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SPIES I ALL
riicv Prving Into Secrets of For¬
eign Governments.
England’s Excitement Over Conviction
of Bernard Stewart in Germany—
Army Officers Prefer Work
to Barrack Life.
Kansas City, Mo—A new game has
caught the fancy of Europe. It is
played in the dark with dangerous
weapons. Sometimes the reward is
money, sometimes it is honor, more
often it is imprisonment and occasion¬
ally it is death. It is the game of
espionage.
In times of war spies are numerous.
Any soldier knows that. They are se¬
lected for their coolness in times of
danger, histrionic ability afid loyalty.
A spy plays his game alone. If he
wins, he aids his country; if he loses,
it is death. -
But in times of peace, and all Eu¬
rope is at peace except Italy and Tur¬
key, espionage has not been consider¬
ed good form. Of course all govern¬
ments have had their secret agents.
They were men trained in that busi¬
ness. They were detectives. But of
late army officers, naval officers, noble¬
men and persons of high repute have
entered the espionage game and ap¬
parently just for the zest of the mis¬
sion.
Even national feeling toward the
cpy seems to have undergone a decid¬
ed change. Take the case of Captain
Lux of the French army. He had been
imprisoned at Graetz, Prussia, serving
a four years’ sentence. One night he
escaped and after a week’s dangerous
travel reached France. He was re¬
ceived as a hero. People w T ent wild
at the mention of his name. A purse
of gold was subscribed. Officially
France frowned and ordered Captain
Lux back to duty, but it cannot be dis¬
puted that he was the man of the
moment.
Russia and Germany have almost
placed spies of peace on the basis of
prisoners of war. A few weeks ago
these two governments made a for¬
mal exchange of spies, just as prison¬
ers would be exchanged in war.
Now England is in the midst of a
popular demonstration against Ger¬
many. It results from a four and ^
half years’ sentence a German court
gave Bertrand Stewart, a London law
yer and officer in a territorial regi¬
ment. British newspapers are assail¬
ing Germany bitterly. Demonstrations
are being held and probably the Brit¬
ish foreign office will recognize the af¬
fair and make a formal request that
Stewart be set free.
In England a half dozen or more
Germans and Russians have been tried
on spying charges. But a few days
ago Heinrich Grosse, an officer of the
German merchant marine, was tried
at Winchester and sentenced to three
years.
And so it goes in most all the na¬
tions of Europe. The game apparent¬
ly appeals to the officers. It gives
tfiem a chance to get a little adven¬
ture in lieu of humdrum life at a
barracks.
At the Flower Ball.
Snapdragon looked indignantly
leross the room.
"Johnny-Jump-Up,” she called, “go
over to that Clinging Vine corner
ind tell one of those Suckers to get
sweet William away from those Wall¬
flowers.”
helps Big Ben
run the farm
on time
Is it hard for you to get the
wrm hands out on time?
Is it hard for you to get them
U P m the morning?
fo «;o,why not let Big Ben do it
‘ ’?, Ben is a truth telling and
reliable alarm clock.
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NEW OCCUPATION FOR “C0P’ !
Guardian of the Peace Also Called
Upon to Act as Dispeller of
Nightmares.
Occasionally householders require
services of policemen that seem ex¬
traordinary, even to men who have
grown old on the force. Said a boy to
a patrolman:
“Are you the new nigljb policeman
ou this beat?”
The policeman said he was.
“Then there’s a man around at our
house would like to fix things up with
you,” said the boy. “Can you come?"
Mentally rehearsing the crushing re
buke that he should deliver if request¬
ed to condone counterfeiting or kin¬
dred illegal practices, the patrolman
accompanied his guide to the first
floor flat, where a very innocuous
looking young man sat reading a
newspaper. Having satisfied himself
that the officer would he on duty that
night, the young man said:
“I shall sleep in this room, and if
you should happen past here about 2
o’clock and hear me yelling my lungs
out don’t get scared and think some¬
body is murdering me, but just reach
in through the window and shake me
good and hard. I shall be in the
throes of nightmare, that’s all, and as
these folks are all strangers to me,
maybe they wouldn’t like to come in
and wake me up. The night patrol¬
man in the street I just moved away
from used to perform that little job
for me, and I shall be much obliged
if you will do the same.”
The policeman seemed disinclined
to assume the role of disperser of
nightmares, but he finally accepted
the unique commission.
WERE NOT TO BE CONVINCED
Violin Maker’s Work So Good
Critics Would Not Accept It
as His Own.
While it is no easy matter for a
violin maker to rival the famous
Stradivarius instruments, an Ameri¬
can maker once did this, and did it
in so effectual a manner that experts
pronounced his violin a genuine
Stradivarius. The successful man
was George Gemunder, who died some
ten years ago. His remarkable abil¬
ity as a maker of violins was known
to many a distinguished player, such
as Ole Bull, Remenyi and Wilhelmj,
but he achcieved—so runs the story—
his greatest success at the last Paris
exposition. To that exhibition he sent
an imitation Stradivarius, and, to test
its merits, had it placed on exhibition
as the genuine article.
A committee of experts carefully ex¬
amined the instrument And pronounced
it a Stradivarius. So far Gemunder’s
trumph was complete, but now came
a difficulty. When he claimed that it
was not an old violin but a new one
made by himself, the committee
would not believe him. They declared
that he had never made the instru¬
ment and pronounced him an impos¬
tor. He had done his work too well.
Pig or Coon Terrier.
William Haynes tells an amusing
story of the Scottish terrier's appear¬
ance in Outing. He says:
“I always smile when I think of an
experience a Scottie and I had when
I was at the university. The dramatic
club was presenting one of Pinero’s
farces, and I was lucky enough to be
playing the part of a young scape¬
grace. In one of the acts, I used to
take a Scottie on the stage, and when
not before the footlights she mounted
guard in my dressing room—inciden¬
tally, she made things very uncom¬
fortable for one of the ladies of the
company who came, in my absence,
to borrow a filling of tobacco for his
pipe.
“One time I came back to my room
to find it in an uproar. Two stage
hands were plunged deep in discus¬
sion as to whether Betty was a dog,
or a tame bear cub, a debate that was
quite seriously complicated by a third
stoutly maintaining that she was a
coon. They had long since passed
the retort courteous stage and were
almost at blows, and I doubt that I
could have' convinced them, had she
not spoken for herself—her bark
being conclusive proof of her dog
hood.”
No Place for a Washington.
Dr. R. J. Campbell, the English
Christian-Socialist, was condemning,
at a luncheon in Philadelphia, a cer¬
tain type of modem business man.
“This type of man,” he said, “is pre¬
cisely opposite to George Washing¬
ton. Washington got on by telling
the truth. This man gets on by lying.
“It reminds me of a story.
“A very successful business man
took his son into his employ, and the
youth, after a few days’ work, en¬
tered his father’s office and said dis¬
consolately:
‘“Dad, I’m afraid I shan’t make
good here. You see, I’m not used to
lying.’
“But the father laughed easily.
“ ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘if you tell the truth
in a place like this, everybody’ll be¬
lieve you’re lying, anyway.’ ”
Telephones and Ear Troubles.
The ear troubles of telephone users
are attributed by Dr. Foste r of Char
lottenburg to the sharp crackling and
other intermittent distracting noises,
tad not to any electrical or electro¬
magnetic action. The elimination of
these sounds is a problem for the tele¬
phone engineer. Herr Bahr of Char
lottenburg has attempted a solution,
and claims improvement by substitut¬
ing for the iron diaphragm one of
mica attached to an iron, disc-
THE COVINGTON NEWS, WEDNESDAY MAY 1 1912.
NUMEROUS PROGENY
From Female Kidnaped in Peking in
1861 All Chinese Lap Dogs in
the West Are Descended.
Peking dogs, as they formerly were
called—otherwise, Chinese lap dogs—
have a curious history. On October
8, 1861, an Anglo-French soldier ran¬
sacked the imperial summer palace at
Peking and took back to his captain a
little dog that was supposed to have
belonged to the empress. At any rate,
her majesty made frantic attempts to
regain the little creature, and the Eng¬
lish officer finally struck a bargain,
through Chinese emissaries, that it be
sent as a present from the Chinese
ruler to her majesty, Queen Victoria
of England.
Good feeling was thus established
all around, and the little dog, bearing
the name of Looty, was domiciled at
Buckingham palace. He was a very
lonely little creature, the other dogs
taking exception to his oriental habits
and appearance, and when the prince
and princess of Wales returned from
a continental trip the latter pleaded
with her mother-in-law to be allowed
to take Looty to Sandringham. About
six months later Looty’s mate ar¬
rived from China, and the breeding of
this species of dog became a diversion
in fashionable society.
Not many years ago a number of
ladies got together material for a dog
shew and called it an “Association of
the Dogs From the Palace of Peking.”
Looty, w r ho had long since passed to
the future good or evil place for dogs,
was represented by a very numerous
progeny. From Looty, indeed, all Chi¬
nese dogs known to Europe and Amer¬
ica are descended.—Harper’s Weekly.
COOKED EGGS ON FLATIRON
With -the Gas Stove Frozen Up, New
Yorker Proved Himself Equal
to the Emergency.
The prolonged cold spell this win¬
ter sharpened the wits of many per¬
sons who never before had any idea
of the uses to which electricity could
be put. When the gas gave out in
cooking stoves owing to the pipes be¬
ing frozen—as it did in hundreds of
houses—there was a rush for electric
cooking utensils.
But sometimes the emergency arose
when it was not possible to buy such
things in time. One such case oc¬
curred at breakfast time and left the
family with nothing on which to cook
eggs. The master of the house knew
they had an electric flatiron. He told
them to invert it and cook the eggs
on its polished undersurface, which
was done without difficulty. Small
pancakes and toast were cooked in
the same way.
Another resourceful man used a
flatiron to thaw out a frozen radia¬
tor, while yet another, in order to make
his radiator more efficient and stir up
the stagnant air in a room, placed an
electric fan or. the floor and direct¬
ed a blast of air against the radiator.
The effect of this was to raise the
temperature of the room 25 degrees
in half an hour.
Schedule of the Covington and
Oxford Street Railway Company
Lv Cov. 7:15 am. Lv Depot 7:45 am
Lv Cov. 8:30 am. Lv Depot 9:00 am
Lv Cov.ll:00 am. Lv Depot 11:40 am
Lv Cov. 2:10 pm. Lv Depot 2:20 pm
Lv Cov. 4:00 pm. Lv Depot 4:30 pm
Lv Cov. 6: pm. Lv Depot 6:45 pm
Lv Cov. 6:55 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pm
Lv Cov. 7:30 pm. Lv Depot 8:10 pm
Cars will leave Covington on time
and will wait at Depot for delayed
trams.
Lv Oxf. 7:10 am. Lv Depot 7:50 am
liV Oxf. 8:20 am. Lv Depot 9:05 am
Lv Oxf.ll:00 am. Lv Depot 11:45 am
Lv Oxf. 1:55 pm. Lv Depot 2:15 pm
Lv Oxf. 3:45 pm. Lv Depot 4:30 pn,
Lv Oxf. 6:00 pm. Lv Depot 7:00 pn
Lv Oxf. 7 30 pm. Lv Depot 8:10 pm
Cars will leave Oxford on time and
will wait at Depot for delayed trains
E. W. FOWLER, President.
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This is; cheaper transportation
than horse, trolley or train
These are not reckless statements—but These are facts—this is their signifi¬
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One Brush car actually covered 100 miles No known means of transportation is so
at a cost of 39 cents in economical—it’s cheaper than a horse,
an economy con¬ trolley or train.
test on July 4th. It’s swifter than reliable
108 other competed a horse, more
cars and the average than a trolley, more flexible than a train
cost was only 65%, cents for the distance. —you’re not compelled to go only where
These in 109 different steel rails lead.
cars ran cities—
so they covered all sorts of roads under Thousands are using it effectively in their
all sorts of conditions. business, not only for its economy of time
and money, but because it makes more
98 cars ran the distance for less than one work possible, enables one to earn more
dollar—less than one cent a mile. money.
One car ran 48.4 miles on a gallon of Write for data how others are using the
gasolene. Two others did more than 40 Brush for pleasure and business.
miles—a dozen made over 30 miles. Come see the car—ride in it—learn what
One ran 100 miles on a gill of oil—or it can do. You’ll wonder how such a
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