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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05

up for a moment and glared all about
the room.
RANSOM" he called weakly.
Yes, I'm here" answered Ransom,
soothingly.
Il wanted to tell you-Rookery loan
too bad"
Then he relapsed into silence and
then he reused up again.
Don't forget-will help out-corner
stone-that was one grand timei"
And then Rufus Markham died. It
required the sale of the few posses
sions in the house to defray the ex-
penses of the funeral. Ransom went
to the lawyer in charge OF the estate
and told him about the deed. The at
torney smiled pityingly.
I'm afraid your improvident uncle
has not very well provided for you,"
he said. There is a heavy mortgage
on the Rookery and it will be fore
closed this week. The man who holds
1t intends to raze the old brick rattle
trap and build a new mansion for
| himself"
Ransom went away with a heavy
heart. He called on Eva and her
aged father that evening and impaired
the bad news. There was but one
thing to do He must strike out for
some better field OF labor.
IF we only had home" he sighed,
as we hoped, we could venture to
make start in life together"
Don't go away. RANSOM" pleaded
his loving fiancee I'VE can wait pa
tiently for better times"
There's that lot of mine up near
the Rookery," suggested Mr. Doane.
IF we could manage to build now
That seemed impossible. but there
was ray of light next day The hold
er of the mortgage met Ransom and
told him that he would pay him a good
price to tear down the old brick build
ing and cart the rubbish away.
Il can have that?" inquired Ran.
som, eagerly.
why surely" was the ready reply
and Ransom went away all enthused
with a hopeful brilliant idea He i'm.
parted this to Eva and her father.
Why" cried Ransom enthusiastically
I'll move the brick over to the lot
and build the snuggest, prettiest little
home of our own you ever saw"
So tier by tier Ransom began to
demolish the old Rookery. Mr.. Doane
helped pile the rubbish into a wagon
Eva insisted on acting as driver All
hands helped and they comprised a
jolly, delighted coterie. At length
they were down to the foundation pill
lar
Pretty nigh through chirped old
Mr.. Doane, as he Clipped the hard
plaster from stubborn brick
"Whew! What's this-lead?"
The old man lifted and dropped O
brick that lay In a measure incased
in hollow space in the pillar Ran
som reached over, picked 1t up and
uttered whistle of sheer astonish
ment
Queer he observed Whats
this scratched on it? Corner stone Of
the Rookery.' and there was date
beneath the words. Il see, ! see-oh
Eva!"
She came running towards her lover
tracing a rare excitement in his man
ner and voice
What is 1t, DEAR" she huttered.
"A fortune-if 1t is ours" declared
Ransom. "Oh, | understand 1t all
In that great celebration of Uncle
Rufus and his friends, when they
started the house gold was plentiful
and this, the corner stone, is a par
of it,"
No one objected to the valid owner
ship of the treasure on the part o.
Ransom. The gold brick became thu
nest egg Of the future fortune OF pa
tient Ransom and loyal Eva.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
Yes" said Nan irritably.

AOSs odiu ANdu lIIlldDlg
"But-but this isn't Mrs Nelson's
baby" protested the probationer.
| Mrs. Nelson's baby has red hair
Mrs. Nelson is a white woman, Miss
Keller"
Nurse Nan cast Mortified glance at
the baby in the arms of the probation
er. 1t was-well, not black baby, be-
cause babies are not born as dark as
they become, but it was Enthusiastically
a mulatto baby.
She had got the babies mixed.
She looked hopelessly about the
ward. She did not in the least re-
member whose baby was which, nor
where she had placed them She
stared with horror into the probation
er's face. Miss Matthews was watch
ing her in a puzzled sort of way
Nurse Nan tried to remember what
she had done, but she could only see,
in her minds eye, the features OF
Charlie Abbott. and they seemed to
wear a sarcastic smile. She, who had
snubbed him, she, the competent and
self-contained one, had mixed the ba-
bies.
She thought of the mothers, doomed
| to go through life with the wrong
babies. She thought of pauper babies
growing up to be millionaires. and
heirs to vast estates doomed to life in
the slums. She pictured the colored
baby growing up among puzzled white
folk, and white baby fondled in a
negro cabin by proud foster father.
Nurse Nan dashed from the room.
She did not know where she was
| going, but it was to be somewhere
miles away from the hospital, which
she would never see again, and she
meant to get there in a very short
time.
| AS luck would have II Charlie Alb.
bolt was at the head of the stairs. He
saw the flying vision. the wild look III
/ the fugitive's eyes.
why, Miss Keller" he began.
With sob she sprang past him and
made for the hall. She was outside
rushing toward the hospital gates
Charlie Abbott fingered one instant
to take in the situation from the pro
bationer. Then:
Let the mothers watt" he com
manded curtly, and started after the
fugitive. She had long start of him
but love put speed into Charles legs
Besides, 1t was the first time that hi
had seen Nan Keller display any hu
man emotion whatever. He caught
her at the gate, grasped her about Tho
waist and pulled her into the shad,
of lilac tree.
ITS all rights all right, now,
he eXpostulated.
mo, it isn't all right" exclaimed
Nan tragically. Let me go! Let m,
go! I've mixed the babies"
He held her like a struggling bird
Listen! Listen! Come back! | know
every baby by sight in the dark, ant
the mothers know them, too. Wei
have them sorted out in a jiffy."
Nan raised her wet face. Are yo,
sure?" she stammered.
The doctor nodded Fond of ba
bies, Miss Nam" he asked.
Il love them love them" she said
with tragic comedy in her tones.
Il didn't think you could love-" an
swered Abbott. Miss Nan-Nani
you can love, won't you try to prac
tice on a grown-up-on me?"
Mans cheeks famed. IL" sh,
began.
He took her in his arms. III you
don't I'll never unsort the babies" h,
replied.
Later he unsOrted them
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
Satan's Way.

Mrs. Kilgore was the pretty young
70 u the elderly village pastor.
70 day she went into the city with
friend and, among other things,
ught q new frock Another frock,
dear7'' said her husband. Did
q need another" Yes" said the
Re. hesitatingly, Il do need it; and,
sides, It was so pretty that the devil
nptsd me" But you should have
ID Get thee behind me, Satan
I'VE you forgotten that?" "Oh, no;
that was what made the trouble,
bby. dear. l said. Get thee behind
=. Satan, and he did, but he wills.
red ever my shoulder. 1t just fits
y beautifully in the back! And
p had TO take it then."-Harper's
asazlns
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Brick
5000
By EVELYN RINGOLD


Copyright 1916. by W. @. Chapman.)
You're to be my heir, Ransom, boy;
don't forget that" declared Rufus
Markham, examiner and present prof
ligate.
Always this statement accompanied
the finale Of a protracted spree on
the part of the old Westerner, and al
ways honest, confiding Ransom Brill
did his duty as nurse and relative,
and sighed doubtingly as he realized
that both his uncle and his one prop
erty possession, The Rookery," as
his odd home was called, were fast
speeding along a downward path.
Ransom Brill was a mere lad, an
orphan, and working for poor farm
er when Uncle Rufus, after an alb
sence of ten years returned to Irving
ton, his native village. Markham had
come back with great flare of trump
cts. He had hit "a rich streak" in a
Colorado gold mine and had set out to
enjoy life. Certainly his actions indi-
Gated the possession of some means.
He bought high-priced building lot
at the edge Of the town. Then he pro-
ceeded to erect the Rookery He
never completed it. There we're grand
doings when the ceremony of laying
the cornerstone" and christening OF
the building took place. In this none
Of the villagers, not even Ransom,
was invited to participate
Uncle Rufus had sent for a group
Of his old mining friends. He had
paid their fare East. He had wined
them and dined them. There was a
week of wild revelry Then the house
was completed to the second story
In this shape thereafter it was inhab,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
pswrItIna Machines.

re tspswriting machine does not
m4zA farther back than the year
IS n hat year Foucault exhibited
Hxitina machine for the blind. The
in9t0ns began improving the type
1f e Early as 1857 and in 1873
tpfselaEsd $4,000 machines.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
Greenland cryolIts.

American commercial interest in
Greenland rests wholly in obtaining
supplies OF cryolite from there. The
Quarries at Ivigtut, at the southern
extremity Of the land. furnish nearly
all the cryolfte used In the world.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
En,u.r Attributed % Gam

Five thousand years ago the Bgyp-
tians found in the lapis lazun an astrin-
gent which healed the eyes and Gig-
nifcance has been attached to the gem
because of that
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
A. % @Frgeodly ASvice.S

why does q little friendly advice
make US 90 much hotter than q little
wniendly advice7" Perhaps because
NJ considered bad form to hit q Per
son who offers a little friendly advice. I"
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
Hom He Lost Her.

and you really love me for my
muRf alone?" she sighed. Yes, dar~
hing" he confessed. and then. as IN
afterthought, added. You know. yOu
don't show Up very wen in . crowd"
Buffalo Express.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
Uncle Ehen.

Ambition" said Uncle Eben. is
hlrs one o. deshere airships. Some
times de man OATS fyin' over De
heads Of de people Is happy an same
times he's mostly nervous"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05

serns mould be fed once every two
four weeks with dilute nitrate Of
= eolafion, very dilute ammonia
Ter manure teachings, prepared
INT food, or ground bone and wood
haa.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
Wait for Her TO Grow.

Any man is a coward who will de-
liberately kiss a helpless girl baby.
A brave man will tackle female near
er his size.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
Wise Poet.

DO you mail your poems or take
them to the editors yourself?" II
mail them. Rejection is bad enough
without running the risk of election
also Boston Transcript.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
nnAanIf EnIlnw

4 common error is in regarding .
man who has made a success in one
thing as an authority on everything.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-05
ministration quarters there is known

ministration quarters there is known
to be a strong feeling that the coun-
try as whole wants peace, and that
is why the growing strength of Henry
Ford as a presidential possibility is
causing anxiety. Administration fol
lowers are comforting themseles with
the idea that in the final fight, as be-
tween Wilson and Roosevelt, for ex-
ample, the Henry Ford following
would be for Wilson, if Mr.. Ford's
election proved an impossibility.
Their Hunting Hours.
Birds OF prey generally seek their
prey in the daytime, while beasts of
prey generally seek theirs at night.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20
The Yankee in Mexico.

Mexican politeness, like Spanish po-
likeness, is of the perfervid kind. Thus,
one of the flowers of speech which the
law of courtesy commands a Mexican
host to use when he welcomes a guest
is a phrase to the effect that his
"humble house, belongs not to him.
self at all but wholly to his guest, and
that the latter may do with it what he
will.
Once this phrase cost a Mexican
some worry. He met an enterprising
Yankee, who was in Mexico drumming
up business, and, inviting him to his
home, told him that the house and
all it's belongings were his.
word. He had his baggage moved
from the hotel to the Mexican's man.
sion, proceeded to occupy that man.
sion as his own, and after few days
had passed generously notified the be.
wildered Mexican gentleman that the
latter might remain in the house for a
reasonable length of time, couple
of weeks. perhaps, until hez-the Mex
lean gentleman-had found a new
dwelling to his liking, And-impossi-
bly,, but it happened-it took legal pro-
ceedings to GUST the Yankee usurper
from the premises of the Mexican ca
ballero, who may surely be called a
martyrto his national virtue of civility,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20
Worlds Oldest Museum.

The museum in the city of Nara, the
former capital of Japan, is said to be
the oldest in the world. All the ex-
hibits, too. are equally ancient, or
rather more so, for, since its founda-
ton in A. d. 756, no addition has been
made to its collection!
DR.. Otto Kummel, who tells us about
the queer old museum, is one of the
few Europeans who have been per
mitted TO visit it. Its doors are opened
only once year, when a special COM
mittee inspects the collection. The
museum contains about three thousand
articles, which are said to be the most
beautiful specimens of decorative work
ever done by the human hand. Where
the greater part of these treasures
came from, nobody knows. Some came
from China, others from Korea, but
most of them appear to have been
brought from greater distance. They
have been in their present home for
more than eleven centuries, so it is
no wonder that their origin is un-
known !-Chatterbo
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20
IS MODERN MILES STANDISH
RasrfuI West Virginia Youth Speaks
Proposal Into Photograph and
Sends Record to Sweetheart.

It is too bad to have to climb up and
remove the laurel wreath from the
beetled brow of Miles Standish. Ills
has always been name to thrill the
youth of the seventh grade and the in
roads he made upon the Indian popu-
lation of New England entitle him to
a high place in the hall of fame.
That little piece of iove-making
which he carried on with Priscilla,
with John Alden as his proxy, has
long appealed to the hosts who look
upon bashfulness as one OF the attri-
butes of brave warrior.
Of course, Napoleon, Alexander and
Antony weren't particularly backward
about their wooings and Richard III
was rather parlor favorite in his
way; but soldiers, that is, good Ameri-
can colonial soldiers, have usually
been bashful.
Washington was; he says so him
self. And so was Standish. Both lost
girls because they were too slow. But
when it comes to downright dyed-in-
the-wool bashfulness we must all
stand back and let the ushers lead Al
fred B. Manning of Parkersburg, W.
Va, down to the front seat, says the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Gentle
men, bring forward the cruise of oil
and anoint Mr.. Manning. Hand him
the cake.
Amid all these wars and rumors OF
wars comes from Parkersburg story
which alleges that Mr.. Manning, I'M
able to nerve himself to the point OF
asking a young woman to be his wife,
spoke his little piece into a phono-
graph and sent her the record.
By and by he received another rec
ord. Putting it on his machine and
cranking up he released the mechan-
ism and, while great beads of perspira-
ton stood upon his brow, he heard
the little oak doors emit the single
word Yes"
To the captious, Mr.. Manning's
methods might be considered as
smacking too much of Indian customs.
1t will be recalled that the aborigines
meaning to declare war, would send
their enemy a snakeskin filed with
bullets.
But these critics are too harsh; pro-
posing by monograph is businesslike,
to the point and sanitary. 1t may
lack some of the sentiment but it ac-
composites the purpose. 1t fetches
home the matrimonial bacon. We sim
cerely hope that in the years to come
Mr.. and Mrs. Manning viii have no
occasion to smash the record!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20
Honest Efforts.

Moses was fated never to enter the
land of promise he SO longingly viewed
affair; and Columbus never found-who
can now wish that he had?-that I'M
impeded sea route westward to India
that he sought so wisely and so dar-
ingly. Yet still the world moves on.
and by mysterious and unexpected
ways the great, brave soul is permit
ted to subserve the benignant purpose
of God contemplating the elevation
and blessing of man. And so, l can
not doubt, the unselfish efforts In our
day for the amelioration of social
hardships, though their methods may
be rejected as mistaken or defective.
will yet signally conduce to their con-
templated ends. Fail not, then. humble
hopper, for 'the good time coming" to
lend your feeble sigh, to swell the sails
of whatever bark is freighted with ear
nest efforts for the mitigation of hui
man woes, nor doubt that the divine
breath shall watt it at last to its
prayed-for haven Horace Greeley.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20
How Crying Helps the Rabx.

Physicians who specialize i'm chill
dren's diseases are pretty well agreed
that there are many. occasions when
crying is of decided benefit to babies.
and that the harder and longer they
cry at such times the better.
The benefit that comes from CRYING
is largely the result of the change that
takes place in a child's breathing. As
the baby howls and sobs, fits expira-
tons are prolonged sometimes for as
much as half a minute, and when they
are interrupted it is by very short in
SEPARATIONS.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20
ORIGIN OF FAMILIAR PHRASE
How Swinging Round the Circle"
Gained Its Place in Ameri-
can Politics.

GAS go round the circle" uttered
by President Johnson in a speech in
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1866, was the origin
of the familiar phrase of today, Saving
ing round the circle" as applied to the
campaign tours of presidents. 1t was
David Locke, the Petroleum V. Nasty
of the Toledo Blade, who converted
the words of Johnson into the Swing
ing Around the Circle" slogan.
Andrew Johnson was in many re-
spects a remarkable man, born and
reared in illiteracy, President john
sons state papers are said to be
among the ableSt executive documents
now on file at Washington. 'Yet,"
says Z. r. Burton in his life of John
Sherman, "Johnson's first message to
congress, in December, 1865, was writ
ten by George Bancroft, and the origi-
nal manuscript is at the Library of
Congress.
1t was on August "a, 1865, that Presi-
dent Johnson, with Secretary Seward.
General Grant and Admiral Farragut,
left Washington for tour through the
middle western states.
The ostensible object of the trip was
a participation in the dedication of a
monument to Stephen A. Douglas at
Chicago on September 6.
But the outing was plainly an cleo
pioneering movement on the part of
the president, for the purpose Of max
ing votes for "my policy" in the COM
ing fall election.
At all the principal cities along the
route through Pennsylvania, New York
and Ohio, the president was received
by majority of those present at the
different outdoor receptions, with the
respect due his Office.
If the president, in his speeches, had
shown some degree of moderation and
dignity in his language, the history of
this notable presidential journey would
not have been written in words of de-
nunciation.
But Mr.. Johnson did not try to con-
ceal either his prejudice or his tenn
per. From New York to st. Louis the
president petulantly showed his Oppo-
sition to the prevailing tone of public
opinion throughout the northern states
at the time, banded epithets with the
crowd, and exalted himself at every
opportunity" Secretary Seward also
made some speeches. But Grant and
Farragut, although frequently called
for, did not utter word. Grant was
said to be thoroughly disguised with
the president and rode in other cars
when he could do so.
81 felt" said Grant afterward, ''that
it was like listening to man at his
own funeral"
Although President johnson made
many speeches, it was said that not
even once did he pronounce the name
of Lincoln" in this entire trip. At
Cleveland, on September 3, the presi-
dent did say that he twas placed on a
ticket with distinguished individual,
who is now no more"
In the same speech occurred his ref
erence to the "circle."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20

| miseration or sympathy they are con-
tent in their mode of living and who
shall say that they are the less happy
or human in their habitat than many
| of us?
Peon Is Always a Peon.
The Mexican peon knows that he is
born to serve. as did the old southern
darby, and caste or class distinction is
emphasized on all occasions. The
| mozo rides silently behind the lordly
caballero; the peon woman steps into
the street and bows her head as sthe
padre passes; in the plaza on Sunday
evenings, when the melody of martial
music fills the air, the upper classes
parade in one direction, while the
poems gyrate as an outer ring in the
opposite direction. AS class they
are industrious and skillful if the time
element is eliminated.
The peon miner is a competent work
man when unhampered by modern ma
chimes and has nose" for ore that
is truly remarkable. AS tillers, of the
soil their methods are primitive but
productive; they still use oxen and the
wooden pillow share, and the fields are
fenced with imperishable dry-rock
walls. In the making of pottery and
basketry they excel; in tanning hides,
saddlery and the working of metals
they are inimitable. The women, too,
can grind corn on a metate, cook tor>
tillas and frijoles, raise families, laun-
der clothes on a rock near the creek,
and make the most exquisite laces and
the finest of drawnwork with equal
skill.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20


of
dwelers
birds
subject that the bdroecon the federal and OF
A
n the o OF pumage.
yellow warbers than preceding
of
in them.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20

be found for it. Slowed away il
large alright cabinets in Doctor
Hough's office is the complete recor
of mans development as shown by hi:
lighting appliances from the days o.
the primitive campfire to the presen
tungsten filament. Here is the fire
brand by which our aboriginal ances
tor transferred fire from tribe Il
tribe; here is the animals skull
which constituted the first attempI
at lamp. and the creased stick. that
,,,nS, S1rnnrSnGnd hu thu cnndln narf
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20


chamber
Vhic a new and of
the chief bomb which it differs radically from
other
said t
Of
case a
BY of
the the
a propeller which
of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20
J StroncIy pisapnroyed.

'We won't stand for suggestive mo-
ton pictures In This town."
"No?"
Yesterday, jus. as kiss began on
the screen, something went wrong with
the projecting machine and it lasted
for nearly three minutes"
"Welll Wellw
"But in the meantime "a indignant
rnatrcns got up and left the place"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20


attracts a greadea of
history of fire rather than history illuminating Among his
bellows
passed a
the
covered be called the curfew hour.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20

tom himself to using all Kinds of
pens to crafty the vanity. of those
who want to keep as souvenirs the
pens with which certain measures in
which they are interested are signed.
Ordinarily the president uses
soft-pointed fountain pen, but lately
in approving important measures of
legislation he has used every variety
of pen. The eight-hour railroad bin
he signed with four ordinary pens
with steel points and black wood
hnIHnrS In nfiixincr the name ssWnnd-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-10-20

syllable with intention
Philippine furnished for
point
had provided