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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1917
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THE MONEY CROPS

Order No. [56?] of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Richmond, dated Feb.
27, 1917, is one of the most striking
documents [illegible] come to this of-
fice to [illegible]—and almost
[illegible] or more. It is
headed, "A World in Need of Food."

Every staple food crop in the
United States, except rice, showed a
shorage last year. No figures are
available as to crops in the countries
of the [illegible] powers, but the figures
from the [nations?] of the world tell the
same [illegible] shortage of food
told by the figures for the United
States Study the figures for the
United States.

The corn crop in this country in
1916 was 114,000,00,000 bushels less
than that of 1915, the wheat crop
386,000,000 bushels less, the oats crop
[298?],000,000 bushels less, the barley
crop 17,000,000 bushels less, the buck-
wheat crop [8?],000,000 bushels less, the
Irish potato crop 74,000,000 bushels
less, the sweet potato crop [2?],000,000
bushels less, the [beans?] crop 1,000,000
bushels less, the apple crop 9,000,000
bushels less and he peach crop 28,-
000,000 bushels less. The rice crop
was 13,000,000 bushels more. The
net shortage reached the enormous
total of 1,265,000,000 bushels.

For six staples, the comparison be-
tween the crops in the northern hem-
isphere in 1916 and 1915 shows that
last year's crops were less than the
preceding year's as follows: corn
629,000,000 bushels, wheat [983?],000,000
bushels, oats 403,000,000 bushels,
barley 101,000,000 bushels, rye 50,-
000,000 bushels, potatoes 179,000,000
bushels. In these [illegible] the pro-
duction in Germany and other countries
allied with her [illegible] considered as
no report from these were available.
The total shortage in those six crops
[illegible] aggregated 2,872,000,000
the hole. No wonder for surplus stock
of [illegible] from the [illegible]
crops of 1915 in this country were
nearly [illegible].

[illegible paragraph]

Not only was there a great short-
age but the available supply was de-
creased by the [illegible] amount of
food [illegible] by the [illegible]

[illegible paragraph]

"Whether war continues or peace
comes quickly, in either event there
will be a hungry world short of food.

"The probabilities are that peace
will make the greater demands [illegible]
the food supplies of countries not
actively at war. Production would
not get under way quickly enough in
the war ridden countries, and there
[would?] then be an [illegible] dif-
ficulties in general distribution. The
food and the [people?] could be brought
together—if we have the food.

"This country may have even
greater demands made upon its food
supplies. That is what we must con-
sider and prepare for. The matter
is a serious one for us as it now
stands, and we shall be compelled to
[earn?] both economy and production.

"This is reputed to be the most
wasteful country in the world, not
only prodigal of natural and accum-
ulated resources, but equally prodigal
of opportunities.

"A large part of the enormous [illegible]
in population makes no attempt to
raise all or even the greater part of
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South than in any other part of the
country.

"This is the crux of this letter—
to urge upon the farmers the tremen-
dous importance of diversifyng their
crops and giving for this year at least
the place of first importance to food
stuffs.

"What will it profit a farmer to
raise a 'money crop' if the money
has to go for food and other neces-
sities made more costly by high prices
for food?

"As it now appears food stuffs will
be the money crop.

"The self interest of producers will
in the end cure the food shortage; but
it is of vital importance that this be
done quickly, [illegible] it is only an incident
that may be done profitably."
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CHRISTIAN NATIONS

In his remarkable address at the
Greenville opera house last Sunday
afternoon, Dr. John E. White, of An-
derson, implied that the trouble with
the old world is that it is ruled by
[hearts?] and not the hearts of men
—by heads not governed by the spirit
of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately for
the world, while it has hundreds of
nations of Christians, their Chris-
tianity is more a master of mortal
[assent?] than of soul submission and
accord. The most striking thing that
Dr. White said was in effect this:

Recently he was riding on a train
in Georgia. On the same train was a
deputy sheriff taking an insane man
to the state asylum. He talked with
the deputy sheriff, whom he knew.
Shortly afterward, a passenger tried
to engage him in conversation about
the European war. He told his fellow
passenger to go talk about the war
to the deputy sheriff's charge, the
crazy man—and Dr. White most [im-
pulsively asked his?] [illegible] sheriff [ma-?]
ny years ago the government of the
countries of Europe had been given
into the custody of men taken out of
insane asylums, they could not have
brought civilization to a world [illegible]
[illegible] it has been brought by its in-
tellectual "statesmen."

It takes [illegible] to
run this world. A religion that is a
matter of intelligence will no more
run things right than would Greek
philospophy.

Personal religion in [interfering?] if it
does not confrom to the golden rule—
and so also is [national?] religion. The
man who does not do unto others as
the world have them do unto him may
by absolutely moral and have
the highest [criterion?]—but he is not
a Christian. Similarly, no [illegible] can
accurately be called a Christian na-
tion, not matter how many church
members it may have in its popula-
tion, if it does not in its relations
with other nations deal with them as
it would have the, dealt with.
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DRAWS NEARER.

The date of meeting of the extra
session of congress [illegible]
two weeks. To all intents and pur-
poses we are practically at war with
Germany. German submarines are
sinking American merchant ships
that go into [illegible] zone
contiguous to the countries [illegible]
which Germany is at war and we
are [illegible] and
intersepting them so fire on German
submarines in sight. Whatever this
status may be called, it IS war.

When congress [illegible] it is beyond
the bounds of probability that it will
do anything but make a formal
declaration than that exists which
the whole world knows exists and
[illegible] to make effective the war
of the country upon Germany.

Under our constitution, being it is
the only power in this country that
can make a declaration of war for
it, not, as the Piedmont has pointed
out, the president has power to get
the country into war and so make
a declaration by congress of war a
mere formality.

While the strongest assumed in
the re-election of Woodrow Wilson
we the city [reported?] declaration
that he had kept the country out of
war, the war that we have with
Germany, will be due to his course
as president. That is [illegible]
but a statement of fact. Two
courses are open to him---one that
would have preserved peace and
one have led to war. In his wisdom
he chose the course that seems to
have left no alternative to congress
now but to make a declaration of
war.

There was a time when congress
had power to put the country on the
course that would have kept it out
of the European war. This would
probably have been the effect of the
[Metamora?] resolution, had it passed
congress. Many congressmen, proba-
bly a majority favored it but
yielded to the pressure weight by
the administration and that resolu-
tion was not passed.

The Piedmont is not criticising the
president. It may be that the
course he took was the most patriot-
ic and statesmanlike course and the
course that he should have taken.
That is a proposition that is val-
ueless to argue at the present time.

But, whatever credit or censure at-
tach to the president's selection of
a course, the fact remains that the
course he selected led to war. It
may be that he should not have taken
any other course, but the fact remains
that he could have taken a course
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out of the paths of peace.

History may give Woodrow Wilson
no greater title to fame than the
fact that he made inevitable this
country's participation in the world
war—and the Piedmont believes
that history will affix upon him that
responsibility.
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A WISE RULE.

Festus J. Wade, of St. Louis, is
president of a bank and a trust
company whose capital, surplus and
undivided profits aggregate ten mil-
lion dollars. He is generally rec-
ognized as a far-seeing financier
and successful business man. The
late J. Pierpont Morgan said the
man as well as the security must
be considered in making a loan. He
further said it was good business to
send money to a man of character,
energy and business ability even
though the collateral he offered did
not warrant a loan of the size he
desired. Wade evidently also con-
siders the man in deciding the ex-
tent of the financial accomodation
of his banking institutions shall give a
customer. Here is how he states
one of the rules of his banking con-
cerns: "When we see a man cutting
down on his advertising, we cut
down on his credit." That rule rests
on sound common sense. Sensible,
honest advertising is indispensable
to modern business success. There
are many ways of advertising, but
the best is in the daily newspaper
that goes into the homes.
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Chinese laborers taken to England
are to be paid $12 a month. Compared
with what they can earn at home
that may seem princely compensa-
tion, but, when it is stacked against
a few war price meals it will look
like a flake of snow a few minutes
after it hits a red-hot stove.
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Is there any connection between
the short crops of 1916 and the lack
of potash? Has the entente in shut-
ting off exports of potash from Ger-
many, and the neutral nations in
consenting thereto, helped bring the
world to the verge of hunger?
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It is said that an oil well has been
discovered at Clio? Ignatius Donnelly
might work out cryptograms there.
The last three letters in Clio, re-
versed, spell oil.
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Alderman Harvley has a right to
be proud of his record of never hav-
ing missed a meeting of council since
he became one of the city fathers.
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Wonder if Hindenburg has any-
thing up his sleeve in that "strate-
gic" retirement on the west front.
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Greenville was a little slow in
selecting a "light dimmer" ordinance,
but better late than never.
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Palmetto Press

Coming Home to Us.

Unarmed, unloaded, sailing under
the Stars and Stripes, leaving the
"war zone," commanded by a Virgin-
ian and returning to her home port of
Savannah, the steamship City of
Memphis was destroyed by a Ger-
man submarine. Of her crew of 48,
most of those Amerian citizens whose
homes are in Savannah, 15 we miss-
ing yesterday morning. The Germans
gave the crew just 15 minutes in
which to lower their small boats and
get away before they shelled and tor-
pedoes the ship.

The City of Memphis had carried
a barge of cotton to Havre, France,
and had delivered it. Two years
ago she had sailed for Germany with
a barge of cotton.

Cotton is the product on which our
people in South Carolina and Georgia
greatly depend. This ship had car-
ried cotton to Germany and to France.
Cotton is worthless unless it can be
sold. The City of Memphis, chal-
lenging the piracy of the Germans,
was contributing to the prosperity of
Southern farmers. Doubtless some
of the cotton that she delivered
at Havre and some of the cotton
that she formerly carried to Germany
was grown on South Carolina farms.

If there be in South Carolina any
farmer who raises cotton and who be-
lieves that American ships should not
sail into the war zone, he should, to
be consistent, resolve never to plant
another pound of cotton.

If American merchantmen may not
sail the seas in safety, the cotton in-
dustry is at an end in the South.—
The State.
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We Are at War.

It requires the action of congress
for the United States to go to war,
but we can be in a state of war with-
out any act on our part. War is now
being made upoon the Uinted States by
a foreign power.

Had the United States wished to
make war with Germany, sufficient
provocation would have been found a
dozen times over—and each one would
have constituted a more honorable, a
more rightness and a more plausible
cause [held?] than the shooting of an
Austrian crown prince by a Serb,
which was used as the pretext for
the bloody holocaust.

The United States has not declared
war. The United States has longed
for a coninuation of peace and
therein and thereby has submitted to
[outrages?], which have caused some to
mock us as being afraid. The United
States is not afraid, though totally
unprepared. The president has wait-
ed, and while waiting has endeavored
to bring peace abroad while striving
at all times to keep ourselves in
peace.

We are now at war. Germany not
only has committed a succession of
overt acts which that imperial gov-
ernment knew would constitute a just
cause for war on our part, but its in-
fluence has gone further and German
undersea boats have actually torpe-
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ing conspiculously the flag of the
United States of America.

There are some who rail against
the United States going to war on
account of sailors being drowned
when they take their chances of
crossing a zone strewn with death,
but this is a case which admits
no argument. The moment that the
icy waters of the Atlantic closed
over the flag of this country, at that
moment we were at war and at that
moment had there been committed
an overt act which was intended as an
insult to this country, and should be
avenged by the United States to the
extent of causing and end forever to
the murderous plan of torpedoing
boats that are supposed to have the
protection of international law—
which is the solemn covenants be-
tween nations—Columbia Record.

[image of boy reading book]
Little
Willie's
Compo-
sitions
by
J. W. C.

CIGARETTES

Cigarettes are round, long bits of
paper containing tobacco that are
lighted at one end and sucked at the
other by callow youths and others
who have the habit. When a man
first starts smoking a cigarette he
imagines he know it all but later
on he finds out. Cigarette smoking
is usually started at first by boys
whom are about 18 years of age
thogh some start much earlier
against the will of their daddies who
forgot more in a week than the kid
will ever know. It may be observed
by the cut of the kid's trousers, the
angle of his hat, the flavor of his
breath, the style of his toothpick
shoes and the swagger of his walk
that he is badly gone on himself.
The father's opinion of the cigarette
is not always complimentary to that
article for many warn their yound
hopeful sons of the dangers of the
gutter-snipes chopped fine and en-
closed in delicate tissue paper. Some
boys now grown old can truthfully
say, "Father was right." In Spain,
the consumption of cigarettes is very
breat but the Spanish usually roll
their own. Once a passenger on a
street car who was seated in the
front of the car was asked by the
conductor to please smoke on the
other end; "nothing doing," he said
"the other end's lit." In January of
this year, the sales of cigarettes in
the United States returned the enor-
mous total of 2,416,762,000. More
cigarettes are sold in the country at
present than at any time since the
thing was invented. The reason for
this increased consumption is given
by many to be the fact that women
are doing it too. Some have said in
speaking of the fact that women are
smoking so much now that the cigar-
ette case against the old snuff box
formerly used by them gives an ans-
wer not entirely favorable to the
snuff box and leaves the question of
whether we are living in a worse or
better age still a doable one.
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As to Living Dead Men.

A Missouri editor refuses to pub-
lish obituary notices of people who
failed to subscribe for his paper. He
gives the pointed reason: "People
who do not take their home paper
are dead, anyway, and their passing
has no new value." He's right.—Clai-
borne Progress.
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It Might Work

The middlemen have begun to com-
plain that people won't by their po-
tatoes. Why no advertise them on
the "Dollar down, a year to pay"
plan.—Kansas City Star.
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Venice As They Saw It

Florn—Did you visit Venice when
abroad?
Dors—Yes indeed. But they were
having a dreadful flood when we were
there, and everybody had to go
around in boats—Judged.
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An Oklahoma Danger Zone.

This is to notify all bill collectors
that a danger zone is hereby pro-
claimed on all streets that our in-
gress and egress faces, and any col-
lector coming within 50 feet does so
at his own risk. We don't want to
appear ruthless in this matter, but
this is a military necessity.—Pateau
News.
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"Looking Backward"

"I could have bought farm land
once in what is now the center of
Chicago."

"Cheap, I'll bet."

"Yes. If I had done it I'd be rich
now."

"We all have those vain regrets,"
opined the grocer. "If I had every
potato I've stuck on the spout of a
kerosene can, I'd be wealthy beyond
the dreams of averice."
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Either One or Both

Lady to Conductor—"At which end
of the car must I get off.
Conductor—"Either end, both of
'em stop."—High School Echo.
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Including the loss of the cruiser
Milwaukee, the United States navy
has suffered losses during last year
totaling $11,000,000.

English street railways are experi-
menting with a compound rail, the
worn parts of which can be removed
without disturbing the roadbed.

Approximately 10,890 acres of de-
nuded lands within the national for-
est were reforested in 1916, the total
number of trees planted being 6,146,0
687.

Motor exports from the United
States since the outbreak of the war
until the end of last October, amount
to $226,708,617. Automobile trucks
exported amounted to $112,285,745,
passenger cars $76,672,138, and au-
tomobile parts (not including engines
and tires) $37,745.780.

Seven is generally regarded as a
lucky number because it is sacred
in Apollo. The story goes that at
the birth of this great deity seven
sacred swans circled about his god-
head.

Leases generally run by seven years
or a multitude of seven. The Seventh
and ninth years, with the multiple of
3, 5, 7, 9, were supposed to be elim-
[cut off]

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HEALTH TALKS
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

Factors of Asthma

A young woman had what she call-
ed a "cold" and a few weeks later ex-
perienced her first attack of asthma.
Upon be questioned she stated that
her [??] had been attended by a
profuse purulent dischage, which led
to a careful examination of the nose.
The chronic ethmoiditis was discovered.
The ethmoid cells are air spaces in
the roof of the nasal cavity, lined with
mucous membrane continuous with
that of the nasal cavity. When in-
flamed at the time of the alleged
"cold". There had been retention of
bacteria and absorption of the their
protein, which was sufficient to explain
the asthmatic seisure.

A woman was subject to seizures
at the time of the menstrual cycle. It
was found that she had a chronic ab-
cess in the pelvis, and the congestion
incident to the period served to pre-
vent drainage and thus to cause ab-
sorption of bacterial proteins, which
caused her asthma.

A man developed asthmatic seiz-
ures every time he dined in a certain
restaurant. Naturally, some article of
food was supposed to be the cause—
[blurry] to some special food pro-
tein. But it was finally discovered
that a cat which was kept in the res-
taurant was the actual cause, and by
merely changing his eating place the
man found relief.

A physician who had suffered from
asthma for fifteen years had gall-
stones. The gall-sac was surgically
drained. The operation gave marked
relief to the asthma, and he was free
from asthmatic seizures while, the
gall-sac was kept open for drainage,
but had a seizure as soon as it was
allowed to close. Evidently the focus
from which the barcterial protein came
in his case was the chronic gall-sac
inflammation.

A woman who adopted a milk diet
as a remedial measure for some di-
gestive trouble, developed a severe
[athmatic] seizure which lasted for
several days. It was the first in her
experience. Some months later she
again went on a milk diet, and
promptly suffered another severe
asthmatic seizure. She had always
taken small quantities of milk or
cream in her tea and coffee, but never
more. The excess of milk seemed to
supply the protein which produced
anaphylactic reaction in her case.

A peculiar sensitization to some
protein substance seems to be causa-
tive factor in asthma. It may be the
protein material of bacteria, a food
protein, or the emenation of some
species of animal or bird. Constipa-
tion often preceipitates an attack in a
sufferer. Changes of weather seem
to have no influence, or at least only
a good influence upon [ashtma].

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Lime Not a Cause of Hardening of
Arteries

Kindly give me a diet for one
afflicted with hardening of the ar-
teries. I am afraid to drink milk on
account of the lime in it. (W. W.)

ANSWER—It will be very diffi-
cult for you to keep alive if you exclude
all food which contains lime. Lime
in the food or water has nothing to
do with the condition of the arteries;
or rather, lime in the food is quite
essential to health and longevity.
The only general suggestion I can
make is that the diet should be a
minimum maintenance diet, and it
should be principally vegetarian, but
including milk and cheese and butter.
Hardening of the arteries is now a
condition for which a definite diet
may be prescribed without personal
study of the patient. I mean that if
I had it I certainly would not adopt
any cut-and-dried regimen recom-
mended for all such cases.

Mucous Colitis.

Kindly tell me whether there is a
cure for mucous colitis. Do you ap-
prove of innoculation with colon
bacilli? What is the best diet? Just
what is mucous colitis, and what
causes it. (Mrs. B. N.)

ANSWER—Mucous colities is in-
flammation of the colon or large
bowel lining, characterized by irreg-
ular attacks of colic and great ner-
vous [blurry], with the expultion of an
unusual excess of [mucus] which ap-
pears in strings or shreds and some-
times in casts of the bowel. It may
be due to colon bacillus activity. If
you mean vaccine treatment, yet, I
approve of it. Generally a diet which
leaves a large residue, and one in-
cluding plenty of oils or fats, is help-
ful—vegetarian foods. Bowel washes
are also helpful. The nervous ten-
sion must be overcome by mental
hygiene, rest, change of environ-
ment.

A Baby's Rupture.

My baby was ruptured when three
months old—a bulging of the naval
which grew tense when he strained
or cried. The doctor applied a belt
with a round pad or knob padded with
cotton. The baby wore this night
and day up to the present. He is
now six months old and the bulging
no longer shows. Is it advisable to
keep the truss on? (Mrs. H. O. S.)

ANSWER—The doctor who ap-
plied it would be the one to decide
that. However, rupture in babies
usually heal or close if well sup-
ported for a few weeks, so it may be
advisable to remove the support now,
since there is no more bulging. Of
course, the pressure and support of
any appliance tends to weaken the
natural muscular wall, and is there-
fore objectionable if not necessary to
prevent bulging of the weak place.

Dr. Brady will answer all questions pertaining to Health. If your ques-
tion is of general interest it will be answered through these columns. If not
it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr.
Brady will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnoses. Address all
letters to Dr. William Brady, care of The Piedmont, Greenville, S. C.

[columns 5-6, bottom section]

BEDTIME STORIES
BY HOWARD R. GARIS
(Copyrighted, 1916, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

UNCLE WIGGILY AND MR. COONOONEY.

While hopping through the woods
one day, looking for an adventure as
he often did, Uncle Wiggily Longears,
the rabbit gentleman, heard some an-
imal calling for help.

"Help! Help!" shouted the voice.
"I've fallen in, and the bank is so
slippery I can't get out again."

"Ha! Trouble for some one!" cried
the bunny. "I must see who it is."

On he hopped through the woods,
and soon he came to the bank of a
little brook. In the water, trying to
climb out on the slippery, muddy
bank, was Mr. Coonooney, the raccoon
gentleman.

"Why, my dear fellow!" exclaimed
Uncle Wiggily. "This is quite too
bad! What has happened! But wait!
Don't answer. Let me help you out
first and you can talk afterward."

So Uncle Wiggily quickly gnawed
off a branch of a tree with his strong
teeth, and then, holding it in his paws
he reached it down to Mr. Coonooney
who, taking it in his paws, soon pull-
ed himself out of the water.

"Well, I'm much obliged to you,
Uncle Wiggily," said the raccoon
gentleman. "You see I was washing
a bit of fish I had for my dinner,
when I accidentally slipped into the
brook, and the mud on the shore was so
slippery that I could not get out
even though I am a good swimmer.
I can't thank you enough."

"That's all right," said the bunny
gentleman, casual like. "I was glad
to help you. But I should think you
would not need to wash the fish for
your dinner when the fish already
came from the water."

"Oh, we raccoons wash every bit of
food we eat," said Mr. Coonooney.
"It's a way we have. But won't you
stay to dinner with me?"

"Thank you, no," answered Uncle
Wiggily. "I never eat fish."

"Then I hope some day to do you
a favor for having helped me out of
the water," spoke the raccoon gen-
tleman, and then he went on eating
his dinner while Mr. Longears hopped
over the fields looking for an ad-
venture.

But, somehow or other bad luck, if
there is any such thing, it did not hap-
pen to be with Uncle Wiggily that
day. He had no adventures at all,
and he was disappointed when
he reached his hollow stump bun-
galow.

However, he saw, playing in front
of it Jollie and Jillie Longtail, the
mice children; Nannie and Billie
Wagtail, the goats, and Sammie and
Susie Littletail, the rabbits, with
many other animal friends. They
were laughing and having great fun
at some game.
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Uncle Wiggily.

"We are playing 'ring the stick,"
answered Susie. "Come on, bunny
uncle, play it with us, please."

"But I don't know how."

"Oh, it's easy," said Johnnie
Bushytail, the squirrel. "You see we
each have some little round hoops, or
rings, made of white wood. At the
end of the path are some sticks stick-
ing up right out of the ground."

"And we take turns tossing the
rings at the sticks," added Susie
Littletail, "and whoever gets the most
rings on his or her stick wins the
game.

"Well, I'll play a little," said the
bunny uncle, so they gave him some
round hoops, as rings, and told him
which stick was his, down at the end
of the graden walk.

First Sammie tossed the ring, but he
missed the stick. Then Billie Bushy-
tail drew his hoop and right over a
stick it went! Then it ws Uncle
Wiggly's turn.

The bunny gentleman tossed a
ring but it did not go anywhere near
his stick. The animal children did
not laugh, though.

"I guess I am too old, and my eyes
are so poor, I can't see to ring the
stick," said Mr. Longears. "I'd bet-
ter not play this game."

But they all wanted him to keep on
playing, and soon it was his turn
again. But he missed and did worse
than before, while nearly all the ani-
mal children tossed their hoops over
the sticks stuck in the ground.

"Well, this is the third and last
time," said Uncle Wiggily, as he
tossed his ring, and as it settled to
the ground the animal boys and
girls cried:

"Uncle Wiggily has ringed the
stick!" and so he had. There was a
white ring arond a round, dark stick
that stuck up at the end of the gar-
den walk.

"Now you have another turn,"
said Sammie, so the bunny uncle toss-
ed another ring. And the second one
also went on the stick. And so with
a third and fourth.

"Oh, Uncle Wiggily, you were just
fooling us!" cried the animals. "You
could play this game all the while."

"No, I couldn't really!" he said.
"I don't understand it myself."

And just then, from down at the
end of the path, up came Mr.
Coonooney, the raccoon gentleman
with his white-ringled tail, which all
raccoons have. And his tail, which
was dark like the stick, looked just as
if some one had tossed white hoops
around it.

"It was just a little trick I played
on you all," said Mr. Coonooney.
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and heard what bad luck Uncle [Wig-
gily was having with the gam[e, so I]
thought I'd help him. So when [he]
tossed a white ring, and it missed [the]
stick, I stuck up my tail a little [bit so]
one ring on that showed. And [so I]
kept on, showing ring after ring.

"Then I really didn't ring [the]
sticks at all?" Asked the bunny [un-]
cle.

"No, but you had fun thinking [you]
did," said the raccoon-gentleman, [and]
then he and Uncle Wiggily went [into]
the bungalow to have tea toget[her]
while the animal children played [the]
game. And ever since then, as wel[l as]
before, raccoons have had rings [on]
their tails.

And if the smoke out of the ch[im-]
ney doesn't tickle the clouds [and]
make them sneeze rain I'll tell [you]
next about Uncle Wiggily and [cut off]
Sharp Nose.

What Others Say

Traps With Submarines

That recent articles appearing [in]
periodicals relating to the weak[ness]
on our coast and harbor defenses [are]
incorrect, in so far as submarines [or]
any other hostile craft could slip [into]
one of our harbors and take it by [sur-]
prise, was the assertion of Prof. [cut off]
traville M. Wood of Chicago in [lec-]
turing before the Acadamy of [cut off]
ond art at Carnegie institute on ["cut off]
Wonders of the Wireless Ways."

"It would be impossible, said P[rof.]
Wood, "because every harbor is [cut off]
tected with a wireless [detastaph?]
that will record the approach of [any]
such craft as far away as 10 [miles].
No only that, but the wireless [cut off]
may be regulated so that then [any]
craft is at a certain point a [cut off]
may be exploded and destroy it.[—]
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
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The German Retreat.

What is happening on the west[ern]
war front the Germans call "syste[ma-]
tic retirement." Systematic it [may]
be, but they have probably not [cut off]
tire in forty-eight hours from [cut off]
Crown Prince won at Verdun [cut off]
months except under compulsion. [How]
can they have let go of import[ant]
points like Noyon, [Royan?], [Bapaunne?] [and]
Paronne without losses of men [and]
material as well as prestige.

Military writers have predicte[d]
German retirement to the line of
[Fare and Cambral?] to shorten [cut off]
and release a strategic reserve for [de-
fense] elsewhere. Some have [cut off]
called this the "Hindenburg line." [It]
may be that troops are imperati[vely]
needed, with the new levies, to [cut off]
a great attack upon Russia in rev[olu-]
tion. But the German command [is]
now giving up houses fit to be li[ved]
in, not levelled by gun-fire, and fi[elds]
that may be ploughed for this ye[ar's]
crops. If they really fall back to [the]
Hindenburg line they will be aband[on-]
ing something much more import[ant].
—the Lens coal mines.

The balance of military losses wh[ich]
caused such a big movement as [cut off]
and which have resulted from it, [and]
may not learn until after the [cut off]
[lta?] effect upon morale may be [rein-]
stated. Nothing can hearten Fr[ance]
like a German retreat — New Y[ork]
World
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A Self-Sufficient South.

It is one of the easiest things [in]
the world to boost the South and [to]
get publicity for the South. It is [all]
because the matchless resources [in]
the South are being recognized [to]
the leading financiers and busin[ess-]
men of the North. We don't have [to]
convince them. The are already c[on-]
vinced, and are talking in a way t[hat]
millions of others will be convin[ced].
Recently Mr. F. A. Vanderlip, pre[si-]
dent of the National City Bank, [in]
New York, now the world's great[est]
financial institutions, said:

"The South is favored with a [warm]
climate and other conditions wh[ich]
enable it to grow practically all of [the]
products required for food and clo[th-]
ing. The South has certain great [na-]
tural resources of wealth and sho[uld]
become rapidly self-sufficient in [the]
means of development."

Mr. Vanderlip knows whereof [he]
speaks. He does millions of dollars [in]
business throughout the South, [and]
speaks authoratatively when he [de-]
clares that "the South has cer[tain]
great natural resources of we[alth]
and should be come rapidly self-suffi-]
cient in the means of developme[nt].
How easy it is for the South to be [cut off]
itself when it can rely upon such [a]
man as Mr. Vanderlip for proof [of]
all statements regarding the "gr[eat]
natural resources here to be devel[op-]
ed.

We ought to treasure sup such st[ate-]
ments as that of Mr. Vanderlip [and]
lay great store by them. The So[uth]
ought to be able to borrow money [on]
Mr. Vanderlip's endorsement. He d[id]
everything bu sign a note for us.

The South ought to be able to [con-]
vince people all over the North [and]
West about the "great natural [re-]
sources" that are responsive to [de-]
velopment thoughout the South. [All]
we have to do is show people [what]
Mr. Vanderlip says.

If there are Southerners who do [not]
fully appreciate the resources of [the]
South, they might get an idea fr[om]
the great banker who knows what [he]
knows.—Wilmington Star.

FLASHES

Unseemly Haste on Mother's Part

Marie had been naughty at the d[in-
ner table and her mother had [sent]
her into the next room to remain [un-]
til she was sorry for her behavior.

Marie cheerfully complied. Mak[ing]
no expression of repentance after [a]
suitable time had lapsed, her mot[her]
called from an adjoining room:

"Marie, dear, aren't you sorry?"

No answer. On a repetition of [the]
question, Marie replied, with a gr[ave]
and patient dignity:

"Mummy, please don't ask me [any]
more. I'll tell you when I'm sorry. [cut off]
Grit.
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Sure Enough

"The doctor says I'm eating [too]
much sweet stuff. Says sugar [makes]
you lazy. Think it does?

"Loaf sugar might."—Kansas C[ity]
Journal.
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Never Wears Out

"Seems to be no end to the sup[ply]
of antique furniture."

"Well the stuff lasts forever. [It's]
so uncomfortable that it gets no [con-]
tinual use."—Louisville Courier-[Journal].
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