HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1913-9-4, Page 2A Dark Shadow;
Or, A Corning Vengeance
CHA.PTEle Yle--(Cantinued),
Olive enti Quilton looked on for a ma -
rent or two; then. 'feeling that it would
O aselese to attenest to interfere, they
turned asettY, and left Paredise Gartiens
to its listed cenditiou of felicity.
At the opeuiug of the largertitreet and
*peek:lie one of the seepeleeess Clive
heard the strains of a violin. He started
from the sad and bitter reverie whieh ad
held him, and sew Elieha feldlieg away in
the garith gaelight.
Elisha atter him, an& steanling his fid-
slling, shuffled up to him,
"Oh, ks it you, :sir?" he sald„ I wanted.
to tell you, to thank syou-'---"
Clive`a hand fell upon the dwarf' s ehoun
der, and stopped him; and turning to
Quilton, he aid.
You can find your way home, Quilton,
I suppoth? Right! Good night!"
(Vinton nodded, without au ounce of ex-
pression in his face, and walked off; and
Math turned to Blithe with a suppress:ea
eagerness; for not until that moment did
he realize how constantly the girl, Mina,
had been in his mind, and how auxiously
he wanted to hear mere of her,
CHAPTER VII,
You. are a long way 'from home. Bli-
the," renaarked Olive, as they walked
:Not so fax as I sometimes get, sir," said
Elieha, "It don't do to stick to one place;
they get tired of the 'same tuaes, and
more tired of you. Why, even the swell
pjayers and singers have to ge on tour
sometinaee," he added, with his sad., shy
"That's so," aseented Media, not
remind thie humble nineieien of the pave-
ment that his more fortunate brethren and
sietere travelled firsteclass, and put up at
Palatial hotels, instead of tramping
through the London streets to a seeond-
neer back in Ebneon's Rents.
'I wanted to thank you, to tell you how
-low surprised -regularly staggered -we
were by the plane, watt Elisha, with it
flushed face and a tremulous voice. "But
X didn't, know where to find you; the man
that brought the piano said he didn't
know who'd sent it. If Tibby could have
found out theel have sent it batik; as it
was, there was a -a TOW, and I thought
he'd have made 'em take it away in the
van again.'
Olive nodded. "Perhapsthat's why I did
a -at let them know who sent it; but. I was
afraid you'd guess. I hope 7011 forgive me,
don't thiek I've taken a liberty--"
Elisha shook his head. "leo, air; I knew
It was meant in simple kindness -and so
I told. Tibby,"
"And Mies Mina, was she -annoyed?"
Clive -could not help asking.
"No, sir; Mina was very quiet at ant;
and hasn't said much since; but she was
pleased. It's a magnificent instrument,"
be went on, his eyee kindling with enthu-
eiasm; "it beautiful tone, and a touch ass
kind as kind could be." Be spoke as if the
piano were aaive and sensitive. "It was
very good of you, sir, and I'm kind of
osarwhelmed-it's as if I touldnie thank
you properly."
"That's all right," said Olive. "And has
Mies Mina begun her lessone----?"
"Yes, sir. as soon as we'd got the piano
in piece. She was all eagerness, like a
Young hound straining at the leash. It
was like it starving person going for a
pieces of bread. She was jut wild for it.
All the wanted wee to thank yoa; and
she'll be pleased to hear that I've met you;
though she'd be more content and paci-
fied if she could thank you herself, of
course."
"You think she would?" said Clive hesi-
tatingly. They •had got into the White-
chapea Read by this time, and Clive hail-
ed a solitary hansom. "If you are thee I
shall not be intruding, I should like to
come home with you."
He opened the door of the cab, but Bli-
the hesitated and looked frightened.
-It's a long way --a biggish fare-tbere's
the 'buses—"
"I'd forgotten the 'busses for the mo-
ment." said Olive. "Never mind. :furap
In -take care of your violin."
Elisha screwed himself into his corner,
and looked about him with it nervous and
fearful Joy; he had never been in a han-
som . before, and only once it a four -
wheeler -on las way to a hospital after an
accident. He was so absorbed in the no-
velty and the luxury of this shabby, dil-
apidated vehicle that he started when
Clive, who had been musing on the strange
fate which seemed to throw his across the
dwarf's path, said:
r'Elielta, I want to aak you something.
You won't mind, won't taink I'm imper-
tinently eurious.? I've noticed that Mise
Mini, talks much better thasi----" He paus-
ed. "She has been to school, of course."
know what you mean, sir. Yes; you've
noticed that she speaks better than inast
girls, almost like a lady -if I may make
sio bold as to EM,Y so,"
Clive nodded.
"I've noticed it myself. and I'm proud
of it, of °cram. You see, it's this way:
Mina's different to the other ghee in the
Rents, different even to Tibby, oh, very
reach so. I'm not Saying anything agelnet
Tibby, you'll understand, Mr.--?"
Elisha hesitated, Clive gave his name,
but the aab. bad now reached brie of the
erowded thoroughfares, and in the Tattle
of the 'buses and carte Elisha only ettught
the Christian name.
"Tibbyas -good a girl as theree is, Mr.
Clive; but he's not one for her books. She
didn't take to schooling; there was TOWS
between her and the teachers; most nigh
every day; and she soon chucked it,
Whereas Mina -well, Nina, was all the
other way. She wee quite a scholard, and
took to her books like it young dunk takes
to water. Never miesed a day, she didn't;
and not a cress word with the teacliera.
,LrtbeY was all fond of her, and proud of
saP, aci 5, -Du KAT day. sesey Mee asesterie,
she 'aaing Passed tbe etandard-you know
wiett I mean, eir?-for her to go on in the
contineatiou classes, as they cell 'em; but
Mina, though she wanted to had enough
*mid see that -wouldn't hear of my
spending more money ou her schooling,
and for all her gentle west's!, he' s se ob-
stinate as .otber women when ohe's .made
up ber stain& Mr. Clive' ,
-x see," said Olive. 'She preferred to go
out with you and earn some motley."
eines it, air," aesented Elisha; "and
peeapsi he was eight Of course; we take
a good deal more 'stoney when she's with
Olive took out, hie eigar-ease, "Have a
:cigar. Blithe?" he said. "Yes dos please;
"3 always enjoy a smoke better with coin-
' pany. Got a match?" •
Blithe leent back and puffed al the
tiger With 'nervous enjoyment, and Clive
inuoked in silence and profound cogita-
tion for ootne time; 'then he said:
"See bare. TAieha 3 want to make a bar-
gain with you."
The aware looked up with his big path-
etic: eyee.
"rm afraid it'll be all en one eide, sir,
he
he said. ehrewdly.
Olive laughed. "Well, ea this," he geed:
el think 1 een get You SoMe thee -bine la
do, a pupiT'or two. If X care Yotee like to
pond it part of the money in this extra
ethoeling for arise Miner The dwarfe
faee fluelieti With grateful aepreeiatiot of
Clive's; teat, if Olive had offered :hint
money he Would have refueed it " 1 glare
-year belief In Miss Milla'd fatUre eetuileal
future," Clive went on quietly and In a,
matteeef-faet way; "and I think you'll
agree with nin that she Would etatid 0 bet-
ter thence of eueceeditig if she Wee° het:
ter edneetede ereperlY veepared tor the
potation 3sou seellid ik bet to ries: to,"
allisha nodded eagerly. 'Thefle it, feel"
ksh ttald. aft feta the Voles only; eee tee
tette the toteeer Of eayieg her words,
tatat 'will tell. A girl wants to speak an4
leole like ft ItalY, if sheas going to be a
concert Meager -see
"That's what I sneant." 'said Clive. "With
so beautiful a, voice se hers, so promising
a one, she snould have every clusace---"
"And yotere going te give it to her! Oh:
"Excuse me," said Clive, you. are go-
ing to give it to her, not I; don't forget
that, Enable Yen won't find teaching the
violin easy work by any sueene; and yoe'll
earn all youll get by it, for certain. Heth
we are, aren't :wet)" ,Ile atood en tb.e.pave-
ment kesitatiligly after he had paid' the
cabman. "I.SlonSt kuow whether to come
in or not." he said more to hiasself than
to the dwarf,
"I hope you will, sir," seki "tt
veill thee Mina's heart to thank .you. And
',tabby will be out marketing'," he added.
naively; "the gets the tillage a bit cheaper
If it's late, and Saturday 'Niece:My,"
"Well, teen," asthuted Clive, but still
hesitatingly,
As they went up the rickety stairs, they
beard, the sound of the piano: five -finger.
eeerciSee; an&Elieha glanced at Clive with
shy pride, -
'he'd keep at it all day if rd let her,
sir," he remarked. ,
Teey entered the room, but Mina: was so
absorbed that the did not bear them; and
Olive ethost and looked at the slim, wells];
figure, and the small head, -with 110 dark
silken hair, bent forward tts if the svhole
body were in elisintli with the notes, Then,
as Elisha, said, "Mine!" she turned, at
firet with dreamy eyes that seemed ecaree-
ly to see thera; but in a mement the eyes
flashed, the pale face was euffused with
color, and she tiprang up and stood, one
hand resting on the piano, the other press-
ed to her lips, as if to supprees 0 cry; her
dark grey e3res 'fixed on Olive's with an
inexpressible :wonder .at his preeence, and
a boundless gratitude.
"The gentleman -Mr. Clive -we met, and.
I thanked him, Mina," stammered Patella;
but I told ben you'd like to thank him
yourself."
She did not Move until Olive croseed tbe
room, and held out his hand. '
I'm more than sufficientlythanked by
the pleaeure of seeing you playing, Miss'
Mina," he said. "I can hearr how wonder-
fully you have got on—"
"Seems to come natural to her, sir,' said.
Elisha. "It is so with some .people. 'ad
a brother as played by :ear; just let him
hear a song or a piece of music oath, and.
he'd sit deism and play it, a,nti play it cor-
rect, too. But I don't want Mina to play
that way. I want her to be able to stick
up a piece of music, and play it at sight."
Mina looked from one to the other with
breathless eagerness; then her eyes rest-
ed on Clive's. '
"Do you think I ever shall?" she, asked.
"-Yes; I think you will; I am sure you
will," he staid eonlideutly.
She drew s long breath. "Yes; I win!"
the murmured almeet inaudibly. "Why
did you send it?" she asked after a pause.
Elisb.a, laid down is ythlin, and, in do-
ing eo, had caught sight of his hands, and
he went into the next room to wash them,
By this direct question Clive waa thine -
what embarrassed; but more so by „ the
steadfast gaze of the greet childish eyes.
"I meant it as a little, remembrance el'
our adventure the other night,",lis aid.
You :weren't angry -offended?" ,
fNo," ehe said. Then, after,. a moment,
her eyes fell, and as she raised them
again thine, 'was a faint doubt, trouble in
them. "Ought I to have been?'
"No, I don't think you ought," he re-
turned -with a quietness and .gravity that
reassured her. Let me put it this way:
if you were me, and you had sent Inc
something- that I wanted very badly and
could not get, would you have expeeted
me fe be angry, offended?" ,
She hook her head at this piece -of th-
phiasturtyLbut
told you aboet the piano; it
was as if-aif I had asked for it," she
said in a low wise, the trouble More
plainly showing in her eyes and. the
quiver of her lies.
"Nothing was eurther from your
thoughts, 3 know," ' he seed, earnesly.
But she Was not satisfied; and he stood,
her bands -once again Clive noticed how
long and slender they evere-workink ner-
vously.
"I did not think -I was so glad. so pleas-
ed -it was as ifit bad come from the
skies-ehat I'did not think that I -I ought
not to have it" .
"If tho sight of me has suede you `un-
happy about it,' ten sorry I came:" • he
laid There was silence for a moment;
then a way out of the dale -sate occurred
to him. "See here, :Rise atinne--a -
She raised her head quickly, and the col-
or rushed to her fare. -
"Why do you call me Miss Mina, as if
-as if I were it young lady?" the asked
half -resentfully. .;
Clive drew- up a °bale and at down: he
knew that she -wcasld it and she did se.
"It I were se -Impolite exte to cell you
'Mina: you would have to 'call me 'Clive'
-and you wouldint like to do that," he
said aaughingly.
"No," ehe falteredether bthere bent.
"Then why should you think youreelf
better mannered than I
She sighed as if she knew herself van-
quished by his argument, but , was not
salisfied.
"I sing in the streets for may living; rm
not a young lady," she said.
"Excuse me; I don't agree with you. But
we won't argue it. 1 was going to malse
a proposal."
She looked at him with a ehy. suspicion
at the corners of 'her delicate lipe, and
kept ber eyes on him.
"If you'd 'either not athept tay little me.
inento of the other night you obeli have
your way, and pay me reEr the piano,"
Hee eyes and last opened, and elm etared
at him.
"Par you! Why, you know 3 couldn't.
It must have cot a greet' deal of money.
Mitha says that It is one of the grand-
est and most beautiful pia.nos he ever
heard, and Blithe know.'
"Quite eo," said Olive.''Well, when you
are great singer, earning 50 many
pounds for a couple ofsongs, you ellen
pay Inc let the piano -eve -and -twenty
pounds. Te that ahargain?'
She :drew a lone breath,. and her faee
paled. . •
gia yon think IS shall ' ever elutes well
erieugh to -to then enough to pay for it?
Do you? Ab, eloret say 'Yes' juet, to
pleas:Ie.-just to deceive mci" Her hands
gripped esseh other, and 'the held her
breath for a' ruomezits ber- with earching
Mm as if th wring the truth froni them:"
then the went,on, in a lower abide. "I
don't knew wee you"are so kitel-I don't
understend. Nobody, even rith people -
You ere very ricb, I suppose?'
Clive was abeut th declare laughingly
that he Wee anything but a Croestie; but
be bethotight Ilim that hie modest 10-
oone seex sp enermote :one to beis
end contented' laineelf with it poneene
Mittel Arius 41 tho Shouldera.
"Other people don't give away 11i£005,"
sibe saki.
"Yon forget ear bargain. aan 110ii giv
ing you
Elea*, teem beek with °leen barele, and
moved to the plane. •
ath youtohear Mina sing th it,
Sit'," lie Slake nerssously. "It ' ;eves bee
thiee a better chance than the violin
dots,'
ale pet a hathaek on the ealaie, lifted
himself up, and began the prelude to one
of Mee fee/meta Sinipie stelodied; bat,
etraegele estiteteIt, the giel-"-a, street eteeer
eeeetnee eby and reluctant; the coley
same and went in her fees, and hers lips
onieered with timidity; but Meths, etreek
the ,oeoras n,aten, afel looked UP at her
With hie1.. theorise a01 inteerogation, end
I VERY CHIC GOWN.
Designed by Poiret, Paris.
Model of blue and -white striped
silk crepe with red flowers. The
gown is in one piece, with 'short
skirt,
she began. Her voice shook for a moment
or ttve; then, like all true artists, he for-
get ]mer audience, and the notes rose clear-
ly but with infinite softnesee It was EL
pathetM little :song. and •deeply moved
Clive, whose loth for music amounted to
a passion. He did not watch the girl's
awe, pale now, and spiritual with the
artistic afflatus, but eat with downcast
eyes and compressed lips.
"A beautiful instrument, sir," said Eli-
sha; but the exquisite melody Of the
young voice was ringing :in Clive's ears.
"Yes," he aid, "it's all right. But Miss
Mina must not sing in the -open-air
again. It is toe delicate a voith forso
fierce an ordeal." '
Elisha nodded a quick concurrence. "You
hear, Mina?" he said, as if they had been
arguing the question. "It is far bttter to
wait 'until you ca,n get a show et a con-
cert; there's more money in it, isn't twee,
Mr. Clive? It's what I've been telling
"Far better," assented Clive emphati-
cally. "And you'll be able th pay me all
the sooner, Miss Mina." She fluehed, and
her eyes rested oa Tim with mute Appeal.
"And now I' mut not stay any ',Linger."
He held out his nande'and ia0 lit hers
into it. He, felt the eleacler /lane lake
and quiver with the enterea, the .warmth,
of an imprisoned bird; then she withdrew
it quickly, as if she were :suddenlycon-
scioue that it was trembling, and turned
Clive went doves the stai'is and into the
street; the sweet voice was still Tinging in
bis ears; he felt confused by an emotion
:which he could not understand, much lees
narae to himself; and he stood for a mo-
ment outeide the door as if in deep
thought. ' •
The little out -de -sac was almost crowded
with wornen.and girls eoming from their
marketing at the cc:stens' barrows; and
they jolted against him with their bas-
kete of- fish and meat and vegetables.
Some of the vvoinee had children hanging
on to their :skirts, and one of the mites
etumbled and felledoe to Olive's feet. He
picked it ep, and held it at arra's length
as it yelled lugubrioiusly. -
"I don't think you're hues" ime said'in
it confidential- tone, and with - the. smile
which, whea it shines' in, 0 xaan:s eyes,
children fied-irreeistible. "A big little
girl, like you doesn't -cry, you know.
What?" ' ' ' s•
The child (stooped its yell, and taking its
dirty fist from its eyes 'stared down at
him in be:easement, and still waiting for
the accustomed smacking. The *other
also etared. '
"Troublesome, little toad!" she shouted.
'1give you 'Something, Emily -Mord.-
No, o'. course, the ain't hupt; she's allers
tumbling and fallin' ebart;" she added to
Olive, as the snatched the child from him
and commenced to shake it.
"Oh, I wouldn't do that," said Clive in
his .persuasive way. "She • couldn't lielp
it; I saw how it happened. All geed kid-
dies vvho are worth anything tumble about,
don't they, Emily Mord?" He slipped
something ,into the women's hand. "Buy
her a doll, and they'll learn together to
keep their feet, you'll eee. Good night."
As he turned away, the woman stopping
the traffic th stare at him in open-eyed
wonder, he ran against 607316 one, and a
voice cried sharply: .
'Now. stupid! Where's your dewier
Clive recognized the voice, and looked
down with a smile and a nod at the quaint
little figure of Tibby.
(To be continued.)
How to Remove Speck From Eye.
The quickest and safest way of
removing a p'article from the eye is
described by Hugh Wrigley, of
Philadelphia, in a letter to Popular
Mechanics. He says that when
working at an emery wheel a Spec
of steel flew into his eye where-
dpon a fellow workman felt along
the lapels of -his coat until he found
a protruding horsehair. Thi: 'he
pulled forth and formed it into a
loop by folding it -double. The eye-
lid was turned back over a peneil ;
the speck of steel was found and 're-
moved by drawingthe loop"of horse-
hair over it, This is painless and
cannot injure the most sensitive
eye.
When through old
age the bodily
functions become SI liggisle,
Na-Dra-Ce Laxatives
giVe gentle, tituely and
effective aid, without
discoinfort or distress.
25e.
it PDX at your
Druggist's. 173
1Veitetial brug and Chem feat
Cased& !Whited.
I, leetatiallsee~tesieletialiseibiltibtodlt
On the Farm
stseelbeeeiteeeeteee
Lottling Acres.
in travelling otree the eountry I
see` fields that are claimed to be
worth leant 00 to $100 per aore,
with a pile of stones lying here end
there and several scrawny, half-
dead tre'es stataling about over this
land and perhaps with a swale run-
ning across, writee Mr. R. B. Bush -
Have you any such on your farm
that are 1 not yielding a profit, per-
haps scareely paying taxes /
These acres are loafing and, w-hab
is worse'not only leaflug, but, cost-
ing the learner hard-earned money
every time he sends a man into the
fields to work. Time wasted in
turning around obstructions is very
great and time is money these days.
With the modern maellitery that
we want to use and to cultivate and
harvest our produce, e man must
have a clean sweep across the land.
if he ie after the greatest profit.
Only a few dollars w,ould remove
these worthless piles of stone and
those old, half-dead trees which are
just in the way. Then the land
would be available' for use,
By putting in an underdrainit
worthless swami may be transformed
into a fertile field. Stones and
trees are all right in their places,
but the best place for the stones is
in making a, dam at the lower end
of some low place to help catch the
wash, and the best place for the
trees is in a clump by themselves or
very near the fence and not scatter-
ed all over an otherwise profitable
field.
It is a very common thing to see
large -strips of land that are not in
shape to be cultivated; loa,fing in
weeds and brush between fields,
simply beoause the farmer has not
the ambition to fence them in.
If you have such land that cannot
be put ander cultivation with pro-
fit it should be fenced and turned
into pasture, or if you desire to
grow trees, and, of course, you
should grow some, set Out a useful
variety, but be sure not -bo allow
the land to loaf away your profit
by growing absolutely worthless
weeds and brush.
It is a shame to have land under
cultivation and continue to work it
while it is so thin that it will not
produce anything worth while.
Farm land is just like a, bank.
You can draw checks on it if you
have it deposit of fertility, laut- un-
less there is a deposit there can be
no checking. '
It is sad to see a, farmer plow,
sow, cultivate, harvest and thresh
•half a, crop from a field when with
the same amount of labor he.could
have prevented his fields from loaf-
ing by supplying the amount - of
plant food needed to grow a full
We can look about and see those
who are doing things right. Why
not take a, lesson from then:0
Look arofind this summer and see
if there is not somethin,g that is
loafing; if not, -very good, but if
there is, you must clean it up if you
ever expect bohavea full crop and
make the most profit from the land.
The suceeseful farmer does not al-
low his land to loaf.
•
Destroying Weeds.
A good system of rotation that
includes cultivated crops, offers the
best means Of combatiag the corn -
Mon weeds; but its success is ' al-
most entirely dependent upon the
manner and persisteney with which
the soil ie cultivated. To insure
reasonable success, the disk and
harrow should be used frequently
while the weeds are still small, and
the crops while growing Should be
given frequent cultivation. -Fortu-
nately, the same tillage operations
that are used in putting the soil in
a condition to receive and conserve
rainfall, to prepare the seed bed
and to liberate plant 'foot, are like-
wise useful in combating weeds.
It Pays to Save the
Sober, Yet Is Alcoholic.
Liverpool (England) physicians
are interested in a, case of a travel-
ling ealesman who shows every sign
alcoholie,pelsoning, although a
uetotalet. His illness is ascribed
to excessive drinking of beef tea
and other meet e,tracbo 13d phy-
eiciane believe this indicates that
nitrogenecois stimulants have an, ef -
feet, on the syttem similar to that
of aIeohol.
Nitrogen is worth at least eight
cents a pound. A horse will pro-
duce fifteen tons of manure and lit-
ter a year, contaiting more than
130 pounds of nitrogen. At eight
cents a pound, the value of that
manure is $10.40. It pays to save
it Experiments have shown that
liquid and solid manures when kept
together deteriorate much more ra-
pidly. Also, the more. compact the
manure is -stored away from the,
weather, the least loss will result.
Here is a hint, for progressive farm-
ers. Our farmers need this nitro-
gen, and when it represents at
least $10 a horse, one can afford
to take a little better tare el ria-,
nuts.
THE JEANNE 0 ARC OF PEACE
BULGARIAN OHL BRINGS OUT
HORRORS OE WAIL
She Begen the Mission as the
Result ef a Miraculous
Vision,
Irina, Schischmanoff, an impas-
sioned Bulgarian girl of Dour and
twenty, is the Jeanne d'Are of
peace. She is •totbring Russia, as a
leeturer in the cameo of human fra-
ternity, and she hopes later to visit
West Europe and Canada, writes a,
St. Petersburg correspondent. She
is preaching the horrors of war as
she has 'seen them on Tien:elan bate
tlefields. Everywhere she eneote
with unexampled ,suecess. Moscow
high eehool girls got so enthusias-
tic that they Deemed a Universal
Pewee League, each nember of
which vowed to marry no man who
has been a soldier or approves of
war. The jeanne d'Arc of peace,
who is creating, this tremendous ef-
fect, is a simple, unpretending lit
-
the person, and, like the first
Jeenne d'Arc, she astribes her
miraculous success to it divine call
and to the interventien of Provi-
dence.
Irina Schischmanolf is the only
daughter of an illiterate farmer of
Tirnovo. She has had no ,chanees
in life except what she made for
herself. Her father wanted her to
stay at home and plough the rye -
fields, but Irina rebelled, When
aged thirteen, she made alone foe
Phillipoppolis, where there is good
airie schooling, sod set ' hard • to
work. She had then no notion of
turning out a peace prophet. Hee
"eel]." came later when the Russo-
Japanese ware broke out. Irina,
was then sixteen, and from that
day on she has never forgotten that
she is called to servo the cause of
peace.
How "Call" Came.
Mlle. SchischmenOff describes how
the "call" ea,me. "I was Eating',"
she recalls, "in my bedroom just
after sunset when it suddenly grew
pitch dark, This 'frightened me,
and I took it as a precursor of
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Schischmaneff is now in
Russia. She hats lectured in fort'ye;
two towns (in. Moscow and St. Pet-
ersburg several times), and she
elaims that she has brought home
th,e, horrors of war to a hundred
thousand persons, Her euccees in;
evoking enthusiasm is due to lier
passion and warmth, but still more I,
so to her analytical skill in bringing ,
before audiences the sufferings of
combatants a,nel of. their ,friende
which war 'entails. A favorite reaa
thod is to describe the let ,of a ai11.!
gle soldier and of his larnily. "The
story of Stoll° Pozelneff" is known
all over Russia,. Stoll° Pozclneff is
the -schoolmaster of Kizil Agatch, it
Tureo-l3ulgEtrian frontier village,
fainting fits, such as have, some -
n!
times had. But it sudden wind
who leaves a wife and four childreto, fight -with Radko Dmitriyeff. at'
blew through -the window, and in -
Kirk Kilisee. With tears in her
stead of feeling faint I felt extra -
eyes and trembling voice, , Mlle.
Sohischmanoff describes Pozeleeffs,
feelings.; his first conflict between'',
patriotism and love; and the final,
Vision that comes of his family,ae,
he falls to a Turkish shrapnel linl)t
let. After this follow minute anal -4
yses of the feelings of all Pozdneff'e
relatives down to the youngest
child, "who began to cry because'
all the others tried,. sad then began ' "m.
to laugh, remarking, 'If father is.
dead they will have to send him
home. What will he bring me V ".•
Stories like this, all tom in dry,'
realistic form with no rhetoric and
no oonscious art, move Irina'a
chances to teams.
ordinarily awake, and with all my
senses concentrated, it seeds, on
one, thing., Soon aftexwarde in t e
dee-knees of the room an irregular
white background formed, and on
this I saw what must have been a
battlefield. All I could make out
were occasional heaps' of 'dead a,nd
dying men, and many hills, from
which I guessed that I was lookixig
at a fortress -battlefield, which may
have been Port Arthur. A moment
later I heard a droning sound; a
blue cross rose over one of the hills,
and a- hand ahove the areas beckon-
ed to )ne imperatively. The dron-
ing sound ceased; and 1 heard the
words "Voina protiv ~3r oina" (Bul-
garian Dor 'War against War").
Next nectment ,the battlefield faded,
the white backgreund grew grey,
the roona became lighter., .and I
found rnyeelf ,sitting again in the
after -sunset tWilight." •
Irina tbolc this visionas a sum -
'mons from Heaven to meke war
upon war. The chance of obeying
the summons seemed remote, as
Irina was a penniless student, and
she had no money, and none of the
political and military knowledge
necessary for a peace campaign.
Brooding on the vision, she com-
pleted her studies at •Phillipoppolis,
and next went to Berne, where she
studied further. She got the de-
gree of doctor ef philosophy and of
medicine. When she retorted to
her Tirnovo honae, he 'Doted war
with Turkey brewing. Hoping at
last to fit herself for war against
war, she joined the, Bulgarian
forces as a nursing sister,
Attended to Wounded.
The Jeanne d'Arc of peace found
herself first with the army of Ivan -
off before Adrianople and next with
the army at Adrianople which
marched on Tchataldja. She dress-
ed hundreds of wounded from the
Adrianople trenehee, and hundreds
more who were wounded during the
first abortive -assaults on Tehatal-
dja, This expetienee of real war
eonfirmed her passion for peace.
$he descrilxce how at one time she
desired peace 'so strongly that she
was willing even to forego part of
the Bulgarian success. "After the
second batoleof wounded came from
Adrianople I had another 'call.' I
felt impelled to rush to the front;
Is Finding Followers. ,
Irina is finding followers among
leaders of Russian thotight. Among
these is Prof. P. N. Miliukoff, the
"Cadet" leader, who was onee pro,:
lessor at Sophia, University. She
was invited to Grand Duke Cone,
stantine's villa, at Atrelina to give a
private lecture ,on her experiences.1
-Grand Duke Constantine -called her'
the most effective peace propagan-
dist he had ever heard. It was he
who on ' hearing of her t`call,
named her "the Jeanne dfArc of
Peace." The rich Kieft sugar 70 -
finer Gvodieff offered her $10,000 in
order that she roight help the peace'
movement with pamphlets and
books; but Irina rejected the mon-
e, &eying "only the voice of the
Sufferer, can drive wax from the
world." Minister of the Interior
Malakoffis the only Russian of eote
who regards with stuspicion the
peace propaganda He refused to
help Irina, when her lecture wee
forbidden by the police master of
Tula. Elsewhere Irina, has met with
no trouble, despite the prejudice of
Russian lenreauerats that the cause
of peace is someway tied up with
the cease- of revel n Hen.
Irina started in Russia, because
she talks Russian fluently, but ehe
is ale° able to lecture in German
and French. When !she goes to Engt
land and Canada she will use
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ure openteiruptedly. Be
then," she says, "who knows but
by a miracle, as wonderful as my
'call,' war will, be driven from the
world."
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