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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-31
PLOR|NG SLEMP
TO Be CANDIDATE:
Constituents Want Him to Stay
in Field and Save Ninth
District.
IE STILL IS DETERMINED
May Issue Another Statement
Reitcrating His Inten-
ton to Retire.
Isneclnl 10 rhc rinns-nisnn,ch

Special TO The Times Dispatch
Washington ID G.. March 3O.-Despite
me several statements made by him
that under no circumstances viii hc
again be a candidate for Congress- from
Inc Ninth Congressional District OF
virginia, Congressman Campbell Bas-
com Slcmp continues to receive letters
al the rate OF about forty or fifty a day
! ansistins that he must make the race
as tho only Republican who is surc TO
carry the district against Il. Tate
IRVINE. Of Big stone Gap.
II Is doubtful II any man in Congress
eyer had the hold on the constituents
OF mis- district, az Is indicated by tho
hundrcdS OF letters he receives implor-
ing him in the name OF friendship. pa
serve as Congressman.
up TO the. present time Mr.. Slcmp is
~ the letters from his district make
II plain that the Ninth District Re
pub!icans Will not take no for an an
swcr, but Will again nominate him.
whether lie wishes 10 run or not
Iteports Are Encourngiug.
ton De mo pdlit!eians IN Wishing
SI;ufnisi ne reports received from the
Hintn District OF pledges of support
Tor Mr.. Irvine. the Democratic camdi-
gate. and some express the belief that
~ the coiicctorship for the West can
ultimately be given TO tho Ninth Dis
are r,et ha ana the other Gatr9nage matters
IS fair probability OF MIR. Irvine being
successful.
, u There is a strong belief. however,
among experts in patronage and poll
ties here that Mr.. irvine weakened j,ie
cause considerably when he stated 70
n rnt h hristol convention that he would
until after his election
me elections Will not be over until
no NotGinber. and by that time tho Demo
| cratic party Will have been in power
a am two years. with Republicans
u,iiscouraging to the Democrats. who
HaNe occn Kept away from the "nie
counter Tor fourteen years and en-
c9uraging to the Republicans, who viii
6i1ry IN me fnct that the Democrats,
hlth"uSn In the White House. have not
frn,r Hniu 10 take the offices away
What Mr.. Irvine should havo done,
ttncE say VAS TO have declared himself
communities for the selection OF the
most popular officials. The primary is
fifSibr S haG pop,uiar Just at present. and
people to choose their postmastcrs and
other officials by town primaries and
pleuge himself 10 see that tho man re-
he would have struck a popular chord
and brought several hundreds of votes
to his side.
May Issue Statement
It is quito probable that Mr.. Sleup
VII Issue another statement from
Washinston, that under no c,rcum-
s siad,t VIII ne be n candidate for re-
rms statement and the way in which
! 1t Is received will have q great effect
on the Republican. convention in the
Ninth District. to be held in July. 1t
| - conceded on all sides that with Mr.
S.e!np out or the race, the chances OF
the Democrats TO land the district will
puhlicans of the district would be for
Slemn, whereas they might seriously
split II another candidate should be put
forward G.. II. NJ.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-31

latest arrang ements OF the committed
In charge, and there viii be big sill
ver cup and ribbons of honor for the
couples dancing best the ore-step ana
hesitation waltz. Plans for the enter
tainInemt are most elaborate. and sew
eral hundred people VIII be IN at
tendance
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-31

| Airs. w. a. Chambers. assisted by Miss
/ Rattle Fuller poured tea. Mrs. l.. H.
Lewis was chairman OF tho day.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-31
Cinsscr--ltcur.

bly, ana Mrs. Philip Bear, OF South
Richmond. announce the engagement
OF their daughter, Anna, to Dr. Robert
L.. Chaser. OF Norfolk. No date has
as Yet been announced for the cere-
Iuony.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-31

Enlargement !,

MIS-. Alexander Turner stuart, o
Petersburg, has Issued invitations 10
the marriage of her daughter. Carri
Virginia, to Joseph Vaughan Box
iey, OF Richmond, the ceremony TO tax
place on the evening of Tuesday, Apri
-, al o'clock, 1t North Third Street
Richmond.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-31
Al the Art Club.
Violin ktecitnI.

Mrs. Hcquembourl
VIII give a charminl
row afternoon at 1 &C
ing OF the Gintor Par
y very interesting p
arranged. and the all:
the most interesting I
club this spring.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31

tather, but even yet | am at loss to
know how he could have cast me
away so lightly. Was it merely that
he wanted peace for his business and
saw no chance of securing 1t in his
own home except by removing the
chief cause OF Aunt Budgets jeaI-
ousy? Or was 1t that his old grudge
against Fate for making me a girl
made him wish TO rid himself OF the
sight Of me?
| do not know. ] can not say. But
in either case ! try in vain to see how
he could have thought he had a right,
caring nothing for me, to tear me
from the mother who loved me and
had paid for me so dear; or how he
could have believed that because he
was my father, charged with the care
of my poor little body, he had control
over the little bleeding heart which
was not his TO make to suffer
He is my father-God help me to
think the best of him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31
Synopsis.

HARY O'NEILL begins her story
N By telling hot0 her father
49, born in ELAN. the SON Of peas
ants, had gone IN America, become
rich and had then returned to his
birthplace, oherc he married the
daughter 81 Captain O'NeiH. Of the
O'NeiHs, and had changed his name
from Daniel NedIe 10 Daniel O'NcM
she tells Of her olon birth and Of her
fathers disappointment, for If boy
had been born he lr0uld hare been
Lord Rdd bv right Of his mother.
she tells Father Dan, the priest,
and ~ her mother, an inUdld from
her earliest memory, and Of her Aunt
Bridget, toho came 10 keep house for
Daniel O'NeiH and brought 10Th her
her daughter and her stepdauOhtcr.
Her aunt soon came TO run the house
and TO domineer 0Uer Mary and her
mother and 10 make them both rery
unhappy. QudrreIs, IN i0hich MdrB's
father GLlCdBs took the side Of her
aunt, toere mann, and after one Of
them he declared that the children
must all 90 to school.
one Christmas ere she hears the
"pdits" and conceiues the idea ~
singing the rails herself In her i'm
patience she f0rOets to put on either
hat or cloak and steals out UiM moth
ing on but pair Of thin slippers and
a reluet frOck that ledDes her neck
and arms bare. she is tdken into
the home ~ Doctor Conrad and is
kept there all night in the morning
she makes the acquaintance Of the
doctors SON. q boz named Martin
lohose greatest delight is to play he
is an explorer.
She is sent to school. Uhere the
teacher is creature of her dunfs
One day the teacher catches her Whis-
perin0 and is about TO lOhip her, Ghen
she is sdUed bv Martin Conrad.
one day Mary and Martin 90 err
pl0yiHg" IN a boat and land on
rocE. Their boat floats diCdD and late
Ia night they are found, fast asleep
in each others arms. ~ is decided,
against her mothers protests, TO send
Mary TO cOnpent in Rome.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31
FOURTEENTH CHAPTER.

Alma kept her word, though per-
haps her method of protection was
such as would have commended it
self only to the heart of a child.
1t consisted in calling me Margaret
Mary after our patron saint of the
Sacred Heart, in taking me round the
garden during recreation as If / had
been pet poodle. and. above all. in
making my bed the scene of the con-
versations which some OF the girls
held at night when they were sup
posed to be asleep.
The secrecy of these gatherings
fattered me, and when the unclouded
moon, in the depths of the deep blue
Italian sky, looked In on my group of
girls in their nightdresses, punched
together on my bed. with my own lit
tie body between, l had feeling of
dignity as well as solemnity and awe.
or course, Alma was the chief
spokeswoman at these whispered con-
ferences. Sometimes she told us of
her drives into the Borghese Gardens.
where she saw the King and Queen.
or TO the Hunt in the Campagna,
where she met the flower OF the aris-
tocracy, or to the Pincio, where the
municipal band played in the pavilion.
while ladies sat in their carriages in
the sunshine and officers in blue
cloaks saluted them and smiled
Sometimes she indicated her inten-
tlons for the future, which was GER
tainly not to be devoted to retreats
and novenas, or to witness another
black dress as long as she lived. and
II she married (Which was uncertainty
It was not to he to an American but
TO Frenchman, because Frenchmen
had family" and blood" or per
haps to an Englishman. II he was a
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31

~ FER ME, sed Pa last mite, It is
talking me a long time to git
oaver the holidays Chrismus &
New Yeers is past for sum time but
amt recovered vet
You certingly haven't been any sun
beam around the house. sed Ma I al
most wish Chrismus was onst every FIVE
yeare. II II wasent for Iittel Bobble. II
seems strange to me Mad sed, that a
full grown man cant get oaver a simpel
littel holiday week without being like a
bear with soar toe.
This Chrismus hit me pritty hard,
sed Pa IN the first place, you know
that ! didn't want TO send presents to
all Of our relatives this year You know
what relatives are. Pa sed. or II you
doant know you ought to. But you have
TO go Jest the saim & maik out a list
OF forty Mains of relatives. e. have
got 10 dig down h buy every one OF
them present Moast OF them forgot
10 remember US. sed Pa. but I am glad
thay did forget I doant like the idee
OF giving presents Jest beekaus you are
expecting a present from the other per
son. I am glad thay didn't remember
us.
Ma
Well, sed Ma. l always enjoy the hoh
day seeson. | think II maiks peepul stop
a minnit In thare mad rush to get along,
q think about sum kind deed that thay
mite do. II is the spirit OF the holidays
that does me good, sed Ma. not tho pres
ents that ! reeceeve or the mummy
spend for a gift or two.
Well. anyhow. sed Pa. these last holi-
days seem as hard for me to get oaver
az the Civil war g. hoap beefoar long
I will be on my feet aggenn & feel like
a human beeing I haven't felt rite since
| caught that awful coald Christmas
Eve
You wud6ent have caught that awful
cold, sed Ma. II you haddent been out
around with yure trends Tom g. Jerry.
You must think lot OF Tom g. Jerry,
herd you talking about them in yure
sleep.
That isent the Mains of men, Pa sed
10 Nh. tnat IL the ndltn OF nice, holt
drink It's such a soft drink that II
slips down like velvet. Pa SGD. No, deer,
II wasent anything but that awful cold
l caught & the awful pile of mummy |
spent that has me feeling like a Gloom
these days. VILE Pa was talking that
way I went in the other room & rote
this littel poem witch l red to him n
Ma:
Wen Christmas is gone do you kick, my
friend,
At yure cold or the mummy you had to
spend.
II so. that Is vary small Of you,
We can't eat our pie g. Have II, too.
stop having that kind of selfish feeling,
Put on a smile & doant be squeezing.
suppose you rote that fer my BEN
EFT, sed Pa.
Yes. I sed, a wen / rote II had
worse cold than You have. You ought
10 be ashamed to be such old crouch,
] sed.
Then Pa began TO Ian a patted ma
on the he'd g. gave me ten cents.
thought wud git at least a quarter.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31
PAST GOING
FOR TWO YEARS
And This Lady Thinks She
Would Have Become
Helpless, but for Car
dui, The Woman's
Tonic.

waldron. Ark-Miss Gertrude
Houston. of this place. authorizes the
following for publication; 81 want TO
tell all ladies who suffer from any
kind OF womanly trouble, among
them weakness. headache, backache
hurting in sides, pains every month,
nervousness, etc, TO try Cardm the
woman's tonic. Get it at once. as II
is what you need After you use one
bottle, you VIII never regret your
start.
Il was just about past going for
over two years with the above all
ments, and had II not been for Cardui
would have been helpless no doubt
Il took one bottle. and my health
began 10 improve, and before the bot
tie was gone l was almost well. Now
my health is perfectly all right
so. lady friends. II YOU want 8
medicine that will do you real good
take Cardui, the woman's tonic"
IT you are weak and ailing, thinl
what Il would mean 20 recover a
rapidly and surely as ala Miss Hous
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strength building remedy has hoe,
used by more than million ladies
who found It Of untold value In re-
lieving womaniy pains and silment,
II you are woman. therefore. ,r
cardui. You win appreciate its ton
Rebuilding effect on the womanI
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n. b. Write 70; ladies' Advise,
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ouest.--A6vts
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31

to be devoted to meditation, although
could not help seeing that some of
the big girls were whispering to each
other while their heads were down.
After that, and mass in the church,
we went scurrying away 10 the refec-
tory. which was now warm with the
steam from our breakfast and bub-
cling with cheerful voices, making a
noise like water boiling in a sauce
pan.
| was 80 absorbed by all ] saw that
forgot to eat until Mildred nudged
me to do so, and even when my spoon
was halfway to my mouth something
happened which brought 1t down
again.
At the tinkle OF hand bell one of
the big girls had stepped up to the
reading desk and begun to read from
a book which / afterward knew to be
The Imitation of Christ" She was
about 16 years of age. and her face
was so vivid that could not take my
eyes off It.
Her complexion was fair and her
hair was auburn. but her eyes were so
dark and searching that when she
raised her head. as she often did.
they seemed to look through and
through you
who is she?" I Whispered,
Alma Lier," Mildred whispered
hack, and when breakfast was over
and we were trooping back to lessons
she told me something about her
Alma was an American. Her faith
err was very rich, and his home was
in New York. But her mother lived
in Paris, though she was staying at
hotel in Rome at present, and some
times she came in a carriage to take
her daughter for a drive.
Alma was the cleverest girl in the
school, TOO. and sometimes at the end
of terms, when parents and friends
came to the convent and one Of the
Cardinals distributed the prizes, She
had so many books to take away that
she could hardly carry them down
| from the platform
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31
EIGHT Hours Only.

The new school teacher in q rural
town gave a boy a question in com
pound proportion for homework one
evening. 1t included the ctrcun'
stance of "men working ten hours
day to complete certain task.
The next morning the teacher IN
looking over the little pack OF exer-
cises, found one boys sum wnoiy
uninterrupted. Calling him to her, she
asked why he had not tried to do tns
sum
The boy. after considerable FUN.
bling around in his pockets, brougn.
forth a note from his father ana
handed IL to her. Unfolding H. the
teacher read:
Miss refuse to let my boy 40
his sum you give him. as it looks 70
me to be slur at eight-hour system'
emmy sum not more than eight hours
he is welcum to do, but not more.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31

| At the next moment Mildred
stepped back to me, and putting her
arm about my waist she said
Never mind, Mary. She's heart
less thing Don't have anything to
do with her"
But all the sunshine had gone out
Of the day for me now and | cried
| for hours. l was still crying, silently
but bitterly, when at o'clock we
were saying the night prayers, and
l saw Alma, who was in the oppo-
site benches, whispering TO one Of the
girls who sat next to her and then
looking straight across at me.
A Reconciliation.
And at o'clock when we went to
bed I was crying more than ever, SO
that after the good might bell had
been rung and the lights had been
put down, Sister Angela, not know
ing the cause Of my sorrow, stepped
up to my bed before going down
stairs for her own studies, and whis-
pered:
you mustn't fret for home, Mary.
You will soon get used to it."
But hardly had l been left alone,
with the dull pain 1 could find no
ease for, when somebody touched me
on the shoulder, and, looking up, l
saw a girl in her nightdress standing
A limo oh q
said:
Say, little girl. is your name
O'Neill?"
Trembling with nervousness I an
swered that it was.
do you belong TO the O'Neills of
Ellan?"
Still trembling I told her that l did.
MY" she said in quite another
tone, and then I saw that by some
means I had begun to look different
in her eyes.
After a moment she sat on the side
of my bed and asked questions about
my .home-if 1t was not large and
very old, with big stone staircases
and great open f1replaces. and broad
| terraces, and beautiful walks going
down to the sea-
was so filed with the Joy OF
finding myself looking grand in AL
mas eyes, that I answered yes" and
yes" without thinking too closely
about her questions, and my tears
were all brushed away when she said:
| II knew somebody who lived in
your house once, and I'll tell her all
about you
She stayed a few moments longer
and when going off she whispered:
Hope you don't feel badly about
my laughing in the garden to-day.
didn't mean thing. But If any Of the
| girls laugh again just say you're Alma
Lier's friend and she's going to take
care of you"
/ could hardly believe my ears
Some great new splendor had sud
denly dawned upon me and I was
very happy.
/ did not know then that the
house which Alma had been talking OF
was not my fathers house, but Castle
Raa. I did not know then that the
person who had lived there was her
mother and that in her comely and
reckless youth she had been some
thing TO the bad Lord Raa who had
dashed my father and sworn at my
grandmother.
l did not know anything that was
dead and buried in the past, OF
shrouded and yelled in the future.
only knew that Alma had called her
self my friend and promised to take
care of me. So with a glad heart ]
went to sleep.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31
A Child S Worship.

listened to this with admiring
awe, thinking Alma the most Won
derful and worshipful OF all creatures
and when | remember It now. after all
these years, and the bitter experiences
which have come with them. I hardly
know whether to laugh or cry at the
thought that such was the impression
she first made on me-
My class was with the youngest Of
the children, and Sister Angela was
my teacher. She was so sweet to me
that her encouragement was like a
kiss and her reproof like a caress: but
could think OF nothing but Alma.
and at noon when the bell rang for
lunch and Mildred took me back to
the refectory. wondered II the same
girl would read again
She did. but this time In foreign
language, French as Mildred whis-
pered the letters of the Blessed
Margaret Mary Alacoque--and my
admiration for Alma went MP tenfold.
l wondered II It could possibly occur
that | should ever come to know her
There is no worship like that OF a
child. and life for me. which had
seemed so cold and dark the day be-
fore. became warm and bright with 9
new splendor.
l was impatient Of everything that
took me away from the opportunity
OF meeting with Alma the visit "a
the lay-sisters 10 be measured for my
new black clothes. the o'clock
! rosary" when the nuns walked with
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-31

their classes In the sunshine, and,
above all, the voluntary visit to the
Blessed Sacrament in the Church of
the Convent, which seemed to me
large and gorgeous, though divided
across the middle by an open bronze
screen. called a Cancello-the inner
half, as Mildred whispered, being Cor
the inmates of the school, while the
outer half was for the congregation
which came on Sunday to Benedic-
ton.
But at o'clock we had dinner,
when Alma read again-this time in
Italian-from the writings of Saint
Francis of Sales-and then, to my in
finite delight, came a long recreation
when all the girls scampered out into
the convent garden, which was still
bright with afternoon sunshine and
as merry with laughter and shouts as
the seashore on a windy summer
morning.
Ridiculed by Idol.
The garden was a large bare in
closure, bounded on two sides by the
convent buildings and on the other
two by yellow wall and an avenue
made by line of stone pines with
heads like open umbrellas, but it had
no other foliage except an old tree,
which reminded me of Tommy the
Mate having gnarled and sprawling
limbs, and standing like a weather
| beaten old sailor, four square in the
middle.
A number of the girls were singing
| and dancing around this tree, and |
felt so happy Just then that l should
have loved to join them, but I was
consumed by a desire to come to close
quarters with the object Of my devo-
! ton, so I looked eagerly about me ami
asked Mildred II Alma was likely TO
be there.
Sure to be" said Mildred. and
hardly were the words out OF her
| mouth when Alma herself came
! straight down in our direction. sur
rounded by a group Of admiring girls.
who were hanging on to her and
laughing at everything she said.
My heart began to hump, and
without knowing what | was doing,
l stopped dead short, while Mildred
went on a pace or two ahead of me.
Then / noticed that Alma had
stopped, too and that her great
searching eyes were looking down al
me. In my nervousness, l tried 10
smile, but Alma continued to stare
and at length, in the tone of one who
had accidentally turned up something
with her toe that was little and ridic-
ulous. she said:
Goodness. girls, what's this?"
Then she burst into a fit of laugh
ter, in which the other girls Joined
and, looking up and down, they al
laughed together
knew what they were laughing al
the clothes my mother had made fol
me and I had felt so proud Of. Thai
burnt me like iron, and I think my
lip must have dropped, but Alma
showed no mercy.
Dare say the little doll thinks her.
self pretty, though" she said. AnC
then she passed on, and the girls will
her, and as they went off they looked
back over their shoulders and laughed
again.
Never since any human creature
not even Alma herself-made me SUE
fer more than l suffered at that mo
ment My throat felt tight, tear
leapt to my eyes, disappointment hu
initiation and shame swept over m,
like flood. and | stood squeezing m,
little handkerchief in my hand ant
feeling as If could have died.