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

Widow By Lawrence Alfred Clay ight, 1912, by Assoclated Literary idily Press.) Jim Bushwick of the village of Rawlins, was a ne'er-do-well. He was born lazy and without business acumen sufficient peck 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, ambitious woman, and if she could have had his help they could have been well off after five years. She didn't have it, however. Jim was always going to do this and do that, and he never even got up energy enough to set out a bed of onioans. The wife seldom scolded or com- plained. She was the village seam- stress, and by steady work she man- aged to keep a roof over their heads. Now and then there was talk of do- ing something to Jim—tar and feath- ers—a Wwhipping—the law or some- thing else, but it never went beyond talk. As for tar and feathers, there was no tar in the town, and no citi- zen would have been willing to con- tribute the feathers, Thus things went on vears, and then Jim Bushwick was taken with a hopeless illness. When this disease took hold of the man he galloped to the grave very fast. It was only after the doctors had told Jim there was no hope for him, and that his flame of life would be snuffed out in a couple of weeks more, that the true spirit of a manly man came out. He called his wife to his bed- side one day and began: “ \, R if avn You can always spare “something” Every little bit helps. rol ace just a little within your income. By adding a “trifle” ev- .y day you will, in time, have a fortune and jn any case Provide ¢ .inst misfortune. Bring a “little bit” into this bank every day Tur"l now. FIRST NATIOMAL BANK AT “Sarah, you are going to be a widow soon.” OF LAKELAND “Yes," she replied, as tears filled her eyes. Under Control of U. 8. Government “I've been a no-account man and hushand.” “But you've done the best you could.” DOBOEFOTO LG T < QOO IF 'S REAL ESTATE B SR R T e S I “Mebbe so, but when I look back I'm ashamed of myself. I can't leave you a dollar.” y| “Never mind, Jim. Everybody will! be kind to me and I shall get along. | You want, see us before you buy. We have it anvwhere and in any size tracts, and if it is INSURANCE You are needing we can give you the hestlon carth and treat you right, Polk County Real Esiate & lasurance . Co. Office: Roem 7, Deen & Bryant Bnilding Fm T = e S R S TR et Tt et YOU SHOW WIiTH PRIDE us I room vou e had conip i up-to-date =tyle. You don't ~how the old fashioned Kind at all, If heen deterred from having you have vours modernized by the imagined cxpense, have a talk with us. It may tot cost nearly so much as you have been led to believe. lakelaml Hardware & Plumbing_Co. Co. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will turnish plaus and specifications or will follow any plans and He Had Signed Without Looking, Let us hope the doctors are mistaken, and that you will live many a year yet.” “Iet us do nmnothing of the kind, but get ready for business. Sarah, you know what breach-o-promise is, of course?” “Yes."” “It you have a pretty good case agin a man he'll settle for cash.” “But how can I have a breach-of- prcmise 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 [ want to see him.” The deacon was a widower und weil to do. He was one of those who had spoken of tar and feathers, but (ke had a neighbo {that. When he specifications furnished. BUNGALOWSR A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakelond Lomes I have built. LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA for vy feeling, S ———— - T e e T e e ] d con N pressed his sympathy, e mn said: “Deacon, Sarah will soon be le fll\‘ll\‘." “Yes."” “1 want folks to be kind to her whe I'm gone.” “They will be, Jim “I'm not so sure of tired of being kind 2 know how good you a only put it in black you'd be kind to Sarah gone I should feel a about going. Here's a drawn up that says you'll be “Why, I'll slgn that, of was the reply; and the deaco: once in his life, signed a pape Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are ecxercising great care to seil our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition w ROSEDALE'S other aitratcions. Wide strects, shade trees, fertile sel, building restrictions. lunside the o ding it and lookin X Giad i . e ut reading King for tr 0 » OO€ Block cast from Jake Moe lic did more than that. iie ¢¥ered - to boss the funeral when i > off and to be one of the palibe Then Cyrus DBarnes, anot ower, was sent for. [Ie w sorry to find Jim =o near and he was going fo pull out bill and leave it w didn't. He indulged i of sympathy, which cent. cheaper for him. “Cyrus, I've been a 1« man,” sajd Jim. “You have that,” was agreed, “I ought to have Leen at work ever” e ‘We all SMITH & STEITZ md G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lests'e #, have It slick of a know that’ Jim Bushwick’s to sell or buy al for eight' .. | part in it, “Ir's a wonder you folks didn't stir __““;'“’5“*‘% u] m?sop'“s_so s, We talked of it many times, but we knowed that 'lt we put on the tar and feathers youd be too allfired lazy to scrape ‘em .“Y and your wife would have the h." “That's right. “None better.” “And that brings me to what 1 ant to ask. !m won't have a dol- i oafter I'm g “Of cours > won't.” 1e'll have to de neml on the kind- | ¢ the neighbors.” » will” _you don't belong to any + you believe in heaven, she is good, Cyrus.” “You'd like to feel that I was look- | down on you and acting as your jan angel, wouldn't you?” you are going to keep up your z ness— I'm not, Cyrus—I'm going to <lo. Tl do all that T can for you 2 vou'll sign this paper.” \What is it?" “Just a promise to be kind to, and i you will look after, Sarah. We null both feel a great deal better if | 3 e will,” The caller looked upon it as a dy- man's whim, and signed. \Vhen! »eudy to go he said: "I hope you will get a hustle on you up there, Jim." | Then three more widowers and one | | old bachelor got the word to call,! and in the course of three days the | 1siness was wound up. Then a We Won't Sacrifice Qalm but we are always studying how 1 Increase The Quantity \Ve gnc the “most now but more.” Ve are anxious Phone us and prove it. é\lm A ver. was sent for, the signed pes |4 Best Butter, perpound . . ................... 3 .rs, handed over to him, and a{ f Sugar, 16 pounds ......... 10 areat ealm fell upon the dying man. Cottolene, 10 pound p&lll ...... 2 He iled every few minutes, and 4 i 43 made no understandable explanations | Cottolene, 4-pound pails. .. .................oo0o %) ezarding what he had been up to. B Snowdrift, 10-poun! pails. .. 13 \ few days luter he passed away, | 4 cans family size Cream....... " and almost his last words were: = A J M, if they want to be kind to [ 7 cans baby size Cream............................ 2 om go ahead.” s 1-2 barrel best Flour. .. 300 There was kinduess from every di- ; 7 rection, from contributions to pay | ]2 ‘)Pund’ be“ Flour....... 140 the funeral expenses to groceries and | Picnic Hams, per pound ....... 1212 provisions sent in for the widow's Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams. . ... 1t “tenance. After about a month had | & | ¢lapsed Deacon larrison received a ; ocmgo': Soap, 6for......... 1] |letter asking him 10 ¢ all at the law | [§ Ground Coffee, per pound. .. .. % loffice of the attorney who had tho‘ 5 gallons Kerosene ........... Eh ; 0 | dead man’s papers. When the good | ¥ {man came strolllng in, only mldly| unrlouq as to why he had been sum-, moned, he was greeted with: I we e e “Of course it won't take place forl [] [ [a year, but allow me to congratulate | ] n advance.” L WE WILL GIVE some REAL information on the cost of the installat ity in your home if you will but ask us for an ESTIM | You can depend on our estimate as being the low. rou can obtain a thorouzhly first-class piece of right materials and fixturcs, Prompt work and no when the work Florida Electric & Machinery Co. DRANE BUILDING ") PHONL 46 “\What d'ye mean?" asked the dew\ con, | “Your marriage with the Widow | wick." Shoo! What ye joking about?” | “Only this.” ! The paper he had signed for Jim | Bushwick was handed him, Hehad sign- ed without reading, and now behold: “I not only promise to be kind to, James Bushwick's wife after she be- | comes his widow, but to marry her one year after his death.” “By thunder!” exclaimed the den- con as he danced around. “No better evidence wanted In a | breach-of-promise case,” 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 off for a week and then came down. One by onme the others followed suit. Fach one was financially well able to do so . “Money contributed by your good friends, and nothing is to be sald about it," remarked the lawyer to AP the widow as he handed her $950 of PRAEITINS 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. Job Printing ZiS O\\l\(: to the enlargement ol newspaper and publishing” In originality of conception and in- 1t has been necessary to meve The News Job Office up-stairs where it will be found in R 11 and 12, Kentucky Building, in the petent chargeof Mr. G. J. Williams. anything that can be printed. if vou ! | genuity of execution, the escape of | Prince Kropotkin from the prison of the Nikolaievsk Military hospital in | consplrators outside the prison took but not cne of them was ever arrested or suspected, although | many of them were subsequently ban- ished to Siberia for other political of- fenses. noon, in the presence of three armed goldiers, and with such novel acces- sories as cherries, opera hats, a mouse, | muslc, a black mare and a microscope. The chances were at least ten to one that it would fail, notwithistanding the stratazem worked perfectly, and the liberated prisoner dined that night in | Donon's restaurant, the most fashion- | able in St. Petersburg, while the entire police of the capital was nusacking‘ the city in search of him. St. Petersburg in 1876 is probably un- : The escape was made in broad day- extraordinary ingenuity with which it : Nobody even imagined that he would | the best work at the right prices. Mr. Williams, | paralleled in on annals. Twelve | light, about five o'clock in the after- | was planned. but every device and | be shrewd and bold enough to take | his dinner in S0 public a place, and | not a single detective looked for him | there, although search was made in| scores of other places, and every exit from the city v carefully guarded that a mouse could bardly have crept through unobserved.—Century, The News Job Office Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentucky Buildizg | i