Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 10, 1912, Page 7

@ @ ? : 2 2 Job Printing ———= WING 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 thej right prices, call on Mr. Williams, The News Job Office _ Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentuoky Building, | JUST RECEIVED Full Line Reach’s Base Ball Goods Our 50 cents Book Sale Is Still On Stationery in All Shapes .. .. Post Cards 1 cent Each .. .. LAKELAND BOOK STORE 040301050 DBOIILHIING Loated on East Lake Morton, LAKELAND MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS, { Solicts the orders of all requiring anything in this line. SEEDS I’FIIAI(D[S BEANS ALL SEEDS Dot send away for such. I have as good as Money and experience can command. N. Y. and stern grown. Some from [other sections Wicrever the best grow. FRESH, PURE, TRUE, RELIABLE Car of Pure Maine Bliss Potatoes ALSO FERTILIZERS D. B, Dickson ettt SOOI OHOHERADERHEEOIOOOREOHISOBIIRSOIOSIEOEOHOSO O 2 g John Edmunds, Prop. THE EVENINu The Litde | Circus Rider l' “The circus is in town,” announced ; Sidney. “The last time I was at a cirous,” answered Meriven, “was when I was 2 3| little shaver with but a dime of my own. All morning I helped around the tent, fed the animals, brought pail after pall of water to the elephants, arranged the seats for the crowd and one hundred and one things in return for a bit of pasteboard which would admit one in the afternoon to the won- ders of circusdom.” “Do you still remember how won- derful and magnificent it all seemed?” “Hardly; my labors tired me out so that with all the noise, the din, the shouting and the music of the band, I slept through the entire perform- ance.” i “Let's go to the show this evening,” sald Sydney. “I was presented with two box seat tickets for allowing some posters of thrillers in the win- dow of our shop.” Meriven and Sydney were astounded at the number of grown-ups present at the circus, how really fascinating the B et ! ping into a chair. TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA,, FEBRUARY 10, 1912 | Doing all -~ = - * - the Giving 4 “I thigk I'll have to change my po- sition,” declared the little stenograph- er, belligerently, as she closed the drawers of the filing cabinet with a force that would have smashed any but a steel contrivance. “Be calm, be calm!" remonstrated the bookkeeper as he turned for fur- ther particulars. “Count one hundred slowly and then tell me about it.” “Well, I've nearly made up my mind to change!” she exclaimed, drop- “I'm going to look for a private office, a private secre. taryship!” “Oh, ambition afls you, does 1t?" The bookkeeper smiled knowingly. “Salary ran low at Christmas?” “No, it {sn't that,” objected the lit. tle stenographer, “but, of course, I'd | just as soon have an increase of sal- ary. I think I could use it.” She paused, meditatively, “No, I think I'd be willing to stay here, it only to remain in your company”—he smiled and bowed—'even with the meager stipend I now receive, if 1 could use circus was to adults and how bewllder- ng try to watch |hf threg flx. at one time. & e . “The girl on that Whlte horse 18 & it Tur my OWR needs, aud in my own way!¥ “Ah! Aged mother—crippled broth- er-educating little sister,” suggested marvel. So graceful and supple; she | the bookkeeper, helpfully. rides as easlly as It she was seated In a rocking chair. How modest she is; nothing ‘circusy’ about her,” said Meriven. “She can't be more than sixteen,” answered his friend. “Outrageous for a girl no more than sixteen years of age to waste her SR “No,” returned the little stenograph- er, with surprisingly little heat. *“Not that you mean it, and yet that’s the very reason! But it's some one else'’s | mother and brother and sister!” The little stenographer looked at him out of sad, wide eyes. “Say,” exclaimed the bookkeeper, ! “you aren't playing square. You've got to talk, not look sad. Why, in a minute I'll be handing you my pay envelope!” \ “Well, to prevent such a dire catas- trophe I'll explain,” she agreed. “It begins in the morning about two min- utes after I get my hat off and my pocket book by my side where all may 8ee it. The door opens, and as it's my duty to greet all callers I have to get up and talk. Now, all the men have said not to eall them except on real business, and I can't tell every beggar, or agent, or little boy or girl, to go see Mr. Brown or Mr. Danfels! My tion wouldn't be worth two cent# If I did! And I can't call Mr. || Brown or Mr. Daniels out to see “She Can’t Be More Than Sixteen.” youth and beauty in a traveling show. How in the world did she happen to join & circus! Sometimes whole fam- illes travel together, but there Is no one else with the same name on the program.” “Look, that borse kicked ‘Mademot- selle La Tour,'” exclalmed Meriven, excitedly. “Is she hurt? No, though that brave child must have felt the tumble; she's up again smiling and bowing to the crowd as if nothing had happened.” “She’s a brave one,” sald Meriven, Joining the applause. The little circus rider was constant- ly in Meriven’s thoughta, and the ' i- them, can I? No! But I have ears, and they at once proceed to work on my sympathies. They think if they can't get the big men perhaps I can help them a little. I look kind—oh, I know I do, for they all tell me so— and won't I please help them out? “I can't tell them that I have no money, for they see my giant bag, and they know there must be something in it. You may ask why I don't buy a small bag, just big enough for car fare and lunches, but it's the honest truth that I don’t have enough money left from my many charitles to Luy one! “It might be all right and do my soul good, if only I fel. charitable— but I don't, not a bit! | fairly despise every youngster vuo pleads. ‘I'm try- ing to earn oney by selling this chewing gum or “these beautiful cards!” And when a woman explains tuat she must have $10 to pay herl rent or else be compelled to go out | o |on the street with a threo-month-old baby, I'm fairly nauseated! *No, it isn't charity, not a bit of it. “Now, I like to give something some- - | times when I feel that I can spare it, but I don't like to do the charity work for this whole big establishment. Why, - | I give to everybody! And why? For TTHHHOEHLE Efiigiééégfgaeggig i i g- E i?sg | E & | I gil‘; i sis - Eefigr L LBl ,. _:_tlfi;:fl IRONING SHIRTS PAGE SEVEN I nich Men's Clothes at Poor Men’s Prices — FOR A FEW WEEKS ONLY. 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