Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 13, 1913, Page 2

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W., weets every Thursda aight Weod. nep Cirelg first and third Thursday \fternoons at 8:00 o'elosk. W, J. tttridge, Council Commander; Mrs. Lula Hebb, Guardian of Cirele. o2 LW, YARNELL Yaoosmser to W. K MeRaa TRANSFER LINES Jraying and Heuliag of Al Kish Prompt and Reasonadly Bervie @uarantesd Phene 7 Greea Laveland, Fa GRAVERY NOT ALK Girl Puts Lovers to Test; Afraid of Fire, Other of Water. By CLAUDINE SISSON. “Oh, I had forgotten to tell you.” “My stars—wh-at.” Mr. Allison, the banker, was writ- ing letters in his library when his daughter Maude entered, and finding him busy she curled up in one of the big chairs and was half asleep when he laid aside his pen and spoke to her. “There is to be war with Timbucto.” “Gracicus!” “And every young man in the coun- try over eighteen will have to go.” “That’s awiul!” “I was figuring this afternoon on the effect it would have on you.” “On me? Why, father, girls don’t go to war!” “But their beaux do.” “Oh, you were only teasing!™ laughed Maude as her color height- ened. “I figured that you would lose your seventeen young men and have to sub- stitute bachelors and widowers.” “Only sixteen, papa!” “Well, I'm expecting three or four of thepn here tonight to ask my con- sent. If you don't want to get mixed up in the row you'd better be going.” “Stop joking and ask me where I want to go this summer.” “Well?” “To the seachore. They are going to open a new hotel at Rosamond Beach.” “lI knew that a fortnight ago, and our arrangements are all made.” “You dear, good man!” “Our board will cost us nothing. I get $2 per week apiece for the young | men who will follow you up there. Twice 16 is 32 and there you are.” Miss Maude Allison didn't have 16 beaux. She didn't have half that num- ber. There were only five who called, and three of them made their calls as | formal as if visiting an orphan asylum. The race lay between Walter Davis and Hugh Lee. That is, they imagined it did. Just what Miss Maude imagined was a different thing. Neither young man could complain that she showed | the other any preference. The father might have had one, but he was not mixing in. There are plenty of men, young and old, who have been in doubt tor a time ! a8 to which of two girls or widows to make their wife. The agricultural department at Washington has statis- ties showing that men have courted no less than four women at one and the same time, and ended by not marrying any one of them. Therefore, it would not be fair to charge Miss Maude with being Aflirtatious. Bixteen young men did not appear at Rosamond Beach the next day after the Allisons were installed. Fourteen oould not get away but two could and dld. Of course, they were Walter Da- vis and Hugh Lee. Of course, they were greatly surprised to meet each other at the depot. Of couree, they did not refer to the Allisons. Of course, each one was going up for a day or two to see what the new hotel looked like. Their respective starts of sur prise at seeing Miss Maude on the | veranda would have insured them sal- aries of $16 per in the old days of the dime museume. Miss Maude also gave a start of sur- prise. She explained that she had no more thought of seeing them up there than she had of meeting the man the moon. How on earth did they know where to come? She was glad to see them, of course, very, very glad, (their hearts bounded) but why hadn’t they thought to bring Billy Sims and Kyle Harris? (Thelr hearts shrank like cab- bage leaves in an August day.) Maude’s father caught her words and smiled. She wasn't giving her hand away very much. One afternoon after three or four days had passed, the talk among six or eight people on the veranda in a group turned on bravery. Of course it was man’s bravery. No one expects a woman to dash in front of a raging lion to save a crippled child or a de- crepit old man. Every one but Miss Maude had had his say, and when she was asked for her opinion she replied: “I may never marry at all, but it [ should, and my husband proved to be & coward, I should hate him and leave him!” That was plump from the shoulder, and Measrs. Davis and Lee sat up and took notice. Each longed for something to happen that he might show his brlln‘ury. Would s _udn! Wave sweep in? Would a cy- ¢clone 'take the ‘roof off “ the ‘hotel? Would & mad dog appear on the beach and present his throat that he might be choked to death? Queerly enough, the opportunity was on the way and close at hand. A lighted cigarette thrown down a hall started a blaze, and there was imme. diate confuston. A score of men dashed in with“pails of water, and aft. or a lively fight they got the better of the flames and saved the hotel. Young Walter Davis was one of the foremost, and had a budding mustache singed beyond repalr, but where was young Hugh Lee? Miss Maude knew, and happened to be the only one that did. At the first alarm he had turned as white as flour, and while the others crowded forward he had skulked be. hind. When the excitement was over he had no experience to relate. He was keeping very quiet when he caught a look from the girl that told him he was betrayed. It was a cold, con- temptuous look that chilled him to the marrow. Thereafter she spoke to him One SYNNING TELBORAM, LAK ELAND, FLA, AUG. 13, 1913, Ao et o Bt e ot e ! before people only when l::“"‘"- there were no more walks. |m‘("What'a wrong with l;e:?" asked the ker after a couple of days. ib“!"Got a eoft corn, maybe” was the : hing answer. la"I‘f)om" be too hard on him. I think him a rather nice boy.” l “So did I until—until the fire the !other day.” “What of the fire?” o . “He ran away from «Whew! I thought he was with us.” «He was not. He skulked away at the first shout and hid behind the { women! Father, he’s a coward and st my respect!” k“l}Ul::‘l!" gm! pl want to think this yet he was in no danger. Rather | funny.” Miss Maude wanted to be alone and still not be hut up in her room. There- fore she watched for a chance to reach the beach unobserved. Half a mile off the sands was a big rock. At low tide 1t stood up like a house; at high tide the salty watcr swept its crest. The {fishermen had been predicting a gale, | and there were signs that it was near. There was a boat drawn up on the beach, and what did the girl who want- ed to be alone do but launch it and take the oars for a row? She couldn’t help notice the ewell and that the lfide was coming in, but she was fair at the oars and strong in the arms and she headed for the rock and reached it. She had been sitting there for a quar- ter of an hour when she was noticed from the hotel and an alarm given, It was time and past time. The gale broke with a loud moan as the tide turned, and five minutes later the white caps were dancing and the spray flying. All the boats except the one she took were in the creek, a mile be- ilow, but had they been at hand there wae no one to launch them, “There isn’t a man on the coast who can row against the gale and tide,” gaid the father of the fishers; and the | others looked across at the girl and shook their heads. Neither a father's money nor the | tears of a mother would drive them | to face the peril. The gale took on new strength, and the oncoming waves drove the half- crazed people back and when there came a break in the flying spray and driving clouds all eyes went to the ! rock and there were groans and mur- murs. The rock might be swept clear. of human life the next view they got. “What is it! What is {t!” fifty voices demanded as a fisherman ran down into the surf and peered towards "the rock under the sharp of his hand. “It's a boat, but they’'ll never make e “Where! Where!” “Don’t look! Don’t see them drown!” Some turned their backe, and some sat down and covered their faces with their hands. N Then through foam and spume, and riding a great roller, a boat came driv: ing in and was caught and run high on the beach—Hugh Lee at the steering oar and Maude Allison crouched on the bottom boards. He had brought her back when old fishermen had said that the stoutest skiff and the best oars: man could not live, “You see,” said the father to his weeping daughter that night, “every man's bravery is not alike. One may fight a lion and run from the hoot of an owl; he may fight fire and dread water; he may run away in battle and have no fear of robbers. Better take young Lee back into your good graces and give me a son-inlaw.” And that’s what she did. (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate,) Mysterious Stranger. “Something mighty queer about a feller that was here last week,” re !lated the landlord of the Turgidtown tavern. “He never kicked about his room, eat with apparent relish what was set before him, didn't try to firt with the waitresses, and when I ask- ed him if he was looking for land or seeking health or canvassing for some- thing he politely replied that he wasn't. He went to bed and got up at reasonable hours, walked sedately about town, bought 10-cent cigars as If he was used to 'em, answered civilly the remarks of practically every prom- Inent citizen in town about the weath- er. He stayed three days, and then paid his bill without grumbling, bade me a courteous good-by and went | away with as little flutter as he had come. And on account of the consist- ent manner in which he minded his own business and let other people’s affairs alone there has been a good deal of speculation about him ever since, the consensus of opinion being that he was either a famous detec- tive, some kind of a slick swindler or & crazy man."—Kansas City Star. Eligibles in Danger. W. E. Hosac of the Chicago Dress- makers' club was condemning slashed skirt on the score of it gestiveness. Relaxing for a moment from hig rious vein, Mr. Hosac said: ’ “Man, poor man, has it hard en on his seashore vacation as it {s. ff the slashed skirt is to be used against him—" *‘l was very much astonished,” said one man to another, ‘to hear that Blanc, the rich old bachelor, had married the Widow Starr at Atlantie City. I thought he was only flirting with her.” “‘He thought so, t00,” was the re- “And this,” sald Mr. Hosae, “was in pre-slash days, mind you!” ettt They Were. ) “1thought you said Kelly and Casay were quite calm and collected after the explc-ion?” “So I did. Kelly was calm and Casey—collected.” 'over. You say he skulked away, and; | Jel| Lakeland N a2z, ;’_// You wish to achieve it of course— Remember though that it's euly one case in a thousand where it is achieved without CASH CAPITAL. If you start bankiag your surplus earnings instead of sperding them ou will not alore safeguard your fu- ture but also place yourself in the front rank of those ready to seize opportunity when it comes your way. Three per cent. interest paild. SENRRBN ISP OO AR SR NEOREIIND 40 SIS - 4 PURE ICE FOR LAKELAND PEOPLE The ICE I am handling is made well water and double distilled. It is not & question of quantity, QUALITY. W. K. Jackson-sscue W, K. 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