IS ENGLAND DOING eye which seems riveted to the sea the wounded have tieen that they had any chance, they Mos' Unfort'nit. Kaint keep a fam'ly nohow."— back bone. It struck me ae a fine brought home. So far as know certainly would for if they I San Francisco Argonaut. Appealing to a lady for aid, an thought. I have heard Frenchmen not a soldier or a gun has been HER FULL 'SHARE should win they would not only old negro told her that through say the same thing. lo$t in the passage from France win the war but the mastery of the Dayton flood he had lost everything The British do not know how to England. British sea-borne the seas and of the world. he had in the world, including to advertise. When they are: trade, including exports, increasworking Some doubters have asked if (Continued from Page I.) his wife and six children. hardest is seems a part ed for the month of February, the British fleet is not also shut "Why," said the lady. "I have you cannot convince the Qf their pose not to appear to be 1916, over February, 1915. Channel but up in its harbbor in fear of sub- 1 seen you before and I have helped Englishman that it is. He is dy- working, have known a staff THE KEBTO SUCCESS steamers run as usual. Pasothcer marines and mine fields. It goes you. Were you not the colored ing for it over in Flanders and to sit up till three in the sengers and freight go and come out into the., North Sea whenever PROTECT YOUR INVENTIONS France. In Germany in times of man who told me you had lost morning and then say when he between England and France and it pleases—I have seen it your wife and six children by the peace the press is more or less arose at seven was muddling America in spite of the submaraway go—and it will be there when sinking of the Titanic?" told what to say. In England the almost till daylight." jNot ine. the^ German fleet appears. The Send for free booklet explaining "Yes, ma'am, dat wuz me. Mos' press, even in time of war, is until I had known a certain Eng- Including the regular naval fact that the Germans do not unfort'nit man dat ever wuz. how to obtain Protective Patents always insisting on its rights. nshman for two months did I and the- auxiliary vessels, some come out is tribute enough to When said to a famous London and Legal Trade Marks learn that he had killed ninety ships are under Sir John the character of the British navy. 3°°° editor: "Do you know what tigers, won, the Victoria Cross, Jellicoe's command. Success in Labels registered, Copyrights secured and For the Germans are not fools.1 FJIRS-IIIQgS would happen to you if you were an(j high honors as an oriental Design Patents obtained keeping tight the blockade between The British navy goes on building in Germany? he replied: Yes, scholar. Why should he tell any Iceland and the North Sea new ships, new dry docks, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS* EXPERIENCE my paper would be suppressed about surpasses expectations. It was oue lt{ and extending its naval bases, DAVIS G. HOWLETT either I should be shot or "You know I am not the least and feared that a* number of raiders It has a forever unsatisfied appetite in jail. But I'm not a German. put might get by, and, considering Registered Patent Attorney interested in being a hero or in for material and it has done I'm an Englishman—and 918 St., Washington, D. C. that the fog in the North Sea is winning the Victoria Cross," its part. Britain has kept faith I'm going to speak my mind." often so thick that a man can said a British officer. "I hope I with her partners in the alliance. Then I remarked: "But the hardly see his own hand held out She commands the seas. shall come out of this war, alive. Government claims that it has a before him, it is amazing that I should like to enjoy life again THE GOOD OUOGE SETS ALINE OK BUSINESS FROH THE GROCERY DRUMMER^ When she saw the fortunes of effect on the opinion of the bad only one raider has been able to and be at home once more with war were going against her this continual criticism." world, get by at this writing. The fuss my wife and baby." partners she prepared to fight by SPLENDID UUDGE, I He replied: ''If we don't win MEN ARE FINDING over that single one is proof of HELLO BROWN! HOW AND I'M TAKING MORE W-B 1 OUT THAT CUT Put that in cold print and it land to put in millions of soldiers BUSINESS ON THE this war, the world will have a ORDERS FORTHE REAL| IS QUALlTy TOBACCO the pudding to naval experts ROAD might seem to indicate a lack of TOBACCO CHEW.LONGSHRED,EVERy li as well as her naval strenefth. AND A SMALL CHEW worse opinion of us. I am not WEEK/"" who realize the difficulties if the SATISFIES. J1 military ardor of the press-agent It never occurred to any Englishman going to publish anything to layman does not. It was as unusual kind. But it was only his British or Scot, or Irishman that make our people think that they as the man biting the dog, way of talking, for two days the British would ever have an may have an easy victory. The therefore news. later he was killed. He was the army half the size as that fight- Way to make an Englishman put Three thousand ships! Consider first officer of his battalion into ing there today on the Continent his back into it is to make him the coal they consume, and a German trench in a charge. As ingrained in the British is realize he is losing." the men! The war against the Of course there are some people the idea of sea defense as that of He was acting up to his individual'right submarine requires material in who think that anybody who great distances and isolation in and to his duty to quantity and character, which if says a good word for the English the American before this war. state as he saw it as an individual. the enumerated and described would must be what is known as He thought of an army only as So was any member of astound the world. No report of an Anglomaniac who uses broad a means of policing the empire. Parliament who said that the it may be published because that a's, speaks of "dear old Lunnun" His green pastures and hedges British Isles were in danger of would reveval to the Germans as they do on the vaudevivlle and lanes were safe, thanks to bankruptcy. He wanted to throw M' 'ORE men in every section are becoming acquainted the methods used in oercoming stage, and holds his breath in a scare into the public, as his the salt water. with W-B GUT Chewing—the long shred the submarine campaign. Mystery awe at the mention of a duke. individual duty, in order to make Real Tobacco Chew. The regulars had done his on this score is the policy of I come of blood which has fought Because W-B GUT Chewing means more satisfaction the public economize. It had the fighting for him as they had done the British admirality. The German the British twice and would —greater comfort—it's rich tobacco. desired effect. When the British for us. There came to him a call submarines go" out from again for the right cause. My And it costs less—because you use less of W-B CUT do anything together they make like the one that came to us in Kiel and Zeebrugge never to return, Chewing than the ordinary kind. A little chew satisfies. ideas of how the British fight their mind up to it as a people. our Civil War when North and while the German admiralty, and the part they have played The Government cannot order South set untrained troops "Notice how the salt brings out the rich tobacco taste." not knowing how they met in this war were formed not in COMPANY, them to do it willy-nilly—not Made by City against untrained troops. A people WEYMAN-BRUTON SO Union Square, New York their fate, cannot warn submarine the company of dukes or in "dear even in time of war. When Sir proud as we were of the fact commanders how to avoid old Lunnun' from the gossip of Ian Hamilton insisted on publishing that they had escaped universal destruction. the Strand, but at the British his report of the Dardanelles military service when they found NEWS Many new types of vessels had IF ITS YOU'LL SEE IT FIRST IN front. I think that the British operations one could only that Russia and France had not to be built for the needs which are entitled to fair play and be exclaim: "Think of that happening soldiers enough, were ready to' were developed by the first realty by what they have done judged Germany!" It could in not. give their flesh and blood against SOHS DAILY NEWS FEATURES great modern naval campaign. I rather than by the way they against system.' it (s the German not untrained troops, but the HANDY'S CARTOONS D. SOCIAL NEWS—The Ray The ratio of superiority over news of SO' talk. I write in answer to such Maybe the German system is Handy, staff cartoonist, contributes best trained and best equipped ciety, clubs and music is completely Germany at the outset of the a cartoon every day on some topic questions as "Where is that British covered daily, 90 per cent of the social right. That will not prevent the of troops. war must be increased. She'must of local or general interest. news appears first in the News army? Why doesn't the British Briton sticking to his. In two months the British had ASSOCIATED I'HESS WIRE RE­ Tribune. be surpassed in speed, and construction fleet destroy the German? "ihis is a war between our PORTS—The News Tribune publishes SPORTING NEWS-—Read the,morning lost more killed and wounded and numbers of battleships, Hasn't England fallen down in the news of the entire world paper for live sporting news. System and the British," said a than their original force in six battle cruisers, cruisers, every day as supplied by the Asso-. Nine out of ten sporting events this war?" So far as I have been German officer to me—"the Germans ciated Press, the world's greatest occur late in the afternoon or evening—hence, months more than the total of and destroyers, at the same time able to observe, most Britons, are against the British, and news gathering organization. the morning paper is their standing army. They had suggested by the war. MISCELLANEOUS MEWS FEAT- first to CARRY THE NEWS and Irishmen, too, who have fallen we are going to fight it out to lacked machine guns and guns HOME to readers. URE&~\V eather reports from the England Behind Jellicoe down, fell in death with their ditch." last BUSINESS, FINANCIAL AND U. S. observatory Lake Breezes, of heavier caliber so had the All these ships required guns faces toward the enemy. MARKET REPORTS—Business brief items of local interest Northwest Hamilton "got it oif his chest,'' French. The English had not while the new army was begging news "has always bees featured in and Range visitors at Duluth say. The report gave a bad liwcels. as we Silent Armada Ready. only to train men who had never the News Tribune, Jt the authority for guns. But, however impression abroad, but the English WEST END, WEST DTJLUTK, NEW on markets, Has Britain done her part? shouldered a rifle, but to equip hungry the army for either artilley PP.OCTOR—The DULUTH AND most SUPERIOR NEWS—The "News Tribune is idea was: "Well, he has had Let us take the evidence in the complete daily report of events in and the only Duluth paper maintaining a them. Russia and France, too, or shells, no cabinet minister, about Duluth's most thriving industrial reportorial staff in Superior. Covering his say and everybody can form case Britain is one of the set of Centers. lacked sufficient uniforms at the the Twin Port completely every day in no officer at the British NEWS OF TEE RANGES—The News Tribune the Superior edition and carrying a condensed his own opinion now." Hasn't partners fighting the Central outset of the war for all the soldiers In front, would suggest that the maintains two ranp-e bureaus, one report of Superior news all our preparedness campaign been at Virginia and one at Hibbing, with a other editions. Powers and Turkey and Bulgaria. they had. From the Belgian army should do other than wait staff man in chsr-e of each bureau, assuring LOCAL NEWS—News of Duluth is thoroughly conducted on something of the readers of prompt publication of "What were the terms of and completely covered. and the Russian and Serbian until Jellicoe's orders had been all the range news of the day. The MARINE NEWS is fully covered tlie year English plan Haven't its leaders that partnership?" is the first News Tribune is the only Head of the army came the»call to manufacturing around. filled. Lakes newspaper maintining range offices. CLASSIFIED IfSWS—The classified pages been throwing a scare into the question any judge would ask. England for arms and What if Jellicoe should fail for of the News Tribune are full of interesting in order to wake them up. NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST is furnished facts and items of POCKET interest. people France and Russia were to take uniforms. England was the mint, want of anything .that might daily by competent correspondents To read the excerpts from the in the principal towns and cities care of the Germans on land. All SUNDAY SERMONS of Duluth pastors the foundry, the workshop which have been supplid? Though the w'.thin 200 miles of Dub'th and Superior. appear weekly in the Monday News English papers as published in the aid that they expected from NEWS OF THREE STATES told in paragraphs Tribune—and as a special feature, a must be a bottomless source of British army in France were is a feature of the Saturday i$ sermon by some range pastor published America you would think that the British was 120,000 troops— News Tribune. supply—while every demand of every Monday. swept into the sea, still Britain all the inhabitants of Britain S2TTD FOR SAMPLE AND DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET. a handfull of men compared to Jellicoe's had to be met. She and her empire might survive gulntfj Jtetos Srilmuf, slackers, strikers, muddlers. Were the multitudes of the Continental plodded on sturdily, if not brilliantly, if she kept command of the sea. As the late Chas. A. Dana armies. criticizing no one but "A REAL NEWSPAPER." Should' Jellicoe ask that Westminster 4 Said: "It is not news if a dog The British part was to keep herself. Abbey be sent to him in bites a man, but it is news if a The News-Tribune will be delivered at any home in this the command of the sea. Britain his mysterious harbor, the British Though the British had supposed man bites a dog." The unusual city every evening rxcept Sunday for ten cents per week, was to hold the German navy in public wcmld tell Premier Asquith that their part was to command attracts attention. If the Welsh Leave your order at Wirt's News Store. its lair or destroy it if it should to set some new army battalions the sea, three million volunteered miners strike, if a society composed give battle—and this singlehanded. to work to take it down to cross the Channel or of five hundred of the 30 DAYS It is now clear that failure and start it on its way. go farther overseas and fight. forty million people in the British by the British navy would Why doesn't the British navy That is a different thing from Isles declares that is is for would have meant the loss of dig out the German navy? It was volunteering to fight in your non-resistance—that is news. It the war, Her navy must be Britain's FreeTiial AVinstOn Churchill, when First own country against an invader. isn't news if three million Englishmen first thought her army of the Admiralty early in Lord Mind, these three million .men have enlisted to fight secondary. For hundreds of the war, who made the "rats in did not have to be ordered to for England and are undergoing years when an Englishman the hole" speech, not Sir John fight. They went of. their own the merciless drill for ten hours thought of home defense it was Jellicoe or Lord Fisher. I have free will, carpenters, farmers, a day. of defense by sea. At all costs never talked with and naval expert costermongers, doctors, lawyers, The day I arrivved home naval supremacy must be maintained. who talked that an attempt millionaires, and laborers, with there were column headlines Without it the little island by the British to reach every able-bodied man of Oxford about two cases of grafting in would be strangled and herempire the German fleet in the harbor of and Cambridge and other public office in one of the New lost. An Englishman is Kiel was sound naval policy. universities and great public York papers. By that criterion willing that Parliament should American and other experts schools offering himself. History an outsider might have judged play, politics with the army, but agree that professionally both has afforded nothing finer than that every American pubblic official he -will not permit it with his navies have followed" the best this outpouring, and never was was a grafter. You and I navy policy in the interests of their Your Choice of Niioty-Fonr (94) Styles there an effort more depreciated Colors an4 know that this is not true. Foreigners, Sizes in Che No bulletins of trench fightingvcome nations. The German fleet is secreted by those who made it. For lack famous line from a glance at the from the British fleet of "Ranger" Bicycles, shown in full color in our big new Catalogue just off the press. There far out of range "of any :*•, 1 1 0*" vy wil of guns the British in France had eighty-three others, also, shown at prices ranging'from 911.7 B, $13.75, &1B.7& are (83) news papers, conclude that it is, up. There is a MEAD Bicycle for every rider, at a price made possible only by oar Its work is kept, more secret British ship, protected by heavy to fight with flesh and blood and we object. 4-U —. ill FACTOR Y-DIRECT-TO-BIDEB sales plan. than nm-i that of arty army. It i. will ynilKV fortress guns, by submarines, APUn UA write TODAY for this new Catalogue 6f "Ranger" Bicycles, against superior artillery—fl^sh but Any criticism" of England in at vCNII nunc I Tires and Sundries prices so low they will astonish you. Also, have only one battle and that and by many nets impassible to full particulars of our great new offer to deliver to you all charges prepaid your choice of any and blood against machine killing. her own press the censors let of the 94 kinds of "RANGER" Bicycles you may select, for ONE MONTH'S FBEE TRIAL, will last only a few hours. Because any submarine. .. France needed help England This wonderful offer is absolutely genuine. No one criticises your choice if it's a "Ranger"—the through to America but they we hear nothing of the most popular, largest selling Bicycle in the country. In vain the Germans have gave all she had to givel— AIIS&Q Bllllft. l!n.U?heAle would allow (,no criticism of Coaster-Brakes,Inner Tubes, Efav with navy's work the superficial may hoped that the British—who are iP?lfcwi| LAIiirwf DUIll UpWRGwISi trie Lighting Outfits, all the newest idea# the lives of her men. From India their allies in their own press. a recycle equipment and Sundries, as well as the Repair Parts and Combination Offers foe think it is doing nothing. too wise— would become impatient fitting your old Bicycle—all shown fully illustrated, at HALF USUAL PRICES, Our nei* she brought ^her Indian troojas According* to the British press, talogue is the largest ever issued by any Bicycle concern. Even if you do not need ft ne-jr A witness of its efficiency exists and undertake some sort V^-vcle now, or Repair Parts, Tires, etc., for. your old Bicycle, you need this Catalogue to tell yow —anything to help win the w^r. no French or Russian general you should pay you do buy. in every British merchant Jle prices when of an offensive which would The old rule of war is thiat ISCRITC l£7ftE17E!l& We want a Rider Agent in every neighborhood to ride has ever been'guilty of anverror, ship that sails. No German-, sails .ilU£K hUELIc I eWMH I ES# and exhibit the new "RANGER.'" You can select the mean the loss of some of their with the loss of 10 per cent (of and the British generals have irticular style suited to your own needs. Boys and young men iu all parts of the country ate the open seas unless in disguise. ruling "Rangers" and taking orders from their friends. They make a good commission on every ships, thus evening up the ratio „ybur total force you prepare -to been guilty of little else. s'lle and so can you. Our great output, perfected methods and machinery enable us to sett Marty more than a million British "quality" Bicycles at prices below all competitors. of strength of the two fleets and retreat with the loss of 15 pier "We ,don't care who get\ the soldiers are abroad, and all MOTORCYCLE AND AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES. Our big, new Catalogue also gives largg in vain the British have hoped cent you had better get undler Boace to these lines at lowest prices. Thousands of our "Bicycle" customers of a generatiottago credit-^-what we want is to win tlieir guns, and the food for both are buying their "Auto" Sundries of us, because they know "Mead" quality and price* are how that the Germans—who are too way and no battalion, regiment, •j this war," said an Englishman always right. men and guns, have been trans WRITE US TODAY. Do not delay. A postal request at a cost of one csnt will bring you the wise-^would come out and do brigade, division corps, or ariipy of the type that has a cold gray DO NOT BUY wonderful bigca talogue. until you get it and our new offersand prices. a by [battle. If the Germans, thought a a ..-and CHICAGO, ILLINOIS is expected to hold after a loss J. L. MEAD CYCLE CO. \»«3, & Sv'iifi