lowest prices’ true t’ the letter, An’ ff yer akep- tical an’ he has t’ prove ‘tt’ you. kin bring y’ here an’ show that his brand o' goods {s on th’ list Ag’ th’ Indies will find Mrs, Ken yon ready t’ advise ‘em on the fash fons, and what ¢« is suited t’ thar own particular style o’ beauty An’ upstairs will be found a weitin’ why, he room, er eatin'-room, er anything y* all it, whar y’ kin bring y* h, an’ heat y' a pot o' coffee, an’ rest an’ think over y’ purchases an decide how many things yo: for got t' git. An’—an I hor like this new house o' yourn His voice you'll broke tried to go on but thete of no more words from y A thousend voices rose, in bra. voe, and cheers, and happy laugh ?, and heart-born tears ° On the outer edge of the crowd, @ soft voice erted Rat Chokes to Death | in Girl's Sleeve Band! ALTAMONT, Mo., Pept. 8.—While | cleaning the cellar, two women| | discovered a rat, and soon they, were chasing !t capturing it Interested In the progress of the battle, an &y@rold ae) started down the cellar steps jum as the rat, hard pressed by his adver aries, started up. The child shrank to one side, but the rodent made a rush for her and| tried to run up her sleeve. In a second ft had equeezed its head past the wristband, then hung there. writhing and kicking, until it chok od to death about, intent on Grand Duke Nic's country seat, we learn, is, appropriately enough, at Chair, daisies for a daisy chain, Hurry, Bother!” | Lift me up, Ed, so'a T can see." Then: “They're glad! They're glad! Oh, look at them, darling! QIAPTER XXXV. The gold-lette diary sent by Aunt Margaret Patton ten ra be- re wae full, all but a quarter of the last page. It lay now on| Peggy's knee while Peggy, dream. fly reminiscent, sat under a favor ite tree on the lawn and looked at the house tops of her neighbors jutting thru the trees tn the valley below. Little Ed, playing nearpy with his brothers and baby. sii and nurse maid, ran to her “Come on, mother come on, we're golng Into the fields to gather “I'll come pretty soon; you on, dear,” sald Peggy, and sat still, chin in one cupped haf@/the other turning the lea of the secret or Kervios It had been two years #ince the last record, the ta of Dan Crow der and the little twostory, two room house—two wonderful years wherein ber first girl baby was born. ‘Today hg bad happened pgp it unawares, and she now looket at it with feelings strangely mixed wonder and amusement and re morse interminglt#g Oh!” she whispered, as she read of that wedding journey taken alone, and of Ed's incarceration in the cistern, “Oh! how could I have written down those awful things I 4id to Ed! and written them as tho they were charming things to have done!” | } A little laugh escaped her. She fingered the pages, read the story of Letty and Steve's marriage, her eyes quickly traversing the val ley to rest oa thelr home. And it was a home, truly, she thought ten terly, Those two lonely silent souls had never lost the wonder of finding each other, To Still Ste hie “wooma: wae & constant mar. vel of delight. The next brought as gleeful a laugh as when it was written; the) chronicle of Ben Lake and the din- ner that was still a famous joke in| the Duggan house—a joke even to en, Who was still there, and cock- ily crowing over their separate quarters. The account of Belle Dawson and! her evil machinations Peggy passed ghtly by. This was no more than) a bad dream now But—ah! the entry of the riding match! Peggy didn’t pass that by. She read it over delightedly. The Brute was now in her stable and had been there ever since that day of the riding match, and contented- ly, as gentle now as old Umpire,| but still accounted the finest saddle horse tn the county, as was Peggy the finest horsewoman. A glance toward a nearby house brought «a warm light in rf eyes, the white-gabled house where dna Wilmers lived, and at which she had gazed so tragically once. Now she and Edna aw h other almost every day nd their “circle” was truly an open” one. All the names combined did not} number one-half the times one name alone appeared! * & * One) name Was on every page, just as) one person was in every beat of her heart--Ed! Peggy sat upright, held by a new thought. Why? asked Peggy tn wonder. Why was ber love for her husband greater than all these other loves?| No answer came to Peggy. She only comprehended dimly that it w: ‘* purpose breathing thru * From the beginning of time {ft was meant that she and Ed should meet and love. Then—a piercing scream from the next field and Peggy, all else forgotten, was on her feet, the diary falling to the ground un- noticed as Peggy sped to her little brood. “She touched a caterpillar; that was all, Mother,” Eddie explained. Then came a game with the daisy chain, then a song with three little boys out-singing each other i cordantly, then a ery of “Daddy! There's Daddy, sitting under mother’s tree!” Then—Peggy re-| membered the diary also under “mother’s tree!” The diary was still under it; only now ft lay open on Ed's knees, | and Ed waa perusing {t intently. She halted behind a tree a little way off, and watched him under lowered Inshes. How would he it? she wondered She approached stealthily, want- WARDS “eae 99 uasive Peggy BY MARAVENE THOMPB6ON ot Ne Next Novel “The Moss Mystery” § | BY CAROLYN WELLS } | j rrr wrote, “Persuasion number Two and numbered each to the end of the book. Then he closed ft and har It to Pegg ell keep that for our golden wedding, It has the aginide and ¢ ins And I thoug eried “T was while re pages,” he answered at you did wan alw us both, You didn't get something for get something for us, to Peggy flashed him « radiant smile. Then she opene@ the diary to fill the remaining quarter of page “I won't get another diary,” she wrote, “because I know now that my married houne is going to be all right to the end, clear to the golden wedding. because it is bullt on Ed looked over her shoulder. “Here, let me end that,” said he, and took the pen and wrote LOVE in big letters “But that ien’t ft, Ed; not all of it,” cried Peggy. Then she took the pen and wrote: “We're going to live happily to the end because our married life ts bullt on LOVE and UNDERSTAND ING.” cron fight yourself, b her.” THE END. MUNICIPAL COURTESY Editor The Star: I want Star readers to know that for courtesy, the crews on the municipal Lake Burien line are unsurpassed. Last Sunday I, my wife and chfl- dren went for a car ride on the municipal line, and, on getting off at Thistle st. forgot one of the children, On seeing the car back- ing up to bring the boy back, after being away about elght or ten blocks, words or writing cannot ex- press our appreciation. JOE DAVIS. NEED BROAD MINDS Editor The Star: As one who is soon to be drafted for the select service, I would like to say that after Teading that, “Coercion is hinted at to keep America patriot- fc,” I am filled with disgust toward those who so far miss the spirit of our institutions in being lenient instead of Intolerant to those who differ in any way on the questions of the day. It does seem to me that only small minds can be worked to a frenzy over such matters. We need broad minds now, not smali ones Of the family to which I belong. seven gave their lives in the civil war, so there is not much possi- bility that I have sold myself for German gold to Autocrat Bill for so declaring T Just have. RAM FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERS: Editor The Star: Referring to letter in @ recent issue of The Star, wherein it was claimed by the writer that lumber for which the patriotic (7) lumber interests are demanting $105.00 per 1,000, can be produced by the government for $25.00, and pay estumpage at that, we wish to endorse the suggestion that the government commandeer or construct sawmills and provide the government its own lumber, from necessary, to escape this damnable extortion. Title to this very tim- ber for which they are asking such exorbitant prices was obtained largely thru fraud and perjury. Not only should the government ing to see his expression before, conscript Inmber, but also metals, committing herself ‘Come on, Peggy,” he called out, quietly. Pegey ran to him, scuttled down on her knees and wound her arms about him. “Darling, I am Good Peggy, truly He looked {nto the bewi!tchingly | perturbed face. “You're the same Peggy I mar. ried ten years ago, and the same Peggy I'll celebrate our golden wed. ding withthe same Persuasive Pegey,” said he—and kissed her, laught m little. Then, the ladgh deepening, he took a fountain pen from his pocket and opened the diary. | “Persuasion number One,” he and all other necessities. This |they will do unless the government places material things higher in the scale of values than the lives and limbs of the very flower of our youth. In any case, under this sugges tion, the government would be but anticipating by a few short years— or months—the abolition of capital. ism, of all private ownership, and the substitution therefor of the principle of collective ownership. Thus we would have a complete democracy, instead of a partial democracy. as at present; we would have tn reality what we have now in pame only—a government of, fer and by the people. A. B. C. DAVIB. 'Could Not Eat or | Made Well By Mr. William Denny, 1023 Park Ave, Springfield, Ohio, writes: “I find great pleasure in writing you and thanking you for what Pe- runa hae already done for me. 1 rate guth troubled with catarrh for| Cam Now years, end it had affected my head, nose, throat and stomach, that I could not eat nor sleep with any sat- isfaction. “I have just taken three bottles, I an eat most anything and am greatly relieved of nervousness, so that when 1 lie down I can sleep without the least trouble, | recommend it to all those who are sufferers of that dread- ful disease, catarrh.” Slee PER Catarrh For Years ‘ A Eat and cines can procure Peruna Tablets. ° and compare what you've left behind with what you hope to accomplish. Don’t your plans include an improvement in your money efficiency-—an increasing balance in your Sav-° ings account here, by regular deposits? Of course, and to act. it’s stdetly yp to you to decide DEXTER HORTON TRUST o SAVINGS BANK SECOND AT CHERRY sea@ Le, wasn. Combined Resources of the Dexter Horton National Bank and Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank, $21,263,222.70 {ts own forest reserves, if “Those who object fo liquid medi

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