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In the seventeenth century the fam-
ous East India Company joined in the
rivalry for the trade of India and
When I got round the corner of the 000,000—the value of property de-! The aim of each nation that has opened the way for the extension of
house, where I c'd see down into the stroyed—being £52,500,000. Germany, ever sought dominion in the great re -J English influence and power. over the
front yard, I let out a hoot that suffers most in pocket, and by the end glen known as India has been cam- whole country. Then came that re -
fetched Wilder runnin', of July it will have expended £2,775 mcrcial and not colonial. As Admiral
000,000, Germany's loss of production Mahan pointed out in "The Problem 0!
Whether it was that the hoss'd got. will amount to at least £775,000,000 in Asia,"India constitutes a highly un-
rested, or whether it was the smell of 'the first 12 months of the war while portant "base" of military and naval
that sweet gross there to no yand she is spending £2,000,000 a day, or at 7'
that shatecht him to, I don't know, and the tate of £730,000,000 per annum, on r
never shall, but there he was was on, the upkeep of her army in the field.
his feet tied feedin'. After Wilder
Me Neva Man
'akb Peaslee and Lysander ]lyne
eat comfortably upon the fence of Mr.
1 eeeleo's "upper ,paster," absorbing
the warm June sunshine, In the road Blake! Is that my hoss you're
)(low drivin'7'
"'No, sir!' Wilder says, 'That ain't
your hoss—that's a hoss I bought of
you for two dollars, before a witness!'
"He didn't say any more jest then,
Wilder,' says Ben Guinean, 'Some:
thin' you've traded for lately?'
"`Well,' says Wilder, 'it's ono I
bought 'bout three months ago, and
'tween you end me, I think he's wuth
all I give for him, anyway, Pretty
good hose for two dollars, I call him,'
"Bonsoy come up on his feet with u
jerk, and he fairly hollered, 'Wilder
1 them a peddler's cart, drawn by
an emaciated horse, creaked along.
Caleb 'Peaslee regarded the horse
pityingly.
"1 don't believe," he observed slow -
1y,: "Diet I've seen a hoss run down
SOME GLIMPSES
BEAN FILE SCENES
HOLLAND'S DIFFICUL:I' LOT IN
THE WAR.
Book Relates, in Guarded Language,
Some Narrow Escapes
NWS FROM ENGLAND
NEWS BY M,t1L Au01"r .1011N
flt'L1,, ANI1 1118 PEOPLE,
°('(' ens In the ,l,nnil. That
fle,gus nuptrino 1u 1hp C'•oi0
mt'rrinl World,
>; 3a. Thirty soldiers havebeen temporal. -
but sat theca laasiz' prettystraight
for Neutrality. fly engaged at Preston ne postmen
, clan er, bad, as that one since the at Bonsoy. Bonsey turned red at fust, 2 �,r
time Needham Bonsey sold a hoss to and then white, but he never said a
Wilder Blake for two dollars. You Word•
never knew Needham Bonsey, Lynne- "After a bit, Wilder sage, slow and
der- ho flied '1'o1•e you ever moved thoughtful, 'sif he was weighin' every
here, - word,. `Needham Bonsey, I'm goin' to
r here's varyin' degrees of snug -
understand,
soraethin" that mebbe you won't
nes," saki Mr. Peaslee, reflectively. understand. I paid you two dollars
"There's prudent and snug and stingy for this hoss, and I've given him the
and downright p'ison mean. Bonsoy run of my lower paster ever since,
war p'LOon mean, When I tell you he and fed him 'bout ten dollars' wuth of
ne
what he ought to weigh, 'count of thee truth a hundred and twenty-five
ver tscighed withjh thutty pounds of grain, and now I've got a hoss there
GERMAN SHIPS RUSTING 1N NEW YORK HARBOR,
Five German ships, the pride of the Kaiser's merchant marine, photographed. where they have lain rusting
in the port of 110%V York since the Siritlsh cruisers closed the seas to German ships in. August, 1914, It Is esti.
mated thut over $0,000.000 in German ships, including the Vaflerland, the world's largest and most luxurious ship,
are indefinitely tied up In New York Harbor, costing hundreds of thousands in up -peep alone, while bringing
"lisolutely no return to thole owners, Every neutral harbor in North and South A.merica has similar evidence,
sc0ntin himself of victuals, you'll
d 11 of any mans money, and he gf t
know that what critters he had in his Stan's rne, at the outside, not over AV]
� �® t1
twentydollars, Now,' says he,'I'll
bar•lr didn't get fed very heavy. en yv
time everything Bonsey owned in the tell you what Ili do. JEWEL
I 4 y
way of an mala got so tlziu you ea
"'I'll sell you that hoss,' lie says, p tl �tJ
scarcely sem 'enc edgeways. 'for seventy-five dollars, and that's __•_
"Bonsey had a hoss that he used to fifty dollar:: less'n you can buy one
tote. his truelc to Bangor with—a
pretty good hoss it was, too, in the be-
ginnin'; but workin' all the time and
eatin' 'bout the same as never, soon
got him where he wa'n't mucic more'n
jest the runnin' gear of a hoss,
"Bonsoy was corrin' back from Ban-
gor one day, and had got jest about
abreact of Wilder Blake's place, when
all at once the hoss began to weave
from 0110 side of the Goad to the
other, 'sif he was dizzy, and down he
went in Wiider's dooryard, flat on his
side, with his eyes shut, and 'parently
with no more life in him than there
would he in a hemlock log!
o ora
•
British Dominions
you property and becomes my hoss In Asia?
again, without my payin' you a single
cent! There's the conditions. What've f "On to India!" The cry has been
you got to say?' !raised in Berlin. A highway of battle
I s'pose some men would have had and conquest and imperial power from
pride 'nough to refuse, but.Bonsey Berlin to Bagdad, and on through
was too fond of money for that, They Mesopotamia to the head of the Per -
made out the writtings and he took sian Gulf, even to Britain's Asian
the hoss and went away with it. treasure houses of wealth, seems too
"I was workin' for Wilder at the "And," concluded Mr. Peaslee, "you vast an undertaking, with foes on
time, and we both come runnin' down might not credit it, but from that every side, foes behind and before;
where the hoss was; when we saw his time on I d'know's there was a bet- but the bigger the task and the more
eyes shut tend how thin he was, we ter-kep' hoss in this town than the stupendous the effort the stronger
both made up our minds he was dead, one Needham Bonsey drove. —Youth's seems the appeal to the war managers
"There," Bonsey whimpered. Companion. of Germany, Thirteen months ago
'Ther two dollars one! A man of- ---,Re__ the well-known General von Bernhardi
fered me two dollars for the hoss's WAR COSTS RUN UP named India as the certain goal of the i
hide to -day, and he tol' me the critter Teuton armies, "We shall go to In- t
wouldn't live toNine Thousand Million Pounds Per din," he said, "and the native peoples 1
git me home, but 1
didn't b'lieve him. And now he's up will welcome use,
Annum for Britain, But the Teutonic
and died on me, and it'll cost medesigns on India
mo00'n two dollars to move him off out; Nine thousand million pounds a are older. They are at least as old
of here, and I shan't come out a cent year! In exact figures £9,147,900,000; as the "Berlin -to -Bagdad" project. h
times as m e i wa
"While he was talkin', Wilder look- ,total annual revenue of the United "Suez Canal," the symbol of her
ed at Bonsey same's you would at a 1 Kingdom, That is the total direct and dreams for empire eastward, the con- fi
anywhere near as good. But you've' MEANS SUPREMACY IN EUROPE,
got to sign an agreement to bring this!. SAID PETER THE GREAT.
hoss to 1110 once a month—I'm a pub -
lie weigher --and put him on my!
and heweighs scales. If u ever bring him there !Have the Germans Designs on the
over fifty pounds leeshit
he
does this minutes, he ceases to be
pooks and crannies, as well as in th
earth, have sometimes died of starve
tion rather than part with it,
One of the most important Mahara
jabs of India has cannon of solid go!
that precede him when he goes about
He has chairs, tables anti a bed, a
well as water jugs, of silver and gold
It is said that London bullion dealers
have exquisitely polished bars of
gold to supply the wants of Indial
princes, All classes in India are af-
fected by this spirit of hoarding.
They prefer to put their savings in
gold to anything else. Coins are con-
, rted into necklaces, bracelets and
anklets.
Fortunes in Jewels.
Immense fortunes in India are in
jewels, but there is no authoritative
method of computation of the extent
of this form of wealth. The Imperial
Gazetteer of India described fifty
years ago a shawl of pearls, with an
arabesque border of diamonds, rubies,
sapphires and emeralds, valued at
$5,000,000. There are tales of car-
pets of pearls and great diamonds
which have become world-famous.
Estimates and statistics which show
n detail how this vast amount of
reasur0 has reached India are inter-
esting, By the authentic records
sept by the British Government since
1885 it is shown that $1,0`00,000,0(10
more of gold has gone into India than
as come out. In less than. a century
e in the early history of the Vedic Em-
- pine. In this India, at a later time
the celebrated Tamerlane flourished.
- It is the country of Sikh princes and
d the rajahs of Mysore; of astral bells
, and occult wonders; of the Taj Mahal
s and Bemires, sacred city of the Hin-
dos; of Delhi and the Durbar; of
Clive and Hastings; of the Black Hole
of Calcutta and the Relief of Luck -
1 now; of famines and mutinies; of
tyranny and enlightened government;
of caste and Christian missions; of
an ancient and now broken civiliza-
tion, beside which our own, in the
eyes of the true Hindu, is like outer
darkness, And India has always ha•
the fatal gift of beauty and wealth,
and the strife of the nations of Eu-
rope for possession of "the pearl of
the East" is not done,
Ever since the outbreak cf 11
war the little state over which ,Quo
Wilhelmina rules line been on t
edge of an abyss, says a despot
from The Hague,
Hollat d possesses territory an
strategical positions which would h
most useful both to the Teutons a
the British, Scores of incidents hat'
occurred which might have dragge
'Tolland into the war. -That the u
dependent Dutchmen have avoids
the ninny pitfalls and snares in thei
path is due largely to the skill o
' one man, J°illdieer Loudon, the Foi
Minister of the Netherlands.
Subject to pressure from Berlin o
the one side and from. London on
owing to the laels of editable men,
10 While singeing a fowl, 141rs, lan-
en beth Levack, of I•Ieach 11n; Norfolk,
ho set fire to her apron, and was fats ilyc
eh burned,
A Liverpool centenarian has passed
el away in the.person of Matthew Jani-
e loson Coulthard, who completed his
id 100th year some months ago,
o+ Special constables have replaced
d over 'fifty regular members of the
1- Manchester force on fixed point duty
d in the congested streets of the city.
r I Mr, Ben Tiller, general secretary
f ,of the Dockers' Union, is again with
r' the British troops in Prance. This
is his second visit to the trenches.
n As a' result of the appeal of the
Surrey War Agriealtural Committee,
- farmers in the county have promised
Y to put an additional 1,850 acres under
the plough.
d On account of thee hordes of rats
that infest the British trenches in
s France, some 500 ferrets have been
sent to the British front during the
e past few months.
Built a few years ago at a cost of
$250,000 the Cliff hotel at Gorleston,
1 one of the finest buildings of its
• kind on the east coast, has been com-
pletely destroyed by fire.
The Quaker Society in England has
rendered invaluable assistance to the
Red Cross, A camp was formed,
where 70 orderlies were trained for
drat aicl work, camp cooking, and
nursing,
As a measure of war economy,
Birmingham Education Committee
has ordered the closing of three tech-
nical schools and five evening schools
which will effect a saving of $4,000
during the war.
The death is officially announced
of Pte. Peter Baker, of Dudley Port,
Staffordshire, the tallest man in
Kitchener's Army. Baker was 0 ft.
6 in. in height, and enlisted in the
Coldstream Guards on the outbreak
of the war.
At Childrey Church, near Wan-
tage, a memorial window to the mem-
hers of the.Old Berks Hunt who have
fallen in the war has been unveiled
by the Archdeacon of Oxford.
Three men who descended a mina
at Cornwall, at great personal risk, to
secure a eat, have been presented with.
medals by the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals.
Out of 410,000 Jews in the British
Empire, 20,000 are said to be inelig-
ible for enlistment by reason of alien
nationality. Of the remainder 18,000
are serving with the forces,
•
ahead.' I more than 43 i uch as the Th Bagdad
y is Ger•manys $
3,000,000,000 of the two precious
metals has been absorbed, and these
gures show only a continuation of a
movement going on since the days of
the Phcenieians,
The Prize of the World was sought
from the earliest periods of history.
The attempts of Holland, Portugal,
and France, in the period just preced-
toad; fin'iy he up and spoke. indirect cost of the war, estimated up
"`Rather'n have a good, honest to July 31 next, says London Tid-
hoss, even if he is dead, b'lone to you! Bits. Of that amount our share will
a minute longer,' he says, 'I'll give I be £1,258,000,000, which covers the f
you the two dollars and take care off direct expenditure of the Government, I
him. That hoss has extent a decent I the capitalized value of the loss of hu -1
netting link from Berlin to the Per-
; sian Gulf—and beyond lies India, the
pearl of the British Empire's crown,
From the standpoint of war strategy,
India, as Von Bernhardi said, is Eng-
land's feet of clay.
burial, with his skin on him, and I'm; man life and the loss of production, f France and England struggled fort rug the modern age, to secure th
goin' to sem that he gets it. Now you! It is pointed out however, by Edgar Possession of India. Peter the Great
get ofi'n my premises till I get kind Crammond, a recognized authority on ; of Russia dreamed of a far -stretch -
of cooled off toward you, or I won't; war finance, that the accumulated 1 mg empire balanced between Europe
undertake to say what may happen,' ; wealth and national income of Great and Asia, with Constantinople, the
"Bonsey grabbed the two dollars Britain is on such a sound basis that: capital of the Caesars for 1,100 years
largest share of India's trade form
an important chapter in the history
of the world. The desire to find a
short route thither by sea furnished
much of the impetus given to explor-
and started off up the road. !these have only been slightly affected : as the capital of Russia, and left to his' atron during the fifteenth century and
by the war. While Germany is utilize I successors the following injunction: tied to the achievement of Vasco da
left, '1 guess mebbe the boss's as well ing all her means, only the fringe of ! "Keep in mind that the commerce of Gama. The conquest of Constan-
off there as anywhere till after su : our resources in men, money, food- ; India is the commerce of the world,tinople by the Turks had laid a heavy
per, and then p 'stuffs and raw material has beenland that he who can exclusivelyconobstacle in the path of the overland
p you n' I'll make some traders. Columbus sought
disposal of him,' So we left him lay-' touched, in spite of this estimated trol it ]s the dictator of Europe." This g the Orient
in' there in the shafts, with the har-;vast expenditure to the end of July.
injunction has never been quite for-
in
• on him, and went into the house, Our bill is less than that of France, gotten.
"When we got through supper I Russia, Austria or Germany, the total 1 'Money Graveyard of the World."'
started out a mite ahead of Wilder loss to Belgium, which includes £250,- I
ower as well as an area valuable in
tself. As a source of wealth it is the:
ichest "possession" on the face of
. It yields annual revenues
f $500,000,000, The balance of trade
s always in favor of India. As a re-
ervoir of precious metal India is bar-
arically splendid. This fabulous ac-
umulation of concrete wealth is an
interesting theme.
From the latest commerce reports
eines a vast amount of interesting
formation concerning the absorption
f treasure by this great country.
ndia is what two different writers
ave called respectively "the great
nk of precious metals" and the
money graveyard of the world." For
twenty-five centuries there has been
constant flow of gold and silver into
ndia from the. Western nations, It
as been one of the unchanging eco-
omic conditions of the world, and
ne which rulers of different lands, de-
eted for it, have tried in vain to
Op.
Complaints of India's appetite for
old began in the time of the Cartha-
enians, who in the fourth century
.C. disposed of gold they procured
ten Spain to that country. Pliny
11s of unavailing protests made in
e fleet year of the Christian era of
portations of the precious metal
om the Roman Empire, nearly $15,-
0,000 of it being sent annually to
dia. Queen Elizabeth, in 1600 tried
vain to counteract the flow of gold
one her country to India.
Small inroads into this enormous
and of treasure have been made un
illingly in times of famine, but as
ng ago as 1864 a writer estimated
at precious metals locked up in In-
a, in trinkets alone, amounted to
,000,000,000. Gold has been used
rough the centuries by India as
et
peoples have used gems and
intings and objects of art far the
rgeous ornamentation of public
ildinge and palaces. Gold is locked
in the treasure chambers of the
inces, it used as a basis of credit
I' merchants and traders, and the
o` people, who have secreted it in
France's bill for the maintenance of o
had looked at him a minute, he broke her 3,000,000 available
i
out g ggiin'. men now oval a e for
"'Jest for notion of it, Caleb,''active service and the 1,000,000 in the el
said he, `for theh' we don't tell eReserve is very heavy. Mr. Cram- b
saidat he, 'po n' a live hoss for two' mond puts it at 7s. 7d per man per
dollars, 'stead of a dead One—jest let day—say 71,500,000 a day, while vii- °
him think we hauled the hoar atva rosily the whole of the male with- Holy between 19 and 50 has been with -
'fore he come back after his wagon,' d' two from production, the total loss in
1 got a kind of idea that I'd like to of production amounts to £025,000,000. 0
put that hoss down in my lower pas-' The total cost to France up to July 31 I
ter, where there won't anybody see next is estimated at £1,080,400,000 a h
him; and mebbe I'll feed him a little year, £286,400,000 more than the total si
grain from time to time, and see what, cost to Russia, e
he looks like in a couple of months.
What say?"
"We took and led the hoss into the
barn, and the next day Wilder led him
down to the back paster, which was all A poor young Irish couple went to h
shut in by trees, and turned him loose,. the priest to be married, rich in. n
"When I saw that hoes again, 'bout love, but so poor in earthly goods that 0
three weeks later, I almost wouldn't they did not even possess the few ne- PI
have known him. His head was up cessary silver pence for the wedding et
and his eye was bright, and he was fee. The priest was relentless in his
kitin' round that paster like a colt. demands, "No money, no ceremony,' 8
I asked Wilder What he was calc'latin' he declared. "Let me go home, Rev- g
to do with him, but he jest shook his , erend Father," begged the girl, "and ' B
head and grinned a little. I will get the money." She soon re- fr
"'You wait an' see,' he says. 'I got turned with the small amount requir- to
a plan, mebbe,' ed, when the knot was duly tied to th
"Well, meantime Bonsey'd been the entire satisfaction of all con- ex
huntin' for another hoss to take the corned. Could any one now oppose fr
place of the one that died, as he our union, Holy Father?" she inquir 00
sposed. But horses was high Aird ed, Nobody, my daughter," "Not In
Bonsey hated to pay out money wuss'n even your own reverence?" she per- in
euttin' off a finger, so he hadn't traded "God . Not even T, Catherine!" fr
for one, and was hirin' folks to haul God bless your reverence) Here is
his stuff into Bangor for him, and the pawn ticket for your hat and over ho
grumblin' 'bout payin' for it coat, which I took from the vestry to w
Rich in Love But Poor. a
I
"After it had run on that way for pawn'" to
th
'bout three months, Wilder hitched up - 81
the hoss one avenin' and drove down di
to the post office, where he knew he'd th
find Bonsey. Mebbe there was a dozen third
et
Of us settin' out there, and Bonsey
holiday ti passed t
was among 'em. I see him eyein the his hoss kind of disbelievin' when Wilder
halted hint, and he half riz up and
then settled back alcain, 'sif he couid-
n't eredit his eyes,
"'Quite a hose you've got there,
1'
Too Bad.
Ralph was going into the th'
grade, having suceessfull a 1thee
examine ons andi
ing with his beloved teacher teas go
tearful. bu
"Oh, Miss Ruby!" he wailed. "1 uP
wish you knew enough to teach the pr
third grade, so you come along an' fo
teach me next year." po
markable experiment of government
by
A Commercial Corporation,
and it was not until the middle of the
nineteenth century that this control
was finally and fully transferred to
the British Crown and not till then
that "welfare work" for the people of
India began to make substantial pro-
gress.
India, probably, has never been well
understood by Occidental peoples.
British exploitation and philanthropy
present a story mixed in reasons for
praise and blame. Certain it is that
in India may be found the most hete-
rogeneous aggregate of peoples in
the world. Mongols, Aryans, Per-
sians, Greeks, Scythians, Huns,
Arabs, Afghans, Turks and Moguls
have passed into this vast region,
founding,isingdoms and empires, mix-
ing in greater or less degree with
their predecessors, and leaving some
mark on language, customs and re-
ligions•
If India is still a mystery even to n
her rulers, it was only a name to the w
Greek and Roman world. Alexan-
der's visit was brief. Greece was
Greece and Rome was Rome, and
beyond were the barbarians. East
was East and West was West after
the crusades, Marco Polo brought
back a little information and traders
of the Middle Ages returned to Eu-
rope with the goods of the Orient.
British rule wrote new chapters of '
romance and cold facts of history.
Kipling is not so much ten interpreter
of India, as of the British occupa-
tion.
A MARTYR VILLAGE.
Loos us it Was Under the Heel of
Germany.
The Cure of Loos, Abbe Campagne,
who was released with 240 other
French men and women when the vil-
lage was taken by assault by the
Scottish regiments in the offensive of
September 25, has given a very inter-
esting account of his• experiences to
the Petit Parisien.
The German occupation of Loos had
lasted from October 9, 1914, "The
first measure that marked it was th
assassination of seven civilians, tw
of them old men of 80, one of 70, on
of 40, and three between 82 and 3
years of age. The Germans tied on
of our miners to a tree, where he re
mained throughout the night, and th
next morning they made him di
graves for those who had been shot
We were then nearly 800 in number
mostly women and children. Thor
were six or seven able-bodied me
only, and the Germans employed the
in taking all the pieces of coppe
goods from the mine works and pack
ing them, to go to Germany,
`Despite my protests they forced m
to act as mayor and to take the re
sponsibility for any unfriendly acts
They then informed me that the vil-
lage had been subjected to a war con-
tribution of 7,000 francs. With great
difficulty this amount was found, and
paid on August 14 Iast, The then
commanding officer, Major Backraus,
showed me what purported to be a
proper receipt, but did not leave it,
and only gave me one in his own
name. I am afraid the money went
to pay for the banquets the major
gave to officers who visited him,
when a great deal of drinking went
or.
"You may imagine how sad was our
life during these long months. Food
became mora and more scarce. At G
the beginning of May we were on the s
point of dying from hunger. We had
half a three -pound loaf for six days it
per person. I had secretly collected a fr
little grain from the granaries, and ce
this we ground in our coffee mills.
"Oh Saturday, May 8, began an un-
precedented bombardment. Usually
Loos received daily about 100 shells. ov
I had some 50 of my parishioners in at
my house for mass, for the church had de
been demolished long before. The day fa
seemed interminable, Many ]rouses le
took fire, and the Germans had many re
killed and wounded.
"On the night of May 9-10 a French er
shell completely demolished the Ger- po
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German submarines were a prolific
source of anxiety to the Dutch in
the early days of the war on com-
merce. The Dutch are a practical
people. They were the first to paint
the names of their ships in large
letters. Nevertheless, two Dutch
ships were sunk and others were sub-
ject to aerial attacks. Jonlcheer Lou-
don protested. He was polite but
forceful. The Orange hook describes
the note addressed to Berlin as "an
emphatic protest," and adds that the
errnan Government was asked to
tate whether the series of attacks re-
presented a change in policy. Hence
Dame about that the attacks, both
om under the water and the air,
ased as suddenly as they began.
The Zeppelins.
The constant passage of Zeppelins
er Holland on their way back from
tacks on London is another subject
alt with in the Orange book. These
mous aircraft never pass over 1.l01-
nd on their way to London. The
ason is simple. As long as they do
t pass over Dutch territory the Gov-
nment subjects all telegrams re-
rting their movements to a delay
tae gtner, his every movement jeal
ously watched by both, surrounded b
an army of spies, what a story of
intrigue and counter -intrigue lie coul
tell if his lips were free! •
Some glimpses behind the scene
carefully shrouded in official Ian
guage, are afforded by the Orang
book which the Dutch Governtnen
has just issued. It is significant the
not a word is said of the events whicl
preceded the outbreak of hostilities
The history of those critical days is
still hidden in the archives.
There is a narrow strip of Dutch
territory which thrusts its way south-
ward between Germany and Belgium.
It was round that strip of territory
that the German hosts poured into
Belgium in the early days of the war.
The invaders moved right along the
Dutch frontier, And something hap-
pened, or is alleged to have happened,
in that narrow strip.
Did Germans Cross?
What that something was no pen
is yet allowed to put on paper, for
important personages were involved.
Immediately afterwards an important
diplomatic personage arrived post
haste from Britain. There are many
who believe to this day that the se-
cret visitor was no less a person than
Sir Edward Grey. The time is not yet for the publica-
tion of the true story of those critical
days. Suffice it to say that a rumor,
happily ill-founded, arose to the effect
that German troops had crossed
Dutch territory. The French found
a document on a captured German of-
ficer which appeared to prove the as-
sertion. This is the first incident re-
lating to the was with which the
Dutch Orange book deals. The com-
mander-in-chief of the Dutch. army,
General Snyders, instituted an in-
quiry. The result proved that Ger-
man troops had not crossed Dutch
erritory. That was the first danger
safely passed,
Submarine Problem.
an headquarters in the village. A
umber of the French inhabitants
etre killed and wounded. The survi-
vors had to bake their bread in their
cellars,"
Romance and History.
The period of British rule 18 but a
small fraction of India's history,
F,astword from the Iranian plateau
the Aryans descended into the Pun-
jab as early as 2000 B.C., and spread
through the peninsula, expelling or
subduing the aboriginal tribes, Here
grew up long before the time of
Christ two of the most influential re-
igions of the world, Brahrninism and
Buddhism, and a literature rich in
poetry and mystic philosophy. The
epics of the Mahabharata and Rama-
yana contain legends of ware Which
must have been of much importance
of six hours. So far the Dutch have
found no solution. Every fresh of-
fence is met with a fresh protest from s
The Hague and a fresh expression of p
regret from Berlin.
PROPHECIES OF WAR'S END.
Two Years' Struggle Is Foretold by
the Seers.
The following prophecies about the
war are taken from a book printed
at Turin in 1858 entitled "A Collec-
tion of Some Remarkable Prophecies
and Vaticinations."
A Swiss hermit that died at St.
Gall in 1700 predicted that there would
be "famine, hunger, devastations and
considerable mortality throughout
Europe in 1915."
An anonymous French monk wrote
toward the enc] of the eighteenth cen-
tury that "in 1015 the Turks, Here-
tics, Schismatics, Catholics, and Idol-
aters of foreign eourtaies will go
against each other with anger and
fury," adding:
"The first spark of the great war
will start from the North, The war
will last about two years and the
armies of the enemies will not invade
the apostate empire, but they will
surround and wait until the rebels re-
turn to their duty. They (the rebels),
however, will not make any act of sub-
mission or of repentance, but con-
tinue their excesses, so that all the
Powers of Europe will be allied
against them."
The prediction ends with a descrip-
ion of •Te Drums and thanksgiving
erviees in all the churches and tem -
les "for the victory of the Allies,"
A prophecy made by a Flemish
onk in 1792 alludes to two wars
gainet Austria with Russia's partici-
tion and continues as follows:
"The Turks who will take part in
e struggle will not cross their fron-
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A Capuchin friar of Genazzano,
writing int the eighteenth century,
predicted the war in Italy in the fol-
lowing terms:
"Serious disagreements will arise
between the Allied Powers and the
two Emperors will be compelled to
fight againat their ally."
Finally another prophecy by Dr,
Cumming, a Protestant minister, runs
as follows: •
"Russia, driven away from her
frozen trenches, will again return
crushing every iosistance and she
will even reach Palestine. England
will defend to the very end God, the
Bible, freedom and life until the Popo
will crown with his owls ha',ds a per-
sonage and declare him Emperor of
the Romans and there shall be then
peace throughout the wo"ld."
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