Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 29, 1915, Page 7

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MEND (ONSULTING ENGINEERS jte 212-216 Drane Building Lakeland, Fla. pate Land Examinations and Demgns Karthwork Specialists, ace phone, 278 Black. phone, 278 Blue. DR. SARAH P, WHEELER OSTEOPATH Aonex, Door, South of First National Bank Lakeland, Florida DIR. W. R. GROOVER PRYSICIAN AND SURGEON 6 and 4. Kentucky Buildins Lakeland, Florida DR. W. B. MOON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Telephone 350 9 to 11, 2 to 4, evenings 7 to 8 Over Postoffice Lakeland, Florida Law Office of A. X. ERICKSON Bryant : A. X, ERI N J. C. WILLIAMS E. W. THOMSON Notary, Depositions attended. 0. Rogers Edwin Spencer, Jr. ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Buillding Lakeland, Florida B. H. HARNLY Bstate, Live Stock aal General AUCTIONEER Sales Maneger TIONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. Auction Lot sales a Specialty Raymondo Bidg. Lakeland, Fla EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER mondo Bldg., Lakeland, Florida KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Buillding Lakeland Florida DR. RICEARD LEFFERS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Rooms 2-3, Skipper Building W. 8. PRESTON, LAWYER Upstairs East of Court House BARTOW, FLA. ination of Titles and Reay Xv: tate Law a Specialty DR. H. MERCER RICHARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON : Rooms 5 and 6, Ellistor Blas. Florida es: Office 378; Resid. 301 Blue FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building phone 402. Res. 313 Red | attention to dcafting legal papers. rriage licenses and abstracts turnished “Ob,” sald Elizabeth uncertatn! “ob—I don't know who he 1s.” e “What made you bow to him, then? “T didn't. He bowed to me. I cut him. You know I did. Il never speak to you again if you say he didn’t.” “Anything for the sake of conversa- tion,” I sald agreeably; “keep talking. You cut him so severely that I saw the blood come—to his face.” “No,” sald Elizabeth, clutching at my arm in her eagerness, “not really? Do you mean he—blushed?” “Well,” T hedged. “if he wasn't blushing he was feeling particularly healthy at the moment; he distinctly glowed.” “Ts he"—with an effort she stopped herself glancing round—“is he still staring at me?—horrid creature!” “No,” I reassured her, looking over my |houl'der ‘he’s gone on.” “Beast!” she snapped viclously, “that’s just like him.” ” “Seelng you are unacquainted” 1 mentioned mildly, “you seem curiously familiar with his manners.” “I never said I didn't know him.” “You did.” “T didn’'t. T sald I DON'T know him.” “Where's the difference?” “Wasn't there a law to make chil- dren go to school when you were a boy? One's the present tense, and the other’s the past.” “T see, and he's a past tenser?” “M'm,” said Flizabeth, with an air of one exhausted with the subjeot. “Just look at that woman's hat, Dick; did you ever see anything like 1t “Awtul, fsn't 1t?" I agreed, “How can you know?—you're mot looking.” “T know without looking; that's why I let you come out with me some- lumel; I hate ugly things, and you al- ways point out where I don’t want to look.” . “I'm sure I don't; I always tell you it T see anything pretty. There's & “Where?” smart hat over there, now—at least, they were all the rage last year; o body decent could wear ome. o I wonder why on earth she wears the thing—it doesn't suit her a bit." “Perhaps the poor Wwoman hasa't any friends to tell her. She looks & lonely eoul.” ore likely they have told her, and that's why she hasa't any friends.” She hesitated for a moment, and glanced at me from the cormer of ber eye. “Talking of friends,” she resumed, in a curious tone of embar rassment. “Don’t let's start talking scandal on a lovely day like this,” I pleaded. “] wasn't going to.” She paused, and dug at the gravel path with the end of her sunshade. “Let's sit down, shall we? I want to tell you some- ™ “About—7T" I gave a backward jerk of my head as we seated oursclves. “Ye—es, though I don’t krow how- ever you guessed.” “Intuition,” I sald complacently. “I have a frightfully keen intellect some days—I think it must be something in the air.” There was a restful si- e couldn’t; he became stoce broker in the end.” Lo T met him,” she went on, “at . b my aunt’s last year; h a8 misogy- nist.” JE : “A what? 1 cried, aghast at this display of erudition, “It means a woman hater. 1 looked it up in the dictionary when | they told me what he was.” e Good Lord!” I said, still unsettled. ' Fancy having people looking one up in the dictionary! No wonder he looked so depressed. “He used to say most awtul thi bout us girls,” nes “Wouldn't you?” I murmured sym-' “Try. Don't think toi spare me.” “Well, for one thing,” she said, thus urged, “he said—he said—well I don't koow what he didn't say.” i “Don’t worry about what he didn't say—that's not the part I feel T shall be interested in.” “Well, he said—mind you, this isn't | a quarter as bad as some of them, only I can't remember those—he said the | feminine sex—that shows you the sort | of man he was, doesn't it?” she broke ! off. “Fancy saying Yeminine sex’| Well, anyhow—don't get so impatient, I'm telling you quickly as I can;, you keep interrupting so. He said the | feminine sex was the rock on which men were—wrecked, or foundered, or | —something nautical, snyhow. He was a horrid man.” “To some extent” 1 admitted, “1 can sympathize with your feelings.” “And then he sald,” she went on, ! “that marriage was a snare to which | woman was a successful but inadequate bait.” She paused, flushed with in- dignation, and eyed me expectantly. “A felicitous phrase,” I said, feeling | bound to say something, “but sadly | lacking in tact.” “Yes, it was, wasn't it? 8o, of course——" she spoke in the tone of one who had made many sacrifices— “I had to—" “Snub him,” T interposed. “Natural ly. That, of course, acoounts for his behavior just now.” Elizabeth flushed a little, and gazed interestedly at the tip of her shoe. “Well,” she sald, a trifle awkward- ly, “I didn't exactly SNUB him. I—I talked to him—tried to persuade him « + « differently, you know.” Her ex- “I didn't say anything. Don't pre- tend to be dense. Don’t you under stand?” “Hanged if I do.” “Why, don’t you see, of course I had to convince him that women were not —well, weren't quite what he thought them. I had to try and make him have a higher opinion of them.” “I see,” I cried, my brow clearing. “Well?” “Well ?” “What happened; did you succeed ™ “Temporarily, anyhow.” “Do you mean yot couldn't live up i ly way, which Tom usually missed, be- FOR HER SWEET SAKE By FRANK EVANS. (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) Before Tom Graves had been in the teller's cage twenty-four hours he re- alized that something was wrong with Van Loeuw’s methods. On the sec- | ond day he was sure of it. Van Loeuw and he had entered the bank within a week of each other. Van Loeuw was a college graduate, while Tom was only the son of a coun- try storekeeper. That ought not to make any difference worth noticing America, but everyone knows it does, especially in large country towns like Roxbury. It made this difference in particu- lar: Van Loeuw was privileged to call on Mildred Leeson, the president’s ! daughter, to dine at her house and | take her driving in the automobile he owned. Whereas, Tom Graves, who had, in his boyhood, often served Miss Mildred behind the counter of his fa- | ther’s store, could scarcely gather up his courage to look like an ordinary | man when she bowed to him in the ! street; and then, seeing his confusion, I Mildred would smile again, in a kind- cause his eyes were on the ground. Everybody said that Tom was of the kind that are born to be drudges and to work for men like Van Loeuw. Van Loeuw never doubted that he was destined to marry Mildred and ' step into her father’s shoes. He told Tom about it. “When I'm president of the bank I'll take care of you, Tom,” he sald. “I'll| see that you get a better job.” Tom would swallow his feelings then and turn to his books. Now, it was a fact that something was seriously wrong. Tom soon dis- covered that it was not a mistake, to be picked up and rectified with a few hours of extra work. After two weeks of night work he traced back the error to something that had begun two years before. In short, there was a defalcation of $12,000, and the man who was responsible for it had hidden his trail beneath the cleverest and most intricate system that any thief had ever devised. Two years ago! That was when Van Loeuw bought his automobile! { But Tom did not think of that. He i resolved to tell Van Loeuw of his dis- | covery and ask his advice. He did | 80, and when he saw the ghastly pal- ! lor upon the man's face the hideous | suspicion came home to him. | - “Tom, I'll see you at your place to- night,” sald Van Loeuw. “I—I want to speak to you.” Van Loeuw came into Tom's room at eight o’clock and flung himself down in a chair. “What did you want to meddle with the books for?" he began angrily. “It’'s no confounded business of to it or what?” “No, there was mnothing to live up to; he—he misunderstood my mo- tives.” “I suppose,” I ventured, “he thought you had converted him for personal reasons?” “I think he must have. I dont think, you know, he could have been quite a gentleman.” “To have entertained such a base suspicion?” I queried. “Not only that. To say the things he dla.” 'Why, what did he say? “For one thing he called me a fiirt. That wasn’t flirting, was 1t? “FLIRTING! It was the height of altruism.” “The height of altruism,” Elizabeth murmured reflectively, at the same time glancing at me approvingly. “Bo you know, I think that's rather a nice da.l"«rlptloa. And it's true, too, fen't 1t? “Why, yes,” I answered, “compars- tively.” Day Set for Marriages. Visitors to the quaint old city of Plougastel, in Brittany, are struck with the fact that all marriages are |solemnized in a single day of the year. Why this unusual custom pre valls is easily explained. The mea are all fishermen, many of them going as far as the Newfoundland banks, and are at home only during a few months in the winter. One day in early February is set apart for the weddings. Little courting is done, but much haggling over the dowry of the girls. They have to bring a certain quantity of linen, chickens, pigs, and vegetables. Frequently a match is |broken off because a father refuses to |add a eack of potatoes to the dowry. ] !On the day set the inhabitants of the entire region go to Plaugastel. The whole population goes to churuch to |hear mass, to take communion. Often 50 or more couples are united on the same day. Bride and bridegroom do | not walk together until the ceremony ence for & moment, during which I| - has been completed. mused over how clever I was, and | Elizabeth sat trying to think out how clever she could be. . EERMAN WATSON, M. D. It Was the Boss, All Right. - | Morgan-Groover Bldg. ones: Office 351; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Florids J. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW “I wouldn't tell you,” she burst out at length, “only I know it's really my duty.” “Duty!” I sneered disparagingly. “I¢ it's your conscience that’s egging vou on to tell me, Elizabeth, let's talk In the window of a downtown res tauraat somebody had placed a sign whick read: “8ECOND COOK WANTED.” | yours.” { “Perhaps not,” admitted Tom. “But '1 xnow it now, and I've got to go to | Leeson.” “I tell you I can pay it back,” snarled Van Loeuw. Okee cbgb.ee Farms ield big crops of corn, velvet beans, rape, peanuts, kudsu, spineless cactus? uflfi:'gnmuummnu and other grasses for hay and pasture. With al! these crops available, cattle, sheep and hogs can have green food the year round. Thousands of Acres of Qur Land at the North End of Lake Okeechobee Are Now Ready for Cultivation These lands do not need draining other than small ditches necessary on aay farm. Make a trip to Okeechobee on the new division of the Florida East Coast Railway without delay, and see for yourself just what these lands are. Note that Okeechobee is now only a trifie over twelve hours’ jouruey 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 towm lots =t Chuluota and Kzoausville—the former a fine lake section in Seminole County suited to 0 ~uing and sencral farming, and the latter a fertile pine land country in Osceela , County especiali, aGapicw . swek raising, general farming and fruit growing. Write teday fer full particulars to J. E. INGRAHAM, Vice-President Land and Industrial Department, Florida East Coast Railway Room 218 City Building ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA ATTACH WHISTLES TO PIGEON Ingenious Idea of Chinese Results In Birds Giving Continuous Open- Alr Concerts. One of the most curious expressions of emotional life in China is the ap- plication of whistles to a flock of i pigeons. These whistles, very light, welighing hardly a few grams, are at- tached to the tails of young pigeons soon after their birth, by means of & fine copper wire, so that when the | birds fly the wind will blow through the whistles and set them vibrating, thus producing an open-air concert, ' for the instruments in one and the same flock are all tuned differently. There are two distinct types of whistles —those consisting of bamboo tubes placed side by side, and a type placed on the principle of tubes at- tached to a gourd body or wind chest. They are lacquered in yellow, brown, red and black to protect the material from destructive influences of the at- mosphere. The tube-whistles have either two, three or five tubes. In some specimens the five tubes are made of ox horn instead of bamboo. The gourd whistles are furnished . with a mouthplece, and small aper- | tures to the number of two, three, six, ten and even thirteen. Certain among ELECTRIC IT WILL PAY YOU TO CONSULT US ON THE ELECTRIC WIRING IN YOUR HOUSE OR STORE We Are Electrical Experts FLORIDAELECTRICSMACHINERY Co THE ELECTRIC STORE Phone 46 Kibler Hotel Bldg. EsTEosonopooErEo L ECTRIC “No,” answered Tom. “I'll bave to g0 to Leeson—unless you do—" Van Loeuw rose up, ashen white. { “My God!” he cried, “what will be- come of Mildred? Don’t you know she thinks the world of me?” ' Tom sank down again, whiter than | the other man. Yes, he knew she did. | When at last he spoke there was an air of unusual decision about him. “Van Loeuw,” he said, “if I take the blame for this, will you swear always | to run straight in future? It doesn’t matter to me, you know. For Miss Leeson's sake—" “You'll say you stole the money?” erled Van Loeuw, incredulously. “Tom, I always knew you were as true | as steel. And I'll make it worth your . while.” “Good night,” said Tom, coldly. He went into Mr. Leeson’s office the | tollowing morning. Van Loeuw had | not appeared at the bank, and he was | forced to close the cage when he went | out. Fortunately, depositors were few in the first hours of morning. “Ah, Graves, I was going to send for you,” said the bank president, ris- |ing. “We have made an unfortunate discovery. “Yes,” answered Tom. “I wish to 4nform you, sir, that I have embez- | #led $12,000 of the bank's funds.” The door opened and a woman came in. Tom started as he saw Mil- | dred. This made it doubly hard. But he was prepared to play his part to the end now. “Mildred, will you come here a mo- ment?” asked Mr. Leeson, to Tom's amazement. “Please sit down. Mr Graves has just been informing me that a serious embezzlement of bank funds is to be placed to his discredit.” “Papa—" began the girl, and Tom saw that her face was drawn and white, and her eyes red. “You are sure of your statements, Graves?” inquired Mr. Leeson, turn- ing to Tom. “I should hardly have come here if 1 were not,” answered Tom angrily. “It is very strange,” said the them have besides a number of bam- boo tubes, some on the principal mouthpiece, some arranged around it. These varieties are distinguished by different names. Thus a whistle with one mouthpiece and ten tubes {is called “the eleven-eyed one.” Most all of the Particular Men because our Collar work Satisfies Willle’s Troubles. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were passing the home of an old lady they knew in an adjoining town. She was the mother of one of their neighbors and 80 they stopped their car for a mo- ment to chat. “There is nothing to be alarmed about now,” sald Mrs. Smith, “but for a while little Willle gave us a great scare.” Little Willle was the old iady's grandson, and she was promptly deep- ly interested. Mrs, Smith explained that Willie had frightened his parents by swallowing a dime. The doctor was summoned and after a while the worriment was over and Willle was out of danger. After the Smiths went on, Willic's grandmother called up her daughter on the telephone and sa!d, “I hope ‘Willle is all over his financial difficul- ties by this time.” Don't wear a glossy collor. It's out of date. Shirts and collors laundered by us being worn in three dozen surrounding towns. How about yours? The Lakeland Steam Laundry t PHOXE 130 R. W. WEAVER, Prop. Must Little Homeless Children Suffer How Bookworms Are Tracked. To guard the 8,000,000 books in the New York lbrary against the rav- ages of bookworms and other insects, which fecd upon the paper, the glue on the backs, and the cloth and leath- er bindings, a constant care is ex- ercised, and a keen watch kept for any evidence of their activities. One woman is assigned exclusively to this work. When treating the books, she wears a huge apron which completely covers her gown. A cheesecloth veil protects her face against the germs which lurk in the musty documents, and even the air she breathes is screened against contagion. Close | R o S X touch is kept with the health depart- ment, and books which have been re- turned from infected areas are fumi- gated before being restored to circu- In Florida? An licant made his way to the banker, shaking his head. “You see, mehe:p:nd found the head cook. , Mr. Van Loeuw, who is now being “There's the boes over there” sald =ought for, wrote me a letter inform- of something more interesting.” “And anyhow, if I didn’t, somebody else would.” “Ah, that sounds more hopeful. T| knew I shouldn’t hear much if it only | depended on your conscience.” “His name,” she said, beginning for | once at the beginning, “is Greatorex— | Marmaduke Greatorex.” | “Marmaduke,” I sald reflectively— | “] knew & boy of that name at school; we called him ‘Marmaduke’ Still, it's a good name if yot can live up to 12 i ——— the galley chief, jerking his head in the direetion of & washing dishes. “Don’t kid me,” said the caller. “Tell me If you want me or tell me it you don’t. There's no use of ring- Ing in a dishwasher.” | The man at the sink picked a stack | of plates out of the water and let them all fall to the floor with & smash. | “Now,” he exclaimed, “tell me who | you think the boss '~'" Dickson Building ice in all courts. Homestesd. tainy Jocated and contested Batablished tn July, 1900 DR. W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST ; 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Mer Wetel, Lakeland Floride | . il ! B tdptamames | DR. J. R. RUNYAN 17 and 18, Raymondo Bldg. tssary drugs furnished with- out extra charge Residence phone 303. Ofiice Phone 410 PSSt P DAY Aeroplane Testing. French aeroplane factory wings & . ing machines upside u:. testing by turn! down and loading thel evenly distributed, until | ceeding the pressu lwlthlund is reached. i Virtue of Gooo Manners. Good manners, while costing little, accomplish much. They may puhn: Dbe among the “little things, but Wl B Ideal Mind. A weak mind sinks under prospority as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind bas two highest tides —when the moon is at full, and when there is no mocp.—Julius Hare. ferences in our 1; . or discomfort? .:Ir::oll of life and cause them to run poiselessly. To those d its varied scale, trigidity, ing me of the facts, assuming the re sponsibility, and stating that you pro posed to bear the blame. I under etand that he had a spasm of con- science after my daughter had brought him to his senses by refusing—" “Papa!" cried Mildred, blushing fu- rlously. “Well, my dear,” sald the banker, rising, “perhaps when I am gone you yourself will be able to convince Mr. Graves that be is under s delusion.” Teacher Disagreed. “Mamma, when you spesk about three things you always ought to say ‘are; oughtn't you?” ' ! “Yes, dear. | m with sand, Why?" “’Cause the teacher said it | defeated before he commenced. a weight ex- wasn't right when I wrote on the | for success, shall do all in my power | to (God for the ut re the wings must blackboard: ‘The grand old red, white | to secure it, and trast | reat.—admiral Fr and blue are waving over Cuba."™ | Rocks. Stone is largely limestone, sand- stone or granite. Limestone is ‘Re deposit of seashell life, sandstone is merely hardened sand, while granite 1s the result of heat fasing the other kinds of rock. lation. WE DO NOT BELIEVE that the good people of Flor- ida realize that there are right now in our State Hundreds of litile children in real need—some absolutely homeless— that just must be cared for. The Wrong Surmise. “There goes Professor Diggers,” said the cub reporter. “He knows all about flora and fauna.” “Who's Flora and Fauna?” asked the press agent. “They are not persons. Flora re- fers to plant life and fauna to animal life.” “Gee! That's & good joke on me. I had it all doped out that you were talking about a sister act in vaude | We feel sure—that they do not know that there are hun- dreds of worthy mothers in Florida who are just struggling to keep their little ones alive—and at home. We just cannot believe—that with these facts true—and every orphanage in Florida crowded to the doors—that the people of Florida will let our great work which has cared for 850 of these little ones this year alone—go down for lack of funds to keep it up. Your immediate help—is greatly needed—right now—Please send what you can to-day—to R. V. Covington, Treasurer of The Children’s Home Society of Florida Florida's Greatest Charity 361 St. James Bldg: JACKSONVILLE, FLA« Weuld Net Think of Defest. prepared for defeat would be 1 hope Her First Book. “Your novel will be '.: ; cloth, of course,” announ publisher. “Ob, how mioe!” the girlish author. “And the cloth? I choose plnk )