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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-08-26
Prayers of the Lazy

We believe the faith of some people
would be materially strengthened If
they would omit in their supplications
all appeals for the Lord to chop their
wood and fetch their water for them
Houston Post.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-08-26
MOTHER OF
SCHOOL GIRL
Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Re-
stored Her Daugh-
ter's Health.
Plover, Iowa. From q small child
my ID year old daughter had female

weakness. i spoke
to three doctors
about it and they did
not help her any.
Lydia e. Pinkham's
V G e table Com
pound had been of
great benefit to me-,
so I decided to have
her give it a trial.
She has taken five
bottles of the Vege-
table COmpOund &C.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-08-26
CAROLINA & YADKIN RIVER RAILWAY
COMPANY.

Schedule In Effect October IA, 1914.
This time table shows time at
which trains may be expected to
arrive and depart from stations shown
but their departure or arrival at the
time stated is not guaranteed.
Subject to Change Without Notice
CNfITLRnII
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-08-26
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Aug. %, 1914.

Aug. 20, 1914.
Japan declares war on Germany.
Namur, Belgium, captured by the
Germans.
Germans advanced westward
against Mons and Charleroi.
French and English forces moved
northward against German right
wing.
Germans occupied lunevilIe,
northeastern France.
Austria announced victory. over
Russians at krasnik.
Aug. "a, 1914.
Retreat Of the English forces
from Mons began.
Germans In East Prussia retreat
ed before Russians.
Antwerp bombarded by German
Zeppelin.
Japanese warships bombarded
Tsingtau. ->.
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Aug. IS, 1914.
Austria declared war on Japan.
Germans In East Prussia retreat
ed on Koenigsberg.
Russians reached point within
eighty miles Of Lemberg, Galicia.
French evacuated Mueihausen.
Lord Kitchener made his first
speech In house Of commons, pre-
dieting a long war.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-08-26

The man who gets two ideas at once
isn't much better off than he who
gets none.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-08-26
M'CLARYGRAMS

He who lies must sometimes crawl.
It is eas3 to tell the man to whom
one can tell nothing.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-08-26
Aug. rs, 1914.

Aug. rs, 1914.
Germans burned Louvaln, Bel
GUM.
Lonawy, France, occupied by the
Germans.
German Togoland, West Africa,
surrendered to British force front
Nigeria.
French cabinet resigned and
new ministry was announced.
Ministers Of foreign powers at
Antwerp protested against throw
ino Of bombs from air craft.
Belgium protested to United
States against German acts.
British marines landed at Ostend.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-08-26

There are some people whose chief
study in business might be called that
Of "trickenometry."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29
Mission That Led to Abdul
Hamid's Overthrow.

AS, have told you, / entered the
German secret service through the
admiralty department, the chief of
which was Captain Won Tappken. In
July, 1905, there came a hurried sum-
mons from Captain o Tappken for
me to report at Koeniggratzerstrasse
20. / lost no time in getting around,
nor did l have to wait to be ushered
up. / was shown direct to the cap
tain's office and as he received me, I
noticed that he vas in a rather ex-
cited frame Of mind.
"Verdammti Doctori l am going to
lose you. am requested by the Will
helmstrasse (the German foreign of.
fice) to hand you over to them. Very
annoying. / do not like to lose you
from our branch here. But we must
obey, and, Doctor, you are lettering
yourself. It is seldom that they over
there take any notice of us over here,
or request the services Of any of my
men. But your work has attracted
some attention. l shall request that
your services are not entirely lost to
this department. Herr Stammer will
take you over. Good-by and good
luck!"
He gave me a, hearty handshake
and my connection with the intelli-
| gence department of the Imperial navy
came to an end. Stammer and hailed
a taxi and drove to the Wilhelm
strasse, where the doorkeeper putsme
through an official ceremony similar
to the procedure at Koeniggratzer-
strasse 20. Stammer gave the COM
missaire his card and we were shown
into a chamber and hidden to wait. !
was frankly curious about what was
in store for me, but l knew better by
now than to ask questions. Presently
there entered a tall, thin, iron-gray
gentleman, the very type of a Prus-
sian bureaucrat. Walking with quick
nervous steps to his desk, he acknowl-
edged our bows with a curt nod and
turning to Stammer he said:
We'll, Stammer?"
This is Doctor Graves, your Ex'
c~ellency."
"Ah, yes. Sehr schoen! Convey my
thanks to Captain Tappken, Stammer.'
Stammer then bowed himself out, I
was asked to step into an anteroom.
There a secretary took me in hand and
informed me that the tall, thin, IRON
gray gentleman was Graf Botho Won
Wedel, Wircklicher Geheimrat and
Vortragender Rat S. M. des Kaisers-
(Privy Councillor to the German EN-
peror.)
The kaiser's Right Hand Man.
So-Count Wedel. HIM! Although
this was the first time / had seer the
count, j had heard a great deal about
him. The emperor's private councillor
and right hand was the head Of the
political sections of the secret service.
| This promised to be interesting. / won.
dered what the likely upshot would be
but / was interrupted In my soliloquy
by a to reenter the counts
chamber.
CTo Be Continued.)
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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29

the constant strain OF peIng on the
qui vive, playing a lone hand against
the most powerful influences often I'M
known, having ones plans upset at the
last moment and continually pitting
ones own brain against some of the
acutest and shrewdest minds in the
world, the knowledge that the slight
est blunder means loss of liberty,
often of life, is wearing, to say the
least.
/ have known men and women, cour-
ageous to a degree, who have broken
down under the strain; sooner or later
one is bound to succumb. ! have
known of a dozen men and women
who have mysteriously disappeared,
dropped out of sight," caught or
killed-not always by their opponents.
The Case of Olga Bruder.
To cite but two cases, n of a
woman, the other of a man:
Olga Bruder was a spy. She worked
for Germany and for the service bu-
reau in Brussels. A few years ago 1t
was announced in the European news
papers that a woman known as Olga
Bruder had committed suicide in a
hotel at Memel. on the Russian Dor
der. Fraulein Bruder had been sent
after the plans of a Russian fort. In
Berlin they learned that she had CD
tanned them, but becoming involved in
a love affair with a Russian officer,
was holding them out, planning to re-
store them to him. Also, contrary to
the service regulations, she knew four
foreign agents well. Later reports
from Danzig revealed the fact that she
had become enamored with a sectional
chief of the Russian service and that
she was about to give up everything
to him. So Olga Bruder committed
suicide. She was poisoned.
AS for Lieutenant Won Zastrov, an
ex-army officer in the German secret
service, he was killed in a duel. Zas-
troy was suspected of flirting with
Russian agents-only suspected. He
knew too much to be imprisoned. He
was a civilian and under the German
law entitled to a public hearing. Had
he still been a military man, a secret
tribunal would have been possible, but
being the scion of an old a~ristocratic
house and knowing official secrets, it
was not wise to put him in against
the regular machinery of elimination.
So Zastrov was challenged to a duel
He killed the first man the service
chiefs sent against him, yet no sooner
was that duel ove than he was chal-
lenged again. In half an hour Zastrov
was dead.
Yes, your own employers often think
1t advisable at times to eliminate q
too clever or knowing member of their
service, unless that same member has
procured for himself a solid, good life
insurance" in the nature of documen-
tary evidence of such character that
to NEEDLE with him brings danger Of
disclosure. OF late there have been
no attempts on my life.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29
Revelations of the Kaiser's
Personal Spy
By Dr.. Arn1goard Karl Cranes
Who, for a Number of Years Prior to His Arrest and
Betrayal in England in 1912, was Emperor
Williams Most Trusted Personal Spy.
By Dr.. Armgaard Karl Graves
lcoprrlrht. rol.. b. ths wheeler syndiea.e. Loeb

Syndicate Incl
until | could tell at a glance what type
of a battleship, cruiser or destroyer 1t
was, whether it was peculiar to the
English, French, Russian or United
States navy.
More Things ! Had to Learn. s
The different ranking officers of the
navies of the world. their uniforms,
the personnel of battleships, the sys-
TENS of flag signals, and codes, were
explained to me in detail. | was given
large books in which were colored
plates of the uniforms and the signal
flags of every navy in the world had
to study these until at a glance l could
tell the rank and station of the officers
and men of the principal navies. The
same with the signal flags. l pored
over those books night after night into
the early hours of the morning. My
regular hours for tuition were from
ten to twelve in the forenoon and
from two until six in the afternoon.
But 1t was impossible to compass all
the work into that time. ] was anxious
to get my first mission, and | presume
/ did a great deal of examining.
My study was not all In Berlin. I
spent most of my time there at Koe-
nigergratzerstrasse 70 and at the
Zeughaus, the great museum of the
German general staff. But there were
side trips to the big government works
at Kiel and Wilhelmshafen. There /
was taught every detail of the me-
chanics of naval construction and I
was not pronounced equipped until /
could talk intelligently about every I'M
assembled part of a gun. torpedo tube.
or mine. In the curse of my five
months instruction under the various
experts OF the Prussian service / had
many opportunities to observe the ex-
haustive thoroughness and the minute
ness of detail which the German gen.
eral staff possesses.
Naturally, l soon began to consider
the whole proposition Of secret service,
and right here l shall tell you some OF
the general secrets of the system.
There are five systems Of secret
service in Europe, the four leading
powers each possessing one. First
in the systematic efficiency Is the Ger
man, next comes the Russian, then
the French, and then English. Eng
land has a very efficient service In
India and her Asiatic possession, but
has only lately entered the Euro
pean field. Last, but not least,
the International Secret Service bu-
reau with headquarters in Belgium, a
semiprivate concern which procures
reliable information for anyone who
will pay for 1t. This service is gem
orally entrusted with the procuring
of technical details, such as the plans
of a new kind of gun or data on a
new and minor fertilization. But
sometimes Brussels undertakes other
commissions. For example:
The Fiancee Who Was a Spy.
Not often does the chance come to
leave the regular channels of espion-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29

age and go forth upon a mission out
of the ordinary. That chance came a
few years ago to the Russian agents
in Brussels. In st. Petersburg the
chiefs were DESTROYS of knowing the
identity and M of a group of revo-
l~utionists who had formed a sort of
colony in M~ontreux, Switzerland. A.
French woman, known sometimes as
Theresa Provost (the last / heard Of
her she was in PRISON., was detailed
to the mission. Young and clever was
Theresa; likewise the man who was
ordered to accompany her, posing as
a brother" Charles Provost.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29

The chief of these Russian fugf
.tives, who were down around the
lake of Geneva brewing their dark
plans, was known. He was Goluck-
offsky, and he had a son twenty-five
years Of ge-an impressionable Rus
sion son. Hence, the young and
pretty Theresa.
It was decided by her Brussels
chiefs that she should assume the
role of an heiress from Canada Five
thousand francs for preliminary ex-
penses we're handed over to her and
with Charles, the brother" she de-
scended upon Montreux. If you were
there at the time you will recall the
social triumph made by the young
Canadian heiress. You may even re-
member that she seemed to be in
fatuated with the young impression
able son of old GoluckoHsky. They
were going to be married, and Charles
Provost the brother" stood in the
background. chatted amiably with old
G~oluckoffsy and his friends, and
smiled.
Then, as an heiress should, Theresa
and her brother" invited Goluckoff-
sky, his family and friends, to a pre-
nuptial luncheon. No expense was
spared, for the wires had moaned
with requests sent to Brussels for
money. Young Goluckoffsky was de-
lighted with his fiancGe. She was
lnsistent that all his friends should
be there, all the revoIutionaries-al-
though, of course, his dear Theresa
did not know that. How the SPELL
ing of their m puzzled her. With
gay heart young Goluckoffsky wrote
out all their names on a slip of pa
per SO that she could send their in
~vitations properlyAthe names st.
Petersburg wanted to know.
Came the day of the luncheon, a
gala affair in the banquet room OF
the hotel. Theresa looked charming;
even the grimmest of the old revolu-
tionists we're taken with her. Old
G~oIuckoffsky beamed upon this
sparkling febrile woman, rich, too.
WHO WAS W Thrifty nib bOAs
Ice had been served when Theresa,
her pretty face in smiles, declared
that she had a surprise for her guests.
To her It was the day of days. What
better than a group photograph Of her
dear and new friends? How she
would treasure I'll Strangely enough,
this did not please the guests. Photo
graphs were dangerous. Suppose, IN
some way, the Okrana got hold OF
them. They breathed easier, though,
when Theresa, calling in the photog-
rapher-the best in Lausanne, she
assured them-instructed him to de-
liver all copies to Mr.. Goluckoffsky,
her dear father-in-law to be. So the
revolutionists grouped themselves on
the hotel lawn; the photographer
pressed the bulb; and everybody
laughed.
AS quickly as the photographer
could print his proofs they were de
livered to Theresa; that night she
and her brother left Montreux. In
two days the name of all the revolu-
tionists in young Goluckoffsky's hand
writing and their pictures were de-
Iivered to the chief in Brussels.
The Three Branches Of the German
Spy System.
So much for an example OF the
clever work done by Brussels. The
German service, in which | served for
twelve years, has three distinct
branches-the army, navy and per-
sonal, each branch having its own
chief and its own corps of men and
women agents. The army and navy
division is controlled by the general
staff of Berlin (Grosser General
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29

Stabe), the most marvellous ~organiza-
ton in the world. The political and
personal branch is controlled from
the Wilhelmstrasse, the German For
eign office, the emperor in person, or
his immediate privy councillor. The
army and navy divisions confine
themselves to the procuring of hid
den and secret information as regards
ornaments, plans. discoveries, etc.
The political branch concerns itself
with the supervision Of meetings
between potentates, cabinet min
listers and SO forth. The personal
branch under the direct con-
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Weie added craig. v0a see. 81
chael has become infurated By the
treatment he received from the Clutch,
Ing Hand. believe he cuHed him 10
the face yesterday. Anyway, be says
be has determined to set even and be-
tray him"
did not like the looks Of the
thing and said so. Craig / objected
vehemently. don't 60 70 meet him.
It Is q trap"
Kennedy had evidently considered
my objection already.
It may be a trap" he replied slow.
u. but Elaine q dying and we've got
to see this thing through"
As he spoke. be took an automatic
from q drawer Of a cabinet and thrust
It into his pocket Then he went to
another drawer and took out several
sections Of thin tubing, which seemed
70 be made 70 fasten together as e
fishing pole is fastened. but were now
separate, as II ready for travelling.
Then be went out / followed. stil
arguing.
IF you 90. I 60" capltulated.
That's all there Is to f."
Following the directions that MI
ohael had given over the telephone.
Craig led me into one Of the toughest
parts Of the lower West side.
Here's the place" he announced,
stopping across the street from a
dlngy Raines law hotel.
Pretty tough" objected "Ars you
sure3"
Quite" replied Kennedy, consulting
his notebook again.
Reluctantly I followed and we en-
tered the place.
Il want a ROOM" asked Craig as
We we're accosted by the proprietor.
comfortably clad IN a loud checked
suit and striped shirt sleeves. Il had
one here once Acknowledgements, /
think"
Fifty" I began to correct
Kennedy trod hard on my toes.
yes. forty-nine," he repeated.
The proprietor called a stout negro
porter, waiter and bell-hop ell COM
bined in one. who led us upstairs.
'Forty-nine, sah." he pointed out,
as Kennedy dropped a dime into his
ready palm.
The negro Left US, and as Craig
started TO enter, / objected. But.
Craig, It was ffty-nine, not forty-nine.
This is the wrong room"
7 know It" he replied. Il had It
written in the book. But want forty
nine-now. Just follow me, Walter"
Nervously followed him into the
room.
Don't you understand" he went
on. Room forty-nine is probably Just
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Doctor Hayward had arrived ard
had just finished taking the patients
pulse and temperature as our cab
pulled up.
Elaine was quite an indeed.
-Ohi I'm 90 glad to see you she
breathed with an air Of relief as Ken
nedy advanced
-Why-what Is the matter17 asked
Craig anxiously.
Doctor Hayward shook his head du-
bioualy. but Kennedy did not notice
him. for. as he approached Elaine. she
drew from the covers where she had
concealed It a letter and handed 1t to
him.
Craig took Il and read:
you are sick this morning. To
morrow you viii be worse. The next
day you win die unless you discharge
Craig Kennedy"
At the signature Of the Clutching
Hand be drowned. then, noticing Doc
tor Hayward. turned to him and re-
peated his question, What ia the mat
teri"
Doctor Hayward continued shaking
his head. Il cannot diagnose her
symptoms" he shrugged.
There seemed to be a faint odor, al
most as II Of garlic, IN the room. II
was unmistakable and Craig looked
about him curiously. but said nothing.
As he smiled, he moved impatiently
and his foot touched Rusty, under the
bed. Rusty whined and moved back
lazily. Craig bent over and locked
at him.
whats the matter with Rusty7" be
asked. rs he sick. tooT'
why. yes" answered Elaine. fol-
lowing Craig with her deep eyes.
Craig reached down and gently
pulled the collie out into the room.
Rusty crouched down close to the
floor. His nose was hot and dry and
feverish. He was plainly Ill
How long has Rusty been in the
roomT asked Craig.
can night" answered Elaine. Il
wouldn't think Of being without him
now"
May take Rusty along with met"
Craig asked finally.
Elaine hesitated. Surely" she said
at length, only be gentle with him.
"Of course" he said simply. Il
thought that / might be able to dis
cover the trouble from studying him"
We stayed only a few minutes
longer, for Kennedy seemed to realize
the necessity Of doing something i'm
mediately, and even Doctor Hayward
was fighting in the dark
Back IN the laboratory, Kennedy set
to work Immediately, brushing every
thing else aside. He began by draw.
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him oraalm. rWhat hags you s
up aealnst7T
he fairly loaped az ne and 7 fcit
him examining my shoulder where
had been leaning on the wall Some
thing on the paper had come OF ana
left q mark on my shoulder Craig
looked puzzled from me At ne wan
"Arsenici" be cried
He whipped out q pocket lens and
looked al the paper. This heavy,
fuzzy paper is fairly loaded With t.
powdered" he reported.
Kennedy paced the room Sudden
u. pausing BY the register. an Idea
seemed to strike him.
Walter be whispered. come down
cellar with me"
"Ohi Be CAREFUL" cried Elaine. anz-
i0us for him.
Il wiz" he called back
AS be flashed his pocket bulrs-eys
about, bis gaze fell on the electric
meter He paused before T. IN
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eYNoPsIa

! ~ New York police are mYstihed By q
Ezries Of murders and other erlmoA The
EF1nclpal clue % the criminal e the warn
Mw letter which q sent the Victims
vioam Of he mysterIols assassin Is
taylor Dodge, the Insurance president
BE daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Ken
Mady. the famous scientific detective to
~ 10 unravei the mystery. What Ken
Hamea a Newspaper man. By en- ingen-
eua ru1a Clutching Hand amugglea Into
lalne'B home n flask Of liquid air which
aAe supposea 20 be g package Of valuable
napera. II blows open the safe IN which
: placed. but Kennedy arrives IN time
y prevent the robbery. The detective
RFroWly misses death IN his apartment
where Clutching Hand has placed a shot
an 60 that Il is fred by the electrical
tannection formed when Kennedy places
BE hands on a framed photograph Of
1elafnit
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the same as fifty-nine. except perhaps
the pictures and furniture, only It is
on the floor below"
He gazed about keenly. Then he
took q few steps to the window and
threw It open. As be stood there he
took the parts Of the rods he had been
carrying and fitted them together un-
I'll he had 3 pole some eight or ten
feet long At one end was e curious
arrangement that seemed TO contain
lenses and q mirror. At the other
end was an eye-pleee. as nearly as I
could make out.
'FWhat is that2" asked els he com
plated his work.
%That? That is an instrument
something on the order Of q miniature
periscope." Craig replied. still at
work.
watched him, fascinated at bis re
souroefulness. He stealthily thrust
the mirror end Of the perisoope cut
Of the window and up toward the cor
responding window upstairs. Then he
gazed eagerly through the eye-piece.
''Walter-iookl" he exclaimed TO
me
I did. There, sure enough, was HI
chael pacing up and down the room.
As I looked at him nervously walk.
ing to and no. I could not help ad-
hitting that things looked safe enough
and an right 70 me. Kennedy folded
the perisoope up and We left our
room. mounting the remaining flight
Of stairs.
b nfly-nine We could hear the
asasured steps Of tAs footman. Craig
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49, |H~+EH@A
ing OF 3 little Of Rusty's blood In a
tube, very carefully.
Here, Walter" he said pointing to
the little incision he had made, will
you take care Of him2"
Quickly Craig made one test after
another.
As he did so shifted. There was
an unmistakable odor OF garlic In the
air which made me think Of what
had already noticed IN Elaine's room.
"Arseniuretted hydrogen" he an
swered. still engaged in verifying his
tests. aThis is the Marsh test for
arsenic"
"Arseniol" ] repeated. 10 horror.
I had scarcely recovered from the
surprise Of Kennedy's startling reve-
iation when the telephone rang again.
Kennedy seized the receiver. thinking
evidently that the message might be
from OF about Elaine.
But from the look on his face and
from his manner. / could gather that,
although It was not from Elaine her
self, It was about something that In
terested him greatly.
"Goodl" heard him say finally. Il
shall keep the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lutely."
What was it," asked. eagerly.
It vas Elalne's footman, Michael"
Ia ran1faa fhnmuhsfnf1u uAa ana-
pscted. he says that be Is q confeder-
ate Of the Clutehing Hand. and Il We
win protect him he viii ten ua the
trouble with Elaine"
I considered e moment "How's
fhatfa / Queuea -