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 the great interests of mankind, and, as a particular trait, a passion for history, such are likely to be the indications of this order of mind.

In speaking of the system of culture proper for such a mind, another of its characteristics must be mentionednamely, the disposition and the ability, in some degree, to lead the way in its own education. I do not intend a contumacious temper, resisting lawful authority, and spurning reasonable control; for, on the contrary, mild docility is more likely to belong to faculties of a high order; but there will be at once such a determination towards study as renders external incentives unnecessaryso quick a perception of what it is which is to be done and acquired, and especially so much tendency towards whatever is most important among the several objects of study, as will supersede almost any plans laid down by the teacher. An eminently superior mind, whatever may be its amiable compliance with the wishes or advices of others, will, from the first to the last be the author of its own course. The part of the teacher will be chiefly that of supplying those incidental aids which none can dispense with, and of furnishing the mere materials and apparatus of study.

This kind of superiority admits indefinite degrees, from the greatness which founds or governs empires, to the ability that takes the lead on a bench of justices of the peace: but the early indications of it, whether in his higher or lower degrees, are stilla quick apprehension of things complicated, an unusual ripeness of judgment, and a self-determining energy, intellectual and moral. And let it be observed that the maturity or correctness of judgment of which we here speak, is something altogether distinct from, and independent of, logical acuteness, or the acquired power of constructing an argument. Sound and vigorous understandings do not reach truth by threading inferences, in syllogistic style; nor could a greater injury be done to a


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 to others. This point ought to be particularly kept in view by teachers who may have the charge of youth likely to devote themselves to the sciences, or the intellectual arts.

But we have yet to dispose of our third class of gifted minds;namely, those distinguished by the force or richness of the imaginative faculty. On this ground difficulties present themselves. Our course however is pretty clear, in the first place, when the imaginative tendency is only of that moderate and temperate sort which may safely be cherished, and which admits of being worked into the general elements of the character, so as to constitute, ultimately, nothing more than an agreeable distinction of the mind, securing for it the mild enjoyments of taste and refined feeling. Or secondly, we may know what to do, when this same element of mind, although decisively predominant, is associated with the active qualities of the understanding, and with that energy of the moral sense, which, together, form the orator:in this case a path is open to the gifted mind, approvable to common sense; and the teacher will know how to adapt his course of instruction to the probable destination of his pupil, whether to the pulpit, the bar, or the senate.

But what is to be said if the case we have to do with is one of those, happily not very frequent, and yet unhappily too frequent, to which the luckless term GENIUS is applied? I mean poetic and sensitive genius. It would generally, in such instances, be a fruitless attempt, nor is it certain that it would be a justifiable one, to crush the peculiarity of nature, or violently to thwart her intentions. Nevertheless, inasmuch as minds of this order are to be regarded as destined, if their gift actually expand itself, and be indulged, to misfortune and exquisite sufferingas victims, doomed to bleed for the entertainment of the public, a parent cannot be blamed who labours, by all gentle means, to turn

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 off the perilous propensity, and who, without harsh measures, as if the writing a sonnet were a treason, yet succeeds in solidly founding the character upon some firmer bottom of calculable happiness. Pursuits congenial, rather than vehemently opposite to the tastes, would perhaps afford the best means for diverting the mind from its dangerous idolatry of the ideal. Nothing is more to be avoided than that a parent or teacher should declare war against a boy’s mental tastes ; or that his loved pursuits should be carried on furtively, and as having been formally interdicted. A thorough amity between teacher and pupil, animated by the daily pleasures of intellectual intercourse on open ground, is, as we have said already, the indispensable condition of Home Education.

When we come to speak in detail of the culture of the several intellectual faculties, the fittest opportunity will occur for suggesting such further hints as may seem appliable in the instance of extraordinary talents. This however seems to be the place in which to offer a word or two relative to the practical distinctions to be made between male and female education, which, as we are now supposing, may be carried on conjointly at home. And it is certain that this combination, while it must leave the two methods broadly distinguished, in many points, will approximate the two, to some extent, and especially render the culture bestowed upon the female mind altogether of a higher cast than otherwise it is likely to be, or than what is often attempted in a boarding school.

When we speak of male and female education, carried on in conjunction, under the parental auspices, it must be understood that, although there will be actual association, in many pursuits, yet that, after the period of early childhood, it will be proper, if not necessary, for the sake of both, to dissociate brothers and sisters in their more serious studies. Not to mention some reasons for such a


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 separation which are unconnected with our subject, it will be found that the one, or the other order of minds, suffers a disadvantage by being compelled to keep to the same pace. Boys especially, would not easily be brought up to that pitch of strenuous application which in itself, and as a habit, is of the utmost importance to them, while in training with their sisters. It may indeed happen that the girls of a family surpass their brothers in intelligence, and in assiduity, and so might with ease be made to advance step by step with them, even in the severer studies. Nevertheless the former must be made to buckle on an armour, and to gird themselves for a conflict with which it would be not merely useless, but a positive disadvantage to the latter to have any thing to do. No good end can be answered by inuring the female mind to arduous, long-continued, mental exertions.

It is chiefly a moral advantage that boys will derive from association with their sisters at home; and it is chiefly an intellectual advantage which will accrue to the latter from this combination: for while the girls of a family will leave their brothers to advance beyond them in certain arduous paths, they will, with them, come under an animating intellectual treatment, such as it would be very difficult to realize in training them apart.

The points of difference between male and female education relate, first, to that natural diversity of TASTES, which distinguishes the two, from the very dawn of the mind.

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195 And so it seems like it was Mr. Martin largely running this bus operation for Stop the Steal for January 6th?

I would say that we acted as an endorser and an amplifier. And it was hard to call it, you know, Stop the Steal's bus effort. But we definitely wanted to natively market it that way to our audience so that they would feel comfortable participating.

Did Stop the Steal pay for the bus fees up front, or did Turning Point USA pay for them?

I don't think we paid for the bus fees up front. I think—and I don't know. We may have even got one independent bus, but I'm not sure that that ever went through or didn't go through. So I would—I would not know that.

So you're not aware of Mr. Martin maybe being reimbursed by Turning Point USA for buses that he may have paid expenses for?

Yeah, I'm not sure how that all logistically finally finalized.

Mr. Do you have follow-up, ?

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No. I just—it sounds like you're saying that to the extent that buses were paid for with the exception of one possible one that you may have had for Stop the Steal, your involvement in the buses was basically to advertise Turning Point's offering of the bus.

Yes. And that included—we made our own landing page on Stop the Steal. And we tried to rally, sometimes very unsuccessfully, tried to rally interest in some cities that didn't materialize. But if there was a city that materialized, that would get handed over to Turning Point USA, I believe.

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The difficulty of directly detecting Martian life can be easily understood if you imagine yourself on Mars, peering through a large telescope at Earth. Detecting life on Earth—particularly intelligent life—from such a vantage point would be extremely difficult. In view of this, it is not surprising that the question of life on Mars is as yet unresolved. In general, there are three approaches which can be taken to this problem.

In the past decade, considerable advances have been made in our knowledge of the probable processes leading to the origin of life on Earth. A succession of laboratory experiments has shown that essentially all the organic building blocks of contemporary terrestrial organisms can be synthesized by supplying energy to a mixture of the hydrogen-rich gases of the primitive terrestrial atmosphere. It now seems likely that the laboratory synthesis of a self-replicating molecular system is only a short time away from realization. The syntheses of similar systems in the primitive terrestrial oceans must have occurred—collections of molecules which were so constructed that, by the laws of physics and chemistry, they forced the production of identical copies of themselves out of the building blocks in the surrounding medium. Such a system satisfies many of the criteria for Darwinian natural selection, and the long evolutionary path from molecule to advanced organism can then be understood. Since nothing except very general primitive atmospheric conditions and energy sources are required for such syntheses, it is possible that similar events occurred in the early history of Mars and that life may have come into being on that planet several billions of years ago. Its subsequent evolution, 7


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194 I'm not sure, but I assumed so.

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Going back to receiving funds, did Stop the Steal organize buses in various cities to come to D.C. from January 5th and 6th?

We participated in organizing buses.

And who paid for those buses?

I think it was my understanding that it was ran through Turning Point USA. That was my understanding. And they needed more bodies, and Stop the Steal's just a very popular brand. And, so, if Stop the Steal said, Hey, you know, there's a bus available, it's easier than one of these groups that look more established.

Who—

Mr. Oh, I'm sorry. You can go,.

Ms. No, no.

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Who put you in contact with Turning Point USA to organize the buses?

Caroline Wren.

And who did she put you in contact with at Turning Point USA?

Well, she just mentioned—I know Charlie and I know Tyler. And so, you know, she had mentioned this stuff needs to run through Tyler, and I believe I partnered Nathan with Tyler and said I have no time for this. I'm focused on the Georgia run-off. You guys do this. And where I could, I helped. And where I could, I amplified appeared tweeted and tweeted out bus routes and stuff like that.

And Tyler, what's Tyler's last name?

I think Bower.

Bower.


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200 donate to me so I can pay for their flights. That's that first part of November, and I don't know what the cutoff date is.

Oh, okay. So it's alialexander.org prior to Stop the Steal. And you're—when you were talking about prior to Stop the Steal is my personal fundraising, it's through that web page, alialexander.org?

Yes.

And did you have a PayPal link on there?

Yeah, there's a PayPal—I think there's a PayPal's and a couple other links. But PayPal's the one—I think I know that there was a link to PayPal.

Okay. And other than PayPal, do you remember any of the other links on there or—

No.

—what type of payment it was?

I—I wouldn't be certain. I just know that there was—there was—this site was mainly a content locker for my customers. There are people who can't afford my consulting services but want my analysis. So I do a monthly call with them.

And so some people like to pay over the top. So that's why all that information had already been listed for, you know, a year or 2 years. And so when everyone's, like, Ali needs to start Stop the Steal, my donors and my customers are, like, start Stop the Steal. We'll give you money to buy flights and stuff for people. I'm, like, okay.

So, like, I'm the first donor to Stop the Steal. My customers are the second donors to Stop the Steal. My friends who want to participate, their audiences are the nexus for donating to Stop the Steal. And that's when I said, okay. Well if my friends are recommending their readers to me that don't follow me, this even we need to formalize this entity.


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8 in response to the changing Martian environment, would have produced organisms quite different from those which now inhabit Earth.

Experiments have been performed in which terrestrial micro-organisms have been introduced into simulated Martian environments, with atmospheres composed of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, no oxygen, very little water, a daily temperature variation from +20° to —60° C, and high ultraviolet fluxes.


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201 Okay. So this is—so alialexander.org is when you were referring to the personal stuff prior to Stop the Steal in November 2020. Then you create the entity. At that point you start the Donorbox. Everything fundraised in November under Stop the Steal is through Donorbox. Do I have that right?

Not so—my effort to Stop the Steal pre-formalization is November 4th like at 1:00 p.m. Immediately start pointing people to my personal site. It isn't until November 7th or 10th that we formalize Stop the Steal.

Oh, okay. You create Stop the Steal, and for that brief period of time from the 4th to the 7th you're still putting people to alialexander.org for fundraising because you don't have yet have the LLC.

Right.

Then on the 7th, you get the LLC. You set up Donorbox, Stripe, et cetera, and going forward—

The 7th or the 10th or something like that?


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Rh It was found that in every sample of terrestrial soil used there were a few varieties of micro-organisms which easily survived on “Mars.” When the local abundance of water was increased, terrestrial micro-organisms were able to grow. Indigenous Martian organisms may be even more efficient in coping with the apparent rigors of their environment. These findings underscore the necessity for sterilizing Mars entry vehicles so as not to perform accidental biological contamination of that planet and obscure the subsequent search for extraterrestrial life.

The early evidence for life on Mars—namely, reports of vivid green coloration and the so-called “canals”—are now known to be largely illusory. There are three major areas of contemporary investigation: visual, polarimetric, and spectrographic.

As the Martian polar ice cap recedes each spring, a wave of darkening propagates through the Martian dark areas, sharpening their outlines and increasing their contrast with the surrounding deserts (fig. 2). These changes occur during periods of relatively high humidity and relatively high daytime temperatures. A related dark collar, not due to simple dampening of the soil, follows the edge of the polar cap in its regression. Occasional nonseasonal changes in the form of the Martian dark regions have been observed and sometimes cover vast areas of surface.

Observations of the polarization of sunlight reflected from the Martian dark areas indicate that the small particles covering the dark areas change their size distribution in the spring, while the particles covering the bright areas do not show any analogous changes.

Finally, infrared spectroscopic observations of the Martian dark areas show three spectral features which, to date, seem to be interpretable only in terms of organic matter, the particular molecules giving rise to the absorptions being hydrocarbons and aldehydes.

Taken together, these observations suggest, but do not conclusively prove, that the Martian dark areas are covered with small organisms composed of familiar types of organic matter, which change their size and darkness in response to the moisture and heat of the Martian spring. We have no evidence either for or against the existence of more advanced life forms. There is much more information which can be garnered from the ground, balloons, Earth satellites, Mars flybys, and Mars orbiters, but the critical tests for life on Mars can only be made from landing vehicles equipped with experimental packages such as those discussed on the following pages.


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203 out, but they just said it was their vision to protect the First Amendment. A lot of them are ex-Special Forces or a pay grade above, like, the regular dudes. And so then they were involved.

Who is Tracy? Ms. Tracy Beanz, who is that?

She's a blogger, journalist.

Okay. So it sounds like the First Amendment Praetorians provided event security for the November 14th event?

For the Stop the Steal Coalition, not Women for America First, who had basically taken the position that they were going to occupy my permit.

So did you coordinate with Mr. Robert Patrick Lewis for the security?

I actually think what happened is I tasked Nathan with coordinating with Rob and a gentleman who went by the name Yoda, and—

Okay. And what services or expertise did you think that the First Amendment Praetorians were offering?

Just a general detail protection. Like, I think a lot of security in political circles is just moving you through a large crowd. So it's you with supporters, but to be prepared, if somebody comes and assaults you, to exit you from that situation. So why did you use the Oath Keepers in January, but use the First Amendment Praetorians in November?

I stopped using 1AP, is what they're short for, in—shortly, I think—I think Atlanta might have been our last efforts with them.

And that's around the time Mr. Rhodes reached out to you, correct, with those messages you went over earlier?

Yeah. Coincidentally, I actually put that together, but yeah.

And why did you stop using 1AP?


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204 I think that they became—it was weird. I think that there was some logistical conflict or whatever, because the agreement with them was, if you tweet out their link, you don't have to pay them. And so we tweeted out their link, but then I heard through the grapevine that they weren't happy with me. And I'm like, "Tell me what you want me to tweet and I'll tweet it."

And so some conflict happened somewhere down the chain of command between my folks and their folks. When I reached out to try to figure out what it was, I got stonewalled, and that was just very abnormal to me.

And so then, like, for example, I went to Lansing, Michigan, because the Republican electors were meeting, and we wanted to support them, or something like that. And the 1AP people wouldn't show up for me.

So then I either called or had someone else call Stewart Rhodes and said, "Do you have a guy up there?" And then there was a veteran who met us at the Lansing site.

And so it sounds like you didn't pay the First Amendment Praetorians for the November 14th event?

Yeah. I don't know if we made a donation or not. It's very possible that we made a donation on top of tweeting out their links, but the agreement was tweet out their link and crowd fundraise for them.

Do you recall working with any congressional Members for the November 14th event?

No, I don't recall that.

Do you recall a conversation where you told Ms. Amy Kremer that Congressman Mike Kelly is taken care of, they don't want to be annoyed with multiple points of contact? And I'm assuming that's because you were the point of contact?

The point of contact was Rose Tennett—


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205 Gotcha. Okay.

—who was part of Stop the Steal Coalition, and she was not a fan of the Kremers.

Okay.

Mr. Anything else?

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Did you go up to the Supreme Court after the event at Freedom Plaza?

I did walk, or march, whatever, over from Freedom Plaza to the Supreme Court after the series of Stop the Steal speeches were done.

And you talked about earlier this morning what the security posture around the Capitol looked like on that day, in November. Do you remember just generally—

In November?

Yeah. In November—

For the Capitol?

Yeah. As you walked past. Because you contrasted the 6th, if you remember earlier, about where the barricades were further out, I think, compared to the times in November—

Oh, no. I'm sorry. I was talking about the city's barricades.

Oh.

Not the Capitol barricades.

Not the Capitol particularly?

Yeah.

Okay. All right.

Any reason particular reason that you know of that people organized at the Supreme Court that day versus anywhere else?


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The first thing man generally does in a new and strange environment is to look around. This is exactly what scientists want eventually to do through one of the Voyager-class landing capsules on Mars by using photographs relayed from television cameras. This “eyes on Mars” experiment would offer genuine scientific merit for the following reasons.

1. We want to know the topography immediately surrounding the capsule. There may be both geological and biological surprises in the landscape revealed by a televised survey.

2. We would like to monitor the instrument operations.

3. Scientists and laymen alike could participate in this experiment. All could see what the scenery of the red planet is like.

TV cameras such as those used on Surveyor or Ranger (spacecraft used in lunar missions) might be adapted for use in the exploration of Mars. The Surveyor cameras use zoom lenses having a focal length range of from 25 mm (wide-angle) to 100 mm (narrow-angle). In the narrow-angle mode these cameras can produce a resolution of 0.25 milliradian per TV line. This means that at a distance of 4 meters the resolution is approximately 1 mm per TV line. These cameras are fitted with filters for color separation and polarization studies. Figure 3 shows one of the Surveyor cameras. The vidicon image tube is mounted vertically and looks up into a mirror which can be rotated in elevation and azimuth to provide viewing in virtually all directions.

The Ranger TV cameras, now well described in other reports, are also of the wide- and narrow-angle type. Although possessing a fixed focus, they can photograph in the range of approximately 1,120 miles to about ⅓ mile. Lens apertures vary and are set so that pictures can be taken corresponding to average lighting conditions on Earth from noon to dusk. The vidicon tube for each camera works on a photoconductive principle similar to tubes in commercial television cameras. The light and dark areas of the image on the 11


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206 It's a popular place to organize. The second fact is that you don't—there is no permitting process for it.

And it's something that they had done before. And so the Kremers had done something, you know, for Justice Barrett, and their last, you know, little rah-rah was at the Supreme Court. So I think that they wanted to kind of relive some of that.

A lot of people love that shot. I've never—I had never previously, you know, attended any Washington, D.C., protests at the Supreme Court to my knowledge.

And is the upshot of November that that's it for you working with the Kremers?

Yes.

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Real quick on that.

It sounds like you said there was some problem with the First Amendment Praetorians where—but did you ever figure out or have conversations like, "What happened there?"

No. And still to this day I'm wondering why two—who—where did the relationship sour, because they treated me like a son, you know.

And they were extremely professional. They were extremely on point. And I was trying to figure out how they were just giving all these services, I don't want to say for free, because we were very popular people tweeting out their link, so we raised them a lot of money. But that was a huge leap of faith.

How did you know that you raised them a lot of money? Did you have conversations with them about—

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207 Do you remember which page?

Not at all?

Was it GiveSendGo?

I don't think GiveSendGo existed then.

RallyPay?

I'm really not sure.

Okay. I thought maybe it like—

Yeah.

If it—

I'm sorry.

If it was a remembering thing.

And you said you might have made a donation to the First Amendment Praetorians. Would you have done that, or would Nathan have done that?

I don't recall.

Would Nathan have done that without your approval?

With my money?

Yeah. Did he have the ability—

No.

—to just make donations without you—

I'm sure he had the ability, but he wouldn't, you know.

Do you remember making donations to First Amendment Praetorians?

I don't. I do remember, in my process of trying to make things right or trying to be supportive or whatever, that that is something I have frequently done with causes I believe in in the past.

If you had done that, would you have personally done that, or would Stop


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12 face plate are scanned by a beam of electrons which differentiate these light and dark areas by their electrical resistance. The scan lines are converted into electrical signals, highly amplified, converted to a frequency-modulated signal, sent to a 60-watt transmitter, and received on Earth. Direct mounting and use of this system on a capsule on the surface of Mars is not now possible. Nevertheless, the Ranger VII photographs of the Moon underscore the potential of the system as soon as technology permits its application to the planets.

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208 the Steal or alialexander.org have donated the money?

My guess is that I personally would have done that. That's my guess, and that, to me, makes sense.

And, sorry, just to tie a bow on that, you went to working with the Oath Keepers because you never got—you never heard back from First Amendment Praetorians?

We didn't go to—we worked with Oath Keepers—I shouldn't say we worked with them.

Stewart Rhodes provided me a Michigan contact, and—but, like, in Chicago, I hired my own security. When I went back to Atlanta, I don't know who we used. In Arizona I used, I think, nobody, or we—or we—we hired someone out.

So I didn't—Oath Keepers wasn't following me around. And they made a promise that they could provide people everywhere, but, really, that just kind of fell short. And I only have secondhand knowledge of that, because, again, those are other details.

It's like, if Ali is going somewhere, somebody around me would say, "Go find him security," and we stopped using 1AP. Oath Keepers sometimes was unresponsive or couldn't provide somebody in their veterans group, and so we hire security.

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Did you ever use the Proud Boys?

Me, I don't think so. I don't believe so at all.

Did you ever—do you know of Mr. Enrique Tarrio?

Yes, I do.

Did you ever use him to come speak at an event?

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The detection of life by looking for it sounds elementary; however, this seemingly simple technique is extremely complex and involves numerous technical problems. The usefulness of a visual method lies in the extensive background of classical terrestrial biological observation from the macrocosm to the microcosm. In addition, the morphological approach does not depend upon assumptions concerning the nature of extraterrestrial biochemistry. Certain structural attributes, with varied degree of elaboration and application, are not expressions of particular specific form, but of life itself.

A television (vidicon) microscope for planetary exploration has been suggested by Dr. Joshua Lederberg of Stanford University. The investigation of this idea is being carried out in his Instrument Research Laboratory and in Dr. Gerald Soffen’s laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. These groups are assessing the problems of using the microscope as an instrument of life detection.

Terrestrial atmosphere and soil contain a multitude of viable or moribund microscopic organisms,. [sic] Bacteria, algae, fungi, protozoans, and diatoms are commonly found. Fragments of organisms and fossil forms are also frequently among the components. Special parts of organisms, such as seeds, pollen grains and spores, comprise an important fraction because of their capability of surviving rigorous environmental conditions.

Recognition and identification of micro-organisms by microscopy is often difficult and uncertain; however, in many cases, characteristic morphology is highly indicative and sometimes conclusive. Specific form, size, symmetry, optical properties, surface features, pigmentation and intricate internal architecture are among those typical details which have made the microscope useful. In addition to conventional use, the microscope may be extended to carry out microspectrophotometry, microhistochemistry and microfluorometry, which 13


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210 :BY MR.

So I believe you said the upshot of the November 14th event was you were no longer working with Women for America First. Is that correct?

That's correct.

So on the December 12th rally—I believe this was the Jericho March, right?

Yes.

Who were you—who did this event? Who did Stop the Steal do this event with?

We joined in on an existing event at The National Mall. The Women for America First was still doing something elsewhere, and we did—and that was with the Jericho March, which is a Christian-based group.

Okay. And who was in charge of the Jericho March Christian-based group that you coordinated with?

A gentleman named Rob—and I can't remember his last name—and a lovely woman named Arina. And I think her last name starts with a G. It might be Arina—

Is it Grossu?

That sounds—I think she's Italian or something.

Okay. And for the December 12th rally, the Jericho March, did you help pick speakers for that March?

Yes.

Okay. Did you have more creative control over the speaker list for that march?

Yes.

Did you coordinate the speakers through, like, the Trump campaign at all?

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211 And did you talk to the White House about any of the speakers for the Jericho March?

I don't believe so.

Did you coordinate with Members of Congress to be speakers for the Jericho March?

I think we would have definitely reached out. And in talking with you right now, I can't recall anyone who was on stage that was a Member—that was an elected Member. And I—

I'm sorry. Who do you think you reached out to?

Oh, I definitely would have reached out to Congressman Gosar. You know, I've tweeted that he's my spirit animal—or he was the movement's spirit animal. But I think he was out of town, so I don't think he—so I don't recall any Members—elected Members. And it was broadcasted nationally, so I don't think it would be hard to figure out who the speakers were. But I don't remember any Members of Congress speaking.

And did you, for this march—it was on The National Mall. Did you all march to the Capitol or Supreme Court on this first march?

I don't believe so. The term Jericho March is a Biblical term, and it deals with the whole religious thing that—event that happened that was a literal march.

So I understand that early, early in the morning, they had marched around the Supreme Court, I believe, and that was way too early for my participation. But the event didn't break up and then walk somewhere or march somewhere or anything like that.

So you only participated in events on The National Mall on December 12th?

I believe so. I don't know what I was doing at night, but—

But you weren't at the Supreme Court or the Capitol the night of December—


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Rh which offers a unique solution to the “deposition” of a sample for optical examination (fig. 4). An aerosol sample is injected into the plane of focus of the microscope through an orifice in the condenser lens. The image is transmitted by vidicon. The lens system observes a 100-μ field with 0.5-μ resolution. The vidicon picture, when telemetered to Earth, would require a great deal of data transmission; it might take hours to send a single picture. When more power and larger antennas are available, and with special data handling techniques, this time may be reduced significantly.

A more complex idea under development employs spectral and spatial scanning as a criterion for the selection of objects of interest. Specific ultraviolet absorption of particles is carried out by scanning microspectrophotometry. This has been developed to include the fluorometric capability of detecting the primary fluorescence of native compounds and fluorescence due to products formed by specific reactants. The scanning technique is also being investigated for use with biological stains.

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The Witness. 7th or the 10th, or something like that. Okay.

Ms. That's probably fine.

At that point, you set up the Donorbox, Stripe, et cetera, and now it's going through that for the Stop the Steal, LLC?

The Witness. Yes. And I don't know how many days that process takes, because sometimes, like, Stripe can take 3 days to confirm you.

Ms. I understand those aren't exact dates. That's helpful.

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At this rally in November, the November the 14th rally, did you engage with the First Amendment Praetorians for security?

The November rally? Yes.

Who are the First Amendment Praetorians?

They—I'm trying to think who recommended them to me. I don't know if it was Tracy Beanz, B-e-a-n-z, or—and Tracy with a y—or if it was someone else.

And someone said, "Do we have security?" So speakers started asking about security. I'm thinking, again, how can we raise this money? You know, I was like, we're buying people's flights. We're buying hotels. I don't want to stay at the Willard. Everyone's staying at the Willard. This is, okay, you guys are going to have to, like, you know, sleep two to a room.

And so then we started worrying about security. And so I think it was—it was either Tracy who recommended them, or someone said that Tracy had used them in the past.

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209 saw each other in Atlanta. We saw each other in D.C.

You know, a lot of people run into each other. I do know Atlanta, for example, one of the days—one of the smaller days—I gave him a shout-out. He was standing—I saw him standing on the sidelines, and I could tell he wanted a shout-out. If I didn't give him a shout-out, then, you know, there might be, "Oh, Ali is being a megalomaniac" or something, and I didn't want that. So I gave him a shout-out, and—yeah.

Okay. So you never—it's your testimony that you never, like, reached out to the Proud Boys for them to provide event or personal security for you?

Yeah, that's my testimony. There was one night in either November or December where I was walking, and the Proud Boys asked if I wanted an escort. And I think that they escorted me three blocks.

Okay.

Ms. How do you find these security teams? Like, you said you go to a city, you're looking for them. I think you mentioned you found someone in Chicago. How do you find them? The Witness. Just google security firms, and a lot of police officers don't make enough money at their day job, so they will moonlight as security officers or bouncers.

And the good thing about professional security is they don't ask you your politics. You don't know if they agree with you or not. And so I know that I've had several, you know, security members where I don't know their political beliefs, and I don't know that they agree with me.

Ms. Is that how you found First Amendment Praetorians?

The Witness. No. I've described how I best recollect finding 1AP.

Ms. Oh, okay. I apologize. That's just my bad memory if that was on the record.


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Gas chromatography has been proposed as an excellent method for detecting the gases of planetary atmospheres and for identifying organic chemical compounds which are of biological interest.

The essential parts of the gas chromatograph are a long tube, or column, containing a powdered material which will adsorb, or bind, different gases with different degrees of strength and a detector that is placed at one end of the tube. During an analysis, the unknown sample, which usually consists of a mixture of gases, is forced through the column by an inert gas, or carrier gas, such as helium or argon. The gases of the sample that are more strongly bound to the material in the column pass through more slowly than the gases that are weakly bound. In this way different gases pass out of the column at different times and are indicated by the detector. (See figs. 5 and 6.)

A basic gas chromatograph for detecting and measuring atmospheric gases or for analyzing organic compounds of biological interest is shown in figure 6. In the case of an atmospheric analysis, a sample of the atmospheric mixture is transported to the sample injector. A constant flow of carrier gas from the carrier-gas storage tank is delivered to the column by the flow regulator and is permitted to flow continuously before injection of the sample. The sample is then put into the carrier-gas stream by the sample injector. The different gases in the mixture separate as they pass through the column, with each gas finally passing through the detector, and causing it to produce an electrical signal. The signal is fed into an electronics system where it is amplified and transmitted back to Earth.

Under suitable conditions, the strength of the signal will indicate the amount of each gas (see fig. 7). The kind of gas is determined by the length of time it takes to pass through the column. The detectors used in gas chromatography usually detect changes in the physical properties of the carrier gas; for example, electrical or thermal conductivity. 17


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Rh they can be analyzed by gas chromatography. This can be done in two ways. One way is to heat the sample at relatively low temperatures; for example, 100° C to 150° C. With this treatment, some biological compounds can be converted to vapors which can be injected into the carrier gas and analyzed in the usual way. Other biochemical compounds cannot be vaporized so easily and must be heated to higher temperatures. When these substances are strongly heated their molecules break up into smaller molecules, some of which are gaseous. By analyzing these smaller molecules on the gas chromatograph it is possible to tell what the original biological substances were. This type of analysis requires a great deal of research in order to learn how large molecules break down when they are heated at high temperatures. The oven in figure 6 is used to heat biochemical compounds in order to convert them to gases.

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Rh plenty of good people, plenty of happy people, plenty of examples of men acting wisely and things ending well. That is not my meaning. My meaning is that Ibsen has throughout, and does not disguise, a certain vagueness and a changing attitude as well as a doubting attitude towards what is really wisdom and virtue in this life—a vagueness which contrasts very remarkably with the decisiveness with which he pounces on something which he perceives to be a root of evil, some convention, some deception, some ignorance. We know that the hero of Ghosts is mad, and we know why he is mad. We do also know that Dr. Stockman is sane; but we do not know why he is sane. Ibsen does not profess to know how virtue and happiness are brought about, in the sense that he professes to know how our modern sexual tragedies are brought about. Falsehood works ruin in The Pillars of Society, but truth works equal ruin in the The Wild Duck. There are no cardinal virtues of Ibsenism. There is no ideal man of Ibsen. All this is not only admitted, but vaunted in the most valuable and thoughtful of all the eulogies upon Ibsen, Mr. Bernard Shaw's "Quintessence of Ibsenism." Mr. Shaw sums up Ibsen’s teaching in the phrase, "The golden rule is that there Rh


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Aristotle’s positive arguments for the heart being the centre of sensation and voluntary motion were partly the preconceived idea which I have just mentioned—partly his observations as a psychologist on the connexion of emotions with the heart, and also one fallacious anatomical observation. Seeing the chordae tendineae of the heart, he thought they were nerves and the source of all the nerves in the body. True, he did not distinguish between sinews and nerves, calling them all vetpa (xeura), but he must have regarded these structures as having what we now call motor nervous functions, since he thought them the origin of

Aristotle's belief that the brain was cold, indeed the coldest part of the body, which alone, according to his psychological theories, would make it impossible for the brain to be the seat of the sensory soul. The brain was, he thought, compounded of earth and water, the other elements, air and fire, not entering into its composition,

Aristotle regarded the heart as the seat of sensation and voluntary movement, partly from @ priori con- ceptions of the necessary connexion of the sensory soul with heat, and of heat with the blood, so that it must be located in the hottest part of the body ; partly from tracing the connexion of emotions with the heart, and partly from some ana- tomical fallacies alluded to above.

The first argument seems clearly established by the following passage from the De Partibus, which I quote fromDr.W.Ogle’s translation, p.72:—

‘The reason, then, why these two vessels [the vena cava and the aorta} coalesce into one centre and spring from one source is that the sensory soul is in all animals actually one; ...-and this oneness of the sensory soul determines a corresponding one- ness of the part in which it primarily abides. Where, however, the sen- sory soul is lodged, there also, and in

the selfsame place, must necessarily be the source of heat, and, again, where this is there also must be the source of the blood, seeing that it thence derives its warmth and flui- dity. Thus, then, in the oneness of the part in which is lodged the prime source of sensation and of heat is involved the oneness of the source in which the blood originates ; and this again explains why the blood-vessels have one common starting-point.’

It is curious how long Aristotle's idea that the brain was cold met with acceptance. Galen, indeed, contends that the only test of any- thing being hot or coldis that it is so to the touch (a criterion repudiated by the Aristotelians), and he states that the brain is rather moist than cold, hotter than some and colder than other parts of the body; while the heart was found in vivisections to be by far the hottest part (De Tempera- mentis, lib. ii). Piccolhomini, an anatomist of the sixteenth century, quoted by Harvey, placed one hand on the heart, the other on the brain, in a recently killed animal, and found them equally hot (Anatomuicae Prae- lectiones, 1586, p. 275). But we find Harvey, in his MS. Prelectiones of 1616, still teaching that the brain is cold.t

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Rh is no golden rule." In his eyes this absence of an enduring and positive ideal, this absence of a permanent key to virtue, is the one great Ibsen merit. I am not discussing now with any fulness whether this is so or not. All I venture to point out, with an increased firmness, is that this omission, good or bad, does leave us face to face with the problem of a human consciousness filled with very definite images of evil, and with no definite image of good. To us light must be henceforward the dark thingthe thing of which we cannot speak. To us, as to Milton’s devils in Pande-monium, it is darkness that is visible. The human race, according to religion, fell once, and in falling gained the knowledge of good and of evil. Now we have fallen a second time, and only the knowledge of evil remains to us.

A great silent collapse, an enormous un-spoken disappointment, has in our time fallen on our Northern civilization. All previous ages have sweated and been crucified in an attempt to realize what is really the right life, what was really the good man. A definite part of the modern world has come beyond question to the conclusion that there is no answer to these questions, that the most that we can do Rh


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Rh realizes that it is another example of uncon-scious shirking. What is the good of begetting a man until we have settled what is the good of being a man? You are merely handing on to him a problem you dare not settle yourself. It is as if a man were asked, "What is the use of a hammer?" and answered, "To make hammers;" and when asked, "And of those hammers, what is the use?" answered, "To make hammers again." Just as such a man would be per-petually putting off the question of the ultimate use of carpentry, so Mr. Wells and all the rest of us are by these phrases successfully putting off the question of the ultimate value of the human life.

The case of the general talk of "progress" is, indeed, an extreme one. As enunciated to-day "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. We meet every ideal of religion, patriotism, beauty, or brute pleasure with the alternative ideal of progress—that is to say, we meet every proposal of getting something that we know about, with an alternative proposal of getting a great deal more of nobody knows what. Progress, properly understood, has, indeed, a most dignified and legitimate meaning. But as used in opposition to precise moral ideals, it is ludicrous. Rh


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Rh So far from it being the truth that the ideal of progress is to be set against that of ethical or religious finality, the reverse is the truth. No-body has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals. Nobody can be progressive without being doctrinal; I might almost say that nobody can be progressive without being infallible—at any rate, without believing in some infallibility. For progress by its very name indicates a direction; and the moment we are in the least doubtful about the direction, we become in the same degree doubtful about the progress. Never perhaps since the beginning of the world has there been an age that had less right to use the word "progress" than we. In the Catholic twelfth century, in the philosophic eighteenth century, the direction may have been a good or a bad one, men may have differed more or less about how far they went, and in what direction, but about the direction they did in the main agree, and consequently they had the genuine sensation of progress. But it is precisely about the direction that we disagree. Whether the future excellence lies in more law or less law, in more liberty or less liberty; whether property will be finally concentrated or finally cut up; whether sexual passion will reach Rh


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THE BIOLOGY OF ARISTOTLE 41 all voluntary movements throughout the body; though he does not appear to connect them with sensation. At all events, this was the foundation of the celebrated doctrine of the origin of nerves in the heart which was maintained by the followers of Aristotle for hundreds of years. Now one does not recall these misconceptions with the paltry aim, which I have already condemned, of branding as mere errors the imperfect generalizations of the great founder of natural science. It is on account of their historical importance. This point of the relation of the brain and heart was fundamental, and had, I think, a most injurious influence on the progress of physiology. Aristotle’s great services to biology were, first, that he started the investigation; then his great generalization of the unity of the animal kingdom, better appreciated now than ever; and also his marvellous contributions to morphology, which seem to me incomparably more important than his explanations of function, which are largely tinged with metaphysics. In physiology his great achievement was his conception, derived from his studies of the embryo, of the indissoluble connexion of the heart, the blood-vessels, and the blood, by which he kept clear of the liver, that great stumbling-block of the medical anatomists. It was this which Harvey so much appreciated, and one reason which led him to speak of Aristotle with such generous enthusiasm.

Aristotle’s great authority secured through many centuries the vitality of his views as to the rival claims of the heart and brain to be the seat of nervous function and the supreme organ of the body. They were supported chiefly by the philosophers, and opposed by nearly all the medical anatomists. They were the subject of active controversy in the time of Galen. In the Middle Ages they were maintained in opposition to Galen by Averroes, the reviver of the study of Aristotle; and Cesalpino, often spoken of as a forerunner of Harvey, presented them again in the sixteenth century. Nay, about 2000 years after Aristotle’s time, a professor at Padua contemporary with

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Rh its sanest in an almost virgin intellectualism or in a full animal freedom; whether we should love everybody with Tolstoy, or spare nobody with Nietszche;these are the things about which we are actually fighting most. It is not merely true that the age which has settled least what is progress is this "progressive" age. It is, more-over, true that the people who have settled least what is progress are the most "progressive" people in it. The ordinary mass, the men who have never troubled about progress, might be trusted perhaps to progress. The particular individuals who talk about progress would certainly fly to the four winds of heaven when the pistol-shot started the race. I do not, therefore, say that the word "progress" is un-meaning; I say it is unmeaning without the previous definition of a moral doctrine, and that it can only be applied to groups of persons who hold that doctrine in common. Progress is not an illegitimate word, but it is logically evident that it is illegitimate for us. It is a sacred word, a word which could only rightly be used by rigid believers and in the ages of faith. Rh


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Rh is always new, and the last rose as red as the first.

The sense that everything is poetical is a thing solid and absolute; it is not a mere matter of phraseology or persuasion. It is not merely true, it is ascertainable. Men may be challenged to deny it; men may be challenged to mention anything that is not a matter of poetry. I remember a long time ago a sensible sub-editor coming up to me with a book in his hand, called "Mr. Smith," or "The Smith Family," or some such thing. He said, "Well, you won’t get any of your damned mysticism out of this," or words to that effect. I am happy to say that I un-deceived him; but the victory was too obvious and easy. In most cases the name is un-poetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical that it must be an arduous and heroic matter for the man to live up to it. The name of Smith is the name of the one trade that even kings respected; it could claim half the glory of that arma virumque which all epics acclaimed. The spirit of the smithy is so close to the spirit of song that it has mixed in a million poems, and every blacksmith is a harmonious blacksmith.

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‘ Come and see for yourselves ’ was his constant cry. ' A thousand times,’ he says, ‘ I have demonstrated by dis- section that the cords in the heart called nerves by Aristotle are not nerves and have no connexion with nerves.’ Doubt- less, in meeting the speculations of the philosophers, he often fell into the weakness of answering a fool according to his folly. At the special request of his friends, he says, he followed the philosophers into their own field and showed that he could spin out logic and quote poetry with the best of them. But I must try and give some idea of the strange intellectual atmosphere in which Galen upheld so manfully the standard of scientific truth. The followers of Chrysippus, a Stoic philosopher, are, says Galen, not ashamed to assert that when we wish to indicate emphati- cally ‘ I myself’ we lay the hand upon the heart or nod the head downwards, pointing to the chest, whence it follows that the heart is the principal seat of the soul 1. But, says Galen sarcastically, some persons with the same intention lay their hand upon the forehead or the nose, which parts might as well be the seat of the soul — and so on. Chrysippus himself, whose words are quoted, had a still more extraordinary argument. He said that, when we utter the word ey<o to indicate our own personality, in pronouncing the first syllable e (ay) we protrude the lower lip downwards, pointing to the heart as the seat of our personality, and this is immediately followed by the last syllable ; whereas in the word enelvos (he) another syllable is interposed, and so apparently the significance of the first syllable is lost ! Of this portentous nonsense it is very mild of Galen to say that it is not even a probable or a rhetorical or a sophistical argument, much less a scientific one 2.

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Rh dim way the smith is poetic, as the grocer and the cobbler are not poetic, when they feast on the dancing sparks and deafening blows in the cavern of that creative violence. The brute repose of Nature, the passionate cunning of man, the strongest of earthly metals, the wierdest of earthly elements, the unconquer-able iron subdued by its only conqueror, the wheel and the ploughshare, the sword and the steam-hammer, the arraying of armies and the whole legend of arms, all these things are written, briefly indeed, but quite legibly, on the visiting-card of Mr. Smith. Yet our novelists call their hero "Aylmer Valence," which means nothing, or "Vernon Raymond," which means nothing, when it is in their power to give him this sacred name of Smiththis name made of iron and flame. It would be very natural if a certain hauteur, a certain carriage of the head, a certain curl of the lip, distinguished every one whose name is Smith. Perhaps it does; I trust so. Whoever else are parvenus, the Smiths are not parvenus. From the darkest dawn of history this clan has gone forth to battle; its trophies are on every hand; its name is everywhere; it is older than the nations, and its sign is the Hammer of Thor. Rh


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Rh But as I also remarked, it is not quite the usual case. It is common enough that common things should be poetical; it is not so common that common names should be poetical. In most cases it is the name that is the obstacle. A great many people talk as if this claim of ours, that all things are poetical, were a mere literary ingenuity, a play on words. Precisely the contrary is true. It is the idea that some things are not poetical which is literary, which is a mere product of words. The word "signal-box" is unpoetical. But the thing signal-box is not unpoetical; it is a place where men, in an agony of vigilance, light blood-red and sea-green fires to keep other men from death. That is the plain, genuine description of what it is; the prose only comes in with what it is called. The word "pillar-box" is unpoetical. But the thing pillar-box is not unpoetical; it is the place to which friends and lovers commit their messages, conscious that when they have done so they are sacred, and not to be touched, not only by others, but even (religious touch!) by themselves. That red turret is one of the last of the temples. Posting a letter and getting married are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic a thing must be irrevocable. We think a Rh


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Rh pillar-box prosaic, because there is no rhyme to it. We think a pillar-box unpoetical, because we have never seen it in a poem. But the bold fact is entirely on the side of poetry. A signal-box is only called a signal-box; it is a house of life and death. A pillar-box is only called a pillar-box; it is a sanctuary of human words. If you think the name of "Smith" prosaic, it is not because you are practical and sensible; it is because you are too much affected with literary refinements. The name shouts poetry at you. If you think of it otherwise, it is because you are steeped and sodden with verbal reminiscences, because you remember everything in Punch or Comic Cuts about Mr. Smith being drunk or Mr. Smith being hen-pecked. All these things were given to you poetical. It is only by a long and elaborate process of literary effort that you have made them prosaic.

Now, the first and fairest thing to say about Rudyard Kipling is that he has borne a brilliant part in thus recovering the lost provinces of poetry. He has not been frightened by that brutal materialistic air which clings only to words; he has pierced through to the romantic, imaginative matter of the things them-selves. He has perceived the significance and Rh


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Rh philosophy of steam and of slang. Steam may be, if you like, a dirty by-product of science. Slang may be, if you like, a dirty by-product of language. But at least he has been among the few who saw the divine parentage of these things, and knew that where there is smoke there is firethat is, that wherever there is the foulest of things, there also is the purest. Above all, he has had something to say, a definite view of things to utter, and that always means that a man is fearless and faces every-thing. For the moment we have a view of the universe, we possess it.

Now, the message of Rudyard Kipling, that upon which he has really concentrated, is the only thing worth worrying about in him or in any other man. He has often written bad poetry, like Wordsworth. He has often said silly things, like Plato. He has often given way to mere political hysteria, like Gladstone. But no one can reasonably doubt that he means steadily and sincerely to say something, and the only serious question is, What is that which he has tried to say? Perhaps the best way of stating this fairly will be to begin with that element which has been most insisted by him-self and by his opponentsI mean his interest in militarism. But when we are seeking for the Rh


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Rh real merits of a man it is unwise to go to his enemies, and much more foolish to go to himself.

Now, Mr. Kipling is certainly wrong in his worship of militarism, but his opponents are, generally speaking, quite as wrong as he. The evil of militarism is not that it shows certain men to be fierce and haughty and excessively warlike. The evil of militarism is that it shows most men to be tame and timid and excessively peaceable. The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines. Thus the Pretorian guard became more and more important in Rome as Rome became more and more luxurious and feeble. The military man gains the civil power in proportion as the civilian loses the military virtues. And as it was in ancient Rome so it is in contemporary Europe. There never was a time when nations were more militarist. There never was a time when men were less brave. All ages and all epics have sung of arms and the man; but we have effected simultaneously the deterioration of the man and the fantastic perfection of the arms. Militarism demonstrated the decadence of Rome, and it demonstrates the decadence of Prussia.

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 Some periodicals have ridiculed this means of reaching the sick, but God is wonderfully using them just the same, and as He wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul (see Acts xix:11, 12) He is doing the same now for those who trust Him, for so many of God’s children are sick everywhere that the need is most urgent and the unbelief is so great that often in isolated places those suffering saints cannot get one near at hand to offer for them “the prayer of faith.”

Mrs. Etter preaches the gospel in great simplicity and power, backing up all her remarks by quotations from the Word of God. The altar services are very remarkable, as saints and sinners gather around in deep earnestness seeking God for their individual needs. The power of God falls upon them, and it is wonderful to note the changes that come over the faces of the seeking ones, as the light dawns upon their souls. The power of God often prostrates them, and even little children are seen “under the power;” apparently unconscious to all but God, and with their little faces shining like angels.

There were people present from many different states in the Union.

The night we left there were three remarkable cases of healing; one of goitre, one of cancer, and one of deafness. The lady with goitre was suffering very much with the choking or suffocating sensation occasioned by it. Mrs. Etter commanded the enemy to depart, in Jesus’ name, and soon we saw her turning her head freely from side to side, while the swelling seemed mostly, if not entirely gone. The pain and swelling of the man’s cancer was also taken away in a few minutes.

It is stated that about three hundred and fifty have received the Pentecostal baptism, with the sign of speaking with new tongues.

There is usually a great solemnity in the meetings, and the faces of the people are very earnest. With the exception of the altar service, where many are often praising or praying at once, the meetings are conducted very quietly. All tendency to wildfire or fanaticism is entirely discountenanced.

Perhaps the explanation for the solemnity of these meetings is that there is continual teaching about the soon coming of the Lord for His Bride, and exhortations to get ready. One dear brother, Rev. H. C. Mears, who has preached the gospel for over

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136Rh of the economic activities of 400,000,000 people." Accordingly the proposal lapsed. It must be understood that throughout the war the Japanese were in a position to blackmail the Allies, because their sympathies were with Germany, they believed Germany would win, and they filled their newspapers with scurrilous attacks on the British, accusing them of cowardice and military incompetence.

But when America severed diplomatic relations with Germany, the situation for China was changed. America was not bound to subservience to Japan, as we were; America was not one of the Allies; and America had always been China's best friend. Accordingly, the Chinese were willing to take the advice of America, and proceeded to sever diplomatic relations with Germany in March 1917. Dr. Reinsch was careful to make no promises to the Chinese, but of course he held out hopes. The American Government, at that time, could honestly hold out hopes, because it was ignorant of the secret treaties and agreements by which the Allies were bound. The Allies, however, can offer no such excuse for having urged China to take the further step of declaring war. Russia, France, and Great Britain had all sold China's rights to secure the continued support of Japan.

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   This great game of catching revolutionists napping, of catching the unconventional people in conventional poses, of outmarching and outmanoeuvring progressives till they felt like conservatives, of undermining the mines of Nihilists till they felt like the House of Lords, this great game of dishing the anarchists continued for some time to be his most effective business. It would be untrue to say that he was a cynic; he was never a cynic, for that implies a certain corrupt fatigue about human affairs, whereas he was vibrating with virtue and energy. Nor would it be fair to call him even a sceptic, for that implies a dogma of hopelessness and definite belief in unbelief. But it would be strictly just to describe him at this time, at any rate, as a merely destructive person. He was one whose main business was, in his own view, the pricking of illusions, the stripping away of disguises, and even the destruction of ideals. He was a sort of anti-confectioner whose whole business it was to take the gilt off the gingerbread.

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   of gilt. But there are some objections to this task when it becomes a crusade or an obsession. One of them is this: that people who have really scraped the gilt off gingerbread generally waste the rest of their lives in attempting to scrape the gilt off gigantic lumps of gold. Such has too often been the case of Shaw. He can, if he likes, scrape the romance off the armaments of Europe or the party system of Great Britain. But he cannot scrape the romance off love or military valour, because it is all romance, and three thousand miles thick. It cannot, I think, be denied that much of Bernard Shaw's splendid mental energy has been wasted in this weary business of gnawing at the necessary pillars of all possible society. But it would be grossly unfair to indicate that even in his first and most destructive stage he uttered nothing except these accidental, if arresting, negations. He threw his whole genius heavily into the scale in favour of two positive projects or causes of the period. When we have stated these we have really stated the full intellectual equipment with which he started his literary life.

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137Rh the other in any war, and recognizing that "the vital interests of one and the other of them require the safeguarding of China from the political domination of any third Power whatsoever, having hostile designs against Russia or Japan." The last article provided that "the present agreement must remain profoundly secret except to both of the High Contracting Parties." That is to say, the treaty was not communicated to the other Allies, or even to Great Britain, in spite of Article 3 of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which provides that "The High Contracting Parties agree that neither of them will, without consulting the other, enter into a separate agreement with another Power to the prejudice of the objects described in the preamble of this Agreement," one of which objects was the preservation of equal opportunity for all Powers in China and of the independence and integrity of the Chinese Empire.

On February 16, 1917, at the very time when America was urging China to sever diplomatic relations with Germany, we concluded an agreement with Japan containing the following words:—

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   two important convictions he exercised a solid power of choice. When he first went to London he mixed with every kind of revolutionary society, and met every kind of person except the ordinary person. He knew everybody, so to speak, except everybody. He was more than once a momentary apparition among the respectable atheists. He knew Bradlaugh and spoke on the platforms of that Hall of Science in which very simple and sincere masses of men used to hail with shouts of joy the assurance that they were not immortal. He retains to this day something of the noise and narrowness of that room; as, for instance, when he says that it is contemptible to have a craving for eternal life. This prejudice remains in direct opposition to all his present opinions, which are all to the effect that it is glorious to desire power, consciousness, and vitality even for one's self. But this old secularist tag, that it is selfish to save one's soul, remains with him long after he has practically glorified selfishness. It is a relic of those chaotic early days. And just as he mingled with the atheists he mingled with the anarchists, who were in the eighties a much more formidable body than now, disputing with the Socialists on almost equal terms the


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   claim to be the true heirs of the Revolution. Shaw still talks entertainingly about this group. As far as I can make out, it was almost entirely female. When a book came out called A Girl among the Anarchists, G. B. S. was provoked to a sort of explosive reminiscence. "A girl among the anarchists!" he exclaimed to his present biographer; "if they had said 'A man among the anarchists' it would have been more of an adventure." He is ready to tell other tales of this eccentric environment, most of which does not convey an impression of a very bracing atmosphere. That revolutionary society must have contained many high public ideals, but also a fair number of low private desires. And when people blame Bernard Shaw for his pitiless and prosaic coldness, his cutting refusal to reverence or admire, I think they should remember this riff-raff of lawless sentimentalism against which his commonsense had to strive, all the grandiloquent "comrades" and all the gushing "affinities," all the sweetstuff sensuality and senseless sulking against law. If Bernard Shaw became a little too fond of throwing cold water upon prophecies or ideals, remember that he must have passed much of his youth among cosmopolitan idealists who wanted a little cold water in every sense of the word.


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 forty years, came to fight the work, but became convinced that it was of God; he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the sign of tongues, and afterwards God gave him the most wonderful visions of Heaven, and of what the Lord is preparing for His people, and also visions of the coming of the Lord. It is most inspiring to listen to the revelations of the coming of the Lord which have been vouchsafed to this dear brother. His spirit is so loving and gentle, he reminds us of what the Lord Jesus said about Nathaniel, “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile,”

“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Luke 10.19.

At a recent meeting at the time just after the call for all needing prayer to come to the altar had been made, Sister Etter had been praying for many round the altar and God wonderfully healed them all, and as she was praying for a lady there was a scorpion laying two inches away from her hand.

She saw it and went to knock it off and it stung her. The pain seemed to run all through her and go to her heart. The finger got red, and the Lord showed her it was a fatal and poisonous sting, and nothing but the Lord could help her. A brother killed it, and several of the saints saw it, and went right to praying. She claimed the promise that we should have power over serpents, and all fear left her.

The people were waiting for her to heal them. She hung on to the Lord, and His promises, and the pain began to stop and she went right on praying for the sick, and nothing was left but the mark of the sting. The hurt was perfectly healed.

Bro. S. B. Finley says:—‘While attending these meetings I have a number of times seen the most beautiful flashes of light, like lightning, with some of the most brilliant colors, including most beautiful purple. There were great waves of light resting over different ones in the meeting.

One night there appeared a light like a white star and a two-edged sword going out from Sister Woodworth-Etter’s mouth. hile she was preaching and there were like flames of fire in rainbow colors around her, at the same time.

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138Rh Baron Motono sent a communication to the French and Russian Ambassadors stating, among other things, that "the Imperial Japanese Government proposes to demand from Germany at the time of the peace negotiations, the surrender of the territorial rights and special interests Germany possessed before the war in Shantung and the islands belonging to her situated north of the equator in the Pacific Ocean." The French Ambassador, on March 2nd, replied as follows:—

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It will be observed that, unlike England and France, Russia demands no quid pro quo, doubtless owing to the secret treaty concluded in the previous year.

After these agreements, Japan saw no further objection to China's participation in the war. The chief inducement held out to China was the hope of recovering Shantung; but as there was now no danger of this hope being realized, Japan was willing that America, in more or less honest ignorance, should unofficially use this hope for the persuasion of the Chinese. It is true that Japan had reason to fear America until the last days of the Peace Conference, but this fear was considerably diminished by the conclusion of the Lansing-Ishii Agreement in November 1917.

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An extremely unreliable translation with many deliberate alterations.

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 * Thanks for your comment. Can you give some example(s) of the deliberate alterations, please? --Jan Kameníček (talk) 11:24, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

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the excitement and hard work caused by the wreck, many of the trainmen had time to look for the missing dog. This was after the conductor had been appealed to by Mrs. Delamont, the owner of the prize animal.

And it appeared, from the deferential attitude of the conductor, that Mrs. Delamont was a person of some importance. Her husband was one of the directors of the railroad, and she was much interested in prize dogs.

But a careful search failed to disclose the missing Rex III. An examination of the car revealed nothing, and the baggage man was sure he had tied such a knot in the dog's leash that the animal could not have worked it loose.

"Besides," said Mrs. Delamont, "Rex would not leave me. Someone must have taken him."

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Rh And this was very possible, as many strangers had been attracted to the scene of the wreck. Mrs. Delamont offered a reward of a hundred dollars for the return of her prize dog, and this spurred a number of volunteer searchers to work.

They scurried about the fields near the scene of the accident, but in spite of enticing calls and whistles no Rex answered.

"I'm afraid he is gone," said Alice, who had taken quite a liking to Mrs. Delamont, in spite of the lady's rather "loud" dress and manners.

"Oh, I must find him!" exclaimed Mrs. Delamont. "I shall have to advertise," she went on. "This is not the first time he has been taken. He is such a fine-looking dog that many are attracted to him. And he is so friendly! Oh, Rex, where are you?"

But Rex III was not to be found, and the trainmen could no longer delay. A last search was made in the surrounding fields, and then the passengers went back to their cars. A substitute engineer and fireman had come with the wrecking crew.

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22 "Well, I sure did get some fine pictures," remarked Russ, as he came back to the others of the film company. "It will be something for our newspaper service, all right."

"We'll send them back to New York from the next station," said Mr. Pertell, "and wire that they're on the way. They can develop and print them there."

In the first book of this series I have described the mechanical part of moving pictures, how they are made and prepared for projection on the screen. To briefly sum it up, I might say that the pictures, or negatives, are taken on a continuous strip of celluloid film in a specially prepared camera, which takes views at the rate of sixteen per second. Then, after this long strip of negative is developed, a positive, as it is called, is made, and this is run through the projecting machine in the theatre. Thus, by means of powerful lenses, and intense lights, the miniature pictures, less than an inch in width, are enlarged to life size.

In order to make sure that the passengers should reach their destinations the train that had been in the wreck was stopped at the next important station. There a new baggage car was put on, and another engine. Russ took advantage of the delay to send back, by express, the film he had made of the collision, at the same time tele-


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Rh graphing the manager of the film studio to expect the reel.

The journey to Beatonville was then taken up again, and proceeded without further accident. The train was somewhat delayed, and when it drew up at the small station Ruth, Alice and the others looked out eagerly to see what sort of place it was.

"It isn't as bad as you said, Russ!" exclaimed Ruth. "I see two houses, anyhow."

"Not many more, though," he answered, with a laugh.

Beatonville was a typical country railroad town, and quite a crowd of depot loungers gathered around as the theatrical company alighted.

As the train went on its way again Alice caught a glimpse of Mrs. Delamont at one of the windows in the parlor car. The owner of the missing Rex III waved her hand in friendly farewell to the girl.

"I wish I could find her dog," thought Alice. "It's too bad to have a pet and lose him."

"I don't like dogs!" exclaimed Ruth. "I'm always afraid they'll bite me."

Alice laughed at her sister's nervousness.

"There's Sandy!" exclaimed Russ, pointing to a young farmer who was holding the heads of two horses attached to a large "carryall."

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24 "I expect you're all hungry, on account of the delay. Have you anything to eat out at your place?" he called to Sandy.

"Yep. Ma's been bakin' an' cookin' for th' last week!" was the comforting answer. "We're all ready for you. I'm going to take you over in this rig, and I've got another wagon for your trunks and stuff. Have a good journey?"

"Good! Bah! A smash-up!" growled Mr. Sneed. "But we might have expected it—starting out on track thirteen."

"Yah! But ve are all right now, alretty yet!" laughed Mr. Switzer.

Ruth, Alice and the others looked about them with interest. It was a typical country landscape—a little valley nestling amid the green hills.

"Oh, I know I'm going to like it here," murmured Ruth. "It is so restful!"

"Restful! Yes! I should say it was!" exclaimed Pearl Pennington, as she bent a stick of chewing gum, preparatory to enjoying it. "I know what I'll do, all right!"

"What, dear?" asked her friend Laura Dixon, with lazy interest. "What'll you do?"

"I'll be going back to little old New York in about a week. This place has got on my nerves already. Ugh! Isn't it quiet!"

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Rh New York. Even the horses seemed ready to go to sleep as they stood lazily at the shafts or poles of the vehicles they drew.

"Come on!" cried Sandy, hospitably. "It's quite a little drive out to our farm, and I know your folks must be tired and hungry."

"Hungry! That's no name for it!" voiced Miss Dixon. "Have you any lobsters, Mr. Apgar?"

"Lobsters? No'm. They don't raise none of them birds out here. But we got chicken."

"Oh, listen to him, Pearl!" exclaimed Miss Dixon. "He thinks a lobster is a bird."

"Don't mind them," said Paul Ardite to Sandy, in a low voice. "It hasn't been many years that they could afford lobster. Chicken for mine, every time."

"Well, they do say ma cooks th' best chicken around here," spoke Sandy, proudly. "She done it in Southern style this time."

"Say no more!" exclaimed Mr. DeVere. "Sandy, you are a gentleman and a scholar. How long will it take us to get to your farm?"

"About half an hour."

"That's twenty-nine minutes too long, since you have mentioned chicken in Southern style. But do your best."

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26 bers of the moving picture company began their trip to Oak Farm. The way lay along a pleasant country road, and in the distance could be seen the cool, green hills.

It was early June, and, all about, the farmers were doing their work. The air was sweet with the scent of flowers and the green woods, for the road led past several forest patches where the wind swept pleasantly through the swaying trees.

"Oh, it is just lovely here!" sighed Ruth, as she removed her hat and let the gentle wind blow about her hair. "I know I shall love it. And, Daddy dear, maybe it will do your voice good."

"Perhaps it will, daughter," he agreed. "However, since we are doing so well in moving pictures, I have not the desire I had at first to get back to the boards. I am becoming content in this line."

"I'm glad," said Alice, "for I like it very much. Oh, it is lovely here, Ruth!"

"Just fine, I call it!" exclaimed Russ. "The air is so clear. I'm sure we'll get fine pictures here."

"I know we'll die of loneliness," grumbled Miss Pennington. "I wish we hadn't come, Laura."

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Rh wagon containing the trunks, and in less than the half-hour stipulated by Sandy, Oak Farm was reached. Ruth, Alice and their father fell in love with the place at first sight. Mr. Pertell and Russ had seen it before, and most of the others admired it.

There was a big, old-fashioned farmhouse, setting back from the road, and fronted by a wide stretch of green lawn. The house was white, with green shutters, and was well kept. Back of it were barns and other farm buildings, some of which were rather dilapidated.

"Welcome to Oak Farm!" cried Sandy. "There's Pa Felix and Ma Nance lookin' for ye! Here they are, Ma!" he called. "All ready for your chicken."

"Bring 'em right in!" the mother invited, cordially.

Ruth and Alice liked the farmer's wife at once. There was a stoop to her shoulders that told of many weary days of work, and she looked worn and tired, but there was a bright welcome in her eyes as she greeted the visitors. "Pa Felix," as Sandy called his father, was rather old and feeble.

"Come right in and make yourselves to home," urged Mrs. Apgar. "Your rooms is all ready for ye!"

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28 nington, with uptilted head and powdered nose. "I want him to take my valise to my room at once. And I shall want a bath before dinner."

"Isn't she horrid, to try to put on such airs here?" said Alice to Ruth, nodding in the direction of the vaudeville actress.

"Yes. She only does it to make trouble."

Sandy and his father were talking together in low tones in one corner of the big parlor.

"You didn't get any word; did you?" asked the old man.

"No, Pa. There wasn't no letter."

"Then we won't git th' money."

"It don't look so."

"And we'll have to lose th' place?"

"I—I'm afraid so," replied Sandy.

"Gosh! That—that's hard, in my old age," said the elderly farmer, softly. "I hoped your ma and I'd be able to end our days here. But I guess it ain't to be. However, this company will help us pay some of the claims. We'll do the best we can, Sandy."

"That's what we will!"

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was a most delightful place. Ruth and Alice agreed to this even before the first meal was served. They stood at the window of their room—a large one with two beds—and gazed across the green meadows, off to the greener woodland and then to the distant hills which girt the valley holding Oak Farm in its clasp.

The hills were purple now with the coming of night—a deep purple like the depth of a woodland violet—and their tops were shrouded in mist.

At the foot of the hills ran a little river, and now it looked like some ribbon of silver, twining in and out amid the green carpet of the fields.

"Oh, isn't it beautiful—just beautiful!" sighed Ruth.

"Do you mean the odor of that fried chicken?" asked Alice, with a frank laugh, as she let down her hair, preparatory to putting it


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30 up again, in the general process of "dressing." "It is delightful; but I would hardly call it 'beautiful.

"Oh, you know what I mean!" returned Ruth, not turning from the window which gave a view of the distant hills. "I'm speaking of the scenery."

"Oh, yes, I suppose it is beautiful," agreed Alice, who, truth to tell, was not gifted with a very strong æsthetic sense. "But I suppose Mr. Pertell came here because it was so practical for the rural dramas."

"Beauty counts in them, too," said Ruth, softly. "Oh, just look at the purple light on those hills, Alice!"

"Can't, my dear. I've dropped a hairpin and I can't see it in the dark. Gracious, I never thought! We won't have any electric lights here, and no gas. I wonder if we'll have to go back to candle days."

"They weren't so bad," observed Ruth. "I think it must have been fine in the Colonial days, to have the candles all aglow, and"

"Candle fiddlesticks!" exclaimed Alice, who could be very outspoken at times. "Give me an incandescent light, every time. It's getting dark here. I wonder what system of illumination they have?"


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Rh "Kerosene lamps," replied Ruth. "There's one on the mantel. I'll light it."

"Do, that's a dear. I've dropped another hairpin, and I need every one."

There was silence in the bedroom of the old-fashioned country house for a space. Ruth lighted the lamp, and drew down the window shades.

The girls freshened themselves up after their journey, and prepared to descend to the dining room. From the kitchen came more delicious odors as Mrs. Apgar and her helper finished preparing the evening meal.

Scattered about, in other apartments of the big farmhouse, were the other members of the film theatrical company. Mr. DeVere had been given a room near his daughters', and they could hear him talking in his husky voice to Mr. Pertell, who across the hall.

"When are they going to begin taking the pictures?" asked Ruth, as she helped Alice hook up a waist that fastened in the back.

"Oh, not for some days yet, I fancy," was the answer. "Mr. Pertell will have to look around, and pick out the best backgrounds for the different scenes. I wonder what sort of parts I'll get? Something funny, I hope; like tumbling into the river and being rescued."


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32 "Alice! You wouldn't want anything like that!" cried Ruth, much shocked.

"Wouldn't I, though! Just give me a chance. I can swim, you know!"

"Yes, I know, but tumbling into the river—with your clothes on—it might be dangerous!"

"Oh, well, if we're in the moving picture business we will have to learn to take chances. I read in the paper the other day how a couple leaped from the Brooklyn Bridge with a parachute—a man and woman."

"Yes, I know; but we're not going to do anything like that! Papa wouldn't let us."

"No, I suppose not," and Alice sighed as though she really wanted to indulge in some such daring "stunt" as a bridge leap.

"I know one part you're going to have, Ruth," went on Alice, as she surveyed herself in the glass.

"What is it?" asked Ruth, eagerly. "Shall I like it?"

"I think you will, dear. It's laid in an old mill—there is one on Oak Farm, I believe. You're to be imprisoned in it, and your lover rides up—probably on one of those silly milk-white steeds I object to—and rescues you—breaks down the door in fact—and gets you just as you are about to be bound on the mill wheel."


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Rh "Really, Alice?" cried Ruth, clasping her hands in delight, for she dearly loved a romantic role.

"Really and truly—truly rural, I call it."

"How did you hear of it?"

"Oh, I overheard daddy and Mr. Pertell talking about it. Mr. Pertell asked daddy if he'd object to your taking a part like that."

"And what did dad say?"

"Oh, he agreed to it, as long as you weren't in danger. But I want something funny. I believe I'm to be a sort of 'cut-up' country maid, in some of the plays. I'm to upset the milk pails, tie a tin can to the calf's tail, hide under the sofa, when your country 'beaus' come to see you, and all that."

"Oh, Alice!"

"That's all right—I just love parts like that. None of the love business for me!"

"I should say not—you're entirely too young!" exclaimed Ruth, with sudden dignity.

"Pooh! You're not so old! Oh, there goes the supper bell. Come on! I'm starved!"

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34 chicken, for nearly everyone had more than the first helping.

"Ach! But I'm glad that I came here!" announced Mr. Switzer, as he passed his plate for more. "Ven I get so old dot I can vork no more, I am coming here!" and he leaned back with a contented sigh.

Even Pepper Sneed smiled graciously, and for once seemed to have no fault to find, and no dire prediction to make.

"The meal is very good," he said to Pop Snooks, the property man.

"Glad you think so—even if we did come out on track thirteen," was the reply. "I think that accident was the best thing that could happen. It delayed us so we all had fine appetites."

After supper the members of the company went on the broad veranda, to sit in the dusk of the evening and listen to the call of the night insects.

"We'll all have a day or so of rest," Mr. Pertell said. "That is, you folks will, while I lay out my plans and decide what we are to make first. Russ, I'll want you, the first thing in the morning, to take a walk around the farm with me, and we'll decide on which are the best backgrounds."

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Rh "Why, yes, I guess so," answered the manager, slowly. "Only we'll probably do a deal of walking."

"I don't tire easily," Alice replied.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Apgar," said Mr. Pertell after a pause, turning to the farmer, "I am planning one play that has a barn-burning incident in it. Have you some old barn on the premises I could set fire to."

"Good land!" exclaimed the farmer, starting from his chair. "Set fire to a barn! Why th' idea! Th' sheriff will git after you, sure pop. That's arson, man!"

"Oh, no, not the way I'd do it," laughed the manager. "I'd be willing to pay you for the barn, so no one would lose anything. Haven't you some such building on the place—one that isn't of much use?"

"Wa'al, I reckon there might be," was the slow answer, as if the farmer could not understand the strange proposition. "But as fer settin' fire to it; wa'al, I reckon you'll have to git permission of th' mortgagee. You see we're in trouble about this place. Sandy, maybe you'd better tell him," and he turned to his son.