Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 10, 1914, Page 8

——————————————— TROUBLES OF A DOUBLE By CARL SALOMON. .oooooooooooooooooooooooo: | Blair had just pulled on his overcoat and was on the point of leaving the cafe, when a heavy hand fell on his ghoulder and a hearty veice 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 hav- “Who do you “My name ing ever seen before. think I am?” he snapped. 18 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 irreproachable 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?” G The eporty person opened his red Timmed eyes wide with surprise. “Say, honeg', [ thought you was Jenking,” he ‘explained. “You'Te the dead image of , him. Only—I guess, his face i3 kinder, redder'n yourn.” Blair's opinion of Jenkins immedi- ately grew many shades darker, and to the same extent he felt himself insult- ed. From the several encounters and from the various greetings he had re- celved 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 - world. The production of her given. ¢ o— the pariors of a downtown 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 & too fashionably attired young woman arose from a davenport near the door and addressed him. “Now, Henry, you might 've come By J. B. UNDERWOOD. sooner. I've been waiing—" Yy Blair looked wnrecognizingly at her. T His discomfort lasted but a moment, (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) however, for she interrupted herself “Hey! Git back, ye ugly spalpeen!” with an exclamation of distress. “Oh, roared Flaherty, the zoo keeper. beg pardon. I thought you was Mr. J_en- Jocko grimaced at him and rattled kins, a gentleman frlend of mine.' g¢ his bars. Jocko did not like Fla- Stoopid of me, for his eyes are brown.” herty any more than Flaherty liked There was a flash of annoyance in| yocko, Jocko was a bald-headed chim- Blair’s gray eyeés as he crossed over mi panzee, and in poor health; Flaherty his wife. “I seem to have a double,” | wag a well-meaning, kind-hearted, he told her, “though his halr, eyes and | rough.voiced Irishman, who had lately face do not quite match mine, B?sldes. landed and had secured the position unlike me, he's not punctual. I'm go-! pecause something in his looks ap- ing to wait here and find out wherein | pegled to Doctor Hoffman, the presi- my double and I resemble each other.” | dant of the zoological society. Shortly thereafter a burly but qulet, But if Jocko was an ailing specimen inoffensive looking man hastened Into | o¢ yig race, Donna, the orang-outang, the parlor and greeted the damsel on! was a perfect lady. Donna and Fla- the davenport. She took his arm coyly, | perty liked each other just as much and whispered something that caused | as Flaherty and Jocko disagreed. So, her escort to look inquiringly over to-. wren the story came to Flaherty’s ward Blalr. If he expected a genial Ye- | garg that Donna was to die, he went sponse from the latter the cold glance ¢, the president-director with a rueful When Everybody Eats Florida Citrus Fruits the Demand will Exceed the Supply Citrus fruits are becoming necessities instead of luxuries. The people of the United States are learning their many merits and uses. Where formerly they were regarded solely as breakfast ftuits,now they are eaten at other meals and used frecly in cookery and confections. 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BUCKEYE NURSERIES = 1068 CITIZENS BANK BUILDING = TAMPA, FLORIDA Buckeye Trees Be that met him must have been a disap- ; pointment. “Well, do we look anything alike?” Blair asked his wife. “Certainly not.” Mrs. Blalr 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 than that,” said her husband, as they went on into the dining room. i “I ohould hope so. Yet, come to think of it, there is a certain likeness in your bearing. Besides, he wears 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 says: “The em- phatic patriotism of the American is tepid alongside the hot-blooded nation- ality of Argentine. It is dafly incul- cated in the schools; the blue-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 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, 1s ' due to Great Britain” Mr. Fraser holds that, in proportion to the popu- lation, there are as many milllonaires in Argentina ae in +ha United States. superior oranges and grape- lorida is welcome toa I 20 QP 2B PO BRI S€C our QN HOE DEVIOFOIVEVLVEFOEVPOLOEOT0 10 AUV DGO IO TN L0 S H& 2 Phone 46 THE ELECTRIC STORE 307 E. Main St. SPECIAL PRICES ON ELECTRIC FANS Lots of hot weather yet and you can save money— Fierida Electric and Mach nery Co. POBOIPOBOHO PO POBOH0 OO window $OSOBOPOHOPOBODOBOE | sor, that Jocko and me had the same face. “It's like this, Flaherty,” explained Doctor Hoffman. “The only thing that can cure Jocko is an infusion of fresh blood, and Donna, as the healthiest of the primates, has been selected. It may not kill Donna, but then, again, it may, because those apes are very deolicate in captivity.” “But why not let Donna live and let Jocko die?” asked Flaherty miserably. “Because, my boy, Donna is just a common orang, such as can be pro- cured anywhere, while Jocko is one of the bald-headed chimpanzees, and it' might be years before we could secure another. “It's curious about the apes,” he continued. “The blood of all the apes 18 transfusible. It differs hardly at all from that of man, On the other hand, = - yes - . Swore in Simian Language as Fla- herty Passed. | to inject the blood of any other verte- i brate would cause immediate death. In that we see the truth of the hypoth- esis that apes and men have a com- mon ancestor.” “What, sor!” exclaimed Flaherty, who had never heard of the Darwinian : theory. “D'youse mean to tell me, grandfather?” “Well, yes, if you go a little further back along the tree,” said Doctor Hoff- man, “My grandfather niver was up a| tree in his life, excipt apple trees,” | answered Flaherty indignantly. “All the same, Donna has to go,” answered Doctor Hoffman. “And, by the way, Flaherty, there's one thing I wanted to speak to you about. I am told you are not kind to Jocko.” ! “Begorra, I niver hit the craythur in me loife!"” said the attendant. “Perhaps not, Flaherty, but you must | remember that the primates are very susceptible to unkindness. 1 undel'-| stand you have been heard to address Jocko harshly. If that occurs again | you will have to find another position. | He is a helpless vertebrate in your care, and you should consider it a point of honor to treat him well.” “Yis, sor,” muttered Flaherty, as he[ made his way from the other's pres- ence, The thought of Donna's doom weighed down his heart. He stood be- fore her cage that night after the zoo had been closed and watched her eat- ing her supper. Donna put her head against the bars and Flaherty scratched it. Donna liked Flaherty to be near her. In his cage adjoining Jocko scolded and chattered. But Fla- herty bad no heart to pay him any at- tention. On the ensuing Sunday morn- ing Donna was to give up her life | for the worthless Jocko. That evening Flaherty paid a visit to the zoo doctor, an elderly German, who attended all the animals. “Can’t you save Donna's life?” he asked. The elderly German was an irascible man, but he was as sentimental as most Germans are, and he was touched by Flaherty’s solicitude. “There may be a chance,” he an- swered. “But I doubt it. It's those fine, strong apes that generally go oft at the least thing. Now if it had been | the other way round, he'd live through it and flourish. Why, he’s been living for years now with blood that would kill you or me.” “Doctor,” said Flaherty, “is it true that apes have the same blood as men have?” “Quite true,” answered the doctor. . from death. When he went back the “The difference is, in fact, impercep- tibly small.” “Then phwhy wouldn't a man's blood do instead of Donna’s?” asked Flaherty. The old doctor looked at him grave- ly. “It would,” he answered. “But where are you going to find the man who will give his blood for an ape?”’ “Here!” answered Flaherty, beating his breast. “I'll do ut, doctor.” The doctor was at first indignant, then surprised. Then, after ten min- utes of earnest conversation, he al- lowed himself to be persuaded. “You must be very fond of Jocko,” he said. “No!” cried Flaherty. “But I'm not going to let a lady like Donna be killed for the sake of a wretched, measly, spindly craythur like Jocko.” The operation had been performed successfully. One of the zoo employes bad given away the story, and it had appeared in all the newspapers, Fla- herty and Jocko were depicted side by side, in the cage and on the operating table. And Flaherty, pale and weak, and nursing a bandaged arm, nursed his wrath also as a constant stream of reporters and visitors who had read of the affair came to see him as he limped about his work. In Jocko’s cage a new Jocko, much more alert, much fatter, and much an- grier, sat, and he shook the bars and chattered and swore in simian lan- guage as Flaherty passed. “He doesn’t seem very fond of you, in spite of what you did for him,” sug- gested a lady visitor. “Look, mamma!” exclaimed a little girl, “That is the monkey man who loves Jocko. Does Jocko love the monkey man as much as the monkey man loves Jocko, mamma?” “It don’t look like it,” sneered a fat man, as Jocko thrust his arm through the bars and shook his fist at his keeper. Flaherty turned away, sick at heart. He could have borne the sneers and taunts and misunderstanding, if—it Donna had known, But she would never know that he had saved her house was nearly empty. He passed Donna, who put her head against the bars, and Flaherty scratched it. In the cage adjoining Jocko began to chat- ter at him. “Hey! Git back, ye ugly spalpeen, or I'll knock the head offen you!” he roared, raising his arm, and Jocko fled quivering into the recesses of his cage. A shadow fell upon the sunlit floor. Doctor Hoffman was passing with a friend, and Flaherty, trembling, wait- ed for the word of dismissal. But the director turned to his friend with a smile of amusement. “Yes, that is our hero,” he said. “He loves Jocko so much that he scolds him to avoid showing his feelings.” BUDS, BUT DOESN'T BLOSSOM Sad, Though Common Story of the Man Who Expects to Astonish the World. In every man there yearns a great and uncontrollable yearning to take pen in hand and inscribe his inmost thoughts that the world may read and marvel and read again. Also they shall pay him. He muses with him- self in solemn communion by water- side or in the shelter of his own hearth and bethinks him that, if he had only the time, his name should be great and he be numbered among the mighty. So he takes his pen in hand and writes his thoughts, pours out his spir- it, and is amazed at the eloquence now aroused, so long concealed from a bar- ren world. And, reading his magnum opus, he is lifted up into the clouds and dreams in a seventh heaven espe- cially for amateur writers that a few more morns he shall wake up and the mailman, and the milkman, the grocor and the iceman shall bow down be: fore him and say: “And this is the man we bothered for last week’s bill. Shame upon us.” And he sends forth his writing, and orders a new suit, and some silk shirts and some fancy socks, and a hat with | a three-cornered bow, and some natty ties, and looks at automobiles with a fraternizing air, and inspects houses and doesn't comb his hair, and is found oft in deep abstraction, and starts, and makes notes on scraps of! paper. And then his writing comes back, and the editor says he is sorry, but says it so politely that the author writes him a letter discussing the mat- ter and pointing out what he feels has been overlooked fn his masterpiece. | And then no answer comes, and the ! author gets mad and writes a letter | to the papers. And then, some quiet i morning, when fillers are scarce, some- | body finds the letter and it is printed. | Whereupon the author buys three doz- en copies and sends them to hlsl friends, and is proud of spirit and walks haughtily. And in the evening his wife takes the copies that are left and papers the kitchen cupboard with them, and he dies of a broken heart.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. —_— Nothing Flirtatious. “See the sixth floor of th | building?” G “Yep.” “That girl is waving her handker | chief at me.” “Come on, you near sighted chu That's a man cleaning windows."” 3 | el ] 2 Cause and Effect. 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