Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 13, 1915, Page 6

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Rogers Bdwin Spencer, Jr ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Building Lakeland, Florida EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER Raymondo Bldg., Lakeland, Florida KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Building Lakeland Florida e DR. RICHARD LEFFERS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Rooms 2-3, Skipper Building Over ‘Postoffice ........ W. 8. PRESTON, LAWYER Office Upstairs East of Court House BARTOW, FLA. Examination of Titles and Rea, &v tate Law a Speclalty W. HERMAN WATSON, M. D. Morgan-Groover Bldg. Telephones: Office 351; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Florids e —————————— J. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Dickson Building .Practice in all courts. Homestead. claimg located and contested ———— Eastablished 1n July, 1300 DR. W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Florida T. M. BRYAN ARCHITECT Room 8 Elliston Building P. 0. Box 605 Lakeland, Florida [t L2 2 S P o OFFICE ROOMS FOR RENT In Telegram Building Coolest and Best Lighted in the City ' Running}Water in Each Room Call at TELEGRAM OFFICE Lakeland Sanitariym Ors. Hamna HARDIN BLp | Lt (Con!flchkln!.w.irodmd terary An event to be much talked about in soclety and another to cause chat- ter from the seventh floor to the basement at Maxim & Co.s depart- ment store, occurred the same week. The first was the announcement of the engagement of Miss Edith Lisle {to Mr. Eugene Nevins, who was one of the partners of the store, and so- clety agreed that it was a fine match. Soclety refers to those things the same way men refer to horses in a race. The second event was the general overhauling of the store detectives and many of the sales girls, on ac- count of the sudden increase in shop- lifting. Laces and other goods not the usual prey of the shop- lifter were being taken in a way to make the loss a serlous one and to call for increased vigilance. Maxim & Co. had the reputation of carrying the finest line of laces in the city. There were four salesgirls in this department, and the on charge was Miss Grattan. She had held her place for nearly a year when the first theft was reported. The first and second cases were passed over, but when the third was re- ported Miss Grattan was placed un- der suspicion. It was Mr. Nevins Wwho set the watch on her, and it was to Mr. Nevins that the report was made later on. “Lives with her widowed mother; | goes out very little and then with Mr. Traver, of the furniture depart- ment. It {5 sald that they are en- gaged. If she takes the lace, she sells it somewhere. Cannot say that suspiclon ghould attach to any one of the four at the lace counter.” In the line of business Mr. Nevins had once called Miss Grattan to the office. She had not trembled and cowered in his presence. On the con- trary, she had seemed too assured and snippy to please him. There must be discipline in department stores, and when an employe s before the powers that be, he or she I8 expected to act as if life was at stake. As Miss Grattan didn’t, Mr. Nevins was displeased with her. In the general overhauling Miss Grattan came first. Lace to the “There Is 8lackness There.” value of $200 had been taken from her department two days before. There had been a rush at her counter all day, mostly of well-dressed wom- en. There had been scores and scores of sales. There had been scores who did not buy. The salesgirls must not only handle the stock, but an- swer questions, record sales, keep their eyes open and look upon every customer with suspicion, and feel that some one of those customers might be a shoplifter, and there to put the four in peril of losing their places. Mr. Nevins realized all this, but he made no excuses for Miss Grattan, nor permitted her to make any for herself. “There is slacknes there or these things could not happen,” he said. “A smart girl can tell a shoplifter half way across the store. If there is any more stealing from your coun- ter I shall be obliged to transfer you to the crockery department.” There were three store detectives, all noted for their smartness, and yet they could not “tell a shoplifter halt way across the store,” nor yet ten feet away. Miss Grattan took it rightly that she “was marked down,” but she returned to her counter re- solved to watch with more vigilance than ever. In the big stores they do not make the mistake of watching what may be called the common folks to the exclusion of all others. What the common folks take 1is called stealing; what the wealthy take goes under the head of kleptomania. Both are watched alike. Four days after the talk in the of- fice, Miss Grattan had a customer for high-priced lace. She was a young woman of about twenty-two, who had come in her auto, and she had a full purse and bought liberally and took away her package. She was Watched, and yet ten minutes after the had gone a valuable plece of Iace Wwas missing. The most that could be found out about her was that she had frequently been in the store and that she paid cash and never had her purchases sent. The loss had to be reported to Mr. Nevins. He did not —— Sometimes Lonely, Though. One advantage in being good is found in the fact that you avoid crowds ———— Father’s Feeling. “Your father ms to look upon me with disfavor.” “Not exactly that. More like curiosity."—Buffalo Ex- oress —— Invented to Amuse King. cards are said to have beea invented in 1390 to divert Charles IV, then king of France, who had fallen into a melancholy mood valuable ! transfer Miss Grattan to the crockery department, as he had threatened. He was evidently about to do 80, when something she said in describing the customer she suspected made him hesitate and take on a puzzied look, and after a time to remark: “After you have taken stock tonight you may find the missing lace. At any rate, let it go for a day or two.” Why the change in him? Did he suspect her, and was he going to have ber watched? Was he going to have her mother's house searched? Yes, Miss Grattan was engaged to Mr. Traver, the head of the furniture department; but the fact bad not 'boen publicly announced. These en- gagements seldom appear in the so- | clety journals. It's two or three days off under protest—a marriage, a flat and then one hears no more. It may | be spoken of in the store for a day, , but only by employes. i On the evening of the last theft mentioned the matter was talked over between the lovers. Mr. Traver was & man of action. He had a ster ; Who was not known at the store, and next day she was a customer the lace counter. She didn’t make a pur- | chase, but she kept her eyes open. . The next day she was at the glove ‘counter. On the next she was back at the lace counter. Perhaps one of the store detectives i became suspiclous and followed her about for a time; perhaps one of the ‘four girls at the lace counter hoped (to find her shoplifting and see her | punished. She was there, undeter i mined whether to buy or not when the young lady of the auto swept into the store and up to the counter. | She was graclous and Ppatronizing. She wanted expensive lace to send to a girl friend In the country. Miss Grattan waited on her and watched ‘her. Never had she watched a cus- tomer so closely. Miss Traver sus- pended her buying to leave the store |and order a public auto to wait in front of it. At the end of half an hour her | quarry came out and entered her own ! auto and speeded away. She was fol- lowed and her residence located. She had not left the store above a quarter of an hour when the white- faced and shaking Miss Grattan was up in the office reporting to Mr. Nevins: “The young lady whom I suspected a few days ago came for more lace today and bought $50 worth. She had hardly gone when I missed five yards valued at more than that.” “H'm! You will apply for your sal- ary this evening. We can no longer afford to keep you here. The other day, when I told you to wait a bit, I thought I had a clue to solve the problem; but it seems that I was mistaken. I shall transfer the other girls to the crockery department. The four of you are a careless lot, but you are the worst.” An hour later Mr. Traver asked for & word with Mr. Nevins, “If it's about Miss Grattan, I don’t wish to hear it,” was the answer. “But it fsn't. It's about the shop- lifter at the lace counter. I know her and know her place of resi- dence.” “You—you do!” “And 1f you get out a search war- rant before she can mail away the lace she lifted this afternoon it will be found in her house. My sister fol- lowed her today.” Mr. Nevins bent forward on his desk and hid his face in his hands, and it was three long minutes before he raised it to say: “I—1 suspected—I knew, but I dldn’t want any one else to know. You and Miss Grattan are engaged. Please go, both of you. Your wed- ding gift from the firm will be enough to set you up in business You see, Miss—Miss Lisle fs a klepto- manlac, and I can't—can’t—" And his face was in his hands again when Mr. Traver softly with- drew. Soclety wondered and by and by forgot. —_———— Why Feminine Angels? The “feminine angel” appears to be the invention of Christmas card pro- ducers and “monumental masons,” as the makers of tombstones call them- selves. In Milton's heaven there 1s no equality of sex, for there is never a mention of a foman, even as a celes- tial camp follower. Guercino's angel at Fano, which inspired Browning's beautiful “Guardian Angel,” {s a man. The feminist, however, will hardly cite this as another example of the unfair predominance of man, since even man, s an angel, has no concern with gov- ernment or the vote. —————— A New Leap. A newly qualified judge in one of the small towns of the south was try- Ing one of his first ériminal cases. The accused was an old colored man, who was charged with robbing a hencoop. He had been In court before on a sim- flar charge, and was then acquitted. “Well, Tom,” began the judge, “I see you're in trouble agaln.” “Yes, sah,” replied the prisoner. “The last time, Jedge, you was ma lawyer.” “Where is your lawyer this time?’ asked the Judge. “I ain't got mo lawyer this time,” answered Tom, “I'm gwine to tell the truth!” i A Difference. “Men in the olden times were de- lighted 1f they got a lady's glove.” “Well.” “Now they're as glum as can be if they get the mitten.” —_— Indifferent as to the Present One. “Dora, you are sixteen and can't spell your name correctly!” “Ob, that's all right, mother, I ex- pect to change it in a year or so0."— Judge. — Daily Thought. It you censure your friend for every fault he commits there will come a time when you will have no friend to censure.—Arabian Proverb. ——— Origin of . Auction Sales. Auction sales originated in an- clent Rome, and were introduced to enable soldiers to dispose of spoils of war. —— To Cure Hysteria. Wrap mustard plasters on hznds, wrists, soles and palms, and allow e dent to rest. Love and Loneliness By A. Howard Gunter [} L} by Associated Literary (Copyright, 1912, )4 3 New York is larger than Bologee, Alabama, and Willy Ben Bibb, who knew every man, woman, child and dog in Bologee, did not care for a town that was chiefly made up or strangers. He lived iu one of those elegant apartment houses, where everything is done by magic. He pressed a button when he wanted any- thing and another button when he did not want anything. His laundry disappeared and reappeared while he was at work. Even his shoes were spirited away while he slept and, no matter how early he rose, never & glimpse could he catch of the boot- black. The elevator boy wore a me- chanical, highly glazed look, the tele- phone girl was calm and repelling. It he ventured a salutation, the clerk at the desk gave him a reproving, impersonal bow. All of this was very painful to Willy Ben, who liked hu- man beings. The truth is, he missed his mother and his six pleasant sisters, but he was capable and ambitious, and as his mother's cousin’s nephew had given him a good position in his law Office, there seemed no excuse for a Teturn to Bologee. When he left bhome Willy Ben had brought his Bible, which he did not read; his ten- nis racket, with which he was ma- king a reputation among the athletic clubs, and—his ideal. His mother bad given him the ideal when he was & very tiny boy, his sisters had fos- tered it, and strange to say, it clung to him sturdily among the tempta- tions of the city. All this partly ex- plained his loneliness, He was dressing for tennis one aft- ernoon, suffering at the same time violent pangs of homesickness, when & sharp tap sounded at the door. He flung 1t open and found a small mes- Senger boy waving a telegram at him. “Come at once,” it commanded; “Miss Walton serlously injured. Maria Lorgey.” It gave an address on the lower east side. “Now who,” asked the puzzled Willy Ben, “is Miss Walton? And who 18 Maria Lorgey?" The messenger boy did not seem to know; he did not seem to care, s0 Willy Ben dismissed him and pon- | | }‘ LS “I"ll Tell You Tomorrow.” dered on the matter. There were his Dame and address written clearly on the envelope, yet he had never heard of either of the women who were sending him this urgent call from the unknown. He concluded it was a plot to trap him, though why he should be trapped he could not imagine, for ir he had few friends in the city he had to his knowledge no enemies. Obvt- ously, the thing to do was to ignore the telegram, but Willy Ben was young and hotheaded. He stuffed his revolver Into his pocket and de- cided to walk into the trap. The number given on the message proved to be one of a row of vault like structures facing a fithy street. There was no one n sight, but when Willy Ben rang, the door fiew open instantly and out of the blackness within appeared two wild white eyes and a row of gleaming teeth. Willy Ben recolled, then realized that this Was no apparition, but & ragged negro glirl. “Is you Mr. Bibb?” she questioned, eagerly. “We 'lowed you'd hurry. Come this way, sub.” She plunged back into the darkness. With some misgivings. Willy Ben followed her. Somewhere n the inky blackness they stumbled on some crooked stairs and up, up, up interminably they climbed, the ragged guide fiitting on before. At the top the girl stopped and pushed open a door. “Miss Walton’s been kilt,” she whispered, in a scared voice. “Miss Maria’s done gone for the doctor.” Before Willy Ben could stop her, she was gone tearing down the steps and the blackness swal- lowed her up. Willy Ben walked into & small, bare room. In the corner was a narrow bed, with a figure thrown limply across it. He stole across the room =nd Icoked at ber in wonder. She was 2 young girl, no,larger than his sister B and with beautiful balr like his er Evelyn's. It spread over the in disorder and framed a sad, Iit- tle, Iovely face. The walst was torn chen at the neck and there was clot- tod blood on her forehead. He asked Liusell in horror if she were dead? Regulating the Watch. It one has an opportunity to com- pare his watch daily at a certain time with some source of standard time, as with the time as sent by telegraph or by wireless signals, or by regular comparizon with some accurate clock, as one daily passes a jeweler's store, for instance, it would be well to es- tablish the habit of winding the watch at that time, as it is better to have such daily comparisons at the time the watch is wound, and more regular winding will usually ensue. — Hubby’s Joke. “Won't your wite sing for us?™ “Bure! 1 just asked her mot' to."— The Mischiet Maker, [} | It it were only a faint, something must be done for her, so he found a basin and, pouring some water into it, knelt down by the bed and awk- wardly began to bathe the girl's fore- head. So troubled was he that he forgot to wonder why he had been ; sent for, until his eyes fell on a pic- i ture that hung by the bed. To his utter astonishment, Willy Ben found | his own image staring at him from | an ornate gilt frame. Then he looked | about the room and saw that he was | everywhere. When he won the blg" tennis match from the champion of | the Enderby Athletic association every paper In New York had printed his photograph, and here they all were, on walls and tables and dresser, the | only pictures in the room. His address was printed under one of them and Willy Ben could now eas- ‘ ily understand why the landlady had sent for him. But he had never seen the girl on the bed, he was sure of that, and why had she lined her walls with his photograph? There could be only one explanation. Willy Ben was a strong, well-built, six-footer, but he was not handsome, and to find that his rough-hewn, freckled countenance had appealed to one feminine heart was a wonderful thing. A deep crimson dyed his tanned cheeks. The stalrs began to creak and a wheezing sounded regularly from be- low. Mrs. Lorgey and the doctor, he supposed it must be, They puffed into i e room, & large ofly woman and a large untidy man. While the doctor examined the girl, Mrs. Lorgey sank into a chair, oozing over the sides and began a grumbling explanation. “She came yesterday, and ‘twas bad luck I took her in. I gave her the room most reasonable, and this morn- ing she goes and gits run into by a cab.” “A concussion,” murmured the doc- tor, soothingly, “only a slight concus- sion.” The landlady pointed to the picture of the young man. *I didn’t know Where she come from nor anything about her, but T seen you was a friend of hern, so I sent for you on a guess.” Willy Ben was about to admit his ignorance, but he looked at the pic- tures of himself and then at the pretty little girl on the bed. Beneath his taflor-made New York clothes his home-made Bologee heart swelled with pride. “She i3 a very dear friend of mine,” he answered tenderly, “and 1 intend to have her moved to the hospital at once.” At the hospital, Emily Walton came back to consciousness to find a clean- looking, red-headed young' man sit- ting patiently beside her. FKor a long time she regarded him in silence, then she spoke wonderingly. “Willlam Benjamin Bibb, the tennis champion, however, did you come here?” “Never mind,” answered Willy Ben, for the doctor had sald she must not talk. “I'll tell you tomorrow. We're playing that I'm your big brother.” She was asleep when he left, and like a big brother, he kissed her—a friendly, respectful kiss—just as it she were Bess or Evelyn. But all the time he knew that she was not; he knew she was the ideal come to life, Tomorrow came, and for the two & great many tomorrows. She told him all her sorry story, how she had run away from her home to go on the stage, and how, though she could cook and sew and recite Hamlet's so- liloquy better than any girl in board- ing school, she could mot act. Hay- ing a stubborn kind of pride which took the place of courage, she had gone on trying and trying. “And When the cab struck me,” she told him, “I was glad to think the tight ‘was over.” He in turn told her about his home, his mother, his brothers and sisters, how he used to steal away from school to visit the swimming pool, how a mad dog came through town and he had to kil his faithtul bound, how a rattlesnake bit him in the leg one day. He told it all so fervently that little Emlly, who was born in a board- ing house and brought up in hotels, grew homesick, When the wound on her forehead Wwas well and the time came for her to leave the hospital the young man made a brilliant suggestion, “Why go back to that horria Placer Let’s go right out and be marrieq.” *“And spend the honeymoon in Bolo- 8ee,” she added. 8o it wag Settled, and Willy Ben, who knew that marriages are made in heaven, fell to wondering. “To think,” he cried rapturously, “that you fell in love with my Dlcture be- fore you ever saw me!" But the little Emily wag truthfut and practical. “I didn't,” she an- swered, leaning fondly against him, “I cut your picture out of the paper because you looked like a man I used to be In love with out west.” ———— College Fraternity Privileges. 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