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A THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919 Real Soldier of Fortune Fought Under Four Flags, |. Now in Jail as a Spy! Served in United States Navy— Deserted. _ . Fought With Army in Philippines. Spy for Russia in War With Japan. Officer Under Madero in Mexico. | Joined United States Engineers - Deserted. Started to Help Greece Fight Turkey. Tried to Join Foreign Legion in France. Joined German Army -Twice Wounded. Sent to Shanghai as German Spy. But This Is Only Half the Story. : 4 Coprriett, 194 “0 Pou Co, (The New York Evening Worid ONVICTED of aid to the | Lieut Wo fought all ® enemy, Henry a over the western section of the ce ! ert Wilson, of fortune, /try and when he finally patched who has served unde y fi «nd, peace with Diag, I tried civil life f im many capacities, ving @ ten time but it got too slow so I went to Years’ sentence on Governors Isiand,| Washington and j the United but he insists that he was wrongly | States Engineers n did onvicted and that entered the) go as fast as I liked so when Gree German army that ho might get in-| started her scrap with Turkey, 1 jus =. formation to “peddle to the Allies."| thought that Iw , and “Time will set mo right, and I hope! nelp out without ! that Spanish gal in Madrid will wait| superiors, but L y to Pa for me,” he said as he told his story | when the Was over, so T cam { to an Evening World man inside the| back and surrendered to the au ‘ Grim old prison at Castle William. — | thoritic “I am willing admit that I was! “Aftor serving: six months in ja away without leave from the army,|1 wan restored to duty and assigned hte ] but plea e it trong as you the Quartermaater’s Departmen we and was on duty along the border a . } | when I made a date to elope with a Pt aN | young woman that 1 met at Juarez meer oon | She failed me and as | was aw “ | without leave, which meant jail, 1 “ | quit, and decided to go to France |Join the Foreign Legion, I left Galv but they ran Norfol ton on a boat for Franc short and put where I took another ship that me in Copenhagen. “I went to the Russian Legation and offered my services, but found t¢ had all filled up. Then I made up my mind to join the equareheads, get the dope and peddle it. L went to Roos- | took, where I told the recrutting | officer I was a German that had come over from the United States and he promptly enlisted me in the 90th Regiment. Shortly after I was trans- ferred to the 266th and with them sent to the eastern front, where I was wounded in the arm on May 15 during the fighting around Kalvari. {1 was sent to a hospital at Brunz- schweig, and while there made a trip to Berlin, where I went to the Ameri can Consulate and inquired for mail. “Upon rejoining my regiment I was sent into the Austrian campaign a. n the leg at Brestle- | 15 by shrapnel. of coal into ROY BODE ALAS HERBERT WiLson ean that I never was a spy or worked @gainst my country,” he said. “As Rear as I ever could learn I was born ia Los Angeles in 1877, and my ear- Mest recollections are living with a Was wounded tofsky on Aug THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919 _ Matrimonial Rules “Climbing Out in Mid-Air’’ How Daring English Observer Demonstrated His Nerve Doing Stunts on Biplane Flying at Great Height. | ___Of the Roa Il.—DON’T BE A ROAD-HOG A Happy Marriage Is Big Enough for Two Persons, but Not Big Enough for One—The Matrimonial Road-Hog Is Egotism and Selfishness Plus The Superman Husband and the Wife Who Is a Daughter of the Horse Leech Should Not Be | Given House Room. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by the Press Put HE matrimonial road-bog is the Pruss‘an of the species former Kaiser was fond of talking avout “my arn my German God,” so a: certain The New York breniag Werld Just as the people, peaks o type of husband a my house” or “my car’—never “our house” or “ou car.” ‘Then there is the equally objectionable wile to whom (he younger members of the tamily are in variably children,” and whose entertaining done at “my dinner partie 4 If you have ever watched a smal! boy trying . drive a hog along a country road, if sou have seen os the road the human hog in a motor car, you know a here is to know about the methods of the matrimonia: member of the fam He spreads over everything in ght, and mpossible to tell in which directic he is going to spread next ways le illustrates the paradoxical trath that a happy marriage is big enough for two persons, but not big enouge for one, It is the road marriage who neo bels called ™ and wife,” when it is ju to| “Is Mrs. Jones there?” was the tir. write “Myr, and Mrs. John But | question. to him Mrs. John Smit No, but this is Mrs, Jones's little only this He {| girl, Moliie," came from the other ene egotism an Jof the w In England—at least before the war} “Mollie,” ald ‘the caller, “this sank 4 ve been develope | Your dad's office, and J am speakir eeacially ve perfection. In John. for his friends. We want to know Gelsworthy's “T Man of Proper he ir mother is the boss in yeu the " 1 who f tndred | house per cent. rom My mother is the boss,” sweet ther in Mr. ¢ replied Mollie. And that was the end wh en in ns nd, of course Fugitive New York of another superman legend. The American wife, in my opinion in Eng! a policy of selfishness in his relations| often takes more than her share of with women is instilled into a boy! the road in the journey that is mar from childhood, when his sisters} riage, If the British husband is flavec en their education! by Galsworthy, the American wife d to his z or one type of her—is no less pitilessix Over here, the arrogant and all- analyzed in that bitter masterpiece of sessive male often is a false alarm.|David Graham Phillips, “The Hus In an office 1 know a certain man was) band’s Story”—the story of the’ wo- wait on him and wh frequently is sacrifi fond of boas ing of his conjugal au-| thority, When others smilingly or| plaintively told of being kept away| from the golf links to go shopping, of | |nome tyranny which demanded an ap- pearance at church at least once a| month and new curtains in the liv- ng-room instead of a new fishing- pole, this masterful soul snorted h disdain "J," he proclaimed repeatediy. * the boss in my house, What I Mr. Henry Peck {s no relation m say man who, with nothing to contribute, would take everything. A husband who poses as a super- man should not be given house room. But neither should a wife who is a daughter of the horse leech, crying ive! Give!" The Americ his an maa is generous, but generosity is used by the woman who tries to dress as if his $5,000 income were $10,000. It pro’ ably Was a husband confronted by the " goes ersonal bill of an extrav A femily named Bode in tho Island of Atte [of mine, When there's anything 1| 2°" Aetna teoncanaci tet ta ysshipdes f : a short stay in the hospital at Mois nese S 4,| Who invented the cynical American Kanai in Hawaii, After a little | LIMBIN( bthe body aha biplane inna don't like my foot comes, down hard,| (yen wthy way to save mon schooling at Honolulu, 1 ran away %¢? 1 went to Brandenburg and while Pane BUOY: HE BOWS Oe Mibiane Mh STIOs | can tell you I think you fellows +5 carn more.” Then he be yides @B8 as & kid for many years sold |0 leave visited the American Em | Licut, Balough of the British Army is seen pe Jare a lot of poor simps to let Your! oyira work at night, or taking fee papers along the water front in San rer 4 Berlin ae, ener he graphs, is not merely toolhardine: wives put It over you lke that!” |O1 tne market. Ones ia ane did ‘ . an saw Mrs, rd and asked her { vie {a @ te : ogee ar PASSRE NOLES) LHS! 8) ang could forward a letter to wv the war circumstances often arose in ould be One day this man’s office mates) he became the millionaire of his wife's got : sister in She told me [ ful for the obverver of an aeroplane to be able to leave decided that, like Cousin Egbert, | expectations, and she took an apar “I came to New York in 1893, and Tpoiaab aie “ai Hs aye DA ‘Eka hee pit Ae ih be aye they could be pushed just so far./ment in Paris while he and his office enlisted in the navy, and after helpins | pr iy sataue thal i : ‘ climb around to make adjustr They threw themselves bodily upon! tived together in New York 4 Nin baamnin te as, and she took me in to + : ‘ | mt ee Bettina Maino In commia-| st) Gorard, He naked wee tee eet from another aeruplane, Vieut. Ballough i him, pintoned bis arms to his sides) nq far greater number ‘a mon, I took French leave in 1896 be : os i" said lati - Fao tue UL pustRATED LONDON MENS and placed large, rough hands OVEr | s:ances, however, he ran nec 1 cause my sister was having trouble feats can Le performed in comparative safet : th * neck an In \ fea anna a |his protesting mouth, — neck witb his debts and mounting ex with her busband and 1 thought I Solitary the observer has ihe “nerve” to do them i a ao fi s Gould help her. Well, 1 went back Confine® | peneen Uns the “pace Chat: Kile’ d Y RENE Aa - jit, and his widow had to face tho heme and helped her and then went | problem of living d ( te Alaska, where I worked in the | my roll with great regularity and kept) over a month, in solitary confinement Dp iving wn to his life mines and made a pile which [| |raying that I was sending out men|T could get no satisfaction, no an. insurance, Siimeptly came back and lost over the Jand making my pians, but finally I} swers to my queries, ‘Then I fell back ‘There are other and subtier mani gambling tables. ‘Noticed tht things were getting un-jon the square-heads to get me out festations of road-hoggisiness ) ve Pleasant so 1 quietly disappeared, | 1 managed to indu Germans t ; Marriage, [ often think the persons “In May, 1895, I wont to Seattle ard questions that 1 apy \ s ue PgR DEM yn , , \wI ll of helped organize the Ist Montana Regi- ¢ yaoi answered frankly.) made my way to Frisco and from] give me money to get to Mexico, say MAbLE SS LOVE LETYERS TO HER ROOAIE who believe all of us have multiple ei . | (hen he gave me a hundred marks in! thence to Cuba. There 1 went to work|ing that L could be of valuable we jPeronalities never have observed ment and went to the Philippines with goid and told me toh ' le ger : | i assiving at Cavite ca Aus a ine to have a gvod time. jin tho mines at Manalbria, 1 wes vice to them there, They fell for it By Florence Elizabeth Summers arefully the mato of a road-hog. He mn my way out | met Mrs. rard” there ouple of months and the|and as soo: 1 gg x | (or she) has not even one 1 © aw service during the enti aid here a couple of months a e/and as soon as I got to Mexico 1 i 5 SCNAIAH ao RON TNE Stabe J personality @urrection, and when Col rr / And told her thawit by any chance/ Lord knows how they located me,!tried to get across the line, 1 was LUA ErOt OBE DUN NGLa Se ON tatAd: BiAnes Like Troy, it WAS, but the hoad hos Bruce Wallace was shot through the ser a should be dragged into thia) when 1 got a telegram calling on me warned that | was a spy and that if ERE BILL ‘ooted out all its tratts as persistent! 4 gags on Fob. 9, I rescued him. He pee - yeu be the first one out! to report to the military attache at]! attempted to cross 1 would be shot hare aint Milo mew oF wolig to write about. Tievve Rot | as a four-footed hog roots for truffles and would make i back with 4 what} so T we ; j ‘ Lake | " he Sap . Kyas to recommend mo for the Motil invaluable. inforeaston ae uae) with) Madrid. 4 didn't have any idea whi | #0 1 went to Emenada in Lower Call Guffy in jail for slackin, Nellie inmost went crazy. I was sorry for| o. hg jeans Pas wife ever to he @f Honor for this but 1 guess hOtey And | wen th SaMF j't meant, but ax money followed it 1) lOmin ‘and reported there to thejher so I went over to see what was goin on. Trouble had softened her! eed bi Pires gy that stop halt ne to ent arrived Madrid yer merican ¢ sul, old hi nie ” | Nev n Sergot, 1 saw some service in the! 1 then went to sce’Mr. Gerbardi | b al i ; i ‘ ne rere ead REA OWE iy i sd ake hag Cousiderable an she fell on my shoulder a cryin. My hearts big Bill, 60 T Hoover says—I don't merely on ibeie and then when my time wastang sum Went ate s| ber, 1916, and found that it was m c formation and seked him wasivingvand tried tolcomtort her, It sceme Guay never did want to 60 Peageedla daa i 0 have Mreturned to the States and went e had been! og jan friends who had a mis-! to get me in communteation with the a 2 zt fish sarved on MY table. I don’t care $ito work for Gen, Shafter on his shipmates together on the old Maine! sion for me to India and Movoceo. 1|proper Government authorities, Final, ™8Ch First he had that government job, then he found he wasnt high Ito wee any of those radical writers oe werk RAR CLIPSPNIG AL Peere AHO wee DlOWN UD; I'told Blin {oid hem: that 1 was being followed! 1" theieeent a man to vee 7 He hough up to be exempted so he got married an claimed he had to support like Shaw and W. L. George in MY leat the wanderlust get the better! rat! there Wan anything in the way! ang 1 better lay low for 1 while, 1{cume to whero I boarded, heara what Nellie. That didnt work cause Nellie always has supported herself at the jhome.” ‘Thus the busy male road ao : age : f information he needed 1 was there! collected at $10,000 with whieh I} 1 had to say and went away, Vinal- | Silk mill and they said she could do it again if need be, so Guffy tried to hog {n his pureuit of his wife's sar- an Thai a i to give it to him, In fa 1 was on! had an exceptionally food tim Ijly when | got no word from him [) buy a farm, hearin mers wouldnt have to go. Before he got the deal | torial, gastronomic and literary in- While in Shanghai 1 was appr 1, hand with a whole history of milttary jFemained there until July 1% 1917, | turned myself in on July 20 to the ‘closed, they drawed his number an he went to be examined at the ex- |clinations, ‘ P » L owmation ¥ “ by Gen. Dess: 4 tha Honan A Ae ns ere | “When Mr, Gerard was coming out) Government avthorities, Twas turned emption board. They ought to a took the board to him then an sent him ‘How can you have that cheap and and asked if 1 wanted to Be ispess se ee td Salled in} of Germ t his valet, Frank) ever to Col, Uline of the 2ist In-/fiyin, but he claimed somethin was wrong with his feet. If theyd ever a |vulgar man for a friend? You b he chief Germ: elligence OF) n “ antry al A lego, « « “f f y r Escaping in The amaa one? Q j ; PDAs Wana ky) AD Mae Diego, California, Gov- | seen him dance I reckon theyd have believed him. You know how he always aanan * wet any lotters you are net bs offic nthe et bi vome here was, how-|erninent agents brought me to sh | 3 " 2 packing r\ eral Stat building fb back h Th how nts brought me to Wash- | rag one foot. Most of the girls couldnt dance with him but I got on to it ROFSROHY ing for ME to see. I'm 4 bullding Hover, that absence without leave to| ington where I was promptly thrown | sure that I don't see why you should \ : j a and whenever hed drag that game foot, Id drag one of mine. 1 ought to| I And Ube wtrabisitened 4 th the army, | iH olitary confinement, ‘This t ee 4 buy a new sult—the one you are zuve him a sample he was! Would Mr. Gerard straighten it out/ spent in a police station ia Wash-|B@ on to it. Member that night we was mad an I got stuck with him wearing 1s perfectly good.” 1 convinced he rald, We want you tol 4, wenn a — |ington, Finally on Sept. 26th atter|Nellie said the next night after that dance they was out ridin an had a the female of the apecies, who Fe go to Russia~-choose your own route | q being arraigned before the Atliea|Puncture, They didnt have no tire nor pump nor patches nor nothin, censor her husband's friendships, und obey orders.’ I was tickled to Council Twas sent to New York, Dur /an she says Guffy got out and took a look an says “Well, looks like we!“SHE FELL ON MY SHOULDERS | correspondence and wantrobe, . leath to get ou 1 kept looking ing the time that they were question- | was stuck as bad as Mable Gimp an me was at the dance last night.” But A CRYIN” Oh, DON’T be a road-hog! Ls t , of moncy ah mea mes hs around all the time to get in touch | ing mo they took me out one day.|{ told Nellie it was nothin like that cause if tt had been she an Guffy uae ask o it 1 we » into ¢ nh agents th 4 something st ep aga he wit ne : e geen a eae wa iale Cares) with emenis . Het had, something | Prewence. ot a eatnat, the wall in the | vould be gettin out there in that flivver yet. She told him too, cause he EVENING WORLD PUZZLES pan and get him some infor-| wort ing. Finally they notitk rresence © squad of soldiers, 1! i well, the pric offered be- )me to go to Copenhagen, a A thought that 1 was going to be shot | was awful cool for a day or two, Theyve got him in a cooler where 4 eee Wells the piibe he offered hee | me to go to Copamhawen. and ¢ sallod Ws @ Npy, but 1 turned to the bish| Keep cool now I reckon, till the Boshes begin to make it hot for him By Sam Loyd cheaper, for I could have got one ing very 0 went, and ulthoush! on Oct. 15 on the Frederick VIII Government official who had mo in vattin Aiitin in their shirt w Talking About Chickens | °"'¢ke™ more for the same money! B bed several very narrow escapes,’ riving in Now York on Nov. 2, 1915.!(uy me? 1 waited for some time and) *harge and You can shoot me| All the girls are gettin little crossed guns to pin in their shirt wai alk Chicken’ “Oh, dear! oh, dear!” eald Mrs @pce when I was tipped off by the!1 called at the Cor ‘ le time a if you want to, but I'll go to my death !an some of em are carryin little canes their soldier lover sent em. [ hear 3 is an odd little problem | ograay; « ‘4 ° vy y alled at the Constiate and was) when 1 didn't hear trom him I went| with @ clear gonsciente thar k wenn ie it (i tor esas picked up in a crosstown trol- | 0 Grady: “If the price of poultry goes Corean got away in a | given money—3,000 ‘bucks.’ 13 lived!to ghe American consul at Madrid,| betrayed my gountrs {they dont cost but a dollar an a half. 1 say thats p ne pleasure ley car, You see, Mre O'Fla,|UP St that rate on the pound every f packing cas ip in Yokohama) swell, I then went through to Frisco,| put gut no word. Then 1 went| ,"Lrecelved my cha |u girl gets out of things like t herty was returning from doing the| 2%" What would those chickens be pee, ints h me In, sor ¢ Ther twee instructed 10 Ko to Yoka-|t Ambassador Willard, who asked | (yf Beniember, | My ‘al Yours | marketing for her pension francais,| VPC? t¢-morrow™ i jothes and passed mo out as hama, whence I was sent to Naga. |; my § rt, then took it away| 1919 . MABLE | 9 d F | to see my n took tt away) 1919, During that p ny and speaking to fer sister Pi man ned to make my) sak\ ond then 0 Ghangh from me ing ‘I can't do anything| kept bere in’ solitary confine | by Frederick A. Stokes Compa Mrs, O'Grady about ANSWER TO WORKING CAPITAL, # May through Japan und ¢ How In Shanghai 1 was gold by et sa) 1 several calle unanl (The of! was all by way of The ov Tica of DERE BILL Letters {s published in book f Bate ee PUZZLE. @id I know tho tangu Say J German agent that 1 was to blow up/tne ambassador and } etary, ana| Slt ee net atime A: ‘| | remarked: “Here| 7° make change for any purchase t g of eleven tha ve Ivkoutsk tunnel a Lpellfi wit who , "rs a snes us ayo hat I ‘i Ivh wi i ve ; } told them t on April 1% representatives from the| was on against mu Mr. the story that has been sent out that }1902 and she divorced me in 191¢ is @ lot of poultry | Under @ dollar the children must have d up in my tra his would need a lot of money and embassy, with gendarmes, entered the Gerard's Valet, who testified that in| she identified me as a spy and led to|was a nice gir! and I thir that I bought to-| had elght col; p*ip 1910 when Madero started his he handed over $2,000 whicn 1|Grande Hotel, where 1 was stopping, Madrid [ told him of my desire to ald | my arrent, | guve mys if wp; nobody [was perfectly justified. Hu leery Ren eaing cop repre yess 2 ie > tro: in Mexico | co t , sa | aa * my country identified me, Another thing: [never|hope that that queen in Madrid we . a » nt o $ juble 1 commanded the promptly blew in gambling. Say—lI/ arrested me, and threw me into “I have written a lotter to Mrs,|doferted my wife, 1 was married to|is waiting for me when I get outhol 1 could have got/cents, two nickels, a two-cent ‘piece % Wereign Legion and held the rank of | had # great time in Shanghal.) { lost Spanish dungeon, 1 was there for Gerard, asking her to please correct Bteus of Dayton, O, inthis place,” on * " yeaterday tor a dollar on the dosen and two Denne pe ae 4 noes”

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