Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 27, 1912, Page 6

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A few cars of Shingles at COST to close. IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants e | bl AY[Q (,'?()( ERY COMPANY' Lk lan, Florida ” AP AT - fELEGRAM the daVLaNING Miss Minerva d Williamaéreen Hill | y 3 g (Copyright, by Reilly c_ P_flt_on Co.) (Continued from page 2.) ' step over to yo! an’ phone mens 1o and git Lim quick, Shet the do’ don’t make no noise, Fiy, me right Lere an 10 some ' feome ag'in an' now! He again took 1in a minute was ophione with the receiver to fis ear. “Hello! Iz that you, \].w Central? {This is e’ he L to the trans mitter, “Ginane Miss Minerva's bean I don't know his munmber, hut he's got a ofice over my bapa’s bang.” fis fathor being ont of town, the tittle boy shrewdly decided that Miss Minerva's bean was the next best man "to help eapture the robher, [ *Miss Minerva what lives by me” he shricked, Portunately Central recognized his childish vgice and was willing to hu mor him, 8o as she too knew Miss Minerva's bean the connection was quickly made. “Hello! s that you, major? This is me. If you don't want Mr. Alger- non Jones to he robbering Miss Minerva's got you getter get a move on and come right this minute. Yon got to hustle @nd bring ‘bout a million pistols and guns and swords and tomahawks and all the mans you can find and dogs. He's the fiercest robber ever was, ‘and he's already done tie Billy to the bath room chair biscuits, I spec’. All of us Is 'bout to be slewed. Goodby." The plump, round gentleman at the other end of the wire heard this amaz- ing message in the utmost confusion and consternation. He frantically rang the telephone again and again but could get no answer from the Gar- ner's home so he put on his hat and walked the short distance to Miss Mi- nerva's house, Jimmy was walting to receive him at the front gate, having again eluded Sarah Jine's vigilance. “Hush!” he whispered mysterious- ly, “he's In the dining room. Ain't you bringed nobody else? Get your pistol and come on."” Mr. Algernon Jones, feeling safe and secure for the next hour and hav- ing partaken of a light lunch, was in .| the act of transferring some silver spoons from the sideboard to his pock- ots when a noise at the dining room door caused him to look in that di- rection, With an oath he sprang for- ward, and landed his fist upon the nose of a plump gentleman standing there, bringing a stream of blood and sending him sprawling to the floor. Mr. Jones overturned a bigeyed little | boy who was in his way, and walk- ing rapidly in the direction of the rafl- road, the erstwhile plumber was seen no more. Jimmy quickly resovered himself and sprang to his teet, Seeing the blood streaming down the white shirt front of Miss Minerva's unconscious hean, ind took the thread of events again nto his own little hands. He flung limself over the fence careless of Surah Jane this time, mounted a chair ‘| and once more rang the telephone. “Hello! 1s that you, Miss Central? This 18 me some more. Gimme Dr. Sanford's office please.” “Hello! 1Is that you, doctor? This is me. Mr. Algernon Jones done kilt Miss Minerva's beau. He's on her back porch bloody all over. He's ‘bout 4 $ S &5 2 (‘ O3 Ms? .l the deadest man they is. You'd better come toreckly you can and bring the hearse, and a coffin and a clean shirt and a tombstone. He's wounded me but I ain’t dead yet. Goodby.” Dr, Sanford received Jimmy's crazy message in astonishment. He, too, rang the telephone again and again, but could hear nothing more, so he walked down to Miss Minerva's house and rang the door bell. Jimmy open- ed the door and led the way to the back porch, where the injured man, who had just recovered consciousness, was sitting limply in a chair, . “What does ali this mean? Are you | hurt?” asked the doctor as he exam- | ined Mr. Jones' victim. “No, I think I'm all right now,” was | the reply: ¥ gave me a severe blow.” | Billy, shut up in the bath room and | listening to all the noises and confu- | soin, had been scared nearly out of his | | senses. He had kept still as a mouse | tll now, when thinking he heard :friqndly voices he yelled out: “Open ' the do’ an’ untie me,”’ everyfhing | and done eat up 'bout a million cold | he gathered his wits together | ! plump tickied at him an’ [ tuck him | | | | “but that scoundrel certain- | LABELAND, FLA, JANUARY 27, 1912, . e et “We done forgot Billy,” $aid the’ little rescuer, as he ran to the bath room door and opened it. lle was followed by the doctor, who cut the cords that bound the prisoner. “Now, William,” commanded Dr. Sanford, as they grouped themselves You're a plumb jim- came from the door- better'n him. dandy, Billy,” way, “S0's you,” howled back the delight- t ed and flattered Billy. Jimmy thought he would pop wide open in his efforts to keep from | command. “I say I ain’t never goiy«~ body, ecross my hearr. (.- ‘fore you makes me mu no telling what I'll do 1 get mad.” “Say you's a lowdoun around the stout, plump genileman in | laughing. skunk.” Lot the chair, “Legin at the beginning | “How'd you like to be my sweet-| "o, . p. oo oo and let us get at the bottom of this.” leart?" he asked. the kind,” spiritedly replic, - “Mr. Algernon Jones he come to the| “I's already promised to marry gate,” explained the little boy, “an’ he Miss Cecilia when | puts on long say he goin' to fix the water pipe an’ | pants, but if we ever gets a ‘vorce l:d he say he's a plumber. He's a very '‘nother sight ruther have you n ‘greeable man, but I don't want Aunt | anybody. You can be my lady frien’, Minerva to marry him, now. I was| abyhow,” was the loud reply. “I'm coming for you 1o go riding in my little pony and cart,” said a gig- gling Jimmy. to the bath room an’ fust thing I knowed he grabbed holter me an shuck me like what you see a cat ~All right, I's going to ask Aunt Mi- do a mouse, an' he say—" nerva o lemme go. Can't we take; “And he'd more'n a million whis- | Jimmy, too? ke interrupted Jimmy, who This was too much for the lmle| lul)ufl.hl Billy was remnmg 100 much | bey. He had held himsell in as long ! uttention, “and lhie— as possible, He burst into a pe al of “One at a time,” said the doctor. | laughter so merry and o loud rh.-'? Proceed, William.” Billy, turning quickly, almost fell vut | dog. “You all t “An' he say he'll bust my brains out- | of the chair. | to call theirce) er my Lead it 1 holler, an' I ain't a- “What you doin’, alistening to me | low-down sai coin’ to holler neither, an' ha tie me -41‘\ to Marie rough th'oo the lcl-i “You i i to & chair an’ tie my mouth un an’ vietor, venewing host luek the do’ “I'N say I'm a Isa ‘And 1 comed over,” said Jimmy, | ¢ bella discovered ,\ e cagesdy, “wnd 1 run home ¢ i the Bihin" n'h Mr. Alzernon Jenes is a ro! | s Ceciliy plioned to Miss Minerva's bean, and if | he'd branged what 1 telled him, he | wouldn't never got erueked in the face like Mr, Algernon Jones done crack | = Lim, and Billy got to all time let rob- bers in the house so they can knock mans and Lttle hoys down” “While you stund talking here the conndrel will get away,” said the in- nonta” -2 @ v the iniocent one. | ver and Betore Jim- Riny accepted his o Jimmy's flatterned su L of its burden, puff.d . e wes fully aware of his intention, | gnndness as that lind 2il'v had thrown him to the floor and | feet, saying: giving him a good ponineling. i eSam Lamb would ‘a d ¢ yon got ‘nought” he growled g pipe g petd s s ‘rom his position astiide of the oth-| ing." v in + ¢own ont of the chalr, jured mun, er boy, “He'd better nevor L “Phat's so,” agreed Dr. Sanford, | I sot ‘nough, Billy," rept ated Cwas the threaienivg o “s0 I'll o and find the sheritf” JTinany, | i Surali Jane's huge forw loomed up “Say you sorry you dono it { (Couti in the back hall doorway, and she “I say 1 sorry 1 done it abjectly grabbed Jimmy by the arn. repeated the vounger child., “Get um. Y “Yaas,” she cried, “you gwine take | billy, 'fore you bust wy stommiek | weighty Triva te open.” | Litt'e thitgs mean = “Say you ain't never a-goin' to tell en. Some men nobody, cross yo' heart,” was the nest ris. vou a nap 1s yuh, yuh ‘ceitful caterpil- lar, Come on home dis minute.” “lemme go, Sarah Jane,” protest- d the little boy irying to jerk away {rom her, “I got to stay here and I ——— tec' Billy and Miss Minerva's beau, T ‘cause they's a robber might come back and tie 'em up and make 'em bleed if [ ain't here.” “Did Mr. Algernon Jones make all that blood?" asked the awestricken little boy gazing in admiration at the victim of Mr. Jones' energy. “You sho’ is a hero to stan’ up an' let him knock you down like he done.” “Yes,” cried Jimmy, as the black woman dragged him kicking and strug- gling through the hall, “we's all he- roes, but I bet I'm the heroest hero they is, and I bet Miss Minerva's go- ing to be mad 'bout you all spilling all that blood on her nice clean floor.” “Lemme see yo' big toe what was shot off by all them Yankees and In- juns what you killed in the war,” sald Bllly to Miss Minerva's beau. The major smiled at the little boy; a man-to-man smile, full of good com- radeship, humor and understanding Billy's little heart went cut to hlm at once, “I can't take off my shoes at present,” sald the veteran. “Well, I must be go- ing; 1 teel all right now.” Billy looked at him with big, sol- emn eyes. “You couldn’t never go ‘thout yo' pants, could you?" he asked, *‘cause Aunt Minerva jest nachelly despises pants,” The man eyed him quizzically, “Well, no; | don't think 1 could,” he replied: “I don't think I'd look any | better in a Mother Hubbard or a ki- l mono.” The iiitle boy sighed. W hI( h you think is the mlmwst name,” asked he, “Billy or William?' “Billy, Billy,” enthusiastically came the reply, | “I like mens,” said William Green | Hill. “I sho' wisht' you could come ! and live right here with me and Aunt | Minerva.” *1 wish so, too,” forg:t —1 = AW N Visit the FLORIDA HIGHLANDS CO.'S LANDS at Dundee leavcs Lakeland at 7:10 a. m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10,000 acres of choice fruit lands to select from. Located ‘mi Florida's Highland Lakes, in Polk County. Countless sparkling spring-fed lakes, altitude 240 feet. pure, soft water, good transportation. Follow the lead of the Glen St. Mary Nurseries Co., whese purchase of 800 acres at Dundee is an endorsement hard to beat Town lots, beautiful Lake Front Villa Lots umsurpasscd. DUNDEE IS FAVORABLY COMMENTED UPON EVERYWHERE. Come and set us. Good Camp accommodations. Hotel will soon be built. Fize soil; recant Lakeland Representatives: OHLINGER & ALFIELD Opposite Depot For printed matter and plats d >ss our Lakelar.d agents. or W. W. Shepard, Secretary Tlorida Highlands Co. Winter Haven, Florida IFITS DRUGS YOU WANT, PHONE 42 We can't please every one, try as hard as we may. | try to please YOU. Quick Delivert: LAKE PHARMAY said the major, CHAPTER XV. Billy, the Credulous. After the advent and disappearance | of the exciting Mr. Jones, Miss Mi-| nerva, much to Billy's joy, had a tele- phone put In the house. He sat in the | hall the day it was put in waiting for it to ring. Jimmy, coming up on the front porch and through the half-open door and seeing him sitting there, rang the door bell just for a joke,| ready to burst into a laugh when the other little boy turned around and | saw who it was. Billy, however, in' his eagerness mistook the ring for the | telephone tell and joyfully climbed u]\' on the chair, which he had stationed | in readiness. He took down the re celver as he had seen Jimmy do in his home, and, without once seeing that little boy standing a few feet from him, he yelled at the top of his lungs: “Hello! Who is that™ “This is Marie Yarbrough,” replied Jimmy from the doorway, {instantly ' recognizing Billy’s mistake. Marie Yarbrough was a little girl| much admired by the two boys, as she had a pony and a cart of her very own. However, she lived in a different part of the town and attended another Sun- day school, so they had no speaking| acquaintance with her. “l jus' wanted to talk to you,” went | on the counterfeit Marie, stifling a laugh and trying to talk like a girl.| { “I think you're 'bout the sweetest lit- tle boy there is and I want you to ALso FERT."ZERS come to my party.” e “Who?—that little old Jimmy Gar- “I sho' will,” screamed the gratified JiCKSO! . ner? I hope I dom't talk like that Billy, “if Auvnt Minervall lemme. chicken; he's 'bout the measliest boy (r'l I—nd” o that is and I like you 'mother sgght P SEEDS POTATOES BEANS ALL SEFDS Don't send away for such. money and experience can comman: Eastern grown. Some from other wherever the best grow. 1 have as < N FRESH, PURE, TRUE. RELIABLE Cf of Pure Maine Bliss Potatocs What makes you talk so much like Jimmy 2"