News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-02-22

Dora Yocum. hitherto unperceived by
Ramsey. rose and went forward to one
OF the small desks in the open space.
I where she stood composedlp q slim,
pretty figure In white. heuheiS in
Ramsey's neighborhOod werp aware OF
brief and hnshed comnotioa and a
fierce whisper, You can't Son get
up there y And the blanched Ramsey
came forth and placed himself al the
other DESK.
He stood before the silent popu.
ACE Of that smorgue, and It seemed to
him that his features had forgotten
that he was supposed to be their own
er and in control of them; he felt that
they were slipping all over his face
regardless of his wishes. His head,
as a whole was subject to an agita-
ton not before known by him; it de-
sired TO move rustily in eccentric ways
of its own devising; his legs alternate
Z ~ limbered and Strengthened under no
direction but their own; and his hands
clutched each other liercely behind his
back; he was not one cohesive person,
evidently, bat an assembled collection
of parts which had reapsed each into
its own individuality. In spite of them,
he somehow contrved the semblance
of bow toward the chairman and the
semblance of another toward Dora, of
whom he was but hazily conscious.
Then he opened his mouth and not
knowing how he had started his voice
going, heard it as il from a distance.
IN making my first appearance be-
fore this honorbIe membership / feel
restrained to say" He stopped
short, and thenceforward shook visi-
bly,. After a long pause, he managed
to repeat his opening, stopped again,
swallowed many times, produced
handkerchief and wiped his face, an
act of necessity-then had an inspira-
ticn.
'"The subject assigned to me-" he
said, lis resolved that Germany is
mor'ly and legally justified in Bel
glans- Belgiums! This subject was,
assigned to me to be the subject of
this debate" He interrupted himself
to gasp piteOusly found breathing diff
ficult, but fatered on again: "This
subject is the subject 1t is the sub /
ject that was assigned to me on a
postal card" Then, for a moment or
So he had a miraculous squirt of conf
dence and continued, rather rapidly:
81 feel constrained to say that the
country of Belgian--Belgium, I mean
this country has been constrained by
| mean-inyaded by the
Imperial German Umpire and my sub
iect in this debate is whether It ought
to or not, my being the informative,
| mean--tfat / got to prove |
that Germany is morly and legally
justified. / wish to state that"
He paused again, lenHhiIy, then |
struggled on. 81 have been requested |
to state that the German mp-Empire |
that it certainly isn't right for those |
I mean-they haven't |
got any more business in Belgium than |
1 ave llyHGlls buI - lCtl NNlI0tl blliNN
TO say that ! had to accept whatever |
side of this debate | got on the postal
card, and so | am constrained to take
the side of the Dutch. l mean the
Germans. The Dutch are sometimes
mean the Germans are some
times called ME Dutch in this country
Dnt they aren't Dutch, though some
times called Dutch in this country
Wen, and~sO-so, well, the war began
asst August or about then. anyway, |
md the German ARMY invaded the Bel
yian army. After they gPt there, the
INVASION began. i'irst they came
around there and then they cont
uenced invading. Well what feel
He came to the longest Of, all his
,auses here, and the awful gravity OF