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...Joseph Caillaux, recently ousted French Finance Minister, fulminated against M. Painlevé's new bill; but caused some surprise by asserting that he would not lead the expected attack upon it in the Senate. Said he: "The Government's new capital levy scheme will work hardship to France for much longer than 14 years. Be warned! Enough illusions have been disseminated in this country already. . . . However, thanks to my methods as Finance Minister, the condition of the state debt and the Treasury is grave but not alarming...
...made, much more difficult by the upperclassmen, who seem to take an unaccountable delight in tormenting some luckless Freshman. Such was my conception of the situation which I should have to comfront at Harvard. It was not long, however, before I discarded my long conceived opinion of the hardship which a Freshman had to endure and began to realize that a Freshman at Harvard is treated like any other human being. I consider this innovation as another great step away from barbarism, for no civilized person can take pleasure in making it unpleasant for his fellow beings...
...SHEEP RUN?Thames Wil- liamson?Small, Maynard ($2.50). "Ba-a-a-a-a" bleat 2,000 "woollies" as they start forward harried by the sheep-dog at their flanks. A sheepherder, strong in suffering hardship, powerful in emotion, childish in mind, is alone for a whole summer, far in the California mountains with his sheep. He grows wilderness-mad. His only civilized emotion is a strange attachment to his herd. All summer long he makes only three acquaintances?a cougar, a prospector and the prospector's daughter. Successively, in unreasoning passion, he kills the first two and takes the last...
...your early subscribers, and an enthusiastic "Timer." It was a great hardship to me to miss all the issues during the month it took me to come from Canton...
...brother: "I will put you on the throne." The U. S. Navy Department connived. Eaton mustered an army of sheiks and camels, began a staggering crusade along the coast to Derne. He ran out of provisions, plodded on. His army deserted, he bribed it back. After incredible hardship, he reached Derne. The Bey's cavalry fled, disordered; the city fell; then-the U. S. withdrew its support. Eaton, "The Hero of Derne," his fame on every tongue but his hour over, returned to the U. S. At first, millions listened to his story. It became gradually harder to find...