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| PARIS. Fen. fos-PremIer o..- /
shoulder ts.erday I'm the attack by
the young anarchist, Emile Coffin, to
q ssassinate him, was in a satisfactory
condition this morning, according to
the latest reports. No fever has
developed. IL was stated at the pre-
mier's residence at G:30 o'clock this
morning that he had passed an excel
lent night.
His enforced inaction is weighiA
heavily upon the Premier. howeves
and the doctors find him q bad pa
tient, unwilling to obey all their
orders. He insisted in receiving visi-
tors all day yesterday and in discuss
ing current business with Stephen
Pichon, the foreign minister. who
called upon his late in the evening
for the first time after the shooting
The Premier raised the question as
to whether the supreme council
should sit this afternoon as had been
arranged and expressed the wish that
the decision be left to the delegates
of the other great powers. conse-
quently Paul Dufasta, the general
secretary of the peace conference,
was instructed to call upon the
Americans, British, Italians and Jap
Ianese delegations and get their views.
II was considered probable early to-
day that the delegates would suggest
waiting for a few days. possibly until
the beginning OF next week, before
resuming their work.
Personally NJ. Clemenceau Is inn
patient TO resume his place at the
head Of the conference. AS he refers
to the subject in his conversation
with those around him he gives the
impression OF believing that he will be
taking his chair at the sitting again in
four or five days or he keeps repeat
ing: "It is nothing"
None the less his wounds occasion
ally gives much pain. He bears this
EXCEPTIONAL we'll, and the twinges do
not impair has customary good humor
or prevent indulgence in lively salIies.
Thus, shortly after he was wounded,
when one OF his colleagues who is am
old and trusty friend anad particularly
dear to him came to see him the pre-
mier, smiling broadly remarked: The
Maharaja OF Bikenir invited me TO
hunt the tiger in his country. Well. IL
is the anarchist who have hunted the
Tiger but they missed him."
The premier yesterday sent for
Sister Theonesse. the nun who nufSed
him whom he was operated upon a
few years ago. and she now Is at
tending him. He spent the day yes
terday in his armchair but asked that f
his favorite old grandfather's chair
should be brought from his country
house at Bernouville.
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If early reports regarding the pre-
mier's condition are born out by laten
examinations, it would appear that
after a period of convalescence. NJ.
Clemenceau will be able to resume his
activities about the time that Pre51
dent Wilson and Premier Lloyd
George and Orlando return to Paris
Meanwhile the French premier's ab~
sence from the supreme council takes
away for the time being the last pre-
mier of the European powers at tho
peace conference.
One of the four vice presidents
elected at the time Premier Clemen-
ceau was chosen president OF the con-
ference-Premiers Lloyd George and
Orlando, Secretary of State lansing
and Marquis Saionji will preside over
the full conference II 1t is found nee
essary to hold a plenary session be-
fore the recovery of the French pre-f
mier.
Premier Clemenceau was stricken
at the very moment he was starting
for a meeting that might have had a
decisive influence in systeniatizing the
problems OF the conference 30 as to-
lead the course of the TRANSACTIONS
of the body from war conditions to n
state Of peace.
| 1t appeared indeed that British
| American, Italian and French senti :
ment was crystalizing ON plans -
take in hand the construction OF this
actual peace treaty.
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BIZ Associated Press.

BIZ associated prsss-
LONDON, Feb. 20:-The peace
conference at Paris has decided to
adjourn as a result of the attack up
on Premier Clemenceau, says an ex-
change telegraph dispatch from Paris
this morning. There will be no ses-
sion of the conferees today, the mes
sage adds
The third sub commission of the
commission on responsibility for the
war met this morning to continue its
Investigations into criminal acts. In
opening the meeting, w. s. Massey OF
Great Britain, chairman, said he
wished TO convey 10 Premier Clemen-
ceau on his own behalf and on be-
half of the members of the sub com
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Henrino Monday NgIt on Bill for State Bridge Control
Wounded Premier Passes
Excellent Night; Sees
Visitors at Home

Goodne o.
in
Nothing definite how
to
be
slight
This
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Bugbee State Committee
Chairman for Time Being

TRENTON. Feb. 20-Republican
State Chairman Bugbee switched his
plans this mornig at the meeting Of
the state committee and offered TO re-
sign as its head at once. but the MEM
bers decided he should remain until
after the close of the legislature. The
question OF endorsing the pre-primary
convention idea viii be taken up this
afternoon.
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Clemenceau Wrong,
Has Many Friends

VV dSSOCfuttU TTosH
PARIS, Feb. 20:--Premier
Clemenceau not 30 very long ago
used to say that he did not believe
he had a real friend in France.
If he still cherished il after the
victory over the Germans it would
seem that he can no longer do so
for this mornings Paris news
papers are q unit in expressing
sympathy for and praise of the
wounded statesman.
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In BOSTON Monday

In Boston Monday
By Associated Press.
BOSTON, Feb. 20:-The steamship
George Washington, bringing Presi-
dent Wilson and Mrs. Wilson from
France. will reach Boston on Monday
according to an official message from
the steamer received today.
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ON BOARD U. s. s. GEORGE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20:-President
Wilson sent the following message of
coincidence on learning of the attack
upon Premier Clemenceau:
Lansing, American Mission, Paris:
Please convey to Monsieur Clemen-
ceau my heartfelt sympathy and my
joy at his escape. l sincerely hope
the report that he was only slightly
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Polish Troops Advance

WARSAW, Feb. lS-Northeast of
Warsaw Polish troops have occupied
volkovysk and have taken up a line
along the river Nietka. The Russian
Bolsheviki hold the town OF Olida
and the line of the river Niemen.
In Lithunia the Poles have passed
beyond Pialystok. but the German
troops have not yet permitted them TO
enter that town.
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President WireIesses His
Sympathy To CIemenceau

injured Is altogether true. was deep
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TELLS Of DEED
Premier Describes Incidents in
Connection With the Attempt-
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BD Associated Press.
PARIS. Feb. 20:-Premier Glenn
enceau's own story of the attack
upon him as he told it to callers is
given in the Matin today as follows:
Y esterday when i was passing the
spot at the corner of the Boulevard
Zelessert l remarked a strange sill
houetted figure upon the pavement
showing someone examining me at
tentivoly. The silhouette was that OF
a rather evil looking man. | said TO
myself, Hello, that fellow is up to
no good This morning at the same
spot / perceived the same silhouette
Eld Immediately thought why. that's
my friend of yesterday
"I hadn't time to continue the re-
Election for the individuals arm was
raised, revolver i'm hand, and he fired
at the door of the automobile and hit
the window. ] didn't reflect that
there were perhaps other bullets in
the revolver and as soon as the first
shot was fired ! leaned forward to
see. other shots followed rapidly
one after another, and felt sharp
pain low down the back of my neck.
The pain was so intense that i could
not help crying out. | realized per-
fectly that l had been hit.
what followed passed with light
ming like rapidity. The orderly seated
DeSlut the GHduHtuI on the front Ol
the automobile had at the first shot
drawn his revolver out of his pocket.
The chauffeur at the same time put
on speed and got us out of range.
Then lie turned and brought me back
home. Now feel absolutely moth
ing"
The premier paused here aand then
added sarcastically:
My edversaries are really poor
shots They are exceedingly clumsy"
To Stephen Pichon. the foreign
minister said:
Am not a good prophet? Do not
arrange things ahead? | had arranged
to have no meeting of the conference
today so that / could get a little rest.
Well, I've got IT,"
Seriously Hurt T. Claim.
The premier is certainly seriously
hut: his condition is as satisfactory
as possible, Georges Mandel, Premier
clemenceau's chief clerk is quoted
as saying at an early hour today. The
quotation is attributed TO the clerk
by Marsel Hutin I'm the Echo d Paris.
Awaking at s o'clock Premier
Clemeneeau remarked to Sister Theo-
nesse, the nun who is attending him:
81 am a lazy man. That is the first
time in twenty years that l have been
so late getting up"
Has Chauffeur Decorated
Premier Clemenceau tonight asked
NEarInan hfu militia ~
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Has Chauffeur Decorated

Premier tIemencfau tohlBht Ashtu
Major General Mordacq, his military
aide. to decorate Chauffeur Decaudin.
The ceremony took place in the pre-
mier's bedroom. according To NJ. Glenn
enceau's request. Decaudin was driv-
ing the car when the premier was
fired upon. conges. another chauffeur
attached to the person OF the premier
viii probably be decorated tomorrow.
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High Praise for Conditions
at Brest, PeTshIng Reports

fAQ NSSottdttd fTesS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20:-IIealth
conditions at Brest, France, general
camp conditions and the method of
handling troops through that camp
have received high praise from all
who have inspected IL since the first
formative day." General Pershing re-
ported today to the war department
The message said General Pershing
himself, General Harbord, his chief
of STAFF, the chief surgeon and the in
spector general OF the American Ex-
peditionary Forces had all personally
inspected the camp during the last
month.
Conditions at the camp have been
described as terrible In public reports
and by witnesses before congression-
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back and marry him, although each of
them was married now!
That flock of crolos flying across thot
distant feldi
Of course, Idelle laughed at it, or
pre- aded to. She pretended to be
faithful to him, to tell him all mis- was
unavoidable gossip, the aftermath of
disturbing past, before ever she saw
him. But could he believe her? Was
she not really planning so to do
leave him and return to j C,
this time legally? How could he tell
But think of the vagaries of human
nature and character, the conniving
and persuasive power of man of
wealth like j c.. He had left
his great business in b to come
here to C in order to be near her
and annoy him (Garrfson) really-not
her, perhaps-with his pleas and crazy
fascination and alteration when she
was now safely and apparently happily
married. Think of the strangeness,
the shame, the popularity of Idelle's
earlier life! And she still insisted
that this sort of thing was worth
while! All his own station and wealth
and alteration were not enough-be-
cause he could not be eight or ten peo-
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he hoped to appear as somebody, was
always doing and liking.
These poor count1ymen, oIways loiter-
ing about their uil1oge station!
And the women they ran with were
just like them, like Jessica, like Idelle
smart, snowy and liked that sort of
man-and So
Well, he had pretended to be all
that and more, when she (Jessica) had
appeared out Of that gay group, petite,
blond Qdclle was darker), vivacious,
drawn to him by his seeming reality
as a man of the world and a gay cava-
lier. She had actually fallen in love
with him at sight, as it were, or
seemed to be at the time-she. and
then, see what had happened! Those
awful months in c. after she
had returned with himl The agonies
Of mind and body.
If only that stout travelling man IN
that gray sat aoould cease staring at
him! 1t must be the horn-rimmed
glasses he had on achich interested linn
so' These midWesterm people,
Instantly almost, only a few weeks
after they we're married, she seemed
to realize that she had made a mis-
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pie at once, no doubt. But why should
he worry? Why not let her go? To
the devil with her, anyhow. She
merely pretended to love him in her
idle, wanton spirit, because she could
well, because she could play at youth
and lovel
Bdrhersbarg--a place Of $1,000, and
the train not stoppingi The su1i, break
an9 through for Just Que peep after
this gray day, undcr those trees!
The trouble with his life, as Garri
son now saw it, was that throughout it
for the last twenty years, and before
that even, in spite of his youth and
money. he had been craving the favor
OF just such young, gay, vigorous,
attractive creature as Idelle or Jcssica
she of his earlier years-in the way
of womanhood and not realizing it to
any degree commensurate with his de-
sire, which had, of course, placed him
at disadvantage in dealing with
women life them. Years before-au
of fourteen now. think of it!-there
had been that affair between himself
and Jessica, daughter of the rich and
fashionable BIS, of Lexington.
which had ended so disastrouslv for
him. He had been out there on Colo
mel Ledgebrook's estate attending to
somo property which belonged to his
father when she had crossed his path
at the colonel's house, that great es-
tate in Kentucky. Then, for the FIRST
time really, he had realized the delight
of having truly beautiful girl inter
estcd in him, and him alone, of being
really attracted to him-for little
while. 1t was wonderful.
The smothered clamg Of that crossing
bell!
But also what failurel How
painful to bark back to that, and yet
how could he gvoid 1T Although 1,
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the moment that he was the big event
in her life--or might be! He!
But even so, what difference did all
that make either, if only she would
love him now? Wha2; would he care
who or what she wa, or what she had
done before, if only she really cared
for him as much as he cared for her
or half as much-or even minute por-
toni But Idelle could never care for
any one really, or at least not for him,
or him alone, anyway. She was too
restless, too fond Of variety in life.
Had she not, since the first six or
seven months in which she had known
and married him, little more than toll
Grated to endure him? She did not
really need to care for anybody; they
all cared for her, sought her.
At last they acere going,
Too many men of station and means
younger than himself, as rich or richer,
far moro clever and fascinating in
every way than he would ever be Cor
she would think so because she really
liked a gayer, smarter type than he
had ever been or ever could be now)--
We'd with HIM for her interest, and had
with each other before ever he came
on the Scene. She was, in her queer
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who were so successful with women.
were hard and gay and quick and
thoughtless, or so he thought. They
said and did things more by instinct
then he ever could, were successful
well, just because they were what they
were. You couldn't do those things bv
just trying to. And gay, pretty, fasci-
mating women, such as Idelle or Jessica.
the really worthwhile ones, seemed to
realize this instinctivcly and to like
that kind and no other. When they
found a sober and reflective man like
himself, or one even inclined to be,
they drew away from him. Yes. they
did; not consciously always, but just
instinctively- They wanted only men
who tingled and sparkled and glittered
like themselves. To think that love
must always go by blind instinct in
stead Of merit-genune, adoring pas
sion,
This must be Philhpsburg coming into
rieiol He couldn't mistcke that hi0h.
round a0ater toaperl
All, the tragedy of seeing and know
ing this and not being able to remedy
it, of not being able to make ones self
over into something like that! Some
how, Jessica had been betrayed bv
his bogfre resemblance to the thing
which she took him to be. He wss a
bog fire and nothing more, in so far as
s.-a ~sas consernot, all she thought he
was. Yet because he was so hungry,
no doubt, for woman of her type he
had pretended that he was "the real
thing as she so liked to describe q
gay character, sport" man Of
habits, bad or good, as you choose; one
who liked to gamble, shoot, race, and
do lot of things which he really did
not care for at all, but which the
crowd or group with which he was
always finding himself, or with whom
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way, child of fortune, of genuine.
really. Life would use her we'll for
some time yet, whatever she did to him
or any other person, or whatever he
sought to do to her in revenge. if he
ever did. She was far too attractive
yet, too clever, too errant, too indif-
ferent, too spiritually free, to be neg
lected by any one yet, let alone by
such seeking, avid, pleasure lovers as
always followed her And because she
wouldn't allow him to interfere (that
was the basis on which she had agreed
to marry him, her personal freedom)
she had always been ablo to 30 and do
and be what she chose, nearly, Just
as she was going and doing now.
These t0ido CARDS and that qrck Of
shabby yelloao-and- black houses. be-
granned and dirty externally and inter
nally no doubt. aOith souls menrlu as
drdb IN them, perhaps. Hoao much bet
ter it acas to be rich like himself ard
Idelle; only she valucd her station so
lightly!
Always, wherever he went these DAYS,
and his affairs prevented him from be-
ing with her very much. she was in his
mind-what she was doing, where she
was going, with whom she might be
now-ah, the sickenlne thought, with
whom she might be now, and where
with that young waster Keene, pos
sibly, with his millions, his shooting
preserve and his yacht; or Browne,
equally young and still in evidence,
though deserted by her to marry him,
Garrison; or ] C, with whom
Idelle had had that highly offensive
affair in B five years before, when
she was only eighteen. Eighteen! The
wonder yeari He, too. was here in
G. now after all these years. this
same j c., and after Idelle had
left him oncel Yes, he was hanging
about her again, wanting her to come
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take. 1t seemed not to make the
sllghtest difference to her, after the
first week or so, that they were mar
rled or that he was infatuated with
her or that he was who he was or
that he every move and thought were
beautiful to him. On the contrary.
1T seemed only to irritate her all the
more. She seemed to sense then-not
before-that he was really the ono
man not suited to her by temperament
or taste or ideas, not the kind she
imagined she was getting, and from
then on there we're the most terrible
days, terrible
That pretty girl turning in at that
uiIlage gatei
Trying, depressing, degrading really.
What dark frowns used to fash across
her face like clouds at that tirle-she
was nineteen to his twenty-four. and so
pretty! - the realization. perhaps, that
she had made mistake. What she really
''-S soy,
unthlnklng, energetic person he had
seemed to be under the stress of the
life at Ledgebrook's not the quiet.
reasoning, dreamy person he really
was 1t was terrible!
TAU trees made such shadoacy o;sles
at eueningi
Finally she had run away, disap-
peared completely one morning after
telling him she was going shopping,
and then never seeing him any moro
ever-not even once A telegram
from R had told him that she was
going to her mothers and for him not
to follow her. please; and then before
he could make up his mind really what
to do had come that old wolf Cald-
well, the famous divorce LAWYER of
d----, representing her mother, no
doubt and in smYth, ingratiating. per-
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had seemed to end so favorabIy--he
having been able to win and marry her
still in reality it had ended most dis
astrously, she having eventually left
him as she did. Jessica, too, was like
1delle in so many ways, as young, as
gay, as forceful, nearly as pretty, if
not quite, but not with Idelle's brains.
You had to admit that in connection
with Idelle. She had more brains,
force, self-reliance, intuition, than
most women he knew anything about,
young OF old.
But to return to Jcssica. At first
she seemed to think he was wonder
full, man of the world, clever, witty,
lover of light, frivolous, foolish
things. such as dancing, drinking, talk
ing idle nonsense. which he was not
at all. Yes, that was where he had
always failed, apparently, and always
would. He was not man of fare.
That flock Of pigeons on that barn
roof!
That was the trouble really-at the
bottom he had always been slow,
romantic, philosophic, meditative, while
trying in the main to appear something
else, whereas other men, at least those
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