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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-26

in an opera cloak across the street In
front of a street car that was ap-
preaching two blocks away.
Soapy walked eastward through q
street damaged by improvements. He
h HuJaeatti bs u4aR g mal MfeEaagthfSSgElaXl d ipto t Ah8eE
men who wear helmets and carry
clubs. Because he wanted to fall into
their clutches they seemed to regard
him as a king who could do no wrong
Al length Soapy reached one of the
to the east where the glitter
and turmoil was but faint. He set his
face down this toward Madison square,
for the homing instinct survives even
when the home is a park bench.
But on an unusually quiet corner
Soapy came to q standstill. Here was
an old church, quaint and rambling and
gabled. Through one violet stained
window a soft light glowed, where, no
doubt, the organist loitered over the
keys, making sure of his mastery of
the coming Sabbath anthem, for there
drifted out to Soapy's ears sweet music
that caught and held him transfiXed
against the convolutions of the iron
fence.
The moon was above, lustrous and.
serene; vehicles and pedestrians were
few; sparrows twittered sleepily in
the caves. For a little while the scene
might have been a country church
yard. And the anthem that the organ
ist played cemented Soapy to the iron
fence, for he had known 1t well in the
days when his life contained such
things as a mother and roses n am
billions and friends and immaculate
thoughts and collars.
The conjunction of Soapy's receptive
state of mind and the influence about
the old church wrought a sudden and
wonderful change in his soul He
viewed with swift horror the pit into
which he had tumbled, the degraded
days, unworthy desires, dead hopes,
wrecked faculties and base motives
that made up his existence.
And also in a moment his heart re-
sponded t%hrillingly to this novel mood.
An instantaneous and strong impulse
moved him to battle with his desper-
ate fate. He would pull himself out
of the mire; he would make a man of
himself again; he would conquer the
evil that had taken possession of him.
There was time. He was comparatively
young yet; he would resurrect his old
eager ambitions and pursue them
without faltering. Those solemn but
sweet organ notes had set up a revolu-
ton In him. Tomorrow he would go
into the roaring downtown district
and find work. A fur importer had
once offered him a place as driver.
He would find him tomorrow and ask
for the position. He would be some
body in the world. He would
Soapy felt a hand laid on his arm.
He looked quickly around into the
broad face of a policeman.
"What are you dom here?" asked
the officer.
"Nothin'," said Soapy.
'"Then come along" said the polics-
man.
"Three months on the island" said
the magistrate in the police court the
next morning.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-26

A miser grows rich by seeming poor;
an e~xtravagant man grows poor by
seeming rich.-Shenstone.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-01-26
PanIOmime
In the Window
Story of Fancied Love and
Mistaken Sympathy
By WILLIS EMERY
Copyright by International Literary
Service.


Between her and me there was 6
great gulf, a chasm with precipitous
walls of stone. We were so zeal to
gether that | could see the color of hel
eyes when the light shone fairly, but
between us was the gulf and in the
bottom of 1t a roaring river.
In the morning the river ran south
ward; at moo 1t was full of conflicting
tides that clashed and surged; in the
late afternoon 1t ran mostly %northward
toward Printing House square and the
Brooklyn bridge. 1t was a river of
humanity, and the gulf was the narrow
canyon Of Nassau street, in New York
city.
She was on the western bank and !
on the eastern, $50 feet above the bed
of the stream. Crossing was easy, but
l could not go because l had no errand,
How could | invade the Office Of
Stoughton s. Bland and say:
Gentlemen, l have come to tell your
secretary that 1 admire her"
1 did not think it fitting even to ask
what name she bore of such a%cquaint-
ances as might have been able to an
swer.
l would not have known what firm
employed her, but that | could read
the gilt letters on the glass door OF
their Office when there was light be-
hind 1t in the hall. 1t was hard to
make them out, for, of course, they
read backward to me, being glued upon
the other side of the door, but l looked
across so often that l should have
made them out at last had they been
Chinese characters.
She used to wear neal and tasteful
clothes and her hair was always jus.
right. Her desk and the typewriting
table were never in disorder, and from
that / inferred that she had been Well
brought up, a conviction REINFORCED by
my observation of her bearing toward
all who spoke with her.
Busy from morning till night, she
never seemed to be hurried o. wor
ried, and it seemed to me she never
had unfinished work to put aside al
the close of the day.
1 snfi16 y T1 ID - AeE-wladaxran
ysefcNT3en open. 1t was then
f1at a ray of sunshine striking down
upon her one bright morning showed
me that her eyes were hazel. | had
thought they might be blue, for her
hair was light. She was of a slender
figure, not strong enough, it seemed
to me, to work so hard. 1 noticed that
her cheeks never had in them enough
color to be visible from across the
canyon.
The man who dictated and signed
most of the letters that she wrote was
a puzzling fellow. He looked not more
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01

her In sending men and munitions and
food to the allies.
There are still too many people who
think the United States can lick the
world, too many people who depend
wholly on the Spirit of '76" The spirit
Of '76 is all right-with training and a
good rife, If it is assisted by plenty of
aeroplanes, machine guns, far-reaching
big guns, and submarines. A man him
self is but half soldier: training is the
other half.
For a citizen army in this day of
modern things means a slaughtered
army.
An Utopian American, that's the hood
wink of the professional pacifst. can
not understand why men who are so
sensible along other lines will deliber-
ately allow themselves to be blind to
the fact that the world is not yet ready
for an Utopian condition of things.
There is too much of the animal in us
now; We are not yet sufficiently far ad-
vanced in the higher order Of intelligence.
Brute force figures largely in the law of
suvival as yet, and SO it shall be for
another hundred years. The weak of
this day must perish.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
The Price Of Peace
BY Hapsburg Liebe,
of the ViHflautes.

Some very wise man declared recently
that he was for peace at any price, and
he added that the price of peace was
war. He's right about that. The price
of peace now is war. Had we begun TO
prepare three years ago. it might have
kept US out of war today; but we didn't
prepare. The pacifists wouldn't let us
And the greatest shame Of it all is that
we still have professional paci1sts run
ming at large in our country and bowling
against preparedness These men are
seeking to cut the nations throat, and
don't know It.
About half the people, think. believe
that Germany is on her last legs, ana
that she has drawn the enrnity OF the
United States against her because the
greater the forces to which she surren-
ders the greater the salye TO her
wounded military honor. These people
do not understand. They don't know
Germany efficiency. The truth or the
matter is that Germany is far from
being on her last legs. There Is no end
to German efficiency.
I want to ask you this question:: II
Germany wins in this great war, Just
what will happen to America?
With belligerent Mexico to the south
of us, with a nation whose resourcetul-
ness no man knows on the west-what
will happen to America If Germany wins
In the war?
For Germany will need to replenish
her Golfers; and there will be no other
way so quick and so easy as to replentsh
them with American money-and at the
same time she would be getting even
for tina wronzz gha thinks We have dcna
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
Today's Events

Reoeptinn and smoker By ooSmhsa Lodra No.
a Lostl Order a hoo~a Moos Hone SRI
And g ttrests nrthwest- 9 D. N.
Luneieou a Optimism Cub ouAzn Hs.H.
AddIesKs By msmbsu a British eo1ni,.,D-
Jmue1Su Cub $50 p N
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Senent q Holy Family Day Nuz~y. osszon Han.
Lecture. The Uss q the 0onn-ssI csba. r,s.
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q Rein5 in EEEIes." b, dr1mH cla- of Geo-Is
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The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
The Street Railway Case.

One vulnerable point in the an
swer of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company's answer to the
brief of complaints filed with the
Senate investigating committee by
employees, stands out conspicuously.
The answer of the company. says
at admits, however, that a consid-
erable number of shopmen were dis
charged for declining to forswear
allegiance to the union"
This admission must necessarily
weaken its case before Congress, if
If is not lese majestic to PREJUDICE the
action of the Senate committee.
The Federal government, through
its Congress, by rider to the post
office appropriation bill of 1912, con-
ceded the right of the employees of
the government to collectively and
individually present their grievances
before the legislative committees of
the government and to ask redress,
in so far as it was possible, at the
same hands. Before that time the
gag" rule prevailed, and any en-
ploye calling inequities or requests
for better working conditions to the
attention of member of Congress
was liable to censure or discharge.
That statute has permitted the or
ganization of the Federal Employees
Union. now numbering 5000 mem
bers, not designed to antagonize the
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
The HeIfferich Boast.

1t is clear that DR.. Helfferich, in
telling the German people that Brit
ish and allied shipping has sustained
loss Of z,ooo,ooo tons in the months
Of March and April as the result of
submarine operations, is indulging
in rhetorical and mathematical fic-
ton. No such loss has been reported
to the American government by the
British mission, which has been
frank in putting forth the true facts
of the shipping situation to Wash
ington officials without any varnish
Of palliation. or of optimism.
That tonnage loss has been severe
during the spring months, that ship
ping is being destroyed faster than
it can be built, that some drastic
remedy is needed unless a very grave
crisis is to be precipitated-all these
Great Britain admits. Lloyd George
has not spared the truth; he has
painted an exceedingly pessimistic
picture, because the British public
demands the facts, and will be con-
tent with nothing less than the
facts.
Germanic psychology, on the con-
trary, is such that German hopes
ever require to be buoyed up by a
"doctored" version of the facts, ap-
parently because it is postulated that
their morale would break down under
the hard pitiless rays of the truth.
DR.. Helfferich speaks of these deci-
sive weeks" as if Britain would be
starving in short time. Even by
his own figures, he knows such an
hypothesis is absurd.
He pays his respects to American
wooden ships by saying they will
not emerge to save Great Britain
until there is nothing to save" We
rather think DR.. Helfferich is great
ly mistaken. Before the year 1917
is out more than a hundred American
ships of 5000 tons burden will be sail
ing the Atlantic, and Britain also is
building numbers of standardized
ships, the first of which will be ready
in July
Neither Breat Britain nor America
is asleep, so far as the submarine is
concerned. A hard time with the
German pirate during the summer
months is looked forward to. There
is no doubt the zenith of the German
effort for decision will come before
September. But as to the ultimate
mastery of the seas there scarcely
can be any doubt.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER
Pain in Stomach, Back
or Joints.
or Joints.
CBy Samuel Hamilton. VI. d.

In recent years investigation by
means of X-rays, the observations Of
scientists such as Cannon. Grutzner,
Pavlov, Fowler, Hawk, prove that an
abundance of water is necessary in
good bodily housekeeping. To drink
pint of hot water before meals is
good practice, and those suffering
from catarrhal condition of the stom-
ach will find benefit in adding about
10 grains Cone-sixth of a level tea
spoonfuD of baking-sods, drinking it
an hour before each meal
II your kidneys are sick. or you
suffer with lumbago or rheumatism at
times, pain in the back or back Of
the neck, take a little Anuric before
meals. Ahuric double strength) can
be found at any good drug store, and
was first discovered by DR.. Pierce. Of
the Surgical Institute in Buffalo. N. Y.
When rundown, when life indoors
has, brought about a stagnant condi-
ton in the circulation-most every
one is filled with uric acid-especially
is this so of people past middle age.
This uric acid in the blood often causes
rheumatism, lumbago. swelling Of
hands or feet, or a bag-like condition
under the eyes. Backache, frequent
urination or the pains and stiffness OF
the Joints and high blood-pressure are
also often noticed. Every one should
drink plenty of pure water and oxer-
else in the open air as much as possi-
BILE. 1 have found that Anuric is an
antidote for this uric acid poison and
that It Will dissolve the accumulation
of uric acid in the body much as hot
water dissolves suEsr-AdE-
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
Every Woman In!
By ANNA sTEEsE RICHARDSON
of the VtEiIanteE

Fifty years have passed since Ameri-
can women have been able TO show the
stun they're made Of.
Since the days when your mother and
mine scraped lint and prayed for the re-
union Of q divided nation, we women OF
America have come into wonderful privi-
leges.
Co-education has become a magnificent
reality. In many lines of industry an
commerce We have attained a measure :
economic independence OF which o. r
grandmothers hardly dared 10 drear
Medicine and the law have opened the
doors to US as practitioners Statute :
have been revised, increasing our rights
When the sovereign body of our govern
ment was called TO decide the grave Ques-
ton OF declaring war, q woman sat In
that historic hall and cast her vote.
For these privileges We must pay in
added responsibility. In this grave crisis
We must rise in the measure Of our op-
portunides. We must prove that, be-
cause OF these advantages, We are
stronger. more purposefuL more re-
sourceful, and. II possible, more patriotic
than our grandmothers.
How shall We reach this high standard? /?
How can we prove that we have profted
by our privileges and opportunities?
First. by rising superior TO the petty
things which years Of prosperity have
transformed from luXuries into necessi-
ties. Like Martha of old, some Of us
still cumber our days with much serv-
ing We have come to concentrate on
such petty problems as curtains which
shall rouse the envy of our friends; a
new frock in which Daughter Edith shall
outshine her young friends; q machine
which shall outstrip our neighbors.
Today IL we are 10 prove ourselves
worthy OF the privileges with which prog
ress and our country have endowed us,
we will see something bigger than neigh
borhood rivalry beyond the old mended
curtains at our windows-men marching
forward TO right wrongs. Daughter
Edith is no longer the family beauty TO
be decked in high-priced fnery, but a
woman whose country may call her to
perform those grave duties for which her
broader education has fitted her. The
high-power machine no longer stands for
personal ease and pleasure. 1t becomes
a messenger at the service Of the gov
ernment And this transformation Of the
family viewpoint, of our national life.
must come through women. Instead OF
81 must have" we must learn to say.
"I do not need" For there is so little
that we really need. so much that we can
give to a world which calls as It has
never called before!
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
"May Day" Strikes?

Germany is harried by a new
shadow stalking in her path, disaffec-
ton among the, ,undernourished labor
ing class and the radical Socialist ele-
ment. Today a widespread strike in
all her industries, including muni-
tons, may break out.
There has been no more seductive
form of mental dissipation these past
two years than speculation about in
ternal conditions in Germany. Even
visitors, expert observers, returning
from Berlin differ so radically in the
stories they tell that it is evident they
have no exact knowledge of the COM
plex factors now operating to affec,
the magnificent war organization oi
Germany.
Therefore we will venture nc
prophecy about the so-called MAY
Day" strike which may, or may not
cause CONSERVATION in Germany this
week. That a round one-third of the
German population, under the goad oi
hunger and poverty, are now on the
edge of state of desperate antag,
onism and rebellion to the Prussiar
war policy we have no doubt
Whether this rebellion will eveI
break out into an open flame until
confidence has been undermined ir
the military power is a matter o!
doubt.
The most hopeful sign, from the
point of view of Germany's enemies
is the consummate efforts she is
making to have any information re.
garding the internal conditions of the
empire leaking out to neutrals. The
State Department made public q
statement yesterday showing the ex,
tent of these efforts. 1t is now ap,
parent, also, but the war office is
not telling the full truth to the people
about conditions on the western
front, in Russia, or about the full
significance Of the entrance of the
United States into the war.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
IN MEMORY OF ADMIRAL DEWEY

By L. E. GASKIN.
1t Is May again! How the time speeds
by
It was nineteen years ago
That our squadron sailed from old Hong
To crush the Spanish foe.
And we steadily steamed on southwark
TIN
We came at the dawn Of May.
Where Montyo boasted \ dozen ships
Within Manila Bay.
An peaceful and fair the water spread,
And the Spaniards sunen lay;
But the silence was shattered when
Dewey's guns
Doomed out aeros the bay.
ITO capture or sink our orders were,
And our courage rose fast and hiTh
As the Commodors led to the bloody fray
Determined to do or die
Whenever you're ready. Grizzly, Fire, =
he said,
And sudden and swift and true
Tue reply was given as shot and shall
At the naughty foemen flew.
And the water that dawn had seemed 30
Ere noon we're wreckage rnarred.
For over a thousand foes were dead
And their ships Of battle SCARED.
Tns Olympia led i've ships OF war.
Toward the guns on the Island shore
The Petrol, the Concord and Boston, too.
The Raleigh and Baltimore
Only nve ships. but lighting men
We're behind their every gun
And ere the sun had risen mast-high.
The battle was fought and won.
So whenever comes round again the day
That settled the spaniards' fate.
Our hearts are stirred to a quicker pace
At the memory Of %.
50 here's to the AdmiraPs memory
And the glorious FIRST OF May,
And the Navy whose guns Ia triumph
sopke
Across Maana s.ss
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01

government, anxious only to aid it
to the fullest extent, but at the same
time by collective strength to get
what it feels its members should
rightfully receive at the hands of
Congress and the Executive.
Without attempting to pass judg-
ment one way or the other on the
issues between the street railway
company and its striking employees,
it would seem, that the strongest ar
gument in the answer of the COM
pany, is not its statement that they
have insisted that men forswear or
ganization.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01

Out in Des Moines, Iowa, a school
teacher asks her class of twenty-four
who is the biggest man in the United
States. Nineteen of the children an
swered President Wilson, two an
swered Theodore Roosevelt, one John
D. Rockefeller, one Jess Willard and
one youhgster replied he had not been
to the circus. Which is evidence that
history in the making has not yet
yielded the Young America mind
of Iowa to the real of sport and saw
dust ring.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01

Former Governor Foss, of Massa-
chusetts, has travelled under every
political banner but that of the
Socialists. At present he is under the
Prohibition banner, and his former
Democratic colleagues in the House,
particularly from New England, indi-
cate that they find his arguments for
nationwide prohibition dry in every
sense of the word.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
OFFERS HANGARs FOR NAVY.

New York, April 3O.-The Aero Club of
America announced today that w. Earl
Dodge, of this city, who has been con-
Quoting at his own expense aviation
camps for college men at Newport, r.
l., and Jacksonville. Fla, has offered to
build three steel aeroplane hangers at
any of the naval aviation stations the
government may select. Rear Admiral
ukhar accented thk offer.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01

A public health service expert of
Boston who apparently is a student
of mathematics figured out the fol-
lowing table to show how flies multi
ply: May I. One fly lays 40 eggs
and its progeny by mathematical pro-
gression is on August 28 of the same
year, 4,355564, ,67z, ,ooo, ,ooo, ,ooo, 900 flies.
Moral: Swat the fly. It's easier than
to have his great, great, great, grand
children.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01

Chicago Housewives Knead
Bread" says headline. Undoubted-
ly, with a bakers strike that creates
a shortage of 10000 loaves a day.
They knead it, as it were, because
they need it.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01

The Department of Commerce plans
for increasing the supply of tin cans
does not necessarily mean that the
administration hopes to tie few on
to the members of Congress who have
opposed the preparedness plans.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01

. 1t looks as though II years will be
the conscriptionable age limit when
the conferences between House and
Senate are over. But those over II
who are anxious to go still can vol
unteer.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
tCOwdght ls1.l

Glad to see that the other news
papers discovered that the Aztec gun
ners had arrived in town. Just three
days late, comrades.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01


MAY.
May all beguiling
Comes In smiling.
Her beaming face
Bespeaking grace;
The trees all drest
In Springtime's best;
And everywhere
The scented air
To hint of flowers
And rosy bowers,
The heart to Ill
With rapturouS thrill.
All. Soul Of Mine,
This gift divine
In sunny days
And floral ways
Should be the chart
To guide the heart
From storm and stress
To kindliness!
tcOVydght lsrl
The Washington herald., 1917-05-01
Did You Know ThatI

A clam never talks, barks or bites.
Garter snakes are not popular with the
ladies.
Electricity often shocks one with its
sparkling ways.
Gas meters sometimes tell the truth.
You have to have rife to shoot the
bull"