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The Battle of Paris
Robust and seasoned must be the in- I
telligence, stout and firm-fixed the in- j
telligcnce, abie successfully to resist the j
series of seismic shocks transmitted
hither from Paris. The purveyors of
intelligence have seemingly shifted their ?
gags a little, but, unaccustomed to
speech, their gurgling nolses seern those
of a dumb man trying to speak. Some?
thing has seemingly happened, something
in the nature of an explosion, but the
pieces have not come down it'widenti
fiable form. -
Mr. . lorts to The Tribune that
Presidenl W I n celebrated his uprising
from iii* - by repudiating the oiling
work tiorie by Colonel House in his ab
senco and thal the fai is thus sizzling in
the fir* again, Sufely most, disturbing.
If thc 1% n olonel, as he glides
over e r . i no longer counte
nanced v*. hi ' tcd? Is he also
blind nnd visii nlcss? Doea there remain,
solitary -iml alone, bul oi e man who is
unblind, with i i : o hia i oul? Thc;
picture of a greal pi acemaker uppercut- ,
ting Clemenceau and kicking sidewise ot
Lloyd George, while tho hair of Orlando
is ftrmiy grasped *.1 th two hands, is fa
miliar. bul il i poignanl to think of
the mi! I col no cl as ! aboul aa a foul
and tricky imperialist.
Mr. Oulahan reports to "The Times"
almost equally grewsome stufT. Discuss
ing at some length the highly dignifled
question of whether the President is
"bluffing" or not, he reaches the conclu?
sion that ho is not?that it is no idle jest
that Joscphus has heen ordered lo send
over the Presidential cutter and to see
that water and hiscuit are aboard. Mr.
Oulahan, in tho approved oracular man?
ner, let.-. it. be known (authority un
stated) that thc Presi !enl on hia return
may resort to thej desperate expedient of
Bummoning Congress, preferring even its
society to thal of a peace conference.
Mr. Hills reports more hopefully to
?|The Sun." Having launched the threat
to quit, the "President to-day apparently
inspired friends to picture lhe situation
as having improved again." The Four?
teen, Foints have heen given another air
ing' and every one asked to rc
ewear allegiance?keeping faces solemn
ly straight as they confess the faith that
open covenants of peace should be open
ly arrived at and that in war time as
well as in peace time there should hc
absolute freedom of the seas.
Mr. Swopc reports to "Thr World"
that "it would bc idle to doprcciato the
scriousness of the situation," and indi
catea that all see the Georjre Washnurton
in the offing. "Thc President's fighting
spirit," he adds, "was never more
aroused than now," and he is rcsolved to
tolerate no further delay in the acccpt
ance et* his interpretation of the Four?
teen Points. The President is presented
as more than ever persuaded he is the
only un lelfish and reasonable person tak?
ing part iti the deliberations'and as high?
ly incensed al the intractable spirit dis
?**d by his fellow conferrees.
In the mean time, while the menaces
OUgh, there is nothing re
nembling nt 0f what is sought
<f our delegation. Wc hear of tho
" \merican demands," hut what they are
no one seems to be told at leasl not for
transmission of the news to America. Tho
secrecy is denser than at any time. Xo
one on this side of the water has a right
to Bay he approves or that he diaap
proves of the President's ultimata, for
no^one knows what they are. Guesaes
can be made, hut only guesses.
The spectacle is surely nn amaring
one, and the longer it lasts and the more
it is studied amazement increases.
The Turning Worms
Peace, not without, but with victory,
garniBhed with parades, banners and
congratulations, ia being celebrated by
the tenants of a certain apartment house
on Rivferside Drive. For they have estab
li?hed that the word tenant is not a
?jmonyme for vsnrm, or doormat, but
may, on occasion, definitely signify
hurnan being.
The tenants in question defeated de?
mands for a 40 U> 00 per cent increase
in rent? by offering to buy the apartment
hotue, The landlords attempted to
justify their demands hy waying that
othferwi?e the apartment hou:,e would
not pay, but were cornered hy a pyoffer
<0i tha co;'.t price of $.'500,000. As a con
sequence of the activities of this group
cf tenants, wlwhave become organized
as a committce, aided and abetted )>y &
grand jury, District Attorney Rwann haa
embarked upon an investigation of rent
proflteering.
Tho tonants' committee, immortalized
in court reeord, ia to have wider fame.
Motion pioture rools have recorded that
Professor Robert Livingstone Schuyler,
of Columbia University, after earrying
a bannor inscribed, "The Landlords
Couldn'1 Get Away With IL," amid gen?
eral acclamations, wiped his gold-rimmed
eyeglasses, and tho tonants' committee
livca on as a permancnt institution. Let
tors travol lo Albany, urging legislation
standavdizing lcases; a borough presi?
dent incitcs reprisals on proflteering
landlords; /> Munieipal Court justice
urges immodiatc legislation to safeguard
tonants, and in Tho Bronx, .'it thc head?
quarters of tha Greater New York Ton?
ants' League, can be heard rounds of
jubilation and threats of strikes against
unjustificd rent increases. Thousands
of erstwhile vvorms are obviously pro
paring to turn, a hue and cry against
our old friend, Unearned Incrcmcnt, is
on once again, but tlie betting seems to
be that the seasoned offender will make
his getaway, for thc report from the
real estate market is of rising prices.
The Coal and Iron Duel
Why has Germany 50 per cent more
population than France, whereas a gen
eration ago the two were about equal?
Why does France fear for her future if
left unprotected? Why does she ask
guarantees? The American who would
justly assess the rights and wrongs of
the Paris wrangling may well consider
these questions.
The minnow-minded, those who swim
about in the shallows of superficiality,
say France is imperialistic and attribute
her relative decline to the greater indus?
try and enorgy of tho Germans, or to the
low French birth rate, or to a dozen
other French deficiencies. Tho explana
tions do not suffice. In the '2,000 years
Gaul and Teuton have confronted each
other the Gaul has equalled his neighbor
in thrift, in industry, in organizing
power. During the years of increasing
national disparity the Frenchman has
probably worked the harder and the
more intelligently. and personally has
been the more economical. The meagre
French family is an effect.tlie result of
a hard experience which has taught
families that, numerous children cannot.
easily be placed in the way of livelihoods.
France has fallcn bMiind chiefly be?
cause of Germany's vastly greater snp?
plies of coal and iron. Two hundred and
fifty years ago England had a stationary
population of eight million. Then came
the uncovering of her coal deposits and
tiie inventions making them useful, and
her population rose lo thirty-eight
million. Coal and iron added thirty
million to England, and they have added
thirty million lo Germany. Resources
deVelop population as commonly as popu?
lation develops resources.
Germany has 409,000,000,000 tons of
coal, while France, within the borders of
August 1, 1911, has but 17.000,000,000
tons. Germany has substantially Half
the coal of Europe, while France has
next to none. Gigantic was Germany's
lie when she said she bad no place in the
sun. She was the most richly dowered
of European nations.
In iron there is less disparity. The
chief iron deposit of the European con
tinent is in Lorraine, astride the fron
tier Bismarck traced in 1871. Germany
thought she had seized the whole, but her
experts, as has since been na'ively ex
plained, hlundered. To grab the French
iron supply was Germany's first military
ohjective, and attaining it she compelled
France to rely on imports from over the
sea. Thc phrase "slight rectification of
the western frontier," which so often ap
peared in the early German peace terms,
meant Bismarck's error was to be cor
rccted?that France was to be ironles^
as she is almost coalless.
Germany is now to lose the Lorraino
mines she stole,and then the condition, if
President Wilson has what is understood
to be his way, will be this: Germany
will have the coal and sufficient iron in
Silesia nnd elsewhere to supply her
needs, while France will have iron in
plenty, but little coal. Any one ablf to
see permancnt peace in this situation is
a gifted optimist.
A hundred years ago nationalism was
a weak force, so littlo regarded that
populations were handed about as prop?
erty. Now the doctrine finds aceeptanee
that those fecling affinities of race and
language have a right to be togethcr.
This idea created modern Itaiy, modern
Germany, and brought Rumania, Bul
garia, Serbia and Greece to the maps.
Now it is creating'Poland, Czecho-Slavia,
Jugo-Slavia and enlarging other states.
ln tho next century the world is likely
j to sco economic sufliciency as potent as
| nationalism has been. The nations will
t say of What value is political inde?
pendence if there js economic depend
enco? This thought is entering into the
coj-iHciousnoHs 0f tho pcoples and is des
i tined to have increasing influence. One
I may predict that it will gain an aura of
morality and that it will be genuinely be?
lieved that it is fundamentally wrong for
ono group to rnonopolize great necessitics
to the exclusion of others. The Presi?
dent is fond of the phrase "forward-look
ing rnen," but those who think they are
forward-looking are often backward
looking.
Jlcra enters the problem of the Saar
Valley, a small district that is close to
the iron mines of Lorraine. France seeks
it, not because she has any desire to an
nex the population on the surface, but
because acccss to the Saar coal seems cs
scntial to her economic future. The coal
mines of Lcns, wrecked with diabolic
German thoroughness, cannot he re?
opened for five years, and even when
ed again will not furnish fuel to
smelt the ore of Lorraine. Moreover,
Lorraine's proximity to the border is of
high importance. Big Eerthas, such as
bombardcd Paris, could destroy the
French furnaccs in a few hours. If per?
mitted, tho Germans will busy themselves
on emplacements and in rnounting huge
cannon. France needs some sort of bul
wark to protect the industrial works
which she hopes will bc able to sustain a
population which will place her once
more on u level with Germany. The Saar
Valley must at least, bo effectlvely nou
tralized if France is to have a chance to
prevent another German raid.
Since the signing of the armistice
great has been the effort to mislead the
.American people. The correspondents
sent, to Paris have been famed hy the
knowledge thal, il' they sent, anything dis
plcasing they might be denied nccei i to
all information. Even the French iVess
has b< en muzzled. The intimation reached
Clemenceau that if anything like free
discussion were permitted it would bi' as
sumed that the French government in
spired it, and thus offend a distinguished
visitor.
But glimmers of the truth are begin?
ning to shine througli, and it is more and
more being realized that the chief fault
of the arrangements sought to be foi-ced
is that they make, not for peace, hut for
war and more war.
"Parlorism"
Parlorism, it appears, is not confined
to the United States. Le Crctuloia records
its appearance in Paris "in the cosey and
perfumed atmosphere of homes where
one goes to dine, and salons where one
goes to talk." There sympathy for mur?
der "becomes a dilettantism, a manner
of coquetry, an elegance." Bolshevism is
worn like an orchid in the buttonhole:
"Just look nt them, listen to their talk,
Detaching with nn elef,'ant finger tho
ashes of their cigarettes, smiling with a
bitt.erness that is replete with grace, they
say, softly: 'Alas! society has prown
tired nnd feoble with age. Every day it
decays n littlo more, Thero is no more
politeness nnd culture'a pone to the dogs.
Life oft'ers no thrills, manners have sti f
ened, tastes coarscned, Under Buch cir
cumstances, what's thc good of porpetu
nting with artificial effort a stato of
things bo lamcntable. I in't it much bet ?
ter to destroy everything nnd to begin
over again? Who knows? Perhaps this
is tho only way in which our moribund
society can ever be rejuvenated, Lot' go
under, nl! logether. . . . Wo ma y ju I
nn well rcsign us Lo It. Some more ten,
fiiad'imo ?' "
We stand iu ih.' presence of one of the
oldest of human traits. Alcibiades was
much admired as be sauntcred about
Athens with the Attic equivalent ol
monocle and cane. Cleopatra divided her
time between drinking pearls and sym
pathizing with the fellaheen. Nothing
was more delightful to a Roman dandy
than to feel the muscles of n gladiator
Pugilism wa.s tho favorite affection of
the English aristocrat. Decadence dotes
on Bavagery. So it has been?so it wil] be.
Soft Stwff
It has never been Batisfactorily decided
?' ho invented the class:'- picture of thc
"two Harvard boys staggering out of
Iluyler's." Al Jolson first gave it wide
dissemination, at any rate. And thou
sands have guffawod Ioudly?thousands
who now must, not only learn to guffaw
on the other side of the face but (what,
may be even harder) learn the trick of
staggering home with a Ioad of soft stuff
aboard. Even the Union Club has capitu
lated to the call of the soda fountain.
After this tragic fall there is room for
neither holdouts nor jcers. Frothing
rivers of soda and limitless floes of nut
sundacs must be accepted at their cosmic
value.
.'\11 down the line the consequences
run. Only the other day we saw "Ten
Nights in a Barroom" projected all over
a billboard. "The Strongest Play Ever
Written," said thc legend. Will there be
a "Softest Play" some day, an appealing
dramatization of the Harvard bevy hav?
ing just one more raspberry soda, while
a broken-hearted d^butante sobs into her
twenty-first cup of tea? We doubt it.
We doubt much that wc hear these days
?of hackyard vineynrds laid out stealth
ily at night while the neighbors sleep;
of attic stills and mysterious powders
operating upon the well known principle
that near-becr -j- X ? - alcohol. Tasting
will bcbelieving after July 1. But. that all
America, the strongest with thc weakest,
must now take up the soda fountain in
a serious way, there can be no doubt.
Thc brass rail departs, entera thc marble
top. The ancient, rattling, to-and-fro
shake, generator of such marvellous and
manifold results, yields to the purrlng,
rotary, electric mixer. Soft is the word!
It's all there is. There isn't any other.
Little for France
To thc Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: Aa citizens and as a nation we havo
done very little to help Franco. Privato funds
organized magniflccntly hy individual rf
| forts, labors nnd gcnerosttioB, havo grandly
| nided thc great war victim nnd her grateful
; peoplo, but ns n whole w<> must remembor
that "wnr chosts" and our "drives" for tho
, Rod Cross, th- "V," ,.(,-., the food wc saved,
wero for our own aplendld army. The French
government has paid for any food allottod
to the French rcfugoos, nnd our east off
[ rlothlfuc nnd rofugeo garments were divided
tho world over.
Tho American Red Crois Is leaving
France, to extend her work throughout
other lands. Monsieur do Ililly, Assistant
High French Commissioner here, donios
that. Fmnco has rrcpioHtod this as reported,
und wnrns us of n movement on foot to be
Httlo thc needs of France. Never, ho tella
us, havo they been greater.
Surely wo nre not, going to fail our noble
fiistcr at tho eleventh hour. Twico. havo wo
been saved by Fmnce, nnd Washington
novcr would have dubbed "ontangling" an
alliance with the land of Lafayette, de
prasso, nnd Rochambcau.
MARY B. WINGATE.
.Snrntnprn SprinK.-i, April 0, 1010.
The Conning Tower
TYPICAL AMERICANS.
//. A School Teacher
Old Hopzibah, wc called her,
For ahe wns penuriousi
Wo Imaglned the orlglnnl Pinchen
Munt havo boon aa wrlnkled, pinched, and
11:.t.
For other thin?:s we ncorricd hrr
With all tho Bcofn
That'lt parcel of the wiudom
Blcaalng High School BoorB,
Wo whiaporod tho various t itl----i
Of how tho Hchool bonrd yenrly throalened,
Offering her a pension if sho would quit;
Uut nho rcmaincd
To pinch inoro ponnlos, an we thought.
Wo talkcd about her uttor inck of knowl
edge,
[Ier Inability to point out light and Bhade
Of mnstcrpioces wo would daily penj
Tho boldest of ub, for applausc,
Would covcrtly insult hon
Onco, in "Silaa Marncr," asking
If elie understood tho joy a misor had . . .
Thon we strodo forth into tlio expectant
world,
Confident our brain would fetch a wage
Four times as great as Hepzibah's,
Leaving her to tho cruol succession
Of wise nnd mercilcss youth.
Old Hepzibah was dend.
We severally received the news
Wherever tides had east ua up
On mediocro sands.
And she had left a will
Bequeathing all she'd saved ?
Some twenty thousand dollars ?
For the building of a public school.
PEM.
[( is said that requests have been made
for insurance of alcoholic stocks against
1 loss by seizure. A ccllar with a dozen
i siphons will be known aa a sprinkled risk.
"History does not mention the composi
tion which N'cro was performing," say.i
B. L. T. in the Chicago Tribune. That was
thrashed out years ago; and it was, if a
Rothless memory serves, "There'll Be a
Ilo' Time in the Old Town To-night."
Ah, Oul
Sir: I've been making plans for the day
I gel back. You know, meeting my Buddio,
and having n few breakfasta nt a place 1
know on Sixth Avenue, and hoiating my
aclf and my bcnl girl (that's Buddie) up
on tho top of n Fifth Avenuo bus,
fj just to top i' off, honest, now, ran
I pin you down Lo n promiae? Will you
give mo tho top of Tho Tower that day?
Flavigny, France, L, M. T.
]?: pecinlly n L. M. T, happens to bo tho
v, Innor of tho 1917 wnteh.
Tlio T?xtw Rcclpo
? I ???.?? i rn Stockton (T( ??; 1 Plonner. 1
H flor Ruin nnd hia wlfo wero bnth born mi'l
rcarcd In Pccos County anrl by hard work and
unfalllng loyalty have reared a family ot seven
i hlldri ii. live Imyo nnd two ylrls, who aro well
thought of,
Just as onc's depresalon over tho about
to-be-lost art. of copyreading is at its
ncthcrmost, the Elizabeth, N. J., Journal
sonds elation to tho peak with "President
Xiiw 111 in Bed, Secretary Baker Tella
Mission (lood Now;-*."
Roar Vdmiral Grayson usually is refcrred
to as tho President's personal physicinn, but
wo ofTcr tho liberal odda of 11 to 8 that'
Lhe President is Admiral Grayson's imper
sonal pai icnt.
After July l ihe brewerlea may go into
Lho pyrotechnica businesa. "Thc fans sure
got their monoy's worth," said tho Albany
Argus, "as fircworks were browing all tho
1 inie."
RONDEAU
Where nre them pornes The Tower once knew
Before T. Woodrow Wilson l>]ew
The call to arma 7 -those zlppy layu
That happier mncle those happy days
Of peacefulncsB. Now that we're through
W'ilh war, I want 'em bacl<! Don't YOUT
O Tapestry, please tal'.c the cue 1
Flaccus, roMirne your lyric ways 1
Where are them pomes ?
O Pab and A. R. !?*., we're blue
Without the Ftunti you used to do.
Your silenee saddens and dlsmays.
O write and land tha Boss a ralse,
And cheer our livea, dear arifted crew 1
WHERE ARE THEM TOMEST
Eiiai.
And perhaps tho President, paraphrasing
the doughboys' song, rnay sing:
Covenauts whistlo and conferences roar;
I don't want to go back to Paris any more.
j Take mo over the sea,
? Where the conferrees can't get at me.
Oh my, let me say gootlby!
I want to go home.
Cursory reading of much war vorsc has
, convinced us that it takea more than tho
mention of poppiea to inako a good poem;
and of 3,781 "anawera" to Lt. Col. McRae'a
. first rate poem, only two or threo of tho
i "answerers" are un-lazy enough to writo true
rondeaus.
Speaking of radicalism,?aa who these ver
milion daya is not??Pcggy Shippen in tho
Philadelphia Public Ledger obscrves that "her
marriage will in no way intorfero with her
moro Bcrioua puraults."
Prof. ,1. N. Gaylord, of tho University of
Minnosota, strlnga along, apparently with
.'ir. Francia Hackott as to tho comparativo
sllcnco of man. "Adam'a firat need," the
Prof, nayn, "waa for speech, and so God
made Eve."
A travollor complainod to the U. S.'Rall
, road Adminiatration that a ticket clork
had been diacourtoous. "Permit mo to say,"
writes Mr. C. II. Lamb, Acting Chicf, "that
a further investigation of tho disintcr?sted
noBS on tho part of tho ticket clerk will
bo made."
Those who believe that boozo derives from
a Philadelphia distillor namod Boozo may
bo right, but thia io in Book I, Canto 4,
"The Faerio Quocno":
Stil! as ho rode, ho somewhat still did eat,
And in his hand did beare a bouzing can,
Of which he aipt so oft, that on hia soat
Ilis drunken corso he scarse upholden can.
And now tho Italians aro fuctsln
And Flumlng. p, p a.
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Mexico Says
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Observing Russia, our southern neif/hbors
don't feel now they were very badly off.
By L. J. De Bekker
EXICO CITY, March ll. "There is
no danger of the Bolshevik move?
ment gaining headway in Mexico," a
distlnguished Mexican official said to me.
"Bolshevism is an international disease which
must woar itself out, und which is highly
contngious.
"i'oor Mexico! How tlie world piticd us
when our disorder first broko out. It was
the first. mani l'eslat ion of the international
epidemic, and all our friends thought we
w< re very siek indeed, nnd some went so
far ns to prepare obituarios. We felt prctty
bad, too, thero's no denying it, but now
Mexico is convalcscent, and we all realize
that wo were fortunate in having a. very mild
attack. And now we are immuno, and gl id
of it.
"I.ook nt Russia, for cxample. There is
the international disease in its acuto form
smallpox, where wc had only varioloid. In
fact, l thiiik that in Mexico wo had only a
bad case of measle3."
Certain it, is that Mcxico's revolution be
gan in bloodshcd nnd that pacification has
been gradual; while to the contrary, Russia's
revolution bogan with thc peaceful abdica?
tion of the Czar and soon evolved into a
reign of terror, of which the end is not yet
in sight.
Germans Preached Bolshevism
It is a matter of common knowledge in
Mexico that tho Bolshevik movement was
encouraged here, as in Russia, by German
gold?of common knowlcdgo because "El
Univcrsal" performed prccisely the service
for Mexico that The Tribune did for the
United States: published tho whole reeord
of slimy German propaganda in detail, with
verification from the papers of the German
Minister, von Eckhardt.
To be successful a Bolshevist movement
must have the support of a large part of
the masses, since it is evident that if both
aristocracy and bourgeoisio aro destroyed,
only the proletariat remains. Now the pro
lntariat of Mexico is eminently pacific. It
will work if compelled to, or if in the humor;
but it is easily fed, housed, anrused, and it
prefers to sit in the sun and smoke cigarettes
and drink pulque to getting excited about
thc rights of man. Or if tho day is hot it
prefers to sit in the shade and drink pulqud
and smoke cigarettes. Tho Mexican prole?
tariat never heard of Karl Marx, who, like
most idealists, hnd the misfortune to have
his thcorics distorted beyond reeognition by
thc second and third generations of his fol
lowers. It doosn't know tho difference be?
tween Tolstoy and vodka, and docsn't wish to.
Tho Mexican proletariat doosn't read much.
It enn't. That was tho fault of Don Porfirio
Diaz, who had a whole generation in which
to educato tho lower classes, but didn't think
they wero worth it.
Not Willing Soldiers
The part of tho Mexican proletariat in the
revolutiona which havo no often convulsed
tho country has been about as important as
that of an army mule. Most of tho timo ho
has been foreed into tho army and usually
he has been glad to get out again.
Mexico, in fact, is just arrived at tho
stage when it can take up tho mnttor of col
lective bargalning between labor and capi?
tal. It doubtless will havo a progrossive
cxperienco with unionism, guided and aided
by tho government. But it seems pcrfectly
plain that Bolshevism can have no growth
unless it is supported either by tho govern?
ment, the Church, or tho oppoaition to tho
government.
Enemies of Mr. Carranza donounco tho
new Constitution as a Bolshevik instrument,
although a two years' test has thus far
failed to justify them. Bolshevik publlca
tions, in English as well an Spanish, aro
permitted, but that is apparently because
the government makos a fetlsh of "liberty
of tho press."
The attitude of the Church is signitionnt.
Tl ?? Archbishop of Mexico hi a n tui ned,
other prelatca have reaumod thi .- labors,
and still others, now in exile, talk of re
turning to their homes. Tho Church wishes
to make friends, and if the Church haa evi r
manifested sympathy with Bol h /i n
s(do Mexico, 1 tlo not recall it.
The remaining hope of the Bol heviki
would seem to be tho opposition to the gov?
ernment. At present there isn't. any. Re?
gardless of previous political afHHations, the
best ch-sa of Mexicans to-flay an- trying to
uphold the existing government, to make ;
strong enough for security at home aml re
apect abroad.
Bandits and Bolshevists
There remain the bandits. Have they not
realized all tho dreams of tho BolBheviki al
ready'.'
But tiie bandits are not here lo stay Tl >?;.
are doomed io disappear, as they alway i have
when a stahje government haa been atl
here or elscwhcro. Some say that Ameri?
cans havo a liking for bandits, a point on
which I am not sure, as the newspapers r< -
cently carried an announcement that 10,000,
000 cartridges wore being shinped to "Gen?
eral" Pelaez, the bamfit who rules tho oi!
jungle back of Tampico. I also have a rec
ollection of atms having been provided at
one time from tho United States for "Gen?
eral" Villa.
Where do thc bandits get dynamite?
That is a question the Mexican govern?
ment has been vainly asking for some time.
Thc fact is, they have been getting it, for
they have neither the intelligence nor the
facilities to manufacture it for tTiemselves. !
Not only have they been provided with dyna?
mite, but they havo learned how to uso it. '
Some years ago the bandits held up a south
bound train in what was then regarded as ,
Villa territory. and having looted it, wero
much annoyed because they could not force
the lock on a car, which happened to be
loaded with giant powder and detonators for
a mining camp. So they set fire. to tho train,
and were having a wild dance about it when
there was a terrilic cxplosion. When tho
smoke cleared away thero were no bandits
to be seen.
The Etiquette of a Hold-Up
The blockhouso and deadline system of \
guarding the tracks was resorted to after
tho Zapatistas and Teiixistas had discovered
that a charge of dynamite placed under a
rail could be exploded by means of an elec?
tric wire, the "patriotic" officer in charge re?
maining carefully under cover until after he !
had prcssed tho button, and being content
with such spoils as wero not destroyed in
the exploaion.
Tho etiquette of the road in those days
was for tho pasaengers to lie flat on the. floor |
when firing began nnd wait until they were
told to get up. If tho bandits had been
beaton off, they rcsumed their places aa be?
foro. If tho bandits captured thetrain,they
would offer their silver, watchoa, ringa, hand
luggoge, etc, having secreted gold or valu
nblo papers, and sometimea got off very
easily.
But not always. There aro Stories of wom?
en massacrcd an well as men, and of per?
sonal aoarchca, which are better not repcatod.
Somo thrco years ago thu wife of a man
prominent in the American colony here was
roturning home over n routo which was not |
altogether safe, when the train stopped sud- ';
denly. Inatinctivoly she fell to the floor und !
a second later a bullct crashed through the
glass of the window where sho had been ;
sitting. Thia man had tried to be absolute
ly neutral in Mexican politics, but he got oiT ,
the fence, and it waa not on tho sido of tho !
"general" who had nearly murdeiod hia
wife.
It is nll very well, of course, for tho
Beoundrels who ro^ and maltreat passongera,
dynamite or derail trains nnd blow up
bridgoa to sny that thny nre not bandits.
buf the chiefa of political partiea who are
making an earnest effort to heal tho wounds
? toar i of their 1>< loved patria. In
? have b ien '<>? '??. ? < i, \ n!n<> of
at li ', i'i our o ?? ii couii
tr , bul i ol hi re.
ic in 1' "1; ? upon n bandlt
ly aa a Kew Yorl . doca a gunman.
lb i . ''i bo pul out of busil n tl
c und mo it convi nient wa ,. and I' i
? ? . I ei ? ' t he bi ttor
is not ' of wcapon i for a New 'i ork
and it doi ? hat tha
of elimi
i n me n t.
in fetched yesterday
the An erican Art Gallei ic i,
collection of antique
peraed
iction. A large, groteaque tap
? ?, : ? of the R( naiBsance |
g "An Animated Hunting Scene,"
highest price y< t. paid al the
m !'. W. French' & Co. The
econd price, ?? "?''" '. "-' ia paid by
I.. M, Jellin k for a historical Bruasela
tap try of the Renaissancc pi riod ahowing
" I' ? W i idom of King : lolomon."
1 . Orselli purchased a large Flemiah gro
Rena ance period, fur
$2,5 00, ? t] ? ? j - ? .
curtains of the Gothic period for $1,600. A
rare e ipphire bluo nnd yellow ni ? Ile work -
altar carpet, of tlie seventeenth
centu pirited* bidding, and
went : I i G. T. Barberyn, wlio also
1 urch . ? ? >enth century wool
len velvet portiere for $900.
Among the itcms purchased by Miss R.
H. Lorenz, agent, were three Genoese six
"teenth century crimson velvet wall hang
ings, for which she paid $2,250; six Geno?
ese embroidered crimson velvet borders of
the Bixteenth century for $l,ot>0; six Ital?
ian rose-crimson damask column panels ol
the Renaissancc period for $1,200 and slx?
First Empire period French ivory and gold
silk broc'ade curtains for $1,400.
Otto Bernet, agent, bought four crimson
drap d'or brocade curtains, French, of tha
Louis XIII period, for $1,-100. W. W. Sea?
man, agent, paid $640 and $f,oo for two seta
of six drap d'or and crimson dama?k em?
broidered curtains, Portuguese, of the
Renaissance period, nnd Mason Bradley
purchased six green cut velvet curtains,
Genoese, of the Louis XV period, for $1,300,
and thirteen embroidered velvet Van Pyko
points for $-187.
Di Salvo Brothers, who were among the
keen bidders at Tuesday's session, again
purchased several items, among which were
seventeen, embroidered crimson velvet Van
Dyke points, Portuguese, Louis XIV period,
for which they paid $652, and six Itnlisn
embroidered cut velvet curtains, Louis XIV
per od, for $480. The proeeeds from yes
terday's Bession were $61,940, making a
grand total up to date of $107,005. Thc
sale continues each afternoon of this week.
The Edenhoimer collection of original
drawinga by old and modern m&stere was sold
nt the Anderson Galleriea last evening and
brought a total of $19,973 for two hundred
item . Seymour de Hicci paid the '?>?}' pri**
of the ; ile, $3,500, for a seriei of eight pe?
and Bepia ketchea by France co Guard).
Ile al io j urchased "The Lord Creatlng thc
Lighta of Ibavrn," by Titian, a pen nnd
biatre dfcwing lightened with white, for
$900. Tho Park Avenue Antique Studio*
bought "Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Tickell"
in r dored chalka, by Thoman Gninsborougb.
for $2,400; "Le Charbonnier," by Millet, a
large charcoal drawing, for $1,1100, and a
charcoal drawing of a landscupe by Corot
for $800. Three portrnits attributed <>'
Francoia Clouet and a portrait by an un
known artist of the school of Clouet brought
$;U0 eacii from T. J. Gannon. A landscape
by Claude Lorrain fetched $710 from II. K
Hotchkiss, and Dr. G. F. Mu'.ler paid $300
for a charcoal landseapo by Gainsborough.
"ChriKt With Disciploa at Emaus," by Jacob
Jordaens, brought $500, and "Peaaants ln
Conversation With Shepherd," by Millet.
brought $1510.
F. Kleinberger purchaaed "Tubal Caln In
venting Muaic," by Joerg Breu, fc-r $300. ,