The Press., 1917-02-08
9~~V~~~%~~VNV Whats In :. A Name? Sometimes There Is a
 Lot of Trouble
By F. A. MITCHELL

PruSSian nor W0rr1Or, put dan~ oyerian and a professor. Indeed, the old fellow was a bookwOrm, who, if fy had attacked the tip of his nose, would have been too absorbed in his studies to have defended himself. And if the fly had succeeded in arresting his attention he would not have 1n- iured the intruder for the world. He would have opened window and put 1t out
 His son, Caspar, was called to the chair of university in France. ThencefOrth the family became French. The men, of course. kept the German surname. but by the time the fourth Casbar Kneiblitz came this was all the German there was about them. Nor one of them could speak word of German, and the third Kne1blitz had given his life for France in the war of 1870.
 When Germany advanced into Bel gium to seize Paris, Caspar Kneibl1tz of the fourth generation, the hero or this StOry-if the word hero is proper IappelIatiOn-waS twenty-one years Old. He was only deterred from Joining the colors by being so desperately Ill love with Hortense le Verrier that he was unable to tear himself away from her. l though it must be admitted that 1T ne had been able to master his own feel ings sufficiently to leave her she would not have let him gO
 | For a Frenchman to have a German
 name accrued to his disadvantage as
 soon as the war broke out. Caspar
 Kneiblitz was at last driven to part
 with his beloved Hortense on this ac- count. When others had Joined the c0lors and Caspar remained at home it was suspected that the reason ne did not go to the war was because or 1 German sympathies. When he came to know of this suspicion he was much pained He told Hortense that he must not listen to the voice or love any longer and at once began to make | nreparatiOns to go to the front.
 Of course he met with great OppOs1- 1 tiOn. HOrtense was sure that sne would never see him again and that her life would be blighted. He tried to
 reassure her, but in vain. However, since the suspicious of his cOuntrymen |! that he was loyal to country he nao
 never seen and of whose language he did not know a word had been aroused
 his resolution was taken.
 Tn order to make the separation
 easier for his sweetheart he promised to write her letter every day that 1t , would he possible for him to write.
 Another thing she insisted on which
 would not likely be possible was that akter every battle, if he came out alive, he(telegraph her to that effect. Caspar , fully realized the crowded conditions of the telegraph lines, especially i'm frhedIately after battle, and that they 1SSase under control of the government lgut he had not the heart to make Il kRown to- the girl, thus denying he1 | this crumb of comfort, However, moi , Knowing what possibilities might arise , | lie drew up a cipher code by which he might add few endearing words Oi F ihformation concerning hmsef. , If was decided by the lovers that
 they would be married before a sep iaration that might last forever. The lcernmony was performed privately !
 week after its conclusion Caspar de Inarted for the front.
 , While Caspars loyalty to France was not questioned by those who knew
 him personally, his name at once eX
 cited suspicion in strangers. He hat
 scarcely broken away from the cling
 ing Hortense and gained his regimen
 before he began to be looked upon a.
 a possible German sympath1Zer, thouSi !. why he should be in the French arm.
 if he was loyal to Germany was no . lexpIained. Truth is that many mal
 loyal to France or England who ha'
 Gcrma, blood in his veins experiences . like suspicion.
 CNasDar joined the army as pr1Vat ', and would have been promoted ha' t it not been for his German name. SeV eral times he distinguished himself :, and, officers immediately above hin
 having been killed off, there were Va
 ! caDcies But when it came to q quP> ' , tiOn of filling them and Caspar was pjf ., posed his name caused his rejection. What! Lieutenant CaSpar KneiI}lit :" to command Frenchmen? Impossible: Il this: he only knew that when Vacancle ID occurred he was not promoted. 1t dI not trouble him, for his heart Wa | with his dear HOrtense, and all h n,'' desired was that the war should | ended and he might return to her. le As luck would have it, Caspar foun U friend, an operator in the m1l1tar p' telegraph department, One day whe H he was feeling very hOmesick Casps
 VI H to the office and asked his frien Le 60 send d dispatch for him. No figh y ing was going on at the time, and u TO telegraph was not very busy, so tf lu friend told the lover that If he woul leave his message with him he woul St endeavor to smuggle it through b C. tween messages for the gOVernmen Ill Caspar left his message, which u r. 4peratOr put on file without looking el- it and when a convenient time f'
 sending it arrived took it up for u
 purpose.
 He was surprised to see that it WI IT. in cipher Not feeling at liberty u- send a cipher message, the operat 1c laid it aside. When Caspar came aga ty to inquired if 1t had been sent and WI St told that it was held because 1t WI IT. in cipher Caspar looked so disappO1I C ed and begged so hard that it be D aS over the wires that his friend prOmiSt IT, to do so, though he feared trOub "a. would result. Caspar assured him tn Pd there was nothing in the dispatch tn >h would be Of the slightest injury 'e' France. and this turned the scale. CT NJ. Larrabee, deputed tO examine t. 'p- egranls received i'll Paris, was sittii m- at his desk when an operator hand nt him Caspar's dispatch. The nome 'n- he read the name Of the person - whom it was addressed and notic
 that the message was in cipher
 face assumed the expression of o
 who had nnearthed an announceme
 to German sympathizers that Pal 'e was about to be attacked by hunddr