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bl S, it T AR R i B UNDER A WAR STAMP By ELSIE GRUHL MARTIN. pression of L thought of how genial and friendly the father and daughter had been to him, of their present distressing con- dition, of their friendlessness and pov- erty in a foreign land, appealed to the best instincts of his loyal nature. They were wealthy people, the Duri- vages, but Earl as well had an abuna- ance of worldly means. He had a business to attend to, and going abroad just now meant something se- rious for its interests, but he was will- ing to make the sacrifice. When Earl reached his office he sat down to think out his plans for an im- mediate departure. While he was ar-| ranging in his mind all the details, the office boy brought in the afternoon mail. Earl flipped the letters over carelessly. Then his face flushed up and his eyes took to their depths a rare token of interest. From post- mark aad handwriting he knew at once the source of one of the letters. “It is from Elsa—from Miss Durl- vage!” he breathed eagerly, and opened it. The letter was a brief, ordinary mis- sive, as if° written between acquaint- ances. It gave an address in the far away war-beleaguered city. It told of business there going on as usual, of no particular effect of the war. There was nothing in the letter that would not pass the most critical cen- sorship. There was a postscript to the let- ter and it greatly puzzled Earl. It read: “The war stamp on this letter 1s probably quite a curiosity in Amer- fca. You might soak it off, for they will be scarce after a while, and it is quite a memento to preserve.” “Of course, I will save it” mur- mured the ardent Earl, thinking of the dainty lips that had touched the insensible piece of paper, and he pro- ceeded to follow instructions. “Why—there is writing under the stamp!” exclaimed Farl, and with dis- tending eyes he read the words: “We are penniless and starving.” In a flash Earl Hosmer read the oracle. The letter had been written in a noncommittal way that had passed with the censor. Elsa had used the war stamp to conceal a mes- sage telling of the real situation in the district from which she wrote. It required no further thought for Earl to arrive at a speedy decision. The evening train bore him eastward, and two days later he was on the ocean, bound for the continental war center. Within two hundred miles of the city that held his beloved, the prog- ress of the ardent Earl was blocked. He had with him a large amount in ready cash. This had enabled him to proceed thus far without much difi- culty. Now a broad stretch of dis- puted and war-ravaged territory lay ‘between him and his prospective des- tination. It was through a little child that a long, anxious waiting was brought to a close. Passing a house wrecked by a shell in the little town where he was stayicg, Earl heard a faint wafil- ing voice He investizated. tr.disenv- (3 On‘yx” feet down in the dismantled cellar where she had fallen. Her arm was broken, she was well nigh exhausted with cold and starva- tion. He managed to learn from her where she lived. When he restored her to her frantic parents he found that she had been missing for two days. The gratitude of the poor parents was genuine. The father chanced to mention that he was one of some fifty wagon men who were to carry some wounded soldiers to the city where the Durivages were. He was to bring up the rear with five days’ pro- visions. It did not take Earl long to decide that here was his opportunity to reach his beloved. He had an understanding with the man. When the caravan set out Earl was comfortably ensconced in a shielded corner of the enclosed wagon. How his heart beat with suspense and then sorrow as he finally reached his journey’'s end! The Durivages were sheltered in a poor hovel and had parted with all they possessed to secure the bare necessities of life. The wagon man was to return to neutral ground with his vehicle, and Earl and the Durivages were smuggled through in his vehicle. “To think of that dreadful past!” | murmured Elsa, as they set sail from the coast, homeward bound at last. “Oh, what a messenger of joy and hope you have been!” A messenger of love as well. The moen was smiling down, the stars twinkled, the gentle breeze breathed only of peace. He told her all that was in his heart, and she kissed the lips that spoke the precious words. He Was Surprised. “You learn much by travel.” “How now?” “The streets of Boston surprised me. They are just like the streets of other cities. “Why not?” “I thought streets in Boston had Latin and Greek names.” Needless Interruptions. A New Yorker writes the Times to protest against a habit he says met- ropolitan women have of knitting at concerts. Recently, he declares, he 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 & woman, returning from mar- ket, shelling her beans on the street car. There could be no objection to her plucking a boliday goose under the same circumstances, provided she didn’t scatter feathers on the floor. But knitting at a concert is differ- ent. A knitting needle obbligato to a harp selection might lack something of the ideal. One might better take & basket of corn to husk, or an arm- ful of stockings to dgrn. t any concert enthusiast will agree with the Times complainant. It the music is not to one's liking it is Detter to exchange whispered stories with one's neighbor than to disturd 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 lite.” “Gee! That's & good joke on me. 1 had it all doped out that you were talking about a sister act in vaude ville.” Gives the BEST VALUE for Your Mooey Every Kind from Cotten to Sk, For Men, Women ead Childrea Any Color and Style From 25¢ Look for the Trade Mark! ‘Wholesa!l2 Lord & Taylor to $5.00 per pair Soid by All Good Dealers. ' NEW YORK | month or two. motherly gentleness and love for & Meantime trust the lboy: to me. Il show you the real By Victor Radcliffe merit there is in them.” The bargain was really made. Of course every day the families visited to and fro. The girls began to lose their shyness and reserve. The boys became interested in everything about the Newton place. They loved prac- tical work, and. the cheery helpful old man was constantly with them, for the time belng a boy at heart and chirpy as a lark. One day there was quite a row at the Newton home. The hired man had got intoxicated and had a runaway. The boys were with him and bothl |v~em slightly bruiced. This angeéred (Copyright, 1015, y W. G. Chapman, Face to face for the first time in fif- teen years with his almost forgotten early love, Mr. Archibald Newton raised his hat politely and his face be- came pleasant. The lady shook hands with him and smiled with a genuine greeting for an old-time friend. “A happy surprise,” remarked Arch- ibald. “Some changes since you and I last met. Married, of course?” “With two children,” and the lady's face saddened as she murmured soft- ly—“widow.” “Widower,” explained Archibald. “Two children also—girls.” “And I have two boys,” mented Mrs Burton. live here, surely?” “But I do,” replied he, with a rath- er proud wave of his hand, including within its scope fair acres enclosed by the fence against which he had been leaning. “How strange!” observed Mrs. Bur- ton, with a slight flutter in her voice —*1 have just bought the place ad- Joining.” “You don’t say so!” exclaimed Mr. Newton. “Then we shall be neigh- bors.” “And friends, I hope, as we always were,” added his companion. “Those dear old days!” and she lowered her eyes and he sighed. “I declare! Mary has made a fine looking woman,” commented Archi- ::lld as they parted for the time be- Ing. “I .always thought Archibald hand- some,” Mrs. Burton communed with herself. “He's morc so than ever now.” And Archibald smiled with warmth and Mrs. Burton simpered, and it brightened the moment for both in a pleasing happy way. In about a week the Burtons moved into their new home. Mrs. Burton ex- plained that she had seen it adver- tised and had purchased it on the rec- ommendation of a lawyer friend. She had never dreamed of the good for- tune of getting next door to a helpful accommodating old friend. It was when for the first time Archibald got sight of the two boys that he seemed to get a new life im- pulse. They were bright, lively, up-to- date urching, eight and ten years old respectively. Such lad: It made Archibald chuckle over his own early boyhood as he watched them up to all kinds of fun and mischief. They climbed trees to the topmost branch. They hitched up the cow to a dog cart and had a runaway. They supple- “You do not “Mow Strange!” Obssrved Mrs. Bur ton. slid down the barn roof with Indian- like yells that set their mother in & tremor. “] declare, Mary,” exuberated Archi- bald, “I never saw smarter lads! They’'ve got activity and brains. How I'd like to own them!"” “What! With those two little angel girls of yours? Archibald, they're so sweet, I feel like hugging and kissing them all the time.” Certainly the little girls were very ladylike and well-behaved. They had a somewhat subdued air about them, however, and Archibald spoke of it. “You can’t expect an old fossil like | Burton. Archibald. He discharged the man. “Tll get even with you!” threatened the latter. “Don’t show your face around herc again,” ordered Archibald. “Yah!" retorted the insolent fellow. “Mighty loving about those two mis- chievous brats, ain't yer? Huh! guess it's the mother you're after.” “You wretch scoundrel!” raved Archibald, and made for the man, but the lattér carted away and back to his cups at th A wee younger of t s rming ery. “Fire—see, it's our house!™ They all ran for the Burton home. The girls were outside on the lawn, weeping. They had been carried to safety by Mrs. Burton. “Where is she?” shouted Archibald frantically. “She went back to get the bird you gave her,” replicd one of the little misses. “Why, she's hemmed in with the flames!” cried Archibald. It was fortunate that he entered the burning house, for in one of the upper rooms he stumbled across Mrs. She had fainted away. He lifted her in his arms. She partially recovered sensibility. Her arms en- circled his neck. He felt quite the hero as he got ber safely out of the house. “The house was sot on fire, Archi- bald,” declared Mrs. Burton that eve- ning. They were all housed comfort- ably now in the Newton home. “The flames started in the cellar where no one had been for two days.” The village marshal was advised. He started a still hunt for the incen- diary. ~ Archibald and Mrs. Burton were dis- cussing her plans for rebuilding the next evening when the marshal ap- peared. The dismissed hired man was in his charge. “I've found the person who set that fire,” said the oflicial. The hired man looked reckless and ugly. “What shall T do with him?”"in- quired the marshel. Archibald hesitated. It seemed so nice and homelike to seec Mrs. Burton under his roof that he almost forgave the firebug. “Make him sign the pledge and send him away. T don't want to start any man on the way to the penitentiary,” he said. . “But why did he set fire to my house?” inquired Mrs. Burton in an injured tone. “Revenge, ma'am,” muttered the in- cendiary. “Why, I never harmed you.” “No, ma'am, but 1 was mad with drink and down on Mr. Newton for discharging me from his service.” “What had I to do with that?" asked the lady. “Well, 1 knew it would hurt him worse to have you suffer than him- self.” “I don’t understand—" “Decause— , because he was in love with you!" blurted out the man. Mrs. Burton looked at Archibald. Both blushed. The officer and his prisoner departed. Archibald crossed over to the woman's chair. “Mary,” he said softly, “we don't need two houses. One will do, it—" “Oh, my!” fluttered Mrs. Burton. “If we bring up the boys and girls under one roof. Make me happy, Mary,” and Archibald was eloquent and earnest as a young lover of twen- ty-one. “lI wish I could,” responded Mrs. Burton—*"as happy as I am myself aft- er what that man said.” “It's true, Mary—every word of it!* declared the ardent swain thrillingly. And then he kissed her, just as he had in the far past when she was a blushing girl of sixteen. Bright Policemen. During ‘the early period of the work on the Panama canal many persons were injured by jumping on and off trains in motion on the Panama rail- road. There were on tfe zone police force many West Indians, who were trained and capable men, but incura- LIy literal. An order was issued to the force to arresi any person found jump- ing on or off a train in motion, and the next day two West Indian police- men brought into a police station a white man who was struggling fiercely to break away from them. “What have you arrested him for?” me to bring them up cheerful and hap- | asked the police sergeant who was on py like a mother,” sighed Archibald. | duty. “They need a woman's direction and company. See lots of them, Mary, it will do them good.” | “And Archibald, do try and tune down those rude boisterous boys of mine.” “You don't give them work and they like it,” explained Archibald. “Mary, I've an idea.” “What is that, Archibald?” inquired Mrs. Burton sweetly. “Let's trade.” “Ohb, dear!” “]1 mean for a time. See here, give “For jumping on and off the rear of a train, sah,” one of the policemen re- plied. “The blamed fools!” cried the ar- rested man. “I'm the brakeman!"— Youth’s Companion. First Shall Be Last. Miss Gushington—I think your nov- el has a perfect ending, Mr. Scrib- bler. ; Scribbler—How do you lke the opening chapter? Miss Gushington—Oh, I bave not FARMING “LANDS™ IN™ SIBERIA That They Are Rich is Proved by the Crops That Are Gathered From Them. We have inherited from the tradi- tions of the past the idea that Siberia is a country with a not very fruit- ful soil. Yet in the last few years very decided advances in farming have been made there, as a result of the ef- forts of the Russian government to arouse the native peasants and set- tlers to a more intensive cultivation of the ground. In the western section of the country, so the German journal Prometheus tells us, large associa- tions of farmers have been organ-. ized for the export of their products. Tn 1912 butter to the value of 7,000 000 rubles (a ruble is about 51 cents) was exported. In 1913 this amount had doubled, for in this year butter to the value of 14,500,000 rubles was sold to Germany, Austria-Hungary and England. In 1912 experiments were made in the manufacture of the Eng- lish cheddar cheese. After several failures, the cheese, which is very pop- = " | ular in Great Britain, was so success- fully imitated that in 1913 England im- ported 65 tons of Siberian cheddar. The trade is carried on by ships di- rectly from the interior of Siberia to London.—Sclentific American. Effective. An frascible Irish colonel was lead- ing a regiment on a long and difficult march. Fagged and worn out, they halted for a rest by the wayside. When it became necessary to move on, the colonel gave the order, but the weary men remained stretched upon the ground. He repeated the order per- emptorily, and still there was no mo- tion. By this time his temper was at a white heat, and he thundered out: “If you don't get up and start at once, I'll march the regiment off and ! leave every d—d one of you behind.” They started at once. Awful Misfortune. Children of the right sort take their school work seriously. Jennie, aged fourteen, i8 a second-year high school student. The other evening she ap- peared at the family dinner table evi- dently not in the best of good spirits. Pressed for a reason, she made this explanation: “Oh, I muffed it in English this af- ternoon. We had to give oral themes and I had studied mine out so care- fully that I wasn't a bit nervous at first. But by and by sometking dis- tracted my attention for a moment, and I sald something that spoiled the unity, the coherence and the literary value of the whole thing.” Joy in Service. A life lived for seli can mever be good nor great. There i8 only one way to save a life and that is to lose it in service to others. Every child is entitled to a chance “to do the things” which he is able to do for Service of this kind br|n‘u| others. home the highest joy as the years come and go. It is true, this “doing” affords in childhood days an outlet for physical energy; but better than that it forms the habit of living for others, which will some day prove to be a fountain of perennial joy to him. Had to Stay. Traveling Lecturer for Soclety (to the remaining listener)—“I should like to thank you, sir, for so attentive- ly hearing me to the end of a rather too long speech.” Local Member of Soclety—"“Not at all, sir. I'm the second speaker.” SANITARY PRESSING CLUB CLEANING, PRESSING. REPAIRING and DYEING. Ladies Work a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed. GIVE US A TRIAL Kibler Hotel Basement. Phone No. 393 WATSON & GILLESPIE, Proprietors L. 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A few drops of vinegar put inte i the ink will make it usable again, but the better plan 18 to keep the ink bot- Paokage Home Workman's Asset. A workman owes it to himsel? and his family to takc care of himself. Hig labor is his only assct in busine When injured, he is tor the time being » bankrupt. If killed, his family may be left destitute and his children de- prived of an education and forced to seek employment before their matur- ity. This philosophy is found in a bul- letin of the Chicago burcau of safety. Stickers. The great difference between a pub- Uo servant and a domestic servant is that the public servant would not re- sign even under fire.—Louisville Cour- fer-Journal. L L e L Y R Y R R L L L s s Lt s s s Collins & Kelley DEALERS IN Crushed Rock, Fertilizer and Lime East Lafayette St., on Seaboard Ry. FLORIDA ANALYSIS The following is an anlaysis of the Fertilizer from our mine near Brooksville, Fla., Laboratory of the State Chemist by L. alyst, Lab. No. M199ss: Lime—GaO ... . Insoluble Matter ..... Iron and Alumina—Fe203 & Alegl .. Moisture, ...... ...... Equivalent to Clranate—GnOs The analysis was made 'n the Heinburger, An- .. 0.3 per cent .. 54.50 per cent 97-34 per cent 3,26 per cent 0.12 per cent Our Lime Fertilizer is highly recommended for Citrus and Truck Gardening. | oming Special--Thursday, Friday and Saturday Maxwell Chocolate Covered Cherries 60c. For three days only 35¢. Lake Pharmacy 0ak a“d Pine wood Lakeland Paving and Construction Company Orders handled promptly. Shones: Office 109, Res. 57 Green OUR SHiELD Has moved their Plant to their new site corner of Parker and Vermont Avenues. Mr. Belisario, who is now sole owner of the company says that they will carry a full line of Marble Tomb Stones in connec- tion with their Ornemantel Department of this business, Office Phone 348 B.ack COEOSOSSTSTSTITININT Res. Phone 153 Blue l'(_E“LLEYS. BARRED Plymouth Rocks BOTh MATINGS Better now ;than ever b:’ 'l'he‘ sooner you get your Biddies to growing the better. Let me furnish the eggs for you to set. Special price per hundred. I also have a large bunch of nice young Cock Birds at Reasonable Prices. H. L. KELLEY, 6rffin, Fla. LESS TO GO ON come to that yet!—Judge. IT IS ONLY THOUGHT ' _ THE SAMEZ CLD, WORN-OUT CCOI I \G UTENS1 W 1 GU CAN COME TO OUR STORE, AND F }‘ 'L SUM GET BRAND NEW ONES. ANDDON'T THOSE OLD ONES ARE NOT IS CUR MOTTO hich is en by our six xfl' nucceps?‘i'n Lakeland. Maker of the National Steel reinforced concrete Burial Vault =0 Building Blocks of all discrip- tions. Red Cement, Pressed Brick, White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 nd 4 inch Drain Tile, 0, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post; in fact anything made of Cement.