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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Aj0|NT AGREEMENT
BY VICTOR RADCLIFFE

50 this is the status of the case ,"
spoke Rodney Blair.
briefly. 'uius Wells
Inc young mans face was drawn
nu ciouded. He fumbled with his
"a'ch chain holding the latest most
eApenslVe watch money could buy He
eianced down at the four-carat dia.
,nohd ring on his finger and the same
look TOOK in the rich texture of his
iashionable apparel.
Let me think, he said In a lost
dreamy tone. Let me think And I
can I make it up" he exclaimed with
suddenness.
Mnat do you mean by make il
up inquired the practical Renewed
attorney.
Why, I've spent money that didn't
oeiohg TO me. haven't 1? The little
estate that should have gone to this
poor half orphan girl, Eunice Ball. has
peen haIf squandered by me. How do
you think ! feel-why, I'm a thief.
that's what am"
know you are an idiot to take this
trihing incident this way" retorted
the lawyer raspingly.
Irifing! Incident" fairly shouted
Rooney, starting up with animation,
why, it's the very life of that poor
creature. See here, have learned
positively that my half uncle, James
Ross, led this Miss Lucy Wilson and
her helpless aged mother to believe
that they were to inherit his wealth"
Which he left to you. exactly" nod.
ded Wells-legally. He evidently
changed his mind You got the ten
thousand dollars It's yours yet-what
is left of it,
Yes, persisted Rodney, but have
found out that these Wilson people
are very poor. The father is entirely
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Objects to Clock Flend.

II don't care much about hobbies
myself" said a man from the West
visiting New York, as he handed back
his friends album full of postal card
atrocities, though ] don't object to
people who have them. 80 long as
they are unobtrusive hobbies. Breed.
ing poultry. for instance, Ia all right.
A collection of shells, or stamps. isn't
out Of the way, while photographs OF
beauties, celebrated actresses, etc.,
are rather enjoyable. But there was q
man in my town who had penchant
for clocks. II doesn't matter what
room in his house you entered there
was clock. The clocks we're all
going. but they did not by any means
keep the same time. The consequence
was that all through the day and
night those clocks were striking or
Ginning. The echoes in the dark
hours were horribly unsettling to hear,
and one never knew what time Of
day 1t was He was 30 enthusiastic
about his clocks that his wife, | hear,
has sued for separation don't won
der at it. I'd sooner have a sunstroke
than spend another night with him"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Austria's Double n eaded EaoIe.

Historians vary greatly in their &C.
counts of the origin of the double.head.
ed eagle. which is the principal figure
upon the coat-of-arms of Austria Hun
gary and Russia. According to most
heraldic explorers the Holy Roman
emperors borrowed the symbol OF the
double-headed eagle from the Byzan-
tine emperors. When the empire of
the East declined 1t is said that Sigis-
mund Joined the eagles together and
used them with one body and two
heads as symbol of his sovereignty
Over the two empires. But other his.
tor.ans declare that the Byzantine en-
perors hid taken the symbol from the
Turkish dynasty of the Seljuks. Prof.
William Ramsay of Aberdeen, finds
that the Seljuk emperors took the SYM
5oi. very probably, from the ruins of
Eyuk, in northern Cappadocia, where
it appeared as one of the most impor-
tant relics of an early civilization
The double-headed eagle descended
to Austria-Hungary naturally through
the Holy Roman empire.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
He DID Not

JET de Angels met New YORK
newspaper man DO you remember,
asked the newspaper man, "one time,
while YOU we're playing in Kansas City,
Won offered $40 for the best original
verse for your Women song" Il
do" replied the comedian Il won
,hat ten" According to the laws OF
fct,op. Mr. de Angels should have
.aid. I've been looking for you for
years Here's $1,000 as a retainer. l
want YOU to write me comic opera
Rut he didn't What he did say was:
.we,l that's so long ago | guess Ne
ran be good friends. nevertheless
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Olive rrsss Llvs Lseeol

sst-lived fruit trees. some in Syria
having borne abundant crops fer more
than four hundred years.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Price
sANci IS rYNDE
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CD. RHODES
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CD. RHODES


-. by Charles Scribner's Sons)
lit The teller shifted at the
L.ovled at the man, and turned
|,Is cash book without a word.
!. smile grew to an inward
ksu he reached the street.
|,ragon may have teeth and
mi it can neither see nor
I, said, contemptuously. turn
[eps riverward again. Now
[ly TO choose my route and 60
How and where are the
Lsining questions to be an.
! hour or more after his re.
me- riverfront, Griswold idled
|pvn the levee; and the end
ksyal found him still undecid.
the manner and direction of
TO say nothing of the choice
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24

unable to work The girl is a school
teacher, but lost her position two
months ago and they are in almost
ablect poverty. Among the papers of
my uncle codicil to his will was found
leaving his estate to Miss Wilson,"
But unsigned" reminded the law.
yer.
Yes, that is true"
And therefore worthless. Don't be
q fool, Blair! You are legal heir to
the Ross estate No one can take
It away from you"
mo, I'm going to give it away Of
my own free will" announced Rodney
determinedly. That's why I've come
to you. ] want you to sell all the
furniture in my bachelor quarters, all
the gewgaws have squandered money
on-my automobile, the bonds you
bought for me. Take what you can
get, only do it quickly. Then l will
add what | have in bank and give
what is left of the estate to its right
full owner"
Lawyer Wells made face as though
swallowing bitter pill.
THE most extraordinary young man
and the biggest fool | ever met" he
solloquized, as Rodney left the Office
after placing his diamond ring, watch
and some papers of value upon the
desk.
Rodney Blair was in earnest. Two
months previous he had been unex.
pectedly lifted from a small paying
clerkship to what was to him positive
afiluence. His uncle had left him ten
thousand dollars in cash. There was
not the trace of an evil streak In his
easy-going, harmless nature, but Rod
ney went mad with delight. He had
never had more than a few dollars
ahead in all his life and now he imag.
ined himself Croesus. He furnished
up a fiat, he hired servant, he pur-
chased an automobile, he fitted out
with an elegant wardrobe. He be-
came the envy of all the youths Of the
town.
There were no champagne suppers
nor reckless riotng. Rodney simply
spent his money. He distributed gen.
erous among needy friends, he gave
expensive luncheons and trips to near
summer resorts.
Quite incidentally had he learned OF
the existence of the Wilson's and the
surrounding the estate.
Tie result has been shown. He was
quick in his convictions, speedy to
act. Two days later Rodney took the
train for Mayville, the little town
where the Wilson's lived.
Inquiry he made upon his arrival
emphasized his first information that
the Wilson's we're very poor and very
worthy. He saw a local attorney
through whom Wells was to transmit
the odd six thousand dollars that was
left of the legacy. Then he located
me home OF the Wilson's.
It was a wretchedly old and rickety
cottage at the edge of the town, but
I had clean curtains. its little porch
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24

floor was white and untracked. the
flowers about well trained and
trimmed. A young girl who moved his
fancy nightly sat on the steps read
ing to a patientfaced old man. A
Joyous light shone in the eyes of Rod
oey Blair. What happiness and comfort
was he bringing to these two unfortu.
mates! 1t was well worth the sacrifice
to see them lifted from hard grinding
poverty to a competence.
The twain did not see Rodney as he
approached. The fair girl concluded
ner reading and snuggled up affection.
ately to her father.
i can't think of anything but our
rare good fortune" Rodney heard her
say in hopeful. happy voice. Think
OF 1t. dear father-twenty dollars q
month and board for both of us at
the new school post! Oh, how CRATE
ful we should be! Life looks all sun
shine and roses!"
Twenty dollars q month and serene
ly happy over 1t! Rodney stole from
the spot. What deserving people!
What radiant faith and contentment!
An, more than ever must he lift those
two to their rightful position!
He returned to Leighton and the
money was sent to the lawyer at
Mayville with full explanation. There
came a wire from him the next day:
Miss Wilson refuses to take the
money from its rightful owner" Two
words only Rodney telegraphed back:
She must"
Then he tried to forget his brief
experience in The Life" He sue
ceeded, except for a memory of the
sweet. glowing face of the beautiful
girl he had seen at Mayville.
He secured cheap board, he looked
for work. His old position was filed.
The only Job he could find was digging
drainage ditch for a farmer at the
edge of the village. To digging, hon.
estly and industriously Rodney ap-
piled himself.
He was whistling cheerily two days
later, when, four feet down in the ex-
cavation, he looked up in surprise, and
dazzling at the silvery-toned query:
This is Mr. Blair, l believer"
1t was the girl of his dreams. He
blushed. he bowed, and looked EN-.
barrassed.
have brought you back your
money" she spoke definitely. I'VE
have no right to it, but-never, will
We forget the kindness, the most un-
selfish act that has blessed our lives!
There it is
He put hands steadfastly behind
him.
Il won't take it" he declared, gain
ing poise now. Don't you dare throw
it down to me, or I'll cover it up with
the dirt and nobody will get it. Why,
that one stolen sight | had of you
and that dear old father of yours"
Where? when?" inquired Miss vii.
son wonderingly.
He did not tell. Amid his new en-
barrassment Rodney proposed that
they go and have a talk with Wells.
The latter suggested a division. This
Rodney staunchly refused to confirm.
Then, in a whisper aside, with a sly
wink, the lawyer submitted:
Then make some joint agreement"
and Rodney got new thought.
1t was so precious a thought, that
1t grew into deferring settlement
until he had to go several times to
Mayville for consultation"
The Joint agreement" materialized,
for the last time he left that little
village Lucy was his promised wife.
Copyright. 1915. by w. G. Chapman.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Passing Of Youth.

To me the passing OF youth was es-
Gaping from torment Of passion, strife
and trouble into placid content My
griefs and joys grew less violent.
ceased hunting those who had wronged
me. and, In lesser degree, grew calm
er in my attachments. Undisturbed
by passions I found could think
more clearly, be more liberal and I'M
derstsnd better.-American A.aga,
zine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
ITO Be Continued }
=, -. srcien. Romans.

Tribute to the Ancient RonanS'
The Avezzano region was not uu s
,rown 70 the Romans and the old
Roman roads across the mountains
NAV still be traced in places a MAJ
hes,de the way of whom the distance
w u asked. replied: by the Roman
road II is so far."-Thomas NELSON
page in scribner's Magazine
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Strenuous Pupil.

Mrs. A-Does my daughters piano
practice annoy you?
Neighbor-Oh, not at all but tell
me, what does she wear-mittens or
boxing gloves Life.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24

bation, which was even more
ban the other and more i'm
pressing decision.
: thought had been to go back
(rk. But there the risk of
|vould be greater than else.
! he decided that there was
kason why he should incur
!, he argued, there were 9th.
10 which the sociological
bid be pursued under condi-
favorable than those to be
great city. In his minds
\ himself domiciled in some
fierior town, working and
|nong people who were not
flized by an artificial en-.
In such q community
practice might go hand in
Gould know and be known;
rney at his command would
more of a molding and con.
Fuence than it could posi-.
the smallest Of circles in
The picture, struck out
lant, pleased him, and hav-
Pdy idealized it. he adopted
'tically as an inspiration,
mere geographical detail
Itself as chance, or subse-
s, might determine.
Of the problem disposed
remained the choice of a
I; and 1t was a small thing
decided the manner Of his
the third time in the hour
Sanderings he found him
. opposite the berth Of the
an up-river steamboat
gave sonorous warning Of
ming moment Of departure.
abouts, trailing in and out
aess procession Of human
nurrying the last Of the car.
'lls! They've been told
re free men, and perhaps
It, But surely no slave
en galleys was ever in bit.
se' Free?-yes,
aad sweat, to bear burdens
~
uVen like cattle under the
good Lord!-look at that"
recession had attacked the
boxes in the lading. and
ourden-bearers, a white
Npmbled and fallen like a
y animal under a load too
um' Griswold was beside
nent. The man could not
aSold dragged him not I'M
oi the way of the others.
you hurt?"
aed one sat up and spat
NOW; inside. somewheres.
On my feet any time for
% back"
'u quer1ed Griswold,
So"
nave no earthly business
crew. Don't you know
smile was a CHASTITY face
naln't got any business
.utn a horspital or a hole
But | kind o. thought
Se planted 'longside the
ae childer, if 1 could make
!" to git there"
Iowa, '
y y impulse was the domi-
40 ays struck by an appeal
aies. His compassion
|" the mark. as it was
@'n MS pockets were not
ue fare hy rail m vour
'auired.
4Qeyer>asked< Some
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Helped by Everybody

Every great man + always being
helped by everybody, for his gift is to
get good out of all thine and al, per
sons.-Ruskin
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
-. x..n Some Secrets

.,.er all. women can keep secse. ...
Az. n,ns them telling the truth a00u'
their husbands Smart Set
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-24
Optimism Paws Best

In business the one who assumes
that the world is honest will often do
better than the man who believes IL to
be peopled with rogues.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-17

dI0ly pT0JuulC6Q C6SCaIOr. Inc SWOEH
statement of Bat Masterson, who
was chief of sluggers at Lamm's gar
ment shop, alleged that the beating
of two strikebreakers in their homes,
the smashing of windows in strike
breakers houses, as well as the at
tack on Deputy Coroner Hermann,
were ALL the work of HIRED SLUG
GERS. Masterson named the men
and gave the number Of the motor
car used. Who believes the private
police and the hired sluggers are too
decent and humane to pull such a
stunt as the smuggling of Mrs. Tobey
Sampson yesterday? Why do the
newspapers print the cheap offhand
allegations of police force having
criminal connections without giving
an equal chance to the accused
union of strikers to be heard?
AMERICAN MADE GENERAL IN
RUSSIAN ARMY
Washington, Nov. 17-Dr. Philip
Newton of Washington, who went to
Europe to do Red Cross work so that
he might forget the tragic death of
his fancee, has become the only
American general in an European
army.
Newton's career has been full of
thrills. A graduate of West Point, he
was sent to the Philippines in 1912
for the Smithsonian institute. On
the same day he sailed for San Fran
cisco to claim his fiancee, Miss Alice
Dorothy Nixon of Washington, she
was drowned.
Newton joined the first Red Cross
contingent and plunged into the war.
He was assigned to a hospital at
Kev, Russia, where he met and mar
ried the Princess Schahofskiya of
Petrograd, a volunteer nurse. Then
he was appointed surgeon of the
cars Sixth army corps with the rank
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-17

A Whitehead torpedo runs 5000
yards, part of the distance at fifty
miles an hour.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-17

Six men break into a house and.
beat up an old woman, smash the
furniture and rip up the carpets. The
police say STRIKERS did it. The
newspapers print what the police
say. If the newspapers asked the
strike leaders who did it they would
be told HIRED SLUGGERS OF THE
GARMENT BOSSES. In the case of
Mrs. Tobey Sampson yesterday the
Daily News and the Evening Post did
a dirty job of news reporting, in eff
feet accusing strikers and white
washing the garment bosses of this
specific attack. Here is city where
the police department is accused by
the states attorney and by aldermen
of being under the influence of GRIM
inal agencies. The word of the police
in a situation like the one yesterday
is only the testimony of a passion
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-17
SERVICE BOARD MUST
ADMIT PRESS

A temporary injunction against the
civil service commission was granted
to the Civil Service News yesterday
by Judge Taylor. The judge held
that the commission did not have the
right to exclude the press from its
Office or deny them access to the rec
ords.
Roy Keehn, atty for the newspa-
per. was instructed to draw up the
order and present it to the judge to-
day for his signature.
Some weeks ago the News began
to expose the evasions of the civil
service law and questionable acts of
the commissioners in discharging
employees under the law to make tenn
porary appointments. 1t was on this
expose that the Civil Service Reform
assn asked the mayor to appoint new
commissioners and to get such men
as would act as the friends of the
iobholders instead of as enemies.
800
Conrad Dubosiki, 21-year-oId
Russian, who is working on the farm
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-17

Conrad Dubosiki, a 21-year-oId
Russian, who is working on the farm
of ]. Polokof, in Lebanon, Conn, is
seven feet two inches tall
The Tupelo journal., 1915-11-26

paredness is not sufficient to pro-
tect this country and any South
American country against a COM
bination of the European pow
ers. The South American re-
publics should be encouraged to
increase their navies and this
country should finance the prop
osition. This would serve to
bring North and South America
nearer together and build up a
desire for mutual defense while
at the same time it would draw
the countries together in strong
er business relations.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-11-26
Our Bank Statements

Anyone reading the statements
Of the banks of Lee county that
appear in this issue would not
know that the war is on" nor
that the boil weevil is in Lee
county. The deposits at this sea-
son of the year are practically
what they were a year ago and
we can we'll congratulate our
selves upon the splendid financial
condition of the county as re-
hected through the business of
our hanks.
The deposits of one of ourlocal
banks at the time the last state
ment was made, was in the
neighborhood of one million dol
lacs. The people Of the county
are to be congratulated upon this
splendid showing and upon the
fact that they have such splendid
institutions with which to do
business, always obliging and
ready to afford every reasonable
accommodation.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-11-26

In a speech in Baltimore FORM
er Governor Joseph w. Folk, of
Missouri, now chief counsel for
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, advocated the establish
ment of a federation of the q
American republics to stand
back of the Monroe Doctrine.
The suggestion IS not without
merit and will no doubt receive
favorable consideration at the
hands of all the American re-
publics. The United States gov
eminent would find it a difficult
proposition to maintain the Mon
roe Doctrine against any two Of
the European powers that have
good navies. Any war with a
foreign power will be one of test
Of naval strength and our pre-
The Tupelo journal., 1915-11-26
Dodse Brothers Cars as Des-
ert Stages

Out in the Imperial VALLEY of
California a fleet of Is Dodge
Brothers motor cars are used as
stages. They are known as the
"Pickwick Stages" because of
their starting at the Pickwick
Theatre, San Diego.
Their route lies across a portion
of the California Desert and each
car averages about. LOCO miles
per week. Various makes of
motor cars were tried out by the
Pickwick Stage Company, which
operates the line. About six
months ago the first Dodge
Brothers car was purchased and
subjected to many tests on the
route. The success was so strik-
ing that several more were
bought and this number has
been added to until there are
noWsl8 in use, ana more are to
be bought within a short time.
According to Mr.. Hayes, one
of the proprietors Of the COM
pany, the up keep on these cars
has been remarkably light, and
within a year he expects to oper-
ate Dodge Brothers cars only.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-11-26
TRADE AT HOME

The great department stores IN
New York and Chicago recently
paid over S., 600 postage in Jack
son, from which point they dis
tributed many carloads of cata-
logues. These catalogues were
shipped to Jackson and from
there mailed to the eXpected-to-b be
purchasers in the rural districts.
A lesson can be drawn by the
local merchant from this enter
prise on the part of the great
city department stores who know
that they cannot do business
without advertising. Nobody
would ever hear of them except
through the attractive advertis-
ing done through highly gilded
catalogues sent through the mail.
Their bargains are always rare
and nobody can please a customer
as well as they. This, of course,
is all on paper and many a sucker
is caught by these high sounding
advertisements. There is hardly
a crossroads store anywhere that
cannot sell the same article, if
they carry it in stock, just as
cheap as the mail order house and
the cost Of carriage is saved to
the purchaser. Besides you see
what you are getting when you
buy from the home man who is
ready to make everything salts
factory without delay or loss if
the customer is not pleased.
There is no business too small
or too large that should be run
without advertising.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-11-26
Car of Potatoes Sold

The first car of sweet potatoes
shipped from Tupelo in many
years was sold the past week by
w. H. Marshall & Co. to a party
in Tennessee. This party shipped
a car load of apples here. which
he sold out, and bought while
here a car load of sweet potatoes
which he shipped north.
The crop of potatoes in this
county is the largest ever raised
and they are cheaper than they
have been in many years.
A few have constructed potato
houses and will save their crop
by drying them out and keeping
the temperature of the house at
normal. With the large crop on
hand a small factory for canning
would have proven a profitable
investment.
In his talk at the court house
Tuesday, Prof. Holden exhibited
a can of sweet potatoes and
stated that with the present
prices it would require ten bales
Of cotton to pay for one acre Of
sweet potatoes after they were
canned.
The Tupelo journal., 1915-11-26

Lee county, in 1914, imported
beef, pork, ham and bacon worth
$3.50, goo; hay, oats, corn, bran,
chops and meal worth $l60, 242;
canned meat, fruit, vegetables
and milk, $40, 500; flour, $780,
600; horses and mules, $15, 800
total $525, 042. All this could
have been grown and produced
at home. Lee county also eX-
ported last year butter and eggs
worth 1924, 900; cattle and cot
ton worth S1,0l2, 800, or a total
of 81, 1876, 42O.