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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-05-20
Fish Makes Long Swim.

London.-A salmon which had been
marked and returned to the water at
Kintradwel. north Of Brora. Suther-
landshire, was caught fifteen days aft
erward on the Aberdeenshire coast.
The minimum distance covered by the
fish was 40 miles, and 1t had lost one
and one-half pounds In weight between
the date Of marking and its recapture.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-05-20
With Choir, No Gift.

Topeka. Kan.-Property held for the
Church OF Christ in this city will re-
vert to the original owners should
there come into existence within the
body any choir or other organization.
according to the terms Of the deed by
which 1t was conveyed for church pur-
poses. and which has just been filed
for record.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-05-20
Sells Hidden Money With Potatoes.

hanton. Cal w. A. Cleland placed
-" in so gold pieces in a potato bin
'Or safe keeping Forgetting about the
s1Oh'y. he sold some potatoes. Later
=, %ar h f"I the coin proved unsuccess-
III Clcland now thinks banks are q
'aier Proposition than potato bins.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-05-20
R0BBER THANKS VICTIM.
Sends Back Keepsake and Keeps $500
He Stole From st. Louis Resident.

ne Stole From 81. Louis Resident.
st. Louis. The thief who robbed
the home of l. L. Whittemore Of jew
elry valued at 500 mailed a letter
to the family. Inclosed was a minia-
ture pair Of opera glasses, used as q
watch charm. His letter reads:
To Whom II May Concern.-Very sorry
to take this little keepsake. Thank you
for the other articles With best wishes,
AN OUTCAST.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-05-20
COURAGE wins HER
Stand Made by Suffragists In
presses Pearl White. n
ONCE ScoRNED THEIR FIGHT.
Her Views Changed When She Saw
How 5raVely the Women Marched In
Parade In New York Despite a
Cold, Miserable Day.

New York.-"You see, it. was like
this" said Miss Pearl White, curling
her slender figure up ON a corner Of her
couch II was one Of those who found
suffragettes funny. They handed me a
laugh many a time just because 1
thought they were pulling a speech of
to get themselves heard. But 1 tell you
/ didn't think that after their October
parade. 1t was on an awfully cold,
mean day, If you recall it, and the way
those women came up the avenue beat
ing against the wind, with their white
dresses on, fairly gave one a thrill
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Thousand Hills" etc. New York:
John Lane Company.
THE Bywonner' is gray story of
group depicted here is made up of a
prosperous English farmer, a family of
well-to-do Dutch and the "bywonner"
an overseer and laborer on a Boer
farm-with his boy and girl 1t is
around the bywonner and his children
that the action of the narrative centers.
1t is from them. too. in the main, that
it takes on its somber tone. For the
man is failure, an educated English
man, gone Off in drink, and reduced to
service, clearly held as menial by the
Dutch farmer who employs him and
his children. The stodgy. self-satis-
fed Dutchman, Dom Conradie, with his
wife and children, add also to the slow
movement and heavy atmosphere of
this South African chronicle. By an
abundance of internal evidence one is
convinced that this is a realistic pic
ture of life in the locality with which
it deals. 1t develops harmoniously in
atmosphere, personalities, occupations
and corresponding outlook on the af-
fairs Of life. The tragedy of Adela,
beautiful daughter of the bywonner,
and the dogs devotion of Zirk, Dom
Conradie's dull inarticulate son, to
Adela are the poignant and appealing
touches in this bit of South African
realism.
IN ANOTHER GIRLS SHOES. By
Berta Ruck, author of His Official
Fiancee," etc illustrations by E.
c. Caswell. New York: Dodd Mead
& Co.
This should have been a play instead
Of story. The setting and business
Of the stage. the personality of the
actors. the good nature OF the audience
the lights, the music, all conspire to
carry off the most glaring of improba-
bilities with something that answers
Tor conviction and appeal. Print,
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COUNT DONNA scHLoDIEN.

giant, who stands over six feet in his
stockings.
The daring deeds of the Emden and
the Ayesha are well known. The En-
den went out under the command Of
Capt. Won Muller. chasing merchant
vessels in the Sea Of Bengal, where she
the the "Flying Dutchman." and gave
chase. Near the Kneeling Islands the
Emden succumbed after a heroic re-
sistance. and a detachment disembarked
on the islands under the command Of
Lieut.. Won Muecke. They took with
them the small boat. the Ayesha. After
many exciting adventures they sue
ceeded in reaching the Arabian coast.
Here they had many encounters with
the Arabian tribes, but they made their
way to the Hedjas railway and thence
to Constantinople. and then back to
Germany. Capt. Won Muller was taken
prisoner by the English.
The Moewe, so well known in
America. became the successor of these
two boats, and her commander, Donna
Schlodien, is famous. When Donna
came back to Germany with his Moewe
his greatest pleasure was the feast the
peasants from his own village gave
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readers mind that is distinctly up
setting.
THE DIPLOMACY OF THE GREAT
WAR. By Arthue Bullard. author
of "A Mans World" etc. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
Upon the surface this is sketch
map of forty years Of European poll
tics. In effect it is both map and NOV
ing picture. Mr.. Billiards. general pur-
pose here is to give the average read
er the basis for an intelligent grasp
of the international agreements and
compromises that will follow upon the
close Of the great war. For such an
understanding of the momentous events
Of that approaching period, he develops
this map of European diplomacy for the
immediate past. The first black dot
on this map is Berlin. 1t is 1878:
Around the green table sit the diplo-
mats of Europe. Bismarck, at its head,
pounds the table, scolds, bluffs. bull
dozes. He doles out this and that, con-
ceding one point here and gathering
in a hundred there. The congress of
Berlin is over. Bismarck is at high
tide. Germany is the lord of Europe.
"Das Deutchtum is the bright vision
of German world culture. Now France
comes into the map, France pulsing
with good red blood, having just paid
a monstrous war indemnity that was
calculated to bleed her white" Then
England appears. cooling off toward
Germany, warming up toward France.
The two new friends. England and
France. dicker over Egypt and Moroc-
CO, and the little Spanish town of
Algeciras comes into the map. The
Balkans swing into the growing circle,
fighting their wars, one and two. Then
dawn the feverish years of competi-
tive armament and then the fateful
summer of 1914. This is the outline
map which Mr.. Bullard passes over to
readers for them to use in placing the
further events of European interna-
tionalism at the liquidation of the war.
But the author takes pains to remind
US that things have changed since the
congress Of Berlin, and that by reason
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G. WILLIAM A. VEDITZ,
Commercial attaehe Of the American
embassy in Paris.

roads, I replied that in coming from
Irun one might imagine that the Norte
line had enjoyed a kilometric subven-
tton. by the way 1t meanders. The
king laughed and said no. it had been
good business years ago to unite all
the important towns of the regions
traversed by twisting and winding, but
now the time has come for something
better. As fact, just two months be-
fore the war, in June. 1914, the king
ana the president of the French re-
public agreed to do everything in their
power to secure direct fast railroad
service between Paris and Madrid"
Another American hobby which the
king has brought of Is the New York
Vigo steamship line.
"All Spain," says Veditz, fs talking
about Spanish-American transatlantic
company, which is to run three passen-
fast freight between New York and
layed. G) pending settlement Of the
subsidy which the Spanish government
is to grant, and (2) pending the in
dispensable development of railroad IA
cilities from vigo inland. These have
finally been taken up by the rich city
Of Valladolid and other Industrial CEN
ters of north Spain. Barcelona does
not like it. Cadiz is frightened. But
what will you? These matters are de-
cided by industrial advantages and
freight economics"
From New York to yigo. Spain (and
Vigo has magnificent harbor) is 1900
miles, whereas the distance from New
York to HavrA, hs the inter route. Is
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cApr.-L1EUr. OTTO wEDp1cEN.

short wedding journey he was again on
duty. Irma Weddigen was very proud
of her hero knight of the Pour le Mer-
lite. But it was not easy for her, be-
cause there were long weeks without
any news. In April. 1915, she received
a letter from ostend. and then came
terrible days of waiting. and, finally,
the hopeless news that the U-29 was
sunk and that Otto Weddigen was no
more. The name of Otto Weddigen will
go down in history. The English call
him the most famous German sea pi-
rate. but the Germans call him the
Siegfried of the deep.
The tales of Won Muecke read like
the stories of "Sindbad the Sailor.'' and
have ended like all good fairy tales end
in a wedding. When Won Muecke was
married, few months ago, to a very
pretty and very rich young lady from
Hamburg, Muecke invited all the crew
of the Ayesha to the wedding, and
never was a commander more popular
with his men than this handsome. big
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American concerns to Barcelona, where
the United States Steel Products Com
pany (afiliated with the Steel Corpora
tion) is furnishing rails, railway
equipment. iron and steel products and
even steel ingots. On his first visit
our commercial attache suggested es-
tablishing an American chamber Of
commerce at Barcelona. 1t was q new
idea, but he found that our consul Ken-
eral there, Carl Bailey Hurst, had also
thought of 1t. and 1t Is now estab-
lished.
But how does the king bring these
Americans?
Don't they come of their own ac-
cord?
Tut. tut. it is more complicated than
that.
THE American International Cor
poration was formed in New York
about eight months ago. with a cap
ital of $60.000,000, to invest in foreien
enterprises" explains Veditx. "At firet
they declared themselves to be inter-
ested only in South America, Russia
and China. but through the reports Of
the American Department Of Com
merce their interest has been aroused
in Spain. l will say no more"
In the same way the National CITY
Bank of New York has sent repre-
sentatives to Spain, and, in spite of
certain half-contradictions, the belief
persists that they have taken over the
Bank of Barcelona. The Irving Ma
tional Bank of New York has, also, its
men on the spot.
And now to be more explicit. (when
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and relief. This the writer follows In
enough of concrete detail to show the
strength and f1exibility of Russian CO.
operation. Again, he tells of the carry
ing out of the cars prohibition edict,
showing how it has operated in the
towns, in the factories and among the
peasants of the rural regions of the
empire. In general way DR.. Simpson
points to the most urgent of the econ
omic problems of Russia, arguing in
this connection the justice of Russia's
claim for a Mediterranean port. In
this admirable first-hand study, the
writer, in numberless ways, emphasizes
the warm personal love Of the Russian
for his country, his patience, the ac-
commodating habit that underlies the
union of mind, the cooperation in ef-
fort for which the Slav is SO conspicu-
Gus. and upon which Russia will rely
before her. One feels in personal debt
for this uncommonly broad and under
standing study of Russia's self-dis-
covery.
NATIONALISM, WAR AND SOCIETY.
By Edward Krehbiel, Phi. d. Intro
duction by Norman Angel. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
Mr.. Krehbiel is pacifist. He makes
it quite clear, however, that pacifism
is not reputation Of all force. Rather
is it reputation of martial force, with
a corresponding expansion and exalta-
ton of police force. War power is the
bulwark of nationalism. Police power
is the instrument of internationalism
This study is therefore, in effect, on
the one hand, an indictment of the SOW
ereign state as the source and support
of war. On the other hand. it is an
advocacy of a world state of reciprocal
interests, supervised and regulated by
an adequate development of the police
power. AS matter of fact, the nation
exists, according to this writer, by
virtue of military power. Its esseAce
is competition and a vicious rivalry
with other nations. Its life warrant
is an equilibrium of opposed elements,
known as the balance of power War
is the concomitant of this situation
1t is the inevitable issue of nationalism
On the other side of this shield DR..
krehbiel outlines internationalism, the
great cooperative society of the world,
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of this change the map will not grow
in the old lines, so we must watch out
to place the dots and boundary lines,
the rivers and mountains rightly. The
congress of Berlin was a purely k1ngly
affair Since then the world has de-
veloped a public opinion of force and
efficiency. The rights of nations and
the common right of all nations have
taken on meaning and definition. Busf-
ness has become the major element in
as it's chiei factor. All this must be
considered In any future study of in
tegnational politics, and particularly in
the imm ediate concerns OF new peace
addition to this outline map, which Mr..
Bul1ard constructs in such vivid and
dramatic detail, there is an outlook
upon the United States in its relations
to Europe. In this the writer discusses
our traditional policy, the problems
that the war is imposing upon us, the
condition Of our national defense and
our policy toward general peace. One
of the bfst Of the many discussions on
the all-inportant subject of European
diplomacy and political history.
THE sELF-DIsCOvERY OF RUSSIA,
BY Prof. J. Y. Simpson, author of
''Sidelights on Siberia" etc. New
York: George H. Doran Company.
The war, with it's many other reve-
to the rest of the world During this
event the average reader has found
himself. time and again. engaged in the
business Of unloading himself of a
worthless litter Of mdsinformation con-
cerning the essential Snd significant
facts of Russian life and character
To this dawning new conception of the
Slavic empire DR.. Simpson adds sub
stantiaIly by means of the volume in
hand. From a personal tour of in
vestigaton the writer describes GER
tain outstanding measures and works
calculated to illustrate the Russian
spirit under the stress of war. The
most marked, and the most important
of these. is their unexcelled powers of
cooperation. An example of this gift
of working together is the empire
wide relief organization for the care of
refugees. of the sick and the wounded.
The towns and the county councils
have united and joined this prodigious
union of theirs to the Red Cross or
ganization for every manner of help
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smaller boats, which. from the German
point of view, were achievements.
The English themselves wrote Of
Weddigen's kindness and courtesy to
the unfortunate crews who came under
his fire. The Daily Graphic said: Capt.
Weddigen, who spoke English perfect
ly, was always courteous, and, in the
case of a merchant vessel which he had
sunk ne saw to the safety of the crew.
On board the U-29 he offered cigars and
wine to the officers of the British ships
he had sent to the bottom. When the
officers of the French ship left the sub
marine, Commander Weddigep's part
ing remark was. Give my compliments
to Mr.. Churchill The captain of one
British ship begged that his ship might
be spared, but Weddigen replied, War
is war. / must sink your ship. al
though I am very sorry to have to do
it One seaman of the Aldenwen either
fell or jumped overheard, and Weddi-
gen ordered a dry suit of clothes to be
thrown into one of the boats which
went to his rescue. He towed the boats
containing the survivors until they fell
in with a Norwegian ship"
In 1914 Weddigen married Fraulein
1rma Prencke of Hamburg, and after
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Special Correspondence.

BERLIN, Germany, August 10, 1916.
ERMANY has always been
m land of hero-worship, and
N 81 everything has been done to
~ encourage it, especially in this
war Many books and pamphlets have
been written about each hero since the
outbreak of the war. and the book
store windows display post cards ana
plaster paris casts of them- The list
Of German heroes has been a long one;
and then, too. there are the thousands
of others who have died unknown and
unsung.
Lieut. Immelmann, the aviator, was
very Young. When his death became
known a great wave of sorrow swept
over al! Germany. flags went down at
half mast and people who did not even
know him wept. In Leipsic, where he
had lived, and in Dresden. where he
was born. the sorrow was doubled
Immelmann had always expected such
= death. He knew that eventually he,
too. would fall as he had seen so many
others fall. 1t was part of the game,
he said. The last aeroplane he shot
down was his sixteenth, and it fell into
ruined village near Verdun. A little
story is told of this day. One of the
French aviators was killed and the
other was taken prisoner. Immelmann
offered the captured man his hand, but
the Frenchman refused, and he went
over and knelt down by the newly
made grave of his comrade. lmmel-
mann promptly knelt with him. and
together they said a prayer for the
dead man.
Since the days of Carl Theodore
Korner no young hero has been so
popular in Germany has Otto We'd
digen; his memory, like korner's, will
he forever young He was born in
westfalialand, rich in stories and
legends of the Roman days. As child,
Otto sat big-eyed on his grandfather's
knee. and listened to the tales of the
Teutonburg foreSt-Stories of gladi-
ators. knights and deeds of daring in
the Charlemagne days. But best of
all he loved the sea stories of the
Norsemen. and his greatest hero was
Olaf Traeteje, the Morse sea pirate,
whose expeditions were equaled only
by that famous English outlaw, Robin
Hood
weddigen's father was merchant Of
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an orderly progress of civilization,
wherein all the multiform parts ac-
commodate themselves to their re-
spective places in the single great
ible. Why should it not be possible
To be sure, the common saying is that
as long as men are men there will be
war. AS long as man is brute there
will be war, certainly, but when he
passes into the realm of altman, the
reasonableness portrayed in this study
of pacifiSm will SuperSede the unrea-
son of war. A fine study of existing
facts and conditions. and convinc-
ing forecast of what WILL without
doubt, be an accepted stage of mans
advance toward that which he has it
within him to achieve.
THE OCEAN AND IT'S MYSTERIES.
By A. Hyatt Verrill. illustrated.
New York: Duf1ield & Co.
The ocean-as nature made it, rather
than as harnessed by man-is herein
considered by an author whose knowl-
edge is given with a narrative cham
which must appeal alike to the student
and to his multitudinous brother, the
general reader. who cares less for sci
ence than for a rafting good tale of
the sea. In the impressionable days of
MS youth, MI. teTTlll spent many sum =
mers at various stations of the United
States fish commission or on ships en-
gagged in deep-sea explorations and re-
search work in the north Atlantic. He
recalls one memorable experience at
lighthouse service station with boy
companion whose father commanded
the Anemone. This trip not only ac-
quainted him with the thousand and
one details of guarding lives and
ships" but gives the reader a glimpse
of a "stern-faced commander" who,
under his ships awnings with the two
boys beside him, told true stories of
adventure on the seven seas. No book
of fiction, no Clark Russell sea tale was
ever half SO thrilling as those stories
of shipwreck, of naval battles, of Malay
pirates and hairbreadth escapes in
which the narrator had taken part"
1t is boys fine tribute to hero who
won Immortality for himself in later
sea fight-Admiral Schley.
Life in the great depths of the sea
is told in chapter which carries a
thrill in every page, and another of
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however. is cold, persistent, obtrusive
in its disclosure of flaws of every sort.
Print is not kind to this story. The
details of development are worked out
with good effect, but the absurdity Of
the plot constantly nudges one most
irritatingly. For these shoes into
which the other girl stepped led her
directly to a husband and a couple of
in-laws. none of whom she had ever
seen and before whom she was to make
shift Of natural behavior. The Incl
dental features of this novel. the life
in Wales, the journey to Paris, the
war, all these are worked out with
this writer's accustomed skill. The ac-
ton itself, however, should have a
stage medium to cover its weakness.
FORkED LIGHTNINGS. A Comedy. By
Keble Howard. author of Merry
Andrew" etc. New York: John Lane
Company.
One thinks that this story should
have stayed where it originated-with
the stage. All that is not dialogue and
action here impresses one as a descrip-
tion of stage business. The comedy
hinges upon the persecution of one
woman by another one and the ulti-
mate rebound upon the pursuer of most
of the missiles intended for the pur-
SQeu ~ young woman mere walks
right through the tenth commandment
in pursuit of another woman's husband.
1t is this that sets in motion the sue
cession of acts that wind in and out
and roundabout in many laughable and
some serious situations, all of which,
finally. contribute to establishing the
really good intent of the young wom-
an, despite the shady appearance Of
her conduct. One is expected. by i'm
plication, to turn his sympathy over
to the girl. Ninety-nine women out Of
the hundred. however, declare for the
wife, covering her meannesses with
their warm and ample fellow-feeling.
This very natural diversion Of SYM
pathy from the channel in which the
story manifestly expects it to flow. re-
suits in a cross-current effect on the
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LIEUT.. IMMELMANN.

him. To him it was more than the
bigger things that were done for him.
Since the death of Immelmann. Capt.
Bolke. the flyer. has been the most
popular of all the now active young
German heroes. He has brought down
his eighteenth aeroplane, and several
months ago was given the order of the
Pour lie Merite" Nine of the aero
planes were brought down in the
Champagne and the other nine around
Verdun. In the diary of a German SOL
dier was found a description of visit
he paid to Bolke few weeks ago at
his headquarters near Verdun. He
writes:
When I entered Bolke's room he was
sitting before a mountain of letters. He
asked me to take a seat, and to excuse
him until he had finished hs post Near
his table stood a large cartridge box,
and it was still half full of letters.
Bolke remarked: I was in Germany for
a few days. and 1 have not had time
to finish the post that has accumulated.
I have a writer to help me, but some
must answer myself
THE letters few from right to left,
some with a remark and others with
out. could not imagine what all the
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ono interviews a government oficial
one must not be too explicitly
Two groups of American financiers
are said to be interested in a project
greatly favored by the king to build a
direct electrical railroad line, with
European gauge, from Madrid to the
French frontier. reducing the trip from
Paris to Madrid from thirty three
hours to twenty hours"
Now. the striking thing here IL that
cur Americans, backed by the king,
are not afraid to attack Rothschiid