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SHAUGHNEt
EGALED BY
PAESOENT
VERA CRUZ, May 1.-—Mexicans
appealing to American troops 10
protect them from the depredations%
of Mexicans was the strange spec
tacle presented at General Funston's
beadquarters to-day. The plea was
made by Jose Llinas for himself 'and‘
a party of Mexican ranchers whoi
called on the American commander‘
and reported that the Federal troops
of General Gustavo Maas were raid-|
ing the country beyond the Ameri
can outposts ana running oif cat
tle.
The ranchers . asked permission to
send their cattle within the Ameri
can lines, General Funston grant
ed the request and instructed Col
onel Waltz to have ithe Nineteenth
infantry offer protection Ito the
ranchers as far as possible.
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, formeor
American Charge d'Affaires in Mex
ico Clity, received orders to-day (2
go to Washington at once and repo.t
iQ the State Department. He will
probably leave the battleships Min
pesota and proceed to Washington un
a smaller vessel within 24 hours.
The object of the recall of the envoy
was \not made known by the Ameri
can Government, but it was supposed
that President Wilson wishes to con
sult pérsonally with Mr. O'Shaugh
nessy before the mediation proceed
ings of Argentina, Chile and Brazil
are begun. It was also suggested that
President Wilson might want Mr.
O’'Shaughnessy in Washington during
the conferences for consultation pur
poses.
Since his arrival here from Mex
ico City, Mr. O'Shaughnessy and hig
family have been making their quar
ters upon Rear Admiral Badger's flag
ship, the Minnesota.
Situation Grave at Tampico.
C‘onditions at Tampico are grave.
Word reached here to-day that 12,000
Constitutionalists have massed for a
final assault on the oil town.
The British naval officers there are
negotiating with the Pederal and
rebel commanders to declare the oil
properties neutral ground in order to
prevent vast destruction.
Two oil barges set on fire by rebels
have already been burned,_ The reb
els have fired on a ship bringing arms
to the Federals.
The American warships in the har
bor of Vera Cruz have shifted their
anchorage. It is probable that one
or more will soon leave for Tampico.
The first official order of Brigadier
General Funston, who is now the Mil
itary Governor of Vera Cruz, was
formal notification of his authority.
;rhe order in its original form fol
ows:
“Headquarters, United States Ex
filflonny Forces, Vera Cruz, Mex
, April 80, 1914—General Order
0. 1: The undersigned, &uuunmt
instructions from the ent
the United States, hereby as
command of all the United
forces in this city.
7 “FREDERICK FUNSTON,
#Brigadier General U. 8. A, Com
manding.”
The transport Kilpatrick was
;ndu orders to sail to-day for New
Xork to get a cargo-of beef, and
wn found her with steam up, toss
at her anchor while smoke
ed from her funnels.
Last night was one of the gayest
Vera Cruz has known for some time.
Most of the sallors who were re
fieved from shore duty by the trans
fer of the Government from the
navy to the army were allowed to
Jand on shore leave. They swag
gered through the streets which but
a few days before had been raked
by the fire of their rifies, magazine
pistols and rapid-fire guns.
S .
tarves Six Months,
Then Hangs Himself
POLIET, ILL, May I.—Mathew
Olson, 55 years old, to-day ended a
fast which lasted almost six months,
by hanging himself in his room.
Since last November Olson has
#pent only 10 cents a day for food.
He ate only one meal a day, one doz
€n rolls. He was in poor health for
over a year, which prevented his
earning money, but he refused offers
of charity.
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Falls Three Stories
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In Her Sleep; Unhurt
BAYONNE, N. Y., May I.—For the
gecond time within a year, Mary Matu
skofsk !&l fell three stories while
wukin’ in her gleep and sustained only
a slight injury to her right foot.
GIRL PERFECT IN STUDIES.
LOS ANGELES, May 2 —The “100
per cent” high school pupil has been
foynd. She is Miss Annita Delane
and her record was made at the Por
terville Union High School.
Miss Delano has been chosen as the
valedictorian of the 1914 class.
Concentration, Miss Delano says, is
the secret of her succesa
THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS.
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'ONE OF THE BOYS
% An Absorbing Short Story, Complete. :
HE following appeared in The
I Morning Chroniele:
“Muyeh excitement has been
caused in society and theatrical cir
cles by the announcement of the en
gagement of the Hon. Montfluer Fitz
hough, eldest son of the Earl of Cllif
cearn, to Miss Blossem Gilroy, the well
known Frivolity star.”
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Hardyke drew his tattered raiment
closer around him. It was cold work
standing about here, and none 100 pleas
ant with the fops of ‘fashion passing and
repassing, gazing in contempt at the
battered human wreck who lounged
amid the shadows, fearful of the lght
and them.
His trousers w, deeply encrusted
with mud spots bs:xeathed by the cost
ly motors that hurtled past, conveying
their welldressed owners to neighbor
ing theaters; for more often he hagd
stood in the road to escape the atten
tion of that arm of justice to whom
poverty is not only a disgrace, but also
a matter for grave suspicion.
Hardyke imagined himself the cyno
sure of a thousand eyes, and it was this
feeling that had sent him to shelter in
the alley running at the side of the
Frivolity Theater, when for the moment
the policeman’s eyes were turned away.
Hardyke's limbs were wearied from
much waiting—for three hoprs he had
kept his vigil—and he was faint from
lack of food; but still he remained in
the shadows, held to his task by a fel
low-vagrant's words, and the face of a
grav-haired gentle-faced woman whose
tear-dimmed eyes haunted him. -
Peering furtively about, he waited—
waited and watched, and dreamed of
other days. The "honk-honk” of a mo
tor horn calied him back to realities.
The sides glisténed with raindrops,
splashed with light from the theater fa
cade, the car had drawn up against the
curb, and descending from the sump
tous interior was a young man, little
more than a youth, his eyes as full of
light as the raindrops on his car, his
hands full of flowers.
Hardyke saw the doorkeeper's look of
deferential recognition, saw the portly
guardian of the stage entrance come
from his box and c¢enduct the youih—
his face as red as the roses he carried—
toward the labyrinth of dressing rooms
that clustered behind the stage.
In a moment Hardyke had slipped past
the box and quietly followed until he
came to the stage, where he concealed
himself behind a pille of stacked .scen
ery.
Fearfully Hardye gazed abour, peering
into odd corners, alcoves that might
conceal some slectriclan or scene shift
er; but not a soul save himself occu
pied the desert of boards; so very quiet
ly, very carefully he stole from his
haven and came at last to a familiar
dressing room. :
Opening the door, he entered the
chamber and walked over and faced the
cheval glass. He disregarded the
room's other occupant, who, deep in an
old rose-colored armchair, was smiling
blissfully into a bunch of roses.
One of the Boys.
‘““Who the blazes are you?’ asked
their owrler suddenly.
Hardyke smiled.
“Ob,” he said, quietly, “I'm one of the
boys.”
““The devil you are,” said the youth,
quickly, his jaw tightening, his eyes
full of a harsh iight.
“Yes,” reiterated Hardyke, “one ot
the boys, and you—you are the Honor
able Montfleur Fitzhough, I believe?”’
Dignity had entered into the outcast's
tones and his eyes never wavered as
Fitzhough's gaze rested on his shabby
clothes.
“So you are one of the boys,” mur
mured the aristocrat. “Funny thing,
but that is what my fiancee, Miss Gil
roy’'—he blushed very proudly—‘she
calls me ‘one of the boys.'”
*“] know,” muttered Hardyke, dully.
The flowers dropped from Fitzhough's
hands and he sprang to his feet.
“How should you know?” he cried.
Perhaps he expected the outcast to be
awed by his outburst, but it was a very
self-possessed Hardyke who gazed calm
ly at him.
“Because I, 100, was one of the boys,”
he sald, softly.
““You! Good heavens, man! You one
of the boys?' sald the Hon. Montfleur,
aghast. Then he broke into a light
laugh. "Of course. What a fool I
am,” be contibued. “A theater ad
mirer.”” Hardyke smiled wanly, and
shook his head.
“No, 'm not a gallery boy, Fits
hough,” he said. “I am Richard Har
dyke, of Eton and Magdalen. Yes, you'll
remember my name,”’¢he added, seeing
the Hon, Montfleur's look of astonish
ment. “One of the boys,” he continued
—*“one of the fools who sold their souls
for a glance from her eyes, Or a caress
from her false lips!" %
“Stop!"” Fitzhugh's face was livid with
anger, his hands were clenched threat
eningly. “Get out of here,’ he cried
nerfely. “or, by Heaven, I'll pitch you
out!"
A spasm of pain shet across Har
dyke’'s face, and he caught at his side,
for memory had sent a stab te his heart.
“How it all comes back!” he cried.
And, then: “Sit down,” he sald abrupt
ly, and suiting action to his words, he
encouraged the boy into a chair.
His Story.
I was one of the boys,” he sald
fiercely—"‘one of the fools who set your
lla;nx up as am ldegl.——lo.ved her ;}lnk
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and white face and her pretty ways.”
Hardyke lowered his head. |
“Once 1 was clean and full of ideals.
Like you, I brought her roses—wor
shiped her—to-day—" He gazed sig
nificantly at his broken-toed boots.
“Oh, lad—lad!" he cried, coming to
Fitzhough's side and laying two thin
hands on the boy's shoulders, '‘think
of your mother and your sisters; think
of the dear eyes filled with tears for
you; think of all the others—and think
of me!”
The sorrow of many unshed tears had
stolen into Hardyke's veice, and limp
iy his hands fell from off Fitzhough's
shoulders; his head was bowed.
For a moment there was silence in
that sweet-scented room of white and
old rose—a silence as tense as the ex
pression of pain upon young Montfleur's
face—a silence that had drawn the
ghosts of the past into the chamber.
Hardyke could see Venables again, as,
seated on the dainty dressing table, he
had toasted Blossom and the rest
What a mad, delirious night that had
beegn, that premiere of ‘‘The Violet
Girl.” 1t all came back. He could see
old Trevor, of the Rifles, leaning against
the curtains at the window, singing—
singing the catchy song she had
brought the house down with that
evening; and Darsham, the writer, he
had been there—a night as rose-colored
as the room! And to-day —to-day Ven
ables Aay in an Indian grave, whither
she had driven him; and all that re
mained of ' Trevor ‘was the memory of
a rushed-up suicide; and Darsham had
‘sought in vain for-heaven in her eyes,
lnd found that drink brings forgetful
ness. Hardyke could see ghosts every
where as he looked about the familiar
iroom. His zaze finally rested upon
>Fltzhough-—a Fitzhough with c'enched
jaw and pale face, and a trembling hand
}hold!ng a bunch of flowers.
In the distance sounded the dainty
elatter of high-heeled shoes coming
nearer and nearer, their echoes ringing
' merrily amidst -the dusty corners and
disused scenery.
. She Enters.
Hardyke saw Montfleur’'s hand steady
as the door was flung open; and a
beautiful woman, her eyes sailing, her
cheeks a dream of rose, entered grace
fully. /
“My dear Monie!" she cried, impul
gively, not noticing Hardyke, who hov
ered by the hanging velvet of the win
dow curtains.
‘““What a delightful bouquet!” She
rustled sinuously to him, and was about
to curl her arms about her fiance's neck,
when she saw the pallor of his face and
the grim harshness of his look.
“WHy, Monie, what—what is the mat
ter?’ she cried, drawing back, and
looking in amazement at him. “Why
do you look at me like that, Monie,
dear?’ A lump came unbidden into her
threat. ‘“Why, what have I done?"’ she
cried hoarsely.
Montfleur made no answer, only
stepped nearer to her and gave her the
flowers. For a moment he stood gazing
at her with softening eyes, as Jardyke
could see, but only for & moment; next,
he had turned away, and with bowed
head walked quietly from the room-—a
room he would never re-enter,
Then it was that Blassom’s eyes saw
the man in the tattering clothes—the
man who was smifing cynically at her
with a wealth of memories in his eyes.
Her hands clutched convulsively at her
heart, and her voice, when she spoke,
sounded but a whisper.
“Dick Hardyke—you!" ghe said.
“Dick Hardyke come back!”
“Once one of the boys—always one
of the boys!” he replied ironically.
‘“Aren’t you glad to see the result?’
He paused, gazing down at his tattered
boots and ragged clothes,
The sight of his poverty sent no sors
row into her face, but rather roused
that anger now growing in her heart
and flaming to'mo in her gray-green
eyes.
“So it was you who drove him
away?’ she said very quietly, coming
nearer to him, her gaze full of con
tempt.
Hardyke nodded. .
“Yes,” was all he said.
“Why did you do it?" she cried
“Why?"
“Why?' he reiterated, and laughed.
“Why?” Then the laugh faded and two
fierce eyes flashed. into hers.
“For two years I have lived in tor
ment,” he sald, softly. “Two whole
years of torture in that underworld of
which you and yours are ignorant—of
which you and yours are oftentimes the
cause. Nights under archways, with
the year at December and my clothes
threadbare; stifling summer nights,
when disease comes, and sometimes
death.”
She shuddered and drew away from
him, but he followed her.
“Always moved on,”” he continued.
“Always hungry, always thinking, sor
rowing and borrowing, hiding amid the
shadows, counting a penny wealth, a
#mile a song, but getting little of either
~—a lost soul!—a gentleman gone under
—one of the boys.”
He laughed shrilly and caught her
arm in a vice-like grip, so that she
screamed and sought to free herseif:
‘“That was why I came back!” he
cried. “I saw the tears in another
mother's eyes, the pain in the other
woman's face, and remembered Ven
ables and the rest."”
Loosening her arms, Hardyke let
Flossom’s limp form drop on to the old
rose lounge, and then, with a last con
temptuous look at the huddled up, sob
bing figure, he who had been one of the
boys, stole softly from the dressing
JICKOMVILLE
TOHOUSE VETS
INTENTED GITY
One Hundred Thousand Visitors
Are Expected at Confederate
Reunion Wednesday.
JACKSONVILLE, May 2.—Prepa
rations are made for the Confederate
reunion, May 6-8. It is expected 100,-
000 visitors will be here. The tents
for the accommodation ef the vet
erans who are to be cared for in the
regulation camp have arrived from
Philadelphia and are being erected in
Soringfield Park. The camp will be
ready for the veterans by the end of
the present week. A commissary de
partment will be maintained.
The first parade will be for the
sponsors and maids of honor on the
afternoon of May 6.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans
will parade on the morning of May
7. Florida State troops will partici
pate.
Horses Hard to Get.
On the morning of May 8, the last
day of the reunion, the parade of the
veterans will take place. There has
been trouble in getting horses, but
enough mounts will Le supplied for
the commanders and their staffs. Vet
erans unable to march will be taken
in autos and carriages. 4
The business sessions of the Con
federate Veterans’ Association will be
held in Morocco Templé, beginning
May 6. Congressman Frank Clark
will welcome the veterans in the name
of the Florida division. The address
of welcome for the State will be de
livered by Governor Park Trammell
Mayor Swearingen will deliver an ad
dress of welcome for the city of Jack
sonville,
Sons Also Meet.
The business sessions of the United
Sons of Confederate Veterans will be
held in the auditorium of the Jack
sonville Board of Trade, beginning
Monday morning, May 5. '
Social events will be about the
same as at other reunions. A danc
ing pavilion has been constructed,
similar to- the one built at Chatta
nooga last spring, to accommodate the
reunion balls. It has been named in
honor of Miss Corinne Hampton, of
Columbia, S. C., sponsor for the
South. Three balls will be given, one
for the maids and sponsors Wednes
day night, the veterans’ ball Thurs
day night, and the Sons of Veterans’
ball at Atlantic Beach, probably
Tuesday night.
Margaret Wilson
To Edit Magazine
WASHINGTON, May I.—The White
House has refused to confirm the report
that the President's eldest daughter,
Miss Margaret Wilson, is to be associate
editor of The Social Center Magazine of
Madison, Wis., but it is unofficially ac
knowledged. Miss Wilson will be asso
ciated with Dr. Frederick C. Howe, of
New York; Miss Zona Gale, Herbert
Quick and other noted social workers
Interested in the converting of public
schools into soclal centers.
~ Miss Wilson will go to Madison in
June to personally assist In launching
‘the fhagazine venture.
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Opened at Ind. Prison
MICHIGAN CITY, IND. May 2.—
In the presence of 1,200 cheering con
victs Warden Fogarty, of the North
ern Indiana Prison, to-day pitched the
first ball, opening ‘he race for the
bunting in the prison league in which
four teams of convicts will play. To
day's game was between the White
Sox and the Red Sox.
Preliminary to opening the league
the 1,200 convicts joined in a parade,
headed by the prison band and led by
a life convict.
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Defaulter Raine
MEMPHIS, May I.—C. Hunter Raine,
defaulting president of the defunct
Mercantile Bank of Memphis, was re
leased from the Shelby County jail on
a $50,000 bond signed by three of his
friends, men he had aided politically.
Two hours later he was on his way te
New York ‘“‘to make a fortune in Wall
street.”” Raine went to jail in Febru
ary following his confession that he
had gambled away $§1,000,070 of the
bank’s funds. :
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Gosling Change Name
BRUNSWICK, N. J., May 1.--Mrs.
Wilbur Goose, her sit daughters and
seven sons have changed their names
to Wilgoose.
COTTON FABRIC FIRM ASSIGNS.
LOUISVILLE, KY.,, May I—The
Robinson-Hughes Company, doing a
commission business in cotton fab -
rics, assigned to-day with liabilities
estimated at $280,000 and assets of
$150,000.
FISHERMEN 5iP gtoe: "Wire “Fish
Traps Free. Agents wanted. Walton
Supply Co., Box 4, St Louis, Mo, A