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VOLUME II
rM ■ REFUGE
Picturesque French Foreign Le
gion—Stories Regarding It.
Men Seek It for Oblivion — Some
Sought Have Been Found, but Oth
ers Have Succeeded in Con
cealing Their Identity.
Paris. —The French foreign legion is
the most picturesque military organ
ization in the world. It is the refuge
of men gone wrong through impulse
or misfortune who wish to bury them
selves in oblivion while fighting to re
gain an honorable place in the world
of life and activity.
Os the foreign legion a thousand ro
mantic tales are told. In answer to
German critics. General Bruneau, who
commanded the second regiment of
the organization, has recently related
some of his experiences and unveiled
certain of its mysteries. The rank
and file of the corps, he says, is com
posed of princes, dukes, marqueses,
counts and viscounts, generals and of
ficers of all grades, all arms, of the
armies of all countries, magistrates,
priests, financiers, diplomats, lawyers
and professional functionaries of all
sorts; honest adventurers who simply
want to “see the world;” the neuras
thenic, the disheartened, the unem
ployed; those who, having lost every
thing but honor, or having lost honor
itself, would make a new start.
All this diverse human metal,
thrown into the melting pot together,
is eventually molded into that brave,
stoic, loyal, devoted, patient and tena
cious prototype of the man of arms,
the legionary.
The most remarkable story of all
connected with the Isgion is that of
a soldier of the second class —another
Muller—who died in the hospital at
Garryvilla. Rumor has it that he was
a bona fide Hohenzollern, a cousin of
the kaiser himself. Efforts to trace his
career or to Identify him definitely
have so far failed, though the episode
is so fully authenticated as to leave
little doubt that a scapegrace member
of the imperial family of Germany did
take refuge under its mysterious ban
ner.
Only a few months ago France had
the laugh on her neighbor over the
case of one “Tunze, No. 13,617,” a re
cruit of the legion at Saida, whose real
name turned out to be Troemel, the
missing mayor of the Usedom, in
Pomerania. In the regiment at Saida,
Troemel met Sergeant von Salomon,
who was formerly in his regiment in
the German army. “In those days,”
says Troemel, “he saluted me; now I
salute him."
Some years ago General Bruneau
had occasion to visit the tent of Gen
eral Detrie, then in chief command of
the legion. It was during the grand
maneuvers of the French army.
“As I approached the tent,” writes
the general, I was struck with the no
ble appearance of the sentry on guard
and the superb manner in which he
rendered me his salute. At the conclu
sion of my visit, as I was about to
take my departure, the general said to
me, sotto voce: ‘You see that sentry?
He is Mgr. X—, bishop of Barinthia,
the handsomest man and the best sol
fiier in the legion!’
“I glanced the bishop over, in pass
ing, with an intense curiosity. He had
■doubtless overheard the general's re
mark, for he suddenly turned pale,
and his pallor was accentuated by the
contrast of a beard as black as jet,
though with a few threads of silver in
it, that fell in silken waves down to
the Tqnkin medal on the breast of his
capote. The splendid eyes looked
straight ahead —toward the distant
mountains, where the sun was sinking
in a sea of gold—but I had the im
pression that their gaze rested upon
something far more distant, and that
the light which illuminated his face
was not the reflected radiance of the
setting sun, but came from candles
NEEDLE IN BODY 50 YEARS
3it of Steel Entered Man’s Right Leg
When Child Taken From
Left Leg.
New York. —For half a century Ed
ward Mulry of Williamsburg has had
a two-inch splinter of a needle roam
ing about through his system. Sur
geons at the Eastern District hospital
took the needle from his left leg,
whither it had traveled from the calf
of his right leg.
While playing on the floor of his
home when a child of five years old.
Mulry stuck a needle in the calf of
his right leg. The head of the needle
broke oft, but a two-inch splinter re
mained in the flesh. The wound heal
ed and the needle was almost forgot
ten.
At times it made itself manifest by
a prickling sensation in the course of
its travels. It never caused Mr. Mul
ry any serious inconvenience until a
tew days ago.
He then began to feel a sharp pain
In his left leg just below the knee.
He was advised to go to the hospital,
NUMBER 48.
MOST EXPERT COTTON STATISTICIAN
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Miss Katherine Giles of Wall street^ New York, is recognized as the
most expert cotton statistician in the United States, and her name attached
to a cotton report changes cotton values millions of dollars. Her success
has been meteoric, but is founded on hard work.
burning before the imaged Christ
amid the somber glories of a church
altar."
After the prelate, the millionaire.
One day General Bruneau received
a registered letter, postmarked Vi
enna and signed by the representative
of a well known Austrian detective
agency, to the following effect:
“Monsieur le General: Will you
kindly inform me if a young man of
Austro-Hungarian nationality, sup
posed to have enlisted in the Foreign
Legion under the name of Justus
Perth, is now at Saida? I have al
ready inquired, in vain, of the First
regiment. You will understand the
interest we have in finding him when
I inform you, confidentially, that in
consequence of unforeseen happen
ings, he has become, without his
knowledge or expectations, sole heir
to a fortune of 12,000,000 crowns. In
closed is a photograph, taken when
he was a student at the University of
Prague.
The photograph- showed a stocky
youth of perhaps twenty or twenty
two years of age, and whose some
what beefy face was fringed with pre
cocious whiskers. He wore eye
glasses, which made it difficult to
judge of the form and shade of his
eyes.
General Bruneau’s first step was to
have his secretary adjutant search
the enlistment rolls for the name of
Justus Perth. No such name appear
ed. Then he had all the Austrians of
the detachment line up and scanned
their faces in the hope of identifying
the original of the photograph. Only
two, both of whom were recent ar
rivals, showed possible traits of re
semblance, and these in a very imper
fect degree.
“WITCH WOOD,” WISE SQUAW
Indian Woman of Blackfeet Tribe,
Who for Fifty Years Has Han
dled “Medicine Pot.”
Denver, Colo. —Ne-ah-tub, or “Witch
Wood,” Wise squaw of the Blackfeet
tribe, for fifty years no one else has
gathered the firewood that has blazed
beneath the “medicine pot" in the
mammoth council tepee. The Black
feet are mighty superstitious, and
while the “Wood Witch" lives no
other squaw can kindle the sacred fire
and as a result the needle was dug
out.
Husband’s Ruse a Success.
New' York. —In response to a tele
phone call in which the speaker said
he had found his wife hanging by the
neck, several policemen and two doc
tors hurried to the home of Thomas
O’Connor. O'Connor explained that
the stork was about to visit his wife
and he did the best thing to get a
doctor in a hurry.
Women Wear High Hats.
Paris. —High silk collars, slightly
stiffened, and black hats modeled on
the lines of a man's tall headgear, are
the latest additions to feminine fash
ions here. The high hat is distin
guished from the man’s model by a
single feather standing close against
the crown.
Takes Gas Route to Suicide.
New York. —"Do not light the gas
or ^here will be an explosion,” was
the note left by August Cedarberg,
seventy-one. who committed suicide by
gas at his home here.
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1913.
for the oracles of the tribe. The
“Wood Witch” is a dual specialist for
her tribe, being the only one left who
can get the right “twist” on the ladle
in stirring the “medicine pot,” when
it comes to making the brilliant col
ored vegetable paints. Most Indian
tribes today buy the commercial rouge
and other mineralized dyes sold by
the whites. Not so with the proud
braves of the Glacier Park reserva
tion. They spurn the use of anything
but the pure vegetable colors in deco-
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“Witch Wood” Wise Squaw.
rating their faces for festive occasions.
And Ne-ah-tuh holds the secret of ex
tracting these from roots and herbs
which she gathers in the Rocky moun
tain fastnesses. These gay colors
must be made fresh for each applica
tion.
MULE DIES AT AGE OF 48
Thirty Years Ago the Animal, Then
Considered Old, Was Sold as a
“Plug” to Aged Negro.
Springfield, Tenn. —A mule born in
1865 on the farm of Robert Holman,
near SpHngfield, was named Mike and
was broken to work by Holman in
1867 as a tw'o-year-old. As the time
rolled on Mike was finally dubbed
Old Mike and sold as a “plug” to Man
uel Douglas, an old negro, w'ho, with
his cart and Old Mike, has been a fa
miliar figure on the streets of Spring
field for more than 30 years.
Old Mike passed in his checks re
cently as the oldest mule Tennessee
ever produced, being at his death
forty-eight years old.
Old Mike saw Springfield when it
was emerging from a simple village
into a town. He saw wooden build
ings give way to modern buildings of
brick and stone as he plodded his sol
emn way hauling slop from the back
yards of hotels and old boxes and
rubbish from the basements of busi
ness houses.
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