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The daily morning oasis., 1919-03-08

,miliar with it. so that when the first day Of good
blowing weather dawns, he will be able to get
in the field without moments lost time.
That in its self is very good reason for making
early delivery.
Go to your dealer and tell him that you will
accept immediate delivery Of your Mogul or
Titan 1920 horsepower tractor, so he can
make up his carload shipments without delay
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Joseph Bvchin Bishop
copfRioHT. 1919 ~
GpAsu ecnlAyU's 500.

Twain. 1t is a broad. shallow. muddy
river. at places the channel being
arely wide enough for the boat to gu
through. though to my inexperienced
yes the whole river looks like a chan
rel. The bottom lands. Illinois on one
s.de and Missouri on the other. are
ometimes overgrown with forests and
sometimes great. rich cornfields, with
here and there a house. here and there
villages. and now and then a little
town. At every such place all the
people Of the neighborhood have gath
cred to greet me. The water front
OF the towns would be filled with a
dense packed mass of men. women
and children, waving flags. The little
villages have not only their own popu-
lation. but also the farmers who have
driven in in their wagons with their
wives and children from a dozen miles
back-just such farmers as came to
see you and the cavalry on your
march through Iowa last summer.
It is my first trip on the Mississippi.
and am greatly interested in it. How
wonderful IN its rapidity OF movement
has been the history of our country.
compared with the history of the old
world. For untold ages this river
been flowing through the lonely con-
tinent. not very greatly changed since
the close of the Pleiocene. During all
these myriads of years the prairie
and the forest came down to its banks.
The immense herds of the buffalo and
the elk wandered along them season
after season. and the Indian hunters,
on foot or in canoes. trudged along the
banks or SKINNED the water. Prob.
ably a thousand years saw no change
that would have been noticeable to
our eyes. Chen three centuries ago
began the work Of change. For a
century its effects were not percepti-
BILE. Just nothing but an occasional
French fleet or wild. half-savage
French-Canadian explorer passing up
or down the river or one Of its
branches in an Indian canoe: then the
first faint changes, the building of one
or two little French fur traders ham
lets, :he passing of one or two British
officers boats, and the very rare ap-
pearance of the ufcouth American
Then the change came with a rush.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY.

West End Citizens Association
will meet in the <Concordia Luther
an Church. Twentieth and G streets
northwest, tonight at 8 o'clock.
Wilson Normal class of 1917 will
hold q reunion meeting in the will
son Normal School tonight at 1880
o'clock.
Woman's Home Missionary Socie-
ty OF Washington district Methodist
Episcopal Church. will hold its reg
ular executive session at McKen-
dree Church this. afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Community Service Club, No. 8.
will give a dance at the clubhouse,
sls Tenth street northwest, at s
o'clock.
Community Service will stage a
Christmas pageant for the children
Of Washington policemen, who will
be the guests of Mr.. Thomas r.
walsh. Washington society leader.
at Wardman Park Inn this after
noon. -.
Actors Memorial Fund committAe
members will meet tonight at the
headquarters of the organization ON
the mezzanine door Of the New VIII
lara Hotel
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MRS. GAIT ANNOUNCES
"LAST"- SUFFRAGE MEET

New York. Dec. 2S--The fifty-first
and last" annual convention of the
Woman Suffrage Association will be
held in Chicago. February 1918, it
was announced today when officer, OF
the organization of which Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait is president. issued the
convention call. The call said, in
part:
Our members are called to rejoice
that the struggle is over, the ain,
achieved and the women of the na-
ton about to enter into the enjoy
meat OF their hard-earned political
liberty. Come and unitedly make this
last suffrage convention glad
memory to you. a heritage for your
children and your children's children
and q benefaction to our nation"
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By DWIG

Our settlers reached the headwaters
of The Ohio. and natboats and keel
Joats began 10 go down to the mouth
of the Mississippi. and the Indians
end the game they followed began
their last great march to the West.
For ages they had marched back and
forth, but from this march there was
never to be a return. Then the day
of steamboat traffic began. and the
growth of the first American cities
and States along the river with their
strength and their s1ualor and their
raw bride. Then this mighty steam
boat traffic passed its zenith and COL
lapsed. and for a generation the river
towns have dwindled compared with
the towns which took their Importance
from the growth OF the railroads.
think Of 1t all as I pass down the
river.
October I'VE are steaning down
the river now between Tennessee and
Arkansas. The forest comes down a
little denser to the bank, the houses
do not look quite so well kept; other
wise there is not much change. There
are a dozen steamers accompanying
us. filled with delegates from various
river cities. The people are all out
on the DankS 10 greet us SIlll. more
over. at night, no matter what the
hour Is that We pass a town, II is
generally illuminated, and sometimes
whistles and noisy greetings. while our
steamboats, whistle in equally noisy
response, so that our sleep is apt to
be broken. Seventeen governors of
different States are along in a boat
by themselves. have seen a good
deal Of them, however. and II has been
OF real use to me, especially as re-
CARDS two or three problems that are
up. AT st. Louis there was an enor-
nous multitude OF people out to see
us. The procession was in a drench-
ing rain in which / stood bareheaded.
smiling affably and waving my drown
~ hat to those hardy members OF the
crowd who declined to go to shelter.
At Cairo was also greeted with great
nthusiasnn. and I was interested to
nd that there was still extreme bit
erness felt for Dickens description
4 the town and the people in Martin
;huzzlewit" sixty-five years ago.
ITO Re Continued
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Charles Chapple, OF the tool shop.
has returned to work after an eX-
tended stay in Elmira, n. Y.
Richard Herberger. of the miscel-
laneous shop. is spending a few days
at his parents home in Maryland.
Asa Roberts, of the gunners' work.
shop, is spending a few days at
Solomons Island. Maryland.
Joe Gardner is spending a few days
with his sister in Baltimore.
George Cromwell and brother spent
a few days last week duck hunting
on Chesapeake Bay.
Jess Barley is enjoying part of
his leave.
Joe Beach spent Christmas week
with friends in BIadensburg, Nd.
Fred Lambert is spending the holi-
days In Baltimore with his old friend,
George Hopwood.
William LeCompte, Of the boiler
shop. has returned to work after "a
serious illness.
]. p. Perkins and r. L. Greenwood.
Of the coppersmith shop. are enjoying
leave during the holidays.
Bill Taymen, of the radio shop, re-
turns to work today after a weeks
vacation.
B. F. Hughes, of the pack bit divi-
sion, is overhauling his Chalmers.
Frank Hodge. Of the torpedo tube
shop. has a beautifully trimmed
Christmas tree at his home, 1884 e
street southeast and invites all OF the
80
it. There is q large picture Of 1t on
the bulletin board in the torpedo tube
shop.
Charles Squire. Of the tool shop. was
sick the latter part of last week.
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women are not as the Egvptisn
women: for they are lively, and are
delivered ere the midwives come in
unto them.
20 Therefore God dealt we'll with
the midwives: and the people multi
Piled and waxed very mighty.
Il And Il came to pass, because
the midwives feared God, that he
made them houses.
~ And Pharaoh charged all his
people. saying. Every son that is
born ye shall cast into the river.
and every daughter ye shall save
alive.
CHAPTER ..
Moses 10 born. and in an ark cast into III.
tAeA He u found, and brought up hy
Ih2raoh's daughter. II He slayeth an
hgypttHn- i he rerrovesh q Hebrrw IS He
Teeth into indian. 2 He marrieth Zippu-.h-
6enhOm 10 born. , God resp,ct.th
the Lxaelites cy.
And there went man OF the
house OF Levi. and took to wife a
daughter of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and
bare q son: and when she saw him
mat he was goodly child. she hid
him three months.
hide him, she took for him an ark
OF bulrushes. and daubed IL with
slime and with pitch, and put the
child therein; and she laid IL in the
flags by the rivers brink
And his sister stood afar Off
TO wit what would be done to him.
Z And the daughter OF Pharaoh
came down to wash herself at the
river; and her maidens walked
along by the rivers side: and when
she saw the ark among the flag,
she sent her maid to fetch Il.
And when she had opened IL.
she saw the child: and. behold, the
babe wept. And she had compass
sion on him, and said, This is one
OF the Hebrews children.
Then said his sister to Pha-
raoh's daughter. Shall go and
call to thee a nurse Of the Hebrew
women. that she may nurse the
child for thee?
s And Pharaoh's daughter said
to her, Go. And the maid went
and called the child's mother.
9 And Pharaoh's daughter SAID
unto her, Take this child away, and
nurse II for me, and will give thee
thy wages. And the woman TOOK
the child. and nursed IL.
10 And the child grew. and shs
brought him unto PhAraoh's dauRh-
ter. and he became her son. And
she called his name Moses: and sihe
said. Because I drew him out Of
the water.
IL 4 And Il came to pass in those
days. when Moses was grown, that
he went out unto his brethren. and
looked on their burdens: and he
spied an Egyptian shifting a He
brew, one OF his brethren.
L. And he looked this way and
that way. and when he saw that
there WAS no man. he slew the
Egyptian. and hid him ia the sand
Is And when he went out the
second day, behold. two men of the
Hebrews strove together: and he
said 70 him that did the wrong.
wherefore smitest thou thy fellewf
CTe Be continued-l
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Such Is Life
As 1t Is Seen
By o. B. JOYFUL

The other squirrels tried various
methods to reduce the high cost Of
feeding their faces, including that Of
eating the shells, but that didn't sat-
isfy their stomachs.
Some few radical squirrels talked
Of having the government take over
the nut resources of the country and
some wanted Smart Squirrel pinched
for proflteering. but every time they
threatened to do this Smart Squirrel
proved there was a nut shortage and
hired experts to show that the only
solution for the difficulty was a larger
production of nuts.
And believe us, there's got to be q
much larger production next year for
already Smart Squirrel has I. o. us
from every squirrel in eight counties.
and he Is thinking of putting the nuts
in dainty little boxes and charging
about six nuts of next years growing
for each. He thinks that by making
the wrapper attractive his customers
won't notice the higher price.
Now, isn't that the truth?
Attorney Ketcham, of the firm Of
I. Ketcham & U. Skinnem, thinks II
is fine business for him to charge
$500 for q four-hour trial. but he is
sure that IT is outrageous to pay a
plumber $3.50 for fixing a froSen
water pipe when it cnlN> takes the
plumber an hour to do it.
White River (Canada) boasts Of
36-below-zero weather, which re-
minds US of Zeke Wilson, of Cross
Roads, who Dragged at the general
store the other day about his an
nual crop of boils, which, Zeke in
sists, nobody else in all the world
can equal.
DR.. Plllsan Powders, who Is al
ways quick to criticisc others, was
watching the cook smear a lot Of
frosting on the cake, too much, he
thought.
Ellen" he said. "frostin: COW
ers up a good many mistakes. in
the baking, doesn't it?"
Yes. DOCTOR" the cook replied,
and the spade covers - a good
many mistakes you make, doesn't
it?"
Everybody but the dealers and con-
sumers have found out that the cost
Of living has gone down.
It is hard to make some motor car
drivers believe that pedestrians have
any right to street crossings. And it
d equally difficult to persuade the jay
walking pedestrian that an autoist has
any right in the street.
Speaking Of supreme sacrifices
Mrs. Ethel Turner. of Moline, Ill,
submitted to an operation wherein one
Of her ears was removed and grated
on the head Of her son. who had been
frightfully burned by coming into
contact with a live electric wire.
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The Second Book of Moses, Called
EXODUS.
THADTEP I

CHAPTER i.
The children Of Israel, after Joseph's death,
do multiply. The more they are oP-
Ire@ed By new hing. the more they
wives in saving the men children alive. z
Pharaoh commanded the male children to
be cast into the river.
Now these are the names OF the
children OF Israel. which came into
Egypt: every man and his household
came with Jacob.
Reuben. Simeon. Levi. and
Judah.
Issachar. zebulun, and Benjs-
min,
Dan. and Naphtali, Cad. and
Asher.
5 And all the souls that came out
Of the loins of Jacob were seventy
souls: for Joseph was in Egypt al
ready.
6 And Joseph died. and all his
brethren, and all that generation.
Z n And the children of Israel
were fruitful. and increased sbun.
dainty, and multiplied. and waxed
exceeding mighty; and the land was
filled with them.
8 Now there arose up new king
over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Behold, the people of the children
of Israel are more and mightier
than We:
10 Come on, let us deal wisely
with them: lest they multiply. and
it come to pass, that, when there
falleth out any war, they join also
unto our enemies. and night against
us. and so get them up out OF the
land.
IL Therefore they did set over
them taskmasters to afflict them
with their burdens. And they built
for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom
and Raamses.
IL But the more they afflicted
them. the more they multiplied and
grew. And they were grieved be-
cause of the children of Israel.
IS And the Egyptians made the
children Of Israel to serve with
rigour:
IA And they made their live,
bitter with hard bondage, In mortar,
and, in brick, and in all manner OF
service in the field: all their service,
wherein they made them serve. was
with rigour.
IS q And the king Of Egyp,
spake to the Hebrew midwives, OF
which the name of the one was
Shiphrah. and the name Of the other
Puah:
16 And he said. When ye do the
Office of a midwife to the Hebrew
women, and see them upon the
stools, II 1t be a son. then ye shall
kill him; but IL 1t be a daughter
then she shall live.
II But the midwives feared God,
and did not as the king of Egypt
commanded them. but saved the men
children alive.
Is And the king of Egypt called
for the midwives. and said unto
them, why have ye done this thing
and have saved the men children
alive?
- And the midwives said unto
Pharaoh. Because the Hebrew
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Round the Town i E,saiS ssEE

And every day IL gets harder.
The old Ladder of Life to scale.
For every day it gets higher.
By the falling Of those who fail
GEORGE STEWART TYNER.
Veterans Demand Fair Play. .
Are republics ungratsfulf Many Of
the veteran soldiers Of Indian wars
feel that the American Republic 10
ungrateful to the valiant fighters who
made the great West possible. ! have
received a letter from my comrade Of
Presidents Own Garrison. Army and
Navy Union, PAUL SCHNEIDER. Ga
Morton street northwest. Speaking Of
the Custer massacre on the Little Big
Horn. he quotes Capt. Benteen's ex-
PLANTATION Of the defeat:
Too many Indians; good shots;
good riders. and the best fighters the
sun ever shone upon"
THE ofiiciaI report Of the battle,
Comrade Schneider says. might well
have been:
mo wounded. no missing = ALL
DEAD"
1t is serst. schneIders complaint
that practically all soldier legislation
by Congress has been in the interest
of the veterans of the civil and Span.
lsh wars. MOT a word about the
true blue, gallant, hard-fghting. hard
riding and hard-marching little band
of United States regulars. who lons
before the Mexican or civil war were
ever thought OF. followed the war path
on the frontier when the Golden West
was largely va wilderness overrun by
savage red men. There were no wire.
less. aeroplanes, automobiles. nor ever
railways. There were no first aid hos.
pitfalls, and the soldiers were not ever
given the opportunity to surrender
when surrounded and without ammu'
milton or food.
They were tortured by blisterini
suns or bitter biting frosts. and mer'
ciless billiards. Their beds were un,
der the canopy OF the sky on the snow
covered prairies. These brave boyi
had TO wait nearly forty years befor,
Congress remembered there wer'
such veterans, and then they wer,
given the pittance Of so q month
On such en- allotment these ageC
fighting men cannot keep body anC
soul together in these strenuous day.
OF food profteering and the high cos
of everything. All the Indian wa
veterans are now above the age OF 6
years. They served faithfully anC
well, ever watching, fighting or freez
| ing, and often starving. Their enlist
ments were for five-year terms, and
they were scalped or tortured q
death IL captured.
There are only a few Of US left.
! Comrade Schneider says in cpnclu
sion. Some are blind, others leglesi
! or with an arm gone. many in broker
health and all white-haired- II th'
I great and powerful American repub
lie is not ungrateful to its fighting
men, the Indian wars veterans shoulc
be granted pensions equal TO thos'
received by the soldiers Of the civil
war"
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1t was Christmas Eve in Louisville.
KY. according TO a story related by
Judge ROBERT HARRISON OF the
Police Court, who himself IL a Louis
william A hard working mechanic was
on his way home. He was heavily
laden with two big baskets filed with
Christmas eatables. While passing a
saloon where a sidewalk throng
awaited the next invitation to ''irri-
gate" One Of the loafers exclaimed
to his pals:
Thar goes Bill Jackson loaded
down with Christmas grub and I'll
bet thar amt a quart OF red ticker
in his house"
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To Rush Newberry Trial

Grand Rapids. Mich, Dec. 2s.-The
lull In activities OF Federal authori-
ties here In the Newberry prosecu-
ton win come to an end tomorrow
when attorneys for the defense will
file motions and demurrers to Quash
the indictments. Judge Sessions
ruled when Newberry was arraigned
that such motions must be In on De-
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l. Romance Dead?
Is romance dead!


Yes" CRATES of wodywise eynie, the
glowing product Of our modern civilization.
But he with the ocularly perfect perhaps but
eyes hazy they
by the heart That film be removed the soul shine
his pemism persists dead
For m lives sometimes stalks and proenades
by the favored few who have the faculty Of banng the
. film Of eynicism from modern eyes.
To the visible few days ago during the Christmas
shopping period in the form of dirty whiskred unemp
dng minstrel who od in graceful awkwardness.
The wandering minstrel drew from memory picture of the
dbona player OF the oden day. but for his spirited melodies
harp. Lutte mandolin his pilgrimage carried him into
stately halls Of England old France Ireland We thought him
buried pages history. today. ghosty
Flooding along the midst of vehicles progress slipping
the oil spots dropped from gasoline chaos.
But his lutte and harp and mandolin have given
instrument whistle of tin But the of soul of
romance remains.
of the masters but in dent tones
he from the latest of Tin Pan alley syncopation His
Have Smile cheap ballads" scott the critics as they
ii you
To symphony. for watched faces
along the of trade And had wrined
worry with the petty annoyances that are preliminary to the
Christmas loosened the lines frightened
smiled
Perhaps ragged musician spell
optimism for he noticed only when dime way
but his message the less potent Perhaps
onOtony that finally led him to change his but
believe purely accident that led his selection, silent
Night, Holy Night, All Is Still. All Is Bright"
No. dead still its spell if the
ing chord is in heart
II the pto6eer will off January everybody will
satisfied
The who he has bad habits qualities
for the Ananas Club.
When the Christmas bills pile in take comfort in the knowledge
that the sixteen warning nations $2I226Soooooo
The income collectors have already discovered
swearing off custom no longer confined to January
The District schools will adopt the platoon system February
but that does the Inauguration of military training
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Pictured Man I'm Grnx.

While a guest at a function OF r, E.
Lee Chapter. Daughters OF the Con
federacy at the Confederate Memorial
Home on Vermont avenue, listened
TO a speech by Congressman Frank
Clark, of Florida He gave q word
picture OF the Confederate soldier
leaving his bloody footprints in the
snow in old Virginia while following
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A LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY O. THE YEAR
BY John kendriek Hangs.

When evil Prophets wax apace
Predicting things of black disgrace
like to prophecy myself, and say
What's sure to be some coming day
The flowers Of the Spring will bloom
And I'll the air with sweet perfume;
The month Of June will come along
With Roses. lovers glad. ana song;
And every day that dawns thereJI be
A newborn child Of Chivalry,y
With heart OF truth. and soul Of light.
TO point the path from Wrong to
Right
tosssHsAs ias. :, ne Eeclu. Ns..p.,~
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Trials of Travelling President.
On Board U. 8. s. Mississippi.
Oct. 1, 1907.

OCl- i,
Dearest Ethel:
The first part Of my trip UP to the
time that we embarked on the river
at Keokuk was just about in the ordi-
nary style. 1 had continually to rush
out to wave at the people at the towns
through which the train passed. II
the train stopped anywhere l had to
make q very short speech to several
hundred people who evidently thought
they liked me, and whom l really
liked, but to whom / had nothing in
the world to say. At Canton and Keo-
kuk I went through the usual solemn
festivities-the committee of reception
and the guard Of honor, with the open
carriage. the lines of enthusiastic fell
low citizens to whom I bowed con-
tinually right and left, the speech
which in each case I thought went on
rather better than I dared hope-for
! felt as IL had spoken myself out.
When got on the boat. however.
times grew easier. l still have to
rush out continually. stand on the
front part of the deck. and wave at
groups of people On shore, and at
stern-wheel steamboats, draped with
American flags and loaded with en-
thusiastic excursionists. But I have
q great deal Of time to myself and by
gentle firmness I think 1 have sue
ceeded In impressing on my good hosts
that rather resent allopathic doses OF
information about shoals and dykes.
the amount Of sand per cubic foot OF
water. the quantity of manufactures
supplied by each river town, etc.