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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-19

was given in kindly charge. There,
too, Roy found a belated letter from
his uncle in answer to his own-lov'
ing. ardent, home-welcoming.
Can l bring Lesbia with me-" was
wired an hour later and the prompt
reply came: "She shall be as my own
daughter"
So these two, welded the next day,
went away from the bright lights SO
delusive, so devouring, as to a rare
palace of dreams-back to the sweet
simple life that was full of smiles
and tenderness, and love.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-19

paired to the distant metropolis. he
had only little money and started
out on his budding career with real
sense and economy. He was fortu-
nate in finding true friend, if one
without much influence.
This was a man considerably older
than himself, one Rolfe Lismond. He
was a cynic. he had gruffness for al.
most everybody. A "has-been,' fail
ure he designated himself. managing
to pick up a few crumbs from the
overloaded table of literary lords who
used his hack services when they
were too indolent or incompetent to
tackle subjects it meant hard work
to traverse.
He showed Roy the paths. and
thorny ones they we're. He educated
him into the mysteries of cheap hall
rooms and inexpensive lunches. His
delight was to fill his old pipe eve
nings and sit dreaming while Roy told
of far-away Upton and its rural de-
, lights. At the end of six months he
had managed to work in Roy as an
occasional writer of sketches for a
society fad paper.
Roy felt the meanness and disloy
atty to his true soul principles every
time he slurred rustic life, for it was
because of his familiarity with coun
try character that he was engaged
His publishers required satire, ridi
Guile. He was obliged to deride the
simplicity of the announcement that
Isl Green was painting his front
fence" or that Our pastor had g
rousing donation party last week
In contradiction with this, he was
compelled to gild the false unnatura
glamour of the white ways. The ar
tificial glare of the bright lights hat
dazzled him at the first. Now the!
sickened his spirit. Distinction, at
fluence might be gained, but to pa!
the price of their acquisition was t.
part with the last vestige of truth ant
integrity.
Il give it up" he said to himsel
! one day. Il will no longer travest!
the sweet simple life must get bacl
to or go mad in this wild whirlpool
of fraud, deceit and hypocrisy"
And Lesbia?
Several times Roy heard Of her, bu
did not seek to meet her. In som
way some college friends had secure
for her an entree as a singer into tn
higher circles Of society. Lesbia ha
a beautiful voice. Her ambition wa
to become an opera singer. Their
when the social season was over, Ro
heard nothing of her. He had abou
given up his city dream. He ha
written YEARLY, longingly to goo
old Uncle James. A very little el
enlargement and Roy was ready t
go back to Upton and begin life a
over again.
Lismond went away on a commi
sion to write up trip around tn
world with some state improvement
committee and Roy was lonely an
discouraged. Then came dark days
no work and no prospects. He We
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-19

compelled to give up the room he
rented and cut down meals to two a
day. Finally even this system ne
could not afford to keep up. He took
the cheapest lodgings by the night
and made do with pound of broken
crackers or yesterdays stale rolls for
a time.
There we're no bright lights now.
All was obscurity. the gloss gone
from metropolitan life, nothing sweet
in the city but the patient lives OF
the poor.
I'll make one last break, try to
get placed and if I fail" he solilo-
quized. and halted there his speech
with a nameless shudder, turning
from the darkly rolling river which
he passed at the moment.
His watch was his last valued prop
erty possession. To this he had
chung, but necessity seemed to de-
mand the sacrifice of the last shred
of responsibility and he pawned it.
His plan was to invest in a new hat
and shoes, tidy up as far as his means
would allow and seek work outside
of the literary field.
With his little store of wealth Roy
left the pawn shop. calculating closely
how he could most effectively invest
his little capital
! 1t was raining and the air was chilly
and disagreeable. He was proceeding
past row of wholesale stores closed
up for the night, when a commotior
proceeded from an intersecting court
! Crash-bang! Then yells, the
shrill tootings of a watchman's whis
tie. Three men dashed into thu
street and past Roy. One of then
dropped a bundle in his fight. The!
were evidently thieves pursued. 4
policeman emerged from the mouth o
the court. He began firing after them
To evade a stray bullet Roy spranl
into building entrance.
1t was dark in the little spac'
where the building elevator started
There was a bench at one side. H
moved towards this as bullet shat
tcLCu d PANE Va 6iooo ACuA W. "A
he did so he pressed closer to f1gur
huddled back at the end of the bench
seemingly disturbing her from sleeI
"Oh! do not harm NEIL was or
ly resting"
Great heavens" gasped Roy an
stood aghast, for the voice was tina
of Lesbia Thorne!
AS she tottered nearer to the ligh
of the street he saw how pale and thi
she was. There were traces Of car
and suffering in her once bonny fac
He spoke his name and she was r.
assured. She almost fell to the sea
He sat down beside her. They forge
, environment, everything, as the
stories were exchanged.
Lesbia had found the road to opera
ic favor a dismal treadmill Povert
, had come, she was homeless.
Roy insisted that she accompan
him to the home Of an old lady wit
: whom he had boarded during his fir
) palmy- days in the city. There ST
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-19
An lmpossib ility.

IT want a good watch-one that will
last me forever"
Cant give you one like that, sir.
All my watches have their hours num-
bered."
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-19

Silicus-When is the proper timeY
congratulate a bride and groom?
Cynicus-After they have lived
getner for at least year and are q
happy.-Philadelphia Record.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-10-19
Al Last,

"Ponson dreamed all his life Of lit.
tie place in the country"
did he ever get it,"
Eyes. He was buried in a country
grave yard"
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

Is A recent debate in a neighboring
town the question; Which is the greater
detriment to the community, a Miser or
a Spendthrift2" was the cause for much
thought on one of the important issues
in most rural towns. Every town in Del
aware has a share of both, but fortunately
for the community at large, this class OF
people are in a negligible quantity To
the town where there is large number
of men who have retired from active
business affairs, and expect to exist upon
the income of farms or other small
properties which they have either heired
or accumulated during their lifetime, there
is but little public spirit or pride in the
towns welfare to be found. In such
communities there is a tendency to sub
ordinate all things, temporal or spiritual,
to the personal purse Of the individual,
and as result, the tendency which domi-
mates the people of communities is, a
mild preparation to die; but even this is
not vigorously supported, probably in
the hope to procrastinate the event of
death. What the people Of Delaware
need to learn, is How to live How
to get the most helpful enjoyment out of
life while living, and leave to posterity
the knowledge of how to make the world
and those who come after happier, and
not how to skimp, deprive or stop i'm
provements. Teach the people how to
be happy and how they can better live so
that they may enjoy the wealth and
blessings entrusted to them, is the real
mission of life, and when this is recog-
nized and acted upon as the underlying
principles Of the towns purposes, then
that community will leap forward in
prosperity.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28
COMMUNICATED.

To the CHRONICLES:
May ! have short space in your val.
ued paper to speak a word in behalf of q
fellow townsman
Observing by trend of political thought
and the probable action of the next Re
publican State Convention to be held on
September End, that the office of Auditor
of Accounts will in all probability be con
ceded to Kent County, l wish to present
for nomination for that office Colonel
Theodore Townsend.
He has lived in our community most
of his life, and no one can Justly say
anything derogatory to his character
As to his ability, he has edited and
published the CHRONICLE since it was
first published, acceptably to this COM
munity.
He has labored to boost" for what
he considered the best interest of the
town of Milford, and Kent and Sussex
counties, and in fact the whole State.
He has given us all what money could
not buy-the kindly and fatherly interest
which an efficient editor ever takes in
the individual and communal life of his
people.
For many years he served efficiently,
accepta0ly and faithfully as the secretary
of Town Council. and is an expert and
experienced accountant.
There is no one anywhere i'll the Com
monwealth better qualified or more able
to perform the duties of Auditor.
Allow me, through the medium of your
paper, to urge upon the delegates to the
State Convention, who have the nomina-
ton at their disposal, to name Colonel
Theodore Townsend as the nominee of
the Republican Party for the candidate
for office of AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS.
Kent County should give him the caucus
nomination and if it does, he surely will
be nominated
This is the wish and hope of fellow
ownsman and an OBSERVER. "
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

State Convention of the Republican Party Of
the State Of Delaware will be held at Dover on
Wednesday, September 2 A. d. 1914, for the pur-
pose Of nominating a candidate for the office Of
Representative from the State of Delaware in the
Sxty-fourth Congress of the United States a can
didate for the Office Of State Treasurer. candidate
for the office Of Auditor of Accounts and for the
purpose Of transacting such business as may prop
erly come before it.
The convention shall consist Of one hundred and
sixty delegates. apportioned among the several
districts follows
Forty delegates to be chosen from the First Dis
trict.
Thirty-eight delegates to be chosen from the
Second District
Forty delegates to be chosen from the Third
District.
Forty-two delegates to be chosen from the
Fourth District.
The Executive Committees Of the respective
District Committees are directed toissue calls des-
ignating the time and places for holding said Pri-
mary Election in accordance with the provisions
Of the Primary Election Law, and shall have auth
0riy in all matters necessary for the proper hold
ing of said election.
Upon closing the polls the judges shall publicly
count the votes and make certificates of the result
Of the election in duplicate one of which shall be
delivered TO the delegate or delegates elected and
the other forthwith mailed to the Secretary of the
Republican State Committee at Dover.
EDWIN MITCHELL.
Chairman Republican State Committee
THOMAS S. LEWIS.
Secretary. Republican State Committee.
Wilmington Del. August p 1914
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

EVERY farmer in Delaware who has
land that will grow scarlet clover, and all
have that kind of land has an opportu-
nifty to get the benefit of higher prices
which will follow the great war now rag
ing in Europe. The scarlet clover seed
of Germany has dominated the market
price of that kind of seed in the United
States for many years past, but for the
next two or three years that source of
competition viii be cut off, and the farm
ers of Delaware especially must meet
their opportunity by sowing largely of
scarlet clover, even if the price for the
seed shall be outrageously high. When
the crop of 1915 is ready to mature. the
greater part should be saved for seed
purposes, and Delaware will be in posi-
tion to supply the markets of the United
States at profitable prices to the grower,
and at the same time benefit the land.
Now is the time to sow scarlet clover
seed, and the farmer who has any enter
prise or is awake to the future of his
business, will SOW every acre possible in
his crop for a money crop in 1915. Re
member this is a fact which can not be |
,ontroverted by any argument.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

AT the Republican primary elections
held last Wednesday to select delegates
for the State Convention which will make
out the State ticket, there were contests
in only two of the voting districts in all
the county and they were of small in
terest. The State Convention will meet
next Wednesday at Dover, and there the
platform for this campaign will be con-
structed and the candidates named. At
the present outlook, everything is favor
able for not only carrying the State but
even the democratic stronghold, Kent
County, where the greatest activity exists
in all the State.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28
CANDIDATES TAKE WARNING.

Under the new primary law all names
Of persons who desire to become candi-
lates for any position on the county
ticket must file their names with the
chairman or the secretary OF the County
Committee ten days before the primaries
are to be held. In Kent County this will
mean that all names must be filed on or
before midnight of September 1st, 1914,
who want their names on the Republican
ticket for the primaries. This means
that next Monday night is the last day
for filing.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28
ST. JOHNSTOWN.

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hitch and daughter.
OF wilmington, are visiting her parents.
Mr.; and Mrs. Richard Wiley.
Virgil Smith has returned from Re.
hoboth, where he has been employed all
summer.
Sewell McIlvaine, with a party of
friends, motored to Bowers Beach on
Friday and spent the week end at that
bayshore resort. '''''
Miss Myrtle McIlvaine has returned
home, after a weeks visit with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. R. VIII
ley, at Greenwood.
Miss Bertha Dickerson has returned
home after spending two weeks with
her sister, Mrs. Eugene Donovan, near
Glendale. IWHrrF WrJc
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

/ secret of their work, and were caught in
the act of selling liquor. One colored
man from Wilmington, and a white man
/ from Millsboro, were arrested and taken
to Georgetown. Several colored men
from Milford engaged in playing crap,
by tording the head of the mill pond,
escaped, and one of them who had on
white trousers, is said to have been a
sorry looking sight, when he at last
found civilization, and boarded the auto
that was looking for them to return to
Milford. There was large attendance
at camp on Sunday evening Twelve
hundred persons is the estimate. twill
continue another Sunday. Truly the
colored people must be given credit for
having some vim and activity about them.
Had liquor selling been in vogue at a
white camp meeting around here, we
doubt very much whether anythiug
would have been done to stop it.
The right hind tire ot an automobile
from FELTON, to Rehoboth burst with
loud report while going out of Milton on
Sunday, and the party was obliged TO
put on another
From the Chandler peach orchards up
to and including Tuesday, there have
been shipped twenty carloads of peaches
averaging 500 baskets each. When the
season is over, if practicable. we will
publish the product Of these orchards
correctly.
Congratulations are now being exteu-
ded to Mr.. James r. Turner. station
agent at Milton, who on Saturday took
unto himself a bride. The fortunate
lady is Miss Alice G. Walker, of near
town. The ceremony was performed at
Denton, Md, by the Rev. Il. A. G.
Westerfeld. The happy pair will reside
in property of Captain Hunter on Chest
nut street.
Mrs. J. J. Morris is vet quite i'll at her
home corner Broad and Mulberry streets
William J, Fowler is very low at the
home of his sister, Mrs ]. F.. Johnson.
on North Union street.
Mrs. J. c. Clendaniel is still suffering
with paralysis at her home, on North
street.
w. w. Conwell, of this town is A can I
didate for State Senator from the Fifth
Representative District, subject TO the
Democratic primaries.
Eleanor, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. /
Daniel Shockley died near Milton on 4
Sunday, aged 9 months and Is days. /
Funeral services were held at the home
Of her parents on Tuesday afternoon bv /
the Rev Holland, and interment made .
in Odd Fellow Cemetery by S. I. Viii /.
son. d. 4 G
FARM FOR SALE Good buildings Addrass
da Abbott. Milton Del. s-2s4tn
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28
LONG NECK.

Miss Jennie Warrington is now visit
ing relatives in Wilmington.
Miss Rosie Bryan, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Bryan formerly of this
place, surprised her friends when she
and Webster Lawson of Millsboro, were
quietly married at Zoar Camp on Sun
day, August 23rd.
c. H. Lingo has greatly improved the
appearance of his home by new coat
Of paint, the work being done by Frank
Abbott and William Barto, Jr.
Mrs. Catherine Salmons, of Lewes. is
spending this month with her brother,
Frank Parsons.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

THE war in Europe has affected the
United States in many ways, and aside
from the shutting off of our market for
food-stuf, it has shut off the revenue.
which have heretofore come to the
United States treasury from duties on
imports, which our Democratic friends
have depended upon TO supply the money
with which to run the government. This
condition has made it necessary for Con
gress to take steps to provide revenue
from our own sources at home, and the
internal revenue taxes which have never
been used unless war conditions exist at
home, will have to be put in force at
once to escape serious financial embarass-
ment in the treasury. It is probable
that additional taxes will be placed upon
liquors, beer and possibly upon sugar
and coffee, so as to replace the loss from
duties upon the goods which can not
come from Europe so long as the war
there is going on. The Delaware PENN
sula has experienced the pinch Of the
war conditions, and before long the
will be brought home to the
the United States that the war in Europe
is a calamity for the whole world.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

TT has been announced that the Della
ware Leader, which was started as a local
paper at Laurel by Sirman Marvil two
years ago, has discontinued publication.
1t was never paying enterprise, and
Mr.. Marvil' responsibilities to the estate
which has recently come to him by the
death of his father, prevents him giving
attention to its publication.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

IN all of Sussex County there are
twenty-five voting districts, and at only
three of these will there be any contest
as to selection of delegates to attend the
State Convention at Dover on September
End. The primaries will be held tomor-
row, 29th instant, at the various voting
places, and we predict that the people
will be more than satisfied with the work
ing Of the new primary laws OF course
the old political bosses who set mp the
tickets in their own offices, will cry out
against the primary laws, simply because
they will have lost the power to dictate
nominations. Its up to the people them
selves under the primary law system, and
If they fail to act, there is nobody to
blame for their lack of interest but them
selves. Happily, the days of county CON
ventions are passed, and the people say
directly through their ballots who shall
represent them.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

AT the Democratic primaries which
will be held in Kent County tomorrow
there will be bitter contests for several
offices, but that for the sheriffalty will be
the most bitterly fought of any, as there
are four candidates working for the place,
and each seems to be confident of win
ming. Unfortunately personal feelings
have been injected into the contest. and
that will cause a resultant soreness on the
part of the defeated workers, which will
resultina general lack of fighting interest.
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

FARM FOR SALE Good buildings. Address.
Ida Abbott. Milton, Del. s95eitrs ~
Milford chronicle., 1914-08-28

Steel Frame Springs, 81, $2.75 & $500
Steel Folding $19S, So & $500
The Washington times., 1914-03-11
D|GGERS SEEK BODY
OF BEAUTIFUL GIRL
Concetta Is Supposed to Have
Been Slain by Murder Gang
for Which She Was Bait.

WHITE PLAINS, n. Y, March H.
Believing they may find the body of n
beautiful young woman known as Con-
cetta. workmen. under the direction Of
of Coroner lies and the sheriff. contin-
ued to dig up the YARD In the rear of
Charles Bombaras hotel on the Tarry-
town road today.
Concetta Is said to have been used by
a band OF men known AS the murder
syndicate to lure victims to their
death. and the authorities believe she
was finally killed by the syndicate
for fear she would reveal their opera
tions.
The murder syndicate Is believed to
have been responsible for the death of
a half dozen persons. On. man Is now
awaiting execution In Sing Sing us II
result of an investigation. another is
serving seven years for nanslau2htcr,
and four others are awaiting trial.
Pietro Rebacci, awaiting execution,
is said to have made Il confession de-
claring that Concetta was murdered
the same night Philipo Carida was slain
She brought Carida to her room, II Is
said. understanding that he was merely
going to be asked to Sive up certain
information. Instead. he was Filled as
he held the young woman in his arms.
Fearing her anger, the murderers then
took her life.
The Washington times., 1914-03-11
COMMITTEE OF 100
TOLAY PLANS TODAY
Citizens viii Outline Campaign
to Defeat Legislation That
Opposes Organic Act.

course of action toward preserving
tlIe half -and-half taxation principle in
the District. the necessity for which
has caused 100 leading citizens to COM
hine in an effort to convince Congress
Of the Districts inability TO carry the
load alone" will be mapped out this
afternoon by the executive committee
Of ten members at n meeting of the
full committee in the New Willard:
Dr II. W. Wiley. general chairman,
win call the meeting to order at
o'clock, and Henry B. F. Macfarland.
chairman of the executive committee,
will set before the committee of 100 a
detailed plan of action
The keynote of this afternoons meet
ing will be action The executive
body will report to the full committee
that its work is to quicken the interest
in the Capital of Congressman and
citizens of the nation at large To ac-
complish this, Chairman Macfarland
will outline a system of education TO
acquaint members of both branches OF
Congress with the necessity of continu-
ing the half-and-half plan and to de-
feat all legislation that will prove
inirnical to the best interests of the
The committee Of 100 does not propose
10 enter into a controversy with respect
to Federal legislation, but, on the other
hand, stands ready to cooperate in any
effort to better conditions of the Dis
trict.
Similarly disposed is the Southern
Commercial Congress, the first organi-
ration that has formally come forward
10 tie assistance of the newly organized
committee Of 100. In explaining the
attitude of the Southern Congress to
Washington. DR.. Clarence J. Owens, its
managing director, says: The South is
interested in a patriotic and sentimental
way in all that goes to make Washing
ton more Beautiful and more attractive
rs city of homes, bat beyond the
realization of Washington as the seat Of
government and a place Of residential
Importance. the officers of the Southern
Commercial Congress believe that in the
field of agriculture, industry. finance,
and commerce, Washington's opportun-
ity lies to the South
The Washington times., 1914-03-11
Asquith Confers Over
Home Rule Exclusion

LONDON, March r.-Irish National
ist leaders in the house of commons
today conferred with Premier Asquith
regarding Sir Edward Carson's pro-
posal to submit the governments home
rule compromise to an Ulster confer
ence provided the Liberals would Of
fer permanent exclusion to counties
voting to reject home rule.
The Nationalists are opposed to fur
ther concessions.