Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 1, 1915, Page 2

Belgium Need of Relief Still V = By WILL < S BELGIAN REFUGEES IN TH Anyeway Till Spring, J ays Commission to Latest Reports From Stricken Land---How & Americans Can Send Their Mite oA Helpless ery Urgent, According IR®WIN = 4 E RUINS OF TERMONDE, _ CCORDING to thé Commission For Reliet In Belgium, the American peo- ple will probably ha the work until spring breaks or longer,” Befgian people all this winter, “We ! have taken pains to investigate,” said one of the commissioners tast | oy week, “Ang the Efi informed Europeans tell us that there wifl change in ‘the mili Ty situation this winter. It means that we must It bas been a race With hunger, this business of feeding 6,600,000 people with supplies gathered a balf a world a way. All Belgium depends on Amerh .can food. Half of Belglum is pever more than a week ahead of starvatidn. be 09 | 5 weapons. The boat came dashing keep UD | o¢ us with every man yelling and ten feet- AW she rode past we could look right into the eyes of her crew. | They were about thirty in number, and they yelled and screamed at us like so many lunatics. Brief as was the time, we all noticed one peculiari- i ty about them. Beyond cursing the Spanish crew for a gang of idiots we had little to say. ! The idea of fear of the storm bad made them take to drink, as is often the case. and they were going to Davy tie storm broke, and we headed our pitching about on the troubled sea i I turned in at 8 o'clock that night and | turned out again at midnight for the | morning watch. After midnight the | sea began to go down very fast, and at 2 o'clock there was only what you might call a tumble on. It was then! that we faintly caughbt the sound of voices in whooping and singing to the ; south of us. It was thick night, and | nothing could be made out. but at 4 o'clock we got a lizht breeze and had | not been wafted along a knot when | | we bad the Spanish ship again under| | our eyes. All her topmasts were gone now, while a portion of her bulwarks | was smashed in, and she looked a bad | wreck. We headed for the wreck at once, and | when we came within bafling distance , we asked if help was wanted. 'rhei reply was a chorus of sbrieks and screams, while many of the men shook - e fists at us in defiance. It looked | “8«ase of mutiny, and our captain ; was u;&' know ‘what step to take. Bef could make up his, mind the Spaniards b &boat | and pulled for us. Every one df the oW Into _the boat, and we saw them % up belaying pius, ca'psun! and whatever eise could be used | ‘whooping, and they tried boarding us at once. We had no better weapous Y which tp baat thepy of, and e were three Tess In nfimber':%urwbei! | Jones' with a jag on. Six hours Iuter‘ course, but within six hours we were | without way enough to ruffie a feather. taneously spu! ‘knaw how to begin. PRINCE'S ONLY CASE By MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD- RIDGE. | “This is the office of Mr. Arnold, | detective?” “Yes,” bowed Robert Prince, telling the truth but conveying a wrong im- His mind somewhat laggard be- cause he Lad little to do, was instan- rred up to admiration and interest at a sight of the really charming face of the visitor. Then )ed with. Robert too her evident anxiety and distress & man who knew aroused his chivalrous sym-|him staggering keenly pathy. ploring with Arnold, his friend and a [ open the door of & room in a large man who ecreditably followed the de- | office building to find lying prome tective line as a science, the fact that | across a bed the very man he was | his life had become practically vapid, | after. cause he had no motive in life. had inherited money, but not a busi- ness. He really craved to be of some practical use in the world, but did not | He had acted 80 bored that Arnold had laughingly suggested that be interest himself in some detective case. A “When T gef & tafe that will really | stir up your ingenuity and inability and get that idle mind out of its dull beaten track,” sald Arnold, “f'm go- ing to make Fou interested in 1t,” and now ‘a Case that held his attention bad come to the front. Arnold was absent from the office, but Robert al- lowed his caller to think he was the fdmous sleuth. * “That is my name,” sald the young girl, handing a dainty card to Robert bearing a residence address and the name. “Miss Fidelia Blain.” “I wish to engage your services, not in hunt- ing down a criminal, but in recover ing for me a large sum of money.” jand the room, but was unable to dis- Often it has come closer than that. Once the province of Limbourg, remote and hilly, was starving. In some communities the people had not eaten for 40 days, when one of our United States consuls managed to borrow from the Germans enough bread to keep thé people alivé until an American shipment arrived to repay the loan. Once Captain Lucey, the shipping agent in Holland, had to borrow 10,000 tons of yhes} (rom the Putch government. Liege a: Hamme and histoilc Ghent were crylfig for bread. and it wis sl several days before the next American ship was due at Rotterdam, This was a noble thing for Holland to do since the Dtch themselves are short on food. Yess it is a race with hunger, and America, now that she has faced the starter, must win! 'This is America's great and glorious part in the world war of 1914-18, A f'bat every American may bave a personal chance to help some Belglan the Commission For Relief In Belgium has arranged its “parcel post plan.” Any one who wants to send a package containing between twenty and ffty pounds of nonperishable food need only put a tag on the package, address the tag to the nearest collection depot of the commission, stamp it in the regular way and drop it in the mail chute. If the giver puts on the package tag his name and address, TOGETHER WITH THE LETTER “R,” the money he bas spent for stamps will be refunded. Packages malled from FLORIDA should be addressed to WIESENFELD WAREHOUSE COMPANY, JACKSONVILLE, who are collecting agents for this district. A BALKAN | Horfs, @led on bim to Surrender. There was nothing else for thescaptive to do since he had nothing with which to make a defense except to.induce his captor to shoot him. The next move of the Turk was to get bis prisoner to his men or his men to his prisoner. The latter was not an easy thing to do, for the men were beyond call, and he had no one to send for them. Keeping his pistol EPISODE By LOUISE B. CUMMINGS | Just as soon as we lowered a boat they “Lost?" intimated Robert. “Stolen,” corrected Miss Blair with | a quick shudder. “I must make one restriction in this case—there must we looked fnto their fierce eyes and saw murder there we struck to kil They fought like tigers and seemed insensible to blows. but we beat them off at last. be no arrests, no publicity.” Four of fheir number went to the| “May I ask the question,” ventured boffom of the sea with broken skulls, Robert, guessing quickly; “Is it a and of those pulled away all wepe family "muuer. is a relative in- more or less hurt. We knew now that: volved? they were lunatics instead of drunken, In almost a whisper and with head men, and we stood by till noon in the, bowed and trembling all over, Miss bope that they would calm down. Blair answered: They appeared to after awhile, but| ‘Yes. “You may tell me in confidence woke up again and raged like wild your story,” said Robert. “If I see beasts, We could understand nothing DO, Way of helping you out in the re- <l 2] &g m il atternoon before we squared away and | S left them, and then a fierce fight was ' I going on, and at least one man had| been thrown overboard to drown. Yon may well guess that we aboard the Bristo] were astonished and mysti- fied by the singular incident, but the! esplanation when it came was very simple In a sense. The Spanish ship had .a Filipino for a cook. He had. trouble with both officers and men and | was determined to have revenge. Be fore sailing from Luzon he had provid- PRI = | f b | ! mined opposition we could not board ! i ( \ | } r il their craft. It was 2 o'clock in the! | T ) | 3 q('A' The Balkan states are half a dozen ittle kingdoms that have been fighting one another from time immemorial, and all of them have been fighting the Turk. If the many occurrences in the Balkans of a romantic nature could be gathered together there would be enough of them to supply story tellers for hundreds of years. The following 18 a sample: Not far from Adrianople there lived a country girl named Tarissa. She was a Christian inhabiting a region ruled by the Turks. Tarissa's home was just south of the border line be- tween Turkey and Roumelia. Ong duy a party of Roumelans headed by a young man, Boris Lovatz, came down the valley of the Maritza river in pur- suit of a band of Turks who had car- | code him through the doorway and | ried off some Roumelian women. Be-| 544 of the house. Boris obeyed, and | fore his return he had met Tarissa and there had resuited a love affair. Lo- pointed toward Boris, be glanced out through the window to see if any one was near, for he was in a Christlan hamlet, and if he attempted to drive his captive to his men he might get a bullet from some one of the little clump of houses. During these few moments in which he was obliged to keep so many things In his mind there were two very im- portant matters that he failed to grasp. One was Tarissa and the other Boris’ beit, to which was slung his pistol, though he may not have seen the lat- ter. The Turk's glance through the window enabled Tarissa to take a step backward so that by placing ber hand behind her she might reach the weapon. Not seeing any one without to send for his men, be ordered Boris to pre- as the men passed out, the Turk keep- ing his eyes fixed on his prisoner, Ta- vatz was successful in rescuing the ed himself with a quantity of seed from the plant known as aripe. It is a wild kelp, and a decoction makes a madman of the drinker. How be man-: | aged to serve it out to the whole crew at once will never be known, but that was what he did and perbaps drank a | share himself. The ship was manned by a lunatic crew when she drove, down on us before the gale, and they | were lunatics when we left them fight- | ing and drifting. Ten days later the, | ship, which had become a wreck below and aloft, was picked up by a steamer and towed into port. Not a man lv-| Ing or dead was found on board. They had fought each other to the last and then the sole survivor had sought death beneath the waves. The cook had probably mixed the poisonous de- coction with thelr coffee or wine soon after the storm hed struck them.! thougb not before she was fn shape to ride it out. How long it was after we Lying Prone Across a Bed. stricted way you indicate, the trans- action will be forgotten so far as this office is concerned.” “Thank you,” said Miss Blair hum- bly and gratefully. It was a clear, simple and yet, startling narrative, that of the fair young girl. She had been mn art stu- dent, her brother a traveling agent for a large steel firm. A sister had | recently died leaving two small chil- women he had come for and went back into Roumelia. rissa possessed herseif of Boris® pistol. She now had every advantage, for i dren. Their father was a dissolute left them no ome couM say, but very | _ Nkely not more than a dey or so had scoundrel who had broken his wife's she was behind the Turk. Only the ' heart. Had 1t not been for having met Ta- rissa be might never have come into Turkey again and been safe from the revenge due him for the rescue. But there Is no risk a man will not take for love, and It was not long before he ‘was again across the border on a visit to his sweetheart. Indeed he came so often that it got out among the Turks that this enemy had been captivated by a girl and was making periodical knowledge that her lover would die a frightful death enabled her to kill a man in coll blood. Stealing up close to the Turk, she shot him through the head. Boris turned, saw the Turk fall and Tarissa with a smoking pistol tn her hand. *Go,” she sald. ‘“There must be oth- ers pear.” Without a word he sprang on to the visits to her. So a watch was set for | horse on which he had come, and as him. he passed out of sight the Turkish One day the spy who was, selected | soldiers were heard coming. passed when the last of the lunatics gave up his life and the ship went drifting and drifting with the sun dry- | ing up the hundred bloodstatns on ber littered deck. | | Moleskin Is Profitable. Moleskins have been extensively used in this country during the last few years in making fur garments, i been imported from Europe. In the belief that the common mole of east- for this service went to a Turkish offi- Boris escaped. Tarissa hid in the cer who was on duty in the neighbor-| darkness for a time, then set out to hood and told him that Boris was with | join him. Tarissa. The officer directed several| Neither of them ever entered Turkey of his men to mount their horses, and, | again, for they knew that Boris would placing himself at their head, he rode| be killed and Tarissa would meet a toward the hamlet where Tarissa liv-| worse fate. In their home W Roun- ed. Dusk was falling. and the Turk, melia they were safe. before reaching the hamlet, directed | bhis men to remain where they were: and rode forward alone to recouuolter.% A 2 for he knew that Boris was as sllppery‘ natlc ITew By M. QUAD Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. as an eel and if he was aware that a force was coming to take him he would be off like the wind. i When near Tarissa’s home the officer | approached cautiously. and since it was dark he reached a window without be- ing seen. In the room into which he looked were Boris and Tarlssa. Boris was trying to induce the girl to go back with him and become his wife. “ She hesitated since he was marked rurE and heading down the China sea with destruction in Turkey and could never | @ CArgo for London when we caught We were due east of the island of | Luzon, one of the Philippine group. intent were they with each other that | t© and making fairly good weather ot they did mot no{lce the appearance of i it when a Spanish ship, also lying to. the Turk at the window till they heard | hove into sight. She was lighter and ing a pistol at Boris. { about a mile to windward of us when doomed und, preferring to die by a bul- | I his hand to his hip for a weapon. But he had unclasped his belt and laid it ©on a chalr. Tarissa saw his eye turn towand the cbair. and. anticipating his futention 1o die defending himself, sbe threw berself between bim aund his Wweapon. This placed her between the officer and ber lover. Since the former could not shoot without killing her he sprang dp through the window gnd, covering eye by a turpautiu set in the rigring attegtion, pud sbe did pot weve W come back with her to her home. So | the tall of a typhoon. We were lying a click and, looking up. saw him level- | drove faster to leeward. She was A sheer of the wheel would bave went the Spanish sbip clear of us by hailf 2 cuble’s gneth, but the fellows drifted avwn without payiug o= the slichiest ern United States produces fur of ! equal value, skins were submitted to | professional furriers, who stated that | the quality is superior to the foreign | product. A report on the economic | status of the eastern species was pub- !lished during the year. The mole in- habiting the northwestern coast is larger than the common eastern spe- cies, and a number of these have been collected in order to obtain a report on the quality of the pelt. If the tex- | that of the eastern animal, there is no E reason why trappers should not secure A good income by capturing these ani- mals, as the area they inhabit is ex- | tensive. In many localities an acre of ground supports as many as a hun- | dred individuals. If this little animal can be profitably trapped for its fur | the problem of freeing agricultural |areas from it will practically be i solved. ! | Hint for Photographers. Carbonate of soda-is an accelerator velopers, when they are dissolved The Roumelian realized that he was | first sighted, and no great attention alone in water, the image will ulti- was given her until it was seen that | mately appear, but it will come very et without being tortured. as he doubt- | She was drifting squarely down upon slowly. Add a gtrong less would be if he were captured, put | us. As she came neurer we saw that | bonate of soda to the n of car agent ber crew were dancing about on ber | and water and the image will fairly decks like a lot of drunken men and | leap at you. The reduction of the paying no attention to the étorm. Her | bromide of silver has been tremen- forctopmost had sone overboand, and dously hastened and it is also more ! much of her canvas had Dlown away, and she was being held in the wind's thorough ard complete, the negative having much gr-ater densuty is the sole misgion. of a carbonate of soda in the developer. things up and complete the action.— Outing. An uncle had left an estate to the surviving brother and sister. They had at once liquidated this and bad faithtully placed a third of the pro- ceeds in trust for the children. This had infuriated John Barr, the brotherinlaw. To quiet him, Fidella had given him a thousand dollars. When he had squandered it in gam- bling he returned and had since been dm_ubhhmmwj Robert was a trifie ashamed of | himself as he realized that he was : simply eager to keep in the company ! of his fascinating client as long as Arnold had and he determin charge of the case Remarkable good his efforts Misa thuat'aplfiu out and loose 2 at 1 fortune “where Barr crowd he home ‘Where was his Barr seemed stupefled, drugged. cover any trace of the stolen plunder. For hours Robert watched by the bedside of the man. Then he got ! nlarmed and summoned a doctor. The physician announced that the man was in no immediate danger, but that he bad evidently been given a poison 1o driig him. Jtg effects would prob- ably never become eliminatsd fro mipd and body, he told Robert. Towards evening the patient wi in a delirlum. Then from his mad ravings the watchful Robert began to learn. what had become of the miss- ing loot. It seemed that Barr had intended to flee the city, but had got: to drinking. He met some associates and bragged of netting a fortunme. They had drugged him and had taken a satchel away from him. “Stuffed with paper—ha! gloated the deMrious Barr. “The money, the bonds safe. The key— ah, the key! They are baflled—I am rich!” This much and no more throm[ that night and the next day—then ! Robert hired a male nurse, left him , in charge of the patient and went %0 report to Miss Blair. “No one has got the money and: bonds but Barr,” he assured her. “He ' has placed them in safe hiding. I shall stay with him night and day | till 1 find out where.” | | I | l ! | 1 | | [ ! “The key—the key!” was the mad burden of the invalid all the next day. Early the following mornlng.; taking hie turn to watch the patient, | Robert noticed that he lay on one side, his naked shoulder revealed. | He had observed a.plaster there at the first but had left it to wear off. It had done this in part. Ome edge ; was turned over. Something glit-; tered. Robert jnvestigated. He de-| tached from under the piaster a small flat key bearing a number and the initials: “U. 8. D. V.» Within two hours Robert Prince knew that key unlocked a box rented by Barr in the Union Safety Deposit | Vaults. Within four he had learned : that the bonds and money were con- | tained within it and that all Fidelia bad to do was to prove her right to it. | Barr was sent to a ocountry sani-| tarfum, but died within the week and a family scandal was avoided. A week later Robert went into the office of Arnold and confessed his bold detective exploit. “I suppose I ought %o pay you & fee,” he sald, “for putting me in & position where I could be of service to the sweetest—dearest—" “Ah!” smiled the shrewd detective readily—“then you have at last found something worth living for? All right. | é ‘Bless you my children, bless you!'" | (Copyright, 1912, by W. G. Chapman.) NOT WHAT HE WAS USED TO Presumably the Volunteer Musiclan Had Thought Churcir Instrument Was a MHand Organ. Rev. Theophilus Hourspeaker was to preach a special sermon on “Deceit in Christianity,” and a large congre- gation had assembied by the time the ! church bells ceased ringing; but from some cause or another the organist did not put in an appearance. The minister, with an anxious look on his face, stepped forward. “I am sorry to say,” he announced, “that Mr. Atkins, the organist, has un- fortunately failed to arrive. I shall, ! therefore, be obliged to appeal to you ‘, for a temporary deputy. Is there any | one here who can play an organ that § {and pratically all of the supply has ! continuously annoying them with ap- | will kindly volunteer to act as a sub- | ture of the fur proves to be as good as | Luis | 1t is to speed | | plications for small loans. “I tolerated him,” now related Fi- matters in court where I would be appointed the guardian of the chil- dren. Mr. Barr kept coming to the house under pretense of a right to | see them. Yesterday evening I locked |up in my desk nearly four thousand dollars in cash and twenty thousand i dollars in unregistered bonds which I received from our broker too late to take to the bank. This morning they were gone. Mr. Barr is missing and near the desk I picked up a glove | with his name written on the inside lining.” “Then he is the thief?” | Robert. | “He must be. For the sake of tue children I do not \.ant him arrested, but I must get back the momey and observed delia, “until I had got through some ' stitute?” A shabbily-dreesed man arose and walked down the aisle. The minister | | cordially thanked him, and after es- | i corting him to the organ stool and | | placing the music before him, re- turned to the pulpit. The volunteer, however, after fumbling confusedly about for a min- | { ute or two, silently beckoned to the | amazed minister to approach. “I can’t understand this organ,” he said with a puzzied look on his face | “What's the matter with it?™ “Matter with it!” said the sur prised clergyman. “My dear sir, it! | was only tuned last week!" | “Nay, it's not that” came the re-; I Ply. “The fact is, this organ's differ | ent to the one I've bin used to. I cant see the handlel” ibonds. They represented the share !in the estate of my brother and my- | self, and he is now on his way here to use a part of the money to go into | business.” ;1 will take the case,” announced | Robert. “You must take me to the | scene of the robbery, show me a ple- for the reducing agent. With most de- | ture of this Barr and give me all the | 100K it to be filled.” Caused a Froet. “What caused the coolness between | you and the young doctor? I thought | you were engaged?” “His writing is rather {llegible. 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