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Difficult Classification.

Teacher —Tommy, to' what class of the animal kingdom do I belong? Tommy—Dunno, teacher. Pa says you’re an old hen and ma says you’re an old cat.

Stop the Pain. The hurt of a burn or a cut stops when Cole’s Carbolisalve Is applied. It heals quickly without scars. 25c and 50c by all druggists. For free* sample write The J- W, Cole Co., Rockford, Ill.—Adv.

HAVE LITTLE TIME TO THINK

Air Fighters Must Be Constantly “on Edge," and Not Infrequently Make Terrible Mistakes. Indicating some of the thrilling features of 8 battle in the air and to the death between belligerent fliers, one British pilot said: “When with an accompanying roar a German plane goes whirling down, dizzily groping for the crater-studded earth, its engine out of order, its mechanism out of action or one of its complements hors de combat, it is followed with the persistency of a hawk. “Sometimes the game is for one machine to make a sudden dive at another; sometimes It is to suddenly commence climbing out of an assailant’s reach; sometimes it is a case of trying to get the foe into the observer’s Held of fire; but whatever the idea may be for the moment, hunter and hunted are both in deadly earnest. “The slightest error of judgment may at any moment send him like a stone spinning to the earth, with a velocity that can only be described as terrible. In the mad excitement of the moment, time and again Hun plane has encountered Hum British, British, with results that need hardly be

Might Be Too Much for Him.

Southern Parson (to convert) —Does yo’ think yo’ kin keep in de straight an* narrer path now, Sam? Sam —I reckon I kin, pahson, es dey ain’t no watahmillkuvpatches eriong de road. —Boston Evening Transcript

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Two Kinds of Allies

By GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON

of Tho Vigilantsj

An Italian widow living in New York city had five sons. Four of them were born in the United States, the other in Italy. He was one year old when his parents came to New York to live. When Italy entered the war against her domineering, eiacting ally three of these boys—‘-all American subjects—lost no time. In doing what thousands of other American boys already had done. Where the other thousands -had cast their lot with the Canadians, the French and the British, as free-born Americans had the right to do, these three young men set sail for the land of their father, and took up the arms of their forefathers against the foe. They entered the Italian army. They were volunteers, not conscripts. Two of them had never even seen the land from which came their father and mother. Then came the decision of the United States to engage in the conflict on the side of civilization and humanity. This old Italian mother gave her two remaining Americans to the army of the United States. They were her youngest—one of them barely eighteen—and they were as eager to fight as their brothers had been. They did not want to be drafted. They enlisted as common soldiers, and went away with the troops to France. The old mother did not give up her boys to the armies of Italy and France. She gave them to the armies that were fighting for the things dear to them as Americans. They went as Americans, not as Italians. No matter what their father may have been when he was a boy, these boys were Americans. They loved the land in which they were born, oven as their father loved the land In which he was "born. They believed ip the land of their birth and in its ideals, as their father and mother had taught them to believe. They did not, go forth as adventurers, but as soldiers with a principle behind them. Difference in Mothers. A German mother in a Connecticut city also had five sons of the fighting age when the war broke out. They were all born in the United States and they were American citizens, as their father deliberately had made himself by the processes of naturalization perhaps before any one of them came into the world. Two of these sons succeeded in reaching Germany, and. like the sons of the Italian mother, took up the arms of their father’s native land. No one will gainsay them the

GOD’S WILL OR MAN’S

By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY

Of The Vigilantes

If God be perfection In wisdom and love, and all powerful, why does He not stop this war? He must know of the suffering, He must feel for the sufferers, if He can why does He not end it? Grave questions, indeed, and wrung from hearts unaccustomed tp doubt by sorrow and shame and de-' spair. God is wisdom, love and power; God knows and feels, yet the war, goes on. He does not act. There is no Divine Intervention! What then? Shall we, like Job’s wife, curse God and die? By no means. Let us ask ourselves the exact meaning of that clause in the world wide prayer “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” Is that a statement of invariable ever-present fact, or is is a necessary petition? Is God’s will always and everywhere and at all times being done upon earth, or is It not?

I think that statement is a petition and that it Is properly included in the Lord’s prayer. I am sure that God’s will is not always being done, but that often and for long periods the evil of man is being done under the inspiration of the devil. Incidently, after the experiences of the past few years I don’t see how any one can doubt the existence of the devil and legions of attendant spirits of evil. He is incarnated at Potsdam, and his fallen Angels in the ravagers of the stricken lands of Europe and Asia. Have you seen that -terrible cartoon in which the devil shakes his finger at the kaiser and says. “If you don’t quit calling me ‘God,’ you will get Into trouble?” We Mutt Continue Free. Will any one say to the maimed children, the outraged women, the starved men, that these sufferings are inflicted upon them by the will of God? Were Reims and Ypres and Louvain destroyed by the will of God? Does he pollute wells, and devastate fields and destroy villages? Is He responsible for Poland, Serbia and Ar-, menia? Is the torpedo launched against the merchant ship in accordance with His will? Is He using liquid fire and poison gas? Is God accessory after the fact to murder, rape, outrage, devastation, destruction? The thing Is unthinkable; the claim monstrous, impossible, incredible. ' „ . But if God be not responsible and If meu are, still why does He not prevent them? A restatement of the que» I

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right to Join the kaiser’s army. They were free-born American citizens, aa much so as the boys who went out to fight, with the Italian, the French and the Canadian forces, and It wrts their.individual right to fight wheresoever and with whomsoever they elected. But when the United States went into the war, did the three remaining sons offer their services to the country in which they were Jjorn,. the country which had enriched their father, the country which honored them by calling them citizens? They did not. They were not Americans. They were Germans. - The mother of the three young men openly declared that , she would rather see them dead by her own hand -than to have them take up arms against their kaiser!

The Fortunes of War. But the fortunes of war produce strange conditions. The fortunes of war demanded that three Americans should go forth and shoot two Germans. There can be- no going behind the fact that the Instant the United States entered the conflict these three boys automatically became the enemies of their brothers. Their brothers had gone out voluntarily to fight with the German armies. That was their right, their privilege. They did so at the time when their native land was not lined up against the kaiser. They elected to face the bullets that were aimed at Germany, just as those other boys elected to face the shells fired at Italy. But the two Germans went out to fight for Germany because they were Germans, because they were not allowed to be anything but Germans. Their mother sent them out to die for Germany. Was she. willing to send the other three out to die for the United States? NO! She preferred to kill them with her own hands. The Italian mother did not send her two • ren malnlng boys to fight in Italy but in France. They went as American soldiers. They would have gone with the American armies to fight against Italy If the call had been from that direction. She would not have preferred to kill them with her own hands. In the great Civil war that threatened the existence of the United States of America back, in 1861-65 brother fought against brother. Thousands of young men came up from the Southland and put on the uniform of blue. Their brothers, their cousins, even their fathers, were wearing the gray. The Instances in which North- 11 ern-born men went to fight with the Confederate armies are notably rare. These men who came north loved their Southland,with a devotion that cannot be questioned, and yet they loved their country more. They did not fight with the North because they were Northerners but because they believed in a United States of America. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is neither blood nor water that counts in the making of an honest man. It is his heart that counts.

tion. The answer? Is No! We are endowed by God with free will, power to choose. That is and must be a real power else we are victims of a ghastly jest, a hideous delusion. If God has limited Himself by giving us this power we can, if we will, choose evil instead of good. Men have chosen evil and the world is suffering because of the choice. Once more you ask, why does not God withdraw from us our freedom of will, since it Is abused? Because the privilege is so great, so inestimable, so necessary, that it is better even to suffer all the ills that follow upon its abuse, than that it should be withdrawn or abrogated, and we ascend to the position of automata, irresponsible beings, moved about arbitrarily by an omnipotent hand. We must work out our own salvation by the help of God. We are not children of the bond woman but, of the free and we must so continue. - What Is Your Answer? How, then, is God’s will to be done? How is the'war to be won? In what way is a stop to be put to all these atrocities? When men, by whatever means and searching, do discover the will of God, and after the discovery* develop sufficient consecration and devotion to do the will of God,’ then, and not until then, will it be done. “The Son of God goes forth to war—” Yes, always and at all times, but He never comes back a victor unless the Sons of Men go with Him. When we find out the will of God and do it, we shall end the war, and every other evil that results from the inability or unwillingness of men to see and do that will. Are your hearts set upon righteousness, upon doing tie will of God, oh ye people of America? So the question is not of God’s duty but of your ow’n. What .answer are you making?

TO GERMANY

By GEORGE STERLING,

of the Vigilantes, Thy monstrousness stirs men no more to hate, • • But nausea. What defiled and fetid sea,. What dark abysses of putridity, Have belched thee? Thou hast reached the world too late, For with the , reptile is thy place end date; Yet must we love the saurian, as we Find It a gentle thing compared to thee Whose maw no blood of nurse or babe can sate. , t .•' The Abominable shall put by its crown Because of thee. Because of thee all speech Goes bankrupt, and Imagination gains No curse that does not bless thy black renown— Thou, who dost hold all Infamy in reach! Thou, with the blood of devils in thy veins! r London’s population Includes 4TV 000 persons who reside in flats.

LIFT OFF CORNS!

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Doesn’t hurt a bit! Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then you lift it right but. Yes, magic! No humbug!

A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a few cents at any drug store, but is sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irritation. Freezone is the sensational discovery of a Ciflcinnati genius. It is wonderful. —Adv.

Misrepresenting a Bee.

English officers and men still experience difficulties with the language a* the front. Recently an officer, seeing a swarm of bees settled near his billet, rushed to adjacent cottages to inform the residents. But explain verbally he could not. So, taking a paper and pencil, he drew a rough sketch of a hive, then waggled his fingers in what he thought the correct winglike way. It was a failure.'so he sketched a number of bees, and buzzed a beesome buzz. Whereupon the cottagers, together with one consent, bolted to the dugouts, believing that he meant hostile aircraft overhead. London Dally Chronicle.

“Cold In the Head"

Is aa acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Persons who are subject to frequent "colds In the head" will find that the use of HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE _ will build up the System, cleanse the Blood and render them less Hable to colas. Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh. ■ HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. All Druggists 75c. Testimonials free. SIOO.OO for any case of catarrh that HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE will not CI F? J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio.

Of Course Not.

Elizabeth had been buying Thrift stamps and almost had her third book -filled before the drive for War Savings pledges. Her mother suggested that she had better not start another book until the' campaign was on. “Mother,” replied Elizabeth, “do you think our dear soldiers over in France would say “have fought three battles and I can’t fight any more?” Irrigation projects under consideration for India affect about 10,000,000 acres of land.

No Substitute For Dodd’s Kidney Pills. That’s Why Their Sale Has Increased Wonderfully for the Last , Forty Years. Don’t accept a substitute for Dodd’s when you know that if they didn’t relieve' and give permanent satisfaction they be selling to the same families for two generations. Thousands of users, who have saved themselves from the ravages of kidney troubles and Bright’s Disease by the use of this famous old remedy, will accept nothing else. They know that upon the slightest backache, pain in the loins, stiffness id stooping or lifting, you must take warning. and use Dodd’s and Dodd’s only. You are protected by the name on the flat, round box the name with the three D’s for cßSeased, disordered and deranged kidneys. No article of similar name will do. Get your box today and start on the road to health. - . a Druggists will ' ' fl gladly refund 1 ' your money if not promptly relieved.

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BETWEEN FLOORS

By SOPHIA B. COHAN.

(Copyright, 1918, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) “And I don’t think there is any virtue in helping all these war funds with money given to me by dad, so I’m going to work, and besides buying more War Savings stamps and contrlbutlng to the Red Cross, I’ll be releasing some man fbr the service.” Marcia Gray spoke earnestly, at the same time unfolding a small piece of paper, which, she proudly displayed to Bob Eaton’s astonished eyes. “An elevator operator’s license,” he gasped, then smiled. “To think of a woman running an elevator, and of all women you!” And Bob, usually so sympathetic, could control his‘ mirth no longer, and was now shaking with laughter. Marcia’s eyes filled with tears. She had worked so hard to gain that precious bit of paper, and had been so in earnest, and here was Bob ridiculing her! Her chagrin gave way to anger. Folding the license w-ith a snap she ran into the house with a curt, “Well, you’ll see, Mr. Robert Eaton, and don’t ever speak to me again,” and shut the»door in his face.

The following day, as Bob stepped into the elevator in his office building, he was amazed to see Marcia at the wheel. Then, regaining his composure, he greeted her cheerfully. Marcia met his smile with a cold, unseeing glance as she closed the door and started the elevator. Bob had ample time until Marcia let him off at the eighth floor to change his mind about her capability. He had “to admit she was much more polite and efficient than the boy whose place she had taken—and she looked sweeter than ever in her plain gray uniform! All that day Marcia’s face, framed in the black curls which rebelliously refused to stay under her severely serviceable little cap, was hopelessly mixed'with Bob’s letters and reports, and it was with difficulty that he restrained himself from running to the elevator. At last, at five o’clock, he saw her again, and again she ignored him. ‘

So Bob rode np and down in the elevator, hoping against hope that she would relent. Then, when a month had passed without any result he decided to walk, rather than see her so often and not be able to speak to her. Perhaps Marcia missed him, for many times as she saw him running swiftly up the stairs, she felt an impulse to call to him.. However, she still remembered how he had laughed at her; and restrained herself, happy that in spite of his unbelief, she was succeeding far better than she herself had dared hope. Then one day,._at the end of two months of arduous stair climbing Bob was very late, and tp save time, took the elevator.' Besides, he was wearing a new, wonderful oliye-drab uniform, which he was very anxious for a certain little lady to see. Bob was the only passenger in the elevator. Marcia’s heart leaped, but she said nothing. And then a curious thing happened. She stopped the elevator between the seventh and eighth floors, and, turning around, said.warmly, “I congratulate you, Mr. Eaton.” She turned swiftly back, the light in her eyes forbidding Bob to say anything. Matcia’s heart sank—the brakes refused to yield 1 Bob w as er s ’de immediately. She silently accepted his solicitous offer to help, and for fifteen minutes they worked together. Marcia sank to the floor when Bob filially told her it was no use for them to try, and that they would have to wait until they were pulled up. z-'' Half an hour later they Were released from the elevaton/ Marcia’s face shone radiantly through the oil from the brakes as she stepped out. And the radiance from her countenance was reflected in Bob’s, for hadn t she promised to become Mrs. Eaton, and wait for him until he came back from “Over there?” And Bob, having a true diplomatic instinct, had agreed to let Marcia work for the time being.

Eskimo Names.

Eskimos are not able to trace their ancestors back for more than a generation or two because the Eskimo names do not run from generation, to generation, and in every Eskimo family each person has a separate name. This is pointed out by Charles Menadalook, an Eskimo teacher, writingJn a recent issue of the Eskimo, the only publication issued for the benefit of his race.

Short but Eventful Career.

Timgad, of as it was known in Roman history, Thamugas, was built la 100 A. D. by the order of Trajan. The city had an eventful history during its short career, repeatedly invaded, destroyed and restored. Finally, after the Arabian invasion of 649 A. D. it was left to the mercy of the wind and desert.

Corks of Pine.

‘ Owing to the scarcity of tnie cork' in Sweden, wooden corks are being used in that country, the substitutes being made from quick-growing pine. This wood has wide annual rings, and one of its characteristics is its tendency to swell somewhat after it has been fashioned Into stoppers.—Popular , Mechanics Magazine.

London's Only Street Archway.

St John’s gateway, which spans the north end of St. John’s lane. Smithfield, is the only medieval archway remaining over a street, and was 'built in 1504.

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Admonishing Them.

“The kaiser,” began one of the prominent and influential loafers occupying chairs on the porch of the Petunia tavern. “Now, looky here, gents!” severely said the landlord, appearing in the ooorway, “I am as patriotic as the next man and all that, but If you’re going to use that kind of language I’ll have to ask you to excuse,yourself and adjourn. The windows behind you are open, and the dining room girls are working right inside.”—Kansas City Etar.

OLD PRESCRIPTION v FOR WEAK KIDKEb Wave you ever stopped to reason why itia that so many products that are extensively advertised, all at once drop out of sight and are soon forgotten? The reason is plain—the article did not fulfil the promises of the manufacturer. This applies more particularly to a medicine. A medicinal preparation that has real curative value almost sells itself, as like an endless chain system the remedy is recommended by those who have been benefited, to those who are in need of it. A prominent druggist says, “Take for example Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a preparation I have sold for many years and never hesitate to recommend, for in almost every case it shows excellent results, as many of my customers testify. No other kidney remedy that I know of has so Urge a sale.” a' According to sworn statements and verified testimony of thousands who have used the preparation, the success of Dr. Kilmers’ Swamp-Root is due to the fact that so many people claim, it fulfills almost every wish in overcoming kidney, liver and bladder ailments, corrects urinary troubles and neutralizes the uric acid which causes rheumatism. You may receive a sample bottle of Swamp-Root by Parcel Post. Address Dr. Kilmer A Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and enclose ten cents; also mention this paper. Large and medium size bottler for sale at all drug stores.—Adv. So Much a Foot. “How is that for a $3 shoe?" “Only $3 for those? l ean hardly believe it/* “t" don’t say for those —the other one cost me $3 also. —Boston Transcript. Consulting Hie Taste, y “Don’t yo>' eenerniiv a homily whenyou minister dines with yog?" “Oh, no; he doesn’t eat it” Main Point “Life is a blank.” v “Just so. Now how are you going to an it outy* \ ’

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