Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 9, 1914, Page 2

% i L | H g 'E ! THE EVEMING TALEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., DEC. 9, 1914. | [ aaaaadasss s e ol The Professions SFPEPIGPPTOPP SIS EEF PR IRIE Chiropractor DR. J. Q. SCARBOROUGH, Lady in Attendance In Dyches Building Between Park and Auditorium. OFFICE HOURS. 8 to 11:30 a. m. 1:30 to 5 p. m. 7:00 to 8:00 p. m. Consultation and Examination Free. Residence Phone 240 Black PRV W. L. HEATH, D. C. HUGH D. VIA, D. C. Doctors of Chiropratic. Over Post Office. Hourg 8 to 12. a. m. and 2. to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m. Graduateg and Ex-Faculty mem- bers of the Palmer School of Chirapratic. Consultation and Spinal analysis free at office. G. D. & H. D. MENDENHALL CONSULTING ENGINEERS Suite 212-215 Drane ‘Building Lakelond, Fla. Phosphate Land Examinations ang Plant Designs, tiarthwork Specialists Surveys. Residence phone, 278 Black. Office phone, 278 Blue. DR. SARAH F. WHEELER OSTEOPATH Annex, Door South of Firs National Bank Lakeland, Florida Munn DR. W. R. GROOVER YSICIAN AND SURGEON Roogxr: 58 and 4. Kentucky Buildins Lakeland, Florida i Ry DR. C. C. WILSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special Attention Given To DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Deen-Bryant Bldg. oms 8, 9, 16 Office Vhoie 357 Kesiaence Phone 367 Bine A. X. ERICKSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Real Estate Questions Bryant Building DR. R K. ¥*"UDOCK DFN'(IST Room No. 1, Di kson Bldg. Lakeland, Fla. Office Phone 13%; Residence 91 Blar} D. O Rogers Edwin Spencer, Jt. ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Building Lakelang, __ Florida HENRY WOLF & SON, EXPERT PIANO TUNERS Old Pianos Rebuilt, Refinished and Made Like New; All Work Warrant- ed Strictly First Class. Residence and Repair Shop 401 SOUTH MASSACHUSETTS AVE. Phone 16 Black. Lakeland, Fla. EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER Raymondo Bldg,, Lakeland,_l‘lgx:idl KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Bulilding __ Lakeland Florida W. 8. PRESTON, LAWYER STILL WITH THEM By GEORGE BURROUGHS. MMAAN Henry Nobble, senior partner of the firm of Nobble & Black, brought his fist down upon the mahogany table with a crash of self-emphasis which showed plainly enough that he was not a married man. “Black, Miss Gregory has got to go,” he declaimed. Andrew Black looked up at his part- ner with a melancholy smile. “I know she has, Noble, but who's going to do the trick?” he asked. “I tried it last Christmas, and all she got was a raise of salary,” sald Black. “You try.” “But I can't think of any excuse,” protested Nobble. “I can’t pretend that we're getting into deep water, be- cause she knows more about the firm's finances that we do. And, anyway, after'15 years’ service we couldn’t fire her without a real reason.” “Then let her stay,” said Black with resignation. “But she’s so ahominably offclous, Black,” protested Nobble. *‘She’s so strong-minded that she's got to the point where she runs the whole shop. She won't let me do anything I want to do. Of course, I admit she is a wom- an of sound judgment—in fact, a treas- ure, but—" “But this is our business, Nobble, and not Miss Gregory's, and we want the fun of managing it ourselves,” said Mr. Black. “Well, I'll tackle her again.” “Get her out,” said Nobble. “I don't, care how you do it. And, when she’s gone, no more strong-minded women in our employment.” Miss Ada Gregory would have been surprised and distressed beyond meas-‘ ure could she have heard this conver: sation between her employers. Miss Gregory might have been strong- minded, but she was certainly pretty. She had entered the firm 15 years be- “Did You Ever Think of—Think of | Getting—Er—Married, ory?” Miss Greg- fore, as a cash girl, with the determina- | tlon to become a controlling influence in it before she reached middle age. All her life was bound up with Nob- ble & Black. She became first steno- Office Upstairs East of Court Houee | grapher, then private secretary to Nob- BARTOW, FLA. Examination of Titles and Real R« tate Law a Specialty DR. H. MERCER RICHARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office: Rooms 5 and 6, Elliston Bldg Lakeland, Florida Phones: Office 378; Resid. 301 Blue FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building Office phone 402. Res. 312 Red Special attention to drafting lega) papers. Marriage licenses and abstracts turnished W. HERMAN WATSg]N. M. D. Morgan-Groover Bldg. Telephones: Office 351; Ru;‘lla Red Lakeland, Floride DR. D. P. CARTER VETERINARY SURGEON Lakeland, Fla. Residence Phone 294 Red Office Phone 196 PETERSON & OWENS ATTORNEYS AT LAW Dickson Building Established in July, 1900 DR. W. S. IRVIN DENTIST Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Florida B. H. HARNLY ble and Black successively, then as- sistant manager. From that post she was nominally promoted to business director, being really shunted into a sinecure. In vain. Miss Gregory re- fused to stay put, and created a new | department of more importance than any other. This was an excellent thing for the firm, but Miss Gregory acted as if she was the firm. “She won't let us have & run for our money,” was the way Nobble pathetically put it. “Mr. Black would like to see you, Miss Gregory,” said the head office boy deferentially. Miss Gregory went into Mr. Black's office and sat down before him, Jooking at him with a direct gaze which con- siderably disconcerted the junior part. ner. “Ahem, Miss Gregory!” he began, playing with his ruler, “Mr. Nobble and I have been thinking about your future. We are agreed that your chances with a small firm like ours do not amount to what they ought to.” “Never mind that, Mr. Black,” inter- posed Miss Gregory suavely. “I'm go- ing to make this a very big firm in- deed, some day. Now, I have a scheme—" i “Excuse me, Miss Gregory,” Mr. Black interrupted, “but the suggestion I wanted to make is this: If you would like to take a three months’ va- cation on full salary and look around you—" “Why, my dear Mr. Black, I look | | around me every day of my life,” an- swered Miss Gregory. “However, I think the idea a good one. 1 will ac- cept the holiday in part—that is to say, I shall come down only in the afternoons and look about for ideas in Real Estate, Live Stock and General | the mornings. When the time is ended AUCTIONEER Sales Manager NATIONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. Auction Lot Sales a Specialty 21 Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, Fla DR. J. R. RUNYAN Rooms 17 and 18, Raymondo Bldg. All necessary drugs furnished with- out extra charge Residence phone 308. ' Office Phone 410 {qulred Miss Gregory in alarm. no doubt I shall return to my full day's work with a number of innovations to suggest.”’ Mr. Black looked at Miss Gregory, and, realizing his failure, groaned. “What is the matter, Mr. Black?” in- “You are not feeling well? Can I get you—" “A touch of headache,” said the Junfor partner. “That will be all, Miss Gregory, thank you.” And he nerved himself to bear the reproaches of his partner. i “Nobble,” he said, when the other had ended his harangue, “there’s only one thing to be done. We must get Miss Gregory married.” “Yes, I've thought of that,” answered Nobble, with melancholy demeanor. ; “You remember Cleaves, the good-look- ing bookkeeper we used to have? I’ moved his desk up next to hers, you know. He had a taking way with women.” “He left, though,” answered Black. “Yes. Dindn't give any reasons, either. Well, Black, the only thing I can think of is for you to marry her.” “Me!” shouted Black. “Why, I'm‘ never going to marry. You marry her, Nobble.” i “I'll toss you for her,” said Nobble, feebly. | “Nothing of the sort,” shouted Black. | “You're a crabby old bachelor, Nob-. ble. It'll do you good to have a wife— | a fine, spirited, capable, managing wvoman like Miss Gregory. Besides, then, she'll give up her position.” “I'll see you—" began Nobble, but, without finishing the sentence, he re- turned to his own desk and sat there, absorbed in thought. | It was a singular thing, but the idea ' of Miss Gregory as a wife appealed far more to Mr. Nobble than as busi- ness director. Mr. Nobble suspected that Miss Gregory might have quite human characteristics outside the at- mosphere of office work. In brief, be'i fore a month had gone by he had ap- proached Miss Gregory from another angle and had fallen in love with his idea. He did not say anything to Black, and yet he began to be conscious of a new and almost unknown sentiment— jealousy—whenever he saw Miss Greg- ory's pretty head in close relationship to Mr. Black’s iron-gray one. Mr. Black seemed to be utilizing Miss Gregory's services a good deal more than he used to do. And presently it began to dawn upon Nobble that he had a rival in Black. If that was the case, he must es- tablish his suit at the earliest moment possible. And he chose a day when Miss Gregory and he were to have a consultation on the half-yearly bal- ance sheet. ! “Miss Gregory,” he began, when they | were seated together at his desk, “let | us put this matter by for a moment | ! | SBAPADO B B B GO TP TGO SO R BOBDOTUDOT There is something I want to say to you. Did you ever think of—think of | getting—er—married, Miss Gregory?"| Miss Gregory started and fixed her blue eyes on his. And in them there | was unmistakably fear. | “Put it in a business way,” continued ‘Nobble. nerved for his plunge. “You | | are attractive and capable. And you' know that marriage takes a woman into her proper sphere, out of the dis- | | tracting details of business life.” | Suddenly Miss Gregory did some- thing that she had never been known Y to do in her life before—she put her handkerchief to her eyes and burst into tears. And, as Mr. Nobble strove vainly to i | console her, he heard the harsh voice | of Black hiss in his ears: ! | “You scoundrel!” hissed the junior partner. “What do you mean by mak- | ing Miss Gregory cry?” “I didn’t!” exclaimed Nobble. “But | suppose I did, what's’ that to you? Don't I pay her? Haven't I got a right to make her cry if I want to?” { “No, you haven't,” answered Black, | ferociously. “And I'll tell you why. Because it is my intentlon to ask Miss Gregory to become—" | “Miss Gregory!” exclaimed Mr. Nob- ible in anguish, “be frank with us. | Think of your long years of connection | | with this firm. Let us all have a heart- ' | to-heart talk together.” | | Miss Gregory raised her anguished eyes and fixed them on each partner | alternately. | “O, I have done wrong, I know, con- cealing it,” she wept. “I meant to tell I you, but I couldn’t muster up courage. { And I have come to you both so often, | prepared to offer my resignation, and I couldn’t hurt your feelings by doing 80. You never understood me.” “Miss Gregory!” exclaimed both partners simultaneously. “Every time I wanted to resign you raised my salary, and how could I con- fess that I was a married woman and wanted to be at home, when you thought me so necessary to the firm? I married Mr. Cleaves eight months ago.” “Miss Gregory!” cried Mr. Nobble, deeply shocked. “Miss Gregory!” wailed Mr. Black. “But I'll stay with you,” she con-' tinued. “It wouldn’t be right to the ' firm, after all these years, to go away from you—at least, not for a year or two longer, while you are getting used to the idea. And now that Mr. Nobble has found me out, there is going to be a better understanding among us, and I shall take a more earnest share in the business.” And it was not until Miss Gregory had gone away to powder her nose that the partners realized she was still with them. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) | - The Cabbala. | The Cabbalists were a sect of Jew-, ish philosophers who exercised great |1nfluen<e upon the mental develop-' ment of the Hebrews in the ninth to ithe seventeenth century. The teach- ings of the Cabbalists were a mingling | of Talmudism and Greek philosophy, | especially Neo-Platonism. ' 1] Jolting Started Clock. 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