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rs that SO? No. | never heard that"
said he.
You hear II now. He did all that,
indirectly, and didn't realize 1t at the
time. l was too young, and the whole
thing laid me out too fat; but know
1t now, and I've known II long enough.
1t was worse than a crash. II was a
scandal. That was what finished us
on. all but Henry Cravenl Thered
been a gigantic swindle-special in
vestments recommended by the firm,
bogus certificates and all the rest of 1t.
We were all to blame, OF course. My
poor father ought never to have been
a poet. Even IL was only a young
ster In the once, but l ought to have
known what was going on. But Henry
Craven did know. He was in 1t up to
the neck, though a fellow called Scru
ton did the actual Job. Scruton got
fourteen years-and Craven got our
old house on the river"
And feathered 1t pretty WE'LL" said
Toye, nodding. Yes, did hear that.
And l can tell you they don't think
any better OF him. in the neighbor-
hood, for going to live right there. But
how did he stop the other mans
mouth. and-how do you known"
Never mind how l know" said Ca
zalet. "Scruton was a friend of mine,
though an older man; he was good
to me, though he was wrong 'un
himself. He paid for it-paid for two
that can say But he was engaged
to Ethel Craven at the time, was go
ing to be taken into partnership on
their marriage. and you can put two
and two together for yourself"
Did she wait for him."
About as long as you'd expect of
the breed! She was her fathers daugh-
ter. | wonder you didn't come across
her and her husband"
Il didn't see so much Of the Craven
crowd" replied Hilton Toye. Il wasn't
stuck on them either. Say, Cazalet,
wouldn't be that old man when Scru
ton comes out, would your"
But Cazalet showed that he could
hold his tongue when he liked. and his
grim look was not 80 legible as some
tuhl udu COIu6 anu gone DelOTe. HE
one stuck until Toye produced a bis
flask from his grip, and the talk shift
ed to less painful ground. It was the
last night in the Bay of Biscay, anC
Cazalet told how he had been in it {
fortnight on his way out by sailing
vessel. He even told it with consider
able humor. and hit off sundry passen
gers of ten years ago as though the.
had been aboard the German boat tina
night and Toye drew him out abou
the bush until the shadows passed 70
minutes from the red-brick face witt
the white-brick forehead.
II remember thinking / would di
for gold" said Cazalet. That's all
knew about Australia. But you ca
have adventures of sorts If you go ia
enough up-country for EN-; 1t stil
pays to know how to use your fist
out there. l remember once at bus
shanty they dished up such fruit
chops that said I'd fight the cook
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-10
StudleS ItalY,s Thrift

Simon w. Straus, president of the
American Society for Thrift, is study
Ing methods of thrift used in Italy.
He has been surprised to learn that
In the last 30 years savings In Italy
have more than quadrupled, having
risen from s26S. 900 to 1920 million
dollars. The chief means of inducing
thrift are the ordinary savings banks.
which number about two hundred,
with nearly three million depositors,
whose deposits total 500 million dol
lars, and the post office savings banks
with an average of six million depos-
TORS, whose savings amount to $50
million dollars. The remainder of the
savings are held by cooperative So
cieties of credit and by the savings
departments attached to the state
pawnbrokers' establishments.
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they'd send him up; and I'm blowed
II II wasn't a fellow I'd been at school
with and worshiped as no end OF a
swell at gamesl Potts his name was,
old Venus Potts. the best looking chap
in the school among other things; and
there he was, cooking carrion at
twenty-five bob a week. Instead of
fighting we joined forces, got burr
cutting Job on good station, then a
better one over shearing, and after
that | wormed my way in as book
keeper, and my pal became one OF the
head overseers. Now we're our own
bosses with a share in the show, and
the owner comes up only once a year
to see how things are looking"
Il hope he had a daughter" said
Toye. and that you're going to marry
her, II you haven't YETI"
Cazalet laughed. but the shadow had
returned. NO. left that to my pa. !"
he said. HE did that all right"
Then l advise you to 20 and do
likewise" rejoined his new friend with
a geniality impossible to take amiss.
II shouldn't wonder. now, II there's
some girl you left behind you"
Cazalet shook his head. None who
would look on herself in that light. "
he interrupted. 1t was all he said.
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? OVERS of the most beautiful
things have had one great piece
of good fortune In that Ravenna
n does not lie on the route of the
mass of ordinary tourists
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-10
SOME OF NAPOLEOa'S MAXIMS
Ideas Of Great Soldier and Statesman
That Are Worthy of Being
Placed on Record.

The following are some of Napo-
Icons maxims, taken from H. A. L.
Fishers Napoleon" in the Home Uni
versity library:
Unity of command is a first neces-
sity of war"
Love ie the occupation OF the idle
man, the distraction of the warrior,
the stumbling block Of the sovereign"
THE first quality of a commander
ln-chief is a cool head"
He lies too much. One may very
we'll lie sometimes. but always is too
much"
"a great captain ought to say to
himself several times a day: II the
enemy appear on my front, my right
or my left, what should / do? If he
finds himself embarrassed he is i'll
posted"
When a king is said to be kind
man the reign is failure"
Heart! How the devil do you know
what your heart is? 1t is a bit of you
crossed by a big vein in which the
blood goes quicker when you run"
1.-THE heart of a statesman should
be in his head"
High tragedy is the school Of great
men. 1t is the duty of sovereigns to
encourage and spread it. Tragedy
warns the soul, raises the heart, car
and ought to create heroes"
Bleeding enters into the combina
ton of political medicine"
"The vice of our modern institu
tons is that they have nothing which
appeals to the imaginations. Man car
only be governed through imagina
ton. Without 1t he is brute"
"Conecription is the eternal root o.
nation, purifying it's morality ant
framing all its habits
Il regard myself as probably the
most daring man in war who has evel
existed"
Love of country is the first virtu,
Of civilized man."
There are only two nations-Eas
and West"
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but once more Toye was regarding
him as shrewdly as when the night
was younger, and the littleness OF the
world had not yet made them conf
dant and boon companion.
Eight bells actually struck before
their great talk ended and Cazalet
swore that he missed the watches
aft, sir" of the sailing-vessel ten
years before.
SAY" exclaimed Hilton Toye. knit
ting his brows over some nebulous rec.
objection OF his own. Il seem to have
heard Of you and some OF your yarns
before. Didn't you spend nights in a
log-hut miles and miles from any hui
man being?"
1t was as they were turning in at
last, but the question spoiled . yawn
for Cazalet.
Sometimes, at one of our out-sta-
tions." said he, looking puzzled.
I've seen your photograph" said
Toye, regarding him with a more criti.
cal stare. But It was with beard.
NJ had 1t on when was ashore the
other day." said Cazalet. Il always
meant to, before the end of the voy'
age"
Il see. 1t was Miss Macnair
showed me that photograph-Miss
Blanche Macnair lives in little house
down there near your old home.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-10
RRANEkNA,
= DIVING CITY

gle church which is famous under the
name of st. Appollinare in Classe. The
site of most vanished cities is marked
by ruined walls or at least mounds.
OF Classe there is not a wall nor q
hillock. All that was not overthrown
and carried away has sunk into the
soil, and only by excavation can here
and there some fragment Of founda-
ton be revealed. The surviving
churches within the city Of Ravenna
itself are numerous, and many more
than the present population requires.
Yet they are only a few compared
with the number that once existed.
MausoIeum Of Gala PIacidIa.
The earliest building of interest still
existing In Ravenna is the small but
most attractive little mausoleum OF
Gala Placidia 1t attempted no rival
ry with the mausolea of the great Ro-
man Imperial days, such as that of
Trajan or even the Constantinian San
ia Costanza- 1t is only a little cruel
form structure of brick, surmounted
over the crossing by tiny dome; but
the three sarcophagi that fill its arms
are stately, and the lining of gold
ground mosaic that covers its lunettes
and vaults glows with all the splen-
dor which ancient artists knew SO
well how to attain; while the marble
revetment below them, admirably re-
stored, and the marble pavement and
thin alabaster window slabs likewise
restorations), complete an interior
decoration which, for perfect taste,
subdued magnifcence, and simple dig
nifty could scarcely be surpassed.
st. Appollinare in Classe l suppose
Is sometimes used for worship, but 1t
wears a look of tidy abandonment.
There are no houses near to supply
worshippers, and only the wandering
visitor breaks the solitude; but 1t is a
| peopled solitude all the same. soil
tude vocal with memories of great
men and great doings long ago. The
spacious marble floor is divided by the
two great ranges of columns, noble an
tique monoliths of veined marble
standing upon sculptured bases which
are not buried. The simple apse, en-
riched with mosaic, is all the more
splendid in effect because so much
else of the walls Is bare. An ancient
altar of small dimensions Is In the
midst of the nave. Another, sur
! mounted by a remarkable ciborium OF
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sculptured marble on spirally fiuted
columns, fills the east corner of the
north aisle.
Tomb of the Great Ostroqoth.
One other monument of great inn
portance cannot be passed over with
out brief mention. This is the MAUI
soleum of Theodore himself. 1t is
not large, a little larger than Gala
Placidia's, but 1t is imposing by the
strength of its massive stone con-
struction. Polygonal in plan, two
stored, with external staircases lead
Ing to gallery round the empty up
per chamber-that is all. For roof it
is covered by one huge followed block
OF stone, like an inverted saucer In
form, with an external protuberance
In the center, on which a bronze orna-
ment once stood. The bronze doors,
the bronze parapet of the gallery, and
perhaps other ornaments, were carried
away by Charlemagne and built into
his palatine chapel at Aix-la- Chapelle.
where some OF them can still be seen.
Nothing of Theodore himself re-
mains in his grave. His body was
thrown out when orthodoxy supplanted
Arianism. The mausoleum is now q
mere empty shell. well protected by
a salaried guardian, who In the hot
season, when l was last there, accom-
panied me with a broom to sweep
away the harmless snakes which are
now the sole occupants OF the pile.
Enemies could throw out Theodoric's
bones, but his memory they could not
obliterate-the memory Of one of the
few really great men who snatched
from falling Rome the torch OF civili-
cation she had borne so high, and
availed for q short span to keep 1t
burning
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-10
Robinson crusoe In Trouble.

Robinson Crusoe was arrested by
Detective Kracke on a warrant charg-
ing him with failing to provide for a
minor child, says the San Francisco
Chronicle.
us that your real manner" asked
Prison Keeper Smith.
Sure. But nobody believes me-"
What do you know of Defoe?-
Never heard Of him. Is he the
,ne who had me arrested?"
Take him away" said Smith.
Crusoe was arrested on the war
rant which was obtained from Judge
Sullivan by his wife, MRS. Lillian
Crusoe, 14S5 Pine street. N her COM
plant she alleged that Crusoe had
allied to make any provision for their
only child. Muriel. four years Of age.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-10
CHAPTER II.
Second SIGHT.

Southampton Water was an orna-
mental lake dotted with fairy lamps.
1t was a midsummer night, tagging a
whole season behind it's fellows. But
already It was so late that the English
passengers on the Kaiser Fritz had
abandoned all thought of catching the
last train to London.
They tramped the deck in their
noisy, shining. shore-going boots; they
manned the rail in lazy inarticulate
appreciation of the nocturne in blue
stippled with green and red and count
less yellow lights. But Achilles in his
tent was no more conspicuous absen-
tee than Cazalet in his cabin as the
Kaiser Fritz steamed sedately up
Southampton Water
He had finished packing; the state
room floor was impossible with the
baggage that Cazalet had wanted on
the five-weeks' voyage. There was
scarcely room to sit down, but in what
there was sat Cazalet like a soul in
torment. All the vultures of the night
before, OF his dreadful dream, and of
the poignant "reminiscences to which
his dream had led, might have been
gnawing at his vitals as he sat there
waiting to set foot once more in the
land from which a bitter blow had
driven him.
Yet the bitterness might have been
allayed by the consciousness that he.
at any rate, had turned it to account.
1t had been, indeed, the making OF
him; thanks to that stern incentive,
even some of the sweets Of a deserved
success were already his. But there
was no hint of complacency in GAIA
let's clouded face and heavy attitude.
His face was pale, even in that tor
rid zone between the ATTITUDES protect
ed in the bush by beard and wide
awake. And he jumped to his feet as
suddenly as the screw stopped for the
first time. The same thing happened
again and yet again, as often as ever
the engines paused before the end
Cazalet would spring up and watch his
stateroom door with clenched fists and
haunted eyes. But 1t was some long
time before the door few open, and
then slammed behind Hilton Toye
Toye was in state OF excitement
even more abnormal than Cazalet's
nervous dependency. which indeed II
prevented him from observing. II was
instantaneously clear that Toye was
astounded. thrilled. almost triumphant
but as yet just drawing the line al
that. A newspaper nuttered In his
hand.
Second sight?" he calculated. as
though It were the night before and
Cazalet still shaken by his dream. az
guess you've got 1t in full measure
pressed down and running over, Mr.
Caxaletl"
Cro BE coNTINUED)
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-10
BUYING CrImean Clothes.

The weather, as an English mill
larry correspondent points out, may
have a great effect on the war. 1t In
necessary. therefore. that abundance
If warm clothing be provided for the
soldiers. But We have not always
thought of this. In the Crimean war
The British troops suffered terribly
from the cold until some clothing
genius invented a pilot jacket Of
sheepskin. So many OF these were
made that after the war there was q
surplus OF some thousands, which
we're kept in stock for quite thirty
rears, when they were sold by auo-
don and found their way into city
!ailors' shops, where they were eager
y snapped up as novelties.-London
Chronicle
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dug out and surrounded by a kind OF
walled moat; but all this only post
pones the inevitable ultimate end.
Ravenna Is, in fact, a dying city, and
has been dying slowly ever since the
Lombards came and drove out the ex-
archs of the emperor of Byzantium a
century or so before Charlemagne lib
Grated the pope from Lombard op-
preston.
Once Actually on the Coast.
At an earlier time Ravenna was
actually on the coast. The Roman
port was only a mile or two away,
relatively shallow port in the midst of
lagoons, which were continually being
silted up. That port, however, was
the best then available for ships OF
war, and its site, now miles inland,
still bears its ancient name, Classe.
Even today steamers of inconsidera-
BILE size enter Ravenna, aud a few,
very few, of my readers may have
landed there on their way from Dali
malta back into Italy; but it is only
along dredged channels and canals
that Ravenna can thus be reached.
In late Roman days Classe was a
very important place, tho feet being
Q chief defense of Italy.
Descriptions of Classe tell us OF its
great basins and quays, its noble
streets and houses. its many churches
and monasteries. We likewise learn
from them OF the noble avenue Of
stately buildings which led thence to
Rsvenna itself, where was the splen-
did palace of the prince and such num-
bers of churches and public buildings
as almost to seem incredible. Today,
of Classe and the great avenue Of
buildings. not one stone remains upon
another except In the case of the sin
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judge hers is another old home that's
been broken up since your day"
They've all got married" said GAIA
let.
Except Miss Blanche. You write
to her some, Mr. Cazalet?"
"Once year-regularly. 1t was a
promise. We we're kids together" he
explained, as he climbed back into
the upper berth.
Guess you were a lucky kid" said
the voice below. She's one in a
thousand, Miss Blanche Macnairl"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-10

VI 6OOo LII iant III hAdt nav ChAo
does not lie on the route of the
mass of ordinary tourists
through Italy. Honeymooning couples
avoid IT.; 80 do the personally con-
Quoted fiocks. 1t is, moreover, ex-
ternally dull town, and its streets
and near surroundings are fat and
uninteresting, writes Sir Martin Con-
way IN Country Life.
A few miles away, indeed, there is
the beautiful pine forest sung by
Dante, a wild stretch OF broken
ground along the Adriatic coast, with
charming glades and hollows, bushy
below and overarched by rugged and
pathetically dignified trees, where
those who do not suffer from fear of
snakes can wander in romantic sur
roundings. The neighborhood of Ra-
VIENNA is, moreover. fever-stricken.
shall never forget a visit paid to the
church Of Santa Maria in Porto Fuori
1t stands in hamlet of decaying
houses, itself also far gone in decay
the pavement broken, plaster fall
ing from the walls, and all the usual
signs of dilapidation. A woman who
brought the keys of the church told
US how the few peasants about were
all broken down with fever, how the
priest was away as much as possible,
how the folk were mostly atheistie
and anarchistic, and how only the very
minimum of work was done by anyone
about. There were reeking Quagmires
and damp places and stagnant pools
on all sides, and the old church itself
seemed to be sinking into the swamp.
Thus, in fact, Ravenna actually is
sinking. 1t is not merely that the
level of the ground of the town is
rising, as ground levels in towns nor
mally rise; but the buildings sink into
the soft alluvial soil by little and lit
tie, and have thus sunk from the day
they were built. The process is a
very slow one, but likewise very sure
and 1t cannot be stayed. Already In
the wet season Of the year the naves
of the old churches stand a foot OF
two deep in water, and that although
the floor level has been raised as
much as three or four feet, so that
the bases of the columns are buried
The older the church the deeper II
lies in the ground. Some have beer
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-03-10
The Real Thing.

1t is not numbers that count but Inn
portance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-16
CASEY ON PREPAREDNESS.
Knoxville, Iowa, EXpress.)

Knoxville Iowa, Express)
Preparedness is not matter of principle but
Of degree. We are all in favor Of preparedness.
Even Mr.. Bryan wants nightwatch or two in
town. Some want more. No two men would have
the same idea as to the exact number of soldiers
and ships we should have. From Mr.. Bryan we
advance Cor retrogradeO by insensible degrees
to the kaiser-''from William of Lincoln to Will
liam of Germany" as Senator Cummins puts It,
Nobody wants to make America an armed camp,
yet is it safe to leave all the doors unlocked and
nobody awake? America is going to reason on
these things. From the president, congress and
people will finally come program Of defense that
will be the consensus of American opinion, COM
posite judgment of the American people, and in
this we must place our trust. The president in
his tours from city to city urging the necessity
of national defense, Colonel Roosevelt breathing
threatenings and slaughter and defying the
world, Mr.. Bryan preaching the gospel of altru-
ism and non-resistance, every man who writes or
speaks on the subject-all these are contributing
to the final judgment Of the American people up
on this question. Congress is the great melting
pot of these divergent ideas, and each who likes
may contribute and does contribute his bit of
precious or base metal to the composite result
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-16

Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt of Cornell
University is in good company in pre-
dieting an international parliament to
prevent wars. Over half century
ago Victor Hugo rhapsodized about the
United States of Europe. In the
worlds peace congress held in Paris
in August, 1849, a great Eng
lishman and a great Russian embraced
each other, while Hugo pronounced
benediction But within five years
the Crimean war came on. 1t was not
long after another world peace con-
gress that Hugo was cooped up in
Paris by the Prussians. No doubt
most OF the men in the English trench
es in early youth recited with fine fer
yer, the lines of TennysOn-
Till the war-drum throbbd no long
Ell and the battlefags were furId
In the parliament of man, the feder-
alton Of the world"
From the hundreds of pulpits for
two millenniums men have quoted the
prophecies of Isaiah and Micah, in
identical language: "And they shall
beat their swords into plowshares and
their spears into pruning hooks; ma
ton shall not lift sword against ma
ton, neither shall they learn war any
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-16
PARLIAMENT OF NATIONS

more" Vespasfan dedicated a temple
to peace in Is A. D. During the nine
teenth century there were information
al peace movements almost innumer-
able. Elaborate machinery was de-
vised. We were assured after each
war that it would be the last. With
wealth of illustration peace speakers
proved that a really great war could
not happen in this age Of enlighten-
ment. But it did happen and the most
illustrious advocates of peace, men fit
to sit on the Supreme Court of the
nations, promptly sided with their res
pective nations, leaving peace talk to
representatives Of countries not in
vOlyed.
Much has been accomplished by ar
bitration Our century of peace with
Great Britain is a striking illustration
of the value Of approaching questions
with the purpose Of reaching an annie
able agreement Extension of such
an international system should have
the support of all well-meaning men.
But so long as this is an imperfect
world. war will continue to Turk in the
background as a possibility, and it
would be supreme folly not to be pre-
pared for such an eventuality.-St.
Louis GlObe-DemOcrat.