June 22, 1917. 
Has Gone to the 
Colors 
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The Kid has gone to the Colors 
And we don’t know what to say; 
The Kid we have loved and cuddled 
Stepped out for the Flag today. 
We thought him a child, a baby, 
With never a care at all; 
But his country called him man-size— 
And the Kid has heard the call. 
The Kld 
He paused to watch the recruiting 
Where, fired by fife and drum, 
He bowed his head to Old Glory 
And thought that it whispered ‘‘Come!”’ 
The Kid, not being a slacker, 
Stood forth with patriot joy, 
To add his name to the roster 
And, God! we’re proud of the boy! 
The Kid has gone to the Colors; 
It seems but a little while 
Since he drilled a schoolboy army 
In a truly martial style. 
But now he’s man, a soldier, 
And we lend him a listening ear; 
For his heart is a heart all loyal, 
Unscourged by the curse of fear. 
His dad, when he told him, shuddered, 
His mother—God bless her!—cried; 
Yet, blest with a mother nature, 
She wept with a mother pride. 
But he whose old shoulders straightened 
Was granddad—for memory ran 
To years when he, too, a youngster, 
Was changed by the Flag to a man! 
—W. M. Herschell. 
Positions as Typewriters in Quartermaster 
Corps. 
The United States Civil Service Com- 
mission announces examinations for type- 
writer only to be held on June 30, 1917, 
for the Field Service, in the First U. 5. 
Civil Service District, which comprises the 
New England states, as a result of which 
it is expected that a large number of ap- 
pointments will be made to positions in 
the Quartermaster Corps, in naval estab- 
lishments, and in other branches of the 
Government Service in the New England 
States. 
In the State of Massachusetts, these ex- 
aminations will be held in Boston, Brock- 
ton, Fall River, Fitchburg, Greenfield, 
Lawrence, Lowell, New Bedford, North 
Adams, Pittsfield, Salem, Springfield, and 
Worcester. 
The usual entrance salary for this posi- 
tion is $900 or $1,000 a year. It is ex- 
pected that practically all who qualify 
under this examination will be offered ap- 
pointment. Qualified persons, both men 
and women, are therefore urged to make 
application for this examination at once. 
The examination has been modified and 
is much easier than heretofore. It con- 
sists of the following subjects: Spelling, 
Copying from Rough Draft (typewriting), 
Copying from Plain Copy (Typewriting), 
Time (consumed on typewriting tests), 
Penmanship, Letter Writing, and Arith- 
metic. 
Applicants must have reached their 
eighteenth birthday on the date of the 
examination, and must be citizens of the 
United States. 
Applicants should apply at once for ap- 
plication blank, Form 1371, stating the 
title of the examination desired, to the 
Secretary of the First United States Civil 
Service District, Post Office Building, 
Boston, or to the Secretary of the United 
States Civil Service Board at any place a smile—that was a check, 
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Gloucester and Manchester, Mass. 
where the examination is to be held. 
Applications should be properly executed, 
excluding the medical certificate, and filed 
with the District Secretary at Boston in 
time to arrange for the examination at 
the place selected by the applicant. 
Tuat PAINED EXPRESSION. 
Ever note the expression on per- 
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sons’ faces as they scan the contents 
of their mail? First there is an ex- 
pression of surprise; they come upon 
a bill they thought was paid. Then 
An ex- 
pression of disgust indicates a lot of 
junk from some firm wanting to sell 
them a lot of land in Florida, And 
for every letter they look, over there 
is a different expression. It 1s one 
way of studying human nature to 
watch them.—Gloucester Times. 
One cannot always be sensible, 
you say. Very well. One can at 
least emulate the example of the old 
lady who was “determined to en- 
deavor to try —Johnston, 
