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THE PES 3fOIXES IMTJSTERjroy DAY OCTOT.ER IK 18. 1 i 1 nnTrcl i -1 a a wrm I tal ITF 1. I Ta. 1 aV I tL "UMt" When a Feller Needs a Friend-Over 1 here. a-s We PASSING SHOW BT THE BKUISTKH ANU TIllBUNBXO.

(Th Do Molnea aaUblishrd 1M9I tTl low Btaia Reiiec. aaitHUUa Woman's Hands Tied To the Editor of the Springfield, Republican: la the October Atlantic Monthly is a fertes of letters written by Brlggs Adams to his mother and father. In these self revealing letters we get a glimpse of the American spirit at its best. In one letter to his mother he says: "War personified should not be the figure of death on a UBSCKI1TWX BATES MAU. hormr prlnrt than ona yar ft month, oumna or iowi aliurtar fr)odi than om ar, cent a month.

Mil Riaonr fiwat One yar. S3: body strewn battle field, as it Is so shorter ptrtodi than ona yar, 8 (onu a month. uutai.ia or iowi; w- j-. ihortor prloii thau cm jaf, 4(1 often. It should be pictured as a loathsome male striking a 'woman from behind a woman tied, but eyes wide open.

To kill that figure because It has struck my own mother that Is what I am expect eenta a month. ftall mnA KnnflAv Rfdltf Tn Iowa! On I koop C'e3T Vl A' MOMME MAeiT 1 V. yaar, i. horir prloda thn on rr, 15 centa a month. Oumla wa: Ona yoar.

$10: tMntt prlwt Mrs. Brown With this 'ere war on, I can't afford clothes. The Curate Don't let that keep yon away from church, Mrs. Brown. London Passing Show.

"Ever notice these buttons on my desk? This one is marked If I should push It my secretary would rush In." "Yes, I've noticed it. And I notice you keep fingering It every time 1 call." Baltimore American. Mrs. Knlcker Do you approve of your husband's poker games? Mr. Uocker Yes, he gives, me Thrift Stamps when he loses and War Stamps when he wins.

New York Sun. Vicar (severely) Ah, it's 'the old story, unskilled man dodging work he might get. 'Tramp Unskilled, am You 'ave a go at dodgln' work these days an' see if It don't take a bit o' skill. Boston Transcript. "I bear, James, your master Is a perfect ladyklller, especially since ne got his new auto." 'Taln't so.

sir. He has run Kt-FT ce JS ing myself and all the will in my than one yar. at a nwnio. being to accomplish. It hurts me so to think of the ever growing hopelessness that a mother has to var MtrflHilttan tewr.

Chlcaro oftlua Pola Ua buiUlna-. lloi bear. The impotency to do any Entered 'at Ia Mtr.M. Iowa, pottofflpa will be large. Farm products do not keep from year to and the surplus of one year Is rarely ever Important twelve months later.

In the meantime the world has been living during the war on a rapidly narrowing output, and had been living on a gradually narrowing output long before the war, without recognizing how vitally the output was narrowing. A surplus of food has not been created for many years, and now is not likely to be created for many years to come, If it ever Is, again. While we shall come to much greater abundance when everything" is readjusted than we have had during the war, we shall probably never again have food to waste as we had In the early' days of the Mississippi valley. The Register does not believe the farmer need be in the least alarmed over the readjustment to follow the war, excepting as the market may show panicky tendencies, and prices may fluctuate violently. The man who Is able to sell when he is ready to sell Is not likely to suffer any.

Those who become scared, or who are forced to sell, may strike unfavorable markets, but the general level of prices will be affected only gradually, and not for years, if ever, fall to where It was before the war. Winder whether churchless Snn-dny or tnovleless Sunday caused the most grief yesterday? aa aeound clasa matter. bo dismissed and restored to normal pursuits, great shipping plans to be carried out, enormous airplane factories to be utilized. And tills does not take into account the payment of Interest on the billions ot public debt created, and the final redemption of the government bonds. It is unlikely that if peace negotiations begin tomorrow they would terminate short of many months, and during that time It may seem best to maintain all the Billed armies in readiness to resume hostilities.

It surely would not ba advisable to disband the allied armies until the treaty is signed and every guaranty of its fulfillment secured. We must remember as a people that while we have gained enormously during this war period, the war period baa been a tremendous cost to us, and that Cost will be in large part a continuing cost for ninny years. There must be other bond Issues after this one, and not for several years can we look for a restoration of the old level of federal taxes. There will be Just as much reason for the fourth Liberty loan, after the armistice with Germany Is signed as there was before, and It will be Just as much the patriotic duty of everybody to subscribe. OCR ALLY OS LTXCH LAW.

Maltre Henri-Robert, a French lecturer of repute, recently spoke publicly In a eulogistic way of the American republic, being moved, perhaps, by the very many expres MONDAT. OCTOBER 14. ll. thing just sit and wait, wain, wait." To tills young man, perhaps because of his close touch with the world of spiritual realities, so soon to meet a glorious death, came that wonderful insight into the secret and poignant pain of women. "A woman tied, but eyes wide open." Yes, tied, because happy though she may be, dispairlng though she may be.

she has no legitimate rec over some, but none of 'em's dead ognized tool either of defense or yet." ban Francisco Chronicle. tlativn. Powerless she has been, except as she has cajoled and ma She You don't write rae now such nice long love letters every day you don't see me. Is it lndif- nipulated by the tricks of the slave. And "eyes wide open." Eyes that see Just as clearly as men the right from the wrong: eyes that could have read the handwriting on the wall if hands had been free to rorence? He No.

my darling, ft Is patrt otism. The government wants ns to save paper. Baltimore Ameri act; yes, that knew the true sons can. of God even in the men wno had forgotten their own divine heritage, eyes that have seen the glory of the "Oh, would some power the glftie gie us to see ourselves as otners coming ot the Lord but "hands tied." God bless the boy who wrote see s. "That would be foolish.

Most of Now they have cholera in Berlin, but even that doesn't seem to get any of the kaiser's sons. ns think pretty well of ourselves as things are." Louisville Courier- sions of admiration for France which are appearing In one form pr another on this side of the At Maybe the German army is hurrying home In order to participate In the watch on the Rhine, lantic. those words to his mother. Woulo they might open the eyes of those blind men In the United States senate, who with hnnds free to act cannot see. God bless our president, who has again spoken the word on the Bide of principle and truth.

The women of America will not be violent, will not despair, but, even with hands tied, will wait and Something of a glimpse of Amer ican life In the large was conveyed to his audience by Maltre Henri- A Sunday newspaper without theatrical advertisements also proves considerable of a disappointment to a good many readers. wait and wait for this truth i Robert It is curious that in such a brief survey he found it necessary or expedient to devote attention to that peculiar outcropping of Amer marching on. Abby P. Macduffle. Marries an Amorirnn Girl- Like a real American, President Wilson enjoys marching at the head of a great parade.

ican temper, lynch law. Maitre Journal. Mr. Sparks By George! I won-cook Is going to leave, Frank. She says the kitchenet Isn't largo enough to turn around in.

Mr. Sparks By George! I wander If she'll stay If I install a turntable. Buffalo Express. "Are you a democrat or a republican?" aBked the man who always wants to talk politics. "I dunno," responded the maa who Is thinking about other things.

"Are you?" Washington Star. "My wife manages nicely on the alimony Bhe gets." "Why, you amaze me. I didn't know you were separated. "We aren't. I refer to the ali-monv she wins at bridge from Mrs.

De Vorsay. "-Boston Transcript. "Goln" 'ome to Puddleport, Joe?" "No," "But I thought vou lived there?" "So I do, lad. That's why I ain't goin'." Passing Show. Professor Masaryk, president of Henri-Robert's vivid description of lynch law In operation exhibits the "rough Justice" of which we are tne new czecho-Slovak republic, married an American girl.

The noted leader of his race tells how back In 1877 there came to the sometimes proud and) sometimes Rumor now has It that if the kaiser abdicates he will be succeeded by his son. Prince August, Instead of the crown prince. That may revive the old-time favorite of German singers, "Ach, Du Lleber August!" ashamed in as good a light as he same boarding house at which he could manufacture. This is his was stopping In Lelnsic the daugh iV "VJrF rSisXzSll fJvi-a II III I III I description: ter of an American business man, Miss Garrlgue. The girl was there "The criminal Is arrested.

He to study music. She and Professor Is conducted to the public square. The Huns are gone In the Ar-gonne, and there will be no The crowd that seized him assem Masaryk were Interested in the Bame books and read them together She returned after some time bles and deliberates. The magis trates intervene. They endeavor to nave the law respected.

In the to New York, and he followed a year later. -U -I- JL name of the law they demand that the criminal be delivered to them. Maybe the Liberty loan drive lagged somewhat in the east because some folks thonght the bonds might carry Influenza germs. One Vote finined promising speedy Justice. The ques Woman suffram mined nnfnn- LIBERTY MOTORS.

tlal recruit at Frankfort. tn- AT UST tiay, when Gov. A. 0. Stanley, tion is put to the crowd which has constituted itself a supreme tribunal.

It never acquiesces in the demand of the magistrates. They are told to retire. They depart and democratic candidate for United States senator, tn mmeooH tha lnt If yolllng "No" at the kaiser at a given moment in this city helps to win the why wouldn't the simultaneous gargling of every citizen In the town help to rout the Ollle M. James, announced that if the trial begins Immediately. 1 ue witnesses for the prosecution and elected in Movember he would vote for It and any outer war measure advanced by President Wilson, -t.

a. defense are heard. The presidentelect addresses the crowd asking if Spanish flu? any one win spphk in favor of tne i If some Frenchmen could have accused. Soinetim, .4 there la found an amateur or a professional law When the Soldier Boys Gome Home their way, the kaiser would be given a pick and shovel and or cbocxds fob confidence. The more the present situation I Is examined the more it is going to i appear that President Wilson has acted not only in full knowledge of what was going on in Germany, tut also has acted on the advice and with the consent of the allied powers.

The president would never have opened the door to Germany if there had not been a reason, nor would he have opened the door if Great Britain, France and Italy had aot been consulted, and if they, too, were not fully advised of the end in view. It most hav struck every Amer-i lean with surprise, that while there was gome question here at home over the wisdom of the president's reply to the Maximilian note, there aeemed to be no question in either England Or France. This could not have been if either England or France felt that slight was being put upon them, or if in any way the wisdom of the Wilson reply was questioned. The Wilson reply was taken as a matter of course there, which can mean only that it was thoroughly understood. The fact that Secretary McAdoo spoke so promptly the moment the German reply was read to him Saturday night as he was addressing a Liberty loan meeting In Chicago Is a hint that the administration was not unprepared.

Under no circumstances would he have anticipated the president if there had been any doubt about the policy to be pursued. We should know enough about the president by this time to know that whatever his faults, getting himself Into a tangle from which he cannot extricate himself Is not one of them, and that is what he would have done if either England or France was likely to question his negotiations, or if the result of his negotiations was likely to disappoint the reasonable expectations of his own peopla. The president is not an impulsive nor emotional man. He does not act spasmodically. Finally, there ig reason to believe that from the very first there has been onrest in Germany.

One ol the earliest rumors ot the war VaT that was precipitated to avoid the need of great domestic reforms. The Register cannot quote the editors of Switzerland who are visiting the state. But it ran say on the authority of one ot them that German liberalism has been much stronger than would appear on, the surface during the war. The military party Is not the whole thing in Germany, and the probability lg that now it is overthrown. There is room, of course, for skepticism.

German diplomacy has been conspicuously Machiavellian. The allied powers would make a tremendous mlBtake if they accepted verbal assurances In the place of accomplished results. But let Tuft! pot forget that President WIlBon pbuWs all the mental virtues which we bunch together when we say "cool headed," and he is not likely to ruin himself and embarrass the country with negotiations that in their failure would impeach hie sagacity and alertness. Let ns not forget that before a truce is ordered or a treaty of peace negotiated England, France and Italy must be agreed, and Marshal Foch must himself arrange the details of the armistice. The Register sees no reason why Jn the present emergency the country should not continue to trust the president.

He has taken a world leadership, because he has seen what this world war means, and because he has been able to formu- late it in phrases that are adequate. To abandon him now or to begin to cavil would be merely to go to pieces and lose the enormons hold on the Influence we are in position to exert on the future of the world. The president has been elected to load; he will by force of law lead for the coming two years; we shall either win with htm or not win at nil. There Is but one conrse. and that is to accept his leadership and win.

FROM THK LVni STRIAL ARTS AGAZINE. dered to help rebuild the cities he has destroyed. yer wno ertemponr.es an appeal. He is listened to in silence. The question of condemnation Is put to a vote and If It is affirmed the execution follows without a second's delay.

If It Is a hanging the condemned man is launched Into eter Amsterdam and Copenhagen continue to be the two greatest rumor markets in the world. nity. That Is lynch law." Summer weather In October Is a greater conserver of coal than any of Dr. Garfield's laboriously con The war department has announced that ft will use thousands of partially disabled men In all sorts of clerical and other positions. Several thousand men classed by the draft boards as unfit for full military duty have already been called for restricted service.

The war department has announced that It will give short courses of training to restricted service men and place them at once at work where their services can be utilized. In fact, a large part of the work being done In this country, inside and outside of the army, is being done by partially trained men. Under these conditions, it Is impossible and impracticable to attempt to give the kind of vocational As recorded in the Journal de ITniversite ties Annalles, this description was received by the French audience with "vlfs ap-plaudlssements." Apparently they found in it something to admire. structed rules and regulations. Conventions Fostixincd Four Woman's Christian Temperance union state conventions In the east, have been postponed Indefinitely because of the Spanish influenza epidemic, It was announced by Mrs.

Ella A. Boole, vice president of the national organization and president of the New York state body. Woman at Peace Table A plea for the presence of working women at the International peace table Is made by Miss Byrns. "Diplomacy Is a nonessential Industry," deelarod Miss Byrns, "which we can very well do without in peace as well as war times." Incidental Matters Miss Kmliy Moran, an Indian princess. Is now attending a school In Washington, D.

where she Is being taught radio operating. She Is a fullblooded Indian of roval ancestry and upon her graduation hopes to secure an appointment in the government service. Miss Mvrfln Tn nt Alrioni Or perhaps the French are now In That eastern Judge who informed a gtrl taxi driver that she would have to obey the traffic laws even a mood to wish their allies to be "tough" and "hard." In evidence that this French au as the men do will probably never know bow unreasonable that sounded to her. cuuiauun which snouiu ne given in times or peace. I TllA Cmtlh.n..

1.. t.l 1 thority is by no means uninformed aa to America in general or lynch law in particular. It may bo New York Herald: Liberty motors now have reached quantity production and American built airplanes are being shipped in train loau lots dally from the factories for service overseas. W. C.

Potter, acting director of the bureau of aircraft production, made this announcement upon his return to Washington from an inspection ot factories that are building airplanes and mo tors. Announcement made by the war department of tilt record cross country flight of Caleb Bragg, a civilian aviator, who in a De llaviland nine flew from a point over the city of Dayton, 0., to a point over the city of Wash- ington, a dlsiance ot 480 miles, In two hours and fifty minutes, puis the finishing touches to a series of sensational announcements regarding aircraft performance and production. The statement given out reads: "Flying from McCook field, Dayton, 0., to Boiling field, Anacostla, D. with iij Btops, a De Havlland nine plane, equipped with a Liberty engine, made the distance from field to field In three hours and five minutes. Taking the time of actual flight from a point over the city of Dayton to a point over Washington, the time was two hours and fifty minutes, i or at approximately 143 miles an hour.

The distance between those two cities is estimated nt 430 miles and it takes the fastest train on the rennsylvnnla railroad from ten minutes to 5 In the afternoon to 9 o'clock In the morning on the next day to make this distance. "Caleb Bragg, the civilian pilot, who flew the plane, Is attached to the engineering department of the bureau of air craft production. He carried as passenger an enelneet officer. The pilot traveled by compass at a high altitude and renorted that he had no difficulty In holding his course the entire distance. Mr.

8plc.es Mustard, who recently Joined the army from Vanceburg, will doubtless enjoy peppering the enemy during an assaultt If we can believe all the reports leaking out from Berlin, the Hun militarists are sweating at every pore. Much has been written and spoken concerning the need for re-educating the disabled soldier, and few persons underestimate the need for this work. Very little has been said or written on the need for reeducating the able soldier. Nevertheless, this will be one of the greatest needs at the close of the war. The present demands of Industry, the shortage of labor and the rwulting high wages, seem to minimize the importance of this task, but when the munitions Industries close, when the new ships are not needed, and the millions of soldiers return to the arts of peace, then this task will seem all-important.

During this present period of labor shortage and high wages, vocational education seems to a large majority of workers unnecessary. In many Instances men are being paid double what they have ever received before. They are working longer hours with much higher pay for overtime and there is no time for school attendance. Jobs are to be had for the asking, and Industries vie with one another In offering Inducements for help. This will all change with the advent of peace.

The millions of men now In the army will be available, and great changes will be made in the character of our industries. This will require that many of these soldiers be re-educated to meet the new demands made upon them. Industries will have changed while they have been in the service, and, meanwhile, they will have changed. No one can predict the character of these changes nor the character of the education that will be needed. Under these circumstances.

It would seem advisable that plans for the re-education of the disabled soldier be very closely considered. For several reasons, it would seem that real constructive re-educational work of disabled soldiers for permanent Jobs can not be done until the close of the war. The demand for' men who ean do something is so great that any man, regardless of his disability, can get a Job with good pay, at the present time. A disabled soldier recently discharged from one of onr atmy hospitals, who, In normal times would have had difficulty In securing a position at 15 a week, was recently employed at $35 a one of our large war industries. Army hospitals are being besieged with offers of positions for disabled soldiers, with pay ranging from $75 to $150 a month for men without any special training.

Under these conditions, the disabled man Is not going to spend? any considerable time taking training when he can enter Industry and earn such wages as are now being paid. Is the first woman patrol, on the Great Lakes. CAN LOVE MANY COUNTRIES. ATLANTIC, la. To the Editor: After a while homes that never feared burglars before may be worrying over all those Liberty bonds hidden away in the family trunks.

I talnerl a brief notice about Theo added that he explained the lynching habit as having originated in race hatred and as being encouraged by the complications and delays of American court procedure. He also said that It flourished In a less enlightened day, and that it Is tending to disappear. He points out very pointedly and accurately some deficiencies and some superiorities of American legal customs. And, after all, his picture of a lynching scene is remote from actuality only aa he seems to accept the recurring facts of a good ninny such crimes as evidence of a semi-regularity that Is not actually present. The lynching he describes is nearly a duplicate of the hero novel lynchlngs.

and these are themselves conventional and almost pleasant because authors do not know how to' be realistic. dore Roosevelt dedicatory address at Cleveland, 0., Sent. 30. in which uo uumu-fcjcui 3 in iiuviuo3 mac me leaerai Doard for vocational education can give courses of vocational education to men disabled in line of duty. It may be possible under that law to give similar training to soldiers disabled outside the line of duty, but, be this as It may, it would seem that the federal board for vocational education should make ample preparations to enable it to give vocational education to all returning soldiers, disabled or otherwl.se.

This being true, the national government should postpone all serious attempts at constructive re-education until the cIosg of tho war, and devoto Its at-tentlon during the war to training men, disabled and otherwise, for Immediate service In what will necessarily be temporary positions. At the close of the war. the federal board for vocational education should be In a position to undertake the education of thousands of returned soldiers and train them for productive employment. This would make vocational education a very powerful and constructive factor In tiding the country over a dangerous period of readjustment and reorganization wherein thousands of men will inevitably be unemployed, and would contribute largely to solving the post bellurn labor situation. This policy if agreed upon, would put an end to the controversy In official circles as to what agency is to control the reeducation of the disabled soldiers.

Armv hospitals the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. and all other interested agencies could devote their attention to getting the disabled soldier on his feet and into some position where he could contribute to the big problem confronting the entire nation, namely, that of forcing a victorious and permanent peace. he was reported to have said: "The The wear and tear on the street car straps will be reduced to the minimum during the quarantine.

Nowadays the easiest way to attract the attention of everybody on a street car Is to sneeze. FA-idently the opposing armies In France and Belgium don't care man, who loves America and some other country also Is like a man, who loves his wife but other women more." Now, this Is certainly a mean Insult to many just as loyal and true Americans us Teddy himself. Everyone knows that because a man gets a wife he can continue to love his old mother and sisterB as truly as ever without being false to his wife. Every noble and clean married jnan would consider It a mean and nasty insult If it was inferred that because he continues to love- bis old mother and his Bisters, he loves other women more) than his wife. H.

C. Strandskov. to do any more trench digging. WHERE LABOR STANDS FARM I'lira Assuming, as we have a right to TEll. I inn, i assume, that the bark of the war is broken, one matter of Immediate! concern to Iowa and the Mississippi valley Is the probable effect of a' cessation of hostilities on the prices 1 of farm products.

Shall we be con-1 fronted with an immediate read- ICS IK OGITING FLEETS Justment to the old basis, or will the process of readjustment bo 2. BY RALPH RA'INE devised for this, purpose, in order that it mav nnt luX mile, In readiness for torpedo practice with her companion. Both boats presently submerged. Our skipper turned the' periscope handles this way and that to rake the sea. A few minutes later he stiffened as though a live wire had touched him, and softly exclaimed: Life On a The gun crew grinned as the wind blw the words their way.

The water seemed cold enough to freeze as it foil and the January wind had a cutting edge. Two of these hardy British bluejackets had not troubled themselves to jump Into oilskins. Already their blue tsy jove; i can be wrong. blouses were dripping wet and plus-' What a jolly be seen of it. Three submarines in a small area of the sea, all of them submerged! It was.

impossible to tell whether the other British boat. 76, had sighted the eneny and was about to attack. "We're on a line between the two of 'em," lamented the skipper, "and poor old 76 can't let go a torpedo without scuppering us." Our boat was in position and, an instant later, the hull tilted sharply and then swam at the proper poise as the torpedo leaped from a bow tube. With all the gjeed at which the electric motors could drive her, she forged ahead In the desperate attempt to ram. There was no time to waste In rising awash and shifting to the oil engines.

The hostile periscope, If tered to their ribs. Wiping the. Two or three terse commands, brine from their eyes, they trained spoken in a conversational tone of the gun and It barked with the voice, and the crew was prepared ear splitting crack which Is so much to do his bidding. In the forward more trying than the thunder of torpedo ronai the men bent over the big ones in the battleship tur-j the gearing of the tubes, but thev John R. Alpine, acting president of the American Federation ot Labor, telegraphed to the headquarters of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy In New ork a statement giving the attitude of the federation toward the Get man peace bid.

The statement said: "The American Federation of Labor believes the recent peace overtures from the imperial German government are in keeping with all other proposals of a similar character previously submitted "The voice of the American labor movement tolls us to ignore these peace overtures mid to batter away at the enemy lines until the road is cleared 10 Berlin and a peace then effected that will last for all time and rid the world of thp evils that have besieged us for ov-r four years. "The workers of our country refuse to be deluded by what we helicvo to be this last attempt to deceive. We desire that the world bo rid of the Iron heel and the mailed fist. We want peace, but we want such a peace as will insure freedom cud democracy for all the world and for all time. "l.lke the men on the firing line, our workers at home nre extending themselves to the end that a glorious and lasting peace shall result.

"There can be no peace except It he such pence as has been enunciated by the president of our rmititry. When he declares the time at hand for peace negotiator! the workers will he with him In word and deed Just as they have heen from the beginning." rets. grndual? While there may be a break in! the markets at first, it is plain that there will be a rebound, that not for a long time will what we have to sell be enotifih cheaper to make It embarrassing for those who have contracted on the basis of present prios. In the first place, It wilt be long after the war Is really over before the armies will be disbanded nud the men returned to the vocations of ctvtl life. We may take It fori granted that two Tears will elnpse before our American boys will he home arain and ready for work.

It will be lor.cer than that before France end Belgium run make their! fields productive aftain, and at least one crop season must puss before; Germany and Great Britain can restore their agriculture to normal. What is happening In Russia we do not l.now, but it must be that agrl- culture In that distracted land Is at a low ebb. There hare been rumors of great surplus product in South America and Australia thnt has' were not interested In the torpedo with the dummy practice head. The missle with the war nose was ready to speed from the tube at the touch of a trigger. manded to know what the shindy was about.

"I sighted the periscope," scoffed this skeptic, "but God gave me almost human intelligence. One of our own boats, of course, back from patrol a day or two ahead of time, and you weren't looking for her, you silly ass "Thanks, awfully," replied our skipper, "but I'll bet you a dozen golf balls on that." How the Pestroyers Hunt. Soon the smoke of the destroyers was visible as they picked their wav out of the harbor and Jammed ahead at thirty knots. As they drew near they scattered like trained hounds to range for the scent. No friendly submarine was expected inbound from patrol, they reported.

The strange periscope might have been that of a German mine-layer which had been detained by some mishap Instead of steering homeward during the night. Be that as it might, the mysterious visitor bad left no traces when she took coyer to escape being rammed. The dusk of this cloudy winter day on the North sea coast began to fall In the middle of the afternoon. Shortly before the light faded, a desttoyer" sighted and picked up a torpedo which had made its ran. Now, among the navies of clvlliied powers, a war torpedo which misses its mark will pq to the bottom.

11 has sinking geac ZiL German torpedo, when nsed In enemy waters. Is apt to float. There Is a oleaalnr chance that it may accldently stxafi a transport of a hospital ship a Hunl" exclaimed th submarine commander, "and tha lousy murderer got clean away from T-ii ih j1 a dPzen g0t bRl1 111 stick dear old 76 for the. dinner besides. A bunch of trawlen is coming out to sweep for our Oar-man friend, but he may fool them during the night." eam th Mscnttv.

No sad faces. ve can't have all the luck. Didn't we blow a fine, big one to hell only three weeks agoT And we are due on the long patrol again." The German friend did fool them, alas, for neither depth charges nor sweep wires succeeded In fetching him up. His fortnne was better than he deserved, and he returned to Heligoland, no doubt, to take on another fcarjro of mines to be stren oft English harbors. He was an episode of war not in the least sensational to those engaged in hunting him.

XoteJxtoka of Pirates. What the German submarine commander wrote down in his diary of the trip Is an interesting corw COST WILL KEEP I P. The first thought with many people Is going to be that when hostilities cease 'there will he no more need of bond sales, and government taxes will Immediately be lowered. That Is a mistake that a moment's consideration ousht to free the American mind from. If we will reflect we shall see that at the very best must have two million American boys in Europe a long while yet, to be fed and clothed and paid, and that alone will he no email item of the national bnditot.

These boys are to be brought home; by common consent the government must sec them through to dome sort of opportunity when they get. home; if they are disabled they must be fitted for some woTk they can do; If they are healthy they must not be left to drift from place to place looking for a Job. Then there are contracts for government supplies to be met, these great cantonments to be supported until something is done with them, the two million boys mobilized In camps and colleges here ut home to Sec Trace of Hun. The skipper, still absorbed In what ho saw la the periscope's magical reflection, was talking to himself and seemed a trifle short of breath. "Impossible for that other boat of ours to have run that distance The splash was In line with the target, but fell short.

A sea slapped lie gunners as they reloaded and fired again. The submarine rolled lazily, like a fat man turning over in bed, nnd the shell flew over the target. After this the splashes were closer, and a merchant mariner, similarly bombarded, would have been in a mood to take to the boats. The destroyer was kind enough to signal that the score was not so rotten and thereupon she departed for home in discourteous haste. This mildly displeased the submarine commander who explained: "He was sent out to tow a' target for us, but he might have waited to let me shoot a torpedo at him thought the other submarine would keep ub amused.

I fancy." This other submarine had been diving at a distance ot perhaps a submerged. Ah. there she Is about such It was, vanished from the surface and our own submarine passed over the spot where it had been, but felt no jar. "Missed! And I thought I had him!" cried the skipper. "He'll hug the bottom and I haven't got a depth charge to stir him up Our boat broke and the conning tower hatch was thrust up before the decks had risen clear.

The wireless mast was hoisted and signals went crackling to the base port to rush destroyers to sea and search out the enemy. 7 poked up a streaming bridge upon which a tall figure in a duffle coat brandished a megaphon and de where she ought to be, off to port. This strange periscope fifteen hundred yards to starboard a Hun, or I'll eat my hat." Our boat was swinging as on could perceive by glancing at the great bowl of the compass. Here was the probability of deadly combat, unexpected, almost incredible, and nothing whatever to been unavailable for want of shipping, and will bo released the moment peacoi is docltirod. It may bo doubted whether the auiplua COXXliTCBD OX WKXI PAGsT" a a-.