Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 1, 1913, Page 2

[ i } B v g e s i TAGE TWO. SOUVENIRS We have some very heavy Sterling Spoons with a cut of the A. C. L. Depot on the handle. Cloisonne and Hand Painted Pins in many styles. H. C. STEVENS Lakeland Jeweler Fla. T LAKELAND MARBIE AND GRANITE WORKS, Located on East Lake Morton, : Johp Edmunds, Prop. Also a nice line of Solicits the Orders of All Rzuiring Anything in This Line. New Li%e of Tombstones on Hand. QE CIGARS § A. H. T. CIGAR co.g Lakeland, Florida 290 Blue. % CHGEOEOBOHOBOHCTOGOIODOHD bODOOLA PO M S0E0SOHOSVHOFTHCHFOIOFOPAVRFQRFOPOFOEOFOFOFOFOBOBO 0 ' Fish! Fish! | Salt Mackeral, large Smoked Blotten .............. EN Kippered Herring, tins ........ 25 Herring Roe, tins ............ 200 00 HO8, TINR o e by 2i¢ Dried Herring, dozen ......... 20¢ Imported Sardines ...... 10c to 2i¢ * Mustard Sardines ............16¢ Boneless Herring, doz. . ... Pure Food Store W. P. Pillans & (. T T T T T Yy oy v vy v v A Snap For Quick Sale, 80 Acres As fine land as there is in Florida, one and a half mile from station: 60 a‘res under good wire fence; 30 acres cultivated; 12 large bearing orange trees, 200 grapefruit trees, budded, 4 years old; 30 acres fine pine timber: 10 acres choice hammock land cov- ered with oak: 10 acres good muck land. The first man with $2,300 cash gets this bargain, another $2,000 to be paid in one, two and three years. Act quick as this wili not last. Call 01 write THE ALEX. HOLLY REALYY CO., Lakeland, Fla 0404040404060404040004000 AUTO TOPS AND TRIMMINGS TOPS RECOVERED WHITTENBURG & JONES, 1101 Florida Avenue Tampa, Florida | | $ i : e ),S. Stanton & Co. 3. | A Specialty WHOLESALE PRODUCE Memphis, Tenn. Oranges, Grapefruit, and Vegetables | about 1t!” HONTAG FIR WANE Story of Novel That Was Never Written, and Author’s Search for Character. By CLAUDINE SISSON. claimed: “By Gecrge, I'll do 1t!” “Beg pardon, sir” waiter.” “l sald | would do it” “Rut I won't, sir.” “l mean thut | am going to write a novel.” “Then I would, sir.” A good part of that night was de voted to settling on a name. Wilkie Collins wrote a “No Name." The ti- tle: “My Novel” also played out long ago. It was sure that Mr. Bell must bave a name for his novel, but when day- light came he had found nothing to suit. A man can crawl through a barbed wire fence if he takes his time and is good at dodging and twisting, but to find a name for a first novel is almost a hopeless undertaking. “Get the character, and the name will come,” decided Mr. Bell with great wisdom. He had a sister Elinore. She was young and frivolous, and not at all literary inclined, but for those very reasons she might suggest a ocorker of a character. She was appealed to, and after thinking her very hard est for three seconds she cried out: “Name it ‘What?” " . “Humph! What sort of a title is that?” “Get everybody to asking ‘What? and your novel 18 a go. Now for replied the your principal character. Name her ‘Which?* " “That's no nawme,” growled the brother. “Beet in the world. Get the pablic to asking Wkhich {s What and vice ver- sa, and you'll make a million dol- lars. Now run out and get me a two- pound box of chocalate: Mr. Bell bovan 1o realize how Ber- tha Clay and Oid Sleuth must have sat up nights with bags of ice at their feet, but he was not entirely dis- couraged. He would hunt for a living character, instead of taking an imag- inary one. The very next day saw him on the hunt. A novelist can get a character on every street corner, but not always gilt-edged, as Mr. Bell's must be, and there must be a romantic meeting to start with. He decided to try a parlor car on the | railroad. The coming novelist boarded a train and rode away for 40 miles. No romance! Mostly old women! Only one young lady, and she had tooth- ache and a rag around her jaw! He got off and started back to the city. Behold! Next to him in the chalr was “What”' “Which?" Yes, he knew her at a glance, and he heaved a sigh of relief that his great- est trouble was o'er. Handsome— aristocratic—charming, she seemed born for a herotne—for a “What?" “Which?" heroine, There are men that stare at wom- en in a way to arouse indignation. There are others that take further glances that are construed into com- pliments. He would not have per- turbed that young lady for another boiled lobster. Although Mr. Bell's glances were furtive, he must get to know his hero- ine. How else could he get to write of her many glorious attributes? The arrival in the city would furnish him opportunity and excuse. She was all alone and—" “Can | see you to the taxi, miss " “Thanks: | wish you would be so kind" When they had reached the door of the waiting vehicle she turned to oay: “l am ashamed to admit that | am a bit nervous.” “Stranger in the city ™ he queried. “Y-yes, almost.” “Apd you think the driver may be a wicked man?” “He looks it to me.” “I might accompany you.” “How dare I ask you?" “Oh, that's all right. Only too happy to be of service. Get right in. What shall I tell the man?" “He may drive to 2355 Amster dam avenue, to my sister's. If she had known of my coming ehe'd surely have been here to meet me.” “Well, you can eurprise her.” During the six-mile drive the young woman admitted that her name was Betsey Jones and Mr. Bell admitted he was planning a novel and proposed to make her the heroine. By the time they reached the address given they were quite well acquainted, and the novelist felt that he was in great luck. It was an empty house that stared them In the face. “Mercy on me!” gasped Miss Betsey. “Your sister must have moved ?” “She must, and she never wrote me “And where will you go now?’ “Why—why—" “I shall not leave you till you are safe with your friends,” was the deo laration. “But it is so far.” “Never mind the distance.” “Then it's over in Brooklyn—897 Greenwood avenue.” This was a ten-mile ride, but e THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA. FEB. 1, 1913, time passed pleasantly and surprise swaited them. Mr. ed while the girl ran up the rang the bell. “No such party lives here,” was the reply from the woman who came the door. “But—but—" “Nor ever did live here!” “Merey!” “Nor ever will!™ There seemed to be tears tn M Retsey’s eyes as she came dows steps and sald: % “My frfends are mot here. | must bave misunderstood the address.” “But bave you no other frisads asked Mr. Bell. “1 bave, but it's so far, and you are #0 weary, and—" “Nonsense! Where to now?™ “It's the first house on Clinker ave | nue, Staten Island.” “That's all right. [ am glad I hap- | pened to be on the train.” “What should I have done without | you?' When the ferry was reached the taxi | was taken aboard, and on reaching the : fsland 1t went wandering about and ' making inquiries for Clinker nvenus.' No one took these inquiries seriously until they had been riding for an hour and then met an old man. He took the matter under advertisement for a long five minutes and then replied: “Sir and Miss, Clinker avenue {s all | in your eye!” Back to New York to seek out a sec- ond-cousin, and it was near midnight when Mr. Bell rang the bell of a house to ask if Mr, Josh lived there. He was assisted down the steps by a kick, and returned to the taxi to find that he had been joshed some more. Miss Betsey had disappeared. 4 ] 151 L AR 2 “Thirty-four dollare!” sald the driver. “What for?” was the astonished re- ply. “For riding around with a girl!” “But—" “Thirty-four plunks or you go to a police station!" Mr. Bell had the cash and he paid. Then a fortnight passed and the doc- tor pronounced him out of danger and advised a walk in the sunshine. The collided with a voung lady. “You!" she exclaimed, ‘And you!” “l live only a block away—won't you call? she agked, Mr el ealled M was handed $24 “nd thin conversation began and basnt ended yet, that Sizter Elinore had planned it ali | novel tHer plan ecarried well for not |3 v line of the “What?" “Which?" has | cen written or ever will ba, (Copyright, 1418 by ihe piper Svndicate.) ;OF SUCH STUFF ARE DREAMS | Nothing Comes Into the Mind of the the sleeper’s conseiousness is an alle- gorical or symbolical expression of the ideas which belong to his thought world. Why should dreams take on an allegorical dress? Why are they not, as a rule, a literal transference of events and experiences from a wak- ing state to a sleeping state? The answer 18, because the normal waking eonsciousness which acts as a kind of check upon paintul or dis- agreeable thoughts and feelings, re- laxes its activities during sleep and al- lows these thoughts and feelings to pass into consclousness, only, how- ever, when their motives have been disguised under a hiden mass of symbolicm. If 1t were not so, if dreams literally roflected the conflicts and yearnings of the workaday world, they would set up such emotional ex- citement as would arouse the waking consciousness and s0 make an end of sleep. Hence the valuable reflection is forced upon us that dreams fulfil) the important function of preserving sleep. They are thus seen to bear vitally upon our heaith and happiness. Another Interesting question which modern investigation has deen able to answer is, out of what materials are dreams constructed? Nothing can come into our dreams that has not entered Into our past experiences. The thoughts of the mental state immediately preceding sleep are hard to recover afterward, but when they are recovered they are found to per. sist io our dreams. But we may go further than this. There 1s mothing incredible in the supposition that, written, as it were, with tnvisible ink on our nervous systems are characters inherited from our most distant an. cestors.—Rev. Samuel McComb, D. D, in the Century Magazine. How Names Arc Changed. There was & curious transformation of names among the refugees who flocked to England after the revoca. tion of the edict of Nantes. In order to shake off all associations with the country where they had been so badly treated, many of the Huguenots trans. lated their names into English, some- times with a elight alteration of the sense. Bolleau became Drinkwater: Delamere, Bythesea; Jolifemme, Prety. mas; Loiseau, Bird; Lefevre, Smith: Dubois, Wood. and Szuvage, Savage or Wild. Some names became 80 corrupted | as to be unrecognizable. Chapuis be. | came Shoppee; Beaufoy, Boffin, ang Conde, Cundy. Similar havoe, though on a less extensive scale, bas been | played with English names ta Fray, Mazarin's succeesor, Colbert, descer q. ed from an Englishman named Cuth. bert; and the real name of the famous | artist who decorated Versallles was ' not Le Brun, bat Brower.—London | Deily Chronicle ! L first corner the convalescent turned he ! ‘ And it developed i | to save the public from her brother's (a McClure News- | Sleeper That Is Not a Past ‘ Experience. The dream as it unrolls itself before O O | I | | | i | | | | | MR. R. E. LEf representing Strauss Brother, Merchant Tailors Will be at THE HUB (hrec days this week, commencing Wednesg,, A chance to get a perfect fit in Tailor Made Clothes. 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