Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 13, 1914, Page 3

WATCHING THE TAKING OF VERA CRUZ Members of the crew of the b battleship Florida in the control top of the ce mast, watching the progress of their fellows in the capture of Vera 8 NEW GUNBOAT SACRAMENTO LAUNGHED Cramp shipyard in Philadelphia. It will be one of the largest and best- ipped vessels of its type in the navy. The complement of officers and crew 60. S~ ¢ SOME OF HUERTA’S CAVALRYMEN & TERNATIC § e ade of the troops through the streets of Mexico City, at the height of the itement over the breaking out of hostilitles with the United States. HELPING CHICAGO MOTHERS TO VOTE The United States gunboat Sacramento, which was launched recently at| This picture of a detachment of federal cavalry was taken during a THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK MORAMMED'S TAIL By GEORGE PHILLIPS. Miss Theodora Bingham, director of the Mission School for Girls at Da- mascus, tossed upon the back of her camel. The flle of beasts stretched away before and behind her, each with its swarthy Arab attendant, while Sheikh Abdullah, riding on his white mule, passed slowly alongside of the caravan, his lands holding the reins loosely and an expression of benign self-satisfaction upon his face. Though she was the only woman with the caravan, Miss Bingham was not in the least perturbed. She had | seen the school grow from a thatched building to a lordly establishment cov- ering two acres, numbering 300 in- mates. She had just returned from & visit to New York, and was carry- with a knowledge of the native meth- ods of exchange, she had secreted in her baggage instead of forwarding | through one of the extortionate na- tive banks. At Jerusalem she had jolned the caravan, under the protection of the Sheikh Abdullah, to insure her safe arrival unmolested by desert nomads. And now Damascus was only two days’ | journey away, and the little package | reposed In the saddle-bags among her other possessions. Miss Bingham put out her hand to | assure herself of its presence there. But it was not there. It had disap- peared during the noontide halt. Her mind worked quickly. She re- membered now that she had left the baggage for a couple of minutes to speak to the sheikh. Somebody muct have suspected what it was she guard- ed so carefully. The thief had taken the money, and it was still in his pos- session. As the sheikh rode slowly back Miss Bingham beckoned him. The old man came riding up on his mule. *“Somebody has stolen $7,000 from my bag,” she said quietly. Sheikh Abdullah looked at her be- | nignly. “O foolish woman, why did asked. “Had I but known you had so large a sum my head should have an- | swered for its loss.” “Well, I guess it was foolish of me,” answered Miss Bingham, “but anyway, “Son of a Jackal,” He Roared. | one of your men has it, and I'm going | | to get it back.” | The sheikh stroked his beard reflec- tively. “Say nothing of this,” he an- swered, “and show no distress of mind. | Before we reach Damascus it shall be restored to you.” “But why don't you line up your men at once and demand that they open their bags?" asked Miss Bing- ham, “One does not catch spiders in bear- traps,” responded the sheikh, and spurring his mule, he rode back to the | head of the procession. The evening halt never seemed to begin. It was almost sunset before the sheikh shouted the order and the lone line of camels came to a standstill. Then the sheikh came to Miss Bing- ham, | "Great madam, have you a small bottle of sweet-scented essence, such as the Frankish women use to make themselves smell sweet?” he asked. | “T've got a sachet, if that’s what you | mean,’ replied Miss Bingham. “What | do you want it for?” | “By its means I shall restore to you the $7,000,” said the sheikh, taking it and riding away. | Toward nightfall he assembled his men in line before the tent that Miss Bingham occupied. “O dogs and sons of Eblis,” he an- nounced, “one of you has stolen treas- ures of value from the saddle-bag of the Frankish princess of mature age. | Wherefore Mohammed, the white | spent a lifetime in Damascus, she had | | ing back $7,000 in subscriptions, which, | you not entrust its care to me?” he' 1.»‘:1.'},\. matted, thin or fadeq hair. ELAND, FLA., MAY 13, 1914, over. caravan had entered the tent and laid !a hand each on Mohammed's tail; but the mule had not brayed. “What do you mean by all this non- sense?” Miss Bingham demanded of the sheikh angrily. “I want that money, and I want you to open the men's bags, or I shall think you are not anxious for me to get it back.” “O Frankish woman of age,” re- plied the Sheikh gravely, “one does not catch leviathan with a smelt hook.” The Arabs loitered in the vicinity, grinning at the Sheikh's discomfiture. But Abdullah seemed equal to the oo casion. “Since Mohammed has refused to assist me,” he said, “may stripes be his portion, and the lowest place in the world to come. 1 have another method, for in the palm of each man I | can read his acts of the day. Stand together and each man hold up his hand, palm upward.” y When he had assembled his men the old sheikh went along the line, peer ing closely into each uplifted palm. Suddenly he stopped ard jerked a man out of the row. “Son of a jackal,” he roared, “even now thou hast the Frankish woman's bag and the money.” The man fell grovelling upon his face, and a fearful awe was on the countenance of each of his comrades. “Bring it here at once,” the sheikh continued, “and if there be missing the least quota of a farthing thou shalt rot in Damascus jail.” Five minutes later Miss Bingham was in possession of her $7,000 again, and not a single bill was missing. “But how did you do it, sheikh?" she inquired, a little later in the eve- ning. “It seems as wonderful to me as it was to them.” “O Frankish woman,” sald the sheikh, a twinkle in his eye, “the thiet did not lay hold of the mule's tail, fearing that he would bray.” “Well,” inquired Miss Bigham, still mystified. “Thus, O teacher of womanhood, the sweet-smelling powder with which I had rubbed the tail of Mohammed was not transferred to his palm, as was the case with the other men.” “Then the thief was the man whose I hand did not smell of the sachet pow- der?” inquired Miss Bingham. “Well, ‘ that beats everything!” “Verily, there are more ways of cooking a hare than boiling him, O Frankish woman,” replied the Sheikh, smiling. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Her Beauty. “Isn't it disgusting, the way she brags about her beauty?” “Why, I did not hear her say a word abeut it!"” | “Didn’t she say she entered a crowded car last evening and every man in it jumped up and offered her his seat?” Easlly Accounted For. Borleligh (at 11:40 p. m.)—I love that dreamy look in your eyes. I have never seen it in any other girl'a. | Miss Bright (stifilng a yawn)—Per- haps you don’t stay as late with them a8 you do here~—Boston Hvening Transcript. A Hard Job. “Why does Blobster wear such a tired look all the time?” “He's overworked.” “Nonsense! 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