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Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-08-17
CRIMES GROW APACE

With the abolishment of capital punishment in Arizona capital crimes increased than 100 per cent in the first eighteen months the eighteen months prior to the taking effect of the law. And practically none of the crimes are traceable to liquor. compilation of the crimes for the eighteen months before and the eighteen months after the abolishmert of capital punishment has been made from official records by the Arizona Gazette and
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-08-17
ABOUT FACE

ABOUT FACE (By Sergeant William P. Acker man, Remount Depot, Camp Fun ston, Kansas.)
 A negro sergeant was explain ing the proper way in which the different commands should be ex- ecuted. He finally came to About Face," which he explained as follows.
 "Niggahs, you place de toe of yo' right foot six inches to the reah of yo left foot, and jus ooze aroun,."
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-08-17
A BROTHERS PRIVILEGE

"No, MT. Dobley," said the girl, q can only be a sister to you." ...
 "Well, then," he savagely re- piled, as he heard subdued chuckle, Gas your brother claim the privilege of lying under the sofa while you make fools of the other fellows" ."-Boston Trans cript.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-08-17
ONLY A "RING-OFF"

"Did you ever get a proposal, auntie?" ?"
 "Once, my dear. A gentleman proposed over the telephone, but he had the wrong number."- London Tit-Rits,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22
THIS GERMAN
AIDED AMERICA

Every American can take OF his
hat to this Ger1nan-earon 9teub'
en-.
Il was at Valley Forge, when
Washinaton's unframed troops
were attacked BY hunger and cold
while waiting . chance to fight
for their country's freedom.
Baron steuben, who had been
on the stan Of Frederick the Great
and who admittedly was one Of
the ablest Pfussian officers, OTTER.
ed his services TO Washington
without pay or rank.
Washington immediately made
the German warrior head drill.
master. for American soldiers, and
he did his work we'll. Day after
day, in al kinds OF weather and at
ali hours Baron stsuben worked
with the raw American troops.
Within three months earon s&eub.
en- had made = wonderful change
In the American soldiers at val.
ley Forge. The Prussian general
said that the intelligence !. Of the
rank and file Of the American
army was 50 superior TO that Of
European privates that he could
accomplish more in three months
than with a years drilling Of raw
European troops.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22
STORY ABOUT A MOTHER.

s33ssWhat fools we mortals be!'' Sometimes with
all our thought, experience and good purpose, we
cannot even put 2 and 9 together and make 4 out
Of it. Sometimes, we scrape together money, organ
ize, plan and build to solve great problem and
are blind to the simple, natural lessons which the
Lord has plainly placed before our eyes. These OBJ
servations because there's Story About Mother.
Down east, in the great Bellevue hospitals psy-
chopathic ward they've got little glrlsh woman
named Sophie Berg whose mind is ION the border
land Distinguished physicians are studying her
and faithful nurses watching her, for she's part
patient and part prisoner, and there's hope Of her
complete restoration, mentally.
Sophie had husband and baby. Both died.
One can get husband. most any time, but one S
very own, angel baby-that s different.
Did you ever watch your little daughter love
her doll? It is that mother love she shows which
makes and moves this world. Society, government,
armament, war, business, everything we undertake
to do, would finally be useles without it. and so it
is something to be fostered and saved.
When poor Sophie Berg put such humble flowers
as poor woman may on her babys cold, notion
less bosom, saw the undertaken turn in the screws
in the tiny coffin and realized that it was forever
her brain refused to act straight She haunted the
parks and logged the steps Of maids that were push
ing baby carriages. The laughter, the cooling yea
even sthe weeping of little ones was music divine
to her ears Filling her heart possessing her mind
stirring her body always that mother love which
may mean Lincoln, or a Shakespeare, or some other
great one who uplifts the whole Of mankind Thou
sands Of sweet, growing, gurglng happy babies were
always before her in the great city. She was alone
in boat, on vast ocean, with not drop of water
for her parched soul and, one day. there came upon
her torture this idea' If not my baby, somebody -
Then she stole the baby of the Rosners.
Kidnapper! Kidnapper! And the police and the
Rosners came and took the cup of superlative joy
from her lips she drinking and put her under
detention
While many other women are refusing mother
hood or turning their babies over to hired help,
Sophie psychology does not to be just regular
So some Of the big scientists Of New York are study
ing her and o great institution is trying to sciep-
tiic3y tg her of being Just simple liftle, human
mother animal
! We~pr06ably don I Know enough about psychoi-
oto be safely entrusted With the Of inc
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the bitter winds and binding

through the bitter winds and binding
sleet. -
At dawn the Americansswere near
Trehton. but the Germans didn't know
it. They had gone to bed late after
their night of merrymaking and were
sound asleep when their santries came
flying back in to Trenton with the
news that the American. drive was on.
Knox and Hamilton wheeled their
cannon into position and poured
heavy fire into the ranks of.the dazed
Germans pouring out to meet the
Americans. Washington's sharpshoot-
ers stormed the houses aud picked on
the officers from windows. doors and
crevices. Colonel Ran fell 'mortaliy
wounded, his regiment broke and fed:
lust one company of, Germans escaped
getting across the bridge OF Assam.
pink creek before Washington saw
their route of escape and rhtew MS
soldiers across the path.
Z: The Germans, caught In 9 net,
threw their guns upon the ground,
their officers raised their hats on their
swords in token Of surrender, and
Washington driveaQn z.the German
forces ended in q victory for the Am
ericans.. With oversa thousand Ger
man prisoners. cannon, horses. am
7munition and. provisions, the Ameri.
cans again crossed the Delaware and
returned to camp.
That victorious drive, coming as It
.a,,a al Tno o|sthA darkest moments OF
American history, when. soldiers, we're
hungry, half clothed and tired; when
MANY OF the people had given uD hope
for American independence. and when
congress itself was, lost in bitter quar-
rels. ceniented the colonies more firm
" and pointed the way to- ultimate
freedom.
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down his river and put bridge
across it.
The French banker, his eye twink.
ling with amusement at the excessive
hilarity of the headwaiter, tasted his
dessert and found it good, and we put
lemon on our flat, round oysters.
There seemed nothing else In par
ticular to do.
Nowhere in particular to 60, for
one place was as safe as another;
and if anything were to happen 1t
would and If not, not.
No single diner left until he had
finished, no one went to q window
or a door.
OF course it had been false
alarm.
One of the alert French gendarmes
of the air, far towards the border,
had heard strange engine way over
head, and too far inside the line. so
he gave the alarm for the chase. and
q mistake in signals had treated the
city to long obsolete thrill. in spite
of the fact that the raiders are
scarcely likely ever again to reach
Paris.
The bugle sounded "all clear" In
a short time after the warning. and
the vigilant airmen, who never cease
to circle above their precious Paris.
flashed their comforting lights as
they whirred and dipped and tobog-
gained in the limpid ,moonlit air.
EUT THE THRILL HAD NO
DEPTH.
The world, with such tremendous
things 1T stake, has long since ceas'
ed to care about such trifles.
The incident only served to bring
up the everlasting puzzle Of: Why
does the eoehe do it!
His tremendously expensive raids
have no military or strategic value,
and 1t can only be that his clumsy
mind conceives the absurd theory
that such people as the British and
the French, who have proved their
staunchness by q heroism which will
be epic in future history, could be
frightened by a g0blin-a scarecrow
in field!
We have not been among the Brit
ish SO much, bit we we're with them
in the one visitation, and know that
there is nothing but bravery in them;
AID as for the French, whom We know
much better, sit is to laugh.
n Fear, as q basis of. action, seems
to have gone out Of the universe.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22
WESTINGHOUSE DRIVE ON GERMANS
BROUGHT GLORIOUS VICTORY In
HOUR OF AMERICA S DIRE PERIL

EDITORS NOTE: THE Hess
ian troops defeated BY Washing
ton at Trenton had been hired out
to fiaht their ruler who Waxed
rich and powerful out Of the sale
Of their iifeblood. They had been
driven into war just az today the
people Of hesse, now a part OF
Prussia, and other German PEG.
p,es are forced into trenches to
satisfy the power lust Of their ul.
era, the kaiser and his militaristic
junkers.)
1t was on Christmas. 1716. thatfGen'
eral George Washington began his
drive against the Germans entrenched
at Trenton. n. ].
The password that Washington
gave his men was:
"VICTORY FOR DEATH". Is.
For. many long and cold hungry
weeks the Americans had been wait
ing in Pennsylvania, where the frozen
ground was streaked with blood from
their unshod feet, and where potato
and a few kernels of corn often was
all that stood between the American
soldier and starvation.
The Germans were enjoying them
selves at Trenton, secure In the be-
lief that the half-starved, poorly drill
ed Americans would not dare attack
them, well armed. highly trained and
vastly experienced in war. Colonel
Rail- did not disguise his contempt OF
the Americans In Trenton it was
proudly boosted that the Germans
would wait and make a great drive on
what was left of the Americans in the
spring. Colonel Rail expected BY that
time Washington's troops would have
been put out of fighting shape by the
rigors OF winter and poor provision
ing. @
! Then it was that Washington plan
ned his Christmas offensive. BY q
fine bit Of military strategy he had
thinned out the line of the enemy, and
he had the Germans alone In Trenton.
That Christmas night Colonel Rail
gave merry party. Song and dance,
pretty women and wine enlivened
things. The privates took the cue
from their officers and all Trenton
was a scene of revelry.
But It was different west of the
Delaware, the Americans were as
sembled, each man carrying rife, a
blanket, three days rations and 40
pounds of ammunition.
With ".Victory or DEATH" in every
American heart they set out. For
nine hours the little army. led by
Washington himself. marched through
the bitter cold. When they arrived at
the, Delaware they found it almost
frozen over. A wild storm of sleet
and hail made progress extremely
slow and dangerous. But It was for
Victory or DEATH" and they kept on
Fishermen handled the oars. and boat
by boat the Americans went over. 1t
was four in the morning before the
last of Washington's soldiers had
crossed. Two other expeditions NIL
ed to reach the river, but Washington
pushed on alone. Wrapping their
guns in blankets to protect them from
the sleet, the Americans pushed on
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22
Chesters Go Through
London Air Raids
No Alarm and Little Excitement in Either Capital Writes
Novelist and the Wonder Is That the Il
Boobies Keep Them Up
Bv GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER

Copyright 1915 the Newspaper Enterprise Assocaon1
Paris Feb 22Suddeny there sounded shri hghpitched
wall rising falling nearthy shrek outside the
window.
There was an instantaneous lul i'll the yivacty
Three walters the door, but the head waiter rushing
stopped them and held them motoness with appraised
this Of the most decoous restaurants Paris and
poise must be preserved though the heavens fall.
stained glass medallion just behind him. the
door of birdseye maple.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22
KEEPING CHEERFUL.
Bv Edmund Vance Cooke.

Copyright, 1913, by the Newspaper Enterprise
Association.)
When meatless days are with u.s. just be glad that
you are born
To eat of Injun pudding and Of hoe-cake made Of
corn
the price,
Just warm the cookies of your heart by skating on
the ice
When sugar S scrapy in the bowl, why not resort
to this?
Become candy kid again and give your wife kiss J!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22
WITH THE EDITORS.
THE GIRL THAT SOLD TWO PIECES OF RIBBON
"a Story for Girls That Work.

A smiling girl at a ribbon counter listened pa
tiently and sympathetcally while the customer tried
to make up her mind which ribbon she would buy.
Two shades interested her.
(Which one shall take? asked the customer.
81 was never so undecided.
The young woman whose business 1t Is to sell
ribbons replied,
Either would suit your clear complexion ma
dam. perfectly
The customer replied:
ooh, then, | will take them BOTH
That particular young woman with smiles and
tact will undoubtedly march to the head Of her pro
come along and persuade her to accept position
that supersedes ribbon selling.
It is not fun to stand at counter and sell goods.
But it is an education in human nature, and door
to success
There is no denying that women shopping are
sometimes inconsiderate hard to please and migrate
full for attention
But the way to get AWAY from routine is to
WORK HAIR } AND INTELLIGENTLY AT THE
ROUTINE while it lasts.
It is not any more exhaustng to smile as you
sell goods than it is to frown 1t is not any more
tiresome to be polite and tactful than it is to be
snappy and Indifferent
This newspaper would like to reveal to the young
men and women who work as clerks some short cut
to success, some easy way. But there is no cross
cut, and there is no easy way-except honest work.
Any young woman or young man employed as a
clerk can get quickly out of monotonous work. rise
up above the rank and file, and see daylight ahead
SIMPLY BY TRYING TO PLEASE THOSE THAT
CONE TO BUY, those upon whom the establishment
depends for success
The young saleswoman whom we have quoted
might have said to the hesitating customer:
Il can't stand here all day while you are max
ing up your mind about ribbons Others have got
to be waited on. If you don't know your own
mind I'm sure don IT, ETC., etc.
Instead being cheerful, good natured, INTEL
LIGENT GIRL she smiled and told the customer that
either ribbon would suit HER perfectly.
Among those that work hard in the stores-and
especially among the young women-there are un-
fortunately some that suffer from i'll health some
nervousness For these it is difficult than for
others to be cheerful and endure smlngy the vagar
les of the shopping It is too bad that this
world is organized in such fashion that the tired
woman must work and that the shopper with dol
lar must be allowed to show her bad temper.
Nevertheless, that is how things ARE arranged.
And the clerk who wants to escape from drudgery
in the lower ranks must rely on good nature and
SIN Sffa }slr 81 q asseE - 3,
cant GRUNBLE your way OUT Washmgtoa
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make A. In New York city are dozens Of organ!za
tons wherein thousands of perfectly good babies
are starving for genuine motherlove. Drat the nsy
Moral to this story? Why, of course.
If you can't find the hole in the fence climb
over.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22

'.Exuberant ideals are something which have no
place in German politics. Herr Won kuehmann
makes this very clear in explaining the annoyance
which the presence of such ideals in the Ukranian
republic have given the alhighest in his audabe ef
fort to plaster the world with made-n Germany
peace.
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THE DEVILS WALK.

- ...
While the Devil *as walking
For pleasure one morn;
He met the Old Kaiser
Looking sad and f0rlOrn.
He gently approached him
With q subject most vile
Yet it pleased the Old Kaiser
And caused him to smile.
The Kaiser he smiled
AS only beasts can.
That have neither liking
Or resemblance to man.
The Devil then tells
OF the deeds he had done
How he had ruined father,
A mother and son.
How many bright youths
BY his agents had fell
And made them sure victims
For his kingdom of hell.
How his art to allure them
From virtue and truth q
Had ruined the sire. =
The saint and the youth.
The Kaiser looked up
With sarcastic grin;
His every demeanor al
Reeking over with sin. &srs..s,t
He invites the old Devil !.
To q quieter. retreat .g.sq.. !,
Then bids his friend Satan, .,.,x. 4,
Dear sir, have q seat" !. 3ssi. /,
Then In praising the deeds $500
The Devil had done.
He boasts of his many
Vile victories won. ~"
The Kaiser then speaks 1 'fs "
With q dubious Dir
And tries to look wise ''t
Like Judge at fair. '4t
He tells Of the battles
His armies had won; vi
OF the vile, wicked deeds
His agents had done. =.
How children; were maimed
BY his wicked decree;
OF the ships he had sunk
In the merciless sea: NffN"
And other vile deeds ~ ~. IS,
Too awful to, toll Nh. .,.sss t,S & IL,
Which would shame the wild savaso
Or the ssrpeats of hell, sss
"stop! Your deeds are too vtis..
/. The Devil replied.
with such company As YOU
| will no longer abide.
You are sure Victim
In my kingdom to dwell;
l will be the King.
You. the setpent q hs1t"a
Thus saying the Devil; go,
Arose from his seat
And back to his kingdom
Makes . .Aursiod retreat.
While .ihes lsyils assRossa ]. ,,.as
no barter In sims:
'H6 only leaves off, alifss :, "a -.
Where IL Kail 6aGiHNs s-,, J.2H
Il y, QieE aar QEA Lamb(kso1. !.
Il stnHif vsss,fin, r.,r II
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22

Richard Mansfield has joined the aviation corps
If he inherited his fathers talent he should be a
wonder. We know of nobody who went up III the
air the way his old man did.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22

Word comes from London that the Russian sol
diers trading machine guns for decks of cards.
Mebby they're going to challenge Fritz to game
of freezeOut. q.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22

This is not SO little matter appears OH its
surface. Europeans the great stickers for rank
and title If, indeed, it is a little matter it will
take little to cure it.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22
Beware of Political Obstructionists
Warns Against Pro Germanism

Towards the preservation Of your government,
it is requisite not only that you steadily diseoun-
tenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged
authority but also that you resist with care and
spirit any innovation upon its principles, however
specious the pretexts. .-aa.
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We move that the rules be suspended and that
every day be made 'knockless day.
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Germany is the land Of the substitute. 1t doesr t
offer the world real peace, but something the kaiser
advertises as Just good. y
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22

With all the money which Uncle Sam has had to
spend air planes it is 10 be sincerely hoped that
the boys over there will not be left much longer at
the mercy of the Boche armen. If there's place
where the American excels all other fighters it is in
the air. Give the Sammies their chance to make
good. They can't do it without the proper weapons.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22

The optimism of Secretary Of War Baker is highly
gratifying and all America trusts that it based
On the best possible foundation. Our war depart
ment cannot safely reveal all of its plans for the
European campaign. Secretary Baker. knowing that
Americans have only his expressed opinion to go by,
must, we are sure, be careful to convey no impress
sions which the situation does not justify.
It's something to be grateful for when we find
Austria seeking to justify itself i'll the eyes of the
world by representing that it is living up to the prin
ciples declared by President Wilson.
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FIX
interviewer as is the love OF liberty with hga'
ment Of vour hearts. no recommendation of mine Is
necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment
Be American Only
Citizens by birth or choice, OF common coull-
+rv that country has right to concentrate your
affections. The name of AMERICAN, which be-
longs to YOU in your national capacity, must always
exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any
appelaton derived from local determinations. WIN
slight shades Of difference you have the same res
ion, manners. habits and political principles. You
have in common cause fought and triumphed to-
gether: the independence and liberty you possess
are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts OF
common dangers, sufferlngs and successes.
Support Your Government
This government the offspring of our own choice
uninhuenced and unawed adopted upon full lnves-
tigation and mature elaboration, completely free
in it's principles, in the distribution OF ITS powers
uniting security with energy, and containing WITHIN
itself provision for its own amendment, has just
claim to- your confidence and your support. respect
for its authority, compliance with its laws, acqules-
cence in it's measure are duties enjoined by the fun
damental maxims OF true liberty -. F..
The very idea of the power and right OF the PEG.
pie to establish government presupposes the duty OF
every individual to obey the established govern
ment
Beware of Political Obstructionists
All Instructions to the execution OF the laws, all
combinations and associations under whatever plau
sibe character with the real design to direct, con
troll, counteract or awe the regular elaboration and
action of the constituted authorities are destructive
of this fundamental principle, and Of fatal tend
ency They serve to organize faction, to give it an
artificial and extraordinary force to put III place
of the delegated will Of the nation, the will OF
party often small but artful and enterprslng min
ority of the community.
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GEORGE WAsH1NGToN's MESSAGE TO YOU
Bv George Washington

being Excerpts from His Farewell Address :,
interviewer as is the love of liberty with hga
ment of your hearts. no recommendation of mine Is
necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-22

That particular young woman with smiles an
tact will undoubtedly march to the head Of her pr
fesson-unless some sensible young shou
come along and persuade her to accept postic
that supersedes ribbon selling. =
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-07-29
Americans Make Biggest Advance
French and Americans Push Forward Three Miles Twenty Mile Front
Biggest American Advance Since
Start of Franco-American Push Began

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, July 20
by United Press The biggest American advance since the
start of the push carried out across the
Ourcq Sergy, yesterday.
Squeezing Of the pocket the right and left sides while
thrusng norhward in the middle sent the boches farther in
their retreat.
The Americans steadily advanced all day through heavy
rain They fought through tangled paths through
woods and fields routing out the machine nests and
pushing the resistance demolished
asked doughboy how they cleaned up the nests and he
explained when we'd rush them, we'd yell over the top
fellows get EN- then we'd run forward firing that's ALL
There many additional prisoners and includes few
chine gunners.
The Americans captured thousands of rounds of machine
ammunition and many large dumps with all caber Of
shells along the north and south road in Fere forest