Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 7, 1915, Page 7

E%E 1 ¥y e first time all human beings equal in this world, Mary,” , as he sat at his wife’'s bed- “It will not matter to us.” Mary Hagan answered nothing; i but she, too, prayed. She prayed | that somehow they might find mercy —she and John and every living soul r upon the planet. ::l::“:::l:;:l By the beginning of the summer of leviating, was ' 2205 the star had visibly increased in and only com. | M*Snitude. There were two moons was wholly be- | in the heavens now. The monster, Biive tt o un. which was named Og, after the fabu- 3 i lous king of Bashan, was no more than 3 , forty thousand million miles away. | And -still it was heading toward earth, Nothing could save the world, said Professor Joram. He indited these words after making an application for an increase of salary, to take effect on the firss. day of the succeeding January. The directors refused his application, on the ground that aftes that date he would, by his own caiculations, have no need for an increase of salary. Professor Joram, who was struggling to make both ends meet on a pittance of twenty-five thou- | sand, was deeply chagrined. He even made a private application for a bet- | ter-paying position in the University 1 of Buda-Pesth. Such are the incon: sistencies of the humau waind. And the splendid object in the skies waxed in size continually. It was : visible by day now, as well as by night, a huge moon, larger than the sun, and of a silvery whiteness. “When it gets within a thousand million miles of us, at the beginning of December, the heat will be con- siderably increased,” wrote Professor Joram. “Therefore it is safe to say that we shall never have another win- ter. We shall have a milder summer, a second summer in spring, and next summer will mean the beginning of the end.” Following which he laid in his win- " ter coal supply. { It was not that the professor did not belleve in the celestial visitor. | Nothing could be more certain, as all the astronomers agreed, than that the earth must imevitably be consumed. But the human mind cannot quickly g : adjust itself. | The crowds stood staring up at Og nightly. They measured {it; they looked through telescopes to see “the man in Og.” Meanwhile Mary Hagan ‘was fading swiftly. It was a question whether she would live to see the end of all things. And her husband’s des- perate plea for a few hundred increase was vetoed for the same reason that had been given to Professor Joram. He was also working overtime, be- cause the factory was supplying large ' quantities of heavy overcoats for the | forthcoming winter. N:;: 1:.‘.". ‘I'lmll“ “John, dear,” sald his wife, “have Fe -1 be years be- d totourthon-l ery of discon- te men were ) reins of gov-l ia, one of the k, & hundred been sent to . the rich. d nothing. ofessor Joram ibservatory an- Ing end of the thousand times d set his course fon years before. even the pull of ot swerve him n once he was And ever so, | hin five million B calculated that i The Secret of a Good Figurc often lies in the brassiere. Hundreds of wear the Bien-Jolie Brassicre fur t ason that they resn it ne(!unr‘ as a corset. It supnorts the bust and back thousands of women ard gives the figure the youthful outiine fashion decrees. m“ are the daintiest, most serviceable (10 (XA e & v, X Batersls are et for L1 BRASSIERES' I at srest it sioately rustiess—permitting laundering without removal. ‘They come in all styles, and your local Dry Goods dealer will show them to you on request. If he does not carry them, he can easily get them for you by writing to us, Send for aa il booklet showing styles that are in high favor. BENJAMIN & JOHNES * * Newark, N. J. -yonJieticed.ihat tha hnoon mind se | sZ! i iy g ! % L8 it jat Fi 2 EEREN & H possible escape.” 1 &5 1 it E ; H g B i | = g - Rf And now panic descended on all the world. Men weént about their work in a daze. Long estranged families be- gan to be reconciled. Enemies made up. Men wanted to die with clear consciences. It was a few days before Christmas that a sudden hot wave struck the world. The overcoats remained um- sold on the factory shelves. The tem- perature was that of balmy summer. Nobody could understand change had come about so suddenly until on Christmas day. Then the huge star, which had filled several degrees of the heavens, was seen to have disappeared. In its place was a red mist, like a new Milky Way, which glowed by day and night. And the heat, instead of increasing, grad- ually gave way to normal winter tem- peratures again as the mist finally turned white and hung, a nebulous curtain; in the heart of the constella- tion Hercules. . And then Professor Joram an- nounced the truth. A miracle had happened, such as no one could have foreseen. The huge star had collided with a dead, dark body equally large, that had been circling about the solar system since the beginning of time, , It seemed to have unguessed at. been planted there by providence for Just such an emergency. At a dis- tance of a thousand million miles from earth the two had collided squarely, The shock of the impact had disrupted both into fine particles of incandescent gas. The heat was the cause of the sudden increase of the earth’s temperature, but, as the particles cooled, and began to coalesce, all that was left of Og and its dark en was the fragments of what was to de a new universe, acons hence. And with the knowledge that it was saved the world went mad with joy. Men kissed each other upon the streets. The prisons were opened and all the inmates released. Wars ceased, the rich gave back their plunder to the state, which distribufed it among the nation. There were no more poor, nor ever would be. Preachers traced from that day the beginning of the real world of joy and happiness in which we are now fortunate enough to live. “I knew, dear, that it would be,” sobbed Mary, as John Hagan caught her in his arms. “It's better than revolution, isn’t it, John?" That was what all the world was saying. For the poor suddenly found that the rich were thelr brothers, and the rich that they had never before known the meaning of happiness. Fiction and Fact. Fiction writers dare not take the lib- erties with the truth that fact does Listen: Inside of 24 hours a young Los Angeles man lost a friend, dodged a duel, won a bride, chased across five counties, and wound up happy and married before a benign minister. If any novel presented that plot in the same length of time readers would turn away disgusted at th~ improba- bility, and critics would rise up with long-winded explanations of how it couldn’t possibly have happened and be “true to life.” SHE TOURED WORLD AT 85 Eiderly Lady Enjoyed Trip, and Lived Two Years to Talk About It. Mrs. Mary J. Scroggs, who enjoyed the unique distinction of having trav- eled around the world and enjoyed ery mile of the tour when she was eighty-five years old, died at the res idence of her son, Dr. G. A. Scroggs, at Los Angeles. Particularly free from {llness throughout her life, she was {ll but a short tie before death. She Was eighty-seven years old. . Two years ago Mrs. Scroggs decid ed to take a trip around the globe. Many friends had known that she longed to make the tour, but were amazed when she announced that she had completed arrangements. Rugged ' and with a mind particularly receptive and alert, she traveled through the alien lands with the greatest enjoy- ment, and gathered an unusually large fund of information. She was accompanied by her daugh- ter-in-law, Mrs. Doctor Scroggs, and her nlece, Miss Elizabeth P. Bailey. The oldest woman ever to make such & trip, according to the records of all might say that he carries his money in transportation companies, she was not 8 purse that shuts a good deal easier 11l from ocean travel, and did not mias , than it opens.” || & day from sightseeing. HOUCHTLESS TO £0 OV Use B WCFI-OUT CCCL 1 G UTE 1S 3 FCANUSE L S < AND WL R PR e RY. HAVE MANY KITCHEN LABOR -SAVING 'OU WILL BE GLAD TO OWN. THEY ARE COME AND SEE THEM. and Hergvmrs%md Plumbing Co. TR0, ok L S e S R W N N F Mrs. Scroggs went to Los Angeles 12 years ago from Beverly, Pa., hav- ing lived the greater part of her life dith. in that community. By the Natives They Are Regarded as a Dainty Dish. The idea of eating rats is so repul- sive to us that we cannot imagine such a thing unless one were driven to it by starvation. The people of Uganda, “Let | however, eat rats not from necessity, comes : byt because they llke them. The rat !ot Uganda, bowever, is very different the | diet makes his flesh tender and whole- | bark t» the jaws of life. | 1 1 ever, of “ladylikeness” is that cited by | G. W. E. Russell in one of his books. '“A good woman who let furnished bly 0 from the lttle creature that gnaws monster Og Was ROW . holes In our cupboards. This rat is as the sun, and lnmh larger. It Is more than a foot thousand million ' jong and is therefore quite a substan- churches ::: tial animal and as well worth cooking as a rabbit. The wonderful thing about this rat is that it bas two mouths, one behind the other. The first mouth has a pointed ratlike nose and is furnished with two rows of sharp white teeth, with which it bites off its food and passes it on to the second mouth, which is placed just above the throat. This mouth also has two rows of teeth, but one long slender tongue serves for both sets of grinders. Rats are not only eaten in Uganda, but they are regarded as a delicacy.’ pig died of heart failure, or acute in-' The king among his many retainers| has one whose duty it is to furnish the royal table with rats. A rat catcher is not an exalted person usually, but in| Uganda he is looked upon with respect and walks with an air of dignity. fle' Remains of Mariner Lost From Ship' goes out rat hunting daily and general- l ly finds his game among the young| John Austin Norris, 17-year-old son of W. J. Norris, of Jacksonville,; Fla., was found dead in the bath; room of his home by his mother. Ef-| forts at resuscitation with a pulmotor and the hard work of a physician fail to revive him. According to members of the fam- fly, young Norris, who was a clerk ir the office of a life insurance voncern returned home late in the afternoon and went to his room, where he be- gan preparations to dress for the evening. He entered the bath room and his mother, failing to hear hinx eome out after due time, went to in- vestigate. She found him lying at length in the tub in an unconscious eondition. The young man was removed tc Lis bedroom and a physician sum- moned instantly. Following his examination the phy siclan declared that he believed Nor- digestion just after he stepped ints the bathtub. . A QGHASTLY FIND. at Pensacela Wash Ashore. A Pensacola dispatch says: The 178 2/20 L8 / “AskFor Substitutes ' Round Package Siwiwes HORLICK'S MALTED MILK best ; W Wedonot make"milkproducts™ B« ety HORLICK’S full-cream milk Made from and the extract of malted reduced to povdss forme soluble y O Used for ever a Quarter Contury P~ Take a ;':o 1 i banana trees or in any place where padly decomposed bedy of a whitc, tallen fruit or berries may be found. | for this is what the rat lives on. Slen- der shoots of' bamboo or banana or man was found on the inside beact of Santa Rosa island, almost oppo- site Town Point, Frank Kelly mak- Worliman's Ascet. | A workmau owes it 1o himeeit and fruit and leaves are his food, and this | ing the discovery. The remains wer¢ his family to teke care of himself. some. A CRESCENT OF RUINS. ‘The Curious Old Cliff Dwellings of the National Mesa Verde. In the Mesa Verde National park, in southwestern Colorado, are 300 cliff dwellings, of which only the three lar- gest have been repaired. The largest ruin, called CHff palace, stands about a thousand feet above the bottom of the canyon and 300 feet below the top of the ledge. All the houses connect and open into one another, the entire settlement forming a crescent about 300 feet in length from end to end. As we contemplate these silent ruins it 18 hard to belleve that at one time they resounded with the hum of indus- try, the laughter of children, the dron ing of priests, and the strident cry of the sentinels calling the warriors to battle. The dwellers of these aban doned communities have left no writ ten record, but the shape of the struc- tures and the relics that have been Qug from the debris of centuries give some idea of how these people lived and moved and had their being. The malin bouses were built on a ledge close to its front, and back of this was an open space that answered the purpose of a court, a street, a play. ground or a place for industrial pur- suits, such as weaving and pottery making. At intervals along the front were towers and bastions, and in the interior were kivas or secret chambers used for religious ceremonies. In ev ery village were storehouses to pro vid a supply of provisions in times of ‘war or failure of crops. Leigh Hunt's Chaetic Home. A curious description of Leigh Hunt's house, where the poet lfved with his | wife and six children, is that given by Carlyle, as recorded in “Bulletin and | Review of the Keats-Shelley Memorial, Rome:" “Hunt's house excels all you have ever read of—a poetical tinkerdom | without parallel even in literature. In | his family room, where are a sickly | large wife and a whole shoal of well | conditioned, wild children, you will find half a dozen rickety chairs gath- ered from half a dozen different huck- sters. On these and around them and over the dusty table and ragged carpet He all kinds of litter—books, papers, | egeshells, scissors and, last night when 1 was there, the torn heart of a half quartern loaf. His own room he keeps cleaner.” A Real Born Lady. The word “lady” has been variously defined. Perhaps the best test, how- apartments in a country town describ- ing a lodger who had apparently ‘known better days' said: ‘I am posi- tive she was a real born lady, for she badn’t the least idea of how to do anything for herself. took bher hours to peel her potatoes. The admira- tion of the worker for the “out of work” I8 one of the strangest phenow- ena of our modern civilization.—Lon- don Graphie, Il Elegant Discourse. “l1 wants to be proscrastinated at de nex’ corner.” =aid Mr. Erastus Pinkly. “You want to be what?” demanded | the conductor. “Don’ lose your temper. 1 bad to look in de dictionary mays'f befo’ found out dat ‘proscrastinate’ means | ‘put off.” "— Washington Star. ! The Jaws. ! Mrs, Henpeck — Shame on you for | growling about Dr. Bolus. Didn’t he just bring you back from the jaws of death and— Henpeck (wearily)—And Pretty Close. “Is be parsimonious?"* “Well.” was the guarded reply, “sou Cyncism is Intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.—Mere A considerabie Luwber of tiskes are I Fishermen's Favorites. | remarkable for their leaping po'nn.' later identified as those of T. J. Craw- ford, first mate of the Americar schooner Hieronymus, who lost hi: life about two weeks ago when he¢ attempted to board the schooner, a* anchor in the harbor, from a smal boat. Kelly reported his ghastly find tc Captain Hoist, of the life-saving sta: tion, who detailed a crew to recove the body and bring it to the city, It was taken to Pou’s undertaking parlors and there embalmed and hel¢ awaiting advices of relatives. HOBOES DOLL UP. Reb Glothing Store, Array Themselves and Then Away. Jacksonville police are on the look out for thieves who entered the store of Frank Rosenblum, 410 Main street and took several suits of clothing five shirts and two sweater vests as well as ether articles of haber dashery. The robbery was discovered wher the owners went to open' the store and a report was filed with the de tective department immediately. I’ is believed by Lieutenant Cahoon, o the detectives, that the entry was made by several hoboes, known to b hanging about in the city. The mer evidently were the sults away, a they left their old clothing lying o1 the floor ef the clothing departnent New Hotel For Miami. According to reports, Miami wil have in the near future another larg: hotel to which tourists will flock ev ery season. It will likely be situates on the beach. The proposed site un der cousideration is the property own ed by the Miami Beach Improvemen' company and takes in two of the larg est sites facing the ocean, including the pavilion owned by the Miam Beach Improvement company. Contract Let For Canal. The state of Florida has let a con tract for construction of a canal fron Lake Okeechobee to the St. Luch r, as a part of the Evergladet ige scheme. The canal will b ity-four miles long, bottom widtl twerty-four feet, average depth four teen feet. There will be 20,000,000 cuble yards of earth excavated. will drain a large area. CLEANING, PRESSING. REPAIRING and DYEING. [adies Work a Specialty. Sarisfaction Guaranteed. GIVE US A TRIAL K .bler Hotel Basement. Phone No. 3y3 WATSON & GILLESPIE, HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY ‘0ak and Pine Wood Orders handled promptly. 2hones: Office 109, Res. 87 Green IS GUR NGTTO { Which is proven by our and several of these performers are on that account speclally favored by ! anglers, since, by jumping clear of the ' water, in some cases many times in ! succession, they tax the fisherman's” skill more severely than fishes less | active, and thereby give added zest to H | fsan His Wi “Js Bliggine & man of his werd?T | “Unfortunately so. Wh ‘Landlord, 7l the Flowing Bowil’ er 1 Won't Go Home Till Morning!" shoolutely insists on making good.” years success in Lakeland. Maker of the Natiomal Steel ' reinforced concrete Burial H Vault { Building Blocks of all discrip- tions. ed Cement, Pressed Brick, White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 nd 4. inch Drain Tile, o, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post; in fact anything made of Cement. FLORIDA NATIONAL VABLT CO I ITARY “RESSING CLUB ' His labor is his only asset in busine ' When injured, he is fgr the time belng a bankrupt. If killed, his family may be loft desti'u's and his children de prived of au educs'ion and forced to seek employment bofure their matur- { ity. This philosophy Is found in a bul lotin of the Chicsgy bLuivau of safety. Botanical Divisions. A teacher in a Woodland avenue school asked the other day: “How many kinds of flowers are there?” | Three pupils held up their bands. She | chose one to reply. “Well, Isidore, | how many kinds of flowers are there?” “Three, teacher.” “Indeed? And what | are they” “Wild, tame an’ collie."— ! Cleveland Plain Dealer. | ; Hunct Almost Just'fled. After shaking hands at the ferry dock the other day, one cclored man inquired of another: “Didn't you mar- ' | ry de Widow Jones about de first of | ! Jinuary ?" answer; “but I've dun left her” | “Why, how's that?" “Well, de fust | week she called me honey; de next week she sulked around and called | me old Richards; the third week she ,cum for me wid a flatiren an’ I'se kinder got a hunch she don't like ! me.” —Exchange. “Dat's me—] did,” was the ! ooia Sunsiliuio. kage Home Racket or Raquette. When you use the racket in playing tennis you do not stop to think what it means and how diffcult it hus been to trace the word. Some thought that it was so called because of the noise made by the ball striking it, but this is impossible. The real origin is from the French raquette, the palm of the hand, which was originally used in the game before the raciket was In- vented. It's all very simp'e when yeu know. Coulan’t Prove It by Him. “It—er—seems, ~ said he, regarding the anfortunate with sclentific inter- est. “that the attacks of fever and chills appear on aiternate days. Do you think—is it vour opinion—that they have, so tc speak, decreased in violence. if « mav use that \word?” The patient smiled feebly “Doe,” saia he, “on fever days my head’s so hot . cant think, and on ague days 1 shake so @ can't ho:d an opinion.” Beautiful Uncxen World. There is a vell covering the unseen world which not the strongest man nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romancc, o~n push aills that cur- tain and view and picture the super- nal beavty and wonder hevon! —Frank P. Chuareh, In Yew Yerk Sun, Collins & Kelley DEALERS IN Crushed Rock, Fertilizer and.lime East Lafayette St, on Seaboard Ry. & TAMPA FLORIDA ANALYSIS The following is an anlaysis of the Fertilizer from our The analysis was made in the mine near Brooksville, Fla., Laboratory of the State Chemist by aivat, Lab. No. M1ggss: N cisture, Lime—CGa0 3 kGuivaient Larbonate— ! Insoluble Matter .. i Lo and Truck Gardening. 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