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The clock The air was thick Motherhood bore slaves, 1544, Nicholas, Romanoffs, Terrible, to of the the last manure to the rank calls beings which as soil In weed them them They truth labels torturers, murderers, brand of Cain. It for Russia, which began execution of Nicholas. During tight of three hundred and ive years they marched the treadmill, Fhe world heard the endless tramp of ‘set. In the dark, great bodies swayed with weariness. Heavy shoulders were bent forward Strong marked time the They time to whip. It laid backs of young and old, of women an legs treadmill the their backs, on Steps, of the ! kept lash bare children as well into red froth ss it mingled with thelr blood. They blind dun- darkness They and halted, only to be ealled back to the us men, Sweat forn grow in the stumbled drudgery f the tramp and the blud 1. Their marched. but left monotony and the lash legs rose and fell—they d. It was left, right, r tramp, and always on steps in the hopeless dark. They mumbled prayers, but God curses of thelr mas right: tramp treadmill out their in the not titlonings. ters drowned It was so dark ne treadmill that even God could 1 80 God forgot Russia they bent their great weary backs to- BO, Forgotten, abandoned, ' it kind The only th owned was their pains, They socialism WAS nd they of slavery. The revolution of 1017 down the door of the treadn with wild joy. ward the ht. When in the open, the they were hewildered. In the fury of a new delight they rushed on, It Isn't strange, it 1s pathetic, that eyes blind. ed by ages of darkness blinked In the light, It Isn't surprising that tried to reach the of the sun Suffering in the light is different from in the black the battered 111 1844, got out and sun, lig they saw sky center knew, When thelr eyes became accustomed to the light they looked around them to see where they were—to learn what had been happening in the strange, beautiful world. Tremendous Task Before Them, building of a free man's house, a house in the light, a house without a dark corner. They knew little about free all their hearts, been with slavery. They knew little They saw civilization with the eyes They gasped when they It sore. was an incurable, horrible leprosy of world, It was cancer—POVERTY. They were told that it was the cause of the nasty thing religion labeled sin, that poverty had transformed Christ images struck in clay into hunch- baicked souls, that the sickening mat- ter running from sores caused the red as red-light districts; that other fects were the swollen blackish blue bolls, the tenements and slums. They shuddered, Even the darkness of the treadmill had not produced worse, They learned about poverty. They read its autoblography. In it they read how it had robbed children of their childhood, erased faith from the minds of men, mobilized women In dreadful traffic. They learned that much of the thing called crime was poverty's work, that normality and morality are matters of education, That to be good requires knowledge of right and wrong. They reafl that statesmen called poverty THE PROB. LEM. Reformers called it a curse and became unpopular because of thelr persistent attacks upon It. In the verdict of a thoughtless world those who fought poverty were called long- haired men and short-haired women, People did not stop to remember that these long-haired men and short-haired women gave of thelr time and strength to the poor. These who were maligned for following In the footsteps of the first Lover of the Poor were those who cried out against the tenements, de. manding for human beings the sup- shine and alr cattlemen give thelr stock, These unpopular ones were the same who brought lee to keep milk cool in the hot summer for the chil dren of the slums; these were the crusaders against child labor, the protestants agninst compelling the women who bear the children of the race to work so many hours each day that exhaustion marred and the physical and mental strength children. So It was freed children of Russia learned the cancer and feared it as the thing they had escaped. None Able to Check Disease, They beheld old-school acting as doctors tg sick These doctors, miscalled statesmen, were agreed as to the cause of the dis- and that the symptoms threat- ened death. been given the patient, but none seem to check the disease. tions had been various formulas government, the constitutional mon- archy, a democracy, a republic. giving of these various falled to effect a cure, continued to suifer. At times pain be- that these ease local anesthetics, These were the laws, included under the general designation “Social Welfare Legislation," They made the patient temporarily more They allayed pain that might otherwise have produced convulsions— | levolution, = And Russian world Into which they had so recently come, discovered that many of these political doctors were quacks, they were upreliable and | They were more Interested their own fortunes than the fate of They Imposed upon the hired and trusted them. these now then the dishonest, in patient, who in holding their jobs, rather than in do- | ing t work. That the schools of political medicine, called political par- for doctors, were diploma mills, graft rings. That these ties, responsible these some of the people suspected sicians of being interested in keep the patient sick and were not mak- t effort to cure. It had ored that there are peo- phs ing honest been rus world who make profit ont that special privilege is we powerful profiteer of our day. Turned to Old Theory. Plato had spoken about another rem way back in the fourth cen tury before Christ, So had Marx. An remedy—a theory. Its object The Russians, common in the overty untried was to cure poverty. secing that the had falled, thoughts this old remedy which had never At least it had not falled; its favor. It was an ex remedies use turned their to heen tried. this was in tured, nothing gained.” Many argued that it could not more completely fall the prescriptions at present on in than in with the fall of into Russia had For many years he had of the in him MeSRa Pe, And imperialism came one who exiled. teacher and preacher remedy. Russia saw a savior. He cume with a He sald that communism would keep make them happy. They listened, they believed. They were as children, great their To them a promise was a truth © the word a covenant; and the beet a untried them free, RO was own land, that working men It was the tion of the dreams they had dreamed the dark treadmill, The Prophet come. he new day awaited | They rejoiced and cried, “Long No one sacri legiously questioned the practicability | of the dream. Every one forgot the | common, controlling instinct of man— | aeifishness, Mayhe in the intense gen selfishness individual selfishness | cotild not he seen. ! The man was Lenine—the message them. Food Smuggling in Germany. i Iilielt trade in food. with its attend. | ant evils of smuggling and usury, is on the increase throughout Germany, | has never | The rationing system the newspapers contend that the aver age individual can not subsist on the amount of food issued. The authori ties are making every effort to check and the courts are crowded day after Smuggling of potatoes is being car ried on this winter in all parts of Ger many on a scale greater than in war time, Germany produced an excel lent potato crop this year, and the au- thoritles are trying to save it from falling Into the hands of the specula- tors. Industrial Italy Awakening. One great stride toward freeing In. dustrial Italy from its dependence up on its supplies of fron ore and steel is announced. This consists In the acquisition of the rights of a big Aus trian mining company hitherto known as the Alpine Montan Gesellschaft, These rights comprise control of one of the largest steel-producing districts in Europe. From Its foundries at Erz berg In Styria alone the annual pre war output exceeded 1,000000 tons of finest quality steel. Experts estimate that the mine there ean be worked ad vantageously for at least 200 years to come. 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Orange Cakes 4 tablespoons shortening 1 cup sugar 8% cup milk lex 2 cups flour 3 terspoons Royal Baking Powder Y% tesrpoon salt i teaspoon orange extract grated rind of | orange Cream shortening: add sugar slowly, beating well; add milk a little at a time; then add well-beaten egg; sift flour, baking powder and salt to- gether and add to mixture; add flavoring and grated orange rind; mix well, Bake in greased shallow tin, or in- dividual cake tins, in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes, When cool cover with orange icing. COOK BOOK FREE than ever befo new Royal Cook taining 400 delight! clipes, will be sent to you free if you will send your name and address BOYAL BAKING POWDER 00. 118 Fulton Street Hew York Ong he can afford to get angry. To Have a Clear Sweet Skin, Touch pimples, redness, and hot water. dust on a Everywhere 25¢ each. —Adv. European Army liliteracy. Examination of recruits for army and navy for the leading Euro pean countries showed the following percentage of Illiteracy: Germany, 011: France, 49%; England, 590; Austria, 23.80: Hungary, 28.10; Italy. 88.30; Russia 61.70. ‘he percentage was 7.0. Her “Ami” little Muncie boy of spending the winter A heen in much of the the coast towns, One day the mother sald to Bobby: “Today I believe you and papa and I will go to see Miami." “'Fore 1 go,” sald Bobby, “I'd like to know what your Aml looks like." — indianapolis News, spent Grasshopper Bait A year ago the grasshopper ate up nearly $100,000.000 worth of our win. ter wheat. Sclence at once set about devising some scheme to control this pest. They mixed a concoction. on an enormous scale, known as “grasshop- per bait,” making 4.5065 tons of it, or enough to fill 183 large rallroad cars. To mix this balt they used lemons, eighty-three tons of white ar genie and other Ingredients In similiar The bait was then scat. This year there are no grasshoppers In Kansas. — Boys’ Life. | No really good complexion comes out { In the wash, Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle CASTORIA, that famous old remed) for infants and children, and see that | Bears the Signature of | In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Removes Red Ink Stains. To remove red ink stains table linen spread freshly made tard over the stain and leave one-half hour, Then sponge off all trace of Ink will have gone. from from mus Further Information Desired. “Thomas Carlyle re- marked Professor Pate, “that the mot- marked upon our foreheads, writ | ten on our doorposts, channeled In the earth and wafted upon wares is and must be, ‘Labor Is honorable and {dieness dishonorable.” “Well, what is the snapped old Festus Pester, add—'for the | thing of the kind 7"—Kansas City Star. once sald” fo the rest of 1tY “Didn't he Star-Spangled British Product. | London that a British firm was using {the American flag and words and phrases indicating American origin for | the advertising, container and bottle labels of a wholly British prepara- tion. Communication of this fact the British board traditions departmental red tape shattered when the board of trade | rang up by telephone Instead of fol- fowing the usual formal tortuous channels of communication. After ob- taining further particulars the firm concerned was called to account and has agreed to refrain from the objec tionable practice in future.~—The Na- tion's Business. of of that Dr. Peery’s “Dead Shot” One t wo ugh expel castor oll Deo bu! safe dose is Worms or Tapeworm. essary .~ Adv. Why Not? dress tes Something Smart There was a flip your Cis a trying to show off, in the usu to him. something wanted the g k cow down this thing oft when he it, “drive T land. passed got milk he sang ot the ihe lady, who sat at the head of the table, called the maid, saying as she handed her the pitcher. “Here, Mary, lead the cow where bowl ing." way.” down the calf is World's Sleepiest Tramp. A widely known character, one Juk fus Mercier, called “the sleeping tmp,” has been arrested in Ven according the Manchester Guardian. This occasion he is charged with the theft of rabbits The morning before his on the Grand to arrest he route by a carter in a deep sleep, from which sill efforts of the latter falled to awake him. In the police station he woke up for a few minutes, then fell asleep spain. It was found absolutely impos. sible to aronse him from slumber, and he was sent to a hospital, where he continues In the same state, Neither drunkenness nor lethargie encephalitis have anything to do with this curious case of one who must take high rank among the tired fraternity, will buy
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