Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 22, 1915, Page 2

CHARLOTTE HARBOR AND NORTHERN RAILWAY “BOCA GRANDE ROUTE” SAFETY FIRST. ATTRACTIVE SERVICE. COURTESY FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHEDULE IN EFEECT JANUARY 1ST, 1915 —Subject to Change Without Notice— * Southward. .| - .No. 84.|.No. 83. “ 123 “ 128 p.m, 930 5 46 a.m. STATI ATLANTIC COAST LINE No. 82 “ 128 am. 6 45 .9 50 p.m. | No. 89 “126. Jacksonville . . Lakeland . . Tampa .. Winston .. Lv - p.m. Ar| .5 30 No. 4 .|C.H.& N, Limited s 9 15 8 66 8 656 t 8 50 8 45 s 8 40 No. 8 C.H.& N. Limited s 618 BOCA GRANDE ROUTE Lv ...... Mulberry ... .. Bruce .. Ridgewood . Bruce .. +... Plerce . Martin Junction Bradley Junction . . Chicora .... . Cottman . . TigerBay . Cottman Fort Green Junction .... ...Fort Green ....." Fort Green Springs . .. Vandolah .. eees Ona .... . Bridge .Limestone Lv «.. Arcadia ........ Ar| Nocatee «w.. Hull «. Fort Ogden . Boggess . . Platt . Mars . . Murdock Southland eees McCall .. . Placida Gasparilla s B0 80 8O DO DO 19 B9 GO 3 O 00 69 69 €O (2O D 00 OO 100D 0O A e omrnOoarIoNS Ww® t 123 117 t 100 812 56 t12 42 s12 36 112 18 #12 05 811 65 11 45 Neses sane Ar .. South Boca Grande .. ... ____ “C B. & N. LIMITED" Through llee&er Between Jacksonville, Lakeland, C. H. & N. Limited, train No. 3 will stop at flag stations todischarge| passengers holding tickets from Lakeland and points north. C. H. & N. Limited, train No. 4 will stop at flag stations on signal for local passengers and for passengers holding tickets for Lakeland and| points beyond. Information not obtainable from Agents will be cheerfully fur- nished by the undersigned. L. M. FOUTS, N. H. GOUCHER, 2nd V. P. & Gen. Mgr. Supt. Transportation, Boca Grande, Fla. Arcadis, Fla. C. B. MoCALL, G.F.& Pass.Agt., Boca Grande, Fla, SPECIAL SALE For THIRTY DAYS we will Make a Special Sale on the New Improved White Rotary Sewing Machine Thirty Dollars Cash Just one-half the usual price Takes one of them Don’t let this opportunity pass without supplying your needs. The quantity is limited. Come at once. When they are gone we can’t duplicate the order. We need THE CASH. You need the Machine. Our interests are mutual. Come let us Sarve you. WILSON HARDWARE CO. Mother-in-Law By CLXUDINE SISSON At the age of twenty-three, when Moses Smith was married, he was ) spoken of as a hustler. As a car penter by trade, he was at work early and late. Two years later he fell off & scaffold and hurt his back. He was petted and pitied and sympathized with, and, although after six weeks of loafing, the doctor pronounced Moses as good as new, the carpenter had lost his hustle. His wife dreaded that he might injure himself by go- ing to work too soon and she started dressmaking to support them while he loafed. Moses Smith’s mother-in-law lived in another state. She heard how things were going, but it was a year before she came on. She found Moses growing fat and his wife 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 hest for a month to prevent a nervous | breakdown. She would remain to keep house for Moses. i The lame-backed man didn’t like it | at all. It meant an overturning of his | pleasant program. He doubted if | 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 replied: “You didn’t cut any wood, and so there’s no dinner " “But 1 can’t ralse 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 llac bush, and his eyes fillled 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 motherin-law as he came down staifs 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 a groan and his hand to his back. “It's a crik in the back,” sald the woman. “I'm glad to find it out. I've tackled fourtéen different criks and cured each and every ome. If I can cure you then Nelly will be very happy when she returns. Come along out to the smokehouse.” to raise hdlisé doof Was the-nFat {(BIi§ Semad raised his foot to kick a whole year. Bread and water again for supper, and enother long night. Not a look of pity—not a “poor Moses!” Truly, things had changed. At midnight Moses sat up on his cot to decide ! Was his crik really two questions. better? Was this his mother-in-law’s fifteenth cure? Should he go to worl After an hour he decided both cases in the afirmative, and in the morning ' he was ready to say: “Mother, I've been doing some seri- ous thinking since you were here. “You have? I am sorry for that I warned you not to strain your mind. You must be very, very quiet.” “I—1 ought to have been at worl'lI for months past.” “But the lame back, you know?” “I shouldn’t have gone to drinking.” “But you had to, poor man.” “If you'll let me out now I'll have & Job before night.” “I couldn’t, Moses—I couldn’t. It's altogether too sudden. If you went to work mow it might be the last of you, and I don’t want my daughter a widow. Let's do a good job and mot hurry about it.” It was on the morning of the tenth day, and after two ministers and a score of lawmen had pleaded for Moses, 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 bad 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 sald: “Nelly, all men want a mother-in- law around the house, but some want them more than others. If I were you I'd let it kind o' leak out around the village that you ain't going to do any more dressmaking, and that Moses 18 going to give up sitting on the post- | office steps and put in ten hours’ work for eight hours’ pay.” DATE FROM FIFTH CENTURY Invention of Large Church Bells Ascribed to Paulinus, Bishop of Nola. In the twenty-eighth chapter of Ex- odus, verses 34 and 36, occurs the first mention of bells, and their use 18 practically the same as that to which modern church bells are put, namely, to give notice of the time for public worship. The uses of bells as summons to prayer are not derived directly from this source as they have been used {p pll ageg for pecular as well as re- igious purposes. In the Greclan army the officer of the guard visited the sentries at| night with a bell as a signal of watchfulness, and the Romans used small ones in their baths and places of business. The honor of inventing the large OR. DRAYTON'S PATIENT By JEAN DICKERSON. Doctor Drayton dismissed his lnst patient just as the telephone at his elbow rang sharply. His sister’s voice | came over the wire, frightened with a burden of important news. “l know you are dreadfully busy, Frederick,” she apologized, “but Mrs. Weeks has just told me the most agitating thing—it's about Archer—" “Spare me, Hannah,” said the doc- tor, wearily. “I don’t just under stand why it is that people delight in acquainting me with news of my son’s delinquencies; as a matter of fact, Archer has overcome any ten- dency to wildness and has settled | down to hard work. I have hopes of his becoming something of a lawyer. Now, it you will excuse me—what?— eh? An actress? Well, boys will be boys—and er—well, good-by!” He banged the telephone back on the desk and frowned at the picture of his handsome only son that looked down from the wall. “Hannah says a very common ! actress! That doesn’t sound like | Archer—but what can I do? I can refuse to give my consent to his mar- riage with the woman and estrange myself from my lad! What is that, Harris, a call?” “Yes, sir,” sald the attendant. “Emergency case—the lady was i knocked down by an automobile and they brought her in here. I had her taken to the private room.” “That {is right, Harris. come at once.” The physician slipped into a fresh white coat and, opening a door in one corner of the office found him- self in a small room fitted for emer- gency cases. On the narrow white bed was the slender form of a young woman. Miss Smith, the nurse, was removing the black broadcloth costume with quick, deft fingers. “Badly hurt, Miss Smith?” asked the doctor. “A broken arm, I think, and I am afraid of concussion,” she said in a low tone. The doctor leaned over the lovely unconscious face of the girl and made & rapid examination. “It may be concussion, but I think it is only shock. The arm is fractured —send Harris in.” Two hours later Doctor Drayton retired from the sick room satisfled that the unknown patient would re- 1 will 'er. “You will, of course, send her to & | hospital,”. suggested Miss Smith. *T think not,” Tesiiated the doctor. He felt very tenderly toward the young thing lying there on the bed. A week slipped by, and still the sick |Toom was occupied, much to the un- | spoken amazement of Miss Smith. One day the patient opened lovely “But what's the smokehouse going |Church bells, however, is ascribed to | pyse] oyes and smiled at the nurse. to do for a man whose spinal cord is al! knotted up?” “Treatment, Moses—treatment. Just step inside.” He stepped, and the door was tlosed 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- eral laziness, drink, a crik in the back and lying abed in the morning. He was warned that any extra emo- tion on his part would make the crik worse, and told that there was no ob- fection to his sleeping all day. Moses was foolish enough to kick and shout until a score of villagers came run- ning to see what the matter was. To one agd all the motherin-law an- swered: i “Moses has had a ertk in the back for a year past, and I've set out to fube 1. 1 hope to meet with great suctess. In fact, I don’t think his wife will have to do dressmaking when she comes back. Thanks for calling. Come agaln. 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 bread and water. He yelled and kicked and again he was warned to supress emotions. 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 | iron jaw. There was no 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, I belleve that crik is bet- “It's too soon, Moses—it's too “Maybe, If 1 was very careful, I could split a few sticks of wood to get dinner with.” “I wouldn’t have you try it for the world, my dear son-u-law. You have been in dreadful bad shape for a year. Any undue exertion might finish you. You shall have a raw tomato to help out your dinner, as that goes with the treatment. If it wasn't half a mile to didn’t bave such a lame back couldn’t understand sarcasm, raised another row. Again the came, but whem he ap them for help they looked mother-inJaw. She asked them with her treatment to cure his crik, and i £g 1 it 4 gTowing stronger - That smoke- Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, a city of Campania, who flourished in the fifth century of the Christian era. Not long after they were introduced into Britain. 8t. Dunstan presented several to Malmesbury Abbey, and the abbot of England, in King Edward’s time, made six bells, which were named after distinguished personages, and, says the historian, such a concert was never heard in the land before. The custom of ringing upon occa- slons of public rejoicings is derived from an early usage of the Catholics, who in this manner gave notice of the arrival of a church dignitary within their jurisdiction, and it was regarded as a high offense if the bells were not rung. PRS- S Publicity an Essential, James Hamilton Lewis, once & mem- ber of congress and now an attorney 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 | which he had a roseate and flaming abundance. One day an acquaintance of Lewis' 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 a fellow who looks so extraordinarily like him that Lewis’ opponents have bies 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. Stretching a Point. “You have been telling me about your ‘apartments’ in town and you have but one room.” “My dear fellow, kindly observe this spacious closet in the corner.” Exposition of Folly. Many persons of the present day de- plore the fact that the columns of the newspapers contain so many sto- ries of vice and crime. Bishop Horne, however, seemed to feel that such ex- positions serve a useful purpose. He wrote: “The follies, vices and conse- quent miseries of multitudes, dis- played in a newspaper, are 80 many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they bave been shipwrecked."—Wilmingtou Journal. N N RIS Extended Stonping Place. Pat was employed on an engineering job, a few miles out of the city, and was carried to his work by an express train, which accommodatingly slowed | fOT Preserving the pure bred Arad | up near the scene of his labors. One morning, however, the train rushed through the cut without reducing speed, and the superintendent of the Job looked in vain for Pat. At last he saw a much-battered Irishman limp- ing back down the ties, and called to him: “Hello, Pat! Where did you ing his band toward the steep embank- ment, sighed: “Oh—all along here!™ “Where am 1?7 she asked faintly. “At Doctor Drayton’s house,” re- plied Miss Smith primly. The eyes closed again and & faint flush stole over the pale face. “Please tell me what has happened,” she murmured. | Miss Smith told her in a few words jof the automobile accident in front ‘of the doctor's office. “We have been unable to learn your name,” she suggested. “Alice,” murmured the girl, and went off to sleep. “Have you discovered her name?” asked the doctor on his next visit to the sick room. “Merely that it is Alice—she seems disinclined to talk—it's rather a mys- terious case, Doctor Drayton. Per S et MOWM Florida Lands fi- In Large and Small Tracts SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and General Farming —_— Improved Unimproved and Unimproved Improved Samples worth more than half the price. 40 ACRE FARM~—35 in bearing Orange Grove, 8-room house, packing house and barn, large lake front. Ny Irrigation plant, good heavy soil and good road. Six miles from Lakeland. Price $30,000.00. FOR NON-RESIDENTS—Good Fruit Lands, well locateq opment Plan. 000,00. Will trade for Orange Grove as part payment, 9-ROOM HOUSE and three vacant Lots. Close to Lake Morton $4,200.00. $1,200 down and terms. TWO HOUSES In Dixieland (5-rooms), rented. $3,000.00, Terms. TWO GOOD SUBDIVISION Propositions. and desirably located. 20 ACRES FARM—At Lakeland Highland. !\earing grove, 600 trees in good condition. idence with modern improvement, Both close in I3 acres in : Large res- Private water Price $10,000. 34 ACRES OF RICH HIGH .HAMMOCK land near Cen- ter Hill. Close to school post office and store. Five acres clear. Price $550.00 28 ACRE FARM—uwith lake front. 6 acres in young grove; new cottage and good barn. 2 1-2 miles from Lakeland on hard road. A good combination farm, Price $4,- '7510‘00} Cash $1,250.00, Balance deferred at 8 per cent, interest, CORNER LOT—Three blocks south i g ! of city hall. East and Sogth exposure. Some fruit trees; new sidewalks. Price $2200.00. For Further Information See J. Nielsen-Lange Lakeland, Florida ; Phone 354 Green. Office Evening Telegram Bldg. Radads st il lle TR 2T Y Y Y PP @<W¢M&Wfl"i"%*«b«%fi%fi-3§’0 HEEEEE RS The Cost of Living Is Great ? Unless YouKnow Where'To'Buy —_—— e IF YOU KNOW The_Selection will,be the/best R haps she has no home—no people.” “I wish she hadn’t—I would adopt iher in a minute,” said the doctor grufly as he left the room. He found his son smoking in the library. “Hullo, dad, rushed as usual, I sup- pose?” said the young man as he re- turned his father's hand grip. “Yes—and I have rather a puzzling private case in the house.” A tap came at the door and Harris poked a disturbed face inside. “I beg your pardon, Doctor Drayton, But Miss Smith wants you to come once—the patient insists on leaving +hired him to sit around in hotel 1ob-| the house and has demanded her clothes, and Miss Smith doesn’t know what to do.” Archer followed his father into the hall Near the ftront door stood Miss Smith, her arms stretched across the doorway barring the departure of the young patient who had donned her street clothes and was standing pale and silent before the nurse. “Madame!™ expostulated Doctor Drayton “Alice!” cried Archer sharply. In a moment Alice was in his arms and hiding a blushing disturbed tace on his broad shoulder. Record Diamond Drill. The largest diamond drill core ever cut has just been presented to Lehigh university. It was cut in the Marcy vein, at the Maltby colliery, Scranton. The'varle ty unmatched The,quality unsurpassed The price the Lowest All these you find at our store Just trade with us This settles the question’of living % Best Butter, per pound Sugar, 17 pounds Cottolene, 10 pound pail Cottolene, 4 pound ol 4 pounds Snowdrift Lard .50 Snuwdrift, 10 pound pails ......... 1rI10 3 cans family gize Cream 12 pounds Best Flour ., 1-2 barrel Best Flour Octagon Soap, 6 for R s L R = e s s 2 R R R Y e Y < The specimer is a core of an 1l-inch diamond drill and the core is 10 inches in diameter. The object of the drill- ing was to drain some old workings at the Maltby colliery. A barrier of 183 feet had to be penetrated before the water, which had a head of 176 feet, could be tapped. The core shows the middle rock of the Marcy vein. | T | Pure Bred Arab Morge. In Cairo a soclety has been formed horse. It is said that recent changes in the lives and habits of the Bedouins have resulted in the deterioration of these horses. A practical horseman of wide experience says that as a rule the Arab horse is now no better treat- ed than our own horses, whatever may have been true of the old days when could all notice that his voloe | get off?” Pat turned stifly, and way. SUCD Doems as “The Arab to His Steed” were written, E. 6. TWEEDELL PHONE 59 PH. FISCHER & SON ESTABLISHED SINCE 1894 hhq“iPPtd -with Modern Electrical Ma chinery we are able to do your Repairiti I$ and G m‘:nSl;;,rt Notice. We use Best Material d ork at Satisfactory Prices. Aa..fi. Tfisnf line of RATTLESNAKE and ALLIGATOR Shoes, Hand Bags, Ft¢- We pay Parc VO Called for and Delivered e pay PFarce] Post_chm one way, on any Work imounting to $1.00 or over PH. 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