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The marriage of Mr. Lawrence Dev- lin to Miss Ernestine Childs occurred promptly at eight o'clock in the eve- ning at St. Bartholomew’s church, and a small number of close friends attend- ed the pleasing ceremony. ‘ The usual remarks were made by | the clergyman, and the still more usu- . al ones by the spectators, after which the newly joined pair went happily away. At eight o'clock in the morning of the same day, young Mr. Devlin was | what the newspapers would term “a prominent young millionaire,” mean- ing that he possessed large quantities of money. When Wall street and the banks closed in midafternoon, Mr. Devlin was worth, approximately, the cost of the suit of clothes he wore. A trust company had sunk with all hands on board, carrying with it the Devlin fortune. In the cab which carried them from the church, Lawrence looked sadly and thoughtfully at his beaming bride. She knew nothing of the financial crash. His friends knew nothing. To all out- ward appearances he was still the “prominent young millionaire.” “Dearest,” Lawrence sald, taking his bride’s hand tenderly in his own, “we are going to be very happy, are we not?” “Yes, Lawrence,” replied Ernestine, pressing his hand. “And to contribute to our supreme happiness; to provide for us an un- usual and unique experience, I have thought out a plan in which I am sure you will concur. We have been accus- { tomed to the good things of life; to Yluxurles in every form; to servants, automobiles, theaters, and all the thousand little extravagances that make life easy. But we have never | had an opportunity to try the other i sort of life—the life exactly opposed to our own—the life of the poor. What would be a finer thing than to pre- tend we were very poor; to live as the poor live; to deny ourselves the things to which we have been accus- tomed?" “I am sure it would be delightful,” his bride responded. “We could take a small flat in the poor part of New York,” Lawrence continued, his enthusiasm growing. | “We could pretend we had scarcely | any money, buy plain but good food, | do our own housework, and study the i ple.” “Lawrence dear,” said Ernestine, “I , will gladly go any place you go. I j will do anything you do, and share your life, no matter what happens.” “Then it is agreed,” her husband said. With that decision as a broad foun- dation, there arose far in the eastern portion of the city a small flat. An installment furniture company filled it with the usual “hundred-dollar set” at ten dollars down and two a month. Fach morning the beautiful young | bride arose and prepared a frugal meal. With her own fair hands she washed the dishes, dusted the imita- ! tion oak furniture, and scrubbed the floor. Lawrence sometimes helped her. Coming home, he carried wood up the four flights and deposited it by the stove. At nine o'clock Lawrence would go out and buy ten cents' worth of cheese and a box of crackers and a pint of beer. They would then feast together, laughing over the absurdity of the whole thing. Lawrence had said: “My dear girl, much as I dislike to be away from your side for even a brief moment, there are certain weighty financial matters requiring my presence downtown. Tomorrow 1 shall have to be downtown very early. Shall we have breakfast at seven?" “My love,” Ernestine answered fondly, “I will prepare your breakfast at six if you wish it.” So Mr. Devlin left the flat at half past seven in the morning and spent the day looking for a job. He clipped a column from the morning newspa- | per and hunted tirelessly. In the eve- ning he appeared for supper. “You look drawn and weary, one,” said his bride. “We had it hard today,” sald Law- rence, “The market was panicky. They've been trying to shoot holes in my railroad, but 1 refused to let 'em. What have we to eat?" “Tripe, Lawrence, dear,” Ernestine. Promptly every | whistles blew, young Mr. Devlin hur- dear replied lives of those poverty-stricken peo-: morning as the | li ried away from the east side flat to guard his mythical millions. Prompt- ly ac six each night he returned. Er- nestine was trying to run the flat on seven dollars a week, and was delight- ed with her success. The scene changes. At noon Ernestine hung the dish- " s@eeeeeee | TAZ over the clothes live in the kitch- For Good Dry STOVE WOOD Phone 201-Red or 18 We will do the rest. W. J. WARING ' o L. W.YARNELL LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY 0ak and Pine Wood Orders handled promptly. fhones: Office 109; Res, 57 Green : en, yawned a weary sigh, and let down her hair. A vapid afternoon stared her in the face. “I think,” she said to herself mu- singly, “that 1 shall go to a matinee today.” She dressed leisurely in garments | long unused, selected 2 popular musi- cal comedy, and went gayly forth. At five o'clock in the afternoon Broadway jammed with traffic. Handreds of motor cars drew up be- fore the theaters and waited for their ; ’ owners. - At the entrance to the Knickerdash- er a liveried attendant shouted the numbers. Mrs. Ernestine Devlin came forth with the handsomely dressed throng of women and children and held up her hand. The attendant gave ear to her request and shouted a mysterious signal, whereupon a pink taxicab dart- ed through the seemingly impenetra- ble welter of traffic and halted at the curb before Mrs. Devlin. She glanced at the man on the chauffeur’s seat and stified a gasp. It waa her husband! LCawrence looked back at her stonily. “Where to, madam?” he asked. He was dressed in a leather coat, with leather leggings, and a chauf- feur’s cap adorned with a license tag. Ernestine stumbled into the cab. “Home!" she said huskily. When the cab had cleared the thick of the traffic, Ernestine leaned for- ward. “Lawrence Devlin,” she asked, “what is the meaning of this joke?” “Sweetheart,” replied her husband, skillfully avoiding a two-foot child car- rying a rag doll, “this is no joke. This is taxicab Number 20709 N. Y., owned and operated by the Pink Taxicab company, and I am the official chauf- feur. I belong to the chauffeurs’ union. For driving this car ten hours a day I receive twenty-five dollars a week and all the tips I can collect. You have found me out. I must make a clean breast of it.” “Do you mean,” Ernestine asked in a trembling voice, “that you have lost your money?”’ “Precisely,” Lawrence answered without turning in his seat. “I haven't a cent in the world except what I earn this way.” “You brave boy,” his wife whi"l pered tearfully. I On the drive home Ernestine be- came thoughtful. Lawrence proceed-, ed with speed and skill, and in the course of time drew up before the doorway of his modest flat. He flicked open the door and turned down the red flag on the meter. | “It will be four dollars and forty cents, dear one,” he said jocosely. “It will be nothing of the kind,’| Ernestine retorted, stepping dllmlly to the curb. ‘ “You refuse to pay me?” Lawrence inquired. | “I certainly do,” answered his wife. “Then I shall have to take you to the nearest police station. I have done that several times to trouble- some fares.” “When I ride in a taxicab I never pay money,” Ernestine answered. i “You will get me into trouble with the Pink Taxicab company, Ernestine dear. I must demand payment,” smdI Lawrence. “It has been my custom to taxicab ! with the Pink company, Lawrence,i because of the fact that I ride on a' pass.” “A pass?’ Lawrence inquired. “Because,” BErnestine continued, patting her husband’s arm, “as the' president and owner of the Pink Taxi-; cab company, I would be foolish to pay. We move back to civilization tonight!” she said, going up the steps to the little flat. i "GATOR KILLED 30 PERSONS After Tamu-l:lng Two Villages Enor-‘ mous Beast Was Finally Cap- tured by Whites. With other white companions I have often plunged into the waters of the’ Tuyra, a fairly large river which flows { Into the Gulf of Panama after having traversed immense stretches of im-' penetrable forests. Regularly a score or so of alligators assisted at our gambols, at a distance of thirty to ' forty yards, and we came to look upon , them as quite harmless. After an absence of two years I re- ! turned, and in two neighboring vil- 1 lages found the inhabitants terrified. No one dared to go near the river at | nightfall; no one ventured, even in' broad daylight, to cross the stream in the narrow canoes which are used by the natives to carry bananas and veg- etables from their plantations. The cause of this terror, I discov- ered, was an alligator that had de-| voured 30 persons in less than two | months, surprising some on the river bank, and literally snapping others | out of their canoes. Thirty people— and the two villages together only numbered 250 souls! After a series of fruitless attempts we ended in capturing the brute with | a baited hook—an enormous affair, to which was fastencd half a pig! The creature was close on 24 feet long. He was so old that seaweed and mosses were growing between his scales, and he presented the appear- ance of a tree trunk that had been | a long time submerged. He was, we estimated, more than one hundred years old.—Paul Drevy, in the Wide World Magazine. Why Indians Are Red. A German doctor has evolved a! queer theory about the coloring of the human race—that the tint of the skin ' is determined by the food eaten. Originally, he declares, the human species was black, because our primi- tive forefathers subsisted on fruits and roots containing manganese. The American redskins owe their color to the consumption of raw flesh. The: Mongols are yellow because of their descent from a tribe which consumed | great quantities of herbs rich in' chloride, and the Caucasians have to! thank the salt, for which they have so i great a liking, for their dainty pink and | white or delicate brunette ecomplex- ions.—Philadelphia Record. NEW LEASE OF LIFE By ESTHER LEE UPHAN, lang"—whack! It was a cruel man, Jasper Woods, who shouted the word and delivered the blow. He brandished a club heavy enough to brain an ox, rightly direct- ed. Just now, however, it landed on the flank of old l-‘xrebrand—poor, pa- tient, worn-out horse, so used recently to neglect and abuse that he ex- pected it regularly and accepted it with true horse sense and philosophy. Firebrand—what a travesty! Yet once that name had suited. In years agone Woods had been proud of the splendid steed that had done double duty, and, therefore, had worn out the more quickly. “Shame!” piped a prompt, expres- tive voice, and as the old horse spurt- ed down the road to get away from turther torment, Jasper Woods glared ) life had brought him a full at the source of the denunciation. “Who are you, anyhow?” he scowled, locating a youngster up in a tree near by, filling his hat with hickory nuts. “I'm Benny Tascott, of course,” re- plied the urchin. “Are? Humph' A good deal of in- solence, I should say, seeing as your folks owe me a lot of money,” savage- ly blurted out Woods. 3 “I say shame! just the same, the ground. “It’s my horse, I reckon.” “Then you ought to love him,” sponded the big-eyed, lad. ried after the animal, who halted at kind word and pillowed his nose af- fectionately on the shoulder of his it tle friend. “Well, he's turned out,” remnrked Woods, “so let him go his way." up!” erled Benny, joyfully. “Yes, I mean just that, Woods, gruffly. “You mean he's anybody's to pick: d “Oh, my—then I'll take him!" ex- ' claimed Benny, rapturously. “Say, you're in a fine fix to saddle ! yourself with an animal that will eat| his head off, aren't you!" sneered ‘Woods. But Benny was on Firebrand's back | in a Jiffy, petting and coaxing him fo Al upl” ward, while the man of money and seif- t will went back to his home, growling at the horse, the boy and all the world { in general. He should have been merciful, for com- petence in wealth. He should have been happy, for he had a contented wife and a pretty, prattling little daughter who had come to bless them after four preceding children had died. But Jasper Woods had become avaricious. He had found a way of putting out his money at high rates of interest. He had sought opportuni- | ties to close out unfortunate creditors. The lust of gold had taken possession of him. In the case of the father of little Benny he had a mortgage on the poor Tascott homestead. Mr. Tascott had become {ll, there was no one to ! attend to the produce raised, and al- ready the money grabber saw himself | in possession of the goodly acres rop-’ resenting a value five times in excess of the loan granted. It was a plece of his grasping, ! changing nature that he had turned Firebrand out to die, now that he was of no more use. But Firebrand had found a loyal friend, and Benny rode into the home farmyard proud and ex- cited. “He's mine!” he crowed delightedly to his astonished mother. “Why, where did you get him?" and Benny told. The mother’s face cloud- ed, however, at the mention of the man who held their destinies within his grasp. “You see, since Dobbin died we've had to hire all the carrying to town and back. Now we've got a horse of our own."” “But who will drive him, Benny?” “Why, I will. Firebrand and me are great friends, mother.” “The poor creature doesn't look very promising,” remarked Mrs. Tascott. “Oh, TI'll soon fix that,” insisted Benny, and he did. After giving Fire brand a good feed he rode him bare back down to his famous old friend, Tom Dobbs, a retired farrier. Shod, rested, well fed, well curried, at the end of a week decrepit old Fire- brand seemed to have taken a new lease of life. Hitched up to the farm wagon and the wagon loaded with garden truck, the grateful animal whinnied at his kind young master as though anxious to show his willing- ness to work for him “I declare!” cried the delighted Mrs | Tascott at the end of a week, as ton- ny handed her a well-filled purse, proud of you, my boy!" She might well be. Diminutive as Benny was, he had sclved the problem of the family necessities. His mother and two sisters loaded up the wagon and he drove to town and sold the stuff. There was a stream of revenue now coming in, and life brightened more than a little for the Tascotts. “Oh, mother!” exclaimed Benny one day, coming in from the pasture, “what do you think?” “I am sure I cannot guess,” Mrs. Tascott ment. “A man came by and offered me $80 for old Firebrand.” “Better not tell Benny!" “I should say not! And, say, 1 wouldn't take eighty hundred dollars' for the dear old fellow! The rascal! Look at him. Jolly he's up to regular coltish tricks. Benny ran out into the pasture again at a sight of Firebrand in the open. The horse had nosed back the gate that his young master had care- lessly left unlocked. As he saw Benny coming he kicked up his heels and stood viewing him as he approached, wagging first ope ear and then me “Fm replied smiling at his excite- Mr. Woods that, per- gisted the audacious youth, sliding to re- earnest-faced “Poor Firebrand!” and he hur- snappe | | | | He's getting so fat and t- warc o m«-lli»wd’o-i:oio*amo FOND O !{“ | other in gay frolic. “Here, you get back where you be- | long!” ordered Benny. Firebrand snorted a playful defiance, ran down the road, leaped a fence and made a bee line towards the river. “He's headed in the direction of the | Woods place,” ruminated Benny. | “Maybe he's proud to show that he's ' a real horse once more. Well, I've got to put after him.” Treading the bramble bush and com- ing just in sight of the river, Benny He broke into a |25 ‘. gave a great shout. | furious run. “Oh, dear!” | Nellie Wood!™ Directly in the middle current of: | the stream, clinging to a plank and | screaming for help, was Mr. Woods little child. Benny could figure out | how, playing about the landing, the little tot had tipped one of the planks into the water and had fallen in | after it. ! He could hear shouting up the shore, prohably the voices of her friends, who { had discovered her plight. he panted; “it's little and disappear under the surface. “I'm too late!™ “Oh, you glorious Firebrand!" Well might he say it! P22 o 2 2 L R TR Rl Lake Mirror Hotel 3 MRS. H. M. COWLES, Prop. Under New Management. Refurnishedand thoroughly renovated, and everything Clean, Comfortable and First-class. Dining Room¥Serv.ce Unexcelled. Rates Reasonable. 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Tell folks that you live in the BEST STATE and THE ON THE GLOBE. the livest Hard- ill surely be . MAIN ST. and FLORIDA AVE. GEOPOLOP Qe sensible afmimal rétognized its for: little mistress or it had a great soul. Straight into the stream Firebrand ran, then swam, caught in his jaws the fringe of Nellie's dress as she came to the surface and waded ashore. “Oh, my child! my darling child!” cried Jasper Woods, approaching breathless and terrified upon the scene, as he clasped his rescued daughter safe in his arms. The strong man wilted as he regard- ed the brave old animal he had turned from his door to die. Then his hand rested gently on the head of the little fellow who had made | that rescue possible. “Benny,” his tremulous tones t gounded, “I'll give you $1,000 for Fire- brand.” “Nor ten, nor twenty! Nothing can buy him,” declared stanch Benny. “I'll give him to dear little Nellie it I had to, but I hope she won't ask me.” An humble, contrite man, Jasper Woods appeared at the door of the Tascott home that evening. Benny | “You Mean He's Anybody’s to Pick | threw off his coat as he ran. Then in. extending a folded paper, “there’s the ' ! terror he saw Nellie let go the plank Either the , “Neighbor,” he said to Mr. Tucotl. ! release of your mortgage. | everything in the world, Money isn't I've found he fairly sobbed out. ©ut, and little Benny has shown me ; the way to better things!” (Copyright, 1914, by W, G. Chapman.) Just Complaint. ‘The feelings of the coal heaver of the following story, as given in Tit- ]mu. had sufficient cause to be ruf- fled: “Liza,” he expostulated, “don't I al- waya'lell you I won't 'ave the kids bringin’ in the coals trom the shed in my best 'at?" “Oh, just 'ave sense,” wife. replied his “You've spoiled the shape of that ‘at already, and what can a little hextra coal dust do to 'arm yer 'at?” “You don't see the point,” protested | | the husband, with dignity. *“I only | wears that 'at in the hevenin's; and if, while I'm hout, I take it orf my 'ead, it leaves a bloomin' black band round my forehead. Wot's the‘consequence? Why, I gi's accused of washin’ my face with my ’at on, and it ain't nice, Liza! It ain't nice!” Seasonable Joke. “Paw.” “Well, George?" “Do they have winter in summer in the arctic re~ions?” “Yes, son.” “And do they have summer in win- | ter in the tropies?” “Exactly.” [ZETT TR TR x ;4 9 | | R PR BPT BBE OSOPQIIEOH QT Office Phone 348 B.ack 207 to 216 Main St. R e L R 3 3 $ CEPOFVIIVINVS0HO FOPOFOB OB DS OBOE ™0 You Want Fresh Cleat GROCERIES: We are at your service for anything carried by an Up-to-date Grocery Phone orders glven prompt attention W. J. RE DDICK “Do they have spring in the faj) ;4 place?” “Hardly.” “Or fall in the spring?” “It you keep this thing up longer, George, you'll get ~mr.»h worse than a fall in the spring, | duck you under the pump!” Academy of Birds. On a little house in London appe the interesting sign, “Academy Birds,” and from the open windows summer comes a most amazing ume of bird-song. The " is not at all particular as tc ti or value of the pupils offered song-bird is eligible; terms 50 cg for the course The “academy” antees that each pupil shall | the establishment fully profi render three airs without o) and in correct time. The method of instruction is v simple, and is sald to be remarks} successful. There are three roons each of which is a phonograph plays a single air. A new bird has cage hung in room No. 1 untii he 3 learned to sing correctly the const ly-repeated air, and is then, tran: to the second, and in time to : third room. The professors are hy ful that some day it may be poss} to teach Strauss to a parrot Beethoven sonata to a starling. Bllliard Tables Rest on Rock Billard tables, supported on & rock are among the novel featurs| a 86-room concrete residence lo on one of the islands of the San g archipelago in Puget sound. Each ble rests on a massive concrete k which extends through an openin the floor and has its footing on rock, and is therefore as solid aui free from vibration as if it wen part of the island itself.—Popular chanics, Quits. “Your boys were in my apple again,” observed the first suburbs “If you say anything more about declared the second ditto, “I'l you the doctor’s bill."—Philade} Ledger. Quite So. “Young Whitcomb should get ¢ the world. He's a plugge! “Yes. What's he doing? “Dentistry.”—Philadelphia Led OO CBLTOBO0E Beautify your Lawn, Let us tell you how, Little it will cost. Lakeland Paving and Construction Comlia. LAKELAND, FL KELLEYS BARR Plymouth R ' BOTH MATINGS Better now than ever High class breeding bi reasonable prices. high class pens for hatchit Write ‘'me before ordering where, ““"om«m»»m.'.; H. L. KELLEY, Griffin §