Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 25, 1915, Page 7

e A e BRIEF MOMENTS OF DREAMS | to Imagine Long Periods E il ing During Naps of Short gt Duration. poth Bismarck and Pepys found pat noise enhanced the value of a sight's rest. Bismarck confided (n his old age to an interviewer that he could «gever sleep in Berlin at night when 1t is quiet but as soon as the noises pegins about four o’clock in the morn- pg 1 can sleep a little and get my rest for the day.” Pepys records in his diary on Sep- tsmber 23, 1661, that he slept at Well- ing “snd still remember it that in gy life I never did pass a night wi pore epicurism of sleep; there being sow and then & noise of people that waked me, and then it was a very niny night, and then I was a little veary, that what between waking and then sleeping again one after another, 1 never had s0 much content in all oy life.” The probability that we get snatches of sleep at odd moments when we suppose ourselves to have remained continuously awake is supported by the phenomena of dreams. Mark Twain accounted for his own “disap- pearing visitor” by the belief that he bsd unconsciously had a very short pap, and many have explained visions of ghosts as due to dreams during such short néps. For nothing is better established in connection with dreams than that an spparently very long one can occur during an almost infinitesimal time. Alfred Maury had a long, vivid dream of the reign of terror, including the trial of himself and his execution, and was able to show that it all happened during the moment of awakening by the fall of a rod from the bed canopy upon his neck. BT OB F i all o | l e — - S BPIBESIEPRIPR Bates Yellow Ticket Sale OPENS Saturday, Jan. 23d Scatter Sunshine. A ltttle thought will show you how vastly your own happiness depends on the way other people bear themselves toward you. The looks and tones at your hreakfast table, the conduct of your fellow-workers or employers, the faithful or unreliable men you deal with, what people say to you on the street, the way your cook and house- maid do their work, the letters you get, the friends or foes you meet— these things make up very much of the pleasure or misery of your day. Turn the idea around, and remember that just so much are you adding to to the pleasure or the misery of of ople’s days. And this is the b e matter which you can control. Whether any particular day shall bring to you moxe of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond your power to determine. Whether each ray of your life shall give happiness or suf- fering rests with yourselt.—Geo: 8. Merriam. e e Speaking of Feet. Church—1I see it is said that the foot of the ancients varied from 8.75 to 23.22 inches. Gotham—The Ppeople of Chicago can look among the latter mentioned for their ancestors. 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 walst effects now in vogue. J2R80 0000 SEFEHHE BB .4 : i Everything in the Store at a WAR PRICE e L L e e T e et i Collins & Kelley DEALERS IN TAMPA alyst, Lab. No. M19955: Moisture, ...... Lime—GaO ... . Insoluble Matter and Truck Gardening. Equivalent to Carfionate——GaOg Iron and Alumina—Fez03 & Al203 _ Our Lime Fertilizer is highly recommended for Citrus Crushed Rock, Fertilizer and Lime East Lafayette St., on Seaboard Ry. FLORIDA ANALYSIS The following is an anlaysis of the Fertilizer from our mine near Brooksville, Fla., The analysis was made in the Laboratory of the State Chemist by L. Heinburger, An- vees e+ e+ .. 03 per cent .... 54.50 per cent . 97.34 per cent 3,26 per cent 0.12 per cent Must Little Homeless " Children Suffer In Florida? WE DO NOT BELIEVE ida realize that there are right n of lite children in real need—some a that just must be cared for. We just cannot beli A every orphanage in Florida for 850 of these little ones 361 St. James Bldg. We feel sure—that they do not kni dreds of worthy mothers in Florida w! to keep their little ones alive—and at home. eve—that with these facts true—and crowded to the doors—that the i ill let our gre: people of Florida will le retgapriondibon prodiung i of funds to keep it up. Your needed—rizhte?;:w—l’luse send what you can to-day—to R. V. Covington, Treasurer of The Children’s Home Society of Florida Florida's Greatest Charity that the good people of Flor- ow in our State Hundreds bsolutely homeless— ow that there are hun- ho are just struggling at work which has cared immediate help—is greatly JACKSONVILLE, FLA. What a Hurricane Did For Two Miners In the Desert By EMERSON GRIFFITH Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co. Than William Lloyd and Harry Mac- Leod two more steadfast companions never roamed between Butte and Bis- bee. The one was of Welsh and the other of Scotch extraction. but for all their difference in appearance they might have been brothers. Doubtless no dissonance ever should Lzve entered into the harmony of their friendship had it not been for that disastrous fear when the winds blew as never before nor since in the mem- ory of the oldest prospector. There Is a saying in the barren coun- try that more murders and other acts of violence are committed while the winds torment the land than during all the months of calm. The year that the winds blew with euch continual relentlessness Lloyd and MacLeod were working a copper claim on the line where the base of Cliff mountain meets the desert They had built a two room Bhack. with corrugated iron roof, and some- thing in its shape and location gave it semblance to the hulk of a ship cast against a chff by the desert sea. Here they were living, packing their water from a tepid spring three miles up a canyon and laboring sedulously on their shaft, when the memorable windy season set in. This occurred in December. It did not end until July 13. And during these six moaths there was not a single drop of precipitation. Yet this did not outwardly disturb the partners, except 1 render them a bit fretful at times, until July 5, when came the great sandstorm, which blew for nine days and nights without once so much as a pause. Rarely, so choked was the air with dust and sand, could you see beyond a hundred yards. For the first four days, iu the face of this, Lloyd and MacLeod worked on. Lloyd. usually garrulous, grew silent, while MacLeod said bardlx a word. Each day saw them become more moody and dispirited, and at bedtime they would turn in without the usual “good night.” Dry as parchinent grew their skins. Lips and bands cracked open., ey turned blear and bloodshot. Nostrils refused to perform their functions, so they panted asthmatically through parted lips. When the fourth day came, and no respite; and partners made only a pre- tense of working. On the morning of the 5th Lioyd arose stifly from his cot and Mt the HB BAW THAT THROAT WAS LAID WIDS OPEN. KNEELING DOWN, HER I cooking stove, while MacLeod remain- | ! ed fiat on his back, gazing intently at | the rattling roof. | *“Come on. get up? said Lioyd, look- ing in from the kitchen door. Mac had swallowed painfully and shook his head. For a moment the other gazed at him; then. turning away, lifted a hand | | to his forehead and broke into a tor- rent of violent oaths against the wind, the worid, the imiverse. Presently he came back to thre door. “I reckon you want me to cook your breakfast.” he ventu Iistlessly. Something in his caused Mac- Reod to sit up in bed. 1 r!ckonm| not asking you to.” he answered. “1 reckon | wonldn't eat it if you did. I'm not asking any favors of you. i1 he coucluded, lying back with an air of abnegation. Convinced that he had been done an injustice, Liord turned away again and ate his men! alone. Work was not even suggested that day. Abont noon MacLeod arose, and ther mat down to their meal together. ‘Everything they came In contact with was gritty. Sand and dust penetrated everywhere and impregnated every- thing. “This lode ainit golng to pan out” Lioyd suddenly declared as he lay | down hib fosk. ‘“What do you say to deserting RT” Macleod merely grented. “] pever had any luck like others. 1 always was a failure.” he pursued plalnttvely. “What do you aay” MacLeod ate balf a can of coid toma- toes before replying. Tben. lesning back in his chee, e gave vent to bis houghts, “Most failures work oug | admit. but still you can't blame the | when Lloyd sprang from his cot. his stars,” he began. *“The trouble is, they’re quitters.” They sat silent for a time, until Mac- Leod got up with a groan “You're always going against me." be complained. “I never spoke about it before, but you always are. Hit the trail whenever you want. but 1 stay here.” “You've found signs you ain't told} me about!" exclaimed Lloyd suspicious- | ly. “Oh, I see your game. | wonde rfll] why you were so silent lately.” Thus, out of sheer querulousness. | arose a spirit of ill feeling, and In this humor they went to bed that night. With the duwn Macleod arose and left the shack without a word to his partoer, who lay watching him. We had no other purpuse than to get out side, and ouce In the open the winds guided bhim where they willed. He was circled out on the desert. then blown back toward the mount and up a wide arroyo. until at last, : if the elements had guided bim there, he stumbled. with no shock to his dulled senses, across the gaunt body of a she wolf. Kneeling down. he saw that her throat was laid wide open, and to her gray mane fresh blood still ctung in ruby drops. After a moment's thought be arose with the carcass on his snoulder and started for the shack. He burst suddenly into the shack to find Lloyd engaged in whetting a long bladed claspknife. This the latter put away as he came forward to kneel down and examine the body which MacLeod had dumped upoa the floor. “There’s some whelps that didn’t get their breakfast this morning—and won't,” remarked MacLeod grimly. “Wonder what killed her?' asked Lioyd. “It's evident,” sald the other, “her mate did the killing.” “Her mate! By heaven, he must have!” breathed Lloyd. staring at the blood an his flngers. *“But why?" MacLeod turned away with a grunt. “What made you bring this mess here? pursued Lloyd, still looking at the blood on his fingers. “You're always going aganinst me." whined MacLeod. *I had no knife to take her scalp, that's why. Lend me the one yon were sharpening so fine Just now.” “Do 1 get balf the bounty?” “Look a-here, Bill," ejaculated Mac- Leod impatiently, “we agreed to split even on mining, but there was nothing said about bounties! Lloyd returned to his whetstone. “Nothing was said about me lend- ing my knife either,” he retorted, re- suming the sharpening process, On the next day, which was the sev- enth, they did nothing but quarrel. Toward evening MacLeod accused Lloyd of wasting their nearly exhaust- ed water supply. It being the former’s turn to go to the spring. he took ex- ception to his partner throwing half a dipperful away, and accused bim of doing so with a motive. Lloyd, heretofore ready with a sharp reply, made no answer, but sat down oo his cot and resumed the whetting of his knife. His convictions strengthened by Lloyd’s silence. his nerves unable to stand the grinding sound any longer. MacLeod suddenly lost all control of himself and called his companion a vil® name. la a flash the whetstone fell to the floor and Lloyd was standing, legs bent and wide apart, body bunched forward with gleaming blade atremble in his band. But MacLeod did not rise to meet bim. Instead he lay back on his couch and covered his face with both hands. Gradually the fire died In Lloyd's bloodshot eyes. Slowly, with the pal- sled effort of an old man, be picked up the whetstone to resume the sharpen- ing process. “You'll live to eat that word,” sald he quietly and drew the blade across the stone. . In the beginning there was no de- structive tendency In any living thing. for to inflict injury is contrary to the divine impetus called life. Only by the pressure from without is a mature warped from its given course, Came the ninth day. which was to be the last of the winds. At noon, owing to both using 1t with pervarted wastefulness. their water supply was exhnusted. MacLeed him- selt emptied the keg, drinking the last drop. During the afternoon the studlied si- lence batween them grew ominous. The day wore on. As night fell the atmosphere grew nnbearably oppres- sive. On the wings of the dust laden winGs was borne a faint rumble of thundes. But this had no significance, for dry electrical storms were common in the Malap! mountains miles to the worth. Leaving the lamp burning on a table in the center of the room, the two, fully dressed. finally threw themselves upon their cots, where they panted for | enongh pure air to soothe their aching lungs. For bours they lay there, blear eyes rolling, arms tossing, nerves filed to the guick and half mad from thicst. Shortly after midnight the wind reached Its maximum velocity. At times the sturdy little shack would quiver and creak as a ship hanging to some reef in a lashing sea. Now and then tidal waves of sand would break against its sides and surge across its deck like roof. With a scream the demon of the air would descend and gnaw against the corners of the structure. Again and again in a mad frenzy It burled away. only to pounce back with rectuited violence. Ocoasiopally, as some witless moo- ster, unable to destroy !h:h Tflm ity , it approached wi -m'rt;'nc moaned and whimpered untfl it lost patience and broke into a roar. But the fuel that burns bottest ts quickly consumed. The end was at band. Howerer. the men within thie hat- torcd k. which v balf in. patf out of the desert <ea. did pot know tbat the hurricane was in its death throes To them it swou'd blow uptil eternity. It was just an hour past midnizht - AINT fine enough to get into the empty sap ‘rores anchors to the wood. Such paint holds on until it wears out, keeps the weather away from the wood and protects you from repair bills, Paint made of ATLANTIC WHITE LEAD (Dutch Boy Pulnter Trade Mark) and pure linsced oil does all that. Its beauty—lasting and preserving—will add to the money value of your place. Tint it any color. e gonwp Mg Sz 1 S anything it for, WILSON HARDWARE COMPANY Lakeland, Florida THEN BEGAN THE STRUGGLSE — nmarn' AGAINST STRENGTEH. | shirt torn open, hairy breast bared and | a wild glare in his bloodshot eyes. “Get some water!” be shouted hoarse- I ly. “Get some water or Il-T"lI"— and | be brandished his knife on high. | MacLeod sat laughing on the edge of his bed. | His bleeding lips were drawn far back, and his teeth shone white and gleaming. Loosely in one hand swung his revolver. | “I’ve been waiting an age for you and your knife)' he gurgled thickly. “You won't need any water, yon''— But he never finished, for Lloyd, with a swing of his arm, knocked the lamp from the table to the floor, where it flickered once and went ont. A moment later the horror of the darkness was broken by a blue flame from MacLeod's revolver. Following the heavy detonation came a breath- less silence. Something fell heavily to the fioor. Then all was still again. 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Stay Hog Fence, per rod .. 31¢ ::el;‘::gen Wl O%e (eI canbitg m! 42 in, 6 in. Stay Hog Fence, per rod ......oovvvevnns B¢ :flnnm. followed minute, and still the | 48 in. 6 in. Stay Hog Fence, perrod ............ ... B¢ result was at Issue. No. 2 Shingles, per thousand ........ Ve el $3.60 Then, at last, when it seemed the conflict must endure until both fell ex- bausted, circumstances ordained that a pawn should enter the game a$ & strat- egic point to unbalance the evenness of the board. It happened that MacLeod stepped upon the round body of the lamp, which rolled from under his foot, and down be crashed with Lioyd on top. A moment's struggle on the floor; a moment’s pause! Then a purple flash of lightning, a silhouette of knife agleam above n prostrate form, a salvo of thunder, the stillness of the tomb, a single, barei, audible splash upon the roof, then an- other, and another—all in a second’s 4me! Something clattered on the Soor. As out of a bad dream a voice was lifted: “Harry, it's ruining!” Likewise came the reply: “Thank heaven, it's raining!™ The pressure had been removed. “Home, Sweet Home.” 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- versation. “Wot's up with yer, Pete?” inquired WE HANDLE EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE AND BUILDING MATERIAL Lakeland Furniture & H>dware Co. POBOPOBOSOBOB0E i e The Lakeland Steam Laundry Is prepared to give you in laundry work, what experienced workmen and modern equipment will produce—-SUPERIOR SERVICE. Ifyouare notalready one of our customers, we invite you to become one ard enjoy this service, Visitors are always welcome at our laundry—we are glad to have our custom ers call and inspect our methed of laun- Willle. “Yer look s If yer goin' ter el o ery.” . We have a large number of 12-inch lo:l, “’::n;:;y ‘(;'“"':l‘:."“:fll" "“""‘: rules for the school children, and will be Tve. bosa thiakih’ & Y 'uwhd lte, pleased to give one to every child jwhe ‘will QO ECLUI0HEOPOPOPIICEN an’ I" call at the Laundry oftice, feelin’.” “Homesick!"” broke in Willie. “Why, bless me, I believe that’s wot both of us are sufferin’ from. We ain’t nel- ther of us bin inside a jafl for close in three months now. ‘ave we?™ got a sorter uneasy, homesick PHONE 130 CHOSOS0SITSTSTI0S R. W. WEAVER, Prop. Formation of Calffornia Ooast. Th logiets tell us a strange story of the Caltforale esast. Ages g0 F AUST IS NOW LOCATED UPSTAIRS IN its mountain peaks, mere reefs in a THE RAYMONDO BUILDING great expanse of sea, rose to such a height that Santa Barbara channel was s vast valley over which roamed the elephant, camel, lion, sabartoothed tiger and other animals whoso foséil remains are scattered ower the coun- try and some of which are found on the fslands. Then the land again ssck beneath | the sea and again rose. amd martne fos sils are found in ebundosee a'oug the shores and on the mountaln Lope taany miles from the seu Numerous goWd bunters have been surprised to find the skeletors of whales @ an eleva tion of 2,000 teet aud two wilks mkod WHERE HE HAS A MODERN AND SPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED STUDIO, AND IS PREPARED TO SERVE ALL WHO DESIRE PHOTOGRAPHS WITH WORK OF SUPERIOR CHAR- ACTER. HE WOULD BE PLEASED TO HAVE HIS PATRONS CALL AND SEE HIM AT HIS NEW LOCATION. AMD WILL GUARAMTEE STISFAC- TTON QN ALL OPRDERS WITH WHICH HE IS FAVORED. 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