Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 10, 1913, Page 3

NOTICE mts and property owners Istrict on south side of by notified to make con- ity sewers as soon as pos- A RHOADES, JR., * Plumbing Inspector. _YARNtll to W. K. McRae. * FER LINEDY id Haullng of All Kine nd Reasonable Service ! Guaranteed Moving » Bpecialty Phone 57 Green; Office 10 ¢ Lodges. ER, 0. E. 8.— erg second and fourth t of each month & . Mrs. Flora Keen, W. M on, secretarv, D LODGE NO. 91, communications held fourth Mondays, at 7: itng brethren cordl&llv Owena w In F neeting every Tuesday & Fellows hall. Visitins lways welcome. W ncellor commander; E. § retary G. A. R.— the first Saturday n_ever 0a. m A. C. Shaffer J. R. Talley, adjutant D CHAPTER. R. A. M. — the first Thursday night {: ith in Masonjc hall. Visitins welcomed. A. D. Leon : J. F. Wiison, secretary CAMP 78, W. 0. W, Wednewda night od- rst end third Thursda‘ o'clock. W. J. commander; Mm , guardian of Circle. s at 2 P NO.3,1,0,0, F,— the first and third Mondays triarchs welcome. scribe; patriarch. ¥ BLOSSOM DIV. NO. 299 A. TO B. OF L. BE.— ery second and fourtl of each month at 2:3( smn% sisters always wel Brown, secretar:\ ) BROTHERHOOD OF CAR S AND JOINERS OF AMER each Thursday night i1 & Groover hall, over Bates' sfiore Vlsltlnx brothen . Marshall, pres Layton, vice president: Logan. treasurer; J. H financial secretary; H, F . recording secretary; H. L every second and fourtd %lghts at I. 0. 0. F. hall rotheru and slsters cordial { rtson s, Guv Arendell secret AL ORDER OF EA § every Wednesda '0dd Fellows’ hall. s, president; E. M. nlfiht a =N Smalile A1 .A . B.— nd Lodge No. 1291, Be 10l and Protective Order o! %ts every Thursday night i1 1 ms over postoffice. Visitiny cordlally welcome. George DGE NO.2,L 0,0, F.— 'Meets Friday nights at 7:30 at 1 0.0 hall. Visiting brothen ia]ly invited, J. Z| Reyn | :“I.; gretary; 0. M. Eaton, N. C i ECLECTIC LINIMENT This Liniment is quickly absorbed, 4 and readily reacbes ould be in every house- d for cuts, sofes, bites of ts, neuralgia, lame and joint.s. E-RAR-DY tic Liniment is & wone fful aid in helping to cure peumatism. Price only 25¢ 1f your druggist does nod keep it, writoto us direct. DY Rheumaticnem:dyo‘;,m | ism, especially if used in conneetion iment. S0¢ and §1.00 per bottle. DY Lurg Balsam Dou't lst thascod healing balsam, Pnco 25e, P. Cresap Company, l.fl. MNew Orleans, Lovisiasa. RBalc lu asciauu, rlonda, by Henley & Henley G TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., DEC. 10, 1913. ARTILLERY OF MEXICAN CONSTITUTIONALISTS This photograph, showing part of the artillery under the command of Gen. Alberto Rasgado, was taken during the battle of Morelos, WHAT [T ALL MEANT By HAROLD CARTER. To Clarice it seemed the most amazing thing in the world. Only three weeks before marriage had been the fartiiest thing from her thoughts. Of cour:s, she hud hoped to be mar- ried some day, as every girl does. But “some day" sceins any day when one is only tw v-three, And now was engaged. And to Richard Littlefield, the famous editor of the most famous, though not the most widely circulated magazine in | America. Littlefield was only thirty- four, but whoen old Granger died, dur- ing the previous year, he had at once been selected for his position, and had filled it uncom:monly well. The wife of Richard Littlefield! Why, Clarice’s father had taken the magazine for years and sworn by it. As Littlefield's wife she would meet everybody who was of the least—and most—consequence in every field of art. It had happened very simply. Rich- ard had come to stay at the little summer hotel next door, and he had met Clarice, and they had loved each other. That was all she knew about it, Clarice would explain to her in- quiring friends. And when Richard went away he bent down and whispered that he was coming back fer her soon—as soon as he could make arrangements. This was September. and they hoped to be married at Christmas. Nevertheless, Clarice’s: happiness had not been untinged with distress. Though Richard talked like any ordi- nary man, she knew that his mind was one of the most brilliant in Amerfca. And she, with her poor education—a mere high school one— how could she make a fit wife for Richard? Olarice had, indeed, surreptitiously endeavored to improve her education from the first day she met Richard, but she gave it up in despair. The task was too big a one to be com- pleted by Christmas. She had alse, because her widowed mother was not well off, tried to improve her culinary | There Was Net Even a Name Signed to It. knowledge, so that they could dis- pense with “help;” but after meeting and loving Richard the cook-book went into the attic, and Clarice brooded. She was miserable. She feared | every minute that she would say something foolish. O, if be should discover the profundity of her ignor- ance! Then it was that an idea came into her head so staggering that it took complete possession of her. She would write a story anonymously and have it accepted for Richard’s maga- zine! “How do people get stories accept- ed?” she had asked him once. “Why, they try and try, and never say die,” he answered. When he was gone Clarice set her- self laboriously to work upon her plot. It was a love story, of course, and the heroine was very much like Clarice, just as the hero was like Richard. With trembling fingers Clare ice dropped the precious missive in the letter-box, and then she waited. On the fifth morning a long envel- ope came to her. Clarice’s heart beat high. She opened it. Out tumbled her story, and, inside the folded pages was a printed notice as follows: “The editors of ‘The Leviathan’ re- gret that, after careful consideration, they are unable to use the MS waich you have so kindly submitted.” There was not even a name signed to it. Clarice spent that afternoon in her room crying. She did not care about the story, but she knew that she would never make a wife for Richard. Later that day hope revived. The next morning the village stationer got a fresh order for foolscap. Two days afterward a second story was posted. This time the hero was still more like Richard, but the heroine was not in the least like Clarice. Clarice was blonde and petite, and the heroine, Ada Maltravers, was tall, brunette, and statuesque. Evidently this sort of heroine also failed to meet the approbation of the stony-hearted editor, for in four days’ time Ada Maltravers was back on Clarice’s hands. Poor, desperate Clarice resolved to learn her fate from Richard. She would write him a letter, under the name she had adopted—George Black —and post it from Hazelton, the next village. She wrote a pitiful inquiry as | to the cause for the rejection of her ' two stories. “Tell me frankly,” she '’ wrote, “whether I have the ability to write stories that ‘The Leviathan’ will like.” The appeal touched Richard’s heart; and because, with all his wisdom, he still suffered from the folly known us; youth, he wrote back to the author. | Delicately, tactfully, mercilessly he! pointed out the deficiencies in his | work. The immaturity, the ignorance | of life, the inexperience of the themes | with which he dealt, Kichard expound- ed And in the final gentence he ad- , vised him to wait awhile before offer- ‘ ing stories, and then not to offer them to “The Leviathan.” Three days after writing this letter, ! which Littlefield had expected would | gently, decisively, and kindly turn his | correspondent’s thoughts from the | literary road, the editor received a | letter which made him tear his hair and then thrust on his hat and rush wildly from the office to the railway | | station. It was a ten-page letter, but it might all have been contained in a couple of | lines. Clarice had written that she | could not marry him. Eight hours later a wild-eyed, dis-| heveled figure, which nobody on earth could have mistaken for a famous editor, was hammering on the front doorY of Clarice’s house. Clarice’s i mother opened and recoiled in amaze- | | ment. | “Clarice!” muttered the great edi- ! tor. “Is it you, Richard! , with a sick headache.” | “I must see her at once,” he blurted " out. Clarice’s mother had gone through the experiences of youth herself. So, instead of thrusting him out into the night, she led him in and put him upon a lounge, and, ten minutes later, Clarice appeared, red-eyed, but tan- J She's in bed, 4 talizingly pretty as ever. IR 41 B3, X -~ s ST | | cacity and prolixity. | *What Joes This mean!” exclaimed Richard Littlefield, holding out the i letter. “It means,” sobbed Clarice, “that— that I am George Black.” “George Black!” echoed the editor. “Ye-es,” wept Clarice. “You told me that my st-stories weren’t any good, and that from the im-im-immatu-turity of them you gu-guessed I was a wo-wo- woman, and that I couldn’t write for the ‘Lev-v-viathan.'” A light burst in on Littlefield’s an- guished soul. “Good heavens!” he muttered. “But why did you want to write stories?” “Because I knew you thought me ice, “and I knew I wasn’t a fit wife for you, and I wanted to sh-show you that I was capable of becoming a I-lliterary person.” “Dearest,” murmured her flance, drawing her upon his knee, “if you knew how I detest literary persons! That's my business, Clarice, not my life. I loved you just for yourself. I should hate to have you writing sto- ries. And now I've got to catch the night train back. Our engagement’s still flourishing, isn't it?” And Clarice’s happy smile and kiss answered his question. That was how the cook-book came to be restored to tbe post of honor upon the bookshelf again. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) NOT SATISFIED WITH SPIRITS Maurice Maeterllnck Would Have Ghosts More Specific in the In- formation They Give. Maurice Maeterlinck, writing about life after death in the Fortnightly Re- view, makes these remarks about the so-called “spirits” that are material- ized by mediums: “It is a remarkable thing that they appear to be much more interested in events here below than in those of the world wherein they move. “They seem, above all, jealous in es- ; tablishing their identity, to prove that they still exist, that they recognize us, that they know everything; and, tol convince us of this they enter into , the most minute and forgotten details with extraordinary precision, perspi- “They are also extremely clever at unravelling the intricate family con- | nections of the person actually ques- tioning them, of any of the citters, or even of a stranger entering the room. They recall this one's little infirmities, that one's maladies, the eccentricities or tendencies of a third. “They have cognizance of events’ taking place at a distance , but there comes from it all no breath, no Llimmnr of the h(rnaftrr, not cven and vague 1_\ waited for “We shall be told that the mediums are visited only by inferior spirits, in- | capable of tearing themselves from earthly cares and soaring toward greater and loftier ideas. It is possie ble; and no doubt we are wrong to be- lieve that a spirit stripped of its body can suddenly be transformed and reach in a moment the level of our im-. aginings; but could they not at least inform us where they are and what they feel and what they do?” \ | | The True Banana. Few people, according to an ex- perienced fruit dealer, know a true banana when they see one. Bananas more than four iuches long ceass to be bananas and become plantains. Real bananas grow in Central South Africa, the Canary islands and Mada- | gascar. 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