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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-17

the management OF this scrt ot
plant It has become alsorbine r
interestin5. q couldn't give up the
idea now OF taking over my fathel
plant some day--and 7 had though
or giving 10 all up. have learned
20 look en- things quite different
now than would have been possible
u D had remained in the boiler
room as "a fireman
DURING the weeks hat had passed
when Hester HAD supposed him 30
De emily one 81 the laborers in her
fathers plant she had permitted "a
friendship % rise between them THAI
seldom consisted Of more than a
stroll hameWard together az night
They never went more than nFs
blocks together as neither wanted
the other 40 know where home
really was And now that you
know who am. ne said "you
aren't -oiug TO despise me- We are.
none the less dear 20 each other.
are wee had always dreamed or
marrying "a girl like yourself gin
who knows hard work. 6 girl OF the
people whose world is not bounded
by the narrow conventions % leis-
ured society"
IN Hester hlngdon. she said.
What O. dreadful disappointment.
Still, We might have met a. ansa
one OF dozen house parties and.
never should have cared a straw fo-
each other. It can forgive you
for not being "a brawuy, unschoole a.
stoker youU have 20 forsivc me for
not being nice little working girl %
And OF course he did
copyright. 1879
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-17

fireman rather than because OF re-
peated promotions i've heard you
employ an efficiency adviser. Wen.
/ want 10 know on what the expert
bases his conclusions. He spoke
slowly and at times With broken
English, though IL would have been
hard 10 determine the nationality
that his accent indicated IF you
don't want 10 tell me. at least YOU
ought 70 let me see this expert my
self. IL is very important"
You have seen the expert" Nj.
Kingdom said slowly and almost sol
EMMY. You see the expert every
day-four times a day and if ] am
not much mistaken YOU usually
stop and chat with the expert for a
few minutes when you come in at
noon. In fact" Mr.. kingdom was
looking straight into the young
mans face, Il have reason 10 be-
lieve that the expert occasionally
meets you after hours and allows
you TO escort her part way home.
Norgen's face showed first annoy
ance and then something akin 20
amusement. a curious choice for
an efficiency adviSer-What does
she know Of mems abilities ." ne
asked
she picked YOU from the rest, %
was Mr.. Kingdoms answer. and
you have made good. ! should new
err have noticed you even in a dozen
years. She seems to know her men
and she IS learning more every day.
She is becoming invaluable. It's a
rare gift--a sort OF second sight"
she might have found out" the
young man who went by the name
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-17
BY Jane Osborn.


To be quite honest Hester was
staring shamelessly at the man OPP
posite her and the predominant
sentiment iu her mind as she stared
was one of admiration. The man
sat in a posture or dejection-his
shoulders si0uched forward and his
chin sunk down on this chest This
was not the rcmarkG bile thing for
lt was "a natural posture Tor man
oesrimed and smudged from his
days work az the kingdom foundry.
The remarkable thing 90 Testers
keen insight was that the young
tally slOuchiug at ALL His rather
large. rudy face. uusAaven and
blackened erotesquely. showed
alertuess and none OF the set lines
that came from long. seuse-deaden-
ing drudsery in the foundry. Ills
mouth was set with hard determine
ton and the two burrows between
his deep-set and blackened eyes in
Cicated 90 Hester that his mind was
alert even at the end of the hard
days work.
That night after dinner Hester
sought her father. the owner ana
manager OF the foundry. 100 his
study. lie held an open magazine
boz his hand but his PARKWAY, de-
termined expression showed 20 Hes
Ter at a glance that his mind was
not in the masazine but ON the
foundry
NO fair having troubles YOU
dOl't tell me about she began.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-17

sition in the private office Of Mr..
kingdom himself. And this i'm spite
OF the fact that Poung Norgen haa
apparently resisted all promotion,
ana had shown an utter lack Of
schoolinS. He had even proved his
inability 20 write figures and for
this reason had a special stenog-
rapher TO take all his dictatiOn for
him. Moreover. he doggedly re-
fused 10 dress as man in Mr..
Kingdoms private office should
dress and came and went in a fan
mel shirt and overalls, and insisted
on eating lunch with the other men
in the court yard at noon and con-
sorting with them at closing time
rather than with the men in the
office departments.
No one was more puzzled than
Norgen himself at his rapid rise. IL
he was at all pleased he did not
show il. And this was disappoint-
ing. if not 20 Mr.. Kingdom. who had
taken a fancy TO the young man,
than at least TO the daughter on
whose persistent advice Norgen had
received his repeated promotions.
Already in his logged, almost surly
way be had relieved Kingdom Of a
great deal Of worry. In spite Of him
self he was proving the rightness OF
the advice Of the efficiency adviser.
One day Norsen came abruptly
10 Mr.. kingdom with his question:
who is responsible for my promo
tion?" he demanded. eff there is
something behind this. ! ought TO
know" You might have supposed
that he was complaining about a
plot 10 keep him forever working as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
ALONG THE LINE

from their company, at the side of the street just around the corner from head- quarters.
 One was sleeping, as only soldier who has seen five days of battle can sleep, his head dangling carelessy over a mud stained pack. The other had one shoe off and was regarding ruefully, but rather listlessly, his capital wound of battle, blistered foot. Before them, as conspicu- ous as the top sergeant at morning roll call, stood, in its labeled and tinseled glory, an empty champagne bottle. Every rank from sergeant to brigadier general passed them. tried to look shocked, and failed.
 By and by the second private stretched .his foot over the curbing and went to sleep. too. It wasn't until afternoon that a noncom., rounding up stragglers, awoke them.
 ..Where did you get that champagne?'' asked the noncom. (with motives beyond question:.
 ''Well,'' explained the smaller of the pair. five hadn't had anything to eat but iron rations for five days, and not much of that, then we lost our outfit, and when we landed here we started out to buy something. The only thing for sale in the whole town was a bottle of champagne, so we bought that.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
THE MODERN FATHER
SUNDAY SCHOOL IN FRANCE,-Frank Willis Barnett

ed him to sweep the bunch. remember once being called upon to preach the in troductory sermon in a Baptist associa- tion held up in the heart of the east Ten nessee mountains. was a new man in the body, and my home was with the leader in the settlement.
 About an hour before the preaching hour arrived I noticed that he was get on the front porch talking. I saw him motion to me and followed him into my room. I was never more taken back in my life as he shut the door and said, Look here, young man, you get to study ing your sermon; you are stopping at my house, and I don't want you to make no bust.'
 It amused me greatly and after all was a rather human way of looking at it. It's but natural that we want those with whom we associate, and especially those who for the. time being are under the shadow of our wings, to soar when they stand on the1f rect so that we can eaten some of their reflected glory if they shine bright enough. We'll, Joe shone all right
 *
 He had made hit at the Tutwiler ban quet the night before when addressing the leading business men of the city. He had won great triumph before the big crowd which packed Capitol park on the same evening, but I was going to try him out in a totally different atmosphere, and when fellow weighs as much as 20u pounds it's usually risky to try to get him to sail in a too rarified spiritual envir- onment But Joes plumage was not dampened, but glistened in the religious light
 Every now and then in the worlds his- tory some artist paints a masterpieces some poet gives birth to a poem which will live always; some patient toiler by his researches enriches mankind. and then once in very great while man makes an after-dinner speech which is an oratorical gem. It fell to the lot or Joe Mitchell Chapple to do this on Fri day night as all who heard him will gladly bear witness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15

'prostration are other symptoms, Anyone who contracts the disease should go to bed at once and send for a physician.
 Dr. Blue recommends a compara- lively simple treatment, consisting of rest in bed, fresh air, a nourishing diet in abundance and Dover's powders to relieve the pain. Quinine and aspirin have also been used success fully for this purpose. The chief dan ger lies in complications such as bronchial pneumonia. With reason able care and treatment the disease is not fatal.
 A bulletin has been issued by the public health department for the in- formation of medical men with recom- mendations for coping with a pos sible epidemic in this country. In it's general manifestations Spanish influ- enza resembles our old enemy, grippe. Infection of the respiratory organs may be spread in the many ways we have been taught to guard against in the case of coughs, colds and tuberculosis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15

l am rot going to try and catch the perfume which lowered about his subject as his mind caught fire, and his heart glowed within him as his lips were touched with coal of fire from above, for if ever man was inspired he was, and this is why he lifted us out of our earthly selves and bore us along in the heavenlies
 I can't even give the outline. He be- gan in a reminiscent way about few months ago having stood in the little vil- large of Demremy, in France, where Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, had dreamed great things and what was more, had been obedient to her "heavenly vision." As he outlined her I could see the famous picture which adorns the walls of the Luxembourg.
 With delft hand he set the scene of his talk on stage with background of hs- tory which will never die; but also stage alive with modern history, for the valley is filled with our own American pOyS, WnO, IOiiOWlnS ln tue lOOlSlepS oA the sainted French girl, are also dream ing dreams whichf praise God, are com- ing true, for they are engaged in holy war in the name of democracy.
 Sunday came and with it a homesick- ness for something typically American, and so word passed through the regiment, Lets have Sunday school?" census was taken and it was found that in the regiment were 2s Sunday school teachers, and there in France on Sunday morn ing officers and boys got out their Bibles and studied Sunday school lesson, not from leaflets or quarterlies. but from the Blessed Book itself. They took the beautiful shepherd Psalm for their topic, and chose for the golden text: .'The Lord is my Shepherd; shall not want" Friends said Joe Mitchell Chapple, German kultur is doomed, for it cannot stand against an army which was trained in the public. schools ot America and nurtured in Sunday schools. He made dramatic close and hurried out as tears sprang in the eyes of his hearers who had caught the vision or service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
LUKE NI,LuKE SAYS

Away down in his heart the man who is paving alimony knows that he is get ting his moneys worth.
 fat girl of 20 has as much right to try to act kittenish as slim girl of 20, but somehow or other. the poor thing can, get away with it.
 may be, he is never as polite to his wife as he is to other women.
 Our idea of a gentleman is a fellow Who Will tell other men that you resigned your position when he knows that you lost your job.
 The teetotaler who gets a headache rom making a hog of himself when he eats gets lot of sympathy. But when a fellow gets a headache from making a hog Of himself when he drinks, the world says it serves him right
 Pity the poor married man. If his wife can't think of something he has done, she can always bawl him out about some- thing he hasn't done.
 We may be wrong. But we believe that when woman makes her husband take her poodle out for a walk every night, she tnlngs more of the poodle than she does of her husband. Go to a police court any morning ana you will learn that pedestrian never gets hit because the chauffeur is running too fast. He gets hit because the pedes- trian is running too slow A fat woman never wears a more skirt She doesn't want you to know that she has two old neckties tied around het props just above the knees to hold hel stockings up A woman who knows that she has on her best underwear when she goes for an auto ride feels safer than if she knew that there were non-skid chains on the tires.
 Some men remind you of small boys They are never idle and yet they nevel seem to accomplish anything. This is a turf old world. About the time boy gets old enough to feel proud of hii hair he begins to lose 1t. After a girl has been married about I year she goes around looking like she had been disappointed in love. A wife will go a long way out of hei way to have it. The way they dress these hot days 1t ii easy to see why girl thinks she is vel built.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
Three Great Armies
 Now Face the Hun

6NHE success of General Pershing J in ironing out" the St. Mihiel salient puts the American army, as a unit, definitely into the war. Hereto fore our troops have fought in con junction with our allies, brigaded with French or British soldiers. Now they have taken their appointed place in the grand army whose operations are directed by General Foch.
 A signal victory, although strictly a alocal operation" has been won by General Pershing's troops. It may be preliminary to an invasion of Ger many, an achievement which will doubtless have its politial effect on the German people and impair still further a morale which is already badly shaken,
 It is inspiring to visualize the three mighty armies which Foch now holds In leash-the British, the French and the American-formed of many units scattered along the battle front, from Switzerland to the sea. Fired by suc- cessful battles, they are eager to get at the enemy.
 Back of the great machine stands the generalissimo, Foch, whose mili- tary genius maps out the successive blows which are dealt, now in one place and now in another, but each carrying out fixed purpose and re- acting on the battered German armies. Like gigantic game of chess each play is made and Foch is master of the board.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15

The supreme test of an after dinner speaker Is not to be able to respond to q toast or speak to a question upon which he has had notice, but just to be called out and select topic which fits in with the occasion and get away with it.
 I saw Joe Mitchell Chapple, the cheru- bic-faced Bostonese, put to this acid test the other night at the Southern club. Now he didn't know a half hour before he went that he was going, and what's more, Judge Locke, who was the chairman, didn't know that he was coming. I was the happy connecting link which brought the man and the occasion together.
 I wouldn't have taken chance on most men, but somehow I believed that Joe Chapple could fit into any crowd and hold up his end, for he has made na- tional reputation in his famous lecture on he lets him audience name any celebrity, and he flashes his portrait immediately on it's retina by giving a Few vivid char acteristics which causes them to visual ize their favorite as though he were a movie actor and appearing before them on the screen.
 Another reason why concluded to try Joe out on Sunday school gathering was because knew he was an American to the backbone, and had been saturated with the Sunday school idea, which is so cher acteristically an American institution. l was experimenting with the globe trot- ting Bostonian and at the same time wanted to do .therSunday school leaders a good turn, for there is nothing too good for Sunday school workers.
 We walked over from the Tutwiler to the Southern club and found a number of prominent laymen and a score or more of charming women present. Owing to the fact that the distinguished guest had to catch an early train I was asked to in- troduce him before the dinner had been completely served. I was a bit interested to know how he would get off and what he would say when he got going.
 As had injected him on the meeting without asking the privilege l, of course, felt some responsibility and want
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
New Way of Saving
 Our Boys in Battle

6S A FEW peach stones may save
 N a soldiers life," is the way a sign will read in grocery stores, whose proprietors are cooperating with the United States food admins tration.
 In statement addressed to grocers it is set forth that only the best gas masks will save our boys from pain ful death. These masks cannot be made, it is learned, without good char coal. Wood charcoal "has proved deficent." The sort of charcoal needed can be made from peach stones, prune pits, plum pits, apricot pits, olive pits, cherry pits, date seed, Brazil nut shells and hickory nut, walnut and butter nut shells.
 The pits, stones and shells are needed now. They should be dried in an oven or in the sun, but under no circumstances must any other pits or shells than those named be deposited in the receptacles which the grocers will provide at the request of the food administration.
 Here is an easy way for every boy and girl, as we'll as every householder, to perform a humane service of vital importance. With the campaign or- ganized the food administration will have the active cooperation not only of all grocers, but of all societies en- gagged in war work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Sees Big Shell Hit In Paris

T hear pretty regularly from my son James. who is in France" said A. w. Nelson.
 Recently he wrote that he had been in Paris on a two days leave and had greatly enjoyed\it in spite of having had quite an experience It seems he was quietly walking along the streets Of the great Parisian capital looking in the shop windows or glancing at the passing throng when a few blocks ahead down came one of the big shells from the gun hid away in woods near ly 70 miles. It made a great hole but killed only few. He said it seemed as if the crater which it made where it struck was an ant bed, for in a few moments it literally swarmed with people,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
HE GOT THE WATER

From Stars and Stripes.
 Three Tanks found themselves in a shell hole 50 yards from German machine gun Two of them had painful head wounds. They were so thirsty they were choking.
 It was up to someone to go out and cut the canteens from two good Ger mans who lay between the shell hole and the machine guns.
 You stay here," said the old regu- lar to his bunkie. "because you've got wife. I'm going to pray and go out and get that water"
 The fire flew from the clump of bush as he drew near the coveted canteen. but it flew high. He got back safe with the water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
ANOTHER DISCOVERY

From the Philadelphia North Amer-
 ican.
 yesterday were 1900 husky soldiers from the southwestern states, training at Camp Dix. Two big Arizonians in the group, wandering along the board- walk. were getting their first near glimpse of the ocean.
 They walked down the steps to the beach, watched the waves for a mo- ment and approached the waters edg9. There they leaned over, dipped their fingers in the water and put the fin- gers in their mouth
 By crackyw said one. it is salty, isn't n?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
Foreign Epidemic
 Reaches America

@PANISH influenza, which swept g over large part of Europe and is still prevalent abroad, has made it's appearance in several seaport cities of America. There was an outbyeak last month at Fort Morgan, near Mo- bile, according to survey made by Surgeon General Blue of the public health service. New York, Newport News, New London, Conn.,; Boston and New Orleans have reported cases
 As it i $ practically impossible to quarantine against Spanish influenza, prompt and efficient treatment after it develops seems to be the only way to combat the disease, although the public may protect itself to certain extent by avoiding places and taking sanitary precautions to avoid infec- ton.
 The disease develops with astonish- ing rapidity, people being stricken at their work or on the streets. A chill is followed by fever, with tempera- ture of 101 to 1O3l Headache, back ache, inflamed eyes, pains and aches in all parts of the body and general
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
LOVES PHILOSOPHY.

By Percy Bysshe Shelley Q792- -lS22.) The fountains mingle with the river,
 And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single;
 All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle-
 Why\not l with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven,
 And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven i. If it disdained it's brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth,
 And the moonbeams kiss the sea, What are all these kissings worth,
 If thou kiss not me?.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
A "TWO-A-DAY" CORPORAL From Stars and Stripes.

F IOtA OldlS dllQ otiAPS's
 In certain regiment up front there is corporal who, after the war, ought to go big in the two day. back home, for he has an average of two Boches a day for three days of sniping. Three of the enemy he got within five minutes. and at range of 800 yards; and he has officer witnesses to prove it.
 It seems there was an open spot across No Mans Land where one section of the Boche trench cut into another. Noting the time at which reliefs passed there, the sniping corporal adjusted his sights. rammed in clip and waited. And then on they came.
 One! One down. Two! Another down. Three! A third down. After that no more Boches attempted to pass.
 In addition, he got Boche sniper who had given the Tanks not few close calls He located the Hun in tree and crawled out after him. After squirming around one whole morning he took one ! shot at the tree. And the Boche oblig- ingly tumbled down out of the branches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15

had fallen for half an hour when the ammunition boys lined up for supper in the woods Suddenly a volley cracked out and shrapnel began to spatter about.
 Not a man was hit, but the private in question had the queer sensation of sec ing his mess kit blown out of his hands and badly wrecked, without even getting his hand scratched.
 That's close enough said a mate, standing near by.
 Its closer than that, was the pri- vate's only comment
 One battery commander has had his bat. tery in action over a long stretch with out a serious casualty. A few days ago a German gun secured a direct hit upon one of the field pieces, but the hit de- veloped in such way that the field piece was able to continue it's return fire with in less than five minutes.
 Hell be the man that either kills or captures the Kaiser, said a lieutenant. s About 10 o'clock on the morning of the brigades arrival at a beautiful little town that looked, under the mornins summer sun, as if it might be million miles from the battle front the peaceful scene wa saccentuated by two boyish pri- yates of Squad F size, obviously strays