Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 2, 1912, Page 2

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Ungallant Man, It is rather aa ungaliant man who advocates women's suffrage on the . theory that it will not make any real ' difference.—~Washington Star, LTV v THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., FEBRUARY 2, 1912, A Blundering Matchmaker By Louise J. Strong Erma peeped through the curtain and watched the automobile out of sight; then she began to pack in a fever of haste. Her eyes gleamed with repressed tears ard her cheeks burned. A short time ago Mr. Edwin Morrill had been so devoted to her that it had taken all her skill to pre- vent a declaration from him. She had not been quite sure of herself, and wanted a little more time; but his in- tentions and desires had been plain. She had belleved him sincere, yet | with the advent of pretty, piquant Cousin Bessie, he had transferred his attentions to her. And now Erma had suddenly discovered that the hand- gome trifler was more to her than she had dreamed any man could be. “But, thank heaven, he doesn’t know that!"” she breathed with hot face. “He shall never suspect it. I will go home at once—but first, I'll write to Billy as I promised I would if [ ever changed my mind. I can't say that I care for him, but he knows all about that, and we'll be married as soon as we can arrange it—I'm de- termined to be married before Ed— they are.” She wrote her letter, telling herself that she was an engaged girl the mo- ment it was finished, for Billy could | be depended upon to jump at the! chance; then, fu traveling attire she | descended and asked to be sent to| the station, “Why, vyou're "to stay another month!" Grandpa Morrill cried in as- tonishment, “Oh, I really must go, Grandpa,” she declared, adding coyly, “1 will not have any too much time to get ready | for my marriage in September.” “Your marriage!” Grandpa shout- ed. “Yon engaged all this time and never hint it. I consider that you have treated us very badly, Miss!" “I beg your pardon, Grandpa,” Erma apologized, “but as you are not ac- quainted with Billy there seemed no necessity for me to mention it.” Grandpa would be sure to repeat the conversation, and that would show Mr. Edwin that she had been merely Getting All the Speed Possible. playing, too. Grandpa was much cha- grined, even a little angry, and con- trary to his genlal custom, sent her to the station alone, vowing that she had decply disappointed him. “He ought to understand why I must go,” Erma thought impatiently, wondering at his blindness. But then, Edwin was his favorite, privileged it seemed, to any conduct. She did not mail her letter at the station after all, she found that she shrank from irrevocably committing herself, thaugh she fully intended that her marriage with Billy should be announced before that of Edwin and Bessle. At one of the way-stations a rural bridal party waited, and Erma no- ticed with a thrill of sympathy the adoring pride with which the bride- groom looked down into the happy eyes of the little bride. This was mar- riage as it should be, loving and be- loved, and in a sudden repulsion of the loveless union she had contem- plated she tore up the letter and scattered the fragments to the winds. Leaning from the window to clear her eyes, she observed an automobdile tearing down the highway which at this point ran nearly parallel with the rafiroad. The lone driver seemed to be getting all the speed possidle out of it, and it soon became plain that he was trying to reach the station be fore the train. People noticed the race and leaned out, shouting and waving encouragement. The train halted at the platform. the automobile shot forward and Erma smothered a shriek, for it was Ed- win's and the recklegs driver Edwin | himself. He glanced up at her as the train stopped, bumped across in front | of it, threw on the brake and leaping out dashed into her car. “You might have been killed!” she | shuddered. “What in the world does it mean?” “It means that you must not go | away in this manner.” he began, gath- ering up her belongings. “My movements do not concern you at all, sir” she asserted, too much offended at his arnarent arrogance to wonder at his motive. “They coneern me so much that I have driven like mad across the loop to intercept the train and ask you to i return with me. There is an explana- I | that, under the circumstances, | 'em tion you must hear—so Illlclll"' due.” “Nothing is your due from me!"” “I hope you will think differently,” he replied gently. “Come, be good enough to go back with me.” People were listening with broad smiles. “You are making me ridiculous,” she snapped. | “Come, then, else I shall stay until you are willing to go with me.” He dropped into the chair beside her. There was a quiver of the train and i Erma bounced up and dashed out, | conscious that the spectators wani grinning and chuckling over her do-i feat. Blazing with indignation, she sat bolt upright, with averted face. He had, virtually, kidnapped ber,' compelled her to accompany him, but | he could not compel her to accept his explanation, or excuse. She braced herself to meet it with mocking indif- ference, and the gay announcement of | her coming marriage with Billy. | But, instead of plea, or explanation, Edwin maintained an utter silence, giving his undivided attention to get- | ting over the ground as swiftly as the law allowed; and Erma was in a very bewildered state of mind when they | finally entered the hall. ! Grandpa met her with such evident embarrassment that she instantly as- sumed that it was his scheme a a sort of punishment to her; while Bes- sle regarded her with an amusement was perfectly insulting. She bristled, meditating resistance, but Edwin hur- ried her to the old gentleman, saying sternly: “Now then, grandpa, 1 have brought her back, and you must make plain to her the game you put upon me. It is | your business entirely, and I have held iny tongue, though I had to bite | it to do so. Tell her everything! I must be fully vindicated, though there | | is no chance for me, for [ did and dof love her, and 1 had hoped to persuade | "her to marry me, not knowing of her | engagement to another!” | Erma whirled arornd to him, but| ‘Grundpu interposed, taking her hand, | | looking very downcast and ashamed. | “You see, little girl, I've always want- ied to leave the old Morrill place to | you and Edwin, and I've blundered | along trying to make a match be- tween you. [ expected this summer here would settle it all right, but you | seemed contrary and wouldn't give Edwin a falr show, and I thought if | | i i We Are Now Featurin g The Savoy Shirt, Made-Well Underwear, Stetson Hats, Diamond Brand Silk Hats, and Caps 50c up, Onyx Hose, Lisle and Silk, Walk-Over and Hanan Shoes; Schmidt Knit’ Sweaters and a complete line of Men’s Furnishings. 3 Drane Building o. BARS OUT RU ) SSIAN GEESE Seriously Felt on Both Sides of Border. Announcement has been made that you saw that some one else was likely to—to land him you would appreciate him more yourself, It was my scheme, Edwin didn’t even imagine it. 1 got Bessie—she's to marry Harvey, which you didn’t know—and together we've managed to make it seem as it Ed- win was—" “Was a contemptible saphead who deserved a good cow-hiding!” Edwin Interjected wrathfully, “And O, Erma, you should have seen what a bear he was when I so coolly appropriated him as if I had the right to, and he just couldn’t shake me. He tried it enough, but I was as dense, and sweet and sticky as molasses tafty,” Bessle gurgled at the memory. “But 1 didn’t know you were going to marry some one else, or I never would have undertaken it, of course,” grandpa sighed. “But I—I wasn’t engaged till 1 wrote to Billy, and I—I didn’t send the letter, Grandpa, I—I couldn’t bear to,” Erma stammered, glancing shyly at Edwin, ‘Erma!” he shouted, and grinning broadly, Grandpa drew Ressie away. 0DD GEOGRAPHICAL FACTS That Are Not Generally Known and at First Strike the Reader as Remarkable. The following list of odd things about the earth that the average per- | son does not know has been complied by Prof. R. H. Whitlock of the Unl versity of Wisconsin geology depart. ment: Did you know— That the Pacific end of the Panama canal is farther east than the Atlantic end? That 1 an express train had started out from the earth for the plunet Nep tune at the birth of Christ, and had traveled 60 miles an hour day and night ever since, it would not yet be halt way there? That Cuba would reach from New York to Chicago? That the mouth of the Amason river is as near to Europe as it is to New York? That Texas is larger than Germany and as large as 212 Rhode Islands? That, when measured in degrees of longitude, San Francisco is about in the middle of the United States, in- cluding Alaska? That the entire continent of South America lies further east than Flor 1da? That; Glasgow, Scotland, is In the same latitude as Alaska. That, if the southern end of Chile, South America, were placed at Florida that single country would extend northward entirely across the United States and Canada and half way across Hudson Bay? Life on the Farm. “These summer boarders are hard to please.”- “What's the matter now?” “They're kicking because I ain't got no field of shredded wheat to show Accounted For. | Wife (to returning hubby)—I see ! you have an extra trunk. Did you buy a lot more clothes? Hub—Not an article; but, you see, you weren't there to pack my duds | coming back. lent in the frontier districts of that country, Coming, as this prohibition does, im- mediately prior to the period when im. ports of live geese increase rapldly the question is serious alike to breed- ers in Russia, who will have large quantities of birds thrown on their hands; to German goose 'fatteners, as they will be unable to fill up their pens, for the home production is total ly insufficient to meet their require- ments, and to housewlives in Germany, who will find the already high price of what {s an important article of food advance still further and prob- ably be prohibitive. Russians state that there is no justification for this regulation, that it is a trade move in the interests of German dealers to force down prices and as a measure of fiscal protection to German breed: ers, Germany imports annually about 8,000,000 live geese, of which seven- eights come from Russia, where these birds are bred in vast throughout the western and southwest- ern governments, They are bought from the raisers by traveling dealers, who drive them in huge flocks to the | frontier stations, where they are en- | trained for despatch to Berlin and oth. er cities. The cars used for this purpose are bullt in four decks, each car holding about 1,200 birds. Special trains are run in the season, consisting of & dozen to thirty-ive cars, in accord- ance with the supply. As many as 60,000 geese have been known to ar rive at Magerviebhot market, Berlin, on & single day.—Westminster Ga- sette. We are all on our way, but the question is, where are we going? Signs of the Times. *1 see the youug lady ncxt door has & beau.” “She assures me that it is purely a platonic affection.” “In that case you had better look over some- thing cheap in clocks, or something of that kind.” Spaced Out Too Much, ‘ A judge, In remanding a criminal, called him a scoucdrel. The prison- er replied: “Sir, 1 am not as big & scoundrel as your honor—" bere the culprit stopped, but finally added— “takes me to be.” “Put your words closer together,” sald the judge. Ideal Temperature of Room. An ideal room temperature for the sedentary is that between 66 and 70 degrees. Below these temperatures the | heat regulating apparatus of the body finde It necessary to close up the peripheral vessels more or less, in- ternal congestion slowly begins and the conditions for a cold are secured. ~ New York Uses Much Water, In the whole world there are only 'about 1,600,000 people. An inch of i rain on our watershed normally would | give two gallons of water for every | man, woman and child on the surface of the earth. Put it another way: If every man, woman and child on the face of the earth should walk up to to the lakes, reservoirs, etc., which hold New York city’'s water supply, and each pour in two gallons of water, | 1t would not be enough to last that city ten days. numbers | Don’t forget we are making Spring Suits Germany's Blow to a Great Trade - the German authorities have suspend- | ed the importation of live geese from & Russfa on the ground that there is & | & considerable amount of disease preva- | c» 10— S & CO. Phone 2908 550 5. Lakeland Artificial Stone } Near Electric Light Plant RED CEMENT PRESSED BRICK CALL AND SEE THEM. CAN SAVE YOU MONEY Crushed Rock. Sand and Cement for Sale BUILDING' BLOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 12 and 18 inch Drain Tile for Sidewalk, Gate Posts, Mounds, Ete, Good Stock on Hand WE Deliver Free of Charge H. B, ZIMMERMAN. 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