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stamp it. stays his hand and says:
Pardon me. lieutenant, but where do
you come from on this?'
From Paris.
But how does it happen that when
you went away they didn't tear of the
other half of your paper?
Il am arriving. my friend. I am not
returning from a leave"
The gendarme, much confused, re-
peats:
Not from leave? Oh, yes"
Then he says:
Lieutenant, won't you please go and
see the military commissioner
The commissioner is even more OBJ
him very gently, almost in whisper,
if making a confession:
Il am an officer on duty in the rear.
l used to be at the front. I was re-
1t seems that l was indispensable in the
manufacture of powder. But that
doesn't matter. yesterday they gave
me four days leave. I have taken
And I have come TO spend them here.
That is all there is to it,
"You-here?" stammers the commits
sioner, letting his lorgnon drop. "On
leave? Oh. yes"
He gives the officer the same queer
kind of look as the gendarme. did and
then steps away. his hand to his cap.
The lieutenant leaves the station.
His two companions of the night be-
fore follow him from afar, with dazed
eyes.
He takes the single street Of the
ruined village between horses demol-
ished anu facades which still stand Is
by miracle. with nothing behind them.
He looks at the smoking rubbish The
air is heavy and acs:d- Without doubt
the enemy has boInbarded here very
recently. He stumbles over the splin-
tered masonry and studies eagerly the
number on the collar of each soldier
whom he meets
He reaches the church and finds it
gashed, palpitating. in extremia He
had left it intact, robust, thick-sst,
with its short clock tower and it's vii
lage clock 1t had a good clock, prosaic
without resonance, which now lies on
the ground and whose sad plight would
inspire poet.
An old man is proving about the
debris of the church porch, and the Of
hcer asks him:
is the 503d- ?"
"Some of them are here"
Lieut.. F.? Adjt. D. Capt.
c." ..-
''They are here. They are here
Here nowF:
Yes, since two weeks or more. Since
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1T ENRY FORD was congr7tulztea ~
41 a Detroit journalist the other day
On the new type OF submarine chaser
that he has begun to turn out for the
government in hundrod-lot patches.
Yes things are beginning to go
WELL" said Mr. Ford Things are
going efficiently"
+. He smiled and added: - a.
'-The Germans were saved by mud
in 1877 Rest assured that IN 1915
theY X00t .heuGu5 lK1D211As
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kindly omit flowers. I'll admit that
in stretching horizon lines you were
bigger punkin than poor little Alexan-
speaking, you overlooked a few tricks
yourself You had the big idea, all
right. but in the end you fell down just
as badly as Alexander did
Me-" cried Columbus, startled out OF
his grammar by the heresy of Napo-
leon. II discovered America, didn't f?'
Nope" laughed Napoleon. You
didn't. Maybe you thought you did. but
you didn't. You just sailed the bripy
what did you Know about Pixies peak,
Cheyenne and Bisbee.: 'AriZ.? An said
you as your pretty little caramel
'Carayel, not caramel" protested Co
lumbus.
20 all right-caravel be it always
thought it was a caramel,rit looked so
like "a piece of half-baked fudge said
Napoleon. ''Ah.' said you, as your pref
ty little claribel anchored off the hind
end of the Antilles AT last. l have
carried my message to Garcia: I've dis
covered America. ! will hasten back
and tell Queen Isabella what u nice lit
tie winter resort Havana will make for
u tired .potentate, and maybe the dear
lady will pawn another barrel of pearl
necklaces to help me through another
season at Palm Beach, Then you prob
ably went up into the smoking room.
called for a glass OF fermented grape
juice and sighed a few signs yourself,
like Brother Alex here, because there
was no more America to be discov-
cred, and all the, time Pittsburgh and
Bethlehem. Pa, were lying fallow just
waiting for somebody who wasn't
smart aleck to come along and start up
a steel industry that would have taken
Spain out of hook with just one quar-
terly- dividend. Why, honest. Chris
topifer. sailor as you were, compared
to those Pittsburgh people you didn't
even know the potential value sof
water!'
Yes said De Soto. condescendingly.
"Boney's got you there, Columbus. If
you had had the courage and the en-
ergy to push on as l did until you came
to the mississippi"
There honks another of EN-" laugh
ed Napoleon. Look at him Chris
topher! Gaze upon him, Alexander, and
take comfort-smart- alexis. all. Why.
De Soto, you are worse than either of
these Others Mississippi? Why, man,
all you could see in the Mississippi
was torrential stream of water and
you possibly sat down and sighed like
genuine smart aieck because you
couldn't. drink. it all. To you it was
water, water. everywhere, and a bone
dry country at that. Maybe you wept
because you could not pack it up in
your suit case and take IT over to the
Sahara, and turn the great African des-
=,
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By MONTAGUE GLASS

same thing and also roasts the play.
y'understand. SO what does this here
and notify the operators that under the
bylaws of the actors union they
should please consider that they have
received the usual two weeks notice
that the show will close the next night?
Oser stuck. The next day he puts In
every paper an advertisement:
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his Off moments but as the serious
work of professional play designer. it
amt worth moments. consideration
Also the cricket of the New York Rec
ord says: From the liberal applause at
the end OF the third act Hamlet" might
have been the most brilliant drama
since THE Easiest Way" instead of
play full of clack-trap scenes and which
will positively meet the capora it de-
serves, understand.
Furthermore. Mawruss. we would
say that every other paper says the
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They are resting"
He makes a sign to the officer, which
means:
Follow me-"
Behind the church they pass along
rampant of earth, over which the ON
Ger vaults joyously. Then, with a sud
denness which cuts his breath short, he
finds himself in a cemetery, before
graves, in a plot of ground all bloated
looks at the man who has brought him
here. but who shows no sign of emo
ton and his eyes dilate with astoniSh-
ment- He asks abruptly:
But what does this mean"
The other answers:
They are there-all together.
buried them-with the aid Of the sol
diers"
clenches his fists He remains stupe-
fed before these little hillocks of earth
of poor, chalky earth, on which he
sees the three caps of the men whom
soaked, stained, all mushy and lament
able, caps under which he recalls the
figures of his friends, whom he now
pictures lying stiff and CHASTITY in their
collins
He has a suffoating feeling. He
starts back, as if he was afraid OF
walking over them He realizes the
frightfulness of war. All OF them dead
dead without MS knowing it. And
what is he doing there? Why did he
come back? Is this his placer He
choixes-as il these dead men saw him
and were astonishe6 at him And his
fantastic and charming idea Of taking
his leave at the front suddenly nile
him with horror. He has an impulse
to escape.
He came to look for men. He nnda
graves He fees. There are under hia
feet in this field Of the dead, light and
gile candles which the wind hAa
l:.3.s+i over. He feels cold He
walks quickly. His eyes are cast upon
the ground And he arrives at the sta
ton, out of breath at a loss for wordaI
when does il go-where is there =
train
What? A train"
This time the commissioner shown
no astonishment- Knitting HRS browo
he gives the Information which the
officer seeks
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NAPOLEON, with a wistful glance across
the Styx Bad as any of you was ].
for what, in my complacent blindness
did do
Everybody" said Caesar
Not quite" said Napoleon II over
looked a few, like the rest of you.
/ wasted my strength and energies
trying to master Europe, the land OF
the setting sun overlooking America
altogether where the future comes
from. When l might have gone and
become q king in my own right, in a
land of sovereigns I fooled around
trying to become a tawdry emperor
of an effete hemisphere"
"Ah, America again" said DR.. john
son. always America, Alexander
overlooked Detroit, Columbus neglected
Pittsburgh, Hudson carelessly mislaid
New York. De Soto could not foreSee
Keokuk, and I stand convicted OF
smart aleckosity because l failed to
sense the possibilities Of the victories
of free English that are won on the
base ball fields of the United States
"Righto, old top" returned Napoleon
You've hit the nail on the head
That's where we all qualified as smart
alecks We sighed for new worlds to
conquer. and never dreamed that one
OF the biggest lay at our very doors.
pleading to be conquered. We reok-
oned without the land of the free"
And was that really such g. bad
mistaken put in Confucius.
ASK the kaiser" laughed Napoleon;
"he knows"
Copyright, 1915. BY Mcclure syndieate1 4.
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" JOHN DREW SCORES
IN DULL PLAY" ..''

Even so. Mawruss," Abe said. that
wouldn't feaze the manager which first
put on Hamlet because we would say.
for example. that the cricket of the
New York tar-Gazette said: ''Hamlet"
would be an A-number-one play if it
had been written by pants presser; in
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'They are here. They are here"
Here now?:
~, Yes: since two weeks or more. Since
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which first took Hamlet did the best
he could with rotten part and headed
the article. -
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No Chance for Them.

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Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
For Sale-Houses
HOUSE
SOME BARGAINS

SOME BARGAINS
 Four-room brick and screen room: stucco kitchen, bath. electric lights, gas: northeast section: s2,650.
 Five-room pebble dash brick thor oughly modern; nice neighborhood, northeast section: $3.350 $500 down, balance $26 per month.
 Eight room two-story brick. modern, close in; best residence section; beau tiful corner; $500; terms.
 Five-room modern brick: close in, northeast section: s3,150; terms.
 Beautiful five-room cottage, mod ern; extra big lot; suburban; close to Only $3,0O0; s1,000 cash, easy terms balance.
 F'ive-room modern brick. close in; corner lot; immediate possession. s. 300; $l.000 cash. balance semi i-annual payments.
 Four-room modern brick; newly painted inside and tinted; near paved street; immediate possession. S2650; $750 cash, balance to suit.
 Beautiful modern 11a story bunga- low bedrooms, living room. dining room, kitchen and screened rooms; furnace. solar heat, garage for ? cars. S10500.
 Thoroughly modern five-room cot beautiful yard. fruit trees. flowers, cement walks, nice garage; lot 50X75. $5 500; half cash.
 F.. E. PASCOE.
 302 x. CENTRAL AVE. ak
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
EIGHTY ACRE SNAPS

ts acres m alfalfa. 22 in maize, pal fncc in cotton. Fenced and located miles south and 1is vest of Peoria. with section line road on north end west. This ranch is real buy and gan te handled on EZ terms.
 Highly improved eighty. fenced and cross fenced. 55 acres in alfalfa, bal ance in summer crops. Fine two story brick house, large barn. family or hard and vineyard. Located two miles south and half west of Peoria in the real soil district owners reason for selling his sons have gone to war. This ranch is a dandy and can be handled 'n terms.
 BUNTMAN & KELLOGG
 West Adams St. lt
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
Ge&singer Bargains

Below we offer for the week some exceptional ranches, all priced so that any person can own his own home and The properties will earn enough to take care of the price within two years. BARGAINS are our HOBBY, and if you doubt it. call and see me and make me prove the above statement.
 % acres on Southern Ave, 20 acres in perfect alfalfa, good fences, corrals, redwood boxes. 3-room house, shade and everything that goes to make up good home. This is priced at only S225 per acre and is cheaper by Sl00 per acre than any thing around 1t. Make me prove this to you.
 70 acres. all in cotton. no improvements, fenced with good wire. cement boxes, clear of incumberance, will trade for larger place and pay diff ference or might consider q good home in the city. on good street or sell upon easy terms 10 right party.
 l60 acres. So i'm alfalfa, balance in grain. large home. good barns, out houses, including a stable for 20 horses or cows. big silo and gran ary big chicken houses and hog pens. in fact one of the best i'm proved ranches in the valley. This is a real home and the alfalfa this year will pay over s12.000. balance of the place will pay about SIP, 800 and we are offering this valuable place at price that will be paid out in two years. See this if you really want the best in the valley. 8 acres. all in alfalfa, fenced that is all, on Indian School road. You can get this for S350 cash, balance $15 per month.
 e0 acres. all in alfalfa, 5-room house with basement, lots of fruit of 1000 trees. all bearing now; good out houses and garage; 1000 hens and 1000 egg incubator. This place is ready for you to move into and cant he beat in the valley for a money maker.
 70 acres. all in maize. crop goes too, and is worth lots of money but the owner said sell me out, and if you want something that is good and well located. sec it. Only S250 per acre and the milo will more than pay the first payment and a good size balance left.
 so acres of as good land in the valley for cotton or alfalfa. See it and you will say that it is easily worth the S225 per acre. Only s3000 cash balance as long as you will want This Is the very best snap that we have ever advertised.
 i.0 acres. 100 acres in cotton. all fenced. near Scottsdale. for s16, ,000 and the land around this is selling for as high as s250 per acre and the terms on this is s3500 cash balance in 10 years.
 SEE NEBLETT
 WITH B. w. GETSINGER
 Phone 1886. 16 F. Adams. II
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
ILalIad And Cattle

We arc in position to sell you any hing you want in large or small tracts irrigated and alfalfa land. also any thing in the line of grazing land and cattle ranges.
 We can save you 25 to 90 per cent on any of the above bargains. Don't for get that we have some excellent dairy propositions that will appeal to you if you arc in the market and anything YOU may desire in city property. We don't confine ourselves to any certain locality as we have exchanges on prop Sty in practically every state in the rnion.
 WRIGHT LAND & CATTLE FIX
 CHANGE
 15 & First Ave. Phoenix Ariz. If
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
For Sale-Real Estate S>>~~~~~~NS~~~~S>>~ BoIim Ranch
 Bargains

S45oO-10 acres in alfalfa and or chard. Groom house. hay barn, garage, on MrDowcu road.
 160 acres. near Glendale, $225 per acre with good page fence. SO acres. all improved, close to Six Points. s265 per acre.
 l6o acres. close in, all improved, all for s30 900. Cash Sl0,000. 4s acres. south of town. all improved. Si15 per acre.
 70 acres, close in. 4-room frame house. acres in orchard. page fence. Price $500.
 i2500 8 acres, northeast. 4-room frame house. near Carlnc, a fine little place. FOR GOOOD RANCH BUYS SEE US
 BOLlN REALTY co.
 ll9 North Second Ave.
 Phone 4l0S. It
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22

MY HOME-Located on West Wash lngton street, in beautiful Capitol ad
 dition. Splash-dashed brick, 6 rooms. large screen porch, bath. pantry, fire place, bookcases. buffet, hardwood floors. large closets. etc. Price re- duced $500 for quick sale. May con- sider part trade in smaller place. For location, price and terms. phone 2415.
 xl.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
All Green
Two Modern Houses

BOTH COMPLETELY FURNISHED on large 75x200 lot, citys best street, northeast one block to paving. two blocks to two carlines. Immediate pos session Practically new.
 BROOM MODERN HOME, screen, bath, hot water, gas range. electric fix lures, fan, laundry tray, large closet, lots pantry room, built-in features. Cosy, homelike. completely furnished. Adjoining on same lot another
 BROOM HOUSE. bath, gas. cleo tricity, closet room, also completely fur nished. Roomy garage, outhouses, chicken runs. shade, roses, fenced. Both for price of one. $3700. You rent one out, live in the other. s27OO cash, bal ance 5000 years or longer. No sick. Owner TAI F. Culver. 1t
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
EXCLUSIVE HOMES
How About This

s1500-Little house of rooms on large lot, about two miles north, con- venient to car line, adapted to raising chickens and working in the city. $500 cash will handle. S32o0-New home, modern 4-room brick two screened rooms and large front porch 63-foot lot on Lyn- wood, this way from Seventh street. 5000 cash will handle
 FRANKLIN D. LANE
 s W. Adams St Phone 1234 If
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
B@Iin' s M@nae
 Bargains

s1,500-5 rooms, all modern, and
 garage; old shade; west part
 of town. ,OOO-5-room modern brick house;
 near capitol. ,S00-5-room house and bath; near
 high school S2,2OO-6-room house, near Washing
 st. close in; west part of
 town ,OOO-1O-room brick, all modern, near
 high school. S4,0OO-6-room pebble dash modern
 and garage; north cast part
 of town. So'5Oo-S-room modern brick; swell
 home; north part of town. $5,oO0-6-room brick; all modern;
 close to high school. ,bO0-5-room house and lots:
 northeast part of town. Sl'ooO-3-room house and lots on E.
 Washington: close in. S2,b50-Pebble dash 6 rooms and
 garage; near high school SlO'Oo0-S-room modern; swell home:
 close to center; north part of
 town.
 Good terms and good homes. Our machines are at your service. BOL1N REALTY co. Phone 410S. 119 N. Second Ave
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
For Exchan@e

1s0 ACRES-1OO GOOD. CLEAN ALFALFA. so IN GRAIN: ALL FENCED IN s FIELDS; GOOD FIVE ROOM HOUSE. WELL AND OUT BUILDINGS; LOCATED CLOSE TO GLENDALE: FINEST SOIL: OLD WATER RIGHT. PRICE $500 PER ACRE. WILL TRADE FOR LOS AN GELES APARTMENTS. SUBMIT AT ONCE.
 DAVE REALTY CO, 'es \. CENTRAL AVE. PHONE 3599.
 A
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
KENILWORTH HOME

This is one of the largest and most attractive homes in Wentworth addi- ton, on a paved street and right on car line. The house is brick, practi- cally new. strictly modern in every appointment and substantial in con- struction. There are eight commodious roo~~r. two bath rooms. two large screen rooms, six linen closets, wide cement porch on two sides. basement furnace and hot water tank, solar heater. fireproof garage. for two cars good shade. fruit trees, roses, nice lawn and cement walks. This place was wisely planned by an experienced builder and is finished according to the plans. The price is only s10,500 and the terms are fair.
 l.. w. McADAMS
 8 Commercial Hotel Block. Phone 1929
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
IT'S A BEAR

11-room brick pebble dash two story house; north part of town on paved street; house strictly modern to the minute; has basement, hardwood floors and all built-in effects; double gar age, lawn, walks. roses, fruit and shade; in fact, is a beautiful home; is going at the ridiculously low price of sS200, 5000 cash will handle house couldn't be built at the price it is being sold at.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
RAILROAD MEN ATTENTION

Out on East Van Buren St. close to the shops we have dandy two story brick stucco finish house: eight rooms: four bed rooms; 3 screen sleeping porches.
 House is nicely finished throughout; has good garage, too.
 It is priced at s4,500 and can be bought on easy terms; will take Liberty Bonds. Buy it, take rooners to help pay for it.
 HERBERT S. PRINCE co.
 Realtors
 IA W. Adams St. q
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22

HAVE oNE-HALF SECTION GOOD LAND DEER VALLEY, CLOSE 1N) THAT WE CAN SELL AT S5 PER ACRE UNDER VALUE: ALL LEVEL. FINE SOIL. LET US SHOW IT TO yOU. DAVE REALTY co, l26 x. CENTRAL. PHONE S599. 1t
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22

FOR SALES h. D. Holt caterpillar tractor complete with one double disk harrow and heavy six gang disk blow;
 extra parts: in Al condition. S4000. Has been used very little. Terms. $2000 cash. balance three and six months. Holmes -Wooton Ranch Co.,, 27 N. Central Ave. Phone 1922. If
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
F or Sale

Cole touring car: good rubber, new top and new paint. .$550.00 Studebaker touring car: in good shape .s25O.OO Overland truck; good tires and gone over thoroughly mechan- lcally .$250.00 We are closing out all of our used cars and will make you special prices and terms on anything we have.
 KISSEL AUTO COMPANY, 235 N. Central Ave. Phone 35S4
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
See Fred A. Dibble With Griffemp Alone 11S N. FIRST AVE. PHONE 1893
 T

FOR SALE
 WATCH PHOENIX GROW
 BARGAINS 14 room apartment, close in, s90 in- come. unfurnished Will hring $50. Furnished s6000. $500 cash. Will take a smaller property as part pay. 6 room house, close in, S2250. s250 cash, s25 month. room house, ? lots. S1350. $50 cash. SEQ per month.
 M H. SHELTON
 215 Wect Wash If
Arizona republican., 1918-09-22
Choice City .Gne@aae

A MOST DESIRABLE APART MENT PROPERTY. PAYING 20 PER CENT ON THE PRICE ASKED. s - ROOM APARTMENTS. COM PLkTELY FURNISHED, IN GOOD LOCATION AND NEAR CAR LINE. EVERYTHING THOROUGHLY MOD- ERN; FINE HEATING SYSTEM; PLENTY OF SHADE IN SUMMER; SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS ON ROOF. PRICE. $19,O00, INCLUDES EVERYTHING. ITS A REAL MONEY MAKER AND PRACTICALLY NEW. CALL FOR FURTHER INFORMA- TON.
 DAVE REALTY CO, 126 N. CENTRAL AVE. PHONE 359s.
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