Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 9, 1912, Page 6

o Ahe | Jy/thls bank Through our connections we can make" collections for you in any part of the world. The lowest possible charges and the most efficient service guaranteed. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government JOBO T i IF I1'S REAL ESTATE You want, see us before iyou buy. We have it anywhere and in any size tracts, and if it is INSURANCE $OOI0ION0 You are needing we can give you thebestjon earth and treat you right. Polk County Real Estate & Insurance Co. i Office: Room 7, Deen & Bryant Bnilding CHRE0OPQEAPOPOBOPOLO 10100 CHOPODOPOTODGIO IO IOIOPOB THE VALUE OF YOUR PRESERVING WORK The qual- depends on three things. ity of the fruit, the =kill of the pre- server and the character of the jars, employed. We glasses, rubbers, ote., last in any quantity at supply the the lowest prices, most skill- ful presgeie makers in town get their suppli s here. There's a reason, Lakeland Hardware & Plumbing Co. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR ANDIBUILDER Will fornish plans and specificat.vns or will follow any plans and specifications furuished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let nie thow you some Lakelond homes I have built. LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide streets, shade trees, fertile sall, bullding restrictions. Inside the y, ome block east from lake Mor- tan, SMITH & STEITZ ad G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lestste. wea have it. open the receptacle, press the finger: | despair FELEGRAM, Gir! Tynist's DJ"“me:\t Brings Happiness to Two. By A. G. GREENWOOD. I was revelling in omy latest find. It was a will ateur's will— written on blue io ap. “The money of which 1 should die | ! in possession, amounting to $2.500, { will be found in notes in the secret i | drawer of the Patsca oakchest. Tc of the right hand upon the five small knobs in the margin of the sccond panel on the righthand side; with the thumb touch the inlaid rose in the center of the the side panel. COn opening the chest the drawer will be found open also.” I read thus far, then vaguely wcn dered if the secret drawer had bren discovered. the will and the name, address and description of the testator—since 18.0, ! when Erasmus Whitehead, sculptor, wrote these directions, the money had lain hid! Where had the old eccen- tric lived? At Mrs. Pelham's, 22 Mar- fanetta Terrace, Chelsea. I made up my mind to call at 22 right away. “Erasmus Whitehead! Dead these twenty years,” puffed an old woman who opened 22's blistered door to me. “Lodged with me thirty years, he did, and his good lady, too, while she drew breath. Miss Jan does now, an’ a sweeter body you'll not meet in all Lon'on—no, that you won't, an' | don't care who says so!” Mrs. Pelham showed me up to a little sitting room. Jan \Whitehead opened the door. Her dress was plain, but her gweet- ness was enough to keep any ass of thirty (like myself) tongue-tied and staring like a raw ycuth from the country. I found my tongue and plunged into explanations, cle. He was supposed to have intestate. lle had left nothing On I went about my discovery and the chest. “The Patsea chest!” she echoed in and her mouth trembled. “Oh, oh, it's sold!"” “'Twas old Sydney—Jacob Sydney —who bought it, dearie,” observed Mrs. Pelham. “The shop disappeared ten year ago.” “I'll try to trace it,"” said Jan. “And thank you ever so much for be- ing so kind.” “I—I'm only too glad to help you in any way,” I stuttered and departed, leaving my card. I wanted to see her again. I thought out a thousand plans, a bil- llon excuses. But I never saw her. Seven whole wasted days passed. Then I had a note. “Dear Mr. Oakley," it ran— “l have been fortunate enough to trace the chest, but am unable to open the secret drawer. Could you help me? I am in some haste, and would count myself even deeper in your debt if you would come to my ald. I shall be In after 6:30 each night, it you could spare me five min- utes. Yours sincerely, “JAN WHITEHEAD.” Spare her five minutes! Five years! Five lives if I had 'em. At the end of the road I met her. died She was obviously pleased (on the | beastly chest’s account of course). Mrs. Pelham bustled up to watch | proceedings. I examined the chest— bosses, knobs, inlaid strips and the rose. Then I opened the lid. A floor panel had risen; from it, to one slde, obtruded a drawer. Jan bent down, Mrs. Pelham lowered her head, pant- ing. 1 stood up, a sharp pain in my Leart. It was empty. \Whatever it had contained had been abstracted. Jan straightened and walked to the window, Mrs. Pelham subsided into a chair and blubbered . “Forgive—how foolish you must think me!” she said, trying to smil a piteous attempt that shook o shower of tears from ber brimmfie eyes. “lI--1 had been silly enongh to be too sanguine.” Sflence fell -a strained silence Then she told me of her hunt for the purchaser of the chest had found Jacob Sidney in a back street in Putney, whether he had gone on giving up the shop. Fortunately —so fortunately as she then thought—he had taken a faney to the Patsea chest The old man was ill: been allowed to see him, and it was only a§ & vastly enhanced price that he consented to sell—§250 she told me with a shiver I've never felt so utterly wretched g0 entirely despairing, as 1 did all that night, and the next day--till an hour after John King had left me. “I'm worrled,” old King had growl ed. “It's a girl—t typist—in the office I've always thought her as honest as daylight. A day or so ago she came to me in a state of nervous excite- ment. She’s been with us six years— since she was eighteen—else she wouldn't have asked nor I been so foolish as to give in. She aeked point blank for a loan of $250. No wonder you jump,” he growled. “She promis- ed to repay within forty-eight hours She was certaln of her abiility; some she Iv. I let her have it. I wl implicitly, vou. Tod she came to me, whiie as a sl her evelids swollen with tears, big blue rings around her eyves, g t .13, ashamed of herself, and con | couldn’t pay.’ “What's her name?” ilv?sl.\ as 1 cou! “Whitehead. At 6:30 Jan I asked as cares d he e on iting her LAK 1 glanced at the date of ! s | Erasmus was her un- had not | money had come to her unexpected. | 1 trusted her | refully. notes n 3 slipped, you Know. 4 l went over to the chest, found the | eatches ¢ w up the lid. ‘ She wn, thrusting her llme { hand into the hellow from which the | ‘ draw had risen 1 heard her | ing breath. i aw a nolsy, shudder- u the hole she drag- | ged a bundle ething wrapped in vellow, duststained paper, tied with 1,[5 a piece of rotten string. Cobwebs and dirt fell in hack her head with a cry of delight, of huge relief, laughing unsteadily, ‘rembling violently. “(;od bless you, look! You don't tnow all you've done for me. I fecl 1 can breathe again. I feel clean now T felt dishonest. Now—now every- *hing's glorious! How much is there, Mr. Oakley?” | “Five hundred pounds,” I told her. “It was. Yes, you told me so,” she | answered, and she seemed all on wires. “It's—it's splendid. I've been longing to pay Mrs. Pelham for ages. 1 owe her rent, and she will buy little extra things for me, 1 was thinking of her mostly, which made me- -understand.” Then she told me the story I had | already heard from John King. Mrs. Pelham—forever dissolving into tears ~came upstairs soon after. We sat, all three rejoicing. “I knew I could trust him,” she declared. “I knew it by his face. A good mcoApldm maybe. A face to be truste Jun said quite angrily: “Sarah!” And.it was then that I first allowed my=clf to hope that Jan didn't think me plain It a month, then, it became a set- tlod s for her to return and find ting for her it one day Jan did not offer her I received a letter this morning,” she said, her angry eyes on mine. "It cue from i hrm of lawyers. This " it ran— years ago I purchased u Some | chest from you. When repairing the base of it I discovered a secret draw- er, which contained the sum of $2.500, Rightly or wrongly, 1 considered the sum mine. Now, on my deathbcd, 1 feel a little uncertain. I have nei her kith nor kin, and I have decided to leave yor, should you survive me, & legacy of the same amount. “Your obedlent servant, “JACOB SIDNEY.” “Why do this- ~why?" she cried pas- sfonately, adding with cruel illogical- ness: “You must have known I should find out! I'm alone in the world; I'm poor. You've—you've cheated me into spending money which {sn't mine. How dared you—how could you? I thought you my friend. You meant to be kind. Yes, you've been cruel.” “Your trouble came about through me,” 1 said quietly, after a pause. “I let you in for it, It was my optimism which made you so eager to buy the chest. I apologize.” She echoed the word in derision. “I can do no more,” [ sald. “Except-—go,” she sald rudely; yet she choked. And then 1 did the only wise thing I had done that afternoon. I went to |her and stood behind her and said sternly: | “I have an excuse. The best. I love you. 1 won't bear your cruelty any longer. 1 won't hear your re- proaches. I'll only hear your answer to my question. Jan, will you marry me? And I'll not hear your ‘No' to that; only your ‘Yes.'" She had grown stiff, rigid, as first I spoke. Then little by little her head had fallen forward. She suddenly col- lapsed as her hands went forward, upward to her face. She was crylng as my arms went round her, erying as 1 dragged her fingers from her r-wet cheeks, crying as I bent her head back and stared into her eyes But it was her lips--framing no word, but zomething infinitely sweet- er——which answered me at last KEPT MONEY IN CORK LEG Before a Surglcal Operation, Samuel Ridenbaugh Disclosed a Deposit of $1,100. Not placing much faith in banks, { Samuel Ridenbaugh, a restaurant keeper in Prunswick, Md, for years der osited his savings in a hole in his cor'y leg, especially prepare® for a banking receptacle, Secretive and peculiar in his hab- its, Ridenbaugh had never disclosed this cccentricity. Recently he was taken suddenly ill and after a hur rted consultation by physicians an im- | mediate operation was decided upon. | H{e was taken the the Frederick City | hospital. Before being operated on he asked that a friend be called in. 'nstrap- ping his cork leg, Ridenbaugh in- trusted it to his friend's care, telling | him that it contained all his personal | possessions. Ridenbaugh died and $1,100 in bank notes of large denominations, gold and some silver was found in the comk | leg. The money was deposited in the | People’s bank of Brunswick under the name of Ridenbaugh. | Japanese Horseshoes. The Japanese idea of horseshoes is | a curious one. In that country straw | purpose. The shoes are made of ordl- nary rice straw, braided very tight ! and firm, making a surface the size of !.a horse's hoof and about hal. awn ‘ach thick. They cost about a halfpenny a pair. a shower as she tore ; «way the covering. Then she threw (4 but we are always studying 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 . Sugar, 16 pounds ... Cottolene, 10 pound pails. .. Cottolene, 4-pound pails........ Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails 4 cans family size Cream 7 cans baby size Cream. .. R v R SR s TR TE ST RE AN AT B it 1-2 barrel best Flour. i 3 12 pounds best Flour....... 140 Picric Hams, per pound ‘ Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams i Octagoa Soap, 6 for...... Ground Coffee, per pound. .. 5 gallons Kerosene ........ E. G. Tweedell We Won’t Sacrifice Qulty ‘ | SHLOT 30T 20 SO B O a better, more complete stock of ELECTRIC FIXTL TIRONS, MOTORS, MATERIALS SUPPLIES than ow herecabouts. 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