Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 10, 1913, Page 7

THE EVENING {ELEGRAN, LARE LAND, FLA., JULY 10, 1913, s 1 PAGE SEVEN .. pne 233 Phone 233 RDWELL & FTIGLEY . ELECTRICAL and SHEET METAL WORKERS fe will wire your house or do any prk intheelectrical line you mayhave ELECTRIC SIGNS Ve will make you a new ice box, tank * anything in the sheet metal line repairing solicited. Ask our tisfied customers. RDWELL & FEIGLEY hone 233 Phone 233 . Rear Central Pharmacy on E. Rose St. THEIR GOSTLY MEAL:. | What Happened to Two Tramps Who Ate Exhibits for County Fair. | | i By GEORGE ADE. “Gondola” Wilson was not a tramp, | because he knew a trade and had been known to work. He was a tramp in this, however, that he consistently re- fused to pay railroad fares. Hence his name. “Gondola” is submergea tenth for a flat car. He was a journeyman of the rest less kind. When he had been three weeks in Milwaukee, then St. Paul seemed a more desirable place of res- idence. When in St. Paui, he had tired hankering to see the Narcissus lodging house in Chicago. After he had arrived at the Narcissus, he began to watch the trains starting for Cin- cinnati and longed to curl himself on a truck and jolt away to where the muddy stream fronts the sloping ware. houses. Once he was away from the Nar- cissus for a whole year. On the day of his return to the Narcissus (the prison pallor on his face and his head cropped to show white scars) six in- mates were sitting near the windows reading & morning newspaper. They had torn the paper into sheets and divided it. The man who had drawn the small “ads” was discontented. He could find nothing on his sheet except “Help Wanted.” He lowered his paper and before him sat “Gon- dola” Wilson, seemingly yellow in the filtered light. “Where's the committee?” AvAl3N L3I3HS FREEDOM asked “Gondola.” “Where's the trinmphal j crowd of guys around there” sug- arch, ‘Welcome Home? " lgt‘sted the lodger “You're alive, then?” “Honest, it's a wonder they didn't “Alive and kicking.” kill me. We come mighty near bustin’ “If you're alive, it follows that|up the whole show v eatin’ them ex- ! you're kicking. How long has it been?" hibitions. When 1.0y led us out of | “A year, ncxt month.” | the grounds an’ tool us in town to the | “You had to go crooked at last, did | jail there was a big « rowd followed us you?" an' hollered ‘lLyn'’ ‘em, ‘String ‘em “Well, that's what they ealled it lup, an' a few more pleasant remarks I'm lucky they didu't hang me. Some like that. That was one time I was of 'em wunted to.” in a hurry to be put in jail. Do you “Tell me what you done. 1 ain't the know what they made it when it come court.” to trial? Burglury! An' do you know 1 TRl | , an’ sce if you ¢ what Jeft done? gets up an'| heord the 1% yofore, It was Ge- I gwenrs that I'd hynotized him. He | tober, a y« go last Oct I'd testified that b in't want 0 go walked from Loueyville te Terry Hut into this t 1’ a1, but 1 made | with a ni r that played the mouth him by thre n' to cast a spell over | harp. We hid in the vards at Terry him You never heard such lyin' in Hut an' got into an empty stoek car your life. 'They sent him back to jail | that we thot we thought was bound for three months an' put me over the | [ for Dunville. Somie iime in the nizht poad for a year. They've bleached a brakeman seen i’ fired us out me just about white, ain’t they? That's I'd been asloop an' the first thing | re- all vight, though. Look here.” 1 member was fallin® out o' the car an He put his hand into a raveled side B Ring off extravagence; ring in economy, |lishtin' hard with the coon comin'| pocket and brought out & copy of Hen | ; after me. We didp’'t know where we ry George's “Progress and Poverty.” nv 1 i ‘RI-< was, but we corld make out a side He made a decper reach and found a | 3 en )Ou W I” hnd Pl{LEDOMv The | track and a chue for loadin® hogs. | brass knuckleduster with a blunt head | i s : . . | About a mile off we could see some and starting finger-holds, fan is not afrce man whois worried about | iicus v faeed o ve was near " “ew savin it for the coon,” b 4 a purty goodsized town. Me an' the | gaid C future. coon started to walk toward town an’ | (Copyright, by Double ,uy Page & C0.) & 4; then I stopped him an' ses: | — ) . s “‘Here, if we go to drillin’ around | i Are YOU one Of lh‘s klnd? town at this time of night an’ one of | T g | | reading on a cobra seitting up : s them country coppers catches a peep | ready, a resident In Indla, whose ex- Bank your money and be lndependent' at us, he'll hll()fltffl‘: flr«: .lllld “m"l":l“porlomm are related in.the . Meld, [/ ::mnel:‘htt::’l:;w;n’“sll:-:p tllll r:m:;:r‘l‘ m:{ worldsFeaRwhySthondendivEanEs LW ere Je offer YOU the services and safety of | oo weil ro in town an' try to round | 4612%ed _ UR b k up a handout.’ l,oor:(‘ing amlund. :u- no‘m'l;d his :1:: ) NG ey crouching and gazing a! e rep { ank. h “;e‘::"dj"'s'b:s‘Jn&T:, '“:z:l" ":: t:;; | steadily with mesmeric effect, for the fe.:cl:e 1 l?)okéd throu:h tlt‘lel cracks snake seemed unable to move, and : while in this condition he killed it. an’ could see one or two lights quite long buildin’ that looked something like a barn. It was gettin’ chilly an’ [ ges to this pardner of mine: “Coon, gimme a boost over the fence an’ [ think we can find a warm place here.’ “So we skinned over the fence an’ come to the building. It was a long one. I still thought it was a barn. We walked around, lookin’ for a gdoor or window, so we could crawl in. At { last this pardner of mine—his name is Jeft an’ I'll kill him if ever I lay eyes on him again-— Jeff found a little door that wasn't locked an’ we went in, feelin’ our way along, thinkin', you know, that we might find some hay or straw to sleep on. Purty soon Jeff lfell over somethin’ an’ [ landed on top of him. We felt around us an’ dis- | covered that we'd run into & lot of watermelons layin’ on the floor. I g'pose the coon was sorry to meet them melons, huh? The first thing I knew he'd split one of 'em open an’ [ could hear him chompin’ in the dark irst National Bank OF LAKELAND ong Lifeof Linen with geod laundry werk is what you are lesking for and zunnvhonmm. Toyw akeland Steam Laundry Phore 130 West Mal» Bt UL SOOI OTI U hen the Flames Die Down an' purty soon | reached out, an’ This ain't no What do you A plate with there in the pitch dark? dream I'm tellin’ you think I took holt of? ply. “That's what | done, except what [ Should You Realize § give to Jefft. He found a match in his The Benefits close an’ struck it, and we saw In tront of us a wooden shelf covered | of with ples and cakes an’ all kinds o'! We Represent The Follow'ny cooked stuff. The match only burned Reliable Companies. A Fire Insurance Policy, { for a minute, but we made out that ity 1yderwriters, Capital ... R S e e much. Jeff t:und a plk;:mb of but!erl. ™ mert an’ we et the biscuit with butter an’ .:1 A, iR C‘plm":m"” z,:w,'\oo And Resolve To aln't tasted anything like it since [ delphis Underwriters, Capltal.. 4,750,000 run away from home in Lowell thirty years ago. Then Jeff broke a cake in half an’ give me part of it. It was kind of dry eatin’, but we put lots of butter on it. I s’pose I ought to have stopped an' remembered that all this provender belonged to somebody, but I was so blamed hungry I didn’t wait to think of nothin’. An’ I must say I Hingfleld ¥. Your Property! ANN & DEEN Room 7, Raymondo Bldg. & M., Capltal 2,000,000 Insure a distance off an’ right near us was & Well, T got up an’ felt my way alongi what do you suppose [ took hold of | — cr seen anyboedy eat the way that :oon did. T didn't exactly see him eat, her, but I could hear him all right. \flpr he et all the cakes an’ pies an’ biscuits he could lay his hands on he went back to watermelon, an’ 1 could hear him sloshin’ an' gulpin’ there in the dark. [ started to feel around for a soft place to lay down, an’ what you guess? 1 run into a lot of bed cloze on lines.” “Say, what sort of a pipe is this?” asked the listener, with a sidewise turn in his chair, indicating skepti- cism. “It's the truth, every word of it. There must have been a dozen quilts. 1 pulled 'em down an’ me an’ Jeff rolled ourselves up in 'em an’ went to sleep. We'd et a lot an’ it was a cold night, an' under them warm covers we slept like a couple of logs. Well, the next thing | remember, somebody shakin’ me good and hard, an’ I looked up at fellow that had a tin star on his coat an' a club in his hand. I kind of remembered what had happened an' looked around. It was broad daylight. We laid there in the infernalest mess of eatables you ever seen. People was pilin’ through the doors to get a look at us. I don't suppose you've figured out what we'd done, so I'll tell you. “This place we'd got into was what they call Floral hall at the county fair. All the stuff we'd been eatin’ was the exhibition ot the best bis- cuits, the best watermelons, the best cake, the best butter, an’' 80 on of the whole county. You know the quilt I had around me? Well, it was made of about a million little pieces of silk. The woman that made it put in fifteen years on it, and it was supposed to be worth two hundred dollars. That all came out at the trial” “Well, there must have been a sore Another time, when sleeping in an open cot in the veranda, he woke to find on one side of the bed a huge cobra with head erect ready to strike, on the other the glistening green eyes of his cat. The snake remained quite still, so he ran Into the room to fetch a gun and, coming back, poked the reptile’s head with the barrels; but it did not take the slightest notice, and seemed like a stuffed and lifeless creature. He then placed his hand in front ot the cat's eyes by way of experiment, when immediately the spell was re- moved, the cobra raised itself, hissed, and assumed an offensive attitude. He then took hiz hand away and the reptile became transfixed again, in which state it was shot. l The Healer's Art. Dr. . F. Friedmann, at a luncheon in Providence. khowed an unexpected knowledge of English; he told, in fact, a dialect story “A physician from the south,” he began. “taid he was glad that my treatment was now better understood that it was not looked on like the treatment of Doctor Mose “A white physician, meeting Doctor | Moge, said: And As You about a dozen biscuits on it. Now, I| ““Well, Mose, where have you $ |aln't no crook an' I never broke into | heen” TURN From the Ruins B |a house to steal anything, but I'll| “'Been to see Cal Clay,’ Mose re- $ leave this to you. If you hadn’t had | plied. ‘He busted a blood vessel Toward Your Own Home, anything to eat for eighteen hours an’ | wrestlin' with Wash White.’ should happen to crawl into a barn at “*Why, Mose, that's serious! What Then, night an’ reach out into the dark an' | did gou prescrihe” asked the white find a dozen light biscuits, would you | doctor. eat 'em or throw 'em away?” “* fixed him up all right with alum IF Never Before, “I'd prob’ly eat 'em,” was the re |and gum arabic, Mose answered. ‘Alum to draw the pahts together, and the gum to stick 'em.”” | | | reets every | afternoons { FOLK ENCANPMENT Speual Prices e—— BELOW WE GIVE A FEW OF 0UR PRICES WITH MANY OTHER GOODS OF EQUAL QUALITY ANE PRICE. QUALITY OF GOODS I8 THE FIRST THING WE LOOK AFTER AND THEN THE PRICE TO MEET Calm chapter, U. E. 5. meess syel) scond and fourta Thursday night . sach wonih at T:80 p. m Mi ‘lora Keen, W. M.; J F Wilseu -~y YOUR APPROVAL WITH A GUAR- cE e e 0 i e L EANTRR O THAT EVERYTHING united Bretherkeod of OCarpeaten and Joiners of Amarita, Looal 1776 | V1o BE AS REPRESENNED. 3 Lakeiand Lodge Ne. u'.:-,l.d: :l THESE PRICES FOR CASH ONLY. - Regular commuaiea 18 pounds Sugar for.,....... o second and {th Mendays at 7:30 3 Bu: Butter, pxer b, ll:: a. Visiting brethrea cordially t» vited, 7. 0. OWBNS, W. M Cottolene, 10 pound can ...... 138 1. P. WILSON, Gecy Cottolene, b pound ........... N1 Sonowdrift, 10 pounds ........ 1.1¢ KL OrY2. Snowdrift, 56 pounds ......... 48 Regular wmeeting every Tuesda |6 cans Baby Size Cream...... .3 ‘:.'“:::::‘ :‘“"' Hall. VWK | ctagon Soap, 6 for. . . ;"; llll ": Al.‘. Ground Coffee, per pound ..... 2 Obanceller Commande: 8weet Corn, 8 for ........... 2% L M ACRSON, Sesretary Best White Meat, per 1b. .... .i¢ . § gal. Kerosene ..... SN K 11 POST 88, @ A B Compound Lard, per 1b. . . e Moete the first Saturday In ever; mouth at 10 . m. at the home o ! M. Oparling en Keatuoky avenue Fy SHAFFER, Cemmander . R TALLEY, Adjutant Feed Stuff is our specialty. We are out on Bouth Florida avenue. But call us. We dellver the goods. D. H. CUMBIE & CO. Phone 337 Lakeland Laieland Ohapter, R. A. M. N meets the firet Thursday nicht ‘och menth In Marenis Hall, Visi e eompanions welcomed. A U Teonand, M. P.; J. P, Wilson, Bacy Lakeland Camp No, 78, W. 0. WV Thursday night. Wood men Cirele first and third Thursday at J Ittridge, Council Commander, Mrs. Sallie Scipper, Guardian of Circle. “ 3300 0'clock: v, NO.3, 10 0. Polk Encampment No. 8, L. U ! F., meots the first and third Mou days. Visiting Patriarchs welconi« F. A. MeDONALD, Seribe. ‘ ZIMMERMAN, of Patriarch S ———— 6LAwE &L Ursnge Blessom Viv, Ne a6 I A to B of LB meels eve: weoond ang feurth Wednesdaye o b month at 3:30 p. w Visis, wters alwaye welovma MES J. C. BROWN Se.v Maots every Tuesday night at | 0'clook, at MeDomald’s hall. R. L. MARSHALL, President J. W.LAYTON, Vies Pres J. W. LOGAN, Treasurer \. K. FELDS, Fin. Seoy. R, F. BIETK.TH, Rec 3oy K. L. COX, Usaduetor AMUBL BOYNR, W. SCARR, L WILLOUGNBY, H. B. C Our Display of watches, lockets, ringe, ete., is noticeable for fite chains, brooches, perfect taste as well as gelf-evident good quality. The Jewelry we handle is the kind that contin- ues to give satisfaction no matter If you Aesire 1o give sometihng of fermanent valis kow long it is worn. our case will supply it. . C. Stevens S e ow 3202 Lakeland Ledge No. 1391, Beneve lent and Pretecsive Order of Elks moeets every Thursday anight in lodg: rooms over postofies. Visitiag breth GRORGE VNORD. B. R. rea cordlally T eRDER OF BAGLEA. The Pratersal Oréer of Bagie mests every Wednesfar alght st 1'80, a8 044 Vellowwy’ hall 1. M. WILLIAMS, Prestfent B M OSMAILS Gssretaw LAKE PHARMACY When you think of Drugs, Toilet Articles, or Ice Cream, think of The Lake Pharmacy We keep ONLY THE BEST. Prompt Delivery.. The Store PLASTERERS' INTERNATIONAL BRICKLAYERS, MASORS AND UNION, LOCAL XO. 12 OF FLORID? Meoots each Thursday anight i Mergaa & Groever 1all, eve Bates’ Dry Goeds Store. Viaiting brethers weleome. Sibera Kebekas (wege Nu. meets every pecond and feurth Mo day nights ot L O. O. P. hall. Visls ing brothars cad alsters eordlally ix vited MRS. §. C. LONGMAN, N G MR& ILA SELLERS, 8ec lake Ledge Ne. 3,1. 0. 0. 7 mests Priday sights at 7:30, at | 3. 0. P. hall. Visiting brothers ar: sordiay luvited. J. L. REYNOLD®, Beec. N. B. EIMMERMAN, N. G Different Kind. Apparently, Wife (anxiously)—I do wish yom It appears to be necessary fer € It Is the Chincse themselves Who | in constant fegr that you will touch a ' and to engage pretty oon call their people Celestials. Their em- | oharged wire at the shop.” Hub— strong-arm work for the perur’s official title used to be Son of | “On the charged wire at the shop | Settinz what is theirs. Heaven It is sald that according t0 | gocsn't bother me; what I have more | an old legend a planet inhabited by a | gread about 18 the charged account at golden skinned race was broken up, | the store” and a part of it fell in what is now called Thibet. Dazed and starving the heavenly visitants made their way in- to China where they finally settled themselves. Their nelghbors calied them Celestials to distinguish them from the earth derived people, and they adopted the term as a mark of distinction. The legend need not, how- ever, be taken seriously. Why Chinese Are Called Celestials? | were in tome other work, dear. I am | PtoDle to ¢o a great deal of fi tinuously purpose | Ouc Own Businese. Whilst I do what 1s fit for me To the Aescue, abstain from what is unfit, my "1 am at present devoting a good deal of time to the Bacon-Shakespeare eontroversy,” said Old E¢ Howe, writ ing in his own maguzine. “Think of the absurdity of it” he continues We do. Our notion of nothing to get excited about is this Bakespeare con froversy.