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Show EPIGRHYMES: I guess I'm full of sentiment sen-timent ; and sentiment, they say, is but a synonym for "rot" a thing that "does not pay." But COULD 1 look-the look-the image of Abe Lincoln In the face; or would my LOVE bring aught to Her save Insult In-sult and disgrace ; or would I LESS than coward be If I SHOULD smile, today, and chirp: "This patriotic "Love of Country' doesn't pay?" 'Tis not "To BE much HAPPIER," that you and I enlist though happiness Unit's sweet and strong, for cowards, can't exist it is because, deep in -our souls, lives this sub-conscious vow : "Some day I'll prove that I'm a man !" That dny htrs coi:ie right NOW. And when the war, is over, when we whisper 'Love's Sweet Song' slie'H cherish, Infinitely more, the tender love that's strong. And if the physical the flesh before the end shall die, and she shall know the body lies beneath some foreign sky, she'll know that Bailey's words are dead that some day, in some cloud her arms will, find the man she loves, who, dying, made her proud ! Robert Russell. "Could I love less I should be happier now." (Copjrigbt, VJ1-, by Infl Prem Bureau.) At a meeting of the Beaver County Coun-ty Irrigation Company held Wednesday Wednes-day the second assessment of fifty j cents r shnre for 1917 was levied upon the stock to raise necevarv ! funds for expenses and upkeep. All the new work and expense over tht-dollar tht-dollar assessment for Ihe year is be- ' ing borne by the Delta Land & Water j Company. J |