Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 21, 1911, Page 9

THE KVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., DECEMBER 21, 1911 JUR_DISPLAY o floLIDAY GO : { PAGE NINE p—— = ’ [ A\ I4 /| 0 kot 20 P hristinas 217 Sugoestions 4 Few for G e T A . S — j Doll ‘Cart v Carts in all styles. Make ones happy by having o Christmas tree. L . ——— —— THANKING OUR FRIUNDS AND PATRONS FOR THE BUSI- NESS THEY HAVE EXTENDED LT RNLD His pior P By Ciaudine Sisson ionAscott hiad come up to Duck ! ity for the shooting. sted of whatever Sometimes it was a duck—sometimes a rab- was reckless enough to ex- <1 in the open. o1t was twenty-five years old < of a philosopher. He t much in this world, and nothing whatever of Duck ! been told about it, and on was wading around marshes and getting some t could not be found in a! never been in love, and nothing of the kind from must be women ¥, but of course they wws and wives. If there * 'w girls they would be ! freckled faced and en- | hired men. ¢ romance didn't trou- in the least, If he got have it reasted in the t he would eat the cutlets, He had heen f mind for three days, 1 sven a duck, when he | < further afield. The inn- ‘lided a spot two miles i1 fow]l sometimes dis- +¢s, and the hunter set was a mile and a half | vad, and the hunter was i ried to stumble upon an the contrary direction. the road-bed and the 1 he spent a long five ilering where the line why he had not heard t direction. The puzzle 1 «olved when he took wd, after a walk of 200 | a switch and a track | ‘Le bushes. i '"as no raliroad man. He | 7l a copper about road- rails. He had al-| ‘1 a Pullman, tipped the | ' %o at that. Now, all | this railroad bothered | attention. Was, it | & Duck Bay railroad? | k Bay and Chicago rail- | ! the Boston and Bunker | ~ <K Bay line? { ¢ were harrowing his “¢ moved backwards and _.‘;Dfl frog ot the switch <4t foot. His weight forced and was caught in a :-1 on long-legged rubber Ol course the way to get e 10 28 0 pull his foot out | [y It seemed easy, but at thay. ten minutes the victim real- * It couldn't be done. He pulled 3 US THE PAST but he was fast—fast in a frog, and & train might be due any minute! The engineer might see him in time to stop the train, but would he stop it if he did see him? Wouldn't he come right along and run over the captive for the moral effect it would have on other tramps? Most men prefer to drink standing, but when it comes to thinking they would rather sit down. Mr. Ascott had to stand. Moreover, he had to be very careful about his poise. If he top- pled over it would mean a broken leg, and even then the foot would not be free, For three long hours he stood up like a telegraph pole. Every min- ute he expected to hear the rumble of an approaching train. ‘Time after time, he figured out how the engine would hit him, and just how his man- gled remains would look as they were scattered along the track. He felt that he was a mile or more from any highway, and therefore it was hours before he began to shout. He had velled a score of times when a young lady descended to the track from & path not far distant, and after survey- ing him for a moment approached to ask: “Was it you calling for help?” “It was,” was the reply as Mr, As- cott started to lift his cap and then | feared for Ms balance. “And why did you call?” see.’ “Gh, yes. How long for a moving picture show, | have you been here?” “For hours, miss, and I expected a train along any minute.” “A train? A train?” And the young lady giggled and gurgled and finally laughed merrily and said: “Why this is an old track leading to | a stone quarry, and has not been used for seven years! But your position is uncomfortable, and I must get you| {loose. I was passing on the highway right out here when I heard your calls. | Your foot must be pried out.” “And you will go for help?” “Oh, no. stick.” She wasn't a married woman and she wasn't a freckled-faced girl en- gazed to some farmer’s hired man On the contrary, she was about twenty years old, handsome, and it was easy to see that she was a visitor to the country. A queer feeling passe the duck-hunter. He tried to ! to the pain in his foot, but he realized that he was deceiving himself. The girl came back with a stout stick to be used as a pry, and Mr. Ascott started to direct operations, “] know all about it,” she interrupt- ed. “I put the pry in behind your heel and bear down. on my shoulder to keep your balance. I got my aunt Martha down out of an apple tree the other day after she bad tainted away, and I guess I can man- - it SEASON, WE WISE ALL A MERRY CHRIST- | IMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. O] “I am caught by the foot, as you | You are standing up so0 | straight I thought you might be posing | Just let me find a stout | You put your hand | W AN e 4 ek T 8 Lakeland Furniture& Hardware Cof and twisted and strained nnfi swore, l age this ease. If 1 had stepped into a ! for romance, " frog and been caught fast you wuu!d] have talked half an hour about my ! carelessness, Now 1 'm going to pry.” | Mr. Ascott groancd with the pain | | as the foot was forced out, and the | girl helped him to sit down and then | ran away to be back at the end of five | minutes with a flask in her hand. { “It's brandy,” she explained. *“I al-| | ways earry it for fear Il run over a | cow and get faint. Take a few swal- lows and then I guess I can get you | to the auto.” i “But I don’t want to trouble you to take me to the inn.” “You are not going there, but home | with me. That is, you are going to my Aunt Martha's. I'm up from town | to visit her, you know. I am Miss Ger- | tie Phillips, and I didn’t catch your name as Jones, did 1?7 Oh, Mr. As-| cott, eh? Aunt Martha will be tickled. She was an Ascott before she was mar- | | ried. Perhaps you are cousins or, | something.” i “But you see—" [ | “Was It You, Calling for Help?” “No, I don’t. We are two poor, lone | women, and haven't seen anybody but | | a tin peldler for a week. We shall dote on a cripple in the house. You | shall have chicken broth the very first ! thing.” | Mr. Ascott was assisted to the auto,, {and a few minutes later Miss Gertle | was explaining to her aunt: “Heard him yelling for help. Stopped the auto. Found him caught by the foot in the railroad track. Pried him loose. He’s golng to be our invalld. Say, auntie, the country Is the place in Axministers, Tapestries, Wools and | | Fabrics at prices to suit every purse. o] { out & second cousinship with her aunt | Curlosity in the Philippine Islands El-f B serieg of chambers and tunnels, | from stone ceilings hane hundreds n,r| | for years been used as Rockers Rock and /. nothing will t Squares ! ‘ | i ) * . tiate i epdor e “But where's the romance, dear?”! “What! You can’t see it! I hear a man yell. 1 savo his life. I bring him | bere. He's nice, So am 1. You'll be | njotherly to him, and I'll fill his pipe and read to him and tell him stories, | and it wou't he two weeks before— | before—" i “Gertie Phillips!” i “But when a nice girl saves a nico young man’s life—" | Can a man whose life has heen ! saved by a voung lady—who has eaten of her chicken broth—who has figured | Just Received e o 8 o e 4837 A Complete Line of LADIES’ 16-BUTTON Kil? GLOVES s ® o e e e re—— Also 24 Pairs Ladics’ HIGH BUTTON VELVET SHOES These and many othcr Novelties at the Store of J.W.CHILES N e . RN T -~who has admitted to himself that his | heart has developed a curlous wobble —can such a man go wandering | around In old marshes instead of walk- | ing out with that girl to gather acorns | and wintergreen berries and tnlklug’ love? ‘ TO EXPLORE SUNKEN RIVER| pected to Bo Made of Commer- clal Value. | It has been decided by the Philip- ! pine government to make a complete exploration and survey of the sunken river in Palawan for the purpose of bringing it to public notice as a show place for tourists. The entrance to the sunken river is through a low gate of jagged rock, but witi:in a short dis tance the cave widens into a great chamber. Then in suceession come o many ! of them strikinzly peetty in coloring, all of them fa tic in design. Thow sands of birds, chiefly a species of | swallow, occupy the chamhers and LT A R You Want e bats. The current in the river is gen erally swift, varving with the rainfall, | by which it is fed from some point in | the interior of Palawan. : The first American to enter the mystic river was the late Governor Miller of Palawan. An cld Moro teld him of its existence and said it had a retreat for pirates and other frechooters. The Moro agreed to gulde him to the river and pilot him through its black recesses, and did so. But Miller had only candle sy 10 fur- nish light and Lis exploratory work was necessarily incomplete. He as- cended the r for a distance esti- mated at five s and marked the walls of the raz channel for the guidance of other visitors, A Wagon A Set of Harness A Lap Robe An Automcbile Robe or anything required for riding_or driving, see 'GLASHAN The Hustling Harness and Buggy Man Two Stores 1909-111 South Florida No Fire There. Mrs. Snicker—I suppose he prom- ised to go through fire and water for you?” Mrs. Ticker—Yes, and now he won't even water the plants.—Harper's Bazar, “Her only ag,ective is ‘cute.’” | “Oh, well, even at that, she len't| balf as tiresome as the man whoss | oaly adjective is ‘clasay.’ | i i 4 | e i .