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The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02

spent with his maps, and his bookA, and his figures; then he went to his broker with a list of railroads.
 Get me what stock you can of these" he directed. Pick it up az quietly as possible"
 The broker looked them oger and elevated his eyebrows. There was not a road in the list which was i'm portant strategically, but he had ceased to ask questions of Edward Allison.
 Three days later Allison went into the annual stockholders meeting of the L. and c. railroad, and registered majority of the stock in that insig- nificant line, which ran up the shore opposite Crescent island, joined the Towando Valley shortly after it's emer- gence from it's hired entrance into New York, ran for fifty miles over the roadway of the Towando, with which it had a longtime tracking contract, and wandered up into the country, where it served as an outlet to cer- tain conservatively profitable terri tory.
 The president reached for his gayel and called the meeting. The stock holders, gray and grave, and some with Watery eyes, drew up their chairs to the long table; for they were direc- tors, too. They answered to their names, and they listened to the min utes, and waded mechanically through the routine business, always with their gaze straying to the new force which had come among them. Every man there knew all about Edward E. Ali. son. He had combined the traction in- terests of New York by methods as logical and unsympathetic as geom- etry, and where he appeared, no mat ter how pacific his ayoWed intentions, there were certain to be radical up heavings.
 Election of officers was reached in the routine, and again that solemn in- quiry in the faded eyes. The official slate" was proposed in nomination Edward E. Allison voted with the rest Every director was reelected!
 New business. Again the solemn inquiry.
 Move to amend Article Three, Sec ton One of the constitution, relating to duration of ofice," announced Alli- son, passing the written motion to the secretary. "On a call from the major ity of stock, the stockholders of the L. and c. railroad have a right to demand a special meeting, on one weeks notice, for the purpose of re- organization and reelection"
 They knew it. It had to come.
 Edward E. Allison waited just long enough to vote his majority stock, and left the meeting in hurry, for be had an engagement to take tea with Gail Sargent.
 ITO RE CONTINCED1
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CHAPTER V.

Edward E. Allison Takes a Vacation.
 Edward E. Allison walked into the offices of the Municipal Transportation company at nine o'clock and set his basket of opened and carefully anno- tated letters out of the mathematical center of his desk; then he touched a button and thin young man, whose brow, at twenty, wore the traces of preternatural age, walked briskly in
 Take MT. Gregory these letters and ask him If he will be kind enough to step here"
 Yes, sir," and the concentrated young man departed with the basket feeling that he had quite capably borne his weight of responsibility.
 Gregory walked in, fat man with no trace of nonsense about him.
 Out for the day, Ed?" he surmised gauging that probability by the gift of the letters.
 "A month or so" amended Allison rising and sur eying the other articles on his desk calculatingly. "I'm going to take vacation"
 Its about time." agreed his effi- cient general manager T think it's been four years since you stopped to take breath. Going to play little ?"
 That's the word," and Allison chuckled like boy.
 q suppose we'll have your address" suggested Gregory.
 No"
 Gregory pondered frowningly. He began to see weight piling up on him and, though he was capable. he loved his flesh
 About that Shell Beach extension?" he inquired There's likely to be trou- ble with the village of Waveview. Their local franchises"
 Settle 1t yourself" directed Allison carelessly, and Gregory stared. Dur ing the long and arduous course of Al lison's climb, he had built his success on personal attention to detail. Good by," and Allison walked out, lighting cigar on his way to the door.
 He stopped his runabout in front of a stationer's and bought the largest globe they had in stock.
 Address, please?" asked the clerk, pencil poised over delivery slip.
 'Ill take it with me-" and Allison
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02

rTee as AIT, ne 1ayly ioio 7er. helped them secure the clumsy thing in the seat beside him. Then he streaked up the avenue to the small and severely furnished house where four ebony servants protected him from the world.
 Out of town except to this list" he directed his kinky-haired old butler and going into the heavy oak library, he closed the door On the wall de- pending from the roller case, was a huge map, a broad familiar domain be- tween two oceans, and he smiled as his eye fell upon that tiny territory near the Atlantic, which, up to now, he had called a world, because he had mastered it.
 His library phone rang.
 "Mr Allison?" woman's voice. Gail Sargent, Mrs. Sargent. Mrs. Davies or Lucille Teasdale. No other ladies were on his list The voice was not that of Gail. Are you busy tonight?" Oh. yes, Lucille Teasdale
 Free as air." he gayly told her.
 I'm so glad" rattled Lucille. "Teds just telephoned that he has tickets for The Lady's Maid Can you join us?"
 With pleasure" No hesitation whatever; prompt and agreeable; even pleased
 That's jolly think six makes such
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SYNOPSIS.

At vestry meeting of the Market Square church Gail Sargent listens to n discussion about the sale of the church tenements to Edward E. Allison, local lon of the church by Rev Smith Boyd says 1t is apparently lucrative business enterprise. Allison takes Gail riding in hls motor car. When he suggests he is entitled to rest on the laurels of his achievements, she asks the disturbing question: "Why?" Gail, returning to her Uncle Jin's home from her drive with AL nson, finds cold disapproval in the eyes
 i Rev. Smith Boyd, who is calling there Al bobsled party Gail finds the world nncomfortably full of men.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Peter the Great.

What Alfred the Great is to early Britain, that Peter the Great, in his crude way, is to Russia. If ever race of people found adequate expression in one person, that race was the Slavic race in their great czar. As an acorn enfolds an oak. the type of a great forest, so Peter the Great enfolded the Russian people. Into him they have flowed from the twilight of time, and from him they have gone out to the ends of the earth. And this was one of his dreams, that his country might have ample boundaries From "The World Storm-and Beyond" by Edwin Davies SchoonmakeY.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Dickens Drew From Life

Smike, Charles Dickens character in Nicholas Nickleby, seOms to have been drawn from the life. Said the author in letter apropos of that novel: The rascality of those York shire schoolmasters cannot be easily exaggerated. I have kept down strong truth and thrown as much comicality over it as 1 could rather than disgust the weary reader with it's fouler as- poets.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Dec. 3, 1914.

Dec. 3, 1914.
 Germans took offensive In Elan ders but lost heavily trying to cross the Yser on rafts.
 French occupied Le MesniI. Tete de Faux in the Vosgcs and Surnhaupt in Alsace taken by the French.
 Germans attempted to flank Rus. sian right wing.
 Austrians repuIsed assaults on Przemysl.
 Russians took BartfeId.
 Riots In Belgian concentration camps.
 Italian parliament opened, Pre- mier SaIandra saying Italy would preserve armed neutrality; Bel gium was cheered.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Dec. 5. 1914.

Allied aviators bombarded Ba den.
 Italian chamber of deputies passed vote of confidence in gov ernment.
 British steamer Batiscan sailed from America with food for Bel gians.
 French made gains in Aisace and attacked Germans at St. Mihiel.
 Germans in Poland re-enforced, formed new battle line and moved on Piotrkow.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Case of Hating Oneself.

Proprietor of a Concert Party (en- gazing a soprano) Nov, want you to understand. Miss Deerly. that 1 like my boys and girls to be one big family-no quarreling, no jealousy" Miss Deerly-"Oh, that's quite all right. I've never heard anything in the work of any other singer to give me the slightest cause for jealousy
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Dec. 4, 1914.

Allies made repeated attacks on German line in Flanders.
 Russians won victory at Lodz.
 Allies landed troops in Montene. gro.
 France called youths eighteen years old for military examination. Mohammedan soldiers from Tu. his sent to fight in army of allies.
 Turkey proclaimed holy war against Serbia and her allies: riot ing in many towns.
 American students at Oxford took up relief work in Belgium.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR A
 YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Hoy. 29, 1914.

fiov. 29, 1914. Allies captured important posi- tions near Ypres.
 Montenegrins defeated Austrians in Bosnia.
 Russians split German army and defeated relief column at Gombin. German aViators bombardec Lodz.
 Princes Abbas and Osman ban ished from Egypt for anti-British conspiracy.
 Germany paid 7,5oo indemnity to Luxemburg.
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Fools Paradise.

Originally, in Christian mythology, a region near the abode of the blessed" but not part of it. sort of borderland, where dwelt the praise less and the blameless dead Today used to denote the mental condition of those who, by their vain hopes, are "fooling" themselves.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Nov. 30, 1914.

Three big battles were fought in Poland.
 Russians captured ten miles of German trenches near Lowicz, but failed in attack on Darkehmen.
 Russians won successes in the Carpathians and GaIicia.
 British ships again bombarded Zeebrugge.
 Germans were expelled from Pe- trograd for raising funds for war ships.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02
Stretck,ina Steel.

By the modern process of spinning metal thread it is possible to make a single pound of steel stretch a dis tance of 70 miles.
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Dec. i, 1914.

Dec. i, 1914. Germans prepared for new dash toward the sea in West. Battle on the Yser was renewed Germans broke Russian wing near Lodz, capturing 12,0oo prison CTS.
 Russians seized German ammuni- tion barges on the Vistula. Serbans captured t,5oo Austri- ans on River Did.
 Premier Rushdi Pasha of Egypt declared for Britain.
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Dec. g., 1914.

British, re-enforced, took over command of the Yser region. Austrans took Belgrade.
 Russians won at SzczercoW and entered Wieliczka.
 Montenegrins repuIsed Austrians. Hungarian chamber of deputies voted war bills.
 Prince of Wales fund reached $2o,ooo,ooo.
The Carlisle independent., 1915-12-02

Fools orttimes rush in and win while wise men investigate.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
MODERN LIVING COMES HIGH
Observer Thinks There Are Too
Many Necessities" in Demand '
at the Present Time.

"One of the reasons for the cost of
living" observes a wise clubman,
lies in the fact that people buy
wholly unnecessary things. had a
conversation with the proprietor of a
novelty shop in Fifth avenue a few
days ago A shiny object had attract
ed my attention, and inquired about
its use.
"'These,' said the proprietor. are
gilded pincers to pick up letters one
has placed on the letter-scales.'
land that ivory stick. carved and
forked at the end?'
People use that to fish out things
they have dropped into carafes,'
THAT square of morocco, about
the size If nut-what is that for?'
THAT'S tampon-used to press
down stamps after sticking, them or
envelopes
THAT ornamental box with whole
battery of little brushes?'
"'Those are to clean other brushes
brushes to clean hair.brushes, brushes
to clean tooth-brushes.' New Yorl
Evening Post
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
Political Possibilities.

In view of sufficiently self-evident
facts is not a very considerable flock
ing of Progressives to President VIII
son among the political possibilities
of the next two years? In connection
with this possibility another thought
suggests itself:
Has not President Wilson a great
opportunity in this situation to gain
useful, and not unneeded, recruits by
somewhat broadening his position and
attitude-by becoming somewhat less
the leader of partisan organization
and somewhat more the representative
of all voters who cherish the wider and
newer thought of governmental activi
ties, duties and responsibilities? Mr..
Wilson stands for that thought in the
Democracy. Could he not, and Should
he not, welcome the Progressives as a
great body of voters available to sup.
port policies on which he and they are
so largely in agreement?
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
TraNestY ON Real EalstaH.

Yarmouth has a claim upon all Eng
lishmen quite independently of its as
sociations with the breakfast bloater,
remarks a writer in St Nicholas. For
1t was the home of shakespeare Fal'
staff, who appears to have been a man
of exemplary piety. The Falstafs
were an old Yarmouth family.
"A Falstolfe or Falstaff," writes
John Richard Green, was bailiff of
Yarmouth in 1881. Another is among
the first of its representatives in par
Lament, and from that the members
of that family filed the highest mu'
nicipal Offices John Falstolfe, a man
of considerable account in the town,
purchased lands at the close of the
fourteenth century in Castor and be-
came the father of Sir John Falstolfe
who, after distinguished military ca
reer, was luckless enough to give his
name to Shakespeare famous char.
acter In Yarmouth, however, he was
better known as a benefactor to the
great church of St Nicholas.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
PROBABLY COULD DO WORK
Soldiers Occupation in Civil Life
Certainly Should Have Fitted
Him for the Job.

Real war conditions sometimes give
rude shocks to the professional soldier
trained to arms in the well.ordered
days Of peace. Here is a case in point.
A Prussian landwehr company was
being mustered into service and there
were many things to be done Uni
forms, equipment, rifles, were to be
distributed, rolls prepared, reports
made out, and quartermaster's lists
checked up. The captain had his hands
full. He ordered his first sergeant
to find noncom who could write
neatly and figure a little The first
sergeant was equal to the emergency
Corporal Kammermeyer was prompt.
ly summoned and crisply detailed for
duty as company clerk. The corporal
reported to the captain, who looked
him over with a mixture of wonder
and distrust.
so you can figure, corporal he
said.
"A little, sir, at your service
The captain still looked dubious,
What is your trade in civil life
anyway" he said.
Il am professor Of mathematics
captain was the reply.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
HARD TO RETRENCA
Problem That ConfrontS the Ad-
miniStration.
Situation Created by Years Of Repub'
lican Misrule Can Not Easily Be
Met-What Economy Might
Have Accomplished.

We may as well recognize now as at
any time that retrenchment is the
hardest thing a government can ac'
I)mpiish, Economy is easy compared
with retrenchment. They are not in
the larger sense synonymous terms,
by any means. Economy might have
been practiced in the building up of
the pension system, but 1t was not; re-
trenchment would be to go back over
the job and make 1t right by purging
the rolls and getting the fingers OF
frauds and takers out of the treasury.
and giving the governments bounty to
the deserving only, but any suggestion
of that character would never be ac-
ceptable to the Republicans.
Economy might have kept a world
of unnecessary and indefensible ex
penses out of congress, but retrench
ment would be to go back and abolish
extravaganza, free seeds, mileage
graft, abuse of the ranking privilege
and others of minor character. But
no Republican would listen to such a
proposition.
Economy might have prevented the
packing of the executive departments
with clumsy administrative systems
which necessitate the employment OF
thousands of clerks that are not really
essential to the public service; re-
trenchment would mean to install com
nonsense business methods, minus
red tape, and dispense with the serV
ices of unneeded employees. No Re-
publican would ever consent to that
The Republican wants his public
buildings or his river appropriations
just as the Democrats do. and he will
raise sand unless ne gets them.
All this being true, and 1t Likewise
being true That the business Of the
government continues to grow rs the
population grows, as the business and
industry of the country grow, nat rally
the governments expense will grow
If the government were not exIrava.
giant in any respect, if its financial
operations we're exactly right, every
year would mark some increase of the
appropriations, because as the country
develops and the population increases
the governmental machinery will have
TO increase. Therefore slight in.
crease OF expense from year to fear is
not Objectionable.
What is Objectionable are the top,
heavy systems, the pension abuses and
the numerous other extravagances
which the Republicans have installed
and for which the Democratic admins
tration must now provide because il
cannot at a single blow dispense with
them
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
U. S. GOV. LAND FREE

Under special act of Congress the
agricultural land in the U. S. Forest
Reserve of Arkansas can now be
homesteaded in tracts of 160 acres
to each person, free of cost. 100000
acres free pasturage range where cat
tie, hogs and sheep fatten eight
months in year without grain. No
overflow lands. Country very healthy
and well watered with running
streams. We select these agricultur-
al lands, take applicant to lands and
locate you. Send 25 cents for State
map showing location of Reserve and
copy of Special Act to
A. V. Alexander, Locating Engineer,
Little Rock, Ark.-Adv
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
WALKING Graveyards.

Some of the Indian princes have
given over two million dollars apiece
to Britain for the war. Beside such
gifts, the gifts of London business
minionaires seem small
In fact" said James Douglas, in an
interview, lin fact, the gifts of the
nizam of Hyderabad and the mahara'
iah of Mysore and the gaekwar of Ia
roda give our English Merchant
princes, who owe England so much
more, look Of avarice; and you
know the definition Of avarice
"Avarice, ike a graveyard, takes IN
all it can get, and never gives any
thing back"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
Presidents Word of Promise

1t has already been proved that the
United States can withstand the
shock of foreign war far better than
it can withstand the devastating as
saults of harmful legislation from with.
in our own borders. The firm convic
ton already held. and now REINFORCED
by President Wilson's statement that
these. assaults are over is all that
jaded business required to make 1t
move onward with a sh,-Philadel.
phia Public Ledger.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
Wouldn't Stand for II.

She wore a determined look as she
entered the drug store.
Look here, young man, If a tall
man with red mustache comes and
asks you for prescription you're not
to let him have it,"
Really, madam, l."
mo, you mustn't let him have II
on any account He's come here for
month, and says he wants some
thing to improve his appetite He's
boarding at my establishment, young
man"
And with muttered threat the
landlady passed from the shop leav'
ing the druggists assistant pale and
trembling,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
COSTLY METHOD OF REVENUE
Procedure in Europe Reminded An
drew Carnegie Of a Somewhat
Humorous Incident.

Andrew Carnegie, III a recent inter
view on peace, said to New York
reporter:
"A lad twenty killed a man and
woman in Sarajevo All Europe is now
fighting to avenge this wrong Eng
land alone is spending $4,000 a min.
ute, according to Sidney Webb, on gun.
powder
We'll, this is such an expensive way
to avenge a wrong that it reminds me
of the man at the banquet.
"A man entered the cloakroom, at
the end of banquet, and began to
smash in silk hat after silk hat.
o." Hold on boss, What TO- 20 smash.
in all dem high hats? demanded the
| attendant.
I'm looking for my own" the gen
tleman answered. It's an opera hat
collapsible, you know, None Of these
seem to be it"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
Distorted Venetarianism.

so long as you find the cost of liv-
ing high" said the friendly adviser,
why don't you and your husband be-
come vegetarians?"
What do you mean?' asked the
worried looking woman.
why, eat only vegetable prod
ucts."
Couldn't think of it, What I'm try
in to do now is to persuade John to
take to beefsteak and quit tryin to
live on liquor and tobacco.'\
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
His Only Possession.

AL Rogers was travelling through a
lonely section in the suburbs of Bos-
ton one night, short while ago, when
he was startled by hearing this pite-
GUS appeal:
viii the kind gentleman please
help poor unfortunate man? L"
At this point Al felt to locate his
watch. The other continued:
81 have nothin' in the world but this
loaded revolver"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
Why Thomas Concurred.

Whack, whack, whack! Tommy was
undergoing painful punishment at
the hands of his loving mother for
eating the jam
Tommy" she said seriously when
she was forced to pause. this hurts
me far more than It does you"
And when Tommy was alone with
his brother he produced square
board he had concealed, and thought,
fully murmured:
81 thought all along that bit Of wood
wouldn't do her any good"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
Starting the Day Wrong.

There was gloom ON the face of the
farmer.
What's the matter, Elijah?" asked
his nearest neighbor. "Flapjacks given
out over to your house?"
"Worse'n that" said Elijah you
know. 'twasn't apple year, and wife
says we cant have any more apple
pie for breakfast"
Cant you make out If you have
apple pie noon and night?"
81 can, because I've got to-" said
Elijah, but tell you, it upsets me,
starting the day wrong like that"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
At the First Slams

OF falling hair get Cuticura. 1t
works wonders. Touch spots of dam
druff and itching with Cuticura Oint-
ment, and follow next morning with a
hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap. This
at once arrests falling hair and pro-
notes hair growth For free sample
each with 32-p. Skin Book, address
post card: Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston.
Sold everywhere-Adv.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
Democrats Sustained.

The Republcanism of protected in
terests and high finance is entitled to
all the satisfaction it can extract from
the fact that the voter has given the
Democracy Of Wilson a safe working
majority in the house and a quadru.
pied majority in the senate.
In making its appeal to enlightened
public conscience and thought the
Craftsmanship and high-minded patri
otism of Wilson and Bryan need enter
tain no fear of such reactionaries as
Penrose, Cannon, Longworth, ct al
who are again in evidence
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
Poor Burolar.

"A burglar got into my house about
three o'clock this morning when ! was
on my way home from the club said
Jones.
Did he get anything asked
Brown.
81 should say he did get something,
replied Jones. The poor devil is il
the hospital My wife thought ii wa;
me. Cincinnati Enquirer
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
The PeeIinu Kind.

Mamma" said little boy, the
place where ! got stung last Sunday
down at Uncle Jim's is all peeling
off"
Brother Bruce took look at the
injury.
That's So" he grinned, 81 guess
you must have been stung by a husk-
ing bee