Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 7, 1915, Page 7

SSTERS. NG DWARD MARTINDALE. hiping a divinity at a dis- ?” railed Don Warren. m and familiar, Nate Stan- hed and looked embarrassed. challenged boldly: u blame me?” cast a look through the | een of greenery that shaded | path where he had come friend. In the center of a| ridge spanning a purling | pod a young lady, a fair pic- | ced, in her neat walking ' d dainty sunshade cap. She| ing dreamily down into the ! aters, mechanically slipping down her siender finger a | glowing face showing health d intellizence, Ava Reese of th read, isn't it? I den’t blamc he has some handsome if 1T wasn't called back to| 1 would put in the rest of | on courting their attention.” | eaker sed on his way. togetlier at | Only inci- ocial func- , not Y a had e big| spoke | vou, | th week. formal a wice at Nate 1 gen wor, hem. | errant, ¥ot to thank v | and inst | the g Dreamily Bewn into the Li 4 Waters, his soul's best ¢ ming m who fresh bright violet, and e of the gr peak to hier,” ! ing the ob In silence for a is rentle, kind'y amiss” ot chenee hier pose as Nat« ot are ol attracti ched a comii sl vhen reckle qaite beeo fed he reached the spot and thrust ot der into tiic d on it that the missing | 1d within shallor pocket that she had in worked carefnlly out a handful of t a time until he . Then would much like a miner wit tha ha sift | hi now from tip to tce. | p the labors of love in-| ncomplainingly., It was | Ty of satisfaction that jeld the lost ring aloft " he announced. With | Ava took it from be- gers as he held it to dge, he knee deep in paking wet.” said Ava Fou must e dry to see you and thank a quick dash for home if I may,” suggested know how glad I am to said Ava. “It s an | g.” and she fondled it a precious possession ! Nate waded ted ay. Ava gazed menifest surprise, al- t he was discourteous. in a passion of vivid s like one who bad - ate hnst DY e = | freque 'l"‘ltr:’med!“ Be groaned. “ab, it| tolly!"e hard to cure myself of this He was terribly humbled an E appointed. He thought not of h;’a :’:t | and uncomfortable condition. His | dreqm Was over—its fair guardian | Spirit lost to him. Ava belonged to | another. Oh, the bitter awakening! Nate wandered about for hours. | Then he lay down on the grass to' Test, to think. A cold wind came up. | He reached home chilled through1 and through. The next morning Nate Was in the grasp of a hot fever. It was a week later when he came back to something like normal coher- ency. His landlady explained to him about the flowers that stood upon the stand at the head of the bed. ! “Miss Ava Reese sent them, sf she explained he has called twice. I promised to phone her as soon as you were well enough.” It would be pain ineffable to view that fair face again, vet Nate could not forezo the opportunity He saw a p driven some young 1 1 Ava by a hand- up to the in another an co houge, vwas with him ute. Her his e syn words were sweetest music to o he was gracious, gentle, athi She told of how she would never forgive herself, that she had brought him illness in his efforts such serious to restore the thought the Happy the prob- Ava of in trap rival! noted his My she explained. *He is anxious td know ‘the gallant knight s 1. My sister has hrother,’ as he ¢ nered not Artloss as the radiant Dt OTTING PAPER Its Charactericiics and What It Indi- cates of the Hahits of Its Owner. realize the true imward- paper, particularly e and is, for instance, to sit down to a large, clean sheet of new pink blotting paper ad of soilinz one, to bpe to soil it White to be very thick ng 1o hold its own blotting paper only banks and has ends which towns 1 pleasure first P r has sor blotting and ab- while green gestive of littie soiled k's ' , ang are used for the we books, The blotting paper connof ur changes his blotting naper with apso lute recklessness. It becomes to him like the paper target which, once marked with his prowe has fuliihed its It i a delight to cear the corner off a sheet of thick pink, and pick up much as possfble of | the blot made verflowing pen, ' Dut the sheet loses nd should be re. function b . the ¢ 10 Ly ite charm by ar : paper and bl f the houss Manch other tting vad are hology ry mueh \ and it blotting pa ‘ethod. IR enta- a Galveston f a Polish x like figures. entering the in surprise: pre ist told the baron.' the old vhat your dowry is to retired to the library to her h you or cred loves >W|TH GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS Russian Commander in Chief Directs the Great War Machine Like Clockwork. I saw at the Russian com- d Duke Nicholas, blind man that Rus- in ten ndent of the ters there ho is not abso- work to be a monastery L an distinctly beats of the army the ear morning, daybr the gra 1 table. great strides before “] dined with d duke. It was a tr sp There was no intoxicating drink—only water—at this quick, quiet meal. Everybody wore the sort of expression which in- dicates that there is not a mh:lule to ! atmospher no air of official imjy any- nee about one | * fichody will se ! would THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA,, JAN. 7, 1915, | | WER OF PEACE By FRANK FILSON. i When Uncle Will came back rrcml1 the West at forty-five, with a wad of about eight o'clock tonight,” said Mr. Itt, “I might be able to help you | know yourself. You have trouble in | yvour heart, mademoiselle. I can! trace it in the third line of your right | hand. running from the Mount of Hercules to the Oasis of Luna.” And with these enigmatical words | he beat a retreat into his tent, leav- | ing me decidedly annoyed and a llt~| tle humiliated. I knew he couldn't possibly have‘ PLANTING PENNIES By ADA MAY ROWLAND. Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) “Hello, Hal—anything wrong?” “Nothing but what money can cure.” “H'm!” observed the first speaker money, we were delighted that he | heard about me and George, because‘ as he proceeded on his way. “I don't in the old homestead, where he had not put in an appearance for ten | years. | “But what gets me,” he said. “is | the way you folks here quarrel | Seems to me as though you hadn't any time to do anything else, and liked it.” T flushed. “If you are referring to George Bailey, uncle,” 1 began. | 4 answered Uncle Will, “if | you talk sassy like that you won't get | any more candy from me. What do'’ I care about George Bailey? He isn't half good enough for you. and I'm glad vou had a falling “He is!" 1 eried indignantly. “Ile’s the finest boy in Surbiton.” And then Unecle Will gave me one of his maddening smiies and walked away. Tt was true enough what he had said, though. We did have tioubie in It was what you village, and every fool to let i humilia‘ed dar red-headed Miss Florence Smith twice that night. and only dances And W engaged Surbiton spinsters T was Gec giving me elever had just become | was a Suibiton man. | he had rett, 1 no! oung days to Miss ¥ It h He h other had ind th [} and Miss Barre ingt as calmly always been had never been ween them. And | Uncle Wilt time | for with his ed ea though they greet ac- | quaint anything what puzzl ¢ 1 how could want to put in so I 1 Surt m, incteg iehts of the city, end. I come to my about three after Uncle Will returned cle i- fied by an itiperant peddler who « along the street. Peddler is perl a Wrong of describing him, for he had nothing to sell. He drove a broken-down horse and sat inside a g with a closed top. When he hed Hi Perking' vacant lot he un- hitched the horse and turned it out to at the It was it Surbiton was way “I'm the Intercolo- | International and nial Pcacemaker!” he took wd hoisted hi LLIAM ITT 1 and Interco do ign inl Peace * vill asked Ti Per-) peddlers pitch too | | d inter-| s Mr. It , dried-up ma n oy quar- i v hout It tion “Thi per one, too. reling in ouly last of Deedles town's bee Now, la en J d the took a serious view of one joke, ladies and “It’s a respectable ain’t no he id fon, mi n necessar There's far too much quar- | these d I made pe: week between tha mavor and his lady, and the clean of graft ever since. | and gents, my fee i dellar, and my tent’s open by ap-| pointment at any hour after dark, when you can come in quictiike and a you.” raised a langh beileve it, Sadie Roach, our declared that she saw Mr and Mrs. Darnes stealing away out of Mr. Itt's tent, looking as pleased s | a courting couple the next morning And as the days went by aud Mr | Iit remained, it certainly seemed t an improve 1t had come to Surb ton. F a0 hadn't been on speak- ine for ¥ began to say “Hello!” to each other. and spite fences were taken down, and nobody complained when the neighbors’ chickens got into his garden any more. Well, what happened next scared me. 1 was strolling near Mr. Itt's tent, just by chance, you understand, when the little man came out and accosted me. “Mademoiselle,” he said, executing a bow—for the only word suit- able for the absurd little bob he made, “can I be of service to you?” My heart went into my mouth and T couldn't find any words with which to answer him. “IL you was to come to my tent ce Well, t but, terms s that | glad you have come. | Exccllency 1T upined the tent door. ja battle found secret outside the family, and | only the relations and the servants | knew about it, and they wouldn’t have breathed a word to anybody. How- ever, 1 bezan to get piqued by Mr. | Itt's words. and about eight o'clock that night, finding myself—quite by chance, vou understand—in the vicin- | 1 ity of Mr. Itt’s tent, T thought 1 would | drop in to see whether ther: was anything in what he had about the Mount of Hereules. Though it had begun to dawn nni me that T had had my hands in my muif and that he hadn’t then all Itt seemed to have been ing for me, for hardly had 1 near his tent when he was seizing me by the hands. “You have come,” reaily said | i seen wait- drawn outside, “l am oiselle, vou remind me of my dear friend His Ching Foo, the grand vizier of Tartary, who had a fearful | quarrel with his wife last week over tiie sponding moue He came to me, SNy Ity Che d, ‘1 have had a row with my wife and 1 wish T were She wantg a hundroed by her own clothes Jd you do? Ler two d nt away happy d now." Mr. Itt's seomod se me, but all the while he w ¢ this absurd patter Kk nervously rh were sameh as e he said Mz ven a 1 with, hundred 1 the They'r an- he saw justice of recc e neible to e over his expeet- 1 ende | made an abrapt little dive inte tent and pnlled the fiap to, 1 heard a murm and 1 won- dered happened along whien v of voices inside her 1 had couple wa still there. I wa wondering when, ¥ amazement, somebody put his nds over my eyes And now my he pat. Yes, it was “I'm so sorry, “I see how twice with r look at rt began to pita-| wge. weetheart, wrong 1 was Florcnee Smith her again M wled me that I had been Vou't you forgive me, dear Well, T wns eonsiderahly hurt hut then 1 felt something heing squeezed my fin nd felt like that | t-hoop of monds, whieh | i moeh, and which | had 1 (0 have enlarged the day fore 1 gave it back to Grorac what could 1 do? We had the happiest time there, ind then we decided that we ought te i wnk Mr. It It seemed too wonder- 1 to he true. So weat up to ! h2 tent and called. Mr. Tit seemed to be scolding come- hody, I thoueht, and he didn't hes voice. T wanted to thank him a And who do Wit he said. to dance 'l ne Ve ved o ine be- G0 i wo ?-Uncle were inside irrett Wil was on mnd her Tust A1 prav h hisz kne coowas wen Tnete Wil caw feet, looking he nng vipers! yon Us Mttle Lydia! mehow t that hired T ¥ i pleton say deny it | good ber the Stran somet Mothier Cat Be [ In a fight with vk on thumberland, Pa., ed the bird famil, from z her brood from a m barnyard, tabbie was giving sun bath when the hawk swooped down and seized one of the a tion to the them a ! kittens.® Like a flash the mother cat was on the back of the big bird, and | ensued. Feathers flew and d around and around. hawk rose into the air 1 darted ra ly away. An exam ination of the kittens found that the | mother cat had won the battle. the pair Finally the ROOFS TOO MUCH NEGLECTED Valuable Space in City That Is Seldom Put to Any Kind of Use Today. At a convention of owners and man- agers ot “skyscrapers,” held recently in Duluth, one of the speakers made an interesting prophecy as to the fu- ture uses of the tall building, empha- sizing in particular the neglected roof. “Bungalows built on top of tall build- ings,” he predicted, “will house the owners in summer. A permit for such a bungalow has already been taken | out in Chicago.” The rather odd suggestion brings up | the whole problem of wasted opportu- nities which the roof of the average] tall building presents. Long ago the hotels realized what an asset a roof is, and developed the roof garden In a number of the middle western cities the upper fioors and rcofs of commenr cial buildings are leased by the yreminent city clubs, which thus se- cure airy and qaiet quarters with fine restaurant location, in the very heart | of_the city. - | old account o | little farm that distressed him | the | petence. ! thought of being | place in b | mood. | he gave to little big | mind. ! where 1 should think of spending the winter | Our engagement had been Kept a Pro-| ype that sentiment, and 1 always thought that Hal Sturges was the last man in the world to entertain such a fallacy.” The soliloquizer, however, did not | know that his usually bustling, hope- ful young friend was under a pretty | severe strain at the present time. Hope, ambition, love, seemed all about to wither away because of money und its urgent need. Many years previous Hal's father had loaned David Eastman a large sum of money. Things went wrong . with Eastman. Then they went bet- ) ter. He was honest and he turned { over to his creditor his little mort- gaged farm at Grayton, with the pro- viso that he was to be its tenant at a fixed rental while he lived. Fiually Castman wrote to Hal's father that he would be able to square the whole debt, somo ten thousand dollars, with- in a year. Hal's father died before the year was up. Hal wrote to Mr. Eastman, asking what the prospects as to the promised money might be. He re- ceived a speedy reply, stating that if he would come down to Grayton the would be settled in cold cash. 3 Mr. & A search rrived at Grayton to find that tman had died the day before. wle for a will. None was founc r money. There was none at baik nor in the house. Onvly | the old farmbouse was in cvidence n:ll | tangible property It was Hal, all a great disappointment to this. He had confidently connted on the money to start n business. e had already invested that direction This beeame dead He had to go back to a poor ng position in the adjoining town. it the Dur- Ing the last year of Iifs life Mr. East- man had given a home to an orphan girl and her little sister-—Nellio and Lois Blynn. The young lady had been housckeeper and nurse for her old almoner. He had given her a cow, pay Then, teo, a situation evolved some chickens, and the old farm horse | 4 and c: all. Independently Nellio | had worked up quite a clientele for milk and egzgs in the neighboring vil- " lage. Usually, Saturdays he farm. the ran down to \ Upon day that he felt that ! 'moncy would cure a great proportion of his 1lls, Ial was rcalizing how slow was the process in his present environment towards attaining a com- Unknowingly, the vague ' le to ask Nellie to become his life partner had a certain aspirations. ! ted at the farm by Nel- lie in her usual bright sympathetic He stayed to suppe As usual ed, wistful Lois, the few pennies he never begrudged her “You musin't do that, Mr. Sturge chided Nellie Gently, as the little one seampered away, hy not? He was challenged Hal, ple antly. them but she never asks to go to the village and buy sweet- meats, like ordinary children The pennies always dicappear mysteri ously and she never teils where they g0 to. “Perhaps she has a seceret hoarding place?” suggested Hal, with a smile He left Nellie and gtrolled through the orchard in of the truant child Finally he sht of her blue frock over near I corner., “Why are to, little one?”’ propounded Hal Lois looked up with “Not ve “Decaunse she seems to lose all. It is strange quest canght e what you up a little an being peeka boo on a young lady chided, childishly. “If you want kn I'm pl ow, though, iting pennic anting pet bafed 1l “Ye ir 1 here,” she “When they grows, whole baskusfols “Whate ver child?' demanded Ha “Gran'pa so she had been taught to designate Mr. “How is that?" ed Hal, aw him do it, ched him,"” was the biuant explanation “Bags—and they chinked. And jew'lry, and pa- pers. He dido't know I was watching him. Never growed, though. Guess spot was too shady “Where was the spot, Lois?” pre Hal eagerly. She showed him. A bright light of intelligence had flooded Hal Sturges’ Ten minutes Jater he was view- ing the ground under an old oak tree Lois insisted she had seen an'pa”’ “planting money.” “ve been doing some digging,” an- nounced Hal to Nellie somewhat later, and he told of his discovery. “A small fortune,” he explained Dear little Loi but her the hidden storo ht E been found. Then,” and he drew nearer to Nellie with a manner that conscious!y made her flut- ter, “I should not have been able for a long time to ask a question 1 must now propound.” “A question? tremble. respoose, nies!" ejaculated the you give in patted the ground. I'se going to pick off'n the bushes.’ put that in your head, Eastu pres d never faitered Nellie, all a- Nellie,” was the prompt 11 you become my wife?” Full Skirt. Now that full skirts are actually showing, it will please most women to find that the full, circular skirt is here. After all, the circular skirt is the most graceful of all and goes par- - ticularly well with the redingote and | other basque and moyen age waist | The hew Distinction. “Was Mrs. De Swelle ever operated on for appendicitis?” ' “No. but when she was trying to get ' home from Europe she was arrested Ger; oy i she had caught Found Worms for Her to Eat. African jungle people are not very | particular concerning their food, says { the Christian Herald. One of our mis- sionary ladies was down with an at- tack of fever some time ago. This was a source of sorrow to the poor, unlearned, yet sympathetic natives, | who in their own way are really com- ' passionate and want to help. One ' of these “bush mammies” tried to ex- press her sorrow because the “white mammy missionary” was so ill. After a time she left the station with a bright idea in her head, and started for the jungle. A lLittie later she re- turned with a » tropical leaf from one of the trees Upon it were sev- eral big crawling greon worms, which and brought to the She thought they tender for her to | sick mission would be nice ¢ eat during her illn: Her Spreclalty, “If the Mary of i rhyme had been a new would have found huer old nurss woman sho place in Wali | lotte always had & little ' i B . &7 CONTRASTCR had twenty-ong y -~ FENS Having | versation. | “Home, Sweet Hom It was dark and cold and the gaunt | and leafless trees were swayed by fit- ful gusts of wind that spoke of com- ing rain. Plodding Pete and Weary Willie; quickened their pace in order to reach ! a place of shelter ere the storm should overtake them. This sudden burst of energy seemed to excite con-| “Wot's up with yer, Pete?” inquired | Willie. “Yer look as if yer goin’ ter Pt ‘I dunno,” was Pete's reply. “I don’t feel the joy o' livin® like 1 used to. I've been thinkin’ o' my wasted life, “Homesick!" broke in Willie. “Why, I believe that's wot both of » sufferin’® from. We ain’t nei- ther of us bhin inside a jail for close in three months now, ‘ave we?” Just So. “Do you think that marriage is a everybody T TR Yy g REATER “ND BUILDER building irs' experience in and coutracting - bakelana and vicunty, 1 feel competent to render the best services in buildi mation, i Phone 109. ;Oiubiav!nlniuk@: SBO this lime. [f comtemplating will be pieased to furnish estimates and all intor- All work guaranteed B. STREATER. SO BB D e dorb s J. 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