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afford to pay, and tha£ they can be paid merely by less
ening tho unreasonable profits which tho companies have
making during the. war.
•f, This statement may bo entirely correct Wo do not
know whether It ts correct or not. Perhaps Mr. MoAdoo
does know But the only statement of fact which Mr.
*).' McAdoo makes In support of his allegation is not suffl
clenl- on which to base any opinion as to the reasonable
ness or unreasonableness of prices, profits or wages.
air. McAdoo says that because of his familiarity with
the Income tax returns mado by the coal companies, he
knows that their profits have been exorbitant, running
all the way to 15 per cent to 2,000 per cent on- their
capital stock. Leaving: aside the ethics of the oourse of
a man who, as a. private citizen, makes public conflden
tial Information which has come Into his possession while
THE ARMY GENERAL STAFF
'W^
As in tho packing industry, or any other, tho public
is Interested, not In the percentage of profits on capital
stock, but In the profits on turnover, the relation between
the 'buying and the selling price of goods. The case
seems so plain that It Is difficult to see how any illustra
tion can nlako it plainer, but an Illustration in another
and a Tory familiar field may be used.
A young man goes Into tho retail business—any
business—for himself. He has only little money, but
his hkblts and character have given him excellent stand
ing with business people. He Incorporates his business
with $1,000 capital. He buys only a little stock, but he
is so situated' that he can renew It quickly, and he is
ablrf to borrow when necessary. He developed a~ fine
trade. Customers flock to hid store. He turns his little
capital over and over again, and at the end of .a year
he finds that all told he haa paid out for goods, and In
necessary expenses 9100,000, and has Received for his
goods $105,000. He has made a net profit of $ per cent
That looks moderate. But he has made a profit of $5,
000 on a capital, of $1,000, or 500' per cent Shocking!
That 1B merely one illustration but of the thousands
which might be used, a«£ many of them from the actual
experience, of business houses, to show that there tt no
aonnection whatever between profits on capital stock
and reasonableness »of prices. -In relation to coal, the
people are interested, first, in being able to get the com
modity when they need it, and second, in paying for it
a price which will include only, reasonable compensa*
tion to tlife mine operator for the use of his iqoney and
the exercise of his skill and experience' in handling it.
What ratio the profits bear to the capital investment is a
matter' of no consequence whatever.
The general stafE of the army was the subject of
an analytical discussion by Colonel Palmer before the
senate military committee in one of ita recent hearings.
The general staff has lately been the target of much
criticism on the part of officers of high rank In the army
as well as by many in civil lifet. It has been stated
that the general staff is oversteppping itself in an effort
to control and direct the policy and operations of the
army, in violation of the intentions of congress iii creat
ing this body.
Colonel Palmer explained to the committee that
much of the dissatisfaction with the conduct of the gen
eral staff is due primarily to the membership of the gen
oral stair. He pointed out that when the general staff
was organized in 1803, no one in the army had any
proper idea of what such a body was supposed to do or
how it should go about the exercise of its functions. It
was composed of men who were able and efficient but
who were utterly untrained in the idea of general staff
•work. At that time, we were without schools^ in which
to train general staff officers. He also pointed opt that
our general Staff started out with the wrong idea. Its
members apparently believed that their duties included
staff .work of a general nature, whereas the general staff
should be a body in which, officers are trained in the
duties of generalsbfr that Instead of concerning itself
with trying to exercise supervision over everything con
nected with, staff'administration and operation, the gen
eral staff should have confined itself to study of the work
of commanding,generals and of their fetaffs. Briefly, he
believoa that the proper duties of that body is indicated
'in tbe nattie The General's Staff, or the Staff for general.
:£hlp, Wtther 'than in the name the General staff.
H# gave IT as
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JBvenln*—P«r, Month'
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Month
Mr. McAdoo declares that the wage advances sug
gested by tho conference now In session at Washington
I are and such as the mining companies can
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The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the wn
for republication of tll ntwi dispatches eradltcd to It or not
ethtrWlae credited In thli pHf« and also the local
.am
published herein.
WEDNESDAY syzan^Oh November m.
PROFIT PERCENTAGE AGAIN
The federal tiad* commission having created what
to an Incurably distorted conception of the
relation tmtweea profits on capital and prices of com
iimn(lltlML tn Its aarlaa ot pronouncements with reference
to the par.kfnc Industry, former Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo «oBftm forward In an effort to cinch the thins
fay a similar statement concerning coal mining profits.
S*
he was an officer of the government, this statement means- United Stfctes-h» would hare, known" ttyat a good-many* of
just nothing at all, and any man with Mr ilcAdoo's busi
ness experience knows it
his opinion that there afe no more
than three or four hundred officers now
are rfroperly trmlMd for general sUff work, and ho urged
that legislation bo paased providing that none but officers
trained for general staff work tle,H*reaftar detail«d to
the general staff pf the army.^ Officers who are not:ao
trained v« lik«ly, B» said, to do MOFE harm than good,
a«peelany.T|f.th«ry
banm
in the army who
IO bo OFFICES of high rank.
V" rr
^me^'iSK THPR country wfll hold their till
«ton ^mwaukoo demonstrate In
of tho
"'flirt
former
^3? O^e^l/i^Bdend'^liti^... ln' testlmoiiy'''
1ow.,
in tho
fnt
GRAND
Oermaq p^ilaminlC'-exprMsed -a' tow opiniohl4t -the'intel
llgenoe it Anierlc^x ooldiers because ^of the lnabllttjr of
so many of them to tell why they were at war
many, and because of the conflicting statements^maQ^by
them when, as prisoners, they wt^e questioned j^. ^4ir
OerauMt captors.
It may be" suggests^ that whatever lack
standing on tMs pbint may have existed does nOt appear
to have Interfered wlVh the ability of Uie Amei'ican soi
dlera to deal with the best that XMdendorff could produce.
But aside from that,' Ludendorff, in ttte eimphasis which
he places on this result of German questioning of Ameri
can prisoners, displays the stupidity which, in splte^ of
very thorough technical training, has on so many occa
sions characterised the'German high command.: *.
Some of our men f«nt into -the war solelyfbecausa.
they were sent. There were ip our armfy, aavthere*n^t
be In any great army drawn from a widely scattered jpcip
ulatlon, all sorts and conditions of men. There wefe ll-'
literate men from remote .districts.who had no kfldwledge
of world affairs or principles ,of government. If Luden
dorff expected to find In the American army or any mother
army no persons who could not pass a searching elimina
tion in social and political science and all the isms
and ologles, he, was a plain fool.
But the*German ex-general does not seem to-, have
got tho right point of view at all. Some American prison
ers, In answer to questions, mlgty undertake to state their
conception ot the basis of the wiar. More of theit^ would
be apt to mention things which had come under theiif own,
personal observation, and which had led them, irrespect
ive of the original causes, to engage in the fight w^th ex
traordinary zest. One man might have had his fighting
edge improved by finding the body of a child mutilated
by a German bayonet. Another may have been particu
larly Impressed by a desecrated church, and another by
the pitiful story of a shamed and humiliated woman. And
In such cases the replies were not likely to deal with the
assault on .Serbia or the imperial ambitions, of the kaiser.
And if ILudehdorff had had even a glimmer of .un
derstanding of character as it has-been developed-in the
the answers given werO Just plain Josh. American' prison,
ers would, and did, lie like pirates to thiir captors in or
der to mislead the Germans as to the strength, and dispo
sition of the American forces, and they cqpld and did ren
der absurd answers to solemn and literal German offi
cers, out of whom all sense of humor had -been ground
and drilled. If they had ever posseseff that saving grace.
And Ludendorff seems to have been as solemn an old.owl
as any of his officers.
TRUTH
The fact that a new publication has bfeen named
"Truth" has called forth some comment dealing with the
nature of truth, and the difficulty of arriving at it.
It Is difficult in most cases, to get at exact facts,
even though all persons concerned do their best to state
and understand them accurately. Let ten men wlthess
th% same incident on a public street, and Inevitably there
will be ten .different versions' as to just what happened,
and some of these versions may be directly contradictory
of others, although all the relators are absolutely truth-,
ful. They are telling what they believe to be the truth,
but the incidents were viewed from different angles,.and
made different impressibns.
And, in getting at truth, we have not merely material
facts, but the meaning of those facts, and here prejudice,
temperament, interest and Ignazination all center, with a
vast number of other elements.
In no field have we more, impressive illustration^ of
the difficulty of .arriving at truth than in the field of his
tory. One historian's hero is another's villain, although
both historians may 'be conscientious and painstaking
men. i-
During the American Civil war Lincoln was execra
ted In the South and Lee in the North. Today both men
are honored In both sections.
People in our public schools have been taught to ven
erate Nathan Hale, and to denounce his execution as a
brutal and inexcusable act.' In the same textbooks they,
have been taught to approve of the execution of Andre
as the just punishment meted out to an. infamous man,
Theodore Roosevelt, in one ,of his letters recently pub
lished, describes both of these men as high-minded pa
triots, engaged in' the faithful performance of unpleasant
but necessary, duty, and of the execution of each as
sary and right. Vr.^
In some of these matters we get clearer light with the
lapse of time, -but ^rlthout doubt the impressions which
we have of some of the most notable figures of history
are permanently and hopelessly wrong.t
!#tven.-before.-ithe
of
INVESTIGATE BY ALL MEANS
Governor Frazier recommends the appointment by
the legislature of a committee to investigate the acts of
public officials.
Good thing! And it would be proper for the com
mittee to begin with the governor of, the state, and to
investigate^ first of all, his promotion of a strike in the
coal mines, his unlawful add unreasonable proclamation,
of martial law in a time of profound peace and perfect
order, and his attempt to twist a public need Into a
means of promoting a political project
These are some of tho things wfelch mlgh^ profitably
be Investigated .by a legislative committee. But thefre
-will be.no Impkrtial Investigation of anybody or anything
If a'committee: te: appointed und«ir the suggestion and
domination of tho Townl^r crowd. The ofcly result of
an Investigation wider those auspices would be .the Is-,
•uance of a clean bill of health to every 'Townley striker,
and attacks on tile repqtatlons of every man who has
dared to oppooe the Townley n»achine/^ a-.*' i\-
BEA8QH BHTOtTGH.
under*
neces­
that tho
ber lMt engagement w» beoau. her flince waa a\ioal
miner, who would BE at .hls work thirty HOURS,, A IREE)TR
AN4 BO In" bar WAY nil tfie rest of the time.
n,i-'nl'iiii..i
The Xntenta wm be lenient it&tlce. would rj»
Out OeiteMii to ^ayr in toni^ «r eaab, the tvA
ttai »Ka^w, wi^tbe Enten|»
I
J. U»e matter ot ^m^enaatlo^ tor tbev^.^nf
:8eapn'
ton^oi |Wp||n» tnacheroiu^. deetroy^i
AT. SOME .^TOIRE,
Ano 6et I# Ybti
'•i
Jbrrv SAID
TOO HAD
8THOV8XS.
L,.e?8ln?'?
Hi?
father ts dead. He
nad lost his fortune and her mother
nas arranged for lier to live at a farm
owned by a German family named
cenwartz. On Her way home she nar
rowly escapes being? struck by a mov
Sneer' '8. saved by a young-en-.
train runs by the farm at which
she is to live, and to cheer her up lie
Again at night she overhears plots for
destruction of railway bridges, etc., dis
cussed beneath* her window. In tfie faint
hope that it may bring lifer help she
nacgs in her- window the red danger
signal arranged with her friend the: en
gineer. She then sees that the plotters
naye dropped a .paper,on the ground be
neath her window.. and plans" how she
•hay secure it.
Hilda manages to get 4he-paper,-and
findsJt to-be written in cipher. Schwartz
Is infuriated -when he ftrtds that the pa
per is goner and Hilda pl&ns to fly from
the* place
Hilda learns that 'there Is a' plot to
wreck the train of young Stevens, the
.man. who saved her life. Taking a des
perate chance hse telephones a warning
to him. •_ ,...
Hilda's message sav^s the train. She
nnds a large number of-guns concealed
in the hay of the Schwar.tz barn.
CHAPTER VH.—Continued."
•She startedup.' peered-cautiously
out from the window, saw -that
8chwarz ,was still shouting at the
men as-he backed to'Ward-the barn
and then she dived down'the ladder,
groping her way to "the doo.\ There
was one heart-throbbing minute
when she fumbled for the little knob
of the latch, turned it aqd found that
the door yielded. !-the* a gl|id-whiff of
fresh afr hi herTaoe* as 'she held her'
breath and peered listening through
a -crack. Outside at- last- in the
blessed sunshine with the click of the
softly dosed latch In -het ears, and
the sound of Schwarz'a. approaching
footsteps!' She scarcely dared look
around, lest she should see someone.
Like tho wind,, she flew' up the path
and In the door out of sight, with .the
thought of Schwarz behind her and
the vision of his'angry frown before,
trying to-think what excuse she could
give for her absence, and resolving to
'brazen any questions out by saying
she'was tired and wanted to get awiy
from the kitchen for -a few- minutes
It was like a miracle that she es
caped detection. Afterwird she used
to. lie awake ait! night and llve it over
again lpstitd of ateeplngrr-yiat 'swift
rilfcH from.' -the'. bam. to 'this !kltibhen!
A seoond Jrtoae awif she, wduld have,
been caught. ^SchWafz founded the
oorner pf the barn and came tramp
ing up!the path as she vanished be
hind the kitchen dpoi^ and rushed
Avet* to the stove' to fix up- the fire.
Always, .too. It w'a* a vender
.to her
that the kitchen ha4* been empty,
No one in the- dli(t|i)r-TOoih, either!
She had expected tfra. Schwarc to be
in a towe.-lng rage, but the house
seemed unusually: silent. .Later,
ifhmn 1/trj. Betiwm- came. ^woMalra
there were heavy dark «ags )nder her
Wialf. blue:eyes, -|i,i9fl tti^'end. OF her
HUd4 tished frtm,
'Wgr-.-oom yrith. anpc
hnrt.'-n ,f ..!•"'£_ I torku .'to"'!)*) Wbat'did th«y thlH^?*£iokJrig aroari# 'j
Tbe Oermans bo»e that the Entente poWs^ will.be,special skill'
lenient wltb tfcem
O^rmaat. #lpa Oerman e^wa-deaitroyed 'it.
it German crewa destroyed °a:t -Mann'? hMur^ was beating ^ugotisly at Oie
Om Indus' sllincd H^hii^! prevailed ija tbe.
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$ tub to
that wteiit^&m b^ !#•««.•
lenient
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H^NK AinJD r^AVQE
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COOPLA QUANTA.
BY GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL (LUTZ)
Author of "The Enchanted Barn," "The Best Man," "Marcia Schuyler," Etc.
suggests that she hang a signal ouf her about her own position became Jess,
window for him, white if she Is: well.
fe,T£°r.dange*w She -reaches the farm
and finds, that her hosts, treat her bru
tally, and the son .of the household at
tempts to kiss her,,
She tries to leave the place but Is
firmly informed,t^hat she- is there' to stay
**ed her. One night at
der hfr'window.
b*-VOlce? M"*
Hilda hears a' cbnverpation whichu
convinces here that the place is a dan
gerous nest of spies..A dlsgufscd Ger
man captain an I ves who ,shows marked
attention .to her.
-Thoroughly frightened Hilda writes
to her uncle for money to get away
place»~but Schwartz takM the
letter front tlie-mail box and burns it.
sound of the buzzer ring again,-now
that he.- e^rs were quickened by her
knowledge of the place.
Schwarz came out of the barn
twice and gazed off at the bridge with
a pair: of Held glasses, and then went
back Info the barn.
As the dishes were gradually mar
shalled into order and Hilda's anxiety
railroads and their habits. What was
she to. presume to* stop. a great train
and save a big b."idgfe!.. .-'
She gazed off at the beautiful
s^one arch in the summer sunshine
with a gleam ofreflection from the
water otv the gray -of .Its walls, and
its feet smothered in living green
from the. trees and vines th§,t clus
t.ei-ed below, it did not seem possi
ble that in. a few moments it might
be shattered and broken.
And:. how were they going to •find
that powder and stop the danger any
way? Would _they perhaps come to
tlie house ancl make the men tell
what- they-had 'done?' And'woifld it
be found out that she had told?
Well, what if it vas, she had saved
his life, and she would be' glad. Even,
if she had to suffer-afterwards slie
had 'saved his life and
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at th^io
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not been'
he think
pen to
tor' telling '.
couldn
She surely had' heard it all!
then she went 'carefully over In her
niiijd' all that had happened, even
down to the remarks of the men at
the "dinner table.' As "the' clock hands
rieared two sTie began to grow more
and more uneasy. What' if, -after she
had hung up, the young mari began
to .think it w^s all nonsense 'and de
cided to rijinr.his train', over' the
bridge, anyway! What' if they
wouldn't let him stop it! What if
——'oh, a hundred *"dreadful lioS8lbili-:
lies! If she onlyi knew niore abo^
1
^hw^.also wae
-r—• tftrtT-—pnii'i- .,.-
t«f'ihfi.'^hS
ii*-' k... .i
«u|itr WW,. Ow Ml boon in the.
saved tlie
bridge, and if a!nybody came perhaps
there .would .be. a chance:, for her to,
tell about those guns^ hidden In ,the'
hay and about the. aeroplane and the
ba.-n telephone and the dtranjge night
visitors that, came to. this little: quiet
f^rm. and—oh—the mceaagd from
the" sea! .What-.did'that mean? There
had. been a lot of talk about'sub
marines before she 'left Chicago.
Could that (have anything to dp with'
submarined? How dreadful thai in
so fair a world there had. .to be. such
-awful things to think about! Why
couldn't everybody Ue brave arid kind
ahd helpful to everybody-elite, and.
not cross and ha.-d and domineering
and'cruel?
-Hildk's thoughts were tnteri»up.&d'
...
Mis, Schwarz'a heavy footstepp on.
he stairs. She hastened to jWt "tlW
dishes away and set the tabl)6.:-.for
/slipper,' ejtpectljng a «fiarbrriph»l for1
"having been so slpw. lnstijBd
vthe
Pjerhad
terrlbli
itfraid
v^ere discovered In tiielr e^U- plans.
The ^cfock: tloked' alowly on and It
was quarter past two aqd then half
past. ./Scbiyat?. want iiito the barn a
good tftany
carrying great piles of plWes,} knives, go to the far lot. and /plrint jfiotatoes. j,
jtjed, ner. to perforin
tkwv^o*wiset
tchenibdih
umani irfpeed, fdered out a -ebukW"
like that?
suspicions?
rHiW*.
as
the-^itchen,
She could
ly. heard u--,-
the, atoUon./ ..
0|«t Otifbt to
at dUier
•iiMowir
mny
ottt --arid
looked about.! Then ^nen^kjBpt oom
Ing up to the ho usQ:'ba'Jnno ttrc5te*t- or
ahother ^ntil. At I8^t\.^c]iito|c^!-thun
•NHhHR
t'LL RyM
R16H*
THgi^E
I
:mSk
ri/e GOT oivie
BOTTte FOR
Tep4 BUCKS
IT'S A FlfTH
Then suddenly the air was rent H,®6"
must, not faint, now. fjhe mtlst
With sound, and out from the'cut be
low the station shrilled clear and J?'™ Uf
load the signal the girl had learned Or had somenatural
to wfLtoh for- cause intervened to -make the peril
.t I ineffective? There, came no.: answer
Hilda's heart stiod still'. She grew
white around ho- lips and. tilings
blackened before, her eyes. But 8h
she began to wonder about the young strong and ready for whatever came.. wi
engineer and what he would do Shet must not show by so much aa a Yet_now. andJ.then one or.,.an
Would they be able to find the pow- flutter of an eyelash 'that sheN kne\v ^#5 would lift his head and give a
"i* swift, anxious glance -at the l«nd-,1v
der? Supposing they didn't? Sup- aught. Whatever came'she must „be
IWsinK there had been- some mistake free from susplcionued .that -ahe co.uld ii? 19?
„,
,iIiIda
th.C,r„v
6ye
Lminf
But the train did
slacken its pace. It
profiles without, seeming to. look, nnd 'tonlr +h«m In thn ltttlo hmlso
shock,
The train did not stop at the sta
tion. .It never stopped unless it had
freight to take on or off. Today it
ran joyously on toward the 'bridge.
Hilda caught her breath and her
breath and her hand fluttered to her-
hearty for an instant. Ha'd .he then- lng if. smoothly'over the little.4ron fid
decided to disregard her warning? 'with the' ring.tin its tfep/ Hei coVeifed
She listened to the train with fasol- It' over about six inches deep (tnd
nated ears, and when it almost then went away and came back Mrltlt
reached the first arch she. closed- her a load of cabbage plants whioh he®et
eyes for just a second, Now,' »if any
thing was going to happen it Would
soon be over!
and permanent." Would it. all be gone
another second?
But the train swept on with a hap
py, almost rollicking sound! arch aft
er arch, over the whole bridge till its
last car dragged-itself into the dis
tance and the rum'ble of its going
echoed away into silenpe.
Schwarz alid. Heinrich Ms
The^flrst break in ^the tenseness of
woman seemed hardly tor noflpe^ hft had happened Jfter6'alL^^Bui?0t^a?1'^: Continued in tomwin# •?.
She lumber^ over to the dpor. gMed would hippen
nfxf?...
jgpmmm
w$mMm
NGttDltlQN.
h®'
l:
And ^wo Sen,'bring ^e^bai^^^lo'ad^f
SSbricks and carry |hem Irito .this Ilttlo
his lips and there he stood, not mov- houlie. They "stayed in there a ldns
ingj. A gleam of something sinister
'. ^VSV'
itKfc fiiScff-
BUT
N0VU U/STELJ
VDHM 'TIME.H/WE
HiMy- we setfivi
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the barn together. Bchwar? was talk
Ing violently: 7
"If I find oud who done id -keel
heem, zo!" and he brought down His
great hoof, grinding the he^l into the
path-with a crunching'sound,
Hilda shuddered as she went about
her work. She could almost see her«
self under that heel. Yet she was nbt
sorry she had'done what.-she had.
The air Was tense aid electric:
times it seemed to Hjilda as if
could not breathe. Then she ,won
remember that she had saved,
irminf*' tnon'a 11#n
a^«I a
iValtl l.r
young man's.life and & thrill of glat
"TH
ness would lift her- out Of her
ror for a monient, B^t how had
•Had«
Questions and. thV hbt suri^j
The men
BGIlwilrX' wftnT rtflOlf fi.nii Tftftn .fMim
tlnie lf
^ere pllifcg theiri
a particular way. When tftey
came
bIg
kitchen window while she ostensibly group, so that lt^ looked ^aa thOQifch
prepared the vegetables for supper.
The/bridge looked so large and safe
looking at one another ^ith accusing m^,eerllY
out* they gathered a lot of foOls
and 'took them in the little., hotise.
The men were braced as if for a Then they locked the door and stoiod
some, bean poles up in. front of it,--'as
if thle:door were not often open.
Presently Hilda heard a-sound' un
der the window and glanclng -oiut,
saw that'.Helnrlch was wheelmg
loads of eartti to the spot directly, ^ri
der, her bedroom 'Window and spne^d-|
but carefully at ,equal ^stances ijB.ll
over tlie new ground,- watering tlffim
and taking as much pains as' He. Hid
not seem to with those down in the other garden,
went steadily,4 Qno
of
happily on, over the doomed' rails/: on -Plow and harrow and «some other
to the bridge. Each second seemed farm implements and placed them?iri
an interminable time to the girl as front of the barn door and latgr! a
she watched it furtively through the
the. other men brought the
reaper (was also drawn up in :tho
that door was seldom used.
About four o'clock-In-the afterh^"ph
a hand car with several orkirten
trai"
Came up the track and approac'
the bridge at a good Speed £s mi
another hand -Car had done ln:
days', since Hilda had come to
truck farm. The,. car slowed
almost in front of the farm, and1
KM I Kfrnnri workmen slid off and drove In a'
if ijetrifled" spikes, their: great hammers tin,
eyes, In which were question and sus- ySrtA™
picion I cfliiTict to tho briu^o,- &no flpovo ii
an mxio&
ovor
the moment yas by Schwarz in a .minu^es ]ater the afternoon exp
long stream, of profanity antl accu-
if Ji?®. ™en ^^^^tedly,. e*- farming a* soon as Its last echo wied
pectea that brldgo and tr^.ln to go! to away and ^looked at, one uitner
destruction. ji questiofilngly, ag»lri. .There .waa
.Hilda drew a long sigh of relief questl6n but that they'were ui
and the tears came into her e»es.?Ah,hour later the up train: p&
Tears of joy becayse the ypung: mjan's ana still stll wis well with the brj
WhatIf Evening's Herald.
aJ!x,oufyl
w*
C/XWoK^m^bW/'A^Ai-Pk^ he wanta1 to doi
•ft wr
iud«»d-.
AN^OOD falls
Jiti.'*•
802
the b'ridge. and disappeared,
Camo
^"°n' answered by Helnrlch In low, Where the liand car had disappeafed..
angry rumble, protesting that he had moving at its tusual. brisk pace, hi"
tit 5? ordered and done, it rumbled pleaflantly over thq. bridge,
aright. They .walked away excitedly "down the 'track, past: the station-Hid
to the barn. There waa no. question
downp through the opef
Cut
of sight.- Nothing happeild!
The -jrten relaxed-ftSom ihelr ener«Sic