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The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1919-10-30
News Notes From Fruitland Bench
By Mrs. Rudolph Hollenbeck

Creighton symes and family, for
merly residents here, who have been
living for the past year at Richfield
have returned TO Frultland, and on
Monday Of this week moved on their
place where Charles Royston has
been living.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Gibson, who have
been here working in the fruit, left
here on Monday morning for En-
NETT.
Miss Alice Burnett leaves on Sat
urday Of this week for Boise, TO be-
gin training at ST. Lukes hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Johnson had as
dinner guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs.
G. S. Eder and Mrs. George Wilson
of New Plymouth, Mr. Mcclure OF
York Nebraska, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Anderson and family and Miss Edith
Bloomstrom.
MIR. J. A. Tuney, who lived for
some time at the Huntington place in
Fruitland, died on Saturday morning
in Payette of old age The funeral
was held from the Swedish Lutheran
church at Payette.
Mr.. and Mrs. oliver Bossen OF
Payette. Mr.. and Mrs. =. ID. Bossen
and MIR. and Mrs. Jesse Wells we're
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. II.
Wells Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hendy and chill
dren and Mrs. A. r. Bishop motored
TO Boise Friday, returning Saturday.
Mr.. Marx Thode has been quite III
the past week.
II. NJ. Lewis Is the possossor OF a
new Maxwell car. purchased Monday
Mr.. and Mrs d. w. Judy. parents
OF Charles Judy, left last week for
their home in Miller, Neb.
Mrs. A. ]. Meier Of Emmett visit
cd at the Charles Judy home satur-
day and Sunday. Mr.. Meier also
came down for a visit Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Hostetlor enter
tanned Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. d. ID.
Bolllnger and daughters. the Misses
Elnora and vesta, also Mr.. and Mrs.
O.. @. Bolllnger OF Nampa.
Miss Katherine Neebs of Ontario
visited from Friday until Sunday
with Miss Iyls Thebo.
Roy Hardin returned home Friday
from Portland
George Heap OF Ontario visited his
mother. Mrs. Margaret Heap, sun
day.
Col. James Barnard OF Emmett
was visiting his son. Frank Barnard
and family over Sunday.
Mrs. ]. w. Blancher, sister OF Mrs
u, whoaldon, is recovering nicely
from her operation and Is expected
home from Boise this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Silkell mo
toreG Sunday TO visit their son, Err
nest. and family
MIR. and Mrs. James Deal weTe en-
ter,ained Sunday at the Ben Bohan-
non home In Payette.
Nr. and Mrs. p. ], Hansen leave
on Friday OF this week for an eytend-
ed visit In the east. They will visit
Mr.. Hansen's father at Springfield
ldo., also brother in Remainder
Wis, and Mrs. lIansen's relatives ~
Ohceol,
Mr.. and Mrs Alberson and two
children will occupy the p. X. Han
sen house while Mr., and Mrs. Han
sen are visiting In the east.
Partly as farewell to their old
friends and neighbors and also TO en-
able Mr.. and Mrs p, ID. Bossen to be-
come acquainted with their new
nelghbors, Mr.. and Mrs, John Ander'
son entertained at dinner on satur'
rfl,a ruaufa uarQ Mr.
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1919-10-30
A ONE-ACT PLAY ENTITLED


Ihs little playlet Is being enacted almost day.
The ~ yividly Is any
the United States Time; Present. The characters
Mr. and Mrs. Renter.
Nr and Mrs Renter discovered the sidewalk buery
fall day gazing longngy at happy family seated at their
dinner table,
Mr. RGee but that's comfortable looking Just look
that happy looking bunch Wish like that Don't
that place would be for Looks too honey
Mrs RNo dear, worry finding a like
When they look that find sign hanging
them Come on let's keep looking We must find something
today. NAHRaW
spend whole Sunday without house hunting believe
add life If that landlord of
kng been doing will be "over the
hills to the poorhouse' for us
Mrs R-wer, you you Sunday when read
that "Own Home" advertisement. Here paying
good after and thing to show for It,
say let's plunge2 that D. p Lumber
a build something
like this by using the in the bank and making small
monthly payments What about It?
Mrs Rwhat about hY II you'll stand perfectly s I'll kiss
regardless OF the blocking public happy In all
life perfectly lovely bungalow the other day Just
finished told THE Boise Paette
from"
seted Since made finds,
feel like "life would with sudden pardon
broken
MORAL, OWN OWN HELP BUILD
IT. Free Blue Printed plan and Building Service to Customers
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Mrs. Guy Graham, Mr.. and Mrs. n
A. Peacock, Mr.. and Mrs. A. r.
Bishop, Mr. and Mrs Marx Thode
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Brown, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex Johnson of Payette, Mrs
e. A. Linck, and Ernest Anderson of
Parma. Dinner was daintily served
on small tables by the Misses Fern
Linck and Florence Anderson
Prof. and Mrs. Nelson returned
Saturday from three weeks of insti-
tute work in different parts of the
state.
Mrs. Cosy Branthoover and the
Misses Alice Kline and Louise Mar
tin we're dinner guests of Miss Ethel
Lyle at her home in Welser Sunday.
George Eldredge was I'm Boise on
Monday and Tuesday of this week.
Mrs. Ida Edison and children left
this week for the Willamette valley
in oregon, where they expct to make
their future home.
MIR. and Mrs. T. ]. Carico of Pay
ette we're guests at the II. Il. wilfong
home on Sunday.
Miss Daphne McKeown, who is
teaching in Wilder, spent the week
end at home.
Jim and Chralie Boor and Charles
Lookner. Jr.. went to 'Ironside Tues
day on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laurel Wells made a
trip TO Emmett Saturday. Mrs.
Pearl Holbrook. sister OF Mr.. Wells
returned with them Sunday.
Miss Gladys McKeown came over
from Caldwell and spent the week
end at lone.
Albert Bracewell and J. Makinson
went to Boise on Wednesday OF last
week, returning via Caldwell Thurs
day.
Edd and Clyde Conaster moved
over from Ontario Saturday and are
at the a. II. Mcconnell place work
ing in the apples.
The Christian Endeavor Society
are TO have a Halloween social at
the Tackett home on Friday evening.
The Basket Social given for the
benefit OF the Athletic Association at
the school house last Friday evening
was a decided success. The proceeds
amounted to SiS9.50.
Two new pupils were enrolled In
the High School on Monday morning
Theodore Reins and Noble Peacock.
Mr. and Mrs. Rey Duell were
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Al
berts OF New Plymouth. Sunday.
Floyd Sanders, overseer OF the
Eifle Packing House, spent the week
end at his home In Emmett.
Linnie and billiard cregor enter
tanned Mrs. s. N. Lappen and chill
dren and Mr. George skippen sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. =. A. Cregor and son
Amos and daughter Lola motored Ia
Caldwell Sunday 10 visit at the
George Myers home. They visited
also with old friends, Mr.. and Mrs,
Tyner OF Indiana, who are enroute TO
California from the @. A. II. encamp'
ment at Columbus and who were
also guests at the Myers home.
Mr.. r, A. Linck was on the sich
list Saturday and Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs Harry sohumm and
two sons were guests OF Mr., and Mrs
George Eldredge Sunday.
Mrs. b. Wood entertained quite a
number of small boys on Sunday af'
ternoon. the occasion being the tenth
birthday Of Master Edward Wood
Refreshments were served.
Mrs. Pratt, who has been staying
at the George Eldredge home durinl
the past month. left this week fol
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Some Large Drums and 200,O 900
Loaded Shells Rest in 500
Feet of Water.
WERE FOR use THIS SPRING
Poisonous Fluid of No Commercial
Value and Unsafe to Have Around
America Sent Gas for 100000
Shells to Front

Washington.-Th first lot Of poison
gas which the American army devel-
Oped and manufactured for use in kill
ing Germans in the great spring drive,
scheduled for 1919, but halted by the
signing of the armistice, has been dis
posed of by dumping it at sea. 1t con-
sisted of 100000 poison-gas shells and
some large drums or containers of poi
son gas, which have just been taken
to sea from Baltimore and dropped
into Davy Jones' locker. The gas dis
posed of consisted of mustard gas and
chlorpicrin gas, both of which are very
dangerous and could not be used COM
mercially.
The 100000 gas shells were brought
back from France on transport
about two weeks ago. After other
cargo of the transport had been un-
loaded the poison gas shells were
taken in the same transport from Bal
timore out to sea a distance Of be-
tween sixty and one hundred miles
and dumped deep enough not to have
any effect on navigation and far
enough at sea not to have any effect
on the coast.
Dangerous to Have Around.
The containers taken to sea and
dumped showed signs that they were
soon about to begin to leak, as a re-
suit of chemical effect of the gas, and
in the interest of safety these were
taken to sea and disposed of under di-
rections given by Major General ST.
bert, head of the chemical warfare
service.
Ultimately all of the poison gas in
drums will be disposed of in this fash
ion, but until after the treaty Of peace
is signed the army will be in no hurry
to get rid Of very valuable asset, and
1t Is not the plan to take all this gas
to sea for dumping until after the
signing Of the peace treaty, except in
those cases where, through containers
showing signs of leaking or for other
good reasons, it Is considered in the
interest Of safety to dispose of the
gas sooner.
General Sibert submitted to General
March, the chief Of staff, memoran-
dunn in reply to the statement that
no American gas shells were fired at
the enemy.
SIN June, 1915" the memorandum
asserts, "the following shipment of
gases in bulk was made to the Ameri-
can forces in France to be exchanged
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GOT NEW IDEA OF RELIGION
Colonel Roosevelt Admitted He Had
Taken to Heart the Simple Faith
Of the Doughboy.

Colonel Roosevelt was deeply re-
ligious man, and one evening at Oyster
Bay he said to an editor:
"How this world war has clarified
our ideas! It has clarified my own
ideas about religion.
Before the war was inclined to
agree with the philosopher who said:
"'Religion is the experience consti-
tuted by those thoughts, feelings and
actions which spring from mans sense
Of dependence upon power or powers
controlling the universe, and which
have as their center Of interest the
cosmic fortune of values
"But how different is the definition
OF religion that the doughbOy has flung
us from the trenches, and how heartily
is our agreement when he says:
"'Religion is betting your life on the
existence of Cod"
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For the Liver and Bowels
REMARKABLE TEST OF LOVE
Surely Any Woman Would Be Salts
fled With Proof that Was Of
fered Mrs. NeWiyWed.

For a while, as they walked along,
neither spoke. The silence became
quite strained. At last she said in q.
hard, tense voice:
"You don't care whether I'm happy
or not, do you? We've been married
nearly a week and now you don't
care whether I'm happy or not"
''My angel, do" he said miserably.,
"But simply cannot permit you to do
that. It is asking too much"
Two tears rolled down her cheeks
one for each cheek.
"You don't! You don't!" she cried.
biting her lip tearfully. "You don't
care whether I'm happy or not"
It was more than his tender, loving
heart could stand. He gulped guiltily.
ooh, very we'll, go ahead If you like"
he said gruf1y.
And while she took out her powder
puff and powdered her nose and vi
cinity right on the crowded pavement,
he turned his back and looked into the
show windows of piano shop so no
one would know he was with her.
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TO TUNNEL CHANNEL,

London-Five years would be re-
quired to complete the proposed tun-
mel under the English channel from
England to France, according to an
authoritative estimate. 1t is said that
in ordinary times the cost of the
work would be about $80,OOO,O00, but
in view Of the increased cost of labor
and materials, the expense involved
would, under present conditions, be
nearly $1O0,00O,O0O.
The Daily Mail claims to have def
mite information that the British and
French governments have agreed to
the construction of the tunnel, and
that the details now are being dis
cussed by a special commission in
Paris, which also Is considering the
building of tunnels under the Bos-
phorus and the Strait of Gibraltar.
The engineering plans for the chan
mel, according to the Daily Mail,
are so far advanced that work could
be begun Immediately.
"It is proposed" says the Daily
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KEEP THEIR MONEY AT HOME
Many People in England Evidently
Will Not Entrust Savings. to
the Care of Banks.

A vast amount of money still lies
uninvested in the country, declares the
London Mail. In a Yorkshire village
there is fisherman who is known to
have five thousand dollars in notes in
his thirty-dollar-a-year cottage. He
wears clothes which cost about ten
dollars before the war, and owns
fishing boat worth one thousand or fif-
teen hundred dollars. In the same vii
lage a short time ago fisherman
bought his cottage, and when the own
er called for a deposit he counted out
fifteen hundred dollars in gold, the full
purchase price. In a neighbOring town
there is at least one fisherman who
has five thousand dollars or more in
notes in his little house, but he cam
not be induced to invest any of It.
When he has been urged to do so he
has said that he preferred to have it
near him as it is safer!" A woman in
a Yorkshire country town one morning
walked into a lawyers Office and pro-
duced handbag containing two thou
sand half-sOvereigns which she had
collected in thirty years. After asking
advice on investing the money she
stated that at night she took the hand
bag up to her bedroom. When she
travelled she took the handbag with
her, and on one occasion left 1t on the
rack in the train. She remembered her
treasure before she left the station
and recovered it.
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WAR GAS DUMPED
FAR OUT AT SEA

for gas shell: Mustard gas, Is tons
chlorpicrin, 705 tons; phosgene, 4e
tons. Further shipment in bulk over
seas was stopped pursuant to cable
gram from France dated July q, 1918,
the reason for this being that France
had no more extra gas shells to be
filed with American gas.
There not being gas shell available
with suitable boosters and adapters,
the gas plants were not operated to
capacity. However, sales of some ex-
cess gas we're made both in England
and to -Frn1c'a. England was sold 900
tons of chlorpicrin and 1868 tons Of
phOSgene. France was sold 800 tons
of chlorpicrin and LAOS tons Of chlo-
rine, equivalent to 1,126 tons of phos-
gene. Phosgene is 80 per cent chic
rine, and France furnished phosgene
shell in exchange for this chlorine. In
addition to the above 200 tons of mus
tard gas were shipped to England for
loading shell originally made for Rus
sia. These shells were never loaded,
and the gas, at least a large part of
it, was utilized by the English in load
ing shell.
''There were, therefore, shipped to
Europe 1862 tons of gas, or it's equiv
salent, which gas was largely loaded
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BELGRADE AGAIN
IN HAPPY MOOD

tion Of Belgrade with the outside
world will be still further enormously
decreased. The possibility of bring
ing food and wood up the river will
be removed, and the present very mod
crate resources further enormously de-
pleted.
Run One Train Daily.
There will remain practically only
the one line Of railway, that to Fiume,
through what was Austria but is now
a part of the new kingdom of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. On ac-
count of lack Of fuel one train day
is operating on this line.
Belgrade is practically cut off from
the interior Of Serbia because of de-
struction Of the railways and the
shocking condition of the roads. There
are practically no young men in the
city. Those who were within two or
three years of the military age left
with the army in the winter of 1916
16.
They set out to make the retreat
down through Serbia and, as 1t proved,
over the mountains into Albania and
thence to Corfu. Something like one
in seven survived the trip.
There are practically no children
under three in Belgrade or elsewhere
In Serbia, for that matter. Midwives
have been in the unemployed class
for the last three years and will be
for year to- come, for the Serbian
army, what remains of 1t, is now in
the occupied part of what was Aus
tria-Hungary.
tuberculosis Sweeps Land.
For no obvious reason, tuberculosis
is the king of terrors in Belgrade.
A tuberculosis death rate of $50 per
100000 is very exceptionally high in
America. Before the war the tuber-
culOsis death rate In Belgrade reached
712, and during the Austrian occupa-
tion 1t reached the unheard-of figure of
1863.
Before the war Belgrade ap-
preached hundred thousand in popu-
latiOn. When the Austrians took it,
there were 100000 Another 10000
soon came back. At the present time
perhaps it's population may be 10000
or $4,000. Some of the shops are open,
but nobody seems to be buying any
thing except where food is Sold
The only autos going about the
streets are those of the military and
R~xx 20
These are used very sparingly, for
gasoline is almost unobtainable. The
water supply comes from wells and
has to be distributed by a pumping
station.
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into shell and used by the United
States troops, or those of our allies,
against the enemy Three thousand
six hundred and sixty-two tons of gas
would have loaded about 100000
shells, two-thirds Of them being Is
nm. and one-third 155 mm., a number
which is thought to be at least equal
to the total number Of gas shells fired
by the American troops in action in
France, showing that, while American
gas was not actually fired in American
shells in the war, it was fired against
the enemy, and that America fur
nished at least as much as she used.
"In addition to this, 18,60O liven
drums loaded with phosgene were
shipped to France. These contained
279 tons Of gas, and some of them, at
least, were fired at the enemy. AS
soon as shells were available they
were loaded with gas, and $4,000
shells, IS nm. caliber, were shipped
to France on August Z, 1918. On Au-
gust 8 another shipment of $4,000
shells of the same caliber was made,
after which time shipments were made
as fast as shell and boosters were
available.
'"The first shipment of shells would
have reached France by September
1. They were unassembled. All COM
ponent parts, however, were shipped.
The ordnance department decided in
June to assemble gas shells in France.
The time lost in such assembling is
the only reason for these shells and
others not reaching the front before
the armistice.
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Conditions Are Bad, But Every
body Wears FIush of
Triumph.
PEOPLE RANT THEIR TROUBLES
City Left in ShockingIy Dirty Condi-
tion by the BuIgars-Few Young
Men in PIace-Tuberculosis
Sweeps Land.

Belgrade-In Belgrade, capital Of
the new Kingdom Of the Serbs, CrOats
and Slovenes, everybody is flushed
with triumph, confident Of the future
and regards present troubles only as
temporary Inconvenience.
But Belgrade was left in shocking
ly dirty condition by the Bulgars. The
courtyards of the houses are filled
with refuse. There is no collection
Of garbage because there are no con
veyances in which to collect it. The
shortage of water emphasizes the dan
ger. All the doctors, sanitary authori-
ties. and officials are holding their
breath, fearing an epidemic Of some
sort
If the Danube freezes (and it nearly
always does freeze) the communica
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Mail, "to start the tunnel some dis
tance inside both countries instead of
near the coast as was originally in
tended, so as to avoid the risks of a
fall of the cliffs, such as already has
occurred on the British side near the
point where the work would have been
begun.
"In addition to tracks, the tunnel
will carry telephone and telegraph
wires, superseding the present sea-bed
cables. and also pneumatic tubes for
carrying letters and parcels. The
French and British railroads con-
cerned are willing to finance the
scheme, but the two governments wish
to exercise control of some sort of
joint state finance.
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"Cold In fhe Head's

sons who are subject to frequent "colda
in the head" will find that the use OF
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
build up the System, cleanse the Blood
and render them less liable to colds.
Repeated attacks Of Acute Catarrh may
lead to Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRI MEDICINE Is TAX
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
All Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
$4,000 for any case of catarrh that
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will not
r. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio.
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''I'll be heartily glad when they get
the airship perfected so that it can
take share in general passenger traf-
dic," remarked Mr.. Crosslots.
s'It will save time"
II don't mind the time. But don't
believe they will ever perfect an air
ship that will require passenger to
hang onto strap instead of providing
him with seat"
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bedfast, but the wiser one is he
who adopts proper measures before
his ills become serious. During a
hard winter or the following spring
one feels rundown, tired out, weak
and nervous. i Probably you have
suffered from colds or influenza
which has left you thin, weak and
pale This is the time to put your
system in order. : It is time for
house-cleaning.
A good, old-fashioned Alternative
and temperance tonic is one made
of wild roots and barks without the
use of alcohol, and called DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
in tablet or liquid form. This is
natures tonic, which restores the
tone of the stomach, activity Of
the liver and steadiness to the
nerves, strengthening the 1whole
system.
- Atchison, Kans.-"Some years ago when my
boy was about four years old his face broke out
on one side in circular form with rough, red
eruption. My sister advised me to give him DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and the one
bottle was all found necessary to give him to
completely clear his skin. Mrs. C. W. Sn,its,
1925 Ook st.
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Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment
Wash off Ointment in FIVE minutes
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It
is wonderful sometimes what Cuticura
will do for poor compilations, dandruff,
ltching and red rough hands.-Adv.
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HUGE GUNS IN GOTHAM
GARDENS TO REPEL HUN

New York-Huge mOrtars,
standing on concrete emplace-
ments and abundantly supplied
with half-ton projectiles, were
erected during the war among
the flowers and Shrubbery of pri-
vate gardens in New York city
and elsewhere, along the Allan
tic coast, ready to repel the at
tacks of German naval or air
ships, Macmillan Toch, one Of
the first American camoufleurs,
told the New York section of the
American Chemical society here.
Mr.. Toch, who directed sew
eral of the navy's important
camoufage projects, spoke with
the consent of Secretary Dan
;els. He described how honey
suckle, morning glory and ivy,
as we'll as paints, had been en-
ployed to conceal or lower the
visibility of coast Notifications.
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Picked Wronu Street.

Kansas City, Mo.-Earl Cadgue, To
peka Indian. got on the warpath. In
court he admitted saying he could
click anybody on Main street." "Picked
too long street." commented the
judge, assessing $25.
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Disqusted.

Hostess-Im sorry you found Miss
Bigger a poor cOnversationalist.
Jack-Poor conversationalist? She's
absolutely the limit! Why, the only
thing she said to me the entire evening
was mo-" and I had to propose to her
to get her to say that.-Boston Trans
cript.
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Problem for Jury.

Springfield, Ill.--Is a pint of "war
BEER intoxicating? A jury here must
decide this in settling the injury suit
of woman hurt by truck driver,
who she claims was drunk.
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The Alternative.

Hubby-I will not stand these shop
ping bills of yours any longer.
Wifie--I don't care whether you
stand them or not as long as yol
foot them.
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Explaining Phenomenon.
"This report that Germans are hiss
Ang soldiers is something astonishing"
''It is," replied Miss Cayenne. "Evi-
IDENTIFY the goose-step has gone to their
heads"
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Probably the most difficult ascent is
getting up a subscription.
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Knew What She Wanted.

Mrs. Murphy (shopping)-I want to
see some mirrors.
Shopwalker-Hand mirrors, madam?
Mrs. Murphy-No; some that We can
see yer face in London Answers.