Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 3, 1914, Page 2

| | | PAGE TWO - —it answers every beverage re- quirement—vim, vigor, refreshment, wholesomeness. It will satisfy you. Demand the genuine by full name— Nicknames encourage substitution, THE COCA-COLA COMRANY ATLANTA, GA. ‘Whenever ou see an Arrow think of Coca-Cola, ORIGINAL lfiEIHIIIIE < HORLICK'S — Avoid Imitations—Take N, Sub:ttute b Milk, malted grain, in powderform. More. nealthful ¢::2 tea ot coffe N ‘wfants, invalids and growing children, Purenutrition, upbuilding the whole body. *rvigorates nursing mothers and the aged. st rees with the wa-' digestic Keep it on vour sidebo. .2 home. A quick lunch prepared in a minute. THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JUST LOOK AT THIS Hart, Schaffner & Marx Suits Selling as Low as $16.00, $18.00 & $20.00 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 ! a good thing for a song. Tue Hub Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothmg m:‘m e e T Bt . JOS. l - | GO0 0000000000000 IN THE OPEN ROAD —de— By GEORGE ELMER COBB. —_———— All winter long Sydney Blair lived fn a 6x10 room in a poor lodging house. He did light housekeeping, so light at times that heat, illumination and even food were under eclipse for days. It was then that he huddled close under the bedclothes daytimes, stealing out nights to gather up a few morsels in his unique way. He was a poet at soul. As to his ef- fusions, only thrice in his life had he recelved real pay from a real publica- tion. This had not broken him of the poetio habit, however. He watched the birthdays of people, great festal events, all kinds of occasions where an acrostic, a tribute, an eulogium would catch the fancy of the rich and bring in a few dollars for the effort. The present winter had been a hard one for poor Blair, however. He was obliged to write advertising doggerel, and this discouraged him. “Oh, for the time to hit the road!” he pined, and with the first venture- some robin reported in the city parks the tramp poet began his annual hegira to the shrines of nature. Once a year his soul swelled. It was when, as now, he turned his face from the turmoil, dust and hollow ex- citement of the city. It seemed to him as though he was passing into a new life, as the sprouting grass of the coun- tryside, the budding moss flowers, the \ Was Aroused by a Shrill Echoing Cry. | nesting birds, the warbling brooks uni- ] ted in a welcome to the passing way- farer who loved them. Outside of a little bundle, usually strung across his stout walking stick and containing a change of linen and a blanket, Sydney Blair had one other possession of some utility and value. JULY 3, 1914, 3 going to do with you? What do you want to do?” (Go with you,” replied the old man, simply. “I like the sunlight, the woods, the birds. I feel rested, I feel happy, ' oniy—I forget what was.” | “All right, I make you my partner,” | said Sydney. The old man grew quite blithe and | talkative during the next day of ldle‘ wandering. He was like a .pleased child. Some injury to his brain, it was apparent, had blotted out the past.' Sydney observed that he was an edu- | cated man, his attire evidenced re- | gpectability. There was not a mark on | his clothing, not a scrap of paper | found to give the slightest clue as to his identity. Every morning and evening, how- ever, the old man took from an inner pocket an exquisite little medallion. It held the portrait of a beautiful girl. | He would gaze at it raptly for nearly an hour. And then Sydney got to sharing his mute adoration. The fair, wistful features came to form an ideal in his mind. Like nomads those two passed along the flower-fringed by-ways. Each day the old man seemed to grow happier and more contented with the careless, joyous life, One evening, while seated in a little wayside inn, Sydney struck up an ac- quaintance with a physician. He told the story of the old man. The doctor became interested. He examined the patient. “There is a depression of the skull,” he said. “This man's memory can be restored by a surgical operation.” It would cost fifty dollars, the doc- tor said, for he would have to call in a surgeon. Sydney made arrangements for the housing of his friend in the vil- lage. Then he started out tuning pi- anos. It was a glad, proud day for his good, kind heart when he returned with the money to pay for the operation. The doctor had predicted rightly. The operation concluded, the old man Tose up, a new 1ntelhgence in his face. He listened to the story of the doctor. His eyes were filled with gratitude and love as he was told of the noble sacri- fice of the tramp poet. “Bring me a check book,” he said, “and a pen.” His apparent whim was gratified. He scratched out “Bank of Milton,” substi- tuted “State Bank of Wareham,” signed a name—Henry Morse—and handed the check to Sydney, filled in for five thousand dollars. Then came his story of visiting some land at a distance, of being assaulted and robbed. Sydney must accompany him home. A sorrowing daughter, who mourned him as dead, greeted him at his own palatial home. She was the original of the cherished por- trait, Eva Morse. When all the beautiful story of the soulful fidelity of Sydney Blair to a stranger was told, gratitude shone in those lovely eyes. And then love, and in the golden days that passed by as a joyful dream the poet knew no more of loneliness, and deprivation, and neglect. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Roosevelt and the Amazon. The emergence of Col. Roosevelt This was a piano tuning key. He was from the interior of Brazil directed a natural musician, but the itinerant PUblic attention more than ever to a minstrel, caroling forth old-time lays, Journey probably the most weird and was & thing of the past. There were 1 picturesque in the world. It is 2,150 many pianos in hamlets and farm miles from the mouth of the Amazon houses. From the profession of poet | {0 14uitos, where the government of in winter our good friend enacted a L ert maintains a large dockyard, bar- broad transition to piano tuner at sum- | FA¢kS, iron works, machine shops, etc., { up the wound on } mertide. He was a dreamer, his physical wants limited. The heather formed a sweet-scented mattress, it was delight to watch the stars across the curtain of night twinkle tired eyelids close. Sydney simply strolled, talking to the flowers, communing with free, grand soul thoughts, composing poetry he could not sell. It was a tender solace, however, to work over these and at night repeat them to himself. Once, at dusk-tide, Sydney, resting under a great gnarled oak, was aroused by a shrill echoing ery. He ran to- wards the highway to observe three rough-seeming fellows disappearing in the dim distance. He stumbled over a prostrate form. It was that of an old man. His face was bedabbled with blood. There was a cruel gash at one side of his head. A button hole of his vest was torn apart, showing where his watch chain had been torn from place. A pocket was turned inside out. Evidently footpads had robbed this vietim. Sydney ran to a brook near at hand. He soaked a handkerchief in water and did all he could to remove the traces of violence from the insensible man. Finally the latter sat up. Ilel put his hand confusedly to his head, his eyes were somewhat glazed and unsteady as they surveyed Sydney. | “See, here,” spoke the latter, “who are you and what has happened?” The victim scemed to m: \ and an inland navy consisting of two gunboats. Few have any idea of the tremen- dous volume and coloring of the Ama- von current, its influence upon the Atlantic, the immense distance it car- ties nearly fresh water into the brine of the ocean, its serpentine windings, its overhanging vegetation, its rapids, its wild life, its pests, perils, pleasures and all sorts of strange sights. Some of the tributaries of the Amazon are mightier than the Mississippi. Like the redoubtable colonel, the Amazon is broad and deep, impetuous in its upper levels, and flows on for ever. —_— Our Handicap. W. H. Ellls, a naval architect of the Scotch firm that built the Aquita- nia, was praising America. “I have come to admire America tremendously since my arrival in New York,” he said. “You are a wonderful country. But, then, you have so many natural advantages, haven't you? “The River Clyde, with us, has been brought up to its present draught by means of dredging, and so the Scotch are very proud of it. “Well, a party of American sight- seers turned up their noses at the Clyde one day. *‘Call this a river? they sald. “Why, it's a mere ditch in comparison with our Mississippi, or St. Lawrence, or Dolaware Y perate effort to s ‘Aweel, mon,’ said a Scotch by- thoughts, failed an q Stander, ‘you've got Providence to blnnkly, thank for your rivers, but we made “H'm!" soliloquized Sydu P 1 this oursel's.'” blow. See here, old friend, l must get you to a doctor.” Tha victim placidly « to lead him to a near a doctor looked Dog Refuses to Aid Law. Unable to decide the disputed own- ership of a dog, Magistrate McQuade, in the New York night court, left it to the dog. But doggie made the con- | tioned him as to his fusion more confounded I «lm! know,” was the monotonous Walking on erd“q\ near Forty- second stree 1 bull-terrier, Henry R Sw\u m‘ 127 West Forty- }lv secure 114 n He seventh street, felt the leash snatched imself slept in a haymow. \\ ith the morning the same cloud of haziness hung over the victim. All that morn- ing Sydney led him about the vicinity, No one knew him. He was an utter stranger to the district. “See here,” said Syduey, “what am out of his hand stopped Frank Mer West Thirty-seventh street, terrier. In the night court the urr.nr went to Merado, but just as he was being Police Grogan | Cools and Refresheg? 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Phone 223 Blue B R R Ty T e e S R R Y RS R L T : i e PR T R L L Gt O L s T T B T T S 0 A & of : Mayes Grocery 0mpany~= 3 WHOLESALE GROCERS -« BUSINESS YITHOLT BOOKS” We find that low prices and long time LI will not go hand in hand, and on May Ist i we will instal our new system of low % prices for Strictly Cash. % We have saved the people of Lakeland & s s 02 CROKS 23 B & m and Polk County tliousands of dollars in 5 the past, and our new system will still i reduce the cost of living, and also reduce Crreaperses a1 aeble vy 1o it 1l knife in still deeper. We carry a full line groceries, feed, £ grain, hay. crate material, and Wilson & CToomers’ ldeal Fertilizers always on hand Mayes Grocery Company 211 West M:in St., Lakeland, Fla. | o 3 i Phillips Bros. ¢ Fancy Grocery Bocgr g Flour, per barrel . . $6.00 Boegs 'l 3 Sugar, 18]pounds . . $1.00 | : Compound, lard, Ib. . 12c. | Bacon, by!theisideJIb. 16:c¢ m BestNalelce 20 Ibs] $1.00 U £10-Ib, pail Snowdrift $1.20 i‘ ZW(‘*MW@WMW%‘ ev«sxs«.us«p_u » s FAMILY AVODS ———— SERIOUS SICKNESS By Being Conshntly Supplied With | Thedford’s Black-Draught. Special fo Saturday “Tango CreamJ Brazil Nuts,” chocolate covered. McDuff, Va. —“l suffered for several! ears,’]‘ says :ls‘ ] thWgamaker of| his place, ‘‘with sick headache, and| stomach trouble. . Ten years ago a friend told me to tr Thedford’s Black-Draught, which | le and | found it to be the %est family medi- | cine for young and old. I keep Black-Draught on hand all the| time now, and when my children feel a| little bad, they ask me for a dose, andit! does them more good than any medxcme they ever tried. We never have a long spell of sick-! ness in our family, since we commenced using Black- Draught % Thedford s Black-Draught is purel vegetable, and has been %und topreguy-‘ late weak stomachs, aid digestion, ree | lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea, | | headache, “sick stomach and Slml]al S)mptoms It has been in constant use for more than 70 {ears. and has benefited more Latest creation. Only thirty eight cents per pound package. awarded by the court to the presumed | than a million people. owner the dog rushed to Stevens. Your druggist sells and recommends Black- Dmught Price only 25¢c. Geta mckage to-da Y. NG 3 Lake Pharmac);