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SWATTY STORIES AND OTHERS
When the Ice Goes Out

nothing about it7 II he's going to
kill himself he's going to do, and
you can't help 1t. II my father was
going to do what you said your faith.
err was going to do I'd let him do It,
and I wouldn't spoil everybody's fun
ahead and play, like nothing was
going to happen. until had to go in
and dress for the funeral"
Well. I guess that wasn't n very
good thing for Swatty to say, be-
cause 1t made Bony blubber moro
and Disguised and he said:
"Aw shut up and we'll go and find
your father and take the shotgun
away ns,f from ona him, 4 you're. going to be
That's the way swatty always is:
from a father that wanted to xiii
himself, and If we did think Of 1t we
would never dare to do 1t. But Swatty
wouldn't care who he took a shot
gun away from If he got mad be.
Ing. So we knew he'd do 1t If we
went along. So we went along.
When we saw Bony's father go by
with the shotgun no was going to.
ward downtown, so mo and Bony and
Swatty started toward downtown, and
would go to kill himself If he didn't
want to kill himself in his barn, and
none of us thought he would go
downtown to do it because somebody
might see him start to do It and stop
him. So we talked about II, and we
made up our minds we would go over
into the Illinois bottom, across the
mississippi, because a man once went
over there to kill himself. and did It.
and nobody bothered him while he
was doing it or knew about It until
afterward.
OF course, the ferry wasn't running
In March; but 1t was easy enough for
Bony's father to get across the river,
because the ice was frozen and the
river was closed and he could go over
on the ice.
We went down to the river. There
was good deal Of water on the Ice
in some places. and the snow was
mushy everywhere on It and It was
pretty bad walking. guess you
know what the river is like whei, il
is closed. BY March there is a lot Of
snow on 1t, because nobody shovels It
qff, and they couldn't If they tried,
because the river Is three-uuarters Of
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FIRST ONE THOLE PIN BROKE A.
HAD TO PADDLE. THOUGHT II
AND THEN THE OTHER AND HE
HE'D NEVER REACH THE ICE.

US. We'd rather be licked than be
drowned So Swatty said:
AW! come on! l wouldn't have
come If ! thought you were a couple
OF crypaby coWardy-calves. I'll dare
you to comet"
But we didn't. So Swatty said:
double-tribble dare you, and who
ever don't take the dare Is a soonerl"
wen, sooner was the worst thing
ANYBODY could call you; even Bony
But we didn't care what he called us.
But just then we heard a gun 60 off
over in the woods, and before either Of
US could stop him Bony started. He
ran right out on the wet Ice, crying
ana blubbering, and he fell down in
on. Every little while he would fall
down. but he would get right up and
run again. The water was almost up
to his knees, but he didn't care. I
guess he kind of liked his father and
wanted to get to him.
stop and come back, or anyway to
wait for US, but Bony ran right on.
Swatty shouted.
Hey Bony! Come back. was only
foolhg! Your father amt going to
kill himselfw
Because Swatty didn't know Bony's
father wasn't going to kill himself,
drowned He just wanted US to cross
the river because nobody had ever
crossed 1t when the ice was so rotten,
and he knew we wouldn't do it unless
we thought we were going to save
Bony's father, or something. So all
we could do was to go after Bony, as
we did. We waded through the water
after Bony, and was glad Bony had
gone first, because we were sure there
was no air holes where Bony had been
ahead of us. But I made swatty give
much. I didn't like 1t any.
Well, we got across. and before we
got across Bony had reached the
shore ice. It was pretty rotten and
It rubbered down Under him, and II
guess he would have broken through
Then he stopped and looked, because
between him and the shore was a
wide open space-no ice, nothing but
water. He just stopped and looked,
then he ran to the edge of the ice and
1t broke under him and he was in
water up to his arms. 1t was because
there was a long sandbar reaching
out ,,,,1 from the shore there; II not, he
through the water about half block
and me and Swatty went after him.
Gee, 1t was cold!
When we got ashore Bony was up
shouting "Papai Papa!"-and crying,
too. 1t was kind Of sick shout,
part cry and part shout. 1t sounded
"Pwaw-pwa! Uh-uhi Pwaw-pwap
and then "Pwaw-pwa! Pwaw-pwa"
and then "Uh- uh-uhl" like a little
kid cries when 1t has lost a penny it
meant to get candy with and had
cried all the way home.
All of a sudden we heard the shot
gun again. 1t was toward down river
and not near us at ALL Bony heard 1t,
too. and he stopped to listen and we
caught up with him. I guess he was
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HE WAS RUNNING UP STREAM.
BUT HE WAS GOING DOWN
STREAM ALL THE TIME.

q mile wide there, and there's no
place to shovel the snow to, and it's
Just as good right there as 1t would
be anywhere else.
the snow blows off some of the
smooth places and banks up against
the rough places on the ice in drifts.
The river don't freeze over all at
once. The ice floats down and jams
and stops. and the bare places be-
jams it crumples up on the edges and
makes ridges. and 1t is where the
ridges are that the snow banks up
into drifts. Sometimes the drifts are
all around O smooth sheet Of ice. and
then when the snow begins to melt
pond. and maybe the water on top Of
the Ice Is an inch deep and maybe 1t
Is more.
Here and there are air holes, be-
cause I guess river has to breathe
like anybody else. and the air holes
ferent sizes.
Well, the road across the river on
the ice Is always crooked. The farm
ers over in Illinois make the road to
bring over cord wood and hay and
on the ice free and it costs twenty
five cents q load when the ferry is
running
So the first farmer that dares drive
across on the ice starts out from the
Illinois shore. and he starts straight.
but pretty soon he has to curve
around drift, and then he has to
curve around an air hole. and then
he has to go around piece Of ice
that looks thin. and by the time ne
has got to town he has made q
crooked road. And the next farmer
drives in the same path, because the
frat farmers hOrSeA' QhOpq havo
roughed 1t up a little and made it
easier to travel
So that Is how the road gets made.
and before very long 1t gets to be
quite a road. 1t gets dark and dirty
form the horses and the dirt off the
cord-wood, and maybe some coal the
farmers take home, and there are
wisps Of hay. all along. pulled off
loads when they pass other teams.
BY the time March comes a good
deal of the river In front Of town
gets so you know how 1t looks, just
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like the town itself. The wood road
goes zizzagging across. and maybe,
If it is a cold winter. the trotting-
Ice Ice II that is different from the wood
road and is marked off to show a
mile. Wagonloads Of waste stuff get
dumped on the ice in piles, and maybe
a dozen or two dozen dead horses.
You get so you know how it looks,
and by March ny you get to feeling tngva as
over and had always looked like
that. Maybe you have names for
things, SO anybody like Swatty or
Bony knows what you mean when
you say: You know where the wood
road comes nearest the horseshoe air
hole2"
Well, it was pretty mushy when we
started across the river. 1t was warm,
too, warm enough to make us sweat.
But there was good breeze blowing
from the Illinois shore. and 1t wasn't
as warm as 1t might have been. But,
anyway, it was warm. Swatty showed
us where to go. He went first and we
went behind him, and pretty soon we
were far off the wood road, because
wherever there was q drier place he
went that way.
When we got out toward the middle
of the river. away from the town dirt,
I wished we hadn't come. Out there
the ice hadn't been cut up by being
skated on, and there were whole
places where the ice was perfectly
smooth and green and clear tnn and with
couldn't tell whether It was ice or
air hole. We had to walk on the snow
close to the ridges, because there we
knew there was ice under us, even IL
we did wade through slush up to our
body. and Bony began to cry.
guess we would have gone back
II 1t hadn't been for Swatty, and even
Swatty didn't tell Bony to shut up
and stop crying. I guess Swatty felt
pretty scared himself. You. couldn't
were the only ones. guess every
body was afraid to go on the ice, it
was getting SO rotten. That's what
thought then, but 1t wasn't the rea-
son. Swatty knew the real reason, but
he didn't tell us then because he was
we were. Nobody was on the ice be-
cause they were afraid 1t might go
out any minute.
So all Swatty did was to say Hurry
up" because he was afraid If we
didn't hurry up maybe the ice would go
likes to get drowned in ice water.
So pretty soon we came to a place
where there wasn't any snow and
where there were no ridges-nothing
but clear ice with water on it, and
the wind making little ripples. Bony
cried, and I said Jaw! lets got back.
Swattyl" because you couldn't tell
whether It was Ice under that water
or air holes. Swatty looked around,
but he couldn't see any way to get
to Illinois but to CROSS right over.
Neither could any of us. So Swatty
said:
"All right for you'll You and Bony
can let his father kill himself If you
want to, but I won't, and when 1 get
back I'll lick you bothw 80.
Well, we didn't care IL he did lick
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SKETCH OF THE
 MAN WHO CAUSED THE WORLDS WAR
], Dream of the Kaiser for Worlds Domination Is Brought to End by
 Democracy.

A dream of world dominion obses ing the mind of Emperor William plunged the world into war Upon him and the tremendous military en- zine of destruction of which he was the embodiment, the opponent and the leader rests the responsibility of deliberately planning and bring ing about the greatest conflict the world has even seen.
 It did not matter to the world that the Emperors personal share in the swift events immediately pre- ceding the war had been obscured The world convicted him of organiz- ing, directing and maintaining at the top notch of efficiency the great German military machine. It remem. bered that he signed an order for the German mobilization. It remem- bered that he stood sponsor for the terrorism and brigandage which, un. der the guise of warfare, ravished Belgium, laid waste the cities of France, depopulated and outraged Serbia and sent the Lusitania with
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hardest workers in the empire. His rising hour was six o'clock sharp and long days hard work, which ire quently extended well into the night followed. Stated hours were devoted to the task of informing himself or the progress of events at home and abroad through reading of the prin cipal German and foreign newspapers
 Before the war Emperor William often professed friendliness for Am erica. He encouraged the foundation of exchange professorships by which prominent German educators visited this country and lectured in the col leges here while American college professors similarly filled chairs iI German institutions of learning.
 He was an enthusiastic yachtsmar and despite his withered arm was able to take personal command oI his racing yachts, and sail them with considerable success. He spent much time at his palatial hunting lodges and is reputed to have been the champion hunter in the world in the point of game killed. It was stated that the Emperor had killed 61,73C pieces of game, more than 4,000 ol which were stags.
 He was great reader-his private library in the imperial palace at Der lin before the war was becoming one of tho ,,,ocf iptorost;ou ,olIaatioo, ,t books in the world. He posed as a dictator in music, painting, poetry and acting.
 At one time it was announced that he had composed the libretto of d let to be given in celebration of his birthday. A private performance oi one of his musical efforts is said to have been given in the Potsdam pal ace without notable effect upon the musical world.
 Physically unimpressive-he was short and inclined Dto stoutness-Will fam was fond of being photographed while striking a military posture, though taking good care to veil the deformity of his left arm, a disfigur- ment with which he was born, and of which he was extremely sensitive He blamed his English mother for living life of .self-indulgence and cursed her repeatedly as being re- sponsible for his deformity.
 His Withered Arm.
 NO descriptiOn of the Emperor's personal appearance will be complete
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without mention of his full, bristling mustache. His photographs, which he distributed with a lavish hand, showed it with ends twirled up at belligerent angles.
 He married Augusta Victoria, old est daughter of Grand Duke Frederick of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg- Augustenburg on February 27, 1881. They had six sons and one daughter of whom the crown Prince Frederick is the eldest. With the Crown Prince. his father clashed frequently and on one occasion virtually exiled young Frederick to Dantzig but soon recalled him and restored him to favor
 German mothers who wrote to the Emperor of the deaths of their sons killed in battle elicited from him no word of sympathy. He regarded their deaths as glorious" Yet his own six sons, though holding high com mands were so protected that the imperial family stood practically along in all German in warding off the clutches of death.
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B. M. BEHRENDS CO.,. Inc.
her freight of women and children to a grave in the Atlantic.
 Edith Cavell Incident

her freight of women and children to a grave in the Atlantic.
 Edith CaveIl Incident
 Civilization will never forget that it was the minions of the Emperor who officially shot to death Edith Cavell the English girl, who befriend ed the Belgians in Brussels.
 Against these his cry q did not will the war" availed as nothing Be fore the bar of humanity William was adjudged guilty of the greatest crime since crucifixion. In him hu manity saw the last of the autocrats the final Ceasar. Assertions that he was at heart peaceful so consistently circulated for years as to give them the stamp of German propaganda, became branded as certainly false.
 Many doubt whether William was entirely sane. He said repeatedly that ne possessed a divine mandate to rule, that the Almighty was his unconditional and avowed ally" It is not entirely clear whether such outgivings were the product of a disordered brain or were due to un- bounded egotism and an effort to impress his subjects with the idea of reverent and unquestioning sub mission.
 Williams claim to close affinity with God was the burden of dozens of his speeches long before as well as after the beginning of the war. Of course, perhaps, none more clear. ly defined his claim than his notor- ious divine right" speech delivered at Brandenburg in 1890, in which he said he regarded the German peo- pie as a responsibility" conferred upon him by God and that it was my duty to increase this heritage
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l for which one day 1 shall be called upon to give account. Those wht try to interfere with my task l shal crush"
 Thought It Comedy In all this the world saw before the war not menace but comedy | It laughed with the then Captair Joseph B. Coghlan of the United States Navy when, returning iron the war with Spain and telling o | the clash with the commander of the | German squadron at Manila Bay, the captain recited the famous poem Flock der Kaiser" In this the con cluding refrain was, in the supposi tious words of the Emperor:
 'Gott pulls init me-and I init him. MEINSELFT-und Gott." Few statesmen realized then that the decluded Emperor in his shin ing armor" maneuvering his armies and his fleets, building up the Ger man military system, cementing the Central Empires and Turkey, and fostering the preaching of the su premacy of autocracy was erecting a machine that one day would make war upon all civilization.
 Yet the world was warned by some far-sighted man that the Emperor would one day bring catastrophe up on the nations.
 The Army and the Navy were his playthings. He developed them all throughout the years to the point where he had to put them to a test. Like crazed inventor he feared the end of his reign would find his inventions untried; so grasped the first opportunity to wage a world war
 Meantime the German war party grew with William as its head, and the scheme of world dominion await ed the hour to begin it's attainment. It came with the assassination of the Austrian Archduke, Francis Fer dinand, and his wife at Sarajevo.
 Reclled from yachting trip, Will liam presided at conference at Potsdam of representatives of the German and Austrian armies, navies and commercial interests. There, ac- cording to the best information ob tainable, the decision was reached to make the assassination of the Arch duke petense for the world war for which Germany had long pre- pared.
 Diplomatic Exchanges
 In the diplomatic exchanges be- tween Germany and Austria on one side and Great Britain. France and Russia on the other William posed as one wishing for peace but driven to war. He signed the order for the mobilization of the German Army and from that moment war was inevita- ble. Thereafter he drove on his ar mics relentlessly in the mad cam paign for victory, encouraging them with every device and sometimes ap bearing on the front to be proclaimed
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as personal commander in a great l offensive.
 Publication of the "Willy-Nicky' | correspondence in 1917, placed the German Emperor in the light of al interruptions plotter. The telegrams disclosed that Emperor William hat induced Emperor Nicholas of Rus | sit to sign secret agreement tt which he was to force the adherence of France in the perfection of ar | offensive and defensive allience against England. The treaty was discovered and repudiated by Rus sian minister.
 Failing in his attempt. the Ger man Emperor set upon himself, the the task of drawing England to hi: side against France and Russia How well he thought he had succeeded ir this may be gathered from a letter he wrote to President Wilson in 1914 in which he said King George hac promised Prince Henry of Prussia, or July %, 1915, that England would remain neutral in war involving the Central Powers with France and Russia.
 Perhaps the most direct and au lucrative of the accusations against the German Emperor and the Pan Germans are contained in the pup lished secret memorandum of Prince Charles Max Lichnowsky, who was German Ambassador at London, al the outbreak of hostilities. The Prince unequivocally placed the blame for the war on Germany, and for his frankness was imprisoned ir a Silestian chateau, permanently ex pelled from the Prussian House oI Lords. which action was sanctioned by the Emperor, and, finally. was exiled to Switzerland.
 Perfidy Is Shown N
 Emperor Williams domination ovei German statesmen, diplomats and the high command of the German army was emphasized by Dr. William Niue hlon, former director of the Krupr works. the great German munitions factory, in his book on "The Deyas tation of Europe" In this he not only laid blame upon Germany for army for it's brutality but asserted bad faith and criticized the German that in the German Foreign office "only he who did the Emperor's bidding was allowed to remain.
 Maximilian Harden, German lib eral leader, declared the German ruler brought on the war because of his desire flor something like world rule"
 William often proclaimed his in- nocence. and endeavored to put the onus of the war on the shoulders or the Entente Allies.
 The Emperor, despite his previous of good will for America. gave vent to his anger against the United States when 1t became evi- dent no official action would be ta' ken to stop the shipment of muni- tions and supplies 10 the Entente Allies by declaring to the American
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Lknow who will follow the Kaiser as
 proof that his power is really gone.
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Ambassador, James w. Gerard, [" shall stand no nonsense from Amer ica after this war"
 Williams designs to spread Ger I man dominion in Asia found expres sion in his famous visits to Constan tinople when he was proclaimed as protector of the Moslems. In this the world saw cunning step toward achievement of the, German ambition of German denomination from Berlin to Bagdad.
 Family History
 Freidrich Wilhelm Victor Albert was born January 27, 1859, and be came Emperor William II. on the death of his father, Frederick III. June 15, 1SSS He came out of the University of Bonn fully prepared tc enter the school of statecraft. Set to work in government bureaus, he was early taught the routine of offic ial business under the tutelage of the great Bismarck
 At the death of his father, the Imperial throne devolved upon Will liam II. who was then but twenty nine years of age. Bismarck con tinued as Chancellor but not fol long Though the great statesman had made every effort to instil his young pupil with his own ideas oi government and diplomatic policies he new Emperor soon found that he disagreed with his grandfather former close advisor in many import ant respects. In 1890 the disagree ment of the two men reached a cris is. rupture and Bismarck went The relations between the two men remained strained for several years, but before Bismarck died peace was made between them.
 With the passing of Bismarck the Emperor's real reign began. As a military man he was a stickler for efficiency, discipline and the observ ance of etiquette to the last detail. And of the details of all these com ponents of army life and training he was familiar to the smallest point.
  It is related that during military re- views he was able to detect the slightest imperfection in the equip ment or training of a regiment squad ron and called attention to the dere- fiction sharply. With the principles of tactics and manoeuvres, too, he was thoroughly acquainted.
 Besides being we'll versed in army matters. the Emperor was thoroughly familiar with naval affairs, having a technical mastery of the details that go to make up the efficiency of a fleet. Study of naval problems was one of his pet occupations. His in fluence was potent in fostering the development of German commerce, art and science His interference in these affairs as we'll as in statecraft often embarrassed German leaders and evoked from them admonitions to leave diplomacy to his chancellors.
 Kaiser Was Thorough.
 In everything he was described as thorough and. vithal. one of tho
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GERMAN RULERS STEP
 OUT OF THRONES

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BRITISH COLONIES TO HAVE
 PART IN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

LONDON, Nov. 1.-The British Press Bureau has announced that the Government has not altered it's former resolve that the British do minions shall have a part in the peace conference which may be held following the signing of an armis- tice.
 The statement is in reply to the Austrian Premier who said the Yer sailles conference had settled the terms of peace without consulting the dominions.
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AUSTRIA WANTS GALIciA

AMSTERDAM, Nov. n.-Austria has notified Poland that she has assumed sovereignty over Galicia, Hungary and the North Carpathians, which have a normal population of 100000.
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AVENUE CASE STATUS QUO
 AT PRESENT TIME

The injunction applied for by York against the City extending Willough. by Avenue is still pending in the Court, having been interrupted by the influenza quarantine. It will be re- sumed as soon as the quarantine is lifted.
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AMERICANS CLEANING UP
 TOWNS EAST OF MEUSE

WASHINGTON. Nov. II. = Gen. Pershing last evening reported the Americans had captured many addi- tional towns on the Eastern bank of the Mouse river, and were still ad. vancing at rapid rate.
 All resistance of the enemy is be- ing met and overcome.