Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 5, 1912, Page 6

YHE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKIFLAND, FLA., APRIL 5, 1912, ‘The Fifth By Edmund Moberly (Copyright, 1911, hv \«uci:uud Literary Press.) Mr. Benjamin Holbrook, of the firm of B. Holbrook & Company, jobbers, had been absent from his business for | three weeks, and therefore entered | his office resolved to get back into | harness as speedily as possible. After lated correspondence, he rang for his confidential stenographer. to appear. A second and a third ring were equally barren of results. Mr. DON'T CHUM 70 BE HAPPY KEEP WELL USE ONLY DR. KING'S NEW DISCOVERY(sr age jab, he touched another button on his desk, and in a moment Wat- son, his chief clerk, stood at his el- bow. “Watson,” he demanded, “why doesn’t Miss Gayley respond to her call?” “Miss Gayley OUCHT was married while TO0 CURE ov you were away.” ’ “An office romance?” COUGHS AND cows 70 | “Yes, responded Watson with & smile. “Smithers, one of the book- wmnuc coue“ keepers, is the other guilty party.” “Well, he got a sensible wife, con- AND OTHER DISEASES OF found him. Give him a ten per cent. raise. At the same time he robbed me of a good stenographer just when she had become efficient and valuable. It strikes me these cases are becom- ing pretty frequent in this office, aren’t they, Watson.” “This is the fourth in three years.” “Exactly,” agreed Mr. Holbrook. “Four in three years, of which your own case was the first. Matrimony is a noble institution, Watson, but it can- not. be allowed to play hob with this business the way it has been doing. I propose now to get a stenographer who will regard this office as some- thing more than a stepping-stone to marriage. Miss Gayley's successor must be at least thirty-five years old. You will advertise at once for & lady THROAT AND LUNGS $0L0 AND GUARNNTEED BY ALL DRUGGISTS bOLLAR WILL DO THE WORK OF TNO We Don't Talk Cheap Groceries BUT WE DO TALK VALUES Our volume of business enables us to buy Quality At Its Lowest Price Hence a'dollar will buy more of us than elsewhere. Try it and See, 7 cans baby size cream............co00vnieiiiiiiiiiines .. 28 3 cans Challenge milk...... A IR e . 25 12-pound bag flour. ........ L teeesesesiesaaseassiattees . 40 He Allowed His Mind to Wander. ::‘,' per :: ............ R P I s f.:: confessing to that many summers. It perbag ............ 00000 e - | you cannot find her, I'll have to get a Rex Brand Elns, no ptper h pay for. perpound. ......... R | :‘,";b" 1 Deatac. e oA, L o L Picnic Hams, per Ib........ ST R | Benjamin Holbrook had never been Breakfast aBoon, per Ib...... ATV oA A A 20 :":"“"( A"h‘"' age when other men 10-pound pail Sea Foam Lard. -+ -+ «ov «ov cvn oerneennen 90 [J| take usto themselves wives, he had - been too busy thing the path of 10-pound pail Saow Dritt Lard. ...................ee.es .. 115 [} the wewly establisned i ot B, Hok 10-pound pail Cottoleme .....--:--:::coovvvvnnnn. A, 125 "':l"c: " ncn‘: l‘:'d"' t:: thoray ways 4 cans family sice cream.......... ; 25 B - iy i g DY sessses s e e . l.‘m' M .“ reaso! ed' t Shorts, per bag R e R R P R e .. 185 walt upon success. gnng Mmhu:d A L e + 880 JISeally Whioved, Sas Bew It waliad upos matrimony. If questioned, he would not have been able to say whether he had eluded matrimony or matrimony had eluded him, but now, at the age of forty, he was forced to to his friends that while it still possible in his case, it did very probable. & bachelor, he had never able to fathom the mental processes which led & girl to abandon a comfortable salary in his office for the purpose of sharing the salary cf & male worker in the same office, and in much less degree had he been able to understand the line of reasoning which led the aforesaid male worker to persuade her to do so. In employing office help, the head of the firm was able to discern merit at a glance. All his male subordi- nates had good qualities. The four women who had reigned in brief suc- cession in the office were all well en- dowed in this respect—so well en- dowed, indeed, that four of the male subordinates had discerned their merit cven better than the boss, with the result that for the fifth time in three years that gentleman, with all a bachelor’s dislike for change in the existing order of things, faced the dis- | agreeable prospect of becoming ac- customed to a new stenographer. It § H i Try to slice your breakfast bacon with that old dull knife, as it will be so thick that when cooked it will be so tough that you can’t eat it. Let us slice it with [he Packing House Market Slicing Machine. Po- lite service in stock all the time. [ g2 | edge that there were yet scveral un- married men in the office, all with |l:ig edict concerning the ase of the | tablishment. I Watson's advertisement pher.” “Thirty-five years of age, | es?” added Mr. Holbrook. or old- was the calm reply. : The head of the firm was forced to She failed | Holbrook grew indignant. With a sav- | Stenoo'rapher & confess to himsel! that she did mot ool it. ~jlave you had any experience in is capacity?” he nskod “None, whatever,” she answered. Jut I have a good education and | have fitted myself carefully for such ! a position, and I feel I can meect all the requirements set forth in your | somewhat unusual advertisement.” wading through a mass of accumu- | ~It was a little out of the ordinary, wasn't it?" | *Yes," | “But there was a reason for it.' During the last three years [ have lest no les: an four stenographers through matrimony. It was a desire to secure some one who would view business as other tham a stepping- stone to marriage that prompted that ad.” | “I can safely say that there is no prospect of my making such use of it,” replied Miss Holmes. | A trial showed that she was well equipped for the position. Mr, Hol- brook reflected, also, that he bad never recognized so many good quali- ties in an applicant before. He there- . fore engaged her, and in a few weeks found reason to congratulate himself; 1 for she developed an efficiency even above that of her very efficient pre- decessors. In a few months he began | | good qualities, that led him to issue | quite another story. next woman who should grace his es- { pected the temperature brought | your advertisemeut for a stenogra- ! “I am able to meet that condition,” | to regard her as indispensable, and found himself regretting that she was near him in office hours only. And then it came. He was dictat- ing to her one day, he on the one side of the big, flat office table, and she on the other, facing him. Whuol grasping for some solution to & | knotty business problem, he allowed his mind to wander. The plainly furnished office faded from his vision. The table became a dining table, cov- ered with snowy linen upon Wwhich silver gleamed and crystal sparkled— such a dining table as one sees in & home; but Miss Holmes faded from the picture not at all. In his reverie he saw her sitting opposite him at the dream table—and then Benjamin Hol- brook, bachelor, aged forty, came back to earth with a rush. He was in love, He was certain of it, despite the novelty of the sensation, Mr. Holbrook was accustomed to di- rect methods. “Miss Holmes, can you still safely | say that there is no prospect of your making business a stepping stone to | marriage?” he asked suddenly. Miss Holmes was also in a reverie. She came out of it in confusion. “I—I think so,” she managed toi gasp. “Then there is a doubt?” “Yes; there is a doubt,” she ad- mitted. “I ask you to give me the benefit o( it.” “Oh, 1 am not thinking of mln- ing,” she protested. “] am not asking you to give the business the benefit of the doubt, Miss Holmes; I am asking you to give it to me. 1 desire you to resign. Can’t you see what 1 am getting at? 1 love you. I want you to be my wife.” “Wouldn't that be playing hob with the business?” she asked after & pause, smiling through her blushes. Mr. Holbrook rose from his chair and started toward her. 8he fled to the door in a panic and paused with her hand on the knob. “The business is inured to such ex- periences by this time,” he laughed, still going toward her. *“You must re- member that my own romance has & quartet of precedents right here in the office. However, it shall be the last; for my next confidential stenographer her hands as he reached for her. “If that s the case, B—Benjamin, she murmured, “you might begia to Presence of Tuberculosis ls Suspected. of modern medicine is the fact that these germs may exist a long time in the human body without there biing shall be a man.” Miss Holmes covered her face with look around for the man.” FIRST CLEAN THE SYSTEM Thing to Do In the Instant That the The fever of consumption is not pri- marily due to the preseace of the tu- bercle bacilll in the system. Indeed, unless there are other conditions which cause the bodily temperature to rise it is fnclined to be sub-normal. One of the interesting revelations any rise of temperature whatever. This is plainest seen in a tubercular abscess, but it is also seen in the many cases in which for long periods there is no fever. - What does cause the fever in the earlier stages is a dis- ordered state of the alimentary canal. The stomach and bowels become de- ranged and full of toxins which, be- coming absorbed, poison the system and cause the temperature to rise. For vears it has been the practice of the | writer to reduce any temperature to | normal, especially during the first stages of the disease, simply by wash- | ing out the stomach and effecting a (complete cleansing of the intestinal was this fact, coupled with the knowl- | tract. Later on the fever is due to the absorption of broken-down lung | tissue and to ptomaines, and so is When, therefore, tuberculosis is sus- | should be | taken and if fever is present the per- son should invariably go to his phy- . gician and have his digestive tract thoroughly cleansed, when by proper " almost certainly to overcome the pres- ! an, whose gown of black well became | giet and outdoor life he will be able i she stated ence of the tuberculous germs, g tut one applicant to Mr. Holbrook— 1 & C 0 a handsome, somewhat sad-faced wom- il . e the slender plumpness of her figure. ¥ % e “I am Miss Holmes,” K The Pure JFood stflre ASI‘ ‘hl “’ ‘p ctor | simply. *“I have come in answer to| : Celestial Swats. | Mrs. Willis—I suppose that in heav- en we will be disappointed in not find ing certain people there. Mrs. Gillis—Yes. But we'll be more disappointed at finding certain other people there.—Puck. Paint pays---that is, good good paint does. 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