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Ripley County democrat., 1918-11-22
PEACE NOW IN SIGHT,
BUT EED IS NOT YET
put Missourl's. Duty to Our Boys Not
Done TIL the Last One 10
Safe at Home.

The election news succeeded IN
crowding the war news off the first
page Of the newspapers Wednesday.
and affairs political may now be ex-
pected to resume the normal in Mis-.
souri,.
War news will again take precedence
over other news, until that class OF
news can be termed peace news, and
this can only be matter OF days.
Peace is bound to come, and come
shortly.
Germany, the only remaining part
Of the Central Powers, still holds out,
but she Is totterlng to an carly fall
The country Is exhausted, and the
man-power Is taxed to its uttermost
The German PEOPLE want peace, and
the military must surrender or be an
initiated.
But when peace Is declared and vlc.
!, tory is won Americas task Is not done.
There must follow reconstruction da.-s
"oyer there" This great country that
went Ito the war without one selfish
motive. to eight the battles Of the
weaker nations and to insure equal
justice to all nations, and to make the
world safe for democracy, must see
I that It's aims are accomplished.
This is going to delay the return Of
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Ripley County democrat., 1918-11-22

the place of the vicious canteens q
other days. and see that the soldier IL
his leisure has good books to read, and
is given entertainment OF all approved
sorts to hearten him.
These organizations. backed up by
President Wilson, ask Missouri to aid
In the United War Work Campaign
that will raise $7,50o,ooo in this state
Nov. Ills. not for the organizations
but for our boys over there. The ma
tion at large will raise s2bo,ooo. 900.
Missouri will not fail TO give her share
Ripley County democrat., 1918-11-22

fcef.n There was q tense moment.
then the flashing response. Dammit.
officer, I'm duchess.'
Il don't see how you can joke about
IT," said the lady to whom war was all
fighting.
"0h, my dear, my DEAR" told her.
~ we can't Joke about II . little We
shall all be having sieepless nights.
and that would never do"
found as we talked that she was
rather pathetically limited in her con-
Iception Of the needs Of her son and
of other sons. went away with q
check in four figures for the cause
yet am not sure that even now she
quite comprehends what she has done
to contribute to the happiness OF the
boys who have offered their young
lives in our defense.
Let me say TIL to you who have
been tempted to cake your heads and
pull your purse-strings tight--the men
over there haven't any homes--a
trench isn't a home, or tent, or even
a French farmhouse where one IL bill
sleted and sleeps on straw. And for q
youngster who has always had soft
bed. two pillows, hair mattress, q
hot bath, grapefruit for breakfast, q
whole pleasant American house to be-
happy In, you can imagine what "a
Ripley County democrat., 1918-11-22
why they "BATTED Left

Johnny Evsrs. baseball Star now IN
France, tells pf an amusing experience
he had with 4 group Of French soldiers
belonging tc Gen. yidaI's troops.
All the MEN. cnger 70 learn, batted
with their left hands. After q while
Evers. who tells the story In United
War Work Campaign interest, siscor
cred that they did SO because be, be-
Ing himself leftihanded batter, had
SO shown them. They weren't left
handed, the Frenchies--they were
simply trying to learn tho new gama
right,
Evers. the hero of seseral worlds
chanip.onshina. is attached to one Of
Ripley County democrat., 1918-11-22
THE ADVENTURE WITH
TIGHT PURsE-sTR|NGs


2 4 :. Al
I BY Temple Bailey 4
frhe following article, written by 7
S4t South Mapio avenue, Webster. Groves
was one Of seven awarded prize n I
National short story contest N which
Authors from nearly every state IN the
Union participated
Some time. some where, read---oi
perhaps | wrote it myself in the days
when fairy4tales were fashionable, o.
story OF the Tight Purse-strings.
It told Of miser who always pulled
the purse-strings tight when he was
asked to give. II beggar held out
mis- hands for aims the old, miser shook
his head and tiohtened his purse
strings, II a starving child asked for
. penny to buy a bit Of bread, the old
miser shook HE head and frightened his
purse- strings; II a sick woman made a
plea, the old miser shook his head and
tishtensd his purse-strinssl At last
ne tightened them once too Often, so
that the. good fairy who sits up aloft
and sees justice done, placed q spell
upon him, and behold, after that, he
could never open his purse. not even
for himself. and his gold was no good
to him for he couldn't get at It, and
his head shook and shook, and
wouldn't stop shaking, and so he went
to the end Of his days with purse
fun Of gold that he couldn't spend. and
= head shaking that he couldn't stopl
i have been reminded Of my fairy.
tale more than once in these days
when drives are on to finance the
various war activities. We are now in
Che midst Of an important campaign,
which has been undertaken in the In.
terest Of the organizations which have
ps their slogan, Eve help the Home
20 follow tne Flag. the x N. 2. A.
salvation Army. the American LibrAr,
Association. the KniEhts Of Columbus
= wEioh have L; e dS VIII &c comfort ans
happiness Of our iightin. men in ealnI
cr at the front And am constrained
20 discover. a can, some Of the rea
sons which make our modern misers
2 shake their heads and tighten their
purse-strinss when they are asked to
contribute
Don't ask me- they quaver. 4 have
bought Liberty Bondsl' As L that
were the end Of II! And 1t isn't the
end at ALL
lam inclined to think that the from
bic lies in their lack Of imagination.
They can't put, themselves In the otha,
fellows place. "
They can't visualize the condition,
which make inporatlyely necessary
the friendly huts Of the Y. M. G. a.
end those other friendly huts.
/ wonder who was first inspired 70
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Ripley County democrat., 1918-11-22

the seven organizations devoting their
time to the welfare Of the Anercarl
sailors. rockies and marines
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24
A Third Marriage

And shortly after that time the tidings ar
rived that the widow of Silent" Smith had sue
ceeded to the affections of the youth duly sane
toned by the law and the church. The marriag.
had not ceased to be a matter of gossip when
some busy person started the story that St. Cy,
was really John Henry Thompson, who had started
life as a newsboy and hotel clerk in Waco Tex
As the stories ran, he trekked North to Rocheste,
Is years before his marriage, and came thence to
an Eighth avenue tenement in New York to launch
a campaign for whatever things Fortune might
hold in store for him.
The papers published the story with unusual
zest. 1t sizzled sensation for month. tbs
St. Cyrs went into retirement as If to tell the
public that it was no business of outsiders and
then the public turned TO something else. quite
content to let Mr.. St. Cyr be known by whateye,
patronymic might best suit him and to seek re-.
freshing thrills in some other direction
And this is the story of the Five Loves of tbs
Two Armstrong Sisters, which might be told IN
novel form, through many many pages without
losing interest to the end of the final chapter
Throughout the whole story, the sisters meyer
lost for a minute the charm that brought tbar,
first from Baltimore to the world of money and
of social conquest.
Ponce de Leon, seeking the fountain Of vou,h
might well have stopped at Baltimore on his NOV
to the far southern realm that has carries a.,
name in fiction as they have carried youth In ,.ct
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24
The Drexel Romance

1t was Into such an establishment that Mar
sarita Armstrong came when she met and won
Anthony J. Drexel, heir by right to the banking
prowess and social place Of the famous Pbila.
delphia family. He had 100000 a year TO sbaks
ut any wolf that might. perchance array itself in
q dress suit and slip by the butler
she has stormed the exclusive Philadelphia
SET" said the social writer's when the news Of the
marriage came.
For some years she made her way in the Quaker
city, acquiring the sure poise and the art of NAV
ing the game of Society. Then, before ANYBODY
knew It. she had moved her pawns and castles her
bishops and her kings the water TO the British
court People smiled at her audacity Edward
VII was then the Prince of Wales wondering IL
the name of King would ever be his. and the ele-
CANT arbiter of things social in the British world
There came day when the Prince Of Wales met
the American woman and. like others who had
fallen under that spell, the man who had con-
auered many women capitulated before one So
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24
Russia's pittsburgh Dipped in Asia"

n USSIA is as diverse in its character as in its
X politics. good illustration of this is Baku,
i Y where the great oil fields are situated Its
flaming belching oil wells and its many million
aires give It the character of "a Pittsburgh dipped
in Asia" as it is called according TO H. G. Dwight
I'm PERSIAN Miniatures"
Baku began TO bustie about 80 years ago, before
which it was a mere village of Tartars, Persans,
etc One day a Russian officer bought some land
for a farm but he soon found that nothing would
grow on it. A disgusting black liquid oozed out
of the earth wherever he ploughed. An Armenian
10 whom he offered the farm for a small sum
pected that the black liquid might be valuable. and
the sale was made The ooze was oil. The Ar
menian became q millionaire
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24

most unusual feature or the careers or the two
sisters.
While the one sister winning her way
through court and drawing room, Anne, the other.
met and married William Rhinelander Stewart,
holder of one of the oldest names in New York
society and fortune that ranked along with the
bic estates Society rather surprised when,
in August 1906 she received at Sioux Falls, s. D.,
n divorce from the New Yorker, and wondered
what would come next
At the time there lived In New York James
Henry Smith one of the strangest characters of the
financial and social world, who was known as the
wealthiest bachelor on the carpet, and who had.
bv his combination-safe reticence acquired the
nickname Of Silent" Smith. bit of information
b,d about as much chance of escaping from his
Ine as n newly-made millionaire has OF escaping
the income tax collector. Imagine, therefore, the
errnrse of society when it learned that the Sphinx
had really spoken, and that the utteranae was
nronosal TO Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart.
aSiIent" Smith had something like S50000,000
tbo+ had not been decreased by any spendthrift
bond With his bride he sought Joy in the bios
soyrladen land of Japan, along the iowerbedecked
Iou,oiian lanes and then back over the court
rotbs of Europe A daughter belonged also to the
Pbinelander Stewart name, and the mother, seek
inc IN find in court circles mate that would out
chino her sisters son-in-law, made a match with
,he voung Prince Miguel of Braganza, pretender
10 the overturned throne OF Portugal
In the course of events Silent" Smith was
,olen TO the perfect rest that awaits millonaires
in common with mortals who know less of this
worlds goods. His widow, left with unlimited
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24
Mrs Jean H cyr Photographed on Their Honeymoon

ciety heard that Windsor Castle had placed upon
its dinner list the names Of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
J. DreXel
Mrs. DreXels daughter. Mar arita, known to
her intimates as Daisy" had reached the age
When Society hangs her buds upon the tree OF
knowledge OF the good and evil of the social chase.
A coming out party was arranged. For 1t the
mother rented a castle for which she paid $4,000
for single week Thus came little Daisy" into
the social orchard from which, later. and with
much ceremony Lord Maidstone plucked her for
his own. And Maidstone. learning more than love
in he wooing. acquired knack Of London Stock
Exchange work that did not leave the young
woman with a drone.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24

The Tartars and Persians who owned most Of
the rest of Baku were suspicious when other peo
pie tried to buy their property. For a long tim,
they would not sell, but in the end they became
millonaires. TOO
They couldn't help themselves. And that 4,
why Baku is so amusing. The Russian and Ar
menian millionaires go away, like the millionaire.
OF Pittsourgh. The Tartar and the Persian million.
aires don't, having no idea what on earth TO d,
with their money" So they drive around Bakp
IN luxurious automobiles, strangely colored gild
ed. jewelled weird looking people, with boards tha,
often as not are dyed scarlet with henna ana
remarkable headdresses that SAVIOR of musical com
edy. Their other diversion is the movies, whic,
have penetrated even into Baku.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24

In the meantime, Tony" Drexel had been look
ing around trife Fate had not made him TO
hang heplessly under the hind wheels OF any social
chariot, and while his wife conquered courts he
courted pleasure. Paris was agreeable to him for
more reasons than one, some OF which were sub
sequently named in his wife's divorce suit.
At first there came separation, with s50OOO
year for the wife Then followed the real divorce.
II had hardly been forgotten in the days news
when there came in January the news that Mrs.
Drexel had married Lt.-Col Brinsley FitzGerald.
private secretary to the commander-inchief of the
Home Forces The officer Mrs. Drevels junior
by many years. but the Armstrong charm does not
fade with the years. and that fact constitutes the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24
The Quiet First CHAPTER

BY way of beginning the two sisters had small
prospects during their grlhood days of SHINING
IN the court ornaments that now hold them In
the venerable and sophisticated city of Baltimore
where the terrapn is famous and the food nrod
ucts OF the Big Bay are held both in anticin.tio,
and remembrance by visitors, there came I'm Anna
Armstrong and her sister, Margarta They vera
bred to the self-contained atmosphere of the old
city that clings to the edge of the South vbiIe
holding one municipal arm about the neck of tba
North
If master Of the stage like Belasco vera
called upon to set the first act of their Iives ba
would place ii almost on colonial lines and
charming home atmosphere But he would have
been al loss TO find the action needed TO get tho
first act over the footights. First.nighters would
have gone to sleep and wondered why the author
did not begin his play in the second act
In the second act the most blase occunant of .
regular first night seat would have shaken on ~
ennui spirit and picked up the thread of the nlav
for il bounded from the home comnonrIooa -,
the scinullating light of Society with the sud5a,
ness OF battle plane rising to meet an enemy
attack, and its second setting was no moro Iil,a tb
first than the stable-like duness of fine borar
Is like the rarihed atmosphere Of the ghting alti
tude And in action the change is as great az tho
mise en- scene. II is transition from catherine
roses from the climbing vines in the afternoon 70
the dizzy whirl OF a goldspurred establishment
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24
Extraordinary Social Triumph OF Baltimore's S
Beautiful Armstrong Girls, and
Their Successive Adventures in Matrimony.

means, free to choose another mate. Youth
this time held her fancy, and it was young man
who to win and to take his place at her social
side. Indian Summer, won by June, never pre-
sented stranger aspect
There had suddenly appeared in the New York
armament a young who gave the name OF
Jean H. E. st. Cyr He wore his clothes well,
danced well, and Society did not make any dill
gent inquiry concerning any other unessential de
tails He found among those present in the list
of nota5les Mrs. Caroline Peck Redield who was
born Peck at Pennington, Ct, some 35 years before
young Mr.. st. Cyr learned to lisp his first infant
words. She had married Henry Alexander Red.
field, Hartford banker, who, dying, consigned to
her care estate of ample proportions
Mrs. Redfeld's first marriage had taken place
in 1862, Just about the time when the North had
caught its breath after Bull Run. and was takins
a fresh start for the race that ended at Appomat
tox. In 1899 she married young st. Cyr, and after
six years, Mrs. st. Cyr died at the age Of "a.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-24

HERE are no stranger stories in the court
and social fiction of the master writer's of
French literature than the Five Loves Of
the Two Armstrong Sisters. How two Baltimore
DeIles' with beauty and charm their sole assets.
set Siege to the most exclusive and unapproach
able castles Of the Money God and the Social God.
and, each singlehanded, stomed both. makes up
one OF the most remarkable narratives from real
lie that has ever come before the people of the
oid and the New World By way of incident the
Far East has some small part in the romantic
heart adventures of the pair
For the flags of America England, France
PORTUGAL ana Japan must be hung the verbal
gallery OF this heart story to mark the scenes in
which the two women have appeared on the
worlds social stage, amid settings that only
Croesus might buy and King command
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
THE FRONT PAGE OF THIS PAPER.

GLANCE the front of this after reading about
~ its reliability the brings the of the reader
in contact with the pictorial designs-each representing the
hope of the thrifty and farseng who in their resolution
produce the and best that OFFERS have left such
beautiful miesone along Colorado route to stimulate for
greater achievements and in the future
First the Welcome Arch the of which is adorned
with the figure of Justice holding the balances hand and
the chains of oppression dpenaon offered
vopmen RACE the progress COUNTRY exercise of
the FRANCHISE in working political destiny AT her feet
industrial brought this
DOM being the
bearing its burden heeruy supply stock the cupboard of
the TER of the SOIL who the distance blowing with
all his might On the other side appears the MINER unwead
the performance of his task supplying that element
which plays and important to mans existence while
i'll the distance rising majesca the snowcapped peaks in
whose walls awmaking bodies and governmental agencies
with coe systematic action endeavor carry the wishes
of the Adjacent to this building THE STATE CAPITOL
with the flag of country waving and fro from its DOME
church edces and palatia residences substantial
proof OF the wonderful the people within
comparatively short period and offering the world home
those
victims health the business opportunity
extending and expanding himself qualifications of bust
and the honest oer fair rate of monetary exchange for
his labor
and subscribers that in the dark but in
healthy standard of reading for the people,
believe mpressng them with truths invaluable
their respect further support this journal of the
West-TIIE COLORADO STATESMAN, that has only
and developed with the West but in its usefish assisted
others apprecabe their conditions and
circumstances in this great land of the WEST
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
America Must Indict German Government
and People That Support 1t
Bv WILLIAM E. WALLING

Wbv have propaganda spread among us
its poison against the worlds democraces and the germs
moral cowardice by which had already anu
supefed its people?
Why did propaganda? For the simple reason
make propaganda In their own anu
being based on freedom OIL
cannot Against Gerans poison cases. against her ach-
children and do react Against m
moral poons, far we have been helpless
propaganda has conquered Its millions Oh
throughout the only its volume its infinite repon
variety but also by its holiness 1t has always been on m
aggressive. 1t has always claimed everything ana II mas Always %
ceeded planting its dscord and unreason IN
at part of the American publics mind
Germany diplomatic offensive at once with the beginning
still take the diplomatic defensive And IN diplomacy
operations defensive the long runs hopeless w"
must offensive and keep to the end or n
nal democracy will lose the pory the German govern
en and that part German that supports it, before the pub
opinion And must repeat the operation ana ao
damnng indictment day that the war continues
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
Burden Of Carrying on the War Cannot
Be Shifted to the Future


that it not twentyone billions
which wants ultimately but twenty billion
and Our national does not
billions dollars of god silver and
worth of wheat lumber minerals clothing
billions of actual gold silver
in existence the United States These dollars
the real things measured and by
of which they exchanged easily For present
real things for which can be exchanged
exchange commodities for it is with these that it must
military 1t is obvious Also that 1t must have
Munitions of 1880 and not yet
the nem lines The burden OF furnish
all things cannot be put OFT till
the future
other nations might fight the with
ourselves ahead consuming what we
doing before the In that we could
paving tem-tha the burden of the to the future
lend to this me we our
and keep it supplied Not only must
addition must help feed and equip
our allies None of be left to the future
OF course the next generation will be injured because of this
worth of labor and food and steel and other materials
ton railroads. irrigation systems manufacturing plants improved
which might have aided descendants and made
their lives fuller happier If mans property destroyed his chill
ren both he and they suffer Our descend
ants must suffer much of their parmony beng
DESTROYED the future cannot relieve our present
title We cannot nation postpone our
burden we future help Then why deude our
selves with thinking that it can?
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
RACE CONSCIOUSNESS.

EDITORIAL Race Consciousness the Chicago
~ Defender, Windy City and of
the leading the country offering suggestions
the geogetr and principles that ought
the the JEW with his quality of shnes
which through the
Other weken the article civic
board institution themselves and all
the thinking of often have published
editorials and items raceoyalty, racepride and
policy that will develop bigger and broader
hits Chicago
touches Philadelphia and hove around nearly other che
action in local politics of supporting candidate whoever he
feelings
for his sake but for the We have tried look from this
angle and often have the of cities tried to do this
but instances be feelings resulting from
petty but the candidates action in
mun the kind of impression he has established for his
residence because vouch for his heart
toear policy for the by the proofs has given his general
before he politically hesitate and times
withhold There greater better proof than the
of Chicago
elected the assumption that he will
though his dealings with his felowmen might have
before his political ambition takes hold of him.
party using him MEANS TO THEIR END
that brother editor with that merely be-
should headlong
representative position because
requirements satisfied qualified
pulling
bracing him the support that will
servceab leader whose life will stand
following Chicago has had her
position demand aaround quaca
local other politics. therefore, max
ing while and party hold WELL let consider first
THE MAN.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
FEDERATED CHARITIES OF DENVER.

memory correctly that at least
of colored organizations included in the list of Denver
United Charities and for that also would
people to give literally they this worthy object We
have purchased Liberty Bonds subscribed large
the Red Cross Thrift Stamps but this special
pertains home remembering the CHARITY be-
gins home (and would attempt charge with self
sne have received commentator for ready
every caD would lay much emphasis giving this
CHARITY ASSOCIATION CEILDREN'S DAY NURSERY
the list of those help and should help them
proportion when the general distribution takes
Give and largely Remember, CHE WHO GIVES PROMPTLY
GIVES TWICE AS MUCH.''