Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 4, 1914, Page 2

T — A o A A R O T o B NS R i ] ’} Wil DR R b B o B B o ol 2 Tl W ——————— BEFORE [nventorypALE @ Cut Price Men’s $1 Shirts for 79 Cut Price Men’s $1.50 Shirts $1.19 $2.50 Monroe Hats for $3.00 Herald Hats for $4 and $5 Stetson Hats for. ...$2.89 Cut Price on Wool Dress Goods. 1-2 Price on Coat Suits and less. Cut Price on Sweaters. A Good time to doll up for a small price U. G. BATES @ g B b @ & 3 Jist Look At This! i Bt [§ All our $3.00 and $3.50 Hats going at $1.50 That; were $3.50, $5.00. @ oS Indng o 3 & - $ & oo dpedifidroodrrf i O SRR g dr S B dn e fro o o YN .00 hele ,z Our Spring Styles of Hart : I Schaffner and Marx Clothing are { H in and 'greally reduced in price. . Boys’ Suits and Pants are way wn in prices. Now is your time ! to g=t Fresh goods very cheap. P Phb P depd HOEHCHHOITHOCHMO AN JOS. LeVAY The Hub The Home ot Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing Y - ord ) i < THE UNLVERS AL CAR Now is your time To Buy an Automobile We have in stock twenty touring cars, with six more touring and six roadsters on side tracks. Ford Touring cars, $610.50; Road- g $360.50, delivered anywhere ! Y in Polk county. KELAND AUTOMOBILE AND SUPPLY CO. sters, Lakeland, Fla. [ T L et | | ) ¥ ¢ f § ! PHE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., FEB. ‘4, 1914. \ LFE FIR A LFE By FRANK FILSON. Ivan Basilieff, the Russian consul in a city of the middle west, paced his library incessantly, listening to the murmurs of the doctors’ voices in the next room. His oaly daughter, Olga, had been ii for weeks of a mysterious Giscase, wiich had slowly wasted her until 1hera seemed no chance of sav- ing her lif2, Olga was seventeen, and, since Ler mother's death, she had been the apple of his eye. The cousul was just about to rush distractedly into the room where the consultation of speclalists was being held, wken the door opened and they filed in. “You can save her?” cried the con- sul eagerly. “Therc 15 only one man can save her,” answered the “That is Arnheim.” “The Jewish specialist of the East side,” exviained another. “He is the only man in America who has made a study of this rare disease. I think we had better call him into consulta- tion.” “Do,” said the comsul, wearily. “And teli him I shall not consider the expense 4 “I sho'd not mention the expense,” advisel the senior surgeon. “Doctor Arnheim gives most of his time to the poor free.” “As you will,” muttered the consul. “Telephciie him to come immediately.” But when they got Arnheim on the telephone, they listened to a brief mes- sage which, when repeated, caused the consul to explode with anger. “Go to him!” he exclaimed. “Why should I go to him? Isn’t my daugh- ter's life worth more than the lives of all the thousands of wretches who swarm in these parts? Tell him to come at ouce, and I'll pay him double what Le could make in a month.” But tie doctors could not get into commuri-ation with Arnheim again, and finally, fretting and fuming, the consul crlered his automobile and senior doctor. 4 He Was in a Different Mood Now. was driven down to those parts which he had rightly cheracterized as “un- savory.” The East side of mcst middle west- ern cities is the least pretentious in appearance, and the squalor of the streets through which M. Basilieff passed sent his memory whirling back among the slums of Minsk. The con- sul had been governor of that city long before—fifteen years before, in fact, and he had then been in high favor with his government, and a far more responsible person than he was to- day. He had had many hatreds; he kad hated Catholics, Armenians, here- ties, and Jews with impartial fervor. He had secretly instigated the abom- inable Jewish massacres which had sent fifty thousand homeless men and women flying to America for refuge, after their children, fathers, mothers, friends had been sla tered before their eves, Amien~ these had been Arnheim, then a peor lad with a pen- chant for medicine which he could not gratify until he reached the free shores of America. Thuat, pe rhaps, ex- | piained the doctor's gruffness; but how was Ii2tf to know that? doctor lived. The door was always open. Through it that day had passed two hundred of the poor, whom Arn- heim treated with impartial kindness. ' When the consul sought to pass into his office an attendant politely re- strained him. ¥Say that I am M. Basilieff, his im- perial majesty’s consul here,” ex- claimed the visitor angrily. “Everybody must takg his turn,” re- plied the attendant, suavely, Because he loved his daughter more than his pride, M. Basilieff stewed in the anteroom for two long hours, while those who were waiting passed in be- fore him. At last, when his turn came, he was shown in. Doctor Arnheim, bland, civil, but sharp, bade him sit down, Almost humbly—for he recognized that here his rank availed him noth- ing—the consul complied, and soon he was describing his daughter’s illness as though the East side doctor were one of the imperial physicians of the court. Arnheim listened in silence. “When can you come?” pleaded the consul. “Now,” answered Arnheim. | and then a downward AGE TWO if he had had, it would have been im- AUAUAYAAYLAUALANASLASEA | poggible to discover the calibre of é'—_——'—— the bullet, which had torn a jagged b4 hole through the skull and passed out near the nape of the neck. “All at once I_.had an idea. The body had not yet been buried, though the inquest was over. It occurred to me that a bullet fired at such short range would have had velocity enough | to have drilled a clean instead of a jagged hole in the head. I examined | the wound and found, not only thatl the wound was hopelessly torn, so far as measuring its size went, but that, instead of being parallel with the earth, or horizontal, it had a down- ward angle of some 35 degrees. “That discovery sent me wild with eagerness. It was easy to deduce from this that the bullet had been fired from a considerable distance. As ! you doubtless know, géntlemen, at all but point blank ranges the sight on the rifle is elevated, so that the ball, in its trajectory, takes first an upward course. In other words, I had here a triangle, one angle of which measured 35 degrees, and the base line, as I surmised, about 1,500 yards—that is to say, the dis- tancs between the murdered man and Jones' cabin. The two other sides, of course, rep.esented the ascending and the desceniing lines of the bullet's flight, “The rifle, I deduced from this, must have heen sighted to 1,150 yards. “Three hurdred yards from Jones’ cabin there was a small dry water- course in which a man might easily lie concealed and have a clear line of sight upon the front porch of the Bright house. If my surmises were cerrect, Jones had lain here and from this spot had fired the fatal shot. “The district attorney consented to take a wall of inspection with me. I explained to him that I wanted to look over the ground; on the way I told him of my theory. He rediculed the idea, but together we made our way into the swampy bottom of the dried- up rivulet. Suddenly we came upon foot tracks crnverging toward a single spot from either bank. I stooped and O POPORQPQA o L o v P e O OSRORAe I OPCPOSLSOSOeD scraped up a few handfuls of earth. FEIPPPP P P After a mcment I came upon the . ;N rifle barrel. =1 3 A b “When we had disinterred it we found taat it was sighted to 1,150 MESH B AG S ALE yards, “That i8 all, gentlemen. Jones, sur- W. prised. mace a, complete and dramatic H * [ : confescion, and afterward paid the © are o.fferm_a our lme of “05h Baf penalty of his crime. But, as I was at a special price to make room for t saying, sentiment has its proper place ] 4 . : in law, and if sentiment hadn’t led me sDrlng Ime..‘ Th's Offer does not h: to undertake young Howard's de- long- YA pleasure to sh. w Gooe fense he would have died a shameful death and Lorna Bright would not have been a happy wife for nearly C O LE & H forty years.” (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) T e Jewelers and Optometri | RUN WIRES UNDER GROUND Ptometrists Lakeland, F: Telephone Cable System, Connecting Ten Large Cities, Put Beyond SRR PP DPDPPP PSS EOPI BB B Reach of Disaster by Storm, E One of the big intercity under- ground telephone cable systems in this country, with ten large cities on the main trunk line, has just been com- pleted, and for the first time the tele- phone of the northeastern part of the United States is safe from the winter's snows and winds, This underground telephone cable runs for 450 miles from Boston, the headquarters of the American tele- phone and Telegraph company, to Washington, the capital of the nation. It runs through and connects the cities of Boston, Providence, Hartford, New York, Jersey City, Trenton, Phil- adelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington, Practically the first serious consid- eration of the necessity of such a step was given after the blizzard of March 4, 1908, when so many cities were cut off entirely from the outside world, both in transportation and communica- tion., In this actual construction of the cable line, in forty-mile lengths, the amount of material used was enor- mous. There were 4,690 reels of cable required, with a total weight of 8,900 tons, a load for 392 freight cars. The weight of the copper wire was 5,860, 000 pounds and the total length of the wires is 347,424,000 feet. The lead | sheaths for the wires total 11,060,000 pounds and would cover an area of 169,400 square yards. Each individual wire is wrapped | ; of the paper used would cover an area i of 2,900,000 square yards, In the cable i | are seventy-four pairs of duplex cable The cousul got out of his carriage | wires, and entered the house in which the | 'than the Hon. Mr. Birrell, and we along its entire length with a specially | prepared tissue paper, and the amount | —e Poor Augustine, Militancy never showed itself to a less considerate mood than when it heaved a dead cat at Augustine Bir- rell, secretary for Ireland. No one in the British cabinet is more careful of and grateful to the amenities of life know he particularly shrinks from dead cats as hideous, however much | he might admire a handsome Persian on the hearthrug. The wild ladies of England have saddened his life enough as it is. One of his former experiences was to be kicked in the shin. We know that Mr. Birrell particularly dislikes this form of assault, even as he dislikes having his hat crushed down over his face, which, we believe, was another outrage to which he was subjected. We regard Mr. Birrell as a gentle- man who infinitely would prefer to have the house of parliament burned over his head than to accept such af- fronts to his personal dignity, and it is his fate that no militant ever does him a dignified damage, but always puts him to an annoying slight.—Chi- cago Tribune. PR PO S0t -» TTTPPPRR 2 r T I r T TP P TTPOPPPPVTPROPP _ . cpm v rrPT T ———————————————— —————— e e o o S A e ————— ———————————— L 'C‘C-»Q.i FIRST NATIONAL BAN “One of My 385 Banks My examiners always spg, in the highest terms of assets and management this bank.” s L L L, t Good Taste is the Keyfio of our line of Postcards, Folders, Navelties, Party Decoraions,etc. For St. Valentine’s Da . But they are inexpensive also The Lakeland Book Stor Benford & Steitz L L] :‘ LEAN, FRES! 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