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AH rfxbt of r' publication of special dispatches herein are uls reserved - . t BV MAIL: Daftly and Sunday.... ,$6.00 PaiUy and Sunday, Six Months. ..$3.00 Daily. and Sunday, 3 Months. .$1,50 Sunday Only One Year.'. .$2.00 Ji DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Pall and Sunday, per week. ....... 15c Crt When Paid in Advance at Office IJa-lly and Sunday, One Year. . . . .$7.00 Daily and Sunday, Six "Months " - $3.50 Daily and Sunday, 3 Mouths.. ,..$1J5 Sunday, Only, One Year ... . : . . $2.0o Entered at the Postoffice In Wilming iton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. t? . Forejan.rtepresenatlves: Frost, Green and'Kbhni Inc., 225 Fifth Avenue, New York, Advertising EBuilding, Chicago. Z THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1918. in . : Colonel House has a rival in Gen eBal Foch. for keeping his mouth shut. It's General ' Taft . now. Wonder how Colonel Roosevelt feels ' about tat? - - .' -In his position , on the retired list Qeneral Maurice has time to ponder "bver the fable of the monkey and' the - , - chestnuts. ' i-tA". man can run away from a bad reputation," says eh exchange. But he has to do some of the best sprint ing he ever did in his life to keepj ahead of Lit. . . -.. --When a girl feels that she lust roust "make a mash" let her go for alpan of potatoes in the kitchen and not a man on the front steps. That's conservation of energy. iO'd mah Seneca musihaYe had his jprephetic eye on certain- American citizens of today when he said, "Let lio man. presume , to V9; advice to c&ers that has not $rst given good counsel to himself." , The Macon Telegraph thinks that "some of these days this country, is 4foing to surprise a German spy to death by shooting him." We don't care how it's done just so one or more are made examples of. Wonder bow:many years govern- ment salary of Mr. Schwab it took to pay for that gold watch he presented to the foreman, of the shipyard which turned out that, vessel in . twenty Seven days. It is hard to believe that there were any Germans in "this country in 1916 outside of lunatio asylums who were planning a revolt against our sov inment. But then the . men at the head of the German government-have J Jtnade some great .and foolish jniS" likes since the war in Europe began. According to The News, the Char lotte people are luxuriating on their first strawberries at - twenty-five cent 8 and upward per' quart. Why, the Wilmington people! 'have : bsen ; eating them forVuch a time" that they are getting tired .of them and have taken to the . luscious Cape Fear grown blackberry. , . . .; A new epoch was reached in ; 'American r history yesterday when aerial mail . service was established between Washington and. Jlew York. Things ha4e moved go rapidly in the last hundred years though thatsuc innovation on the old fyle does not seem so astounding as in. ,ihe taking thp place of the stage coach by. the steam locomotive. ''When a woman complains that 5jerr. sex hasn't as many liberties" as the other, she means that a" woman can't do as much "meanness and get away with it," says-one of bur . ex changes. You are mistaken there. ;When a woman gets down to real meanness she can do more of it than anjy. ten men And she can do it in such. tyle asto get away with it every jtime, and she knows it, too. -' The Greenville,' S- C.,' Piedmont' " hits it .off. about .right when it says: I "In Mother wars the captain' dashed into action on a coal black steed with flaring red nostrils and foam-flecked shoulders, and,. if : he could ,.get ,.fiye horses shot from under Mm-during, a . battle he "received honoraoie . men ' tion. in history. But now the captain ' crawls into actlfcn on his tummy, and it anything is shot.fromunder.ilni . It 4a 'a. mine Ud by the enemy.'- PALMETTO POLITICS. The South Carolina democrats are paying no, attention to what the gov ernor of1' North Carolina said'-about, non-partisan-,, politics this year The democrats down there are going to have a hot time ' among themselves. There are five candidates for United States senator! and six for governor. The candidates for senator include Senator Tillman (to succeed himself) and Cole Blease, who one time sat In the gubernatorial chair of his state J - WDf ii tne latter was a canaiaaie ior governor some people W WC OUUi9 said South Carolinians would not diagrace tem selves by electing Wm. But lie wa elected just the same. Maybe he thinks that as the people of his state stood him as governor they wont kidk on his representing tJiem in the senate, especially as that would keep him out of the state for most of the time for the next six years. The fact that the senatorship will take him out of the state for a time may get him some votes, just -as the enemies of- a prominent North -Carolina judge some years ago advocated his ap pointment to a vacancy then existing on the supreme court of the United States. Those enemies reasoned that he could do less harm "there than in theposition he then held. . MORE WOMAN SUF FRAGE. ' On the heels of the spirited con test in the Methodist general confer ence on the question of woman repre sentation in church bodies,- comes ther taking up of the same perplexing; perplexing to the men but not to. the women question by the Bap tists. As announced in the press dis patches yesterday, this question is now being discussed by the convene tion of the Southern. Baptist church in session at Hot Springs, Ark. Our readers remember that the ad vocates of the women's cause won in the Methodist conference, but the bishops floored them on a constituv tional ground. The opponents in the Baptist con; vention of the - women's cause ad vance several objections to the prop osition. One of them we think rather; yecu iar and an injustice to the wo' men. it is mat participation in con venttons by the women of the church Would militate against the work wl-ich is now being done by. the wo- irein's missionary union." In other worus, J! tne women are. given op portunity to take part in conventions they will be so taken up wth such performances they will neglect the other far more important work to which they have in the-fpasfdevoted so much energy and seal. As to the other phase of the ques tion the proper interpretation to bo put on St, Paul's injunction to the women of ancient Corinth, whether it. was intended to-' annlv to all wo of all Umes or only t0 the one8 then living in Corinth because of pe culiar conditions then and thefe ex isting not many persons are quali fied to form an opinion. THAT CONFERENCE. . Not only the allies, but all the world will anxiously await Informa tion as to what took place at the re cent conference of -the emperors of the two jsefitral powers. It is already known that they decided upon the rulers they will place upon the thrones of the kingdoms they are about to temporarily establish in the countries their armies have overrun we say temporarily .established, be cause those kingdoms- will be of short duration. They will fall upon the Close of the war. In thaHneantime the inhabitants of thoseef ntbries are profoundly ini4 terested in the personnel of their fu ture rulers. But to the others of the allies this part of the proceedings of the conference is not of as much itn portanca as other things which are hinted at as bavin occurred. The conference evidently was for the pur pose of forcing Austria to a more vigorous participation in the war. Whether this can be dcrae or not is questionable. The rulers of that country as well as the people 'are heartily tired of the conflict They do not see vctory in sight and they are asking them selves what will Austria get jout of .it should it come. That the conferen&s had to do with the future conduct of the campaign is also most probable- whether Austria shall make .vigorous! attack on the Italian frontier" or shall render greater assistance to the Ger mans on the western front these are 'questions' of greater importance to the. allies. L" -If - these- questions were .taken up and decided it will soon be made known by the manner of renewing the Italian offensive, which has "been suspended since the German' repulse. One thing can be counted ; oh. Mat ters of moment to the allies were passed upon and their outcome will soon be apparent from the ermy's action in the field. , rrRATHER PECULIAR. X; ' It is against the law to ;manufac--tur liquor - in' Georgia iahd also -Uga&ist he; law both j federal and 'state to"import tt ? from anf other, state, but Jt seems as if tho crackers get plentjr of itthat is, judging by the amount., aeized, by ttie officers of la. Of course Jere is no way of telling how much is imported that is not captured. Where there is so much seized it may well be be lieved that a great deal is brought in that the officers know nothing "of. .V The Savannah Press tells of a car load of beef seized' on Tybee Island and of the capture of a carload of mixed liquors. Both these captures occurred recently. The Atlanta: Constitution cites the tttrB,ta'''that 'city of ten trunks filled with" case liquors and of an other shipment of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of the contraband stuff. The Constitution says that while the cases cited are exoeptionalr they are so only in point magnitude ; tht t "bow many1 hun dreds of thousands of quarts and gal lons and trunks and barrels and car loads and cargoes a-nd ddllars .worth of the stuff escape the eyes of the law and is brought into 'dry' Georgia, sold- by blind ' tigera . at outrageously high' profits, to debauch the men of Georgia the Florida, whiskey dealers only know." Most of the liquor shipped into' Georgia is "from Florida. No,. doubt there is a good- deal of liquor shipped into North Carolina, but nothing like the quantities into Georgia, e.s the above examples indi cate. The chief reason for this is that our state is too far from the source of supply. Judging by the number of. illicit stills captured we would say the Tar Heels chiefly rely on the corn liquor and monkey rum manufactured on their, own .spring branches. In mentioning the. shipments into Georgia the papers make no allusion to any railroad officials or employes being indicted for the law violations. We suppose it is difficult to show that the men knew what the pack ages, contained, as they were all bill ed as some other article. It 'seems though, that there should be some way to prevent government-control- ed railroads from hauling-goods con trary to . the laws of the government As matters now stand th govern ment makes a law against transport tation of liquor then hauls it by the thousands of -galJtoss- That--ieeems rather peculiar. '":'''-- "'!':---- TO POTATO GROWERS. A, Jhrom the x editorial columns" of The Carolina Fruit and Truckers journal we take thevery timely and sensible article given below. We feel "sure that if Carolina potato growers heed the advice therein given it will put money in their pockets. All indications point to a tremen dous potato crop this year and 'unless the product is marketed judiciously there will not be the expected profit to the growers. Indeed, there is pos sibility even of loss to some if the crop is rushed on the market with out regard to its condition. The ad vice as to allowing the potatoes to remain in the soil antil fully grown is also good and will add to the out put of those who follow it , The Journal says: "In view of the large quantity of last year's crop of Irish potatoes car ried over to this season and still un sold, we would Urge the potato grow ers of the south to take their own good time in digging the 191$ crop. There is nothing to be gained by forcing the market but much to be lost, Many people prefer old pota toes to new ones for domestic pur poses, but an overwhelming majorityl win buy new potatoes as soon as "1 are offered on the market. Specula tors held thousands and hundreds of thousands of barrels of last year's drop over in storage to the last mo ment and then flooded the country with old stock- Prices naturally crumbled and in the face of this crumbling, prices on. new potatoes naturally, opened up weak in Florida, and especially by comparison with last year when they were abnormally high. "Florida has marketed a large por tion of her4918 crop already, some of which was rather prematurely dug, and the result of that fact is to be found In prevailing prices of N new Florida potatoes selling around $4 and $5 per barrel, as compared with IS and $9 last year. Supply and de mand is one of the controlling fac tors in" the potato situation, and it is folly to ever ignore- this fact. The potato. groovers, however, have the present ands prospective situation largely in their own hands if they irill only exercise - this prerogative intelligently and refrain from prema turely digging... their potatoes or forc ing the market. If either policy should be adopted prices are Koine to Little low throughout the season. ,!'Ou the other, hand M potatoes were permitted to remain in the ground until thoroughly matured, we expect to see prices advance sub-i stantlally on all?the markets, while the 'stock will. be of a superior character-: and keep , longer" for domestic consumption. 'In the 'meantime the government is purchasing old pota ties on a tremendous scale for Arner- iqan soldiers in our army and navy, and, .at. the rate of purchases during the past sixty ' days,v all of the old po-' iaioes oi ine inn crop will .Have ben exb,austed"by'the latter paxtbf June: hence it is1 that we say. if the farmers- in Georgia; South Carolina North Carolina and r Virginia win only permit" their potatoes Ho remain in - the? ground until? they I are thor oughly matured. ; they will not only carry better, but keep betterat desti nation, . and .nerve a better purpose at a i food producC'tMliing;. for xmore money,; end in this war more ade quately compensating the -producer tor his labor, time and investment, "We don't look for Florida potatoes to .s4Tancemnc&:in pfgc;'-j0rta' crop in" that states will fcave to? cont pete with the last year's 'hold overs which, tfcft : speculators will ft means for 'bearing" the markets as long as possible. In other words, if the Carolina and Virginia growers wjli only bold back thi shipments until last year's., crop is out of he way," they wiij get better prices for their potatoes. If they do not then theyiwill have to take wheteverthey can get. In the latter event-theywill have; nobody hut themselves . to blames By holding back the digging: season until the potatoes ai&jtbor?; biighly- matured the farmers will be able to .harvst at least 15 to 20 per cent greater volume, which is,' within itself, a consideration not to be- over" looked' . . A German newspaper speaks .of th British naval raids on Ostend and, Zeebrugge as "damnable daring." If it seems that way to the Germans they-must have been hit hard. There would be much more con nubial felicity in some households jf the husband would remember that the wife was as fond of wearing pret ty clothes as are the daughters. That Illinois mine owner who . Is advising coal operators not to sell the .products of their mines for less than the prices established by the government is putting bis mouth to unnecessary work. Nicaragua was the twentieth na tion to declare war against Germany. The latter will realize after awhile that she Is in a mighty small minor ity of the civilized countries of the world. ' With The Editors , Durham Sun: Keep your eyes and ears open for German spies; con demn any weak-hearted quitter who gests a dishonorable peace and resolve again that,' by the eternal, now is the time to decide whether or not our boasted courage is of the true kind and our institutions are worth the sacrifice necessary to maintain them. Now is the time to stand up and be men and women. ; Fayette ville Observer: German pris oners are .telling their captors, the allies, that von Hindenburg is dead. Well, if he's not dead from the lack of breath, he's dead as a door nail as an "offensive" leader-rso what's tne .difference? A: Charlotte frews: It is said that one of them noted actresses in Ne York City spends $100,000 a year on her dresses, which shows several things, among them being that it costs a great deal more in these days to dress on nothing than in the time of Mother Eve. Greensboro Record: The story comes from the Germans in the trenches that Hindenburg is dead. He is an old man, about 80 years of age, as we understand it, and the Germans are telling their own peo ple that the great soldier Is dead, ostensibly as an apology for the lack of leadership In the great offensive, They name a , new general who has taken his place. The Germans are smooth in circulating false reports, but we do not see how this story, if untrue, -would get them far in any direction. 'The allies are not afraid of Hindenburg. They have met bis" strategy and matched it every time. University News "tetter: It strikes us that we have had about enough talk going on for the past six months in regard to the miserably low sala. P" to our publio school teach toayAbad some reponse before this. As tn so many other matters it looked as if we -had too dog-goned many leaders and not enough follow ers. From all sides we have been hav ing it dinned into our ears that we are -not by any means paying i our teachers a living wageand we bliss fully keep right on doing it. - Winston Sentinel: "1 believe there are a great many peoule who are Just beginning to realize the full extent of the issues involved in this war," re marked a citizen tcS$y. "I don't think the real significance of those Issues has been realized before, I think, for instance, there are a vast number of people who have not seen the possi ble consequence to Christianity of a German victory in the present con flict, I am as confident as I am of anything in the world that a Teutonic triumph would injure the cause of Christianity in the world as nothing else could, I shudder to think oi the conseauences if the kaiser's ideals should emerge triumphant from the truggle.M , He' Graduated "ttulckly" An English' curate taught an old man in his parish to read. After his lessons were finished he was unable to call upon him for some time, and when at last, he called he ;iound only the man's wife at homeA ). S V "How is John?" said he, "And how does he progress with his reading? "Oh, nicely, sir. "I suppose he can read his Bible quite comfortably now?" . a ."Bible, sir! l exclaimed Jthe woman. "Lor bless your soul I Why, John was out q the Bible and into .the . sporting najjera long ; agi'ViYeuth's - Coinpan ion. - - - - - ' (By FREDERIC J. HA5KIN.J i1 Washington. f May ;ieVi!verT . morn Jng: 'punctually - at nine, while' the parks at Washington are stm fresh with dew and tourists , are lingering over conee at" theirnotels la : Jtttie old man walks . briskjy uppthe-long flight of. steps.'.- from i Pennsylvania avenue- and . sits him down in the to tunda of the capitol, which .has been his hea4auarters and- place of busi ness for -over? twenty?-years.f M ifz? at : the national capitol, and one es pecially qiialified for his pbstTjy rea- sonnof bis long residence in Waabin; ton; and his well-stored memory. Born near Ste "Urols,- ten' yeari"befdre the civil war," Mri Bond first ' caxno Washington' as a mere bjy,-arriving on the day when General Grant wsji inaugnrated president ;)of ; the United States for his first, term. He-secured an invitation to the grand inausrural ball Uiat night,; shook hands with the soldier-president and bis wife,, and told Grant then and there that he had decided to jnaake Washington - his home. ' - "So have I, for a lime at least,H laughingly replied the . new presi dent Eight years later. Grant left the White House at Washington, bnt Ira Bond stayed ,'on, and Jias watched nine different "men act "as chief ex ecutive. For some years he served as a newspaper correspondent for a St. Louis paper, and then, his health failing him, received from the pen of Grovex Cleveland- the nomination -to the post he now holds. Half a million men, women and children, the population .of a great city, have been chaperoned around the capitol by Mr. Bond in the twenty two years he has discharged his du ties there. They have come from Florida and . Oregon, from Arizona and Vermont and from every inter mediate state; from Europe, Asia, Africa and the South Sea Islesr Although the majority of those who have seen the famous building under Mr. Bond's tutelage "have been plain citizens of the union, many celebri ties have been ushered round by the old guide. Princes and potentates have been among them. Bond served as guide, first to Prince Henry of Prussia, when the kaiser's brother visited Washington in February, 1902, and then, fifteen years later to Marshal Joffre of France. His recollections of Prince Henry's visit show how our attitude toward Prussian royalty has changed. In this way Bond recalls the occasion; "Prince Henry of Prussia visited the capitol on the 24th of February, 1902, under the eyes of cheering mul titudes who filled the plaza and places of vantage inside the building. He was accompanied by Ambassador Von Bernstorff and suite', and was received on the eastern portico by a special committee of the House of Representatives. Amid cheers ' they proceeded through the rotunda and statuary hall and on through the cor ridor to the speaker's room, .where the prince was received by Speaker Henderson with a short address of welcome They say that the speaker began his greeting by referring to the frftindly feelings existing between the prince's 'republic' and ours, but Seeing his error, quickly changed the.: word 'rtenublic' ? to nation. If Mr. IHenders'on bad been" right, a whole lot of us would probably have been much happier teday. "Anyway," continues Bond, ."the prince then went to the house gal lery where he was cheered by the other visitors and the representatives as well. Later he shook hands with all of them and then crossed to the senate where the entire body rose, out of respect to 'His Highness.1"' Another incident which Mr. Bond will recount for favored visitors is the time when McKiniey, the mar tyred president, lay In state in the rotunda beneath the great dome of the capitol. Few men have been thus honored, the last being Admiral Dewey, to whom this tribute, gener ally reserved for presidents who die in office, was granted by special act Of congress. Directly under the rotunda, but two floors down, below' the level of the ground is the crypt which was spec ially designed to hold tbe remains of George Washington, had his wife not asked in her. will that the body, be left at Mount Vernon It is a quiet, mysterious little sepulchre and by a strange custom none of the capitol guides will lead visitors there unless specially requested. Out of the hun dreds of thousands Mr. Bond has conducted round the upper building only a few hundred, he says, have fcsked the privilege of examining the crypt, in It rests the plain wooden bier covered with black cloth on which the bodies of Dewey and Mc Kiniey lay in the rotunda and before them Garfield and Lincoln.- A single unshaded electric light burns in the crypt by day and night and it is one of Bond s duties to see that this ves tal fire shall never be accidentally extinguished.- Abraham Lincoln never had a firm er admirer than this old -guide. Brought up at a time when Lincoln's name was on the lips of every man, I Bond's veneration of his hero ia. of a sort different from. that which Is learned out of books. He keeps his chair, when, off duty, next to the ra- mous statue of the great president by Vinnie Ream in the rotunda, and this and the bust of Lincoln by Gutzon Borglum, whose name is now promi nent in connection with airplane dis closures, are subjects on which ha lavishes much oratory for the benefit bf .visitors.' ... ........ . . ,..if. The gradual growth of the capitol from the time the original corner stone was laid by Washington on the J8th of September X79S, is ?v subject on which Mr;; Bond Is better pested than most historians, I Every r school boys knows of the victory the British won at Washington in 1514. and; that after the battle the victors set fire to the unfinished capitol, kindling the blaze with furniture and books from the old congressional tibrarr. Few realize that traces, ot that conflagra tion sun remain on tne coiumnt ox Virginia -marble - at-iae d"obrrayji qfje miUta tospitals ia Paris, till- triii i . -r l-!LjI"' a i l111 y . ......u..J::':j!iu:iisi ,. .... i imniimHnm . - " ! " T " ""! "" m""M'Mni mini, . s iTrrn ( -'XJJ.'!!!;"i HyrrrSi u.- ...n .Tn! i -n- i '' ' CHArTEB XW, 'AWIh to Help Others. I AM wondering as I tell my story, mine and that of other girls occu pying, similar positions, it tnose who read will "understand that I !am trying to be of help to them as well as to tell the true storjr; of an pilice girl's temptations, her troubles and her joys. Oh, yes, she bas many, not least among mem wing-tne joy or in dependence, the knowledrer that he is doing something in the world, that j with her own pay envelope she can assist ber family if it is necessary. ' Sometimes I say to "myself: , MMary Matthews,' do "yon expect anyone to read your story? U it bad been' worth the telling would not some writer of such stories long ago have given it to the public V Then I comfort myself by thinking that no writer, no matter how clever, could know the inside; the real heart of the office girl's story as I dobecause I am one. t "'. One day' I talked wttli a, girl In the office, one much older than I was. She told me be had just received a letter from a girl who used to work with, ber' She had had good posi tions, had been saving, although .she took pains to . add, "she was always neatly dressed. We have to be, you know and now .she had pougnt a lit tle ranch in California. "Her mother is with her. She has supported her for years, ever since her .father died. Yet they saved enough to buy a home an envious note in her- ovice. ; How .many ..years has she been working? I asked, interested at once. "She commenced, very young, about 17. She must be about 48 or 50 now." - "And it has taken ber all those years, working all the time! " I ex- claimed,, wondering. "Yes. They had to live, you know." "How much did she-earn " "Toward the last, $30 or $35 a week. But when I first knew" her she was only getting $15." When I went home that night I told the girls. - Gee!" Betty exclaimed, using her favorite expression. "It's a long way to Tipperary by the way of a Califor nia ranch! Over SO years earning enough to retire on. Come on, girls; let's us retire now. We'll be so old if we wait until we can buy a ranch that even the gophers would set up a howl that they didnt want us." f'All right, you go to bed!" Carrie laughed. "The rest of us aren't sleepy," "I wasn't talking about that kind of retiring, smarty, and you know it" Betty good naturedly replied. the rotunda, in those days used as the hall of the house of representa tives. Bond nas found the marks of destruction the architects could not erase, mounting on a ladder fortv3 feet above the floor for. that purpose, it is a source of real joy to the' old-. cicerone that the great frieze which runs around the rotunda, seventy-five feet above the floor, Is nOw being completed after remaining in an un finished state since 1889, before Bond assumed his duties. The present ar tist, Mr. Whipple, of New York, Is the third to be engaged on the gigantic task of painting a frieze of more than life-size figures, representing scenes from American history, round the 300 feet circuumstsnce of the dome. The first artist, Constantino Brumldl, who eame to America as an exile for rev olutionary activities from Italy, re ceived just ten dollars a day for his work. Congress, says Mr. Bond, is still niggardly where matters of art are concerned; as the present artist Is not to receive a cent for bis efforts unless it is found that his decoration compares favorably with that of Bru roidl. The old guide is able to sympathize with these underpaid craftsmen for he is supposedly prohibited from ac cepting any fees from those whom be leads about the capitol. He says. however, that the ladles frequently press a small gratuity upon him in a form which makes it possible to ac cept. Particularly this has been so, since ne conceived the Idea' of laying stress on the fact that a woman has found a place among the honored in staturary hall Frances Wlllard, of Illinois, . a lifelong worker for the cause of temperance. ' There are but two ' officers in the capitol who are Bond's seniors in service. They are both close' friends ot the old guide, end when off duty he often spends some hours in chat' ting with them of past celebrities and days. It is the duty1 or one of these aged officials to keep.the. snuff boxes in the senate filled, andjJf the other to see that the senators . quill pens are sharpened. Did you know that in the eighteenth year of the twentieth century such offices as these still exist, in the nation capi tol? ... Names in the News. Lazloism pronoufieed las Jo ism f is a new term that has' been coined in England and refers to "friendly alien enemies. The term is derived from the name of Mr. Philip Lazlo, a distinguished Hungarian painter, who represents a considerable class of naturalized aliens at large in that country, whom the populace' would raibjer see jnterned. Close Resembiseee, I The Jewish cantor who refused $1,000 a night in opera and sings for nothing r. to sen liberty booSf gives an example of the artistic tempera ment closely resembling the patriotic .temperament New York World', . Mme. Fpjtacare, wife of the French TITAaM Ant mti t klntA'at 'AmiXvl visit t "It isn't, very encouraging, is Mil iv said fluiptiv "Tht-.- Vinrtf wnrV thn tlmnut ,. Jca"S jyj ; nu4i juu uave worKeoL en- lo get." so hard Tnars tne way I felt i. . r ouuy about us so long.. She had a mother to port" su? i '.Yes, and earned bigger wages tha any of us can hope to for a ZT time," Carrie added. "I tell 5? girls, I get awfully discouraged sonS times. Then I think what's the u. and buck np and go at it again" "We. mustn't be blue tomorrow night girls, not one of us. You kn0 Alice Newlands is coming to supper with me. J know youH all like her ; "What, are you going to have. Mary?" Carried asked. , "Foolish, question," Betty broke ''oysters on the half shell, of course soup a la Mrs. Fagin on the gas jet broiled squab Matthews, grape fruit salad Conners, ice cream Newton and cheese, a la Jones. Ain't it lucky e all have such swell French names! I have beard it is very recherka (Bet ty's pronounciatlon made ua scream) to name things, after people. Some one else will have to say what kind Of wine goes with each course. Jiy wine education was neglected the same time -'my spelling and English was." Do stop your nonsense, Betty, and let Mary talk. What had you thought of having?" Carrie asked again. "ph, just a nice oyster stew, soma cake and coffee. Alice does the same as we do. She has meat at noon, and then has just a light supper at night" "So light I cant feel it when I lift it sometimes," the irrepressible Betty added. '. "IH bring in some cold meat, sliced thin, and some olives," Milly, who had been "quietly listening, said. : "A real feed, girls, that's -what It will be! I'll wait on the table and you can pretend I'm the maid," Betty broke in. ; - "Yes, and have you snitch your por tlos off ;our plates like you did at Mrs Bloomer's," Carrie retorted. "Not on your life, young lady! We'll keep you where we will know what you are doing" 'T never was appreciated; I guesi I never will be,". Betty said, so com. Ically that, as usual, we all lauched heartily. I don t . know now ve Should have got along without Betty at this time. The rest of us were inclined to be rather quiet, mostly be cause we were tire.d. . But Betty eould always make us laugh with her quaint speeches. COKTINTJD jrOMOBBOW. (Copyright, 1918, by tale Drummnd) TRAVEBETTE BY NlKSAH. WHITE MOUNTAIN national i FOREST.' The national forests Have becota one of the great -factors 141 the life of the west, but they are just begin ning to be a factor in the east. Hera the government owns no lands, and is slowly acquiring them by pur chase. It already has obtained large areas, in the southern Alleghanies and has now nearly 4,000 acres in the White mountains - of New Hamp shire. The White mountains are one oi the wildest tracts which remain in the northeastern section of the United States. Most of the land is unfit for agriculture; but originally it contained some of the finest forests in Jjf United States. These were rapidly decimated. First the fine white pns of the northern woods was cut then the spruce, and finally the small um ber was taken for pulp wood. At tw same time forest fires were ably smj ting the work of destruction wmca was carried on by the uncontrouea lumber industry. As a result these , devastating agencies, many oi the watersheds were denuded, ano stream flow was seriously ,affe,ctf Agitation for federal control of w -region was begun in 1911 and tw finally resulted in the establishment of the White Mountain national wr est , The preservation and restoration oi the forests is an important consider nfirtn hnt nrhgm the fact of mosi account to the average American J that an area of this famous can mountain region has been se aside, as a playground open to au. When, it would otHerwise have au passed -rapidly Into private ownerswp. OUR OAii-Y BIRTHDAY PARTY. Levi P. Morton, former vice presi dent Of the United States, born Shoreham, Vt., 94 years ago tow- Col, Ervin L. Phillips, commanJr Of the new-307th -cavalry regiment w the . NaUonal-Army, born m York, 52 years ago today. General Eli Torrance, of Minneso former commander-in-chief of tne A. R.. born at New Alexandria, ,74 years ago today. t , Andrleus A. Jones. United State senator from New Mexico, born Union City, Tenn.. 56 years ago w dMedin McCormick. Chicago paper publisher and Representative congress, bom in Chicago, 41 J6' ago today. nver, Robert S Vessey, former govej nor of South Dakota, born at us fkosn. Wis., 60 years ago tow ONE YEAR AGO TODAY IN WAJ. May 18. 1917-House of wPJJ, tatlves passed the selective c0"ig Uon bill as altered In f committee; Professor Minlykot signed his "position as RwsIanIJlf minister; Americans first lef.0 the f ale arrival of -Admiral Sims s Ms squadron of destroyers in tne " ' V