Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 24, 1915, Page 3

e — The Professions 1 # Chirooractor \a Dyches Bullding Between Park snd Auditorium. OFFICE HOURS. $1011:30 & m. 1:30 to 5 p. m. 7:00 to 8:00 p. m. Consultation and Examination Free. Residence Phone 240 Black poctors of Chiropratic. Over Post ofice. Hourg 8 to 12. a. m. and 3, wiand 7o 8 B m. Graduates and Ex-Facuity mem pers of the Palmer School of Chirapratie. Consultation and Spinal analysis free at office. @¢. D. & K. D. MERDENHALL CONSULTING ENGINEERS Suite 212-216 Drane Buiiding MISS VERE'S VACATI And the Sort of Hushand She Selected. By BELLE MANIATES. “Girls, Vere ll]l_l;e i eo:ln:ry for a rest!” AR S0y elen poised her paint b flectively in mid-air, while nllnnrelh l.et stopped in the act of squeezing a de- pl:'iad tube of vermilion. am of the opinion,” resumed Con- m, “t::t she is not fleeing the o8 Cary St art, but from War 'Poug Cary!” sighed Helen. "N?! protested Constance. “Poor Vere! She lacks the courage to come out resolutely and tell him she'll have oone of him. “T think,” sald Margaret thought- fully, “that secretly Vere cares for bim.” “It's not,” quoted Helen, “that she loves-Cary less, but art more. She—" Further discussion was Ppostponed by the entrance of the subject of their remarks, a charming young girl 1 N“mmwhnm l come for untfl I & rustling and the sound { stripping of the husks. b | “In the fourth row from me I saw j another invader—a wman—standing, : lll'! and straight. I turned and fled.” ! “What, from a man?" cried Con- stance, incredulous. “He might have been the owner of the fleld, and I would have been ?ught red-handed. I hurried back to ommy, who scoffed at my fears, and Wwe traded jobs. I wasn’t much of a Success as a fire-builder. While I was poking away, I heard a deep voice behind me say: ‘That is a man's province, you know. Give me the stick.’ “I turned and saw the broad- shouldered man of the oor:ifl‘.'ll. He was clad roughly, but his voice and manners were gentlemanly. He ex- plained that he had caught Tommy foraging in his fleld, and the lad had ‘told him he was getting corn for his pal, who was back in the woods. He came in search of me, supposing 'l must be Tommy's boy companion. i He had sent Tommy up to his house | (he has a housekeeper or a tenant ':: something) for some salt and but- T. “He bullt a roaring fire, and we set LONELY MR, HODGE By CLARISSA MACKIE. | i | (Copyright, McClure Newspsper Syndicate.) | The next day after Miss Lumpkin’s Selected School for Girls opened for the fall term, Robina Judd, the new- | est girl of all, walked ibout the spa- clous grounds with her roommate. ‘Let us go through this cunning gate and see what is on the other side!” suggested Robina, when they had come to the end of the evergreen path. Grace Barney glanced up at the for- | bidding stone wall and shook her sunny head. “Out of bounds, Robina,” she said regretfully. “Besides, it's private property—a perfect ogre of an old man lives there all alone. I asked Miss Lumpkin about him and she sighed and called him “poor, lonely Mr. Hodge—only, you see, Robina, he happens to be rich.” “Here comes Miss Gerald,” sald Ro- bina—"“isn’t she a dear?” Okeechobee Farms Will yield big crops of corn, cane, cowpeas, velvet bum..npe. uts, kudzu, spineless da, Rhodes, Para, Natal and other gnuel;:nluy and pasture. With cactus? of these crops available, cattle, sheep and hogs can have green food the year round. Thousands of Acres of Our Land at the North End of Lake Okeechobee Are Now Ready for Cultivation The<e lands do not need draining other than small ditches on any farm. Make a trip necessary to Okeechobee on the new division of the Florids East Coast Railway without delay, and see for yoursel just what these lands are. Note that Okeechobee is now only & trifie over twelve hours’ journey from Jacksonville. Investigate This Wonderful Country While You Can Have a Choice of Locations for Your Farm You will find it unexcelled for general farming, livestock and poultry raising and for growing all kinds of vegetables common to Florida as well as the finest citrus fruit. This town and country will grow at an amazing rate during the next few years. We also have excellent land and town with golden bhair and a dream-cen- tered face. “I am going away to the country,” she announced. i the table in the woods, and when Tom- | “My favorite teacher! She has my returned we roasted the corn and | 0nly been here three days and yet I ihad a jolly luncheon. Then we all love her better than any of the oth- ot Fitacsg and Fo-: evilla—the former a fine lake section in Seminole County suited to it v ral farming, and the latter a fertile pine land country in Osceols . <k raising, general farming and fruit growing. Write today for !n! . H Coul, especialyy «...., Residence phone, 278 Black. Ofdce phone, 378 Blue, DR. SARAH P. WHEELER OSTEOPATE Aonex, Door South of First National Bank Lakeland, Florida sann DR. W. R. GROOVER PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON dvoms 6 and 4. Kentucky Buildina 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, Jr. ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Bullding Manager NATIONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. Auction Lot Sales a Specialty 41 Raymondo Bidg. Lakeland, Fla EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER . v i . Raymondo Bldg., Lakeland, Floride KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Building Lakeland Florida DR. RICHARD LEFFERS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Rooms 2-3, Skipper Building Over Postoffice ........ tate Law a Specialty DR. H. MERCER RICHARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office: Rooms 6 and 6, Ellistor Blax Lakeland, Florida Phones: Office 378; Resid. 301 Blue FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building Ofce phone 402. Res. 312 Red Special attention to drafting lega papers. Marriage licenses and abstracts turnished W. HERMAN WATSON, M. D. -Groover Bldg. Telephones: Office 351; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Florids i ———— 3. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Dickson Building .Practice in all courts. claims located and contested Bstablished in July, 1900 DR. W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST M Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building i e o miiae LOUTS A. FORT ARCHITECT Kibler Hotel, Lakelard, Florida e i DR. J. R. RUNYAN 00ome 17 and 18, Raymondo Bldg \ll pecessary drugs furnished with- out extra charge Residence phone 303. Office Phone 410 SICK? 73 Lakeland Sanitarium Ors. Hawna HARDIN BLD :thre'.’" asked Helen succinctly. To a farm near Chester, a little town up state, but” she hurriedly added, “don’t tell any one. You see 1 don’t want to receive letters even. I want a complete rest.” The girls maintained a gravity of countenance in spite of the ludicrous 1dea of Vere's needing a rest. “Nora Lynn told me about the place, the Locke farm, with a big, comfortable farmhouse. She stayed there last summer. She said there was nothing to do there but rest.” “You will soon tire of it,” prophe- eled Helen. went home, and then—" | ers. Sweet and sad and lovely—she— “Well, what then—did he propose she looks as thoughshe might have ,on the way home in spite of Tommy's A suffered, Robina!” presence?” | “No; there followed a week of beautiful walks through the woods, i moonlight rides on the river, and oh, well, I told him last night I would ,marry him! I came home today to | tell you all.” i “Vere,” remonstrated Margaret, “you , !can’t tell about a man in a week!” | “Wait until you see him before you ' pass judgment,” replied Vere. “He | {is coming to meet you all in a few minutes.” So the girls suspended sentence. | tunity. “Maybe,” suggested Margaret, “you jPresently there was a ring at lhe} will meet your fate—in a cornfield— | studio door, which Constance opened and settle down to a life of rural |to Cary Warborough. domesticity.” “If 1 were going to marry,” main- tained Vere, “I should choose a poor man—a farmer, maybe. Then 1 could etill pursue my art. would expect me to enter upon a life of social duties.” “You ought to give Gary a hint of the way you feel. I think he would be willing to forego his millions for the sake of winning you.” Vere looked annoyed, and bade them an abrupt adieu. The three artists missed their “] Am Going to the Country.” young companion during the next few weeks. Unlike them she made frequent incursions into a gay life, and brought an occasional flash of color into the drab of their life. So when she returned suddenly and un- announced one day, she received & heartfelt welcome. “You are certainly rested,” com- mented Margaret, looking searching- ly into the glowing young face. “Oh, girls! I have had such a lovely time. The scenery was beauti- ful—oh, the woods in autumn!™ “Did you paint anything?” asked Helen. “N-o,” she hesitated. ‘“Margaret,” she resumed, turning to the most sympathetic of the three, “I did just A rich man | “How will she ever break the news | to him?” gasped Helen. | Instead of breaking the news, Vere | i flew to his arms. “Vere,” remonstrated Constance | | presently, “you said you met him in a corn field.” “So I did. Until T saw him there 80 unexpectedly I didn't know I loved him. And that was why I fled.” “But,” persisted Constance, “you ,sald he was a farmer, and that he |had a farmhouse and housekeeper.” “So he has. He owns the farm and rents it to Farmer Locke. He came | down for a bit of shooting.” “I'l wager,” thought Margaret, ‘“thut Nora Lynne told him Vere was there.” (Copyright, 1912, by Assoclated Literary Press.) AHEAD IN ONE PARTICULAR United States Makes the Best School { Showing of Any Country In ® the World, The United States leads in the per- centage of population enrolled in schools. Switzerland follows, the fig- ures being 19.7 and 18.6 respectively. But we, along with Germany and the rest, are left far behind in other par- ticulars. * The little republic in the Alps boasts 178 university students per 10,000 population to 81 in France, 77 in Italy and 20 in this country. It should be pointed out, however, that in a little country like Switzerland, with several important universities, the presence of foreign students counts for much more than elsewhere. | We are accustomed to think that, while we haven't yet produced many classics, we print—and read—more | hewspapers than any other nation, . and it seems to be true that in abso- lute totals of issues of periodicals we surpass them all, our 21,320 a year, being more than twice the 9,877 of France, our nearest rival. But in num- ber of newspapers per million of popu- lation, our 260 is outdone by the 276 of Switzerland and almost equaled by the 261 of France. Our showing in books published per 100,000 population ' is pitiful or fortunate according to one’s way of looking at the modern flood of literature. Denmark, with 135, and Switserland, with 116, are at the top of the list, while the United States, with ten, and Russia, with six, are at the bottom. The surprising thing is that Germany is at the head in none of these categories.—Open Court. what you prophesied. I lost my heart | —or found it—and And I am going to be married. He says I may have a studio in our house and paint all I like.” Brushes and palettes were excit- edly laid aside. “Tell us all about it! 1Is he a farm- er? Was it love at first sight?” “For two weeks I reveled, idling out of doors, and the farm was aa immense one—not a mneighbor within four miles. In all these weeks of doing nothing I saw no one but Farmer Locke, his wife and their son, @ 1ad of ten, and the help.” “Then,” exclaimed Constance, “un- less your swain is the ‘hired help’ you have known him only a week!” “One beautiful day,” continued Vere, ignoring the comment, “I went out with Tommy Leocke to have luncheon in the woods. Mrs. Locke put us up a basket of good things, but Tommy proposed building a fire and roasting corn. I went forth to forage in the fields and left Tommy collecting brushwood. “I went through fertile acres un- til T came to a field of waving corn. The symmetrical rows of sturdy stalks made shaded little avenues, and in the fun of walking down them B —— | Virtue of Gooa Manners. Good manners, while costing little, accomplish much. They may perhaps be among the “little things,” but who will not agree that it is just these little things that makes the big dif- | ferences in our pleasure or pain, com- | fort or discomfort? They oil the wheels of life and cause them to run smoothly and noiselessly. To those who can command its vark from genial warmth to icy l politeness is perhaps the most power ful weapon of defense and offense. in a cornfield! | | Better Idea. | Orville Wright was recently pre- valled on to try & new revolving mo- tor of the Gnome type, the invention of a San Franciscan. | Mr. Wright put the new motor on an old biplane and gave it a fair trial. It continually stalled, however, and 80 he told the inventor that he was afraid it wouldn't do. ' But the inventor read him a long leo- ture on the various methods of pre- venting stalling, concluding with the admonition: | “You want to put a little cleverness ‘in your work, sir.” “Humph,” the aviator retorted. “Why didn’t you put the cleverness in your engine?” | His Mistake. “Did the story he made up to tell his wife pan out all right?” “Nope, it was a complete faflure.” “It sounded good to me.” “Yes, but he invented it when he was sober, and when he got home , and started to try it out he found | there were so many big words in it that no man iz his condition could pronounce that he had to give it up. His next effort will be in words of one | syllable.” | ! Aeroplane Testing. ! In a French aeroplane factory wings | are testing by turning machines upside | down and loading them with sand, evenly distributed, until a weight ex- ceeding the pressure the wings must | blackboard: ‘The grand old red, white | to secure it, ar withstand is reached. Ideal Mind. A weak mind sinks under prosperity —when the moon is at full, and whea there is no moon—Julius Hare. 1 hoe against stones. The thought of lonely Mr. Hodge wandering about his perfectly kept grounds haunted the careless mo-} ments of Robina Judd. “Some day I shall go in,” she threatened to her roommate. i “You will have to prove it by | bringing me omne of those weirdly colored Japanese chrysanthemums from his garden,” Grace replied. “Wait and see!" retorted Robina, and that very afternoon came oppor- Most of the girls had gone for a long walk in the woods, but Robina, who had slightly twisted her ankle in the gymnasium that morning pre- ferred to hobble around the garden. Finally she came to the door in the wall—the high wall beyond which lived lonely Mr. Hodge. “The time and the place—and I hope the man!” giggled Robina, as she turned the knob of the little green door. It creaked dismally, opened, and in the distance she could see the mel- lowed walls of a red brick house bathed in the afternoon sunshine. A gardener was working somewhere —there was the clicking sound of a “It's jolly here,” commented Ro- bina, and she rounded a little sum- mer house and came upon the gar- dener, who was vigorously stirring up the soll in the bed of gorgeous chrys- anthemums. He turned a pair of surprised blue eyes upon her—twinkling blue eves, set in a sunburned face, close-shaven and square-jawed. “Well!” he exclaimed. “Well!" gasped Robina, for she had nothing else to say. Then, with sud- den inspiration, she added. “The chrysanthemums are lovely!” “Think so? Then you must have some,” he decided promptly, and, taking a knife from his pocket, he | proceeded to cut a huge bunch of | white and yellow and crimson chrys- | anthemums. | full particulars to J. E. INGRAHAM, Vice-President Land and Industrial Department, Florida East Coast Railway Room 218 City Building i EASY FOR THE DETECTIVE| Knowledge of Human Nature and a Little Reasoning Led Him to tre Truth. Conspicuous on the end of the-coun- ter in the little cigar shop was a brand new, highly ornate cigar lighter made of heavy bronze. It was the type which has a wire rod sheathed in a phial of alcohol, from which the rod is drawn to be dipped in a jet of fire. So proud was the cigarmaker of the new fixture that he pointed it out to every customer with special courtesy. ‘While thus engaged one evening re- cently he was’ borrified to discover that the wire rod with its beautiful bronze handle was missing. “It was here a moment since,” he declared to & man who was waiting for a light. “Where can it be?’ | “Easy question to answer,” smiled the customer. “That little rod is out there on the pavement just outside ' the door. I have not seen it, but 1! know it is there.” | “Sure enough, it is there,” ex-| claimed the cigarmaker, rushing to | recover his p-operty. know that?” | “In my business, which happens to be that of a professional detective,” “How did you { “You—you wouldn't mind glving me | o\ ¢13imeq the customer, “I find that just one of the variegated ones?" hes- ftated Robina. “Sure!” he smiled down at her. “I hope Mr. Hodge doesn't mind my coming in here,” went on Robina, with a glance at the house. “You see, I be- long to the school next door, and we girls know about Mr. Hodge; and we | a knowledge of the hnman inclination | to do many trifling things unconscious- ly 18 of value. In the present case force of habit caused your last cus- tomer to throw away the cigar lighter after using it precisely as if it were a match. lie did it without thinking. He threw the rod either to the right have felt sorry about his belng 80, o' joft after lighting his cigar, ac- lonely, and I said that I was coming in some day to see him, and Grace | I'm afraid I must ! dared me to come. g0 now.” “S8o0 you are sorry for Mr. Hodge?" | laughed the gardener. “Why?” “Because he lives here alone—and | because some of the girls say that he | had been disappointed—oh, I should not talk to you so!” Robina suddenly remembered the proprieties. She thought the gardener’s blue eyes clouded, but he was still smiling. “Wouldn’t 1t add to the romance of the occasion to discover that I am Mr. Hodge?” asked the gardener calmly. “Oh! oh!" moaned Robina. the girls will laugh at me!"” “Don’t you belleve that!" he “How | concerts. Recently, he declares, he grinned cheerfully. “They’ll be eaten up with envy at your romantic adven- | ture.” “Robina!” The clear sweet call came from the other side of the high wall. “Who is that?’ asked Mr. Hodge, | looking very pale, “It is Miss Gerald—our drawing teacher—she is looking for me—good- by—and thank you!" Just as Robina reached the door it opened and Pauline Gerald stood there. Robina rushed past her into the school grounds, but Pauline paused within the grounds of Mr. Hodge, looking with glad, bewildered eyes at the man who stood there with outstretched hands. “Pauline!” he was saying. “When 1 bought this old place I never dreamed that you—why, Pauline, dar- ling, you would not look that way un- less you loved me!” “And when I peeked through the gate,” said Robina to her school- mates, “she was in his arms—and—" She paused dramatically. “And—?" breathed her companions tensely. “They were kissing each other— and so I guess it's all right!” ended Robina, who had brought this romance to pass. Teacher Disagreed. “Mamma, when you speak about three things you always ought to say | ‘are, oughtn't you?” “Yes, dear. Why?” “’'Cause the teacher said it wasn't right when I wrote on the | and blue are waving over Cul Rocks. Stone is largely limestone, sand- stone or granite. Limestone is ke ed scale, 88 well as under adversity. A strong ' geposit of seashell life, sandstone is trigidity, and desp mind has two highest tides merely hardened sand, while granite 1s the result of heat fusing the other kinds of rock. cording to the hand he had used. “Now, the rod was not on the floor to his left, for I looked carefully when you spoke. Consequently it had to be on the pavement, as the cigar lighter stands just next to the open door. “Here s my card. It ever you need a detective let me know." Needless Interruptions. A New Yorker writes the Times to protest against a habit he says met- ropolitan women have of knitting at ‘was obliged to sit near a knitter and , the click of her busy needles dis- turbed him. Here is a serious issue. One has seen a woman, returning from mar- ket, shelling her beans on the street car. There could be no objection to her plucking a holiday goose under the same circumstances, provided she didn't scatter feathers on the floor. But knitting at a concert s differ ent. A knitting needle obbligato to a | barp selection might lack something of the ideal. One might better take | & basket of corn to husk, or an arm- ful of stockings to darn. Almost any concert enthusiast will agree with the Times complainant. It : the music is not to one's liking it is | better to exchange whispered stories | with one’s neighbor than to disturd the assemblage with clicking needlea. “From Hoke Smiths.> ; lmums-motooomm' | had bables named after him so numer ously and for so many years that now his mall is interspersed every day with letters from various other Hoke Smiths. He has his morning mall sorted into several classes, which in- clude: “Important,” “Unimportant,” and “From Hoke Smiths.” Even though he has grown used to it of late, It seems funny to sign his Hoke | Smith to a letter directed to Hoke| Smith Jones or any of the scores of other Hoke Smiths that keep writing | to him. l snivoas | Weuld Not Think of Defeat. i As to being prepared for defeat, 1 oertainly am not. Any man who Is prepared for defeat would be half defeated before he commenced 1hope | for success, shall do all in my power 1 trust to God for the rest—aAdrmiral ut ———— Her First Book. = r novel will be bound d;'l- of course” announced l-i: pompous publisher. “Oh, how nice! exclaimed the girlish suthor. “And may I select the cloth? 1 choose piak ehiffon."—Puck. ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA IT WILL PAY YOU 1 T0 ‘ CONSULT US ON THE ELECTRIC WIRING IN YOUR HOUSE OR STORE We Are Electrical Experts FLORIDAELECTRIC&MACHINERY Co THE ELECTRIC STORE Phone 46 Kibler Hotel Bidg. 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