Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 8, 1912, Page 6

PAGE SIX THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JANUARY 8, 1912, W. FISKE JOHNSON REAL E STATE LOANS NEGOTIATED BUYS AND SELLS REAL ESTATE, ORANGE GROVE PROPER- TY A SPECIALTY. Raymondo Building. Are you satisfied with your NET RESULTS of last year? Unkept resolutions weaken you; DOING what you determine to do will build your character. Bring the morey you have in your pocket to our bank RIGHT NOW, and begin the year sensibly by starting to SAVE and GET AHEAD. If you do, one year from today you will thank us. Saving only 25 cents a day—$7.50 a month—and interest will amount to over ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS in 10 years. FIRST NATIONAL BANK LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. County) Officers. (lerk—A. B. Ferguson, Bartow. supt. Public Instruction—T. B. Kirk, Bartow. Sheriffi—John Logan, Bartow. County Judge—W. 8. Preston, Bartow. Tax Collector—J. Bartow. Tax Collector—¥. M. Lanier, Bar- tow, Treasurer—J. T. Harmon, Bartow. County Commissioners.—E. 8. \Vhidden, Ch’'m., Mulberry; A. J. Lewls, Bartow; R. F. Langford, Ft. Meade; J. E. Bryant, Kathleen; T. F. Holbrook, .Lakeland. School Board.—R. W. Hancock, Ch'm., Fort Meade; W. J. J. Whid- den, Bartow; J. A. Cox, Lakeland; T. B. Kirk, Secretary, Bartow. State Senator—D. H. Sloan, Lake- land. Members of House—A. J. Angle, Bartow; Geo. Fortner, Pierce. City Officers. Mayor—S. L. A, Clonts. (lerk and Tax Collector, Swatts. Treasurer and Armistead. Collector of Light and \Vater, C. . Clough. Marshal, W. H. Tillis. Night Watchman, F. L. Franklin. Municipal Judge, Gen. J. A. Cox. City Attorney, Epps Tucker, Jr. Keeper of Park, Neil McLeod. The following standing com- mittees for the year were appointed: Finance and Fire, Messrs. Eaton, pillans, Haynes. Light and Water, Messrs. Haynes, pillans and Southard. Streets, Messrs. Scipper, ard, Haynes. Ordinance, Messrs. Southard, Pugh and Scipper. Sanitary, H. Lancaster, H. L Assessor, A. C. South- Messrs.. Pugh, Eaton. Seipper. Pablic Improvement and Cemetery, Mo<srs. Pillans, Eaton, Pugh. State Officers. tiovernor—A. W. Gilchrist, Talla- hassee. Sccretary of State—H. Clay Craw- ford, Tallahassee. Comptroller—A. C. Croom, Talla- hassee. Treasurer—W. V. Knot, Tallahas- see. Attorney-General—Park M. Tram- mell, Tallahassee. Commissioner of Agriculture—B. E. McLin, Tallahasce. Supt. of Public M. Holloway, Tallahassee. Railroad Commissioners—R. Hud- son Burr, Chairman; Newton A, Bliteh, Royal C. Dunn, W. C. Yon, Secretary. All communications should be addressed to Tallahassee. President of the Senate—Fred P. Cone, Lake City. Instruction—Wm. Poison Pajamas, And now it would appear that the nocturnal bifurcated garment which like its (or their) daylight brother, trousers, must appear in the plural— in other words pajamas—are in seri- ous disfavor in France, and the color line is to be drawn against some of the most radiant members of the pa- jamese fraternity. It seems that a young Parisian financler, a man of wealth and fashion, had for several weeks been suffering from a painful malady of the eyes and was threat- ened with blindness. The most learn- ed oculists were consulted, but none could divine the cause of the myste- rious malady. One day he made the discovery that following the occa- slons when he wore a certain pair of brillilantly red pajamas he was par- ticularly affected. He took this pair of pajamas to the Pasteur institute. The doctors at the institute extracted the color from the garment and inoc- ulated therewith a number of guinea pigs, every one of which became blind. The young financier has brought suit against the “chemister” who had guaranteed the material. — e Interviewed. One day a wellknown politician was enjoying a chat with a friend at a London hotel, when a strange young man came up and said: “Can | see you for a moment, Mr. Dash?” “Certainly,” answered Mr. rising. The young man led him across the room, and seemed to have something important to say to him. Arrived in a corner, the stranger whispered in the politician's ear: “I am on the staff of an evening paper, and 1 should like you to tell me what vou think of the situation in the east.” Mr. Dash looked a little puzzled at first, then he said: “Follow me!” And leading the way he walked through the reading room, down some steps into the drawing room, through a long passage into the dining room, and drawing his visitor into the cor- ner, behind the hat rack, he whisper- ed: “I really don’t know anything about it."—Tid-Bits. Dash, Young Mr. | Wells By Lawrence Alfred Clay There are certain men who feel a sense of proprietorship as soon as they become engaged. Perhaps this is the right thing, but now and then there is a girl who objects to it. It was so in the case of Miss Dora Thurston. Frank Wells had scarcely secured an avowal from her that he was loved in return when he heaved a long sigh |- of relief and said: “And now, of course, that fellow Wakefield will get a hint that he need not call here any more?” “But why?” was asked, “And you won't have that Burton dangling around?” “Mr. Burton never dangled.” “And that cad of a Graham will be told that you are not at home?” “He will be told no such thing! Mr. Graham is far from being a cad.” “And Peterson will not be permit- ted to drop in here as if it were his club.” “I don’t understand you, Mr. Wells,” said the newly-engaged as she drew herself up. “Because I have promised to marry you does it follow that I am to become a prisoner in the garret or down cellar?” “Dora, you have given me the right to say what company you shall keep,” was the reply. “You are so precious to me that—that——" “That you would treat me like a five-year-old child! DBut you can't do it. Until we are married 1 shall in- sist on receiving my friends at this house. A great change seems to have come over you all of a sudden. Here- tofore you have not objected to any of the gentlemen named.” “Because I had not the right. Even if I knew them to be cads I could not object. Now, however, it Is different.” “Mr. Wells, do you mean to say that I have been receiving cads in my father’s house?” the girl demanded. “Well—er—you know.” “l know, sir, that 1 do not like the way you talk. I think you introduced me to every gentleman we have named.” “But being engaged to you, gee.” “Then we are engaged, are we?” “Perhaps not!" “And young Mr. Wells was just don- key enough to walk out of the parlor and out of the house and leave the im- you No Hero Ever Toiled Harder. pression behind that he had quit his job, and that it would take a great deal of coaxing to bring about his re- turn. Did anybody faint away as Mr. Wells walked down the street, kicking every third ash can off the curbstone? Not a faint. Did a certain young lady fling herself down on the sofa and sob and sob and sob? Not a sob! Not a fling! On the contrary, Miss Dora Thurston sat down at the piano and banged and crashed and banged, and then walked out to her mother and said she was ready to go to the mountains for a week, a month or a year. The subject had come up almost daily, and the girl had been the one who hung back. Mr. Wells had been with the bank only a few months, and would not be entitled to a vac:uion| this summer. ! The matter- was settled between | mother and daughter in five minutes, | and two days later they were away. Any notice to the “bossy” young man? Not a word nor a line. Not so much as “X, her mark.” And the servants Jeft behind were warned on pain of dismissal to give nothing away. It was three evenings before the young banker strolled that way again. He had his dignity with him. He was prepared to forgive if appealed to, but not without. When tears and sobs came he would melt, but not too hastily. “Not at home,” was the reply of the butler. “But they must be.” “No, sir. Went to the country three days ago.” “But they left a letter for me ; 344 #No, sir, and none of us know where they went.” Mr. Wells and his dignity and for- giveness turned away. If he Jdooked “bossy” as he ascended the steps, it had fallen from him like a mantle as he descended. He first declared that be did not care a cooper's maledic- tion—that he was actually glad of it; that he had had a narrow escape from marrying a girl with a dreadful tem- per—one who would have driven him from home after a few weeks. And .then he decided that he did care, but that he would be the boss or perish. The third decision was that he had made an idiot of himself and couldn’t ask forgiveness any too.soon. Give a donkey of a young man time enough and he will strike the right j-olicy. Mr. Wells wanted forgiveners, but where to go for it? He had a pull at the bank and got four days off. He had a crisp ten-dollar bill for the but- ler, and the butler proved disloyal to his mistress, just as she had figured that he would. A grip was packed and the “bossy” young man hied him to a mountain re- sort. He hadn’t planned that he would, but some one had planned for him. With a railroad time table and a lead pencil and thirty minutes to fig- ure in she was sure even of the train he would arrive on. Dora Thurston took to the woods. Tn And half an hour |7 before the arrival of that train, Miss I other words, dregsed for a walk on the |- Lills, she left the hotel and took a 4 path leading upwards among the trees and bowlders and outcrop. Mr. Wells tried to arrive with his dignity, but it was rather a failure. He hunted up Mrs. Thurston and ex- | plained that he had been granted a few days off to cure his hay fever, and that he had arrived at the Bald Zagle quite by accident and she had the courtesy not to smile. It was all of three minutes and a half before he carelessly inquired for Miss Dora and learned that she had gone for a walk. Then he carelessly said he would look her up, as she would probably be quite anxious to know that the weather in town was so hot that truck horses were falling like autumn leaxes be- | £ fore its fiery blast. Young ladies do take vivid interest in these things! Miss Dora met a boy and she met a man, and she met two romantic girls, and she took pains that they should | sco her take a path marked: “Dan- worous—Beware of Avalanches!™ Up that path to a spot where there had been a slide of rocks a week before, | and then she dropped her handker- chief, removed her hat and tossed it | from her, and then went into hiding. Miss Dora had figured time as close ! as a train dispatcher. She had not | been in hiding ten minutes when Mr, Wells came up on the run. He saw the hat and handkerchief and ut‘ered | a groan and a shout, He was not up | on avalanches, and he took this for a | new one. Under it would be found the dead and mangled body of the girl | hie had tried to boss! Off came the coat and hat and vest of the frantic lover, and he went to work like a dog digging out a wood- | chuek. Help could have been had half a mile away, but he felt he could ¢ not stop to summon it. No hero ever toiled harder for a quarter of an hour, | § and he was still at it when Miss Dora slid gracelully down to his feet and serambled to remark: i “Now, then, if you have changed your mind about cads and other things we will sit down and talk. 1t you work any longer you will have a lame back tomorrow!™ “Oh, Dora, I—I—!" “The girl bosses you know, and the wards.” before marriage | husband after- Protect Deer Was Passed in 1769, Game legislation in this country has had an interesting history. Deer were the first game animals to be protected. As early as 1769 a law was passed in South Carolina forbidding thelr destruction during the months from January to July, while Vermont prescribed the same closed season for deer in 1797 Massachusetts in 1817 protected deer during a similar season, follow- ed by Virginia in 1820. Little other legislation, except in New Jersey in 1846, is found until after 1850, when Missouri, Ohio, Alabama and Cali- fornia prescribed closed seasons, and Delaware in 1852 prohibited the kill- ing of deer at any time. In the '60s came Kentucky with protection for females only, and later Ilinois, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Ne- braska and Minnesota followed, the last state including elk in its pro-| tective measures. The earliest instance which has been found in the United States of an enactment to protect fur-bearing nnl-1 | mals is that prescribing the closed season for the muskrat, in Vermont ! fn 1812. Tt was a prohibition which | covered practically the entire year, it | being lawful to take the muskrat | from March 15 to May 25 | Ohio protected the muskrat in 1830, ! and New Hampshire in 1843, prompt- | ed evidently by a desire to be rid of certain undesirable animals, passed a ' law providing for the “destruction of noxious animale and the preservation | of game.” the game referred to being the muskrat, beaver, mink and otter. . During the '70s and '80s a number of states incorporated into their stat- | utes sections forbidding the use of any gun other than such as is com- monly raised from the shoulder and fired at arm’s length, such legislation having become necessary because of the use by pot hunters and even so- called sportsmen of the swivel gun in shooting wild fowl.—Case and Com- ment. Souvenir Bracelets in Vogue. A fad among the wives of aviators is a souvenir bracelet. The idea originat- ed with Mrs. Glenn H. Curtiss, wife of the inventor, whose arm circlet con- | tains the nmames of 14 airmen who have flown at meets that she has at- | tended. Now almost every wife of an l airman owns one of these souvenirs. BEGINNINGS OF GAME LAWS" First Legislation in This Country to S OHOOOH OO0 G000000000000IINII0NH HOCTGOOOVITOVOTTCTITCIIOTD & I DI 2 00VVV0OVOVOV0! MISS RUBY C. DANIEL Lakeland’s Leading News and Stationery Store All the leading papers and magazines. Sta- tionery, Post Cards, School Sup- plies, Cigars and Tobacco. Lobby of Edisonia Theatre Your Patronage:Will Be Appreciated B BB DI The Lakeland Steam Laundry — = S one of the best equipped plants in the State having all modern machinery and what is more, we have operators who know how to use them. We want everybody's If not, why not give atrial next week? laundry. Do you send yours? R. W. WEAVER, Fro. *Phone 130 Sy IF IT'S DRUGS YOU WANT, PHONE 42 We can’t please every one, try as hard as we may. Lake Pharmacy 4 L. W. 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