Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 20, 1915, Page 7

“SICKNESS IS BAD,” BUT POVERTY, AND DEPENDING UPON “CHARITY” I8 WORSE. WE CAN’T ALWAYS PREVENT SICKNESS, BUT POVERTY IS NEARLY ALWAYS THE RESULT OF EXTRAVAGANCE AND WASTE. MOST MEN CAN SAVE PART OF THEIR EARNINGS FROM THEIR WORK OR THEIR BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY DENY- ING THEMSELVES. WHEN SICKNESS COMES DON’T LET IT FIND YOU.WITH- OUT MONEY. PUT MONEY IN THE BANK FOR SELF-PROTECTION. BANK _WITH US. WE PAY 5 PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS. American State Bank OB Moved! The Lakeland Seed Co. B E‘ HAS MOVED TO WEST MAIN STREET, NEAR YATES HOUSE Seed Irish Potatoes White and Golden Dent Beans, Corn E. 3 Children’s Teeth extracted, under ten ycars, FREE. Dr. W. H. Mitchell’s Painless Dental Office Onion Sets Sweet Corn Millet, Rape and Rye Blackman'’s Stock and Poultry Powder; also Dr. Hess' Magic and Bee Dee Liniment and Dip Call and See Us in Our New Quarters, THE LAKELAND SEED COMPANY. Lo i ] Modern Dentistr y This is a day and age of Specializing. We are Specialists in every branch of GOOD DENTISTRY. Our Modern Equipment and years of practical exper- ience insures you Best Work at Reasonable Prices. s e ee Crown and Bridge Work $4.00 Up 'Roofess Plates A Specialty Teeth treated and cured. Teeth Come and let me examine your Set of Teeth $8.00 Up Fillings soc Up disease, Loose Rigzs exuracted without pain. teeth and make you estimate. s s OFFICE UPSTAIRS FUTCH AND GENTRY ELDG. Offie Hours 8 to 6. Suite 10-12-14 Separate Rooms and Equipment for White and Colored. Must Little Homeless Children Suffer In Florida? T BELIEVE that the good people of Flor- our State Hundreds bsolutely homeless— WE DO NO ida realize that there are right now in of littde children in real need—some 3a that just must be cared for. ‘ hun- We feel sure—that they do not know that'there are he dreds of worthy mothers in Florida who are just struggling to keep their little ones alive—and at home. believe—that with these facts true—and every orphanage in Florida crowded to the df)ors—-dut fl:: people of Florida will let our great work which has car ‘s for 850 of these little ones this year alone—go dowfn for lac of funds to keep it up. Your immediate help—is greatly needed—right Low—Please send what you can to-day—to R. V. Covington, Treasurer of The Children’s Home Society of Florida Florida’s Greatest Charity 361 St. James Bldg. We just cannot JACKSONVILLE, FLA. WRAPPED IN PINK PAPER By MARION GORDON (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) phone. “Yes?” she asked expectantly. “Dear,” said her lover's voice, “I'm sorry that I cannot come tonight. May I come tomorrow evening in- stead?” “Why not this evening?” pouted Helena. “Ob, because!” he cried gayly. “I'll tell you another time. It's a secret Just now.” “Jack! Very well—Come tomor- Tow evening if you have nothing bet- ' ter to do,” and decidedly out of tem- per Helena hung up the receiver, cut- ting off Jack Henshaw's words with clicking abruptness. ! Up in her own pretty room Helena locked the door and sank into a big chair beside the window. enough that Jack should have set aside her special invitation for that evening—it was her birthday and he 'did not know it. Her mother had asked Bridget to make a birthday cake, and it was to be brought in dur- | | | sugar and candles. Helena’s married sister, Dorcas were coming over and Frank had | promised to bring his ‘celio. Jack manent place now on Helena's piano and she had planned an impromptu concert. This was all to be a. sur prise to Jack. begging off from the invitation. Helena felt positive that he was go- ing off somewhere with that horrid Ned Speedle, who had a little place down on Long Island where he main- tained kennels of which he might well be proud, for they bore a na- tional reputation. Ned Speedle also owned a low, vicious-looking gray racing automobile in which he was ‘won't to tear around the countryside. Helena Brooke was positive that Jack was going off on some mad ride with Ned Speedle. Why he should do this she could not understand, be- cause Speedle was not at all to Jack's taste; but he had spoken of the wild motorist several times lately and had expressed a desire to visit the ken- nels at Dogwood. The birthday evening was not en- tirely a successful occasion, although Dorcas and Frank came and played and sang, thoughtful while the music drifted through the rooms. Bridget's entrance with the cake was & welcome intrusion, and after they had eaten of the cake, the ‘Wades went home, and Helena was free to seek her chamber and weep into her pillow. It was not so much his not being there, she told herself, it was the fact he had deliberately put another pleasure before the delight of being ‘with her. The next day she nourished a bitter resentment toward Jack Henshaw until she believed that his indiffer- ences had killed her love. Late in the afternoon she rum- maged through her writing desk and gathered all of Jack Henshaw's pre- clous letters into a pocket. One let- ter she kept out—that, in spite of her Jealous anger, she decided to keep; she could burn it after one more perusal. Its tender words would then reveal anew to her the perfidy of man—and emphasize the fortunate escape she had had from a man who preferred the dubious company of Ned Speedle to that of the girl he was engaged to! S0 Helena tied the letters in a sheet of pink tissue paper, tied package with a bit of and tucked the letters drawer in her desk ready give to Jack Henshaw when he come that night. She had al- written a brief note to him him to bring her letters with him when he came. Jack Hemshaw obeyed her behest to come at eight o'clock, and his frank, handsome face was pussied when his eyes met the coolness in hers. “What is the matter, Nell?” asked bluntly. Helena tried to be calm, but her shook when she spoke. he i . manded Jack. “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 yesterday?" he stammered. “Why—I thought it was today—and I—" Helena was not listening to him. She was bracing herself to meet a| tragic moment. “Jack—Mr. Hen- shaw—I am sure we have made a great mistake. I know I have, and 1 am sure that I shall never be happy 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 mass of glo ing coals in the grate. Jack shaw stared blankly into space. “Very well, Helena,” Jack said quietly, almost curtly. “It is my pleasure to make you happy; if I can best do it by giving you back your freedom I will do it—at whatever cost to myself.” ‘Without & word Helena drew his ring from her finger and laid it in the palm he outstretched to recelve It at ber gesture. Then, ber eyes still seeking the fire, she spoke again. “] have some letters 1 wish to re- turn to you.” BShe rang the bell and when a servant appeared she sald: “Nora, bring me s package wrapped in pink paper from my desk; you will find it in the second left band drawer.” The maid departed and Jack drew from his coat pocket a small box of white ivory. From the box he took a small alabaster urn, carved with fiowers in rollef, while w- Hen- | preferred to enjoy the company of—" | “How did you know that?” de | e—————————————————————————————— 1 h Helena Brooke flew to the tele. | /4 Of the vase and saw within a pile It was bad ' ing the evening decorated with spun ' Wade, and Frank Wade, her husband, ' Henshaw’s violln occupied a per- Now Jack had spofled it all by’ Helena herself was bright and gay. ' but Helena sat mutely, ! you to come last night—jyou! The 4 thero Wad Dolled™s doVe ‘'ou asked me to bring your letters me,” he sdld/ quietly placing the in her hand. “They are in that vase.” §a.d E.E dissolved in a great terror of losing him forever. She lifted the of grayish-black ashes. “I do not un- derstand,” she repeated. Jack Henshaw turned his eyes away from the delicate beauty of her face. “Your letters to me since we have been engaged—in fact every word you have written to me—were too prec- fous to leave carelessly around, but I wanted to keep them in some form and 80 I burned them. The ashes of your letters to me are in that little ! vase. They are as dead as the ashes of your love seem to be.” | Nora returned with the package, somewhat breathless, but her honest face wearing a triumphant expres- 'sion. In her hand she held a square f} package wrapped in pink tissue paper. said Helena. And as Jack took it he weighed it in his hand with a emile. ! “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 oft the pink paper, disclosing a white pasteboard box. In a trice the lid was oft and there, rippling over his fingers was an alluring mass of au- burn puffs and curls that exactly | matched Helena’s lovely hair. For am instant they both started horrified at the frivolous curls that had adorned Helena's head the winter before. “Nora has brought the wrong pack- age—I forgot this one was wrapped in pink paper also,” faltered Helena, and then her violet eyes met Jack's doubting brown ¢nes and saw a gleam of mirth in them. Pl { “It's the funniest thing that ever happened,” laughed Helena. “How about the original pink pack- age—that is yet unharmed?” asked Jack practically. “I shall keep that after all,” said i 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. “I'll 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 prise-winning French bulldog who hasn't a curly hair on his body, but whose name is—" He paused | for effect. “Not Curly? lightealy. | “That same—but he’s not wrapped ,in pink paper,” grinned Jack as he iumd the door to admit Helena's delayed birthday present. cried Helena, de- SETTING THE COUNTRY’S TIME ' But, After All, What's the Use?—it Doesn't Really Exist in Scheme of Nature. ! Twenty-five years ago western rail- | 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 |80 on till at San Francisco, Pacific time, it 1s nine o'clock, while in New York the clock hands close together |'at the senith of the dial. { If 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 fly, 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 it to us that there is 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. Extraordinary Bird, The capture of a specimen of the i “takahe,” or flightless rail, of New Zealand, has ever been accounted an | event in ornithology. So far as s 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 iall of his relatives in other lands, it | cannot fly. Its breast is of a rich blue color, and its powerful beak is |d¢¢rlbod as a large equilateral tri- | angle of hard pink horn, apparently an excellent weapon. The first specimen of this bird was caught in 1849, the second in 1851, the third in 1879 and the fourth in 1900. P Pure Bred Arab Horse. In Cairo a soclety has been formed for preserving the pure bred Arsb horse. It is said that recent changes in the lives and habits of the Bedouins have resulted in the deterioration of these horses. 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Stop it before it goes too far. ) GE-RAR-DY) re the roof begins to leak; 't a pretty good plan to batten I'clore the wind begins to shri k; It's a Pretty Good Plan to Build some Sheds To keep things under cover— The plowvs, cultivators, binders And on: thing and another . And you'll find it a pretty good plan TO LET US FIGURE YOUR Lumber and Building Material Bills Lakeland Manufacturing Company LAKELAND, FLORIDA LUNG BALSAM 'BY HENLEY AND HENLEY. {FOR SALE IN LAKELAND ~ AUCTION LAND SALE | Lake Alfred, Florida 20 Acres 8¥yeat'-oid Béaring Grove With Beautiful Residence Site on Lake Medora 60 Acres Rich Truck Land, and 40 Acres First-class Citrus Land Subdivided into 5 and 10 Acre Tracts MONDAY, Feb., 22 AT 12 O'CLOCK Greatest Opportunity to Homeseekers and Investors Ever offered to Buy at Auction a Bearing Grove and Rich Truck and Citrus Land in the Famous Lake Region of Polk County. This Property lies adjoining Two Fine Lakes and the large proves of Dr. Adams and the Southern Citrus Corporation of Lynchburg, Va., and opposite the Lyuchburg Packing House. Also on the Jacksonville to Tampa Highway, therefore IDEAL and CONV&NIENT in location. The owner is going into another business and will sell his holaings without reserve the Arab horse is now no better treat- ed than our own horses, whatever may have been true of the old days when U roems as “The Arab to His \ written | Hadwt Spofied the Paper. | i'h'ryfi be | mald | what FREE “OLD-TIME” BARBECle FREE COLD DRINKS ON THE GROUNDS Lake Alfred is Fifteen Miles East of Lakeland Ou Main Line A. u. L. and at Junction Point of branch road to Winter Haven and Bartow. Free ; Automobiles will meet Tampa Trains due at 8:15 and 12 o’clock; also Bartow Trains. We invite G 1 nspection ot property any day before the sale, and on sale day before 12 o’clock. BIG BARBECUE DINNER 12 to 1. SALE BEGINS AT 1 O'CLOCK. National Realty Auction Company A. K. Serdjenian, Owner. B. H. Hamnly, Auctioneer and Sales Mgr Office, Lakeland, Florida