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The Washington times., 1917-10-02
By Aunt Sophie.

NY husband dear he dweIls In fear
That some fine day I'll up and
leave him.
Although / love my Turtle Dove
And for the world would not de-
ceive him.
Perhaps the club at which he
lunches
IL where he gets them foolish lunches"
bruSque.
. NUS sings Mrs. ArabelIa Bling
Of Binghamton. n. 7. am
afraid that though she has
asked me to comfort her am going
TO find II a hard job. for her letter
shows that she has a very sus-
p.cIous nature. and old Aunt Sophis
knows these suspicious women, haE-
ing been one Of them herself in the
dear, dead years OF her married en-
tang ement
The mere fact that she says her
husband Is suspicious shows me
that she IL OF a suspicious nature
herself, and this ! know anyway
from the rest OF her letter. which
Is hlled with dissatisfaction and q
few dabs OF discomfort thrown I'm.
Oh, you matrons! Can't old Aunt
Sophie 1r"r make you relish your
married happiness while you have
Il: Must be forever warning you
to hang onto what bliss you now
possess rather than to ny to fuses
that you know not OF? What you
all need 10 q good spanking. and
Aunt Sophie is likely 10 give you
one verbally. even II she can't reach
you in person.
All OF us girls-for We we're al!
Eirls once-used TO dream OF the
gent that would walk tu'o our lives
The Washington times., 1917-10-02
Some Historic Pens

,ther deliberately prepared golden
pen. presented to the Chancellor by
a South German admirer-a pen now
in the Bismarck Museum at Schon-
hansen.
In the museum at the French Min
istry of Foreign Affairs reposss. as
the result OF the action of NJ.
Pichon, the pen with which Mr.. Nc
KinIey and N. Cambon signed at
Washington, on August IL, 1898. pre-
liminaries of peace arranged be-
tween the United States s1d Spain.
Vienna boasts the possession of the
pencil with which NAPOLEON I.
marked the localities OF coming
battles during the Austrian cam
paign.
Other pens OF international re-
nown are treasured by the Empress
Eugene and the family OF Lord
Bangor. That in the keeping of the
Empress was used by the fourteen
plenipotentiaries who signed the
Treaty Of Paris. In 1856. l. was
made from a quill Of a golden ca
giles wing. and Is richly mounted
with diamonds and gold The
Bangor quill-pen was used by
the high contracting Powers in
signing the Treaty OF Vienna.
For ordinary persons the great
drawback to quill pens is the con-
slant mending they require Alex
ander |. OF Russia found II essential
to engage a servant for the sole
The Washington times., 1917-10-02

Jonathan HaFkeF, n London so
letters clerk, takes long
Journey to BukoWIna TO see Count
DraeuIa and arrange for the
transfer of an English estate to
the Count. In his diary. kept In
shorthand, he gives the details of
his strange trip, the latter part
allied with mysterious and thrill
Ing happenings. Upon his arrival
at Castle DraeuIa he II met By
the Count and Ands himself Vir-
tuaIly a prisoner. TIE castle t.
self II q place Of mystery with
doors all barred, and no servants
10 be seen. The Count Ereets him
warmly, but his strange Derson-
The Washington times., 1917-10-02
PART I-(COnttnued)
DIR. SEWARD'S DIARY.
-(Kept in phonoEraph)

(Kept in photography
May 25-Ebb tide in appetite today
Cannot eat, cannot rest, so diary instead
Since my rebuff OF yesterday / have q
sort Of empty feeling; nothing In the
world seems OF sufficient Importance 70
be worth the doing. As knew
that the only cure for this sort OF thing
was work. went down amongst the
patients. 1 picked out one who has az
forded me a study Of much interest He
is so quaint in his mind to understand
him as well as 1 can. Today 1 seemed
to get nearer than ever before to the
heart OF his mystery.
I questioned him more fully than
had ever done, with a view to making
myself master Of the facts OF his hal
lucination. In my manner OF doing II
there was, now see. something OF cruel
ty. ] seemed to wish to keep him to
the point Of his Madness thing which
avoid with the patients as 1 would
the mouth Of hell
Mem, under what circumstances
would not avoid the pit Of hell?) ON
mia Romae venaIia stunt Hell has Its
price verb. sap. II there be anything
behind this instinct 1t will be valuable
to trace It afterward accurately, so
had better commence to do so, there
fore
r. N. Renheld. etat 5s.-sanguine
temperament; great physical strength
morbidly excitable periods of gloom,
ending in some fixed idea which cannot
make out l presume that the sanguine
temperament itself and the disturbing
influence end in a mentally accomplished
finish; possibly dangerous man. prob
ably dangerous II unselhsh. In selfish
men caution is as secure an armor for
their foes as for themselves. What
think OF on this point Is. when self is
the fixed point the centripetal force is
balanced with the centrifugal; when
duty, a cause, etc, Is the fixed point. the
latter force is paramount. and only ac-
cident or a series Of accidents can bal
ance II
Letter, Quincy p Norris to Hon. Arthur
Holm1ood.
% May.
Ny dear Art
We've told yarns by the campfire in
he prairies; and dressed one another's
wounds after trying a landing at the
MarQuesaS: and drunk healths on the
bore Of Titicaca. There are more yarns
% be told, and other wounds to be heal
d. and another health TO be drunk.
Won't you let this be at my campfire
tomorrow night? I have no hesitation
asking you. as l know a certain lady
IS engaged to a certain dinner party,
and that you are free.
There will only be one other, our old
pal at the Korea. Jack Seward. He's
-oming, too. and we both want to min
lie our weeps over the wine cup, and TO
rink a health with all our hearts to
he happie5t man in all the wide world.
who has won the noblest heart
that God has made and the best worth
winning. We promise you a hearty
welcome, and a loving greeting. and a
ealth as true as your own right hand.
We shall both swear to leave you at
ZONE IL you drink too deep to a GER
tain pair of eyes. Come.
Yours. as ever and always.
QUINCY p. MORRIS"
Telegram from Arthur HOLLYWOOD to
0uIncey p. Morris.
&C May.
Count me in every time. ! bear
messages which will make both your
ears tingle. ART"
The Washington times., 1917-10-02
Advice to the Married

IN some glad day In the early tu.
ture. and what one of US ever
dreamed in those days that we
would distrust the man we picked
for n mate?
How beautiful Is the faith Of
youth, and what a shame It IL that
Fate has to come along and give
that faith q kick In the shins. II
Aunt Sophie may employ so brusk
a term.
Mrs. BinE. OF BinnEhamton, IL to be
pItied II her husband IL OF Jealous
nature. but perhaps It IL only soms
braInless little action Of hers that
has started him on q crouch. Us
girls can be trusted to go along
smoothly about 80 many hours In
row, and then. somshow. We get
peeved and nervous and even hys-
terIcal, and then we begin to i'm
aglne all sorts OF impossible things.
And then, too often, We begin
doing little thouEhtless. crude
things, such as calling the attsn-
ton OF our husbands to a picture or
q plate BY the simple process OF
throwing II at his head. That should
not be, girls. and yet II has been.
Is and may continue until the end
OF time. for all Aunt Sophie knows
10 the contrary.
Mrs. BinE, try to instill faith into
your husband. the faith that was
his when he put on his store suit
and led you to the altar. II he 10
sssailed b. doubts, asSail him with
someth' hE else for a change. II he
in Jealous OF you II Is because he
thinks Others see the beauty he sees
in lou. other men may lack his
magination. and probably do lacl
il, " YOU look anything IKE the
photo } UIr enclosed.
The Washington times., 1917-10-02

A BOY and girl bent dnriousLy over
n strange looking combination of bicycle
and balloon. Since the afternoon the
eagle had startled them by its sWooping flight.
they had become close friends. A year had
passed. The boys bright brain had been busily
engaged scitk his scheme for flying.
Doris, whose father, wedLthy lumbermdn,
os0ned hundred miles of the forest, had been
his constGnt companion. She loved his crude in
Uention as though it iOere her oWn. In hun
dred CGys she helped him, but most of all by the
boundIeSs faith she had in him Her parents
The Washington times., 1917-10-02
What Reading Can Do for You

Combat physical fatigue by sit
ting quietly and comfortably scan
ming the pages that will revivify
your wearied body.
When lonesomeness affllcts YOU,
when Inconsistencies darkens every
minute. when the day appears to be
the darkest, seek the comradeship
of a cheering light-hearted volume
that brings laughter into your life.
When sleep does not attend you
and the terror of long night sur
rounds you. pick up the heavy VOL
ume that puts you to sleep every
time you try to read q chapter
Make your reading Mt your mood
when you are happy. and the world
Is all sunshine.
Bend your mood to your book
when 1t has the happier impulses.
The Washington times., 1917-10-02
RemOdeling the Fall Suit

becoming, and for this there IL .
stunning striped serge. The plaits
are laid in to make the skirt appear
black, but revealing the white
strIpe when the wearer is in mo
tion. These skirts, too. are very
simple, consisting merely OF .
straight piece hemmed and plated
and finished with belt.
There are busy girls who ind that
while the plated skirts are wonder
TuIIv smart. they are not practical
from a pressing viewpoint, and
what Is so untidy as a wrinkled
plated skirt?
A perfectly plain tailored skirt 10
The Washington times., 1917-10-02
BY Ira S. Vile. Nj. d.
tAHsoetate Editor American Medicine
and Member New York City
Board Of EdueatIon.D

(AHsOciate Editor American Medicine
and Member New York City
Board Of EdueationJ
W on are q reader.
You read the daily papers.
u the magazines. books.
You go to them for news. for
knowledge, for recreation, for in
spiration. for consolation. for COM
partnership.
Would you be content IL deprived
Of the comfort. Joy and sense OF
rest they afford you?
Your eyes unlock the world of
literature, of romance, adventure,
science, history. current events.
Mental vigor must supplement a
strong body.
The needs of the mind are as i'm
portant as those of the body.
You exercise to develop your
heart, lungs, and muscles.
You read, think. discuss. ponder,
imagine. write. to give your brain
cells greater facility in action.
Read for mental exercise.
Find yourself in books. and lose
yourself in books.
Divert your mind from oppressive
worries by busying It In an inter
SstinE article. q humorous story. an
essay, q novel. . book OF poetry. a
historical romance-sye. Q daring
detective story.
The Washington times., 1917-10-02

Do you enjoy an emotional bath
that strains your sympathies and
pulls at your heartStrinEs?
Do you prefer virile activity? Do
you look for merrlment? Do you
wish a verbal cross section of life
Do you seek sane. healthful read
inE7
Do you crave the morbid. the de-
generate, the frivolous, the heavy
or the soEgy literature as a regular
diet?
A mixed dietary Is safest and sd-
vRntageous for your physical
growth and the maintenance n
power.
Satisfy your Intellectual hunger.
and your capacity for living is In
creased.
Rest, rejoice. read:
The Washington times., 1917-10-02

Upholstery COUers for the Baby Carriage
THE appearance of baby carriage will be improved by
pque slipcovers made to button to the upholstery
These should be cut to fit the lines of the carriage
and may be hand-scaIoped They are readily removable
easily washed and make the carriage look trim and clean
From Good Housekeeping
The Washington times., 1917-10-02
Threading Single Thread Machine

2 ~ CItItitS U CtItYIo- 4 TT oNttE1'1UOItt'tC
HERE is time-saving way of threading up single
"A thread sewing machine Break the thread off at the
SPOOL leaving the machine threaded up tie the thread of
the spool to the end that broken off and pull
toward the needle break the old thread Off thread the
through the needle and you ready to sewFro Coco
HouSekeepin1.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-03

New Edition of "The Story of France" by
Thos E. Watson. Just off the press. Two
volumes, $3.50 the set. Handsomely bound,
gilt tops gilt lettered. This book is regarded
as standard by the French readers and schol-
ars. The Jeffersonan Publishing Company,
Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-03

Read Gone Hundred and Two Reasons
that forced Roman Catholic priest to quit
Romanism. In '1he Fourth Degree Oath of
the Knights of Columbus" 1Oc postpaid.
The Jeffersonan Publishing Company, Thorn
son, Georgia.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-03
THE .JEFFERSONIAN
PAGE THREE

Tor her own selfish purpose IN that direction.
Benstorf has accepted the diplomatic post,
at the little court of Sweden. in order that
he may keep his delicate finger on Robert
Lanslng's futtering pulse through the ne,,-
t1a1 Smedish minister, at Washington.
Bernstorf IS master of craft. and he
mesmerlzed' hypnOtized, and monkeyized
poor Mr.. Lansing, until it was infinitely
amusing to locker on in Vienna
And Bernstorf's play with our Robert and
Woodrow is not near finished, vet.
Neoer before acas Conscyiption denanded,
IN this country, AT TIE VERY BEGINNING OF A
WAR
AS you know very well. the Revolutionary
War lasted Seven years, and it was mainly
fought by r0zuntcers. g
Why, then. has such a sudden deIuge of
contempt been loosed upon the volunteer sys-
tenn?
Why not gioe it fair tyiaz2
The enemy is not in the gate. No nyad-
ing foot violates our soil. No army with BAN
ners IS marching against us. No 5nlmediate
peril threatens u.s.
Why all this clamor for CONSUMPTION?
Why all this daily paper hubbub?
You'd think that Hindenbergs German
hosts were Strengthening folks in New York,
and coming ahead. this way, for another
march to the sea.
President Madison didn't call for conscrp-
ton, when he declared war in 1912: President
Polk didn't. in 1913: President Lincoln did
not IN 1861. nor did President Jefferson Da-
Wis.
President Mckinley did no: demand Con-
scrptlon For the Spanish war in 1898, and
even President Roosevelt, with his radical
views on Military Preparedness, never ven
tured hint toward CONSUMPTION.
f,0 at 1oYO
it is morally wrong for the President and
Congress to force war upon 1T.
If the country does want war, there will be
volunteers in plenty.
To my mind, there is something funddmcq-
tally wrong undemocratic. unconstitutional,
and un-Amercan--in forcing hundreds of
thousands of young Americans to cross the
ocean, and NEEDLE with foreign fight
What have we to gain, by the loss of half
ambition of our best young men?
What will be the compensation for the
bloody sacrifice?
rs rational creatures. we should put that
question to ourselves, and to those in high
office
Surely, our Navy can defend our rights
upon the worlds waters, that belong to all
mankind.
Surely. our Army ought not to be used for
the revolutionizing of foreign governments.
Our Government was not established for
any such purpose.
The Fathers made this Republic upon the
foundation of intelligent self-nterest, not
chimerical altruism and fantastic Don
QulX0tlsm.
AS plainly as words can convey it. the
meaning Of our Constitution is. that ace ariW
stich 10 orr 0r0 business end let other nari6ns
stich to theirs.
That's the gist of the advice of George
Washington. Benjamin Franklin. Alexander
Hamilton. James Madison. and Thomas Jer-
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OUR FOREIGN WAR, BY
ADOPTION.
Do You Want Your Son Killed in Europe
in Quarrel That You Have Nothing
To Do With?
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

wife, and III other peaceful American tour
lists, on the Lusitania: she torpedoed Mr..
Rockefeller's oil-tank, The GmtEiQht and
killed three American citizens she murdered
an American consul, on his way to his post in
Asia: she murdered Americans on board the
SUSSEX and the Ar0b5c: she assassinatod our
travellers in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic,
the Adrlatlc, and the Irish Seas: she bombed
our SHIPS In our own ports; dynamited our
plants, on our own soil; and murdered scores
Of American wage-earners, men, women, and
children.
But she did all Of THIS before the November
election!
Is it not so? Think it over.
The immediate lieutenants of the German
ambassador were the immediate instigators
Of the crimes against American plants and
laborers; and everybody felt morally certain.
that the Ambassador was an accomplce-as
our Government now Virtually charges
But didn't the Government know this. at
the time 1t required the Ambassadors lieu
tenants to quit the country?
Ambassador Bernstorf was not accused.
not arrested, not dismissed-no!
AT the very time when public opinion held
him guilty of arson and murder, he was the
favored guest Of the Government.
Instead of being arrested and ordered to
JAIL he was courted and invited to dinner.
Is it not SO! 1t Is so; and no man can DENY
1t.
What has Germany done to us, since the
November election?
That's the question.
Undress the Presidents AddyeSs. and get
at the Real Thing.
Take off its academic clothes, and gaze
upon the nah.ed facts, TIE ACTUAL CAUSE OF
WAR!
When you do that, the shrinkage is i'm
mense.
Fine feathers makes fine birds: but when
million men are called forth by Caesar, to
60 far away into strange lands-to march
and suffer and fight and die-those men who
salute their Caesar, as they 80 to die, should
at least know what it is that calls them cut of
life; and the fine phrases Of Presidential
Address are not soul-satisfyis:g.
1t is an accepted principle, of law and
common sense, that a wrong. deliberately
cond0ned-When the person wronged is in
full possession of all the facts and is free to
act-cannot be afterwards pleaded.
The tree must lie where it fell
Therefore, the President violates an ac-
cepted principle, when he digs up causes of
war older than November. 1916.
Since then what have been the provoca-
tives, different from what went before!
You can't name them. Nobody can. THEY
DO NOT EXIST.
Two weeks ago, called your attention to
the fact that Germany seemed to be oooidjng
attacks upon our shipping.
Germany has evidently ordered her
U-boats to keep out of our waters.
IOooCpf hot
Last week, she sank SIS British vessels. and
one of ours, although many Of ours passed
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-03


may differ among themselves, in details of
doctrine they have never adopted laws Of
persecution and murder: there is not Pro
testant church that ever did invent inst1u-
meeqats OF torture, dungeons of horror, and
27t2k0b OF assassination at the burning stake
That's our "contention"
AS to our unrest" we are restless as
the ocean; as restless as the winds are, and as
the eternal forces of Nature are: we are as
restless as Life; and to Hve, we must be rest
less, since stagnation Is death.
What the Roman church most fears, is the
independent thinker what she strives for. in
her system of education, is, to prevent the
cheatd from learning tthe secret Of indepemd-
emit thimhmg.
Rome loves the motionless mind the brain
that never stirs in its clerical shroud, the
faith that never inquiries
PROFESSIONALISM GLoR1Es IN BEING JUST TIE
REVERSE OF THAT
Professionalism calls upon you to read think.
and believe, lnte11Sgentzy: it thirsts for no
mans blood: it censors no mans library: it
organizes no oath-bound, Dark-lantern socie-
ties; it seeks no supremacy over the State:
1t does not make another Deity out of Mary:
it does not paganize itself with the poly
theism of Saint-worship; and it does en-
deavor to penallze the circulation of anti
Protestant literature; nor IS Its Moral The
0t0gy too obscene to be mailed.
Brother Harbord further asserts that the
Catholic church teaches every truth taught
by the Protestant churches, and n1ony Others,
besides!
Then he is a Catholic at heart, and should
not remain in the Christian church.
But can he name the many vital truths
taught by Romanism, and not by Protestant
ism?
ipvite him to do it.!
The Protestant churches teach, that saliva
ton is won by repentance faith, and baptism:
if the Roman church teaches this, it has
changed radically, since L'ltner's split with
it, on that very question.
The Roman church teaches that all infants
and children unbaptized, 60 to hell do the
Protestant churches teach that?
The Roman church teaches-and practices
it, too-that person who is unconscious, and
incapable Of mental participation IN the act,
may be converted to Christ and baptised unto
salvation do the Protestants teach that?
The Roman church has an inexhautble
gold called Purgatory, filled with ua-
quenchable fires in which near-lost souls are
broiling; and these souls can be liberated by
paid for prayers and sent to heaven redeemed
an DIRE oiclng: do the Protestant churches
teach that?
The Roman church teaches that one priest
is God earth, and infallible; and that
every priest has the power Of Christ in tie
confessional, to hear the penitent and forgive
his sins: do the Protestant churches teach
that?
To my mind, one of two things is certain:
either this Harbord brother has never studied
Romanism, or he misunderstands Protestant
ISM
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-01
Republicans Show Loss.

Unofficial figures compiled following
the recent registration in Frederick coun-
ty, show a slight reduction in the Repub-
Iican majority in this county, according
to statement of Joseph F. Eisenhauer,
president of the Board of Supervisors of
Elections.
Mr.. Eisenhauer said he believed that
from the figures he has thus far COM
piled. with the result in certain districts
unofficial the Republican majority had
dropped from 1899 to about ITS,
There are now l3,SO4 registered voters
in Frederick county, Mr.. Eisenhauer said,
of which 1,345 are negroes. During the
past year the Progressive party vote
gained slightly in registration.
The declined voter still holds the bal
ance of power, making large gain, or
from 1876 a year ago to 364 now. This
independent vote will in all likelihood de-
eide the election, as the difference in the
affiliated vote of the two principal part
les is so slight that the declined voter
holds the balance of power.
There are 66 voters allied with the
Prohibition party. The Progressive
strength stands at 80 and the Socialists
have affiliated 155.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-11-01
Postal Profits $9,OOO,O 900.

Postmaster-General Bureson announc-
ed that receipts for the fiscal year end
ing last June exceeded expenditures by
So, S36, 21l, which represents the largest
surplus ever made by the Postoitice De-
partment in the history of the Govern
ment. The actual auditing account for
the last fiscal year was completed Mr..
Burleson turned into the Federal Treas
ury the sum of SO, 900, 900 for general use
of the Government.
Only twelve times since the Postofiice
Department was established has there
been surplus turned into the Treasury.
In 1918, after the parcel post was estab-
lished, the surplus began to grow, it be-
ing SO, 900, 600 and the same amount in
1914, and in 1916 1t jumped to S., 900, 600.
When Mr.. Burleson became Postmast-
er-General he set out to eliminate waste
that would not impair the efficiency OF
the postal service Many of his acts
have met with criticism from politicians
in Congress, but he has succeeded in
making the Postoffice Department self
supporting.
There is another side to the big postal
receipts. They are regarded as the best
index of all the Government agencies as
to the prosperity of the nation and the
record d-breakng surplus also indicates a
record- -hreak inp nrOsDeritV