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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-04
EmiSSarieS in German Camp
Sign an Armistice
AT PETROGRAD, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL STAFF HAVE
SURRENDERED TO THE ANARCHISTS
ASSOCIATED Press)

London, Dec. Am armistice be-
tween Russia and Germany has been
signed at the headquarters of Prince
Leopold of Bavaria. says an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Am
sterdam today. The armistice is valid
for forty-eight hours
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-01-19

quick cry OF warning bursting from the
drivers throat. Staring ahead. she
saw that still another effort was being
made to intercept them. This time it
was a man with red flag. Instead of
stopping, the car swept past the man
SO close that its fender-end slapped
against the fiagstick itself as he re-
peated his lusty shout of command.
But that command was more or less
lost on Train, little dizzy now with
the sheer drunkenness of speed.
Stop" Knocked the driver as he
raced on. I'm going to stop for moth
ing this side of hell"
Yet that valiant boast was little
more than the articulation of mortal
pride so often preluding mortal disas-
ter. For, bearing down on them along
that lonely stretch of roadway they
could already see second car. The
point about this car that worried Train
was that 1t was not approaching them
as well-behaved car should approach
comrade vehicle, but vermiculated
drunkenly from one side of the road to
the other. Even Margery, as she
leaned forward, puzzling over these
strange movements, bealized that peril
was involved in passing a vihicle so
uncertain of its course. At the same
time, too, she could hear from far be-
hind her the prolonged and warning
cry Of an auto horn, wailing disturb
ingly through the quiet air of the late
afternoon.
The next moment the two cars had
met, head-on.
There was a crash of metal and
glass, a rending of honey-comb radia-
tors and coppered tenders.
What happened after that for all
time remained strangely like a dream
to Margory. She remembered seeing
Train lying close beside his wrecked
car, with the blood trickling from his
wrist and staining his whip-cord uni
form. She remembered seeing other
| figures, even more helpless looking
But most of all she remembered how
one of these figures, pulling himself
| together, had slowly risen to his feet
AS he did so he turned half-stupidly
| about and stared down at her And the
moment she saw that pallid yet tri
umphant face she knew that it was LIE
gar. She knew that he was confronting
her, that he was slowly but determin
eddy making his way towards her. And
she knew that in another moment she
would have been their prisoner again
had not sudden and unlooked-for in
terruption taken place.
This interruption came in the form
of flying roadster, with a masked
figure leaning low out from its run
ming board as it swept down on them
She remembered the sudden shout Of
the men, the sudden clutch of the
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-01-19

servants telephone below stairs Part
of that guarded conversation was car
ried on by Wrench, the new footman,
and much of 1t had to do with the very
situation so disturbing the aged million
aire in the room above. For it was Lee
gar explaining that a masked stranger
at the last moment had snatched the
girl from their hands and had apparent
ly carried her off to some hiding place
of his own. This was followed by the
command to deliver still another mes
sage to Enoch Golden, with the final
warning that every wire leading into
the Golden house must be cut as soon
as possible.
The new footman, in obedience to
these orders, quietly traced out the
telephone circuits to the basement and
there severed the wires with a pair of
scissors purloined for the purpose
from Mile. Celestine's workbag. Then,
watching his chance, he carefully
penned a note, wording it as Legar
had duly instructed him to do. Then
he returned to the neighborhood OF the
library door, with his ferretlike alert
ness masked under his customary i'm
mobility of face.
1t was not until his restless master
discovered the telephone wires to be
dead, and went storming through the
house to determine the reason for this
misadventure, that Wrench realized
his chance had come. Slipping into
the deserted library on the pretext Of
adjusting the rugs, he stopped before
| the rosewood table, hesitated mo-
ment, and then lifted the heavily
| chased lid of Golden's cigar case and
dropped the note inside. A moment
later he had left the room, unobserved
and unsupported.
| 1t did not take many minutes of
waiting to confirm the wisdom of
Wrench's movement. For Enoch Gold
en-, striding restlessly back into his
library, sank with a sigh of WEAKNESS
into the armchair beside the rosewood
| table. For moment CT two he stared
abstractedly and unhappily about him.
Then, with still another sigh, he
reached out and lifted the heavily
chased lid of silver. His fingers, in
stead of coming in contact with per-
fecto corseted in gold, rustled against
a sheet Of paper. Automatically he
picked 1t up and unfolded it.
| Written on that mysterious sheet he
found the following:
ITO fight me further In this 10 use.
less. And unless you open your eyes
to this fact it will soon be worse than
useless. 1t will be fatal. ! repeat that
] want your half of that chart. If you
want your daughter to live, want her
sent back to you, take that chart to
the twenty-fourth floor of the Central
Tower building, within the next hour
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-01-19

and hand Il to the man In the black
ulster who will be waiting there. No
trickery can succeed. And this is your
last chance! JULES LEGAR."
Silently the beaten man stared down
at this strange missive. Slowly as he
did so, the last of his once iron will
melted away.
He rose heavily from his chair and
crossed to the vault. From this vault
he took the map. the time-yellowed
square of MANILA about which so many
Of the sorrows and troubles of all his
life seemed to revolve. Then, calling
for his hat and coat and ordering a
car, he tremblingly made ready for his
midnight visit of capitulation to the
Central Tower building.
While these events we're taking
place, however, there was one member
of the Golden household who remained
far from inactive. When David Man
ley so abruptly left a tranquil bunga
low at Cedarton and so stealthily
pushed his way through the shrubbery
surrounding that bungalow, it was be-
cause he had made the sudden dis
covery that Legar himself was in the
neighborhood. Nor was it hard for
him to guess the reason for that mas
ter-criminaps invasion of those seques-
tered grounds. And Manley, promptly
deciding to stalk the stalker himself,
was rewarded by overhearing enough
of Legar's plans, as the latter hurried
ly issued his instructions to two of his
confederates near the roadside, to
realize the necessity of at once get
ting in touch with Enoch Golden.
Whatever happened, he felt, it was his
duty to warn Margery's father that
Legar himself had acknowledged his
ignorance of the girls whereabouts
and had expressed his intention OF
trucking the chart out Of its present
owners hands.
Ten minutes of frantic efforts at a
telephone booth In the nearby village,
howefer, convinced Manley Of the inn
possibility of getting in touch with
Golden bv wire
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-01-19
SIXTH EPISODE
THE SPOTTED WARNING

Enoch Golden had never formed the
habit of taking others into his conf
dence. And when events came into
his life which seemed to leave him
more and more dependent on his i'm
mediate associates he betrayed an &C.
casional tendency to focus his neb-
ulous resentment against that situa-
ton on the exasperatingly imperturb-
able figure of David Manley.
Young man." he said, fixing his Sec
rotary with a steely eye, 81 came to
this decision twenty long, years ago,
and nothing is going to change it. That
woman was sent from my home, and
she will never enter il again"
Manley, looking down at the note
still held in his hand, thought of the
troubled and tear-stained face Of the
girl who had so recently chung to his
arm and asked him to plead her cause.
And the memory of Margery Golden
brought fresh courage to him.
But this woman who was once your
own wife is only asking for glimpse
of her own daughter again. Surely
that is asking little enough"
"And I repeat that won't allow It.
I have saved my daughter from the
dangers that woman's wrong surround
ed her with. have saved her from"
% Have you?" interrupted Manley, de-
liberately meeting the older mans
stare.
Any retort the older man was about
to utter remained unspoken, for at
that moment a soft-treading footman
entered the room and crossed to the
desk with a salver of mail in his hand.
Manley. looking up, eyed that servant
resentfully, and with touch of sus-
picion. This intruder, he promptly
surmised, was a new figure in the
household retinue
BE so good as to knock when you
enter this ROOM" was the young secre-
tary's sharp command.
every good, sir" answered the new
footman, scarcely raising his eyes.
Hill" Golden scoffed, looking UP
from the letter which he had just
opened. Since you're so ready to ask
favors. here's another friend to ask
them for. Here's the captain Of the
circle you're so ready to champion!
But instead of asking favors you see,
he demands themw
He tossed the folded sheet angrily
across the desk top. Manley took il
up and read it.
"Your happiness hangs on one small
scrap of paper. That paper is the
portion OF the Windward island char
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-01-19

no damage which a half-hcocy sra
couldn't patch up.
But Manley, in truth, was thinking
little Of either Evart or his iier. All
his thoughts, as he climbed frantically
up through the broken tower window,
were revolving about the problem as
to whether or not he was too late.
And that all-vital question still OBJ
sessed him as he mounted the iron
treads of the stairway leading to the
tower top, painting up fight after fight
until his lungs seemed bursting for
want Of air, and his over-driyen heart
beat drumlike against his rib-cage-
And as he reached the top, and flung
out through the narrow door opening
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-01-19
SYNOPSIS.

On windward island Palidori intrigues
Mrs. Golden into an appearance of evil
which causes Golden to capture and tor
ture the Italian by branding his face and
crushing his hand. Palidori opens the
dyke gates and floods the island and in
the general rush to escape the flood kid
maps Golden's six-year-old daughter Mar
CORY. Twelve years later in New York
Masked One calling himself the Hammer
of God" rescues an eighteen-year-old girl
. from the cadet Casavanti. to whom Jules
Legar has delivered her, and takes her to
the home of Enoch Golden. millionaire,
whence she is recaptured by Degar. Legar
den's secretary, setting fire to Golden's
buildings. but escape. Aargory's mother
fruitlessly implores Enoch Golden to
find their daughter The Masked One
again takes Margory away from Legar.
Legar loots the Third National bank, but
again the Laughing Mask illustrates his
plans.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-01-19

strong hand as 1t caught at her while
the roadster swept by, the equally sud-
den pain through her bruised body as
she was swung safely up into the seat
of the onward swerving car. She re-
membered, too, the arm close about
her as she lay back, weak and pant
ing, as they danced and speeded on
along that lonely road. She remem-
bered turning in through a stone gate.
winding along an orderly gravel drive
way, stopping before vine-bowered
bungalow. She remembered, as the
masked man at her side helped her in
through an ivory-white door, turning
dazedly to him and asking who he was.
And she remembered the smile that
showed just beneath the fringe of the
yellow domino as he shook his head
and the sense of deprivation that
swept through her as she found her
self once more alone. Then from the
same door through which the Laugh
ing Mask had stepped, she remem-
bered, she had seen a quiet-eyed wom-
an come out, 4 quiet-eyed woman who
had crept up to her, with tears we'll
ing from her eyes and smile of pity
Ing tenderness about her lips.
"Margery, don't you know me? Don't
you remember your own mother?"
that quiet-eyed woman had asked as
she had taken her in her arms. And
as she stared up into that motherly
face, bent so close over her own, she
had said, with gasp Of bewilderment,
"Are you-you the Laughing Mask?"
But her mother, she remembered, had
smiled, almost sorrowfully, and had
put finger to her lips.
The Tower of Destiny.
Enoch Golden, anxious and worm
out, sat waiting for some further word
as to the fate of his daughter Margery.
Nothing had come to him since Trains
startling message of the collision and
the even more startling news Of the
girls mysterious disappearance. He
would have go. little consolation from
a talk that Was taking place over tho
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-01-19


which you still hold. Unless This is
delivered to me, and delivered as !
have already directed, the Spotted
Warning will come to your daughter
Margery. And the meaning of the
Spotted Warning sho already under
stands. JULES LEGAR."
And what do you intend to do?"
asked Manley, still staring down at
this strange note.
do you suppose" retorted Golden,
with a slightly tremulous finger al
ready on the bell, that I'm going to
empty my safe to every blackleg who
handles about a catch-word that be-
longs to little Italy?"
| But what earthly use is this piece
of chart to your asked the Younger
IDsn,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25
CANADA TO GET SOME COAL
2.on0,no0 Tons of Bituminous md 700, 900
Tons of Anthracite VIII he
Exported.
IBy Associated Pr.ssl

WASHINGTON, October 24.-Cnder a
definite allotment of American coal for
Canada, announced tonight by the
fuel administrator about 100000 tons
OF bituminous and 100000 tons OF an
thracite will be permitted to move
across the Canadian border during tho
next two months
The allotments. which will materially
reduce the volume of exports. were ar
ranged in consultation with the Cana
dian authorities, and after a review
OF statistics showing the Dominion's
fuel consumption during the past year
and the future needs of its industries.
and domestic consumers.
It was announced that Administrator
Garfield had insisted that Canada be
treated as we'll as the United States in
the matter OF coal, but no better. and
that the Canadian government rccog-
niZed that the United States was war
ranted in taking the present step TO
protect the interests of it's consumers
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25
Reasons Why
Edwin c. Laird,
President Of The
Southern Mfg. Co.,
Purchased Liberty Bond.

BECAUSE Germany has Just suc-
ccssfuiiy put over Its seventh
bond Issue, which amounted 70
3,S0O,0O0. 900, and IL we shonid
full to put over our SECOND
isHue. it would be not only nm
everlastfnE Worldwide disgrace,
but forerunner of actual de-
feat.
BECAUSE the banks md cnpItaIi,t,
alone cannot possibly put over
this issue. II Will require nm
avalanche of $50 and 500 In
veStments to make the issue n
success.
BECAUSE no one In asked to give
penny, but every one Is asked
20 put every dollar he or she
can rake and ncrape together
into safe and soune investment
for the protection of our boys
who nre going "over there" to
fight for un.
BECAUSE It costs heavily to prom
erly equip and maintain our
soidier boys, and the better
equipped md protected they no,
the greater the number Of them
that Will come back to un VIC
torious and sound In body and
soul.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25
BERG ONE OF |NTERNED
GERMANS WHO ESCAPE {
Ten Get Away From Detention Camp
at Fort MCPHERSON by Digging
1OO-Foot Channel.
BEING SOUGHT FOR IN ATLANTA
Master of Prize Ship Appam Among
Missing-Others Who Got Away
We're Members OF His Crew or Men
From the Eitel Friedrich.
tBy Associated Press1

ATLANTA, GA, October 24-Lieu-
tenant Hans Berg. who brought the
prize ship Appam to Hampton Rhoads
was one OF the ten German prisoners
who escaped from the alien enemy de-
tention camp at Fort Mcpherson last
night by tunnelinG from one OF the
buildings.
This became known here tonight,
when search for the men. members OF
the crews of the former German COM
merce raider Prinz Eitel Frederick and
the Appam. turned to Atlanta, where
according to military authorities. the
fnsitives are believed to be hiding.
An investigation early to-day re-
vealed that the men had escaped by
means of a tunnel about 100 feet long
which they had dug from under one
OF the buildings used as sleeping quar-
ters to distance OF about twenty feet
beyond a sentry post on the outside
OF wire fencing which surrounds the
prison camp. 1t was pointed out by
the military authorities that the sailors
must have been working on the tunnel
since their arrival hero about two
weeks ago. They were brought hero
from Fort oslethorpe. Ga. where they
had been previously intcrned
Soon after the escape bloodhounds
followed n trail about a mile from the
camr to small stream. in which the
fugitives evidently waded. Their socks
had heen left on the bank OF the
steam
No other wearing apparel was found
At ;he stream. Military officials said
the men wore their uniforms last night.
Lieutenant Berg. who, before the war.
commanded German merchant ship.
was put in charge OF the Appam after
that vessels capture on the west coast
OF Africa by the raider Moewe, with
a prize crew aboard He successfully
brought the vessel. with her large
number Of prisoners and rich cargo.
across the Atlantic and through the
Virginia capes, where he arrived Feb
ruary l. 1916.
The prison camp authorities tonight
made public a list of the names of the
men who escaped. disclosing that be-
sides Berg, there are two other officers
or the German navy among the fuEi-
tives. They are Arnold Henkel, thirty
five. and Alfred Loescher, thirty-nine.
The names of the other seven men, all
OF whom are listed at the prison bar
racks as seamen. follow:
Paul FaiS, twenty-five; Max MILAN
Menzingcr twenty-two: Paul Eisner,
twcnty-nine: Johann Adclhardt, twenty
four: GranZ Beer, twenty-five: Paul
Sabel, twenty-sN and Carl Schultze.
twcnty-three.
The local onlce OF the Federal De-
partmcnt of Justice tonight announced
II reward Of $50 for the capture OF each
of the Germans
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25

Every report received tonight at
the Treasury bore the same burden
tremendous response of the people "a
the loan. The inclement weather in the
East interfered somewhat with eIab-
crate preparations for the day. but
elsewhere the program was carried
through enthusiastically. More than
100000 workers were in the field.
President Wilson, not Knowing OF
some plans in the making by the pub.
licity bureau for the taking OF his sub
scription. subscribed through local
bank several days ago for SIS, 900, seud-
Ing his check for S13,500 In part pay.
ment. The fact that the President had
bought his bonds was not known till
to-day when a photograph OF his signed
application appeared In a loan adyer-
tisement. Tonight the President heard
Il loan speech at a local theater.
DALLAS AND ATLANTA
TWO BRIGHTEST Spots
"The two brightest spots in the daya
campaign" the Treasury announced to-
night. were the Dallas and Atlanta
districts. Secretary McAdoo arousea
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25
tBy Associated Press.1

WASHINGTON, October .4.-Scc-
rotary McAdoo announced Tonight,
I'm statement made public here.
thut he was going to nsk prominent
business men md lawyers to uNsist
him In carrying out the prorisions
of the excess prOiltS tax. and to that
end thnt two boards would be
crcnfcL In nm ndyi<0ry capacity TO
the Treasury Department..
The FIRST bourd. dc.IEnated tho
Excess Proflts Advisory B,ard, will
be composed Of men of high char
acter and wide experience in bus
fncns and eronomicS, particularly
with reference TO tn1ption. This
board will unnlyze tho law, nnSist
in drafting regulations to mnke Il
effective and digest suggestions
frpm business men OF the country
which the department Will endenvor
to obtain.
The second board, deniEnnted the
Advisory nonrd of Legal Review.
composed OF leading lawyers, will
advise the department In the many
probiemn OF law connected with the
administration of tho INV.
The pernonncl of both boards, 1t
was safd. probably would be an
nounced I'm a few days. The depnrt-
ment's announcement snys, In pnrt.
"The creation of this bonrd il one
OF the most Important steps contem-
plated by the secretary In the re-
organization OF the Internal Revenue
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25
IIUEuLMANN TALKED or
FOR CIIANCEiLORSHIP


LONDON, October 24.-On the day
that Austria, with German aid launches
her drive against italy, DR.. Michaelis.
whom Austrias Foreign Minister Open
ly rebuked the other day, is reported
20 have rendered his resignation Poll
ical observers here see significance in
the coincidence that on the very even
ing Of the preliminary Teuton bonn
hardments on the Julian front. Foreign
Minister Won Kuehlmann returned from
Vienna after successful conferences'
with Count Czernin. the director OF
Austria's foreign affairs
DIR. Won kuehlmann still is the most
talked OF candidate for the chancel-
'orship. His views differ radically from
those of DR.. Michaclis. not only as re-
CARDS peace. but particularly concern
ing the relations with Austria. The
present Chancellor Is known TO favor
uncompromising German domination,
rather than harmonious cooperation as
between two equal partners.
The latter is DR. Kuehlmanns as we'll
as Count Czernin's avowed policy The
report Of Chancellor Michaeiis's resig
nation is still in vogue. 1t comes
from the Wireless Press. and states he
has placed his portfolio in the hands
OF Emperor William. This is on a par
with the recent reports Of Vice Admiral
Capelles resignation as Marine Min
lister. which has not been positively
confirmed up TO this date
True or not. the report created little
surprise here. since it is generally ac-
cepted a certainty that Michaelis
must go sooner or later
The Kaiser is back in Berlin. and
things are expected to move more
swiftly within the next few days. The
Socialists are still unequivocally op-
posed to Prince Won Bueiow. whom
they regard as having decidedly Junk
erst leanings.
The most unpopular statesman IN
Germany during the war, next 20 Zim-
mer'nann. has been finally stopped. He
IS Nice-Chancellor Hclnerich. Some
minor changes have been made in the
undcr-sccretariats
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-25
TORRENT OF MONEY!
BRINGS GOAL NEAR
Two Boards Will Be Named by McAdoo
to Garry Out Excess Profits Tax Law

Service for the administration or the
large task impOncd by the new net.
This In the Rrentcst tnx INV In the
history OF the country. and IL In the
desire and purpose of tho sccretury
to ndministcr 1t cTectuaIly with tho
lcnSt posHibIc Inconvenience to the
public. to business and to taxpayers
generally.
Zone IF the most important tasks
deNoi'inE upon the Treasury Depart
n,cnt In connection with the admin
i"frauon of tho new lnw In to
acqunlnt the public with nlI the new
taxes and how and when to pny
them. Thi. Will mike nm extensive
campaign OF education desirable.
To accomplish this the secretary
contcmpiafeS the crenti,n of new
dlrision of work I'm tho bureau m
der supervisor of busincss CO.
operation.
''This on1cinI will keep In close
touch with the public md business.
nnd dlnuse Information through all
possible channels to the taxpayers.
II in contemplated to organize for
this purpose voluntary State and
local omr,ittees. Thcsc Stntc, city,
town and precinct ommittccs will
have M administrative function,
but will provide n channel for con-
reytnS tnI nnd revenue Information
to every community, md will fur
nish helpful advice to the DEPART
mcnt regarding the application of
the law"