Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 2, 1912, Page 7

3 y & Job Printing —_—— OWING to the enlargement of our newspaper and publishing business, it has been necessary to move The News Job Office up-stairs where it will be found in Rooms 11 and 12, Kentucky Building, in the com- For anything that can be printed, |if you want petent charge of Mr. G. J. Williams. the best work at the right prices, czll on ~o¢0c-c»owmom;r;o&mmmm 3 Mr. Williams, RN 2 ¢ The News Job Office Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentucky Building, T T T T O COOOOOOTOOT yed a splendid Christmas trade for which re very thankful to our patrons and the ) cenerally, We take occasion to thus express ~and to wish all a Happy and Prosperous we d i 8 . ety Lakeland Book Store “45 Beconds from the New Deput.’ Only Bakery in town that makes |Bread and b Cikes by machinery, which means no sweat in bread as made by hand. We guarantee to use the best of goods in our bread and cakes. Phone 203 for prompt delivery. 38 Barhite Brothers LAXELAND MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS, ted on East Lake Morton, John Edmunds, Prop. Sclicts the crders of all requiring anything in this line. DON'T WORRY ! ABOUT IT ls {fsure your property with us and forget it. We will put £ companies only (time tried and fire tested); will ad- * losges personally and pleasantly; pay you promptly and discount; look after the renewal of your policies; grant mits and gasoline permits without charge, and do all * 4zents should do for the protettion of their customers. © both country and town property. e g —— = HE R, H. JOHNSON FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY E chuww, Manager Lakeland, Fla. Successor to Johnson and Cannon. LD In the Gar- den Below By Molly MacMaster Delicia slipped joyously into the soft pink silks of her costume. The young woman possessed a tempera- ment and could write in nothing save pink—pink from her slippers, to the large bow that confined a mass of copper ringlets at the nape of her neck. Her cheeks rivaled the pink of the frock for inspiration had come | suddenly and she could scarcely con- tain herself until she reached her den. She glanced out at the rambling old house in the next garden; 1t had been vacant so long that the windows were almost hidden behind the unkept vines. A desultory litigation had hung over its stately premises so long that Delicia had decided to make use of the privacy it afforded. Consequently, Delicla carried her writing paraphernalia to a small den- like room on the third floor. Fortu- nately for the girl's temperament, the | wails bore traces of pink flowers and with the touches which artistic hands can give, Delicia soon had an attrae- tive workshop. Arrived in her bower, the girl peep- ed out through the port hole of her window—she had sacrificed the vines to that extent—and sighed as she | gazed wistfully at the old garden so irivh in possibilities but so much in | need of loving hands to guide fits straving vines and tangles of old- world flowers, Her ded every moment she murmured garden, “someone might sce me and | then room." very thong work on tl I mizht he put ont of my lovely at She grew fearsome and went despera story in her mind. I'or an hour or more her typevriter When the best of her were safely down she be- more con 1 of outward y it eame to ler senses hat a peenliar grating noize had been | going on for gome time. | moment a voice was humming Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose.” Delicia jumped np eautiously | peered through the opening in vines. “My and the She started back, then quickly Peered Through the Opening. resumed her pogition as she realizea her safety, A man was digging in the garden below. Surprise, Indignation, joy were min- to the | the | At the same | was slowly opening its heart to the | garden. He pruned and petted and | watched it with the eyes of a lover. Delicia's desire for a cluster of those roses became a passion. When the man in the garden buried his head | in their pink depths to inhale their sweetness she felt that she must rush | down and clutch some of them to her | own heart, Upon the night of the big dance in the town hall Delicia stood before her | mirror and gazed at the pink cloud re- | flected there, “I need that one 13se,” she said to herself. “My costume is incomplete without it. I simply must have it for my hair.” She slipped quietly out and glided through the moonlight into the garden next door. Once in the garden, Deli- cla forgot everything save the glor- fous moment. She wandered about the rose paths inhaling draught after draught of their sweetness and look- ing always for the one pink beauty. The moonlight turned them all about until they looked like little pale souls playing about in the garden. “You heauty!" she cried aloud when her fingers found the one they sought. “Oh—Nh, but you have thorns!" she murmured as she tried to break the | stem. “Perhaps T can cut it for you,” a voice, musical and rich, came out from the moonlight, Rich Men’s Clothes at Poor Men’s Prices FOR A FEW WEEKS ONLY Values are big enough to make them go fast zo step lively if you want to save money. You'll buy if you see the goods COME, AND COME QUICK! The Hub, Joseph LeVay, “Oh- h!™ Delicia slipped quietly down ng the roses, | The man hastily threw away his | cigar and stooned over the girl. { | "Great Scott! 1 Qidn't mean to ! Uetartle you, elfldt™ e picked the |3 | pInk ¢oud up in his arms and gazed | { down «i her face, ou beauty,” he | 9 jmutteced under his breath | | Martin Duane hed a great rose | [ bud bastily and drew it gently the ghl's brow, It was cool and De- | li < eves opened slowly, across | !llls Oles | gray ones ooked deep into the great So faseinated was he that he foroot for the moment that he was holdine her elose in his arms, | “6am better now,” she said | He released her and said quickly, “I am o brute to have startled you, [ 80 espocially when T have waited so long for you to come down from your sky.” Delicia cast a startled glance at | | him. “You have known?" | “l saw you slip through your gate and into this house almost the first day.” Martin Duane spoke with a wonderful tenderness. “You had on something pink—like this,” He touch- ed the scarf that hung from her shoul- der. “That ts why I put In so many pink flowers,” he said simply. Delicia looked up at the man and her breath came quickly. “And I would have taken your very finest rose,” she sald. “Yours,” he corrected her. “I had made up my mind that if T hadn't managed to meet you before that rose came into full bloom that I would send it up to you with a plea for your—" “It s in full bloom,” sald Delicla softly, The man stooped over the bush and cut the rose. lie very carefully re- moved all the thorns and put it into her hand A moment later he sald: “I have bought this place.” Delicla was silent for a moment, but in that moment something, subtle | and Intangible though it was, told her | that she need never give up the pink | den, | | Wide Guesses Made by Veterans Who | Had Fought Under It—Do { You Know? | At a recent state encampment of the | Grand Army of the Republic a news- cried the man as 'HOW MANY STARS IN FLAG?| gled in the expression of Delicia's | paper In the city where the meeting eyes—Indignation that anyone dared | was held decided to find out the vet- to enter what she had grown to con- | erans’ ideas as to the number of stars slder her own, and joy that the old “\\!llrh should be In the United States garden was at last coming into its | flag at the present time. The results own, for the man below was working | of the paper's endeavors were interest- like a happy slave over paths and |ing. Thirty-one veterans were ques- vines and rose trees. | tioned and 12 different answers were Delicia made her cup of tea slowly | recelved. The veterans' guesses ranged and thoughtfully while she cast oc- | all the way from 30 to 60. casional glances into the garden or | One soldier, whose answer was not rather at the man in the garden. That | counted as it was palpably wrong, he was big and well knit was easily | sald that there wero 12 stars at the seen and that his head was crowned | present time in our flag. This soldier with gold was equally apparent but | had served ina large number of fights his features were not discernible. in his four years in the United States She gave up the attempt and sat |army in the Civil war and had been down to her tea. Gloom brooded in | attending encampments regularly since her eyes. they had been Inaugurated. He teom- “Has some horrible person bought | ed to make his guess in perfect good the place?” was the question upper- | faith. most in Delicla’s mind. She cast an- Many of the veterans sald they re- other glance through the vines. “He membered how many stars there were isn’t 8o horrible, at that,” she confid- | in the flag at the time of the memor- ed to herself with a sparkle in her | able conflict, but they had somehow eyes. “Anyway, I shall just wait and | Jost track since being mustered out. see. He can’t any more than put me | One old soldier sald he knew there out.” were 47 stars in the flag some time But Martin Duane did not dispos- | ago. ‘But” he sald, ‘I don't know sess Delicia. And as the weeks wore ' how many there are now since we've on he apparently did not once become | taken In Cuba.” conscious of the pair of gray eyes| Of the 12 different answers re- that followed him in his work about | celved, nine veterans sald they the garden. ! thought there were 45 stars In the flag The magazines suffered the loss of ' now. Among the men who favored | | Delicia’s work. Up in the pink den this number was the retiring depart- faob s o e v ey NOTICE Beginning Wlanuary Ist, 1912, 1 shall endeaver to make Lakeland famous by producing the best de cigar in South Florida. SMOKEJNMAN'S BLUNTS' milaves 1t Manufactured by 1 ama INman Cigar Factory " 9 b Mecet Yonrself Squarely Consider the matter carefully. investigate our plans thoroughly, and you wiil readily realize how casy it is to own your own home. Quit paying rent, place the amount to the eredit of your own property. 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How many stars are there in of the roses; to Delicla’s longing epes gur flag? i | it looked as if the pink ones grew | defiantly larger and more desirable Even So. | | than the others. “Is there a co-respondent in the As June wore toward its close the Jiggers divorce case?” girl found herself consclously jealous “Mrs. Jiggers mentions a ‘blonde of the pink roses; especially was she person,’ 1 belleve.” Jealous of the tender care which was “Good heavens! Why isn’t che more given to one bush. The man spent explicit? The world is full of ‘blonde bours tending the glorious bud that persons.’” i PERRY-THARP-BERRY MUSIC CO. ’ *"When 1s a person militant?™ asks !the Inquicitiva subscriber of Whar ton The Denver pastor who was thrown out of his church window dy bis board of deacons and came back and licked the entire push was mil | tant.—Huston Post. A Backsliding Santa Claus. it before they used to say her Santa s would let him b Claus he would devote h fe to slid- ing up and down the ch for her. And now it makes him mad to have to take up ashes from the grate.