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| VICTIMS OF ANTI-AMERICANISM.
% Champ Clark will undoubtedly be elected
Speaker of the House of RepreaCntatlves. but
even ehould he-be defeated and a Repub
£_ lican elected, that Republican will not be
jj*- James R. Mann, for many years leader of
L his party In the House. Mann took allegiance
t with the Oerman propagandlsta and like
others In the disloyal American faction, he
. has become a political victim.
Mann will not only not be elected Speaker,
fc the place to which he has aspired for ten
years, and for which his Intellectual gifts
, qualify him, but he will be fortunate if
he Is not formally repudiated as party lead
sj er. So far as the Speakership Is concerned,
Mann Is so badly beaten that even his com
promise suggestion met with no attention
from his Republican associates.
f. The Republicans who have put Mann out
of the race say frankly that they did so be
cause he was un-American when he listened
to the propagandists, In opposing the Intof
national recommendations of President Wil
son. A considerable n urn her ..of the pro
German Congressmen have preoeded him to
■ political limbi . Three Of (he distinguished
pro-German pacifists of the last Congress
are listed among the slain and are absent
from the plaeea which once knew them.
Representative Calloway, the once famous
author of the* German resolution to warn
Americans from traveling on American ships
in the war sone Is no longer a member of
i Congress. The eminent pacifist, Warren
Worth Bailey, spokesman for the Bryan
propaganda and In every Bryan conference
at Washington, has been retired from Con
s', gress. The un-American noise maker, Clyde
Tavenner, who flooded the country with
- specious pacific literature, was left at home
by his Illinois constituency,
k We are to remember, also, that the pro
t German propaganda was worked for all It
was worth to beat President Wilson. Every
German newspaper In the country, every
uennuD propa£t&uuiob» «uu ctci/ vvunyituuuB
| German citizen, fought Wilson to a finish.
The propagandists failed to realise that when
an aggressive anti-American movement is
started In this country, a silent but power
ful fores of Americanism is Immediately
, aroused. The President was given a popular
majority of more than half a million, be
cause the American voters wanted to honor
him for the enemies he had made.
Twelve United States Senators have been
subjected to scathing and merciless attacks,
| because they were believed to be doing the
work of Germany in the Senate. Their
political lives, even now hang in the balance.
If Congressmen are wise, they will ponder
over these undeniable facts, when surrepttous
^ committees, representing anti-American
sentiment approach them with oily words,
as Congress comes to consider the recom
mendations of President Wilson.
A contemporary remarks that this is a
good time to show your colors—red, white
and bli^e. An artist would interpose objec
tion, but the practical patriot suggests that
It would be well to relieve the color scheme
with a background of garden green.
Dixon Merritt, editor of The Nashville Ten
V nessean, is down for a lecture on birds be
fore the Audubon Society of Nashville. What
does Merritt think of that California bu>.
zard that fought a 15-year-old boy for an
hour?
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"After all the talk, the short cotton crop of
last year amounted to about eleven and one
third million bales.”—Roanoke Leader.
Which is quite a come-down from the 1C.
000,000 bale crop of 1914. The short cron
was shortest in Alabama, where last year
w we raised about a half million bales as com
pared to a normal crop of about a million
bales.
An Arctic explorer declares that the Eski
mos are the dirtiest people/ in the world,
it- We commend this assertion to the kind at
tention Of the cold bath cranks and liars.
| The Eskimos have all the nice, cold water
I they need, and yet tliey appear to be in
i' different to its uses.
There is more seeding in America at this
time than there has ever been before at this
| time l» tbs history of the country.
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• *H* XMUB Bfcrotl 00HQSK88.
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Th» President mnd his cabinet have de
termined upon what course thby shall ask
bf Congress, when It meets Monday. The
Country may now aee the Issue clearl# before
It,
la brief, two requests will be made. The
first is that Congress shall formally adopt
a resolution declaring that a state of war
•*lsta with Germany. The second. Is that
Congress shall empower the President to
c*rry out his plasa for the Immediate con
duct of the government In that crisis. In
all probability Congress will pass the reso
lution, aeknowledtfng a state of war. The
resolution will not be passed, however, with
out a fight and without a display of oratory.
This Is a democracy aid a democracy must
necessarily include conflicting opinions.
Again, a democracy moves slowly, for even
In Congress many people have to be con
verted to ait Idea, before plans to meet a
situation can be adopted. Moreover, the rep
resentatives .of -Germany have been Indus
trious and active. Their schemes have been
aided by Influential politicians, who esek
either to save their own skins In local elec
tions or to harass and annoy President Wll*
sop. The most powerful allies of the propa
gandists will be found *to be men who want
to hamstring the administration of Presi
dent Wilson.
«• near aa tne situation can ds conceived,
as Congress assembles, the President will be
sustained In every request, while the agents
of Germany will have every opportunity for
oratorical display. Led by Chancellor Beth
mann-Hollweg, the German sympathizers
make their position quite clear. They are
all aggrieved and surprised that America will
not permit her ships to be sunk and her citi
zen* to be killed. Germany, In truth, does
not want war; she only want* to kill Amer
ican citizens and to sink American ships. If
America will permit that, there is no oc
casion for war. Of course America Is to
overlook the death of more than two hun
dred Ame.rlcan citizens and the sinking of
more than a dozen American vessels. What
business had American citizens on the sea
when Germany said they could not travel the*
sea?
The body of American people Is stimulated
by the news that comes from Washington,
that the majority members of the cabinet,
headed by Secretary of the Treasury Me
Adoo, have adopted a militant self-reliant
policy. The dominating Influence In the
cabinet Is for a strong assertion of Amer
ican rights. The policy of the administra
tion Is determined upon—It la to be Amer
ican, of a self-aggressive, self-respecting
Americanism.
May Congress now do Its duty. ■
MILITARY AIRS.
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Colonel Roosevelt, after speaking at Jack
sonville, listened to "Dixie," and then re
marked: “I would like to hear that tune
against Von Hlndenburg'a line In France."
If the Colonel leads his division Into France
he will hear "Dixie,” he will hear the “Star
Spangled Banner," and he will hear "Amer
ica." and “Yankee Doodle." he will hear the
"Marseillaise Hymn,” and If he gets close
'enough to the enemy be will hear-the "Watch
on the Rhine.” He may hear a battle song
yet to be written, a song that Is to come out
of the war. Maybe a real anthem on the
qualities of which all Americans can agree.
It is universally agreed that "Dixie" Is the
most stirring and dramatic of our military
airs, but Its history makes It sectional; be
sides. the wor^s—words which none of us
will agree to see revised—are not lofty, ma
jestic, but fantastic minstrelsy.
“America” Is moving, but Its tune was bor
rowed from England. It Is the same air as
“God Save the King.” An Australian evan
gelist, a woman, was In Birmingham a few
days ago. The band played "America," and
the audience rose. The lady Is said to have
thought the audience was complimenting the
British air, when she was reminded that the
audience wm responding to our “America."
Thus, It la not -ours, although the words are
ours. The words are good. One or two
verses qualify as really fine poetry, but the
poetry of the song Is entlt-ely discredited by
the first,two lines of the following verse:
Our glorious land today,
' ’Neath education’s sway.
Soars upward/stlll.
Its halls of learning fair.
Whose bountlee all may share,
Behold them everywhere,
On vale and hllL
One might search English dictionaries
through and not find a word less poetic than
•’education." The poem .too. Is rather more
elemental In Us appeal, than "The Star
Spangled Banner,”
The best verse in America is the third one.
There la more “lift” In that verse than the
others:
Let music swell the breeze.
And ring from all the trees.
Sweet Freedom’s song;
Let mortal tongues awake:
Let all that breathe partake:
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
The Star-Spangled Banner, which is gen
erally accepted and celebrated as our Na
tional Anthem. Is a deeper, finer poem, and
the music Is more majestic and insplr' .g.
‘ The Star-Spangled Banner” and "America"
each Is more national In its appeal than
"Dixie.” which 1« the one iftr that stirs the
Southerner deepest—Indeed It will stir any
American audience more^deeply than either
or the other two airs; but always will "Dixie”
specially celebrate that part of the country
from which It takes the name. (And it may
as well be set down here again, for sake of
the record, that "Dixie” was first written in
Montgomery and played In the old Montgom
ery Theatre, by Daniel Emmett, the Yankee
minstrel.)
"Yankee Doodle” Is a comedy, with a lively
military air. It. too, has had sectional as
sociations. The "Battle Hymn of the He
publlc" strives to be noble, but It Is weak:
It makes no appeal to Southern audiences,
for sufficient reasons, and Is wot, In pre
eminent favor anywhere. There are many
other excellent American marches, but none
that stirs the soul of the entire nation.
The "Star-Spangled Banner" Is good, the
best we have: but It is not so great as the
national airs of some other countries. If we
go to war, maybe the war will inspire some
poet to give us a mighty hymn.
THE WIAKHSMOF MOWAlOHU*
. . Were all the king* and osars and em
perors strong man la baatt and intellect
and body, tho day ef tba republic would
got havs coma far ccntarlaa yet.— Hous
ton Post.
Unquestionably free govern msata* day
would havs bean deferred If the.old system'',
could have Insured tba selection of strong
and sound rulers. Tba fundamental weak
ness of the monarchy Is Its selection ot^suc
cessors by heredity.
But no matter how great a statesman a
ruler may be, life tenure Inevitably and un
avoidably makes him autocratic and self
willed to a degree which Is bound to become
Intolerable. The hereditary ruler Is not re
sponsible to a sovereign reserve power; he
Is uncurbed. We know now that human
nature Is so frail that It cannot be trusted
for long to feel no restraint save what con
science Imposes. ^
Napoleon Bonaparte was a great states
man. a dreamer In sympathy with the body
o' his people, for all his autocratic selfish
ness. He made a great France of tho raw
material left him by Marat and Robespierre
and Charlotte Corday: but could a restless,
growing, hopeful Frapcs have bean content
under the rule of a second Napoleon, equally
strong and equally great as the first? Wa
doubt It. Sooner or later the great heart of
thejnass must find expression. That It ean
not find without comparative freedom, and
freedom la Inevitably withheld from a peo
ple who tolerate rulers born to the aceptre.
It makes the ruling family a class apart
from all others. Leadership Is confined to
an arDitraruy maae cnquo. aoum worm
without and, follow as night the day—they
follow all too certainly In a Republic where
there are periodical changes of government.
Wilhelm la a great ruler, easily the great
eat monarch of hie day: and yet a formidable
opposition to Wilhelm la manifesting Itself.
One may even regard it as reasonably prob
able that Wilhelm's days are numbered In
the land where a few months ago he was so
tremendously popular. But even If Wil
helm shall weather the storm, his son, the
Crown Prince, who would succeed him, Is not
the type of man who can hold a bleeding and
distracted Germany together. He would n«|t
last long. '
There Is such a thing as a people—especial
ly an educated people—growing tired of a
ruler and of a ruling cllQue. The desire to
overthrow the "machine" Is not native to the
American Republic, albeit more fuse Is made
about “machines" here than elsewhere.
When a people is developing, acquiring
knowledge and property It will not long per
mit a ruling cltque to do Its thinking.
It Is no easy matter to get butter from
Alabama creameries in Montgomery all the
time. The creameries cannot aupply the de
mand. We need'to make more butter in Ala
bama. Butter Is selling from 40 to BO cento a
pound. It has become a luxury to poor
folka
The Selma Journal tells us that a certain
preacher in Huntsville Is “out-BUlying Billy
Sunday."
From The Independent: "Next? The Amre
Ican Revolution, the French Revolution, the
Chinese Revolution, the Russian Revolution.”
We confidently expect a few more revolu
tions In Mexico.
Europe is washing its dirty linen and dry
ing It on the Hlndenburg line.
“For Love of Country."—Headline. It is
taking the place of “for the love o’ Mike."
A contemporary points out that we ought
not to use cake soap because dirt and mu
crobes accumulate In the cracks, saying that
we should use liquid soap. Well, all right:
but what about making up dough with the
naked hands on which are fingernails that
may not always be properly manicured?
The farmer has a strangle-hold. All we
ask is that he be reasonable, and put the
grub to us.
One might as well be a Quaker In Germany
as ’a Pacifist In America. Neither has
enough company to drive away melancholia.
It seems that the 30 B. peace treaties are
also to be registered among the scraps of
Th« velvet bean Is appropriating the
preitlg* ao long monopolized by the Boston
baked bean. The velvet bean is popular be
eauM |t is a money-maker. Anything of
that kind la usually welcome.
The Diversified
_F armer ,
The man who borrowed the money to pay
his wedding expenses la now living on what
his wife makes working out.
Many Vses of Cora Meal.
You possibly have no idea af the many
ways that corn meal can be used on your
table in many dishes. If you will write to
the United States Department of Agricul
ture. Washington, D. C., and ask them for
their recipes for using corn meal they will
send these recipes to you for your use. These
recipes will be of great help to you in sav
ing money anp setting a good, healthful table.
Now of all times, is the time for the people
to us» the Information that has been gath
ered by the 1'nited States Department of
Agriculture.
“Women Won’t Rend ’Km.”
A lady said the other day that it wasn't
much use to be publishing articles about
diets and the use of various foodstuffs in
various ways for "the women wouldn't read
The lady is mistaken, sadly mistaken. A
few women, who know nothing of the satis
faction of soul that comes from making a
well-managed home, may not read them, but
we like to think that such women are way
in the minority.
The up-to-da'e woman, who puts home and
hone-making first and takes Joy and pride in
her home, certainly reads them and profits by
them. Women by the thousand* right here
In the Central Kouth are looking about for
ways to save on their table and yet have
Just as attractive a table as before. This
saving can be done by avoiding waste, and by
using combinallons of food materials that
considerably cut down costs.
The women's magazines are filled with
good Informal Ion on how to prevent waste
and how to prepare nourishing aqd tasty
dishes at lesi cost than before. Women
I Oliver Twist
*
everywhere are profiting by this valuable In
formation. Women, as never before, are go
ing to the United States Department Of Agri
culture at Washington and getting the In
formation there on saving In the kitchen and
In the rest of the home.
Our women, with the usual exceptions. arw
Just as Interested In and JuBt ns eager for In
formation on home-making as women In
other sections. There are exceptions every
where, Just as there are here—women who
are Idle and frivolous; women who are Inter
ested In themselves first and more Important
things second. We have no monopoly on this
sort of women—they are in the North Just as
In the South, the West Just as In the East,
though the West, for natural reasons, has
fewer of them than probably any other sec
tion of the country. In most parts of the
West women cannot be Idle. If they were
their homes would go to smash for there Is
nobody but themselves to do the work In the
home.
Our women, our true home-making women,
ara keen on household and kitchen helps;
the? are keen on gardening and even on
good farming. The lady who said "the wo
men wouldn't read ’em" Is, fortunately, very,
very much mistaken.
Our girls ought to "clean up” on their can
ning club work this year. By the way, has
your county got a canning club agent?
_, \
t There ought to be a good deal of money
for our pig club boys this year. But you
have got to grow the stuff to feed the sow
and pigs this year. boys. Tou can't afford
to buy it now.
The chances are that we are not only go
ing to see two-dollar wheat, but wheat over
two dollars. Such a situation will force .the
Increased use of corn on the table. Grow all
the corn you can this year for feed and to
help make up for the world shortage in
wheat
High Food Brices Unavoidable.
Supposing the war. for some unforeseen
reason, should end. At once, we must be
lieve. the Central Powers would go into the
world market for foodstuffs on an enormous
scale. This In Itself would hold up prices of
most all foods, all things else being equal.
War or no war, students of the International
situation can see no let-up In the high prices
for foodstuffs. The man who produces this
year and has a surplus to sell will be in the
fight as never before.
Make way for the man who is willing to
work.
Save your sympathy for the man who buy*
foodstuffs on credit—and for the man who
advances the credit.
Work is not eo bad after all.
—L. M.
Letters to i^aitor i
THUS TOMATO INDUSTRY' IK MONTGOMERY
COUNTY.
R. F. D. 1. Montgomery, Ala.,
March 29, 191J,
Editor The Advertiser: .
You are always in the lead: This time I
can’t refrain from expressing myself to this
effect, because I am personally interested as
a farmer.
I have reference to the article which ap
peared in your paper this morning regarding
a contemplated canning plant In Montgom
ery
For the benefit of your farmer readers,
please convey to their attention, the follow
ing: Last year I gathered 1S2 bushels of the
finest tomatoes apyone could wish for off of
one acre of land. < True the land was heavily
fertilized and cost me some healthy labor and
care, yet, as my total cost of cultivation
amounted only to about *37, I was quite
satisfied with the result as I average 65c per
bushel for the product and had very little
spoilage.
Compared to my farmer venture with this
particular plant 1 dare say that the result
above named was a good one, but I have
found that with the proper care anyone may
obtain the same results, especially jf rlch soll
Is used.
As I have already planted my entire acre
age for the season, I am sorry I can’t make
use of the canning plant this year. J hope,
however, it will meet with success in our
community, and will not have the same fate
as had the flour mill vyhlch was established
some time ago. We must certainly get to
gether and 1 think that your paper is always
has been an excellent ’’get together medium”
which deserves great credit for this partic
ular as well as many other movement*.
Yours truly,
L. M. FOX.
DR. SHAW AMD HR A PROPAGANDA.
Editor The Advertiser:
Just another word on female'suftrage. Dr.
Anna Howard Bhaw ia now lecturing In Ala
bama. She has worked long and persistent
ly for the Anthorfy Federal Amendment, now
pending In Congress, and which. If passed,
would give the South a more bitter dose than
It was forced to take at the point of bayo
nets Just after the close of the Civil War.
Under the Anthony and Fifteenth Amend
ments, If Congress or any State were to con
fer the right to vote upon women, the right
would have to be given to all classes of
women regardless of color or previous condi
tion. I challenge any lawyer to prove that
this Is not absolutely correct. \
The Philadelphia North American. June 14,
■1114, reported Dr. Shaw as saying: “I have
this much to say, and that Is that the mar
riage ceremony should be cut out. It la use
less and has served Its day."
Page S09 ano S10 of her book, “The Story
of a Pioneer,” Dr. Shaw says of Fred Doug
lass, the negro: "From Atlanta we went
directly to Washington to attend the conven
tion of the National Council of Women, and
on the first day of this Council, Frederick
Douglass came to the meeting. Mr. Douglass
had a special place In the hearts of suf
fragists, for the reason that at the first con
vention ever held for woman suffrage in the
United States (at Seneca Falls. New York),
he was tha only person present who stood by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton when she presented
her resolution In favor of votes for women.
Even Lucretla Mott was startled by” this
radical step, and privately breathed Into the
ear of her friend. ‘Elizabeth, thee is making
us ridiculous.' Frederick Douglass, however,
took the floor in defense of Mrs. Stanton's
motion, a service we suffragists never forgot.
"Therefore, when the presdlng officer of the
council, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, saw Mr.
Douglass enter the convention hall In Wash
ington on this particular ihornlng, she ap
pointed Susan B. Anthony and me a commit
tee to escort him to a seat on the platform,
which we gladly did. Mr. Douglass made a
short speech and then left the building, going
directly to his home. There, on entering his
hall, he had an attack of heart failure and
dropped dead as he was removing his over
coat. His death cast a gloom over the con
vention, and his funeral, which took place
three days later, was attended by many
prominent men and Women who were among
the delegates. Miss Anthony and I were in
vited to take part In the funeral services,
and she made a short address, while I of
fered prayer."
Before Fred Douglass went to glory, he
stirred up much hatred against the South.
He was an invited guest In aristocratic white
homes, and when 1 Is African wife died he
married Helen Pitta, an educated and accom
plished white woman, the daughter of Con
gressman Pitts of western New York. When
Douglass died, Helen, the white wife, and j
the negro sons of the first Mrs. Douglass
rode to the cemetery In Rochester In the
same carriage.
Headland. Ala.
V
W. E. GLOVER.
WHAT COXGREM AMD THE PEOPLE
9HOIXD COMSIDElt.
Editor The Advertiser:
In tlnr.e of peace, a democracy la the best
form of government for the people, but In
time of war, there must needs be a limited
dictatorship or central power for national
protection. The process of moulding public
opinion Into action Is too slow and uncertain
to meet the emergencies of war. Prompt and
rigid action may be necessary for national
safely even before the Importance and neces
sity of such action Is recognised and real
ized by tne people. So a wise temporary dic
tatorship or central power may be sometimes
expedient and justifiable even In a democ
racy. J'm therefore In favor of clothing our
wise President with all due powers for
enabling him to meet the exigencies and
emergencies of the present time; but when
the war danger is over and peace Is estab
lished. the government should at once return
to a democracy.
During the war between the States, Lincoln
Is said to have been clothed with powers of
dictatorship, and when the war ended Secre
tary Reward Is said to have been disposed to
use those, powers vested In the President and
in himself for purposes of spite and ven
geance against the Sputh. One danger In
vesting our present President with the
powers, of dictatorship would be In case of
his decease, an ambitious and unscrupulous
man might gain control and use his poVers
of dictatorship solely for his personal advan
tage In subverting the government into a
permanent central power. An ambitious and
unscrupulous dictator, having control of both
army, navy and all national defenses, could
1 enforce such rigid measures of 3ppression as
would creat* Internal revolution*, thereby
furnishing plausible excuse for prolonging hie
dictatorship after the war ended, with the on-'
tenslble purpose of suppressing these revolu
tions, until he and hie class could be per
manently established at the head of a central
form of government. Many causes might
furnish plausible excuse for oppressive meas
ures that could keep the country torn up with
dissensions and strifes, until a central form
of government could be permanently estab
lished. Congress could prevent the danget
above Indicated, by never granting the dicta
tor the power to dissolve and disband the
Congress Itself; but by remaining In session
during the term of the dictator's office, and
standing ever watchful and ready to prevent
any undue measures and movements of the
dictator and his class. Thus, Congress could •*
retain within Its own hands the supreme cen
tral power, until the war ended, when the
democracy could b^ at, pnce re-established.
A. DEMOCRAT. '
DING-DONG, THE BELLED BUZZARD!
Tennille, Ala., March 2*. 1917.
Editor The' Advertiser:
Having often heard of the belled bussard,
I thought that you or your readers might be
Interested to know that I captured him last
week and I have the bell. Its a small calf
or sheep bell and was fastened around its
neck with small wires and shows signs of
long wear. A Mr. Clark here says he shot
at It, if it be the same one, nearly thirty
years ago.
W. L. LOGAN.
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LAUGHING IN GERMAN
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Booth Tarktngton, In Collier's Weekly.
Germany struck!
She struck Belgium.
Belgium deserved the blow. The French
Intended to come through Belgium to strike
Germany. The Belgians would not believe
this; but how could they prove that the
French did not so intend? Only on what the
French stated—and the German government
cannot accept mere statements In Important
matters. Belgium was unneutral. Belgium
had violated her own neutrality. Several
times English officers had talked to Belgian
officers about what England would do to help <*
Belgium if Belgium should ever be Invaded
by Germany. Germany must never again be
endangered by Belgian perfidy such as that
revealed by this crime, which was discov.
ered soon after Belgium had been crushed.
War is war. People who sympathize with
Belgium have disordered minds. French of*
fleers, disguised as civilians, had entered Bel
gium In an automobile. The Belgians are
treacherous people and will need strong guid
ance In the future.
The army of Germany (still without the
time to mobilise) attempted to restore order
In Belgium, and was attacked by the com
pletely mobilized British army—by all of ths
British army-sand. as a sympathetic Amer
ican writer has put it. the German army, un
prepared and confused, “staggered forward
almost to the gates of Paris" before recover
ing Its poise and presence of mind.
The English had always kept Germany's
navy outnumbered, no matter how fast Ger
many built ships, thus destroying all hope of
Freedom of the Seas. (This is an offense for
which the whole world should unite to pun
ish England. The Deity will help, too. In
time. Freedom of the Seas is the great prin
ciple for which the Fatherland fights to
day). Owing to this threatening Insolence of
England. Germany was forced to place mines
and declare a war zone about England, to
which England replied with a blockade, not
one whit more legal than that established on
the southern American coast by the Union
ists during the American Civil War.
The English blockade was an attempt to
starve the babl a of Germany, whereas the
war zone established by Germany was an
; effort to make English come to terms, and
I was forced upon Germany by the blockade
with which England had replied to the war
i zone.
COltDVT FOOL HER.
Exchange.
There is an old woman living In a small
town In southern Pennsylvania who makes
great effo.ts to keep abreast of the times.
Her opportunities, however, are circum
scribed, and she 'is sometimes compelled to
resort to her imagination, she weut to a
church sociable lately, and as she entered
the room of one of the attendants said:
"Good evening, auntie. I am glad you
came. We are going to have tableaux this
evening.”
I “Yes, X know,'* replied the old lady. “I
' smelt ’em whin I first cameAeBlknmnnw1