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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

keep for themselves. That is what
the Bolshevists are trying to do"
Elise lifted her poor head, blond
and charming, though lacking in
color
"That isn't the reason why I
shouldn't like to see such things
happen"
What Is your reason, Elise?"
i don't know. It would be hard
for me to explain. But III try.
When I've finished working at my
fans, what can I do? I read. You
mightn't have high opinion Of what
| read. l like best the feuilletona
Especially the stories which are to
appear in book form, for they are
the longest. My dream would be a
story 50 long that it would finish
only with my death-one which
could keep on reading to my last
day.
That is my life-my true life.
And | know it only in this way. I
have never been able to leave this
room. / shall never leave it. |
shall not marry. Still, l love 10
imagine the happiness that there is
IN books and in all the beautiful
things which l shall never know.
For half hour every day l am not
Elise. / am the poor, unhappy girl
who is going to be made happy, who
Will enter at the end into world of
JOY and luxury, a world extraordi
nary and magnificent. 1t will be a
world where the rich live, world
IN which | am loved by some one
who is not Of my world, who is very
handsome, talks well, has an auto
mobile and takes me on ship to
his home in some marvellous coun-
try.
1T pleases me to know that such
a world exists somewhere. If they
told me that it had disappeared, that
everybody now lived in the same
way, should lose something. l
should lose the only thing which
can possess-the JOY of imagining
myself in it. don't know to what
| should turn or in what l could
interest myself. ! should have to
try to force myself to think that
didn't live to-day, but in times past,
when such things were"
1T is true said Nine. Bin.
What would be left to her if she
knew that nobody lived any better
than we do?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Bolshevists wish to chancx

The Bolshevists wish to change
this. They want to have a minority
govern again, but not the same mi
nority as before. Their minority
consists, practically, of the workers
IN the big industries, who are much
less numerous in Russia, and even
IN France, than the peasant pro-
prietors, the bourgeois and the in
tellectuals."
So l tell them how the system
functions in Russia-a full ration
for the workers and soldiers, half
ration for those who don't work with
their hands, a third ration for the
bourgeoisie and the intellectuals.
Then reflect and add
Il don't believe that that can last
long, because nobody under these
conditions has any Indictment to
work. In fact, Russia is in the stu
alton of disabled vessel which can
no longer go anywhere to replenish
her cargo and whose sailors are con-
Stunning her supplies. When these are
devoured there will be nothing left
to do but to die Of hunger. Such is,
approximately, the Bolshevist re-
gime in Russia. l don't believe it
can be installed in France. 1t is a
little too simple and too foolish for
US. Besides, it couldn't last any
longer here than anywhere else.
But you-what would you do
while it lasted? You work with YOUR
hands. You would get a full ration.
And you wouldn't have to pay rent.
Speaking sincerely, I don't see what
you would lose by it, at least at the
beginning. And when the provisions
are exhausted you will only have to
do like the others-go to bed hungry.
Or attempt to seize by force the
potatoes slnd grain which the peas
ants who have raised them want to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
TOW these two women were
able to live through the
= - WIZ is a rniracle which

OW these two women were
able to live through the
war is a miracle which
I still wonder at. Surely,
those who had some one at the front,
husband or son, bore their cross.
They we're worthy Of pity and ad-
1niration- They deserved all that
people did for them. But at least
they were aided Not only the
twenty-five sous and the fifteen sous
from the government, but the sym
pathy which every one felt for
mothers and wives Of fighting men.
Relief societies were organized for
their benefit. Others procured them
work, thought Of them and showed
them that they were being kept in
mind
You see, man doesn't live by bread
alone-nor woman either. It is nee
essary to feel that others are near
US who give US a friendly glance
and sy1npathize with US Otherwise.
solitude Expresses US One can die
OF solitude as one does Of starvation.
And the first is even sadder than
the second
But these two, the elderly widow
and her invalid daughter-the latter
with her legs paralyzed since in
fancy-how did they live through
those fifty-two months! And how
can they continue to live at this
moment, when everything is so dear?
They never received an ALLEGATION.
They couldn't 60 into the factories.
The mother doesn't wish to quit her
daughter, that poor cripple, who is
now in her twenty-fifth year and
who will remain a cripple until the
day Of her death. They were even
obliged to continue to pay rent for
their little lodging in the Rue
Payennc, because there were no
modified men in the family. They
are all alone. They have been alone
for many years.
The widow has small income OF
some hundred francs because her
husband was a modest functionary.
But what does that amount to? It
WAS insufficient before the war. when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
S Is the 18th Year and the I0crsts Are On the TIL
One of the Greatest Events of the
Babylonian Cycle Of Buggdom
Sure as the Juggernaut

gathering quantities of them and
improving them for their tastes by
roasting in hot oven, stirring them
until they are we'll Drowned"
Yet even in a utilitarian world
The locust has not been recruited to
sc've the high cost of living. 1t is
true that DR.. Rowland made certain
experiments with them as a tenta-
tive table delicacy in 1855, but he
was not very favorably impressed.
First he collected a number of new
clcadas, stepped them in water and
boiled them IN a pudding. They
gave certain taste to the pudding.
but themselves were tasteless. He
next fried some in batter, when
they reminded him of shrimps, but
ne admitted that they will never
prove a delicacy." On record, how
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Hothing Of the subtle distinctions
of bad and good. If he sees any
thing out of his red eyes it is
something undreamed of in the
philosophy Of the sub-sodular world
where he dwelt for the greater part
of his seventeen years. He stumbles
about on the twig where he climbed,
while his companions are devoured.
He naively plays his musical instru-
ment with which Providence so sud-
denly endowed him. He slips and
falls on his back, and wriggles
feebly and helplessly in an effort
to right himself. He is about
as helpless as any creature on the
surface of the earth, but he has one
great nsolation-there are mill
ions more just like him, more mill
ions than any scientist has yet es-
timated.
4 Real Veteran
And here is the irony of it all.
This cicada, this guileless innocent,
who is named so unjustly after those
tough, muscular brigands who ruined
the granaries of Egypt, is about as
long lived as any creature in the in
sect world. He energies from the
egg in three weeks time, and runs
up and down the branch where he
Matched, as small, though not quite
so active, as a young flea. Then,
quite deliberately, obeying the same
cosmic urge that sends him out of
the ground at exactly the right
psychological moment, he drops from
the tree to the greensward beneath
and obeys another instinct. He
promptly burrows down to the earth
among the roots, aided by his strong,
claw-shaped forefeet, selects a good
looking root, attaches himself to it
and proceeds to imbibe nourishment.
There he stays as a larva, crude and
ungainly, the color of our friend the
cockroach, little of the crawfsh,
something of the worm. For seven
teen years he grows and eats, NOV
ing as little as possible from the
original spot he selected in the vaults
Of the sod, while history passes on
over his head. His father and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Inv din @
Y ersailles

THE room at Versailles where the
l. peace treaty Will be signed ia TIE
famous Salon of Mirrors. For the first
time in history this salon viii De u.
vaded by the modern telephone and hear
the click of the typewriter The superb
room IN which Louis XlN-the sun
king-died Will also hear the ring of
the telephone bell, as telephones have
lGst been installed there In this same
room on the 9Th Of October in 1888
Marie Antoinette heard the popuiace os
Paris IN the courtyard below her hall
cony cry for her blood
The antique bedroom Of Madame de
Maintenon, accustomed to the conf
dences and the whisperings OF the IN
triguers, shall now hear the more frank
tap OF the modern typewriter. and sn-
stead of the scandals of the gossipint
old French diplomats a modern electric
tea urn, coarteously placed there Tor
the afternoon tea Of the English rem
resensativess at the peace conference,
now peacefully huns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
TweedIe Poor
Tweedle

TNFEDLE's literary prediiee-
tons always irked his praoti-
\ cal sister, Mrs. Dee 50 it
followed that amity ceased
to dwell between them when he married
wife whose incessant converse was
Of literary celebrities and whose &c
static ambition was TO meet them face
to face.
Now Tweedle and his sister, Mrs.
Dee, botn were friends Of the Difident
Young Man, who one day received an
invitation to a little party in Green
witch Village, which read facetiously
and in part:
1.-The Tweedles will be there, bat n.
G. Wells will not II Mrs. Tweedle
mentions him we propose an immediate
and rebuking silence"
Because of that and other scintiltat
ing bits in the note, the Difhdent Young
Man showed it to Mrs. Dee. She read
i. and her lips compressed and then
khe went TO the phone.
And If you happen now TO be re-
cipient Of the whispered condolences of
the Tweedle-Dee neighborhood, you'd
hear something like this:
Have you heard-I hate TO believe
it-they say Mrs. Tweedie--no, don't
know who he IS, except his name Is
Welsh G. Wells. I believe Poor
Tweedle,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

According to entomologists the
seventeen-year locust is a strictly
American species, formidable chiefly
because of his numbers and the
shocking suddenness of his appear
ance. He has not got scissorlike
jaws that can chew a leaf of lettuce
into tatters. Instead, what little
nourishment he takes in his sub
llmated winged state is drawn up
through strawlike proboscis, and
consists chiefly of the sap of trees.
The greatest damage is done by the
female, who digs deep gashes in the
tender branches of fruit trees as a
receptacle for her eggs.
Poor FeIl0tU!
Red of eye, black of thorax and
lrldescent as to wing, his color
gives him no protection. He has no
way to defend himself. His flight is
slow and uncertain. His only
strength is in his numbers, and no
one ever demonstrated the adage
better than the cicada. Every bird
IN Audubon's charts, coupled with
all the facilities Of the protected
barnyard hen, all the wasps, preda-
tory beetles and parasites of the
insect world, are not enough to
drive the innocent, defenceless
cicada off the earth before he has
attended to the propagation of his
species. The instinct of fear. so
prevalent in almost every other in
sect, never has been passed to the
cicada by his forebears, who wit
messed American history from their
trees and bushes.
Look at the willy cockroach, as he
crawls from his crack in the floor.
Before him his antenna are waving
gracefully, ready to signal the first
psychopathic suspicion of the
dreaded broom or boot. His ears are
attuned to the slightest hostile sound.
A stamp on the floor, a single quick
movement, and the gay gazelle of
bugdom is gone to the haunts which
ne knows best. But turn to the
cicada. His blunt, broad face is full
of guileless trust. His brief expert
ence in the sunshine has taught him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

'. !: the !: :': ::s's this ':. ': :.s
much quinine, a curious
rhythmic hum from the tops of the
defenceless trees, drowning out the
efforts of the birds, rising above
the best endeavors of the automo-
tlles on the state highway. If you
have stepped over the deadline
which divides blocks from fields YOU
have undoubtedly heard it, that dis
turbing background of noise. Ask
the farmer What it is and he will
tell you
That ancient scourge of New
England. dating from the earliest
of the Puritans; of the Middle At
lantic and the Southern seaboard.
that visitation which disturbed the
settlers when they crossed the Blue
Ridge in the days when the buffalo
still lined up before the salt licks
Of Kentucky. is back again.
Tie wheel has turned, ushering in
one Of the greatest events of the
Babylonian cycle of bugdon-the
seventeen-year locust has broken
from his lair beneath the grass
roats and IS svarnling up every tree
II the countryside. Sure in his
movements as the Juggernaut itself,
needless of the chickens and song
birds and wasps that are doing their
best to decimate his species, he
surges forward, by the thousands,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Il
e~ ---9 you, old scout - "Isu't
a & treating m e at all since
hquor went out Dali
las News
1The booAkeeper complains Of pains
In his stomach" He doesn't look
Eck-' He doesn't claim to be sick to-
day. I think he is laying foundation
toward beins sick next week.n2Lonis
vile Courier journal
hnlcker-The President thinks the
world is his oyster Bocker-And the
Irish expect him to find an emerald in
New York Sun
"ilEs-How do you like army life {,
Qalte number Of new turns for q
fellow to get used TO, l suppose ellis
You're right Al night yon turn in,
and inst as you are about to turn over
somebody turns up and says, Turn
out '-Pittsburgh Dispatch
he during the quarrel (-Yon must
tnink I'm as big fool as I look. She
think that If yo1 aren't you have q
great deal to be thankful for.-Houston
Post
We should 90 10 Paris, John" de-
efared helpful Mrs Senator Flubdub.
It is true that weighty matters are
now being decided there "Yex. and
"h''e you are helping decide them I
'an iook at hats-7-Detroit Free Presx
Af- "ilIis-What is this stnF that
Pa are going TO give my husband /?
INC Doctor-An an@sthetic After he
- he Won't know anything. Mrs.
. ome, doctor. he doesn't need
az ~ alL~-Judge.
20 more ths genial popping o, the
champagne cork-" "A tangible sign Of
~f4.sA-' Just 30. Bat We can st;1l
''@fe fas Anelodious defamation Of the
s~b@ofsirz autorn onile tire.
Lsadcx
faf'ehce~You know he ju.t cried
1'f joy. Why, the team were runD;ny
~'"h n'z cneekz and down mine. too.
- I'll, all i nave 10 ray is you
,"0s' mare been pretty cIose TO him TO
,,4's h's teasr run down your checks
i'hNera Statesman.
'''sing the saloons has brought
. .s changes" "You bet" said the
.'''er ary town inhabitant. "Sowadays
roman doesn't know where 20 find
A'' ansbadd "'-omaba News.
ss,, ~ 'n'ereSt'ng ad7rrtiserne nt, this"
"nase' Jokes wanted, state sge.'n
-cisyeland Press.
s,n, a1' 'sis Is golden opportunity.
ynsh Investment, no riyk. and enor-
r.. sssnfns absolutefy snrs." "Then
g.. ~'a,ans hays the heart to deprive
ysa q it,nr-,Ilaxs. SS'''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

mune when she was still quite young
and hasn't a very favorable recol-
lection of it. They fought in the
streets. The communards took some
one from the house she lived into
shoot him, she supposes; for they
never saw him again. Two weeks
later the Versailles troops took away
another man without her knowing
what either of these ncighbors had
ever done. 1t is like that in revo-
lutions. Somebody does something
and then they shoot him and no.
body knows why.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

ring Of them and ready to deaf the
hearers" The Indians, according
to the Same authority, had known
Of them Of yore, since they imme-
diately predicted that sickness
would follow in their wake, as was
tire case the following winter. In
some parts of the country, at any
rate, the Indians made use of the
clcada, as Philadelphia minister
cited in 1715. "The Indians," he
wrote, make different species of
cicada an article of diet, every year
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

ever, is another brave investigator,
who found them preferable to oys-
ters or shrimps."
When one recollects that the cost
of living in 1885 was not sufficiently
high to make hungry world turn
to the cicada, it may be- safe to pre-
dict that the present opportune ar
rivals will receive a warmer well
come and may even appear as
dainty on the American dinner table.
just as the true locust was an
Oriental dish even in the DAYS of
the Bible.
But whatever his future. the To-
Gust has arrived, climbing into the
trees by the millions to live the last
brief weeks of his cycle. And in
seventeen years-no more, no less
he will come again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

l explained as best I could what
Bolshevism was. l said:
Formerly, in very ancient times,
it was a minority which governed
the minority which owned the land.
Now, with us, it is a majority of the
inhabitants Of the country. One
doesn't ask them whether they own
anything or nothing. They vote, and
those who stand together in the
largest numbers on questions at is
sue administer the government, or
at least supervise it's administration
and decide what things shall be done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
LONELY LIVES-By Pierre Mile
Translated by L. cPheron
Copyright, 1919, Ne,0 York Tribune 1nc.)

N Ymk NmIu
ii rmmdhes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
ary
| Laughs

II * K: !: !; Ell: FL: :: a: :: IT:
liquor went ut-r@Dal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

literary predilec-
tons always irked his praoti-
\ cal sister, Mrs. Dee. so it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

::; =: !: :.: ::';: III; il: :: E:
~ much quinine, curious
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-26
AMERICANS REPULSE
BOLSHEV|K ATTACK
Suffer First Siberian Casualties
in Defending Railroads.&c.
endorsements Rushed
FACING 10000 RED SOLDIERS
BY the Associated Press

Nladivostok, May 26.--The first cas-
ualties in the American expeditionary
force in Siberia were experienced May
II, when three Americans were slightly
wounded. They were pursuing through
the hills Bolshcvists who had attacked
running train guarded by Americans
Iorty miles northeast of Vladivostok,
near Shkotova, at the head of Ussuri
bay, in the maritime province, which
.S seething with disorder and revolt
against the authority of Admiral Kol
chak.
The attack occurred on the route to
the Suchan mines, on the section Of the
tailroad under American protection as
u result of the inter Allied agreement.
When the train was fired upon, the
Americans gave three hours chase. fir
ing wherever they saw the fleeing Bol
thevists. Additional American troops
ave been dispatched to- the Suchau
district. 1t is not expected they will
lave. difficulty in handling the situation,
despite reports from KolChak govern
ment sources that the organized bands
of Bolshevists number 10000. The
Americans are operating in the wild
and hilly country in extremely wet and
foggy weather, but are carrying on"
magniiiccutly.
Major General, William s. Graves,
commander of the American expcdi
tonary force. returned to Nladivostok
lay %, after an inspection of the
tucban district. The attack on the
vain is considered an overt act. in view
,"f the proclamation of General Graves
nat no faction should Interfere. with
the operation of the railroad. o..
The Bolshevists are believed TO have
been testing tho attitude of the Amcri-
cans. The promptncss with which the
Americans inflicted punishment on the
Bolshevists has chccred the Kolchak
government, which expects an active
campaign by them. General Graves,
however, says the American policy has
not been changed, and that the Ameri-
can troops are merely protecting the
railroad from all who interfere with
the transport of supplies and passen-
gers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-26
PHONE GIRL GETS
D. S. NJ. ABROAD
Grace D. Banker, Chief oper-
ator, Assured Phone Systems
Success at St. MihieI'

Coblenz. May 30 (dclayedD Before
n crowd of admiriug officers and en-
listed mX Miss Grace d. Banker, of
Passaic. n. j., received the Distin-
guished Service Medal from Lieutenant
General Hunter Liggctt, commander of
@he first army, at army headquarters
today.
Miss Banker is chief operator of the
army telephone service here and has
been overseas one year at central head
quarters and with the first army. The
citation reads:
"By exceedingly meritorious and dis
tinguished service. and by untiring de-
votion to her exacting duties under try
ing conditions. she did much to assure
the success of the telephone system
during the operations against the st.
Mihiel salient and north of Ncrdun.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-26
SHOTS EXCITE BERLIN
Parade Of Wounded Halted by Firing
In Air

Berlin. May "a (dclaycd) Down
town. Berlin was thrown into "A state of
wild excitement at 4 O'Clock this after
noon by machine gun firing in Inter
den Linden. Those in the ncighborhood
fed for safety, but others swarmeds to
the scene.
The shooting was due TO a large group
of wounded men insisting on parading
despite the ordet of Gustave Noskc,
minister of national defense, prohibiting
professions during the period of martial
law.
Government troops broke up the
demonstration by firing in the air.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-26
SWISS SEEK TEUT0N COAL
Commercial Agreement In Prospect
VIII Operate German Colliery

Berne. May 2G.--Switzerland is con
cial convention which will grant Swift
zerland German coal in exchange for
Swiss cattle and produce.
At th~same time negotiations have
been begun by Swiss concern to pur
chase a German collicry near Bochum.