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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
The Dinner Bell.

Ring out the bell-the dinner bell,
message let 1t toll.
The resonance, we love 1t well,
In spite Of food control.
We will draw up our chairs in state
In economic scenes,
And view the picture on the plate
Instead of pork and beans.
With conversation grave or gay
The moments shall be fraught.
II ham and eggs have passed away
Wen still have food for thoughk
Though the repast which we shall make
Small compliment may claim.
Well gather 'round~for old times sake
So rang 1t Just the same.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
Pulling.

Charley, dear" said young Mrs. Tor
kins, "as 1 understand it, the coal sit
uation is pulling"
GAS you understand it, it probably is.
How do you understand it,"
'Why. it seems that owing to a
scarcity of coal it will be impossible
to cook the meat and potatoes we
couldn't afford to buy, anyhow"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Charges that Chicago food grabbers
have cornered the Chicago tomato crop
give Herbert Hoover case that needs
attention the very first day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
TOSSING A DRINK.

like to watch the soda clerk
Dispensing fizz.
A thorough artist at his work
He surely is.
He pours q drink to please the fair
Admiring buds
And makes q rainbow in the air
OF sparkling suds.
Sometimes he makes blunder, though.
And then We grieve
To see lot of soda go
Into his sleeve.
Louisville Courier-Journ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
Unconquerable Trait.

"What makes your husband so in
terested in reincarnation
II don't know, unless it's his absent
mindedness He is sure to want to come
back after something he forgot"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
Strange Impressions.

"You go to moving pictures instead of
to the saloon"
"Sure," replied Broncho Bob. flicker
never made the world seem wilder an
dizzier than some o. them films"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

To be perfectly candid, China's cratic
government IS no worse upset than gov
ernments in other portions OF her
hemisphere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Every congressman has a number of
bright ideas. But they all eventually
fall back On the motion TO adjourn as
the beautiful and ennobling thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Tammany speaks of reforms with the
expert confidence of an institution that
has vivisected them over and over again
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

New York did not let the draft get
by without an effort to pull out the
initial ID and substitute "g."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Having found out what to do with its
ex-Presidents, the nation could not
think of doing without William Howard
Taft at this time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Germany's employment of the iron
cross proves that efficiency knows how
to utilize even human vanity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

1t is strange that the great detective
story writers never seem able to solve
a real murder mystery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Everything depends on what you are
used to. Cipriano Castro's idea of
peaceful and comfortable place is Mex
leo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
THE SUN-KIssED FLAG.

The sun-kist nag.
The banner born to be
Our symbol Of the light
That makes us free:
Day after day you ny
Above us in the street:
Day after day more high,
More beautiful and sweet,
More holy In your sign
To US Of nobler things
And that the right divine
Dwells not with earthly kings.
But with that heaven alone
That gives Us strength and might
To hurl 'gainst every throne
Our shards Of light.
Folger Mckinney. in the Baltimore ,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Germany is wonderfully sympathetic
in helping neutrals to worry over food
importations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

The piekets should initiate Miss Ran
kin, who speaks up like woman and
does not carry a banner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Chieagos pro-German officials are
causing some complaint that it is 100
long between elections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Japan's production of opium is in
creasing; but this time it is med
ieine and not an oriental dissipation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
Undertaking Too Much.

Undertaking Too Much.
whats your objection to that Anglo
phobiacf"
"He's too industrious in his ideas"
replied Senator Sorghum. "He wants
simultaneously to quarrel with one
country and fight with another"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
Modern Paul Revere

As Paul Revere today draws near
He says "Where am l at?
The carburetor's acting queer
And the off tire is fiat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

DIR. Michaelis is like new needle on
the same old monograph record
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Inc actlVltieS OF the department OF
Labor have increased greatly since the
declaration of war
The u, S. Pnh1ic by this country
against Germany.
propositions to be undertaken is that
of organizing the United States public
service reserve. The reserve is being
formed for the purpose of modifying
volunteers for national service outside
of the Army and Navy. and has pro-
ceeded rapidly since the plan was first
announced.
officials of the Department of Labor
who are in direct charge of this work
explain that the reserve is an official
organization of adult males who de-
sire to find their place for effective
service to the country in the war emer-
gency and to make it easy for the
government to locate them when it
needs help from men of their capaci-
ties.
1t is said that more than 10000 Of
fers of service which have been re-
ceived from all parts of the country
by the Council of National Defense
have been sent to the officers of the
reserve. where corps of clerks are
communicating with each person with
view to getting more specific in
formation as to his aptitudes for serv-
ice and enlisting him in the reserve.
Each man signed up for the reserve
Will receive a button from headquar-
tiers. which will brand him volunteer
reservist.
In the work of this new organiza-
ton engineering societies have offered
mentS are being completed for effective
use of their lists of members. Pending
the development of it's membership. Of
ficials say. the reserve. which is de-
signed as the center to which various
branches of the government may re-
sort in their search for men of special
qualifications. will make use of all
available sources of information as to
where the men needed can be found.
It is hoped and expected by those who
are handling this new work that with
in the next few weeks it will be the
means of bringing a great many men
of all degrees of attainment into the
nations service.
State organizations will be perfected
shortly. The Council of National De-
Tense has called on all the state coun-
ellis of defense to cooperate In every
way possible with this new branch OF
the Department of Labor.
1t is especially pointed out by those
undertaking this work that enrolment
in its ranks does not excuse any one
from the obligation to bear arms when
his day for such service arrives. Its
purpose is to enable those who are
not called into the Army or Navy to
play their part in realizing the ideal
of a whole nation organized to war
for the safety of our country.
AS a cause of organizing this work
it is pointed out that confusion and
inetiiciency are the inevitable results
of an unorganized scramble for oppor-
tunities of service. For most men. say
the officials. the duty of the hour is
to do their present job better than ever
before. The national organism must
continue to live Too great alacrity, 1t
is widely pointed out, on the part Of
individuals to desert their peace-time
posts can only result in Gripping the
nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN The STAR

After the execution Of Mrs. Surratt
ton conspiracy, 1t
Mercy Urged for was asserted that
the military COM
11s. ouIIatt. mission that tried
her had recommended her to mercy.
but that the recommendation had been
kept from the President. In The Star
Of August 6. 1867. is the following:
I'm view Of the many conflicting
statements which have been made In
reference to the recommendation OF
Mrs. Surratt for mercy by the officers
of the military commission which tried
and condemned her. the positive asser-
tons of Judge Pierrepoint Zone Of the
counsel for the prosecution) in regard
to the matter contained in his address
to the jury in the trial Of John H.
Surratt this morning will be read with
great interest. He says that the rec
ommendation from the members Of the
court was a part Of the record of the
conspiracy trial, which he has In his
possession, and was to the effect that.
one of the condemned being a female.
it was respectfully suggested that her
sentence be committed to tmprfson-
ment for life, and that this paper on
the record was in the handwriting OF
one of the members of the court. Gen.
Ekin. the original paper being in the
handwriting of the assistant Judge ad-
vocate. John A. Bingham. Mr.. P. fur
Their stated that the record was brought
to him by the judge advocate general
himself. who told him that it was the
identical record before the President.
and the part of that record containing
the recommendation was before the
President when he signed the war
rant of execution. and President John
son had a conversation at the time
on that very subject with the Judge
advocate general
Fifty years ago Newspaper Row
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
The Washington
Correspondents.

between f and F. where the cor
respondents had their Offices. In The
Star of August 6. 1867, is a paragraph
about the summer whereabouts of the
principal occupants of the row. all of
history of Journalism in Washington
and have now passed on:
Congress having adjourned. the
Washington correspondents have most
~ scattered for the summer. Bartlett
Of the New York Evening Post is en-
joying the sea breezes with his family
at Westhaven. on the sound. Ben: Per-
ley Poore is now in Virginia, but will
soon retire to his splendid farm at
Newburyport. Painter of the Phila-
delphia Inquirer has gone to the
French exposition with his wife. Shaw
of the Boston Transcript is summering
on the upper SusQuehannah. Crounse
of the New York Times has gone on
on a trout-fishing excursion in the
Cheat river wilderness of West Vir-
ginia. Andrews of the Boston Adver-
trip to the St. Lawrence, White Noun
tains. etc. The only regulars left in
Washington are Young of the Tribune.
Adams of the World. Connery of the
Herald. Boynton Of the Cincinnati
Gazette and Brooke of the New Or
leans Republican. who will go when
they get a chance. Young. in fact,
leaves tomorrow on special trip of
two months down south In Sheridan's
district. James Mcconnell. the Albany
correspondent of the Tribune. will run
the Tribune bureau in his absence"
At this time fifty years ago President
Ynh in, u ct 81 hi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT Is DOING

institutions had discounted heavily at
federal reserve banks in order to be
ready to make payment in full for
bonds subscribed to by them. Such
discounting suggested the possibility
of continuous draft upon the re-
sources of the reserve banks. Reduc-
tons of the larger subscriptions and
prompter payment by small subscrib,
ers than had been looked for resulted
in the almost immediate reduction of
accommodation furnished by the fed
eral reserve banks to their members
and through the latter to non-members.
The outcome has been. it is said. to
make the demands upon the federal re-
serve banks in connection with the
loan decidedly smaller than had at one
time seemed probable. The peak" OF
the load borne by reserve banks was
reached on June %. Immediately after
the completion Of the subscription. at
which time the aggregate bills held
by the federal reserve banks amounted
to $435, 100000, as contrasted with
$145. O00,0 900 about a month earlier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

He moved from the end seat OF an,
open car to make room for a woman.
Pretty soon the woman made an
other woman pass over her. She wasn't
giving up her seat at the end.
And the man who had moved up said
to the man on his left:
This happens every time do the
correct thing by a gentle sister"
MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

After the execution of Mrs. Surratt
for completely in the Lincoln assassi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
Surratt jury
Disagrees.

to agree after full days deliberatlon
The current belief was that the
jury stood seven for acquittal and five
for conviction. The jury submitted a
statement to the court stating that they
stood, at the end of their deliberations
precisely as they did when they first
balloted on retirement. and that they
were firmly convinced that they could
not possibly make verdict Surratt
was remanded to Jail pending consid-
Grafton of the question of a second trial
Just prior to the adjournment of the
court an exciting incident occurred.
Presiding Judge George P.-Fisher an
nounced that he had an unpleasant duty
to perform. and proceeded to state that
on the End day of July. at the close Of
the morning recess. one of the attor-
neys for the defense. Joseph H. Bradley.
had accoSted him in the courtroom Gin
Il rude and insulting manner" charging
the judge with having offered him
series of insults from the bench from
the commencement of the trial Judge
Fisher disclaimed any intention of in
sulting the attorney. whereupon the lat
ter had threatened him with personal
chastisement. Judge Fisher therefore
announced his order that Mr.. Bradley's
name be stricken from the list of attor-
neys practicing in the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
The johnson
Stanton Row

tary's resignation and the Secretary
had refused to submit 1t. In The Star Of
August 9, 1867, is the following:
There were no new developments in
the war office yesterday. but we believe.
notwithstanding the publication OF a
statement to the contrary. that the
President continues to recognize Mr..
Stanton as Secretary and has not issued
any order forbidding the transaction Of
business with him in that capacity. II
is not probable that any new features
of the case will transpire until after
the cabinet meeting today. at which
time 1t will probably be fully discussed
in the final decision as to future steps
reached. 1t is asserted that the cabinet
is divided in opinion regarding tile pro-
priety of urging Mr.. Stanton's resigna-
ton any further. or Of suspending him
under the tenure of office bill. which
could be done without making public
the reasons therefor until the assem-
bling of Congress 1t is asserted that
one of the cabinet who has held his Of
fee since Mr.. Lincoln's administration.
and one who is an appointee of Pres
ident Johnson. will seriously object to
any further complication of the matter
and insist that Mr.. Stanton be allowed
to pursue his own course in the future.
Indeed, it is even limited that one of
these gentlemen is earnest in the
matter that he will probably resign I'M
less Mr.. Stanton is retained. Gen. Grant
is known to sympathize with Mr.. Stan
ton and has been in consultation with
him several times since the trouble be-
gan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

Banking developments during the
month of July. say officials of the fed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

-Folger Mckinney, in the Baltimore Bun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12

The activities of the Department of
Labor have increased greatly since the
Rock Island Argus., 1917-12-27
Municipal Matters

Street and bridge fund ...... 1850
City hall fund .............. 5000
Total. general fund .S3.490. SO
Waterworks expense ........ 3S9.5
Reservoir Expense .......... POI so
Total waterworks fund IS 59100
Rock Island Argus., 1917-12-27
WORK OF FRFNCH WOMEN.

Behind British Lines in France
Many thousand French women and
girls, ranging in age from IA TO well
past 60. are employed by the British
army at various kinds of work be-
hind the lines. Oneline at which they
excel ali other workers Is the paint
ing of camoufage on guns. They also
make very good packers at the vari-
Gus army storehouses and ordnance
dumps, their deft. active fingers max
ing Il possible for them to do this
work with SO per cent more efficiency
and speed than any other class Of
worker.
In many Of the clerical sections Of
the ordnance department they work
side by side with the uniformed Eng
lish girls belonging 10 the "Waacs. %
as the members Of Women's Auxiliary
Army corps are called. and IN these
departments a numerical system of
marking has been adopted In order to
facilitate sorting, as most of the
French girls have no knowledge OF
English
More than one thousand French
women are engaged in the Receipts
and Salaries department" where their
work includes the repairing Of res
pirators and other equipment. the
scrubhing and renewal of harness and
leather materials in an oil bath. and
the sorting Of recovered cartridges
and water bottles
In the boot and shoe repairing de-
partment at one base I l.500 French
women are employed In bootmaking
and repairing. In the armorerS' shops
French girls clean. oil and test bayo-
nets. In the wheelwrights shop they
clean and straighten bolts and paint
wagons and travelling kitchens.
In work at piece rates, the output
OF the French girls has been found to
exceed that OF German prisoners by
more than fifty per cent.
Rock Island Argus., 1917-12-27
DARING ACTS OF
BRITISH BIRDMEN
Miracles of Escape From Death Seen
in Many C0mbats of the Air
Stories Often ThriIlers.

Behind British Lines in France
Correspondence Of the Associated
Press STORIES OF daring escapades
of British aviators, exciting aerial
| combat from which the air-hghters
escaped alive seemingly only by mir
acle and of brilliantly executed raids
upon German aerodromes and troops
behind the German lines are narrated
in the reports of the royal flying corps
covering the activities OF about one
week. Hair-raising incidents of fierce
conflicts above the clouds or low over
| the German communication lines are
| described in the succinct reports with
i out bombast, as though these narrow
escapes from death were common
place and all in the days work Of the
Iair-fighter
| For example, there was the case of
a British aviation officer who, when
nearly mile above the earth, was at
tackled by two enemy aircraft He
shot down one Of them out Of control,
but was himself wounded and tainted
while still high in the air. Recover
EOJGttOuSutSSs
chine upside down at an elevation of
1900 feet with one enemy aircraft still
firing at him. The Britisher, however
managed after a struggle to right his
machine and land safely.
In a somewhat similar instance, a
German scout attacked British air
plane carrying a pilot and observer.
One Of the Germans bullets passed
through the gasoline tank Of the Brit
ish airpIane and seriously wounded
the pilot The British observer. how
ever, pumped a full double drum Of
bullets at the enemy scout at very
/ close quarters and the German went TO
the ground with crash
Meanwhile the British pilot had
tainted and fallen against the steer
ing stick in such a fashion as to
throw The airplane into a spin. The
British observer climbed over the side
and forward along the plane to the
| pilots cockpit, lifted the pilot to his
} seat. and, still standing on the wing
of the plane, he released the steering
gear, brought the machine out Of the
, spin and safely to the ground.
Many instances illustrating the reck-
} less daring of the British ayiatorS
sent over the German lines to obtain
Information, destroy aerodromes anC
I harry the German reserves, are con
, tanned in the official narratives. One
D pilot who crossed the lines at Ypres
threw off two attacking machines
8 bombed the Heuie aerodrome neal
2 Lille and was fired upon by two ma
chine guns. He diyed at one Of them
Q firing with both guns Of the British
airplane, drove the Germans from
9 their guns, fred upon the soerodromt
. again, attacked and scattered q col
ann Of 200 German infantrymen OF
Z 1.-THE road, A German two-seater air
> plane was circIing 500 feet above hin
0 for an .,ttack Il zoomed up undel
Sc its tail and fred into it" writes th'
: British aviator "It crashed down
onto the railway
Rock Island Argus., 1917-12-27
Total waterworks fund. .Sl737l2


Grand total .-........... 5,10376
Commissioner Rudgren offered
resolution that the appointment of
Bessie Borst as third deputy city clerk
be and the same is hereby confirmed.
Carried by unanimous vote.
Mayor McConochie offered a res0-
luton, that, whereas a committee rep
resenting the mechanics and laborers
working at the arsenal have present
ed a grievance to this commission rel
ative to street car service to and from
the arsenal; be it resolved, that a
meeting of this council be held at the
city hall Thursday evening at s o'clock.
at which time said committee may pre-
sent their grievances and complaints:
and the officials Of the Tri-City Rail
way company are hereby requested to
be present at said meeting to hear the
discussion and to make such changes
in their schedule as will remedy the
conditions now existing Carried by
unanimous vote
Commissioner Liedtke offered a res
olution that J. Cahail, R c. Stringer
and c. H.. March be granted a soft
drink license. Carried by unanimous
vote.
Adjourned on motion OF Mayor Nc
Conochie. II. T. RUDGREN,
City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus., 1917-12-27
On County Records
Mnrrnnty Deeds.

Sarah ]. Mcconnell to l. Marion Nc
Connell, north q, southeast 4 sec
iion 19 and south Il. southwest Il
section 20-1G-2W, Sl00.
Moline Trust & Savings bank to
Charles Isselee, to be known as lot .,
North Fruitland addition, South Mo-
line. $275.
William J. and E. 0. Tally to Dan
and Selma Yeebaert, lot g. block 175,
East Moline, S1,150.
W. ]. and q. A. Bell TO Elmer 4.
Bell, tract for right-of-way In Moline,
$1.00.