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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-08-15
CHAPTER XIV.
The Halter"

M. Desmalions looked at him
without understanding, and
looked from him to the ceiling.
Perenna said:
"Oh, there's no wftchcraft
about it; and, though no one has
thrown that letter from above,
though there is not the smallest
hole in the ceiling, the explanation
is quite simplet"
"Quite simple, is it9" said NJ.
Desmalions.
Eyes, Monsieur lie PrePes. 1t
looks like an extremely compli-
Gated c%onjuring trick, done almost
for fun. Well, / say that 1t is
quite simple-and, at the same
time, terribly tragic. Sergeant
Mazeroux, would you mind draw
ing back the curtains and giving
us as much light as possihlef"
While Mazeroux was executing
his orders and M. DESTINATIONS
gianeing at the fourth letter, the
contents Of which were uninrport-
ant and merely confirmed the pre-
vious ones, Don Luis took a pair of
steps which the workmen had left
in the corner, set it up in the mid
die of the room and climbed to the
top, where, seated astride, he was
able to reach the electric chande-
liar.
It consisted Of a broad, circular
band in brass, beneath which was
a festoon Of crystal pendants. In
side were three lamps placed at
the corners Of a brass triangle
concealing the wires.
He uncovered the wires and cut
them. Then he began to take the
whole fitting to pieces. To hasten
matters, he asked for a hammer
and broke up the plaster all round
the clamps that held the chande-
lier in position.
Lend me 9 hand, please" he
said4to Mazeroux.
Mazeroux went up the steps
and between them they took hold
of the chandelier and let it. slide
down the uprights. The detectives
caught It and placed it on the
table with some difficulty, for it
was much heavier than it looked.
On inspection, it proved 20 be
snrmounted by q cubical metal
box, measuring about eight inches
square, which box, being fastened
inside the ceiling between the iron
clamps, had obliged Don Luis TO
knock away the plaster that con-
lcealed it.
What the devil thiss" ex-
lclaimed M Desmalions.
Open it for yourself, Monsieur
e Prefet there 8 4 lid to il, said
lPerenna.
N. Desmalions raised the lid.
The box was filled with springs
and wheel, q whole complicated
and detailed mechanism rcsem-
bling = piece Of clockwork
your leave, Monsieur lie
|Prefet, said Don Luis.
He took out one piece Of ma
fehinery and discovered another
beneath it, joined to the first BY
the gearing Of two whaels: and
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-08-15
A Whole Man 81 None.
the Oregon Journal.

From the9O Oregon Journal.
Little Freddie had Just been put In 4
KHAKI suit with long trousers. Nam
ms" he asked. am I q man nov i've
spapa? 80
u suppose so.' sho replied.
We'll then he continued. Il guess ri
take adime out OF iry bank and 60 down
70 the barber shoH And get shaved"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-08-15

VESSELS lined with metal that win
Conduct electricity TO heat heat liquids
as yney are poured from enc to anoth-
in Pennsylvania.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-08-15
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

than five or ten thousand years old. And
some very remarkable phases of it are
even only Il few hundred years old. For
example, the cruelties of Caesar toward his
captured prisoners would have set the mod
ern world aghast. And there is a deal OF
this savage element left.
There is a good deal of it that evaporates
in fine imaginative bonfire like "movie"
thriller Was this the real function Of
Nick Carter and all the rest? And would
much be gained if they were suppressed?
The "World Almanac" records a Devil
dering number of societies formed for the
Improvement Of this thing or that. And
the number of committees and sub-com-
mittees and various other local or de-
tached organizations with more or less the
same end must run we'll into the thousands.
Rather regretfully and despite the finest
sort of reforming spirit-toward others
we have to decline the 'Littlc Old Lady's"
urgent call. We have good deal on our
hands as it is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Is Ii a Cloak e?

What is the theory which would keen
the railroads in the hands of the govern
ment for two years, or for year and a
half, or for one year, after the war neces
sity of the seizure has ceased?
The report Of the Minority Committee
IN Congress would limit the time to one
year, and we are glad to note that some
Of the members would fix it at six months.
Why should it be longer than six
months? Certainly that would be annie
time to arrange all details of bookkeepino.
and readjustment Can there be any fur
Their reason? We think there is. 1t is be-
coming perfectly clear that the necessities
OF war are being made cloak to "put
over governmental ownership. That is
the scheme. And this scheme in turn is
but part of a still more ambitious de-
sign, and that is to railroad the country
into sem-socialism. There is clamor for
the government building of ships. for gov
eminent control of the packing houses. for
government control of all food prices, for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
An English Crisis

General Sir William Robcrtson's resig-
nation as chief of the British Imperial
General Staff, on the ground that he could
not continue to act in that capacity nor
undertake to represent Great Britain on
the Supreme War Council at Versailles
with limited power" means first of all a
political crisis of the first magnitude in
England.
1t means Also that Lloyd George has
scored an immediate victory for the idea
that the West front is not the only theatre
cf war in which decision is possible
General Robertson thinks it is, and that
opinion is supported by Haig on the mill
tary side and Asquith on the political side
Repington, who is in hot water with the
government for his violent criticisms of
it's conduct Of the war, was an ardent ad-
vocate of the Robertson idea.
If this deduction is correct, then it is
permissible to suppose that there will be
a freer movement of British troops "off"
the West front, agreeably to Lloyd
Georges theory of carrying the war else
where. 1t is probable also that Haig,
being out of sympathy with that theory,
may himself retire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
eMovies" and Morals

There comes in the mail letter from a
very agreeable correspondent who signs
herself Just 4 Little Old Lady," from
Emporium, Penn. Strangely enough, it is
not for publication but simply to CON-
mend an article in these columns of a
week ago considering the power of the
movies for good or evil.
Our Little Old Lady" is much con-
cerned about the matter. She is quite sure
that the class of plays put on is very de.
baslng, both as to taste and morals: and
that as these "movies" are seen bv millions
OF people daily their influence must be in
dcscrlbably bad And she urges that some
thing be done about the matter as soon as
possible. Could not committees be formed
and so forth, and so forth.
y great many other excellent peon]c
have felt and do feel the same way. And
vet nothing effective has been done. and
we are inclined to wonder if very much
can be done. After all, it is impossible to
put the human race in q straitiacket
mainly for the reason that many neonle
differ as to the form and fit of the jacket
and Just the particular things whicl,
should be pinched most. And for the rest
the civilized part of the world does live
IN good deal Of straitiacket now
and it is not always comfortable even for
great many quite unoffendine and not
very reckless people like, for example.
ourselves.
There are heaps Of quite innocent THINGS
that simply can't be done, without GREAT
deal OF discomfort or without cxcjtinp ,.
great deal of disconcerting attention. Few.
even among courageous men, can wear a
straw hat when the season has flown And
few women will wear any kind Of a dress
that is not fairly a la mode. We know Of
a highly cultivated old gentleman. other
wise quite sane, who all his life has
yearned for q spotted pink waistcoat with
his evening dinner jacket.
What we call public opinion is very
strong; and if public opinion were very
strong about the movies" they would be
different than what they are. And we re.
greet to add that statistics so far as thcv
are available seem on the side of this
very regrettable laxity of public opinion
The movies came in with whoop They
were utterly new. They have been with
us now for several years. And we are
quite sure there has been no sudden rise in
the crime record, hold-ups. activities of the
police courts, the sales of 'Nick Carter
or IN the demand for "The Police Gazette"
If the corruption is deep, it is a little slow
IN coming to the surface. Perhaps it is not
there at all
We have to remember that after per-
haps several hundred thousand years OF
savage life. slender portion of the race
has emerged into what we call civilization
1t IS very recent. 1t can hardly be NOR.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

Could fate offer more bitter irony to those
who believe that you can upset the delicate
economic organism with monkey wrench
and not pay the price?
Of course, the price tixer is ready with
his answer. Two dollars is an outrageous
price for corn. Many men not old can re-
member when it was selling in the West at
Is cents a bushel and being burned for
fuel. Therefore let us at once fix a price
of 81 or Sl.10 for corn.
lt is nothing to these eminent doctrin-
naires that an open market rate of 81 q
bushel for corn fails to produce an ade-
quate supply.
Meanwhile the cloven hoof Of the price
fixing goat begins to show ominously in q
yet more threatening direction. We were
told that a government guarantee of So
would bring q tremendous increase in the
wheat acreage and produce the excess
needed for our allies Instead of a so per
cent increase, we get 5 per cent ThereAs
no present prospect that the effective yield
of winter wheat will greatly exceed that Of
last year, unless especial weather condi-
tons prevail, and at the present govern
mental price the wheat growers are firm in
their assertion that the labor cannot now
be found to effect a large increase in the
spring wheat acreage.
1t ought now to begin to be clear that in
widely distributed industry like food
growing YOU cannot get high production
without high prices-not in war times
with a million and half of men drafted
away to the camps. Nor can you fix the
price of one commodity without affecting
the supply and the prices of others.
And the millstones of economic law win
grind YOU TO pieces if you get between its
walls
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
German Aims in Russia

Is Russia in the war or out of it? The
Teutonic powers certainly do not sub
scribe to Trotzky's statement, on his re-
turn from Brest-Litovsk, that Russia s
withdrawal from the war was a real with
drawal. How real it was still depends on
the convenience of Germany and Austria
Hungary and on the eXigencies Of their
still unfolded Eastern policy
German armies can easily occupy Petro-
grad if lIindenburg gives the nod. The
Russian military establishment has been
disrupted The armies on the German
front have ceased to be armies. They have
either been disbanded or converted into
Soviet debating societies.. On the Aus
trianU Ukraine front peace has been de-
clared. For some time past there have
been but two parties in Russia. One has
been for peace all round at any price. Tha
other has been for dropping war against
the Teutonic allies and doing all the neces-
sary fighting inside the family.
The Bolshevist Red Guards are willing
to fight the Cossacks, the Ul1rainers or the
bourgeoisie factions IN the interest of tho
personal profit in that. But the Red
Guards have no stomach for fighting real
armies, under German leadership. When
it comes to that their valor subsidies and
their souls revolt at the thought of slaugh-
tering brother proletarians in the ranks
of the enemy.
Germany would meet no military oppo-
IL. IL
road to Petrograd But she is probably
not keen to extend her military RESPONSE
bilties in that direction. In the north she
already has possession of Poland, Lithua-
MIA and Esthonia, the most desirable Of
the Romanof holdings in the Baltic region
Finland, Independent, will become eco
nomcally subject German state. The
empire builders in Berlin seems to have
their eyes fixed rather on the Ukraine. the
rich agricultural section Of Russia, now
recognized as republic and intended to be
used as a base from which German inAu-
ence shall spread gradually east and north
east as far as the Ural Mountains.
TO continue the war against the Lenlne-
Trotzky government is an indirect way or
safeguarding Jne jKfalno from BOlSNcV1St
invasion. 1t gives the Germans and Aus
trans an excuse for chasing the Bolshe-
visits out Of the new Ukranian state ana
setting up there q counter revolutionary
government. The new republic, welcoming
Teutonic aid in maintaining its indepen-
dence, would thus presently become an
agency for the exploitation of German in
f1uence in Russia.
A disarmed man cannot argue success
fully With an armed one. Lenine and
Trotzky have failed to realize this. Ilav-
ing thrown away their weapons and cast
themselves on Germany's mercy. they are
compelled to accept peace at Germanys
price. They are impotent to continue
the war, or to end it, except on Ger
manys terms. Russia has, in fact, al
ready passed under the yoke. 1t doesn't
matter much whether or not Germany
chooses by occupying Petrograd to adver-
tise little more glaringly to the world
the terms of conquest imposed at Brest-
Litovsk on the dismembered empire of the
Romanoffs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Is Our Priceless Wheat Being Fed to
Hogs?

The question raised above is not Jest.
The statement was made on Friday by the
representatives of the Wheat Growers As
sociation at present in Washington that
on account of existing conditions in some
sections of the country corn is so high or
so difficult to obtain that wheat is being
fed to hogs in its stead.
In other words, economic conditions are
such that the efforts of the American peo-
pie at the urgings of Mr.. Hoover to save
enough Wheat to supply our allies and
their armies in France are being defeated
or annulled.
This is a serious matter and raises
highly interesting questions. The stand
ard grade of market corn in the Middle
West is commanding around So a bushel
for the cash article. In the heart of the
corn belt the price has risen as high as
1925 a bushel.
The governments fixed price for wheat
is on the basis of 1920 bushel
Normal relations between wheat and
corn are, roughly, in the nature Of two to
one. That is, 81 corn would in open mar
ket conditions mean roughly, ST wheat
Meanwhile there is tremendous demand
from the Allies for pork products, and, in
order to keep production at the highest
possible mark the price has been practi-
cally "pegged" by governmental agencies
at $3.50 per hundred pounds in Chicago.
This is, roughly, about twice the average
pre-war price.
And yet with corn at 81 bushel it is
impossible to raise hogs at q profit for
$3.50 per hundred The testimony gath
cred by the commission appointed for the
purpose showed that, roughly speaking, it
takes little under twelve bushels of corn
TO produce hundred pounds of pork. AT
TINS rate, the price of hogs would have to
ne well over 500 hundred in order that
the hog raiser might get out even.
Meanwhile governmental edict puts the
price of wheat down from the level of
above So, at which it was selling last
spring, to little over 50, and it is expect
ed that with cheaper wheat CONSUMPTION
will be less.
All this was wondrous economies. But
such was the genuine patriotic feeling of
the country that the food administration
was literally able to work here an eco
monte miracle. That was to induce TWEEN
ty-two million families, suddenly provided
with more money than the most of them
had ever seen before in their lives. to eat
less bread. They have actually done it.
We doubt if a similar instance of yohrn-
tary denial could be cited throughout the
whole war
But these are troublous times. and evil
are the days of the price tixer. Mr.. Hoover
might be able to perform one miracle. but
not an unlimited number. he could not
foresee that a considerable part of one of
the greatest corn crops in our history
would be left to rot through shortage Of
men to harvest it or cars to haul it to mar
ket. He could not fofesee that, unless the
price of corn was equally fixed, and if
there was adequate temptation, wheat
would be used as aliment for the noble hog
instead.
We do without wheat Our hogs eat it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Educated Finland

'ffo0s The Manchester GUARDIAN
me new Republic Of Finland stars n
career with one invaluable asset-a NY
eHicient system of education. Finnish
mentary schools are models Of exeeilss
ana IN an international competition "A
rev years since Finland won the eVs
distinction Of having the highest s b.
uonal standard of any country in the ~
beating even the United States ans W Z
many. Particular attention is given :"
teaching of languages. The two state Z;
guages. Finnish and Swedish. are tausnss,,
the elementary standards, ard until reesA.
Russian also. A knowledge Of FIVE OF 9
languages is reclsoned nothing eseeps's'
among even middle class folk in Fnisno'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Drinking Song

(From Tic No,o Witncss)
NNTIIEN Horace wrote his noble verse,
w His brilliant, glowing line,
He must have gone to bed the worse
For good Falernian vino.
NJ poet yet could praise The rose
In verse chat so sercnclv flows
Unless he tinged his Roman nose
In good Falernan wine.
Chorus
Shakespeare -Jonson, too,
Drank deep of barley brew.
Drank deep OF barley brew, my boys,
Drank deep of barley brew
When Alexander led his men
Against the Persian King,
He preached a hundred hogsheads, then
They drank like anything.
They drank by day, they drank by night,
And when they marshalled for the fight
Each put score Of foes to flight
Then drank like anything,
Chorus:
No warrior worth his salt
But quafs the mighty malt.
But quaffs the mighty malt my boys,
But quaifs the mighty malt
When Patrick into Ireland vent
The works of God to do,
1t was his excellent intent
q bo,v to
The holy saint had in his train
a man of splendid heart, and brain
a brewer was this worthy swain,
TO teach men how to brew.
Chorus:
The snakes he drove away
We're teetotallers, they say,
Teetotallers, they say, my boys,
Teetotallcrs, they say!
THEODORE MAYNARD.
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EnnuI

Ennui
Great yellow roses
hang heavily upon their stems
III the un-dappled shadowv arcade.
pale princesses,
IN shlmmerng slken dresses
that brush the dew from the long tangled
blades
move past massed flower beds,
with dropping heads
beneath their golden dadems
past the great copper gates
the white road twines
over gray cliffs half hidden in whirling surf
through the wind crushed turf;
and in the distance. where +ba r,...x
shines,
move many-colored sails.
wide steps of marble
where fallen leaves, like furnished metal
lie,
lead upward to the empty terraces,
where under the expresses.
dark against the sky,
lonely white peacocks walk with tra;lin.
LEIGH HENRY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
A Song Of Science

ofro'n Tbs pdktrp Rerfe,v, 7.ondon,
T LOVE all lovely things.
L The drngon-hy's wings,
The rainbow and the rain,
The light that comes again
]oyously like a smile
When for a little while
God disposcs the night elsewhere.
His sun is very fair,
can catch it in my hair,
Look! It's there! And there And there
Oh! the worlds a lovely thing,
The mind Of a Mighty King,
| cannot help but sing.
| cannot end my song
Gods thought is very long.
Many years He took to make
The bracken in the brake.
lie was long time building
The fragrant yellow gliding
On the early poplar tree
When no eye was there to see
The clouds, the atmosphere,
My breath, the water clear,
How fair and sweet they are!
on Hate was very far
From Gods divine intention
When of these He made mention.
When He canopied the earth
With cloud and fire and mirth,
When He set the prvy shade
For the pheasant in the glade.
When He built the messy nest
For the wren, His little guest,
hen He taught the mind of man
ny its love to find His plan.
For no one can discover
HIS science, save the lover.
ON! Lies a lovely thing,
ne mind of a Mighty King.
lsOBEL w. HUTCHINSON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17
Broken Tryst

Broken Tryst
(Fronl The Egois0
cllE waits by the fountain.
~ alone in the silent garden;
motlonless hang her trailing slken sleeves.
The crouching bronze dragons
are mrrored in the water:
their black fangs CLEAN between the floating
leaves
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