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

Widow By Lawrence Alfred Clay (Copyright, 1912, by Assoclated Literary Press)) Jim Bushwick of the village ot reck of potatoes. He didn't drink, smoke or chew, and when he married it was to have a wife to take care of him. She was a hustiing, amoitious woman, and if she could have had his help they could have been well off after five years. Jim Bushwick’s! Rawlins, was a ne'er-do-well. He was born lazy and without business acumen sufficient to sell or buy a; She didn't have it, however., Jim was always going to do this and do that, and he never even got up ene cnough to set out a hel of The wife scidom plained. She was stress, and by steady work aged to keep a roof over t Now and then the q ing something wr and feath- ers—a whipping—tihe law or some. thing else, but it never went beyend talk. As for tar and feathers, thore was no tar in the town, and no citi- zen would have been willing to con- tribute the feathers, ..Every little bit helps. You can always spare “somcthins™ ir - . you dive just a little within your income. By adding a “trifle’” ev- ery day you will, in time, have a fortune and in any case Provide EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK KLAND, FLA,, AUG, 7, 191%, | “It's a wonder you folks didn’t stir| me up.” | “So 'tis—so 'tls, We talked of it| many times, but we knowed that i we put on the tar and feathers y(zu‘d be too allfired lazy to scrape em| off, and your wife would have the | joh." “That's right. “Nene better.” “And that brings me to what I she is good, Cyrus.” l fter I'm gone.” “0f course ghe won't.” “gh'1L have to depend on the kind- =5 of the neizhbors.” “She will” vrus, you don't belong to any but you belleve in heaven, ou?” . kinder.” “yvou'd like to feel that I was look- iown on you and acting as your angel, wouldn't you?” u are going to keep up your it to t I can for you it a promise to be kind to, and 1} vou will look after, Sarah, We 1 Loth fecl a great deal better if will.” Ihe caller looked npon it as a dy- inz man's whim, and signed. When dy to go he said: I hope you will get a hustie on you t to ask. She won't have a dol-k’. g ey g d 2 i s ] :F:\ N . We Won't Sacrifice Qu but we are always stedying how 1 ¢ Increase The Quantity o Thus things went on for eight|up there, Jim.” A 4 el PLis i e : . ] o > vears, and then Jim Bushwick was| ‘Then thiree more widowers and one We gie the “most now but we are anxious 1 gINg ageinst misfortune, Bring a “little bit” into this bank every day taken with a hopeless illness. When [old bachelor got the word to call, | more. Phone us and prove it ] P this disease took hold of the man he|and in the course of three days thei start now. e s 2 ; h a galloped to the grave very fast. It|thusiness was wound up. Then i was only after the doctors had told [ lawver was sent for, the signed pa- | Best Butter, per pound . ....... 3 Jim there was no hope for him, and | pers handed over to him, and n)» Sugar, 16 pounds ............. 100 that his flame of life would be snuffed | great calm fell upon the dying man. . out In a couple of wecks more, that|He smiled every few minutes, and Cottolene, 10 pound p.llll """"" 123 the true spirit of a manly man came | made no understandable explanations | Cottolene, 4-pound pails......................c.ooun 5 out. He called his wife to his bed- | regarding what he had beedn up to. | Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails. 118 T —_——— i side one day and began: A few days later he passed away, | amily si “Sarah, you are going to be a[and almost his last words were: | 4 cans f ’m VT b B T 2 OF LAKELAND widow soon.” “Sarah, if they want to be kind to‘ 7 cans baby size Cream. ........................ 25 “Yes," she replied, as tears filled [ you. let 'em go ahead.” {H 1-2 barrel best Flour............... 300 Ouder Coatrol of U. S. Goverawent her eyes : There was kindness from every di- “p v et f contributions to pay | 12 pounds best Flour. .. 140 SO L | R U S B T S AR | Ve been a moaccount man and|rection, from o IR . 5 i husband.” the funeral expenses to groceries and | & Pienic Hams, per pound 1212 SRR MRS ey g “But youvo done the best you|irovisions sent in for the widow's @ Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams................... 8 APFOIOEGO0E0IC G0 DG 0 SO GIOCe | could.” ance. After about 2 month had | Botiiond Soks. & fae o g i R “Mebbe 50, but when I look back |«<lapsed Deacon Haivison received a 8ol doap, b for........ IF I1S I'm ashamed of myself. I can't leave | ltter asking him to call at the law |3 Ground Coffee, per pound. . 2§ s you a dollar.” offfee of the attorney who had the | & g gallons Kerosele .............oooovevnnenn.. 8 ! REAL ESTATE “Never mind, Jim. Fverybody will | (vad maw’s papers. When the good | ¢ T fied A Bl be kind to me and I shall get along. | an came steolling in, only 1 | & R : i curious as to why hie had been : F Y! You want, you buy., We lave it woned, he cetod with: ~, wlf £ fj it | > anvwher o5 T S U T v R Of conrs t take place ‘or S g J y ot 1610 254 dels, dand = Py B Sl Rt Hracin. and 4l 1L , but to congratulate | 4 9 e 2 1 ) ¢ in advanc % INSURANCE Viiat d'ye et askod the deas S RITPITOGIOT ST You ave necding we can give von the best on earth and treat you right, Polk Counly Redi Estaie & Insuraace Co. 70U SHOW WITH PRIDE the bath voom yon huave had s cuuip o in up-to-date styles You don't how the old fashioned Kind at all, If sou have heen deterred from having sours modernized by the imagined cipense, have a talk with us. 1t may < He Had Signed Without Looking. net cost nearly so much as you have Lcen led to believe. with the Widew o juking about ka ed for ‘e - sy e Bushwick w e Hehad s Office: Rocm 7, Deca & Dryant Dnilling od without re Wl now hehold: - e - R P o “T not ouly 1 to bo kind to James Dushwick's wife after she be- comes his widow, but to marry her one year after his death.” “By thunder!” exclaimed the con as he danceg ! dea- “No better e wanted in a breach-of-promise quietly re- plied the lawyer, “She can sue and be hanged!” “Better settle for a couple of hun- dred, deacon, and carry off your pa- | per. It wouldn't sound well to| have people saying that you had your second wife picked out while her husband was alive.” The deacon hung oft for a week and then came down. One by one the others followed sult. FEach one was financially well able to do so . “Money contributed by your good mnee cage,” Lakeland Hardware & Plumbing Co. Let us hope the doctors are mistaken, | friends, and nothing is to be sald and that you will live many a year|about it remarked the lawyer to| a um‘nn’ Phone 267-Graen. FLORIDA well to do. He was one of those who had spoken of tar and feathers, but p - e A S S SN he had a neighborly feeling, for : L yet.” “let us do nothing of the kind, but get ready for business. Sarah, you know what breach-o’-promise s, of course?” “Yes." “It you have a pretty good case agin a man he'll settle for cash.” “But how can 1 have a breach.of- promise case?” “That's what I am going to pro- vide you with—several of them. Bring my pen, ink and paper, and then run over and tell Deacon Harri- son I want to see him.” The deacon was R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWSR A SPECIALTY. Tet me show you some Lakeland homes I have built, widower and When he had come { eod his sympathy, the dy that. “I want folks to be kind to her I'm gone.” “They will be, Jim “I'm not red of Live Where You Will Like Yoiir Neighbors We are exercising great care to vell our KOSEDALE lots ouly to the vest ¢l of people. Thus we give rou de ble wcighbors in additlon 10 ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide eireets, shade trees, fertile “ail, building restrictions. Inside the city, one block cast from J.ake Mor- top SMITH & STEITZ i ad G. C. ROGAN 3 Deen-Bryant Bullding. Whatever you want in rea lestste ws bave it £0 bei u out reading it and ook |lie did more than tha to boss the funeral when and to be one of the pal Then Cyrus Ba ower, was sent fot. sorry to flud Jim 0 ¢ and he was going bill and leave it didn't. He in of sympathy cent. cheaper for Li “Crrus, I've been a poor stick , man,” sald Jim. “You have that,” was agreed, “I ought to uave been at work every day." “We all know that"™ o the widow as he handed her $350 of the thousand. To this day she has no other idea about it. Now and then some one says something about Jim Bushwick's laziness in Deacon Harrison's hearing, and he turns and replies: “Why, there wasn't a lazy bone in his whole carcass! He made more clean money in the last two weeks | of his life than I did in the hull year! | Yes, drat him, he did!" WELL PLANNED AND CARRIED | | Prince Kropotkin's Escape From Pris- | on Hospital One of the Most Daring | Recorded in History. 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