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In one awful hole ! He didn't see it at all. He just put his foot down and squish ! — he walked 

 on nothing. It is quite imprassible to tell when the ground will give way and a horse vanish 



the reports from this institution proved 

 extremely valuable to the Kaiser's fore- 

 casters, until the British government dis- 

 covered the fact and sent a man-of-war 

 to put this Arctic outpost out of business. 



It is humiliating to confess that the 

 Entente countries were much slower in 

 mobilizing their weather men, but they 

 are now making up for lost time, and all 

 of them have efficient military me- 

 teorological services, supplementing the 

 weather bureaus of peace times. In the 

 British Army there are meteorological 

 units attached to the Royal Engineers. 

 The Italians have established a dense 

 network of weather stations along their 

 battle front. Our own army has a strong 

 meteorological section, under the Signal 

 Corps, officered by experts of the United 

 States Weather Bureau. 



For such undertakings there is only one 

 precedent, and it is pleasant to record 

 that the United States Government was 

 the pioneer. During the Spanish-Amer- 

 ican War our Weather Bureau established 

 a chain of observation stations around the 

 Caribbean Sea, cabled reports from which 

 were the means of protecting the Ameri- 

 can fleet from unpleasant surprises in the 

 shape of W^est India hurricanes. 



However, all the weather forecasters in 

 the world will not be able to nullify the 

 consequences of cutting the Belgian dykes, 

 and so there will probably be mud, and 

 mud, and mud, to the end of the war — 

 and, Ukely enough, after that ! So let the 

 final word of this muddy article be — MUD ! 



A Salesman Who Talks to Himself 

 Instead of to You 



YOUR money back, ladies, if this 

 furniture polish is not exactly as I 

 claim it to be. 



"That's what I said — your money 

 cheerfully refunded if you fail to find this 

 polish the greatest labor-saving — " 



"Look here, mister — you sold me a bot- 

 tle of that polish last week and I am not 

 at all pleased with it." 



"Did you purchase your bottle from me, 

 madam?" 



"You know you sold it to me — why — " 



"Oh — yes ! I recall it now — How — " 



Every shopper in the immediate vicin- 

 ity is by this time attracted to the scene 

 by the controversy. 



"Did you follow the directions care- 

 fully, lady?" 



"I didn't read the directions." 



"Well — how can you expect results — " 



"Yes. I admit I may have used the 

 polish the wrong way. Do you mind 

 showing me how you — " 



"Certainly — to be sure — no trouble at 

 all." 



With a few rapid applications of the 

 polish, the demonstrator converts the 

 surface of a badly stained piece of ma- 

 hogany into a bright, glossy, object. 



During the entire performance no one 

 succeeded in locating the sweet-voiced 

 complainant. The fact is both voices 

 came from the demonstrator who is a 

 ventriloquist. 



