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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