Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 9, 1915, Page 3

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., MARCR +915. ] R not suggest some way of banishing COPY BELG'AN STYLES the pests?” | » “I shall try, surely, Miss Fetzer,” he :mml:;d wimle:esel;ns:: ‘;“Yo_t,l shall MODISTES QUICK TO SEIZE THEIR “Protessce Fenn was quite radiant a8 Y P EEPPPPod A man in Towa got a guarantee on a cheap voofing, but when he 8 reasonal’e prica of your own loer! cealer wiucm you knov ? S e S 9 FREREY - - Armour Star Hams 1 f Uncanbassed at 18 Cents is Week Only 6. TWLEDELL PHONE 59 IEEREREI R SRS id! The Lakelard Seed Co. ED TO WEST MAIN STREET, NEAR YATES HOUSE Potatoes White and Golden Dent Corn pts Sweet Corn Millet, Rape and Rye tock and Poultry Powder; also Dr. jagic and Bee Dee Liniment and Dip and See Us in Our New Quarters, Hess' sepcesmsenstages E LAKELAND SEED COMPANY. Coupons in the Great Voting at the Hub. This is the only Furnishing Store in Town giv- ps with Purchases of Goods Our ring Line fadh SSEE CT S - W - . o - ] §iComing in Daily ee.Qur Windows ;; pflect the Superb Stock with S hich our Store is filled. e Hub THE HOME OF affner and Marx Geod Clothes JOS. LeVAY IT COSTS YOU NOTHING to have your eyes thoroughly and scientifically examined here. Even if the examination discloses that you do not need glasses, we charge you nothing for it. And if you should require glasses we supply them at a rate which your own good sense will tell you can include no charge for testing your eyes. Cole & Hu By GEORGE ELMER COBB, “She’s the finest lady in the land,” David Fenn, professor, S er a most come- though, Miss Ur { he went his way. While in the home | | looking for that mouse, he had no- {ticed on one end of the mantel a framed photograph of Miss Fetzer. To i his surprise and pleasure, at the other end was one of himself. It was a por | trait he recognized as having been | taken from a magazine that had pub- I lished it Glad thought! She cared , enough for him to mate his picture with her own! He moved them an inch or two nearer together. He _ would have liked to kiss her portrait! , ' Somewhere in the village, the pro- fessor remembered, he had seen the sign of a man who made a business | of exterminating insects and other , pests. He finally located this man. It the guileless professor had been an expert physiognomist, he would have , noted that the rat-catcher’s eye resem- bled that 8f some of his ferrets. How- ever, he stated his mission. “Hum! ha!” muttered the man. “One mouse? Tell you, sir, we might be a month finding him. Couldn't think of bothering with the case under .'ten dollars. Do our best for tlnt.l mankind. Her eyes looked clear through him. He was a timid man. He had ceased his visits when he be-, came a professor at a college in a neighboring town. This especial day business had brought him to Verden. There was a fond lingering memory of the cozy little home that smelled of lavender and the inspiring cup of tea Miss Ursula brewed. When he came to the street where the artistic cottage among the shrubbery was located, he halted. Then he started on, walked back, and then started on again, mur- muring: “I'll just pass the house. Of course 1 wouldn't venture in without an in- wvitation.” Then as he reached the fenced-in nest of thé lady he so respected, he dallied. A faint sigh stole from his lips. The honeysuckles blooming so radiantly, reminded him of a sweet peaceful afternoon he had spent on the porch with the mistress of that ideal home. “Neat as ever—everything in or der,” he soliloquized. “She is a won. | derful woman. Ah, what is that?” Professor Fenn might well ask. His placid peace of mind was sud- denly invaded. A sharp scream rang out through the open front door of the cottage. The tones clectrified the | professor, for he instantly recognized — Ve o, ok aly) TN ! Staring Fowards the House as If Fear- Ing Some Dreaded Pursuer. i that they belonged to Miss Fetzer. ! The next moment she herself in per- i son burst past the screen door. She . was wringing her hands. She bound- ed down the steps recklessly. Then : with an agile spring she leaped to a | garden seat, and gathering up her | dainty white skirts, posed breathless, staring towards the house as it fear- ing some dreaded pursuer. With a spryness due to college athletics her visitor bounded over the fence. She saw him. ““Oh, Professor Fenn, shrieked Miss Fetzer. “I will—what s 1t?* “In the house!™ “A burglar! Ha! I will investigate,” began the professor. “No, no—a mouse!” and the speak- er sank to the bench, showed symp- toms of hysterics, and her gallant pro- tector sat down beside her and tried to soothe her. “It may not have been a mouse,” submitted the professor. “Perhaps it was a shadow.” “But I saw, and—oh, it squealed!” tremored the unnerved lady. “I am mortally afraid of mice. Besides that, lb think of one being in my house, so save me!” careful am I'” “Yes, truly an immaculate house- keeper,” murmured the admiring pro- fessor. “Let me essay a search for the—the monster,” and the professor gripped his cane and hurried into the bouse. He emerged shortly with the words: “I have failed to find any trace of the intruder, Miss Fetzer.” “I shall not rest in peace from this on,” declared the lady vehemently. “Why, some houses have become fair- ly overrun by the pest! Oh, Pro- fessor Fenn, you are such a clever man, with all your science. Can you Not Entirely Heartbroken. A tather who intended to make a great professional man of his son !lnm"y manages to ccnceal his disap- {pointment when the boy signs up for & neat salary as a ball player. Greatest Water Power. ‘The St. Lawrence river system is the largest in Canada, and it is probable that the water power available from 1§ is greater than that of say other rives ia Canada Rid the premises, if possible.” | The professor handed out ' money. “Further, sir, I'll guarantee the job on a basis of one dollar for each | mouse caught over ten.” “Very well,” agreed the professor. Two weeks later Professor Fenn re- ceived a bill for “39 extry mice, job ' done neatly and guaranteed,” and paid it. Along, too, came a note from Miss | Fetzer. She thanked the professor for clear- ing her/premises of those annoying pests. Nearly fifty mice found! But,| thank goodness! she was now rid of | them. She hoped the professor would | pass his coming vacation in his home | town. { Which he did, and that was the be- ginning of regular calls on the lady who so interested him. | Bach time he visited the house, sly- | ly, from some erratic whim, the pro- , fessor moved the two portraits near- er and nearer together. One day he found out that he had been neatly tricked by the subtle rat. catcher. The latter hgd played suc- cessfully on the fears of Miss Fetzer. He had, in fact, caught just one mouse. The balance were felt dum- mies, which he showed her, but she ; shriekingly refused to inspect them | closely. The professor told Miss Fetzer ot the incident, and laughed. She was relieved to think that, after all, there was only one tiny mouse to get scared at. That especial evening the professor Ilour-ml to learn his fate. They | the ' were conversing casually, when he pointed te the mantel. He had moved the portraits nearer and nearer, until they were only a few inches apart. “I moved th sse pictures, accordingly as each of my visits seemed to bring me nearer to you, Miss Fetzer,” he ob- served. His hostess blushed, showing that ehe was aware of the operation as it had progressed. He drew his chair closer to her own, and she did not seem to object. “Now, how do you think they really belong?”’ he submitted. “Won't you | show me? Shall we say this way?" and ne deliberately moved them di- rectly side by side. “I—T like to see them together, yes,” she fluttered, shyly as some school- girl, “Let you and I follow their exam- ple,” suggested the professor, grown bold and happy all in a flash, and he drew her to a true lover's embrace. (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) The Minister and the Steak. ‘The following incldent related by Norman Duncan, author of “Higgins, a ! Man's Christian,” makes plain why the ilate Rev. Francis E. Higgins gained such influence among the lumberjacks. “Boys,” he once sald to them, “I'll never forget a porterhouse steak I saw once. I'm a big man, you know, and when I get hungry I'm hungry. You know how they fix those windows up— & chunk of ice and some lettuce and a steak or two. Well, boys, all at once 1 got so hungry that I ached. I could hardly wait to get in there. But I' stopped. ‘Look here, Higgins,’ thought I, ‘what if you didn’t have a cent; what 1f you were a dead broke lumber- jack and hungry like this?’ Boys, it frightened me. I understood just what those poor fellows suffer. And I couldn’t go in the restaurant until I had got square with them. ‘Look here, Higgins,' I thought, ‘the best thing you can do is to go and find a hungry lumberjack somewhere and feed him.’ And 1 did, too; and I tell you, boys, 1 enjoyed my dinner.” Nelson and Villeneuve. When Nelson fell at Trafalgar he was only forty-seven years old, and the French commander, Admiral de Villeneuve, was only forty-two. The latter was a brilliant saflor, who had already fought against Nelson, and he thoroughly realized what the English tactics were going to be on this oc- casion. Indeed, he held a meeting of the captains of the allied fleet and lu- cidly explained them. Nelson would not, he said, form a line of battle paral- lel with the allied line. “He will seek to pierce our line, surround our rear | and overpower with groups of his ves- sels as many of ours as he can eut oft.” Still, althouzh prepared for this form of attack, Villeneuve failed to r sist it, and he was taken prizoner, bit- terly regretting that no shot had dealt him the same fate as Nelson Letme With That Country So Much In the Limelight It Was Perhaps Inevi- table—Collars of Many and Pretty Designs. There is no doubt that we will have an epidemio of Belgian styles new and old. Callot has already sent over a gown of velvet trimmed with tiny white porcelain beads and fur, which she calls Belgian, and the Flemish peasants will surely furnish much that is colorful and pictorial in the new Everything contributes to this domi- mation of fashions in the near future by the country and the people who have stirred the minds imagination of the any other factor in As one may have igium was, to all the peo) Smart Black Silk Beaver Hat, With | [ Long Qulill Ornament, Modeled on the Belglan Soldier's Cap. An Idle Speculation, “There goes Biffers on his new mo- torcycle. He hasn't had it but a few days.” “He must be traveling 40 miles an hour.” “Yes. I wonder if he's going so fast because he doesn’t know how to stop the thing, or whether he has already become an expert speeder?” SANITARY FRESSING CLUB CLEANING, PRESSING. REPAIRING and DYEING. Ladies Work a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed. GIVE US A TRIAL Kibler Hotel Basement. 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