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The Kaiser as
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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
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(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.
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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
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BUCKEYE INCUBATORS.
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CARRIAGES. -
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GRAND TR ftSYs EM
THE DOUBLE TRACK ROUTE
between
MONTREAL•
TORONTO
DETROIT
and
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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.