Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 3, 1915, Page 2

CHARLOTTE HARBOR AND NORTHERN RAILWAY “BOCA GRANDE ROUTE” SAFETY FIRST. ATTRACTIVE SERVICE. COURTESY FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE PUBLI(] SCHEDULE IN EFEECT JANUARY 1ST, 1915 .No. 84.|.No. 83. No. 89 3101:: N‘? 123 ATLANTIC COAST LINE “126.| “ 128 p.m. am. 930 |Lv -.... Jacksonville ...... Ar| p.m. 6 45 am. 545 |Lv . ...... Lakeland . .. Ar| .630 |.960 6 10 am. . Tampa . .. Ar| 728 pm. 7 22 . Winston ....... Lv|s § 16 No. 3 No. 4 .No.1 |[C.H.&N. BOCA GRANDE ROUTE No.2 .|C.H&N. Limited Limited 8755 (8 616 |Lv ...... Mulberry ........ Ar[s 440 |s 915 £8.07 628 ceees .. Bruce .. .|t e21 8 56 PR IEETRR T I Ridgewood ....coo00 | eeoees | eenens 807 6 28 . «v... Bruce . t 421 8 55 88 12 6 31 . «e.. Plerce .... .|s 417 |t 850 18 16 634 |. Martin Junction . .jre1s 8 45 88 25 6 40 . .. Bradley Junction . s 406 |s 840 88 34 6 46 . Chicora ...... t 368 |t 831 1839 6 61 . . Cottman . f 348 822 £8 39 6 51 . . Cottman . . |1 348 822 18 45 6 54 . vee.. Baird ..... . |t 343 818 8 54 701 . Fort Green Junction .|t 833 8 08 858 702 . ...Fort Green ..... . |t 330 8 06 s9 03 706 . Fort Green Springs ..... [s 3 25 |f 8 02 £9 13 713 . .. Vandolah .. t 312 |f 761 89 18 17 . «ee Ona ... s 307 |t 747 19 30 725 +.. Bridge .......... [t 254 736 s 9 38 731 .Limestone ......... |s 24 |f 728 19 41 734 veeee.s Kinsey |t 239 724 89 52 T 44 . . Bunker-Lansing ...... |t 225 712 £10 03 75 veesssesss Shops .. f 214 704 810 10 755 [Ar. 210 |s 700 810 18 800 |Lv ....... Arcadia .... 206 |[s 655 110 18 8 03 . Shops . 158 6 50 £10 28 8 10 Nocatee . 146 6 40 810 37 8 18 . .. Hull ... 136 |t 630 110 47 8 22 . .. Fort Ogden 127 |t620 £10 50 8 24 . . Boggess £ 123 J 618 £10 56 8 28 Platt 117 612 f11 11 8 41 . . Mars . t 100 5 68 811 16 8 44 . Murdock .. t 668 f11 27 8 b4 . Southland 5 40 sll1 34 8 69 . f 536 £11 49 912 . 812 05 9 24 . 81215 |s 9 30 «+vee.. Boca Grande .. o 81225 s 940 |Ar .. South Boca Grande .. ... 1 p.m. a.m, Daily | Daily “C H. & N. LIMITED” Through Sleeper Between Jacksonville, Lakeland, Arcadia & Boca Grande 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 Agentg will be cheerfully fur.) uished by the undersigned. L. M. FOUTS, N. H. GOUCHER, C. B. McC. 2nd V, P. & Gen. Mgr. Supt. Transportation, G.F.& Pass.Agt., Boca Grande, Fla. Arcadia, Fla. Boca Grande, Fla. - [SPROIAL 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. Owur interests are mutual. Come let us Serve you. HARDWARE CO. WILSON | A Novelised Version of the Motion Produced by Oepyeight, 104, by Lowis Joseph Vasoe Thricé Alan essayed to pass that barrier of fire, and thrice it threw him back. Then, struggling and kicking to release himself and try again, he was seized by a brace of able-bodied policemen and rushed fifty feet from the house before let go. Lack of breath checked him momen- tarily, + He lcoked up, dashing from his smarting eyes tears drawn by the stifling clouds of smoke, and saw vaguely at the second story window a ‘woman leaning out and shrieking for help. That it was hopeless to attempt the staircase he well knew. *Drawing aside, he endeavored to come to his sober senses, and cast about for some more feasible way to effect the rescue of his Rose. ‘The tenement occupied one corner of a narrow street. Directly opposite, a storage warehouse stood upon the other corner. Before this last was the common landing stage for truck de- liveries, protected by a shed-roof. And, euspended from a timber that peered out over the eaves, a hoisting Charged With the Assassination of Alan, tackle dragged the ground with its ropes. It was the work of a minute to con- vince a thick-headed policeman that the attempt was feasible and should be permitted. It was the work of less than another minute to rig a loop in fhe line and fasten round his body beneath the arms. Volunteers did not lack; a couple of husky longshoremen sprang to the ropes at his firet call. They heaved with a will. His feet left the ground, he soared, he caught the eaves of the shed-roof, and shouting to cease hauling, drew himself up on this last, backed a little ways down it and calculating his direction nicely, with a running jump launched himself out over the street. The momentam of his leap carried him well out over the heads of the throng assembled in the etreet and truly toward that window where Rose was waiting. Then its force slack- ened. For an awful instant he be- lleved that he had failed. But with the last expiring ounce of impetus, he was brought within grasping distance of the window sill. Hauling himself up, he gathered her into his arms . A great tongue of tawny flame licked angrily out of the windows as he swung her back to safety. CHAPTER XXIX, w of restraint in @ vile # by one Thomas Barcue in consequence of conduct riotous, un- seemly, and in general prejudiced &3 the public peace of the New Bedford waterfront at half-past four in the morning, proved in the upshot far more briet than had been fondly hoped, not only by his just judge, but, singularly enough, by the misdemean- ant himself. Taking everything gravely into con- sideration, including a person any- thing but prepossessing, the judge reckoned that, in default of a fine ot one hundred dollars, a ten-day layup for repairs and repentance was not too much to mete out to the prisoner at the bar. He was sentenced at 10 a. m. and it was little short ot 10 p. m. when his post-prandial repose was disturbed by the rattle of a key in the lock of the door to his cell. Jalibird. Sitting up, Mr. Barcus rubbed his | eyes and combed hie hair with his fin- gers. “What did I tell you?" he observed resignedly. “It begins again already " Conducted with every evidence of disesteem on the part of his jailers to the office of the warden, he was ac- quainted with the fact that his fine had been paid by no one less than the judge himself: then present in portly and solicitous person. “I only you had told me you were a friend of Mr. Digby's,” the judge , hastened to say as soon as the two were ensconsed in the privacy of the judicial limousine, “I would have known better how to guide myself in this unfortunate affair. “And if you will be good enough to indicate how else 1 may serve you " “Digby didn't offer any suggestions in his wire, I gather?” “One moment: I have it here.” “Naturally I'd like a bath and a change of clothes,” Barcus pursued while the judicial breast-pocket was belng explared;-“and I could do with The Trey O’ Hearts the Universal Film By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE Autfer of “Tis Fostuns Horter,” “Tha Brows Boul,” " The Block Beg.". . Blestrated with Photegrsphs from the Pictare Production 9 Picture Dl-c.‘ the Same Name transportation to New York by the first train out of this God-foreaken hole, and—" “This is what Mr. Digby says,” the judge interrupted, laboriously de- ciphering the message by the light of a match: “Please see to immediate release of one Thomas Barcus, prob- ably in jail in your jurisdiction for riot- ing on waterfront this morning. Pay his fine and instruct him to report to me in New York at earliest feasible hour. Give him all the money he wants and look to me for remunera- tion—'" “Eh?” Barcue interrupted, sitting up smartly; “what’s that last again?” Patiently the judge repeated the sentence from the message. “Thanks. Please don’t read farther. You might come to something that would spoil it. It's almost too beauti- ful as it stands,” Barcus observed. “Law owes me five thoueand or so liquidated damages—but I'll be rea- sonable. Frisk this burg for a fitth of that sum before train time—and I promise to ask nothing more!” His private comment was: “I've sus- pected that this was a fairy-tale all along. Now I know it is!” And this phase of incredulity per- sisted in coloring the complexion of his mind until the moment, some houre later, when the train connecting at Providence with the Midnight Ex- press for New York pulled out of New Bedford bearing a transformed Barcus —almost impenetrably disguised in a J The Hydroaeroplane Is Forced to La bath, a thave and a haircut, an outfit of clothing orginally tailored for a gen- tleman of discriminating taste, but no whit less disguised in the sense of af- fluence that goes with the possession of one thousand dollars in cash. Not until a sound night's sleep had topped off the beginning of his rest in jail did Barcus come down to earth. He demonstrated his return to com- mon sense by making a round break- fast in Grand Central station before looking up the residence of Digby in the telephone directory. The informatioi he gathered from the voice that answered the name of Mr. Digby over the telephone shook only momentarily Barcus' innate con- viction that intimate acquaintance with battle, murder and sudden death was the inevitable reward of associa- tion with this friend of his heart. “Alan being married to Rose Trine in Jereey City at this very minute!™ he breathed skeptically as he emerged from the booth memorising the ad- dress of the alleged officiating clergy- man. “I don't believe it; it's too sud- den.” Forthwith he engaged a taxicab to convey him to Jersey City, at top speed, for an exorbitant reward. And when, from the forward deck of & ferryboat, he beheld a dense volume of smoke advertising a conflagration on the Jersey shore, not far from the waterfront, he shook a moodily ea- gacious head. “If Alan isn’t mixed up in that, somehow,” he declared, “he’s missing & bet for once—and I'm a sorry failure as a prophet of woe and disaster!” There was as much intuitive appre- hension as humor responsible for this remark; witness the fact that, on land- ing, he risked the delay required to turn aside and have a look at the fire. It proved to be situated in the heart {of a squalid slum—a wretched tene- ment of the poorest class, whose roof | had already fallen in and whose walls by the time Barcus arrived on the scene. At a considerable distance from him a small disturbance had broken out— a clamor of protesting voices litting | about the rumor of the mob—as a number of men, case-hardened roughs one and all, began to force their way in a Vshaped wedge through the throng, making toward it very heart, the point on the fire-lines nearest the burning building. What this meant, Mr. Barcus not the slightest idea. ver, then fixed by the face of a man who was following in the hollow of the V—an evil white face that seemed somewkat vaguely familiar, somehow reminiscent of something strange that had happened in the history of Mr. Barcus. At the same time, at the point where the V had paused, & wild uproar litted up and, coincidentally, a wilder confu- A cry was audible— Firebug! Lynch him! Lynch Linch tha firebug!"—and at sion became noticeable. him! ! visible quarry, who chose to attempt ! his escape by a route directly oppo- were momentarily threatening to go | But his atten- tion was first distracted by the maneu- {fifs the fnob tufned &s Ghe man and streamed away in pursuit of an in- site to that which would have led him within view of Mr. Barcus. Startled, and of a sudden persuaded that there might have been more in his “hunch” than was sanely to be credited, Barcus started up and was on the point of stepping out of his cab, if with a rather aimless purpose, when he was stayed by eight of that evil white face returning the way it had come—still in the hollow of the flying V, which now made faster prog- ress, thanks to the disorganization of the mob by the chase of the alleged in- cendiary. And now, Barcus saw, the man of the white face was not alone. There was someone with him—someone whose head was bent and face con- cealed, but who seemed to be femi- nine. And so, Barcus argued, why might it not be Rose Trine, suffering new persecution at the hands of her unnat- ural father’s creatures? He was too far away to make sure and attempt any interference; but he pointed White Face out to his chauf- feur as the V reached a touring car on the edge of the mob and the woman was lifted in (unresisting and appar- ently in a dead faint), and when the touring car swung round and picked up its heels, the taxicab of Mr. Barcus trailed it as unostentatiously as if it was a pertinacious shadow. Ten minutes later, from the rear deck of a ferryboat in midstream—a boat bearing back to New York not only the touring car of White Face, but the cab of Mr. Barcus—the latter gentleman formed one of a small but interested audience witnessing an in- cident of uncommon character. He saw a young man, hatless, coat- less, almost shirtless, tear down to the edge of one of the Jersey wharves, his heels snapped at by a ravening rabble, jump aboard a square-rigged vessel which lay moored there, and execute a maneuver of despair by climbing up the rigging in a hopeless attempt to escape his persecutors. They were too many for him, and what was worse they were headed by a squad of police apparently as grimly bent on compassing the destruction of their quarry as was the mob. And they swarmed up the rigging after him without a moment’s hesita- tion. Hotly pressed, the fugitive climbed higher and still higher, until at length he gained the topmost yard; with | three policemen not half a dozen feet below him and popping away for dear life, if bappily with the notoriously poor markemanship of policemen gen- erally. None the less, there was no telling when some accident might wing a bul- let into the young man; and it was evident that he so decided. For, inching out to the end of the yard, he waved his hand toward his persecutors with a gesture of light- hearted derision that unmistakably ' {dentified him as Alan Law to Mr. Bar- ! cus, and forthwith dropped to the wa- | ter, feet foremost. 1 Alan later took the water neatly, . came up uninjured and clearheaded, {and without an inetant’s hesitation ! struck away toward the middle of the Hudson. As this happened the police ran to the stern of the square-rigger, un- moored a dory that was riding there, and threw themselves into it. During the (to Barcus, at least) breathless suspense of that chase, the ferryboat drew stolidly farther and still farther away from the scene. Bar- cus could not tell whether, as it seemed, the police-laden dory was real- 1y overhauling Alan, or whether the fllueion of perspective deceived him. At all events, it seemed a frighttully near thing when the interruption be- fell which alone could have saved Alan, Out of the very sky dropped a hydro- aeroplane, cutting the water with a long, gracetul curve that brought it, almost at a standstill, directly to the head of the swimmer, and at the sam time forced the police boat to sheer widely off in order to escape collision. Immediately the swimmer caught the pontoon of the hydroaeroplane, pulled himself up out of the water, and clambered to the seat beside thoi Florida Lan s o S e In Large and Small Try SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and Samples 23,000 ACRES—In Polk County at $6.00 per acre. worth more than half the price. 40 ACRE FARM—35 in bearing Orange Grove, house, packing house and barn, large lake front, Irrigation plant, good heavy soil and good roag miles from Lakeland. Price $30,000.00. FOR NON-RESIDENTS—Good Fruit Lands, wel in ten, twenty and forty acre tracts; Co-operatiye | opment Plan. NEW BRICK STORE BUILDING—In the city of land; Leased for five years at $2,600.00 per annup 000,00. Will trade for Orange Grove as part pay: 9-ROOM, HOUSE and three vacant Lots. Close t; Morton $4,200.00. $1,200 down and terms, TWO HOUSES In Dixieland (5-rooms), rented. §;4 Terms. : TWO GOOD SUBDIVISION Propositions. Both ¢ and desirably located. 20 ACRI.ES FARM—At Lakeland Highland. 17 4 bearing grove, 600 trees in good condition. "Largh idence with modern improvement, Private | works; good out buildings with implements ang Price $10,000. X 34 ACRES OF RICH HIGH .HAMMOCK land nex ter Hill. Close to school post office and store acres clear. Price $550.00 28 ACRE FARM—uwith lake front. 6 acres in young g new cottage and good barn. 2 1-2 miles from on hard road. A good combination farm., 750.00. Cash $1 interest. CORNER LOT—Three blocks sou South exposure. Price $2200.00. 4 ! P ! 1250.00, Balance deferred at 8 pe th of city hall. Fad Some fruit trees; new side For Further Information See J. Nielsen-Lange Lakeland, Florida Phone 354 Green, Office Evening Telegran SELL FOR CASH WE HAVE CUT THE WE SELL EVERYTHING Fsll‘.:ll.l $$ Sugar, 16 pounds ...... Bacon, side, per pound . Bacon, cut, per pound . Tomatoes, can .... Fancy and Head Ric Meal, 10 pounds for ... Grits, 10 pounds for ...... . Florida Syrup, per quart .... Florida Syrup, per gallon .. Good Grade Corn, per can . Good Grade Peas, per can .... Pet Cream, per can ..... ....... White House Coffee, per can .... Cracker Boy Coffee, per can ...... Grated Sliced Pineapple, per can .. Roast Beef, per can ... Bulk Coffee, per pound ..... § Flake White Lard, 10 pound pail Flake White Lard, 4 pound pail . Catsup, Van Camp’s, per bottle Irish Potatoes, per peck Sweet Potatoes, per peck Navy Beans, per pound . Lima Beans, per pound ...... Brookfield Butter, per pound e, pour'u-i. aviator. Before he was fairly seated the plane was swinging back Into its fastest With the ease of a wild goose it left the water, mounted the long grade of an air lane, described a wide circle above the bluffs of Weehawken, and swept ay southward. In that quarter it was presently lost to the sight of Mr. Barcus, engulfed in | light folds of haze that were creeping in from seawards to dim and tarnish the pristine brilliance of that day. CHAPTER XXX, G. W. Phillips & Co, SRR R R 7 g SENC SRE S BASSET BUILD! O N R O R S N S S e SR Birdman. About eight o’clock in the evening of the same day a motorcar deposited lt] the Hotel Monolith a gentleman whoee | weather-beaten and ofl-stained momr—l > ing-cap and duster covered little cloth- ing more than shirt and trousers and | asscrted oddly in the eyes of the desk- | clerk with the rather meticulously turned-out guest known to him as Mr. | Arthur Lawrence and to the manage- ment of the hotel as Mr. Alan Law in- cognito. Eventually persuaded, the clerk yielded up the key to Mr. Lawrence's { suite of rooms, together with two | notes superscribed with the same nom de guerre. AMOS H. NORRIS, v ANNE M. HARV President. Cashier. W. E. ARTHUR, Treasurer Tampa Agricultural Dynamite ! TAMPA, FLA. L Mr. H. P. Dyson, an expert sent to us by t*| Atlas Powder Co,, is at your service. He ! look after your Blasting Proposition, and give yo his advice. i Alan's impatience was so great that he could hardly wait to examtne these communications until he was quit of the public eye. N The first proved to be a character- istic communication: “Dear Ulysses—Thanks for the Jail delivery. 1 got in this morning just in time to moter over to Jersey in hopes of seeing your finish as a bachelor; ' instead, I was favored by being made an involuntary witness to your spec- . wil We have also two men we have imported fro” Pennsylvania, who are expert blasters, who Wi do your work on contract, or séll you our Explc ives, which are second to none. ‘ | tacular ascent, following your almost | *xx s s m- ' [ { et e e s | TAMPA Agricultural Dynamite * TAMPA, FLA. (Continued on Page 6.)