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The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16
Old Trinity House.

Trinity House. which celebrated its 400th anniversary a few days ago. is famed across the Seven Seas. The first general lighthouse and pilotage authority in the United Kingdom. it has played an important part in nauti- cal affairs throughout the period dur ing which Britain has been the mis- tress of the oceans. The organization. an association of master mariners, was an important institution at the time, in 1514, when it was granted it's first charter by Henry VIII. the ami versary of which event has recently been observed.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16

There are plants that are murderers, kidnapers, advertisers, explorers and storekeepers. The moccasin flower is a wanton murderer Its flowers are so shaped as to lure ants and other wingless insects to them. Once inside they have no chance to escape. There they stay. struggling until they starve to death. Some orchids, while not considered insect eaters, undoubtedly draw certain amount of nourishment from the decayed bodies of their in- sect prey. Many other flowers trap insects, which they kill and gradually digest as food.
 Indian Pipes are robbers and graft
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in the dining room of her parents home while three burglars tried to force her to tell the combination of the safe in which were diamonds and silverware valued at $2,500 and $3S0 in cash. She refused. although one of them held sharp ehisel at her throat and threatened to kill her.
 The thieves. who are believed to have watched for an opportunity from a flat in the rear which they rented entered the house after Mrs Seid and her mother went out shopping
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all legend this flag undoubtedly dates from the thirteenth century. and is therefore the oldest now in existence. It consists of white cross on a red ground, the naval flag being swallow tailed. and the mercantile marine flag rectangular. The Swedish flag is yellow cross on a blue ground. When flown from a man-of-war it is forked as in the Danish. but the longer arm of the cross is not cut off but pointed. making a three-pointed flag. For the mercantile marine the flag is rectan. gular.
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Danish and Swedish Flaas.

The flags of all the three Seandi- navian kingdoms are somewhat sim liar in design. Of the Danish flag the legend runs that King Waldemar Of Denmark, leading his troops to battle in 1219, saw at critical moment cross in the sky. This was at once taken as an answer to his prayers and an assurance of celestial aid. It was forthwith adopted as the Danish flag and called the "Danebrog," that is, the strength of Denmark Apart from
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scattered about the island yield enough to eat and to wear and the Chamorros take little thought of the morrow. But saving for furniture buy. ing is the "aristocratic practice of the middle and lower classes. The millennium will come when in every home there IS at least one piece of American-made furniture.
 Social classes and aristocracy in Guam cannot be traced along the usual lines of demarcation. Practically all tho inhabitants are land owners; many of the lower classes have recognized good blood and no family in the island can be called wealthy. A native who can obtain a diet of vegetables for himself and his family, two or three new cotton suits year. and $50 cash annually considers himself well off in deed. He is satisfied with his primi-
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the sign of aristocracyi Or A perchance, a buffet sideboard or table to proclaim the so-
 cially 'arrived!"
 For entrance into the inner circle of the elect commend to Uncle Sam s Chamorro relations a chiffonier and they ask no more of this world 8 boons. The advent of the Americans to the island of Guam has given the natives there glimpse of American made furniture, and their souls long for it with the longing of mad desire, writes Hazel Pedlar in the San Fran cisco Chronicle.
 They have been content through centuries with their woven floor mats and their stone stoves spread out in their lean-to kitchens. Through gen erations of the Chamorro people men have been satisfied with the meager returns from their primitive farming. They needed money only to pay taxes. There was little it would buy save rice in famine times, a little sugar now and then as a luxury, and plug of tobacco as great extravaganza.
 But the coming of the white men, wearing the uniforms of Uncle Sam, has changed all that. The introduc- tion of goods of all classes and the im- portation, free of duty. of all goods of American origin, have given the natives new ideas and new tastes. They need money to buy the white mans wares.
 But above all they have seen the household furniture of American man. ufacture, and they know no peace un- til they have acquired at least one sam- ple They care not whether 1t be stove or bureau, chiffonier or table. Posses sion is the mark of aristocracy: and ambition. which is akin to yearning, is abroad in the picturesque little is- lands that dot the broad Pacific.
 Furniture Ruling Passion.
 Saving for rainy days is not a gen. eral pastime in Guam. The farms
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St. Pierre and Mlanelon to Britain

Of all the vast North American em- pfre over which France ruled until the fall of Quebec in t75s. only the little islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. south of Newfoundland. remain in its possession. Now Newfoundland hears that in return for certain fishing prlyi. liges the French government is willing to turn these islands over to Great Britain. Of late years the islands have not prospered. and their iii luck reached its climax last February when France summoned all the young men to the colors.-Youth's Companion. ,
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nine lives on feminine refusal to be coaxed forth. Traffic came to a halt The tie-up was as effective as if a dinosaur had sat down on the tracks.
 One man, an austere individual with practical purpose and an um. brella, made jab with his shower stick, while remarking urgently. Scat, you Kilkenny cut-up!"
 His thrust fell short, and the kit ten spared playfully with the um- brella tip, to the indignation of the swordsman. Various expedients were
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o'clock robbng  the a For twenty minutes the three thieves tried get the combination the explosive
  burglars
  shoulder
 You're a he
 Then the three walked friend and escaped They
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the musical and dance. which occupy the evening till midnight. At twelve o'clock the party. tired with their dancing. repair to the brides resi- dence where they keep watch till morning and time for the wedding. varying their conversation with chews of betel.nut and tobacco and gener- ous drinks of gin and beer.
 Neighbors contribute various sums of money to the bride. gifts ranging from $l to Sand the godmother of the bride makes her gift one of serv- ice by doing a generous share of cook ing for the nuptial celebration.
 When the hour for the wedding ar rives the guests march to the church. returning after the ceremony for breakfast and luncheon at the home of the new couple before retiring to their own homes to sleep.
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asked city hall to please stand by to lend re-enforeements, and then led his men in rush to two patrol wagons.
 In a twinkling, the wagons were filled and the horses were off in a mad dash to the place of carnage, Point Breeze avenue near Tasker street. It was, of course, a record run, and, likewise, the cops leaped from the patrols with drawn revol. vers on reaching the scene of the crime. They found John Loekery in
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How He Grew Up,

Don't complain when the children around you make a little noise." said the man with a kind heart. Re. member you were once a little boy" I'm not forgetting it." replied the man with a perpetual grouch. T was one of those little boys who are always compelled to sit around dressed up and watch the other boys having @ good time"
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under the greenhouse bench, or in warm cellar until March
 Tea roses do their thriftiest grow ing during the cool, moist days of autumn. Keep the insects down and give good care Mulch with dead leaves.
 Oleanders, lemons, oranges, hydran- geas, abutilons. chrysanthemums, and nearly all tub plants are best wintered in the cellar. Keep growing now.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16

ItCtHtIy Ht WAS pTtStUUtu Dy GeOfgo ! Braham with a brand new unifon, cap. two silver bars to indicate the length of his service, and a baton.
 While it is quite contrary to DO lice regulations for a patrolman to accept gifts, this instance was over looked at headquarters because o the distinction Policeman Binks ha, achieved in his locality.
 Binks was spying into a vacan lot when he observed the recumben form of John J,ayertv of 4470 Dorches
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Surely in Hard Luck,

An old darky appeared in the doc tors office one morning, plainly very low in his mind. The doctor, recog- nizing his old patient. greeted him in his most inspiriting manrser Well. Elijah, how is the rheumatism these days?" "Pohy. pohly. sahi" replied Elijah dejectedly. "Belieb me, Marss Doctor. Fse jest a moyin' picture ob pain"
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16
WlIsst Vacation Over

Washingt = President Wilson has given plll plans for returning to Cornish, H., this year It was said at the lite House that he con- s1ders his ysgion over and will re- main in Washston to be in personal touch with th'a1ropean and Mexican situations antrepare for the nex, session of Conrss.
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tried The under the brakebeams Then small "Ventrloqusm the talking machine he remarked but still be useful outdoors My imitation ladies 
 He leaned
  The to quatled
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16
To Rebuild Causev,av,

Dallas.-That the Galveston ause. way. which was rendered uselt in the recent storm will be brilt stronger than ever was announe bv F. G. Pettibone, vice president and general manager of the Gulf, Colado and Santa Fe railway. one Of the in. cipal lines entering Galveston.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16
Return F-4 Dead to II c

Honolulu.-The dead othe subma. rine F-4, in eight caskets, traped with the American flag, were plaed aboard the United States steanisb Supply to be sent home Shortly ,fterward the steamer sailed for San Faneiseo
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French Aan,ersinkx=

Paris.-A diaeh to the Havas Agency from Afes says that the steamer Vile Mostaganem has been sunk by Herman submarine Sixteen memberss the crew, three or them would, have been picked up.
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S25.0O0 Fire at SanuIna-

Sapulpa-An explosion of ether in a cleaning establishment caused a fire here which destroyed a quarter of a block of buildings in the business dis trict and threatened the entire busi- ness section. The loss exceeded S25,000.
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l. On EffieA.a, ,on..a

Washington.-Jaas L. Wilmeth of Prescott, Ark, chs clerk of the Treasury Departmerhas been named as member of the Brd of Efficiency to eliminate "red taN' and to work out economies in haaling business of that departments
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More Gold From mrn.l.a

New York. = Gold and securities said to exceed sSo,0Oo00O in value, the third and largest Shipment from England to New York within month arrived from Halifax, where it had been brought by the British cruiser Argyle
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Wilson Plans Economy.

Washington. - Economy in appro- priations is to be the subject of a conference between President Wilson and Senate and house leaders before Congress convenes in December.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16
Bark Adrift at Sea

Honolulu.-The British steamer I
 dradeo, which has arrived here via tn Panama canal. reported having sigh ed at sea the Peruvian bark Mercurit a water-logged derelict without sign of life aboard.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16
Italians Claim Sucsee

London.-The Italians clailto have captured several Austrian pos 9ns on the Galore frontier, while one rest of the Austro-Italian front or arti,- lery actions have occurred.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16
Norweqian Bark Is sunk

London. = The Norwegian bark Storesand, which sailed from Iquique. Chile, April 30 for Liverpool, has been sunk. Her crew was saved.
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CTS as they draw their living from the roots of other plants.
 The Jack-in-the-Pulpit is a shame less kidnaper. His beautiful pulpit has slippery, treacherous lining. When gnats and other small insects enter in search of shelter and food, they easily slide to the bottom, whence escape is impossible. Here at the bot tom of the pulpit may be found the corpses of many wanderers, all kid naped by the Reverend Jack!
 The pitcher plant is another kidnap- CT, but in it's case it is the leaves that are guilty.
 There are plants that lure rats and small animals into their cup-shaped flowers to the destruction of the TO- dent.
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16
Italy Follows Atliss

Paris. = Italy has declared cotn contraband of war, Rome dispab announces.
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Kitten Halted Traffic. but Mans Bark Worked

as eompaeenty stretched pillow kitten
 street stopped Hennpn
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Gotham Girl Eats Peaches as Burglars Threaten

YoRThe and eooness of Mrs Louise sed iV
 New
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Policeman Bnks of Chicago Makes First Arrest

CHCAGo-Poiceman Bnks patrong vicin $500 Lake Park Policeman Bnks obrey
 mmacuateness and
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Jag Starts Eight Riot Calls in Philadelphia

pIADELPiIA-Eg calls buzzed station within for big rumpus Lieutenant Becker said
The Monticellonian., 1915-09-16

N American-made bureau has the sign of aristocracyi Or perchance, a buffet sideboard L or a table to proclaim the so- sa. IT,.
The Washington herald., 1915-11-14

equal even in the most realistic French
literature.
A few days later. at a picnic which Is
held in honor of a beautiful young
actress who comes to the city, Naumotf,
the preacher of Wholesale suicide, gives
expression to his doctrine in the follow
ing horrible paragraph:
Everything dies; everything grows.
attains its prime and dies. That is a
law. Why do you want to exclude the
human mind from il. When our intel
lect sooner or later has reached its
zenith. it will decline and stand still like
the mist over a swamp. Everything will
bore people. Do you really think now
that they will always enjoy quarrelins,
changing their paltry governments,
painting pictures, healing the sick, writ
ing, making statues, always falling in
love, always digging the earth and max
ing 1t into bricks, always to live and
again to live? Do you understand that II
is not only tedious, but foolish? A time
must come when the field OF human ac-
tiyity will be empty. People will take
aim and shoot one another for pleasure,
will drown themselves in crowds, hang
themselves, throw themselves down from
cliffs Mothers will conceive in terror
and carry away their babies, for no one
will want them or look after them.
They will foresee the future misery of
children in their cradles, the sufferings,
the diseases, cretinism. degeneration.
The women, grown apathetic, will refuse
to bear children and will cast the new
born aside. / declare war on life. / re-
fuse to acknowledge it. deny and curse
It. Accused be those thinkers, prophets,
poets and scholars, who have forced US
to shut our eyes to the terrible reality
and to dream of happiness, whereas, one
need only open ones eyes to recoil from
life once and for all in loathing and re-
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should sacrifice my life? There are
many lovely women for whom 1 am
ready to torment myself and deceive the
others. She wanted a love that would
last forever, and couldn't give it to her.
So we parted. 1t grieyed me to see that
she should be unhappy. never forget
the women have lived with, out don't
see that there should be any sense in my
destroying my soul to make one of them
happy. AS a matter of fact. is it happy
to hold such a person in chains? A fun
ny business"
. Arbusoff is the capitalist OF the vii
lsge. He loves Nelly, whom the young
artist has recently deserted. but Nelly,
who still loves the artist, rejects him,
and as one of the results, Arbusof keeps
himself dead drunk through most OF the
416 pages of the book. Likewise, BE-
cause Of Nelly, he quarrels with the ad-
jutant OF the regiment stationed in that
town and duel is arranged. Nelly, in
remorse. fees to the adjutant, who is
dead shot, and pleads with him TO spare
the life of~the drunken Arbusoff. He
promises on condition that she surren-
ders herself to him. Broken In heart
and spirit, Nelly is on the point of
granting his request, when the adjutant
dismisses her without explanation. He
is shot dead on the field of honor the
next day by Arbusoff, after, having fired
his bullet high over his murderer's head.
... . q o
In the early part of the book Lisa
Tregulova, an innocent and beautiful
young maiden of the village, is, seduced
by the young artist in chapter which,
for detailed realism, has scarcely an
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whole life with one single meaning, one
single purpose. Every day
she opens further to you as a flower,
petal by petal, opens 70 the sun.
.. Only you two exist. All, Doctor,
what an abundance of moods and ex-
pressions in that Now you growl with
jealousy - now shout with
Joy. Now it delights you to torture her
10 death on slow fires, now to kiss her
feet suppose it's mad
ness, but it's madness, of delight. The
beauty of every young woman
when she loves you, everything
takes on the color of her love. Only then
do you live with your whole being, with
every nerve only then do
you really see how the sun shines, how
splendidly mysterious is the moon, how
beautiful are the warm summer nights:"
9 o 6
The consequences of all this? The
young artist has them also carefully fig
ured out. HE continues:S
Very we'll, Doctor, so it's all over"
in speaking of one of his loves. I'VE
were happy. God be thanked for that,
too. Would it have been better for her
to have withered as an old maid, without
joy, and memories, or to have married
some official, perhaps? Just think, she
would have missed something SO
precious. Whose fault is It? l didn't
betray her orr swear eternal love. She
knew what was happening. She was car
ried away, land was carried away, too.
She is the victim Of our conventions.
not mine. Let people manage life differ
emily If they want to be happy. but not
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CoRNETK 4AU2E
CO7HZyWS SLoZDE
.BEFORE 4 NBZE ElZZZ
OF HIS ERkNDS..

but rejoiced in every one Of Thy works,
should suffer the extreme agonies. and
struggle in torment until its pain be-
comes uncomfortable, only to satisfy Thy
greed, till the measure of suffering that
human beings can take upon them flows
over? But /, a free and
reasoning being. SwiIuser win fhou canst
not break. l can rob Thee of Thy sacri-
flee at one blow and put an end to Thy
miserable and cruel delight.
Perhaps the motives which actuate Thee
are beyond u M an comprehension.
1t may be
but l do not acknowledge them
After introducing Ivan Ivanovitch, the
aged and dying scientist, who seems to
be introduced merely to give Artziba-
shelf the opportunity of describing the
horrible death of an old man, and after
introducing the woman dying OF con-
sumption, the writer comes to the hero
of the novel, If hereo be is.
At any rate he is the most promi-
nent Lothario in the whole book. He is
a young painter of great ability. He has
youth, energy and cheertulness. Some
thing played and sparkled continually in
his large, dark eyes. His brow is whit,
his hair soft and curling, his face pleas
ant and manly.
AS he speaks to DR.. Arnold about
life and women "a vague unrest, passed
like shadow across his eyes and his lips
trembled little. But he shook his head
again and at once laughed, his face
sparkling once more with youth and
happiness as though a warm spring wind
had chased away a chance cloud Of mist.
The doctor observed the momentary alb
rupt change of expression which, held an
inexplicable charm and thought that In
this power at once to express the subtlest
movement of the soul must lie hidden
the secret Of that spell which the man
cast over women. And he remembered
the sad Nelly (the girl, whom the art
student had loved and cast aside); how
she stood in the shadow of the trees, her
thin white hands clasped tightly to her
breast as though bent on preserving
some treasure, and how she followed
him with that half-frightened, half.
threatening gaze"
And this is the way the young artist
explains his scheme of life and love:
You meet pretty young girl. At
first she is a stranger to you, leaves you
cold. - You can be charmed
by her, but cannot touch her.
everything about her is a mystery. to you
her gloves, her own perfume, the flow
ers on her hat, the rustic Of her dress,
eyes in which one seems to find some.
thing, but which you look at as through
wall of ice Her beauty is not for you,
you don't exist for her. but with another
she is not like that. She Is tender. in
terested, passionate, and then through
some strange power which obeys your
wish, this mysterious being begins to un-
fold for you, already you feel the hot
blood with every step she
comes nearer to you, is sweeter and
easier to understand. With incompre-
. hensible subtle play she enraptures you,
now gracious, now distant, she fills your
The Washington herald., 1915-11-14

TNHE most horrible book ever
written!'
That is the title that has
been given by American
critics to the astounding novel by the
great Russian writer, Artzibashef, called
Breaking Point"
Out Of the fifteen characters in the
book. seven deliberately kill themselves,
three die natural deaths of detailed
ghastliness, and every woman in the
book, except one dying of consumption
is disgraced and deserted during the
course of the story.
To read the book is like going through
a bad dream at midday. The American
writer, James Huneker, calls it "intoler-
able" Its tragedy is simply heaped up
one chapter after another. The gloom
of the whole story is unprecedented by
any ray of light whatsoever. Many OF
the situations, the frankness and the
eternal lust of the men in the book are
so needlessly horrifying TO western taste
that the reader almost cries out in pain.
1t was a book that created tremen-
still greater sensation in Europe. Il de-
fes the natural instinct OF. men and
makes them horrible at the same time.
1t is a study in sensuality, horror, nihil-
ism. Nothing but death matters, and
death is always the master. That is the
atmosphere of the amazing book.
The dull, heavy. hopeless keynote OF
the novel is struck in the very first para
graph:
THE little town lay in the steppes.
and beyond its outskirts, beyond the vi
brating air of the distant countryside,
lay the intangible depths of the horizon
of towering forests and tae remote. indlt-
ferent sky. 1t was easy here to realize
the vanity and futility of the handful OF
human beings who lived, suffered and
died in the place"
A few paragraphs later on the name OF
Naumoff is introduced, Naumof, the ne"
engineer in the factories of the local cap
italist, the preacher Of wholesale suicide
who, as Artzibashef writes, may be said
to have caused the whole trouble. Per
haps the shadow which this sinister be-
ing had st upon life was really slgnln-
cant in the speedy development OF at-
fairs. But the keen observer cannot fail
70 see that the human will is incapable
of changing in any minute detail what
life has ordained. Sooner or later 1t
must lead to one inevitable end"
And with these hopeless words, Artzi-
bashef sets out upon his horrible tale,
which grows more horrible with each
chapter and paragraph.
In the second chapter he introduced
DR.. Arnold, a ,reat fat Russian, who
moves throughout thu book an ominous
figure, knowing much of life and still
more of death.
The first death of the many which the
book chronicles comes so. early as the
fifth chapter. It-is that of a little child
for whose life Dr.. Arnold fights bat
tie which he knows he cannot win. AS
he sees the hopelessness Of his efforts he
utters these horrible words:
"AhI Is it Thy will that this miserable
creature that has never harmed Thee,