Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 2, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO UNCLE SAM GETS WONDERFUL BUTTERFLIES £ AMAS & W William Schaus of New York has presented to the Natlonal museum at Washington one of the finest and most complete collections of butterflies and moths in the world, to the making of which he has devoted many years. In the illustration, Mrs. J. C. Crawford, wife of the assistant curator, {8 seen arranging some of the 200,000 specimens, and behind her is one of the butter flles which measures 11 inches from tip to tip of his wings. A A A AN A A AAAAAAAAAANAAAAAAAAANA IS WONDERFUL PALACE OF HORTICULTURE LCopyright, il, by Punama Facitic Internationa busition Company. The superb Palace of Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific International jexposition in San Francisco in 1915 will be surmounted by a vast dome of |glass, supported with immense steel trusses. The dome will be 186 feet in fheight and 152 feet in diameter. fwill play on the inside of the dom present the appearance of a gig: fevery color of the rainbow. 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With an open letter in his hand, just received by rural delivery, Captain Sholto, retired, walked straight up to Judge Disbrow, late oft the bench, and sald: “Judge, you are a swindler, sir.” “And you are a rascal, eir!” was the prompt reply. “You are a llar, sir!” “And you are a coward, sir!” “I challenge you to meet me on the field, sir!” “And I cheerfully accept, sir!” Both men were over sixty years old; both were of good character and their country grounds adjoined. The duel would have been fought had they been able to find seconds. They realized what the law would do to all participants. Two old men who have been neigh- bors for fifteen years don’t call names all of a sudden. While they had been neighbors and had daily aseoclation, thero was a suppressed ill-feeling. Captain Shoito was the last comer. When he had his land surveyed it was found that the judge had eight inches of his real estate. The judge said that the surveyor wase a dunder-head, and that he would have a new survey, but he had never brought it about, Later on the captain had built a barn which the judge claimed rested upon his land by several inches. The cap- tain was to call in a surveyor, but had procrastinated. The captain had chickens. The judge had a dog. The judge had a colored cook. The captain had an Irish gardener. The captain had a daughter, and the judge had a son, and until they were old enough to be sent away to school they were always quarreling and making up. But the outbreak had come at last, and that from a peaceful sky. The two old men had been sit- ting and smoking their pipes together when the captain remarked: “By the way, judge, some one was telling me that you owned Plum island, over on the sound.” “I do, judge.” “How large is it?” “Thirty acres.” “Good fishing there?” “The very best, and shooting, too.” “Must be a good place to pass a l ‘Ted bird to trim a hat, and he brought LAND, FLA., APRIL 2, 1914. The judge had to go up to the city for a couple of days, and his son se- cured the services of a competent sur- veyor. The judge hadn’t eight inches of the Sholto land. He hadn’t within half an inch of what his deed called for. The captain’s barn did not rest upon the judge’s land, but was within his own line by an inch. “Father has got to build a runway and keep the chickens shut up,” said Gladys. “And our dog has got so old that we expect to find him dead any morn- ing,” added young Disbraw. “Our cook has got to amend her conduct or she must go.” “Ditto our gardener.” To bring about a reconciliation looked as easy as pie, but it proved anything but that, “He called me a swindler!" claimed the judge. “He called me a rascal!” exclaimed the captain. “He called me a liar!” “He called me a coward!"” Both old men saw that they were in the wrong, and both felt ashamed of it, but what was to be done? Some one must make the first advance. “Never in this world!” exclaimed the captain. “I'd be devoured by wolves first!” Things might have hung on this way for goodness knows how long had not fate taken a hand. 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It had horns and four legs. It bad a bellow. It had a desire to take human life. The captain and the judge had not seen each other yet when the bull saw them. There wae just one tree to save their lives, and both sought it. They were not Alpine climbers, those old, old men, but the way they made the bark fly as they went up that tree almost stopped the bull in his tracks. And for the next half hour the bull raged bemeath and the two men cussed above. Each cussed to himselt and each cussed heartily. And then the young folks were seen returning Alonza Logan J W.Townsend | LOGAN ¢ TOWNSEND BUILDING CONTRACTORS » We Furnish Surety Bonds On Al Contractsfi If you want a careful, consistent. and re-} liable estimate on the construction of your building, SEE US IMMEDIATELY. month with a little party?” “I've tried it and know.” “What's your price?”’ “Not a cent less than $2,000.” “Well, have the deed made out to- morrow and I'll hand you a check.” Four days after Captain Sholto had become the owner of Plum island that letter came. It was from a filsherman who knew him, and who wrote: “Tell Judge Disbrow that the late great storm washed away half of Plum island.” The captain gasped for breath. He had just bought Plum island and paid a good price for it! Did the judge know what the storm had done when he made the sale?” “He did, the old {diot—he did!"” was exclaimed. “He had heard the news and wanted to stick me! Halt my island gone! A clear thousand dollar swindle! The miserable swindler shall , pass the rest of his days behind the ' bars!” And the Son of Mars rushed to the | combat. At elghteen years of age Miss Gladys Sholto was a student at Fair- port seminary. At twenty years of age Royal Disbrow was a student at Fairport college. There had been something of an antagonistic feeling between them as each was bound to support the contentlon of"the parent, but this had never flamed up. The day after the row over Plum island the captain wrote to his daughter: “l have at last discovered what an unhung scoundrel Judge Disbrow is, and 1 forbid you to notice his son in any manner. Cut him cold and dead it he dares to bow to you!" And the judge wrote to his son: “Captain Sholto has finally revealed himself in his true colors. Avoid his daughter at all costs. Will write par- | ticulars later.” The schools were a mile apart, and ! the students met only on the streets of the village. The two in question had not met for a month when their respective letters came. “How silly!” was the comment of each after reading the missive; and they straightway started out to hunt each other up. By luck they met at | the post office. “I shall pay no attention to what father says,” observed Miss Gladys as they talked the matter over. “And I shall not let it affect me in the least,” replied the young man. “They have no right to demand that we break our friendship because they have a quarrel.” “Certainly not.” Until that moment neither had thought to apply the term friendship to their relations. Their attitudes had been respectful but indifferent. Now all at once there came a bond between them. They looked at each other with different eyes, they thought of each other in a different way. When they went home on their summer vacation l | daughter-in-law!" j or obduracy in his material, or some | it quite different from what he had TELEPHONE 66 Futch & Gentry Bldg from their red bird excursion. They had been to the grove and a mile be- yond. They had visited for a few minutes with a nice man and wife, and both the nice man and his wife had kissed Mies Gladys and shaken hands with Royal as they came away. There was bellowing and shouting. There was pawing and beckoning. “Why, it's our fathers up a treel” was exclaimed in chorus. “And a bull has driven them there!” The situation was realized at once, and Royal crept to a position where the birdshot would do ite duty and fired and the bull went off on the gal- lop. The old men had barely reached the ground when they clasped hands and apologized; and a minute later one was saying to Royal: “You can take her, young man, with my full consent!” And the other to the girl: “I shall be proud of you as my . M OUR WEEKLY LIMERICK There is a man, by name, Who is wise and saves eve: Mr. Denny, I'V penny. [T Because Pric are lower, “‘But you see,” said the young man a8 he took Gladys' hand, “we didn't know how long the quarrel would last, and so while hunting for red birds we hunted for a justice of the peace, and—found one!” (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) And’the dollars he saves—they are many. CREATOR NEVER OWN MASTER Yields to Inspiration, But Rarely Ig Certain What Form His Com- pleted Work Will Take. The creative impulse does not itself know the next step it will take, or the next form that will arise, any more than the creative artist deter- mines beforehand all the thoughts and forms his inventive genius will bring forth. He has the impulse or the inspiration to do a certain thing, to let himself go in a certain direction, but just the precise form his creation will take is as unknown to him as to you and me. 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Atlantic. e, Not Guilty, The man had been accused of com- mitting an annoyance by flashing a | W they refused to take up the quarrel, but they began to do things, Miss Gladys wrote a letter the answer to which she smilingly showed her fa- ther “Some months ago,” it read, “a good half of Plum ieland was w ashe sistent SAVER. { mirror in the eves of passersby, “You are quite mistaken,” he said | to the big policeman. “I haven't any | mirror. What these people saw was | the reflection of my shining serge coat—I'm & married man and the coat |is four years old.” i Jl i Lakeland Ice Company Phone 26 'WILSOM | PHCNE 71 OPPOSITE DEPOLE: i fo ti d away | % " in a big storm. Two weeks ago we had | And, turning hastily, he threw the another terrific gale, and lo, it not | 922208 reflection from his back and only restored the isiand, but added elbows into the policeman’s dazzled five acres to it! Tell your father I eyes. And by the time the officer re- can find him a customer at §3,00,» | €OVered he was well on his way.— | Cleveland Plain Dealer. 0 as} h b b