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to a certain extent, depend on the way he will carve Russia’s future policy.
Born in 1865, he received a military education and served in the cavalry
up to 1890, when he resigned. He settled on his large estate in the province
of Simbirsk, where he devoted himself to business and social work. National
politics were foreign to Protopopoff till 1908, in which year he was elected to
the duma by the octobrists—the party of the center.
Shrewd, persistent, ambitious, Protopopoff was unlike the standard type
of Russian politician. His qualities, to be sure, could never win him popular
admiration and respect in Russia. But opportunity never found Protopopoff
asleep or slow. When the junior vice president of the duma resigned some
years ago Protopopoff was suddenly advanced to fill the vacancy.
“THE JAPANESE ROOSEVELT”
Baron Shimpei Goto, Japan’s great
medico-statesman, who holds the port
folio of the interior in the Terauchi
cabinet, has sometimes been called the
“Japanese Roosevelt.” He is the
grandson of Choei Takano, one of the
pioneer progressives of the latter To
kugawa period, who was put to death
by the Tokugawa government for his
denunciation of the policy of exclud
ing foreigners. Goto was educated for
the profession of medicine, and in 1890
he went to Germany, receiving the
M. D. degree from the University of
Berlin.
In Japan he became a leading au
thority on health and sanitation. He
was sanitary commissioner during the
Japan-China war. Later he estab
lished a reputation as an executive
while civil administrator of Formosa.
His vigorous administration of that
Island won him promotion and dis
tinction until he became known as
Japan’s great colonist-organizer. He displayed ability as the first president
of the South Manchurian railroad, the company becoming an independent
organ of colonial administration of Manchuria.
A very romantic incident marked his earlier career. His daring imagina
tion and strong sympathies induced him to take part in a quixotic plan to
rescue a former daimyo from the hands of a band of supposed persecutors.
The daimyo had been imprisoned by relatives on the plea of insanity. Goto’s
activities resulted in his arrest and imprisonment on the charge of complicity
in obtaining illegal possession of the imprisoned nobleman. But his motives
were found to be honorable. He was acquitted and restored to his official
position. It is a coincidence that the judge who examined him was his pres
ent colleague, Minister Nakajoshi.
LONGWORTH JOKES M’ADOO
wears the honor. It Is he who is now pointed out as the president's son-in
law; it is he who takes the center of the stage. Fame, indeed, is fleeting.”
Longworth is one of the most popular members of the house, and is well
liked by his associates of both parties. He is a ready speaker and can handle
himself well In debate.
C.
BOLD BOIES PENROSE
i Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania [s
a bold man, and when he feels like it,
apd is there, he can make himself
very obnoxious to those who do not
like him. At a dinner on McKiniey
day in Pittsburgh he is reported to
have said that the next time Presi
dent Wilson appeared before the sen
ate to discuss publie matters “I will
engage him in colloquy and debate,
in which I shall be strictly within my
rights, as he is within his rights in
coming there. Doubtless other sena
tors will join in the debate, although
I shall not ask them to do so. The
president will be addressed as was
Washington more than one hundred
years ago, and I think I can say that
this second appearance of Mr. Wilson
Will be his last.”
The senator said that this was
what he expected to do If he should
be present; but some of his constitu
ents do not think he will be<there un-
less he breaks his record for nonattendance. If he should carry out his
announced purpose, however, no one would enjoy a debate more than the
president, and when it ended the senator from Pennsylvania probably would
Jcnow that there had been a fight. <
■A cloth taMlufacturer is today the
real powe^ behind the Russian throne.
At his wl;l the czar issues ukases and
promulgates decrees. The membership
of the cabinet is entirely changed, the
traditional and legal order, of im
perial council completely revolution
ized, the duma prorogued and threat
ened with dissolution, all because of
the activities of a political adventurer
who knows how to make use of the
sinister forces pervading Russian life.
His name is Alexander Dmitrovitch
Protopopoff and he is the czar’s min
ister of the interior.
A few years ago Protopopoff’s only
distinction was the fact that he was
the owner of one of Russia’s largest
cloth manufacturing establishments.
Today he holds in his hands the fate
of ministers; the duma fears him;
Russian democracy hates him and the
allies are uneasy over his moves. The
fortunes of humanity and civilization.
Representative “Nick” Longworth
likes to have fun with the secretary
of the treasury, Mr. McAdoo, and per
haps there is a bond of sympathy be
tween them since both married prin
cesses of a reigning house. Mr. Long
worth’s marriage to Miss Alice Roose
velt was the great social event of the
Roosevelt administration, as was the
wedding of Mr. McAdoo and Miss Wil
son the most interesting affair of the
Wilson regime until the president him
self was married to Mrs. Galt.
At a dinner party recently Long
worth and McAdoo were guests, and
when it came Nick’s turn to submit a
few remarks he ragged the secretary
of the treasury in good-natured fash
ion. .
“I well remember the time when I
was the fair-haired boy,” said Long
worth, “when I was the official son
in-law. But that time passed long ago,
and now the secretary of the treasury
THE BULLETIN. IRWINTON. GEORGIA.
REAL DIPLOMACY l|
By A. M. BROWN.
I had never realized what a differeit
nature I possessed until I tried to bring
myself to propose to Millicent.
1 was pretty sure she would accept
me if I could but screw up my courage
to the sticking point.
Two or three times, indeed, I had
very nearly taken the'plunge. One aft
ernoon Millicent and I grew confiden
tial over the .tea table, and my lips
were actually framing the fatal ques
tion, when I shot the muffin dish into
her lap.
A brilliant strategist would have risen
to the occasion with a remark wittily
appropriate and complimentary. Mil
licent would have blushingly said that
it did not matter, and the inevitable
tableau would have resulted. As it
was, seeing the havoc caused by the
melting butter on her new silver-gray
gown, I seized my hat and fled.
Again, one Sunday evening on the
river, I let the oars trail in the water
as we drifted under the bank. “Mil
licent,” I began, hoarsely, leaning for
ward. “Will you—” A cough interrupt
ed me, and I found two elderly dowa
gers on the towing path eyeing me with
stern disapproval I concluded lamely:
“ — pull your left, please.”
The strain at last began to wear me
thin, and I determined to resort to des
perate measures. With this end in
view, I invaded Regent street.
“I want an engagement ring,” I said,
cursing inwardly at the fine acoustic
properties of the shop. Half a dozen
people turned round to smile broadly
in my direction.
“It’s for a friend of mine,” I added
loudly.
“Yes, sir, I quite understand. What
stone does the lady prefer, sir?”
“My friend didn’t say,” I told him.
The shop door swung open again. I
turned round and found myself face to
face with Millicent.
“Fancy meeting you here!” I stam
mered.
“Fancy meeting you!” she replied.
“Um—er —yes, ha ! ha ! Isn’t it
funny? The fact is” —I dropped my
voice to a confidential whisper—“l am
buying an engagement ring so
Tommy Hasler. He is confoundedly
shy about those things, you know.”
“How sweet of you. Who is the girl?”
“Don't you know?”
"I can guess.”
“You mustn’t,” I said. “Tommy
Wants it to be a dead secret.”
“What is the size of the lady’s finger,
sir?” asked the shopman, returning
with a tray of rings.
“I don’t know,” I said, glancing at
Millicent’s gloved hand.
“If it’s Ella Burnaby,” said Millicent
softly, “she’s got rather fat fingers,
and will want a large ring.”
“Tommy told me to be careful to get
a small ring. I like this one, do you?”
Millicent nodded.
“I’ll take it,” I said, “and chance It
being the right size.”
“Thank you, sir.”
“I want a solid silver cigarette case,”
said Millicent to another salesman.
“You see, Ella Burnaby asked me to
buy this for her, as she’s rather a shy
girl, you know. I think it is for a
Christmas present.”
“Can I help you?” I said. “I am a
bit of a connoisseur on cigarette cases.
Is the fellow Tommy Hasler?”
“I mustn’t tell,” said Millicent.
“Because if it is, Tommy does not
smoke.”
“OhI” she exclaimed blankly.
“Ella must be playing a double
game,” I insinuated.
“I am sure she isn’t. Yes, that one
will do.”
“You’ll have the initials engraved on
the case, ma’am?” asked the salesman.
"Yes,” said Millicent.
“T. L. H„” I told him.
“Yes, sir.”
“No,” broke in Millicent quickly,
“these are the initials.” She scribbled
something on a card and pushed it
across the counter without letting me
see. “Os course, the initials must be
engraved on Tommy’s ring. They
are —”
“They are not,” I said quickly. “Here
they are?” I wrote something on an
other card.
“Is that right?” I asked recklessly,
and handed the card to Millicent.
“I think so,” she said, after a pause;
dropping her eyes and banding the
card to the salesman. “And —I hope
you’ll like your cigarette case.”
Quite a Difference.
Reference at a recent dinner was
made to the perplexities of the Eng
lish language, when this story was fit
tingly related by Zane Gray, the au
thor of many charming stories of the
great Southwest.
Some time since a young girl who
had gone through a fashionable col
lege was having a highly intellectual
talk with a« young man acquaintance
when the words "vision” and “sight”
were used by the fair one.
“I think I catch the drift of our
argument, Miss Smith,” said the young
man in answer to the girl’s last re
mark, “but please don’t make the mis
take of saying ‘vision’ when ‘sight’ is
what you mean.”
“I don’t quite understand you, Mr.
Green,” loftily returned the young
woman. “There is absolutely no dif
ference between ‘vision’ and ‘sight.’ ”
“Oh, yes. there is,” cheerfully de
clared Mr. Green. “Walking along the
street you occasionally met a girl who
Is a vision, and the next minute you
may meet one who Is a sight.''—Phila
delphia Evening Telegraph.
UNITED STATES SUBMARINE M-1
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PLANS FOR VAST ALLIED OFFENSIVE
Decisions of Incalculable Im
portance Arrived at During
Rome Conference.
BIG DRIVES ON ALL FRONTS
More Vigorous War to Be Waged in
Macedonia—Enormous Quantities
of Guns and Munitions Ready
on Western Front.
By C. F. BERTELLI.
Paris. —Although they issued a pub
lic statement after their conference in
Paris last March, the war chiefs of
the entente powers remained complete
ly silent following their Rome confer
ence the other day. But I have learned
on indisputable authority that deci
sions of incalculable importance were
arrived at.
The principal subjects discussed
were:
The Saloniki expedition.
The relation between each nation's
resources and its effective contribu
tion to the war, bearing particularly
upon (a) effectives; (b) munitions;
(c) finance.
Preparation of offensives on all
fronts for the coming spring.
While for obvious reasons I am not
permitted to give details of the de
cisions arrived at. I am able to state
that as regards the Macedonian front
the entente powers have at last been
united by the French leaders and that
at the chosen moment the offensive
will be delivered from the Saloniki
base with an energy and force hither
to conspicuously lacking.
At last Premier Briand, backed by
General Sarrail, the commander of the
entente forces in Macedonia —who is
tremendously enthusiastic about the
possibilities to be expected from his
sphere of the hostilities —has brought
England and Italy into line. The gov
ernments of both these countries, act
ing on the advice of their military
counselors, have barely disguised their
indifference to the Saloniki campaign,
but since the Rome conference that
feeling has been replaced by a united
determination to wage more vigorous
war In Macedonia, where of course,
both countries will increase their effec
tives.
Have No Illusions.
The after war problems which the
Rome conferees discussed were prin
cipally economic and social. None of
the entente statesmen has any illu
sions as to the question of monetary
compensation for war expenditure and
damage to be obtained from Germany.
No one nation could possibly bear the
burden of $150,000,000,000, which the
war will have cost in actual expendi
ture for armies and navies between
August, 1914, and the fall of 1917, to
say nothing of the billions of dollars
worth of property destroyed.
The entente leaders were therefore
faced with the hecessity of establish
ing a plan that will not utterly crush
the present generatidn under an ap
palling overburden of taxation, and
at the same time that will provide
enough credit to enable each nation
to meet its obligations.
The principle has been adopted of
postponing a final settlement of war
debts to 100 years hence. In this way
this generation, which has paid the
awful blood price of the war, will not
in addition be reduced to utter pov
erty. Generations still unborn will re
ceive a heavy legacy of war bills as
the price of national liberty and for
the privilege of living under the insti
tutions of their own country, however
small tfie country be.
European taxation will remain mod
erate for some years, until the revival
in trade is complete, then will begin
to be applied a gradually rising scale
of taxation, until, some fifty years
hence, the statesmen of the day will
be expected to begin the liquidation
of the war liabilities in real earnest.
Thus may default be avoided. A pros
perous Europe, not the stricken and
groaning Europe of today, will be
looked to to honor all bills and keep
the financial credit of the entente na
tions unstained.
Will Work In Harmony.
In this respect It is planned to have
France, England, Italy and Russia
work in harmony, the richer helping
the poorer from generation to gen
eration. This plan in itself foreshad
ows u post-war quadruple alliance of
a more Intimate and binding nature
than has ever characterized other al
liances in the world’s history; and if
its purpose is to be fully fulfilled, its
duration is expected to be at least 100
years.
A prominent politician who was in
Rome at the time of the conference,
tells me that entente statesmen do not
expect the German government to
make a serious effort to meet the coun
try’s financial liabilities toward its own
people, and it is therefore not difficult
to understand why the big business
interests of Hamburg, Frankfort and
Berlin have for long been clamoring
for peace.
If, as expected, Germany wipes off
her liabilities and begins again with
a clean sheet, she will obviously be in
a position of economic superiority to
the entente countries while the latter
are struggling to devise ways and
means of meeting their indebtedness.
Social problems will be no less grave.
Os all the entente countries, France
will have suffered most heavily in men
in relation to her population by the
time the war is over. By the end of
this year her dead or permanently
incapacitated may reach 5,000,000, and
England, Italy and Russia will suffer
after the same rate. At the same time,
Germany’s losses will be found to be
superior, both relatively and absolute
ly, to those of any other country in
the war.
Affects the United States.
This means that in every town and
village labor will be scarce. Emigra
tion will be brought to a standstill
for at least this generation, and per
haps for the next. The United States
will thus be directly affected, while it
is certain that the development of
Canada will be set back for half a
century.
Proof that a great scarcity of labor
is feared in Europe, and especially
France, is given by the measures al
ready prudently taken by the French
government for the introduction of
coolie labor. This movement began
some months ago and will be inten
sified this year. Already thousands <of
Asiatics are employed for national
purposes, and even when millions of
Frenchmen are released from the col
ors it is anticipated that the employ
ment of colored men will have to be
continued to make a big trade revival
possible.
Therefore, in the opinion of Euro
pean statesmen. America will be great
ly disappointed if she expects the re
leasing of millions of men at present
in the field to cause a stream of migra
tion westward across the Atlantic ow
ing to bad conditions in Europe.
The greatest and most pressing
question dealt with by the Rome con
ference was, of course, that of the
organization of huge united offensive
strokes on the main fronts this year.
The moment for delivering these
simultaneous blows will be decided
upon by the commanders in chief, but
it is no secret that by next April the.
millions of men and women working*
in munition factories will have pro
duced sufficiently enormous quantities
of guns and shells for the beginning
of a continuous offensive that will
break beyond repair the belt of iron
laid by the Germanic invaders across
Europe. Had not entente statesmen
been sincerely convinced of their stead
ily increasing military superiority over
Germany they would not have shut
the door on Germany’s peace opening.
One Man in Chief Command.
Real unity of army command is an
immediate probability in the entente
camp. It will very likely center in
one man, supported by a small inter
national staff.
In future entente offensives the
weight of attack will be more fairly
apportioned to the big nations in ac
cordance with their resources in man
power than has been the case hither
to. The British front is gradually
lengthening; it will grow a lot longer
before the war is over. In fact, the
relative burden of united offensives
will be decided upon after a consider
ation of population, number of com
batants, figure of losses and length
yf ^ront, in the case of each entente
nation.
Regarding munitions, no longer will
each country manufacture merely for
Itself, witlr a view to various partial
attacks fixed in advance. Hencefortn
the countries will decide: (1) the
amount of defensive material neces
sary for the whole front; (2) the ma
terial necessary for offensives on the
whole of the different fronts; (3) the
quantity of raw material for muni
tions needed in every country.
Goose’s Crop Held $10.27.
St. Louis, Mo. —When John F. I’.
Ernst killed u gift goose h* found
in its crop a half-dollar, 26 quarters,
26 dimes, 13 nickels and 2 pennies.
This two-legged bank was a Christmas
bonus given Ernst by the employees of
a grocery store where he is chief clerk.
Ttere was no refund, as Ernst con
siders the gift of a goose includes the
ballast. The total of the goose’s sav
ings was $10.27.
WEAR ANTI-COLLISION SUITS
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White Derbies and White Shoes Worn
by Gentlemen Out at Night
in London.
London.—Some of the odd things,
“due to the war:” •
Gentlemen out at night are affect
jing white derbies, white shoes and
white gloves. “Anticollision” suits,
they are called and they prevent col
lisions between pedestrians in the
darkened streets.
The London boy and girl now have
“Zepp” drill instead of fire drill in
their schools. Children are taught to
file quickly into places of safety.
“Zepp” drills have also been inaug
urated in many homes.
Suburban railroad fares have dou
bled and tickets have grown smaller.
To effect a saving on pasteboard, the
long green ticket of pre-bellum days
has been supplanted by a ticket hard
ly larger than a postage stamp.
With railroad fares increasing, the
government has not increased the
“three-quarters” reduced rates to the
atrical companies. Theatrical eontjat
nies are not luxuries, according to
rulings.
Children in Eastbourne have been
ordered to wear clogs because of the
high prices of shoes.
PUTS BAN ON USELESS SPECS
Zion City Overseer Declares Some of
His People Are Wearing Glasses
Needlessly.
Chicago. — Wilbur Glenn Voliva,.
overseer of Zion City, whose edicts
concerning smoking, kissing and simi
lar “frivolities” of humanity rule his
followers, has put the “kibosh” on eye
glasses also.
Voliva suspects that some of his;
people have been wearing specs when
they don’t need them, ahd his latest
order sets a deadline for those who
may purchase or use them. All per
sons under forty-five years of age must
first obtain from him a written order.
“Some young man has a pain in his
big toe, and he gets a pair of glasses,”
says Voliva. “Some say they have a
stigmatization. All they have is a pig
tail in their eye.”
Voliva also has taken over the nam
ing of babies born in Zion City. Par
ents who wish a hand in the matter
must first submit their choices and get
an "O. K.” And they have been tipped
off that “Algernon,” “Clarice” and sim
ilar names won't go.
WAR NURSE TO WED
Miss Kelynach of Crestwood, N. J. r
went to England last October as a vol
unteer Red Cross nurse. On the vqy
age over, she met Charles McDade, a
Belfast merchant, and they became
friends. After Miss Kelynach had
served some time in a hospital at
Southampton Mr. McDade called to^see
her and proposed marriage. He ac
companied her on her return to this
country and the marriage will take
place in April.
DAYLIGHT COAL MINING NOW
New Method to Be Undertaken on a
Tremendous Scale in Pennsyl
vania District.
Burgettstown, Pa. —Daylight mining
of coal is to be undertaken in this dis
trict on a tremendous scale. Instead
of digging shafts, entrances, runways
and tipples, now used in mining coal, a
great battery of modern steam shovels
will strip the coal veins, and specially
constructed machinery will remove the
“black diamonds.” The method will
enable the operators to take out all
of the coal and no expensive sup
ports will be left in the earth. Jt is
also expected that it will be easier
to secure labor for the daylight oper
ations.
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