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I i 4k ji THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 191017 bfS Js Letter HATE went If And there is somethin rirts up in me brutes run wild In crime and lechery cents 65 cents A Notes re the Our Soldiers Should Be Tactful the Evo Thu Daily Novelette much stew? The Cafe Coat Girl THE CHEERUL CHERUB Senate tea reference to i 5 in fri Wilhelm has ottered a prize of and three leave to the the the Norway of course has expressly bidden the use of her waters for ago Ger that stay at homes that our army of The clock has been set back summer time Is officially ended in Germany and now comes the winter of its discontent Maine suffragists have condemned that White House picketing as to the and Maine women know too inci going prob to be the the the not have the that land to march to Paris But Ger On Sept 18 1628 Mattioli was lodged in the Bastille according to the records in the rench State Department achlves the journey to Pari having been accom we do not allow own judgment of issues according Harassing pres them through a forbidden to salespeople and other shop employes who come in contact with the patrons A gum chewing saleswoman is not a drawing card for her employers us to it and its the obtain copies of or in other cities by notifying this If Hindenburg finds out when Champ Clark Is visiting the west front no doubt he will issue instructions to be careful about firing in Champ's direction meaning light evidently the head The allies are using fake fog on the west front to mystify the Germans also to make the Londoners feel at home no doubt Persons unable to fhe Star on trains will confer a favor office io that effect Carroll Dana Winslow the author' of "With the rench lying Corps" which by the way is now In its third edition has left the rench service in which he won great distinction as an officer to become a captain in the American aero plane service INDIANAPOLIS STAR CHICAGO EVENING POST ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS LOUISVILLE HERALD DENVER EVENING TIMES MUNCIE STAR TERRE HAUTE STAR the future or fear of it did him for when told that he he remarked calmly that he Perhaps he wondered if he when another morning Shakespeare was not known to the Russians in his proper shape until 1864 At that time Nekrassofs translation called by scholars a great work was published and is said to have been a revelation to Russians of the titanic genius J' by all observers the bully is commonly a big fellow boys smaller than is a characteristic of the this and the mark of great in power to be generous to i Press 1 exclusively en for republication of all or not otherwise credited also the local news pub Another thing about buying a Liberty bond the government will let you keep all the income derived from it I hold this to he the rule of life too much' of anything is bud All the guy done was just talk Why Gue If that fella had made me I bet would have killed least and explanations offered excuses of one who is formal usage Germany to Buenos Aires that it of the ex leld Marshal VonHindenburg says President Wilson by his reply to the Pope's peace note has united the Ger man people So it true then that the Germans have been thinking and fighting as one man his eyes than to' go under the shadow of dread President Wilson has just returned from a vacation trip on the Mayflower and he did not get a permit to use the ocean from the "Admiral of the Atlantic" at that Haply he may haply may but it Emperor 300 marks German soldier who captures the first American After our boys have been in the fighting a few times all the money in Berlin would not be an inducement to a German soldier after he sees an American headed his way The outcome of that Argentina dent seems to be that Lujtburg is home in such disgrace that Berlin ably will 'decide that he deserves sent to some more Important diplomatic post Of course we In Indianapolis have realized all along that the other clubs in the American Association were merely lighting for second place honors to Mt corn bread and poMible and to be of Beats Lit will be one way serve the cause tjowm soldiers are offering their lives school JUST OLKS BY EDGAR A GUEST JOHN SHAER Editor THE THE THE THE THE THE THE When Sammy Backer Was Needed in '61 request that The result is not very Some testify that they Wartime Sidelights Norway in War Would End Submarines Russia is now a regular republic with a President patriots 1 AV Ws German propagandists and everything and partner Argentina wants should have both on apology from Jin and assurance that Germany no mood to permit a repetition similar example of international tonness and discourtesy said the Coat Girl to August the head waiter "this thing of being a young woman has its bad features as well aa its good ones "I got a gentleman friend named Min nie Murphy We all call him and Gus is ar good guy but a plumber for the city he well posted on art and liferature and music and things like that Why Gus I bet that guy know what Mary Pick first name is and he know who wrote "Mated but Not but as I said is a good guy and makes a hundred iron men every month "Well we goes to a party see? "Of course you know 1 no bad looker and the men say I got a glint in my eye that makes me and Gus there is one social accomplishment I have got I am the cutest little listener you ever saw "When they talk about things I am not hep to I Just fill in the cracks of the conversation with and quite an original and things like that "Well Gus and me went to this perfectly good party and the men they back me in the corner and tell me things They tell me what good writers they would have been if they have took up insurance uiu wnau sau pic tures they could paint if they could justh tho tmA nff from their roof Lil It lv and Gus I like it and it don do no nariii says and hates and bless me i a A a Aavt A At If last nigm VUII1V WML U4 Lite party if he puli a picket off fence and hit that roof painter guy over the head and ruin a perfectly new Pana ma that never cost a cent four dollars to me love to him at BY CARRIER: Dally six days Dally and Sunday one week Dally one month Daily and Sunday one month Rochester restaurant pro prietors are threatening to close their cafes at 10 if ttye police enforce the new law against women drinking more than fifty four hours in a week or more than nine hours in a day It is dif ficult to understand what kind of women Rochester must have if they can not drink enough in nine hours to last over one day I love to hea thia music box It tells of times that used to be The little tunes it tinkles out Just sound so lavender The House unanimously passed 17 000 006 000 war deficiency bill and buck to the But there is another version which alleges that Anne of Austria bore a child whose father was not her royal husband Louis XIII but the handsome English Duke of Buckingham the most vivacious and most powerful also the most spoiled darling of the fair sex at the court of King Charles II of England and who if Dumas and other chroniclers of that dav are to be believed was a great favorite of the rench Queen Still another re port has it that the child was a son of the Cardinal and Prime Minister Mazarin successor and to whom after the death of Louis XIII she is said to have been secretly wedded Both these tales as to the origin of the man in the "iron according to the latest researches and developments are obliterated The mysterious prisoner is identified as a certain Count Mattioli born in 1640 at Bologna in Italy and of an ambitious restless temperament Duke Charles III of Mantua made him Ms secretary of state and he held this high ZX ouuuuBsur jjune Charles IV The latter was the owner of a fortified castle called Casale of which Louis XIV of rance desired to have possession The duke was In need of funds and Count Mattioli was ap propched He was sent to Paris was graciously received by the King and i loaded with presents He it wag who agreed to sell the castle of Casale to rance But on his return to Mantua he dis closed whathe called an attempt to bribe him Thus the "grand was checkmated Casale remained after all in the possession Count Mat a tioli thus disclosing himself as a double traitor Poor Wilhelmina if she sides with the allies Germany will overrun her country and if she sides with Germany the allies will take see how longer MBMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated titled to the newa credited In this paper liahed herein All rights of republication of special dis patches herein are also reserved Where Some Newspapers ail I In an abljr discussion of some of the (defects of our representative govern 1 ment and especially of the failure ofcongressmen and of state and city legis lators to perform their duties acceptably for Puck he says "had shared with Bunner and me a deep ad miration for the delicate art of Austin Dobson yet his allegiance weakened a littlewhen he came later under the spell of Garden of As was customary with him he expressed in verse his change of heart I doubt whether he ever nublished this brief metrical criticism and' as it has tena ciously clung to my memory I make bold to preserve here his invocation to the poet whose banner he was deserting: "Austin Austin Austin Dobby Dobby Dobby Although writing verses Seems to be your hobby Stevenson can take you With Messrs Gosse and Lang And knock your heads together With a bang bang Stang should be except the most life you should soften his cap in me lave re peatedly enjoined in my former Once St Mars was ordered to "treat such a rascal as he and above all to see to it no one ever sliould learn what your prisoner has Entered as Second Class Matter at ths Post office at Indianapolis Ind tory orders in such a manner that on the route he shall be seen by no On Nov 10 1703 the long persecuted old man died The official register of the Bastille identified him as follows: the prisoner unknown his face hidden always behind a maskof black velvet whom Monsieur DeSairit Mars the Governor of Pignerol brought with him from the Isle of Saint Marguerite (incidentally the same rockbound etrip of land from which as I had occasion to state in one of my letters in 1911 the rench Marshal Bazalne by court martial for hie blunder in capitulation of Metz hi the ranco German war pt 1870 managed tO' escape through the untiring efforts of his American wife by being lowered from one of the little windows in the rock hewn walls of the fort into the sea) The unfortunate wearer of the iron mask was buried in the churchyard of St Paul at Paris At the very hour of his unheeded death in thee Bastille hie former master Duke Charles IV of Mantua and King Louis XIV whom he was visiting were feasting scarcely a bow shot away at the Luxembourg Palace while the body of their interme diary dupe and victim was being trailed in the dust by two Bastille turnkeys to an obscure grave for the sake has yet to bo teamed We go without foods we like pernaps Decause they are high pricedbnt we crumble bread on our plates Wantefully and throw the remnants of too large steak served to the small into the garbaxe without thought Ifcat a chance for conservation has been Biased and a duty overlooked Some 4ay we shall learn that it is our duty rye bread as often sparing in our use high well kept personal attack by papers they decline to eater to This sense of duty to the community is not sufficiently strong to make them willing to endure a cam ipaign of vilification and who can blame I them? Our representative government 'will not be what it should until this misuse of power is made so unpopular that it comes to an end TERMS SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday by mail one Dally by mall one year Sunday by mall one year repri criticised for sending cablegrams It does not seem to occurred to Germany that there anything wrong with a diplomat would recommerfd sinking neutral leaving a or that was any fault to be found with a representative who would indulge in such unnecessary show of personal feeling as to designate a friendly foreign minister as a Luxburg from the German view point seems to have been all right and to have acted satisfactorily until he was caught His acts and his lamriiage evi dently were approved by Berlin and to that extent were the nets and the lan guage of Berlin Now that he has been exposed Berlin can not satisfy Buenos Aires merely by repudiating its agent nd Bor is in of a wan do wish to know what will happen after they are gone I could only live twenty years sighed an Indian apolis nonagenarian that I could see the wonderful inventions sure to be made It is a natural and a wholesome state of mind The normal healthy minded person is concerned with this life not the next He knows about this 'and the other is a land of vague visions If he wishes to take with him into the other world a last panoramic glimpse of this earth and its doings as set forth in the daily papers why not' remember or mr flicttiiiuwa CL10U nao picocaut icuvhcl is better to pass with that picture tions of Munkittrich also a writer HE romance upon which Dumas the elder based the sequel to his "Three entitled Vicomte has been exploded' by the dis of official documents in the ar of the rench Ministry of State Qua! d' Orsay in Paris The tale her colonies and she does not she can keep neutral has been ordered conduct the infer oreign Office is that one of its so stupid incorporated year1750 600 250 Argentina Wants Spirit Not Words Argentina is not disposed to dismiss the Luxburg incident with a mere apol ogy on the part of some German under secretary It insists very properly on something more substantial and tangible as evidence of regret The German government must show a com plete change of heart so complete in fact that no doubt will be left as to what will be Germany's official course in the tuture The apology are merely the complying with has sent word has "disapproved nbsolutelv pressions used by Count VonLuxbnrg in his Ho home to explain his once being that the dreadfully provoked minions could use language and i undiplomatic as he into his official cablegrams All that is amusing when considered in the light of what has happened The expressions of which Berlin disproves are not different now than they were when he sent them several months ago There is nothing in the record to indicate that he was manded or even those have was who ships there Hlt8edltlon In Congress Rochester Herald Sedition must be dealt with at In the halls of Congress If government can not find a way to do it maybe the people can four of those bright faced giiod boys and girls at a hasty cs were industriously chewing gum an offensive sight Their jaws steadily the operation eeasing 'That soft adjustments will not satisfy Mon seldom fight the things they do not hate Diuvfl tiupo luii uctcHcu maaciu A tron on mildly tempered heart sick" he began to act in a manner Rank thrives the Weed the tAlava to You can net stroke the snake that lies in wait And change' his nature with morn If roses are to bloom the weeds must go Vice be dethroned If virtue is to reign Honor and shame together can not grow ither conquers or we lay it low wrong must be hated If the truth remain 1 "hold that we must fight this war In hate hate of blood in fury spilled Of children bending over book and slate slaughtered to make a Prussian despot great in hate of mothers pitilessly killed In hate of liars plotting wars for gain lnv hate of crimes too black for printed page in hate of wrongs that mark the tyrant's reign AlLd forever all within his train ouch hate shall be the glory of our age Copyright 1917 by Edgar A Guest The Gum Chewing Habit In a street car nearly filled with high school students one day last week three out of looking tinrnte It was wagged only when they indulged in conversation to be promptly resumed when talk ceased When they left the car to enter school the chewing continued as actively ps ever The observer looked after them specula tively and wondered regulations per mitted them to continue the practice in school hours A letter from a newspaper correspond ent in ranco says Americans have in troduce! the gum chewing habit to the rench people and the latter have taken to it very kindly If it were Raid that it is not the relined better bred among the rench who adopt the hnbit the remark would give offense to Americans who chew gum in public yet proudly consider themselves well bred for it is not only children who no about the streets According to complaints that reqch New York papers information comes in private letters from some of our men in rance that there is an unpleasant dis position manifested by a class of Amer ican Soldiers not excluding officers to boast that they have come to ranqe" the implication even the direct intimation being that the allies would be defeated without us It is a form of the old bragging assertion that America can the world Gertrude Atherton has hnd reports of this lack of taet on the part of our men and her protest in the New York Times is followed by the testimony of others who have had similar information It is not at nil likely that this boastfulness is general however or that where it is in dulged in it is anything more than the careless talk of boys who do not mean what they say seriously and are uncon scious of the offense that may be given in ease their are not understood or these soldiers young and old well know that the military achievements of the rench have been among the wonders of the world they know that the British have fought bravely and they also know that the allies were in no immediate danger of defeat even 'had we not coine upon the scene Our soldiers go to rance to help to strengthen the forces of the allies With their aid the day will be the sooner carried against the Germans but it will not bean Amer ican victory it will be a victory of the allied forces that include ourselves The majority of our fighting men are modest enough it is safe to say They know they have much to learn from the rench and British armies and are ready and willing to learn They hope to gain the friendship and respect of these associates and it should be their aim to suppress any individuals of the boastful order whise idle talk may make a disa greeable impression that will interfere with this friendship BY LINCOLN LORENZO If the British NavyT I has German ports so tightly I corked un how is it tnat Ger man submarines are able to get out into the Atlantic? This ts a common question In those na tions which are watching the war from a distance And Its answer is: Norway' The Straits of Dover by rench and English co operation are 'aosoliltely locked against submarines And the North Sea is shut against them to a point within: three miles of the Nor wegian coast jj And that little stretch of Norwegian water from which the British Navy is excluded by Norwegian neutrality will some day be found when the real his tory of this war comes tozbe written to have been the means of wholesale piracy on the seas This mean that German sub marines make their runs to and from their bases up and down the Norwegian Coast It does mean that probable German submarine bases In the deserted islands along the upper Norwegian coast are supplied by German craft which rurf the British blockade within neu tral waters As far back as January 1915 the Paris Temps saw this situation Is it declared the German sub marines have depots In the deserted islands situated farthest from the coast these were explored several years during frequent maneuvers of the man Navy in Norwegian In a chapter cf literary reminiscences in the Outlook Brander Matthews writes sympathetically of Bunner of whom he was very fond Bunner was a versa tile writer and when at one time he was contributor to Puck he could be depended on in emergency for any amount of longer articles and could improvise end lessly the squibs quips and local hits that were necessary There were weeks says Mr Matthews when more than half the matter in Puck was provided by him and 'provided easily without any sign of strain The cartoons which Keppler de signed were often suggested by Bunner I Mr Matthews also has pleasant recollec ormer Ambassador Gerard's story of his four years in Germany is interesting but at times the reader scarcely can shake off the suspicion that he is selling it by the word i fend themselves that is now aud one however to be deeply reprehended When a big man strikes a little one he is condemned of a school who I himself It coward to do ness for one those who of inferior position chance I them have often been heard to say that to meet with his displeasure Wbat is they do not dread death of itself but true of the individual this respect is infinitely more so in the case of a news paper which even though of small cali ber has a ower of publicity no other 'instrumentality possesses is without question that men of quality who would serve the people in any official capacity have been out of public life by the dread of 'Beer and Brutality A Houser In' the Phalanx The world is now learning a fact that will pive It a moral lesson for all time and aid the great cause of temperance It is this that beer Is the cause of Ger man brutality The drinking of beer for so many years nay for generations in Germany has de veloped a new type of man found in no other part of the a type void of the finer sentiments of the human soul and bereft of the kindness of the human heart a stolid feellngleas indifference to all but the animal instincts The loves and hopes of the advanced civilization of this age do not thrill the German breast nor make tender his cruel nature The long use of the combination of malt lupulin of the hops and alcohol from the fermentation has benumbed bls nerves and stiffled his brain deadened the man to all but the savagery of the beast and licentiousness of the degenerate This physical and mental condition of the war lords and the millions of soldiers in the field is the cause of a brutality sur passing anything recorded in history or known in tradition "Such men and such only could sink the Lusitania and express joy at the death struggle of their Innocent and help less victims though some of them were little children and tiny babies Only such beasts could murder Miss Cavell the faithful nurse Only such could wreak the appalling wanton destruction of Lou vain Only such could destroy the fruit trees in the occupied part of rance lest some starving rench child should get an apple or see the pink blossom of the peach And last and worst only the beer besotted beasts could commit that name less crime against the helpless of women and girls of rance and Bel Slum in the villages occupied by the erman Army making a public exhibi tion of the damnable orgies even unto the death of their victims Kipling well said are two kinds of people In tfie world Germans and hu man brings covery chives on the as told by Alexandre Dumas is romantic enough In the Bastilia that forbidding fortress tn the center of Paris which WAS demolished in the early days of the great 4 revolution and which was filled with dark slimy rat infested dungeons or political prisoners there was incarcerated one whose name was not known who i wore an iron mask which never was re moved from hi face but which enabled him to eat in whose presence the guards and also the governor of the Bastille' himself remained uncovered and stand he was very fond of music and fine clouies and who was ever treated with great consideration but also with un ceasing vigilance That unfortunate prisoner was univer saliy credited with being the brother of the grand monarque" Louis XIV or as' these princes were called under the Bout I bon dynasty Dumas relatesAhat Anne of Austria the mother of Louis XIV bore twin sons and that in order to have no question raised as to the suc cession to the rench throne one of the "nfants was abducted clandestinely This child was brought up by a female servant who was In the confidence or Queen Anne and loyal to her and upon obtaining man hood became knoVvn as "the man in the iron The occasional meeting be ''J tween mother and son In his rural re treat as a youth and" one interview in particular are masterfully depicted by A Dumas that past master of the pen His speaking likeness to his brother the Kins was responsible for the necessary pre cautions of concealing his face ONE A MINUTE Triggerfinger McGore champion cattle and check raiser of tlje middle West was slowly but noisily consuming an oyster stew in Yeka bivalvery in New York City when suddently he unleased an outburst of anguish and a roar of rage and clapped a hand tohis mouth "Wassalluh demanded Laley striding overThere's a rock in this here that's the roared Trigger finger McGore blew up one of my favorite teeth it did!" And re moving his hand from his mouth he dis closed a round gleaming object which the practiced eye of Yewka Laley spotted for a pearl immediately well stranger sorry for the he said soothingly "art see as it don't occur again to show there ain't no hard I'll give you $5 all In one bill and you can hand me over that there rock and I'll hold it up in front of the cook in one fist while a of him with the "Glad to pard glad to" responded Triggerfinger completely placated And he handed over the shining object and pocketed the five spot Half an hour later after sending in an order to the Blowhard Glass Company for another peck of beads he was sitting in Castaway oyster stewery and fryerv again clapping his hand to his mouth and roaring ragefully The rench Academy has announced that the subject of that arand for'poetry forthe year 1918 will be Morts ruitful It is a subject which recalls that incident already classic of the present war in which one rench soldier in a shell ravaged trench where apparently rio man was left alive but himself shouted "Les morts and thereby brought endugh stunned and wounded men to their feet to repel a German attack The dead do not always thus spring to their feet at com mand but suely they live on in their graves their' clay proving the seed Of countless heroes Their sacrifice thus bears and must continue to bear the richest fruits America also has had her fruitful dead and we know well the meaning of that phrase How soon The seed of Bunker Hill bore fruit in the war of independ ence! It was a blessed planting which in the harvesting of seven dark years brought liberty to the nation and In splratlon to the world It is the old fruitfulness of the blood reaped in the harvest of the church It Is evan gellcal liberty as well as intellectual lib erty and emancipation What a harvest of liberation and of security the nations will reap son)e day from the frightful and abundant sowing on the Marne the Alsne the Somme the vi Yser and the battlements of We a not know whether the rench Acad of next year will pro a duce a poem worthy of these "fecund ftl dead" but some day such a poem vrillbe written and the world will be the better TNT A BTTNTTT I IU 1VB IBVBIBUUM '(Copyright 117 by A Jacobson) A i if: I Louis XIV was in a rage He forgave him and actually forgot his favo rite of the time the limping Louis De LaValliere and his other amorous pleas ures long enough to command the apprehension by fair means or foul By a scheme conceived by the all powerful Cardinal Mazarin the ill fated Count allowed himself to be inveigled across the frontier of Mantua into rench territory by some ecclesiastics There he was forcibly arrested and thrown into the dungeon of Pignerol in Provence King Ixiis himself tvrote these instructions: "Look to it that no one ever is to know what become of? this Mantua made a feeble attempt to get justice for her prime minister but it was like a mouse trying to attack a lion in those aays or absolute autocracy ana tn a country whose conceited selfwllled mon arch had the impudence to challenge the whole world by his motto: cest moi (The state it is a St Mars 1 governor of Pignerol was ordered in an autograph warrant by the King "to guard Count Mattioli in such a manner that not only may he have no communication with anyone but that he may have cause to repent his conduct and that no one may know that you have a new Official reference to him was always made as His wife died In a convent without ever being told of his terrible fate or years King Louis persecuted the poor fellow by his ma lignant instructions Here are two of them written by the order by the chief of his privy cabinet DeLou vuis "It Is not the Intention of the King tnat me ieur ae ne well treated or that absolute necessities of give him anything to a "You must keep De Le Stan rigorous confinement which I ni To the Editor of The filer: During the civil war a company I to Camp Morton at Indianapolis to take training peiore going to me front They say we must not hate nor fight in hate I've thought It over many a solemn hour And can not mildly view tne man or state That has no thought save only to be great 1 jan not love the creature drunk with power I hate the hand that slaughters babes at sea I hate the will that orders wives to die ITHE INDIANAPnilS tTAR1 for It is a small service Iwc ueeu us'xi lo uneocegea auuu dance we are too much disposed to grumble over it Surely we should be I willing to practice food retrenchment habit is indicative of a distinct lack and restrain our appetites when otherswho owe no greater debt than we aredoing so much more refinement and good breeding Gum chewing is not in itself a vice people enjoy such mastication' there is I no good reason why they should notpractice in the privacy of their apart ments nt their own sweetjwil' but they i should have a thought for the unpleasant impression they make when they chew in public and if they are as refined as they would like to think they will spare Ito the people a writer in the Springfield the feelings of those who dislike to see (Republican sees a hampering influence: the prixess The habit should be dis in certain newspapers We eject repre icou raged in school children and should be but because with their jaws working actively Nev 1 ertheless it is true that to a large' num her of people who are sure that they are not overly fastidious the gum chewing of He Wanted the Morning Papers A citizen who died the other day was classedfin the headlines as a man of the highest personal' char acter prominent in business circles and a political leader About an hour before his death which followed a surgical op eration he was informed that the end was near whereupon he called for his family and bade them' an affectionate farewell after which he asked for the morning papers and read the latest news laying them down only when un consciousness crept upon him Was it the working of habit that led this man in the final moments of his life to turn half mechanically to the papers as he had been accustomed to do each morning for years? Or was it the human i yearning to havq a last outlook over the world he lhad known and loved and in whose affairs he was always interested an outlook to be had only through the newspapers with their dispatches from near and far? Was he anxious about the war or concerned about the preparations being made by his own government? Was he interested in other activities possibly politics in which he might him self have figured? Did he long for a further chance to render service? What did this man of affairs with mind i clear to the last have in view when he read the newspapers up to the moment before death? Who can guess? Certainly solicitude concerning not affect was going was ready would know dawned what was the news of the life he had left Others left behind will wonder with him Aged folk who have kept up their interest in affairs around for war purposes but she is helpless to inforce her prohibition or Norway is a nation of peace lovers and although her marine interests are vast hpr navy ist negligible force built for coast defense only In deed It can only be called a navy by courtesy Its entire displacement does not approach the tonnage of the flagship of the British grand fleet In the first place there a single cruiser in it Its battle fleet consists of four ships whose combined weight does not equal 15000 tons or a trifle more than half tne tonnage of the Queen Elizabeth Their main armament consists of two 82 inch guns and in' their secondary bat teries the earlier pair have six 47 inch and the latter ones six 6 lnch and eight 12 pound guns They stow 400 tons of coal each and no more Behind these are a number of coast defense gunboats three fairly modern destroyers and one old boat and a score or so of torpedo boats of which the largest displace 102 tons and carry a couple of one pounders Add five or six submarines and there you have the Norwegian Navy It must be quite obvious that Germany who has sunk more than 200 Norwegian ships at sea and killed scores of Nor wegian subjects would not scruple to em ploy Norwegian waters In the lack of an adequate power to keep them out But significance in the war does not depend on her navy Were Nor way to enter the war and this article is distinctly apart from any disposition to criticise the action of the Norwegian gov ernment there are several other govern ments in the same boat she would prove as valuable to the allies' sea forces as Belgium was to the land forces The North Sea would be netted from just below Ostend to the southernmost point of Norway without omitting that vitally expensive three miles of Nor wegian territorial waters Already a writer in the Scientific American has de scribed such a net interspersed with mines and reaching to the bottom of the ocean and estimated its cost at $100000 000 The British Navy would be given the same freedom to root German submarine bases out of the countless islands of the north that It received eighteen months ago among the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea And more Important still entry into the war on the side of the allies would give the allied fleets the most strategic bases available against the German fleet An allied base at the sentrylike southern tip of Norway would command the Baltic with a seqprlty that would be an unceasing nightmare to the Germans 4 4 An allied fleet based upon say Bergen would strike toward the Bight or east into the Baltic thus laying Germany xipen to sea attack from all four directions or the Russian Baltic fleet is still in tact in her east At present however the nearest Brit ish base is the irth of orth 600 miles from the Skaw at the northern end of Denmark where the trouble would begin This would exhaust a large part of the fuel of a British fleet before it reached the attack With this importance placed on Norway by allied leaders what is the war situa tion within the country? The Norwegians are growing more and more to demand vigorously their rights Under the unearthing of the most dis gusting plot against her neutrality in the importation by Baron Rautenfels an offi cial of the German government of hun dreds of infernal machines to be placed In the holds of Norwegian ships the Nor wegian authorities roused their people to a pitch to which not even sinkings at sea had roused them It is probable they would have been In the war long ago were It not for the curious fact that sea outrages however unmerited they may oe never same effect In rousing a people outrages do: Once the German Army tried through Belgium on jts way anS ths world snranr fo arms man submarines have been marching out to the Atlantic and around the nortlH pllshed according to the peremn 1 1 a wA a ntiae tnat of Scotland to tneir nunting grounos farther south and Norway has remained composed in her helplessness to stop them Even the sinking of the Norwegian vessels at sea 200 of them and more has not roused Norway as the Baron Rautenfels episode at Christiania When one nation dares to make war so arrogantly on a neutral one begins to consider what would happen If the chal lenge Germany has thus Impudently thrown down were to be taken up is safe to say that the submarine warfare which began with notorious note of eb 1 would receive the hardest blow that could posibly be struck at it And the British grand fleet the foundation of the whole allied enterprise would be given Norwegian bases which would lead to a swift and mighty joining of the issue on the seas a (Copyright 1917)" 'a LAO jt tot i isvz vi sat va He could write the scintillating I could only draw a conclusion when vaio vi me uuyo guL a iciiei num uia father In which he said my father told him to tell me they were all very busy now paying off the mortgage from the farm and had so little time to think of any thing else "Did your mother never "My mother is one of the great army of women who have never had a chance' to go to school a great deal and much of wnav sne aid learn nas been uost in daily drudgery of her life so she is expected to write often "Had you no asked r'Afnmonzlar is the hardest part of it The brother I left back home stole my sweet heart and married her and of course neither of them cared to write to me after what about your two "They both fell in love with my father's hired hands and married them and are now living on the The colonel met the steady eye of the boy while struggling hard to keep back the indignant explosion that seemed determined to burst forth then he said: son have any of these three young men ever offered to to njy knowledge "It rather strikes me my son' that those people back there are too busy get ting rich even to remember there is such a person as you or to send you just one letter of encouragement I am also of the opinion that the draft list is short at least the names of three able bodied men just about now" "How would you like to be their com "Colonel I have no malice in this mat ter My father is a man of strong though honest convictions my mother is old and broken and I do not wish to cause my sisters to shed a tear by im pressing their husbands into the service All I wish to say is that frojn now on no one will ever come to you with a just complaint against me" The young man went his way at a sign from his colonel and from that day on there were plenty of letters from home though will never did know whether they came as a result of a kind letter sent back by the colonel or by a threat of drafting the three men available on that farm When the war was over Will went back home wearing shoulder straps and his father never tired of tell ing how far back in the famly the red blood of the loyal American patriot ex tended and that it was especially strong ly transmitted' from himself to his son Greenfield Ind A ROBINSON Do We Hooverizc Yet? A representative of the Chicazo Post has been interviewing house wives to learn to what extent they are observing Mr they save food encouraging I are economical of course they have to be because of the high prices they say bnt most of them who have heard of Hoover at all either have not heeded his plea or have not understood it The4v latter understand the words and to apply only to them selves as individuals and do iibt compre hend that they are asked to eat less 7'1 wheat bread and less meat in order that the supply needed for feeding our allies may be increased corn meal and to be as high priced as other foods I see wh re the economy Cornea one woman is quoted as say Jr ing And another profoundly remarked without things help if they can be paid Over in England they have learned what food conservation means They know that if each individual takes pain 'to waste nothing the sum total of the 7 savings is large have figures to 'U show how much the saving of an ounce of bread by each individual amounts to 4 When multiplied by millions and they show how much this' saving is needed i It does not matter with patriotic Eng lishmen that they can afford what food they easting and overeating are' frowned upon Abstinence is the rule and the fashion In this country the lesson of economy I senta fives he says but them to act upon their deal with problems or to their own light I sure is brought upon certain class of newspapers as one me Jdium Many cease to have initiative am their position becomes that of a i marionette in the hands of visible as well as invisible dictators The writer declares that newspaper dom has excluded and discouraged cred itable men with sensitive temperaments from undertaking positions of public trust and goes on to say Many men could withstand the in justices of individual sccffiers but they are dismayed by the thought of malign men entering every home in their own communities as well as the state at large When the powerful journal with Its mighty circulation is hurled: about the head of a man and the little carp ing ridiculing editors and anonymous letter writers nibble at his heels flight to private oblivion is more attractive than official office amidst a tornado of abuse There are some com 1)1 1 Y) i 1 i Ci whom fhu i i i sa 2 ura cn for rorized by the methods of the press that independent written and verbal public I discussion of a frank and courteous I quality is practically stifled suggestions are frowned upon and when ideas are advanced conflicting with those of the imperious editor no quarter is given In many instances advertising subscriptions are yielded to guarantee immunity from journalistic ridicule and denunciation The Springfield writer it must be acknowledged describes a condition that too often exists The proper function of a newspaper is to present facts and con ditions to the public as it understands ithem and to comment upon them with I fairness to all concerned It is not its I province to attack and pursue indi jviduals who arc not in a position to de 1 et this is a course then followed It to APANESE prints have a fasci nation to those who study then) even when the themes of the pictures are not well un derstood Often they have a poetic origin that calls for a knowledge of Japanese literature and legendary lore in order to make their meaning clear Here for example is the fairy tale "The eather Robe" which is illustrated by Kawabe Masao in a series of drawings: "When a fisherman named Hakuryo was admiring the beauty of spring scen ery on the pine clad promontory of Miho early one morning flowers fell from the sky and sweet music and fragrance filled the air a search he found a strange robe of' beautiful feathers of eternal colors hanging on a branch of a pine tree near by He took the robe down and elated with joy was taking it to the village to show it to his neigh bors when a fairy moon maiden appeared before him and assured him that it was hers and that it was not to be kept by a man However the fisherman wanted to keep It as a treasure to be handed down to his posterity as a souvenir of the visit of a heavenly being but moved by her sorrow he said he would return the robe if she would dance for him for he had bften heard a celestial dance She consented but said that she could not dance without the robe The suspicious iiBiiciuian airuiu tHai sue luignu ny io vuci oam luliiu wuei to heaven without dancing Thereupon by at the camp were: mo mvvii iiiaiucii aiusnuicu uuaven knows no Ashamed of mo tal weak ness the fisherman returned her the robe which she donned and danced to an exquisite music describing her life in the moon Hakuryo was transported by the fairy dance and prayfed that the wind might close her passage in tne clouds and so cause her to linger awhile longer on earth But his wish was in vain for the celestial dancer rose from the sandy beach even as site danced and flying to the north like a fleecy cloud disappeared beyond the high peak of uji no yama training before going to the front The recults had not been in camp long untilletters and papers and presents of i various kinds began to arrive for I the boys and yet there was one who never received anything from anywhere I He was a good natured intelligent ladand for awhile did not seem notice that any one was forgetting him but I since' long deferred maketh the I that showed his disappointment When hlu rsb'lmanl was nrdnrarl fha front he seemed more than pleased be cause the time for his going had come At the front he was always very attentive to his duties and was as brave as a lion on the firing line As the days and the weeks went by and still the carrier of the mails gave him nothing while the boys all around him were getting so many things from back home a change gradually eame over the spirit of his dreams and his manner became quite different Gradually he grew to neglect his duties and finally to disregard the orders: of his superiors though he always seemed insane to get into battle The guard house fatigue duty and reprimands fell to his lot but all to no purpose for he grew worse and worse until the matter was called to the attention of his colonel a kind heated man who loved all his boys alike "'and pitied the faults of the erring while he commended the fidelity of the faithful was called to his case The colonel listened to the complaint brought to him reflected for a moment then said: to When the young man arrived he saluted his colonel most respectfully then stood at attention "Young man" said the colonel "for' some time complaints against you have been coming to me until I feel it my duty to have a talk with you about the matter I am told that when you en listed you were a model recruit and were always faithful to every duty that came your way Now tell me young man am I mistaken when I surmise that deep uown in vour voune nearr is a secret mainlng unrevealed and a story yet un And this is the true story to which colonel of that regiment listened with most careful attention: I enlisted I left a home on a farm in Indiana In that home I left behind me a father a mother a brother and two sisters I had always worked hard and helped my father all I could In his efforts to pay for the farm as I was the eldest child When the call came from President Lincoln for 300000 more troops I was 20 years old and eager to go out and defend the Union and my father seemed quite willing that I should do so and so I enlisted I was on the farm I was always a lover of good books and a fiend for reading everything I could get hold of even though like most of such boys my reading matter might not always have been of the highest grade and the best quality When I left home' the last words I heard my mother say were: be sure and The last words my father said to me when he bade me xood now ne sure ana i "I did write but no letters came to me I wrpte again and again but received no replies One of the boys went home on sick leave for a few days and when he returned I could hardly wait to see him and ask him who was sick at my home No one sick Every member of the family was well and was glad to hear from me through him and the last words both my father and my mother said to him' were: Will to be sure and write' this time we were ordered to the front and the first thing I did was to send them a letter when went into our first field camp but no reply came back A hundred times Colonel have I stood in line with the boys when Ue mail was distributed and no one can ever tell you how my heart would sink when I was passed by with nothing my son why do you suppose Spur father never wrote to 16 a A'': 1 4 JL JL A) 5 1 a 1 I A 1 1 il fll pl il 4 rrT gn.