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wv Abe Potash said the
morning after Mme CALI -Curci made
her sensational first appearance In
New ybrk, .fs that practically every
body with a rating higher than to L
credit fair hates to admit that 1t don
interest them at all"
"And even if it did interest them. Abe"
Morris Perlmutter said, 'they would
xor to have at least that rating before
they could afford it to buy decent
seat"
.Most of them don't begrudge the
money spent this way. Mawruss. be-
cause it comes under the. head OF ad-
vertising and not amusement. Abe
sa;d. Next to driving four-horse
coach down 5th avenue in the after
noon rush hour with feller playing
a New Year eve horn on the back OF
the roof. Mawruss, owning box at the
METROPOLITAN Opera House is the high
est grade form of publicity which ex-
lists. and the consequence is that other
people which believes in that kind OF
advertising medium. but couldn't afford
TO take SO much space per week. sits
In the cheaper $40 and Sc seats. And
that's how the opera house makes ITS
money. Mawruss. 1t gets a thousand
times better rates as any of the DIG
scent weeklies, and it don't have 10
WORRY about the second-class postage
zones
.sBut YOU don't mean to tell me that
the people which stands up downstairs
and buys seats in the gallery is also
looking for publicity?' Morris said.
.~rb.m people is something else
again." Abe replied. They are as dif-
ferent from the rest of the audience as
magazine readers is from magazine ad-
vertisers. Take the boxholders in the
opera house and they oser give nickel
what happens to Caruso. He could get
burned in Trovatore.' stabbed IN
.Pagliacci.' 90 to the devil in Faust
and have his intended die on him IN
Boheme.' and just SO long as their
names is spelled right on the programs
ft don't affect them millionaires no
more than if, instead Of being the great
est tenor in the world. he would be an
Interstate commerce commissioner. On
the other hand. them top gallery fellers
treats him like little god. y'under-
stand, which if Caruso hands them
opera fans high C. Mawruss. it's the
equivalence of Dun or Bradstreet Civ
ing one of them boxholders an A a.
Maybe you're right, Abe" Morris
said, "bu. how do you account for peo-
pie paying $40 for an orchestra seat at
the Lexington Opera House just to hear
this singer Galli-curei in one perform
ance only. which admit amt no ad-
vertising expert, Abe, but it seems to
me that if anybody is going to get bene-
at from publicity like that he might
just so well circulate picture Of him.
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Y MONTAGUE GLASS

russo has been singing over ana O0R
again! Come. my friends. let - ~
and the whole time them peopae vaa
acting like they wanted to tear him b
pieces. they have been saying. Tes. yea.
let us CO. a thousand times over. and
that's all there is to it"
Well. after all. with q grand opera q
amt SO much the words as the uugic:S
Morris commented
Even the music they don't take It 81
particular about nowadayx- Abe qon-
tinued- In fact. tho up-to-date thing
in grand opera is not to have any
music. Mawruss-oniy samples, which
some Of them newest grand opMRs
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I'VE had a sunken road at Waterloo"
said Napoleon. IF you don't believe
it, ask Victor Hugo"
20, veil. anyhow" retorted Frederick,
angrily. hes got you three tin SOL
diers lashed to the mast, and, what's
more, he's going to put through the
thing that you, Napoleon, and you,Cae-
sar. with all your Wanted chenius.
could never ccomplish-that iss the
world empire. Wait until my boy iss
crowned king of the earth, and you'll
see.
"All right. Freddy, dear" said Ma
poleon. with q laugh. "Tll wait /
haven't anything to do until the third
Thursday in the Eternity after the
neXtH
well, as for me-" said Washington.
gravely, Il shall never see it,"
And why not. pray" asked Fred
erick.
because" said Washington. Il am an
American, and the thing can't Happen
while there is an American left IN. the
whole broad universe"
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respects us for it. The public is a
pretty wise guy. after all. and can see
the difference between US and these
modern Gen. Slaves, that crop up pretty
nearly everywhere, except on the bat
tleheld" - ~
well. maybe. you're right" said
Caesar. II suppose I oughtn't to care.
but that conceited old duffer. Frederick
the Great, has just been grating on me.
He was in here awhile ago, and after
Noah had. bored us to, death with the
cute sayings of Shesn when he was a
baby. for about an hour, Frederick. but
ted in on tho. subject Of that Katzen-
jau1mAx. K1RsoSh3ah htx1e Kaiser WOlio.
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bloodhound and mind reader. y'under-
stand, and even then he would get
twisted
'~For instance, Caruso comes out with
a couple hundred assorted tenors and
BASES, and so far as any human being
could tell which don't understand 1tal-
ian. Mawruss, he begs them that they
shouldn't go out on strike right in the
middle OF the busy season, in particu-
lar when times is so hard and every
thing, and from the way he puts his
hand on his heart it looks like he is
also telling them that he is speaking
to them as friend, y'understand. and
to consider their wives and children.
understand me- All the effect this
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would be affected il some stonecutter
in a Vermont mausoleum quarry were
set up as his superior. 1t hurts the
profession to talk that way, and l can
tell you this: Anybody who thinks my
campaign in Gaul was a flve-o' clock
tea affair has got mighty poor grip
on the facts. I admit that before my
time there were a pretty poor lot or
prunes in the military line, history to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
Take that old rugdealer xerxes, Tor
instance. It makes me laugh when
think of Xerxes posing as soldier:
going to war the way he did. always
equipped with g. diamond studded
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Abe and Morris Discuss

going to hold 1t up for from fifteen
minutes to half an hour while he talks
about her upper register. her middle
register and her lower register to bunch
Of people who don't know whether a
coloratura soprano can travel on a
sleeper south to Washington or has to
use the Jim Crow cars"
"All right. If it's such crime not to
know what a coloratura soprano is.
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the military profession before him
were really soldiers" said Caesar, his
voice quivering with wrath. He said
we were nothing but lot of Shake
spearean hams and stage hands, wan
dering about the world dressed up IN
comic opera clothes, and giving riots
at one-night stands for spectacular and
political effect"
II guess he didn't include me in that
lot" said Napoleon, with his eyes
a-glitter.
well. anyhow. 1t hurtw said Caesar.
Il don't often weep but I tell you
Boney. since my old friend Brutus pull
cd his jackknife on mo that day In the
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self drinking tchampanyer wine out Of
a ladies' satin slipper and be done with
it for all the good 1t is going to do
him with the National Association of
Credit Men,
That is another angle of the grand
opera proposition, Mawruss," Abe said.
Paying $40 for an orchestra seat to
hear this lady with the Lloyd-George
name is the same like an operation for
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Association. the chairman of the Gar
ment Workers, Union and Jacob H
Schiff. y'understand. but do you think
they would listen to him: Oser stuck!
They laugh in his face, and it don't
make no difference that he repeats it
an octave higher accompanied by the
fiddles. and gives them one last chance
ending on high c. y'understand. they
refuse to reconsider the matter. and
when the curtain goes down. it looks
like the strike was on for fair.
However, when the lights are turned
on and you look it up in the English
translation, what do you find: The en-
tire thing was a false alarm, Mawruss.
It seems that for twenty minutes Ca
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Mawruss. if it wouldn't be that the pes
pie on the stage is making such .
racket instead of the people in the an
dience. you would think that the or
chestra was continuing to tune up dur
ing the entire evening"
Seemingly you didn't get whole lot
out OF your visits to the opera. Abe"
Morris said.
"Oh, yes 1 did," Abe replied. II got
some wonderful idees for dinner dress
designs and evening gowns. I amt
got 10 kick coming against the opera.
Mawruss. A garment manufacturer
can put in a very profitable evening
there any night. if he can only stand
the music
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- a warrior. who played the game
ravely from start to finish on the field
- battle itself. to have a later genera
hon Of captains of industry come along
nd corral all the prizes by telephone?"
=
TT is kind of tough" said Bonaparte.
~But. after all juicy. what do We care?
We had our day. You crossed the Rubi-
con. and danced tho tango across the
hs1dgs at Arcoaa. and there 10 glory
enough Sbr ~ In those two achieve
8ents 50 lnae N uux1 the cack oe
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senate ! haven't had such deep cut
for going on 1000 years! 1 don't care
so much about myself but to have Fred
Hohenzollern speak that way about
my fellow warriors. just to crack up
that matted milk hero of his at Pots
dam affected me just as Mike Angelo
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ee IS :: e: :: : ::
~ the Styx and found julius


Caesar sitting dejectedly on in one cor
ner wiping his eyes on his tunic You
look as if Brutus had jabbed you again
with a hat pin"
Matter enough. Boney," said Caesar,
sniffiing like a boy who had been un-
Justly smitten with a hairbrush. "Mat-
ter enough! Here you and 1 struggled
and toiled. along with Alexander and
hannibal and Washington and MARI
borough. to elevate war to the level of
m art, and these dad-binged Huns
ceme along and turn it into q trade
and. a not particularly reputable trade
at that You might as wen be the head
- department store as a general
aewadays, for all the glory there is in
Il What's the use of winning laurels
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HOLLERs MURDER PollCE-ANA
THERE

appendicitis to some people. Mawruss-
1t not only makes them feel superior
to their friends which amt had the
experience, but it gives 'em a tropic
of conversation which is never going
to be barred by the statue of limita-
tions, and for months to come such a
feIler is going to go round saying:
Well, 1 heard Galli-Curci the other
night and it won't make no differ
ence if it's a pinochle game. lodge
funeral or real estate transaction. he's
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in the first degree. SO go ahead. Abe.
Tn willing to take my punishment
Tell me, what is coloratura soprano?"
'I suppose you think 1 don't know
Abe said.
II don't think you don't KNOW" Nor
ris replied. but 1 do think that the
only reason you do know. Abe. is that
you amt looked it up long enough
since to have forgotten it"
rs that so" Abe exclaimed. well,
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>>00 0HERE grand opera gets
OOM/nM its big boost. Mawruss,
NN Abe Potash said the
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Love to all,
Letter to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. J. Roe
ST. PauPs Vicarage,
62 ST. Johns Road,
Kirkdale, Liverpool


Dear Mr.. Roe:
AS Chaplain at the Kirkdale ceme-
terry last week it fell to my lot to
bury your son, Private William Roe,
on the 10th of May. May l express
our sincere sympathy with you in
your sad loss and to say how much we
appreciate the splendid assistance the
u. S. A are sending us in our hour of
need Your son was buried with full
military henors and beautiful
wreath of large lilies and lilies of the
valley, with two miniature American
flags which were placed upon the cof-
fin and later upon the grave.
The cemetery is in the north end of
Liverpool and the grave is No 80,
Section 6, Church of England. If !
can be of any service to you any time,
l shall only be too glad.
/ am, yours very sincerely,
Henry Ward,
Vicar of ST. Paul's Church.
(The above shows how cur boys
are buried in England.)
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am sure a busy kid and happy that
we arrived here safely because we
did not know how long our boat was
going to stay on top of the the water.
L have had all the experience / want
with the subs" They were sure after
us but were kept away by the big
guns on the ship. The sailors said
they got one
There was hard wind blowing Tor
about day and that caused consider
able enjoyment for US, especially the
ones who were not sea sick Every
time the boat would tip we would all
go with it and when down in the mess
hall some would fall and slide to the
other side of the boat. We had to
brace ourselves in the hunks to keep
from falling out all although they had
side boards on them.
The eats on our way over were not
very good but we always got some
way to get enough of what they had.
We had cards they marked the first
time we went around for eats but we
would erase the mark they put on it
and go again If necessary.
After landing we got quite an ex-
tended trip on the train which looked
like CIRCUS parade. The cars are
short, have high wheels with spokes
in them. The freight cars have a
capacity of six tons
This is a very beautiful country,
everything is green and there are a
large number of small streams and
ponds. Sheep raising is carried on to
great extent and they have some
| fine draft horses and riding horses
which reminds one of a grey hound
We went on hike this morning and
L saw a new idea of blowing. There
were two steam engines, one at. each
end of the field and had cable attach
ed to gang of six plows. One engine
would wind the cable on a large spool
and pull them one way and as it was
both a right and left handed pillow,
it was kept going back and forth and
they went much faster than the trac
ors go out there.
l go my money changed into Eng
| lish money but don't know if ! got
4 the Il3ul- change OF not II you saw
any of it on the ground out there you
would not think about picking it up
l is more of job to carry it around
than it is for the goods you can buy
with it.
We went to the city this Afternoon
and saw many things Of interest. A
church which was built in the year
200 was the greatest point of inter.
est. In it were the tombs of many OF
the great men, kings, etc, also many
beautiful paintings. In another place
was a collection of old relics. One {
SADDLE more than 1000 years old ane
a lot of things even older, including
those used in the wars of long ago
Well, / will have to close but
i don't think I could stop writing abou-
the different things but l might pu
in something that would be stamped
out by the censor.
Your loving brother,
Carl Olson.
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CARL MITCHELL WRITES
DIOL0ST,
Carl Olson.

Somewhere in France.
Dear Friend:
AS this is Sunday will drop you
few lines. OF course you know that
1 can not write much, but will let you
know that 1 am all o. K. and that 1
never felt better in my life. 1 have
gained ten pounds since ! have been
in France. 1t is almost six months
now and 1 commence to think that /
am Frenchman. I have had some
pretty good times and also some bad
ones especially last winter. We had
to sleep in barns until our barracks
were built. l never will forget last
Thanksg giving dinner, we ate right out
in the open and gee il did snow, but
we all enjoyed it after all and by
Christmas, we were in our barracks
which sure was a treat. Although 1t
has never been very cold, but rained
most of the time
We have a 7. NJ C. A. where we
pass away the evenings, that is when
we are not on duty, there is some
thing doing every night, a movie,
musical program or talk, and on
Sunday afternoons a band concert.
/ have seen quite a little of France
by now. There are five of US that
generally go out together and we have
been to all the near by towns and
city. i have seen some of the oldest
buildings in France, some that are
over 500 years old.
We are having fine weather at pres
ent, since spring has opened up. The
trees are all in blossom and every
! thing is green The wheat is looking
fine The farmers are planting THEN
spring crops which is mostly all done
by women and girls. 1t sure seems
odd the way they farm. You might
see a horse and an OK hitched to-
gether or three horses hitched in q
| string.
have never been able to see
Ernest Smith or Barker but / know
where they are and am waiting for {
fchance to see them soon Tell every
body hello for me-
Carl j. Mitchell
80 Aero Squadron A. E. F.
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FRCA OKLAHOMA

Cestos, Okla, May II, 1918
Mr.. H. D. Clayton,
Hill City, Kansas.
Dear Sir@I received weeder some
time ago. 1t is surely the best
machine for listed crops | ever used,
so easily adjusted, and stays where
you put IT Four men were here look
ing it over today and saw the work
it was doing. One was Mr.. Shafer.
He took your address and said he was
going to send for one at once
Respectfully,
w. A. Espy.
when Mr. Espy bought this ma
chine, he needed it so urgently that he
ordered it shipped by express.-H- D.
Clayton-) Adv IL
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FROM A. ]. SCHIMKOWTTSCH
San Antonio, Texas,

San Antonio, Texas,
Dear Mother:
1 received your letter today and
thought 1 would write you again l
lust started to work in the Airoplane
shops, overhauling airplane engines.
Have 5 different makes of motors in
the airplanes they use here. l went
up in the air today for the first time
with an instructor, a fellow l know
from Kansas City, we went up for
twenty minutes going up to 5000
feet.
President Wilson's daughter was
here last Saturday, Miss Margaret
Wilson and McAdoo. Miss Wilson sang
some songs for the boys and McAdoo
gave us a speech. Ruth Law and her
brother were also here. I don't know
whether you have read about her or
not. She is from Chicago and is a
great woman aviator. She made a
few flights here in an airoplane. She
and her brother went up 5000 feet
and her brother jumped out of the
machine with a parachute and landed
O. K All the soldiers went down to
see it and Miss Law and her brother.
I don't know any more news. I am
getting along alright. Received the
cigars o. K.
Love to all,
A. j. Schimkowitsch.
Trade line No. IL. Kelly field No. 1.
Section Is, San Antonio, Texas.
(In letter written home recently
Mr.. Schimkowitsch states that he was
somewhat injured by fall in an air
oplane in which the pilot was killed
and the machine dropped about two
hundred feet to the ground
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THE KNIFE ,WEEDER
Gives Long Service and Perfect
Satisfaction

Gives Long Service and Perfect
Satisfaction
Densmore, Kans., April 6, 1915
Mr.. III. ID. Clayton,
Hill City, Kansas.
Dear Sir:=I am in need of eight
hind knives for the Clayton Weeder.
l have had one for IT or 10 years that
/ got of Charlie Woodward Che used
to live at Edmond) and another L
got of Tommy Dodson IL or Is years
ago, and have used them every year,
for the first time. over, instead of the
disc weeder, and they can't be beat
Do the knives you make now fit the
weeders you made some years ago,
and what is the price on eight knives
with bolts to fit? Please send me
prices, and oblidge,
Yours truly,
William Harrison.
(These machine are not sold
through agents nor statesmen. They
are sold direct from the factory to
the farmers who will use them. H. d
Clayton.) Adv. IT.
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The voters of Trego County will
please take notice that 1 am a candi-
date for the office of Clerk of the Dis
trict Court subject to the will of the
Republican voters at the primary in
August. j. w. Bingham
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1 hereby announce myself as a cam
didate for reelection to the office of
County Superintendent of Trego
County subject to the viii of the
democratic voters at the August
primary. Mrs. Minnie ONeil.
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If the voters of Trego County think
/ am justified in having my second
term of office viii hereby announce
myself as a candidate for reelection
to the office of County Treasurer,
subject to the Democratic voters at
the primary in August
L. S. Myerly.
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FLY THE FLAG CONTINUOUSLY
1t Doesn't Have to Come Down at
Sunset Unless You So Desire

Authorities on Respect to Our
Flag" say the flag should be lowered
at sunset. Will you kindly advise why
and by whom such orders were issued
The words of the "Star Spangled Ban
ner,"
And the rockets red glare,
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there.
do not bear this this out, and know a
number of Americans who would dis
play their colors if they could let
them fly continuously. for one, can
see no insult to my flag by allowing
it to fly at all times from my home;
If you feel the same about this kindly
advise all lovers of the flag to display,
their colors.
Your flag need not be lowered at
sunset No less an authority than
Adjutant General Simpson, station
ed at Governors Island, is responsible
for the statement that the flag can re-
main up during every hour of the
twenty four and until the end of the
war, if it is the wish of those who dis
play it.
Article 437 of the army regulations
provides that at every military post
or station the flag will be hoisted at
the sounding of the first note of the
reveiIle or of the first note of the
march, if a march be played before
the reveille The flag will be lowered
at the sounding of the late note of
| the retreat and while the flag is be-
| ing lowered the band will play the ma
| tional anthem, or if there be no band
present the field the music will sound
t.to the colors."
| But a special regulation provides
that at the beginning and during an
action in which the forts may be en-
gagged the flag shall be kept masted
whether by day or by night or until
the action closes.
The adjutant general said however,
! that this did not infer that a private
individual could not use the flag at all
times and especially during wartime
as long as a sense of patriotism die
tated it. Therefore, put out your flag
and, if it pleases you, keep it there
1
WHEN WE GET AN IRISH KAISER
When the war is over, ladies, just
take tip from me,
There will be no German submarines
diving through the sea.
For in the Fatherland is Kaiser Bill,
the guy we're going to lick,
And we'll have a brand new Kaiser
and the same will be Mick.
We will change the song die Wacht
am Rhein" into an Irish reel,
And make the Dutchmen dance is sc
inclined we feel.
For the police force in Berlin will
be Micks from County Clare,
When we put an Irish Kaiser in the
palace over there
Sure in every german parkway you'll
find a sweet colleen,
And waving fields of sauerlraut wei
plant with Shamrock green
No Hverwursts or sausage when The
dutchman drinks his suds,
But he1llget corned beef and cabbags
and the good old Irish spuds.
The heathens' guns and gas bomb,
we'll throw them all away,
And then make them use shillelahs O,
bricks of Irish clay.
They'll wear no iron crosses, sure it,
Shamrocks they'll wear,
When we put an Irish Kaiser in tn,
palace over there.
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If the -.ocers of Trego county de-
sire it the present probate judge will
be glad to continue to serve them in
that capacity. He will ask for the
Republican nomination and will ap-
preciate the readers support.
A. S. Peacock.
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hereby announce myself as a cam
diiate for reelection to the Office of
County Clerk of Trego County sub
jeet to the republican voters at the
August primary.
c.. H. Benson.
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/ hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of Clerk of the District
Court of Trego County subject to the
will of the democratic voters at the
August primary.
F. B. Are.