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ra bbit. Oh. gee" cried Billy, in ridi-
Guile, as Molly tried to push morsel Of
her Jelly cake into the mouth OF her inan-
innate pet.
"'Taint q rabbits a hare" put in
Bess, only to receive the brusque re-
joinder:
"Oh, get out"
II say it's a hare, cause the teacher
told us so at school. and I guess sne
knows. It's hares, and not rabbits, that
bring the pretty eggs on Easter eve"
oh what's the differ ence?" asked JACK,
in derision. They're both the same
hares and rabbits
'"rhat shows what you know" retorted
his sister "Hares are born with their
eyes open and rabbits aren't, and. besides
hares can see behind EN- as rabbits can l.
And we never had Easter hares here TIL
the Germans came over and brought
them. There. now, Mr.. Smarty, l guess
l know
MY sakes! What the chiilun don't
And what else did yer teacher learn yo
about Easter. hOney?"
well, she said that once upon time
all Easter eggs were dyed red TO repre-
sent the blood Of Jesus and that pickln
eggs was played in England long before
we knew Of it here"
That's nothing to what 1 know in.
terruDted Jack. "I bet you can't tell
where they see the sun dance on Easter
Il don't believe it dances anywhere
more than it does here observed his
sister.
was teliip' us that in Ireland they all
used to get up at clock on Easter
nornin' to see the sun dance in honor Of
the resurrection. and that II you could
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new confusion. When NJ BRAND mob
ili1ed the strikers and ordered them as
soldiers to return to work they succeeded
IN aveng1ng themselves by changing the
labels on cars, so that merchandise
destined to Havre went to Marseille OF.
Bordeaux, where ii was not wanted and
where no one knew what to do with il.
AS result the utmost confusion still
reigns.
The Paris Matin declares that go lost
wagons were found in the forest Of st.
Germain, and 200 at Maison LATTE. At
Poissy train loaded with coal. potatoe.
and automobiles was abandoned for over
thirty days, and at ArgenteuiI a mer-
chandise train lay without being moved
for forty days. When NJ. Jean Dupy,
minister OF commerce. was at Havre,
January 13 a representative Of the Allan
line told him that for forty-three days
5000 sacks of corn had been waiting 10
be moved. Foreign shipments destined
to Havre on the way to America have
been diverted recently 10 Mediterranean
ports or to Antwerp in order that they
shall not be lost In the confusion.
During my own investigation a large
shipping agent told me OF some incl
dents at Havre. In one case several
closed cars containing cattle were opened
only to find the animals dead from star
walton; one firm having asked for an
empty car found II full Of gunpowder.
and on another occasion. when the
guard took special precautions TO watch
overnight a car OF dynamite, the re-
ceivers found In the morning not dyns-
mite but potatoes.
This confusion among shipping how
ever. is not confined to the state line,
but exists more or less every where. Side
tracks are so loaded with cars coming
from no one knows where-ell the papers
OF Identification having been destroyed
by the Str1kers-that trains cannot side
track for expresses. and there have been
lnterminable delays as consequence.
NO one can estimate the damage by the
loss OF perishable merchandise and law
ned dates. In some cases whole car loads
or cattle have been found dead OF neglect
and starvation The writer is informed =
by the president Of the syndicate OF horse p
traders that a horse shipped from Char +.
tres to Paris, distance of fifty-6ys
miles by express, took seyentytwo hours
to arrive. which gives some idea OF what.
may happen to cattle shipped by ordinary
freight
french of.icialS are perfectly alive to the
distressing situation and are doing every
thing possible to remedy it. NJ. C1aveille,
one or the ablest railroad men in France.
has been put In command OF the system
to reorganize it, He Immediately cut
OFT large number of trains in order
to free the track, and ordered out the
reserve locomotives to disncunber ths
congested lines. His second step waz
to reduce the speed OF trains until az
the lines are reinforced or rebuilt.
Copyright In the Omitted States by Curtis Brown
All British rights reserved
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original purpose Of ignoring the police
man.
Il guess few Of YOU men would get off
with whole hides If you got your just
deserts.
Very likely. man: and maybe that's
why l like Hamerica better. But let me
tell the little gal ere as 'ow hegg rollin'
come to Washington. The idea was
brought hover by the Scotch. as used to
roll their bannocks down the ills IN their
country-them was their little cakes made
of hoat or barley meal, baked on the
Members. But these bannocks got out Of
style ere. and they took to rollin' hesgs
hinstead.'
.-Humph." grunted Aunt Martha. and
Officer Hawkins passed on to impart his
learning to a pretty nurse at the next
tree.
Give me your broken aigs?" begged
the next intruder a very dusky col
ored urchin, whose appearance had
caused Mandy's under lip to assume
formidable proportions.
"Whaffer?' demanded that indig-
naively. rive done ct 'leben already"
''Gwiffen here! Gwiffen here!' Mandy
exploded. You Sc a reg'lar hawg. 80 is.
Gwiffen here. Yo' good for nothin' mig
gah.''
Here's one" said Bess, rolling the
swarthy young glutton his twelfth rnorsel.
much to her nurses disgust But the
object Of her wrath did not devour Bess'
gift. Instead he tripped with it over the
grass to a safe distance, whence he let it
fly at Mandy. 1t was a good shot and
added its yellow to the wonderful COM
bination of colors on her Easter bonnet.
Then they had a terrible time with
Mandy.
'Yo doggone, good-fo' -nothin' niggah,
Yo' bullet-headed coon. Yo' kinky-haired
brack trash. Yo' come here an I'll
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skin yo' alive. I'll bust yo monkey face
in. I'll crack yo' cobbie-stone haid.',
These were only a few of the asper-
sions which Mandy heaped upon her tor
and Bess busted herself brushing the
egg fragments from the gorgeous but
despatched millinery.
But just then the band struck up-ths
wonderful Marine Band that plays at a. L
the Presidents entertainments. No hui
man force could now have held Mandy to
earth Bursting into a broad grin she
yanked up the lunch basket and coats.
and waddIed hurriedfy toward the hand
stand. leaving the others TO follow I'm
her wake best they might.
She's taken on this way ever since
President Harrison started this business
Of having the band here children's day."
said Aunt Martha, rather the worse for
breath. And 1 DO hope she won't get
to dancing again. that's all"
''Woop-ee. He's comm yelled Jack.
throwing his cap into the air and lead
ing the way to the space just in front of
the stately mansions south balcony.
Here. you Mandy, come take Molly
and hold her up to see him. commanded
Aunt Martha.
Then there was a thunder OF hand
claps and a flutter Of hundreds OF wav-
ing handkerchiefs. as there stepped onto
the high portico figure in somber g1rb.
followed by respondent army officer In
gold braid and with dazzling side arms.
The President dotted his high silk hat,
bowed and continued to beam upon his
myriad guests.
rs that his papa" asked little Molly.
who was threatening to swallow q finger.
Whose papa. honey?'
THE Presidents
For the Lawd. chile" chuckled Mandy
Why the Presidents the settled one.
That there young gemmen's just one Of
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If it was grown-up folks he wouldn't
have to ben over so far
And just then Billy came back with
news to relate.
Five kids in the guardroom already"
he announced with more amusement than
alarm.
What did they do?' inquired Bess.
''Do nothin'. Got lost"
Poor little tots. Are they cry1ng?' IN
quired Aunt Martha.
You bet they're not cryin'. Eatin apples
the sergeant gave 'em and havin' fine
time. He says there'll be two dozen OF
'em before the days done
Here comes Jack back! Goody! How
many" called Bess
Seventeen. Say. that picker OF yours
was a dandy Those kids over there think
its guinea and have got cold feet!'
Jack displayed his trophies with great
gusto, and the four youngsters now ran
up a little knoll TO contend for the honor
Of rolling an egg the farthest without
breaking it. the winner claiming for its
owner all unsuccessful contestants.
Thus they played until it was time to
unpack the lunch baskets, when all
joined in jolly picnic upon the grass.
mo. you can't have a bite of cake till
you've finished up the sandwiches" was
the law now laid down by Aunt Martha.
And you boys stop stuffing your food.
You have the whole day to play. Molly.
you've done nothing but MUNICH cakes all
day, and for the life of me | can't see
how you can hold another crumb.
Bunny wants a take. too rejoined
that little glutton. indifferent TO her
aunt'S observations.
Look at her tryin' to feed toy Easter
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trary to what many expected, did not
have a bad effect on the receipts of the
railroad. According to the budget for
1917, which is ba sed on preceding budgets,
the old state railway is actually making
money. the receipts being SlS.O51 600 and
the expenditures Sl05l4.SfO thus showing
an apparent profit of $2,J36, 16O
Business men, however. do not see il
quite that way. According TO statistics
presented to the chamber of deputies by
the reporter of the 1911 budget, the total
cost up TO January l. 1910, of establish
ing this system. which comprises about
1.s54 miles of railroads. amounts to SlSi-
100000. which represents an annual tinan-
cial charge Of SS.OO00OO. Unless one
writes off the capital. therefore, which
apparently the socialists already have
done mentally, the old state railroad, in
stead of making 81. 100000 annually. ia
really losing $5.SOo.OOo But there Is still
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the old state railway. are just the re-
verse of satisfactory and there can be no
argument about that.
According to some experts, before the
system can he put into first-class order
the government will have to rebuild the
entire system of tracks and most of the
depots- and replace most Of the rolling
stock. This will take ten years time and
will cost over 5000. 100000. Whether the
government can meet these exigencies,
thus averting a crash which would make
the Panama scandal fade into insignifi-
canoe. remains to be seen. This depiOr-
able state of affairs is the direct result
of former mismanagement and neglect on
the part of the old private company, and
the state is now reaping the harvest. The
state, however. is indirectly TO blame, for
instead of taking over the railroad i'm
mediately, the politicians, as is usually
the case, talked about buying the rail-
road for ten years. III the state is
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the Western Railway Company. I Go
not think any inventory. after fraudulent
bankruptcy, could be more overwhelm-
ing"
Most damagins statements are made By
NJ. Fernand EnSerand, deputy from Cal
vados. The line to Paris from Cherbourg
was constructed in 1916 and part of it
has not been reinforced for twenty years.
On the line. he says, there are dangerous
curves, insufficient signals and in some
places It is almost impossible to see the
signals. On the line from Caen to Cher
bourg. a distance OF eighty-five miles the
rails are nine yards long and weigh only
eighty-four pounds and their laying is de-
fective.
Some time ago NJ. Engerand. while
waiting at a station on the Paris-Cher-
bourg line, examined the rails and with
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administration

bourS line. The line under the old COM
pany management was never good and
was in no state to support great speed. 9"
Even some OF the state improvements
have increased the danger Some of the
new locomotives. known the Pacific"
type. have created a new danger. These
locomotives are good. but very large.
From the locomotive hood 1t is difficult
for the engineer to see signals built to
be seen from small. low. old-type loco
motives. And recently when one of the
Pacific locomotives was leaving the Care
des Batignolles. according to this deputy,
it actually crushed the rails. and the di-
recting engineers refused TO allow the
engine. owing to its weight, to cross the
bridge at Asnieres.
Added to all the natural trouble left to
the state as a legacy by the old COM
pany. the recent railroad strike created
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iron which he presented to his colleagues
in the chamber of deputies. saying he
could have brought along fifty more SIM
liar pieces. Ten minutes later, he says,
the transatlantic express passed over
these rails at Seventy-ffve miles an hour.
shaking the whole station. September 10
last the 'rapide'' from Paris to Cher
boure. while going at the rate Of seventy
miles an hour. left the track at Bernay
and eleven deaths resulted. According to
a subsequent report made by the minister
Of public works, the cause Of the accident
was due to the bad state Of the roadbed.
Repairs at this very spot were arranged
for in 1909. but had not been done when
the accident took place.
IF one had wished to cause a catas-
trophe at Bernay, said N. Engerand,
''one could not have proceeded differently.
At Bernay there is dangerous curve,
and it has always been signaled as the
most dangerous point on the Paris-Cher-
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another way of looking at it: When the
railway was i'm private hands the whole
southwest Of France suffered, and no eX-
pert statistician could begin to compute
the damage done to merchants. manufac-
turerS and agriculturists.
BY giving this whole section decent
TRANSFORMATION facilities for it's products
the indirect benefits from the railway run
into millions. And if the state finds the
purchase money from taxation. instead OF
losing S6,OoOOO0 a year it is actually maxi
ing SoJOO,O0O on a capital of S20O.COD. Geo.
or Il per cent, not TO mention the indirect
benefit to the farmers. 1t is well argued.
moreover, that France does not exploit
her wagon roads from the capitalistic
viewpoint, getting direct return on the
money they cost. SO why make dstinc-
ton In the case of railroads?
The conditions on the Western railway.
recently taken over by the state. and
which is being run in &C .lurcton with
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road systems-the old state railway line,
which runs into the sou invest of France,
and the second known as the Western
railway, which has been giving all the
trouble.
The first state railway dates back to
1873 At that time certain number OF
companies, owning the concessions or
franchises to construct and run railways.
notably in the southwest of France, found
they could no longer make money out of
these lines. and still less were they able
to construct new ones. In order, there
fore. to safeguard the commercial. in
dustrial and agricultural interests in this
section OF the country the state bought
the lines which were divided up among
ten small companies. without cohesion.
competitors with the great railway sys-
TENS and without defense. There was no
intention then of creating a state rail
way system. The idea was that the state
should organize and operate these lines
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The Better Way.

z EX-SENATOR DEPEw, at the Uni-
- versity Clubs recent dinner in WASH
ington. said OF a certain reform:
AS / take my farewell of politics.
would tell my reforming friends that
they are going about this business In the
wrong way. would refer them to
Grants remark about the stream.
When Grant was President. q south
erner came TO see him about an appro-
priation TO have a certain stream dredged.
- Let's see.' said Grant, didn't i cross
that stream
You certainly did, Mr.. President
said the southerner.
Grant unused moment, chewing his
cigar. Then he said:
Look here, why don't you macadamixs
u!"
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deaths We're eighty. and, as since then
twelve more passengers were killed in
the triple collision of February II at
Courville. the total massacre amounts to
ninety-two.
'Three-Quarters of the accidents" &C
cOrding to the late minister Of public
works. were due TO the violation of
regulations" Under the system inStitut-
ed by the late director, recently super
seeded by the government. disorder
reigned from top TO bottom, and the
minister himself described it as organ
lied scientific incOherence.''
Just how the state railway fell into
anarchy and chaos is a story which gives
the key to the whole situation. In order
TO see clearly. therefore. why the Anleri-
can boat train expresses must run over
rails laid down over thirty years ago,
it is necessary to go back a few years.
II should be remembered that there are
involved in this muddle two distinct rail-
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L1TTLB GUESTS ARRIVING

disappeared. too He was off for tour
of inspection around the semi-circilar
park. where the great fountain was play
ing and where the early spring flowers
were minGling their radiance with the
gay clothes Of the romping children.
Them aigS may be all very fine OBJ
served Mandy as she removed the shell
of an unsuccessful Combatant. and pre-
pared to MUNICH it. "All very fine, but
wasn't they gorgeouser still. Miss Mar
thy, when l used to sew EN- UP in calico
fer the massa, and bile EN- till the fig
gers come off onto 'em, and left EN- coy
cred with patternS?'
Yes, but youngsters d rather make a
mess dyeing them these days added
Aunt Martha "And do you remember
how we used to write our initials on eggs
with candle-grease. then dye them and
take the grease off afterwardc"
81 shO do. missile. And it do seem but
yestiddy when 1 done took yo and the
massa up to the Capitol TO de fust time.
when de chiliun done all their aig rollin
dar, down the lawn on this side. And
don't | remember how the young massa
carried on when the old massa he read
outen the paper that the police WASH
gwine to allow no chillun there on Eas-
ter Mondays no mo-. and how ne done
heerd afterward that Mrs. Hayes had in
vited all of the chillun in town to come
to this here lawn and roll their aigs to
their hearts content?"
Ihat was the nfSt time we DIouS III
the boys father here Aunt Martha
recalled. Mrs. Hayes was good
hearted, motherly woman, and she was
never too busy to play games with
little Fanny and Scott"
And do yo' mind the time, chile.
when we took the younger chillun to
the fust aig rollin' Of Mr.. Cleveland's?
Good grandfathers alive! Will I ever
forgit that day."
1.-The time Of the JAM"
''Yas. 'em; that war when Mr.. Cleve-
land warn't married yit, an his sister
war a-keepin' house fer him. lot of
folks was in the east room. and it got
noised about that he war a-comin
down to shake their hands after lunch.
How the chillun got hold of the news
the Lawd Knows. but they crammed
into that there room like they was to
n camp meetin. The usher men was
for clearin' 'em out. tell the President
he sent word to leave EN- stay. But
after he had shook hands with two or
three hundred of 'em he had to give
it up.
"'The pore mans backs near broke,
says one of them usher men 70 me.
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professionally. finally turning them back
again to private owners AS the rail-
roads belonging to these ten small COM
panies interlaced with the great Orleans
railway system. the state. by exchanging
certain small pieces Of railroad with this
company. and by the building of few
connecting lines. succeeded finally in
forming fairly cohesive system of It's
own.
From the very first the big railway
companies Disseminated against this
state-owned line, charging it exorbitant
prices when cars were forced to traverse
their lines. but in spite of this unfair
treatment the state railway "prospered,"
as NJ. Beshard, a deputy. puts it, and
was the first railway in France to intro
duce corridor and refrigerator cars and
heated cars for perishable merchandise,
and was the first line to carry third-class
passengers in express trains and heat the
third-class cars. These innovations, con-
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OLD Junk. Running on
~ Rotten Rails, Endangers
the Lives of Hundreds of
American and English Visit
ors to Paris $500, 100000
Needed to Make the Line
Emeient-State Bled by the
Capitalists Who Made No
Repairs for Ten Years and
Unloaded the Stock on Peas
ants and Small Merchants
Whom the Government Was
Bound to Protect Ninety
two Persons Killed in Six
Months-Eforts at Reform.
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'Stung.'
But grown folks amt allowed in with
I've taken in nine folks already. and
with another dime I'll have me dollar
We'll. TO lands sake"' exploded old
Mandy Hurry up Yer, yo' chillun, or
dis white trash'll git yer aunty's good
At last the little party was reunited and
the policeman told them off at the gate.
to make sure that no adult should enjoy
came to take care OF one of the little
guests.
rs that him." asked Molly. us that
the President
dent, Oh. gee:'' rose the voices of the
boys in ridicule.
Never mind. honey" Mandy assured
their little cousin. "Yo' alTH see the
President TO long. Keep yer eyes on
that there round porch up there whar
them white pillars is and you'll see him
come out and take off his kaig hat and
make a bow"
They soon found a vacant spot of green
grass where. with groanS and grunts
Aunt Martha and Mandy set down the
lunch baskets. spread out the coats and
seated themselves upon those pieces Of
apparel. partly to assure the latter s
safety and partly to protect their own
health.
Look out for guinea eggs-' Billy ad-
monished his companions. They'll bust
chicken eggs every time, when it comes
to picking.'
"They won't fool me with EN- Bessie
replied. with confidence. They're speck-
led, cause / saw them down at grand
mas"
''Speckled. nothing!' Jack reioined
Not after these fresh guys have soaked
EN- in vinegar. That takes the specks
off of emf
Each had now claimed his basket of
eggs, which Mandy had hard-boiled Sat
urday and which all hands had dipped in
the radiant dyes upon that busy Easter
eve.
I'll pick you, No guinea about this
And with this challenge Jack grasped a
red egg FIRMLY in his fingers, exposing
only the point. Bessie did likewise. The
two points came together and Jack with
drew his egg to find that it's exposed end
had collapsed during the impact. Then
Billy also lost TO Bess, but when Jack
lost twice again he bought her warrior
for nickel and boldly sailed forth with
it to neighborins crowd of boys.
Il hope he wins a lot said Bessie.
then Wen have a good time rolling en-"
But Molly could not answer. She was up
to her ears in a gingerbread horse Billy