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gathered but few moments before being
completely wiped out We are familiar
with the details of such raid, but there
is personal sense of loss in this case, and
a clearer realization of the sorrowful
work of reconstruction which these Eng
fish women undertake so bravely than we
usually feel This was solitary as well.as
sad for Mrs. Burnett with her husband
in France and her only child, young
daughter, in France busy with relief work.
She acquaints us with the difficulties
of air raid insurance and with the appall-
ing fact that even at such time souvenir
hunters, wishing trophy from the Zeppe-
lined house, steal in, and, if possible, out
wit the police. Our sympathy goes out TO
the victims of these raids for their great
losses when we read of them, but we sell
dom realize the terrible void that is ere
ated with the destruction OF all the ac-
cumulated treasures of a household, many
Of which can never be replaced.
ITS no credit TO me that happened TO
to born determined to do my job WELL"
Mrs. Burnett writes, and il is this spirit
in her letters which impresses us all along
that she is doing bravely and modestly
her 'bit of carrying on" That this is true
of the women as "a whole we know already
but are further convinced BY such pas
d /. At ~ " y
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brought Forward"

MANY person browsing among the
W. new books in the book stores in
search Of something out of the ordinary
will probably overlook Brought Forword,
by r. B. Cunninghame Graham. There
is nothing particularly arresting about the
title, nor is hasty glance at the pages
likely to convey any more definite impress
sion than that The book is just another
collection of short stories. But thsre is a
pleasant surprise in store for any one
who reads the volume, for il contains some
Of the most artistic sketches that have
appeared in many a dsy.
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Letters From can
Englishwoman's Home"

IN ENGLISHWOMAN'SH HOME is
II a collection of intimate letters
written to Mrs. Doran, the wife OF the
publisher, by Mrs. A. Burnett Smith, who
has published large number of very pop
uar books under the pen name Of annie
s. Swan" She was sent recently to the
United States as representative OF the
British War Mission "to tell" as she ex-
presses it, part Of the story of what we
have done in the war and what the war
has done for u.s." aud she looks forward
in the last letter included in the series TO
the trip across the Atlantic as "a momen-
tary slackening" and welcomes it accord
ingly.
So little has been written Of tue or
deals Of the English women that we are
apt to underestimate them, and this book
will be revelation as TO how great has
been their part of the suffering. Mrs.
Burnett tells Of the destruction of her
beautiful old home by Zeppelin during
q raid. Her family escaped by a miracle,
me very room in which they had been
.
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sages as the following from one of the let
ters:
There is no grumbling, surprisingly
little protest anywhere. Our people ac-
eept these things as part of the horrible
business in which We are presently en-
gagged. They don't even know how to hate
properly. e.. We are not successful
haters: we are only clean fighters and des-
perate lovers OF peace"
AN ENGLISHWOMAN = HOME. BY Mas.
4. BURNETT ShlTH. George II. Doran
Company. $l.3j.
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After reading them one has the feeling
that he has passed through an art gallery
containing the masterpieces of the great
painters, particularly Veasquez, Murillo
and Goya, for though some of the scenes
are laid in Scotland, England aud the
Orient, the majority are in the Spanish
countries of South America.
The characters are South American
ladies, Partisan dancers, Cruguayan cow
boys, Brazilian frontiersmen, British
Tommics. Italian volunteers, Socialist
orators, Scotch mechanics.
The stories have no plot. the author
relying upon his skill in word painting.
Some OF The tales are in gray and violet,
some i'll blue and gold, some in orange
and black and some in brown and green,
In addition TO the subtle coloring there
are courage, patriotism, coquetry, casu-
istry. jealousy and sacrifice in the por-
traits
The book is collection of gems and is
sure to interest any one who reacts TO the
best in art and who takes his aesthetic
pleasure more from exquisite workman-
ship than mere document
BROUGHT FORWARD. BY R. p. Gun
NINoHAME GRAHAM. Frederick A. Stokes
Company. sl.35.
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Copyright, 1918. All rights reserved.

poet poet of moonlight or Of that white but dead
daylight which is stranger than moonlight His
poetry is full Of glimpses at once lucid and unfa
miar those in which man sees himself walking
on roads where he has never BEEN And there is all
this quiet, unexpected quality about the setting of
this poem about the scribe.
He substitutes for the faded imagery of ivory
tables or golden pens curious image of man
alone in the mountains, amid forest Of earth
grown pens and lake of natural ink; and merely
an image it holds and haunts the fancy. But
here come in the distinction and the point The
symbol ITSELF like the situation itself would satisfy
the mood but not the mind.
1t would be possible, perhaps to get tired of
tarn in the hills; and the mood called up by the
image itself would pass from melancholy to pessim
ism. And pessimism is avowedly the end OF
everything it goes without saying that pessimisni
is the end of poetry
The poet might see nothing about the reeds ex-
cept that they were hollow, and nothing about the
ink except that it was black About that there
would be nothing more to be said and it is in this
sombre setting that the writer's genius has enclosed
the remainder that there would really be everything
to be said
Adventures With Ideas.
What uplifts the heart is the task of contemplat
ing and even cataoguing all created things in their
order. The wantOn and wandering fancy may
aight something because it is strange and still
find that it is stale But he who will face and fol-
low out system will always find myriad strange
things.
The very act of connecting one idea with another
will be an adventure l might almost say love
affair or romantic wedding. That is why great
imaginations have seemed to move more freely, and
more wildly, for having theology and Mr..
de la Mares imag nation does not shrink from
symbolizing it rather as dictionary. And if
modern poet must not be allowed by his present
pastors and masters to have theology, he could
hardly do anything more provocaively poetical
than read an encyclopedia.
Brains in Poetry.
This hint from Mr. de la Mare S Imagery is some
thing seem to see running through many of the
best books of verse; those, at least that have
temerity TO think the best There is IN most of them
the fundamental brain-work which Rossctti truly
said to be essential to the most pleasing art some.
thing structural and rational which is as necessary
for song that can be sung as for ship that can
be sailed. But above all find the truth already
stated; that system really forces the mind to
variety since it forces it to fit everything in
Mr.. j. S. Phillimore's Things New and Old
Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press
81 metz is perhaps good an example of the verse
that is full of thoughts and therefore full of sur
prses 1t is strong meat; indeed, some would be
disposed to describe it as potted meat. For it is
compressed to the extent of being occasionally oh
scure Indeed, at its finest and cearest there is still
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New Songs and DID, Systems

the quality of compression, which can make the
right word answer the purpose of many words
A Theory of Hate.
For instance, in fine series of sonnets on the
soldier returning from the war, the single line:
''Nations refined in fires of selfess hate
really scatcrs to the winds all the waste paper OF
many controversies The two words "selfess hate"
would alone show the advantage of having clear
moral system.
They pin the mind to the point; that what mat
ters is not the intensity but the intention of hatred
and that we ought to disinfect anger but never
TO dilute it. Sometimes the writer's point will be
less popularity plain but though he suffers some
times through being learned, he never suffers for
an instant from being pedantic
Debell: To war Down.
Pcdantry is insignificant learning; and this is
sometimes occult by being too significant For in
stance when he talks of Prussia being 'dcbeed'
instead of defeated many will think it mere
mad Latinisfn like that of the Tutors poem in
The Autocrat of the breakfast Table, which called
bank ripe and citizen Give. But the differ
ence is very real and 'debel'' would be the right
word if only there were such word. For it means
not to strike down but to war down, through the
weary wars needed TO besiege the high places OF
hell a reminder very necessary for these times
Conform and Be Different!
If had space would quote many other cases
of contemporary poetry more liberated in fancy
through being more linked up in thought Much OF
what have said about the last is true about
the remarkable poems which were recently pub
lished by the same University Press-Mr. Charles
Williams S Poems of Conformity. Any one reading
it will certainly agree with that conformity is
the very opposite of conventionality.
Love hath his evangels
OF how different strain
Hark the herald angels!
And Here we arc again
That is Mr. Williams's at his widest but his
much more musical love of poetry has puzzled many
people by an equally wild wedding of the human
and divine The point here however, is that when
the fancy widest it is because the creed IS
most consistent.
Mr. Theodore Maynard's spirited Drums OF De-
feat has equally Gothic incongruties; though
quantity enough Mr. Maynard has had public
controversy with Mr. Williams followed, / am
happy to say, by equally public reconciliation.
The Worth of Creed.
But ! mention them here not because there is
space to do justice to any of their ideas but because
they all happen to illustrate this particular truth
hidden with many other truths, i'll that one strange
poem about the reeds and the man writing cosmic
alphabet.
/ mean the truth that only creed really
broaden the mind, since it obliges to think #
everything when he thinks of something 1t is on'y
the man who has creed who has a cosmos.
G. X. CHEsTERToN.
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N one Of the most beautiful Of the books of verse
recently published, Motley and Other Poems
New York: Henry Holt & Company, the last
volume by Mr.. Walter de la Mare, there is one poem
in particular which reveals truth about poetry;
and one so much neglected as to be new.
That poet should be unconventional has itself
become a convention We are told that he must
think at large, not to say at random; and that any
philOsophic or religious system would merely mar
row him to be namby- PANTY and prim. 1t is view
venture to doubt and surely there grounds
for doubling.
In the criticism Of Dante, let us say, some have
called his theology narrow; but few have called his
poetry namby- PANTY. Few have complained that
he visited heaven and hell in the prim and proper
fashion of district visitor.
Being Bound, We Are Free.
To take parallel art, Gothic architecture was
built on the same elaborate moral system; yet fly
ing buttress can be as fantastic as its name. In
fact it the free sceptical pagan philosophy that
produced fine but frigid and restrained archi-
lecture. 1t was the strict philosophy that produced
wild architecture.
there 49, fancy, reason 1Or TINS, ana the rea-
is partly revealed consciously or unconsciously
in a new poem by Mr.. de la Mare, which has the
qualities of some vision of Vaughan or Blake.
"What lovely things
Thy hand hath made:
The smooth plumed bird
In its emerald shade,
The seeds of grass
The speck of stone
Which the wayfaring ant
Stirs-and hastes on!
Though / should sit
By some tarn in Thy hills,
Using its ink
As the spirit wills,
TO write Of earth's wonders
Its live, willed things,
Fit would the ages
On soundless wings
Ere unto z
My pen drew nigh
Leviathan told
And the honey-fy:
And still would remain
My wit to try
Ny worn reeds broken
The dark tarn dry
All words forgotten
Thou Lord, and l."
The Poetry of Walter de la Mare.
1t is all the significant because Mr. de Ia
N.ro 10 oanerally a TYNE Of the lonely and eluSiyt
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The Poetry of Walter de la Mare.
1t is all the more significant because Mr.. de la
Mare is generally type of the lonely and elusive
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
Must First "Make Good"

A great many people are trying to
harvest crops for which they never
have taken the trouble to SOW the seed.
They want positions and preferment
for which they never have, qualified
themselves. And they want friendship
and the good will of their fellows, but
they do not seem to understand that
these are precious fruits not indigo
nous TO every soil, but growing where
love and unSelfish kindness have peen
sOwn. The harvests of material well
fare, of mental wealth, of the
treasures of the heart, come all Of
them from the seed-sowing that has
preceded them. 1t is useless to look
for the harvest where there never has
been seedtime.-Exchange.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
GODS GIFTS ARE FOR ToILER
Parable Shows That Only Those Will
ing to Bear Burdens May Enjoy
the Good Things.

Once upon time there was man
who said, Il will work no more, and
God will take care of me-. And so he
gave away all he had and sat down to
wait for God to take care of him.
After awhile he became hungry and
nothing came his way. But in the dis
tance he saw some horses laden with
packs which he knew contained food
to eat. And so he grew so hungry that
he followed them.
Up the hill he toiled, while still in
the distance were the food-laden
horses. They led him a fine march,
and he grew weaker with the hunger.
At last he came near to where the
horses had stopped earlier in the day,
and there he found food that had been
left over.
This is harder than work." he SAID,
"and now 1 realize that God will take
care of the man who is up and doing,
but if you sit down and wait the horses
| will pass you by, carrying, Gods gifts
on their backs.'- Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
DOANS k4RnzY pIfag
6oc All Stores iurn Co.. Buffalo NY Mfg Chem
Easily Arranged.

One beautiful summer night, when
the crickets were chirping in the grass
and the caterpillarS were dropping
from the trees, John Henry turned to
the charming girl who was sitting on
the veranda at his side.
Edith said he, trife timorously,
there comes to me a thought, might
say a fear"
girl, as the other hesitated.
Il suppose" responded John Henry,
suggestively, hopefully, that were L
to steal a kiss you would have me ar
rested?"
Perhaps" was the ready rejoinder
of the girl, ''but you could find some
body to pay your fine, couldn't you?'
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
WORLD HAS CHANGED IDEAS
Philosophic Utterances Of Old Regard
ing Labor Are Regarded Merely
With a Smile Today.

Three thousand years ago pyramids
could be built without immense cost,
though it required the labor of a hun
dred thousand men for thirty years to
complete one of them. What were
hundred thousand human lives in the
eyes of Pharaoh, a Remeses, a Ptole-
my? What were they in the view of a
Caesar? When an old Roman philoso-
pher said 81 am man, and nothing
human is alien to me-" the high-water
mark of paganism was reached. 1t re-
quired a lofty exercise of spirit to
reach that height. So ample q soul
rs Aristotle had declared, 1--WE cannot
dispense with farmers and mechanics.
but these have nothing to do with
public affairs, and are not worthy of
the name citizen. They are incapable
of greatness of soul, because they work
for wages and therefore must be of a
mercenary spirit" The world has a
somewhat different idea today.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
Spiritually Discerned.

We shall look upon the Incarnation,
the greatest conceivable thought, the
greatest conceivable fact, not that we
may bring it within the range of our
present powers, not that we may meas
ure it by standards of this world, but
that we may learn from it little,
more of the Gospel grandeurs of life,
that by its help we may behold once
again that halo of infinity abouut COM
mon things which seems to have van
ished away, that, thinking on the
phrase, "the Word became f1esh,'' we
may feel that in, beneath, beyond the
objects which we see and taste and
handle is a Divine Presence, that lift
ing up our eyes to the Lord in glory
we may know that phenomena are
not ends, but signs only of that which
is spiritually discerned.-Bishop West
colt.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
He's Losino WEIGHT.

Snookie is a white-haired, 20-pound
house dog living on the South side.
He is an overgrown lapdog and acts
like one.
Two years ago at a summer picnic,
on a hot day, he developed a taste for
beer. From that time forward he was
ever ready to go on a can-rushing ex-
pedition.
But this near-beer," says his mas
ter, ''he went touch it-not even if
you pour it out of bottle, he won't
drink it-and ever since prohibition
came in Snookie has been falling
away."-Indianapo News.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
Times
Changes
Seen

enormous increase in the pressure for
production, particularly since the in
PRODUCTION of factories and steam,
that the working day was heightened
until life came to mean for the work
ers nothing but toll and sleep.
In modern times the increase of la
bor-saving machinery should have off
set all that The average factory
hand or transportation worker now is
200 or 800 times as efficient as the
average worker of 70 years ago, but
he is no better off The huge increase
in his output has not shortened his
hours.
This is plainly wrong. 1t is rottenly
and intolerably wrong. 1t is danger
ously wrong for the community. The
eight-hour, movement seeks to set it
right.
The eight-hour idea means some
thing to the worker, but lot more
to the rest of society.
See how this is. Up to 1874 wom-
en- and children worked 16 hours a
day, or something like that, in the
Welsh coal mines.
Women harnessed like cattle drag
ged from the mines great baskets
of coal. There was board in
the center of the runway with cleats
nailed upon it. Bent far over, their
heads almost to the ground, the wom-
en- braced their feet against these
cleats and tugged Mt their loads.
Most of them We're unsexed by their
toll. Nature mercifully made them in
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
STAGGERED HIM A LITTLE
As Il Sounded to Youth, the Young
Lady Had Put Very Direct
Question.
Exact Copy Of Wrapper.

This is the first one-or at least
among the flrst-that has been waited
dowh by the breezes of Lake Michigan.
The time is beautiful. moonless night,
The place--the hotel at Macatawa
Park. The girl-well, the girl was
there, too.
They had just completed the fifth
dance-three couples and some thirty
odd girls--and they had stroIled out on
TO the balcony to rest. He, just out Of
high school. and she, out of high school
also, but little farther out, occupied
the end Of the rail, and long line Of
fluffy pink and white with scarcely a
touch of relieving black stretched ON
out the length of the porticc toward
the lake.
$50" he said. beginning the conver-
sation, you are from IndinnaT
"You're mighty right" she answered,
"HOosier girl"
He suffered and, stammered. "Why.
--er-really-" he said, ''that is,
don't know--I mean l haven't decided
yet who."-Indianapolis News.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30

NNE trouble of those who talk
about the partnership between
~ capital and labor is their lack
of knowledge of how the partnership
is conducted by those who control
capital. 1t may be partnership of a
certain kind, but where capital makes
all of the rules and insists that this
is its right inasmuch as it owns the
capital, and labor is forced to accept
these rules without question. the
quality of the partnership established
is not calculated to give satisfactory
dividends to those who toll for wages
and who constitute by far the ma
jority in this so-called partnership
Molders' Journal.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
Momentous Labor Day.

Labor day has a special meaning in
this country. 1t is especially a day
celebrated by organized labor. Even
in this aspect this Labor day has re-
newed significance, for in this hour of
the nations grave decision trade union
ism throughout the land has pledged
the strength of its arm and the force
of its spirit to the defense of the big
job, the job of America. There is no
element of the nations strength at this
moment more inspiring than this rail-
lying of union labor, its leaders and its
rank and file, to the nations cause.
This is the true will of free men.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
Serve
Like
Cattle

criminals or strange types Of imbe-
Giles.
Society had to pay for all this, and
pay appalling costs. 1t Is paying for
them still
Yet when it was proposed to do no
more than to mitigate some of its
worst features, mine owners violent
ly protested and said they would be
ruined.
In this case of the Welsh coal mines
the government determined to risk
the ruin, and reduced the hours of
labor.
After a time observers were aston
ished to see that social conditions i'm
proved, general intelligence rose, good
order increased, and the general well
fare grew in proportion as the working
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30

hours shortened. The wonder is that
1t took mankind so long to recognize
the fact
In the olden days, when one man
made pair of shoes, let us say, he
could exercise his mind and please
his taste in designing and creating
them.
In these days to stand all day turn
ing piece of metal back and forth,
on tending a machine that cuts out
leather heels, is to flatten the mind,
pervert the soul and darken the life
The more people you have working
long hours at these deadly employ
ments the worst for the average con-
dltion of the population, which is the
only national strength.
Everything that really counts comes
out Of the masses, the common people,
the general run of mankind
All the inventions that amount to
anything come from that Source
All the ideas that really help come
from what the snobs call plebeian
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
Girls! Make bleaching lotion
if skin is sunburned,
tanned or freckled

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into
bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint of the best freckle,
sunburn and tan lotion, and complexion
beautitier, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of Orchard White for a
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra
grant lotion into the face, neck, arms
and hands each day and see how freck-
les, sunburn, windburn and tan disap-
pear and how clear, soft and white the
skin becomes. Yes! 1t is harmless
ADV.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-08-30
It's superioritv.

''Yassahl" pridefully said Brother
Lunk. "Dis yuh am de swell solid
gold-plated watch dat got fun a mail
awdah sto' for fou' dollahs."
"Do II keep time, sahl" asked Broth
er Quizz.
"Do it7 Oar isn't two clocks in dis
town. sab, dat kin keep up wild dis fine
watch when it's right at itse'f r'-Kan-
sas City Star.