Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 13, 1912, Page 6

PAGE ¥IX THE EVENING TELEGRAM, _AKELAND, FLA., AUG. 13, 1912. [ e Every little bit helps. You can always spare “somcthing” if you ave just a little within your income. By adding a “‘trifle” ev- ery day you will, in time, have a fortune and jp any case brovide against misfortune. Bring a *“little bit” into this bank every day BANK start now. FIRST NATIONAL OF LAKELAND Uuder Coutrcl of U. 8. Government OO O00 IFI'I:S REAL ESTATE You want, scc us h(,lul' AQAGOICTIITOTO you buy. We have it anvwhere and in any size tracts, and if it is v? i 4 : INSURANCE 9 s 3 You are needing we can give you the best on carth 2 and treat you right, rolk County Real Estate & Insurance::Co. Office: Rocm 7, Deen & Bryant Bnil- hn;~ SOOI YOU SHOW WITH PRIDE hath OO aQ Y thi room you have had couip in up-to-date style, How the old fashioned Kind at all. the vours modernized by eapense, have a talk with us, et Cost nearly =0 much as you ha Leen led to believe Lakeland Hardware & Plumbing Co. “l:u:flw i+ I s ST A RS R 37 R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will farnich piane and speciiications or will follow any plans and spacifications turnished. BUNGALOWSR A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland homes I have built, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA It m: us You don't I you lave been deterred from having | imagined 1y Ve Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the hest lass of people. Thus we giva you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide strects, shade trees, fertile Inside tha vne block east from Take Mor sall, bullding restrictions. y. - a SMITH & STEITZ #d G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building Whatever you want w. have it in rea lestate Humphrey Found His Heart By VIRGINIA BLAIR {Copyright, 1912, by Assoc hnd Literary Press.) Humphrey Dodd was a plain man He had been the cldest son and had assumed heavy responsibilities when his father died. Now that the young er children were wage earners, aud Lis mother had marriel in, Hum phrey was free for the first time in his life. He intended to get married! His choice lay between two village beau ties. As yet he had not paid marked attention to either of them, but as he rammed his hat down on his head cne gusty September night and start- ed for a walk, he knew that he must make his decision. He did not ask himsclf whether he loved Rose or Mary. They were good girls, and would make good wives. His mother had married his father in her young years of romance, and the mar- riage had turned out badly. She had was an unstable thing, and that he wonld be happler without it. Yet something stirred in Humphrey | as he left the village street and came showed white for a little way and the grove beyond. Overhead the moon raced through the ragged clouds. Humphrey brought his mind back sternly to the subject in hand. Which should it be, Rose or Mary? The fair one or the dark, the short one or the tall? The wind blew strongly, and as Humphrey entered the shadows of the wood a thousand voices seemed to mock him, but above all the tumult came a human note, a little cry, “Oh, please—help!” Humphrey stopped. he asked sharply. " A white shape seemed to detach ftself from the sable background. “Whe s it?” —I have—lost my way—" quivered a woman's voice, “and- and 1 am afrald.” Humphrey struck a match. A face appeared within the circle of lght— a child’s face, except for the maturity of the troubled brow. Humphrey struck another match. “You are wet,” he sald, abruptly. 1 impressed it on Humphrey that love ! out upon a long stretch of road, which | $ 5y was then hidden by the blackness of | "l | Since the father's death, Daphne hLas been trying to work in a department store. But the confinement brought’ on an {llness, and now she has strug-; gled out toward the country to seei what the air will do for her! And she | ain't fit to work,” finished Aunt Bet- ‘no mor'n a kitten.” l 't you keep her here?” Hum-! phrey asked eagerly, “to help you?” | “Gracious—I don't need any help,” | 8: ' Aunt Betsey. that, visit.” 1 mphrey felt that Aunt Betsey was | igel. “If you will”” he promised, ce that you have plenty of things v farm to make it up to you.” afternoon he came again. I' plne was on the porch. Humphrey bo'1 her hand for a long time, but her cves met his without self-conscious- [T ss. “I'm rested now,” she sald, ‘#nd | want you to take me over to ! th. grape farm.” I'mphrey looked at Aunt Betsey. Anunt Betsey shook her head. “She wants to go to work. says she can't visit—she feels That She it | “I ain't as feeble “‘zi But I'd like to bd\e her make i :, wrldn't be right.” “You aren’t strong enough to work ovie there,” Humphrey sald; “you'd ' 3 bLreik down.” ! Her lips quivered. “But—oh, [ | ean’t live on—charity,” she sobbed. | “Yon see? said Aunt Betsey. Humphrey felt raging within him a 1""1”‘!1' sense of determination. 3 v in his life had he done any- frapulsively. He had weighed the charms of Rose and Mury for months vet here he was ready to revent the seerets of his heart to a g girl he had known less than twenty- four hours Sl want you to stay,” he said tense- {1¥. “when I saw you in the woods last { night —it ccemed as if—I had been sent- (o take care of vou—and you must let Aunt t lo it—for my gake.” In her eyes dawned a wonder. “You wiant to take care of me?" “1 want to marry yon.” said Hum- phrey. bluntly: “vou're the only wom- an | have ever really wanted to mar- ry t it's too soon to tell yvou this ~=h ¢ you haven't had time to ! leary to care—and maybe you conldn't, [ anmhiow—1'm so sort of rough—and | different. T wish you'd try. And may- vou don't learn to care, yon'll he stronger by the time you've found o it, fand then Annt Detsey and T will : ot | you some work comewhere-—~but I he ne you won't ever hive to work—I hope vou'l' let me do it It was a long ! “Were you in the storm this after- | <p. ch uttered with muny breaks. noon?”’ | phne stood verv still, “Oh.” she “Yes.” The match had gone oulj Whispered, “how good you are and they were again in darkness. | would it make von very happy—if I | “Yes.” 1 walked from the car. I am from the city. I heard they needed girls up here to pick grapes and so—I came.” He could read extreme the dragging volce. fatigue in “Come,” he said, suddenly, “you must go to the village. You need something to eat—a hot drink.” “I can't walk another step.” She was crylng softly. “lI've hurt my foot.” “Are you afraild to stay here?” Humphrey asked. “I'll go back and get my horse.” “lI hate to hear the owls," she sobbed, “when they hoot—and the frogs.” In the darkness Humphrey smiled. What a child she was—with 1 wom- an's eyes. “They can't hurt you,” he sald, good naturedly “I'l! be back in a minute.” When he returned to the girl he { found her curled up against a fallen {log. “I've brought a robe,” he sald. “Wrap yourself in it.” When she was safe in the seat he began to think where he should take | her. There was no hotel and the squalid boarding louse where the grape-hands boarded was no place for | this little slender thing. { home was presided over by his mar rled sister, a grim young woman who would look askance at the ¢ stray As they reached the crossroads, he turned his horse's head away from his own house. “I am going to take you,” he sald, “to my great aunt's. Sheip seventy and ehe lives by her self.'and she's as good--as gold ” “But can't [ go on to the farm ‘when they want help?’ she ques- tioned. “You can rest at my aunt's to night,” he sald, evasively When a few minutes later he had made his explanations to Aunt Bet sey, and had ushered his llttle stray into her presence. he was sllent for a moment before the revelation of the girl's beauty 8y the light of the mateh he hat seen only her face. But now all the grace and charm of her delicate frame were revealed “I've got some cold baked bteans caid Aunt Betscy, bustling, 11 warm them up, and you shall have a cup of tea.” Humphrey blushed as she spoks baked beans. He could not have de fined his feelings. but this @ was worthy of--ambrosia But as she ate the good food set down before her. daintily lut ith appetite, she seemed glorify the act. Humphrey said “Good nl,h ently and went home. All way that tender face appealed o and the trembling lips =aid afrald.” vinity somehow 1o ! The next mornir2 Lie went ar ,neg to Aunt DBetsey's The girl was asleep. “I'm going to take ¢ ¥ to her ' sald Aunt Betsey. out.~ Humphrey's st!ff lips fran 1 ques tion. “What do you think of her “She's a dear little thing Her name is Daphne. Her mhr and dled a year ago ilc wben Daphne =~as tx His own | | {man when tested by length of years, py | should he." his. “I'll stay,” she sald, simply, “with Aunt Retsey—-and she must let me help her—and—and do you know what my heart sald to me last night face? It said, here is a man that a woman might trust—that a woman might trust forever.” IS WOMAN THE WEAKER SEX | Demonstrations Have leen Abundant Proof That Her Tenacity of Life Is Greater Than Man's, ’ — Fron the earllest recorded time, savs the Washington Herald, women | have been epoken of as the weaker | | sex. As frail, delfcate creatures. Emi- t writers have asserted that aside n their natural constitutional frail- v women wer Yet t wwn of the twentieth contury finds us with abundant proof of woman's physical superiority over Yo ne the power to «ndure suffering and re- sist disease In 1890 the United States cgnsus showed that there were at that time i 3,951 centenarians in the country, of llhum 2,688 were women. Out of §9 centenarians who dled In England du- rln.. the year 1883, 79 were women l and ten were men, while out of 21 cen- ! tenarians who died in Scotland in | 1895, 16 were women and five were | men. The mystery of this tenacity of life woman still remains a secret At birth boys are slightly larger. both In height and weight; and con- tinye in the lead until twelve; then the girls pass them. both in height indd weight for about two vears, when . hove again take the lead and com- o their owth ar about twenty- thrs or twentv-four, while girls com- plete their &ro teen or twen- ty With this ception, males 1 in heigh weight throughout 1in Wines and Pastels Jarred. o residents of the Rue du Fau- <t Honore in Paris—among president of the re- bassador and th rior—are -nmp].\!n of unwieldy down this aristo isturb the comfort A succession s« up and tic street and d of the residents Raron Henri de schild is one of the greatest sufferers as he bas two coliections to which he artaches the uwmost importance, his wine and his pastels. The vibration caused by the autobuses is disintegrating his valya. ble pictures and shaking up and dis- i turbing his anclent wines. The baron is petitioning that the antobus route shall be changed in con- <ideration for his picture gallery ang Lis wine cellar, or at least that (.. gpecd shall be reduced in paseing his ho To- R + shonla?™ To Humphrey it seemed that her | words brought a vislon of a new | heaven and a new earth. “I can't tell you" he said, brokenly, “how hap- She laid both of her little hands in | when the match first showed me your | valids one-fith of the | We Won’t Sacrifice Qaity but we are always stedying how to Increase The Quantity We give the “most now but we aie anxions t, | more. Phone us and prove it Best Butter, per pound . % ; 8 Sugar, 16 pounds ........ o 1.0 Cottolene, 10 pound pails. . ... P s 125 5 Cottolene, 4-pound pails. ............................ 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