Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 30, 1911, Page 2

} L raulk TWO COOQNO0QQO0QQ0C0CQ Presbyt-vian Church. Rev., W. vV aalmers, pastor, sunday sl 9:45 a. m. Mory’ sermon 11:00 a m, [ & sermon at 7:00 p.om, v, P. S C.E meets at 6 p. m. Prayermeeting, Wednesday, 7:30. Christian Church. Seo. W, Weimer, Pastor. sunday school 9:45 a. m. communion 10:45 a, m. 11:00 a4, m. . K. co-operates with other socicties at Cumberland Pres- wierian chuvel, g sermon, T Evenin O oa m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner Florida avenue and Bey St The Rev. William Dudley Nowlin, D. D, pastor, y schoo!l #:45 w. m. . C. , superintendent, ching Sunday at 1! a.m and 2:15 p. m, Weekly prayermecting Wednesday | Fyeniig at | Woman's Missionary and Aid So- efety Monday 3:30 p. m. Baptist Young People’s at 6:17% p.m., Regnlar monthly business meeting | first Wednesday at 7:20 p. m, East Lakcland Mission. Sunday school at 3 p. m. 1.\, Rilton, superintendent, Prayer- meetivg Thursday at 7 p.om. Meeting Episcopal Church. Rev, J. M. Weddell, rector Buch Sunday excepting only third Sunday of cach month. Sunday school every Sunday at | & m. service Evening Prayer the LE00 &, m. H:00 p.om. 30 Chu!rh. South. 1. |‘. lenkins, Pastor, Sunday school 9:45 a. m, BLACK HEN Iydnnlnubewou The Hon. | country place to which he might retire John Lawton wanted a and raise sunflowers. His daughter ! Peggy wanted him to buy such a place that she might raise chickens. Be- ! tween the two of them they prevailed on Mrs. Lawton, who had an idea that she would like to raise string-beans, but wasn't sure, to consent to the change. In due time the Hon. John had the proud satisfaction of growing thirteen big sunflowers along the fence, and Peggy's enthusiasm was a delight to see as she discovered that her fifteen white Leghorn hens had laid an egg among them. She couldn’t pick out | the hen that did it, and so in gratitude | she tendered the whole number such a | banquet that the flock was dopy for ' three days. Not another cgg was produced, but as winter came on Peggy was living in | hopes, and not a bit discouraged. She | was one who believed in giving the hen a chance. It made her nervous to be hurried, and the hens might have the sume feeling. A shortage of eggs in the fall might mean bushels | of them in the spring. Those fifteen hens and a rooster had all received 2 | i names, and were daily called by them, ! and the poultry business was becom- ing a joy forever when human nature and Len naiure received a jolt, iy and quietly without fuss. Whcn Miss Peggy arosze in the morning and made a dash for the poultry house, as was lier moriing custom, she found tracks | in the snow around the door—many cks. There were cat tracks and | i (racks. The cat tezcks were soft and gentle, but the man tracks were deep und savage, It was as if 1he‘ maa who raade them was mad about something. For a minute or so the tracks meant nothing to the girl, Then she opered the door and found four of | her white Leghorns missing, The tracks meant a chicken thief. Yes, “Prudence,” “Precilla,” “Fiora” and “Estelle™ Sometime In were gone. vy sermon 11:00 a4, m, o owomh Leapte 6:00 poom, “teniix sepvice, 7100 poom, | avermenting Wednesday 800 pom [ Lutheran Chuich, 3 Rev. H. J. Matkias, Pastor surday school 10:00 a. m, Preaching service 11:00 a. m., and T:00 poom., second and fourth Sun- dnys - | Catholic Chuxch, ; Rev, AL B, Fox, Pastor, fervices are held on second Al fourth Sundays at 9:00 a, m, | Cumberland Preshyterian, Without pastor. Sunday school at the reguiar ho:r Y. P.S C.E at 6:30 p. m, L. M. Futch. J. 1 Gentry llnderlakinc Co. Sucecessors to Angle Undertaking Co. :: EMBALMERS AWD FUNERAL DIRECTORS. . Gentry. 'Phones: day or night, 245, S. L. A. cmes; DEALER Real [state CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts’ Building. PPOG0PR MILLINERY§ & P i Ladies' Tailored Suits and Skirts. & 3 MISS MINONA HERRON Herron Block. PrEwwRwww) S et aaald “More Primer Facus.” | | the night after that gentle snow Imd begun to fall gently a cluublv-dyod. all-wool, yard-wide chicken thief had swooped down and borne away the helpless innocents. Miss Peggy's yells brought out the Hon. John. | “Whazzermazzer, Peg!” “Gone! Gone! Four of ‘em!” “What—chickens?" “Yes.” “Bless me, but T thought the barn was afire! Well, don’t go to raising all the country with your yells, The damn hens didn't pay half their keep, anyhow.” “But they loved me!" “Loved by a hen! Better wrile‘ a book about it. Come in to break- | fast.” i | “Dad Lawton, you are a heartless wretch!” exclaimed the tearful girl as she faced him. They were four of my dearest hen friends. They would eat out of my hand. They would look up into my eyes with trust and con- fidence. They depended on me to safe- guard them, and now—now—!" Miss Peggy ate no breakfast that morning. After finishing his the Hon, John hunted her up and said: “Peg, the hens are gone.” “Y—yes!” *“But honor remains. That is, you've always wanted to play detective, an( here's your chance. I've got to go to town today, but you may call on con- stable Martin and offer him ten dol- lars to run down the villain.” “Do you mean it, daddy?” l “Sure, girl.” J.W.ELLIS REAL ESTATE AGENT City and Country Property; lm- Orange proved and Unimproved Groves a Specialty: WE HAVE SOME OF THE FINEST TRUCK LAND IN FLORIDA . Room 1, Raymondo Bullding. Phene 309. — \ -A_).. m “Then you are not a heartless wretch and 1 won't cry any more. I'll see the constable right away, and we'll have that thief in limbo by the time you get home. My poor hens are dead by this time, but justice and revenge are left.” ‘ “Go in and win, Peg.” ! Constable Martin lived a mile away. Miss Peggy drove over to find him at home and alert for the safety of the United States. When she had related her doleful story he hit his leg a slap and cried out: “Miss Lawton, 'm an officer that keps his eyes open!” “That's what father says.” "l'fl weeks ‘ when & youb§ mas During the night it snowed softly B {1 shall want you to identify the bodies | and lifted his cap. | black or white, TIE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK moved into that cottage beyond tho] bridge—a young man all alone and having a suspicious looking mustache —a young man who has no business to move into a cottage that they say is haunted by the ghost of an old woman that choked herself to death with the quinsy, I says to myself, says I: *'Martin, my boy, keep your eye on that young feller! It's counterfeit- ing, bigamy, conspiracy, arson or breach-of-promise he's up to.’ “That's what 1 says, Miss Lawton, and there's more to come. Half an hour ago, Mr. Kane drove past here, and he sees me at the door and says: **Hello, Martin!’ “‘Hello, yourself!* “‘Why ain't you arresting the mur- derer?' “*What's the row, Kane? “‘Feathers in the road back there' —hen's feathers—tail feathers— body feathers! They mean murder in the cotlage, Martin, and it's for you to be ! out and doing.’ “That's what he says, Miss Lawton, and if you'd been a minute later you | wouldn't have found me here. I'd have een looking at the blood and slaugh- ier down there.” “Why, Mr, Martin, rie,” replied Peggy. “There's no mur- der about it! That young man you! spolie of stele my four Lens.” | “He did that. I's what is called a prinier facus c | “Those ure feathers from my stolen licns."” “iore Primer facus,” “And there has been no murder, Just a case of chicken stealing.” “And the murder of the stolen chickens,” “And we'll get a warrant and arrest | it's as casy aai “We'll go right down without a war- | t and give him no time 1o flee the utry or hide the evidences of his | crime, Get into my sleigh at the door, of the killed and slain,” They drove up to the haunted cot- tage to find the yonng man cutting wood at the door, Ile put down his ax He also smiled and ealuted. There were no blood: stairs on his clothing. He did not trem- Wle when told that he was in the mer- ciless grip of the law., On the con-! trary, he laughed. The constable re- lated the proofs against him, and he laughed some more and replied; I “80, Miss--Miss—you have logt| ome white Leghorn hens?” “Yes, sir,” was Peggy's answer. “Please come (o the back door, There is my dog. e is worrying away at a black hen, found dead in the road two days 2go. Yoa didn't notice whether the fcathers out there were| did you?" hoere alonn,” constable, se | owant (o make some exe! #in chemiotry, and prefer to| I feel like Leing out door: 1, and suppose the down the chicken lo You still sus “But you are protested the lamely | poet—" But Constable Martin hung his bead and Peaey bawion blushed and soige Voeniled Licrsell nanes The trail Vs taken up at the coop and follow. ol across the fields and through tha woods for a mile, but the pursuers were too late, The tramps who had stolen and eaten the chickens were sone, The Hon, John Lawion was a man of perspicnity, He listened to Pegey's story, thought over it for a minute aud then said: “Peg, it's your next!™ “What do yon mean, daddy?" “Why, a younz man who wonldn't' think of stealing & poor girl's chickens { Will turn around and steal a father's: only daugiter!™ And the Hon, John was lookmg. ahead just a year, { Clerical Humor, A local preacher, who occasion: \Il\' got his metaphors mixed was preach. | ing on self righteousness and ended his discourse by saying: “Let us re-| member thaj after all our righteous-| ness is but filthy rags hanging on the| branches of barren trees.” On anoth-| or occasion he was preaching on beset- | ting sing, and when comparing these to| obstacles in our path exclaimed: “Let | us beware of these stones by the way- | side, lest they turn again and rend, us.” The at one time well known preach- er among the \Wesleyans, Peter Mac- kenzie, in reading the third chapter of Daniel invariably abberviated the fifth verse, wherein are enumerated the instruments of the Babylonian band, most of them with hard names, to the “cornet,” etc., and when the names were repeated in verses 10 and 15, said: “The band as before.” He was a lay preacher of the old order who was admitted on to full plan with- out having read the prescribed Wesley Sermons,” etc. He boasted of his lack of “book learning.” and scornfully told a student of the new school who was learning Latin that “English was good enough for Paul; ain't it good enough for you?" Good Little Sermon, Edgar A. Guest of the Detroit Free Press has published a book of verses entitled “Just Glad Things,” in which he makes this excellent observation: “It's all right to leave your grouch at home, but it's much better never to take it there.” Why have long sermons when so much can be put into a short one?= Chicago Record-Herald. The High Key. Little Willie—Pa, what's a finan. sler? Pa—A financier, son, is a man who is capable of inducing other wea to pile up a fortune for him. D tooms 14 and 15 Kentucky Building iventucky Buildine ELAND, FLA., DECEMBER, 30, 1911 *A 0. We thank you for the fine business of 1911, wish you a most prosperous New Year and solicit a continuance of your business, assuring you that it will ever be our aim to please you. Yours for Business, T. I. Woods & Co. l——___um_--n-_—m e e e e e e e S SRR . Wittt . ... st '—-[ LAXELAND MARBLE AND GRANITE WORK! 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