Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 30, 1915, Page 2

Okeechobee Farm Will yield big crops of corn, cane, cowpeas, velvet beans, rape, peanuts, kudzu, spineless cactus? besides raising Bermuda, Rhodes, Para, Natal and other grasses for hay and pasture. With al these crops available, cattle, sheep and hogs can have green food the year round. Thousands of Acres of Our Land at the North End of Lake Okeechobee Are Now Ready for Cultivation These lands do not need draining other than small ditches necessary on any farm. Make a trip to Okeechobee on the new division of the Florida East Coast Railway without delay, and see for ourself just what these lands are. Note that Okeechobee is now only a trifle over twelve hours’ {omey from Jacksonville. Investigate This Wonderful Country While You ’ Can Have a Choice of Locations for Your Farm “My—what? e exclaimed. “Yer confederate!” repeated the patrolman firmly. “There wuz two av ye on the job of breakin' into this house. I saw yer pal go over the fence from the street beyand, before you came round just now. And I'll not take yez to jail till I've caught th’ both av yez!” ‘The fellow had watched Mr. Googe's first entrance to the house, and now thought his present prisoner was a second “burglar!” The humor of the situation was not manifest to Mr. Googe, however. He wanted to 6" to bed! Yet, until this prince of stupidity before him found the nonexisting “confederate” he was after, Mr. Googe | | would not be taken to the station- | { house, wherec he could be identified You will find it unexcelled for general farming, livestock and poultry raising and for growing all kinds of vegetables common to Florida as well as the finest citrus fruit. This town and country will grow at an.amazing rate during the next few years. We also have excellent land and town lots at Chuluota and Kenansvill—the former a fine lake section in Seminole County suited to fruit growing, trucking and general farming, and the lalter a fertile pine land country in Osceola County especially adapted to stock raising, general farming and fruit growing. Write today for full particulars to J. E. INGRAHAM, Vice-President Land and Industrial Department, Florida East Coast Railway RIGHT IN SAME PLAG By R. K. THOMPSON. (Copyright.) Locked out! At midnight! In this predicament Mr. Googe found himself after a search, carried on as he stood in front of his dark- ened and deserted residence, for his keys, which were nowhere upon his person. Even in the instant of discovery that they were missing, he knew where they were. By the mockery of fate, the keys ‘were even now safely reposing in the pocket of the trousers he had changed from that morning—hanging in his bedroom closet, inside the house be- fore which he stood helpless to en- ter. Mr. Googe’s family were away for the summer. The servants, too— every one—so he was in a nice fix! Without enough cash in his pock- et to pay for a night's lodging in a decent hotel! And without the physi- cal ability to endure a night spent on a park bench! He must get into the house without his keys, some way—somehow. Every window was {impossible, from the ground up. The basement's ‘were protected by shields of {iron wire. Those on the first floor, near tthe top of the stoop, were locked. He knew, for he had locked them. Only the breaking of a pane would jpermit his entrance here. And Mr. Googe disliked to think of smashing jone of those eighteen-dollar panes of Plate glass. Suddenly he started, under the in- spirational slap on the back of his mind by an idea. Mr. Googe had remembered that the lock on a kitchen window at the rear of the house was broken. If he could surmount the high board fence which walled in his lot from the sidewalk, go through the vacant ground, climb over his back-yard fence, and literally bump into the wall ot his kitchen, he could open the window with the providential lock of disrepair. + 1n the excess of his impatience at the obstacle of the impassive, wooden ' barrier in his path to his comfortable bed, Mr. Googe lifted his iwui and kicked it viciously in the slats. Whereupon, to his wide-eyes as.-| prise, a strip of board fell away, a | yard above the spot where the blow of his foét struck, forming a most excellent open step in the hitherto unassailable wall. Two minutes later, at the cost of | all his vest-buttons, the mangling of every cigar in his pockets, the fig “of “one shin, (he Mstantaneous growth of two water-blisters in his palms, and the loss of all his wind, | the red-faced, disheveled, panting and puffing gentleman attained the top of the fence. 2 For a precarious moment he hud- dled there—slipped—and fell on all | fours in the rank weeds inside the vacant lot! Instantly he rose and, brushing what mud and clinging burs from his now dilapidated clothes that he could, he tramped over tin cans and coal-ashes, through the Stygian black- | ness of the lot, in the direction he thought would lead him to his own back yard. bark- | The door, under thé pressuré of the ey in the lock of the letter-box on its front, closed, the spring-iock catch- ing—Ilocking him out again as effectu- ally as before! There was nothing to do but repeat his acrobatic entrance of the house! i He was still without his keys. There remained only that Kkitchen window with the faulty lock as a means of getting into the dwelling. Between him and that window was the obstacle of the lot's fence, the littered ground itself, and the back-yard board wall With a weary sigh, Mr. Googe sgain tackled the first of these bar- riers that seemed, to his exhausted senses, forever erected to keep him out of his bed. After what appeared an eternity of struggling, he finally fell over the high fence once more, He hurried through the empty lot He threw himself over the lower par- tition separating 1t from his back yard— ‘o land halt n, halt out, of the arms of a protective officer who was waiting for him Tenderly this private guardian of private houses, whose particular “beat” covered the block of residences of whieh Mr. Googe's was one, gath- ered the collapsing form of that gen- tleman up against the metal shield on the broad chest of his gray unmi- form. “Got ye, me laddy buck!” he ex- claimed triumphantly, “Le—leggo me!” gasped Mr. Googe, fighting for breath in the bearlike embrace of his unexpected captor. “That I'll not,” responded the other promptly. “I've caught yez, moe bucko, {an’ a fine burglar ye are. Ye won't it away from me—" b <Siffion < alfine >l >t} ) = v e e . . D o o = S o< it ‘ —— | round the corner. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA " “You're an idiot!” shouted Mr. Googe. “Leggo of me this minute, Bryant! “Don’t try to bluff me wit’ yer ‘Bry- ants,” at all!” said the officer. He pushed him away at arms’ length, holding him out for inspec- tion. His prisoner took one look at him— and his heart sank. This was not the regular patrolman on that block, whom he knew. It was a substitute—who did not know him! “I've caught yez red-handed!” said the other. “Ye were tryin’ to break into this house—" “As T've got a right to do, you fool!” rasped Mr. Googe. “I own this house; it’s mine, I can go into it any way I like—" “That’'s a good one!” scoffed the patrolman. “Yez look like the owner of a house like this—I don’t think!” His eyes scornfully swept over Mr. Googe's dilapidated appearance. “I can prove who I am!” snapped his captive. “Ye'll have th' chance!” returned the officer, “when I trot ye to the lockup!” Mr. Googe looked at the man. He knew no words of his could ever plerce the abysmal unintelligence of the special “cop.” And he wanted to | go to bed—he was tired, fagged out— bed was where he ought to be! “All right!” he said shortly. “Take me to the station-house. It's right T'll go with you quietly. I'm known there, and it won't take two minutes to prove to you what a blockhead you are!” “I'll take ye there fast enough,” re- torted the officer, “when I've got yer confederate!” t Ulflllllflflml Mr. Googe. ctarted. [Zen) | ! ' €0. and released from the clutches of the ! officer who had him in his hold. : He could not go to bed till the patrolman found a duplicate of Mr. Googe himself! In vain did he explain, argue, pro- test, and complain to the obstinate fool of a man who would not let him “Whist, now!” ordered his captor, at the end of five minutes of impas- sloned oratory on the part of Mr. Googe. “You come wit’ me, quiet, mind, an’ we'll nab yer buddy that's inside the house! Come along!” Still protesting—in whispers which were forced—against doing anything of the kind, Mr. Googe was led inside his own home by the iron hand of | his Nemesis. | They started at the basement, and | went slowly through the house. The search was slow. Mr. Googe was about ready to drop at the end of a | halt-hour, during which he had finally !talked himself into insanely wrath- | ful speechlessness. And then— The patrolman dashed suddenly for- ; ward into a shadowy corner of the | second-floor bedroom, dragging Mr. | Googe behind him, and clutched, with ' his free hand, the collar of a man who | was hiding in the dark! “Got ye, me laddy buck!” He re- | peated his first words to Mr. Googe of the previous half-hour. | “Tn go quiet!” gasped the second prisoner. ' All three moved quietly—Mr. Googe being too stunned with surprise for words—to the station-aouse round the corner. | There the gentleman was instantly released, and the man who was found in the house told his story. { 1 was sleepin’ in the vacant lot, when this guy come through and waked me up,” said the fellow—a ‘ tramp. "I follered him. He went in through a kitchen window—and 1 went in a minute or two later. It was | warm inside. | place to sleep comf’table—honest, I wasn't goin’ t' steal nothin’. An’ then | —this cop caught me—which is all, gents!” “well, well!” sald Mr. Googe, turn- ing to the special patrolman. *“You made a mistake—but I have you to thank that my house wasn’t burgled by this hobo!” He stepped forward and presented the red-faced officer with what little | money he had in his pockets, as he N shook his hand. And then, with a brisk good night ' all round, he went home—to bed Or, rather, to the third scaling of the high board fence! 1 was lookin' for some | Olo-Fashioned. John Henry had been calling at the home of Myrtle Marie for many months without making much head- way toward matrimony, but eventually little Cupid chased him out of the . bashful gloom. 13 “Dearest,” suddenly remarked Johu Henry one night, going over quickly and sitting close by the side of the beautiful girl. “I intend to see your father tonight and ask him for your hand.” “You make me sigh,” wearily re- sponded the fair one. “Why will you insist on being so old-fashioned?” “Old-fashioned?” wonderingly re- joined John. *“I don’t get you, dear- est.” “Don’t go and ask him,” imperiously answered dearest. “Go tell him."— Philadelphia Telegraph. 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TAMPA Is Going to Show i 7 5 e Aihie 66 ite ll(igd % ‘i rOXnZ;: t: d(.:a.mval That's Going to Eclipsc TAMPA Learned Lots s . - Where to Improve on that Beliggttfuirar:‘c:;isorliast Yow's Cotuilc 40 Knows FANTASTIC PARADES ARTISTIC PARADES MASONIC PARADES EVENING PARADES and “PARADE PARADES” Constantly Day and Night A Spectacular capture of Tampa by . KING GASPARILLA AND “YE MYSTIC CREW™ Water Carnival, Brilliant with Fi : A Damiie. ot :iwork:-. g}:‘?fiby Countless Bands.-Stuet Carnival and Balloon Ascensions ALL TO BE FRED Tampa detests “hold up" entertainments, Ev. And then, finding the window with / the broken lock, he lifted the sash ; and—was at last in his home. Fifteen minutes later, his strength partially recuperated after a much- needed rest, he remembered some- | thing. It was a letter from his family, which he had been expecting for two | or three days. Had it come? he wondered. If he | P hadn't been worried ovcr not hearing | from his wife and grown children for forty-eight hours, it is doubtful if Mr. Googe would have been stirred to | make the effort just then of going down to the basement mailbox to | dook for it. I But he did go down-stairs. And there, through the peep-hole in the letter-box fastened to (he outside of the grilleework basement door which he opened, he saw that the let- ter was there. Roaching down into the vestibule | of the doorway, he took down the kev. With it in his band, he stepped out ire2. the areamay tunf-ton fhe box erything is offered to you without “a string tied to it.™ The Cheapest Raiiroad Fares Ever Given to Tampa e ST =C >z DI e St =3