Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 28, 1914, Page 7

80000000000000000000000000 l = £ TROUBLES OF A DOUBLE By CARL SALOMON. Blair had just pulled on his overcoat | _ . and was on the point of leaving thy | C1¥¢d he cafe, when & heavy hand fell on hijg ! shoulder 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?” be snapped. “My name 1s Blair.” The other looked surprised, then ( sheepish. “’Scuse me,” he apologized. “I 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 his double from the unpolished man- ner of his professed friend. Further, 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 ferther 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 ghabby 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 eporty person opened his red rimmed eyes wide with surprise. “Say, honeg’, I thought you was Jenkins,” he WHY ? 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 vou Brick and Blocks of the? PRICES ARE RIGHT, SO ARE THE GOODS FLORIDA NATIONAL VAULT.CO. 508 W. MAIN ST. You Gan Talk to Practically All the People In the Town THROUGH THIS PAPER L-W.YARNELL LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING | HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY HORSES AND MULES FOR HIRE Phones: Office 109 ; Res., 57 Green @ % IF YOU WANT YOUR SHIRTS AND COLLARS § % LAUNDERED The VERY BEST % § ek Send Th 14 B " om Lakeland Steam :|: La 1 d r We afre better equli]pnfid bl;zge |2 Vi iving you high gr bl .PHONE 130 “3‘%%%‘ H ® | redder'n yourn.” | ® | the same extent { due to Great Britain.” | holds that, in proportion to the popu¢ i lation, there are as many millionaires i in Argentina as in the United States. ' Mutual Curioeity. { Fisherman—I wonder when that ' Listy (Prague® PAGE SEVEN E?plained. “You're the deag image of M. Only—1I guess, his face is kinder e | Blairg opinion of Jenkins immedi- ; ately grew many shades darker, and to he felt himself insult-. everal encounters and S greetings he had re- Surmised that i ;ixs‘frig:mls were not of {rl;ul:ll;lse.mt:g ,“:rler liked to think that he and his | One day at n, l the parlors of i he had agreed i fore he even ¢ ; In the opposit | too fashionabi | ed. From the ¢ from the varioy oon he entered one of a downtown hotel, where to meet Mrs. Blair. Be. aught sight of his wife € corner of the room a y attired young woman arose from a daven and addressed him, e “Now, Henry, sooner, you might 'we come I've been waiting—> Blair looked unrecognizingly at her, His discomfort lasted but a moment, } 'hrz\w\'vr, for she interrupted herself With an exclamation of distress. “Oh, beg pardon. 1 thought you was Mr. Jen:I lflns, a gentlem: friend of mine. | Stoopid of me, for his eyes are brown.” | There was a flash of annoyance in Blairs 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 ooyly, 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 glanoce 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 & stupid story that you‘invented.* “If I were trying to be funny I could ' think of something more humorous than that,* said her husband, as they | went on into the 'dining room. “I ohould hope so. Yet, come to think of it, there is a certain likeness | i In your bearing. Besides, he woars 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 of ' the Argentine flag saye: “The em- phatic patriotism of the American is tepid alongside the hot-blooded natfon- ality of Argentine. It is daily incul- cated in the schools; the blue-and- white striped flag 18 honored on every occasion. When the Argentines were in revolution against Spain tn 1810, and needed a banner to flaunt against the red and orange of the enemy, they got pleces 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 Mr. Fraser bricklayer'll lay that brick! | Bricklayer—I wonder when that fleh- erman’'ll catch a filsh—Humoristicke \ | P heat. Aftershaving. After thebath. Asaface powder. As a foot powder. Really indispensa- ble. In sifter top cans. At drug- gists, 15 cents. : For Sale In Lakeland by HENLEY & HERLEY ForBabies. For prickly i | e & $ .Z & B e 207 to 216 Main St. Beutify your Lawn, Let us tell you how, Little it will cost. Lakeland Paving and Construction Company LU FISOADEOS USRI OE SIS FE0IDF 0SB ORUFOSISOPOROND Res. Phone 153 Blue PSR SRHSLREL S 3 LAKELAND, FLA. § i Thornley to spring forward and clutch | contentedly by the wayside, while Miss | Rose Marchant kneeled at his side, stronger than yours.” IN THE BERKSHIRES By JOHN ERROL. _———— It was five years since Henry Thorn- ley, then a struggling artist but now beginning to be known in his profes- sion, had stayed at Croft inn. It was 8 little place tucked away in the heart | of the Berkshires, and kept by an old couple who took boarders to eke out their scanty means. Angd, though old Mr. and Mrs. Beach Wwere pleased to see him, there was a certain hesitation about their welcome. He had run down unannounced, trust- ing to luck to obtain a room. To his surprise and delight the house was nearly empty, The only other guest was a charm- ing young lady named Miss Marchant. And, though they were introduced with all informality, Miss Marchant—whose name, Thornley learned, was Rose— | . did not appear enthusiastic about be- coming acquainted with him. In fact, on the third morning Thorn- ley was so disgusted with his efforts to win her friendship that he had al most decided to leave for town. He was strolling along a country lane in no pleasant mood when he heard the sound of a golloping horse behind him. He turned, to see Miss Marchant seated in the landlord’s old- ' fashioned buggy, while the pony, en- tirely out of hand, was running at full speed toward the railroad line. And a train was sounding in the distance. It was the work of an instant for the pony’s bridle. Knocked down and dragged for some distance though he was, he brought the trembling steed to a standstill just as the train thun- dered past. He must have fainted for, when he awoke, the pony was cropping grass trying to revive him. “You poor, brave man!” she said as be opened his eyes. It was not the words, but something in her tone that startled Thornley. Miss Marchant was addressing him distinctly as though he were an infe- _~ “You Be from Old Man Beach's?” rior. And Thornley did not like it. He rose rather stiffly to his feet. “Will you permit me to drive you back? he asked “I understand a lit- tle about horses, and my wrist may be He saw Miss Marchant's eyes widen in either consternation or terror. *“0, no, no!” she cried, and sprang into the buggy. Thornley was not used to being treated with oontempt, and his stub- | bornness rose. Hewcaught the pony | by the bridle. | “I am sorry my company is so dis- | tasteful to you,” he said, “but I must insist. You may come to some harm.” | Miss Marchant screamed and slashed the pony acroes the flank. It started off, fiinging him aside, and he rolled in the dust, to see, when he rose to his feet again, Miss Marchant and the pony and the buggy far in the distance. A grinning countryman came by and stopped to stare at Thornley, who, in no good humor, asked him what he was looking at. "You be from old man Beach’s?” asked the fellow, still grinning. “"Well, what if I am? Is there any- thing amusing in that?” Thornley de- manded. The yokel scratched his head. “Well, T guess there 1s,” he drawled. “Every- body seems to find old man Beach and his mentals amusing.” *His what?” demanded Thornley. ~His mentals. His bugs—crazy peo- ple, you know. 1 guess you're one of ‘em, ain't you?™ Suddenly the explanation flashed across Thornley’s mind. Old Mr. Beach, who had been unable to make much headway with his boarders five | vears before, had had the obsession that he could increase his income con- siderably by catering to those men- | pounded, 1s the function of the adrenal nervous breakdown, and—with that pony— He left the grinuing yokel in the road and started back as hard as he could go. At the top of the bill ke found the pony grazing, the buggzy behind it, empty. Beside the road Miss Mar- chant was seated, looking about her in a dazed manner. There was mud on her dress. Thornley hurried up to ber. He aided her to her feet. “Now you must let me see you home at once,” he said, and, taking her un- resisting arm in his hand, he placed the other hand upon the pony's bridle, and the party proceeded homeward. All the way Thornley caught Miss Marchant watching him in the same singular manner. Mr. Beach was profuse in his apolo- gles. He would never have let Miss Marchant have the pony if he had known it was going to act in that manner. Thornley cut him short. “Have Mrs. Beach help Miss Mar- chant to her room,” he sald. “Then I want to talk to you.” When they were alone he broke out angrily: “What do you mean by letting that poor, aflicted young lady go out driv ing alone?” » Old Mr. Beach stared at him. “Af- flicted? She ain't no more aflicted than you are,” he answered. “But you take cases of mental break- down,” cried Thornley. “Only one year” sald Mr. Beach grimly. “Year after you left. I had enough of them. Now I'm trying to build up a regular business again. But it'’s hard. When once a man has ta- ken mentals all his guests are sup- posed to'be mentals. She thinks you're one.” “What!* cried Thornley. “Why didn’t you tell her? That accounts for the way she has been treating me.” “What's the use?” asked Mr. Beach. “She wouldn’t have believed me. Once a man takes mentals, everybody sus- pects all his guests are mentals. They'll be calling me a mental soon. I hoped you'd find each other out, but it I'd trled to speak it would only have made things worse than what they were.” Thornley’s anger soon passed. From his point of view tho old man was right, If he had explained to each of his guests that the other was not a “mental” would thay have belleved him? He chafed and fumed the rest of the day, because Miss Marchant did not appear. But when, on the next morn- ing, they met in the pleasant grounds, there was a smile on her lips. “Mrs. Beach has told me all, Mr. Thornley,” she sald *How you must have hated me. Can you forgive me?"’ Thornley looked at her. Something in his glance sent the blood into her cheeks. “On condition that you—stay a long time,” he stammered. And, long before thetr holiday had elapsed, it was recognized that Mr. Beach had a new kind of mental case in his house, which could only be cured—as this one was—by a long white veil and orange blossoms. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) New Scientific Discovery. 3 The old saying that fear lends wings to the fugitive should be changed, in medical terms, to that of his adrenal secretions giving him wings. Under emotional excitement epinephrin {8 discharged from the Mttle encapsu- lated bodies situated above the kid- neys, sealing the blood in the essen- tlal organs of the heart, lungs, and brain, as well as t the skeletal muscles. Into thess organs and muscles the blood first pours in abun- dance from organs of kees importance and i8 kept there by the clot forma- tions of the epinephrin, The period of excitement 18 thus described by the Journal of the Americen Medical As- soclation: “The organism which with the aid of Increased adrenal secretion can best master its energios, can best call forth sugar to supply the laboring muscles, can best lessen fatigne, and can best send blood fo the parts es- gential for the run or.the fight for life, 18 most likely %o survive. Such, according to the view here pro- medulla in times of great emergency.” Keeping Flowers With Sugar. According to the Florists” Exchange, two professors of the School of Agri- culture at Rennes, Franoe, have made gome Interesting experiments in pro- longing the lives of ont flowers. One hundred different flowees were used in the experiments, and &t was found that sugar helped 0 keep most of them fresh, but wes positively in, jurious to lilies and sweet peas. It hastened the opening of roses and orchids, but did not thus affect tulips, daisies or chrysanthemums. Experiments were made with small quantities of chloral, ether, gtycerin, alcohol, limewater and ammonia salts, each of which served %o lengthen the lite of various flowera. Some of the flowers, kept in sugar and water, lived four times a8 long a8 they ardinarily would. The sugar does not have an exactly ! equal effect on the different flowers it preserves. Carnations seem to like a 156 per cent solution, and roses do better in a solution’ of from aight to ten per cent. Temperamental “I guess I'll get a joh" tally afflicted. No wonder he and his wife had appeared embarrassed when be appeared upon the scene 80 unex- pectedly. And Miss Marchant—" He groaned. What a fool he had been! 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