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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

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one hundred and forty mill
ion are peasants.
The peasants were the most peace
full element in Russia before the
neutrality-suspicious., industrious,
hard working. The Bolsheviki have
turned them into brutal hordes Of
mean profteers, eager for plumber,
ready to attack every land Or prop
erty owner who comes across their
path.
In many instances peasants leave
their villages and go to the nearby
cities, where they combine with the
soldier mob in orgies of rape and
plumber; in one instance a whole
village attacked a land owner, a for
mer army officer, and dragged him
out of his farmhouse to the railway
station, where gang of soldiers
beat him to death with the heels
Of their boots. The name OF the
officer was Prince Viasemsky, and
the peasants were from the village
Of Lotarevo, not far from the
princes farm. Not one of them
was punished or even taken to court,
In the government of Ekaterino-
SLOW, in the district of Novomoscovsk,
peasants from different villages
came to hard fighting over the con-
fscated land of the nobility, each
peasant refusing to admit the claim
Of the other. In the government of
Rjasan the peasants refused to sup
ply the city of Rjasan with fuel
from the nearby forest even fer the
city hospitals and schools.
Agrarian Riots
Spread Everywhere
In Dankov, a town in the govern
ment of Rjasan, the peasants plum
dered the farm of the land owner,
Drjasdow. In Zwenigorod they
pundered the farm of Count Po-
tozky. In both cases the peasants
fought among themselves and two
Of them were killed and many
wounded.
In Hollow the peasants not only
plundered all the grain of Land
owner Gessen, but tore down all his
brick buildings and transported the
bricks to their villages.
Serious agrarian riots were re-
ported from the government of
Aherson and Tambov.
In the government Of Mini Nov
gorod the peasants were as brutal to
their own kin. The peasants of the
village of Pirgali were starving be-
cause their neighboring villages re-
fused to sell them grain The whole
Village went in arms against some Of
their weaker neighbors and took
away their bread.
In the government of Nijegorod
not day passes without agrarian
riots, and not one night without in
cendiary fires. Peasants attack rich
And owners and take away with
Them all the grain and much other
property on which they can lay
their hands. In one day the peasants
succeeded IN destroying the farm of
husinow, Kudriavzew, Korsakov,
schlemel and Of Kursikow brothers.
In the government of Samara they
pandered the sacred land Of the
monastery Serafn Pochitawsky and
carried away their booty on fourteen
carts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
By George II. Seldes

A PORT IN FRANCE, April IL
~ To-day it is impossible to tell
the people of the United States
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

lhey knew that nothing can win the
support of the peasants like the i'm
mediate grant of land so the very
flrst act of the Bolsheviki was to
issue a decree confiscating all the
land Of the nobility, land owners
churches and monasteries, and Civ
ing it in trust Of the peasant COM
mittees.
vi course, the peasants were over
whelmed with JOY at this decree and
many of their village churches rang
their bells in commemoration of the
freedom of the land, but, as in many
other of their DEGREES, the Bolshe
Wiki were masters in theory and
amateurs in practice. The peasants
could not lay hands On a single acre
of land except by force; in manv
villages civil war broke out among
the peasants themselves as soon as
poor peasant came to claim land
from one who had too much. When
the peasants sent delegates to the
Bolshevik commissaries in Petro-
grad they were told "the land is
free-go and take it,"
The delegates returned with the
message to the villages, and during
the months of November and De-
cember of last year not less than 600
agrarian riots and disorders broke
out among the peasants, and hun
dreds OF farms were burned or
otherwise destroyed. The once honest,
simple minded, hospitable Russian
peasant is now a desperate brute;
the property owning peasant family
is armed with axes and knives to
defend itself against any onslaught
from the poorer peasants or brodja
gas tramps. No peasants house is
now opened to a stranger or way
farer even for a drink of cold water.
He Buries His
Grain Crops
The peasant feels the pinch of the
war and Bolshevik anarchy by not
having his candle to light in the
evening, and by lack of clothes, iron
and many other necessary things. 1t
is hard for him even to get seed for
the coming year, and he is afraid to
part with his grain, rye and pota-
toes, which he buries in his barn
yards or nearby forests and sells
them to the townspeople only when
he can get very high prices.
The Bolsheviki, in order to combat
the high cost of bread and flour, is
sued decree fixing prices on the
peasants products.
This worked only one day and af.
fected only the products which were
actually in the market. On the fol-
lowing day not single peasants
cart came into the market place of
Petrograd or nearby towns, and
when citizen ventured to go to the
peasants village home and offer
money in advance the peasant re-
fused to take it.
What use to me is this paper
money? I have nearly box full of
it. Why, l could print
thousands of this money myself if I
had the paper. You give me
nails for my house, give me boots,
candles, cloth, and 1 will give YOU
grain in abundance"
And the peasants compelled the
Bolsheviki to withdraw their fixed I
prices in order to get some grain at
any price.
In Russia nowadays every one lives
for himself. No one knows what will
happen tomorrow and to whom he
will have to be thankful for his life. |
Patriotism, national considerations
are out of the Russian vocabulary. at
least openly, and the peasant is no |
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

Copyright. 1913. by Edward Marshalll
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

the country needs him let him go,
and he was killed in the first month
OF the war. l had three horses, but
am an old man, as you see, and
neglected them and two of them
died"
Poor horses" a soldier remarked,
amidst the laughter of all of us.
Listen to me-" continued the peas
ant. Zone day an army officer came
to our village and said that the
army needed horses. He took mine
away. All right said. IF Rus
sla needs him, take him But the
officer took paper from his pocket,
wrote something and gave it to me.
"'What is that?' 1 asked him. not
being able to read it myself.
eco to the nearest Treasury
Office with this paper. and YOU will!
get forty rubles in cash for YOUR
horse
This | could stand no longer"
said the peasant.
Baron thus addressed the Off
Ger, you took my only son and gave
me nothing, and forty rubles for
my horse. Is my horse worth to
Russia more than my son? WIZ
insult a poor MANI"
The peasant wiped his eyes with
the tail Of his sheopskin coat and
added:
Nov, brothers, is soldiers life
worth more than a kopeck?"
Brothers, yes, this was the right
word. / and a few more fellow Off
GERS were one with the peasant in
his sorrow, and so were our subor-
dinate soldiers. We were all sons Of
one great Russia. We cherished
something; we hoped for something.
The peasant of the Bolsheviki will
give neither his horse nor his son
for Russia.
An Example Of the
Bolsheviki Peasant
Here is a fair example of Boil
shevik peasant
In the government of Tamboy, in
the townlet Of Lipezk, lived the
land owner Golovnin.
He was a quiet, honest land own
err, fair-minded, charitable, and up
to the Bolshevik revolt lived in
peace with all the peasants Of the
nearby villages.
One day he heard sad news from
the city. Peasants and soldiers were
burning farms, plundering stores
and houses. Soon he noticed SOL
der on his fields.
Anything I can do for you?"
asked the land owner Golovnin.
Give me a horse" said the SOL
der. The soldier took the horse,
rode away on him, and told the story
to the villagers.
Soon peasants came with their
grain and asked the land owner to
grind it for them into flour, which
he did free of charge.
This lasted some days. When
their grain was at an end they
asked him to grind for them his own
grain, and in fear he did it. They
took away all they could and then
came back and ransacked his house,
damaged all his agricultural ma
chinery, and broke his furniture out
of sheer Bolshevikism, the cult of
destruction.
Happily, the Russian Empire is so
large that even decentralization cam
not embrace the whole country, and
while some districts are utterly de-
moralized from the influx of Boil
shevik agitators and soldiers from
the front, the majority of the peas
ants in Central Russia and in the
outer provinces of Northern, South
western and Southern Russia are
busy on their farms and lead almost
a normal life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21

a PORT IN FRANCE, April IL
~ To-day it is impossible to tell
the people of the United States
specifically what the American engi-
neers are doing in France, but gen.
orally the work may be summed up in
one line-they are guaranteeing vic
tory for the American army in the
fighting months ahead.
This is a big thing to say, but these
are the days of great deeds and great
works also, with the hope of the world
set on the accomplishment of the
American army. Its job is just be-
ginning. The job their brothers of the
pick and hammer and shovel and riv-
eter began few months ago has be-
come so extensive, so gigantic in plan
and realization, that it is not the heat
OF patriotic fire, but the cold facts of
steel and concrete and wood and stone
which inform the astonished eye that
the men Of the rear arc winning their
half of the war.
And yet the generals and the colonies
and the captains, who with a sweep of
the hand and nod of direction order
the making of cities and the destruc-
ton of villages in their way, and who
have seen hills torn down and docks
spring up and locomotives arrive which
were ordered by mail, say merely "The
work is going on as if to blanket the
enthusiasm Of the visitor.
And the boys fresh from home, young
lads whose hearts still beat in the
States, all those thousands who along
with their officers want America to
know what is going on in France. be-
cause they are proud Of their work, re-
allze that for the present the facts
must remain behind the curtain of mil
itary secrecy.
For several days have been visiting
all the camps and works in this French
port, and of the things which I have
seen and of the operations the engi-
heers are engaged upon little can be
told, for the greater they are the less
must be said. This is thunderinq
city. 1t is an American CITY. roaring
win work and with traffic, and inland
Tor many miles in line that leads
eventually straight across the heart If
france to its battlefront the Americans
are at work.
railroads, wharvcs, docks. terminals
iocomotives-some have been hui1+
some are under way, some are vet on
blueprint paper, and it is because the
JOB is still unfinished, and will be for
several months, that the men whose
duty 1t Is to build characteristicallv
ffown upon enthusiastic reports and
say: "Wait until we are through and
nave moved out of here to the front"
The work is ain progress" thew saw
ana just what part is completed cannot
De told here, but perhaps this state
ment made by an officer will illustrate
Its magnitude.
II we were in America he said
with all the facilities which Amer;ca
oHers-~sure supply men, everything at
the end of our fingers or a telenbono
wlre-we would require $4,000 men for
2oo days to do this work"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-21
| 90 Busy Now
For Enthusiasm

Needless to say, there arc not "a ooo
men at this one port doing this one
JOB, but, on the other hand records
Tor time have been and are being made
such as the United States never knew
at home. But it will not be until the
last of the large plans still on Manor
arc realized, after months of still hard
er work, that the American engineers
VIII share the enthusiasm and onti-
mlsm of the civilian observer.
All energies are concentrated on nre-
pairing supplies for the American army
Tonnage. Army tonnage includes al
most everything in the world of peace
and war: "Of shoes-and ships-and
sealing wax-of cabbages and kings"
modernized into something like "of
tanks and trains and toothpaste tins
or chewing gum and guns"
Provide for tonnage for 10000 600
men-that is the problem of the engi-
neers. Twelve million, because thew
figure that if the nation puts two mill
ION men into France it will require
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-04
RcaltY Deeds Filed.

Rosie V. I.as!! u mr% i. Bryan. L.and
in Smith township. Consideration SiV"
Na.Ie Long 10 Everett Il. liaIncS. Land
IN ShaGys:.c. Consideration $50.
William L"uirn md Nora g. White
20 y. T.. Wh.:" ana Elizabeth White.
l.:,rd II Wayne township. Cons;A"ra-
I!nn. &2..hG.
John rrcc and Emma L. Price 10
Audy Mi!r.r. Land in Warren township.
Consideration. $l.@o.
ALalartr /. Lay 81 NJ. 10 John l'rice.
Lana in !5arrrsv'.i".
J.. Annie Alien and W. 4. Allen to
Mary I;rphin3. Land IN St Clairsville.
Consideration. sl.cH.
William T. IicCr"ary and Ella Nc
Crclry t" c. T. Frrt'"r l.nnd in Nor
ri&;"wn. Consideration. $500.
David IL. james. administrator 10
Maymc Y. Th"'1a%.. Land in Bridge
port. Consideration. sSat.
John II McCraw a"d Emma McGraw
10 Charles furnishing. Land III Bel
EiIrc. Consideration. $2.5H@.
81. johnson and Erart Johnson to
Sullivan IS. i'r.cc. Land in Somerset
township. Consideration. E3.'"D.
T.. ". Parkinson and Fannie lloy Par
kinsnu to Levi Schrfcr. Land in Be-
,hcsda. Consideration. Sl.Q4.
Elizabeth l.. Cummins to John krInia.
Land in Rr!!airc. Consideration $500.
ELAN Gibbons To \. J. * Mary Edith
Hartley. Land in Warren township.
Consideration. 500.
William II. Gillespie and NJ. +. Giles
pic u Joseph l!aicnr. Land in Wheel
:rr township. Consideration. S>ud.
l.. q. Casey To David =. Jenkins. Land
IN licliairc. Consideration. I.u0.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-04
FAMOUS BRIDGE CASE
REMANDED THIRD time
Special Dispatch u II" ln,cliIE"n,.r

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in tn" famous ,iaiuaC" .:glt 81! Ia. i'', "
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Ti"rkci"? / WASHINGTON lbr!,!:, ''r.
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Federal court i,rE~ for a rrh"ar.g
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il tWu IT,! - Gc'C:-" ,H.a ;,iuuHl
from the b"!i:" ~C"i!rGuy.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-04

carh ycar to'tl!r state. He Will return
L his farm III CuSii"c;nn coGniy.
The lISt oilo"S:
Noss C.iiiyard. Jefferson. robbery par
ui.t!.
~!rGsGuailc Ciual:a Jefferson man
"laaEht"r. rar't"d.
FORREST Perry. En,,nont. pocket pick
ias. parole d~eSioccd.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-04
Marriage Licenses.

John knpIrrr and Annie Ianoska.
both III %l.aIt"u,
I;:rl,&"d Hrl"N"r ani Norma Cath":in"
Hrv"r;d-". boy! &C H'l!air".
.Nl"r. 'uI rs and Ida I;ccd, both Of
Martins Ferry.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-04

tricc Cowrn. Lur!lrn Shepherd. L'2'ler
Sutton. Edna Sutton. %"!i citizen. Marie
,ior!Qn. Janet. Allen. Mary Close anc
Mary Eta Hart.
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make then, useful n ;h"S.. times o.
war.
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fcS. will 20 - Tho Atlantic coast snip
yards. two will enter ~" marin" Scr
fee on the I;rc;,; Likes. az: VII JOIN
(he Canadian army. GU" viii I'in ~"
Serbian ARM c~rat.nEnnt II lrHr'". hal
q dozen Will <" ii. farm" ab",:, ~
state. Of tn" ra-"isd FC"a t"H 49,"
sent TO prison TOR u~on-su?2"r;- V
VIII return to their families a',3 SIP
port them. tw" viii pay 10 Warden +
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jngs for the rare % ;h":r chsld-"n. -
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10 the warden COR -: support 81 ts"Ir
children
One old tir,c prisoner was On ~"
list OF pa-ol"d m.n. .;ea b;ck"TS'A, g
Coshocton county. has lesn III Prison
over ten years Ga = charEr =; mum
slaughter. II" was s"nt'""rd from
Holmes county whee,: his CAS-. %n$ 'c!'h.
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SQUAD for years a The I"3d"n farm
where he has rendered. valuable >c:'Ic"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-21
TRAVELTALK FRIDAY.

"Our Hawaii" magnificent and
terrible. is the Newman Traveltalk
to be seen at the oliver theater Fri
day night. In new group of mo-
ton pictures and beautiful colored
views you are TO be conducted on
fascinating journey through the
highways and byways of our far
away possession, where there is a
superb wealth of scenery and quaint
native customs. Sugar, cOcoanut
and rice plantations figure in the
trip, also a visit to Waikiki, when
you will enjoy thrills and spills with
the surf-bOard riders on the worlds
finest bathing beach. A side trip
Will be made TO the island of Molo-
kai, the leper settlement, which is
interesting and not at all grewsome
After a brief call at an Hawaiian
sheep ranch, you will witness the
dreaded volcano of Kilauea. Here
magnificent day and night motion
pictures OF a visible inferno, a lake
of everlasting fire, which have been
taken with great risk, are the most
interesting point in rare and cap
tivating journey.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-21
FISCHER
PIEASES AGAIN.

The Margarita Fischer pictures
have frequently been seen at the
LaSalle and they are always clean,
bright and entertaining. AIMS
Finish" the one shown today is no
exception and admirers of this hand
some, athletic young woman will find
much 70 please and amuse them in
the photoplay. As a roughish school
girl, Miss Fischer has few equals
She looks and acts the part in a
way that pleases the women and
holds the attention of the men. With
q lively story Of adventure and es-
capades. giving the pretty star a
chance to wear all sorts Of fetching
costumes, this attraction is one that
will please. A Burton Holmes travel
reel is also shown.
Fridays bill, THE Hungry
Heart" brings Pauline Fredericks, a
fine emotional actress.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-21

Building-up for the Spring Attack
~ the Front Is a good deal like putting
ne body in condition for an invasion
Of the germs of grip, pneumonia OF
Spring fever" here at home.
At this time Of the year most people
suffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out, before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes pimplv" or pale skin and
white lips The reason for this is that
during the winteThme, shut up with
n doors, eating too much meat and
100 little green vegetables, one heaps
uel into the system which is not burned
I'D and the clinkers remain 20 poison
he system - clOgging up of the
circulation with inactive liver and kid.
news. Time TO put your house IN order.
For All invigOrating tonic which will
.larify the blood, put new life in the
BODY, sparkle to the eyes, and a
wholesome skin, nothing does so well
Is a glycerio herb extract made from
Iolden Seal root, Blood and Stone
-oot, Oregon grape root and Wild
Cherry bark. This can be had in con-
Tenient, ready to- use tablet form at
al drug stores, sixty cents, and has
oeen sold for the past fifty years az
DIT. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
By reason of the nerves feeding on
he blood, when the blood is pure
he nerves feel the effect, and neuralgia
n other nerve pains disappear be-
cause such pain is the cry Of the starved
nerves for food. When suffering from
oackache, frequent or scanty urine,
rheumatic pains here or there, or that
constant tired feeling, the simple way
- overcome these disorders is merely to
sbtain DR.. Pierce's Anuric from your
druggist. In tablets, sixty cents.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-21
AT THE AUDTToRIUNI.

Emmy Wehlen, in THE Shell
Game" a picture adapted from Ken
meth Roberts Saturday Evening Post
story. is today's feature at the Audi
torium. 20 those who are uninitiat-
ed, the real meaning OF The Shell
Game" is a puzzle. In this case al
mond shells enter into the plot.
which is concerned with the scheme
OF a confidence man de luxe. This
man Of wits plays what is known
among men Of his kind as a shell
game" TO blackmail an apparently
unsuspecting victim. He uses an
almond as the means of ccmmuni-
eating a message TO his hOped-fo
victim. With the skill of his pro-
fession. he inserts the message into
an almond. then fastens il together
again. removing all appearances OF
its having been tempered with.
Then il is mixed with other almonds
and when the victim is eating them
the mysterious message is read. and
then starts an interesting chain OF
results The story is an unusual one
and filled with interest. The Ford
weekly. showing the training OF the
sailors at the Great Lakes training
station. and the 10th episode OF The
Mystery ship" featuring Ben Wilson
and Neva Gerba. are also being
shown. Tomorrow Frank Neenan
Will be seen in a wonderful Pathe
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-21
TRAIN YOUR HAIR As AN
ACTRESS DOES

No class Of people devotes as
much time 20 beauty as do actresses,
and no class must be more careftr
TO retain and develop their charms
Inquiry develops the information
that in b1ir care they find IL danger
Gus TO shampoo with any makeshift
hair cleanser. The majority say that
90 have the best hair wash ana
scalp stimulator at a cost Of about
three cents. one need only get a
package OF Canthrox from your
druggist. dissolve a teaspoonful in
a cup OF hot water and your sham
poo is ready. This makes enough
shampoo liquid TO apply it TO AL
the hair instead OF just the top Of
the head. After its use the hair
dries rapidly. With uniform color.
Dandruf. excess oil and dirt are
quickly dissolved and entirely disap-
pear when you rinse the hair. A.
ter this your hair viii be so funny
it VIII look much heavier than IL
Is. It's luster and softness will de-
light you while the stimulated scalp
gains the health which insures hair
growth. Adv
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-21
THEATERS
AT THE OLIVER.

Suppose you were "A burglar flee
ing from the police. Suppose you
were hidden away and saved from
their very grasp by a winsome, noble
hearted girl who risked her reputa-
ton 10 repay a manly act OF yours
which had enabled her to escape
from a serious danger. Suppose she
pleaded with you to abandon your
career of crime and you yielded to
her pleadings because you loved her
and because the good in your heart
responded to the good in hers.
Would you then Immediately plan
another burglary and ask her TO be
your pal in the job. Would you?
Il guess not you answer en-
phatically.
But wait a moment. You don't
know the conditions. If you were
in the same position as young man
who is one Of the two principal char
acters in "The Girl He Couldn't
Buy" the four act cOmedy-melo-
drama which is to be the attraction
at the oliver theater this afternoon
and tonight, a splendid production
given by the Williams Stock COM
pany, your answer would be entirely
different and it would be a correct
answer. When you see the show you
Will know the reason why.
There will be a matinee tomorrow
and Saturday with final perform
ance Saturday night. There will be
no performance Friday night on ac-
count of Newman's Traveltal&.