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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-20
WANTED TO RRNT.
FOR nxCHANG GLE.

WANTED TO RENT-Wic baby
buggy, for summer. Phone 89I1-J.
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HELP WANTED--aEALE.

HAVE knight Printing 90. print 1t.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-20

OFFICES, fronting on Broadway in
the most central location. for rent.
Inquire at Blacks store
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-20

FOR gALE-By owner, modern house
without heat; rooms and bath; ;
north side; large corner lot, on paw
ing; one block to car line, near 2
schools. Phone 1924.
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WANT TO LIST FARMS around Haw-
ley, MINI: several buyers for 80 to
820-acre farms.
THE AGERIAAND CO.,
FARGO, N. D.
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WANTED - rwo young men tor
steady employment. Manchester
Biscuit Go.
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FOR SALE-Ford touring car, goot
condition.; price reasonable. Cal
after p. m. TIA 4th St. N.
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sALNsAIEN,

saleRman; straight
salary proposition: prefer man with
silo experience, but not essential, Box
IA. largo, N. y.
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sALRSMHN WANTED Many of our
salasmen are going TO war; we de-
sire to hear from interested persons
exempt from draft for their places.
McC6nnon q Co., 44 McConnon Bldg.
Winbna, MINI.
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HELP WANTED-FE3gALR.
.,CConfinued.l

Annex Hotel.
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FOR SALR-Two Dfack Hamiltonia
saddle horses. one white Hamlltonia
single driver, PAGER; one pair Hamil-
tonia matched grayB "a good, general
purpose team. 1894 Ninth Ave. 8.
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The Bad Boys! Just Hear Them Cut Up!

tributed to him-which is quite unneces-
sary. His remarks on George Washing
ton, William Jennings Bryan and God
are, to say the least, not in the best Of
taste.
He must smite the philistine at any
cost. Mencken is destined to big things
he already stands head and shoulders
above the Learned pundits" and PRO
fessors"-but he will have to guard
against the sensationally astounding as an
end in itself.
DR.. Nathan, We imagine, is younger,
and he owes as much to Mencken as the
latter, in turn, owes to Huneker and Shaw.
4 Book Without Title is more Literary"
than Mr.. Nathan's other books; he is
striving for style. Here, at least, he has
managed to tear himself loose from
Meneken's apron strings and join the
Dunsanyites-to his credit, be it said. If
he develops an independent vehicle of
expression, if he realizes that for too
long he has played the sedulous ape TO his
boon companion of the Smart Set, he, too,
will be critic at whose feet the younger
generation may well sit for time.
Nathan is developing a lyric strain the
existence of which no reader of Anoihsr
Book on the Theatre or Mr.. George jean
Matthias Presents would have suspected.
This is a good sign, and if the change is
attributable to Dunsany, well and good,
but it should not pass unnoticed. And,
mark, the similarity is not to the Amen
cans discredit: he has moulded the apho-
ristie fable to his own personality. He,c
is Patria by Nathan:
"The young man lay dying on the field
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Of battle Tell them / am proud to have
lied for my glorious country he brsathed
n the eomradc who bent beside him.
They printed the young mans noble
las: words in NIL the leading papers of the
county conspieuously, where all the na-
ton might sec and rad and therefrom
take rride and inspiration, right mex. D,
the cartoons of the Katzeni iammer Kids
And here is What We Hare Come To
by Dunsany:
When the advertiser saw the cathedral
spires over the downs in the distance he
looked at them and wept.
"'If only he said, this were an ad-
vertisement of Beefo, so nice, so nutri-
tious, try it in your soup, ladies like it,"
Both slender volumes, as has been in
timated, are of the Painless Criticism va
riety: they are agreeable and easy guides
to philosophy and criticism. Their super
ticiality consists rather in the manner than
the matter. If you do not care for
Mencken and Nathan you will not read
them; if you do, your earlier opinion will
only be confirmed that Mencken is an
acute and essentially right minded critic,
and that Nathan is smart, bright, and
Judging from this latest book-developing
a more pleasing style. and beginning to
practise what he breaches, that beauty Is
the end of all art.
DAMN! A BOOK OF CALUMNY. By
H. L. MENcKEN. Philip Goodman Com
pany. 90 cents.
A BOOK WITHOUT A TITLE By
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN. Philip Goodman
Company. 80 cents.
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THE two bad boys of American let
Il tiers, the chief opponents of Pain
less Criticism, are at it again. II. l..
Mencken and George Jean Nathan have
Just published thin volumes ofaphorisms
calculated to arouse the ire of professor
and yokel-as they would phrase it.
Damn, and A Book Without Title arc
delightfully."- cynical digs between the ribs
of the phihstine, who is blissfully ignorant
of them, for Mr. Mencken and Mr.. Ma
than are for the sophisticated alone. 1t
is really too bad that their writings should
not penetrate where they might react
against the prevailing spirit of comstock-
ery, but it may be said of these twin
stars of our critical armament what
Huneker says of George Moore: Some
one said that the English speaking world
is divided into three parts-those who
read Moore and like him; those who hate
his name: those who never heard of him."
The Mencken- Nathan Fans will devour
Dawn! and its sister volume; the phil
istines, especially the militant branch,
will declare that the authors ought to be
informed; while the great majority will
never give the matter a moments thought.
Mencken's book offers the usual quota
of witticisms, the never to be omitted
filings at "virtnosi of virtue and "learned
pundits" and the requisite admixture Of
bitter truths and cynically tipped arrows.
No confirmed Menckenite is surprised to
find his idol protesting-as in the follow
ing paragraph-against our stupid and
ignorant attitude toward art and artists:
"A man labors and fumes for q whole
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year to write a symphony in G minor. He
puts enormous diligence into it, and much
talent, and maybe no little downright ge
MUS. 1t draws his blood and wrings his
soul. He dies in it that he may live again
Nevertheless, its final value, in
the open market of the world, is a great
deal less than that of fur overeOat, half
q Rolls Royce automobile, or a handful
Of authentic hair from the whiskers of
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." And the
true Menckpnte-who has, of course, read
his best work, 4 Book Of Prefaces-is not
surprised to find such sensible philoso-
phizing as appears, for instance, in The
Tone Art:
1.-THE notion that the aim of art is to
fix the shifting aspects of nature, that all
art is primarily representative-this no
ton is as unsound as the theory that Fri
day is an unlucky day, and is dying as
hard The artist is a sort of
imprisoned proofreader, blue pencilling
the Iapsus caldmi of God The
worst flute is never as bad as the worst
soprano Setting aside half a
dozen-perhaps q dozen--great masters
Of a moribund craft Ipiano playingl, who
will say that the average mechanical
piano is not as competent as the average
pianistf'
Mencken Follows this up with remark
ably acute page on Interpretation in art,
rightly maintaining that personality" al
most invariably destroys the intent of the
artist.
But he is developing streak of eyni-
eism-nOt the sort of eynicism usually a.
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The Best Verse of the Midsummer Week

! work and feed the boy to-day,
Tomorrow, till the foe diminish.
The patron takes me in Your place;
/ bring him clients from the British:
SO 80, my Castor, dry your face,
And fear not that l shall be skittish,
Skttishf That was the word. Monsieur,
beg you kindly to define it.
| never hear it with my ear;
Peutetre, mais / did not mind it.
Your English vera good knew
Before / marry me in Londres;
Mas, 'skittish,' COMMAS pas de tout,
What mean ma femme, dear, / wundre!
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From Aroma, Illinois
BY Willis STEEL.


never made secret of where was born and rz,
And when you to think of it faint anybodys biz
Theys fools born city, tant matter what its size.
And boob on population is a boob do despise.
Anyways guess the army board that's watchn'
Is aware just what my town is and where my home
folks be-
They don't laugh at such and they wouldn't
show surprise
If done my duty like a man who seen it and who tries.
But was leetle touchy just mite, because the boys
Laughed when they heard my town Aroma, 1linose
Out there think the mighty picturesque and
sweet
An if it amt Chicago ii has got fine main street
With hotel an the Op'ry House an drug store in red
brick,
thick.
Two railroads jine the world an there's Union
Station,
An what we lack in numbers make up eddication
! was after it, You bet you was up to grade six b.
Another year at school had made graduate Of me
When the President word that he needed all boys
N you couldn't keep back there in Aroma, Iinose.
Gosh, but | homesick when I struck your big New
York
No end to all the houses. walk as fast as could walk
An the peope-men and women swan if in row
They would reach stood up, far back the town of
Kokomo;
Polite they could be, too. paavered pretty thick,
As they tried TO make it homeke KEEP gettin' more
hOmesck.
Not COW and nary pasture, not a rooster there to
crow.
How a human bein stands it is somethn' don't know
But lied and said liked it like the crownin of joys
When wrote TO Ma at home there in Aroma, Illnoise
They got transport and the boat put out to
The Atlantic ocean, you take that fact
from
When l thought half over, had only just
begun,
An all you water if you got up with the
Half the boys lay round and told you just how bad
feel.
As for me, take my Bible oath never missed a meal
My granddad a sailor, done it on Lake Michigan
Never knew that he trainn' to be a sailor man
What possible done it SOS to help the other boys,
An you bet they stopped their aushin at Aroma, Hi
When we left home and mother the main thing in our
Was when we'd get to fghtin' for that why jned
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The Fat Little Purse
By Andrew McGill.


On Saturdays after the baby
Is bathed, fed, and sleeping serene,
His mother. as quickly may be,
Arranges the household routine.
She rapidly makes herself pretty
~ 'rr~cs the young limb with his nurse,
Then gayly she starts for the city,
81. WI. Ter the fat little purse.
She trips through the crowd to the station,
To the rendezvous spot where we meet,
And keeping her eyes from temptation,
She avoids the most widowy street!
She is off for the Weekly Adventure;
To her comrade for better and worse
She says Never mind, when you've spent your
Last bit, here's the fat little purse
Apart, in her thrifty exchequer,
She has hidden what must not be spent
Enough fc- the butcher and baker,
Katie's wages and milkman, and rent;
BIT 'Lo of her brave little treasure
She is gleeful and prompt to disburse-
What a richness of innocent pleasure
Can come from her fat little purse!
But either by giving or buying,
The little purse does not stay fat
Perhaps it's a ragged child crying,
Perhaps it's a pert little hat"
And the bonny brown eyes that were frightened
BY pleasures so quaint and diverse,
Look up at me, wistful and frightened,
TO see such thin little purse.
The wisest of all fnanciering
Is that which is done by our wives:
BY some little known profteering
They add twos and twos and make fves;
And, husbands, if you would be learning
The secret of thrift, it is terse:
Invest the great part of your Earnings
In that shrewd little, fat little purse
From the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger.
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/ wanted no more earnin', up in all the drill,
An l guess the biggest thing in is in the soldiers
will;
'Tenny rate, know / come there to fight beside the
French,
An didn't need his lingo be useful in the trench
But Lord bless me- should worry, rest camp for
day,
Then they showed the front line to hold enie boy
at bay.
noise
Shucks as if didn't hail from Aroma, Illinoise!
1t was a night as black any night seen
When was wild turkey huntn the woods of Farmer
Green;
NY pal who was a city chap, KEEP whsperin to me
Until shut him up, for there somethn' could see,
An lust in tme-theyd jumped in front an from be-
hind;
Ny pal, poor chap Ia city chap) they bayoneted blind;
And how done it dunno but gosh, used the steel,
SO what it is to kill a man know just how you feel!
l rammed an peppered one, fixed two Heinic
boys
Who run up agn fellow from Aroma, Iinosel
They had to take my leg offI1 get better leg;
l don't mind much, Aroma 'ull never me beg!
Perhaps cried little for had to think of her.
But guess that she'll be satisfied when show the
de ger.
She may be glad to tell her pa that displayed
fight,
AMI make decent husband if a takes me right:
But it's the way she takes there amt doubt of
that,
An she's the only for the only girl, that's fiat!
Mebbe YOU think the folks back home won't make little
noise
When l 60 back furlough to Aroma, Ilinosel
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Ma Femme
By Willis STEEL.

Your English VERA good | spik.
Learn him from books both wise and witty.
Encore, go to live one wik
In Londres, your big city.
Marry me there one pretty mees;
She slap my face at start but love ME,
Because | spik your tongue like thees,
More better than the great above me!
Enfn, we come home in Paris,
Where l am vulgaire cafe garcon.
How fine she keep chez nous, ah me!
Ma femme she are one tidy person!
We get one little son, our Jean;
name him from an old relation,
And Jennie, too, attention.
French Englshman, he fght-Damnation!
The war come now; ma femme she say
"Go, CASTOR, fight until the flemish,
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28

and sixtyone guns of large caibre The German loss in
 killed and wounded is not large of the previous because of the fact that the Huns rereaed without attempting to put up any stiff resistance.
 YANKEES GOOD GUNNERS.
 WITH THE BRITISH Oct 21.-Captured coniden- tia German documents say that the Americans handlers of the machine guns and very firm the de fensve, the Germans being almost poweress make any headway against them The nfa1try bearing indicate that they have had but slight training. The Americans are afraid of capture and evidently being influenced by prop uganda which pictures cruelty according the German version The Americans do surrender but die fighting like demons
 In describing the action of the Americans the battle fields the German report that the Yankees honora be and will not fire the strecher bearers of the Germans FRENCH CIVILIANS CELEBRATE DELIVERANCE
 WITH THE BRITISH Oct. 21-The French cvi- Hans of the cities of Roubax and Tourcong celebrating their delverance from the enemy The people wild with emotional joy and kissing and huggng and hand shaking every British soldier who ventures within the city limits The swash-buckng Germans have gone and left much destruction possible Nearly every home has been sacked the Huns ripping pictures from the walls and cutting leather of chairs which they could take with them
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
LIBERTY LOAN IS OVER TOP
 BY MILLl0NS

WASHINGTON. Oct. 21.-Returns show that the fourth Liberty loan has passed the six billion mark by several hundred million. 1t Is be lieved that about twenty-five mil lion of the people of the United States have subscribed to the loan. It is believed that over thirty mil lion bonds were sold which is more than five million more than was sold In the third loan.
 EXCEEDS BRITISH VICTORY LOAN
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 2l.-Figures show that at least twenty million have purchased bonds. It is prob ably the record loan of the world in every way. The American fourth loan far exceeds the great British victory loan of last year which had total of nine million subscribers.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOW MADE
 CONCERNING THE DETAILS OF
 NAVY'S WORK FOREIGN WATER

WASHINGTON, Oct 21.-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has recently returned from Europe and is making complete of the details of the navys work in foreign waters, including the aid which has been have undertaken
 Besides the wonderful work done in controlling the submarine warfare by the of patrol boats the navy has established naval aviation stations from the Spanish border to the English channel At each station from two to three hundred kept busy and the results of their work splendid. There have been snkngs within fifty miles of the French for six months and the navy de- parment hoping extend the patrol hundred miles,
 The American navy has aided in the construction of the North mine barrage against the submarines and has agreed to aid in the laying of oil pipe line Scotland to hauage of oil.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
DELEGATE MADE MAY CONVERTS
 AT VALDEZ MEET

VALDEZ, Oct 19.-Delegate Sul. ger held a rousing and enthusiastic meeting here tonight. nearly the en. tire voting population turning out to hear the delegate present his is- sues. The hall in which the meeting was held was packed to it's capacity and many were turned away for want of seating space.
 During the course of his speech the delegate rendered a complete accounting of his activities in behalf of Alaska at Washington and show ed conclusively that he had the in- terests of the territory at heart at all times. During the statement as to his work he was interrupted many times by prolonged applause, clearly indicating that the audience was we'll pleased with the manner in which the affairs were handled and the energy shown by the delegate when looking after Alaskan affairs at the capitol.
 The delegate analysed the various speeches made by Wickersham and showed the fallacy of his (Wicker- sham's) pretended claims about hay ing worked sincerely for the advance. ment of Alaska while he was in of- flee. Sulzer clearly and conclusively established from the records of Wickersham during the eight years
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28

that he was delegate of Alaska that he was so busy working out his personal animosities that he had no time left to devote to much need ed legislation for Alaska. Sulzer disproved to the entire satisfaction of every one present every charge that was made by Wickersham against him during the campaign. He established Wickersham's insin- cerity in regard to the home rule proposition for Alaska, reading from the record in the contest where Wickersham had stated that when he drew the Organic Act he deliberately worded it so that the Alaska legisla- ture could not alter or amend the election law for the reason that he (Wickersham) believed the Alaska legislature was not to be trusted with the power to alter or amend the election law. .... 0.
 Sulzer has covered the Anchorage and Seward districts and after hold ing a meeting at Cordova will pro- ceed to the First division for the tail.end of the campaign. Those who have made a careful canvass of the Third division are absolutely confi- dent that Sulzer will carry it by more than five hundred votes over Wickersham.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
ALLIES REACH THE DANUBE AND FORGE CONNECTING LINK
 WITH RUMANIA AND RUSSIA

PARIS, Oct. 21-Sweeping northward, flushed with the first great victory of the the allied troops consisting mainly of French had crossed Bulgarian territory the Rumanian frontier and the banks of the Danube in the vicinity of Vidin.
 The allied progress to the northward has filled the hearts of the Hugarans with terror and they rantica calling for peace. At approximately month ago the al lied forces two hundred miles the south while at the present they less than fifty miles from the Hun garian border.
 It is probable that the French troops will attempt make direct drive up the river valley because of the pass the point where the Rumanian Serbian and Hungarian frontiers together It is possible that attempt will be made go through Runana and the mountains The Rumanians prepared to do much to aid the allies.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
(DAY REPORT.) NEARING CLIENT.

LONDON, Oct 21.-Reports from the front state that the French and Belgian troops within miles the of the city, The Germans putting up very little resistance and there is possibility that the allied forces will be in the city before night
 ALLIES CROSS SELLE RIVER
 LONDON, Oct 21.-The British position to the north of e Cateau captured three thousand prisoners during the operations Sunday when the allied forces crossed the See river over wide front.
 The German positions along the river of great natural strength and held strongly The weather very nfavorabe and besides having to fight in downpour the troops had to cross badly flooded river The crossing made early in the day and the heavy fighting continued until night fall.
 AMERICANS GREAT AID TO BRITISH.
 WITH THE BRITISH AND AMERICANS, Oct. 21. The Americans fighting beside the British have advanced thirteen miles during the last six days in the big allied drive near Le Cateau.
 General Hag has sent the American general note e- pressing his appreciation of te valuable aid which the Am ericans have given the British in opening the way for big advances
 HUNS TRY HARD TO HOLD YANKEES.
 WASHINGTON, Oct 21.-The Germans heavily drawing upon other parts of the western front for and supplies with which to check the onrushng American forces in the Mouse river valley and the into the Cham pagne sector.
 General Pershng reports that there has been very heavy fighting during the past week and that increasing number of German divisions have bitterly contested every foot of the American advance.
 HUNS TURN INTO MADMEN
 WITH THE BRITISH AT DOUAI, Oct. 21.-In the city of Douai and desolaon every hand The filled with furniture and all kinds of articles Losses are of incaculabe value It might be said that the Huns had turned loose bunch of madmen who in their fury, delighted in destruction without any reason ONE ARMY GETS SIXTY-TWO HUNDRED MORE.
 LONDON, Oct 21-The allied armies are now within ten miles of Ghent and the cavalry forces have made
 1L IHAA .eAnth of October the British second army 2 -d Germans and one hundred
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
DIVISIONS OF
 NEW REVENUE
 BUREAU MADE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-In prepa- ration for the collection of the eight billion taxes of the next years inter- nal revenue. Commissioner Roper haa reorganiZed the bureau into five di- visions as follows: Income taxes. excess taxes, distilled liquor taxes, tobacco taxes and general admins tratiye and sales division, which Is estates, capital stock and q valuation nf securities. The present force of the bureau is nine thousand three hundred and thirty-seven employees but it will probably be increased by four or five thousand more.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
IS
 BAD IN PENN.

WASHINGTON, Oct 21-Six states have shown an improvement in the Spanish influenza situation. The epi- demic is worse in Pennsylvania dred and five deaths occurred dur ing the first eight days of October.
 In the army camps the epidemic is lessening but at the present it is spreading in twenty-seven differ ent states.