Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 24, 1914, Page 7

TH E EVENING TELEGRAM LaR ELAND, FLA. SEPT. 24, 1914, ° explained. “You're the de deaa image of him. Only—1 guess, his face is kinder redder'n yourn.” Blair's opinion of Jenkins immedi- ately grew many shades darker, and to the same extent he felt himself insult- TROUBLES OF A DOUBLE By CARL SALOMON. o Blair had just pulled on his overcoat | ed. From the several encounters and and was on the point of leaving the | cafe, when a heavy hand fell on hig . ehoulder and a hearty voice shouted in his ear, “Hello, Jenkins! Going to meet with the boys tonight?” He turned and faced a jovial looking man whom he did not remember hay- ing ever seen before. “Who do you think I am?” he snapped. “My name is Blair.” The other looked surprised, then sheepish. “’Scuee me,” he apologized. “1 thought you were a friend of mine, | You're just his ‘build. But, come to look closer, your hair is darker than his.” Haughtily Blair stalked out, having gathered an unfavorable impression of from the various greetings he had re- ceived he surmised that Jenkins and { his friends were not of the elite, as Blair liked to think that he and his were, One day at noon he entered one of the parlors of a dow ntown hotel, where he had agreed to meet Mrs. Blair. Be- fore he even caught sight of his wife in the opposite corner of the room a too !ashionablv attired young woman arose from a dav enport near the door and addressed him, “Now, Henry, You might 've come sooner, TI've been waiting—" Blair looked unrecognizingly at her, His discomfort lasted but a moment, | however, for she interrupted herself | With an exclamation of distress. “Oh, ' his double from the unpolished man- beg pardon. I thought you was Mr, Jen- ner of his professed friend. Further, Kins, a gentleman friend of ‘ mine. Slun]ml of me, for his eyes are brown.” There was a flash of annoyance in Blair's gray eyes as he crossed over to, his wife. “I seem to have a double,” he told her, “though his hair, eyes and face do not quite match mine, Besides, unlike me, he's not punctual. I'm go- ing to wait here and find out wherein my double and I resemble each other.” Shortly thereafter a burly but quiet, inoffensive looking man hastened into the parlor and greeted the damsel on the davenport. She took his arm coyly, | and whispered something that caused her escort to look inquiringly over to- ward Blair. If he expected a genial re- sponse from the latter the cold glance that met him must have been a disap- pointment. “Well, do we look anything alike?” Blair asked his wife. “Certainly not." Mrs. Blair held her aristocratic head high with indigna- tion at the idea. “I suppose it's Just a stupid story that you invented.” “If I were trying to be funny I could think of something more humorous The eporty person opened his red, than that,” said her husband, as they rimmed eyes wide with surprise. “Say,) went on into the‘dining room. hones’, I thoueht You was Jenkins,” he! “I chould hope so. Yet, come to think of it, there is a certain likeness in your bearing. Besides, he wears it rather galled him noi to be able to choose his own double, for Blair prided himeelf on the frreproachable char- acter of his friends, as well as on his own impeccability. He soon forgot the matter, however, and was thoroughly surprised a few days later, when he was again accosted by a stranger. He was hanging by the strap of a crowded elevated train, when some one at his elbow mur- mured, “Say, Henry, could you lend me a tenspot? I'm broke.” Now, Henry is Blair's first name. He looked about sharply, but when he saw the man who had spoken he paid no further heed. But the voice persisted. “You ain’t goin’ to turn down an ol’ friend are you?” There was reproach, nay, grief, in the tones. Blair looked down and into the plead- ing face of a shabby little old man who was evidently a down-at-the-heel, musty old sport. “What do you mean,” he exploded, “by asking me to lend you money? I never saw you before?” the same peculiar cinnamon brown overcoat that you do.” “I'll give mine to the janitor to- night,” declared Blair, as a load was removed from his mind. Origin of the Argentine Flag. Mr. Fraser, in telling of the origin ot the Argentine flag says: “The em- phatic patriotism of the American is tepid alongside the hot-blooded nation- ality of Argentine. It is daily incul- cated in the schools; the b]ue~and-| white striped flag is honored on every occasion. When the Argentines were in revolution against Spain in 1810, and needed a banner to flaunt agalnst the red and orange of the enemy, they got pieces of blue and white cloth (in- tended for garments) from an English warship lying at Montevideo, and made a flag of it. So the Argentine flag, like much of Argentine prosperity, is due to Great Britain.” Mr. Fraser holds that, in proportion to the popu- I lation, there are as many millionaires ln Argentina as in the United States. Why not get one of those large Cement Urns to beautify your yard? Why not get the oldest reliable cement man to put in your Walk? Why not get vour Brick and Blocks of them? PRICES ARE RIGHT, SO ARE THE GOODS FLORIDA NATIONAL VAULT i, 508 W. MAIN ST. Mutual Curiosity. Fisherman—I wonder when that bricklayer'll lay that brick! Bricklayer—I wonder when that fieh. erman’ll catch a flsh!—Humoristicke Listy (Prague® You Gan Talk to Practically All the People in the Town THROUGH THIS PAPER LW For every ! little ache and |~ q lgia, LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING | | et o Grocoi HOUSEHOLD MOVING A | SPECIALTY For Sale in Lakeiand by HORSES AND MULES ¥OR HIRE Phones: Office 109; Res., 57 Green HENLEY & HENLEY IF YOU WANT YOUR SHIRTS AND COLLARS LAUNDERED The VERY BEST Sexd Mem Lakeland Steam To the We are better equipped than Lau ndl'y ever for giving you high grade o oo e s Bl 0% i & Laundry Work. =¢¢ PHONE 130 N L e Rl Office Phone 348 Black Beutify your Lawn, Let us tell you how, Little it will cost. ' Lakeland Paving and Construction Company 207 to 216 Main St. LAKELAND, FLA. LRI GV EOSAP QOO PP ifi. HIS FATEFII[ LETTER By JULIET JENNINGS, “My dear Miss Burton,” dictated ! Mr. Rogers to his new stenographer. “Have you got that?” Little Miss Smith had got that, but Mr. Rogers had discovered during her three days’' service in the woolen im- porting company that her stenography was superior only to her spelling and transcription. However, he was a kindly man and intended to keep her if she showed signs of improvement. A childless widower of fifty, he looked out on the world in a benevolent and self-depreciatory manner. “My dear Miss Burton,” he said again, and then he stopped. Miss Smith, with uplifted pencil, watched him. He had fallen into a daydream, ! and the essence of it was that he wished he had the strong, clever, capable Miss Burton to advise him in the depressed condition of the wool importing business. The new tariff was playing havoc }wlth his affairs, and two of his old, - trusted employes had recently left hi to establish an opposition business. Miss Burton had been with him for seven years, working her way up from stenographer to foreign buyer. leaned a good deal on Miss Burton. If! he were not twenty years her senior— “My dear Miss Burton,” he said for the third time, resolutely putting aside the dreaming impulse. “Now that you are in England you might run up to Huddersfield and see if you can't find some novelties that might go well on the market here. I am anxious to put out a new line. Have you got that, Miss Smith?" "Ye§ sir,” said little Miss Smith, poising her pencil between her teeth. “I want a new, strong weave, not a cross weave like my last sample, but something durable, showy and service- One that a man would like to able. ;l!'“”tf “My Dear Miss Burton.” put on his back and wouldn't be ashamed of showing to his friends. Do the best you can for me. That's all.” The last words were addressed to Miss Smith exclusively, but she con- scientiously embodied them in the body of the¥etter, which unfortunately escaped subsequent perusal, because there was a pile of correspondence that day and Mr. Rogers picked up two letters together and only signed the top one. The letter duly reached Miss Mary Burton in London. Miss Burton had selected a particularly fine assortment of goods that spring, but when she re- ceived Mr. Rogers’ communication she did not go to Huddersfield. On the contrary she sat down and stared at the letter for about five minutes; and then the strong-minded, capable busi- ness woman buret into tears. Her employer was evidently going insane. She had come to regard her work as something more than employ- ment; she had an interest in the suc- cess of the business second only to her interest in Mr. Rogers. It was not like him to write in that way; in fact, . if he were in his right mind he could not possibly have done so. A hasty survey of the situation, and she decided to take the next boat back to America, which she duly did. Meanwhile little Miss Smith was demonstrating her incapability at ev- ery turn. Her spelling might have de- lighted the heart of Mr. Carnegie, though it went somewhat beyond his | own ideas of reform, but her transcrip- tion could have delighted no man. Miss Smith cherished the idea that vowels were an immaterial episode in a letter. So that, when Mr. Rogers’ best customer received a communica- tion informing him that the goods which he had ordered had a ticking ef- fect (Mr. Rogers had dictated “tak- ing””), and wrote back canceling his order, Mr. Rogers perceived that Miss Smith’s days were numbered. And when a letter slipped past his scru- tiny gratuitously instructing a large | tailor that he could supply him with some fine drool for white waistcoats (which should have been “drill”) Mr. | Rogers sat down to cogitate. The result was that, being some- thing of a timorous as well as a kind- hearted man, he placed a note upon Miss Smith's desk during her lunch bour\, informing her that two months’ salary would be at her disposal, and that it would be advisable for her to look about for a more congenial po- sition. Ten minutes after Miss Smith had He: | ter!” ! departed for lunch in happy of her impending downfa ton walked in from the dock. Mr. Rogers and Miss Burton were accustomed to greeting each other as old friends, but when Miss Burton clasped both her employer's hands in hers’ and asked him, in a trembling voice, whether he was well, Mr. Rogers was a little startled. More than that, he was a little pleased at this evidence of Miss Burtorn's regard. “I'm as well as ever,” he answered, “only the business is going to the dogs without you.” “But you wrote me—" began Mise Burton, and stopped. “Something wrong with a letter of mine?” asked Mr. Rogers. This was too much for Miss Burton, Mr. Rogers had never seen her in tears, but now—it must have been a joke, an undérbred joke! mentally afMicted—that was clear at a glance, and he was acting as though nothing had occurred. !" exclaimed Mr. Rog- “Miss Burton! ers, terribly etartled and frightened, rance Miss Bur- “show me the letter. You have it with || you?”’ “Yes, but I can't show you,"” wailed Miss Burton, “Miss Burton, as your employer, [ command you,” said Mr. Rogers, as- suming a dignity which he was very far from feeling. And Miss Burton's answer was remarkably feminine for such a strong-minded woman. “There! Take your hateful old let- she said, flinging it down on #his desk. “My dear Miss Burton,” read Mr. Rogers, “Now that you are in England « « « hum! . . . what's this? I want a new, strong wife, not a cross wife like my last sample, but some- thing durable, showy and serviceable. e e . . Wwhy, it is simply outrageous!” “It is,” snapped Miss Burton. “That’s why I hurried home. I thought you must be {ll. As you aren't ill . i Then Mr. Rogers explained, and Miss Burton, having been herself a stenographer, understood that the sym- bols for “weave” and “wife” might readily be confused by anybody who transcribed without intelligence. But —but that made it worse than ever. Suddenly she became aware that Mr. Rogers was standing over her, with a very un-employer-like expresslon on his face. “Mary,” he sald, in a firm voice, “it was abominable. But now that the mistake has been made, won't yoy— won't you—7?" And a moment' later he was clasp- ing the strong, capable Miss Mary Burton in his arms. And he found that he did not feel anything Iike his age. It was not until the end of Miss Smith's lunch hour was at hand that he remembefed to tear the letter which he had left on her desk to pieces. “A business letter?” inquires Burton, wondering why he stroying it so carefully. “No, my dear,” answered Mr. Rog- ers. “I'm just covering up my tracks, that's all. By the way, can you find a place in your department for an ignorant, unintelligent young woman with a genius for happy blundering?” (Copyright. 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Miss vas de- Emerson’s Idea of Dreams. Emerson’s claim that even in t dreams of the night we are carried forward, accords with all that sclence or philosophy can unfold touching the onward march of being. It is true that it is for the active mind that he be- speaks this gain and it is in the re- freshing ministry of sleep to man’s mind and body that its purpose in hu- man life is commonly found. To nurse and refresh him for further use of his powers is the meaning of sleep’s mis- sion in general acceptation and car- ried to fulfiliment little more could be asked of it. Nothing surely if it could enfold that sleep of death in its redeeming logic. For truly if after life's fitful fever man sleeps well it must be, as Browning so clearly dis- cerns, that he “sleeps to wake” to the grander use of his powers in the life more large. Nor should he fear to find himself of just such stuff as his dreams were made of. How He Could Find Out. Henry Irving, in his early days, once played a part which in the first act called for a dark stage. In this darkness he fought with an old earl, threw him heavily and, when he did not rise after the loud thud of his fall, Irving would cry out: “Great heavens! What done?” One night he played the part in a small English town. A stage hand was very much impressed with the play and to him scenes quickly be- came real. So that when lrvlng reached the climax, felled the old earl to the ground and spoke the line. “Great heavens! What have I done?” he was startled to hear the stage hand say in a loud voice: “Strike a match and we'll have a look.” have I Thoughts Not Up to Her Looks. There was one young woman in the box party at the theater who took no part in the noisy clatter and giggle. With her gaze fixed upon the stage she watched the progress of the play.! indifferent to the gayety around her except that her delicate, arls(ocratlc, finely chiseled features bore a look of weariness and a scornful smile curled her lips. At last, however, she | turned her head slowly and looked at the other members of the party. Then she spoke to the elderly ma- tron sitting by her side. “That chick- | en in the blue kimono,” she said, “thinks she is the whole custard!™ He was not |* itemally and externally.” Price 25c. 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