The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-12-25


mlnos the correspondents at the front
mad set the wires singing to the even.
ing editions; for Lanstron had direct.
cd that they be given the run of the
armys lines at daybreak. They told .
OF soldiers awakening after the de.
oauch Of yesterdays fighting. normal
and rested, glowing with the security
OF possession Of the frontier and re-
spending to their leaders sentiment;
OF officers Of the type favored by Par
Tow who would bring the industry that
commands respect to any calling, TAX
ing Lanstron's views as worthy Of
their profession; of that irrepressi-
bic poet laureate of the soldiers, Cap
tain Stransky, T. c. iron cross break.
Ing forth in a new song to an old
tune, expressing his brotherhood ideas
IN We have ours let them keep
theirs" chorus that was spreading from
regiment to regiment
This left the retired officers to grum-
bic in their corners that war was no
longer gentleman's vocation, and ST.
fenced the protests of their natural al
~ In the business of making war,
the noisy element, which promptly
adapted itself to a new fashion in the
relation Of nations. Again the great
square was packed and again a wave
like roar Of cheers greeted the white
speck Of an eminent statesman's head.
All the ideas that had been fomenting
in the minds Of a people for a genera
ton became living force of action to
break through the precedents born
of provincial passion with a new pre-
cedent; for the power Of public opin-
ion can be as swift in it's revolutions
as decisive victories at arms. The
world at large, after rubbing its fore
head and readjusting its eyeglasses
and clearing it's throat, exclaimed:
"Why not! Isn't that what we have
all been thinking and desiring? Only
nobody knew how or where to be-
gin"
The premier of the Browns found
himself talking over the long distance
to the premier of the Grays in as
neighborly a fashion as if they had
adjoining estates and were arranging
matter of community interest.
you have been so fine in waving
an indemnity" said the premier of the
Grays, that Turcas suggests we pay
for all the damage done to property
on your side by our invasion. I'm
sure our people will rise to the sug-
gestion. Their mood has overwhelmed
every preconceived notion of mine. In
place of the old suspicion that
Brown could de nothing except with
a selfish motive is the desire to be as
fair as the Browns. And the practi-
cal way the people look at it makes
me think that it will be enduring.
IT think so, for the same reason"
responded the premier Of the Browns
"They say it is good business. 1t means
prosperity and progress for both
countries"
after all, a soldier comes out the
hero of the great peace movement"
concluded the premier of the Grays.
"A soldier took the tricks with our
own cards. Old Partow was the great
est statesman of us all"
"No doubt of that!" agreed the
premier of the Browns. ITS a senti'
ment to which every premier of ours
who ever tried to down him would
have readily subscribed"
The everyday statesman smiles
when he sees the people smile and
grows angry when they grow angry,
Now and then appears an inscrutable
genius who finds out what is brewing
in their brains and brings 1t to head
He is the epoch maker. Such an one
was that little Corsican, who gave
stagnant pool the storm it needed, un'
til he became overfed and mistook his
ambition for a continuation of his
youthful prescience.
Marta had yet to bear the shock Of
Westerling's death After learning the
manner of it she went to her room
where she spent a haunted sleepless
night The morning found her still
tortured by her Installation of the
picture of him, irresolute as the mol
pressed around the Gray headquar
tiers.
at is as If I had murdered him!'
she said. 81 let him make love to me-
Il let my hand remain in his once
but that was all, Lanny. II couldn'
have borne any more. Yet that wal
enough-enough!"
But we know now, Marta" Ian
stron pleaded, that the premier o
the Grays held Westerling to a com
pact that he should not return aliv
If he lost He could not have won
even though you had not helped u
against him. He would only have los
more lives and brought still create
indignation on his head. His fate wa
inevitable-and he was a soldier"
But his reasoning only racked he