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Evening star., 1916-08-13

with his personality as an American
enthusiast in the ranks.
Chapman, like many or the spot Che
was Latin quarter studenD, engaged
in the foreign legion. Digging
trenches. he dug with such ardor that
all inspecting officer inquired they
were all dressed alike and equally
muddy: Say, you. you must have been
navy. To which French comrade
replied: My captain, you're mistaken.
He's a millionairet'
After the foreign legion was twice all
but wiped out Chapman and most of
the surviving Americans were trans
ferred to various line regiments. In
charge of machine gun near Rheims,
his cabin" became the club" of the
section, because he received all the i'll
lustrated papers. One day he got a
ball in the arm and the surgeon wanted
to evacuate him. Let me be-" pleaded
Chapman. the boys will renew my
dressings. ] don't want to embusque
myself ttake a safe place in the rear)!"
Later the boy who ran the machine gun
next to Chapman complained of the
doctors: They claim that my stomachs s
wrong and that ] must drink milk a
month. and so they're going to evacuate
me-. lust wait" answered Chapman.
1t was the noon hour. He disappeared.
That evening he disappeared again and
returned leading a COW by rope.
There" he said. its ours. I bought
it,"
Such is the type Of stories which the
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pretty sure to be arrived at after the
great war. no statistics Of fallen
Americans can ever be collected except
by minute inquiry a long time after.
Even their families, in the mass of
cases, can receive no notifications.
thanks or honors from France. France
regrets IL much. because, as you will
see. she has place to honor us-upon
imperishable stone.
II is a peculiar situation.
Paul Ayres Rockwell of Atlanta, Ga,
brother of Kiffin Rockwell. the aviator
recently decorated with the military
medal, is the American in Paris best
posted on the subject Invalided from
the foreign legion. but extremely busy
hunting up this data. he estimates the
number of American volunteers up to
the present at 10000. Other estimates
are greater. This is the minimum.
Don't look for them In the foreign
legion says Rockwell Personally.
have known or received the names of
only ESQ real Americans enlisting in the
foreign legion regularly under their
own names as Americans. We might
compare them to the companions of
Lafayette in number-with interest.
There were difficulties French consuls
dreaded to have the look of recruiting.
For Americans at home to enlist in the
legion. they were obliged to come to
France and, struggling with a foreign
Evening star., 1916-08-13
The Childr@m's Hour

A CHILD first learns the sound of word-ts meaning
~ comes to him afterwards There's an appreciable dis
tance between the periods The reasoning faculty de-
veops slowly Therefore, don't expect obedience early.
Nature knows nothing of behavior: invented all the
rules of restraint.
Goody -goody little boys and girls are abnormal types
Kids should tumble about knock things and bit
of dickens Worry they don't rock and romp and occa-
sionay rob the jam pot and raid the pie pans indicates
something wrong in them-or you
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ssNil Desperamdwna' %

\ Asst fall windsorm uprooted the big willow They
IL sawed off the trunk and carted away, but by
freak of chance left the ugly stump behind All Winter long
it lay in the yadbottom up broken the air. Then
Spring pusing through the earth and found sen
der rootlet fighting for survival Now of valiant
young shoots waving their ronds above the wreck Soon
clump of vedure will mask the spot then usy trunks will
push up in the sun-the dead wood will away and all
of the disaster be wiped out.
Why aren't you still doing business the old stand?
What you ask of Providence than the right keep
while there is chance to sprout again?
New obliterate the memory of old failures Be
W1'ng willow, not weeb'ng
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check for S1O0, 900 for Christmas gifts
for poilus; Clara Washington Lopp
Stillman. Hyde. Wanamaker. Gould
Mrs. Fitzgerald. Herbert Ward and
others transform their town houses and
country chateaux to hospitals and con-
valescent homes. which they maintain
financially. Who has mentioned the
hospitals entirely built and maintained
by Mrs Borden-Turner just behind the
trenches?
From first approximate lists" which
Paris papers have been trying to make
up | quote the totals:
American ambulance hospital paris
Neuilly), 100000.
American girls war relief fund and
American womens war relief fund,
s1,200,o00.
American Red Cross of Washington
ttotal. $2,5S0,000), France and Belgium,
American fund for French wounded,
American branch fund for French
orphans. American committee for. re-
education of French mutilated, Belgium
aid and Cardinal Mercier cash box,
relief of Belgian prisoners in Germany,
committee for men blinded in battle
and the dollar fund for Belgian poor.
S1000,000.
Belgian relief fund, s3.oS5. 900.
Belgian relief commission general
subscription up to $50, 900 .00O), 81, ,0OO. 900.
Everything which helps Belgium is
regarded as direct Kindness to
provinces have been living on the
American revictualing since July. 1915.
American British war relief committee;
committee of mercy; Duryea fund 0or
the allies); relief committee of Philadel-
phia: American Red Cross, New York
state, s2,630,00o.
American navy committee ("de la
fiotiIle'); Franco-American committee for
children of occupied departments; fund
for French orphans; fund for Belgian in
valided; Lafayette fund; national relief
committee for the allies; Queen of the
BeIgians fund: relief committee for war
prisoners (allies); relief fund for fam
lilies of French artists; relief fund for
wives and children of French and Belgian
refugees, s1.s00,00
Vacation war relief fund. s250,00O
Total, s1s,O65,O 900.
So the French have made a first
rough list full of regretted slips and
omissions.
Publications like ILLUSTRATION and
the Lecture cite the names of other
funds and works, citing their beauty
and magnitude. without being able to
auxiliary of the technical committee
of France. the Reconstruction League.
of Philadelphia emergency aid and
Scott Paper Company, the New York
Mayfair relief and Wanamaker stores
funds. the American and st. Bartholo-
NEW girls aid, the junior committee
of mercy. the Providence Public Serv-
ice League. the Baltimore Red Cross
Auxiliary and the American city wards
in the Paris-Neuilly Hospital
The list is more interesting with its
errors.
No Americans have thrust this list
upon the French.
1t is French cropping in the smoke
of battle. happy to verify how much
we care for them. Why, they are CIR
culating a map of France to show the
1.600 different localities in which
French hospitals receive clothing, pa
jamas, instruments and ward mate
rials from a single American associa-
ton whose name perhaps you have
never heard-the American distribu-
tion, patronized by our embassy.
We were discussing these matters
with the present Marquis de Lafayette.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.

PARIS, July 29. 1916.
e, COW many Americans are fight
I'LL ing for France?
It'll a recent cabIegram quotes
q q the New York Staats Zeitung
as suggesting that "the 10000 Ameri-
can volunteers fighting with the allies
III France had better return and fight
the Meaicans.
This estimate is regarded as an
exaggeration.
Yet the true number of Americans who
have fought. died. been wounded and
are fightins in pious effort to pay
back" our revolutionary debt to France
is far greater than is generally sup
posed, and many may be surprised to
learn that il probably already exceeds
the 5000 French troops which France
sent US under Rochambesu in May. I7sl
1881.
II is rather handsome thing that
while Americans at home are worrying
n Ye are doing enough" France deems
that we are doing Enormously"
The conservative estimate is 10000.
The regrettable thing is that while
the approximate number of survivors Is
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TO a S1a@bs
Bv HERBERT KAUFMAN

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!: Herbert Kaufman'sW Weekly Message
Doubling men are
not achievers; those
who win must be
seIf.be1ieVers.
1t Can't Be Dome

# HE quart undertook gallon job and Immediately dis
closed its real measure Those who do not recognize
their own limits soon betray them to their fellows.
Bluff loses every position wins. Promises will open the
door of opportunity but only performance will turn the lock
the other side.
Time trails the cleverest pretender and exposes his rec
ord The only employees who constantly sure OF their
posts delivery men,.
ohn H Patterson once turned the details of ap
preaching banquet individual whose glib tongue won
an executive responsibility The following morning he in
terupted important conference to ask the president he
preferred have ice water served on the atore
said occasion.
Both Your resignation is accepted" the instant
response.
Patterson had gagged his man in flash. Only con-
genital idiot would ntrude with such trivial consideration
upon vital board meeting.
They're all discovered in time.
Masqueradng will bray in the neghborhood of lions
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James Whitcomn[b Riley

VQ9UUUVS Wv UN0SSV0S4tO SSS9SV
TT E didn't write of gods and kings
~ And all such highfalutin' things;
But folks and boys and bumblebees.
And when he talked of Summer, say,
The printing smelled of clover hay.
And you could see the lazy breeze
Go nosin' through the locust trees
Around the house where you were born,
And hear the old tin dinner horn.
He didn't read up Persian tales,
OF these bul-buls and nightingales:
But went and sat out on the rails
And listened to the thrush and wren
Cheep in the meadow brambles, when
The song of birds in his pen;
The whippoorwill and bobolink
Gave music lessons to his ink.
He turned words into wishing rings
That made forgotten memories start
Tears trickling in your lonely heart
And painted signposts all the way
Along the pike to Yesterday.
God must be feeling mighty good
To have him round q know | would)
A-telling tales of lazy scamps
And run-aways and dogs and tramps.
1t don't seem queer to picture him
All fused with golden robes and wings
Up there upon an armchair cloud
Inventing stories for a crowd
OF breathless little Cherubim-
OF fairy, goblin, witch and elf,
When he rode by the other day,
There wasn't anything to say
But Goodbye, Jim, take keer yourself.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21

if these men have what we said they
had, if they have the system and
harmony and the security in their
plans that we talked about, then a
man named Snyder is going to find
new delight in standing around till
the idea 'soaks in" SO he can adapt
some of it to his surroundings.
Snyder has soaked himself full of
the idea that wherever a weed can
grow and bear seed, stalk of alfalfa
can grow and bear seed, and he has
lost mint of money by not having
the stalk of alfalfa in the place of
every weed in this country, and peo-
lie enough to go out and harvest the
crop on shares. We stole that
idea outright from Snyder, land en-
larged it, and we don't charge you
a cent for it. Perhaps you can figure
1t out yourself to see what you can
add to your income by adding an
alfalfa border to all your dry waste
belts and beat Snyder to it, Snyder
is going out now to brush up on some
of these other things so he will be
an all round progressive in his farm
ing.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21

be made happy and contented ON tn
farm and thereby created within
them a desire to remain with tn,
soil, thus keeping the population
away from the cities and solving {
great problem of this day.
%. 1t shows that diversified
J farming is profitable not only III
cropage, but as a means of retaining
the fertility of the soil.
80. 1t shows that crops, as a
general rule, should be taken ia
market on four feet rather than in
bags.
10 1t shows that a small farm
properly managed means not merely
a living, but eventually a compel
ency.
III. 1t shows a triumph over
difficulties by pioneer spunk and
gives as reason combination of
plain common sense and hard work,
thus blending cause and effect into
a record of success.
"Rupe was an ordinary man in
every sense. What he has done
others can do. He studied his en-
vironnemt and did that which seem
ed expedient, profiting by mistakes
and thus eliminating intimate fail
ure. Had Rupe been dry farmer,
he would have succeeded for he
works and thinks, he farms with his
brains as we'll as his horses. Had
he pond and springs to feed it,
he would have raised trout and found
a market for them at a fancy price,
for he let's nature lead the way. Had
he farm that sub-irrigates he most
assuredly would have hit upon beets
as heavy yielding crop for he is
a close observer, but under any and
all circumstances, he would have
reared praise worthy family, honest
and respected, for he is a natural
home maker.
Therefore this article on the
RUPEES is my first choice, for it is
the simple story of a common man
who has made good and by so doing
inspires others to go forth and do
likewise.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21
WILL VERIFY OUR STATEMENTS

A. J. Snyder came in from Spring
field, Tuesday, in company with e.
N. Wells, another alfalfa seed man,
who has helped to make that country
famous, and they went to Caldwell
to attend the pure seed convention.
Mr.. Snyder called at our office, like
a good man should, and said the good
work of increasing the crop yield a
dollar an acre is progressing and
he is working for NEEDLESS seeds.
Snyder isn't a bad fellow, he said
he is going to crank his car and go
out checking up against our stories
of the good farmers and see IL we
told the truth about them. He is
going to Louis Felt's place and see
If things are as Model" as we said
they were. He is going up to Carl
Nelson's for the same purpose, and
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21
he is, wrote the following article:

! he is, wrote the following article:
I'VE are living in a practical age
where theory is only dream anG
remains such until tested out by
some practical, hard working mar
of affairs. We can worship theory
and die a pauper; or we may prove
a theory and live a hero. We like
to be fred by the enthusiasm of a
promoter, but we live to be enlight-
ened and inspired by the deeds OF
some hero of the common place, for
it is in these heroes that we dis
cover possibilities for ourselves. We
may contemplate admiringly the
genius of an Edison or a Burbank,
but they are in different world
from ourselves, SO to speak, but this
man Rupe, Rupe is common man,
plain farmer, who came, anc did
for himself and family what any
other man can do who will study his
can understand and fully appreciate
Rupe.
Should you be interested in
knowing why | consider the article
Coming of the Rupees the best in
the recent Agricultural Edition of
The Idaho Republican, | will catalog
my reasons for you / need only to
lame the particular points of excel
lence in this article, there is no
necessity for criticism of the other
subjects treated. However, we must
admit at once that the view point
or each reader must be taken into
consideration in making choice
among so many superior articles
Were | dry farmer, should natur-
ally be most interested in the articles
on that phase of agriculture. Were
l deeply concerned with alfalfa, GER
tainly the Snyder and Wiley produc-
lions would give me food for
thought; but for general, all around
interest in things that apply to all
conditions, / wish to express my APP
probation Of the Coming of the
Rupees and make it my choice for
lrst place for the following reasons:
Il. 1t paves the way for man
with no capital to get his start In
this country of ours.
%. 1t gives an incentive to the
young man to take up his life work
where he finds it, not waiting for
great opportunities before starting.
"3. 1t breathes spirit Of good, |
clean optimism and a just belief in |
ones self.
"a. 1t shows that joy in hard |
work which transforms it from mere
into real pleasure.
IS. 1t shows that success comes
to those who really deserve it, for
Rupe at home doing homely duties, is
! success, while Jones in town, Gus
sin the government is farming
failure.
IS. 1t shows that greatest Of all
sources Of honestly acquired wealth,
viz: The natural increment Of land |
values.
-. 1t shows that children may
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21
FARMERS MEETING AT BOISE

A meeting of farmers will be held
in the House of Representatives.
Boise, on February IA, Is AMI 16,
to discuss matters of mutual inter-
est, including the packing and mar
keting Of fruit, potatoes, etc., and all
things pertaining to better country
homes.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21

her new zest for the incessant rou
tine within four walls. Then too
women enjoy the feeling of posses
sion, as well as men. ID
Il suspect too that there is many
teacher that has dreams of little
stock ranch, just as / had during the
ten years | spent in the school room
To such | would say, try it for a
year, you won't starve if you don't
teach a year, and if after the trial
you still desire to continue, your vo-
cation, you can do so with greater
results for your body is rested and
mind broadened.
Il think the cry, Back to the
farm, Is the motto we should fol-
low for our girls and boys. Let us
make them love the farm so that
their motto would be, Well stay
on the farm They will too, if we
make them active partners with the
accent on partners instead of on the
active as it has been in years past
That doesn't meant that they make
their clothes and board either. 1t
means each girl and boy should have
a per cent of the stock and yield
and should have his own savings &C
count and checking account. Then
they will study farm conditions and
work Understandings and scientific
ally"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21
A GOOD LOOKING GIRL

A good looking girl bedecked with
jewels is shown in Mr.. Thorsten-
berg's bakery advertisement on page
five of this issue. Read what is said
OF the bread she makes adv.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21

IL pays you money to read and use
the want ads on page four.-Adv
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-01-21
A Different Opinion

One Of our professional men of
Blackfoot, who preferred to have his
name withheld for the reason that,
as he said, it did not matter who
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-27
CAR LINES TIED UP

Thousands Of people were maroon
ed in the loop district last night when
twelve two-inch cables feeding the
surface and 81" lines blew up. Eight
sub-stations about the city followed
and five minutes after the blowout
every street car, except those south
of Twelfth ST., had stopped.
Theater crowds jumped for taxis
and hundreds stayed downtown for
the night. 1t was 1 O'Clock before
service was restored
The Metropolitan and Northwest
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-27
WAR BULLETINS

London.-Raids by ZeppeIins and
new giant Fokker aeroplanes are ex-
pected by London authorities in near
future, Municipal authorities served
notice that London is better prepared
to meet attacks from sky than it was
several months ago when Zeppelins
visited city and made their escape I'M
harmed
Berlin-2o,00o British troops de-
Tending Arabian seaport of Alden
under heavy attack by combined
Arab and Turkish forces.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-27
FEAR MEXICAN SOLDIERS MAY
CLASH WITH u. S. TROOPS

Brownsville, Tex, Jan. 27.-Mex-
lean and American military officials
making every effort. today to prevent
open clashes between United States
and Carranzists troops as result of
four American soldiers losing their
lives late yesterday in attempt to res
cue two others who had been cap
tured by Mexicans Soldiers were
drowned while trying to swim Rio
Grande.
Lieutenant j. E. Mort, commanding
Battery. D., Fourth Field Artillery,
and Lieutenants Payton and Wal
dron of same detachment were under
arrest in Progreso, Texas, today be-
cause they are alleged to have led 4
of their men into Mexico to rescue 2
American soldiers who were captured
by Mexicans. Major General Funston
had ordered no soldiers to cross into
Mexico under any circumstances.
Edith Harrison, daughter of former
mayor, operated on for appendicitis
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-27
OPPOSE CONSUMPTION

MristoI, England, Jan. 27.-Resolu-
lions opposing consumption in any
form were adopted by overwhelming
majority at today's session of Natl
Labor Conference of delegates repre-
senting more than 100000 workers.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-27
TRAINMEN MAY STRIKE-CAN'T
SEE ARBITRATION

SEE ARBITRATION
The overwhelming vote of rail-
road trainment in favor of 8-hour
day is surprising even the union men.
While the definite result of the vote
will not be made public until May 1,
it is known that less than per cent
of the 100000 affected workers have
voted against the proposition.
In one way the vote may be taken
as direct slap in the fact for Grand
Chief Stone of the locomotive en-
gineers, who, the workers believe,
spoofed them out of their rights by
not fighting hard enough in the re-
cent long and tedious arbitration
hearing which resulted in a victory
for the railroads.
Stone is an exponent of arbitra-
ton, and the men, smarting from
bitter arbitration experience, want
no more of it. They have made
cleancut demands and if they are not
granted they want to strike.
1t is noteworthy that the passenger
trainmen, who would be benefited but
little by an 8-hour day, are known
to be almost unanimously voting in
favor of strike to get it, if that be
necessary.
In a nutshell, what the men want
is: Overtime pay after hours on
runs of 100 miles or less; on runs
when time on duty exceeds miles run
divided by 1917; no one to receive
less for hours or 100 miles than
they now receive working longer
hours or running more miles.
-O-O
CAR LINES TIED UP
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-27

Edith Harrison, daughter of former
mayor, operated on for appendicitis
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-14
HIGHLAND PARK

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serious iIIresS
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on Suudsy
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home a. n = Nruteroy-age. affsr
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a ecgh NJ. VII VII w ~, m rs
e'sndTa--ara
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home with small n0x
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