Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 12, 1912, Page 7

L. B. WEEKS —DEALER IN—- staple and Fancy Groceries, Hay, Grain and Feedstuffs PHONE 119 Cowdery Building - WITH WOOD'S MEAT MARKET os. St B e S e | igAas B“fcnkl;t Snowdrift Lard-. . .. 4 Ibs. Bucket Snowdrift Lard . 12 bbl Flour in Wood .. ... 24 1b. Sack Flour..... 12 1b.Sack Flour ... Cans Small Cream.. Cans Extra Large Cream... 3 Cans Tomatoes .......... . 1 b, Cracker Boy Coffee................ 11b. Best Butter ....... 2. per Sack. . best. per 100 lbs, en Feed. per Sack...... shorts, per Sack .. cessemme Velvety Lawns and Attractive Homes Let us help you have a more beautiful home this summer-- with a well-kept, velvety lawn -and attractive flowers and garden. One of our lawn mowers will save you 'time, trouble, temper and expenses, They are easy funning--noiseless--simply constructed -- and w closely and cleanly. {0 hose, rakes, trowels, sprinklers, hose, spades—everything you % your home beautifulthis summer is in this store. Tell us “ YOUR requirements are . e Jackson & Wilson Co. ILOUR---FLOUR---FLOUR ¥k heat costing $117 per bushel in Chicago and it takes * 10 make a barrell of flour. Therefore four must go higher. ¢ another rige, 8%, A “Tide on the Market, Foxr 12.h . O * %-lb sack. , . .. T 48.1b sack. « PILLANS & (0. Ask the Inspector NING TELE That Summer Home “I1," said the girl who likes to talk, | “you happen to own a twoby-twice plot of ground outside of town with | anything standing on it in the way of 8 shack with a roof over ft, your; friends who don't possess such a plece of property regard you reproachfully ' as spring comes on. At inopportune times they thrust at you remarks like these: ‘Well, I suppose you'll be leav- ing scon for your place—Ilucky crea- ture!" ‘If we only felt that we, too, could idle in the country all summer!® “You feel horribly apologetic. You know that your emvious friends could buy a hundred places such as yours and dump them into the lake just to hear the splash and never miss the money, so it is a surprise to find your- self regarded as n wretched plutoerat when the overwhelming reason that led you to flee from town was that the bill cellector doesn’t come around so often in the woods. “Two days before 1 am taking the boat for Michigan I always get invita- tions to the opening dinner at the country club, an automobile ride and a theater party, 10 tuke place the week after 1 am gone. As 1 wad tis. gue paper into the sleeves of the new gown I am packing and which 1 won't have a chance to wear again all sum- mer | remember what it cost and seethe with angnish, “It is dark when the boat poulls away from Chicaco and if it doesn't rain socgily when 1 start I rest as-| sured that i* will he raining when [ arrive in Michigan. 1t has to raln at one or the other of these times, be-| cause T am wearing my best flower- trimmed hat that is too huge to pack and 1 have just had my sult pressed. There seem to be acres of my luggag, on the Michigan dock the next morn ing—trunks. new porch rugs, a sew ing machine and a kitchen stove—and | besides 1 have to wade around town in the sand, buying groceries and nails and mops and matches, before plung- ing into the calm country ten miles from anywhere, “The boatman who comes for me does not geem exactly everwhelmed | with the joy I rather expecied him to show on seeing me azain. ‘Huh!’ he groans. here trunks? “Some time T am going to make an exhanstive study of the peychological causes leading baggagemen hn.nrl.nhlv' to be overcome with surprise becnuse packed trunks cannot be wafted about "n one finger. They alwavs are so righteous nnoyed at this discovery! “It is raining as usual when 1 am shunted off at my own dock with my luggage. This is particularly good for the ironwork on sewing machines and stoves and is fine for the contents of trunks. The cottage eeems oddly veiled and Investigation shows the veiling to consist of unbroken gpider wehs and sheddings from the heech trees. It does not seem possible that there are k0 many spiders in the world “The strong-armed scrubwoman who was to meet me is beautifully aheent, but the full tragedy of this grows glowly as | raise window ghades and gee the thick dust on every inch of evervthine There are more cobwehsg inside than onteide and at the sipit of the pagtry 1 shed s. Spiders rush from everything 1 touch. In a sort of desperation 1 open the box couch to find a work dress, wherenpon a rattle of beech nuts and cherry pits follows the hauling forth of the top laver. Then something furry and 4d darts out and I «it down on the floop| and shriek. It was a chipmunk rocted from his winter lodgings and he now darts nervously and malignantly une der a bookcase. I would just a: soon live in the same house with a man- eating tiger as with a chipmunk! “‘No, sald the men who broight up my soaked belongings from the pler. ‘Mary won't be here. She moved away. No, there aln't nobody «lse you can get to scrub. No, we don't know any man you can get to clean the yard and fix the pump—every- body's busy planting the crops. No, there ain't no one in town who wants a job. No, you can't get no lcttuce nor berrles nor garden truck—they ain’t ripe yet, don't you know that” “This when people back In Chirago are rioting in asparagus and straw- berries and head lettuce and curume bers! “Ther may be hundreds of outside amid the lovely gree June, but I don't know it, fr | wrestling with unaccustome N w ! | breaking tacks inside the he l" was blond, blit! | 7 o'clock that night I eat cor ‘r:; “He looked at G % looked at him, ;- | bread and butter and cheese ar | banana and tumble into bed mor- dead than alive. There is dust in * Calr {and it is pitch dark and o the | tree frogs are dolorously sincitz “Back in Chicago my brial ‘riends| who envied me are dining on liviries | and just starting out for an « re's epin down lilac-scented ! ds | through the parks. | “Something drops ke x on the counterpane, and I kno large | fat spider. There is a mo ng .bu!"y eomewhere in the room. Then I pull the sheet up ov nd 'nervuuslv shudder mys=elf | “This is the real truth about the lwny in which you start off summer re- | sorting."—Chicago Daily News Compulsion. | Compulsion is the weapon of the weak. ‘Have you got lead in these! PAGE SEVEN “i‘“‘?‘*“ = “3\15:*5: Out of & Cloar, Sky “Maria said,” related Borker, “that we wouldn't be able to keep her. That was the only trouble in my mind, too. She was perfect, “l watched her removing the din- ner dishes. Her movements were swift and accurate. “l suggested that we pay her the hizhest wages, for the coffee had been perfect and the biscuits a delightful brown. Maria replied that that would be the best way in the world to lose Ler. *The more you pay her,' she ex- Plained, ‘the better she will dress, and so the greater will be the risk.’ “I was silenced. 1 sat at the table in a bitter mood. Here was a cook held dazzlingly before me for a mo- ment, only to be snatched away when shic had grown absolutely necessary. She was too pretty to last. 1 tried, Lowever, to be optimistic. *Maria,' 1 suggested, ‘perhaps she has bad a disappointment. Perhaps all her hopes have been blighted and she will never love again! Or per- he died or something!® No! said Maria. She added: t or {var youns men ! ol piano excellence may be seen at our warerooms. No picture or de scription could reveal it like a per- sonal examination.. So if you are a lover of good music and an admirer of the artistic, come and see how perfectly the Bailey piano will sat- isfy you. Also how easily you cam cwn one. MAPS BLUE PRINTS v oapartments else- | Maps of any description compiled on short otice, Special attention given to compiling city, display and adverti= z maps. County and State gasped Maria, *“To cscape the male quartet,’ 1 ex- | maps ki« pt on hand. plained. “However, T came to the conclusion that flats and apartments would not do at wll. What we wanted was a house with a yard; a big yard with a e wwe e e SOUEh Florida Map and Blueprint Co. “Then we began to consider the sub- adi AK ND, FLA | urbs, with a view of retting a place as Room 213 215 Drnne Bmldmg ¥ e . secluded as possible wherewith to res | —— A ire with our cook. But, like an in- BATOTOIOLATOHOIC | 26 HQ IO HOPOEIC 2 QEOMAPCIE e e e lakeland Artificial Stone Works nd! The very thing! “The island is a very secluded place Near Electric 1::lit Plant MAKLS fol\ miles out in Lake Superior, It is very difficult to approach on ne- RED CEMENT PRESSED BRICK CALL AND SEE THEM. CAN SAVE YOU MONEY count of the shouls, If 1 took M Land my delightful cock out the Crushed Rock, Sand and Cement for Sale BUILDING BLOCXS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS { could live bountitully on pro § ‘t.nln u from the mainland and the op- | 12 and 18 inch Drain Tile for Sidewalk, Gate Posts, Flower Mounds, Ete, portunity would be splendid for the Good Stock on Hand WE Deliver Free of Charge \\\ull.uu up of my treatise on moral | { philosophy. H. B, ZIMNMERMAN. Proprietor. POLOHOECLOHOEOTOIOLOIOIOHOIOIOPOIOFOPOD $OFOFOPOHFOHON “Maria said the plan wis good. The | ¢ {cook was delighted with the novelty | § of it. The detalls were soon ar- I am going to retire from active business and in order to do Chemicaliy prepared, von-1ading blue prints at reae sonable rates, Special rates for princs in oo qu Prompt attention given . | ord ers, ranged, “We had a delightful voyage and ll.uulu] upon the island in safety, with | our ample stock of provisions, all In 'puml condition, “‘Wo are cut off from all com- munication by mail!' 1 chuckled to | Maria. ‘No young man can even write |tu her! 8o we need have no fear of {4 proposal by letter. | “‘It's a good thing there is no wire- less station here,' mused Maria. ““Isn't it!" I eried. ‘I don't suppose there s any danger of telepathy or soul Kkissing!" “'‘We shall have to take our chances,’ sighed Maria, “The first day for lunch we had | chicken with eream gravy, browned | biscuit and delicious coffee, | “I arose the next morning, happy as a lark. I met Maria and Gwendoline, the cook, strolling along the be: full of irterest in the aquatic animals | and birds, especially the birds. The flight of the crane, of the gull and of the wild duck 1 pointed out to them and made exhaustive compari- and lay in a supply of Spring and sons, which would enable them to | will be slashed to rock bottom prices, including o o "\r. morkert eried | LAWNS, LINENS, GINGHAMS, PERCALES, CHAMBRAYS, lf‘w-ndultm lifting her pretty arm SILKS, SATINS, SHOES, HOSE. | pointing enthusiastically. ‘What kind l this I am offering my entire stock of hry Goods, Notions, ete., ABSOLUTE COST if you want to make $1 do the wark of $5, come to my store Summer Goods, Everything of a bird is that? “I hesitated: ‘It is neither a duck | nor a crane,” I decided. ‘It's an air- | ship!® | “We were delighted to behold for: the first time an exhibition of man’s conquest of the alr. The alrship floated around us, coming lower and | lower. Presently a begoggled crea- ture appeared and a voice called, ‘Hello!* Come ‘and .See My Line. My [Prices Will Astonish You “‘Hello!" crled Maria and Gwendo- | —— N. A. RIGCINS “The airship man was proceeding 1] A N'Lt cmn r”osr"‘l[ rm MlN[ ” on his way when he sighted Gwendo- ] line! The alrship quivered, then it | slowly descended to the ground. “*‘Good morning,’ with the goggles. “‘I hope the air currents are pro- pitious this morning,’ said 1. i “‘Arep’t you afraid to go up in the air like that?” cooed Gwendoline, ad- | miringly. “The aeronaut stepped out of his § ship and removed his goggles. He nd handsome, ? ndoline and s b4 Q. A nice cold drink on a hot dav. Can you beat it make them fruity and deli- Then there are other soda for a thirst chaser? We cious, cold and bubbling, drinks too. Ice Cream Combinations Wineral Waters CENTRAL PHARMACY Phone 25 -'JC":"C'(".‘W said the mnn} | £qg Drinks Lemonades Dainty Punches for Dames “Maria turned to me and whisp & OHICk Sel’V|Ce Ry eadly: ‘We may as well pack offf.»offlf.»hw,fl-‘f» VOVPIVOPVOOPOV 80 back home.’ "—CLicago Daily News, Sa— COOOOOOOLOLT Best of All Physicians. ALE Tarpentine, Cut-over FOR S Lands, Choice Colinization There is no physician like cheerful Tractsat oo I? s, Florida Howes and Groves on High thought for dissipating the Rolling L. S tuated on Beautifu! Laoos, Paying Straw- body; there Is no comfort to compare with good will for crsing the chad- peary and i ¥ Farms., Weguarantee a property just ition see ows of grief and = To live con tinually in thoughts of ill-will eyni- cism, suspicion and envy, is to be con | fined 1n a gelf-made prison hole. But [to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the [ Bood in all—such unselfish thoughts | are the very portals of heaven; and to | dwell day by day 1n thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring | abounding peace to the Possessor.— | as represe i For reliabl IJunu Allen, e U i ST O TR A - o e