Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 15, 1914, Page 2

e e e e g e == = = SR = s 7 A aans s oot o sty s ] - & $ The Professions ;’ 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 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. Graduatég and Ex-Faculty mem- bers of the Palmer School of Chirapratic. Consultation and Spinal analysis free at office. @ D. & H. D. MENDENHALL CONSULTING ENGINEERS Swite 212-216 Drane Building Lakeland, Fla. Phosphate Land Examlnatjons and Plant Designs karthwork Specialista Surveys. . Restdence phone, 278 Black. Office phone, 278 Blue. DR. SARAH E. WHEELER OSTEOFATH Munn Annex, Door South of Firm National Bank Lakeland, Florida DR. W. R. GROOVER PHYSICIAN A’'D SURGEON Roome 5 and 4. Kentucky Bufldinz keland, Florida e e -, DR. C. C. WILSO; PEYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special Attention Given To DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Deen-Bryant Bldg. oms 8, 9, 10 Office Phone 237 Hearaence Phone 367 tne A. X. ERICKSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Real Estate-Questions Bryant Building DR. R B. ¥AJDOCK DFNTST Room No. 1, Di kson Bldg. Lakeland, Fla. Office Phone 138; Residence 91 Blacl D. 0. Rogers Edwin Spencer, Jv ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Bullding . Lakeland, : 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, Florida KELSEY BLANTON, 5 ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Building Lakeland Florida W. 8. PRESTON, LAWYER Office Upstairs East of Court Houre BARTOW, FLA. Examination of Titles and Real Fs 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 tnrnished W. HERMAN WATSON, M. D. Morgan-Groover Bldg. Telephones: Office 351; Res. 113 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 Real Estate, Live Stock and General 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 303. Office Phone 410 THE EVENING TALEGRAM the shore. He was pale and gasping : SOSOVOPOOPSOOSOSHa (01 breath ! - i “You saved me!” cried Burnham ! gratefully, “but you—" ! T j “1 am hurt internally, seriously,” | panted the other painfully. “Quick! i listen! my side struck a rock when 1 | jumped, but I am glad I saved you.” | By MARAH ALICE PETERS. + " “But, man—" but just here the MMMV l stranger closed his eyes and lay nerve- | | Only once he revived. “For good or bad, the world all be- “I am dying,” he breathed feebly. before me! Freedom, health—which . «promise me—my brother’s widow— | path shall I take" |ln the satchel,” and passed away, The man who spoke was an ex-con- ! grasping Burnham’s hand in a convul- i vict. He had just been released from | give clutch. the penitentiary after serving a ten years’ sentence for embezzlement. He was not thirty-five, yet his hair was The next day Burnham started for a distant city. He carried with him the satchel belonging to the man who streaked with gray and there was & had saved his life. A change had certain hardness about the lips that | come over him. The first strong im- comes from solitude and resentment. | pression of his new life was the sight In a word, Mark Burnham, with lit- of the peaceful farm life. It lingered tle or no bringing up, an orphan from | like a picture. The second was grati- a tender age, had wasted five years of | tude for the man who had given up his life, had secured a good position. ' his life to save his own. Finally temptation had come, he had appropriated funds of his employer and had been convicted. .During all those years of hard labor ! he had preserved a stolid, rather than a submissive attitude. He had count- ed the days on a notched stick. The last one had been reached. He was freed with a new suit of clothes and a few dollars in his pocket. At the ! door of the priscn he was met by al lawyer. A distant relative had left him $10,000. A free man, he could now claim fit. The snug little fortune or its equiv- alent now reposed within a secret pceket. That afternoon he had walked to a line of hills overlooking the coun- try around, to analyze his unexpected condition of aflluence, to plan for the future. His mind was blank as an unwrit- | ten page. He had no friends. He had paid the law its penalty. He was | clear of the world, and its fortune.i good or bad, all before him. Which path, indeed, might he take! i As he recalled how harshly fate had dealt with him, as afar to the east His thought ran rapidly. Sud- denly, thrillingly this outcast found his existence directed into new chan- nels. He had seen that his rescuer was buried. Then he had opened the satchel and inspected its contents. From that moment Mark Burnham be- | came Eli Walters. For he felt it a sacred trust to take ! up the life of his rescuer where the ! latter had lain it down. In the satchel he found a little hoard of about two hundred dollars. There were also let- ters and papers. An appeal had reached Walters from his brother's widew, whom he had never seen. He had decided to go to her, relieve her necessities and devote his years to care for her and her little family. Burnham found the Walters family destitute, indeed. @He had assumed the identity of a relative they had never seen and was accepted as the real Uncle Eli. That hard- heart of his softened like wax as he employed the $200 to bring cheer and comfort . where there had been despair and suf- fering. The widow was sickly and al- most an invalid. There were five lit- , regard to my behavior while away he caught the glittering spires of a big | tle children. Within a week the chil- bustling city, his breath came quick | dren were grouping about him as and hard. With all he had heard of | though he were a real father, and the A Bitter Scowl Wreathed His Face. clever criminal ways in his prison cell, ; how shrewdly might he use his little capital in schemes to fleece the un- wary, to enrich himself. Then, too.i the pleasures of the great metropolis | dazzled his, *To live the life!” he breathed hot- ly— “after those ten years, chained up like a wild beast!” Just then an echoing hail attracted his attention. From the doorway of a neat little farmhouse a comely girl- ish matron was waving a welcome to her husband, returning from work in the fields. The observer noted the aspect of comfort and plenty about the place, the warm genuine love greeting of the twain. His lip quivered, a tear fell upon his outstretched hand. He turned from the sight. “Love, peace, happiness!” he mut- tered in a broken tome, “but not for me, the branded! the accursed of hu- manity!” A bittér scowl wreathed his face and he walked away from the spot amongst the deep shade of the river path. At that moment, as he realized that his hand was against every man and ev- ery man's hand against him, the wealth that had come to him was as widow was filled with gratitude and hope. For the first time, one day, Burnham saw Ida Worth. She had been {ll for | a month and called while he was in' the house. From the first, her earnest, ' patient face attracted him. He learned that she had practically supported the | widow and her family for several months, but illness had come and she was now as poor as themselves. She said the doctor had prescribed a rest, country air, but that was beyond | her attainment. “I'm going away for a day or two,” Burnham told Mrs. Walters that eve- ning. “My dream—I will make 1t true!” he pledged himself fervently. | Two weeks later Burnham conveyed the Walters family and Miss Worth to their new home, a lovely country cottage. He had used his own money to give to the widow a surety of pro- vision for the rest of her life. “I am going away,” he said to Ida a week later. He noted that she chang:d color and her lips fluttered, and he won-' dered why. “I must tell you what the others need not know,” he continued sadly. “I am not the uncle of those children,” and he told her all. , shining golden hair. , out | three Sand Hill ELAND, FLA., DEC. HIS EXPERIENGE By PETER HICKUM. 1 don’t propose to make myself ex- tra ridiculous by calling myself a hero. My solitary, wifeless existence in this secluded grove must not be ascribed to poverty or .misanthrop):i. as I own several nice farms and woul graciously permit any mi(h_lle-aged ladz to superintend the said real es}uge an my piano; but my solitary_ life is Que to my two besetting sins—having loved too many girls, and having been | o good. ml im myself too far advanced in life to gain benefit from my sad expe- rience, but it might be of value to those who are not too old to learn. My childhood shall be skipped, with the laconic allusion that I wasn't the worst boy in my native village on the Rhine. When asked what 1 intended to make of myself, I always answered by looking at the nearest girl handy. My father, who was a physician of considerable fame, had a burning de- sire to have me, his son Peter, be- come a doctor of medicine and sur- gery. He sent me at the early age of seventeen to a celebrated medical col- lege, accompanied by his warmest well-wishes and a bundle of rules in from home. My arrival at the seat of learning caused some head-shaking among the skull-capped professors and considerable giggling among the stu- dents. To remove my bashfulness I was ordered to occupy a dark corner | of the school-room—all to myselt—} where 1 was told to study the anat- omy of a grinning monkey, and to tell what I knew about the bones when the teacher camc around. But, alas! I was disturbed in my . anatomical studies by a rattling noise in the back yard. Casting my eyes from my subject into the back yard, 1 espied a fair maiden pumping cis- tern water with all her might. She looked up and 1 again looked down, until the fair pumper had filled the bucket and pumped my heart clear into the back yard. 1 forgot to peruse any more the frightful skeleton, but my eyes con- stantly explored the contents of that fatal back yard. The fair pumper, my first love, was seen by me no more. I pined and be- came haggard-looking; my teachers felt my pulse and shipped me home without delay. I recovered from the fever in about two months, and went to a circus. I became greatly interested in the wax- figures of Cain, who killed Abel, and in the eleven good apostles. But the curtain rose, when, lo and behold! there stood a lassie iwith I loved her with- the least preliminaries, and couldn't sleep for many nights on ac- count of the charming circus-girl. Then I emigrated to this country, where I have been entirely too good, and loved fair damsels by the score. Ha! didn’t I think that by carrying my whole early apple crop to those ladies the oldest would reciprocate my ardent affection? But she snubbed me as soon as the early apples ceased coming. And that preacher’s daughter, whom Sl AT z, o 5 3 { 3 { 3 ) | s ] :li | “Then you are even a nobler man . I first saw and loved at the Oak Hill than I thought,” burst forth Ida im-' camp-meeting. She came near spitting petuously. in my face. “I am an ex-convict,” and the rest'! The Dipperman girl held out seduc- of the wretched story came out. i tive inducements until, when I popped “You have nobly redeemed your-'the questicn, she crawled away with self,” breathed Ida. “Oh, do not go ' my bleeding heart, telling me that she ; away, they need you. We love you!” ; couldn’t leave her parents for such a er hands had now rested in his ' forlornlooking wretch as I was. own. He looked into her eyes, fear-; The Fulton countv girl smiled as somely, and then with a rare thrill. long as I let her father have his own She swayed towards him, and he knew ;, Way With my corn and hogs, but talked that his fond dream had come true. | bad to me as soon as I vetoed his (Copyright, 194, by W. G. 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We Keep Freshfu anything in Can Goods that you mi) inciuding Vegetables, Soups, etc. ..Is + buy your goods where You can get the most it That place is the grocery of E. G. TWEEDI= Number of Coliege-Trained Men In Business Is of the Highest i Significance. | There was a time when half the col- | lege graduates of America became clergymen, and when the legal and medical professions swallowed up nearly all the other half. Now, less than 5 per cent of the men who com- plete college courses go into the min- { istry, and the three “learned profes- ' sions” together number only a minor- ity of the college-trained population of the country. ' This illustrates not only the rapid spread of higher education in the Uni- ted States, but the way in which S0- worihless dross. There was a strug- gle between his better nature and the promptings of his recent environment, but the struggle was not decisive. “Help!” The word rsng out involuntarily from his lips. Engrossed in thought, tramping on recklessly in his desper- até mood, he had not noted his course. He had stumblied on a trailing vine. The next moment he went headlong down the steep decline and was en- gulfed by the rushing waters of the turbid river. There was a rapid swirl to the cur- rent that at once swept him into mid- stream. Burnham was not a swim- mer. Helpless he sank once, twice. Then his water-drenched gaze made out a man on the path, 25 feet up the sloping bank. He was a stranger, and quickly dropping a satchel he carried; | he sprang into the water. Sinking for the third time, almost unconscious, Burnham felt himself be- | ing seized and dragged ashore. As | he finally regained his senses it was to { find his rescuer lying by his side on ciety is constantly differentiating into { more and more diverse occupations. Go back far enough in history, and: ! there was but one trained profession, | ; the ecclesfastical. In more recent | times there were three—law, medicine and the church. Teday, no one knows how many lines of effort deserve the ; name of “learned.” | In fact. business itself is rapidly ap- ! proaching the status of a profession, { both in the learning required and in the ethical standards which are being | set up to guide the business man. It is this fact, quite as much as faith in legal enactments and prohibitions, which makes the average citizen look for more fair play in the future than ever has prevailed 1n the past. The Wrong Thing. “Oh, Tohmny’s all right. You're quite mistaken about him. Yes, in- deed. His heart is always in his work.” “That’s just the trouble with him. If he'd put his hands and his brain in his work I wouldn't say a; word."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. : | adored, nor will I tell the particulars i | “Old Peter {s a miser in misery.” about my short marriage with an ex- war-widow, who cost me $7 for the knot-tying and $700 for loosening it. I am now nearly seventy years of age, lead a frugal life, supply several destitute widows with fuel, and live a hermit life in this patch of timber which some sarcastic local newspa- per writer christened Misery Grove, because, as he fiendishly explainea, I will persist that I would be as happy as the majority if I were equal- ly mean. But the way it stands I am without a peer in this section, by rea- son of having loved too many girls, and having practiced that other be- ! : setting sin, not having been good“ encugh to myself, but too good to| ' others. % When Iceland Went Dry, 1 9 The first European parliament to en- | force teetotalism was that of Iceland, where a law was passed two yvears ago 5 prohibiting the importation or sale of intoxicating liquors. One effect of this counsuls at Reykjavik of their drink, so they protested to the governor, point- ing out that such a deprivation consti- tuted an infringement of the rights of diplomacy. Permission was thereupon granted the consuls to import beer, wine and spirits, provided these fluids are consumed only on the premises to which they are consigned. Moreover, the total amount imported by each consul must not exceed 800 liters in a year, and the quantity required must be imported in one consignment. Only the representatives of France and Norway benefit by this concession. The other consuls are unpaid, and, be- ing natives of Iceland, were expressly 2, §f 8 F i measure was to deprive the foreign i ! excluded from its benefits. e a———————— i ———ietnt e~ PHONE 5 Give us your orders for Christmas Turkeys g and \ Edmonson & Milt | THE BIG PURE FOOD STORE AND MAR™ X PHONE 93-279 —-'__-‘)“