Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-16

rendering OF the Hugenots. A VeritaD f,te
sisterhood OF blondes willing TO show
off Count Serg1us to some advantage
came from time to time to his box
and was by him visited IN turn.
Officers In uniform crowded the 10Y
ers and talked in loud tones during
the finest passages A general sense
of unrest made itself felt everywhere
as though all understood the danger
which threatened the city and the
precarious existence it's defenders
must lead When they quilted the
theatre and turned into one of the
| military clubs for supper, the com
mon excitement was even more mark
ed and ubiquitous enough to- arrest
the attention even Of such a faneur
| as Sergius.
aThese fellows are sitting down to
supper with bombs under their
chairs - he said soto svoce. That il
| to say, each thinks that a bomb Id
there and hopes that it will Kill his
| neighbor. We have no sympathy In
our public life here-the conditions
, are altogether against it. Imagine
| five hundred men upon the deck of3a
| ship which has struck rock. and
| consider what opportunities there
| would be to deplere the drowned. In
Russia each plays for his own, safety
| and does not care rouble what be.
comes of man next door. Such \
| fact is both our strength and our
weakness-our strength because op.
portunities make men, and our weak
ness because we have no unity OF
plan which will enable us to fight
such combination as is now being
pitted against us. myself believe
that the old order Is at an end. That
is why | have villa in the south ct
France and some excellent apartments
in Paris"
"You believe that the Revolution
aries will be victorious?" Alban ask
ed in his quiet way.
II believe that the power is passing
from the hands Of all autocrattc gov
ernments. and that some phase Of
socialism will eventually be the policy
| of all civilized nations"
'Then what is the good of going TO
England, Count, If you believe that It
| will be the same story there?" s.
1t Is only step on the road. You
will never have a revolution in your
country, you have too much common
sense. But YOU will tax your
bourgeois until you make him bank
| rupt, and that will be your way It
having all things in common. In
America the workingman Is too we'll
off and the country Is too young to
permit this kind of thing yet. Its
day will be much later-but 1t will
come all the same, and then the
deluge. Let us rejoice that we shall
not see these things in our time. II
is something to know that our
champagne is assured to u.s.
He lifted a golden glass and drank
vague toast heartily Others In
the club were frankly intoxicated and
many heated scene marked tbs
progress of unceremonious and ina.
promptu revels. Young officers, wha
carried their lives in their hands
every hour, showed their contempt
Of life in many bottles Old men, stern
and gray at dawn, were SO many bah
bling imbeciles at midnight. The
walters ran to and fro ceaselessly
their faces dripping with perspiratior
and their threats hoarse with shout
Ing. The musicians flddled as though
the end of all things was at hand and
must not surprise them at q broker
bar. In Russia the scene was
familiar enough. but to the stranger
incomprehensibie and revolving
Alban felt as one released from piI
Of gluttony when at three in the morn
ing Sergius staggered to his feet ant
bade servant call him in drosky.
1--WE have much to do tomorrow
, he muttered. much to do--and then
ali, my friend, If we only knew wha
: We meant when we say and then
: CONTINUED in Next Issue.)