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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
SYNOPSIS,


Scarlet, an American soldier of for
tune in the employ of the French I'M
perial Police at the outbreak Of the Fran
co-Prussian war, is ordered to arrest
John Buckhurst. leader OF the COM
munists and suspected of having stolen
the French crown jewels While search
ing for Buckhurst. Scarlett lis ordered to
arrest Countess de Vassart and her group
of socialists and escort them to the Bel
gian border. Scarlett finds Sylvia Elven
of the Odeon disguised as peasant and
carries her tc La Trappe where the
countess coy and , her friends ga are assembled
Scarlett from a fatal fall from the roof
of the house. He denounces Buckhurst
as the leader of the Reds and the coun-
tess conducts him to where Buckhurst Is
secreted. German Uhlans descend on
the place and Buckhurst escapes during
the melee. Scarlett is wounded. He re.
house at Morsbronn, where he is cared
for by the countess. A fierce battle 10
fought in the streets between French
and Prussian soldiers. Buckhurst pro-
fesses repentence and returns the crown
jewels to Scarlet. He declares he will
give himself up to the authorities. Scar
lett doubts his sincerity. Buckhurst urges
the countess to go to Paradise. Buck
hurst admits that he receives pay from
the Prussians for information which ne
does not give. He secures passports to
tess and himself. Scarlett reports to
the secret service in Paris and finds Nor
nae, shadow of the emperor, in charge.
He deposits the crown jewels and later,
when making detailed report finds that
pebbles have been substituted for the real
stones. Speed, a comrade in the service,
warns Scarlett that Mornac is dangerous.
He also informs him that all the govern
nlent treasure Is being. transported to the
coast for shipment out of the country.
Gus. The circus arrives at Paradise. An
order is received by the mayor calling
the citizens to arms Jacqueline, daugh-
to give exhibitions in the character Of a
mermaid. Scarlet makes friends with
the Lizard Scarlet calls on the countess
at her home in Paradise. He finds Sylvia
Elven also there. He learns the countess
has withdrawn from the socialists. They
swear eternal friendship. The Lizard
learns for Scarlet, through one Tric-
Trac, that Mornac is head of communis-
TIC conspiracy.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
STRONG DEFENSE OF HER SEX
Miss HuIda Mutt Proves by Anecdote
That Men Are Just az Foolish
as the Women.

1T certainly does make me weary,
all these innuendoes in the funny pa
pers about the women. One would
think by zome of the supposedly face
tious jokes that we girls didn't have
enough intelligence to keep out of the
home for the feeble minded" remarked
Iiulda Mutt to her sister, Ina, as she
pointed to an illustration in the eve
ming paper.
"Now here, for instance, is re-
hashed story about bridegroom car
rying basket approaching marrow
creek. He turns to his simple minded
brideI Judge she must have been
simple or she never would have mar
ried him-and he offers to carry her
across the stream. This egotistical
male jokesmith has the bride make
the inane reply: But you can't carry
both me and the lunch basket We
would be too heavy. You carry me and
| will carry the lunch basket
''As q matter of fact that foolish
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
SETTLED THE JUDGES DOUBTS
Naive Statement of Convicted Muir
derer Removed All Question as
to His Guilt.

When Judge Stewart of Vermont
presided at the trial of negro charged
with murder of another of his race he
admitted afterward to friends that he
had serious doubts of the prisoners
guilt until he began to pronounce SEN
tence.
The negro had pleaded not guilty
and repeatedly, on being questioned,
had asserted with much emphasis, 81
didn't do it," The evidence was not
convincing, and the judge was sur
prised when the jury brought in a YER
dict of guilty. His doubts vanished,
when, after reminding the negro that
he had been tried by jury of II men,
etc, he said: ''It is my duty to warn
you that your days on earth are num-
bered, and it behooves you to avail
yourself of the little remnant of time
allotted to you to make peace with
God"
Just there the negro broke in with
the exclamation. "Ah done dat already.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
CHAPTER XIV.
Forewarned.

fOrGWaTnGu.
The lions had now begun to give me
great deal of trouble. Oh, they
knew, and l knew, that matters had
gone wrong with me; that had, for a
time, at least, lost the intangible some
thing which once possessed-tha oc-
cult right to dominate.
That morning, as left the training
cage where among others, Kelly Eyre
stood looking on-I suddenly remem-
bered Sylvia Elven and her message
to Eyre, which had never delivered.
my son." said I, politely, "do you
think you have arrived at an age suf-
ficiently mature to warrant my deliv-
ering to you message from pretty
girl?"
There's no harm in attempting it.
my venerable friend" he replied
laughing.
This is the message" l said: "On
Sunday the book stores are closed in
Paris
who gave you that message, Scar
lett?" he stammered.
= He was so young, so manly, so un
spoiled, and so red, that on an impulse
/ said; kelly, itIwas Mademoiselle
Elven VINO sent you the message"
His face expressed troubled aston
ishment.
rs that her name?" he asked.
"Well--it's one of them, anyway.
replied, beginning to feel troubled In
my turn. See here, Kelly, it's moi
my businesss but you won't mind If j
speak plainly, will you? / know
Mademoiselle Elven-slightly.. / an
afraid of her-and / have not yet de
cided why. Don't talk to her."
Butt don't know her." he said
"or. at least don't know her by tina
name."
Then who do you believe sent 20,
that message, Kelly?"
His cheeks began to burn again, ant
he gave me an uncomfortable look
A silence, and he sat down in m,
dressing room, his boyish head buries
in his hands. After a glance at hin
began changing my training suit TO
riding clothes, whistling the while soft
ly to myself.
'sMr. Scarlet / should like to tel
you about myself; -. was
clerk in the consul's Office in Pari
when Monsieur Tissandier took
fancy to me. and entered his balloon
ateliers to learn to assist him. Thel
the government began to make mucl
Of us .. you remember? w,
started experiments for the army.
! was intensely interested, and
there was not much talk about secrec,
then. l made an invention
little electric screw which steered
balloon sometimes !.
He laughed, mirthful laugh, an,
looked at me. All the color had gon
from his face.
There was a woman" I turne
partly towards him.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

battle flags from the Invalides, the
most important pictures and antique
sculptures from the Louvre, the great
er part of the gold and silver from the
Bank of France, and, last but by no
means least, the crown and jewels of
France.
These trains were dispatched to
Brest, and at the same time telegram
was directed to the admiral command
ing the French iron-clad feet in the
Baltic to send an armored cruiser to
Brest with all haste possible, there to
await further orders, but to be fully
prepared in any event to take on
board certain goods designated in
cipher. This we knew in a general
way, though Speed understood that
Lorient was to be the port of depar-
ture.
The plan, then, was simple; but, for
an equally simple reason, 1t miscar-
ried in the following manner: On the
4th of September the treasure-laden
trains had left Paris for Brest. On
| the 9Th the Hirondelle steamed out to-
wards the feet with the news from Sc
dan and the orders for the detachment
of a cruiser to receive the crown
Jewels. On the 9th the news and the
orders were signaled to the flagship;
but the God of battles unclaimed a
tempest which countermanded the or
der and hurled the ironclads into outer
darkness.
So, for days and days, the treasure
laden trains must have stood helpless
! in the station at Brest, awaiting the
cruiser that did not come.
Speed and already knew the secret
orders sent. The treasures, including
the crown diamonds, were to be stored
in the citadel. and an armored cruiser
was to lie off the arsenal with banked
| fires, ready to receive the treasures at
the first signal and steam to the
French fortified port of Saigon in Co
chin China, by course already deter
| mined.
Why on earth those orders had been
changed so that the cruiser was to lie
off Groix I could not imagine, unless
some plot had been discovered in Lo-
rient which had made 1t advisable to
shift the location of the treasures for
the third time.
Pondering there at the tent door
amid my heap of musty newspapers,
looked out into the late, gray after
noon and saw the maids and men oi
Paradise passing and repassing across
the bridge.
A few moments later drums began
to roll from the square. Speed, pass
ing, called out to me that the con
scripts were leaving for Lorient; so
walked down to the bridge, where the
crowd had gathered and where a tai
gendarme stood, his blue-and-white
uniform distinct in the early evening
light.
Attention." cried the officer, slim
hectic lieutenant from Lorient.
The mayor handed him the rolls
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

Though the parents of most of the
children dispense with table utensils
at their meals and convey food to their
mouths with their fingers, no Filipino
boy or girl can go through the primary
grades without acquiring a complete
education in the use Of knife, fork and
spoon. A graduate of this department,
If he profits by his instruction, will
never use toothpicks in public, never
tuck his napkin Into his bosom, never
reach across the table for the salt, nor
emphasize the strohg points in his con-
versation by wild gesticulations with
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

i, chestnut was first recorded about an
old man with basket of eggs and a
commercially humane heart, who, as
he boarded the street car, observed
that the larched necks and cruelty
docked tails of the two decrepit horses
In front, bespoke sadly contrasting
prosperity in their remote youth. The
old mans tender heart was touched at
the pitiful sight, and as he took his
seat in the car he gently lifted the
basket Of eggs out the window and
held them there all the way of his
journey to make the burden lighter for
the poor horses. So you see, Ima," she
added with an emphatic nod of her
head. "the men are every bit as foolish
as the women, If not more So"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

Il know" / said.
Somehow we always talked about
military balloons. And that evening
/. she was so interested in my
work brought some little
sketches l had made"
Il understand" / said.
| He looked at me miserably. "She
was to return the sketches to me at
Calman's-the fashionable book store,
J. next day. l never
thought that the next day was to be
Sunday, The book stores OF
Paris are not open on Sunday-but the
war office is."
Il began to put on my coat.
"And the sketches were asked for?'
suggested-"and you naturally told
what had become of them?"
II refused to name her."
so they sent you to a fortress 2"
asked.
ITO New Caledonia, four
years. =. was only twenty
Scarlet, and ruined.
l joined Byram in Antwerp and risked
| the tour through france.
"You never saw her again?"
'I was under arrest on Sunday. l dc
not know. l like to believe
that she went to the book store or
Monday, $. !. that she made an in
nocent mistake, but l never
knew, Scarlett, / never knew.
| Suppose you ask herr" said.
His firm hand tightened on mine
then he walked away, steadily, heat
I high. And I went out to saddle my
horse for a canter across the moor tt
Point Paradise
/ So by strange ways and eccentric
circles, like the aerial paths of hom
ing sea- birds, l came at last to the spo
/ had set out for, consciously; yet i
surprised me to find 1 had come there
/ A boy took my horse; servant ii
full Breton costume admitted me; thu
velvet humming of Sylvia Elven's spin
| ming wheel filled the silence, like th'
whirring of great, soft moth impris
oned in a room.
4 The door swung open noiselessly
the whir of the wheel and the sound o
the song filled the room for an in
stant, then was shut out as the Coun
tess de Vassart closed the door an
came forward to greet me.
i Are you troubled?" she asked, thel
colored at her own question.
mo, not troubled. Happiness
often edged with shadow. l am cor
tent To he here
i Her face grew graver. you mus
forget the past" she said; you mus
forget all that was cruel and false an
; unhappy, -. will you not?'
; "Yes, madame"
Il, too," she said, have much to fol
get and much to hope for; and yo
taught me how to forget and how t
khope."
"I, madame?"
yes, .. at La Trappe, a
Morsbronn, and here. Look at mt
Have not changed?"
YES" I said, fascinated.
/ picked up my gloves and riding
crop; as / rose she stood up in tn
dusk, looking straight at me.
will you come again?" she asked
I stammered promise and mad
my way blindly to the door which
servant threw open, flung myse
astride my horse, and galloped out il
to the waste of moorland. seeing notl
! ing, hearing nothing save the low ros
Of the sea, like the growl Of restles
lions.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

and the lieutenant, facing the shutting
single rank, began to call off:
"Roux of Bannalec?"
Here, monsieur"
Don't say, Here, monsieur Say,
Present. Now, Roux?"
Present, monsieur"
Idiot! Kedrec?"
Present."
"Garennei"
There was silence
Robert Garenne!" repeated the off.
Ger, sharply. Monsieur the mayor
has informed me that you are liable
for military duty. If you are present,
answer to your name or take conse-
Quencesi"
The poacher, who had been lounging
on the bridge, slouched slowly forward
and touched his cap.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
IN LINE WITH PARTY
Recently Elected Democrat Also
a Minority Congressman.
Owes His Seat, as Does the Admins
trat:on its Power, to the Machina-
tIons of Theodore Roosevelt
and His Bull Moosers.

The Democrats express satisfaction
with the Iowa result. Well, there
seems ground for the feeling. They
were first, the Republicans second.
Their man will sit in the house, and
help along the party program. True,
he represents only the minority OF
the district. But in that he is in
line with the national administration.
Mr.. Wilson is a minority president.
The present congress, even with its
topheavy majority in the house, is a
minority congress. Everything is
regular, but yet the minority is in
charge Of the government.
Spread this condition over the
country next fall and another Demo-
cratic house and senate will be the
result A child may do the sum. So
many votes to the Democrats, so
many to the Republicans, so many to
the Moosers. What cnre the Demo
Gratis what divides the opposition so
the division continues? They may
be cheerful, and should encourage
both factions. Go it Roosevelt! Go
1t anti-Roosevelt!
But the hope of the Democrats is
In Mr.. Roosevelt. For all practical
purposes he is their ally. He is do
ing their work. He put them into
Office, and If they remain he will be
the instrument of their success. His
strength Is dwindling everywhere,
but as long as it remains enough to
defeat the Republicans, the Demo
Gratis will remain under obligations
to him. The Republicans polled three
to his one in Iowa, but his one gave
the victory to the Democrats. Should
not the Democrats rise up and call
him blessed? Did politicians in need
ever find a better friend indeed?
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
Tariff Hits the Coast.

Republicans in California are or
ganizing for a vigorous campaign on
the tariff issue, with view to elect
ing Republican delegation to the
house in November. California was
a great beneficiary of the Payne
Aldrich tariff, and its citrus-fruit in
dustry developed remarkably, not
withstanding the long haul to the At
lantic seaboard. But under the new
tariff the competition of foreign fruits
is severely felt, and there has been a
corresponding revulsion of feeling in
California in favor of return to
high protection. The primary regis
trations of the state show plu-
rality of $4,000 Republican voters.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

'T am organizing franc CORPS" he
said
You can explain that at Lorient,'
replied the lieutenant. Fall in there!"
"But L"
Fall in!'' repeated the lieutenant.
The poacher's visage became in
famed. He hesitated, looking around
for an avenue of escape. Then he
caught my disgusted eye.
For the last time," said the fieuten-
ant, coolly drawing his revolver. 81
order you to fall in!"
The poacher backed into the strag-
CLING rank, glaring.
Now" said the lieutenant, you
may go to your house and get your
packet If we have left when you re.
turn, follow and report at the arsenal
in Lorient. Fall out! march,"
The poacher backed out to the rear
| Of the rank, turned on his heel, and
strobe away towards the coast
clinched fists swinging by his side.
There were not many names on the
roll, and the call was quickly finished
l
their sticks high in the air, there was
sharp click, crash, and the square
echoed
march," cried the officer. The
crowd pressed on into the dusk. Fal
up the darkening road the white colt
fes of the women glimmered; the
drum-roll softened to a distant hum
ming.
A shape skunk near me through thu
dusk, furtive, uncertain. Lizard"
said, indifferently. He came up, m!
gun on his ragged shoulder.
"You go with your class?" I asked.
mo, l go to the forest" he said
hoarsely. "You shall hear from me-"
I nodded.
"Are you content?" he demanded
lingering.
The creature wanted sympathy
though he did not know it. gave hin
my hand and told him he was brav'
man; and he went away, noiselessly
leaving me musing by the river wall.
After long while-or 1t may onl,
have been few minutes-the squar
began to fill again with the first group
of women, children, and old men VIII
had escorted the departing conscript
little way on their march to Lorient
Long tables were improvised in tn
square, piled up with bread, sardines
puddings, hams and cakes. Casks Q
cider, propped on skids, dotted the out
skirts of the bowling green.
/ turned away across the bridge ou
into the dark road. Long before
came to the smoky, silent camp
heard the monotonous roaring of m
lions, pacing their shadowy dens.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

the English language, reading, writing,
geography and the other branches ;
acquaintance with American history,
the Pilgrim Fathers, Abraham Lincoln,
the Constitution and such accepted
authors as Longfellow and Hawthorne
to raise their hats to ladies', to go up
and down stairs in the most approved
fashion, to sit and stand and walk ac-
cording to the accepted code, to be-
have with dignity and courtesy In all
the social crises of life.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

The South African natives in Boer.
land still preserve their old customs,
and one of the most curious is that
of carrying off girl for a wife The
custom is called "ukutwala," and the
girl, though not fndisposed to accept
the man. causes every obstacle to be
placed in his way
The suitor watches his opportunity
(after first placing so many head of
cattle in the kraal of the girls father)
and eventually carries away the girl
by main force.
The heartrending cries of the bride,
as she is carried away. are something
pitiful-a cry that pierces the heart of
Christian, but his pity subsidies
when he learns that in native Ian
guage it means:
Don't take me, but don't let any
one help me, because / want to go!"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
China "catIedr LIVINGSTONE.

It is not generally known that Liv.
ingstone originally had the intention
of devoting himself to the work of "a
pioneer of Christianity in China" It
was as such that he offered himself
to the London Missionary society in
1887, but when he had received his
diploma from the faculty of physicians
and surgeons in 1910, he found China
closed to him, as Great Britain was
then at war with the country. 1t was
his meeting with Moffat, who had re-
Gently returned from South Africa,
that led his steps to the Dark Cont
nent.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
Sea Monsters.

That "thresher shark" of fabulous
dimensions Just caught on the south
coast Of England is fast becoming a
formidable rival of the sea serpent
and the big gooseberry. He is fairly
common during summer around Corn
wall, where he does great damage to
pilchard and mackerel nets, in which
he completely finds himself, like a
caterpillar in his chrysalis. The
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

his knife. He will always say please"
when making request, respond don't
mention it, when thanked for a small
personal attention, never leave a room
without asking to be excused, always
rise when lady enters, and never
pass in front of people without po-
lite pardon me-"
All this instruction is given, not aca-
demically, but graphically and con-
cretely. Good manners are taught in
the form of set dialogues and little
one-act plays. Selected children enact
the several roles of father, mother,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
TEACH RULES OF CONDUCT
Ing Aims In Instructing Children
of the Philippines.

The latest publication of the Bureau
of Education at Manila is an elaborate
treatise on good manners and good
conduct for use in primary grades. -
1t represents an entirely new colonial
experiment-an attempt to use the
rules Of etiquette as civilizing force.
Filipino children are learning not only
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13

thresher shark is also called the sea
fox, from the remarkable tail, which
he uses to frighten shoals of fish, and
SO make them more easily caught.
There are sailors yarns that this
whiplike tail is sometimes used for
foggfng whales to death. But the
real prosecutor of the whale is the
gladiator dolphin or sword grampus
(Delphinus gladiator1, very carniv-
orous fellow, who kills and eats
whales, seals and even his brother
porDoises.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
MODEL SCHOOL AT HARVARD
Eastern University to Have Only Kin
derearten Class First
Year.

Cambridge, Mass, March 5.-Har-
ward university will start a model
school for children next fall. The
plans, made public, involve the estab-
lishment of a kindergarten class the
first year and the addition of other
classes in subsequent years. Both
boys and girls will be Instructed. The
teaching staff will be carefully Sc
lected, it is announced, and the board
of management will include the heads
of the university department of edu-
cation, with Prof Paul H. Hanus in
direct charge.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
Not a Constructive Force.

The bulk of the Progressive vote in
1912 was personal for Roosevelt, rath-
er than coherent or persistent vote
for the new party While the Pro-
gressive party may have a future as
political disturbance, it is not likely
to become continuous constructive
force in politics. The party may ex,
ist as an agitator, but it is not likely
to become political army waving
banners of victory in the nation.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
Shows Dissatisfaction,

The Iowa election shows that the
Democrats are losing strength while
the Republicans are gaining. The
percentage of votes received by Hull
Is much greater, compared with the
vote of 1910, than the percentage of
votes received by Vollmer. The re-
suit shows a decided trend back to
the Republican party, and inasmuch
as the election was fought on the
tariff issue, the conclusion is inevi-
table that the people are not salts
aed with the Democratic position ON
the tariff.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-03-13
Surely Should Be Warning.

A Democrat, of course, was elected
in the Second Iowa congressional dis
trict because the Republican ranks
remained divided. The regular Re-
publicans, it seems, were willing to
support, on an independent ticket, the
man chosen by the Bull Moose party
as their candidate, but the overtures
were rejected. AS 1t turned out, the
regular Republican nominee ran Sec
ond and the Moose man last And
the worst is yet to come-next No
vember-unless the Republicans get
together.