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of pain; war might be made into some thing rather gratifying if it was gone about with the right spirit. The quality which most human beings boast of, and which I admit a few have, namely, mercy is the dross about fine stone that has as yet been too hampered to shine; it is these little mutterings of mercy that keep a few, thank the Lord, a very few an occasional soldier from shooting at, let us say, children-little children; but I'm glad to see that the quality is not so strong as it once was, because they do shoot women these days" (The ghost of Nurse Cavell evidently arose in his sa- tanic mind)
 me glibly, for his majesty is profound mimic and a very plausible talker, be it known, lis one of the incest little wars we've ever witnessed, but it is too anna teurish. You see, I'm looking through life with magnifying glass, a thing that I use rather largely in my trade; it's splen- did for the purposes of discovery, and a newspaper l take it, is life. (Here he breathed on the little Tense and applied to it more closely to the paper in his hand; he had crossed his legs and the line where leg met leg. ran scarlet down into a pool of deep red shadow upon the floor.)
 cuuuSHly ne resumed.
 When you people want to show your genius, you take a few men and stand them up in a row and shoot at them; that is about as capable as putting sardines in oil; that's not the way real work is done; no, no; if you imagine war is hell, then you've got frightfully warped view of me-
 This present conflict, though" l started.
 There are some points about it that highly approve of; the lust for cruelty has done some very praiseworthy ex- hibiting this year; the instinct that makes man tear down what it has taken him generations to build up is gratifying sight"
 A question, please,'' I interrupted.
 Yes" he drawled, looking from be- meath his shaggy eyebrows.
 What has been the happiest moment in your life?" I begged
 Imagine a laugh, if you can, turned into culver of inhuman delight; imagine eyes that blinked into phosphorescent life; imagine body tense passing from ten sity into a shudder of recollections, and you have picture of the devil as I put the question.
 "Ah," he chuckled "by all the shades of hell, it was wonderful. It was the day they burned Jeanne d Arc at the stake'' C1is hands fairly flickered as he wiggled in recollection.) ''Ye gods! what a won derful halo her hair was, as it caught fire! Gle slumped down in his chair as his eyes slowly smouldered his teeth nibbling doop into his long, pointed nails.) That is the only kind of halo that I can stand; the only kind that is really be- coming; there was only one defect in the
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scene; they couldn't make her lower her eyes, the little wretch, but, ah, well, we can't have everything we want. (de blew another "grunt" into his Van Dyke and laced his fingers more closely-cruei' white antennae) But she burned beautl- fully, like an oil-soaked log, her little legs and then her whole body, and her hair Jeanne d'Arc in the flesh was sublime;
 in the ashes stupendous; l could not sway her in life. Ahl but in death l blew her all over Europe" Gle accompanied this with a frightful moaning sort of sound as he exhaled the air from his high cheek bones, and I caught sight of his long, cruel teeth; I had ceased to fear him. fear had reached a climax where It drops down to numbness)
 You admire his satanic majesty for two things if no other-for his willingness to advance, for his agility to retreat.
 Now he was speaking again, the theme being little remote from what we'd been discussing.
 I've had my unhappy moments little as you'd think it." he said thoughtfully.
 "Really?" I observed inflectively, and then l dared ask him to tell me about such times, when I did, so it was no longer with the self-assurance of the habitual interviewer" but rather in an entreaty from one who would be the re- ceptacle of a great secret
 Tt was when Christianity came," he said quite frankly, which frightened me out of seven years growth. But" (here he swung around with one great leap upon his left foot, and a flattening motion of his hands) after all it's through Chris tianity that nine-tenths of the wars find their beginning. Great Caesars ghost! Could you imagine what a flat world this would have been if Christianity hadn't come into it. And can you then inn agine my first fear that was to be swal- lowed up in my ultimate joy? What has not been done in the name of religion? Monks burned, babies slain. towns sacked, war, carnage, murder-everything! But it has all turned out for the best for me, for if there were no pinnacle of virtue, there would be no abyss of vice; do you get memo abyss of vice and no joy nor hap piness in the life of yours truly, H. Devil Esquire?' Gle sat down again, and if as he delivered this ultimatum he was ter rible before, he was unsurpassed now)
 If I had been as capable an inter viewer as I was close, I should haze asked a question I was still doubtfui about asking, therefore I left it to the last.
 Haven't you no farth in human capac- ity?" I began, "since this last and most terrible war has come upon us?"
 Yes; it is the best yet,'' he said, with a calm that was beyond majesty, a peace that was full of characteristic amplitude, "but the best is yet far from what I wish it to be. No war has encompassed all that a war should encompass. Eng land in her war with China did very neat thing in the way of forcing opium upon the natives; the Boer put bayonets into history; at Waterloo what was &C., complished but a mere memory, word
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER
By IL WHITE 

The country town Is one of those things we have worked out for our selves here in America Our cities are not unlike other cities in the world; the trolley and the omnibus and the subway, the tender hot-house million aire and the hardy, perennial crook are found in all cities. Class lines ex- tend from city to city well around the globe. And American aversion to csate disappears when the American finds himself cooped i ma city with million of his fellows. But in the country town-the political unit larger than the village and smaller than the the town with a population between three and one hundred thousand-we have built up something distinctly American. Physically, 1t is of its own kind; the people for the most part live in detached wooden houses on lots with 50 feet of street frontage, and from 100 to 150 feet in depth Grass is the common heritage of all the chil- dren-grass and flowers. A kitchen garden smiles in the back yard, and the service of public utilities is so cheap that in most country towns in America electricity for lighting and household power, water for the kitchen sink and the bathroom, gas for cooking and the telephone with unlimited use may be found in every house. In the town where these lines are written there are more telephones than there are houses. and as many water intakes as there are families, and more electric lights than there are men, women and children. Civilization brings its labor saving device to all the people of an American country town. The uncivil- ized area is negligible, if one measures civilization by the use of the conven- fences and luxuries that civilization has brought.
 In the home, the difference between the rich and the poor. in these towns, is denoted largely by the multiplication of rooms; there Is no very great diff ference in the kinds of rooms in the houses of those who have much and those who have little. And, indeed, the economic differences are of no conse- quence. The average American thinks he is saving for his children ,and for nothing else. But if the child of the rich man and the child of the poor man meet in a common school, gradu- ate from a common high school, and
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Making Motor Trucks Pay
W. Slauson, in Leslie:

H. w. Slauson, in Leslie's.
 The truck capable of replacing three horses and wagons, which Is given only the work of one horse and wagon, is operated at but third of it's normal ef- f1ciency, and the return on its investment will be lowered proportionately. But, in the effort to use the truck to it's full rated capacity, great care should be taken that the vehicle is not overloaded, for every hundredweight above the normal capacity will cost several times the saving repre- sented in added wear on tires and me- chanical parts.
 The truck which returns to it's owner the greatest interest on it's investment is the one which can be kept moving with g paying load the greatest part of the time. Proper routing plays an important part in the success of a motor vehicle installation, and If deliveries are arranged
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on the same schedule and division of ter ritory as existed under the regime of the horse, even the best designed motor truck is almost certain to prove failure.
 A detailed study of delivery districts,
 average loads, total mileages and hours and minutes spent in loading and unload ing is necessary before the most economi- cal system of truck management can be devised. The belated order of a cus- toner which is delivered by a heavy truck must bear the total expense of that special trip, including the depreciation and other overhead" incident to the oper- ation of the vehicle. The delivery wagon could have been sent out with a full load at almost the same expense as that at-
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work and washing for eleven and I can truthfully say Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound has been godsend to me for would have been in my grave today but for it. would tell all wo- men suffering as was to try your valu- able remedy. "- Mrs. VIM. GREEN, 332 s. Addison Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
 There is hardly neighborhood in this country, wherein some woman has not found health by using this good old fashioned root and herb remedy.
 If there is anything about which you would like special advice, write to tho Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine O., Lynn, Mass.
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fNJ HSTEPPED over and shook hands l%aI with him. He had his feet kS<seSs1 crossed in front of him, encased s7eGzsl in elastic sided "Romeos" (you
 have seen pictures of him thus); i; the tie beneath his strong, sharp-bearded chin was of the palest flaming cerise; down across his sternum bone and over his stomach ran little low-lying squad ron of sharp-sided buttons; his forehead suggested that it had reached the heights called criticali
 On this particular morning when I sent in my card he had on his other pair salt and pepper effect you know, and the closeness, nay, tightness, with which they clung about his hips betrayed the silent struggle of his nerves battling with his thigh musclies for supremacy, though he himself sat quietly, and as though deeply absorbed. round magnifying glass be- tween his thumb and forehnger, over a copy of The Sunday Age-Herald
 In his presence there is sort of aus tere injustice that is at once efficient profound and peculiar; what he has done we'll As Mark Twain once remarked
 We may not pay him tribute, for that would be indscreet; but we must at least respect his talents it must be grant
 that he possesses executive ability of lls highest order
 Just so; the things that he has done and he has done we'll and the things he has left undone, are just so much ravel; his loose ends are irreproachable; his lax ities superb; his immunity and his inhu- manity are nothing short of stupendous; his pot of shadows is well spilled
 Of course, needless to say, the gentle man whom 1 went "an interviewing was the devil, Hold! Let us give him his just desserts-a capital "D!"
 Of course I could not feel sorry for him any more than NJ Twain, for pity is matter of insight into ineffectualities; neither could l afford to criticize the hon. orable gentleman, for one does that sort of thing only when there is room for inn provement; I could but listen and become the receptacle for his horrible and im- mense capacity.
 After such interviews" the life of the interviewer" must necessarily be spent in dreadful inadequacies
 l did not know where to begin. so I plunged forth:
 What is war?'
 War" said his satanic majesty as promptly as matinee idol well it was once called hell; if you want to get the real weakness of that remark, however. Just turn it round-hell is war; but it isn't, you know; hell is an industry: war IS sort of field croquet, indulged in by eh1eepled minds in a very amateurish manner; hell again is a wonderful, mag mncent' unsurpassed region of perfection
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DOLLY TnlE HER AN IMTERV1EW WITH - - |

that people use for every little stall they get in the current of life, and the back view of a rather badly fitting coat of man who stands head bowed, his hands behind him at the head of one of the stairs in a museum of art? No; the half has not been done that want done. I want to see humanity so susceptible to that which it is now so calloused that in time war will be like vaudeville-one con tinuous performance. I want the Thirty Years War to be in comparison a thing of but week; I want to see this (and his eyes gleamed with a horrible cruelty that glimmered like distant lamps back in the corridors of his teemlng mind as they shot out upon me like the glow from some crater, and as he spoke something went out of his. face and left it, not a physiognomy, but mass of quivering wires, which were strung all the pain and agony of a hundred million years). "I want just one human heart left alive in all the wide, wide world, with the sig nificance of all its dead, with the ca- pacity to feel all that have died from wars cruel blows; to feel as the mother feels; to weep as the lover weeps; to suffer as the family suffers. I want it to be the heart that shall suffer through all the undying ages; that shall be like the Wandering Jew forever going from place to place, without rest, without sur- cease from pain, without hope or release; and want it to be beat, and In the eter- nal end still to throb beneath the robin- less summer and the sunless snow-a capable heart that is not only a memof randum for a month, but record of and for all the ages buried and past, as well as those to come"
 And yet,'' he said softly as darkness came over the room, so that peering out with a neck as cold as the sweat of death I could only see the end of his long, pointed beard, could only see his demon- ical eyes like prehistoric cats shining green and gray, as though luminous through the gloom, war is not the best means to an end''
 It was at this juncture that something urged me to ask the question that had been pounding for utterance since the first moment we met and so spoke It.:
 And who started this cruel merciless warp
 There was a vivid flash of light in which his body seemed to disappear; cry somewhere behind the mouth that shot out and down tho thickness of the inner crimson of his lips, like so much melted lead; for one horrible moment his fingers twitched; his eyes drew down into lines of dull energy; his hair, long and unkempt, moved upon his head from g. draught of wind Cor was it a smut of sulphur that I found upon my cheek later?, and the place where his face had a grinning, gaping menace that was not vacancy, nor yet presence, but promise.
 Once again crossed the tragic space before him as I hurried to the door; in such moments one does not live-one merely uuiverSi
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WIFEvT00 TILL TO WORK
TN BED MOST OF TIME
Her Health Restored byLydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
 Compound.
Indianapolis, Indiana. "My health was so poor and my constitution 50 run

uOWu C1dL l COulQ not work. I was
 thin, pale and weak,
 W ig h ed but 109
 pounds and was in b e d m ost t of the time. l began talk ing Lydia E. Pink hams Vege table Compound and five m o n tn 8 later I weighed 1S3 pounds. I do o11 tho hn,1oa
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This Actually DeMtaIizes
 Coarse Hairy GrOwtfS

Stubborn growths of coarse hair which have been caused by the unwise use of pastes, rub-on preparations and worthless limitations of De Miracle, which merely remove hair from the surface of the skin,
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 Company.
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Le BON TON
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 It is ssthe best m . tn . | in the W Q rld to-day" Genuine nnaga- sines of the high est character en- dorso only De Miracle. Beware of so-calleA en- d0rsenaeAts Of bogus magazines which arc used tO exploit the sale of questionable depilatories.
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tendant upon the delivery of that single parcel It is under such conditions that the light motorcycle delivery vehicle, with side van attachment, meets the peculiar requirements of many retail businesses In like manner. inefficient loading and unloading systems, and time wasted in delivery, may change the aspect of mo- tor truck system from a profit to dis tinct loss.
 Artistically Speaking From the Dartmouth Jack o'Lantern. Ida-Helen just lives for, art.
 Clare-You don't say! I thought she still fell for Hermann.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-13

there was no appeal-that is. up to the
time when Senator Thompson sought
to nut across the Hendrickson appoint
ment. Then something happened.
He Started something.
When Colonel Sapp arrived in Wash
ingtOn a couple Of weeks ago, he i'm
me diately started something. He went
to the White House and he left a few
messages that didn't indicate Senator
Thompson was in the Ty Cobb class SO
far as Kansas politics was concerned.
Colonel Sapp hadn't been in Washing
ton twenty-four hours until it was very
apparent that there was something
more than passing GOODNESS betw cen
the national committeeman and the
young senator from the short grass
district
Facts are. Senator Thompson and
Colonel sapp did not speak. Colonel
Sapp gave a big dinner at the Raleigh
congressman from Kansas were his
guests Senator Thompson was not
present Nor had he been invited
The next day Colonel William F
Sapp of Kansas was much in the
company OF cabinet members, United
States senators. congressman and 9th
er persons who are close to the ma
tional administration But never for
one minute did Colonel Sapp confer
or counsel with Senator Thompson.
Went to the White House.
Then Colonel Sapp went to the
White House. He made it quite clear
that DR.. Hendrickson was not the
man for postmaster of Columbus-as
Colonel Sapp saw it The national
committeeman was accompanied by
his brother, Judge Edgar Sapp, also
of Galena- the things they told
President Wilson about the Hendriek-
son appointment and about Senator
=.
range of topics. But Colonel Sapp
won. DR.. Hendrickson. according to
some very late reports from Wash
ington. is not to be appointed The
iron hand of Senator Thompson in
First and Third district appointments
has been stayed.
All of which has much significance
among Kansas Democrats 1t doubt
ing fight which Sapp will make for
His attack on the Thompson rule and
his appeal to President Wilson, indi-
cate quite clearly that the Thompson
and earth for Sapp's defeat and will
swing in behind the J. w. Orr boom
on the other hand, the Hodges forces
see a new champion and a ready
fighter in Colonel Sapp and they look
to him to overthrow and discredit
in the state. Thus the line
up in Democratic circles becomes
more clearly defined and the need
of Bourbon harmony becomes more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-13
COL. BILL SAPP
ON WAR PATH
Democrat Chieftain Makes a
Journey to Washington.
He's After the Scalp of Senator
William H. Thompson.
ALL ABOUT A POSTMASTER
4 Row Has Started Which VIII
Be Hard to Stop.
e. $. Senator and National
Committeeman Involved.

Senator William II. Thompson has
been broken in his control of the
patronage situation in Washington. It
was Col william F. Sapp. Democratic
national committeeman for Kansas
who turned the trick. And with the
smashup of Senator Thompson's con-
troll is a story that will stir Kansas
Democrats and compel the leaders to
draw new lines on their future party
alignments in this state.
Some time ago Senator Thompson
recommended the appointment of Dr.
J. P. Hendrickson as postmaster Of
Colum bus. Cherokee county. That IS
Colonel Sapp's home county. The ap-
pointment of DR.. Hendrickson was far
from satisfactory to the national COM
mitteemau and he didn't hesitate to
say so. In fact he went to Washing
ton in regard to lhe matter. Now the
news comes from Washington that Dr..
Hendrickson is not to be appointed.
Ii is all a strange and startling
story TO Senator ThOmpsOn's friends in
Kansas For months the Democrat lie
senator has been in absolute control
of the patronage situation a. affecting
the First and Third districts-con
trolled by Congressman Anthony and
Campbell. Republicans. PostOffices
We're distributed in these districts in
accordance with Senator Thompson's
personal ideas and wishes. He con-
suited no one. He made recommended
tions that best suited his whims and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-13
CAPITOL IS WARM
Heat Turned Back in State
House Today.
Once More Officials Can Serve
Constituents.

After three days enforced vacation.
state house officials and employees
today returned to warm offices and
comforta BILE quarters. A break in the
heat pipes leading to the state house
was repaired late Wednesday after
noon and steam was turned into the
state capitol building late that night
This morning offices were warm for
the first time this week
The break in the heat pipes occurred
early Monday morning when the
chains which suspend the pipes from
the roof of the heat tunnel. gave way
and permitted several hundred feet of
heat mains to go out of commission.
For three days state officials worked
incOld offices or deserted their quar-
firesides. The blizzard of Wednesday
forced nearly every state department
to suspend business and very little
actual business was transacted during
the week.
During the blizzard Wednesday. the
supreme court was forced to hear
arguments in the suit to remove the
gas cases from the state to the federal
court. The hearing was removed to
Memorial hall. supplied by heat from
the state plant.
In many of the offices, stenog-
raphers and employees were sent to
their homes to await news that the
building was again heated Other Of
ficials. however. kept their employees
might be no word of complaint or
criticism from an outraged constitu-
ency. The break in the heat pipes
was the third serious difficulty which
the state heating plant has encoun-
tered in less than year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-13
REPORT COST $45O,OOO
Claims Walsh Spent Huge sum Inves-
tigating Labor Conditions.

Washington, Jan 13.-Issue No 1
on the program for congressional leg
islation of the American Federation
of Labor and other labor interests, is
a resolution for the printing of the
reports and testimony of the Federal
Commission on Industrial Relations
The report is not popular with some
people. 1t paints a picture of in
dustrial exploitation and of injustice
to workers which many employers say
isn't true. They say Chairman Frank
P. Walsh used the $45O,0OO appropri-
ated for the securing of these facts.
for prosecuting the men who built
up the country"
Labor declares the report furnishes
the only fair record of the eXploita-
ton it has suffered. The report has
been much sought. Thousands of let
ters and kilograms have reached con-
gressmen asking for copies. The avail
able supply was exhausted months
ago.