assure all my countless readers that there will be fighting on the Western
Front during 1917, and, in the words of Mr. Hilary Bullox, "If it is not
prolonged until next year, the present year will certainly see the end of
the War." More I cannot divulge.

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Our Cautious Contemporaries.

"What can be said with truth is that business in the New Loan for the
first two days is easily AZ per cent. better for new money than for the
same period on the occasion of the last loan."--_Evening Standard_.

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"ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS.

State President Fee has requisitioned a large supply of stationery; he
announces that he will at once begin an active canvas of the State to
revive old divisions and organize new ones."--_Texas Newspaper_.

Just as if he were at home in dear old Ireland.

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"Athens, Wednesday.

The ex-Premiers who were consulted yesterday by the iKng, were
unanimously of opinion that the Entente Note was not yesterday by the
King were unanimously as its acceptance would imply that Greece