Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 12, 1912, Page 6

FAGE SIX W. FISKE JOHNSON - REAL ESTATE| LOANS NEGOTIATED BUYS AND SELLS REAL ESTATE, ORANGE GROVE PROPER- TY A SPECIALTY. Raymondo Building. 'Miss Weston | Capitalist By Claudine Sisson i There is an old saying to the et-‘ fect that when a man goes a-fishing he doesn't know what may happen. Perhaps Mr. Guy Hilton had never | heard anything about it, but he went | a-fishing and many things happened that he did not look for. Mr. Hilton went with a little party of three, and the quartette camped on Loon lake and fished. It was called Loon lake, because no one unless he was looney ever went there thinking | to catch fish. After a couple of weeks Mr. Hilton was taken with chills and ! had to go to a farm house and call a | doctor, and the other three hroke camp ' and went home. In two weeks the patient was cured | and ready to follow. Then came an- | other unexpected thing. When the doc- | tor and the farmer had been paid Mr. | Hilton found himself stone broke. | When a Man is stone broke he hasn't | got a nickel in his pockets. It would | | be all right, however, when the pen-' niless man got down to the village of | Rockford. Some merchant there | would cash his check on a city bank. He would want only four dollars for | railroad fare. Mr. Guy Hilton didn't look like a confidence man. He wasn't sly, sleek | and slick, Like any other man with a fair bank account and a reasonable | | trust in human nature, he wrote out a check for four dollars and asked the leading merchant in the town to cash it, village,” was the reply. “Game? Game? 1 have money in this bank,” said the astonished young man, “But you ought to have it in your pocket instead.” Are you satisfied with your NET RESULTS of last year? Unkept resolutions weaken you; DOING what you determine to do will build your character. Bring the morey you have in your pocket to our bank RIGHT NOW, and begin the year sensibly by starting to SAVE and GET AHEAD. If you do, one year from today you will thank us. Saving only 25 cents a day—$7.50 a month—and interest will amount to over ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS in 10 years. FIRST NATIONAL BANK LAKELAND Under Control of U. S. Government. RN TR S . (R Timber, Turpeatine, Cut-over Lands, Choice Colinization Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Homes and Groves on High Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw- berry and Trucking Farms. : @ o WITH 32 YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH FLORIDA SOILS, CROPS AND CITRUS GROVES. WE GUARANTEE ALL PROPERTY JUST AS REPRESENTED BY US. FOR RELIABLE INFORMATION SEE Ohlinger @ § Affield Opposite New Depot, Mayes Grocery Company Wholesale Grocers ol Lhod ittt HAY : GRAIN : AND : FEED We sell all kinds of Cratc Materal and Ship- ping Hampers. A few cars of Shingles at COST to close. e ——T— IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants _____——‘-——-__—- MAYES GROCERY COMPANY Lakeland. Florida “You can telephone the bank and make sure it's all straight.” “But of what interest to me? I am not here to help folks out of troubles they get into.” How foolish the stone broke man had been to apply to a stranger, when he could telephone to a friend in the »ity and have a hundred dollars sent up. He went to the postoffice, which ! back, and protested: “That game s too old even for this | JANUARY 12, 1912 Rt | —NOTICE— | Beginning January 1st, 1912, I shall endeavor to 3, platform. Then he entered the sitting keland famous by producing the best 3 S room and read the time tables and‘ :;‘oflda fa 8 by pr g est oc cigar in No other interesting literature. Then he' sMOKE INMAN'S BLUNTS’® THATs i1 walked a block up the street and Manufactured by walked back again. Then he Walked‘ Inman Cigar Factory ‘< = er, and was also going home. She couldn't account for his dejected look and nervous bearing, but hoped he had received no bad news to take him home. y Mr. Hilton walked up and down the | straight up to the young lady and said: H “[ find myself—" ! “Yes?” % “f find myself in an embarrassing position,” “You wish to take the train down, Phone 233 Red and you have nelther ticket nor moneys?” " . “That's—that's it. And—and—" - - s “And you are a stranger to these people and they are suspicious of you? [ have money to lend.” : “But—but—," stammered Mr, Hil- ton. 2 The young lady smiled and then he l & smiled. Then the young lady laughed ; and he laughed. Then she said: I % “[ lost my purse once when I was | 2 hundred miles from home, and it . scemed for a time that 1 would have to walk home. This will help you |~ aut.” 21 She took a five-dollar bill from her purse, and extended it, but the con- fused and bilushing young man shrank The lakelam'lv Steakm éauhfiry nCldild HU - | | | | S one of the best equipped planis | in the State having all modern | machinery and what is more, we “I~1 cun’t take it. 1 didn't intend lo ask you for money. I just wanted o tell you that-—that—" “That you were what they call |’ broke,” she laughed. *“You want to |« get home, of course, How are you go- 5 ing to do it without money?"” 2 “Will you cash my check for the amount ?" g “Most certainly, It's a business | % transaction. Here is my name.” “Miss Fannie Weston,” he read on the card as he prepared to fill in a check, “Why, my college chum was Tommy Weston. You can't be the sis- ter he used to talk so much about? I am Guy Hilton.” “Whom he used to talk so much about that 1 got tired of hearing your praises? Yes, I am that Fannie, and just now I am a capitalist with money to lend. As you and Tommy were chums, and as I am Tommy's only sis- ter, you had better negotiate a loan before that train comes along.” There was some one looking in the door as that five dollar bill changed hands. It was Constable Stacey. He : have operators who krow how to use them. We want everybody's If not, why not give a trial next week” laundry. Do you send yours? o cm———————— p—r—wrurrw———— R. W. WEAVER, fron. ’Phone 130 T k C i R R XX X Iy T IF ITS "1‘75"4’/{ sugpicious ahww/am;.l wvas the only pay station in the vil age, and was told to drop 20 cents in ‘he slot. “But—but I don't happen to have it,” 1e replied. “That's what 1 want to elephone about—money!"” “I don't see how you can do it with- sut the 20 cents,” replied the post- naster. “But I can have a hat full of money 1p here by to-morrow.” “HBetter have a dollar or two now. You won't find this town easy to work, ind you may get into trouble try- ng." Mr. Hilton went down to the depot :0 try the railroad telegrapher. A ten- word message would be 25 cents, No; 120 messages sent collect from strang- srs. They had got through that sort of ‘hing long ago. When the stone broke man went to the inn, He had a watch ‘hat had cost him $150. He laid it | said: “1 want to stay for a day or two un- 1:il 1 get some money up from the city | oy express, and this will be your {security. Please provide me with a sostage stamp, that I may write a let- er.” | The landlord hefted the watch as he would a stone, drew the chain through his fingers, and then winked 1 long, lingering wink and replied: “Stranger, it was 40 years ago that { was a spring chicken and gobbled up gravel for corn.” “What do you mean?” around here pretty soon and I'll tell sharper quicker'n any other man in the state.” | Mr. Hilton walked back to the depot 'with a resolve in his heart. | would be a train in about an hour, | :nd he would board it, and if the con- | ‘uctor tried to throw him off instead A taking his watch in lieu of a ticket, e would fight for his life. In the sitting room was a lady, and on the platform was her {trunk. It didn’t take a minute to fig- "ure out that she had been visiting ;some family in the vicinity. and was | going back to her home in the city. The young lady was not so bashful | that she kept her eyes on the floor, or turned her back to look out of the window. On the contrary, she had more than one peep at the young man and ' rather liked him. He had been a camp young A jown in front of the landlord and | “Bill Stacey, the constable, will be | him what I mean! Bill can getontoa | There | had followed the trail of the suspiclous character. When he saw the money passed and the two laughing and talk- ing he scratched his head and said to himself: “Mighty suspicious circumstances, .and 1 ought to arrest 'em both and find out their little game, but as it's near supper time I guess I won't put myself out.” There surely was a little game in it, but arresting the pair might not have brought it out. It was six months | later, when Tommy Weston had re- | turned from South America, that he { backed Guy Hilton into a corner and ' sald: v | “Now, then, tell me all about it.” “Why Fannie found me dead broke up the country and lent me five dollars to get home on.” “And on the strength of that —" ! | “Yes, | have dared ask her to marry §' g | me.” i “Well, T'll. be hanged! Say, Guy, you'll make a peach of a brother-in- law!" DRUGS YOU WANT, PHONE 42 We cah’t please every one, try as hard as we may, but let is try to please YOU. Quick Delivery. \Lake Pharmacy CWOOOOOWOOOOOOC’;C@;@OOOOOOOOOO&:" L. W. FULGHUM Electrician peater in Flectrical Supplies HOUSE _WIRING _A_SPECIALT! ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY GIVEN 153 ——— —PHONE=— & o DOSSGOGSGOOOOOOOO0 SOCH SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0 WQWWWWJC‘? GOO0OCOONONOVLLOOI0CIV0 SOOCGOOOOOOOTOO0T Wise Goose. The Covent Garden management re- | i quires a corps of geese to take part in { Humperdinck's “Children of Kings,” | and apparently finds it hard to secure a sufficient number of intelligent birds, A goose recommended in “A | Book for a Rainy Day” would prove |an acceptable recruit. “I have heard ' my mother relate,” writes J, T. Smith, “that when at Greenwich in 1866 for the benefit of her health an aged pie and cheesecake woman lived there who was accompanied through the town by a goose, who regularly stop- ped at her customers’ doors and com- | menced a loud cackling. Whenever the words ‘Not today' were uttered, off it . waddled to the mext house, and so ! {on until business was ended."—Lon- don Chronicle. "GPP DOGDO hOOOOPTOTHODDD Cities Suffer by Comparison. With a population of 7,000,000, Lon- don had but nineteen cases of mur- der during the past year. according WING to the enlargement of o to the report of Hon. Charles A. de :; Courey, chairman of the committee on | & 5 selri busitess b p WS g yublishing busim criminal law, American Prison asso- newspaper and pu lis o ciation. Five of the murderers com- ! mitted suicide and four were never | apprehended. The others were either convicted or executed or committed to the insane asylum. In Chicago dur | ing the same period 202 homicides | were committed. Only one of the of- | fenders was hanged, fifteen were sent i to the penitentiary, and the others it has been necessary to move The News Job Office up-stairs where it will be found in Room 11 and 12, Kentucky Building, in the co 1 e P R DM CHOH IS QDD 2 | were exonerated by the grand jury, | acquitted, discharged, or otherwise set | free. petent charge of Mr. G. J. Williams. Rural France Losing. At a recent French Congress on Ru- [ ral Depopulation it was reported that |in the department of the Cote d'Or, iwhlch mainly produces wheat and wine. the problem of depopulation in | the rural sections of France is of a most urgent character. In the 50 | years ending with 1901 this rich de- :panmcm lost at the rate of $40 per- | sons per annum, and since the latter date and up to 1911 the decrease has 9,000 to 347,000 3 The e onditions exist all through Francc. From 1846 to 1806 . the urban population increased from 'z | £.751.000 to 16.500.000, while the rural 3 | population decreased from 26,650,000 |2 ! to 27.715,000. g anything that can be printed, if you w« Dl the best work at the right prices. cail Mr. Williams. DGO DD I P T T D T The News Job Office Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentucky Building