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'"Yet" another, prlioner'has escaped
'tram the: intergt'lent camp ':at the'
Alexandra. Palace, Wood Green, ;N ..,
U nsiderable mystery surrounds his
iiaappearanee, and so 'far there is, no
grace of'him.:. • He is something of
dandy in appearance, andis known,
by the great care he takes,.In his
hands, ..:." • So ran •:a notice in .a
i(aeidon newspaper of May 31st, 1916.
%heescaped prisoner was Konstantin
Maglic, •a lieutenant in the Andre -
Hungarian Naval' Air Service, :and he
tells his exciting: story in "The Dandy
Han"' (Lane; . hs.). . Almost: as seed:
as he arrived,.at Alegandra Palace •
be began to 'plan to getaway again.
A ed • getting out was eaayslough for
t1U. resoureeiui ar a Lerta1n
prisoners' were allowed:' to .do • some
rirdur•ing in the pink outside. the
ra,nap. A cleverly faked Pass, ,,and he;.
bed n ads the first -step-.: towards free'
a*a;
•''And isow. eve thin "
seemsSt
to a
,l
as It had',a huiired :times, n_,
When pla
-a n�heped-•that it -would -do. ---i: dar"
rot clamber io er the. -,nark railings n
drylight, so. concealed myself in a
clump of shrubs and waited' for night.
. At nine: o'clock I jumped over
• the railings ''.I found myself in" :s
' broad, deserted, suburban street. .... .
.411d, to tto my' joy, the street was in cons-
- T',.te darkress,' on account of the Zep-
• ...
•ft. THE ''WEST END.'
By bus 'and tram .,►e zigzagged up
to the... West -end. 411e was compara-
tively safe in ime, the daytfor ;he had
a fair amount of money and carried
aoluggage except e: toothbrush and a
• razor His problem became 'more, 'self: 'How should one ask in three o
=sal ute bY=ni-gh'tfall:--- -- - four languages for =a railway- ticket;,
,Rene Y Daniaud,recently appointed
District . Passenger`- Agent, Canad'i'an
•,Pacific Rail '''ay 'Algoma' District, .with
::headquarters 'at,' Nortit', Bay.- 1VIr..
Danlaud ;was ;formerly Travelling Pas
sengei:; Agent.. at Winnipeg. '
• Not so very Icing before she made a
trip from 'Vancouver' to 'London, Eng-
land, this woman of 86 was almost
helpless .. • with, rheumatism. ' • Her.
daughter tells how' she was able to
make such a journey:. ,
"Some years ago my mother was a
martyr to- rheumatism, and -,could n.ot.
get about without the use of two
sticks" She was told of. :Kruscllen
Salts and decided to try them. After
taking one bottle she found great re-
lief, ,and after', two bottles Was able to
walk, without - the aid -of , sticks.. S.he
has ' never :.been without Kr^uschen
since, .and' takes. 'a small dgse two or
three times a• -week. She is still ablle•
to 'ti -ave • qd go.' .a,! out, a t t ough sh�e-
was .'86 last February.. Indeed, `'at 86.
she ''travelled the double' 'journey, be-
tween
'Vancouver"'- and L,'•ondon,,t'Eng
Sand." She has rccornmended •Kru:sch'en•=
.to; many. people who have ;also found.
benefitProm"ttf°; If B L;,
.;.,:„What .a lesson there • for, the younger.;
folk! Why `;should anyone suffer fr'oin
itnfltness;'.:*rheuiiiatienn; ' eoitttI ration-
backache -=after reading •this'v:.aI:lie's,
letter$• . What Itruschen .can do.,for . •
woman .of .advanced. age, 'it can.,surely
do
-for' Toe.
.
'sent to FOrli "ln$ar
prisons. he vua ._
Bologna. e o 4ea Tmatter-
was one of his ,chief: hardships., At
Fdrli he :had only one novel, and at
Pianosa' he was permitted
"nothingto head -iiut dictionaries,'
Which, ' were •ordered. from Leghorn -
Italian -French, Italian -English,: and
"Italian -Spanish. • So I spent ,a whole
month .doing nothing' but learn by
heart,the 'dead contents of .'these lie-.
tionaries. . Anyhow, it soothed my
restless worrying :thoughts. .•And if
my ,spirit became wearied of the me-
chanical compo •sl o ; 3 would spur nip;
self on by the reflection -this:. also is
a way!to freedom..I would say to my -
"I turned .towards Piccadilly. I' had, , a room in a hotel, or for work is' . a
been, on my legs fort twelve yours on waiter or laborer7''
end and my body was dropping with In .: England the 'prisoner; used to
fatigue; but I dared not knock at the pass ;their time inthe weirdest ways,
door 'of the meanest hotel, or at all For a game called ."Fishes" they
of them.: there was ,compulsoryregis-
tration, reported to the police. Finally,' the centre' yvould stare at the ground..
,when the stifling streets were growing (which represented the meter) • and
deserted, 'I •accep`ed the; invitationof.of. -would-make movements with an•imag-'
a. gentle, ..fair-haired "sweetheart." 'Wary hook, 'just as if real'.fish were
She had a clean room n which I could gnawing at the bait • The others
�" ` find; a hiding 'lace and s a •let' the "
tom.- .. • would watch with 's_p-orting interest..
sleet on undisturbed until :fawn: Day- At Forti.his thoughts, always turn-
light,
urn-
light "however' found`. me a_ sin roof= • a rds freedom. He was housed
� �._,._.�_g.._._._ ed tow r fr. e .
—fess ani' on t' 11 a pavement " in an old monastery, and hit on the
`He was forced to. send most of his idea' ofescaping through the tower!
n,ght. in the same way -Until he foundProcuring a rope and some burglar's
his way to the 'Hast-::nd; where fewer .tools -he does not tell us how -he
r :-ynestions-=were-asked prom-seven-in--broke'open-the-door-of--his--roomy---
the morning till midnight„he would. ."Then I entered the tow.er, Was -
wander through the. streets... To geta tened the rope coiled. around my. body.
= -.little rest he sometimes visited a cin- and :dotted it on toa thick, worm-
eaten beam and lowered myself _the•ipresentation•---- • •
eine. But, he says:- _
"I soon saw that it was; not safe
ti ere. : Military patrols out •to • catch
persons evadi pg service would enter
the halls, ,even in the •;afternso is; and
demand; to see one's papers'of identity.
1 therefore left off going to the anti,-
• German war films ,and retired to St.
Paul's Cathedral, where I. did• not find
much , sign of piety. Marble statuary,
gilding, mosaics; and stained glass. ,
aeuld sink down in .a corner, as if;ab-
sorbed in prayer. In reality I` slept
kite a dormouse until• awakened by
some noise or other, ;r by the dis em-
fert.•of my, position; •a 'wooden b ch
is far from being a four -post bed."
A NASTY MOMENT.
He had some ticklish moments. One
night, in desperation, he determined.
risk the registration questions _at ail.
,_,__- latel.n'ea_r Aldgate .-.-He-gave-out-that.
ate was an Italian:- wa
9 "'Then I can't give you a room', senger carriages. There I crouched in
"vv
said the Woman. 'I'm very"sorry. You the dust androaring, din. I sat astride
i •ust go to Bishop .gate, to the Police :hind the iron plates, which are dis-,
&.:.tion, and get sanction and instrlac- 1 :aced by every' curve, every jerk,
Yhat New Yor
' Is Wearing
BY AIaNEBELLE WORTH•INGT011.-
Iflustxated. Dressmaing Leeso n i'Fur-
nish'ed With Every Pattern
•
next.' morning at eleven: ' I was enter-;
ed inthe hotel register as '.Mr. Petro-
vich, :Serbian.'"
Having' spent a nicht in perplexity
'he decided -to bluff it,.out 'and went to
Scotland. Yard next. morning. A fevv
lours later -he was prisoner I o z 9
at the Alexandra Palace. '
•`This is one of ,the hest books about
escaping that we have: had from "the
other side." "Nobody can fail to ad-
mire ..the "Dandy hue's" resourceftil-
r,ess and never, -say -die • spirit arty more
than they can fail to enjoy his ' ad-
yeatures..: One is sorry to learn, in a
publisher's ' note at the end, that in
_J_une,-1918,-.only-.-...-ix..snonths after he
returned to his' home; Lieutenant
Maglic crashed inea. new 'model . aero-
plane: he was testing, and was .killed.
•
, : iRISH!
Pat _.O -'T -eels- tau_ =sforked.:.for-_the_.
same village council for close on
-forty-four- years, -and.-had at last •de
cided to retire.
In, appreciation of • his long` and
'faithful service the council arra ged
and the
•o mons
to give hi>r�ia•drim,f yY
:
ent
ase hy;the-foreman, pres-.
- athered._tire One Friday, • Murphy ,Y.. g
.rest of the Hien in the canteen 'for
throne, the :bell -rope• shaft. The,
ehurch was dark as . a coffi.�rjj. Only,
the usual', votive ,1 mp,:was burning;
its ruddy glow, very weak, played in,
distinctly en a primitive . picture of
the Madonna: • A scent of incense,
which slightly stupefied me: My heart
pounded madly. Around me deathly
si-ence, yet I felt , as ` if the organ
were playing loudly and I were sing
ing a joyful De Dewpt." i
By . listening to the trains pass+ing
he had already worked out a time -
...hie. He • reached the station at
Faenza, andsaw that stowing away
would • be safer than buying a wicket.
As the .train' was .moving •out he
"ran across the track' and climbed
on to the running -board of a carriage.
he ' rtains were drawn. Cautious-
-„ing• like a cat, I sneaked for-
te the buffers between
cr
o pas-
'Pat O'Toole," he commenced - a
little falteringly . you' have , worked' for
the council for over forty years and
01 believe you are now going* 1o.
leave us?" • ,
"That% roight," said Par:
"Well, the ,council was 'so glad they
asked me to hand you this sum of
twenty pounds," concluded Murphy.
tions. Then you can get a room.' , ,
"I was going simply to withdraw,
when a gentleman •in mufti: joined in
the, conversation. 'As yen area
stranger to London, •I shall• be :happy
' to go with: you to Bishopsgate and
assist you there. I am an officer' in
the detective force''
' "His features were half in the she'-
, dew: I could not see 'hiseyes. Yet
- my' heart ' stopped- •atilt from::.the `sod.-.
den fright. I felt paralyzed from
head to foot."
He got away in the end by 'explain-
ing that be -knew exactly where Bish-
opsgate was.
Finally he .managed to bribe some
Norwegian sailors to smuggle him on
• board their •ship. Disguised- as a
-stoker he got past the sentries at the
entrance gate of the Regent Docks.
But his troubles were by no means
over. Once on the ship he
"had to hide in the miserable space
partitioned off in the room devoted to
the hand -steering gear. It was stored
with •• cabbages and ':cher vege lues:
The whole closet was barely four feet
long. I lay aggainst the_ iron, wall
painfully huddldd up. . . A terrible
chill radiated from the -iron fluor. I
wrapped myself up in a deck awning
4 . and was nearly choked by the clouds
of dust shaken out from it."
And then to be captured again after
betting so fat'. He was dt dvered-by
_ ' the boatswain before the ;hip was
'elear even of the English mine -fields,
and handed over to a pairol boat. No
*ender he says "I• cannot understand
how "I managed to' eleape insanity on
the night that fo•Tloived.p
IN ITALIAN PRISONS. •
Altogether'Lieutenant,Magfle was
In and out of. captivity for twenty.•
eight months -before he was 'allowed to
of • prisoner's; Rig adventures began tive made me' over to the manager,'
Wheolie was captured by the Italians iequirrng Miloi to •rl
a •doadolent 1) ie of Connaught inspects _t.�he 'London
Iiilie Brigade at'Btack-
1f1 the Adriatic after a bombing raid about me. •l:e then left, after wan-
t • td part; After' sampling eveyal ing me to he at New Scotland Yard the down, where the regiment iI9 iinder'going a week's' trajtning.
cam' x`
every clash of the cai,riages. Stations
flea/. by Imola, San Pietro. I had, a,
splitting . headache. My hands grip-
ped the rivets in the wall. Hiweve;,
I 'did not' fall off: It is hard to set.
limit:, to what a man .can .dot: if his
Iife.i's , t stake."
STOPPED AT•THE ORKNEYS. -
By a roundabout way. he got to
Genoa, where, after a good deal of
trouble, lie" fdtitid'` satiety'ary Oil -a
Greek steamer bound for ,the United
States, ••Prom New York the '• •next
'thing was to get home to Austria
again.., Posing as a Serbian waiter
Wing wished to' return to Europe after
some years spent in America, he se-
cured a passport 'and joined a ship
fen -Christiania. Ofi'.the Orkneys an
English naval -officer and twelve men
Came aboard and ordered alt passen-
•gees to Kirkwall for examination.
Thera he was detained hnd told he
must be sent to Edinburgh. Later
he learned
";the reason for my arrest in Kirkwall
-the British •Gove:nmen•t had receiv-
eda secret report from New York:-
.
-" Seennd-class- passenger • ""Freder-
ick VIII."• Stevan Petrovich is an Aus-
trian officer'
'On March • 22nd the White Star
liter 'Cedric' brought a' detailed, re-
port: . ' '
•
"On March 23rd I' was trattsferre:3
to London."
4
' SET -FREEIN LONDON,
Lieutenant Maglic was brought to
London. still protesting that he was a
Serbian waiter. The amazing thing
was that he was set free on the night
he arrived! After 'being questioned
at Septiand Yard, a detective drove
him through the dark streets. the
car stepped
hotel
ShaftesburyAvenue whi
Ch lofts
return to his countrrin an exchange oLt of Piccadilly Circus, , The detec-
First Office Boy -"The boss' call- •
ed me in consultation to -day." •
Second Office Boy-"G'wan."
First.Ofiice Boy -"Fact: • He bad,
a dispute with the junior partner 'as
to who wuz leadin' the league just
now in 'Wilda'.
Ready for School! . Well I guess!
It's '•so t hroughly.: smart' and
typi-
ealy Frenh. The front panel •xt nds
into the :circular skirt -"`at the front
and makes it very easy, to fashion,
Isn't the neckline smart with turn-.
over collar and bow tie? ,
A fine striped woolen' tweed effect
inrich brown made' the. original. The,
•pockets, belt and sleeve cuffswere
vivid red woolen. . The : tie' in crepe
de chine matched the plain red woolen.
The collar of white pique .. was : made
detachable so as to be readily laun-
dered. •
•&tyle No.(3311 nia,-be=had• in 'sizes
6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years.. Size 8 re-
gnires:1% Yards of.•35-inch material
with % yard of 35 -inch light and 34.
yara of 35-inch•,dark contra in..
st n
g
Wool , jersey in* :yankee blue with
vivi . red jersey :is smart..`Cut .the
k-itt-withvanel-frontrcollar-and-cuffs-
of tha'blue shade and the bodice and
Sleeves of the red: _
__HOW' TO QRDER PATTERNS., Write your your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
Patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (.coin preferred; wrtrtii
it carefully) for each number, and
address your 'order to, Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St':, Toronto::
THEi' TURNING -POINT
:•• The Mexif n general -was severely
reprimanding his timid cellonel.
"How came you to lose the battle?"
lie asked fiercely.. ' 11
"The enemy, they attacked in, in
the :rear," explained his subordinate
nervously.
"Bah! I was informed that they
attacked you in thefront," snapped
the general. •
The colonel shrugged his shoul-
aters:
"But that 'was our rear when they
got there," he replied..
• Teacher -"Tommy; come here and
give ' me what you've got in your
mouth:" • Tommy= -"I wish I could.
It's toothache." '
1
81
'eat able in either.
these anill
Red L1ei,25c, 211.
Orange Ii�IOe, 38c. tib:
They neer let you 'dawn
�wt_
• September
Ho,w''•dear to my-, heart is' -golden.. Sep!
- tember--
The :melons; Abe peaches, the' green:
/waving ;corn,
And 'scarlet tomatoes thatt, low like
. an ,emf)e ,
Reflectingthe 'dame •-of the redden-.
-in mo ir. '
Mellow with thoughts of „the days :we
.'remember,
Bright with the promise Or coming
good cheer-
Colorful, comforting, kindly Septem-
• b.er,.. ..
Golden September, the* crown of the
year! •
• •
Some of the society women look
good :in these new evening gowns, but
-they woultt no douhr look -better -if-
they were a little farther in them.
Dumb Dora.. (atbaseball.
",Oh, look, we have a man on .every.
base!"
Another :Dumb.. One -"That's not i
ing; so. has the ethffik side."
4 childless.':coiiple adopted .a three
months old .French •orphan. Then they
took a correspondcnce 'course ,in
French so they •would' be able to un
derstand the baby when : it started to
R'alpli_"Is., Muriel the kind of girl.
who encourages a man ' to ,make love
to ter "- . . -.._.. '. ,
Gerald-"Yed. . The last'time I was
with her .• she 'kept wondering what .it
would feel like to have a mustache on,
her face."
• Just Like a man -He . •keeps .a 'girl'
waiting :two years' to .get, Married, and
then .gets sore If' she'keepd him wait-
ing•two minutestheechurch.
Mary '(as the new baby is shown to
her and her • two brothers.) -"Oh!•.
nurse, he isn't. Chinese." ' .
Nurse -"Of course not'.' '
Mary -"Weil, our teacher says tbat
every -fourth child is Chinese."
Cool .Pellets Fol, the,Hot Days • .
An .old tuner is a man who Still re-
members when it seemed funny to call
two a'family. Using tobacco -is fool
ish, but a fellow hates to have' his
mother-in-Iaw tell him so. A lot of
fellows who know how to make and
read charts are 'dead broke. When a
man says he feels s'young as he ever
did it's a sign he doesn't. When they
get through improving the airplane,'
they'll probably lmprove the air. It
is harder to keep a bad man up than
-itis to -keep a good.-man_down. Truth
is mightier but many of the lies are
lots more entertaining. A lot of folks
are happy and don't know it until
something unpleasant occurs. There
are .a number. of people on .the ether
who should be under it. What you
are to -morrow depends on what you
think and do• to -day..
Father -"So you want to marry my
daughter " - `•
--Sutor-"Yes. But first I want to
know if there is any insanity in your
family?"
_Fathelr-°'No, and..therQ''s not •going
to be any," ' • •
It usually takes.a week or two to
fully recover from a vacation. • ,
During a recent dance a boy and a
girl went out to sit. on the porch for
a while. Ile got sentimental:
He --"What a night! What. a• girl!
What a moon•• -'what a conabinatiotl!" •
She "Heavens! Is that showng,
too?r, •
Give
Cupid a break! Yon can't ex-
pect true love to run smoothly -when
it is on the rocks.
_The Man } +ho Wal is a;,tew things
-
and wants ants them bad •enough -
is likelSto get some of thein at least.
It- is natural -at times to talk. But'
people are 'afraid --to ,be abandoned to
conversation without nth-in-Rug.It is
the -diversion which many o'f them
find -not only most difficult but most
embarrassing. For along' with the
boldness of modern society hadcome
great shyness in -sonify respect*.
Minds are often difficult when mor-'
els are not. With all the increat-
ing freedom of speech has came. 'a
singular inarticulateness. Margaret
,Culkin Bannipg, Author.
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Compensation • '
Some of these summers',I'm going to
go
Where peaks • pierce the • heavens or
•
rivers flow, , •
Or down by the ocean where billows.
roll,. ' •, • .
Or out where the .quiet can soothe.
my soul-. .
I and niy diary, my Camera and 1~
Down through the valleys' or up near
the sky;
Up by the•edelweiss, don by the Sea,
And bring -something ' home . . . to'
Live. with the. .•
Ali my "vacations r and years...
what, were they? `,
'Something, in„passing,' to just throw'
?:
away .•
A journey , to Otherwhere- -Some=°
' where and .Back?' .: .
Maps .,and ' time -tables, •a • gib/case t
. pack? . _ --- ...,._
'Old .friends to leave• and new, Mendel,•
• to greet; ••
Nodding_:a,nd passing' in Holiday:
Street? '
Going Somewhere with that resthse
• expression- • , '
Marching a] ng with a season's pro- .
cession?
Some of . these summers!: t , This.
• holiday haste; ,
Packing, unpacking, forgetting and
waste! . . ,
.dive mea journeya” jaunt that .shall
be i ' , - • ,
Forever a . memory -living in me!
Itoundtrips from. Here to the Promise
of There- '
What from Today that Tomorrow can
share?
Urge ;of a season .. an instinct to
roam! '
But. give . me some memories . . •. to.
• bring back 'Home.
Take me to mountains Or down by
the streams
That water the flowers in my Garden
of 'Dreams,
But 'when I conte Home; let my mem.
ories he
Something from from Somewhere
Live with me.
-By Henry Edward Warner; • in
Travel Guide. •
M (buying a dog): "I want a
fidgety sort of animal; one that ''will
make •i-ily. wife keep saying, 'George,
1 think that dog wants taking out for
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