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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-16

capital city and the work goes on con-
tinuously; some of the hundreds of re-
ports and bound volumes Of estimates
and deductions arriving while the
plans are being made for the next
counting of noses" The census bu-
reau is regarded by census officials as
about the most important institution
in the country and by the common
people as about the most useless.
Naturally, however, the intelligent
people are not averse to the keeping
of the records by the government, and
a few are aided to some extnt by ac-
feasibility to these records, which
now go into minute details and some
times suggest imagination on the part
of estimators and compilers that
would prove of value in the field of
fiction. The newspaper man must al
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-16
TAKING THE CENSUS

Whether or not the census Is worth
what it costs to the whole people it
has become habit not likely to be
given up and as would be expected in
a great and growing country, the
methods and results arrived at in
crease with each decade. Years ago
the census meant a fairly accurate
count of the people, with the total ar
ranged, finally, in several groups,
representing age, sex, nationality and
occupation. A few volumes, quickly
prepared, gave to the interested all
the facts obtained by enumerators,
and the work was over in a few
months.
Nowadays the census bureau is one
of the big industries" of our great
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-16
A STORY WITH A MORAL

THE STORY:-Once
and the triumph of prohibition there popular
of well known spirits quite
ulary together enjoying uted
barroom
the rail- called mbibed
citizen this
after few drinks had perco around
again and announced Il lick Rece
attention he again attacked time
had raised the temperature of his that
like looking the of funnel the
world looked small 50 he turned proclaimed voice
lick citizen of this here looking chan
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-16
JUST so

She was teaching the word "ele-
ment" to sixth grade, She had
told them its meaning-the substanc.
es of which thing is compassionate
then had illustrated her definition by
saying that the elements of the earth
were water and soil.
Then she asked them to write sem
fences containing the word. And this
ID the one Henry wrote:
Water is one of the elements OF
milk
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-16

ana up LANDING stiff jaw that knocked him into the corner
of this state" ~ htue too much territory I'm a cluA0
n W statement in last Telegram bv racnv arrived com
little foo e only expert battery sbop in Lakeland covered
about nn territory He has the storage battery
since no 81 We have the storage battery
seems to @ hundred and egha matter of eleven wears The public
MORAL. W lne amount of business they do with u.s.
storage battery expert W nse and presto changeo become
sid. linz and experts Storage Batteries II |. our business
terry COMPANY - are district representatives for the booe storage
sry p'"y IN the world; we do the hIo sse ', #
' company in South Florida sSeS' Storage battery business
49,. PINCH COMPANY
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-16
UNFORTUNATE ILLUSTRATION

Wigg-Do you believe in metemp-
sychosis?
Wagg-Come again, please.
Wigg-1t's like this. According to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21
$1OO, 900, 900 Baby Killed
 By Auto in Washington

the successive owners of the Famous
 Hope diamond.
 After the marriage of Mir. Mclean to
 Miss Walsh he bought the Hope da-
 mond and became involved in suit over
 t, The boys father was conseuuently one of the owners of the Hope diamond.
 Friendship the country home of the
 McLeans, opposite which the accident occurred, is the place where Nicholas
 Longworth and Alice Roosevelt spent their honeymoon immediately after their marriage at the White House during the
 Roosevelt administration. It is a very amous country estate
 The boy was playing on the road to- jay, according to police reports when a
 ar driven by woman and containing ehree other women, and running at a Hast clip, struck him and knocked him town. the car passing over his body The women picked him up and took lm to his home and slipped away with put leaving their names. Their car, the police believe, bore West Virginia icense.
 In the absence of MT. and Mrs. .dc- Lean, who are in Louisville, the ser ants immediately summoned physicians rom Baltimore. and Maj. George Miller 'f Philadelphia, an army surgeon who vas in the vicinity, gave the lad prompt medical attention.
 DeSplte an operation performed by Dr. '. F. Baker of Baltimore, the boy rap- ldiy. grew worse and died while his father and mother were speeding north ward in special train from Louisville. The police in these states are now look Ing for the driver of the car, which is described by the Mclean servants were 50 exercised over the accident that they gave their attention to the lad and al- lowed the women who brought the in- ured boy to the house to slip away with 1 put taking their names or any details of ! the accident.
 | On account of the scare in the country l over the Kidnapping of rich children. due l to the seizing of the Cudahy baby in Omaha, which was held for heavy ran sons, the Mclean baby was almost con- stantly guarded by detectives for years. Whenever he appeared with his nurses, i two detectives followed him. How he l escaped today from the grounds of his fathers country seat is not explained. Mr. Mclean has given much attention | to the publishing of his newspapers since his fathers death several years ago, and
 is especially fond of horse racing, being
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21

Washington. May 2o.-(Special. )-vin- cent Walsh Mclean, the 7-year-old son of MT and Mrs. Edward B. Mclean, was struck by an automobile on the highway in front of his fathers country estate. Friendship in the northwestern suburbs of Washington. at noon Sunday and died from cerebral hemorrhage that evening
 The tragedy which caused general sor- row throughout Washington happened while the parents of the Mclean boy were out of the city, and snapped out the life of one of the most interesting little fellows in the country, who had been widely advertised, when baby, as being the sloo, 0oo baby.
 He was the sole heir of the Walsh and Mclean fortunes which were united wher Edward Beale Mclean, now owner of the Washington Post and Cincinnati En- quirer, married Miss Evelyn Walsh, only daughter of the late Thomas F. Walsh the Colorado millionaire, who lived the latter part of his life in Washington.
 The Walsh baby was named after Vim cent Walsh, only son of Thomas F. Walsh. and who was killed some years ago in an automobile accident at New port The death of Vincent Walsh made his sister, Evelyn Walsh now Mrs. Ed ward B. Mclean, the sole heir to the Walsh millions, and the boy killed to- day was the prospective heir of the Walsh and Mclean fortunes.
 Edward B. Mclean, son of the late John R. Mclean and father of Vincenf WalsA Mclean, was so solicitous ovel the saf.sx of the widely advertised baby that he employed private detectives tc watch and constantly safeguard the child The parents of the child had always feared that the newspaper publicity that had been given the little fellow migh lead to an attempt to kidnap him.
 When news of the death of the boy spread throughout Washington tonight it was at once remarked that this was another tragedy to be added to the long string of -misfortunes that had followed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21

members of the Vanderbilt club of Bir- mingham, but all Vanderbilt men of the state to be the quests at this banquet and general get-tosecler affair is eN- pected and preparations are being nhde to take care of over 200 guests.
 The famous coach, Dan A. McGuslh' will come down from Vanderbilt to par ticipate in the festivities, and this fact is expected to attract all the former Vanderbilt athletes in this section. pr. c. S. (Shorty) Brown, Vance Alexander vice president of the Cumberland Valley bank of Nashville; Douglass $. Henry a prominent attorney of that city and former football star of Vanderbilt and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21
THREE

Captain Charles H. Brown, who played four years on the varsity team and coached the Birmingham-southe col lege team for two years. and who has just returned from France. where he lost a leg leading his company against the Huns, will also be present to meet with the Alabama alumni and former friends of the university.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21

the owner of number of fast horses. With his wife he has been attending the races at Louisville
 Several years ago MT. sfcLean pur- chased the Hope diamond and gave it to his wife at a large ball given in his Washington home. The diamond is still owned by Mrs. Mclean, but reposes most of the time in the vaults of a local trust company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21

Cleopatras Needle, the famous ooelisk m the Thames embankment, London. Is one solid piece of stone. 70 feet high and lS6 tons in weight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21

and world trade which will follow wise utilization of the money lent by the United States and our European allies to China is to be very great.
 It is also a significant proof of the changes of opinion which the war has ere ated that instead of the state depart ment at Washington drowning with dis approval upon this proposition, as it did in Colonel Bryans day. the department gives its cordial approval to the plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-21
VANDERBILT MEN ID
 HOLD B|G BANQUET
Famous Coach McGugin and Other Prominent Alumni
 Coming for Event

The Vanderbilt club of Birmingham will hold it's annual dinner on Founders dny, May 27, at p. m. in the ballroom of the Tutwiler hotel
 The committee in charge of arrange ments for the meeting announces that the club has on hand sufficient funds to defray the entire expenses or the ban quet and no charge will be made. No money will be solicited for the banquet expenses or any other university pur- pose. It is stressed by the committee that as Vanderbilt is the property Of the alumni. thlt it is imperative that the alumni organize more closely to exercise it's governing functions.
 The committee invites not only the
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
HOW DIAMOND CUTTERS WORK.
Rough Stone 10 Considered Fit for
Personal Adornment.

Few people who wear diamonds
know the story that lies behind them.
To most Of them the diamond Is an
agreeable means Of personal decora'
tlOn-sOmething that attracts the eye
In a jewelers. window and is pur-
chased an hour or so later In itS COM
Portable setting Of platinum or gold.
But let us see what lies beyond. Let
us glimpse the long road that stretches
between the miner and the wearer.
There are three processes In the con-
version of the rough stone into Dash
ing brilliance. The first one consists
in cleaning the course stone Of defec-
tive parts and splitting Off the flaws.
The second Is the cutting. which gives
the stone its form and. In rough way,
determines the number of faces II
shall have. Finally. there is the pol
ishing. which gives to these faces
their clearness and briiliancy.
The sawyer, when he finds flaw,
inserts the diamond into a sort Of a
cup filled with fusible cement.
Then, by means Of an instrument fur
nished with a recently cut diamond,
the edge of which projects sharply, he
rubs on one Of the stones the pointed
end of the other after which he strikes
lightly in order to separate the two
pieces.
The cutter uses somewhat similar in
struments to the sawyer. He forms
only about One-half of the faces, leav-
ing 1t to the polisher to form the re-
mainder.
The diamond Is then polished on an
iron plate rotating rapidly and impreg-
mated with diamond dust and oil. n
is set in an alloy of lead and tin In the
form of cone. of which the stone &C.
cupies the summit. The operation. as
described In the Modern Hospital,
takes a long time and requires the ex-
ercise Of extreme patience, but the re-
suit is certainly in every sense Of the
word "brillisnt" one.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
FINE TREES IN PHILIPPINES
Nowhere Are There More Enormous
Trunks Than In the lowlands
Of the islands.

Until we fell heir to the Philippine
islands we had no dense virgin tropi-
cal forests belonging to the United
States. The Hawaiian islands are well
within the tropics, but the topography
Of the islands Is not such as to induce
the gigantic growth Of trees. There
are no denser or more enormous tree
grOwths anywhere in the world, how
ever, than are to be found over great
areas of the Philippine lowlands. The
soil is of excessive richness. the rain
fall Is heavy. and the climate combines
to induce riotOus tangle of vegeta-
ton which Is unimaginable to those
who have not actually seen il or are
familiar only with the orderly and usu-
ally comparatively scant growths Of
the temperate zone. Even the great for
ests Of the far West, which cut more
board feet to the acre than any other
forest lands in the world, cannot COM
pare for moment In luxuriance and
profligacy Of growth with the tropical
forest. They impress you. II Is true,
with having been many centuries in
the making. but on the other hand the
rank and enormous growths Of the low
land tropics make you feel that they
have always been there since the
world commenced. The northern for
ests are reposeful; the tropical jungle
is savage, overwhelmingly
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
CHAPTER xxxV.
A Corner of His Heart.

The second evening after the closure
Richard was dining with the Mar
shalis In their car. The Palmyra was
to. pull out the next day. Hardip's
name was brought up by Tod Mar
shall. "She was light potatoes" he
dismissed the woman. But she's
broken the mans spirit"
Richard, 1t was discovered, had
nothing to say on the subject of the
elopement.
I'm sorry his sister is not here to-
night" began Marshall mischievously.
81 did ask her, Tod" Claudia has
tened to interrupt her lord. But she
would not leave her brother her last
evening"
Her last EVENING" exclaimed Rick
ard. as she going away?"
Marshall subdued his twinkle. 1--WE
are carrying her off. She is to visit
Mrs. Marshall while l am on the
road"
Richard gulped down his coffee,
boiling. Mrs. Marshall, will you let
me run away earlyT Why should he
give any excuse? They knew what he
was running away for!
He made his way to the little white
tent on the far side of the trapezium.
Innes, by the door, was bidding good
by to Sonora Maldonado.
He forgot to greet the Mexican. She
stood waiting; her eyes full of him.
Surely, the kind senior had something
TO say to her? He had taken the white
girls hand. He was staring into the
white girls eyes. Something came to
her, a memory like forgotten music.
Silently. she slipped away into the
night.
Richard would not release Innes'
hand; her eyes could not meet the
look In his.
Come out and have q walk with
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16

compelled her will. stultified her
speech. She had something to say
first.
"We don't know each other that is,
you don't know mer'
as that allT" There was relief In
his voice. 81 don't know you? Haven't
l seen you day by day? Haven't
seen your self-cOntrOl tried, proved
haven't l seen your justice, when you
could not understand Look at me I"
She shook her head. her eyes on the
sand at her feet. He could scarce
ly catch her words. They did not
know each other. He did not know
her,
Dear! / don't know whether YOU
love red or blue. that's a fact; Ibsen
or Rostand; heat or cold. Does that
matter? l know you!"
An upward glance had caught him
smiling. Her speech was routed. I'm
-the-only girl herei'
do you think that's why / love
you"
"Ah, but you loved Gertyl" That
slipped from her. She had not meant
to say thatl
Does that hurt?" Abashed by her
own daring. yet she was glad she had
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16

| dared. She wanted him to deny IT,
For he would deny it? She wondered
If he were angry, but she could not
look at him.
The minutes. dragging like weighted
hours, told her that he was not going
to answer her. Ii came TO her then
that she would never know whether
Gerty's story were wholly false, or
partly true. She knew, then. that no
wheedling, wife's or sweetheart's.
would tease that stor.- from him. II
did not belong to him.
His silence frightened her into ar
ticulateness. He must not think that
she was foolish! 1t was not that, in
itself, she meant. The words jostled
one another in their soft swift rush.
He-he had made a mistake once be-
fore. He had liked the sort of woman
he had thought Gerty was. She her
self was not like the real Gerry any
more than she was like the other, the
woman that did not exist. He would
find that they did not think alike, be-
lieve alike, that there were differ
ences-
aren't you making something out
of nothing, Innes?'
That voice could always chide her
into silence! Her speech lay cluttered
in ruins, her words like useless broken
bricks falling from the wall she was
building.
He took her hand and led her to a
pile of rock the river had not eaten.
He pulled her down beside him.
isn't it true, with us?'
1T is. with me-" breathed Innes.
Their voices were low as though they
were in church.
And you think is isn't. with me"
Richard stood before her. 'Is 1t be-
cause l trust you, | wonder? That l.
loving you, love to have the others
love you, too? Don't you suppose |
know how it is with the rest, Mac
Lean; how il was with Estrada?
Should l be jealous? Why. I'm not.
you. know the fine steady heart of
you? You hated me at first-and am
proud of that. l don't love you
enough?" He knelt at her feet. not
listening to her pleading. He bent
down and kissed one foot; then the
other. II love them!" The face he
raised to her Innes had never seen be-
fore. He pressed a kiss against her
knee. THAT, too! It's mine. I've not
said my prayers since / was boy.
shall say them again, here, you teach
ing me-" His kisses ran up her arm.
from the tips of her limp fingers. His
mouth, close to hers, stopped there.
He whispered:
"You-kiss me. my girl !"
Slowly, unseeingly. as though drawn
by an external will, her face raised to
his; slowly. their lips met. His arms
were around her; the world was blot
ted out.
Innes, minutes later, put her mouth
against his ear. 1t was the Innes he
did not know, that he had seen with
others, mischievous, whimsical, romp-
ing as a young boy.
81 Lowered" she whispered. "And
heat and sunshine But l love blue,
on you; and cold, II II were with you
and the rest Of the differences"
He caught her to him. There are
not going to be any differences"
(THE END)
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
Biblical Town Of GAIA.

AlMintar, or the watchtower. still
exists to the east of the town of GAIA
1t is where Samson is said 10 have car
rled the gates of the city. On the road
from GAIA to Jaffa are ancient olive
trees, many of them more than one
thousand years old, with gnarled bark
and immense trunks. There Is an old
legend which credits GAIA with the in
vention Of the first mechanical clocks.
These were perhaps the sand clocks
which are still used In some mosques.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
Ednah Aiken
Copyright, Bobbs- Merrill Company

me! You were not going to tell me
you were going. You were running
away from me?"
You know that / love you! | have
been waiting for this minute. this
woman. all these lonely years"
Her head she kept turned from him.
He could not see the little maternal
smile that ran around the curves Of
her mouth. Those years, filed to the
brim with stern work, had not been
lonely. Lonely moments he had had,
that was all.
Nothing for me?" He stopped. and
made her face him, by taking both Of
her hands in his.
She would not look at him yet,
would not meet the look which always
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
CHAPTER xxxIII.
The Battle in the Night.

Gathering on the bank were the
camp groups to watch the last stand
Of the river against the rock lombard
ment. Molly Silent had crept down
from the Crossing. full of fears. Out
there, somewhere on the trestles. on
one of those rock cars. was her Jim
She sat Oh the bank by Innes and Mrs
Marshall.
Mrs. Hardin. fioated by in her crisp
muslins. A few feet behind stalked
Godfrey. his eyes on the pretty figure
by his side. lines turned from his
look. abashed as though she had been
peering through a locked door.
Gayly. with fluttering of ruffles.
Gerry established herself on the bank
a trifie out Of hearing distance. A
hard little smile played on the lips ac
cented with Partisan rouge. The child
ish expression was gone; her look &C.
cused life Of having trified with her.
But they would See
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
CHAPTER xxxIv.
A Desertion.

When the afternoon waned and God
frey did not call on her Gerty was
reused to uneasiness. Had she angere1
him by refusing to make the definite
promise? Could it be love. the sort of
love she wanted. If he could stay away
like this when they could have the
camp to themselves, every one down at
the break, no Hardins running in every
minute? Their first chance and God
frey sighting It'll
He would surely come that evening.
knowing that she would be alone The
little watch Tom had given her for an
almost forgotten birthday set the pace
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
Over Bones Of Failures.

Epitaphs In the Cemetery of Failure ::
He lacked tact; worry killed him; he
was too sensitive; he couldn't say
no; he did not find his place; a
little success paralyzed him; he did
not care how he looked; he did not
guard his weak point; he was too
proud to take advice; he did not fall
In love with his work.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-08-16
Beuinninu of PITTSBURGH.

November % is the anniversary OF
the raising of the English flag over the
ruins of Fort Duquesne I'm 1854. The
place was then named Pittsburgh. in
honor of Britain's famous prime minis
ter. 1t owes its great growth to It's
proximity to coal and iron fields of
vast magnitude.