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"IF WE STAND FAST."
United, We Are Unconquerable,
Divided We Shall Fail.
There bus been a vast amount of
quiet, cheerful uiul sometimes he
roic sacrifice. X'e have given of
our flesh and blood for the cause;
of our wealth; of our luxuries and
sometimes of our comforts; but
there are some of us too many
who in this crisis have pursued the
way of personal p'ofit, and who
have not hesitated. o obstruct the
mighty work of national prepara
tion, if thereby we might make
some private gain. And even if
there were none such, let us not
talk of suffering and sacrifice in the
presence of Belgium and Serbia
and France, or even of Great Brit
ain and Italy.
And yet if we boast not, we sure
ly need not despair of the Repub
lic. In the presence of a real crisis,
we have shown a capacity to think
nationally, to act unitedly, to ac
cept discipline and sacrifice thai
has disconcerted our enemies and
astonished many of our friends.
There are greater trials and great
er burdens in the future for us,
but if we meet them with the same
spirit that we have shown so far
we shall come to the end of the
war with the cheering conviction
that, although we have delayed
and stumbled and blundered here
and there, we have not in the end
been unfaithful to the traditions of
our past or to the convictions of
our souls.
One of the French papers had
recently a picture of two war-battered
poilus talking together in a
trench. One asked if he thought
France would win, and the other
replied, ''Yes, if the people at
home stand fast." In those words
lies the whole situation. We need
not fear that our boys at the front
will give way more than the French
people need fear that their own
gallant soldiers will fail. Those
men who are giving more than
any of us who are giving their
lives, if necessary are the very
ones of whuse constancy and cour
age we may be most certain. They
will win the war for us if we at
home will stand fast. Those of us
who have money must pour it out
for the nation's need; those of us
who work in factories and ship
yards must think less of our im
mediate advantage in wages and in
hours of labor and more of what
we can do to soeed the work of
military preparation. Those of us
who own business or who cultivate
farms must strain every nerve to
produce the greatest possible quan
tity ot supplies, and must be too
proud of our service to profit un
duly by the necessity of the coun
try. Those of us who can see no
other way to serve can help by
careful economy in the use of
things that our army and our allies
need, and by cheerful, confident
support ol the government in its
tremendous task.
The war bids fair to resolve it
self into a question of morale first
of all, perhaps, the morale of the
civilian populations. It is against
the morale of the people of Ger
many and Austria that President
Wilson directs his policy; it was
against ilieir morale that the Rus-
rian revolutionaries, discarding
military weapons, made their cam
paign. It was by the breakdown
of civilian morale that Russia was
reduced to impotence, and a sup
tle weakening of the civilian mo
rale in Italy through German influ
ence was behind the military defeat
of the Italians last fall. We must
be on our guard against any at
tempt lu plant discouragemennl or
dissention among us. United, we
are unconquerable; divided, we
shall fail.
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WAR BABIES.
LIFE IS TOO SHORT.
Between the swift sun's rising and its setting,
We have no lime for useless tears or fretting.
Life is too short.
Life is too short for any bitter feeling;
Time is the best avenger if we wait,
The years speed by, and on their wings bear healing,
We have no room for anything like hate.
This solemn truth the low mounds seem revealing
That thick and fast about our feet are stealing,
Lire is too short.
Life is too short for aught but high endeavor,
Too short for spite, but long enough for love.
And love lives on forever and forever,
It links the worlds that circle on above;
'Tis God's first law, the universe's lever.
In His vast realm the radiant souls sigh,
Life is too short.
F.lla Wheeler Wilcox.
LIGHT THAT WARMS
Some girls are little mothers at heart almost from time their baby
ips have learned to form a few words.
We watched a small girl the other day as she sal rocking her baby
brother to sleep such a roly-poly, husky fellow he was much loo
large and heavy to be held by so small a girl.
And though he wasn't just the easiest sort of a little tad to manage,
not once did the little girl lose patience with him.
Her bright, sunny face radiated tenderness and cheerfulness, and in
her soft eyes was a spark of the light that some day will burn brightly
when she holds her own babies in her arms, close, close against her
breast.
We watched her all the rest of the day as she cared for the wee boy
while her own busy mother went about her work and, though the little
girl was very young and extremely childish in her ways not one bit
old there was something in her pretty face and something in her way
of handling that young brother of hers that made you think of her as a
little mother.
And that is what she was a little mother, vi e olten see them as
they bend over their dollies and sing soft lullabies to them. It is a'little
light that burns in their eyes even when they are scarcely beyond their
own cradle days a light that grows deeper and brighter with the pass
ins of the years whether or not they ever have babies of their own, and
it is a light that sends a glow of warmth about the heart and that makes
one love all little children.
Writer Tells Pathetic Story ol
Story ol Two Youngsters Lost
in Throng ol Refugees From
Stricken Land.
lu Pierre I.oii's book, "War,"
is this pathetic story about war
babies :
"One evening a train full of
Belgian refugees had just entered '
the railway station of one of our
southern towns. Lost in that
mournful throng were two quite j
young children, holding each other
ightly by the hand, two little boys, I
evidently two little brothers. The
eiuer, nve years ot age, was pro
tecting the younger whose age
may have been three. No one
claimed them; no one knew them.
Their clothes were neat, and they
wore warm little woolen stockings.
So overwhelmed were they with
weariness and want of sleep that
they did not ewn cry. Scarcely
could theystand ipriglit. They did
not answer the questions that were
put to them, but above all they re
fused to let go of each other; that
they would not do. At last the
big, elder brother realized the re
sponsibilities of his character of
protector; he summoned up
strength to speak to the lady who
was bending down to him. 'Ma
dame,' he said, in a very small,
beseeching voice, already half
asleep, 'Madame, is anyone going
to put us to bed?' For the mo
ment this was the only wish they
were capable of forming; all that
they looked for from the mercy of
mankind was that someone would
be so so good as to put them to
bed. They went to sleep at once,
still holding hands and nestling
close to each other. And these
poor little Belgian children, sleep
ing side by side, made nie think of
wo nestlings astray.
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Eloquent Tributes ol Daniel Web
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HEIANNEcoffee
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WAS NOT TWO-FACED.
HRIEF AND HRF.EZY.
Personal beauty camo up for
discussion at n social nill'"'r"
iiiK, when a little incident
along that line was recalled by
Senator Walter II. Thompson,
of Kansas.
One afternoon Smith anil
Jones wore comparing war
garden statistics over the back
vard fence, when a new resi
dent, who had recently moved i except in a br
into the neighborhood, chanced ' suits.
to pass by at a distance.
"There goes that man Brown,"
remarked Smith with an indic
ative nod of his head toward
the stranger. "What do you
think of him by this time ?"
"1 don't know," replied Jones,
I haven't bad occasion to
give him much thought."
"I don't know whether lie ap
peals to mo or not," returned
Smith. "Does lie look to you
like a man who is two-facod?"
"Well I should say noil" was
the sympathetic declaration of
Junes. "If ho was lie wouldn't
wear the one lie does." Phila
delphia Telegram
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DIPLOMATIC.
"Why is Doctor Fmdee so pop
ular with his lady patients ?"
"He tells them all that (hey are
too young to die."
PKOOP POSITIVK.
"Am I really the only man you
ever loved ?"
"Of course you are. Why are
you so persistent in asking me?
None of the others ever did it."
Mas a Oood Opinion of Chamber
lain's Tablets.
"Chaniherlain'B Taliletn are a wumler.
I uevor sold anything that heat tlipm,"
writea P. H. TreMey, Kirlimoud, Ky.
When troubled with imliKi'ulinQ or eon
tipatiou give I hem a trial.
It is usually the button
lar that counts.
Strong butter is a pour npi
gy for weak cutTe.
Happiness is otten the puce
of bring commonplace.
to do ngnt is easy when sin
ceases to be a pleasure.
Love is a word of four letters
ich of promise
Without decision of charac
ter no man or woman ever
amounts to much.
KEEPING UP THE GAME.
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EXPECTING TOO MUCH.
Hank in If 1 ever have to
light in the trenches 1 hope 1
can have a periscope.
Plivle Yes, the things are
mighty bandy to look through
anil see if the enemy is near.
"Are they only to look
through?"
"Yes. What did you think
they were for?"
"(lee! 1 thought you could
stay safely out of sight and
shoot through the things."
Few men can refrain from boast
ing about the good i, . t';ey do by
mistake.
One trouble about obstacles
that they are always in the way.
is
Children dry
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CASTORIA
"Smith is a great golf bug,
he?" satd Brown.
"Yes," replied Jones. "He
kept his hand in all winter and had
practice every day."
"But how could he practice in
winter, when the the links are
closed?" asked Brown.
We walked downtown every
moraine,, and every 200 yards he
would swing at an imaginary ball
with his cane," replied Jones.
"Then he would cuss a blue streak
and when he got downtown he
would drink a Scotch highball.
Chicago Sentinel.
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HEN you see your mummy, Honey,
bi intjin' in the coffee and Ihe pone, you
can tdl before you taste it that the coffee's
Luzianne tiure-nuf by the whifa a-Btreaming,
steaming in the air.
It's the coffee Luzianne you remember
and you hanker after it until you get another
cup.
Luzhnne Coffee (your grocer has it) comes
put up in tins. Try it tomorrow morning for
breakfast. If it isn't all you expect, you can
get your money hack.
Luzianne fur aruma, fragrance and snap.
Try it
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lBliRTY and union, now and
forever, one and inseparable.
Let our object be our country,
our whole country, and nothing
but our country.
if we are true to our country
in our day and generation, and
those who come after us shall be
true to it also, assuredly we shall
elevate her to a pitch of prosperity
and happiness, of honor and pow
er never yet reached by any nation
beneath the sun.
This lovely land, this glorious
liberty, these benign institutions,
the dear purchase of our fathers,
ours: ours to enjoy, ours to pre-j
serve, ours to transmit. Genera-1
tions past and generations to come j
hold us responsible for this sacred
trust.
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SLIGHT MISTAKE.
He You look at me as though
you thought 1 might be a fool.
She I beg your pardon. You
can't be such a fool, after all.
He What do you mean?
She Your remark shows that
you possess the ability to read one's
thoughts at a mere glance.
Br
Calomel is quicksilver and acta
iike dynamite on
your liver.
John Wesley, walking in
Bath, came face to fuce with
Beau Nash. The path was nar
row, and one or the other would
have to give way. The fash
ionable Muster of Ceremonies
looked the Methodist up and
down and said, "1 never make
way for fools I John Wesley
promptly stepped aside and re
torted, "Ob, 1 alxvays do !"
Mrs. Qnapkness "Am your
daughtah happily mar'd.Sistab
Sagg.
Mrs. Sagg "She sbo is! Bless
goodness, she's done got a hus
band dat's skeered to death of
her!"
Vnlomd loses you a day I You
know what calomel is. It's mer
cury; quicksilver. Calomel is dun
ffonma. It om.hp into p'.ir bile
like dynamite, cramping and sick
ening you. Calomel attacks the
bones and should never be put into
your system.
When you feel bilious, shipgish,
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need u dose of dutijrcrous
calomel just remember that y.nir
drujrgist sells for a few cents a largo
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is a perfect substitute for
calomel. It is guaranteed to start
your liver without stirring yon up
inside, and can not salivate.
Don't take calomel ! It makes vou
tick the next day ; it loses you a 'day's
work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight
ens yuu right up ami yon feel great.
Give it to the eliildii n because it is
iCreetly harmlc an-! doesn't gripe.
Children Ory
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