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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

deed seem TO slumber in the soft bed of long
enjoyed peace and security. But let war come
against the land and no man need doubt that that
spirit will spring up instantly awake.
We can r~ightfully be grateful that it has fallen
to our happy lot to live in this most wonderful
of all ages and to be citizens of this most won
derful of all the nations.
Let your hearts swell with just pride as you
contemplate your country, so august, so splendid,
so renowned in the earth.
Look upon your flag as it streams IT'S bright
folds yonder above your heads with proud and
happy eyes. Remember how honorable is its
story, and forget not how many thousands of
brave and good men died that it might wave yon-
der, the ensign of a free people.
Tell to your children the story of their fore
bears, of those men and women who. amid the
wilderness and forests that stood where now
stand mighty cities and stretch cultivated farms,
erected, with ~hardships and endurance and most
heroic faith and valor, the noble edifce of our
republican liberties.
Speak to them of Bunker Hill and Valley Forge
and Saratoga and Yorktown, and of the great
Declaration-that most famous Charter of Hu-
man Freedom.
Tell them to thank God for their fathers and
mothers hardihood and courage, for the wars
they fought, for the victories they won.
Tell them to salute their nag with high and
proud hearts.
Tell them to thank God this Thanksgiving day
that they are Americans.
And then do you soberly, gratefully, proudly
thank God yourself that you are an American.
oh, dear and mighty motherland, what better
gift or more to be desired could God give than to
be born and to die, strong Daughter of Liberty
between thy shining feet From the Chicago
American.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

9-AA6
o0~N-S
ECONOMIC VALUE OF PARKS
Communities Throughout the Country
Are Beginning to Realize the I'm
portance Of Breathing Spaces.

"The wrongs against society arc
committed by our people, not in their
hours of work, but in their hours of
leisure" writes Gov. Martin G. Brum-
baugh of Pennsylvania to President j.
Horace Mcfarland Of the American
Civic association at Washington, in
commentator of its movement for the
extension and larger use of parks in
American cities. That the economic
value of parks and recreational areas
is being recognized today to a greater
extent than ever before is amply dem
onstrated by the reports that come to
the association Of municipal procedure
for the requirement of increased park
lands, and at the same time changed
methods Of administration. The new
attitude toward parks is that they shall
be service parks-not merely Ornamen-
tai ~adornments for the exclusive use
of the few who ride, but for the mil
lions who walk. The Importance Of
the accessibility of parks to the
masses of the population is illustrated
by the growing habit, in the creation OF
park systems, Of acquiring many small
parks, tremendously distributed and
connected, rather than the maintenance
of one or more great parks on the out
skirts. The large park will continue to
be popular, but it will be supplemented
by groups of small parks given over to
recreation purposes. "Verboten" in re-
spect to the use of the grass is a dis
carded injunction; now it is "Wel-
come" everywhere.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

the saucer thus formed. The pulp itself is pure
and the water stored in it is likewise pure and re-
%freshing.
Not all the water-bearing cacti are as gracious to
Vanishing man, however, as the water barrel" for
most of them have protected themselves against
the maraudings of those who would drink and live
by imparting a bitter taste to the water they con-
tain. The 'peyote' especially, which abounds in
the plains and deserts of Arizona, has a trick of
discouraging Expectations upon it, for its plump
and juicy pulp ~secretes a bitter and poisonous
juice.
In the last dozen years scientists have interested
themselves in the study of the cactus for its posi-
biLities as food, fodder and economic by-products.
DR.. Leon e. Landone, foremost in the study Of this
desert plant, several years ago conducted extensive
experiments in Los Angeles to ascertain the value
of the thornless cactus as an article of food for
human beings. In an effort TO prove his conten-
ton that it contains food properties sufficient to
two secretaries for two weeks lived on a daily diet
of the leaves and fruit of the cactus, the former
being served green or fried and the latter either
raw or cooked. While the cactus squad sur
vived the experience and professor to have en-
joyed their novel diet, it is a fact that the cactus
never has attained the popularity of a flet mignOn.
In the whole vegetable kingdom probably there
Is not another plant family having so many diff
ferentiations of form as the cacti. For 1t is pos
sible to find among them species that crawl and
creep like vines, other than stand erect In a single
unbending stalk, like a green living monument of
the desert still others that are rooted to the spot,
with their highest growth close to the ground and
bearing almost no resemblance to usual forms of
vegetation, and others, again, that branch out in
thick unblooning branches.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25
Didn't Believe II Had Gone.

Cases of ignorance on the part of
telegram writer's are now rare, but
many incidents could be cited from the
early days of the telegraph. Several
are given in F. E. Baine's "On the
Track Of the Mail Coach" In the late
'4Os he received from a cou4lryman a
message and promptly sent 1t. But the
countryman fatty declined to believe
that 1t had gone, because he could see
it (the form he had filled up) still
hanging there, and the operator had
to push the form into the instrument
and ring the bell to pacify him. A
woman insisted upon ~inclosing the tele-
gram she had written in an envelope,
so that no prying eyes might read 1t
as 1t went along the wire.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25
And so we firmly believe YOU do feel.

And so we firmly believe you do feel.
We all hear 1t repeated that patriotism . a
thing of the past; that our people have become
commercialized that the masses have no deep
rooted loyalty to the country that our rich men
put dollars above the obligations Of their citizen
ship; that our poor folk care little for the ideals
of free government; that we Americans are de-
cadent in the virtues and valor which marked
our fathers.
That is not true.
If there be any power in the world which plots
war against us Americans and promises itself vic
tory over us on the assumption of our decadence
In loyalty, that power will find how terrible was
its mistake when our country calls her sons to
battle in her defense.
We have, 1t is true, in our capacity as a col
lective people, left undone things that should
have been done and done things which should
have been left undone; and there is more truth
than there should be in much that Is jeeringly
said by those who hate us.
We acknowledge that much of our politics Of
tends common decency.
We see, here and there, painful evidence of cor
ruption among lawmakers and even among the
judges, who should know only justice and in
tegrity.
We see rich men who do betray their country
and foul their hands and soil their souls with
most infamous dealings and most shameful
profits.
We see Americans who do put the dollar above
every consideration of right and duty, above the
claims of our common humanity.
But while these things are true, 1T is true also
that the heart and conscience of the American
people, take them as q nation, are sound and
sane and wholesome.
The blood of our fathers still runs in the veins
Of their sons. The spirit Of the nation may in
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

He reflected that across the Atlantic millions
of human beings were at that very moment en-
gagged in the dreadful task of killing other human
beings with every invention which ingenuity and
skill could bring forth from the laboratories of
science and the workshops of industry.
In other lands at that very moment tens OF
thousands upon tens of thousands of helpless
folk-feeble, aged men and women, mothers with
babes clinging convulsively to their breasts, little
children sObbing in terror, q vast army of the In
nocent and the anguished-were enduring the eX-
tremities of exposure, of hunger, and of despair
as they fled from their wasted farmsteads and
burning villages, escaping from the pitless cruelty
of savage men only to lie down to suffer and die
under the pltiless skies of God in the winter and
the bitter storms.
At that very moment most dreadful war hid
half the world in the blackness of its darkness
and from that hOrrid cloud rained destruction
upon unhappy Europe-upon her ancient capitals,
upon her pleasant cities, upon her villages, her
fields, her temples, her treasures of art, upon all
the accumulations of a thousand years of genius,
of learning, of industry, of skill and of patient
advancement of the happiness and the civilization
of the race of man.
So he that considered all this wickedness that
was being done under the sun, this drunken dance
of death and hell above the fetid corpses and the
multitudlnous graves, this awful nightmare of in
describable woe and wrath, said In the bitterness
of his heart that no God ruled over such a maniac
world and there was no thanksgiving due to the
GlNeT u GlItS Ina htIG hOl SoOu, S'CASOhO
altogether evil.
And when the man had made an end of his
thinking, he went and stood IN a window and
looked out upon the evening, because it was fair
to see.
He saw In vision at that instant the vastness
of the republic and the multitude of the good and
happy folk who live under the shelter OF Its
strength. He reflected how brief a time had thus
magnifed the works of our pioneer fathers and
our pioneer mothers, those brave and simple men
and women whose names should never be men,
toned with anything but profound gratitude.
And to this American, glad with a great pride
In the deeds of his people and the story OF his
country, and grateful to the Goodness which has
guided and sheltered his fathers and his folk,
lifted up his eyes to the night, to the quiet stars.
to the brooding immensely above, and said In his
heart:
"Thank God that I am an Americana
And. citizens, that is the one outstanding,
splendid fact for which each one of us should
soberly and most gratefully thank God on Thanks
giving day this year.
The finest thing you possess or ever can pos
sess is Just your American citizenship. 1t Is
neither necessary nor becoming, on this day or
on any other day, to cheaper this birthright or
ours by brag or spreadeagle defamation.
But 1t is highly becoming on this Thanksgiving
day to feel a deep gratitude and a manly pride
In this heritage.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

men turned out In a body to wish him good luck.
"'GOd bless you, Charlie! Here's good luck to
You, Charlie! they shouted.
"Do i know him we'll? said one grizzled EN-
ployee at Homestead. is 1t Charlie Schwab you
mean? Shure, don't / mind the first day he came
here? An didn't l work wild him for years? Wild
him, mind you. Not for him. Shure, / helped cut
the first piece of steel that ever went out cs t=is
mill. There isn't a man here that don't give his
good will to Charlie Schwab. There'd be no strikes
In Ameriky If ivry boss was IKE him. The first
day he come l says to him, says ], Have you a
matchT' II have four" says he. Fan you're vel
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

A simple and effective way Of de-
stroying tussock caterpillars is as fol-
lows; Spread a large piece of canvas.
rug or cloth under the tree, and
sprinkle the tree thoroughly FROM
hose. The eaterpillars, which have a
great dislike for water, will immediate
ly fall from the tree to the canvas and
then they may be easily destroyed
BY this method ! have saved m APP
pie tire from being entirely stripped
Of its leaves by the pests. The treat
ment" should be continued until the
last caterpillar Is destroyed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

And, with Molly lost, somehow he
cared very little about anything.
He laid his plans well, discovered the
policeman's beat allowed him ten min
utes' grace, and, o after n in the
morning, he climbed through the win
dow on the side and made his way
along the corridor in the darkness. Tom
had acquired the ''feel" of a house. He
knew that there would be a room at a
certain place on the right, and another
opposite; but he was not sure which
was the dining room, and he had a no
ton to try for old silver. Back in the
yard he had his bag, and there was a
convenient hiding place at the foot Of
the hill.
He opened the door on the right
noiselessly, felt for the switch and
turned the button. He looked into the
library.
For a moment he was startled; then
he perceived that the room was much
larger than he had believed, extending
right through the house. He crept for
ward cautiously. Some heavy curtains
hung between the front and rear parts,
shutting off half the from view.
Linton moved softly up to the cur
tains. He drew them aside and found
himself looking at Molly.
She was In evening dress, with a
long CLOAK, u%nbuttoned, owe it. In her
right hand she held a revolver, and she
was aiming 1t at Toms head.
Tom could not say a word. Molly
and he continued to look at each other
fxedly. Oddly enough. at such q crisis,
Tom felt that his clothes were shabby,
$50 it Is you. Tom." said Molly pres
emily.
"You-you live hereT stammered
Tom.
Does It look like 1t? So yoa are VI
TO your old game, stealing into peoples
houses. You remembered what you
promised me-"
Listen, Molly" said Tom. "Wher
you went away last time you said
you'd come back. And you didn't come
back. l was waiting for you all the
rest of my imprisonment, and wher
] came out 1 meant to find you and ash
you to come away with me somewhere
where we could begin our lives
again.
Molly laughed scornfully. "Yor
thought 1 wanted a jailbird, l sup
nose." she tainted him. "What have
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25
WHERE THEY CALL HIM ~cHARLlE."

Charles NJ. Schwab, the Bethlehem steel king, is
probably the most beloved boss" In America. HIS
men say there would be no strikes If others were
like him. The American Magazine prints an ar
ticle about him in which this occurs:
'They call him Charlie at Homestead; he Is
Charlie when he goes back there now to visit the
boys Those who were there in the old days
he still knows by name, and just how long they
have been on the job. When he went down to
Homestead to say good-by. after r~esigning as presi-
uent Of the Carnegie Steel company i've thousand
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25
In the Old
House
Noe+

BY DGE


Copyright. 1916. by w. G. Chapman.)
Tom Linton had served four and a
quarter years when he was released
from the penitentiary with a new suit
and fourteen dollars in his pocket, and
he had one idea in mind, to find Molly,
his sweetheart, and marry her and
start a decent life in ONE place where
he was unknown.
For eighteen months Molly had come
to see him, or written. Then she had
dropped out of his life. Linton did not
feel bitter about this. He knew few
women would be true for n ive-year
term; but he knew he could win her
back if-here was the thought that ter
rified him-if she had not married an
other.
Both Molly and Tom came of decent
folk. Molly had never known until
Tom was arrested that he had lived by
crime; and Tom, with nine hundred
sailed away, had meant to marry her
and quit the life. But he had tried
once more-burglary. He had been
caught ~red-handed, and he had lost
everything, including his money,
which his lawyer had taken.
He could not find Molly. Nobody
knew anything about her and fourteen
dollars does not last very long in a big
city. Tom soon turned his thoughts
toward the old career.
In one way his opportunities were
excellent. Tom was not q regular
criminal. He had taken to crime, but
he had not been born to 1t. He had
never worked with a man in his life
He was the solitary criminal whom the
police fear more than any other sort
Now, in burglary the advantages OF
partnership are obvious. There is @
good deal of spade work to be done
first, getting acquainted with maids
gaining entrance to the grounds, anC
so forth. The hit-or-miss burglar may
get anything or nothing. He is much
mOr liable to get caught.
Tom had seen an old house which
stood in an u~nfrequented road. 1t hat
taken his fancy. There must bt
wealth in that, he thought-silvel
plate, possibly jewelry. He had seer
the old a who came limping out tt
enter his automobile, and had noticed
that he had nc butler-only a female
servant. He had looked through thu
windows at night and seer the oil
master seated alone in his chair, read
ing. There was a massive library. Ton
Linton resolved to make another BIZ
for capital.
He was fascinated by the life, but h
felt that the world vas against him
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25
PAsTIME WELL WORTH WHILE
If Contemplating Building, 1t will Pay
One to Study Historic Designs
in Architecture.

A study of historic designs in archh
lecture is a pastime which not only
furnishes a pleasant form of recrea-
ton, but will, when ones own house is
contemplated, prove exceedingly help
full.
To be able to recognize at a glance
the lines and notifications of these his
toric styles, as expressed in the differ
ent houses with which you come in
contact, will be most gratifying; and
when you reach the plan stage of your
own home, you need not go to your
architect entirely void of ideas.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25
Mortified.

81 never was so mortified in my life"
"What'sethe matter now?"
"You know that little gown / bought
for $3.50 that looked as though 1t
must have cost four times that, and
was SO becoming to me2 1 never
dreamed anyone would guess its price
or where I bought It,"
swell, did anyoner
"Yes. 1 wore it for the first time
last night at a dinner dance and there
were Just 16 other women there with
gowns exactly like it"-Detroit Free
Press.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25
Rreakaae.

Rafferty," said Mr.. Dolan. whats
a treaty."
"a treaty is an agreement. A sort
of promise on both sides to prevent a
fight"
81 don't think they'll work. When a
man is ready to smash you in the
nose, he won't stop at q little thing
IKE breakin' q promise"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25
THE BRUTE.

Mrs. Willis-Wake up, john Wake upI
Mr.. Wiilis-Whats the matter?
Mrs. Willis-I hear a harsh, grating noise. /
think someone is trying the door.
Mr.. Willis-Nonsense. It's some rat trying that
cake you made todayCLifa
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

come to thim," he says Thanks ~ says 1. whats
your name?" ITS Schwab," says he, Charlie
Schwab| An faith, he'd give me a match
today as quick as he was after givin' it to r
thin"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-25

NOD be mercau unto U.S., and bless us;a and cause his face to shine upon
VI us; Seah. That thy way may be known upon Earth, thy saving
health among all nations. Let the people praise Thee, 0 God; let all the
people praise Thee. Then shall the Earth yield her increase; and God,
even our own God, shall bless U.S.. God shall bless us; and all the ends of
the Earth shall fear him. EvmAs 6zMR Psalm
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08

Idora Hill Mining company. The
judgment given for the plaintiffs
in the lower court stands affirmed
by the supreme courts opinion
with the exception of 1923
Judgment in favor of Morris
Pearson, which is modified to
$247.
The supreme court finds that
the object of the labor lien act
passed by the legislature in 1911
j., to require employers of labor
to pay their employees promptly
and in lawful money when the
employment ceases, upon the
ground that the employee should
not be compelled to wait beyound
a reasonable time to obtain the
compensation to which his con-
tract of service entities him.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08
State Obliged
To reed Game

The heavy fall Of snow in the
hills is making II very hard for
the deer as we'll as game birds -
find sustenance and the fish and
game department has taken the
matter up and is assisting in
caring for them.
State Game Warden Jones re-
ceived the following telegram
from f. S. Stoos, deputy game
warden for Bonner county: Back
from three-day trip in Skin creek
country. Saw so black tail in
one day. Two hundred in that
locality. Snow deep; deer help
less. Will perish if not fed Hay
cheap and available. Three
hundred white tail in Moyes ba-
sin. They need immediate aid.
Await instructions" To this
Warden Jones wired that Deputy
Keene would arrive at Boomers
Ferry and assist him in handling
the situation.
George w. Tannahill has wired
the warden as follows from Lew
istOn:
Game birds in this section in
bad condition. Can you send S25
OF $50 to C. E. Butler, president
Nez Perez County Sportsman's
association to assist in buying
and distributing feed? Associa
ton has been doing this but funds
about exhausted"
Warden Jones authorized C. f
Butler to spend $50 for feed anC
file vouchers with the depart
ment.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08
Democratic Central
Committee Meeting

Boise, Idaho, Feb. 5-.State
Chairman j. T. Pence has issued
a formal call for the democratic
state committee to convene here
March 6 for the purpose of set
ting the date for the state con-
vention to select delegates to the
ST. Louis convention. The only
issue involved is how the dele
gates shall be selected to the state
convention. The democratic
national platform calls for pref
erential primaries. It is under
stood that Chairman Pence will
insist on the respective counties
deciding through their organiza-
tons as to how the delegates
shall be elected.
Owing to the fact that it is
difficult to hold a primary of this
kind, due to the sparsely settled
communities and isolation of
some of the voting places, many
of the county organizations will
leave the selection of delegates
to the county committee.
The state convention will be
held about two weeks prior to the
national convention, giving the
delegates selected plenty of time
t. reach st. Louis. They will
likely be instructed for President
Wilson.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08
Contractor Here To
Settle With City

P. J. Broderick of Occur d.
Alene was in this city Monday.
He is a member of the firm of
Broderick & Connors, sub-cOn-
tractors who did the grading in
Improvement District No. 4, and
was here to appear before the
council to get them to allow the
last estimate of the engineer on
the work done so that the con-
tractors could draw the remain
der Of their money, about four
hundred dollars.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08
Labor Lien Act
Constitutional

Boise, Idaho, Feb. 5.-The SUI
preme court held the labor lien
act constitutional in an opinion
handed down tonight in the three
labor lien suits instituted in the
First judicial district court for
Shoshone count by Harry Olson
ct al, Clark G.. Norris, Peter Pro-
bach and j. H. Smith, versus the
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that
special examination for State
Certificates by endorsement will
be held at the Court House, st.
Maries, Idaho, on Saturday, Feb
ruary &c, 1916.
RUTH E. GERHART.
County Superintendent
Feb. 4-25.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08
ALLEN q. HoLscLAW
Attorney-At-Law

Will practice in all courts.
All matters of a legal nature
VIII receive prompt and care
full attention. Office over
Lumbermsn's Bank, st. Maries
Idaho. Phone 2029.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08

Fred L. Tiffany of Occur d.
Alene was in the city Saturday
looking after some tax matters
at the court house.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1916-02-08
City i'm Brief

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