Colony Courier (Colony, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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THE COLONY COVSIBB
When Yoa Speak ol
Preparedness
BENENBCR,
HOSTETTER'S
Stomach Bitters
stands out very ef-
fectively as a bulwark
against liver or diges-
tive troubles, general
weakness and maiaria
Don't Eiperlraent.bst Hostitter's
Tho Cxcoptlon.
Snphedde—That girl can't tuke ■
Joke.
Flubdub—Can't ? Why, I thought
■be wue engaged to you.
A NEGLECTED COLD
ts often followed by pneumonia. Be-
fore It Is too let- take Laxative Quint*
line Tablets. Gives prompt relief In
cases o Coughs, Colds, La Grippe and
Headache Price 25c.—Adv.
How It Happened.
“Mrn. Jlhwn.v hcciiik to know a great
deal about Mrs. Dubson’s affairs."
“Quite true."
“How does that happen, when they
are not on speaking terms?”
"The explanation Is very simple. On
a certain spring morning of this your
some workmen more or less familiar
with electrical appliances called ut
Mrs, Jlbway’s home, Installed a tele-
phone und connected It with u party
wlra”
Six of One.
Senator Ollle James was talking In
St. Louis about the North sen uavul
battle, states The Philadelphia Bulle-
tin.
“Both sides claim the victory.” he
said. "It’s six of one and half a dozen
of the other. It’s like the seashore ad-
venture.
"A young man said to a young wom-
an on the bench In the moonlight:
“‘Good-by, dearest. I’m off tomor-
row. You’ve made my holiday more
than pleusunt for me. But—ha, ha,
ha!—but If you’d known that I’m a
married man, you wouldn’t have been
so agreeable, would you?’
“‘Yes, I guess; very likely I would,’
snlil the young woman. You see, you
buven’t got anything on me ut all.
What If your are nitirrled? I’m un
escuped lunatic from Matteawun.’ "
The Brighter 8lde.
“Whs your little outlug In the coun-
try n success?”
“It was, from my point of view,” an-
swered Mr. Doppcl.
“How was that?"
“The nuto bloke down, we got
caught In tin/ ruin, u bee stung one of
the children and ultdgether we had so
many accidents I don’t believe Mrs.
Doppcl will Insist on another outing la
tho country for ut least 1- months.”
Differing Views.
He (rending the paper)—There’s a
big flnre-lmck coming.
She—-Dear me! And I wits sure I
suw where all the new skirts were to
hang strulght.
The United States In 11)14 produced
12,800 organs, vulucd ut $(1,878,012.
“Another Article
Against Coffee”—
In spite of broad publicity,
many people do not realize
the harm the 2} grains of
caffeine in the average cup
of coffee does to many
uaers, until they try a 10
days' change to
POSTUM
Postum satisfies the de-
sire for • hot table drink,
and its users generally sleep
better, feel better, smile
oftener and enjoy life more.
A fair trial —off coffee
and on Postum—shows
•'There'* a Reason"
Where Our
Naval Officers
Are Trained *
Amsterdam lutN the tlrst crematory
lit the Netherlands.
A lieutenant's wife
writes about life at
Annapolis Academy,
and tells especially
about the work which
Mrs. Gabrielle Jackson
is dointf as "Little
Mother” to the young
midshipmen there
HERR It no more Important unit of
preparedness for our national de-
fense thun the United States Naval
academy. The American people
are today making no better Invest-
ment for the future, come pence or
war, thun In the educutlon and
training of the men whose profes-
sional ability and personal Integrity
we must one day trust for the effi-
ciency of the fleet, hut whose lives and traditions
are less understood by the people than ulmost
any group of men In the country." Thus writes
Kid ton In the New York Su„. Slio continues:
"The Ainericun people are unrepresented be-
fore congress by the brains they are taxed to
train nnd upon which they must rely to protect
the nntionnl honor.
"Come with tne through the Maryland avenue
gate of the ncmletny, past the midshipmen of the
guard und let us look out ut the world with the
spirit nnd swing of
the service back of
us und through the
eyes of the boys
who are among the
least appreciated of
our nntionnl re-
sources but who
constitute the back-
bone of our poten-
tlal preparedness;
for prepn redness Is
not to bring on war,
not to preserve the
penco; it is for the
purpose of Riving
the country a reson-
ahle surety of suc-
cess In war.
“Our Hrst shore
duty was at the
naval academy. My
husband, then a lieu-
tenant, reported In
n,nthcmatlos nnd I set valiantly
... Z. to our quarters nt least habitable.
' e ,niL‘n* furniture has an exasperating wny of
11 presenting the combined tastes of a long line
of former occupants.
We were assigned.to n top fldor flat In Golds-
borough row, the one where Admiral Theodotlc
Porters daughter wrote her name with n dia-
mond on a window patio when she was n child
and he hut n lieutenant. Admiral Benson, our
present chief of operations, lived In the snme flnt
and doubtless endured remnants of the same fur-
niture when he was an ensign. The midshipmen
called the old place the Corrals nnd sometimes
the Incubators—Joung devils! The whole row
Is gone now to mnke wny for a green Inwn, hut
Its memories will go out only with the lust of the
souls who peopled ttye shabby rooms.
"I think It must be this succession of people
fining nt different times the same problems nnd
difficulties, stepping actually Into each other’s
footsteps In work nnd piny, which gives us that
splendid spirit of the service, the warm brother-
hood of thought and action that no outsider may
‘cully understand. It begins with the plebe class
In the academy nnd goes on down n man’s life till
he Is struck off the list forever nnd Its warmth I*
Ills children’s heritage. It Is the unspoken gene-
rosity of the upper-class men nt the academy to
lend d hand to youngsters (third-class men) or
plebe alike. It begins In discipline nnd ends In
Justice.
‘it Is the co-operntlon of officer with men. It
stands behind our guns nnd sweats In the stoker’s
hell. It Is the chap who stays nltnnrd to take
another fellow's duty that some wnltlng wife
may be happy, some ehlld discover that the pho-
tograph he Is taught to call father Isn't Just a
mnkehellevo. It is, more thnn any other one
thing, fleet efficiency. Its sternly, unchanging ex-
istence Is the nrmnment against which politicians'
errors break like froth. It Is our safeguard for
protection nnd agnlnst militarism.
"My father had never let tne visit the naval
nendetny ns a girl for fenr I might marry a nnvnl
officer, so I looked forward to meeting my first
midshipman with a curious ffarehack of youth,
almost ns If 1 were to see them through the eyes
of n girl. I had determined when we went to
duty nt the academy to have a home place for
tho hoys who were not Invited nut very much.
My husband told me once long years ago. when
I had gone all the wny from Boston to Gibraltar
to he with him for four days, that no one had
ever asked hint out to a single tnenl nf the time
be was nt the academy.
“I never forgot that little confidence or the look
In his eyes, nnd when I picked my first mldshlp-
mnn to invite to our quarters It wns because he
,nld 'Yes. mn'nm' to me nnd didn’t know what to
do wllh his hands.
"The Sunday nfter H. reported we went to
chapel In the academy. We were sotted well
back and In (he shadow of one of the side bal-
conies. It wns Infinitely quiet thern, the very
light held a qunllty of silence nnd the rows nnd
rows of empty pews beneath the splendid dome
seemed to he watting tensely with me for some
expected sound.
»I looked up Into the rapidly filling balconies.
So many girls so young nnd eager, men nnd
*cmcO, town folk and visitors. Then, as my
AFTER SIX YEARS
SF SUFFERING
Woman Made Well by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound*
Columbus, Ohio.—“I hsd almost givea
Op. I bad boon sick for six years with
female troubles sod
nervousness. I had
• pain in my rifbt
•ws god scald Ml
sal anything with-
out hurting my
stomach. 1 ssalg
not drink sold water
at all nor sst ssy
klndfOf^rsw trait,
chicken. Worn .til
118 and would get oo week at times that
I fall over. I began to tabs LydinS.
Plnkhsm’s Vegetable Compound, sod
ten days Istor I ooald ost and It dM uel
bait my stomach. I have taken tbs
medicine aver sines and I feel Hks •
new woman. I now weigh 1IT pauuii
m you eon oes whst H hoodoos for ms
already. My husband soys be knows
your medicine has saved my Ms."—
llis. J. 8. Barlow, MM South 4th M*
Columbus. Ohio.
Lydia B. Pinkham’s Vegetable Oam
pound contains just tbs virtues of roots
and herbs needed to restore health and
strength to the weakened organs of tho
body. That Is why Mrs. Barlow, •
chronic Invalid,reooversd bo completely.
It pays for women suffering from ssy
female ailments to Insist upon having
Lydls B. Pinkham’s Vegstabls 0m>
Breaking It Osntly.
“I understand thnt your duugbter la
going to tuke mualc lemons.”
“Not exactly,” replied Farmer Corn-
tossel. “We haven't the heart to tell
tier thnt her voice aouuda terrible, so
(lorn from routine discipline
m«y lie had o|>enly nnd In or
d«»r and with th« aanctlon of i wo,re . to |l(re # regular teaches
the authorities. Carvel hall, | ,Z „
the one possible hotel, the
Peggy Stewart Inn and a.few
boarding houses must be the
meeting place for frlenda und
family, nnd perched on
lo do It."
Demand for Participation.
♦iVhy do women want to votsf
“Because,” replied Mies Cayenne,
nuin.y. nuu I “we want to find out by expeAeacs
chair "lining how men hnve m»n**ed to
ha Is and «n.to " “‘PB: „,„„y political blunders. It’s always
balconies and filling easier to put up with mistakes when
hand In making^ thorn
uncomfortable.
"Bright and early of a Monday morning, hat
less nnd happy. I went exploring. Something
lovely always happens to tne when I explore. I ve
proved It from Hongkong to the Bahamas and
back to New York.
"l-’lrst of nil I Inspected the quarters of the
ranking officers. Some dny If my lleutenpnt ever
reaches the exalted rank of commander we might
live in one of these houses. I snt on the
bench, sacred to first-class men, where my hus-
buud had been as a boy of nineteen. I ga«ed
upon the academic building where nt that moment
ho wus engaged la subduing Ifl plebes. I sat In
Love lane nnd watched aec-
tlon nfter section march by
to recitation nnd thanked my
Maker I did not havs to
study what they did.
“A nice yellow dog Joined
me, and we wandered off to
Important to Bothois ^ .
Examine carefully ovary bottle a
CA8TORIA, a sets end sura remedy tor
Infants end children, and see that II
Beers 1
Signature*
In Use for Over
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Omtoite
The Difference.
“That hen of youra Is acting M
though she were hatching a plot”
“I think Instead she la plotting a
hatch."
Smile,
cloths*,
made, therefore
jadtox be»at[fnl_. elesr aft*
________ The United. States 'produced: _____
look at the old statue of Te-1 thnn fioo.000,000 worth of gold lost
cunisrh, god of two-flve, or f
passing mark, who must bo
kissed by all plehee If they
hope to get through the acad-
emy. There wns a flight of
stone steps lending aver tho
terrace to the tennis courts
below. Dog and I went
down nnd there under the
single great willow tree snt
very tiny lady of the
my
giuncc wandered, I mude out in the dliunoHc of
the organ loft the figure of a tiny woman. She
was leaning forward and I could tell by ber alert
watchfulness that she, too, wns wultlnu with me
und the quiet church for a breaking of the silence.
“The seats ubout us were filled now with offi-
cers und their fumllles. The midshipmen of the
choir sat motionless In the chancel. Zimmer-
niun, the hand master, slid silently/ along the
orgun bench. There was u turning of bends, an
Instant's heuvy pause, and then the quick, shurp
crash of men inarching on stone, an Inrush of
sweet air through ih.* open doors, short, high
commands, and to the triumph of ‘Onward. Chris-
tian Soldiers,’ In they marched, youth nnd life,
ambition hnd hope, enttrnge nnd discipline,
"1 bad thought to see them through the eyes
of a girl, for I wns only twenty-two, but the
blurred sight of those 1,00 shining young heads,
the straight, strong bodies In nil their bravery
of full dress uniforms, the knowledge that disci-
pline had mnrchetl them to church when most of
them wanted to be free and out of doors, wakened
In me n sense of them ! have never since Inst.
They needed n home and a mother, nnd blit few
of them realised how the Iron arm of the nftvy
department would s'purnle them from both.
You’ll understand presently; but first let me tuke
ybu out of the quiet clmpel Into the eurnest busi-
ness of Sunday liberty.
“The broad shallow steps are massed with uni-
forms crowding up to meet the frocks ami flowers
coming down and far out under the splendid
trees and along Love lane the midshipmen wait to
tie Joined by friends or family. All ton many
have neither living near enough to come to them,
and these stand In groups or move off toward
Bancroft hall, will At Is quarters for the entire
brigade. There goes my little Indy of the organ
loft, completely swamped by 20 or more young
(flunts and more come hurrying toward her along
Ohilpel walk. I do not remember seeing In all
my life so happy a face ns hers.
“The gay picture breaks up, the people scatter
nnd presently the streeta of Annapolis are
thronge^ with hurrying, loitering, laughing
youths utl moving dlnnrrwnrd. IP Is a pathetic
thing, In Its very JoyotisneMM, these young men
children trying to mnke the moet of a few short
hours of liberty. Many homes are thrown open
to them on liberty days, noth out In town and
among the officers, hut comparatively few boys
are reached In this wny. •
“Annapolis has no Y. M. 0. A., no club, no place
of amusement, no place of any kind where free-
organ loft. A Watchman ^P*
"T55S,b». you can’t
liuly; If. null, order.. 8h» “*
und there-ain’t no one to disturb |'er- .
“ ‘Bui' I begun. Friend dog barked, my lady
looked across at us. nnd I could hear h« lnugl»-
“•Did you wnnt to speak to me? she culled
“’Every wan wants to spenk to er, aqla tne
departing and disgusted Jimmy lega.
"We were friends before I had sat (Jpwn under
her tree. nnd. would you believe It, I’d known her
all mv life because she wrote ‘Denise and Neu
Toodles’ In St. Nicholas, nnd I think that makes
her partly bdong to me.
•“Have you uny children?' I asked.
•• ’Yes. my dear.’ she replied crisply, ‘one daugh-
ter and about flOO sons In uniform.'
“So. here was the mother of midshipmen, a
tiny, idert figure, ■ young eyes, face lined by years
of physical pain nnd the heart and soul of her
In every tone of voice and expression of her
screwed-up forehead.
"That was the beginning. Since then, all down
the years I have been Gabrielle Jackson’s honored
friend and watched her work for her boys ugulnst
the Odds of delicate health, constant physical
suffering nnd slender means. Her little sitting
room In Carvnl hull, dubbed Sky parlor In Its
early days, Is the meeting place for all her sons,
plebes nnd- ffrst-class men alike. There are no
“rutes" there, and all she’asks ts that they shall
eoine to her and let her he their 'little mother.’
“There Is an open lire to stoke, big chntrs, a
ten table to mess with a warmth of love no
hoy should ever miss, no matter how good for him
the discipline all through the week may bo. Mid-
shipmen of tlm first elasn have only 20 hours of
liberty lu a whole week nnd n plebe but Jive and
u half. Whut wonder that they long for a home
place In which to spend the precious hours.
"For nine yearn Hky parlor has been a home to
all who wish to come, with or without Introduc-
tion or Invitation nnd only three times has Mrs.
Jackson been forced to say, 'Hon, I am eorry, but
remember tho open sesame to Hky pnrlor must
he clean living and high standards, nnd having
forgotten this I think, for the sake of those who
hnve not forgotten, It would he wlaer for yon to
give up yotir visits here.'
“Commandant and officers are glad of her co-
operation, for discipline nnd drllla, strict orders
and hard work nmy turn out many a fine officer,
but it does not nlwnys reach nnd help a naturally
fine but high-strung nature,
“This Is Gabrielle Jackson's work,"
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