Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 1, 1911, Page 7

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Government 2 0H0O0IOMOIO O IOENBOIOFOIOEO T OIGEd LD Job Printing W S ‘ OWI.\'G to the eniargement of our newspaper and publishing business, D OIGIOTILITOOIOE D oo has heen necessary to move The News Job Office »~tairs where it will be found in Rooms ‘1 and 12, Kentucky Building, in the com- ‘ent charge of Mr. G. J. Williams. For “vthing that can be printed. if you want ¢ best work at the right prices. call on r Williams. The News Job Office Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentucky Building. OQHHHOVOIQPODOFOHOFOPGPH QIO QPP TP IO I ODQIOHD O % (Copyright, 1511, by Assoclated Literary Press.) THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, DEC. 1, 1911, ]Kln‘s existence, but he had never | Anothe" Sort Of | dreamed of ber as a factor in his fu- | By Martha McCulloch -Williams “What shall | do with you? You are simply dreadful!” lated, looking severely at Basil. He flipped the ash from his cigar with extreme nicety, as he answered: “Don’t know—unless you wmarry me. I heard we were engaged at the post- office yesterday.” “Sluggard! [ beard that a week ago, at least,” Lotte flung back at him, laughing softly. Basil looked finjured. “And you Bever told me!"” he murmured. Lotte shrugged faintly. “I would— only there was no danger,” she sald. “Even It | wanted you ever so badly. Uncle Joseph and Auntys Betb and Margaret would all protect you. They don't want the King helirs consoll- Lotte ejacu- | ture when a sudden whim moved him ! | to come back to his father's mmve | county. Now, she was lithely angular; she had freckles and opinions both de cided. Moreover she had no rever- I3 PAGE SEVEA 'Bargains and Bargains Only' Offered By ’()HLL\(:I' R & ALFIELD ence for him, for anything masculine, | it appeared. Uncle Joseph even was her playfellow, notwithstanding me[ rest of the world saw bim a starch and downright personage. She was certainly the iife and soul of things, there in the old homestead. It bad been borne i upon him further that she was a coquette of the first water; oot a malicious one, but tn a merry, sprite-like fashion. At first the thought of it had amused bim greatly. Lat terly, he had been finding out that she was indeed, when she chose to be, & worker of charms. They rode to the Dale place at a beadlong gallop. The afternoon was beavenly—air like wine went to the head. Basil tried bard to say things a8 they rode, but Lotte would mnot listen. She was in her wildest spir- fts—and managed as soon as they dated—not a bit of it. Told me flatly before you came.” “Indeed! Why didn’'t they warn me?" Basil asked, his tone more than ever injured. Again Lotte laughed. “Oh, they couldn't think of you as in danger,” she sald. “You see, we know what a lady-killer you are—then, too, you have so much money—quite too much to think of wasting vourselt upon a lanky country girl." “You are not a bit like my dream- | girl,” Basil admitted. “She has wheat- vellow hair, of corn-lower blue— and not an angle in her torm or in were In the big, dim parlor to get Basil anchored betwixt Emma and gossip with Granny, the other five listening in mute admiartion. Basil yearned to listen, thing would be better than the pafr painfully entertaining him. They were | just through reading the late and tritest “best seller,” and 10 show the stranger how nine they had got out of it "1 loved the book Lotte Itoas ust hike the love part, you know g t'ed at length | hlur temper. You are- well? —tall and Bave I“h':f]\\;;}lvx:;:'!“"':‘. ll"""‘;\“' l\"'l“il. i slene i i g g % ! “And trown of hair, with green ;h‘;l‘l,“f_' Ifll\'y'_"{( 'vn"‘ HEDI Aha e eves, and all the angles outside | I\;I i iy ;"“ ol Nl geometry,” Lotte broke in, her eyes ‘ l;‘\“l‘xll'x;:‘:‘“lwrl & i ‘_”W dancing their wickedest. “I'm so glad Syl v you told nme vour ideal, though,” she R Liiifagts LT " | And he was perfectly ot and went on. “I'm going to take you to | he ran away with a pedlar and he see it-in daplicate, the Dale twins— tinitelinnt s "y' "w”' i l_.‘”,‘. i Emma and Acnes. Youw'll have to see n di " Ay et the whole tlock, ot course—hut they | are the chief of our sights—-the seven | oprettiest girls in the county.” “Seven! Good Lord! | ean't tace a whole platoon. Not without getting | more lite insurance!™ Basil eried, pre- | tending to gasp. “Can't 1| manege it— Iastl 1 not help flushine I't her conzin and horrid enongh, | admit he be gan At oree Emma and A ered with confusion Do exerse us!* they ericd inta breath “\We o we for Were cov { the ins ‘e—over (he ‘phone? e o I gol—and it was co—interesing soe believe, thongh, you are stringing me. ing poople just ke th e A, n wople jusgt ke those ) Would 1 were!” Lotte satd mock- [ - W | : ool tragically “Then-well, | shouldn’t A g “But she doesn't have o arey live in deadly fear of spinsterhood. 5 Sk You see, it s this way—Granny | ™€ nhot unless she Dale's sous are all dead, and all lert | S8ld - apologetically he quite guilty. Just then there was a check in the gossip his words car ried all the length of the silent room. «( she looked hard a at him “That's chooses!” ny canght them st and rambled all you kiow, —trust her not to miss it. 1s the only girl 1 know sense than a goose. “Lotte-—what do you say?”" demanded, getting up and striding to- ward the group at the other end of the room. Lotte looked up at him, a side-ong, birdlike glance, and sald demurely: “I've been too well brought up, Cous- fn Basll, “ver to contradict my elders.” with more HIS COURAGE FAILED HIM dians, Refused to Face Certain Trouble in His Own Home. chief of the Co Quanah Parker, AT SN ago, enjoyed the reputation of being the wittiest man of his race. He was likewise a man of affairs and some- thing of a lobbyist. He had appeared before the commiittce of Indian affairs regularly for years, and the members of that committee mately acquainted with him Two or three years ago Unele Sam issued a mandate to the effect that the Indians in the future should take unto themselves hnt one wife Quanah, ap pearing before the committee, “l Heard That a Week Ago.” girl-children—there are two palrs of sisters and a trio In the bunch. Granny is fat and rich and fussy— worships the girls, and scolds them all the time. FKFumes bccause they don’t marry out of hand-—and insults outright every man who dares to go there courting. She indulges the | bunch every way she can, yet she never lets them feel their souls are their own. Consequently they have the lovellest manners in the world—even If Em and Ag were not [ Was ’"”””""!4 predestined to captivate you, you'd |them that thi never escape—the whole lot are so|could no _" exactly the sort of thing you like surplus wives “How do you know?” Basil asked. | their parents Lotte answered promptly, “By this Last sessgion Parker again token—they are exactly evervthing | before the committee [ am not.” ing conversat i ‘Indeed’” Basil said, stepping close | him and a committecman: | beslde her She smiled provokingly,! “Did you tell your bucks whereupon he kissed her must have but one wife, Parker?” | As she wiped her lips he looked at “Yes, me tell um” | her reproachfully, saylng, “No girl! Indian tribe had d to go home conditfon of zer exist mnst bhe > | ever did that before—not right to my, “DId vou eet ¥id of the estra| | face.” wives? ’ | “You must remember, there are “Yes, all gone,” answered the chief. | “But,” urged the committeeman, “I | girls and girls, the same as you have | vourself have six | been telling me there are men and | am told that yon | men,” Lotte sald over her shoulder, | wives.” | as she ran away ‘Yes. me got six.” said Parker Basil locked after her, divided be- Now, this will not do, Parker You | tween an impulse to follow and Kiss paye to get rid of those extra wives her again, and to swear at himself | You go home #nd tell them to leave. | roundly as a fool .,e,") them to their parents. Tell | He was five years her elder, and tyem to go home ' | seen the world at all angles, more-| «yoy tell 'um,” over was college bred, and a master | ., pi;nincott's of the art of flirtation. He had come W i a fortnight back to see his father's F; people—his father who had dled, in| the year he was born. His mother had married again, and herself been drowned along with her new husband upon the wedding journey. It was thas Dasil had come Into so much His stepfather had made him heir, no less his mother. He had ed wvh her people, quite apart is a soup spocn with a barmonica at- <. Formal letters had tachment, upon which t an ¢ .3 bachelor uncle tune can be played. Every diner his iden aunts, and been an- own Hungarian orchestra. rou ree. gwered as formally. In such fashion Great idea! Go like wildfire B:h. ! he bad kmown of Miss Charlotte what?'— Satire. responded the indi More Restaurant Music. Ah, a noiseless soup gpoon for newly-made malefactors of wealth—" “Not g0!” replied lh4 contrary to the usual tensely practica! use such a utensil if thes was in ould not d it. Thia < Quanah Parker, Chnel ol Comanche In. | manche Indlans, who died some wecks | had hecome intl- | told ite | all | members that many of the men of his | nore than one wife He | and tell | affairs | and that n..f; cent home to | responded the | Agnes, while she herself sat at merry | too-—any- | Rasil | really felt | suddenty | young man, | She'll never get such another chance | Chaglotte | Basil | appeared | and The follow- | fon took place lLetween | that they | | | | | | | | great inventor, who, | | Opposite New Depot NO. 134.—Great bargain in a five-room house, all plastered and newly papered throughout. City water, two porches, two fire places. Thrce $3,500 houses on same block. Price $1,000. Easy terms. NO. 122.—House of six rooms ard hall, newly plastered. Lot 100x140, sct to grapefruit and oranges. Fine lake view. Good lecaticn, and a very desirable piece of property. $2,400 buys this, $1,600 cash, balance as rent. NO. 139—Finely finished eight-room residence, halls and bath, all plastered. Fitted for hot and cold water, electric lights, tele- phone, etc. Good front on lake. Desirable location. Price$3,200 on easy terms. NO. 6.—Tenacres good farming and trucking land, all cleared and fenced ,with six-room house. This cannot be beaten any- where at $800. Four acres fine strawberry land near by, cleared and fenced, can be had with the above for $1100 for the 14 acres. NO. 35.—15 acres good land, with four acre bearing budded grove, on railroad. A bargain at $3,000. NO. 39.—Five acres large bearing Citrus Grove, with fine large Bungalow fully furnished, about 300 yards to station. A nice place and a money maker. 10 acres in all. Price $4.200. Terms We also make a specialty of large tracts of land for coloniza- tion, timber and turpentine p'-r;mm and always have something good on hand. OHLINGER & ALFIELD S onc of the best cquipped plants ¢ in the State having all modern | machinery and what is more, we | have operators who know how to use them. We want evervbody's laundry. Do you send yours? [f not, why not give a trial next week? e — R. W. WE AVER, frop. ‘Phone 130 A “BUCK'S” JUNIOR RANGE FREE! On December 5th we are going o give absolutely free to some iittle girl under fourteen vears of age, a littlie “Buck's” Jun- ior Range. A real, sure enough Range—just like *'Buck’s” splendid big Range only small enough for little girls, We've a puzzle for you tosolve, it's wait ing here at our store for you So come now every little girl under fourtecu years of age. and get your puzzle. Some litile girl in this community will be the lucky littlc miss. Why not lct that little Miss be you? We want all the girls to try. J.W. 0’Doniel & Sons Co. FURNITURE DEALERS LEADING l e