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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-11

It was Madge renton. -u- now
Madge. taking advantage Of Sylvia's
confidence. was making herself agree
able to Bob.
A few days later. while scanning
the morning paper. Sylvia read a mar
riage notice-Robert Lorson and
Madge Fenton had been married
quietly the day before and were sail
ing at once for a voyage around the
world
Sylvia. with face ahame and heart
Of ice, laughed at her own reflection
In the mirror.
Liar, Coward! Cheat" she
tainted herself.
Robert Lorson came back to
America alone. His bride was rest
ing in an unknown grave in some Al
pine creyasse.
Long months afterward Sylvia met
him riding in the park. The scene
Of their meeting was a sheltered
bridlepath. Both drew rein.
Then Robert poured out his heart to
her and asked her to marry him. He
had never ceased to love her. he con.
fessed. He did not attempt to excuse
his hasty marriage to Madge Fenton:
that explained itself
You will not want to marry me
when l tell you all, Robert" said Syl-
via gravely. Then she told him about
the two letters she had sent.
OF course I realized that you had
made mistake" he said eagerly. AS
soon as l read the opening line and
saw 1t was intended for Madge I re-
folded 1t and sent it to her. I'll ad-
NIT I was tempted to read all Of it,
"And Madge exchanged letters with
your" asked Sylvia in a mutfled tone.
He nodded. She asked me to meet
her at Berry's. We had tea together
and exchanged letters"
"And so you didn't read the letter
I wrote to Madge?"
Certainly not-how could II"
II want to tell you what l wrote to
her." went on Sylvia in a strained
voice, and because the letter was
written in fire on her memory she re-
peated It word for word.
III I had read 1t all, darling, I
would have come to you at once" he
said tenderly. 81 thought you didn't
care"
Il am not worthy Of you," she said
brokenly. LINKED up those letters
Intentionally. I sent Sylvia's to you
because I was too proud to confess
myself in the wrong. but I wanted
you to know that loved you In spite
of all did not appreciate that you
had higher code of honor-that you
would not read what was not intend.
ed for you. have been punished for
my weakness, Bob-and I do not
blame you II you despair me-" she
sobbed.
His arms were about her.
Il want you more than ever. Syl.
VIA" he said.
Copyright. 1915. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-11

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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-11

crossings, white and black to get
gray, blue and yellow to get gren,
red and black to get brown, and so
on
The wonders achieved by n.y.
bridizing already are so various That
it is of no use saying sit can't be
done" Besides, Mr.. Braham him
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-11

self has produced grass-green.
That critical shortage" in dye
stuffs which has will-o'-the-wisp
quality of keeping the time of actual
depletion of stocks always three
months ahead, Seems eventually
due to be shorn of some of its ter
rors-Jackson (Mich.), Patriot.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-11

bert meeting of the Industrial
Eo4tuo will be held at Toledo
nd 1O. Among the matters
Win ~ up for consideration
|qde1k10n Of legislation to be
II t6o next session of Con-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-11

Nests Worth Weight In Gold.
The edible birds nests of the Chi.
nese are worth twice their weight In
silver, the finest variety selling as high
as $50 q pound.
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lew York 2-2, Cleveland O-3
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1cago 1, Brooklyn 8.
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-08-11
SYlVlA'S TWO LETTERS
BY DONALD ALLEN.

From the depths Of a broken heart
Sylvia wrote to her dearest friend:
Il must tell you, first of all, Madge,
that have parted from Robert-for-
ever! l cannot be true to myself and
marry a man who believes me false
would rather go unloved to the
grave than be the slave Of a jealous
man. And although | confess that I
can never love again-that l shall al.
way love him-I shall not marry Rob-
ert Lorson. I am sending back his
ring tonight. You need not finish your
pink chiffon. ! shall not need any
bridesmaids-ever. Do come to visit
me and cheer your broken-hearted
Sylvia"
Sylvia wiped her eyes and wrote
another letter-a very short one:
Dear Mr.. Lorson-You understand
why am returning your ring.
Yours sincerely,
SYLVIA MOORE"
Madge Fenton read her letter with
wide-open eyes.
Robert Lorson read his with slowly
whitening face. With compressed
lips he laid 1t down and stared at 1t
for q long time.
The box containing the engagement
ring he tossed into q drawer of his
desk.
Sylvia" said her married sister one
day. what has become Of Bob?"
Really" said Sylvia indifferently.
Il haven't the slightest idea"
Mrs. Jameson stared at her. what
has happened? You have quarreled?"
she asked quickly
1--WE are no longer engaged" ex-
planned Sylvia. you see, Lisa, Bob
Is terribly jealous-he was frightfully
angry because talked so much to
that delightful Mr.. Enright, the nov
elist. He was actually rude to me-"
you were flirting" accused Lisa,
bluntly.
mot at ALL" flared Sylvia, holly.
looked at Mr. Enright?" asked the old.
er woman slowly.
well" Sylvia's voice broke.
Every one was talking, and I'm
not a bit surprised that Bob was
angry. But as long as you don't care
If the broken engagement is q wei.
come relief to you, dearie, am glad
for your sake" Lisa bent and kissed
her sister and walked toward the door
by the way, dear. I had a glimpse
Of Bob this afternoon-he was having
tea at Berry's-with Madge Fenton."
She vanished.
"Madge Fenton!" Sylvia's voice
wavered into a little sob. She was
her dearest friend. and Sylvia knew
that II there was one other girl in
the world. who fanc!sd Bob Lorson
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At Buffalo 0, st. Louis 1.
At Brooklyn 3, Kansas City 8.
At Baltimore s, Pittsburg s.
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Standing Of the Clubs
w. L, Pct
Evening star., 1915-02-28
MADAME JUSsERAr1D
NFE 0F'laE fRENCH AMBASSADOR
CoUNTES IS Vol4 EERNStoRFF
NHFE GERMAN AMBASSADOR

nople Belgrade, Cairo. Petrograd and
London. Their residence in Washing
ton dates from 1908. Countess Won
Bernstorff was educated in Germany
and is known among her diploma tic
friends as Il very skilled embroiderer.
She is in Germany at present. and is
engaged i'll relief work in German hos
pitalS.
Nine Bsikhnleteff. wife of the Rus
sian basSador. is an American. of
the Beale family. She was sister of
the late Mrs John r. Mclean and is an
aunt of Edward Beale Mclean Nine.
Bakhmeteffs father was American am
bassador to Vienna at the same time
when Mr. Bakhmeteff was attache OF
the Russian legation there. The scene
of their courtship and marriage was
laid in that city. Since that time they
have resided in many world capitals.
About three years ago they came to
Washington from Japan.
Nine. Bakhmeteff is one Of the lead
ers of Washington society. She lives
in one of the most magnificent embassy
houses in the world. During the sum
mer just passed the Bakhmeteffs occu-
pied villa at Newport, where their
Evening star., 1915-02-28
i. SENORA RINr1o
WIFE ESRAMsH AnRAssADB-

entertainments We're among the most
lavish in that colony.
Nine Riano. wife of the spanish am
bassador, was Miss Alice Ward of
Washington before her marriage. She
was a chum of Alice Longworth during
the latter's girlhood days and WAS ecu
Gated in Washington.
Nine Riano has great many hob
bies. She is skilled linguist, speak
ing French. German. Danish and Span
ish. q skilled lacemaker and en-
thusiast on the subject of her two little
Belgian griffon dogs. She has lived a
great deal in Europe and has spent
some time i'll Spain. where Senior Riano
owns his ancestral country house il
Granada. On her travels she has de-
voted her energies toward the collec-
tion of rare antique furnishings. The
Spanish embassy is one of the most
beautiful of all the embassies and con
tains the greater part of the treasures
of art and furniture that Senior and Sc
nora Riano have purchased They have
rare Chippendales. original patterns OF
antique Spanish silver and Copenhagen
china curios. Nine. Riano is q favorite
in the younger diplomatic set.
Nine. Emmanuel Havenith, wife Of
the Belgian minister. also lived in
Washington in her girlhood days She
was Miss Helen Ffoulke, the daughter
Evening star., 1915-02-28

blind, etiolated carth-caye nation
ill he all that is left of Poland il
the war lasts longer.
Poland has suffered far more than
Belgium. France OF the parts OF Alsi''-
and of East Prussia occupied by the
invader. In France and Belgium there
was one overwhelming invasion wave.
which i'll most cases reached a stopping
point and did not reredc. All the rum
was done at once.
Poland has been thrice Submerged by
the war wave. First there was the
German march to the Nistula, which
eliminated on the 10th of October.
then there was the German retreat to
the frontier, which saw heavy rear
guard fighting. and now there is the
second German invasion, i'll which
every town, village and farm has be- Il
a center of battle. Lodz has been FIVE
times occupied and reoccupled. Ea"h
change of masters meant added de-
struction, more contributions and more
payments with worthless paper.
Vladimir Ogneff, the Zemstvo worker:
who trayersed Poland before the fall
of LODI, says that S260.0o0.0o0 must he
spent if Poland is to be restored Since
the fall Of Lodz things are worse. The
only hope left is that the Germans, f"r
Evening star., 1915-02-28

Marshal HindeMburg made good roads
for his own use and improved the old
roads. CauseWayS were made through
the nsorasses. When the Germans re-
tired they destroyed thoroughly all
roads. They dug holes in them alter
nately on left and right side. The
bridges We're blown up. Even the hand
rails were twisted or broken. On their
second advance the Germans started
making new roads. and they are still
busy at work with the thousands of
Polish civilian laborers whom they hire
at 80 cents Il day. If they retire they
will destroy the roads once more
Before the war Poland was fairly
We'll forested. 1t owed 10 its woods
the freedom from fanlines which raN-
age Russia as 4 result OF drought
caused by deforestation.
When the invasion began Poiand's $
trees began to vanish AT first they
were cut down for roofing trenches.
When the autumn rains turned the
country into a morass material was
needed for road pavement. Poland has
no accessible stone. Millions of trees
were heWn. The trunks were cast into
the moraSSeS.
During their second advance the Ger
mans made fifty-mle road from
Bombe to Lowitsch through the
marshes of the Bsura river. This road
swallowed up 100000 trees. The for
Evening star., 1915-02-28

tive feminine colony technically living
as foreigners within its capital.
The wife OF the dean of the diploma :
tic corps. Jules JusseraEd, the French
anba ssador, is an American. She was
Miss Elise Richards, and at the time
of her marriage to NJ. JusSerand, IN
1880 was d resident of Paris. Almost
Immediately after their marriage a.
Jusserand was appointed minister from
his country to Denmark. They reslued
in Copenhagen until 1902, when NJ Jus
serand was elevated in the diplomatic
service of his country, and sent TO the
Emitted States as ambassador.
Nine Jusserand. in her quiet way, is
one of the most popular of the dlplo-
matte chatelaines. She takes an inter.
est i'll the activities of a number OF
Franco-American societies and divides
her time between her native and adopt
ed lands In official society she ranks
as the third lady in the land. She IS
known as Il French student of unusual
ability. -
The German ambassador. Count
Johann vop Berustortf, married, IN
1857 a New York girl of German de
scent Miss Jeanne Luckemeyer- Al
that time he was 4 young officer III the
artillery guards and had not yet en-
tered upon his diplomatic career. Since
that time they have lived in CONSTANT
Evening star., 1915-02-28
MApAME. RA1daMEIEFF -.
WEE OF RUs5KNkrhAs1Aml

Boston. Her marriage to NJ. Khan
took place in 1904. Nine. Khan re-
Gently visited Persia with her husband
for the shah's coronation. Al that
time she received the distinction of
presentation to the young ruler, an
honor accorded to few women. and WAS
decorated with the title of moraVeh-
eh-sultaneh. During her visit she be-
came familiar with the native customs
OF the country and startled the Per-
slams on many occasions because OF
her apparent lack of what they consider
proper feminine reserve. She drove
about with her husband with her face
unveiled and moved with the freedom
she was accustomed to while at home.
AS result, her actions made Il de-
cided impression on the young shah,
who is very progressive young man
and interested i'll the habits of life OF
the American people. Should he take
it into his head to issue a mandate
that Persian women must cease their
time-honored custom of yelling their
faces 1t would be probable that the
example furnished by Nine. Khan put
the idea into his head.
Nine. Kahn is a linguist of ability.
She acts as hostess of the Persian le-
CATION. owing to the fact that her hus-
band is the official minister in the alb
Evening star., 1915-02-28

of Charles Mather Ffoulke. Her one
child is little hoy. Nine. Havenith
has foreign servants Her butler is
Persian and wears his native costume.
as do the footmen OF the Russian en-
baSSI.
The wife Of the Swedish minister.
". y. +. Ekengren. was Miss Laura
Wolcott jackson. another Washington
girl. Her marriage to Air. E,kengren
took place in 1907, and their residence
in Washington dates from 1872. She
has two little girls, Elsie, who is three
years old, and Christina, aged two.
The Brazilian ambassador. DomicIo
da Cana, was married to an American
woman the year following his appoint
ment ambassador to the United
States. Nine. da Cana was a resident
of New York at that time and the
widow of Arthur II. Hearn. She is
a daughter of F.e.as. having been born
in Huntvillc. Her marriage to Mr.. d.,
Cana. September -. 1912. was not
able event in the annals of New York
society. The marriage service was
a double one and the late Mayor Gay
Evening star., 1915-02-28


hills around Kielce fiourishes ''Tchorni
Stanislas"-BlackSt * kStanislas-and a band
of thirty brigands. Black Stanislas
has murdered dozens of men and car
ried off ten women or girls He rules
a little independent state and does
good business by spying for both Rus
slams and Germans. Many chateaux
have been destroyed because they
served as fortresses. The chateauX are
surrounded by stone walls and have
numerous outbuildinss When bat
tie on Il small scale is planned, coun-
try house is looked for as convenient
cover to infantry flank. kittemen
are posted behind the walls and the
house itself is made an observation
post.
kerry fire is useless. The enemy has
to be expelled by shelling, and after Il
dozen big shells have fallen in house
and walled garden nothlng worth haN-
to move here their art treasures. y
big house owned by Count Tyskiewicz
with 200 French pictures was destroy
ed last week.
flame is taken for army use. Bread
grains, stock and winter clothing have
disappeared. The Germans requistion
even the peasant sheepskin tulips:
4 heir SentrieS wear .,ieSe on cold
nights. Food to the value of $4,000
900 has been requistioned by Germans
and Russians since the beginning of
October. Payment is made in paper
l. 0. Us. The Germans have two sorts
OF requisition L. o. US. one promises
that at the end of the war the German
government will pay stated amount
for goods supplied. The other class in
Vites the Russian government to pay.
These .icketS begin, Die ruSSiSche
Regierung wird ersucht - The
Russian government is required to pay
rubles to for -" The
to pay have no value. Nobody will pay
cash for them. The peasant owner
pastes them on his door as proof that
he has once fulfilled requisitions and
cannot fulfill any more.
The promises that Germany herself
will pay are quoted like stock exchange
Evening star., 1915-02-28
MADAME T[AVEN1TH -.
WRE OF BEL LGIAN MINISTER
HHPRHs EumIS q

nor of New York performed the civil
ceremony.
Mr. da CANA is the only diplomat
in the Brazilian foreign service with
the rank OF ambassador. He has held
posts III Belgium, Peru and Argentina.
He is friend Of John Bassett Moore,
former counselor of the state Depart
ment. The Brazilian embassy occu-
pies imposing new home on Massa- :
chusetts avenue. 1t is richly furnished
and ranks favorably with the other
emba ssies in the ca pital.
The newest member Of the diplomatic
corps, stephan Panaretoh. minister
from Bulgaria, took unto himself an
American wife before he had the
slightest notion Of entering the diplo-
matte service of his country. Mrs.
Panaretofi was Miss Lydia Gile of
North Andover. Mass, and it was when
she was II teacher in Constantinople
at a girls college that she met Mr.
Panaretoff. He at the same time was
a professor in Robert collie =. Their
marriage took place shortly afterWard,
though Mr.. ianaretoff's entrance into
Bulgarias diplomatic service has been
very recent
Nine. Ali kuli Khan. wife of the
imperial representative of the Shah OF
Persia, was Miss Florence Breed of
Evening star., 1915-02-28
POLISH REFUGEES.

ests near Kalisch and Petrokow have
entirely disappeared. In December r.
1919 the Austrians engaged 10000
Poles to cut down trees and make
roads with them. Poland is becoming
like east Russia. where there are no
trees to keep moisture in the SOIL, SO
that the melting SHOWS carry on the
surface soil to the big rivers and
leave only desiccated sand. None OF
Polands material losses viii damage
her as long as this.
Polands homeless thousands are now
either trudging here through the mud
or finding shelter in holes in the earth
MANY thousands live in abandoned
trenches at LodZ and Lowitsch. They
have carried to the trenches their cloth
ing, tables. chairs and cooking uten-
sils and rooted the trenches with cor
rusated iron from their burned cabins.
Many have dug holes in the earth and
there live with their families. Some
settlements Of underground dwellers
number a thousand inhabitants. They
have their own systems of govern
ment, laws, customs and crimes. AS
winter grows colder they burrow far-
ther and farther under the earth. Sucn
Evening star., 1915-02-28

hence. it means famine. poland's fields
can no longer be cultivated. Much OF
them is swallowed up IN roads As
the old roads cannot be traNefseh the
transport columns march across the
fields Much land cannot be plowed
for sowing, because 1t Is alfeady
plowed by trenches. Trenches are dou-
Bile, triple or quadruple, and they run
for five or ten miles. thousands OF
miles of trenches have been dug. farnl-
ers make unavailing efforts to MI III
the trenches. The frost makes II nm
possible The soil on the fiat surfaces
between trenches is ruined Under the
fertile humus are strata OF sand. Ihe
trench diggers turn the sand on to the
humus When there is a thaw and
snow melts, the water washes the
humus into the trenches and leaves
the sand Fertile fields which Gov
cred square miles are now like the
SANDY beds of rivers. 1t Will take hEe
wears of labor to make tiilable the
fields.
Poalnd has lost her roads and woods.
Before the war Polish roads were good,
Judged by Russian standards. During
his first advance on Warsaw Field
Evening star., 1915-02-28

clear out. The engineers made some
surveys. Out of their cabins tumblea
the villagers, and out of the back Yards
were brought carts. The carts were
loaded with clothes, bedding. kitchen
utensils and the lighter furniture.
These We're rushed to the bank OF Il
stream and left there in pouring ram.
The destruction of the village began
Sappers set fire to the roofs of the
wooden houses. The wet thatches would
not light. Then matches were iald TO
curtains inside and the houses blazed.
At the end of the village there were
three brick cottages with common dI-
yidinS walls y big dynamite cartridge
was buried deep under the floor OF the
middle building. The explosion de-
stroyed all three cottages.
Next the villagers were given crow
bars and ordered to break down the
brick chimneys and the remaining frag-
ments of brick wall. The women wept,
the children looked on and applauded,
Behind Mozsiska was oak copse of
about two dozen trees. The villagers
were bid saw down the trees. AS the
work took too long. dynamite car
tridgeS were stuck into holes bored
iii the trunks, and the trees were blown
up. Half the villagers Of Mozslska are
now in this city, the rest in villages
saw will require the raZing of fifteen
villages within range of the guns.
Around Warsaw and around LODI, zoo
villages have been destroyed i'll order
TO clear a trajectory for artillery pro-
jectiles. This is nothing to the destruc-
ton caused by fights for villages, by
artillery duels by burning for re-
prisais In part of central Poland not
one vlllag' is left. of the twelve near
est villages to SkierniaN ice ten have
been burned In PetrokoW province.
i'll the southwest, 500 villages have been
burned or battered to fragments Also
TOO isolated farms. All villages and
isolated houses on the Bsura river De
tween it's confluence with the Nlstul;t
and its confidence with the RaWka
have disappeared. Only blackened brick
chimneyS remain. Worst of all is the
destruction west and northwest of
LODI. Here a three-week battle ragged
in November and December. In Il
patch of country ten miles square only
two houses are left.
In Warsaw Hospital eighty civilians
are being treated for shall or bullet
Evening star., 1915-02-28

wounds. They are all that have been
brought here of thousands of wound
ed non-combatants. Half of the eighty
are women and children: all are of
peasant class. The Polish peasant
refuses to run away at the right time.
When he hears that a battle is raging
fifty miles away he takes everything
portable, and, with his family, makes
for Warsaw The battle, he discovers,
STAYS for weeks on the same spot. He
assumes that it will not move any
further, and he returns to his village
and pays no heed to further warnings.
x ;!
Then the Russian defense recedes.
war and flame advance and in the
middle of the night destruction sweeps
over the village. Shells explode and
set the thatches atiame. The villagers
rush from their beds. If lucky, they
escape If unlucky, they may find their
village occupied at both ends by con-
tending infantry. There is a mad rush,
infantry volleys are fired, civilians fail
as thick as soldiers, the women and
children dash back into their cabins
and the whole village goes up in
flame. Those who have escaped tramp
in their night clothes along the sodden,
snow-covered roads to the next village
east, and a few days later, at the point
of death, they are taken into Warsaw
hospitals.
Poland's mobiles have lost their
chtaeaux Some of the chateaux have
been shelled. some purposely burned
because they interfered with firing,
some pillaged and then burnt by ma
rauders. In South Poland are 5000
brigands, in small bands, who plunder
and murder. Most were formerly hon
est peasants. Hunger and immunity
have driven them to brigandage. Where
they find an intact country house they
plunder it, and then. in order to cover
UP their tracks, set it on fire. Russia S
military justice has summarily hanged
fifty marauders. In the Lysa Cora