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THE HERALD SERVICE FLAG.
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER S, 1918.
THE HUDSON'S BAY RAILROAD
Work on the Hudson's Bay railroad was suspended
October 1 for the remainder of the war, this being
In accordance with the decision of the Canadian govern
ment announced some weeks ago. For many years
northwestern people have felt a keen interest in the
construction of a road which would connect the greAt
•rain fields of the territory on both sides of the line
•with the Atlantic by way of Hudson's bay. Various rail
and rail-and-water routes were proposed and abandoned,
sad at length a route for a railroad was decided on and
"work was actually commenced. This work has been in
progress for several years, and had it not been for de
Peti caused by the war a. considerable part of the sur
plus crop of this year would have found its way east
bsf way of the Hudson's bay route, which, in the old days,
•was? th® only route by which the great northwest could
be reached for purposes of trade.
Of the road as laid out 3^4 miles has been Ironed
aaA partly ballasted 92 miles of grade is ready to re
celre steal and only 92 miles remains to be built Work
been suspended partly on account of shortage of
labor, but chiefly because of soarcity of steel. The fa
cilities of the Canadian mills are taxed to supply steel
for the war, and everything else must be subordinated.
There being no prospect that tUere will be any im
provement In conditions meanwhile, it was decided to
abandon the work for the time being. Construction, it
Is announced, will not* be resumed until after the war,
nor until conditions after the war have so adjusted
themselves that steel" is again available. Then, as soon
as the work is completed, we will be able, if we choose,
to ship out our wheat over the route which was trav
eled by the fur traders in the days of Prince Rupert.
THE STATE CAMPAIGN
The theory of Socialism is that the people «*«T1 rule
-—all the people equally, in actual practice the Social
ist propaganda that is being carried on in this country
Is exactly the reverse. The principle upon which the
actual operation is based is that the people shall keep
mum and do as they are told. They are expected to
Aead, think and act only as instructed by certain per
sons who have appointed themselves overlords of the
common herd.
It is on this theory that the Socialist managers In
this state have proceeded, using the Nonpartisan league
as the means wherewith to carry out their program.
Members of that organization have had it dinned into
their ears that they must read nothing and believe noth
ing of a political nature which does not emanate from
league headquarters, or which has not the approval of
the league managers. Efforts have been made to stop
the circulation among league members of all newspa
pers which dared to express disapproval of either, the
acts of the leaders or the program which they put forth.
Members of the league have been urged not to attend
political meetings except those held under league au
spices. The theory has been, and is, that the people
are not to be trusted that they are incapable of doing
their own thinking and forming theif own conclusions.
And, of course, there are Individuals who have yielded
themselves tip passively and tamely obeyed orders.
These dictatorial methods are being employed this
year to hold league members away from the .meetings
addressed by & J. Doyle, citizens' candidate for gover
nor. Mr. Doyle has been doing some.good work in
analyzing the program proposed by the leaders of the
Socialist element which controls the course of the league.
He has been particularly forceful In his disbussion of
the bonding plans which are provided for in the pro
posed constitutional amendments upon which it is In
tended that the people shall vote. He has shown-that
the adoption of the bonding amendment will remove
everything in the nature of safeguard from the state,
so far as the fixing of a debt limit is concerned. That
amendment provides that the state may issue or guar
antee bonds absolutely without limit, and for any pur
pose.
It Is not desired by the league bosses that the peo
ple shall understand this, hence every possible effort
is being made -to keep league members away from Doyle
meetings. If that effort is successful, if the members of
the league can be kept, as Charles Edward Russell puts
it, witfc their' minds steel-clad against facts, those mem
bers may be trusted, presumably, to vote- as they are
told. If, on the other hand, they listen to the arguments,
investigate the facts, and form their own conclusions
in their own way, they are likely to make short work
of the plans which are being promoted to encuipber their
property, through the medium of bopds and taxation,
/with a load of debt in order that there may be fancy
picking for a few of the favored ones.
PREPARING A LANDSLIDE
Preparations are being made, according to reports,'
#r-a gigantic Democratic landslide to Fraxier. The man
wfro Is to take the lead In the sliding, so nreported.
Is p. H. McArthur, sometime Democratic candidate for
bat more recently secretary to Congressman
Mac Is to declare, at the proper moment—again
the safety• of the state .and
parity of politics, a»d the spotlessness of the
ot democracy are all wrapped up in th*
poll* of the Townley ctodldatee^^Ttaen
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•renr evening, except Sunday evening.
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it is to be announced that Democracy has repudiated
Doyle and taken shelter under the flopping wing of
Frazler.
The drama la said already to have been elaborately
staged, an^ elaborate dress rehearsals to" have been
conducted. As soon as the various performers have
been polished up In the rendition of their lines and the
psychological moment has been selected, the orchestra
will begin to play, and up will gq the curtain on this
elaborate, and expensive production.
TURKEY ADHERES
The Turkish cabinet, according to a message pub
lished ln^a. German. paperr hass announced its determi
nation "in all circumstances to adhere to the alliance with
the Central powers."
The source of the Information alone leaves the re
port open to suspicion. .The German press is engaged
Just now in tho somewhat difficult task of stimulating
the flagging spirits of the German people- With an un
interrupted series of defeats extending over a period of
more that two nionths with all of the territory gamed
in their spring offensive lost with their strpngest de
fenses penetrated with their Turkish allies literally wip
ed off the earth in Palestine with Bulgaria, another ally,
whipped, begging for terms and\now definitely and per
manently out of the war with her grip on the east shaken
loose and her western armies everywhere in retread Ger
many has need of cheer, and will make the most even
of the fact that the "sick man of Europe" intendfe to
stand by her. Hence any action in Constantinople indi
cating even the probability that Turkey intends to re
main in the war will naturally be seized on and magni
fied in Germany,
As to the effect of such a decision, assuming it to
have been made, there are several aspects of the case to
be considered* The Toung Turk party, which has been in
control since the dethronement of Abdul Hamid, is the
truculent, ambitious, aggressive party of the empire. The
new sultan is reported to be somewhat less amenable to
the control of this group than it was supposed that he
would be, but the Toung Turks, nevertheless, constitute
the dominant official element.' It was the hope of this
element to reconstitute a great Turkish empire in Eu
rope, and the support of the European powers in this
ambitious scheme was sought. Great Britain, France
and Italy refused. Germany agreed, and Turkey then be
came Germany's ally. The alliance has- not been a for
tunate one for Turkey. As a result of the late Balkan
wars she found herself stripped of nearly all of her Eu
ropean possessions, and as a result of her present ad
venture most of her Asiatic possessions have melted away.
The Turkish government finds itself between the devil
and the deep sea, and for it one course seems about as
disastrous as another. If Turkey capitulates now the
present government is doomed,. and its members may
have concluded that by hanging on for a time they may
be able to pull something out of the wreck, and that they
propose to follow that course and take 'their chances.
SOCIALISM, PACIFISM AND THE WAR
For years Charles Edward Russell was the most
prominent advocate of Socialist principles in America. He
was a conspicuous member of the Socialist party, and he
aided in the organization of the Nonpartisan League in
North Dakota because he believed that he saw in that
organization a means for applying in practice the beliefs
which he had long entertained. But Russell parted com
pany with the Socialist party on the issues of the war,
for, as the situation de veloped, it became clear to him
that in this country "Socialism"' was merely another
name for disloyalty.
Mr. Russell has Just returned from an extended tour
of England, France and Italy, and in a recent issue of
the New York Times there is published an interesting
interview with him in which he sets forth some of the re
sults of fyis observations. He predicts the speedy ending
of the war—his guess is about nine months—providing
the Allies keep up their present gait, and better it. He
points out, however, that a peace secured by anything
short of the utter defeat of the German military power
will be an abandonment of all for which the democra
cies of the world have fought, and in reality a victory for
•Germany. He utters a solemn warning against the ac
tivities of pacifists, defeatists and compromisers of every
type. His observations on this subject, and also on the
economic visions which have proven attractive to some
members of this group, are interesting. He says:
"While the pacifists and defeatists no longer havff
the power to menace the Allied cause, their movements
cannot be exactly ignored. In trying to understand who
they are and what they stand for, we must remember
that we have in the European countries, as in this coun
try, an order of mind that is steel-clad against facts, that
is swept away by prejudice and preconceived notions,
that Judges the facts of this war from the standpoint of
these preconceived notions.
"It is one of the extraordinary revelations of the war
to find how widespread this order of mind is. Among
those' who have it are apparently able and intelligent
people who are, nevertheless, able to close their minds
with the greatest ease to f^ts which they don't like or
don't care to contemplate- That element in Europe, fbr
years and years before the war, was composed of minds
which reveled in certain impossible, Utopian conceptions
of society, in which a more or less nebulous element call,
ed the working classes was to conduct the government of
the world In a manner that would make such things as
wars, strife, and malevolence absolutely Impossible.
"They dreamed of a sort of New Jerusalem, and felt
themselves constantly on the verge of Its achievement.
That element, with the greatest possible sincerity, still
follows this will-o'-the-wisp, manifesting itself ^at the
present time in a demand that now is the time to bring
the war to an end by negotiation- This demand is ac
companied always by considerable clamor, and would
seem terioua were It not for the fact that it emanates, not
from the great majority of the peoples who are suffering,
and willing to suffer to the end, but from the minority."
While Mr. Russell is discussing the features of the
situation as he found It in Europe, it may be observed
that Europe is not the only continent torhere there are to
be found men with'minds "steef-clad igainst fafctsv'!
Over here we are familiar with sdtae of the expla
nations of the causes of t^ie war which have been pro
mulgated in print and from the platforni. We have been
told, with Variations, that ours was a war of the "rotten
rich and the "damned pirates." Mr. Russell has this to
Isay of the reception given this propaganda across the
ocean:
"German propaganda has spread the most "mon
strous lies Jtn Italy and France, representing the 'united
states as having gone into the war at the^dlctation of the
capitalist class for the sake of profits. These lies-also
declare that no class in this country was in favor of the
Wftr, outside oi the financier and the manufacturer.*
Wherever the. truth is made convincingly clear that the
United States affording to the world the one gteat ts-
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GRAND FORKS HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3,1818.
CHAPTER VX (Continued)
The long row of desks was fllled, as
he approached waving the virgin post
card and seeking to write. Not a cor
ner was vacant, the people -standing
with elbows touching, bending1 their
backs to the inscription of a kaleido
scope of messages. Some/ seemed to
use this place in which to do their
entire correspondence and almost all
were toilers, new released from their
dally prisons, hastening through their
hours of leisure that there might be
more time for further hastening.
There were young girls who guarded
their writing Jealously, lest some Of
its sweetness escape and tired work
ers sending home .money-orders, and
office-boys stamping a few belated
circulars, and ragged chaps who look
ed as though they might be writing
begging letters, and careless brisk
young men who lidked their stamps
impudently, and pounded oh them
with a decisive fist, and threw the
letter carelessly into that mysterious
slit through which it ~travels to kny
place in the world you wish, except
possibly the pples themselves. Before
him an old woman in a plaid shawl
wrote tremulously, and, turning, so
that he saw her sad old face, yielded
him her place, taking her missive off
c*fefully,
and leaving him to rest his
elpow upon the ink-stained scarred
surface of the desk, t^nd request
Messrs. Junk Co. please to call wtych
ihe did in a large clear handwriting
which was almost like a child's. All
along the line bent the earnest faces
—a dozen races and. a dozen tempera
ments. Vaguely he wondered what
they wrote, finished his own bit, and,
posting it below the Amazing tiers of
little pigeon-holes with their waiting
messages, he left the ill-kept building,
bought a paper from a howling boy,
three packages of pansy-seed from a
florist-shop, a coffee-bun and some
fruit from a baker and grocer, re
spectively. and went home to the cat
and the dog.
The next day Miss Endicott came
early, and was much troubled about
Equality, who seemed, if anything,
worse than when she brought him.
"They always get worse before they
get better," Adam assured her, but it
was plain he was worried about the
creature.
"Do they?" she questioned, a trifle
doubtfully. "Couldn'i you try a new
course of treatment?"
"I intend to," said he, who had tried
nothing, so far, but hope. "I'm begin
ning today."
"Well, I hope it will succeed,"' she
th^h|ar^n^WhltearAhtmin«?h
prove° hfmseVf '"h'
he woiiH rtn'it
She had flushed a little and laughed
a little. Evidently this "somebody'
was an important factor in her life.
Hp wondered, savagely, if it could by
any chance be Breck Allen, remem
berings his cousin's evident devotion
of the other night. But she switched
ofC3he dangerously personal ground so
swiftly that he was diverted back to'
the dog and the garden before he
fairly knew it. When she left, she said
she would not be back for a day or
two, because' of some aviation meet,
and Adam went back to his self-im
posed task sadly. This day was Wed
nesday. The interval to Saturday
stretched ahead interminably, and the
digging went on slrfwly. Then i^ took
a sudden brace. After all, Saturday
was coming!
It wafe mid-day before any answer
to his post-card arrived, and when it
did, it took the form of the gigantic
fellow who had noticed the flower beds
on the day they took the stoves away.
Adam had just finished his noon meal,
and was sitting on the steps, rolling a
cigarette, when the man arrived.
He was an alarming-looking per
sonage, this man, and.
'S GARDEN
A NOVEL
fey1 NINA WILCOX PUTNAM
bttween
all^that^\ru^ky°3» .^ering up cussion of the respective merits of
a see- the west
e"ori|??
now under the weight of God only
knew what simple sins, were uncom
monly wide, and his arms hung from
their sockets like flails. His bullet
head was close-cropped and his long
jaw bore the scars of many a. by-gone
At am eyed his visitor carefully, try
ing to catalogue him.
"Whatever else you are, or were,"
he mused aloud, "you are neither a
business man nor a diplomat'-'
."Huh!" said the fellow. "Never fear.
I wouldn't be no such milksops. Get
me?'*
"The world Is full of amazing
things," Adam commented with ap
parent irrelevance. "I wonder what
the deuce it was you did. Do-cbu
know, you look vaguely familiar,
somehow?"
"Huh!" said the man. "Never you
mind what I done. I've got life for it,
as you can see fer- yourself. Kindly
get down ter busineefl."
Stnthrf «'3 age was conce^led Vthe menjous"siale, but th7re"s goo"d"money
along lijce the hulk of a discarded bat'
tleshlp, adrift in strange waters. Yet
There was a bitterness in his voice'
which caused Adam to give him a'n
other sharp" look. Decidedly he Bad
seen the fellow somewhere. Perhaps. It
was only on the occasion of his first
visit but this explanation was not
sufficient. He liked the great, hulking
creature somehow. The incident of
the planting had stuck in his mind,
and on the ifhpulse he offered his to
bacco, pouch and motioned to a seat.
mm**
ample, in all history, of a nation that assumes the burden
of war, for the sake of principles, the scheming pacifist
leaders find that they are unable to get any considerable
number of persons to follow them.. The greatest thing
is to make clear to all theae people, then, the lofty na
ture of the cause for which the Allies ^.re fighting."^
Thosexwho have followed the Socialist movement In
this country, in all Its variations and' with all its vaga
ries, will te interested In this estimate, with
Russell' closes his interview:
far'as the Socialist movement In this country is
L,:- -f.
A
J1®4•• tklk over this Junk question,"
•aid Adam when they toere settled. "I
take it that your boss is pretty anxious
to get my stuff for some big contract
Well, I might be willing to get rid of
some df it. I want to extend my gar
den. a bit—want to put some holly
hocks over there."
"Gillyflowers!" said the man, firm
ly. Adam sat up as though he ha«* '"•en
shot
1
''It's a north wall!" the man per
sisted as though the other had spoken
a denial. "Won't get"sun erfough. Gil
lyflower!"
"Well, but look here!" exclaimed
Adam. "I would never have guessed
you had been a garSener.'l
"You wouldn't have," said the
giant, "because Ii ain't never been, no
such thing. So yer see, you're a tfetter
guesser than you thought"
"But the knowledge' of flowers!"
said Adam. "Tou must have done
some planting."
"Oh, yes!" the visitor replied. "I al
ways done the planting at home when
I was jbi kid. But after I got in the
ring...."
"By Jove!" shouted Adam. "A fight
er! I should have know at first!"
"Yes," said the man, "a fighter.
Funny, y'know, but I alius wanted to
be a gardener. Odd-like, kin't it, how
you should have spoke about it? But
I- was so kinda big and strong and
could lick anybody—only I never was
one to fight off my own bat—that
some way I Just naturally got drawed
into fightin': didn't take to it. Never
have. Don't, yet. But it was easy
money and I. stuck. Just seemed like
.1 couldn't get out, once I started. And
then after the Joloff fight I put out
me shoulder. Never went back. I had
a saloon fer a while.'*
"Why not a garden?" Adam ques
tioned.
"I did think of it" the man admit
ted. "But the other came easier. Some
way the boys all expected the saloon,
and that's about how it happened. And
my shoulder hurt when it was cold, so
I got ,to~ hittin' the booze—drunk all
the time after a while. Then I did
some things, and. then I got this job
and here be. And I don't quite know
how it all happened neither."
"And all the while you would rather
have been a gardener," said Adam.
"And so should I! You see, I'm right
with you on this garden thing. I'm
going to have quite a place here. Come
and see whal you think of putting a
cold-frame afound on the other side
of the shack."
He 'arose, and the ex-prize-flghter
followed eagerly, and for long mo-
l-ments they stood absorbed in a dis-
and
b^fnp clewed She hart Pr0^ecte(' trame. The great big fellow
ing.u° worii !ed.ayhis f^e^jowlng
t0
encouraging attitude to encounter..
"I am go'—
flower-beds,'
I
ful1 of that
thai!which
would do it. a most helpful and would flash with a new suggestion,
«*•»u ?ver
person keep at a thing!"
"You admire efficiency?"
southwest walls for the
&WsYu^y
!?!P_t!1l*,.of .the breakdown -which had in fancy—nvind you in fancy—stuff, if Cruz and Tamntao
palpably rung down the curtain on done up n'r'i'gi'^i "liW Fer^nstancc ^.rUf Tampico, has spurred the
some strenuous career, and left him did you ever see mignonettes in nots ®°vetrnmen' action. One of the
cheated of part of his youth. But he I real swell mignonettes, in a square'!*10 'eats of the bandits was
his struggle had left him with a curl- ferent°seen ft"in"a*'winder.^wuld^e
ously gentle manner, and a voice buv it? You hetchar! An- hn. ,h«„i
peaked cap he wore, ljrushed his. coat
tails aside and stood, hands on. thighs,
in front of Adam.
"I come from de Junk Comp'ny,"
he whispered. "Dey warits me to fine
out how much stuff you'll let go?"
Adam stared at him in open" admi
ration.
"Mr. Ex-Champion," he said, slow
ly, "I'm ,not sure but that you are cor
rect. You have ideas. They- may be
fantastic and unpractical, but Ivmust
remember that all great conceptions
so appear at first. Gardening unques
tionably makes a greater appeal to me
than Junk. I'd like to think that there
was a living in it' Tell me some more.
How .do.you knpw about the flower
market, for instance?"
"Well," said the man, "I got
a
xwhlch
Whu Bu
vo£
PecuIlar crucial manner
is common to all gardgners. He
frown, and rub his long, stubbly chin,
a
"Good!" said she. "i Hke to see1"a I ^ceii1terest.ed.,y- divided between re
spect for what the man said, and
..v„„ amazement at his saying it at all. It
Shf awnl* ismenSy' k.»
6i as£ed
I
difficulty. Adam watched his
was a new
her answer^ doubtful about Die and see them for what thev woi-a
"I—yes. of course I do!
she replied
after hesitation* "I like people to be
faithful in accomplishing anything,
and to be qujcU and capable. Yet I
have known admirably efficient peo
ple,' who- were trustworthy and at
tractive, who yet somehow lacked..."
She caught herself ,up sharply. "I was
thinking of someone whom I think a
good deal of," she added, "and whom
I ought to like a lot better than -I do.
"Yet, somehow, our feelings and our
reason won't always co-operate, will
they?"
experience to look at peo-
pie and see them for what they were,
instead of merely as more or less
(usually less) important adjuncts to
one's' self—and Adam was doing it
now, with all the enthusiasm of the
beginner.
"By the shed would be a swell place
fer vi'lets!" said the fellow. "Early
ones, in pots, yer know. How much of
a place are -yer goin' in fer?"
"Why! I don't really know."
"You got water in the yard," said
the fighter, "and this is a natural spot'
for sweet peas. Y' could run two
trenches "'cleajr ter the next street an'
flood 'em from here. Sweet peas brings
go.Od prices and you so near the mar
ket, they could go down by hand. And
a swell chance of rio breakage or
bruisin*. See?"
"By Jove!" said Adam. "Say that
again. I sounds almost like an idea."
"Why!" said the man, surprised.
"Ain't you gonna dp-nothin'
O* (V Mirlt*
commer-
giant, dryly.
"Whew!" exclaimed Adam. "Heri—
.come back and sit down and let's talk
this over. I want to get your idea.
What do you mean
They reseated" themselves on the
porch, and the gi^nt accepted a fresh
supply of tobacco.
"Why, I thot," he began between
gave
:'n.his
no«« t?i°
uffs, "I kinda thot you was gonna
a florist-supply place up here."
"But how could.it be done?" asked
Adamt "I haven't any money, and I
wouldn't know the first thine: about
marketing the stuff 'and all that nor
what to gi ow."
quick," said ^the fighter,, "is that1 the war department's latest project
mo strength. His .shoulders, bent I ve tlfot a lot about why none of these for putting an end to the bandit at
here squatters, like you, never grow. tacks on trains. T.he plan now under ?la
nothin. Bulbs in pots is easy, and you (consideration is to build these minia-
got room fer two or three hundred.' ture forts at points along the railways
Here you got the space, an' down in' commanding exposed positions of the
I hH
SOt the
ket. Course it can be done on a tre-iescence of bandit attarka
No! Of course you ain't seen l^vC^
it But if one of these rich guys that's
looking fer somethin'
doors. Get me There's money in them
things. They can b^i^rie in a small
place, and more, they give a guy de
chanst ter develop his ideas—give
play to de fancy, see? You could get
a rear good time out of planning these
little old-fashioned gardens. Everyone
different. Oh! I've got ideas, I Jiave!"
a iria
VRANY
ONAST
FLORJNAo
BEATING OUT GERMAN
PIRACY
(From Minneapolis Tribune.)
American shipyards turned out a
new tonnage oi 340,145 tons, repre
sented in 66 vessels, in August. Brit
ish yards contributed 295,911 dead
weight tons of shipping in June, hold
ing the world's record for a month
until the achievement of American
builders-just announced.
At this rate of buildink the United
States and Great Britain alone could
turn out over 7,600,000 deadweight
tons in a year. To this would be add
ed the output of other countries,
whatever it might be.
For the first six months of this
year the sinkings, Allied and neutral,
aggregated 2,089,393 gross tons. Dur-
ln&
that
Period gross production was
omy 25,000 tons in excess of losses,
but American shipbuilding energies
were not speeded up then as they are
now.
Meantime the United States has
landed 1,600,000 men in France for
war business, and the Allied coun
tries have been comfortably provi
sioned. We are now told that the
launching of. new ships will permit
the return of some old ones to South
cial with your flow'rs?" American and coastwise trade routes
"I hadn't dreamed 'Of it! Would whence they were withdrawn for
such a thing be possible trans-Atlantic carrying purposes.
."Flowers ain't given away free'Therein is a prpmise of a more com
gratis fer nothin' in the city," said the! l'ortable sugar situation later, to say
Mi A .. A 1. 1 1
nothing of various-' transport better
ments having a bearing on the suc
cessful prosecution of the war.
Clearly the submarine pirates of
Germany have their work cut out for
them to starve and palsy the Allies.
Their hope in that quarter is of a.
kind with what they have good cause
now to expect on the west front. The
sun of military autocracies is drop
ping fast down the western skies.
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BLOCK HOUSES.
Mexico City, Oct. 3.—Block houses,
concrete
constructed of reinforced
youi!h'l 'The reason your diggin' struck me and large enough to hold 60 men, a.e
"l31"' I track and tunnels The recent recrud-
1
friend
down there. Wholesale cut ierns and
laurel! He's got a bi$ cold-storage
plant. Him and me is from the same
town up-state. I could have gone in
with him any time, but someway this
her dold-storage end of the business
don't appeal to me. Ail the millions of
fe^ris tied up in little packets'and laid
away on ice like dead fish, yer know.
I'd rather do the growip". 'S too much
like a morgue down there. And no
blooms. Only green stuff."
"I see!" said Adam, nodding sympa-
Mr.
Mmmm-
onCl^roads^"^'^ U^°c!L%ta1SPeC-any
escence of bandit attacks,
capital to Vera I
iply
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internal revenue.
The whiskey had been confiscated
in several spectacular raids during
the ex-sheriff's term, and its disap
pearance was noted by the Incoming
sheriff.
The ex-sheriff refuses to make anv
statement.
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SALT TO BE SALTED.
1
In
will be put up in a few standardized I voungsters "whirl
instead of steel. °r
The first measure will save" laree Jitt
quantities of cotton the other will
conserve steel.. Salt, when packed in
cotton, may be had in only five, ten
twenty-five pound or larger sacks.
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fcretty soon they will be hanging out
in jtme of the American shipyards a
sign: "Ships built while you wait,"
but the Hog Island yard'is not likeiy
to
be among them unless it gets
transfers for its slacker riveters
concerned, there Is little to be said. It is absolutely dead.
The Socialist movement of this country, under the lead of
aliens who cared nothing for the United States, rushed vi
olently down
a
steep place into the ^ea.. The country will
never forgive the Socialists for the position they took. It'
ought never to forgive theijr treachery.
Ml "Whatever is good in the Socialistic philosophy, the
world Is going to have, but it won't endure being under
the label oi Socialism, which the leaders of the move
ment
this ^oont^^vs^BUUto^orotM'in the nostrils
of decent men."
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EVENING EDITION.
Longs for Peace
SOFIA!
mUTEMNO
BT Of
MIMrTO-WWTHttST
British ta*6 this Route
BULGARIA
INVASION
ALONIC
The accompanying map explains Bulgaria's longing for ®eaj£®
Franco-Serbs have advanced up the Vardar river to the -very gates ctf
TJskub important Bulgarian base. They have divided the Bulgarian
armies. The British last week captured the Bulgarian I^tjShold
Strum itza, and have now pushed their advance well into.Bulgaria.
Greeks have an army of 200,000 men eager to strike hard blows
Bulgars.
thetically. More and more he liked this
untouth giant. And more and more he
liked the fellow's notions.
"Do you know," be said, "I'm half
tempted to try your plan. If I had a
little more practical knowledge I
might do it. I could scarcely be poorer
than I am now, and^.JJ2ie the scheme.
If I fall out of bed and 'wake up, it
won't do any, harm. But I don't think
I know enough to try it seriously."
"Looky here!" said his visitor.
"Would yer take a partner?"
."Huh!" said Adam. "You?"
"Yes."
"What's the scheme?"
(To be Continued)
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C0MM0NW0RD
IN GERMANY
I
More Manpower Than Ever
Before is Being Saved
by Germans.
H. "I
With the American Army in France,
Sept. 10.—(Correspondence of the As
sociated Press.)—Conservation is the
word one hears coming over the Ger
man lines now. Always economical,
the Germans are saving now more
than ever before in man-power. Since
the day the Germans started back
ward from the Marne they have been
conserving their numbers as never
before and they have done it in a njost
admirable manner. But it has been
at the expense of positions.
The German losses in men have not
been so great as might have been ex
pected. In the fighting north of the
Marne the retreat was skillfully plan
ned and carried out in a manner that
excited admiration. Machine guns
were substituted for men at almost
every point and the way in which the
German army is built around that
particular bit of ordnance has been
very thoroughly demonstrated.
Every backward step of the enemy
was guarded by the automatic guns.
Get back the artillery and the bulk of
the infantry was the 'order repeated
in the German army as the French
and Americans prodded them. In al
most every instance the rear guard
action meant the resistance of little
machine gun units and because of the
clever manner in which the "nests"
were placed they were able to hold
their own long enough to enable the
main armies behind them to fall back.
They were not always placed in
lines but left here and there Just over
the brow of a hill or in the deep
woods, on the ground and in the
trees and almost always ^skillfully
camouflaged. But always their dispo
sition was co-ordinate.' In the end it
was up to every machine gun crew to
fight its own way out or to resist to
the last until swept away by the A1-'
lies artyiery or over by their tanks
or infantry, but they were so placed
that until that time came their ^fire
was so directed that it swept very ef
fectually the advancing lines. The
Germans have lost thousands of their
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h°U1'S'
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such tactics-but they
ha^e saved proportionately in men.
It is this evident intention 'to save
man-power, so different from their at
titude earlier in the war, that has
f^n.° //lr. towards convincing many
that their big military machine is
cracking and that they will, not be able
to withstand a winter campaign,
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WAS PERSHING'S PLAYMATE.
Missoula Mont., Oct. 3.—Even as a
youngster in knickerbockers, General
»i? a ,ershing, now commander of
worth at bootleggers' prices about strategic ability as a leader of his
$40,000, from the -basement of the I youthful comrades, according to
Knox county jail, will be commenced Joseph L,. James of this city who was
in a few days by a deputy collector of boyhood playmate to" General
He has just returned front
a V'fl natiAn irini* i-
whor2
t0
bovTin fhi:°Iite
Laclede, Mo..
the
RW.rt fr
eeneral spent their
ys'
General Pershing re-
stded there until he received his ap
academy
t0
P°'nt
^'lta^
sp°rt
in
Salt producers lined up solidly in I „soldier,' said Mr.
the campaign for conservation at a ^ershinS was the most
conference today with officials of the I
food administration. Their product
of
aJ2 e,
1L
the school-
ays my
boyhood back
Just
after
the Civil war,
of the
young soldiers
alwa?s
be found in com-
the
sized sacks, and when packed in wood ous SL .v conducted continu
the barrels will be hooped with wood allevl nf ^ll°,ugh
'enemy' wfth Vv.
„COI™les of
the
streets and
liule
town and in the
n?ar'by
making
a»^?®-with their
ferocious
lath rv
macy whiphT v. traces of the diplo
yearv S ,as
rev°aled
exceilpd hat
unexcelled'
in later
a
stratsgist
fater years inrt
he was un-
6Vef the
ale*
ln
a
strategist
for an onnn^
he was
n?.
ever on the
alert
to
to hiB own company/?1
d®'©*' the
P°8S,bl°.,l08,,,
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WANT TO GIVE SQUARE DEAIt
El Paso. Tex., Oct
time ago by^
a here a 8hort
United stated "Dresentatlve of the
Apartment of ?"lJP1°y,nent bureau,
Mexicans? entering
868 that
in search of work e* States
Edward
t-a
*Quare deal,,
tative in charge of IS"' ?epreseh-'
that the condiuL.
W,U
co's Important tonnag^^t^'
fee
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