Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 24, 1912, Page 6

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i PAGE 81X - THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA, AUG. 24, 1912. Every little bit helps. You can always spare “somcthing 1l you hioe just a little within your income. By adding a ‘“‘trifle” ev- ery day you will, in time, have a fortune and jn any case Provide apuin-t misfortune, Bring a “little bit” into this bank every day start now,. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. S. Government BABIOIOBGIOGOEOIO D S @ IF I1T"$ REAL ESTATE You want, see us lvcl'orc you buy. We have it anywhere and in any size tracts, and if it is o INSURANCE You are needing we can give vou the bestlon carth and treat you right. Polk County Real Estate & Insurance_Co. Office: Rocm 7; Deen & Bryant Building AT PN DR D T S ARt ST R S Tt Yot T YOU SHOW WITH PRIDE the hath room yon have had us conip i up-toadaie style. You don't how the old fashioned Kind at all, If you have been deterved from having yours modernized by the imagined capense, huve a talk with us. It may been led to believe Lakeland i!ardware & Plumbing Co. ter cost nearly so much as yon have | | T0 BRING PEACE ' Mrs. Remsen Knew Proper Way to Manage Lovers’ Quarrels, 8y CLARA INEZ DEACON. ! 2 ! {Copyright, 1512, by Associat Press.) I After farmer I‘v" se strained the eveniig mfn had a1 Literary ! who said that she would marry some rich cattleman within a year. Following on the heels of the first report came one that Miss Kitty had bal an offer of $30 a week to go on the ~t1ge and piay the part of little Eva in “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Her good looks and her talent would in- sure her marriage to a millionaire be- the end of the second season. vas to the effect to accompany a 4 companion on a 1, '0 he gone two o DParis she would it o fall in love and third repo Kitty Itrip & b [things ready for in e: she came out en the veranda where + re were rather in- Do <hand sat smokin and sat bt the fonrth was vouched with a bur id a Two |, ihe county paper. It could tirce minutes passed and then the t of authority, it said, n Mm wd remarked: t! Remsen, daughter of “I'm gittin® riled up.” I and highly esteemed “You don't mean mad?” was asked. | ¢ nemsen, had been knocked [ “Yes, T do." la v a running hog and had her ! “Rut what in beeswax has riled !, - hroken. The bone had been |vou? The spotted cow didn't kick | . D. Cummings, the popular vou again tonight, did she?” ',, lico, and the patient was doing “No, it ain't the spotted cow. Its the way things are goin' around this | house and the time has come when I want to know all about it.” “l didn't know as anything dread- ful had happened.” replied the wife after a moment. ing cooked and the beds made the same as usual. | guess you've got prickly heat.” “And T guess you'n Kitty take me for a fool!" “Look here, pa,” gald the wife In a soothing way, “it would be better for you to 'tend to the outdoor work and leave me to manage inside. But if you won't do it T s'pose I'll have to tell you something. It don't amount to shueks, but you've got to know or bust. Our Kitty and Earl Andrews have quarreled.” “You don't say!" excluimed pa with such vigor that he hit off the stem of his pipe. “There you go! You'll be falling off your chair next!" “But they've quarreled! Bless my cats, but T thought something was up. T asked about Earl three or four days ago and you turned me off. So they've had a row and won't get mar- rled?” “What a man you are, pa! S'pose they have quarreled? Young folks In love always quarrel. You'n me quar- reled.” “But we made it up.” “So will they if some idiot don't apile everything.” “And that's the reason Kitty s moonin’ around and eatin’ nuthin® but tea and toast?” he asked after hitch- Ing around for a while. “She ain't goin’ to die over {i. T l(lnn't want vou to say a word or to pretend to notice anything. It's not for the girl's father to mix in such things. You jest leiwve it to me.” “But women ain't got heads husiness." “Is this business, for snunflow- you old PO R PE L b R T R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plaie and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWR A SPECIALTY. jer?” “Gosh All Hemlock!" exclaimed the wife. think you can patch up a “Do you lovers' {quarrel the same as you sell buttern Let me show yon some Lakelond homes 1 have built, TARELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care-to *ell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of pecple. Thus we give vou detlralle neighbors in addition 0 ROSEDALE'S other aitratcions Wide stre-ts, shade troes, fertile | | | | sall huflding restrictions. Inside the ¥, cae hlock east from JTake Mor- : ton ! | SMITH & STEITZ nd G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lestste wa bave it | eggs? IPon't you peep' M s anything! No, sir. and that's why [ tell { vou to keep hands off " “Yes; but mebbe 'l have to go to farl and threaten to lick him.” “Hiram Remsen, have you lost the lttle sonse you ever had?" was fluns |at him like a stone. hear me inow. You shet up as ' Don’t you mix e “The meals are he-I,‘ 1 Andrews' father had given him a -'urt in life by buying him a flour- ine mill. As the sad-hearted young gronnd the wheat into flour the of the village reached his ears i gnve him cold chills. He had loved and lost. He had meant to love, but the lost was a different matter. He had rather picked the fuss for the jsake of making up. He even knew just what he would reply when a penl- tent note from Kitty brought him back to the farm house, and with tears in her eyves she asked forgive- ness. He would pretend to think the matter over for a couple of minutes and then say: “Very well, but don’t let it happen again ” The sum of woney which yeung man wonld have given to put thines back two wecks he figured out on one of his paper flonr sacks at $1850,224 85 He figured it three tinies, so there could he no mistake ahont it. The words “loved and lost!" rang in his ears above the grinding of the mill. Pa Remsen had heard all the re- ports as they came out, and at length the time came when he must talk “Ma, what does it all mean?" he asked. “Oh, it's you, is it?” was answered. out " “Yes: but—" “And you do it!” “But what's Kitty doing out in the orchard? Some tramp may come along and yell at her. T guess I'l—" “You guess nothing! Don't you go near the orchard, and don't vou call her!” e went off to work in the corn- field, but an hour later came tiptoeing back to the house to say: “Martha, in the orchard!" i “Tramp nothizg, vou old | really helieve vou ae getting bling! Go back to your work!" before pa returned to say: “There’s a tramp right up to Kitty and talkin' with her! and——" that | “Didn’t I tell you to keep your mose | there's a tramp skulking hen. T I'm goin’ out ; He was whirlel around and flung | {down on a chair, and it was two or . " three minutes before the wife said: “Now vou can get ready to ask | Earl Andrews to stay to supper. It's him out there with Kitty!” “Gosh all hemlock!” “And yon'l have spilt the hull thing!" “Then ~then “Then you shet up! hat cabbage heads men are over | I never did | m p lovers' quarrels! Jest go ont : rang around the back door in a koeer way, and when they come | up you ask Earl to have a glass of | buttermilk to stay his stomach ‘till L can get the love-feast ready!” APPEALED TO THEIR CUPIDITY‘ Comparatively Well-to-Do Regidents of | Yokohama Got Rice Intended For the Poor. The nearest Japan has yet come to the “free soup kitchen” idea, so com- mon In the westerg countries in times of scarclty, says the Japanese Adver- tiser, was th-‘ ‘poor man's rice mar- ket” at Toeb and Motomachi in Yoko- hama Sunday. This Sunday n during which the needy can | e Rangoon rice at the cost o{ 16 sen a cho I market opened | ing and will continue for | { You do—-! | be happy [ kicked the cat | the vilalge throu:i {ed a tramp were o | satisfied, but ma bos {had a sharp tongue | hands off. {and when thd spot | Pe kicked back of the market was a | for considerable disorder, sharp nd d The promoters of | When Miss Kitty ret scliool there ha! be Imv an engagement anl o [ There are forty different th leceit, the s=ale, \be, a director of the ! Yokohama Rice Exchange, and his as- ! Mr. ers can do and quarrel ahout, sociates were dizconcerted at the | why specify the one ti in close of the day’s business to learn | case? It is sufficienit to say that Loth that many well to do persons had vis- were agreed they hal ma 8 ©at {ted one or the other of the stores and | mistake in thinking thes for had purchased five cho of Rangoon | knew | rice, which was the maximum limit fnr | they were making a ereat mistak the purchaser. saving so In fact the number of those who “You will find the were sufficlently well todo to purchase | i with him.” rice at the outslde market price was ’ man as he left the Lon co numerous that many of the desery- | “And you the right girl™ fng poor Who came to the sale were It was very sgd 1t was Dt crowded out and returned to their Miss Kitty went into the anl homes at the close of business for the | & T lo day with empty baskets ‘ The miscarriage of plans | this way led the promoters to seek the aid of the police and vesterday the store. | keepers were instructed to sell rice to | no person unless he or she produced a certificate from the city office that he ! was poor and deserving I The scenes at the two stores were | “oisterous and caused the pollce to he called in on several occasions to | ! Was | get the crowds in order. The would- | .onl 3( | ve < came from all parts orl hose | Ka wa prefecture were cach other, and all the time they scenffed the two Pa Remsen’s cu It was a har tas One day there 1 the | i It was only half an hour this time '} ¥ \ “Sme REAL information on the cost of the installat YA your Lome if you will but ask us for an LESTIM A\ Yon can depend on onr estimate as being the lows wican obtain a thoroughly first-- lass piece abit materials and fistures Prompt work and 1 Ehuping” when the we We Won't Sacrifice Qualm' but we are always stidying how to Increase The Quantity We give the “most now but we are anxions 1, ‘more.. Phone us and prove it. Best Butter, per pound . ..................... RSN Bugar, 16 pounds .. .o .. s i 1O Cottolene, 10 pound pails. ... ... A U A 12§ Cottolene, 4-pound pails. . & Snowdrift, 10-poun! pails . . i 113 4 cans family size Cream. . ... e 23 7 cans baby size Cream.. ... ........ 2§ 12 pounds best Flour. ...... Picnic Hams, per pound . ... Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams. Octagon Soap, 6 for......... Ground Coffee, per pound. ... ................... . . 5 gallons Kerosene ............. DAt ALIGHT ON THE SUBJECT, WEi WILL GIVE Florida; Electric & Machinery (o. DRANE BU ILDING ® PHONE 40 Job Printing 7\ O\\'I.\'G to the enlargement of newspaper and publishing? busin 1t his been necessary to move The News Job Office up-stairs where it will be found in Room 11 and 12, Kentucky Building, in the com peteut charge of Mr. G. J. Williams. I anything that can be printed, if vou wo the best work at the right prices. o Mr. Williams, The News Job Office Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentucky Build.ng

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