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MHS year of 11*23 is the centennial of the Monroe Doctrine. And Carlotta of Mexico is reported dying in her old chateau of Bouchout In Brabant, Belgium, at the age of eighty-four, after fifty-seven years of madness. Therefore the story of the attempt of \ Napoleon 111 to establish a French i empire in Mexico In defiance of the I Monroe Doctrine makes timely readF Ing. . Benito Pablo Juares, an Indian, ' Was elected president of Mexico in 1858. after eleven years of public

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•ervtce. Juarez, in defeating Mira mon In the civil war that followed, exhausted the Mexican treasury. Suspension of payments in 1860 caused England, France and Spain to Intervene. t! Napoleon 111 saw here a chance to establish in ,j Mexico the French empire that had failed of e»jtabluhment in Canada (1765) and In Louisiana (1803). The United States government was too busy with the Civ 11 war to make forcible resistance ' to violation of the Monroe Doctrine. As the Arit- • ish and Spanish withdrew, he sent over large • French forces. These made war on Juarez. drove film into the mountains and in 1863 entered Mexico City. Napoleon Hl selected Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph. second son of Archduke Francis Charles of Austria and brother of Emperor Franiris Joseph I.‘ as emperor of this French empire tn Mexico. Maximilian, then thirty-one, was hand•ome and soldier-like, with a fine education and a dnste for the fine arts. He was living with Carlotta at Miramar, near Trieste, a palace that he bad built for residence. Carlotta —Marie Charlotte Amelie —the only daughter of Leopold I of Belgium, was twenty-three and a royal beauty. graceful, with a gentleness that allovho met her and of courtly and gracious manner" She spoke fluently in tongues of England. France. Germany, Italy and Spain. She was popular In every court of Europe. Through French wire-pulling in Mexico, tn September of 1863. a deputation of Mexican notables arrived at Miramar to ask Maximilian to become emperor of Mexico. Maximilian, history says, was reluctant to accept But Carlotta was as ambitious as she was able. Francis Joseph was presumably glad to see his popular brother go. Maximilian. after the form of a popular election tn Mexico had been gone through with and Napoleon had made a secret agreement with him to support htal with French troops, accepted'the throne April 16, 1864. and arrived June 12 in Mexico City to establish his empire. Maximilian attempted to establish a mild reign. Boms of the, Mexican leaders accepted him. But a large proportion of the Mexicans did not. Juares. to whom Maximilian made friendly overtures, would have none of him. A hitherto unpublished letter, from Juares to Maximilian, recently brought to light, reads: -1 admire your generosity in leaving the fatherland in coming to Mexico. But I teU you it isn’t true we ask you on your own free will to accept the throne. On their own responsibility some traitors went to Miramar, only eight or ten of our titles approving. "You came here without any knowledge of the country’s needs or conditions and your advisers are the m<tat dangerous people in Mexican society. You promise me security, but I don’t trust a man who deals with traitors. You say that by an understanding we could work together for the benefit of Mexico if I would gtve more of my talents and patriotic assistance. "It Is a true history of our time that glorifre twoole who give up their principles and tradition

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* Tradition That Mort of tt la Used for Agricultural Purposes Shown to Bo Erroooouou I The tradition that all rot or burned ©ver forest land, or even the creator part bf it, to being taken by agriculture to not borne out by the facts. says the forest service United States DoBartment of Agriculture.

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only to serve their personal passions, ambitions and Imperiousness. But I, who hold the office of president of the republic, and who came up from the lowly classes, will only succumb if Providence decrees. “I shall hold out until the end and fulfill the hopes of my countrymen. "Sometimes it occurs, it is true, that people are allowed by faith to attack the holy rights of others and threaten the rights of those who defend their nationality. But I believe in the judgment of history, which stands apart from wrong and evil. This will give Its verdict on us. ’Justitia regnorum fundumentum.’” Juares soon took up arms and civil war followed. In 1865 Maximilian proclaimed all those in arms to be outlaws —a fact that probably sealed his fate when tried for bls life. In* the the United States, in the throes of the Civil war. hud refused to recturnize Maximilian. With the dose of the Civil war the United States government found Itself in possession of the strongest military force that the world had ever seen. Thereupon Gen. Philip H. Sheridan appeared at the Mexican border with an impressive force and the United States government said in effeut to Napoleon 111 of France: "You are violating the Monroe Doctrine. Get • your French troops out of Mexico forthwith and take Maximilian with them!" Napoleon had no choice but to do exactly as the United States government commanded. He warned Maximilian that be must withdraw the French troops front Mexico. Maximilian declined to abdicate. Carlotta saw that they were lost without French support and fled to Europe to appeal to Napoleon. The last of the French troops withdrew from Mexico in 1867. Juarex promptly besieged Maximilian in Queretaro. May 14 Maximilian was captured. the night before he bad fixed upon for eocape. He was tried by a council of war. condemned to death and June 19 faced a firing squad on the Hill of the Beils. He gave each of the five soldiers a gold piece and asked them to aim well He died like a brave man and a gentleman. Juarex, an able man of few words and honest purpose, resumed the presidency and held it till his death, five years later. Carlotta** vain attempts to secure aid tn Europe were as dramatic as tragic. Napoleon 111 feared to face her and evaded a meeting until she forced an interview. The meeting was without witnesses. Napoleon refused to aid her. He may have wanted to keep his pledged word to Maximilian, but he did not dare to United States. Just what was said behind those dosed doors Is not known, but Carlotta was heard to shriek at its dose: “I ought never to have forgotten what I am and what you are. 1 ought not to have forgotten that there is Bourbon blood tn my veins, and should not have disgraced my descent by lowering myself before a Bonaparte and being led away by an adventurer!" Attendants, entering, found her unconscious on the floor. Carlotta next saw Pope Plus IX, who received her at a reception tn the throne room at the Vatican and accorded her the honors of a reigning monarch. She suspected that this was a rasa to prevent the discussion of her affaire. Later, the pope returned the visit, as etiquette demanded. An ample escort accompanied him, and again Carlotta could not find opportunity. But she made an-, other effort. Dressed in mourning, with one woman attendant she had an audience. At Its dose

to ' - ■ ■■—■■■ ■ ■■■■■■ ' ' ——— The total area of forest lands already cut or burned over, exclusive of •arm woodiota, that has not been taken tor agricultural use has already grown to 181.000.000 acres, says the department Furthermore, our forest land is being cut over at the rate of about 10,000,000 acres yearly, and probably more than half this area ia in virgin forest. The depletion of our timber supplies

and the reduction of our forest area t largely through timber mining has ere- t ated a national problem—that of pro- c tiding the timber necessary to meet I our future requirements. Inability to t utilize cut or burned-over forest lands i for agriculture has created a second 1 ■ and related national problem—that of i i la nd use. Three outstanding measures are necessary to bring about the growing of 1 i timber crops on forest lands. One is 1 to stop unrestricted forest exploitai tion, another is to reduce the waste la i

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she was so overwrought that the pope's physician declared it unwise to remove her. So, contrary , to all precedent, she passed the night at the Vatican. She awoke the next morning bereft of rea- > son. She was placed in the care of her family. During the invasion of Belgium in the World war a German commander passed Bouchout at the i ( head of his troops. He halted in astonishment at the sight of the Austrian flag flying over the chateau. He demanded to know who had the ’nsolence to display it. "Her majesty the Empress Carlotta of Mexico, widow of Archduke Maximilian of Austria, emperor of Mexico,” was the answer. “Who are you?” asked the German. ‘“Baron Gofiinet. her majesty’s major domo." . “Take me to her!” “It is forbidden. Her majesty is an invalid and sees no one.” To the German in Belgium nothing was forbidden and the major domo took him to an upper window, from which he saw a very old woman, dressed in black and leaning on the arm of an attendant, walking in the garden. The Germain went back to his troops and affixed to the gate this placard: "This property, belonging to the crown of Belgium. is occupied by the widow of Archduke Maximilian of Austria. I instruct German soldiers not to disturb the household, not to ring the bell | and not to sing in pasting.” And Carlotta's home remained untouched through the devastation. Many stories about Carlotta have been circulated during her long seclusion in Bouchout It la known that at first she was violently Insane, her ; main obsession being that everyone was trying to • poison her. Later she became more rational—so ' rational that her actual insanity was questioned. Her royal family never took any steps to have her declared legally incompetent and It is said she has never spoken or written anything that settled definitely whether she was sane or Insane, or realised that she h id lost her place. f Although 111, she managed for a long while the | most minute details of her lavish establishment Every day she wrote out her orders in one of the grand salons, and these commands were executed by the servants. With her toilet she was scrupulously careful, and attired herself with the same taste and distinction that she used when moving in the court circles of Europe. Her painting and drawing occupied hours each day, and she passed much of her time playing the piano. It has also been broadly hinted that Leopold II kept her sequestrated as insane, though she was not so. to conceal the-fact that he had taken and squandered her fortune. One question la still unanswered: Has Carlotta read this final letter from Maximilian which be penned shortly before his execution? “My Beloved Carlotta: If God permit that your health be restored and you should read these few lines you will learn the cruelty with which fate has stricken me since your departure for Europa. You took with you not only my heart, but my good fortune. Why did I not give heed to your voice? Bo many untoward events! Alas! So many sudden blows have shattered all my hopes; so that death is but a happy deliverance, not an agony, to me. I »b all die gloriously like a soldier, like a monarch, vanquished but not dishonored. If your sufferings are too great, and God shall call you soon to join me, I shall bless His divine hand which has weighed so heavily upon us. Adieu, adieu. "YOUB POOH MAXIMILIAN."

the use of timber, and the third to to Increase timber production to the full capacity of the land. A Long Journey. Tony was standing in the road, crying. A kind old lady came up and asked what was the matter. “I—l’ve lost 5 cents,” sobbed Tony. “Well, never mind, my dear,* said the old lady. “Five cents does not ga far these days.** "B-but mine has," said Tony, "in gone all the way down a drain!”

TALES FROM t , BIG CITIES I Mother Shoots Son “to Save His Soul”

CHICAGO. —A mother turned and twisted restlessly upon her cot in the women’s annex ot the West Chicago avenue police station, torn with anxiety and remorse. Her nineteen-year-old son lay at Alexian brothers’ hospital, a bullet wound in his neck, inflicted by his mother. If a relapse occurred the boy could not live, the doctors said. "I’m sorry now—so sorry,” moaned the mother, Mrs. Rose Slmlz, wife of Joe Simiz, a machinist, 1836 Mohawk street. Tears welled in her eyes and she buried her face in the bed. And then the grief-stricken mother went over again the story of how she shot her son, Dezso, “to save his soul.” “He wouldn’t work. Loafed all the time,” she sobbed. “Yesterday when he got home at 6:30 after rambling around all night with a bunch of wild fellows, I tried to make him clean up and go look for a job. “ ‘lf you insist on getting money out of me, I can go out and steal all you want I don’t have to work,’ was the answer he gave me. “A blind rage seized ma The idea of a child of mine becoming a bum and a thief overwhelmed me. I stepped into the bedroom and got the revolver. o “‘l’ll kill you before Hl see you

Kansas Tenant Farmers Ask for Seed

Topeka, kans. —JFor the fourth time in ten years the tenant farmers of southwestern Kansas have had to call for help to get a winter wheat crop sown this year. They Jost all of their wheat this year and most of them bad no chance eo recover with other crops. At a recent meeting of farmers, county officials, millers, grain men. bankers, and railroad men at Dodge City plans were made for financing those farmers, who are in such financial condition as to enable them to give a bankable note. Plans were also made to raise half a million dollars to provide seed to those who are unable to give security. This so-called “free seed” Is to be furnished purely as a gamblo If, there Is a crop in western Kansas next year, those who supply the seed will get two bushels of wheat for each bushel they supply for seeding. If there isn’t any crop, those who supply the seed will be out of pocket that much money. The fanners will be out the labor they were put to to prepare the ground and sow the crop.

Don’t Be Too Sure She Owns the Mutt

NEW YORK. —Next time you see a stunning girt sporting a swagger cane, wearing King Tut sandals and carrying a blue-blooded Chow or Pekinese or mayhap with an aristocratic wolfhound tugging at leash as she strolls of an afternoon down the drive or up the avenue don’t Jump to the conclusion that she owns the mutt. Very likely she is paying for the, privilege of giving Towser or Pooh ; Pooh a constitutional at the rate of 50 1 cents or $1 an hour. What she pays j depends on the size and pedigree of the pup. In this city, famed for its eccentric j business enterprises, one of the oldest ’ industries imaginable flourishes up in I One Hundred and Third street. On j the roof of a modern apartment house j there is a man who earns his living ' by renting dogs by the hour to flappers who like to put on “dog.” I -• The girts go to Monsieur Dogrenter ’ to get the finishing touch for their | promenade costumes. Many find that I the safe thing to do. if they feel that

Mother Has Hunch and Plays It Right

WINNETKA, ILL. —Women are particularly given to having an intuition—which is the feminine of I hunch. And when a mother has one about her children, whjt; It’s worth while or it’s a hunch worth playing, a man would say. Mrs. Heath T. Byford, wife of the tennis star, had one [ and played It. “Somehow,” Mrs. Byford said to her | husband when they had reached Chicago on a two-day vacation trip. “I don’t feel that everything is well at home. It’s the children. I just can’t help worrying about them.” “Everything’s all right.” insisted Mr. Byford, patting iris wife’s arm reassuringly. “I can’t help it," insisted Mrs. Byford. “It’ll be the first night I’ve ever been away from them—and I’m sure something's wrong.” Mrs. Byford won and she and her husband hurried back to their home at <7O Foxdale avenue. Hubbard Woods. The hysterical cries of Heath T. Jr„ nineteen months old, and Baby Patri-

Mount Wilbur Climbed for First Time

GLACIER PARK, MONT.—Norman Clyde, Weathervtlle, CaL. a member of the Sierra club of San Francisco, has done what no other human being ever accomplished. He ascended Mount Whiter, 9,293 feet in Glacier National park. His hob-nailed boots made the first human tracks upon the 100-yard square summit of this mountain. The »est mountain climbers of the United States have failed to scale this peek. Clyde remained on the summit several hours in order to build a monument to the late Doctor Wynn, nationally known mountain climber who lost his life two years ago while climbing Mount Siyeh. Doctor Wynn had made unsuccessful attempts to climb Mount Wilber but was never fbrtunate enough to find i what Clyde says perhaps is the only possible route to the summit of a very difficult mountain, a chimney dimb ( up its almost perpendicular face. It should be explained, for the benefit sf„ those not familiar with mountain

started on your way to the gallows,’ I told him. “‘You daren’t shoot.” he taunted. “I was beside myself. Before I could help It the gun went off.’ At the hospital the boy. a fine strapping physical specimen, appeared quite cheerful. But his face clouded when told his mother was locked up. “Try to get her out of that bole, won’t you?” he pleaded. Mrs. Simla’s face lighted with pride when telling of Yolanda, a younger sister. Though but sixteen, Yolanda is a graduate of the Waller high school and has a position in the public library. “But is was upon Dezso, our only son, that his father and I lavished our whole life’s ambition.” And the mother’s lip began to tremble again. “He was three when vre came over here from Hungary. We had nothing, but worked, scrimped, saved, for his education. We sent him through Crane Technical high school and he was graduated there with high honors. His success meant ours In the new world. “But every day I’ve seen him sink lower and lower. I couldn’t stand it. I loved him so.” A “case is now pending against the boy for automobile theft and bond forfeiture, according to Lieut Janies Mueller of the Hudson avenue police.

There are sixteen counties in the affected section where there was practically a complete wheat loss this year. These sixteen counties had nearly one and three-quarters million acres of wheat sown last fall. They harvested less than 20 per cent of this acreage. Five counties did not harvest a single bushel from 300,000 acres sown last fall. One county harvested 100 bushels from 30,000 acres. This is the second failure of the wheat in successive years. In July and August a year ago there were fine rains throughout the West. It was a season of great prospect tor wheat and the farmers prepared all the ground available for the crop. They sowed wheat by the hundreds of acres. The sowing was In late September and October. There was not a drop of rain in that territory from early in August until May of the present year. There was no snow either. The farmers generally planted the ground to the sorghums and to broom corn, but they will get little money for the sorghum crops except as feed. The broom corn will be about the only cash crop.

the stroll would be a failure without the “tone,” “eclat,” or whatever it Is that fashionable dogs lend, is to arrange In advance for the hire of their favorite Jog. "■ Frequently some young woman Is disappointed on a bright sunny afternoon to find the house sold out, so to speak—nary a dog of pedigree left in its kennel. On an average each dog brings its owner a revenue of a couple of dollars a day. The dogs are fed dainties from the markets specializing in the choicest canine food. High-priced veterinarians and dog specialists give them careful attention. Even with their expensive valeting and boarding they bring their owner a handsome income, for he has a wellfilled “kennel kolony,” and the pampered pets never strike for higher wages. The dogs are bathed, daily and are well trained In the fine points of etiquette. After 9 o’clock, when curfew rings in Dogville, there Is never a yelp from the whole establishment

cia, three months, reached them as they were crossing the lawn. They were met at the door by the toddling boy, sobbing and shaking with fright “Miriam!” shouted Mrs. Byford, calling Miriam Shea, the elghteen-year-old maid who had been left in charge of the children, preparatory to demanding an explanation. “We lonesobbed Heath Jr. “Mlrri ’way." A search of the house, after the children had been quieted and fed, failed to reveal the whereabouts of the maid. Mr. Byford went to the garage. His revolver had been removed from a side pocket of the car and placed on the front seat Indications were that some one had tried to start the car, but failed. Mrs. Byford discovered her watch, a new gown, and several other articles of wearing apparel gone. Mr. Byford notified the police and they learned Paul Breen, a taxi driver, had driven the maid to the Chicago A Northwestern station, where she caught a train for Chicago.

climbing, that a chimney is in effect a small, partly Inclosed perpendicular fissure in the perdpltous face. The climber climbs Inside the chimney, using hands, feet, arms and elbows to make his way up. Often on almost vertical slopes, such a chimney is the only possible way up. - The monument which Clyde left on the summit is visible through binoculars from the verandas of Many Glacier hotel on the shore of Lake McDermott. It is built of red argillite rocks as large as a man can handle and to in pyramid form. The pyramid to six feet square at the base and its top stands seven feet above the peak of the mountain. Clyde set a record of climbing 86 peaks, one each day during his vacation stay in Glacier park this year. He seems to be fatigue-proof. “The higher they are the easier they are climbed.” seems to be his motto. And he to not a young man, either, being thirty-eight years of age. He is a country schoolmaster and was bom ia PhlladelDhto

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VACATIONS “Yeah, my wife and I have decided that for our vacations she wtil stay at home and I’ll go to the seashore.” “Shucks 1 You call that a vacation r Sure it is. She wont have to get up nfornings and cook my breakfast, and I won’t have to get up and eat | It I Ain’t that vacation?” Stupid Authors. Hubby—Some novelists don’t know what they’re talking about. Here’s one who speaks of a girl’s "raven hair." Wifey—Well, what’s wrong with that? Hubby—Ravens dont have hair; they have feathers! Overheard by J. C. Lawyer—Yes, I’m off to Florida for a couple of weeks. Health precaution. Think it best to recharge my storage batteries before they become completely exhausted. Blunt Friend —That so? I thought you were running on gas. Slight Misunderstanding. Said the bank teller to the new girl who was making a deposit: “You didn’t foot it up." “No,” she replied innocently, “I took a taxi.”

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A MISFORTUNE Eel —Why so gloomy? Clam—Because I’m a little neck clam and can’t get any collars small enough for me, that’s why.

Contributed These college chaps are very slow. They seem to take their ease; For even when they graduate They do so by degrees. Whizz, Bang I Mrs.—Which is the proper word to write, “disillusioned” or “disillusionized?” Mr.—Aw, just write “married.” Quite the Opposite. “My husband gives me so much a month to spend as I please. Does yours?” “So much a month? No, so little.” Patience Rewarded. "That man was a waiter for ten years and now he’s worth $1,000,00b.” “All for waiting ten years?” “Yes, bls rich uncle died then.” Fair Enough. Ethel—So Stella is keeping her engagement to Tom a secret! Clara—Only to Tom t One Pleasant, the Other Not. “Lucky in love; unlucky in cards.” “I get you. You hold small hands in both cases.” It Must Have Been Her. He—l dreamt last night I proposed to the sweetest girl in ftie world? ► She —And what did I answer.

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Mary’s Busy Hens. Mary had a little ben, l A busy little layer; So Mary bought a doxen more. And made the business pay her. Certainly Notl ' Kind Old Lady—Why don’t you 1 make those boys stop fighting? : Small Bystander—Who, me? It took ' two weeks to get ’em started.—Life. I- Lot of ’Em Like That. Blinks —How are you able to afford I to own and run a car? , Jinks—l’ll only be able to own and > run the darn thing as long as th© i stores will let me run bills. A Poet's Bride. “Cheer up, my dear,” urged th© poet. “I have had a poem accepted by a prominent magazine.” "Where is the money?” "They pay on publication." i “Do we eat on that plan?" Where the Expense Came. "So you sold your car?” i “Yes; cost too much for repairs." “Heavy garage bills, ehr i “No; never got out of order. But • I had to pay for repairing the people it ran over." Didn't Believe in It. Wife—Look, dear, I picked tip this I horseshoe today. We’re in for some . luck. , Husband— Nothing to it! A horseshoe’s very shape shows how stupid it to to connect it with luck—lt can’t make both ends meet Passionist Poems, Perhaps. ’ Author— May I ask you to read my I latest work—it is written with my . heart’s blood.” Editor—Very sensible thing to do i these times when ink to so high