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THE ISSUE.
The issue in the present congressional
contest is one that is close to the heart of
every patriotic man and woman in the
Fourteenth District. It is simply this:
Shall the Fourteenth Texas Congres-
sional District send to Congress a man
who can be relied upon to support the
President and such measures as he deems
essential to victory in the war?
That is the issue. Just that and noth-
ing else.
A. P. Barrett has met the issue fairly
and without evasion or equivocation. He
has been outspoken in his patriotism and
publicly proclaimed his willingness and
anxiety to do all things that will enable
the United States to win the war.
What has James L. Slayden done?
Nothing. He has not spoken one word
in justification of the cause of the United
States in this war.
He has not spoken one word in de-
nunciation of the brutal crimes and wan-
ton aggression of Germany which forced
the United States into war.
' Do the voters of the Fourteenth Dis-
trict desire to send to Congress a man
who will do all he can to win the war
or do they desire to return to Congress
a man who has had the opportunity to
aid in winning the war and who has voted
against nearly every measure that Presi-
dent Wilson has deemed necessary for the
salvation of America?
The people of the Fourteenth District
of Texas will be known before the nation
by what they do in this election. By the
man they send to Congress will they be
judged by the remainder of the nation.
HATE'S LABOR LOST.
While American schools are discon-
tinuing the teaching of the German lan-;
guage the German schools are teach-
ing’the English language most assiduous-]
ly. It is not because the Germans have]
any love for us. They are learning the
language of their foe so that they may ]
continue “the war after the war.”
Nor have they restricted themselves to
English. While paying most attention to
this language they are devoting them-
selves also to Spanish and French More-
over they are studying the language of
every country with which they expect to
do business after the war.
Whether the Germans are wasting their
time remains to be seen. Certain it is that
the present state of our feelings does not[
augur well for Germany's commercial fu-
ture and the fact that Germany has a
natural monopoly of very few merchant-
able commodities will go a long way to-
ward giving our present aversion for
things German a commercial effectiveness
when the war is over.
From the standpoint of both the United
States and Germany the question is
basically economic. We shall have little
if any use for German goods after the
war. Therefore we can afford to let our
sentiment run unbridled. Germany’s
dustrial life after the war will depend
upon her facilities for trading with the
United States and South American coun
tries particularly despite present rela-
tions. Germany would have no choice
' but to seek trade with her - *
mies for they constitute almost the en-
tire trading world. That is where Ger-
many made her vital mistake—she mad?
war on the nations upon which she was
dependent for the commercial supremacy
she craved.
This studious attention to the language
of her foes is no new enterprise for Ger-
many. She laid this part of her campaign
many years ago when she was preparing
to dom: te the world by fair means or
foul. But her immediate purpose then was
different. There were secrets to be learned
and a German who spoke only his native
tongue made a poor spy. But Germany
seems to be redoubling her studious ef-
forts now - because she will be hard put
to it after the war. The enterprise was
more casual in the confident days of her
preparation for the war. .
It was Bismarck who said that “Ger-
MONDAY
{many is a nation of housemaids.” How
{.this characteristic was utilized and more
fully developed by her ruling class as a
[means of gaining an advantage over the
nations she was to attack may now be
seen in retrospect. We did not realize it
while the process was going on.
Germans became accomplished linguists
many years before the war clouds ap-
peared. Young men were sent to England
[particularly to learn all they could about
the affairs of Germany's prospective en-
jemy. They sought and obtained jobs for
I which the English had no taste. It is
{significant that the nature of many of
I these positions was such as to bring the
employes into close touch with men and
women familiar with affairs of state. For
a time a large percentage of the barbers
of England was made up of Germans —
men who in their native country would
have occupied higher positions. Many of
them lived beyond their apparent means.
The inference is that their meager wages:
were supplemented by "allowances” from
iGermany. It would not be a surprise to
learn that the German government ntain-
itained a fund for this distinct purpose.
We have long since learned that there is
nothing which the Germans will not do
to gain their ends. Their stock excuse is
“necessity.” They will subvert their pride
suppress their feelings and sacrifice their
honor as they have done in the most re-
volting ways for the sake of material
aggrandizement. The lowest most in-
jsidious kind of hate is that which makes
a show of patronizing an enemy in order
Ito undermine his strength. The Germans
{have bargained their souls for gain. \\ hat
will be their state of mind when they
awake to the realization that there is to
ibe no compensation for the extreme price
they have paid?
—oo
GERMANISM'S SWAN SONG.
Many years before the beginning of the
war and for a long time afterward Ger-
many expected not only her subjects in
th's country but also German-American
citizens to take possession of our affairs
and conduct them for the aggrandizement
and the glory of the Huns of the Father-
land. The German government laid its
plans far in advance and when the war
broke out in Europe attempts were made
to carry out those plans so far as the
United States was to be affected. Even
after we entered the conflict agents of the
German government continued their oper
ations here. From the first the German
government expected all Teutons in
America to rise in revolt against our gov-
ernment if that should be demanded by
“necessity.”
That expectation soon degenerated into
a mere hope as America began to display
her mettle. Now even the hope has beer
abandoned. Its swan song has been sung
by a Hun who for many years occupied
in Washington a position which gave him
a fine opportunity to ascertain the possi-
bilities for the success of a German move-
ment in this country.
His name is George Barthehne. who
may be remembered as the last of the
German newspaper correspondents to
leave our national capital after residence
there had become somewhat embarrassing
to creatures in human garb who wrote ap-
provingly of the invasion of Belgium and
the sinking of the Lusitania.
Barthehne has written a series of sev-
enteen articles for his paper the Cologne
Gazette in which he seeks to analyze
international questions. His seventeenth
article deals with the status of German-
Americans. Among other things he says
that the German-Americans have failed to
come to the aid of the Fatherland because
they “fear for their money-bags.” But
while thus classing the majority of them
as cravens he extends his sympathy to
those who he says have been forced to
give up hope of making America free
through a second Declaration of Inde-
dependence. Some of these latter he says
will “turn their backs upon the country
of their betrayed hope and those who
are not able to follow them will with
broken hearts mourn their evening upon
the ruins of a devastated dream. They
thought that they were entering a new
country and building themselves a new
house. Instead of that they found them-
selves suddenly on British-colonial soil
and in the shadow of the Union Jack
That was a terrible awakening.”
Barthehne has a colossal imagination
even for a writer of fiction. There is no
doubt that the German government
planned every thing the way Barthehne
would have it. Doubtless too there are
some “good Germans” as he calls them
who are disappointed over the turn of
affairs in this the country of their pro-
fessed adoption. But what about that
reference to the “freeing” of America?
Barthehne answers the question—un-
wittingly he betrays himself and Ger-
many’s motives with respect to America
These “good Germans” he says who are
unable to emigrate and must remain over
here to “mourn their evening upon the
ruins of a devastated dream” will “go
down like our heroes in ship and trench
with ‘Deutschland Deutschland Ueber
Alles’ on their lips and in their hearts.”
So after all it was not the desire of
these “good Germans” to make America
free but to place their new-found home
under the control of Germany? The con-
clusion is inescapable. “Deutschland
Ueber Alles” can mean but one thing.
America could not be free and under Ger-
many's control at the same time.
It is encouraging to us to hear the
Huns make such admissions even though
they do so unwittingly or at least unin-
tentionally. Barthchne's swan song is
I particularly significant because it has not
been long since upon his return to Ger-
many he was flinging statistics reckless-
ly about and declaring that there were
enough pro-Germans and other anti-Amer-
ican elements in this country to insure
the possession of this country’ for the
kaiser.
Now he says that “American German-
ism is doomed to powerlessness.” We
knew that before—but it sounds good to
hear the enemy say’ it.
WE HAVE THE MONEY.
The annual income of the United States
is estimated to be about forty billions of
dollars and the federal tax thereon this
year was about four billions of dollars
It is now proposed under a bill being
prepared in Congress to double or more
than double this tax.
There is no question that the money is
available; the only question is how to
levy such a tax with justice to all so
that the burden shall not be dispropor-
tionately’ heavy upon any’ one class. The
income tax legislation in the past has
been prepared with a view to placing the
bulk of the burden upon the wealthy’ and
exempting the poor. There are two rea-
sons for it. One is that the rich man is
better able to carry the tax and the
other is that the poor man does not have
a large amount of money and his taxation
t.bilitv necessarily is limited.
Hence it has come about that the peo-
ple of America know very little thus far
about the paying of an income tax. Only
the comfortably wealthy really pay an
income tax worthy of the name. But in
Great Britain where the war finance has
been a carefully studied problem for more
than three years we find persons with in-
comes as low as $lOOO paying a tax of
approximately $45 a year. But that is
only on incomes that have been earned
by actual employment. Those who mere-
ly’ have an income of $lOOO left them in
the shape of an inheritance or through
the accumulation of previous earnings
must pay about $6O a year income tax.
An income of $l5OO is taxed $lOO in Eng-
land where earned and $135 where un-
earned. Over there a $5OOO income is
taxed $750 while over here it is taxed
ibut $l2O.
When however the American's in-
come goes al m e $600000 it equals and
in some c«-*es is higher than the same
income tax in England. Of course there
is at present no reason why we in this
country’ should pay as high a rate on in-
comes as the Englishman pays. He has
been in this war three years and by reason
of the British alliance with other nations
he has been paying the war burdens of
several allies. But it is apparent that the
American government has dealt leniently
with us for the present and we should not
be surprised if lesser incomes are taxed
to a far greater extent than in the past
However there is nothing to fear in th”
proposed taxation. An equitable tax on all
incomes from $lOOO up would not ruin
any person’s financial status and it would
produce an immediate amount of money
with which to carry on the war.
The government's war financing has
been largely done by means of bonds but
it is not wise to issue too many securi-
ties. The “pay - as you go” slogan is no’
a bad one to some extent at least. In the
present war crisis there should be no
great agitation if everyone is compelled
by a tax law to contribute to the de-
fense of the nation.
W'e have the money with which to win
this war and it is only a question of how
we shall go about placing it at the dis-
posal of the government. That the peo-
ple are anxious and ready to meet every
requirement is certain and the only prob-
lem that remains is how to distribute the
cost of the war so that it will fall
equitably and justly upon those best able
to bear it.
By comparison with the burden being
borne by England for instance we have
no cause to complain. It will not be
necessary to tax our people as many of
the other belligerents are taxed for the
present at least but it is apparent that
a taxation measure of some kind in lieu
of the one we have is imperative.
Trotsky is. now planning a new Russian
army. Yes we are planning to celelM’ate
Christmas too but not now.
oo
If it is true that Germany wants peace
with honor where does she expect to re-
habilitate her honor?
oo
Word that three hundred men from
Alaska are cn route to join the American
army ought to throw a cold chill into the
Germans.
- 00- ——
Don’t Be a Pessimist.
Just buckle in. and keep your grin
Don't ever say: "We may not win.”
When tilings go wrong and skies look bla< k
Don't magnify the foes’ attack.
Ami wail where’er you aliout
The dismal doctrines born of doubt.
But bear the blow and face the raid.
Don’t ever says that you're afraid
Because your whimper and your whine
Another’s grit may undermine.
If you can’t see one ray of nope
Don't peddle round your gloomy dope
And say that things are looking ill:
If you can’t cheer the boys keep still.
—Detroit Free Tress.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
England Learning How to Save:
War Reverses Nation’s Habits
Noted London Economist Quotes Figures to Show That
and Says That the Poor and Hitherto Usually Thrift-
less People Are Laying Up Millions—An Example for
America in How They Do It.
Hartley Withcrs/editor of the Econo-
mist of London ami one of England’s
leading writers on the subjoct of eco-
nomics writes in the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal :
War saving in England not only has
poured a golden stream into the British
treasury but what is even mure im-
portant lias taught the English folk a
needed lesson concerning the proper use
of money which will have its effect
for good for all future time. This has
come about despite the fact that there
never was a more unfruitful soil for
war saving propaganda than Englund
in 1914.
When the public was called upon to
assist in financing the war by saving
the entire country was honeycombed
with delusions concerning money and
the spending thereof which made it
seem an almost impossible task to per-
suade it within any reasonable time
that saving money was a patriotic duty
in time of war or at any other time.
The well to do classes the education of
which concerning money matters was
mostly a minus quantity were con-
vinced that since spending money gave
employment it was at all times the
right aud proper thing to spend money
as fast as possible and so “help poor
people” who wanted work.
It had not dawned upon them that
there is any difference between spend-
ing mu noy on a display of fireworks
and on building a factory to give em-
ployment to those who build it and to
continue to give employment to all who
work in it and moreover to increase
the supply of goods that man wants for
his living aud comfort.
Among the poorer classes this belief
also flourished in a vague unconscious
way and in their case the prejudice
against saving was greatly strengthened
by the very narrow’ margin that the
general level of wages gave them over
subsistence. Their power to save was
so small that the encouragement to
save was reduced almost to a vanishing
point.
Thriftless Formerly Popular.
Apart from these economic delusions
which were cherished by the vast ma-
jority of the people who thought about
money nt all. a prejudice against thrift
was almost ingrained as a part of the
English character. This was so much
so that the war savings missionaries
in the early days of the camnaign were
advised tu avoid the use of the word in
appealing to popular audiences on the
patriotic duty of putting money into
victory.
It was the belief of the average Eng-
lishman that there was something mean
about saving and that it was only done
by rather timorous and small minded
people who had not the courage to face
fortune with a light heart taking its
gifts ami spending them freely facing
the future in the happy belief that
something would always turn up. The
free handed fearless man who spent his
money as it came in was the one who
most easily gained the approval of his
fellows.
Only a few saw that those who spend
all that they get will almost inevitably
be obliged at one time or another to
live on someone else: ami the deeper
economic fact which lies Indiind saving
in normal times—that without saving
there cun be no now capital and that
without new capital there can be no ex-
pansion of the equipment of industry—-
had not even dawned except upon a
small minority of thinking English-
men.
This being so. it was an almost her-
culean task to bring home to the slow
thinking Britisher the bedrock fact of
war time economics—that war’s needs
can only be provided if the civilian pop-
ulation goes without many of the com-
forts and luxuries that they enjoyed in
time of peace no that the labor and
energy required to produce them may be
diverted by the government to the use
of the army and navy.
•‘Keeping Money at Home.”
With regard to goods brought from
foreign countries there was rather less
difficulty. It was fairly easy to show
that goods brought from abroad in-
creased our debt to neutrals and so
made it more difficult for the govern-
ment to finance the war. But with re-
gard to goods made nt home the old
fallacies dressed up in a new shape to
meet the needs of war showed surpris-
ing persistence. “What doos it matter.”
people said “as long as the money is
spent at home?” The money is still in
the country and the shopkeeper from
whom I buy the goods can put iny
money into the war loan and so the
government will get it.”
It took an astonishing amount of per-
sistent argument to demonstrate that
in the first place one could not be sure
that the shopkeeper would if he could
put the money into war loans and in
the second that he could not. except a
very small part of it. because all that
he would have to invest would Im* his
not profit on the transaction - that by
far the greater part of the money that
people were putting into goods even
when bought at home went to pay for
raw material labor bookkepping and
transport aud that in short every-
body who buys anything whether a
pair of boots or a seat at the theater
thereby makes a large number of people
work for him and so increase* the dif-
ficulty of the government's task in get-
ting the work done that is needed for
the fighting forces.
That was also of course. the general
belief that in view of the huge cost of
the war the action of each individual
could count for little or nothing. Luck-
ily the war savings missionaries in
England had a ready answer to thi>
argument in the action of the flower of
England’s vouth. who came forward ami
volunteered to fight for the cause of
their country.
When 3 Million Volunteered.
Each one of them might have argued
that in a war involving such Luce
numbers' the action of one man could
not eount v England’s youth scorned to
use this argument and volunteered tq
risk their lives in the cause of liberty
aid progress t<» the number <»f some
three million. This was nu argument
whicli told when once people could he got
to see that saving was'the rirht thing to
do and that only by it could the labor
and energy of the nation be set free for
the purpose of the war to the extent
that was required.
By the dint of devoted persistence
backed by admirable organising skill
the national war savings committee has
done wonders in the teeth of the tre-
mendous difficulties it bad to face. Its
task has been helped naturally by
certain effects of war. which have made
much of the spending of the well to do
temporarily impossible. War bereave-
ments had an immediate effect in enter-
tainments and gayety. and the with-
drawal of the best of the nation's man-
hood into the fighting forces or into
war work necessarily* reduced a great
deal of the sport and pastime on which
England must have spent very many
millions in time of peace. But when
all allowance is made for this consider-
able amount of what may be called
compulsory saving there can be no quest
tion that flic worn of the national wid
savings committee has had a very great
effect in educating the population.
There is still a mass of ignorant and
thoughtless opinion in England which
wastes money even now on unnecessury
trifles but it has been slowly brought
home to a surprisingly large part of the
population that money gpeut in the
time of war on things not needed is
money given to the enemy because it
sets people to do unnecessary work who
could otherwise have been working eith-
er to supply the needs of the fight-
ers or to increase tile stock of food and
necessaries or to make goods for sale
abroad to bo exchanged for goods which
we have to buy from neutrals.
Money Kespansibiiity Realized.
Men and waiuen have been made to
see that they have a responsibility iu
the use of their money "and there is
good reason to hope tiiat this lesson so
patiently driven home in the course of
the war may be remembered when the
war is over and so may be of inesti-
mable help in furthering Englund's eco-
nomic recovery when peace brings its
difficult problems. Moreover in the
case of the working classes the high
wages that have been earned iu war
time have given many of the most fa-
vored workers opportunities for saving
which have made it really worth while
many of them have taken advantage of
them and this process by which high
wages lead to saving on the part of a
class among which savers were com-
paratively rare may have very import-
ant social effects if it can be contin-
ued when the war is over.
This great work was begun in 1915
after less thdn a year of war by the
parliamentary war Savings committee
which had a brief and not too success-
ful existence. At the beginning of 1916
it was taken up by the national war
savings committee which hasworked
with untiring energy aud with a re-
markable measure of success. It has
formed some forty thousand associations
all over the country -with an average of
one hundred members to each associa-
tion. Of those associations 12.000 have
been formed in schools with highly suc-
cessful results. About one hundred and
fifty thousand voluntary workers are
putting time and hard work into this
unpopular and unpromising effort of in-
ducing a wholly unthrifty people to save
their money for the cause of civiliza-
tion. War savings certificates the most
popular form of security for the small
investor are now sold to the number
of about three million a week through
the efforts of patriotic shopkeepers and
others who buy the certificates in
blocks from the government sell them
one by one to their customers and lose
the interest on the money between the
purchase and sale. It should be men-
tioned Hint much of this good work is
done by public housekeepers.
Results Are Stupendous.
It is- calculated that the effort of the
war savings committee has obtained
for the purposes of the war some one-
fourth billion pounds sterling (one and
one-fourth billion dollars) out of the
pockets of small investors a very large
number of whom would never have
saved a penny if it had not been for
the committee's nppcnls.
Hut the real effect of its work cannot
be measured by figures; it is in the now
light Unit it has kindled in the minds
of English folk concerning the conse-
quences of good and bad use of money.
That he can send ptrturr. by wire In
their natural colors Is claimed by an Ital-
ian scientist.
Norway Is rtamung tie establishment ot
a museum of the whaling industry.
When a Feller Needs a Friend
At the Theaters
interesting Bill at Majestic.
Some capable toe dancing such a* is
seldom seen since the desuetude of the
French ballet in this country was Mlle.
Rhea’s contribution closing an inter*
esting bill at the Majestic Theater Sun-
day night. Al Shayne who preceded
her shook a good round of laughs from
the audience bv his Jewish singing im-
personations and wordy “scrap” with a
“Dago” musician “planted” in the or-
chestra.
.The feature offering of the evening
was a plotless two-scene musical skit
“The Naughty Princess.” It was a
medium for the presentation of some
bright catchy songs the display of
pleasing costumes and figures in lively
dances and cracking of jokes—some
of whicli seemed .quite new. Jack West
was a funny “devil'’ and was capably
supported throughout. The syncopated
duet singing pyody of “Now 1 Lay
Me” was rather trying on some of the
fellows whose memories of that child-
hood prayer an* perhaps over-tender.
Eleanor Sutter made a charming “prin-
cess.”
Harry and Emma Sharrock Intro-
duced something of novelty by staging
with comic and burlesque features a
mystifying exhibition of “mind read-
ing.” They performed nil the old card
reading and article identification tricks
to the accompaniment of a line of pat-
ter that kept the audience well amused.
The bill opened with a humorous acro-
batic and tumbling art.
The “Wandering Violinist supplies
some acceptable music as the second of
fering on the bill.
New Bill at the Princess Today.
A new bill begins the week at the
Princess Theater today with four good
vaudeville acts and a feature picture.
Nell O’Connell “a rosebud of song”
is one of the stars among the offer-
ings. The San Francisco Daily News
said of her when she was singing in
San < Francisco: “Nell O’Connell
scored one of the biggest hits of the
evening. This dainty and charming
singing comedienne possesses an un-
usually attractive voice and her songs
were hugely enjoyed.” Other offerings
on the bill include Tom Edwards and
Company in a ventriloquial novelty;
the Three Lindred (Jiris in “Harmon-
izing Moments.” and the Utopian Four
harmony singers.
Tin* fen tun* picture is “The Folly
of a Life of Crime” which shows
some history bandits who once made
California notorious.
Film Attractions
William Farnum at the Grand.
William Farnum is starred in the
feature photoplay offering at the Grand
today. “When a Man Sees Red.” This
picture which began Sunday will also
be shown at the Grand through Tues-
day and Wednesday. It is one of the
biggest and most popular productions
in which Mr. Farnum has played the
leading role and a Farnum picture
is always welcomed among his many
admirers.
Beginning Thursday Eva Tanguay
will be the attraction at the Grand
through flu* remainder of the week
in “The Wild Girl.” The role of
Firefly the wild girl gives Miss Tan-
guay a characterization in which she
is happily at home and her interpre-
tation of the part leaves nothing to
be desired.
A HI.AYY CHARGE
His name was Sisso is. and he was be-
fore lbo court. “What is your name?”
asked the magistrate. “Sss-ss-snss-nr —”
began the man of many s's. “Stop that
noisp and tell me your name!” ex-
claimod tb-* miigistra+e. testily. “Sss-ss-
ssss-sss—” Tjiat will do.” growled the
magistrate. “C< nstabl . what is this
man charm ! with?” “Begorra yer wor-
ship. I think he’s charged wid sody-
wnther!" replied the court's Irish as-
sistant earnestly.—Sottish American.
ULY 8 1918.
Japan is the champion hesitator.
4%
Maybe the Austrian army wasn’t 39
hungry as it thought it was.
Aou can always t«*l! when a men is
wearing a white wash tie—it usually
needs washing.
At last* the American bad boy has
been vindicated—a model boy has been
arrested as a slacker.
No woman should be allowed to vote
who doesn’t know enough not to get
eff a street car backwards.
M
Shark skins arc being utilized to make
shoes. There is always some kind of
skin in shoes these days.
&
The Rolsheviki declare a new nation
has been horn in Russia. However it
doesn't look like its daddy.
We can’t understand what a sweet
girl wants with a threc-ppund a month
sugar ration.
3^5 akic
If it is true that the ex-czar has been
killed then we take it his eldest son
succeeds to the vacancy.
What we desire to know is whether
or not a member of a state Legislature
can be classed as working or fight-
ing?
General Pershing has sent a regi-
ment of Americans to the Italian front.
That ought to put Austria out of the
war. •
Sousa has promised to compose an
American wedding manh. Don’t Sousa
know that we are fighting today to
make the world safe for democracy?
.
A forty-acre farm in California is de-
voted entirely to the growing of violets.
Our idea of a non-essential is a bouquet
of violets tied with purple ribbon.
New Orleans has closed her cabarets.
We fear New Orleans is going to he
in the same fix ns Southern California
—compelled to live off her reputation.
art*-:
If the government should take over
the street railways we would be com-
pelled to invest in a second-hand Ford
or walk. Street car service is bad
enough now.
(’an a man get drunk on sarsaparil-
la? anxiously inquires a pro kubscriber.
Anybody having the desired informa-
tion please answer. When they rut the
alcoholic contents of beer to 2 per cent
we gave up the contest.
Henry Ford may not he able to build
as good a political machine as the old
guard politicians hut he ought to at.
leawt be able to build one guaranteed
to run under almost any conditions and
with standardized repair parts.
The railroad administration has an-
nounced that reduced fares will he
granted to all summer resorts which
causes us to wonder whether Austin
will try to obtain classification as a
summer resort or n non-essential.
While an avenue named President
Wilson will make Americans feel more
at home over there. Paris can never
really extend the fullest measure of
hospitality until sho takes one of her
thoroughfares and calls it Main Street.
Ill* Interpretation.
Th little Irishman-was being examined
for ailmiaeion to the army. He seemed al!
right in every way except one. The doctor
raid: “You’re a little-stiff."
Quickly the 1;*-* blncd mounted as th*
applicant replied: “You’re a big stiff!” —
Exchange.
By Briggs
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