Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 7, 1914, Page 2

4 GAROLINE LEE'S SIGN By EDWARD BREENE. On one of the side streets near the center of town there is a curious old gray house. It stands far back from the street and looks for all the world like a sour old man who severely disap- proves of his new- er and more “fiighty” neigh- bors. Its fence has long since fallen into decay and is held up here and there by a groan- ing post or a ‘ereaking wire. Off the rickety old porch hangs a neat new shingle, bearing in bold black letters the following: *“I don't want no niggers hangin’ round here and I don’t want nothing to do with niggers nohow.” It is signed “Caroline Lee.” Now, to a person born with almost as much curiosity as a cat, such & sign is like a red rag to a bull. How- ever, for a long time, in spite of all I could do, 1 never had a glimpse of the occupant, though I often heard a somewhat cracked yet unmistakably darky voice singing “At the cross, At the cross.” Then finally, one happy afternoon I saw her, little and old and wiry, black as the ace of spades, clad in calico skirt and bright red sweater, and wielding an ax with all the vigor of a farm hand. Of course I was over- joyed at seeing her, but I was still a long way from knowing what the sign meant. 1 thought of every way to be- come friends with her, but none seemed to suit, until finally I had a happy thought—her dog. . When 1 meet a cat she always gives me one look and immediately remem- bers urgent business elsewhere, But every dog seems to recognize in me a boon companion, so from that time on my path was clear. Every day as I went by I'd have a visit with the dog, while his mistress peeked surrepti- tlously from behind the curtains. At last 1 was rewarded by a smile and a tentative “Mawnin’.” And such a smile! It was for all the world like the sun breaking through a fog. In this way matters went until I -came to know her better, and finally one day I took my fate in my hands and asked her to explain the sign. I had been afraid she would take my request as an offense, but instead she smiled broadly and invited me to “set down on the porch step.” Needless to say, 1 was only too willing to “set.” “You see,” she said, “it's neah eight- €l ycehs siuce my ole man died down in Nashville and lef' me with six chil- len and nothin’ to keep me on. But lawd, Ah didn’t care; ’pears like Ah knowed ev'yone in Nashville, so Ah Jes’ whirled in an’ went to work. Ah raised ev'y one of them chillen, and when they got married they jes’ picked up one after nuther and lef’ me, Well, Ah didn’t min’ that, but looks like ev'y time any one of them chillen or their husban’s got out o work—and that's mighty neah all the time—they come to stay with me. Ah stood that for a long time, and then Ah got kinda tired, so jes’ went to Missus White, that Ah worked fo', and tole her Ah'd made up my mind to light out. She was a powerful fine woman, Mise White wuz, and she tole me she was a-comin' out heah, and would bring me 'long, She didn't half think Ah'd come, but 'pears like Ah'd got kinda desp'rit, so Ah come, and the only thing Ah brung wuz mah lit- | tle ole grip and mah dawg. “Well, Ah got along fine heah, too; you see, Miss' White knowed lots o' people roun’' heah, and Ah had all the work Ah could do. “But lawd, Ah hadn't been heah more'n two months when them pesky chillen o' mine comes pilin’ in on me like the wrath o' God. Seems like they'd been writin’ to some fool nig- &ah heah, and they just got it into their halds to come. They didn't have no money, 8o Ah had to let em stay till they got work. An’ finally it was Jes’ as bad as ever; got so Ah couldn't | keep enough to eat in the house to feed mah dawg, let alone me. Ah +didn't know what to do for a while, | and then one day Ah got to thinkin’, and went down to the sign man and had him paint me that air sign, Them fool niggahs done took the hint, too; an’ Ah hain't never see’d hide nor hair uf 'em since.” “But don't you get lonesome for them sometimes?’ 1 asked. “Lawd, honey, if you'd been both- ered with them like Ah have, you wouldn't think Ah'd evah git lone- some; sides,” she added, with a twinkle in her eye, “they’s enough white folks comes in heah to ask me about that sign to keep me from evah glttin’ lonesome.” Franco-British Entente. At the distribution at the Manslon House, London, of prizes to success ful students In the competition organ- fzed by the National Soclety of French Masters in England, M. Paul Cambon, the French ambassador, re- marked upon the rapid increase of candidates, who this year numbered 6,000. The ambassador said it was in- | teresting to note that the same phe nomenon had occurred in France. The young French people were taking up | more and more the study of English Jetters. That was a token of the “rapprochement” between the two oountries whoee relations had become united by feelings of ocordial sym- pathy. For sale by Henley & Henley. NEWEST IN FURNITURE REMARKABLY PRETTY THINGS HAVE BEEN DESIGNED. Breakfast Table Set Not Unreasonably Expensive, and Durable—Fern Stand a Delightful Accessory for Dining Room. An inexpensive Austrian ware for the breakfast table is called Rusti- cana. It comes in many odd shapes. though the same decoration holds throughout. It is cream colored, with garlands of large, brightly colored Ger- man flowers. Pitchers are from 25 cents to $1. cents aplece; cups, 15 cents; egg trays, $1; platters, $1; bowls, 60 cents, An attractive breakfast table s’ shown in the {llustration. in design and takes up little space, as ! the four chairs are low of back and | are made to exactly fill the four quar- ter-spaces of the table. It is also a fine card table. The amazingly low | price for table and chairs is $21. It is ! 1 in dull old oak. An oblong, three-shelved stand, with 'a handle stretching above the top | shelf, was seen at $12. This was siml- lar to a muffin stand, but newer of de- sign. A delightful dining room accessory is a fern stand. It has a zinc lined flower box, and i8 about the height of an ordinary table. These fern stands are often very handsome. One of ma- hogany with cane insets was seen at $17. This had square ends. And one with rounded box ends cost $20. A dull oak stand was $11, A manogany tea-wagon, which is shown in the last drawing, costs $20, and another one in oak and cane, with a cretonne-filled tray, is $25. Two little high-chairs for the babies | were most delightful little things—ot mahogany, both of them. One at $22 ! was a chippendale, and the other was a windsor at $12.—Philadelphia Rec- ord. Checks the Vogue. | Checks are used almost as liberally | as etripes and plaids. Black-and-white | the newest cuts. They are always a { good cheice for the women who need not be very economical. For the wo- man who can have only one suit the checked one is hardly the right choice. It is much more noticeable than one of plain color, and therefore the owner ghe would tire of a plain colored suit. Moreover, black-and-white checked woolen goods does grow soiled rather quickly. Small as the amount of white 80 it 18 hardly to be wondered at that —— ! | | | | | | ! On the frontof every carten and on the label of every botile of the GENUINE P ——DR. BELL'S — NE-TAR-HONE you will find the BELL In a circle. Granny Metealfe, the saze of Western Kentucky, says—"'Startin’ r.zm and staytn’ Tight beats gettin’ right.” 5o, with thess precautions, you know what to buy, and can “Tell By The Bell” 28e, 80c., $1.00, AT DRUC STORES. Yl iz \N\\\\}\\\\\\\\\\!\\\\\\t\w\\%\ IS SN R IR R N A7 | For sale by Henley & Henley. Breakfast plates are 35 . It is odd ' W (% THE ACVANTAGES of one tires of it more quickly than |+ t, seems to be at a glance In such a suit, | it is really half of the whole surface | ther trees that have to hold their | 1t soon needs to be sent to the cleaner. | | investigations H . { clusions drawn, BVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND. FLA, PA{G?_TL_‘_E’________——————___—_——'—_:———/____———'—_ | X D ERAIAIL Y G AL “: /’, ya OF THE NANGO Thrives Well in Tropical Climate and Fruit is of Excellent Quality (By John B. DBcach) The Mango is without ques- {tion the best of all tropical fruts, its improved strains excel botl: in flavor, richness, beauty and eroma. The best peach is in- sipid compared with the best mango, lacking in richness, and watery. It is like comparing “canned” fruit to old-fashioned preserves, put up ‘“pound for pound.” ‘Then there is no fruit which possesses the delicacy and yuality of perfume when ripe that some of these do, and there can be no fruit more beautiful than cheeks. Their rough rind makes ithem good shippers, as the fact tliat they have long been shipped checked street suits are shown in all | irom Bombay to London proves. ‘I he tree is a very vigorous grow- cr, thriving on land too wet for almost any other fruit tree, or too high, dry and poor. Its tough, leathery foliage and springy, elastic branches enable stand wind well, and the fact that its fruit is all formed and matured before the windy {scason renders it well adapted to use as a windbreak for citrus and sutumn and carly winter. The trees generally commence to bloom in January, fand bloom along at irregular in- tervals often into April, some few occurring as late as June. Not all of this fruit sets or reach- es maturity, owing to the attacks of the fungus known as wither- {fruit during the | tip, which is so destructive in cit- 1us orchards. A recently published bulletin from the Agricultural Depart- ment on this subject details thc made and con- and evervbody | interested in the matted should | a- once send for a copy. It seems 'DON'T LET THAT COUGH “HANG ON” Stop 1t now before it gets a hold. Use GE-RAR-DY LUNG BALSAM It’s a speedy remedy for all colds, bronchitis, ete. Price only 25 ets. If your druggist does not keep it write to us for sample. The Phil P. Cresan Co.,Ltd., New Orleans,La. For sale in Lakeland by Hepley & scme of the golden yellow man- voes with their brilliant carmine APRIL 7, 1914... The first time you get a whiff of Stag from some other fellow’s pipe, REMEMBER that Stag’s taste is as good as its fragrance. Try a tin and get a new thrill in smoking. g -‘.‘\‘-\. N > 7 st that this withertip fungus mili- “1ies where this fruit is grown, fand wherever there is much damp, ramy weather during the iod the crop is damaged or de- [the fruit gets larger and the skin !hicker and tougher, it is more [resistant to the entry of the {epores, so that if any one of the various sets of inflorescences that pril (or June) happens to hit a comparatively dry time, the iruit gets a start enough to pull (through and make a crop. This generaly occurs so as to make the ‘crop come in June, but last year {we had fruit in April from Jan- uary bloom, a larger and more general crop in June, and some in August and again in October, the last from June blossom, and mostly confined to the Sundersha 'variety. On the whole, however, the crop was very short, almost a failure with most of the best linported varieties, owing mainly 'to rainy weather and the conse- |quent withertip. For some unac- countable reason the best of all, ':hc Mulgoba variety did not even bloom. In this section but one tor two trees bloomed at all, and Ithen only a chance branch on a Itree. This year all varieties are !blooming profusely, and while [we are having altogether too much rain and heavy dew to give ithe trees much chance unassist- cd, many are following the direc- tions advised in the department bulletin, and we look for a good i crop of fruit in spite of the natur- {2l conditions. So far all trees sprayed are setting and holding fruit nicely, and conditions are the same as the past two seasons, in which the crop was a practical failure. The destruction of the crop so frequently has led to much restricted planting of man co trees of late vears, and now thev are being generally used as the winter varieties of avocado, or citrus trees. If they fail to set a crop, thev still serve as a most ccective windbreak for the grove, and in case they do make a crop it is off before the {stormy winds, In season ot 51!11‘(‘& trying seasons several va- { rietics that had been overshadow- |ed | coming to the front because they make a crop in spite of the fun- ‘;j;u.\: when the trees beside them { succumb. | There are as many varieties of |mango as there are of any other fruit that is propagated by graft- ing or budding, and they vary greatly in size, appearance and flavor. Some are specially val- uable for cooking (like the Sua- dersha), while some are consid- Convenient Packages: 1 ; Size 5-Cent Tin, the Full-Size 10-Cent Tin, the Pound an ALl A LS ALY Half-Pound Tin Humidors and the Pound Glass S5TACG For Pipe and Cigarefle ‘ EVER-LASTING-LY GO tates against the crop in all coun-| blooming and early fruiting per-! [stroyed before it can mature. As! ‘have occurred from January to, these past! in popularity by others, are! The Handy Hali- Humidor. op" et i P ‘¢red great keepers (like the Al- The latter can be | cathered and allowed to ripen in the house; in India they say tha: ‘they keep them two months in a cool place after gathering. , The finest of all is the Mulgoba, phonso). 'vet it seems to be the most un- producer. The depart- ment bulletin reported it to ap- certain {pear quite as resistant to the fun- cus as the other sorts. This may [he so in a general way. I would lrodify it by saying' that it is as ircsismut as the average. DBut then if a tree fails to bloom at all us they did last year there is no However, it makes a good windbreak, and it is so fine that people who know hope of any fruit. it will always want to have them about. Just a word to the new settler: The Mango and Avocado re- quire just the same treatment as do the citrus trees, will grow on the same soil, planted the same cistance, cultivated the same way, and fertilized in the same manner. The latter begins to I ear as soon as the grapefruit, or cften one year earlier, and 1t grows faster. Tt will vield as much fruit as a grapefruit the| same time and hold it almost as long, and the fruit will sell for( as the grapefruit will When the; tree gets to hearing crops it re- quires about twice as much f2:- tilizer as the grapefruit. but then that is a small item. The cause of it is very likely the difference. in the nutritive value of the two| {ruits, the grapeiruit being litt.e else than water, which the avoczl-i | ] do is almost equil to its weight in €ggs. The mango is the ideal wind-| break to be planted all around the giove, trees set 10 to 15 feet apart, or, better, a double row 2~ icet apart breaking joints, the two rows 10 to 15 feet apart. The tree will not stand as much cold as the citrus trees, but with the! aid of the crude oil heaters there 'is no reason in the world why . they cannot be grown safely in | "e latitude of Tampa. In California, they had fruit, {last summer, T am told, on both ithese trees, even after passing it‘.1mu:h the severest freeze that! has ever visited the State, and the| demand for nursery stock is so great that trees that here are liard to sell at $1.50 each there readily command $3.50. If we !11l to make the most of our ad- vantages in this line and let Cali- fernia with her tremendous handicap get ahead of us on the créam of this new industry, it is j hecause we are too slow, too, dead slow.—Florida Grower. | mittee at Lencaster. H' trom two to three times as much .- | and Intestinal Ailments, lmhs"fi Laritlard o Bst, 1760 og Je ‘MAGPIE’ EFFECT MUChog ore Combinatinn of Black ani Exkiltfu''y Draped, Is P4, Pcpular for Evening W 1 Black ard white are stiino spite of all that has been: contrary, for evening black chiffon won due meei EOW tion. It had over it a ncthe mon tunic, consisting of thrOF of white gauze. From these flounces fell ¢ dentally, long jet tassels sage was of white gauze, « Aln finishing in wings which ¢ sleeves. These wings lz::xl"'mA terminating in long ! 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