The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-23
ARefugee
By EUNICE BLAKE

MY sister Rose and ! were both girls
Of q keen sensibility. We were insep.
arabic, and often when together Rose
would mention something that | was
thinking about. or perhaps II was I
who would mention something thar
Rose was thinking about. For long
while we considered this thinking
about the sal thing at the same time
simply due to coincidence. but at last
we came to wonder If it were not
thought transference.
When this solution was first suggest
ed we both laughed at the idea. but aft
err few more very pointed condolences
of the kind we believed it to be true.
Our first separation occurred In the
spring of the breaking out of the war
between the triple alliance and the
triple entente Rose found an opDortu-
nifty to go abroad with party OF
friends, who took her along as their
guest With much reluctance at leav-
ing me she accepted the invitation and
sailed when the annual summer hegira
Of Americans commenced. During the
month of July |, who needed rest in
stead of the excitement of travel. went
into the country as far as could get
from railroad and where the only
newspaper was weekly journal with
no news In 1t except what was of In.
terest to the surrounding farmers.
One night dreamed that ! was In q
foreign city. | say dreamed 1t. for
my consciousness was more like
dream than any other sensation.
was in hotel situated on a square.
looked out through window ON the
square below. thronged with people all
in state of intense excitement. Some
Of them were throwing up their caps
and shouting. Others were hurrying In
and out Of the houses. while cab driv.
ers were guiding their horses or auto
cars were endeavoring to get through
the crowds without running persons
down.
Then without being conscious OF any
transition | was on railway train.
Every town 1t passed through was
filled with soldiers. and everybody
seemed to be bent on doing something
in the least possible time In the fields
women were gathering in the harvest,
not a man being there to help. Mules
were dragging great cannon along
roads. and locomotives were drawing
other munitions OF war on platform
cars. Everybody and everything was
moving in the direction our train was
moving
BY and by we passed into another
country There were long drawn
breaths Of relief by my fellow pas
sengers. We We're in valley ON one
side Of which doomed Notifications into
which soldiers were hurrying There
were two lines of these works. and they
extended about city. almost encircling |
1t. These two lines were SO filled with
men that In the distance they looked
like myriads of insects.
Our train entered the city, and |. with
Others. was hurried to another train
country. Now the people instead OF
hurrying in the direction ! was going
hurried In the other direction. Soldiers
were marching In great multitudes on
the road. and presently | saw some
bearing the English flag. There seemed
to be less worry on the part OF all OF
us, our only course of anxiety being
to catch stea mer. which was to sail
from coast we were approaching.
The next phase OF this sensation was
through II fog on the ocean
lights and without sound to
Indicate our presence. None of us
slept. and most of us were In the cabin
grouped In terror. Stewards we're GO
ing from room to room stutfing pillows
against the portfolios or hanging cur.
,ains over them to conceal from with
'ut every ray Of light
My dream. my vision or whatever II |
may be called faded away. In the
morning awoke feeling as II l had
been tiayed. In dreams we never see
lnything we have not seen while
awake. ! had seen sights that were
absolutely new to me. could nor IN.
ierstand IT. Naturally connected II
With something that had happened to
Rose abroad
So impressed with this was that I
determined TO 60 to the city. I was
lriven twenty miles to n station. Along
he route the country people were pnr.
uing their daily vocations. some of
hem getting in hay. others moving
over the roads. When | ar.
tved at the station | saw man
on the platform reading a
ewspaper. saw in big black letters
unning across the page:
THE Belgians Still Hold the Forts at
.iege"
| asked him what II meant and he
Did me that all Europe had suddenly
urst into war flame. | bought a
ewspaper and read an announcement
I the arrival of ship at New York
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