Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 6, 1912, Page 7

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THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., AUG. 6, 1912, slight looseness, which might tend to an undue shaking of the eggs. ““There —that's as tight as Deacon Pettybut- tum's purse strings. Now you nafl it up and Il have Hiram take it along o town this afternoon.” “You're an angel,” Mandy declared rapturously as she caught the ample figure in her young arms and squeez- ..Hot and cold runnind water and ed 1t vigorously. “I'll cut your dress telephone in each room. Free baths, | (Coprrisbt. 1912, by Asscclated Literary Press) |\ very day while mother takes her Coolest rooms. Best beds.h.rggfim- th:lag:. Ha;r:;on cmlu:‘l: ‘l)t.l:“r: m;.” . like that bo called om o e egg crate wi - uggings like that can't calle 1le Rooms, Take street car at Union pers, slipped the przper square of freal hygienic,” Mrs. Morrls gasped, Station and get off at Hogan street. | pasteboard over the padding, put the | “but they’re mighty warming to the €gg filler in place, and mechanically | heart." dropped the great creamy-shelled eggs | On the following Saturday Mandy TOBCH0SOR0BCECHIHOHMONHNHROD | into their compartments, carefully dis- | received an astounding check for her carding those not clean, imperfect in | ggs. and a brief letter of explana- shell ghape, and those that were small. | tion: “Two dozen unavallable!” she sighed | “Dear Madam— as she dropped the last perfect egg In | “Your eggs are of such fancy qual- place. “Two dozen not fit to send, and | ity | have closed them out to special sixteen, seventeen dozen and eleven customers, and have contracted for that are.” She paused thoughtfully. |all you can send in future. Guarantee “IUll take two or three days to get [a price as fancy as the eggs them- enough to finish filling the case. Hens | seives, etc.” aren't laying so good now, all want to Mardy gazeq at the check. Twelve set or have chickens, and I'm owing [ dollars' Why, that's forty cents a installments on ‘most everything!" |dozen' I'll be able to buy everything, Mandy caught up a scrap of bent card- | for mother and Sammy!" According board, which had slipped from amongst | to her custom she began making swift the papers, discovered that it was & figures on a scrap of paper. She picture of herself, which had sue- | crossed out Jtems and replaced them cumbed to the attack of some infant | with others, until she had a Ifst, the DORICROO0e | Visitor. She began to scrible. amount of which tallled with the face Installments, I've got to pay: of the amazing check. Father's coffin , THE WORLD SMILES AT YOU Doctor's bill ......... .. 100 | Into the room where her mother lay, through the fragrant smoke of of an | Ditto on shoes for Sammy ....... 1.00 P;I‘I‘I‘P'd in a big chair with l'""" Ditto on wine for ma plilows. “See! My check, my letter Inman Blunt cigar. As you smoke it Shingles for leak and my lst'” your troubles vanish as if by magic. b Mre. Harrison smiled at the girl's Mind and nerves are soothed and dif- —— | bright chatter, took the check limply, feulties become trifies or fade away $6.00 | ralsed herself a little, read the letter : \ “Dear, dear!" she sighed. “The eggs entirely. Think that's a lot to claim ¥ for a 5-cent cigar? Well, try an In- Wit only et emcugh to pay thede things, not a cent over, even it I get man Blunt tonight after supper and twenty cents for them, and likely's not Cor. Bay and Hogan Sts, JACKSONVILLE, .FLORIDA, Rates: $1.00 and Up. Memorandum By Rose Seslye-Miller 00000 0000 ADOO0C E Timber, Turpentine, Cut-over L FOR SALE L.:iv" cioce Goininion Teacts at Low Prices, Florida Homes and Groves on High ing Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw- v and Trucking Farms. Weguarantee all property just ~sented by us For reliable information see gs e Ohlinger Opposite New Depot, meniorandum Mandy had prepared: ping her eyes, “there ign't single thing ‘o ; " cents a dozen.” Mandy stared at the | *°™¢ thIngs for yourself! I1st before her, but the items remained “next time. I'm golng to buy up th fixed, not one vanished under her se- o "\[ ,' i | THROIE “ uy“ ':h i “Well. take 1t, take it € orhood eggs Aand Bel em) T' L are justified. Matufactured by v INMan Clgar Fa ‘ Ing the card she began writing on the fore long, and you'll seo the ribbons e L Other end of it. Things | want: T want a new dimity dress with pink rose buds in it I want o Liz ribbon for my halr, i ¢ : statically. “IUI be just heaven to I want a pale of stockings, absolute ! ! e have yon around again \ iy whole A pair of pumps with high heels A piece of chiffon to fix my old hat. I want Jim Patterson to come hack thives< yon need before 1 begin to lux noon, spending her money happlly, though she dld shed tears when the She wrote furiously, punctuating cach item with a decisive period at the end, indulging herself just once in her bare lfe the luxury of mute expres- sion. She paused after rereading, flushed to the hieavy waves of her dark halr, gave the carboard a vicious twist which rent {1t in two and flung it aside, crushed the remaining epg fillers into the unfilled space of the crate, gath ered up her baskets, and rushed down cellar. She came up with a pan of potatoes, which she proceeded to make ready for dinver. So busy was she hiis rvices yhody 1s so good,” she mur mured, as she started down the main by the rallroad tracks, the evening on it. She was frankly Interested in where her horse was halted. Sudden 2 man, like, yet unlike the one 01‘5 Correspor . Ml face 1 news, sitk line i y the | :C!‘FD‘E’QE{"SOS'@S'O‘SOE'O-E0(503‘0‘5*3"305‘0@0\5‘0‘! and sat upright, then she caught the § “But daughter!" she protested, wip- g SEEe R e R S e it's a safe bet you admit tiie claims they won't fetch more than eighteen for yourselt—you've just got to get ‘3} “I will,” replied Mandy promptly, § machine work. akewand | vere scrutiny, Rhtacs N be e DAt : ‘3, ctflry L F](‘lu all--you old figures you!" then turn- fancy VIl be a bloated bondholder be () l and things 'l buy myself, but you're [¢ Folug to have a hamniock and a few | < Phone 230 uriate.” Mandy kissed her mother ec- ! g Marvdy drove into town that after ‘“ > For Elberta Peaches, Bananas, Plums, doctor refused further payment for |« street towards home. She was halted | & passenger train having rolled {n . Mandy always liked to watch the | train and the people who traveled up & o D E N N Y the drift of people who went past her | " ® on the sldewalk Just beyond the road | 1y aeross her vision rose the figure of \;: ».2 i PAGE SEVER \“—_—-\*“lh.—_—fi‘_ Stabbed by Umbrelfa. Longevity in French Villages, Perhaps the strangest weapon ever| A Temarkable record of longevity ts used for killing was an umbrella. In |te be found in some of the rural par- October, 1908, & man named Ernest |18hes of France. In the village of 8t Smith was found dead in Chiswick | Thomas de la Fliche there have been High street, England. He had a punc- | Only fourteen parish priests in three tured wound in the eye which had | hundred years, the fourteenth being reached his brain and which the doc. | 8t!!l In possession. The parish of 8t tors agreed had undoubtedly been | GeFmain du Val, in Paris, has had only caused by the steel ferrule of an um. |three pastors in one hundred years, brella. while that of Givry en Argonne has b O had but five in 130 years. Rival of Pittsburgh. Fa Because of the constant pall of The Wealth of a Man. smoke that hangs over it, the older The thoughts of his heart, these portion of Edinburgh is known as |are the wealth of a man.—Burmese “Auld Reekfe." Baying. Everything in auto supplies from lamps for the front to license tags for the back, from tires that toueh the ground to tools that help keep your car from going up in the air. iven if you think your car is fully equipped, better come in and look around. There is always something new to be seen here. Brown & Bonsac, Sy e 2 UNION AUTO GARAGE €0, 535 @flqnd fqundry and AM_a‘cmne m_ » We are now prepared to furnish iron and brass cast- ings of all descriptions. We also do all kinds of akeland Foundry and Machine Co. Lakeland, Florida SOOI IO BOIOPCHN Figs, Cantcloupes. Grapes, Lemons, Pineapples or any kind of Fruit call up PHONE 226 - R B R S S B < IR T M < B S SR N SR P ) DE40EOEOE0FOFQFOFOPOSTP N 15 Dran With her thoughts of the last ftem on whom she had long dreamed. The | B R o - her list, that she forgot everything nan caught her look, paused, stepped | —y else; lost in the remembrance of her forward, then hurtled to the buge MA a 8 simple happy life, before her father | o "0 gltl st dazedly Jooking at | ’ o And you are probably plannine had died and Jim Patterson had gone Mim. | : : : : gt ¥ 3 away. Jim had come to see her as “This Is surely my lneky day!™ eried | Maps of any description compiled on short notico, 8pec. ¢ - ¥4 Suiing o bating trip % :1:'&‘((;"(‘1:‘1: ::'p;ll:" '::‘;;?llr:l“‘ T)ll:‘t ,B.‘:":,;; Jim Patterson’s “"“!““"““'.“l'” 1"“\;: ; given to compiling city, display and advertising maps, County er2 Btata --going hi 2 { ; ’ " ivolee. tI'mogoing home with you going to take things easy for a 3 Jim had gone to the city to advance | (S L dropped a | maps kept on hand. Chembcally pre parcd, non-fading blue prints at ree- t+w days? his fortunes. Jim had written, but | 3 st hlan - & ;E hig letters were not a bit lke Jim fiiill 1,“ 4 ;I i \” :hl:lf ‘“h,l:b‘l,,il,t I sonable rates. Speclal rates for prints in lavge quantities. 5 C T Lease under the seat, and located ¢ \ X ~ and finally she had stopped answer ¢ R _ ¢ g ‘o cannot find a more complet: ? fhg them, not ;T,.' ause she had ceased ?":f“_‘;]_ i ol ek oatre Prompt attention given mail orders ient of fishing tackle, lines. b to care, bt heeauge she cared too it e 2l : . S poles. sanding ne & what s vl to Ler 1o e a one-slided I"?_' = ; ‘I“. v U ( { We g i 1 you will find hes s and ways of s that this is the ri:ht i - woa S I shi; A e ments. If I ever do get thing ‘r": . '.‘ I'll never get anything mor h? “twas M ) ! way— h it has been awf. at in o l-li,:'l;l tho 3 in the of the trades people to let me -:-(raw " | littles; but there's never a cen —never:” “There will be,” Mrs. Morris sured comfortably. “Now I'm penurious to pay for cutting my drez ‘ so I'll just sllp these eggs intc € ; crate. You're just born to cut and Give Liberally to Religion. { | | “"Twas Providenre :a .one just great, and thouzh I don” very often unpack the «ges, 1 64 chance on that crate, thank heaven'” 23 <3¢ Talcom Powder p ; s;:fi quatity of this Taleum Powder in order 7 ¢ dpecy; 'ce 0! 3 0 CE f 10c. Come early while it lasts. § She stooped heavily, as she ca: ‘ributors to religion in the world In TRAL c § | tously slld the eggs into the fllers. sddition to providing $12,000000 a Q HAR MA Y 8! and after the last space was filled year ‘g:r thl:nt:lenpuon of the heathen | ui . | sbe caught up the torn photograph. of other lands, they give to the ck Sel’Vlce Phone 25 §| upon the back of which Mandy bad churches the munificent sum of $127.- at.” Americans are the most liberal con- made her memorandum, and tucked it 000,000 & year for their support and f ‘i LAWKNS, LINENS, GINGHAMS, PERCALES, CHAMBRAYS, i ticial Stone T t I t Plant MALT k] "1 D BRICK 2 i =S ABSOLUTE COST if you the work of 85, come to my store oi and lay in a f Spring and Summer Goode Every will be sla it k bottom prices, Including BILKS, SATINS, SHOES, HOSE. Come land See My Line. My Prices Will Astonish You N. A. RIGCINS

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