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WHAT IS LIBERTY?
[BY AN ENGLISHKAN.
A cabdriver of Petrograd". The Daily Ala correspondent sale che ther day) was driving on the side of fae street. To ais vast chagrin & militiamas ordered him to take the right side. And when his fare asked him why he should not drive how and where he liked, as they were now enjoying liberly of course be missed the irony. You speak truth. sand, he What is the use of we cannot do
do what we like liberty if This simple story symbolises the hope lessness of the quest after liberty. It matcred not to the cabman whether his foolish disobedience to the rules of li At all costs he must be free to do whm be chose and to injure whom he chose le the process. And he did not see why should he ethat, if all others took an equal licence, the
human” race work revert to the lawlessness of primitivo man
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• Some hitherto unpublished details of vital historic interest about the part. played by Italy, on the ore, of the great war towards the salvation of France were divulged in the narrative which Senator Guglielmo Marconi contributes mago but sorry makeshifts, science base and marvellous sight, and presently to the Roma daily, Bulletin l'Informa been able to manufacture articles out of he picked out a big transporti convoy, zone (says the Chronicles Milan errese
pondent), very unlikely material. It may be trae that Germany has been especially enter coming up to the quarry behind F, Germany know, we would not hack prising in this use of substitutes and I immediately told an 18 pounder and her savage attack against the liberty of waste material, but Britain has not an 8 inch How battery all about it. The Europe, nor in fact did she attribute Nettle fibre is by no means the first that roached them with the third shot All game was far deeper, and more treacher. has been substituted Ict cotton. Four or the drivers scuttled for cover at once pus. Germany wanted Italy to leave five years ago one of the leading spinning caboodle to small pieces Vory exhilitat On the morning of July 20th, 1914, and then the Hows blew the whole France in doubt as to Italian intentions. concerns at Chemnitz reported that it had utilized in place of cotton, but whether owever, the Huns guessed we had declared war upon France the Marquis discovered a substance that could be 38 and it got a good mention in the one day before Uermany declared war
Intelligence Bummary,
upon, Russia and two days before she iuliano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, informed the Freach Ambassador, M. Barrere, that Italy would not rally to Germany's side in a war of aggression. was telegraphed this assurance immediately to aris, but was insuficient seeing to reassure Franco completely, that on our part there was no oficial declaration of neutrality
About three o'clock it got very cloudy and I told them to pull me down. We were less than 400 fest from the ground, Just then, to my horror and consterna tion, an Albatross appeared right along side the envelope into which he began
That
was a moment for wift thought and rapid setion. I shoved the Sergeant over the side and hopped out after him. Our ungentlemanly was more imposing we were more in assailant, realising that while the portant, neglected the former and began sway at us, ne we flouted grace,
***On August, 2nd, two days before England declared war against Germany, the Italian Government decided on a policy of neutrality Our Ambassador being then absent from Paris, the newa was forthwith communicated to our Charge d'Affaires there in a despatch which arrived at 1 o'clock in the morning.
and that death and destruction would le the cominon episodes of the street, 10 would do for munitions is another
The truth is that those who clamour matter, though it would be interesting been the cause of the trouble and they idly for liberty and equality are asking to know whether it is being so used by began reproving us with 5.8 shrapnel, for what none will ever got, save savages the Central Power it was called which is unpleasant, and putting H. E. and anarchists, and they will keep them Kapok, and was derived from a wild into the camp only until another comes along with a tree, though it was stated that its use stronger and heavier club. The glitter had not been extensive enough to show ing generality that all men are bor its value or was it said where the tree free and equal bas caused blood to flow. And how should con br. Whatever may be the case with men by regard to military requirements, sub. born equal, when is Carlyle said.all stitutes for both cotton and wool for cloth. potators are not equal *
Nor
where ing can be obtained. In America was men and women live together in the bords thiscovered a method of making thread of society, is liberty possible. We became from cellulose manufactured from spruce the flares of the State at our very birth, wood. At the time of the announcement which must be publicly registered From it was said this fibre could be woven into the cradle to the grave we are dogged by good cloth which was uninflammable and officials, who keep it check upon the con
Without a moments hesitation, our tracts which we make and upon the busi took dye well Forecasts that the cloth could also be made so cheaply that it near which we cagage in. And even would bust cotton for many purposes was ough the air. Whizz?
and so on. We also passed representative burried to seek audience law did not wisely himper our ties, if we were 1
compelled to apparently too optimistic, for no more through a machine gun barrage from the with the French Premier, M. Vivians, drive en the right side the street, the was heard of it. However, Burnley is ground.gadgets who, entering the room, tarned deadly pale and shrank back, feeling instinc hard necessities
of life
would will be a reported to have made as cloth of which Three hundred feet is dangerously tively that nothing but Italy's restive to
freedom the wett consisted of pine wood bre and low to parachute, but luckily there was holesome restraint upon our wand the warp of cotton, the result looking a wind blowing which saved us from join hands with Germany could have con- We are compelled to feed ourselves
strained an Italian diplomat to rouse to fulfil the obligations which we instr to canvas while another English arm coming down too straight others before we may give a wanton rein wore a fine cloth with thread made of observer strike an unusual attitude and himself at that unearthly hear. But no sooner had M. Viviani perused the and a hay stock, a.mo to our dreams of liberty. In brief, did grass pulp. It appears also that cloth bury his head, in a
his we all emulate the cabdriver of Petrograd can be made out of that useful tace, the ment later I landed in a farmyard, across despatch than he gave full vent to our streets would be battlefields, our cities banana, by unrolling stalks and steaming which I was wafted till my head came in emotion.
another Biff," Before would be peopled by the halt and the them until soft, the fibre being extracted contact with stars, co-hurried to my clapsed the French Prime Minister had lame.
promising was the report of an American feet and the first person I saw was already ordered the mobilisation of Colonel who had come over to nearly a million men whom France: would consul describing cloth woven from the gunner
Red me. I got little sympathy from him, otherwise have been obliged to maintain bark of a tree which grows in East and Central Africa. The natives weave, it erely a request to do it again, as ho on her eastern and southern frontiers to into cloth, made in preces some aix yards hadn't seen the first ect properly guard against possible attacks from Italy.
It was, that million by two and a half which takes dye well and has a good finish,BA
"all
THE PATH OF ANARCHY, separated, and spun into thread. More Thud !!! Stars,****
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half-hour han
And they who cry aloud to be free thirik not what they are asking " I don't know what liberty means, said Lord Byron, never having seen it." If the passion and prayer of all men's soula means Liberty to send your fifty-thousandth part of a new Tongue-fancer into National
Tonal AEARED SUITS. Debating Club, then that passion of liberty does not satisfy the song of revolu- tion. The lofty maypoles which the French set up in honour of their new goddess more than a century ago were the
signs not of liberty but of lawless ness And Russia, too, in her search for freedom, has taken the false path of Many of her citizens having Lanaren Bine yoke, they think, care not u marine pure dredged up of the snores and then you get plenty of time draw a single soldier from the Italian
Cast off the
for the
QUR PROFESSORS OF FREEDOM.
The
Unfortunately, the era of cheap quits, made of what might be termed seaweed, promised about live years ago has not yet dawned, though the examining their threadbare garments, and thinking of their diminished incorries, would welcome such a blessing did not redisco case prevent its appearance. The seaweed was
A
course
men which "The balloon was all right save for four scorched holes arrested the German advance, won the ** I went up again soon after, but found Battle of the Marne, and saved France my eye was inclined to wander to the from being trodden under the savage beel planes as they flew past, and every time of Teuton militariam. Had there been a gun fired alruost left the basket. So the slightest bestation, the slightest put in for ten days rest and change vacillation on Italy's part, had any and here I am. My only wounds are Italian politician done a tenth part of this sun-sot eye, and this jagged cut on what Bismarck did when he tappered
my bump of caution.
with the famous Ems telegram which Usually, of course, you get a message France would not have dared to with resulted in the Franco-Prussian War.
Hur diving, at from below saying: and happiness of their of pouth Australia, and trials in the seem to believe that in antipodes proved its value. Several get ready, but the fact that I was frontier, and the world's history would entry they
cloud, made it rather a sticky five mandato of liberty. They hogy 18 the Lorkshire firms mads, experiments, using coming down, combined with the low have taken a stupendously different
the work wondly, cotton warp and 60 per cent. of the minutes. that words may do
marine fibre for the west, which made a and that if only they talk loud
rough cloth somewhat like a Harris tweed What happened to my battalion," free assemblies all will be well, Bus
NEW NAVAL TYPES. in the world of realities words are of little irish frieze. The fibre itself resem said a Sergeant in a Light Infantry bles jate to a certain extent, but will not regiment, often happens in offenarves
The flush-deck, sestripers now building worth, eloquence is but a pitfall, and the take vegetalle dye. It is also uniu nowdays
oratory that ever fell upon the
early experiments led to We and for United States Government fiattered ears of mankind is powerless to the belief that it rvuld be too coll reo for suferis were getting along nice biostitute a new type of war vessel, the stay the brutal advance of an
And as yot Russia does not understand clothing. However, it was later found ground over which we were attacking had advent of which has often been predicted that a very good cloth could be manu been easy for the guns to tackle. All the by naval experts. Besides having a speed that it is possible to pay too high a pries factured with 95 per cent of the fibre Pill Boxes were laid out or stuffed with hitherto thought unattainable in warships, horny theses she doce but and when thixed with shoddy it made a dead the wire was torn to small bits, they present a minimum of hitting haste to do as pleases
cloth very much cheaper. If one may and the trenches.blown. But the chaps surface to the enemy It is unofficially change one tyranny for another,
believe a one reads, cloth has been woven on bar right were hung up by four strong reported that the British Navy now pos forgets that her revolution is to justif
posts in a dip of the ground, which the sesses two vessels of the size of battle itself she must first of all seek the security out of rocks, to say nothing of steel !
speed of of the nation. And she can find this only Not a cost of mail, but a coat of ordinary artillery hadn't been able to get at pro cruisers, 800 feet long, with 36
private desires and ambitions to the pub wool, and is used for stiffening cont found we were getting it in the back of many torpedo tubes. In his testimony as her citizens willingly subordinate their supple zoaterial; this is made from steel perly. We didn't discover it for a bit, forty land miles an hour, which carry kept pushing on till suddenly we only two seventeen-inch guns, but have lic welfare What will it profit the coliers. Cloth made from rock consists
to the needs of modern navies before, a Russians to have driven on the wrong side of limestone, which is powdered and the neck It was a dirty business. of the street if the Germans are hammer heated in a furnace with another sub heard a man tell the Major that Congressional commitice some time ago, ing at their doors? What will in profit stance, and anally emerges aga kind of there was a gap somewhere on the right, Admiral, then Captain, Sims described i them to fill their pockets with high wagi white Buffy wool
and that the Hung had got through te vessel planned by a young officer named if there be no food and no fuel on which Vegetarians who object to the slaughter hind us. The Fritzes in front were get Schofield, and some of his remarks upon their
Wages may
ay he spent 1 Of what use of animals for any purpose may be able ting their courage back now they saw us this then nonexistent marine type are will liberty be
be to them when the approach to buy boots made of a substituire formed hung up, and began opening heavy maracalled in The Army and Naval Journal ing winter gets them in its grip and ut vegytable products, but whether the showed he was a soldier. He sent most and so fat that nothing could get under chine gun fire on use Then our Major A 20,000-ton boat with a protective fleck proves tos
Элека thut, whatever other susbrance is procurable commercially or of us on as if there was nothing the it and only two towers, one forward and freedoms they enjoy they are not free to has been proved to possess good wearing matter, and it's not always so easy to get one aft, carrying no guns but having cat and to be warm!
qualities history does not appear to say men going with a swing immediately eight or ten torpedo tubes on each side, Nothing is more easily catching than though if the materials can easily be after a check, and he himself went with this new engine of destruction was to an idea, and the lawlessness or anarchy caned and elaborate machinery is not party of ride-grenadiers two Lewis which revolution - mistakes for liberty required for its manufacture, a leather gun bunches, and a platoon to fill up the have a speed of at least 35 knots. No spreads over the world like an epidemic substitute which was comparatively cheap gap. By a real bit of luck some tanks waste of aide armour, because the We, too, have our DISY Professors would be eagerly welcomed in these days, came along Boon after to cleay up the thing to protect above the water. of when most of our leather goes to the trouble line. Captain Sims declared that if freedom, who can see the use of notius Army. Artificial silk has long been if they may not do as they like, who lack
Some of them knocked out the nests he were in command of a feet and the imagination to estimate the dadiger made, French and German chemists being which were holding up the right, and one of those things" suddenly came which may be ahead of them, and who the first to discover substitutes, though another played tiddley winks with the down on him, he would feel impelled to think it more important to guard in the early product did not possess the one who'd been shooting at the back of ture the feet over to the second in com than to fight for best qualities of the real article flow. our pecks. Meanwhile we'd gone and mand and go below. Of course, Admiral Country
of ever recent improvements are said to have taken our final objective. Presently our Sims would do nothing of the kind be
overcome these initial difficulties. In this right came on and did the same
would stick to the command of his big Country go up and down to count car cellulose in the basis of the sub
"Not that our troubles were over dreadnoughts and do his best. But if clamouring for a
pence which they will stitute, and it has all the appearance of The Boches counter attacked us like a such cruisers can be built, it seems obvious. not lift a finger to bring about, and silk, and for some purposes is actually and drove us out twice, but we were in that they will revolutionize all navel top of their raucous voices superior, Imitation silk has also been possession all right when the bell rang warfare There are reports that two of praising at the FRESH OROP of 1017 having hours The friends also with "hich feeds on the leaf of hip fe now, or them are woll out beyond that beats, honor, fimile there eno
of enemies. always of the fig
demand the liberty tree in Uganda and a species of mussel But it shows what good judgment is accurate information extant of the recente
ggggggg bứilt, though, of course, is been just collected ordered
willing
aid to Germany found in the Mediterranean also provides If our Major had got the wind up, as he development of the British Navy The solicited for Autumn or early usein may plead. The Buring ore queensland experiments made with a fibre at from behind is the worst thing almost boats 800 feet long, however has been
And they
haye not the excuse which poor bre used for the same purpose In might easily have done, for being shot tale that the Germans have underse making their first Spring sowing.
experiments in self obtained from the leaves of the pine that can happen, he'd have retired us generally believed. I. Times. government. Our anarchs have enjoyed apple yielded a cloth of dill-like texture and then, perhaps, that would
blessing of
ing of free institutions
Phave put. List will be mailed free on many generations. They a
are well
paid against the whole outfit.?? marking ballot papers La done in the count without application,
tervention intervention, and that which is said to be a kind of liberty, does not content, then They till throw
eclare that experiments made at Lrons some months patriotian to the winds and the cause of their country wh
will be well ago attracted attention. Straw chopped The Herman Government has offered to State Bank, has doubled the amount of Lees if their skins are safe and their wages the way boiled to a paste with certain give a premium of five hundred marks to paper money in existence since the revolu
chemicals and pressed into shape in very poor unmarried woman who hears tion The rouble early in September was but one liberty, wor
worth having moulds It can be cut like wood and a child and to contribute to the child's quoted at 61d exchange, to against 25 which does not interfas with burne like wood, and is said to be suitable support during the first fourteen years of: 11d; before the war, Qualatest of
of all other, mat's happiness nud own and that is the liberty to serve your smokers would rejoice to hear of some legitimate will be considered the actnffton 500 in the value of Hill
deures your fur the manufacture of matches, How its BA
children
owing to the
value of the silver country in sword with your own caracter thing that would not make matches as
In 1650, after the thirty years warf last oftary roubles were
rumble was 28. 7id. In the and temperament, And this car be precious as diamonds
polygamy was legalized in Germany. only an obedience
The population had sunk then from seven platinum, thes about teen millions to about four millions moet. Owing to the rise in tho strong nad
ly femples, and it was legally ordained platinum, these ro Ruset found out many months ago,
Tobeyedikaid Plutarch many that owing to the necessities of the time forty times tocados foment of sovere Tresdom is uselem without discipline. He
For like as the art of and the reduction of the population by many years ago, a shipg who
does me he likes in contempt of his
der is to mako his horse gentle sword, pestilence, and famine every man having been made to India by fellows is a savage or a freebod
and cready at command.
the should be allowed.
o wives for bank one of them as The largest army of savages and free chicfeer point belonging to s ler booters will fight for civilisation in vain, teach the people to obey And let not The Emperor Karl
has what Bacient What wà nooch in the struggle that con- our annichs pretend that obeidence is the already published a decree legitimising as
o be changed GRACA & CO ze valors and patient cale fee of liberty. It is written that in sex the numerous legitimate children born bank selling
fecte "He that directeth well must needs ice there is perfect freedom-Detly in Austria since the beginning of the platinum, got 21 as for it.
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