Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 30, 1912, Page 7

SICKNES DON'T CHUM 70 BE HAPPY KEEP WELL ' USE ONLY DR. KING’S TO CURE JOoY COUGHS AND COLDS 10 WHOOPING COUGH Millions AND OTHER DISEASES OF THROAT AND LUNGS rrice 50c and $1.00 S0L0 AND GUARANTSED BY ALL DRUGGISTS Pz Everting in il Hardware.or #e Builders It is most important to select’ the best hardware for that new home or building. That brings you here, for we make a peint of carrying nothing but the best builders’ hardware that adds not only to the beauty of a building, but to its selling value as well, The sash and door locks, hinges, etc. are a very small part of a uiding We are prepared to name interesting prices on the complete herd. 1or any style of building from the humble cottage to the largest of- alding, fes Sir! We also sell the best building tools—all moderately RV lhe Jackson & Wilson Co. M LAKELAND, FLORIDA [LOUR---FLOUR---FLOUR With wheat costing $1.17 per bushel in Chicago and it takes ; “%:#% 1o make a barrell of fiour. Therefore flour must go higher. ¥ before another rige, Best Grade on the Market. 1 Flour, 12.1p sack..... .... * 1 Flour, 24.1b sack. . iNs g Flour, 48.1p B conenonne : Tk Flour, 1.1y k. ........ “% Talk Flour, 24.1p sack.. £ 0 ] WP PILLANS & C0. ure Food Store Ask the Inspector but will repay many times for the cost and trouble of preper | Cheap goods are a continual source of trouble and wary. | BELINDA’S WAY By CLARISSA MACKIE 1912, by 4 ited Litamary Press.) WCopyright, At his first meeting with Belinda Howe, Jack Owen determined that the charming uir! should become his wiie On and atter their tenth meeting he resoived to ask her the all-important question that must precede an en- sagement, but hi= courage was not equal to his desire “I'll ask her tomorrow,” was al- ! ways his desperate promise when his | courage [ziled, and many tomorrows had become todays and yesterdays, and still the question was unasked, {yet he almost knew, without being conceited about the matter, that De- linda cared and that her affirmative answer would be torthcoming when he asked her. Time and again he had gathered bis courage and on each occasion his tongue had clove to the roof of his mouth when Relinda’s brown eyes had shyly dropped betore the love light in his, Occasionally he raged ot himself for his stupidity. "It she only knew what A consummate ass | aw she wouldn't have anything to do with me,” he groaned one day. Perhaps Bclinda knew—or guessed the state of affairs! “I'll ask her tomorrow—sure!" he sald one evening after he had re turned from a dirner party where he had taken Lelinda in to dinner, and sat beside her in ecstatic wonder at his great good luck. Tomorrow came and with it a note from Belinda saying that they were all going down to Sea Sands that day for the week-end and she hoped Mr. Owen would be sure to accept her mother's invitation te accompany them. Mrs. Howe's inviiation came in the same mall and Jack accepted it de lightedly. Then he wade hurried prep- i arations for the journey because he wanted to be sure aud cateh the same ‘rain that Belind: going on. He dvent to the station and engaged a | seat, trusting to lis customary good fortune to find it placed next to Be linda’s chair, It was next to Belinda's seat, but on the other side o1 Belinda sat a new wan--2 foolishly grinning idlot with his buir parted in the middle and a dimple in bis chin. This was Jack's sumnary of the masculine charms ot Mr. Harry Brompton, Ielluda was interested in M. Brompton, so deeply interested that she only spared an occaslonal smile i tor Jack, who sulked openly and de- termined to ask her the fatal question that very night--it he got a chance. When they reached Sea Sands and the Howe's motor vehicles were tilled | with the expected guests it was found that Mr. Brompton was seated beside Belinda in one car while Jack Owen was squeezed between Mrs. Howe and her private secretary, a little pale black-eyed being who shivered with the excitement of the coming week- , end galties, of which she would only snatch an occasional glimpse. “I'll show him!” sputtered Jack | fiercely as he noted the devoted atti- tude of Mr. Brompton's by no means ill-looking head. | It was an added irritation to find that Mr. Brompton was to occupy the pleasant room which Jack Owen had always occupied on his frequent visits at Sea Bands The room now ap pointed to Jack was pleaganter than the other, but jealousy I8 fed by 1t tle things like this and Mr. Owen be came positively unhappy over the matter. By the time Jack was ready for din ner the situation looked very bleak He was positive that Mr. Brompton had been a dark horse in the race for Belinda's heart and hand and he was [ sure that gentleman had won out, and that the engagement would be un nounced tonight. He hoped 1t would not be ar:nour at the dinner table—he was positive that he would be unable to control his features. Yet it looked ominous enough. As he tallled the guest: i would be there he realized tbat ths consisted of old and intimate 11101 of the Howe family. Harry Brompton was stranger to him. lie wondered vi: Iy If any of these triends were relat to Mr. Brompton or was the pro-j« tive bridegroom an orphan like . self ? He went down to dinner in a o black despair. “Dear boy!"” murmured Mrs. I{/ ae he stopped for a word with “We are so delighted about Iittic | in¢a!” “Then It is decided?” hollow voice. She looked at him in a puzzied = “You mean about announcing It night?” He nodded grimly. speak. “Oh, yes—of mind?” Jack’s face hardened. Of they had thrust the knife in bhut * needn’t twist it around! “No, Indeed, Mrs. Howe, | : lighted, of course!” | “Poor boy!” she murm pathetically. "I suppose you ened to death—do go over & | to William. Belinda has t !so, only notified us this n insisted on its being aur night.” “That's all right—dont mni faltered poor Jack and stre to William, who was Belirnda's “Keep up your courage, 0id he asked He could de course you fathe bo} the oniy | < | Bubbles.” ' |in this case shail be the truth, the | ' “Well, then, kiss the book.” | “Go | witne whispered Mr, Howe. “Brace up—it can't happen but once, you know!" “I won't give any onme a chance to let it happen to me again!” growlea Jack fiercely, but William Howe was happily hard of hearing, and at this moment dashed away, for dinner was announced. “Mighty kind of ‘em to be so care- ful of my feelings,” thought Jack as he tried to quell a murderous thrili at sight of Harry Brompton's care | fully parted curly hair, ‘ Belinda came n then—a wonderful- l I¥ radiant Belinda in pale pink satin veiled with white lace and with pearis | Iubout ber throat She included Jack ' i her swift survey of the room, and ' lie saw that & rosy wave of color | flufued her cheeks from brow to chin " and left her pale. His own heart did not leap in re- sponse to her passing glance as it had | been wont to Go. It felt quite cold | and still. It did not throb even when hie tound that he was to take Belinda | I to dinner. Ilis face was like a| White mask as Le gave her his arm | and led her 1o her seat. To his relief Belinda did not talk much to him. She seemed absorbed | in conversation with Harry Brompton | on her other hand, while Jack was tot obliged to talk, for a lady beside him chattered foolishly from course to course until dessert was reached. Anoun al silence came upon (h(" company Itelinda’s father slowly arcse hollding his wine glass. “I'riends,” he smiled upon them, “may 1 ask you to drink to the health ' happiness of one who 1s very dear to me—my danghter, Belinda, and her future husband, Mr. Jack Owen.” "It is a joke!" gasped poor Jack | as the company wmerrlly drank to their health and happiness. “There | must be a lmit to—" i Nobody heard his voice save Be linda, whose hand sought his and pressed it signiticantly, “I'll explain afterwards, Jack!” she sald hurrledly. “You must respond to the toast.” “It's true, then?" he asked dazed: Iy. ‘Of course | | | stupld!” | Atterwards they commented on the brilliant speech of Jack Owen, “Didn’t know it was fn him to be so lunny ! commented one “Enough to make any one hilarious | o win a girl hke Belinda Howe!” re I torted another. “Who {8 this young Brompton?” “Oh, 1 don’t know-—some friend | from the west who inflicted Mmselt | upon them this moraing and had to be invited down.” After dinner Jack Owen found him- | self mysteriously spirited away to the ¢ alcove in the library. Belinda was be- side him, very pale, very quiet. Sounds from the company in the distant draw- ing room came faintly to them. “Oh, Jack, do you mind?” Relinda after a long silence. “Mind?" he asked, still dazed at the strangeness of the whole thing, and suspecting a trick of some sort. “Mind being engaged to me?” she faltered. “Mind being engaged to you?’ he repeated. “Why, Belinda, darling, it's what I've been trying to accomplish ever since | met you!” His arms were around her now, and his lips were pressed against her wonderful hair, *l didn’t understand, you see.” “l knew you wanted to, only you were g0 diffident- oh, indeed, sir, you are recovering rapidly —and it was the only way. You know this is leap year'” POPOFO asked HUMOR AT A NAVAL COURT Sailors, Unused to Proceedings, Cause Muck Merriment Among the Spectators. At a nasal court of inquiry, In New York, much unconsclons humor was exhibited. The sailors called ag wit- nesses were quite unused to such pro- ceedings, and went about their work very much as a Sioux Indian might be expected to conjugate a Greek verh. One of them- Bill Bubbles—came shufMing forward, his eyes hunting all round the room, as If in search of some place of safety. “Come here” sald the admiral. He came, of course, upon the wrong side. No, here! What's wour name?" “Bubbles.” “What's all of 1t?” “Bill Bubbles.” “Bill Bubbles, tuke the bhook.” | “Book, sir? “Yes, here!” The ad- miral stood up, placing his eye- | glasses astride of Lis nose, peered through them at the unhappy Bubbles, and held out the Bible. Bubbles made | a motion as If to take the Bible, per- | hups thinking it a gratuity. “No, no! Just place your hand on it.” Bubbles { put up hig left hand. “No, your right | hand” Bubbivs put up both hands. | The admiral seized the left one be- | tween his thumb and finger and re- | | moved It. The right remained. “Now, [ “Yezr.” “Do you solemnly | swear that the evidence you will give whole truth, and nothing but the | | truth, 80 help you God?” “Yez'r.” “Hey, | zur? “Kiss the book.” “Kiss 1t : zur?” “Yes, kiss 1t." Bubbles locked | around appealingly, but there seemed “1to be no help for it, so he placed him- | self squarely on his feet, drew a long breath, bent over the Bible, and pro- | duced a nolse which made the admiral jump. For an instant, the Bible | seemed to be In peril, and the admiral, * | rezculng it with a sudden pull, looked sternly at Bubbles and sald, slowly: nder and sit down.” Another had had trouble with Lieuten ant Lumley. “He gays, sezee, ‘Ef you wagn’t 8o smal,’ sezce, ‘I'd knock you out of sight’ sezee. ‘I'd llke to see vou do 1t says 1. Also he done it” T":“ 18 much eloquence in these four words P Q20 SOPOEOHOFOIOIQIOIOIOIOBOTO DD ¢ Lakeland Artificial Stone Works PICKLI A Few Drugs Left But They are Going LAKE PHARMAG T MAINST. 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