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why not eat whale meat?
A ton of whale meat was sold in this city recently at
10 cents per pound. It has been many years since I ate
whale meat. At that time I was interested in seeing a hun
dred ton whale cut up. There were two strips ot this meat,
weighing, I should judge, several hundred pounds each,
which looked like beefsteak, with no bone, gristle oi an\
other foreign substances. It was about to be thrown
away. It was an economic waste. The whaler cut oil a
nice steak, had it cooked, and lie and 1 ate it. It was de
licious. Not only was the flavor good, hut it as easily
masticated as the choicest tenderloin.
“Why is this wasted?** I asked.
“There is a prejudice against it/' was the reply.
“Whalers eat it, but nobody else wants it.**
Since that time hundreds of tons of whale meat have
been wasted. I am glad to see it come into its own. It would
not surprise me if, in the near future, this much despised
article of diet became a fad, and sold at a fancy price. All
that is necessary is for Teddy Roosevelt to eat a whale
steak and tell people what he thinks about it.—Lx.
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MULE WAS OFFENDED
A newspaper of Grass Valley, Cal., has a report about
a mule in the Empire mine, which is said to have kicked
a man by mistake. The mule is known to every employee
of the mine, 450 in all. and while there is no affection tor
her among 449 of them, they all have a wholesome respect
for her in spite of her contrary disposition. It is a mine
classic that she kicks the air pipe two feet about her head
lor exercise. With Fred Wales, however, it is different.
He has worked with Bessie for 14 years and has become
attached to the animal. He excuses her vagaries as an
indulgent mother condones the actions of a spoiled child.
It is merely a matter of temperament, he says, and the
other men do not understand her. Recently, however, his
faith was shaken temporarily but not for long. In the
physician’s office he took offense at a suggestion that the
mule should be killed on account of her viciousness, and
rushed to her defense. ”It was perhaps my fault, it cer
tainlv was not hers. Bessie either did not know who it
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was when she kicked, or I had forgotten to give her the
usual chew of tobacco. I am willing to take all the blame.”
—Cordova Times.
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the eves of the world. It is the battlefield of \ erdtin. In
i this one battle of Verdun, in six months the losses of
I France exceeded the losses of the Union Armies in our
u hole civil war. The battle of Verdun, involving as much
i lighting as all our civil war, had hundreds of Thennopj
iaes, hundreds of Gettysburgs, but each infinite^ mote
terrible than the world had ever seen before. Most bat
tles last one or two days. This battle has lasted 3o6 days
and is not vet ended. In certain exposed places death was
almost inevitable, but the French youth, regiment after
regiment, went forward to hold them till death. No sui
render, no retreat. It was their mad bravery and divine,
courage that held Verdun. It was the greatest test a na
tion ever endured, and the youth of France never faltered
there, but has gone on day after day, week after week,
month after month, facing death, mutilation and torture
in their most terrible form.
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In other days heroism was a matter ot nouiN * Iiail >
thrilling, unexpected. Most men can face death for a
brief space, but the youth who saved France knew before,
hand what was to come, and lived and moved days, weeks
r.nd months, meeting death in its most mysterious and ter
rible forms. ‘‘He was at Verdun” will be the ultimate
badge of courage for generations to come.
For generations to come the youth of all countiies
will visit Verdun and see the land made holy by the blood
and anguish of hundreds of thousands of young men, who
revealed qualities and endurance surpassing all possible
anticipation; who showed as never before what 1* ranee
is, in courage, self-denial, nobility and infinite enduiance.
As regiment after regiment marched up the single
road that was available, I was told that no one smiled,
but no one hesitated. All the men, munitions and Provi
sions went up this single road, all the wounded were brot
back by this road. It is called the Via Sacra.
Will Irwin said, “I was photographing a regiment as
it marched to Verdun and a French youth called out, ‘You
| are photographing the dead.’ ” Some time, perhaps, the
! v outh of other lands may build a monument on this road.
—S. S. McClure.
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PRO-AMERICAN OR PRO-GERMAN i
T. P. O’Connor, known to the whole English-speak j
ing world as “Tay Pay,” who has served Ireland valiantly
with voice and pen for more than forty years, thirty-sev
en of which have been spent as a member of the House
of Commons, does not mince words in discussing the war
question. As he sees it there is no half-way course open
to men of Irish blood in this country—they are either pro
American or pro-German. In an interview published in
the Brooklyn Eagle the famous Irishman gives expres
sion to the following stirring sentiments:
“I say in all solemnity to men of my race in Amer
ica—and I don’t think that nine hundred and ninety-nine
out of every thousand need a reminder—Remember that
your own country is now in the war against Germany;
that it is in as much as England, in it is much as France,
in it as much as Italy, in it as much as Russia. America
has the right—more than any nation, indeed—to positive
ly demand enthusiastic, united, self-sacrificing, consecrat
ed love to her from the men of Irish blood. America has
been the refuge, the asylum, the savior of our race. Amer-j
C.W. PALMER
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iea is at war again; this time with permany. As at Get
tysburg, where Thomas Francis Meagher led the Irish
regiments to glory and to death, so generals of Irish blood
will lead and die with American soldiers. Again there
will be the Kellys, the Burkes and the Sheas by the tens
of thousands in the American forces by land, by sea. Will
not every patriotic man of Irish race, patriotic to Amer
ica, patriotic to Ireland, st:.nd behind these Irish soldiers
and sailors? What i£ the true alternative of the Irish
American at this hour? It is clear and simple—you must
be either pro-American or pro-German; you cannot be
both.”—Ex.