Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 16, 1915, Page 6

CHARLOTTE HARBOR AND NORTHERN RAILWAY “BOCA GRANDE ROUTE” SAFETY FIRST. ATTRACTIVE SERVICE. COURTESY FOR THE SCHEDULE IN EFEECT JANUARY 18T, 1915 —=Subject to Change Without Notice— uthward. . .No. 84.|.No. 83. “128 “ 123 ».m. 930 ' 5 46 | AT IONS ATLANTIC COAST LINE No. 89 “ 126. Lv ..... Jacksonville ...... Ar| p.m. Lv . Lakeland vees Ar| .5 30 Lv . . Tampa .. eeo. Ar| 726 LY ....... Winston ....... Lv|s 6 156 No. 8 C.H.& N. Limited s 618 628 BOCA GRANDE ROUTE No.2 . Lv ...... Mulberry ....... seecesccscs BIUOS .. ... Ridgewood . .. Bruce .. Martin Junction .. «. Bradley Junction .. . Arjs 4 40 6 28 631 6 34 6 40 .. Cottman . . TigerBay .. . Cottman Fort Green Junction . ...Fort Green Fort Green Springs . Vandolah .. «.. Ona ... . Bridge Limestone . Arcadia . Shops .. . Nocatee .. Hull .... .+ Fort Ogden Boggess .. . Platt .. Mars . i ... Murdock . b Southland - 811 34 . McCall ..... f11 49 . Placida .. 3 s12 05 . Gasparilla . 3 812 15 «+e.ss.. Boca Grande 3 812 25 Ar .. South Boca Grande .. ... Daily p.m. Daily Through Sleeper Between Jacksonville, Lakeland, Arcadia & Booa 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 Agents will be cheerfully fur. nished by the undersigned. 4 L. M. FOUTS, 2nd V. P. & Gen. Mgr. Boca Grande, Fla. N. H. GOUCHER, Supt. Transportation, Arcadis, Fla. C. B. McCALL, 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 neced THE CASH. You need the Machine. Owur interests are mutual. Come let us Serve you. WILSON HARDWARE CO. INFORMATION OF THE PUBZI<O| LIVING IN A PLAY ——— By EMMA LEE WALTON. ' (Copyright.) Her name was Miss Carberry, and !she was young and pretty, in a quiet | sort of way. She came in two or three times every month from one of the suburbs to do her shopping, and she was the easiest person to wait on I who make you haul out everything in stock, and then walk snippily away, saying they guess they’ll get it some- | where else; or, even when she didn’t want to buy, she was that kindly it was a pleasure to do things for her. I | always like to remember her, when it ; seems some days as though women' folks were pretty hard to deal with. She remarked to Minnie once that she was a stranger everywhere, having recently come from the South after traveling all over the world. It was all along of her being friends with our floorman, Mr. Winter, that we first no- ticed her. They’d met somewhere, and he was always sure to come and talk to her for a good half hour as soon as she appeared on the floor, whether she was buying waists or suits or a kimo- no. We all noticed it, of course, but ! by and by we got so used to it we didn’t even smile to each other. Well, everything went all right until one day toward spring they quarreled. We didn’t know a thing about it until some one said she hadn't been in for | weeks, and then we took to watching. | Along in April she came in, in a hurry, for a waist, and that tall Miss Rlng: waited on her. She wanted the waist charged, and wished to take it with her, so Miss Ring called Mr. Winter. Mr. Winter signed the check, Miss Carberry bowed freezingly and said “Thank you,” and he walked away, for | all the world as though she were a complete stranger to him. It was like | one of the melodramas where the hero- . ine freezes the hero with a look before ' she knows he is “a man with a heart of gold, though a rough exterior.” | Miss Ring said she nearly fell over, ' she was that surprised and taken back, | but of course she didn’t say a word to Miss Carberry. After that we didn't see her again for weeks, and were just beginning to wonder if Mr. Winter would ever get over it, when in she came with the strange lady. i The strange lady was quietly dressed, and seemed very nice, but I didn't take to her a bit. We'd had an awfully hard day, anyway, and | was terribly sorry I didn’t happen to be off the floor when they came in. 1'd got an awful calling down, too, because I lost a “Don’t-ticket” off one of the suits being fitted, and I just wanted to cry. | But when they came in, and Mr. Sem- ple called me to wait on them, shout- | ing my name as though I were deaf, I had to go and be good. Miss Carberry and the stranger had met on the train, and seemed already good friends, though Miss Carberry was usually so reserved They were both looking for blue suits, so I could | wailt on them together, which made itl easler. I had shown about fifteen suits, when a customer came hurrying back from the elevator and grabbed my arm Just as I was going into one of the lit- tle stock rooms. | She had lost her purse, she sald, and she was all broken up, for it had lots in it. We were all sorry for her, and helped hunt, the stranger being espe- clally nice about it. She spent so much time looking that she said she couldn’t stay any longer, as she had to | telephone a friend at once. Then the | customer who had lost her purse got still more excited and I sent one of the stock boys after Mr. Daly, our de- tective, because I saw the lady sus- pected the stranger, who was leaving the department. When Mr. Daly came to me I told him all about it as fast as I could, and he stood a moment watching the stran- . ger disappear. Something in her man- ner seemed to bother him, for he walked after her as quick as a flash. | Miss Carberry was nervous and dis- tressed, but didn't realize at any time that the two quiet-looking men stand- ing by the window were two other : store detectives, who had been sum- | moned by Mr. Daly, and had their eyes on her. They signed to me to go on showing goods; so I did, though my hands shook with excitement, and I was terribly nervous over the walling | of the lady who lost the purse. We were getting nervous enough to scream, when the manager's office boy came down to speak to the detectives, and they asked us if we would have any objection to going with them to one of the upper floors They picked ' up an elevator that was empty, and we went up, scarcd out of our wits, | When we came in Mr. Daly was | standing by the desk answering ur.} Huston’s questions and the stranger | was crying softly into a lace handker | chief. Miss Carberry was as white as a sheet, but the lady who had lost her | purse was real calm. Mr. Huston had Mr. Daly tell us how he had followed the stranger to & telephone booth, where he had seen her take a purse from her sleeve and pour the money and bills into her stocking, throwing the purse after- ward on the floor. He had followed her to the elevator then, and told the conductor to go up, though he was on his way down at the time When he finished his story, Mr. Huston asked the lady to describe her property as well as she could She did easily describe the purse and the money, and Mr Huston ex- | ever saw. ’ She wasn't a bit like these women Man His Werd “ls Bliggins a men of hs werd?™ “Unfortunately so. Whenever he sings Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl!’ er T Won't Go Home Till Morning!" he absolutely insists on making good.” of [y Alligators’ Eggs Edible. Alligators’ eggs are eaten in the West India islands and on the west coast of Africa They resemble in shape a hen's egg, and have much the same taste, but are larger. More than a hundred eggs have been found in ome alligator. cused her and let her go, after taking her name and address. Then it came my turn to answer questions that came thick and fast, but I had to stay after he finished asking them. I' was glad, because I wanted to hear the rest. I tried to'put in a word for Miss Carberry, but only made matters worse for her, perhaps, though she looked at me gratefully out of her white face. When Mr. Huston cross-examined her, he was as kind as he had been to me, though it was plain to be seen that he was sure she was in the thing somehow. Her not knowing anybody in Chicago looked pretty bad for her, and it was much worse that she had no one in Peoria she was willing to refer to. Mr. Huston kind of smiled crooked when she said the man who had gone surety for her running an account in Meadows’ store had died the week be- fore. Things were beginning to be pretty dark for her when I thov~ht of Mr. Winter. I was going to blurt his name right out when I remembered they had quarreled and she might even deny she knew him at all. 1 thought I knew him well enough, however, to feel sure he wouldn’t think of anything except that she was in trouble and needed him. So [ asked Mr. Huston if I might phone to our de- partment. He looked surprised when Mr. Winter came in. “We are conducting a private inves- tigation, Mr. Winter,” he said coldly. “Could your business wait a half hour?” “I beg pardon,” Mr. Winter said. “I understod you wished me to come up here at once.” “I phoned for Mr. Winter,” I said eagerly “He can help Miss Carberry, if you will let me tell him.” 1 was astonished at my own bold- ness, but I knew Mr. Huston liked straightforward people, and anyhow— I had to. He smiled. ! “Go ahead,” he said. It took a good many words to tell it all straight, and Mr. Winter’s face was a study. He looked angry and hurt and puzzled, and then he burst out before I finished, as sudden as lightning. “Mr. Huston, Miss Carberry is as honest and straight as you are!” he cried sharply. “If she says she met this woman on the train, you may know it's as true as Gospel. I will stand responsible for her every act and thought. It’s an outrage, by Jove, it is! She's as innocent as—" ¢ Mr. Huston raised his hand and turned to Miss Carberry. “Do you know Mr. Winter?” he ! asked severely. Miss Carberry hesitated. When he first came in she had looked very an- gry to think he had dared; but when ' she found how it was her face softened a little, and there was a funny little light in her eyes when he became so excited. | “Yes,” she said softly. “I used to know Mr. Winter.” “If all this is true, Mr. Winter,” Mr. Huston said slowly, “how can you ex- 1 Plain her unwillingness to send for you before?” “I .didn't send for him this time,” Miss Carberry protested gently. Please remember that.” | Mr. Winter grew red and glanced at Miss Carberry, who leaned forward, listening with parted lips and very pink cheeks. He hesitated a moment, ' but her eyes seemed to sort of smile, and he answered reluctantly: i “Well, you see,” he stammered, | “Miss Carberry and I've been friends for a long, long time, but a while ago we—well, we had a falling out, and she said she'd never speak to me again. | 8o, you see—" i Mr. Huston smiled. “I understand,” he sald. “It would take a hardened sinner not to believe your faith in her justified. Miss Car-| berry, I am sorry you have been incon- | venienced, but I think you can see our ' position. I am sure, with Mr. Winter | as such an earnest champion, I cannot | hold you longer, even as an accom-' plice. Only remember, it is safer not ! to make friends on the cars in the neighborhood of Chicago.” | Miss Carberry smiled, but couldn’t | speak. “Now, Daly,” Mr. Huston went on briskly, “I hand the real prisoner over to you. Find out whether it 18 her first offense and act accordingly. Madam, I would have been more inclined to let you go had you said the least word to help Miss Carberry, out of the pickle you put her in. Remember that next time. You are excused, all of you.” At the doorway .I looked back and caught a glimpse of Miss Carberry crying on Mr Winter's serge coat, and I forgot how tired and nervous and cross [ had felt all the whole day long 1 felt for once as though I was Mving in a novel or a play Funny Tug of War. At a logging camp in lower Missis- sippl one day a hog commenced squeal- ing vigorously and when the foreman investigated, he found that the porker bhad been seized by an altigator and was being drawn into water. He called for help and three men seized the hog and pulled. Then began a tug of war. The men would puil the hog and the alligator up the bank, and then the alligator would pull the hog and men back again. This merry game—for all but the hog—went on untit a fourth man came running with an ax, and with it he hit the alligator such a rap on the head that it relaxed its grip, and the men saved the hog, or what was left of it Compassion. Hobo—T've eaten nothing but snow- balls for three days Lady—Poor man! What would you bave done had it been summer time? Ingenious Youngster. A lttle boy came near getting & go0d spanking for answering his father in a pert way, but escaped by saying, “When you were a small boy, dad, didn’t you ever get excited and say the wrong thing?"” Stickers. The great difference between a pub- lo servant and a domestic servant is that the public servant would not re- sign even under fire—Loulsville Cour ferJournal. ' crept upstairs to call the children ml | the air of a general ; ment bullding fire that he had wit- | anything, and not to paint anything —How “] am especially anxious for H?rold to come.” read Harold’s mother. “Dor- othy has never had any one to play with except her father and me. and she doesn't know how to play with children of ber own age. A more angelic child never breathed and Dick is eager to see what a bit of well di- rected spice will do for her. He al ways has felt that she should have been born a boy, you know. So come soon.”’ It was with timid obedience to her parents’ urgent directions that Dor- othy, aged four, went forward two weeks later and gravely gave her Cous- in Harold a ‘welcoming Kiss, saying in slow and awestruck tones: “You can play with my toys and the attic is all ready.” “Well, come on'" shouted Harold. Then, pulling her ruthlessly by the hand, he started up the broad stair- way for the stories above. “The dears!” chimed the mothers in | unizon. Then the two settled down | to discugs the various merits of their | oftspring, wondering how soon they | might be called upon to explain to Dorothy just what it was that Har-| old meaut by his boyish actions But there was no sudden summons | to the attic. Two hours later lh?)’: luncheon and to note Dorothy's prog-r ress. Harold was directing operations with by, her angelic eyes blazing with ex- | citement, shearing wildly her best || doll's hair. About her lay several dolls of varfous sizes, mercilessly bar- bered. and on the floor were strewn the curls that had once graced the bisque heads. It was not this si~ht that made her mothker start forwazrd with a ery of terror and catch up her child in a fe- ver of amazement Dorothy's curis had evidently been the first to fall They lay intermingied with the tang'ed floss upon the floor. “He's been teaching me to play motker.” cried Dorcchy as che strug gled free. “We're barkers and he cut off my hair like Lis and we've cut the dolls’ hair, too, when they hnd. any.’ Durizg luncheon both children were gravely admonished and though rest- less to a marked degree they promiscd solemnly not to use the scissors and not to throw anything—Harold baving suggested an imitation of an apart- nesced where all the furniture had been thrown from the upper floors. Further, they promised not to pound but their own paint books. 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A most extravagant plume and a few gold rose Iy “But such an investment, (. swered her sister. “Mme Re 1 has | a high small toque " With that the subject of fashions ! was launched for the afternoon Some hours later, because of the silence in the attic, they went fn search of the cherubs. They were not in the attic, nor in the nursery nor vet in mother's room. But there they found evidences of pilfering that sent terror to the mothers’ hearts and set them to calling loudly for their dar- lings. Dorothy had rifled her mother's hat box. The tissue paper coverings and the box lid were strewn about, but the hat was gone answered eagerly and innocently. “We're playing milliner's shop,” called Dorothy's high treble, an eerie gleam In her usually soft eyes. “Har- old knows such lots of plays and I'm learning like you sald to. And we're going to stuff some dolls’ plilows with these.” On the bed lay the two hats shorn of all that had made them models of the season’s most perfect designs. Up- right on each stood a single wiry stick from which all the fibers of a once lovely plume had been stripped. On | the white counterpane lay a heaped up mass of green and rose. “It's some like excelsior, only soft- or,” shouted Harold, “and In pillows it will be fine." Then, seeing the tragedy that lay his mother's eyes. her‘uramhled t:'n: side, saying eagerly: “We didn't cut or throw or pound or paint, mother—*" The rest was drowned in the slam- ming door on the retiring figures of Dorothy and Dorothy’s mother. Simple Enough, “I don’'t know how to make con- | | versation when in society " | “It's simple enough. When you're | | with automobile people you talk auto. mobile, and when you're with bridge | people you talk bridge " “And he does obey { S We can trust them now that they have | |E | used my white plume. dved green, on ||B —— Wonderful Snow Figures. The delicacy and beauty of snow fig- ures have no parallel in the product of | |§ man or insect. 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