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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-22

then a mana convict-her hero
broke cover not thirty feet away. As
he sprang across the highway be
caught sight of the girl and the We
hicle and turned and came towards
them.
Are you escaping? Is the hound
after your" cried Miss Myra.
Yes, yes-he's after mel"
Then jump In here. quick"
She acted on impulse. Not q mo-
ment was given to thought. She was
away with the fugitive three min
utes before the hound broke cover and
lost the trail at the highway and set
up howl Of disappointment. The
runabout was pushed to its highest
speed.
Not word between the girl and
The man. He was breathing hard from
his run and looking back. and she was
looking ahead and picking out the
road. When over hill and mile
away she slowed down a bit and
turned to the convict to ask:
Where do you want to go? Where
will you be safe?"
Keep going" he ordered with
growl in his throat that startled her.
But ! asked YOU"
shut up and keep up the speed OF
I'll twist that pretty neck of yours!"
That from the gentlemanly convict!
The girl had said there wasn't hard
line In his face. She turned to II now
and saw face that made her shudder
There was triumph, desperation. fear
and craft there
Faster! Faster! Damn it. girl. dc
you want me to be overtaken! It looks
like 1t and"
lie tore her hand from the steering
gear, passed an arm around her waist,
and with a heave sent her into the
roadside ditch. lie may have known
how to run the machine. but 1t crashed
into the fence hundred rods ahead
and he took to the woods.
Mr.. Lee Bennett came riding that
way. He might call at the Graham
mansion or not. lie would decide
when he got nearer. He saw and iden.
titled the wrecked runabout. He
looked around for its owner, and he
saw her sitting and weeping beside
the highway.
ANY broken bones7" he asked as
he dismounted.
'Oh. Lee" sobbed the girl as she
looked up
There are three horsemen and a
bloodhound coming down the road
They must be In chase Of runaway
convict. OF course neither of us has
seen him."
Il was so-sO-foolish!"
And there comes old Doctor Tay
lor In his buggy, and I'm sure he'll
give you a lift home"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-22
A Guess From Habit.

man should not decide that a girl
Is gossip because she tells him
something funny" Marguerite or
Edith said Women have the same
right to discuss and criticize other
women that men have: and they do
not exercise it any more freely.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-22
Just a Little Too Much.

A business man called his s'''os'
rapher and dictated as part q sf1'
tence quasi public institutions IL
came to him in typewrlticn 'o'm
Gross eyed public institutions ne
has q new stenographer.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-22
Velvet Quster.

There is nothing better than a piece
of velvet for removing dust from vel
vet. 1t is equally good for cleaning
taffeta garments. II the velvet 10 made
into Q cushion like the ones which
come with mems silk hats, it lie . little
handler to work with.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21
w HEN YOUTHS
By Anne Story Allen

sun was coming out. Corcoran felt much better. Mildred had plan for the office boy. It was an inspiration; even Jack, who had thought that nothing could possibly be done, admitted that it dred's sympathies, at least as he told himself he was, his eyes grew moist he listened to Mll- dreds scheme, full of love and goodwill toward the office boy.
 Poor little chap" luttered the mother notes in her voice. Now we must and so on.
 And Jack agreed
 Now sCorcoran had made big success and a pitiful failure. Long, long ago, when he felt young, he had started out to make home and fortune He had got the fortune, at least a good foundation for it. but the home. withiut the right foundation, had been swept away.
 He had married girl who glad enough to marry him. For there seemed nothing but that or work for her at the time.
 Of neither of them put it to the other like that The girl persuaded herself that she was premature1y lovely ideal he had deep in his soul and tried his best to realize it in his fiancee 1t difficult enough when she was his hancee; when they were married the ideal shuddered ana turned away, and after two years of married llIe Corcoran had almost forgotten what he had its hiding-place Corcoran got along as best he could; he quite got into the way of thinking that marriage was like this with everybody-a make-lt- do sort of arrangement. And if he was not happy genial occupation in building that good solid 1oun- dation that his fortune was to stand
 Then a brute of man came out Of the west, cousin to the girl Corcoran had married Ano he shook that poor woman to. the depths or her scared little soul with the strength of the love ne ing till one day he home suddenly. Ihere explanation in which all that WAS many in the cousin arose and took the blame from the weak shoulders of Gorcoran's wife: then another
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21

vague and nebulous as it was was he could sweep it out as if he using his will bro
 And then he turned again to Jack and Mildred.
 She was listening intently while Jack told her a narrowing tale of office boy. He had waited to tell her till she should be where the lights and music and good dinner might counteract the eff feet of the little story. Mildred had horrid little habit of worrying about people, thinking how dreadful it that everybody didn't have good times she did, couldn't be well and strong an always sure of a good long nights sleep, she was. The woman who didn't sleep had been the cause of half nights torture when Mill dred's brown eyes would close and she would try to keep them open, just to sec how awful it must who for their laundry, and Jack had caught Mildred limping about their apartment several times, when the laundry girl was new to her.
 Mildred not morbid. She only vivid. She likely to put things graphically before herself A practical result always followed these most cheerful novels for the sleepless lady, and car-fare always hand for the lmping laundreSs.
 So Jack had reserved the ofice-boy story, the story of theft, till Mildred should be in bonny mood so that the shadow he knew 1t would cast might be as light and feeting possible.
 He had to tell her because the lame laundress sister to the office boy and he knew that sooner later the story would reach Mildred's 
 untastingly. and there no laughter now, pot smile.
 Corcoran noticed it. that is, he noticed T. il- dred's face. He stirred uneasily and wond ,' cd what the fellow telling his wife to change her from radiant girl to sensitive, hurt woman. Corcoran laid down his cigarette and his salad, feeling very depressed. When his fruit and coffee came, turning his head little, he that the red lips were curying into smile, tender. win ming smile there was hope and gladness in 1t; the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21
A w A K E

talk in which the woman sobbed, and Corcoran was quite cold and felt nothingl
 After all the legal steps had been taken after her life had been cut from his and joined to the bachelor apartments as free man, and started in anew to increase his bank account and hold ings.
 But some way, somewhere in it all, he had begun to feel very old and had gone on feeling so; his youth slept so deep and so quietly that ne not recognize it's stirrings he watched Jack and Mildred, or rather as he fixed his eyes on Mill dreds earnest, unconscious face, and was glad from his heart that she smiled again.
 They all got up to go at the same time He followed them to the. coat-room window. Mill dred stood aside while Jack asked for her coat.
 It was so swift, the whole happening, that IL took till some time afterward for Corcoran to realize what had happened.
 As he stepped from the window water dashed by him, a badly cut hand extended, his white apron and napkin splashed with blood.
 There was little cry from some one Dack or Corcoran He turned, and 8 slim black-clad nsure flung itself against him. =
 Pinch me, pinch mel" cried pitiful voice; t'don't let faint!''
 To say that Corcoran was surprised would not be exactly truthful, for with one bound the splrlt of youth within him, with all that youth stood for in tenderness, in protection, in love or man for woman, awoke in the full light of the Beautl-
 His arms closed around her as naturally as they had never closed about another woman lie pressed her head against his arm with man 5 1nstnctIve impulse to protect. Her cry, her turh- ing to him, her putting of her hand Defore ne. eyes. seemed to him as natural as though sne hao turned to him so g. hundred times before.
 That he had released her, she had released herself instantly did not alter the fact that he had held her. that his face composed ana his voice perfectly quiet he received her em-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21

barrassed apology, did not lessen his inner exut- ation.
 What it was all about he would have to deter mine later. But his heart beat hard and his hands would have shaken had he allowed it, aa he pulled his gloves.
 Jack met him at the door.
 My sister says she made pretty bad mis- take just now.''
 Corcoran answered quite any other would have done.
 "A good many women, he said, land men too, for that matter, turn faint at the sight of blood. And then he looked at Mildred deeply, straight in the eyes but neither Jack Mildred could find fault with the look.
 Then Mildred said, to turn her mind from dering at his look, ..Pm glad you didn't pinch
 And they all laughed easily and went down tho steps.
 Jack and Mildred went one way and corcoran another.
 "Tm glad you selected gentleman said Jack sarcastcally
 .Of course I thought it was you, Jack said Mildred for the sixth time Then she sighed. Brothers, dear and sweet as they were, just wouldn't understand sometimes. Then in deep repentance Of her thought she held his aim nor5 tightly.
 He did have nice eyes, she said demurely. And Jack gave her little shake, and his good humor returned
 Corcoran strode up the Youth kept pace with him. His step springy, his eyes alight. There was something in the world for him, somewhere, somebody. His ideal crept out of her hiding-place and stunned herself in the warmth of his imaginings.
 .'It may be shei' cried Youth to Corcoran ,
 Nonsense began Corcoran then he stopped.
 Tt would be absurd to suppose, he began again
 '.Nonsense!" rejoined Youth. Lows never ah. surd."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21

ORCORAN sat in corner and watched the " pair at a sneighboring table He felt old.
 Sometimes it seemed to him if he were N the very oldest person in New York; and
 often his face had a gray, cold look that went ill with it's almost boyish outline
 The two he watched were very youthful. They bubbled over, in quiet, decorous way, with vitality, with interest, with merriment. Corcoran smiled, drew his face straight, sighed, and looked again. s9E
 Jack and Mildred nearly always had good times And the best of their good times they had to- gether. They saw so many things to laugh at; occasionally they saw things to be sad about; they saw loving. sweet, delightful things right under each others hands in sudden and silent sympathy.
 Corcoran hardly ever saw things to laugh at. He seldom allowed himself to be Sad and the loving sweet, tender little things that vent right under his very well-shaped nose might have been going under the of blind man for unrest ponsive heart.
 Jack and Mildred laughed and ate and talked and ate and laughed again and drank their pint of Chabls, and made royal feast while Cor ccran ate his somewhat heavy table d'hote, feel ing little less tired than usual because an un- suspected current playing between his table and the one in the other corner. And because too, he somehow liked the glint of Mildred's wavy hair and the smile oA her pretty mouth. He also liked Jack face in negative sort of way put it to himself
 As he 1ighed a cigarette and waited for his salad, he half conscious that he was feeling vaguely resentful about something. He tried to fth ink what there to annoy him, and not be- ing analyst did not correct the uncomforIaoie feeling with the two at the other table. Qu1te suddenly he felt as if he wanted to tell some body something There was no one to tell it to, he realized, and he didn't quite know. what he -anted to tell So he put 1t all out of his mlndi
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21

Gribber therefore greeted his dear aunt with very great affection She lay extraordinarily pale and languid, and talked feebly and peevishly. She was angrier than before with her grandniece, whom it seemed she suspected of more affection for "the fellers' than for her invalid aunt; and,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21

again. T want you to promise to do something when I'm gone"
 Gribber was ready to promise anything-that was perfectly safe.
 T want to be put away in the, churchyard at Thorpe Dedham. I've made will for you to do it. What money I've got is to go to you, if you'll have me buried decent at Thorpe Dedham. That's
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21

she had grown suddenly sentimental on the sub ject of her birthplace.
 ''Pd "a liked oIa' seen Thorpe Dedham again fore went,' she said, "but it ain't to be. T 'eard the doctor talkin' to you outside. B said a fortnight. I'eard2im. But it won't be as long. That I'm oI.''
 Gribber said something quite dutful, though
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21
A POOR BARGAIN
By Arthur Morris son

not entirely true, abou. hoping it would be great deal longer, but the old woman's thin face shook in emphatic negative
 ''No, no,'' she sad ''it won't. People as bad as me knows we'll enough I shan't last much more'n week, Dan, an p'r'aps I shan't you
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21
Copyright. 1909. by Beni. B. Hampton.

ANIEL GRIBBER had given deal of con- $. sideration to the problem of his aunt. It
 was his way to consider all his problems .x with. extreme minuteness, and he found si it paid. And he had problems, too, in ~1 cocra1 frqvo1or wOu1d not
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-21

ORCORAN sat in corner and watched the
 pair at a neighboring table. He felt old
 Sometimes it seemed to him as if he were the very oldest person in New York and often his face had a gray. cold look that
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Cotton-CoIlier.

Miss Minnie Lee Cotton and Mr..
Edward w. Collier were married in
Danville Wednesday afternoon and
left at once for a honeymoon of the
south, afterphich they will make
their home iH Birmingham Ala. The
bride is the attractive daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Cotton of Danville and
is niece of Mesdames B. F. Hudson
and w. o. Rigney of this place. The
groom is the youngest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James B. Collier of this place.
He left here some years ago, when
but boy, and entered the service of
the Illinois Central R. r. He has risen
rapidly in his chosen calling, and is
now chief clerk to the Gen. Road
Master of the Ill. Central at Birming-
ham.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Horses For Uncle Sam.

Capt. D. C.. Conrad Jr. Of the U. S.
Army was here last week making an
effort to secure horses for the U. S.
Cavalry. He desired to purchase young
horses which be would take to a farm
in Virginia and there educate them.
The requirements were so rigid that
very few of the offerings passed in
spection and he succeeded in securing
only four horses in this locality He
purchased a year old gelding of J. B.
Bourne for $780,, year old gelding
of Luther Rainey for $125., a year
old gelding of R. E. McRoberts for
$40. and 8 year old gelding of James
Woods of Stanford for $I10.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Opportunity To Learn Practical Read
Building.

There has been established in con-
junction with the State University at
Lexington what is known as depart
ment of Highway Engineering
The course will be thoroughly practi-
cal and those in attendance will be
given every opportunity to not only
get the theory of road building but
VIII have ample opportunity to visit
and observe the construction and re-
construction of some of the best
macadam roads in the world.
There will be lectures on grading,
construction and maintenance of earth,
macadam and sand clay roads, also, a
course in theory and pructice of level
ing, making profile, establishing grades
and stalking out grade lines on the
ground. And an additionale course in
surveying, mapping and the calculation
of land areas and earth quantities,
also, drainage and farm sanitation in
GLIDING practice in the construction OF
plain concrete culverts and short span
REINFORCED concrete bridges.
County Judge A. d. Ford has been
notified that he is entitled to appoint
two men to take this course in practi-
cal road building free of tuition, who
will be given ten weeks course.
This is a splendid opportunity fol
men to secure course of instruction
that will prove both useful and -,
munerative, for nowadays practical
road builders are greatly in demand,
and the demand is constantly increas-
ing, for many of the states, including
Kentucky are enacting laws looking to
the improvement. of their system OF
roads. and practical men will be ii
demand to carry out these laws.
A High School education is not nee
essary for entrace to this course and &
man will be shown every courtesy, nj
matter what his age or scholastic
training and only men over twenty-ont
years, will be eligible to take thi!
short course.
1t is desired that all who wish t,
take advantage of this opportunity b,
in attendance on January 3, 1912, whel
the course opens, and any one desiring
to attend will do we'll to call upol
Judge Ford and secure a scholarship.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Now For Good Water.

With the passage of the bond issue;
and the reelection of the "Old Council
at the recent election, we have every
reason to expect good water in the
near future. The council will take i'm
mediate steps to carry out the wishes
of the people in this matter. They will
at once have an engineer in the field to
decide upon the most feasible route for
a pipe line to the river, they are al
ready in communication with foundar-
les for prices and estimates on the ma
terial which will be required for the
work, and it is safe to say that the ex-
tensiofwill be pushed rapidly, and that
with the coming of another summer,
there will be heard no further COM
plant as to Inequality or quantity OF
the city water supply.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Shaping The Crop For Market.

The farmers are busy preparing their tC
bacco market for the market, and within
the next few weeks, the weather be
ing propitious, the wagons will begir
to roll in loaded with the weed. There
are several local buyers here looking
through and acquainting themselves
with the quality and condition Of the
crop, but as yet no offers have been
made, waiting we presume for sales on
the breaks, on for the opening of the
various loose leaf markets, in order
that they may get a line on the pre-
vailing prices.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Important Ruling.

Circuit Judge j. NJ. Benton has
handed down a decision at Winchester
which will be of great interest to many
of the charitable institutions of the
state, who within the last few years
have been called upon to pay taxes.
The case at bar was where the state
sought to subject certain properties OF
the Berea College to taxation, through
one of it's revenue agents suit was in
stituted for this purpose.
The college claimed an exemption
under section 10 of the Constitution
which exempts institutions of purely
public charity and institutions of educa-
ton not used or employed for gain by
any person or corporation and the in
come of which is devoted to the cause
of education.
The state did not claim the college
buildings and grounds can be taxed,
but insisted that water plant, laundry
printing office, a store and a hOteI
operated'by the college should be taxed
because they come in competition with
individuals who do pay taxes on SINH
lar business enterprises.
Judge Benton, following the opinion
of the Court of Appeals in the Midway
Orphan School case, which held that a
proper construction of section 10 OF
the constitution requires the exemption
of the entire property of this institu-
ton wherever situated and in what
eyer form it's investments may be
found" held that all these adjuncts
are exempt.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Panama. California International Exposition

From Mr.. j. c. Thompson, one of the
Lancaster contingent in far off Cali
fornia comes circular descriptive of
San Diego, where he resides, and where
the above named exposition is to take
place, beginning Jan. l. 1915 and last
ing one year, and which is held to cele-
brate the opening of theIPanama Canal,
San Diego being the first Pacific coast
port of call north of Panama on Ameri-
can soil. From the description, San
Diego must be one of the most delight
full places in the world to live, and
aside from the pleasure of seeing Mr..
Thompson and other old Lancaster
people in that far away country, we
would very much like to attend the ex-
position, but unless walking is great
deal better than it is at present, we
fear we will not be able to attend.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Fox Hunters Having Good Sport.

While the average citizen here
abouts is complaining of the present
cold snap, the members of the Nat
ional Fox Hunters Association, who
are holding their annual meeting at
Cab Orchard are delighted with it.
The weather is ideal for that sport,
the ground is damp, which enables the
dogs to trail admirably, and the cool
exhilirating air makes it pleasure to
follow the hounds, The game law ex-
pired on "Wednesday, and as birds are
reported as being plentiful in the Crab
Orchard vicinity, the sportsmen are
are combining the two pleasures and
are having the time of their life.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Clinton Basin Gets Nice Position.

Mr.. Clinton B. Basin, who for many
years has been connected with the
local telephone exchange has accepted
position as secretary and general
manager Of the telephone exchange at
Hustonsville at a handsome salary
Clinton is a clever and accommodating
young gentleman and will be justly
popular among the good people of
west Lincoln. He will be succeeded in
the local exchange by his brother, Mr..
Holbert Basin, who is likewise a
clever young gentleman, and who will
give to the people of this locality the
best service in his power.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Former Lancaster Man Leads.

We are glad to note that at the last
election in Middlesboro, Mr.. w. j. Kin
naird, formerly of this place received
the highest number of votes for mem
bership Of the City Council of that
thriving city, running ahead of the
next highest man by twenty one votes.
This is compliment to the popularity
of our former townsmen IS there was
eleven other candidates on the ticket
with him.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17
Maccabees Rally.

Mr.. M. F. Elkin of Lexington has
been in town for the past week in the
interest of the Maccabees lodge and on
Friday evening at eight O'Clock at the
Odd Fellows hall, this lodge will take
in about twenty new members. 1t
now has. SO old members and with
these additions, Lancaster will have a
large tent. The new Ritual will be
exemplifed and much interest will be
taken in the meeting. Mr.. Elkin is
very popular here he often comes in
the interest of the above lodge.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-11-17

On an appeal from the county court
in Nicholasville, Circuit Judge Benton
upheld the decision of the lower court
in the local election case and the tenn
perence people Immediately signified
their intention of taking the case to
the court of appeals. The case origi-
mated in a local option election held in
Nicholasville in April of this year in
which the ''wets" won by a majority
of sixty five votes.