The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-25
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THE ORIGIN OF THE CRIME.

nand received visit from the kaiser.
When the kaiser had gone, the arch.
duke went to his grave.
For the flames tnat followed, the
kaiser, shifty as every criminal is, ac-
cused first Russia, then France, then
England. At the public bar Of his opin-
ion the United States has not yet been
indicted. Wait and see. Sooner or later
he will call God to witness that it was
all due to Mr. Wilson's pyromania. Yet,
oddly enough, none Of the defendants
declared war on Serbia
The declaration, prearranged between
the Wilhelmstrasse and the Ballpatz.
had, for nominal basis, Austrla's horror
at the murder of her archduke
Throughout history Austria has been
in the rogue's gallery The horror was
mask
In the Prussian diet Liebknecht told
the truth about il, not all the truth. but
as much as he could 1t was very in
| judicious of him. In Hunland truth is
diagnosed as a form Of hydrophobia for
which the only Pasteur institute Is jail.
Liebknecht went to prison, but not be-
fore he had urged that history be taught
| correctly and children learn that the
| archduke's assassination was hailed in
high quarters as gift of the gods.
a gift Of the kaiser's he might have
said, and probably would have had he
not been gagged, Anyway the facts
suffice. Franz Ferdinand was next in
line for the throne of the polyglot poly
archy which Austria is. Thoroughly
detested in Vienna, profoundly distrust.
ed in Berlin, he was man with ideas.
poor perhaps. but his own. who very
operatically had married a Bohemian
girl The young woman was Hoffahig
but not royal. Concerning the couple
the old satrap, the former emperor. had
only one desire and that was never TO
see them. He declined therefore TO
lift the lady 10 the empyrean. Negli.
gently he sent her an empty title or
two, but the imperialia he withheld.
Consequently she could not be empress
and over the mummy Of the Tower Of
Babel her sons could not reign.
To remedy that there were dark plots
IN dumb palaces. For the benefit Of
his heir Franz Ferdinand proposed TO
carve from the mummy a large Slav
state, an operation which, it is obvious.
while advantageous to him would be
the reverse to Pan-Germanism.
A rumor Of 1t reached the kaiser. To
get the lay of the land he and Won
Tirpitz looked in at the archduke's rose
gardens in Konopisht There. while
Won Tirpitz monopolized the host. he
condoled with the hostess. The Bohe.
mian lady moved by chivalrous sympa.
thy Of the stainless war lord, let the cat
out Of the bag. after pledging him.
Hand auf Herr, to secrecy.
The kaiser seeing then what con.
fronted him. saw too that any moment
the plan might he realized, for at any
moment the old emperor might conclude
TO die. In considering that he consid.
cred also the second line, the present
incumbent, Karl /.
There was young man with no
IDEAS, however poor. II would be mirac.
ulous II he did have any His father
was cracked, so was his grandfather,
and his wife is one Of seventeen chill.
dren, Of whom several are imbecie She.
too. comes Of a fine old family. and to-
gether 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
counter plots were indicated. Better
an heir apparent should perish than
that Pan-Germanism be blocked. From
those rose gardens the Artful Dodger
sent Won Tirpitz to the Ballplatz and
then went up TO his yacht. while the !
artless lady and her archduke went
down TO death
Meanwhile. in the Wihelmstrasse. |
from which the Balplatz takes its or. |
ders, long since the burglary OF the
world had been prepared. At the time /
Serbia, the key 10 the East. barred the |
way. But better a nation should perish /
than that thugs be baked Then too.
the day was dawning. The police. un.
suspicious, unprepared, were asleep. |
The chance might come again. vet nev. |
er perhaps so propit!ously None the |
less precautions We're necessary. To |
insure n proper hit.himagain enthusi. /
asm. fight must be so staged that the /
other party viii appear 10 have pro
voked H. That was Bismarcks stage |
craft, TO which Bernhard has since |
and very badly played the flute.
At this juncture, Franz Ferdinand |
vacating the rose gardens. went down
TO his death and Austria In feicned 4
horror flung an ultimatum at Serbia. /
which she denounced as a nation OF as. |
sassins
Apparently In that denunciation were |
the cards, face up and on the table.
The man in the subway II he troubled
to look. thought IL a square deal. But
the cards had been stacked
Franz Ferdinand was done FOR in
Sarajero, which is in Bosnia. and Bos.
MIA the swag OF an earlier burglary. is
Austrian territory-that is TO say. Ger.
man. On arriving no military escor,
was provided for him, the police had
been called of and the double murder
was accomplished by the son OF the Ia.
cal chief OF the Austrian secret service
The governor Of Sarajero. who had sent
the police about their business was
shortly rewarded. He was given com.
mand OF the Bosnian troops. But Mem. I
esls was eyeing him, lie went mad.
Meanwhile on Potsdam and the !
Hofburg there descended that 10Y OF
which Liebknecht told Two birds had
been Killed with one hnnnh rhn nj