Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 19, 1912, Page 6

PAGE SIX W. FISKE JOHNSON REAL ESTATE LOIANIS NEGOTIATED BUYS AND SELLS REAL ESTATE, ORANGE GROVE PROPER- - TY A SPECIALTY. Raymondo Building. 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 money you have in your pocket to_our bank RIGHT NOW, and begin the year sensibly by ltamng to SAVE and GET AHEAD. If you do, one year from today you will thank us. Q%> Saving only 25 cents a day—$7.50 a month—and interest will amount to over BLEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS in 10 years. FIRST NATIONAL BANI( LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government. Timber, Iurnenune, Cut-over Lands, Cholce Colinization Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Hiomes and Groves on High Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Slraw- berry and irucking Farms. : 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 & Alfield Opposite New Depot, Mayes Grocery Company Wholesalc Grocers HAY : GRAIN : AND : FEED We sell all kinds of Crarte Materal and Ship- ping Hampers. A few cars of Shingles at COST to close. IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants MAYES GROCERY COMPANY Lakeland. Fiorida i | | ! i | i | | "THE EVENING (ELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JANUARY 19, 1912, II:x-illizmce, onions, snow-white, bereft | of their outer skin. Inside the store | the same transformation had taken | | place, hence when housekeepers en- | tered for the morning marketing there | were temptations in all directions. Paper frills adorned the meats that ! came out of the big refrigerator, the glass, in the case which contained “bread and pies, sparkled like dia- | by Associated Literary Press! | The old doctor had just told mo’ | 8irl that she would not be blind. For ' months she had been afraid. Nigh' | ' after night, she had kept a candle and | matches by the bedside that, when she waked in the dark, she might make a light, and know that the black- | ness about her was not caused by loss of sight. It was a great relief. The strain of the months and of anxiety had told upon her and she looked white and frail as she leaned back in the biz chair by the window and waited for the doctor to come from the other room. In front of her was a big window which faced the street. Across the way was the office where she had toil ed for five years. Rows of figures on white pages had brought her eyes to their present condition. The doctor had said she must give up her work and seek somet)ing less exciting. “But | cannot do anything else,’ Frances had told him. “How about housework?” he askei | grufly. Frances gasped. “But 1 am a lady,” she said. He shook his heand. Housework is better than blindness,” was his gruff decision, “and it won't hurt you to have more active labor.” The color flamed up into her cheeks as she thought of it. She felt that she could not, and would not, submit to such ignominy. There must be some way out of ft all. At the corner was a grocery store. Frances' eyes took in idly the effect of the untidy window. In this neigh borhood there was a general air of | work from the doctor. 'A patient of i {his was going abroad and wanted a immnnnlon. “It's a great opportunity,” "hope.” monds, sauces and pickles in attrac- tive bottles were arranged in groups along the counter, and most impres- sive of all, was the young lady in white linen. The proprietor had begged her to , stay. “Everything looks so nice,” he said, “that I am out of place. You keep in the front of the store, and I'll cut the meats, and !omorrow I'll have a lot of new aprons.” Frances, charmedl with the general effect, waited on customers with the | air of a conqueror. She was gracious, | tactful, compelling. Women came to |~ look, and stayed to dbuy. | At the end of the day her employer '. was radiant, His name was Boyd- % Henry Boyd. He had been at the point | & of failure and he btelieved that she |': had brought him suecess, “Look here,” was his proposition, “why can't you stay? You don't look as if you belonged here, and I cannot see why yon are doing it, but you are |4 the one thing lh.n for years, 1 have ]4 & been looking fo !“ Later Frances ran over to tell the doctor about. He looked ont the win- dow and nodded his head. “Boyd's all right,” he said. *I have known him for a long time, and he is as straight as possible. You couldn't do better.” So it came abonut that Frances built | 2 up a business that exceeded anything | % in the square. “Dut it’s a mystery to me,” said Boyd. “how a woman of vour talents happens to be here. You are above it, and you are ahove me. | % It you weren't. I should ask you to 4 marry me, But [ know there is no Then Frances told him about her eyves. “You poor little thing” he said, and the girl felt her heart beat- ing at that expression of sympathy, One day there came an offer of i he told Frances. spruceness with which the run-down aspect of the corner shop accorded badly. Frances wondered why the man in charge did not fix things up. He came to the poor presently, tall, light-haired fellow, in a butcher's ‘ apron, He dumped a lot of fresh veg- etables in unsightly piles on the side- walk and went in. And that moment | ‘ Frances had an inspiration. ! The doctor came back with the med- | icine and an added warning. “Keep out of doors as much as possible and | don’t bend over a desk.” Frances nodded. There was a faint | flush on her cheeks and her eves look- | ed brighter. “I'll find some way out | of it." she said. Out in the sunlight Frances hesi- tated, then she darted across the street and into the grocery store. She presented her case to the young man | and he looked at her in a startled fashion. “Say it over again,” he said. She outlined her plan. She wanted to come early in the morning and fix up the store. The windows and the display in front were not inviting. She was sure that they repelled rather than attracted custom. He ran his fingers through his hair in a dazed manner. “Something’s the matter,” he stammered. “1 do not seem to get the people.” Frances looked around the little place. It was fairly clean, but thoroi seemed to be no attempt to sccure | trade. “Let me try tomorrow morning,"” i she said, “and see what I can do.” [ He agreed, still with an air of amazement. Frances appeared early. It was a ! warm, sunshiny morning and she was l | all in white linen. Her burnished hair | | shone under her straight sailor hat. | She looked cool and comfortable, and | not work in that outfit, can you?" he | ham apron. She put 1t on and smiled ! window. then she spent a half-hour on | | the display outside. People passing her empioyer smiled at her. “You can- | demanded. | Frances nodded brightly. She had a parcel in her hand, which she open- ed. Within was an enveloping ging- up at him. “Now I am ready,” she said. For an hour she worked over the | on their way to work stopped to ad- | mire. The red of ripe strawberries, | the pale green lettuce, the scarlet of | tomatoes, thre soft brown of new po- | tatoes, these had been used to form | symmetrical designs. There was not | ! a stray leaf to break the beauty of it. | i Everything was sparkling and shin- Ing. apples rubbed to their highest | i { house thinks that the lights are on | | that don’t work. The only folks that | He expected to see her radiant. but she hesitated. “I am not sure that I want to leave,” she said. “What's that?" he demanded. “Yesterday Henry asked me to mar- ry him,” she told him. “He thinks he I8 not good enough, but he is the salt of the earth.” Together they stood and looked out the window. Across the way shone the windows of the shop, back of them was all the color and glow of sum- mer supplies, in the door stood Hen- ry, immaculate in his white apron, his blue eyes meeting their across the street. Frances laughed a little. “You see,” she gald, “what I have done to him?” The doctor nodded. “It's better than a trip to Europe,” he agreed. Then he went to the telephone. “I'll call up my patient and tell her ‘No."'” Frances waved her hand to the man across the street. “And I'll go over and say ‘Yes’ to Henry,” was her joy- ful decision as she gave a last look through the doctor's window. ‘Sale of Joss Sticks. “Do vou sell these incense sticks— joss sticks, punk sticks or whatever you call 'em?” asked a young man in a dr‘mrmu nt s(urn | “Why, ves,” answered the clerk. | “But we don’t have nmvh call for them at this time of the year.” “You don’t. Why not? Don’t the girls want to smell up their places— | dens and all that—in the winter time 2 “Shoot! Girls don’t buy them things to smell up dens with, Don’t you know when we have our big sale for that stuff? No? Why, it's In the summer | when everybody sits outdoors. Yes, | sir. We sell "em to girls who ain’t as ! popular as they want to be, They light | ‘em and stick 'em around on the porch, | and then any fellow passing by the | the ends of cigars and cigarettes be- | ing smoked by a lot of callers. Yes, | sir. Then the passerby wonders why the girl had so many fellers calling on her and he comes in to see. i “But in the winter time, of course, buys "em at this season are these would-be Bohemians—and even them are going out of style.” o':«ooooooo-:oooo -wm&%oo&ooooooo?ooooooo-w& Y DOOOOOOVOVOOOVNOOVVOVOTOVLORAL OO OOOVIOLLGOGOOOOOLHOODOOOOE His Fateful Message. She was the fairest of the fair. Her cheeks glowed with the blush of hap- | piness, her eyes flashed with the gleam | H of joy. she iossed her head merrily at | |he gay remarks of those who spoke | to her. Not a care, not a cloud, seemed to be in her life. Plucking her arm nervously, he bent toward her and hissed a few words in her ear. Immediately she became' nervous, distrait, self-conscious. What did he say to her? Were his | words bitter ones? Were they the ! words that rise from a jealous heart? | Ah, no. He merely told he- that her plaquet latch was unhooked.—! Woman’s World. Egypt's Leading Industry. Egypt has but one manufacturing | industry. speaking largely—the mak- ing of cigarettes. Cairo is fhe center of this |ngu~tr\ the leading firms hav- | | ing factories there which employ thou- | sands of hands the year round. The! tobacco used is imported. mostly from i Turkey and Greece. Aside from the enormous home consumption, Egrp- |2 2 — ~NOTICE Beginning January 1st, 1912, I shall endesy,, Lakeland famous by producing the best 5c cigar Florida. e SMOKE INMAN'S BLUNTS' 1121~ 17 Manufactured by e Inman Cigar Factory The Lakeland Steam laundr; =5 S one of the best equipped plants in the State having all modern machinery and what is more, we¢ have operators who know how to use them. We want everybody's laundry. Do you send yours? 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