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possible bualwark against revolution
and general sanguinary idiocy
s And as all coalitionists are not ut
terly blind, and as no coalitionist
really wants revolution, 1 trust that
even if the collation iz now faithless
%0 the fourteen points (as I suspect
+ &t to be) it will before many Weecks
are over discover powerful reasons
for amending ite way and persuading
other allieg to do likewise
You may ask Why should Presi
dent Wilson, representing the United
States, have a sounder notiom than
the European Allies of what the busis
of peace ought to be?
" . The European Allles are, after all
more experienced In International
politics than any group of men in
America, You may say that the ar
gument that President Wlilson is an
axceptionally great man is not a good
" argument. He may or may not be
And, in any case, great men have
often proved very wrong. |
' If Germany Had Won. |
‘1 agree with you,
1 would not invite Europe to how
ncl’rendem Wilson's views merely
ause he may be a greal man. But,
first, | would remind you once mnrne;
shat a short while ago we were en
thusiastic for President Wilson's vlqwn}
gith one cxception that has yet to
cleared up). ‘
And, second, I would urgé that the
real reason for listening to America
is not that America is especially the
receptacle of eternal jwisdom, or that
American citizens are archangels to
Whom seifish motives are unknown. ‘
I do not imagine that Americans
are a bit Jess humap and self-geeking
}hn our poor European selves. And
suspect that if the Unilted Htalen‘
weére situated in Europe, Americans
would display exactly the same lack
of vision and the same nNarrow ego
tistic instincts as Furopean countries
are now likely to do.
. No! The real reason for listening to
gmflu fs that she happens to be
interested, and is, therefore, & bet
ter judge of the vast problems before
8 than a European nation—for no
Buropean is distinterested.
1 do not concur with those who as
sert that the United States éntered
the war exclugively from an unselfish
ug: to ses justice estallished.
, of course, had such a desire,
t‘t‘ #he had an interest, |
was Adeeldedly her interest that
Germany should not win, If Germany
had won the United States would
_ without question haye been t‘)'rl& next
¢ of Germany's gracious nhilitary
, and she would have Dbeen
1o prepare on a huge scale ac
g now that Germany is broken,
the United States has no interesl
whatever save the interest of lasting
.and universal Kquu.
© Bhe is not afraid for her frontiers
No members of her race are sub
jects of other countries. Buffer states
mean nothing to her. She has no old
to wipe out. And emphatical.
g ghe does not want a penny from
my toward her war costs.
1 is why President Wilson
should be listened to, and why his ad
viee should be followed by all Furo
péan nations.
© AM who plume themselves upon pos
m of common sense should re
v r daily and hourlg that Allled
Furope today is full of the notions of
annexations without consuiting the
pecple to be annexed. of conscription
es armaments, of seeret diplomacy, of
morc frontiers, of balance of pow
er and of punishments by means of
overwhelming indemnities and by
:fiu\l of commercial ostracism, That
to say, Allled Europe iz full of
:’Ubl and of revenge and of scorn
&..)u‘uo of nations.
; things, however much they
may appeal to our momentary feel
afln only lead to more war. Pres-
Wilson saw that, and all these
are ruled out by his fourteen
: ts, which are hased on the idea of
) Justice, backed by faith and good
11. It is therefore the duty of every
g: who believes in the ultimate
ey of faith and good will to sup
mnnly the attitude of President
.
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; ONDON, Jan 25, «~Murghal )
L Foch has acquired the Eng- {
§ lish habit of smoking. Theé
|2 French do_not smoke pipes Day by {
| day Marshal Fogh saw Field Marshal §
7 Halg and other British generals in :
¢ the vortex of the war calmly doing ¢
|, their work behind good, big-bowled I 8
¢ briar pipes
‘ Foch agked Halg what it was like §
: to smoke a pipe. e bought nne.,
He filled it under careful British )
[ ilitary instruction He began the ;
‘ attempt with energy and parpose- ¢
ful determination, but at first ¢
| smoked more matches than tobacco, )
{ Now_ however, he has mastered "'2
and he thoroughly enjoys a good §
briar which he has bought from an 1|
English firm, {
By FLOYD MACGRIFF,
Correspondent |. N. 8.
LONDON, (by mafl.)--Two of the big
geat jobs of the Peace Conference will
be the undoing of the lifework of Bis
marck, together with reducing Prussia
to her proper level with the other Ger
man States, and establishing a Poland |
which will be sturdy encugh to resist
being Prussianized eommercially, wnile
at the same time serving as a buffer
safe-guard against Germanic domination
of Russia,
It was by pouneing upon Poland that
Prussia rose to power. The Indtigation
of the partitioning of Poland by Fred
erick 11. sowed the seed of aggrandize.
ment which ex-Kaigser Withelm 11. at.
tempter to harvest,
And the problem of Poland and Prus
sia s a tangle. Poland's only possible
seaport ig Danzig. It formerly was Pol
ish, but Prussia po{numod it with Ger
man;. so that now less than {lo ger cent
of the seaport Is Polish. ould Ger
many retain Danzig she could dominate
Poland, 'The distri¢t about l:)%lg is
overwhelmingily Polish, but if city
s given back to Poland, then Rast
Prussia will be cut off front the rest of
Germany., There are nbnuk 1.500,000
Poles who have to be liberfited from
Prussian misrule, In this part of Po
land there are 1,000,000 GGermans placed
there thrn(l,:'gh colonization, Internation
alization the port of D-ndf might
#olve that phase of the question, but
how East Prussia is to be linked up
with the rest of Germany by land with
out chasing out thonnnd; of Poles s
the hard part of the nut or full, free,
economic development there can be no
guestion but that Poland should have
Danzig.
To begin at the outset to undo Ris.
marek's work there will be rectifica
tion of Germany's frontiers. As already
pmvmm, Alsace and Lorraine will be
restor to France, Luxemburg likely
will revert to Belgium and Danish parts
of Schleswig-Holstein will be returned
to Denmark, If Germanic Austria de
sires to unite with the other German
states—a thing Bismarek ?rhvl'mod be
cause it wuulq reduce Prussia's in
fluence-—the allles will not interfere.
Thus there will be rectifications of prac
tically all of Germany's frontier
l In connection with Schleswig-Holstein,
the r‘ueutlon of the future of the Kiel
Canal arises. It is most important that
Germany be prevented from continuing
to treat this canal as an Inland water
way, mmylni other natlon's equal use,
It Germany is allowed to continue this
domination of the Kiel Canal, she will
have-~that s, Prussian interests will
have—an undue advantage over sea.
borne traffic from Poland, Finland and
Russia into the North Sea and Atlantle.
For the Kiel Canal is the short rouse.
The Kiel Canal, experts gay, should be
free to all nations allke, as are the
Panama and Suez Canals.
Germany also 18 expected either to
surrender outright or hand over the out
put of the Saar coal fields, which were
taken from France a century ago,
(":\mmerci?cl{’ as well an chl domi
nation over European countries by -
Ala IBto be terminated. (krmnm
find that her relations hereafter with
Holhlvf!,wm be far different than in the
past; likewise with Belflum. Germany's
attempt to {mlnon relations between Rel
gium and Holland ever which of those
two ghall control the Scheldt is doomed
to failure,
The unification of the German peo
ples, a thing which 81-munktgreven!od
will be one of the frults of the recon
structed world, and this, in itsel, will
bo a check against vehement Prussian
ma(:\odn. Bavaria and Germanic {un
trin are expected to fom A balance
which Blood and Iron Bismarcks cannot
digturb. The Rismarckian policy 1
preventing democratic development an.
expression of the people is to he curbed.
The Prussian game of playing one race
O¢ one section against another to bene
fit Prussian alms 1s to be ruled out.
There ‘will be a bulwark against any
German custom uqkm which seeks to tle
:fluom neutrals to the Prussian money
Germany Is ing to have aMg
‘enough rjo‘: in nflapl_\' attending to the
neads of Germans in Germany, recon.
Etructing her State and m»kln‘ the
Allled pence terms. Her colonial ad
vantfins from 1884-88, will be "lnd oft
the slate. Her establishment in the Far
East, dating from 1887, will pass AWAY.
But these are only offshoots of the
Prussian idea which Bismarck so akill
mm perpetuated in the Kalser-con
trolled Germanie State,
A keen watch will be kept here on
negotiations relative to Poland, for it
I 8 realized that unless this question s
settled praperly and so as to stamp out
all Prussian influence, the peace J’nu
lm[w will not endure long.
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HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN . A Newspaper for Who Think — SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1919.
German Kultur Shown at Work in
| Revelations of Royal Household
!
By TERESA PENN MATHEWS
CHAPTER IV,
Our season in Oldenburg was grad
ually drawing to a close. General
von Emmich had appeared suddenly
several times since the banguet. He
generally remained in close and mys
terfous conversation with the Grand
Duke for an hour or two, whilst re
splendent cars would wait at the door
ready to take them to some military
Gisplay. Sometimes he would come
to the palace to lwneheon, and often
the Grand Duké would go back with
him to Hamwver and net retyrn until
lnte ‘at night,
Many other generals or mffitary ex
perts came also, and each one was
the cemter of some great demonstra
tion. The whole life was military,
we were surrounded by military, ana
yet I never then half suspected that
the “great preparation” had already
Legun,
T was constantly brought forward
and questions concerming Britain
were showered upon me. | was so
simple—perhaps flattered that my
opinion should be asked for—but |
rever for one instant realized how
much was happening all around me
ard in the véry house in which [
lived,
“Kuitur” and Sport. ‘
Sports, teo, centinually teeok place.
On one particular oceasion soldiers
and sailors showed off their gymnas
tics,'and I could not help comparing
these exercises—such an evident con
spicuous display of thelr odions “kul
tur”—with the athletic sports I had
witnessed and enjoyed in Hritain ear
lier in the same spring. |
. The youth of Germany takes a
) pride in overdeveloped museles, which
i® their way of improving on the
Greek model they profess to admire
and to understand so much better
than Europeans can. 1 was Hterally
Tdh(m»tad at this exhibition, chiefly
perhaps because the German to me a 4
‘a type of manhood is only possible
and decent when fully clothed. To}
outline exactly what caused my dis
sust would not be easy, but certainly
any other woman who has lived in
Germeny and seen similar sights
would readily understand. ‘
There was sometihing repugnant to
me also in the genuine delight of the
Princesses at the performance. No
voung.girl could be enthusiastic nat-|
)m.lly at such an exhibition, but, es
course, it was only part of their arti
ficial education in which “kultur” as
the keynote and final chord indueed
thkem to profess to be so. |
1 asked one of the officers near, who
had been in Britain and seemed less
indigenous to his surroundings than
the others, whether this was really
what the Germans understood as ath
letic sports. He agreed that it was
more like a circus entertalnment.
However, he held it to be a neces
sary preliminary to sport, and from
what he said I could perfectly under
stand that here was another example
of Germany's feverish desire to excel
and surpass Anglo-Saxons in their
| pational enterprises.
The next diversion was the races,
which took place during the last
week of May. The Grand Duke wng
very proud of his race horses—a pe
culiar Oldenburg breed, whose sires
originally came from England.
Of course, the Grand Duke being
no longer a young man, and his re
membrances of England, with a few
fleeting exceptions, dating back to the
fifties and sixties, we had not very
much in common to talk ahout. Later
on, while we were crulsing on the
royal yacht, and I got to know the
Grand Duke better, I had many most
'fnterminx private conversations
with him.
Court Etiquette.
When I first met him he would
dwell chiefly on India, and always
represented himself as having given
some very good advice to those in
power while he was there. He knew
Lord Lonsdale and Lord Rosebery,
Aand always spoke of them in connec
tion with English racing as if they
were the only sportsmen worth men
‘tioning. 1 must add that it was not
correct for me to open a topic or to
give any information on & subject un
less asked specially to do so/
Like a great many other royal per
sonages, the Grand Duke's ideas
‘wanted “rubbing up,” to say the least
of it, but it was not likely that he
would ever know it. Many people at
the Berlin Court told me how terribly
narrow-minded the Kaiser was on the
most ordinary subjects—simple be
‘cause he could never hear one falrly
discussed.
Dressed in their very best, and vy
ing with each other in showing off
their court manners, the better class
peoplé of the little Duchy regarded
‘the race as their final opportunity to
come a little nearer to the inner ecir
cle of the court.
. Many who were outside the pale of
"‘tho invitation" circle came into this
lurger orbit, and thus stood some
slight chance after having distin
guished themselves more or less at
the military maneuvers of being pro
anoted to higher favors. The Grand
Duke was most particular as to who
was immediately near him and his
son and two daughters. The adju
tants and aldes-de-camp were gentle
men of distinguished name and fam
ily and were not generally chosen
from the nobilty of Oldenburg, buc
certain outlying posts and duties fell
1o these gentry, and there was much
lively competition as to who should
be nominated,
Would-be High Personages.
A certain family, Von Finck, was
ackrowledged as the first in Olden
burg. This Grand Duke had a great
vespect for his family and favored
the son and daughter by choosing
them as intimate friends for his chil
dren. Another family was Von Rad
ctsky, of Pomerania, but the daugh
ters of this family were just a little
less favored. These distinctions,
though not actually defined, were un
mistakable and never ignored, even
l\{flvfih luncheons or visits,
‘e never left the palace on any
oceasion without ceremony, FEven to
o to church on Sunday mornings a
certain order of precedence was ob
served as to one's place In the car
riage, the exact position of each ear
riage in the cortege, and again one's
place in church.
The procession of royal carriages
when golng to the races was an
“event” of the year for Oldenburg
Everybody connected with the court,
however remotely, was included in
this procession. More than a dozen
emblazoned carriages—and a few odd
ones following-—-took us to the race
course.
From the Ellzabeth Anne Palats
threcugh the whole thoroughfare of
the town we drove. The people stood
in crowds all the way, and the Grand
Duke, with the Prince and Princesses,
were cheered as they passed, flying
the roval gag.
Frau von Guretsky.-Cornity—VEßY
important—with Fraulein von Jacho
witz and 1, followed by the three ad.
Jutants, with Herr von Mack. The
chief steward of the court with the
oither gentlemen occnp!ed three other
'curriwm. and the varfous dignitaries
and ladies who had reeeived the title
of maid of honor brought up the rear.
Frau von Jordan, wife of the chlet
adjutant, with Frau von Toll and a
few more ladies, were already assem
bled on the grandstand, and om the
Grand Duke's arrival there was much
ceremony, all these good ladies beam
;lng and courtesying most gracefully
on being accorded a moment ot royal
notice,
We all rose at onee if the Grand
Duke stood up,gand waited on his
movements. The duties of the ladies
'were chieily to rvemain with the
Princesses im the stand, but the gen
tlemen made a group reund the
Cirand Duke whenever he moved. On
this particular day [ happened to be
near Rittmeister von During, the
youngest' of the three adjutants.
Von During, who, as I have al
ready stated, was English on his
mother’s side, and just returned from
England on a visit to his relatives. Ha
seemed rather pleased with his visit,
and told me, how mueh he had en
joyed being in England. ‘
“You must have found it very re
freshing to have left all this tiresome
military world behind you for a lit
tle,” 1 said as I looked round on the
throngs of men in their stiff and
gorgeous uniforms. |
“Tiresome!” he ejaculated. “It ll‘
our life—the most wonderful profes
sion in the world!”
Here the Grand Duke suddenly made
a move, and Herr von During hastily |
left me with “military life”” written
all over him--to the very tread of his |
martial swagger. He took his place
by the side of the Grand Duke, who
wished to inspect the horses in the
paddock.
Vanished Notabilities.
Herr von During returned to me
at intervals during the races, and we
resumed our conversation, which was
always about Britain. Of course, I
did not suppose that he had entirely
thrown off allegiance to Britain, but
I gradually discovered that his moth
er's nationality, which was English,
counted for him only inasmueh &s he
could profit by her relations,
Later when war was declared this
fact stood out prominently, for Herr
von During proved himself my enemy
at once, and this iseno doubt true of
every officer of the German army.
However, he certainly had some dis
tinction from his fellow officers, who
had not the advantage of British in
fluence in their upbringing.
Herr von During was generally qui
eter and less obtrusively personal in
his manner; there was also that in
describable something in his tone 021
voice which could not fail to be an
echo of his mother's more refined uc-l
cent.
I often wonder now whether Herr
von During’s holiday in England had
any official duty connected with it.
Certainly the bilingual German of
ficer is mostly used as a secret agent.
Another well-known figure amongst
us before the war was that charming
young Austrian, Count George Furs-l
tenburg, a great frequenter of London
society. His mother T.l a daughter
of the old Duke of Hamilton, who,
first married to.the Prince of Monaco,
‘divorced him a few menths later to
~espouse Count Furtenburg. Like many
- other great Austrian families, the
Furstenburgs had a name universal
‘tor honor and integrity, which is now
dragged in the dust for their dis
%;eputab)e ally.
~ For that matter, many German fam
ilies were almost equally respected.
Where are the Stumms, the Berck
helms and o*lnher- whose names are
even more familiar to us, and whose
wealth is, or was, nearly as powerful
as their names were honorable?
During the decade preceding the
war I was frequently in the society
of the younger generation of these
families, most of them budding diplo
matists, prepared to use their wealth
for the aggrandisement of their coun
try. Although they had British or
American mothers, and have since
married British or American wives,
one was never left in any doubt as to
their leanings and sentiments. Hatred
and jealousy of Britain was their rul
ilnx passion, held in check, perhaps,
‘when in our country, but openly
‘avowed In every word and gesture in
their own.
- In those days I was 8o sure of Brit
ain that their conversations used to
fall on my ears as sc much silly
cackle, but what valuable secret
agents these loyal sons of the enemy
must have proved! Shern of the ve
‘neer which we generously mistook for
the foreign equivglent to our ancient
traditions, they go undisguised-—the
‘unlovely counterparts of Von Papen
‘and Karl Graves.
A Spy and His Wife. |
In the war of 1870 France was be
trayed by a man of the same caliber,
In Paris Count Henckel had been
with his wife-——a Russian adventuress
known formerly as La Paiva—one of
the most fashionable figures. He
basely spied on the inner workings of
France, and with the help of his
wife's unserupulous friends succeeded
in procuring information of vital im
portance to Germany. This he passed
on to Bismarck, who was thus in
spired to exact that infamous indem
nity paid so nobly by our ally,
For his services to Germany Count
Henckel received the title of Prince
von Donnersmarck, and his wife ‘}v-‘
ing shortly afterward, he marrfed
again, and settled down in his do
mains in Silesia, He did not dare to
return to Paris for 40 years, but had
enormous influence, owing to his
wealth, in the affairs of his country,
After the fall of Bismarck, his
friend, Prince Donnersmarck, obsti
nately refused to see the Kalser, and
was only prevailed upon to do so dur
ing recent years by the entreaties of
his second wife, an ambitious little
lady, the story of whose life would fill
an interesting volume,
In 1912 Prince Donnersmarck, with
his wife, ventured once more to visit
Paris, but their movements were not
exactly free in spite of the old gen
tleman's advanced age. His sons, born
after the Prince was 60 years old,
have been brought up to toil like
workmen in the mines of Silesia, most
of which, with extensive rallways and
other concerns, they will eventually
own,
I once had some interesting con
versation with Prince Donnersmarck,
which would be guite worth while re
peating, but just now | must finish
telling you about the time of the races
and the different well-known people
‘:“ho frequented the court of Olden
re.
Really the races were not so very
interesting. 1 was rather glad when
I saw signs of the end in the form of
ceremonial good-byes,
A very frequent visitor to the court
of Oldenburg was Freiherr von Plat
tenburg. This gentleman was almost
at home at the court because his sis
ter, now married to a Russian, Baron
Kolm, of the Baltic provinces, had
been fifteen vears lady-in-waiting on
the Grand Duchess Elizabeth. He
held some exalted position at the
head of Liloyds shm Company,
and according to h If, was an in-
dispensable link between the German-
British- American shipping mterests.
Conceited Germans.
Herr von Battenburg spoke Eng
lish with a strong American accent,
which he acknowledged, and of which
he was most proud. He said to me
once that it was the night accent for
a German to acquire, because it might
happen that a German would find it
convenient to pass for am American. |
This gentleman was chiefly notice
able for his genial manmer amd the
perfect correctness of his attire. He
talked a great deal, and with tremen
dous confidence, yvet net exactly with
;the aggressive boastfulness which 1
had become accustomed to expect
from his countrymen. He drank great
|quuuties of champagne, which didi
not appear to affect him in the least, |
land he was favored - with several
glasses of the Grand Duke's IDMN‘
cognac. |
For some reason—perhaps bmuu{
he spoke English-—Herr von Platten
- burg was always put near me at table.‘
, He talked quite familiarly about peo
i ple whom I knew in England, and
claimed to be the great personal |
friend of our important shipping mag- |
nates. A great advocate of peace, he
had seme special system by which
to bring about an understanding
- which would join German and British
- mercantile interests, and by which the
two countries would hold the trade of
L the world against all other countries.
- "How do you expect Britain to con
sent to this, being that it goes
against all our traditions?” T inquired.
“Why should we deliberately change
our policy just to please Germany at
the expense of other countries ™ |
My words were only received with
thinly veiled sarcasm by the company
around, who hung on Von Platten
burg’s words as if he were a god.
Noticing this, I quickly exclaimed:
“Where would Germany be today if
her growing mercantile trade had
suffered in the way that thep propose
other countries should suffer?”
Von During made some scornful re
ply, and went on excitedly into some
long rigmarole, but every now and
then I was given to understand that
| the English were fools, our mercantile
policy was as dead as a door nail, and
our only hope lay in Germany's mag
}nanimous offer to join forces and
crush the ambitions of rival countries
‘ before it was too late. 5 |
It surprised me very much to hear
‘the gentleman from the Baltic prov
inces indorsing the opinions of his
brother-in-law. He pronounced his
own country a negligible quantity as
to trade. It was only a matter of
t!ime for Britain and Germany to
have all Russian industries in their
hands. The wealth of Russia was to
be confiscated under their scheme, al
though the word they used corre
sponded to the word “organized.™
These evenings-—or rather dinners
—for most of the time was passed at
table—became in the end rather te
dious to me. Had I only known that
plots were being hatched to bring
the present terrible disaster upon the
world, no doubt I should have paid
more attention to what was being
sald. As it was, having delivered
myself of a fitting reply each fil
the cccasion offered, 1 used to find
myself rather bored,
The Grand Duke, smoking his dueal
cigar at the head of the table, never
seemed greatly interested in the eter
nal topic. Some of his remarks about
England were not always in the best
of taste,
~_“Are the streets of London still
thronged with drunken women?” he
“nquired of me at the table one eve
ning in quite serious tones.
Snubbing the Grand Duke.
Prince Nicke in a paroxy of de
light, then yielded to one g;nhis fits
of shrill laughter, and imitated the
nodding, stupid head of a drunken
person, which his natural physiog
nomy allowed him to do remarkably
‘well without mueh reffort.
- “Your royal highness is no doubt
aware,” I replied gravely, “that the
British law is very lax in the matter
of admitting aliens. The inhabitants
of certain parts of London could
scarcely be said to represent fairly
the British race exclusively. I have
heard that it is possible to see a
drunken woman In the streets if one
visits certain areas where these for
eigners are to be found, but for my
own part I have never witnessed such
a*sight, and if T had I should have
dismissed it from my mind as un
worthy to dwell upon or recall.”
Herr von Wedderkonk, one of the
adjutants who, although a German
officer, was a gentleman, so far
risked his royal highness' displeasure
to say, “Well said, Miss Pen Math
ews.”
~ To do them justice, I really think
nobody regretted my frank manner
of speaking, The Grand Duke, per
‘haps, accustomed to his remarks be
ing received with flattering enthusi
asm, did not altogether relish my re
ply. Afterward he contented himself
by asking me about the suffragettes.
“Is it true that they have really
burnt down Buckingham Palace?’
As 1 dld not expect to find a Ger
‘man, much less a Grand Duke, capa
ble of following all the issues in
volved in the woman suffrage move
iment, 1 allowed this and other sallies
‘w pass.
The Grand Duke had some admir
‘able qualities, such as reliability,
‘punctuullty'ar-d a wonderful serene
temper, and his life was remarkably
well ordered. He never spared him
self, and took definite trouble to con
duct his little court exactly on the
same lines as that of Potsdam.
Franlein von Bulow, who had been
frequently at the Kaiser's court, was
much too well bred to make any com
parisons between that and the one at
Oldenburg. Sometimes I heard, how.
ever, Frau von Guretsky express her
horror of the people who weére re
ceived by the Grand Duke. Raising
her hands after some such assemblage
es we found at the races, she would
exclaim, “Was fur sente-—lieber Gott"
(Great Heavens! What awful peo
ple!) With that she would roll her
eyes and arrange her aquiline fea
tures in the manner she deemed cor
rect and fitting for her great position,
(To Be Continued,)
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Hot Cake “Jag” Latest
San Diego Invention
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 26.—d Liquor in
syrup jugs supposed to have been served
for hot cakes was shown to United States
Distriet Attorney Robert O'Connor as ewv:-
dence that certain Ban Dlor restaurants
serve drinks to msoldiers. Aeutenant B
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the use to whieh they ve been put,
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to have been delivered to each soldier
who ordered hot cakes '
LUNATIC TURNS ROBBER.
WAUKWGAN, ILL., Jan. 25.-—Arrested
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home here, Joseph Opraus was found to
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sane Asyium. He had donned wearing ap
parel Belonging to the Huntley's and was
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