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BIG AUCTION SALE
of Free Sewing Machines
There will be offered on Saturday, Odtober 13, 1917
at 11 o’clock, sharp, in front of T. L. Gerald’s Stables
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I 50 PERFECTLY NEW FREE |
SEWING MACHINES I
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These sewing machines to be offered for sale to the highest bidder for cash, regardless of price. They ate
going to be sold. ,< ! 351 I gH
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If you are in the market for a sewing machine for personal uses, don’t hesitate to attend this sale, of if you want
sewing machines to resell don’t hesitate to attend. You can make money.
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THE SPOILED CHILD OF THE
WORLD" T
Proa Collier's.
A War Department bureaucrat
with a Teuton name wai chatting
the other day. Speaking for him
self, ha teld: "France is the spoiled
child of the world. She hei lost
Alsace-Lorraine, and honestly thinks
that all the rest of the world ought
to strive and suffer so that she may
ha vs bar lost provinces bask again. ’
Franca lost Alters Lorraine as a
result of the Franco-Prussian War
in 18T1. The people of thorn pro
vinces refused to be annexed to Ger
many: their legislative npreeeate
tlves insisted that they were, and
weald stay, French; and when new
elections war* held under Prussian
eaaplees the vote was once again
overwhelmingly against ratifying an
nexation to the enemy country. That
is ancient history.
More recent Is the fact that Francs,
in defending herself, and all dvihsa.
tioo. against the Prussian drive, has
also had a vision that bar own would
be returned to War. This Is not eon
qaasL This Is not annexation. This
!■ jojhtic#
Early In this war Great Britain
sad Russia pledged themselves to the
return of Alsace-Lorraine to Franca,
just as they pledged themselves to
guaranteeing the rehabilitation of
Belgium by Germany. Since the Bat
tle of the Marne all ddUmtion has
been in the debt of the here nation
which won that dadstve victory, a
turning point In history no lass urv
foryetabie Utah the battle sa the
plain of Tour, by which Charles the
Hammer saved Europe from becom
ing aa African province. And every
one except the neutral souls, and the
Oeraads themselves, aad German
sympathisers, has‘felt that whatever
alee befall the world, France mad
be herself again—France must have
Atowlemdm 4mm not, toown,
present a question of par* MMMt
After this war Emm* fees* a great
tufc of reconstruction. Coal aad
tram win than ba among tha aaeaa
■arise of paaea, aa to-day they ara
axaaag the naeaaaailaa of wear. Tha
country that tanka' them win labor
oadar a tramandoas diaadrantaga far
paaea or for war. Now, thaw lw
rata* U preclou* for its arcamala
tiona af coal aad iron. Tha* ara*
why the Ganaana taaktod oa tearing
tha prorinsaa from Prune* In 1871,
aad aopr riaca than fnaah ladaa
tries haaa ataggerad under a tr*
mandoui aad aajaat handle an. Whan
this war la war aHbsr Afaaaa-Lar
raiaa wW ha returned to Em nation
torad by the paepla of those proriaeaa
r '— • liioNM
rLemiaa
i a Oanaaa eoagaari a
tokan ef rietory add a aoarea el
power far tha Irnamaatart aad gaa
founders aad Paa-Garmem whsaa anil
la aialaaaa aad when* aka b world
la on* aanaa wa Aatoriaaaa aa* ari
so acorn ad with what wo aaad t* call
a Httia eantamutaaariy, the “hrioraal
poMti**” of Korop*. Tha hrtrigaw
of priaaae aad laritawta, wo aad
to «ay^ had no appeal or totoraa* fw
itotd* aad V anadiwtaad. Em
fords, of Dixie sad tha Madthli
V allay.: Bat today I Bursty we
hava Wild bow that It dees aaMar
whether there b jostle* ia tewa
or tajuatieo; whether the rohhac state
among tha aatkoa b granted to*
■unity to murder aad to daatvny, to
■taal aad to pnlma, to hava and to
hold, aad to spread tie toataalto
round neighbors at bases end rtvAb
overeeea G> pease time to ia war.
That b a part af tha Dedaratloa of
IltirdlMlMII^I |M 1*—L
doat Wilson has founded hb coun
try’* entry spaa tha (twiatt af all
ware—Dot kmpty to ratob Anesri
can grievances, bat abo “to ■aha
tha world safe for deaeeoaey."
"Tha Spotted Child af tha World r
That b one phrase far Fraaue hut
h b tha pbrwea af tha apotogbt far
Oeneaay, tha pacUbt who U aba a
cynic ia intanetfcmal poUtka.
COST OF TUB WOULD WAB.
Christian Bckoeo Monitor.
The estimated cost ef tha world
war, to data, b, agpresheataiy, INr
000,000,000, a earn abeoct beyond tha
coaaprahanatoa af the average individ
ual It auaas a par aapita east ed
about |M for every man, womaa and
child oa earth. That irpeadllaree
for war purposes are Bat gnalaB
leas, to the aggregate, b aaaa tor tha
fact that tha daily seat to all beutoor
ecte b bow about tlllMOJf. fhb
compares with about HIMOMM Ms
months ar aa age. Maw that tha Cafe
ad
tha belttgeveab'ed
burly tha eeatral power a. :
Italy, la Ma forty yean ad ;
tkoa tar war, Oa
a walVA Had war i
• XC«lW«t
had any doubts aa to tha affect of
that met upon Germany’* economic
pi laid an, they ant have been <ha
PcBed rinse then, Germany'* gold haa
disappeared ao rapidly that mark ex
change, la the neutral countries, has
«Uclhiad to a moat *sr!ou* extant.
Qatmaay*» efforts to stoat tha tide by
shipping gold haa resulted la tha da
uistion at tha gold (apply. bat ha*
had' acareaty, any appreciable effect
net exchange rated. England haa
■Upped esnaidetabty more than (1,
000,000,090 la gold to tha United
Stolen. hat England h annual produc
tion of goM, within bar colonic* aad
poaaagataaa, la aha am ona-tUrd of
that amoeut.
. Germany haa ao outiida tourcan to
draw from, bat, on tha contrary, haa
had to hotp Austria aad Turkey. Ger
many ha* apoat money *o larisUy, la
carryiag aa tha war, that It la aaeaa
aary for K to borrow to pay interest
aa tha nhllgaHnna already Incurred.
Tha eatmace of tha United States
late tha world war came about a
abort Haas before Germany'* dnandil
exhaustion. Tha United States haa
brought to tha aid of tha allies tea
raaowreaa of tho wealthiest nation la
the era rid, la addition to tha eoatri
botioa of mtlUoaa of mao for tree eh
warfare. It la. therefor*, not difficult
to aa* ultimata vtetpry far the allies,
nor la h hard to aadorstaad why
Qomaav dealrei peoco now.
Tho German Chancellor was simply
foDowlag tha keynote given by Fred
erick the Greet apeekiim la 1740i.
"The question of right la aa affair of
mlalatoia Taka what you can; yea
era mover wrong unlaaa you are oblig
ed to gie* bate."
Ceatreat tea American aad tbs
German standard* of aational boner.
Ike honor aad goad faith of tea
dmarltea Government from Waab
yion's day to When's are beck
tea Liberty Lena Bonds. Wall
may they be celled tea safest levant
moat aa aacte—tha premier security
of tea world.
tURX VALAWA W THE FALX
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