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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR JOHN SHAER Eter THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR THE CHICAGO EVENING POST THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS THE LOUISVILLE HERALD THE DENVER EVENING IMES THE MUNCIE STAR THE TERRE HAUTE STAR Entered as Second Class Matter at the Poat office at Indianapolis Ind TERMS SUBSCRIPTION: 'Daily and Sunday by mall one year 1750 Dally by mall oneyear 500 'Sunday by mail one year BY CARRIER: Daily Six day 10 cents Daily and Sunday one week 15 cents Daily one month 45 cents Daily and Sunday one month 65 cents Persons unable to obtain copies of The Star on trains or in other cities will confer a favor by notifying this office of that effect i 1 troops abroad It would be a fine agec tacle indeed for the rest of the world to see several million Chinamen fighting the battles of this country as paid em ployes Doubtless such a scheme would meet with the approval of the con scientious objectors and of the people who insist even to this day that Uncle Sam should have permitted Germany to run his affairs even to the point of say ing when and where American ships could sail People generally will applaud their government for running to cover the conscientious objectors in Senator Gore's state who organized mobs and de fied the authorities to force them to rec ognize the conscription law It is pleas ing to read that a big is being conducted at Cleveland where '2500 men have failed to respond to their jdraft summons The government shows that it means business by arresting mem bers of the conscription boards in various places who are violating the draft law And finally they will be pleased to know that a ederal judge in Alabama has held the draft law constitutional in the case of a negro represented by Thomas Watson who held that the law is in contravention of the involuntary servi tude provision of the constitution The government has been too tolerant of the conscientious objectors and with all others who seem to think they are at liberty to say and do whatever they please but seems now ready to take toiling hands of mortals! un wearied feet traveling ye know not wlnther! Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hope fully is a better thing than to arrive and true success is labor Stevenson sterner measures It yesterday barred from the mails a labor paper which has been conducting an anti draft propa ganda Because this is a free country it does not follow' that people should be permitted to defy its laws and go undis turbed No one who Is worth while willblame the government for compelling the conscientious objectors to shoulder their Efficiency in Bond Selling William reeman an authority on advertising presents estimates in the Editor and Publisher to show that the i cost of floating the second Liberty Loan of 1917 by a national campaign of paid advertising would not be" to exceed 90 cents on a $1000 bond 9 cents on a $100 bond and 4 cents on $50 This esti mate is if anything a trifle high judg ing by the totals that have been sub mitted to the secretary of the treasury by the national advertising advisory board of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World Accepting Mr reeman's estimate as the highest possible cost it amounts even then to a fractional part of the sell ing costs that are usually recorded in private business The same costs were present probably in larger measure in the first sale of war bonds in June but they were not charged to the govern ment They were absorbed by the busi i hess interests of the country by banksnd bond houses newspapers magazines and the owners of other advertising media The banks of the country bought a large amount of advertising of various kinds and in addition maintained local headquarters and agencies for the sale of bonds outside their regular places of 'business Bankers and brokers generally figure an overhead cost of $4 for the sale of each $1000 in securities and in the case 'of the first Liberty Loan they met that charge as well as the cost of advertising the loan A voluntary system of sale might be organized again it is true but the practice of singling out two or three jlines of business and asking them to con tribute their only saleable commodities to patriotic cause is manifestly unfair The government pays for all military supplies and equipment and for every thing that enters directly or indirectly into the prosecution of the war The ad vertising media and the banks and bond houses of the country should not be re quired to give their commodities without cost any more than the makers of armor plate shrapnel or uniforms The addi tional argument to be urged in favor of the advertising campaign now under con sideration is that it will save confusion and waste in salesmanship methods and will aid materially in kindling interest in the war part of the war burdens and for deal ing with an iron hand with all men ami women who stand in the of its prosecution of the war in which it is en gaged Peace Plans The peace proposals stipulate evacuation of Belgium and northern rance with no mention of reparation and it is intimated that this plan is in accord with German wishes This may well be and not indicate any change of heart in the government of the empire since James Gerard then American ambassador had a talk on the subject of peace with Chancellor VonBethmann Hollweg no longer ago than last Janu ary as related in the former ambassa reminiscences now being pub lished In response to direct questions by Mr Gerard asking the specific terms on which Germany would be willing to make peace the chancellor replied that the Germans were willing to withdraw from Belgium but with guarantees Asked as to the nature of these guaran tees the chancellor replied: must possibly have the forts of Liege and Namur We must have other forts and garrisons throughout Belgium We must have possession of the railroad lines We must have possession of the ports and other means of communica tion The Belgians will not be allowed to maintain an army but we must be allowed to retain a large army in Bel gium We must have the commercial control of To Mr suggestion that this would leave little for the Belgians ex cept that King Albert would have the privilege of residing in Brussels with an honor guard Bethmann Hollweg replied briefly can not allow 'Belgium to be an outpost of He then went on to say that the Germans were willing to leave northern rance but there must be a of the meaning of course annexa tion of whatever territory Germany de sired Bulgaria would be left to deal with Roumania a very small Servia might be allowed to exist but that would be a question for Austria the chancellor went oh be left to do what she wishes with Italy but we must have indemnities from all countries and all our ships and colonies indestructible containers and that these can be made is illustrated hy the fact that a large shipment of eggs from Rus sia to Pittsburgh was made last year without a single egg being broken These substantial crates are bound to weigh more the writer admits but he adds that if the railroads can so adjust matters as to make it cost the shipper no more fpr his freight out and back than he now pays out it is obvious that the rail roads will save millions while the ship pers will save as many millions more due to the fact1 that they may use these strongly built cases over and over again It is an interesting story but even if the happy arrangement between railroads and shippers comes to pass where will the consumer come in? Will eggs be cheaper? Another Job for Mr Taft They are saying now that former President William Howard Taft may be jmade principal of Hampton Normal In stitute to succeed the late Dr rissell who was head of the school for many years Mr Taft is now chairman of the board of trustees of the institution and has always taken a deep interest In its work Just at present as major general in the Red Cross service and head of the Red Cross organization Mr Taft has a good deal of business on his hands As a genera patriotic whooper up he is also doing useful service Perhaps he could combine these two not conflicting lines of work with the executive labors of Hampton as well as he can the work of law lecturer at Yale Mr Taft takes the world easily and is never likely to suffer from over exer tion if he will be judicious enough here after not to travel over the torrid middle West in July and August Probably he can do more good for Hampton and for the Indian and negro races whonf it serves by giving it publicity through the speech making that he is fond of than if he were to devote himself strictly to the labors of the school as did Dr rissell Booker Washington who was a prod uct of Hampton spent the greater part of his time in traveling about and mak ing the value and needs of Tuskegee known both to people of his own color who might patronize it and men of wealth who might aid ite With Mr Taft as a man and collector of funds Hampton ought to flourish might ily A Measure of a Man A man died up in Wisconsin the other day and a headline over the announce ment of his death said Trusted That was a great testi monial infinitely greater than if it had been snid of him that he had accumu lated millions or had given 'much in charity or had been a man of political power or had stood high in an honored profession Any one of these things might have been true of him as well as the first but not one would have indicated the char acter of the man as did this simple trib ute trusted This gave an insight into his personality even to I strangers It meant that his nature was friendly that he took an interest in other people that he was ready to ren der service to them when he could that when he made a promise he kept it that he was sincere in his professions of friendship that he never betrayed con fidence that in all the relations of life he was to be depended on Men of this kind are not uncommon they may be found in every class of so ciety they may be rich or poor promi nent or obscure but when they have es tablished their character in their respec tive circles as men in whom the com munity has confidence or the men and women in the little circle that knows them put entire trust they have built for themselves monuments better than silver or gold It is the soul of the man that is measured when such tributes are paid not his achievements and the soul is of more importance than the work Anti government agitators who try to discourage food conservation by spread The Conscientious Objector The War Department according to ad vices from Washington has its own ideas as to what constitutes a tious under the terms of the There is a peace program that in no wise conflicts with the sugges tions He would have Germans with draw to their own territory and that ing stories that all foodstuffs will be con fiscated for military use confine their ac tivties to districts settled by aliens with now and then a sally into mountainous rural regions where illiteracy and ig norance are general Ignorance and cre many ways The man belongs to a re is opposed strongly to reason why a conscrip exempt him and at the conscription law Congress probably in tended to excuse ministers and othersengaged in various forms of religious iwork from being forced to take up arms 'for their country It is not at all likely (that it had in mind eliminating members fof any or nil religious sects from serving lin the national army I The term conscientious objector might be construed in mere fact that a ligious sect that war should be no tion board should same time take others who do not hap to be affiliated with any religious or ganization or that matter the aver age man earnestly objects to war but he not therefore fail to do his parthen the country needs him to help fight As battles Thousands of boys are being taken who if they had their own way they are willing to do provided they may retain control of the evacuated country They are willing to withdraw from rance after they have annexed such portions of it as they may need And all the countries which they have devastated must pay indemnities I It is an inter esting plan witii no likelihood of ever being put into operation But though VonBetbmnnn Hollweg is no longer in power there is nothing to show that his successor holds different views No won der that with this supplementary pro gram in the background Germany looks with a friendly eye on the sug gestions The Egg on the Travels The history of the egg shipping busi ness suggests the story of House That Jack The assertion having been made that one cause of the high to the but by doubled Under these built suffi This resulted in reducing and consequently tlje Would gemain at home but they can not 'escape service on the ground of being conscientious objectors A man ho objects to fighting for his country is not lo be taken very seriously The good citizen is for his country tor and he is not likely to show jvery much sympathy for the members religious sects who are demanding exemption on the ground that they are conscientious objectors The average conscientious objector has no scruples against partaking of the blessings and prosperity that come to his country He is in fact the first as a rule to his rights to the good things thatcome to his community It is just as Well that the War Department is doing its own thinking in determining win the real conscientious objectors has been too much protest against couscription law wdicq alter all pre Bents the only fair way of raising an 4 army It is satisfying to note the atti tude people are taking against the sbirk era and against the contingents that are protesting against every move theircountry is making to prepare for war Only a few days ago Senator Gore'in a resolution in Congress oppos ing sending American 'troops abroad fHa advocated the hiring of troops to do tha fighting for America We might em Mloy 6000000 Chinese for that purpose cheaply he said than to send our so that the stopping and starting of trains created greater shocks This called for greater care in packing but paper boxes could not be packed to advantage nnd the loss in eggs was great A legal con troversy over the use of paper and wooden containers resulted in an Inter state Commerce ruling that paper boxes might be shipped nt the same rate as the wooden ones the weight strength of the wooden crates until now all egg crates are fragile and the loss in shipment is great The only remedy ia price of eggs was that railroads care lessly smashed thousands in every ship ment and would pay but for a small per centage a Boston writer explains the situation by setting forth the progressive record of the egg traffic He says that in the old days it was customary for the railroads to return empties free this including egg and berry crates! cracker boxes vinegar and oil barrels coffee cans etc conditions egg crates were cirntly strong to make numberless trips but when the privilege was rescinded economy to the shippers seemed to lie in reducing the weight of the case lightest amount The paper box came into use this time freight cars had nearly in i Iiiipi unit Li I into UOUDIPU There in capacity locomotives had been made i i pr mi rp piippit nvnL'na dulity go hand in hand and It is not to be pondered at thjit this seditious talk persuades some persons to give up conser vation In Pennsylvania and Virginia where most of the instances of this prop aganda have been detected the Estate and County Councils of Defense should be able not only to overcome the mischief but to detect the enemy agents as well it would appear that the defense councils can make themselves eminently useful by stopping this sort of propaganda and bringing the criminals to punishment An oilcloth manufacturer of Massa chusetts who died the other day leaving an estate worth 110000000 began his business career forty years ago in an abandoned barn and with no money to speak of People complain now that there is no chance for the young man without capital and it is 100 to one that they said the same thing back in this millionaire's day IT Peabody mine operator and chairman of the coal production commit tee of the National Council of Defense has suggested to President Wilson the names of available candidates for the new office of coal administrator After such a shining example of sacrificial service we shall hear now that some pacifist wants to nominate the chief of staff of the army Gen VonLlebert says that Germanywili precipitate another war if it can't achieve its ends in the present one which merely supplies additional reason why the allies should do their job thoroughly now One form of conservation has been highly developed and will not need to be urged this year The oysterless soup we've always had with us Good morning! Have you resolved to save your pound of wheat this week? As we gather it Mr Root wants steel noses for copperheads The tank demonstrates its superiority over the vaunted human war machine Even supermen find it necessary at times to take to underground warfare Certain Gennan language editors con tinue to put the alloy into loyalty jt's about time for Uncle Sam to skim the dross from his melting pot President Wilson has no coal Hoovar in sight A German Peril? Women Made Over TROUT AND MEN end pe Copyrlfrht by Edgar A Guest A Notes the I The Daily Novelette of the fourth and fifth story Dr (Copyright 1917) memoir writers agree that he left The Cafe Coat Girl Song and Sentiment I in speaking of joking with the relations admiring the splendors of the great times but al ways for him English Housemaids Become arm Hands and Like Change very that bad sounds dfcrk blue to me the priest says that wonder that either my mother lets my the house how she Will A And And Charge That We Are Already In vaded and1 Our Institutions Menaced off by time's fit expression fit expression ideals of this and that there with In November his eminence moved from Ruel! to the Palais Cardinal Paris and there 'still of magnificent mien though gloomy of spirit and too ill to be actually present he entertained the court with the performance of a heroic comedy called "Europe" partly his own work1 and celebrating the victories of rance over Germany Spain and her own in ternal disloyalties The piece was of course a glorification of the ministry of Armand DeRichelieu i It was not long before nature took het revenge 4 On riday Nov 28 1642 in the night the cardinal was attacked by a pain in his side with fever On Sunday follow ing the pain and fever having been aug mented it was found necessary to bleed him twice and the Duchess his niece decided to remain at the Palals CardinaL On Monday morning the cardinal was better but during the afternoon and night he became so muchworse with difficulty in breathing that the doctors bled him' again On Tues day the King offered special prayers in all Paris churches and arrived from St Germain on a visit to his dying minister Was Louis sorry or glad? Who knows? At this supreme hour as all through career there are contradlc 1 tory accounts of the relations between the two men Some tell of a gracious and sympathetic King handing nourish ment to the invalid listening with sor rowful attention to the last counsels of the statesman who had led him and rance so far and who now while rec ommending his family and friends to his care was chiefly concerned that mon sieur thb King's brother should have no share now or thereafter in the govern ment and that Cardinal Mazarin the fittest of all the ministers should taka up the burden that must be laid down or it was plain to Richelieu himself as well ajf to the King friends and physi cians that he had not many hours to live Letter result 4n be oft the tempter tries of dazzling flies: take the common run of lures some iriKe at gom or xame i for a smile will fall and men unyi in Biiame take the whisky hook to death but an are corn to me in the end we too shall take our dal kind of fly' you see It sounds just loud to other olks The creaking old w'ain (which means wagon) of straw drew up and (stopped before the Mansion House where lives the lord mayor of London and looking very unfarmerlike in his top hat that shone like a mirror and faultless morn ing dress Jiecame out with Lady Max well and shfiok hands with the three ex Mansion House maids and introduced her ladyship And one by one out of the clear skies dropped fifteen photographers who took thirty photographs of the lord mayor Lady Maxwell and the three ex housemaids all backed up against that of last straw and a team of farril horses that wers paying no at tention whatever And after that three ex house maids scurried into the Mansion House to say a to their ex companions Then they again climbed up on to their load clucked up their team with startling briskness and went weaving their way through the traffic to the Bank and to ward Theydon Bols in Essex where is the Gerald Buxton training farm for na tional service girls A runaway steer have at tracted more attention to Itself in irst avenue New York In Cottage avenue Chicago or Market street Philadelphia or Roylston street Boston or anywhere in the states than did these three ex housemaids on a wain of last straw in Threadneedle street A hundred times better than house maiding 'There is no issue of the great conflict barring Kaiserism itself which looms bigger than just this problem of women and the war Some will think of It in connection with what a London tobacconist said the other day: girls of London are earning money as never before and like the rest of the workers they fly to tobacco to soothe their tired nerves They bother less about the price than the men Some buy scented cigarettes at six for half a Some will think' of it so and shake their heads England and rance have watched ineir women react under me AU iui imcc jeans muu me re has been a flood of books striving toterpret the basic changes which are ing brought about As for America it Is just entering war A German View New York StaatsZeitu ig Nowhere have the anarchists of the the lynch gangs' of East Louis uttered a rhore intemperate lawless lan guage than did former Secretary of State Root the old leader of the Republican party and of the conservatives in general and his friend and disciple Roosevelt But in the circles in the newspapers where they are demanding the severest punishment for lawlessness mob rule in citing to riots for the I an archists there they have nothing but unctuous words for the patriotism of the anarchists of the Union League the Na tional Security League and other leagues who do not see and do not care to con sider that a mob incited to acts of violence by a Root and Roosevelt may also lay violent hands on those who have hitherto only been extolled as the repre sentatives of and Sometime when all life's lessons have been learned And sun and stars forevermore have set The things which our weak judgments here have spurned The things which we grieved with lasnes wei flash before us out of dark night stars shine most in deepest tints of blue: we shall see how all God's plans are ngni how what seems reproof was love most true And we shall see how while we frown and sigh God's plans go on as best for you and me How when we called He heeded not our cry Because His wisdom to the end could see And even as wise parents disallow To much of sweet to craving babyhood So God perhaps Is keeping from us now sweetest things because it Beemeth good Riley Smith JUST OLKS BY EDGAR A GUE8T LITTLE POM POM Mrs Rlchen Close turned to her hus band her former chauffeur whom she had married because his eyes matched her bedroom wall paper and said: I think little Pom Pom ought to be clipped He suffers so with the heat Can I trust you to take him to the dog man and have him clipped In real rench style you know with little what you callums on his little wrists and everything? Are you quite said4 her good for nothing do well black sheep bad egg of a husband "Just gimme seven fifty and bring him back so you know him from a rench With a sigh Mrs Rlchen Close parted from $750 and her husband set out with Pom Pom Hildegarde Hawthbrne some juvenile criticisms in a prize contest says some of the writers seemed to think that a book must have only good people in It and because has so many bad or halfway bad folk in it it was by so much mistaken As a comment on this she adds: is no such thing as a village or a town or a house or a world that is all full of good people because there is not so much as a single one of us that is entirely without fault And in wild and bitter circumstances you will find wild and bitter men and in times of stress tempers will crack and sad things will happen" Miss Hawthorne's state ment is as applicable to a class of grown up i cauui da LU VIJUUreil It IS common to hear it said of a book it is objectionable because it has people in it But suddenly without warning his fata overtook him In the shape of an abscess that appeared on his right arm His physicians him but so soon as one wound wpuld close another abscess would appear This so greatly annoyed the cardinal that finally following the advice Of the local but against that of own physician whom he had summoned from Rueil his magnificent seat near St Germain he consented to an operation Had i he only known what those medicos were after! They knew full well that as long as the sores were kept open and running the cardinal could live But did they want him to live? Ap parently not His own physician told him the truth that by healing those sores the blood in his veins would be poisoned But ttlas for the great man Richelieu refused to listen After Cardinal return from the south few persons certainly not himself realized that his career was so near an end His chief surgeon re monstrated but to no purpose for the cardinal would have it done "He dealt himself a mortal the surgeon said to a friend or the moment infirm as he was he took a new hold on life Dur ing those weeks at Rueil he was eager Imperious restless suspicious ever plan ning for the future in case he should survive the King strangely haughty ir ritable and nervous Insisting that his armed guards should attend him every where even in the royal presence Louis XIII himself ill and too depressed to en joy his hunting as usual was pestered by Clavlgny and DeNoyers with messages from the eminentisslme insisting on the disgrace of four of his best liked officers among whom was DeTroisville (or Tre ville) the famous captain of musketeers whose only crime was that they had for merly been friends of Cinq Mars and that Richelieu feared their hatred and influence The King resisted long but at last by sheer angry obstinacy the cardinal gained his point and the foUf were dismissed from the court though not from the army Aleady one sees the vast differences the war is making in women They walk and work with all the accus tomed assurance of men They Hde in the smoking carriages they leap the busses on the move they have pockets and keep their hands in them when they care to not afraid to break into a spanking run when in a hurry they have learned in the absence of their menfolk to "carry on? for themselves What three years of war will do to the lap dog notion of chivalry which has made household pets of so many women in America one can only guess England's land army of women is only in its infancy But already it has a score of training farms scattered up through the low hedged hills of this tight little island Over 15000 women most of them taken out of the cities as were the lord three housemaids have been transplanted to life in the open by means of them Here they have learned farming in all the branches of it which England has Many of them will never come back to the cities many of them have gone to the land for good While the women of the Bronx are thronging the matinees these English women clad in corduroys and sun hats are getting in the hay while the women of Upper Third avenue are hanging out xvinnmva in the evenings these English women are feeding the pigs and milking the cows A writer in the New York Sun speak ing of "Anthology of Magazine Verse for remarks: Mr mills grind steadily they grind fine We shall not say he reduces poetry to a pulp but win be captious critics to say that the materials he had to work on the result had to be a mess and facetious defenders to retort better that than dry And Mr Braithwaite and the poets who work for him really are interest ing we observe about America poetry is that it is being sifted The light Stuff is moving fast down the wind of opinion to its proper oblivion What remains is substantial It has a purpose and strives both earnestly and intelli gently to achieve it The result is not Longfellow or Whittier not even they brought up to date It is not Whitman either nor Poe It is as the freakish excrescences are lopped gnawing tooth a pretty so far as poetry can be a of American ideas and time New York Tribune ET us not misunderstand the fact Germany has sown disunion in this country the crop of treason appalls those who love their country most Things that happen daily now were unthinkable three years ago The whole machinery of our democracy has been seized upon by German agents Newspapers have been bought politicians bribed representatives in Congress whose constituencies have German voters captured the alliance of the Puritan and the blackleg of other days was nothing by comparison with the fusion between the pacifist and the I today Every element of un rest every area of dissatisfaction every taction blinded by Utopian aspirations or animated by the passion of class hatred has been turned to serve a German pur pose We are no longer a united country and we shall not again be united until we have put a term to this attempt from without to destroy our national integrity We can not and we not abolish ffee speech or a free press we shall not become German to escape a Ger man peril But since we will not do this there is only one thing we can do and that is to send our men and our mondV to Europe to mobilize our numbers and our wealth and to fight this German policy and method until the German' government which employs them is de feated and either destroyed or compelled to renounce them In any recapitulation of American war aims this question should not be 'over looked The'1 German has invaded this country not with armies as he in vaded Belgium He has committed crimes against the peace and safety of the United States but not as he ''did against rance Not by the franker and braver method of open warfare has the German attacked us But he has by intrigue by corruption by machinations endeavored to destroy the unity of this nation as he successfully attacked the unity and safety of Russia He has fastened upon each free institution he has taken advantage of each inheritance of liberty and he had made it the engine of his own propaganda and purpose This is only one phase of the German idea but it is a dangerous a deadly phase It is only one of the many men aces Germanism has for the nations of the earth but Russia demonstrates how great it is And for our unity future we must fight this menace to the end Never again must any nation which has sent its sons to the United States to enjoy the liberty and prosperity of Amer ica to share in free institutions and free speech believe that it can with profit use these sons to break down American in stitutions destroy American liberty In a gtery real sense then the combat of 1917 is analogous to that of 1861 1865 Then we fought disunion that was inside Then we fought to preserve the integrity of the nation against an attack that came from one portion of the American nation wholly without association with any for eign nation Today we fight a new at tempt to destroy the unity of the country which comes from without is merely the local response to a foreign direction Half a century ago we fought to preserve the nation from the consequences of a do mestic revolt today we are at war to preserve the country from destruction threatened from abroad It may be necessary as Mr Root said to shoot some one in America If it is this should be done But the real place for shooting is in Europe The American troops who fight on rench soil fight for American unity unmistakably and inevita bly Germany has Invaded us and it is logical and it is proper that we should in our turn invade Germany We shall not seek by any other agency than our troops to destroy the German govern ment which has threatened our national life by every form of treachery corrup tion by every mean cowardly and con temptible deviceby deceiving the ideal ist and by purchasing the assassin or more than two years the rench states man Clemenceau answered all talk of peace with the single "The Germans are at Shall we be less determined when the Germans are in Washington New York all over America when German recruiting agents are mo bilizing every possible agency for dis ruption within the United States in obe dience to orders coming from Berlin? Americans as a nation are prepared to fight until Belgium is evacuated but it is not less necessary less vital to bur na tional existence that we should fight on until the United States is evacuated We talked over In the camp the wisest fish are trout They seem to know the ways of men and lust what they're about Today beneath some fallen tree a speckled beauty lies That has resisted splendidly range of cunning files But some said our oldest friend going to make A fly that fellow resting there will surely rush to trout we fished for years to take him from his hole usu oeen nooKeu a cozen ways saved his soul we got to know him and his spevitH lues To bate his greedy neighbors took he never made a rise He was a fish worth angling for and as the time went by Old fishermen began to say he'd never take a fly "Then Martin got him How? you ask The wisest fish will fall The day must come when judgment falls I guess to one and all Mftrtin kept angling for that trout could see him In the brook Yet never could make him rise to any gaudy hook He seemed to know the snare was set then came the costly break Lartin by chance tossed over him the kind of fly take much like fish we mortals are How oft the tempter tries To lure us to our doom with all his range Some Some Some And 1 OME journals of Leo Tolstoy that have lately been published show among other things that he had a peculiar taste in music He did not admire Beethoven and he could not sit through a single act of Wagner's Of this opera he wrote: Is stupid unfit for children above 7 years of age a Punch and Judy show pretentious feigned en tirely false and without any music what ever" In his home at Yasnaya Polyana members of the household were once in the habit of playing incessaqtly on four grand pianos reason enough one might think why he should dislike "all music forever Recalling this he said: thia the romances the poems the music wasnot art something important and necessary to people in general but a self indulgence of robbers parasites who have nothing in common life romances novels about how one falls in love dis gustingly poetry about this or about how one languishes from boredom And music about the same theme But life all life seethes with its awn problems of food distribution labor about faith about the relations of men It is shame ful nasty Help me ather to serve Thee by showing up this you the superintendent o' this here woolen mill?" demanded Jake are" replied Waxtrous Sneely "Well if you got a man here that can clip rench poodles the way they ought to be clipped let you kepp the wool for the trouble" trouble a tail! Come back in an hour" exclaimed the superintendent his face lighting up at the prospect of get ting several pounds of free Wool with wool at the present price of wool When he returned with a loaded breath to collect Pom Pom Jake found that they had been unable to resist the temptation to shear off every last thread of hair and Pom Pom was as hare as a elbow With profuse apologies the superintendent gave Jake $5 and Jake afraid to return home with what was left of Pom Pom invested in a second hand hand organ disguised Pom Pom in a monkey's cap and roamed the country until Pom Pom's hair had grown in again These Should Be Answered New York Hearald In view of the assignment of Maj Gen Leonard Wood to the least Important post the War Department could find for him some questions must be asked Is the treatment accorded to Maj Gen Wood the result of the machinations of a West Point clique in the general staff of the army? Is it due to antipathy on the part of the secretary of war? Is it dud to the President acting witii Mr Vance McCormick as he is under stood to have done upon another occasion? It is difficult to believe that President Wilson would be party to what would bs a piece of petty political persecution if the inspiration came from Mr Vance'Mc Cormick It is difficult to believe that Secretary of War Baker would lend himself to the promotion of petty professional jealousies in his department with the nation at war and entitled to the best use of its best talent Does the responsibility rest with the general staff? Some West Pointers have never forgiven Maj Gen Wood for prov ing himself the best chief of staff the army has had for Maj Gen Wood came into the army as hundreds of thousands of Americans now are coming into it not through West Point my' recent discussion of ths system creating hidalgos the grandees and the caste of no billty ot Spain have demon strated that inthat country of fair maidens of guitars mandolins love lorn Lotharios and excessive sentiment' some meritorious Castulian ''Andalusian or Estramadurian title may be raised to a1 dukedom without becoming' by this rise a peer of the realm certainly not a Span 5" ish grandee That the same System prevailed in monarchic rance I shall show in this letter by narrating the story 'of the last days and death of the great Cardinal De Richelieu upon whose tombstone in the Church of the Sorbonne (the University of Paris which he had erected and mag nificently endowed) there is engraved that the great statesman and prelate was not only a duke and a cardinal of the Church of Rome but principally a of After the death of Duke Bernhard of Saxe Weimar (1639) diplo macy transferred the army and lieutenants to the service of Louis XIII the first consequence of which was the overrunning and conquest of Alsace for rance Spain also was in trouble by land and sea especially so in the Nether lands Richelieu went to the assistance of the Marshal De LaMeilleraye who gave Arras back to rance together with the ancient province of Artois The car dinal himself journeyed south where rench armies overrun Roussillon and Cerdagne frontier counties of Catalonia besieged Perpignan and crossing the mountains fought side by side with the rebels He witnessed the fall of that city and was in high glee over the news he re ceived there of the tragic end of the Comte DeSoissons his personal enemy after plotting aginat him at Sedan with the Dues DeBoullon and DeGuise (the archbishop of Rhfeims) King Louis did more than listen to the dying prayers and coun sels he respected them Still gossips and memoir writers agree that he left the Palais Cardinal "fort gal" laughing and i and house which was to become royal prop erty 'by the will When the King was gone Richelieu asked his physicians how long he had to live They replied evasively as doctors often will there was no cause to despair and so forth Then he called Chicot the physician and told him to answer truly not as a doctor but as friend Chicot gave him twenty four hours parler is said Richelieu and sent for the cure of St Eustache his parish church to receive his confession and to administer the sacraments me as the meanest of your parishioners" he said to the priest and the crowd in the room could hear through their sobs the voice of their master repeating Pater and Credo join ing in prayers and declaring his faith in God and the church answering to the question whether he forgave his enemies: have had no enemies but those of the state" On Wednesday the doctors having bled him again as the pain and fever grsw steadily worse retired they could do no more A country medico then was al lowed to try his skill Many such prob ably haunted the gates of the palace but this man was his name had some friend at court who admitted him to the sickroom and the cardinal did not refuse his remedies At first they seemed successful Sooth ing draughts and opium pills lulled the sharp pain and when the King who had remained at the Louvre paid bls second visit in the afternopn the car jrnal ap peared slightly better The gossips record that Louis departed joyful A quiet night brought so calm a morn ing (Thursday Dec 4 1642) that the" own people began to rejoice In the hope of his recovery and If the doc tors knowing better shook their hads Leevre had his moment ef triumph But the patient himself was not A little before noon he felt extraor dinarily weak and perceiving that his encl infallibly drew near he said with a typical countenance to Duches niece I am very ill I am going to die I pray you to leave me Your tenderness affects me Do not suffer the pain of seeing me She the person he had loved best left him unwillingly and in tears and his confessor was instantly called to say the prayers for the dying A few minutes of unconsciousness then two heavy sigha and the great Cardinal DeRIchelieu was no more I ANEUR (Copyright 1907 by A Jacobsen) BY LINCOLN LORENZO I ONDON Three ex bousemaids came to London town today on a load of last straw and 90000000 Americans had tlAy happened to be passing the Mansion House at the time would have stopped and forgotten their errands long enough to look or those three housemaids on a load of last straw are prophetic for America A year ago they were flicking the dustfff mantels with feathers Today they came back (for they used to be housemaids to the lady mayoress of London) in corduroy breeches high boots overalls and hail hail the all here hats Their necks are bared and browned There is sunburn in their cheeks Their shoulders have filled out They stride like men Housemaids they are no longer been out on my farm now for two months and said one of them to me like ft more interesting than housework more exciting feeding the pigs now forty one of them I have Atter tlie war going to Australia Splendid chances It made me gasp It made even Lon don war worn London long used to see ing its women impressed into all sorts of jobs stop and look At Broadway and orty second street a half dozen vaudeville managers would have been killed in the rush If this girl had appeared there And maybe the police or these are the real get on with the war girls Before America has been in it long begin to see them in the smaller towns up and down the Atlantic coast on Saturday afternoons or one of the incideptal achievements of the war in the United States is going to be the first boom that the much talked of back to the land movement has enjoyed in a very long time Surprising Change Chicago News Perhaps the most startling of all war time revolutions Is the suddenly acquired prominence of the bridegroom who threatens to displace the bride as the center of attraction when the wedding guests assemble "Gus" said the Coat pirl to August the head waiter you ever bet an a race where Amo and Tempus are entered against each other put your wad on Amo to horses are Latin names yes raulein and in my country kLatin is taught in said the Coat Girl got no country You just come from a place and by the time Pershing gets through with that place your friend Bill who was President there is to be around two his friends for the price of a meal! about that guy over there at the corner table banjo eyes at the skirt at the next table and thinkin' his wife see him Any time friend wife lets one of them stunts be pulled off over her shoulder you can have my tips for a week couple ain't been married quite two years yet and here that guy is al ready beginnin' to remember that there are other women in the world beside her and as soon as she sees it she's to commence to wonder what's become of all the boys that used to buy theater tickets and things like that for her be fore she was married "Gus I know loved a lot of fellas as hard as a woman can love and it certainly surprises me how soon I got over it I wonder if there is really any tning in tne worus makes love stick? I need not When I see what father do around brings his pire after she has done a hard how she quarrels at him and then snarls up his hair with her fingers as she passes him how she cooks his cabbage no matter how much we kids yelp about it and how he turns over hjs pay envelope to her it makes me won der' whether I really loved them guys after all and whether there some mistake about it Anyhow Gus all mighty A Minister and More Washington Gladden in the Amer ican Boy minister ought to be more thaw just the minister of a church he ought to be the minister of the whole community He will not be trying to build up his own church at the expense of the other churches but he will be friend The schools amusements health philanthropies prisons police courts and all parts of the city govern how to fill all of these with the spirit of service co operation and good these are included in the care of the church The opportunity the ministry offers to American boys calls for big men the church offers such a job to a big hearted boy I think he had better look it all over pretty carefully before he turns it dowtt: THE CHEERUL CHERUB The thunder me eel 30 smrt IB 4.