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The pork barrel is run on til
ancient aye-for-an-aye system.
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You can always get a. few more
miles out of last winters clothes.
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Washington, Nov. 22.-Rising to
the question of personal privilege
in the house; Representative As,
well, Of Louisiana, declared that
reports of ku klux khan dominated
Louisiana were false and "scurri-
lous''. -
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Manila, Nov. 2s.-The Philip
pines will petition president and
congress to allow Philippine legisla-
ture to call a constitutional con-
vention to frame a constitution Tor
a future independent republic n
the Philippines. The house today
adopted the resolution the senate
passed three weeks ago.
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vertisenlent

An old flame with love letters
can make it hot for a man.
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New York. Nov. S22.-Georges
Clemenceau rested today after his
FIST speech of his American tour
last night. He urged America to
get together with the French and
British and present a united front
to Germany. which he said was
preparing for another war. He
leaves for Boston tonight.
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Greenville, Nov. 21-The first
killing frost of the season was re-
corded here last night by weather
bureau. Ice was found in the open.
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Washington. Nov. 21--The ad-
ministration marine bill has been
formally reported in the house -,
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Blue Andalusia

Blue .Andalusia.
j. B. Folsom. 1913 hen: cock
erel: 1-3-4 pullet.
w. D. Boykin. hen; 2 pullet.
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Sumervillc, N. j.. Nov. 2l.-
James Curren. policeman. was the.
first witness called in today's inves-
tigation of the Hall-Mills murder.
New witness is reported to have:
been found to corroborate the story
IF Mrs. Jane Gibson. the eye-W1t-
ness.
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Cape May farmer shot an eagle
ssesling his pigs. This will teach
esgles to leave pigs alone.
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Gre older man gets the more he
hates 70 buy a new hat.
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-IEranny- things are true. The saw
iinssg bank originated in Scotland.
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Chicago. Nov. 21.-American
possibilities in Central and South
America and in Europe were dis
cussed today by the ambassadors
and other representatives Of several
countries at. the second session of
the Southern Commercial Con-
gress. Senator Dial is scheduled
to speak this afternoon on the
Injustice of the present cotton fu-
lures law. The congress will con-
tinue through tomorrow.
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Sofa. Bulgaria. Nov. 21-Twenty-
two former cabinet ministers appar-
emily were voted guilty by voters
in the national referendum held on
Sunday to determine whether they
were responsible for embroiling
Bulgaria in the war without suffi-
cient diplomatic reparation.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON
LIVERPOOL COTTON

receipts, .28. 600: Sales. 4.008: MiddIing
i. Good Middlips, 1852
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Even after diplomatic relations were
broken off the Emperor believed
that means would be found to avoid
conflict. There was, however, no at
tempt made to arrive at a compro-
mise, and the question arose-it is
vet unanswered-whose purpose did
it suit to prevent compromise?
On the day war was declared
Won Margutti handed his chief,
Count Paar, the necessary document.
..The Count shook his head mourn
fully and dropped a remark which
gave me much food for thought
later on:
"sThis may be all right, but all !
can say is that men eighty-four
years of age don't sign war procla-
nations
There was no question, however,
but that the old Emperor, for all his
worldwide reputation as the apostle
of peace, had abandoned his original
determination to avert a conflict.
ITO wean the Emperor from his last
longing for peace" says Won Mar
gutti, ''he had been deceived by false
representations that he had no OF Ter
alternative but TO declare war on
Serbia, because the Serbs had already
crossed the Drina and the. Save in
force. Some attributed the trick to
Count Berchtold. 1t was only nat
ilral that he should be suspected, but
his responsibility has not been
proved"
1.-THE old Emperor apparently
doubted from the first if the war
would be successful for Austria.
Even at this stage he said on his
| birthday in August. 1914, everything
seems to point otherwise In July,
1916, he said in discussing the gen.
eral situation: Things are going bad
with US. perhaps worse than We sus-
pected. The starving people can't
stand much more. 1t remains to be
seen whether and how we shall get
through the winter. j mean to end
the war next spring whatever hap
pens. can't let my Empire go to
hopeless ruin"
Before spring came he died. His
coffin was borne down tc the crypt
in the Church of the Capuchins and
laid next to those Of the Empress
Elizabeth and Crown Prince Ru-
dolph. "The old Emperor was at rest
with his nearest and dearest"
LOUIS A. SPRINGER.
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zollern absolutism and junker bu-
reaucracy!
Stein and his great associates set
themselves to better the condition Of
the peasants. The status of seryile
peasants was changed to that Of
freemen and citizens of the state.
The peasant was no longer bound to
the soil. He was not condemned TO
remain in the class to which he was
born. Forced domestic service was
abolished. The peasant could learn
a trade and dispose of his holdings.
That is. he ceased to be a serf. The
liberation of city governments was
another great reform. Towns were
made free to govern themselves;
they were no longer governed from
Berlin.
There lay beneath all this. always.
the fundamental idea of rousing a
moral, religious and patriotic spirit;
OF stimulating courage and readiness
to make sacrifices for Independence
and national honor and of seizing
the first opportunity to begin a new
fight against Napoleon. And the
statesmen were not left to work
alone. In that period there grew up
body of popular poetry, of religion,
heroism and love of country un-
equaled, we should say. in any other
time or land.
But the new nation could not GET
and hold its liberty with the old
army. Scharnhorst, always backed
by Stein and other able patriots,
built up a peoples army, in which
every fit citizen should serve, and in
which courage and worth, not birth
and privilege, qualified for office. To
avoid the base agreement with Ma
poleon that the army should be lin
tied to $4,000, from three to five
new recruits were added to a COM
pany every month and burroughs
were given to that number of trained
men. so II came about that In
1913 there We're not AZ. 900 hut $780,
4 600 trained citizen soldiers, and sc
/ Waterloo became possible.
\ In this brief notice the great and
varied services of Stein have only
Il been limited at. Nothing has beer
Il said of his character. He was deeply
religious-a Lutheran. His integ.
rity, his moral earnestness, his te.
nacity and his courage were com.
plete; and deep in his soul was love
OF Germany. Let us repeat that il
H was q world calamity that Germany
i fell from the traditions of Stein and
his comrades. H. G. PR0UT.
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Great Ghost Stories

much more than the door latch"
When II" moved slightly;
THAT gentleman's not going
away, is he?" he almost shrieked.
I could not but admire the inten-
sity Of his greed when saw him
outfacing for its sake whatever
terror 1t was that ran wet on his
forehead"
After Turpin had left the hall
comes one of the most beautiful Of
all ideas and better put than any ]
know of in literature.
"I felt my relaxed hand
taken and turned softly between
the soft hands OF a child. =.
In a moment ! would turn and
acquaint myself with those quick
footed wanderers.
THE little brushing kiss fell in
the center Of my palm-as a gift
on which the fingers were, once,
expected to close: as the all
faithful. half reproachful signal
of a waiting child not used to
neglect even when grownups
were busiest-a fragment of the
mute code devised very long ago.
Then knew"
Could it be possible to devise ;
more heart reaching way to brinl
recognition between a father and tn
spirit of his lost child? In "They
Nipling, unlike the writer's prior t
1890, gives his readers credit for tn
. full power to think. II you have no
read "They" lose no time. If yo
have read the story, q second or
third reading win bring joy to you.
! When 1t is remembered that fror
Hamlet to Peter Grimm anS on dow
to Liiiom the ghost has held til
stage, and when one recalls tn
countless returned spirits met wit
in literature, the props are knocke
clean out from under any idea of a
editorial taboo. Because of man
failures few authors win ADMIT this
but the interest In the ghost stor
is, II anything, stronger than eve
bef0rA
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Continued from Preceding Page.

the house is shown coming to 81"
still seated in the motor:
You're fond OF children?"
she asked,
and Kipling says:
81 gave her one or two rea-
sons why I did not altogether
hate them"
One realizes later that an entire
chapter of love and loss is hidden in
this short sentence.
Her voice." he tells US. would
have drawn lost souls from the pit,
for the yearning that underlay its
sweetness"
Then gently this master writer
leads one on, each written word car
ryins q hundred unsaid ones, and
slowly, with no shock of surprise, it
dawns that They" are ghosts-it is
hard to use the word for spirits made
SO happy by the blind woman.
With each new paragraph one
grows more in love with the joyous
spirit children. with the blind woman
and more in sympathy with the "I''
who tells the story. How filed with
ideas is this narrative! The tally
sticks used by the blind woman. her
power TO visualize in color the
thoughts OF others, the setting oil
the playrooms for the children, the
conception that those who have not
had children have no right TO see ths
spirit ones. Then suddenly. in sharI
contrast to her idealism. the practica
side of this interesting character /:
shown. No touch in the story make.
for reality more than the interview
between Mr.. Turpin. the graspins
tenant, and this blind protector o.
children's ghosts. Artistically tbt
fright OF this man is suggested. Hi
stammers, his eyes rolled into every
corner of the room, he half opened
the door through which he had
entered.
Ills teeth did ~ chs tier
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Won Widerhofer. who conducted the
post morton, reported this to the
Emperor, the sovereign actually re-
garded the news in the light of con-
ISOLATION, for he simply remarked:
Gods ways are inscrutable. Per-
haps He has sent me this trial to
spare me a yet harder one!'"
The old Emperor had a deeper at
lection for Arehduke Charles. his
successor on the throne. than he had
for Francis Ferdinand. He had little
to do with Charles's marriage; in
fact, he would have chosen for the
young man another wife than Zfta.
The women Of the two families ar
ranged the marriage, and the En-
peror, learning that it was really a
love match, did not interfere. He re-
membered the wreck of his own
married life ON account of his moth
er's interference. The Emperor at
terward became much attached to
the young couple and their children.
Charles had many friends, a re-
spect in which he differed from the
old Emperor, and he was loyal to
them after he assembled the throne.
This, it is said, made him subser-
Went to unofficial advisers and back
stair influences. He put high value
on the views OF his friends. This
was true, too, of those of his wife;
in fact, he allowed himself to be so
guided by the women of his family
that individual and emotional fac
tors played an outstanding part in
the consideration of practical ques-
tons.
ITO those accustomed to the pune
tuality with which the old Emperor
discharged state affairs Charles's
distaste of office business was per-
haps his worst fault. He was never
to be found when he was wanted.
OF him Hafrat Lan1masch said:
The times are too great FOR him.
He is too good natured, too simple,
too human. He will not boldly act
the part OF traitor to his country to-
day in order to be its savior to-mor-
row."
There was always mystery as to
what influences were brought to bear
upon Emperor Francis Joseph to
Every one, the Emperor included,
had undoubtedly assumed that Ser
bia would simply accept our ultima
tum," says Baron Won Margutti.
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stitution of the North American
Union says Won Margutti. He
saw q striking resemblance between
it and Austria Hungary, as he in
sisted that the United States also
was not nationally homogeneous"
His plan was evidently inspired by
his hatred of Hungary. He would
have split this country into four or
five parts; he declared he could see
no reason why the Magyars should
terrorize not only Austria, but the
German AID slav populations in
Hungary
The fact that he cherished this
plan and could not be moved from
his position was bound from the first
to estrange him from so strong a
conservative as the old Emperor.
But the event which permanently
alienated the nephew from his uncle
was Francis Ferdinand's announce
ment OF his intention to marry Coun-
tess Won Chotek. The Emperor per-
mitted the marriage to take place,
but he never forgave the parties to
it. ana he followed with a sense of
chagrin the Countess's attempts to
win a place on the throne. The
fatal journey to Bosnia was to her
merely chance, which she had long
sought, to step into the fun lime
light at her husbands side.
When the news of the Archduke's
assassination was brought to the
Emperor and he had recovered from
the effect OF the sudden blow, he
said, Dreadful! One may not tempt
Providence. The order which was
unable to maintain the Almighty has
reestablished." Evidently he re-
garded the Earajevo tragedy with a
feeling Of relief. This feeling. says
Baron Margutti. was shared by
Vienna. The visit to Bosnia was
looked upon as Ill timed. No pre-
cautions were taken to protect the
Archduke and his wife and no at
tempt was ever made to punish the
officials who were considered respon-
sible for the tragedy.
The Empress Elizabeth was .
Wittelsbaeh and thus shared the
special characteristics of all the
members q that house: not only
did she take no pleasure in court
life and spiendors, but she was an
avowed enemy Of everything which
smacked Of the court. Public dis
approval Of her found expression, in
the belief that she was mentally
abnormal. at was a comfortable
method Of avoiding confession that
no one knew her or, indeed, knew
anything about her. says Baron
Margutti.
Immediately after the marriage,
the Emperor's mother. the ali
powerful Archduchess Sophie, made
1t her business systematically to
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The Enigma of the Hapsburgs

THE EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH
AND HIS TIMES. BY Lieutenant
General Baron ron MarguttL George
II. Doran Company.
II ARoN vow MARCUTTI was
n attached 70 the Aides-de-
Camps Department Of the
Hapsburg imperial household. and
he acted during much of his service
from 1900 to 1917 as private secre-
tary to the Emperor Francis Joseph
No person. except possibly his chief.
Count Paar,- or Frau Katherine
Schratt, the Emperor friend, had
as favorable an opportunity to OBJ
tain a comprehensive understanding
OF Francis Joseph's character, to see
how he bore his personal burden of
tragedies and the official duties
which the world war imposed upon
him IN the last years Of his life.
Around those persons with whom
the Emperor was most intimately
connected there was an atmosphere
Of romantic mystery Of which the
world heard much and v1inly en-
deavored to penetrate. The secrets
Of the last viennese court, despite
the many promises of revelations,
were closely guarded. We know lit
tie of the beautiful and eccentric
Empress who fell a victim Of an
anarchists dagger, or of that witty
Viennese artistic, Frau Schratt, who
from her own young womanhood to
the Emperor's death remained his
one real companion and confidante.
The world specuIated much on the
plans which the Archduke Francis
Ferdinand might have attempted to
carry through had not an assassin's
bullet put an end to his own life and
led to the overthrow of his ancient
dynastic house, and it found expla-
nations without number and built
up many strange theories to account
4O1 tllc 4Sttll "a 0AOWh AhANC @A9-
dolph. Baron Won Margutti may not
clear up all these mysteries, but he
gives US the results of the observa-
tons of a man OF intelligence pos
sessing keen insight into human
nature and an Independent judg-
menf.
II.
The Baron's portrait Of Francis
Ferdinand is one Of the most inter-
esting and important which he
draws, for It shows him in a new
and varied light. The Arehduke was
what most of the Hapsburgs of his
time were not. an indefatigable stu
dent of political history and litera-
ture. So far, though, as the future
of Austria Hungary was concerned
he had but one idea-that was the
monarchy should ne reconstructed
as a federal state. The model
which he had in mind was the con-
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~ TEN was too great a man to
y be overlooked by historians
and biographers, but, except
ing Andrew D. Whites beautiful
essay, we know Of no story Of his
life and work at once short, readable
and satisfactory. Such a story Prof.
Ford has written. We do not say
now written, for this little book was
begun some years before the world
war and was ready for final revision
before the United States went into
the war and the author turned to
war work. He says that in taking
up the work again, IT have not found
it necessary to modify any tribute
to the essential greatness of the
work of Stein and his associates.
This seems an even greater tribute
to the enduring Importance and high
moral character of statesman who
century ago believed in nom
Prussian and super-Prussian Ger
many based upon self-government
and limited monarchy"
Like so many of the greatest SER
wants of Prussia, like Scharnhorst
and Butcher. like Gneisenau and
Niebuhr, like Treitschke and Bis
r,,o-ol~ cfa;v, vra @ x,nf - Drucc;ar Ho
was born in Nassau on the Lain
For 700 years his ancestors lived on
the rock which gave the family its
/ name. STEMS name was Heinrich
| Friedrich Karl vom uEd yum Steir
and he was a hereditary baron. HI
was asked, perhaps a little tempted
20 enter the Austrian service, but il
| 1880, when he was in his 23d year
| he took service with Frederick tn,
Great; he was always more German
1 than Prussian.
i In 1907 Prussia had sunk to it
lowest depths. Napoleon had impor
erished and plundered the country
j had inflicted upon it one humiliation
Il after another and, to make it quit
helpless. had restricted its army t
1900 men. Absolutism and blu
reaucraey had collapsed. Then aros
a galaxy a great men. and foremos
among them was Stein. Their tasl
was to build new natiun-a nation
democratic at heart and self-govern
ing, a nation ready to die for liberty
What terrific catastrophe it wa
!. that after the Freedom war. tina
!. nation again passed under Hohen
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Stein of Prussia

stein AND THE ERA OF REFORM
IN PRUSSIA: 1S07-lS15. BY Guy
Stanton Ford. Princeton: Univer-
sity Press.
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Prince.
1T was not Rudolph's love affair
with Marie Vafsera," one of the
Baron's authorities informed him,
that brought about his death, but
another love affair at Mayerling.
ut appears that the Grown Prince
had established relations some time
previously with the young and at
tractiye wife of the game keeper
She was known as a great beauty
The man was extremely jealous and
would not tolerate the association
TIe gave Rudolph several warnings
but in vain. On the fatal night he
found the Crown Prince in the house
and at one settled accounts with
him. Rudolph came to a miserable
end. His corpse was thrown out
| into the snow in front of the lodge
and remained there Until it was
found the next morning"
| The autopsy revealed that the
Crown Prince had symptoms of .ad-
wanced paralysis which in all proba-
bility would have carried him of
within . year. When Dr. Baror
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-16
ALL GRAINS MAKE NEW
HIGH PRICE RECORDS

CHICAGO. Nov. 10y 4. P)
Wheat. corn. oats and rye today
al touched new high price records
for the season. Active buying which
houses with eastern connections did
the wheat market had a decided
buliish effect on every kind OF
grain Wheat closed strong. q to
"a net higher. with December
&1.1Sss 20 S1192 and May s1.17 10
&1171ks Corn finished z 10 IL
to Ia cents up and oats gained =
n Z 20 IL. In provisions the out
come varied from cents decline
TO p cents advance.
Strength IN the wheat market
developed after brief period OF
uncertainty which was generally as
cribed 20 the overthrow OF the Ger
man cabinet. Offerings OF wheat
however. proved meager and values
ran ur sharply when aggressive
buying set IN. Bulls contended that
Germany would be granted a mora
torium and that Germany and other
European countries as a result Of
under production would have 20 be
big buyers all through the crop
year.
Corn owed IT'S climbing tendency
largely 20 evidence that much corn
which under ordinary circum-
stances would come here IS being
diverted from Chicago 70 the west
and southwest by higher prices OBJ
tainable in those sections. Okla
bona was reported as bidding high
or prices than Chicago today in
central Illinois. oats followed
corn
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Millionaire Grain Dealer
RetireS on His Birthday

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI. Nov. Is
On his 18th birthday today. i. p.
Wells. millionaire. well known IN
Chicago and Minneapolis grain and
banking circles. announced his re-
tirement from active business
Among the positions he resigned
from are: presidency Of the Wells
Dickey company, bankers; presi-
dency OF Russell Miller Milling
company; presidency Of the Electric
Steel Elevator company and of the
American Elevator and Warehouse
company. He was the founder of all
OF these companies.
Stuart W. Wells. his son. will sue
coed him in the presidency OF the
banking concern.
Wells announced he would retain
his directorships in the Tri-State
Telephone company. Northwestern
National bank. North American
Telegraph company and the North.
western Terminal company, hut viii
not take an active part in the man
agement