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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
strino aelt

A belt made Of colored string ia a
novel accessory to milady's toilet It
Is made by crocheting the string, as.
ing a plain stitch, into the shape of a
belt. having the two fronts narrower
than the back For light-colored wash
dresses Manufactured string IL used.
but If 1t be dark gown or you wish
to match the color Of your tie in the
belt. make 1t of fine wrapping cord
that can be bought in almost any de-
sired shade.
Fasten 1t in front with a plain metal
or pearl buckle.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02

orally collarless. with three-quarter
sleeves, while the practical one is
high necked and long sleeved.
Another charming device for taffeta
would be to have the main part Of the
frock in a Powered or striped design
and the deckings OF plain. A yelling
with taffeta trimmings is also ADAPTED
to dressy effects, for most of the things
which are not of taffeta will be tat.
feta trimmed. Among the deckings
used on taffeta itself-and they are
many-is Hercules braid, a number of
the coat suits being trimmed in this
manner.
II a simple frock on these lines ia
needed, thin blue serge with touch of
black taffeta would be very modest and
yet smart as we'll.
Thin dressy materials of a CHEAP ma.
ture are countless. and the very smart.
est of these are made up In one.piece
manner. the gayer colors running to
puftings and shirrings, the staid ones
looking we'll with deep skirt tucks and
shirt waist suggestion Of the bodice.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
Squirrel Was the Messe noer.

The occupants of house at West
Midway. in Norfolk county. Virginia.
we're astonished at finding continually
in the fireplace small pieces Of paper
that had been dropped down the Chin
ney from some mysterious source.
When the owner began watching out
side the house he saw squirrel run
up the roof and enter the chimney. It
was concluded that the messages had
been sent down by the squirrel.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
One He Didn't Break

The man who sometimes spoke his
thoughts aloud had been more con.
cerned with the things OF the world
than with things spiritual One day
his hand fell upon book containing
the catechism OF certain Protestant
church. and he was soon earnestly
engaged In reading the Ten Com.
mandments. For some time he pom
dered over the Thou shafts" and
Thou shalt nots." which had been
forgotten almost since childhood.
Then, laying down the book with q
sigh, he muttered We'll. I've never
killed anybody. yWay."-Every.
b0dy's Magazine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
Preached While He Silent.

Very curious was the case OF Sim.
con Watson, Woodworking, indus
trious Englishman. aged about 80, of
athletic habits and active tempera-
ment. who, about 1926. began preach
ing in his sleep. His trance or sleep
ing fit invariably lasted as long as the
ordinary noncOnformist service, which
he was in the habit of attending. The
attacks became more frequent as time
went on. and he would go through the
whole OF the ordinary chapel service.
praying, reading the bible and preach
ing.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
when They Came to the Fold.

A Boston clergyman tells of gen.
tleman in that city who has a some
what patronizing manner, due to the
exaggerated notion he has OF the
amount of bad blood" that runs In his
veins. When not long ago this man
was introduced to a Syrian OF good
birth and education, who lives in Wor-
cester, the Hubbite blandly inquired.
during the course of their converse.
ton: MAY | ask If you are of the
Christian religion The Syrian
smiled. MY family" replied he. was
to Christ's teachings at the
time of Johns second visit to Leb'
anon"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
White Bathroom.

A small bathroom is much bet.
ter in white paint. There are ex.
cellent enamel paints to be had
which can be used on plaster and
woodwork alike, leaving q finish
that water will not harm. says a
Ladies' Home Journal writer. /
should advise very light cream
and then with a blue-and.white
cotton rug and bath mat you will
have very fresh and pretty bath.
room.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
Dressing the Bed.

Tho bed is receiving q good deal a,
dressing these days. One Of the mo.,
splendidly appareled ones has q cover
with brocaded velvet center. a via.
oand OF point Do venise, and for the
border . band Of seal. A huge bov
OF Old rose ta3sta with frineed end.
10 laid across the bed near the font
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
UphoISterine and
Mattress Maxim

OLD MATTRESSES made ovor
FURNITURE REPAIRED.
CUSHIONS of all kinds maao
order. 70
CARPETS ad RUGS cleaned an,
laid; also mating, etc.
MIRRORS resilvered a Specially
In regards to workmansbi,
MI. W. ?. Pillins of Lakeland. wso
knew me for about 1e years at o..
iando' Fla. Drop me a postal c.ra
or phone Ga Red, No. All 8 ~.
Arthnr A nomol,c
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-05-02
LANGUAGE Of the Eyes.

The eyes of men conserve as much
as their tongues. with the advantage
that the ocular dialect needs no die.
tionary, but is understood all tho
world over.-Emers0n.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

women to look at, ana dbsinthe Jrappc
to drink. Dicu, Why do you speak
always of that?"
Schwencker did not reply at once to
Durand's peevish rebuke. Cor in Ber-
lin he unused audibly, Gin a pleasant
bierkeller, with a music playing and n
breeze in the branches overhead. Ach.
Colt, that boundary commission!
The commission had passed through
Bondoukou six months ago--a German
lieutenant, French lieutenant, and
three civilian engineers, German.
French and English. with an escort of
two hundred native firaillcurs, choppers
and chainmcn. For two days they had
paused there, during which time Bon
doukou was become as the Field of
the Cloth Of Gold The commissioners
brought whisky with them. and cognac,
and kummel. and the illustrated papers
OF the Latin and the Goth. For two
days Schwencker and Durand had rev
eled each in his native language. 1t
was talkfest. an orgy of language
in which the pink-and- yellow English
man alone showed moderation. Then
the commission had cut its way into
the jungle again, leaving two Tapping
flags behind 1.-THE blue. white and red
Of France over Durand's mud shack,
and the black white and red Of Ger
many over Schwencker's. But which
had the better right there? Was Bon
doukou French or German? Was il
In the domain Of Dahomey. and thus
an appanage Of the Third Republic?
Or was It in Togo territory, and thus
a city Of the empire?
Lieutenant Delafosse had privately
informed Durand that the place was
French. To Schwenckers agitated
query, Lieutenant Hufnagel had whis-
pered an unmistakable "Hoch der Kali
SER" Durand and Schwencker had
each kept his secret to himself for a
week after the commission left. Then
the truth seeped into the open. Some
one had lied
Durand was cynical about it. He
was dark little Frenchman who had
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

TIE peace or Europe. There was rise
on the Bourse. And month later the
news had reached the Guinea coast
and begun to tricl,le through the jun
gle toward Bondoukou.
In the meantime. the white popula-
ton Of that flourishins factorie con-
tinued to 60 armed. Durand and
Schwencker kept up their nightly In
terchange of visits, but their mutual
hatred and suspicion were barely dis
CURSED. Durand was mere cynical than
ever. He seoffed at Bondoukou and
anyone who manifested an interest in
lt--meaning Schwencker. As soon as
the place WAS properly allotted on the
mnn. he said, he would have the gov
ernor send him a company Of trial.
lcnrs to teach the neighborhood les
son. He kept his flag flying day and'
night. He boosted that 1t would never
come down. 1t was all the same to
him, only 1t would never come down.
Schwencker was less loquacious, but
he also kept his flag flying. He also
kept his revolver clean, But day by
day he was becoming more melancholy.
Why was he left In doubt? Was the
Fatherland forgetting its outpost? Was
the Kaiser forgetting his sentinel? He
sought relief In extra work. He got
tie head man to have the entire village
cleaned. He started Bondoukou's first
public building. a combination council
chamber and schoolhouse. He moved
about with a sort Of awful fatality.
Some Of the pickaninnies could now
repeat the first stanZa Of the "Lorelei."
ard pronounce such phrases as Schr
'cohl, mcii herr or Vie gent Is Ihneny
but they were grinninG less.
And one afternoon Schwencker called
on the head man and explained what
should be done II he (Schwencker)
should happen to die.
The head man liked Schwencken and
went that night to consult witch
doctor The witch-doctor said that the
big German was in grave danger, and
that to protect him it would be neces-
sary to sacrifice a goat. The head man.
who had his suspicious, wanted to
know whether the danger didn't come
from the other white man. The witch
doctor said no-that the forces Of evil
lay beyond the wide waters. The head
man suggested that they sacrifice a
black hen. The witch-doctor spat into
the ashes, and said that the danger was
drawing near. The head man paid for
the goat.
Sure enough. the danger arrived late
on the following afternoon. 1t came in
the form Of two packets. brought by
the same courier. one for Schwencker
and another for Durand. On their re-
ception the white population Of Bon
doukou withdrew each to the privacy
Of his own house.
Durand found much that interested
him; for his friend. the chief clerk at
Abomey, wrote him a note containing
information that drew from him an
exultant "Ei. Ell" And then. the very
next sentence read And it's q pity,
because We understand that forsaken
post Of yours has been tentatively de-
clared French"
Durand broke into chuckling laugh
that made his black sboy" show his
white teeth In a grin. That would be
news for Schwenclser. Durand lit a
cigarette and strollcd out to his porch,
feeling Differentiated than he had been
for months 1t WINS the Germans night
to call. and he awaited his coming com
placcntly. But Schwencker did not APP
pear. Durand became nrst impatient
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

almost black. Topi, hartebccst and wilde
beest belong to the same group, and are spc-
cialized, and their peculiar physical and
mental traits developed, in the order framed.
The wildebeest is the least normal and
most grotesque and odd looking OF the three,
and his idiosyncrasies OF temper are also
the most marked. The hartebeest comes
next, with his very high withers, long face
and queerly shaped horns; while the topi,
although with general hartebeest look, has
the features of shape and horn less pro-
\nounced, and bears greater resemblance to
his more ordinary kinsfolk.
In the same way, though it will now and
then buck and plunge when it begins to run
after being startled its demeanor is less pro-
nounced in this respect. The topi's power
Of leaping is great; have seen one when
frightened bound clear over companion.
and Immediately afterward over high ant
hill.
The herd Of topi we saw was more shy
than the neighboring zebra and hartebeest.
There was no cover and l spent an hour try
ing to walk up to them by manoeuvring III
one way and another They did not run
clear away, but kept standing and letting me
approach to distances varying from $50 to
600 yards; tempting me to shoot, while new
ertheless ! could not estimate the range ac-
curately, and was not certain whether | was
over or understanding. So | fired more
times than care to mention before | finally
got my topi--at just $40 yards 1t was a
handsome COW, weighing 200 pounds.
Kermit's Red Letter Day.
The next day was kermits red-letter day.
We were each out until after dark he killed
two cheetahs and fine named lion, finer
than any previously killed. There were
three cheetahs together. Kermit, who was
with Tarlton, galloped the big male, and.
although it had miles start, ran into it III
three miles. and shot it as it lay under a
bush. He afterward shot another. female,
who was lying on stone koppie. Neither
made any attempt to charge; the male had
been eating tommy.
The lion was with a lioness, which
wheeled to one side. as the horsemen gal
loped after her named mate. He turned to
bay after a run of less than mile and start
ed to charge from distance of 200 wards:
but kermit's first bullet mortally wounded
him and GRIP .oled him SO that he could not
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29
DERLEY PORE SHEEHAN

and expressed the same tastes in lit
crature AID art. From the perfect
Preach they spoke, 1t would have been
impossible to tell that while one had
been born III Paris. the other was from
beyond the Rhine.
~: wanted to 60 to Pierrefonds TO-
morrow. confessed the young French
man gaily. "but I suppose that We mus.
finish up that wrctched boundary qucs-
ton"
And I was invited to shoot at Yer
sailles. but I suppose we must work. :"
Work on Dahomey." said the French
attache lightly: do you suppose 1t
really matters?"
COR Togo" added the German. ~
doubt II 1t really exists" They both
laughed.
Il tell you" suggested the French
man. Come over to the DUAL d'Orsay
now and We'll settle II up tonight.
1t will be a mere matter of fifteen
minutes"
Bravo" cried the German. "Then
we'll have tomorrow to ourselves"
Their session was longer than fifteen
minutes, for they had so much to talk
about. They would work out para
graph Of their report. then stop to chat
about the way some woman they had
seen at the ball was dressed. Then
they were invariably mislaying their
cigarettes or matches, or hunting
around for more paper. 1t was anus
ing to work like this. without 4 sec
rotary. but 1t took time.
"And now, about that cursed vii.
lage." said the French attache. what
10 It? Timbuctoo, BonkOutou--"
"Bondoukou," answered the German.
leaning over the map. 1T seems that
those confounded surveyors simply
lodged the place altogether"
The Freedman yawned. The devil
It's getting late. You take It."
mo, you take It,"
mo, you"
"Oh, here" cried the Frenchman at
last. pulling a coin from his pocket
and Tipping 1t to the broad table.
Heads or tniis:'
That was the way two great powers
settled the question Of Bond0ukou.
After 4 few weeks. the news reached
the waiting world that an international
commission had come to friendly
agreement on questions that menaced
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29
SUNDAY CAPITAL NEWS, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER %, 1912

come at any pace and wasfeasily stopped be-
fore covering half the distance.
The following day was out by myself,
after impalla and Roberts gazelle; and the
day after went out with Tarton to try for
lion. We were away from camp for over'l5
hours Each was followed by his sails and
gun-bearers, and we took dozen porters
ALSO The day may be worth describing, as
sample OF the days when we did not start
before dawn for mornings hunt.
A Family of Rhinos.
We left camp at seven, steering for high,
rocky hill, four miles Off Continually, Tarl-
ton stopped to examine some distant object
with his glasses, and from the hill we
scanned the country far and wide; but we
saw nothing we desired and continued on
our course.
There was game always in view and
about noon we sighted three rhinos bull,
COW, big calf, nearly mile ahead of us.
We were travelling down Wind and they
scented us, but did not charge, making off
in semicircle and hating when abreast Of
us. We examined them carefully through
the glasses. The COW was bigger than the
bull, and had fair horns, but nothing extra
ordinary; and as we were II miles from
camp, SO that Heller would have had to
come out for the night if we shot her, we
decided to leave her alone. i
Soon afterward we saw another rhino, but
on approaching it proved to be about two
thirds grown, with a stubby horn. We did
not wish to shoot it, and therefore desired
to avoid a charge; and SO we passed three or
four hundred yards to leeward, trusting to
its bad eyesight. Just opposite it, when it
was on our right. we saw another hyena on
our left about as far off as the rhino. | de-
cided to take shot, and run the chance Of
disturbing the rhino. SO knelt down and
aimed with the little Springfield. keeping the
Holland by me to be ready for events.
A Circle of Deeply Interested Spectators.
Tarlton, whose eye for distance was good.
told me the hyena was over 800 yards off it
was walking slowly to the left put up the
5OO-yard sight and drew rather coarse
bead; and down went the hyena with its
throat cut; the little sharp-pointed full
lacketed bullet makes a slashinp wound
The distance was just $50 long PAGES AS
soon as | had pulled trigger I wheeled to
watch the rhno. 1t started round at the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

spent most of his life on the West
Coast. His ideas of patriotism We're
sordidly objective. All he cared for
and he avowed 1t shamelessly--was
plenty OF money to pamper his West
Coast conception Of luxury If he
could secure this as citizen Of France
all right. II he could not. well. for his
part. he would just as lief be citizen
of Liberia. 1t was all the same to
him. He would keep right on deliver
ing his company's goods and collecting
his rake-off from French or Mandingo
German or Kru; and when he had
enough. why, he was going to Algiers
The called it A1ger) and live like a
prince. There would be no more Da-
honey for him.
But with Schwencker 1t was differ
emf. He was the original white settler
He had arrived there a year ahead of
Durand. He also had come to trade
and barter. He also was the agent
of commercial company. But he had
made BondOukOu his home. He liked
to think Of 1t as an outpost Of the En-
pire. He tried to make 1t bit of the
Fatherland. He was beginning to love
1t. And Bondoukou was not a lovable
place as he had found II. There was
only one street, lined with square mud
houses. The street was broad enough,
but evll-smelling. Refuse Of piassava,
cocoanut husks, shells Of palm kernels.
nondescript garbage generally Uttered
It and made 1t natural grazing ground
for the long legged native sheep 1t
was here that the B0ndoukouans held
their weekly markets, when palm Oil
and palm nuts. peppers and foo-foo,
cassada and dumbboy lay exposed for
sale under q tropical sun In the midst
of sweat, dirt, dust and dies.
Schwencker planted him 4 garden
with geraniums In 1t. He had his
boy" clean the street in front Of his
house. He introduced the shelter OF
Nuremberg for the open market place
only here It was palm-thatch instead
of umbrella. He cured the head man
OF kraw-kraw. He taught him the
Lords Prayer in German. He organ
lied school, and tears used to come
into his eyes when the naked pickanin.
MES grinned and shouted. Elm. =,cci.
dric." The muddy. sluggish river that
waddled past the village to unite finally
with the Mono he rechristened the lsar.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

He was going to make this Ger
man city. worthy Of German genius.
and-icCrHn, nicAt?-a German wife.
Why do always speak Of that bou:,G-
:ry commission" asked S,hweatkcr.
IN tell you why. Because Eoadoukou
is German. l WIGS the first settler here.
and the commissioners know 1t. You
wait. It's part CT the German Empire. -
Schwencker's voice trcmb!ed as he
said 1t.
Durand's only reply was: "Oh. la.
la" and again. while an occasional
boom or Groom or scream or weird hal.
loo came from the immensely Of black
jungle around them: "Oh. la, la
But that night, when his door was
shut and he had pulled off his boots.
Durand broke his revolver. to see that
1t was loaded then he clicked the ham
mer once or twice. to make sure that
1t was in good condition. II don't
like the way he's beginning to talk"
he told himself
Schwencker, left alone, also exam
ined bis revolver. Behind him some
place was the Eatherland, the great
German Empire. He felt that. in a
way. it was all dependent on him. Tow
headed children and grave burghers.
princes and princesses. the Kaiser and
Kaiserin, were sleeping under the spar
king northern sky, but he was the
lonely sentinel on distant outpost. He
was keeper Of the frontier.
He vaguely suspected the approach
Of trOuble-what, he did not know. But
he was going to be prepared.
1t Is to be surmised that neither the
French nor German foreign onices
were greatly concerned about the exact
geographical position Of Bondoukou.
The Togo-Dahomey boundary was the
least Of. their troubles. When the re-
port Of the minor surveying expedition
came in. 1t was decorously referred to
a commission-along with other things
that was to meet in Paris, and then
the commission had gravely referred
this part Of its labors to two Of its
youngest attaches. Whereupon the
commission had gone to dine.
The attaches, being young and ex.
uberant. undertook their part OF the
work joyfully. They had both been to
a ball that night in the Avenue Mar
ceau. They had firted with the same
women, nattcrcd the same statesmen
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29

ECR thousand miles in all di-
rections-except To the south,
where walowed and shimmered the
sinking Gulf of Guinea - lay the
tangled, steaming West African jungle.
Durand and Schwencker knew this, yet
they hated each other. They sat in
the darkness in front of Schwencker's
mud house. Tomorrow night they
would be sitting in the darkness in
front of Durand's mud house. They
were punctilious in such matters. Du-
rand, as the latest arrival. had called
on Schwencker first, naturally: but as
soon as he had his house built he had
received a visit from Schwencker. and
then, next night, Durand had returned
the call. 1t had been going on like
that ever since. The jungle sounds
no longer interested them. The BOOM
Ing Of night-nying beetles or the occa-
sional scream Of a night bird were I'M
noticed incidents in the damp and sui
try oppression OF darkness that shut
them IN. Natives were grooming in
some hut at the other end of the street.
Now and then a weird halloo floated in
to where they sat from the edge Of the
forest as woman frightened a prowler
from her sheepfold. But the two white
residents Of Bondoukou sat together in
mutual distrust, thinking Of other
things.
II suppose that there boundary COM
mission Is to home already" said
Schwencker gloomily.
He spoke no French and Durand
spoke no German, SO they conversed in
English.
"Yes, Dieu! But why do you speak
always Of that? They are in Paris,
on the boulevard, where it is sweet and
cool, where there are no insects, no
niggers, no Jungle. and only beautiful