Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 2, 1915, Page 3

Thousands of Acres of Lake Okeechobee Are Our 213-316 Drane Building Lakeland, Fla. Land Examinations and Designs Karthwork Speclalists, phone, 278 Black. phone, 378 Blue. R. SARAH P. WHEELER OSTEOPATE ' Aonex, Door South of First National Bank Lakeland, Florids DR. W. R. GROOVER SICIAN AMND SURGEON 5 and 4. Kentucky Buildina Lakeland, Florida DR. W. B. MOON BICIAN AND SURGEON Telephone 350 9 to 11, 2 to 4, evenings 7 to 8 Over Postoffice Lakeland, Florida Law Office of A. X. ERICKSON ogers Bdwin Spencer, J¢ ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Building Florida 3 K EARNLY Rt Somonzn . ™ Sales Mamager ONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. juction Lot ¥ales a Specialty do Bidg. Lakeland, Fla EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER ondo Bldg., Lakeland, Floride KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Bullding Lakeland Florida DR. RICHARD LEFFERS HYSICIAN AND SURGEON ooms 2-3, Skipper Building . 8. PRESTON, LAWYER Upstairs East of Court Hous ination of Tities and Ress Kv tate Law a Specialty R. H. MERCER RICHARDS HYSICIAN AND SURGEON : Rooms § and 6, Elliston ".. Lakeland, Florida : Office 378; Resid. 301 Blus FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC nhh-’lflllls phone 402. Res. 312 Red attention to drafting legal papers. & licenses and abstracts tursiehed wouldn’t dare to offer two dollars on the tree if he didn't know that the grow pineapples—yes, that!” Molly sighed. Her father was very hot-headed, and two weeks' confine- ment to his room, following a fall from the mare, which broke his leg, had not improved his temper. “What is Fleming going to do?" snorted the colonel presently. “Why, father, as head of the Lemon Growers’ association—" The colonel went off again. What he said about the young New York man would certainly not bear men- tioning. Yet he cast secret glances at Molly all the while. He knew that sir, Tll do ’ | “That Scoundrel Lemaitre Offers Me Two Dollars a Box—" the capacities for temper which he displayed were latent in the girl. Once he had evoked them, and he had been afraid of her ever since— and respected her the more, too. All had gone well with the young Massachusetts man’s lemon grove. He had bought it two years before and had at once realized that the packers and commission men be- tween them held the control of the product. He had lost no time in form- ing a Lemon Growers' association to keep up prices. The first year had been a phenome- nal success for the organization. Even the colonel, who hated the scheme as sgvoring of soclalism, had been in- clined to become a member. But the second year there was a glut on the market. Prices broke. Half the members fell away, anxious to make what little they could rather than sac- rifice their crop for the good of the association. The colonel was particularly bitter Rgainst Fleming because in some way he associated the fall of prices with the new organization’s doings. As an independent he, in turn, had borne '] the brunt of & good deal of criticisp ambng his neighbors. That was cer- tainly a bad time for Fleming and |'Molly te fall in love. ‘When Molly told her father he was '| furious. He stamped out of the house . HERMAN WATSON, M. D. Morgan-Groover Bldg. phones: Office 3561; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Porids J. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Dickson Building tioe in all courts. elaims located and contested Bstablished in July, 1900 IR V. 8. IRVIN DENTIST 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Hotel, Lakeland, Florids DR. J. R. RUNYAN 17 and 18, Raymondo Bldg. necessary drugs furnished with- out extra charge Residence phone 303. onnn-.m, SICK ? §8 Nawsa HAROW BLD to his neighbor’s boundary, sud, see- ing him at work among his trees, shook his fist at him.» “Don’t you ever dare to cross my line again, or I'll set the dogs on you, and horsewhip you into the bargain!” he yelled. Bitter recrimination followed, tears from Molly that evening, when the colonel told her, and then Molly's own outburst which cowed her father. “I am willing not to see John Flem- Ing again as long as you live,” she sobbed. Buat I won't promise to give him up, and I think you are the most hateful old man I've ever known!” The colonel chewed that over his pipe. “Hateful old man." She was waiting for him to die to marry that scoundrel! He changed a good deaul the next summer. A coldness bad sprung up between himself and his Camel's Working Life. Camels are fit for serious work at ring it marked 15 above in Nashville. Molly told the colonel so. “We'll get a gang and light smudges,” answered old Travers. “I'm going to save that crop.” “Then you'll sell, father?” “No, I'll let it rot on,the trees. But I'll have the satisfaction of letting it ripen before it rots,” he answered. The telephone rang again. It was 20 above_in Jacksonville, the lowest known since the “great freeze” of 95, which put back the orange area for 300 miles southward. “It's 37 outside, father.” Almost immediately Lemaitre called him up on the telephone. “Colonel Travers,” he said stifly, “it'’s 36 in Tampa. We might have time to save half your fruit with smudge-fires. I've got a gang ready to work at my expense it you'll sell at a dollar a box.” “Confound your impudence!” roared the colonel. “Tell him that, Molly!” Molly softened it somewhat. But it was now 35 on the veranda. Three degrees lower and the frost would nip the tender trees. Six or seven de- grees, and not a lemon would be worth anything but the flavoring in the rind. “It's too late to do anything,” the colonel groaned. “But I'm not going to let Lemaitre make a penny out of me by any of his thievish tricks. What's that in the groves, Molly.” Molly went out and returned. “Noth- ing, father,” she answered. “I thought I heard a man calling. You're sure it isn’t Lemaitre's gang?” “Quite sure,” she answered. “The telephone rang again. It was Lemaitre. ‘“Your last chance, colo- nel,” he called cheerfully. “I can get & third ot your fruit pickéd before it's damaged. It's 33 outside my packing- house. The gang’'s walting. Fifty cents & box.” Molly hung up the receiver in time to restrain her father from doing him- self bodily damage in his effort to get out of his chair. It fell to 32, to 30. It fell to 26 that 'night before the norther disap- peared. Next morning was bright and warm. But the colonel knew that his crop was irretrievably spoiled. “8till, it's a comfort to know that Lemaitre hasn’t got any of it,” he so- liloquized. In another week he was to be al- lowed upon his feet. Meanwhile he learned that the frost had been gen- eral throughout the lemon districts. Prices had gone up 50 per cent. The Lemon Growers' assnciation had roped all the growers in the county and was doing fabulous business. The short- age had enhanced prices sufficiently to bring aflluence to all who had been forehanded enough to save their trees by fires. “I'd have cleared $7,000, Molly,” sald the Colonel wistfully to his daughter. When he was allowed out he limped toward his lemon groves. As he an- ticipated the leaves were wilting from the upper branches. But the trunks wefe strong and sturdy, and the low- er branches showed promise of re- maining sound. The colonel was not slow in discovering the reason. Round the roots of the trees were wrapped burlap protectors. And not a lemon remained on the twigs. Colonel Travers turned uporf his daughter in fury. “Who's been here?” he shouted. “It's that infernal Lemaitre. Where are the lemons, Molly?" “Come here, father,” said the girl. She led him Into the barn. There, plled high from the floor to celling, were crates and crates of the fresh fruit—$7,000 worth, and not a lemon spoiled. And in the midst of the crates, bend- ing over them and examining the truit, was—Fleming! ‘The young man turned around upon the astounded colonel. “Sorry to have disobeyed instruc- tions, colonel,” he said, “but you see I couldn’t let you lose all that money to gratify a whim. So I—well, In short, the day before the freeze, when it looked as though a norther was ex- pected, 1 got together a gang and clipped the fruit for you. And I be- lieve we saved your trees, too. Ihope you don’t mind, sir.” The colonel’s face, which had borne a terrifying scowl, suddenly softened. There was an expression on his daugh- ter's which made him suddenly think of his wife, who had been dead 12 years, “John, I'm an old fool,” he sald humbly. “I beg your pardon. John— come to supper tonight, and we'll talic over my joining the association.” Placing Both of Them. *It was simply a question of verao- ity betweén us,” sald the oldest in- babitant. “He said I was a liar, and I “Humph!” terests, but he was will- the sacrifice. reached his office he sat down to think out his plans for an im- departure. While he was ar- in his mind all the details, the office boy brought in the afternoon 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 s from Elsa—from Miss Duri- vage!” he breathed eagerly, and opened it. ‘The letter was a brief, ordingry mis- | sive, as it written between acquaint- ances. 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 is probably quite a curiosity in Amer- fea. 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 piete of paper, and he pro- ceeded to follow instructions. “Why—there is writing under the stamp!” exclaimed Earl, with dis- tending eyes he read the s: “We are penniless and starving.” In a flash Earl Hosmer read the oracle. The letter had been writt in a noncommittal way that had passed with the cemsor. Flsa had used the war stamp to conceal a mes- sage telling of the real situation in the district from which she wrote. It requt no further thought for Earl to arrive at a speedy decision. The evening train hore 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 dif- 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 s close. Passing a house wrecked by a shell in the little town where he was stayicg, Barl heard a faint wail- ing voice - He investieated, to-discav- er aMttle {oiir-yearold gifl [yiig tén feet down in the dismahtled 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 Durivagea 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. 2 He had an understanding with the man. When the caravan set out Earl was comfortably ensconced in & shielded corner of the enclosed wagon. How his heart beat with suspense and then sorrow as he finally reached bis journey’'s end! The Durivages were sheltered in a poor hovel and had parted with all they possessed to secure the bare necessities of lite. 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 moon was smiling down, the stars twjnkled, the gentle breeze breathed only of peace. He told her all that was in his heart, and she kissed the lips that spoke those 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.” Hibernation. All sleep is phenomenal, but the sleep which endures the winter through with some warm-blooded ani- mals which find themselves suddenly surrounded by frigid weather, and when all functions that make for the best of life are as if they had never been, is most curious. While it is mainly explicable it is none the less astonishing. It gave an address in the far ‘These lands do not need draining ether small di %0 Okeechobee on the new divisien of the Florida yourself journey Jacksonville, just what these lands are. Nete that Okeochobes Investigate This Wonderful Country While You ~ - Can Have a You will find it unexcelled for Choice of Locations for Your Farm general farming, livestock and poultry raising and for kinds of vegetables common to Florida as well as the finest citrus fruit. This town will grow at an amazi lots st Chrlueta and . Re5 v County especialiy &u.;.tiu full particulars to rate during the next few years. We also have excellent ez.av.eville—the former a fine lake section in Seminole .+ tal farming, and the latter a fertile pine land «wck raising, general farming and fruit growing. Write teday J. E. INGRAHAM, Vice-President l.!ml and Industrial Department, Florida East Coast Railway Room 218 City Building Heart to Heafl Talks By CHARLES N. LURIE SCIENCE OR ETHICS? From time to tiine arise critics of the public school system of America who attack the “godlessness™ of the schools. These folks wunt religlon taught to the young. They assert that the percent- age of crline would be lessened if each succeeding generation were taught in the schools the existence of God and the necessity of obeying bis divine or- dinances. It cannot be denied that In very many cases and In the majority of our cities such teaching would be helpful and would react favorably on the life of the nation. But— These (folks forget the tendency. seemingly inevitable, of religious teach- ing to degenerate Into sectarianism. So many of us think that we possess the only true key to heaven and that the only way to the throne Is that laid out by our own spiritual leaders and guides. Moreover, sowmne are possessed of the ancient spirit, which held that it Is better to kill a man’s body, even by hideous torture, than to permit him to live in error. Probably the majority of Americans are convinced that It is better to con- fine the teaching In the public schools to secular subjects, leaving the rell- glous training of the young to the parents and to such religious ministers as they may prefer. The dissoclation of church and state, as the latter is represented by the schools to which all contribute directly and indirectly, has been a fundamental feature of Ameri- can life. Now comes a judge to protest against the fact that a belief in eternal tor- ment is not taught in the public schools. This city magistrate had before him for examination an eleven-year-old schoolboy who sald he did not know what would happen to him if he told The Kiit in History. ‘The Scottish kilt, as an article of Balkans wear the kilt, and students say that the soldiers of the Assyrian kings wore a costume very closely akip te the kilt of Scotland. It Vanished. “Now,” said the great magician, roll- ing up his sleeves to show that he had no concealed mechanism to de- celve the eye, “I shall attempt my never-failing experiment.” Taking from his pocket a five-dollar bill, he said: “I shall cause this bill to dis- appear utterly.” So saying, he lent it to a friend. Anclent King a Terror. Mithridates, king of Pontius, is rare ly mentioned nowadays, but in the year 88 B. C. he was the terror of the world. He killed his own family, slaughtered seven different kings and their courts, marched through Asis and left everywhere trails of dead. He invaded Greece and there sianghtered bhalf a million human belngs, ed agaiust Rome with In his o men, but at least bis ememies. oaly have of ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA IT WILL PAY YOU TO 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 Bldg. 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