The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-19

stance of the splendor of this quality. upon that they were all agreed.
 When at last the company about stIle tables broke up the king found himself br1nming over with peculiar affec- t1on and admiration for Leblanc. Be made his way to him and drew him aside and broached what he declared was small matter There was he said. certain order in his gift fha4 unlike all other orders and decoraf4ons in the world, had never been corrupf- ed. It was reserved only for elderly men of supreme distinction. the aeute- ness Of whose gifts was already fouch ed to mellowness, and it had fncludea the greatest names Of every age so far as the advisers of his family han boa4 able to ascertain them. At presenf the king admitted, these naaftere f,f stars and badges were rather obscursN by more urgent affairs; for hia own part he had never set any va1ue 4lrlsn them at all, but a tine uoight cGr1S when they would be at least 4ntezs,s- Ing. and, in short, he wished to con fer the Order of Merit upon Teblapc. Ills sole motive in doing So. he ad6ed was his strong desire to siRna1iEs hIs personal esteem. He laid his hand upon the Frenchmanss shoulder sWTsr said these things with an almost l Fl erly affection. Leblanc received thir proposal with modest couGusioua tlst greatly enhaneed the kings optn4o1 a.f his admirable simplicity. He p.afns out that, eager as ha was to snaAchl at the profered Ndistdnettons it mighk af the present stage appear 1nvtdRous, ana he therefore suggested that the com ferring of it should be postponed Hntll it could be made the crown and con elusion of lis services The king wac unable to shake this resolution and the two men parted with expEesaons e mutual esteem
 The king then summoned BIRIuin in order to make short note of a nun sber Of things that he had said during the day. But after about twenty min utes' work the sweet s1eepfness of the mountain air overcame him, ana he dismissed Firmin and went to bed and fell asleep at once, and slept with ex- treme satisfaction. He had had an ac- tive, agreeable day
 The establishment 6f the new op5eE that was thus 50 humanIy begun was If one measures 1t by the standard oe any preceding age, rapid process. The lighting spirit Of the world was ex- hausted. Only here or there did fierce
 
 batfVe side in human affairs had been monstrously exaggerated by the acct dents of political separation. This now became lumindusly plain. An enor- nous proportion of the force that sus- tained arnaameats had bean nothine more aggressive than t1le fear of war and warlke netRhbors It @ dDuhf. fuI if any large section Of tEe n1an ae- tualIy enlisted Cor dghtfng ever d sasr5 tinne really hpneered and tEkiZtsd 1oe bl0odslaed and dangaEs That ta oe appetite was probably never Yay strong in the species a9tzE7 tIla EGg1lea stage was past. Inc army lg sssl slars feasi0n, in which k1IE1ng had hecu G I disagreeable pusilsa zsg4El tsz eventful certainty IG one naRIs tha I old newspapers and ol ltauf i time, which did 50 uznch b beaIp Ellili- tarlsm alive, one fffH sgeEss l3tila iSiiso1Is | glory and adpenture and etz1t ! hazping on the dasaRreeab q s,s f vas1on and subs at9on. In ollS militarism was funk z1le bazR resolution of tho arrned EsETapG oG fsaa { twentieth century was f11s Eeso2Utpu { of dercely frightened sheepstO pfur b. E And now that it's weapons were t1t pIoding in it's hands EzzeoEs szVsssclIys too eager to drop them and ah1nf fs this fancted refuge ef violence
 For 8 time the Whele world had len shocked into franlxness; nearly an the | clever people who had hitherto sns- tained the ancient beIi3gerent RepaEzl- tions had now been brought to realize I the need for simplicity Of attitude and openness of mind, and in this atnos- phere of moral renascence there was t little attempt to get. Regot5ablea ead vantages out of resistance to the new i order. Human beings are foolish [ enough, no doubt, but few have I stopped to haggle in a fire escape. Ina { council had it's way with them. The | band of patriots who seized the | laboratories and aFsenaI just outside { Osaka and tried to rouse Japan to 1s- volt against inclusion in the Republic of mankind, found they had mtseaI- i cu1ated the national pride, and met the 1 swift vengeance of their own country men, That light in the arsenal was a vivid incident in this closing chapter | of the history of war. To the last the i s'patrietso were undecided whether in ] the event of a defeat they would ex- pIode their supply of atomic bombs or not They were fighting with swords outside the Iridium doors, and the mod | crates of their number were at bay and f on the verge of destruction; only ten l indeed remained unwounded when the ! republicans burst into the rescue.
 (To Be Continued