Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 25, 1913, Page 7

:‘;Eébflim)! BIRDS ON HATS By EDWARD B, CLARK. s The coft rose from the breakfast table preparatory to lighting his cigar and starting for the office he said to his wife: ‘Eliza, you may have the fall hat you've been yearn- Ing for Here's the ten dollars, but please, in ma- king your pur- chage remember my prejudice Against birds in bonnets,” Eliza beamed ‘All right, Hen- ry.” she said; “I'n BO straight down ' to e. Capote's [this morning. 1 can get a beauty (for ten dollars, 1 know, and 1 won't have a single song Start that checking acconnr, nnd bird on it." save yourself the risk, annoyance | “Tnh:‘t :ight“a b ) e Mrs. and inconvenience of carrying money about and of paying bills, ete,, with cash. Sparks sent the maid of all work into pote's. Mrs, Sparks opened the box, lifted the wonderful creation and sald the usual womanly thing: “Isn't it & dream?” Henry Sparks looked at the hat quizzically. There was not perhaps expressed in his face the admtration and entire approval that Mrs, Sparks had hoped for. “Henry,” she said, “I know there is & bird's head or two and a lot of feath- ers in it, but Mme. Capote told me that they were 2ll made-up things, mostly barnyard fowls. This head with the slate-blue neck and just a touch of browa at the place where it was sep- arated from the breast, was the head of a common domestic fowl in China. Now don't look that way. Everybody is wearing feathers, and | don’t see why I shouldn't wear them.” Henry Sparks rose from the table and took the befeathered hat out of his wife'’s hand and looked at It through his glasses. "This," he sald, pointing with his finger at the bird's head with beautiful stecl blue feathe ers, “is, as I understand Mme. Capote, the heaa of a common Chinese do- mestic fowl. Eliza, when you wander along by some tumbling stream in the springtime you will hear now and then a rattling cry. It is a bird's voice. It 1s a8 much a part of the time and place and of the wildness of it all as are the trhes, the stream or even the April clouds overhead. Wander along the same stream In the heat of sum- mer and you hear the same rattling ery. A bird form dashes by, then stops In midflight and hovers lightly over a pool beneath. Then there is a sound of the plash of waters as a feathered form descends and plunges. There I8 a sensation of coolness in the sound of that plunge that tempers the heat of the August day to the way- farer. Perhaps you have a legal right to wear this bird becuause it may have been killed in New York, where the wise legislators withdrew from this creature the protection of the law. The men who urged that 't be exempt from protection were men of the kind who go into the northern woods and drag seines, dynamite streams and catch and kill thousands of fish that they may pick out the big ones for the market. The souls of these men are in their pockets. This bird catches a few small fish for the sustenance of ftself and its young. It adds, when not on a bonnet, a living interest to every waterside. Eliza, your Chinese do- mestic fowl is an American kingfish- er The check book s sure to bring the enocomy that doesn’t pluch ang will relieve you of many wo. rles, Your account {s respectfully so- licited. THE STATE BANK OF LAKELAND FLA. What is There Here You Need There must be some- thing in our great assortment of hard- ware that you need. No matter what it is--come to our store. Pick out what you want and you will be surprised to find such good articles at at such low prices. “Henry, Mme.—" “Eliza, this bird that has been eat- | ing up the crops in India, thus causing | a famine in that country, was hatched LB e had been unusually good that morning and as Henry Sparks the front bedroom to bring a box that | arrived shortly before from Mme, Car J. P. McCCORQUODALE | The Florida Avenue Grocer PHONE RED —— Respectfully asks his friends and the publ generally to give him a call when 'needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. 290 of Courage Being the Story of Certain Peraons Whe Drank of It and Conquered A Romance of Colorado BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY yAuthor of *The Ring and the Man," he Lland of Regeneration,” * Better, Man.” “Hearts and the Highe way,” “Asthe Sparks Fly Upward." Ilustrations by EMsworth Yomng HE WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT AND WILL GUARANTEE SATISFACTION | Lakeland Seed Company 218 FLORIDA AVENUE Fresh Garden Seeds, Bird and Sunflower Seeds, Pop-Corn for Popping, Millet and Rye (Copyright, 911, by W, G. Chapman.) (Continued from Page 2. moment, frowning heavily, passed it over to the footman and turned to the stricken father, “Old man, I loved her,” he sald, simply. “I love her still: 1 believe that she loves me. They haven't found her body, clothes mean noth- ing. T'll find her, I'll search the moun- tains until 1 do. Don't give way; something tells me that she's alive, and I'll find her.” “If you do,” said the broken old man, crushed by the swift and awful response to his thoughtless exclama- tion, “and she loves you, you shall have her for your wife.” “It doesn't need that to make me find her,” answered Armstrong grim- ly, “she is a woman, lost in the moun- tains in the winter, alone. They shouldn't have given up the search. I'll find her as there is a God above me whether she’s for me or not.” A good deal of a man, this James Armstrong of Colorado, in spite of many things in his past of which he thonght so little that he lacked the grace to be ashamed of them. Stephen Maitland looked at him with a cer- Incubators, Chick Food, Shells, Grits, Cop- peras, Charcoal, Tobacco Dust, Sulphur Powder Tilghman's Condition Powder WHY SAFER THAN CASH Paying by checks is not only tain respect and @ vi hope, as b stiod thers. v ik oA Wit more convenient than pay- i e i ing in cash, but it is safer, because it eliminates risk of loss. Your account subject to check--large or small--is cordially invited, AMERICAN STATE BANK J. L SKIPPER P. E. CGHUNN President Cashier PHONE 2-3-3 GARBAGE CANS ;‘ Made to Order by CARDWELL & FEIGLEY (To Be Continued.) CHOSE QUEER HIDING PLACE Fugitives Fondly Fancled Themselves In Security In Most Public Spot They Could Have Chosen. The father of Joseph Altshelr, the writer of war stories, was a Prus- slan who came to this country a few years before the Civil war broke out, and settled in Barren county, Kentucky. By reason of his foreign birth the elder Altscheler was not subject to draft by efther army when hostilities began, but his southern sympathies made him obnoxious to & group of bushwhackers who, posing a8 Federals, infested the vieinity of the Kentucky-Tennessee state line. One starless, moonless night in the summer of 1883, a neighbor came with the word that the bushwhackers were on their way to kill Mr. Altsheler and another resident of the vicinity, who had been outspoken In his approval of secesslon. It was not certaln, the messenger said, which road of two the marauders would take to reach the homes of their proposed victims; but it was certain that they would be along soon. Mr. Altsheler and the other threat- ened man gathered up a blanket aplece and went into the woods to hide. In the darkness they speedily lost all sense of direction. For an hour they wandered about, seeking a suftable camping-place. Finally they came to a spot that was free of trees and where the ground felt smooth under foot. So they spread their blankets and went to sleep, secure in the bellef that no bushwhacker could find them there. The rising sun, shining faces, waked them. They sat up and looked round. They had been asleep all night at the only place where the in their fn a nest In an Illincis tree. Perhaps | you have the 1 right to wear it | We please the hard to please e | The wise legislators of Ilinols re | cently added this bird to the game list so that it may be claughtered and made into pies. The souls of the leg- | fslators were gitu ted in their stom achs. This bird has stood as an em blem of peace since the world was, and our best customers are those are hardest to satisfy. te | raiders could not have failed to find them, had thelr plans been carried out-—at the forks of the county road. Exchange Electrical and Sheet Meal Workers PHONE 233 Not Hard to Put Some Dainty Hand- work on the Front of Husband's or Brother's Silk Shirt. PAGR “AVAR 5 n| A man doesn't like “fussy” things, : yet every pot and milliner - hunter in : ) : . 3 it. You & but he'll appreciate a bit o' handwork No matter What you need in tho Jand maken war upon it JLOU RTS8 ‘on tl:# rr;::: :xf ;ls silk shirt. Ask |& #ood Episcopalian and you some him! No, don’t—surprise him! i i ’ i othin bl 3 4 " hardware, 1t WI" l’epay You to [times tell me that there is n R; It you are afraid that you can’t | more beautiful than all that pertains {to the church and its teachings. Do you, Trinitarian that you are, know | that it was in the living form of one of these murdered innocents in your | bonnet that the Holy Spirit descended “upou our Savior a8 he stood at the | gide of the Baptist by the waters of Jordan? Eliza, this East Indian crop- destroying, starvation-producing bird, {18 ¢ 1 lllinols mourning dobe. “Doubtless Mme. Capote told you | that this little bunch of feathers that olssps the upturned brim of the hat came from a bird harpy of some re- ‘mom region whose daily practice It is to carry and devour l{w sweet babes of doting mothers. Well, these cinnamon-brown feathers with these call and inspect our :stock be- fore making a purchase. Wilson Hardware Co = g "opposite Depot make the shirt entire, buy one from bis haberdasher. The material best suited for the purpose 1s striped— colored stripes about an inch apart on & white ground—so be sure that you get his favorite color. Most men are fond of lavender. Now stamp in the center of the white ground between the colored stripes, about two inches apart, tiny designs not larger than a ten-cent piece down the front. There {8 a tiny round five-petaled flower with- out foliage or stem and with a solid dot to fill the center space where the petals meet that is easily drawn or stamped by even the novice, and looks Idone things rlght. 4 well. If preferred, one can use the more difficult bowknot or fleur-de-lis | DON'T N eglect, Your Home TO PROTECT, From Loss by Destruction FROM FIRE You Gan’t Expect With This Defect THE PEACE @~ Wrich You Desire “Peace eomes only with a knowledge of having We represent the following reliable companies: ft gray dotted with darker color rep- PAT T SERERS wel and work them | Eidelity Underwriters, capital . $4,500.000 soft gray dc . oS 7 white silk floss 8 3 | A 3 resent all that e erle the stripes may be used but it s German American, capital . | 12.000,000 ird that sings its sera sonspicuous. There is fef % 5 . 7 . oty la the tvillght narchern wildon | FRINSE SORRDOUORS. Ther on o wnita Philadelphia Underwriters, capital 4,750,000 ness. It is the note of this bird that | oy v poc ‘men would prefer. Springfield Fire and Marine, capital 2,000,00¢ Burroughs sa ests a serene re- | . necessary to embroider only that | e 1 ligious beat L part which shows when the coat ig | Yes>: m “But. Henry, ) Capote said— unfastened. Of course, a hand-em- -N : D E | “Eliza, there a thousand Mma broidered mo ram upon the Jleft a Capotes, and most of them are =" | gioc 0 nicaces the wearer still more.—l | But Mrs. Sparks was in tears. Philadelphia N American Room7,/Raymondo Building