Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 16, 1915, Page 3

e The Professions :bhiropractor . Q. SCARBOROUG: Dk'LIady in Attendance i Ipyches Building Between Park Auditorium. OFFICE HOURS. 11:30 a. m. 7:00 to 8:00 nltati esidence Phone 240 Black D m w. L. HEATH, D. C. HUGH D. VIA, D. C. ctors of Chiropratic. Over Post Hours 8 to 12. a. m. and 2, and 7 to 8 p. m. aduates and Ex-Faculty mem- of of the Palmer School ratic. Consultation an analysis free at office, D. & H. D, MEND ICONSULTING ENGINEERS pite 212-215 Drane Building Lakeland, Fla. phate Land Examlnations an Design® Karthwork Specialists ence phone, 278 Black. phone, 278 Blue, DR. SARAH E. WHEELER OSTEOPATK p Annex, Door National Bank Lakeland, Florida DR. W. R. GROOVER HYSICIAN AND SURGEON ha 5 d 4. Kentuckv Bufldi * " fakeland, Florida = DR. C. C. WILSON n_and Surgeon. Special at- | ven to diseases of women . Deen-Bryan A 10. Office b s hone 367 Blu DR. W. B. MOON Telephone 350 s 0 to 11, 2 to 4, evenings 7 to Over Postoffice Lakeland, Florida A. X. ERICKSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Real Estate Questions Bryant Buildi DR. R. B. FADDOCK DENTIST [Room No. 1, Divkson Bldg. Lakeland, Fla. Phone 138; Residence 91 Blacy Rogers ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Building eland, Florids HENRY WOLF & SON, EXPERT PIANO TUNERS Pianos Rebuilt, Refinished and p Like New; All Work Warran rictly First Class. [Repair Shop BOUTH MASSACHUSETTS AVE. Lakeland, Fla: e 16 Black. EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER iondo Bldg,, Lakeland, Florida | U KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Bullding Lakeland Florida W. S. PRESTON, LAWYER Upstairs East of Court House BARTOW, FLA. pination of Titles and Rea. & tate Law a Speclalty DR. H. MERCER RICHARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON : Rooms 5 and 6, Elliston Blg; Lakeland, Florida pes: Office 378; Resid. 301 Blue FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building Mice phone 402. Res. 312 Red lal attention to drafting lega! papers. Arriage licenses and abstracts tnrnjshed . HERMAN WATSON, M. D. Morgan-Groover Bldg. Dhunes: Office 351; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Florids _DR. D. P. CARTER VETERINARY SURGEON 3 Lakeland, Fla. ‘nce Phone 294 Red e Phone 196 J. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Dickson BuildMg ctice in all courts. Homestead claims jocated and contested Established in July, 1900 DR. W. S. IRVIN DENTIST 1:30to 5p. m. | n and Examination Free. South of Firm | phone 357, e. Edwin Spencer. Jv Residence e s e \WA PRINCE'S ONLY CASE | B, i y MILDRED CQROLINE GOOD- e RIDGE, de!ect’ii x: the office of Mr. Arnold, “Yes,” bow the truth Pression. His ming Somewhat cause he had little to go :’:x;rquuly spurred up ¢ Id interest at a sight of the rea fh:rmlng face of the visitor. T‘I‘:LIZ l(c;‘;nllxer evident :xr}siety and distress pn(hy? &roused his chivalrous sym- | Only an hour ago he ha ploring with Arnolg, his tridenbdeennn:e.l man who creditably followed the de- tective line as a science, the fact that his life had become bractically vapid, | profitless, almost unendurable. : Robert Prince was world weary be- cause he had no motive in life, He had inherited money, but not a busi- ! ness. He really craved to be of some practical use in the world, but did not | know how to begin. He had acted ' 80 bored that Arnold had laughingly Suggested that he interest himself in some detective case, | “When 1 get a case that will really | 8tr up your ingenuity and inability and get that idle mind out of its dull | beaten track,” said Arnold, “Im go- Ing to make you interested in it,” and | NOW a case that held his attention | had come to the front, Arnold was absent from the office, but Robert al-| lowed his caller to think he was the | famous sleuth “That is my name," girl, handing a d; bearing a re ed Robert Prince, telling - but conveying a wrong im- laggard be- | , Was instan- 0 admiration d i 3 said the young ainty card to Robert dence address and the | ! Fidelia Blain." 1 wish | | to engage your services not in hunt- | ing down a criminal, but in recover- ing for me a large sum of money.” “Lost?” intimated Robert. “Stolen,” corrected Miss Blair with | a quick shudder. “I must make one restriction in this case—there must be no arrests, no publicity.” | “May I ask the question,” ventured Robert, guessing quickly; “Is it l! family matter, is a relative in-| volved?” In almost a whisper and with head | bowed and trembling all over, Miss Blair answered: “Yes.” | “You may tell me in confidence your story,” said Robert. “If I see! no way of helping you out in the re- 8 te | Lying Prone Across a Bed. stricted way you indicate, the trans- | action will be forgotten go far as this office is concerned.” “Thank you,” said Miss Blair bum- i bly and gratefully. It was a clear, simple and yet, startling narrative, that of the falr young girl. She had been an art stu- dent, her brother a traveling agent for a large steel firm. A sister had recently died leaving two small chil- dren. Their father was a dissolute scoundrel who had broken his wife’s heart. i An uncle had left an estate to the | surviving brother and sister. They | bad at once liquidated this and had | faithfully placed a third of the pro-| ceeds in trust for the children ; This had infuria od John Barr, the | brother-in-law. To auivt him, Fidelia had given him a thousand dollars. | When he had squandered it in gam- bling he retur d had sinee been continuousl ing them with ap-! | plications for small loans Nl-(lumz,v.w now related Fi- imntil 1 had got through some where 1 would be ar i 14 and 15 Rentucky Buildis LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT ibler Hotel, Lakeland, Florida B. H. HARNLY Estate, Live Stock and General AUCTIONEER Sales Manager ONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. on Lot Sales a Speclalty 2'mondo Bldg. Lakeland, Fl DR. J. R. RUNYAN ™ 17 and 18, Raymondo Bldg. and be Decessary druge furnished wit! out extra charge Residence phone 308. Ofice Phone 410 a . X still as he knew, | city for the day | to take initial at Jeast. fortune rewarded Miss Blair knew eome b hdelv,rm!ned b- | charge of the cas ‘ Remarkable | his efforts. | | gation had a chur THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JaN. 16, 1915. thing of the places where Barr hung out and the loose crowd he nuoclx-i ed with. Robert finally came across 2 man who knew Barr who had seen him staggering home early that morn- ing. Where was his home, inquired Robert. An hour later he pushed open the door of a room in a large office building to find lying prone across a bed the very man he was after. Barr seemed stupefied, drugged. Robert tried to arouse him, but could Dot do so. He searched his clothes and the room, but was urable to dis- | cover any trace of the stolen plunder. For hours Robert watched by the bedside of the man. Then he got alarmed and summoned a doctor. The physician annouwced that the man was in no immediate danger, but that he had evidently been given a poison to drug him. Its effects would prob- ably never become eliminated from | mind and body, he told Robert. Towards evening the patient was {in a delirium. Then from his mad ravings the watchful Robert began to {learn what had become of the miss- ing loot. It seemed that Barr had intended to flee the city, but had got to drinking. He met some associates and bragged of netting a fortune. They had drugged him and had taken a satchel away from him. “Stuffed with paper—ha! gloated the delirious Barr. money, the bonds safe. ah, the key! They are bafled—I am rich!™ This much and no more through that night and the next day—then Robert hired a male nurse, left him in charge of the patient and went to report to Miss Blair. “No one has got the money and bonds but Barr,” he assured her. “He has placed them in safe hiding. I shall stay with him night and day till 1 find out where.” “The key—the key!” was the mad burden of the invalid all the next day. Early the following morning, taking his turn to watch the patient, Robert noticed that he lay on one side, his naked shoulder revealed. He had observed a plaster there at the first but had left it to wear off. It had done this in part. One edge was turned over. Something glit- tered. Robert investigated. He de- tached from under the plaster a small “The flat key bearing a number and the | initials: “U. 8. D. V. Within two hours Robert Prince by Barr in the Union Safety Deposit Vaults. Within four he had learned that the bonds and money were con- | talned within it and that all Fidelia had to do was to prove her right to it. Barr was sent to & country sani- | tarium, but dled within the week and a family scandal was avoided. A week later Robert went into the office of Arnold and confessed his bold detective exploit. “l suppose I ought to pay you a fee,” he said, “for putting me in a position where I could be of service to the sweetest—dearest—" “Ah!" smiled the shrewd detective readily—“then you have at last found |, something worth living for? All right. ‘Bless you my children, bless you!'" (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) NOT WHAT HE WAS USED TO Presumably the Volunteer Musician | Had Thought Church Instrument Was a Hand Organ. Rev. Theophilus to preach a spe in Christianit and a large congre- ‘mbled by the time the L bells ceased ringing; but from some cause or another the organist did not put in an appearance. The minister, with an anxious look on his | face, stepped forward. “l am sorry to say “that Mr. Atkins, the organist, has un- fortunately failed to arrive. 1 shall, therefore, be obliged to appeal to you for a temporary deputy. Is there any one here who can play an organ that will kindly volunteer to act as a sub- stitute?” A shabbily-dressed man arose and walked down the aisle. The minister cordially thanked him, and after es- corting him to the organ stool and placing the music before him, re- | turned to the pulpit. The volunteer, however, after fumbling confusedly about for a min- ute or two, silently beckoned to the amazed minister to approach. “I can't understand this organ,” he said with a puzzled look on his face “What's the matter with it?" “Matter with it!” said the sur- prised clergyman. “My dear sir, it ! was only tuned last week!" “Nay, it's not that,” came the re- ply. “The fact is, this organ's differ- ent to the one I've bin used to. I can’t see the handle!” Caused a Frost. “What caused the coolness between you and the young doctor? I thought vou were engaged?” “His writing is rather illegible. sent me a note for 1,000 kisses.” Well?" 1 thought it was a prescription and took it to be filled.” He NECKWEAR OF THE MOMENT Styles Are as Pretty as ‘Those of the Summer, Though Materials Are Different. imer the ar was organdie is of cream net \er costumes, and of ses that smack of ring of the collars 1 up, as the necks as decollete is con- , however, be lightly more becoming. , lique and point laces ted in the collars of the new ydels, and there is always ,zh net added to the neck decora ion 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. are ha!" | The key— ! Hourspeaker was al sermon on “Deceit | * he announced, | lovely ' BRANDED AS A THIEF By AUGUSTUS GOODRICH SHER- WIN. ! John Martin, mortgage banker, !lhrewd and careful man of business, , sat facing his bookkeper, Ralph Ter- | hune, a pleasing, clear-minded young | man, in the estimation of Eunice Mar tin at least, although the momney ab- sorbed father knew nothing of that. The two men were seated in the pri- vate office of the banker. This had an anteroom and both apartments con- nected with the residence of Joun Mar- tin. In the anteroom was a lurking figure. It's owner had approached the glass door connecting the rooms. He listened first, then he peered cau- tiously where a small piece of the clouded glass was out of place. This man was Burton Beale, a bach- elor cousin of the banker, who had been the guest of his relative for nearly a month. “You understand, Terhune,” the banker was speaking within the pri- vate office. | “Perfectly, Mr. Martin,” replied the | young office man in his usual attentive and pleasant way. i “I have never trusted any employes as I am trusting you. It is necessary | that I should, for some important | transactions will have to be handled ; by you during my absence.” i “You will not be gone long, I pre- £ume?” | “Perhaps a week. Lean a little clos- | er, Terhune. The combination of the exfe is 12-105-19." | Ralph Terhune nodded comprehend- i ingly. While the banker spoke he had carelessly scribbled the numerals | on a slip of scrap paper. Instantly his | employer drew the tell-tale slip from his hand. | “No, ne,” he spoke, tearing the bit ' of paper to pieces, “Never trust such business as that to a record that may accidentally fall under strange eyes. Memorize it."” | | “To aid me, I will make a temporary | notation, then,” sald Terhune, and he drew up his coat sleeve and marked | the numbers on the white surface of " his shirt cuff. 1 The modest but pretty cuff button ' olding it together met his glance as | ' he did this, and his eye brightened. { knew that key unlocked a box rented | Those buttons were a birthday gift itrom Eunice, a week ago. A memory of her charming face coupled with the | In the Anteroom Was a Lurking Fig- ure. great confidence her father reposed in him made the heart of the young man | thrill with cheer and hope. . ‘When the banker and Ralph paesed through the anteroom, Beale was not there. He had hurried from the apartment, trembling all over with ex- citement. He had heard and seen that | which to his mind was as a plank of safety thurst suddenly before a drown- man. i “A way out of all my troubles!” he breathed, as he reached the street. | “Let me think.” | He drew a letter from his pocket. He scowled darkly as he read it. ! From a notorious gambler, it an- nounced that unless within forty-eight (hours a certain note was paid it : would be presented to the man whose | forged signature it bore—John Mar- tin. “Everything depends on getting | Terhune away with me and watching my opportunity,” mused the bachelor. “I must get one thousand dollars or I am ruined—worse, I must become a hunted criminal. Ah, I have it!” and | his bad eyes sparkled with cunning. ! “Let us take a little stroll, Ter- hune,” he suggested as, apparently ! casually, he later met his intended vic- {tim on the street near his hotel “What do you say to a show for the evening?” | “Previous engagement,” replied Ralph, glancing at his watch and ,counting the minutes until eight o’clock, when he was due to spend the ‘evenlng with Eunice Martin. “Time for a game of billards, least,” pressed Beale. | “Oh, yes; I have a full hour of leis- at “Come on, then.” Beale led the way to a reputable , billiard parlor, and they were soon en- gaged in a preliminary game with the ivory spheres. Beale disguised the fact that he was an expert at the game. He made it interesting for his opponent by some clever manipulations and Ralph's in- terest so deepened that he threw off his coat and cuffs and became ab- sorbed in watching his adversary. Reale aliowed Raiph to win, and wheels. Somebody might get at them with @ wrench, on the road. Wedge bolts had oupht to be smelled or heard from when the journals screech; not seen. If anybody thinks he wants to slack a wedge-bolt, let that man shoot the Jjamb-nuts off witk a gun. That's what | guns is for, and they'd ought to be car- | rled in the tool kit. The roundhouse gang’s too good for | the job. New engines don’t run hot! | soon enough to suit yours truly. Put| & crew of hoboes in there and tell them they got to save oll and ram the | { them knew who Willlam Daidy was, | | little seeds began to grow apace. | road, celfar-packiig @oWh in with a pin¢h- bar. They will do it. The babbit and stuff you drop over the division makes good ballast. Wall in your cellar-bolts, so if a fellow gets them out, digging babbitt out of the cellar, on a fast run, he can't get them in again inside of fif- teen minutes apiece. The dispatcher won't care—ask him—and the en- gineer daresn’t. It's all he can do to talk his way out of a lay-off. Don’t you worrysabout front-ends. If the engine looks good to you, but don't steam no more than a teakettle with the bottom out, let the trainmaster put on a helper once in a while. Three or five vears from now somebody else will have your job anyhow, and he'll set most of your front-end furni- ture out on the scrap pile while he cleans house, and forget to put it back ~gain. That will help some. It you*find there's rooms to rent in the front end after you get it done, and the heater mien show up again without the incubator, fill her up with their stuff. It's hang for us fellows, but it helps hold the front trucks down when you're going some. Bend your feed and air pipes as sharp and as often as you can. It shows that nobody was looking and they freeze up quicker. Look out for your engine cab. Fix it so that if a fellow goes to the front door he can't get back again to the throttle without getting orders from the dispatcher, showing that the main line of the cab is clear. The boy allows we are working too many nights at this. He wants a change. We are. So don't bother about fire-boxes and ash-pans. When the president sends word that he “couldn’t see the right of way on his last trip for smoke,” send him to me, and I'll tell him he s on the wrong end of the train. It was all clear ahead of the engine. That'll make him know that we are men of some parts; part wood and part leather, with brass trimmings— which I am Yours truly, WILLIAM DAIDY, Engineer. When a man has enough strength of character to get his head above the common level, however grotesquely he may at first appear, there is usually something in him worth observing. If he has balance and staying powers he may get his feet upon the solid, and a leader has been discovered. Somewhat in, this fashion the gen- eral manager reasoned as he read Bill's chapter. Ha called his secretary, and by careful question and reply it was soon established that neither of nor what of Willilam's chapter was fact and what fancy. Therefore, the general manager ! made a brief investigation, put some | pointed questions to the superinten- dent of motive power, who fumed a little, but electrified the master me- chanic (as. witnesg his short and sim- ple inquiry ot Bill), and thus Bill's Changes were made. Plans were devised and revised until new engines bore signs of improvement. These things were discussed on the home and the news of them went broadcast over many roads. Bill's ideas bore the test of service, and flourished like the proverbial green bay tree, until finally they came before the “First Intelligence,” the “Great Arcanum,” or “Court of Last Resort” of the railroad mechanical world, and were called good. No longer bearing the name of “William Daidy, Engineer,” it is true, but la- beled with the names of many men, for that is the way of the world, and ! the destiny of all things that are good enough to prove good. Bill never got beyond One” of Ballard’s “book.” There wa3i no need. But having demonstrated that he was “a man of parts,” it was thought advantageous to transpose him to the ranks of those he had smit- ten. Thus, Bill became a road fore- man of engines—and more. “Chapter Foolish Question. A man who, with his family, had spent several weeks at a fashionable summer resort discovered one morn- ing that he had lost his pocketbook. Thinking it possible that it might have been found by some employee of the hotel at which he was staying, he reported his loss to the landlord. “That’s too bad, Mr. Johnson,” said that functionary. “I'll make inquiries about it. What kind of pocketbook was it?” | “Russia lodger. “What color?” “Dark red.” | “Any distinguishing mark about it?" “It had a clasp.” “What was the shape of it?” “Flat, of course,” said Mr. Johnson. | “Haven't 1 been here more than a, month?” | leather,” answered the Response to Popular Demand. | “Don’t you think these crook plays have a tendency to make burglars rather picturesque and popular?” “Sure,” replied Crowbar Jack. “I have been thinkin' serious of givin® up me reglar work an’ startin’ a corre | spondence school.” | “Home, Sweet Home."” | dark and cold and the gaunt ! ss trees were swayed by fit- | ful gusts of wind that spoke of com- | ing rain Plodding Pete quickened their pa a place heiter should ove th burst of energ) W in ord y Willie to reach ere the storm m. This sudden med to excite con- of ?* inquired us it yer goin’ ter | " was Pete's reply.“I don't | o' livin' like I used to. | I've been thinkin' o' my wasted life, an’ I've got a sorter uneasy, homesick feelin’. “Homesick!"” broke in Willie. “Why, bless me, 1 believe that’s wot both of us are sufferin’ from. We ain't nei- ther of us bin iuside a jall for close in three months now, 'ave we?” Just So. “Do you think that marriage is a lottery?” “Can’t say I do. Still, everybody who marries takes a chance.” CHARLOTTE HARBOR AND NORTHERN RAILWAY SAFETY FOR No. 81 34 fi1 49 s12 05 s12 15 812 25 p.m. Daily FIRST. THE “BOCA GRANDE ROUTE” ATTRACTIV RVICE. COURTESY INFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHEDULE IN EFEECT JANUARY 18T, 1915 —sSubject to Change Without Notice— thward 83.] 123 p.m. a No 0 545 a.m LH.& N smited Bo1s 5 28 STATIONS ATLANTIC COAST LINE Jacksonville Lakeland Tampa ... “ob Winston BOCA GRANDE ROUTE Mulberry .... Bruee . Ridzewood Bruce Pierce .. Martin Junction . Bradley Junction Chicora . . Cottman ......u.. . TigerBay Cottman .. Baird ort Green Junction ....Fort Green . Fort Green Spring: Vandolah Rridge .Limestone Nocateo ... Hull .... Fort Ogden Boggess .. Platt Murdock Southland MecCall Placida . .. . Gasparilla .. Boca Grande uth Boca Grande “C H. & N. LIMITED" orthward. 14 10 205 o8 16 36 ez ‘It 123 vt s It 100 YSIA- 12 42 [s12 36 1218 12 05 s11 55 11 45 a.m, ! Daily No. 82 ‘128 a.m. 6 45 .9 50 p.m. No. JH.& N Limited 8 9135 Daily Through Sleeper Between Jacksonville, Lakeland, Arcadia & Boca Grande C. . & N. Limited, train No. 3 passengers holding tickets from Lakeland and points north. H. & N. Limited, train ‘No. 4 will stop at flag stations on signal for local passengers and for passengers holding tickets for Lakeland and poin beyond. Information n ot obtainable from Agents will nished by the undersigned. L. M. FOUTS, 2nd V. P. & Gen. Boeca Grande, Fla, N. H. GOUCHER, Supt. Transportation, Arcadia, Fla. Mgr. be cheerfully will stop at flag stations todischarge fur-| C. B. McCALL, ¢ Pass.Ast., ande, Fla. SPECIAL DALE For THIRTY DAYS we will Make a Special Sale on the New Improved White Rotary Sewing Machine Thirty Dollars Cash Just one-half the usual price Takes one of them Don’t let this opportunity pass without supplying your needs. limited. Come at once. gone we can’t duplicate the order. The quantity is When they are We need THE CASH. You need the Our interests are mutual. Machine. Come let us Serve you. WILSON HARDWARE CO.