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THURSDAY EVEXIXO
January IS, 1919
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ADVICE TO THE SENATE.
Former President Taft, in a recent statement, gave
tiece of sound advice to the United States senate, when
he said: .
"The League of Nations is very strong with the peo
pies of Europe." It is growing stronger here. It is gokg
to attract the mass of wage earners and the plain people
here as it has abroad. -
"The contemptuous scepticism of the senate cloak
room, the cheap sarcasms of the 'old senatorial hand' and
the manifest spirit of 'how not to do it' will be poor weap
ons with which to combat an idealistic campaign for a
definite clan for Dermanent peace and democracy."
In a somewhat similar statement, speaking of the
wide-spread desire for a peace federation, Secretary
Baker said: "It represents the passionate demand of
the man on the street, the simple and unsophisticated,
who know little of the intrigues and wiles of statecraft,
but who know a very great deal about the suffering and
sacrifices that war entails." -v ... -
There is no longer any doubt as to how the great
masses, the majority of the workers and fighters and
voters, think about the matter in all ' the belligerent
countries. "y ' ""' ' : ,
Statesmen everywhere who want to retain their pres
tige or their jobs will do well to take notice and fall into
line.
The soldier boys who are coming home broke a id
must be cared for, according to the rectnstructiomsts,
might be encouraged to go into politics and some of them
wouldn't need much encouragement at that. There a :e
more good paying political jobs in the country than tha-'e
were soldiers in our army, and those who fill the places
now are intensely patrioticthey say so themselves and
would no doubt be willing to work for a living awhile and
let the returned soldiers sign their names to the sala.-y
payrolls for a while. We would just like to see the of
ficeholders busy clearing logged-off lands and draining
frog ponds the attractive occupations these same poli
ticians are now so anxious to reward the returning sol
dier with.
Bolshevism is a sort of political "flu", for which the
doctors prescribe three square meals a day and a steady
job. Most of the patients, however, rebel against the
last part of the prescription.
While feeding Europe to cure bolshevism, it would
help matters if the bolshevik leaders could be fed with
rat poison.
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
WHALE MEAT.
They tell us now the flesh of whales is good as quail
on toast; I've read some soul inspiring tales about whale
stew and roast. "The problem of man's food is solved,"
the scientists confess; "the whale meat diet we've evolved
relieves the world's distress." So long we've eaten pork
and veal, the diet's growing stale, and we should all elated
feel, when gnawing ribs of whale. They're serving whale
in fine hotels, boiled, roasted, poached and fried; in fact,
the Whale is wearing bells, wherever it's been tried. I
read and journey, unawares, to days when I was young,
when they were booming Belgian hares, and you and I
got stung. You may recall those golden days, while dol
ing in your chairs; then every man set in to raise about
a million hares. We heard how they'd supplant the stee.
the mutton and the goose; we'd make 10,000 bones a year,
if "hares we should produce. We raised the hares and
when we went to sell them in the mart, the blamed things
wouldn't bring a cent the mem'ry breaks my heart. And
so no argument avails, or puts up any ice; you cannot se l
me any whales, however low the price. ,
The state committee of Massachusetts which has in
hand the program of welcoming the returning soldiers
makes this suggestion to towns and cities throughout the
state:
"We suggest that wherever local committees of wel
come have not been formed they should be formed at once,
in order to make sure that no man arriving shall want
for adequate attention." -
This recommendation is timely, for in many cases the
boys will return to their various towns singly or in twos
and threes.
The man arriving alone should not lack for just as
warm a welcome, just as open display of his towns-peo-ple's
pride in him, as is extended to the troop which can
parade and thus is certain of public attention. The mani
fest pride of his fello wcitizens will go further toward
making a good substantial citizen of him than anything
else although we do not share any fear that the soldier
boys will prove anything but good citizens than any
other agency.
The present legislative session is just now in the con
solidation stage. They always open that way and some
times it is pretty hard for the party leaders to line the
members ud aeainst the abolishing of any good jobs. In
the end, however, the political "pull" Wins and no com
missions or departments are consolidated and no jobs are
abolished. Always some new offices are created and a
few more of the faithful attached to the state payroll to
become wards of the taxpayers. -
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The road committees are the only thing worth while
in the present session. The member who can't bring a
paved state highway through his hometown will have to
sneak back home at night and then get quarantined for
the "flu" until the feeling among his constituents dies
down. .
KERENSKY QUIETLY
And a good many of the soldier boys who marched
away to war so proudly will come back home just as manly
and possessed of as much self-respect and self-reliance as
when they went away. They will not especially welcome
charity or even sympathy from the professional patriots
who are now the most energetic reconstructionists.
! The longest drought on record is going to strike this
country,, when only one more state legislature ratifies the
prohibition amendment. Joohn Barleycorn is breathing
his last dying gasps right now.
Reclaiming land ought to appeal to our soldiers.
After seeing the condition of the soil in the war zone,
anything drainable or clearable or irrigable in' this coun
try would look easy.
The latter-day socialist doctrine seems to be that all
armed force is wrong except when Germany weilds it.
The consolidation talk you hear around the legish-
ture never consolidates.
Former Dictator Of Russia
Leads Uneventful Life In
London Friend's Home.
By Edwin Hullisger
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
London, Dec. 26. (By Mail.) Alex
andcr Kerensky, former dictator of Rus
sia, is living quietly in the home of"a
friend on Cambridge Stairs Terrace, by
Regent Park, in London.
Iu his little study, which he occupies
a large part of the day, lie i3 preparing
memoirs, re reading and re-studying doc
uments wnicn once represented the des
tiny of Russia, and dictating to his
Russian stenographer, who can write
shorthand in four languages.
Kerensky has just finished a book on
the Korniloff mutiny.
He soldoin goes outside his friend's
beautiful, cozy little house. Onee every
day he walks alone through the wind
ing, graveled paths of Regent park just
across tho road.
He likes music, plays the piano fairly
well, and sings. He knows by heart an
enormous volume of Russian vocal mu-
A WORKING GIRL'S LITE
Day in and day out, month after
month, she toils. Often she is the
breadwinner of the family and must
work that tothcrs may live. Rain or
shine, warm or cold, she must be at
her place of employment on time. A
great majority of uh girls are on
their feet from morning until night,
and symptoms of female troubles are
early manifested by weak and aching
ibacks, dragging-down pains, head
aches Jand nervouswesB. Buck ,giils
are asked to try this most successful
of all remedies for woman's ills, Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which for more than forty years ha
been giving girls strength to do their
work.
ed that if he didn't hurry, Buth would
look so young he wouldn't know her.
Happiness had brought back the youth-
fulness, the smiles, the dimples.
Then there came word he had sailed.
This time not "over there" but "ov
er Jiere."
- T0 He continued.
Influenza f
L,a urippe
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travel in epidemics dangerous
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La grippe frequently affects
the lungs and develops a persistent
wearing cough, which neglected, is
foreboding alike to old and young.
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spreads warmth and comfort,
soothing the inflamed rasping sur
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loosening the cough, helping to
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bronchial coughs, night cough3 and
chronic coughs of elderly people.
"After havint an attadt of It Jrippe. ft left ma with
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sic. Often he sits at the piano in the
little parlor on the second story, aud
sings through one Russian master after
another.
Wife Is in Moscow.
Sometimes he stops Binging to think
of his wife and two littlo boys, hostag
es in Moscow, imprisoned by the bolslio
viki soon after tho great dcbaclo, and
later released from prison whon Mrs.
Kerensky signed a pledge they would
not leave Russia.
It js an exquisite little room, this
second-floor parlor, finished in gray,
with a monster white polar bear rug
on middle of the floor, several big grny
upholstcrcd cushiony arm-chair8 and a
wonderful couch into which you sink
as into a feather bed when you Bit down j
Hnn irnll ia a l.anlr nt CVam.lt Tirin.'
dows, through which creep the gray
lights of a London day. A fire in a
fireplace at one end gives a homey
touch to tho scene.
Was Lawyer Formerly.
Kerensky was a lawyer in Russia be
foro the revolution. He is still interest
ed in law and ;devotos part of his time
to logal questions.
IIo is a man of remarkable personal
ity. He has a smile that wins you at
first meeting, a real, friendly-like smile
that eouvincos you right away he is in
terested in you. He ig direct and unaf
fected. Ho talks immediately to the
point, like an American business man,
without flourish.
Ho has a wondorful reserve power.
His face is sensitive and extremely
expressive. He can look tho most de
lightfully amused one moment and tho
next the most tremendously sober. Like
most loaders of men, he focuses his
mind completely upon each separate in
cident, and nover allows his perception
of the present instant to be clouded by
hang-ovor ipressions from the past.
James M. Cox, aged 47, -was inaugu
rated governor of Ohio Monday for a,
third term.
r A homo for aged and dopendent lawyers-is
proposed in a' bill introduced
in the California legislature.'
Iwmiwmirnwmrmwif
THEWIFE
By Jane Phelps.
A FALSE THEN A TRUE FEACE
PROCLAMATION.
CHAPTER CXXXVni.
Ruth was quietly working, one morn
ing not long after Brian naa been doc
orated when tho sirens and tug whis
tles begau to blow; when all the bulis
in New York pealed out the news which
quickly spread to all the business hous-
that pcu-co had come. War was
over!
Like the other houses, Manuel" closed
his store for the day. lie aud Ruth
oilier up Mrs. Clay borne, asked her to
meet them, and then went to one of
tin) gay restaurants to watch tho hilar
ity, and to join in tho gladness the news
Ui.4 brought.
All of them put aside all personal
feeling savo that of happiness for coun
try; aud the lives which would ve saved
by this early peace (Early as far as
America was concerned.)
liandel took them home in his ear
wiiou they tired of the confusion in
tho restaurunt, driving them thru the
t tents where the crowd had not made
going impossible. All that evening
Ruth and her aunt talked of the won
dorful news, of what it would meat to
tho country, to them, and to others.
"We will have to go right on giv
ing and working for some time," Mrs.
Clnybome remarked. "It will eost a
lot to bring tho wounded home and care
for them; and for ships to bring the
troops back. We must not think that
we havo done enough because there will
be peace, after a little;wo will have to
keep right on for a yeor of two at
least."
"We will be willing tool" Ruth re
joinod.her voico gny with happiness.
Brian was coming. That thought
had been with her every moment since
she first understood what the sirens
were trying to tell the people. That
Brian was coming had added to her
gladness ths the horrible war was over
that the murder of brave men, innocent
women and children, would stop.
Then came a doubt of the authentic
ity of the news. Then it was denied.
People who had exhausted their emo
tions when the false news came, wont
about depressed, some almost discour
aged. Ruth could scsrcoly keep still a
moment. She bought every paper she
could get so that she might read the
latest news. Never had days seemed
so long. Tho Sunday following was in
terminable. Monday camo, and with it also came
the ratified news of pcaco. Another
wild wave of enthusiasm swept tho
country. Yet something of the sponta
niety of the first celebration was miss
ing. But a quiet happiness had taken
its place in the hearts of the more re
served of the population.
Ruth was ono of these. She and hor
aunt. They talked quietly together at
homo; refusing to join Mr. and Mrs.
Curtiss who wore dining out to cele
brate. "I don't feel in the mood tonight,"
had been Ruth 's remark, when her aunt
left the decision with her. "Unless
you care to go, I would far rather re
main quietly at home. I seem to have
exhausted my desire for noise on the
false report."
"Aunt Louisa-," Euth continued,
after a time, "I wonder if you have for
given me for marrying Briant"
"Why of course," Mrs. Clayborne
had flushed a little, and hesitated. Not
that she still felt as at first toward him,
but tliKt Ruth had referred to it.
"I hope so. It would make me hap
pier than anything (except having him
back) to know yon twe Worn guvd
friends. Ton win stay with nst'J
Ruth had put the question calmly,
but hor heart was boating fast. She
would knew by her aunt's reply wheth
er she had rcslly forgiven her.
"Yes and no. There dont looS so
disappointed. I will promise to spend
half of my time with yon. I shall ex
pect you and Brian to come to me
occasionally, and to let me have the
baby often."
Buth was eontent. Her aunt hsd
said "yon and Brian." That the in
eluded ' him showed that she was at.
least resigned. How Buth scanned the
papers now for newa of which regi
ments and companya were to he the
first to come b-ck. She longed inex
pressibly for her husband; she wanted
her boy's, father. Then, one day, she
heard. He was to eeme soon; just how
soon he could not tell, but within the
month.
Now her song was always lilting
one. But the words were ever the same
"Brian is comingl Brian is coming!"
Her sunt, hes-ring smiled and declar-
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