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Date 1929-09-07

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; That little man, dry as bon EDMONTON BG IROTSKY IASTES PRISON LIL dhe NUTOBIOGRAPLY ON TROTSKY , eaot-and resourceful, became the organizer of my escape. This ie the fifth instal aky't mem now that the up residence ent of Trot- second prison cycle began. 1 stood it much essier than the first, end, bestdes, the condi- tons. were, beyond comparison, more favorable than tnose eight years previously. at the Crosi prison, Peter and Paul fortres: then in the and toward Detention. thortly before we were pent into exile to Siberia we were placed in the tranatt, prison. Alto- Eether st lasted fifteen months, Each of the prisce had ite pecullar features to which ene had to adnpt onestif, But it would be too tiresome to tell it all here, aa in apite of the xreat variety of their arrangement, all j Prisons very much resemble one an- other. I was aguin able to devote myseit to systematic scientific and Mterary work. I engaged more par- ticularly in the theory of land rent and in the history of social relations in Russia, An extensive but un: (imahed work of ming on land rent wan subsequently Jost. This was the most. painful loss for me wince the Joss of toy work on the history of frsemnecnry. My studies in the social history of Russia were eventually tn- corporates in my paper Totals and Prospects ? which contains the doc- trine of the permanent revolution to fta fullest expression at the time. My critics Who are now 0 numer. oun in all parte-of the world and who aretollowers of Stalin, the majority of whom became aware ot the ex- Intence of debatable questions on the revolution not earlier than the end of the year 1023, might In truth do worse than sit down to thorough etudy of my Totals and Prospects -which fan written twelve years before the October revolution, This .appitex in full to Stalin. After our transfer to the House of Prolinfinary Detention we. were al lowed to receive tne. visita of our counsel. The first Doumx brougit new Iife into matters political. News: papers bexan to wpeak more aud ciously.. The pubilshers ot, Marx works were busie . 1 wrote good dea, (n prison, and the Iawyera took away my copy in. thelr prlet-cases. Tt wae at this time that f wrote my booklet Pater Struve in: Politics. For recreation I read the classical authors of European ifterature. ences of these readings may be ficen in all my publicist writiigs of that period, It was then that 1 made my first acquaintance, with the great mastors of the French novel. The art of telling tale in preeminently French art, Although on the whole 1 have a better command of German than of French, 1 read with greater ease French nove's or belles lettres enerally than those of German au thors, My love of th French novel has remained with me til. to-da All in all I have no reason to com+ pisin of my life in confinement. prisons were good schools for me My 1 Paul fortress with a Unge of regret: Me was 0 quiet add calm there, tite flowed so smoothly, ant in Sdeal.sur- rounding for tatellectual work The House of Preliminary Detention on the contrary was full of people ant bustle. There were- not fow meh Iying there under sentence of death: acts of terroriam and armed expropriation occurred in inig num era all over:ts country.. Ther fie fm that piu) by reason of the existence of Je seeat Bouma, wa Liberal, the Belle vcce not locked up: the exercle walks lt;2 taken to common, For hours at . stietch we used to play leap frog. BER aene tenced to death bent tele ks and leaped with the best-of a wite came to visit ma juice a wees. The wardere on duty looked away we exchanged Jeiters and Mterary manuscripts, One of the warders, elderly man, was a particularly kind friend to ua, At lis request T pre- aerted him with my book and with my pholo duly deaicated to him. 1 have daughters atudying at the unt- he whispered with delight and winked with friendly and my: Twas kept for some time j I. coula famine. for him tn those years ot ee Sent Into Exile RACTIONAL splits within the purty greatly increased after the December defeat, The alamizsal of the Douma by the government had posed afresh all the problems of the revolution, I deait with them in a pamphlet which was issued by Lenin under pen name. The Menshevike were already signalling cease tire all ajong the tine. The public triai et the Soviet of the Deputies opened on Beptember 19 during the honeymoon: of Stolypin's drumhead courtmartials. The court- yard of the laws edurta building and the adjoining streets were a military cainp. The. entire police force of Petersburg was mobjiized, But the trial itagit was conducted with a con widerablg* degree of freedom: the re action waa anxious once for all to discredit Count Witte by exposing his Liberalism, bis weakness toward the revolution. Some 400 witnesses in all were called, and more than half duly appeared and gave evidence. Workimen, manufacturers, gen- darmes, engineers, domestic servants, ordinary. humble folk, journalist evants,, superior police of- school boys, munfelpal coun- house porters, senators, h oli- gans, members of the Doume, prof sors, soldiers and others passed over the witness stand during the month tho trial lasted, aad had. te undergo the fire of cross-examination by the Judges, public prosecutors, counsel for the defence and the accus d prisoners themaelves thore: especially by the accused, prisoners who were anxious to reproduce and. did. succeed in re: producing trait for trait, and detail by detail the whoie tale of the work of the council of workmen and pes ants, Thus our great aim was achieved. The court refused to allow Senator Lopukhin to be called to give evidence. It waa he who, ax director of the police department, established feat printing works which produced appeals to perpetrate pogroms. We then deliberately made all further orderly proceedings mpossible, the court ordering us to be taken back to Prison and the trial to proceed in our absence. After our removal our counsel threw up thetr briefs, and the witnesses as well as the public left- The judges remained inthe, sole company of the public prosecutors. The s ritence was read in our absence.. The official shorthand report of this exceptional trlal has not yet been published, and, unless I am mistaken, bas not beon found, Both my parents were present at the trial. They oad rather mixed thoughts and feelings, They could no longer explain: my conduct by boyiah exuberance, as they tried to do in my Nikolayev days, 4 was editor of newspapers, chairman of the Soviet, Thad a name as an author, The old people were duly finpressed by that. My mother uved Ww talk to tie coun- wels-for the defence, trying to leas from them further detaila about me, romething that might plexse her. During my speeca-to the eourt, of whose meaning she could understand very Uttle, my mother erled quietly. She wept mors violently when e score of counsel came up in a fle to shake hands with nie, One of the lawyers Just then moved the court to order an adjournment on the grounid of the general excitement, This wes Al 8. Zarudny, In Kemen- ski's government be became minteter of justice and kept me in prison on 4 charge of bigh treason,. But that whe ten years Jater. . , During the adjournment, my people looked at me with bappy ; Mother sure that I should not only be acquitted, but even or promoted in some way, persuaded that ah must be prepared to hear vonttet of penal aervitude. She cast fri, n6d glances at the several courr.1 for the defence and then agate aY me, trying to understand how aych a thing could be possible. Father was pale and aitent, happy and downcast at the game time. We were sentenced to deprivation terious expression, 1 met him under the Soviet regime and did wii of all civil rights and to axtle by doportation, This was comparatively possib rw (3 mild sentence. We expected peni servitude. But exile by deportation by sentence of a court of law was very different thing from exile by administrative order to which I was subjected the firat time: exile by de- portation was for life, and any at- tempt to escape was punished in addi- tion by three years penal servitude. Forty-five Jeshes as an additional punishment to every sentence of penal servitude had been abolished only a few years previously. We were served out convicts dress, it ts true without the ace of diamonds on the back. I. managed to keep my own shoe That was of-great importance for mi under the sole I had concealed thin passport, and inside the bigh heels 1 had aeveral gold coins. Bound for Siberia were all sent to the village of Obdorak, far beyond the Arc- tle circle, Unusual menaures . of Precaution in guarding us were taker The Petersburg convoy was not con- sidered sufficiently reliable, And it a a fact that the sergeant who was standing sentry in our apectal prison railway carriage, with his bare sword: in his hand, recited to us the latest Fevolutionary ditties, Tho car next to ours was occupied by a whole squad of gendarmes who at every station where we stopped aurrounded. our car. At the same time the prison author - tea treated us with every consider. ation. The chances of revolution and counter revolution were just then fairly -equay balanced. It was) wi certaig who would be top dog. As far as Tumen we travelled by rail way, but further on as far as Tobolsk we: were taken in sledges, down and down the river Ob. It took us more than month, passing through. re- gions where typhus epidemio ws Faging; to reach Berexov, the place whither once.Peter the Great's prin- cipal collaborator, Prince Menshikov, was sent when he fell in disgrace. Tt was there that I decided to try my luck in excaping. On the road 1 wrote daily letters to my wife, while on my way back T kept diary 0 an to fill in time, The letters and the journal formed the basis of my book which long ago was printed in Rus- sian and also in foreign languages Jsinder the title There and Back. At Berezov we were given rest two days, We still had to go som 360 miles more to Obdorak. We were allowed. to walk about freely, The authorities 6/4 not apprehend: any at- tempt at 9 fight from here. To go. back there was only the high road over the frozen Ob along the line of telegraph poles; Any fugitive would hecessarily be caught. At Beresov there lived in exile the land surveyor, Roshkovak , T consulted him as to any possible way of escape. Ha told me: You might take the chance of escaping directly due wast on the river Sove towards the Ural mountains There are. no roads there, unless. per- haps the nomadie Ostiaks may have left the tracks of reindeor . sledge The police could not overtake you there. But, of course, you may perish to the snow.- It fs now February, the month of the sonwatorma, Doctor Feit, fellow-exils, taught me how to simulate sciatica so as to be able to reinain few days longer at Beresov. I successtully carried out that modest part of the conspiracy. Sclatica, as is well known, cannot be Giagnosed from external symptoms. I was placed in hospital, The regime there was perfectly tree, L went for walks for houre at stretch, after which I reported great tmprovi ment. The. doctor encouraged my taking walks, No one feared any attempt to an escape from Berezov at that time of year. Roshkovaky called in eonsultation Bently. were thon The Zyrian netive was more shan a bit on and, moreover, had friends wlth him. This se bad start. local peasant whose nickname was Goat's Foot. That little man, dry as a bone, cool and resourceful, be came the organizer of my excape. He acted perfectly disinterestedly. When hhia participation became known he was cruelly punished. After the Octo- ber revolution, Goat's Foot heard who twas that he bad helped to excape ten years before. It was not till the year 1923 that he came to me in Mos cow, and our Biecting waa cordial. He was given: the full Gress uniform of a Red Army soldier, was taken to the atres, and given gramophone and other presents, Soon after that the ol4.quan died in his far northern home. Por Bavisy 1c was necssmasy 40 tiavel with reindeers, The whole problem was to find a guide who would risk wtarting at this time of year on auch a doubtful journey. Goat's Foot found a Zyrian nativ heavy, xperfenced man, but like most Zyriana a drunkard, Tt wan this man who later betrayed Goat's: Foot, But he got me away successfully. My departure:had beon arranged to take place at-midnight on Sunday. On that Sunday the local authorities had arranged an amatour theatrical per- formance. I showed myself at the barracks, which served as theatre, and having-met there the local police chief told him that Y was feoltng much better and. boped to be able soon to continue. my. Journey to Obdorsk. That, was'an act of. perfidy, bit ti was abaolutely necessary. When the chiirch tower clock struck pwelys, T went to oot yard. The sled wen ready. X Jala mypelt flat tn the bottom of It. Gont's Foot covered me up with froxen straw, trumed tt up properly, and off we went. The straw began to thaw out and cold streamlets went over my face, After going a few milea we stopped. Gont's Foot untied the straw ang F-crept.out from my hiding Place. My:Griver whistled in a spe- clal way. Volces answered which evi- of drunken men. The Zyrlan native was more than bit ./and moreover he had friends with tim, Thin was a b d atart, But there was ne choice. I stepped on to their Tight reindeer sled with my scanty luggsge. 1 had two fur coats on, fur inside and fur out, on my feet T also wore fur socks andtur boots andT had m double fur hat and double fur mittens; that ts to aay, the full kit of an Ostink winter traveller. In my luggage were several bottles of spirits. which 1s the rafest and most Widely eccepled equivalent for cur- rency ip the snow desert. A Successful Escape 1 directed our course along the river Soave with the purpose of reaching the narrow gauge Ural rail way, opposite, the Bogoslevak Found- Tes, The Teindeor were purchased by my Bulge by picking th herd oF afore of weveral hundred fhimale, The deer id. their work faithfully at the rate of alx or seven filles en hour. The drunken. Griver continually fell asleep. Dire ealatiity threatened both of us, He. would make be response whatever 0 my prodding or pushing. Then T would poll bia bat off hie head, tn a. few Moments his hair would be covered with boar frost, and that sobered im Ho went oo. 10 was truly maguit cemajourney in the virgin anow desert, amid fir trees and the tracks of about my i animals, the aame trip TTR end wan guaranteed. The reindeer once day, and they found thelr own fodder. A log of wood would be tled round their necks and they: could be set free, They would choose a place where they felt the presence of moss under the snow. Then they would dig a deep hole with their hoofs and aink Into it almost up theip-Heada In order to feed... I had a feeling, for-thode animals similar to tiki: which an aviator must have for hia mptor when flying at a height of hundreds of feet above the ocean. The beat of the three reindeer, the leader, went lame, What a fright It became necessary to replace him. We looked for a resting place of the Os- tink nomads. These were scattered over s' great distance, miles apart. My guide often found their camping place by some hardly perceptible indt- Cations, The acent of smoke, he would eense at aaveral miles. We lost more than 24 hours tn re- placing the reindeer, But I was com- pensated to nome extent by watching three Ontiaks lasso previously aclect- ed animals at dawn at full speed amidst a herd of eeveral hundred head We crossed forests, snow covered maraiicn and enormous patches of ground from which the trees had been burnt. Amid the drifts wa would boll mow-water to make tea. My. guide preferred apirita;-but T saw'to it that hho (d not rink to exes The trip lasted a week, We had travelled over 700 Kilometers and were approaching the Ural mountains, We met travelling convoys at tncreas- ingly frequent intervals, Y eclared cond time, provided, myself. to be ope - of the engineers who went with Baron Toll on tin - polar expedition Quite clore to the Ural frontier we happened to fall in with a man: who hind been in the nervice of that exped - tion and knew all ta members: Ho piled me with. questions, but fortun- ately he was not quite sober, T-Tigat enc to get over the difficulty by. means of bottle of rum which I had with me ass atandby, All went off splendidiy. From the Urals onward, it waa pos sible to travel Jn horse-drawn care riage, Here I became a minor govern- ment clerk, Vikentyey, and together with en excise inspector who was visiting his vast district I journeyed au far an the narrow gauge railway, The station gondarme apathetieally watched: me emerge from my Ostlak fur coats, Having got on to the Perm railway I sent wice to my wife to come and meet me at a station where the two traina crossed. She did not expect that telegram, at all even not 0 noon. Nor ite wonder, Our Journey to Berezov Ieated more than month. The Petersburg news- Papers were full of descriptions of our progress to the north. Correspondence wan atill coming in and everybody thought me to be on my way towards Obdorsk. Now the whole of my re. turn Journey took but eleven ds; Meeting me not far from Petersburg naturally seemed unbelievable to my wite. fo much the better when we id fervett From the Petersburg railway sta- tion we went straight to the house of our good friends at the Artillery school. I never saw people so dumb- found as were the family of Doctor Litkens. There I stood like live ghost in the large dining room, everybody, staring at me for many minutes Even after we had embrac- e4 and klssed, they could hardly be- Heve thelr own eyes. Gradually they realized that It was really 1, Z can feel it even. now; thote' were happy janger was mot by any means over; the doctor was the first to remind us of that. Indeed, in a sense, the danger was only just be- ginning. Telegrams from Berezov ppearance bad by now, many person: sult of my I would most. gladly make of the deputl was pintsha TIN Alberta s Oldest Newspaper SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929 Yi uy rather ui 1s knew me by aight as appearance at the Boviet Eacape from exile ble by penal servitude. the lberty secured by the revolution survived mui burg. ch longer than tn Peters The most dangerous paint of all was at the Finnish Fi ay station burg. Just before our train gendarm officers who were. inapecting the travellers came through our face of my the entrance to the carriage, compartment. From the wife, who sat witching 1 un derstood to what danger we had been east indifferent ua and went In Wo, lived through a minute nervous anzlety. The looks at on. the Shadows OTH Lenin and Martov had been away from Petersburg for some In time and were living in Finland. the union of factions which was in- augurated: in. Api ebb was app were repent ted tn 1900, Fepenting of eyes on the t the Stockholm meeting 1908, a deep achtam was al- ready apparent, The revolutionary roaching. The Mensheviks ing of the follies commit- The Bolahevikn were not anything but kept thelr coming revolution. I called on Lenin and on AMartoy who lived fn nearby villages, In Martov's room as-always: there was complete disorder. Yn the corner was heap of newspapers five or aix feet high. would from During the conversation Martov time-to-time delve into the heap and fish out what he want- ed, On the table MHS. covered with. dust and cigarette ashes were iying. Pince-nez dangled on bis nose, with clouded glasses As always Mar- tov's head was full of brilliant ideas, fine and ingenuovs, lacking the most important of wi Only one idea all he did not know what to do. Lenin's room was. in pertect order. He a not amoke, The necessary copies of newspapers, with notes on them, lay where they were required, But above ally there was an uncon- querable, if expectant certainty, this grey, dull and prosale, but very uncommon face. It was not clear yet whether this was the ebb of the re- volution, or before new upward movement. tn either case fight the sceptical people, merely a temporary 1ull But ft was necessary to to test theories on the atrength of the experi- ence of 1905, for the new to: educate new workers upward rish of the wave of the new revolution. In conversation Lenin approved of the work I had written fn prison, but reproached me for not drawing the necessary conclusions regarding or ganization. ing he gave He was right. In part mo addresses at Helsing- fors which proved of the utmost value. Thene. friend: put up in Is of Lenin helped me to mosest way at Ogibu, near Helaingfors, where tater Lenin aino lived. The chief of police of Hel- vetiviet, that ts, a Fy nationalist. He promined to give mee warning in the event of any danger to me from Petersburg. weeks with At Ogiby I spont several my wife and our baby son, who was born when I as in pri- son. Tt 1 wre phere and received for abroad via Stockholm. The Beand me away on wan to last t The party in a London church. fn this solitary retreat that the description of my journey Back and the money T ft enabled me to go inavian steamer carried new emigration which jen years, congress of 1907 was held The cong) was crowded, long, stormy and chao- tle one. alive in Bt. ton wai was atill ver; British Liberals. favited delegates of the congrei thetr home friend: The second Duma wi declining, but interest in atith Petersburg. The revolu- y great, expecially to show them off to thelr But the revolutionary ebb that had Just set in wan already manifested in rapidly vanishing party not enough money to wind There wa: up the congr treasury. let alone pay the far With his bare sword in hk the announcement of this fact was made under the vaulted roof of the church, delegates exchanged surprised fand dlamayed glances. What were we to dot We could not ail remain ind f Initely tn London church, But a way out was found aad a xpected one, A British Lib- eral offered to'make a Joan to the Rus- alan revolution, amounting, if 1 re member correctly, to three thousand Polinds aterling. But he demanded that the bond of the revolution be algned by all the delegates of the con- gress, He eventually recelved docs ment bearing sever hundred signa- tures, representing all the peoples of Russia, He had a tong: walt, How: ever, for repayment. In the following of reaction and war it was out of the question for the party to pay anything tke that sum, It was only when the soviet government was con- tituted that the bond was redeemed. The revolution does honor tts bonds. though often, it in true, with some de- lay. One day in the early part of me congress I was atopped tn one of the fobblen by tall, lanky individual with prominent cheekbones, wearing bow- Jer hat, I am one of your admirers, he declared, stmply. Admirers? 1 repeated, wonderingly, He explained that he referred to some of my political pamphlets, written and published while T wan in prison. The atranger turned out to be Maxim Gorkl. It was my first: meeting with him. In German Politics - URING the session of the con- gress I had occasion to state in detail my views upon the part played by the proletariat in the bourgeois revolution, with particular reference to the peasantry. Lenin referred to my speech in his summing-up addrei and said: Trotaky bas shown the communtty of interests of the proletariat and the peasantry a time of revolution, and has. thus demonstrated our solidarity on the eatentiais of the question of our relation to the bourgeols parties. What commentary. on the current legena2that fm 1005 I ignorea the peasantry Toned only add that my London address of 1907 has been re- printed many. times aince the October revolution, ase standard expose of the Bolshevik attitude toward the pens antry and the bourgeois From Landon T-went to Berlin to moet my wife, who waa to come there from Bt, Petersburg. Meanwhile Par- Yuu had eacaped from Siberia and hed Arranged with the social-democratic publishing house of Kaden, at Dresden, to print my book There and Back, 1 undertook to write preface for. this pamphlet, which dealt with my escape, the preface dealing with the revolution teelf i general terms. * We three Parvus, my wife and I ent for a walking tour through the Saxon Bwitzeriand. It was the end of summer, the weather was fine, with erlep, cool mornings, We drank mili and the winelike mountain air, My wife and I, tm an attempt to descend Into a valley by short cut of our own Giscovery, nearly lost our lives, Wo eventually reached Hirschherg, a small town in Bohemia which t a favorite vacation resott for petty officials and the lke, There we spent several wesks, When our funds ran low a periodical vhappaning Parvun or 1 would write hasty article for the soolal-damocratie press, zs By October, 1907, 1 had reached Vienna, where my wife and child soon Jolned me. Expecting a new wave of Fevolition, wa went to live outside the city, at Hutteldorf, We had to watt a long time seven yeays and instead of wave of revolution tt was a wava of blood, drenching the fields of Kurope, that swept us away from Vienna. lt;Why had we selected Vienna, when all the other exiles had chosen to live ta Bwitkerland of in Paris? It was be- cause at that period of my life I war bound up in Garman politics. 1 could not stay Ip Berlin because of certain police regulations, eo chose Vieuna. But during those seven years I fol- lowed German politics much more closely than Austrlan which then re sembled. nothing so much as a revolv- ing equirrel-cage, Beginning tn October, 1908, I pub- Mahed a Russian language newspaper in Vienoa called Pravda (truth), in- tended for the working masses. It wax smuggled into Runaia, either over the Galician-Austrian frontier or by way of the Black Bea, The paper appeared for three and a half years, never more than twice month, but it entailed a great aeat of intense and painstaking work. Secret correspond- revolutionary ditties. hand, recited to us the latest ence with Mussina, fn connection wital tq distribution took much of my timed Besides this I was. te contact with the illegal Black Sea Sailors Union, .alding them to pubilah th organ. My principal collaborator on Prav wus A. A. Joffe, who subsequently came the well-known Soviet diptom Our friendship aated fromm Vienna days. Joffe was man of bi seats, great eweetnoan of charact and uneonqueable devotion to cause, He gave Pravda ail his atr n bd all hia meniia. Joffe under prychoanalytic. treatment for a a vous disease at the hands of D Alfred Adler, who had begun as dixcipie or Exeud,- bat had aeparat from his mastor and liad founded own school of individual paychology Through Jerre became: familiar the problems of paychoanalyata, wi atruck me at once as most fascinating though much was atili doubtful ani J uncertain in that domain Joffe Suicides OFFI went ona mission to Rus tn connection with. Prav a, He wi Rrreated at Ode sa,. imprixoned for long time, and then deported Biberin. He was not freed until t beuary revolution of 1917. Jotte one of the most active participants the October. coup d'etat. The perso courage of that man, suffering as was. from a serious disease, we magnificent. I can atill see bia a ward figure as he stood on the bom plowed field of Petrograd one. dai in tia-autumn of 1920. Blegant Gressed as befitted a diplomat. with a aoft smile on his quiet fac carrying stick as if walking. Unter den Linden, Joffe stared out founly at the bombs bursting ab him and went on walking, nelth quickening nof slackening hi He was a good, sound, though orator and had the same. qualltt a writer, No matter what the Joffe always gave careful attent to: every detall a quality po by few revolutionists Lenin hod a igh regard for J Giplomatic ability. 1 was cloner fini than any human being? for a number of , ears. His fidelity both. hia friends and to bis deals was comparable. Sotte ended bis life tragically. Gr reditary diseases fand twas aapped still more, no dou by the virulent persecution of Marzists at the hands of the epig Convinced that he could hold out longer Joffe took his own lite Int autumn of 1927, A letter. which wrote to me before he died was stol from his very death-bed by. Stati agents, Lities intended for the pri eye of friend were anatohed thelr context, altered and falsified Yaroslaveki and other mex. with ed minds, But that will not p Joffe's name trom going down tn lutionary bistory as one of the On December 4, 1000; when the Jutlon seemed, crustied and *destroy forever, I wrote in Pravdar to-day, through the black clouds reaction hat surround and. oj us, the mind c eye discernn the torlous gleam of a new red Octo Scorn nd derision were poured uy me for thoxe words, not only by Liberals but also by the Mensh who looked upon them as the and substance-less plirases of an tor. But we deeply believed what te. And history has not betray thore beliefs, October, 1917, eonti and brought to victorious conclu whut October, 1905, had begun, (To be continued.) at HAD 118 OWN BACK JOHNNY talked too much at 7 table, and in spite of dad's fu looks and warnings would not, stop, Leave the table, young fellow, a4, Go to your room, and I'M 4 with you later. Trembiingly Johnny 4i4 0. Dad sat thinking what puni to infllet, Suddenly remembering was Bunday, he decided to take hil boy to church, John hated sermon he knew, either et home or ehut The preacher's message, which very appropriate to Johnny (atrange coincidence, John thought was intently Ietened to for time, Then suddenty, to Ure conaterpatial of all, he jumped up, poltited to preacher, and said, I don t Wke man, dad, He talke too much, MALL SON: Daddy, what nce amy meant Dade my boy Trouble Hiptied bya

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