Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 17, 1912, Page 2

rauk TWO RUNAWAY BABY By Densid Allea “My, but I'm glad 1o see you!” was the greeting received by Miss Ruby Shaw as she entered the apartments of her former schoolmate, now Mrs. ’Wandover. on that Wednesday morn- ng. “But you are going out,” was the reply. “Yes, for an hour, and I want you The cart was pushed into another path and hustled along for a quarter {of a mile. Then the boys sat down on !the grass. Two policcmen and =& i half a dozen pedestrians passed them, {but they were not questioned. They carried things off very naturally. It was their first big affair, and what to do with the child and how to get a re- ward was the thing that was puzzling them as they lay in the sunshine. Meanwhile, a frantic young woman !and a somewhat excited young man were racing up this path and down that and accosting eevry one they met with, “Have you seen a runaway go-cart and a baby?” All answers were in the negative, | to take baby over to the park in her and Miss Ruby finally broke into cart. You can take a book along and sobs and sat down on a bench and she'll sleep like a bug and not give wailed out: you a minute’s trouble. Yoy can play ! the bandsome nurse girl." P » Twenty minutes later Miss Ruby Sat on a bench in the park with an open book in her hand, and a go-cart containing a girl baby a year old with- in reaching distance. The spot was a retired one, the morning fine, and 4lere was but one other sitter in sight, and he a bundred feet away. | He was smoking a cigar and reading a newspaper. .Yes, baby slept, the robins sang and the squirrels chat- tered. Peace and contentment reign- ed. + M¥s Ruby had snatched up a book, byt now was disappointed in it. It wasn't a love story at all. There wasn't a handsome maiden, a cheva- lier nor a duel in it. 1t was a book of travel in Rorneo. It told where Borneo was located, what the natives ate and how they got rid of their par- ents when the old folks got past hop- | ping out of bed on cold mornings to build the kitchen fire. \Was that of Any interest to a good-looking girl in | the United States aged nineteen and of naturally romantic nature? Not al bit. The book was laid aside for a look at baby. She was all vight, Thea a look at a robin. He was all right. Then at the man with the cigar and paper. He was all right. In fact, everything was all right. Then Miss Ruby began to blink her eyes and nod, , Go-carts have a habit o away on a trip by themselves, They can’'t steal uphill, of course, but it there is the slightest descent then look out for them! They will wait i [ f stealing) quietly and innocently until attention is attracted elsewhere and then they “Hully Gee—a Kid!” ! begin to move away. They take care| to make no noise, and in a minute} they are out of sight. If baby is | awake he muy yell and give the alarm, but i he is asleep away he | goes. | Miss Ruby s phnks and winks and | nods resulted in sleep. The man with | the paper saw that ghe slept and smiled to himsclf. Then he saw that the go-cart "had disappeared, and h!n‘ uttered an exclamation of alarm, and | it was his footsteps that awoke the girl. She could not have been made to believe that she had slept. “Didn’'t you have a go-cart here! with a baby in it?" questioned the man, “Mercy, ves!” was “Where—where—2" “I can't tell you. There's been no- body along. The cart must have roll- ed away by itsell.” “But baby—baby! naped!” I think not. 1 think we'll find her all safe around the turn in the path.” Miss Ruby ran ahead and the man followed. She was 80 excited that she didn’t notice what sort of a looking man he was except that be was young and a gentleman. “She isn’t in sight!” exclaimed the girl as she reached the turn. “Then we must go on. You see there is a sharp grade here. We may find the cart in the bushes.” “And baby thrown out and killed! Oh, sir—" “There, there! can have happened. cart in a minute.” But they didn't. That sneak of a go-cart had taken the middle of the path and kept it. It had tip-toed around the turn and then began to race. It made two more turns as if guided by human hands, and then shot into a broader path to face two hood- lume who Wwere crossing the park. They grabbed for the rumaway and stopped it. “Hully gee—a kid!” chuckled one. “And dat's a thousand bones re- ward!” added the othar the repiy. She's been kid- Notfilng serious we'll find the “I must have gone to sleep—and baby's been kidnaped—and oh, what will her mother and father say to me!” Then a thought came to her, and rising she grasped the young man by the coat collar and shook him to and fro and exclaimed: “I see it all now. You are the kid- naper—the scoundrel! You watched and waited till I slept. Tell me where baby is or I'll—I'll—!" The young man was protesting and perspiring when an officer came up and demanded an explanation and got it and said to the girl: ! “Sit here on this bench 'till T run! t6 the telephone and give an alarm | through the park. It's probably the work of boys. and youwll surely get} baby back. Why, this young man is| Mr. Rossmore. I've known him for | | three years" Miss Ruby looked up, ccased to sob, | and extended her 'and and said: “Please forgive me. I'm almost | erazy. You'll help the police, won't, you?" | “To be sure, Don't go away from here. 1I'm sure we shall have the lit-' tie one soon.” Mr. Harrison Rossmore wias a young man of dignity and propriety. He| wouldn't have hastened his walk to get out of the way of an auto, but; this occagion was an exception. He| started off on a yun. He dropped his | cane, but did ggt stop to recover 1 I He ran down paths and across the';:m_ (Taynes. I grass and through the bushes, and he left shreds of his garments behind. He was on the trail of that baby and running wild. It turned out to be bet- ter than any plan. He finally burst out of the bushes on cart and baby and boys and a man who had just foined them. The boys ran, but the man put up a fight. Mr. Rossmore bore down on him like a brick house ! on the move. He was kicked and punched and smothered f two min- utes, though the one blow he got in blacked the chevalier's left eye very handsomely. Baby still slept. Ten minutes later Miss Ruby was hugging and kissing the wondering little runaway and pausing at intervals to say: “Oh, Mr. Rossmore—and I thought you a villain! Can you ever, ever for give me for shaking you!" To be sure he could and did. Mr. Rossmore hadn't taken the young lady for a nurse-girl. He had been in the park too often for that. And, be ing the least excitable of the two, he had noticed points to admire. He had to see Miss Ruby safe back, in gpite of his black eye, and he had to be introduced to the mother of the adveuturous baby, and he had to have brown paper and vinegar applied to that optic, and, later, he found it nec- essary to call on the baby's father to' act as usher at his wedding. { “Now, Willie,” said the superinten [apd meat market and are able ml —_—_— 1"’"::; “'llill‘;‘h”i‘.. “1'“4:"‘-":"“1“““ black. ifurnish our custemers in zood I"!n.—l : smith's le bhov, who had to come |, . i t TR costern meats of all Kinds —_—— [ chool’ You zive me a nickel every l(_-:nr.\ and prompt delivery, | S Psee Witness' Fancicd He Knew Mr. Brown, | Sunday for siv months and then at | CALL PHONE 67. ; i . a but He Was Undeceived by [ Chiristmas I give you a 10cent bag | | ¥ ‘ Opposing Counsel. [ of candy.”—Woman's Home Compan ;S]nAlN & RUI“[Rr“RD - " \; R | ien & j‘ . | eronmeitd “Yon say you know Mr, Brown?” asks the lawyer, according to the | _mr »—E Cley 1d Plain Dealer, | SR “You will swear to that?” “Yes, sir.” | “You mean that you are acquainted | with Mr. Brown?" { “That's what 1 mean. Tam—" “Stop. You don’'t know him—you, are merely acquainted with him. You don't mean to tell the court, then,; that you know all about Mr. Brown and everything he ever did?” | “Of course not. 1 suppose—" “Never mind what you suppose. Don't get mixed up—you are under oath. So you don't know everything Brown ever did?” “No, sir.” “That is to say, you aren’t so well acquainted with him as you just said you were?” “Well, I guess—" “Quit guessing. We are beginning to understand each other mow. You can’t swear that you know Brown.” “Well, if you put it that way—" “Never mind how I put it. I ask you a plain question and you must give a plain answer. Don’t try to evade—say yes or no.” “No." “Aha! So, in point of fact, you| don't know Brown at all?” “Why—er—no, sir.” (And if anybody thinks this is bur-| lesque stuff, we may remark that we got it from an old notebook of a for- mer court reporter. And we copied it | word for word—except that the wit-| ness' name wasn't Brown.) { | Seeker After Knowledge. | One day as my young brother and I were out feeding my pigeons he happened to see some Young ones which did not have their eyes opened, and be asked me soberly: “When do the big ones peck holes for their eyes 2"—Exchange, | l l D, TE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JANUARY 17, 1912, = = OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. | County Officers, ! Clerk—A. B. Ferguson, Bartow. Supt. Public Instruction—T. Kirk, Bartow, Sheriff—Jobn Logan, Bartow. County Judge—W. S. Preston, I DROP IN ON US AND SEE | | | 1 ===l OUR NEW 1912 SUIT PATTERNS - i'veasurer—J. T. Harmon, Bartow. County Commissioners.—E, S. Whiddea, Ch’'m., Mulberry; A. J. Lewis, Bartow; R. F. Langford, Ft. Meade; J. E. Bryant, Kathleen; T. F. Holbrook, Lakeland. School Board.—R. W. Hlncock.' 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. YES, we have them---one thousand in number. they are beautiful and the price is right. made to your measure for $15.00 and up. Let us serve you for Men’s Furnishings in Yes, Nice suit Clerk and Tax Collector, H. L 1912. .’ . . D . & . Swatts. 2 . . . . = Treasurer and Assessor, A. (. Armistead. Collector of Light and Water, C. Clongh, Marshal, W, H. Tillis. Night Watchman, F. L. Franklin. I I .1 | | “THE STORE OF QUALITY” i i | Municipal Judge, Gen, J. A, Cox : ity Attorney, Epps Tugker, Jr ! Keoper of Park, Neil McLeod. | (] @ Py Members of Conneil ~Morris €| i Munn, Chairman; W. P, Pillans, Vice-Chairman; Messrs, O, M| DRANE BUlLDlNG Eaton, G. 1. Southard, R. K. Scip-, per, W, L Pugh, . B, Haynes, | / The tollowing standing cont- o mittees for the year were appointed: Finance and Five, Messrs, Eaton, Pillas, Haynes, (L. M. Futch. 3. M. GEBETY. | 00: 0 0000000 M 0TOI00 (it: & AiOIOIOIE e &e & o B Light and Water, Messrs, 1layne: G 5t e S e g A D 4 Pillans and Southard. | 0 l k I d A tf I St w i\ il P ST fientry Undertaking Co.;; Lakeland Artiticial ytone Worhs Successors to Angle @ Near Electric Light Plant Ordinance, Messrs. Southard, Pugh | Undertaking Co. :: @ MAKES and Scipper. | . PR BN & R ha il g o Sanitary, Messrs., Pugh, l‘}n((m.l EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL ]E: l‘lcg:u(i%‘%\s{:lz‘:}\ngx.lc’iglgz?gga) I‘!{ l( l\ Scipper. ; MONEY e DIRECTORS, & Crushed Rock. Sand and Cement for Sale BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 12 and 18 inch Drain Tile for Sidewalk, Gate Posts, Mounds, Etc, Good Stock on Héud WE Deliver Free of Chare- H. B, ZIMMERMAN. Proprietor. POATOFOHUI Q3O IOINFOHOEFROFOPAFQIUIQRIIO 2020 WVAALWAAY VAR WA § Clough Shoe Co. ...NOTHING BUT SHOES... Public Improvement and Cemetery, | Messrs. Pillans, Eaton, Pugh, State Officers. Governor— A, W. Gilchrist, Talla- 4 oo S. L. A, CLONTS Secretary of State—H, Clay (‘raw-’s. ° A. 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. . McLin, Tallahasee. Supt. of Public Instruction—Wm. M. Holloway, Tallahassee. { 'Phones: day or night, 245. Flower 60'!‘0"}0 BO OO DEALER IN Real j_statc CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. Railroad Commissioners—R. Hud- j 4 il son Burr, Chairman; Newton A, Office in Clonts’ Building. e il AT ol e se ; yrices and give a discount Blitch, Royal C. Dunn. W. C. Yon, —— ——— We sell at regu a‘: prices {! : ¢ ; Secretary. All communications JUST A MINUTE! ) per cent. \()UR GAIN OUR LOSX. should be addressed to Tallahassee. President of the Senate—Tred P! Cone, Lake City. A New Meat Market on Florida Avenue Next Door to G. L, Gardner grocery store Only exclusive shoe store in Lakelaad. All the latest styles---Call and see for yourself Down Fine. . we have opened up | Am Going to Give Away A Lakeland Lot charge of the splendid suburban addition to Lakeland, Florida, known as Dixiciand. . cing advertising matter regarding these lots, and, as is often done If we get good points from any sources it will acd gpice toour ber of pointed answers we are going to I have want to get out some convin cases, want the public to help us, vertising, In order to geta large num Give Away One of the Best Lots in New Dixieland to the pPerson Sending Us the Ten Best xeasons for Buying Property in Florida No need of arguing the points out, just make them clear and concise. ' 5 We will have a committee of judges, the Mayor of Lakeland. the President of the First Na Bank of Lakeland and the Manager of the Carter-Deen Realty Company. " Contest will close February Ist. Award will Ue advertised in this paper as soon therc St al possible. Lake s advancing rapidly. Direct all replies at once to J. H. CAMMACK, ‘lanager CARTER & DEEN REALTYS C0'S OFFICE land is an ideal winter resort. 4 live brsiness city of 7.000, a railroad center and pre! Lakeland Florids