Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 18, 1912, Page 2

cauk TWO “Why. we'll have to give each otker up,” said Miss Hazel. “Never in this world,” was the firm reply of the young man, | “But what can we do?" | “Like thousands of other couples, we can elope.” “Oh, Ford!" “Yes, elope. I am going to have you at amy cost.” “But we'd be turned out doors— and there'd be columns in the papers —and they'd get my pieture and— and—" But an hour later Miss Hazel was saying that she thought an elope- ment would be just the thing. It would be by night. It would be moon- light. They would elope in an aute. They would go whizz! chug! chew! over the roads and laugh at the old folks left behind. After the first outburst neither fa- ther mentioned the quarrel again. The son was not ordered to cease calling. and the daughter was not ordered to the garret on bread and water. As a matter of prudence, and to keep his trail covered, young Mr. Bartlett ceased his calls, and for the same reason Miss Hazel was very demure in the presence of her father. She must do nothing to excite his suspic- fons. She was prepared at any mo- ment to hear him break out again, but he had nothing further to say ETWO OLD MEN By JOHN PHILIP ORTH (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press) l Mr. John Bartlett, sixty-five years who was twenty-three, had retired I old, and the father of Ford Bartlett, from business. Mr. James Wright, sixty-five years old, and the father of Mi>s Hazel Wright, had also retired from business. These two old men had known each other and been friends for thirty years. Their wives weré friends. It was known to husbands and wives— fathers and mothers—that young Ford and the charming Miss Wright were engaged and would be married within six months. It promised to be a happy affair all around. Then came a sudden bolt from the blue. After breakfast one morning they sat together in the park smok- ing their cigars and trying to make themselves believe that retirement from business had brought content- ment. It hadn't done anything of the kind. They had too much leisure on their hands. They missed the excite- Hsntiaf b‘"“'i" e They hnd ""_:"'h"'ll It didn't happen to be a moonlight the vee of ¢ ve, but thev did not | .. oty eloper ont at s teol: feel a day older than at forty-iive, place. On the contr it was so When a man s irritated and there is dark that the auto ran . over . cow "0l dog hf;"(_‘.\' to ‘\:h K he may turn on | 4000 the first thing. That meant mi g 7 b Jc) ) a !l‘nnn ein Not :\mul had been a stop ol hall an hour to repair passed between Mr. Bartlett and Mr. broken limps. Then the chauffenr Wright for five or six minutes when the tormer removed the cigar from id: nid knocked down fifty u there was another the lovers reached tried a fenc feet ol 1t long delav, and his mouth and “lim, it eems that you've zot noth- the house of w country parson to he Vo i 4 » i in:..' 0 _110 in yeur old age but talk Hl;.-’ told that the ;:‘vmd man had the jump- :l:(”.”:h’.’.lllnl.‘::l.l“ “\“; .l' il DRANE BUILDING a fool. Ving toothache and wonldn't leave his Wiihalsid ] bl “I'm no older than vou.” was the bed for wedding or fnneral L.n..p,' (. K. Southard, R, reply, “and as for talking like a feol Four miles further on, explained P00 W 1L Pugh, B, I don’t think 1 can heat you.” the good man's wife, was another The following standing com o “l wonder that you ever had al{ minister That is he called himselt mittecs tor the year were appointed: . thousand dollars to retire on." I.'n minister. She wasn't saying he Finunee and Fire, Messrs, Eaton, “Ditto.” ; Was or wasw't. She wasn't saying | pijlans, Haynes. : Rl L e T S 5 “You sat here vesterday with | that any cercmony he could perform Light “”"I Waithi: Minsrs. Wivhas Ly ab Wiltch, J. H. Ge nlr).; . R i e S = - T Y oo Shriner and argued for two hours | would he binding. She wasn't saying | i B S B H {9 that the world was created in six | whether his fee was 30 cents or 8‘.‘.‘“'!'”_“ ‘f' 'I\ '\“"'."h"“_l', . e fientry underlaki“g CO. f‘:; lakela“d Art' ICla tone works days.” All she knew about it was that he! Streets, Messrs. o Scipper, South- e I e “And so it was." was a Baptist while she was a Pres. | @, Haynes, Kb S @ Near Electric Light Plant “I'm denying it.” byterian, Ovdinance, Messrs, Southard, Pugh | Undertaking Co. :: B2 MAKES “Then you can't believe the Bible” The Baptist minister wasn't home. | and Scipper. S i !C; = e Take any two old men and seat| He had gone to a point nine lll”"fi,‘ Sanitary, Messrs. Pugh, Eaton | EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL & l{l':]) (‘l‘:A\/llgN'l‘ l’l{]‘:hhl‘:l) ]f!{l( 'I\ t:em t(;fiethelll-( on hn park bench and | away to hold a funeral and hadn't e | Seipper. i NARCTOM .O CALL AND SEE THEM. CAN SAVE YOU MONEY they will talk either politics or re-| turned yct. He might return at any | 4,00 PO e i moment. and he might bn gone two . "Il wbres et and (emetery, o 5 Crushed Rock, Sand and Cement for Sale days. Whenever he got where there | '™ Pillans, laton, Pugh. ‘Phones: day or night, 245. y6 BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS was good cooking he hung on like | State Officers. | & 12 and 18 inch Drain Tile for Sidewalk, Gate Posts, Fioi.. grim death. There was Mr. White.! Governor— A, W. Gilehrist, Tallu-| b4 Mounds, Ete bl ol B L | € Good Stock on Hand WE Deliver Free of Clure . ? \ Secretary of State—II, Clay Craw- © o times— e g ? o Lo Mo H. B, ZIAMERMAN. Proprietor. The judge had gone to bed, but he i ST o SOPOIOP OHOGOIO 1O * ok «ot np and stuck his head out of the! Comptroller—A. C. Croom, Talla- DEALER IN & OO BOEQHO B0 iy 4 14 i *aw and sald he'd be hangeq if | hassee. :'“‘: ld~ wirry anybody jn such @ Treasurer--W. V. Knot, Tallahas- W h:r':’oum the. "t ¢come back next day | gee, ea e ; —next week. He Y48t EOINE 0 gorney.General —Park M. Tram- hurry matrimony at a 249 “;"u'“_: mell, Tallahagpee. & then be blamed for it afterw.™* '\ur.fy Commissloner of Agriculture—D. | L ; ou oe O ‘ married thirteen I;‘fll:ill|"‘-" :i"dafér at.| . McLin, Tallahasee, ;Cm AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— * ¢ and ten of them had ajylie Bupt. of Public Instruction-=Wm. ! ¢ J vorces. o oAy alikhreie i SOME FINE BARGAINS. The night was geiting old, the M. QRANAY. ARmEs, SR ( chauffeur kicking and the auto limp-; Railroad lqnnmlsnfll:nnnre;--»ll. Hud~; ; e (L] (L) : ing, and it was decided to wt.ul‘n!sou Burr, Chairman; Newton A Office in Clonts Bmldmg. ' ! 5 % : v bome. Just (l‘h:u a;m!dher r(;m‘;‘hule“unrh, Royal €. Dunn. W. C. Yon R 7l We sell at regular prices and give a dis.ount P drew up, and from it descended Mr.jg ..\ All communications ! 2 72 Bd “ y - ife and Mr, |5 oyt b 4 Spercent. YOUR GAIN O OSs / ;g::m r:s'l"'l:;:: m;"‘;"L“:”(' it : should be addressed to Tallahassen, JUST A MINUTE! l Ve ‘ R G A\ ) OUR L { “Why, daddy—why, mammat® | |'m-|id‘;u (:r the Senate—Pred P ARG 4 Only exclusive shoe store in Lakela . q '}:‘lnrllod yet?" was asked, Con k¢ y A New Meat Market on "ofl‘a' " I t t t : " « “No" S b 1 A h ' ...C “Then this fellow has got to do It’ Wisdom From Bacon. .Avenue N“' D?nt mfi- l- fiaf‘flfl" t e a eS s y es a 4 or we'll pull his house down.” An ant is a wise creature for ftself, we have opencd up o zrocery stove | & 5 ] “But, daddy, we've eloped!™ pro-| but it Is a shrewd thing in an orchard ard meat market aud oare abie to and See for Ourself | tested the dadsmnter, jor garden; and certainly men, who furnish our enstemers in goed o, - $ ! “You haven't done any such thing. ! are great lovers of themselves, waste {Ga and wWostorn. meats of Al kinas “l Am No Older Than You.” ! We knew about it all the time.” | lh;-rr:xlxlx-' zl;\'xvh- with rea; l‘av!\\l'm-n Gulck and prompt delis ’Am MW% “Pul the guarrel?” , selflove and soctely, and be @ true i = ! T alike m | “Nonsense. This old fool John said | 10 thyselt, G thow be not fales to CALL PHONE 67, ligion. Even if both think m | > their minds, they will differ by word { the world was made in six dave and Mr. Wright believed in | 1 said six years Lo's come ap to and I've come down to of mouth the Bible. He Lelieved that the world | fourteen da : was created in six days. He believed | fifteen days, and we've decided that that his old friend v man of in- | one little day n't made a vonti telligence. He was ted, however, | worth of difference 1o the corn crop and he wanted a row - “The Bible is one thing :|};.] com { He Was From Kentucky. mon sense is another,” he said. “AW Gy, gneaker Champ Clark of Mis and carts :Nn:n wias prosecuting | Pike county an old darkey came into state of New Jersey in slx days, and | his cflice at Louisiana one morning you know it as well as I do.” I:md after beating around the brambles “Six days it was, and even ”""I"r a few minutes, brought forth the gquint-eyed heathen of China helleve | cbject of his visit. the men and ail the horse in the world wenldn't ereate even the attorney that.” “Wuzn' you bawn in Kaintucky, “Then I'm worse than a heathen, | Ma s Champ?" he inquired cautiously. am 17" | “Sute, Uncle Henry." “I'm advising you to give up your “I'se had spishuns you wuz, Juh, pew in church if you can’t take the | mo'n once, but the other mawnin’ Bible as your guide.” | when you make dat speech agin Sam “And who's asking for your ad- | Collins and say dat whisky wuz de vice? John Bartlett, maybe you don’t | greatest ebil in de worl' I begins to want to be seen sitting beside a | hab misdoubtments, subh.” heathen?” “What's where | was born got to ¢ “No, I don’t think I do.” do with it, Uncle Henry? It's a fact, And James Wright went home to |isn’t it?” : tell his wife and daughter that John “I'se bawn. in Kaintucky myse’f, Bartlett was a liar and an idiot, and | sub,” said Uncle Henry v‘\'l(h pride, that he had spoken to him for the | “an’ | hain’ givin' off no ‘pinium on last time. While the wife tried to | dat subjeck, but yqud please me clean soothe the angry man, the daughter | down to de groun’, suh, ef you'd tell ran away to her room to weep. The quarrel between the two men would of course break up the love affair. And John Bartlett went home to tell his wife. and a few hours later | to inform his son, that he had dropped James Wright forever, nndl to swvear to his speech, er is he jis’ ald Makeup of Typhoons. i e S of me ef de persecutin’ attorney has got talk’n’ to de jury."—New York Her | | Contrary to the general impression OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. County Officers. Clerk—A. B. Ferguson, Bartow. Supt. Public Instruction—T, Kirk, Bartow. Sheriff—John Logan, Bartow. DROP IN ON US AND SEE B. County Judge—W. S. Preston, | Bartow. Tax Collector—J. H. Lancaster, | Bartow. - . — ——-—-—_w Yes, Nice suit Tax Collector—F. M. Lanier, Bar- tow. i Treasurer—J. T. Harmon, Bartow. County Commissioners.—E, s: \Whidden, Ch’'m., Mulberry; A, J. Lewis, Bartow; R. F. Langford, Ft.| Meade; J. E. Bryant, Kathleen; T.I F. Holbrook, Lakeland. 1 School Board.—R. W. Hancock, | Ch'm., Fort Meade; W. J. J. Whid-| den, Bartow; J. A. Cox, Lakeland; | | T. B. Kirk, Secretary, Bartow, H State Senator—D. H. Sloan, Lake- land. Members of House—A, J. Bartow; Geo. Fortner, Pierce, City Officers. YES, we have them---one thousand in number. they are beautiful and the price is right. made to your measure for l $15.00 and up. Let us serve you for Men’s Furnishings in | Mayor - 8. L. A, Clonts. futy | Clerk and Tax Collector, H. I.. ]912 i ’ e ¢ 2 . . [ Swatts, 5 . : i i 54 i b Treasurer and Assessor, A, (' 2 Armistead, i (1] " ot ot Siuic and Wi | “THE 'STORE OF QUALITY" ! ‘D, Clough, Marshal, \W. H. Tillis, Night Watchman, I, Municipal Judee Ciy Atorney, Park, Neil Y Conneil L. o, L Franklirn Al Epps Tucker, Meleod. Morris ¢ Cox Ji T. 1. WOODS & Co. i Keepor of Members other ospreci it i wetions, s ruiirown [he Telegram IS Up-To-\ T REENE e I Am Going to Give Awa) A Lakeland Lot I have charge of the splendid suburban addition t Lakeland. Florida, known as Dixiciand. e m o hitinso't want to get out some convincing advertising matter regarding these lots, and, as is often don casesy, want the public to help us, If we get good points from any sources it will add spice to our vertising, In order to geta large number of pointed answers we are going to Give Away One of the Best Lots in New Dixieland to the Person Sending Us the Ten Best Reasons for Buying Property in Florida [ No need of arguing the points out, just make them clear and concise. g E We will have a committee of judgcs.;thc Mayor of Lakeland. the President of the First Natior . ! Bank of Lakeland and the Manager of the Carter-Deen Realty Company. . | Contest will close February Ists Award will be advertised in this paper as soon thereaf: I ] possible, would not move a foot to save him | ;5 typhoon, that is what is known to from an auto accident. | the scientist as a “well-formed” one, “He’s a blamed obstinate old mule,” | does not consist of merely a terrifie was added, “and should he come t0 | gale of wind with a calm spot in the me on his bended knecs I'd never | jmmediate center. { take his hand.” On the contrary next to the center, That evening which may have a diameter anywhere a very dejected pair of lovers sat in the lor of the | from two miles to fifty where the calm Wright mans<ion ked things ' belt reigns, there is a sort pf ring over in a dojec Young Mr. ally less than a mile in diameter in which light winds prevail. After this is passed comes the real main | body of the destroyer, which may have a total diameter of anywhere { from 200 to 1,000 miles or even more ccted to be met at id to take himself h he had escaped re was cause for PRartlett had ex) that humiliation WOrTY. | Lakeland is an ides < advancing rapidlv. Direet all replies at once to J. Lakeland 1 winter resort. a live busincss citv of 7.000, a railroad ceater and pr H. CAMMACK, Manager CARTER & DEEN REALTYS CO'S OFFICE Floric