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damage done, to property duringXJivl war. Washington. Mrs. Woodrow Wil son had girlhood friend, J. A. Bowis, appointed postmaster of Rome, G-a., her birthplace. Cincinnati. Eleanore Muchmore offered to sell body to local hospital to be delivered after death. Wanted money for fine clothes, Springfield, IL Cabaret perform ances and even music in cafes 'will be barred if Rep. Sherman's - bill passes legislature. Cass Lake, Minn. Edward R. Rogers, ex-Carlisle and University of Minnesota football star, elected chief of Chippewa Indians. Huntington, W. Va. 400 carwork ers of Chesapeake & Ohio Road may strike and involve 2.,5u0 other work ers, on account of objections to 14 "Holy Rollers" working among them. LETS DkTsOME MORE The vital proposition in most cities throughout the country is water too much water, sometimes, and too little water, at other times. Prosper ity and progress, all the affairs of a community depend, first, upon water. Water and air, since the Very begin ning down to today, have been the two essentials of animation, with pretty much everything else second ary and in large degree" artificial, and what's true of animal life is equally true of communal life. Had men made no more use of the aqueous element than he has of the ethereal, he might today be still climbing hickories" for his food, sleep ing In a cave and wearing a crust of what clay he accummulated in his meanderings for raiment. But man boasts of having learned something about -water and of having applied his knowledge to his advantage. True. He builds a city of factones, with a thousand engines run by boiled water, 500 street cars and 10,000 Bpaihnglights run by water. Alon comes water and demolishes all he ha& Built He crosses ten million acres of desert and dreams how that awful waste might yield. A slight rainfall and abundance of life springs up in a night. And he goes sound asleep. Like a mole, he digs under a river for a .mineral that means power and groans over coming exhaustion of that power. The river above him is power. ,And he sees that power car5 rying into the sea the very land upon which he must live. How slow man really is in. learning about and using this great servant water! It says to him: Accept my service. I will .run your factories and railroads. I will light your cities. I will make your deserts blossom. I will be your obedient profit-making, labor-saving, civilizing Servant Ac cept m,e not, and. I wUl be your un merciful, destroying master! How dull and sluggardly is man! Why if our children were, so slow in their primary grade, Nwe'd yank them out of school in despair! But, we men of America are be ginning to look oip from the primary grade to the higher .grade, in this matter xf water. There isn't a great er proposition aiming at progress, be fore us, than that of Senator New . lands and others to change our wat ers from bad masters to good serv ants, terlock'up the frightful flopdsj so as to flood the dry places as" we like. The brains and means that can unite the oceans can control th6 wat ers that trickle into the oceans. We have merely to decide to dig. All things come to the nation that digs. v rOG , At a dinner of firemen recently, the following sentiment "yas proposed: 'The ladies! Their eyes ldndle the only flame which we cannot extin, guish, and against which there is no insurance." -i o o "is she musical?" "Yes; she has a natural voice, a sharp tongue and a flat nose," 3 . I t.ji.nTffii&iS-JUit A.,.,o5JiJfeiJiji,M. HMHHBHflaaHMMaiMjaiiiajjjiaiijaBfiijij GmmmmiMiiHimtam