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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27
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Lakeland Lodge No, 1891, Benevo
ant and Protective Order Of Eln
meets every Thursday night In lods'
oons over postofice. Visiting brsth
GEORGE MOORE q. R
zen cordially "
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life touches to the sleeping and the
dead. Had there been any eye to see
this girl, she would have made a de-
lightful picture in the warm glow
from the stone hearth. There were
no eyes to look, however, save those
which belonged to the man on the
other side of the door.
On the hitler side Of that door In
the room where lie fire burned on the
hearth, there was rest in the heart OF
the occupant on the farther side
where the fire only burned In the
heart, there was tumult Not outward
and visible, but inward and spiritual,
and yet there was no lack of apparent
manifestation of the turmoil in the
mans soul.
Albeit the room was smaller than
the other. 1t was still of good size.
He walked nervously up and down
from one end to the other as cease
lessly as wild animal impatient OF
captivity stalks the narrow limits Of
his contracted cage. The even tenor
Of his life had suddenly been diverted.
The ordinary sequence Of his days
had been abruptly changed. The pri'
vacy of five years which he had hoped
and dreamed might exist as long as
he, had been rudely broken in upon.
Humanity, which he had avoided
from which he had fed, which he had
cast away forever had found him
Abiit, excessit, evasit, er'i And, TO-
his departures were all \! The
world with all its grandet nd its in.
significance, with all its powers and
its weaknesses, with all its opportu
mites and its. obligations. with all its
joys and its sorrows, had Knocked at
his door; and that the knocking hand
was that Of i woman but added to
his perpleXity and to his dismay.
lie had cherished dream that he
could live to himself alone with but a
memory to bear him company, and
from that dream he had been th,ln
derously awakened. Everything was
changed. What had once been easy
had now become impossible. He
might send her away, but though he
Gwore her to secrecy she would have
to tell her story and something Of his
the world would learn some Of 1t and
seek him out with Unsuitable curios
| ity to know the rest
Eyes as keen as his would present
| ly search and scrutinize the noun
tains where he had roamed alone
| They would see what he had seen
find what he had found. Mankind
gold-lusting, would swarm and hive
upon the hills and fight and love ant
breed and die. Great God!
He could Of course move on, but
where? And went he whithersoeyel
he might, he would now of necessity
carry with him another memory
which would not dwell within his
mind in harmony with the memor!
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27

Lakeland Lodge NO. u. T. Z 4
r.. REGULAR Communication held o.
Second and 4th Mondays 1T 1880 ,
=. Visiting brethren cordially IN
nteA. ]. c. OWENS, W. n.
J. =. WILSON. Sscy.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27

there and there was none to prevent.
His hand sought the latch.
What was he about to do? God for
bid that thought he could not freely
share with humanity should enter his
brain then. He held all women sacred.
and SO he had ever done, and this
woman in her loneliness, in her help
lessness. in her weakness, trebly ap-
pealed to him. But he would look
upon her, he would fain see if she
were there, if it were all not dream.
the creation of his disordered imagin-
alton.
Men had gone mad in herlnitages in
the mountains, they had been driven
insane in lonely GASES in vast des-
erts; and they had peopled their soil
tude with men and women. Was this
some working of disordered brain, too
too much turned upon itself and with
too tremendous pressure upon It.,
producing an illusion? Was there In
truth any woman there? He would
raise the latch and open the door and
look. Once more the hand went stealth.
lily to the latch.
The woman slept quietly on. No thin
barricade easily unlocked or easily
broken protected her. Something in
tangible, yet stronger than the thick
est, the most rigid bars Of steel guard
ed her; something unseen, indescrib-
able, but so unmistakable when it
throbs in the breast Of those who de-
pend on it feel that their dependence
is not in vain watched over her.
Cherishing no evil thought, the man
had power to crafty his desire which
might yet bear sinister construction
should it be observed. 1t was her pri-
vacy he was invading. She had trust
ed to him, she had said so, to his hon.
or, and that stood her in good stead.
His honor! Not in five years had he
heard the word or thought the thing.
but he had not forgotten it. She had
not appealed to an unreal thing; upon
that her trust was based. His hand
left the latch, 1t fell gently, he drew
back and turned away trembling.
conqueror who mastered himself. He
was awake to the truth again.
What had he been about to do? Pro.
fame, unlimited, the sanctity Of her
chamber, violate the hospitality Of his
own house? Even with a proper mo-
tive, imperil his self-respect, shatter
her trust, endanger that honor which
so suddenly became part Of him on
demand? She would not probably
know; she could never know unless
! she awoke. What or that? That an
cient honor Of his life and race rose
like mountain whose sccrpod face
cannot be scaled
He fell back WITH a swift turn, a
feeling almost Wcmanly; and more
men, perhaps, if they lived in fem
mine isolation, as self-ccntered as
women are so often by necessity
would be as feminine as their sisters
Influenced him, oyercame him. His
hand went to his hunting shirt. Nerv'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27
CHAPTER x.
On the Two Sides Of tho Door.

On the Two Sides Of the Door.
The cabin contained a large and q
small room. In the wall between
them there was a doorway closed by
an ordinary batten door with a wood
en- latch and no lock- Closed it served
to hide the occupant of one room
from the view of the other, otherwise
It was but feeble protection. Even
had it possessed a lock, vigorous
man could have burst it through in q
moment.
These thoughts did not come very
clearly to Enid Maitland. Few
thoughts Of any kind came to her.
Where she lay she could see plainly
the dancing light Of the glorious fire.
She was warm, the deftly wrapped
bandage, the healing lotion upon her
foot, had greatly relieved the pain in
that wounded member. The bed was
hard but comfortable, much more so
than the sleeping bags to which Of
late she had been accustomed.
Few women had gone through such
experiences, mental and physical, as
had befallen her within the last few
hours and lived to tell the story. Had
Il not been for the exhaustive strains
Of body and spirit to which she had
been subjected, her mental faculties
would have been on the alert and the
strangeness Of her unique position
would have made her so nervous that
she could not lave slept.
For the time being, however, the
physical demands upon her entity
were paramount; she was dry, she
was warm, she was fed, she was free
from anxiety and she was absolutely
unutterably weary. Her thoughts
were vague, inchoatc, unconcentrated.
The fire wayered before her eyes, she
closed them in a few moments and
did not open them.
Without thought, without care,
she fell asleep Her reN0se was COM
plete, not a dream even disturbed the
profound slumber into which she
sank Pretty picture she made; her
head thrown backward, her golden
hair roughly dried and quickly plait-
ed in long braids, one of which fell
along the pillow while the other
curled lovingly around her neck. Her
face in the natural light would have
looked pallid from what she had gone
through, but the fire cast red CLOVIS
upon It; the fitful light fiickered
across her countenance and some
times deep shadows unrelieved &C
oentuated the paleness born OF her
sutferings.
There Is no light that plays sc
many tricks with the imagination, OF
that SO stimulates the fancy as the
light Of an open fire. In Its sudden
Qutbursts, 1t sometimes seems to add
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nc otdTeu FROM Onc 10 tnc OtHcT.
ously he tore it open; he grasped
bright object that hung against his
breast. AS he did So the thought came
to him that not before in five years
had he been for moment uncon.
scious of the pressure of that locket
over his heart. but now that this 9TH
err had come, he had to seek for 1t to
find 1t.
The man dragged it out, held 1t In
his hand and opened it, He held it so
tightly that it almost gave beneath
the strong grasp OF his strong hand.
From a nearby box he drew another
object with his other hand. He took
the two to the light the soft light of
the candle upon the table. and stared
from one to the o,her with eyes brim-
ming.
Like crystal gazers, he saw other
things than those presented to the
casual vision. He heard other sounds
than the beat of the rain upon the
roof, the roar of the wind down the
canon. A voice that he had sworn
he would never forget, but which, God
forgive IN, had not now the clea. sass
that it might have had yesterday,
whispered awful words 10 him.
Anon he looked into another face,
red, too, with no hue from the hearth
or leaping fame, but red with the
blood Of CHASTITY wounds. He heard
again that report, the roar louder and
more terrible than any peal of thun.
der that rived the clouds above his
head and made the mountains quake
and tremble. He was conscious again
of the awful stiffness of death that SUI
pervaded. He dropped on his knees,
buried his face In his hands where
they rested on picture and locket on
the rude table.
All, the past died hard, for mo-
ment he was the lover of old-remorse,
passionate expiation, solitude-he and
the dead together-the world and the
living forgot, He would not be
false, he would be true, there was no
power in any feeble woman's tender
hand to drive him off his course, to
shake his purpose, to make him a new,
another man. Oh, Vanitas, VAN
itatum.
Continued on PAGE ~
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G. I. A. to !. Of L 4.

Orange Blossom Div. No. 49,
i. / 4. to B. OF l.. q. meets ever
second and fourth WeSnosdaye o
sacL mouth At $3.50 p. u. ViSitin.
s.sters always welcome.
MRS. }. c. BROWN sscy
Meets every Tuesday night at
,clock, at hcDonalda hall.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27
Lakeland Artificial
Stone Works
H. B. Zimmerman, Prof
keeln Early TO Train Chile

II In habit alone that Great >
moe IN tas child, and for the
u It is not formed early, mott al
bard, bitter warfare" csn psee
mote II In its being system .
OF the Eotlest !ep i. eyltsL
the rTc:.: under 49, '-- TO-
eFapA
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27
Lodges.

Palm Chapter, y. II. 3. meets visr,
,scond and fourth Thursday night
9. each month 1t 1880 ,. n. Mr.
flora Keen, w. NJ: J. ,. Wilson
~.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27
ORDER OF EAGLES.

Tue craternal Order of Eagle
sats every Wednesday aiSht q
s SO, at ODD Fellows hall.
J. H. WILLIAMS, President
q. M. SMAILS Secretary
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27
POLK ENCAMrAENT
no. :, l. 0. Q.

NO. !, !. 0. 0. I
Polk Encam vment No. 3, !. 0. I
g., meets the first and third kou
layy. Visitins Pauiarchs WELDON,
=. A. MCDONALD. Scribe
Il. B. ZIMMERMAN.
Chief Patriarch.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27

Lakeland Camp No. 70, w. O. W
meets every Thursda night. Wood
aen Circle drst and third Thursda,
afternoons at 500 o'clock. W. J
Cttridge, Council Commander; Mrl
Lula NGbb, Gus. dian Of Circle.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27
Electric Lighted.
80 -
Electric Elevators. Electric
Fans In Dining Room.

Electric nfG0T0 H0IfI Electric Lighted
OAHv'V O'-- ". L. rarAer MH' Ismpa
large ches; do not h. 70 b.
person
without
with $780,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-09-27

Elnora Rebekah Lodge No.
asets eyery second and fourth Mon
sAy nights at l. o. o. +. hall. Vmlt
lg brothers and sisters cordial,
invited.
MRS. 1. 3. ROBERTSON. N. q
MRS. GUY ARENDELL, Sec.
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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1913-03-21
Charlotte Hall School,
CHARLOTTE HALL,
St. MarY's County, Maryland,

THE next Session begins SEPTEM.
Der 9TH. 1912. Board and wash,
10, tuition $50 year.
The Keech Scholarship for Charles
county, is now vacant. 1t gives board
ard tnition Tor term Of years, under
be following requirements;
/. lie hoy must not be under IS
nor more than II years old
?. lie must average so per cent or
his studies and not receive more thar
20 dement's mouth, under forfeiture
1T sch ,iarship
3. The appointment is to be made
Ivy the Faculty.
Appls to the Principal by Augusi
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;, holaFsl,ips OF free tuition are al
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M to those who nave completed thu
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Principal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-31
The Too Loquacious Murphy.

If Murphy keeps on talking long enough he will
talk himself into perpetual laughing stock and out
of his lucrative job as boss of the wigwam. Before
the city is done laughing at his declarations that
this election will be practically unanimous-for Nc
Call--and that he gave back Bradys $4,000 he
solemnly asserts that Suzer nominated for
Governor over his protest and Gaynor kicked down
stairs by the Delmonico directorate in spite of his
voice and vote.
So long as Murphy kept his mouth shut and took
credit for all of Tammany's victories he impressed
the small fry of politics and mystifed the public.
Murphy admitting himself poweress to sway his
sub-bosses in the matter of important nominations
may be a Joker but adventurous spirit is likely
to take the joke seriously and his influence
in revolt against the boss within the organization.
"Pat" McCarren used to say that Murphy was a
"fathead." few more interviews from the boss,
and the public will believe that McCarren was a
prophet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-31
Tammany Made a Mistake in Rating
Mitchell as Man of Its Kind.

In snita of the fact that it contained nothing
but wet powder, Mr. Mccall persisted in touching
off his long advertised Mitchell bomb mat II
would fzze any intelligent campaigner might nave
known beforehand since Mr.. Mtchels advance
statement had taken all the explosive energy out
of it.
Yet it was natural that Mr.. Mccall persisted. he
belongs to a school which has never considered the
possibility of divorcng ones activities as an once
holder from ones activities in private or pro1es
sonal life Most of the legal lights of Iammany DO
business on a poIitco-ega basis. They serve IN
politics the interest whom they also serve in pro-
motion and litigation. That city official should
not use his power to favor the clients who have
paid him fees for legal services is almost incom
prebensble to the Tammany intelligence. 1t Is sur
fcient evidence to minds accustomed to the double
nolitico-legaI standard that public officer has mis-
used his trust if he has ever accepted money for
nonofficial employment from a corporation with
interests affected or likely to be affected by his
official action.
INDIE Parker made q mistake about President
Roosevelt similar to q 1t which Mr.. Mccall made
about Mr. Mitchell. In the closing days of the cam
paicn Of 1901 Mr. Parker charged that President
Roosevelt vas accepting contributions from corpora
lions and thereby putting himself under an obliga-
ton to favor those corporations when they should
ask special consideration from the administration
The charge only reacted the Democratic nominee
because he failed absolutely to sustain it and the
country knew well that Colonel Roosevelt was not
that sort of man Mr.. Mitchell has had chance
10 show that he is not that kind of either and
for that he ought to be grateful to the laundering
Mccall.
His votes in the Board Of Estimate prove that
he followed a definite public policy and was not
swerved by any desire to help client or an e1-
client along Mr. Mitchell is plain lawyer not
politicoIega practitioner of the sort which Tam
many delights to honor He is not making the legal
hand wash the political hand, and rice UerSG.
That such a type can exist surpasses the Tam
many comprehension, and Mr.. Mccall undoubtedly
thought that corruption proved itself as soon as
it was shown that his opponent once accepted
lawyers fee from the greensboro corporation. lie
knows better now. Fortunately the world moves
and men are coming into public life hereabouts who
can erect barrier between their activities in office
and their activities outside office and whose reputa-
tons cannot be smrched by the suggestion that
they must have sold themselves body and brooches
20 every corporation for which they have performed
legitimate professional services.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-31
Tammany and Back Scratching.

Tammanys willingness to barter official favors for
votes was never better illustrated than by the let
tiers sent out by the Business and Professional
Mems League bearing the typewriter names of the
Speaker of the Assembly, prominent Senator and
a Deputy Superintendent Of Insurance. These say
very badly and crudey to all who may have reason
to do business with the Legislature or one Of the
most important of the state departments
Remember those who have been ard always will
be your friends"
That is the essence of the TaTomany system Of
government. Tammsny wants it's "bit'-in coin,
contracts votes or whatever is the medium of ex-
change at the moment Tammany Is willing to do
business-for consideration-with anybody who
can be valuable TO it, The merits Of the case, the
laws the constitution, don't count What's the con-
stitution between friends, anyhow? 1t only repre-
sents the rights of the general public and Murphy
and his Tammany associates care as much about the
public as they do about the accuracy of campaign
statement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-31
Psychology and Drug Poisonings.

The frequency of poisonings with corrosive subj
mate suggests again as similar experiences before
have DONE the prevalence of some subtle influence
of mind which causes one accident or crime to be
followed by others of the type. That there rs
often such suggestion of crimes is not to be
doubted but that the same rule should govern acct
dents seems remarkable.
1t might have been supposed that the first Of these
bichloride poisoning cases, months ago, would have
reminded people Of the dangerous character Of that
familiar drug and would have moved them to take
special precautions in its use Instead, however,
there seems TO have been actual increase of care
lessness The poison has been kept side by side
with harmless prescriptions, and people have cult
waited the habit of taking medicines in the dark.
How such perversity is to be overcome is puz-
zHng problem. Some have tried putting all poisons
in bottles of peculiar color or shape with pecu-
liar shoppers only TO have people transfer them to
other bottles like those in which harmless drugs
kept. Now it is suggested that bichoride tablets
should be made in special shape, in which case
some people would probably trim them into the
shape Of nnocuous troches. Yet the scheme is
worth trying.