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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-15

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md cinssined Just like the dictionary
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-15

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for good ROOM. Turn 10 the nou,
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-15
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even though IL is used In the same
manner.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-15

The first application for n patent for
nm automobile was filed in the United
states Patent Office by George r. Sell
den thirty years ago. Selden was
patent lawyer in Rochester. ~ ".
when he first began to experiment with
the idea OF vehicle propelled by a
gasoline engine
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-15

With record OF n sock In 139
minutes. Mrs. Anna HELEN. of Seattle.
claims the distinction ~ being tho
champion knittcr OF the country. SER
that there are women in VIRGINIA who
can beat and have beaten that record.
Evening star., 1918-06-16

fled to wash a Kazinski as We're de
Vere."
"a noble thought" said Cassius.
eff Caesar had as much regard for
the boishevik as for the plutocrat how
different indeed would have been his
endw
"Oh, l don't know" said Columbus
II think Caesars end was rather fine.
He'd never have got into the movies
if he'd sort of passed on and out like
everybody else. Shakespeare couldn't t
ever have made a heroic tragedy out
of julius il he had died of the mumps" /"
AS Columbus spoke. Byron and Sir
Walter Raleigh entered the room
Try your poem on Byron, Kidd"
said Columbus.
Great Scott" cried Raleigh. Kidd
hasn't addld poetry to his other
crimes, has he?"
HE sure has," said Marco Polo.
And as far as l can make out, Walt,
it's seven feet nine inches longer
II should admire to hear it,"
laughed Byron. Fire ahead. cap
tain-but tell me first. is your poem
the result of Inspiration or perspira-
tion?"
1T has the classic touch of Greece"
said Cassius
That's no answer to my question" /"
said Byron. There's the Greece Of
Homer and there's elbow grease. To
which do you refer?'
Kidd, and mounting the billiard table
Evening star., 1918-06-16
MAKING A THREE-cUsHIoN cARoM.

sal ego with it's omnipresent urge in
the direction of inconceivable other
fields of usefulness in the anterior
spaces beyond the demonstrable or
ganisms of the"
Better put in fresh needle. cap."
said Jonah. The record is beginning
to scratch, and 1 fail to get it,
you might dictate the rest of it to
a stenographer and let us have it by
freight. Kidd" said Cassius. II really
didn't mind your poetry, but this
prose fytte of yours is too like a con-
vulsion to get me. Give US more of
your ode if you must. but stow the
prose-please. I can make sense out
of Carlyle and fairly frivol through
Socrates, but there's something about
your definition Of poetry that sets my
nanny snoring"
"Oh, all right" said Kidd. I'm
willing-fact is, l got going on that
sentence. and somehow or other
couldn't find a way station to get off
at. I think it must have been that
canned lobster. But the poem-ah-
that's different. You see, I treat Of
all the phases of the oceans effort,
and I've got a corner on it's value as
symbol of democracy. Listen here:
Again, OH, noble sea.
Thou are to me
The symbol true OF pure democracy.
Thou washest every shore.
East west, south, or nor,
And never pausest in thy cleansing task
All snobbishly to ask
II 1t be Newport full of bowling swells.
Evening star., 1918-06-16
DOINGS REPORTED BY WIRELESS
TO JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

IT don't mean that kind of meters
retorted Kidd, petulant1y. What !
mean is is there anything the matter
with my feet?"
I really couldn't say" said Byron.
innocently. I'm not a chiropodist.@
Kidd glared angrily at the poet.
Il want criticism-not persifiage.S
he said, frowning deeply. What's
the trouble with my poem. il any?
That's what I want to know"
true poem should work up to some-
thing forceful and"
"Redolent." said Jonah. Like kaa
zinski."
And the bigger that something is,a
continued Raleigh, ignoring the inH
a limerick must have a point-a sort
of sting at the end"
Like a bee" put in Jonah.
Precisely" said Byron.
well. I've got it, said Kidd. trfs
.umphantly. 1--WE got a grand finally
1 read it:
And finally.
Oh. hegemonic sea. ' -s.
I'd like to take thee in pail. 70
Stirred by the wrath of some horrendous gale
OF dark and lowering mien.
And reur thee on black Kaiser Binum's bill
And sweep him from his throne high in the
Ten billion squillion leagues from every.
where.
Where he may rest upon an exiie's sheIs
And contemplate himself,
And sizz
with flaming shame to think he's what he Isl
That" said Byron, ''is what !
should call the apostrophe magnift-
cent"
80 fine, indeed" said Raleigh.
"that il l were you. captain. / should
be content to rest upon my laurels
and never write another line SO long
as the world shall last"
Whereupon Kidd nearly swooned
with joy, and Cassius with envy,
while Jonah called the waiter and
ordered four welsh-rabbits and i've
cans Of picked lobster.
Great heavens. Jone," said
Raleigh. "are you trying to commit
suicide?"
mo" said Jonah, I'm going to
write an ode to my whale. and I'm
just laying the foundation for the
attack"
Gosh, George. said Raleigh. turn
ing to Byron. "can it be that these
pikers. have at last discovered the
sources of our Inspiration f' ..s
Copyright. 1918. by Mcclure syudicate.)
Evening star., 1918-06-16
A Famine in Fans.

A MONG all the threatened famines
- brought about by war conditions
palm leaf fan famine is to be exs
pected, according to a report from
Consul General George Z. Anderson,
Hongkong, China.
"One Of the lines of export of some
moment from Hongkong to the United
States which has been temporarily
destroyed by high freight rates and
the high exchange value of silver il
that of palm leaf fans" says Mr..
Anderson. Only 157 packages OF
these fans were exported to the
with 5.02S in 1915 and 1851 in 1915.
The common fans are simply the
trimmed leaf and stem of the ordinary
small palm which grows wild in most
districts of south China, il it is all
lowed to do 30, but usually for the
fan trade is grown in low-lyinS
grounds in the San Wui district Of the
Pearl river delta in Kwangtung provS
ince-one of the four districts from
which most of the Chinese in the
United States originally emigrateI
When thus cultivated or grown the
palms are thickly sown. carrying, acs
cording to methods followed, from
5000 to le.oes plants to an acre, the
fewer the plants the better the res
turn in high-grade leaves.
1T requires about seven years to
grow the palms to the size necessary
Tor good fan leaves and after that
they furnish an annual crop inded~
nitely. the Chinese stating that the
trees live for hundreds of years. pros
viii produce leaves as large az fvs
feet in length with a breadth jusv
above the lower end Of perhaps threa
feet
Evening star., 1918-06-16

"Oh, I've known fish that were full
of inspiring force and terribly redo
lent, if it comes to that" said Jonah
Fact is force and neutrality-suspicious.
larly redolence-were the long suits
of my whale"
We'll I'm not talking about fish,"
said Kidd impatiently. The subject is
poetry-understand? Poetry. Lines
of beauty expressing great thought,
and filled with images that conjure up
in the mind of him who reads a pic
ture of something beyond the scrutiny
of the finite eye. and enables him to
visualize through the media Of his
subconscious perceptions something
of the cosmic relation of that infini-
tesimal atom we call man to the ever
widening intangibility of the univer-
Evening star., 1918-06-16
AT THE H0USEB0AT ON THE STYX MRa M

81 can see Skazin can hear ska
zinski. l can Sm,i SkaZinski. and l
am glad you have given the ocean the
job of washing Skazinski. because
somehow I have a hunch Skazinski
needs it,"
you've caught the feel of the thing
admirably" said Kidd, the whole
point being that the sea like true
democrat voluntarily washes the
shores of plutocrat and proletariat
alike. asking. as the poem goes on to
say:
For humble serf and him of high kibosh.
Neither how nor why.
But toiling constantly
If only it may standard wash!
"In other words. when it comes to
serving the ocean it is as we'll satis-
Evening star., 1918-06-16
GERMAN SLACKERS.

Nm a communication addressed To
the Women of the Upper Glasses"
in the Kolnisch Zeitung. the writer
brings out the Importance Of COM
plete mobilization of the energies OF
all women during war,
Let no one interpose the objection
that a person who in this. the fourth
year of the war, has yet to gain q
comprehension of the extremities in
which our people are laboring. who
still places personal well-being above
concern for the common good, is irre-
trievably lost for great object, says
the writer Certainly, every German
woman, the wealthy woman most OF
all. ought at the start to have COM
pretended her duty toward her coun-
try in this fearful war of starvation,
as well as the divers aspects of the
policy of holding out and conducted
herself accordingly. However, 1t is
precisely in a mode of life which long
standing culture and inherited wealth
have rendered luxurious that force of
habit plays SO important a role. and
herein may we'll lie an explanation for
the disastrous retention of her COM
forts by the woman of this type. With
this attitude there must be merciiesS
interference.
Because the educated middle class
is scarcely able longer to furnish the
necessary reserve contlngents, we
must have recourse to the women OF
the upper strata of society. Their
strength is to greater or less degree
unexhausted; they are relieved of do
mestic responsibilities by many serv-
ants. Thanks to their large financial
resources they are. even without re-
sorting to subterfuges. immune from
undernourishment. For the same rea-
son they are in a position to restore
their strength by travel. and because
of their larger wardrobes to risk,
rather than the women of the lower
classes, using up their clothes in war
work.
Thus all considerations favor the
enlistment of the service of those
women who have hitherto lived at
their ease (with the exception, OF
course. of those who are bound by
the duties of motherhood)."
Evening star., 1918-06-16

he delivered his poem with consider
able dramatic effect.
"Strikinsly original" said Byron.
Il recall nothing like it in Homer.
Dante or Milton"
at has all the exquisite lack of
form Of an offshoot Of chaos ITSELF"
said Raleigh.
Kidd fairly beamed with pleasure.
you're very kind" he said, but
let's be frank about this business. 1
don't want praise, / want criticism. Is
there anything wrong with the
meter?"
search me-" said Raleigh. I'VE
didn't burn gas in my day, and I'm
not familiar with"
Evening star., 1918-06-16

- lumbus in the billiard room
of the House Boat on the Styx, 'I
have made a discovery that beats
your detective work in tracing the
western hemisphere to it's lair all
hollow
Inere is nothing very remarkable
about that" growled Marco Polo, who
was playing kelly pool with Cassius
and Jonah at an adjoining table.
Anybody with blind eye and a
patch over the other could beat CO.
lumbus out as discoverer, and not
half try
Il guess you're right there, Marco"
said Columbus. amiably, chalking the
ferule of his umbrella and making
three-cushion carom shot with it.
Even you had me lashed to the con-
ming tower when it came to the dis
covery stunt l only discovered things
that really were, but you. dear boy,
you had an eye for the Amt There
thing that has been a source of in
spiration to the Explore the Earth
Without Leaving Home school ever
since"
DO you mean to imply that 1 never
saw the things l claimed to have dis
covered?" demanded Marco Polo hit
ting the cue ball with such a vicious
thrust that he pocketed it in Jonah's
stomach.
mot at all, Marco" said Columbus.
mot at all. I don't doubt you really
did see all the things you said you
saw, but l am equally sure that mo-
body else ever did
*
bSnaar
Polo, with a sour laugh. Il know the
truth, and that's enough for me-"
$50 do l." said Columbus. "and I
tell you right now, Marco, if instead
of sailing the briny deep I'd stayed at
home and viewed the world through
the glass that cheers and occasionally
inebriateS, l should probably have
seen as many of the invisible things
of the world as you did-fery un-
tanned hippogriffs. breathing devas-
tating flames from every one of their
ninety two nostrils: soaring shandy
gafs tapping thunderous wings over
where, inhabited by ,oae-legged lodi
forms. and all that. You were a great
man, Marco-what I should call
delirium tremendous personality"
Rats" retorted Marco Polo. con-
temptuously.
about him with mock curiosity. II
don't see any
Perceiving the imminence of
fracas that would hardly be a credit
to the Associated Shades, Jonah in
tervened.
Cut it out. boys" said he. 81 don't
mind your quarreling among your
selves as much as you please. but
don't do it while I'm around. Wen
get pinched by the house committee,
and it would be lust nv luck IN he
suspended from the club for disorder
ly conduct for just being around. Let
us hear what it is Capt. Kidd has dis
covered that is SO superior to Column
bus little stunt"
why. it's this said Kidd. 81 have
discovered that this world has been
just plain bunked for years by the
camouaage of greatness on the part
OF the poets. and that. in spite of
the airs they put ON. it's darned
sight easier to be a good poet than
q good plumber"
"Oh. nonsense. captain" CALCULATED
Evening star., 1918-06-16

Columbus. I don't care much for
the divine afiatus crowd, but you've
got to hand IT to them for genius"
NO" said Kidd. You're wrong. !
have discovered that. given . pad. and
a penci. and more or less elastic
vocabulary. anybody can be a poet.
and can prove It."
How demanded Columbus.
II can write it myself" said Kidd,
triumphantly.
Columbus scratched his head.
.sWelf, that's pretty good proof" he
said. Nobody can deny that IL YOU
can write poetry anybody can. But
rd like to hear some Of the poetry be-
fore accepting your conclusion"
Sure" said Kidd. Il expected that,
Evening star., 1918-06-16

tibly under the genial warmth Of
praise.
Good gracious" said Columbus. "Is
there more Of itr'
More Of Hr cried Kidd. why
man. those lines are only the pre-
monitory rumblings of the torrential
rush to follow. I began pouring this
poem out at 4:30 an, and didn't stop
until ! dropped from sheer exhaustion
at 1880 pm. You see the subject 10 so
vast. SO full of-er-so full Of"
'Fishr' suggested Jonah. desiring
to be helpful.
"Fish nothing!" retorted Kidd. $50
full OF inspiring force. and redolent
Of"
Evening star., 1918-06-16

and Eve got the goods right here. 7
admit that ! don't exactly know how
wbat Y eame e;11 to Sd do o, it guess maybe it's
Burns would call inspiration tbat
turned turn the trick. but I'VE got it right
mere IN my pocket. 1 ate a couple Of
welsh rabbits and a can of pickled
lonster snS r. before going to bed last night.
couldn't sleep, and all of a smdden :. Z
! lay there tossing in my bunk a
Evening star., 1918-06-16
-rEN BILLION seun1aox LEAGUES FROM EvEaYwHEaE-

Or some right humble dune where poor Ska
sinski dwelis-"
who the deuce is Skazinski" de-
mandad Jonah. He don't sound very
nice to me-"
''Skazinski Ia q bit of imagery"
said Kidd. Pm rather proud OF Ska
zinski. He is q little invention Of my
own, . sort Of fancifui embodiment in
. single word Of the universal bolshe-
vik-"
Full Of force and redolence," sug-
gested Jonah.
you've hit 1t exactly" said Kidd.
II wanted q word that had color,
aroma and pictorial suggestion-'
well. it's all there" said Cassius
Evening star., 1918-06-16

Listen to this" he said:
THE SEA.
20 Sea,
l sing to thee.
Thou lanbent stretch of greensh wet
Three-quarters Of our gibberish world o'erset
So full of ambulating damp.
i love thy rarcons roar
A. pirouetting by the squeamish shore lamp
The JOY with which thou tossest here and there
Thy curr:scating dewdrops in the saline air
And swirl the drifting sand
At thy command.
Would I could take thy waters free, bulgent
Sea-
Down through the arid wastes of Afrikee,
And sprinkle them from Tunis to the sphinx,
For then, methinks,
I'd have q cabbage patch
That noae in all the Universe could match,
For productivity.
o sere and sounding saIivacious Sea. ~
The captain paused a moment for
breath.
II should call that a pretty good
pipe for pirate" said Jonah, approv-
ingly.
II doubt plumber could have turn
ed out a nicer job" said Cassius. He
has corralled the ocean into the limits
of twenty lines. and there isn't leak
in any one of them. Some poem,
Kidd. some poem"
Wait until you hear the rest of it,"
said Kidd, his enthusiasm for his new
ly discovered talent growing percep-
Evening star., 1918-06-16

magnificent ode to the ocean popped
into my head"
He took a large bundle Of manuscript
from his pocket and began reading
aloud.
Evening star., 1918-06-16
Captain Kidd Seeks New Laur@ls

Is: =: ::::: f.: !: =: :: 9:
- lumbuS in the billiard room
Evening star., 1918-06-16

fed to wash a Kazinski as We're de
Vere."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-30
Farewell Reception
Given H. H. Lowell by
Chamber Of Commerce

Henry H. Lowell, Omaha insur-
ance man and one of the most &C
tive members of the War Activities
committee of the Chamber of Com,
merce, was the guest of that COM
mittee at a luncheon Tuesday noon
"a good-fellowship gathering to
bid Mr.. Lowell "Godspeed." Mr.,
Lowell left Tuesday night for Camp
Taylor, Louisville, KY, where ne
enters the field artillery central Of
fcers' training school.
Not only was Mr.. Lowell pre-
scented with d program of farewell
speeches at the luncheon, but as
added token of esteem he was given
a handsome wrist watch, the pre-
sentation being made by Chairman
R; ndall K. Brown. Following this.
Mr.. Lowell was tie recipient of
vote of thanks from the military
ceremonial committee, of which he
was chairman and i. charge of the
great numbers of soldier funerals
held in Omaha during the last sew
eral weeks.
Mr.. Lowell leaves an extensive in
surance business to enter the ser
vice of Uncle Sam and he also
leaves a capable manager-his wife.
Mrs. Lowell will take full charge of
the business Immediately.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-30
Warm Springs, Ore, Man
InventS New Auto Jack

O. L. Babcock, former superin-
tendent of the Winnebago Indian
reservation, and now superintendent
of the agency at Warm Springs
Ore, who is in Omaha this week
attending federal court, has proven
himself an inventive genius. Mr..
Babcock patented and is now put
ting on the market a combination
automobile jack and rim tool, which
is proving wonderful convenience
to the unfortunate motorist in the
time of tire trouble. His device is
so constructed that it has lift of
IA inches and can also be used to
spread or contract the largest split
rims when making change of tires.
The device is now being made for
Mr.. Babcock and his partner, c. I.
Lehman of Winnebago, in the east,
but Mr.. Babcock is trying to make
arrangements with some Omaha
manufacturer to do the manufacture
ing in this city.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-30
HUNDRED RED
CROSS DRIVERS
LEAvEF0R CAMP
Young Volunteers for Ambu-
lance Work Go to Chicago
for Three Weeks and
Thence to France.

One hundred and ten Omaha re-
cruits for Red Cross ambulance
work in France, left for Camp
Sept, ILL.,, Tuesday afternoon in
charge of Capt Fred L. Good. re-
cruiting officer.
They assembled at Fifteenth and
Farnam and marched to the court
house, where large crowd awaited
them.
Martial music was played by the
Fort Omaha band and Mayor Ed.
P. Smith babe them "Godspeed,"
and they were off down Farnam
street to the depot followed by a
host of friends and relatives. Sew
enty-fve canteen workers marched
with them, and signs bearing the
inscriptions Omaha again over the
top, ITO ambulance drivers to
France and some of 500 ambu-
latee drivers" were carried by the
boys.
The recruits were mostly young
bloods," many of them high school
boys, and their youth made the part
ing doubly hard for the parents,
Mrs. Luther Kountze, leader of the
canteen workers, which has been
bidding every contingent that has
left since war was declared goodby,
and cheering them on their way
with cigarets and candy, marched
bravely to the depot with her 49,
year-old son. darkness. as she has
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-30
Midnight Show viii
Celebrate Lifting Of
Flu Ban at Gayety

That loyal tribe of Gayetyites,
who have been imploring odd
Man" Johnson ever since he has
been numbered among the idle rich
to hurry up and open the fun center,
are about to get their wish, it ap-
pears.
Now that the lifting of the EN-.
barge on public amusement is draw
ing to an end, Manager Johnson
says the leash at which the theater
is tuggng is becoming SO taut that
he will not be able to hold it only
one minute after the hour decreed
by the health authorities. At l2:Ol
next Saturday morning he~will TN
lock the big front door of the pop
ular Gayety and at 1890 a. m. the
curtain will rise on an extra mid
night performance, to be given by
Fred Irwin's "Majestics," the COM
pany regularly booked to open at
the Gayety Saturday matinee for
the usual weeks run, which engage
ment it will complete.
The company, nearly halt hun
bred strong, will arrive in Omaha
Thursday after completing a half
weeks engagement in Des Moines,
the "hu" ban having been lifted in
that city last Monday.
Starting today the Gayety's box
office will be open from 10 a. m. to
9 D. m. for the sale of tickets for
the entire week. So great has been
the success of the novel midnight
performances in the past, at the
Gayety, that there is no doubt about
the one in prospect. The perform
ance will be given in its entirety.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-30

voice of humanity crying out for
justice and liberty. Two American
painters lived in France, as the tale
unfolds. One had a daughter, the
other a son. They met and loved
and were happy as young lovers al
ways are. Then came Germany's
decision to crush the world with
France as her first victim. The
boy, though an American citizen,
enlisted in the army of France. b.
ieying that "the country good
enough to live in is good enough to
fight for" The development of the
story shows the struggle of the lit
tie French band to hold their village
from the Huns against tremendous
odds-their failure and the terrible
experiences of the natives. including
the boys sweetheart, until finally
rescued by the allied troops with the
brave Americans among them