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THE BATTLE OF MURRAY HILL.

E0PLE who pass the Public Library at the Of Forty
second street and Fifth Washngtons
BrhdsmAy reflect thanks 70 the historians and landmark
ts that they the spot where the Father HE Country
1Ot dshsazeuing battle and lived through Of dark
h0les II his
Thu Battle Street. the Of the morning
Sunday Sept IL, 177s red The Sunday World Magazine
oow, give graphic picture Of Washnstons encounter in tho
Of Manhattan with superior British forces under Sir Henry
ea nearly three weeks after the Battle Of Brooklyn Heghs
Ths Murray Hill skirmish disappointment and wssh.
on said TO have been angry the failure Of his men 10 obey
am that hs dashed hs hat upon the ground They redeemed
tAsmsslves next day 1t Harlem Heights.
TO try to reproduce in Imagination the days when Lexington
s.us was the Boston Post Road Broadway country highway
street lane, and the present Grand Union
HUts corned is we'll worth afternoons stroll the neigh
taood Of this busy and crowded crossrosds to-day
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compete with the
street cars"
Z" Presumably"
said the laundry
man. /" you are
making . sarcas-
tic reference to
the condition Of
our thoroughfares
a. . result Of the
snowstorm. Your
remark carries
the inference that
4 hA nopn rtu,auk
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Co.e(Ths New rork Eesnins wus.d,.
tho uptown sidewnlkH are becou,ane
ciogged with cans OF ashes ana ~
page. Until some genius comes ajons
with q, proposition to dig New Yorf
out OF 4 little snowstorm we1l hsvo
70 Try to kdfp. our feet dry and our
CITY Chamberlain Bruera an n.
nc'ency expert, suggests that the vDv
20 avoid snow trouble 10 10 build Il
iot OF subways for trucks. have Z
better scheme than that. Lst's nui
an awning over tho city"
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engaged 10 MIN.
That IL ono Of
the unwritten So
cial laws. and.
though It m ay
sound arbitrary to
some Of you. there
10 really q good
reason back OF II,
Tho acceptance Of
an expensive gift
. h uld rightly
carry with It q
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ISiIOuBu tho Stuesi
n .. then you
should see some
thing Of the real
misery in the
largest city In tho
world - London
where there IL q
great distinction
Of class an d
where who's who
matters m u G h
mUrs than what's
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WHAT CAN THEY PROVE?

VVHE PUBLIC likely entertain few illusions to the nature
Of the proposed taxi combine between the and
the Yellow Taxsb companies which will seek leave to charge
msre than the legal rates.
combination which, owning nothing but twelve hundred taxi
css valued out pay dividends capitalization
q naturally scratch around find
pei tho public with profits enough make showing
on q, 5000 worth Of watered stock.
A Assistant Corporation Counsel Farley They trying
dividends this water and big salaries their officers and
msuage The authority who, the cits representative,
hs charge Of the taxi suit appeals declaring that with few excep
sus the xsb have acede the fixed by
Ahmanic ordinance" sdds The Masoneamsn Companys
eny books have been able examine These do chow
the new rates Improbable"
Az for the Yellow Tsxsb Comsoy that corporation has
Sy withheld ise from any stempt to do business under
nt sw Ever since the ordinance for which The Evening World
@ IL long snd sucesful fight went into effect the Yellow
py has bssn doing business from vacant lots with sly
sf the part Of s starters business at the public
kauAs.
This e1o00oo0o combine LIST desperate attempt
t @ oomps>s Who banker for the old privilege Of imposing upon
a. public to bring Wall street. methods to bear situation
What On their contentious sgnya Everybody
s Of pFpristoes running .icsb protaby under
W01ans4.
companies committed to policies "hgh finance
e would rsther tho wa than do business til. public
esss ~ - no lev; whose lookout = It but their ownY
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Presents From Young Men.

\ 70 nice girl ever accepts jcweiry
" or other valuable presents from
q young man unless she 10
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THE DOG ON TIE QUAY,
By Landseer.
At the National GoIIery, London.
oo''sas ~: II , Pm: I %S.ss Co.
Rv Epslvn Hamilton Eden.

Dv EpslvN Hamilton Eden.
This u the greatest dog picture
ever painted by the greatest
painter Of dogs and animals
that ever lived. There are those who
Affect q half-sneering liberation for
him and his work and many who will
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begin thas Col oss.has landed at this port
70 take train
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The Weeks Wash
Bv Martin Green

Copyvtsht. 1914. By TAs Prss Publishil
,sIF ! had the money" declared the
head polisher. I'D start, .
Broadway sondola line and
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Are 7 on
Miserable?
By Soekte keae I oeb.

Copyright. 1914, BY The PreAs lhsbilshinS Co.
Tito New York Esenins World.
7 ONDON:-If you on the east side
or the west side or any othor
side ina CINE yourself to be very
unhappy and you can only see lifc
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That celersd Hair.

SCI oGC' ss'o the head poliohAr.
that tho fad Of wearing Green,
blue. pink and saimon.eolossA
hair has already seissd London q.
ciety fofRand will soon invade New
York" ~
I'm for It," declared the iaunArv
man. Let the women wear any colcf
Of hair they like. hut I note thst
male guests At Mrs. Keppel'S patty m
London wore vart-oolorod whlsSacS
And hereby give due warniH9 'thSs
snybody wearing grsan whisisscs M
sisas :. S,: |: Ss:E York ,sas'aas 2 -
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8aask lean taken from ths nsadews was used 10 build
Tsn1aav STATE rea1 according the testimony At the
os1es1s iaquiry.
WAe knows bpe mayts our state Highways have
Oova - - sSao and been lot in the iandscapsf
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Str.aisht From
The Shoulder

Sseesss TeMs n v>"~H e1fsn
OsUrssAG, 1914, By Tue Prsa nsbiialins Co.
tTfs NsW York EesninG Wosldl.
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Why England Does Not Understand Europe--c c,,.t

arguments 1t corresponds most nearly to the
extreme use OF the referendum That is, he
desired that, in any manner that could be
managed, the whole French popuace should
vote directly for what they wanted, without
the interposition of parliament and parlia-
mentary representatives.
They should vote for what they wanted
whether it was a man, like Napoleon, or
system. like peasant proprietorship, or policy
like La Revanche." They should vote for
what they wanted whether it were the crown
ing of Bouanger or the shooting of Dreyfus
Now you have a perfect right to call such
a project impossible. or ridieulousy impossi.
bic. But simply calling it Royalist or re.
dictionary is simply not knowing anything
about it. 1t is the same with the real grounds
Of his fight against the financial portion in
politics. 1t is simply silly and absent-minded
10 say that he was attacking an abstraction
called THE Republic" man does not
wrestle with statue, On the contrary. if he
knows what is good for him, he often worships
II.
Paul Deroulede was convinced, rightly or
wrongly, that particular parliamentary sys.
TEN called for convenience the Third Repub-
lie WAS hoaeycombed with unclean and
secretive plutocracy. lie thought it was, and
mp to a very impressive point he proved it was.
Nobody can pretend that the Panama scandal
was merely rumor from Panama. Nobody
can pretend It was flying falsebood, passing
from one foul lip 10 another. The scandal
WAS ms hard fact MS the gold men eOf, as the
rocks mcu cot, a. the iron to"el1 men bdilt
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already punished the man Larkin for insulting
the King, and processes his readiness to sup
press any demonstration by the man Carson"
Now that description would hardly convey
n true impression to a foreigner 1t would
hardly appear as true account to an English
man or an lrishman, To them it would
be instantly apparent that the person writing
such a sentence did not know what the quar-
rel was about II would be apparent to them
that the writer had never heard of the Treaty
of Limerick never heard Of the Ninetyeght
never heard Of the Manchester Martyrs lone
of whom was a Larkin), never heard of the
Land League, never heard of Parnell, never
heard Of Gladstone, never heard OF Balfour,
never heard of anything. Now that is exactly
The impression produced on my mind by read
ing the statement that Deroulede was a re.
dictionary and allied himself with Royalists
and Clericals. 1t is not untrue as a state,
ment about Deroulede; but II is a statement
which shows that somebody knows nothing
whatever about Deroulede
The poet of the soldiers was in no sort OF
sense a Royalist. He explained again and
again that he would be a Bonapartist II there
were any adequate Bonaparte. AS there was
not, he was a Republican: but he was rather
more like a Red Republican than Royallst
The real point Of his quarrel with modern
France is the point that our press perpetually
misses. by a miracle Of stupidity, lie was in
favor " What has been preached and practised
no France Tor more thdu q hundred years, aud
called lpe Pl.blsclie. Ia Englsa political
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that my shirt should be torn into rags and my
feet wrapped in them. managed somehow to
hobble to the hospital-how, God only knows.
My suffering was terrible.
What change the hospital was for mel
thought it was heaven! The atmosphere, after
the terrible air of the cell, seemed too good to
be true. | thought it must be dream.
In the hospital warders undressed me, and
found blood all over my body where my clothes
had scratched me. They were very angry,
and frightened. One said to me:
BELLS, Bells, why did you not tell us that
the shirt was too rough for you? You are to
be blamed for this. We would have changed
it had we known"
told them that | had complained time after
time, but that they had only laughed They
went very red in the face, and left at once
The doctors gave me very hot bath, and
then operated on my feet at once. ! shrieked
with pain during the operation, and begged
them to put an end to my misery. | tainted
half way, and remember nothing until l found
myself in bed.
My pain had entirely ceased now, and l was
quite happy. 1t was the first time l had been
IN bed since my arrest. l slept for thirty-six
hours without break.
Some days afterWard very important man
arrived from ST. Petersburg, He was making
an inspection of all the prisons. He asked
about the case Of every prisoner, and the
nature of the illness of those in hospital But
SSSu
not come near my bed. l supposed he was
afraid l would tell the truth about my treat.
ment.
In spite of the fact that the nature of the
operation to my feet required that / should
stay in the hospital for at least month, after
twelve days ! was ordered to be taken back
to my CELL although my feet were still terribly
swollen and could not walk.
| cannot describe how felt when was taken
back and placed on the icy asphalt of that cell;
the pain was agonizing. | tainted Some stuff
was put on my feet, and then they again left
me alone. | shrieked until became delirious
with pain. Next day more stuff was placed on
my feet and this went on through that dread.
full winter, until at last the warmer weather
came, when they began to get better
Early in the spring Mr.. Margolin came to see
me. lie told me that there was much talk in
Kiev that they were going to poison me- and
that the poison would be put in the meals
which were occasionally allowed to be brought
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and threw me
out OF the room, but had Anal word to say
~ 'nelh YET AS | got TO the door called out:
You want evidence from a sleeping man.
as you cannot get it from single living soul
awake"
When my friend had finished his story I was
very grateful to him, but at the same time I
was very frightened, because it showed me
the length to which they We're prepared to go
10 get evidence against me. This conversation
took place just before my trial, and it made
me very respondent.
But to return to my story. On the fourth Of
January, 1912, was brought before the prose.
cutlng attorney again. My boots were worn
out, and 1t being bitterly cold winter the
ground deep in snow / asked for another
pair But they refused, saying that was too
comfortable already, ! told them that my feet
were in terrible condition through exposure
10 the icy floor and that l must have boots.
They only laughed.
| ho6bled to the office and saw the attorney
He said to me:
BELLS, have arranged an interview for
you with your wife"
| could not understand his taking the
trouble. Then l learned that it was to gain
my confidence He had been examining my
wife, and he was using her answers to try to
catch me. But he did not succeed. | an
swered his questions, but | could tell him
nothing but what | had said before-that l
was innocent, and knew nothing about the
crime.
When | got back to the prison something
happened to my feet They seemed to give
way, and | fell to the ground When the
warders saw me lying there they thought |
was shammng, and kicked and trod on me,
saying, Get up, you dog!"
You may kick me to DEATH ! replied, but
! cannot get up"
At last they believed that there was some.
thing the matter with me, and called doctor.
lie ordered me to the hospital at once.
But | could not walk there The warders re.
fused to carry me, saying that ! could walk If
| liked. ! don't know how long / should have
been lying there, If another warder, more
kindhearted than the rest, had not suggested
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me nv nv wife Because of these rumors, he
said that in future / had better not eat any
food except the ordinary prison stun, rms
was great disappointment, but ne urged me
to bear this patiently, as we'll as the rest OIL
my treatment
eff you die before the trial. he said, this
black spot of ritual murder will still rest on
Jewry. AT all costs you must live and vindi
cate us ALL"
| swore to endure everything, and after that
fought hardship as never before. If the author
tiles wanted my death made up my mind they
should not have it,
The first of June, 1912, was a great day for
me. Maschkeyitoh, the special attorney, came
to me and told me that he had brought my
wife and children to see me. | suppose he
thought by kindness TO induce me to make a
false confession. But l did not worry about
his reason, | was too happy. had not seen
my family since my arrest, except when the
two boys we're at the police station.
When they came in / just grabbed the baby
in my arms and covered her with kisses. We
chung around one another, and | could have
held them in my arms forever. But then
the gruff voice of the prison officer broke in:
You must give back the child, Bells"
For moment / could not, but had to obey
1t was like tearing out my own flesh We
We're in room filled with wire cages, and
there was not great deal of light When |
LOOK my wife in my arms | could scarcely dis.
tinguish her face. 1t gave me a shock. She
had changed entirely. She was deathly pale,
thln, haggard, delicate looking, and seemed
quite ten years older.
Neither of us could speak word. The tears
rolled down my face and | almost tainted |
felt that my heart would break when l looked
at her. Then heard the voice of the prison
governor saying:
go on, Bells Don't lose the precious mo.
ments"
And | forced myself to talk to her, and tell
her all the news of my life in prison, and my
hopes about the trial coming soon.
fhree weeks after this they allowed me to
see them again. / had been counting the
hours. But the joy each time was almost
wiped out by the hour of parting / was glad
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Ana one iron tower still stands over Paris
as an immortal memory of all that dexteritv
and all that disgrace. And we might as we'll
call the poet quixotic because he pointed to
the Eitte Tower as call him quixotic because
he pointed to the political corruption unen
which such things are built. Men have to dig
nearly as deep as hell to build so high as that
Paul Deroulede was a simple man; his
genius grew great with great events. lie
would not have been a soldier if he had not
been naturally poet. But he could not have
been q poet If he had not been actually A
soldier He understood things by coming in
contact with them as children do; and chill.
dren, being comparatively innocent, always
understand them right.
Deroulede was as men 60. very innocent,
and he always understood things right
In all these things he was in no way alb.
normal; he was in no sense the fanatic and
eccentric he is commonly called. In all these
things he represented thousands and millions
of other modern men, Where he really was OK.
ceptional was in this: that he was something
that was, perhaps, symbolized by his tall stat.
ure lie was something that has seldom been
achieved by any of the children OF men, some.
thing that was not achieved even by Caesars
Wife-and still less by Caesar.
He WAS above suspicion.
Even that grand old tiger whom no fougb,
with tongue and sword, the enemy he pro.
voked and never ceased to provoke. tho great
atheist Clomonccau. never, | think. dared in
doUti bs ia ,Gl,h.
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TTHE comments in the most respectable
English newspapers on the death of
Paul Deroulede, the poet of the soldiers
and the soldier of the poets exhibit queer
and interesting case OF the particular way in
which modern England manages to misunder
stand Europe.
England is q great nation--Christan, and
therefore free; and England has perfect
right to say to Europe what Mr.. Kipng made
Canada say TO the Empire: Daughter am !
in my mothers house, but mistress in my
own"
But the way in which the daughter mis-
understands everything that the mother means
must be quite hesrt-breaking to the old lady.
II Is not at all easy TO analyze errors when
they are so entirely erroneous. II Is always
their character that they do not err in the
words or even err in the facts, but always err
in the truth.
! observe that an excellent English news.
paper says Of Deroulede. ole was reaction.
airy, and in me Dreyius case took the side of
the Royalsts and Clericals.' u is not easy to
utter ones feelings about how true and un.
true that is. II we want 10 realize H. we must
imagine some sentence written by a foreigner
about tho parallel problems that practically
exist IN English politics. II is as II somebody
wrote: Mr.. John Redmond. having taken the
oath OF allegiance, was naturally the defender
the British Grown, which two Irish revolu.
-pniNs, known among their Wild associates
jan i.lrlln and Ned Carson, we're openly defy-
.E bH lssa,!sm me4diled. Redmond has
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oeen terrible. For months had not spoken
10 soul except the warders, and from them
: only received a volley of oaths in reply.
DaE after day heard nothing but the noise of
mem opening and shutting doors, and the Giank
or prisoners outside.
Although this man, PaVlichenko, was in
very dangerous condition himself yet he tried
20 comfort me, telling me that Justice must
prevail and that ! must be set free. When
his own trial came along, he was found guilty
of political ofenses against the Government,
and sentenced to be hanged This was after.
ward changed to deportation TO Siberia for
life. Despite this he was very cheerful all the
time he was with me, and he did his best to
keep up my spirits. ! heard he died before my
trial was ended.
He was a true, loyal friend to me- Two
days before they took him away he was sent
for by the Governor, He found the Office full
of high officials. When he returned saw
that he was shaking like leaf. / asked what
was the matter.
Il don't want to brighten YOU" he replied
but must tell you what happened. The first
thing that the Governor asked me was Are
YOU confined in Bells cell?
:" Yes; Your Excelency' / answered.
You are a Christian, are you not?
Il said / was.
Then, being a Christian said the Gov
ernor you must act as one, and help us solve
the mystery of the murder Of the boy Yuschin
Sky, the poor child who was murdered by some
hend that drinks Christian blood
Il said that would be only too pleased, but
could not see how | could assist.
Has Bells told you that he committed the
murder? went on the Governor. You are with
MIN day and night. Has his conscience pricked
MIN? Have you heard him talk in his sleep?
is there anything at all that you have heard
MN say that would help TO prove him the
murderer? You listen to him carefully.
Your Exceency,' | answered I have
listened to him, very carefully, and the only
thing that | have noticed at all has been his
bitter weeping at nights. / am CONVINCED that
the man in my cell is innocent
when ! said this. the Governor nearly
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ContinuedRe ofRus-
sian Brutality and Oppression
by the Man Whose Farcical
Trial for Ritual Murder"
Aroused the Whole World

WEENBEL BELLS whose trial the charge of ritual
murder" the indignation of the whole civilized
world began the extraordinary of his Russian life and
persecution in this newspaper three weeks
In March, 1911 the body of Christian boy Andrew Yuschnsky
found in few days later Bells honest working
artisan charged with the killing Yuschnsky The
Russian police backed by the powerful antsmi element brought
forth baseess and wicked superstition of ritual murder the
charge that the blood of Christian Is used in Passover
as metve for the death of the boy.
once behind the Bells became apparent
If such charge could be proven" against Bells pOgram
pOgsm could be melted thousands of
the left in Russia oppressed
with still greater cruelty.
After of imprisonment and torture Bells acquitted
He is in Palestine but before he left Russia
his story of the brbaOus conditions
the Russian In his third nsamen told of
his the charge of numbering Yuschinky the
which he subjected by his enemies and closed
chapter with the recital offer by fellow
prisoner his wife. prisoner was snv
although Bells did not know it, and the offer carefully laid
tran could without his glasses and these had
him. He accepted the spys what han
pened then is told in the following chapter.
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Jumped up in the
air. 'Stop!' he yell.
ed. You were not
asked about that
1.-The W ar ders
took hold of me
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Next week Mendel Bells will tell Of the
beginnings of his trial. revealing new and
astonishing details of that judicial farce.
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Just before Christ
mas another pris-
oner, in chains, was
brought to share the
cell with me. | was
very glad of this
The loneliness had
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Chapter 4-.They Try by Torture to Break
His Spirit.
By MendeL Bells

by the Star COMPANY Great Britain Rights Reserved
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
Mrs. Bells, Changed by
the Horrors of Her
Husbands Accusation
and Trial Into an
Old WOman-All
in Two Years.

Il took it in my hands
and tried to warm
them at the flame,
and, stand ing
thus, ! spent
the night"