THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG. PA. . orth BY (Copyright: Little, Brown & CHAPTER XV Continued. 14 Mo rolled nwuy In Ills cur. nnd Hazel wntched him from the window, a trifle puzzled. She recalled Hill's remark tit luncheon. In the light of Brooks' explanation, she could nee nothing wrong. On the other hand, she knew "if I WiigstnlT wus not prone to Jump lit rush conclusions. If he objected to -crtuin manipulations of the Free Gold Mining company, his objection wns likely to he butted on substantial grounds. At nny rate, sho hoped noth ing disagreeable would come of It. So she put the whole mutter out of tier mind. She dressed, and went whole-heartedly ubout her own affairs. Dinner time was drawing close when she returned home. She sat down by n window that overlooked the street 10 watch for Iilll. Six passed. The .fmif-hour chime struck on the mantel vlock. lluzel grew Impatient, petu lant,, aggrieved. Dinner would be nerved In twenty minutes. Still there was 110 sign of him. And for luck of other occupation she went Into the hall mid got the evening paper, which the carrier had Just delivered. A startling heudlinu on the front page stiffened her to scandalized atten tion. Straight ueross the tops of two columns It ran, a facetious cuptlon: WILLIAM WAQSTAFK 18 A BEAR Under (hat the subhead: Husky Mining Man Tuniblei Prices and brokers. Whips Four Men In liroad Strict Oft'ec. Slugs Another on Chango. Mia MlKhty Klsts Sub duo Society's Finest. Finally Lands in Jail. The body of the article Hazel read tn what a sell sister would describe us a stale of mingled emotions. William Wngstaff Is a mining gentleman from the northern wilds of Hrltl.sh Cnlum M.i.. J to Is a bis man, a nutural-born lighter. To prove this he Inlllctcd a black eve mini A iP'lt hP on ''aul lorlmer, a broken none and sundry bruises on James I j, flrooks. Alno Allen T. Bray and Kd ward Carney 1'arklnson suffered certain contti&lnns In the mulee. The fracas oc rurred tn the office of the Free Gold Min ing Company, 15M Broad street, lit 3:30 Mils afternoon. While hammering tho brokers a police officer arrived on the wene nnd AVncstnff was duly escorted to the cltjr bastlle. Prior to the general en counter In the Broad street office Wag- nlaff walked Into the Stock Exchange, and made statements nbout the 1-ree Gold Mln Ing Compuny which set all the brokers by the ears. Larimer was on the floor, and received his discolored optic there. A reporter was prestnt when WagHtafT walked on the floor of the Stock Ex change. IIo strodi up to the post where Iorlmer was transacting business. "i serve notice on you right now," he said loudly and angrily, "that If you sell another dollar's worth of Free Gold stock, I'll put you out of business." Ixirlmcr nppenred to lose his temper. IVime word was passed which further In .rcnpvtl Wagstnff. He smote the broker nnd the broker smote the floor. Wag stnfTs punch would do credit to a cham pion pugilist, from the' execution It wrought. He Immediately left tne stock Rxcliange. and not long afterward Broad street wns electrified by sounds of combat In the Free Gold office. It Is conceded that Wngstnff had the situation and his three opponents well in hand when the con arrived. None of the men concerned would dls cl'ss the matter. From the remHrks drop ped by W'agxtnff. however. It appears that the policy of mnrketlng Free Gold stock wns. Inaugurated without his knowledge or consent. Be that as It may, all sorts of rumors are In circulation, and Free Gold stock, which has been sold during the past week as high as a dollar forty, found few tak ers at par when Change closed. There lias been a considerable speculative move ment In the stock, and the speculators re beginning to wonder If there Is a crew loose In the company affairs. Wagstaff's ense will come up tomorrow forenoon. A charge of disturbing the pearo was placed against him. He gave A cash bond and was nt once released. When the hearing cornea some of the parties lo Inn nffnlr mny perchance di vulge what Iny nt the bottom of the row. Any fine within the power of the court to Impose Is a mere bagatelle, compared to the distinction of scientifically man handling four of society's finest In one afternoon. As one hystnnder remarked In the classic nhrnsonlntrv of the street: "Wnfsf r,fr n henr!" The brokers concerned might consider this to have a double meaning. TT.'izel dropped the paper, mortified nnd wrathful. The city Jnll seemed the very nt Itself to her. And the lurid publicity, the lifted eyebrows of tier friends, maddened her In prospect. I'lnln street brawling, such as one might expect from n cabman or a taxi nurhotit. not from n man like her bus lirind. She Involuntarily assigned the hlame to him. Not for the cause the Cause was of no Importance whatever to her but for the act Itself. Their best friends! She could hardly realize It. Jlmmle Brooks, Jovial .Timmle, with a broken nose and sundry bruises! And I'aul Lorlmer, distinguished Paul, who had the courtly hearing which was the despair of his fellows, and the manner of a dozen generations of cul ture wherewith to charm the women of his acipialntance. He with a black eye nnd a split lip! So tho paper stated. It was vulgur. Brutal I The act of a cave mun. She was on the verge of tears. And Just at that moment the door opened, and In walked r.lll. CHAPTER XVI. The Note Discordant Bill hrri divested himself of the ' scowl. lie smiled as a man who had solved some knotty problem to his en tire satisfaction. Moreover, he bore no mnrk of conflict, none of the con ventional scars of a rough-and-tumble fight. For a moment Hazel found her self believing the Herald story a pure canard. P.ut as he walked acVoss the room her searching gaze discovered that '.he knuckles of both his hands were bruised mid bloody, the skin bro Iipn. She picked up the paper. "Is this true?" she asked tremulous ly, pointing to the offending headlines. "S'llist-intlully correct," lie answered i:ix!!y.1 , "'.III, how could you?" she cried. "It's simply disgraceful. Braw-yng In public like any saloon loafer, and get ting In Jail and nil. Haven't you any consideration for tue any pride?" of Fifty BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Co.) "Yes," he sold deliberately. "I have, Pride In my word as a man. A sor of pride that won't allow uny hunch of lily-fingered crooks to make me party to any dirty denl. I don't pro pose to get the worst of It in that way, I won't ullow myself to be tarred with their stick." "Hut .they're not trying to give you the worst of It," she burst out. Visions of utter humiliation arose to confront and madden her. "You've Insulted and abused our best friends to sny noth Ing of giving us till the benefit of news paper scandal. We'll bo notorious!" "Host friends? Ood save the mark I he snorted contemptuously. our best friends, as you please to cull them, ore crooks, thieves and llurs. They're rot ten. They stink with their moral rot tenness. And they have the gull to call It good business." "Just because their business tueth ods don't agree with your peculiar Ideas Is no reason why you should call names," she flured. "Mr. Brooks called Jus ufter you left at noon. He told me something ubout this, and assured me that you would find yourself mis taken If you'd only take pains to think It over. I don't believe such men as they are would stoop to anything crooked." J'So Brooks came around to talk It over with you, eh?" Bill sneered. "Told you It was all on the square, did he? Explained It all very plausibly, I sup pose. Probably suggested that you try smoothing me down, too. It would be like 'em." "lie did explain about this stock selling business," Hazel replied defen sively. "And I can't see why you find It necessary to make a fuss. I don't see where the cheating nnd crooked ness comes In. Everybody who buys stock gets their money's worth, don't they? But I don't cure anything about your old mining deal. It's this fighting nnd quarreling with people who are not used to that sort of brute action and the horrid things they'll say and think about us." "About you, yft mean as the wle of such a boor tVat's -what's rubbing you raw Bill flunB out passionately, "You're acquiring the class psychology good and fnst. Did you ever think of nnybody but yourself? The petty larceny Incident of my knocking down two or three men nnd being under nr- rest as much as thirty minutes looms up before you ns the utter depths of disgrace. Disgrace to you! It's all you you! How do you suppose It strikes me to have my wife take sides against me on snap Judgment like that? It shows a heap of faith and trust and loyalty, doesn't It? Oh, It makes mo reul proud and glad of my mate. It does." "If you'd explain," Hazel began hes- Itatingly. She was thoroughly startled at the smoldering wrath that flured out In this speech of his. "I'll explain nothing," Bill flashed stornilly. "Not nt this stage of the game. I'm through explaining. I'm going to net. I refuse to be ruked over the coals like a nnnghty child, and then asked to tell why I did It. I'm right, nnd when I know Tin right I'll go the limit. I'm going to take tlao kinks out of this Free Gold deal Inside of forty-eight hours. Then I'm through with Granville. ITereafter I Intend to fight shy of a breed of dogs who lose every sense of square dealing when there Is n bunch of money In sight. I shall be ready to leave here within a week. And I want you to be ready, too." "I won't," she cried, on the verge of hysterics. "I won't go back to thnt cursed silence nnd loneliness. Yon mode this trouble here, not I. I wont go bnck to Pine river, or the Klappan. I won't, I tell you !" Bill stared at her moodily for a sec ond. "Just ns you please," he said quietly. He walked Into tho spare bedroom. Hazel heard the door close gently be hind him, heard the soft click of a well-oiled lock. Then she slumped, "I Won't Go Back to Pine River or the Klappan. I Wont, I Tell Youl" gasping, In the wide-armed chair by the window, and the hot tears came In a blinding flood. They exchanged only bnne civilities at the breakfast table, and Bill at once went dowutown. When he was gone, Hazel fidgeted uneasily about the rooms. When six o'clock brought BUI home, she was coldly disapproving of him and his affairs lo tlelr entirety, and at no pains to hide Hr feelings. He fol lowed her Into the living room when the uncomfortnbti meal uncomfort able by reason of tte surcharged at mosphere wns at an end. "Let's get down to bed rock, Hazel," ho said gently. "Doesn't It seem rather foolish to let a bundle of outside troubles set up so much friction be tween us two? I don't want to stir unytlilng up ; I don't want to quarrel. r - Three But I can't stand this coldness and re proach from you." "I don't cure to discuss It at all,' she flured up. "I've hpurd nothing else all day but this miserable mining business and your rufllanly method of settllug a dispute. I'd rather not tulk about It." "But we must tulk ubout It," he per sisted patiently. "You cun't get to the bottom of anything without more or less tnlk." "Talk to yourself, then," she retort ed ungraciously. And with that she run out of the room. . But she had forgotten or underesti mated tho catlike quickness of her man. He caught her In tho doorway, and the grip of his fingers on her arm brought u cry of pain. "Forgive me. I didn't menn to hurt," he suld contritely. "Be a good girl, Hazel, and let's get our feet on earth again. Sit down and put your arm around my neck und be my pal, like you used to be. We've got no business nursing any crime. I've only stood for a squure deal. Come on; bury the hatchet, little person." "Let ine go," she sobbed, struggling to be free. "I h-hute you !" "Please, little person. I can't eat humble pie more thun once or twice." "Let mo go," she pituted. "I don't want you to touch me." "Listen to me," he said sternly. "I've stood about ull of your nonsense I'm able to stand. I've had to fight a pack of business wolves to keep them from picking my carcass, npd, what's more Important to me, to keep them from handing a raw deal to five men who wullowed through snow and frost nnd ull kinds of hardship to make these sharks a fortune. I've got down to their level nnd fought them with their own weapons and the thing Is settled. I said last night I'd bo through here Inside a week. I'm through now through here. I have business In the Klappan; to complete this thing I've set my hand to. Then I'm going to the ranch and try to get the bud taste out of my mouth. I'm going tomorrow. I've no desire or In tention to coerce you. You're my wife, and your place Is with me, If you care anything about me. And I wnnt you. You know that, don't you? I wouldn't be begging you like this If I didn't. I haven't changed, nor had my eyes dazzled by any false gods. But It's up to you. I don't bluff. I'm going, and if I have to go without you I won't come bnck. Think it over, and Just ask yourself honestly if It's worth while." He drew her up close to hlrn arid kissed her on one anger-flushed cheek, and then, as he had done the night be fore, walked straight awny to the bed room nnd closed the door behind him. Hazel slept little that night. A hor rid weight seemed to rest suffocating ly upon her. More than once she had an Impulse to creep In there where Bill Iny and forget It nil In the sweep of that strong arm. But she choked back the impulse angrily. She would not forgive him. He had made her suffer. For his high-handedness she would make him suffer in kind. At lenst, she would not crawl to "him beg ging forgiveness. When sunrise laid a yellow beam, all full of dancing notes, ncross her bed, she heard Bill stir, heard him moving nbout the apartment with rest less steps. After a time she also heard the unmlstakobie sound of n trunk lid thrown back, and the move ments of him as he gothered his clothes so she surmised. But she did not rise till the mold rapped on her door with the eight o'clock salutation : "Breakfast, ma'am." They made a pretense of eating. Hazel sought a chair in the living room. A book lay open in her lap. But the print ran into blurred lines. She could not follow the sense of the words. An incessnnt turmoil of thought harassed her. Bill passed through the room once or twice. De terminedly she Ignored him. The final snap of the lock on his trunk came to her nt Inst, the bumping sounds of Its passage to the hall. Then n burly expressman shouldered it into his wagon nnd drove away. A few minutes after that Bill came in nnd took a seat facing her. What are you going to do, Hazel?" he asked soberly. "Nothing," she curtly replied. "Are you going to sit down nnd fold j our hands and let our air castles come tumbling about our ears, without mak ing the least effort to prevent?" he continued gently. "Seems to me that's not like you at all. I never thought you were a quitter." I'm not a quitter," she flung buck resentfully. "I refuse to be brow beaten, that's nil. There appears to be only one choice to follow you like a lamb. And I'm not lamblike. I'd say that you are the quitter. You have stirred up all this trouble here between us. Now you're running away from It. That's bow It looks to me. Go on I I can get along." "I dare say you can," he comment ed wearily. "Most of us can muddle along somehow, no mntter what hap pens. But it seems a pity, little per son. We had all the chance In the world. You've developed an abnormal streak lately. U you'd Just break away and come back with me. You don't know what good medicine those old woods are. Won't you try It a whller "I am not by nature fitted to lead the hermit existence," she returned sarcastically. Aud even while her lips were utter ing these vurious unworthy little bit ternesses she Inwardly wondered at her own words. It was not what she would have suld, not at all what she was half minded to say. But a devil of perverseness spurred her. She was full of protest against everything. "I wish we'd had a baby," Bill mur mured softly. "You'd IM different, You'd huve something to live for lie sides this, frothy, neurotic existence Unit lias poisoned you ugulnst the good, clean, healthy way of life. wish we'd .hud n kiddle. We'd hnve a fighting chance for hupplness now; something to keep us sane, something outside of our own ego to Influence us." "Thank God there lin't one!" she muttered. "Ah, well,", BUI sighed, "I guess there is no use. I guess we cun't get together on anything. There doesn't seem to be uny give-and-tuke between us any longer." He rose und walked to the door. With his hand on the knob, he turned. "I have fixed things at the bank fur you," he said ubruptly. Then he wulked out, without wait ing for an answer. She heurd the soft whir of the ele vator. A minute later she suw him on the sidewalk. He hud an overcout on his urm, a suitcase in his hand. She suw him lift a linger to hult a puss ing cur. It seemed incredible thnt he should go like that. Surely he would come buck ut noon or ut dinner time. She hud ulways felt that under bis gentle- Standing With His Hand on the Knob, He Turned. ness there wus Iron. But deep in her heart she had never believed lilm so Implacable of purpose where she wus concerned. She waited wearily, stirring with nervous restlessness from room to room. Luncheon passed. Tie afternoon dragged by to a close. Dusk fell. And when the night wrapped Gran ville In Its velvet mantle, und the street lights blinked away lu shining rows, she cowered, solibiug, in the big chair by the window. lie was gone. Gone, without even saying good-by I CHAPTER XVII. A Letter From Bill. All through the long night she lay awuke, struggling with the Incredible fact that Bill hud lert her; trying to absolve herself from blame; flaring up in anger ut his unyielding attitude, even while she was sorely conscious that she herself had been stubbornly unyielding. If he hud truly loved her, she reiterated, he would never have made it an Issue between them. But that was like a man to insist on his own desires being made paramount; to blunder ,ou headlong, no matter what autugonlsms he aroused. And he was completely in the wrong, she reusserted. Sb,e recapitulated It all. Through tho winter he hud consistently with drawn into his shell. For her friends and for most of her pleasures he had at best exhibited only tolerance. And he hnd ended by outraging both them and her, and on top of that demanded that she turn her back nt twenty-four hours' notice, on Granville and all its associations und follow him Into a wil derness thnt she dreuded. She had full right to her resentment. As his partner In the chancy enterprise of marriage were not her feelings and de sires entitled to equnl consideration? He hnd assumed the role of dictator. And she had revolted. That was all. She was Justified. Eventunlly she slept. At ten o'clock, heavy-eyed, suffering an Intolerable headache, she rose and dressed. Beside her plute luy a thick letter addressed In Bill's handwriting. She drank her coffee und went back to the bedroom before she opened the en velope. By the postmark sho suw thnt it had been mulled on a truln. "Dear Girl : I have caught my breath, so to speak, but I doubt if ever a more forlorn cuss listened to the interminable clicking of car wheels. I am tempted ut each station to turn bnck and try again. It seems so un real, this parting In hot anger, so mis erably unnecessary. But when I stop to sum it up again, I see no use in another appeal. I could come buck yes. Only the certain knowledge thnt giving in like that would send us spin ning once more in u vicious circle pre vents me. I didn't believe it possible thnt we could get so far apart. Nor that a succession of little things could cut so weighty a figure lu our lives. And perhnps you are very sore and resentful at me this mowing for be ing so precipitate, "I couldn't help It, Hazel. It seemed the only way. It seems so yet to me. There was nothing more to keep me in Granville everything to make me hurry away. If I had weakened and temporized with you It would only mean the deferring of Just what has happened,. When you declured your self flatly and repeatedly It seemed hopeless to argue further. I am a poor pleader, perhaps; and I do not believe in couqitolslon between as. Whutever you do you must do of your own voli tion, without pressure from me. We couldn't be huppy otherwise. If I compelled you to follow me against your desire we Bhould only drag mis ery In our train. "I couldn't even say good-by. 1 didn't even want It to be good-by. I didn't know if I could stick to my determination to go unless I went as I did. And my reason told mo that if there must be a break It would better come now than after long-drawn-out bickerings and bitterness. If we are so diametrically opposed where we thought we stood together we have made a mistake that do amount of ad justing, nothing but separate roads, will rectify. Myself I refuse to be lieve that we huve made such a mis take. I don't think that honestly nnd deliberately you prefer an exotic, use less, purposeless, parasitic existence to the normal, wholesome life we hap pily planned. But you are obsessed, intoxicated I can't put It any better and nothing but a shock will sooer you. If I'm wrong, If love und Bill's companionship cun't lure you away from these other things why, I -suppose you will consider It nn ended chapter. In that' cuse you will not suffer. The situation as It stands will be a relief to you. If, on the other band, It's merely a stubborn strcnk, thut won't let you admit that you've carried your proud little heud on an overstlff neck, do you think it's worth the price? I don't. "I'm not scolding, little person, I'm sick and sore at the pass we've come to. No fool pride can closo my eyes to the fact or keep me from admitting freely that I love you Just as much nnd want you as longingly us I did tlie day I put you aboard the Stanley D. nt Bellu Coola. I thought you were stepping gladly out of my life then. Aud I let you go freely and without unytlilng but u dumb protest against fate, because it wus your wish. I can step out of your life again if It Is your wish. But I can't Imprison my self In your cities. I'm neither an idler nor cuu I become a legalized hue cuncer. I hove nothing but contempt for those who are. Mind you, this is not so sweeping a statement as it sounds. No one has a keener appre ciation of what civilization means than I. Out of It has arisen culture and knowledge, much of what should mnke the world a better place for us all. But somehow this doesn't apply to the muss, und particularly not to the clr: cles we Invaded in Granville. With here and there a solitary exception,' that class Is hopeless in Its smug self satisfaction Its narrowness of out look, nud unblushing exploitation of tho less fortunate, repels me. "And to dabble my- hands in their muck, to settle down and live my life accordiug to their bourgeois standards, to hae grossness of soft flesh replace able sinews, to submerge mentality In favor of a specious craftiness of mlud which passes In the 'city' for bruins well, I'm on the road. And, oh, girl, girl, I wish you were with me. "I must explain this mining deal that phase of it which sent me on the rampage In Granville. I should have done so before, should have insisted on making It clear to you. The other side had been presented to you ruther cleverly at the right time. And your rendy acceptance of it angered me be yond bounds. You were prejudiced. It stirred me to a perfect fury to think you couldn't be absolutely loyal to your pal. When you took that position I simply couldn't attempt explana tions. Do you think I'd ever have tnk on thi other fellow's side against you, i right or wrong? (TO BE CONTINUED.) HORSE MEAT IN NEW YORK Although There Is Much Opposition to Its Use as Human Food, the Demand Increases. It Is now nearly two yours since the board of health lifted the bun on the snle of horse ment In the effort to re duce tho cost of living, observes the Brooklyn Eagle. The Introduction of the food has been slow, but five Rliops, two of them In Brooklyn, are now re ported to be advertising horse meat for sale. Tho demand for this cheap ment has been Increased by tho wartime food prices and some of the butchers In j Manhattan who compete with the horse meat stores are Issuing circulars de nouncing tho new food nnd stirring up prejudice against it. Whether os a re sult of the circulars is not clear, but one of these horse-meut stores on First avenue, Manhattan, has been attacked, Its window having been smashed In on two successive nights. Neither the circulars nor tho attacks are likely to Interfere with the sprend of the demand for the new food. The manager of the company which is Intro ducing it snys thnt crowds are drawn hen he opens a new store and that In one case ho hnd to call on the police to keep order among his would-be cus tomers. In cases of food scarcity horse meat has been eaten in many countries. The great prosperity of the United States has kept it out of our markets heretofore, but the wartime scarcity and high prices are likely to establish It as a regular part of the diet of peo ple who can't afford to pay for beef. The objections to It nrrf sentimental and not hygienic, so that, ns a relief from high prices, Its use is to bo wel comed. This Will Comfort You. Fenrlng that perhaps tho public will not know tho precise character of the white substance now covering the earth In largo quantities, we hasten to explain that It Is snow, or, in French, nclge; in German, schnoe; in Dutch, snceuw; in Slavonic, snelg; in Italian, neve. In small qualities It Is harmless nnd beautiful. In amounts such as are at present with us, it defies description in polite language. Snow, nelge, sneeuw, etc., etc., is wnter-vnpor con densed from the atmosphere and pre cipitated upon this already troubled enrth in a frozen and crystalline con dition. The article we know as snow is produced when the process of con densation and full occurs In a temper ature below 32 degrees. We might add, by way of making this explanation complete nnd clear, that tho crystals vary greatly In form and belong to the hexagonal system. They are formed upon a nucleus In the same way as a raindrop. This, wo feel, ought to make cer tain recent events and present condi tions much easier to bear. Cincinnati Times-Star. Birds' Nest Soup. ' The birds' nests from which the far famed Chinese soup Is made are built by n species of swallow thnt abounds on the consts of Java, Ceylon nnd Bor neo, and consists of a gelatinous ub stance obtained rrom marine plants. The nests are boiled either in chicken broth or in milk of almonds, and the result very much resembles vermicelli soup, except that It Is fjts more contly. Germany's Treatment of the Workingman By DANIEL LOUIS HANSON Of Tht Vigilante Listen to this ! "I look after my dear working peoplo as does a father his children. I build beautiful homes for them, pay widows pensions; also pension for old ago, sickness, loss of work and Increases In families. I pay high wages, limit work Ing hours, make loans easy to farmers, I havo no slums as do America and Great Britain ; I adjudicate all strikes, Mine Is tho land of the care free and happy workingman." That Is tho bollcd-down-to-n-few-scn-fences propaganda that Germany cov ered the whole world with before the war with the ostensible purpose of weakening tho morale of her enemies In the war she then was planning. Grent credit Is due to Chairman Ea ley of the Nutlonul Civic Federation In his published refutation of Germany's claims; Just a few Items from thut valuable document will prove llliiml noting: Widows' pensions In Germnny dur ing a series of years averaged 35 cents a week ; sick pensions 95 cents a week ; Invalidity pension the same; orphans' pensions 87 cents a week. Wuges averaged per day for carpenters $1.45 ; plumbers $1.25; railway employees engineers nnd conductors on state rail ways, 70 cents; shop workers $1.02; male farm labor 72 cents ; female farm labor 42 cents. And this In a land where govern ment statistics placed average cost of keeping families nt over $500 per year. How did they make both ends meet? By working tho whole family; every second woman In Germnny worked dur ing tho before-the-wnr period nearly 10,000,000 all told nnd as the writer can testify from an extended trip throughout tho empire, nt the hardest labor. As to hours: those of skilled labor ran about 58 per week, In textile and other lines from 12 to 14 per day. In 1011 tho big stores of Berlin kept open till 0 nt night nnd some hours on Sun days though that last was remedied the following year. The smaller stores were even worse as to hours. A bank Ing concern ncross from my hotel worked from 7 In the morning to 0 nt night. ltcgtirdlog strikes which Germany Claimed to always adjudicate; limb year I saw the beginning of such a disturbance In the Moabit section of Berlin nnd the end, for the authorities settled it in true Homestead fashion by shooting down the ringleaders. It lasted only two days and tho press wns allowed to sny nothing nbout It, However, the Vorwnerts referred to It and was suppressed for throe days as punishment. According to Mr. Ens ley's statistics, more than two-thirds the strikes In 1012 were unsuccessful nnd labor unions only allowed to meet under government supervision. As to slums whoever has smelled tho feorrlble odors In Cologne until 10U the filthiest city In Europe In son of Its residence sections, will laugh nt Germany's claim to being slum less. And wlmt about the foulness of Mndgeburg and Dantzlg? East London Is Paradise alley by comparison. Ber lin, the show city of the empire, looks like a town of pnlnces with the streets lined by stucco-fronted houses, but bnck of them and this condition Is much worse In Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfort nnd other large towns stnnd the serried ranks of poverty's tenements, row upon row. Berlin hns more one-room tenements thnn nny other city In the world. Families of six ond seven herding In one apart ment nnd a hnll bnthrnom doing serv ice for half a dozen such families. As to land distribution: over a third of Germany's farms nro less than Vi acres In size; 22.6 per cent between 1 and 5 acres; 17.5 per cent, 5 to 12 acres,; 1S.0 per cent, 12 to 50 acres; while 2:1,5(10 Junkers, the land bnrons, own nenrly 25,000,000 acres, running from 250 to 500 acres and more each. The above Is only a smnll part of the picture which Germnny nctuully presented to the world in the before-the-wnr period. Not of course what Bho claimed, but levertheless collated from her ofllclnl records all except tho filth of her large cities. It sounds Inviting to nn American worklngmnn, docs It not I And since then, of course, conditions have gotten even worse with women doing work thnt would stoop the shoulders of fho strongest mnn. Oppression of farmers, underpaid workers, enslavement of women nnd children Industrially, shocking housing conditions, chronic underfeeding with resultant fearful Infant mortnlity, counterfeit social insurance are a few counts in tho Indictment made by Mr. F.nsley against Germany before the war. German efliclency goes to appalling lengths, whether It Is breeding German subjects from tho enslaved young women of France nnd Belgium ; or In Issuing lying propaganda with which to break down the morale of the world's democracy. Nothing Is too low, nothing too awful for the Potsdam pawn not to attempt. Yet fools in America still mouth, "Pence, peace at any price." Can a man mnke peace with hell I AMERICA AND ENGLAND By GIDEON HOE of the Vigilantes. Chester M. Wright, member of the flew York Typographical union, and managing editor of the American Al liance for Labor and Democracy, at present In Europe as one of tho rep resentatives of labor who went abroad recently to reassure our allies of our temper and sentiment In the war, hns been writing some very Interesting re ports of his present experiences. The following paragraphs ore llluml nnting. They show the rapid growth, of a better understanding nnd wnrmer fellowship between the English and American free people: Tim English look to Americn ns to brothers; they look upon Ameri cans with affection. And their ad- mlfflflnn fnr nop nmridnnt l.-- I. ....... I.. iirl... l i ., ""I iMMiiiu.i. ,i mil miry lour I lie I story of our trade union moveim.,,!! iih ill ill iiiniiiiiii uipy hliow Umt Am I I ii.llt ittiitr,, itdn.A II.. ..i.. I niiinu K"t't4 J 111 Vlllg !!;,(, iiiiNiiiKCH uieiiiseives, iney kUlVl have made them, too, and win more. They understand tin than we have Imagined. ' ' "Here uro two Indications of n i iu ism regani ior America, j, I Amerlcnn mission vlulliwl v, I : " ; " ""'"leu u oe guests ror a uay ut the iistofll castle, built In the thirteenth 'iturj.l America is as mythical to the Itismt . 1 folk of Warwick town as Warwick io most Americans, i.iii iii(. niajii ordered the Amerlcun (lag ilmvn Ing our visit. It was tho first time i'.' American ling hnd ever flown to tt breeze In Warwick. Lnst nl-hi i , Itcd a theater the Adelphla. , Inis cal comedy wns on the boanls. thirds of the chorus' costumes p4 tfllllofl tlln Atm.Hptin n,il,,,.u rr. were liicio Minis onu Aiiieri -nn cm1 boys nnd Goddesses of Liberty. theaters have been doing diU we came Into tho war. They ovcri,, . no way hero of showing unVciion . America. America must overlook t way of making good! "We were on tho sea on April 6, anniversary or our entry into iiie. The event was celebrated, ami thov who spoke most feelingly fur Au.crla were Canadian and British s..lifi-n, "The same love for deiiiocrm-y J freedom that fires Amcrlcu ami (hri: ! her peoplo Inspires and thrills the dk. pie of England. As many us m-, will die for tho cause. The liun ct never win. Civilisation must und n be saved. Tho free people of ii world are bound lu a new ami M;. soluble unity." AFTERWARDS By SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE of the Vigilantes. I When tho war's last battle Is done t: me nmcxe luts rolled uw:iv And the thlnKi that wore hlilili-n fcl Bifciit ii t una ror in in the Kl"i"f li I When reaoon returns to Its pUte, tl you balance Accounts analn. I The limn anil tho sain t-iKol u-r-j ray, htil win it ieem to you men? II When everywhere ruin on ruin coniem.l cmnly out to view. Anu me iiiuion oi an tne ennn are p) : : I ing tne linger at you: When the vision of imiuIs of the n'ainfal silent as mint of the Hca, And they ask you the cause of It all.-c whut will your answer be? Ill When the records no hand enn era, i- the motives all hearts inusi revtil I Go up to he Judged at last In tho Cuunr the I- Inal Anneal, Where only the trutli will m.nlve, t l every falsehood nnd franj Must vanish like chuff In the Hume.-titJ whut can you any to God? COMFORT TO GERMANY By ROBERT ADGER B0WEN of the Vigilantes. It has been cause for unum-nr mingled with a sharp regret Walt Ing the dark days of the Gerinun dri- ngalnst tho British lines In Flun!-- following that upon the I'.rliish in Plainly, there should have brot-tl out in press and public alike tliatrl row and warped antipathy tnmrl I-.ngland, which If It ever was oi- than ungenerous nnd groundless, is ly the debt we of America owe Gwl Britain today should have nilrl into a humiliated but very sincere m titty. On the contrary, there lastel far too evident a disposition to atta ; England. Almost, It has sci-ined. til Imposition In the present instance bl been based on a fear that wis &l to panic. The fighting quality of 41 British has been openly bcliulttUI tills in tho face of a splendid rev I mice against all but ovcrwhflKi odds that was being exemplified c as these false accusations wereni! And this, it may be added, la theft"! of nil that history tenches sine Wl days of Alfred the Great to tliepl ent years of this most moincutoJJ 'I wars. Such prejudice In us of Anslo! llnenge Is nt nny time unworthj'l our own best traditions. Today 11 contemptible. If the echo of II b' reached Germany nnd we may sure it hns It is music to the ears' those who, however they mny looked upon England before tills"! have learned to their cost that Ml can prevail ngalnst her only 1J 0,tll of superior numbers and the Insona"! power of modern artillery whose 'I red of her has become tinned f dendlv fenr which Is to he nieasulftl by tho horrible price Germany U " I lne to nay for tho hone of victory. For those of us In this Awa I country whose heritage Is Hrltlsn seek to defume England Is t' graceless act. It smacks not otl rlor merit upon our own part w I something verv different. At lea- ''I lis reserve nnr rniistlr criticism o"e I until in this war we hnve dene mny be compared with what l!,,l has so nobly done. German Amusements. Life In tho centrnl powers at " appeai-s grim nt best. But world did yeoman service to population from going mad." cn composers worked busily ; ten no rlous operas nnd 20 "Viennese" op turned out In the flrst ri years of war; drama """'l nnd "In Berlin, Vienna and Bur it was a poor week thnt did not "J rinnl rt KlinfroarwinrA WA9 P.I j in.ii- nn ki nscnfW I llliu ui.-uiir,iuiiuiiy 1'iuj-a vj -v Bernard Shaw and the older "v nlnvwrlchts. "No chnnges were "- in the piny lists of the OP01?1 J wns prejudice manifested on tM J cert programs." At nri 1 would nnnenr to argue ,,.1 odult state of mind thnn Is ma"' ed in other bclllgorcnt state.' women nnd men win merit by , paign eveu ugiunsi. --" Tho truth appears to be . war rests with such crushing upon the central European sciousness thnt such a trlotic pose Is felt to be uu"- of place. New Republic. It Is now possible w n"- nhotoprnnhs of the Interior - crete masses, In order that enforcement mny be lnP I means of a process perren Swiss engineer.
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