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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
FOR old loves SAKE
workings of Strange Fate
changed the Tenor Of Three
Young Lives.
BY AUGUSTUS GOODRICH sHss.
WIN,

oomplacently luxuriatine In n sbad.
Gu garden arbor. revealing in all the
superb pride and disdain Of a siren
nature Portia Manville sat with clos.
Gu eyes She was immersed in a tri.
umphant yet bitter day dream that
humid, languorous June afternoon To
a Keen analyst of womanly character
one would not have appealed vet no
one had ever denied that her 1.-THE.
graceful form, exquisitely modelled
features, and, above all the rare glory
OF her loneliness, her long magnificent
mar nne and cleaning like shredded
amber, made of her a magnetic. queen.
like Gree.
She was thinking of Dolph Merrill,
man we'll worth thinking Of, she told
herself Her mind went back a year,
wneh, with one chapter of her life
CLOSED. dark and stormy one. she
met Dolph Merrill, just returning from
college Both belonged to families of
wealth and position. The fathers and
mothers had encouraged a love match.
Portia had played her wiles well. She
mad fascinated the bright, open.heart-
ed Dolph as she had entrapped others.
lie was happy In the meshes of her
Vaccinations until her true character
became disclosed to him. Too late he
discovered that he had taken interest
IN lovely woman for love. He doubt.
ed even that she cared for him down
IN her heart But they had become
engaged. Wretched to the point of
heart break he felt his word and his
honor involved In a dull state OF
misery he saw the days and weeks go
by that must end with a mockery of
marriage at the altar.
And then. one glorious love-flled
month when Portia had been away on
a visit, came to Dolph a full measure
of happiness. First as acquaintances,
then as friends, and then as unspoken
lovers he and Neva Throop had drift.
ed into hours when the sight of one
another was bliss complete. Then the
rude awakening-the return of Portia
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
WHEN A NAME MEANT MUCH
Old English Law Made More Than
Two Applications illegal Royalty
Only Excepted.

People have not always been allow
ed the pleasure of having as many
names as they wish. Four hundred
years ago not even middle name was
allowed in England. 1t was illegal
The old English law was definite and
admitted of no infection of Its ruling.
The only exception made to this
regulation was in the case of persons
of royal rank If they wished they
could boast a middle name, but woe
to the person Of ordinary rank who
was sufficiently unwise or obstinate
to insist on having more than two
appellations.
For the first offense he would likely
be tied to a whipping post and severe
ly lashed. For a second offense he
would endure some more lasting pun
ishment, perhaps the removal OF his
thumbs or his ears. And II he still
persisted in his stubborness he would
be hanged.
There is case on record of man
who insisted on singning four names
every time he wrote his signature. He
passed through all the legal stages OF
punishment until he was finally
hanged.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19

and his soulful remorse that he had
learned to love Neva and had taught
her to love him,
She never chided him when they
parted. She told him frankly that the
month they had lived was worth to
her all the suffering its future men,
ory must entail Dolph had gone to
Portia. He had confessed his mis-
take in their engagement. There was
no pity in that stony heart Just one
firm, cruel curl of those proud lips,
and Dolph Merrill knew that this siren
woman would never release him.
On that same afternoon Neva
Throop sat with her work basket be-
side her. The sad tears fell, she be-
came lost in a dreary reverie, and
was only aroused when hand stole
across the porch table and seized the
long. sharp scissors.
"Why. Margaret" she exclaimed
looking up with start and recogniz-
ing a poor demented woman VINO
wandered about the district, cared Tor
nv charity in her lucid spells and kept
under lock and key when violent.
Poor Margaret had been crazed
through the death OF her only child.
At times she fancied her little Nellie
was still alive.
Don't get frightened, dear, spoke
Margaret, quietly enough, but Neva
noticed that her eyes were more than
ordinarily wild looking. Il Just want
IN borrow your pretty scissors for a
! few minutes.
"Rut what do you want them for,
Margaret" inquired Neva, doubling
the prudence of trusting what might
he used as a weapon in such unsafe
! hands.
oNever mind" answered the de
r,anted creature, with crafty smile
"Tt.e inst nv chance to get what I've
I wanted for a long time. ] must get
y she added, a sudden determined
clare in her eyes. "or pink, pink blood
viii flow, and she waved the scissors
n menacing way Il wouldn't harm
ror dearv. never fear that. You have
heen too good to me. Besides, your
boir &c dark and here is just the
shade ,,
"WhoseY pressed Neya, eagerly
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19

hopeless that that ONLY sdao.
%. petWeen us. And | was trant,c
: lsit That we ought not to he mar r,c
unai you knew-and | didn't dsra g. ~
tell you until today" u''e 10
kindly. '"eu Hchard
Because he is married now d. 90,
.eo Elsie He got married yes,erS a.
Ano ne had been engaged to her tor !.
"noie year-just think of thai, NJ =
asI JUST been flirting with me ana IL
.oolins me. And then a sudden ROW.,
..ou came over me and knew tina, !,
n. you mad loved all the time
nicnard. can you ever forgive Nc :.
'nsI l give you back your rinsr
que rose to her feet and stood ho
.ols nlm' a picture of tragic misery
VINO was the mann" manfred d..
.lo' conscious of an odd sense OF helm.
less jealousy. - neip-
NOBODY you know. Richard" she
answered. $50 it wouldn't do Won anv
eooo to tell you his name Rut ~,
tell you whom he married. helievs
you met her once. 1t was a Miss sn,n
ner." ies opih'
Edith Spinner" he shouted and
out OF the tumult of emotions IN HI.
neart he was conscious of a mad raga
that dominated all others.
Yes, Richard She is said 70 ho =
Dreadful fiirt and to have had affairs
with half a dozen men at the same
time. l don't believe there win he
much happiness for them. WHY what
is the natter" ''''
Come here, Elsie" said Richard
and led her to the lounge. Elsie
dearest, | have been as big a fool as
mean, we have both behaved like
nlnnies. Do you know have been
lancying myself in love with Edith"
You, Richard? Since we we're en-.
gagged! Why, how dared your"
How dared you?" he retorted
l didn't" she cried. 1T was purely
-~o-sioA' just feared tndt we
mightn't be quite suited to each other
| and"
That's what did"
You never kissed her, Dick?"
| "Never!" he said looking her in the
eyes, and then suddenly he drew her
upon his knee and kissed her.
You see. dearest he said, sit
amounts to this: guess when two
people are going to get married they
expect all sorts of things OF each
other and then, when they don't quite
measure up to the mark. each thinks
the marriage is going to be unhappy.
Well, | guess that isn't the proper
basis for marriage. There must be a
sort of mutual trust and confidence
and-what I'll call faith Elsie, dar.
ling, shall we start over again in that
spirit?"
Eyes, Richard" she answered. rails
ing her lips to his "But-you're quite
sure that you never kissed her, Dick"
Copyright. 1913 by W. G. Chapman.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
QUAINT OLD GERMAN CITIES
Empire of Peoples That Are as Di-
verse az Are Territories
They Occupy.

Germany is a big country More
over, it is the most interesting coun-
try In Europe save Italy Towns can
be found there that are, as Henry
James would call them, medieval sill
houettes;" and there also are the
most ultra modern cities in the world,
cities that are more representative OF
the best of the twentieth century S
thought on municipal life and munich
pal problems than is any American
municipality, says the Travel Maya
zine. 1t is an empire of peoples as
diverse as are the territories they oc-
cupy; the brusque and domineering
Prussians, living in the vast plain OF
northern Germany; the ancient sax
ons, still clinging to former supersti-
TOMS and still living in the beautiful
environment Of their exquisite Old
time towns and in the atmosphere OF
legend and romance that fingers yet
around the regions Of the Harz; the
gay Wurtemburgers, with their pril-
liant capital of Stuttgart; and best OF
all. beautiful. enchanted Bavaria, land
of medieval cities, Of mountains OF
castles of lakes. of the kindly, line
faced men and women who 1--we there'
Let me outline charming TRIP iroh'
Cologne to Hegensburg.
From Cologne to Mayence, which
constitutes the tourists Rhine, Is liz
miles. and the trip can be maze IN
day on steamers that are comfortable
The narrow stream, seldom more than
a quarter of a mile in width and more
frequently much less. is crowded WIN
boats of every description; on tne
banks are large cities of modern look
and villages that still preserve IN wall
and tower the appearance OF dis
tant mast. terraced vineyards leau
from the waters edge up steep MIR
sides to ruined castles on the sum
mits. and over all is an atmosphere "
legend and of wild and thrlliihe us
toric fact that makes OF the fhine
country one of the great ouJec'i''
noints in every European tour uuel
yer's Legends of the Rhine snouI.
he read by the traveller who would se'
the spirit of what he sees; ana SON, ,
knowledge of the history OF the valieO
peoples now united in Imperial ue y,
many and of their varying stages o.
civili2ation. is also essential to a iuI
enioymdent of the land
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
He pia Net

left de Angels met New YORK
newspaper man DO you remember
asked the newspaper man, 'one time,
wbile Won were playing in Kansas City
Won offered SO for the best original
yerse for your Women song" i
do" replied the comedian won
,bst ten" According to the laws OF
fiction, Mr.. de Angels should have
said. 1--WE been looking for you for
,oas Here's $1,000 as a retainer.
want Won to write me comic opera
pnt he didn't What he did say was:
"Wel, that's so long ago | guess We
con he good friends. nevertheless.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Pushcarts Help Lower Living Costs.

The special aldermanic committee
appointed to investigate markets has
found that 'pushcarts" are an econom-
ic necessity, as they tend greatly to
reduce the high cost of living. Conse-
uuently. the committee favors finding
permanent markets for them. Owing
to the length of time required to ac-
auire land and erect market buildings,
the committee has selected open
spaces in the city in which to "segre-
gate" the pushcarts temporarily
New York Tribune.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
His Side Line.

"That poet who wrote an ode 70 oo q
nrrcb of daffodils and won the $lo'VV0
prize offered by that eastern ,! mas"A'''
us that all he does for a living
by no means He is also a" . aq
thor,tv ON onion culture and is s'aH
o enuil for three agricultural jour
nails"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
| MAN MARRIEs
|..ocied Himself In Love
!. Fiancee's AvoWed
| Rival.
|..oaeE MUNsoN.

'.ms With you. Dick" said
10 his friend Richard
.tarted away with him
.ndis' door. At the cor
ark be stopped and wruns
band violently,
.nlste you. old man." he
Il think your nances ID
finest girls I've ever met
led to you. too"
nick" he continued, but
YOU credit for being able
,,uer like that. I don't be-
/. vour friends did. either.
AMI being an artist makes
must be erratic and mis-
IA and all that. But you've
Jdly. my boy, and ! bet
q life will be one long
uradise.'
4 not reply. and his friend
|, his coldness, accom-
In silence. Talbot was
terly of his folly-his alb.
II was too late to with
fAouor now. The wedding
a month away. And dur.
two weeks he had come to
he had made the mistake
kcught Elsie Lands all that
,sired in any woman until
lad met Edith Spinner. A
Introduced them, and then
s. that, deeply as he had
re during his thirty-odd
|. he had never surrender
Lstely to the divine passion
tuor forbade him to speak;
ssure of their hands when
Inst have betrayed them to
They had met three times
he was head over heels in
.,iith.
|ttt over his future that
could not withdraw. He
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19

tell Elsie the cause of his
But he could, and must, in
Der Of his miserable doubts
future happiness. How
ever have thought himself
nh Elsie, when Edith Spin.
ae very complementary por-
soul?
up after a sleepless night,
. give Elsie the chance to
One thought buoyed him
as she was, he had felt that
over since he had known
iet-her affection had been
fstrative. What If she also
to believe that happiness
bless their union? The day
nth feet Of lead. 1t was not
o'clock that evening that
himself in Elsie's presence.
reeting was commonplace
me handshake, the kiss, and
kemed perfunctory. Talbot
said his fiancee, looking
flously, do you know you
acting in q very odd man.
Is that?" he stammered.
vent seemed to love me as
you used to-" she stammered
sen thinking-O, Richard
care for me?"
ut later and she was on heI
Ills side. her arms around
ping.
exclaimed Richard, mis-
Il love you"
ont love me when I have
"nething," she sobbed.
and see," said he. He
OF nothing better to say.
! been untrue to you," she
l don't mean that I've
woody else. No, but-O
wv are so simple and noble
never understand. Well.
Nea wondering whether oul
vas going to be happy. /
10 seem so ordinary, ouI
Men met a man-just two
he fascinated me and
|" MIN more than you, dear
sdt up very straight. Thi'
Jug OF the tables with q ven
r'er told each other" sh'
weeping bitterly. But b
Knew, and 1t seemed S,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Passing Of Youth.

To me the passing of youth was es-
Gaping from torment of passion, strife
and trouble into a placid content. My
griefs and joys grew less violent
ceased hunting those who had wronged
me. and, in lesser degree. grew calm
er iu my attachments. Undisturbed
by passions I found ! could think
more clearly. be more liberal and I'M
derstsnd better.-American Maya
zine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Eliza Machlne.

ams Of years old, but the reai
, .ntssr of the heavier-than-air ae, 10.
though p,au the first to actu lansb,nes
, thousI the air in such m ,"ap
.nro o ,be Wright brothers in 1908
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Identified.

The men who give the excuse 'n 40,
they don't care anything ANU ~ nlease
tomobiIe. but are buying 10 plea roe
.Sn,u wives, are perhaps the same
o o who borrow hoy to taSe 70 INC
onTS pcad News-Trioune'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
~ rover Of Toxins

ns susandth Of q gram Of
eAlaw) toxin is enough to
Ess weighing 1900 pounds or
I.S million times its weight.
Es Aao'e still. one-thousandth
'am of tubercular toxin
e &c ION on a man weigh
sixty trillion times it,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
c.en Lively.

Yeast: Nothing will make pgL pa
son 'e1 walk 50 quickly as good cold
weather" Ant r,ow.
Crimsonbeak: on ! UON
There's the dinner-bell'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19

asrous Devil Plant
M pod Of the dsvi1 plaAt &
= groves Of animals b. get
Suflneh claws" secured In
Of a grazing animal and
re- Iatal Inflammation.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Helped by Everybody

Every great man is always being
helped by everybody, for his gift is to
get good out of all things and all per
sons.-Ruskin
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Olive Trees Live Lsaessl

Olives are declared to be the Loo
est-lived fruit trees, some In Syria
having borne abundant crops fer more
than four hundred years
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-19
Optimism Pays Best.

In business the one who assumes
that the world is honest will often do
better than the man who believes II to
be peopled with rogues.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-11-10
THE COUNTY FAIR.

Everybody had a good time at the
County Fair, and most everybody
who could get here came to enjoy the
three days of pleasure. The races
were good the exhibits were good, the
Carnival was success (for the Car
nival,) and all the boys and girls
were here, and everyone was happy.
The school children marched over on
FRIDAY, and their bright and cheer
ful faces made everyone still more
happy. And the County Fair should
be time when everyone feels good
and loves his neighbors.
But the Fair was a great deal more
than an event full of pleasure; it
was a great success in that it brought
to the city from all parts of the coun-
ty, the best products of the farmers
who are progressing in their farm
work. There were all kinds and
sizes of mule. colts, large herds of
beef cattle, fine dairy cattle, the
biggest hogs ever, exhibits of un-
common yields from the rich acres
of the county, as well as the most ex-
traordinary exhibits by the members
of the Girls Canning Club.
If anybody thinks Abbeville county
is not progressing, he is mistaken.
The farmers proved it to- us. You
can scarcely imagine the progress
which has been made since the first
County Fair; nor can you measure
the good that has come from these
annual exhibits. The men who took
the trouble to bring their mules, cat
tie and hogs here, will never know
the good they have accomplished.
They do not know who came to the
Fair and inspected their exhibits and
saw what can be done, and who learn
ed how it can be done, nor how
many men went home determined to
raise their own mules, their own
meat, and cattle and hogs and mules
for the market.
Next year the Fair will be better,
and so it will grow from year to
year. The people learn by compari-
son of the work done; this man
learns something from you, and you
learn something from him; and by
this mutual help, the County Fair
means a great deal to the people all
over the county. .........-...
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-11-10
A CARNIVAL.

The City Council should absolute
ly prohibit another Carnival in Able
vile. These people always bring
one or two shows that are worth a
little as a kind of an excuse for a
lot of gambling devices, which take
little from any one person, but a
great deal from the throng which
gathers on these occasions.
But this is not the chief objection
to a carnival at a county fair.> These
fairs Gle gotten up more as an al
vertisement of the resources of the
county than for any other purpose.
Any thing which detracts from the
benefits thus sought to be brought
home to the people of the county is
not desirable, and surely the carni-
val last week did that.
There was enough of attractions
here for the people to see in the way
of livestock exhibits, and farm ex-
hibits, as well as other attractions,
and the people of the county would
much more have profited by patron
izing the other attractions and in
specting these exhibits, than by at
tending the carnival. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-11-10
COTTON PATCH"

When uncle Jim Stark left home
some weeks ago and went West ev-
eryone except Mrs. Stark thought he
had gone off to buy mules, but he
hadn't, he was hunting a race horse.
Well, he struck slick fellow out in
Tennessee who had an old gray
named "Cotton Patch" He i'm
pressed on uncle Jim that gray
horse never dies, and that it is hard
to beat King Cotton at twelve cents,
so the trader parted with "Cotton
Patch," and uncle Jim parted with a
few stipends.
He came home and brought his
racer with him, but he had bought
a big blanket so that no one would
see him until the Fair, when he
would spring surprise. He also
brought along all race horse trim
mings, as the gentleman had told him
that nothing helped to rattle the
other horses as much as plenty of
harness. Will Ferguson was put in
charge of the "patch" aid told to
make ''cotton" get there, and he did
his best.
But "Cotton Patch" was a little
shy of horse fertilizers in his stomach
and had been during the whole sea-
son, and the "patch" early in the
race showed that there was going to
be short crop. And it happened
just like it always does when a man
depends solely on a cotton patch; ;
there wasn't much cotton, and the
price went down, and as the races
progressed, it kept going down, until
the old patch" turned the sulkey
over, and split a tooth for brother
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-11-10
HE WAS A MAN.

There died in Abbeville a few days
ago one for whom the who e comru.
nifty had the greatest respect, for &.
A. Visanska was no ordinary man.
Coming to this country as an imni :
grant more than half a century ago
he had in that time served his adopted
country well, though inconspicuously,
Arriving as a young man without
friends, beginning life in new coun-
try in the humble capacity of ped
dler, differing in religion from the
majority of his fellow men, quiet
and unassuming in character, he died
at a ripe old age, respected by all
his neighbors and possessed of means
we'll beyond the ordinary.
He was a man indeed. Honest in
his dealings with chose with whom he
traded, just in his feelings towards
all mankind, quiet and gentle with
men and women, progressive in his
own behalf and in that of his COM
munity, public spirited and yet firm
in the protection of his own, he died
leaving children who have cause to
be proud of their parentage, and who
in turn, as the result of the rearing
given them by him and his good wife,
long since dead, are taking their full
part in the life of the section into
which he came. And it is well that
he did come.-Greenville Piedmont.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-11-10
HE WAS A JUST CITIZEN.

, That was fine compliment which
was paid today to the memory of G..
A. Visanska, the Abbeville merchant
and citizen. This man came to Alb
beville an immigrant, unknown,
friendless, with nothing but the in
spiration of this great, free America,
and with an indomitable courage
backed by character and ambition.
He served his adopted country as a
soldier in the ranks.
Through long life of usefulness
and success, he established a reputa-
ton for good citizenship, high char
acter, and fair dealing. He reared
a family of children of whom the
State of South Carolina may well be
proud When he came to die, he
left them possessed of an immense
estate. When the funeral services
were held at his home in beautiful old
Abbeville, one of the old-fashioned,
conservative, aristocratic cities of the
South, there were gathered all classes
of conditions of mankind, from the
chief justice of the State to the most
humble citizen, for to them all the
deceased was a neighbor and friend.
And when his body was brought to
this city for interment, there came
with it as a voluntary escort the
leading citizens of that community,
who wished to pay respect to the
character and life of the dead. Con-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-11-10

gresham, bank presidents, mer-
chants, planters, manufacturers, men
of all classes.
This did not happen in the cehters
of wealth of this country where for
tune may be amassed in day, but in
the slow, conservative South, in the
very home county of Calhoun, and
shows what can be done in this great
country of ours with no capital but
character, no stake but honor.-Col-
umbia Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-11-10

Ferguson, who we hope was not work
ing on "halvers."
And this ought to teach uncle jim,
and Mr.. Ferguson that it will no more
do to pin your hopes to cotton
patch, than it will do to put all the
eggs in one basket. If you want to
win in the races you must diversity;
have more horses than one and more
crops than one; so that if the one
falls down, the other may make the
tape.