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top Cabin when, through gap in the man.
zanita, he deserted figure standing on
boulder, with pair of field glasses to his
eyes. He was a man to invite a second
glance, apparently seventy or more, but as
straight as an Indian, tall and broad shout
dered, with soft, dropping, snow-white
mustache, and long white hair flowing from
under his broad brimmed, military-like hat.
Yet Seebohm did not give him a second
glance. He knew instinctively that it was
his hosteSs's father he had seen.
VET chance claimed one more throw at
the dice. Through choosing a round
about route, it was forty-eight hours later
when Seebohm reached Oakland. As he
emerged from the Southern Pacific station, a
little nervous lest he be recognized by some
prowling detective, he was startled to dis
cover the same soldierly old man standing on
the sidewalk. Several silk-hatted men were
talking to him, and presently the party en-
tered a large red automobile which flew two
Union remnants from its wind shield.
Seebohm almost involuntarily paused to
ok-along with everybody else in the i'm
mediate vicinity, including pair of street
Arabs under Seebohm's nose who would fain
have used his toes as a coign of vantage.
"Who's de big fluff" asked the smaller of
the urchins.
"Say, Kid, you amt been around here
long, have your" returned the other. that's
the man what put Californy on the map.
That's old Gov ner Rudd."
The fugitive watched the car until it be-
came red blur down the street. 1Old Gov
ernor Rudd!" he murmured softly. @May
God bless him!"
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bending and kissing his child, lifted a pair
of moist eyes.
"That his cheek is warm instead of cold in
death have you to thank, in all probabili-
tv," he said huskily. Il cannot, though:
words are useless. But for what you have
done tonight, my friend, he continued with
flashing eyes, al would see you through to
freedom were your crime the blacklist on the
calendar and the price of it my fortune!"
The doctor inclined his head.
"But your crime is not black. | am called
upon to make no sacrifice. For that reason
what | have to say is the more difficult. J"
He paused as if to arrange his words. Il be-
lieve with my wife that if ever Providence
directed the flying feet of fugitive it dl-
rected yours to this house. 1t saved this
little fellow, and it will save you.
at chances that my father in law is ia
miliar with the history of your case. He
tells me that more than a thousand appeals
for executive clemency in your behalf have
been received by Governor Rudd He says,
moreover, that the Governor had decided to
pardon you as soon as the affair had some
what blown over. And, DIR. Seebohm, he
knows He and the Governor are lifelong
friends. For years they were associated IN
business. Again and again, during his adj
ministration, has.the Governor called Father
in for counsel His advice, my friend and
mine too,-is that you return to prison, using
as much caution in getting back as you used
in getting away
"All that you say is doubtless true an
swered Seebohm, after moments thought;
"but have you considered the effect of my
escape? 1t checkmates the Governors con-
templated move. To pardon me now would
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saw that he did not make the blunder of
trying a splurge down on Long Island at
Meadow Brook. He could well wait for that
Certainly Bessie never had more de-
voted cavalier, and her mother was quite
taken with him, as he never failed to pay her
those little attentions which cost nothing,
which women who have passed the meridian
appreciate so much. On all her special an
niversaries Bessie lad flowers or books or
what she might want sent her, from the best
shops, with the ]. Benson Smith card. He
was soon graduated from the third to the
first dinner grade.
He did very well, and only once do re-
member what might be called a break. The
Corlears had asked him to one of their state
banquets, and old Corlears, veritable gen.
tleman of the ancien regime, had an idea that
the occasion was one to offer congratula-
tons, although premature. But he pro-
duced the celebrated Corlears Van Twiller
hook, of which there we're only about fifty
bottles in existence. The wine was served
as if it was a religious rite, and we were all
told the history of this precious vintage,
which dated back to the eighteenth century.
Benson, elated by his recent social sue
cesses, tossed off the sacred potion as he
would have a cocktail and then turned to
old Corlears and to our horror remarked,
Every good wine, indeed! Tell me where
you bought it, won't you? Would like to
lay in a couple of dozen myself" The rest
was silence. 1t was a dreadful funk.
Bessie never married him-although l do
not think that this incident had anything to
do with her decision. He lasted two winters,
which was remarkable. After few other
seasons she became the wife of an elderly
millionaire widower whose first wife was of
the same sacred fold that included great
names like Van Twiller and Corlears.
Benson Smiths circle rapidly became
wide one, and although personally, as well
as my firm, had no reason to complain of
what we had reaped through his onward
march, yet | was beginning to find that he
was difficult to manage. | was not through
with him. He was too difficult PROPOSE
ton to last only two years. knew that he
would do something that would throw him
back. So l pretended to leave him to his
own resources and watch the result.
WAS not mistaken. The first summer he
had gone abroad. This year, however, he
determined to charter yacht and have it in
commission for July and August. | sug-
gested his summer plan. 1t would include
Bar Harbor, which was safe for him, and
down to the Pier; but on Newport | put
taboo. | suggested his accepting an invita-
ton from the Van Twillers, who never went
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to Newport, but retired to their manor,
which as everyone knows IS not far from
Albany. Once in awhile Bessie would go
for week to Newport, and there was always
keen rivalry there among the new people to
ask her to stop with them, as she was draw
ing card. | ran over to London.
| had just got back and was visiting some
Boston friends on the North Shore, when
letters and kilograms were forwarded to me
from my New York office. They were from
Smith, and dated Newport. They contained
frantic appeals to me to come to his aid at
once. | took my time. In fact, it was ten
days before | dashed to Newport.
| found Smith most disconsolate at the
Reading Room. He had been put up there,
and then left to his own devices, in the
midst of a particularly brilliant season. He
had taken party of several men from Bar
Harbor, and they had scattered as soon as
they reached port, and had used the yacht
as lodging only until they secured invita-
tons to house parties.
TT just SO happened that few of Smiths
crowd were at Newport that summer. And
he had two malignant enemies who had been
longing to knife him, who were in favor with
the powers regnant just then. One was
youngish man with reputation for humor,
a protege of woman who had at one time
been an intimate friend OF Bessie van
Twiller. Smith took a dislike to him the
winter previous, and had got the better of
him in a certain stock transaction. The
other was one of the first of Bessie's old adj
mirers, who had gone up dozen rungs on
the ladder since the Van Twiller days, but
took pains to keep off any of the men who
had succeeded him in the favor of that tickle
young woman.
There were ever SO many rich people, and
the social ring, as it was called at Newport,
was being disrupted. Motors were coming
in, and with them brand new millionaires,
and Society was focking here and there and
everywhere.
A family from the Far West had suddenly
appeared on the horizon, and had secured
the services of Bill Boyton, who was fast
coming to the front as a promoter of the
first class. 1t was no place for Smith. l
tried to do what | could; but the very
women who had been kind to him the winter
before pronounced him ordinary.
There was only one thing to do. | hur-
ried him off, and induced him to join
another rich bachelor who had come from a
town not far from his home place, and to 60
to the barren lands of the North on hunt
ing trip. l commanded some newspaper
for this expedition, and when
Benson got back to New York in November
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deal in project in which the Van Twiller
connection would be good card. Then |
arranged that Benson and Bessie should
meet one afternoon as if by accident on the
avenue. Miss Van Twiller was a creature
of habit, and knew her route and her hours.
Benson came uptown-a thing of which he
did not approve nor did latter luncheon.
But they did meet, and he strolled down
the avenue, passed the Union, where the
loungers could see that Bessie had new
cavalier who was leading her captive in tri-
umph down the Appian Way. And he was
asked to stop in for tea. The next Yeek he
received dinner invitation.
The Van Twillers gave gradet. entertain
ments, and he was placed in No. in the
ascending scale. knew that from the peo
pie who were there. But he did not; SO it was
just as we'll. The week afterward-I am
keeping a mental diary of that winter-Ben-
son gave his first entertainment This was
modesto theater party Bessie loved the
play better than anything else), with sup
per afterward at his bachelor rooms. This
would seem quite hazardous experiment;
but all it needed was skill. Smith had good
rooms in a good locality and two Chinese
boy servants who were excellent.
Women like these little sprees occasionally.
They do not care for the Bohemian bachelor
dIId1T, DuJ SOIllclIlIlS d ulIlc Dcllel. 1uC
most successful suppers and impromptu
dances, and even luncheons, have been given
by bachelors at their rooms. This is quite
different from the studio pink tea.
Mary Corlears, cousin of Bessie's, and
Dick Corlears her good-natured, stupid
husband, were of the party. We were eight,
and / had looked after the champagne and
saw that it was of the right vintage and
properly iced, and Benson had sent up from
a little shooting place he had in South Caro-
lima some glorious partridge (they were taboo
here and had to be Struggled i'm, and his
man, who was culinary wonder, did them
to turn.
The guests were all carefully selected with
view to future advancement This was
quite dash; for the party was success,
and it made an excellent start.
THAT winter slipped by quickly. J. Ben
son Smith had the adaptability and the
assurance that are SO characteristic of a
Western man. He was not long in finding
his place. Broad and generous by nature, he
was above little WEAKNESSES. Men liked
him, and that was great deal. They knew
him on Change; he had the reputation of
making money; and he was up in sports.
In less than two years he managed to get
with my aid-into four of the best sport
ing clubs.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LEAVE TO SELL MINORS LAND

Notice is hereby given that on the
22nd day of January 1914. A. D.
|, will apply to Honorable C.
for Polk county. State of Florida. at
his office in Barlow. in said county
for an order authorizing me as guar
dian of John Samuel Cannon, de-
minor heir of j. W. Cannot, de-
ceased, to sell at private sale the fol-
lowing property belonging to the es-
tate of said j. w. Cannon. deceased:
Towit: Lots 40. Al. AZ and 43 of
Scott's subdivision OF block c. of
Scott's addition to Lakeland, Florida
Said minor has undivided interest
in said property. Said land belon ging
to the estate of the said ] W. Can
non. deceased. to he sold for the best
interest of said minor heir.
This 22nd day Of December. 1913.
JULIA A. CANNON. Guardian.
1903 Mon.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22

We are glad to have Secretary
Bryan back again with us in Florida
even for a brief vacation, and now
that he has beautiful home and a
farm over on the East Coast near Mi
ami we feel that he is something
more than a winter resident and is
to all intents and purposes citizen
of Florida, barring the voting privi-
lege. Mr.. Bryan has enhanced his
fame since he took the office of sec
retary of State and has shown such
poise and good Judgment, such alb
sence of excitement and emotional
ism, especially in dealing with the
Mexican question whose phases seem
to shift every day, that he has
abundantly vindicated the wisdom Of
President Wilson in selecting him
for the great office he holds. Mr..
Bryan is showing himself the full
equal of any Of his predecessors in
that office.u
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22

Happily there are no feuds or fac
tions in our beautiful little city Of
Lakeland, no clans nor clannishness,
and with our enlightened and pro-
gressive population drawn from all
parts of the country we can come to-
gether without any of these obstruc-
tive forces when occasion calls for
united and enthusiastic effort in be-
half of the home city we all love.
Such an occasion is near at hand in
the celebration Of the thirtieth ami
versary of Lakeland's life on the COM
ing first of January, and never has
there been such an opportunity for
our citizens to join together in
whole. hearted effort to show both
ourselves and the world how much
we think of Lakeland. We've got the
city to brag on and we've got the
people to do the Dragging and if we
don't make the most of that ami
yersary in spectacular effects and
general enthusiasm we will miss a
rare chance for some splendid horn
blowing loud enough to attract the
attention of the whole State.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22
SOME MORE DILUTED JUSTICE

Without having any personal
knowledge of the facts in the two
cases referred to we are in entire
sympathy with the spirit of the fol-
lowing criticism in the St. Peters
burg Independent on the action Of
the board of pardons in committing
the death sentence of a cruel mur-
derer and Of the jury in letting an
other one off light. The way we
dilute our justice with mercy is fill
ing the land with criminals.
"The failure to hang Jim Preston,
for the brutal murder of his wife, is
a miscarriage of justice, and Pinellas
county will suffer for it. This city
has had two murders in the last
year. Both were deliberate crimes.
Both the murderers should have
been hanged, unless we are to abol-
ish capital punishment entirely and
punish only by confinement in pris-
on. Bubber Johnson killed a man
out of sheer lust for blood. Yet he
was allowed to plead guilty to a
charge of manslaughter and 60 to
the convict camp for twenty years.
The main reason he was allowed to
plead guilty to the lighter offense,
instead of facing trial for his life,
it is said, was because the court Of
ficers were tired and in a hurry to
get back home, so they let Bubber
off with twenty years. Preston was
not so lucky He was tried when
everybody was feeling fresh and he
was found guilty. But meddling
pardoning board undoes the work of
the jury and sends the murderer to
the prison camp, where he has a good
chance to escape, get out on parole,
or be pardoned in the next few
years.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22

Those people who are eager for
Uncle Sam to go to war with Mex
leo because the Mexicans are cutting
each others throats, are, of course,
innocent of all knowledge of the hor-
rors of war and prattle about a sub
ject they have no acquaintance with.
Let them read the following from
Tolstoi, the wise old Russian philos-
opher:
every war, even the briefest, will,
in one year, demoralize men incom-
parably more than thousands of
thefts, arsons and murders commit
ted in the course of centuries by in
dividual men under the influence of
passion.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22

Many Of the big corporations of
the city are participating in the fight
against tuberculosis for the benefit
6f their employees. The tuberculosis
sanitarium erected by the Metropolis
tan Life Insurance Co., on Mt. Nc
Gregor, for the care of its employees
who have that disease is receiving
its first patients. It is located in a
plot of APO acres 1900 feet above
sea level, is we'll drained and has
plenty of pure water supply from the
lake and spring. Work upon the
sanitorium has been in progress for
nearly two years. Everything has
been done to make 1t model insti-
tuition from scientific and prac-
tical standpoint. Every similar insti-
tuition in this portion of the country
at least was studied by the archi-
test before his own plans were made.
Such men as Dr.. King of Loomis san
atorium, Dr.. Brown of Saranac, DR. i.
Lyman of Wallingford, DR.. Bowditch
of Boston. DR.. GOodall of Stonywold.
Dr.. Huddleston, DR.. Knopf of New
York and others have rendered as
sistance.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22
| for a bigger, better and liveller Lake
land R. G. PATTERSON,
Mgr. Lakeland Military Bana'
YOUR KIDNEYS
Lakeland Residents Must Learn the
Importance Of Keeping Them

LakclduQ ntSlUculS nuSV AS
Importance of Keeping Them
Well
Perfect health means that. every
organ of the body is performing its
functions properly.
Perfect health cannot be enjoyed
il the kidneys are weak and disor-
dered.
Thousands testify that Doan's Kid
nsy Pills have a reviving action on
weak kidneys.
What this remedy has done in so
many cases Of this kind is the best
proof Of its merits.
Read the following. It's testimony
gratefully given by resident OF
Barlow.
Mrs. S. G.. Williams, 81 Orange
avenue, Barlow, Fla, says: u suf-
fered from backache and pains be-
tween my shoulders and ! also had
dizzy spells and headaches. A box
Of Doan's Kidney Pills relieved me
and toned up my system.
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan sand
take no other.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22
From the same Office is issued
THE LAKELAND NEWS
It is not reluctance to give that

It is not reluctance to give that
makes so many people dread the mod
ern Christmas and take refuge in the
sheltering arms of the Spug Society,"
but the difficulty of determining
what to give. The days of an apple,
an orange and three sticks of striped
candy as an adequate gift to the kid
have passed forever. His sophisti-
Gated soul would hold you in utter
scorn if you attempted to get off that
easy now.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22

The Tampa Tribune is kind enough
to say of our recent Christmas edi-
tion: THE Lakeland Telegram, as
usual, set pace for it's competitors
with it's Christmas number, which
carried a fine colored cover and a
wealth of holiday reading matter and
advertisements. 1t was up to the
Hetherington standard
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22
The Evening Telegram

Published every afternoon from the
Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22

FOR RENT-7room house, corner
Oak and Gilmore. See G.. P.
Quaintance, 507 East Orange st.
1907
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22

FOR RENT-One furnished front
room. Apply 400 South Tennessee.
17OS
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22
TOO late TO CLASSIFY.

FOR RENT-Furnished room and
bath, to gentleman. 202 Lake
Morton, corner Tennessee. 1905
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1913-12-22

FOR RENT room bungalow in
Dixieland. Apply to DR.. Samuel F.
Smith. 1710
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-06

made by the discovery of foreign alpha
bette signs at Tell el Yehudiyeh, in Egypt
such were observed on the backs Of
glazed tiles bearing the name of RamessU
Ill; but they were ignored by means Of
the purely arbitrary hypothesis OF a yes
toration of the building in Greek times
Next, l found in 1889, a mass of signs in
use at GurOb, in Middle Egypt, which We.
unquestionably fixed to the period o
l4OO-l2OO B. c.; and these signs Were
more akin to the Western than 10 tEn
Phoenician forms. In subsequent years
such signs were found likewise on pottoss
OF the twelfth dynasty, earlier still in tn"
hrst dynasty, and most of them were
rled back far earlier. even to the fir
prehistoric civilization.
The point of view here presented is uor
that of . systematic alphabet, invented Dog
some single tribe or individual in aa
yelOped civilization. On the contrary i
appears that a wide body OF signs ha.
been gradually brought into use in print
tive times for various purposes These
were interchanged by trade. and spread
from land to land until the less-kncwu
and less useful signs were ousted by those
in more general acceptance. Lastly.
couple of dozen signs triumphed: these
became common property TO a group OF
trading companies while the local sur
vivals of other forms were gradually eE
unguished in isolated secIusion."
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bathed six and seven times a day.
Men and women bathed together in
the most prOmiscuous manner,
Drunkenness became common
among the women on these occa-
sions, and the classic writer's tell US
how the mOdesty and simplicity of
the early Roman matrOns were COM
pletely destroyed by the baths.
In these days, when governments
are expected to do much for the
amusement of the people, just as
the old Roman EmperoTs did, 1t
would seem a brilliant idea to revive
in some measure the gorgeous pub
lie baths of old. The proposal to re-
store the baths of wicked Caracalla
sounds particularly fascinating.
But when the practical details of
the restoration came to be consid-
cred 1t was found that there would
be no way of carrying off the vast
quantity of water that would be
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Infinitely
Than the
Fall of
Dence'S
Cdmpdnile
Is VOW
Threaten
ing the
Eternal
City

needed. Ii would have to run up
hill to the Tiber. The plan had to
be abandoned until an engineering
problem of vastly greater import
ance should be settled.
Another interesting illustration of
the action of the waters in under
mining Rome is found in the Church
of Santa Maria in Trastevere (St,
Mary beyond the Tiber.) This was
the first church erected to the Vir-
gin in Rome and was founded in the
third century. 1t is one of the old
est and most celebrated churches in
Rome.
For over thirty years cracks due
to the movement Of subterranean
waters have made their appearance
In this church, and recently they
have become very serious. Cardinal
Gibbons, of Baltimore, who takes
his title from the church, wrote to
the government concerning its con-
ditiOn when he last visited Rome.
The church is classed as a historic
monument, and is under the care of
the Department Of Fine Arts. The
department disregarded the Cardi-
nails complaint for several years.
The church is now in a very dan
gerOus condition. The architrave
over the left lateral door has been
displaced. a marble slab above it,
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languages from which he undertakes to
show that our alphabet was derived
He attacks the old idea that our letters
are drawings of animals and things that
suggest the sounds we give to the letters
For instance it has been said that "A"
represents a bulls head, because the let
ter sounds like the believing of the ami
NAL: that S" represents a serpent be-
cause the sound of the letter is like the
kissing of the reptile, and so on.
Professor Petrie argues that the signs
from which the alphabet is derived were
i'm use before the power of making pictures
arose and that, therefore. it is absurd to
suppose that the alphabetic letters and
pictures. He cites alphabetic signs 1000
years old
He points TO the peculiar fact that in
ancient inscriptions the same letter has an
entirely different sound. For instance. in
ancient Greek inscriptions, Corinth is spelt
with a * and b This appears to mean
that in one part of the world * had the
sound we now give it. while in another
part probably CreteD ''B' was pronounced
like the present *"
II was long time before trading com
munities reached the point of giving the
same sound TO the same sign and before
they reached it they made some curious
COMMISSIONS
The first clear breach in the Phoenician
tradition says Professor Petrie, was