Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 15, 1912, Page 6

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LA} ELAND, FLA,, APRIL 15, 1912, | | i Bl ".ALLYOUR A - STAKED | EEHARDWAREF< to Maria N [ ROBLEMS / { “That woman,” he leaned across the (Copyright, 1912, l!»v Associated Literary | Press.) ] 1 | ! | NS BEWARE OF SUDDEN ATTACKS table and tapped my arm impressively. “was like a pillar of radium with “She can't stay here.” THAT MAY PROVE DEADLY. phonograph attachments. She could Jei's eyes flashed ominously. s manage anything—anything; but when ' Standing in the low doorway of the | all her energies were bent on man- |ljitle log shack, half way up Saw- wne“ you buy YOU CAN SOON REPEL THE aging one poor man, why naturally it 1ooth mountain, she stared out at the | MOST DANGEROUS WITH DR. KING'S NEW DISCOVERY THE RELIABLE REMEDY FOR COUGHS AND COLDS WHOOPING COUGH AND OTHER DISEASES OF was too much fierce white light for shabby yellow carryall, with its team any weak human being to bear. It | of lean, shaggy horses. shriveled me up. Believe it or not,” “Then where is she goin' ter Mr. McCurdy's eyes took on a far-away | siay, I'd like to know?" ejaculated reminiscent look and he nodded ! th. driver, hoarsely. “She's bound gloomily, “but 1 wasn't just Mrs. Mc- | for here, and she's paid her way here, | Curdy’s husband, I was her door mat. and she's sick, too, and she tells me her kitchen mop. I was getting 80 ' Jim sent for her. You lend a hand that T ran and asked her if I could | here, like a good fellow, and help me walk up the road a piece. Pretty | get her out.” soon she'd have been feeding me | “Nobody's home but me.” i with a spoon. So, one day, I just| “Then you're boss, aint you? And walked out, leavin’ her most all the | what you say goes.” He grinned up ready money I had; knowin’ all the | ot her comfortably. Jet's temper was time that she was smart as lightning | famijliar to him. “She’s got to rest at her trade—dressmaking. Well—" | yp some place, and it's thirty miles he shifted his position slightly, “after | pack to Double Forks.” that, I drifted around quite a little. | «“\Why didn't she come before?”" THROAT AND LUNGS made and saved some money, and “Ask her,” said Wilkins, PRICE 50c AND $1.00 {then went back there to settle down Mogt begrudgingly Jet did the hon- ALL DRUGGISTS on the ranch and look after my prop- | ors of her home to the half-uncon- ertles, sclous stranger. She helped carry her “Well, sir, do you know what? Liv-|into the kitchen, and loosened her In’ there on Beehive, and studying | many wraps. She made strong coffee, over things—life and nature and what | and winced a little from her own bit- not—T got to be quite a philosopher. I |'terness when she saw how youngand found myself"—this with tremendous | gjck she was. It is not the game to impressiveness—“I remember the day | fight an enemy who is already down. when it came over me—just like a| After the man from Double Forks revelation. I was hoeing in the melon | haq driven away, she went silently | patch, and suddenly I straightened | 3oyt her work, while the other wom- myself up and threw down my hoe,| ap Jay on the bed and watched her. and I tcemed to swell up as big as the | Rynally Jet spoke. universe. Why, I almost shouted: ‘I| «well you got here, didn't you?”" ain't afraid of Maria. I ain’t afraid of| « came as soon as ever I could.” Maria any more, not any more than I| «yeg you did!” am of those darned industrious ants| «[ gig. I started the day after ba- yonder, which she's like.’ by came.” “So mot long after that I saddled | “jei turned around. “What beby?” my horse and rode up the mountain t0 «why, ours; mine and Jim's.” Maria's cabin; first time I'd clapped| A pause. Jet looked as if some- boLLAR N'LL Do ;yes on it uinco, the day T left. l;el: body had most swiftly and surely THE WORK OF TWO. [|E5i7 o vy ot i i the door and let me ln sald her moth-[ «yo, knew I had a baby, didn't we Don.t Talk Cheap Grocerles er was at a missionary meeting but| yo,? | wrote to Jim. He might have would be home soon. That suited me| (14 you that much. I guess he didn't BUT WE DO TALK down to the ground. I thought I'd get | care anyhow.” things all arranged before Maria| «xy 1o didn't tell me” Jet sat : showed up. So, I broke it to Rosy |, .. 'opposlte the bed. ¥iih a good deal of pathos, I I do say “When did you tell him about the ; ::“::{_'f"' that T was her long lost other—the baby?” asked Jet slowly. Our volume of business enablesjus to buy Ho shook his head gloomily, “But| Not right away. He wrote back it didn't go. Rosy's a beautiful girl, he'd try to send for us both, and to v Quality At ltS Lowgst price beautiful, but she's got no tempera- “".'.’;:.;‘b:';e: ":“:‘u': t‘(‘,.,f‘"“."e: ?:u: a4 ment. All the time I was talking to 10/ Ehe Ooat Sable Goor atd lewead Er v 2’ il y her, and anybody'll admit that I got i /)] Hencea'dollar will buy more of us than elsewhere. J§| e and hovbody'h admit hat ' €9%! her back against the casing. A year y Tryit and sce, as If she didn’t belleve a word 1 was|@nd a half she had lived down at 4 : : saying, and when I finished, she sat| Double Forks, running a miners { 7 cans baby size Cream...........oociiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnn | there with her eyes down and never| boarding house. She was thirty, and 25 3 cans Challenge milk.. 95 | ovened her mouth, Embarrassing, | 2mp!Y able to look after herself. Her 40 80 hardware-no matter what it is--you want the best, don’t . ¢ That brings you here,fortheleast < skillful buyer o can come here and be sure that what he buys is good because--we make it good, Customers are coming to us in constantly increusing numbers. It will pay you to get acquainted with v.-- pay in quality in service and in money saved. R="6 The Jackson & Wilson Co. Lakeland, Florida 12-pound bag flour £ o wasn't it? ples and cornbread had followed gold “I was feeling kind o' foolish and strikes in Nevada for years. And she i 24-pound bag flour .......... | not knowing what next to say whe! ;;::cl:;'m';:idh::""h°le until Jim ° [ ! 1-2 barrel bag flour...... veetterteriesiasaiaaiarseasss 290 there was the sound of a key rattling ) B Oat. ba ol in the lock and the next minute Maria| “He got hurt last month. They had 3 SPETADRRS « s viin s con sl sa s b e ARG walkied in. to take him up to Trent, where the { Corn, per bag ........... R S, ... 180 “Then, would you believe it?—Rosa- comp;ny'n doctor is. He works for = Rex Bran e le, a beautiful girl, beautiful, but no| the Kay-Allan outfit, foreman. Your o i ;{ d Hams, xlllc: paper to pay for, per pound..... crvvve il | s falr, says right off. Nie tnig: | letter came here while e was gons, 'y 20010 UMK, DOE 1D, o.ovsrnsonsrninasananssnss Vosianaiy 0B | ‘Mother, this is Mr, McCurdy, he says| so I opened and read it. They sald " Breakfast aBeon, per 1b................ iEiaviiyy SRy 20 he's my father.’ he might die, and I sent you the ¢ 10-pound pail Sea Foam Lard... -+« «ov vov ven iinnn -+ .90 “For a moment that seemed to de-| money l(;. o mll o h;rle WING f } i 3 5 prive Maria of her power of gpeech,|and see him. So long as you was s | to the nlargement of our sl 10-pound pail Snow Drift Lard............c.oeninnis ceene 116 80 I took my chance. wife, you had a right to be in at the WVID the e &e g 10-pound pail Cottolene ..,...«cvvvvvvvevvninnn i, 1.25 “‘Yes, Marla, it's me.' T said. ‘After | finish.” newspaper and publishing business, 1t 4 cans family size cream............ Vv AR 25 [| o these years. I spoke kind of touch:| The other woman was off tho bed Shor big ingly, you know, as if overwhelmed | before the words were fairly out of it has heen necessary to move ? lor'ts, per bag ........ GRyN s IRV RNR AT NN (I VARE SIS 1.85 with thoughts too deep for tears.|Jet's mouth, swaying «lightly, she Y Scratch feed ........ vhaa T G oriniey RTINS - 220 ‘Yes, I've come back.’ caught Jet's willing hand for sup- | RE8 | Wheat 2.20 -“‘What for?" says Maria, like that. | port. | 3 B EEE e v T : Make anyone jump. Sort of detonat-| “But he isn't dead, is he?” | he ews Ob f lce ing, like a bullet fired off close to your| “What do you care? Jet looked | ear. at her curiously. “You were married | “‘Maria,’ I said firmly—and friend| to him about two months, wasn’t e . B § 3 of my better days, I leave it to you, it| you? And then he left you. I al- up-stairs where it will be found in Rooms you ever knew any man that could be | ways liked Jim, and I hoped all along ~ 1 T i . l firmer than me, not praising myself at| something might happen so we could | 11 and 12, Kentucky Bm}dmg) in the com- all, you know, but just stating facts— | get married, and swing up further agys l you had your own way for a good| north into some of the provinces and petent charge of Mr. G. J. Williams. For many years, and you certainly took it; | start all fresh again. . . . b but you ain't the only one that's had| “I want you to know everything anything that can be printed, if you want their own way. [I've been having it| first” Jet rose slowly, and crossed . . » I right along down to Beehive Ranch,|the floor of the twq’rroom shack. the best work at the right prices, call on bU NSH ' N E B'SCU Ts and,’ here I spoke very slowly and im-| “He's in yonder. They brought him S n;fiufiely_ ‘I—found—myself—down— | up here because it's his place. He's Mr. Williams. N . there, and I'm not to be bulldozed, or| alive, but he'll never well again. From the Bakery with a Thousand Windows [ cowed, or crushed by anyone that| The company's sives bim ety walks the earth.’ 80 he won't starve.” “Now {if you talk to nine women out| ghe took a hat from a nall, put it of ten just that way, they'll knuckle| on her head with a yank forward. BUgar WALEs ... o ees 380 | St T4 biv et my It dime| -G on n and sy bl ' oing The News Job Office OR00 BPAIRE ... cccowmoooossvamentuonssmosmscssmsncesss $80 ;fh-mt;dthat ha'dllly!:'eetonher, “With my mother—home. It's a 2 e wouldn't hesitate to give a piece » 143 —cereenennom.. 100 and 25 QI 0 O o St. George and then boy. o Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentucky Building. SO TRUME .o oov oo sssvmmensvosnesasesesmscovess 300 turn round and sass the dragon. 1 And E:::d."m' she said, cl;!' Dessert Wafer .........c.comuvvievueennneeeneeaneeessn. 85 ][ ever et saw man, woman, thing or IS0, ~Thete's softe moter in bla Veavingue Stick ... ...cuuuiimiiiiinnnnnnn. 100 and 25c situation that she was afrald of. 80| ,;gr the pillow. It's his, so you you may imagine how the earth seem- can use It. Goodby. I wouldn’t tell eeeseeees 10c Wied to rock when I heard her say, as him T sent aft " Men don'th gentle as a cooing dove: g e L W RS S ThaTY ceveenaas 108 to know everything, you know. Clover Leaf ...... - L R e s you alnt beey.treted et e Toee| . “Listen. you mother of Jim's baby! Choc R A R S S ey . I meant to jump your claim. And I .l"mdon - O IR I D R nllwan felt that there was only ome| —“No'L ol alcely stabed out Austin’s Dog Biseuit......... e ceamscmseeenss 20c [| 81d6 to our story, and that was mine’| LT Lol The o ven told 5 7 Ob, how she sighed! ‘But you've |20d Suarded. o even e made better pies than mine. Your made 1 | " got : :'::' :s ':5:_' n;:'t:;: "‘:;:: picture’s in the inside pocket of that her head slowly back and forth, ‘you | o8 and & long curl of hair around . it. Don't you worry. You send for haven't been treated right; but no one,; and she drew herself up like a the baby quick and call this home. So long.” queen, ‘no one has ever accused Maria McCurdy of not doing the best she| She stopped at a sound from the could to set right her mistakes. So|Other room, the sound of some ome L [ ) L Henderson’ and here she extended | ¥aking, stretching tiredly on a her hand with a sort of royal gesture, | CPeaky bed, sighing, and cursing soft- The Pure |Food Store Ask the Inspector J| Tm witing to make it up and let by. |17 0 himsel¢ at pain. Then they gones be bygones—start life anew.’ " | heard him call peevishly, longingly: —American Magazine. ‘Anybody out there? Jet shrugged her shoulders, and We Give You Fits In Ladies’ and Men's Shoc: made to order. Give usd trial. Repairing neat.® quick and cheaply done. Have Your Shoes F BIFANO BROS. iw sme swe 210 South Florida, Cowdery Block smiled, and walked out of the shack,. Largest Spring Is in Arkansas. shutting the door after her softly. H +| Arkansas has the largest spring i i \ b Ihe Iele ram Is ll lo .N the world, Mammoth spring, & full sire | Se, goen " after bt pony The FIEE % T RN, T v staked claim was proved up |;ow. l