The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 January 1912 — Page 3

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Oopvr.irht. M. hv The Associated Sunday Magaslaea. 'CoL>yrlgJa.t ,l»u». by The Buaba-ilerriil Company. Z1 SYNOPSIS. Count di Rosini, the Italian ambassador, 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 st* ret service, and Mr. Grimm, his head detective, are warnjftt that a plot is brewing- in Washington, and Grimm goes 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, and arrests Pietro Petrozinnl. Miss Thorne visits an old bomb-maker, and they discuss a wonderful experiment. Fifty thousand dollars is stolen from the office of .Senor Rodriguez. the minister from Venezuela, and while detectives are investigating the robbery Miss Thorne appears as a guest of the legation. Grimm accuses her of the theft; the money is restored, but a hew mystery occurs in the disappearance of Monsieur Boissegur 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 house in the suburbs. It is discovered that Pietro Petroz’nni shot Senor Alvarez and that he is Prince d’Abruzzi*. Grinina 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. The conspirators against the government are located’’ and their scheming is overheard. Grimm orders d’Abruzzi to destroy the unsigned compact. Isabel compels him to obey and is termed a traitress by the conspirators. The" ‘ detective Informs high government, officers of the scheme. Prince d’Abruzzi leaves the country and the plot is abandoned. , CHAPTER XXVI. Ip Which They Both Win. Mr. Grimm dropped into a chair with his teeth clenched, and his face like chalk. For a moment or more he sat there turning it all over in his mind. Truly the. triumph had been robbed of its splendor when the blow fell here —here upon a woman he loved. “There’s no shame in the confession of one who is fairly beaten,” Isabel went on softly, after a little. “There are many things that you don’t understand. I came to Washington with an authority from my sovereign higher even than that vested in the ambassador; I came as I did, and compelled Count di Rosini to obtain an invitation to the state ball for me in order that I might meet a representative of Russia there that night and receive an answer as to whether or not they would join in the compact. I received that answer; its substance is Os no consequence now. “And you remember where. I first met you? It was while you were* investigating the shooting of Senor Alvarez in the German embassy. That shooting, as you know, was done by Prince d’Abruzzi, so almost from the beginning my plans went wrong because of the assumption of authority by the prince. The paper he took from Senor Alvarez after the shooting was supposed to beat vitally upon Mexico’s attitude toward our plan, but, as it developed, it was about another matter entirely.” “Yes, I know,” said Mr. Grimm.’ “The event of that night which you did not learn was that Germany agreed to join the compact upon conditions. Mr. Rankin, who was attached to the German embassy in an advisory capacity, delivered the answer to me, and I pretended to faint in order that I might reasonably avoid you.” . "I surmised that much,” remarked Mr. Grimm. “The telegraphing I did with my fan was as much to distract your attention as anything else, and at the same time to identify myself to Mr. Rankin, w hom I had never met. You knew him, of course; I didn’t.” She was silent a while as her eyes steadily met those of Mr. Grimm. Finally she went on: ' ' “When next I met you it was in the Venezuelan legation; you were investigating the theft of the fifty thousand dollars in gold from the safe. I thrust myself into that case, because. I. was afraid of you; and mercilessly destroyed a woman’s name in your eyes to further my plans, made you believe that Senorita Rodriguez stole that fifty thousand dollars, and I returned it to you, presumably, while we stood in her room that night. Only it was not her room—it was mine! I stole the fifty thousand dollars! All the details, even to her trip to see Mr. Griswold.in Baltimore in company with Mr. Cadwallader, had been carefully worked out; and she did bring me the combination of the safe from Mr. Griswold on the strength of a forged letter. But she didn’t know it. There was no theft, of course. I had no intention of keeping the money. It was necessary to take It to distract attention from the thing I did do —

break a lock inside the safe to get sealed packet that contained Venezuela’? answer to our plan. I'sealed that packet again, and there was never a suspicion that it had been opened.” “Only a suspicion,” Mr. Grimm corrected. “Then came the abduction of Monsieur Boissegur, the French ambassador. I plunged into that case as I did in the other because I was afraid of you and had to know just how much you knew. It was explained to you as an attempt at extortion with details whjch I carefully supplied. As a matter of fact, Monsieur Boissegur opposed our plans, even endangered them; and it was not advisable to have him recalled or even permit him to resign at the moment. So we abducted him. Intending to hold him until direct orders could reach him from Paris. Understand, please, that all these things were made possible by the aid and co-operation of dozens, scores, of agents who were under my orders;’ every person who appeared in that abduction was working at my direction. The, ambassador’s unexpected escape disarranged our plans; but he was taken out of the embassy by force the second time under your very eyes. The darkness which made this possible was due to the fact that while you were looking for the switch, and I was apparently aiding, was holding my hand over it all the time to keep you from turning on the light. You remember that?” Mr. Grimm nodded. “All the rest of it you know,” she concluded wearily. “You compelled me to leave the Venezuelan legation by-your espionage, but in the crowded hotel to which I moved I had little difficulty avoiding your Mr. Hastings, your Mr. Blair and your Mr. Johnson, so I came and went freely without your knowledge. The escape of the prince from prison you arranged, so you understand all of that, as well as the meeting and attempted signing of the compact, and the rapid recovery of Senor Alvarez. And, after W, it was my fault that our plans failed, feecause if I had not been—been Uneasy as to your condition and had not made the mistake of going to the deserted little house where you were a prisoner, the plans would have succeeded, the compact been signed.” . “I’m beginning to understand,” said Mr. Gpmm gravely, and a wistful, tender look crept into his eyes. '“‘lf it had not been for that act of—consideration and kindness to me—” “We would have succeeded in spite of you,” explained Isabel. “We were afraid of you, Mr. Grimm. It was a compliment to you that we considered it necessary to account for your -p I B. In a Stride He Was Beside Her. whereabouts at the time of the signing of the compact.” •’And if you had succeeded,” remarked Mr. Grimm, “the whole civilized world, would have come to war.” “I never permitted myself to think of it that way,” she replied frankly. “There is something splendid to me in a battle of brains; there is exaltation, stimulation, excitement in it. It has always possessed the greatest fascination fqr me. I have always won, you know, until now. I failed! And my reward is ‘Traitor!’ “Just a wo"rd of assurance now,” she went on after a moment. “The Latin compact has beein definitely given up; the plan has been dismissed, thanks to you; the peace of the world is unbroken. And who am I? I know you have wondered; I know your agents have scoured the world to find out. I- am the daughter of a former Italian ambassador to the Court of St. James. My mother was an English woman. I was born and received my early education in England, hence my perfect knowledge of that tongue. In Rome I am, or have been, alas, the Countess Rosa d’Orsetti; now I am an exile with a price on my head. That is all, except for several years, I was a trusted agent of my government, .and a friend of my queen.” She rose and extended both hands graciously. Mr. Grimm seized the slender white fingers and stood with eyes fixed upon her. Slowly a flush crept into her pallid cheeks, and she bowed her head. “Wonderful woman!” he said softly. “I shall ask a favor of you now,” she went on gently. “Let all this that you have learned take the place of whatever you expected to learn, and go. Believe me, there can only be one result if you meet —if you meet the inventor of the wireless cap upon which so much was staked, and so t much lost.” She shuddered a then raised the blue-gray eyes beseechingly to his face. “Please go.” Go! The word straightened Mr. Grimm in his tracks and he allowed her/ hands to fall limply. Suddenly hislface grew hard. In the ecstasy of adoration he had momentarily forgotten his purpose here. His eyes lost

their ardor; his nerveless hand! dropped beside him. “No,” he said. “You must—you must,” she urged gently. “I know what it means tc you. You ieel it your duty to unravel the secret of the percussion cap? You can’t; ’no man can. No one knowt the inyentor more intimately than I, and even I couldn’t get it from him. There are no plans for it in existence, and even if there were he would na more sell them than you would have accepted a fortune at the hands ol Prince d’Abruzzi to remain silent. The compact has failed; you did that. The agents have scattered —gone to othei duties. That is enough.” “No,” said Mr. Grimm. There was a strange fear tearing at his heart,— “No one knows the inventor more in timately that I.” "“No,” he said again “I won fjrom my government a prom ise to be made good upon a condition —I must fulfill that condition.” “Won’t you go if you know you will be killed,” and suddenly her face turn- ' ed scarlet, “find that your life is deal to me?” “No.” Isabel dropped upon her knees be fore him. “This inventor—this man whom yov insist on seeing—is half insane with i disappointment and anger,” she rush ; ed on desperately. “Remember that I a vast fortune, honor, fame were at | his . finger tips when you—you placed them beyond his reach by the destruc- I tion of the compact. He has sworn tc , kill you.” “I can’t go!” “If I tell you that of the two human beings in this world whom I love this man is one?” “No.” A shuffling step sounded in the hallway just outside. Mr. Grimm stepped back’ from the kneeling figure, and turned to face the door with his revolver ready. “Great God!” It was a scream of ; agony. “He is my brother! Don’t j you see?” She came to her feet and went stag- > gering’across to the door. The key i clicked in the lock “Your brother!” “He wouldn’t listen to me—you . wouldn’t listen to me, and now-j-and how! God have mercy!” There was a sharp, rattling, a clam- ; or at the door, and Isabel turned to i Mr. Grimm mutely, with arms outstretched. The revolver barrel clicked | under his hand, then, after a moment, ■ he replaced the weapon in his pocket. “Please open the door,” he requested quietly. “He’ll kill you!” she screamed., Exhausted, helpless, she leaned against a chair with her face in her j hands. Mr. Grimm went to her sud- : denly, tore the hands from her face, ■■ and met the tear-stained eyes. “I love you t ’’ he said. “I want you ! to know that!” i “And I love you—that’s why it mat i ters so.” Leaving her there, Mr. Grimm strode straight to the door and threw it open. He saw only the outline oi a thin little man of indeterminate age, then came a blinding flash under his eyes, and he leaped forward. There was a short, sharp struggle, and both went down. The revolver! He must get that! He reached for it with the one idea of disarming this madman. The muzzle was thrust toward him, he threw up his arm to protect his head, and then came a second Instantly he felt the figure in his arms grow limp; and after a moment j he rose. face of the man on the ' floor was pearly gray; and a thin, scarlet thread flowed frdm his temple. I He turned toward Isabel. She lay near the chair, a little crumpled heap. In a stride he was beside her, and lifted her head to his knee. The bluegray eyes opened into his once, then they closed. She had fainted. The first bullet had pierced her arm; it was only a flesh wound. He lifted her gently and placed her on a couch, after which he disappeared into another room. In a little while there came the cheerful ting-a-ling of a telephone bell. “Is this the county constable’s office?” he inquired. “Well, there’s been a-little shooting accident at the Murdock Williams’ place, five miles j out from Alexandria on the old Balti- j more Road. Please send some of your men over to take charge. Two hours from now call up Mr. Grimm at Secret Service headquarters in Washington and he will explain. Good-by.” And a few minutes later Mr. Grimm walked along the road toward an automobile a hundred yards away, bearing Miss Thorne in his arms. The chauffeur cranked the machine and climbed to his seat. “Washington!” directed Mr. Grimm. “Never mind the speed laws.” THE END. How Filipinos Capture Monkeys. The Filipinos catch monkeys in a very funny way. Monkeys are very fond of the meat of cocoaquts. They are very lazy, though, about gnawing through the outer bark, and will only do so when very hungry. The Filipino takes advantage of this greed and Indolence by cutting a small opening through the shells, just large enough for Mr. Monkey’s long thin hand to penetrate. When he once gets inside he gets his hand full of delicious dainty meat, and his hand Is naturally wider when in this act than when it was thrust ’ througn the opening. Finding his hand will not come out. the monkey chatters, and scolds, and plainly shows his Indignation at the way he has been trapped, but never thinking of loosening his hold on the cocoanut meat and withdrawing his hand as easily as he put it in. There he stands, an angry monkey, until the native who set the cocoanut trap, comes and takes him captive.

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STYLES IN LINGERIE EXISTING MODELS NOT TO BE GREATLY CHANGED. Garments Will Continue to Be of a | Close Nature—Combination Corset Coyer and Pantaloons the Reigning Favorite., With the first of January every shop’ I which makes a specialty of underwear ; puts enormous quantities of lingerie !an sale. So, as this move is usual, I aew styles appear at this time, while ' ill winter garments, and those slightly soiled with handling, will be much i educed. According to the persons who have ‘ harge of these sales, misses’ models will not be changed to any great extent. Outer raiment having called 'or exceeding slimness this long while, the lingerie worn with street clothes will continue to be of a close nature. The dainty chemise, being in away superfluous with the present / ■ I ( 1 'ii WI « > W 1* Wk ® \,l < Plain white nainsook, with a little Hamburg beading and narrow ribbon, will make this useful cache-corset. style of dress, is not a popular garment. Exquisitely fine chemises for girls of all ages are seen, but the combination corset cover and pantaloons is preferred to them, such rigs fitting more and being all that is necI essary under the single petticoat j worn. The pantaloons are bias and I often in one piece, with the top hemmed under and not showing a ; single, gather at the back. Corset I covers, too, are frequently in onepiece shape, and the prettiest of them are made of embroidery flouncing, with ribbon drawstrings about the neck. These are very easy to make at home, and if liked the drawers can be attached at the belt line. When made separately, the cache-corset always has a little peplum tail, which, going under skirt, keeps the garment taut. Drawers are immensely wide, with

I FOR THE BLUE-EYED GIRL Mustard Brown Color Admirably' Adapted to Set Off That Particular Type of Beauty. It is strange that most brunettes i with blue eyes do not believe mustard i brown suits them. And it does ■ very weM. One girl who has black : hair and deep violet eyes invested m a coat and skirt of this shade, much ■against the advice of her family and her friends. It was of real golden brown, ornamented at the - collar and cuffs with bands of mink fur. The hat was of the same shade, trimmed with mink tails. The girl had never been I considered particularly pretty until she donned that dress, which seemed to bring out all the good points which other more somber shades had never shown off to advantage. Gray is particularly attractive on the woman with black hair, whose eyes are slue. She can gown herself tn this color in almost all of its variations and feel that she is making a □leasing appearance. Green is also a safe shade, except in very dark olive jolor. The brunette with blue eyes will lever go astray if she gowns herself |n blue. Electric is particularly attractive for her, as it intensifies the ilueness of her eyes. Many brunettes stick to this color exclusively, giving variety to their wardrobes by wearing ill the different tones. Evening Wrap Ornamentation. On evening wraps of chiffon velvet the wide band of lace or other ornamental trimming is now placed at the knee instead of at the edge of the i garment.

the bottoms square or rounded up al i the knees; they are worn over knitted combinations or without them as the girl’s susceptibility to cold per mits. Some cache-corsets and panta loons nfade in combination way are of thin white albatross with narrow edges of a simple lace. These seem excellent for wearers who suffer from cold, and as they are very daintily made they permit much smartness. As the street petticoat is almost in variably a colored affair, such skirts as are put with the white lingerie will be fancied in many ways at thebottom; but the tops will be gored to -the figure and fit without fulness even at the back. The preferred underwear material for the present season is nainsook, which soft and dainty fabric lends itself to beautiful hand stitchery, ein- j broidery of all sorts and many kinds of lace. But for later use much | batiste and dimity will be employed, these exquisite materials checked and dotted and in white and color. Amer- | lean lawn achieves very fine effects | in ’underwear and as it washes soft ! and is exceedingly thin it is admirable for summer use. All of the unmade material will be cheaper during the sales than later on, so It is a good idea for home sewers to buy up their fabrics now for summer garments. Ribbons play a very important part in smart underw-ear for all ages, but as those used are quite cheap they do not add gre°atly to the expense of the home-made garment. Pink- is the : smartest color, or else a pale shade . of mauve, and the pretty bandings ' are washable and show various figures ; in self color. A bolt of inch-wide wash ribbon in any color can be bought at many places for 29 cents. This is more than enough for the corsets covers or chemises. Don’t Lie Down in Clothes. In the Woman’s Home Companion, Grace Margaret Gould, the fashion editor, reports all the latest facts and ideas about the styles. In connection with a special page entitled “Suggestions for Your Negligee.” she makes the following general comment: “Learn to take care of your clothes, and learn also 'to use each dress in your wardrobe for just what it was originally intended. No matter how tired you are when you come from a shopping expedition, don’t take a bit of rest in your tailored costume. If you are going to rest, rest in your negligee. Don’t plan your winter clothes without including one or two negligees in your wardrobe, and be sure to remember that they are to rest in, and therefore don’t have them too elaborate.” Press a Silk Skirt. According to one who has long fol lowed the practice, it is well worth while pressing a silk skirt carefully before wearing it for the first time The woman w’ho does this claims that the heat of the iron does a great deal to prevent the silk s cracking; in fact, she says that since she adopted the plan she never has had a silk crack, i . To Keep Waists Dainty. A pretty waist protector can be made of blue muslin, bound with white silk tape. Use a piece of plain blue muslir. 26 inches square, and bind the edges with the silk tape. In the center cut a hole large enough tc slip the hook of the hanger through Bind the edge or' l ’ihis hole also.—-Good Housekeeping Magazine. ■

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HORN DINNER CALL 4 London’s Oldest Custom Relic of Crusaders. Benchers, Barristers and Students Summoned by Ancient MethodRecalls Days When Clocks and Watches Were Unknown. London. —Nowhere do old customs cling more firmly than in the ancient seat of legal learning, the Middle Tempie, London, which still jealously guards the traditions it has inherited. To the present-day benchers, barristers and students are summoned to dinner each evening during term time by the blowing of a horn —a custom which has survived on this spot since the romantic days of the crusaders. Every evening at 5:30 during the three weeks of the legal terms, a warder, I in gold-braided uniform, procures the ox horn from the strong room of the Middle Temple, and proceeding to the : I famous fountain in Fountain court, j I summons the members to dinner by j I blowing a blast on this primitive in- | strument. He then visits each court in turn, according to ancient custom, and I many a bencher throws up his window j to listen to the sound of the winding ■ horn, which has been heard continuously in these precincts since the time when the Knights Templar established themselves there in 1184. Its use recalls the days when clocks ■ and watches were unknown, and the | voice of the watchman, calling out the time, was a familiar sound through the night watches. Sun dials were then the only guides tlie people possessed as to the flight of time, and of these more than one still survives, I fl 11l H J I gI I M Summoning Lawyers to Dinner. I with its quaint motto, on the w*alls ~ of the Temple buildings. It is to the 1 sworn enemies of the Knights TernI plar, the Saracens, oddly enough, that us we do, indeed, the greater part of I our mathematical knowledge as well, When the Templars founded theii new monastery between Whitefriars and Essex house in the Strand, the latter was, as its name implies, merely a beach beside the silver Thames, and all around was open country, the site of the present law courts being a large field which was used as a tilting ground by the knights. In later days, when the men of law had taken over the settlement of the Knights Tem * plar, the students, who were resident ’ in the Temple, were dependent on its kitchen for their daily meals. After 8 hurried breakfast in the buttery at eight o’clock they would take theii law books, and wander off along the Strand, where, in summer time, they lay under the trees and bushes studying law. Some w-ould row across the river to the Surrey fields, and wander through the open country. Half an hour before dinner the pan- ; yer man, who drew the daily supply 1 of bread every morning from Westminster, used to take a large ox horn j and walk along the river’s side, blowing the horn as a signal to -the student’s to return to the temple for dinner. The panyer man, who was formerly charged with the duty of winding the 1 horn, had also to provide the hall with mustard, pepper and vinegar, his annual wages in amounting to $26. ; Other useful members of the staff | were th#f chief wash pot and the under I wash pot, the chief turn broach, the i steward’s servant and under turn spit; the last named receiving $6 a year. The horn now in use in the Middle Temple posseses no antiquarian interest in back only some ten years. It was brought over from the Argentine by one of the members , shortly before it was found necessary to discontinue the use of the old one. “Ye horn of ye Middle Temple” had become so decrepit, through age and constant use, that the weird and fancy sounds it emitted were calculated to i bring it into ridicule. It had become ' a mass of silver bands, which had I been added from time to time to keep I it together, and close up the cracks in I its sides. But in spite of these bands the air still escaped so freely that the warder who blew it had to place a wet handkerchief over the horn everytime he used it. So the ancient horn, which had sounded the welcome summons to dinner in} term for generations, was placed on the retired list, and now it only sees the light on grand nights in hall, when it is placed on the table with the rest of the Middle Temple's proud display of silver plate.

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