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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29

solved itself into matter of values.
then Had his surname been Mont
morency. Percival' AlEernon would
have fitted as a key to its lock. She
smiled. No one but a fond mother
would be guilty of such a crime. And
If she ever grew to know him well
enough, she was going to ask him all
about this mother
What interest had her own mother
in this harmless young man? Oh,
some day she would burst through this
web, this Jungle; some day she would
see beyond the second act, What
then? she never troubled to ask her
self; time enough when the moment
arrived
Il had an interesting adventure
last night. a most interesting one"
began George. who was no longer the
shy, laundering recluse. They were
on the way back to town.
Tell It me-" said Mrs Chedsoye
He leaned over from his seat beside
the chauffeur of the hired automobile.
(Hang the expense on day like
| thisD "A fellow brought me rug
last night one of the rarest outside
the museums. How and where he got
1t I'm not fully able to state But
he had been in violent struggle
somewhere, arms slashed. shins bat
tered He admitted that he had gone
in where many shapes of death
lurked. 1t was a bit irregular.
bought the rug, however. Some one
else would have saatched 1t up If |
hadn't. wanted him to recount the
| adventure. but he smiled and refused.
| tell you what it is. these eastern
ports are great places"
How interesting" Mrs. Chedsoye's
color was not up to the mark. He
was not seriously wounded?"
oh no He looks like a tough in
dividual. | mean, chap strong and
hardy enough to pull himself out OF
pretty bad holes. He needed the
money"
Did he give his name?" asked For
tune.
Yes: but no doubt it was assumed.
Ryanne. and he spelt it with an ne.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29

Fanny and Immediately vanished. who
grew to be a part of this unreal drama,
arriving mysteriously one day and de-
parting the next.
That a drama was being enacted I'M
der her eyes she no longer doubted;
but IL was as though she had taken
her seat among the audience In the
middle of the second act. She could
make neither head nor tail TO it,
Whenever she accompanied her
mother upon these impromptu jour
neys. her character. or rather her at
titude, underwent change. She
swept aside her dreams; she accepted
the world as it wss. saw things as
they were: laughed. but without merri-
ment; TESTED, but with the venomed
point. II was the reverse of her real
character to give hurt to any living
thing. but during these forced march
es, as the major humorously termed
them, and such they were in truth.
she could no more stand against Civ
ing the cruel stab than. when alone
in her garden, she could resist the
tender pleasure of succoring a fallen
butterfly, She was especially happy
In finding weak spots In her mother s
armor. and she never denied herself
the thrust. Mrs. Chedsoye enjoyed
these sharp encounters, for 1t must
be added that she gave as good as
she took. and more often than not her
thrusts bit deeper and did not always
heal.
Fortune never asked questions rela-
tive to the family finances. If she
harbored any doubts as TO their origin.
TO the source of their comparative lux
ury. she never put these into. speech.
She had never seen her father but
she had often heard him referred to
as that brute or that fool" or that
drunken imbecile." If a portrait of
him existed. Fortune had not yet seen
It. She visited his lonely grave once
year. in the, Protestant cemetery,
and dreamily tried to conjure up what
manner of man he had been. One day
she piled her old Italian nurse with
questions.
Handsome? Yes. but II was all so
long ago, cara mia, that ! can not
describe him to you"
did he drink" Behind this ques-
ton there was no sense of moral
obloquy as applying to the dead.
"Sainted Mary, didn't all men drink
their very souls into purgatory those
unreligious days?"
Had he any relatives?"
Il never heard of any"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
MARKING SANTA FE TRAIL
Thirty Granite Monuments Provided
to Preserve the Course Of the
Historic Highway.

Kansas City.-Thirty granite mark
ers for the Santa Re trail in Missouri
for which the Legislature appropriated
$4,000 will be set in place In the near
future. Local members of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, who
obtained the appropriation. announced
the program they have arranged.
A huge granite block bearing
bronze tablet win be placed at Old
Franklin. where the principal cere-
monies will be held. Governor Major,
former Governor Hadley and other
prominent Missourians will deliver ad-
dresses there.
Smaller markers will be placed at
points Of historical interest along the
trail and school children will con-
tribute patriotic features to the pro-
gran
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29

the sensation Of being astcnished at
something she had expected IL hap
pen.
Just before going down to dinner
that night. Fortune turned to her
mother. her chin combative in its
angle
Il gave Mr.. Jones a hundred and
fifty pounds ont of that money you
left In my care. Knowing how forget
full you are. took the liberty OF at
tending to the affair myself"
She expected a storm. but instead
her mother viewed her with apprais-
ing eyes Suddenly she laughed mel
lowly. Her sense OF humor was too
excitable to resist so delectable sit
nation.
You told him. of course. that the
money came from me-" demanded
Mrs. Chedsoye. when she could con
troll her voice.
Surely. since it did come from
you"
My dear my dear, you are to me
like the song in the Mikado." and she
hummed lightly
ITO make the prisoner pent
Unwilingly represent
source of innocent merriment,
OF innocent merriment!
Am | a prisoner, them?
whatever you like; 1T can not be
said that ever held you on the leash.
taking a final look into the mirror.
What is the meaning of this rug?
You and know who stole II"
II have explicitly warned you. my
child, never to NEEDLE with affairs
that do not concern you"
Indirectly, some OF yours do. You
are in love with Ryanne. as he calls
himself"
My dear. you do not usually stoop
to such vulgarity. And are you GER
tain that he has any other name?"
IF | were | should not tell you"
oh"
"A man will tell the woman he
loves many things he Will not tell
the woman he admires."
AS wise as the serpent bantered
the mother: but she looked again into
the mirror to see il her color was still
what II should be. And whom does
he admire?" the Mona Lisa smile how
ering at the corners of her lips.
YOU" evenly.
Mrs. Chedsoye thought for a mo-
ment. thought deeply and with new
insight. 1t was no longer child but
a woman. and mayhap she had played
upon the taut strings of the young
heart once too often. Still. she was
unafraid.
And whom does he love-
ME. Shall l get you the rouge.
mother?"
Still with that unchanging smile.
the woman received the stab. MY
daughter" as If speculatively. you
will get on. You haven't been my pu-
pill all these years for nothing. Let
us go down to dinner"
Fortune, as she silently followed.
experienced a sense of disconcertiop
rather than of elation.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29

good-looking. a devil-may-care. edu-
Gated, witty. amusing; and IN evenine
dress he anpeared to be what II was
quite evident he had once oeen'
gentleman At first she thought IL
strange that he should make her, III
stead of her mother. his conhdante'
AS to what vocation he pursued sne
did not know, for he kept seauious
guard over his tongue; but MS past
IN 70 that fork in the road where man.
hood SAYS good-by to youth was ners,
And IN this direction, clever and artfui
as the mother was. she sought In vain
to wrest this past from her daughter $
Inns To the mother, It was really nee
essarv for her to know who this man
really was. had been. knowing tnor-
ouybIv as che did what he was now.
Persistent he undeniably was. Out
never coarse nor rude. since tna'
time he had come back from the
casino at Monte Carlo. much the worse
for wine she feared him: yet. In spite
Of this fear she had for him vague
liking a hazy admiration. Whatever
his faults might be. she stood witness
to his great physical strength ana
courage. He was the only man. amo ,,
sil thosa who appeared at the villa
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
CHAPTER VI.
Moonlight and Poetry.

A ball followed dinner that night.
Wednesday. The ample lounging-
room filled up rapidly after coffee;
officers in smart uniforms and spurs.
whose principal function in times OF
peace is to get in everybody's way,
rowel exposed ankles, and demolish
lace ruffles. Egyptians and Turks and
sleek Armenians in somber western
frock and scarlet eastern fez or tar
boosh. women of all colors (meaning.
as course. as applied) and shapes and
tastes, the lean and the fat, the tall
and short, such as Billy Taylor Is said
to have kissed in all the ports. and
tail-coats of as many styles as Jo-
seph's had patches. George could dis
tinguish his compatriots by the fit OF
the trousers round the instep; the
Englishman had his fitted at the
waist and trusted in Providence for
the hang of the rest This trifling de-
tective work rather pleased George.
The women. however. we're all Ewes
TO his eye; liberal expanses OF beauti-
full white skin. the bare effect being
modified by a string Of pearls or dia-
monds or emeralds, and hair which
might or might not have been wholly
their own. He waited restlessly for
the temperance of Mrs. Chedsoye
and her daughter All was right with
the world. except that he was to sail
altogether too soon His loan had
been returned, and he knew that his
former suspicious had been most I'M
worthy. Mrs Chedsoye had never
received his note.
(TO BE CONTINUEDD
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29

all sorts of odd places. just where
they could be found. When the cot
tage was complete, she white-wash-
ed the walls and ceilings. Scores OF
women in the village have done the
same thirB-a mason and ajoiner be-
ing merely called in TO do the expert
work
Nearly all the villagers own their
cottages, donkey and cart. and fish
ing boat. Living chiefly on bread. with
a liberal spreading of butter. they
have saved and scrape4 until they
could buy the freehold Their thrift
has grown, too, since the women agi-
tated so much against the liquor traf-
fic that the last public house in the
village was closed
Most OF the men work in Pembroke
dockyard, leaving their homes at 4:30
or in the morning for a long journey
on foot and In big rowing boats. These
men are not home until in the even
ing, and all the time the women OF
the village do the work that in every
other place is done by men.
Some years ago when the fishing
fleet went down the haven the wom-
en- who manned II all wore picturesque
red skirts and fiat felt hats.
But now the influence of modernity
is felt even in Llangwm. and only the
older womeB wear the garments which
once made even the palmer ones look
charming. The young ones are not
at all proud of the fashions of their
grandmOthers.
why can't We wear modern clothes
like other people?" said q young wom-
an. Folks only laugh at old fash
ions nowadays"
But Mrs. Palmer. who. beauty in
her day. has had her photograph pub
lished all over the world. still wears
her red skirt and felt ha: when, with
jaUhty step, she goes on her rounds
selling fish, just as she has done all
her life.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
Mistaken Sense Of What Is Oignifed
is a Common Fault of the
Times.

This is not an age in which clear dis
tinctions are made in the meaning OF
terms Grotesque errors arise through
haphazard conclusions drawn from
this loose method Of reasoning one
of the popular misconceptions Is that
the display of emotion on the part oil
men is belittling and indicates weak
ness of character, disgraceful and
shaming TO the victim, says a writer
in the Pittsburg Gazette Times. 1t
is claimed by some that the natural
processes of materialism and the hard
ening of mems natures by the struggle
fer success that the age demands has
brought about this contempt for any
thing like a display of emotion on the
part of men. 1t may be questioned.
however, whether this explains the as
sumed respect for callousness that is
so marked a feature Of the times.
There is a false idea around as to
what emotion IL, and a mistaken con-
ception az to its proper expression.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
Fear to Display Emotion

Hysteria Is one OF our national dis
eases. The excuses into which 1t leads
men and women have become the sub
ject OF widespread contempt. sensible
people. feeling an instructive aversion
for this sort of exaggerated feeling.
have fallen into the error of mistaking
sane, human emotion for hysteria and
have gone to the extreme in their eff
fort TO avoid any expression OF feel
ing as 'vomanish." puerile and I'M
manly
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29

gernon. Jones was all right. solid and
substantial. but the other two turned
it into ridicule. Still. what was the
matter with Percival Algernon? His
tory had given men of these names
mighty fine things to accomplish.
Then why ridicule? Was 1t due to the
perverted angle of vision created by
wits and humorists in the comic week
lies, who we're eternally pillorying
these unhappy prefixes to ordinary
cognomens? And why this pillorying?
She hadn't studied the subject suf-
ficiently TO realize that the business
of the humorist is not so much to
amuse as to warn persons against be-
coming ridiculous. And Percival At
gernon Jones was all of that. 1t re-
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29

,.
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Never ln "' 'Lf
known SUCH l'u' IN ''
planning 'i'''. '"' ''.
IN" FaP''-' ''A'..'I' 7'.-N
ana 'H' rector are
WelShm"h IN'"T D" '''7
an the ''S' ~ '"'
lated 20 'ach "'"''' "''
from the 'I'Ih'"SS' VIA"
there III 'i''.
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marianne "'u ""''"".
stlch now anu Ok,
burrows d"ep IN h'' 'o''"'"" "', VI"
III a rev years AK" S"'
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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
How He Fixed the Date.

The lawyer was determined to dis
credit the witness.
you are positive this happened on
Wednesday," he demanded.
81 am"
Cant be mistaken"
No"
p why couldn't 1t have been Thurs
day or Tuesday? How is 1t that you
can fix this day 80 positively in your
mind?"
Because" answered the witness
with some spirit, I'VE had chic en-
that day, Chicken day Is Wednesday
where ! board
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29

and humorously explained why he did
So"
rs he young. old, good-looking. or
WHAT"
Mrs. Chedsoye eyed her offspring
through narrowed lids.
IL should say that he was about
thirty-five. tall, something of an ath-
lete; and there remains some indica-
tons that In the flush of youth he was
handsome. Odd. He reminded me OF
ii young man who was on the varsity
eleven-foot-baller- entered
my freshman year. | didn't know him,
but was a great admirer of his from
the grand-stand. Horace Wadsworth
was his name"
Horace Wadsworth. Fortune had
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
Dependent on Wood Pulp.

Mr.. Frank Lloyd. at the annual din
ner of the British Wood Pulp associa-
ton, spoke of the serious effect upon
the industry of the drought in Scan
dinavia. and. referring to the rapid
development of the industry. pointed
out how dependent paper makers now
were upon wood pulp. If they had TO
rely on straw. etc. as was the case
only about twenty-five years ago. his
mill at Sittingbourne would alone re-
quire string of carts over four miles
long. and at least 100000 gallons
OF water every twenty-four hours"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
SYNoPSIs

George percival AlEernon Jones. Nce
president Of the Metropolitan Orien.ai
Rug company OF New York. thirsting io'
romance, ia in Cairo on a business NY,
Horace Ryanne arrives at the hotei :"
Cairo with carefully guarded bunII,,'
Ryannc sells Jones the famous holy inl
ordes rug which he admits having s'ol.n
from pasha at Bagdad. Jones mee -
Major Callahan and later is introduces "
Fortune Chedsoye by a woman to whon,
he had loaned $50 pounds at Monte CaIO
some months previously. and who tuiH'
out TO be Fortunes mother.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
A Forced Confession.

"Pshaw! Here's the rain coming
down again and somebody's stolen my
uLlb 1lla."
Somebody's stolen what?'
We'll. the umbrella I've been carry
ing for the last week or so."-Catho-
lie Standard and Times.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
Poor Method of Education

A smattering of many things is prob
ably the worst and most barren way of
educating children that the perverted
wit Of man could devise.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-03-29
WOMEN MAN FLEET
They Do More Than Men in The
Welsh Village of LIangwm.

Builders OF Houses. Too-Mrs. Mary
Palmer. So Years Old. Tells Of
Days Work Carrying iCO Pounds
Of Oysters TO Market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-07
uPROLDS LOBBYISTS.
Vice President Also Says Well if Bust
ness Forgot Congress.

Philadelphia, July 7.-Vice Presi-
dent Marshall in a remarkable inter-
view here declared that in his belief
the American business man is justified
in maintaining special representatives
at Washington for the purpose of
watching legislation. He also assert
ed that the American business men
should forget congress for the next
ten years. He said that in this he had
the same idea as James j. Hill, who
said recently that the best thing for
American business would be to abol-
ish congress for ten years.
The lobby investigation is being con-
Quoted by a committee of the senate
of which the vice president is the pre-
siding officer. Bur heS says that las
American business is being run at pres
ent, the business man is bound to
spend money and to have representa-
tive near the capitol.
81 am not saying whether this
money is spent honestly or not said
Vice President Marshall. But he stat
ed that there is such a thing as 1egiti-
mate expenditure of money for lob
bying.
when business is in a state of mind
where it regards congress as the Great
ure that opens and closes its doors
every day." he continued. you are go
ing to have money spent around the
capitol. The big business men are go
ing to have their representatives in
Washington.
81 think the great principle of the
lobby investigation of the senate COM
mittee is to clear the air and prove
that it is not necessary to depend on
congress for business prosperity.
81 am not commenting on any men
involved in the probe. 1t would not
be fitting. But 1 will say that the
spending of money about the capitol
by the men who stand for big business,
is only the natural outgrowth or the
business mans attitude.
1T is to be expected that business
men will spend big sums when they
think their interests are SO closely
wrapped up in legislation. These sums
may be spent properly and they may
not The principle is that they are
bound to be spent; and that is a part
of the business system as conducted
under the present ideas of the Ameri-
can business man that they be spent.
1.-The American business man ought
to forget the law makers. He does
not need to depend on this law or that.
1t only hurts him as successful pro-
Queer.
''The lobby will end naturally when
the business man stands on his own
feet and is ready to give and take with
the whole world.
There is no need for alarm in re-
gard to our business. Markets being
opened in South and Central America
will give US enough trade to keep eV-
cry factory in this country running "a
hours a day, six days in the week.
1.-The lobby investigation and the new
tariff are simply going to force the
American business man to show what
he can really do and to get rid of the
| idea that his business depends on con-
gress.
81 do not think we shall ever have
| free trade. My idea is that we shall
| reach the level of the Walker tariff
; in force before the Civil war, in which
/ the duties were on a basis of 90 pei
| cent. ad valorem. This much tariff is
! necessary for revenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-07
NOISES OF THE NIGHT.
Traction Engine DisturbS Sleep of
Hundreds at 500 n. Nj.

Complaint has been made to the State
engine passed through the residence dis
tTict on the West side early Sunday morn
ing-somwhere about 5 oclock-just the
time when most people were enjoying to
the utmost their nights rest, and awaken
ed hundreds of people with its unearthly
racket.
The compliments believe steps ought to
be taken to put stop to such nuisances,
the sleep OF hundreds of people certainly
being of more Importance than the sup
posed convenience of whoever was hand
ling the noisy machine.
Il was awakened by the racket and of
course many others must have been" de-
clared one complainant. The machine
came along just as it had cooled of
enough to be comfortable disturbing me
in the best part of the nights sleep II
made me pretty mad.
II would guess that five or six thou
sand people must have been disturbed by
the racket. The machine went along To-
peka avenue with its noise, and must have
disturbed people within two or three
blocks on either side of its route.
There is something else that is permit
ted that makes lot of disturbance in the
middle of the night. On several occasions
1 have been awakened by somebody priv
ing cattle through town in the middle OF
the night. Once more the rest of hundreds
was sacrificed TO the convenience of q
very few. 1t looks as though such per
formances ought to be stopped II there
isn't an ordinance prohibiting it there
ought to be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-07
TO BURN LONDON
Plot Unearthed to Start Many
Fires simultaneously.
MiIitantS Would Also Drop
Bombs From AerOplanes.

London, July Scotland yard de-
tectives discovered a gigantic arson
plot in which the militant suffragettes
planned to simultaneously set a large
number of fires throughout various
districts of London. Vast quantities of
com bustibles have been stored at diff
ferent points throughout the city and
the plot was so well arranged that
tremendous damage would have been
the inevitable result.
The militants planned to set forth
from different points at a given hour
on a date which has not yet been
learned definitely. The plan was to
start numerous fires in the main bust
End district, in several of the govern
ment buildings and in what is known
as the fire zone," a very congested
area.
The police have discovered thous-
andS of tubes of phosphorus, quantities
of fire lighters and large stores of
chemicals, all of which were to be
used in the arson campaign. From the
manner in which the women have
handled the chemicals, as we'll as from
cured, it is evident they have had ex-
pert advice upon their selection and
method of using them.
1t was further learned last night
that the English miiltants have ap-
preached several we'll known French
aviators with the proposal that they
fly over London and drop bombs on
the principal buildings. The bombs
were to be supplied by the miIitants
from London.
The airmen, however, Indignantly
refused to participate in such a crime
and informed the authorities. One
suffragette is said to have told an
aviator, after hearing his refusal:
ooh, very we'll. We will learn to
fly our own aeroplanes and then you
will see what will happen"