The Alaska daily empire., 1917-07-10


 His father was cracked, so was his grandfather, and his wife is one of IT children, of whom several are imbecile She, too, comes Of inc, old family, and together they | form an ideal couple, who lose no time in thought.
 The charm of that appealed to Kaiser Bill. At once this thug turned snitch. For the Archduke's project counterplots were indicated. Better an heir apparent should per | ish than that Pan-Germanism be blocked. From those rose gardens the Artful Dodger sent von Tirpitz to the Ballplatz and then went up l to his yacht, while the artless lady and her Archduke went down to death.
 Meanwhile, in the Wilhelmstrasse, l from which the Ballplatz takes it's orders, long since the burglary of the world had been prepared. At the time Serbia, the key to the East barred the way. But better q nation should perish than that thugs be baked. Then, too. "the | day" was dawning. The police, un- suspicious, unprepared, were asleep The change might come again, yet never perhaps so propitiously. None the less, precautions were neces- | ,ary. To insure proper hit-him- again enthusiasm fight must be 70 staged that the other party will f0 hot was Bismarck's stagecraft, to which Bernhardi has since, and very bad | ly, played the flute.
 At this juncture Franz Ferdinand, l yacating the rose gardens, went | town to his death, and Austria, in 'eigned horror, flung an ultimatum tt Serbia, which she denounced as nation of assassins.
 | Apparently in that denunciation 1 were the cards, face up and on the able. The man in the subway, if le troubled to look, thought it a | square deal. But the cards had been stacked.
 Franz Ferdinand was done for in Sarajero, which is in Bosnia, and Bosnia, the swag of an earlier bur- slary, is Austrian territory-that is o say, German. On arriving no military escort was provided for Jim, the police had been called off md the double murder was accom- ,lished by the son of the local chief ,f the Austrian Secret Service. The Governor of Sarajero, who had sent he police about their business, was hortly rewarded He was given command of the Bosnian troops. But Nemesis was cycling him. He went mad
 Meanwhile on Potsdam and the Iofburg there descended that joy If which Liebknecht told. Two birds had been killed by one bomb The Archduke was out of the way. Ie had been slaughtered in Bosnia Bosnia is peopled with Serbs, and rothing could be more rational than o charge Serbia with the crime md then proceed to lay her out.
 The ultimatum followed. Pre- 'iously, when Austria bagged Bos- lia and, for good measure, Herze- -ovina also, Russia, then exhausted )y Japan, omitted to raise a finger. Berlin and therefore in Vienna, t was believed that Russia would like manner let Serbia go by the ,oard. Consequently France would 'ot interfere and still less England. That was the way the thugs saw it. Before them was the easy prey. the promenade over a corpse and the triumphant Drang mach Osten.
 But immediately Petersburg, af- .erward Petrograd. and new. for the moment, Retrograd, shouted. Stop hief!" At the hue and cry France at up. England climbed into her ,onning tower and Austria, at sight If the police, turned, hacked and would have run to cover. But with Kaiser Bill it was then or never. By he scruff of the neck he kicked the mummy in.
 The world since then has been in James, Today almost every man vho calls himself white is trying to ,ut them out. Those here that tand aside think it no concern of ours.
 It is the duty of philosophy to 'upply a reason for everything. Readily it provides one for them. sither they have not studied the Presidents Flag Day address or else hey do not appreciate the malig nancy of German savagery. They lave not considered that should that avagery prevail in Europe it will be repeated here. But when they do realize what the enemy is they will realize also that nothing earthly is