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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10

ry for someone besides yourself" said
the elephant.
rs 1t such a powerful thing to
have?" asked the hippopotamus.
mo. it's not powerful. When I said
you had the power of sympathy
meant you could be sympathetic If you
tried.
81 am sorry your ankles hurt" the
hippopOtamus said. "for though ankles
are far away from the throat it doesn't
matter much what part of us hurts II
some part is hurting.
IF have q sore throat think that
is worse than anything. II have in
digestion I think that is dreadful. and
If my foot aches, or If one OF my
teeth ache-or even if several teeth
ache at the same time I think there
is nothing worse than tooth ache"
Yes" said the elephant, at all de-
ponds on what one has aching as to
what one thinks is the worst ache"
"Are you sorry I have a sore throat.
even If I'm not a CRATER" asked the
hippOpotamus, after a moment.
"Of course, am" said the elephant.
"Well," said the hippopotamus, II
like to hear you say that"
Just at that moment along came the
zoo doctor and the keeper.
"These two animals aren't feeling
quite all right" said the keeper, and
the zoo doctor saw that It was true.
He gave the elephant braces and
shoes for his feet, which would
strengthen his ankles and make him
all right IN n few days, ard he rubbed
the hippopotamus' throat aud made it
feel so, so much better.
81 always dread seeing the DOCTOR"
said the hippopotamus, "but he does
make q creature better"
I'm the same way" agreed the ele-
plant, but l certainly feel much bet
ter already"
Copyright. 1915 Western Newspaper Union)
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USE TAR AND HAY COVERING
Found to Wear Quite Satisfactorily
Over Almost Pure Sand Roads
In Wisconsin.

In Wisconsin there are several long
stretches of almost pure sand roads
Considerable difficulty is experienced
in passing over them either In dry
weather or in wet weather. Numerous
schemes have been tried in an effort to
make them passable, the most promis-
ing of which at present appears to be
a covering of hay and tar. Last sum-
mer several sections of sand road were
treated with this combination. After a
few weeks Of usage it was found to
have withstood the wear Of traffic and
stretch over a mile In length was
given a similar application. So far, it
Is said. the hay-and-tar covering is
wearing In very satisfactory manner.
Pathfinder.
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Wealth In "Burnino Sands"

Up In the Great Athabaska country,
$50 miles north of Edmonton, Alberta.
lie the tar sands. or burning sands"
as the Indians call them. For genera
tjons the natives have used this sand
for fuel. 1t burns iercely, with
strong, smoky flame and drops an ash
of the purest sand. 1t also serves TO
gum their birch bark canoes.
Now new use has been discovered
for the tar sand. The Canadians fig
ure on turning it into explosives and
then. after the war. into dyes. When
refined the tar sand yields petroleum,
naphtha, Illuminating oil, lubricating
oil, paraffin and benzine derivatives,
and, because of the unlimited quantity
of it, the German coaltar products
monopoly will be struck a heavy blow
by the northland. Nor is this wonder
full resource deeply buried in mines.
1t lies on the surface and is traversed
from end TO end by navigable river.
Tue Athabaska.
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FARMER NEEDS GOOD ROADS
Motor Has Extended His Sphere Of
Operation Until 100 Miles Doesn't
Worry Him.

There is reason for American
hardness in road building. We need
not be utterly downcast when we hear
our highways unfavorably compared
with the fine, smooth roads of Europe.
We must remember that European
highways We're hundreds of years in
the making and in periods when roads
were the sole means of transportation,
both civil and military. There were
no railroads, nc electric lines, no wire
communication. Road building was
the essence of commercial life and
communication.
America started almost with the
railroad and the steamboat. Compar-
atively a few years later we had the
telegraph. Our roads were neglected
because they were only local in char
acter. Our railroads and telegraph
enabled US to leap the centuries. But
now we are confronted by a new need
It is the need for better local trans
portation, says Chicago Tribune.
Where formerly the farmer was con-
tent with few miles of dirt roads for
his local traffic, he now requires hun
dreds of miles, for his area has ex.
banded with the advent of gasoline.
A few years back there was the
protest that good roads was merely
the argument of the automobiles. a
species restricted chiefly to metropol-
itan districts. A part OF that argu
ment still obtains-that good roads
is the demand of the automobiles:
but the automobilist is the farmer
The motor has extended his sphere of
operation until 100 miles is of no more
concern to him than was ten before.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10

to their homes through invasion and
shell fire for three long hard winters
and now it seemed incredible that their
own people could turn them out. C'est
la guerre.
A house near the railroad station
was procured for them and the next
morning they We're speeded on their
way by a group of young American
girls who rose early to see them com
fortably off.
Attraction for Riddles.
The children of the neighborhood
found the canteen a fascinating place
They were with us all day long, slip
ping In and out, being shooed out re
morselessly when we were busy or
welcomed when we had time to play
Very early in the morning little ten
year-old Pierre came up the drive with
our milk pail. Then, after a cupful
of hot chocolate and a hunk of bread
we watched him set off sturdily for
home, eight long miles away. Pierre
was always our first visitor, but before
the day had ended, there were a score
of others.
Not far from our canteen, the Smith
college unit was doing its splendid
work: The members of it dropped in
on us occasionally, but we heard far
more of their dOings and sayings from
the children. 1.-THE play teacher" was a
infinite pleasure her. successful efforts
to teach these small people, who had
learned hard lessons in the school of
war, the JOY of play.
The doctor, too. was q source of end
less comfort and amusement to the
children. To hear them talk. you
would gather that they preferred to
be sick rather than well, in order to
get her attention. Some of those I'M
der her care, made unheard OF jour
neys to distant hospitals and dispen-
saries. After five whole weeks of alb
sence, Andrea, the prettiest, fraileSt
child in the village, returned from Doc
tor Baldwin's little Red Cross hospital
at Nesle minus tOnSilS and adenoids
and plus several pounds of soft pink
flesh. She had been entirely revolu-
tionized by that institution and start
led her mother by demanding to be
bathed. bathed every day. When the
much harassed woman came to US for
advice, / am sure she went away mar
Yelling at the madness OF Americans
who believed in soap and water for
babies, even in the winter time.
SO from the canteen at Chateau
Thierry, our little group of American
women were privileged to see war in
all it's aspects Color and excitement,
comedy and tragedy, all of life we
watched as we worked.
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want TO make this a model of comfort
and convenience. How can / improve
this to get the most out of it?- The
friend knowing that money was no OBJ
ject suggested many things that would
add to the comfort and some which
would lessen the upkeep when the
house was occupied. The man thanked
him and they went away. After sew
eral months he called again. Said he.
II want you to go with me TO the
house we looked at. 1 want to know
what you think of the job" The place
was perfect. Every detail had re-
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10

high with the paraphernalia OF camp
horn or a madly whiZzing motorcycle
Even when the road was clear of We
hicles and long lines of soldiers moved
over it TO the front or dumped drear.
lily back, there was no sound of com
pact, marching feet. Route march
ing" was the way the Americans came
while the French poilus, with queer
bundles strung about them at all sorts
Of unexpected places. seemed fairly
TO stroll along. But they were going
up to the front, these men, and how
ever they might feel about it, 1t was
no circus for us
Not that the outward appearance
of the moving troops was depressing
Far from it. They went by, to quote
Ian Hay, scattering homely jests like
hail" Some came singing and | shall
never forget the first day that Amer
lean boys came into the village. 1.-The
Americans are coming" sent us flying
out Of doors; and "les Americans
echoed the French about us. Around
the bend of the road by the church
they came. We could hear them sing
ing before we could distinguish the
words and then-"until my dreams all
come true" 1t was THE Long, Long
Trail" which brought back to some of
us wildly the first summer of the war
at home, when we had danced and
played and said good-by to the music
Of that song
Present From Headquarters.
One morning l looked out from the
canteen upon a new scene, q surprise.
Several groups of very feeble old men
and women were seated upon the lawn
of the chateau. A canteener dashed
in breathless at this moment. The old
people, according to her hurried ac-
count, were a present to us from c.. H.
Q. They had been living up near the
front and some action was planned
that might prove dangerous to them.
So the French authorities, with charm
ing confidence, simply shipped them
back to the American Red Cross can
teen to be sheltered and fed for "a
hours, until they could be sent on by
train to their final destination. The
day before we had been eaten nearly
cut of house and home. by a number of
hungry French infantrymen. Now, as
our canton had not arrived. we were
looking forward with dread to running
short of rations for the afternoon con-
tlngent.
Every available canteener was rush
ed out into the byways and hedges,
and In an incredibly short time the vii
layers had contributed enough from
their own poor stores TO give the old
people a hearty meal. Pitifully dazed
were these old folk. They had chung
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10

through which we must pass before
the world accepts the lessons of the
Master. There shall be lack of raj
ment. food and coal. and every mans
hand shall be raised against his broth
err" AS / often do. 1 expressed a
doubt whether our country could
make the transfer to another age in
diligently. mo nation" the garden
er said. as Christian enough to avoid
the chaos that is to precede the bet
ter day. 1t is written Then the
gardener and 1 went on with hoe and
spade, I wondering. he calm In the
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10

ceived minute attention. When the
inspection WAS over the man drew
from his pocket paper and handed
II to his friend. This is to be your
assurance of my lasting friendship
The paper proved to be a deed for the
property.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
Beautiful Friendship

There is nothing that can take the
place of devoted. loyal friendship.
Somehow it takes the chill out Of
the world by letting the sunshine into
IT, a few years ago man of means
remembered the friendship of SPLEEN
did man he had known from college
days. Accordingly he called on his
FREUD and took him TO a house he had
jus, purchased and was remodeling.
He asked for suggestions. Said he, II
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
Remembered Mothers Answer

Little Harry one day asked his moth
or who made the trees and was told
that God made them. A few days later
an old colored man came to trim the
trees and the little fellow, seeing him
at work, ran to his mother and ex-
claimed: "Oh, mamma. Gods out in
the yard repairing his trees ]"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
No Use to Him.

A little boy reached school with very
untidy hair and his teacher asked
him: why don't you brush your
hairY" "Aint got no brush. sir" re-
piled the boy. "Why don't you use your
fathers brush, them" asked the teach
err. "He hasn't q brush either" was the
reply. mo brushi Why hasn't he n
bruSh?" asked the teacher again in
astonishment. Hes got no hair" was
the gloomy reply.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH
Where That Policy IL Adopted With
Road Repairs Destruction Will
90 on Increasing.

II penny wise. pound foolish" pol
Icy is adopted particularly In so far as
road repairs are concerned-it will
mean that for every dollar saved ter
will have to be spent to make up 70
the destruction that viii go on =.
which will increase aIarminSlu-
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
The Old Gardener

We were talking, as he instructed
me In simple work about the garden.
/ narrated that famous Japanese
said this war was to be the destruc-
ton of European civilization. 1T is
the fuffillment of it," the gardener
said. 1T is the best II can do"
went ahead with the hoe. "a golden
age is coming" he rambled on. but
not yet This war is a picnic COM
pared with the times that lie ahead,
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
Getting Rich Quick.

Wholesale "chant-We will give
your boy c ance, sir. TO learn the
business, but the first year he viii not
receive any salary.
Father of the Boy tdubiously)-
What will he get the second year?
Merchant-Well,i if he Is faithful and
apt. the second gear we viii double
what he gets the first Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10

friend looked a little haggard. gaunt
and drawn, and was asked If he had
been Ill.
Yes" was the response, "and mas
much as I had to take care Of myself
have not been able to get out
sooner"
Take care of yourself! Didn't Won
have a trained nurse ?"
The convalescent gave a scornfuI
snort. "A trained nurse? Do you SIM
pose I would keep a nurse tied m.
babying me, when she might be look
ing after dozen sick or wounded
men over there? Not much As soon
as / could sit up and look after myself
the nurse registered with the Amerf-
can Red Cross
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
ROAD
ding
BUILD SPLIT-LoG ROAD DRAG
Main Point to Remember 10 That De
vice Should Be Faced With .
Strip Of Old Iron.

Everybody knows about the split
log road drag and the cut here shown
is so clear that it needs little explain
alton. The main points to be remem-
bered are that part of the front por-
ton of the drag should be faced with
n strip of iron Gan old wagon tire will
do) and the hitch so arranged that the
drag will move along at an angle
always pushing the loose dirt toward
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
CLEAN ROADSIDES ARE BEST
Makes Road Look Much Prettier and
Takes Very Little Time-Pay-
ment Not in Cash.

Why not NOW the weeds along the
roadside7 How much prettier the road
Will look. 1t only takes few minutes.
No, 1t doesn't matter that you may re-
ceive no cash payment for this service
The knowledge that you have beauti-
ned the world bit is pay. And we
ma. do our bit in many ways aside from
donating cash to worthy causes.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
A Road Drag.

the center Of the road. The occasion
al use OF this drag on any road will
certainly improve 1t and no farmer
Will make a mistake in constructing
one and using it on the highways that
pass through his farm.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
Completely Lost.

member of stevedore company.
after attempting vainly TO hold con-
verse with an Algerian, entered his
barracks with this announcement:
"Heah, you fellers. Outside All
done got niger who doan know who
he Is or whah he's from. 1 done think
| was loss In France. but dis boy done
got sunk widout trace"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
Truth Above All.

Truth Is the secret of eloquence ana
Of virtue. the basis OF moral authority :
II is the highest summit OF art aud Of
lfe.-Apiel.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
As He Saw IL.

Friend-So you've served four years
in the navy. Ell? Well, how does the
old world look?
The ,Seaman-Darn wet Buffalo
EXPRESS.
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lllE Ddtk-
Ia 1914 an American woman. Fran
ces Wilson Huard. watched hundreds
upon hundreds of refugees stream
along that road toward Paris.
Four years later a little group of
American canteen workers We're in
Chateau-Thierry watching an ever-mOv-
ing procession in the other direction
The town for the possession of which
80 many American lives had been laid
the ever-cautiOus authorities asked for
women to run a Red Cross canteen
there, and thus 1t came about that a
little group of us We're able to follow
our own troops into the famous village.
We set up our kallhi tent on the lawn
of the chateau and from there we
saw the whole panorama of war go
by. 1t was a strange sight to women,
an uncomfortable sight, if one could not
feel that in some small human way
one was of service. But our canteen,
with its huge sign American Red Cross.
drew troops from the road as honey
pot draws flies; and with the villagers
who had come home, we were almost
as popular as the fountain across the
way. So we came to know that we
were of use-Aa stimulus to that weary
but indomitable fellow, the pOilu; a
kind of cross between diversion and
oracle TO the villagers; and, best of
all. a bit of home TO our own men.
Gee" young artilIeryman said TO
me one day, you're from home, aren't
you? But I don't suppose you come
from Indiana" For the first time In
my life would have gladly disowned
my own state. If only l could have hon
estly told him that I came from In
diana
From our duties at the marmites.
cache or counter, we could look out
upon the cross road and the fountain
OF the little village. two years ago I'M
known TO most of US, now an unforget-
table word in American history. For
us who have been there, 1t is an even
more unforgettable memory.
Martial SpIendor Lacking.
During the period of reconstruction,
when we were at the village. a motley
stream of soldiers passed over the
dusty road every day. One man who
visited our canteen. excited by the
color and variety and gayety of the
passing show, likened it to Z. T. Bar
NUNS greatest show on earth" But
we women who saw ii day by day. who
in however slight measure minis
tered TO the bodily needs of hungry
American boys, tired poilus In faded
blue. slender, picturesque chasseurs
Alpine big black Senegalese, yell
low Annenses of the salvage corps,
beautiful bronze Moroccans with red
fezzeS. and an occasional group of
grave young Anzacs. swearing. sing
Ing Tommies. or "hairy Jocks" with
kits aswing and bonnets atilt, we
who saw it all day and hour by hour
could see nothing of the circus about
IL. To be sure. the smooth road, wind
ing into the little village between shat
tered trunks of once stately popiars.
was often WILDLY alive with color and
movement and comedy. But of mar
tial SplendOr. in our old sense of the
word, there was not q trace. No mu-
sic but the grinding of hard-worn axles
under grimly camouflaged field pieces.
or the creak of dusty wagons piled
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10
HERE'S the Riaht Shirt

4 st. Louis man walking along the
street recently met friend whom he
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10

truth in which he is confident he
dwells--Norman Hapgood, in Les
lies.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-10

WOMEN as Wei uS
American men were at
Chateau-Thierry. To be
sure, il was no longer the
very front itself, but it was
just at the back of the front
and through it passed all
day long supply trains and
men moving up towards the
trenches and men and
empty supply trains com
ing back.
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At nine In the evening we gathered
at Tonino's house for the harvest sup
per, to which, by immemOrial custom.
everyone who has labored in the vine
wards must be invited. We entered by
the Kitchen door, near which hung a
little oil lamp patterned after those
of the Etruscans at the long table in
tho main room of this casa colonica
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Legion Demands Inquiry
Into Objector's Release
Department of Justice Is Asked
y Investigate Discharge
Before Term Expirctl

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2o..-Investiga
aon by the Department of Justice Of
he release of Allan s. Broms, of Min
'esooa, alleged Communist leader, from
he, disciplinary barracks at Fort
.eavenworth. Kan. where he WAS scrv-
ng a three-year sentence, is asked in
resolution adopted by the national
Executive committee of the American
legion in session here day
The resolution was supplementary
o one adopted at the national conven-
ion of the organization in Minneapolis
asst month. attacking officials Of the
Var Department responsible for "such
ender treatment" Of conscientious OBJ
cctors
The executive committee also adopted
esolutions approving the deportation
# Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman
md other radicals, and uphoiding the
tand of various local posts in oppos-
ng the appearance of Fritz Kreisler.
AUSTRIAN violiaist.
The committee decided to-day TO cs-
ablish n permanent war museum and
ibfarySf the Legion provided Tor at
he Minneapolis convention, in the War
Memorial Building, to be constructed
n indianapolis by the citizens Of In
llama