Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 6, 1914, Page 2

2 * % y | - I b - : ¥ PAGE TWO EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK EI JAND, FLA., MAY 6, 1914, LAKE PHARMACY ICE CREAM. There's a reasgn why. A Smile is an indication of pleasure. POINSETTIA ICE CREAM But let's consider the matter from a deeper point of view. It's the use of the finest materials obtain- Gives the pleasure, therefore the smile. It's' the management that engages It's the perfect factory and cleanly conditions that made Poinsettia so good, and able that made Poinsettia so good. only the most skilled operators that made Poinsettia so good. it’s all these things combined that make the smile. Run in gometime and see us manufacturing SMILES { Lake Pharmacy. Phone 42 o PEDDDEGIDODOD P PDETEIBIDDBEPFPFSDISPEEPIIIIIIEFIPP NEW DHOES always arriving. We keep up with the very newest things in fancy footwear. It's a pleasure to show our goods, ng our aim is to fit you. We are the only store in Lakeland that ues the custom fitting methods. LR SR SR SR L LT T R TS A FEEPEEDEEPPPPODE O GBI G4 22,9 DUTTON-HARRIS €0, St Ave. Quality FOOT FITTERS We Repair Shoes While You Wait. p i’%&‘!fi%?"i"X"i’*3"5"X"W”fi’@"fi"fi’%fl&%ikfi"&%%%’%"&'fl*fi’*‘!’*’%m The Loss by Fire in the U. S During a Recent Year Amounted to Almost One-Half the Cos Of All New Buildings Constructed During the Entire Twelve Months! When Buying or Bullding We represent the following reli- able companies: Fidelity Underwriters, capital ...... vve 480,000 Philadelphia Underwriters, Provide the Means byt e e et $4,500,000 @erman American, capital 2,000,000 Bpringfield Fire and Marine oo 1OF REDUilding! MANN & DEEN Room 7, Raymondo Building At this Period use all Safe- guards for Comfort and Well Being The best and most practicable of these ig jceOUR ICE. Kt preserves your food, conserves your health, increases your pleasure, does you good in ways too numerous to mention—and all for a very little money. Instead of decreasing your taking of ice on the cool days which will be oocasionally sandwiched between the warm ones, resolve right now that every day is full ice day for you. And stick to that COUPON BOOK of ours. It is your consistent, per sistent SAVER. Lakeland Ice Company Phone 26 ‘lin Murphy's boarding house without i TAWING A CHANGE e By J. C. PLUMMER. | | | | | | | | We were standing, or rather, sitting | | and lounging out the dogwatch on the J Nova Scotian bark Petrel. It was one [ of those periods which fits into the hard cheerless life of the seaman like a piece of mosaic. A period when the faithful trade winds fill the sails until they seem modeled out of mar- ble and when one reed not lay hand on the braces once in 36 hours. When Jim Bennett spat his quid over the rajl we composed ourselves ! steamer changed her cours ours and came piling after us | ¢ for a yarn for Jim, in his fifty years of life, a brine-pickled and whisky-soaked life, had seen much. “I came ashore in Charleston from a limejuicer once,” he began, “and set about getting rid of my money as fast as I could. I found a plenty to help me spead it and one day I stood enough to buy a drink and was won- dering when that red-nosed Irish- man would kick me out on the street. It was between cotton seasons and there were no square riggers in port, while the coasters had their crews all engaged for the round passage. I couldn't get a ship for love or money. “l was standing with my hands in my pockets and my back to the bar for I hated to see the stuff going 'down other people's throats when I hadn’t the price of half a glass. A man came in from the street and I looked at him out of the tail of my eye and then stared back at the street. He was surely neither a sea- faring man nor a shipping master and I felt little interest in anybody else. The man looked around the room and came over to where I was standing. “‘Want a ship, my lad?' he said. “I told him 1 did, and bloomin' bad, | too. “‘Well,” he says, 'l can give you a berth on a steam yacht. Twenty- five dollars a m(;nth, only quarter- master's work to do and going to a warm climate.’ “He needn’t have sald all that. I'd have taken a job as cook on a mud scow right then, so I says I'd go. | “Then he treated and, boys, I never | seen a man drink like that fellow in :my life. He had everybody in the place drunk from Murphy down when we started for the wharves. I don't know whether I walked or went in a balloon, but when I woke up the next morning and crawled on deck with a hornets' nest buzzing in my head we were outside of Charleston harbor and a steaming south. The steamer was about five hundred tons, sharp bullt in the bows and looked good for speed but nothing kke a yacht. “‘What sort of a bloomin' yacht is this anyway?' says I to the first man I met on the forecastle. *‘Yacht, nothing,’ says he. I 8'pose you thought you were to take care of some meelonare on a voyage for his health to the West Indees. Yer on a bloody filibuster, lad, carrying guns to them lousy patriots that's a fightin’ for liberty and free garlic in Cuba.' “‘Well,' says I, kind of rocky like, ‘what's the difference whether you're carryin' cotton to a bloody Liverpool spinner or guns to C'uban patriots?’ t ““Just this,’ says the man, coolly; | ‘Iif you miss the patriot the Span-® fards 'l twist your neck for you.' “However, it's all the same to a sailor whether his neck is twisted by a rope or is broken by a fall from aloft. “We steamed south at a good rate and so far no one forward knew as to where we intended trying for a landing, but when we found that the | course lald would bring us around Cape Maysi we knew the south coast | was our destination. We cleared the ! cape all right without sighting a Span ish vessel, and then steered south- east. After a day and a half good steaming we rhm'kAl speed and be- gan to loaf, the news coming forward by some leak or another that we would land our guns at a point agreed upon between Sagua and Gaibarien. “Up to this time I had not felt un- easy about getting my neck twisted. | I felt sure the skipper'd get on the | blind side of the gunboats and land | his cargo. He looked like a man who'd do most anything he set him- | self to do, but now he began to pour rum into his skin in a way that made us all dublous. All that day while we were hanging about ready to make a try for the land he was a drinking like a fish, and by night he was drunk all over. ‘ “It was a dark night and no mis- take. The sky was covered with clouds although there was no rain and we had not a light visible aboard. Making a sharp turn we stood in for the land. I passed the skipper as he came from the cabin on his way to the bridge and he smelt like a newly- tapped rum barrel. When there's tick- lish work to be done with a craft I'd | as lieve the skipper'd be sober, and | T kinder felt my neck once or twice | a8 if there was a rope about it. We ; came steadily in, not a sound but the pounding of the screw, and we got | & squinting into the dark and seeing nothing. T here came out of the blackness a boom, and the hiss of so over the forecastle , by heavens,’ screeched 1g went the signals from | to the engine room and th umer slewed around and made for the open sea. How that propeller | money | voted to a dinner, whereat all members | | tions of his erstwhile club fellows. did pound and how the old tea kettle did jump over the water. “Flash, boom, siss, another skipped us amidships, but we were } soon out of gun range. Weé couldn't, | however, steam as we did, sink the in- | fernal lights the gunboat carried. Like a dog after a rabbit the blooming } 1s we did | shot dagoes can the mate muttered “‘1 believe smell our trai Suddenly there came a muffled n from below and inst we heard the skipper shrieking down the tube to the engine rocm. Speed at ouce slackened and then it was whispered that we had blown out a valve and that the engine was disabled. “The skipper gave some orders to the mate short and sharp like pistol shots and then the bell jangled a sig- nal to the engineer. The mate swung himself over the fiddley house and then rushed aft, giving some order to the man at the wheel. Then he sung out to us to place lights in the rigging and also to the steward to light up the cabin. “When this had been done the ves- sel hag turned about and was heading right for the gunboat. “We looked at each other with pale faces. The only way we could explain this move was that the skipper had given up all hope of escaping and for spite intended smashing into the gun- boat. We saw him on the bridge erect and apparently as cool as ever, staring straight ahead at the warship. “The two ships neared each other, we steaming as fast as our broken down engine would let us, and when we came in hailing distance the dago yelped at us. “‘British steamer Falcon,' replied our skipper, coolly, ‘from Curacoa to New Orleans,’ and then he added: ‘there’s a steamer ahead of you with no lights up. She's right in your course, and you might run into her. I came near doing so.' “Bless your soul, the dago swal- lowed the bait as a shark does a block of pork, and steamed ahead like mad. We wore ship and ran under the lee of the Isle of Pines and patched up our engine. The next night we landed our guns as easily as we would have a cargo of rice in Katherine docks.” 1914, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) FINED FOR GETTING MARRIED Organizations Mulct and Expel Fellow Members Who Enter Holy Bonds of Matrimony. (Copyright, munities which penalize marriage and regard it in the light of a punishable offense. It s the rule, for instance, at All Souls' college, Oxford, that a fellow forfeits his fellowship if, when study- ing the classics, he should take unto himself a wife. In such an event he must not only pay the penalty, but must also present his college with a memorial in the shape of a silver cup, with the further condition that on this cup shall be inscribed in Latin, “He Back-slid Into Matrimony." Many readers have doubtless heard of the Bachelors’ club in London. When a member so far forgets the principles of the club as to marry he is promptly expelled. By payment of a fine of $100 he can, however, retain an honorary membership, but, of course, he cannot enjoy the privileges of this select band of non-marrying men There is a similar organization in Germany—the Jungesellen club. When- ever there comes to the officials of this | club any intimation that a member | contemplates matrimony.he is immedi- ately summoned for trial in the club with the president as judge. The culprit is allowed to plead in ex- | tenuation of his offense, and upon his skill in presenting such plea ll"]!l'!\(i\'& the amount of his fine, which ranges | from one hundred to one thousand dol- | lar The humorous feature of the fine | consists in the purpose to which the | is applied. The money court, is de-| appear in mourning attire. At the con- | clusion of the repast the president sol- emnly reads the sentence of ¢ xpulsion, and the delinquent is led from the room amid the groans and lamenta- As to Slaughter of Birds. The destruction of birds in the Ger- man colonies for the sake of their plumage was the subject of discussion in the Reichstag recently. The col- onfal secretary. Doctor Solf, said that | after witnessing an auction in London, where heron feathers, birds of para- dise, etc., to a huge value were sold, he returned home with the idea of sid- Ing with the extreme friends of bird life. Since then {t had been reported to him that birds of paradise cxisted in enormous numbers in the interior of New Guinea, and that there was no need to fear for their extinction, Large reserves had been proclaimed, where the shooting of birds of paradice was not allowed, and other measurss had boen taken to reduce the nuraber of birds killed. These facts had neces- sarlly caused him to hesitate in his Jadgment, and it was not clear on which side right lay. He had made a compromise by prohibiting the shoot- ing of birds of paradise for the next 18 months. . 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