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Evening journal., 1917-12-14

The Want Ads win help those looking
for a partnership ia business. They
favor the exchange Of household goods.
the selling OF large mercantile busi-
nesses and the renting OF stores and
offices.
Evening journal., 1917-12-14

abdicate in your favor. The great key
Of hell will be turned over TO you. The
gayel That has struck the doom Of
damned souls since time began Is yours
ann satisfied with what I have done
mat my abdicatlon in your father is
Tor the very best interests OF helm
Evening journal., 1917-12-14
At the Linen Counter

FIeey choosw whhou Hnh the onowfng.
Damasbs the yard $3.50 $500 yard
in all the for
eh
ma RAJ in price
25c to each.
Carving 75c 5each.
Luh OandS4 Oeach
Round and square DoyEe in Sizes.
lace trimmed o
each
DoyIe IS and
Embroidered Madeira Lunch Napkins $3.50 $3.50 and $1,000 dozen
o Towes and
Evening journal., 1917-12-14

In the Want Ads lost articles NAV
be recovered and opportunities for bet
ter work are advertised daily.
Evening journal., 1917-12-14

the future J am at your maiesty's SER
vice.
"LUCIFER II. SATAN"
Evening journal., 1917-12-14
In the Bedding Section

fomo
Blankets for ee-quater OOandupw
pair sndu upwnr
oton-6le Condortab
Comfort
ncovered doW-nfIe Comfo
Ikcovered wooL6ne led Comfort
n dome n White Spreads
Evening journal., 1917-12-14
NeCkWear

There shown here ample stocks Of the following:
Real handm Spanish lace Scas, bo tn black and white
Plain Crepe evening Scarfs.
Pompadow Crepe evening Scarfs.
Wndsors and Crepe Silk Bows, 25c an d soc.
Hand-embroidered Collars, SOC to $3.50 each.
Collar and Cuff Sets, SOC to S4.50
Chemisettes, S1.25 to $500 each.
Lace Collars, soc to $3.50 each.
Corsage Bouquets, 25c to $3.50.
Evening journal., 1917-12-14

Sewing Boxes.
Sewing Cases.
Manicure Cases.
Jewel Boxes.
Game Sets.
Score Cards.
Writing Cases.
Many Velvet Bags also shown.
Evening journal., 1917-12-14
In the Garment Section

is selections be made the onowng
Goats,
Flu I'm
da7ur.
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THE JAZZ BAND.

A strange word has gained wide
spread use in the ranks of our pro-
ducers of popular music. 1t is "jazz,"
used mainly as an adjective descrip-
tive of a band. The group that plays
for dancing, when colored, seem in
fected with the virus that they try to
instil as a stimulus in others. They
shake and jump and writhe in ways
to suggest return of the medieval
jumping mania. The word, according
to Walter Kingsley, famous in the
ranks of vaudeville, is variously
spelled jas, jass, JAZZ, jazz, jasz and
jascZ; and is African in origin Laf-
cadio Hearn, we are told, found the
word in the creole patois and idiom
Of New Orleans and reported that it
meant speeding up things The
creoles had taken it from the blacks,
and applied it to music of "a rudi-
mentary syncopated type In the
New York Sun, Mr. Kingsley re-
hearses many of, the curious facts and
customs associated with the word:
In the old plantation days, when
the slaves were having one of their
rare holidays and the fun languished,
some West Coast African would cry
out, JAZZ her up, and this would be
the cue for fast and furious fun. No
doubt the witch doctors and medicine
men on the Congo used the same term
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UNDERWRITERS

never cared to run about and play
with the other children, but followed
his adopted father about the fields
trying his tiny best to help.
And though they had been SO very
poor before, now everything seemed
to come their way. They were point
ed out as the luckiest people in that
part of Japan. When their dear boy
was eighteen years old they made a
birthday feast for him, but although
the old couple were now rich enough
to feed the whole country if they had
wished, the lad asked that the feast
be just for themselves.
When it was over, he rose and said:
Dear parents, you have made me
very happy, but | Am, as you know,
not your child, but the child of the
thunder, and the time has come when
l must go back to my own. May you
always be happy as kind hearts de-
serve to be-
And then where he had stood was
a little white mist that f1oated out of
the door and grew and grew until it
was a tiny cloud before it reached the
top of the mountain, where it melted
into another snowy white cloud.
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BLACK FRIDAYS.
Catholic Press

Several of the great financial pam
les of the past have commenced on
a Friday, and this has given rise to
one of the pet superstitions of the
stock exchanges and bourses of the
world-that the sixth day of the week
is fraught with ill omen for those en-
gagged in financial operations.
The original 'Black Friday" occur
red Dec. 6, 1745, in London. On that
date tidings reached the metropolis
that the pretender, Bonnie Prince
Charley, had reached Derby with his
forces. Londoners Immediately made
preparations to fly from the city, and
a panic prevailed. 1t was ON that oc-
casion that the Bank of England had
it's closest call in its long history. The
citizens were anxious to take their
money with them, and the Bank of
England was besieged by an army of
depositors. The bank escaped bank
ruptcy only by the expedient of plac-
ing dummies" in the line to impede
genuine depositors, and by paying
bona fide depositors in small coins,
thus consuming much time.
The first BLACK Friday" of later
day financial history was in 1866 and
was due to the failure of one. Of Lon
don's largest banking honses Three
years later Wall street had Black
Friday, due to an attempt to engi-
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GROCERIES


Having seen the cat trying to catch
birds, the lamb amused all who saw
him trying to capture sparrow. The
lamb would crouch close to the
ground and creep closer and closer to
the bird, which always darted away
just as he was ready to pounce down
upon it.
The keeper who has brought up the
two animals together and who tells
the story of the remarkable lamb in
sists that it arches it's back when
angry, just like it's pussycat friend
What will happen to the lamb whom
it is too old to be a pet and has to
go back into the field with the staid
and quiet sheep who live there? No
doubt the other sheep will not know
what to make of it and it's queer
pussycat ways.
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at those jungle parties when the
tomtoms throbbed and the sturdy war;
riors gave their pep an added kick
with rich brews of Yohimbin bark
that precious product Of the Kan
eruns.
Cautiously enough the phrase JAZZ
her up is a common one today in
vaudeville and on the circus lots.
When vaudeville act needs ginger
the cry from the advisers in the
wings is put in JAZZ, meaning add low
comedy, go to high speed and acce.
lerate the comedy spark. 'Jasbo' is
a form of the word common in the
varieties, meaning the same as
'hokum,' or low comedy verging on
vulgarity.
"Jazz music is the delirium trem
ems of syncopation. 1t is strict
rhythm without melody. Today the
jazz bands take popular tunes and rag
them to death to make jazz. Beats
are added as often as the delicacy
of the players ear will permit. In
one-two time a third beat is inter
polated. There are many half notes
or less and many long-drawn, waver
ing notes. 1t is an attempt to repro
duce the marvellous syncopation oil
the African jungle.
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"CAMOUFLAGE."

If there is one word more battling
than another in the war lingo that
Americans have now quickened in
terest in mastering that word is
"camoufiage." Probably the answers
to the question, What does camou-
f1age mean?" would be as varied as
the answers. But the word-pro-
nodnced "'kom-oo-flah-zhe" = conveys
volumes to the military man,
Camoufage means primarily making
something look like nothing It means
generally the art of fooling the enc
my's eyes.
The moving pictures of the British
tanks in action shown recently in this
country we'll exemplified the primary
meaning of camoufiage, says the
New York Sum-" The crawling land
ships were covered with streaks and
patches of varicolored paint, repro
ducing light and shadow, to disguise
them from the German airmen or ar
tillery observers. Newspaper readers
seeing pictures of heavy guns covered
by branches behold an example of
camouflage.
Another trick of camoufage is ia
miliar to readers of American history
by the name of Quaker guns. On all
the fronts of the world war all the
armies erect dummy guns made of
tree trunks, as our fathers and grand
fathers did in 1861, to draw the enc
my's fire. But now the camoufage
experts have added the modern frill
of Stimulating flash and cloud of
smoke for the dummy gun by touch
ing off charge of loose powder.
The digging of false trenches that
the hostile airman may spot them and
signal his battery to waste time and
shells on an empty ditch is camou-
f1age.
When snipers crawl into No Mans
Land with grass in their caps, and
when raiding parties go out at night
with faces and hands blackened to
make them as nearly invisible as may
be. their officers call it camouflage.
The American khaki, the color of
earth and dust, is an example of the
same elastic term; SO are the German
field gray and the French horizon
blue. A
But the greatest and perhaps the
least known use of camoufage is to
hide troops advancing in an attack in
daylight This is done by expelling
great clouds of smoke or vapor from
the trenches before the infantry go
over the top. Generally the men wait
until the cloud has settled over the
enemy's trenches, confusing them and
preventing their firing accurately al
the attackers. Sometimes the attack
ing troops leave the trenches with the
| cloud and advance in it's protection.
The varieties of camoufiage are in
| finite Probably the most ancient ex
| ample is the wooden horse of Troy
Any little trick that makes the enem.
see what does not exist, or prevent:
his seeing what does exist, anything
that makes him do something HI
ought not to do is camoufage. IT.
best American synonym is bluff l
| will be interesting to see what nev
varieties of it Americans will invent
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THE THUNDER CHILD.

1t is a fairy tale that Japanese ia
theirs often tell their little ones as
they sit out at evenings beside the
doors of their straw cottages and see
the rice growing in the little fields
above which rises the beautiful noun
tain, which all Japanese love, the
stately Fujiyama.
Once upon time, say the Japanese,
there lived in one of their valleys a
good couple, who, after spending their
lives in hard work, were growing old
without having earned enough to keep
them when they should no longer be
able to toll.
One day the old man was hoeing his
field, when thunderstorm gathered.
1t was only when the rain began to
patter down heavily that he stopped
his work. Just as he turned to the
house there came a terrible crash of
thunder and a bolt of lightning SEEM
ed to strike the ground directly in
dust had cleared away the old man
was amazed to see lying on the ground
dear little rosy checked child.
Delighted, he picked it up and ran
to the cottage, crying:
See, wife, what the storm has left
us!
His wife was not less pleased than
he was, and the little one grew up in
their home tenderly loved and cared
for
He was a wonderfully good boy. He
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THE DAYS RESULT.

Is anybody happier because you pass
ed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke
to him today?
This day is almost over and it's toll
ing time is through;
Is there any one to utter now kind
ly word of you?
Did you give a cheerful greeting to
the friend who came along,
Or churlish sort of ~''howdy" and
then vanish in the throng?
Were you selfish, pure and simple, as
you rushed along the way,
Or is some one mighty grateful for a
deed you did today?
Can you say tonight, in parting with
the day that's slipping fast,
That you helped single brother of
the many that you passed?
Is single heart rejoicing over what
you did or said?
Does a man whose hopes were fading
now with courage look ahead.
Did you waste the day or lose it, was
it we'll or poorly spent?
Did you leave trail of kindness or a
scar of discomfort?
AS you close your eyes in s1umber do
you think that God would say
You have earned one more tomorrow
by the work you did today?
Edgar S. Guest in Detroit Free Press
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HAVE CONFIDENCE.

| believe that some people make fail
ures of their lives by constantly think
ing of the long list of failures behind
them There is no better way of Gre
ating lack of confidence. The other
day l was standing on a corner wait
ing for a tram. Near me were two
girls with their hair still in braids
down their backs. One of the girls
was trying to teach the other to ride
on her bike But the girl who was
being taught seemed hesitating and
afraid, and at last she said:
"Of course, feel afraid. You know
how l tumbled off both yesterday and
the day before when you were trying
to teach me to ride" Then the other
girl said with sharp note of reproof
and disgust in her voice:
ooh, yesterday and the day before.
Why do you want to keep thinking of
what happened yesterday and the day
before? Of course, you are going to
tumble off if you think that you are
| just because you took tumble yester-
day and the day before! . Let what
happened those days go hang! See
what you can do noW" - =.
1t would surely help every woman
| who reads this to make successful the
efforts of today if she, too, would let
the blunders of yesterday and the day
before and all the other days of the
past go hang You want to forget
your failures if you expect future tri-
umphs. Young women starting out in
life for themselves should have the
most abundant supply of that fine as
set we call self-confidence. You will
never get it by remembering the fail
ures of life
The most successful men and wom-
en- of all ages have been those who
have made stepping-stones of their
failures, by putting them under foot
and not allowing them to rise and con
front them with taunts of any kind
Failures sometimes serve the good
purpose of showing us wherein we are
weak and helping us to strengthen the
weak places in character and in abil-
ity. | know a woman who always says
when she makes grievous blunder OF
any kind:
'Well, | will at. least have sense
enough not to be such fool again"
Failures are not bad things. when
they beget determination to acquire
wisdom from them. [ do not think
that we should dwell constantly or
even the great sorrows of life. | know
a woman who has never been known
to smile since her husband died sew
eral years ago. She says that she
feels that she would be showing lacl
of respect for his memory if she lapse(
into merriment. So she keeps hersel
, swathed in black, and says that hel
life is all in the past. Of course, sht
! is a kind of ''wet blanket" no matter
{ where she goes, and no one regards
, her as very welcome visitor. thinl
/ that constant memory of the failure!
of life is the surest way of adding tt
, the failures of the future.
Catholic Press.
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ABILITY AND PERSEVERANCE.

One man says to another in an arti-
Gle in the American Magazine:
Bert" he said, speaking very slow
ly and impressively, 1--WE always made
it rule in business to accept resigna-
tons, and I'm going to accept yours
But I'm going to tell you something,
and you can pass it, on to Anderson
with my compliments. You two young
fellows are in the most dangerous po-
sition of any two young men I know
You have ability, too blamed much
ability. IF you had only a little, so
that you had to sit tight and plug
every minute, you'd be fairly safe.
You'd move along up in business SLOW
ly, but surely, as the fellows ahead of
you died off. But you two are brilliant
It's true you can get your fifty week
whenever you want it. And that
your danger. You will go rolling
around collecting fifty a week here
and fifty week there, and you'll nev-
er stay long enough in one place to
get seventy-five week or a hundred
d WEN VI IWO HuuuIou Weeh. vi,
l know your type! You may not give
me credit for much sense now, but
when was your age I was exactly in
your fix. And l want to tell you that
if / hadn't taken myself by the neck
and forced myself to stay put I'd still
be collecting fifty week as a reporter
on some newspaper instead of pulling
down thirty-one thousand, as I did
last year. With just your brilliancy
and no stability you're worth just
about fifty a week. But it takes more
than brilliance to be worth a really
big job"
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ADAM AND THE sERAPH.

One evening Adam reposed on a
Eden, and his countenance was raised
towards the armament. Then Sc
raph came to him, and said: why
are thy longing eyes fixed so intent
ly on the vault of heaven? What
dost thou desire, Adam"
What could | desire here, in these
habitations of peace?" answered the
father of the human race. But my
eye looks up to the stars which are
glittering on high Then I wish for
the wings of an eagle to rise up to
them, and to behold close to me the
beaming forms"
"Thou hast these WINGS" answered
the. seraph, and touched Adam; then
a deep sleep fell upon him. and he
dreamed, and it seemed to him that
he flew up to heaven.
When he awoke, he looked round,
and wondered to find himself lying
under the tree on the hill. The Sc
raph stood before him, and said:
sWhereon dost thou ponder, Adam?''
Adam answered and said Behold,
I flew up to the vault of the sky,
and lowered among the stars, flying
about Orion, and Arcturus, and the
pleads; radiant worlds, great and
glorious, like the sun, rushed past
me; the white track which thou seest
yonder on high is an ocean of light,
full of cleaning worlds, and over
that sea of glory is another and vet
another. And on these radiant worlds
are beings ike myself, calling upon
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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
A LAMB AND A PUSSY.

Of course you know about Mary's
lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.
Well, could not be sure how white
this lambs fleece was. You see, it
lived in big public park where there
were great many other animals, and
the men who take care of them have
a heap to do.
The lamb | am going to tell you
about was early left little orphan
lambling, and one of the kind-hearted
keepers took it out of the field with
the other lambs and sheep and brought
it up himself.
He had a pet kitten, and soon the
pet lamb and the pet kitten became
great friends, playing together and
cuddling close to one another for
warmth when they took nap. 1t
was very cute to see them.
By and by Kittie became old enough
to go off by herself, while Lambie
could not get out of the little yard
in which he was kept.
He would watch anxiously until his
little friend came back and as soon
as he saw her would jump about and
s'b-a-a-a' with delight. If pussy was
not too tired they would have a game
of tag before she stretched out to
rest after her wanderings or he would
go over tc the plate where her food
had been placed and join her at the
meal. Lambie would eat liver and
fish and seemed to enjoy it. One day
when catnip was given to Kitty he
licked it up with great seeming
relish.
Everything that the cat did the
lamb tried to do. It took some time
for him to learn that he was wasting
time in trying to climb tree.
When pussy took to the business of
mouse and rat catching the lamb
joined her in watching the mouse
holes and, though never able to cap
ture anything, seemed pleased when
his friend did.
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The Central Highlands of Mexico,
comprising some 80 per cent of the
total area, hold a good three-fourths
of the population. The density OF
population in this section is about the
same as that in the middle western
United States. There are some large
farms here, the same as in Illinois or
Indiana. Ii any one were to urge the
confiscation of the large farms in Hill
nois, and their division among the
''landless," he would be called insane,
yet this is the very proposition with
which otherwise sensible Americans
have sympathized when offered as a
pretext for revolution in Mexico.
There are some very large properties
in the northern desert regions of Mex
leo, just as there are very large
properties in the arid sections of
Arizona, Texas, Colorado and other
far western states. A very small
fraction of such properties can be ir-
rigated, and a larger portion can be
used for grazing cattle, but often the
greater portion is good for nothing at
all because cattle can feed only about
so far from water. These properties
are the ones that are offered by the
Mexican "revolutionist' as a pretext
for revolt and he claims that they
should be divided and given to the
"landless." Such a division is an alb
surdity because the greater part is
without water The reality has been
that some Carranza bandit has APP
propriated for himself cattle ranch
with it's bits of irrigable ground.
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WHAT DOES THE FLAG MEAN?

1t is mistake to suppose that when
a business household or private
home gives Old Glory to the breeze,
the manifestation is merely intended
as a defiant assertion of American in
dependence, or as challenge to a
foreign invader who might dare to
think of setting a profaning foot upon
our shores.
The flying flag. is as truly the SYM
Dol of the blessings of peace as it is
the heraldry of warfare. It's place is
over school and factory, or on the
church lawn as appropriately as above
the marching regiment or on the field
of battle. 1t betokens the precious
heritage of the historic past which, in
the ordered processes of social evolu-
ton. has brought our people to the
civilized status America enjoys.
1t is mistake to regard the dis
play of the flag as an invitation to
fight. It's primary function is to serve
as reminder of all that is jeopardized
by fighting. 1t owes it's sacredness in
the eyes of patriots to the precious
ness of human life beneath it's floating
folds, to the equity and the parity
of privilege it denotes. The flag could
not win the loyalty and love of the
populace of America if it waved to
other nations a belligerent signal in
stead of fraternal invitation, the
ruthless propaganda of the might that
makes right, the determination to
force on the world a creed of blood
and fury under the pretext that the
blessings of true civilization woul6
follow in the print of the iron heel.
-PtilddeiDhfa Ledger.
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the Lord, and praising His name. Sc

the Lord, and praising His name. Sc
raph, didst thou guide me yonder?"
This tree answered the seraph,
"has overshadowed thee, and thy
body has rested on this hill But,
behold, Adam, within thee dwells a
seraph, who is able to rise to those
glorious WORLDS and who, the higher
he .soareth, bendeth the knee in deep
er humility before Jehovah. Son of
earth, prize and guard this seraph,
that worldly lusts paralyze not his
flight, to chain him to the earth
The seraph spoke thus and disap-
peared.
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A SONG OF THE ROAD.

/ lift my cap to Beauty,
| lift my cap to Love;
l bow before my Duty,
And know that Gods above!
My heart through shining arches
Of leaf and blossom goes;
My soul triumphant marches
Through life to life's repose.
And | through all this glory
Nor know nor fear my fate
The great things are SO simple,
The simple are so great.
-Li1eiPs LiDtne Age.
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neer a corner in gold. The worst of
all BLACK Fridays" was that of 1873,
when on Friday, Sept. 49,, it seemed
that the whole financial structure of
the world had crumbled into ruins.
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Some Why's and Wherefores.

yond the limit of the readers pa
thence.