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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05

One Of the prominent merchants of
this place has two-year-old grandson
who Is quite popular with everyone
who knows him, and among his ad-
mirers Is minister of the locality.
Recently the minister met the little
boy in the street and accosted him by.
Hello, Old Sport!" The child said
"Lo" and passed on.
The next day the minister came into
the grandfather's store where the lit
tile fellow was with his grandparent.
Seeing the minister he said to him:
"Lo, Ole Port !" The grandfather
heard the boy thus accost the clergy
man and reproved him for his seeming
disrespect OF the cloth, when the little
chap defended himself right masfully
by replying "'E call me ole port"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
Travel to Sea to Spawn.

Ecls spawn in sea, according to all
old authorities, but moderns have been
inclined to doubt It, because no one
had seen them on their travels. Scien-
lists have been on the watch in GeOr-
gia, and sent the following dispatch
recently: millions of eels recently
passed through Flint river on their an
nual pilgrimage to the Mexican gulf,
where they will spawn during the win
ter. They travel entirely at night"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
HiQh Cost of Art.

Mary great composers died poor"
yet they had their chance to econo-
mize. Think of the money they saved
by being able to hear their own music
without paying!'
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
A Suuaestlon.

"Sal, there ought to be some wny
to make the game laws apply to wom-
ems shopping?"
"How do you meanY
"There ought to be some closed sea-
eon for this bargain hunting"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
rue Marriage.

sympathy. reverence, intellectual
equalitt-theee are the foundations OF
Marriage as of the nobler and deeper
forms Of friendship. Look back on our
friendship, and ask: Would 1t have
been what 1t Is without the vivid sym
pathy, which made lis helpful to one
another? Would it have been what II
Is II each had not found something IL
the other which raised and exalted
him? If had not found worth and
truthfuincss and unselffshncss In you.
II you had not found In me (however
myself fall short of it). n striving to
hold up to you the ideal of worth, of
devotion to truth, of faith In truth?
And remember. friendship such MS this
merges In marrlage-it is meet and
right that 1t is so. But the marriaee
must give you in the wife all--ny, 1t
may give thousandfold more than alI
1T takes away In the friend.-J. =.
Cree.
Supcrstitions About the Cat
In Its mental and moral processes.
aloof and mysterious, the cnt has
been regarded since time immemorial
as possessing attributes suggesting the
supernatural. Thus one Is not sur
prised to find 1t favorite companion
Of witches. The Japanese look upon
1t In similar light and one of the
folklore traditions of Nippon relates
to demon cut that returns to earth
once In each generation to kill men,
Der of one of the noble families of
that country-the Neblshima, whose
name Is associated with celebrated
pottery-in revenge for some ancient
slight to the feline tribe. 1t Is n theme
about which more than one japanese
stage play has revoIvcd
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1917-05-05
Young Artist.

Among the paintings displayed last
month In Fifth avenue art gallery
were the water colory Of ten-year-old
girl artist.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Help for Belgium

One tall, handsome boy from South Caro-
lima looked very troubled, so asked him what
was up.
WELL" he said, ~ wish the business was
over SO | could 60 back home. have
been away a good deal, so that haven't been
able to let my mother know where I was"
lie wanted to write private things. and he
dreaded the censor reading them. His censor
was his company commander.
One night spoke at -. There is 80 little
doing for the boys, 50 few smusements in
the evening. that they will collect and listen
to absolutely any one that will come and talk
to them about anything under the sun. They
listen rapturously. At this camp there is no
hut. There is only a tiny little ten. with a
counter and a few supplies they have to sell.
and one or two tables with candles. where the
boys can write in the evenings. We talked
outdoors. stood in front Of table and
this group circled around Indian fashion,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
4 German Soldier

One night | was talking TO two boys while 7
was waiting for a motor car. l turned to the
one on my right, and said:
"Why are you over here How did you
happen TO come? Did you hate the Germans,
or why did you come just?'
Il am German" he said. 81 didn't wait to
be drafted, and when the first call came that
my country needed me I volunteered and
joined at once. | came because I wanted 20
seSTe the United States, and when 90 back
TO my town, if do go back they can't point
to me and say, He didn't answer the volun-
teer call, ne had to be drafted"
looked at the boy. had been astonished
when he said 81 am German" Then 7
realized how very much like a German he
looked, the same characteristics in his face
and the shape Of his head, but believed him
absolutely in what he said. He seemed one
Of the good ones. That evening l watched
him listen to the speaker who had seen some
Of the German methods early In the war. He
listened openly and with great interest, and
lie was one of the first 20 ask questions about
the methods Of his countrymen in this war.
couldn't help feeling sympathy with him.
1t must be hard to have to say you are a Ger
man, to be recognized BY your soldier com.
rades as a German.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
"Shinplasters" Again ?

To relieve the minor coinage shortage,
the government is making drive against
the juvenile savings bank. That recep-
tacle, long an honored symbol of house
hold thrift, is to be put under the ban be-
cause it swallows up a vast quantity of
small change which is now needed for pur-
poses of daily circulation.
In. consequence Of the pinch Of unregu-
lated food prices and the levying Of all
sorts Of odd change war imposts, the de.
mand for minor coins has become acute.
The minis have been unable to supply
enough new pennies, five-cent pieces and
dimes. Nor has the Treasury felt at liberty
to consider the coinage of two-cent pieces
and three-cent pieces, which constituted
an important part Of our Civil War small
currency and which would be Of great con-
venience now.
In order to shave prices successfully q
large variety and volume of small coins
are needed. This was proved by our Civil
War experience. But the subsidiary coin
metals are now scarce and high and the
process Of coinage is costly. Why should
we not take a lesson from the past and
reissue the paper small notes, called "shin
plasters," which supplied deficiencies in
minor currency during the later years Of
the war and after its close? These notes
are easy to print and would undoubtedly
quickly displace metallic small change,
for the American public has always shown
a decided preference for notes over coin.
1t was never reconciled to using the silver
dollar. 1t would probably take kindly at
once to fractional notes, such as the gen.
Grafton which fought the Civil War used.
If small notes, in denominations below a
dollar, should be issued the pressure on
the minis would be lessened and We
might then see resurrection of the two
cent piece and three-cent piece, both of
which would be Of service in our present
struggle to white off margins on the cost
of living.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
on tho floor Of the House and OF indus
trious Chautauqua Circle platitudinizing ne

on the floor OF the House ana Oh iiiuu"
trious Chautauqua Circle platitudinizing ne
won his way to recognition as a near
leader under the Reed, Henderson and
Cannon regimes.
His ideals in politics were low. He was
a perfect product of what might be called
the Mark Hanna school Of political
thought, whose motto was: GIVE Business
a free hand; it will take care of you and
everything else will take care OF itself
Such theory greatly simplifes the task
of the officeholding class, and, according
to Grosvenor's view, holding office was
always the chief end of politicians eX-
istence. He fought civil service reform
with great pertinacity because ne thought
ne needed patronage to secure reelection
His point of view was that so prevalent
during Reconstruction and the second
Grant Administration. No believer in the
capacity Of democracy to rise to high
level Of efficiency in government could
have any patience with Grosvenors polit-
ical creed. But there was touch OF Fall
staffian cynicism and swashbuckling about
his exploitation of it which largely dis
armed criticism. Many who had only con-
tempt for the political immoralities which
ne embraced tolerated him because Of his
accentuated freedom from hypocrisy. lie
was an unconscious low comedy figure, and
Congress will always forgive much to
low comedian.
The comedy days of our political life are
closing. Congress now affects surface
solemnity, not being as yet able to reach
plane of genuine seriousness. And the
country does not take any longer to mines
in public life, even Of the grade Of Allen
and Grosvenor. This is no time for levity
and superficial public service. All our en-
ergies are now bent on infusing real nation
alism and efficiency into a government
which was constructed to repress national
ism and to discourage efficiency. What the
people want of their representatives nova
days is not eccentricity, or humor, or par
tisan fireworks. They prefer the breadth
of mind and the constructive political ca.
pacity which could be neglected for more
snowy and superficial things in the good
old days, when Congress, having much less
serious work to do, could yield far
greater opportunity for the development OF
oratorical advertisement and personal
idiosyncrasy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Blu Helen Hages Gleason

not refuse them, when they had a whole days
work in front Of them and only few min
utes in which to buy some refreshment. We
got the boys to open two or three boxes Of
sweet chocolate and cigarettes; cigars had
been sold and we were without any drinks at
all. We finally brought in three big bottles
of rich undluted grape juice and sold It just
as it was. for We had no water to mix with it,
for franc small cup. Of course, it was a
wicked waste of the grape juice, and il was very
expensive stuff, but you could not refuse
those boys; you couldn't; if you had any
thing there you had to sell it,
4 little later on, We shall, hope, have the
equipment to give them lemonade, grape juice
and ginger ale, as we'll as hot chocolate and
not coffee. They ask for everything, from
watches 70 tooth paste.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
With the Army in France


from my right TO my left. Thos. close up
were in chairs, and then rows ard rows Of
boys stood. They stood quietly ard Hstsnsd
Tor forty minutes. I told them something
shout the year 1914-r5 in Belgium; abou. the
soldiers and the peasants, civilianA Poor
refugees, and last Of al told them abort he
helpless babies there in Belgium, whers
worked with q friend.
At the end OF the forty minutes tray
crowded around and shook hands and began
TO ask questions about these children and
about the civilians in the country.
First one reached over the shoulders 81
the others with some "clackers" in his hsrd
for me, and then another, and another, ed
almost at once my hands were filed With
"clackers," and had to sit down and pss
them in my lap, aad then they began to hl
my lap with Glaciers The five-frane notss
duttercd in, and more "clackers," and big ast
little silver coins held them down. When tbs
rush seemed over started 10 CONT. Some
one offered an electric fsshllght and held II
The sum came to nearly hundred francs
They said, Lets make it hundred An
VtHri utiusc COANbtV, QUO ~ Nos ohe
dred and eighteen francs. "Let's make it
hundred and twenty-five francs, boys some
one called out. "Can you give me fifteen
francs for these twenty francs?' II rose 70
one hundred and thirty, and then 70 one hur'
bred and forty-four francs fifteen centimes.
They tossed in bagsful Of candy and packages
of chewing gum, and one gave a tiny brass
knife, which / shall keep. A boy offered
bag, emptying the candy in his pocket, to
hold the money. They asked questions for
an hour, begging TO be told about the war IN
the early days The question OF atrocities in
terests them very much. They read vaguely
in America about atrocities three years ago
No one believed them, It seems. And only
row they are alive to the fact that atrocities
were committed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
The Best Swearers

They say that there is great deal OF
swearing. Ore man told me, man who has
been through all the other armies, that ne
heard more swearing in our army than he haa
ever heard in any other. And some OF ire
younger secretaries were worried when ! hrs'
came out for fear tho fellows would make
break and il would be embarrassing 81
round with their bad language. But hs
swearing around me has been scarce. ] havs
heard only one or two things, tho same things
you hear your brother and your father say
ard that you might occasionally indulge N
yourself. Having woman around (the see
retaries say this, and the boys soy it. tool |"
a good thing Just having her there Is re-
hinder. think IL takes OF tho hometief
edge bit, and ! think tina, 1t Is good dsn
easier for some OF those young boys to ts"
their troubles TO woman than to tell then
to another boy soldier or boy secretary. -
hope we shall have women workers, level'
headed no. easily shocked, and cheeno'
young women who are willing to mess where
ever they can mess; 10 60 without warn
and comfortable wash; who are willing "
stand up all day. doing nothing, II necessary
TO tramp through the rain and so with MUDDY
feet and chilly fingers without "renigging
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
The war has become a

nerves would win. The war has become a
question of nerves. 1t has become a ques-
ton Of endurance. If we will to win now
we shall win. We have all the advantages
which greater strength and greater num-
bers and greater resources can give. The
battle has become one between souls and
spirits. The German will may conquer
where the German army has failed: but if
it does not, the end of the war is in sight.
Our soldiers are not yet In any numbers
on the front; we have neither given much
nor suffered much as yet; we enter the
war as the final reserve Of civilization. 1t
is for us now to rcpulse the final German
attack, the ultimate peace offensive. If
the spring finds British, French and Amer
lean armies in the field ready to advance
and the British, French and American
peoples resolved to fight on-the end will
not be long. But much of British and
French resolution depends upon America
We have come to our first crisis. Let us
hope that we shall meet it in the spirit Of
France at the Marine and at Verdun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
The Little Old Road
IRON TIE Neic W1tSsss)

IRON TIE Ns,1 WtSssO
There's a breath Of May in the breeze
On the little old road;
May in hedges and trees,
May, the red and the white,
Nay TO left and to right
OF the little old road.
There's a ribbon Of grass either side
OF the little old road;
It's strip just SO wide,
strip nobody owns,
Where a mans weary bones
When he feels getting old
May lie crushing the gold
or the silverwesd flower
For long, lazy hour
By the little old road.
There's no need to guide the old mare
On the little old road
She knows that just there
Is the big gravel pit,
(How we played in it
AS mites of boys -
In our old corduroysD
And that here is the pond
With the poplars beyond,
And more May always May
Away and away
Down the little old road.
There's a lot 10 make a man glad
On the little old road;
ITS the home-going road,
And a lot to make him sad.
All. he'd like TO forget
But he can't, not just yet,
With chaps still out there.
She's stopping, the steady old mare.
is it here the road bends?
SO the long journey ends
At the end OF the old road,
The little old road.
There's some one, you say, at the gate
OF the little old house by the road!
Is It mother? Or Kate?
And they're not going to mind
That since "Wypers" I'm blind,
And the road Is a long dark road!
GERTRUDE VAUGHAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Holiday Memories
JAMES JOYCE.
Prom The Netg Wifaess

From The NeD Wlfs<ss
| heard the water cluckinR in the dell
And, coming, saw It's silver light
Leaping like a little sprts
Dancing in the high moonlight.
How IL laughed there by itself.
The little. laughing, dancing cir.
And 1t clapped its hands for JOY
While the moon In the black sky
Hid from Tho little dancing boy,
Dived and hid herself away
And swan up to renew the play
As the clouds thinned scurrying by.
Often cit and can see.
Closing my eyes to the city noon,
Those two ut their rsvelry,
The gurslins spring and the cleaning moon,
And almost catch the springs melody;
But just as I'm on IL must mark
The whisper that runs from clerk 70 clerk
And opening my eyes I catch sly looks.
Damn them! and back 10 these fusty books.
ROBERT NICHOLS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Figures of the Past
of living

Little notice has been taken Of the deaths
Of Private" John Allen and Charles II.
Grosvenor, two former members of Con-
gress, who, in their time, were familiar
national figures. To recall their names is
to recall the days when Congress was full
Of notable characters and when people gen.
orally took live interest in the doings
and personalities of leaders in the House
and Senate. Those days have gone, and
gone because Congress and the public have
drifted far apart, the public having lost
concern as to what its representatives do
because it has lost faith so largely in their
capacity TO keep pace with new currents
of thought and to readjust outworn polit-
zeal machinery to the governmental needs
of the present.
in the period Of Allen and Grosvenor
there we're dozens Of men at the Capitol
who were known the country over. To-day
there are a scant half dozen Of such.
Neither Allen nor Grosvenor was leader
except in a very minor degree. Yet who
can now name with confidence even the
inner circle Of leaders in either branch Of
Congress?
Allen was a humorist, and never attained
prominence in the House except as hui
morist. His vogue lasted long time be-
cause he had the good sense to recognize
his own limitations. His vein Of humor
was neither rich nor deep. He had little
wit and avoided encounters with men ex-
ceiling him in sarcasm and repartee. He
was not in q class with "Sunset" Cox,
Thomas 3. Reed or John J. ingalls,. His
fun was kindly and genial, not acrid and
embittering.
lie entered public life with jest, choos-
ing for himself for use in Washington the
title of Private" At that time pebble
could not be tossed from the gallery of
either house without hitting a "Confed-
crate brigadier.' Allen thus gently satir-
lied the Southern politicians love Of a
military title and his propensity to CAPT
talize his services to the Lost Cause. That
was typical Of private" Johns attitude.
In time Of intense sectional feeling he
carried no chip on his shoulder. He lacked
bitterness and preferred to cultivate good
feeling. Hc said many amusing things,
modestly, almost deprecatingly. Few of
them are remembered. They were of the
occasion and perishable. But his innate
kindness won all hearts. He retained
the regard Of the House as long as he sat
in IT. HIS colleagues recognized with a
sort Of gratitude that he was shrewd
enough not to abuse the imnunities ordi-
narily granted to humorist.
Grosvenor was not humorist per Sc,
although he was fair forensic barn
storner. lie possessed powerful voice, a
considerable facility in the cruder sort of
running debate and an enormous assurance
in public speaking. These were his capital,
and by dnt Of partisan slang whanging
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Releasing a Migrant Yen wild
Goose)
By Pc Chu-i (772-S46 A. d.
from The Nsir S.dissr,o.

from The Ysc SsdfssroD
At Nine Rivers. in the tenth year, In winter
heavy snow;
The river-water covered with ice and the for
ests broken with their load.
The birds of the all, hungry and cold, went
flying east and west;
And with them few migrant "yen," loudly
clamoring for food.
Among the snow it pecked for grass; and
rested on the surface Of the ice;
IL tried with its wings to scale the sky, but
its tired flight was slow.
The boys Of the river spread net and
caught the bird as it few;
They took Il in their hands TO the city mar
ket and sold il there alive.
J.. that was once a man OF the North, am
now an exile here;
Bird and man, in their different kind, are
each strangers in the South
And because the sight of an exiled bird
wounded an exile's heart
| paid your ransom and set you free, and
you few away TO the clouds.
Yen, yen, flying to the clouds, tell me,
whittier shall you go?
O; all things, | bid you, do not ny 70 the
land OF the Northwest.
in Huai-hsi there arc rebel bands that have
not been subdued;
And thousand thousand armorcd men have
long been csmped in war.
The official army and the rebel army have
grown old in their opposite trenches;
The soldiers rstions have grown 50 small
they'll be glad Of even you.
The brave boys. in their hungry plight, will
shoot you and eat your flesh;
They will pluck from your body those long
feather, and make them into arrow
wings!
-Translnted by ARTHUR WALEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
On the Beach at Fontana
(Tront Poetry

(Fron Poetrv)
Wind whines and whines the single,
The crazy pier-stakes grosn;
A GENTLE sea numbers each single
Slime-silvered stone.
From whining wind and colder
Gray sea I wrap him warm,
And touch his fne-boned boyish shoulder
And trembling arm.
Around US fear, descending,
Darkness Of fear above;
And in my heart how sweet unending
Ache Of love.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
She Weeps Over Rahoon

Rain on Rahoon falls softly. softly falling
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling
At gray moonrise.
Love. hear thou
How desolate the heart is, ever calling,
Ever unanswered-snd the dark rain falling
Then as now
Dark, too, our hearts. o love, shall lie, and
cold
As his sad heart has lain
Under tho moon-gray nettles, the black mould
And muttering rain.
= JAMES JOYCE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04
Alone

The moons soft golden meshes make
All night a veil
The shore-lamps in the sleeping lake
Laburnum tendrils trail.
The sly reeds whisper In the night
A name-her name,
And all my soul 10 4 delight,
A swoon OF shame.
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