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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
USUAL ENTRANCE FEE
After Second Venture He Gloat-
ingb Declared His Eye
Teeth Had Been Gut"
BY GEORGE ELMER COBB.

Copyright. 1918. by W. G. Chapman.)
John Marsh was going to the city,
and his friends at the village general
store were apprised Of the fact.
They were quaint old-fashioned fell
lows. in the main, and they shook
their heads obviously when John told
airily Of his determination Ito see the
sights" He laughed at their serious
warnings.
"Oh. I've got my eye teeth cut!"
boasted John.
You didn't have last time, when
you bought that gold watch for fifty
dollars" submitted old Abel Grimes.
THAT was the usual entrance fee,
you see," explained John, but coloring.
They won't catch me the second
time. reckon I'm as smart as the
best Of them. You all got wild when
l bought that stock in the Golconda
gold mine for dollar a share. Now
it's two, and paying a big dividend.
Besides. Lucy will be with me most
of the time, so / shall have a safe
guardian"
John Marsh was very proud Of Lucy.
Well he might be. His only child, she
was his idol Also that of every mar
riageable young man in the town. espe-
cially Vincent Darrow-but of that
later.
She had taught school for two
years. for her father was by no means
a wealthy man. In fact, outside of
some two thousand dollars, invested
safely, as he supposed, he had only
the small farm where he lived, at the
edge of the village. With hired help
he managed to make it produce bare
living, but nothing more
He had high hopes of Lucy, howev-
er. For year she had been attend
ing city art school He was going
after her now, to bring her home for
vacation. One more year, she had
told him, and she would be able to
produce something that people would
pay for.
John had a very neat idea in his
mind, he fancied, as he reached the
city, early the next morning. He had
a part of the dividends from his min.
ing stock investment in his pocket,
and he planned to make Lucy hand.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
JULY 26 IN HISTORY


lS06-British frigate Greyhound
and sloop Harried captured
off Macassar; the Dutch fri
cate Pallas had thirty-six
guns, and two large East In
diamen laden with spies.
1S5S-First Hebrew in British Par
lament.
lss9-President Heureaux, of San
Domingo, assassinated.
l9l4-Four persons were killed in
Dublin and many wounded
after an attempt was made
by troops and police to seize
a consignment of 1000 rifles
landed by the Nationalist
Volunteers from a yacht of
Howth.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

and disappointed tone. 1T is quite
quite attractive. and-the frame 10
very bright and new.
She did not tell her father that ne
had been swindled with the verlest
daub, but he suspected that all was
not right. A week later he had some
thing else to think of. The Golconda'
after paying unearned dividends, blew
I'D. and honest Johns cash surplus
+, was consumed.
| mo more art school, them said
Lucy, with quivering lip; but she add
ed, bravely: Il shall go back to teach
ing till / earn enough to complete my
art education"
To. this her loyal lover, Vincent Oar
row, demurred 1t meant long wait
for wife and home. but there was
no appeal from Lucy's ambitious ceci-
sion. She painted evenings, and on
her fathers birthday presented him
with her first finished canvas.
why, say" observed the old man,
what's the matter with ripping that
old daub out of place-for know now
that it is one-and using the frame,
which is pretty fair for an auction
frame, after all?"
This was agreed to. Her lover by
her side and her father regarding
them indulgently, Lucy began to re-
move the old canvas from its frame
backing. To her surprise, as 1t came
free, there showed under 1t second
canvas.
"Oh, father!"
Lucy fell back with so startled an
exclamation that father and lover
stared at her in amazement. Her eyes
were fixed on the hidden canvas.
Their depths were expressive, &c.
static.
why, Lucy" began her puzzled
lover
"Oh, Vincent" interrupted Lucy, in
delighted gasp-"it's real Corot"
What's that" blundered her ia
Their.
"A gem-almost priceless" declared
Lucy, who knew art when she saw it.
"See-signature and all.
1t all proved true. In some way, un.
doubtedly, one of the pictures con.
cealed by the foreign shipper to evade
paying duty, had got mixed with the
ordinary stock of the auctioneer.
"Oh, how much ii means!" was all
the enraptured Lucy could say as she
lvi, Ii IN he Of q
masterpiece, all her dreams of ambi.
ton again revived
She was too good little business
woman not to calculate the great ben
eft some immediate money would
prove for herself and those near and
dear to her.
John Marsh had to take another trip
to the city the next day. He accom-.
panied Lucy, carrying the precious
Corot in grasp that he was deter
mined no thieving miscreant should
break
Lucy had no difficulty in finding an
expert, who pronounced the picture
genuine, and established its selling
pose Of. Then she and her father re-
turned home to await the result OF
that friends negotiations.
A letter arrived finally that set all
doubts at rest. Lucy opened the ex-
pected missive with trembling fingers,
and a madly beating heart
"Hurrah-it's sold" cried John
Marsh, reading the truth in her radi-
ant face.
Yes" nodded Lucy. "Oh, father.
everything is all right now!"
An art connoisseur had paid fifteen
hundred dollars for the treasure.
Lucy was able to resume her art stud.
les, her engagement with Vincent was
shortened, and John Marsh was able
to gloatingly declare that he had his
eye teeth cut" after all!
Copyright. 1913. by w. q. Chapman)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
Wanted Point Remember.a

when little Billie was visiting -,
iuncn one day he had strawbar-,as
ana there were but a few on a.os
ones plate Billie looked at the smsn
assortment at his place, then wh;.
pereo: Remember. Aunt Mar;s
that I'm company" ar'e'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
Disease to Exterminate erasshoppers

pIsease to Exterminate Grasshoppers.
To exterminate havoc-working
droves Of grasshoppers in Salvador
and Guatemala some virus has been
obtained from Brazil. and number Of
insects are to be inoculated and
turned loose The disease thus spread
is remarkably fatal to grasshoppers.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
Wanted

After you become WEALTHY. eta
the biographer, you found vo,,sa,s
much sought after?"
Ies' replied Mr.. Dustin STAG. INV
an investigating committee"-Wash
ington Star.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
Natural Law.

Every man is. his own ancestor and
every man is his own heir. He devises
his own future and he inherits his own
past-Exchange.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
another for New York

New Yorker Arrested for Act,ns
strangely on Street Car."-Prohablv
gave up his seat to a woman-pbilo.
delphia North American.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
Precaution Run Mad

A NERVOUS contemporary fears greatly
"A that the city will be deprived OF home
rule by the constitutional amendment per-
mitting the increase of tho city's borrowing
capacity to 10 per cent. of the assessed VAL
uation The point raised is that funds bor-
rowed under this authority will he available
only for rapid transit aud port Improvement
1t seems unnecessary to point out that the
city need not borrow the money unless 1t
wants to. 1t is clothed with absolute power
in that respect. II will vote for transit and
port what it thinks transit and port ought
to have. If the combined amounts do not use
all of the additional borrowing capacity, so
much the better. If they do, 1t means that
the money would have been used for these
two purposes anyhow, irrespective of any
limitation of availability.
1t is quite true that in the event of sur
plus II would be we'll If the money could be
applied to other improvements. To hold
back transit two years, however, to secure
this additional advantage would be precau-
tlon run mad. Tho most eXigent needs just
now are transit and port When they are
provided for, there will be no insurmountable
difficulty in eliminating restrictions on tho
borrowing capacity of the city, If such elmi-
nation appears to be wise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
Female Suffrage a Safety Valve

CONVERSATIONS on trolley cars are for
~ all ears. when the war is over" re-
marked local politician, there will be an
influx OF foreigners to this country and Wen
have them all voting the straight ticket
within year" The law is against such
procedure, but practice favors it. SO much
for practical politics.
Two million voters can assimilate 1000 raw
citizens better than 100000 can assmilate
500. II there is going to be an thrush of for
cigners, who will be voted by some trick or
other a good way in which to counteract the
menace is to double our present electorate
by the simple means of extending the fran
chise to women. They would be a very cX
cellent safety valve during the period of con-
verting foreigners into good American citi-
zens.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
Dodging Political Eclipse in Chicago

n FORE rising political suns have gone
IKl down in eclipse because Of rum than
for any other reason. When a man de-
slrous of making and keeping friends was
asked to have a drink he was afraid to re-
fuse, and pretty soon drink had him.
The new Mayor of Chicago has apparently
decided to profit by the mistakes of others,
for he has announced that he will not at
tempt to run the business of the city with
the aid of alcoholic stimulants Soft drinks
and hard sense make up his program The
city will be better governed grape juice
than on cocktails.
The man who uses alcohol to excess can
not hold his own either in business or in
politics Affairs move so swiftly that it is
imperative that a man have his wits about
him all the time II he is to keep up with
the procession. Monday spent in SOLDERING
up from a Saturday night and Sunday de-
hauch is day wasted. A bracer in the
morning, after hearty drinking at night, will
not restore the stamina lost through excess
sIve stimulation The fttest survive, and
the sober man is ftter than the drunkard.
He may not be so brilliant, but he Is more
dependable, and 1t is the dependable man
who holds up the fabric of business and
society The operation of economic laws,
which discard the drunkard, is making tenn
perance a necessity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20

TTTHO Is the oldest living person in the world?
w A possible answer was given two years ago
in the annual report of the American Scenic
and Historic Preservation Society. At that
time wah-ha- gun-ta. Chief Firemaker of the
Blackfeet Indians, reputed to be l3l years
old. Since then the Bureau of Indian Affairs
has been endeavorlng to learn more about this
interesting human landmark. Walter F. Dick
ems, an official of the Indian Service, last sum-
mer made trip TO Ball Club, Mimi, the home
of this Indian, for the special purpose of inter-
viewing Wah- -ha- -gun-ta. While he did not abb
solutely establish the exact age OF the object
OF his journey to Ball Club, he did bring back
an interesting picture of the closing days OF a
person who is certainly TO be numbered among
the most ancient OF men,
He found the old man, who also is known as
Ke-we- tah- gis-shig, and more prosaically as
John Smith, lying on bunch Of hay piled on
the ground in a small birch bark house at the
north end OF Mud Lake. about 10 or is miles
southwest of Bah Club, Ball Club is a small
station on the Great Northern Railroad, about
80 miles east OF Cass Lake. Mud Lake. which
is three or four miles long and about one and
a half miles wide, is, as its name suggests,
especially adapted TO the growing OF rice. As
matter OF fact, II is practically one great rice
field Mr.. Dickens accompanied by an inter-
prefer crossed the lake in a canoe reaching
the camp about o'clock in the evening, There
we're several families OF Indian rice gatherers
at the camp. The birch bark hovel in which
wah-ha-gun-ta was living was about ls BY
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
Party or Barrel?

CERTAIN Republican leaders sold out to
~ the liquor. industry last fall. They
promised 1t immunity and clear field in
return for money and support at the polls
OF all the important Republican candidates
the Governor alone repudiated this infamous
alliance, refused to profit from the transac-
tion, declared boldly for local option and
offered in his own person the means where
by the electorate could veto the contract and
rescue the party from the morass into which
It's ostenslble friends were soeking to
plunge it.
The vote tomorrow will show whether the
party Is a chattel to be sold, or a living,
breathing organism, susceptible to states
manlite and heroic leadership. 1t will show
whether the Republican party belongs TO
the people or to the liquor ring. II It be-
longs to the latter and that fact is estab-
lished tomorrow, there is revolt brewing
which will topplo the whole party structure
into promiscuous ruin and menace the eco
nomio rehabilitation of the nation, which
is so earnestly hoped for in 1916.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
Lies-A Chief Munition of War

TIES constitute one of the most important
IL munitions of war They nurture hate
Each national must be made to believe that
his adversaries are inhuman, barbarous'
murderous wretches. How otherwise could
the Governments keep their pawns in the
field and recruit new sacrifices for machine
guns? Misunderstandings are the things
wars are made of and the means by which
they are continued So all the wells of in
formation are poisoned and lies are pyra-
mided on lies to aggravate these misunder-
standings and keep them vitalized. Great
facts stand out like generals, but they are
surrounded with myriad ranks of lies, SOL
diers of hates, true emissaries of Mars.
Truth would empty many trenches that
machine guns cannot clear.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
Crooked Politics in Court

TT COLONEL ROOSEVELT libeled William
i Barnes when he called him bipartisan
boss, Joined in an alliance between crooked
business and crooked politics fighting 10
maintain corrupt and machine govern
ment, then the Colonel is not the only man
IN New York who has libeled Barnes, and he
Is not the only man in the Union who has
been guilty Of libeling political bosses in
ether States,
Mr. Roosevelt's defense, so far as it has
bsen made known, is justification and priv
feee He insists that Barnes has been re-
snonalble for crooked government in the
state and that the erookedness has run
through both parties by mutual agreement
zor addition. division and silence. There Is
daspread impression that this condition
Eas prevailed for years. Independent Re
nahiicans and independent Democrats have
soiled with indignation whenever they have
thonght Of T.
AR Barnes sues TO vindicate his personal
osor and insists that there has been Moth
corrupt Ia his political career. He lays
sress on the words corrupt and crooked,
aed hs wishes e prove that he is honest and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
AN INDIAN HOLDS THE AGE RECORD

"A feet in size. 1t had evidently been con-
structed for temporary occupancy while gath
erlng rice. Wah-ha- gun-ta asleep, hud-
resting place. in the form OF a canopy, had
been hung some sheets,
His appearance was that of an extremely
aged His frame was wasted. his face
deeply wrinkled and his short hair white While
he responded in his native tongue to the ques-
tons put 10 him, he evidently understood Eng
lish. He said that a number of years before
he had been able to speak English fuently, but
that his memory was falling and he had for
gotten a great deal of his English, He de-
eared that he remembered distinctly, how
ever the shower Of stars, said TO have occurred
about los years ago, AS Wah-ha-gun-ta asserts
that upon good evidence he was years old at
that time, he is certainly not less than 10
years OF age.
Pay-kay-ga-mah, south OF Grand Rapids 1
have lived here upon the Leach Lake Reserva-
tion for about 40 years. I was down in south
ern Minnesota during the Sioux massacre. when
the Sioux killed more than 400 Chippewas.
being about years old at that time. can
remember Il well. There was no ST. Paul or
Minneapolis but a little settlement OF about
five or six buildings below the falls The lead
ing mans name was Pah-de-gree. His mission
was to get the Sioux and Chippewas TO agree
but It turned into massacre. The steamboat
landed Just below the falls with lot OF sol
dlsrs."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
Common Sense on the Full Crew Question

TIME overwhelming majority by which the
i House passed the full crew repeal bill
does credit to the sound sense of the legisla-
tors on this economic proposition The bill,
instead of ordering the railroad companies
to employ specific number of men on each
train, empowers the Public Service Commits
sion to regulate the number of men to be
employed.
The bill that was passed is sound in
theory and in practice if we are TO regulate
the railroads by Public Commissions. Tho
conditions of railroad operation vary from
time to time, so it is impossible for any Leg
islAture, however we'll meaning, to lay down
a hard and fast rule regulating the number
of men to be put on every train. The eX-
perience of the railroad companies them
selves is a safer guide in such matters than
the opinion Of the law makers in Harrisburg
And If it is thought necessary to induce the
railroads to profit by their experience the
Public Service Commission is the proper
body to be commissioned with persuasive
powers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
A Rale a Shot

yXTHEN the Queen Elizabeth shoots one of
w her big guns 400 pounds of cotton dis
appear from the face OF the earth A bale
shot is approximately the rule This has not
yet exerted any very great effect on the cot
ton market; but the cheapness Of the staple
has resulted in an extension OF it's use. 1t is
quite probable therefore, that before the war
Is over cotton. too, will respond to the situa-
ton and yield fair profit to the producer.
The United States can never expect to get
full profit from this great crop until its own
factories use most OF the raw material. There
is not. however anything hopeless about the
cotton market, which has been gradually inn
proving and is likely to continue TO improve.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20

tion Of a jury Of plain citizens Of onondaga
County, the nation at large will be delishted
to learn that the grandson Of Thurlow Weed
is an angel Of light and not an expert in the
game OF politics as It is played in Albany
and in Now York in these exceedingly de-
generate days But the country does not
really expect Mr.. Barnes to be able to satisfy
the jury that he is better than his party, or
that he has used his great influence to
cleanse 1t Of the corruption which has
stained its record Tho verdict will prob
ably depend on what the jurors think cor
rupt" and crooked" mean when applied to
polticlans and politlcs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20

In the same way, finally stretched them un-
ill., as he had long expected, they became
too thin, and in the last days of March
Grant broke them in three places and opened
the drive to Appomattox. Unless tho Ger
mans can presently bring forward new re-
serves it must be clear that Joffre's tao
tics will have similar result
At Neuve Chapelle the British actually
penetrated the German lines. Conceivably,
to judge from British reports, had the re-
serves been well handled more than local
advantages might have been gained. French
success in the last few days in Alsace is
another indication of the weakening of Ger
man resistance But above all the failure
of the Germans to take the offensive any
where in the west in recent weeks seems
to demonstrate that they lack the num-
bcrs for anything but defensive fighting
and even here are hard put to it, as all tho
recent struggles would indicate, to hold
their own.
No General Offensive
If this Interpretation of allied strategy
be true if the Germans in France are
actually and permanently TO remain inferior
in numbers, then instead of any general
allied offensive all along the line, the
Spring drive" much advertised, what
is to be expected is a long series of nib
bles" of operations wholly similar to those
in Champagne, in Flanders. in Lorraine and
in Alsace So long as allied losses do not
exceed German, the cost to the Germans will
he greater proportionately, and the time
must come when they will have to retire to
shorter lines, presumably behind the Meuse
and the SCheldt
Meantime the immediate effect of this
strategy is to pin down in their positions
all the German troops in France, save the
small reserves which are hurried from dan
ger point to danger point, and there can
be no shifting of army corps east and west
in France or from France to the Russian
front as in the past This, so far as 1t is
possible to judge, has already happened.
In sum- recent events seem to confirm the
views of official and unofficial observers
that the Germans have been put on the de-
fensive permanently i'm France, and the
ablest British critic, Belloc finds warrant
for the belief that the strategy of Joffre is
really an imitation of Grants method which
ultimately disposed of Lee, a policy of at
triton, for which "nibblng" is but euphe-
msm, as the casualty lists disclose.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
Come Over, Billy Sunday, and Help Us!'

LNROM England comes the Macedonian cry,
i Come over Billy Sunday and help
u.s." Yet there are men who say that the
glory of oratory has departed and the power
of it is more.
Baseball slang is unknown in England, and
the vernacular of London Is it's own, not
easily acquired. That the aptness and force
of the evangelist would suffer as a result is
clear, yet it by no means follows that a
campaign there would be a failure Death
has reapcd a harvest in the island There is
menace in the clouds and England is COW
cred with pail such as no living men before
have witnessed. 1t is a period in which unite
all conditions that make for a revival of
religion and drive humanity, terrorized and
stricken, in supplication to the supreme.
The field is ripe for a harvest and there
are myrlads waiting to hit the trail
There is, too, a subtle compliment to
America in the summons, which will not
diminish good wishes for England in this
country, for Billy Sunday has won a place
in the hearts of thousands Of Americans who
delight to see him honored.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20
THE SOUL OF THE CITY

From the Ohio State Journal
Cities have souls, says well-known writer
that is, cities that amount to much have-and
thus the writer goes on to say:
What is the great essential of a city with n
soul? It is n citizen with soul-hundreds OF
thousands of him-a soul above mere receptivity,
self-seekng and accumulation; citizen who
reflects upon what he can put into his city,
not upon what he can get out of it,
II city has not soul 1t is because there is
none in the city that have. 1t is the soulless
people who make soulless city. But note
what is required to make city with a soul
citizens who reflect upon what they put
into their city, not upon what they get out
of II. Let every man he his own judge how
much soul he is putting into his city.