Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 26, 1912, Page 7

Mill Made A Mistake and Shipped Me Too Mach Flour! Will sell it for several days beginning SATURDAY 98 1b. (half bbl) sacks Wood, half bbls .............. 3.10 GUARANTEED HIGHEST GRADE---not -neap Tenuessef grades as sold [by some---Some other Specials. - D. B. DICKSON, Lakeland There must be something] in our great assortment of hardware you need. Think carefuliy--is it a spade, ice tongs, air pump, hammer? No matter what it is, come to our store. Pick out what you need, and you will be surprised to find suchgood articles at a small cost. We please the hard-to-please—our best customers are those people ko are the hardest to satisfy. No matter what you need in the way of hardware, it will repay you %0 all here and see our merchandise before deciding on your purchase. The Jackson & Wilson Co. [LOUR- - FLOUR---FLOUR With wheat costing $1.17 per bushel in Chicago and it takes ¥ before another rige, i Best Grade on the Market. 4551 Flour, 19.1 sack. A No. ¢ Flour, 24.1p sack.. ... .. 1 Flour, 48.]b gack W.P. PILLANS & C0. re Food Store % Talk Flour, 12.1p sack. ..., “*2 Talk Flour, 94.1p sack..... Ask the Inspector HE EVENING TELXGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., JUNE 26, 1912. Mrs. Ransom surveyed her tall brother while he returned the scru- tiny with smiling cheerfulness. John MacPherson was enjoying to the ut- most his little visit to his sister, whom Be had not seen since her marriage a couple of years previous, so be did Bot in the least understand wby she should sigh and remark seriously, “It's too bad; yes, it 1s!" “What?" he asked, lasily. “Why, that you got here just the day after Isabel Douglas left town,” responded pretty little Mrs. Ransom. “She’s the dearest girl! She's—" “Lives in Kentucky, beautiful as a dream, glorious brown eyes, most charming disposition on earth, is—" “Where'd you meet ner?" broke in Mrs. Ransom, breathlessly. “I never had the pleasure,” laughed her brother. “Only I had to sit one whole evening during my visit in To- ledo and hear my hostess recount the charms of this most evasive Isabel. She had left there just the week be- fore my arrival. | seem to cast a blighting shadow over her enjoyment; at any rate, she runs at my approdch.” “Now, isn't that queer?” sald his sister. “But, really, John, I'm in earnest about wanting you to know ber.” “So was my Toledo hostess,” he an- swered, amusedly. “If only the lady and I were of a similar mind and as much in earnest, nothing on earth could save us from wedding cake and rice. But we aren't, thank the fates," he cried rather fervently. At the age of 35, John MacPher- son, comfortable in his bachelor quar- ters in New York, wealthy enough to Indulge any whim, looked with quiet and polite pity at the unfortunates he knew tied down to domestlc cares. He had fully decided he wanted none of that for him—what happiness he might miss was more than compen- sated for in peace and quiet and free- dom. “You're wrong, Jack,” sald his sister, rather wistfully, “Aren't you ever going to abandon your crazy no tions and marry same nice girl and settle down?” He threw out his hands in mock dis- may as he got to his feet. “I'm the most settled down person you ever saw, Nan,” he protested. “I'm as steady as a rallway time table and perfectly contented just as I am. 1 could attend the wedding of some oth- er fellow to your amiable Isabel with- out a qualm,” “No, you couldn't!" gaid his sis- ter forcibly. “You've never seen her!” But if he had not seen her the fame of Miss Isabel Douglas was destined to haunt his ears. During his visit at his sister’'s he heard Miss Douglas’ name so frequently on the lips of vis- ftors that he grew half irritated. It was impossible that any girl should be such a paragon—and it she was he had no desire to know her. Such perfection would be tiresome, he concluded; and so he dismissed her from his mind. When he reached Chicago on his homeward way he stopped to transact some business. Phillips, his lawyer, was most cordial in pressing his New York client to come out to his house, and MacPherson was half “inclined to. accept. His frame of mind cxperl- enced an Instantaneous change, how- ever, when Philllps added: “We've a visitor coming tomorrow you'd like to meet, I know—Miss Isa- bel Douglas of Kentucky. She “Sorry,” sald Mr. MacPherson, de- cidedly, “but I can't walt over a day on any account, my dear man.” At that moment he would have gone a hundred miles out of his. way to es- cape meeting this southern parigon. He did not stop to reflect she un- doubtedly had not the slightest .esire of meeting him, either-—the constant sound of her name and the relcarsal of her attractions had molded itself into a haunting shadow, pursuing him, and he actually disliked the very thought of her. He wondered crossly why she never stayed home where she belonged. Then he went back to New York. Strangely enough, even there Le was not left In peace. One of the newspa- pers printed a page of pictures and gossip about beautiful woms nd, idly glancing it over, the n: of Douglas caught his eye. He groaned as he looked closer—yes, th« first name was Isabel. Then he :carched for the picture of her and sa~d at it half iIndignantly. It was very lovely face, more than th it was high-bred and thoughtful, =5 =<l as perfect in line and form, But John MacPlLerson hul 1 too many beautiful women to Le « ally attracted by any one in . iar, He wondered idly what the 1 be about this particular gir] 80 hypnotized her friends u: aint- ances. In a few weeks s . ASS- ed out of his mind entirel; But John M.cPherson rot to slip out of the clutches of mined fate in this easy fas no warning whatever, no n of the trap before him, i the steps of a Fifth av 2 house one night to fulfill a din 2 ment His hostess.was a charminz woman, | and her dinners we: ‘He was In a very pleasant frau~ o! mind. As he opened the little envelo} Ir«-nt. of sugar 1 the dry basis, or | pa con-|form us that the day of opportunity taining the nmame of Lis dinner part- 118 Dast. The truth is that opportunity (be card was the name of Isabel Doug- . Ko o] Ins. L NHa)in A, MacPherson, {instantly fn revolt, meditated flight for an instant, then realized how jmpossible that was, and that there was nothing to do but go violent prejudice for any woman's so- Tt ep b bpt it (;’“ "‘A(":)A";“u\":).‘j‘. » NS RIS o 0w br, o & PATRIOTIC MUSIC clety as he now felt for hers. He was entirely blind to her innocence of the manner {n which her name had been rung in his ears till he hated the soynd of it. At any rate, she should oot add him to the list of victims re- port sald strewed her path. He entered the big drawing room and greeted his hostess. “I've favored you tonight,” that lady sald, smiling. “I've given you the pret- tiest and nicest girl here to take out to dinner. Do you know Miss Doug- las of Kentucky?" “I do not,” said the hapless Joha MacPherson, crisply, and mentally set ais teeth. In two minutes it was all over and he was properly introduced cn the Fourth as a matter of course. But how about a piano to accompany the singers? You certainly shoul have one and there is no reason why you can't, and at once. Our pay as You play plan will enable you to se- cure a splendid piano right sew. Some bargains in slightly used pianos. o her. Just what he had expected [] Miss Douglas to do was hard to say - - —he had braced himselt for resist- . ance. But to his bewilderment, like a dash of cold water in his face, he re- alized there was absolutely nothing o resist, Miss Douglas, far lovelier than her picture, had given him one rare, cor- dial smile which revealed the secret of her power, for it was a smile speak- ¢ Yt ¢ ] AR QSN GG S G ] Va3, .o - ~e_< £ A O ATE r a8 ng a sympathetic interest in the indi- | vidual addressed, and then had not paid very much more attention to him, being interested in the conversation of a returned arctic explorer. MacPherson studied her at his lels- Maps of any deecription compiled on short notlce, Speclal attention ure and as the moments passed found | given to compiling city, display and advertising maps. County and State himself grasping wildly at all his in- grained prejudices against her. He maps kept on hand. Chemically prepared, non-fading blue printa at res- had wits enough to reflect in & panic- | sunable rates. Speclal rates for prints in large quantities. stricken way that if the mere sight of her was so disarming, acquaintance with her might work marvelous Prompt attention given mail ord ers. e mata”an 1 e s om | SOULH Florida Map and Blueprint Co. MacPherson found himself halting for something to say, a new experience | Room 213-215 Drane Building for him, The girl herself broke the ice by re- marking that she thought she knew | OO0 EIEOHFOHRTODODOECH his sister--was not Nan Ransom out west that relative? She had mention- ed her brother so often. By the end of that dinner John Mac- Pherson was wiserable, apologetie, at sed. He did not know why he should be so upset. Al he realized was that le had a desire to explain to Miss Douglas how sorry he was for dislik- LAKELAND, FLA. DO HOEOBOEOEAPOEOQI0E Q Lakeland Artificial Stone Works Near Electric Light Plant MAKES RED CEMENT PRESSED BRICK CALL AND SEE THEM. CAN SAVE YOU MONEY ing her before he had met her. | Crushed ROC'(. Sand and Cement for Sale “She certainly got in ler special | brand of hypnotic work on me, all | right,” he told his reflection grimly |¢ that night as he took ofi his cravat before the mirror. “But, then, she's | an exception!” John MacPherson was a man who went out after what he wanted when he got his mind made up. He never really made up his mind about Isabel Douglas, however—that is, dellberate- ly. He did not have time. It w fatal attack from the very first sight of her. And when he asked her to marry him, after she had been in New York two weeks only, and she very properly protested at his haste, It plunged him into despalr so deep that he made life unbearable for his Good Stock on Hand BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 12 and 18 inch Drain Tile for Sidewalk, Gate Posts, Flower Mounds, Ete, WE Deliver Free of Charge H. B. ZIMMERMAN. Proprietor. wsmm&mmmmmm CHANCE OF A heart, too, after several years of ex- perience in refusing numerous sult ors, and shedid not keep the man she found she really cared for waiting too long before she promised to marry him, | “I don't understand it in the least,” she laughed, blushing and shaking her head when she had sald yes. “Nelther do I,” agreed John Mac- Pherson promptly. “And [ Intend to marry you as soon as I wheedlo you into nawing the day, for fear you'll change your mind.” Then he telegraphed his sister out west, who knew nothing of what had been going on In New York. Mrs. Ran- som laughed and crled alternately when she got the laconic message. It Come land 'See My Line. I am going to retire from active business and In order to Go this I am offering my entire stock of Dry Goods, Notions, ete., ABSOLUTE COST 1if you want to make $1 do the work of §5, come to my store and lay in a supply of Spring and Summer Goods. Everything will be slashed to rock bottom prices, including LAWNS, LINENS, GINGHAMS, PERCALES, CHAMBRAYS, SILKS, SATINS, SHOES, HOSE. My EPrices Will sald: Astonish You “l have at last met Isabel. You can buy your gown to wear to the weddlnx."__— I GCI N S THINGS WE OUGHT TO SAVE N‘ A. R Wastefulness and Indifference of Americans Cause Them to Miss Many Opportunities, Each year we fill the Merrimac river with wool grease, making it a stench, while the towns along fits course buy soap and fertilizer and lu- bricants from Chicago, Chili and Penn- sylvania. 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