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CONDUCTED BY
GOMFORT for 15 months
NEVER se: i
tion to Uncl
NEVER writ
on a separate si
P up onto my lap, and snuggle down
Rowe to the heart that loves you, and
I'll explode a few verbal firecrackers
in bo the Fourth of Jul:
cording to’ President Wilson we are
to ha the next four
increasing their bank accounts.
dard Oil Co., by the mui bas just declated a@
forty ‘per cent.; that mind
itlot! to the usual dividend, ‘This
they call cutting a melon, Joba D's
ghare ‘of the'cutting, it is estimated will Amount
to-some ten million aoitars. ani nd. this is the coi
@s's0 badly dissolved,
Hsmembered me while ago
t.. Meanwhile
rice of oll is constantly belag’ boosted and
ts
re “contributed to that territic
et diy and the ten millio
L t went into Joba D.'s pockets came
dol tha
out of your jeans.
Why ‘in pity's name did Uncle Sam allow any
man or any group of men to obtain complete co’
rol of one of the great natural resources of oUr
gountry? | Why didn’t Uncle Sam. brush, these
individuals aside and say: “Gentlemen, oil is ‘as
ta the people ‘Of the United States as
God Aimixhty didn't intend that this
Indipensible product should. be monopolized by a
few individuals, and be the people
while
‘m going to
ae Peoples talicoms
iy,
Poe ge
dt “now. -It : “
Uncle oe
Charite
had. { been
Uncle Sam
that's “ex.
actly what
he ‘oul
Sida SR
COUSEN VIVA EVERLY, BURNS, MO.
and reasonable government would have
Saon't you think?
While the Stand
and Oil is declaring an extra
iividend of forty per ci
nt, the savings banks,
where the poor deposit their peanies, are cut-
bing their interest rates from four to three and a
alf per The Bible hit it om the nail
pretty well ‘when it said: “Unto him that hath
shall be given, and from him who bath not shall
be taken even that which he hath!” You see the
men for many ohana
er—
Junior, a very, estimable young man is publicly
pleading for ‘honest business. metidds, and in
-Fistons, hn D, Senior, patting his
we
noble, ‘altealstie, idealistic oitspring on the head,
and with a sanctified smile chortling piously ?
“Good boy, John, a little more business honesty
is what We need, my dear son, bu
Asks you how. your papa got ‘bis,
him to sing a Gospel hyma, at aod while
on eo way, let not fhe Alfalfa ‘cow
beneath ig ‘feet, for it might be inconvenient
and decidedly embarrassing. oe answer.” I bi
one or two gentlemen
ome, ur
script
subscription order licati
et from the letter, and Fissetetnn opmemie
ADDRESS afi letters to COMFORT, Augusta, Maine. See Instructions at the elo close of this Department.
INCLE
CHARLIE . 1
ur Gountry and protect Ite fing.
UNCLE CHARLIE
¢ Secretary of the League.
ip in the bedy ote a letter.
Write the order
ether in the elo)
tor
ernment can sell stamps, it can If forced by vo-
Factous Apdustciat sharks sell coal and oll, Just
as the in France sells matches, the
eeglaad
Messages, telephone calls an
will say’ tbis is encroaching on private. ‘indus:
tries and stopping private enterprise. My dear
friends, when private enterprise and private in-
dustries grab the people by the throat, go through
their pockets and become arrogant, rapacious,
lawless, oppressive and criminal, and wuen pri:
vate enterprise even dares to start Reta to add
to its plunder, then public enterpris
in and stop private piracy, am
hecessary at Re pinch to remind President Wilson
that it would be a mighty good thing If he would
repeat to certa of our industrial pirates the
remarks he made about the gentleman who figures
prominently in the book of which as
Brentioned wbefore is a part o y Scripture,
know what the gentlemen who misrep-
resent you down at Washington did during the
Taft resime? worthy pickled
aintain their
1
opularity at home ts in. Congress
by’raiding Uncle Sam's pork barrel, which is the
pational ekotlsool) got no less tan. $3,000. 000
for the improvement of a certain in Louisi-
toe ne coviver™ is. a wondertully: busy alten,
I don’t think. About the only trafie that ever
passes up and down on its breast ts a halt sub-
merged grasshopper. In
tons of freight were, hauled on, this stream. and
one lone passenger! Unele Sam's” pocketbook,
Was talded to the extent of $3,000,000, Mor ths
improvement of this .” ‘That's th
way your money goes, and the individuals who
did the raiding were put into office by so-called
American citizens, and they will be returned to
oftice by these same so-called American citizens,
not because of their patriotiam and ability: as
statesmen. but for thelr proficiency in burgiariz.
ing the national ook. Senator Bui
of Ohio said hat this See the most extravagant
river and harbor bill ever presented to the Senate,
He also said that the ball mae fall of frems in-
fended fe pae it ose a were
Te throu ge a
Beautiule shecimen of corrupt poliviclans and
rrupt nd despicable voters banding together,
co
just aS the qiver pirates of China band together,
‘or the one and only purpose of robbing the
hatlonal treasury, and allakiog down the packets
ot other American fitizens, Surely a brazen and
1
our navy to the Junk man for scrap iron, for
a five spot, and would dispose of the whole of
the United’ States, Including Washington's grave
Japan for a ten dollar bill. It 1s these pork
barrel pollticians who have crippled our nav:
and left us naked to our enemies, a biz fat goose
eed to the last feather, by the piratical
Fellow’ hordes ‘or tasolent Japan. 'whateare the
good of palatial postotiees ie prairie dog towns
cross road villages, if the flag of Japan is
to wave on the top of these edifices: and a grensy
son of Nippon is to leer at you through the
stamp window. Every nation that has revelled
{a graft and publie, plunder, and neglected ite
ruin. the por
barrel ‘poultice ‘determined to send this couutry
orn Taipan: s arrogant attitude to Unclé Sam you
get the answe
The overgorsed rich of Chicago give an annual
so-called charity ball. You will cay that is very
kind and considerate of them, but walt a lttle
gnd youll change your mind after you henr
this occaston the “Sassiety” swells
at SdtogSpnois! or Porkrite by the Lake” have
al and riotous time Fo 98 et father
from the following facts, ‘The dgures I'give are
taken from the daily papers:
Wealth of families represented, $500,000,000
Cost of jewelry wo: 10,000,
Cost of clothing worn, 1,000,000
Cost ot Caney, costumes, unsalable
after the ball, 100,000 .
Most, costly fonel worn (chatay, 250,000
Received for 10,000
Total receipts, 43,000
enses of the ball, 29,000
Lal tor charity, 14,000
In this guzzling debauch, where half naked
women turkey trotted with booze-soused men,
it will be not that $10,000 was spent for
Mquor, and various brands of alcoholic poison.
Girls In sweat shops had to. toil overtime at the
usual starvation rate of a dollar a day to make
the hundred thousand dollars’ worth’ of ‘fancy
ostumes, rown aside as useless
after, being” worn ‘once. Think of that wanton
=f ma ter rial. time and money! $10,000
wort nd for charit:
iy $14,
I won't. kn aow. "how this, “hon ey was distributed,
but If it Is handled in the usual-scientife m
ions, ainety cents will
ery ten cents that is given awa Think of
“Sassiety”” has, to indulge ‘an alcoholic
debauch, 80 that w dollars can reach the suf.
fering and the pavers stricken. As a matter of
fact at these charity balls not a Single | thought
is ever given to charity. There ts
or ‘uplifting impulse ‘at the b
generate revels boore saturated Jamborees,
I hope the oor ¢ of, ‘ules if any of
Ip ever give and michty I
they are ever Teel” to get—will
and hurl it with contempt in th
who proffer it them. Bett F the ‘poor should dle
in their hovels forgotten. ‘fian it by this {nso-
lent and degradin of cl rit
selence of Chicago's freeing aristocracy. "S now
relieved—it has belped the the poor. Well, if that's
what they call belpin: needy, may Goa touch
the hearts of degenerate society, aud may G God
have double pity on the poor, for they need pity.
ust a brief Fominder that Uncle Charlie's two
and the other of
free: 8
for only two subscriptlons. | See full’ description
at the end of this Separtment, Don't miss
Now for the letter
sane 8 ft nin ng o'lock
_ Baowxstows, B. R14, ton, | 8t, night. Not othing FDterestiog you a
Dear UNcte Ciant soldier's “Iife, ‘nothing worth recording. except
I have been tena ing some of the cousit that he gets out of bed at one hour and gets
woigh on
aud gray eyes,
bun.
& Hite lel four fort wix inches tall,
died pounds, have vrown lal
t
ee while
sing thing
vl
ins
Would
os, ‘Will’ answer
recvive.
MarMe SiDWELL,
ving niece,
Mayme, dear I am grieved to know that you
have lost’ your dear mother. ribly you
must miss her. It fs not otimother. has gone
orever, tbat boys and girls begin to realize all
that mother has’been to them. Youth is thought-
less, impatient, forgetful, headstrong. selfish and
unappreciative rule. This is esp
‘as boys are concerned, W
gone then even the best of us spend the balance
of our lives regretting we did not do more for
her. On us she lavished the boundless affection
r tender, loving heart. No ache or pain
was ours that she did not feel. When we sumered
she Sumer with us, when we went o! na good
tu e forgot. all about mother, but motber
hever for an instant forgot about us, an
worried and fretted until we returned ‘safely aod
sleep never touched her weary eyes until. we
ere safe in our beds. When we were sick, Wo
matter at foe Asease. was & menace to her Ife,
exhausted body, she never murmured or com
pl ure d. but kept ber ceaseless vigil until health
fe
of
toe efore heaven and’ asked for
ings for the idols
For herself she asked onl;
daily needs, strength to toll tn
that grace and
enable her the
le the footsteps ot ber beloved
the perlious a enthwaye of this
. What did do for mother?
When our acts
she cautioned and pleaded, we
thought her old-fashioned -and heeded not’ ber
oust w the lines of care grow deeper
on tive, the glasticity” depart from her
footsteps, the- frail form grow ore frail.
At times’ we saw her face. distofted with agony.
as Hues shafts of pain tore idly
Weakening body We saw the old ight fade from
her eves, the tears which she
down ‘Shecke’ We:
these things, but to ev ineant nothing,
Mother was @ plece of tachinery that could not
she always had been, always would b
Nother ‘would always be 10 her wonted place. (6
ménd, scrub, dust, clean, plan, provide,
aadte, caress and be a slave to us
that’s what mothers were made for all acy mele
ct
made for, and so we la
self, fun and
the memory of that dreadful day.
no more in her accustomed ‘There was
just (me to gather “around Ree’ bedside eid
ear her whispered biessing,
ex gone where thous
© Mother yas
othe at gue crles of
aoguish and moaning ‘n that
moment of agonizing grief, rich cote’ to. ts alll
we realize what mother’ has and
Wat we might have been and were not, to her.
It is then. that we stretch out our bands to
heaven and cry from the depths of our seared
and ‘sorrowing hearts: “Oh. God. give mother
a
suffering. She suffered in silence and
us not. Oh, God, give her back to us for a
. a week,’ a day, an hour, a minute, so
that. we can beg forgiveness, and fold her to’ out
hearts Just once, a
had only known.”
had only known!” Ab,
other Ia ads are standing by mother's bedside, oF DY
et in which with folded hands, she Hes
eneetaly asleep, and are moaning with anguish 3
f Uhad only known {Now boys and girls,
ou who bave mother still with you, be good to
her, love her, treasure he: hat
other is, for I ‘have told ¥ "ied words,
or you too may spen alance ‘Of our
life, grief racked and Conselence eaten 3 ule
ly (and), vainly moaning:
Fo RT : Taner, N.Y,
Dean Uncim Caantin ann Covsiy!
This is the thinl time I have ‘written and bone
have put: Billie the Goat to -bed so he won't
five thio letter. | am in the United States’ Navy and
A read “A Day with Uncle
wal nd thought ‘that It was foe, and also
think Couront {a ‘the best paper in the world.
Row tell you something about army life,
Welt ‘to beat with, 7 am in, the brane of tho Coast
Arillery Corps, of on vA. art get
0 God nt bine o'clock .
Twili ‘close ‘now hopping ‘to seo, thle letter ta ‘print
Pou
With love to all, 1 am you
TON,
Tht third time is evidently. the cbarm in your
case, John. I am pleased with your photograph.
What tickled me the most, however, ia your istter,
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Box 1190, Scranton, Pa.
the battlefield fhe, Coast >Artilery, of the U. Aw
apparently wins its victories between the Bian? ~
kets in the mystic realms of slumberland. Now
if we ha apan, I can imagine if
the Japanese fleet a eared of ai yore where
our heroic friend, John Fulton, w
nd commenced firtn;
John's co ander would send word to the Japs,
coucl rt e such language as this: “lionored
Sir, Will you Sdndly stop firing, as a is nine
o'clock, and all got to go to bed.” I can
agine too, if the Japs came back and began
shooting at five o'clock in t orning, the
entleman in charge of John's battery would put
is head out of the window, a w ng hts
nightcap at the Japs, woul scream. car Ss
2, please stop that cangonsdiog
disturbing our slumbers. |
Rood sense by get
and I hope no enemy will be rude enough to
turd its pours ‘ot suppose the fact
that Joba and his comrades are such efficient
toidiers aad. such dead shore that they. can. wl
all the battles they want and still observe recular
hours for sleep and rest. n, you'll note is
BRoppling” to wee is letter in print. Personally
Jobn, I think it is ratber undignified for a
bronzed, stalwart, heroic soldier, such as
to be hopping around on one leg. lik
po hot bricks, ‘waiting until your letter Is
fished. We won't ask you to do any hopping. you
shall have the pleasure of seeing your getter in
print without dancing sround on ob
acgQlamamec, OKLA,
Dear Unctx Caaniiz axp co
have had 20
cance to ge for
five'on a fefm snd had three miles to 0 to school.
1 stayed at bome to pick cotton. Tam not much of a
cotton, pick wo hundred pounds a day is my
ave, 13 °ara. work end mo
Fin: dragging euch heavy
We live in a ey country.
plenty of timber
Rut
loads as some bave
iets of (allie. rocks
of Indians living ia :
Citieed AM bave
Pesid you ever see them dance? You
It is sure a funi
This Is genera! worm try, but this winter ‘
Je hare bed a md light snows and some cold weatvec.
But ol he summer believe me. it is bot enough
It bee® tough on the farm
miueb, and thea
‘Say
to come, aoa see them.
Toart oper
the last three years, We don’
Bet, lttle for or rn i we do raise,
"t raise
ften ‘wonder bow you can see life as you
a ho better health. than you are; unable, to
See “anything ‘ot “the world Butt expect
Heh ot ite misery and. wretchedn sure
ought to be a lesson to the rest of us who fo atronmee
and able bodied. The work that you and our editor
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