Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 30, 1915, Page 7

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P : Share in Profi :‘\-lBrl:tyagrbsuyte?s of new Ford cars frorn August 1st, 1914 to August Ist, 1915 will share in the profits of the company to the extent of $40 to $60 per car, on each car they buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de: liver 100,000 new Ford care Anring that pe rlod ek : FORD MDOTOR COMPANY s 4 ate ad Smorvv U ok o hONTI.AGENTS, ior parnculars carrying freignt toat was gomng the river from Richmond as far as the boat could proceed without emnnter—] ing any Federal force. | took passage ' on her, finding a few other passengers. | > It was on this buat that | received my first and only scare. Up to this time no one I had met seemed to have the slightest suspicion of my sex. suspected was not the cause of my Dispatches How They Were Gbtained $ For President Lincoln’s Inspection . A. MITCHEL In acknowledging inyself to hn\'e; | been a professional secret service wan ! 1 must admit that | lose much ot the ! sympathy of those who love the ro- ! { mauce of war. But war is wot l'o~i mance; it is what General Sherman described it. The soldier is paid (nr‘ | Being i i trouble on the boat. but that 1 was too & attractive to a wan. On the guard as wa left Richmond, standing near me, wus a youung fellow, a typical southerner. who from his { glances | judged was quite struck with my appearance. When ! went into the cabin be followed we and in order | to scrape an acquaintance ollered me some books to read. ‘Thiuking that it might be more dangerous to repulse bim than to accept his attentions, 1 accepted a novel and in order to get rid of further devotion pretended to be | absorbed in it. This did no®serve, | for, though he was considerate, defer- | standing up to be shot. The paid spy , ential and all that, he insisted n tak- is us necessary to an army as the sol- ing advantage of every opportunity to | i dier. Indeed, he may be of more bene- cConVerse with me. Iinally 1 Conetuded i | fit to a commander than an army. | to favor him and permitted him to do During the big north and south strug- , 80. Since he seemed to be smitten gle-Allan Pinkerton established a se- | With me. there was surely no reason cret service bureau in Washington. 1 ; t0 fear that he would suspect me ot was living there at the time, the oldest | being n ui:® and wy true errand. At of a family of tive children, orphans, | 18t. remarking that the air in the cab- who were dependent on me for sup- port. | was nineteen; the mext in or- | 0Ut on the guard with him. der of birth was a girl of ffteen; the | We sat together, pussing along the next a boy of thirteen, and so on down Yellow stream, with its banks nearly to the youngest, a boy of siz. My fu- | 88 bare ns when the settietnent of ther died several years before the war | Jamestown found the peninsula a wil- broke out and left my mother to do the . derness. My compavion at tirst sald best she could in feeding and clothing ' beé Was opposed to secession, but on us. |, being’ the oldest. soon became , Iy 8sserting that any man who did ber main rellance. and when in 1862 ; DOt stand by the south was a traitor to she died I fell heir to the problem of | his country be veered around and ad- providing for the family necessities. | Mitted that he was in the Confederate I bad lived till I was twelve years Service. To draw nim out I pretended old in Richmond, and my natural dia- t not to believe his last statement, and lect was southern. My sympathies ; he confessed that be was a Heutenant were neither with the south nor the 0@ Virginla regiment. = north. It occurred to me that | was in | “Then why are you not in nniform? a position to earn money by going I asked. with feigned suspicion of the south and bringing back information - truth of his statement. for the federal government. | knew | This was tov much for him. Be of Allan Pinkerton's secret service bu- | confessed that he was going to Fortress reau, and one day 1 went in there and | Monroe on secret service. He was the had a talk with him. He was at the | bearer of dispatches to prominent PIPOCIIEPESIEBEE in was stifling, be insisted on my going | T time furnishing spies for President Lincoln and listened attentively to all I said. When | had finished he sug- gested that | would likely have more success playing the part of a girl than a man. His reason for this was that 1 had a feminine face at that time, no beard and spoke with a soft voice that wonld be called contralto in a woman. He questioned me a good while to assure bimself that I could be relied on to serve the Union side. and, although 1 confessed to him that 1 had no prefer- ence for either cause. |1 won his con- fidence simply by promising to stand by the Interests of the federal govern- ment. He sent me to President Lincoln, with whor | bad a private interview. The time was the summer of 1862, when the Federal armies in the west had little or nothing to oppose them, and had competent leaders then heen in command the war could bave been ended within a very short period. Mr. Lincoln wished we to go to Richmond to investigate the feeling at the capi- tal of those in power, to learn whether it was an advantageous time to offer terms for peace. If 1 came back with the desired information I was to re- ceive a very large sum of money. A sum sufficient to take care of my brothers aud sisters during my absence was given me, and | was promised a pensfon for them in case I was taken and hanged. My sister Margie, though four years younger than I, was nearly my height and weight, and. having accepted Mr. Pinkerton's suggestion to dress as a girl, I used her clothes. AVith Mr. Lin- coln’s pass made out for Miss Alice Hunter, 1 had po difliculty in getting out of the Federal lines. | was ad- mitted into the Coufederate lines read- ly because it was much easier to pass into Confederate territory than to emerge from it. When I reached Rich- mond I sought a boarding house, where 1 settled my=elf to remain long enough to accomplish my mission. This was early in July, when the va- I gave out that | had been studying in New York when the war broke out and preferred to remain another year in order to finish my course et a north ern school. But | was very chary about making definite statements. Mr. ! Pinkerton bad told me that Confed- | erate spies were constantly passing be- | tween Washington and Richmond and | their number was legion. Realizing that | wonld be in more danger from . ! them than any one else. 1 was suspi- { cious of all persons whose connections and occupations were not accounted + | for. I talked with a good many persons | about the gloomy aspat ot Confeder- ate affairs in the west, but found few, if any. who were in faver of giving up the strugzle. 1 made various attempts | to interview persons of influence, but was not very ssful. One person in power whom | succeeded in getting near I foand unwilling to give me his real opinion But | made np my mind that. even if the leaders were will to listen to terms for peace, the peo were not. except on the acknowledg- ment of the independence of the Con- federate states. However, | learned through the wife of a member of the Confederate cabinet that the govern ment was with the people in this re- spect and looked for General Lee to nuke 2o 1 the east what other Con sederate generals had lost in the west. All the time | spent in Richmond I was very exclusive, though my story of having been at school In the north. which 1 told to avoid accounting for where | reslly bad recently been. drew forth numerous questions as to the feeling in the northern states. 1 told them that there the feeling was divided, there being many southern sympathizers. Having made up my mind that there was no hope of the southern people accepting any terms that the Federal government would offer. 1 left my boarding house, giving out that 1 was going to my home. & plantation on the James river. intending to go there with a vie riking Fort Y in From there Borth by sed W YA in i ne cation period for schools had come. and ' southern sympathizers in the north i and intended sailing on any vessel he ! could find to take him there. 1 This confirmed Mr. Pinkerton's story that the routes butween the north and | south were full of Confederate sples. i 1 was seized with the tear that one ot i them had suspected me and had made my acquaintance with a view to trap- ! ping me. 1 nerved myselt to an effort and gave every evidence of my appre clation of one who was about to risk so much for the Confederate canse. It was bard for me to believe that ! one bent on such an errand wonld thus glve himself away to a stranger, yet, . on the other haud, he was still in Con ) federate territory talking to one who | professed to be wrapped up in the suc | cess of the south. At any rate, | | should soon know whether he was de- celved by me or was playing n game | to trap me. |1 thought it best to leave the bont at ' a landing some distance above the end of her route. | bade my friend good by with my best wishes for his sue- cess and, going ashore, hired n man to drive me in his buggy toward the point | wished to reach. In one way or another | got as far as n Federal outpost and asked to be taken to the commander. 1 had kept sewed up in my clothing an order, sizned “A. Lincoln,” to all in the Federn! service to give me aid and comfort and showed it to the gen. eral commanding. | was at once pro vided with man’s clothing, and an ord nance officer furnished me with a re volver. | wished this weapon in case I should meet my admirer with whom 1 bad traveled. | did not wish to give him away. but | wanted to get the dis- patches be carried, so :1 could give them to President Lincoln. 1 had not been at the fort two hours before 1 saw the young man passing across the parada, | approached and accosted him. He did not recognize me at once, but as soon as it broke in upon his brain that he had given himself away ! to a man thinking him to be a girl he turned ghastly pale. “Don’t fear nnything for yourself." 1said. “1 have just come off the same boat with you in inore respects than one. | bave been in the Contederacy on secret servi I know what it would have meant had my mission been discovered. 1 would have got the rope. Give me the donments you car ry and | will keep your et He looked relieved. though his sense of honor deterred him frow giving me what would compromise others. But what could be do in the center of a United States fortress? He gave me the dispatches, and | helped him to get back into Confederate territory. In due time | made my report to President Lincoln. and he told me that the dispatches | had eaptured were of far wore importance than the informa Zon he had sent me for. His posses. sion of them thwarted an important plan in the interest of the Confederacy. I wade several other trips for Mr. Lincoln. On the last, having escaped capture by n hair's breath. | conclud- ed not to risk going again. But | had the capital to set me up in business. Can't Help It. The Doctor—And the baby is no bet- ter. Did you get those little black pills 1 spoke to you about? Mrs. Newlywed - Well, you see, the druggist had some awfully cute pink ones that just matched the darling’s new dress for 18 cents, marked down from 25. =0 | rot those instead.—Ex change. $ OFFICE ROOMS . FOR RENT In Telegram Buiiding Coolest and Best Lighted in the City P e * Running Water in Each Room Call at TELEGRAM OFFICE DOPPEPIR DSBS DL GEPE TR YLt P For Good Dry STOVE WCOD Phone 2C1-Red r 18 We will do the rest. W.J. WARING $ - I ® L3 LW.YARNELL LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY 0ak and Pine Wood Orders handled promptly. 2hones: Office 109; Res. 57 Green SANITARY PRESSING CLUB | CLEANING,+ PRESSING. REPAIRING and DYEING. Ladies Work a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed. GIVE US A TRIAL Kibler Hotel Basement. Phone No. 393 WATSON & GILLESPIE, Proprietors LUR Sit ol e Lo Sy ’ns OUR MOTTO |Which is proven by our six { years success in Lakeland. Maker of the National Steel reinforced concrete Burial Vault Building Blocks of all discrip- tions. ed Cement, Pressed Brick, White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 nd 4 inch Drain Tile, o, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post; in fact anything made of Cement. t FLORIDA NATIONAL VAULT € BRIEF MOMENTS OF DREAMS Easy to Imagine Long Periods Elaps- Ing During Naps of Short Duration. Both Bismarck and Pepys found that noise enhanced the value of a night's rest. Bismarck cor old age to an interviewer that he could “never sleep in Berlin at night when It is quiet but as soon as the noises beging about four o'clock in the morn- Ing I can sleep a little and get my rest for the day.” Pepys records in nis diary on Sep- tember 23, 1661, that he slept at Well- ing “and still remember it that in all ded In his | * Women’s Knowledge of Banking Every Woman Will Find a Knowledge of Banking Methods a Factor in Economically Managing the Household Finances. Paying by Check, Accurately Accounts for Ev- ery Household Expenditure—and Makes Money Go Farthest. There is the Utmost Simplicity in Disbursing Through the Bank Account. Call at our F.adies’ De- partment at any Hour During the-Business Day, and You Will Find One of Our Officers Cheerfully Will- ing to Explain Simple Banking Methods. FIRSTNATIONALBANK LAKELAND, FLORIDA PESHPEVBPHEHSIIEIOSSI PRI FIPEIC J. B. STRBATER CONTRACTOR ~ND BUILDSR Having had twenty-one years' experience in building and contracting in Lakeland and vicinity, 1 feel competent to render the best services in this line. 1f comtemplating building, will be pleased to furnish estimates and all .infor- mation. All work guaranteed. Phone 169. J. B. STREATER. e ‘WM&WWWME The Lakeland Steam Laundry WILL give you high class Laundry Work and Prompt delivery : Try us, We will nct disappoint you R. W. WEAVER, Prop. 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No. M199ss5: Moisture, Lime=Qa0 .. o Ciciosianaan i, Equivalent to Carbonate—GaOj3 Insoluble Matter PE 3,26 per cent Iron and Alumina—Fe203 & Al20 0.1z per cenat Our Lime Fertilizer is highly reccmmended for Citrus and Truck Gardening. 0.13 per cent . 54.50 per ceat .. 97.34 per cent my life I never did pass a night with more epicurism of sleep; there being | now and then a noise of people that waked me, and then it was a very ! rainy night, and then I was a little | weary, that what between waking and | then gleeping again one after another, I never had so much content in all my life.” The probability that we get snatches of sleep at odd moments when we suppose ourselves to have remained continuously awake is supported by the phenomena of dreams. Mark Twain accounted for his own “disap- pearing visitor” by the belief that he had unconsciously had a very short nap, and many have explained visions of ghosts as due to dreams v.iurlngI such short naps. For nothing is better established in connection with dreams than that an apparently very long one can occur during an almost infinitesimal time. Alfred Maury had a long, vivid dream Why He Was Surprised. “You learn much by travel." “How now “The streets of Boston surprised me. | They are just like the streets of other cities.” “Why not?" “l1 thought streets in Boston bad Latin names.”— Pittsburgh Post. THE MORE YOU ADVERTISE THE BUSIER YOU GET We Tzeie Pride In Doing Work Right BRING YOUR JOB TO US, AND SEE of the reign of terror, including the trial of himself and his execution, and was able to show that it all happened during the moment of awakening by the fall of a rod from the bed canopy upon his neck. Full Skirt. 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