Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 25, 1914, Page 7

GIVIL WAR IN THE CAB By FRANK CONDON, 000000000000000000000 (Copyright.) “You,” began Cockrill, addressing hig fireman, and brandishing a leaky oil- can before his noae, “you are a greasy-faced, soot- covemed, pock- marked liar. You are almost an un- desirable citizen.” “And you,” re. | torted Dorgan, calmly scratching the remaining match on the seat of his trousers with skill and suc- cess, “are a fake engineer. Go get a job driving a truck. Throttle-pull on a Brooklyn per- ambulator. Hire out to the push-cart trust. Bah! “You run this old cow-killer into the turntable pit one day. You forget you ever heard of injectors the next. You let her water fall two feet below the glass, and she drops a crown-sheet. “And then you try to Adam it off on this poor Eve,” pointing to the fifth button of his waistcoat. “I get called up on the carpet, and accused of negli- | gence on duty. And me peacefully and | innocently eating lunch when it hap- | pened.” i “Yes, eating lunch,” Cockrill went on, trying to be calm and Jjudicial; “eating it on that very seat where ! you're sitting now. ’Twas your fault, and you know it; and if I didn't de- fend you, and plead for your job with tears in my eyes, you'd been fired, | you good-for-nothing loafer. Then you | go and blame it all on me!” “Weren't you under the engine?” ask- ed Dorgan, with frigid politeness. “Hadn’t you just left the cab? Was I any where around when you left?” “You were. As I remarked a min- ute ago, y_(lii were sitting _l‘n the same WHY l [ 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.CO. 508 W. MAIN ST. You Can Talk to Practically All the People in the Town THROUGH THIS PAPER YARNELL LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY HORSES AND MULES ¥0R HIRE hones: Office 109; Res., 57 Green | 8 POSTTIOT youw now oceupy.™~ l was not,” said Dorgan, I _ “You were,” retorted Cockrif; “and : it you get me any madder than I am | rn 4dru[) this can and lick the ever- | lasting blazes out of you.” “Yes, you'd drop the can,” said Dor- 8an scornfully, “and pick up the shov- i’lbu'you couldn’t lick a stick of candy. Teé wrong about i Yor, anyhow_g my blaming it on “Our genial and lovable superi - dent, John Flathead McKinne)l')—\\:)t::s luck to him—askeq me distinetly who was to blame, me or Yyou; and who did I say? Who did 1 gay, you ungrate- ful, bum engineer”’ “You sald mm, of course,” respond- ed Cockrill. “You turned and betfayedd me and lied about me, and I ought to have you fired. I think I will yet.” The rattle of mutilated English over- yanle even the sharp hissing of steam in the engine-cab. Fireman and engi- | neer were having it out for the sixty- nirst time, and it was now four weeks since the locomotive had blown off an upper sheet, The roundhouse door SWung open on creaky hinges, and attention to duty | prevented further war for the mo- ment. Cockrill opened the throttle, and the big engine glided softly into her stall, l In the perpetual dusk of the round- house a fat, red-faced man picked his ! way among the tracks and over the | pilots. It was Superintendent McKin- | ney. “\Where's Cockrill?” he asked of a| wiper. “He just, came in, sir,” answered that menial person. “His engine is on the last track.” McKinney strode forward, and Cock- rill saw him, coming. “Shut up, new,” he cautioned the suddenly mute Dorgan. “Here's the old snake himself, with more ques- tions to ask.” The cinders crunched under McKin- ney’s tread. “Are you up there, Cock- rill?” he asked. “I am,” replied the engineer. “So am L” put in Dorgan, his sar-’ casm totally lost on the florld super- intendent, who climbed heavily mtoi the cab. “Now,” began McKinney judic‘lnlly,l, time, I want to find out about that | crown-sheet. That thing cost one hune- . dred and eighty dollars to fix up, and I want to find out why it happened, and which of you let it happen?” 1 “Mr. McKinney,” Dorgan broke in contritely, “there's no use obscuring the issue, as they say in law. I am to blame. I did it. Mr. Cockrill here had nothing to do with it any more than you. If there's any punishment, I deserve it, and I'm ready to take it.” Before he had finished the “t” in “it,” Cockrill's volce filled the cab, “Mr. McKinney, this young fellow is giving you the finest example of loy- | alty to a comrade vou ever heard of. ; He is deliberately lying to save me. “The truth of the matter is that Dor- gan was eating lunch in the station when the sheet blew off. It was due solely to my own negligence, and I'm ready to suffer the consequences.” i There was a brief pause. The si- ]lence was broken only by the cluck- i cluck of the airpump. McKinney i turned right-about face, and laid his hand on the rail. A half grin wrin- kled his face and deepened its ruddy bloom. “You two are the cheerfulest liars I ever saw,” he'said. “Don’t let it hap- pen again.” Thereupon he descended from the cab. | I when he got his breath, “for the last | pain and big aches and big pains is quickly absorbed—good for mes.neurllpll. stiff joints, rheumatism, etc. 25c at druggists. For Sale In Lakeiand by HENLEY & HENLEY e LAUNDERED The VERY BEST Lakeland Steam We are better equipped than ever for giving you high gra Laundry Work. FOROE0 Send Them To the Laundry EEELPIPEPSPSPPPLPBP CLDEDLTEEBT Office Phone 348 Black Beutify your Lawn, Let us tell you how, Little it will cost. S rfriok 1§ e de EX=2 GO PHONE 130 L R BEPBTBEL G 84 5 Res. Phone 153 Blue §| o g s g @ | & 2 { S £ Lakeland Paving and Construction Cflllfllflll}’ 207 to 216 Main St. | expansive ideas in his | going to wake up this dead town. | a business doctor, I first want to 80 | | at the sky rocket schemes of the: ! you, however, that I shall go over to! g prise in a month. We shall have all | THR HUSTLING YOUNG MAN By GEORGE ELMER COBB. & “He's a comer, sure!” declarea Mr. Earle, manager of the furniture sec- tion of the PFamous department store at Rockton. “Yes,; they say he's a crackerjack! Going to double up trade in a month and ruin all business rivals in the district.” These two townsmen casually echoed what was constantly current among the excited and expectant em- ployes of the great mercantile estab- lishment under general discussion. The proprietor of the Famous, Ira Stein, was a plunger. He had in herited some money and had started the biggest department store ever known in the district. Already there was the Enterprise, which filled the local bill very comfortably, but Stein was a pusher and hoped to soon corner all the trade of the section. He had done some bold and amazing things, he drew custom, and Merle Wharton, his young manager, had carried out some bright ideas. Then Stein happening to visit a friend who had made a great success in the blgl city, came back to Rockton with more mind than ever. The whole essence of your proposi-' tion, Stein,” advised his friend “is having a live wire up-to-date advertis- ing man. We have built up this busi- ness of ours on publicity, novelties, bargains.” “Where will I get one?” questioned Stein. “They're hard to get,” was the re- ply. “The good ones are all grabbed for. The bad ones are worse than no good. We tried one or two in the latter class and they nearly ruined us.” Stein went back to Rockton with this bee in his bonnet, after instruct- ing another friend in the city to ad- A Brisk Hustling Young Man. vertise for the man he wanted and to send him on as soon as he got him. One day there alighted from the train a brisk bustling young man who might have suggested the circus spider or three card monte man to the sophisticated. Rural™ Rockton, however, swallowed him whole. He was arrayed in the latest style, wore a dlamond big as a hazel nut, walked through the town as if he soon in- tended to own it and entered the Fa. mous and the presence of Mr. Stein. It took the newcomer, who named himself Roger Lane, about an hour to convince the merchant that he was the one man in the world who knew how to get all the customers and money the district had. He even flashed a card showing that at one time he had been advertising man for the rich friend of Stein in the clty.' That settled it for Stein, who was too | hypnotized to think of finding out why \ this rare jewel of efficlency had left | such important employ. “I must have a free hand,” declared Lane. “Oh, certainly, certalnly. I leave it to you,” Stein hastened to say. “Expense must be no object. 1 I'm As | over the establishment and see what ' kind of working timber you've got.” There was one man who demurred new comer when he had outlined his plans. This was Merle Wharton. He was a valuable employe or the house, but Lane was peremptory. “He'd kill my good work with h'SI conservative back-country ideas,” Lane told Stein, so Wharton was told to go. “It’'s all right, Mr. Stein,” he said. “Better an understanding now, than a squabble later. If I am not in accord with your new business policy, I would be useless to you. I shall tell your rival, the Enterprise.” “That's all right,” bobbed the chip- | per Lane. “There will be no Enter- the businesg” For one thing Wharton was sorry to leave the Famous. He had been court. ing pretty Nettie Duane, the store stenographer. A senseless quarrel had come up. She was miffed, he was proud and they had exchanged only a cold formal bow ior ¢ two weeks. The Enterprise was glad to get Wharton. His steady going, honest business methods were in accord with those of the proprietor. Wharton made some suggestions as to painting the store front, engaging a window dresser and fairly and respectably | meeting the lurid advertising methods of the Famous. The “Comer” had spread himself. He had a great two-faced clock set at | . the edge of the walk in front of the store. tract the farmers. He had a grand fireworks exhibition in front of the store. bubbles. Alas, for the crude ideas of rural Rockton! The crowds came, but not to buy. The big clock post obstruct- ed the sidewalk space allowed by ordinance and had to be removed. The band of music caused a runaway and the store was sued for damages. A stray rocket set fire to a barn and there was another bill to pay. The pipes were put to other uses than blowing bubbles. Ambitious Juvenile Rockton tried surreptitious smokes with real tobacco and church- going Rockton held up hands in hor- ror. The Enterprise people smiled at this plece of news—all except Whar- ton. He had heard that Lane was paying marked attention to Nettie Duane. “Robbed you of your place and your girl, too,” a friend put it rather bluntly. “I say, Wharton,” remarked the pro- prietor of the Enterprise one day, “what do you make of this?” He handed Wharton a typewritten page without date or signature. It read. “A good friend gives you this use- ful hint: The Famous is arranging to open the season with Japanese Pana- ma hats at fifty-nine cents. This, as you know, is ridiculous. They come from a factory where there was a fire. They were scorched and damaged, and are bleached and varnished over. When they get wet they are all out of shape. Work up an honest bar- gain hat sale on real good hats, and you will win” “I don’t know who our anonymous correspondent may be,” sald the mer- chant, “but I'm going to explore this tip,” and by the next day both he and his assistant were satisfled that there was some foundation to {t. On Monday came the big fifty-nine- cent hat sale. There came up a rain- storm. Disconsolate wearers of Jap- anese Panamas trailed by the Famous in droogping trim, ready to mob the place. Next day came the Simon-pure hat sale at the Enterprise. The papers said something about “shoddy goods,” a duped public took up the cudgel and the “Comer” came never again to the Famous. “I encouraged that Mr. Lane, just to find out how I could pay him oft for getting you discharged,” confessed Nettie to Wharton when they wer reconciled. “It was you who sent us that tip, then!” questioned the happy lover, and kissed her fondly when she flushed with conscious guilt. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Simple Safety Device. The hammer {s a useful tool, but its use {8 not quite free from danger to the user or from injury to materials. The flat, highly polished surface is likely to glance off the nail unless the blow is squarely delivered; and when the nall is of cast metal, its head often flies off and inflicts quite severe in- Jurles. One firm, says Chambers' Journal, had innumerable accidents from this cause, and some of the men were per- manently injured. Thereupon, the managers tried hammer heads with scored faces as an experiment. Owing to, the success of the experiment, the polished-face hammer has been abol- ished in that firm’s factory, except for epecial classes of work. When the hammer's face is scored or-roughened it {s very much less lkely to glance off the nail-head. The Then he sent out a band of |- ; music along the country roads to at- < He gave away one thousand |: clay pipes, so the children might blow 3 our new system living, and also PAGE SEVEN E find that low prices and long time will not go hand in hand, and on May 1st we installed our NEW SYSTEM OF LOW PRICES FOR STRICTLY CASH. . We have saved the people of Lalseland and Polk County thousands of dollars in the past, and wi'l still reduce the cost of reduce our expenses, and enable us to put the knife io still deeper. 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