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raiderty* Rr,thrnt time the ncw'.'rflL'Xho •Ehimjce’s, arrival In V\'^l Indian wa fers had been spread. .apparently by v in li-ss,. v f(ii - her rakish form and great Kpffd bad excised curiosity and alarm, and,each time he sighted a vessel she would vie i r pfr and speed a w ay as fast for San Juan, T„ JL, whore .shr thatrthe news of a 1‘msshiti sen in the West' Indies had heen <ir< \s soon as ffe went ashore and - saw iHe r r**ncn consul Jie was a*-keg *' no had seen.any signs of the* raider. . “1 nm the raider.” Captain'Tritton tohl the- consul.' nt>d after lie had ex* p)alrie*f the French official insisted on faking t lie uJIicers of tie* ...vessel oil ^htu’e aigl Iren ting Jtliem to.dfiitieri . **--••-* Two-Mort* - Vessels fTtSUtetT - tfo.iri'K>im of San-.fuaii after night fall,.the FlolHinee..pie|;ed up two tiler* eliautinen. rutuhtm with their lijihtk Nen Hindciiburg, the eti , . x hljons. ror of t’.ennany and Von .Lndendorff studying n.a into th** { p**ft. norkiag Ht uiine <e,, i- iiniil 1111 ,\ uiii- irained on few moments later a boat's tetaji bluejackets. armed to eaTne tumbling over his side. r was the Jeanne- d'Arc and ip' command of the small ■bitVrh—disappointrd w*Iiptt *.mu: at i VHi '’le i, I r...>show's hug*' eon his dalh ration' of r d wine, and it i* d which was to place her in the freight “If 1 had come In I would have played my searchlight on flic port,” Trittori said he replied, anil the got- ernor told him If he ha/1 there prob ably won!d have been iti) evodns from th< r town. I'll-'~"jpTZZ i death is soon to occur. • . ■ . —But whatever the origin of the mat'di sii]id*t*Ktif ion,’" II is a firmly fixed one, rhe cigarettes of tw<> ci»nii>;'iuLems .wi.t 11 the match, he has fits* lived to. light ■his -own.- Try it in LrimbRi-rpit; any place w.lH-re Englishmen *>r sphjjers ijre found and .the qffVnding tujitHi wilE.be kiMK'ketl t runr-ye-nr hand. \ * • Means Speedy Death. Tlre-'ehaps from the treiu lies say that T lie " t i gtrr i ng of- fh r» e ci ga l et t (*s with one march* meads the speedy death .of mio, if tint all three of the group, and they .will cite voti.a-Junidrei] and On dntrtiniTlKl Tht* yartn fbkcTied a ■ Haiti . uiu dares t" Indd it hr "contempt Gxeut Iiuigua, —:'i Ui the* we v - from lb C re—t~h i r I' 1 1 nr'i ntrt* - passed between Torktgn "island and I’orto I'aix. .on the mainland i*t HTtvtl, passing through- file -funnel-like straits with an 8.Vmile gale behind her. <'ap- tain Britton said Unit once in tiie straits he could not turnxhuek ahd could only keep 14s ve^imfgoing Indore the \tind, with nil Hie steam lie could' <*ro\Vd on, ?to give -her steerage way.. She nmde Agul bajrwith difficulty. htiv- ing no pilot, and went howling’ t hrough 4 tinn PAtNTS ALFONSO BY PROXY Spanish Artist Uses Wax Figure, for Portrait of. the "King of Spain. /• Madrid. King ,YU'ohW». absorbed I Ids occupation, lias been unable give the mvessary nnntncf' of sit tip ^W i t*nr’irv VaVapt**/. who is iniiiisfged -1»:iifYttfTg-the-Trtrmarefr's rmrin.i s:-v. Vasijiiez. however." lias solved the d faulty. No the reefs In the chains sounding. Captain Trit- ton was able to brinjt her. in to safety without 'tafldeih. Makes for Cap- Hatien, ' T From there tire “FlorettTf made for Cape Hatien. meeting on the way the of men. were httlet^l ih n house far .buck’ from the. battle line v There had twd .been»a shot or sliell <lruwpt‘d ftv-... . - — • ^ - there sifting jjt.a familiar pose'm tie tinifonn of a entonej erf InfantryA - ♦ If one examines tin* spvendgni at tentl^ely-tt-ran be seen thrrtdTe ret aim hlR immovability—It Is a waj-flgn n which represent# Him. The figurejidt attitude of Alfonso have been exact!' mal,tor at wfffrt time one some idea* of the relative size bf>ig- tain dlstanLconntrie* by saying, "t'aiic bodtada abenF*#! large na Slntih"—Uut- A new Recruit, ijust^r over “from HI I ^jTltlghty,” a# - they gall - England nr Dutch steamship Orange Nassau, on home, had passed a l»ox of ciga/^tuar h«r way to this port. Captain TTltton uiuohg—his new found friends. 1 He tfeok his vessel through tWbank* of struck a match and before any In. the Monte diristl, for he Idfuself was tak- group had, realised it three cigar- la* ao chancef gB meetiag Prussian ettea had been lighted. When ft sad-- vyhen one of fhe little girls attempted to repeat the Information hft a .written* exercise, she put it thus: "My gov*' copied land he will hnve 1 t i»- r *os«» and hanfla. PAQfc TWO. one on bmiyd who could speak French. -Storof FlorenoQ’s -Cruise dn West Inches Is .Stranger " Than Fiction, was sure that the Florence wn s ft I’rus- sinn raider. . • * • . Luckily fur Captain Tidtturi. lie found on shore Captain-Smith of the IVnited States .Atarine eorps, he said, and lie fo|(l,;hitu Ins troubles' Tin* American otllcer 'soon -straigirteiig/J out matters mid when the'yacht commander paid a •'"tid call, to the cidlector'v" •itliee, lie -tdrttnd Ttrrrt Tiie guards were taken 'off .and-the i‘"ioreiice it'fL 4*s 4011U IIS .she lnid Taken aboard fresh Water. -• * From Puerto Plata Hie Florence, run £ CONTROL OF THE 1 WORLD? Islands in Panic as Swift French ,B.oat Puts in at Their Ports-**“Captured" an Allied Warship as She Reaches Her Destination. New York.—How the steam vaclit ns possible. - f di .Fumiary gfi jthi* l ,, b*i*enCi.vsteauu'd into Puerto FMjita. where ,v|w foupd the fieneh -steamship Montreal and an Aknerinin sehodner rtt anchor, '(’apt a in Trittpu .brought loss vessel up i»‘t ween the tyViFuUd cairn-to aTl< hor.—^UNincc ,_.i t he F rench vessVJjgjiideJL wete thrnngi with tier people, for the yacht wits My ..-i^b^-enee-,--F^'nehFwwTit*rxr.ter"“ 11 ^^ Magr--•- + r --■*- -- * — yorized West Indian port# and made < ujuain I rjiton g<>t into trouble with BrlHsh- nu-gcha'ntni.en flee from her-be- j ,ni,,M ‘ l ‘bies/, > A pilot <-aiiie,iui board calls'c they iboughFshe was a-Prussum bisistciMhat, t.lic !• I.o.retlCe make fast to- (I buoy.. ■Then cable port'nu- hurnibg. As soon ii>vjhc valht loomed Minritiev, who asked til I sorts ofapies- up both vessels -/b MJsCdShri r liglits and tions; Two -civilians followed, and | lord, to their he» Se they lboughf -she was ii-Prnssian ralcler, was told in graphic language by her commander <’apt.'John Trittou, f when he called at tin* .New York Her ald Ship News office on Ids return to , this city. All unwittingly the Florence, on lier way Iron) this port to Marnnique, where slu* wuu^turiied bv.grJ.to f|er new owners, was responsible for much per turbation on the,.part of many mer- - chant vessels, according to Captain Trltton, nnd caused lieirrts iii ’French and Hritish West Indianj^iorts to skip aeveral lieats when Jier^ukisb.- form , was, sighted. Tli<» captain’s'story lays ^ were fold lo sheer off'. *Hall‘_:iit hour later two armed guiiK/ls wen* sent on board, and wlicn Capt'a.in Trittou went ayhoi c to tin* office of'the’collector of the* port In- found that tin* collector was om* of the civilians he had or dered off. The collector assertyd that false under - lie w ollld at rest the ghost of the mysterious raider that was reported cruising"Tii ~ -the West Indies. Stranger'Than Fiction. .The sjory jif the Flonmce's tup reads like-the wildest •of tfcti.qe--^Mic nmrcbanliiiiiu-wbo-VlghTFdher oil' (’upr Hatterks almost ran on the shoals in her efforts -to avolit rhc siit^dy erttft;— the governor of Nassau was convinced tlic Florence had come in pretetrees and tot*i him that haw?’to; pay a large bill of port charges, French Consul Mystified. In llo; iiicaiilirne tile French consul arrived and turf I il i g. t h: r f; the y: ieffK -uF Mag. TTad (in .FanuarvM the Fhlrciic** * at rort l'raact;, Martinique. «.lcstinati*i7i. 'IfTyas ilark wlvn "h* rtVcfl off the port, l*i11 ’Captain Trittou de ified That as the-weather was very rough lie wamid take a chaneo and go in. WirU all lights burning.' “looking I ike-* a. Moating Coney island;’’ its h** *:\p.res.v,.*l it, the. FloiVne** went past Negro Point.*''He blew his .whistle t . no SEEN AT A- DOG SHOW not i O'rJhose op -{■hiTre .t luit lie was nuu.- 111g*iit and.a-t ptiee it .battery of search-- bvJit'v was traimsl on liim. Fugles bleu TT^to quarters on shore and a .light signaled* hii,n to come in the fort. Instetiil ’oC (Tint' It*I that sin' entered that port for a sinis- ter puri>ose; the Fryixh. consul at T‘ue.rto PJata denounced her'as. a Frits Rian raider, and When she ffually dashed into the harbor* of Fort de „ France, her <lesigiiatii.UF jshc ,n:irroA ly • escaped being blown out of tin* water by shore batteries and the guns of the French cruiser Jeanne d’Arc. .•‘ , To uiidiTstaml the story of the Fl**r* ence one must )»egin at tin* beginning. .Unfit in 1!tod, by Lewis Nixon, at tier" Crescent ship yards, Flizabcthtowii. Nj J., and christened tire Czarina; sin* waV sold SOTTIF .Vfflw In let* to Jdliii i'. Ehtbii"" of Toronto, Onnmtftv and rcnam«*d tin* Emeline. At the onUireak of the war she waslumexlmuw-lTv- h+nv foi (In* use of the Canadian coast guard, and once more reeliristetied, this time the Flor ence. She was sold a short time ago to t lie SdeieU* (Jl'lU'fTiTeTle Transports of Martinique, a French concern. tile ca .Morse , behind ••(•nliiiU'-d fff (iillUJ *. . . . — - Hr. brrnght "trfi close to .two Ve -sep. which ill once turned searchlights on hum —ib*—M+T-fed—his *'W,n f«*h 1 iirhT- Freirrtr'cruiser. Tiie ci’itiser’s -guiiv SPANISH WINE FOR THE FRENCH -T- **■ •.*. - -. . A • ^ - i - 3 M % — i * ^ SCLDiERS servk'o' in Hie West Indies. S1i*\*came fr*»m (’anadii to New York, ami was I refitted for her new. service, leaving! this port under eommantl oM Captain M'rit.fon and a crew of l.Von Jmumry 8. From tin* time she left New York, < hie of i in freak- t lung- show of 11n* Westminster i n. \ e \v- Y ()rk w J i s nr l re L r t• ** who' came, froin South Africa i il l he Kelillel keim'el In* found rtTTiT lie was"not 'cgpf uring I'r.usvian raider. Taken as Transport. Wire.n dawn eame'flie Florence.fmiiid that she *, ;,v Miehored .befw.et'll the - .liCiMie d AY*'and the Mag*lalena;of, the ‘ TTiiyTjl NI;iiI Ste.'im l'aek**l line, in serv- ice as a transport. Tin* Magdalena was lakhgTio V li;ni*;« s. and her stern gmi ■ “TVTr^ MfhWWTTTTF yncTTtJ- Tr wra's W**v -- , ■ r-oi hours hefore (‘aptaih Trittou wav id* 1 to assure tin 1 port authorities that libs vessel was really the Florence. • \hieh they ,\ ere expecting. They'ex plained to him Hint* they had never i'clievisl that lie would attempt to j*t)iake port at night anil that bV had i narrowly esnapi'd being, lire*!* Upon by ! thW-sltrO'e batteries at Negro Foint. . 'j ■He" receive"! a severe repriiiiaml. lie lid, and was tin n told to take h?s yes- into tlfe iun».*r iVsfn.' wher*» -sin* Frbneh ■nrt;-rmt. pi^rrMlTTe7T TRAINING WOMEN FOR ARMY COOKS WILfrnWAKE BOLIVAR STATUE j.wore a L*i/ig through Ids,nose and.-was-j-si I . , ! alrniist as much looked at as /lie dogs. >< Captain Trittou said, sin* met nothing The jdiotograpli show s hity *A\ itli was formally turned-over to the, agents illiuUJgL' onn ul'...t.lnMu:iy.e winners. but heavy vyea the'r. The Florence went sliihimiug through tlr«* ruck at a of t he French' ow tiers. good-clip, for Captain Trittou'had or ders to deliver' .her as soon as possi ble, On JrmwAey IT-^e- made H/rinp* ton 'Itoads. • Leaving flitxe the. next,, day she ran Into her first adventure. She passed Hntterns that night, and,' according to Captain Tritton, went side the light veaSeF" A jnefi hiuif iiiah iTr^trange Superstitions, Coming .going the same way also was passing Inside. Merchantman Flees. As 1 the yacht. logging a gqod Id knots, came racing through tin* heavy seas, with occasional tlarties spurtingJ from her funnel, the merchantman ; tnriicd ITTsTnire in an effort to^get out \ of her way and make the 'three-mile limit. She was iilioi*st in the shoals before she turned out again. Hy that time the Florence tvas w**ll by. The Florence made Nassau, Halia- rrias, and on her arrival those aboard saw a great disturbance on shore. Sol diers could be seen nssemld’iug, and From Trenches, Take Firm Root in England. ^ OF DEATH m when the captain went ashore In* found an automobile awaiting him. He was hurried to the home of the governor, jmd there underwent four hours <rf gruelling before he. could make the an- Lighting of Three CigareUe^From One Match Means Death to One or 1 Mofe of* the Smokers-^-Origin *. of the Superstition. group what had for T tJvirlTi UtV.t Lu; i ■; ,anXy-. ... J .1 IX* X 1. ' London.—With every.; month of the great.war now superstitions are- con- r tin unity tin'dihg'origii'i among the rank j. a ml Tfte'mf tin* rtrltish soldirryrr These sup«‘rstitmns ar*> speetiily iutroduced into cTvil life and London l.<—rapidly becoming one of the most suiH'rstTHpus T ities in the world./ 4t would seem, ab liome on leave had represented hiiriself to be. “If you huiLcome in at night,” he said the governor told him. “You would have ’eansed. a riot.” ' . “If I had come in I would , that every man home on of things' that d»*nly ilawik'd on . tin ow fully a minute. “Too had. old chap.” finally re marked Tommy to the newcomer! “but it nicanjv light’s out .for you, if not the three of you." The offender tried to laugh, his fears away, hut he couldn’t. Two hours inter tin* first, sliei! in* - -weeks struck the billet and. whefa tin* Tom mies had extricated themselves frmii tin* ruin they-found that all Hut the NtiOw’cofner from ’T.lighty” were v;if*‘. Thtvligli'ter of tin- tliri*** eigar**ttes with tip*' one mat* li lia*l Im**«ti in stantly kilhid.' ' , Origin of Superstition. "Tti*‘f** lire" 11i11nyb e\ |dan:11i(uTs >Ji* r this superstition. letK proliahly tti«> most plan sj I de is that a>t its being symbolic of the t lire** eatuUPsmibn ed at the coffin of thf* dead. It Iinsiwei Tim, eustoin to I> I a t wo at tin r nmmtf . I r ". I - j :: v - > . > 1 .*Vw a new parcel must 1 In* done or must not,be. done to avoid h rouble. " " ■ - -- — l’robnbjv the most gen** rally accept- **d superstition is that bf using one ■match to light tiir**** <*lgarcttcs. U-s1m- ply must h$»t In* d*rn*‘. 'I’ll** noncotn-. "bivtants Tire every whit as. sniM*rs|i- tious in this respect aS' Iho.soidiorv It *• r 1 in*- pluiost of the cofttn and one* at the foot, b*o for generations in England ahd Ire land it Jhas been • considered a J*ad -onueii t<T~have three hurtling ligbrw in a romft.* Whenever i.t is fojnd that three *andlps are burning in a room it is taken ns a eCrtaintv that The recent announcement *»f the Hritish gov»*rmnent that ir wLtlY ready and willing response. Already a dirge mimbor *if girls are in tralrdug at tiie special center at Dartfofd, and wheiT the.V have completed Their gehgnd course of military cooking and waiting, they will he drafted to different camps, —Photograph shows a view of oiie of the spacious rooms aT the Dartford school. ;i:i Amel’ica'n •nniiuin srulptor inis coin** - I’rum—tin.' g*lver-f>-- incut of Y**n**zii*'!a. Mrs. Sally .hfniev | Farnhaiu of New York lias received a commission from tin* South; American. * ^ government to make a statyc-of Simon ! Holivaf. tin* 111»<*r:itor, . in ••quesirian. women would form, that Is.to he presented to tlm tiui - -a JWy- --Yrndr'-tvy-’Ho* J VVnerwdmt ~ WITH THE RUSSIANS WEST OF RIGA government as a token of friendship and admiration; Twenty-five thousand dollars .is to he spent for the work. Mrs. •Faniliani is responsible * for tin* beautiful frieze on the ran-Ainerican building rn Waslrington, d*). (’., Tom- meiiuirating the discovery of Americ:^. It \vas he? first Idg siiecess. Why a Weather Bureau? *Fmr and cbid**f" is not tIie w on)y ^rcdi*’ti**n that the Fnited States iyOdUmr* hUMiu makes. Tin* “w-liy" of Its existence |s founded ujmhi th*; collection of many statistics fo^ farm ers and tin* ; issuance of wnrnings whetn the weather promises to bw *lan- gerous. olyjand and sea. Every'year the much abused weather man Auu\- tells cyclones, fjonds and-W*vcnrrt,v ceff’d •hc hot w**atiler,. HU prediction* are purtHstfatly' Imlpful to mariners. ^ kXlfnlfiytflVrtSIItfiate. m Thr* following stotw Is told'by BUh- , jpp.jyelldon in his recently puMlsTi^d ! J Rweollections and Hefletdiims r A gov erness once tried to give helspnpils