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The imperial Crocodile.

The crocodile should henceforth be a
sacred animal in Germany. That coun-
try's imperial master has patterned after
1t on several notable occasions. At the
beginning of the war he sorrowed over
the French, a great people once but now
sadly degenerated." He would be sorrow
ing still over them IL they hadn't given
him real cause to sorrow over the fact
that they were brave, virile II in
domitable.
His sadness over the destruction OF
Louvain is still remembered as one Of the
finest examples of crocodile tears ever
produced in any country. And now he
grieVes over the destruction occasioned
by the present offensive. What have l
not done to preserve the world from such
horrors!" he exclaimed with that ready
instinct for imperial justification so often
exhibited. 1t would take too much time
to enumerate the things that he has not
done to preserve the world from the hor-
rors in question. The world accords the
latest example of crocodile sorrow merely
a passing glance of contempt.
BY this time, In all probability, his grief
has become more sincere, IL more con-
cealed. The mountains Of German dead
afford him ground for genuine perturba-
ton. The failure of the German drive
to cut through the allied lines with the
expected CELEBRITY must likewise awaken
anxiety in the imperial mind. But of this
he naturally says nothing; that sort Of
thing is not for publication. 1t would not
help bolster his rotten dynasty with the
deluded population,
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Napoleon and Wellington.
From the Wall Street Journal

From the Ndll ollCSI oOuii
Allowing that battles in he present war
are matters of weeks, and not or hours,
there is a singular parallel between the
German drive, mainly directed against
the British, and Napoleon's last cam
paign, which terminated at Waterloo.
NAPOLEON is reported to have said that
the British lost every battle but the last
one, and, although this was not true OF
Wellington's campaigns in the peninsula,
there is still much truth in the epigram.
If the palpable existence of the British
empire proves anything 1t shows that
the British lose battles but win wars.
Although the numbers engaged on both
sides at Waterloo were trifling. In the
light of modern figures, the battle was
one Of the greatest in history and was,
moreover, decisive. 1t will be remem-
bered that the Belgians quit early In the
forenoon. believing the battle los., ana
that Butcher and his Prussians had been
defeated by Grouchy, but had evaded the
victor, Joining wellngton's forces in the
afternoon. But for the greater part OF
the day Napoleon, with superior num-
bers, In assault after assault, played the
part ST Hindenburg. while Wellington
made that desperate defensive fight III
which the British have few equals ana no
superiors. He was, in fact, prepared to
do what Haig is doing now, while Napo-
iSoh CaiiE ltial IL hS WIZ nv
British his audacious campaign would
leave the conflict undecided, even II
Grcuchy had succeeded in intercepting
Butcher as he should have done.
There is a striking similarity in the
present position and one which is oo-
viously understood by General Foch, VINO
is an ideal commander for the allied army
In the respect that he understands the
British and American qualities. lie knows
how to make use Of them, as his works
on war strategy show, even If the victory
of the Marine had not demonstrated his
capacity. lie has another would-bo Ma
poleon on the other side of the Rhine foi
his opponent. and whatever minor gains
the prodigal waste of German soldiers
may have registered the enemy's position
Is now no better than Napoleon's woulc
nave been had the result OF Waterloo
been indecisive.
This Is the secret OF the profound con
fi6ence displayed by The allies and ex'
pressed by all military authorities able te
read results correctly. IIindenburT. wht
pledged himself to be in Paris on Apr
l. u already talking Of a German peace
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MARCH TO VICTORY

Courage Is q matter Of the blood.
Without good red blood q man has a
weak heart and poor r
In the spring Is the best time to
take stock of ones condition. II the
blood Is thin and watery, face pale or
pimply, generally weak, tired and list
less, one should take a spring tonic.
One that will do the spring house
cleaning, an old-fashioned herbal rem
edy that was used by everybody nearly
30 years ago Is still safe and sane be-
cause 1t contains no alcohol or narcot-
&c. 1t is made up Of Blood root, Gold
en- Seal root, Oregon Grape root,
Queens root, Stone root, Black Cherry
bark-extracted with glycerine and
made into liquid or tablets. This blood
tonic was first put out by DR.. Pierce
has been sold by million bottles as DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. If
druggists do not keep this in tablet
form, send 60 cents for q vial to DR..
Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.
Kidney disease carries away q large
percentage of Dur people. What is to
be done? The answer is easy. Eat less
meat, eat coarse, plain'food, with plenty
of vegetables, drink plenty Of water
between meals, and take an uric acid
solvent after meals for q while, such as
IAnuric double strength), obtainable at
almost any drug store. 1t was first
discovered by DR.. Pierce. Most every
one troubled with uric acid finds that
lAnuric dissolves the uric acid as hot
water does sugar. You can obtain a
trial package by sending ten cents to
Doctor Pierce's Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute in Buffalo, n. Y.
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America by Comparison.
George Pattullo, in the Saturday Evenir
Dnct

NNoi tNtAA IA t"S SSNstN
Post.
Europe! / wouldn't give half an acre of
soil for all I've seen-not il l
had to live over there. 1t isn't that the
European countries aren't beautiful. for
they are-perhaps lovelier thar our more
rugged land can ever hope to be, and
they have everything to make existence
easy and comfortable. But the life Is
belittling, that's the truth. What the
causes back Of it may be, I don't know
probably it's their social system: anyhow,
Europeans aren't so broad gagged as
Americans. OF course, the average
European would boot at that. He con-
siders an American an uncouth barbarian,
because the American happens to have
customs that differ from his own; but
he's welcome to his delusion.
The European thinks and acts by rule OF
thumb. He Is suspicious of his neighbors
and hates other nattonalities. Now, with
all our faults. as a people. we don't hate
anybody. We haven't time. Anyway.
what's the use? Besides, why should we?
A man hates for two r~easons-envy and
fear. We aren't afraid of anybody SO You
could notice 1t, and we don't have to envy
any nation.
My own theory about the difference be-
tween the European and American view
point is that ours Is a land of hope. over
there, there isn't much ahead Of the aver
age man, his opportunities are so limited,
and that makes him spiteful. But in the
United States any live wire with brains
can get a strangle hold on the whole
round earth II he Is man enough to go
after II. so he has small time for envy or
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GERMANY'S FLAGS.
John r. Muller, in the New York Evening Post.

lew York Evening Post.
little anyone could tell about them II
asked to give a description. All l know
Is that those of my regiment were not
German colors, but S~axon-green and
white. And why this seeming ignorance?
Because l know Of but two occasions In
entire military service when the flags
were unfurled-when swearing in the
recruits and during the review on the
kings birthday. Although on other occa-
sions. such as drills In battalions or larger
units and during maneuvers, the flags
were present. they were never unfurled,
but always carefully rolled and wrapped
in an oilcloth cover. After all, the regi-
mental colors were our highest conception
Of a flag. because, whether unfurled or
wrapped, we had always to give them the
same salute as that accorded to his
majesty himself. In other words, the
flag represented a personality instead or
being an emblem for noble ideals.
As a general thing, flags meant in Ger
many Only so much bunting. They were
hoisted IN the kings birthday with no
more enthusiasm, and perhaps not even as
extensively, than when the Cross Bow
Shooting society or any other society had
it's annual festivities IN midsummer. or
course, In those circumstances 1t mattered
not whether the flag was black, white,
red or green and white or something else,
as long as it made a gay picture.
Could you think of a parade here with
out at least one American flag? Never.
Yet in Germany they don't even have the
national colors on such occasions. and
sometimes no flag at all. How proudly
everyone here carries the American flag
whenever we have n parade and 1t IN
variably arouses profound enthusiasm. 1t
Is not the pretty colors-a beautiful flag
though it is-that stir us, but the ideals
which that greatest Of all flags represent.
Even children here manifest an enthusi-
asm for their flag such as l have never
seen with the Germans.
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Jonn =. WuiieTy III h'S
Does the German flag mean to the
German the same that our Stars ana
Stripes mean to the American? Born
and brought up in Germany, and having
served in the German army, / can speak
from experience. OF course, the German
has his flag, yet flags would perhaps
better express il, because, aside from the
national German colors, black, white and
red, each state has its colors, when are
shown Just as much as, and probably
even more than, those OF the empire.
For instance, whenever we occasion
to fly flags in our town there were fully
as many green inc white ones-the
Saxon colors-as there were or black,
white and red. Yet 1t must not be I'M
derstood that these were hoisted together.
No, If a man had a Saxon flag that was
all he had, while his n%eighbor had 1ast
the German standard.
But the greatest difference lies In what
the flag stands for. Ask an American
n he will unhesitatingly tell you that
the Stars and Stripes stand for freedom
n democracy. Ask a German and ne
will have no answer, except tnat plack,
white, and red stand for German, green
and white for Saxon, black and white for
Prussian, and so on. We were never tolo
when going to school of any ideals either
the German or Saxon flag represented.
When joining the army, we had to swear
by a flag-not the German flag, but the
regimental standard in Saxon colors,
which simply mean to be loyal to the
emperor; and as 1 now look at it, swear
away what little thought Of freedom there
may have been, and submit without ques-
ton to serving in absolute blind obedience
to greatest autocrat the world has ever
known
Was the FLAG over there such an inspir-
ing, sacred emblem as here? Never! True,
we had regimental standards, that is.
each battalion had its flag, but 1t is very
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Don't Be Afraid
Of Your Meals
Take "Eatonic" and Laugh At
Stomach Troubles

n. L. Kramer, the mar who origin
ated Cascarets, has discovered q sure,
safe, quick-acting relief for bad stom-
achs. He named it EATON1C for your
stomach's sake.
You can cat anything you like now
and digest it in comfort, for stomach
ease is positively assured If you eat
an EATONIC tablet regularly after
each meal.
EATONIC acts directly with the
food the moment it enters the stom-
ach. 1t Immediately checks any ten
dency toward too much acid and en-
ables the food to pass from the stom-
ach into the bowel in q sweetened con-
dition, and thus prevents the forma-
ton of sour distressing gases that up
set digestion and cause a bloated, dull,
lumpy feeling that makes your
FOOD REPEAT. -
EATONIC enables you to eat your
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fill and laugh at indigestion, dyspep-
STA, heartburn, "sour stomach" and all
the other bugaboos Of "the-man-afraid-
of-his-stomach."
Kramer says: "EATONIC should be
in every home ready for use after ev-
cry meal. An EATONIC tablet will
aid you naturally to easily digest
and assimilate-your food car be thor
oughly enjoyed without the slightest
danger of misery from acid stomach.
I strongly advise every one to take EA-
TONIC after meals. To correct bad
stomachs and keep them in perfect
condition, it is q most wonderful DIS
covery." -
If EATONIC fails to give you
prompt stomach relief, your money
will be refunded; SOC buys q lasge box
at any drug store. Or write to Eatonic
Remedy Co., 1913 S. Wabash AYE, Chi.
cago, u. S. A. ,
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other peoples, and such littleness.
In Europe they are long past the noon
of achievement, and we-well, we're fac'
ing the dawn.
Our people will be tremendously changed,
though. at the end Of his business. Mix
ing with all kinds Of n~ationalities, the
boys are broadening a lot. They'll have
new ideas of geography and the other
peoples Of the earth, and they will junk a
lot of the shibboleths of he past.
And America will have to be mighty
careful about immigration. About so per
cent of the young folks you talk to over
there say they're going to he United
States when the war is over. Unless their
own governments prohibit immigration,
Wen have to put up the bars or be fairly
swamped. They think we're the luckiest
people alive For a long while the average
French kid was persuaded that all Ameri'
can soldiers marched in motor cars.
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as last as August. In view Of his object
i've. and the substitution for his original
plan Of attacks along an over extended
front, in the hope of some such lucky re-
suit as almost happened when General
Carey blocked the road to Amiens with
his improvised battalions of engineers
and civilians. who literally hardly knew
one end Of a gun from the other, his
predictions can scarcely convince the
outside observer.
That is a kind of opportunity which is
not likely to happen a secopd time; but
when the kaiser is playing his last des-
perate stake, AN increasing disposition to
trust to luck in spite Of all German
method and provision is sufficiently evil
dent to account for the allied confidence
in ultimate results.
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BEHIND A MAGIC PLOW.
From the Columbus Dispatch.

From the Columbus Dispatch.
The blowing season is full upon
US. The brown belly OF the new
plowed ground is everywhere: the
song of the plow is heard in the
land.
There isn't any music in the world
so sweet as the singing Of the
plow-the bursting sod, the twang +,
OF the breaking vines. the gentle
ripple Of the parting e~arth-that is
music such as no orchestra can
, initiate.
; Then, the oder Of the fresh earth
, as 1t Is turned over; the perfume
; of the gods. You breathe deeply
when you smell it,|as If to get its
very blessing. The chest expands;
, freshness. The odor OF new plowed
, ground ran not be initiated in the
, Laboratories OF man.
Ard the point of the pIow runs
, through a new universe. densefy
; populated. You will want to stop
; frequently and study the under
? world exposed to the sun when the
, furrow is turned. Tunnels and trails
n subterranean cavities, nagnifi-
; cen homes Of little peopie-the
? bugs and worms and ants. Don't
, get it into your head that the earth
; is solid; it Is porous. with life In
, every pore.
+ AS for color, 1t Is there. The
, background Is dark brown, and
, from q distance It may appear to
= you rs a solid color. But 1t isn't: 1t
) varies as greatly es the forest. But
, you must follow the farmer and
|. look Closely and listen to get the
: full benefit Of the enchantnent tlat
: ONE to him who locks and listens
: In the country,
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State Of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas

State Of Ohio, City Of Toledo, Lucas
County-ss.
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner Of the firm of +. j. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City Of To-
ledo, County and State aforesaid. and that
said firm will pay the sum Of ONE HUN
DRIED DOLLARS for any case Of Catarrh
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence this 9Th day Of December
iseaD A. w. Gleason, Notary Public.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is TAX
on internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces Of the System.
Druggists, 75c. Testimonials free.
=. j. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
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One Thing All Patriots Can Do.

"Made in Germany" The answer
Is, MADE IN HE'LL"
"Glorious .Victory?' Bombarding
churches on Good Friday and then dar-
ing to thank God for his aid.
You may not be able to make q law
for q nation-but you can create a law
for yourself. You may swear an oath
to your soul never to buy anything
made in Germany, and keep that oath
who is to prevent you?-Henry Rus
sell Wray Of the Vlgilantes.
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Temper New China.

A Chinese merchant gave this bit OF
information when a rare teaset was
purchased from him. Before using
delicate china place it in q pan Of cold
water and let it come gradually to q
boil allow the china to remain In the
water until cold. This tempers China
and makes 1t capable of standing heat.
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Considerable Come- Down.

"Where is your brother now?" asked
the American.
"Oh, he's in London yet" replied the
English lady.
"How's he getting on?"
"Oh, he's been greatly Inundated Of
late"
Indeed! And how"
"Why, it's q considerable come-down
from q high silk hat to n of those
flat steel helmets"
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FARMERS ARE WORKING HARDER

And using their feet more than ever before.
For all these workers the frequent use OF
Aliens Foot=E Ease, the a%ntiseptic powder to
be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the
foot-bath, increases their efficiency and in
sures needed physical comfort. 1t takes the
Friction from the Shoe, freshens the feet,
and prevents tired, aching and blistered feet.
Women everywhere are constant users OF
Aliens Foot=Ease. Don't get foot sore, get
Aliens Foot=Ease. Sold by dealers every
where, 25c.-Adv.
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If a girl failed to'look at the price
mark on her Christmas present it's a
sign that she failed to get one.
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Accounting for II.

"That young officer seems very
blue" THAT may be because he is q
submarine
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Beautiful, clear white clothes delights
the laundress who uses Red Cross Ball
Blue. All grocers. Adv.
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Not Heavy Enouuh.

From the Cornell Widow.
my father was killed In a feud."
II never would ride In one Of those
cheap cars"
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Vanity is sometimes cured by hay
ing a picture taken.
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Be c%haritable-a tight fist Is likely
70 get rheumatism.
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A boy who is taught to save money
will rarely be a bad man or q failure.
Gladstone.
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Smile, smile, beautiful clear white
clothes. Rcd Cross Ball Blue, American
made, therefore best. All grocers. ADV.
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To keep clean and healthy take DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu-
late liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv.
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Important 10 Mothers
Not Printable.

"Do We know what my father calls
the kaiser?" mo. Sh! Here comes
q ady.''-Browning's Magazine.
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DOESN'T HURT AT ALL AND
COSTS ONLY FEW CENTS.

Magic! Just drop q little Freezone
On that touchy corn, instantly 1t stops
aching, then you lift the corn off with
the fingers. Truly No humbugi
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Tut. CIVIC Itit. on
AIBt Qt tRQtt

The following interesting and inn
portant address was recently given
before tho Albuquerque Woman's club
los Aldo Leopold. secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce.
1t Is something " q plattudo to
SAY that IN each succeeding century.
human society O. evolved one or
moro ncw ideas. which our ancestors
then proceeded to write. speak, argue.
fight and die about. To- the end that
said idea might be rover on dis
proven. adopted or discarded When
AN idea has been tried by FIRE and
adopted. u Is known us truth. SO
firmly has this evolutionary character
ct truth been established that ~ Of
our Modern philosopher President
Hadlcy ot Nalc-now defines the truth
as that which prevails IN the Ions
run.
what idea has the twentieth cen
turN American citN-suCh as AlbL-
pueruuc contributed To human pro-
gress presume merely Ia suggest
an answer, To mA mind the answer rs
contained In one new word. THAT
word Is 'pubic-spirit'
True puhlic-spirit rs year-around
patriotism IN action, II Is the faith
of the citizen justified IN works. II rs
intelligcnt unselfishncss In practice.
Public-spirit is the new morality OF
the twentieth century II is based on
an iuversion OF the Biblical PROPOSE
ton, namely, What doth Il profit a
man TO save his own soul aud let the
whole world 20 10 tho devil
IT rs significan; that Socrates. the
first philosopher TO I've in u republic,
was h first Ia conceive certain Gle
mcnts of the idea of puhliC-spirit.
when the present war broke out. pub
l.g-gntNitgI keaaRar.VU a.t.f A.. ...t..a