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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1918-12-19, Page 8P. -TH( Ra►.1%, Ott. 19. 1114. sae .EGJLL • OODIRIOH. lorr. • The Kaiser as I Knew Him For Fourteen Years • leemenmeemo ARTHUR N. DAV13. D. D. S. ought, la tact. be • mate 1a woeau's clothing, the ofiher yelled at her: "WYlt.re are you going?" 'NM Ameri- ru0 accent, revealed whet she an- swered Dint, hiceusod bits tbo more and he demsuehel angrily: "What right lure you to use &is train? Wbese is your pamep►rt r By Ihate time 1 had produced ■II the pipers of Ideutiftcation 1 could find aid tried to tell hint that my wife and 1 were returning to our honor In Berne. but he was loo excited to huts,and w..ul.l have dragged kik' oft tee Vises Ned not nn ottleve rilth whim 1 bad Moen talking en route, Intervened sod world: "1 shall nuke myself personally r.raponalble for these people." 1 was glad I bad admired bL sew unitorm. From the coupe next h oars 1 saw w ithers &leg tial Road.'., throw. them 2 down and kbit' them In the face, and . .............. (C, otuiued front last wFei. 11'1ee we reached Potsdam how ('('.4 noel .an U.ou'NnwI* of 1,1011 N coal beeped ep between the rillroad ue.4u. wh.,te were ordinarily kepi deer, we realm," Ow preepaeathwu fur w.,. were beteg tuw.IP ie earnest mid we Mopped to rnnwder whether 11 would sot he leder after all to retire mmese. list'h wee tier fgworsne, of war l*,M we decided IMt, even though It W.r( out advtnatdr to motor in Bel gluon and termer. where we were ',rood, we might safely ripen n tour la the Bleck (west in t."rnINn). We heti left Bolin Info In the rifler.: www.. In the evenein,, when we arrived at Collar we f .1 that the younger wailer* he the re...Imel la and hotels hod *trendy loft and flet the Miler "r- eform expected a emeriti call the nett limy The sett morning ninng we untamed for f'rsnkfort. As es- peened through vU- lagc liter village.. war gwetarwthwna he- rniae more and more evident. Meawrrs were being taken everywhere to smear EMbuMs.mn-young .m.•rt eltlheei'd On school stem were winging pmlriofle amigo, Medi -nix were earthing sed s(Hsrhes were brit g motile In the mar- ked plana. About five o'clock that afternoon we arrived In Frankfort. Th" w•:tole place wart in a fever of excitement over the wu.Itlll1Atinn penins and their resent- ment against the French wax being p.orseal by "r'elren," which were iA ,oiled Out without charge, amounts ling that the French had already d.opped bombs on the railroad at nunderg mall that French oMeere le puha(IIIA over-ridden the bonder* Tl.( ridiculous et•temente •bout Voted' dyers dn.p(.iag tiwn'u on the s and at Nornl.rre had not Wiglitest fu,u..ln(1a, of (nurwP. The older people who hail lived though the war of IltO had Interested padfenc•s fur once white they related far+:l esp.-Hi-twee And gave advice ax to what preparation* to make. A pond- hitity of food efeiringe si'rmer to bs Opprmost In all mind*, end the'gro- ceri('x were 'stormed with roger buy. der.. Reit suddenly Jumped to 75 rent, • pound aid other (binge in propor- tion. On Runde', Atigu*t 2, All the Kamm Nile in the (unnlry wale emmn11lnd.ered, e el we heard of ninny American tour- lstk being put out of heir cern 111 the e11icn and even on country made, ho gentler how InarceNNilde to train.. they 'night be. We sec(rdlugly decided to slow our car away In nn old wagon shod attached to a hotel and sought to reluen to Berlin by train. Al the railway efntlon there wax elude • trennndoux crowd (het if wan quite Irnp mile to get anywhere neer ,the ticket office, and arywny no pron- 10 could be given es to lraini to BPr- Bra. V'runke and Lege were piled high In retry storable memo 01111 Ir wall 1110016 before that enormous pile of beg.:Nge woe fleetly Nortel 1(1*, We decided to dtt.'r our effort to elect' 1 .'t1in until Mo'dmy, i dnee there *,rued no hopil pt getting "'wily that day tie Monday morning. the streets wore lilted with .rtelto.l crowd4 de- ebe;ring every sign wi'h a Fretted word oil It and looking for mples. The papers had •nnolmct'd that the mein - fey gyros full of F're'nch spire., women as well ex mea. 1 maw the Crowd stop as out ►mobile, take a woman out ■0d tlhraily teer her clothes to shreds he- ftier,• the police ..uceeeded in rooming bet frorn the rube and took her 10 the police mint ion. Th.' general snppoxi- Nnu wee thief ail the nun motto were slr.5querading es women and the float tieing the mob d11 was to pull out hair pito 1 . tee whether the tilt was reel. On hominy evewtng, we managed to edge c.or way Into the leaf through trek' to Berlin. We were Olde -tracked rnu, terAMl thrive to allow troop Orel to peon through, and we weep re- 1ui 1 to keep our windows' timed an the' no enemy paxsroger could drop bo. n On 11e bridge,' we crowwed it we- a hot Anguat aighl and the lack of .•ntllatlnw elN moot oppreadve. (lur compartment wee (•r'weled elIb officers" on their W11y to fol' their reel- ed( eta and very grind and important they felt he their new field gray uni- forms which may have long been put awa(ln moth Mile for lust It'll; opplr- h.uO,y, but e 1,Ir'h took Use themes mes peer pie ve wet ■. tie *Hives completely by '•t p rill.' N.1.m.erg, which Is about balf- nv,i heiweeen Frankfort sed Beetle', • c pa ray of enl4lerN hoenled the trade and mooted the enrridora white. a non ee«wedlwhoed 0acrr 9ue5(Iom'd Ila Nnwe,gens. . s any wU., whn we aale•p In • eor- ..f the crepe 1, wee the only won.. M the ('xrsp•rteweit. Relieving the. l;' •eloep eMptbt be friend snit ' Doe was • woman' The train pulled nut es the crowd closed to on thea so that 1 wee unable to ascertain the falx of thole- Muteeut but helpless patw•e- ger' When we finally reached Recite. shout tier the next morning. It seemed like a dead city. 9'he.-e was out • olrnschk.'. • taxi or a trnm lu sight. Rvery available noose of loeutmollos bad been nuotellizel for the time being. As we had Meavy begs, we .M ply had to teal anmelhing to take w home sad after halt an Mor's search for from the.litioa I Gond an old cab driver who thought he could take w for the 'threat bonus I agreed to pay Alm. We had hardly got seated wbea o n officer tried to force us out. sod only my wife's quiet plea of illness ,"a‘,1 lion s black eye and me Iron Kars or n lute fine. After E:utlan, declared war, the ef- forts to capture *plea were doubled, and the m,Ab had a new lot of signs to tear down. We were forMJden to talk English on the telephone tr on the stria••. We kept to our homes retber closely. Most of the buses, taziraba zed horses hod been commandeered, ami the only signs of life lu Berlin wen• furnished by the olbio'ors driving madly shout in high-powered care which exert -tied all steed limits and other traffic regulations. After a few days. things began to re - torn t' normal again. The food Hutt - ply Heemevi ample and the headlines' In the nrwapap..re ,were at encouraging and the reports of rletortes upon vlr t.riea NO convincing that every one ri- pened the war to be over within • very short time and they began to eat lip the stores they 'had til. excitedly collected. Bread e*rda were initfat.el, It le true, but the amount allowed wait more than ed .equate for all evert, in•rt(stu. the very pour who ,depend alutnst entirely u pon bread. The prlos began advising the peo- ple to conserve food Ant at the some time said that It rare ward taken there W711,1 no danger of there not being' eaongh for all. 141hool lorichero gave' daily tniks to 1herbil ker' to eat every- thing on their plates. One went b far • x to announce: "1 tilwayt Ifek my plate, children, and you should do the same?" The result of ttprxe warning' wall merely to Increase hnnrding and buy- ing from (00.1 Aperulators. I never knew of se Bingle Herman who voltt&- tnrlly deprived himself of a single article of fuel out of patriotic mo- tives. The only sacrifice a GPnnnn In willing to make for hist country Is the one he cannot .recap*, An time went on and England's blockade became In(-rea,ingly effective, the Internal rendition of Germany went from bad to worse, end long be - fort. I left Berlin, on January 22. 1918. conditions had become well-nigh Un- bearable. CHAPTER XVII. TheEconomic Sit: t Germany. By the spring •:1 teeter mid merit lied 1,•4)1(14' extremely scarce in Berlin. My wife had remained in American. where- she heti accompanied tne In the nu •r ..f 191:0, end during her Ahsenee i dimd at hotels and rea- taur/iota where the fool wee still rather good. In June, 1916. I left ter America again and just a. 1 wee leav- ing meat cards were Issued for the first time. I returned to Berlin with my family In il•toher, 1916. Conditions bad changed eesldrrably for the worse during the oern1111Pr. I found that every OOP who had the money Ind bought up every arsenide pound of food and 'nap (41,1(1 1Ind not already be.'n commandeered by the govern- ment. Rutter, pst'tn.'*, .'gge, milk, flour,'ugar, wow, breed end treat mid dry groceries' were all rationed and It wee now no longer necessary for wom- en to 11(11nd In line In front of the 'hop*. aometimet eil1 night, to await the morning opening. Shopping 1•y the card system wag very rompllrated and the queetItl.a permitted by the radon reeds so sinafi that a well-balanced meal wax an Ito- pronadblllty. To dine In a restaurant It wee ne cevi Ory to take a whole pocket- ful of card' end nuke a rerefnl steely - Mx of therm before ordering the mea- ger meal which the law allowed. Empty boom were used to decorate the depleted show window of the Mope. The feet that they were empty wee not knows to the toddle and very often the windows would 11. broken by Winery •sobe who eouhln't owlet the sight of what appeared to be m.t much fond. This led the government to or- der the shopkeeper,' to label the boxes : "Empty Immo" In artier to.ay.rt mach dlrterhsneen and riots. - There wee lmpdy nothing to boy in the food lino peered schist lintel, and of theme there. were hundred., each worm" than the laic. The remark: 'if things get leech worse, we shall soon be est - leg rata an the Parini's. did Is 147'1r hroubgbt the rejoinder • "Well, that wouldn't bee had; what fm drw•Meg Is the tense when we shall have to bit evident' wltb ral-sub►lltlr!" When we fluidly hail carols for cof- fee -substitute 1 gave up Interest la rulo.litutes ..d a wnc-•d 10 palruu- Ise the speculators, 8guring that it was better to risk the penalties 1mp4o.ed by the law tor wc,h viulatlueer of the food regulations Than Io ruin (ear health tie ough umt rn,wrt.hwwnt. I' P • lone time we were permitted la• revolve "pr•Nreel+' of hereto Min, Megiegea. eggs sad butter from teen- iest*, fret thio will filially prarRMted tbetalgh the Inllsewc'e ut the Central !Bokser* Gesellschaft Pilot Omura! Botley for Baying Food !'ruse Otbet (Countries) which trend that It was Interfering with their graft. Tela a0clety wax tunnel by • 0018)' 191117 of Never Jewish businem 10411 (0 buy food from foreign countries sod sell It to the people. • small percent- age of the profile gulag to the govern - meat It not oily developed Into a most sue eeed[ul enterprise, from the standpoint or profit, Its prosperity be- ing •ignuested by graft, hut It provided • haven fur the NI•eker sats of the proprietors and stockholders. Just be- fore [ heft Berlin, this com(Ntny, to hide their war profits. bought a build- ing for three million marks, which they claimed was needed for the butanes*. One of the subterfuges resorted t0 by some of the war profiteers to cod- ceal the extent of their gains and me cape taxation wan to Invest their sur- plus' urplus earnings In works el art and other expensive luturlet. As the Ilex •str.e- men1A were tested principally upon the Individual'" hank deposits and the tax - collecting machinery was very much out of gear It was comparatively easy to evade the law by careful manipula- tion of tube's bank amount. and by dla- bureing profits received witbout hav- ing thenopu through the bank. A Ger- man erman whore I knew told me that he had dpiq.awed of an oll painting which had colt him $3011 for no leu than $45.0011, the price of works of art and antiques having increased to a remarkable ex- tent trrsuse of the demand for them from tax dodgers. tinder the strew of the changed food conditions the hungry German soon replaced the bonest German. Ger maim had always had • reputation for honesty, het their claims to such die - Unction !llyappeered with the food sup- ply. Neresaity soon brought out all that was worst in the German char actor. Although the government decreed a high fine and imprisonment an pun- ishment for hutting or melting anything which hail been commandeered, specu- lators sp):ang up on every mule and people bragged (mealy of what they had ttore,away. The worpt deprivation wee In the lack of fate. The people mhowed it very plainly. One aeldorn maw a fat man or a fat woman, although before the war fatness wax almost character- istic of the German physique. Indeed, 1 new • rather ..tout woman being fol- lowed by at leant twenty toys who were Jeering •t her and making slur - Nag remarks abut the manner to which Abe had retained her ■volnla- pole. A int person 1n Germany today L regarded with suspicion. Naturally the weakened condition of tbe people Make% them all .'aaliy sus. ceptihle to disease. Epidemics mpread rapidly aed I am Inclined to believe that little care -wits taken by the an- thorltlw to protect the older people from Isfeetlon. I know that my nec- retary'm mother fell mad broke both her legs last swimmer (1917) and was taken to the accident ward of a hos- pital where her fellow-patlmets were all (-rippled.- Ten of the inmate" of t ward dire! in • single day from ntery, and the following day the death pint was Inereamel by twelve, the old lady with the broken legs be- ing one of there. Twenty-two more breed (Arda navel at the expense of twenty-two umpteen women In one hoe - MOO •ion4-a hlr record for two dry,"! 1 hay. no proof that these un- fortunate victlma of disease were de- Iileeately Infected by the hospital sae thorniest, hut the mere tact that twen- ty-two patient, In •n accident ward died from dysentery In two day,' L certainly evidence of grog' careless- nem arelessnreAm if oothing worse. To buy new clothes it i11 necessary to neolire ■ eerllfieate from the gov- ernment to the effort that yen are ab- solutely 1• need of clothing, and, even then, you are compelled to give up the atilt you are die/oil-ding. Rranrh (Mees for investigating the noeeaal(y of repk'nfaking one's ward- robe have peen eatahlkrhed all over the Miro and they are slw•y* crowd- ed. Wetnen ore Its ehorge and they ee.weed thoroughly to enjoy their •n- thority end their power to doxy a• appllextlon for new clothing. When I left Perlin the law permit- ted • maa Just two shirts", two collars, (we pairs of aerie, etc., a year. Since soap het disappeared from the mar- ket arket an many lusdegn"te muhditwtas had bees trleb (bet one's Iausdry 10 - variably came Mese full of holes. In November, laid, i paid $1011 for • milt of rinlbes which if It ha4 been made nut of eteth of good quality would hire leen worth about PR. An 11 1114*. the sailor frankly •'Mwit%SI1 that the go414a was made of re -weeded yarn, and tweallse e:f the lack of petrol thread, t1e'seems were worked with ■ rs*erl•1 wbk& looked like paper string. This paper airbag wait In general wee at that time, the department stores all displaying n•Ihas warping rtrxtrirser• ant to parry their wrote by the afring. deny p irebaa -u were no logger wrapped, to save pater, and se per cease •monnting to teal then tH was delivered. , Refire 1 1141 Motto, •entirul silk was the principal hkrlr detainable for ladles' wearing apparel. Almost every wens■ he the hoed, prier.'' or mild, was attired lu art t.Reta.. It sold foe $10 a yard. lu normal times It would have bees worth from 75 cents.to $1. lu the tat *4 191?, a cloth wit was an- obtainnhde for les" than $.'4)O. It wwild have been worth % In normal times. All fur akin' were needed for sol- diers' wear end the few that were still t.htainnbl.• for home use 1■ the form of fur opts sold for $1,000 up. Through apecu'atorw, we uhtalaed seise Imltatics soft amp at 14 per pound. People said it was made from hums. corpses, but It was the only thing available outside of the enbatl- t.te. which were soap only lie Yssft • snail a}ke of toilet soap eseilj simie t $3. 'A servant's plain wooden robe, formerly costing $s, wee taloable for leas than $50. We paid as high as $8 • pound for butter. fes a speculator, and my last Christmas dinner to Berlin (-outdated of • Nma l goose, Just enough for one meal for three persona, for which i paid t5. One of the things the people missed most of coarse, was their beer. While it was put on sale •t r p. m. every night, only • limited •mount was avail- able and as soon as It was disposed of, only coftee or tea substitute, 'with- out sugar, milk or lemons. could be had. The scarcity of metala required toe mutations was evidenced early In the war when the Interior,' sod exteriors of houses throughout the cou,try were thoroughly ransacked and everythiag In the way of copper, brans or alu- minum fixtures or cooking utensils that wasn't absolutely necessary was seized. Horses were gradually disappearing front eight when I lett party this year. One raw them lying about the streets where they dropped from exhaustion, and what dlspocition was made of their Corp..'. can well he imagined. It le quite certain that no part was wasted. [loge, too, nearly vanished from elty life. A man I know, who had kept ■ fine Newfoundland dog, told me that It had disappeared one night and the nett day IL skin was found hanging on the fence with a sign reading: "Died for the fatherland.'' (Inc of thelitineipal articles of fresh meat to be seen In the butcher shops reminded of black crow*. They were selling at 75 cents apiece. There was sonletbiog ludicrous In the thought of, the Germane being compelled to "eat crow," but there was little to laugh at in eating It oneself. To obtain oil, prises were offered to the school children to collect fruit secde, from whleh It could be extract- ed, and veritable mountain of the seeds' were thus' obtained. The tact meal 1 had In Berlin was on January 21, 1918, whoa I dine[ at the Hotel Adlon. it emulated of one ardine, three thin slice, of cold smoked aglwon, none which wax hard- ly more than hot !alt water, two small Dolled potrBpes and ■s • substitute for cornstarch pudding. No butter and no sautes of any kind were served. Black bread I took in my pockeL The check for (hie elaborate table d'hote meal amounted to $4.50. To nam up the situation as I was able to observe It, living condition. In, Germany In January of this year were rapidly becoming absolutely unbear- able. How much worse they can be- come without bringing on internal troubles w1Ach w111 bring about the collnpae of the German empire can be only a matter of eonjeetnre. The twentieth century has seen each radii -al Outages in world conditions, views and expirations, that I am afraid h irltory will prove but a poor guide to the future. In the past few centuries, Germany bas .zperienced several more or less serious serial revolutions, but it would be dangerous to predl!'bte very much upon those abortive upri.l.gs. As long a* the Officers remain Manch to the kaiser little may be expected 1. the way of a .ueees*ful revolution,. no matter how discontented and rebel- Ilous the people at large may grow, hut I believe that the time will surely come when the officers themselves wit{ tura against their governmonl There.gney be two revolutlona. The elvllian11, consl0Ung of women, old men and youths mind others who bAve not been called Into the army, may rise up, but their effort will be In vain. The defeat of such an uprlxing, however, may he the Mgnal for a greater one an which a portion of the tinny Itself will. take pert, and then • civil war wfl roe suit which will have no counterpart in the world's Watery. The bask for thin belief 11ea In the tact that the o(llce.rs of the German army realize the extent of the distress prevailing throughout the country. Their families, as well se those of the rank and ole are suffering from under- nourishment ndernourishment sod privations, and they know, eve& better than their Inferiors, rho extent Df the reverses which the Oermin artily hoe xuRPtw1 and will continue to suffer end bow the govern- ment has misrepresented actual con- d1Uonl. If the German officers roneleted en- tirely of men of the old .ebnol---men who were willing for fight for netting's make and who would rather rnntlnoe the war until the lest (iernan had dropped than give 1s -we could not look for meed In this direction. Rut the ravage.," of war haws d1s• preset of • large percentage of thea breed hdttehreie officers and their pimento have been taken by civilians who have Mese raised from the deka. Therein Mea fie Mope se a. sates•etul revoluttlo&. 1 will scot venters- a gnome as to wee• that will be, het 1 feel sure that It wUl rertxlnty roma "neer. IrertlBad by • Iarge Deletion of the snag, Ike Garm•a people will at list tura en OM& rehire and destroy the threat fid the wbete 11nPpn*nllern regime. 1n thin emsnectlnr& I reran • prophecy .rade early la tbe war by s• h onored colt/ erne of mine of Druids•, an American (leaflet wee 114 lived aid practleed la Oermaay for forty years and understood the German people and their rulers as well, perhaps, as any me. alive. He was a leader of his profession and a maa whose Judgment oa all things was most arcuate. He levee la clew contact with many leading figure of the German nobility. "Gernnauy w111 lose the war became her cause la wrong," lie declared. "She will tight It through to the bitter pod !until the foundations of Ike ampere are abeolutety destroyed "' Tlilt RNR AMORi ;THUNDER CLQUDS GATHER. Geeman Government Faces Maley uiti4.tt Problems. BERLIN, Dec. 17. - The Govern- ment has hardly weathered the Spar- tacus group storm by bringing loyal troops Into the, city when the thun- der clouds have begun to regather. Even President Fehrenbach, of the National Arbelter Soldatenrat, de- mands that the Reichstag reassem- ble, saying that the Government can- not longer oontlnue with the ones aided support of the Workmen and Soldiers. He gives 'as his chief reason tor the demand his belief that the .i Entente will not deal with the Soviet. -.Whatever the Entente position 1s in this respect. the opinion has been growing in the last few days that, ; before beginning peace negotiations, the Entente will insist that Germany have a government not based on So- viet powers. Indications from Paris and London which point that way are given much prominence In the news- papers. Another ladlcatlop same on Saturday when it was learned that the British meet at Wilhelmshaven had refused to deal with local "So1- datenrat." This last incident seemed to confirm misgivings as to the atti- tude of the Entente. So when Presi- dent Fehrenbach called for the im- mediate reassembling of the Reich- stag, as the sole body with which the Entente would deal, the demand proved less of a shock to revolution- ary Germany than It would have been a fortnight ago. The demand comes when, for sev end days troops fully armed have been pouring into the city from both divisions and conservative feeling has increased. None of the divisions has shown red bags. There have been regimental banners and Individual soldiers have carried red, white and black bags, with a picture of Hbo- denburg In the centre. Former Guard regiments of the Kaiser and Kal•erin have carried small Sags. bearing their separate emblems. certainly anything but Bolshevik. 'A cavalry guard division has even pub- lished a demand for the disarmament of all who have no right to arms. meaning the followers of the Spara- tacus grout. Old Bird Charmer Deed. Henri Pol, the famous old bird charmer of the Tuileries $ardons In Paris, died recently. Evert, after-• noon for the last forty years this vete eran pensioned postal official attract- ed large crowds of visitors by kb wonderful method of calling the spar- rows that haunt the gardens and feeding them from his hand. Many birds instantly replied, to the names be had given them. and circled ironed his head or perched on his shoulder. Children regarded Pol as a veritable wizard. The old charmer was more than eighty years of age, "LRerkx" Are Favorite*. Out of 120 breeders of pure-bred fowl In New Brunswick from whom Inquiries were mane. 51 were keep- ' Ing Rocks. In 137 cases of grade 4.:eka 56 showed a predominance of Rock blood. • MADE SLIGHT ERROR. Telegrapher's Mistake Resulted lea Practical Joke. It was at Kraanlarsk that we barely missed a good joke on o r Red Guard friends. Tbey had re- ceived • ,telegram to prepare to re - calve sixty tenni, which were to ar- rive on the train that• day. Now, barant means "sheep," so the Red Guards made ready wagons and an abundance of hay and feed for the welcome animals. Instead of sheep, however, there stepped off the train sixty aristocratic nobles, heavily guarded. They were being seat into exile from the northwest province of Russia. The telegraph operator had made the mistake of reporting baranl Instead of baroal. But It made good fun for the crowd at the station. The beet Insight into true condi- tions was given me by lienkin, whom 1 had known as a soldier at the front, s few months before. I chanced to run across him near Tomsk. I knew him to be a shrewd, pr-speroua peas- ant, and I took him to get his views. "Now, lsenkln," 1 said, after greet- ings were over, "you're a good Bol- shevik, or Communist -pardon rue' -moo tell me about the reforms you're putting through here In Siberia." He comically winked at me with both eye. "Oh, Gospodln Atkinson, you know very well why I pretend to he Bol- shevik -because 1t isn't safe to be anything else. Most of us here in Siberia are descended from politligil exiles, and we've always tried to keOp "up our education a little end be worthy of our ancestors' night for liberty. And now It seems as 1f everything had gone to plecee. "My people tqn me that even when Kerensky was power a lot of low toughs from the Petrograd factories, to say nothing of Siberian convicts, were receiving pay from somebody to,go through all our villages, try - Ing to stir up the vilest kind of (rou- ble. Deserting soldiers were coming home, so they repeated to our home folk the lies we all used to hear from Germany and the Bolshevlki, all about America and Japan stealing eastern Siberia, and about the 'de- liverers, Lenlne and Trotsky.' who were going to keep us from becom- ing slaves to foreigners. "Oar people didn't believe these stories, nor did they kik, the way the provocators were acting; so they de- cided that they'd set up a republic of their own, with the capita' ear here, as Omsk or Tomsk. "You know the rest," he contin- ued, bitterly. "Trotsky, while be was talking Internationalism and the rights of free peoples, sent cannon and guns and amnlunilioo, and a blood -red gang of cutthroats - and what could unarmed Siberia do' Every city fought to the last, but it had to end sometime. Thousands of our soldiers turned traitor and joined .the Invaders, getting good money for it. Of course, the criminal elements were happy. Some of the women be- lieved the stories of the deserters and thought It was a great battle for their freedom. But most of them are just wa ting, like the men, for a chance to row off the despicable rule of th Wats!" 1411k Worms. Until the sixth century the silk worm was cultivated only In China, where the precious products and the secret of Its cultivation were guarded with vigilant jealousy so as to Insure China the monopoly of silk manu- facture. Takes Mud Baths. Capt. J. A. Lewis, Y.C., formerly a O.T.R. trainman at Brockville, now bath daily In the River Jordan, but in Palestine, writes that he takes IIL does not enjoy 1t Massey -Harris Shop -- FOR - BINDERS, MOWERS AND CULTIVATORV: ' DELCO-LIGHT PLANTA. BUCKEYE INCUBATORS. GRAY AND McLAUGHLIN CARRIAGES. - GAS ENGINES. WIRE FENCE. OLD HOMESTEAD FERTILIZER. Robert Wilson Hamilton St. Goderich l GRAND TR ftSYs EM THE DOUBLE TRACK ROUTE between MONTREAL• TORONTO DETROIT and • CHICAGO t'nexcx4led dining car service • Mheeplug cos on night trains, and p•rbr cars on principal day trsine. Full information from any (;rand Trunk Ticket Agent, ur C. E. Horn- ing. District Passenger Agent, To- ronto. F. F. LAWRENCE lit SONS . 'Town Agent• Phone 8 "OASOAETS" WORK WHILE YOU KLEZP for dick Headache, Sour Stomach. Sluggish Liver and Bowels - Take Cascarets tonight. Purred Tongue, Bad Taste, Iadigea- Boa, Sallow Skin and Miserable Head- edta come from a torpid liver and clogged bowels, which cause your stom- ach to became ft/led 'with undigested food whioh sours and ferments like gar- bage L a swill barrel. That's the first step to untold misery --indignation, foul pees, bad breath, yellow skin, mental fears, everything that L horrible and nauseating. A daacaret to -night will give your constipated bowels • thorough clssnsinp and strwigbten you out by Morning- They work while you sleep- * 10 -cent box from your drugg°t U beep you feeling good ter month*. I3I 'Trout In the Spray essr•'rsw-- .. Tt' NO and .troe,gnnr'er o!0'n Cfa Ing fish, speckled and glearnlea 'from the Ire -cold waters of tbe spray River. rear itcnff, and none under eight ounce" In welohL TLP, "ern hear/ on the :ire when they t:r't todk the book and gorged and charged and sullied And finally came In to 18. lded. and th••y 74-5mar VPllnuly ah•AVIer by the tlm,51 they had all Aron caught and then tooled four mile, hoe* to the boggy whlrh we had left by the fall i where the Mot 11.11 on Ihr 'trine had lair be moth the great forks that a-nrned the green eo!diN of the merino river and would only come forth when drawn by ain't 101.0 end treaty *tit And the wbnl. *11(. wee sot a Ian* ens.. as fishing room W5 tier' Mir hero. at the n.w brienr n.M' the falls and IMI him eerie], mnnehlter este *hilts we rrn.e.d the Hoer and took to the orsrarlo ole ne-Mw perk• ball that twisted and rllmMd and dropped sod went higher senna and around the grad Toot? ramparts ef Moret Rwndl. R'. daI11.A st •Ire sling .44y end drew forth thr.e Rah. W. eltmhwd three 1and►.A feet (w a 4aff-mf• w*!k and renew' at th. .•'taa•co of i steep, smell' gully of 'rranr'• el' " 'f 1.3 a tratwaodane pool of cry'.-. .wader mitt oil the :oar.1-reeked .err -Lt flashed. '3 IIP tt.ousnd !C_t of irzgth tbe 141117 would take r i- ue t341 - Medi' was 'ad4anCge or oor .•I:rsb, oat we slid down to the 'e pting star trust Ir,g to good In . an( striae splicer to ' :.t us back 'o tt:e trail. A Black Ant god's Comment Vault - man hit the water llmalt•n, Bean! A Nielson troll., the nre••,et df IPsas :dented roe. slid rap from the bettom ef elsven feet or v ater !'e' street( of silvery Weill and stn rk the Ant with • tl*nrons al.xlety that b.owght try to the initial' and 21111 huhlt- aerie from the fish. A matey rot. threat sliced a oath from his shelter. leg honld.r end •.-tees the r erh Man in the tune -f his upper jaw thee pMnxeng soother 1(. ernl511 who nherked 1Iw whirring reel end "rtrh .d lb. lentils" pee, wf111 plMefel rare If yew k•ow bow the Sall 11. 1 the stets of the mpnntatn paradla' M B•nf Park vett need Inds little tiros in rate peat'' The g, no welts of the upper er onset red. d big pools Sheltered Milne tock*: of 0 roe reels itself '1.11,4 ere* pr.WVrelre Mono that Jots bats Swift alter front !*s baht and t!'eri in t'oe restful adey welts sod watches the current dashing pest, toady 13 1141111 Out on say delicate morsel of foal that le btougbt sitter with the flood. 8 one reads only fish the pools and tat' eiouldera, and 1f tuwle le pd a' striae after a doted coati 't Is seed) judsmeet to move on for the 4abd her, moved •n. We followed thew. dtrectlrn: Mid: fished quite .c at -etch of hsauttf//, river. We had left our horse at seta&, we were at the first .umber :sap Si' two o'clock, and we had fished Ills big bolas la the ranyoa by three ('clock. At that rim., morally .ectad that we Wed better gnit Sable( be. seif-respect -*cause we had re..'gat' an boniest day's string we counted Ow prlua. and found thirty-three vette/ beauties. Re ba..gry sad tired ail' fully content we walked beck the• bread Mgbwsy ea tbe west Ali K the river anti rejoined our Wood tsar wiles away. Tb.e. fa. •setter beat, we set M the great dfwtag vows the (. P R hetet and ate enerameney', of de((rinoe frnut, fresh frees tie fine. hnt .Rill.$.. Tow only wwp({, en.. that .1144 newt • awns trip he *nether one. -t. T. /L.