Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 23, 1913, Page 6

ACT OF BRITISH AMBASSADOR 8lr Cecil Spring-Rice Gives Personal Aid to Young Man Hurt by an Automobile. Washington.—Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the ambassador from Great Britain, although only here a few days as suc- eessor to James Bryce, already has shown the same democratic character- stics that endeared his predecessor to the capital. It developed recently that while the ambassador was on his way ¢0 the Chevy Chase club in the em- dassy automobile the chauffeur be- eame confused as to the direction “Stop and we will inquire the way, erdered the envoy. observing a young man approaching on foot. “Can you direct us to the Chevy fhase club?” he irquired of the pedes- Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. tlan, who stepped into the roadway as the big car came to a stop. The man was almost immediately struck By a car tearing cityward. “Are you hurt?” asked Sir Cecil, fkmping from the motor. The young man, who proved to be Odie Howe, a street car conductor off duty, pro- tested that he was not, but found he could not walk. Despite his protests, to was bundled into the embassy car and whirled to his home, Sir Cecil bimself lifting him in. The ambassa dor made {nquiry into his condition. TELLS OF THE “GLORY KISS” Mrs. Freda Marienthal Charges That Ardent Letter Robbed Her of Husband's Love. Cincinnati, O.—Letters couched in | endearing terms, in which the phrase “the glory kiss” is used, and said to have been written to a married ‘man by a woman who is a grandmoth- er, are part of the papers in an ac- tion filed by Mrs. Freda Marienthal, in | which she charges alienation of the af- fections of her husband. She asks for » | $25,000 damages and names four de- fendants. Mrs. Marienthal is the wife of Theo- dore Marienthal, formerly of Cincin- nati, but now holding a political po-. sition in New York city. The prin- | cipal defendant, Mrs. Maria Weidlich, 'is the wife of Otto Weldlich, head of the Weidlich Fountain Pen company. i Mr. Weidlick is charged with writing i the “glory kiss" letters. Mrs. Weid- lich says they were written five or six ! years ago by her and a girl friend, | who since has died, in aspirit of fun, ! with not the slightest suspicion that ! the letters would ever be taken se- ! riously. Mr. Weidlich says he be- . lieves in his wife's innocence. | The “glory kiss" is described in one of the letters follows: “Here, sweetheart, is a kiss, one of my Kkiss- | es you loved so well; one that intoxi i cates the mind, driuks up the soul !l and lulls tvo hearts to sleep, to dream (of love, sweot love, and let the world | be lost. For we can live on and on | without many pecople, but we can nat , live on and on without love. 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Where the road bent Netta selected a tempting tuft of grass and seated herself upon it, depositing her numer- ous small packages on the plat of green beside her. Flashes of scarlet quivered in her cheeks as Ericson rounded the bend | and drew rein. He stood staring down at her for a moment, his hands deep in his trousers pockets, then he dropped abruptly to the grass beside her, “I think I ought to tell you,” he said soberly, “that I am going to be married—soon.” Netta did not speak. For a long time she sat staring in a dull way at the small, brown hands that had in- voluntarily clenched themselves in her lap. After a while she glanced up with dry, bright eyes, and held out | her fingers. “Of course I wish you all possible happiness,” she said, “you know that. now,” she added, in a different tone,’ “it is almost dark.” | Ericson assisted her to rise, and for a second afterward stood looking down into her face as he had a hun- | dred times before; through his eyes trembled something she dared not un- derstand. The instant passed, and then the I'd better be going home ! world—the whole world outside those | two—seemed to slip and vanish, and ' Netta lay sobbing in his arms. “I can never give you up,” he cried, | brokenly, “not if a thousand vows and promises stood between!” The girl drew herself sharply from his embrace with a sudden accession of strength; his words bhad sobered her, “Goodby,” she said;, “you must keep your troth inviolate; it—it's the only‘ | and just at a time when more officers | ciers ne se recrutent plus.” Statistics { show that there are 1,600 vacancies |; | missioned officers in more than eighty | | regiments of infantry. ! hierarchy? | the case, according to the promcol; FRANCE ShuRi OF OFFICERS| Serious Conditicn Confronts Ministry —Army Men Demand NMore Pay. Paris.—What seems to amount to a crisis in the French army is caused by the lack of candidates at the prin- cipal military schools, such as St. Cyr and St. Maixent. Therefore, while ad- ditional credits are being asked for to Increase the effectiveness of the army, measures will also have to be taken to fill up the ranks of the officers, will be needed the number of young aspirants seems to be falling off heav- ily. This has been pointed out recently by the Press, and the Temps goes SO far as to call it a grave crisis, which threatens to compromise everything. It said textually in a recent article.: “Les officiers s'en vont; les sous-offi- By for lieutenants, “chefs de sections, and there are numerous vacancies In the ranks of the re-enlisted noncom- | As one paper asks, has France come | to this, that it resembles China, where the military mardarins in the past; held the lowest rank in the social | Stch would seem to be | s drawn up by a recent circular, accord- ! mg to which a sub-prefect in a remote | ction of the country would take | precedence over a general command- | the garrison at an official fune- ine | tion. it is no wonder, therefore, that seri- | Y ous changes and improvements have i} been sugoested and are contemplated | by the government. The minister of war has stated in an interview that he will certainly not allow the officers | to coutinue to be treated with the | flagrant neglect of their pecuniary sit- | uation from which they have suffered in the past. The question, he said. | | Was uppermost in his mind from the | | day he returned to the ministry. | i { \ Seated Herself. | way, Jack.” She turned abruptly and | walked past him, Ericson stood motionless for a mo- | ment; then he stooped dazedly and began to gather up the scattered bundles. “You forgot these,” he said, over taking her. *“Netta,” he went on in an impassioned tone, “you must let me explain, “the—that other girl—I have never loved her! Our betrothal was all the fool work of a lot of people with pet schemes.” L * L . . Winter apples were swinging and shivering as they swung in a cutting east wind. In the doorway of the ald-fashioned white and green cottage stood Netta. Before and all about her the wealth of trees and shrubs stood bleak and stripped. Two brilliant roses had slipped into the girl's cheeks, and the eyes above them looked deep and dark with a radiant happiness. Her hair, black and waving, tumbled picturesquely over a smooth, white forehead, Somewhere inside the room a elock struck four, and Netta drew in her breath with a eudden heart-beat. Sim- ultaneously came the sound of swift- rushing wheels over the hard clay road beyond. Netta closed the heavy door behind her and slipped softly out into the frozen air. Ericson had left his carriage at the tollgate and was coming toward her with outstretched hands. “Jack!” “Sweetheart!” he cried, his arms about her, Presently he held her away from him to look into the wide-love-lit eyes. “I kept my troth, dear,” he said, gently. “I know.” “She died a year ago,” he went on, a certain soberness coming into his voice, “and she was always happy, I am almost sure of that.” The girl's gaze compelled his for one anxious moment, “She never knew? You are quite certain that she did not suspect any- thing?” “Quite certain,” he responded earn- estly. “She was a good little girl, and it was not hard to do the right thing by her, even though,” he added with abrupt fervor, “the love of my life had been given to another—to vou.” His arms went round her again and Netta hid her blood-burned cheeks. “That night,” ehe said, presently, “when you went from me I felt just as though one of us had died, and yet—" she paused, and a luminous light came into her eyes, “I should never have married you, Jack, if you had broken your promise to her to set yourself free.” “Nor could I have loved you half so well,” he replied, in an unsteady tone, “had you allowed me to do so.” (Copyright by Daily Story Pub. Co.) | officers can be settled ?WILEY HITS OSLER THEORY {ion of Dr He | spoke to his colleagues in the cabinet on the matter, and asked Gen. Joffre to prepare a scheme for considerably raising the pay. The increase, he said, would be uniform. It applied to all grades, and the rise contemplated at present was at least £8 a month. It will be tmpossible, says the minis- ter, to carry out the scheme, simply by including the matter in the army estimates. A special law will be nec- essary, and a bill to that effect will be laid before parliament. This is the only way in which the grave crisis with which the French army is threat- ened as regards the recruiting of its Maximum of Efficiency Not Reached | Until Three Score, Says Pure Food Expert, Washington.—Men and women sixty years old and over are the real bene- factors and the actual workers for the uplift of the human race, in the opin- Harvey W. Wiley, former government “‘pure food" expert, who made the declaration to the Washing- Or. Harvey Wiley. ton Secular leagues. 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