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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04
KNOW LITTLE ABOUT GUNS
Magazine. Reader Criticizes Ncveists
for Their Ignorance of the
Subject.

"Of all the fool people that are lei
loose in fiction" exclaimed the gun
crank as he disgustedly threw across
the room the magazine he had been
reading, the alleged gunfighter is the
worst Why don't the authors who
want to put shooting into novel at
least go to a gun store and see what a
revolver or a rife looks like before
they try to write about it!
Magazine editors who go in for
that sort Of fiction ought TO have a
gun editor who would know the differ
ence between derringer and scatter
gun, and who would at least be aware
of the fact that It isn't the trigger that
clicks when you cock a shooting iron
Of any sort-although ignorant novel
lists have been producing thrills and
shivers in equally ignorant readers
with that click Of the trigger so long
that the mistake has become a classic
Now, here's an author" and the
gun crank picked up the magazine he
had Just thrown down and found the
sentence which had set him off.
Here's an author who makes one OF
his characters, represented as crack
a.jack with gun Of any sort, 'twirl
the cylinders of his revolver with the
practiced thumb as he gets ready to
shoot! How many cylinders does
that author think revolver has, any
way, and what does he think the cylin-
der is for, and what does he sup
pose would happen to man who stop
ped to play with his gun In that way
when somebody else had the drop on
him.
And the other day read about an
other fighting man in & novel who,
his creator alleged, had carefully filed
away the trigger srring of his rife
And I've been trying ever since 10 fig.
ure out what the author supposed
himself 10 mean and what he imag.
ined he was going TO make his hero
accomplish By such an asinine pro
ceeding as that
But It's no use trying to find sense
In such stun There isn't one novel
writer in thousand, anyway, who
would know the difference between a
sixshooter and skyscraper!"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04

Harry Carr Of Broadway, New York.
recently made trip to Reno, and
owing TO a sudden turn OF circum.
stances fingered there until he was
hungry. At length Mr. Carr, having
detached dollar from protesting
friend, entered Reno restaurant.
Sage hen" said the waiter, not as ono
offering query, but as person
stating a fact What's sage hen?"
asked Mr. Carr The walter said II
was bird, native TO the desert coun.
try Has It got wings?" asked Mr..
Carr The waiter said II had Then"
said Mr. Carr. decisIyely. Il don't
want no sage hen won't eat nothin'
that has wings +and yet stays in Ne
yada"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04
10 zee me- on 90 doubt to apoI-

I TO zee me- oh 90 doubt to apot
ogiHe
Z As evening approached they listened
4 10 every step upon the stair, and when
Al las, the visitor arrived, be found 4
little lady wrapped in q pretty shawl
and with dainty lace cap pinned up
on her slightly gray hair awaiting him
/ As their eyes met. their amaEcmcni
was mutual
II isnt.-it can't be Joe Millaker
can IT." she began
Sure, and ! know you all right,
though We haven't met since we wen,
10 school together You're Mary Col
Inns, or used to be. and you sat in
front OF me al the old public school
10 Brooklyn Don't you remember
Indeed | do have an old copy
book In which you made me a proposal
OF marriage She laughed delighted
ly.
Il guess that's about the way things
were with us. Mary And I've waited
all these years for you'll never mar.
RED But It's queer | never learned
you'd married Prof Blumenthal, and |
In his orchestra FIVE years"
But OF course he wouldn't be likely
TO speak OF his family" she said
NO. suppose not, Well, Mary, |
told your boy | might have some good
news for him when came The mem.
bers OF the old orchestra are to meet
next Saturday evening In the old hall
to reorganize. DO you think your son
Is able to lead them"
Able, my Sammy, why he wouldn't
be the son of his father II he were not
born musician"
Let him come then, and bring his
fathers baton--I mean the one We
gave him"
Get It, Sammy said his mother.
perhaps Mr. Millaker would like to
see It again"
Very proudly the boy opened the
box, displaying the handsome baton,
simply saying: Father was very fond
of It."
As the visitors eyes fell upon the
baton he said
Yes, it's the same. How well | re
member It, and how pleased the pro
fessor was when we presented II. And
to think of our allowing ourselves to
lose track of his wife and SON. Well,
you needn't worry any longer, Mary,
the old orchestrall look out for you
now till you make up your mind to
let me have the Job alone
Though he gave her meaning look
he took his departure in the midst Of
her embarrassed laugh.
"Oh, mother" exclaimed Sammy, In
stantly the door was closed, Il under
stand now That's the Joe that wrote
his name In all your school books"
The little lady, looking 10 years
younger, blushed as prettily as girl
over her first love affair,
Yes" she admitted dreamily, "the
very same"
And to think of his making me an
orchestra leader Do you think | can
do 1t, mother?"
"Of course you can Are you not |
the son of Carl Blumenthal?"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04
NO USE FOR CITY FOLKS"
"But There 10 Some Good Every.
where" Said the Hosptable
Old Fisherman.

There are regions where to hall
from the city is hardly more respect.
able than to be baron in New York
society, the New York Evening Sun
says. Hear the tale of the hospitable
Nova Scotia fisherman and the pro-
lessor from city university.
Far up In Nova Scotia on that mar.
row strip OF beach that divides the
Bay OF Fundy from the Bay OF Var
mouth stands a fisherman's cottage.
The professor and his wife were
walking the adjacent beach when they
heard voice behind them say, How
dee do, folks7"
A little old woman in calico dress
was standing In the doorway How
dee do" said she with friendly
smile. Drop by and chat whilef
Pa" she continued to some one with
In doors-"Pa, here's folks"
Pa, a gaunt old fisherman, appeared
above her shoulder Drop by and
chat a while" said he. And the pro
fessor and his wife dropped by
The kitchen, which would have
been small In Harlem fiat, was filled
with deal table. stove and two
chairs Dinners nigh ready" said
the old woman. stepping to the door
and shading her eyes as she looked
seward
Pa laid the kitchen table with plat
tiers OF fresh lobster meat and buck
leberry pie. The odor OF coffee filed
the air set ye down" said the old
man. beaming with hospitality set
ye down and feed Who'll have his
lobster fried In butter?" And while
ma and the guests sat down he fried
lobster and poured coffee.
At the close OF the meal the pro-
fessor said Captain, you and your
wife must come up to the hotel to-
morrow and have dinner with us.
Now, don't say you can't! We an
going back TO the city the next day.
SO tomorrow is the only chance TO
have you"
A look OF alarm and pain showed In
the faces OF the fisherman and his
wife Laws" said pa, "the hotel!"
Laws" said ma CITY folks"
why, yes" said the professors
wife We're from New York Does
that natter"
Never you mind, ma" said pa, con-
eoling her And alwus told 20
there's good folks everywhere? Amt
! alwus told ye that? And takin' Il
all an all It amt likely any oneTl
ever know"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04

that II son vii only walt for a yeO
via marrt you II YOU wish IL"
All this time Duncan was strus>
Cling With some distant memory. q
memory that for all bis coniurins
would not rise from the past Whera.
he repeated To himself. had he seen
tina, oyil faco' Ho went to the win
dow 10 gain time aud also to let some
cool air into the room Then, like
sudden fash II the remembrance
came, waited in AZ Il were on The
fresh north wind
Duncan turned sternly toward the
man. You have forgotten me. but D
know you now, well Perhaps | can
recall myself TO your mind Do YOU
not remember. nine years ao. .
young divinity student he wore
beard then and the papers through q
mistake afterwards alluded 20 him ~
Duncan Roberts who was called into
your house by neighbor 10 help pro
vent YOU from killing your young wifey
! saved your wife from murder then.
and you were not grateful TO me You
will not be grateful TO me now for
saving this other woman from worse
than death SO think this interview
had better come 20 an end at oncal
Also. II you value your personal lib
erty. Mr. Hubert Guilfoyle, otherwise
James Strand, would suggest that
you take the first train out, and for,
the rest of your life keep away from
my sight"
Robert Duncan kept steadying
hand on Eulalia's shoulders as the
man silently and ANONYMOUSLY Left
the room and the house Then he
called Mrs. Purdy
Mary" he said, 81 want you to take
Miss Farren to your rooms for to-
night want you TO take her up O
little supper. put her to bed. and not
let her speak one word until tomor.
row She's tired out"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04
Al Cnnnarisnn.

Is that man a real LEADER" No"
replied Senator Sorghum He RS.
mind me Of the front end Of train "
cars He heads the procession, but
the real pushing Is done BY a tocomo-
tive IN the distance
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04
ErtermInatlna Weeds.

u really begins 20 look an though
In time we would be able 10 keep
down large percentage d the weeds
by the use Of chemicals Hail the
day
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04

The banks Of Australia had on
March 81 s726 100000 Of deposits. an
increase over the prior year of $780,
mo 900
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04

Pnlfatilla Wen ] suppose you and
Haroid have kissed and made up
Suiingla No. indeed We've
made up hfeti
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-04-04

A year later Robert Duncan kept his,
promise to marry Eulalia But II was
another minister who performed the
ceremony
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

fore, the evil done at Vienna has en-
dured and it's inevitable harvest has been
the World War.
The Peace of Utrecht, a century
earlier, was different order of settle
ment. 1t terminated a war between
kings rather than between nations. 1t
ended the effort Of Louis XIV to domi-
nate the whole continent No question
of liberalism was in any mind; the
single purpose was to preserve the vic
tory achieved, to insure Europe against
new French aggressions Unlike the con-
dltlons existing now and existing in the
time of the Congress of Vienna, there
was no military decision in advance of
the making Of peace. The flood tide of
French success had long passed Blen-
hem, Families and Malplaquet had
broken the military might of France,
but the French armies were still strong,
French territory practically intact and
French exhaustion no more complete
than that of the allies, who were nomi
nally victorious.
Actually there was no general con-
gresS and no single document of settle
ment. Separate peace was made between
France and her enemies. The terms of
the peace left to Louis most of his con-
quests, which were mere extensions of
French rule to territories inhabited bv
French populations. 1t left him those
districts in Flanders which have seen
such terrible fighting in the present con-
filct; it confirmed his hold upon Alsace,
but it rescued the Belgian lands from
him and established for France the
frontiers which, save on the side of
Italy, subsisted until the Franco-Prus
sian War and are now to be restored.
AS for the settlement of Westphala.
like that of Utrecht, it was peace by ne
gotlatlon, without victory. 1t ended the
Thirty Years War; it established the
principle of religious liberation: it
marked the rise of France as a great
state; it bestowed Alsace upon the
French monarchy; it left Germany a
broken mass Of disunted states. 1t was
a real settlement SO far as the religious
issue was concerned; in all else it was
no settlement, but rather cessation of
war, made necessary by exhaustion and
achieved not at general congress, but
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

at all times was able to save beaten
France from the consequences of defeat
by playing upon the mutual jealousies
of the conquerors.
The statesmen and the sovereigns who
framed the Vienna document regarded
Europe, save for France of 1889, as an
open hunting ground. Prussia, Austria,
Russia, through their kings, quarrelled
over their respective shares of Poland,
all of which the Gar once, by an elo-
quent gesture, claimed as his own, as
successful bandits might quarrel over
the division of a booty. Disagreed over
all else, however, the contestants were
agreed in disregard of the rights of the
real owners. And not less complete was
the disregard of the men of the Congress
of Berlin for the same considerations.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
by separate peace agreements between
the various contestants.
\ Time to Correct
"A Past Errors

A review Of these previous great SET
Elements or 7Nusettlements is perhaps
worth while now, when we are to make
the greatest of all settlements, which
seems bound to have as long life as
that of Vienna and exercise at least as
great an influence upon succeeding gen
erations as did the 1916 document upon
history from Waterloo to the later Sc
dan. OF all these previous settlements
only that of Vienna is Of real contem-
porary interest, because alone of the
many arrangements it was like the pres
ent, the consequence Of complete victory
in general war which put complete
power in the hands of the victor
At Vienna the principles Of civil lib
erty and of racial unity were rejected.
Metternich, Tallcyrand, Castlereagh, the
Russian Emperor and the Prussan sol
diers were not concerned with the rights
Of small peoples, and they were deter
mined to exercise the evil spell of the
French Revolution But the vctors
were so divided by mutual rivalrics that
only the return of Napoleon prevented
collapse Of the congress, and Talleyrand
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
\ Century of the
~ Evil Done at Vienna

The purposes. expressed in the Con-
gress of Vienna, the principles estab-
lished there, were soon repudiated by
France; they were never formally ac-
cepted by the British, who, seeking pro-
lection against new French menaces,
consented rather than agreed to the de-
cisions. They were banished from Italy
within half century, but they prevailed
in Russia, in Austria and in Germany to
the very hour when the present conflict
came. They were revealed again in the
Congress of Berlin, where Britain was
again harnessed to the chariot of reac-
ton, this time through fear Of Russia;
and France, newly beaten and mutilated,
was helpless. For full century, there
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
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gathering In Berlin the diplomatists
were concerned only with avoiding a
general war and with acquiring as much
territory as possible. At Vienna the
double objective was personal profit and
collective royal safety An eviction of
kings, like that which has just occurred,
had followed the French Revolution, and
the general association of monarchs met
at Vienna was resolved to make any
repetition impossible.
Now contrast the task before the
statesmen who gather at Versailles with
that Of their predecessors at Vienna and
at Berlin. Their task far surpasses
that Of little more than a century ago.
They have to make a new map Of Eu
rope. They have to deal with the racial
and natiQnalistic aspirations Of more
people than the combined sovefeigns Of
the Vienna era ruled over. They have
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

to erect. new nations larger than any
German state in 1916. They have to
resolve Austria Hungary into it's com
ponent parts, to settle the Balkan rival
ries, to dispose of the Turk in Asia as
we'll as in Europe. They have the Polish
problem on their hands, with all its COM
plexities. They have the German col
onies to bestow upon themselves or re-
turn to Germany.
And beyond these questions of terri
tory and nationality there are the stu
pendous tasks growing out of the Ger
man revolution and the Russian an
archy. Fortunately, in one respect, the
victorious nations are far better placed
than those of 1915. There are almost
no rivalries as among themselves.
France, Britain and the United States
have no conflicting purposes. Italian
aspirations are only possible sources of
trouble, where the Italians disagree with
the Slavs and the Greeks over Adriatic
and Egean territories.
For the Germans to repeat the
achievements of Talleyrand at Vienna
in dividing their conquerors there is lack
ing the material everywhere present at
the earlier gathering Differences can
only come out of principles rather than
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

Russian victory over Turkey. Berlin
was the meeting place and Bismarck the
dominant figure, because Germany was
then at the full zenith of her greatness,
resulting from her triumph over Den
mark, Austria and France, which had
made her the greatest Of the great
powers Actually, the spectacle in Ber-
lin was the demonstration of the passing
from France to Germany of the leader
ship in Europe, and to the outbreak Of
the present war this German preemi-
nence in European councils prevailed.
Yet the briefest consideration of the
acts of the Congress Of Berlin discloses
the seeds of the great World War.
Russia had conquered Turkey, had
planned a greater Bulgaria, designed to
liberate the Slavs of the Balkan PENN
sula; her armies were within sight of
Constantinople and the expulsion of the
Turk from Europe was seemingly in
evitable
But the Congress of Berlin turned
most of Bulgaria back to the Turk, to
erect bulwark against the Russian
which would satisfy British anxeties as
to Constantinople. 1t gave to Austria
the Serb lands of Bosnia and Herzego-
vina, kindling the fire which spread
out into the World War. 1t took
Greek lands from the Greeks to restore
them to the Turk; it permitted Russia to
seize the Rumanian lands of Bessarabia
and forced Rumania into the Bulgarian
Dobrudja, sowing the seeds of hatred
which have led to such evil harvests in
recent years. Britain received Cyprus
and became the guarantor of the Turk
ish integrity, responsible thereby for the
Armenian massacres and Macedonian
crimes of the future. France obtained
Tunls and the generation~long resent
ment of Italy.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
4 inns of the Conquerors
"A of Napoleon

In word, it was to the self-interas,
OF the conquerors of Napoleon to estab-
lish in France the idea that they made
war not upon France, but upon Napo-
leon, and to establish this idea thew left
France practically intact and imposed
no considerable indemnity. By contrast,
we must liberate the subject national;.
ties of Germany, the Poles, Danes and
the inhabitants Of Alsace-L Lorraine. and
we must compel the German people to
pay for what German soldiers have done
in Belgium and in France We do not
seek punitive indemnities, bot restora-
tive indemnities are colossal, and unless
we collect them France and Belgium
will have to bear the intolerable burdens
imposed by German crimes.
The absolute justice of purpose with
respect to Germany does not lessen our
difficulties in realizing them. Socialistic
Germany will resist, must resist, for its
own existence will be imperilled. it will
almost inevitably fall before the ex-
treme elements, if it accepts peace with
the burden of many billions of indemni-
ties. 1t cannot resist militarily, pre-
cisely as Russia could not resist the un-
just conditions of Brest-Litovsk, but it
can refuse to sign
Nor is it easy to see how we can nego-
tiate until Germany has achieved some
form of recognized government, that is,
until the revolution has been accepted
by the German people at general cleo
ton. What is done by the representa-
tives of the present regime may be re-
pudiated by the nation. Moreover, no
settlement is conceivable that laaves
Russia out of the reckoning, and how
are we to deal with Russia?
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24

territory. That they may come ;s
parent when one recognizes. for eva,.s' ~
the very vide difference of views bet,rpo@
Great Britain and President Wilson o..~ s''
the question Of the freedom oe a.
seas" e"e
But far more fruitful source =.
difficulty must be seen in the s;tpat;o~
in Germany. France in 1915 when 81
Congress Of Vienna met. was in ~
hands Of king restored by allied bav,
nets. Owing his throne to the OH
and holding it only by their aid he ra0
bound to accept their conditions Tbo
return of Napoleon temporarily abol
ished the decisions of the Coneress -
Vienna and lad he won Waterloo woula
have reduced them to ashes. His defeat
and disappearance alone saved the wor.
OF the Congress of Vienna.
The situation with respect to Ger.
many is far different. The powe. :,
that nation has fallen into hands certo;,
to be as hostile to the conouerors a.
were the Hohenzollerns, if only becapso
the conquerors must now impose uno,
soclalistic Germany the costs of the dev.
astations wrought by monarchial Ger.
many In 1914, and again in 1915 tbe
conquerors of Napoleon deliberately 70.
signed claims against France that thew
might not so prejudice the position Of
the king they had placed on the French
throne as to insure his fall. once their
armies had been withdrawn.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
&eeking the Fruits
~ of the Revolution

Having disposed Of France, the repre-
sentatives of Russia, Britain, Austria
and Prussia undertook to restore the
world which had been swept away by the
revolution. The partition of Poland was
finally consummated. Prussia, Russia
and Austria took their several shares.
Italy was again turned over to it's old
plunderers; Austria was reestablished in
Venice, the Bourbons in Naples; Bel
glum was turned over to Holland; everv-
where the rights and the wishes of races
were disregarded. Napoleon, returning
from Elba, announced that the Congress
of Vienna was dissolved, but Waterloo.
following fast upon the adjournment of
this congress, enabled it's determination
to stand.
The consequences of this settlement
were even more evil than those of the
later Berlin gathering. The Bourbon
restoration lasted in France but fifteen
years. Belgium promptly broke away
from Holland; Italy, under the leader
ship Of Sardinia, began her half-century
of struggle for liberty and unity. Po-
land again and again revolted. All
Europe was swept in 1S48 by new rs-
ing to restore the lost liberties of the
revolution era. The rivalres of Austria
and of Prussia led to the war of 1866.
When they had written the agree
ments of Vienna the allied sovereigns
united in Holy Alliance directed
against liberal ideas and calculated to
restrain France, the natural home of
revolution. The consequences of this de-
hberate programme are seen with clarx