Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 4, 1914, Page 6

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WK, MCRdB Owner and Manufac- Real turers’ Agent Entate Brokerage--Real Estate TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO BELL, WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYEXR TELL US WHAT YOU WANT T¢ BVY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLER Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building Lakeland ¥ ] Florida MAYES GROCERY (0. “Reduce the cost of living,” our motto for nineteen fourteen Will sell staple groceries, hay, feed, Wilson-Toomer Fertilizers, all kinds of shipping crates and baskets, and seed potatoes, etc., at reduced prices Mayes Grocery Co. LAKELAND, FLORIDA Bt R B R s S MM : IMPERIOUS MISS COLBY EVENING TELEGRAM. LAKELAND, FLA., By JUNE GAHAN. Miss Saxon Colby was twenty years old. She was Imperious and self-willed and obstinate. Her father hadn’t very much money, and she wasn't very good looking, but the attitude of the girl was that of one born to a throne and expecting every minute to recelve a check of several billion dollars from Mr. Rocke- feller, Miss Saxon had had plenty of ad- mirers, but had become interested in none. About the time she ought to have been interested in a young man she would give him the cold snub and he would vanish and another take his place. There were people who called the girl a flirt and a coquette, but she waen’t that. It was that she had not yet met the right young man, No one had ever clashed with her; no one, not even her father, had dared to say to her: “Who are you to think yourself| the salt of the earth? You have a passable figure; you are as good look- ing as most of the girls in the depart- ment stores. You have only a falr education. Why do you swagger? Why do you snub? What right have you to say that one shall do this and do that?” Three different people appeared at Willow Springs by the same train. | There was her ladyship, Miss Saxon Colby. There was Professor Peters, profes- sor of mathematics at a certain col- lege. He was fifty-five years old, and was taking a vacation for the first| time in fifteen years. There was Gilbert Needham, a suc- cessful author, who was just then very much before the public, The professor and Mr. Needham put up at a hotel, while Lady Saxon Colby stopped with friends at a private house. The professor put in much of his | time wandering over the roads nndf flelds. Mr. Needham sat on the ve- randa and smoked and took a walk now and then. Miss Saxon drove out! in a pony cart or an auto, and fre- quented the hotel more or less. At | an early date she and the young man | were introduced. After they had sized each other up he said to himself: “Rather nice looking, but she's snob- | bish and imperious.” “He’s a very clever author, but in private life he may have a lot of traits ! to be criticized,” Miss Saxon said of him, It has happened thousands of times, | and it will happen thousands more, | that a man and a woman who are an- tagonistic at a first meeting, and! rather wish to avoid each other, will be thrown together in spite of them selves. One day young Needham was almost knocked off his feet by an invitation | from Lady Saxon to take her for a| walk to pick daisies. In his mind he complimented her on dropping her usual attitude, and thereupon he made | himself as agreeable as possible. It was not long, however before he came | to suspect that she had a plan. They had gathered a great bunch of daisies and were sitting with their bdcks to a thicket, when she remarked | “1 suppose you have r(‘u'lvod lots of flattery over your so-called literary | achievements?” “Certain people have spoken kindly of my efforts,” was the reply. “There are always toadies. As a literary effort I must say that | r(-gnrd‘ your books as dreary failures.” | | “They may be from your stand-| point.” “Which, I am sure, is the correct‘ one. Most anyone can hit the taste of | the rabble.” “1 beg pardon, Miss Colby, but some of the highest and most competent critics have spoken well of my work.” “But my criticisms will stand, sir, | and they are most unfavorable. As an author you are a failure!” “Thanks!" After that there was nothing to do ! but walk back to the hotel, and they hadn’t progressed ten rods when Pro- fessor Peters emerged from the thicket with a grin on his face. He ! had heard every word. Of course, the author’s feelings were hurt, but he realized that malice was the incentive, and he tried to be cheer- ful over it. It was only three days later when he was asked if he could drive an auto. Upon his replying in the affirmative, Lady Saxon sald: “I wish to go over to Hill City on an errand, but the chauffeur is ill. You will drive me over.” It was a direct command, and for a moment the young man was inclined to refuse. Then he thought of the rudeness, and relented. It was a rough road across the hills, and the auto was started at about ten miles an hour. It should not have been even that much. They were about to cross a stone bridge on which sat a man with his head down when her ladyship called out: “Why this dallying?" “It isn't safe to go faster” “Are you also a failure as a chaut- l feur?” “l think 1 bad road.’ “If you do not at once increase the speed I shall get out Iul walk!” The speed » and as the bo threatening a man on the d grinned. It am a good judge of a mnh Y ‘l‘ 1 disaster every | bridg | was the profes | 1 looke Her ladyst Hill City with wmd servant t a tragedy. reached | On the jand after a little fumbling around | finally over the sunken log and turned i every day until it sent for him. APRIL 4, 1914, return the pace would have been the same, but she commanded: “Four miles an hour will be fast enough. I wish to view the scenery.” “But there will be a friend at the hotel waiting for me,” he protested. “He or she can wait!” “But I must—" “If you attempt to drive faster than that I shall get out and walk!" The gait was made at four miles, and not another word was spoken be- tween them. “I'll snub the life out of him!” sald the girl to herself. “I'll hate her as long as I live!” said the young man to himself. Mr, Needham and Professor Peters were just bowing acquaintances. Their ways seemed to lie far apart, and therefore the author was more than astonished after dinner that evening when the professor asked him if he did not wish to take a walk. When they were alone the man of mathe- matics sald: “Miss Colby might be changed into & very lovable girl.” “You have noticed her, then?” “Slightly. If she was made over she would make a nice wife for some young man.” “I wouldn't marry her if she was the last woman on earth,” exclaimed Mr. Needham. “Tut, tut, young man! mission here."” They talked for an hour. Here was a dry-as-dust old mathematician who had never married, never had a ro- mance and didn't expect to have, ad- | vising a young man what to do to get his case in the hande of Cupid. 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The professor said she would, and no attention must be paid to her. When the boat scraped over a sunk- en log and shipped a barrel of water the “‘crew” uttered five shrieks in suc- cession and held out her hands, I'he professor said there would be at least five screams, The boat ran upstream and down-' stream, and from bank to bank, and | bottom-side up. The professor said it would come to that Now was the young man's chance. He plunged in for the body and swam ashore with it and bossed the job of tirst aid and so on, and sent it flowers Several months later, when profes- sor saw a certain announcement in a ! society paper he grinned and whis- pered: “Didn’t 1 tell him so!" ' (Copyright, 1914, by the MecClure News- paper Syndicate,) ! COULD WREAK DIRE HAVOC ' Former Ambauador Whlle Recom- mends Limitations on Aerial Mili- tary Operations. Andrew D, White, former ambassa- dor to Germany, and chairman of the American delegation to the first peace conference, says in a letter to Joseph H. Choate that a third Hague peace conference is highly desirable and that | the efforts of the national administra- tion to bring about such a meeting would receive the support of all Ameri- cans regardless of party. Doctor White's health will not permit him to attend a meeting designed to promote such a conference. He says in his letter: “One burning question left unsettled by the second conference was the partial or complete substitution of con- tact or floating torpedoes for ships in maintaining blockades. The question is rapidly coming. up as to whether aerial navigation shall be limited to obtaining military information or ex- tended to attacks upon fortified or in- vested places, or whether it shall be given full power to spread dev astation over peaceful states. “Portable magazines containing high explosives can be so dropped from flying machines as to wipe out snme of the largest cities in the world any power should in the future bng'ln a war in a manner so doubtfully regu lar as that in which Japan began h»r war with Russia, the nation cla.lmln,,. | to be aggrieved may easily insist on | being absolved from those poor re- Straints at present relied upon and g0 to any extreme in projecting explo- sives into the defenseless cities of her enemy, and blotting out some of the greatest achievements of cnlhuuon.“ Act of Kindness. 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