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QUEER STORY,

EAST AND WEST.

East.

THE HONG KONG

A pleasant prosperous liftle town in East Prassis, not far from the Bussian frontier let this be

bright summer day at the end of July last.

“Aye, and in God's name, too, the devilish outages you have done on my poor people"

"Ash! you denounes all this, do you?" interposed the Captain, mocking him. "And, when you have denounced it, what then, Boanerges?!!

TELEGRAPH.

EXTRA

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1915.

The cure looked at him steadily HEINRICH VON Horror was in the little man's *ses, yet even more perhaps pity for him who had defied and in- Fulled the Mother of women-and of God. E

"She will vindicate," he said, simply. Then he turned and left. 1.am but now come," said the the church....

Ah! Heinrich, I wish to God ours," from the bedside of a young girl, who indying, dying-do you you had never done this thing,"

some of your ruffians here-" "

"So much the better," laughed the Captain, insolently. "Thora will be que Belgian vixen the less."

"Man," cried the little priest, bis eyes flashing, "man, born of woman, have you no respect for womanhood?"

give my right hand if you had sever done this thing."

"Bah! my good fool. Are you, too, become a worshipper of graven images?" retarted the Captain, derisively.

The Lieutenant shook his head. No, no. It is not that, Heinrich."

On the

MESSES. SETNA'S REPORT.

Mesern. 8. D. Setan and Co., in their report dated December 31, 1914, stato

"This hatred of the English Little of his work has been trans- TREITSCHKE, People... Treitschke displays Inted. The style is full of colour ⠀⠀⠀

without stins throughout his his- and movement, brilliant, and tory. As soon as an Englishman thought abounding; nervous, on appeare, he ridicules or denounces ergetic feeling swings the reader The Inspirer of Pan-Germanium. him. He makes an exception along rest learning is wholly Bengal Opium:--During the only for Carlyle, the only Eng digested and bent to the author's fortnight under review, no sales While Bernhardi's book is in lishman, he says, who has purpose. Germans quote him were transacted. Clearances were everybody's hands, little in thoroughly understood the Geras no historian is quoted by the reported of only 4 chests, (1 chest probably known of the name mane, and the first foreigner who English or the French. In inter of Patna New, 2 chests of Para the opening scene of our story, uear P-in shame and agony,said the Lieutenant by-and-by to any other in this treatins-Hein-thought."

which occurs more frequently than has risen to the heights of German preting history, he is their Bible. Old, and 1 ohout of Benares Old.) Their political thinkers Lever tire Unsold stock is estimated at about and the time the morning of a through the "bratal violence of his brother-in-law. "I would rich von Treitschke. This pro Prussian historian saes in them protested against the appointment 84 cheats of Patna Now, 617 fessor of modern history at the

Aa for British politics, the of him. The true historian Ranke 1,000 chests, comprising about

University of Berlin, who died nothing but morcantilism, im- of Von Treitschke to the Univers-cheats of Patus Old, 184 chesta only a few ye rasgo, was curious-morality, and arrogance, pitiless ity of Berlin, on the ground that of Benares New, and 116 chos Speaking of the he was no historian at all, but of Benares Old. Sold but un- ly more Slavic in blood than Gar to the wook manic, yet ha

Estorn Question, he declares that polemical writer. Whatever made cleared stock--52 cheats of was Germany's and is now called "the chief opportunity of setting bounds to was characteristic of his philo Old, 18 aheets of Banaren New, foremost apostle of world-empire, Europe ought to have mised the againas militarism he derided. It Patns New, 30 chests of Paina inspirer,

spiritual British ambitions by putting an sophy, for example, that he at- and 39 cheats of Benares Old, în eide, of Germany's pro end to the crushing domination tacked the decay of daelling. Ho all about 139 chesis. Reported deplored the advance of women, closing quotations (per ohsat) are eent mood." Of course, Germany of the British fleets." disclaims that she is embarked on

baing Kaiser Wilhelm'a precursor as under-Patna New, 39,325; a war of aggression and declares

in wishing them to remain limited Patna Old, $9,200 Benares Now, that she is fighting defensively to

to kitchen, charob, and $9,050; Benares Old, $8,950. stem the tide of Russian bar-

children,

Malwa Opium rufed steady, barism. Von Treitschke it is,

"Ha belittled. England's cor- and sales are reported of about

with a pseudophilosophy, and on- says Mr. Aroker in the Chronicle,

vices in developing constitutional 97 chests at 89,050 to $9,150 who has provided militariam

government. Ho started the per pioul). Clearances, about studied hate of Ir which has 70 cheats. Unsold stook is abled it to drape its naked aggras

gone so far that the crazy Pan- estimated at about 458 obcats, mission of German culture" He

on political influence in almost the estimated at about 350 ohuets. siveness in phrases about the

Germanists, although they count Sold but uncleared stock is be, we are told, " extracted from

whole world, including our own Reported closing quotations (per history the doctrine that the lust

hemisphere, look upon England, pioul) are se under :-Malwa for power is a vitae and its

Germanio as she is, as merely $9,100 to $9,200, gratification a duty-for. Ger

something to be crushed. Baya Cotton During the past fort glorious many-sidedness Voo Treitechke: Shall the night the market ruled weak, and

of no businessis reported. The unsold the world's history, which once

"

"For Belgian womanhood, none whatever," ralorted the Prussian.

"And you will not punish these devils?

"What then?". "Oh! I don't know.

God.

Never

In the pleasant outskirts of the pleasant little town are two villa homesteade with nest, well-cared- for gardens in front of them. And at their two adjoining garden gatea two officers of Ubials, a captain and a lieutenant, are take ing a last farewell each of his young wile. The two men are cousins; their wives, sisters.. Only lately married, their two weddings had been celebrated together on the same day, but a month ago. And now, in the midst of peace, rumours and threats of war have

The cure was silent for a mohave no patience with these suddenly arisen, and, almost be- ment. Then, on a sudden im-

Romish superstitions." fore the honeymoon is over, the pulec, bio stretobed out his hands two happy bridegrooms have been towards the image of the Virgin die was thinking, thinking once The Lieutenant said no more. summoned, at a few hours' notice, a beautiful piece of marble again of the little woman in the to rejoin their regiment.

statuary, the pride of the neigh- hourhood-which stood just in-tile villa in Eastern Prussia. He side the sanctuary,

The men affect an air of gaiety, almost of bravado. But they are bumen, none the less, and the

gaiety and the swagger are transparently somewhat forced, The women, also, put a brave face on it, as trus daughters of Prussia will; but tears are in their eyes, and the hands with which they wave their last farewells are not quite steady. When the men have ridden away, Ludovica, the Lieutenant's wife, fairly breaks down; Charlotte, stronger-mind ed, but not far from breaking down herself, pats her arm round her sister and tries to comfort

her.

46 Come, cheer up, my Vica. Do we not know that it will be all over in six weeks, at most?"

"Yes, yes, Lottohen," sobs Ludovica." But how much may happen in six weeks!

Tohal my dear. You are morbid. We are assured of speedy victory. Nothing can withstand our gallant army. And our boys will soon return to us, oovered with glory."

Ay. We shall win, Lottchen. I know that. But this is not to Bay our boys shall return to us. "Besides, there are these

Russians".

Ach, Himmel my child," interrupts Charlotte, scornfully **Was there ever a German who

cared two straws for the Russians? Our people just snap their fingers at them."

But still Ludovica would not be .comforted. Great forebodings were upon her. Presently, how- evar, having recovered herself, Bhe turned and went indoors to attend to her domestic duties in the cheerful littla villa,

West.

The Captain of Uhlane, insolent and flashed with wine, est upon, the altar of the village church, dangling his booted legs and leering mockingly at the little oure, who, garbed in the soutane of his calling, stood confronting that arrogant warrior:

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"I am rather disposed to reward them.”

"With thos, then, Mother and Guardian of women, I leave our women's wrongs. Thou protect: Thou wilt vindicate."

mind. All the same, I do wish to you had never done it.” "Well, I perhaps am sorry that spoiled a good statue," admitted the Captain, half-grudgingly. But as for anything else pooh

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would like to feel that the Mother and Guardian of good women was protecting her. Yes! He would like to feel that. And then, sound him is, of course, distinctly British, "Mr. Archer's estimate of wilt Protestant though he was, he and hence scarcely, sympathetic

made silent appeal in his heart to "Treitschke was eminently the Holy Mother. It might avail. At worst, it could do ao

It was all spontaneous; nothing in the least theatrical. And the rapt exalted look on the little priest's face, the conviction of simple confidence with which he made his appeal, as to one who would assuredly bear and respond, made it yet the more arreating.

berm.

marching orders for the French Next day, the regiment had frontier with the great army of

invasion.

East and West.

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This is the view, deolarec Mr. Archer, thst Traitschke's position as "ti e most popular lecturer in the University of Berlin gave him ample opportunity of inculcating" Fearing that the reader may suspect prejudice on the part of French interpreter, Mr. Archer loe Treitschke speak for himself "The Beginnings of German in a passge from his paper on Colonial Policy," written after the acquisition of the Omeroons and Angra Pequena

began with the rule of the monosyllabic Chinaman, after running its joyless coarse, end with the reign of the monosyllabic Briton 2

Von Treitschke first popula: sed the idea that British naval supremacy must be destroyed. 1. 1881 he said: We have reckon

be

stock is estimated at about 2,000

bslea,

Indian Yarn:Daring the fort- night ander review our market ruled steady, and sales are reported of about 2,700 balas

If our Empire ventures resol independent colonial policy, it ately forth upon the path of an must inevitably face a conflict of interests with England.. How typical of the Germany of today, long has Germany, in all serious inasmuch as he was spiritually a ness, believed that this island product of Sadova and Ssdan, people, indubitably the most sol to ge the words of the French was a magnanimous champion of

comprising atont 1,900 bales of He was thirty-two when Sadowa, fish of all the nations of Europe, critic, Gailland, performe I the the freedom of all natione? Now

No. 103, 700 biles of No. 12 prodigy of converting him from at last our eyes begin to open,

and 100 bales of No. 203. Unsold & liberal monarobist to an authori- and we realise, what clear politic

stock is estimated at about 57,000 The troopers, impressed in

The Lieuten ut nover entered tarian Carist, Up to that al thinkers have never doubted, ed with France, Austria, and balos. Sold but uncleared stook epite of themselves, forbore their France, Wounded st Mons, he point his views had been com- that English statecraft, since the Russia; the reckoning with Eng is about 21,000 bales. contemptuous smiles. Something Berlin; and here, to his unlooked-inclined to rationalism in religion, been anything else than a wonderbs the longest and the most battalions of German infantry was taken back to hospital in paratively humin. He had been days of William III, has never land has still to come; it will not unlike awe had come, for the for joy, he was visited on the day and had not yet become a devotes fully astate and wonderfully difficult. moment, into their flashed faces. after his arrival by his wife, whom of the tribal God who smiles unscrupulous commercial policy."Von Treitschke sat in the one after the other, bat were alt sitacked one portion of our line, Tas Lieutenant throw away his cigar and unconsciously stood to be found had been now for more upon all carangs that is com- The astonishing successes of this Beichstag and supported legiala repulsed with enormous io. The attention, as though in involant than a week in the capital. manded by the pious House of policy have been bought at a high tion to suppress the Bocialista, fifth battalion came on, and when ary homage to something-to

"But, my Vica, what brought Hohenzollern. He had not yet price. In the first place, by a long Poles and Catholica. La overy it had nearly reached our trenches, some one he hardly realised you here?" he asked, adding, as developed to the fall, at any rate, array of crimes and horrors. A branch of politics

he noticed her black whom or what. A sense of solemn You are in mourning, too, eh? which breathes from his fater that her transatlantic successes Of course he was religions..

the Indians attacked on sho dress, that bitter hatred of England still heavier price lies in the fact taught the gospel of crashing. flank, while the men in the nity was upon him-a feeling as

trenches just mowed them down. of having suddenly found himself How is this?

writings.

have cost England her position Bismarck, although he was the Two nights ago a party of in a presence, greater

For poor Lottchen."

"Bat the years 1866 70 as a European Great Power; in wisent of them, and although Germans approached our trench- She shivered as she spoke, and wrought a sinister ohange in bis the transactions of the Continent he knew the limits of the doctrine ee, and their officer shouted to human. Thon will protect there was horror in her face as at spirit. They left him, as they her voice has no longer any he used so ably, declared that if car men: "Weate the Coldstream Thou wilt vindicate." And some- how his thoughts went, on the some terrible mental picture. lets the German nation, sieges. weight." papa bad he did not believe in God, he Guards !" If he be alive now he instant, far away to a little woman What? Lottoben gone from trunken drunk with victory. He Treitschke, it seems, also paid would favour a republic Von is probably wondering which in a little villa in a pleasant little as?

came to think of ruthless, aggres his respect to us in words that Treitschke asid: I have grate word be pronounced badly, town of Eastern Prusaja.

Alas! yes. Oh, Loan hardly sive war as the noblest of national Mr. Archer quotes with the fully seen the work of Providence About the new German Corpe tell you. But she would not be fanctions, and the instrument by observation: "If America fancies in the fortunes of my country, as that are coming up on our lett, something of the impression the warning would not come away

Perhaps the Captain noticed lieve me when I told her of my which Germany was protestined that she is exempt from the well as my own house, and I feel some strange details have been priest bad made upon the troopers with me, though I besought her tare upon a temporarily recalcitingly on France and Eagland, need of bowing humbly beforo cont short of their normal to impose her incomparable oal. Teutonic scorn that falls so crush-mora keenly than heretofore the gathered. They are 66 per was that which reased him to when the Cossacks came. Bome This is no caricature of his "To civilisation at large, the and his brother officer. Perhaps on my knees. So she was there rant but ultimately grateful world, let her nots such a pasange as this": God.""

The Boston Herald finishes off frantic bravado. andden anger and an access of of them, it seems, were drank doctrine. He clothes its wicked- Anglicising of the Garman & survey of the Berlin historian

with vodka; and-and-sfteness in all sorts of fine phrases, Americans means a heavy

in these words:

Treitschke died in 1898, self"

that, for all non-German peoples, no longer be any question looking forward with confidence to be rained by Germany is the that the civilisation of mankind to the day when, as Geibel sang first step to moral and intellectual (Gestung der Menschheit) suffers the world would find healing at regeneration."

every time a German is transform the touch of the German char ed into a Yankee."

than

That for your Mother of wowards poor Lottohen killed her and would have de understand Among Germans that was $

men" he cried, as, leaping down from the altar, he drew his sword

and raised it to strike at the image her face in her bande.

Again she shivered, burying of the Virgin,

"Good God!" he ejaculated, aghast

"No! Heinrich, nol For 'God's aske, no!”.

The words were the Lieuten ant's. He had sprung quickly forward und seized bis Captain's uplifted arm.

Let me gol How dare you meddle with meme, your superi or officer?" shouted the other, furiously,

So aaying, he wrenched hisarm

If only she had believed," Robbed Ludovica. Bat the would not. She said it was fancy, hallucination. Something I had was as wide-awake as I am now, dreamt. Only I know better. I when it appeared to me."

When what appeared to you?" he asked, mystified

The figure. Oh Fritz, it is

loose and strack at the Virgin'e the most wonderful thing I have image with all his force. There to tell you, the most incredible, was a loud crash. The head of But it is true all the same. About

Mc, Arober's tone is obviously not one of a calm neutral, observes the Literary Digest, but he bolsters his view by a quotation from Fro, fessor Quilland, who sets forth The words were written in 1900, Treitschke's view of the English, before the Entente Cordials was dreamed of, and at the time when Frenchmen were not themselves disposed to regard the British with a very favourable eye" Pro- fessor Guilland wrote:

We see clearly that, for

quota of Maxime Wand heavy artillery, they are using old nfle ammunition of the 1898 pattern, and they are wearing old discarded uniforms, Yester day we shelled a field battery vat of a wood at 7,000 yards with two guns, and had our other two guns stained on the bridge over the acter. He looked forward to this Lys that they would probably Weekly Mr. Norman Hapgood God will see to it that war expected. The seroplane wired

To a recent number of Harper's day in a pious, prayerfal mood,

01059, They did as we had gives a vivacious characterisation always recurs as a drastic med as when the battery was crossing of the man who has been called icine for the human rase. That the bridge-60 lb. time shrapnes Germany's stormy petrel Treitschke was not spared to be did the rest with a voice so bad it could hardly bureau in 1914 is a severe loss to He was an odd little man the head of the German prasa be understood in college lecture the cause of Fan-Germanism. rooms. As a youth he had a natural tendency toward learning, but a natural tendency also to ward using his facta to prove what he liked to believe. After

the sacred statue had fallen, and a fortnight after you had gone Treitschke, the great crims of this Bismarck's first great exhibition

sanctuary.

HAVOC OF OUR GUNS:

Mowing Down the Enemy, In a couple of letters sent to a

In a second letter, dated the Deadly Eighteen Pounders.

31st of October, the in officer describes some It was a brave little cure who

hard work. Before dinner thus bearded the Captain of

(dinner is italloised) is served, Uhlans, brave with the courage

after a strenuous day, he writes, which men of gentle nature and

"let me send a line. The Hans Wimple piety often show at lay scattered in fragmente over I was wakened one night by a Coburg [Prince Albert] was to of masterly wickedness, when he Straits paper for publication, an has gone on all day, and as far an began the attack at 4 s.m., and it the sight of shameful things-acts the tesselated paving of the voice saying to me, My child, you have become an Eaglishman. A tore Schleswig-Holstein away officer of the R A., who was in the we know, we have repeated cur of cruelty, oppression, or sacrilege

are no longer eats here. As you double-dyed Prussian, our histor from Denmark, the youthful Von thick of the fighting on the last usual performance, and slogged that impel them, at whatever For a minute, dead silence. All, value all that a woman prizes in was one of the heals of that Traitschke loat whatever liberal- few days of October, gives come them back with enormous losses personal risk, to give fearless ex even the most insensate of the most, you must flee instantly with group sufficiently numerons in iam he had and became excited interesting points in the way the to themselves and with a pression to their righteous anger. troopers, atood aghast. Perhaps the dawning light! And I opon Germany, which sees in the over the possibilities of war, gaus were worked. He writes, mum lose among our own men. The Lieutenant, lolling with his even the tipsy and insolent Cap-ed my eyes and there, standing at Briton the national enemy. Ha compulsion, and aristocracy. He under date October 29 Things The 181b. field guns have done back against the palpit and a told was sorry now for his own my bedside, I saw, as clearly as detested the English. While he did not go geographically crazy, are going very well with us, and deadly work to-day great cigar in his month, and impiety. But he bad not the grace see you now, the figure of a wo score or so of troopers, all more or less tipsy, looked on at and listened to what was going for ward in lazy and elightly amused contempt

In God's name, I denounce this impious profaning of His house," cried the little priest, his „voice trembling with indignation,

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recognised certain qualities, even like the Pan-Germanists, but we are all in the best of spirita, of the men on the ammunition to own that. On the contrary, he man-not a live woman, but in the French, in the English stuck to Bismarck's principles, The great extension of our line column say: Dama them (refer he could see none at all. For him emphasising, however, the war on the Allise left flank is giving ring to the battery), they so the Englishman was a B conian, like and chanvintetic side of them; the Germans a bad time. This is sheir guns like rifles! The pur

had no head-But, oh! Fritz, what have I done?" oried his wife, with sudden anxious alarm

felt that his diguity demanded marble-woman, asit were a statue, that he should carry the matter and strangest of all, the statue off with further mad bravado...

"That for your Mother and Guardian of women, you soum of a Belgian Papist," he repented, crushing & fragment of the shat tered head beneath his heel,

For the Lieutenant of Uhlane

had sunk back on his couch in

dead faintner Vietna

a low atilitarian, a narrow and and doing it with such brilliancy evident from the character of the port of the remark ow

selfish islander, a hypocrite, who, that he most of all made intel- prisoners whom we are making the battery of his six feld guns with the Bib'e in one band and lectual Germany drunk with the youth of not more than seventeen fired somet

an opium-pipe in the other, idea of her so-called destiny. He years of age and old men up to today

a

diffuses throughout the universe taught her that all history led up

the benefits of civilisation.

mong the reall to the leadership of the Teuton, captured. The other night four

five years are

rounde