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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-02-06
HER Quick Choice
As Between Riches and the Man
She Loved, She Chose the
Latter.
BY FRANK FilSON.

When the boarding house servan
announced Dick Mansfield, Maegi
! put aside the letter over which sh
had been puzzling and hastily patte
her hair. smOothed down her dress
Strengthened the cover Of the sof;
bed. and went to the door of her hal
bedroom. Next moment she was /,
Dicks arms.
"Heigho! Same old hall room.'
said Dick. taking his seat beside her
Say. Maggie. how would you like t.
pay Mrs. Flanagan her last weeks
rent and come west with me next Fri
day."
West. Dick" Maggie Durham ex,
claimed.
Vests what ! said." Dick an.
swered. i've got a chance to buy
q farm in Texas-five hundred down
and the rest on mortgage. Then we
can get married and start out to make
home for ourselves. You know
Maggie, DEAR" he continued. in a whis.
per Of exultation, I've got twelve hun.
dred dollars saved row."
They had been engaged two years
Maggie earned eighteen dollars 4
week as stenographer to Mr.. Burman.
OF the great department store. and
Dick twenty as a clerk in the Iron.
works corporation. And they had
been saving ever since they were en-.
gagged.
Il mean. Maggie. with your nve
hundred" Dick volunteered. And we
can start in on that and make our
way Is 1t all right?"
but Dick. l."
But Maggie. you know now Mr.
humans dead you won't have such
prospects as you thought. He took
q fancy to you. but his head man dis.
likes you. you told me, and guess
you'll find the future won't be SO
bright as you hoped Come. throw It
up and lets get married"
She would not give him her dc. |
cislon. She would let him know the
next Sunday, sh" said. OF course
they could not 90 on five days notice.
she must give I'urman's time tJ re-
place her. And Dick would have gone
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-02-06
Wool Production.

The great wool producing countries
In the world are Australia, the United
States. Great Britain. Russia and INC
Argentine Republic. The figures arc
as follows. in pounds, for the year
1911: Australia, 756,5OO.OOo: Russ;,
lin Europe and Asial, $50 600 oon.
Argentina, 100000: the United
States. s2S.ooO,OOO; Great Britain
133,O0O.00O. The total output Of the
world Is 2.695.7S2,000 pounds The
wool industry is steadily growing
and by the improvement of the breed
the yield per sheep is increasing right
along.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Sporting

Packey Mcfarland, the great and
only Packey from the Chicago stock
yards, easily outboxed Jack Britton in
slashing ten round bout at Madison
Square Garden, New York. The mar
gin of victory was wide.
Abel r. Kiviat, the little marvel
from Staten Island, earned the crown
as an indoor runner when he defeated
in New York Ted Meredith of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in one of the
most sensational races ever held on a
board floor
Sir Thomas Upton has challenged
once more for the Americas Cup un-
der conditions which must be &C
cepted He is brimful of that same
indOmitable enthusiasm. The Sham
rock ". will be Sir Thomas con-
tender
A. R. Forbush, deputy field scout
commissioner of the Boy Scouts of
America, broke the worlds record for
lighting fire by friction in Indian
style at the Sportsmen's show, in
New York. With three stop-watches
held over him, he got blaze in thirty
seconds.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Obviatine Snowhound Trials.

1t is we'll known principle of snow
shed construction that the roof of the
Shed should be built at the same angle
as the mountain side so as to offer no
resistance to the snow, but instead
allow the great mass of deadly white
to slide down the mountain side and
over the roof of the shed to the other
side of the track.
The concrete shed is riveted into
the rock of the mountain and built
with such slopng roof that it looks
like a part of the mountain itself. This
new kind of snowshed cost $500. 900
and over 400 men were employed in
building it. 1t is 20 feet high on the
average and over 3000-nearly 1000.
feet long. The roof is ten inches thick
and so heavy that it is supported by
concrete pillars.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Railroad Porter's SAGE Decision.

The railroad train was rather dimly
lit, and one of the passengers, after
having tried in vain to inspect his
face in the Mushroom mirror, turned
to Rastus, the presiding genius of the
Pullman car.
See here, Rastus." he said. II want
your opinion in a matter of import
ance. Just come with me over to the
window, and after having carefully in
spected my face, tell me whether or
not you think | need a shave"
The old darky complied with his re-
quest and Immediately rendered judg-
ment
WAL, sub" he said with his head
cooked to one side, "in respect to de
shave, sub, ali should say that it all
depends on what yo' intend dom with
yo' chin, sub. Eff yo're jest gwine off'n
dis yere train to use yo' chin TO talk
in you don't need no Shawn 20 chin,
sub. Ef yore jest gwine a-courtin' yo'
best girl. sub, ah sorter think ah'd re-
move some O dem splinters from de
chin an de cheek befo' dey done
scratch somebody, sub"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
15-YEAR-OLD TIRES OF WORLr
Writes That His Life Has Been Fail
ure Then Takes
Poison.

Atlanta, Ga.-Leaving a note in
which he declared that his life hao
been failure and that there was moth
Ing left to live for, Leroy Thomas, q
ffteen-year-old country boy, attempted
suicide here by swallowing poison
His attempt was unsuccessful.
Four weeks ago Leroy came to the
city to make his fortune. On the triI
to Atlanta he began in little diary
the story of his conquest of the world
His attempt was after three weeks oil
failure. He now says that he will al
ways be satisfied with his happy home
on the farm.
When he fell after swallowing the
acid, he clutched in his hand note
to his father. 1t read:
Il am a complete failure. There's
no need of me causing my folks any
more trouble. | want to go where
mamma went year ago. I'll be bet
ter off there. ! am in the way here
They don't want folks in this worlc
who are failures. Goodby'
In his pockets were pawn tickets
for most of his possessions he hat
brought to the city with him, telling
of struggle against odds that were
too much for the unframed country
lad. Doctors say he will be able
go back to his home within week.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
DOG Rode the Trucks.

When the owner of a plain collie,
name unknown, boarded a train at
Simpson, Ill, the faithful animal tried
to follow, but was kicked off the plat
form by the news butcher" Just as
the train started the animal darted
under it and everybody paused to hear
his ki-yis as the wheels ground him to
pieces But there was not ki-yi.
At the next stop, Ozark. the news
agent and G. H. Blarney of Paducas,
KY, the conductor. took look at the
trucks. The dog was lying across a
brake beam, alive. unscathed, and ap-
parently not at all worried He was
chased from his position and the train
pulled out leaving the canine hobo
ditched.-Ozark, Ill. letter to New
York World.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Teach German TraInmen EnoIish.

The managers Of the State Railway
of Baden. Germany, are evidently anx-
ious to make travel on its lines easy
for American and English tourists
who have no knowledge of the Ger
man language. An official circular
states that "the administration has Or
ganized courses in English in order
to facilitate the knowledge of that Ian
guage. The numerous staff speaking
English will, therefore. find an excel
lent opportunity for practice Special
lessons will be given to the train staff,
so that English speaking travellers
will find it easy to make themselves
understood and to get any information
asked for"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
PLAY FOR MODERN ENGINEER
Physical Distinctions Never a Bar
Where II is Proposed 10 Lay
..r the Line Of steel.

Colorado boasts of a number OF
railroads that have remarkable engt
neering. One passes through the
Royal Gorge and the Canyon OF the
Grand. II fairly creeps along at the
base OF tall precipitous cliffs and
seeks an entrance on the other side
through sinuous passes that fill the
traveller with awe. The most mar.
velous engineering on this road is at
Marshall Pass. where the rails wind
so that many elevations can be seen
at once, and Fremont Pass. which by
reached by rail on this continent, the
road reaching over $4,000 feet above
sea level Another shorter railroad
runs from Colorado Springs to Victor
and Cripple Creek and was built orig
inally for carrying ore. Its scenic eff
fects and engineering feats are so
wonderful that now it is a celebrated
day trip for tourists who enjoy the
sensation of riding on a road that
winds around narrow lodges, ever
mounting higher on the mountain
sides until at least four tracks can
be seen below from the car window.
American engineers are also re-
sponsible for the much used "cut-off"
across Salt Lake, which enables
trains to reach the Pacific coast much
sooner than before it was built, and
which seems wonderful piece OF en-.
cheering as one looks at the salt wa.
ter below. In Arizona and New Mex
leo there are some remarkable
stretches Of road. one of them being
the celebrated Ration Pass. The en-
CINE winds through a pass and up
mountain sides, where are rocks Gov
cred with chaparral, cliffs with brown
or gray faces and glimpses Of other
mountain ranges in the distance. Ra.
ton was an old pass used by travellers
| over the historic Santa Fe trail. and
where the engine puffs today over.
land stages, soldier cavalcades, prai.
RE schooners and emigrants on foot
passed in early days. The present
day engineer uses the same pass, but
crosses it with iron rails laid with
consummate skill
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
FOREIGN

Russia began to celebrate the Ro-
manoff precautionary.
Practically the whole town of Mu-
madzu, Japan, was destroyed by fire,
with a total loss of $3,500009.
The Queen Mother, Alexandra, gave
dinner in London to the royal family
to commemorate the fftieth anniver-
sary of her arrival in England.
The Pope has consented to make &C
cessible the secret archives of the
Congregation of the Inquisition for
historical purposes.
There was second encounter be-
tween Ninth Cavalry, u s. A. troopers
and Mexican Federals at Aqua Prieta,
but nobody was killed.
An uncalled for run of four out.
lying branches of the Montreal City
and Savings Bank drained nearly ST..
100000 before the depositors were sat
isfied.
The budget committee of the Aus
tro-Hungarian Parliament recon
mended a property tax to raise 500,
VOU,oVu huuiliOhdi lcNcuue lOI uulll
tary purposes.
The French Cabinet approved bill
providing for three years compulsory
military service for everybody, ire
spective of rank or station and ex
empting no one.
The Italian government announced
it would be represented officially al
the PanamaPacific Exposition at Sar
Francisco in 1915. and asked the
Chamber of Deputies for an appropri
alton of 100000
Joseph Ettor leader Of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, on arrival
at White Rock, B. c., was taken from
the train and deported. He was billed
to speak at Victoria.
| The crew and 200 passengers on the
British steamer Calvados were los
when the vessel foundered in the Ses
Of Mormora on March |.
The British Parliament was pro
rogued for short recess in prepare
ton for summer session, during
which the Home Rule and Welsh Dis
esta blishment bills must again bt
voted on.
| General Louis F. d'Esperey, com
mander of French column in Mo
rocco, was arrested, charged with hav
| ing abandoned a number of wounded
French soldiers and their guard in /;
march on Danfous.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
GAYEST OF CITIES
Joys of Paris, London and Vienna
Combined in Budapest.
Capital Of Austria-Hunsary In the Cen
ter Of Nations ActlvitIes-Every
Other Building Here Houses
Cafe.

Budapest.-The greatest city of the
Danube-Vienna being in strict JUS
tice excluded from considerations
Budapest, which is fairly cut in two
by the broad expanse of the river, &C.
cording to n. n. and A. S. lddings in
the National Geographic Magazine.
Formerly two cities, Buda on the
right hand struggles up a picturesque
mountain, and here on high terrace
Is the magnificent palace of the king
OF Hungary. with a wonderful outlook
over the river. Pest, on the opposite
side of the river. is the modern city
and commercially important. It's 10
cation is upon a fiat, so characteristic
Of the rich Danubian plains.
The population of the combined cit
les is about 10000, and here is the
center of all Hungarian activities
Hungary as a nation having little real
culture, no manufacturing to speak of
In short, naught but pastoral ex
istence outside of its capital city
The rich fertility of the Danubian
plains has always made agriculture
the natural exertion of the people, just
as the plains themselves constitute
the principal area of the kingdom. But
the life of Budapest is compensatory
for the dullness that pervades the rest
of Hungary. Budapest is Paris, vi:
emma and London in one, combina
ton of the gayeties of the capitals OF
the world with a little distinctive Hun.
garian paprika thrown in.
The "Corso" along the Danube in
Pest is the promenade and whose
group of open air cafes and restau
rants form the hub of the gay Magyar
life. Throughout the city almost every
other building houses a cafe, so impor
tant part 60 these establishments
play in the national life.
There the business man partakes OF
his early breakfast Of coffee and rolls,
there he adjcurns from his Office on
numerous occasions in the day for i'm.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Personal

Enrico Caruso, the tenor, testified
IN Brooklyn against man accused Of
having tried to obtain $4,000 from
him by blackhand threats.
Miss Z. Florence Gair, daughter Of
a wealthy Brooklyn manufacturer,
began to make plans to open a clinic
in Manhattan for poor children afflict-
ed with infantile paralysis, similar to
the one she has in Brooklyn.
First thing former President Taft
asked for when he reached Augusta,
Ga, was his golf sticks. He played
against Harry Lauder.
Twins were born to Mr.. and Mrs,
William Riley in Hamilton, Ohio.
They were named Woodrow Wilson
and Thomas Marshall.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
General

Governor Walter E. Clark, of
Alaska, resigned.
The Massachusetts House rejected
woman suffrage.
Myron 7. Herrick resigned as
American Ambassador to France.
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to
President Wilson, begins work at 8
"a m. daily.
The Connecticut Fish and Game
Commission has leased fifty acres of
land for the establishment of a state
game bird farm
The last of the Connecticut Shakers
will leave Enfield, where they have
been for nearly century, and 60 to
Lebanon, n. Y.
Uncle Joe Cannon sold his 400 acre
farm at Fithian, H., for 100000. Mr..
Cannon bought the plot in 1880 for
$4,000
The Maine House killed the bill pro-
viding for referendum on a woman
suffrage amendment after it had
passed the Senate.
The Progressive party won its first
important success in Maine by elect
ing A. w. Fowles, Mayor of Auburn
and four of the five Aldermen
Henry D. Hatfield was inaugurated
Governor of West Virginia and de-
clared for suffrage Immediately, thus
surprising his intimate friends.
Harry Jones, the parcels post
aviator, carried a bag of mail from
New Haven, Conn, to Bridgeport in
thirty minutes. The distance is thirty.
five miles.
Seattle voters again rejected the
single tax amendment to the city
charter by about two to one vote
A batch of twenty-six Italian stow.
always was discovered in the steerage
of the Steamship Cedric.
Frank Van Duyne shot fish duck
near BoontOn, N j., in the crop OF
which was found a pickerel thirteen
inches long. The bird was twenty
five inches long.
The graves of President Wilson's
parents In the shurch yard at Colum
bia, S. G., were decorated by schoo
children, as their SOIL was being in
augurated
Chicago celebrated the Inauguration
with noisy demonstrations from 11:4(
10 11:45 A. NJ
Railroad Avenue the principal bust
ness street of White Plains, N. Y.
was fireswept. The loss is 100000.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Most of the Noise Is Directed Away
From a Train at the Sides.

tracks are liable to prosecution for
trespass, but the trouble is that rail
road officials do not back up these
notices by having their employees
keep watch and arrest every person
found walking along their tracks. II
this had been done last year. at least
300 lives would have been saved, as
that number killed while walking on
the tracks were not employees of the
road
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14

forgotten by anyone who has occasion
to make a footpath of the steam loco
motives right OF way.
The railroad track has been called
the path of DEATH" and not without
reason, since figures show that fully
two-thirds of the deaths from railroad
trains result from people walking on
the tracks.
People start out bravely along a
railroad track, comfortable in the be-
lief that there is no danger because
they can always hear a railroad train.
Surely" they say. such tremen-
dous engine and its rumbling train
of cars will furnish sufficient warn
Ing to enable me to step out of the
way Of danger long before the great
locomotive itself reaches me-"
And it does seem as II this was
true. but it is not true. For many
years experts have been making an
investigation into this. and the figures
show that most of all these deaths
are due to the fact that people &C.
tually do not hear the trains ap.
preaching, nor do they take one-half
the precautions they take in walking
along a country highway, while the
danger is tenfold greater.
Walking on the railroad track Is an
American habit, and this is solely be-
cause Americans are allowed to- do
so; or, in other words, the railroad
officials are not as strict as they are
in other countries. 1t is true that
many railroads put up signs saying
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Wiser Now.

Young Man-You don't remember
me. see. | am the young man who
eloped with your daughter a few years
ago.
Old Maxwell. what can | do for
you?
Young Mani came back to offer
you my congratulations. sir.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Latest Dispatches Ground Down
For Hasty Consumption.
WHOLE WORLD is CLEANED
The Four Corners of the Earth and
the Seven Seas Are Made 30
Yield a Tribute Of Inter
estinq News.
Washington

Senator James p Clarke, OF Arksn-
Eas, was elected President pro TEN. of
the Senate over Senator Bacon, Of
Georgia.
President Wilson, by turning away
Bryan and Fletcher of Florida, made
it clear that even Senators will not be
permitted to discuss patronage with
him.
The President announced that he
will see only such Office seekers as he
invites. He introduced many changes
In the White House routine.
The Sixty-second Congress ad-
5ourned sine die, with two of the
great supply bills-the Sundry Civil
and lndian-hanging over.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Third Largest Railroad Yard.

railway yard" for goods wagons at
birmingham Dock. England, is the
third largest in the world, having ITO
miles of track. The two yards rank
ing ahead of it are the one at Garden
Vile, near Buffalo. which has 300
miles, and that of Altoona. with 20s
miles of track The next yard in size
to birmingham is stated to be that oil
Mannheim, with 95 1-3 miles of track
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Ml,A,Ishsm reoolG rs 81

Nl,A,IsEsm reooid Is o. .--
trust suits.
President Wilson accepted the he;
orary presidency of the American
Peace and Arbitration League.
Charles f. Murphy and other Tam
many men we're received by President
Wilson at the White House.
Governor Sulzer removed c. Gordon
Reel as head of the New York State
Highway Department
William CTist, pioneer motormap,
was killed in a street car accident in
Sunbury, Pa. He was taught To run
an electric car by Thomas A. Edison.
Mrs. Madaline Cicone was sen.
fenced to death in the electric chair
in Newark for having murdered her
husband with rat poison.
Frank NJ. Ryan, under sentence as
a dynamiter, was reelected president
of the Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers Union.
Henry Corell. aged four, son of a
New York policeman, shot and killed
his baby sister while playing with his
fathers revolver.
The diversion of water from the Nj
agara River has been limited to $1,000
feet per second, which increases the
horsepower by $4,000.
Secretary of War Garrison directed
Major-General Leonard Wood to con-
tinue his duties as chief-ofstaff of the
army until further orders.
John MCGOWAN, engineer, and Gus
tave Sagan, fireman, we're roasted to
death under a wreck on the Northern
Pacific near Davidson, Mimi.
Judge O'Sullivan decided in the
Court of General Sessions that New
ork delicatessen stores should not
keep open after ten A. NJ on Sundays.
The estate of David Wolfe Bishop
at Lenox, Mass, was valued at ST.
100000 by the assessors. Bishop
Wolfe committed suicide in Paris in
1910.
G. c. Bergdoll, the millionaire
speed maniac" of Morrisburg, Pa,
was found guilty of crashing into an
other auto there. The penalty is one
year in Jail and fine of $500.
Fire swept the business section OF
Hot Springs, Ark, burning a sani-
tarium, six business establishments
and four doctors offices, and injur-
ing seven persons. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
More than $4,000 women in Chicago
are receiving wages of IS or less a
week, according to reports made to
Acting Governor O'Hara by the inves-
tigators of the Senate white slave
commission, of which he is chairman.
James Gayley, former Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States Steel Cor
poration, testified in the Governments
dissolution suit that there was an
agreement to increase the price of
iron ore.
Gen. E. Burd Grub, Superintendent
of the New Jersey Home for Crippled
Soldiers at Kearny, was accused of ex-
travagance and charging personal ex-
penditures to the State before legis-
lative investigating committee.
Alfred Henry Lewis, employed by
Thaw to write articles intended to
create sentiment that would result in
his liberation, testified that Thaw be-
lieves degenerates IN New York are
expanding money to fight his applica.
lions for freedom.
Information was received at Wash
ington from Mexico City that United
States Ambassador Wilson was held
responsible for the ovel throw of the
Madero government, and that in CIV
ing encouragement to the traitorous
Mexican genera he had been guilty
Of a pernicious form of diplomatic
meddling.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14

portant business conferences, which
are best had according to the semiori,
entail idea of the Hungarians, over
cup of coffee. And after the fam
lily dinner, which is almost invariably
partaken of in one Of the restaurants
which are scattered through the city
and among the parks which surround
It. the cafe is again resorted to by
he whole family as a last thing be-
fore retiring, which is often postponed
till early morning, so enthralling is
the gypsy music always to be heard
In these public places and the other
attractions of cafe life.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
Rare Stock,

This dog OF mine is some dog. let
me- tell you He has wonderful pedi.
gree"
Il suppose you race him away back
to the dog Noah took into the ark"
Say. this dogs ancestor didn't GO
into the ark; he had bark OF his
nuwr
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-03-14
FIGURES on Capitalization.

Much Is printed and said OF the
high capitalization of railroads in the
United States, but the average, in
proportion to the mileage is less than
rs per cent. of the British figures II
is not one-half as great as the French
average and little over half of the
Italian.