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

*YE KVENING fELEGRAM LAR KLAND, LA, MAY 16, 1913. If your home or business office were to burn up or be looted by a burglar WOULD YOU NOT LOSE VALUABLE PAPERS? Is it not careless for you to longer put oc coming to us and .enting a private box in our absolutely fire and burglar proof safety deposit vaults? e Our rent for a private box is only $1 and up for a wholeyear. FIRSTIINATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U, 8. Government THE VERY BEST WHEAT only is used to make the flour which gces into our bread. And the very best methods only are employed to produce both the flour and the bread. 0 — Yon'll like the looks of our bread *vhen you sgee it. You'll like its taste | still better when you try it. lte Brothers KEEP OUT THE FLIES instead of trying to drive them out or kill them. It is very much easier. The way to do it is to come here at once and buy the window screens and screen doors you will have to have sooner or later‘anyway. Put them in at once and save yourself trouble ! i \ snnoyance and discomfort, akeland Allar‘dfi\_vare & I_flumb‘irng Co. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and jped up in an easy-chair and tired of | bird's tricks and talk to her by the Convalescents , &nd walked the floor and didn't say, anything—not aloud. PAGE SEVEYN From the first wail of the violin and | the first yvell of the parrot it was| By Donald Allen | for the neighbors! | (Cl h Assoclated Literary | (Copyright, 1913 by 3 | If anybody had suggested to Mise May Forbes, of Forbes Manor, that| she wring the neck of the parrot she, had had for a pet for the last three; years, she would have given that per- 80n a glance so awful that a con- gestive chill must have followed. That parrot had a scream that could be heard half a mile away against the wind. She could say that Polly want- ed a cracker. She could hang head downwards from her perch. When a stranger called, especially a subscrip- tion book agent with a large family to support, she could inquire in ag- gressive tones what in the devil he wanted. That parrot had a score or more of cute and cunning tricks, and there was a bit of sentiment connected with her besides. A sea captain had brought her back from a far-off land, presented her to Miss May with his love, and had then sailed away again with a shipload of kerosene in blue- painted barrels and had never been heard of since. Not a barrel had come ashore. Not one of the crew had turned up on South street to ex- plain over his beer that the captain was or was not doing as well as could | be expected under the circumstances. Miss Forbes was not one to crush out sentiment by wringing a parrot's neck. One day, while hurrying home for fear Polly might be lonesome, the young lady stumbled over a barrel that some boy had left on the side- walk. She was carried home and the doctor called. He could find no brok- en bones, but after long and serfous thought he decided that she had wrenched herself and must take the tenderest care of herself for many days to come. And now, while prop- il t Could Watch the Bird by the Hour. reading, how the girl did bless the memory of the man that had given her the parrot! She could watch the hour, About the time that barrel had brought about the wrench the Smythes had moved out from next door and the tons had moved in. Miss May had been told that there were a father and mother and son, the latter about 22 years old. He had been brought to the house in a can riage. A few days before, while try- ing to beat the record of the high Jump, he had twisted his ankle and would be disabled for wecks. One ac- cident was a wrench aund the other a specifications furnished. BUNGALOWR A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland homes I have built. Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the i sented with one he would hiave twist. Young Mr. Hugh Islington did not own a pet parrot. Had he been pre- ed her with an ax within the His pet, outside of high jumpine, was the violin. He could make one talk. He could also make people t:lk for three blocks around. Secarcely iad he been carried into the house w!«: that violin began to wall out its n<ical notes. It wailed high and it wailed low, and as Miss May Forbes' wrenched ears caught the sounds she started and exclaimed: “Gracious, mother, but whats Lap-} pening now!™ ! “Only the young man nex! playing on the fiddle, dear.” “Only playing on the fiddle’ Only! And I must be wrenche —wrench upon wrench! waken up Polly!” Polly was given a poke a: ! the opened her eyes and ears and & ream- best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide streets, shade trees, fertile sail, building restrictions. Inside the eity, one block east from Lake Mor- ton. SMITH & STEITZ ad G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lestate. we have it. ed out. She had a rival at lus' idea that something had come i« neighborhood to compete w: voice maddened her, and ghe cct out to do justice to the occasion “Great snakes, mother, but =hat is that!” gasped young Islington as be ceased to draw the bow to turn pale “It's nothing, dear—notkin soothed the mother. *I think the folks next door have a parrot—just n; “Think! Think! Why, of course| they bave, and I am housed up here with this twist and may be for a month to come! By the high jumpers Jericho, but T won't stand it!” Hugh dear—" he fiddled and fiddled and fid- and the parrot yelled and yelled , and the minister writing pext Sunday’s sermon in the house across the street mopped hie brow rivalry. 1t was violin vs. parro!—pur-i rot vs violin. Oh, the sadness of It—-( i From morning ‘till night, day arterE day! If the best Polly could do was! to yell out that she wanted a cracker, the best the fiddler could do was tof play “Old Black Joe"” over and over again. The advantage rather rested with the violin. It didn’t have tol sleep o nights, while Polly did. Shel did her very best to realize that honor was at stake, and that she must tri- umph or perish, but two hours after lamplight would find her nodding and plaved out, while the violin was still wide awake at 11 p. m. “Mother, that wretch shall never conquer me—never!"” Miss May would exclaim half a dozen times a day; and like an echo young Mr. Islington would call out: “I'll bring her to her knees, moth- er—to her knees!"” For a long month the battle raged. When a doctor who knows his bust- ness catches a patient with a wrench or a twist he is not going to surren- der his inestimable privilege a day short of four weeks. Even at the end of that time he is going to pay an extra visit—fee $2—to warn him not to try to climb a thorn tree without pulling on stove-pipe trousers. But the day came when Miss May was permitted to walk out. Also Mr. Islington! There was a grove a quar- ter of a mile away. Miss May natu- rally headed for the grove. Mr. Isling- ton naturally headed for the same place. Miss May naturally carried Polly along to reward her for her herolc ef- forts to preserve the family honor, and Mr, Islington carried his violin along that he might once more hear the sweet strains of “Old Black Joe" in the sunshine. The girl reached the grove first and was softly meditating when a step aroused her. That young man! That violin! They stood be- fore her, and as she shuddered the parrot screamed. gasped the “You—you—you!” “wrenchess.” “The girl with the parrot!” exclaim. ed the “twister” as he looked down upon her, Could aught save the day? Could anything avert the impending trag- edy? Had it been two old men or two old women—good-bye! Dut it was a good-looking girl and a not at all bad-looking young fellow, and they had had a square fight and were a bit ashamed of thelr petulance, and after & gasp or two a bit of a smile came to their faces, Then the smiles broad- ened. Then grins succeeded. Then Polly stood on her head and there were two hearty laughs and Mr. Is}ington said: “You are Miss Forbes, T belleve, and I congratulate you on getting out again.” “And you are Mr, Islington, 1 be- lleve, and I also congratulate you.” “I hope my violin was not disagree- able to you.” “And T trust that Polly’s chatter did not make you nervous.” He sat down beside her amd he told her about that high jump, and she told him about the barrel, and it's on record at the county eclerk’s office that she even said that of all musical in- struments she preferred the fiddle, and that he replied that no nightin- rale was in it compared with a par tot. And they went home to tell their mothers a lot of good things about each other. COLOMBIA EMERALD S BEST World's Supply of Those Precious Stones Now Comes from South Phone 233 Red SOVVVVAAVVVDOOOOOVNNODOOICNOCOOOPRIMOTOOOHTGOTO IO Maps of any description compiled on short motice, American Republic. For its supply of the precious stone of beryl variety, known as the emer- old, the world relics upon the mines of the republic ot Colombia. KFrom these mines the most valuable single emerald of modern times was ob tained, now forming one of the gems of the collection of the duke of Devon. rhire. It is a perfect hexagonal crys- tal, welghing eight ounces and eigh- teen pennyweights, Another fine specl- men, fn the Hope cabinet, weighs six ounces, while larger but less valuable gems are in various royal caskets, The true emeralds of the ancients are said to have been obtained from the workings of Mount Zabarah, in Upper Egypt, although the reopening of the mines in the nineteenth century by Mehemet All did not prove com- mercially profitable. In this district was probahly mined the jewel adorn- ing the breastplate of Aaron, de- scribed in Mosale writings and form- ing part, poscibly, of the spolls car- ried from Egypt by the departing Is- raelites. The huge emerald used by Emperor Nero as a corrective for his poor vi- sion; the engraved emeralds set In gold, presented Ly Ptolemy to Lucul- lus on his landing at Alexandria; the robes worn by Cleopatra and other famous beauties of the past, whose embrolderies were Interspersed with emeralds, and the exquisitely graven seals of antique workmanship on view in museums and private collec- tions all prove the esteem In which the emerald was held. Ornaments of emeralds have been unearthed in Theban tombs and excavated from Pompeli and Herculaneum, and 1n all ages the stone has been classed among the rarest of gems. Where Honor Counts. yes; she married & man with a highly honored name. Hoe—Why, 1 never considered Sploggs & highly honored name. n'—-'cll_ you should see the way 1t's honored at the bank—Tit-Bits. THE POPULARITY OF IN- MAN BLUNT CIGARS = Lot due to their price but to their qual’ty Many men who formerly Pald a nickel mory for their smokes Low prefer the Inman Blune on ac- count of the splendid satisfaction they aftord Not to try is to miss 8 treat. Manufactured by Inman Cigar Factory s Fia. VACATION TIME AND KODAKS You Can't Enjoy Your Vacation Without a Kodak You will always have PICTURES to remind You of those happy avs. Raby picturcs taken now will be a great pleasure ten years from now. ' CENTRAL PHARMACY : Quic DOUBLY DAINTY is the sight of a pretty girl buylng a box of our eonfectionery. The girt and the candy match each other pes- fectly in daintiness and sweetness. Such a scene may often be seen here for our candies appeal to those of dainty taste, It's eurprising thss you have not yet tried them. MAPS, BLUE PRINTS Speclal attenticn given to compiling city, display and advertising maps. County and State maps kept on hand. Chemically preparcd, non-fading blue prints at res~ sonable rates, Special rates for prints in large quantities, Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. Room 213-215 Drane Building CO0L AIR FORESALE NOT HOT AIR] b Dest Oscilating and Ceiling fans. All sizes at the right prices. A complete line of Electric Irons that arc Hot Stuff. A classy line of Electric Cook Stoves that “cookum sum," and all the Necessary Electric Appliances to convenicnce and beautify the home at a price that is reasonable enough for all to be hau. FLORIDA ELECTRIC =& MACHINERY.CO. DRANEJ‘BUILDING:—:;'ZB PHONE 298 e e e mooom_-s«_ojwws-owwwe CHOPOEOEOHOPOPO We Always PLEASE Our Patrons j: keep everything to be found in an up-to-date book store, and | will be pleased to wait on you. Uil 4 ¥ | iEkeland Souvenirs, the Latest Books, and All the Popular Maga- {_zines. CETELRERR Hirewy :Lakeland BookStore DE0+02040+020T0FOPOPOTOL0P .Otis Hungerford. Building Contractor Twenty years’ experience, first-ciast work. Your interests are mime. Let me figure on your bullding, large oe small. A postal will recelve prompy attention. Lock Box 415, or Phone No. 4, Lakeland, Fla. ~ ’iEil" E