Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 22, 1915, Page 2

s i s heie o Albertus Vogt Takes Trip And Gets Close to Nature And a Few Alligators Editor Telegram: As you know, often business and joy-riding trips take me into the southeast corner of Polk county. my The other week in company with Col. Henry Warren, that distinguish- ed prize-winning general agent of the New York Life Insurance Com- pany and my faithful friend, C. F. Baldwin, we made the trip. The weather and roads were fine and ride ozonic. On the A. C. L ¢ between Frostproof Park, is one of the finest Florida of its environs there are many Railway, mid- and Avon lakes in primeval bears, bob Jecause cats, panthers, deer and other mints in the surrounding jungle: You may remember it was in L Livingston hammock, in October last, that John O'Donicl in his ord-breaking run with a bear b hind, met the biz panther? and many stories of what O'Doniel did. The wide, dark waters of Livingston are a h heaven hundreds of big old mos ‘gators 13 to 20 feet long. a hunter and stock-man living three miles west of the lake, 1847, says he can tell by the knots on their backs that many of the ‘zators in the lake are 3,000 years old. On a recent morning as our pa was motoring from Avon Park, north, one of the gladdest suprises of life came to me. At noon stopped at Livingston creek to catch and fry fish and to lunch. To our hearts gladdening who should drive up but our boyhood friend, Col. Adrian P. Fishfakir, You know him; he is some kind of a grub toaster or smeller, or looker, and lives on public *“‘pap,” but withal is a jolly good fellow. var- Lake and sinece we bridge With him in the auto run-a-bout were two splendid girls and a Dbig lunch basket. We discovered direct- ly they were ballet dancers who were making one night vaudeville stands and stunts in the movie temples at the stations on the Seabring divis- ion of the A. C. L. and prompted by his most comprehensive and experi- enced version and gallantry, Col. Fishfakir was escorting and as it were in the capacity of patron saint taking them to the end of the line and showing to them the beautiful scenic lakes, landscapes and groves enroute. Like ourselves they too had timed to lunch at the bridge in one of the most tropic, and mag- nolia, and bay blossomed hammocks in the entire Southland. We pooled lunch baskets and al- most immediately Baldwin and 'l had shot several 16 to 25 pounds bass. Well, this is the best time to tell you. No man is a day older than he feels. You just cuzht to have seen Colonels Fishfaker and Morrell fix those auto cushions and robes for the comfy of the two girls and boil coffee and scale and fry fish. ('olonel Morrell had told me he was 82. I 1 was a boy in my teens I heard him know Colonel Fishfaker is 78. \When I was a boy in my teens I heard him make one of the finest picnic speeches | ever listened to, or read. It was up at Rutland on the “Coochie,” and then he compared & triumphant woman with a long plume in her cap to a fast railroad train and that was in 1865 at the time he was editing a newspaper in Leesburg. But, man, you ought to have scen those two fellows: Spry, repartie, jokes, ask Baldwin. Those two girls had only to laugh and eat fish. While those two widowers fried and flirted Baldwin and T--well, we were like the two men who fell out of the Zeppelin. And then it was as if a 100 centimeter gun was booming as dozens of those twenty 'gators began to bellow. Colonel Fishfakir and T got into an arzument; the old moss-backs were fish.” from and he said “big But my own years of observation after who despises all nature maintain that they and, in sex ,are hens and roosters, every Cracker, Dr. Adair. ‘in other those hig old rooster gators crow at all times of the night, and the build nests reading C‘olonel Roosevelt, fakers, 1 are chickens, for even knows word hens eggs and hatch the do hen rattlesnakes and turt r broods, just s and moccasins and all other ody knows chicke e and du hens do. For any bec barnyard ause hens is no sign that the EUROPEAN NEWS AND VIEWS London, May In has been ¥'s justification or the result of the disaster on the relations he and the U d expressions of been gathered from people from all classes of public and private life incident versy that waged o lack of Lusita- Germa justi on in sinking nia tween German States opinions have in Great Britain. It is that Presi- to Bryan els. since Vilson's m was thro cretary dipt sent proper sh sentiment has that expre 1 in the United States. while the statements of the press in Germany and have almost dovetailed. It instince of the unity of among the Germans een similar to German Amer fee e e in the palmetto brush and lay | tracts,” but I looked good and 1 nev- just |“Durn Colonel Adrain P. Fishfakir.” X Metrop-than of food or fish. e —————— itaken all in all, only goes to make | matters more complex. the contro-| {on year a special effort is to be made to ! discover the graves of all men bur-|Will be taucht | tween | port. s knows how to treat a hen pecially a real live hen. —es- But to go back to those madly howling 'gators: They kept up such a devil of a din until the entire par- ty of us went up the creek, all mov- ing noiselessly throuch the brush. You can guess our astonishment to see a party of 'gators on either side of the stream, actively digzging trenches into which the longest, active ‘gators would crawl and lay still until the other gators instantly covered them with leaves and dry palmetto fans. Then the 'ga- tor trench digzers slid into thej| black waters of the creek and in chorus begzan to bellow again. The vibratory jarrings of the earth by nal roaring of hundreds of once served to shake down the myriad nuts and acorns and nalmetto berries on the adjacent tres. The many hogs for their noon shade, hear- most the infe hammock coming ing the rattle of the falling nuts on the palm fans, rushed up to feed. You see how easy it was for the leaf- covered 'gators in the trenches with a sly fliz of their tails to knock those fool unsuspecting pigs “Who never look up to he who thresheth down the =acorns,” straight into Livingston creek and into the gap ing jaws of their co-conspirators. Talk about schemes to rustle-ra- Can you beat it. Talk about brains being the seat of reason. Not on your vestibule. Any rooster 'ga- tor's head is solid horn. Those two ballet danseusese called it by saying “All five year old females know any male’s brains are in his stomach and the main line to himself.” “Those rooster 'gators are just like you bipeds,” and I knew they gradu- ated under male tutelace. I wish you might have heard the disclaimers of Colonels Fishfakir and Warren . Fishfaker said: *If there may be any supreme appeal to ME it is op- tical and sentimental. The poetry of all motion is in a woman's walk and in the graceful rhythm of her danc- ing feet. Why, gentlemen, can we forget Herod and Salome or that most welcome of all music, the rustle of a skirt.” We returned to camp, packed and turned south again back to Avon Park, and for that night's vaudeville Colonel Warren ‘“had forgotten some most important papers.” Colonel Fishfakir was escorting the Dan. seuese; Mr. Baldwin was paid to drive the car. Conductor Wadkins paid no attention to my frantic at- tempts to flag the train to fetch me home to Lakeland, and thus 1 was compelled to go with them. Colonel Fishfakir asked Mr. War- ren to ‘“fetch one of the ladies in our car.” With hat in hand and cavalier courtliness he handed her into the back seat and climbed in beside her. Our car took the lead. We soon lost sizht of Colonel Fish- fakir. Mr. Baldwin is an unfortunate, for one of his innate curiosity and occupation ought to have eyes on the back of his head. Almst immediate- 1y our Ford began to straddle sap- lings. 1 took the wheel and drove in. Colonel Warren kept pointing out to us scenes in front of the car. Mr. Baldwin was put in the same room with myself at the Verona. He suffered all night with pains in his! neck. Colonel Fishfakir was furious} because we ‘“run off and left him stuck in the sand.” ) Colonel Warren swears “The Jax! Metropolis mustn’t talk to me 'bout} planting no hen.” “In Columbus, Ohio, and New York city, men don't plant hens. They feed 'em on candy and pet 'em and keep ‘em glad.” “That's what.” Baldwin said: “Colonel, you ought not told those folks I am married.” “1 believe both them old roosters got wives at their homes.” Colonel Adrian P. pishfakir asked me several times: “Colonel, how many grandchildren have you?” and “I think you have your fourth wife now." The next day we drove to Frost-| proof. At the Livingston creek bridge Mr. Warren and Mr. Bald- win cot on their hands and knees and walked all around in the sand and praved *“God, bless those tions? on er saw any kind of a tract nor any other bit of cardboard or missionary paper. But I said then, and I do now, “chickens” He knows more about There has been formed in Paris the Memorial Day Society for the purpose of decorating the sraves of civil war veterans buried in France Decoration’ Day, May 20. This icd at Cherbours, of which there are | a good number, the battle be- the Kearsarge and the Ala- bama took place just outside that as Low Rates lo U. C. V. ReUnion MADGE ELLIS, NURSE i Put Her Duty Before Anything Else. f At Richmond ' Lakeland, Fla., May 14, 1915, To Camp Commander and Comrades: fn account of the large number of camps of the Third Brigade being located on that line the Atlantic (‘osst Line has been selected as the official route to the Richmond Re- union ,which will be held June 1st to 3rd, 1915, The “Third Brigade Special” will leave Jacksonville via Atlantic Coast Line at 9:00 p. m,, May 30th and is scheduled to arrive in Richmond 4:00 p. m., central time, May 31st. Special will consist of free reclining chair cars, Pullman standard and tourist cars and dining cars. On A. C. L. train leaving Tampa 12:00 noon, May 30th, there will be free reclining chair cars and standard sleeping through to Richmond cennecting with special at Jackson- ville. cars Excursion rates from points in the State will be lows: Arcadia ... BEELOW: 5 45 s Brooksville . .. Clearwater Dade City Daytona . ... CeLand ... Dunnellon. . . Eustis Fort Meade Fort Lauderdale ... Fort Myers . Fort Pierce Gainesville Haines City Inverness Jacksonville Key West Kissimmee Lake City Lakeland principal as fol- .$18.75 17.80 17.10 13. 7.55 18.00 16.55 13.85 21.05 16.60 17.75 15.75 16.60 14.85 15.40 Leesburg. .. Live Oak ... Miami Mount Dora Mulberry ... Ocala ..... .. Orlando ... Palatka ..... RUMRY sl Plant City ... Punta Gorda St. Augustine . St. Cloud St. Petersburg Sanford ........ Tallahassee ..... Tampa ... Tavares ..... Titusville ... Trilby s Wauchula Winter Garden Winter Haven Proportionate stations. Tickets will be sold May 20th to June. 2nd. Limit will be June 10th, but extension of limit to June 30th (by which date you must reach or- iginal starting point) may be ob- tained by depositing tickets with special agent and paying fee of 50 cents. Stop-overs allowed on appli- cation to conductor. Low side trips available. Pullman rates from Jacksonville are double lower berth, standard car, $4.00; Tourist, $2.00. Double upper berth, standard car, $3.20; tourist, $1.60. It is earnestly desired that all veterans and their friends join us on the “Third Brigade Special.” Application for Pullman reserva- tions should be made to Mr. A. W. Fritot, D. P. A., Jacksonville; J. G. ‘Kirkland, D. P. A, Tampa, or any A. C. L. ticket agent. J. D. ALLEN, Brigadier Gen. Com. 2d Brigade Fla., Div, U.C. V. J A. COX, Adjt. Gen. U, GV, 18.00 16.60 16.80 17.05 18.30 16.80 17.60 other rates from and Chief of Staff, Just now by the circulation of a pos- tal card showing angels descendinz from heaven to place the flag of Italy on the cathedral of Trieste, while a group of bersaglieri, Ital popular and picturesque soldiers, look on at the proceedings. postal card originated in Venice and has gained an immense popularity. 1t has been a godsend to the petty venders, for copies are sold as fast as they can be produced. All Italy said that the Austrian censors at Triste are practically snowed under by the storm of cards that have de- scended there. Naturally they are rigidly suppressed in Trieste. A great era of rebuilding is be- ing planned in Belgium. So confi- dent are the Belgians that the Al- lies will win the war against Ger- many that ambitious are on foot to Louvain, Rheims and noted .cities American methods will be followed to a large extent. In the public schools lectures regarding American will be given, illustrated by pictur oung rebuild other moving and men structing the devastated towns of their ceunt The Belgian King Albert is taking a very active interest in all of the proceedings ive Appeals have been sent broad- cast to all who know of any war dead in France so that their graves may be located and decorat- ed. There are no tourists in Venice | this spring and the venders of glass beads and postal cards are having a bard time. Romance and patriot- and ism are gratified in Northern Italy 5 civil | and has been promised the ;ance of some of the foremost archi- tects in America and England Brush the Wick. Tse en old toothbrush to rub off | the charred portion of a lampwick, Instead of cutting with scissors. The result is a smooth edge, without any prongs or loose ende to cause an un even d'ute upe amauling s lmlnute. You go and take some one The | is fairly flooded with them and it is" preparations | the plans of recon- By ROSALIE G. MENDEL. | Nurse Ellls rushed up the boarding | house stairs, burst into the little hall bedroom and exclaimed to her room- mate, “Hurrah! My typhoid case is declared cured. I'm.discharged and Glenn Garnett has asked me to cele brate my freedom from the tyranny of a cranky patient by going to the theater with him this evening. Ien't that jolly? I'm just aching in every bone for a good time—especially with Glenn.” “Well, you certainly deserve it aft- er the strenuous siege you have had,” answered Sue Darrow as she pinned her cuffs in her nurse's costume. “IT only hope you manage to leave before another call comes for you. You're such a popular little nurse that you are always in demand.” “If the superintendent of the hospl- tal, the assistant superintendent and all the doctors took sick I would re-! fuse to go on duty tonight,” exclaimed ! Madge as she combed her long golden ; hair. “This is the fourth evening Glenn and I have made arrangements to spend together and every time I've had a ‘hurry call’ at the last minute. Fate could not be so unkind as to spoil this long anticipated pleasure again.” Good-bye, dear,” sald Sue, as she grasped her suit case to report for night duty. “Have a good time, and tomorrow you can tell me all about your lark.” Just as Nurse Ellis finished dress- ing in her new white serge suitand becoming picture hat the telephone gave a long, loud ring. Madge stared at it and then said defiantly: “I won't! I won't answer it.” Another and an- other ring and then she grabbed the receiver and called, “Well?” “This is Dr. Burns,” came the an- swer. “I have an emergency opera- tion at the hospital that I wish you to report ou at once.” “I—I can't tonight, doctor,” faltered Madge. “It's impogsible. Get one of the other girls.” “What's that? You're not refusing me? Come, come, girl. You are the In Amazement Madge Saw It Was Glenn. only one I'll have for this case. I'll call for you in my machine in twenty minutes.” “I hate to say ‘No,’ but—oh—I sim- ply can't ‘go on’ again tonight.” “I guess you are not yourgel. This is the first time you haven't been ready to fly at a summons day or night,” sald the puzzled doctor. “I know, but T am worn out, body and soul; I need this one evening for myself.” “I'm gorry and disappointed,” said the doctor as he hung up the recelver. Madge sat down in the low rocking chair and had a good cry. Then she flew to the telephone, called Dr. Burns, and told him that she had changed her mind and that she was ready to report on the case. He answered, “Good, I knew* you were too loyal a little soul to fafl me.” i Then she telephoned to Glenn. “It's impossible for me to keep our en- gagemeént. Am dreadfully sorry. An- other operation, and—" “Madge Ellis,” answered: Glenn, in- dignantly, “1 won't listen to a refusal. You have simply got to go with me tonight. You're not the only nurse in the world. It's ridiculous that we 1cm‘t have one evening together.” “I can't, Glenn. Don't urge me any more. If you do I'll ery in just a else.” | “You know you are the only one I | care to go with.” l “It's as hard for me as for you, Glenn. But a nurse's duty comes be- | fore anything else.” | “I see it does,” answered Glenn an- grily. “You really don’t care enough about going, Miss Ellis, otherwise you could arrange it. Good-bye.” Madge quickly changed her new white sult and hat for her nurse's | costume and was waiting at the win- dow when Dr. Burns drove up. “You're a treasure, little girl,” he | said, grasping her hand in his big ones. “I have a daughter of my own and I can see there was a special reason why you wanted to be off duty tonight.” “‘He’ is a special reason,” sald’ Madge plaintively, through tears that would come. “This case,” went on the doctor, “is of a little old lady who, it seems, came from the country to surprise her son. In crossing one of the downtown Button Hints. ‘ To fasten buttons tightly begin to | sew on the right side and sew back | and forth several times before you be- gin to sew through the button. The knot will be under the button and not on the wrong side, to be rubbed off in laundering. In sewing buttons on coats gew over a match or toothpick and wrap thread for a “shank.” Optimistic Thought. A ragged colt may make a handsome horse e ——— got comfused and “:‘w, OSSO rets che t.;rwn to the ground by 2 truck. 1 fear she is serlously injured. As yet we have not been able to locate . Sheisas fine as a t‘l:: china and you are just the girl to pet and take charge of the fright- ened, lonesome little bods.” The operation was & dangerous one. Through the long, hard night the pa- tient's life hung on a thread. But in the morning she was better. Miss Ellis sought her couch for a well- earned rest when released from duty. She awoke after a refreshing sleep and hastened to her patient's bed. A young man kneeled at the bed- side, his arms clasped about fragile little old tentedly stroking his young man looked ment, Madge saw It was Glenn! As Madge stood In the doorway Glenn glanced up. He went over to her, grasped both her hands, and lead- ing her to his mother's side, sald, “Mother, this is Madge, the dear um: girl I have written to you about. Then, turning to Madge, he added, hair. “Dr. Burns told me that your skillful | | and devoted attention did as much to save my mother's life as the opera tion. tude. What can you think of 2 selfish brute like me who so cruelly reproach- ed you for doing your duty? How you must despise me.” “I don’t exactly despise you,” mur- mured Madge, putting her hand on his | gleeve. “And I think yon have the dearest mother in the world.” “Then let her be yonr mother, too” begged Glenn fervently. a mother's love, and I need yours.” (Copyright, 1912, by W. G. Chapman.) GOOD AilD EVIL EMANATIONS || All of Us Constantly Sending Out Thoughts According to Our Char acter and Nature. Man is like the wireless telegraph. He is constantly ser?ing out mes- sages of peace and power, of harmony or discord, friend thoughts or enemy thoughts. These messages are flving from him with lightning gpeed in every direction, and they arouse in others qualities like themeelves. We are all wireless mental stations, and are all sensitive to the things to which we have made ourselves akin by our thoughts and life, If we have developed the coarser side of ourselves, living an animal life, we are sensitive to the animal vibrations and influences that come to us; in pro- portion as we have educated the brute out of ourselves do we become sensi- tive to the rays of good. Many of us have not yet learned to protect ourselves from the conflicting currents of radiated thought from oth- ers that are playing all about us. Thought cobeys a law as inexorable as that of mathematics. No love can re- turn in exchange for a hatred thought; but if your thought is freighted with love, love will come back to meet its own. To have friends we must show ourselves friendly. To be loved, we must love. If the God within you—the ineffable spirit of love, of charity—speaks to a man, although he may be a criminal, the God will come out of him to meet it; but if you fling out diabolical sa- tanic forces—hatred, jealousy, envy— they will arouse and call out the devil from the victim of your thought radia- tion. Good will come out to meet good, evil in response to evil; hatred comes out to meet hatred, love to meet love, because they are affinities. —Origon Swett Marden in the Nau. tilus Magazine. The Lost Wurz, Gregory is the kindest hearted per- gon in the world, and always ready to do a good turn for anybody, be it friend or stranger. The other day he was in a Third avenue car, standing because there was no vacant seat, when a dignified old man rose, indi- cated the place he left with a courteous bow and got out at Forty-second street. Gregory accepted the seat, but hardly had taken it when he no- ticed a neat package on the floor. With a bound he was up and after the departing passenger. The car had started, but the old man looked around | at sound of the shouting and Gregory let fly the parcel; the paper slipped . off, a long string of link sausages sailed through the air and lassoed the old gentleman's silk hat, dangling over his face, which grew purple with rage. In the same moment the kind-hearted Gregory felt himself selzed by a strong clutch ard a wall broke upon the car, as a stout German woman lamented her lost treasure, “You throw oud mine Wurz!" she cried over and over; mine echt Ger- man Wurz I take mine daughter once! Ach, where ist now mine Wurz al- ready?"—New York Times. — Fatal to the Piano. Unless well seasoned beforehand, a plano, however well made, will go all to pleces in the tropics. At one of the largest London piano houses there is a special room kept heated to a high temperature, in which ments intended for hot climates are baked for about a month before being sent abroad. Insects do much damage to pianos in tropical countries. To keep away ants the casters of the piano are placed in little metal saucers filled with water. But unless this is often renewed, the persistent ant waits un. | til dust bas collected on the surface and walks across on this. The “carpenter worm™ is another foe. Starting to work on a piano, he, by some subtle instinct, is able to bore a y in a direct line for the nice juicy soundingboard, which he soon tunnels out. —————— Famous South American Falls. The falls of Tequendama are situ- ated near the city of Bogota, United States of Colombia, where the River Bogota rushes through a cleft 36 feet wide and falls about six hundred feet into a rocky chasm. Near the falls is the natural bridge of Inconcngo, which is something more than Lhnee. thundred feet high. Satisfaction. Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up ut night and think of your work with sat- isfaction.—Thoreau. her | B plece of Dres- | | (he" lady, who was con- 1 The | familiar. Ineamaze | Madge, T can't express my grati- | “You need | instru. || |BS 5 B 1] Better Business All recent business reports reflect a decided)y in business circles. 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