The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 33, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 December 1911 — Page 7

I ✓} STORY CV J > V. ■ | ELUSIVE I y [iSABELf By JACQUES EUTRELLE E ■ * Illustrations by M-. KETTNER ■■■ —* .CseSrfKbt, 190». by The Associated Sunday Magazine#, sopyrigbt 1*», by The fiobbe-Merrid Cozupauy. 17 SYNOPSIS. Count di Resini. the Italian ambas•ador. is at dinner with diplomats when a messenger summons him to the embassy. where a beautiful young woman asks for a ticket to the embassy ball. The ticket is made out in the name of Miss Isabel Thorne. Chief Campbell of the secret service, and Mr. Grimm, his head detective, are warned that a plot is . brewing in Washington, and Gritnm goes J to the state ball for information. His attention is called to Miss Isabel Thorne ■who with her companion, disappears. A shot is heard and Senor Alvarez of the Mexican legation, is found wounded. Grimm is assured Miss Thorne did it;.he visits her, demanding knowledge of the affair, ai>4 arrests Pietro Petrozinni. Miss , Thorne vtMts ah old bomb-maker, and they discuss t> wonderful experiment. Fifty thousand dollars is stolen from the office of Senor Rodrlguez. the minister from Venezuela, and while detectives are in- ' \vestigating the robbery Miss Thorne apk pears as a guest of the legation. Grimm ’accuses her of the theft; the money is restored, but a new mystery occurs in 6 the disappearance of Monsieur Bolssegur the French ambassador. Elusive Miss Thorne reappears, bearing a letter which states that the ambassador has been kidnaped and demanding ransom. The ambassador returns and again strangely disappears. Later he is rescued from an old v house in the suburbs. It is discovered » that Pietro Petrozinni shot Senor Alvarez and that he is Prince d‘Abruzzi. Grimm figures in a mysterious jail delivery. He orders both Miss Thorne and d’Abruzzi to leave the country, they are conveyed to New York and placed on. a steamer' but return. Grimm's coffee /is drugged and upon regaining consciousness he finds a sympathetic, note from Isabel Thorne. CHAPTER XXII. The Compact. A room, low-ceilinged, dim. gloomy, sinister as an inquisition chamber; a single large table in the center, holding a kerosene lamp, writing materials and a metal spheroid a shade larger than a one-pound shell; and around it a semicircle of silent, masked and cowled figures. There were twelve of them, eleven men and a woman. In the shadows, which grew denser at the far end of the room, was a squat, globular object, a massive. stnooth-sided, black, threatening x thing of iron. One of the men glanced at his wateb. —it was just two o’clock —then rose and took a position beside the table, facing the semicircle. He placed the timepiece on the table in front of , him. \ “Gentlemen,” he said, and there was the faintest trace of a foreign accent, “I shall speak English because I know that whatever your nationality all of you sre familiar with that tongue. And now an apology for the theatric I aspect of all this —the masks, the time and place of meeting, and the rest of it.” He paused a moment. ‘‘There is only one person living who knows the name and position of all of you," and by a sweep of his hand he indicated the motionless figure ot the woman. "It was by her decision . that masks are worn, for, while we all know the details of the Latin com pact, there is a bare chance that some one will not sign, and it is not desirable that the identity of that person be known to all of us. The reason for the selection of this time and place is obvious, for an inkling of the proposed signing has reached the Sey cret Service. I will add the United Blates was chosen as the birthplace of this new epoch in history for several reasons, one being the proximity to Central and South America; and another the inadequate police system, which enables greater freedom of action.” He stopped and drew from hia pocket a folded parchment. tapped the tips of his fingers with it from time to time as he talked. “The Latin compact, gentlemen, is not the dream of a night, nor of a decade. As long as fifty years ago . it was suggested, and whatever differthe Latin countries of the world have had among themselves, they have always realized that ultimately they must stand together against—against the other nations of the world. This idea germinated into action three years ago, and since that time agents have covered the world in its Interest. This meeting is the fruition of all that work, and this,” he held k' the parchment aloft, “is the instrument that ¥lll unite us. Never has a diplomatic secret been kept as this has been kerw: never has a greater reprisal been planned. It means, gentlemen, the domination of the world — socially, spiritually, commercially and artistically; it means that England and the United States, whose sphere of influence has extended around the 4 globe, will be beaten back, and that the flag of the Latin countries will wave again over lost possessions. It means all of that, and more.” His voice had risen as he talked until it had grown vibrant with enthusiasm;. and his bands pointed his remarks with quick, sharp gestures. “AH this,” be went on, “was never possible until hree years ago, when I the navies of the world were given iwer into the t Av.ds of one nation—my

country. Five years ago a fellowcountryman of mine happened to be < present at an electrical exhibition in New York City, and there he wit- i nessed an interesting experiment—a j practical demonstration of the fact that a submarine mine may be ex- 1 ploded by the use of the Marconi 1 wireless system. He was a practical electrician himself, and the idea Un- i gered is his mind. For two years he i experimented, and finally this result- : ed.” He picked up the metal spheroid 1 and held it out for their inspection. ; “As it stands it is absolutely perfect and gives a, world’s supremacy to the Latin countries because it places all the navies of the world at our mercy. It is a variation of the well-known percussion cap or fuse by which mines and torpedoes are exploded. i “The theory of it is simple, as are the theories of all great inventions; the secret of its construction is known only to its inventor —a man of whom you never heard. It is merely that the mechanism of the cap is so delicate that the Marconi wireless , waves —and only those —will fire the cap.. In other words, this cap is i tuned, if I may use the word, to a certain number of vibrations and halfvibrations; a wireless instrument of high power, with modifying addition which the inventor has added, has only to be set in motion to discharge it at any distance up to twenty-five miles. High power wireless waves recognize no obstacle, so the explosion of a submarine mine is as easily brought about as would be the explosion of a mine on dry land. You will readily see its value as a protective agency for our * He replaced the spheroid on the table. “But its chief value is not in that,” he resumed. “Its chief value to the Latin compact gentlemen, is that th® United States and England are now concluding negotiations, unknown to each other, by which they will protect their means of mines primed with this caji>—The tuning of the caps which we will use Is known only to us; the tuning of the caps which they will use is also known to ■BBI ‘*The Latin Compact, Gentlemen, Is Not the Dream of A Night, Nor of a Decade.” us! The addition to the wireless apparatus which -they will use is such that they can not, even by accident, explode a mine guarding our seaports; but, on the other hand, the addition to the wireless apparatus which we will use permits of the extreme high charge which will explode their mines. To make it clearer, we could send a navy against such a city as New York or Liverpool, and explode every mine in front of us as we went; and meanwhile our mines are impervious. “Another word, and I have finished. Five gentlemen, whom I imagine are present now, have witnessed a test of this cap, by direct command of their home governments. For the benefit of the others of you a simple test has been arranged for to-night. This cap on the table is charged; its inventor is at his wireless instrument, fifteen miles away. At three o’clock he will turn on the current that will explode it.” Four of the eleven n*en looked at their watches. “It is now seventeen minutes past two. I am instructed, for the purposes of the test, to place this cap anywhere you may select—in this house or outside of it, in a box, sealed, or under water. The purpose is merely to demonstrate its efficacy; to prove to your complete satisfaction that it can be exploded under practically any conditions.” His entire manner underwent a change; he drew a chair up to the table, and stood for an instant with his hand resting on the back. “The compact is written in three languages—English, French and Italian. I shall ask you to sign, after reading either or all, precisely as the directions you have received from your home government instruct. On behalf of the three greatest Latin countries, as special envoy of each, I will sign first.” He dropped into the chair, signed each of the three parchment pages three times, then rose and offered the pen to the cowled figure at one end of the semicircle. The man came forward, read the English transcript, studied the three signatures already there with a certain air of surprise, then signed. The second man signed, the third man, and the fourth. Thk fifth had just risen to go forward wffien the door opened silently and entered. Without a glance either to right or left, he went straight toward the table, and extended a hand to take the compact. For an instant there had come amazement, a dumb astonishment, at the intrusion. It passed, and the hand of the man who had done the talking darted out, seized the compact, and held it behind him. “If you will be good enough to give that to me, your Highness,” suggested Mv Grimm quietly. For half a minute the masked man, stared straight into the listless eyes of the intruder, and then:

“Mr. Grimm, you are in very grave danger.” “That is beside th® question,” was the reply. “Be good enough to give me that document.” He backed away as be spoke, kicked the door closed with one heel, then leaned against it, them. “Or better yet,” he went on after a moment, “burn it. There is a lamp in front of you.” He paused for an answer. ' “It would be absurd of me to attempt to take it by force,” he added. CHAPTER XXIII. The Percussion Cap. There was a long, tense silence. The cowled figures had risen ominously; Miss Thorne paled behind her mask, and her fingers gripped her : palms fiercely, still she sat motion- j less. Prince d’Abruzzi broke the silence. He seemed perfectly calm and self-possessed. “How did you get in?” he demanded. “Throttled your guard at the front i door, took him down cellar and locked ; him iu the coal-bin,” replied Mr. | Grimm tersely. “I am waiting for i you to burn it.” “Aud how did you escape from — | from the other place?” Mr; Grimm shrugged his shoulders. “The lamp Is in front of you,” he said. - “And find your way here?" the prince pursued. * Again Mr. Grimm shrugged his shoulders. For an instant longer the prince gazed straight into bis inscrutable face, then turned accusing eyes on the masked figures about him. “Is there a traitor?” he demanded suddenly. His gaze settled on Miss Thorne and lingered there. “I can relieve your mind on that point—there is not,” Mr. Grimm assured him. “Just a final word, your Highness; if you will permit me. 1 have heard everything that has been said here for the last fifteen minutes. The details of your percussion cap are interesting. I shall lay them before my government and my government may take it upon itself to lay them before the British government. You yourself said a few minutes ago that this compact was not possible before this cap was invented and perfected. ‘ It isn’t possible the minute my gov- , eminent is warned against its use. ‘ That will be my first duty.” “You are giving some very excellent reasons, Mr. Grimm,’’ was the deliberate reply, “why you should not be permitted to leave this room alive.” “Further,” Mr. Grimm resumed in , the same tone, “I have been ordered j to prevent the signing of that com- I pact, at least in this country. It seems that 1 am barely in time. If it is signed—and it will be useless now on your own statement unless you murder me —every man who signs it will have to reckon with the highest newer of this country. Will you destroy it? I don’t want to know what countries already stand committed by the signatures there.!’ “1 will not,” was the steady response. And then, after a little: “Mr. Grimm, the Inventor of this little cap, insignificant as it seems, will receive millions for it. Your silence would be worth—just how much?” Mr. Grimm’s face turned red, then white again. “Which would you prefer? An independence by virtue of a great fortune, or—or the other thing?” Suddenly Miss Thorne tore th® mask from her face and came forward. Her cheeks were scarlet, anger flamed in the blue-gray eyes. “Mr. Grimm has no price—I happen to know that,” she declared hotly. “Neither money nor a consideration for his own personal safety will make him turn traitor.” She stared coldly into the prince s eyes. “And we are not assassins here,” she added. (TO BE CONTINUED.) YES, THERE ARE FLATHEADS Babies’ Heads Are Bandaged In Asia Minor to Produce the Approved Shape. People who are markedly broadheaded are more or less flattened at the back of the head. Some of the flattest headed people of the world are among the Armenians and the tribesmen in the highlands of Asia Minor and some of them practice the custom of bandaging the babies’ heads in order to get them the approved shape. It is just the opposite Id Crete. With the exception of the better ed ucated people In the towns and in th< village in the mountains all Cretan mothers bind the heads of their chil dren when tiny to make them of a nice round form. In fact, when I was pressing home my questions in order to make quite sure of the object the mothers had in view one of them told me that I had a “very bad head,” and that my bumps and ridges ought to have been smoothed away in my infancy. Yet, after a fairly exhaustive inquiry, I came to the conclusion that the bandage in Crete is never tight, and lasts for so short a time that nothing is effected.—C. H. Hawes, in the Wide World Magazine. Tolstoy’s Intensity. We quoted the other day an interesting description of the count by an eminent Russian writer. Everything in Tolstoy’s character, he said, attain* Titanic proportions. “As a drinker he absorbed fantastic quantities ot liquor. As a gambler he terrified his partners by the boldness of his play. As a soldier he advanced gayly to bastion four, the bastion of death, at Sebastopol, and there he made dying men laugh at hi* witty sayings. He I surpassed everyone by his prodigious activity to sport as well as in liter* tore."—London Time*.

embalming a six-ton elephant actress WK aHR ** ’ mi Bl ww BBlik ■ U csss=sa— .in. - 1 Q NEW YORK—“Basil the Great,” better known as “Carrie,” one of the elephants taking part in the show at the New York Hippodrome, died recently from pneumonia, at the age of 150 years. Her bones have been disposed of to the Museum of Natural History, and the body has been embalmed. “Carrie” was the first elephant brought to America to perform in a circus, sixty years ago. She was a contemporary of the great “Jumbo,” whose skeleton is also in the museum.

WOMEN IN MASONRY ‘ . -J? —

rnglish Parson Forms Fraternity for Fair Sex. . ■ — ' Founder of Society Is Ridiculed by World for Admitting Females to Lodge—Masons Do Little but Eat Dinners. London.—There is nothing in MaI sonry, according to Rev. Dr. Cobb, I founder of the Honorable Fraternity of Ancient Masonry, that forbids the inclusion of women, and he adds that they are quite as capable of preserving the secrets of the society as the men. So women are admitted to his fraternity—and the res’ e." th® Masonic world is laughing. Dr. Cobb is the vicar of St. Ethelburga’s, a tiny, picturesque, ancient church in the heart of .the old city of London, and it was here a correspondent found him. “I belonged to the Grand Lodge of England for many years,” he said, “but I saw that few people took it seriously. Though, of course, they keep up a large number of charitable institutions, they do little else but eat dinners. Originally Masonry was a religious movement, which insisted that spiritual life was the most important. In the process of time, the spiritual side of Masonry has been lost to sight, and it has become too materialistic. “Some years ago I was attracted to a form of Masonry practiced by Annie Besant, aud, becoming interested in it, I joined. But I found her too autocratic altogether. AU members were bound in obedience to her, and this seemed inconsistent with the spirit of Masonry, as I understood it. So I left her society, and some time after a few friends and I —we were , five to all—decided to found a lodge of ' our own. Now we have 150. I

Kansas Town Has Vanished TC—

- Slabtown Was Once Popular Village I# Vicinity of Leavenworth, but Has Long Been Extinct. | -— Leavenworth, Kan. —Within a circle of ten miles of Leavenworth are the sites of half a dozen towns that were started with high hopes of their besoming future cities, for awhile and then died. Were the history of these towns to be written, it would be a story of great interest, snd would make a very large book. Recently E. W. Snyder has purchased the site of one of these towns, originally East Leavenworth, but which in later years degenerated into ‘Slabtown.” This land Mr. Snyder purchased from W. H. Burt of Rogers, Tex. Mr. Snyder already owned a large tract of land adjoining Slabtown and wanted this tract to square up the land he already owned. The site of the town is nearly opposite the Ryan ice plant, and it is there that the old ferry landed passengers before the terminal bridge was built. In looking over the abstract. Mr. Snyder found that the town was platted in 1869, and that it was laid out by Hervey L. Bickford, formerly a prominent citizen here and aw dead. Slabtown was an ambitious town in lose days and had sts numbered treets in one direction and its Chestpt street, its Croaiway and others, its lots were but 25 seet wide, showing that the land wai valuable over there. Here was located tiye station of the Missouri River railroad, afterward the

“The aim of our fraternity and the aim of the church are identical. 1 take it that aim is to deepen the spiritual life. This being so, there is no argument that can be brought forward to uphold the exclusion of women. The term ‘brotherhood’ is a contradiction if it does not include them. “There are a large number of unattached Masons, who, like myself, take no part in lodge activities, owing to the failure of English Masonry to satisfy their spiritual needs. Our order should meet their requirements, and in addition it enables the Mason to bring his wife and daughter into his Masonic life." “What does the Grand Lodge of England say to your innovation?” “Os course, they have called us to book severely about it. But I maintain that I have done nothing to violate the ancient traditions of Masonry. According to the rules, I took an oath to reveal the secrets of Masonry to

No Thoms on Blackberry

—— Luther Burbank Exhibits at Santa Rosa Result of Experiments Extending Over Ten Year*. I '"■■■■ San Francisco. — The thornless , blackberry bush has arrived. Luther Burbank, after ten years of , experimenting, has been able to pro- . duce a blackberry bush that is destitute of thorns. Yesterday afternoon. , while Burbank was showing a party . of Australian boys about his gardens at Santa Rosa, he said: > “Now 1 will show you something . about which nothing has been said I as yet. It is the thornless blackberry. | ■ It has not been distributed yet. and possibly will not be for some time You see, I have to be careful about

FL" — Kansas City and St. Louis railroad. There were two stores, five or six saloons, a post office and about 150 people in the town at one time. In plowing the land for wheat a short time ago Mr. Snyder’s tenant uncovered a'large brick cistern In a good state of preservation, the foundations of two store buildings and any number of broken bottles, showing where the saloons were located. AH of these were covered from sight until the plow passed over them. Had they remained undisturbed for a few cen-

I Joy At End of Her Voyage

Gloucester Man Greets His BrideElect as Big Steamer Docks—Couple Soon Made Man and Wife. Philadelphia.—For a week Arthur Owens, an iron worker employed at the plant of the New York Shipbuilding company in Camden, has carried about with him a marriage license while about every hour he was looking up steamship arrivals. The steamer Haverford warped Into her dock at Washington street and Owens got his reward for all his patient waiting, when a pair of pretty eyes caught sight of him from the deck and their fair owner waved a happy salute. In a jiffy, or as soon as the red tape of the steamer landing could be unwound, Owens and Miss Theresa Maher, who had come from England

'’kone but Masons, and this I have kept. The members are initiated and all the proper ceremonies are carried out reverently. “The objection raised by the Grand Lodge of England that no one is at liberty to establish a lodge without its consent is an old one. It is the plea that whatever is is right and that al. attempt at reform is wrong. Such objections have been raised through ail ages, dating from the time when the Pharisees objected to the preaching o' Christ in Palestine. “Furthermore, the ,emlnist movement cannot be ignored. Looking back on the events ot the last few years it can be seen how disastrous has been the absence of a policy as regards this movement, and the re suit has been a course of events ot which no nation can be proud. Such a position is not-one that Masonry can afford to risk. To exclude woman as a sex is to court early disaster, so let us be beforehand and welcome her gladly." “And you find that women keep the great secret perfectly?” “Perfectly,” replied Dr. Cobb. “The secrets of Masonry cannot be told.”

• • stating anything until it is a reality. Burbank broke off some of the branches from the bush, and they were carefully examined by the visitors. There were no thorns visible, the surface of the branches being smooth as silk. The fruit is said to be of exquisite taste and quality. Japan Wants Ariship. Paris. —The Japanese government is negotiating with French firms for the purchase of a gigantic airship of nearly 200 yards in length. > The particular airship the Japanese have in view is one that can fly at a rate of over 60 miles an hour in calm weather and carry 20 passengers and a supply of bombs and hand grenades. turies some antiquarian, digging them up, would have thought he had discovered the remains of an ancient civilization —and he would have missed it The abstract also shows that around the townsite were located several subdivisions and small tracts, showing that there was probably, at some tim®, a big real estate boom in Slabtown. What hopes, what aspirations, what disappointments centered in this little town during its existence! But Slabtown passed away long ago. The station has been moved twice, each time being taken over nearer the bluffs, and the houses ot the original town tumbled down or were moved, the last one disappearing several years ago.

for the very purpose, were tn each other’s arms. As fast as boat and carriage could carry them they were in Gloucester, at Owens’ home, at 216 Warren street, and there they were made one. The lovers’ troth had been kept. Miss Catherine Connolly was bridesmaid, and Joseph Connolly the best man. Mr. Owens is chief ranger of Court Washington, Foresters- of America, of Gloucester. Big Fish Show in Paris. Paris.—Many countries are represented ip. the international fisheries ex hibition which opened in Paris the other day. The exhibition is undei the control of the French governmeu It will continue open until the end a.* (ha year.

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