Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 17, 1912, Page 6

PAGE SIX THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LARELAND, FLA., JUNE 17, 1912 e had ber out sleighing and asked her up The best way to secure a child against the future it so open a bank account in its name. Even a dollar at a time will, in a few years, provide a sum that helps the youngster in any misfortune that may befall. When the child is able to cara money, it is but natural that he will add to the savings himself Start an account today. It will draw interest the same as yours. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government WE OFFER YOU PLUMBING of the highest class at moderate rates. Get our figures for converting your old bath room into 2 handsome and sanitary lavatory. They will be much less than you think and will ccnvincee you that you need no longer do without the luxury of modern plumbing, [akeland;__l!gdware | & Iflumbing Co. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnised. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland Lomes I have built, LAXELAND, Phone 267-G:een. FLORIDA THE VERY BEST WHEAT only i u=ed to make the flour which| | bread soes into our And the very best methods only are cmployed to| | produce both the flour and the bread. | You'll like the looks of our bread when you soo it. You'll like its taste still better when you try it. | sargeon resumed INA SURGEON'S COAT By A. MARIA CRAWFORD ( Copyright, 1913, by Associated Literary Fress) The cotillion was over and they found a table cozily screened with palms and orange trees in full blos- som. There was a mound of llies of the valley on the white cloth. “It looks as if we raust be fliching somebody’'s happiness,” exclaimed Betty, “for the decorations around here certalnly indicate the expecta tion of a bride and groom.” “Gossip, that thing we all despise, yet to which we all listen, maintains that you are cast for the role and that Gregory Rhodes is to be your leading man."” “I know it,” laughed Betty slipping a spray of the lilles through the tur- quoise and diamonds that held the laces at her breast. “It's a funny thing how anxlous people are to marry me off to somebody. You re member how Aunt Martha tried to persuade me to take the honorable Charles in the mountains two years ago.” “Indeed I do, and since that time [ have never cherished any love for her. You and I had such great times together that summer. Lucky thing for me that you found my coat yes- terday!" “It was a curious lrcident. I didn't have time to tell you all about it. I was running sister Helen's electric down a quiet street and there, In front of me, I saw a box. I stopped, picked it up and Imagine my surprise when I read Dr. Robert Latimer, Townsend building.” “The messenger must have dropped it. God bless him!" “Of course I don't know a thing about this town, so I asked a police- man to direct me to your office build- Ing. I was curious to know whether or not you were the Dr. Latimer I knew. Why don't you eat?" demand- ed the girl. “See all these good things that footman brought!” “I am so glad to look at you again and to hear the sound of your voice that I have forgotten my hunger.” “When [ went into your office and saw all those patients lined up I knew that I couldn’'t wait my time, for I was due at a luncheon in less than an hour, so when your attendant | i | “Are you talking about me, Bob? opened the door and called ‘Next!' [ gave him my card and asked if 1 might see you for just a minute—" “And I heard your voice and came out in a hurry. It was a great thing for me to have you of all people find that surgeon's coat.” “What s a surgeon’s coat?”" “A white coat I wear when [ oper- ate in my office. 1 dare say I look like a butcher.” “Helen says you are eminently suc- cessful and rank with the best old surgeons here. I am so glad. 1 have 80 often wondered about you." “I wrote to you several times after 1 left the mountains.” “1 never received the letters." “No,” he said, “because 1 was afraid to post them. Your sister had married and come here to live, and everywhere 1 turned I Leard that you and Gregory were engaged, and krowing that broken hearts are be- yond my skill to mend, 1 tried to for- get you.' ettty looked pensive and the young I had not been for my worldly knowledge of what a girl in your position wants these days, 1 would have asked you to marr that last night in the mountains remember how we walked up to Para dise Rock and a sudden st and we took refuge under a big tree?” The jewels on Betty's breast tashod as thoe laces rose and fell with her unceven breathing “Yeg," she swered softly “When the lightning played us and the thunder boomed li cannons through the mountair cawe on my arwms.” “1 was not frightened then” He looked at her curiously. “Betty,” he sald, “if you had only known how much greater was the storm going on in my breast. I wanted you so, and now—" “l wish 1 had known,” whispered the girl just as Gregory Rhodes came through the opening in the palms “Well, you gave me a deuce of a slip tonight, Betty, but 1 see you found the place | intended for you anyway.” Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide strects, shade trees, fertile sall, building restrictions. Inside the city, one bdblock east from Jake Mor- ton SMITH & STEITZ ad G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lestate. we have it Dr. Latimer pushed back his chair. “Oh, sit down, Doc, I'm not stop- ping. I was just looking around to find out it Betty had what she want- ed. I'll be around to your office o morrow to interview you profession- ally. I need treatment. Betty jiited me this afternoon.” “Why, Gregory, you have always known that I—I—" stammered the em- barrassed girl. “You did it nicely enough, as nice- ly as a thing llke that can be done 1 don't mind talking before Doc Lat. imer,” sald Qregory, with his air of | easy familiarity. “He's one of my best friends. [ had this place all fixed up, for 1 expected to propoee | to Betty here again tonight, but the fates willed it otherwise.” “Perhaps,” Interrupted the sur. geon, “Miss Betty prefers that I should not be told.” “I don't mind. Of course Gregory doesn’t feel all thls pretended grief | or he would not parade it before any- | body." “Our families fixed up the mateh were frightened and 1--1 held you in 0 name the day. Then she said, ‘1 ¢ don’t ¢xpect to marry you, Gregory I'm old-fashioned enough to want to be in love, foolishly in love with the i man 1 marry” It's hard on me, for | people will say—" “Only your pride is hurt, Gregory,” ' iald Betty. ‘Have it your way. lelen is looking for you. zow." “May I see you tomorrow night? I must, Betty.” “I'll have to teil a fib, for we have 2 dinner on at Carey's and & dance omewhere afterward, but I'll man- ge to have a headache and stay ome,” she promised. Some time during the day a patient ‘ound occasion to say, “I saw you vith Miss Betty Gaines last night. I uppose you know that she jlited Greg- ory Rhodes to marry a titled foreigner who arrives in New York tomorrow? 3he wet him abroad this summer.” So Betty had been leading him on by the look in her eyes the night be- tore. He bit savagely into his clgar, th ul that the dear old gossip had -ned to save his pride. | It was a very charming Betty in a soft clinging white gown, shorn of | her jewels, a single blush rose on her | breast, who greeted the surgeon. For |n time he sat silent, afraid to trust his own voice. He glanced at the girl, | her whole figure bathed in the ruddy glow from the fire. She seemed a | priestess of the dawn to Latimer and "he set his teeth and tried to think of ! some commonplace topic, but his brain | had gone wrong, he concluded, and he , waited for her to speak. | “Has it been a hard day? Are you | very tired?” she asked quletly. | The note of sympathy stirred his anger. “No,” he flupg out, “work, why, I work as if my task were made for Your sister I'm going kt on which a man may confidently de- pend. It is the only thing that never fails him at a cruclal time.” “Why this sudden and bitterness, Bob?" for two years and the sound of her voice calling him thus, stirred the “Men have their work; women, noth- ing but amusement, which is usually found in making those same men fools at one time or another. [ never loved but one woman and I loved bher because I thought she was honest and true.” Betty's eyes were dark with fire. “Today,” he sald, ignoring her ques- tion. “I have heard from two of your sister Helen's best friends that you are engaged to a nobleman who is to arrive In New York tomorrow. Yet last night you allowed me to make a fool of myself. It burts, Betty." “Have you no faith in me? Wil you belleve the sickly gossip of idle women in preference to the truth from the woman you clalm to love?" “l love you, Betty. The dream of you has helped me fight and In a measure-——win, When I found you agaln, and you were not married, my love flared up Into a consuming pas- slon. You are the only thing I want in this world. Do you mean, can you | mean,” he asked, incredulously, his ! braln whirling at the look In her face, | “that you are not going to marry that forelgn devil?”’ He leaned over her leep in her eyes “Betty,” he said; * love me He lifted her to her feet. “Is—is that surgeon's h for two?" 8," he whispered, his lips at her thite forehead, “and the pocket's big | nough for Cupid.” chair, looking { do Jetty, coat big RELIC OF THE DAYS OF GOLD Rare Coin Minted in California's In. | fancy Brought to the Notice of Collectors. S | An extremely rare gold coin of the] ploneer period of California, valued at several thousand dollars, has just ! come to the notice of coin collectors. ! The design of the newly discovered varlety, which is of the denomination of five dollars, shows the letters “J. | 8. 0. In the center of the fleld, | around the border being “United States of America, Cal.” On the re | verse, In two lines, is the denomina- | tton, “3 Dolls,” around the border be- | Ing twenty-one stars. It was lssued | by a private assaying firm at Sacra- mento in 1948. In that year the firm lof J. S. & Willlam M. Ormsby was | formed for the purpose of refining the | gold and forming it iato five and ten- dollar pleces, to be used as currency. For many years it has been known that the firm of Ormsby & Co. had tssued & tendollar plece, which is of great rarity, only three specimens be- ing koows, one of which s in the mint at Philadelphia. The design of the tendollar plece is similar to that of the five dollars, although there are thirty-one stars around the denomina- tion on the reverse representing the gumber of states in the Unlon upon | the admission of California. The last time the tendollar piece was offered at sale was at the disposal of the An- | drew Zabriskie coliection, when 1t realized $1.600 | The rare fivedollar piece has since 1849 been in a collection made by ! | Jacod B. Moore. Mr. Moore was at | one time the librarian of the New | York Historical soclety. His father, Jacob B. Moore, Sr. was the firet postmaster of San Franclsco. Explanatory. Nell—Jack sald my eves were like | years ago. I thought Betty meant to at's take me until this afterncn whea [ = pelle—He meast . B ——— @ me. Work is the one thing in lita % vehement |} | He had not heard her call his name | strings of his heart, but failed to set | them In tune with her gentler spirit. | 2 N R R R 007 oy Our aim is to give the people in Lakeland the cleanest ang be that the market affords. Our goods are the best and prices the other markets. St mear same g 10c ang 1219 : i We, 35 4 All kinds of cheese, dried fruit and canned meats. Give yus atna It costs you no more to trade at a nice, clean, sanitary market thay, dirty place. Yours for business. PACKING HOUSE MARKET Smith-Harden Bldg.) R. P. BROOKS | R Cakes and Pies a Specialty Cream Bread and Light Rolls “Like Mother Uscd To Make.” Rye and Graham Bread on Hand. Short Orders Reasonable W. A. YAUN. Pror 107 South Florida Ave, Phene 29 Peacock Bidg. N. B.—f'ish Market, Ne. 218 North Kentucky. Mullet. Pompano and Red Bass Sandwiches 5c¢. DOAOOOTOOTTOTOODOGOODO DOUBLY DAINTY is the sight of a pretty girl buriag a box of our confectionery Tie £if and the candy match each othar per foctly in daintiness and eweerr Such a scene may often be seer xf for our candies appeal to ‘i dainty taste It's surpri you have not yet tried thed you | | This Is No Place For Me! These people have bought a Weslern -Lecirve Fan Wherever there’s a Western Electric fan flies are con- spicuous by their absence. In the dining room, kitchen, restaurant or store 3 Western Electric fan effectively rids you of these little pest For the store=a ceiling fan outside the entrance better.than ascreendoor. Itaffords an unobstructed vie® gf the interior and at the same time effectively keeps out the 1es. An 8-inch desk fan on the table will give you 3 meal in comfort. This type costs only !4 of a cent an hour to run Every fan has a felt covered base. Can be used o7 the table, mantel, book case, without scratching. Come in to-day and let us show you the new fans we've just received. Florida Electric & Machinery Company T I Woons. MANAGER The Telegram Is Up-To-No¥