Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 14, 1914, Page 8

The only like USEFUL CITIZEN RETURNS T0 FLORIDA the State’s dependents. He Jacksonville, Oct. 14.—After an absence of two months on kis vaca- tion and business tr{p, Marcus Fagg, superintendent of the Children’s Home Society of Florida, has re- turned to Jacksonville. While away Superintendent ‘Fflgg visited insti- tutions caring for children in six different States and several indus- tral schools where Florida children were being educated. The States visited were Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North and South Carolina. He was particularly proud of the fact that the three Lighest- class honors in the Pitts- burg school went to three little Florida children who, previous to Frankfort, Ky., Oct. il ' being sent away, had received prac- tically no education, but now have advanced rapidly ander proper in- struction. Mr. Fagg stated that Florida was greatly in nced of an industrial school for boys and girls. cipal speaker at ciety. “Keep the Quality Up” | has been our watchword You can’t whistle away the fact, the one great big point that in- dicates this Store’s Betterness Ouality In Merchandise A Step Ahead in Quality--- A Step Behind in Price BATES STORE Every piece of WOOL GOODS in . STOCK ABSOLUTELY NEW L= =l d A0S CHSHORECHEAORS LB 0hE Woodrow Wilson E WOOD be PLEASED at WOO0DS’, The New Drug Store New FRESH Shipment of that Kustom Katching Kern’s KANDY Justreceived. Phone 408 The New Drug Store JUST O°PFPOSITE THE CITY HALL. ool S oot institution in the - State is the school for dclinquent ©0000000000000000000000000 hoys. There is no public school for- hopes that before long the need of one will be seen by the government. GOVERNOR GIVES RECEPTION 14.—Gov. McCreary will give a public recep- . 8t his bars. Jocko did not like Fla- tion, the first of the seasun, at the mansion this eventng in honor of the United Daughters of the Confea- eracy, who are in a convention here. Tomorrow afternoon, provided the | landed and had secured the position weather is satisfactory, the Sons of. | because something in his looks ap- the Confederate Veterans will enter- | tain the delegates with a trip on ; dent of the zoological society. the Kentucky river. In the evening Col. Polk Johnson will be the prin- ©f his race, Donna, the orang-outang, Historical Night meeting, which will be held in the oo Flaherty and Jocko disagreed. So, rooms of the State Historical So-: when the story came to Flaherty’s 2 & PEPPBPERRDSPL PRI bbDd PP Phone 46 THE ELECTRIC STORE 307 E. Main St. DO YOU KNOW What you get without Charge when you buy Electric Irons, Toaster Stoves, Percolators, Heaters, from Us. ( Advice of experts as to desirability of each device for the work intended. You won't have to speud your money for something that won’t meet your expectations. You Get- Facility of quick repair. as we ca; ry Repair Parts for our own line of | guaranteed goods. Florida Electric and Machinery Co. OOV IOCOST USSR 3 § THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LARELAND, FLA., OCT. 14, 1914. “The difference is, in fact, impercep- | tibly small.” y “Then phwhy wouldn’t a mans | blood do instead of Donna’s?” asked Flaherty. The old doctor looked at hl:ln grano; . “It would,” he answered. “Bu fily o .E.EUNDERWOOD' lvfhere are you going to find the man who will give his blood for an ape?” (Copyright, 194, by W. G. Chapman) | “Hqre!” answered Flaherty, .I?eatin: “Hey! Git back, ye ugly spalpeen!” his breast. “I'll do ut, doctor. roared Flaherty, the zoo keeper. The doctor was at first indlgnsu_:t. Jocko grimaced at him and rattled 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 i bad given away the story, and it had i 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, nurned| 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 'g more alert, much fatter, and much an- | g JOGKO AND DONNA herty any more than Flaherty liked . | Jocko. Jocko was a bald-headed chim- panzee, and in poor health; Flaherty was a well-meaning, kind-hearted, rough-voiced Irishman, who had lately | pealed to Doctor Hoffman, the presi- But if Jocko was an ailing specimen was & perfect lady. Donna and Fla- | herty liked each other just as much ears that Donna was to die, he went to the president-director with a rueful face. “It's like this, Flaherty,” explained i 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 Donpa, but then, again, it may, because those apes are very | delicate 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, grier, sat, and he shook the bars and chattered and swore in simian lan-. guage as Flaherty passed. 1 “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‘v loves Jocko. Does Jocko love the monkey man as much as the monkey l man loves Jocko, mamma?” i “It don't look like it,” sneered a fat man, as Jocko thrust his arm throughl 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, it—it Donna had known. But she would never know that he had saved her from death. When he went back the 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 & 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 sald. “He loves Jocko so much that he scolds him to avold showing his feelings.” T 2 N BUDS, BUT DOESN'T BLOSSOM Sad, Though Common Story of the Man Who Expects to Astonish I the World. Swore In Simian Language as Fla- herty Passed. 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- to inject the blood of any other verte- 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,| 8ide or in the shelter of his own| 3 Phone 233. R d Who had never heard of the Darwinian | hearth and bethinks him that, 1f he | + 33. Rear Wilson Hdwe Co. theory. “D'youse mean to tell me, | had only the time, his name should be m SOLEIIIPPIE B4 sor, that Jocko and me had the same | 8reat and he be numbered among the grandfather?” “Well, yes, it 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. 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 3 \ Srniods g, % MR o oo “All the same, Donna has to go,” and dreams in a seventh heaven espe- | & answered Doctor Hoffman. “And, by clally for amateur writers that a few >4 4 the way, Flaherty, there's one thing I| ™Ore morns he shall wake up and the ek wanted to speak to you about. I am | Mailman, and the milkman, the grocer :;jj§ told you are not kind to Jocko.” and the iceman shall bow down be- =33 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 o!' paper. E “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. I under- 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 S W thought of Donna's dooml 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 hendl 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 had no heart to pay him any at- tention. On the ensuing Sunday morn- ing Donna was to give up her life Pl £=2 2] for the worthless Jocko. That evening Flaherty pald 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 SPPPEPDBHPE 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 i it and flourish. Why, he’s been living |tor years now with blood that would kill you or me.” i “Doctor,” said Flaherty, “Is it true | that apes have the same blood as men | have?” l “Quite true,” answered the doctor. 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 muterplece.i And then no answer comes, and the ! author gets mad and writes a letter | to the papers. And then, some quiet . morning, when fillers are scarce, some- | body finds the letter and it is printed. i Whereupon the author buys three doz- en copies and sends them to his |& friends, and is proud of spirit and walks haughtily. And in the evening his wife takes the coples 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 that office building?” | “Yep.” { “That girl is waving her handker ] chief at me.” | “Come on, you near sighted chump, | That's a man cleaning windows.” | | S Cause and Effect. “Did you see where the Bellhnl women threw scalding water on the | German soldiers?” ' “Then no wonder they were pe- ported to be boiling with rage” ! [ =t : BOGOEBBUO SO CH e 2 O 00000000000000000000000000000000000000884 400 YOUR EYEg Why suffer with 1, nervousss, pain in the eyes when all h tr, bles can be relicved special ground lenses, : We make a speciality o such work. 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