ifditorial P&ae ofCfte Cacoma CimesBe An American t

Half the world is busy fighting the other lialf.Hatred and malice toward one another is spread-

Bg through Europe as poison spreads through thesoman system, blasting, withering, destroying.

The United States has kept out of the trouble soCar. But mi Himis of this country's inhabitants havekinsmen across the sea. Fathers, mothers, sisters,brothers or more distant relatives.

And when one has kinsmen, even distant kinsmen,killing or being killed in the trenches, it is hard tocontrol the feelings, to be "neutral —to refrain fromsinging the hymn of hate —to retrain from feelingbitter towards your neighbor here, whose kinsmen,perhaps, are part of the foes your kinsmen are fight-ing.

This ia the time then to BE AN AMERICANFIRST.

Nail old glory to the masi and then stand by theflag. YOU are a citizen of the United States. W?

do not want to meddle in this affair in Europe—ex-cept to bring about peace ifpossible!

Feel sorrow aud pain that the petty illfeeling of•rowned puppets should cause the slaughter of mil-lions of men—some, perhaps, kinsmen of yours—butwhen hatred begins to steal into your heart and theblood red haze of the battlefield rises before youreyes—

Stop and remember that:YOU ARE AN AMERICAN—FIRST, LAST

AND ALLTHE TIME.

Congratulations, O. W.The 0.-W. railway yesterday established a fine

precedent in Tacoma for other big corporations tofollow. It demonstrated that it is human.

Itinvited in all the folks to see its new terminals.It decorated its freight shed with flags and flowers.tt furnished music for its guests. Itfed 'em.

The shed and bridge and viaducts are modern,itrong and capable looking. With them the 0.-W.ought to be able to handle much more business, andio itmuch more efficiently.

Here's hoping it at once finds the new business tohandle. And we are confident it will. For goodtimes are close at hand.

Do You Know Alaska?Then Get Acquainted

Alaska has more gold than California.Alaska has more coal than Pennsylvania.Alaska would make 470 Rhode Islands.Alaska has the only tin mines in the United States.Alaska has 5W,446 square miles — 383,645,441

acres.Alaska has the greatest fishing waters in the

world.Alaska is over twice the size of the German

empire.Alaska is 14 times the size of New York state.Alaska has more copper than Michigan and Ari-

zona.Alaska is one-fifth the size of the United State.*

proper.Alaska has paid for itself 20 times over in fishAlaska was purchased for $7,200,000, less than two

cents an acre.Alaska has paid for itself 25 times over in gold and

\u25a0ilver. 'Alaska is estimated to have half as much coal asall the United States.

Alaska has the greatest cattle and sheep rangesUnder the American flag.Alaska has the highest mountain under the Amer-

ican flag— MrKinley, 20,300 feet.Alaska is larger than all the states north of the

Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi.Alaska is in the same latitudes as Sweden, Nor-

way and Finland; has a much better climate, moreamble groiuid, and is much larger than all three of

ose countries, which have a total population of

fTAIKOTHE

A WORD FROM JOSH WISE

"So many speak-ers have been pro-grammed for th'Beeleysport Com-mercial club ban-quet that severalgentlemen fromSilo Siding havebeen iuvited to at-tend. Somethixi

I had ter be done terpervidk a few list-eners."

» • •DKSCRIBKD

"Father," said little Rollo,"what is appeudicitis?"

"Apjiendicitis, my son," an-swered the deep-thtnklug father,"is something that enables a doc-tor to open up a man's anatomyand remove his entire bank ac-count."

• • »CLKAX IP AM) PAINT

Virtue is its own reward. Theboy who keeps cleau gets washedjust as often as the boy who hasa good time and gets dirty.—Judge.

• • •COULDN'T KOOL HIM

"Would you like an olive oilshampoo?" inquired the Broad-way barber.

"No, I would not," replied theyoung man from the rural dis-tricts. "I may be green, butI'm not salad."

» • •HADN'T HKARD

Teacher—Where is the DeadSea?

Tommy—Don't know, ma'am."Don't know where the Dead

Sea is?""No, ma'am. I didn't know any

of the seas were sick, ma'am."• • «

MORE IH Itlltl I"Nothing but caviar sand-

wiches." complained the man inth* depot restaurant. "Why 1oyou have nothing on sale in theway of sandwiches but caviar?"

"They don't show coal dust,"responded the waitress, briefly.

• • •MAKING HIRE

"Could I interest your hus-band in a new patent dog bis-cuit?" Inquired the seedy lookiugwayfarer at the South Tacomaback door.

"I'm afraid not," Bald the ladyof the house. "My husband Unot at home, and, besides, wedon't keep a dog." /

"That's all I wanted to know!"exclaimed the tramp, pushing hisway mot the kitchen. "Now fixme up a good square meal, andbe quick about It."

B \u25a0 *THE ISM XA black man was arrested for

horse-stealing. When his day lncourt came the charge In the In-'dlctment was solemnly read tohim.

"Are you guilty or not?" askedtbe prosecuting attorney.

The black man rolled uneasilyIn his chair. "Well, boas," he fin-ally said, "ain't dat the very thingwe're about to try?"

• • *The new mayor of Chicago de-clares he ia going to drive everycrook out of the town. He doesnot care whether or not Chicagostands second in th* census, doe*he?

• a «Watchful Wailing—By the Neigli-

bors.Mr. Harley Turner, Miss Rose

Woolery were buaiaess callers lnAthens Saturday. Oet your bells,boys. It'a no kid?

Lawrence Lemon and ladyfriend. Miaa Esther Melcber itSouth Bloomingvlllo, wer* her*last Tuesday.

Mr. Kuna Courier of WaterlooValley la thinking of moving toHaydenvllls in the near future.What's the attraction, Euna?Logan, O , Journal-Oa/.ettr

a • •QIEHTIO.VH WK CANNOT

ANSWERBy Doc Button— H*w may 1

find tubercular germs la perfect-ly pure milk'

\u25a0y Chief Loomra—ConM yo*

§ OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE |

give me a practical recipe formaking the public believe thetown Is cleau, while at the sametime I give evidence to the prose-cuting attorney in red-lightcases?

By Looie Beau—How can Imake the people think the lastlegislature was devoted to theirinterests?

c c c

SUOfiESTION TO DOC BUTTONWhy not engage Brother Ar-

thur Jordan to drive the germsout of the milk by prayer?

SEbAlf.

MARVELOUSFor the making of billiard balls

500 elephants are needed everyyear," said the famous big-gamehunter in his lecture on India.

"How strange," whispered Mrs.Winsome to the lady who satnext, "that people can teach such

great beatts to do such delicatework!"—Stray Stories.

A l'iti/.l*:i»RELIC.A professor of Illinois univer-

sity, who is very popular amongthe students, was entertaining agroup of them at his residenceone night Taking down a mag-nificent sword that hung over the \u25a0

fireplace, he brandished it about,exclaiming: 'Never will 1 for-get the day I drew this blade fortbe first time."

"Where did you draw it, sir?"an awstruck freshman asked.

"At a raffle," said tho profes-sor.

NATURALLY, YES"Would you call theira a eu-

genic marriage?""I think so. I understand he

has a healthy income." —DetroitFree Press

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\u2666*. . I'ONTO THE PUP a

She—Every time I begin totalk to you, you sit down. It'svery rude.

He—l know It, my dear. ButI am physically unable to standfor that length of time.

ARTLESS

"Mabel and Fanny seem to bevery dear friends.""What make* you think ao?""Because they knock each oth

er »o behind each other* backs.

A NATURAL QUERYAfter aer°rtalnraent of symp-

tom* the physician said:"What yon need more th»nanything else is a tonic In the•hape of fresh air.""Whereupon the patient waxed

sarcastic and Inquired:"Before we proceed further,

would ton mind telling me what1* th* shape of fresh air?"- Up.pincott's.

DIANA DILLPICKLES the competition is savage in A 4-REEL "SCREECHER'

EMBARRASSINGMISTOOK HER BEAU.

I hay* had several embarrass-ing situations, because of my in-ability to remember facea clearly.

Wheu I was 18 years old, I hadmy first seriouß quarrel with my"beau." We had been sweet-hearts since primary school days.He Is German and I am Swedish.We were always teasing one au-other about our nationalities.

About a year later, with a parryor friends I attended a Swedishpicnic at Stone's Landing.

That evening as I steppedaboard the steamboat I came face

to face with (as _, thought) my"old beau." In my surprise 1 ex-claimed, "Oh, you Dutchman,aren't you too good to be with uaSwedes?"

The coolness of his answermade me think he was still "mad-'at me. A few minutes later I toldmy brother Bill that my "oldbeau" was on this boat, too, andpointed him out to Bill, at whlc.ih* burst out laughing, telling m*of my great mistake.

I was too embarrassed and an-pry at myself to apologise to th*stranger.

A. W O. A.

Saving Money TmmWM DO IT ALEXANDER'S WAV __E_____T

HJHfI That Alexander has the stuff MSftffE The kind that conqueors prob- H

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