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The lad had been pondering over how lie was to get in side the “big top,” and lie was not greatly encouraged until a big, black man—one of the many sons of Ham with the show—approached him. “Say, sonny, how big’s your dad?” asked the stranger. “He’s a whopper,” promptly replied the youngster, thinking perhaps the colored man might have some notion of ordering him roughly from the grounds. “If you all ’ll give me one of your dad’s shirts I’ll take you In all the shows.” The lad scurried away and soon de livered one of Mr. Jessup’s best shirts to the colored man, who was as good as his word, and took the lad through every tented attraction on the grounds. Later on the young American had it forcibly Impressed on him that he could have gone to the show several times for what the shirt cost. Sure Enough. The ball had gone over the fence, ns balls will In suburban gardens, and a small but unabashed batsman ap peared at the front door to ask for it. Then appeared an irate father. “How dare you show yourself at m.v house? How dare you ask for your hall? Do you know you nearly killed one of my children with it?” "But you’ve got ten children." sahl the logical lad, “and-I’ve only got one baseball.” What Name? Orville Wright said at a Dayton din ner: "The war has developed flying enor mously. We’ll all fly after the war. Air fiends will then he as thick as motor fiends are today. “What name shall we give to the air fiend’s mania? Aerysipelas, perhaps? Or would flyfold be hotter? Maybe we’ll call it inflewenza. Hold, though! All things considered, wouldn’t the best name be skyatlca?” Hot Scotch. Scot Sergeant (•'••Illing some raw re cruits)—Hoo is it ye dinnn tur-r-n aboot when Ah about tur-r-n ye? Can na ye one’er-r-stan' puld King’s Eng lish?—Pnssing Show. YOU BET I’M HELPING SAVE THE WHEAT*?* PostToadies For me 3 times a day 44Falsehood and Prevarication" From the Spectator. London. la another article we hare discussed President Wilson's excellent reasons for refusing to make peace with the Hohen aonerns. By a strange coincidence, re markable evidence baa been laid before the world during the pant few days of what kind of man a Hohensollem la The sorrespoodence between the kaiser and the csar which occurred In 19M and 1906, and which has been published In the New York Herald, read9 like a footnote to Mr. Wil son’s objections to tbe kaiser as an Irre sponsible ruler. Before going further into the correspondence we ought to say that doubt has been expressed whether these Secret letters are genuine; hot we can our selves see little reason for questioning them. They are quite in keeping with what we have long known of the kaiser’s character, and we are sorry to add that they are not out of keeping with what we have more recently learned about the tsar; though, to be sure, the latter's part In the transactions shows up lees discred itably than the kaiser'a The whole cor respondence, we are told, has been dis covered In the Russian Imperial ■ archives, and la an entire surprise to the Russian government. The two facts which stand out from the documents so far as they have been pub lished are, first, that the kaiser In 1904 and 1906 plotted to make a European ring against Great Britain; and secondly, that he sketched a plan for violating the neu trality df Denmark on precisely the same tines as those on which Belgium .was vio lated at the beginning of the present war. As regards the ring against Great Britain, the kaiser’s scheme was to Induce the csar, over the heads of his ministers, to make a secret treaty with Germany against what he called the Anglo-Saxon group. To appreciate the full dishonor *f this maneuver one has to remember not only that Russia was in a close alli ance with Prance, but that Prance had already entered Into an entente with Great Britain. France was not to be consulted in the matter at all. To keep the maneuver secret from France was the Very pith of the kaiser's proposal. He well knew that If the csar laid the Invitation before the French government It would be ejected with contumely, and, further, that he himself would be exposed as a schemer »f the lowest order. The kaiser’s object, ttien. was to confront France with an ac complished fact. Recognizing that she would never consent with open eyes to so Hsloyal a transaction, he saw that the cnly thing for it was for Russia and Ger many to threaten war upon Great Britain and prove to France that she must fall In with the scheme in order to save her •elf from punishment. For, as the kaiser remarked, even M. Delcasse would have to admit “that the British fleet could not cave Paris." The plot as developed by the kaiser is in the best Prussian tradi tion, being full of arts and devices for re lieving himself of the blame and putting It on to somebody else. As the Germans have talked so much in their explanations Bf the origins of the war about the ring lhat was being formed round the central powers through the malice of Great Britain, it cannot be insisted on too em phatically that the kaiser in 1994 and 1906. under no provocation, tried to upset the existing balance of Europe and to form k ring against Great Britain. It is amusing to notice how this plot admitted of the introduction of eommer rial considerations as stray opportunities Dccurred. The old firm was still ready to accept orders and carried on business at the okl address. The kaiser foresaw that Russia would need more ships to deliver the foul stroke, and of course the German shipyards were very willing to build them it an appropriate price. I n the midst ot these negotiations came the affair ot the Dogger Bank, when Admiral Rozhdest vensky, on his way to the fatal batt'e of Tsushima, fired on the British fishing fleet, and It was a godsend to the kaiser. His hints, and his appeals to the < sir’s fears, become more fast and furious, and the more anxious he was to bring his plot to fruition the more alarmed he became that some whisper would leak out of his correspondence with the czar. Or.e thinks of 'him at. this point in the correspondence as symbolized by a man in a slouch hat, a mask and a long enveloping cloak. That Is the suitable costume for one who seri ously believed that he could accomplish this gross diplomatic chicanery of "bounc ing” France—keeping a republic ignorant of the fact that she was being sold and disposed of as the result of the personal caprices of two autocratic rulers. The Spanish kings of the 16th century or the worst Bourbons could not have believed more • firmly, or with more convenient theological invocations, that the peoples of the world were really sheep to be eac rlfleed to satisfy the ambitions of rulers. The kaiser's scheme for violating the Integrity of Denmark in the event of any foreign power (Great Britain, of course) attacking the Baltic was, as we have said, an eaxet anticipation of Germany's sub sequent Belgian policy. The kaiser sug gested to the czar that Denmark might be brought to heel by conveying to her that, in the event of war between Great Britain and Germany, Great Britain would doubt less occupy part of Denmark. If it were made clear to Denmark that Germany, acting under the usual deadly law of necessity, would have to anticipate Great Britain, Denmark would very likely decide that her more prudent course was to give Germany and Russia permission to do what they intended to do in any case. The blame of course would fall on Great Britain. The parallel between this and tlie ridiculous German Inventions about the preliminary invasion of Belgium by French motor cars is exact. Of minor importance, but not lees shocking to men of decent habits of thought, are the kaiser's "tips” to the tizar for extricating himself from unpopularity or responsibility In connec tion with the Russo-Japanese war. When peace is being discussed be tells the czar that here is a splendid opportunity for acquiring popular merit by Beeming to seek the confirmation of the people for the deeds of his government. In reality what he will be doing is to throw the odium of a very unsatisfactory peace on to the recently created duma. "It would be ex cellent,” writes the kaiser, "»s the first taek for these duma representatives, if you gave them the peace treaty after it is formulated to vote upon, thus leaving the odium of the decision to the country; thereby giving the Russian people a voice In the matter of their own prosperity.” No man's reputation could survive the bur den of all this revelation of "falsehood and prevarication.” Still leas can the ruler of a mighty people hope to stand long In ▼ T T T T ,T TT'TTXT'rTTTTT’rTTTTT 4 FLASHES OF THE BIG GUNS. 4 4 * 4 Uoyd-George—There is no section 4 4 of the community that ha« such an 4 4 interest in the victory of the allies 4 I as the workers of the world. 4 Colonel Oeswell—The one crucial- 4 ly important point about the war Is 4 that the “policy of pounce" shall 4 not receive the Imprimatur of his- 4 tory. 4 Signor Meda, Italian minister of 4 finance—Peace, like fruit, should 4 not be gathered until it Is ripe. 4 H. A. L. Fisher—I suggest that 4 the memorial of this war should 4 be a greet university for England 4 in which the whole population 4 would have the means for rising to 4 a higher level of learning and cul- 4 ture than it hae hiterto been poasi- 4 bie for the people to reach 4 Earnest Newman — Nature can 4 turn out artists by the basketful; 4 but a little more time and trouble 4 4 go to the making of the critic. 4 4 B. Carpenter—Teach a boy to use 4 j 4—.his hands and he wiU quickly learn 4 i * K use his brain. 4 j 4+44444444444*4444*444444*] Ms old relations either to his own country or to the rest of the world. To measure the depth of the kaiser’s falseness It Is useful to contrast what wo have Just learned with the famous Inter view with the kaiser published In the Dally Telegraph In 1908. In the Times of Wednesday Mr. J. C. Van de Veer, the ; well known London editor of the Amster- j dam Telegraaf, reminds us that the kaiser then said: You English are mad, mad, mad ao March hares. • • • Falsehood and Srevaricatlon are alien to my nature. ty actions ought to speak for them selves; but you listen not to them, but to those who misinterpret and ills tort them. That Is a personal insult which I feel and resent. To be for ever misjudged, to have my repeated offers of friendship weighed and scrutinized with jealous, mistrustful eyes, taxes my patience severely. As a proof of Ms long and earnest friend ship for Great Britain the kaiser informed Us In the Interview that it was he alone who had stood in the way of a European coalition to annihilate Great Britain at the time of the Boer war. Of course that type of Englishman who finds It quite Im possible not to yield to an emotional ap peal tried to represent to use at the time that Great Britain had behaved ungraci ously. stubbornly and vindictively towards the kaiser, and that all that was necessary for the permanent peace of the world was to grasp the hand wMch the kaiser held out, as one might almost say, affection ately. Others, who happily, could not rid their minds of the many examples which history provided of Prussian cynicism, saw In the kaiser nothing but what the French call a faux bonhomme. We do not claim that Great Britain had the peculiar honor of having alone excited the kaiser's hatred. He would turn on one man as easily as on another. When he found that the czar was a little too timid, or a little too honest, wholly to fall In with his intrigues, he set about making mischief with fresh collaborators, and within three years he was boasting to the Austrians that It was he who had played the gallant part of a knight In shining armor and de fended them against their enemy the czar. It seems like a bad dream that nations of respectable persons, earning their liveli hoods and living their lives In accordance with the Ideals and the codes of ordinary human beings, should be exposed to the irresponsibilities of such rulers as "Willy" and ’’Niki.” More than ever the world will agree with Mr. Wilson that no country la safe so long as this kind of tragic bur lesque In the arts of ruling is possible. The Wood Pewee. Prom the Chicago Post. Lowell lamented that Ovid could not have heard the phoebe’s call, so that he might have hung a “legendary pain about the memory of the bird.” It may be pre sumptuous to differ even slightly from l/owell, but if Ovid had been given the opportunity to hang a legendary pain about the memory of any bird, it seems to us that the phoebe’s cousin, the wood pewee, should have been chosen. In a few weeks the last laggard of the pewee tribe will depart for the southern land of insect plenty. The pewee is a flycatcher, and it strikes down on its prey a-wlng. It Is a solitary bird, loving the tops of the deep woods trees, where all day long it syllable “Pe-wee,“ until its shadowed home has fallen under the deeper shadow of night. The pew’ec’s note is said to be melan choly, and those who hear it for the first time in the sere season feel doubly cer tain that the melancholy days of the poet are come. The pewee’s note, however, In the glad homecoming time of the spring is just as melancholy as it is in the sad home leaving time of the fall. In truth, the note is not melancholy at all. It is aim ply sweet with a touch of sadness. As a compensation for denying grace of form and brilliancy of song to the pewee, nature has taught it to build a nest that has uo rival for beauty and delicacy save the home cf the ruby throated humming bird. The powee’s house is built of lich ens woven into a fabric with consummate art. The method of its building the bird holds as a secret that is beyond the cun ning of man to discover. “Sea Barrage.” Prom the New York Evening World. East week’s official report of the Brit ish naval authorities describing the ef fectiveness of “depth” bombs and sea planes in fighting submarines lends add ed interest to an article in the current number of one of our own newer maga zines. the Navy and Merchant Marine In this article an American, Percy Adame. Hutchison, member of the secre tary's committee of the United States naval • onsulting board, outlines a plan for protecting vessels from submarine at tack by barrage or curtain fire from deck guns of high muzzle elevation, hurl ing depth-exploding shells into the near vicinity of approaching U-boats. “Here,” Mr. Hutchison maintains, “is the method for turning the tables on the submarine, and with a ven geance, for it is by no means neces sary that the shell fired in the man ner described should actually strike its target. If the shell is charged with a sufficiently powerful explo sive, and fitted with a delay fuse for detonating, so that the explosion may be timed not to occur until after the shell is at some depth be low the surface, the explosion may be at some distance from the subma rine and the destructive effect be no lens complete/’ The scheme requires naval howitzers for high angle firing and a kind of spoon-ii^sed “diving” shell which will not ricochet when it strikes the water. Patents for a shell of this sort, Mr. Hutchison assures us. were taken out some time ago in both England and America. Booze Peril in France. Prom Ea Revue, Paris. At the present moment Prance is at tracting the eyes of the world more than ever before. It Is not enough to show our enthusiasm regarding the English, Americans, Italians, Portuguese or Rus sians who’ are dwelling among us. We must likewise watch over their moral security. But alcoholism menaces all In the same degree The “Teddies” who arrive from the United States total or partial prohibitionists are exposed to multiple dangers and temptations. The great American republic accepts with heroism the sacrifices in men and in money which the war against the Ger mans may demand. But let us take care! We shall commit an evil action if her children find themselves exposed not only to the danger of being slain at the front, but to that of being poisoned by alcohol. Many writers in the United States have already manifested fears upon this point. A few concrete cases would suffice to cause an outburst of opinion on the other side. The Germans are watching and they will not be slow to exploit siicn sen timent*. which are justified. Indeed, to paralyze the grandiose impulse which Is drawing the noble population of tbe United States toward the sacred cause of the allies. We ounnot lay too much emphasis upon the decree issued by the British military authority, January 15, 1317. prohibiting the circulation of alcohol In all the Prench regions occupied by the English army! And this "In order to respond to the declaration of civil and military au thorities signalizing alcoholism as an ob struction to the agricultural and indus trial production required by the necessi ties of nutional defense." Shall we wait until the American, too, perhaps, shall inflict a like humiliation upon our minis ters of the interior, of munitions, of sup plies, and many other of their confreres? An Excuse for Canes. Prom the Chicago New*. Soldiers are encouraged to carry “swag ger” sticks” because it keeps them from slouching and putting their hands in their pockets. This should bring the cane again into popularity. Many men would like to carry canes If they had a reasonable excuse for doing no. and the army has furnished the excuse. 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Hand, forehead or Ups?’ “A mellow whistle Interrupted hint. He looked at the girl. Her red mouth was puckered up In the form of a rose bud ; she bad pulled down her Bat so as to hide her forehead completely, and both hands were thrust up to the , wrists In her pockets.” THE BLUE THAT’S TRUE. Red Cross Ball Blue gives to clothes a clear, dazzling white, whiter than snow, not a greenish yellow tinge like cheap bottle blue. Buy Red Cross Ball Blue for next washday. You will be ; happily surprised. Large package at your grocers, ti cents.—Adv. The Particular Landlord. “I understand the police backed the patrol wagon up to an apartment house ■ In your neighborhood and took out a punch of disorderly tenants.” “Yes. Great world, Isn’t It? The :nan who owns the place wouldn’t rent an apartment to anyone who had children.” How’s This ? We offer $100.00 for any case of catarrh :hat cannot be cured by HALL'S 7ATARRH MEDICINE. 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