Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 28, 1913, Page 2

THE EVENING TELEURAM, LAK ELAND, ‘.qumm CLEAN GOODS FRESH Anchovies, Glars . Imported Cherries, Glass Imported Crab Meat, Tin' Imported Clams Pine Apple Cheese Dried Herring, dozen Horse Radish, Glass Pure Food Store W. P. Pillans & G. PHONE 93 35¢ 35¢ COMPANY E H & E. 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS, Phone 8. Foot of Main Btrees 0. 1430N0 & INCHCYPRESS SHINGLES . §5.00 M “ 24D 5 INCH * ; LN ND. 1 STANDARD CYPRESS LATH 400N MRIFLG B:CEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 25.00 M We are handling the cut of a small mill, and can furnish you rough and dressed framing from 2x4 to 10x12 best heart if wanted, cut from round timber. We make doors and sash and can furnish any kind of mill work out of pine and cypress lumber. Re carry a first class line of points, varnishes and oll. Our lumber and mill business will be managed by Mr E. H. Hopkins, who is well known by the people of Lakeland as an nu-to-date lumber man Terms: StrictlyjCash on Delivery of Goods J.J. DAVIS & C0. Successors to D. Fulghom 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue Heavy and Fancy Groceries Hay, Grain, and Feeds a Specialty Phone 334 ¥ Here at this drug store. If the doctor says you need a certain®instrument or appliance come right to this store-¥ we have it. e e Red Cross Pharmacy. Phone 89 Quick Delivery i1 started on . rsn s 5 oL Ko How a Young College Student . Saved the Lives of 500 People. By MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD- RIDGE. A night of sweet sounds, the beau- titull villa of White Shadows a scene of moonlight joyousness. A fair girl with pride in her face, Lucia Page—a conscious young man, her accepted lovér, the center of an admiring throng —Harold Worthington, Beyond the group, Leslie Forbes, his sister Myrtle, and young Walter Dale —the brother a natural athlete in build, the sister a charming model of girlish loveliness, her would-be lover slightly reserved, but with a fine intel- lectual and humane face. “Well,” observed Leslie in his off- hand way, “there’s hero worship for you!” His companions did not venture any suggestions. Walter was watching Mpyrtle’s face with attention, He was a keen analyst. He loved Myrtle, and he was a loyal fricnd of her brother, Outside of being the best student in his class at colleze, however, he had never made much noise in the world, He knew that pretty Myrtle was something of a dreamer, He wondered i now if she was comparing him with the great, bluff Wo'*hington, who was recelving the adulation of the light minded group of loveliness about him as if he was some valiant warrior. “Big Injun hero, eh?" continued Les- lie, “Saved a drowning man up at the falls, didn't he? I heard that what he really did was to toss the struggling victim a plank. At all events, he didn't get wet. Come on, Walter. It's back to college for us to-morrow, you know.” But Walter had no thought of leav- ing his lady love. He noted her watch- ing the distant group, and he fancied he could read her thoughts, “I do with you could rouse up my brother to—" Myrtle paused. Walter was sure she meant to say “‘something like that” meaning the heroic deed of Worthington. I'ut she added: “to some real action.” “I think I know what yow mean, Myrtle,” said Walter in his usual di rect way. “You believe that Leslie is indolent. Yes, that is true, but a more whole-souled friend never lived FLA., MARCH 28, 1913, There was a blur, dizzying and nerve racking. ' How .he did it he could not later realize—but he gave his body a | swing and landed inside the mail car. | Only that he was hurled on a great heap of mail bags, he would have been killed. “The bridge around the curve—is down!” he just managed to gasp to the astounded mail men. Then he lost ! consciousness, to regain it with the train at a standstill, its crew grouped : ahead, where a great gap showed the ! vacant bridge chasm. Painfully he lifted himself from the car. A new sickening sensation overcame him. He crept to some bushes and sank into new unconsciousness, How he found his way back to the college he could only dimly remember, but some one was rousing him {n his bed, a fellow student. “Tried to get you up before,” he an- nounced. “Forbes has gone.” “Gone—where?” inquired Walter, vaguely. “Home—telegram. Mother dying, they say. On his way—look there!” It was a morning newspaper that the student held before the eyes of the bewildered Walter. In glaring headlines the story was told of the marvelous heroirm of “Leslie Forbes, a student of Hampton college.” The man who had saved five hundred lives had disappeared aficr his intrepid act of bravery, but the discovery of his coct had revealed his identity, Walter said nothing to anybody about the mistake. He was thinking anxiously of Myrtle in her great home trouble. Three days later a friend wrote him telling him of the death oi Mrs. Forbes, And, four days later, graduating amid rare scholastic honors, Walter received a letter bearing one word, a welcome, welling, wonderful word to his anxious soul: “Come.” And Myrtle had written it! Myrtle greeted him as he reached the Forbes home the next morning. He gazed sorrowfully at her deep mourning. She retained his hand as she looked into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. | It was a pathetic story that she told. The news of the saving of the train had reached her mother before she died. She saw her son the hero of a wonderful deed of bravery. She had died happy, Leslie by her side. A smile upon her face, she blessed him, ! and he—in that impressive moment { did not undeceive her, but promised to change his life—a vow he kept. The true story of the railroad incident he had gince made public. “I bade you come,” spoke Myrtle, “because I wished to thank you, to tell you how proud I am of you, be- cause, through you, my mother died happy and my brother is saved.” “It was a precious word you sent ‘| me,” responded Walter. “I am through Landed Inside the Mail Car. Believe me, 1 am doing all 1 can to urge lim to consider study more seri- lousy.” “I know you are,” sighed Myrtle, but gratefully, “Mother worries about | him continually. She hears a great deal about his reckloss ways. He does not scem to appreciate that her life hangs upon a very glender thread.” “Believe ma, Myrtle, I shall do all I can to direct him aright,” said Walter with deep feeling. The theme was a grave one with Walter. Wild, reckless Leslie Forbes had no better friend than this sterling young fellow student. But for him he would have been twice expelled from college. Many a night had Walter sat up assisting his cLam to prepare at the last hour for a critical examina- tion, g Walter gave his friend a great talk- ing to after arriving at the college. He worked double time posting him to ' keep up with his classes. seemed really on the mend. some graduates visited the town, there was a riotous time and some broken windows at the village tavern, ard Les- lie was in the black books of the pro- fessors again. One afternoon Walter started ocut for a walk. It was not until he had ended a good long sprint at a little railroad station that, placing his hand in a pocket, he discovered some sards that by mistake he had put on Les. lie’s coat. Walter sat down to rest on a bench. He heard the distant roar of a coming train just as the station agent came rushing wildly out of the depot. He was white as death, | “Wire from Hompton!” he gasped. "‘Brldge around the curve gone down | Semaphore won't work—must stop the limited!” The man ran down the track in the fdlrpc:inn of the semapliore three hun- dred yurds distant. He “stumbled, i and then sprang the oppreaching train was uim, it all in at one swift he tore off his coat. s the mail crane, came intw his A up“the steps, placed and on the &tended hdok, and , breathless, Leslie colve Then | with my college education, and am go- ing. back east. But, if you ever send me again, that one word, ‘Come,’ 1 will speed me on my way to you.” “My heart bids me speak a better word,” said Myrtle, shyly but ear nestly. “And that word is—?" ' “Stay.” (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. (,:ha.pmnn.) DOCTOR’S LIFE NOT ALL JOY Profession, if This Incident Is l Correctly Reported. This story is told by the wife of a physician living in a small town in central Kansas'to illustrate some of the drawbacks to the medical profes- sion: *“We were attending church, something rather unusual for us, to- gether with a visiting cousin and the ! baby, when a messenger from the tel- cphone office came in search of the doctor. The minister paused in his sermon until they were safely out of , the church. 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Then it occurred 'to the cousin that he had the key to s | the office and that the doctor could ' not get his surgical case, o he, also, :lort the church, requiring a third in- terruption in the mcrning worship. ! “When we reack d home the doetor | was swinging leisarely in the ham- . mock. *“‘Didn’t you have a hurry call to an 1u:cidmt case or something of that |sort?” demanded the unsophisticated cousin. “‘Oh, no,’ replied the medical man. ‘Just my old Swedish friend in New | Gottland phoned to inquire it he could | have a “leetle” sugar in his coffee.’” | —Kansas City Star. Iron in Plants. | Experiments are under way at the | agricultural bacteriological station in | Vienna to fincrease the quantity of | iron carried in certain plants, with a iview to the effect on the human system when those plants are used as food. Artificially prepared foods | containing iren do not always produce i the desired eflect, because the iron | is not comvletely assimilated. This ! difficulty, it is thoasht, may be 1 avoided by causing plants to take up an increased quantity of iron during their mnatural growth. Py adding hydrate of iron to the soil in which it was growing, the experimenters ave succeeded in producing spinach containing a percentage of iron geven times as great as that fournd in ordi- nary spinach. It is believed that the preeess will prove successful with other ferrugincus plants. ——————— Dispensarics and Playgrouncs, It more dispensaries were to give place to playgrounds, there might rot be needed so many dispensaries.—St Louis Times, ¥ | Mr. & Mrs. Young Couple:— Everybody can stand a little hoax on April Fool’s Day, i Lobody likes to be fooled the year around. Well, lots of peovie bave bought furniture from us every day In the year and on Apiil Fool's Day, too, but nobody has ever been fooled in our stre. W¢ give the good quality, the standard styles, the substantial makcs. and we charge only HONEST, RELIABLE PRICES. 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