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

B PAGE TWO s e —it answers every bever- age requirement—vim, vigor, refreshment, whole- someness. It will satisfy you. Y i Demand the genuine by ful name— Nicknames encourage substitution, THE COCA-COLA CO. ATLANTA, GA. 4 Whenever you see an Arrow think of Coca-Cola, JUST LOOK AT THIS Hart, Schaffner & Marx Suits Selling as Low as $16.00, $18.00 & $20.¢0 that were originally $20.00, $25.00 and $27.50. Mohair Suits as low as $9.60 to $12.80 now. All our Im- ported Straw Hats cut way down in price. Don’t miss this Suit and Pants Sale as it is your only chance to get 3 T T I N R TR W R R T T T S, VS . -3 | a good thing for a song, i Hart Scnafiner‘&m arx Clothing | ““—-\_‘ THr EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA,, JULY 2, 1914. NO MEN ADHITTED By ELIZABETH GOODRIDGE. “That big new building up on the; hill yonder? Wasn't there last time you were in these parts, four years ago? I guess you're right. It's quite a bit of a story, though. You see, it served its purpose and—but I'm be- ginning at the wrong end. “Last time you were here we talked about the number of unmarried wom- en in New England, didn’t we? You asked why some of ’'em didn’t emi- grate. Well, 1 guess most men are allke, and if they couldn’t find 'em here they wouldn’t be apt to do eo in the West. You see, though, they say there are two women for every man in this part of New England, some of 'em ought to have got married. But none of 'em could. Marrying seemed to have gone out of fashion hereabouts. “There was that Elsie Winton, whom Zeke Smith had been courting off and on for twenty years or so. Well, after} {14 foride tiat Bad. basn: pat b a time Elsie naturally got tired of him and his procrastinating ways. And Molly Bowen, about whom there had been some talk concerning Ed Green, the hotel man. He didn’'t come up to the scratch. And there was Winnie Custance, and Jenny White, and Nell Pringle—they didn't get their beaux any further than the ice cream coun- ter, and that's how the idea came about. “The folks in Boston thought at first it was a nunnery. The Chronicle sent one of its reporters down to see, but “You Can’t Come in, Zeke!” She Ex- plained. he didn't get any further than the wicket before Elsie Winston's face stopped him. She explained the mat- ter to him as she slammed it. ‘Just a few New England women who have got tired of men and have decided to live their own lives in their own way,’ she said. “There was a round dozen of 'em, and they farmed the land and milked their own cows and made their own butter. The plan was a hit from the start, especially as Molly, who was twenty-four and pretty for her age, drove the cart round the houses, wear- ing a mask and a loose Mother Hub- bard. But what gave everybody a turn was the big sign standing outside the gate, which read No Men Admitted. “Zeke Smith was one of the first to come and see what was doing. He got as far as the wicket, and there Elsie Winton's face stopped him. “‘You can't come In, Zeke, she ex- plained, ‘being a man. I'm sOrTYy you're a man, because if you weren't you'd be welcome, But we don't have dealings with men any more, except in a business way.' “Zeke home sore at heart, thinking what a chance he had missed, for Elsie Winton was a fine cook and could make pounds of butter where nobody else could make more than one pound and a pint of butter- milk. But it's about Molly Bowen 1 meaut to be telling you—her that had the affair with Ed Green. “As I was cart, and | notice that S And went two e the an to punctual as soon K P wasn't a as for Ed, whenever the | bos 's howled for him to make a kick nhout the victual W t any- wheres in t. The fact is, he had got into t bi : the count )¢ abo i | Miss Winton,” she said. ! snoopy, couldn’t help noticing that drive the cart we began to notice that all the young fellows in the village had got the early rising habit. Ed Green, in particular, who never used to wake up until he smelled the bacon | frying, got up as regular as the sun and started taking a country walk be- fore breakfast. Jim Rogers, who had been beauing Winnle Custance before she joined the society, got interested in birds, and said that the early morn- ing was the best time to observe them. Jennie White's beau, Ike Shoemaker, who had always been a good-for-noth- ing sort of fellow, started composing poetry, and he said he had to be up to salute the eun. “However, the folks round here, who, as you may have observed, are they all used to take the road past here that leads up toward the institu- tion. And we guessed that some day or other Elsie Winton would come home unexpected and raise Cain. She is a powerful woman with her tongue, as you may have noticed. “We got so interested that nobody thought very much about anything |° else. Bill Wise, who farms on the ridge, told us he used to see the young fellows gossiping with the girls over It wasn’t much of a fence, being com- posed of arbor vitae, which takes more than six weeks to amount to any- | - thing. And I guess the boys weren’t slow. “Well, to get on, at last the flare-up came, and in just the way we had looked for. Elsie Winton came back one morning at half-past nine, and there were Ike and Ed and Jim hob- nobbing with Winnie and Jenny and Molly over the arbor vitae. And two or three more of the young fellows with the girls, too. “And Molly, being a woman, saw that it was best to get her tongue in first. “‘We're done with your old society, ‘Ed and I are going to be married on the first of the | month.” “‘And Jim and I on the fifteenth,’ put in Winnie Custance, glaring at| Ilsie Winton. : “‘And Ike and I are going to be en- | gaged as soon as he makes some money out of his poetry,’ continued ! Jenny White. “Just then Zeke Smith’'s cart came ! up the lane, and Elsie Winton called | to Zeke, ‘Come here,’ she said. “Zeke came lumbering along with a grin, “‘Repeat to me what you have just | . told me,” said Elsie to Zeke. “‘We're going to be married tomor- | row,’ said Zeke, twirling his hat nerv- ously. 1 “She’d beat them all, sir. And when ! the boys understood they just let out a yell, and started kissing and hugging ! all round. So after that the society was naturally dissolved, and Zeke uses | the house to keep his chickens in. But | 1 guess the spirit of enterprise hasn't | died out of New England yet, even iti the women did have to show the men they couldn’t have them in order to ! bring them up to the scratch, “Yes, they gave Mr, and Mrs, Smith a Baby Grand. Don’t you think it was | i wor'h it?” (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Fewer Law Suits In England. Barristers are complaining of a| shortage of work. Sir Edward Clarke recently remarked that throughout his fifty years at the bar he never knew the special jury list so small. But if litigation is growing smaller, trials are getting longer. Then years ago the average number of actions tried by each king's judge bench was 157. In 1912 it was so low as 116, while during the same period the aver- age number of actions tried by the chancery judges fell from 92 to 65. Though arrears have been almost banished from the king’s bench courts, the same cannot be sald of the crim- inal courts. The latest volume of criminal statistics shows that 274 ac- cused persons were tried at the as- | after being kept in sizes in 1912, prison for three months or more. This delay is bad enough in the | it keeps|. case of the guilty, for them and their relatives in terrible suspense. But in the case of the in- nocent until they are convicted—the | ¢ long detention amounts to a grave in- justice.—London Answers, Mohammedans Gaining. It is a striking fact that there are | 5,000,000 more Moslems than Chris- | tians in the British empire, One-sev- enth of the whole human race is Mos- lem. The really significant fact is that the proposition is not at a standstill; it is increasing yearly. There are 60, 000,000 Mohammedans in India, and | the number is steadily growing. Dur- | ing the last decade the Moslem popula- | tion of India increased by 9 per cent, | al population in India in- | iy 21 Many | | | | while the tot 1amme- ng to 10,000 mme- } Rhino-F Cools and Refreshes Without stirring up your nerves. Kills any thit IN ICED BOTTLES 5 RIGHT NOW! & ANYWHERE—— D LOOK [OR THE @/‘“’W% hero- LABEL, Bottled by CHERO-COLA BOTTLING €0, “**¢'2nd. T i L e T L L S e "® YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. 8ERE MARSHALL & SANDERS The OId Rellable Contract .« Won have heen bnilding honges in Lakeland for voz»s, on2 who poyer “FI'LL DOWN " or fri'e: to give satisfact oa, All cisgses uf buildicgs convractea tor, 1'he many nre residences bu iz by this firre are ev gnees of (heir abil gy “ make good, . 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