The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 5, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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TENDER, BUT NOT LOVING.
"Vanishing Fle ts." a story of "what
might !,«\i hapi -tiri|." o|>f « In w«sh-
tru' >n with t!<• I D '- I St.ite* hi 1 Jupun
on the \ > rtf* of war. <Juy Hllller ««•<■-
Mary of the British ■ t:>t• i**> urul Minn
Norma H'-Im'TIh chief ui<j> of Inventor
liberia. are introduced mm lovers At tile
l.i st Inopportune motm-nt Japan dMlarm
witr .lapHti tak. tl ■ Philippine* The
entire ■••entry 1« In tnt - of turmoil !>.•-
rauii>' of the government's Indifference;
Guy UHller !nrtn for Kiiiflsn.l with tu-
rret nx xhhk'- Hiid Is "nip.-lltil to ira\e
Norma Roberts *ln with military of-
fl.-ern also tea vet Washington on mys-
terious expedition f >r an i - lated j•• •!nt on
the Florida roast Hawaii Is 'aptured hy
the JapH All J torts «r«- closed J .p fleet
U fas' app-oarhlnir western oast of Amer-
ica. S' iin, Japanese sp> i|lsre\ ers sr. ret
preparations for urn Me follow* auto
ratrvln* pr>-sl<let,,ial enhnet He un-
earths a urre of <r -at myntery ar d fle.-*
Oiurmurln«. 'The Rid* save Nippon."
Fleeing to Pa.'IH" eoant, SI ego Is ahilt
down Just a* Journey to iret awful news
lo Japar. seems successful Japan an-
notitii en Intention to attark seaports
Tr>k|o learns of mlsslr>K Japanese fleet
and whole world heroines ronvtnred that
Vnlte<t Htat«* tins some powerful war
airenry. Kngland derides to send a fleet
to Amerlrnn waters as a Canadian pro-
tection ngalnst what the British suppose
Is a terrible submarine flotilla Hllller Is
also sent to Canada to attempt to forre
his way through Amerlran lines with n
message to tlie pr «ldent li order that
Sroteetlon for the fleet mav t>e assured.
apan appeals to Britain for aid. British
fle.t departs, amid misgivings of English.
Fleet mysteriously disappears, a sailer
picked tip on a raft being the only evl-
denre of the loss Bowers twgln to f.-ar
for their safety Hllller make* a failure
of effort to deliver nieitHag* lo the presi-
dent.
CHAPTER IX.—Continued.
The motor car was placed at HiI-
ller's disposal as promised, and be-
fore night fell ho found himself back
In his room at the hotel no worse and
no better for Ms experience. For ten
days thereafter he mn<le useless a'
tempts to forward his message by
every means that his Ingenuity could
suggest. Once he allowed It out of his
hands, intrusting It through extremity
to the care of a fisherman, and on the
the following day. with seals un-
broken, It was returned to him by a
polite officer of the United Slates
army In civilian dress. Were It not
for the gravity of his task he would
have crime to regard It as a Joke, a
bov's Raipe of prisoner's base or tag,
III whlei. he was always "it."
And then, as if to reproach him for
his failure, there came from the clear-
ness of the sky a swift a/id terrible
thunderbolt. It was a message from
England reporting the disappearance
of tYiat lr.imense fleet which was to
follow on his heels, and depended upon
the delivery of bis message for its
immunity from attack. He bail taken
too long!
Stunned by this overwhelming dis-
aster, shuddering In each nerve, aud
with every fiber of his body quivering,
he Bought the seclusion of his room,
threw himself upon his bed and burled
his face in the pillows. Repeatedly
there ran through his mind the Bdf-
reproach that had It not been for his
failure this shocking toll of war might
never have been collected. An armada
of greater strength than that which
hat! fought off Cape Trafalgar had
sailed gallantly out to Its doom, trust
Ing to him to avert disaster, and he In
this hour of stress, when ttie fate of
nations hinged upon his resource, had
proved Inefficient! Over and over lie
reviewed the struggle he had made to
accomplish his mission, but found
even in this stern self-criticism no Haw
of endeavor. Hut In his hour of bitter-
ness be thought that God might have
more kind.
Told Them They Might Search Him.
CHAPTER X.
An Emperor Disappears.
Such was the effect of the strange
happening* of May and June that the
poise of all Europe seemed trembling
and unstable Men who in all their
Jives had respected law and society I envy on the part of Great Hrltaln and
began to question the value of com ,(11p of hatred on the part of Germany,
munal authority, when even the most : The kaiser, calmly reviewing times
carefully reared power proved unable ar„| conditions, decided that the time
to protect Itself against what appeared had come to strike.
to be only one Invention. Taxation | England, with power sadly dlmln-
Britain. The Hohenzollerns, a line of
warriors, still held the ancient throne,
and the kaiser was ambitious for his
country's advancement. An as'ute
ruler of exceptional capacity, he al
ready had advanced Germany's flag
of trade beyond all seas, and by this
moans alone practically dominated all
of South America. In all earlier days
of this trade conquest the United
States had been busied in her home
t'titerprlses, saying to herself that
when she chose she could find a way
to take the traffic of tho southern con-
tinent with ease. With her eyes swad-
I died In silly egotism, she had waited
! till too late, and then, when her band-
ages were removed, suddenly learned
that commercial brains were not con-
fined to America alone. The sleeping
j giant had lost commercial supremacy
In a continent which was hers by right
of location and needs, to a race of in-
dustrious workers across the sea.
Nor had Germany neglected her
fight for trade at home. There, too,
she found egotists, so swollen with
self-sufflclc ,'cv that by disastrous
tariff methods they had been busted.
England, falling lo protect her pro-
ducers had driven her own farmers and
carriers from the Hold, until, as one dls
gruntled farmer said: "You can't pick
up a cabbage In h stall which don't
bwir the words 'made In Germany;'"
and If a new crown was needed for the
king, Germany would have stood a fair
chance of booking the order. In a
natural revulsion which bad reached
fever heat before the Japanese-Ameri-
can war broke out, England was try
ing to obstruct this encroachment.
The feeling thus engendered between
the two nations culminated In,one of
blllty niigh/ cause the loss of life.
Lacking nothing in bravery, they re
luctantly faced a crisis raiher than
brook humiliating domination. Theli
answer therefore was bellicose.
Germany tit once began an ominous
assembling of her fleets 111 strategic
waters from which on a moment's no-
tice they might sail forth. France
stood diplomatically aloof, hoping per-
haps that when the world had wearied
of fighting she might lie In a position
to gain by plunging into the fray.
Alsace Lorraine was still mourned,
and her monument in the Place de la
Concorde draped.
Then, at the very moment when it
seemed that England would tie com-
pelled to beat back an Invading army
from her shores there entne an unex-
pected lull. The British press had
| been predicting a declaration of war
within 21 hours, when the change took
place. At the first day's delay the
well Informed wondered, and when
two days had passed and flnaily three,
it became certain that some very uri
usual event had taken place in Mer-
lin.
Humors began to creep to London,
to 1 iiris, and soon the whole world
j knew, desplta Germany's attempts to
keep the matter a secret, that on the
very eve of a crisis the kaiser, the
most dominant, figure in Europe, had
disappeared. Nor was that all.
As if to emphasize the fact that it
could have been through no mental
aberration that he hasl gone, the chan
celior of Germany had disappeared at
the same time. That something inex-
plicable had taken place was known
within a few hours after the kaiser
and chancellor were last seen. On
the night of their disappearance th'-y
had been closeted together with the
most trusted military adviser of the
empire. This latter officer, fatigued
by duties which hid tried him beyond
his years, had left the consultation
had created government, which In turn
had devised armies and navies and ex
ponded more and more money in their j
equipment. It had now been demon- ,
strated that the discovery of some one
new force, some one engine of destruc-
tion more powerful than any other
known, could destroy the values of :
navies and armies in a day. And yet
in this frame of mind, where anarchy |
seemed less terrible and governments
at best but weak organisations, the
greed for aggrandizement and con
quest reasserted itslf.
In Russia the revolutionists took
heait and hoped to posses the land
In the Balkans, reeking with the blood
of past strife, new forces were farming
for Independence. Rulers of neigh
boring powers studied the map of
Turkey, dreaming of what portion
might be seized. ( hina, rehabilitated
for aggression by Japan herself, re
gretted a compact with the smaller
country which prevented its seizure
now that it was so terribly weakened
But the most threatening attitude of
Ali was that of Gsrmauy low aid Ur«at i
I shed through the los3 of her great at midnight. In the room where it
fleet and at the mercy of the United
States In her richest colony, stood
open to attack While she was still
mourning defeat. Germany took ex
eeptlon to the lariff laws In a very
carefully worded message. It was one
that under normal circumstances
would have provoked demands for
apologies, or. in a refusal of such, al-
most Instant war. Hut now the lloli
was held there was n telephone used
only by certain privileged ones who.
by means of a stated signal to the i
switchboard operator, could gain com-
munication. Who these were none but
the kaiser knew.
This operator tojd the secret service
men of .fie empire that a few minutes
past midnight he had answered a call
and received the password which
caused him to make the desired con
was driven to temporize. Thnt th«
kaiser hoped for an open rupture and nection with the emperor's telephone
Intended to leave no stone unturned and a conversation of some minutes
for such an outcome, was demon ensued, which, owing to the arrange
strafed by his sending more curtly went of the Instruments, he was un-
worded notes.
The Knrtllsh press retailed these
to ihe public, and accused the kaiser
of deliberate!) plotting war with a
foreign country to offset the spread of
sot lalistri which threatened him at
home, hoping by combat abroad to re-
unite his own people.
The kaiser demanded an apology
from the Hrltlsh press; but Kngllsh
men were not accustomed to bending
tbw knMct even though 'bo lack of tiexl ,
able to hear.
The guards of the palace were
called to the council room and In-
structed by the kaisei In person to ad
in11 a man who would prest nt a plain |
card within a few minutes. They re- j
ported that a carriage drove up to the I
outer gates and a gentlemanly appear- I
itig stranger who spoke perfect Get-
man handed out n slip of pasteboard
on which nothing whatever was
printed or sugravid. Fearing, despite
the.r master's instructions, that the
man mlrht b ■ an anarchist, the guards
ha-1 hesitated, whereupon the visitor,
reading their suspicions, told them
that they might search him If they
wished, which they did. This was
carried out with even more than or-
dinary care, and the man was found
to lia\e absolutely nothing in his pock-
ets Ha was dressed In the regulat.on
dinner suit, as U ho bad lately come
from some club.
Still suspecting someth'ng unusual
In such a singular visit aud admission
I at tills hour of the morning, the guards
escorted him to the council room and
i waited at attention in the doorway
when his presence was announced. To
their surprise the emperor smiled as
if In recognition, bade his visitor
"Good evening" In English, and dis-
missed the soldiers. Reassured by this
action, tho men had resumed their ac-
customed posts, thinking rto more
of the matter, and regarding It simply
as one of the unusual appointments
which arc made In such troublous
times.
in lera than an hour, during al) of
which time the guard at the door had
heard voices In seeming conversation
participated in by the three persons
with the room, he heard the emperor
and the chancellor burst Into most un-
usual and hearty laughter. A few
minutes later he was surprised when
the emperor came from the room and
went to his dressing chamber, from
which ho emerged in the plainest of
civilian clothing, after which he
| beckoned to his two companions.
His imperial majesty cautioned the
guard to let no one know that lit was
leaving or of the nocturnal visitor,
and, still accompanied by the unknown
man and the chancellor, passed from
the palace. From this on he was
traced to the very carriage door, which
was closed behind tho party by an-
other attendant. The vehicle drove
away In the ulght, the glow of the
mens cigars being the la>t thing no-
! Iced by th" man who escorted them,
thus showing that all were on very
friendly and intimate terms.
The conveyance itself was traced
for several miles into the country,
through the fact of its having passed
several other rigs. There was noth-
ing In Its appearance to distinguish
It from any other, and only the fact
that the streets at that time of night
were deserted enabled the officers to
gather any Idea of Its direction. Oih
ers had been observed; Init all were
Identified and accounted for, and It
was t<y a process of elimination only
that the one carrying the kaiser and
tils companions was tracked. The re
turn Journey of the vehicle, If such
there had been, was not noticed, and
therefore led to the theory that some-
where within the emplr< the kaiser
and chancellor were being held prls
oners.
The puzzling fea'ure of the occur
rence was that the emperor must have
been acquainted and even on tonus of
friendliness with the man who decoyed
him away. No anarchistic attempt
could l e deduced from the situation,
because with the careful search that
bad been made It was certain that
there could have been no assaiisln'i-
t If in unless a most remarkable conceal-
ment bad been made of al! evidences
of the crime. Nor was It even tenable
that the party had crossed the border
line, because In u condition of threat-
ened war all travelers wore being
closely watched.
Over every foot of the empire ,i i
into the most Inaccessible portions,
search was being made for the place
whore the nation's ruler and the chan-
cellor might tie held; but so far there
had been nothing whatever that
threw even the faintest ray of light
on their whereabouts. The attempts
of the secret service men and mem
bers of tils majesty's family to keep
his disappearance a secret failed, and
Indeed was unnecessary, for the
people themselves had to tie enlisted
In a quest involving the whole countrj
It was at this juncture that a Ro-
many horse trader, stentlng a rewarl,
offered his services anil a suggestion
;o the police which was promptly
if ted upon. He described having met
the carriage which was supposed tc
have taken away the emperor, and,
following the Instincts of He horse
man, he scrutinized the animals more
closely than the conveyance. He said
he was walking round a turn In the
road, and was almost run over be
fore he bad time to gain a free way.
One of the horses almost brushed him
in passing, ami lie noticed not only a
singularity of gait, but a peciillnt
white mark on the animal's flank.
(TO HIO ('< iNTINf KI i )
Be Slow in Judgment.
f'llmafe determines every phase of
human existence and makes *he hab-
its of all nations. He charitable, then,
to the fallings'' of the whole world.
\« iter ito customer, who had com-
plained that tils steak is not tender
enough)—Not tender enough! D'you
t xpect it to kist. you!
WESTON. Ocean-to-Ocsan Walker,
?mhI tcvcutij "Wlit'll )UU Irel down and
out, I ill their I" nu u r living, j net tal.r
your bad thoughts with }ou and walk
them oil I'rion.* you have walked a mile
things will look ro n-r. .Iu t try it." Have
}"ti nolle.-! I lie nu rrai-r in walking i i
l.ite in every < iulimni* > ' Man) nttribule
it to tint coiulort which Allen.- F' ot Kase,
the antiseptic powder to I e ►h.iken into
I be *lioe->, gives to the millions now using
it As Weiton has said, "It has real mer-
it " It rule- tiled, ai lung feet wllile )ou
v ilk tes'imoniais. tinier a "•«'
package t -dav of any l>ni :. -t nnd I"'
t, id\ to f"i -. t \ ■ it K.i\ I'- • t. V t''i.il
1 . 1 iflr of M.I.I'V* l'« 'I T i: W sent
VI' f'l-' V l.il. - Allen s. Olmsted, l.e
star* Si. V
Logical Reasoning.
A certain young man's friends
thought he was dead, but he was only
In a state of coma When, In ample
time to avoid being burled, he showed
signs of life, be was asked how it
seemed to be dead.
"I lead?" he exclaimed "I wasn't
dead I knew all that was going on.
And I knew I wasn't dead, too, tie-
cause my feet were cold and 1 was
hungry."
"Hut how did thnt fact make you
think you were still alive?" asked one
of ttie curious.
"Well, this way: 1 knew that If I
were iti heaven I wouldn't be hun-
gry. And if I was in the other place
my feet wouldn't tie cold."
Beyond hxprebtion
O W. Farlowe, Kast Florence, Ala.,
writes: "For nearly seven years I
was afflicted with a form of skin dis
ease which caused an almost uubear
able itching. I could neither work
rest nor sleep In peace. Nothing gavi
me permament relief until I tried
Hunt s Cure. One application re
lleved me; one box cured me, and
though a year has passed. 1 havt
stayed cured. i am grau tul beyond
expression "
Hunt's Cure Is a guaranteed rep- <|\
for Itching diseases of the M n
I'ric. 5Uc
The Young Dream.
The light was soit In the conserva-
tory.
"But," said the young Airi, nervously
plucking t plec.-s a mauve orchid,
"but there are microbes in kisses."
The plashing of the fountain min-
gled with the low, deep voice of the
youth.
"My microbes." he murmured, pas-
sionately, "are so lonely!"
Home-M*de Names.
"Thnt little girl," return ked the
irtigglst to til's doctor, ' was Just In
.'or ten cents worth of tincture of ben-
zine Hut I've had It before and gave
her benzoin "
' That was easy " answered the doc-
tor "This morning on a diphtheria
case the woman wanted to know if I
administered antitoxin with an epi-
demic syringe."
Hr« Blue K tchen.
"You are always talking about your
lovely little blue kitchen," they said,
"but we see you dining out every
night. Do you never cook Ir. it?"
"Not enough to get tired of It," she
said, "aud that s the reason 1 like
It so."
Hit Kick.
"My wife has no idea of propor-
tion "
"What's wrong?"
"She had a $2';0 gown made to
match a $10 dog."—Milwaukee Jour-
nal.
A man ought to know a great deal
to acquire a knowledge of the immen-
sity of bis ignorance. I/jrd Palmers-
ton.
OPERATION
HER ONLY
CHANCE
WasCuredby LydiaE.Pink-
ham'sVegetablc Compound
Adrian, Or. — "I suffered untold
misety from r female weakness ami
disease, ami I could not stand more
than u minute at a
time. My doctor
said an operation
was tlie only
chance 1 had, anui
1 dreaded it almost
as much as death.
One dav I was
reading how other
women had been
cured by Lydiu K.
IMnkham's Vege-
table Compound,
and decided to try
iu Before 1 had taken one bottle I
was better, and now 1 am completely
cured."—Lk.sa V. IIknhy, Route No.
3, Adrian, Ga.
Why will women t:ike chances with
an operation or drag out a sickly,
half-hearted exHtciice, missing three-
fourths of the joy nf living, when they
can Utul health in I.ydia E. l'iukham'tt
Vegetable C'omi>ound ?
For thirty years it has been tho
standard remedy for female ills, and
has cured thousands of women who
have been troubled with such ail-
ments as disjJacements, iiuluuiination,
ulceration, libroid tumors, irregulari-
ties, |H-rioilic pains, backache, indiges-
tion, and nervous prostration.
If you liii\«• Jli«« slightest doubt
that L,villa IL l'inkham'M Vege-
table Compound will help you,
write to >Irs. Pinkhum at Lynn,
Mass., for advice., Your letter
will l><> absolutely confidential,
mill the advice free.
a justifiable expression.
m6\
Inexperienced Caddie (after Mr.
foozles Hlfteenth Illi.s.s)—Shall i make
the ole a big bigger, sir?
Mutual Surprl*e.
A mission worker In New Orlean*
was visiting a reformatory near that
cltv not long ago when she observed
among the inmates an old acquaint-
ance a negro lad long thought to bf*
a model of integrity ".Inu!" ex-
claimed the mission worker "Is it
possible I find you here Vassutn,"
blithely responded the backslider "!'«
charged wiMi stealln' a barrel o' sweet
pertaters." The visitor sighed. "You,
Jim'" she repeated "I inn surprised!"
Yat-'iitn," said Jim. "Bo was 1 or I
wouldn't be here!"
A Plea for Bachelors.
Tlice are few people In the com-
munity more generous according to
their mentis, more unselfish, and more
self denying than the much mallgrie.|
bachelor class Why, then, should It
be taxed* If a tax Is required, let It
be levied on the pampered, petted,
over Indulged, usuallv ungrateful mar-
ried man London Pally Graphic.
Exclusive.
"Where do the Hottentots live,
Mnry?" a public-school teacher asked
one of her pupils, "I don't know, 'm,"
paid Mnry, primly. "Ma won't let ma
visit any of the people in this neigh-
borhood."— Youth's Companion.
A girl always likes to say "no" th
first time a man proposes, just to find
out what ho will do next.
Appetite Calls
For f(K)d which promotes a prompt flow of the
digestive juices-
ia addition to
supplying nour-
ishment.
* •" IWt
Post
Toastics
A
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Co, Limited f.
— ■ "**«■ . .• /
Post
Toasties
is a most
delicious answer
to appetite.
It is, at the
same time, full of
the
fo< >d-goodness of
WhiteO rn,and
toasted to a crisp
delicious brown.
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•'The Taste Lingers.1
Popular pkjj ioc; l-nrjje family si/e 15c.
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