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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24

Della" he began, and footstep
sounded in the passage outside. and
the door was opened.
The federal officer read his recogni-
tion in Jim's startled look.
You are Mr.. Corrigan. I believer"
he asked, though the formaiity was
unnecessary. And this lady isl"
"One of my customers" said Jim,
"and not connected with this Office"
q shall have to ask her to wait q
while all the same" said the man.
Don't be scared, miss; there won't be
nothing done to you. and you're to be
pitied."
What does this all mean" ex-
claimed Della, bewildered.
ut means that l am under sus-
picion for fraudulent practices" an
swered Jim bitterly. The government
doesn't believe there is any gold in
the NINE"
But of course there Isl" exclaimed
the girl indignantly. Officer. l am
Miss Della Heming. My father was
president of the national bank here. l
can vouch for Mr. Corrigan's honor"
The officer, without paying the
slightest attention, began to rummage
among the papers on Jim's desk. The
stenographers and other girls in the
large room adjoining, having got wind
of what has happening. appeared at
the door with frightened faces.
"Mr. Corrigan-Jim, dear, l believe
in you to the last!" cried Della, losing
all self-control. She came up to him
and slipped her hand into his and
stood defiantly beside him.
Jim smiled a little wistfully. Al
that moment this was the hardest
thing that he had to bear, her trust
fulness. If only he had gone before
she came!
whats this?" queried the officer
picking up the telegram.
Jim had forgotten Clancy's message
He groaned as the man deity opened
it. Clancy was always outspoken, and
he was no more careful in his dis
patches. That meant the end of all. OF
Della, of what shreds of honor he had
hoped to retain after the investiga
ton.
The officer read the telegram and
laid it down. Jim picked it up and
read: Huge gold deposits discovered
in Red Lion mine. State inspector
notified Is coming at once to re-ex
| anime. Clancy"
The federal officer scratched his
head. my orders are to seal" he
began; and then a second man ap
peared at the door He took in the
situation instantly.
Come off, Louis!" he said. "Mr
Corrigan. this Is mistake for which
we owe you good many apologies
We had information which led us tC
believe that-well anyway, later news
has come which shows us we were
wrong. We had our orders, sir, and
no doubt you'll receive apologies from
the proper quarter. We know your
company is beyond reproach. And
wish l had few shares in it," he
added.
They were gone. Della was standing
at Jim's side and they had just ex
changed their first kiss
"As IL you could be dishonest
dear!" she said softly.
Jim looked at the packed suit case
and WINGED. In another minute that
too, would have been examined. II
would have been harder then. HI
knew that the inner shame he fell
must be his punishment for many 8
year to come.
But when he looked at Della hi
knew that he would be given strength
to bear 1t.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Answered..

Says the New York Sun: Attention,
philosophers. When and in what peo-
pie was the sense of humor first devel.
oped?"
Luke McLuke will tell you:
Now it was the morning of the tenth
day and Adam was glorying In the
strength of his manhood. And he
looked upon the garden and saw that
it was fair. And he spake unto Eve,
saying: Let us 60 forth and witness
these things that have been created
for us. Let us walk in the garden and
beneath the armament"
And Eve replied unto Adam, saying.
But haven't thing to wear"
And Adam looked upon the vast
orchards Of fig trees round about the
garden. And Adam Just LATED and
LATED and laffed.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
HARE and TORTOISE
Another Instance Where Honesty
Proved the Best Policy
and Won Out.
BY GEORGE ELMER coae

Tortoise Mowbray they called him
al school, in contradistinction to
hare Snyder; and never were two
sooriquets more fairly earned. Sny.
DER was the particular bright boy Of
the class. and always at the top, while
tortoise" Mowbray Jagged respect.
ably near the bottom of it. When
Hare" Snyder took advantage Of the
honor code to cover his cuffs with HE
roglyphics and passed his examina.
tlon Tor college with honors, TOR.
toise' Mowbray got in by the skin
of his teeth and kept his soul I'm.
sullied.
After college it was the same.
Hare" Snyder and Tortoise" Now.
bray obtained positions in the same
corporation, Snyder through a pull"
Mowbray because the straightforward,
clean-cut appearance of the young
man favorably impressed Henry Da-
venrich, the president. And Snyder
went up and up by means of sundry
devious and doubtful short cuts, while
Tortoise" Mowbray remained pretty
much where he had started. in the
accounting office.
The hare" made money and spent II
recklessly, while the tortoise" put his
aside, added to it, and lived modestly
and soberly. They were always friends
of sort, for Mowbray was patronized
by Snyder and never openly resented
1t.
The test Of this friendship came
when they both fell in love with the
same girl Cynthia Lanfrey was o
niece of Davenrich and lived in a
big building on Madison avenue
where she kept house for him. At
this period the hare" and the tor
toise" had been working with the cor
poration for nearly ten years. Snyder
was pretty near the top, thanks to
the pull aforementioned. and was
a constant visitor at Davenrich's
home. Mowbray was invited casually
on some grand occasion; but Cynthia
liked him and he was invited again
Then, one evening, Mowbray told
Cynthia his story in plain, slow.
spoken manly fashion. He had loved
her for a long time, he said simply,
and he was quite sure he would never
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
The DEAD MANS WILL
sv HAROLD CARTER.

lopyright, 1915. by W. @. Chapman.)
eeton Manning found that he had
solved the problem of death BY
;ce any more than he had solved
Il of life by living; but after the
= shock of the change had passed
Nv be was conscious that in certain
avs he had acquired increased per.
ective.
PARTICULARLY in.this: that whereas in
nth life he had only read the past,
W. he could read the future also. He
" the shadows, cast upon the screen
time, as events 'ripened and destiny
repaired itself.
But since man has free will, nothing
ms actually foredestined that could
ri be changed. 1t afforded Manning
finite amusement TO watch these
bantom episodes prepare themselves
nly to scatter before the will of their
pbject
Naturally, Manning's first thought
vas lOT uio OWA. no HAOJCClcu Hill
elf by power of will to the scene of
his earthly home. He saw the stately
od house where he had lived SO many
vears, the arbiter of the small town So
tiety, with his adopted daughter Leila.
BE glanced wistfully at the old place,
and, though the remembrance was dim
and dreamlike, he was conscious of an
intense longing to be back again in
the earth life.
But when he sought for Leila he
could not find her anywhere about the
old place, and there were strange, I'M
Known faces there. 1t was not until
he had concentrated all his will in a
supreme effort that he found Leila.
She was dressed simply in black, for
Manning had been dead only a month,
and she was seated in a parlor of a
second-clase boarding house, listening
to fussy, elderly gentleman who ad-
dressed her.
You see, Miss Leila, the will was
luNduudtCu Wy TIC loCI ludt yOuI UcuC-
factor wrote of you as my daugh
ter" the lawyer explained. 81 told
Mr. Manning that he would have to
draw up another will, because the
phrase was incorrect, but he did not
do so, and consequently the property
passed to his brother"
His brother! The last person on
,arth whom Manning would have
Wished to inherit the estate. He
,urned with indignation-for spirit
'etains all the emotions that actuated
In life. But
He had been annoyed with Leila be-
,ause she was in love with Garden
hughes, young physician of the vii
age, recent graduate of medical
ollege. He had no objection to
hughes himself, but he was almost
.auper. and the peremntory old man
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24

love anyone else. He could not ask
her to share his thirty-flve dollars q
week, but could he dare ask her to
wait?
And Cynthia had laughed a little
and cried a little and treated him
like a big, overgrown school boy.
Somehow everybody treated Mowbray
pretty much in the same fashion.
You're too late" she said, with a
little sob and following laugh.
"James-Mr. Snyder-asked me yes.
terday."
But that was always the "tortoise's"
way. He was always one lap behind
the hare" So, because he had not
expected anything different, he went
away. Next day Snyder. who had
somehow guessed his secret, began
laughing at him. He told some OF
the men in the ONCE. and they laugh
ed at him, too. But these men were
toadies of the "hare."
1t was about this time that the
tortoise" was temporarily placed in
charge Of the books of one Of these
toadies and discovered something
that made him sit up all night, think.
ing. In the morning he went straight
to Snyder and told him what he had
found. Snyder leaped out of his chair.
my God, Tortoise" he yelled.
did old Davenrich put you in charge
of the books?" Then he came to his
senses.
You'd have done the same II you'd
been In my place, Tortoise" he
whined. How did you suppose l was
going to keep up my style of living
on seventy-five dollars a week? Be.
sides. 1t wasn't really a crime, for
Davenrich is going to make way for
me next year, and he owns half the
stock in the concern. Then, when I've
married Cynthia, it will be practically
my own business, won't It? What
are you going to do about it,"
These defalcations." said the tor.
toise" slowly, clenching his fists
for somehow he always hated to hear
the hare" pronounce Cynthia's name
-"amount to nine thousand dollars
and seventy-three cents"
"Cut out the cents" said Snyder.
Yes. guess that's about the fig
ure"
81 have four thousand dollars" an
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Sympathetic.

Never before had Speedlimit expert
enced a breakdown. There he stood
looking at his motor car with an ex.
preston that typified anger in its most
acute form, In fact. it was only the
presence Of two nicely dressed misses
that prevented him using language
which was not in keeping with the
cold weather
At length, however, his patience
reached the breaking point, and he
asked the girls to run away. as he in.
tended to SAY things"
"Oh. fire away" replied one, beam.
ing with delight. my dadda owns a
motor car, tool"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24

When the Jews lost the upper hand
In Spain there we're 100000 Of them
living in that country. They we're Civ.
en- three days In which to leave Spain
or suffer death. Out of the 100000
only about 100000 were able to Zee
within the ~ hours. and all the others
we're slaughtered.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Good Advice About oj,cIoth.

After washing oilcloth and linoleum,
be sure to dry it properly. If left
damp it will speedily rot and soon be-
come totally ruined. 1t is a great
mistake to use too much water for
washing II. The cloth should he
wrung out and passed lightly over the
surface
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Worn Out.

Said the man in the aisle to the man
sitting down: You ought to stand
up and give that seat to me. l am
the tiredest man In America. have
just taken part in a sixty-mile motor
paced bicycle race"
Said the man in the seat to the man
In the aisle: You have nothing on
me in the line Of exhaustion. Maybe
you rode in the race. but ! sat and
watched it."
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Pens That Did Coed ssr,,e>,

For two years Thackeray did all his
writing with one pen. which also
served him for writing two novels.
Oliver Wendell Holmes used a gold
pointed pen for over thirty years, dur.
ing which period he wrote over L..
000,000 words.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Russia and United States.

The area Of the Russian empire Tin
Europe and Asia) is given as S,417.1
square miles. Population. 67.003. 400.
The area Of the United States (exclu-
sive of possessions) is 3.226,0S9 square
miles. Population reckoned at 100.-
100000.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24

That Would Be Something Else.
"The secretary Of agriculture says
that the skunk IL one Of mans best
friends-- We can stand that a. long
rs the skunk doesn't aspire to being
one of our closest friends."
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
His EHercise

Your husband pores over his books
too much" He loves to read" But
he should exercise" "Oh. he exer.
cises. The doctor told him the same
thing. So now he has taken up golf
BY mail. Courier-Journal
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Novel Use for Sheen.

In the Himalaya mountains in India
sheep are used as beasts of burden.
They carry from sixteen to twenty
pounds each and carry grain to mar
ket.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Patience and Despair

There is no calamity so great that
Il cannot be made little lighter BY
patience. or great deal heavier BY
despair.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
Murderous Devil Plant

The seed pod Of the devil plant Of
Persia kills droves Of animals by get
ding its four-inch claws" secured In
the nostrils of grazing animal ana
setting up fatal Inflammation.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24
The Professions

CHIROPRACTOR
DR.. ]. @. SCARBOROUGH
Lady in Attendance
In Dyches Building, Between Park
and Auditorium
OFFICE HOURS
s to 1890 a. m. 1880 to p. N.
700 to $50 p. m.
Consultation and Examination Free.
Residence Phone 240 Black
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-24

G. D. & H. D. HENDENHALL
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Suite 212-215 Drane Building
LAKELAND, FLA,
Plant Designs, Earthwork Special
lists, Surveys
Residence Phone 27S Black.
Office Phone 27S Blue
The Washington times., 1915-12-10

United States," says DR.. Lee X.
Frankel, vice president of the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company. at
has been the common desire in this
country that industrial conditions
may be so arranged that the father
can earn enough to support the
family so that the mother can stay
home. But we know that this con-
dition does not exist"
Is it not a fact, however, that the
baby problem does not center en-
tirely on the wage? There are races
and classes that carefully guard and
noursh their infants, however low
the wage. There are some that do
not, though the wage scale is much
higher. No one will honestly cues
tion that, babies or no babies, there
ought to be living wage in this
above all countries. But here even
more than in other countries we
have yet to solve the problem Of the
proper use and handling of the wage,
high or low.
The Washington times., 1915-12-10

the munitions-making business have
been pointed by good many other
disasters to plants; some of them
doubtless the result Of plots and
Vaccinations, some entirely acci-
dental; most of them of a character
that might have been avoided il
there had been perfect organization,
planning, readiness for the emerg-
ency. This war took the whole
world by surprise; another war
ought not to take industrial America
by surprise and find it unready to
handle itself.
The people who buy munitions of
war will ultimately have to pay
these extraordinary bills for disas-
ters. The risks of the business must
be covered in the prices raid for the
products. The waste Of hasty prep
aration is a fearfully large part of
the cost of such an enterprise as
The war. The United States must
profit by the, lesson of the European
struggle. We have seen, right on
our own soil, enough of what it
means to revolutionize a nations
industry on days notice, to realize
the need that we shall be better pre-
pared for such an emergency than
we have ever been in tic past.
The Washington times., 1915-12-10
WHISKY |SSTORED
|NSTATE CAPITOL
Value Of "Evidence" in West
Virginia Senate Chamber Is
$4,000.

CHARLESTON. w. Va. Dec. Ia-
Twenty thousand pints Of whisky. con-
fscated under the State prohibition
laws. are stored in the senate chamber
OF West Nirginia's state capitol. The
standard price in West Virginia for
'boot-leg' whisky is s. a pint so the
retail value of the goods stored in the
senate chamber is $4,000 Special guards
are kept on duty to see that the liquor
Is not tampered with before 1t is pre-
scented evidence against persons
charged with violation OF the law.
We have said nothing about II.
said Fred o. Blue. commissioner OF
prohibition. when asked about the use
OF the senate chamber for the storage
OF evidence" for fear there would
be general scramble among lcgisla :
tors for another extra session OF the
legislature, but now that we will move
It back into the old quarters at once
there is no danger of stampede of
Solons."
The offices OF the prohibition depart
ment of the State government have
been undergoing repairs. and there was
no other place to store the contiscated
goods while the repairs were in prog
ress except in the senate chamber.
The Washington times., 1915-12-10
DREADSTUFFSTRADE
DOUBLE LAST YEARS
Exports From United States For
Ten Months Of 1915 Valued
At Nearly Halt Billion.

Breadstufts exported from TIE United
states during the first ten months or
this year were worth s4iS. .925. Sss, or more
than twice the value OF sirpilar exports
for the corresponding period last year.
according to figures made publit nv
the Bureau OF Foreign ana Domestic
Commerce of the Department OF Com
merce. The breadstuff exports up TO
November /. 1914, were valued at scot.
2l6,47a.
A gain OF S445,24l ,so6 was made during
the ten months in the total value or
exports OF breadsturs, cottonsecd oil,
cattle. hogs, sheep. meat and dairy
products. cotton and mineral oils. I'D
to November of the present year these
exports totaied SI.145.2io,S2s, as against
s699 1913 go for the first ten months OF
last year.
More than Ss7.S25oOo OF the gain this
year was made by cotton the exports
being valued at s249, .9o4, as against
$262, 1885 last year. A total OF 3,7ss,-
s56.462 pounds, or 7,276, $50 bales Of cotton
have been shipped abroad thus far this
year.
Among the big export items were 40
45l. 0SS pounds Of bacon valued at 81, ,6s3.-
943; III, 1876 .902 gallons OF illuminating oil
worth 81. .3s5. .934: 250, ,9S2,514 bushels Of
wheat worth Sl244s.746, and 21s.1Ss, ,774
pounds OF fresh beef worth S3s,Q73,I9 1877.
For October Of this year the exports
OF s26. .9O6,ss9 over the corresponding
month last year. the figures being $40
615,275 for the tenth month OF this year
and $751; .4O6 for last year.
The Washington times., 1915-12-10
"SNARED" IS FEATURE
OF NEW ALL-STORY
Novelette, This Week Is "ln De-
fancc of Hoyle"- Short
Stories Thrilling.

Tho third story Of the scmi-dIai tri-
oiogv by J. L. Giesv and Junins 3.
Smith. under the title of "S1ared." be-
gins In the Issue OF the Ah-Story
MaEazinc which goes on sale tomorrow.
and Vt IS believed to ne the strongest OF
the three that have teep printed.
Tire first Of these absorbing stories
was published about vcor ago in tho
All-Story Magazine as 2 ccmnlete novel.
under rhc namo of The Curse OF Quct-
"a" The second. The Web Of pes-
tiny" was printed In the Au-Story
March 20 and o.. The adventures Of the
occult dctcctor. as the authors call him,
viii be further dealt with in the mystic
style of the two former stories, and his
difficulties and explanations are even
more interest compelling in "Snared'
than they have beer heretofore,
Shared" Is to be published in three
pa:is, the 'irst being in the current
issue.
The novelette, this week 10 I'm Def
anCc of HoYlc." bv stephen Allen Reyn-
olds. The work Of this author in ON
the Edge of the Barrens" and The
Elnperor's Wish" Is sufficient guarantee
OF the quality aud sty,e OF action he car
write and the sort of plots he can de-
Nclop.
In addition to short stories by e. X
Means. Newton A. Fuessle. Gordon May
Charles F. Crane RAYMOND S. Psears
and John D. Swain. tine new Al-StorH
Magazine will present the second in
stallment OF Edgar Rice Burroughs six
part novel. The Son OF Tarzan;" tn
fnAl chapter OF The Huntress," by
Hubert Footner: part three of "Th'
Guest Of the Queens Jewels" and al
Davis serial Married Tor Money"
The Washington times., 1915-12-10
WAGES AND THE BABY

Much publicity was given the Boil
linger baby of Chicago, an infant so
hopelessly defective that it was
agreed not to subject it to an oper-
alton which might have prolonged
or saved its life. Little, however,
has been said of the thousands of
perfectly healthy and normal infants
that needlessly die.
Investigation by Miss Julia Lath-
rop of the Chil6ren's Bureau of
Chicago recently showed that from
225 to $50 in every thousand of chill
dren that die could be saved. Uni
versal horror would be expressed
over an army suffering loss of one
third of it's members, yet the fact
that nearly one in three children OF
working mothers die in infancy has
aroused little comment.
In Fall River, Mass, statistics
were compiled showing where
mothers are housekeepers the death
rate among babies was l65 in every
thousand, and where mothers are
employed, majority of them in the
mills, the rate is 303.6 to the thou
sand.
Sherman c. Kingsley, who directs
the Mccormick Memorial Founda
tion, says: "The problem of saving
babies is a question of living wage
The community as a whole must fine
a way, of giving living wage to tn,
father"
There are more than l,O0O,O0
mothers gainfully employed in tn