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The Tomahawk., 1915-12-09
NEW CHINESE MINISTER

Hundreds of young men and won
en- scattered throughout the United
States remember their young Colum
bia university friend, V. K. Wellington
Koo. It hasn't been so many months
since he graduated with them anc
went home to China. Should they
desire to see Doctor Koo now, they
will find him minister to the United
States, at the Chinese embassy ir
Washington.
Doctor Koo is just thirty years
old. To him has been intrusted th>
destiny of China in it's relation to the
western world. He has dedicated his
life to save China as a nation from
being dismembered and swallowed w
in the maelstrom Of the European
war;
Doctor Koo was popular at Colum
bia, a leader in student activities
editor Of the college paper, and active
in athletic and literary groups. Doctor
Koo has grown a trifle more sedate
since his diplomatic duties have been
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sharks call precious avaar OF
Uncle thinks
Lib choice between
art and governmental
blonde
hopaton
the
Harmrvle Pa
New York the sights had muned what seemed to
thought nice
Representative bill
hurried to
be made
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more akin to goodness than cleanli-
ness now. No wonder she shows her
age. She is constantly wearied by
out-of-town folk running up and down
inside her. Her gown of green stain,
trimmed in SCOT and old paint moss,
arms need a ton Of soapsuds. Her
complexion is awful-very bilious and
all that. Her toga, or peplus, or
whatever the classics call her night
gown, needs a scrubbing brush, much.
From a distance, Glib" looks
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Hudson is about midway between the
Of those old forts
about than battle having taken place on the
Yet another declares that
bit
nav unusual happenings
skeletons
seven found
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We Don't Blame Him.
Wife'--flow do you like the new
fall style?
Hu>by-Can't say l fall for it.
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Time Wasted.

"So Edith is to he married nex'
month";"
"Yes, isn't it shame! She gradu
ated from cooking school only a few
weeks ago, and now she'll have to for
get all they taught her and learn how
to cook real food"
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that earned him $50O winch
He married
admitted to the bar
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The hen probably is entitled tc
cackle, but what is the excuse for the
Growing rooster?
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Of
Chief Joseph
Alaska legislature
1Q12
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Write Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
for Slustrated Book of the Eye Free.
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Statue Of Liberty to Have Coat Of Gold Paint

R1EW washed her doed
world
renewal Of her youth ib is
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more than quarter of a million dol
lars and is said to be the most valu-
able farm of it's size in the world.
The original farmhouse is gone,
being torn down years ago when
Broadway was extended through the
heart of that little strip of meadow
land which at the upper end of Man.
haitian divides the two rock-ribbed hill
ridges. On the end of the easterly
ridge during the Revolution frowned
Fort George. while across the little
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the 100000
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s5ooco 80 the sooooo 15
60 Per cent the s100ooo and all $50
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mother wants the quilt she put to-
gether after working six months at
the task, but next to that she wants
the baby's picture from her dressing
table. The husband rushes for the
silverware and his wallet,
A peculiar sense of value was
displayed by a visitor to a house Oh
Twelfth street that recently was fuel
for flames. This visitor was a co&n
tryman, stopping with his city brother
who strangely enOugn WAS very care.
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Only Farm Left on Manhattan Island Is Valuable

Anew farm Man
Adoph Containing that
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P;alegs of GOT HAN
aldo d d166fheECITIES
He Saved the Wall Ornaments From the Flames

when house
excited housewife the deed the
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Some people would rather be happy
than good.
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Stephen Could Not Escape This Chicago Woman

- TuCAGo-stephen borrowed of his
L
Randolph streets when leaving Mrs Marie
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-26

That has been left entirely with the
insurance companies"
What insurance companies would
know about it,"
ooh, there are many insurance
companies"
would you name two or three of
the best-posted ones we could go to
for information on stability. We want
to find out whether somebody or no
body has examined the Eastland as
to stability or topheaviness."
WELL there's McDonald's, they
might know. don't think of any
others just now"
you are certain that you have no
record on this feature of the East
Iand?"
yes, we are sure about that. Our
department inspects huIls and boil
ers. We have power to declare a YES
sci unseaWorthy and forbid it's oper-
alton. But the single matter of sta
bility is entirely in the hands Of the
American Bureau of Shipping or the
insurance companies"
do you know whether insurance
companies have ever. questioned the
stability tests of the shipowners' bu-
reau?" ..-....-.
mot that I have heard of"
There are no officers or agents of
the American Bureau of Shipping in
Chicago, it was stated. HeadqUar-
tiers is in New York, with these Of
fcers: A A. Raven, president; D. B.
Dearborn, vice president; John W.
CantiIon, secretary; E. Platt STRAIT
ton, supervisor; Walter Wood Par.
sons, treasurer.
FOUGHT FOR LIFE PREsERVER
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put it on with one hand, so Ilet loose
and fell on it in the water.
81 don't know how / got from be-
tween decks in the water In the
river had to fight with one hand for
my life preseryer while l held on to
it with the other"
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FoUoHT FoR DEE PREsER
IN WATER

"The boat had tipped clear over be-
fore 1 realized anything was wrong"
said Joseph Mack, 25O6 S. Crawford
av. 81 was on the top deck. Trying
to get to the lower deck 1 fell between
the two. AS fell grasped beam
and held, swinging above the strug-
Cling mass in the narrow strip of wa
ter below. With my right hand !
reached a life preserVer. 1 couldn't
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Capt Harry Petersen of Benton
Harbor, Mich, who was in charge of
the Eastland when she plunged her
load of excursionists into the Chicago
river. He has been arrested. Already
certain men at whom the finger Of
guilt points are trying to throw the
blame on him.
CIergymen to donate services in
connection with burial of dead. Head
quarters established in Hotel La
Sale. ----- '
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HE PANHANDLED THE COPS
Pennsylvania Man Found Brooklyn Po-
Iicemen Easy to Work, and
Worked Them.

Grant Flemming, who says he's
thirty-ive years old and halls from
Harrisburg, Pa, of good appearance
and with an ingratiating manner, hit
on a new way of making living with
out work, and introduced it to Brook
lyn Most of his tribe shun police
men. but Grant Flemming took the
police force into his confidence. At
night, when policemen are lonely and
willing to talk to anyone for COM
pany's sake, the Pennsylvania poured
his tale of woe into the ear Of some
sympathetic cop" He told how he
was a member of a prominent family,
and was stranded in strange city. He
wanted just couple of dollars. or
maybe three dollars, to take him home.
He would return 1t with interest just
as soon as he reached Harrisburg
Could the policeman let him have it.?
And 1t is said Flemming was success
ful. inst how successful the records
don't show.
Occasionally the stranger dropped In
at a nolice station and told the desk
lieutenant his hard luck" story. Usual
Nv he asked for FLYER" and it is
said that he always got something.
But when Flemming tackled Patrol
man Macdonald Of the Bedford avenue
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ship OF loving woman's presence. one
to whom he was dearer than all the
world beside, one who would feel his
sorrows more deeply than he, take his
hand, stroke his brow fondly while she
whispered words Of home to encourage
him and lift the weight of woe from
his heart. A man must feel that his
home is his haven of rest, his wife his
jewel in his casket whose beautiful
light shines only for him. that the
whole world is nothing to her COM
pared to him and his interests. There
should be happy evenings at home,
with just two at their log fire, as In
their counting days. The husband pro-
vides the house, the woman makes the
home
If she infuses sunshine, comfort and
love into it, the husband Will never be
tempted to stray from it and find his
pleasure elsewhere. He has an incen-
tive to work hard and bring not only
comfort and luxuries to the wife. who
would, if need be, sacrifice all her joys
for his sake. When house is divided
against itself there must be a grave
reason.
A happy home is heaven on earth.
Few men are wandering from it, DELHI
erately, willfully. They can see for
themselves when everything is being
done to make the home nest the dear
est spot on earth for them. There Is
much depends upon the girl man
chooses to make happy home life for
him
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cLINGING TO A BROKEN STICK.

To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or
night;
To love and bear; to hope till hope creates
From its own wreck the thing 1t con-
templates
Neither to change. to falter or repent: :.
This alone is victory.
A girl with ordinary good sense
ought to make very clear guess as
to how the man who has courted her
and asked her hand in marriage
should turn out. If he is an energetic
young man, making confidant or
her as to his business plans and his
ambitions, as to the future, If he is
possessed of that splendid, sterling
habit of saving part of each weeks
salary, dresses moderately within his
means, is kind and considerable of her.
anxious to give her the pleasure out
ings that his purse can afford, she
may be sure that she is getting a
jewel when she marries him.
On the other hand, if he is a good.
natured happy-go-lucky, "come-day.
go-day, the devil-take-care-of-Sunday"
sort of fellow, who wasn't averse to
Sinking work whenever he could and
didn't trouble himself about accumu.
lating and, as long as he was provided
for today, wouldn't bother, his head
over the anticipated troubles of to.
morrow or make any provision to
warding them off, her judgment might
tell her she would have sorry enough
life of it if he took her to the altar.
The more clever the girl the more
apt she is to take it for granted that
every man is destined to prosper IL
he has some ability. There never was
a greater mistake.
A man may have great ability, but
if he hasn't push to start the ball OF
success rolling he is tagging rum
ner who will soon be out of the race
for fortune winning. No woman can
live on mans promises to make good
or that he is going to turn over new
leaf That won't keep the pot
a-boiling, fill hungry mouths or drive
want from the door. Some men can
save enough from SIS week to make
their first start in life. Others never
know how to economic on double
that amount. If man has the drink
ing habit and she has not influence
enough to cause him to break from it,
it is dangerous signal which she
obstinately shuts her eyes against and
will not see. If he has tendency
toward flirting with pretty girls that's
another danger signal. He might as
we'll proclaim to the world that he is
not satisfied with her, but is on the
lookout for newer flame to kindle in
his stagnant heart There is sensible
loving and foolish loving. The girl
who deliberately weds a broken stick
should realize it is but little avail to
complain. Girls should do good deal
of thinking while they are single and
allow their head to have some say so
in deciding their future, not leave it
all to their impulsive hearts. If man
will not change his ways for loves
sake before marriage, she can depend
upon it he is not apt to do it after the
knot is tied. 4.gSS3Sss5
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hitherto he had never included in his
recollection of it.
"You said could not win" He drew
out the words painfully.
when you said that you brought on
this war to crafty your ambition,
chose to be one of the. weapons OF
war; l fought for civilization, for my
home, with the only means l had
against the wickedness of victory OF
conQuest-the precedent Of 1t in this
age-a victory which should glorify
such trickery as you practised on your
people"
81 should like to shoot you dead!"
cried Bellini.
"And you let me make love to you!"
Westerling said in a dazed, cropping
monotone to Marta.
Such wreck was he of his former
SELF that she found it amazing that she
could not pity him. Yet she might
have pitied him had he plunged into
the fight; had he tried to rally one of
the broken regiments; had he been
able to forget himself.
Rather, you made love to yourself
through me-" she answered, not harsh
ly, not even emphatically, but merely
as q statement of passionless fact. IF
you dared to endure what you ordered
others to endure for the sake of your
ambition; if"
She was interrupted by a sharp zip
in the air. Westerling lodged and
looked about wildly.
What is that?' he asked. "What?"
Five or six tips followed like a
charge of wasps flying at speed that
made them invisible. Marta felt
brush OF air past her cheek and Wes-
terling went chalky white. 1t was the
first time he had been under fire. But
these bullets were only strays. No
more came.
Come, general, let us be going!"
urged the aide, touching his chief on
the arm.
Eyes, yes!" said Westerling hur-
riedly.
Francois, who had picked up the coat
that had fallen from Westerling's
shoulders with his start at the buzzing,
held 1t while his master thrust his
hands through the sleeves.
"And this is WISER" said the aide,
christening the detachable insignia OF
rank from the shoulders of the great
coat tits wiser, too, that we walk"
he added.
Walk? But my carl" exclaimed
Westerling petulantly.
"I'm afraid that the car could not
get through the press in the town."
was the reply walking is safer"
The absence in him of that quality
which is the soldiers real glory, the
picture of this deserted leader, this
god Of machine who had been
crushed by his machine, his very lack
Of stoicism or courage-all this sud
denly appealed to Marta's quick SYM
pathies. They had once drunk tea to-
gether.
ooh, 1t was not personal! / did not
think Of myself as a person or of you
as one-only Of principles and of thou
sands of others-to end the killing-to
save our country to its people! Oh,
I'm sorry and, personally. I'm horrible
-horrible!" she called after him in a
broken, quavering gust of words which
he heard confusedly in tragic mockery.
He made no answer; he did not even
look around. Head bowed and hardly
seeing the path, he permitted the aide
to choose the way, which lay across
the boundary of the Galland estate.
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HYMNS and LONGEVITY.

The practice of hymn writing ap.
pears to be conducive to longevity.
Charlotte Elliott, who wrote Just AS
1 Am" was eighty-two at the time of
her death; Bishop Bickersteth, who
wrote peace, Perfect Peace" was
eighty-one, as also was Charles Wes-
ley. Bishop Walsham How, author of
some of the most popular of the
Hymns, Ancient and Modern" John
Keble and Bishop Kerr, the writer of
the famous Evening Hymn" were all
seventy-four. And in compiling such
a list as this, one ought not to forget
the name of w. E. Gladstone, who mar
rowly escaped being nonagenarian.
One of Mr.. Gladstone's hymns-"O
Lead My Blindness by the Hands
to be found in the English Hymnal.
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Useful EarthWorm.
.S@~T4a

AS Darwin long ago showed, the
earthworm is the farmers friend. It's
burrows drain and aerate the soil.
while the earth which has passed
through it's body is finely divided and
is constantly being brought to the sur
face from lower levels. Their bodies
are adapted to this burrowing habit.
The pointed head-end is devoid of feel
ers and eyes, and the foot stumps are
only represented by rows Of bristles.
which can be felt if the finger be
passed along the body from back to
front. ThereAare no jaws, but the mus
cular part of the digestive tube acts
as a kind of pump for taking in food.
This includes plants and animals. It
has a small gizzard, which contains
many stones, and these are used in
stead of teeth to grind the food.
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MAKE HOME PLEASANT FOR
HUBBY.

Then shun the i'll; and know, my dear,
Kindness and constancy will prove
The only pillars fit to bear
So vast weight as that of love.
A man may have beautiful wife, an
excellent business, a fine house, and
yet be without a heart mate and have
no home. He loved the woman whom
he led to the altar, putting full faith in
her promises then and there that she
would love, honor and obey him for all
time to come. If it transpires that he
has overestimated the depth of wifely
love-that clothes, society and ambi-
ton hold greater place in her heart
than her affection for him-he feels
that he has not received the full meas
ure of love which makes married life
complete.
If there is cold atmosphere about
the house, every room is decked out
for company, and there is not so much
as a cubby hole from cellar to garnet
that he can sail his own-his house
is no home for him. If he is greeted
Uy LuC laws VI oil ONCly blIuC nc
enters, and he is obliged to meet them
at his table every night in the week,
he feels that he might as well be in
the family hotel. He has no privacy.
even at his own fireside.
The wife who brings such discom-
forts upon the man who has married
her has not his interest at heart. No
matter how fond man may be for
gathering friends about him and CIV
ing them a happy evening, there are
times when he needs the quiet con-
ISOLATION of home where no stranger
may intrude. If a business blow
strikes him unawares, it is not to
group of merrymakers he would go for
cheer and counsel, but to his wife's
side in the home. In such an hour he
would bless aud value the companion
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conduit underground The wire was
intact. He tapped it. He heard voice
thanking some one for her part in the
victory, and it seems that the womans
voice that answered is yours, Miss Gal
land. So, General Westerling, the leak
in information was over this wire from
our staff into the Browns headquar-
ters, as Bouchard believed and as l
came to believe"
So long had Marta expected this mo-
ment Of exposure that it brought no
shock. Her spirit had undergone many
subtle rehearsals for the occasion.
Yes, that Is true" she heard herself
saying. a little distantly, but very
quietly and naturally.
Westerling fell back as from a blow
in the face. His breath came hard ut
first, like one being strangled. Then
it sank deep in his chest and his eyes
were bloodehot, as bulls in his final
effort against the matador He raised
quivering, clenohed fist and took a
step nearer her.
But far from f1inching, Marta seemed
to be greeting the blow, as If she ad-
mitted his right to strike. She was
without any sign of triumph and with
every sign Of relief. Lying was at an
end. She could be truthful.
do you recall what said in the re-
ception-room at the hotel?" she asked.
The question sent a flash into hid
den chamber of his mind Now the
only thing he could remember of that
interview was the one remark which
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return of her faculties, she noticed
that both her mother and Minna were
looking significantly at her forearm;
so she looked at it, too. 1t was
bandaged.
"A cut from a shrapnel fragment"
said a doctor. mot Deep" he added.
do l get an iron cross? ?" she asked,
smiling family. 1t was rather pleasant
to be alive.
"All the crosses-iron and bronze
and silver and gold!" he replied.
All firing except occasional scattered
shots had now ceased in the immedi-
ate vicinity, though in the distance
could be heard the snarl of the firmer
resistance that the Grays were max
ing at some other point. The Galland
house, for the time being, was isolated
in possession of neither side.
isn't there something else l can do
to help with the wounded?" Marta
asked She longed for action in order
to escape her thoughts.
You've had a terrible shock-when
you are stronger" said the doctor.
When you have had something to
eat and drink" observed the practical
Minna authoritatively.
Marta would not have the food
brought to her. She insisted that she
was strong enough to accompany
Minna to the tower. While Minna
urged mouthfuls down Marta's dry
throat as she sat outside the door Of
the sitting-room with her mother a
number of weary dust-streaked faces,
with feverish energy in their eyes,
peered over the hedge that bounded
the garden on the side toward the pass.
These scout skirmishers of Stransky' s
men of the SD Regiment of the
Browns made reckoning gestures as
to a crowd, before they sprang over
the hedge and ran swiftly, watchfully,
toward the linden stumps, closely fol-
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away from him and must sit close.
He can have her all to himself, with
out the annoyance of having a third
party about. Her cousins and her
aunts cannot expect an invitation to
accompany him as his cutter holds but
two and, perforce, they must sit snugly
together at that. What delight to
whirl over the country road, with the
air just keen enough to bring the roses
to their cheeks and to exhilarate their
spirits! Even the horse is on his met
tie and fairly flies over the crisp
ground. No young man who has a
sleigh or can rig up anything on run
ners to look like one would miss
his sleigh ride with his dearie on a
bright, starry, moonlight night.
OF course, the young men are ex-
pected to pay strict attention to their
frisky steeds. If, perchance, they for
get and Cupid slyly steals the reins
from their grasp for a moment, there's
pretty apt to be a spill-out. Couples
who race by shout with laughter. They
guess, intuitively, by their own expe-
rience, that Dobbin must have gotten
away while his master was popping
the question to the fair one by his
side. For how could he pay strict at
tention to the maiden and to guiding
reins the same time?
1t is an odd fact that more proposals
of marriage have taken place while
sleigh riding than on any other occa-
sion. 1t seems the most natural thing
in the world for the man to whisper
to the girl so near him the secret that
he has held so carefully in his heart,
II love you!" and in his next words
to breathe the hope that has been the
one thought of his life. 'Will you be
my wife," If the girl really loves him,
he wins from her that timid confession
and with it the promise that she will
marry him if he can gain the consent
of her loved ones at home.
The girl who goes out sleighing with
a prosy young man, who is Indifferent
as to whether the robe is tucked in
about her or If his conversation is in
teresting or not, treating Of the wealth
er or the crops he hopes to harvest in
the spring, his business problems, etc.,
is not apt to remain out very long with
him. Nor will she be in hurry to ac-
cept another invitation from him to
go sleighing very soon.
Wintry evenings are f1eeting and
sleighing does not last long. Few girls
want to waste time on the young man
who has no intention of wooing and
wedding. He who let's winter slip by
may fit in summer. Beaux, make
haste in proposing marriage to the girl
you love best while the chance is yours
in dear old sleighing time. Be not like
the young man who could not be with
his sweetheart at sleighing time to ask
her the all-important question. He had
to content himself by writing her:
Oh. Love, if you were here
This dreary, weary day,
If your lips, warm and dear, =
Found some sweet word to say,
Then hardly would seem drear
These skies of wintry gray.