Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 12, 1915, Page 3

SPECIAL SALE Rexall Goods THIS WEEK see Display. All Rexall Goods Guaranteed Lake Pharmacy PHONE 42 % Get Your Coupons in the Great Voting Contest at the Hub. This is the only Gents’ Furnishing Store in Town giv- ing Yotes with Purchases of Goods Our Spring Line Is Coming in Daily See OQur Windows They reflect the Superb Stock with which our Store is filled. The Hub JOS. LeVAY THE HOME OF Hart Schaffner and Marx Good Clothes: JST A CHICKENFOOT By IDA SPEED. couldn’t have rode but five miles fur ther anyhow. As that would have set him down in the middle of the prairie, he alights at Floretta, which is only redeemed from bein’ in said middle by a half- dozen cottages, a general store and post office, a two-story frame hotel, & lumber yard minus the lumber, and just such a school buildin' as you'd have to come to Texas to see. All this was south of the railroad track. On the roof of a big barn a quarter of a mile north, painted in bold let- ters, Chick saw “Bar C Ranch,” and he hotfooted it thereto, inquired timid- like if old man Cranch was in, got the laugh from a bunch of cowboys that was standin’ around the door, it bein’ chuck time, then walked in and got a job. That job was to cut wood. Old man Crozier, the owner, had just looked out the window and observed that here was winter comin’ on, a regular blizzard of a norther blowin’ and no wood cut. Chick was the man of the hour. The boy's name on the pay roll was set down as Willie Saunders, but we're too uncertain out here about whether a fellow gives his right name or not, to put ourselves out to call him by it, so him bein’ such a rank chick- enfoot, we just christen him Chick from the start. He'd crawl on any horse you told him to, but he'd almost be whimperin® from fear. We thought he'd leave when he went down some day to git a drink on the train, as quick as he got paid off; but no, he was here to stay if it killed every animel in the pasture, includin’ of hisself. Every spare minute he had, he hung around the Hotel Dalhart, for little Elsie Delhart and her mother showed him all the humane treatment he found, and it turned out he told them about his folks and read letters to 'em that he got from home, and let hisself be known to them in a way us fellows knew nothing of. And Elsle! You put a wild rose amongst a bouquet of American Beau- ties in some hothouse, and 1 guess it wouldn’t be noticed much; but out here on these wind-swept plains we ain't speetin’ to see even a wild one, and they look awful good to us. And, by the way, the thorns wasn't missin’ neither, Elsie was the pride of this country, but she wouldn't stand for no foolishness off of us cow- punchers if she was the queen there- | of. & 1 M%‘FHWW)WM She was one of those outdoor girls, though she helped her ma faithful around the house and kitchen. In summer ghe wore them sailor- collar, polka-dotied affairs that look so well where they roll back from a goft, girlish throat. And any time of year there was a golden curl or two that bobbed around her face, and the eyes that kinder peeped out at you from beneath the lung lashes made you want to diz your spurs in the bronc’ you was ridin’ and wish to the kingdom come he'd pitch and run 80 you could skow Low zoud you could | ride. We all felt that away, but she Rags and improper dressings have begn respons- ible for more blood poisoning and serious results than anything else. The safe thing to do when any wound is made is to come strmghl to us for antiseptic gauze, bandages and §uppl|es. Better still, don't wait until some oneis |n|u.red. but come now and have it in the house for instant use. We have everything forthe sick room for occasion. Woods’ Drug Store PHONE 408 WE TAKE CARE wwm __________________.—-—-———- | LRY WORTH WHILE The Cole & Hull service is up to the smr_ldzrd'l;:ll l\l\l'z time. The first thought that comes to our m(‘:‘{_'s"f‘()e\r;ER see a customer in the store i SATISFY THE A . Every small detail is given the most c”’;f,‘fi;:fs'o"' . above explains the steady e growth of our “A PLEASURE TO SHOW GOODS.” COLE & HULL Jewelers and Optometrists Lakeland, Fla. R WOWW every §. | ; was Mexico Charlie’s girl. At least he sald so, and folks didn't dispute Mexico's word, him bein’ of a { different temperament from us other | buttons, and his word bein’ about all the law there was around Floretta way. After eight months Chick begun to look different. He got him a full cow-puncher outfit, a swell California eaddle, a Navajo of gorgeous reds and greens, big rattlin’ spurs, and 20 foot of rope. He had to accumulate them things as he got hold of money, and this was slow at first. But after he got to gamblin’ it was the rest of us that couldn’t lay up a cont. It seemed like he just couldn't lose, whether he 'was shootin’ craps or matchin’ money, playin’ cards or just plain bettin’ on how much a steer would weigh. This was powerful aggravatin’ to Mexico, and he made us assist fre- quent in standin’ Chick on his head ! to see if his hoodoo wouldn't fall out ! of his pockets. It was at the Fourth of July celebra~ ! tion at Floretta that Chick Saunders come out in his complete costume, by wearin’ a big white Stetson hat and replacin’ his woreout shoes and leather gaiters with a pair of shop- made boots which shore becom: the looks of his underpinnin’, for bis legs was long and thin and his feet was too big to look pretty. He rode up to a bunch of us stand- in’ around the grand stand, which had been put up temporary for the ladies to set in and watch the ropin’ and brone’ ridin’, and it bein’ covered wiiw tow sacks was shore cool and shady. | “Look at the boots!” says Mexico ! loud. “It costs Chick as much to buy ‘em as it does a cat to get life in- | surance. Both bein’ niae times what | | they ought to be” Everybody laughs and Chick rides off bashful toward the Hotel Dalhart, and 1 see Mexico's eyes narrow to l two dark slits when Elsie bounds out | on the gallery with one of them polka- dot effects on, and gives Willie the glad hand. Even this far off you can tell she’s braggin’ on his clothes the way she stands back and looks at him, her E E ; but today he couldn’t win noth- when at last a bmm“ him, he got up with a wicked never even smiled when El- | over to ask if he was hurt. sundown when it was the biley, which was to be oolhouse that night, the dispersed and a little or four cow-punchers hotel was all there R £ E Chick was leanin’ against a post listenin’ to the rest of us auger, when Mexico Charlie walks out of the hotel and stands on the gallery lookin® down at Chick's feet. : “Fellows,” he says short, “do m‘ know why I got throwed today?” 1 Course we didn’t. i “Some low-lived son-of-a-gun swapped his dull spurs for my sharp ones,” he says, “and there they are,” he says, pointin’ to Chick's feet. “You, all know ‘em.” Nobody says a word, for shore enough Chick is wearin’ different spurs from the ones he bought down at Headwater about a month before, and shore enough they're just like Mexico's. Chick looks up at Mexico to see what kind of a joke it is, then he crooks one leg and begins to spin the rowel around foolish. “These here,” he says, "are my spurs. I traded for 'em today with ‘Wild Cat Mike.” “And Wild Cat Mike's gone home, I suppose,” says Mexico suggestive. “Yes, he's gone home,” answers Chick still twirlin’ the spur. Mexico steps down and forces Chick to look at him. “I'm goin’ for my gun,” he says furious. “I'll fix you for this.” And he rushes off toward the store. Chick looks at us kinder be- wildered. “Now what did he mean?” he asks innocent. ! Then we all explain at once, for we know this Mexico of old and that's why nobody else has ever throwed in too much with Elsie. “Have you got a gun?” I asks ex- cited. Chicks puts down his foot and reached back to his hip pocket. “Yes,” he says, drawin’ out, not & .45, but a sack of tobacco and a book of cigarette papers. “Heavens, man,” says Chick, cool as a refrigerator. “I guess I'll have time to roll a cigarette before he gits back,” he adds in his injured “I've got ate with Elsie for the dance, too,” he says regretful. This was the coward we had laughed at, and tortured, now ready to face the Bad Man of Floretta in the worst of his moods! The whole group sauntered off a bit from the hotel, for there were ladies inside and they must not be disturbed. It was only a step to the store, and Mexico was comin’ back now. Nobody made a move while he walked up to within twenty steps of where we stood, his back to the hotel gallery. Chick spat out his cigarette. Mexico whinped out his gun, and I glanced at the tenderfoot. 1t was all over so quick, and a man can't see everything at once. I re- member Chick had his gun—then I saw the wildest look of misery come into his eyes. Almost at the same moment came the sound of a sharp step on the gallery, there was a whir of polka-dots, and then I heard the report of Mexico's gun. Chick had failed to shoot. ‘We all looked from one of the com- batants to the other, too dazed to speak, for there stood Chick unhurt, while Mexico was lookin’ at a place on his right arm from which we could see the blood was tricklin’, him havin’ i the sleeves of his shirt rolled up. Little Elsie Dalhart was standin’ there. A pair of spurs was in her hand. “Here's your spurs, Mr. Mexico Charlie,” she was sayin’. “I'm sorry I cut your arm, but it only serves you right. Between the mattress and the spring,” she says contemptuous, “is no place for a pair of spurs. I cut my own hand on 'em while puttin’ on | the clean sheets,” she says, puttin’ her hurt hand to her lips like a woman does when she burns, or cuts, or scratches it. Way down the track we heard the whistle of the evenin’ passenger go- in’ west. It was the only sound there was. “Supper’s ready,” says Elsie, | kinder peevish. And we all turned and went in the house like bad boys that'd been caught stealin’ green ap- ples. All, that Is, except Mexico Charlie. 1 ain’t never seen him since. Formation of California Coast. The geologists tell us a strange i story of the California coast. Ages ago | its mountain peaks, mere reefs in & , great expanse of sea, rose to such & ' belght that Santa Barbara channel was | a vast valley over which roamed the | elephant, camel, lion, saber-toothed _tiger and other animals whose fossil remains are scattered over the coun- try and some of which are found on Let me FISH ING IS FINE! Fish are plentiful, and nothing is better sport than catching a big string of Perch, or better yet, in landing a big Trout! Our Spring Stock of Tackle has just been placed on display. Look it over. 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