Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 29, 1913, Page 4

" *AGE FOUR. the Eveiing Iclegram “ p—————————— e — fublished every afternoon from the K-autucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. "Eatered in the pustofiice at Lake- iand, Ficrida, as mail matter of the svcond class. g B Aot ll !" HETHERI l;’lO" ED)TQB " HENRY B\(X)\' llmnm SUHSC RIP'HGh RATEB. One year . ceye00086.00 Ry montm R T Three months ........... 186 Oelivered anywhere «ithin tbe limits of the City of Lakelaod for 16 cents & week. From the same office fs issued THE LAKELAND NEWS A woekly newepaper giving s re- sume of local matters, crop ecpdi tons, county afiairs, etc. Sent any- whare for $1.00 per year. ABOUT TIME TO GET BUSY ON THE JOB. . It 18 customary during every ses- sion of the Legislature for the press ¢> begin about this time to criticise #pd reproach the members for joaf- fog op their jobs, Legislation is not the kind of work to be turned out like factory goods, nor do legisla- tors work as at & mechanical task, It takes a certain ripening process t0 produca good laws, and a bill which Jooks all right one day may upon more mature Treflection and vlewed from a different angle pre- sent a different aspect the day after. Thero is no meed for it and it is ot good to make lawe in & hurry, and especially should they mot be made under the influence of emotion or prejudice or anything but calm, fispacsionate judgment; but that dceen't mean that the Legislature shouldn’t do Its work in the spirit of systematic industry and feel its gegponeibility for a full measure of conscicntious labor at the dally task of lawmaking. Some of the papers are complain- qng that with nearly half the ses- slon gone the legislators have litile to show for the time they have been fn Tallahassce, and really 1t looks that way. The actual output of I:we enacted is hardly worth mentioning and the few bills passed are, with ono exception, of minor importance. Rut we must recall that the big vital moasures, of which there are many, are being duly considered in com- aittee and it will probably take less. time to dispose of them on the tloorf o? the House and Senate tnah (h the | gommittee rooms, And thege same, “tommittes kobmé &rd doubtless, as they shouid be, veritable slaughter bousen Yor a large majority of the &1ils introduced and referred. But it is getting time that we hould hear from some of the big measures—that relating to the con- wvict lease system, for instance, apd' e the Legielature is as busy as it onght to be with the important work of the secsion the proceedings from now on will be more interesting to |ewspaper readers. ment bills and trivialities of that character may well' be dispensed with during the few weeks left to do real work in, —_— Colonel Wailes has played his lut eard and lost. By an overwhelmlnx majority the House yesterday re- Jected the bill granting him permis- slon to bring suit against the State €o recover the sum he claims, more than $100,000, for recovery for the State by him, of a large amount of Indlan war claims azainst the gove ernment. The colonel had previcus- 1y accepted the $25,000 al'owed him ty the Legislature years ago in fuil settlement of his claim, but hud been induced to believe that if the present Legislature would give him poermission to sue the State he could establish the juetice of his original contention and get judzment for the full amount of his claim. It is a sirange case, one in which men of gcod judzment reach diametrically o posite conclueicns from a not com- plicated et of facts. We had hoped that the old gentleman would be granted permiseion to establish his ¢'=im in court if he could, but what are we to say to a vote of 54 to 7 refusing him permission, thereby as- ecrting that an almost unanimous Houre, prosumabdly familiar with the gerits of the claim, denied that it had justice in it and that the claim- ant had been fully paid all that he was cntitled to? There is no doubt of the sincerity of Colcnel Wailes in bis contention; there is cqually no doubt of the sincerity of the Legis- Jature in its conclusions. But the cz2¢ee is off the docket now and will fcubtless never be revived again. —_—0 Arecadia’s postofiice primary, prob. ably the first one ever heid on eartd, Flagler monu-, 1 l This s the government's sightseeing train in the Canal Zone, passing through the Culebrs cut. The guld with wmegaphone is explaining things of interest to Vinceut Astor and his party. Mr. Astor hopes his yacht“:\u: GOVERNMENT SIGH'I'SE[ THE l-'\'l‘;\'l\l- G TRAIN e v be or.s of the first vessels to pass through the completed canal Ao primary will try it over again. The | postoflice primary takes away & big | slice of the congressman’s patron-. age, but it also saves him from mak- fng some very robust enemies. e e TALE OF A STAMP, I'm a stamp—a postage stamp— A two-cent'er! { make the lovernment A profit Ot $62,000,000 a year. Some velvet, eh! Con't want to brag, But I \vas never Licked, Except once; By a gentleman, too; io put me on an envelope— Perfumed, pink, square; I've been stuck on it. Ever since; He dropped us— Through a slot in a dark box; But we were rescued. A mail clegk hit me an awful Smash with a hammer; It left my. face black and blue; Then I went on & Ioul Journey. When we arrived— The pink envelope and l— Weo were presented To & perfect love Of a girl, Biy, she's a dream! Well, she mutilated The pink envelope and me . With a hair pin; Tken she read inside. 1 never saw a girl blush 8o beautifully! Say, she kissed me. (.‘h. vou little mdleu! ' Wo— The pink envelope and I— jAre now nestling snugly In her bosom; We can hear her heart throb; When it goes fastest She takes us out . And kisses me. ,Oh, say, This is great! [ l"vm-‘-% Ve | ~, R oV sl ¥ } I'm glad I'm a stamp— A two cent'er, E\ n if One-Cent Letter Postage Assoclation is after my scalp. He Was Literary, “Colonel Brown seems to be very literary,” remarked a visitor to the Brown houschold to the negro mald, glancing at a pile of magazines lying on the floor. “Yas, ma'am,” replied the ebony-faced girl, “yas, ma’am, he sholey am literary. He jes' nat'ally Uttahs things all wver dis year house.® ~Woman's }or *vanion. YOU WILL BE “ON TIME” if you go about it !n the right war to secure such a result. _IF YOU CARRY A WATCH PURCHASED HERE ] it will give you the reputation o: punctuality. Here you can &ind KINDS, GOOD WATCHES AT LOW DOWN PRICES. resulted in no cheice. There wera} four candidates for postmaster and @c majority for any onc. Another grimary will be held May 6 at which €he two candidates who received the Bighest aumber of votes in the first Every watch sold by us Is guaranteed . C. Stevens * | thought 1f I could get a doctor right (With apologies to Newtor Newkirk) HER MIDNIGHT APPEAL By C. N, JONAS Stanhope was startled from his sleep by a sharp, imperative rap on the door of his bedroom window. He sprang up, donned dressing-gown and slippers and hurried out at once with the door, the flickering glare quavered groteaquely acroas.a woman's tense, vallld features. | “Kathleen!* The name broke from | bim {nvolulitarily; !is tone was sharp ; almost to harshness. ¢ “Dick—Mr. Stachope—torgive my intrusion at such an hour, but telephone will not work, and l—l' afraid my husbund 13 dying. He has ] had three attacks with his heart be- i fore, but ncver go bad as this, [} {|away there might still be some hope.” Stanhope stceled himself as he looked at her and replied reassurs 1ngly: “I'll go for the doctor immediately. Don't worry so much. Perhaps things aren't as _bad as you fear.” “Thank' you, Dick” she breathed earnestly. Then s>d drew her hood close, and turning abruptly, disappeared into the darkness. Stanhope went back to his rodtM and exchanged his night clothes for a riding-suit as quickly as possibls. Then he went out to the stables and saddled his fastest horse. In less than five minttes he had covered over a mile of the six that must be traversed. Could it be possible that barely three years had elapsed since Claver ing had come and robbed him of everything that made existence wort! while? his love, his happiness—his all? And Kathleen? 8he had unhesitat- | ingly made her choice, and only God and Clavering and herselt could have told the rest. But romething in her hee. fa the very atmosphere of her tonight had stirred his blood strangely. A sudden wild thought flashed through Stanhope's mind. What it Clavering should dle! What it the girl he had worshipped with the one great passion of his life were to be free once more? All at once, he was conscious that his breath ceased; thw blood pounded and surged in his tem- ples; his heart leaped gulltily. What it—! But he dashed away the thought and dug his heels into the horse’s sides almost viclously. If anything happened, it must be by the will of God, and not through his volition. The ride was over at last. His horse was drenched and shaking as he dis- mounted and ran quickly up the steps to the front door to the big, dark- ened house where the great doctor lived. ] “You must come at once—yes, at, once,” he called excitedly through the speaking-tube. “This is no hysterical nonsense, but a case of life and death. Charles Clavering, at the Heights, you ; know. Has those attacks with his | heart. Man's dying, I'm afraid.” When he had elicited the doctor’s promise to follow immediately, went back to his horse and flung him- self wearily into the saddle, almost staggering under the whirl of 2mo- tions that hcld him in grip. He dared ! not think, fcr to think meant to hope, and hoping might mean almost any- thing. The return journcy was made me- chanically. To Stanhope’s dazed brain ft might have been six ®miles or it might have been sixty—or only cne. He rode through the darkness with bowcd head and deliberately vacant senscs. The draught upon his self- ol left him physically weak, so \hcn. by some inexplicable | e, he found himself in front ot crings’, he hal? reeled in his l | sfter all, it was only natural that | he should stop here to learn the re-! gult. Kathleen would expect it, slnca he it had been to whom she had -p- pealed! Scon the doctor came out and stood for a moment in the doorway talking to Mrs. Clavering. His face was grave er than its won't and he shock his head from time to time as he talked. Rtanhope could distinctly ges ml o lighted candle. As he threw opea || TEL r(.u\\t. 1.AK ELAND, I‘LA.. APR!L 29, 1913. ON ISTHHUS [ 100k on Kathleen'’s face as the bright light from the ball chandelier fell full across it, and it told him better than any words could have done what the outcome might be. In her eyes, there were alarm, terror—a cyrious shrink- ing. But the heartbrokeh look of pas- sionate grief—no! He backed cautlously into a shadow and waited till the doctor came out, entered his runabout and drove away. A minute later, Stanhope touched his horse and was gone, galloping on and on and on, terrified by the ter- rible passion that swept through him. When he had contrelled himself, he seversed his horse and settlad down to a steady, determined gait, In his eyes was a light that had never fllum- inated them before, Overhead, the sky with its prodigal eplendor, scemed flung full of gold by #21e glant hand. Below, the pale radiance covered everything like a ! soft, yellow cloud, An army of belated locums broke the sillness with their plaintive chorus, and in the distance, a dog's bark echoed stridently. But Stanhope was consclous of none of these things as he rode on through the tense solitude. (Copyright, by Dafly Btory Pub, Ce.) 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