Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 2, 1914, Page 2

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McGLASHAN TTO Which is proven by our six years success in Lakeland. Maker of the National Steel reinforced concrete Burial Vault _Building Blocks of all discrip- tions. Red Cement, Pressed Brick, White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 nd 4 inch Drain Tile, 6, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post: in fact anything made of Cement. FLORIDA!NATIONAL VAULT CO The Biggest Family In This Town Is the Family of Readers of —— THIS PAPER ©2SEEPHSFFSTIOLHOESHEEISOD i : BOAT HOUSE & (JOYLAND PARK) ?Power Boats and Row Boats- Special Rates to Fishing and Picnic Parties Best Service—ReasonableRates W. F. MooNEY, Prop. P. O. Box 32 DPBRR BB Y Residence Phone 234 Black ———————————————————————————— [ 20000 XXX XXX XXX HOW HE WON RUTH By WALTER JOSEPH DELANEY. “When you have a sharp pain be- tween the solar plexis and the ob- longata thorax, look out!” bawled a strident voice. The tones echoed blatantly over u:el village green. For over half an hour a wandering medicine fakir had been descanting upon his nostrums to a curious crowd who drank in his big words and amazing statements. Smug, rotund, lingering on the out- skirts of the crowd, John Moore smiled complacently to himself. “None of that in me!” he chuckled. “T reckon he can't sell me any of his sugar and water humbugs.” “When' you feel dizzy-headed, pal-! pitation, difficulty in breathing, again —1look out! They may lead to serious | complication. Be warned in time.; The I. X. L. Sure Cure will protect you.” A thin dyspeptic man stepped up! and purchased a bottle of the much | mooted elixir of life. Then, despite some further forcible talk of the ven-| der, sales went slow. He began to traverse more explicit lines. Ha; painted a dismal picture of ill health. As symptom after symptom was named, with a proud and positive! smile John Moore kept tab on them. “Guess I'm a well and husky speci- men if I did have rheumatism once,” gloated the old fellow, and was about | to remove his well-fed and well-satis- | fled self from the vicinity, when the medicine vender, growing desperate at the lack of interest and investment as to his wares and their boasted vir- tues, named new “symptoms.” Then he came to a sudden stop, indeed a' startled halt. “There is another line of symp-| toms,” declared the faker solemnly. | “They apply to fatal diseases,” and he[ under the influence of the drug, the ... returned, and he was sure she named several cancerous distresses of ' doctor took out a tiny pair of surgical 1,4 1ot seen l;im. the human family. “What is the pre- ! ventative? The I X. Q. Sure Cure!! Applied in time, it will kill out thel| germs. But when the full disease se-| cures its final grip, what then?; il il ) | l ‘The I. X. L. Sure Cure WIIl Protect You.” i Radium. And what does radium cost? Oh, my friends! ward off this terrible calamity with a bottle of my cardinal mixture. Symptoms”—he named a score and wound up with— “a prickly sensation under the sur- face.” “Hah!” gasped Moore, and his hand stole to his back. His face turned white as chalk. He staggered home- ward with the hoarse, despairing words: “I've got it —doomed!” For two days old John Moore neith- ! er ate nor slept. He remained in his own room, groaning and desperate. He had got hold of several medical works. While the “prickly sensation” described by the medicine faker was not named, the terrors of the disease were. Moore was convinced that he had it and had it bad. For several months, whenever any unaccustomed pressure came upon a certain part of his back a sharp stinging pain re- sulted. Oh, ft was there! He was going to dle! and he told his daughter Ruth that she became alarmed. | incidentally several times. The younl! physician seemed inclined to renew the acquaintanceship and Ruth was glad to realize it | Two days later Mr. Moore changed ' | his mind. He would see Doctor Par ton. It was a reluctant direction he | gave for his presence and when the young physician arrived he received ! a decidedly chill and sulky greet- ing. “I have sent for you not to exam- ine me or tend on me,” said the old man bluntly. “I have got a fatal die- ease. I know what it is and what will cure it. I send for you because, ! you being a doctor, probably know where to get a rare remedy I need.” “What is the remedy?” inquired Doo- tor Parton. Now he had seen Ruth only the evening previous. He had told her that he considered that her' father was more scared than ill. Ruth ' had told of the “symptoms” her father ! had described and the doctor had smiled to himself. i “It's radium,” replied Moore. *“I ume, derstand it is rare and expensive.” “Very.” i “Can you get me enough for a treatment?” | “I can try.” | “Very well, if it costs up to five thousand dollars I must have it,” in- sisted “the invalid.” g ! And then the doctor was so indul, gent that Moore agreed to allow him ' to examine the dreadful ‘“prickly” spot. Sure enough, when the doctor pressed it Moore uttered a frightful howl of pain. The doctor, too, caught a sharp stab in the finger. He smiled queerly. i “I will be here with the remedy to- morrow, Mr. Moore,” he said. | ‘When the young physician appeared as promised, with an impressive air he placed a little phial done up in elaborate coverings of cotton, silk and metal. Of course this was the radium, Moore decided. THE OTHER REASON By ROSE WALLACE. (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) Winona sat on the edge of a stream | shaking salt over crisp green| branches of wa-i tercress the first time George Mad- ison saw her. | He had come there to paint and | to get away from| his sister’s many | chattering girl, friends, whoj seemed always to be occupying porch and lawn and pergola at! home. | He was trying to | get his picture in | his vision, and was squinting and oth- | erwise distorting his face when he! saw her drop into his canvas, as it | were. He was making bits of scenery | to frame for a frieze in his study. Some how or other, as young Mad- ison began to sketch in the contour | of the landscape and to work in bits here and there, the girl seemed a | necessary touch, and he let her take , her place on his canvas almost with- | = ” meaql:: rt:m prevented the artist ' i ° ‘ i Demonstration W eel Of South Bend morning he wended his way to the hilltop with palette and easel and all necessary paraphernalia. | He had hardly begun to mix his colors when the same girl in the ! same dress and with the same salt- i o | | thetic. “Now, sir,” sald Doctor Parton, “I gyyker in her hand took her seat on shall have to give you a light anaes- {h, eqge of the stream and began to fc. Then I will apply the rem- pick and eat watercress. George edy. | Madison laughed to himself. It was To this Moore agreed. Once he Was gypo5t weird to think that she should He felt it, he knew it, | 80.| two monoplanes had Captain Fethy He was so distressed and positive' and Lieutenant Sadik in one and Lieu- pincers. He pressed the jaws of the instrument to the center of the o,ll-i ing spot and drew out—a needle. | In some way the little tormentor( had got under the flesh and this was the cause of the “fatal symptoms.” Really and truly Doctor Parton rubbed the contents of the phial over the spot, so he could say later that he had applied “the remedy.” And then the artful young physi- clan left the house—after a few words with Ruth, The next day John Moore was “well.” No more “fatal” sensations! He did nothing but eat and sleep for a week, making up for lost time. Then he sent for the doctor. “Cured!” he announced, deliriously bhappy with relief and hope. “l guess you are, Mr. Moore,” as- sented Parton. “The radium did it—a terrible bill, 1 suppose?” “Oh, no,” replied Parton easily, “I happened to have that phial—you're welcome to it.” “Then you saved my life—for noth- ing!” shouted the excited Moore. “Well, not exactly,” answered the young doctor slowly—“I hoped you would appreciate my services enough to give me Ruth.” | “Take her!” cried old John Moore spontaneously. And he never knew all the truth about the radium, and Ruth and her happy husband made up for their in- nocent deception by helping to make \ John Moore’s last days his best days. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) TURKEY GETS UP TO DATE Sultan’s Followers Have Taken to Avi. ation, and Usual Price In Human Life ls Result. | Turkey is the latest country to form an army aviation corps. The first de mand for its formation came, curiously enough, from Jerusalem. When a French aviator descended near that city, the first to be seen there, the in- habitants offered to buy two aero- planes for the army if two officers would fly from the Bosporous to the Holy land. The offer was accepted by Enver Pasha, minister of war, who at once began to form a flying corps, and de- | cided on a flight from Constantinople to Alexandria, that Turkish officers might show themselves as bold and | skilful as Europeans. The flight began February 8. The | tenants Noury and Ismall Hakki in ! “I don’t see why you don’t send for| the other. The Sultana was present | a doctor,” she said. at the departure and gave a bangquet | “Who shall 1 send for?" snapped| to Captain Fethy. the irritated invalid. “There's only Doctor Parton and—none of him, not if I die for it! No, sir-ree! You know how he insulted me when I had that slight attack of rheumatism. ‘When 1 wondered what could cause it in a man like me, who don't know the taste of drink, who never used to- bacco. What did he say? Inherited! Who from? Past generations! He had the audacity to say that it was probably a trace of gout inherited from some old roystering swash buckler or pirate among my ancestors. He said this to me—me, John Moore, ! whose forefathers brought Plymouth Rock over to this country!” Ruth made no reply to all this. The speech renewed a sunny memory in her mind. She and Doctor Parton had become quite good friends during the time he had attended her father. ‘When the latter had dismissed him in anger they did not see very much of each other. However, they had met Noury's machine had a number of minor accidents at first, while Fethy | .had a triumphal journey as far aa Beirut. He stopped here several days | and reached Damascus in safety. Leaving this city February 27, thexvx Wwas no news of him for days. Then | the wreck of the monoplane and the bodies of its occupants were found | ‘ near the Lake of Tiberias. The acci- { dent, whatever it was, was observed | { by no one, and its cause is unknown. | ’ But this accident has not hindered | others from continuing the work, and | there are many volunteers to succeed | them. ! | Friends of the Dog. | Princess Christian, Princess Victoria Louise and other persons of the royal family have become interested in the | | work in England of Our Dumb Friends’ {league. A home for stray dogs in Lon- {don is to be established under the auspices of the league. | hummed and seemed content to be , the fresh grass at the stream’s edge, | near by, evidently afraid to sit down. { Madison knew that it was Fate, nev- | his path. from going to paint on the next day, Y, ' A G4 but bright and early on the thlrd‘ QOne Seven-Piece Set of Aluminum Wa given fres with each Range this weck “lf she's there again I'll say she's nutty,” he said inelegantly to him- self as he folded his easel. But she was there, and she con- sumed quantities of watercress and alive. The artist began to wish she would notice him, and yet he could not move nearer and get the same picture on his canvas. He believed as he looked at his nearly completed picture that it was the best thing he had done yet, and the girl in her colorful frock and golden masses of hair sitting gracefully on the edge of the stream was not the least of it. There was hardly an excuse left for the young man to go again to paint on his canvas—it was finished. But he could not resist the desire to seek his place again and see if perhaps something might not draw the girl's attention away from the stream. When he arrived he looked down and there, complacently munching See Toyland at our Store. We are Hea | quarters for Christmas Goods LAKELAND | Furniture & Hardware Ci et S e e stood an old cow. ‘The girl stood “Save Ten Dollars” By having your Fall Clothes made to your INDIVIDUAL Measure by us :-: She looked about her as if for help and her eye fell on George Madison well up on the hillside beyond. As if she had summoned him, he ran down the bank and picked up a stick. “Shall I chase her away?” he asked 3 Winona smiled gratefully. I wish you would,” she said. + The cow moved on with a little per- suasion and the artist assured Winona that she was perfectly harmless. “Nevertheless, I wouldn't have the courage to sit down peacefully while a cow stood near me,” the girl ad- mitted. cress.” “Are you—do you like it so much?” George asked. “Yes—it is a French cure for bron- chial or pulmonary weakness, and I was not sure that I had not one of them, so I am taking the precaution of not letting anything get a hold on me. I must have health,” she de- clared earnestly. “You look as if you enjoyed it— now,” the artist could not help say- ing as his eyes dwelt on the wonder ful fairness of her skin. “I am perfectly well now, I think,” the girl went on, “but it is due, I am sure, to the fact that I have dili- gently followed the advice of this old French physician whom I met in Nor- mandy. I have eaten watercress to the exclusion of everything else, and in order to have it fresh and to be out of doors as much as possible, I have come here for it every day and | made my meals of it. I live only a mile from the stream,” she added. “And—does it satisfy you?" George | asked with wonder. ‘ “Perfectly; as long as I do not see the family at home sitting down to! tempting meals of other things. That's another reason why I come here to have solitary feasts of this.” | “And another reason I think—is | Fate,” the young artist dared to say. What the girl thought of his re-| $5 Styles mark she did not betray, but George “Oh— Suits or Overcoats “And I must have water- No More Soft Hats and Derbies | Large variety of Shapes and Shad- ings, Trimmed with Contrast Bands — the Season’s latest Conceptions $3 Quality ertheless, that had sent Winona across And so it proved to be Third Largest City. The third largest city on earth is not Chicago, but Paris. Chicago comes in fourth, with Tokyo, Japan, as a very close competitor. The figures | are: London, 7,252,000; New York, 5, ! 114,000; Paris, 2,900,000; Chicago, 2, 200,000; Tokyo, 2,186,000. Peking, China, which was for a long time the largest city in the world, has a popula- tion of only 700,000. ENGLISH WOOLEN MILLS Hatters and Tailors Futch & Gentry Bidg, LAKELAND, FLA.$ R. A. BLUMBERG SAM B. SCHER