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Montgomery Advertiser, being duly svrom.
«» foregoing statement of The Adeer
tlaer'a circulation for the Month of Septem
ber. 1918, la trtie and correct 'and compiled
■after returns and spoiled copies have been de
ducted.
• J. L BOESHaNS.
Circulation Manager.
THE ADVERTISER CO.
Sworn to and subscribed before me. this
Fourth day of October. 1918.
„ (SEAL) . R. C PHELPS.
Notary^Publta^Montgomerv^ountv^Alabaraa
TEE TALLAPOOSA BRIDGE.
Wo would keep before the voter* of Mont
goroery County the significance of the bridge
bond provision which comes to a vote of
this county, on November 7th. This Is the
most important business and industrial pro
vision upon which the voters have had to
pass since they started to vote bonds for
good roads. .
Now Montgomery is a rich county and the
amount of bonds contemplated, fifty thou
sand dollar*, is a small item compared with
• the immense amount of money this county
has spent on good roads. It is reported in
Montgomery—we trust that the report is
without foundation—that there is some op
position to the bond issue in the lower sec
tion of Montgomery county.
We trust that our friends in the extreme
Southern section of the county are not tak
ing a selfish view of this question which is
so vital to the business welfare of Mont
gomery.
They should bear in mind the fact that
more than eighty-five per cent, of the taxes
paid in Montgomery County la paid by the
city. The city of Montgomery is rsaponsi
ble for the good roads system of the cooaty.
Without the taxes paid by the city the build-*
ing of Montgomery County's splendid road
system would have been impossible. Today
in the midst of an era of good roads build
ing. the rural counties, the counties whlcn
have to depend upon taxes collected from
the farms, can build only a few miles of
cheap roads. Nearly all the taxes collected
for good roads in Montgomery County are
paid by the city, but they are spent in the
country.
Th#city does not object to this. In fact,
the city plays its part in good roads butld
ing willingly and cheerfully. It knows that
the good roads help the city as well as the
country, and it wants to go as far as it
can. The community of Montgomery takes
a broad view of this question. It ts only
asking now that the coifntry precincts take
an"'equally broad view of the Tallapoosa
river bridge project.
In time the building of this bridge will
increase property^ values in Montgomery,
and in so doing, increase the amount of
taxes which can be spent for good roads
and schools in the county. The bridge will
furnish the connecting link between Mont
gomery County and the rich white farming
section to the North of us. Until now we
have been putting a penalty on any farmer
to the North who had farm produce to sell
in Montgomery, or who wished to buy good%
in thia city. We have been putting a fer
riage charge fine on him. for coming to
Montgomery. We want to remove thia fine
and we want to abolish the annoyance and
lost time of crossing the river on the vari
ous ferries.
We want to reach out and recover the lost
trade which once came to Montgomery from
Elmore, Tallapoosa and Coosa Counties, but
which went elsewhere when the Central of
* 1 corgis Railroad was built from Opelika to
Birmingham. The business community of
Montgomery as a unit is supporting the
bridge bonds. And that community is
asking its friends in the country to be broad
minded and help the city to get what really
belongs to it.
TV. ^ have been transferred from
the vest front to the east front where they
are attacking the Roumanians. The Bavar
ians were the people who threw back the
allies at the Tser and all but got to Calais.
The British and the French say that the Ba
varians and the specially trained Prussian
Guards, the Emperor’s own—are the most
efficient and dangerous fighters among the
Germans Regardless of how the war ends
Bavaria will In future years be proud of the
great part played by the soldiers of that
country In this struggle.
The President is not the only man who
“wants to see the campaign ended and who
wants to got back on the Job. “We take our
politics too seriously In this country, and
ihsrt is a great deal of lost business and
industrial motion in a campaign.
The Iowa farmer* says, “I never haul any
thing off mr farm on wheels. I drive all my
i reps off oa four feet.” Iowa is shout thg
heat parsing State lu the Cnion Think it
ever.
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WALSH OH ROOSEVELT.
Theodore Roosevelt* opinion paklidr a
pressed of Frank P. Walsh, would be in
teresting. and no loos interesting is Frank
P. Walsh's opinion of Theodors Roosevelt.
The two men differ in hat both are es
sentially agitators.
Frank P. Walsh, since he had few weeks
of glittering prominence, of which he made
the most, as Chairman of the Federal Rela
tions Comraisison, has been la otecirltf.
Hia work on the head of that commissi**,
however, was so spectacular that it can not
be forgotten by tbe newspaper readers of
America. This commission, designed to se
csre information as to tbe relations between
labor and capital, scored a rank failure: Its
report has been pigeonholed somewhere and
its work has had no bearing whatever, on the
adjustment of the numerous labor troubles
of the country since the rommisison hell
its sessions. Its failure was due to tb
rank partisanship of the commission. Walsn
constituted himself, a# advocate judge aa>t
Jury and his partisanship so disgusted other
members of the commission that they
brought In an opposing report, while the Re
publican papers of the country seeing a goo:
opportunity lambasted the Chairman front
one end of the country to the other.
The explanation of Walsh's partisanship
was simple, however. He was a Kansas City |
,awyer. who is in politics up to his neck, and i
who hoped to be Senator from Missouri. !
Walsh may be a rank failure when it comes ’
to being the chairman of a supposedly non- ;
partisan body, but when he gets on the fleii ;
of politics he ia in his element. He knows
the players on the other side \nd he la up '
to their tricks.
He gives the country a pretty acuratc
diagnosis of the case of Theodore Roosevelt
when he presents him as a political tyran.
end a ruthless dictator. The career of j
-oosevelt is full of instances to justify this
onception of his character. And, as Waist,
points out. such a man. dictating to the
Hughes administration would be equally as
dangerous to the administration and to the
country-at large. Like McGregor. Roosevelt
claims that the head of the table is wher
ever he sits. If Hughes really believes he
will be elected be must shudder, when he
thinks of his administration and the prob
able part Theodpre Roosevelt will play In
!t. He must have the Taft adimnistration.
continually rising before him. like Banquos
ghost.
What was the matter with the Taft ad
ministration? Nothing, so far as Republican
sentiment is concerned, except that Theodore
Roosevelt set out to destroy It and suc
ceeded. Why did he crush the man he had
raised up? He destroyed Taft politically, be
cause Taft was foolish enough to believe
that he was President and that as President
he had the right to run the office. From tbe
moment Taft was inaugurated, when the
inaugural party returned to the White House
and when certain suggestions of Roosevelt
were rejected by the new President. Roose
velt attempted to dictate to Taft, until he
realized that Taft-was listening to other in
fluences. From that time on. it was war
to the knife between Roosevelt and Taft and
the result, is written in the political history
of the country.
Hughes can not be elected without the aid
of Roosevelt. No man in the country knows
that better than Hughes. Roosevelt, at first
hung back from endorsing Hughes and re
fused to promise any aid. Some terms were
reached that brought him around? What
were those terms? First of all. Roosevelt
had to become the one big man in the Hughes
ampaign. Second, he forced Hughes not
only to seek openly his favor, but what was
a worse dose, to publicly endorse the bittei
anti-German speeches which Roosevelt de
livered in the early days of the campaign.
Nor are these all the terms. Some other
goods will have to be delivered after the
election. The German-American leaders
know this, the old line Republicans who
hate Roosevlt worse than they hate poison
know it. They are uneasy and restive; they J
are now alarming the leaders of the Repub- j
Ucan campaign, and frequent deflections of j
their followers have been reported.
The voters of this country would not elect j
Theodore Roosevelt President—the Republi
cans would not even nominate him. And. r
the voter* of this country are not going to !
return an administration to power, if they
know that Theodore Roosevelt will be the
dictator of that administration and through I
that administration of the country.
THE ASCENT OF COTTON.
On Court Square In Montgomery. Saturday
cotton sold for eighteen and a quarter cents
a pound
This is the highest market price reached
by cotton in forty years. It is the highest
market price for cotton, since normal, or
nearly normal trade conditions were restored
after the great war between the States. If j
Middle Alabama had made even three-quar- ,
ters of a normal crop, this section some be
rejoicing in the greatest prosperity it has
ever known -
Still it is no time lor the pessimist to
say, “What's the good of cotton being eigh
teen cents when we have no cotton to eeUr"
But we have cottoA to sell. We haven't an
average or a normal crop by a long sight,
but we have some cotton to sell. It is possi
ble that the cotton crop of Middle Alabama,
in spite of the rain and the boll weevil, will
be a third of a crop. In farming neighbor
hoods. peopled by white farmers, the crop
will be over a third: in plantation secttvns
where the farming is done by negroes, the
crop wiH be much less than a third.
But we have enough cotton to gr.-ntij
stimulate trade. The merchant and the farm
er would do well to recall the dark days ot
October. 1S14. when a big crop was raised.
The great European holocaust had gotten to
going. Apparently all transportation facili
ties were paralyzed and cotton was a drug
on the market A farmer with a crop of
cotton to sell could get si* cents for it. if
he was forced by his condition to sell it.
That October of two years ago was one of
the most depressing months this section ever
encountered. The present October is iadnite
ly belter, it is so much better that the pessi
mist should be ashamed.
Again, the enterprising merchant and
farmer should remember the depressing days
at Ainat of this TW The crop >pynr*4
ie be a ceapittt failure and the pfic* was
Sow, Then cotton started on its spectacular
-**r. No man knows what the end win he.
So«e lit** bales are held In Montgomery.
The increase in the raise of that crop, the
crop held in the warehoosea ia alone enough
to stimalate business. Merchants ars
cnfessisg that despite their fears and fore
codings, their tnsisess for September and
August orer preceding years showed an In
crease. We are »n a sound and healthy bnsi
'«« basis. Cotton ia worth more than eigb
een ceats a pound and our well to do people
are laying oat money in cattle fencing and
other items which eaters into a new ln
lnstry. We are going to baild np n great dat
t> industry la this section, bat we are go
-ng to raise some cotton .ait the same. Cot
,on is rot going to he the monarch. It once
wa*. on the farm, bat this section, boll wee
rfl or no boll wooed, is going to grow cot
THE "DEIFT TO WILSON.”
The Rtpgklifu National Committee ia
a state of fear. Serene confidence
.as gina way to public alarm.
Bett:nar a month afo eras two to one that
Hughes would be elected. In Western cities
he betting odds on Hughes and Wilson haVe
hanged fevra two to one to even terms.
Ia Wail Street, the heart of the Hughes
» ntimen:. and the source of much Hughes
oney. both for campaign and betting pur
poses. the odds have changed until they are
raw ten to nine.
The New Tork Herald, an aggressive sup
orter of Hughes, records, weak after week,
he "drift- of sentiment to Wilson. Where
c was piacing Wilson as second to Hughes
n the running It now records Wilson as
ting on even term* with Hughes, and notes
remarkable drift to Wilson.
We suspect that the makers of that can
**■ like the Republican campaign man
v„ers. never went below the surface when
hey made the Republican candidate an ac
Rovitdsed favorite in the running. All of
hem took it for granted that Hughes had
a united Republican Party back of him. to
ether with all the business interests of the
-cuntry and therefore he was bound to win.
.hey are now getting below the surface. The
.narticslate part of the elctorata—the voters
a bo do not make themselves beard and who
:ave uo avenues of publicity are now making
their sentiment known. It Is discovered that
the •‘average man- the foundation of Ameri
can society, is for Wilson.
An experienced Alabama politician once
said: "The silent vote.—there Is no such
thing as the silent rote. That vote may be
silent to you. bat It Is not silent to the other
fellow. Tou may not know what it is going
to do. because it is silent to you. But the
other fellow knows.”
The Republican leaders are beginning to
smoke out the silent vote. And. as they do
they are alarmed at the "drift towarda Wil
son. The change In the aspect of the cam
paign is due to no great change in the voters
—it is due to a new knowledge of how the
mass of voter* feel about the elotion. It is
altogether probable that ' the betting odds
which were recently two to one on Hughes
will be ten to eight or ten to seven on Wil
son. ^before election day.
That short bat interesting sketch in Ban
dar's Advertiser, by Dr. Charles A. Stakely
of Eben E. Rexford. who wrote “Silver
Threads Among the Gold." as well as many
well loved hymns draws, our thoughts to the
great influence the song writer has upon the
.motions and thoughts of the people. The
very day that Eben Rexford lay dead, a
minstrel in a Montgomery Theatre sang that
song first to a hundred business men at a
Rotary CJhb luncheon and second to seven
teen hundred people-in a theater. Such a
simple, yet moving song will go on. yea
after year, touching the hearts of the peo
ple. The man who said. "Let me write the
songs of a people—I care not who writes
the lawst" knew human nature.
Six convicts escaped from Sing Sing prison,
a few days ago. It is no wonder that the
convicts are strong for the self government
system instituted in that prison.
The basic interest of the agricultural suc
cess of every nation has been cattle. *Do
■ on doubt it? If you do you have read, his
tory to no purpose.
Are we going to drag along, year after
year, with the Alabama Treasury broken, by
the just demands for schools, or are we go
ing to relieve the strain by voting in the
school amendment: Let us be progressive.
There may he a country which has more
splendid, more stimulating and more inspir
iog weather than this Indian Summer ol
ours, but we never heard of it.
Leuer* ip n,uiior |
DOULIMi VTI LI. BK<.s THE Q|>-,.
TIOV
°*ark. Ala.. Oct. i-« isjg.
Editor The Advertiser:
I am somewhat surprised at the array of
criticiam produced by the appearance of my
commonic.tiou in last Sunday s Advertiser,
this criticism coining from so many of the
interested classes as well as the learned
Editor sf The Montgomery Advertiser, one
of the sayings of the late Rev. Sam P. Jones
can very well he applied in this case, vix:
•The hit dog always hollers." I have' cer
tainly stirred the nest, all the way from
Headland to Mobile which justices my con
tention. It is interesting, though, to ob
serve how and in what manner my critics
shy around the real issue at hand. They ,p.
pear to be defending Education and local
government when in fact I am not object
ing to either. The contention U simply this
will the children of 'the rural districts get
the benefit of these proposed taxes when col
lected. or will it be wasied by excessive
salaries, consolidation of schools, expenses
towards having the children conveyed to
and from the schools and etc. Governor
Henderson was elected on a platform of
economy and local self government, and but
for the enemies of his platform during the
last session of oar legislature the State of
Alabama today would be In good fininrlal
condition, and not in debt two and one-half
million dollars. The State, however, is noi
in a class to itself with reference to this
debt proposition for practically every coun
ty. city nad town treasury in the country
is empty while taxes are still being raised
and a clamoring for more to be wasted.
One of my critics desires to know if I
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LIVESTOCK
(SHOW
N9T DRESSED UP AND
NSWttERE Tfi GEY
hare visited the crowded schools, in answer
to this query I say yes. and I am well ad
vised in the matter. Then I would ask him
has he been out among the destitute farm
ers and working people to look Into their
condition. If so, fc^will find them almost
hopelessly in debt, with little to pay on big
debts, and with less encouragement for the
future. If we small country bankers, as re
ferred to by another one of my distinguished
critics, we.e to crowd down on these people
and close them out there would be a revo
lution in Alabama such as has never been
known before. Tet, facing these conditions,
with the slightest hope for much improve
ment in general conditions for the next sev
eral years to come, and because 1 havy had
the nerve to raise a protest 1 am now
charged with being opposed to local govern
ment and education. I am only appealing to
the fatsts and conditions as they really exist.
One of our learned critics takes the position
that the higher education increases capaci
ties along the productive line. This reminds
me of a "college professor," of my ac
quaintance. who, on one occasion, undertook
to demonstrate this contention. He rented
four acres of land, spent twenty-five dollars
for fertiliser, bought a mower for which he
paid the sum of seventy-flVe dollars, harvest
ed the crop of oats and sold the e. tiro crop
for forty dollars. Another disynguished pro- ^
fessor. of my knowledge, bought some swee*
potatoes. He undertook to cover them with
a board shelter. A good farmer and neighbor
happened to be passing and found the pro
fessor had commenced to cover his shelter
at the top instead of from the bottom. How
many educated gentlemen can we call to
mind now engaged in practical farming. I
refer to the higher college education. An
other critic has an agricultural college locat
ed in his county, supported by public taxa
tion. How many farmers ooes that school
turn out annually, where are the” farming,
and how are they progressing. I would be
pleased for the gentleman to give me some
definite information along these lines. Now,
lets see about that comparison between Bul
lock and Dale counties. Bullock has an an
nual expenditure per pupil of 126.72. while
Dale has only *7.16. Another Justification of
my contentions. More waste. How is it that
such a marked degree of impartiality exists,
and why the difference. A far better com
parison would be. I think, between Oxark.
Troy or Eufaula with Bullock county on a
proposition o< illiteracy. But, suppose we
compare Bullock and Dale, with all the
people In each county both white and color
ed. I have no statistics convenient for a
comparison.
Closing the discussion so far as I am con
cerned I repeat my former contention: The
people of Alabama are in no condition to
pay or to make it possible to pay more taxes
for schools until we have sufficient time to
overcome present conditions and until we
have had ample' time to adjust ourselves to
new ideas. We already have a sufficient
amount of school money when properly ap
plied. to give every boy and girl in Alabama
a good, common school education, and to this
end 1 am quite willing to be taxed, but it
is wrong in principle to oppress the people
with*taxation any further. We should await
a time with patience until our people shall
have become wealthy, similar to those peo
ple of the Eastern States after whom our
advocates are striving to emulate.
Tes. I ajn almost sure two classes of our
people have already voted, to wit: the coun
try bankers and the country teachers. 1 am
glad to say Jkxark now has the best school
in many years, and under local government
control—and not controlled by outside
bosses. v/
G. P. DOWLING.
1 THE EDITOR’S DELIGHT 1
Douisviile Courier-Journal.
"Any editor wishing to get into hot water
can easily do so by suggesting that the South
is capable of making a mistake in handling
the negro question." says Life. 'The South
prides itself on many things, but. most of
all. it believes its attitude toward the negro
to be inspired, to partake of such a wonder
fully Inscrutable perfection that no man.
especially if he lives North of Macon and
Dixon's line, is wise enough to find a flaw
in It
"Some of the keenest and most conscienti
ous editors of the nation have ventured to
suggest points here and there where the
situation might be improved, but they are
invariably reminded to keep off of subjects
which they could know nothing about. Let
us hope, therefore, that the South will justify
the supreme reverence it shows for the
course it has selected. Let us hope it will
ultirastely bring peace on earth and gcod
will toward black men and white men, and
that we can all go to heaven together, but
that Brother Charon will have foresight
enough to provide separate conveyances
acros the River Styx."
The views of Life, thus expressed, consti
tute a valuable hint to cub editors who want
to get Into hot water. If thera were no
hot water for editors to get Into how flat,
stale and uncontroversial would editoring be
come.
“Come in.” say the conditions existing, the
prejudices old and known and immutable,
"come In, the hot water's fine." And when
the editor who resides in the North feels
the need of some hot water in which to
splash about, he disregards, for the sake of
giving expression to his temperament, for
the sake of enjoying himself, the standing
advice of mankind: Keep your shirt on.
He takes off his shirt and plunges right in.
The splashes of Southern editors into the
water follow inevitably and immediately, as
contemplated. It Is as if someone rustled
the reeds at a pond’s edge to hear the btnl
frogs go, one after another, or altogether,
“kerchunk” into the depths. There is uo
sort of doubt that every loog who hears the
reeds rustle wi\l go to it as hard as his hind
legs will propel hint.
The frogs in th cold water do not have
any better time than the editors in th* hit
i water. Editors in the North and in the
South have delighted in the negro question
have delighted to lambast one another about
it,-since the period in which Colonel Clay
published the “True American” in Lexington,
in fortified stronghold, while other colonels
of the neighborhood held a meeting and
adopted, with all due solemnity and tem
perateness, a resolution that, other means
failing, the permanent suppression of the
"Trtie American” be accomplished by a com
mittee of sixty repairing to the seat of its
publication to take forcible possession of the
press and printing apparatus, pack up the
same and place it at the railroad office for
transportation to Cincinnati “and report
forthwith to this body ”
Even in those stern and stirring days the
stimulative* effect of the hot water was en
joyed, for vituperation is the spice of life,
and the pen is a mightier procurer of satis
faction than the sword.
The Courier-Journal, a citizen of a State
aaid section? in which the negro abides and
In which peace should always abide, often
has denied itself the Joy of the conflict in
the hope of aiding the neighbors of all
shades of color and of all shades of political
faith. It has believed since emancipation in
making the best, not the worst,- of a difficult
situation. It has never believed in the per
fection of the wisdom ofl^e South, or even
in the perfect and invariable Ignorance of
the North as reflected when Northern. edi
tors have plunged into the hot watef? It
agreed heartily with Booker T. Washington
when he said the South was the best place
for the negro and the Southerner the negro’3
best friend, but it agreed no less heartily
wi" his contention that lynchiag is as in
defensible upon practical grounds as upon
ethical grounds. It has observed with satis
faction the enactment, in several States
North of Mason and Dixoa'a line, of the auto
matic removal law as the surest means of
decreasing murder and race friction. It has
held up. as an example for Southern States,
the virtual abolishment of mob murders in
Ohio and Indiana through the instrumentali
ty of the removal law and has urged South
ern States. Kentucky among them, to adopt
such a law.
The negro question does not loom so large
in the minds of Southerners, white or black,
as it looms in print in South or North. Were
it not for the exigencies of party politics It
would be smaller than it is. The reason why
the hot water abounds is that the negro ques
tion is used to kick up a row for the sake
of the row; to provide “a little pleasant bick
ering” and for political effect.
“Some of the keenest and most conscien
tious editors have ventured to suggest’’-^—
Assuredly, but a majority of those who have
made the negro question the football of Jour
nalism—to adapt Booker T. Washington’s
description of the negro as the football of
politics—have not done eo for purposes nobler
than those of the tilt yard of old in which
gentlemen of a rudq peflod broke one an
other's heads, or the prize ring of the pres
ent time in which mercenaries i jmmel one
another for gate receipts.
THE FATHER OF AMERICAN GOLF.
New Tork World.
To John Reid of Yonkers, now dead, was
due the introduction into this country of a
game which has become a great popular sport
and served as a foundation of a thriving in
dustry. It is a little more than a quarter of
a century since he ‘Organized as Ah* St.
Andrews Golf Society the group of fellow
Scotchmen with whom he was accustomed to
play the game on vacant lota, and by creating
the first American golf club, set going the in
fluences that hare caused the wonderful de
velopment of the sport in this country.
Do as many Americans non: day s play*base
ball as play golf? The question would hare
excited incredulity a few years ago but may
now be seriously asked, in view of the large
number of players past the eligible age for
the more strenuous sport who find exercise
and pleasure in golf. Certainly a broader
part of the national domain is now “pre
served” for golf Units than for ball fields,
for American golf links now ornament i
thousand hills.
And this development has brough^wiifl It
the expenditure of millions of dollars on the
upkeep of golf courses, the erection of costly
club houses the employment of thoccanas of
persons, including professional golfers from
t the founder’s old home, while sn Uu. strictly
commercial side It has brought into being
manufacturers of golf implements and sup
plies and created a new demand for the bever
age that goes with the game.
Decidedly Mr. Reid set new forces in mo
tion when he introduced America to golf, an?
both this country and hia native Scotia an
under /lasting obligation to him.
ALL THE LITTLE HEAVES.
All the little heaven
That we’U have upon this earth
Is in our disposition
To contribute to life's mirth.
To make our way seem sweeter for »«n
brothers in the race.
To make the world a dearer and a happier
sort o’ place.
All the little heaven
That we dream of now and here
Is In our inclination
To go on without a fear.
To keep battling with a courage that can
never sink to night
Without some little effort to have bronght
some one the light.
All the little heaven
That around us we shall find
In our tender feeling
And our effort to be kind.
Our hope and fond enduring for the sake a*
those who cling
To our’"conxfort and laughter as we whistU
and we sing.
All the little heaven
That we ought to care to know
Is in our gentle service
To our loved ones here below.
In our sacrifice and healing and our will tn
do our part
With a sunbeam in the spirit and warble n
the heart.
—The Benxtown Bard In Baltimore Sun.
SHOWING HIV IP.
“The farmer gets two cents a quart, the
public pays twelve cents a' quart—well, that
is sheer robbery."
The speaker was t>r. C. Cuttle, tm,
of the Investigators of tb> New York milk
situation.
“These middlemen." he ‘have
been as plainly shown up . .* . ley con
ductor.
“A man. you know, handed a trolley con
ductor a nickel, but the conductor did not
ring up the fare.
“Five or six minutes later the man ex
tended another nickel to the conductor.
“ '1 got your nickel, sir,’ the conductor
said.
“ ‘Yes. T know you did.' said the man—and
now here's one for the company.’ “
GOIVG IT BU\n
Youth's Companion.
A delightful old lady of a little town in
Nebraska was discovered in the act of kill
ing a chicken.
“Why. Mrs. Brown. 1 thought-you were
afraid to kill a chicken." said a neighbor, in
surprise.
“Yes. deafy. I did uster. but since the war
broke out I've done it right smart.”
“I don’t just und» land you. What does
the war have to do with itT*
“Well, you see. it’s this way: I uster think
that bloodshed was an awfu ling, but sine#
I've been readin' about all t ..m ten killin'*
in Europe I just get a rooster by the fee?,
lay his head on the block and say to my
self: ’Now. Sarah, ’taint near so bad as
killin’ a man. Where's your server And
then I just'shut my eyes and whack.”
| "You once kept a cook for a - hole month,
you sayT*
“Yea"
"Remarkable. How did you manager”
"We were cruising on a howd eui and she
couldn't swim.”—Pittsburg fnwicIt-Teis
graph.