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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
FIRST CHILD THE WEAKEST
Exhaustive Researches Made by Ex.
perts Seem to Have Proved
Truth Of Assertion.

Primogeniture has just received an.
other hard knock. For social, eco
nomic and political reasons it had been
abolished everywhere except in Eng
land, where it seems to be on its last
legs; but now the biologists and physi.
clans are saying that there is strong
natural reason for setting aside the
Oldest son as the heir to the estates
and the head of the family.
1t is some years since DR.. W. C.
Rivers, in studying the statistics of a
great sanatorium in England, observed
that among tuberculous patients the
first born provide larger number of
| subjects than any of the other chill
| dren. Prof. Karl Pearson and Profes.
sors Brehmer and Riffel collected a
| vast mass of statistics in England and
Germany and fully confirmed Rivers
observation. Brehmer had been teach.
ing that the first-born children were
| the strongest, but he proved that the
| opposite was true.
The Medical Record remarks that
not only tuberculosis but insanity and
criminality show preponderating in.
cidence among the eldest children,
and quotes Professor Parsons state
ment that the earlier members of a
family are more likely than the
younger to inherit constitutional de
fects. 1t adds that tendency to cod
die, pamper and indulge the first chile
may account for part of its vulnera
bility to disease.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
Dc3cScc&
Love AND DYNAMITE
Proper Use of the Explosive
Stopped Flood and Won
a Wife.
BY GEORGE ELMER COBB.

Evan Bruce, salesman, turned the
corner of vacant square with high
board fence around it on a keen run.
satchel in one hand run up a slanting
support, grab at the top of the fence
and bolt over it out of view. Bruce
proceeded to spot where the man he
was pursuing had vanished. He
looked through crack in the fence
to smiles and he chuckled.
Bruce had carelessly left his sat
chel on the sidewalk outside of a
store. He made his purchase Of some
cigars, and came to the street again
to see a man running away with the
satchel. He had put after him to find
him now in somewhat sad plight.
The thief 1t seemed had scaled the
fence to evade his pursuer. He had
not, however, counted on what was
before him. Some construction was
meditated beyond the fence. Prepare
tory to the same broad space had
been covered with an asphalt cement.
The fugitive had dashed across this,
which was freshly laid. He had sunk
in ankle deep. Mired as in a mass
Of mud. he had floundered about and
managed to get back to the edge. Here
he had hastily opened the satchel.
One glance at its contents and he
dropped it with a yell. Then he ran
down the edge of the cemented space
and disappeared.
It cost Bruce some time and labor
to in turn scale the fence and re-
cover his stolen property. He did
this in perfect good humor.
Wonder what the fellow thought
when he read the labels on those
samples?" he laughed. mot that it
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
NEW YORK DAY BY DAY
BY Charles Henry Adams


New York, June 1.-THE Ameri-
can woman is not the most beautiful
woman in the world | have seen
thousands, and of them all only
three were really beautiful-one of
these was trifle too fat
The author of this jewel of orr
ganility. this really glorious heresy,
is Prince Dhalip Sigh Gill of Patiala,
Puni ab, India. for the past three or
four years a student at Columbia and
at eNw York University and now
writing a book about America. II
either of the institutions he has at
tended gave an honorary degree for
sheer. unqualified. audicious verac-
ity, Prince Dhailp Singh Gill would
walk off with it. All my interview
ing life I've been waiting for the for
Gig inquest who is sufficiently an in
tellectual pioneer and an honest man
to perceive that some few of our
women are not living Venuses.
The beauty should be between
feet I inches and feet 9 inches in
height. slender. graceful and perfect
ly proportional
She should have classic, regular
features, and she should be a bru.
nette. with fair skin and darl
ewes. eyebrows end hair. In this W.
there is an effective contrast of iight
and shade, such as the blonde nevei
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14

would have mattered much If he got
away with them, for it seems that I
have come to this dead burg on a
fruitless errand. Biddle & Co., quarry
men, have burned out, Ell? Won't
start up for sixty days. No train out
of here for three hours. Suppose l
go out to where he lives, and see If
l cannot get an order out of him
for future delivery"
No sooner said than done. It had
been raining for nearly a week and
the roads were almost impossible,
Bruce had been told that the Biddle
home was nearly three miles from
town. The picturesque scenery, how
ever, made up for the hard plodding.
Just beyond the edge of a small
stream running near a ravine he came
upon pretty country house. No one
responded to continuous ringing of the
door bell. Bruce was about to re-
turn townwards when he noticed the
flutter of skirts near q pretty little
cottage on the same lot.
1t was pleasant to the tired
journeyee to meet Miss Verona Biddle
and know that her father would re-
turn within an hour. 1t grew pleas
anter still as she invited Bruce to rest
on comfortable porch seat. which
she shared with him. She was
| bright and interesting, recognized
him as a gentleman and quite en-
chanted him with her pretty ways.
Il was tidying up the cottage here,
which my married brother and his
family have occupied until today" she
explained. Papa has just driven them
to the depot. 1t will be lonely for us,
but brothers business called him to a
new location"
It began to rain shortly, and they
had to go into the house for shelter
| just as Mr.. Biddle arrived and Joined
them. Bruce handed his business card
to the bluff old quarryman.
Dynamite, eh?" observed Mr.. Bid
die, reading the card. Sorry l cant
give you an order. I might have
taken some for later use, but this big
flood has done worse than the fire
l just got a wire in town telling me
that the dyke up at the quarries has
overlooked. If the dam goes, it's ruiz
for the whole plant up there"
It continued to rain. Bruce fingered
another hour. Then he announced hi:
intention of returning to town. Mr.
Biddle went out and studied the heav,
clouds.
See here" he said, Il might drive
you to town, but We would ge
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14

displays; also the blondes complex
ion is not usually as smooth as the
brunettes's, while the hair of the
former is coarser.
The beauty does not need to use
cosmetics or to wear corsets, and she
has happy. contented expression.
The women of my country wear
the sari, single long strip of cloth
which is twisted about the entire
body and conforms to its lines. There
are no corsets to distort the snaps
of the natural figure, and in place
, of boots that cramp the foot Punjab
women wear soft slippers. Their diet
is almost wholly vegetarian and they
drink no alcoholic liquors, no tea or
coffee. They drink a great deal of
milk
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
Made Difference to MANAGER.

Jake Tanenbaum is an old time
Snowman, who became famous
through his having possessed for a
long time The key to the SOUTH"
which means that before the theatrical
syndicate was formed he controlled
the theatrical output south of Mason
and Dixon's line.
1t was his custom to come to New
York's Rialto every summer. and he
was always the center of a group Of
showfolk.
"How's business In Mobile, Jack?'
asked friend.
Fine: never better" he replied.
Il see you played both John and
Sydney Drew in different plays" the
friend exclaimed.
YES" said Jake. John Drew, but
Sydney didn't. "-Buffalo Express.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14

The Ontario Department of Edu-
cation recently announced that flu
ture examinations in English.
Canadian, and European History will
contain one or more specific ques-
tion dealing with the present Europ-
can war 1t is announced that IAN
adequate knowledge of the topics in
question shall be required as one of
tn tests of promotion from grad to
grade" The Minister of Education
for Ontario urges that generously
disposed citizens and school Boards
So nri7es fer vs. on one or
more phases of the present strug-
GLE"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
drenched Just make up your mind to

drenched. Just make up your mind 70
stay with US overnight.
Bruce glanced at the trim figure anu
charming face of his hostess and maze
no demur. He held an umbrella over
Verona while they ran for the larger
house. Then the deft little housekeep-
er busted herself preparing supper
They had just concluded the eve
ming meal when there came harsn
rapid jangle at the telephone. MT.
Biddle answered the call He instant
ly dropped the receiver and ran LOT
his hat.
Its comet" he announced in a
tone of deep concern-"the dam mas
broken and the food is on. Can you
help me bit, Mr.. Bruce?"
why, surely" acceded Bruce
promptly.
The young salesman knew little
about floods as he assisted his host
in getting some cattle from the low
land meadows into the stables. he
knew a great deal more at the end a1
his labors, as Mr.. Biddle told him OF
former foundations the section had
experienced.
As they passed the little brook he
had crossed on his way to the house,
Bruce was fairly startled and his com
panion expressed renewed alarm. The
formerly placid water was growing in
to torrent force.
I'VE must be ready for a dash to
the highlands if this grows worse,
advised his host. I've been through
this before
1T is a question of the stream rls'
ing enough to reach the house?" in.
quired Bruce, with speculative look
in his eyes.
Just that" was the positive re-
Spouse.
The young salesman returned to the
house and took up his satchel. He
had studied the contour of the sur
roundings and he knew his business
Mr.. Biddle and his daughter were
standing on the porch wondering
what had become of their guest. Ten
minutes went by, then half an hour
| The quarryman ever and anon took
a lantern and went to the edge
Of the stream. The last time he die
this he came hurrying back with al
alarmed face.
Get the house locked up" he sale
urgently. AT the rate the water ii
rising, the next hour will see US sur
rounded, if not floating away"
oh! as bad as that, papa?' ex
claimed Verona.
Yes. l will hitch up at once ant
we will go over to your aunt's at Higf
Ridge"
,Crash!-a terrific explosion ratified
the windows of the house. AS fathe
and daughter stood petrified will
amazement, Bruce came into view
bearing the empty satchel in one hand
a battery apparatus in the other.
Look at your creek now," he spok
in something of tone Of triumph.
You are a practical man." was tn
comment of Mr.. Biddle, as he did lool
and was told what had caused tn
water to recede.
Il simply blew out the ravine wall,
explained Bruce. THE dynamite d
1t. There's a vent now that may fiji
up the ravine, but you won't have an
flood hereabouts."
So practical a man was Bruce, II
deed, that Mr.. Biddle offered him tn
SUPPLEMENTARY of his plant when h
started up again.
So sensible was Bruce, that he prt
posed to Verona within a month, maj
ried her in two, and the pretty CO
tage had new occupants.
Copyright, 1918. by w. G. Chapman.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
% Postmen Get Ietters7

Do you suppose the post office clerks
care to receive letters? I have my
doubts. They get into a dreadful habit
Of indifference. A postman, imagine,
is quite callous Conceive his deliver
ing one to himself without being
startled by preliminary double
Snock,-Charles Dickens.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
Daily THOUGHT

Nine-tenths Of the good that is done
In the world is the result not o. laws
however wise. or of resolutions how.
ever strong. but Of the personal inf,u.
ence of individual men and ~omen-
Sir Samuel Chisholm.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
ehosbe,s onIv chanes,

Cats at q cat show are not scored
on their rat catching records; there
fore 1t would be Of no use to enter
Phoebe. She'll have to he shown In
steel and wire trap exhibition
Tols4le Is...le IL Il
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
More Older Peop,e em,,ov.s

Fewer people under twenty and more
people over forty-five are now EN-.
ployed in various industries than was
the case ten years ago.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
Immune From MANY n,..,.

men attending the pans in sal,
s morks are generally supposed to he
exempt from cholera. smallnox go
let fever and influenza '0ai
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
A A~I ReaaoA

4 really hank seeker of divorce was
~ colored woman who said: San
amt dun nufin particular. but ! tess
tosed ma taste H.. hi'u - n,i,svflls
Courier,JournsI
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
Beware.

Beware so long as you live Of judg.
ing people by appearances-La Fon.
tame
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
XeR. why7

Why is it that the last WORDS = md
great are so much wiser than -. I'D
uttered while in good heallp.
change.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-14
uNy:4s

Ono Glance and He Dropped It With a
Yell.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

Oats and Canada Field Peas Are Best
to Follow CIoVer-Right Amount
to Feed Cows.

In his bulletin on green crops for
summer soiling ]. B. Lindsey of the
Massachusetts station says that oats
and Canada field peas make the best
green crop to follow clover. Generally
it is advisable to make three grow
ings, the first as early as possible in the
spring, the second and third Is and 30
days later
One and one-half bushels of each of
the oats and peas is the usual guam
tity to the acre. They both may be
sOwn broadcast at the same time after
the land is ploWed and thoroughly
narrowed in with wheel harrow, or
the peas may be first sown and four
or five days later the oats, the latter
being covered with a harrow. The
first sowing will be ready about June
25, and the cutting should begin as
soon as the oats show the head.
The average yield from the second
and third sowings is likely to be
heavy, as the crop natures more
quickly during the warm weather.
Oats and peas will remain in condi-
ton to cut for ten or twelve days. The
average cow win consume from fifty
to eighty pounds daily until that feed
becomes tough. One-third Of an acre
will generally furnish ten COWS with
sufficient green feed twelve days. This
is figured on a basis of from forty to
fifty pounds per day in the case of
average sized COWS, with ten pounds
of hay.
Professor Lindsey does not consider
it wise to feed more than this amount
of coarse green feeds daily, for the
reason that an excess produces an eX-
ceedingly laxative condition Of the
bowels. Animals fed in excess Of fifty
pounds are likely to become notice
ably thin in flesh. In addition to the
hay and green fodder, he believes it
will usually prove economical to feed
from four to seven quarts Of grain
mixture composed of one twenty-ffth
part of bran and one part Of -four mid
dlings and gluten feed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08

sounded incongruous enough to De
borah, in whose heart at that moment
leaf was turned upon the past, which
left the future hopeIessly blank.
Must you go?" Deborah had risen
mechanically. Don't, l beg, till you
have relieved my mind about Judge
Ostrander. I don't suppose that there
is really anything behind that door
of his which is would alarm anyone
to see?"
Then, Deborah understood Miss
Weeks.
But she was ready for her.
I've never seen anything of the
sort" said she, ''and I make up his
bed in that very room every morn
ing"
"Oh! And Miss Weeks drew a deep
breath. mo article of immense value,
such as that rare old bit Of real Satsu-
ma in the cabinet over there?"
NO." answered Deborah, with all
the patience she could muster. Judge
Ostrander seems very simple in lis
tastes. 1 doubt-if he would know Sat
suma if he saw it"
Miss Weeks sighed. 'Yes, he has
never expressed the least wish to look
over my shelves. So the double fence
means nothing?"
"a whim," calculated Deborah, max
ing quietly for the door. "The judge
likes to walk at night when quite
through with his work; and he doesn't
like his ways to be noted. But he pre-
fers the lawn now. hear his step out
there every night"
We'll, it's something to know that
he leads a more normal life than for
merly!" sighed the little lady as she
prepared to usher her guest out
Come again, Mrs. ScovilIe; and, if l
may, I will drop in and see you some
day."
Deborah accorded her permission
and made her final adieux. She felt as
if a hand which had been stealing up
her chest had suddenly gripped her
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
KNEW WEAKNESS OF MEN
tion of War Showed Him
Student of Nature.

Sturdy Englishman that he was,
one hardly associates Doctor Johnson
with dicta that will serve in a recruit
ing campaign. Perhaps the times,
says the Westminster Gazette, hold
events Of such gargantuan import
that it is hardly matter for wonder
that in casual reading one may chance
upon a passage in the utterances of
a past giant that seems particularly
apt in reference to current events Of
our time:
We talked of war" says Boswell.
Johnson: Ever man thinks meanly
of himself for not having been a sol
der, or not having at sea" Boswell:
Lord Mansfield does not" 'Sir, if
Lord Mansfield were in a company of
general officers and admirals who
have been in service he would shrink;
he'd wish to creep under the table"
No, sir; were Socrates and
Charles XII of Sweden both present
in any company. and Socrates to say,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
SYNOPSIS.

A curious crowd Of neighbors invade
the mysterious home Of Judge Ostrander.
county judge and eccentric recluse, fol-
lowing yelled woman who has gained
entrance through the gates Of the high
double barriers surrounding the place.
The woman has disappeared but the Judge
Is found in a Cataleptic state. The judge
aWakes. Miss Weeks explains to him
what has occurred during his seizure. de
secretly discovers the whereabouts Of the
yelled woman. She proves to be the wild
oW Of q man tried before the judge and
electrOcuted for murder years before. Her
daughter is engaged to the judges son,
from whom he is estranged. but the muir
der IS between the lovers. She plans 70
clear her husbands memory and asks the
judges aid. Alone in her room Deborah
Scoville reads the newspaper clippings
telling the story Of the murder OF Alger-
non Etheridge by John ScOVille in DARK
Hollow twelve years before. The Judge
and Mrs. ScOVile meet at Spencer's Folly
and she shows him how, on the day OF
the murder, she saw the shadow OF a
man. whiting stick and wearing long
peaked cap. The Judge engages her ana
her daughter Reuther to live with him In
ais mysterious home. Deborah and her
lawyer, Black, go to the police station and
see the stick used to murder Etherldge.
she discovers a broken knife-blade point
embedded in IL. Deborah and Reuther go
% live with the judge. Deborah sees q
portrait of Oliver, the judges son, with a
black band painted across the eyes. That
night she finds, In divers room, cap
with peak like the Swallowed one, and
q knife with a broken blade-point. Anony-
nous letters increase her suspicious.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
INHABITANTS OF THE MIND
Always In the Child, or Youth, or
Man, Accompanied by the One He
Knows Above All Others.

Real men and women are not the
only people. Our minds are inhabited
as truly as any other country. Every
child has his invisible playmate, to
whom he talks more freely than to his
parents, and with whom he goes upon
strange adventures tiny Columbus
with whom he embarks upon the wa
tiers of the bathtub to discover q new
land, or a rowing De Soto, with whom
he ships through the garden gate, IN
attended and unafraid, always before
he is three years old, bent upon an
excursion into the wilderness which
lies across the brook in the field or in
the woods. If you are the father or
mother of this child you never can
understand that-how the Uimid baby
who was never before out of your
sight could have gone so far alone.
Why, when you found him, stained
with his travels, very tired, almost
nodding, he was still confident, preoc-
cupied. and bent upon farther pill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-08
CHAPTER K.
ANONYMOUS Letters.

Deborah re-entered the judges house
a stricken woman. She reached her
room door and was about to enter.
when at sudden thought she paused
and let her eyes wander down the hall
till they settled on another door, the
one she had closed behind her the
night before, with the deep resolve
never to open it again except under
compulsion. A few minutes later she
was standing in one of the dim corners
Of divers musty room, reOpening a
book which she had taken down from
the shelves on her former visit She
remembered it from its torn back and
the fact that it was an algebra. Turn
ing to the fly leaf, she looked again at
the names and schoolboy phrases she
had seen scrubbed all over its surface,
for the one which she remembered as,
'I hate algebra"
It had not been very clearly writ
ten algebra" and she would never
have given this Interpretation to the
scraWl, had she been in a better mood.
Now another thought had come to her.
and she wanted to see the word again.
Was she glad or sorry to have yielded
to this impulse, when by a closer in
spection she perceived that the word
was not algebra" at all, but "Algernon,
I hate A Etheridge-I hate A. Ell
hate AIgernon E." all over the page,
and here and there on other pages,
sometimes in characters so rubbed and
faint as to be almost unreliable and
again so pressed into the paper by
vicious pencil point as to have broken
their way through to the leaf under
meath.
The work of an iIl-conditioned
schoolboy! but-this hate dated back
many years. Paler than ever, and
with hands trembling almost to the
point Of incapacity, she put the book
back and flew to her own room, the
prey of thoughts bitter almost to mad
ness.
It was the second time in her life
| that she had been called upon to go
through this precise torture. Then,
only her own happiness and honor
were involved; now it was Reuther's;
and the fortitude which sustained her
| through the ignominy of her own trou-
| BILE failed her at the prospect of Reu-
theirs And again, the two cases were
not equal Her husband had had traits
which, in a manner, had prepared her
for the ready suspicion of people. But
| Oliver was a man of reputation and
kindly heart; and yet, in the course of
time this had come, and the question
once agitating her as to whether
Reuther was a fit mate for him and
now evolved itself into this: Was he a
| fit mate for her?
| CTO BE CONTINUED)