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milk; he picked tea leaves, cardamon
seeds, spices; he rode camels and
donkeys; he passed through the tail
end of typhoon; and he rode from
Jaipur to ancient Amber on the state
elephant howdah, spangles and all.
In fact, he had a Durbar all by him.
self. The natives, upon beholding the
huge pachyderm, rheumatic and dis
gruntled, decked out in all his giddy
paraphernalia, concluded that some
intimate friend of the British Raj
was passing. and forthwith they beat
their foreheads in the dust. If you
should ask William, no doubt he will
tell you that this was the greatest
moment in his life.
Great dramatizations do not always
ge over; the lesson does not always
stick in the mind: it is often crowded
aside by the false Importance of some
triviality. Perversely the audience
will seize upon the incident. and right
away they will proceed to make the
dramatist rich. when all he wanted
was to be famous.
The drama in williams life was al
ways overshadowed by that comic cpl
sode in Jaipur. The least thing
stirred him into the telling of it.
He did not find his letter of credit
at Rangoon. He was shown q cable,
ostensibly written by himself in
Alden, by which the letter had been
forwarded to Bombay. A wire to
Bombay ELECTED the surprising fact
that his money was now on its way
to Hongkong as per his further in
structions dated Colombo. He knew
that this bewildering tangle would be
due to forgeries, but this knowledge
did not help him solve his increasing
financial difficulties. He cabled Hong
kong the facts, however, and ordered
them to hold the letter until he called
personally for 1t with the letter Of
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submit my case to him. He bursts
out laughing. 1t appears that in my
character as, a man of letters, work
ing at home and having no employees,
the law doesn't affect me. The situa-
ton is this: Ny servants may not
work more than eight hours a day.
But 1. their master, am absolutely
free to indulge my temperament as
far as l wish. l prefer it that way.
Otherwise how could make a living?
$50 / continue to devote myself to
the most arduous labor. I become a
type like alzac-minus his talent and
fear minus his facility. Meanwhile the
price of butter has risen 900 per cent
and Moliere slippers cost 500 francs
pair. 1 begin to envy those glorious mu
tilated heroes who have only one foot.
That jealousy being not only morbid. but
fruitless, j decide to wear only sabots
while l am at home. After all they
are warmer and one can procure rea-
sonably substantial ones, made out of
lockwood. for so francs, and when
they are worn out you can burn them.
which is consideration worth taking
into account. In view of the high
price of coal and fire wood. But the
pressure Of the sabots gives me cruel
headaches. l remember that before
the war persons enjoying a moderate
fortune could combat this affection
by taking tablets filled with a sub
stance called antipyrine. or anal
gesine or pyramidon. go to a
druggist. He tells me that he has
this precious remedy, but that it is
worth its weight in paper money.
Ten five-franc bills are the equivalent
Of one capsule. My resources do not
permit me such a luxury. I content
myself with putting my head under
used to do.
"A great misfortune happens. This
spigot. my sole resource against head
aches, and also indispensable for do
nestle uses. gets out of order 1t is
necessary to repair it. ! see myself
ruined. A plumber appears, after
keeping us waiting many days. He
wears an elegant coat; with a rare
flower in the buttonhole. His trousers
are smartly creased. ] say to him,
very respectfully. Bourgeois, here is
the spigot.'
After surveying me disdainfully,
he answers:s old fellow we'll fix
that My wife, who has more cour-
age than have. follows him out and
asks him IL by chance he has some
old clothes which ne Is about to dis
card. He is very gracious. and. thanks
TO him. am able to renew my ward
robe a little.
~ have always been an optimist. l
wish to continue to be one. l per-
suade myself that these difficulties
are temporary and that the prices Of
necessaries OF life will diminish. For
have no hope of any increase in
my income"
Here the great thaumaturgist OF la
Saltpetriere gave some turns to his
ingenious apparatus.
"In what year are you now?
Let me look at the calendar again"
In 1925. They have just passed a new
labor law. under the pressure OF the
labor unions. which thought the bur
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be left alone. Just as the cobwebs
are getting cleared up. you have to
come along with this kind of a song
and dance. She wanted somebody
who could laugh and talk: she wasn't
aching to hear sermons. This ship,
according to your idea, Is as bad as
the front porch Of summer hotel.
As a matter of fact. everybody seems
to be enjoying themselves. everybody
but you. If they put on airs at first,
they soon got over it. They're all
human and kindly. know it because
l can see. Where do you get the
noise that because folks laugh fire.
Quently they must be bad?"
Mr.. 'Grogan. you misunderstood
met
1.-THE trouble with you il you don't
understand yourself. / haven't seen
you crack smile since we left New
York. The world isn't as bad as all
that. or course. Miss Jones and sit
at the same table, in the same seats
on trains, and go shopping together.
Aren't we always with the bunch?
Where's the harm? There's other
p"iSoHS VII pOdtO, anu tHcS nave n
good time like the rest Of the folks.
Isn't Miss Haines always tagging
after the chief officer? Have you
told her how wicked that is? Aw,
pif1e! Aren't all the young folks
paired or in some innocent way? Is
there anything unnatural about 1t?
You need an oculist."
I'm sorry. Mr. Grogan. that you
look upon my Offices In this abrupt
manner" said the mission, with as
perity. Ne rose from his chair.
You ought to be shouting glad I
didn't look at 'em from another roost.
i guess the trouble with you is you
want a scandal. You're yearning for
one. You want to save something
so, bad that you'd be glad IL some
thing bad happened. You'd have
started riot on the ark. believe me.
Some folks are built that way. Any
thing good looks suspicious to 'em.
Gee! wish my old Psychologists
were back. They had whittier whis-
kers than you. and they saw good
IN everything, even me. I've nothing
more to say for publication" William
concluded.
He could see by the expression on
the missioner's pale face that he had
turned an ofncious meddler into bit
Ter enemy; but he did not care. His
)eremtade could lay as 1t fell.
Talking to me like that ! know
what's the trouble with him. He
sees things just the same as ! do.
nut when they get into his head they
begin walking backward"
Half an hoslr later he had forgot
ten the incident. The agile mind Is
generally nearer happiness than the
plodding one; and William had the
FACULTY Of leaping mentally from one
object to another. like a chamois
Ruth found him drawing pictures OF
elephants for the children.
What are you drawing?" she asked.
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BY Pierre Mile.

dens imposed on their members in
equitable and intolerable. The work.
ing day is to be reduced, henceforth.
to six hours. 1t has been asserted that
production will not be diminished. On
the contrary, all the theorists have
promised that 1t will be increased In
reality. 1t has been greatly reduced
and prices have risen again. A pair OF
Moliere slippers costs now 1900
francs, and a pair of sabots, 1870
francs. The peasants, who make the
butter and have continued the an
cestral tradition of wearing sabots.
have raised the price of butter to
correspond with the increase in the
price Of sabots. At least, that is how
the newspapers explain 1t, adding
that such an economic phenomenon is
absolutely normal l don't care
whether it is normal or not. All
know is that never again will but
ter, or even margarine, appear on my
table.
But the Paris street sweepers have
just decided to hold a reunion every
week at the Restaurant Lavoie to
talk over their little affairs at break
fast. The price of the breakfast is
1900 francs a plate.
Meanwhile l am starving to death.
l have lost eighteen kilos 1 must
escape from this miserable situation
some way or another
4
II have escaped. Why didn't think
of way out sooner. Now am put
trC aorh
tailor nd-which seems to me q
fabulous luxury even took taxi
the other day to go to work.
For now l have work. am
worker. proletarian. l am a union
street sweeper. Consequently, l also
breakfast at Lavoie's. l find myself.
moreover. in more advantageous po-
sition than most of the other union
street sweepers. because l remain a
man of letters. That vocation doesn't
bring me in much. Yet IL furnishes
enough to pay for my cigars and
few other superfluities.
81 reasoned the matter out thus: AS
man Of letters l work eighteen
hours a day and cannot make a living.
But six hours of street sweeping
bring me two louis a day. and moth
ing prevents me, AFTER l have finished
sweeping, from taking up my pen and
using 1t as long as / want to, since.
as a literary man, working at home.
! am not constrained by the six-hour
law.
That is what | have done. And
notice that l have many imitators.
am amazed to see Of what material
our corps of street cleaners is COM
posed. In my quarter there are in it
two members Of the French Academy,
five sculptors. eight painters and ]
can't tell you how many poets and
novelists. We do not strain ourselves.
Every two or three months we go on
strike for raise in pay. While the
strike lasts We receive an allowance
from the federation, OF unions. and
We work at home at our avOcations.
II is fine. | am now altogether recon-
ciled to the new aspect which civi-
lization has assumed"
Copyright. 1879
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.lTHIS" said the great thau-
.',~. maturgist OF La Saipetriere,"
Is the same chair. exactly,
as the one you see in the
first act of La Dame de chez Maxim
Science, l blush to acknowledge it,
owes it's progress sometimes to the
romancers and even to the vaude-
yillists. Hypnosis is produced by this
admirable apparatus automatically
and instantaneously. But that is not
all. Here an improvement is intro
duced Of which l think l have right
to be proud. Once you are in a state
of sleep I can make you see the flu
ture-your own future. that Is. For
as regards the general course Of af-
fairs in the universe the vision one
gets is still rather confused. But
Paris was not built in a day. And
i think l shall be able to develop my
invention further"
With the egoism of a man of the
world l declared that the certainty
of knowing my own destiny sufficed
to satisfy me completely. Whereupon
l stretched myself out on the ma
chine.
Anu ioW' tHc 6Icdt ehouHhoeui b 'Se
asked me- after few seconds. ''in
what year are you:"
Wait" answered. until l consult
the calendar. "Oh. yes. We are in
the year 1920. l believe we are still
under the republic. But. curiously
enough. am somewhat uncertain
about it,
Don't bother about that. l warned
YOU that general conditions are not
so easy to distinguish. How about
your own affairs?"
81 still follow the same profession.
am cheap and random pamphleteer.
The price Of butter has increased 900
per cent and pair OF Moliere slippers
costs 800 francs. The daily wages Of
the workingman is 35 francs. But
my remuneration. 1t seems to me, is
less than II was before. Existence
Is not very gay for members Of
the so-called liberal professions. How
ever. i am a man OF courage. ] work
harder. multiply my efforts. 1t
doesn't matter that my wardrobe is
replenished less frequently than it
was before the war. because nobody
notices the difference. have no time
to go about"
IL congratulate you on your ener-
getic disposition. But what else?"
What else? Yes. They have just
passed an eight-hour law. That is a
little disturbing for me- you under
stand. With ten hours OF steady
work. unfortunate quilldriver as
am, cannot supply the miserable
needs OF my existence. What is going
to become Of me IL must now con-
secrete two Of my ten hours to en-
forced idleness? ! rush to the mayors
office in my quarter to ask for in
formation. But they can give me
none and tell me to 60 to the police
prefecture. They send me to the
minister OF labor. There is just as
much red tape as there was before"
1T was inevitable that there should
be as much as there was before. Go
on
AT tn. ministry OF labor ! finally
discover the proper funCtionarN, !
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more fruit. Mr. Grogan, what
is the matter?"
Deathly white, William suddenly
collapsed against the doorjamb.
she she has been left be-
hind"
Ito be Continued Next Sunday.)
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A Glimpse of the Future

said the great thau-
. n maturgist OF La Salpetriere,"
is the same chair, exactly,
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-10-10

board, charge that the action OF the
state officials was due to a "consplr-
acv to wreck the bank for political
purposes" Attorney General William
LANCER and Secretary of State Thorn
as Hall, says a spokesman for the
league, fare enemies of the Nonpar-
tisan league. They formed the plot
to close the Observation-Disclosures
bank( some weeks ago."
As usual every official move against
the Nonpartisan league or its repre-
sentatives, wherever staged, to hold
the league leaders within the law and
to punish them for breaches OF the
law is d~enominated as political per-
secution. If any executive Official
peace officer, judge or court, IN the
discharge of official duties, runs
athwart of the illegal, %extralegal or
criminal activities of the league inter-
ests he is branded as politically in
spired. For the league leaders are
above the law. Banking laws were
not made for them but for other peo-
pie. Sedition and espionage laws were
not made for them but for others. 1t
is as if an official of the st, Paul as
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CAN YOU BEAT IT?

There is absolutely no use trying
to tell the News anything.
The News knows it all and what it
doesn't know it throws a wild guess
at and publishes for gospel truth.
In the issue of September 26th the
News says that the commissioners
entered into a bond agreement that
will make the taxpayers of Valley
county pay liz per cent on warrants
upntil they are redeemed. This state
ment is so atrociously false that it
would seem to need no explanation.
When the commissioners made ar
engagements with an eastern bonding
company to take up the outstanding
Valley county warrants, which were
drawing 6 per cent and replace them
with 5k per cent bonds, an agreement
was made that the warrants would
be redeemed at par, plus accrued in
%terest, and that the bonding company
would pay to Valley county any &C
cumulated interest on the bonds on
the dates that the different patches
of warrants were taken up. The bonds
are dated October LIST, 1919, and not
July l as stated by the News, and Val
ley county is not out one cent of in
terest until the bonds are actually is
sued.
The transaction simply results in
replacing 6 per cent warrants with
5k per cent bonds, saving a net half
per cent to the taxpayers and the pla-
cling of Valley county on a cash basis
where all warrants r par and not
subject to a discount.
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editor of the Enterprise. Although

editor Of the Enterprise. Although
there was great temptation to say un-
kind things, the editor, backed by his
faithful union printers, stood up to
the rack and took his medicine like
a man, doubtless knowing that event.
ually his newspaper would be recog-
nized as having pursued the eminent
ly proper course. The business men
unorganized as they wefe, we're thrown
temporarily off their balance, but
they rallied and yesterday morning
they flocked into the newspaper with
all manner of advertising and pledges
of support.
The boycott" cost the editor a rea-
sonable amount, but the business men
said in their meeting that they, too,
lost heavily. They had learned the
value of advertising and discovered
that without it business has sagged
materially. That, however, was only
a side issue in their determination to
renew their financial and moral sup
port of the newspaper. They realized
they had been imposed upon and that
the radicals were championing an un-
worthy cause"
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RIGHT PREVAILS,

The Livingston business men, who
for a short time needed the radical
element in Livingston and through
fear of losing trade, boycotted the
Livingston Enterprise, because it dar-
ed to take w. F. Dunn to task for
statements made in a speech there
recently, have seer the light and re-
Gently flooded that newspaper with
advertising to show their good will
and determination, from now on, to
take the stand that stood for Amer
lean ideals at all times. Commenting
on the case, the Helena Independent
says:
"The small majority in the Trades
and Labor Council of Livingston who
started the boycott, which they say
isn't a boycott, and declared as "un-
fair" a newspaper which union men
say is not unfair, probably regret
their action by this time, for the fair
minded men in organized labor were
lining up back of the typographical
union whose members have turned in
a report of the affair to the inter-
national bodies with a request that an
investigation be had and discipline
reinstated.'
There never was any reason for the
action taken by the council. The
newspaper has always stood staunchly
for organized labor and only a few
months before Labor day had sup
ported the movement of the railroad
men for a wage raise. The radicals
brought Dunn of Butte to Livingston
and his speech was so rank that The
Enterprise, which is intensely Amer
lean, Criticized the m%outhings of the
soviet champion and those who ap-
plauded his sentiments oh that sub
ject. Dunn and his supporters made
much of the cry for free speech and
Dunn was permitted free speech and
exercised it to the indecent limit.
Yet when the newspaper remonstrat-
ed emphatically as it did and there
by voiced the sentiments of the vast
majority of Livingston citizens, in
GLIDING the business and professional
element, the radicals sought to kill
off a free press. Their position was
untenable, as some of them confessed.
We are glad to see that the bust
ness men have gone to the support of
Bob Phillips, the courageous and game
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H PERIODICAL.

The periodical call of "help or I per-
ish" went up from the News last
week and notice was served, in no un-
certain language, that the News edi-
tor was about to retire. Of course
every one in Glasgow is so familiar
with this threat that no one takes it
seriously. The silly articles publish
ed issue after issue in the News to
the effect that the business men of
Glasgow are worrying about how long
the News will continue to exist ~
positively sickening to those who know
the real condition Of affairs. Rhodes
and his mud-slinging yellow sheet
have long since ceased to be much Of
a worry to the business men Of Glass
gov. He is tolerated and endured in
much the same manner as a tumor
or a cancer is endured by the unfor-
tunate patient. The business men of
Glasgow all know that the paper never
overlooks an opportunity to stab the
town in the back, and they are con-
Quoting their businesses accordingly.
No mar or set of men with brains will
continue to hand over money to a
man who is using the money they
spend with him to injure their bust
ness.
The threat to go out of business
unless help is Forthcoming is simply
along the usual line. Rhodes, when
ever he gets short of money, which is
becoming more than frequent, knows
that he can force the farmers Of Val
ley county into line to save the News
from w%reckage. They have been in
duced to invest heavily in the stock
of the plant and in order to save thei1
money, must keep it alive. The bust.
ness men of Glasgow have no objec-
ton to their doing so, but they do. re.
sent being threatened with boycott
unless they contribute to the support
of a journal<that is daily, weekly anc
yearly endeavoring to drive the farm.
er trade away from this city.
Whether Rhodes goes out of bust.
ness or not will mean little in the life
of the average Glasgow business man
for eventually the farmers are going
to realize the true state of affairs
and when they do it will not be nee
essary or advisable for Billicose t,
attempt to sing his old and oft-re
peated dirge, "help or l perish"
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H INSANITY OF MODS.

Some Americans constantly are
shouting for more liberty. There are
those who are opposed to law and to
policemen and soldiers who represent
law. They want what they call "real
liberty" Emma Goldman and Eu-
gene Debs are charter members in
this organization for what they call
"real liberty" and also for forgive
ness for political offenders"
Recently Boston had a touch OF real
liberty. Her police force went on a
strike and left the city without any
authorized guardians. If what our
socialistic friends say is true-that
policemen and soldiers are not needed
there should have been perfect peace
in Boston. What are the facts?
Hades broke loose. The mob start
ed without any purpose. The lawless
spirit that had been growing for
years broke loose. Men would look
on the proceedings for a while and
then join the mob. A correspondent
writing in regard to the situation says
it was amazing. He never expected
to see people, most of them we'll
dressed, go into a bloody struggle
without any defined aim or purpose.
The mob smashed in store fronts and
looted. Looting was not the main
purpose. The mob simply wanted to
smash something. There is another
significant fact-that the big rich
stores were not touched. The jewelry
| displays in the windows of jewelry
stores were no particular temptation
The people who are supposed to advo'
cate the mob had the first experience
with the mob. The people who sale
laws and courts were not needed hac
the first illustration of ~lawlessness.
All mobs are without reason anc
are needless. Human beings are like
cattle in a stampede.
Many years ago when the great
Brooklyn bridge was dedicated, human
beings in a frenzy crushed the'life GU
of each other in the jam.
Yesterday a mob lynched a negro
in Omaha. The same mob threw
rope around the neck of. the mayo
and hung him long enough to injur'
him greatly. The Omaha mob hat
no more sense than the Boston mob
These circumstances indicate that thi
country exists only on account of Law
and order. There can be no substi
tute. Socialists may talk abou
sbrotherly love" and all that, bu
when the mob spirit RACES, brotherl,
love does not stay the hand of the nun
derer.
The great Lincoln said, "This mus
be a government of law" and n
sane mar can dispute it.-Des Nome
Sapital.
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A FAIR QUESTION.

1t isn't an unfair question to ask
who is paying for the countless mil
lions of pamphlets and circulars and
bulletins which are flooding the mails
boosting the league of nations idea.
That is, it is assumed that there are
millions for in every mail this little
print shop gets enough literature tell
ing about the wonders of the league to
keep a person in reading for a week.
And the query is a natural one: Who
pays for it?-Libby Times.
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Montana authorities believe that a
gang of professional automobile
thieves are working in Montana with
a regular chain of relay drivers, a
hangout in which to repaint and dis
gulse cars, a route through which to
take the machines to another state
and sell them, following reports re-
ceived in Helena during the last few
days of many missing automobiles.
The thieves apparently have a pref
erence for second cars of medium
price, which command a ready sale in
the motor markets.