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"WE GIVE OUR SONS."

Such our proud cry--a vain and empty boast;
Love did not ask so great a sacrifice;
The first _reveille_ found you at your post;
You knew the cost; clear-eyed you paid the price;
Some far clear call we were too dull to hear
Had caught your ear.

Not ours to urge you, or to know the voice;
No stern decree you followed or obeyed;
Nothing compelled your swift unerring choice,
Except the stuff of which your dreams were made;
To that high instinct passionately true,
Your way you knew.

We did not give you--all unasked you went,
Sons of a greater motherhood than ours;
To our proud hearts your young brief lives were lent,
Then swept beyond us by resistless powers.
Only we hear, when we have lost our all,
That far clear call.

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A Non-Stop Service.

The following announcement was recently made at a Liverpool church:--

"The service to-night will be at six o'clock, and will be
continued until further notice."

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"Mr. Butcher expressed his thanks to Mr. Wood for his kind
words, and said it was a great satisfaction to know that his
efforts had been appreciated, and very gratifying to be thanked
by one of the staff. He might reply in the words of Betsy
Twigge, 'Changing the name, the same to you.'"

_Ashbourne Telegraph._

We note, but do not approve, the change.

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"Washington, Friday.

Sir Cecil Spring Rice has been instructed to apologise for the
action of the British Governor at Trinidad in failing to return
the call of the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. McAdoo, on the
latter's visit on board the American cruiser _Tennessee_."

_Exchange Telegraph._

Much McAdoo about nothing.

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The _Evening News_ publishes an account of a conversation between
"Prince Henry of Prussia (the Kaiser's brother) and Admiral Issimo, of
Germany." The Issimos are a most distinguished fighting family (of
Italian origin), and whenever they have adopted either a military or
naval career have invariably come to the very top.

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WAKE UP, ENGLAND!

[Illustration: The Sun (_to Householder_). "NOW, THEN, WHY WASTE YOUR
DAYLIGHT? SAVE IT AND GIVE