Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 26, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAkE LAND, FLA.,, MAY 26, 1013. S P R R ) Young Fireman Charged With Cowardice Makes - Good When Test Came. The chief had sent for John Harri- gan. John knew why he was sum- moned. He left the fire station under the disapproving looks of his com- panions. was far harder than if they had reproached him. Reproaches are for- gotten, but they had given him the silence. The old chief turned round at his desk. “Sit down, Harrigan,” he said, glar- Ing at him under his busy eyebrows. There was a tense silence. Harrigan sat upon the edge of his chair, finger- ing his cap. “What's this I hear about your be- ing a coward, John?” asked the chief, yet so mildly that Harrigan took courage to glance up at him. Chief Bethany had the reputation of being a martinet. The least infringement of discipline meant one of those never forgotten talks. For any seri ous offense the penalty was dismissal. Bethany would have none but the best men under him. “They say,” saild Bethany mildly, “that at the fire in Winpole street last night you hung back instead of going up the ladder.” “Yes, sir,” sald John and began stammering out his excuses. It was [T ;; I i}* | iy Our bank is a NATIONAL B ANK, operating under a charter granted us by the UNITED ST ATES GOVERNMENT w0 do a bank- ing business. Under this charter our bank must couform to the National Banking laws which includes being examinea regularly by examiners representing the Treasury Department at Washington Besides this, upright, honor able and reliable men are behind our bank. Do YOUR banking with US. First National Bank OF LAKELAND | ‘fl r I e} Long Lifeof Linen along with good laundry werk is what you are lvoking for amd that is just what we ars giviar . Try ws. Lakeland 3;;71 Laundry Phone 139, West Main 3t “What's This | Hear About You Being a Coward?” [MANY HAVE SEEN The Accumulation of a Life Time SWEPT AWAY In One Short Hour FIRE A Fire Insu- rance Policy a Beneficent Restorer! HAVE YOU ONE? his first big fire, and the sight ot that flaming hell had paralyzed his limbs, although his heart was brave enough. He had only wanted some- one to lead him, some’word of en- couragement to do heroic deeds. But alone, he could not take the initiative. “John Harrigan,” said Bethany, “I've been on the force for seven and thirty years. When I was a young: ster I was a coward. At my first fire I hung back. Because of that a wom- an died. I've never told anyone but you, Harrigan, because I've never met another coward but you. John,” he continued, “go back to your company and act like a man.” Harrigan found the tears running down his cheeks when he got outside. Chief Bethany a coward? Why, everyone knew that he was the brav- est fireman in the country. Well, if he had done that and yet redeemed himself, Harrigan could. The fire men received the news of his reinstatement badly. Some voted for hazing him, others for blackjack- ing, but finally they agreed to give him rope. “He'll do worse for him- self than that,” was the general ver dict. Harrigan could endure their silence. | is a Ruthless Destroyer! Raymondo Bldg. Y Z M A N He knew that, if only his chance 3 . [] Room 7, Phone 80 came, he could redeem himself. But m Mary Connor, his Sweetheart, was told of the affair by a rival. She wrote him a curt little note of dis- missal. “I don't want to marry a coward,” she said. When he met her on the street she cut him dead. Soon he heard that she was engaged to another. And his chance never came. That was the crown of his tragedy. He was put on detail work, set to copy- & WHENWE FURNISH YOU @& STATIONERY THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD-~ Ing documents in the sub-chief’s office. IF EN~ “i1ms He was never allowed out again. (] GRAVED BY , CORRECT There was the Fourth avenue fire, when three men were killed by a fall- MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS LOUSYVILAR, KXY, US.A. WEB ARE, THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR REXXLUSIVE LD Full line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Bagraved Specialties, Holiday and: Faney Goods, 1eys, Ete. LAKELAND BOOK STORE, ing beam. If he had had the chance —but it never came. For a whole year he did not don fireman's clothes. One day he walked into Bethany's office. “Chiet,” he said, “I haven't had my chance. I have been doing a clerk’s job. Give me my chance to show that I'm a man.” Bethany looked at him, looked un- der his beetling eyebrows clear into bis heart. “I thought you'd resign, Harrigan,” he sald. “We don’t like cowards on the force, but we hate more to put a man off for cowardice. You'll have your chance now. Report back for duty.” For a whole year he had seen noth- | ing of Mary. Somebody told him | that she was married. He knew that !her family had moved away. He ! never expected to see her again. He |tonged now for his chance, not that lh@ might regain the esteem and !Mrndshlp of his comrades, but so that he could die worthily His chance did come, about three R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BU:!.DJER WAl furnish plans and sposifieations or will follew - sinms and specifontions furnished SUNG.LLOWS A SPECIALTY 122 me shew you dome Lakeload homes | have waily TLORDDA LATXELAND, Phone 267-Green Nobody spoke to him; that | months after his talk with Bpthnnyf. It was a little fire at first, but it gpread swiftly, and by the time that | -i Ithe call came to his company, from the other end of the town, a whole | block of tenement buildings was ' ablaze. And, mounted on the fire truck, he felt the whizzing air sweep i by, he saw the horses plunge madly in answer to the deafening bell, and his heart leaped up in his breast. He {was a man! He would show them that he was a man. The hose was piaying upon the fire; it might as well have been a child's squirtgun for all the effect it had. Above him—far above—he saw white faces of women at the windows. He heard their cries faintly in his ears. He was working upon the hose, and other men, more trustworthy than he, were climbing up the long ladders to bring the women down to safety. Suddenly he saw a burst of fire that leaped out from a window and en- gulfed the ladder nearest him. It ate through the side bars as though they were match sticks. Crash! Two men fell from a hideous height and struck the street close by. He did not look at them. He did not look for he had other work in hand. Already another lad- der was being raised. Harrigan sprang forward and began to ascend. He heard shouts beneath him. Thé was not for him; he was a coward and this was no coward’s work. He climbed steadily, though the frail lad- der trembled and shook beneath his weight. Now he had reached that aw- ful gulf of fire. He felt it scorch his skin; he heard his hair crackle as it singed. He swung from the ladder to the narrow coping, just out of the reach of the flames. He did not dare look down. Above him—only one story above, he saw those women’s faces. Even as he looked two disappeared. They had run back into the room, seeking madly for an outlet. One, im- mediately above, looked down. He choked. It was Mary. Now he had no more fear. He, braced himself backward, standing upon the narrow ledge, half an inch from eternity. He bent his knees and | leaped, stretching wildly upward. One | hand found the window sill above and ‘i clung to it; the other hand groped and | found it; now he was drawing himself | up by an effort superhuman. In an- | Mary’s side. He clasped her in hls; arms. | awed faces. No men had ever done | such a deed before. And he had gone | to his death, for there seemed no | chance of reaching him. They clung | together on the ledge, fire over and under them. One minute of life re- mained. “Mary—my love!” he whispered, pressing his lips to her cold cheek. She opened her eyes. ‘“John!” she answered, smiling. “You are married, dear?” “No, John. I was—waiting,” answered. “For me?” he cried. “To show that you were a man, John. And you have shown me.” Shouts came to him. The men were bracing ladders. An elongated snake of wood crawl up the side of the wall, The fiery tongues beneath were quenched. John felt for the ladder top with his feet and found it. He placed his feet upon the topmost rung, supporting Mary in his arms, and fainted in the arms of the man who had climbed to save him. “Well done, John Harrigan,” a volce was murmuring far away. He listened in amusement. What was the voice saying—‘“Bravest man. on the fire force?” He opened his eyes. He looked into the keen blue eyes beneath the thick eyebrows of Fire Chief Bethany. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) she Child’s Smile. | In a house on my square there lives | captain was ordering him down. This | (7R 7. 7. WILSOW, IE———— he Protessions- DR. SANMUEL F. SMITEL BPECIALISP. i United Brotherhood of Carpentyg PHYMICIAN AND BURGEON and Joiners of America, Losal 177¢ Phones—Ofes, 170; residenss ——— 297-3 Rings. Mests every Tuesday aight o wunp BuiMiag, Lakeland Fortds |o'slock, at McDonald's hall, - R. L. MARSHALL, Presiden:, ¥ W. R GROOVER, J. W.LAYTON, Vice Pres PHYEICIAN AND SURGEOM, J. W. LOGAN, Treasurer fooms § s3d 4 Kentuexy Blidg I. B. FELDS, Fia. Secy, Lakeland, Florida. K. ¥. DIETK.CH, Rec. 8oo; H. L. COX, Cenducter SAMUEL BOYER, W. B. MOON, M. D, J. W. SCARR, v C. L. WILLOUGHBY PHYSBICIAN AND SURGEON. . Beard of Trustess Offce in new Skipper bullding OV®) |~~~ fice and resi postoffice. Telephone, office and sad Ledgs W5, 3%, » & dence on same iine 350. M. Regular communieations held second and 4tk Mondays at 7:3¢ other moment he was on the ledge by | #vwes [dens in He looked down into the cluster of — a little girl three years old who, every morning at about eight o'clock, when ! the front doors on the square open§ and workers come hurrying down | their steps, appears at her nursery | weather. *Good-by!” she calls to! each one, smiling, and waving her: small hand, “good-by!” | “Good-by!” we all call back, “good- by!”" We smile too and wave a hand | to the little girl. Then almost invari- ably we glance at each other and smile again together. Thus our day begins. Her little smile seems to brighten my class-room, no matter how cloudy the day. It is no new thing to hear that we | do too much for our children, but we are coming to see that the converse is equally true; that the children do much for us, and help us, whether our tasks be great or small, to “go to our labor smiling.” Was Ready for Any Language. Caleb Cushing, one of the American counsel at Geneva when the Alabama claims were arbitrated, was, accord- ing to a recent magazine article, a re- markable linguist. He made his ar gument before the tribunal in fluent French; he replied in Italian to a ques- tion asked in that language, and when Lord Cockburn objected to this, Cush- ing replied that while French was the official language of the tribunal, he m. Visitiag brethrea cerdnlly | vited. 3. C. OWEBNS, W. i J. P WILBON, Gecy KELAEY BLANTON LAWYRR * ¢ Nlig. Phone 819, Lakeland, I 52 GARAN 3 WERELER COYBOPAYE PEYSICIAN acems §, ¢ and 7, Bryant Buliding Labsland, M e Phong 370 Blws douse Fheng 116 Blash Labsiaad Chapter, R. A. M. $0 meoets the first Thursday night onch moath in Masenle Hall v tng eompanions weleomed A, Lessard, K. P.; J. F. Wilsea, Sosr. Polm Caapter, U B. 8 moos ssoond and fourth Thursday of each month at 7:30 . m. i, 6. L & 5D MENDENHALL |WViers Keen, W. M.; J. F. Wi Civil Eagineers. . Reems 313-315 Drane Bidg LAKELAND, FLA. LaRoland camp Me. 13, W. o, | Pnosphate land examination. Sus | meets every second and £~arth Thu veys, examination, reports, day aight. Blueprinting. Woedmen Oirele i trivd Thursuays. W. J. Estrid Ceunetl Commander, Mre. Sallle 8df Al IAMIWII, vo of Clrela ¥oois § Deen & Bryant Bidg - Architest. LoD Regular meeting every iu at 7:30 ot Odd Fellows Hall, V ing members alwayy welcome. . D. BRYAN. Chancelier Commasn X .AUKSON, Secretary Lakeland, Forida. BONFOEY, ELLIOTT & MENDENHALL Associated Architects, Room 313 Drane Building. 2 Lakeland, Fla. - ul R eV ' 0. ROGERS, month at 10 a. m. at tae howe Lawye, J. M. Bparling on Keatucky aven oo "’“.‘“"‘“‘" A. C. SHAFFEN, Comusander La "' 4. R. TALLENY, Adjwtant e Blaora Rebekah Ledge No L . NUFTAKRR, mosts every second and fourth M —Atternsy-at-Law— day aights at L O. 0. P. hall. Vi ‘eer 1 Btuart Bidg Bartew, P |ing brothers and slsters cordialiy - et R V.0 BV MRS. F. C. LONGMAN, N @ DENTIS® MRS ILA SELLERS, See wme 14 and 13 Kentucky Dalléin Lake N 1L 0o Faones: Ofice 180; Resilonee M | goeee ml:y.-m: a:' 1:80, 0. 0. P. hall. Visl Poeibers TOOXER & TUOXMR ok W —lawyr— J. L. REYNOLDS, Sec. Raymeads Kidg. H. B, ZIMMERMAN, N. ratamd [V - Wi 0lAtddls we Orenge Blomsem Div. N v, ] “ol-u“u . @1 A t0B of L B meets ¢ AKELAND. T M | soeend and fourth Wednesiert . » FLORERA. ek moath ot 3:80 p m. . WY MRS J. C. BROWN 8o t38es Upmatrs Bam of Gvart Houn: : BARTOW, FLORIDA e N ORDER OF EAGLES Feate Lov o tpeaniy. The Prateraal Order of B window, open except in very stormy | — | Loans, Investments in Real Betate Have }md suburban property, farms, om !lhmr 800 mo at once. Will trag sell for cash or on sy termas. was willing that the argument should be continued in any language that Stranger in Town. | | “Can you tell me where I can find a ! policeman?” inquired the lady. | | “Want somebody arrested?” re- | rag | | sponded the male officer addressed. | | “No; U want to borrow a powder SPecialized g | Swias meets every Wednesday aight 1:80, at Od¢ Fellows’ hall. J. H. WILLIAMS, B M. SMAILS Sesvetan JEREMIAR 3. OMITR NOTARY PUBLIC, some interesting snaps in el PLASTERERS' INTERNATIONA BRICKLAYERS, MASONS AND Room 14 Puteh & Geatry Dugg, | L ION: LOCAL NO. 12 OF FLOY Lakelaad, Ma. Meets each Thursday n!sh Morgau & Groover ha%l, Bates’ Dry Goods Store. VI8 b 3 ad had & paremtad rothers welcome. six-foot-t R e v oo | POLK ENCAMPMENT ¥0. 3, 10§ Polk Encampment No. 3, [ § F., meets the first and third days. Visiting Patriarchs weld H T }Eh i ‘I& z F F. A. McDONALD, Ser! . B. ZIMMERMAN, Chief Patriareh § ¥ H i ilbe BPOE e Lakeland Lodge No. 1291, Bet lent and Protective Order of meets every Thursday night I* rooms over postoffice. Visiting b ren cordially welcomed. J GEORGE MOORE, E 4 Wedern Otethos for CN Valuable 8tamp Calleotion. . Traveling for an English ™ v stamp coll \ Wakes ready-made clothing. ln.u:,?::‘ byhg: ™8 | mer recently secured ©rd tome time ® sale I8 | §135,000 worth of “foreign’” ! G "¢ 880 f a collection of o Harbin 2 : (= rtamps for ahout $46.684 e ""' i 201d to vhit e, And Whe| jep 0| dif And ell, t Sow heo e A foo 't b But al fhe Q intq Jernooy b ti the a Mrs. | 000, At the, pous e hostes el Aftern Qeen o Thu tlock t fe an af irs. (. ies of ¢ thurch . A 4 and who ¢ ita dim kd duri 6 to b iag roon V.c i Xrs, B e W, Dr. A at 3 o i progra n - wi blonal "on, il Quiz Miss g, M Hies. N A R