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The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

Cats are much Ike people, they
have an admixtur= OF good quail.
ties and qualities tha; are not so
good. Also, like people. they differ
markedly from one another.
But all cats-aJ least. all cats that
/ have ever seen-possess one char
ac,eristic in common. And it Is a
Characteristic which il were TO be
wished all human beings possessed
in ike degree.
This Characteristic Is avoidance OF
unnecessary worry. So far as worry
is concern 4 a cat. indeed. Is phil
osorhic 70 an extent comparatively
few OF us attain
In my own home there has been
for a year an energetic young tom.
cat. black and white, short. broad
husky TGis little cat. Peter. is
Perpetually eager 10 be on the 90.
He is a fresh air enthusiast. out.
doors ~ every opportunity Natur
ally he has had some exciting ai-
ventures. particularly with DOGS.
Somehow Peter always manage
70 escape a pursuing dog. tie mas
have % dash Iladly. scramble ara
dignifedly. But always be is able
20 perch somevhere-on fence top.
or tree branch-out OF the dog /,
reach.
Does he, having made his escape
sit fussing and fuming Over the
close call he has had' Not q all.
The moment he knows he ig safe
h. becomes placid, calm. carc-free.
Meditatively he razes - tho disap.
pointed dog yclping and gyrating hc.
meath him.
In the house he displays the same
ph.losophic spirit
He has learned what the dinner
gong means. and al the first sound
he hastens to the dining room.
where he knows ne has a saucer
on the hearth.
He Is too early. The saucer is
empty. Very well, he can wait. lie
may perhaps walk leisurely around
'he room two or three times. Bu,
he refuses 20 indulge In worry.
Instead be presently leaps upon
a window siil 10 watch what is hap.
penlng outdoor Or he nav curl
ap .or a little nap-until be hears
some one pick up his saucer. when
he is all attention once more.
Whatever else he does, he avoids
the error % fretfUlness.
Peter is not an exceptional "a. I
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

"YoangSter, yoW don't knoIo ,ohGt IL is to be
pithoRt family, ioithOut a home, icifhout d
country. And II you are erer tempted 10 say
pord or do thing that shall put bar betWseH
you and your family. your home ana your
country. pray God in His mlercy 10 take you that
instant home TO His 0l0H hedren. Stick by govT
family boy; forget that you hare self Fhi1e
you do everything for them. Think Of pour home,
boy; prite and send and talk about It. Let 1t be
nearer to pour thought the farther yoh hare TO
travel from it and rush to IL tchen you are free
And for your country. boy never dream dream
but OF serring her as she bids you, though that
scrptce carry yoa through q thousand hells NO
matter ,ohat happens TO you, no maten ~ho
tldffers you or icho abuses you, nerer look al
onofher flag never let night pass but you pray
God to bless the Stars aud Stripes. Remember
that y0u belong to your oUH country as you
belong to pour opn mother; stand By her as you
soould stand by your oloa mother. Edward
Everett Hale.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
AND AS FOR YoU7

We met a man on Woodward and we said 20
You understand. Of course. ,ha, ,his IS pre.lden-
We're 'soi Sounding sentiment and We would like to
And t@ii us whether you're for wilson or for
And now as to preparedness'' We said. how
DO you think to aehting passions in The man we
Don't you mink that killing brothers Is too
Arc you paeiast or jngo on this issue Of today
And while we've your attention, as 70 Mexican
Do you tlink that killing poems going 70 gst US
And how about our Tigers. in another winning
with q chsnro 70 leed the league II they can keep
10 up "a week.
'hu these questions ars important and quite
Said Tao man 'I'ut it 90 happens that have
'oo,4 n ., ,,, 7. a. qoes''onyoo have asked
And ~ .ac ,hata more IN season: Is # hot
a rumor that the boats between De-
troit and Windsor will soon run in and
out of slips TO take care of automobiles
is branded by the company's officers a
ferry tale.
We seem to have taken on worm in
the garden that likes cabbages as well as
we do.
A buger has quit down south because
they made him get i'm and help set up
camp. Refuses, we would say, to do
another taps.
Phew!
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

both in spirit and in letter, and ne has a
big force of. policemen on the avenues to
see that his order is complied with.
Which step is bound to have the effect
of saving many lives in this fast-grow-
ing city.
The commissioner has the walking and
the street car riding public with him
and ne has the sane kind Of automobile
driver with him.
The greatest trouble his men are
having is in convincing the pinheads that
they are not kidding them-that law
in Detroit is really a LAW, meaning
something to be obeyed and carrying a
penaltyewhen il is disobeyed.
The effect Of the law will be, of course,
to drive the pinheads from the crowded
thoroughfareS-so go 20 it, Commissioner
Gillespie
The farther YOU drive him from the
center Of the town, the better the pub
lie at large will like it.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
Pointed Paragraphs

Chronic complaining doesn't make
hard lot softer.
80 point Of order Is in order when
q woman has tie floor.
Never Judge woman's smiles by
her teeth, they may be false.
\ man can drink himself tighter
than a woman can lace herself.
When the worst come. to the
worst it is MP 70 US 70 make the
best Of H.
Solomon -a7 'hn wlgcr, man %
MS day. yet he was hopelessly mar.
ried
Few women show discretion in
tho selection Of things to be left un-
said.
Don't get so far in advance OF
The times that they won't be able to
catch up
It's an easy matter for man TO
break out OF the unknown class aft.
or inheriting a big fortune.
The reason a man can't tell the
average woman anything is because
she would rather talk than listen.
Though the winter girl may cut
a hgure on ice, the summer girl
must have figure OF her own to
cut ice on the beach.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
Pity the Poor
Militarist Editor.

Such as have compassion for the
suffering should not forget the toll
Ing preparedness editors. Their
paths lie In stony places, and the
way is beset with distressing evils.
Long and hard they belabored the
president FOR his pacific ways. They
raked history and sifted philosophy
20 find reasons 10 show why We
should clean Up" Mexico. But
when affairs drifted into condi-
tiou necessItsting tho sending OF
additional troops to the border, and
there was a possibility oi a military
campaign that would certainly re.
elect the president, the nre-eaters
began looking for n way out with
out war; and the nearer the country
got 20 the verge OF war the more
eager were they 20 avert it. But
when Carranza made a rational and
conciliatory reply 10 the ~Lan
note. and the probability OF war
vanished. behold the re-emergence
OF the mllltarist. newly decked In
war paint and feathers. eager for
the fray Pity the poor militarist
editor-The Public, Chicago.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
LEARN FROM THE CAT
Il. AODlNGToN
Of

have noticed similar behavior in
other cats that have observed az
all closely.
And 1t has da~ned upon ne that
If cats. as Is aid have nine lives,
they owe about eight OF these lives
10 their freedom from useless
worry.
Contrast the.r behavior With that
Of many men a-d women. The least
little thing may set these men ana
women worrying all day.
Some people actually seem 20 be
looking all the TINE for excuses 70
worry II they can't find real ex.
cuses. they invent a Few. And this
kind OF iuventing Is the easiest In
the world
Do their worrying WAYS helD
them one iota? Are they thereby
made happier, more energetic, more
successful?
II is the other way about Worry
a.s1us unhappiness. weakness. fail
urc. Always II is deyitaliziug. not
cncrElzins.
70 chronic worriers, therefore, |
suggest, learn from tho cat. fake
q cat into your home and let that
cat be- TO YOU not merely family
per but good EXAMPLE.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
Big Family Not An Asset

= well spoken woman with a large
family received the sympathy Of the
Acton magistrate when she told him
Of her difficulties in obtaining a fiat
Her husband, who is hghting in
France, also served in the South
African war.
When ! tell the landlords that 7
have seven children | frighten
them" she said.
We want more population at the
present time" the magistrate com.
mcnted. Il think It IL lamcntable.
A. the suggestion OF the magig.
'rate Sergt. Jarrold said he would
call and see the womans present
landlord and convey the views Of
he magistrate TO him and ask him
TO give all the latitude he could
% the applicant until she could find
another fat.-London Globe,
Family Jars are never used In pre-.
serving peace.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
From Another PointOt NeD
By c. T. S.

What's the matter with the Atlantic
anyway? First it brought us man-eating
sharks, then the German U-bOat and now
Gen. Cipriano Castro.
The fact that married guardsmen are
to be sent home doesn't necessarily mean
they won't see any fighting.
When he entered his office on the tenth
floor of well-known and popular build
ing, having just come from the hot street
ourselves, we found him vestIess and col
larless at his desk in linen suit, sleeve
less silk shirt that you could see through,
and IN white shoes, with an electric fan
playing upon him.
The subject Of the weather was under
discussion.
1T is all in~the way you take It," said
he. "The way | keep cool is by simply
forgetting it is hot"
Reader of this column whose home is
situated on a Woodward corner asks the
floor to indorse tie shp-lawn system
He also reports that the latest cam
paign cry is-"three shears for Hughes. ="
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

this disgusting habit and be should
not have 70 suffer for n
Some OF the evil effects laid .1
this habit are that Il spoils 'hr
natural arch Of the mouth by cau
ing the protrnsion Of the upper iav
That Il induces constant flow OF
saliva and keeps the baby drooirg
The pacifer Is never cI'an and
may readily carry the Eermrof q
ease into the baby's mouth lf is
also a habit that is particularly dis
figuring TO the baby's appearance
Thumb sucking is Just as bad a
habit for baby as sucking a pacifer.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
Destroying Money a Crime

II at any time you feel too much
oyer.burdened with this worlds
goods and wish to destroy some Of
your money. do not adopt such
course, for you may langulsh in
federal prison for the onense.
That Is, II you tear up bank notes.
or mutilate any OF the metal coins
OF the government. in an effort to
destroy their value, you commit a
crime.
II may also be announced that
no one has ever been prosecuted, In
the eastern district OF New York,
for such an offense.--Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
The Daily Reminder
ropAY's ANNIVERSARIES

i7ls-Petsr Schuyler became act
ting governor OF New York.
lsi.-samuei Colt. Inventor OF the
Died there Jan, 10, 1854.
lS24-Augustin de lturbide. ex-em-
peror OF Mexico. was shot as a re-
suit OF bis st'enp, pSnb3, e regain pSwIsr
elected king OF the Belsians. enter
lssO~oaribsldi captured Meiazro.
the last fortress held by the Royal
is7o-Count Bismarck. In announo-
ing the declaration OF war by France.
termed Il sroundless and presump-
differentiation stone laid for the
cathedral OF the Holy Name In Chi
fsss-Mee,ins OF the German en-
perer and Car OF Russia OF Cron-
iss7-Jean Ingelow. noted English
poet and novelist, died In London.
Born March II. 1890.
Instructions for the government OF
Cuba province OF Santiago. OF which
the Americans had taken possession.
lsoT-The Emperor OF Korea abdi-
Gated In favor OF the crown prince.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY IN THE
WAR
German attack southeast OF Les
Rome reported gains by the Ital-
ians In Carnia, Cadore and the isonxo
regions
vicinity OF Warsaw
Greatest battle In worlds history.
Involving 100000 men and sOO-miie
line. begun In Russian Poland.
ToDAY's BIRTHDAYS
Capt. Lewis s Morey, U 8. A. who
narrowly escaped death recently
while leading his troops against tn"
MeNicans, born In New York city ~
Brig Gen. John 2. Wiser. who
Eoes on the retired list ~ the army
today on account of age, born In 81.
Louis 50 years ago today
Judge Roger A, Pryor. one OF the
few surviving members OF the nrst
Confederate states congress born In
ninwiddie county. Va. IS years ago
today
CHARLES Edward. re'En'ng duke ~
SAKE CoburE ard Gotha (formerly the
iuke of Alhany). born In England 81
years ago today
William u Ridgcly former comp
Springfield. IN. SO years ago today.
1t Rev. John j NernesScy. Cath
.Gc bishop q Wichita. born IN county
John Iurroy Mitchell. mayor ~ the
city ~ New York born AZ Fordham.
Y. q years ago today.
Dr. Charles n Mayo ono Of the
h"ads - the celebrated Mayo surgi-
cal clinic born NJ Rochester. Mlnn
81 wears ago today
rrof Edward g. Pickering direct
rr - The Harvard Astronomical OBJ
"rvat"ry. born In Boston 90 years
Ign today
Earl Hamilton pitcher ~ the -
Louis American league ha=eha n
team. born az OweEo. Kas - years
ago today
Edward = Sweeney. catcher fnr
N" Toledo American 7-roc'atior
baseball team. horn In Chicago .
years ago today
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

10 break the baby OF either habit
requires resolution and patience on
iE- part Of the mother.
The thumb or finger must be per.
5isten'iy and constantly removed
from the mouth and baby's attention
diverted to something else.
Tho sleeve may be pinned or sew.
% down over the fingers OF the OF
lending hand for several days and
nights or the hand may be put in a
cotton mltten.
The haby's hands should be free
nov and then, especially II he Is
DID enough 20 nse his hands 'or his
TOYS. and AZ meal times. 10 save as
much unnecessary strain on his
nerves ne possible. but with the ap-
proach Of sleeping time the hand
must BE- covered.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

bad habit Of suck.
ing on "A rubber
nipple or any sim
liar article ia one
for which some
other than baby
Is responsible
The baby does
not teach him Elf
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
The Old Gardener Says

Backward plants can be given
a boost by feeding them nitrate
OF soda, which is a fine stimulant,
but must be used in moderation
and not allowed TO touch the
stems. A Tablespoonful may
be dug into the soil around each
plant just before a rain. or II the
weather IN dry. Il may be dis
solved, a half-ounce to each quart
OF water. aud given in liquid
form. Lettuce. spinach. toma-
toes. melons and many OF the
flowers love nitrate OF soda.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
just Like Us.

The German nation must work more and
consume less" is one solution OF Germany
future commercial problems, according TO Prof.
Jastrow OF Berlin university.
Come 10 think of il. discovered that same
secret of success long time ago. We only
hope the German nation can make it work bet
ter than we have
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
4 Poem Il Day
IRON 4 SOLDIER.

Yor 'c' me 60 w.ttoB, sign OF
fesr.
Your brave gooi-by doth linger with
mo yet
q nd though r0v would not turn mo
by n tear
i saw your eyes we're wet
Ana was 70 that your love was any
iesg
Than those who keep their men from
dIty's qGest7
Nay - vas moro. FOR with unsoifsh
iov
YOU loved my honor best
Jennie Fraser In the London Gen
fi"WDwan
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
Chase the Pinheaded
Driver, Commissioner, and
the Public Will Bless You

We have here in our fast-growing city
what is known as the Littlefield ordi-
nance.
The Littlefield ordinance prescribes
that an automobile, coming upon street
car that has stopped, shall also stop,
within six feet of the street car.
The idea is this:
When street car comes to stop, nine
times out of ten, it does so to take on or
let off passengers.
Among these passengers there are chill
dren and old folk.
There is also the young man, perhaps
deeply absorbed in thought, wondering
who the peach was across from him, with
the dreamy eyes.
And there is also the peach with the
dreamy eyes, with her mind on the paper
covered novel she has been reading.
When she was interrupted by the con-
ductor calling the name of her street,
the heroine may have been just at the
point of falling into the clutches of des-
perate Ambrose, who few minutes be-
fore had left the hero deposited in a lost
cave, the entrance to which he had COW
cred with oak beams held down by sew
eral railroad ties.
The Littlefeld ordnance takes cogni-
xance Of the fact that in alighting from
street car, all these people have right
to protection and to feeling of security
in what are termed safety zones," in
which several Detroiters have been
killed.
There are those in our fast-growing
city who possess the firm opinion that
about the most dangerous place in De-
troit that one can get into is one of
these safety zones"
Included among their number were
the aldermen who voted for the Little
field ordinance and made it LAW.
We have here in our fast-growing
city, two kinds of automobile driver
One kind of automobile driver CON
cedes that the streets were not put in
for his exclusive benefit; that pedes-
trians have some rights in them; that
fast driving endangers life and limb
The other kind of driver is what we
term pin-headed irresponsible, posses
sed of whole lot of selfshness and an
idea that children have no rights in the
streets and that old people are only in
the way.
When the Littlefield ordinance was
passed, this latter kind of automobile
driver laughed "Ha ha," or, rather, gig
gled "He he,' and thought it was n joke
The police department humored him
in this opinion, and finally gave him
license to defy the ordinance by announc-
ing that drivers would not be expected
to obey the ordinance literally.
The trouble with that order was, il
called upon drivers to use their own in
telIigence and judgment, when the fac
OF the matter is, the pinheaded driver
: RS neither.
4 Now, Police Commissioner Gillespi,
1nys the ordinance MUST be obeye,
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

After experiments covering sev
eral years rubber trees have been
successfully transplanted from the
banks of the Amazon TO points In
the interior OF Brazil.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

n you want to save your baby,
S"cp him away from sick people.
away from crowds and away from
The liability OF exposure to disease.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19
The Keep Well Column
PAcIFIEHs

Paciier- and summer heat make
lie pretty precarious for baby The
The Detroit times., 1916-07-19

Family Jars are never used in pre-.
serving peace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-31
CANOE TRAILS

Arthur Guterman, in Life.
Broad is the track that the steamer
takes
Over the open sea.
Wide are the ways Of the windy lakes.
Dear are the lakes to me.
And the sparkling sound Is good,
Bright is the river, too;
But the stream that winds to the hear
of the wood
Is the trail Of the little canoe.
Up through the fields where cattlS
browse,
Up through the farms Of rye.
Under the arching hemlock boughs,
Under the laughing sky,
Out through the maze where the musk
rats hide.
Drawn like silver clew.
Clear to the buttressed mountainside
Goes the trail of the little canoe.
Clean blue flags IN stately ranks
Stand where the shadows CLEAN;
Ferns grow thick on the messy banks
Edging the deeper stream;
Tanagers flash in the vaulted leaves
Where aint-shimmering through.
A drowsy pattern the sunlight weaves|
On the trail of the little canoe.
Dip Of the paddle, gurgle and plash.
Quiet, and bird-note clear,
White of the birch, gray of the ash
Balm-ef the heart is here!
Here where the boldest footpaths ceasd
Here where the best IL true.
The loveliest road to the shrines d
Is the tran Of the little canoe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-31

play manuscripts came to the attention
of Joe" Ritter of the theatrical firm
of Corey & Ritter. 1t was submitted as
a possible medium for Mrs. Fiske. The
manuscript was entitled: Helen from the
Monastery" and was composed in four
wonderful acts. The first covered four
typewriter pages, the second II pages,
the third and fourth eight each, and the
entire play could be acted in about II
minutes.
The opening of the first act, quoted
verbatim, was as follows: The scene is
a dusty roadway, before the gates of
a monastery. AS the curtain rises Helen
rushes on from the gate. beating her
forehead with her clinched hands, and
cries, oh, my God. What shall 1 do?
am married p" (Enter ambulance and
surgeon). The author fails to mention
the need of the ambulance and its equip
ment but it is to be supposed that Helen
has been affected mentally. The second
and third acts ar even more amazing,
one picturing the tortured Helen sojourn-
ing, while dreaming, in purgatory. The
final act occurs in a churchyard adj
joining the monastery, to which Helen
has returned to weep over the grave of
her mother. This is apparently the big
emotional scene of the drama. But
why go further, except to add that the
author leaves the heroine in the grave
yard at the final curtain. Messrs. Corey
& Ritter, on the strength of the above,
have awarded their play. reader q
months vacation on full salary.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-31
HOTEL LOBBIE.S
Something to Turn Up

THE people in the Black Belt of
Alabama have undergone trials and
tribulations in the last few years which
might have tried job" said Col. Floyd
B. Powell, a prominent insurance man
of Montgomery, who is at the Tutwiler.
However, we are holding our own and
then some, and are by no means pessi-
mistic. When the boil weevil made his
advance into our cotton belt, many peo-
pie prophesied ruin for the farmers
and bushes interests, but we mana ed
to get by very we'll for the past two
or three years. Then came the war and
the humiliation of the cotton prices,
but we pulled through. Now our sec
ton has suffered millions of dollars
from the recent floods, but we expect
to continue doing business in about
the same way as in the past. 1t seer1s
that the philosophy of Mr.. Mcawber,
who was always waiting for something
to turn up was not so far wrong after
all. No matter what happens, it seems
that the people generally get along
about the same as usual, and that
something always turns up to relieve
the situation, no matter how discour-
aged it may look for time. The peo-
pie of the Black Belt are diversity
ing and they are already taking every
possible step to recoup the losses from
the flood. You know you can't keep
good section of the country down, no
matter what happens"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-07-31
A SPY'S FATE IN 1777
From the Indianapolis News.

A curious and unfamiliar page Of
American history shows that the treat
ment of the spy was as prompt and rig.
orous then as 1t Is today among the pow
ers of the great war; Every American
schoolboy knows the fate of Major An
DIRE, but few know of any others. with
perhaps the exception of Nathan Hale.
executed by the British as spy. In the
second year of our revolutionary war
Gen. Israel Putnam caught man Turk.
ing about his post at Peekskill, on the
Hudson. A flag Of truce came from Sir
Henry Clinton, claiming the prisoner as
Lieutenant Palmer Of the British service
The answer of the suot old general was
brief and to the point:
Headquarters, 7th August, III.
Edmund Palmer, an officer in the en-.
emy's service, was taken as a spy Turk
ing within our lines. He has been tried
as a spy, condemned as spy. and shall
be executed as q spy; and the flag IL
ordered to depart Immediately.
ISRAEL PUTNAM.
p. S.. He has, accordingly. been exc
cuted.