TTTTC . SUNDAY OREGOMAX. PORTL,ANI.; JANUARY 4; 102O.
"FICTION' MERCIER CALLS TALES I1ST REPORT OF GERMAN SPIES
Cardinal Writes to Governor-General Von Bissing That Document "Mutilates Meaning and Changes Order of My Thoughts," Referring to Address in Brussels on National Day.
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CARDINAL MERCIER'S STORY.
Including "his correspondence
with the German authorities in
Belgium during the war, 1914 to
1918, edited by Professor Fer
nand Mayence of Louvain uni
versity and translated by the
RnpHlptlni, monks nf St.- All-
gustine's, Ramsgate, England.
Copyright by Public I-edger. Published
by arrangement. j
Explanatory Comment by Professor l'er
nmid Alayeuce.
PARALLELS are indeed deadly
when subjected to the technique
of the primate of Belgium.
In the remarkable letter published
below the cardinal demonstrates the
futility of misrepresentations on the
part of Von Bissing-. The governor
general's account of the proceedings
In St. Gudule on the 85th anniversary
of Belgian independence was perhaps
obtained from the very sources to
which Mercier refers in his crushing
conclusion wherein he emphasizes the
Xolly of trusting "spies who under
stand imperfectly the language in
which our preachers express them
selves and with the hope of profitably
flattering German patriotism use
every expedient to catch or put in
default the honest folk on whom they
spy."
Or perhaps the governor-general
was misinformed by his subsidized
press. Libre Belgique would have
reported the events otherwise and
with scrupulous exactitude. Is it pos
sible that Von Bissing did indeed read
it with interest when he was anxious
to rind out precisely what happened?
In any event the editors of that
extraordinary journal pretended to
think so, for in one of their issues
they faked a picture of the governor
general with Libre Belgique in his
hand. The caption was as follows:
"Our dear governor, disgusted by
reading lies in the censored news
papers, seeks the truth in the Libre
Belgique." ,
In the absence of such endeavor,
however, the cardinal supplied the
necessary information with brilliant
particularity of detail and his famil
iar courageous fashion.
"Archbishop's Mouse, Malines, July
25, 1916. tTo his excellency Baron von
Biasing, governor-general of Belgium:
I am making it a duty to reply by
return of post, as your excellency de
aired in the letter No. 6713. you did
me the honor to address to me on
July 24 and which I' received this
morning. It is fortunate that your
excellency had the good inspiration
to submit to me the report made to
you of the discourse which 1 preached
at St, Gudule on the 21st. Nothing ?s
more fitting than that I nhould aro
straight to the point. This method.
BILL CARLISLE, TRAIN ROBBER, PROVES
TO BE SORT OF ROBIN HOOD IN WYOMING
Crime Tendencies Are Attributed to Mania for Publicity Stolen Money Is Spent in Frivolity Man Is Big,
Homely and Rough Hold-ups Are Marked by Consideration for "Women and Unfortunates.
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BY H. P. MALKUS.
W
i HAT sort of a guy is Bill
Carlisle?" I have been
asked.
As far as I know, I am the only
newspaper reporter who thought he
could find Bill Carlisle, the bandit. I
suggested to my boss that I go up to
Wyoming and start another posse of
on to run down the bandit. It was
with no thought of reaping the re
ward on his head. The idea was to
get a story about this mysterious
train robber who was appearing
eimultaneously at widely scattered
points throughout the United States.
There was also the possibility of an
interview with America's most noted
highwayman.
But the chase got too hot and Car
lisle was captured too soon, making
a good story and ruining a better
one. 1 lost a chance for fame, but I
did discover "what sort of a guy Bill
Carlislela."
He's -a sort of nut" who likes to be
talked about.
He's an innate criminal with bound
less courage and a brain with a crook
in it that leads him to rob trains and
buy flowers and ukulele lessons with
the proceeds.
Carlisle your bandit isn't much to
look at. He is homely. It's nice to
read about him and it thrills, but it's
a disappointment to look at him.
He's about six feet and an inch tall
and weighs in the neighborhood of
190 pounds. His dark complexion and
big. coarse features large mouth and
hard eyes fit him for his role of
train robber. The eyes are particular
ly compelling. They are large and
fiery and the lights in the iris and
retina alternately flash and fade. His
Voice hasn't any stable quality. Some
times it is simpering and again it is
gutteral almost foggy. It is always
loud, particularly when he speaks of
his exploits.
And he is somewhat of a prevari
cator. The huge,, fanlike ears set off his
had it been always followed, would
have spared us In the past the mis
understandings, the recurrence of
which we are today both equally anx
ious to prevent.
"Desirous of removing, as ade
quately as may be, your excellency's
anxiety, I will give In parallel col
umns the charges made against me
in your report and the text of my
sermon.
"This report, containing 24 lines
within quotation marks, puts into my
mouth nine propositions. Of these
nine, four are absolute fiction, one
reproduces faithfully a line of my
discourse, the remaining four were
indeed spoken by me, but neither In
the sense nor in the context given
in the report.
(Note In the following the state
ments attributed by the German offi
cials to Cardinal Mercier are given
first, followed by the cardinal's ex
planation.) Mlxtaken of Pure Invention.
"1. My dear brethren pray for the
martyrs of liberty, remain firm and
unshaken in your hope; deliverance
is at hand.
"1. I" have nowhere spoken of the
martyrs of liberty.
"2. A nun of holy church has been
sentenced to six years imprisonment.
"2. I have nowhere mentioned a
features, giving him an almost gro
tesque appearance that is heightened
by his large, nervous hands. The fin
gers are long and almost serpentine
in their movements.
His hair is black, thick and ill kept
and even the close-cropped prison
style fails to keep it tidy.
The man s character is harder to
determine than an estimate of his
physical appearance. He really has
lot of personality. He is good na-
tured In a rough way and has always
been able to make friends and he has
moved in the polite circles of Denver
and with the cowpunchers of the
Wyoming plains.
There is no ready explanation of
his criminal instincts. He seems to
have a mania for robbing trains. He
makes no excuse for it, but rather
has a glorified pride of achievements.
Certainly heMias no shame for it, but
moralizes and finds comfort in the
thought that he has "done good to
them as needs it" with the money
he has taken from travelers at the
point of his big guns.
There is no doubt that it was not
money alone that impelled Bill Car
lisle to rob four trains in Wyoming
single-handed. He did not go into
the express cars, and he never tam
pered with the mails, where he could
have gotten sizeable hauls. Stores
and banks in the country with which
he was familiar would have afforded
him much more commercial results
at much less risk, but these seemed
out of his line. Trains are his spe
cialty. Work Alwaya Spectacular.
He always went about his work in
a spectacular fashion and had it been
practical he would probably have car
ried a press agent and a well-ordered
publicity department, for on the
plaudits of the people he seems to
thrive. He would generously toss back
a dollar to his victims for "breakfast
money," and when the grubstaking
idea made good copy for the papers,
he made an .added feature to his
sketch by giving away at each rob
bery a watch that he had taken in
his previous hold-up.
Carlisle says that be would not kill
nun, or our hly church, or any
woman sentenced.
"3. Pray for the martyrs who lan
guish in a prison cell for having
served their king and country.
"3. I have nowhere spoken of mar
tyrs or of prisoners languishing in
prison for having served' their king
and country.
"4. 1830 . . . a historic date,
when the Belgian people wrung their
freedom from their oppressors. . . .
Our brave king and queen .
will be carried in triumph ...
"4. I have nowhere spoken of the
king and queen or the royal princes
who would be carried In triumph
through the ranks of the heroic Bel
gian army.
A Faithful Text. .
"5. A curate of our diocese has
been sentenced to 12 years' penal
servitude.
"5. This text is correct. I said, in
fact: 'A curate of the capital has just
been sentenced to 12 years' penal
servitude.'
Mffttakra of Interpretation.
"6. Tlie hour of deliverance is near,
but has not yet struck.
"Tour excellency does me the honor
of putting to m the "following ques
tion: 'f. should be interested to know
if it is a fact that your eminence has
spoken with such certainty of the
a man unless he had to. No one ex
cept himself knows the interpreta
tion of the circumstances that would
force him to taV human life. He
has never fired a shot from his guns
at anyone. He has surrendered to
posses rather than risk killing an
other in a gun battle. Still his eyes
have the faculty of narrowing when
he is "on duty" and his big lips draw
tightly over his irregular teeth and
no one has gone so far as to test
out his declaration that he is not
a killer.
He is not an educated man. but
has considerable native intelligence
as exemplified in his apparent ease
in evading capture and escaping
from the Wyoming state penitentiary
at Rawlins.
His mental process, as reacting in
single-handed train robberies, might
be satisfactorily explained by a crim
inologist to another criminologist.
but to the layman. Bill Carlisle must
remain "just a nut crazy to be
talked about."
William Carlisle. Wyoming train
robber, is one of the oddities of na
ture. As a bandit he was cour
teous, considerate and courageous.
He did not rob women or old folks
and those apparently in need and he
did spread his unwonted opulence
between holdups on those less fortu
nate than himself.
Mind Believed Warped.
The. man has none of the attributes
of a criminal. Those most familiar
with him believe that there is a pe
culiar twist to his mental processes
that has blinded him to the serious
ness of his offenses which are pun
ishable by death under the Wyoming
laws.
For a brief 10 days four years ago
he lived in Denver, Colo., in plenty
and idleness, gratifying, he said, the
ambitions of a lifetime. Carlisle, the
man. liked music and flowers. He
filled his room with roses and gee
"gaws. He took dancing lessons and
started in to master the ukulele. He
began a course of dancing lessons,
riding to and from his instructions
in a taxicab. .
A study of his personal belongings,
seized by Wyoming officers, follow
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L & - x S-S(. pnFsvffKsen ilia i& "
approaching hour of the liberation of
Belgium. If so, would you be good
enough to inform me what are the
grounds on which this statement is
based?'
"6. This I .said. In fact, I said:
ing his capture in 1916. reveals the
childlike character of the man who
for months baffled posses and private
detectives. In a clothes closet hung
a half-dozen new suits of the latest
cut. Patent leather shoes that must
have pinched his huge feet rubbed
against heavy boots that he wore;
when tramping over the Wyoming
plains, a hunted creature. Silk shirts,
ties, embroidered handkerchiefs, doz
ens of soft collars and tinted under
wear he had in abundance, contrast
ing strongly with his accustomed
wardrobe of overalls and flannels,
and corduroys he wore when rob
bing trains.
CarllHle Amateur Gentleman.
In short, it appears that Carlisle,
the bandit, wanted to be a gentle
man. Yet all he ever became was
an amateur gentleman. He could
never overcome a plebian taste for
glittering, useless things. He bought
them apparently by the gross. He
had the current puzzles and doubt
less worried more over their solu
tion than he did over , his crimes.
While a careful scrutiny of his af
fairs shows no love affairs, his room
was filled with prints and chromos
of pretty girls. The remaining spaces
on tne wall he covered with pen
nants, giving his quarters the ap
pearance of a college boy's den.
He impressed . the DeoDle with
whom he associated during his ven
ture into polite society as a "like
able, overgrown boy." He bought
riowers for the women at his board
ing house. He took them automobile
riding with lavish generosity. Fre
quently he would gather a following
of street urchins about him and take
them to a moving picture show.
And all the time he showed an un
usual assiduity to acquire refinement
the kind that he knew only from
the cinema ballrooms and the cheap
novels he loved to read.
His own explanation of his choice
of a career is that "he wanted to
live." He chose the only means he
knew of gratifying his desire and
he was stolidly ready to pay the price
when captured.
Public Reaction Saves Him.
"I've had lots of fun," he said on
his way to the Wyoming penitentiary
to serve a 50-year sentence for train
robbery. He escaped death only be
cause of the romantic tinge to his
deeds that brought a favorable reac
tion from the public, including most
of those whom he had' robbed.
In. Wyoming, the scene of his
crimes, where one would suppose that
Carlisle would be without friends, he
is a hero rather than a bandit. The
popular fancy has cloaked him with
the garb of a chivalrous adventurer
I talked with probably a hundred per
sons in Wyoming, taken at random in
the towns from Cheyenne to Douglas
and west to Rawlins, and it is an as
tounding fact that there was not
one who was not actually sorry that
the train robber had been captured
While he was fleeing from the posse
Women! Keep It On Dresser!
Never Let Corns Ache Twice
Instantly ! F ew drops stop corn-soreness, then
corns and calluses shrivel, loosen and
lift out -with fingers No pain I
The world owes thanks to the
genius in Cincinnati who dis
covered freezone.
Tiny . bottles of tho magic
fluid can now be bad at any
drug store for a few cents.
You simply apply a few drops
of this freezone upon 'a tender,
aching com or - a hardened
callus. Instantly the soreness
disappears and shortly you will
find the corn or callus so
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The hour of deliverance draws near,
but has not yet struck.
"I keenly regret that I cannot fix
more precisely the date of our deliv
erance, and I suspect that if the governor-general
gave me access to my
last month this criminal who was an
escaped convict and had just held up
and robbed defenseless passengers on
the Overland limited he was lodged
and fed and helped to escape by
ranchmen who bear the reputation
of law abiding citizens. And- as he
lay in bed In the hospital at Do"g
las, the business men of Casper ra-'Ted
50 in 15 minutes to buy him flowers.
TJpis condition is not really con
ceivable. There is no moral explana
tion for it. It is probably deplorable.
But it is a condition and a fact. The
sheriff who shot him has been round
ly censored for his "hastiness." News
papers in the section condemned him
soundly. It is said that Carlisle was
unarmed and "shot down without a
chance for his life." The theory ap
parently was that he should have had
a gun and an equal chance to kill the
sheriff upon whom the people depend
for law and order. This again is not
explainable, but it is true.
Carlinle Alone In C'laaa.
Carlisle Is the only'train robber in
the Wyoming prison. When he first
invaded the state, robbing the Union
Pacific train near Rock river the
night of .February 9, 1916, there had
not been an attempt at train robbery
in Wyoming for more than 16 years.
A Pinkerton detective is authority
for the statement that holdup rob
bery, and particularly train robbery,
is the most dangerous form of crime
Those who follow it are either killed
in the attempt, captured, or forced to
flee from the country, and even at
liberty are in continual danger of
capture. Jn Wyoming it is one of the
two capital offenses. Murder is the
other.
Yet these considerations did not
deter Carlisle from robbing three
Union Pacific trains in the space of
two months, and he probably would
have kept up this precarrous occupa
tion if he had not been captured.
Then three years later, when he es
caped from the penitentiary. lu
robbed the first convenient train. He
got outside the prison walls late Sat
urday and Tuesday he was again
swinging on the back of the Union
Pacific observation car. commanding
the passengers to "shell out."
And if he escapes again from the
penitentiary, the warden believes, the
first news that will come will be
that "Carlisle has robbed another
train." This is true because of the
mental aberration that is attributed
to the man. He likes money and lux
ury, and robbing trains is the one
sure way that he knows of getting
the money without much effort.
History Little Kaon.
Little is known of Carlisle's history.
He says that he has served four
prison terms. Two, he says, were in
New York. Before he began the se
ries of hold-ups in Wyoming he was
serving a six-year sentence in the
Montana state prison for robbery. He
completed this sentence and came to
Wyoming, working for a short time
and shriveled that you lift it
off with the fingers. Not a bit
of pain or soreness is felt when
applying freezone or after
wards. It doesn't even irritate
the skin or flesh.
For a few cents one can now
get rid of every hard corn, soft
corn, or corn between the toes,
as well as painful calluses on
bottom of feet without any pain.
Ladies! Keep it on the dresser.
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LT- h .Art
king, or allowed me to visit Joffre,
or Robertson, Von Falkenhayn or
Von Hindenburg, we should not learn
much more. Hence, after the phrase
with which you find fault, 1 added
Immediately: 'Let us continue to be
with the railroad company that he
later robbed. On the night of Febru
ary 9, 1916, he boarded the Union Pa
cific near Rock Springs and robbed
the passengers, getting about $100.
April 4 of the same year he repeated
the feat near Laramie. Less than
two weeks later he again robbed the
Union Pacific train near Hannah, be
ing captured the next day. He was
tried and convicted and sentenced to
life imprisonment, this being com
muted to 23 years later. November
15 of this year he escaped from the
penitentiary and four days later he
again held up the Union Pacific near
Rock river, the scene of his first rob.
bery.
Peace officers in Wyoming have a
different opinion of Carlisle. To them
he is a desperate character and a
menace to society. He does not ap
peal to sheriffs and Union Pacific de
tectives as a Robin Hood. They look
on him as a criminal, incorrigible,
sneaking and dangerous.
They explain his mama for robbing
trains as a desire for notoriety. Car
lisle, to them, is a publicity hog. They
say he would rather be talked about
and admired by the people than have
all the money west of the Mississippi.
"He's Just a nut crazy to be talked
about," explains John Gail, chief of
the Union Pacific investigitlon bu
reau. To this appetite they attribute
Are Weak Nerves and Lack of Physical
Strength
You Must Have Plenty of Iron in Your Blood if You Want
Energy to Win, Says Physician
When the crushing f rip of worry,
trials and care aapa your -vitality
and keeps you from the full enjoy-
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cial and. business
life-take Nuxated
Iron and watch its
strength-giving,
up-building effect
it will increase
the strength and
endurance of
weak, nervous
run-down folks
in two weeks' time
la many instances.
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the blood." avs 1J James
physician oi Bellrvuc llosp.ta
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endurance to the attammcnt oi uccess and
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and energy which come from ha.nK plenty of
Von in tne blood. Tht irritable twch. that
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mg these are the sort of ,KnaU nature gives
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restore the health by enriching the blood and
wealing thousands ot new rea omou
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isuinin? oiien enters the body. NV n
I iron there is no strength, viialtt ami
durance to combat obstacles or. withstanr,
vert strains. Lack of sufficient iron in 'lu
nod has ruined many a mans nerves ami
.tcrlv robl-ed him .of that vinle force ami
lamina which are so necessary to suecrss
ml nower in-every walk of life.
Therefore, I strongly advise those who
nel the need of a strendh and blood budovr
' hvsiciari's prescription for organic
?lui&iVi"oixA-l
; , o thil ulCTnen purchase ?W Nux-
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that this particular name j.u: . - -
peara on the package. If you have takrri
other iron products and tailra to get
i a. i ..-U n-ana radAric a r ail CO
SdiffertiV from Nuxated I I,,
which has been used and strongly endorsed
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patient and not allow our courage to
falter. Let us leave to providence
the care of completing our national
education." I exhorted my hearers to
endurance and to patience, and I
mentionea the example of a poor
woman who, hearing the possibility
of an early peace discussed, said:
Oh, for us there is no hurry; we can
still wait.
we who bears the responsi
bility of this frightful war ought to
receive his desserts.
"He that has let loose this catas
trophe on poor Belgium should be
punished.
"7-8. I did not speak specifically
either of the person who let loose the
scourge of actual war or the authors
of the catastrophe with which Bel
gium has been visited. I translated
into French the teaching of the great
theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. I ex
pounded principles the application of
which each one must make for him
self. This theological doctrine for
mulates the necessary claims of rec
ognized justice. The author of the
report only heard that and he has
distorted it; but it enunciates the
prohibition of hatred and the law of
universal brotherhood. Thus 1 said:
his semi-chivalry. Were it not for
Lthe adverse comment, they say, he
would rob women ana cnuaren aaa
old people.
Some officers declare thav Carlisle I
is cowardly. He will not put up a
fight when he is whipped. They point
to his two captures as proof of .Lis
estimate of his courage. He was cap
tured m 1916 when he came from a
hiding place and surrendered to mem
bers of the posse, declaring "My God.
I can't kill a man."
He had ample opportunity to shoot
down some of his pursuers, but he
chose to go to jail with the short ex
planation that he was not a killer.
His recent capture was lesF spectacu
lar. He was in a miner's cabin in the
peak country of Wyoming when Sher
iff Alonzo Roach and W. J. McClem
mets pf the Union Pacific detective
force surprised him with a posse of
eight men. Failure to respond in
stantly to the command "hands up"
caused Roach to shoot him. wounding
him seriously. But few, even of the
officers, really believe that Carlisle Is
a coward. Charles Irwin. Union Pa
cific general agent in Wyoming, de
scribes him s the "gamest tr.-.in rob
ber that ever pulled a hold-up in the
west." Sheriff Roach says that Car
lisle does not know the meaning of
fear.
In the capture of Carlisle ends a
Holding You
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Washington. Ignace J an 1 .P"-,J
ot . l-oiana ana niasicr
others.' , - n,,,j Iro
F rn. "'T-eahh oJJnta.ionerN T Chicago.'
William H. Kerr, said: "As Health Commis-
sioner of the Cit, of Chicago. 1 was impor-
tuned many times to recommend different
medicines, mineral . waters, etc. Never yet
have 1 gone on record as favoring any par-
titular remedy. But. in the case of Nuxated
Iron. I feel an exception should be made to
the ru'e. From my own experience with it. I
feel that it is such a valuable remedy that it
oucht to be used in ever, hospital and pre-
scribed by every physician in this country,
aMu ra endorsement induce.naernic.
HCFTUUSi IUH-uiU "-!
.oa
tcnlc
uxated Iron, ana receive tlie wonaerru
: .benefits which I ve received, I shall
ereaily gran tied that I made an excen-
tcel
""schuyr jaaues former!, Ving
Surijeon of -St. tliiabetb s Hospital. Nev V ork
tion to my Iife-lon rule in rccornmemiinr it.
TWJSIKESS LIFE Iff: LWJ&U
I
'Our Christian charity do not give ut
terance to words of hatred. To hato
1b to make another's misfortune our
object and to gloat over it. What
ever be our sorrows, we do not en
tertain hatred toward those who in
flicted them. National concord among
us co-exists with universal brother
hood, but higher than the sentiment
of universal brotherhood we place
respect for absolute right, without
which there can be no possible inter
course either among individuals or
nations.'
"9. In 14 years and some days ail
the churches of Belgium will vibrate
with shouts of Hoch, cries of joy will
be raised by the whole Belgian "popu
lation. "9. I have not made any church in
Belgian vibrate with sounds of cheer
ing neither have I spoken of Hochs.
nor of cries of joy, but of a triumphal
Te Deum. Even so. these are only
t rifling variations of style. But the
report is captious when you translate
the words in 14 years on such a day
by in 14 years and some days. This
last touch proves how needful it is to
mistrust spies who understand imper
fectly the language in which our
preachers express themselves and
with the hope of profitably flattering
German patriotism, use every ex
pedient to catch or put in default the
honest folk on whom they spy.
"In a word, sir. about half the re
port Is fiction. Of the rest scarcely
a fifth part is correct. The other
four-fifths mutilates the meaning
and changes the order of my
thoughts.
"Furthermore I hold at your ex
cellency's disposition, if you wish to
see it. the complete text of my ser
mon as it was read (for I took the
precaution of writing and reading it)
from the pulpit of St. Gudule.
"Tour excellency is pleased to at
tribute to me a demonstration incom
patible with the conditions of occupa
tion. Much might be said about this
demonstration, which consisted of
certain shouts of joy and gratitude,
with which the Belgian authorities
were received, but the hour is not
yet come to express on this subject
all I have in my mind.
"I reject the insinuation implied in
this phrase, taken from your mani
festo dated July 22: In tho evening
Cardinal Mercier motored through
the city. I invite your excellency to
compare your accusation of: IMcse
Kundgebung 1st von Eurer Eminenz
selbst ausgegangen This demonstra
tion originated with your eminence
himself with the repeated declara
tions of Lieutenant -General Hurt,
governor of Brussels and Brabant:
My prohibition to celebrate the na
tional festival has induced a small
number of thoughtless persons to in
vite the public to disobey my order.
I put the Inhabitants formally on
their guard against instigations to
effect this object. (Notice dated Julv
20. 1916.) The reckless portion of
the population has invited the public,
by a liberal distribution of handbills,
not to obey my orders. (Notice under
date July 22. 1916.)
"(Signed)
"L. J. CARDINAL MEIiCIEr:."
(To Be Continued.)
story that makes the west of the old
days live again. It is a story of out
lawry, resources and dogged deter
mination beside which the tales of
recent years seem pale and listless.
For William L. Carlisle lived 50 years
behind his time a wild-west relic in
an age of civilization and a reminder
of the days of the stage coach and
Indian warfare when war whoops
sounded across the prairies by day
and signal torches blazed their mes
sage of death across the but es by
night.
Oambling Held Mexican CurfC.
JUAREZ, Mex. Gambling is the
national curse of Mexico, according
to General Marcelinq Murrieta. collec
tor of customs at this port. "If Amer
icans who come over to Juarez get
the idea that all Mexico is like this,
we have no one to blame but our
selves," said - General Murrieta re
cently. "Today Juarez is scarcely more
than a cluster of saloons and gam
bling houses."
$2500 Paid for "Strad."
LONDON. A Stradivarius was sold
in London for $2500. A violin bow.
made for the late prince consort,
realized $125.
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