Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 2, 1915, Page 7

Armour Star Hams Uncanbassed + at 18 Cents ' This Week Only . 6. TWEEDELL PHONE 59 St P OOt 00e00000000ttensoDRRS TSNS oved! The Lakeland Seed Co. MOVED TO WEST MAIN STREET, NEAR YATES HOUSE d Irish Potatoes ns, Corn on Sets Millet, Rape and Rye jman’s . Stock and Poultry Powder; Magic and Bee Dee Liniment and Dip Call and See Us in Our New Quarters. THE LAKELAND SEED COMPANY. Your Coupons in the Great Yoting test at the Hub. This is the only ts’ Furnishing Store in Town giv- VYotes with Purchases of Goods Our pring Line Is Coming in Daily See Our Windows ey reflect the Superb Stock with which our Store is filled. he Hub THE HOME OF Schaffner and Marx Good Clothes: White and Golden Dent Sweet Corn ’ l The Assistant Postlasler By Cora A. Thompson (Coprright, 3912, by Associated Literary Prese) The Misses Chilton’s School for Girls was situated half a mile outside the village of Rockwell, and the num- ber of pupils averaged forty. It was in part what is called a school of honor; the young ladies were per- mitted to take walks in the country, and visit the postofice and candy stores in the village without being accompanied by a guard. It was un- derstood that each pupil was on her honor not to flirt or elope. The eldest Miss Chilton was forty- four years old, and ber sister four years younger, and neither of them had ever been in love or expected to be. They were cut out for old maids and were very well satisfied. For eight long years not a single one of the many good-looking girls of the Chilton School had flirted or eloped. It had given the Chilton sisters a sense of security such as a police force could mot have estab- lished. It is only fair to explain that the farmers’ sons within two miles ot the school were always too busy chopping wood or hoeing potatoes to flirt, and that the village was a staid old place never visited by drummers. Before putting the girls on their honor the Misses Chilton had care- fully looked the field over. There were half a dozen young menm, but they were lame and halt and homely. There was Deacon Bradshaw, a widower who dyed his hair and acted colty now and then, but the sisters figured that he would not dare go beyond certain bounds. No; the place was safe, and that was why the shock came with such force when it did come. There was a shock one summer morning. One of Mr. Du- pont's powder magazines didn’t blow up and level the cornstalks for ten miles around, but the shock shook Chilton School‘from cellar to garret. Fanny, the elder sister, returned from the village one forenoon and fell in other sister's arms in hysterical ‘Their Day Had Come at Last. mood. When she had been soothed and petted for. five minutes she con- trolled her emotions sufficiently to exclaim: “Flora, it is our ruin!” here's a young man in the village! “N-0-0-0! 8 i i itk iz the §°i :EE PEEi i . III‘ nephew.” | “But why?” asked the old vet, who “Because be—he flirts with our pu- ! s “Don’t blame him a darned bit! If lvnlymchlhr!‘dhmunn‘“l “But he musn't! You hear—he | musn't! It will break up our school.” }yon'd have been all the better for it {1 want Clarence here, and here he will stay.” “8ir, we shall appeal to the post- master-general!” was the awful threat, as the old maids retired. | And appeal they did, and right on the ground, too, that the assistant postmaster at Rockwell was a fiirt |and bringing discredit on the depart- |ment. It isn’t likely that the official 'NM the letter or reply, but some clerk who sympathized with the as- sistant answered: “Flirtations are not forbldden by the rules of this department unless they seriously interfere with the work |of the official, and we do not think ! that 18 the case in this instance.” The Misses Chilton had been sure they could oust the young man and drive him back toward sunset, and the failure was a great disappoint. ment. “I'll tell you what we must do,” said the elder sister, as the case was talked over. ‘“We must not forbid the young ladies going into town, but we must select the most steady and de- mure among them and have her act as chaperon for the rest. She can take up so much of that young man's time that he will have none left for flirtations.” These two old maids, brought up on oatmeal and the New Testament, and neither having ever been es- corted home from prayer meeting by & man, thought they knew all about girl-nature! The “demure” girl they made chaperon was the biggest flirt in the school. She was a model chapero? while within sight of the school bulldings, but once the village was reached it was: “Now, girls, scatter and have a good time, but don’t too many of you jam into the postoffice at once.” And as the days went past the Misses Chilton grew secure and com- placent, and now and then the elder sald: “Sister Flora, you must give me credit for perspicacity in this case.” “I do, sister Fanny,” was the reply. “But for you our school would have been broken up by this time. Huvel there been any further reports of flirtations?” “Not a one, sister.” “How grand to be able to under stand human character!” Two weeks later and then the whole world seemed to be spinning around like a top. One afternoon the “de- mure” chaperon was missed. Search was made, even under the beds and in the bureau drawers. It was ex- tended into the country, but in vain. No one had seen a demure young lady of steady appearance paddling along through ‘the dust. There were two persons in the school that got nol sleep that night. When morning came they went to the postofiice in the hope of striking a clew. They were not disappointed. The old veteran was on duty, and at sight of them he rubbed his hands together and said: “Come right in, ladies; I have solved , the problem!” “We are looking for Miss Blank,” was the reply. “And you've come to the right i place. 1 lent Clarence my herse and “l have seen him with my own'buggy yesterday to drive of and o “lmpossible, sister!” “And have found out all about 'And he is an escaped convict?” “Not exactly that, but almost as bad. Oh, sister, we shall have to close our school within a month!” “But tell me.” The postmastership at the village of Rockwell had been held by an old war veteran for many years. He was failing all the time, and had finally sent out west and brought on a nephew of his and made him as- sistant postmaster. This nephew was & Yyoung man named Clarence Sprague, and for smartness and good looks Lis like Lad never been seen In the village. He arrived one even- ing and took up his dut'es next morn- ing. Wken half a dozen girls from the Chilton school rushel in at 11 o'clock, giggling, laughing and cutting up, there was a new face at the gen- eral delivery window—a new face and a good-looking one. The owner of that face smiled at them and flirted with them, and the bevy ran out with a great clatter and slapped each other on the back. Their day had come at last. It is not to be imagined that those girls returned to the school to give the news to the old maid sisters and plead for protection. They returned to tell other girls, but to swear them to secrecy. The “discovery” was to be kept inviolate as long as possible. It was two weeks before the blow fell. During that fortnight there was more flirting in Rockwell than since tue first log Pouse wazs built by the marry ber, and now all your trouvies are o'er. He can’t flirt with any of the rest of the school!” Secret of the Sea. A secret of the sea was partially re- vealed when the schooner Lily put in for water to a small island a bundred miles south of the Hawailan islands. A small cabin was found sheltered in a grove of palmes, and, on crossing the threshold, the saflors were horrified to find the dead body of a man, sitting | 42 a chair, his hand resting on a table, and firmly clasping a small book. Upon searching, there was found & coumjass, watch and chain and some cooking utensils. The book | was a ¢lary in which the man had set down the day's happenings, but not a word as to his name or how he came | there. From the entries it was deter- | mined that he had been on the little island three years. The body was buried, and so ended the life of this unknown Crusoe. 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