Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 10, 1914, Page 2

T here is no gift that could be given that will carry ! the sume value, that wil ( | %:[E EVENING TALEGRAM, LA} ELAND, FLA., DEC. 10, 1914. give more real joy, that wiil be kept longer, that will better express the sentiment of the giver, than A Diamond A | We have them. mounted and unmountec, and will make mountings Weare Diz n:nnd experts. and ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE every actly as 1eprerented. to suit the purchaser. stone we sell to be ex- Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, Cut Glass, Hand ¥ | Painted China, Umbrellas, Canes, Sterling / Silverware, flat and hollow ; Silver Plated g Ware, Ci afing Dishes, Percolators, Toilet Sets, Shaving Sets. GERONIMO'S REDSHINS By OSCAR W. EDLING. “Yes,” said the station agent, “I did have an adventure with Geronimo's warriors the summer they broke loose from their reservation, which, perhaps, is worth telling about. “The previous winter I had been em- ployed away up north in Canada, with- in sight of the glaciers glinting on the Banff mountains, and I got the iced air 80 incorporated in my system that I felt like a cold-storage plant. “As soon as the snow blockade was raised in the spring I turned south- ward. I was not particular where I went 8o long as it was near the trop- fcs. I accepted a place in southern Arizona, a stand which can give Sa- —“L out a quart bottle which I képi icr snake bites. Immediately it was pass- ing from mouth to mouth; and it was all gone when a second crowd of paint. ed faces galloped up alongside. There was a full score more of them and 1 felt awfully lonesome. “The empty bottle was circulated among the last arrivals; each rider gravely taking a smell. ‘More, bring more whisky!' some of them shouted, and when I explained that I had no more, they looked crushed. The first six who had merged the contents ap- peared happy over the discomfiture of their comrades, and one of them point- ed to the big, dripping water-tank and said, ‘plenty water, take heap, all you want.' “This did not seem to comfort them any, and I saw that they reproached me for being a temperance man. I knew that I would have to suffer for their loss, and the sight of some scalps dangling from their belts did not reassure me. "and I did so, getting O. K. from the W, H. PECKWITH JEWELAY 0. (%) 510 FRANKLIN ST.. TEMPA. FLA. operator and could he detect me if I should add a warning to the message? He was now standing over me and I looked up at him. His eyes met mine his face as he said, ‘Yes, I'm following you all right. You are at that word;’ where I had paused in my sendlng.‘ Geronimo uttered an approving grunt. “I resumed my wiring and was near- ly done, when the fort operator broke me, having missed a word. I repeated it and was going ahead with the close when the Indian operator interrupted me with an oath: “‘You are sending wrong; you wre posting the fort!’ “‘No, I am nut,’ I answered him. “‘You lie! What did you say just then? And he shoved his gun under i my nose. *‘The operator at the fort asked me to repeat that word and I did so; that | is all. Didn’t you hear it? | “He looked hard at me for a hwl seconds, but as I had spoken the truth | 1 did not flinch and returned the gaze ; quite steadily. “‘Oh, I was only trying to frighten | you,’ he said with a laugh. ‘Where are you now? | * ‘Here,’ I said, pointing to the place where I had left off, with the key open. “‘That's right! Finish it!’ said he; fort. “Within ten minutes thereafter the fort called me. The reply was short, expressing thanks for the information and saying that the troops would leave ' for Crystal Gulch at once. When I had O. K'd it the fort man asked me for more information regarding the In- dians. “The I[ndian ordered me to write down every word, and he would not permit me to answer it until he had written the reply. Then he would fol- ' low the copy closely with his eyes, and at the same time listen intently to my sending. | “When the wiring was ended, the fellow explained the business to the others, who grunted their approval and immediately all went out of doors ex- | cept my operator friend, their places being taken by three others. i “I heard the gang outside ride off, but in which direction they went I was ; unable to tell as my guard would not | allow me to look out. They were not | sociable fellows, speaking seldom to each other, and puffing in silence on their pipes llke factory chimneys. | “What were they keeping me for? 1| wondered. Had they some other use | for me that they did not kill me at' once? | “Three long oppressive hours passed | thus, the figures of the Indians dimly | visible through the dense tobacco : smoke enveloping us. Then they arose ' | - “Wai the young Indian really an . danger had passed.” T iearned from, them the conclusion of the affair md‘ the narration surprised me. Oe'ronl- mo's telegram had told the truth! “The Indians had tricked me lno‘ ] |as I did so, and a smile passed over | pelieving it was a lie! “The four fellows who had guarded m~ had purposely gone north so long jand he pointed to the exact place | ag they were within sight of my sta tion, and my life was spared so that I could observe them and report it to the fort. “The main body of Indians had gone southward three hours before, but had | concealed themselves on the way SO as to avold the returning soldiers, whom they expected to be recalled, and then attacked Crystal Guich early in the evening. “They would have succeeded had | not .he fort commander decided to take no chances. ‘For,’ as he had re- marked to his sergeant at the time of my warning, ‘the devil alone knows where his imps will turn up; and half a company of my boys can handle a whole company of Apaches!’ “So he did not send for the return of his men from Crystal Gulch. When Geronimo and his men dashed into what they supposed a defenseless set- tlement they met a volley that left half the ponies riderless and sent the rest of the band scattering to the four winds of heaven.” A certain young men’s Bible class, | writes a correspondent, of 60 mem- | bers, has, so far, sent 14 recruits to | the army. Last Sunday, just as the | “Roll of Honor” was being read, the l latest happened in on a 24 hours’ leave l to say good-by, in time to answer for | himself. “Soldiering down in the coun- try isn’'t what it is in London,” he an- nounced cheerfully. “They put you through to the last notch, to see just how far you can go. I've been break- I facting on air soup, dining on dry crust, and sleeping on four bricks and a marlin spike. But, tough! If a Ger man bayonet does get at me, it simply won't be able to get in.” The teacher of this class is a lady.—London Chron- icle Lemons Remove Stain, To remove stains from knife handles and also to keep the ivory from turn- ing yellow, rub the hand:es well with a cut lemon; afterward wash well in soap and water and dry immediately. This removes the stains and keeps the ivory a good color. TAKE DELIGHT IN SMUGGLING Women Are the Worst Offenaers Against the Government in This Respect. m% .B. STREAT; CONTRACTOR AND BUILy Having had twenty-one years’ _experience and contgracting in Lakeland and vicinity, I fee] 00};; to render the best services in this line. If comte, building, will be pleased to furnish estimates ang il All work guaranteed. hara hints on the tropic business. | “After some confusion in rummag- “It's a great place for acquiring a ing through the place I was put along- thirst, or even adding to one already side my desk. There was a brief con- acquired. I was sitting in the shade fab in Apache between the leaders, one of the water tank one day, the con- of whom was Geronimo himself, and tents of which I had been absorbing then one of them, dresed like a white at brief intervals. I wondered if I man, sat down and wrote a message would ever have enough animation in on one of my blanks. Turning to me me to go north again. , When it was finished he said in good “I found it too much work to think English: with the expanding mercury almost’ “‘Look here, young fellow, we want lifting the glass tube of the thermome- YOu to send this dispatch to the cap- ter out of its socket and so I fell into tain at Fort Bowie, and, mind you, no a doze. How long I nodded I'do not monkeying on the wire. Send just that, know, but a swarm of insects settling D0 more and no less. Obey us and' on me as if I were made of fly-paper Your life will be spared; but if you awoke me. ) 8end any warning beside this, we will “As 1 stirred, my little dog also comb your hair for you. I picked up came out of his usual comatose condi- 8ome telegraphy at the Indian school.’ tion, for the heat had made us both ex-' “And with that he laid the blank be- cessively weary, and dragging himself fore me and at the same time pointed over to a post he leaned against it for & pistol toward my head. and, seizing me, bound me to my chair and left the room. “I heard the clatter of their horses’ feet and I realized with surprise and . great rellet that they had gone and I was yet alive. Waiting a few minutes to make sure they would not return, I wriggled loose from my bonds, which had been carelessly tied, and cautious- ly peeped out of the window. A half mile to the north I could see the four Indians riding away. “They remained in sight for ten min- utes more at least, when they dropped from view down in a valley, I was glad : T had seen the direction of their going, ' 80 that 1 could report it to the fort. } “For while the troops were speeding south to Crystal Gulch, the Indians’ lwere riding north and very likely, | woull attack the ranches along Chico i creek, which were not far above the | Are women less honest than men? " The customs oflicials are perhaps bet- ter qualified to answer that question than anyone else. They deal with hundreds of women in a matter that tests the honesty of everyone. And they say not infrequently, “women are liars!” “Why, you ought to hear some of the things that men declare,” said one of them. “A college professor de- clared that he got his shoes half-soled in Paris for 75 cents, and .nother man declared gold tooth! I told him that no one would know the difference if he'd keep his mouth shut, “But women! One of them looked me right in the eye and swore that she didn’t bring thing and then I found a bunch of aigrettes in her trunk. An- other had 20 ,ards of real lace hidden support and barked feebly. I heard a| ‘“There was nothing for me todo but ' fort and could not be attacked with' —do you know where? in a hot water noise behind the house. Before I obey and I read the telegram. could get up to investigate, I found the cause standing before me in the *‘Geronimo, with a large force, has just shape of several painted Indians. - passed south on the way to surprise the “I was familiar with the sight of In. :‘:':K e""‘s?mfl'l: in Crr)"llll Gulch. Some dians, but I could see that this bunch o tor ousht me the news, and they h k [{ { were not friendly visitors, although :t-;er:ot‘:; ?l:eul?e‘::u:m:: 3::2.' ylg;:.-‘?;: they grinned at me. Their grin sald | swer. “AGENT.” plainly, ‘You are Yot “I had direct wire connection with 'How do you do? I asked, as soon the fort and I soon raised the operator as I could swallow a sudden inflamma. there and began transmitting the dis- tion in my throat. patch, wondering, as I did so, what its “‘How do? one of them grunted in objectz was. I concluded th'tw ’a reply. ‘Whisk! Bottle whisk! Mouth ; b ALl Ay dry; want drink!’ “‘Whiskv? Certatnly. and.I_brought | jr ';"gxfdl’ PRIGIIE 5 Retity We fom “To Captain —, Fort Bowle: 2 G RoePeoifr o b Ot SrefeodrfeddedoBodrdrdlrdrd G EEDII SO Do Your Christmas Shoppi WE PAY YOUR ittty B P 2 AT LOWEST PRICES R —. WE PAY YOUR FAR MEMBERS W. 1. Beckwith Jewelry Co. Davis Shoe Co. Dawson & Thornton. Falks Department Store. Glenn Shoe Company. Turner Music Ma to put the troops on a false chase, and | GIVING YOU THE ADVANTAGE OF MUCH LARGER & ASSORTMENTS AND BEST QUALITIES Wolf Brothers. Mass Brothers. . . Owen-Cotter Jewelry Co. l impunity while the troops were there. “l was at the telegraph key in an ilnlunt and called the fort furiously. ;The operator there replied in a few ; minutes and I was not long in explain- | ing what had happened. The informa- tion astonished him. Excusing himself he ran and informed the commander. “At length he returned and told me innt the captain had sent only a little an of being a thief she would grow more than half of the company stml furious with indignation. i tioned there to Crystal Gulch and had | Tetained the remainder, who would | start directly for Chico creek. ! by train and stopped at my station to | guard the railroad property until all ng in Tampa FARE E Company. ss the Haberdarsher., Tampa Furniture Co. bottle! And when I told her to come acrose she said, sassylike, ‘Well, you've ! got me this time, "1t d— vou, I've | ‘ooleu you many times before!’” Nine times out of ten feminine Ifriends of the woman who smuggles listen to the tale of “bluffing the gov- ernment” with admiration, yet if any- ; one should openly ac ase such a wom- She would insist that she did not steal. She was only bringing back with her what she a |had pald good money for, she would ‘The next day some soldiers arrived | say, and she didn’t intend to pay twice. She has ‘o deep respect for, no un- shakable faith in the law, as men .have. who accept it without question- ing. That is why men seldom smug- gle, while women do it continually. Then, too, women do it because they see in it an element of sport. Men will take chances where a great risk is involved. They will stake their all on a business venture. But a thing like cheating the government out of a few dollars is too small. too petty, for them to consider worth while. » R, NECKWEAR OF THE MOMENT Styles Are as Pretty as Those of the Summer, Though Materials Are Different, Just as last summer the lovely touch of white neckwear was organdie and lawn, so now it is of cream net | and lace in the finer costumes, and of | pique in those dresses that smack ofi There 1s less wiring of the collars to make them stand up, as the necks are higher as far as decollete is con- cerned; they can, however, be lightly wired if they are more becoming. Fine vernize, applique and point laces are noted in the collars of the new dress models, and there is always enough net added to the neck decora- tion to keep the lace from looking too hard against the skin Some of the lace guimpes are of embroidered net of the applique type of lace, and they finish at the top with a round neck that does not come quite up to the base of the throat. 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