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e Result of Deforestation tile Country Now Sub Frequent Droughts and Floods tthless destruction of their for ty the Chinese is .according to *rs of the United States De int of Agriculture, one of th? ins why-famine and plague to-day this nation in their sinister grasp. Nidation, wherever practical, leaves soil; floods and erosin follow, |nd when the soil is gone men must sfciso go?-and the process does not take long.. Forests, it is pointed out, not only play an important part in fhe distribution of mankind over the earth's surface, but also deeply af fect his .spiritual, physical, and eco nomic life. A country that recklessly wastes its natural resources faces ultimate poverty and decadence. His tory is full of such examples. Reforestation Not Practiced in China. In the .provinces of Konan, Shense. and- Chihli, China, over an area some lCHt.000 square miles in extent, several million people are starving. The im mediate causes of the famine were disastrous floods followed by long periods of drought, which resulted in the failure of three successive crops. The Great Flalns of eastern China, occupied by the first Chinese of whom history tells, were centuries ago- transformed from forest into agri cultural land. The mountain plateaus of. central China have also, within a few hundred years, beer, utterly de vastated of tree growth, an2 no at tempt made at either natural or arti ficial reforestation. As a result, the wattfr rushes off the naked slopes in verffable floods, gullying away the mountain sides, causing rivero to run . muddy^wtth, -'yellow soil, and carrying enormous masses of fertile earth to the sea. Water courses have also changed; rivers become uncontrollable, and tue water level,of the. country lowered perceptibly^- In consequence, the un fortunate people see their crops with er '.and' die for lack of water when it is most-needed- In many parts of China, if *s said, these factors, com bined with uncertain moisture condi tions, make 1 years out of every 10 more ot less famine years. Floods ami Famine Are Common, j . The Hwang Ho or Yellow River, | whichdrains, a large part of the fam-j ine district, once, records show, flow-, ed through a rich, fertile-valley, its tributary hills well wooded. .To-day it Is abroad moving quicksand, with a small , amount of water most of the year, brit when the floods come the whole race of the- landscape may be changed. In 1886 this river, which is known as ^China's Sorrow/' flooded so'me. 2rt^0X>Q. square miles of the most densely, populated lands, wiped out t^usands of villages and towns, and dr>wned..2,000,000 people. '.Some idea of the rapidity of the run-off in the mountains may also be obtained from the records of the "Ruiste .River, which has, been known to rise. 58" feet above mean water lev-, ei in one week and then fall 88 feet in. less than three weeks. . .Human folly and short-sightedness have thus made a country fertile enough to support over 50,000,000j people into a place where man must eiver fc<? haunted by fear of starvation! and destruction. The lesson of de forestation in China is one which mankind should have learned many times from ^hat has ocurred in other places. In fact, it may, in a lesser degree, even be brought home to the people of America in future years un- j less, through wise fore-thought, care! is exercised in the preservation of our forests from destruction by fire and! wasteful lumbering. ExtracrdiniuT American Newspaper ^?tchison, Kan., May 10?The At chison Globe is "all stuck up" be cause it has be:.n selected as one of the seven most extraordinary Amer ican newspapers by the Bditor - and Publisher, newspaper magazine. It is given first place for its personal news. . "Out in Atchison, Kan., says the awarding committee in its report to the Editor and Publisher, "the Globe has- set the standard in the compilation of personal items, told with a fine sense of the news involv ed, in the small common places of street and town." ; The Globe was founded ;n 1877 by Edgar Watson Howe who is well known as the Sage of Potato Hill. His country town sayings and other writ ings have been . published. widely in magazine and book form. He retired from active, editorship of The Globe in. 1911 and. was succeeded by his son, Eugene ?/ Howe. The.Atchison newspaper is the only sniaU. daily listed. The other papers sjelected?? for their superiority, in dif ferent/fields were: The New York World, .public- service; The New York Tftnes. pews; The Springfield Re publican, editorials; The . Oho State Journal, editorial paragraphs; fThe New Yprk Sun, feature stories; The jSTew York Tribune, typographical dis play; The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, use of arts; The Christian Science Monitor, ethics; Boston Transcript, dramatics and literary criticism; The Chicago Tribune, merchandising and advertising. Paris. May 14.?The entry of Ger man troops in Upper Silesia would provoke intervention by regular Po lish troops which would mean war, and in such a war France could not remain neutml. according to expres sions in official eircies here today. Pikeville. Ky.. May 15.?Four per sons have been killed and one wounded in fighting along the Ken tucky and West Virginia borders dur ing the last twenty-four hours, ac cording to reports here. The prin cipal firing toward Kentucky came from Sprigg, W. Virginia. The chances are the doom of Jazz music will be sounded when it be comes known that English factories are using it to speed up their work ers.?Norfolk (Neb.) News, BERGDOLL WAS STAR PRISONER Notorious Draft Dodger Was Accorded Extraordinav Privileges ?j Washington, May 11.?In giving a '?first hand account of the escape cf i Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. the Phi ladelphia draft dodger, Sergt, John O'Hare, 'who was in command of the escort which started out with Ber-r ! doll from Governor's Island for the - mountains of Maryland, told the ; house investigating comnr'tt" today ; he had never heard a word about the buried pot of gold until long after the prisoner had fled. I O'Hare was positive in the asser tion that when he started out for t?v? i mountains the only instructions lv? j received from Col. John E. Hunt, his II superior officer, was to proceed with I the prisoner to Hagerstown. Met., get {some money from a bank, take it to another bank at Philadelphia and re turn to the barracks. There were no written orders ex cept to stop off at -North Philadel i phia, meet the late D. Clarence Gib boney, Bergdol's lawyer, and there after be guided by what Gibboney said, the witness declared, with some emphasis in relating his part in the whole affair. O'Hare declared he wanted to handcuff his prisoner but that Hunt refused. It was by Gibboney's orders, he j said, that the party halted at Phil I adelphia, went for a long automobile ride, with Bergdoll at the wheel, vis ited a burlesque show and stopper at the Bergdoll home, from which the prisoner escaped. The sergeant told how Bergdoll. who had evaded the draft for a couple of. years,, was sent from the island in the 'full uniform of an enlisted man. with a hat cord indicating that Tie belonged to the infantry branch of the service; how he had sat in the train from New York to Philadelphia without uttering a word and chew ing tobacco all the while. Step by step he told of various moves, up to the moment when Berg j doll walked into a bath room to an swer the telephone. He was never seen after that and to this day. the sergeant said, he does not.knr.v how he got out. Except for that single moment he declared the prisoner was never out of his sight. No amount of cross-examination could budge the witness from his statement that he was in entire ig norance of any plan to go out and dig up the buried gold, the object for which the prisoner was releaseu in custody cc O'Hare and York, another sergeant. Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, mother of the draft evader, and James Romig, the man. who was sent to Washington to get $1U5,000 in gold from the treas ury, were around the Bergdoll home all the time the party was there. O'Hare said. When not shooting pool or reciting Shakspere, Grover, he said, was walking about perfectly at ease and as cool as a little white stone in a brook where a trout might play. Japai ~* Business Move to Curtail Military Expenditures, Tokio. May 12.?Discussing the movement of Japanese business men to curtail military expenditures, the Yorodzu, a Tokio daily, with a large popular circulation, emphasizes how little the civil officials have to do with naval and army appropriations in this country. The newspaper records the conten tion of the business elements that about 48.8 per cent of the budget is devoted to armaments, but point** out that this is not unprecedented, because in 1897, subsequent to the Japan-! China war, the precentage was 49^4 j per cent. However, the amount in 1921-1922 shows a seven-fold in crease compared with IS37. The Journal continues: "Apart, from the question of the ex-1 cessive nature or otherwise of the! military expenditure, however, it must be pointed out that owing to the fact that "the administration of the rrmy! and navy is in the hands of n.:iit*ry and naval men respectively, no civil. official?much less outsiders*?are: allowed to know the particulars ofi the military expenditures. Sometimes j 1 a satisfactory explanation is denied j even in the Diet. I "It is for this reason that naval ; and military men are allowed free dom in the expenditures of public funds, unfettered by outside inter ference. "It will be a mistake if this sort! of thing is allowed to go on. while' not wishing to overburden the coun- j try with more investigation commit-J tees, it surely is necessary in this in-! stance that a committee be appointed so that careful investigation may be made into the items of naval and military expenditures before they are apprpved. by the Diet." Communism Not Popular in London London. May 12.?The tent per of the people toward the Communists who are permitted to preach their doctrines here unhindered, was shown by an incident in Trafalgar Square the j other day. j After the strains of the "Red Flag" had been started at a Communists' J meeting, a former officer, wounded so badly he could scarcely stand, stood I up in front of the crowd numbering several thousand, and called for cheers for the King. The response to his appeal was ear splitting. This so enraged one of the women members of the Communist crowd that she rushed upon the offi cer and cuffed him roundly. There upon he called for three cheers for the Queen, the Prince of Wales and final ly for law and order. This broke up the meeting. Alaska Invited to Make Exhibit* Juneau, Alaska. April 5?Recom mendation that Alaska send an exhibit of territorial mineral, agricultural and other products to the National Mining Exposition to be held in Chi cago by the American Mining Con gress October 17-22 was made to the lolgslature here reeontly by Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr, DUTCH HAVE NO PREJUDICE 'They Make No Distinction Be tween Home and Foreign Cap ital in Oil Fields Washington. May 12.?Netherlands ! legislation does not draw any dis tinction between Dutch and foreign j capital in the exploitation of oil ? fields and that government desires jto see American capital take part in j such exploitation, says the reply off the Netherlands government to the note recently presented at The Hague by William Phillips, the American minister, concerning concessions in the Djambi oil fields in the Dutch East Indies. A summary of tho reply was made public in a statement by the state j departmetn tonight which in addition to outlining the poins made by the Dutch foreign office reviewed nego tiations which had led to the formal exchange of notes. A further com munication on the subject is expected to be despatched soon by Secretary -Hughes to The Hague. Concerning the recent passage in j the second chamber of the Nether lands parliament of an oil bill grant- j ing a concession to the Batavia com rany in the Djambi fields to the exclu- j sion of Americans the Netherlands re- , ply says that when last January. Mr. j Phillips requested that American companies be permitted to participate in the Djambi concessions, the law had already been drafted and the question, pending the approval ol parliament,' had been settled. As for American capital participating in the Hatavia company it says that such a question must be subject to the ap proval of the Dutch government. The reply adds, however, that there are ri<*h oil fields in both Sumatra ! and Borneo and the minister of colo nies would be glad to make contracts with other companies for their ex ploitation similar to that already made with the Batavia company. T/nc Problem of Rate Making. Cincinnati, O., May 10.?Legal problems are becoming constantly more numerous and more important because of the tendency of legisla tive tribunals towards an extension of the regulation of business, a tendency stimulated by a ;loose construction of constitutional guarantees, Edgar Watkins, of Atlanta, Ga., told the Southern Wholesale Grocers in con vention here today. He said in part: "This tendency is a dangerous one and one you should combat. The governments. State and National, readily listen to any considerable number of people.who seek statutes to remedy supposed ills. All kinds of quacks are demanding that their claimed-to-be panaceas shall be tried. For every economic ill they propose a statute, and they unhesita tingly offer to repeal economic and physical laws. Except in restraining others, men should be left in the language of .Jefferson "Free to regu late these own pursuits of industry and improvement." "The hallucination that economic laws can be repealed by Statute? caused the Congress in the Food Con trol Act to try to fix prices of neces saries. That Section 4 of the law was unconstitutional. Had the govern ment quit meddling in business when the war ended the public and business would have suffered less. For fear that some one may say that I am talk ing politics, let me say that a Repub lican Committee recommended and a Republican Congress passed the Food Control Act and a Democratic president approved and a Democratic department of Justice sporadically tried to enforce it; so in condemning tho law and its enforcement I am free from partisanship. "A subsequent decision of the Su premo Court holding constitutional regulation of rents shows that a valid law could be passed. That a law can be framed that will meet the approval cf the majority of the Supreme Court as now constituted, makes it necessary for all who believe in a free government, such as our- fathers con templated, to be vigilant to protect the liberties sought to bo guaranteed in our fundamental law. "Substantial relief in freight rate can come only from radical changes in the Transportation Act. 1920. The | hampering provisions for a disguised guarantee of income must be repeal ed and the enormous increases in operating expenses, caused chiefy by and resulting from Federal Control must be greatly reduced. The Inter state commerce commission is told by law to make rates a percentage of the value of property. This it attemp ted to do with the result that opera ting revenues are tessenc-d because some rates are higher than the traf fic will bear. Greater and possible j economics of operation will do some' good, a fairer wage adjustment is! necessary but fundamentally -there! must be a return to the principle of I rate making, which considers the value) as well as the cost of the service. Wild Cat in a Tomb. While superintending the city force at the cemetery one afternoon last week. Mr. W. D. Whitaker found where an old mother wild cat had made her nest in one of the old tombs in the southwestern part of the ceme tery near the edge of the swamp and had l?>ft two little kittens there. One of ihe kittens was killed and oth er was captured and is now in pos- j session of Mr. Cole, the driver of the fire truck, and he has it in a cage at the fire department headquarters. Several years ago a mother fox mafic her nest in a tomb near the same spot and two little rub foxea were found there.?Cnmdon Chron icle. Mexico City. May 1.1.?Mexico can not and will not sign a formal pro toco] as a condition to recognition by the United States. President Obre gon stated today. St. Louis. May 13.?The internat ional fur exchange announced a de fiot of more than nine million dol lars in a circular to stockholders, HORRY FARMER KILLED BY SON Shooting Said to Have Been Ac cidental?Young Man Placed in Jail j Con way, May 13.?News was re I ceived here today that Will Hick man had shot his father on a farm near Myrtle Beach, this county, Tues day afternoon, and from the wound received the father died on Wednes day afternoon. The injured man was attended by Dr. Boll of Myrtle Beach, and is said to have made a statement in answer to a question asked him by the physician as to the nature of the shooting. The statement was to the effect that the shooting was an ac cident, that the accused had been pranking with a pistol and it was fired unexpectedly. According to reports about town the two men\ had fallen out con cerning moonshine whiskey, and that the elder Hickman had remonstrated his son about being engaged in drunkenness and violating the law. Another story is to the effect that the son was trying to shoot a mule they were working on the farm, that the father interfered and the shoot ing resulted. Naval Bill Blocked Borah Resolution Advocates Oc" cupy Floor?Harding Stand is Aired Washington. May 13.?President Harding's attitude toward the propos al of Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, for a naval disarmament con ference between Great Britain, Japan and the United States, was brought into question in the senate today dur ing debate on the $500,000 naval ap propriation bill. Senator Borah said the president had not indicated any opposition dur ing a recent conference cn the sub ject, while Senator Hale. Republican. Maine, who also discussed the Borah amendment with Mr. Harding a few days ago, declared that the president thought action by congress unneces sary. Because of the president's state ments to him, Senator Borah said he had paid "little attention"to a pub .ished statement of Senator Poindex ter. Republican, Washington* in charge of the naval hill, that) the president opposed the disarmament suggestion. or Hale replied that he had accompanied Senator Poindexter jto the White House a few days ago. "We talked over the question of dis armament," he said, "and I gathered from what was said there that the president thought it was not neces sary for congress to go ahead in this way with the resolution." Senator Borah replied that he would be glad to have a statements from Senator Poindexter who, how-' ever, was not in the chamber at the time, and then he could and would relate in detaii what the president had told him on the subject. That the matter would be aired further during debate, possibly tomorrow, was intimated that President Harding might give formal expression of his views on the subject. The appropriation bill was at a complete standstill all day, while broadsides were fired by advocates of the Borah proposal. Addresses in fa vor of the disarmament amendment, were made by Senators Borah. Mor ris, Republican, Nebraska; Kenyon. Republican, Iowa; King. Democrat, Ut?*h, and Heflin, Democrat, Alabama. Senator Overman, Democrat. North Carolina, also spoke briefly in favor of the disarmament conference plan. TROOPS ORDERED TO TUG RIVER Secretary of War Takes Steps to Restore Order in Coal Region Washington May 14.?The com mander of the fifth corps area at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana was instructed today by Secretary of War, Weeks to send federal troops to Man go county. West Virginia, as their presence is deemed necessary to quell the disturbance in the West Virginia Kentucky border. The number of troops to be sent is left to the discre tion of General Read, but secretary Weeks instructed that all the soldiers' necessary to restore order be moved. Tornado Hits Horry One Man and Child Reported Killed Mullins. May 13.?News reached Mullins (his afternoon of a disas trous tornado that swept through the Wannamaker section of Horry coun ty about noon today. The report was brought in by Shep Floyd, who drives a soft dring truck. Mr. Floyd stated that he traveled the public road through the storm or just afterward and five houses on Dunk Mears* farm were blown down, one white man and one child about five years old were killed and sev eral others were more or less in jured, to what extent Mr. Floyd was unable to say, as he was in a hurry to get home. A farmer by the name of Ol;'n Blanton, who was driving a Ford touring ear, was caught in the path of the storm. It is claimed that the car was picked up and carried a dis tance of laO yards and the car was still running when it alighted. Kitty MoCarron. Who Was Killed By Irish Republicans Belfast. May 12.?Kitty McCarron. killed by masked men who attached a card to her body inscribed "spies and informers beware, tried, convict ed and executed by the Irish Republi can army, was the sole support of her aged parents and a mentally de fective brother. The police .say they know of no reason for killing her, I Southern Baptist53 Convention Resolution Endorsing Disarma ment Introduced?Will Be Sent to President Harding Chattanooga, May 13.?A resolu tion favoring disarmament was in troduced in the Southern Baptist convention here this afternoon by Dr. Henry Allen Tupper of Washing ton, D. C.. who declared that the question of reconstruction of the world on a peace basis was supreme at the present. The resolution would give indorsement to tha movement now being pressed by certain mem bers of congress, and provided that a copy be forwarded to President Harding. ? The resolution was refer red to a committee. Unanimous approval of the con vention was also given to efforts to strengthen the Volstead act now pending in congress, the matter hav ing been presented by Dr. A. J. Har ten, chairman of the standing com mittee of social service. Birmingham won the new head quarters of the Baptist Woman's Mis sionary union this afternoon follow ing the decision of the body yester day to remove the headquarters from Baltimcre, after the closest race in the history of the organization. Upon the recommendation of. the locating committee the names of Atlanta and Memphis were dropped and the race narrowed to one between Nashville and Birmingham. The firs; showed a tie. and Mrs. W. C. James president, refused to break the tie beca7iso of I her residence in Birmingham, and the votes of the officers residing in Baltimore swung the balance in fav or of Birmingham. Practically all of the officers of the Woman's Missionary union were re elected iate today as follows: Mrs. W. C. James, Birmingham, president; Miss Kathleen MalJory. Baltimore, corresponding secretary and Mrs. H. !M. Wharton, Mrs. W. C. Lowndes and Mrs. Juliet Mather, all of Baltimore, recording secretary-treasurer and young people's secretary, respec tively. The editors of the Baptist papers of the South held an informal bu.-iness and social session this af ternoon and elected Dr. Z. T. Cody of the Baptist Courier, Greenville, S. C, president, and Coleman Craig of the Baptist Standard, Dallas, sec retary. The title to several million dollars worth of church property in South ern states will be made secure through the application of recom mendations as to the legal status of boards operating under the South ern Baptist convention presented this morning by Clifford Walker of Monroe. Ga.. and adopted by the convention. Hereafter title will be vested in controlling boards rather than in the convention directing the boards to transfer title to the pro perties to the organization in accord ance with the laws of the state in which it is located instead of the convention. It was decided that such action was nccessai-y to safeguard the church properties in the future. Among the more interesting re ports made to the convention today was that of Dr. A. E. Brown of Raleigh, N. C. on the mission of 40 mountain schools conducted by the Baptist church, especially those in the Ozarks. The educational ad vantages afforded these children was outlined, the report emphasizing the isolation of the mountain people and declaring that in whole counties there was not an automobile. The secretaries announced that registration for the session had reached 4,o 9 8. Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke of London, Baptist commissioner for Europe, I read a special message of greeting l 'front the Baptist union of Great j Britain. j A telegram of greeting was read ! from Dr. W. C. Bitting of St. Louis, corresponding secretary of the North ern Baptist convention, and Dr. J. Y. Atchison of New York genera' director of the board of promotion of the Northern Baptist convention, sent a telegraphic report of the year's work, setting forth the fac: j that tho Northern Baptists had had [the greatest year in their history ! increasing the contributions and j sending out more missionaries than j before. I Dr. Henry Allen Tupper of Wash j ington offered a resolution asking I President Harding to call a world conference on disarmament and the matter was referred to the commit tee on resolutions. President E. Y. Mullins and Dr. J. F. Love were named to reply to the communication brought by Dr. Rushbrooke. Chattanooga. May 13.?Total cash l collections for the causes fostered by the $7;?.000.000 campaign since th( launching of that movement have reached the sum of $25,036.324. ac cording to the report of the conser vation commission; through Dr. L. R. Scarborough, chairman, to the b'Gth annual session of the Southern Bap i tist convention here today. Of this sum S12.D07.S43 hag been collected during the past convention year, the remainder having been re ported a j ear ago. Regarding the future interests of the campaign, Chairman Scarborough recommended that during the sum mer and early fall months all the forces of Southern Baptists go afield for winning souls for Christ; that as speedily as possible all the local churches be brought to a system of regular and systematic giving to the causes of the campaign, rather than depending upon special roundups and that either through the continuation of the conservation commission or some other medilm tho convention promote a uniiied program for con serving the interests of the campaign and a vigorous program of publicity. The first official art of President K. Y. Mullins was the appointment of the committee on committees, which is charged with the duty of naming all the special committees that will serve at this session of the convention. The committee includes the four newly elected vice presi dents, along with Dr. Livingston Johnston of Raleigh. N. C. Dr. J. W. Gillon of Mayficld, Ky? the ReVj Bt V. Ferguson of Fort Smith, Ark., the Rev. S. H. Bennett of Montgomery Ala., and Dr. S. J. Porter of Okla I homa City. . Thousands of Chinese Aided in Get ting Food. I Washington, May 12.?As the re jsuult of the recent appropriation by I the American Red Cross of a second '$500,000 for famine relief in China ! still more highways are to be con jstructed in the famine area. It is by proivding employment in this road building that the Red Cross is en abling tens of thousands of Chinese to obtain food for themselves while, the roads will also have permanent i value in reducing the inadequacy J of transportation means that plays !'a large part in bringing about fam I ine conditions in China. An offer has been made through. ,'the United International Famine Re j lief Committee to extend the high way through the province of Chihli. provided the authorises will furnish the land without expense to the Am erican Red Cross. A limited amount of construction work will also be made in the province of Shansi. The latter will reach at Fenchofu an im portant commercial center and the largest of th2 interior American mis sion stations. Already a thousand men have been collected for this work hut gang after gang have reported that as many as ten per cent could not reach the scene of w"ork because of weakness from hunger. Eecause of the fact that they are too far removed from the centrat sources of grain supply these op erations will differ somewhat from those in the Shantung province. In stead of being paid in food rations workmen will be peid on a piece work basis and will buy their grain delivered by the Yellow River from the far westren interior. League of Women Voters. Among the matters of national importance presented to the league by Judge Purdy last night of special interest to the women were the ef forts to provide a fund for national aid of education to wipe out illiter acy and to Americanize the foreign element in our country, the Shepard Towner bill for the protection of women and children and the estab lishment of public welfare to edu cate the nation in health and hygiene. Other problems discussed were tar iff, immigration, the Japanese ques tion and divorce. These matters were presented in a p: easing manner and enjoyed by those present. The following officers were unani mously elected to take the place of the 'chairman and secretary and treasurer elected at tne organisation of the league six months ago: . President?Mrs. C, L. Stubbs. Secretary?Mrs. R. B. Furman. Treasurer?Mrs. Ferd Levi Sad Things. A loost wind sighing in a woed. A wistful soul misunderstood, A friend that never comes again, A puppy whimpering in the raia, A rose half bloomed torn from ks stalk, A child that never learned to walk, A house forsaken and forlorn, A troe by storm wind overborne, A wreck wave beaten on the shore, A song forgot and sung no more. Two hearts estranged by broken piight, A wanderer homeless in the night, A nest wind blown and reft of song, A grave bed scarce!}' three feet long, A garden ravaged by the hail, Fair shops that never homeward sail, Oh, sad are these, but sadder yet Remorse that never can forget! ?Emma A. E. Lcnte, New York Herald. Grandma's Old Song. Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long ago; Sing me the songs I delighted to hear, Long, long ago, long ago. Now you are come all my grief is re moved. Let me forget that so long you have roved, Let me believe that you love as you loved Long, long ago, long ago. Do you remember the past where we met Long, long ago, long ago. Ah, yes, you told me you ne'er would forget, Long long ago. long ago. Then to all others my smile you pre ferred. Love, when you spoke, gave a cbarm to each word, >till my heart treas-.es the praises I heard. Long long ago, long ago. i " f rhough by your kindness my fond hopes were raised. Long, long ago. long ago. You by more eloquen- lips have been praised, Long, long ago, long ago. Though by long absence your truth has been tned. Still to your accents I listen ' with pride, Blest as I was *rh*n I sat by your side Long, long ago. long ago. ?Thomas Haynes Bailey. Kansas City Star. Prelude. Words, words. Ye are like birds! Would I might fold you In my hands and hold you Till ye were warm and your feather a-flutter; Till, in your throat?;, Tremulous notes Foretold the songs ? e would utter. Words, words |f Ye are all bird:' Would ye might linger Here on my finge?'. Till I kissed each, and then sent you a-winging Wild, perfect flight, Through morn to night. Singing, singing, and singing! ?Josephine Preston Pea body, in The Indianapolis tfew^