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Wmm i The Professions ool Chiropractor DR. J. Q. SCARBOROUGH, Lady in Attendance In Dyches Building Between Park snd Auditorium. OFFICE HOURS. 8t011:30 a. m. 1:30 to § p. m. 7:00 to 8:00 p. m. Consultation and Examination Free. Residence Phone 240 Black W. L. HEATH, D. C. HUGH D. VIA. D. C. Doctors of Chiropratic. Over Post Office. Hourg 8 to 12. a. m. and 2. to 5and 7 to 8 p. m. Graduates and Ex-Faculty mem- bers of the Palmer School of Chirapratie. Consultation and Spinal analysis free at office. @. D. & H. D. MENDENHALL CONSULTING ENGINEERS Suite 212-215 Drane Bulilding Lakeland, Fla. Phosphate Land Examinations ané Plant Designs Karthwork Specialists. 8urveys. Residence phone, 278 Black. Ofce phone, 278 Blue. DR. SARAH B. WHEELER OSTEOPATH Munn Aonex, Door South of First National Bank Lakeland, Florida DR. W. R. GROOVER PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Rooms 6 and 4. Kentucky Buildins Lakeland, Florida DR. W. B. MOON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Telephone 350 Hours 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 D. O. Rogers Edwin Spencer, Jv, ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Building Lakelang, Florida B. H. HARNLY Real Estate, Live Stock and General AUCTIONEER Sales Manager NATIONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. Aaction Lot Sales a Speclalty %1 Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, Fla EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER Raymondo Bldg., Lakeland, Florida KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Bullding Lakeland Florida DR. RICHARD LEFFERS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Rooms 2-3, Skipper Bulilding Over Postoffice ........ Office Upstairs East of Court House BARTOW, FLA. Fxamination of Titles and Res &s tate Law a Speclalty DR. H. MERCER RICHARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office: Rooms 6 and 6, Elliston Blag. Lakeland, Florida Phones: Office 378; Resid. 301 Blue FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building Office phone 402. Res. 312 Red Special attention to drafting legal papers. Marriage licenses and abstracts furnished W. HERMAN WATSO?. M. D. Morgan-Groover Bldg. Telephones: Office 351; RuFll! Red Lakeland, Floride J. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Dickson Buildmg .Practice in all courts. Homestead. claimg located and contested Established in July, 1900 DR. W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Kibler Hotel, Lakelard. Florida DR. J. R. RUNYAR Rooms 17 and 18, Raymondo Bldg. All vecessary drugs furnished with- out extra charge Residence phone 303. Ofiice Phone 410 SICK? 78 Lakeland Sanitarium Drs. Hanna HARDIN BLOG EYES OF THE BLIND By JOHN CAMERON. (Cy t, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) E:.:rl;gdy in Erpingham pitied Dorothy Lee. She was a sweet girl, and it was agreed that it was a great pity she was so homely. “It ain’t a fair handicap,” said old Mrs. Howell, who kept the post office. “It’s hard enough for a girl to get mar- ried in New England, anyway, but with her looks—I say it ain’t fair.” Dorothy’s father probably indorsed this view, but the hard-headed old farmer was too practical a man to worry about his daughter’s looks. Dorothy lived alone with him, her mother being dead. What she thought on the subject she never disclosed. She must have known, however, that there was a reason why she was al- ways a wall-flower at parties and was never invited on picnics and such fes- tivities. When she was iwenty-five Tom Lan. ark came home after an absence of six years in the West. Fabulous stories preceded him. He had found a gold mine in Nevada, one of the richest in the world, it was said, and the glare of the sun on the alkali plains had seared his eyeballs until he could only distinguish light from dark- ness. So he had come back at thirty, to resume life—no, not to resume it, but to take up its burden alone in the old house that had given him birth. Margaret Barnett had been an old | flame of Tom's in the bygone days. But if there was any idea that she would link her life to a blind man’s Margaret, who was “running” with the banker's son, dismissed it promptly. “I want a live one when I get mar- ried,” she sald. And Dorothy wit- nessed a snubbing which Margaret ad- ministered to Tom in the street, in front of her house. She saw the blind man trying to peer after the girl whose shrill, scorn- ful laughter echoed through the quiet street, and an excess of pity overcame her shrinking, and she hurried out. “Mr. Lanark,” she said quickly, con- scious that her words were almost be- yond her control, “I am Dorothy Lee. Don’t you remember me?” Tom Lanark felt for her hands and took them in his. “Indeed I do.” he answered warmly. “I have often thought of you since I have been away.” “I think it was a shame the way Margaret Barnett spoke to you,” de- clared Dorothy indignantly, “Ah, well, one lives and finds out these things,” replied the blind man wearily. After that Tom fell into the habit of dropping into the old farmer’s place of an afternoon, and on one occasion he actually drove up in a buggy. “I thought I'd ask you to come for a drive with me, Miss Dorothy,” he ex- plained. “I was sure I knew the way down the street to here, and that you'd do the rest—it you are willing to do an act of kindness for a blind man.” “0, I should love to go driving with you,” the girl answered. She ran up- stairs to change her frock, and, five minutes later, the village was specu- lating over the appearance of Dorothy and Tom, driving down the road into the country and chatting as merrily as though they were old friends—which, indeed, they might have been called. But during the return Dorothy be- came very pensive., For she knew that her heart had turned very strongly in the direction of the blind man, and that he, too, as her woman's instinct told her, was by no means indifferent to her. And when they neared the town he suddenly placed his arm around her and drew her toward him. “Do you think you can ever learn to care for & blind man, Dorothy?” he asked. It was a tremulous figure, shrink- ing and nerved only by intense resolu- tion, that went to Tom's door that night, fearful of discovery by the prying eyes of the town, yet spurred on by the sense of tremendous neces- sity. And, after she had knocked, she could hardly make her knees support her, and clung to the door-jamb for support. The door opened. Tom peered out. Then: “I can't marry you,” the girl was sobbing wildly. “You have never seen me as I am, Tom You don't know—" “Don't know what, dear?’ asked Tom’s quiet voice. She felt his hands on her shoulders, but she could not see him through the gathering tears. “I am the homeliest girl in Erping- ham,” cried Dorothy. “If ever you saw me you would be ashamed of me, Tom. And I can’t marry you and not let you know; and I can’t marry you and let you be ashamed of me.” She was beyond all self-control. She was weeping in his arms. She lLeard Tom's voice between his kisses. “Dorothy, you are the prettiest gir! in Erpingham, and it wouldn't make any difference to me anyway,” he said, “because I love you. Now i will teli you something, dear. 1 am not quite 80 blind as people think—in fact the doctor says that in a few months more 1 may see as well as ever. Sometimos & man may pretend to be blind, Doro- thy, in order to know his real friends from his false ones.” “How pretty Dorothy Lee has grown since her engagement to Tom Lan- ark,” said the gossips later. And all agreed that she made the sweetest bride that ever came out of Erpingham—all but Margaret Barnett, who was no longer “running” with the banker's son. Miles Here and There. In England a mile means the fa- miliar 1,760 yards, but in Iceland it means 2240 yards, and in the High. lands it may mean the old Scots mile f of 1976 yards. In Switzerland the | hardy mountaineers think 9,153 the | proper thing, even when, as generally | is, it is very much uphill. The Swiss ' l-thnlonnltmfleotl.ll.bthclol-j lowed by the Vienna post mile of | 8296 yards. The Flemish mile is | 6,869 yards, the Prussian 8,237 yards, | and in Denmark they walk 8,244 yards ' and call it a stroll of a mile. The Turks are satisfied with 1,826 yards and the Italians shorten the distance of a mile to 1,786. | ly. THAT TALL, DARK MAN By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. (Copyright, 1915, per Syndicate.) Don met them at the train — Lor- raine, her mother and father. It seemed centuries since he had seen her, Lorraine, of course, although it had been but two weeks since she had gone away. The parting had been full of fore- boding for Don. Such a trip was sure to be prolific in young men. To make things more ominous, Lorraine had intimated before leaving that Signo- rina Lotta had foretold tantalizingly ; vague things of a tall young man with ! brown eyes and dark hair. This was thorns and nettles to Don, whose eyes were gray and hair a decided auburn. He now searched her face anxious- Had the dark young man mate- rialized in the fortnight's vacation? There was nothing there to tell. Lor- raine was as sweet and smiling—and bafing—as ever. He sighed. 1 He was asked to stay to dinner and i accepted gratefully. He had a dogged determination not to leave until he bad verified, or dissipated, his fears. Two things favored him—the moon and the arrival of the preacher. The, back yard swing soon had two occu- pants. : Lorraine suddenly became talkative. | “The whole thing was heavenly, Don. From the minute we left until just, now.” “Thanks!” “You're welcome, grouchy! TI'd think you'd be glad to see me back. | Instead you've been glooming around | like a funeral. Well, I'm going to tell vou all about it anyway. I've just got to tell someone. Do you remem- | ber about Signorina Lotta—all she | said about a dark man and every- thing?” “No!” killing a mosquito. “What did she say? Surely you don't be-' lieve the rot a fortune teller gets oft?” “Oh, but T do. It all came true; almost every word of it. You see, it was this way,” gazing rapturously at the moon. “When we got to Balti- more the city was all decorated for the big centennial. After we had seen the decorations and all that dad want- ed to go on a battleship.” “Well, where does the fellow come in?” “Sh! TI'm coming to that! We went across the bay to a great whop- ping man-of-war that made you feel all glorious and patriotic—" “But when—" “Be quiet! I'm coming to him soon. They let us on that one. We went up & funny little pair of stairs they lowered over the side of the | boat.” “But what has your brown-eyed | friend to do with—" i “For goodness sake, be quiet, Don. | You're worse than Prince barking for a bone. Well, mother and I were looking all around everywhere. Dad had wandered off by himself, and in a few minutes he came back with the tallest, handsomest, darlingest, brown- eyed—" Don coughed painfully behind his hand. “Poor boy! What a cold! Well, as I was saying, dad came back with the tallest, hand—" “I heard you the first time.” ' “Oh, did you? Well, he was. And he treated us just lovely. He took us lots of places other people weren't allowed to go, for he was an officer. His uniform was grr-a-a-nd.” | Silence. ! “And then that night we went by boat to Old Point Comfort and Nor- folk. We were at luncheon in the hotel when who should walk in but Lieutenant Erickson. He took us through the fort and everywhere—" “Yes, 1 know. I've been there! Then I suppose he went back to An- napolis where he belonged!” | '“Who? Ob, indeed he didn’t! Dad and mother and I got on the boat that night and went to Boston.” “Well—that's all, I suppose.” “No, indeed! The best"—very fo- nocently—"is yet to come.” | “Heavens! 1 suppose he suddenly developed a pair of wings and—" | “Why, Don, you act so funny! I don’t understand you at all.” “Humph! Well, go on about your brown-eyed god of Olympus. What next?” “Why, that very day we were com- ing out of a shop on Tremont street in Boston, when whom should we run into but—" “Lieut. Jupiter von Erickson, I sup- pose!” “Yes,” wonderingly. guess? And his wife!” “His wife! His wife, did you say?” “M-hum! And she was as beauti- ful as he was handsome! Her hair was a beautiful light—" But what her hair was like Don never heard. “You little tease!" he cried, helding her tight to his breast. “Tell me what color of eyes you like best, before I let you go.” “Gray!” confessed Lorraine softly. the McClure Newspa- 1 | “How did you | | ] “State Use System” Favored. I Governor Fielder of New Jersey fa- vors the establishment of the state ' use system by which convicts may be employed. Under this plan goods used | by the various state departments will i | be manufactured. The various cor rectional and prison reform boards urge the removal of the state prison from Trenton to Rahway and the plac- ine of 300 convicts on road repair work and °70 ca the priscn farm In Cumberland. ————— The Tightwad's Advantage. Of course the tightwad is awfully uncomfortable, but as a general thing ' he does not have to embarrass him- self by asking his acquaintances to 80 on his note at the bank.—Galves- ton News. In Distress. “Oh, my day is spoiled. I came on without my cigarettes.” “Algernon | will let you have some of his." “Dear | me! I can't smoke cigarettes with an- other fellah's monogram on them."— Louisville Courier-Journal. “SPARKS” GONTAGIOUS WHAT A GRATE FIRE DID. “Don’t you adore a grate fire?” Lydia drew up her chair before the grate and prepared herself for the confl- dences that such a position inspired. | The grate was Myra's. “Yes,” replied Myra, “but I think they are dangerous.” “Because of the sparks?” innocently demanded Lydia. “Well, yes, it you use the word ‘sparks’ in the old-fashioned sense.” “Gracious!” exclaimed Lydia. *“I had no such thought. But why should they be dangerous in that way?” “Simply,” explained Myra, “because a grate fire is so conducive to sen- timental dreamings that I never knew a man and a woman to sit down before one but straightway they would fall to romancing; and if they were young and unmarried ten to one they would be persuaded, by the subtle and per- suasive influence of the fire, to ex- change vows, or to do something equal- 1y foolish.” “How absurd!” laughed Lydia. “Did you ever happen to know of such a case?” ¥ “Indeed I did,” replied Myra. “I was thinking of Irene Leighton and Clive Wheaton when I spoke. Of | course they were both of a sentimental nature, and they were a bit smitten with each other before he made his first call, but at the same time I don’t believe he would ever have proposed to Irene if she had not seated him before a beautiful grate fire upon that first evening.” “Dear me!” Lydia drew nearer to the dangerous flames. “Do you mean | to say that he fell into the fire, speak- ing metaphorically, the minute he sat down?” ‘Oh, I don’t suppose he proposed instantaneously after taking his seat, but he is excessively literary, and he began by recalling various scenes in | his favorite novels where the hero and heroine had talked their affairs over before a fire, and then he asked Irene whether she had ever read the ‘Rever- fes of a Bachelor.’” “And she had?” breathlessly de- manded Lydia. “No, she hadn’t,” went on Myra. “So he told her all about the book and how the hero of it was a lonely old bachelor who was accustomed to sit before his solitary fire and console himself for the lack of a real com- panion by some creature out of his fancy and out of the ashes. Then, of | course, Clive went on to talk about his own dreary existence and to tell how he had not even a fire for companion- ship, but that he had a picture of a happy newly wedded pair sitting be- fore a fire and planning their future 'tégetfiei, This was thé poor maia's substitute both for a fire and for & wife.” “And of course Irene couldn’t re- sist remarks so touching and original,” put in Lydia. . “She couldn’t! When he went home that evening they had already planned { on which side of their living room they would have the grate and whether they would burn coal or wood.” “That was lovely,” sighed Lydia. i “But don’t you dare tell me that the cold glare of day or the sight of the , ashes in the grate caused her to re- ' pent the next morning.” | “Well, it she repented she never ! admitted the fact,” declared Myra. | “for Irene, with.all her sentimenta)- 1t7; Is & gfrl of pluck.™ Just the same, 1 am quite sure that if she and Clive had sat down before a gas grate on that first evening I should never have been invited to act as bridesmaid next raonth.” “But I think it was his knowledge ot literature that fanned the flame of her fancy,” mused Lydia, as she me- chanically took up the poker and began to stir the fire. “It's so unusual in these days to meet a man who knows anything about books or who could recall a single heroine who had ever been wooed before a fire, so I'm not surprised that Irene was fascinated. It Clive had sat down before her fire and begun to talk about insurance or real estate I am sure that Irene would not have accepted him even if he had followed up such a conversa- tion with a proposal.” “Perhaps not,” admitted Myra. “But 1 do believe that it was the fire that aia it” “What kind of dress did Irene have on that evening?” demanded Lydia. “You know that costume has a great deal to do with such situations, and if she wore the kind of gown that lends itself to firelight and if she sat near enough to the blaze so that her fea- tures could be ‘{lluminated by the fit- ‘ful flame,’ as the novelists put it, why, I can easily understand Clive's quick surrender.” “I don’t know anything about these details,” laughed Myra. “I only know ! that the fire was the matchmaker.” | “Well,” declared Lydia, “I am go- ing to ask father to have our gas grate changed to a real log-burning love- persuading fireplace and then be care- ful who sits before it.”—Chicago Daily News. 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