Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 29, 1913, Page 7

ge good hard cement brick, red g brick, blocks of all sizes, piers, drain tile from three to | foundations, floors. If it is ork you want call the old re- at 508 West Main street, next s exchange, or phone 330 red. JIA NATINAL YAULT GO ¢ssor to Lakeland Artificial Stone Works ZIMMERMAN, MGR. e Lodges.. b Chapter, U. K. 8. meets vor: aad fourth Thursday night: wonth &t 7:830 p. m. Mre Keen, W, M.; 4. ) Wtilson pland Lodse No. s1. F & & lar commmunicatiors held aud 4th Mondays at 7:30 p fsiting brethren cordiaily tm /. C. OWENS, W. M, « F. WILSON, Bec X OF 2. Lisr meeting every Tuesda) " at Odd Fellows Hzll, Vien \mbars KIWaAYr weltome L. ‘'W. YARNALL, Guaucellor Commarider McCRARY, Secretary. POST 83, G. A. R. b the first Saturaay ia ever) at 10 a. m. at the home o iparling on Kentucky avenus SHAFFER, ommander TALLEY. Adjutaant snda Chapter, R. a. M. N» tbs first Thursday alght .2 onth {n Masonic Hall. i bpanjons welcomed 4. U , H. P.; J. F Wileon, Beey. ngd €amp No. 78, W. 0. W., every Thursda night Wood ficst and third Thursds) at 8:0v o'clock. W.J Coune): Commander; Mre b, Guaidian of Circle. Encamyment No. 3, 1. 0. © the first and third Mou Visiting [Patriarchs weloomse F. A. McDONALD, 8cribe IMMERMAN, Patriarch. slossom Div. No. ses © B. of L. K. meets over \d fourth Wednesdays o oth at 2:30 5. w. Visitias 'Ways welcome, [R8. ). C. BROWN #ee) ory Tuesday night at t Mcoonald’s ball. Brocherhood of Carpemter: » of America, Local 1776 each Thursday night i 3. & GQroover hall, ove: ' Dry Goods Store. Visitio: Re.¢ welcome. L. MARSJ ALL, Presider? W. LAYTON, Vice Pres W. JOGAN, Treasurer YELDS, Fin. Secy. f. DIETRICH, Rec. Soay L. (0X, Conducior EAYER, RR, LOUGHBY, Rebekah Lodge No. second and fourth Mos "at L. 0. 0 F. ball. Vit °re and sisters cordisll . E. ROBERTSON, N G fUY ARENDELL, See. dge No. 2,1 0.0 ¢ (AY nights at 7:30, at ! l. Visiting brothers ars trited. l. 4. REYNOLDS, Sec. 0. M. BATON, N. G. | ternal Order of Eagle Wednesday aight o ' Follows’ nall. WILLIAMS, Presi¢ent SMAILA Secretary 1291, Benevo Protective Order of Eika Thursday night 1n lodg: n inches; we also build side- | | | I Teacher of Music | sraduated from the Conservatory o! ¢ipalg (Germany), Member Amer uth - Virginia Ave., “la., phone 299 Black. Lessons in ‘iano, Harmony and Voeal Culture. tano Tuning. Orchestra furnished [ or all occasions. Reasonable terms, LW. YARNELL Wueoessor to W. K. MeRae. TRANSFER LINES 'taying end Haullng of Al Kina. Promit and Rea#onably Sarvies Guaranieed Household Moving a Specialty ! ! Residence Phone 57 Green. Office 11 | OGO OO R R OO & the Professiens- DQOM QOO POOVVOVIIVOOOO: e el e DT Tt e P et L T T U w0 DR. W. R. GROOVER— PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Lakeland, Florida QOO00H QOO IO COIOC QOO0 Q Established ‘i \ § DR. W. S. IRVIN o DEN! 3 Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building (s} Phone: Ofice 180; Residence 84 ROO0OVOVOVOOOO00ICLOLO0O0 jrleielelelelel TR e e T Tt ! BLANTON & LAWLER & ol Q ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW 3 Lakeland, Florida. g 0OOQA0COI00DOGIVOAMNDOOUOY HOUOOOOO00 Residence phone, ) Oftice phone, 2 DR. SARAH E. WHEBLER OSTEOPATH Rooms 2 and 3, Skipper Building, LAKELAND, FLA. YIOLOOOQ0OQ00Q % Black. Blue, Albert Vontoska s ‘au Federation of Musicians, 306 ! i Lakeland, ‘M‘wsflo”. looked up from his desk, as | ROOUOB000CTINARIAGAR000! | § SAMUEL F. SMITH, M. D. E Practice Limited to Treatment < and Operations of 3 {2 EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT © 1 5 ? (KW} Phone: Ofice 141; #Residence 22 0~ 4 Suite 1, Bryant Building [ LAKELAND, FLA. < Rooms 5 and 4 Kentucky Building 0000 QOO0 OONGOOTOOGON QAOACO000A0 000NV 00OV 0 DR. C. C. WILSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special Attention Given to DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Deen-Bryant Bidg., Suite 9 Phone 357 OO OO OOOL0 O Py & CLOOPVLCTOVL OO0 fi B. 0. ROGERS, LAWYER *® g Room 7, Bryant Bldg. Phone 269 S o] g Lakeland. Florida. ) QUOOQOOCLOV L QOVVOOOOOOO0: R. B. HUFFAKER —Attorney-at-Law— Room 7, Stuart Bldg. Bartow, Fla. TUCKER & TUCKER —Lawyers— Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, Florida | o © ARCHITECT KIBLER HOTEL, LAKELAND FLA e HER LOST HUSBAND i | By FRANK P. JONES. John Sichel, United States consul at his secretary entered, with a patient smile that a consul acquires after hay- Ing served several months in a foreign city. Especially if it be a seaport city does a consul need patience, for he is {daily beset by distressed American | | sailors, ladies with social bees, dis- satisfied politicians touring the coun- try and demanding justice upon those | Who have affronted them, under threat of making a complaint to Washington, 1and--but every one who has ever ex- | perienced the jovs of being a consul 1 knows il about it. | "A lady to see you, Mr. Sichel,” said 'the secretary. “She is very much agi- | tated.” “Is she a—a young lady?" queried the consul, “Young, sir, and very beautiful,” “Well, let her come in." sighed Mr. ! Sichel. As Doris Gray entered his office even Mr. Sichel's jaded soul was stim- ulated into admiration. She was young —perhaps twenty-four or five; beauti- . ful, pathetic and agitated. Mr. Sichel could not forbear a spasm of regret when he saw the word Mrs. upon her card. “Be seated, madam, for you?" he asked. “I've lost my husband,” exclaimed Doris, bursting into uncontrollable sobs. “Oh, well, he can’t have gone very far,” said the consul. *“When did you lose him?” “Oh, you don't understand,” cried the girl. “I'll have to tell you, It's this way: “John and 1 were married in Balti- more last month and came to Europe (for our honeymoon. We've visited Italy and Switzerland and were on our way What can ! do lome through Holland, as we wanted | lo see the great exposition at Maas- dorf. We came straight from Zurich land engaged rooms on the third floor of the Hotel American, because we liked the name, though there isn't an | (American in the place. We dressed QQOOOC | for dinner and went downstairs, and {John had one of his headaches and lasked the clerk where he could buy | some powders. The clerk told him 2 Qithere was a drug store on the corner, | M T The Clerk ‘Clung Desperately. and John went out and—never ‘came back.” “Did you ask at the drug store?” in- quired the consul, “I did, and they were positive that be had never entered the place. So then I rushed back to the hotel and begged the clerk to call the police, and what do you think? He actually told me that 1 was under a delusion. He sald I had registered alone and showed me the register. There was my name, Mrs. Gray, and no sign of John’s, and I saw him write his above as plain as ianything. So then I thought I must be going crazy and 1 ran up to the third floor and asked the maid for my hus- band. She stared at me in astonish- ment. !said, shrugging her |least, ke did not aceon pa “l ran into the apu tinent. v madame,’ John had | 'left his grip on the floor and strewn W. S. PRESTON, LAWYER Office Upstairs East of Sourt House BARTOW, FLORIDA Examination of Titles and Real Estate Law a Specialty W&% JEREMIAH B. SMITH ¢ NOTARY PUBLIC LOANS, INVESTMENTS IN REAL ESTATE Have some interesting snaps In city and suburban property, !am. ete, Better see me at once. Will trade, sell for cash or on easy terms. 14, Futch & Gentry Bidg. i Room AKELAND, " FLORIOA ! Melody of Happiness, “Get out in the sunlight* says a Georgia philosopher, “and see Happl | “wyry gear lady,” he began, in sooth- Bness coming down the road, picking & banjo for the whole world to danoe!® ~—Atlanta Constitution. |his clothes all about the room—and [there was evervthing nicely put away and not a sign of Joho's haggage any- where, “*‘Madarae hus a touvch of sun.' sug- | gested the housekeeper. “‘I want my husband znd I'm going |to have him!’ I sereamed, and then 1 itell unconscious. They must have drugged me to keep me guiet, for 1 awoke at eight o'clock this morning in the apartment with a splitting head- ache. At first I thought it was a dream, but there was no sign of John. I was just growing frantic again when the housekeeper entered and announced that the chief of police would like to see me. “I dressed and hurried down. He, {too, was convinced that John wae an [llusion, and so was the hotel proprie- tor. Then I told them that 1 was go- Ing right round to see youa, and they began to look scared, and tried to ealm me. But I told them I was an Ameri- can and dared them to lay a finger on me, and I hurried away while they were still talking and gesticulating— and here I am. Now where is John?” The consul looked flabbergasted. How could he produce John 80 uncere moniously. He shot a fleeting glance at his visitor. Ing, consular tones, “‘But madame bas no hushand!’ she | shoulders. ‘At | OCT. 29, 1913. )W what you are golng to § tied. “You are gring to tell .at Jobh Qs me t 4 is @ drcam, just as they did, and that | am not even married. | But | have evidence. Look!” And, ' pulline ot hor glove, she showed a wed- ding ring upon a very pretty finger, “I didn’t doubt—" began the consul ! Y. d look!"” continued Mrs. Gray, and, opening ler reticule, she pulled out a most convineing proof of John in the shape of a rank and well-colored wmeerschaum pipe, with a gold band, on which was engraved, “from Doris to dear John.” “Now do you doubt me?”’ she tinued. . “No,” said the consul briskly. “A question or two. You are sure that you went back to the right hotel?” “Of course 1 am,” cried the girl in- | dignantly, “That's whgt the police told me. They wanted me to inquire at every liotel in the city., 1am absolute- Iy certain—why, didn’t I find John’s pipe under the table, where it had rolled, and the thieves didn't notice it when they removed his things. O, can’t you help me? He has been kidnaped, perhaps murdered, and 1 am alone—* The tears came into her eyes again, “Now, now, Mrs, Gray,” said the counsul soothingly, “pray don’t distress yourselt. 1 am going to probe this mystery to the bottom, 1—" He broke off as the sounds of a vio- lent struggle came tfrom the adjacent room, and a moment later the little clerk appeared at the door. “Mr, Sichel! Help!” he shouted. “There is a crazed assassin wants to enter—" He disappeared suddenly, and the sound ot the struggle was renewed. iAn instant afterward the door burst {open and there appeared a wild-look- ing figure attired in a silk hat and a pair of pajamas, to which latter the clerk clung desperately, With a cry of rapture Doris Gray ran to the apparition and, laying her head upon its shoulder, sobbed from joy. ‘ “John! ! wept. “It's all right, Monsieur Jean. You can go now," said the comsul to his secretary. “Perhaps I can offer you a suit of clothes,” he continued to Mr. con- Oh, John, it's you!” she Gray. “Thanks! Thanks!” panted the ap- parition. “I had an overcoat—took it trom the jailer—but 1 lost it en route here. I knew they wouldn’t dare to follow me inside this office, over which floats the American eagle.” “John! \What happened?” “Why,” said John, more calmly, “I i hadn't got as far as the drug store i before two men came up behind me, pushed me inside, gagged me, tied me, opened the door again, and pushed me into a cab that was waiting. It was all done so quickly that nobody saw anything except the drug store clerk. Then they put me down at the door of & sort of big jail, whisked me inside, {and flung me into a private bedroom with barred windows. 1 lay there all night, except when the doctor came to feel my pulse. He tried to take my temperature too, but I broke the ther- mometer. In the morning I looked out and the first thing I saw was the Stars and Stripes floating from this build- ilng. I knew where 1 was then, so when the jailer, or whoever he was, came in, I got him into a corner, knocked him down, took his overcoat— they'd taken all my clothes away—and made for the door. Luckily it was un- locked, and so, after knocking down a couple of watchmen I reached you.” “Can such things be in a clvilized country!"” exclaimed Doris. “Mr. Sichel, you must cable to Washington at once. You must present an ultimatum to the Dutch government for Mr, Gray's clothes and cane. All in the con- spiracy; drug clerk, police, hotelkeep- er, clerk, matron, housekeeper, maids —what does it mean? Is this a nation of lunatics?” The consul clapped his hand to his forehead. “I have it!” he exclaimed delighted- ly. “You came from Zurich? Your bag- gage was labeled Zurich?” “Yes. Well—?" “Wasn't there cholera at Zurich when you left?” “That's why we left in & hurry. But—" “This is the exposition year, A case of cholera in Maasdort would ruin the | show, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. You complained of a head- ache, M1, Giray. The Dutch are a com- mereial nation. Don’t you see?”’ “You mean they fixed all that be- [ tween them while Mr. Gray wes being | kidnaped ?" inquired the girl. “Not kidnaped,” said the | “Why, that station for this district. No doubt the doctors know by now that Mr, Gray hasn’t the cliolera. Now if you take my advice—" “A package for a Mr. Gray, sir” {said the clerk, entering, and Mrs | Gray opened it. “John!" she exclaimed. “Your suit. Your hat. Your chirt and collar, fresh {from the laundry. Your shoes pol- |ished! And what's this?” she contin- ued, holding up a glittering bauble. “Why, that,” said Mr. Sichel, “that’s the Order of the Blue Eagle, first class, given only to Holland's most distinguished men.” “They must have telegraphed to The Hague!” said Doris Gray in awe. “Ah, well, the Dutch get in some quick work sometimes,” sald Mr. Sichel. “You may dress in here, Mr. Gray. Good luck to you both. No, I'd let the matter drop and go back to your hotel. Monsieur Jean!” “A geutleman's waiting to see you, yours and has been robbed—" “Ah! Tell him I've just gone out of “And say, Monsieur Jean! I'm not see- ing any more ladies this morning un- less— Oh, well, send them all in, It's part of the day’s job."” (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapmaa) rAGR Avar J. P. McCORQUODALE The! Florida Avenue Grocer 290~——PHONE ®|ED - —i290 Respectfully asks his friends and the pub generally to' give him a call when needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. 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