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Show Peac will come in the spring, they say. Perhaps that is why warring nations na-tions are reserving shell steel for delivery deliv-ery during the latter half of 1917. Pittsburg Gazette-Times. 1 A million dollars' worth of Turkish tobacco has arrived in New York. We don't know where it arrived from Virginia, Vir-ginia, Kentucky or Connecticut. Columbus Colum-bus Citizen. A pessimistic ( Socialist of Oklahoma predicts that the people of this country will be paying 20 cents a loaf for bread in the near future. Fortunately, the hope of the Socialist lies in the direction direc-tion of an ever-increa,sing misery which simply refuses to arrive. San Francisco Chronicle. A college for hoboes is to be opened in Chicago, and coincidentally the designation des-ignation of hobo is to be changed to (t migratory unskilled laborers." There is one word in the new term that fits "migratory." Oakland Tribune. "Thousands of gallons of liquor" delivered at private homes in Richmond, Va., just before the "dry" law went iito effect. The Virginia city is badly in need of a crusade for impressing the benefits of sobriety. Rochester Democrat Demo-crat and Chronicle. A reporter with tho Germans on their sweep into Rumania writes that the Teutons Teu-tons were carried forward by "tho buoyant buoy-ant realization that they were falling upon a weaker enemy." What has become be-come of the old-fashioned fighter who relished a battle with a foe worthy of his steel. Pittsburg Gazette-Times. |