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Show THATS A FACT o By ALBERT P. SOUTHWICK. Copyright, (New York Evening World"), by Press Publishing Co. Tha "Luddites" wer riotous workmen work-men who went about th manufacturing manufactur-ing district or England. In 1111-111. breaking th "time-savers." under th belief that machinery threw men out of employment, Tha term arose from Ned Lud of Lelceeterahire, an imbecile, imbe-cile, who waa much hounded by tha boys. One day he chased a set of hla tormentor Wito a hous and brok two storking frame. Whence the leader of theee.riotera waa called ''General Lud." hi chief abettors "Lud'a Wives" and hla followra, generally, "Luddites." "Lud-dites." e e e "Vice Emperor" la a name occasionally occasion-ally used with reference to Eugene Kouhrr lllt-lS4, who waa prime minister of Pranc undr Napoleon 111 (1861-1170). see "A mackerel ky" 1 on In which th clouds hav th form denoted clr-ro-cumulua, that 1. broken Into small fleecy manses popularly supposed to foretell rain or wlndf |