Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 28, 1913, Page 6

A THE NVENING TEBLEURAM, Lak FLAND, FLA, APRIL 3%, 1913, T —————————e——— | g— [JEALOUSY DEFINED Right or Wrong, Fact Existed That Stephen Knight Was Jealous of Wife. BY JOHN PHILIP ORTH. - “Jealousy is an emotion.” “Jealousy is incipient lunacy.” “Jealousy arises from & state of morbidness.” “Jealousy is an aid prepared by pature (o help & man make an ass of himselt.” BULK DRIED APPLES 10c. 1b. Pure Food Store W.P,Pillans & Co. PHONE 93 There are the answers of four phil osophers. Whether any one of them was right, the fact existed that Ste phen Knight was jealous of his young wife. He was so jealous that it was patent to all, and it was bound to make a heap of trouble in time. His jealousy began with the engagement. There had been two or three rivals in the fleld, and instead of taking that as & compliment to his promised wife, and instead of walking arouad with a victorious and complacent look ot his face, the young man found it a cause for anxiety and jealousy. man Bad called on that dste sad' ssked ber if she had seen saything e eaa o which had sscaped trom. [N DEFAULT OF BRIDE “On May 14th,” ran the record, “you dressed and went out and were gone very nearly an hour. You have' sever yet explained to me what you went out for. Are you ready to do 80 sow?” She was ready emough, but she dido’t explain. She had ordered meat trom the butcher; a head of cabbage from the grocer; a spool of black thread from a notion store, and a pair of shoestrings from a shoe store. The husband went on until he had read 27 different charges, and then he glared at her for a long minute, and put the fatal book away and resumed his mewspaper. His wife badn't re plied to ome single charge. There was o dispute—no quarreling. He had shown up her deceit and duplic- Ity, and her silence proved her guilt. Just what to do the husband didn't know. He must think it over. He was doing that the mext day at his place of business when an anonymous note was placed in his hands that read: “Your wife fs at the Three-Mile Road House with 8 man!” Stephen Knight did not faint away. The knot hadn't been tled yet When | ;o 4iq not curse and tear his hair. It was the opinion of & large number | o g pot totter to the door like an of people that Stephen. Knight was 8105 yap He liad been looking for fool. Perhaps he realized in his Tucid ! moments that he was, but he couldn’t help it. There is neither fun nor | glory in being jealous nor & fool. Miss | Byrn Burt, his fiancee, had reasons to know that he was jealous. When he forbade her ever to bow to one of his' unsuccessful rivals she had living| proofs that he was either jealous or on his way to an insane asylum. | Her father, who may have had an at- tack in his younger days, and felt competent to give advice, opposed the | marriage. Her mother predicted, and her friends came to her with: “Why, Stephen Is insanely jealous of you, and you'll have to come back home in three months!” “Oh, no, I shan't,” was the confident reply. “But you don't know what s ter ror a jealous husband is.” “It'll be fun to cure him.” “But a jealous husband always| !leads to divorce. They say there is no cure for it. In the papers the other day was a case of a divorced man who shot his wife dead for mar- rying again. He was still jealous of her. Byrn, you are running a terrible risk!” “Oh, 1 can't see it that way. After| I bave cured Steplien he will be one of the nicest husbands in the land. and we shall be & very happy couple.” Stephen's best man at the wedding was deaf and dumb. The bride groom wasn't running any unneces- sary risks.” The minister Intended' to kiss the bride, but after a glance at Stephen he changed his mind. There was hand-shaking, but Ste- phen watched that no one squeezed too hard. On the bridal tour no one was per- mitted to assist the bride up or down steps or across the street, In London, when the guide at the Tower smiled at her, he came very near getting his head punched. On the voyage home the captain of the ship offered his arm for & promenade, and was asked whether it was his business to run the ship or get up flirtations with married women. The bride came home smiling and laughing. Her parents had rooms pre- pared for her, and her father had se- lected the lawyer to act in the case, but there was no case forthcoming. “Stephen is silly, of course,” she re- plied to all, “but when I have had time to cure his malady you will see a diffcrent man.” The Knights went to housekeeping' in a cottage. It was five blocks from a car line. Stephen had the doorbell removed. He hired the cook, and she was to have an extra dollar a week for making certain reports. The wife saw much and understood much, but no . explanations were asked for. She| didn't intimate that she had the least | idea her husband was jealous. There were days when he came home at un- | expected hours, and by the back door. There were times when he took his wife to the theater and insisted on going home after the first act because the man on the left picked up her fan or handkerchief. BuildersLumber & Supply COMPANY B E &E 0. GARLAND, nmmoli Phone 8. Foot of Main Btreet N0.1 4 AND § INCH CYPRESS SHINGLES " 24 D6 INCH * . 400N N0. 1 STANDARD CYPAESS LATH 400 M MR FLG & GEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 26.00 M We are handling the cut of & 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 kiad of mill work out of pine and cypress lumber. Re carry & firrt class line of polnts, varnishes and oil. Our lumber and mill business will be managed by Mr E. H, liopkins, who is well known by the people of Lakeland as an nu-to-date lumber man. Terms: Strictly Cash on Delivery of Goods J. J. DAVIS & CO. Syccessors to D. Fulghum 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue Heavy and Fancy Groceries Hay, Grain, and Feeds a Specialty Phone 33¢ M Prompt Delivery In six months’ time none of her friends dared to comse near. In that period of time Stephen ' {| Knight had made a fool of himself about seven hundred times, and then he brought about a grand coup. were sitting alone together one eve-' ning, and all had been very pleasant, | when he teok a memorandum book | from his pocket and consulted it and began: ‘ “On April 7, three days after we. moved ia here, a man called and you | talked with him for eight minutes by Don’t deny it!™ She didn’t. A man called and asked 1t any flower or garden seeds would be wanted. | “Qn the 15th of that month you pu on your things and went out and were gone forty minutes by the clock, when 1 came home you said nothing to me abdout it. Don't deny it!™ i She didn’t. On the date mentioned . she bhad gone te the grocery after! | soap and to a dry goods store after dish-towels. “On the 4th of May a man to me unknown, but who likely thought I might be watching him, called at the home and passed a word or two with you, and then hurried away. He looked around him in a furtive way as he went. You made no mention of the affair to me when | eame home. i Do mot you claim that you did!" ‘ The young wile made o claim. A Where Can You Get Them? Here at this drug store. 3If the doctor says ou need a certain'instrument or appliance come right tothis store—we have it. cmemmatesm e —— Red Cross Pharmacy Phone 89 % Quick Delivery this for months, and had planned his course. He simply slipped a revolver into his pocket and walked out to the curb and told' &' chauffeur where he wanted to go. He didn't even add that lie was in a devil of a hurry, nor Inquire about the coroner and an un- dertaker, though he knew that both would be needed. He would shoot both parties dead! Assembled at the Three-Mile Road House were forty persons that had driven out ahead of him. The list in- cluded his wife's grandfather, grand- mother, two unclés, two aunts, four cousins, a brother, a sister, the min- {ster that had married her and Ste- phen, and the unsuccessful suitors for her hand. The others had been her girl friends. They were sitting and waiting. Stephen bounded into the room with pistol in hand. Al looked at himh, but no one spoke for a long minute. Then the minister rose up and said: “My friends, we are gathered here on this solemn occasion to listen to the charges preferred against his wife by Stephen Knight. I will read them to you.” And the good man, with all due em- phasis and solemnity, read the first five charges., As each one was finished there were loud sighs and murmured “‘Oh, mys!” from the audience, and the guilty wife sat with her handker- chief to her eyes. The sixth charge was not read. Stephen Knight was no bonehead. He saw the situation and did the right thing. “Friends,” he sald, “I've been all kinds of a fool, and the biggest kind of a chump. Here's where I get off. It's never again for Stephen. Byrn, it you are not utterly disgusted with me, come and kiss the biggest fdiot at large in America.” And ft is said that even the min. ister joined in singing that good old song: “For he's a jolly good fellow.” (Copyright, 173, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) MONEY A NATION'S SYMBOL National Character Shown by the Workmanship and Texturs of Banknotes. The form taken by money in each country is a curiously accurate indica. tion of the character and tastes of the inhabitits thereof, writes James Da- vanport Whelpley, discussing “The Trade of France.” The stately Eng- lish banknote of splendid workman- ship and uncompromising severity; thel German note with its runde proportions and florid style of finish; the American certificate of the most convenient size, perfect workmanship, erispness of de- sign, and with the glint of the metal it stands for; the slovenly Italian paper money, dirty, carefnlly cut, and to be carefully inspected before it is accept- ed as genuine; and then the beads and shells of the savage. There is no betier illustration of this reflective character than the money of | France. Carefully adjusted in size to fit the wallet carried by every careful | Frenchman—and all Frenchmen are ! careful of money—fine of texture, ar tistic in design and light and delicate in coloring, it possesses a fineness be- | side which the money of ether nations | looks cold and brutal. In the same| way the French show fineness and subtlety in their manner of living, ’ their loves and hates, their crimes, their pelftics, their fighting and even | in their trade amd manufacturing, They bave no real competitors in this It it could de said that the money also revealed the strength as well as | the delicacy of the Damascus biade, and this were true, all would be well | with the nation which holds the ceater | of the map of Europe. But here the vimile ends for the temper is good and the edge is §en, in intermational affairs it fails ke the coavincing blow.—Century ine. | GO PIPOSOPCIOIDIOIOHOPOFOIOFTIOIO 1 POPH TP FOTEO1 4OPEOITOPIOIS - PUS TSP UPTUP FUSTUSIUSTUSY Her Dear Thoughts, Captain Turner of the Mauretania ' told in the smoking room of his ship an Easter story. *“1 once overheard a bride and bride- groom talking,” he began. “The bride groom said, tenderly: “‘A penny for your thoughts, my dear’ g “‘A penny? she replied, indignantly. *‘Well, they'll cost you just $200. Iwas thinking of the Easter gown I'm goiag 0 erder the miaute we strike Paria’'® I ~ 4 8y NELLIE CRAVEY GILMORK; I i 4 iif fully twenty-two, young Stamford did not look a day over aine teen in. his light flannels as he ran 23 &z i’ ; i | 4 e a slip of 'l: across the back of which was-scraw in & basty hand: “Dear Dick: 1| "ised to-bla, am, unfortunately, too ill to leave my room. Can you not, just as well, communicate witk me through €har| ™, ley? Young Stamford was in a-quandary. Decidedly nothing could be done with- out the co-operation of Miss Ether edge in person, and time was fiying. “Tell Mr. Charley to come dowm: im- mediately,” he said. When Charley Etheredze appeared in response to this summons he found Stamford pacing restlessly: up and down the long hallway. _ “The fact of the matter is, Ethier edge,” he began at once, “my uncle is dying. He has always had his heart set on D—— on my marriage with your sister. For some unex- plained and inexplicable reason, be chooses to fancy at this late day that one of us will draw back from our engagement because of the delay. The bulk of his property, as you have heard, has becn willed to me on'the specified condition of our marriags.” He paused and drew from his pocket the small, unmistakable yellow en- velope. “And now, the worst of it s, he pursued anxiously, “he has bus & few hours to live, and sends this tele- gram at the eleventh hour: ‘If you are not married before the breath leaves my body—at my very bedside ~—will shall ‘be changed.” Etheredge pondered a second and looked up with a daring Inspiration in his eyes. “I have it,” he cried. “Sup- pose I—what it I might rig out in some of my sisters toggery and go on with you?” “Capital!” exclaimed Stamford, “Get ready as soon as you can; we'vd precious little time to squander.” Inside 15 minutes Etheredge was §E % ] £ sz 8 “How ‘did you - guess? [ thoy 1 was sure—" ghi “That that flimsy disgulse of youn was perfect? Never, with me. p, cause 1 love you, meither. wis, nop By sides,” he.-went on, “I happeucd ; know that old Dick was hundreds of miles away. when that telcirap came.” “But Charley, that marriage was a)) & sham; the proper parties are to by married in two weeks. It—our—cag. Bot really count, you know.” It did, however, for a fortnight later there was a double weddig at! 8t. Paul's, (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co) Dog's Elaborate Funeral. One of 'the most elaborate funcraly ever held .at.the celebrated | cemetery at Molesworth. Hunts, | land, has just taken place. T: | was, inclosed in a coffin of regu type, with handles attached, and v !mnyed from London: in a nito car. The “deceased” was a foy ton rier, and the interment was witno.: ¢ 'by four persons, including t owner of the dog. A .wre N on the grave bore the in:c . “To my darling little Punci; ‘ron: Uiy {loving mistress. Requiescat ta puce” | i i Determined to Be In Stv's, “rigged out” in one of his sister's| A custumer in a butcucr: shop smartest gowns, with a great loose|stood gazing at somo small alliitre coat to hide his figure. The daintiest| in an aquarium. Having turucd the of French togues surmounted his.eurl | matter over in his mind, the ¢ d ing, blonde hair. approached the butcher and exclain Together they entered a coupe n‘j"l suppose & body might as wuil b drove rapidly away. , dead as out of style. Gimme a coujle Five minutes brought them to the of pounds of alligator.” Grand Central depot, and just in: time e —— to purchase tickets and board the east bound train, Aceounting foo- Mis trsomnla, A drizzling rain had set in by the} qyg port S:ott-"m'fl:.mo tils of 8 time they reached Springfield, and the | prmer who was avictim of 1o .1a night was pitchy. They were metand ' gna went to a.doctor in hope of ot ushered immediately into the llek1 ting reliet. “In tiwe first plice” <.\ mans’ chamber, where: a Strange the doctor, “have you asy th( priest, lawyer, and one or-two SerW: ¢y what it is that keeps you « -nubl.:. witnesses were already. &8 «yyel)? gnid the farmer, “I think 1 e snore 80 loud that I wake myscif up” Half an hour passecd, and. tite dark - ._.....____u_‘_f ened sick room became the chamber ? Strange. ot death, The newly wedded coupld y 0 ! It s strznge tiu~t 0 many men lingered for a solemn moment, then make fools of themsctyes whea those Alleatly latt the. room 0. prsaare. B8 are 80 many:others wio d:siie o 0. 'the job for.tiwm POPPOPIUPEOEE OO HITE0E HPOPECICOIIPIOVHO 1+ CTr F. N0 g DSOS SISO S OIS S064 SOPTEOCOSVSTSI U 1 SHEHENHe . : SHSRVIVP P FOPOSO OSSO SOeOHEOE e ~ L Ar. and Mrs. Home-owner:— Why do we love the forests and fSelds? Because Mother Natur: makes them beautiful with Scwers and streams and grass. 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