Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-27

II age" said he. in the language of
all Europe.
Goodby, sir. I thank you again." she
answered, in the language of all the world
Her little white hand was gently. almost
reluctantly. withdrawn from the grasp of his
tanned, sinewy one, and Princess Sabina of
Grodnia gave her hand--the other one-into
the keeping Of Father Pokoff. They walked
forth, farther and farther, until the fragile
form of the girl and the aged frame of the
priest grew hazy and indistinct against the
distant horizon to the eyes of Bob Hallam
the eyes that he shaded with the hand that
had held hers so that he might see the more
keenly--and the longer-as he stood where
they had parted.
The world storm had reached Grodnia and
had broken over it. Ruin and riot murder
and destruction, panic and pandemonium
were its early fruits. The mobs were seeth.
ing, drunk with a passion for freedom, ma.
niacal with the sight of weltering blood and
consuming, leveling fire through the streets
of the orderly capital of the ancient
Slavonic kingdom.
Institutions once, so recently, too sacred
and fearsome for even the trembling touch
of the commoner had been wrecked and
pulverized in the onslaught of a people
famed with the fever of the terrestrial cpl.
demic that manifested itself in lust for
liberty, thirst for equality, hunger for
the power of the people
The king is dead; long wave the red
flag !" they raved
The king was dead. He who had ruled as
had his fathers, by that right claimed to be
divine, with royal scepter held in hand gaunt
leted with steel. had been shot and beaten
and kicked to death, his once holy body
mauled by the hobnailed heels of the prole
tariat who had as had their fathers. wor-
SHIPPED him and his line, given him their sons
and the needs Of their sweating brows and
breaking backs. besought their God for his
salvation and his strength while he broke
them on the wheel Of overtaxatioa and mon.
archical peonage
Only in this generation could this have
transpired. Kingly vanity and God.playing
had overreached themselves. The German
car had decimated nations flooded the
sewers and trenches of whole countries with
the blood of humans to slake his Infamous,
insane whim for world domination The
weakling ruler of all the Russias had been
torn from that regal height which had once
been beyond mans scaling. Principalities
were in chaos. Empires were under the
torch. Europe was cleaning house with the
cleansing fire of driven humans indignation.
Where was the kaiser? A sniveing fugi.
five uDwelcppoe n a nd ,.bnr he
claimed sanctuary land upon which he
had spat in his mighty days. Where was the
czar? Dead they said, shot against the
wall like the meanest of his exiled thieves
In Siberia, by the muskets of the bosheviki
In their hour of hectic reign. Where were
crown princes and crown princesses queens
and grand dukes, chancellors and lords of.
these and other monarchies? Scattered. flee.
Ing, broken. cut down to earth with the
other creatures of EARTH stripped and fiayed
of their counterfeit ermine, begging for bread
and salt and the shelter of their betters. the
allhigh lowly 1t was each for himself. with
no false handicaps of birth and assumption
of super-status.
OF these was the Princess Sabina
Just past IS, she had made her debut into
the royal realms of European courts but a
few months before the mad onslaught of
anarchy had engulfed her country She had
been born to throne, reared under tuition
and chaperonage Of the paid snobs and syco.
plants whose function it was to elevate her
beyond the vulgar air breathed by the filthy
swine whom she should honor by conde.
scending to call them my people," in that
indulgent insolence which none but ROYALTY
may find the egotism to exercise. Servants
and courtiers, with foreheads scrapine the
floor at her feet. had kowtowed and bowed
and mouthed titles at her with every word Of
noble humility and servile SOLDERING. The
doddering king her father. martinez on all
points Of teaching the herd to know its mas.
ter, had licked his lips with pride to see his
only daughter grow into beautiful aristo.
crat. effete before maturity. esoteric to de.
gree that distinguished her among the
daughters Of emperors, cold ana queenly
- BAIT the blusst blood OF Europe, which