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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-05
Pure Silk Sox 43c
2 Pair 85c

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SILK socks for men These
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high spilced llslo hcrl-
The old-timr half dollar
number. Some AZ them
are slightly imported.
white aud hlnck only \
pnir 43c.
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-05

any kind Vt fur. pu, a bit of cnllvcnng
leather on thcm, tastcn them with col
orcd bone buttons IT she wishes, and
irud herself satisfied with them a, any
hour OF the day
Hesped with Pcltry.
We arc to have another Russian
season, 50 tar as the use ol iur IS con
ccrncd and u is quite possible that the
top coat oi sturdy homc,pm will have
pcltry hyl,hcd upon II more than any
other garment II Ia, the length and
weight to stand It Nutra, seal flying
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-05
Boys stout suits

wv u can Ilt tne Stout boys,
w stylish new models of brown
novelty fabrics at $3.50; with two
pairs pants they are $l5. Blue serge
stout sizes at $lS. Made of sturdy
materials and finely finished
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-05
Mems Furnishings
SATURDAY,
Shirts for Men at $l.35

splendid vuu"s mems dress SHIRTS. excellent
purlity at mldrHs md kindred wn'"'iols. patterns
and cooriugs are very attractive, YUull admire them
mud appreciate their worth. SizoH II to F.-Men =
Furnishing Department. Main Floor Enst Room. Your
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-10-05

Aid IN Sending Money Home
'N, encourage ,.whue mw, home
We take mans MONEY hIc AMI
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
THE GRAY ARMY

More and more the streets, the side walks, the railway cars, the Hobbies or hotels and other public places begin to fill with sober-faced men in khaki. The nation has called her young men. and they are coming. as they have al ways come. In little while they will begin to march, and we whom age or other disability has kept out of the ranks shall see what only a few gen erations in all history have been privi- legged to behold.
 In front of the long lines that will make their way from the training camps to the sea. and beside them and around them, will march the past. Other eyes than those of Americans may not see the shadowy figures but we shall see and know them. There will be tall men in buckskin shirts and fringed leggins, with long hair and CoOnskin caps. and bearing powder horns and fintlock rifles. We saw them once marching from Virginia to Cambridge, Mass, 1iO years ago.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
WHEN A WOMAN CALLS

He was the steadiest printer in the shop. Quiet, pleasant, faithful. never a complaint about the work. the pay, the climate of the town. Surely. thought the newspaper man. this type jugglcr is a fixture in the place He can be depended Ipcn to stick to the galley. the stone and the case. even though these copper mountains should turn into volcanoes and spout fire and lava down upon the city.
 But the other evening when the newspaper man walked back into the shop. To. this firm. faithful and un- failing printer was missing from the roll call.
 "where is Bill?" asked the newspe- per man in wonder. "Sick?"
 Nav" replied the foreman in dis gust. Hes quit without notice
 The newspaper man was amazed and considerably downcast. Surely
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
Gems Fron, tue NegUs Field
WEST POINT IS
 JUST A CENTURY OLD

We have just observed the one hun dredth anniversary of the government military academy at West Point. The academy had been in existence for some years, but it was scarcely worthy of the name before Col Sylvanus Fhayer assumed the superintendency on that date. Colonel Thayer remained in charge for 16 years, and during his administration he laid the foundation of the present organization of the school, raised it to the plane of eff. ciency of the best military schools abroad, and so won the appreciation alike of his pupils and the country al large. He came to be called the 'fath- CT of the academy"
 West Point has been called the "Gib- raitar of the Hudson." which distinc- tion is quoted by the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the fact that the Brit ish, without success, earnestly strove to capture it.
 In 17S3 Washington recommended West Point as a site for a military academy. Such an establishment had been proposed by General Knox as early as May, 1776, and in October of that year the continental congress passed a resolution appointing a com mittee to draw plans for a military academy of the army.
 After the cessation of hostilities with England in 1915, Major Thayer was sent to Europe to examine mili- tary works and schools and study the operations of the allied armies before Paris. He was recalled in 1S17 and placed in charge of the academy at West Point. His administration soon bore fruit He brought order out Of chaos; systems tized the course or study; instituted the system of merits and demerits; enforced discipline ant raised the school to a par with the best military schools of Europe.
 When Colonel Thayer took charge Of the West Point Academy in 1917 the number of cadets was restricted to 250. Now the number who may gain admittance is in excess of 1900, while the military and academic staff con sists of 130 persons. These figures illustrate the growth of the academy during the century. The academy has grown not only in numbers but equal ly in importance. It is now recognized by all competent authorities as one of the best military schools in exist ence. The great men turned out by it during the nineteenth century, Grant. Lee, Sherman, Sheridan and host ot others, afford incontrovertible evidence of its efficiency.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
THE MAN IN THE
 DUST OF THE ROAD

The newspaper man has crawled. toddled, walked, ran, limped. and shuf- fled along this mortal trail for nigh on forty years. He has ridden in the one hoss shay behind old Dobbin and hung to a strap in a street car. He has lodged automobiles and been crowded to the wall by them and had his feet run over by their arrogant tires and his nostrils irritated by their exhaust. He has looked often and hopefully for a lift; for a ride. as he toiled along in the dust of the road. But with mOcking hon, honk, they have passed him by.
 And now, at last. the newspaper man has a flivver that he persuaded a careless dealer to sell him on pay ments covering a period of some seven years. And he has sworn a solemn oath never to pass any pilgrim in the road without first stopping and offer ing to give him lift on his way If the newspaper man violates his oath. may his tires be punctured and his en- zine stall and his spark plug eorrode and his gears balk. Ameni
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
ALL FRANCE AT
 WORK: NO DRAFT

France has abandoned her proposed civil mobilization. The new move is taken to mean in many quarters that the Ribot government has the war sit uation so well in hand that it will not be necessary to draft French citizen ry between the ages of Is and SO years for war work. War work will remain voluntary in France.
 The dark economic cloud accompan- jed by sinister rumors of a bad win ter to come following the fuel short. age of 1916-17 has also been shunted to an inconspicuous place on the hori- zon. Paris has the word of the pre- feet of the department of the Seine that the great metropolis will not feel the pinch of either hunger or cold next winter. This official announces that the coal supply is assured and that food supplies will be plentiful
 Another piece of good news eman- ates today from the ministry of com merce to the effect that Parisians will soon be supplied with National Foot gear anu NdliOHdl OiOtsl lOl ClOtil- ing. This promises to be a real boon for modest purses, as shoe leather has finally aviated to prohibitive prices. The average price for re-soling pair of shoes is now ten francs (about S2), which is more than double pre-war tax. Men pay about s1O for good pair of shoes and ladies must pay about S15 if they want the mode.
 The French national shoe will ccs- about 25 francs, or S5; wear and com fort will be guaranteed but style will not. It will be the national style. Fancy footgear will. however. continue on sale for those who want to pay the price.
 The National Cloth" will be guar anteed by the government of good uality in various shades at a nominal price. There will also probably be some cheek on greedy tailors who will attempt to charge too much for tailor ing the national product.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
RIFLE STILL USEFUL
 IN MODERN WAR

The overwhelming position in the war picture occupied by the big guns, the machine guns and Lewis guns, the importance of trench mortars, hand grenades, bombs, rifle grenades and other accessories of trench warfare, make some men think that the day of the rifle as an important adjunct to success in battle is well nigh past, says Frederic Coleman.
 Such is not the case. Those of us who can remember the brave advances of the Prussian guard at Ypres, when they marched in battalion formation right up the Menin road, straight at our trenches-on one occasion, if not more, marching to almost sure death at the goose step-know the value of accurate, rapid rife fire. So do these Prussian guardsmen, if any of them are still alive. Not many of them were left when the broken waves of gray were swept back, like leaves by an autumn wind.
 The rifles did most of it. Machine guns we had, to be sure, but voefully few of them. Those that We had were overworked to a point that made us wonder, not when they damned but when they worked long without jam ming. The rifle, in the hands of man who can shoot straight and shoot with great rapidity, is q wicked weapon still. and the value of cold steel, though it is not subject on which men who have seen it used love to dwell. has not, so far as l can see, changed greatly. if at all. in the three years of grim war in Europe.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
THE RICHEST LITTLE
 GIRL. IN AMERICA

''Thirty-five hundred dollars a dayl" What is 1.-the income of a finan- cier? The payroll of a war order fac ; tory? The salary of some star of the movie world?
 No. It's simply the income day in and day out, the year round, of flax en haired, brown eyed little girl, Il years old, who is frolicking at Man chester-by-the-Sea this summer, swim ming off Singing Beach. riding horse back, driving her Welsh pony through the wooded roads of the North Shore. and playing games with other little girls and boys at Manchester, some of whom may never have as much to spend in a single year all their lives as her income for single day.
 Ann Gavit, just "a lovely little girl" by the verdict of Manchester folks who have come to know her. They call her the richest little girl in America" l" and the label is probably a true one.
 She is the daughter of E. Palmer Gavit of Albany, who has taken for the summer splendid but not ostenta- tious shore estate that headlands out into the ocean. Also she is the grand daughter of the late Anthony N. Brady of Albany and New York City. and that is the reason of her huge income of S35OO a day.
 The ambition of millions of men, perhaps, is to make as much in year as Ann Gavit's income in day. Presi- dent Wilson's salary for 5ne day would go into Ann Gavit's daily income 15 times over and then some.
 "Thirty-five hundred dollars day," What does she care? She's out play ing or swimming or riding.-Boston Globe
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19

The British struck again in Flanders and gained their objectives Ypres salient into the British lines is salient no longer rather it is bulge into the Hin denburg line The Canadians dominate Lens and make the life of the Germans in that city dogs life The plan of the allies to be to force the Ger mans out of the district by of this break in their lines to the northward There no rich and populous cities Ypres front to be destroyed by artillery in making advance hence its obvious advan- age If Marshal Haig only force the Prussians back
 few miles further on present fighting front he can occupy the large and French city of Lille without firing a cannon shot turrets and spires. Some or the war critics believe that taking of Hill Seventy considered impregnable by the Prussan staff marks the beginning of the end of the German hold France And they argue too the allied in artillery in the Belgium battles this week is another certain index of a great success soon On the other hand, there are critics profess disappointment at the recent Ypres offensive and in the small gains and few pris oners and guns taken that will inevitably re- suit in slow and grinding of attrtion that will not end before the fall of next year We refuse to believe that Hag will let the winter come and find his troops west of either Lens Lille After that it is simply question of Spring, the Americans and the Rhine,
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
AS MAN TO MAN

there was nothing stable or depend able in the world. Men are bubbles; they are as straws before the wind. Being curious, and very much disap- pointed in his man. he went back and cOnversed with others of the craft as- sembled there about.
 Whats the matter with Bill?" he asked. You fellows haven't deport- ed him for a wobbly, have you?"
 One of the men smiled and another laughed out loud. Finally a linotype man vouchsafed to make the mystery as clear as sunlight "Bii got wire from woman to meet him in -" he said.
 That was all And yet it was enough. A woman had called And have not countless sons of men always answered that call? Mark Antony left the battle of Actium and lost an em- pire for a woman's call Countless kings have given up their thrones, all for soft voice. Princes, potentates, paupers, painters. poets, pilgrims of ~AA AoANos dAl anu dlA of life, have left everything and has tened at a woman's call And shall not this sincere and simple printer hang his apron on the nail and wash his ink-stained hands and do likewise?
 Yea. verify. he shall. And uncount- ed thousands of men who come after him shall do likewise. Men go forth to work and war for women and they come back at their call Every paper that was ever published was printed for woman; every bridge ever built, or battle won, or mine dug. or railroad laid, or business established. or wheel made to whirl. or building raised above the skyline was all done for a woman.
 And the printer who comes to take this missing printers place will come to work for a woman. That absent printer was faithful because there was a woman somewhere for whom he toiled. And he broke faith with his shop to keep faith with that woman. The foreman is kinda sore but the newspaper man feels that the recalci- trant printer had a pretty good ex- cuse. The weight of the authorities are mostly on his side.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
JOYFUL SIDE O. JORDAN.

Cant see the road
 An whatever waits for you, But p'raps you're doin' better Than you lowed that you would do So jes' j'ine the chorus
 Of the folks a-pullin' through, An git on the joyful side O Jordan! Cant see the road,
 But it ain't a-runnin' wrong; Can't glimpse the mOrnin'. But it's comin' right along. Daylight's abreakin'
 An we'll hail it with a song An git on the joyful side O Jordan!
 Frank L. Stanton. in Atlanta
 Constitution.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19

There will be farmers in short breech- es and shirt sleeves, and sailors in wide trousers and glazed hats, bare footed and bearing cutlasses and boarding bikes. There will be men in buff and blue, in dark blue, in light blue and in butternut gray, and mount ed men in wide hats, swinging free in the saddle with the ease of the born plainsman.
 All those shall march, and we wL1 look on shall see them, but the young men in khaki will feel their presence. Not as ghosts shall we seem them, but as living spirits, and not as old men. but as the youths they were when they gave themselves to the country, even as the young men are giving them- selves today.
 As victory floats before the figure of Sherman in St. Gaudens' magnificent sculpture, so tradition marches ahead of our armies as they go abroad; the tradition of freedom that brought Nor gan's rifemen from the forests of the Alleghenies. and sent Marion's men into the swamps of the south, and led the New England farmers to Bunker Hill. Tradition such as that is a mighty force. The levies of 1917 and 1918, when they face the German guns, will not forget their spiritual ances- try, nor will they prove unworthy of those who although gone before, still lead and guide America, of Washing ton and Jackson and Scott, of Perry and Decatur, of Grant and Lee. of Farragut and Semmes, of. Dewey and Lawton and Pihlip.-Youth's Com panion.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
THE MAGIC OF
 THE MOUNTAINS

What a homely. rocky, sandy mis erable looking place it is," exclaimed a woman who had recently moved to Bisbee. She was speaking to her husband as they sat on the front porch of their new home together in the twilight. The man answered nothing at all. He was looking at the distant mountains and at the turquoise blue of the sky behind them. And he was thinking of the fog and mist that enveloped the shops and stores and narrow streets of the city whence he came. He was thinking of how de pressed and discouraged and disheart' ened he had been there, how narrow he had been, how irritable and rest less and dissatisfied.
 Nowhere to go," went on the wom- an; nothing to do. No grass and flowers and lighted streets and hurry ing throng. Just these rocks and those old hills. I don't like it at all"
 The man continued silent. He was still looking, with wrapt gaze. at the mountains, majestic and immutable, against the skyline. Their calm and their silence and their strength and their restfulness seemed to have pos sessed his soul.
 A few weeks passed by and this same man and woman sat on their front porch to watch the coming of the twilight. "Oh, look at that sun set," exclaimed the woman. Did you ever see anything so fine? What a wonderful tinting of red and yellow and gold all combinedi It is too soft for flaming red, and yet it is redder than just ordinary red. And what a deep blue up around the edgesi I did not know there were so many colors in the world, and they all shade off into tints that are so soft and myste- rious and beautiful that one could look at them forever.
 "Why don't you look? Why don't you say something? l don't believe you half admire or appreciate it.
 The man smiled and continued to look steadily at the distant mountains and the closing gates of gold beyond them. His gaze had been fixed there since the first day he had come to the valley. And now the woman was be- ginning to see the glory of the high places and the far-flung distances. The city seemed far away. It's little flick ering lights, that had famed so bright ly; it's noises, that are never still; it's voices, that have in them as much of misery as of mirth; ah, they are far distant now, and getting farther every day.
 The twilight crept up to drive the daylight away, and on its heels came the dark The man and woman sat silent on their little porch, serene and strong under the protecting mantle of the mountains.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
THE DRAYMAN'S SIDE
 OF THE STORY

Readers of this column If any there bel may remember that last Sunday it contained little story about dray- man and a trunk and a charge of two dollars and half. We'll. like all stor- ies ever told since Moses wrote the book of Genesis. there is another side to that one about the trunk.
 The newspaper man, last Sunday. made comparison of that two-fifty charge on the trunk with St Louis prices of six bits for a haul twice the distance, and comparisons are always odious Listen: The newspaper man had his household goods hauled for distance of a mile and a half the other day and was charged seven plunks per load. We'll, in justice to the Bisbee draymen, charged last week with getting rich, and in the spirit of fair play, this newspaper man must admit that he was charged eight plunks per load in Saint Louis for having those same goods hauled half as far.
 This is a funny old worldi
 A St. Louis drayman will haul a trunk six miles for six bits. A Bisbee drayman charges two dollars and a half for hauling a trunk three miles. Then the St Louis drayman lets his conscience be the limit for his charge on load of household goods, going as high as a dollar a block, while the Bis bee drayman looks with pity upon the poor pilgrim who has all this junk to haul and proceeds to load and propel his lurching trucks at the rate of fifty cents the block.
 Can you beat it? The newspaper man cannot do so. Hence he gives 1t up, and throws in an apology to the Bisbee drayman for good measure.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19

A free people cannot be conquered. Napoleon found so to cost Spain where the pillars of his empire were undermined even more than from his disastrous Russian campaign Germany's occupation of Belgium and Serbia and Rumania any other series of of the World War will Wilhelm his throne. In Ru- mania the women are now fighting in the forefront O. the battle Serbia unconquerabe guerilas, like the Spanish patriots of NapoIeons tme still resist the Prus sian In Belgium the spirit of the people is unbroken, although their homes destroyed and the bodies Of their kin and neighbors lie buried and unburied all the way from Iiege to the sands of the sea.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19
POetS Corner
WE WHO WAIT.

Tatters lay prone at my feet last night. His shaggy head on his forepaws
 resting, His body still, but an anxious light Plain in his eyes. that were rowing.
 questing- Mournful brown eyes that were wont
 to dance, Now asking dumbly. Where is my
 master?" could but whisper. Somewhere in
 France" Fighting the tears that came fast,
 and faster. Donald would never like that, 'Tis
 clear We must be braver; and We are
 trying. If he comes back (oh, the gripping
 fearD Tatters won't tell that he saw me
 crying. We were so proud of him when he
 went, Splendid and strong. with his dear
 eyes glowing. Tatters and 1 on the curbstOne spent WearisOme hours. to speed his go-
 ing. What would sight of him now be worth To the two sad hearts he left behind
 him. Tatters and I would go round the
 earth. Though we walked on bleeding feet.
 to find him. We can do nothing but pray and
 dream. Not that one dog-or one sweetheart
 matters; Yet petition the All-Supreme. Please bring him safely to me and
 Tatters" Beatrice Barry. in N. r. Times Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead" said Ben Franklin.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19

Peace proposals from the pope were the most i'm portant the week in connection with the World War They demand consideration first because the pope is the head of church that hundreds of thou sands of followers in each of the countries at war and secondly because whatever their terms they ceI tainy from unpreudiced and strictly neutral source questions the honesty of the pope or the purity of his motives That his proposals were inspired by Germany and Austria there be doubt. That they impossible at this time there can also be nc doubt Germany is beaten and she knows it. By every means foul fair she seeks to hold her spells ant escape punishment for her unspeakabe crimes But tho statesmen the allied nations will weigh carefully the popes proposals and give his holiness fu frank and courteous answer. That will be more than Germany haf ever done on any propagandas she has started during the past year.