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We v'ie'r`e just tfguring `.?ii`':1x1I '-seizure amounted to, and my army doctors were strutting around as it. `they owned the world," declared the .kaiser, when one of my smcers was` :approached by 0. group of long-halred,`v greasy Jews, who claimed that these supplies belonged to them. `They are~ V`-`our privfetenroperty; we bought them . Add '{v' shiuld be compensated it you` seize them. they contended. `Did your `pay for them? my office: asked. `No, we didn't pay for them, but we save -our notes, they rep1ied.\ `Then, said :my otcers, `when you take up_ those` `noteso we'll pay for these stores; in. -` the meanwhile we'll just take them)! We secured bandages, ser.:ms-every- thing, in fact, that we needed so very badly. and we got them all for noth- ln 1' am am bnnuv n4- 4-nae O-!mn Pa-+ H-mi .II10I`z:: e In that nssertlon, of course. lies the .an:;wer to all the questions; which hm`-so .ar1sen in connection wlth `le convlm-t -of the war. If the Ge1'm.'1ns recu;,:- `nlzed no international law luut W. guided solely by their i`a<~a.< of e$:1)c- _en cy and the demands 0; l:ulmx', then the whole course of the war he- ~can}= peI'f0(.'Lly clvnr. The use of pui- o soxt=}':(1s gas, the desl'ruc`.ir>n nf unfor- Hpd towns. the des(-crzllion of lh'Ul'-}1llb gun, uu: \,|c.1uu\.u.-u l'L nun... tled tcwns, the -churches, the attacks on lms:pi`.-ms nnd Red Cross units, the countless :1tmc1- 'ties committed against civilians and >prlsonc-rs of war require no other ex- ' plrmatlon. `Mn ant-h fhinrr $19 h l1f`I`n1'.i0Zl{11 19.? pmnzumn. No such thing as international any more I . (Chapter V. CHAPTER VI. (Contiucd). ' cvcuu. LU uuvl: g,\.IuL. uuun.;.,,,\.-... It touched him in one of his most , vuinemhie spots. The sanctity of roy- ;i nity is one of his most cherished ideas. [He felt sponsor for the monarchies of the world, as we feel sponsor for the democracies. A thrust at a throne was a stab at the kaiser s heart, and with or without the co-operation of " Austria I firmly believe he would have ;gone to any lengths to have avenged ' the crime of Sarajevo. i I B. n 3- ...._- .1...` `-`\r\ 1...x...... mm+ 3 5, a! `E I! | pnuccs must. uunu Lvguuncx, uun. u-cu. zcan be no doubt that that was very ' I far from the outcome dearest to his ' [ heart. If, indeed, the punishment of iSerhin had been accomplished with- ` Iout war the kaiser would have been a "[n1o::t disappointed man, and if Russia ahud failed to mobilize h_er troops,` `vlfwhich ;:,:1ve (}erm:m_v :1 pretext for zcrnssinzz the Russian border, I haven`t _the slightest (1on`nt that Germany nnywny, lmowing that France would `follow. Der T.'1:" (the day) had pi:u1nin_9; and )10itiP,Z`, and nothing on V I _ecutinn of the progrmm. I. I\$C$ t:.....t.. Ar. 1. Au xv-vnn n-nn `would have prn=:1`.e(1 Russia into war, ': come for which Gormfmy had been. earth couid now interfere with the ex- -um Liit even had I .-mperor Franz foseph shown rclm,-1.::nce to p1n n_:;e his nation into war and mud Austria rel use(1 to cl1nstise`Sm'hia for the murder of the Archduke I doubt very much whether the kaiser would` have allowed that i event to have gone unuvcnged. 7.. .n.-....I.,..1 1.1.... 1.. l\v\I\ no hlu nanni- uu: Uluuc UL pout. uJx.vu. 1 It is true that the kaiser sent a. message to the czar of Russia in which he pointed out that Austria ought to be allowed to chastise Serbia. vwlthout interference from the other European powers, remarking, We princes must hold together," but there :nnr1 ha nn nnhf fhnf H1911 WEIR Q'Pl'V (Luz: \\uxLuLt: uu n-Jncu. "What right have Americans to take passage on these vessels, anyway? It 1 they came onto the battleeld they" gwould not expe& us to stop ring, ..any greater protection wl1er;.;.3[.he5' en- `ter the war zone at sea? ll`I'\.-.1& nu-In!` lawn-n U r - would they? Why should they expect . I Uuuuuxuura Au lallbltllluu I Look at Engiand today," he re - Zninrked. She is ruled by Lloyr ;George, a socialist! Why, England 1., virtually a 1'opui)Iic, as bad as France! .What s become of the king of Eng- llund? One never hears or him any more! Why doesn't he assert him- , self? The tone of, disgust with which ihe gnve vent to these sentiments was ijmore signicant, perhaps, than th words used might imply. uw-_._ ..._....z.I-..4- Ia uwinnv +n nvnr- _L'\.'uuuu UL lllk: 1uuL.,n.uu. I-Inw rmi_v the IKHEFQI` was wedded `to the dynastic idea and 1iO'\\T deeply he nhilorred the spirit of Llemocrzmy _ was revealed thmu;.:110ut the whole course of his life, am". in his con\'ersn- ` '_tions with me he f1'cq`.1.Cnt1y {::1\'(: ex- pression to views xvhicix ciiszriosed how thm'on;_:hi_v he h0]i(:TO(l in the divine ` right of kings. T mm mm chnrl`.'.7 s~.ffm~ Kviisnnfl rlgnt 01` Kings. .1 ` I saw him shortly after Wilsonfla Lelection in 1912. ux1'L..L . n mm.:n.-. nv*nv9nnI'InYYlV`n1lQ`\ leaectxon m Jul..'. 5 What will .-Xmerica evcsaccompllsh .With a pmfe.=.:~'0r at its llead?" I`-'5 ]asked, sneei-ingly. Davis. your Cour`- ttry will never be truly great until it `becomes :1 n)0n:11`chy ! n.. ......`u..... nmmoinn ha cnnnv-nfl n. . Decnmes :1 n1uu;1rcu_v : . 0n~nnother occasion he sneered 11% lconditirms in England. l :17, _L -n....v,...,1 a....1.....n `kn I-1-_ nutua uacu nub. ....,u_,. I Your president is trying to over- throw me and my family from the throne of Germany by his notes," he commented bitterly, when I saw h1m shortly after the publication of the president's reply tothe pope, but he ' little umlerstangls how loyal are my people and now futile his efforts will prove. They held meetings recently all over the empire. in every city and village. and slxoxred their :=.1legl:u1ce ` n run In nn nnnorfnin \\`.']\`. [UH] V0111` Vlllilge. nnu Sll()\\'l U Lucu iuu:5xnu\.v to me in no uncertain way, and your president received the answer from my people that he de. I won- dered \\ h(`.UlOI` the knism` was 1m:1\\'.'1re of the fact that all those mt-etings hi I):-on ins1>ix'ed by tlw gm'n1`111;!x-nt and their 11. ngcnt, the [)l`(`-I` whon-r he was once zsgzuin 111:1 use of Ms hi :1hili!,_V. .-U12: ':':h I'2.\x'zn:m_v is ro:'.`.r}w`z as the vi`... it \`.`:I.= . 111*: :1`. :~.- rn-1\:y"\.: \-.v;;1. \\ II\`\|u'A nu; nil) uln hi. :\hiIiL_V. A1`.i:::'.::h re,-':n c."r.1`.-3 of s<>ci:1lis\n. in thy it :x ::`?1.('L`k' \`.`hi('h \'.`:'.< .~.<'.'. n\`-.': 1. !_!.<- 1`mznIm12-r.):1.er 1-!" pirn :L'::! 1:.v- ':io\\': its pm_; x': thu v`;i:'u-u x .~`f.5i\'il:f"?>'. .. |\r\ .-` nuf: fu ~34`. ChI`i. g snr:i9Lv, tie L growth and inc . power of the .=:o('.i:\11stlc party. whicll was com:t:1nU'y clamoring for the reform vote, Cmlltl _not be ignored, and no doubt had a grout deal to do with the ulitnrlsts` anxiety not to postpone the 'wur too long. .4;-H... mnmwmnnn wag ordered. long. After mobilization was ordered, ixovvever. the kaiser decided to rocede from his position somewhat, and from the balcony of the palace in Berlin, in front of which an enormous crowd; had gathered, lie declared signicant- iy: I recognize no parties. We are now all Germans." vn i . _,.,,_,._ x_.......x..-.. Iuunnunn Hmnfi DOW nu ueriuuus. If anyone imagines, however, that his kowtowlng to the socialists in this instance was evidence of :1 permanent change of heart, he little npprecintcs how deeply rooted is the kaiser's ub- horrence of socialism and democra..`J. Indeed. one oi . the principal things the kniser hoped to accomplish by prose- cuting the war to a triumphant con- clusion was the blow it would deal to_ soclullstic progress. He felt that victory would make his army the idol of the people und that their monarch would shine in the rcilecied glory of their martini achievements. -A suc- cessful war. he believed, would set so-' 2.iaii_s_1_n back a. hundred years. W : inntion hewhas become obsessed with the idea that the rest of the world should follow suit. (To be continued) Ten Cents for fifteen Words 13 The A_dvmice rate for pm-}):1'ul Vxulvts. oi the wauiierl class, It lis the cheapest min of any m\_W5_i p--y-o-- 'q (T-;,...',. ` ...'\_` . fr. ` ' -~`u.pn.'. - nnrl new. .niat.i.'.'e:;:=e, _,.. '::u.L| Bros, ',(:L.\LA:t1Ii||x:u LIA-TD nu... \lL \. i As rem:-Lrkcd alrc-n.dy, Oisco`'err:ci and wiiui. h< lxr.-long T0 the Dominion but he is U` be pt-rmitte public of (jalmdu and ( States -very lurgzely in (ii,-m~e (luring Lilo, co: illvrcri if what he has (`;i whzxi. he has i-sarsicti (ii ns: mail (ma?-hall` yo:-.1`: M0 the ;)r::.'ss, it wouir. -. `.i;:rz:.,-,inus; iiliL;{ to n,- pic2.sn.r(.- win`:-in the pub _from her-.J`:3n.<' the exp}. 1 story him:-aaifa. l Villijuirmir Stetariss miauzdin-3 the .t~m=..Lhn,g of A\n 111' the "play of kiugly attributes. In all his} Certain it is the war brought no change in the kalser s personal habits. Even to curry favor with the socialls- ' tic element he never unbent to the slightest degree in his outward dis- career the German people had nfver seen their kaiser other than in his royal uniform, and at all military pa- ra'des or reviews he always rode a white horse, that he might` be most conspicuous, and bore the royal mace which his ancestors had carried centu- ries before him. With the dcaih struggzle between medieval monarchy and democracy raging; about him the lmiscr was determi_ncd to yield not a tittle of his prerogatives. His auto-_' mobile still made its coming known by its distinctive tulle-tatln-ta-ta" and the royal palaces were maintained in all their accustomed pomp. 1'\..a. ...Ll`.. 41... 1...:n.\..!,. nuvulnn nu-u-A llll LIICIL uuuuanunuuu 1:-.nul:. But while the kz1iser`s armlos were trlumphant in the c-ld, the principle which he was combating was every- where gaining ground. On March 15. 1917, the czar abdicated and Russia, whose autocratic form of government had long been the envy of the German aristocracy, became a republic! amt... .1.........c..n an nu` `nu.-..~.I.-... an-I, l lA.AloJI.\J\.AlL\._y' -.n.\.uu.u. u ..\.;.-nun... The downfall of the Russian em- pire was brought about by England because she feared that the czar was about to make a separate peace, the kaiser commented to me. As a mat- ter of fact, however, neither the czar nor his government ever approached us on that subject. and when England overthrew the Russian monarchy she defeated her very purpose. With the czar on the throne Russia would prob- ably have gone on ghting us." A`ll1u-nu.-`In 6-kn Irnlz-nu Inn-A nn nnntinn, uu-J uuvu bvuu vu ...|,........ nu. Although the kaiser bore no purticu- | 1211' love for the czar, whom he was ghting, he had no desire to convert the empire into a democracy, and his bitterness toward England for what` he thought vvas her partin the estab- lishment of the Russian republic was 1 I 1 very pronounced. \Vl\nn :1 font rnn?\I"1 Infar +"!Kl nhi- VVLIF. I couldn't help tlnking of the "whole nations" which had been 2113-` solutely crushed under the 1miser's hee1-of Belgium, Servia and Poiand. ` rm. 1,-n::-m. .-mum. mimnrml fhnf Hm . \Ul'y [}lUuUlllllZt:U. When, :1 few months later, the abdi- cation of the czar was followed by the abdication of King Constantine of Greece, the kaiser sustained another blow which hurt him more than the defeat of one of his armies would h2`.\`0 done. ' LIrrVL..-n ...-A Luqulnnn 1-,. 6`-nu-nn `1\n:w AL H2`.\U UUHC- They are trying to force their rot- ten form of democratic government on Greece, he declared ercely. The waxy they have tx'v:1tel my poor sister. the queen of Greece. is :1 slmme and :1 (lisgmcc. They talk about our inva- sion of Belgium, but tlmir actions in Greece are innitely worse. I have studied the English people for twenly- _: ve years, and they :ll\`c:`.ys try to cover their acts with reliliion nml the tall: of benets to <:ivili7.:1tion nml lin- manity, hut, llypocrites {lint fls:-y are, tlwy continue to grab all they can get ti-.:+lr hands on just the smile!" n c..,.L u...L nnnnnn `Ln/I n 4--nnn+~n Your country would like to malfe a republic out of Germany," he com- mented. a republic like France, per- haps, going down and down all the time-11 country ruled by lawyers!" `Anal he mentioned half a dozen of the` .gx-out Froncll Sf:lf(`-Slllon who were members of tl1e lv;:al profession. It's ` :1 szul thing for :1 country when it gets lulu the hands of the law_vm's. France and Italy are nlrezuly crintrollcd by `them, untl Amerlr-:1 and Englnntl are ` rapidly following their -:::w.xnp!es !" l The caitzer r(rr:m`:l9(l the German L people as his own property to do with ` f\.`\` lw likc~rl. When I rofarrml to the (:(-rn:-an people" in r:nn\`r-rs:I.iion he =_`.`.'u'.`il (lvlicntoly (-orro<:t mo i~._v ref-er in his reply to my peoplm" \`.`hon. for in.=::1nr*n, I suivl on one oc- _r H`! .. 1'l!`.f.Z .?i\r-Unt` yr;-_`i(_\q|'\y 11/nil` I.J.JlL lIL|L|\l-3 Ull Ju-3|. LlA\, wxnnnnw. The fact that Greece had a treaty with Serbia wlxich nzquirtxl her to take up arms if Serbia were :1ttuckcd':uul that she had failed to meet her obli- ....:.:,..... :.. 41...; mu-n.ml> uvnc nnhnmv U1:![ sue nuu luuuu LU 1ut:v:|. uct. Uuu- gntions in that respect was natumlly of no sizznic-zmce to the kaiser, to whom treaties were but scraps of pa- per. The keynote of the kaiser s military pi-ngmni lay in the fact that be real- ized that it was necessary for him to ` win lnortler to hold his throne. I feel quite sure that if the allies were wil- ling to concede to Germany all the ter- ' ritory she has conquei'ed-Belgium, Serbia. Poland, Roumania, Russia. and part of France, and restore all her col- onies, upon condition that the kaiser 1 step down from the throne, he would reject the proposition without a mo- r_1),ent's hesitation. , _ _ _ ___ _ ,% \\ H011. Hll` Ill-`lill||_`(', A 1 ('r.s'.im. I undvrstnnd, ymn` nmjesty, | 1 I nun: uu \p|AL. v\.' tht'.t U1-3 G`<`1`1nm1 pe)op`.o urn anxious. : for peace," he EH13`-.\ ()1"('d, Yes. Davis, my people are st.x'r11;I5' in mvol` 63` i peace. but they want :1 German peace --no allied Dt`{1('t`!!" 1,7. :...u.`.....-1 fhnf mm are Hm nnlvnv-so 1 IIHJOU })t'llL'l3; He l:e1le\'ed that juszt hr the universe :15 ruled by (End EK$,y8`;l\')11l(] the earth he L`3_rufnntetl by an earthly ruler and I that God had selected him for the task. To displace him ln favor of u repub~ iican form of government, to substi- tute a ruler elected by the people for a monarch designated by God was in his opinion the basest sort of sacrilege, and the unfortunate part `of it all was that the majorlty of his people co- lnclded with hlm.' They preferred to be ruled by :1 hand of iron rather than to rule themselves. Some day they , may be awakened to the blessings at E self-government, but up to the present ` time they have` not shown the sllghtest indication that they would prefer to rule than be ruled, and because they l submlt so willingly to the knlser s dom- lnntlon he has become obsessed idea ms NORTHERN ADVMT(`.:!i:V `. . l.lUl.'L`-U1. 1)t`l5|Luu, KJCLVHA uuu Luxuuu. The kaiser never admitted that the 3 destruction of the Lusitania was a re- sult of special instructions from him; to the U-boat commander, but in dls- ` cussing the general subject of subma- - rine warfare he asked: ` nu-n_,., _.!__I.L 1___._ 4 _......-,._.-.. 4.- A...I.._ Q learncu (n.1r`::1g 1.1.- :11 W01'r1s}'v-.'-: `were ` . 4` s ..~rv~ ' `V I -mm` - ` .) yr I {O 'L.E1 1)! \:.).`$', It WOHIQ lilu-101} 04.. (J: ;;'ra..,-xnus; {xgg to :`x:1._f1:tY|`;:;!1.~;_- V no puahu ":41 -: .. w: a - 'Ws'ifrom he:=.1 2'ng the explors-r 14:1; :11. 5 story bim..*,z.-1f. 5 I I l Stefanssqrn. '1':()l\.Vl!?:- am! saD33.1.LinH```f *5 139-me E.`-3 .\U .. . I 0-.-- >:os-i-:->-:~.-:-:-:-aw:-:o-:-ms:-e~<~:-.3-:~s~s-.~ Caqadafs Own Explorer . Among Eravest H:r"es. Of Adventure in Arcifc `OOUOQQCOUOCQ `.".'9.00.0.00.00.00.qO?oo.00.0.0.0/o:o:o0:o0:4o:oo:co:oo::oo:oo:oo: `a 0 much of daring, of peril, and of all the elements of adven- ture is bound up in the career of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, as an explorer, .that, although he has frequently been heard from, during the live and one-half `years embraced in his latest wanderings in the Arctic regions, the story of his experiences and discoveries, which he is telling on the lecture platform, will have suffered no discount. Stcfansson has been one of the most assiduous of Arctic explorers. The quest of the North Pole he left to others. For him the great white region of the si- lent North contained many things of interest other than the Pole, and he has found most of them. He ishack on his native Canadian soil once more, reporting, along with other things, that the principal reason why he has not continued to chronicle the discovery of new `lands during the latter part of his journeying is that there is now no new land to be dis- covered in that quarter of the globe. rmm 1-nnnr nf nu: ve and nne-half covered in that quarter 01 tne gioue. The record of the ve and one-half years shows that he found land which had never before been seen by any ~white explorer; that he found hith- erto unknown currents, the discovery of which was more important than the nding of new land; that he re- duced the non-existence of a. new con- tinent to a certainty; that, instead, he was able to dene two islands with a. total area of 30,000 square miles; that on these are coal deposits as accessible as the Spitzbergen coal` 1 teenlh cc-nm1`y'1 I l1et.m'ning from this e: iStel'zm5son found civilization more A tlmn r(;-ad)` to give an at.tenti\'e M2212`- lim: to an el:.i.i2o1';Ltion of facts dmlt {with only liriey in his (:::r::I.sio:1.-.11 bulletins, and the thinking world had not ceasetl to dwell upon the 1-;tr-.m_2;e thngs he had been telling b.el`o1-0 he .\\~;.1s: off again. He had -gone, this ' time, so it was understood, in search I of :1 continent, and it was understood , that he would return in three years. L [In both vases plans went zigloy. `There were experiences that could ` not have been reckrmed upon in ad- Ivance. The Arctic is full of such. _ l'l`he Karluk was lost, and the p:`.rt_v > [it carried into the north was separ- . ated. Captain Bartlett and eight oth- -lers were rescued. Stefansson waxy missing for a considerable time, but events justified B:Lrl.1ett. :s prediction ihat he would turn up. He. did turn up, but- he vould not give up, and, althogh the loss of the Kzmluk` me.:u11. :9. delay of two years in the` lacc-mnplishrnent of his pu:-pots :4, he ',C(!1l_il1Qd his work of exploration. I An rnxnarlrntl ah-nndv \vha.t,`12(-2 has i,c(m_tmne `ms WOTK 01 e: what he has what he has lcuned belong to Government, is it permitted to take the of the Un-i1e into his co21-- ne coming; winter.- what di.=w3vcrou ::":.d learned d:.1r`i:1g the `Lust `J11! nnmhnh` vcs:-.1-:2 re .'::;`I.W\'i|} VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON. 1):" am-.e'Ws that gn with H 9. turn) oi-the times. r.~w :vv.- I-rut. `.`1ncdi'-nt. 11` 2113 1` . u..-...un- `$1.. in -1 \-Hvx A4 "" '5 H`. u:`_-iz'.:-.-'- . L in - his native L:-.1 e: =.' 0.1 a f:~.r:;i. .1-2 hungered and thirsted for schimling. He got enough to start with in Mani- toba, and more at the State Univers- ity of North Dakota, where he earn- ed the A.B. degree. The nishing touches, however, were given by Har vard, and these enabled him to obtaini a place in an archaeological expedi-2 tion to Iceland in 1905. This trip] marked the beginning of his longing; for the north, and (la:-lzig all the: years since then he has eitheg been} moving among the Arctic silences, seeing what he could see, or writing or lecturing instruczively and inter-' c-stingly on the 1}lill__`.`S he has seen. T-In in nnn nf Hm most n1ensixi'.z I Csungly 011 [He 111111355 110 111.15 SEUII. l He is one of the most pleasing ?spenkors Whom the field of Arctic research has given to the modern world. Thousands of people ock to hear him 0-ver_vwhex'e, not only furl what he has to tell them, bur. because of the way he has of telling xxjhat they wish to hear. . ` I.l.' Luv: wlu. ZAULIC us. .3511: , E Don t ever forget," rent on, "ar?_ bullet from a. pistol` .1 be enough l `to sink one of our U-boats. How can I `we stop and board vessels we encoun- -ter to ascertain whether they are neu- tral and not carrying contraband? It . .fwhnt appears to be a neutral should ` `Wu fact prove to be a belligerent, or it 'l\n'IHr1nI-nnf ehnnl hnnvc I-n In re- 1 Cammluge Dumps." ` Camouage has now become :1 high art at the front, and an absorb- ing feature of the war. It has saved countless lives and much property, at times completely baflling the ene-| my and causing great waste of am- munition. Our efforts in this direc- tion have also given the troops in, the rest billets a feeling of security. 11?: nnur ellowcainrl H191 H10 Allid `The Allied Armies Now Have! I | me rest muets leenng OI securuy. It is now suggested that the Allied Governments should recruit or com- mission all the leading theatrimtl producers to co-operate with the soldier-artists in the development. of this highly important arm of the service. ` 'I`11n flnrrnnnu nnninxl vnnnv nf l'\l| SEYVICB. The. Germans copied many of our tricks and wrinkles after discovering them on the ground taken in HQ! :1 drive. It is signirzant that one-I my documents cnpturc-d x-opeatedlyl urge more careful cone-:-'.11menL oi`; batteries and ouiposts and pmise the British and French efforts in this; direction. 1 1:`:-Inyuw ollinll nu--.nv hn nnr-1n:|-: uxrecuon. Every` allied ar'my had camo-.1- age dumps"-s1ations for the star V age of camouflage scenery. reso111b1! ing almost a tra-vcling c1 1'(-us vs` wings and property rooms, stacks of amderbrush and saplings and enor- mous sheets of caxxvas paini_er.1 1-3 represent n1eadow:;, tilled groumi, and patches of t}`.ick'.*L. As the :u~n1y moved forwzu'd, some 0!`. the 1`:!il\\`d.y trucks reminded one of the scenery ! carts to be seen at the roar of thea- tres at weekends. Tit-Bits. E 2 1 J.ll\./ .;u.:nx..... ._.-\...l...\.. ,.. There seemed no valid x'c:1so11 for A11stria s continuing to be except. (`nut she did not know how not to be. She was the undc-, and inl1ospituble refuge of f1`agm(~nts of population, peoples that wanted to be free bu! were not to be trusted with fl`(?Gd0lll. She represented Europe's quandary over quarrelling groups of Czechs, Croatians, Serbs, Slovens,, Poles, Hungarians and Austro-Germans, good haters all, who were lashed to- gether to prevent them from using their sts. In short, Austria was an alternative to a bloody Central Euro- pean Balkans. Her internal policy. whether it turned towards absolutism or universal suffrage, towards dual- ism, trialisra or what not, was more- ly a means of keeping uncomfortably together, of maintaining a conten- tious unity, of seekin" to develop a .._, common loyalty, a Gesammt-patrlot- lcnnne " T-I01` fnrni FY1 DOHCV 11150 loyalty, 21 "Lieszu1u11L-puu'1uL- ismus." .Her foreign policy also` sought to avert the inevitable c1-un1b- I ling. Austria's allegiance to Ger-| many, her bullying of Serbia, her in- constant attitude, alternately cring- ing and chztllenging, towards Russi:-1 were all parts of one ill-conceived} policy. It was to keep alive, to pre-' vent her own di.=:mem1)erxnent., that Austria at last. made the fatal deci- sion for a war against Serbia, the final echoes of whir.-ll we are l::-m~ing [ to-day.--The New Republic. , ___._______ _f!TliE ART OF (}.~\.V:l0I.7l<`I_-A-(W2. New Year's lL|:L._\'. I)nri~:1g the past year there were only eighty-four (in... 011 which the: banks were open all over the world. On every one of the other 281 days some nation was ce1L'-h1'e1tinr.: a ci\. il or religious holid 3, , or observing the Sabbath. ` f\7\]x7 nnn nr Hume hnlidnvn in uni- sannann. X Only one of those holidays is uni- versal. This is New Year s- Day. and eleven dil`l'er-znt (lntcs are ob- served by various countries as the beginning of a new year. Fi-ve Chris- 'tian countries do not observe Christ- mas as a legal holiilay. Q Brazil leads the nations in the number of its holidays. It has eight,v-four, and the United States is second with fty-tour. France ob- .*+r:-1-ves eighteen formal lioliduys dur- ling the year, and Italy t\ve11t;,'-tlirx,-3. Among the other nations, Ge1'm-.1 " it is presumed, will observe l.\'\'C21. days; Great Britain sixteen, J:-.'p;m `fteen and Russia seventeen. Arnn'nnr tho f-awn:-itn mnntlm for, fteen and ltussxu seventeen. Among the .fz1`.'ox'iLe months for [.holiLla.ys the world over, November }lc-'adsa, with twenty-six out of its pos- sible thirty days. May comes next with twenty-r.re.-'I`it-13its. 7T1{uid;ay, December,` 19, 1918; x.___ 2 `Women first appeared on the Enz- I isxm .;m;o. in 1661. Gruwing oysters are very sensitive 1T0 o:=.ir4;).1)-;_-3 of heat and cold. J dea.1'." _ W h:xt-a waste of money, sand her husband. "Mm ad :11 1 mzvn the wnman Fm I Thousands n>the Good. I Iiad Iuy fortunes told to-day, dear? c-urh-.+ -9 1-.-nun: nf mnmr-v." smd her husband. Not at all. I gave the woman Su cents and she told me I would in- herit. `$5B.,000. Wasn't that a. bur-` . an in '1' A C] zvcr Duchess. ".['he Duchess of Marlborough, who was recently honored with election 10 .l.h'c London County Council, has the reputation of being one of the 1)e*.si. golf players among English wo- men of title. - Sheep in New- Zcalund. In the _v::z1r ending with April. `there was an increase of nearly 1 1,100,009 sheep in New Zealand, not- -wiahstnsading exports of almost four milljzm carcasses. "~..... Scrap-Iwup. Z-1 nan.-xx rwith If. is. m. .. r~\.*1\n .'V, IH, LU ll \-`-hx1ndr- Irv I: nu raise in I ` 5 the slor-' resomb1 `us xvii,` i E 111.1 Lnlil. yxuvc LU uc a ucnubn:;;u:., Us .- beiiigerent should heave to in re- sponse-tcr t}'+e~co_m_rp_gn(l of me of our submarines, how could we safely send :1 boarding party over when a rifle shot from the vessel in question would send us to the bottom? Obviously it America persists in sending nmniiions `to the allies, there is but one thing for us to do--sink the vessels." When I suggested that while the vulnerability of the submarine un- doubtedly lessened its value in con- nection with the right of Search which belligerents have under international law, still the law ought to 1)!` ob- served, the kaiser interrupter`. me has- tily with the remark: _> -- . . . r1___._ 1.. ...;x rlaveiock Wilson L`eads~" do the Sai'ors of England b in Hatred oi the Germans-5` - V` 00 0090000900000 . Z.-o. .-..3......~..~.~..:~:~:~::.-o. . ,_: ' 0 living sailor on any sea. has { attained such renown as that _' I of `Havelock Wilson. The ' ' curse of this ancient mariner _ . is loud and deep upon the submarine. : He is, perhaps, the real hero of the` 3 labor union war against the kaiser. To-day he is :1 kind of Jingo hero in . Great Britain, most`1)itter of "bitter enders, even to those conservative dailies like the London Daily Post. ` which once denounced him as a. vio- lent labor deniagog with little respect ` , for law. For Havelock Wilson, gaunt. prophetic, hoarse and dominant, is just the type that Marryat and Cooper drew, the very gure realized by Coleridge in the poem. Just now he leads his brotherhood of the brine in a crusade against the pirate-. There are no German sailors, really, according to Havelock Wilson. The German on the high seas has violated the faith handed down among mariners from the times '01! the Vikings and observed afterpa fashion by even the vbuccaneer. :! There must be no peace with the Hun until his ag has been redeemed on the deep, no matter what bap- tisms of blood may prove essential to the purication. . T-lavplnr-It Vvilson. who talks-like purication. Havelock Wilson, talks -like this to gatherings of seamen in Brit- ish ports as ships come in, is an old salt, but vigorous. very. A writer in the London News tells us he is a youth of sixty or so-one who can never be old. Unlike most deep- water sailors, Havelock Wilson swims with ease. Many a ght he has had with roaring breakers oi! '0 strange tropical shores. He has been a castaway on coral strands. He has ridden out a gale on a raft with a. shirt~tail uttering in the breeze to intimate his distress of mind to cas- ual navigators in remote wastes of Waters. He has fought with sharks. He has dived for pearls. He has fac- ed mutinies. He has talked deantly to cruel skippers on such subjects as grog and grub. He knows all the tremendous jokes, and he can play all the tremendous pranks, and he is steeped in the practice and procedure of the seaman. He has risked his life to save his mates and scolded them severely for being so careless after- wards. He knows what it is to sub- sist on salt pork aboard a,.wind- jammer and he is quite himself on an ocean grey hound. He has had his terric collisions with piratesv in the Red Sea, 1nd he understands the best mode of defeating tryannlcal second mates and reckless masters. , The astonishing thing about Have-. `llock Wilson to the London Mail is his physical vigor, his verdant fresh- ness. He retains the characteristic gait, of the old salt, and in a mood, and a condition for a race he can run fast enough to overtake a boarding- house keeper. He bursts now and. then into such songs as "Aye, 0, roll a man down." He has the indescrib- able deference of manner-at times ~--for which the sailor is conspicuous among landsmen and he can be as` rude as he pleases in a crisis. `He conveys no impression of complexity, either. In fact. his simplicity is Won- ` tlcrful'not only as regards appear- ance but mentality. He is quite un- conscious of his own uniqueness. rim.-. mnnctnr-he nf 1-Tave- nun-Hnrr COllSCl0l.1S or his own uiuq The curling moustache of Have- lock Wilson, reports the London Mail, is only beginning to turn grey. The nose is very English- ugna.- \H`J.Ll!'.'55. , cious. long, splendid, suggestiv 1 The eye is a asher. It holds as well as roams. It searches, too. It speaks several languages. The hair on his long head gives Ha-velock Wilson t at young look-thick hair, wonderfully brown in spite of silver strands. The shoulders are broad and mobile, with a psychological content of their own, easily shrugged but not loose. The gure is lithe and alert. The face is hungry but heathily so. As for his speech, here is a sample, provided by the admiring London Mail, reporting with sympathy an address at a. gath- ering of his mates to discuss the right. way of dealing with the Hun_:, " `Now. then. you fellows, he will right or ueaung Wun me nun`; `Now, then, you fellows, say, `let me see it I can't put some ginger and ght into you. I want you all to understand, including that Shetlander over there, -who thinks. he's holding this meeting, that while , this row is on every manjack of you has got to unglue his eyelids and no shenanigan. Look here, old Blow- me1'1`ight with the second-hand Tar- tar whiskers --this to the ancient ` mariner who persists in tellinghla mates what he did in similar cir- cumstances in 1863-`wou1dn1`_ou just ' hold your jaw while I'm ta. ing. or, * shall we toss up two rounds out 02 three whether it's me or you for out- side? But I can tell_ yo,uA beforehs.i1_d.._ it won t be me.` " 4 i Japan's Dye ` .v "',~.` Japan has eighty arflclal dye taca ' tories, with an annual capagtgy in; excess or. w.,1.99.ooo nquadga Democracy s Worst Enemy. _ The great military machine which the kaiser had built up luring the rst `:26 years of his reign for the purpose of maintaining peace was constantly Htchlng for war. There was a feeling am0ng the mllitarists that while it `was all right for the kaiser to assume ' the role of the Prince of I cu.Cc" dur- ing the period of preparation. it was possible to overplny the part. He so `frequently referred to the fact that his sole purpose in maintaining a large :army and navy was to maintain peace `that the war lords of Germany began to fear that perhaps he might mean it. The murder of the Archduke Franz \ Ferdinand, the successor to the Aus- 1.trian throne. and his wife by :1 Ser- ._ lan on June 29. 1914. gave Germany the excuse for which she had been - aitlng so long to start a European conagration and found Austria as 1ai_i_xl_ous for war as hex-'aii_y. ,, ..- .. ....., ...-.- V"- ,, ,,_ "Intornat`1on5.IV1nw! There is no :such thing as international law any ....,..--\ I`?