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sultstion and Examination Residence Phone 340 Black 5and 7 to 8 P. M. Gradustes and Ex-Faculty mem- of the Palmer BSchool of pratic. Consultation and pal analysis free at office, ¢.D&HD MENDENHALL CONSULTING ENGINEERS Sulte 213-216 Drane Bullding Lakeland, Fla. te Land Examinstions and t Designs Karthwork Specialists, nce phone, 378 Black. phone, 378 Blue. DR. SARAH B. WHEELER OSTEOPATH uon Aonex, Door South of First National Bank Lakeland, Florida PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ooms 6 and 4. Kentucky Buildins Lakeland, Florida DR. W. B. MOON Telephone 350 ours 9 to 11, 2 to 4, evenings 7 to 8 Over Postoffice Lakeland, Florida A. X. ERICKSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Real Estate Questions ' Bryant Building 0. Rogers Edwin Spencer, Jr. ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Building Iakeland, Florids l.m.,l th mm.'n General Live AUCTIONEER Sales Manager TIONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. Auction Lot Sales a Specialty Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, Fla EPPES TUCKER, JR. o Pldg., Lakeland, Florida | KELSEY BLANTOR, [ ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Bullding Lakeland Florida W. 8. PRESTON, LAWYER oe Upstairs East of Court House BARTOW, FLA. mination of Titles and Reay R¢ tate Law a Speclalty DR, . MERCER RICHARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ice: Rooms 5 and 6, Elliston Blas. Lakeland, Florida ones: Office l?%: R:lht 301 Blue FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building Ofice phone 4u2. Res. 312 Red fal attention to drafting lega!| papers. Marriage licenses and abstracts turnished W. HERMAN WATSON, M. D. Morgan-Groover Bldg. blephones: Ofice 351; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Florids J. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Dickson Buildmg e.in all courts. claimg located and contested Established in July, 1900 IR W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Residence phone 303. Office Phone 410 SICK? §8 Lakeland Saaitariam .Hanma HARDIN BLD6 His Holher «insLaw S ARG e L By CLXUDINE Sisson \ §00d as new, the carpenter his hustle. His wife dreaded might injure himself by go- 'fl'flktot:mnmmmm 8y he loafed. pport them while ' Moses' Smith's mother-indaw ltved In another state. She heard how Were going, but it was a year she came on. Moses growing fat and his wite grow- Ing lean. It didn't take the old lady over a week to size things up. In her time she had known of several lame- backed men and foolish wives. With the doctor to back her, she announced that her daughter must go away and best for a month to prevent a nervous breakdown. She would remain to keep house for Moses. The lame-backed man didn't lke 1t at all. It meant an overturning of his Dleasant program. He doubted fif there would be any more tea and toast and “poor Moses!” for him. He was overruled, however, and the morning his wife started away he went down to the village postoffice and took his old seat on the veranda and hoped for the best. At noon he returned home to meet with a sur- prise. No fire—no dinner. In reply to his look of bewilderment the lady with the iron jaw repled: “You didn’t cut any wood, and so there’s no dinner " “But I can't raise the ax with this lame back.” “Then you won't have knife or fork!"” Moses went back to the grocery and filled up on a raw turnip. He went home to supper, but there was no supper. No wood—no supper. He went out and sat down under a lilac bush, and his eyes filled with tears. He was in the habit of going to bed at 9 and getting up at the same hour next morning. His going to bed on this occasion was according to program, but he was aroused at 8 o'clock by a dash of water in his face. He had been called twice in vain. “Moses, the ax and the woodpile!” sald the mother-in-law as he came down stairs with a scowl on his brow. “You know I'm a cripple,” he an- swered. “No wood—no breakfast!” He went slowly out and bent to pick up the ax and straightened up with & groan and his hand to his back. “It's & crik in the back,” sald the woman. ‘T'm glad to find 1t out I've tackled fourteen different criks and cured each and every one. If I can cure you then Nelly will be very happy when she returns. Come along out to the smokehouse.” “But what's the smokehbouse going to do for a man whose spinal cord is all knotted up?” “Treatment, Moses—treatment. Just step inside.” He stepped, and the door was closed on him and locked. He found a cot, a jug .of water and a loaf of bread. He kicked on the door and :alled out to know what it all meant, and was told to cuddle down and take treatment for the cure of gen- gral laziness, drink, a crik in the back and lying abed in the morning. He was warrcd that any extra emo- tion on his part wou'd wake the crik worse, and told that there was no ob- fection to his sleeping all day. Moses to raise was foolish enough to kick aud shout until & score of villagers came run- ning to see what the matter was. one and all the motherini>w an- swered: “Moses has had a crik in the back for a year past, and I've set out to sure it. 1 hope to moet with great success. In fact, I don't think his wite will have to do dressmaking when she comes back. Thanks for calling. Come again.” During the first day Moses thought and slept by turns, and now and then shed tears. In a few hours his life had changed over and his peace and comfort had departed. At sundown more brexd and water. He yelled and kicked and again he was warned to supress his emotioms. He demanded better fare, but was answered that until his crik got so that he could use the ax there would be no cooking. On the second night he seriously thought of suicide, and he smiled joyously as he conjured up a mental picture of the mother-in- law opened the door in the morning and finding him stark and stiff in death. But successfully to commit suicide one must have something more than a jug of water and a loaf of bread at hand. Moses couldn’t choke himself with either. Breakfast was the same old bill of fare, and the woman still had her fron jaw. There was mo conversation. Moses nibbled and sipped and thought. ‘An hour before noon he called out and when asked what he wanted he very humbly replied: “Mother, 1 belleve that crik is bet- ul""lt'l too soon, Moses—it's too ng:hybe_ it 1 was very careful, I could split a few sticks of wood to get dinner with.” “] wouldn't bave you world, my dear son-in-law. You have mwmmm' raised his foot to kick a whole year. | Bread and water again for supper, and another long night. Not a look : of pity—not a “poor Moses!” Truly, ibings had changed. At midnight| Moses sat up on his cot to decide | cure? Should he go to work? | ecided both cases | 1 warned you not to strain your mind. You must be very, very quiet.” “I—1 ought to have been at worl for months past.” “But ‘the lame back, you know?" “I shouldn't have gone to drinking.” “But you had to, poor man.” hurry about it.” It was on the morning of the tenth day, and after two ministers and & score of lawmen had pleaded for Moges, that the door was unlocked and an ax put into his hands. He walked straight to the woodpile and made the chips fly. When he had worked for two hours he put on his coat and started to look for a job, and when his wife came home he was at work on a new barn. There was astonishment at his cure, and ‘sur- prise that he wouldn't tell how it had been brought about. All the explana- tion he made was that he suddenly felt something give way. The mother was a little clearer as she said: i :(a-w. | WRAPPED INJ | PINK PAPER| By MA N GORDON 1931, by Associated Literary Press.) Helena Brooke flew to the tele- “Yeu?” she asked expectantly. “Dear,” sald her lover's voice, “T'm sorry that I cannot come tonight. May I come tomorrow evening in- stead ™ “Why not this evening?” pouted “Ob, because!” he cried gayly. “Tll per Helena hung up the receiver, cut- off Jack Henshaw's words with 1 ‘Wade, and Frank Wade, her husband, were coming over and Frank had promised to bring his ‘cello. Jack Henshaw’s violin occupied a per-| impromptu concert. This was all to be a sur- prise to Jack. A | Now Jack had spoiled it all by begging off from the invitation. “Nelly, all men want a mother-in-. Helena felt positive that he was go- law around the house, but some want ing off somewhere with that horrid them more than others. If I were you Ned Speedle, who had a little place I'd let it kind o' leak out around the down on Long Island where he main- village that you ain’t going to do any ; tained kennels of which he might | more dressmaking, and that Moses is Well be proud, for they bore a ml going to give up sitting on the post- tional reputation. Ned Speedle also :mcels:‘ep: and put i1 ten hours’ work OWlll!d a t:'ow.b“fl(:lo\lfl-lllro:ln: gray | or eight hours’ pay.” racing automobile in whicl e was !von't to tear around the countryside. | Helena Brooke was positive that' DATE FROM F|FTH CENTIIRY Jack was going off on some mad ride S—————— with Ned Speedle. Why he should Invintion of Large Church Bells ! do this she could not understand, be-; Ascribed to Paulinus, Bishop | cause Speedle,was not at all to Jack's I of Nola. taste; but he had spoken of the wild motorist several times lately and had In the twenty-eighth chapter of Ex- } expressed a desire to visit the ken- odus, verses 84 and 35, occurs the nels at Dogwood. first mention of bells, and their use The birthday evening was not en- is practically the same as that to tirely a successful occasion, nmwu‘h) which modern church bells are put, | Helena herself was bright and gay. namely, to give notice of the time for’ Dorcas and Frank came and played public worship. § and sang, but Helena sat mutely | The uses of bells as summons to i thoughtful while the music drifted ' prayer are not derived directly from : through the rooms. this source as they hcve been unfll Bridget's entrance ' with the cake in all ages for secular as well as re- | was a welcome intrusion, and Mur' ligious purposes. 3 they had eaten of the cake, the In the Grecian army the officer of | Wades went home, and um-' was the guard visited the sentries at'free to seek her chamber and weep night with a bell as a signal of into her pillow. watchfulness, and the Romans used It was not so much his not being small ones in their baths and places = there, she told herself, it was the fact of business. ihe bhad deliberately put another The honor :( inventing s:' large :‘Mm h“ before the delight of belng church bells, however, is bed to er. Paulinus, Bishop of N::. a city t::! The next day she nourished a bitter Campania, who flouris in the fif resentment toward Jack Henshaw century of the Christian era. Not until she belleved that his indiffer- g::l.wmn they were introduced into anle:- hlln; klllsd.:nr love. 5 n. te the afternoon she rum- St. Dunstan presented several to maged through her writing desk and Malmesbury Abbey, and the abbot gathered all of Jack Henshaw's pre- of England, in King Edward’s time, cious letters into a pocket. One let- made six bells, which were named ter she kept out—that, in spite of her after distinguished personages, and, jealous anger, she decided to keep; says the historian, such a concert ghe ocould burn it after one mnn' was never heard in the land before. Ip.nuu. Its tender words would The custom of ringing upon occa- then reveal anew to her the perfidy slons of public rejoicings is derived of man—and emphasize the fortunate from an early usage-of the Catholics, | escape she had had from a man who who in this manner gave notice of preferred the dublous company of the arrival of a church dignitary Ned Speedle to that of the girl he within their jurisdiction, and it was was engaged to! 3 regarded as a high offense it the! 8o Helena tied the letters in a | bells were not rus fih«ofcon‘rsuundm an attorney | to in Chicago, was on one occasion can-. ! didate for an elective position in the ! northwest. At that time Lewis was | famous for “his pink whiskers,” of whigh he had a roseate and flaming | abundance. One day an acquaintance { of Lewls' dropped into a hotel and | asked the clerk: “Isn't that Jim Ham Lewis over | there reading that newspaper? “No,’ explained the clerk, “that's & fellow who looks so extraordinarily like him that Lewis’ opponents have hired him to sit around in hotel lob- bles and create the impression that he is Lewis.” Lewis coined the famous idea: “If you can't praise me in the newspapers, please roast me; but never leave my name out altogether.”—The Sunday Magazine. Jack Henshaw obeyed her behest to come at eight o’clock, and his frank, “What is the matter, asked bluntly. Helena tried to be calm, but her voice shook when she spoke. “I| asked you to come last night—you preferred to enjoy the company of—" | “How did you know that?" de-’ manded Jack. i “I knew,” returned Helena with more assurance. “I wanted you to come last night because it was my birthday and I wanted you—" she! was obliged to stop or betray her ‘weakness. “Your birthday was he stammered. “Why—I thought was today—and 1—" Helena was not listening to him. She was bracing herself to meet a Nell?” he Stretching a Point. “You have been telling me about your ‘apartments’ in town and you have but one room.” “My dear fellow, kindly observe yesterday?” i l!l on the N m‘wwfin dasve with outstretched “You asked me to bring your letters ‘with me,” he said, quietly placing the suddely of losing him forever. She lifted the 1id of the vase and saw within a pile of grayish-black ashes. derstand,” she repeated. Jack Henshaw turned his eyes away from the delicate beauty of her face. your Before Helena could utter a word Nora returned with the package, somewhat breathless, but her honest face wearing a triumphant expres- sion. In her hand she held a square package wrapped in pink tissue paper. “Give the package to Mr. Henshaw,” sald Helena. And as Jack took it he weighed 1t in his hand with a smile. “Rather light reading,” he com- mented wryly. “I suppose you have no objection to my putting them on the fire now?” Helena nodded assent and he tore off the pink paper, disclosing a white | pasteboard box. In a trice the lid! was oft and there, rippling over hln‘i fingers was an alluring mass of au- | burn puffs and curls that exactly matched Helena’s lovely hair. For an instant they both started horrified at the frivolous curis that had adorned Helena's head the winter | before. - ] “Nora has brought the wrong pack- age—I forgot this one was mppedl in pink paper also,” faltered Helens.' and then her violet eyes met Jack's doubting brown ¢nes and saw a gleam of mirth in them. “It's the funniest thing that ever happened,” laughed Helena. ‘“Jow about the original pink pack- age—that is yet unharmed?’ asked Jack practically. “1 shall keep that after all,” said Helena, “because—oh, Jack, I am so wicked and jealous and everything; just to punish me you must never tell me about where you went and what you did last evening.” She was safe in the shelter of his arms now. “Ill have to tell you— can't get out of it. I thought today was your birthday, never mind how I figured it out—and so last night I went down to Dogwood kennels with Ned Speedle to bring home to you that prize-winning French bulldog who hasn't a curly hair on his body, but whose name is—" He paused for effect. “Not Curly? lightedly. “That same—but he's not wrapped cried Helena, de- .in pink paper,” grinned Jack as he opened the door to admit delayed birthday present. & Coiar et SETTING THE COUNTRY’S TIME But, After All, What's the Use?—it Doesn’t Really Exist in 8cheme of Nature. Twenty-five years ago western rall- road centers often had as many as seven standards of time, besides the local mean solar time. Now, every day, just before noon, the tick of the clock at the United States naval ob- servatory at Washington comes over every Western Union wire throughout the land—eclick! click—till at ten sec- onds before meridian there falls a hush which is broken by the tick that marks noon—not noon for all the land at once, but noon in a strip fifteen de- grees wide. In the next strip west, central time, it is eleven o'clock, and so on till at San Francisco, Pacific time, it 18 nine o'clock, while in New York the clock hands close together at the senith of the dfal. It we could flash around the watery globe to that imaginary line where ! the day takes up its course we should reach the place in the Pacific where Sunday’s midnight leaves off and Tues- day's morn begins. A paradox? Ver- {ly, and more than a paradox. Nature here traps us in the lle we told her that we might win her treasures from her. She knows it is a lle, and proves 1t to us that there i& no such thing as time. It's but a word; it has no real entity, no existence save in the thought of man.—Munsey's. Helena's “takahe,” or flightless rall, of New Zealand, has ever been accounted an event In ornithology. So far as is known, only four specimens of this bird has been obtained. The takahe (Notornis hocnstetteri) | is about equal in size to a goose, but its wings are very small, and, unlike all of his relatives in other lands, it cannot fly. Its breast is of a rich blue color, and its powerful beak is described as a large equilateral tri- angle of hard pink horn, apparently an excellent weapon. this spacious closet in the corner.” A lady had a Hiend who called to see her one day, accompanied by her | poodle. On the way they met an old beggar woman, whose appearance so annoyed the dog that it promptly bit the mendicant, whose howls and la- mentations terrified the kind-hearted lady. “Here, my poor woman, here's ten shillings for you,” she said, nerv- ously tendering the coin. The old woman grabbed it, and then fell on her knees in the middle of the tors. “And people say the lower are irreligious and ungrateful,” solilo- ! tragic moment. “Jack—Mr. Hen- Th £ e first specimen of this bird was shaw—1 am sure we have made & | . nt in 1849, the second in 1851, the great mistzke. I know 1 have, and | ” 1 am sure that I shall never be happy | third in 1879 and the fourth in 1900. with you—I—I—am sorry, but—" Helena’s voice faltered and was still. A great silence fell upon the room. Helena stared at the muwss of glow- ing coals in the grate. Jack Hen- shaw stared blankly into space. “Very well, Helena,” Jack sald quietly, almost curtly. “It is my pleasure to make you happy; if I can Somnolent Egyptians. Egyptians can lie down and go to | sleep anywhere. They look around until they find a particularly busy place in the street where there is & patch of shade, wrap a dusty cloth Without a word Helena drew his ' to be careful of every splotch of shad- ring from her finger and laid it in' ow that he comes to for fear of step- the palm he outstretched to "“"‘pln( on a native’s face. Even when it at her gesture. Then, her eyes still you do step on this usually sensitive part of the anatomy, they merely sit up, yawn thankfully that you are a ASALOTC 844808 AND NORTHERN RNLMAY | FOR THE INFORMATION OF THN PUBLIC SCHEDULE IN EFEECT JANUARY 18T, 1916 —Subject to Change Withot Notice— ATTRACTIVE SERVICE. TAT 10K ATLANTIC COAST LINE Southward. . .No. 84.|.No. 83. “ 128 “ 128 ®.m. 9 30 5 45 a.m. Lv Lv Lv . Lv ....... Winston ... «ee. Jacksonville ...... Ar| p.m. am. 6 10 722 No. 3 C.H.& N.| Limited s 618 6 28 .No. 1 BOCA GRANDE ROUTE No.2 . 81766 vee.aArs £40 £8.07 [1] 12 16 35 34 39 Lv ...... Mulberry . Ridgewood . Bruce ... «. Plerce .. 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