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Show DEAD OR ALIVE. News comes from the British headquarters head-quarters in France and Belgium that the German military authorities have promised the iron cross of the first class, 400 marks and a furlough of fourteen days to the man who brings the first American, dead or alive, to headquarters. They will have less trouble trou-ble in securing a dead American than a live one, but we wonder why they are so anxious to get hold of one of Uncle Sam's soldiers. They will have an opportunity to see vast numbers of the boys in khaki before the war is over if they wait in northern France and Belgium for a few months. Evidently Evi-dently they have substituted an American Ameri-can for tho Englishman in the old nursery rhyrne: . "Fe, fob, fie, futn, I smell the blood of an Englishman; And be he alive or be ho dead, I'll grind his bones to . make my bread." How tho Germans must hato us when they post rewards for an American dead or alive! "What do they intend to do with him after they get him? |