Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 16, 1912, Page 7

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, jif ;you want petent charge of Mr. G. J. Williams. the best work at the' right prices, call on Mr. Williams. MO OODDDCOOOCOON 3 The News Job Office Rooms 11 and 12 (upstcirs) Yertuel:y Building. OOOOODLOOOOOOD SR OTOCOTOBNE0E0 BOIDIDFITOTODODOBOICHALNHC JUST RECEIVED Full Line Reach’s Base Ball Goods Our 50 cents Book Sale Is Still On Putting Jefirey Webber and style together in one thought would have struck all his friends as a most star- tling act of lunacy, something in the light of touching a match to a bundle of excelsior and daring it to burn, All his life he had shied at meck- ties on the theory that if the benefi- cent powers above had dowered a man with chin whiskers it was rank extravagance for him to adorn himself ; § | with unseen finery. Likewise he could not understand the blind foolishness of masculine individuals who turned from celluloid collars which one could 2 &| wash daily and thus save unnecessary laundry bills, As for clothes—they were merely required for covering. This, then, was the problem An- toinette Webber had to wrestle with when she came back from boarding school and began to get the family ar- ranged for her wedding. Being a woman, her mother was quite amenable to new ideas, but when Antoinette tackled Jeffrey he figuratively stood up on his hind legs and roared a war cry. “Dress suit!” he choked. “Me! At | my age! Cracky! Never!” | “Now, father,” Antoinette began | soothingly, quite as though she held a tablespoonful of bitter medicine in one hand and was prying open his teeth with the other, “I want you to look | your best when Horace and his friends get here—" “Look my best!” her father roared again. “Dressed up like a monkey on a stick!” | “And you've got to wear a tie,” An- | toinette broke in, firmly, I with tender care, but he never was the same man after that. He gloomed around the premises, surveying with a hostile eye the housecleaning prep- ! arations for the coming wedding and he developed a jumpiness at every- thing unusual and suspicious. Stationery in All Shapes .. Post Cards 1 cent Each LAKELAND BOOK STORE 010 OMGPOFOSOPIPOEOHIS OHOPOLOITHOHIEE OISO LAKELAND MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS, tated on East Lake Morton, John Edmunds, Prop. 4 Solicts the orders of all requiring anything in this line. SEEDS POTATOES BEANS ALL SEEDS Don't send away for such. Ihave as good as money and experience can command. N.Y. and Efstcrn grown. Some from fother sections Wherever the best grow. FRESH, PURE, TRUE, RELIABLE Car of Pure Maine Bliss Potatoes ALSO FERTILIZERS | D. B. Dickson HOGOHOFOIIPOHOE0: 01001036 Antoinette was in despair, She was | marrying into rather a fashionable family and the thought of Horace's l college friends and his family arriv- ing to find that while her father had l & heavy bank account he had no sense of sartorial values was a tragedy. “Horace and his party won't get here till the day itself,” Antoimette told her mother in one of their hope less conferences. “They won't notice dad 80 much then, but in the evening, at the wedding—mother, I'll just die if he wears that baggy old gray sack suit and his celluloid collar and no tle!” “Then I'm afraid you're due to die, daughter, “sald Mrs. Webber, who had been married to Antolnette’s father long enough to know. “I won't!” snapped Antoinette, with the blind faith of youth in its powers. “I'll manage it somehow. I'm not go ing to have the only wedding I'll have in my whole life spoiled by father's ridiculous stubbornness!” She and her father eyed each other | warlly toward the last, like gladiators | before the fight. Her father ostenta: tiously bought a mew celluloid collar a new pair of calfskin boots. father, the only incongruous spot in a refurbished, decorated house, filled [ with frills and fluff, went upstairs to | get ready for the evening's fray. Lay- ing out his new collar and collar but- ton and simply tossing his old gray clothes over a chair, he stepped into the bathroom for his ablutions. He was absent 20 minutes. When he came back to his room he blinked. On the bed were spread some strange black things. The coat was low cut and had long tails. Patent leather pumps stood fiendishly beside & pair of silk socks. There were also some weird stand-up linen collars and & box of white ties and a large bosomed shirt. There was nothing else in the way of clothes in the room. Nobody paid any atteation to his in his bathrobe, poking a finger now and then at the bated garments. Finally the wedding weat on. Every- body was preseat but the bride’s fa- ther. After the ceremoay and con- gratulations the bride herself headed They revived Antionette’'s father | and a fresh ten cent collar button and | The day of the wedding Antoinette’s | 8% s THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, FEBRUARY 16, 1912 kers, proclaiming his last stand—no pecktie! He glared at his daughter and his newly achieved son-in-law. “Father,” begged the bride tremu- Jously, “come down, please! It's time to go in to supper. There's scalloped oysters and—" “P've put on these clothes,” her fa- ther interrupted her sternly, “because I'm a law abiding citizen and you took the others away, but I'll be everlast- ingly goldurned if I'm going to exhibit myself in 'em before sensible human beings! If you want the wedding check I've written out for you, Antol- pette. you see that I git them oysters and other dewdads right ous here.” So they compromised on that basis. Magic of Dickens. The hundred years which have rushed over the earth like an express train since Charles Dickens feit the first pinch of a terrestrial winter have changed the human mind, altered the attitude of the soul to the universe, and modified the affections of the hu- man heart. We are no longer easily moved to tears, we are loath to let exaggeration fiich our laughter, we are perhaps less eager than our fore fathers to be made to smile, and cer tainly more avaricious with our tears than were our grandmothers. Never theless, the magic of Dickens still touches our lives, and the manhood of the whole Anglo-Saxon race is colored by those ensorcelled hours of our boy- hood when we roared with Sam Well er, hated Jonas Chuzzlewit and Car ker, loved Little Neil, trembled at Quilp, fancled ourselves Nicholas Nickleby, envied David Coppertield, longed to possess a Grip, loathed Pecksriff, and felt our hearts grow heavy over the bitter sufferings of Oliver Twist, Poor Jo and tragle Smike.—Harold Begble in the Cen: tury, Guillotine for Soldier Murderers. The scnate yesterday passed a bill nnder which soldiers or sailors sen- tenced to death by a court martial | will henceforth be guillotined instead of being shot, except in cases where the offence 18 one which comes di- rectly under military law. This bill was brought in after the murder some months ago of Mme. Gouin by sol dicrs, one of whom, Graby, was sen- tenced to death, His sentence was eventually commuted to one of life fmprisonment, it being déemed inad- visable to ask men doing compulsory military service to form a firing party. The chamber of deputies passed the bill.—Petit Parislen. Lucky Afterthought. Cinderella had put on the glass slipper. “To be in fashion,” was her mental comment, “the heel ought to be at least two lnches higher.” Suddenly reflecting, however, that persons wearing glass slippers mustn’t kick, she wisely held her tongue: and all the world is famillar with the rest of the story. Detecting the Chinese. Two men bave just been convicted of smuggling Chinamen into the coun- try. The detectives adopted a plan marvelous In its simplicity and effect- iveness. They wanted to be sure whether the four Celestials in ques- tion had ever been in the country be- fore. They were dressed in American fashion and the detectives took the coats off the men and required them to put them on again. They put them on backward. Matters of the Memory. ! Savages have good memories. They | rarely make a false or erroneous mo- ; tion. They have mastered their sur- roundings and there are no new things to distract their attention. They keep their memory cells um- crowded. The civilized man is at & great disadvantage. He sces some new thing every hour. His brain cells are a veritable, dancing, whirling, seething nest of memories. It is not any great wonder that he cannot re- call the one he needs just when be peeds it Kind of Him. *“l am golag to ask your father for your hand.” “Oh, that will be lovely.” “You are glad?” “Deligbted! 1 will Try Scissors Next Time. “She meant to chop off the chick- en’s head with a hatchet,” says a Mis- PAGE SEVEN 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, . In The Prompt Procur Fire Insurance Lies The Securance of The Endurance For If Destroyed The Means Employed Means It's Reconstruction From Pit to Dome! THE R. H. JOHNSON FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY P. E. CHUNN, Manager Lakelaad, Fla. We Make a Specialty of _Fidelity Bonds SHIRTS If you wish your shirts and cellars IRONING to look just right, you will not be disappointed if you send them to us, for we make a specialty of high-class laundry work. Our purpose is to please you. THE LAKELAND STEAM LAUNDRY P. W. WEAVER, PROP. *Phone 130 s 'ATHE MODERN BAKERY.t § Only Bakery in town that makes |Bread and 13 Cakes 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. Barhite Brothers Lakeland