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Take the sufferings from the suffering,

And the ulcers from the ulcered,

That the sick may fall in slumber,

And the weak may rise from weakness,

And the sufferer hope recover,

And our mourning have an ending.

“Put the sufferings in a barrel,

And with copper hasps enclose them,

Carry thou away the sufferings,

And do thou cast down the tortures,

In the midst of Torture-Mountain,

On the peak of Mount of Suffering,

Do thou there boil up the tortures

In the very smallest kettle,

Larger not than round a finger,

And no wider than a thumb-breadth.

“There’s a stone in midmost mountain,

’Mid the stone there is an opening,

Which has there been bored by auger,

Where the auger has transpierced it.

Do thou thrust therein the sufferings,

Overcome these painful ulcers,

Crush thou in these raging tortures,

Do thou end our days of suffering,

That by night they may be harmless,

And be harmless in the daytime.”

Then the aged Väinämöinen,

He the great primeval sorcerer,

Salved o’er all the ulcered places,

And the open wounds anointed,

With nine various salves anointed,

With eight magic drugs he rubbed them,

And he spoke the words which follow,

And in words like these expressed him:

“Ukko, thou of Gods the highest,

O thou aged man in heaven!

Let a cloud appear to eastward,

Let another rise from north-west,

Send thou from the west another,

Grant us honey, grant us water,

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Butter, refuses to come, 215 and n. 1.

By-bets, 370 and n. 1.

Byfield, Adoniram, 353 and n. 3.

Cabal, or Cabbala, 25 and n. 1.

Cabals, Committees of, 365 and n. 3.

Cacus, the robber, 152, n. 1.

Cadmus, the fable of, 65, n. 1.

Cæsar, had a horse with corns on his toes, 21 and n. 2; stirrups not in use in his time, 21, n. 3; alluded to, 55, n. 2; death of, 241 and n. 2.

Calamy (the Presbyterian preacher), exhortations of, 65, n. 2; 353 and n. 1. Caldesed, 254 and n. 3.

Caliban, 278.

Caligula, Emperor, 409 and n. 1; boasted of embracing; the moon, 269, n. 2.

Callêches, 362 and n. 2.

Cambay, the Prince of, his offensive breath, 164.

Camilla of Virgil's Æneid, alluded to, 89, n. 3.

Camisado, 387, n. 4.

Cannon-ball, 230 and n. 2.

Cant, derivation of the word, 358 and n. 3.

Capel, Lord, 43, n. 2.

Caperdewsie, 166 and n. 3.

Capoched, 194; means hood-winked, 194, n. 2.

Caps, black, lined with white, 124 and n. 3.

Carazan, a province of Tartary, curious custom in, 43, n. 1.

Carberry, the Earl of, Butler appointed Secretary to, preface, 8.

Cardan, belief of, 249; particulars respecting, 249, n. 5.

Carneades, the Academic, 6, n. 4.

Carriers' packs and bells, 341 and n. 4.

Carroches, 210, 402 and n. 2.

Carte's Life of Ormonde, 422, n. 4.

Carvajal, Peter and John, 276, n. 1,

Case, the Presbyterian minister, sermons of, 61, n. 1; 326, n. 4; 353 and n. 1.

Cassiopeia's Chair, 217 and n. 3.

Catasta, 145; a cage or prison, 145, n. 5.

Cats, worshipped by the Egyptians, 34, n. 7.

Catterwauling tricks, 292.

Cautery, the use of, 309 and n. 1.

Centaurs, the, 315 and n. 2.

Cerberus, wears three heads, 355.

Cerdon, the one-eyed cobbler, 58 and n. 6; 89, 95, 104, 108.

Ceruse, 158 and n. 5.

Cervantes, dignity of, preface, 23.

Chærephon, 224 and n. 5.

Chair, the stercorary, 128, n. 2.

Chaldean Conjurors, 250 and n. 6.

Chameleons, said to live on air, 137, n. 3,

Chancery-practice, the common forms of, 187 and n. 6.

Charlatan, a quack doctor, 366 and n. 2.

Charles I., war between, and the Parliament, 31, n. 2; his political and natural person, 62, n. 5; 68, n. 4; Members ordered to be prosecuted by, 63, n. 4; his treaties with the rebel army, 177, n. 2; sale of his estates, 328, n. 5.

Charles II., speech of, 30, n. 4; treatment of, 123.

Charms, maladies cured by, 223 and n. 3.

Cheats and Impostors, artifices of, 210 and n. 1; defeated of their aim, 332 and n. 4.

Cheek by joul, 140 and n. 2.

Cheese, where to cut it, 126 and n. 4.

Cheshire, remonstrance of the gentlemen of, to Parliament, 126, n. 5.

Chevy Chase, song of, quoted, 89, n. 1.

Chickens, counting them before they are hatched, 251 and n. 2.

Children, frightening of, 372 and n. 3.

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Runo XLV]

That our sores may be anointed,

And our wounds be all salved over.

“Yet to me no power is given,

Save by my Creator granted.

Grant us now thy grace, Creator,

Grant us, Jumala, thy mercy.

With my eyes have I been seeing,

And my hands have been uplifting,

With my mouth have I been speaking,

With my breath have I been sighing.

“Where my hands avail to reach not,

Let the hands of God be resting;

Where I cannot reach my fingers.

There let God extend his fingers;

Far more skilful are his fingers,

The Creator’s hands more active.

“O Creator, work thy magic,

Speak, O Jumala, unto us,

Deign to gaze on us, Almighty!

Let those who at night are healthy,

Likewise in the day be healthy,

Let no suffering fall upon them,

And no sickness come among them,

Nor their hearts be filled with anguish,

That they feel no slightest evil,

Feel no more the slightest suffering,

In the course of all their lifetime,

While the golden moon is shining.”

Väinämöinen, old and steadfast,

He the great primeval sorcerer,

Thus at length dispelled the evils,

Raised their burdens from his people,

Drove away the plagues of magic,

Healed the magical diseases,

And from death he saved his people,

Thus saved Kaleva’s descendants.

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 assume the responsibility of calling such a conference. People scarcely realize yet what such a conference would mean and what far-reaching things it could accomplish. First of all, it could act as a unit in insuring the rights of the neutral peoples as long as the European war shall last. For this purpose and for other purposes to be named this conference might well continue in session or within call until the close of the war; for crises of a serious nature are likely to occur at any time, requiring immediate and concerted action. But this is not all. Such a conference of neutral nations would be the best agency for mediation whenever a time for the offer of mediatory services seems favorable. The offer of mediation by any one power might be resented, and in any event, might be ineffective: whereas the offer of mediation by all the neutral nations of the earth would appear as a disinterested appeal for world order and would be much more likely to be accepted. Above all, such a conference of neutral nations would in itself be a splendid example of international co-operation of the very sort for which the new internationalism is working. Furthermore, when the terms of peace shall be negotiated at the close of the war, the neutral nations acting together can have much more influence in seeing to it that the terms of peace shall not be such as to create a situation which might lead to future war or prejudice the interests of the neutral nations themselves.

Let us look at this last matter a little more closely. The deliberations of the warring nations at the close of the war, when they conclude their negotiations for the peace of Europe, will be one of the most important and far-reaching events of all history. It will be an


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 event that will not only profoundly affect the future fortunes of Europe, but will be of vital importance to the whole civilized world. Some international thinkers have even gone so far as to insist that since the neutral nations are so inextricably involved in the future of Europe, the neutral nations should have a direct and active part in the negotiations of the warring nations which frame the terms of peace. Only recently the International Peace Bureau at Berne, of which H. La Fontaine is president, issued a circular to the peace societies in all lands, in which appeared the following pronouncement:

It is just possible that, however desirable it may be, this direct participation of the neutral nations in the peace negotiations will not prove feasible. Europe is under the war system and, unfortunately, will probably insist upon concluding its technical terms of peace without outside interference. The countries engaged have been fighting a long, hard, bloody war: a war which every warring nation regards as a war of desperate defense: a war in which each nation has spent not merely vast resources of an economic sort, but thousands upon thousands of the lives of its best young men. After a desperate war of such magnitude, it is but natural that the peace negotiations will be conducted in somewhat the same temper as the war itself was waged. Any advantage gained by any particular nation will have been dearly bought and will not be easily relinquished. Of course, this is the great danger of the situation: the


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 danger which the participation of neutral nations in the negotiations is designed to meet.

But I wonder if there is not a surer and more feasible way of influencing the terms of peace at the close of the war in favor of a stable international order. Remember this: at the close of the present war public opinion in Europe will have more influence upon government than ever before. This great catastrophe has affected the average man and woman in Europe as no other catastrophe within the memory of man. Before the war, public opinion in Europe had gradually been educated to more and more of an international viewpoint. National and race differences had been lessened through the myriad means of intercommunication between races and nations and through friendly co-operation in all the great vital interests of civilization. The war came upon public opinion as more or less of a surprise and a shock, and it is not at all inconceivable that when this war shall close, public opinion shall have been educated through its bitter and tragic experience to make itself heard and felt as never before in the history of Europe. Autocracies and bureaucracies there still will be; but they will tend to be more merely nominal in their absolute powers than in the past. European rulers and counselors had already learned before this war that the conviction of the masses must be reckoned with. After this war they will have to reckon with it still more seriously; for nothing teaches individuals or nations like the school of experience, and the European war has taught the average man lessons which will not be forgotten for generations to come. Democracy may indeed be slow in coming, but public opinion, nevertheless, will have a vast deal to do in preventing terms of peace of a sort which would be likely to menace the future security of the common


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 man in Europe. Now, public opinion is the great hope and reliance of the peoples of the neutral nations of the earth. For the public opinion of the world is interrelated, and the convictions of the masses of the people outside of Europe, if made definitely and distinctly known to European peoples, will have a vast part in molding the European mind. Above all, the public opinion of America, the country in which more than in any other the masses of the people read and think and express their thoughts freely,—this American public opinion, I say, will have more influence upon European public opinion, as well as the public opinion of the world, than that of any other nation. Now, who makes this American public opinion? You and I. What shall we have to say with regard to the terms of peace at the close of this war? Well, we shall say at least the following things and insist upon them with all the force of our collective conviction. First, the terms of peace to be concluded in Europe must be of such a sort that they will not only avoid creating new reasons for future retaliations and revenges, in short, for future wars, but they must remove, so far as is possible in the nature of such negotiations, the causes of strife which have existed for so long and which have been the occasions of the upbuilding of that vast militaristic system under whose burden the European peoples groan. Second, the world should insist that the terms of peace shall not be such as to involve the crushing of any nation engaged in this conflict. It is well indeed that militarism shall be crushed forever; but it would be nothing but a calamity if any European nation should be humiliated to such an extent that the world would lose her cultural integrity, her distinct contributions to civilization, her self-respecting co-operation in the constructive work of the world.


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 Germany must not be crushed; England must not be crushed, nor Belgium, nor France, nor Russia, nor Austria-Hungary, nor any other country, no matter how much we may be of the opinion that one or the other is to blame for the international anarchy now prevailing. Third, it is almost unanimously agreed among international thinkers of the present time that the terms of peace should not involve the transfer of any territory from one nation to another against the will of the majority of the inhabitants of that territory. These three things, at least, public opinion can help to accomplish, and they must be brought before the mind of the world incessantly and persistently until they have become part of the intimate convictions of civilized mankind everywhere.

So much for the immediate world program of the new internationalism. But note that all these immediate measures look forward to one great goal: the permanent peace of the world. These immediate measures are not enough to accomplish this permanent peace: they are merely deeds by the way,—important deeds, but not sufficient. What, then, is the next great thing that the world must do to bring about the new world order which it demands?

It is quite clear that this new world order must be planned for in an intelligent and efficient way and that the very first step to be taken after the war is over is the calling together of a world conference comprising all the nations of the earth, including those now in conflict. The calling of such a conference at The Hague was contemplated long before the present war began; and now the reasons for calling such a conference are


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 multiplied a thousand-fold. It is not absolutely essential that this conference be held at The Hague; but two world conferences have already been held there, and these two conferences have already accomplished so much toward world co-operation that it would seem to be highly advisable that the next meeting of the nations shall take the form of a Third Hague Conference. People at large scarcely realize the wonderful progress toward international understanding achieved at the first two Hague Conferences. The First Conference, which met in 1899, was in the nature of an experiment, which a number of doubting statesmen predicted would fail. Yet at this conference twenty-six of the world's fifty-nine independent powers were represented, these powers standing for three-quarters of the world's population and resources. In some respects this conference symbolized the greatest international event in the history of the race. The Second Conference, held in 1907, lifted the possibility of international co-operation beyond the stage of mere experiment and justified the hope that a world federation for the conserving of international interests and the welfare of humanity at large was no longer a merely impractical dream. At this Second Conference were represented forty-four of the world's powers and practically all its population and resources. Of course, the actual achievements of such conferences must be slow, but they are none the less sure and worth while. As the Hon. Elihu Root says:

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international agreement opinions affected by the acceptance and application of the previous agreements. Each conference will inevitably make further progress and, by successive steps, results may be accomplished which have formerly appeared impossible. … The most valuable result of the Conference of 1899 was that it made the work of the Conference of 1907 possible. The achievements of the two conferences justify the belief that the world has entered upon an orderly process through which, step by step, in successive conferences, each taking the work of its predecessor as its point of departure, there may be continual progress toward making the practice of civilized nations conform to their peaceful professions."

Let the next great assembly of the powers be held at The Hague. Through the munificence and far-seeing vision of a noted American, a great building, the Peace Palace, has already been erected for this very purpose, and its portals are ready to open in welcome to the deliberations of all nations and all races. Some humorists, with more regard for humor than the deeper significance of historic events, have amused themselves and a certain section of the public by picturing the Palace at The Hague as being "To Let," thus suggesting that the whole conception of such an edifice has been proved a failure. Well, let it go at that: the Peace Palace at The Hague is "To Let"; and after the present war the nations of the world ought to be glad enough of this fact to draw up an everlasting lease of it, so that it may be henceforth used for the peaceful and constructive discussions of those international problems which heretofore nations have attempted to settle by force, but which henceforth they shall settle by reason. No one had more to do with persuading Mr. Carnegie to build The Hague Palace than did Andrew Dickson White, formerly president of


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 Cornell, later ambassador to Germany. Of this palace, while in prospect, Dr. White rightly said:

The next great question is, what shall be the specific business of this great world conference? Its chief business will be to secure to the world the following four achievements:

(1) The gradual but sure creation of an adequate international law as a rational basis of international order.

(2) An international tribunal for the settlement of all international disputes.

(3) Universal disarmament.

(4) An international police to sanction and maintain the world order so long|as any force anywhere attempts its defiance.

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First, an adequate international law. Just as in individual states the common welfare of persons, their social interests and rights, are expressed through law and guaranteed by law, so must the common welfare of nations, their international interests and rights, be expressed through law and guaranteed by law. For, what is law? It is the outward expression, the visible sign and symbol of the social consciousness and the social conscience. Without it, society might have some sort of order, but it would not be sufficiently articulate, sufficiently self-conscious, to be secure, efficient and progressive. Nations can no more be left to themselves to act alone with regard to international measures affecting other nations than individuals can be allowed to do just what they please, regardless of the fortunes of their fellows. The mere wish that civilization might express to settle international differences hereafter through rational measures rather than by force is not sufficient, no matter how ardent that wish may be. This wish, this desire, in order to prevail, must become objectified, codified, and as familiar to the consciousness of civilized men as the fundamental propositions of the constitution of a nation are familiar to its good citizens and are deemed by them inviolable, no matter what may be the temptations of self-interest and the passing wants of the moment. No longer can we trust ourselves as single nations, either as democracies or monarchies, to decide for ourselves great questions of international policy. I say neither democracies nor monarchies can be so trusted. Not monarchies: for the monarch is a human being, as fallible as are all human beings, with a natural tendency to sacrifice world welfare to national patriotism


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 and aggrandizement; and these temptations are magnified in proportion to the power which he holds and to the weakness of the personality which he happens to possess. Not democracies: for while, in Lincoln's phrase, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, it is not so difficult to persuade an excited majority in times of stress that national patriotism means self-interest to the extent of asserting the so-called rights of the individual nation over against the manifest welfare of the world at large and over against the real and permanent welfare of the nation involved. Thus it is that, for the sake not only of international interests but of that true national welfare which depends upon the conservation of international interests, international law of an adequate sort must be created and must gain the respect and allegiance of all the nations that create it. This does not mean that any nation is robbed of its freedom, for does it not help make the law by which it is bound, and is it not thus a member of what might well be termed an International Democracy?

Well, the Hague Conferences have already made beginnings which look toward the creation of such an international law, so necessary for international order. As Prof. William I. Hull says in his splendid book, "The Two Hague Conferences," "The twenty conventions and declarations adopted by the two conferences form a code of international law which is, in the aggregate, of much volume and great importance."

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 matter; indeed, it will be a matter of perpetual growth and improvement: but the supreme thing to attain just now is the unswerving and persistent purpose of all the nations to create such a law and to be loyal to it in terms of an international patriotism which shall never allow itself to be misled or betrayed by the narrower interests, often powerful and well-nigh irresistible, of the particular nations.

But the creation of such an international law as has been described involves the creation of a world court, or courts, where cases of dispute between the nations shall be brought for settlement and where international law shall be adequately administered by expert and impartial judges. That such a court is not at all impracticable is proved by the fact that during the last one hundred and twenty-two years over six hundred international disputes have been settled by courts of arbitration. Some will reply to this that the cases settled by such courts have been trivial. But this is by no means true. Many of the cases peaceably settled by such courts have been cases that were once regarded as disputes involving "national honor" and "vital interests," which statesmen once thought to be impossible of settlement by any international tribunal. The fact is that thinking people have come to see that the "vital interests" of a nation cannot be separated from the vital interests of the world, and that there is no higher "national honor" than the assuming of that supremely honorable courtesy toward other nations which demands and concedes fair play and reasonable deliberation on all questions involving the larger human welfare. Furthermore, the Permanent Court of Arbitration al-


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 ready inaugurated by the Hague Conference marks the auspicious beginning of a world court to which all the nations shall have free recourse in the settlement of their difficulties. It might be added that a world court administering an established international law is a much more practicable institution than the traditional court of arbitration. For a court of arbitration very often considers the merits of the case before it in terms of that rather unknown quantity involved in the exercise of common sense and untechnical equity. The result is that cases submitted to mere arbitration, without the backing of an adequate international law, have frequently resulted in decisions which meant nothing more nor less than a mere compromise, unsatisfactory to both parties and yet accepted in the name of peace rather than in the name of justice. The world court of the future will administer an international law created and acknowledged by all nations. Thus its decrees will be much more acceptable, and as a result, it will be much easier for nations to submit their differences to such a court, since they will be assured that the decision will not be a matter of mere compromise, but of justice.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague has already proved its serviceableness in the cause of international understanding by settling thirteen cases between October 14, 1902, and May 6, 1913. We as Americans are proud to remember that the very first case considered by this court was one submitted by our own country and the United Mexican States. Since this dispute was settled, the United States has applied to this court twice: once in the North Atlantic Fisheries dispute with Great Britain, which was settled in 1910, and once again in the dispute over the claims of the "Orinoco" Company with Venezuela, settled amicably


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 in the same year. Another, case in which the United States was involved was concerning the right of preference claimed by blockading powers; a case made notable by the fact that all the countries in dispute, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Venezuela, Belgium, Spain, France, Mexico, Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway, committed themselves to the jurisdiction of The Hague Permanent Court. This set a precedent which augurs well for the future pacific settlement of international disputes. As James Brown Scott has said:

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As Derek Kettering passed the car, Mirelle leant out.

"DereekI must speak to you for a moment"

But, lifting his hat, Derek passed straight on without stopping.

When he got back to his hotel, the concierge detached himself from his wooden pen and accosted him.

"A gentleman is waiting to see you, Monsieur."

"Who is it?" asked Derek.

"He did not give me his name, Monsieur, hut he said his business with you was important, and that he would wait."

"Where is he?"

"In the little salon, Monsieur. He preferred it to the lounge he said, as being more private."

Derek nodded, and turned his steps in that direction.

The small salon was empty except for the visitor, who rose and bowed with easy foreign grace as Derek entered. As it chanced, Derek had only seen the Comte de la Roche once, but found no difficulty in recognizing that aristocratic nobleman, and he frowned angrily. Of all the consummate impertinence!

"The Comte de la Roche, is it not?" he said. "I am afraid you have wasted your time in coming here."

"I hope not," said the Comte agreeably. His white teeth glittered.

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 on his own sex. All men, without exception, disliked him heartily. Derek Kettering was already conscious of a distinct longing to kick the Count bodily out of the room. It was only the realization that scandal would be unfortunate just at present that restrained him. He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder. He looked with distaste at the Count's exquisitely manicured hands.

"I called," said the Comte, "on a little matter of business. It would be advisable, I think, for you to listen to me."

Again Derek felt strongly tempted to kick him out, but again he refrained. The hint of a threat was not lost upon him, but he interpreted it in his own way. There were various reasons why it would be better to hear what the Comte had to sav.

He sat down and drummed impatiently with his fingers on the table.

"Well," he said sharply, "what is it?"

It was not the Comte's way to come out into the open at once.

"Allow me, Monsieur, to offer you my condolences on your recent bereavement."

"If I have any impertinence from you," said Derek quietly, "you go out by that window."

He nodded his head towards the window beside the Comte, and the latter moved uneasily.

"I will send my friends to you, Monsieur, if that is what you desire," he said haughtily.

Derek laughed.

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The Comte was not at all anxious to take offence. He merely raised his eyebrows and murmured:

"The English are barbarians."

"Well," said Derek, "what is it you have to say to me?"

"I will be frank," said the Comte, "I will come immediately to the point. That will suit us both, will it not?"

Again he smiled in his agreeable fashion.

"Go on," said Derek curtly.

The Comte looked at the ceiling, joined the tips of his fingers together, and murmured softly:

"You have come into a lot of money, Monsieur."

"What the devil has that got to do with you?"

The Comte drew himself up.

"Monsieur, my name is tarnished! I am suspectedaccusedof foul crime."

"The accusation does not come from me," said Derek coldly; "as an interested party I have not expressed any opinion."

"I am innocent," said the Comte, "I swear before heaven"he raised his hand to heaven"that I am innocent."

"M. Carrège is, I believe, the Juge d'Instruction in charge of the case," hinted Derek politely.

The Comte took no notice.

"Not only am I unjustly suspected of a crime that I did not commit, but I am also in serious need of money."


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 He coughed softly and suggestively.

Derek rose to his feet.

"I was waiting for that," he said softly; “you blackmailing brute! I will not give you a penny. My wife is dead, and no scandal that you can make can touch her now. She wrote you foolish letters, I dare say. If I were to buy them from you for a round sum at this minute, I am pretty certain that you would manage to keep one or two back; and I will tell you this, M. de la Roche, blackmailing is an ugly word both in England and in France. That is my answer to you. Good afternoon."

"One moment"the Comte stretched out a hand as Derek was turning to leave the room. "You are mistaken, Monsieur. You are completely mistaken. I am, I hope, a 'gentleman.'" Derek laughed. "Any letters that a lady might write to me I should hold sacred." He flung back his head with a beautiful air of nobility. "The proposition that I was putting before you was of quite a different nature. I am, as I said, extremely short of money, and my conscience might impel me to go to the police with certain information."

Derek came slowly back into the room.

"What do you mean?"

The Comte's agreeable smile flashed forth once more.

"Surely it is not necessary to go into details," he purred. "Seek whom the crime benefits, they say, don't they? As I said just now, you have come into a lot of money lately."

Derek laughed.

"If that is all" he said contemptuously.

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 and gazed down into the sunny valley below, he had to think how he had sat that time with the heavy burden on his heart, under the Rain-rock, and all happiness was gone; and he would say again and again in his heart: “I know now what I will do, so that it will never happen again: I will do nothing that will prevent me from looking up gladly to heaven, because this is right to the dear Lord.”

But if it chanced that Moni became too long absorbed in his meditation, one or another of the goats would come along, gaze wonderingly at him and try to attract his attention by bleating, which oftentimes he did not hear for quite a while. Only when Mäggerli came and called after him longingly, then he heard at once and came leaping to it immediately, for his affectionate little kid always remained Moni’s dearest possession.


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 "But it is not all, my dear sir. I should not come to you unless I had much more precise and detailed information than that. It is not agreeable, Monsieur, to be arrested and tried for murder."

Derek came close up to him. His face expressed such furious anger that involuntarily the Comte drew back a pace or two.

"Are you threatening me? the young man demanded angrily.

"You shall hear nothing more of the matter," the Comte assured him.

"Of all the colossal bluffs that I have ever struck"

The Comte raised a white hand.

"You are wrong. It is not a bluff. To convince you I will tell you this. My information was obtained from a certain lady. It is she who holds the irrefutable proof that you committed the murder."

"She? Who?"

"Mademoiselle Mirelle"

Derek drew back as though struck.

"Mirelle," he muttered.

The Comte was quick to press what he took to be his advantage.

"A bagatelle of one hundred thousand francs," he said. "I ask no more."

"Eh?" said Derek absently.

"I was saying, Monsieur, that a bagatelle of one hundred thousand francs would satisfy myconscience."

Derek seemed to recollect himself. He looked earnestly at the Comte.

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 fore, another goat-boy had to be appointed, Moni was chosen with one accord, since every one was glad for the hard-working Elizabeth that now Moni would be able to earn something. The pious grandmother had never let Moni start away a single morning, without reminding him:

“Moni, never forget how near you are up there to the dear Lord, and that He sees and hears everything, and you can hide nothing from His eyes. But never forget, either, that He is near to help you. So you have nothing to fear, and if you can call upon no human being up there, you have only to call to the dear Lord in your need, and He will hear you immediately and come to your aid.”

So from the very first Moni went full of trust up to the lonely mountains and the highest crags, and never had the slightest fear or dread, for he always thought:

“The higher up, the nearer I am to the dear Lord, and so all the safer whatever may happen.”

So Moni had neither care nor trouble and could enjoy everything he did from morning till night. It was no wonder that he whistled and sang and yodeled continually, for he had to give vent to his great happiness.


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 "If you please, Monsieur."

"Then here it is. You can go to the devil. See?"

Leaving the Comte too astonished to speak, Derek turned on his heel and swung out of the room.

Once out of the hotel he hailed a taxi and drove to Mirelle's hotel. On inquiring, he learned that the dancer had just come in. Derek gave the concierge his card.

"Take this up to Mademoiselle and ask if she will see me."

A very brief interval elapsed, and then Derek was bidden to follow a chasseur.

A wave of exotic perfume assailed Derek's nostrils as he stepped over the threshold of the dancer's apartments. The room was filled with carnations, orchids and mimosa. Mirelle was standing by the window in a peignoir of foamy lace.

She came towards him, her hands outstretched

"Dereekyou have come to me. I knew you would."

He put aside the clinging arms and looked down on her sternly.

"Why did you send the Comte de la Roche to me?"

She looked at him in astonishment, which he took to be genuine.

"I? Send the Comte de la Roche to you? But for what?"

"Apparentlyfor blackmail," said Derek grimly.

Again she stared. Then suddenly she smiled and nodded her head.

"Of course. It was to be expected. It is what he would do, ce type là. I might have known it. No, indeed, Dereek, I did not send him."


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 He looked at her piercingly, as though seeking to read her mind.

"I will tell you," said Mirelle. "I am ashamed, but I will tell you. The other day, you comprehend, I was mad with rage, quite mad" she made an eloquent gesture. "My temperament, it is not a patient one. I want to be revenged on you, and so I go to the Comte de la Roche, and I tell him to go to the police and say so and so, and so and so. But have no fear, Dereek. Not completely did I lose my head; the proofs rests with me alone. The police can do nothing without my word, you understand.? And nownow?"

She nestled up close to him, looking up at him with melting eyes.

He thrust her roughly away from him. She stood there, her breast heaving, her eyes narrowing to a cat-like slit.

"Be careful, Dereek, be very careful. You have come back to me, have you not?"

"I shall never come back to you," said Derek steadily.

"Ah!"

More than ever the dancer looked like a cat. Her eyelids flickered.

"So there is another woman? The one with whom you lunched that day. Eh! am I right?"

"I intend to ask that lady to marry me. You might as well know."

"That prim Englishwoman! Do you think that I will support that for one moment? Ah, no." Her beautiful lithe body quivered. "Listen, Dereek, do you remember that conversation we had in London? You said the only


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 The young lady showed very keen interest in the affair and stroked the little rescued creature, which now lay quietly in Moni’s lap and looked very pretty, with its white feet, and the beautiful black pelt on its back. It was very willing to be stroked by her.

“Now sing your song again for me, while you are sitting here,” said Paula. Moni was in such a gay frame of mind that he willingly and heartily began and sang his whole song to the end.

This pleased Paula exceptionally well and she said he must sing it to her often again. Then the whole company went together down to the Bath House. Here the kid was laid in its bed, Moni said farewell, and Paula went back to her room to talk with her aunt longer about the goat-boy, whose merry morning song she had enjoyed again.


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 thing that could save you was the death of your wife. You regretted that she was so healthy. Then the idea of an accident came to your brain. And more than an accident."

"I suppose," said Derek contemptuously, "that it was this conversation that you repeated to the Comte de la Roche."

Mirelle laughed.

"Am I a fool? Could the police do anything with a vague story like that? See—I will give you a last chance. You shall give up this Englishwoman. You shall return to me. And then, chéri, never, never will I breathe"

"Breathe what?"

She laughed softly. "You thought no one saw you"

"What do you mean?"

"As I say, you thought no one saw you—but I saw you, Dereek, mon ami; I saw you coming out of the compartment of Madame your wife just before the train got into Lyons that night. And I know more than that. I know that when you came out of her compartment she was dead."

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 “Yes, I will, Jörgli,” he said, but without any enthusiasm.

“Then it is a bargain!” and Jörgli offered his hand to Moni, that he might seal the argument, as that was the only way to make a promise binding.

Jörgli was very glad that now his secret was safe; but as Moni had become so quiet, and he had much farther to go to reach home than Moni, he considered it well to start along with his two goats. He said good-night to Moni and whistled for his two companions, which meanwhile had joined Moni’s grazing goats, but not without much pushing and other doubtful behavior between the two parties, for the goats from Fideris had never heard that they ought to be polite to visitors and the goats from Küblis did not know that they ought not to seek out the best plants or push the others away from them, when they were visiting. When Jörgli had gone some distance down the mountain, Moni also started along with his flock, but he was very still and neither sang a note nor whistled, all the way home.


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 who were in it last could not rest, such strange noises, and groans, and screams, and such like terrible things are heard; then at t'other end of the house the rooms are never opened; they say bloody work has been carried on there." "How comes it, then, (said Albert) that you and your husband have courage to live here?" "Dear me, (replied she) why the ghosts never come down stairs, and I take care never to go up o'nights; so that if madam stays here I fear she must sleep by day, or else have a ground room, for they never comes down; they were some of your high gentry, I warrant, who never went into kitchens." Albert smiled at the idea, but, resuming his discourse, asked the woman to whom the castle belonged? "To a great Baron, (said she) but I forget his name," "And how long have you lived here?" "Many a long year, friend; we have a small matter allowed us to live upon, a good garden that gives us plenty of vegetables, for my husband, you must know, is a bit of a gardener, and works in it when he is able."


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 "And where is he now?" (said Albert) "Gone to the village six leagues off to get a little meat, bread, and wine." "What! does he walk?" "Lord help him, poor soul, he walk! no, bless your heart, he rides upon our faithful little ass, and takes care never to overload her, as we don't want much meat, thank God. But where will you like to sleep? (added she;) will you go up stairs, or shall I bring some bedding in the next room?" Albert hesitated, but, ashamed to have less courage than his mistress, asked if there was any room near the lady's? "Aye, sure, (answered Bertha) close to her there is one as good as hers." "Then I will sleep there (said he.) His good hostess now nimbly as she could, bestirred herself to put his room in order, and was very careful not to disturb the lady. Albert was soon accommodated and retired to rest.

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 "Heavens bless your sweet face, (cries Bertha) I am glad to my heart you be so well. Ah! as I live, here's my Joseph and the ass." She run out into the court to acquaint her good man with what had befallen her in his absence. "As sure as you be alive, Joseph, she is some great lady under trouble, poor soul, for she does sigh so piteously; but she has given me plenty of money to get things for her, so you know it's nothing to us, if she likes to stay here, so much the better." "I hope, (said the old man) she is no bad body." "No, that she an't, I'll swear (cries Bertha;) she looks as mild as the flowers in May." They had now unloaded their faithful ass, and entered the kitchen with their provender. Joseph was confounded at the appearance of the lady; he made his humble bow, but was very silent. Bertha prepared some eggs and fruit for their supper; she eat but little, and that little was to oblige the old couple; she then asked for a candle, and said she would retire to her room. Joseph and Bertha looked at each other with terror, both were silent; at


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 length Joseph, with much hesitation of voice and manner, said, "I fear, madam, you will not be quiet there, it will be better, to my thinking, if a fire was made in one of the parlours and the bedding brought down. There is no occasion for fire, (answered the lady) but merely to air the room; however I am not in any apprehension of sleeping in the room above, at least I will try this night. It was with great reluctance the honest couple permitted her to retire; Bertha had not even the courage to accompany her, but Albert and Joseph offering to go, she ventured up to make the bed, and her work finished, flew down like one escaped from great danger.

The men having withdrawn, the lady seated herself at the dressing table, and having opened her portmantua to take out some linen for the ensuing day, she burst into tears on viewing the small quantity of necessaries she possessed; she cast a retrospection on her past calamities, they made her shudder; she looked forward to the future, all was dark and


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 ceive ten francs, and by being deceitful only four: the ten francs you are going to have now.”

Jörgli was very much amazed. He regretted that he had not gone immediately with the cross to the Bath House, after he had picked it up in front of the door, for now he had not a clear conscience and it might have been so different! But now it was too late. He gave the cross to Moni, who hastened home with it, for it had already grown quite dark.


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 gloomy; she wrung her hands, "What will become of me, unhappy as I am, where can I fly? who will receive a poor unfortunate, without family or friends? the little money I have will be soon exhausted, and what is to be the fate of poor Albert, who has left all to follow me!" Overcome with sorrow, she wept aloud. When, turning her eyes to the window, she saw a light glide by from the opposite wing, which her room fronted, and which Bertha had informed her was particularly haunted. At first she thought it was imagination; she arose and placed her candle in the chimney; curiosity suspended sorrow—she returned and seated herself at the window, and very soon after she saw a faint glimmering light pass a second time; exceedingly surprised, but not terrified, she continued in her situation: she saw nothing further. She at length determined to go to rest, but with an intention to visit every part of the house the following day. She got into bed, but could not sleep. About twelve o'clock she heard plainly a clanking of chains, which


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 was followed by two or three heavy groans; she started up and listened, it was presently repeated, and seemed to die away by gentle degrees; soon after she heard a violent noise, like two or three doors clapping to with great force. Though unaccustomed to fear, she could not help trembling. She felt some inclination to call up Joseph, she then recollected Albert was in the next room; she knocked at the wainscot and called Albert! No answer was made. She got out of bed, and throwing on a loose gown, took her candle, and, opening the door of the next apartment, went up to the bed; she saw he was buried under the clothes. "Albert, (said she) do not be afraid, 'tis your mistress with a light;"he then ventured to raise himself, and though but little inclined to mirth, he could not refrain from smiling at the fright he was in; the drops of perspiration run down his face, his eyes were starting, and he was incapable of speaking for some time. "Pray, Albert, (said his lady) have you heard any particular noise?" "Noise, (repeated he) O Lord! all


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272* Rys̄a̍nek, Fr., ed., "  "  "  ". (Chelc̄icky̍'s "Certain and Uncertain Purgatory," "Evil Priests" and Markolt's Defense). Prague: Sbornik Pastrnkūv, 1923.

Smeta̍nka, E., ed., :    ;. (Two Tracts: Commentary on the Second Epistle of St. John; the Foundation of Human Laws, cf. A: 16). Prague: Reichel, 1932.

Smeta̍nka, E., ed.,, (Peter Chelc̄icky̍'s Postil, cf. A:9), 2 vols. Prague: Comenium, 1900–1903.

Straka, J., ed.,. (Chelc̄icky̍'s Reply to Nicholas Bishop of Ta̍bor. Ta̍bor: Jihoc̄esky̍ sbornik historicky̍, 1930.

Annenkov, J.S., ed.,, (Reply to "Biskupec," the Bishop of Ta̍bor. St.Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1880.

Jastrebov, N.V., ed.,      –. C̄eskij tekst s vvedeniem i russkim pērevodom. (Chelcicky's "About the Threefold People. Cf. A:8; with Czech Text and Russian introduction and translation). St.Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1903.

Peschke, Erhard, ed., "Erklärung des Wortes Joh.12:25f.," "Erklärung der Worte 1.Tim. 1: 5–8," "Erklärung des Vaterunsers," "Von den Sakramenten," und "Vom Leibe Christi." (. A:28,29,30,31,10). In, 2 vols. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1940. An excellent study of the beginnings of the Czech Reformation. Chelc̄icky̍ is given considerable attention. The translations are in the 2nd vol.

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 the ghosts have been together to frighten me." "Here—where, (asked she) in this room?" "I believe so, (he replied;) in this or the next I am sure they were; there was a score or two in chains, then there was groans and cries: but pray, madam, leave the candle a minute at the door, I will throw on my clothes and get down into the kitchen and never come up stairs again." "Well, but, Albert (said she) I must stay in my room, have you more cause for fear than I have?" "No, madam, thank God, I never did harm to man, woman or child." "Then take courage, Albert, I will light your candle, and as I shall be in the next apartment, and will leave my door open, you may either call to me or go down stairs, if you are a second time alarmed." It was with reluctance he obeyed, and repeatedly desired the doors might remain open.

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 self down in her night gown, but could not sleep. Strange and various were her conjectures respecting the lights she had seen, and the unaccountable noises she had heard; she was not surprised that the weak minds of the old people should be terrified, or that Albert, who was likewise far advanced in years, above sixty, should shrink from alarms which had given her a momentary terror; but as she did not suffer her mind to dwell on the causes being supernatural, she conceived there must be some mystery which, on the following day, if her health permitted, she resolved, if possible, to explore. Towards morning she fell into a profound sleep, undisturbed by groans or noises of any sort.

Albert, who, by his terror and apprehensions of seeing those ghosts that had so greatly frightened him, was prevented from sleeping, got up the moment day appeared and crept down stairs, where he was soon after joined by Joseph. "How have you slept, my good friend? (asked he.) "Slept! (re-


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 plied the other;) why, who could sleep, d'ye think, when chains were rattling, ghosts roaring and groaning, doors banging with violence enough to shake the foundation of the walls? Lord help me, I would not live in such a place—no, not to be master of the whole estate." "Aye, I knew how it would be, (said Joseph;) it's always the same business when any body comes here to sleep; we never hear any noise else." "Why, then your ghosts are very rude unsociable folks, (answered Albert) for strangers can do them no hurt, and there's room enough, me thinks, in this great house for them to have their merriments, without coming to frighten honest travellers, that never desire to interrupt them." "I don't know how it is, (replied Joseph) but as to merriment, sure there can be none in groans and cries, and they do say that cruel wicked deeds have been done in this castle, and I suppose the poor souls can't lay quiet." "Dear me, (cries Albert) I wish my mistress may be well enough to go farther, though, poor soul, she does n't know


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 also of those to which he was exposed by the fair sex. I am firmly convinced, that he flattered himself to have sold his rodomontades for sterling truth, as he did not take the least notice of the suspicious smiles of the company, and would certainly have carried his impudence still further, if the Count had not interrupted him at the conclusion of a most romantic adventure with the words, "And then you awoke?" An audible whisper, which ran through the company when the Count uttered these sarcastic words, roused him completely from his infatuation, and he stopped half a minute, glowing with shame and rage.

He then was going to vent his fury upon the Count, when the latter interrupted him with the greatest politeness, turning to the company, and begging leave to relate also an incident which happened at that time. The whole company signified their approbation; but few only guessed what was to come. The Count began his

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 story, directing some significant looks at the Baron, who wanted to continue his tale, and only could be silenced by the general clamour of the company.

"When we raised the siege of Gibraltar," the Count resumed, "most of those who had expected to gain honor and preferment on that expedition as volunteers, abandoned every idea of making a new attempt; three of my comrades, and myself, resigned on the spot, and went farther into the country, to recover from the fatigues of the campaign, and to visit an intimate friend of mine, who had married a charming and rich Spanish lady. Our journey was more pleasant than is usual in Spain. Two of my companions, who resembled me in their temper and good humour, as well as myself, found every where sufficient opportunities for diversion; and when nothing occurred that could afford us amusement, the comical lies, and rodomontades, of our fourth fellow-traveller,

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 made us forget the badness of the roads and the poverty of the inns.

"Don Antonio (thus we will call him) was one of the strangest human beings nature has produced. He had a pretty good share of understanding, and not little experience, but was of a most singular disposition. Although he knew that we had been eye witnesses of, and concerned in, almost all engagements, in which he displayed very little of the hero, yet he invented a number of adventures, in which he pretended to have acted a principal part, and endeavoured to persuade us of his veracity by a semblance of the greatest candour, as well as by numberless oaths.

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 Jörgli looked up to the sky: “Oh, so far away,” he said skeptically; but he immediately began to speak more softly.

“He hears you still,” said Moni, confidently.

It was no longer Jörgli’s secret. If he didn’t know how to bring Moni to his side, all would be lost. He thought and thought.

“Moni,” he said suddenly, “I will promise you something that will delight you, if you will not say anything to a human being about what I have found; you really don’t need to take anything for it, then you will have nothing to do with it. If you will do as I say, I will make my father buy Mäggerli, so she will not be killed. Will you?”

A hard struggle arose in Moni. It was wrong to help keep the discovery secret. Jörgli had opened his hand. In it lay a cross set with a large number of stones, which sparkled in many colors. Moni realized that it was not a worthless thing which no one would inquire about; he felt exactly as if he himself should be keeping what did not belong to him if he remained silent. But on the other hand was the little, affectionate Mäggerli, that was going to be killed in a horrible way with a knife, and he could prevent it if he kept silent. Even now the little kid was lying so trustfully beside him, as if she knew that he would always keep it; no, he could not let this happen, he must try to save it.


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Annenkov J.S. and V. Jagic̄, editors,. St.Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1893. This is the first modern critical edition of the Net of Faith.

Smeta̍nka, Emil, ed.,. Prague: Comenium, 1912.

,, revised new edition with enlarged introduction. Prague: Melantrich, 1929.

Tobolka, Zd., ed.,, "Bohemiae monumenta typographica," a facsimile reprint of the Vile̍mov edition of 1521. Prague: Taussig, 1925.

Annenkov, J.S., ; s c̄eskago izloz̄il J.S.Annenkov, s predisloviem L.N.Tolstogo i s vvedeniem I.V.Jagic̄a. (Translated from the Czech by J.S. Annenkov, with an introduction by L.N.Tolstoy and a foreword by I.V.Jagic̍. Moscow: Posrednik, 1907. (Abbreviated translation).

Vogel, Carl, :. (An abbreviated translation by C.Vogel). Dachau: 1924.

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 tion they stood still and looked around, for this was the very first time they had come to the Baths.

“It is not very lively up here, Aunt,” said the the younger, as she let her eyes wander around. “Nothing but rocks and fir woods, and then another mountain and more fir trees on it. If we are to stay here six weeks, I should like occasionally to see something more amusing.”

“It would not be very amusing, at all events, if you should lose your diamond cross up here, Paula,” replied the aunt, as she tied together the red velvet ribbon from which hung the sparkling cross. “This is the third time I have fastened the ribbon since we arrived; I don’t know whether it is your fault or the ribbon’s, but I do know that you would be very sorry if it were lost.”

“No, no,” exclaimed Paula, decidedly, “the cross must not be lost, on any account. It came from my grandmother and is my greatest treasure.”

Paula herself seized the ribbon, and tied two or three knots one after the other, to make it hold fast. Suddenly she pricked up her ears: “Listen, listen, Aunt, now something really lively is coming.”

A merry song sounded from far above them; then came a long, shrill yodel; then there was singing again.

The ladies looked upwards, but could see no living thing. The footpath was very crooked, often


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 DECEMBER, 1940

was particularly appropriate that the twenty-fifth annual meeting should have been held in Rochester, the birthplace of the Society. For several years before the founding of the Optical Society of America in 1916, a local group of optical experts had been organized, and the national society grew out of this organization. During the process, the local group maintained its identity and is known today as the Rochester Section. The enthusiastic efforts of the local committee appointed by the Rochester section were largely responsible for making this meeting one of the most successful in the history of the Society.

The meeting was opened Thursday, October 3, at 9:30 by President Gibson with a session of contributed papers.

A lecture and demonstration of practical uses of the academically familiar phenomena of polarization by Mr. Edwin H. Land delighted those who knew what to expect as much as those who really preferred to believe in magic. For the latter, a sheet of ordinary-looking celluloid held in the hand could be black, white, red, or green at Mr. Land’s whim. At the same time and in the same place could be seen a picture of the Taj Mahal or the kitchen sink depending upon the manner of holding the sheet material before the eyes.

For the more technically minded, the importance of this demonstration resided in the fact that only one projection lantern was used. This is made possible by controlling the degree of polarization of a polarizing surface in which the pictures are formed. A transparent sheet composed of oriented molecules of a long chain polymer is brought into contact with a solution containing a component which, when combined with the original molecule, produces a polarizing molecule. By controlling the number of these polarizing molecules, it is possible to achieve any desired degree of contrast in an image in terms of polarization if the image is viewed through a polarizing material. The advantages of projecting three-dimensional pictures by means of a single lantern are many. This was admirably demonstrated by a series of stereoscopic pictures representing subjects of all types. The demonstration closed with a stereoscopic picture projected in full color by means of a single lantern.

If for no other reason, the Rochester meeting would be memorable for its group of invited papers. These were presented by authors who combined unquestioned knowledge of their fields with the happy faculty of discussing, their subjects in an extremely lucid manner. The program of these papers was as follows:

1. A Quarter Century of Optics Reviewed,, Bell Telephone Laboratories.

2. Quality Control in the Manufacture of Optical Instruments—Twenty-Five Years’ Progress,, Bausch & Lomb Optical Company.

3. Recent Developments in Photography, }, Eastman Kodak Company.

4. Producing Low Reflecting Glass,, Corning Glass Works.

Dr. Ives began by describing the transformation undergone by the concept of radiation from the time of Newton to the present. His discussion fascinated the imagination of the theorists as completely as it did those who think of radio as something to hear with and light as something to see with. In a most entertaining manner, he described the upset of the well-ordered wave theory after the discovery of the photoelectric effect and the resulting transformation of the subject into a paradise for the mathematician.

Physiological optics was represented by the speaker as a subject of slow and labored progress, which is still open to further chemical and physical interpretation. Helmholtz’ theory of the visual purple and the theory of the visual violet, although attacked through a “clam’s eye view,” have been extended to the vertebrates. An inter


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 “There, Mäggerli, now sleep well; are you tired? It is really a long way up there, and you are still so little. Now lie right down, so, in the nice straw!”

After he had put Mäggerli to bed in this way, he hurried along with his flock, first up to the hill in front of the Baths, and then down the road to the village.

Here he took out his little horn and blew so vigorously into it, that it resounded far down into the valley. From all the scattered houses the children now came running out; each rushed upon his goat, which he knew a long way off; and from the houses near by, one woman and then another seized her little goat by the cord or the horn, and in a short time the entire flock was separated and each creature came to its own place. Finally Moni stood alone with the brown one, his own goat, and with her he now went to the little house on the side of the mountain, where his grandmother was waiting for him, in the doorway.

“Has all gone well, Moni?” she asked pleasantly, and then led the brown goat to her shed, and immediately began to milk her. The grandmother was still a robust woman and cared for everything herself in the house and in the shed and everywhere kept order. Moni stood in the doorway of the shed and watched his grandmother. When the milk-


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Bracing..
Can you on your technical list, look into converting brace2 use inside tables into the equivalent brace3 usages? You would also need to add to the table header though. Some recent updates I did were of this nature. Brace3 also seems to a little more consistent in appearance. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 19:52, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

ppoem with blank params..
Should be an easy fix. If there is no input it should give no output. And put all the affected items in a tracking category. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:22, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Module:Custom rule
In line with good design, it may be wise to move the actual formatting pairs to a /data module independent of the main logic? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:32, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Good idea; done. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 08:35, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

A script that stopped working..
Hi. Can you take a look at - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Inductiveload/MiniPane.js, it stopped working for me recently, which suggests it needs updating to use the current OOUI API over jquery? Thanks. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:53, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

 * The fact that you're aware of the OOUI API means you already know more about the topic than I do, I'm afraid. I've done a bit of work with JavaScript here and there, but nothing nearly this sophisticated. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 05:53, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

WD author brokenness
Petey thinks that I can fix this Rapunzel. The wikidata is wikidata:Q60428719 and I am thinking it is probably that third translator. Three ways that it could not look so bad on the page. 1) You see if you can fix it easily (but it might be something in another module, depending on how similar your module is to the template); 2) I make a data page for the third translator; 3) I release the link from the module and type it out by hand. I numbered them in order of my preference, but I suspect it is not a quick or easy fix, so let me know how your feelings/mood sways on this.

Sorry to bother you.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 00:07, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

 * @RaboKarbakian: Thanks for catching this! It turned out to be a pretty simple fix to Module:WD version, although you will still need to make a Wikidata item for the third translator to have her name show up in the citation instead of "unknown value". —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:33, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

 * That was so quick! Thanks!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 12:48, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

WD Author broke.
Author:Cleveland_Abbe - broke on ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:03, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

 * @ShakespeareFan00: Thanks for noticing; should be fixed now. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Lists module..
Module:List Can you make this into something I can use instead of the *!/s and */s etc? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:54, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

 * I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I'll keep that in mind in future/when I'm looking for new projects. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 21:17, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Template:Roman
I put back the older documentation, and the module doesn't behave as indications would suggest. Can you look into getting the module and documentation consistent again? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:25, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Done! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 15:50, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. If you could figure out how to re-add the lowercase (and usej) functionality at some later date it would be appreciated. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:55, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Template:optional style
Can you tweak the logic so that I can also use it generate a class="" line ( A common approach in MANY MANY templates now?

It would also eventually be nice to have some kind of Module:HTMLFactory, that I can use to reformulate certain templates like *!/s and *s/i in terms of a more generic : , and avoid using parser functions :)

Thanks. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:06, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

 * HTML attribute: Hope this does what you want! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 17:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Urgently fix header
I'm getting this message on all subpages:

Please correct with urgency. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 00:31, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Hi, I'm so sorry about that and thanks for noticing! Fixed now; will adjust testing procedures to catch that kind of error. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 00:35, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Portal:P
It's Portal:Language and literature, with lowercase literature. Currently all links to this Portal are broken. --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:55, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Thanks for catching that! I've fixed the link in Module:Library of Congress Classification/data. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 06:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Template:RunningHeader/2
Your changes to the back-end apparently broke this.

This styles here no-longer work Page:A_color_notation_(Munsell).djvu/44 properly. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:25, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

 * @ShakespeareFan00: RunningHeader/core hasn't had a style parameter since November. What's not working? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 09:04, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

 * When examining what was in the page, rh-1 and rh-2 class names were not being added, whereas running-header-1 and running-header-2 prefixs were, I was trying to migrate pages over to the new CSS class names. (For rh-3 and above rh-n generation is working. BTW and conversions are now mostly done.) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:29, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for working on that! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 09:32, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Specifically - rh/2 generates (for an example)

The generation here should ideally, be putting in both the old and new names as for rh-3, rh-4 etc? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Yes. My plan for effecting that is to update current uses of rh with 1 or 2 parameters to use 3 parameters, then remove from Module:Running header the code that enforces a minimum of 3 cells, and then replace uses of rh/1 and rh/2 with rh. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 09:46, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah okay. Thanks. Then the current conversions of CSS class names is mostly complete apart from these edge cases.:) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:48, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 09:50, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

 * In respect of some rh/1 and single param rh instances - Leafsig (for "leaf signature" could be used in preference, with a careful editor to manually check pages to do conversions or removal (generally some contributor don't include printer/binding artefacts.) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:33, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

The_Ocean_Hop
It's reporting a script error in the header, in relation to Module:Cast and crew, "Lua error in Module:Cast_and_crew at line 198: attempt to index field 'datavalue' (a nil value)." Looking for Wikidata that doesn't exist? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:34, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Thanks for catching that! Fixed. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 23:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Any good at math? I might need a convertor from XYZ and xyY color space to RGB at some point. ;) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 23:49, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm good at math, but color conversion scares me >.> —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 17:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Running header : recto verso forms and CSS selector specificity.
Hi can you take a look at rh/lr and rh/1rv please, with the recent template/module and stylesheet migrations they appear to have stopped working as designed?

Alternatively it would be nice if these templates (and relevant Indexstyles) could be updated in line with your migration plans. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:29, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

 * I think I've taken care of everything; thank you! It'll probably take a bit for all the existing uses of rh to be updated, so in the meantime I'll update the classes in RunningHeader/core. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 17:20, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, I also made some specfic tweaks in the templates myself. I'll withdraw and let you review. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:21, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Please check Template:RunningHeader/1rv/doc it is not displaying correctly. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:24, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Film song list and cast and crew
Hi! Do you happen to have a solution to the issue in the film song list module, where "Song" and "Performer" are on top of each other, with two blank columns beside them?

Also, I also noticed that in Cast and crew, the actor roles are no longer there for any of the characters. So for example, Steamboat Willie had "Walt Disney (as Mickey Mouse)" in his cast listing. SnowyCinema (talk) 21:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

 * I've fixed the song table formatting, and will work on the cast listing. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 23:02, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! SnowyCinema (talk) 23:18, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * And I'm done with the actor roles! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 00:30, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Header Glitch - Translation:Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 1
Is section now supposed to be a SPAN based field? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:50, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Yep; translation header now uses the same code base as header. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 18:54, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Header Glitch -Author:Richard Penn Smith
Your header changes exposed this. It now cannot cope with Wikipediaref inside a list item. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:56, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

 * I think this is the same bug discussed above in #Header glitch:-. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 20:59, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Header broke - Author:James Grant
You do test these modfications beforehand I hope? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:40, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Line 443 looks to be a typo (knownCat vs. nownCat). MarkLSteadman (talk) 17:34, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 17:56, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Translation:Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms/Chapter_5
Fixed with a  instead of a wrapped DIV, but ideally the header code should have a section_notes field to handle this situation and other summarisation subheadings? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:04, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

 * I think I will make the section field div-based, but is there a reason to not just put that information in the notes field, or leave it out of the header and only include it in the body of the work? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 21:35, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Don't change anything yet though, It was ONLY present on this specfic use case, and I agree with you to some extent. Please open a wider discussion on the Scriptorum. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:37, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You raise a good point, though, that the people could put anything in the section parameter, and there's no indication in the documentation that it's span-based nor is there any particular reason for it to be. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 05:11, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Header glitch - Necromancer
Unterminated div from disambig. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:02, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

 * I don't see anything in Special:LintErrors; could you link the tool you're using? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 21:01, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I fixed this at the Module: level. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:12, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The "may refer to" line is also gone. SnowyCinema (talk) 23:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Template:RunningHeader/1rv.
Where was it causing a display issue?

https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Template:RunningHeader/1rv&diff=prev&oldid=13873526

I checked the usage of it carefully, and did not see issues. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:00, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

 * AFAIK, the template was supposed to produce centered running headers (with different recto/verso classes), not left/right running headers. Not important now that the template's been deleted! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 20:58, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Author:Abraham Fuller
Null value failure in Module code? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:59, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

 * And PLEASE slow down in making major changes! ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 15:03, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Personal Poems/Gone
Another nil value check missing.. I would suggest checking EVERY single value carefully. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:28, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Module talk:Author/testcases
If you are going to change something, make sure the test cases are still valid. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:40, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Hunger
Did you really mean for disambig pages to be considered undated works? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:46, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

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 both the law and the decision of the court. What do we then do with John Smith if he persists in thus disregarding these institutions for the securing of social order? There is only one thing left to do: we resort to force; we have him arrested, whether he likes it or not,—we have him confined if necessary. In other words, the law and the courts rely upon the force of a police to execute and make operative their decrees. Without that force, neither the law nor the court would be of any real value. So it is with an international law and an international court. There must be some way of compelling defiant nations to observe the world order. Now, just what this means of compulsion shall be is a question of no little debate. Many have thought that all that the international law and the international court will need is the sanction of the public opinion of each nation added to the sanction of that ever growing and powerful unit, international public opinion. No doubt public opinion is a most important factor in securing obedience to law. No doubt any law would be utterly useless unless public opinion were behind it demanding its enforcement. But while public opinion is thus absolutely necessary for the enforcement of law, it is certainly far from sufficient. There are people in this world who care nothing about public opinion, or who care so little for it that they are willing to defy it for the sake of gaining personal ends. These people must be dealt with by some more drastic power than mere public sentiment. If this is true with regard to individuals, it is still truer with regard to nations. Just as in the case of an individual, a nation may care very little for international public opinion if it happens to go counter to its own cherished aims and ambitions; and this defiance of public opinion on the part of a nation is sometimes reared to the glory of a


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 supposedly just cause through the conception that an exalted patriotism demands it and that the nation's traditions and hopes, its integrity and honor call for self-assertion, even involving the defiance of the welfare of the world. Thus, even more than among individuals, the nations who league themselves together in terms of law and order must have some power absolutely conclusive to compel defiant members of their group to stand by the larger international loyalties whenever they are tempted to defy them. What shall this means of compulsion be? Some have suggested an efficient policy of "non-intercourse." Very probably this would be a sufficient compulsion. Many have thought that just as a unit of individuals has its police as the strong right arm of the law, so the unit of nations must have some sort of international police, an international army and navy if you please, to be the strong right arm of the world order. It seems quite probable that, as long as there are nations backward enough in their appreciation of their international obligations to defy international law and to rely upon force in the settlement of their disputes with the rest of the world, such an international police will be necessary. It is sometimes objected that the existence of such an international force would be the recognition of the very sort of thing that we are trying utterly to eliminate from international affairs,—namely, force as a means of settling international disputes; but there is as much difference between such an international army and navy, expressing international law and order, and a national army and navy, defying international law and order, as there is between the police of a local government, enforcing the decrees of local law, and the individual who runs amuck with a gun with no sanction save his own selfish impulse and desire. There is a place for


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 force in the world, not as the coercer of the international conscience, but as the expression of the international conscience. Force as the expression of international reason is the deification of force; force as the coercer of international reason is the prostitution of force. The next stage in the world's history will be marked by the splendid transition to a civilization in which force becomes subservient to reason and law, rather than being the creator of opinion and law as in the past.

The efficiency of an international police depends, of course, upon the agreement of all the nations to do away with their individual armies and navies, except so far as they may need them for the purposes of internal order, as, for instance, the putting down of strikes, riots and local rebellions. ''No nation can disarm alone: that would be impracticable and perhaps suicidal in the present stage of the world's history. No: the great powers must disarm together.'' The absurd competition in armaments must end. Already the burden of taxation for the support of these armaments on the part of the masses of the people of all countries is becoming unbearable. Besides, this competition in armaments in the last resort results in an endless circle, utterly futile in the attainment of its real design. If one nation adds a unit of armament and another nation, because of this, adds two units, and then the first nation adds a third unit, which is the gainer by the process? Neither gains; but that is not the worst of it,—both lose to the extent of the enormous expense to which they have gone and to the extent of subtracting millions, perhaps billions of dollars from the legitimate constructive work of national upbuilding. How this disarmament is to be brought about is a detail which statesmen must solve at the earliest possible moment. It is quite possible


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 that after this war European nations will have sufficiently learned the tragedy resulting from this needless competition in armaments to the extent of being more willing than ever to listen to some rational proposal which will look toward the entire reformation of the militaristic system now in vogue.

That there are many objections that might be raised to the efficiency of an international police is to be frankly recognized: but there are no objections that are insuperable. For instance, one objection is that such an international army and navy as is proposed will be made up of the fighting men of various individual countries and that these fighting men will, in case of stress, feel more patriotism to their particular countries than they will to the larger world interest. In other words, it is urged that it would be very difficult to get an international army with the proper esprit de corps and based upon an adequate world patriotism. If we were relying merely upon such an international army, this would, no doubt, be an unanswerable objection: but we are relying upon such an army plus a new international mind, a new international public opinion,—the very public opinion which will bring such an army into being; the public opinion which will have to be convinced before such an army even exists that the interests of individual nations cannot any longer be severed from world interests and that when national patriotism conflicts with world patriotism, national patriotism must revise itself for its own honor, for its own interests. With material disarmament must go that greater thing, moral disarmament. In fact, when the world order is once secured by its expression in a world law, a world court and a world police, such a police will have as little to do with the average nation as the police of a city has to do


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 with the average individual. Just as the average man has no desire to defy the law and rarely, if ever, has any encounters with the force which backs it, so it will be very rare indeed for any nation, once the international mind expresses itself, to defy international law and call upon itself the overwhelming compulsion of an international police. Indeed, when the world has committed itself to such a system of law and order, even the world court will not have so many disputes brought to it as some people anticipate. The great majority of disputes will be settled by friendly means of a more intimate character: such as diplomacy and special commissions appointed to look into the facts in dispute and deliberate upon them in terms of fair play and common sense. There is rarely any question of a court of law and a resort to police on the part of friends. For one hundred years the United States has been at peace with Canada, despite the fact of a continuous boundary line of 3,840 miles, unprotected by armies or forts, except Fort Friendship, Fort Reason, Fort Co-operation, and Fort Justice,—the strongest forts in the world. Perhaps the most signal instance besides this of what international understanding may finally bring about is to be found symbolized in the monument erected upon a peak of the Andes by Chile and Argentina over ten years ago. Fifteen years ago these two countries were in imminent danger of going to war over a dispute with regard to the ownership of about eighty thousand square miles of territory. Through the efforts of broad-minded citizens of both countries the question was at last submitted to the arbitration of the King of England, who appointed an expert commission to examine the facts and to submit their decision. When the decision was rendered, both countries gladly accepted it and were so pleased


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 T is a long, steep climb up to the Bath House at Fideris, after leaving the road leading up through the long valley of Prättigau. The horses pant so hard on their way up the mountain that you prefer to dismount and clamber up on foot to the green summit.

After a long ascent, you come first to the village of Fideris, which lies on the pleasant green height, and from there you go on farther into the mountains, until the lonely buildings connected with the Baths appear, surrounded on all sides by rocky mountains. The only trees that grow up there are firs, covering the peaks and rocks, and it would all look very gloomy if the delicate mountain flowers with their brilliant coloring were not peeping forth everywhere through the low pasture grass.

One clear summer evening two ladies stepped out of the Bath House and went along the narrow footpath, which begins to mount not far from the house and soon becomes very steep as it ascends to the high, towering crags. At the first projec-


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Paratrophis.] spicuous, cymose or fascicled or capitate, rarely solitary, sometimes crowded on a variously shaped receptacle with or without an involucre. Perianth simple, herbaceous, of 1–5 equal or unequal lobes or segments, imbricate or valvate in bud, in the female flowers often smaller and with fewer segments, rarely absent. Stamens generally the same number as the divisions of the perianth and opposite to them; filaments short and erect, or longer and then inflexed in bud, sometimes elastic; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise. Ovary superior, or rarely more or less inferior, 1-celled; style terminal or lateral, simple or 2-partite with stigmatose branches, or reduced to a sessile fringed or plumose stigma; ovule solitary. Fruit simple, a small drupe or berry or achene, or (in genera not found in New Zealand) compound and composed of a confluent mass of the fruits and perianths of several or many flowers. Seed erect or pendulous; albumen present or more generally wanting; embryo straight or curved, radicle superior.

Trees with milky juice. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, crenate or almost entire, penninerved; stipules small, lateral, caducous. Flowers diœcious, in axillary or rarely terminal soli-


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 with the outcome of this settlement of a difficult international question that they

"in June, 1903, concluded a treaty by the terms of which they pledged themselves for a period of five years to submit all controversies arising between them to arbitration, the first general arbitration treaty ever concluded. In a further treaty they agreed to reduce their armies to the proportions of police forces, to stop the building of the great battleships then under construction, and to diminish the naval armaments which they already possessed.

The provisions of these treaties which have now been in force nearly two years, were carried out as fast as practicable. The land forces have been reduced, the heavy ordnance taken off the war vessels, and several of the vessels of the marine turned over to the commercial fleets. Work on the four great warships was immediately arrested, and some of them have been sold. One or two of them, unfortunately, went into the Japanese fleet off Port Arthur, in spite of the fact that both governments had, in the treaty, pledged themselves not to sell any ships to nations engaged in war. The vessels were bought under disguise by a firm in New York, and then turned over to Japan; after which neither of the governments would sell any vessels to either Russia or Japan.

The results of this disarmament—for it is a real disarmament—have been most remarkable. With the money saved by the lessening of military and naval expenses, internal and coast improvements have been made. Good roads have been constructed. Chile has turned an arsenal into a school for manual training. She is building a much needed breakwater in the harbor of Valparaiso, and has commenced systematically the improvement of her commercial facilities along the coast. One or two of Argentina's previous war vessels have gone into her commercial fleet and are now plying back and forth across the Atlantic in honorable and lucrative business. The great trans-Andean railway through the heart of the mountains, which will bring Buenos Ayres and Santiago within eighteen hours of each other and


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bind them together in the most intimate relations of trade and travel, will be completed this year.

But more significant than any of these material results has been the change in the attitude of the Argentines and Chileans toward each other. All the old bitterness and distrust have passed away, and the most cordial good feeling and confidence have taken their place.

The suggestion of Bishop Benavente as to the erection of a statue of Christ at Puente del Inca was quickly carried into execution. As early as 1901, on the initiative of Senora de Costa, president of the Christian Mothers' Association of Buenos Ayres, one of the largest women's organizations in the world, the women of Buenos Ayres, who had already manifested the deepest interest in the new movement, undertook the task of securing funds and having a statue created. The work was entrusted to the young Argentine sculptor, Mateo Alonso. When his design was completed and accepted, the statue was cast at the arsenal of Buenos Ayres from old cannon taken from the ancient fortress outside of the city. …

The base of the statue is in granite. On this is a granite sphere, weighing some fourteen tons, on which the outlines of the world are sketched, resting upon a granite column twenty-two feet high. The figure of Christ above, in bronze, is twenty-six feet in height. The cross supported in his left hand is five feet higher. The right hand is stretched out in blessing. On the granite base are two bronze tablets, one of them given by the Workingmen's Union of Buenos Ayres, the other by the Working Women. One of them gives the record of the creation and erection of the statue; on the other are inscribed the words:

'Sooner shall these mountains crumble into dust than Argentines and Chileans break the peace to which they have pledged themselves at the feet of Christ the Redeemer.

These are the great fundamental things which civilization must accomplish before the international order is