Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 27, 1912, Page 6

THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., JULY 27, 1912. APPSO IRIOCOI O L0 IF IT'S REAL E You want, see us before iyou buy. We anywhere and in any size tracts, and if it is INSURANCE You are needing we can give you thebest on earth and treat you right. Polk County Real Estate & Insurance Co. Office: Rocm 7, Deen MWS@SWW@ZO:O:OI O LHOPOTOIRTOTUSRIOLOIOTRIQD * SEGOCOTOIOHIRICOE0R0 STATE We have it & Bryant Bnilling The dollar mark is the only mark the world's most Start your career on the opening an account at this " Lakeland Hardwre & Plunbing o is thelibestlimark 1o make in life you open a bank account. Only the habit of saving secures this dollar mark—the mark of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U, 8. Government that is recognized in all lands. successful men, high road to success by bank. A dollar will do it, TAKE A PEEP. at our up-to-date bath room equip- wents. You cannot fail to admire their beauty and cleanly daintiness. And how completely they cater to the comtort and luxury of the path, Such an outtit is a necessity in the modern Lomi 11 yours is without one have vy tell you how unexpectedly little it will cosi you to have one, R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland Lomes I have built, - LAKELAND, sal], building re ton. wd G. C. we have it. Phone 267-Green. Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of pecple. you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide streets, shade tre + city, one block cast from J.ake Mor- SMITH & STEITZ Deen-Bryant Building Whatever you want iv rea lests'e FLORIDA Thus we give fertile ROGAN The Bouncing Ball P By ANNIE HINRICHSEN mmgwwumm .Mfldred Grant came from the store with & ball in her hand. It was & small, hard rubber ball. She looking at it so intently that as she stepped into the street she almost col- lided with a man who was passing. “What is your treasure, Miss Mil- dred?” he asked, curiously. Mildred’s eyes dropped to the ball and the color flamed over her face. “It is a ball,” she sald, as positively as if she were throwing knowledge on a state, of ignorance; “a rubber ball.” “What are you going to do with {t?” “I bought it because—because I wanted it." “Do you often buy balls for the pleasure of carrying them about with you?" “I do mot, Mr. Powell.” Her tone informed the young man that further questioning concerning the bail would be most undesirable, “Your paper,” he said, hurrying to safer conversational fields, “contains this morning an especially vitriolic attack on the Water company bill.” “The bill was introduced {in the house several days ago and referred to a committee of which you are a member. The Moon is doing every- thing possible to defeat it.” “The belief is current in the gen- eral assembly that the reason for the paper’s opposition is the fact that Mr. Zane, the proprietor, is a heavy stock- holder in one of the water companies which this bill will affect. You are one of the Moon staff.” “l am only an assistant, a picker up of scraps of news for the men who chronicle the legislative affairs. I hope and expect that some day—" “That some day you will rise to & high place on the staff?" *“I intend to.” “It is a great metropolitan paper It has here at the capital a staff of trained journalists and also several good lobbylsts. It is fighting the Water company bill, It will grant advancement to any of its staff who can Influence legislation against this “You Believe This?” bill. Would you, a charming, well- bred young woman, be willing to earn advancement in this way?" “I should do anything in’} for my paper and for mys The Water company bill had roused a storm of controversy throughout the state. It was a bill popular with the people and opposed by certain powerful interests. The largest paper in the state, was leading the fight against it. The measure had been introduced in the house and referred to the committee corporations. It was believed that if the committee allowed the bill to power house to be voted on it would be passed rubber ball. lightly tossed. lin's desk. He picked it up, but Pow- ell's hand caught it from him. Both men had seen (he letters and figures on the ball. adjourned. Moon, the | on | leave its hands and return to the| It was so popular with the| Albert Catlin, the man who held the balance of power, sat mear an open window. Through the window came & small It came slowly, as if It dropped on Cat- Ten minutes later the committee In the corridor Powell met Mildred. “Come with me,” be said harshly. “I want to talk to you.” In the deserted committee room he closed the door. “Here 18 something that belongs to you.” He held the all toward her. “You have failed in your attempt to bribe Albert Cat- lin. ‘A, C—J. S.—$10,000" You threw the ball in to him at a critl- cal moment to show him what he would receive for his vote to kill the bill. I took the ball from him, and with the proof of attempted bribery in my possession he dared not vote as Zane wished him to. I saw you buying this ball. You told me frank- | ly that you would do anything for the paper and your own advancement. [ heird Zane say to you: ‘You are| clever enough for any work. You will ecd in this' The evidence against you Is conclusive. The one point [ do not understand is the meaning of the ‘J. S on the ball. The other letters mean Albert Catlin | —ten thousand dollars to Kill the bill.” “You helieve this? Did I, the wo- man you professed to love, attempt an act of bribery?” For a moment he looked into her face, Then his hands came down on her shoulders. “You did not,” he ex- claimed, joyously. “You did not.” “You had the proof of my gulit. What proof have you of my iuno- cence?" “Your face—your true, genmtle, wo- manly face. No greater proof could any man ask.” The door was pushed open and the little daughter of the state house jan- ftor came in. “Have you seen my ball?” she asked. “Oh, that's it. Miss Mildred gave it to me. She said that when she was a little girl she loved hard rubber balls that bounced high, and that she never saw one without wishing she was a little girl again and could play with one,and so she often buys them and gives them to little girls. I was playing with this one and it bounced in here. A. C. 18 for me—Alice Cawse. J. 8. Is for Jimmy Smith, a little boy I'm engaged to; $10,000 is the fortune he says he must make to marry me when we grow up. He wrote those letters this morning, so I'd remember I'm 'gaged to him.” “If T marry you, Harold,” Mildred was saying a few minutes later, “I| shall have to give up the splendid | position Mr, Zane offered me this | morning. 1 was to be editor of the! ‘Woman's Section.’” I am willing to| do anything—anything hnnomblo—-: for my paper and myself. You asked | me to marry you just after Mr. Zane ') had assured me that T should succeed | in my new position and I wanted to| earn my snccess before I gave up my! work. But a man who will believe in a woman after he has made up, his mind that she is a guilty person is—well, his love and trust are worth more than anything else and T ag going to take them.” ANCIENTS FOND OF LUXURY Excessive Comforts of the Pregent Day Have All Been Duplicated in the Past. There has been an outery of Ia(el against the luxurious appointments of steamships crossing the Atlantic. The | finger of scorn has bLeen pointed at! golf links, squash courts, perfumed baths, rose bushes, ete., provided for the pampereq passengers. And there are some who sigh for the good old days when a flannel shirt without a re- lieving touch of starched linen was the correct thing at dinner; when | women were as grubs until land was | | sizhted, and then they appeared on | dack as butterflies: when a forenight | at sea was all too short a time; when | a ship was cxpected to be uncomfort- | people that few legislators would dare vote against it. 1t deter- On his way to the mecting, Harold | " While Le waited for the elevator Mildred joined him. going to do with the bill tody asked “Send it back to the house for the vote, 1 hope,” he said gravely. “The members are about evenly divided for and against it. Albert Catlin is the uncertain member. His vote will de- cide the matter.” “You are in iavor of the bill clouded. “I would do anything on earth for vou, Mildred, except allow you to di- rect my political acts contrary to my convictions. Mildred. will yon give up your work, your struggle for suc- cess, and take what 1 can give you? 1t is & home, dear, and a heart full of love.” The girl's keen eyves softened, but she shook her head. turned abr -tlv from him and hurried aw The committes was called to order. | mined that it thered | « could through the air: | beyond resuscita mmlit-{ when the ba a jet from a hose tee. | hel gl cailor on a wet ! 1t was the day on whith final ac- | tion on the hill was to Ve taken by Led vessels were! ilho committee. v the 8 Change your mind, oppose it and| prepaid the expense. Moschion gives make Mr. Catlin oppose it.” She|a detailed description of this ship. spoke laughingly, but Powell's face Then there was the Egyptian vessel, { ables when business was necessarily | behind the pier and no m { ¢ < line. The ship | Powell passed John Zane. owner of | 1} for Hiero! | the Moon, and Mildred ( They | 1 only was | were standing in the ro of the| | state house. As he 1 'hvm; Powell caught the words Zane was | spwaking. 1. stateroo . bathroom | ables and air rooms | ed as a| . It was first named but afterward the Alex- \rchimelus wrote a poem in and Hiero in gratitude and sent aim a thousand ures ol cheese and thoughtfully fon the joy of Ptolemy Philopator, with galleries and promenades, a temple of Venus with her statue, a drinking hall, belvederes, a grotto the sides of which were decorated with precious stones set in ornaments of gold. 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