The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-10-04
scgAsT1S NrTRaN-conunued,

"0h, yes; last night for some
TINE He hiss great ideas = too
great. I fear, to be practicable
Then you don't believe $50
THAT he can destroy armies
and all thatf" and Chevrial
lxaghed lightly. MY dear NJ.
Webster, do youf"
NO" said Dan, slowly, 81
don't suppose / DO. It's too much
to believe-without proofl"
"Assuredly," agreed his COM
panion; mo n would believe it
without proof-absolute proof"
Then he leaned closer. ITO me
he made no such absurd claim, but
from the way he talked-from his
grandiose ideas, his strange
philosophy, his fabulous hopes for
humanity formed the opinion
that the man is mad-not wholly
mad, you understand, but touched,
In one corner of the brain, by a
wild hallucination. His daughter,
naturally, believes in him. She is
q most attractive girl. Polish
women are always attractive, at
least when they are young. There
is, in their faces, in their eyes, an
appearance of tragedy, of mys-
terry, which piques the magma
ton. And they are all great pa
triot-it is born in the blood-oh,
far greater patriots than the men.
I have travelled in Poland" he
added, seeing Dan s glance; my
business sometimes calls me
there"
and is there really such OPP
preston as Miss Ward described?"
Il do not know what she told
you-it was only at the end she
raised her voice; but she could
not exaggerate the sufferings of
her people. They are little better
than slaves. All careers are closed
to them, and over them constantly
is the shadow of Siberia
"You mean they are banislled
sometimess"
"They are banished often--for
one year, two years, three years.
And they are compelled to walk
to and from the place of Danish
ment. 1t takes a year sometimes.
l knew a man who returned homo
one day to find a Cossack attack
ing his daughter. There was a
struggle, and the Cossack shot the
man in the leg. The wound fcs
tered and the leg was amputated;
then the man was sentenced to the
mines at Yakutsk. 1t was / know
not how many thousand miles--it
took him two years to walk there
on his wooden leg-walking,
walking every day"
Dan felt a strange weakness
running through his veins.
but is there no way to put an
end to such things9'' he asked.
Chevrial rolled himself another
cigaret.
Poland has nc friends, he an
gwered. "She has been forgotten.
The Poles themselves have come
to be regarded as fools, as charla-
tans, as irresponsible children.
France was supposed to be the
friend of Poland Napoleon prom
Used to reconstitute her, and the
Poles fought by thousands in his
armies and won many victories for
him. Then came the campaign OF
Russia and ended all that. To.
day, Poland is remembered in
France only by q proyerb, nSaou]
CONNIE un Poionais, Drunk as d
Pole It Is SO we think Of them
when we think Of them at all
which il not often. This. disdain
this forgetfulness, has been care.
fully fostcred by Germany and
Russia. No one thinks it worth
while to interfere. Besides, Pc
lands lot II that of every con
qucrcd country. iii AIsace.Lor
raine ii ID just the same,
oh, surely mott Dan pro
tested. Germany, AZ least, ha,
no Siberia
No, she has 10 Siberia, Chey
rial agreed but neither has sh,
Serase OF hnm0r, And that j
wcrsel The very worst trait 10 !