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

ISARA) KVER any lear of burglars if you ]\L_'J your papers, viduables and jw«]x'\' anoour (]Lp(hll vaults — built o the most scientific modern lines by the worll's greatest safe makers. Ctterly proof agast Hre theft, ote, | HIRST NATIONAL BBANK OF LAKELAND | like,” ‘e l‘\]’\' NG TEI ‘f‘! IM, LAJ Father’s Scheme for Keeping the| 0ld Compact. By FRANCIS A. COREY, Colonel Brady crushed the letter in his big hand. It was written on the official papcr of a noted law firm in the city of New York. “Well, well,” he ejaculated. “I badn’t thought of that old compact for ages. It's hard to realize that my little Penclope is now grown up and will soon be flitting to another nest.” A American Labor % Ks. { “Fiddlesticks, dad! What does the | hetmuml of two !nfants amount to?” she said scornfully. “I've heard from the young man. He proposes to hold us to the com- pact.” ‘But he and I have never met—" “That's why I'm having your por- | trait painted, my dear—that he may gec what you're like before eoming | to claim you.” ! “Oh-h!" Peneiope gasped, taking a step forward as if to tear the canvas in shreds. “I won't marry him! 8o there! You were a silly dad, ever to mixed up in such foolishness. Yor've got voursc!f into a pretty ! | ¢ e Smoke.... i The colonel sighed. All the sun- shine would go out of his home when | pretty, wilful Penclope left it. She: was the apple of his eye. prospect of one day resigning her to ] a young husband was not his (}n.r trouble. It would be like her to luve and wed unwisely! An experience of cighteen years in tryving to gnide her erratic steps had t ht him tha opposition made her the more deter- mined to v her own sweet will She had ty zed ovir him from cradle. When it came to ¢ wishes did not nave a feathior's weiy! m(h her. i “I know perfeetly well what she | would say to that old agrecment. [ might pick out the hest man in the! world for her husband and she would | turn up her sauey Litie noze at him.” sighed the perplexed father, | Some factg set forth in the letter he had just received made Penelopes | future a very pressi ! could no longer be r ted to tl background. He needed to be as wils | as a serpent. A day or two later, abruptly, “My dear, T'm t having your portrait painted. “All right, dad. Any time she aequiesced, perched upon | his knee, She was delizuriully docile in matters that did not ecunt, Le =aid to hor| k ing ¢ you T S SR &0 ; DN NS : ‘\ : You e ) ve o 1t \ b el andtan : : : lNSURANCE ; You are needing we can "I\L you thebestlon carth 9 2 and treat you rlwm 3 o} : ) 3 A o AR > . . Polk County Real Estale & Insurance Co. 2 Office: Room 7, Deen & Bryant Builling 21 S L EOOROMIBOBOEOROBOFOIO L b L) » “WOGDMAN SAVE THAT TREE" ‘1 :. shonlid be the modern (ervgion of e | \ () P Fanous poem, Don't let ig wilt and :"‘;“ ) te just for the wane of o little at- e i ntion, Come here and get o wee Hr ' arraver with which you can rid _\vuri u - " = \ irees of all moths, cuterpiilars, 1 o | | gt by meis ete, You would ot sell sne | our trees for a lat of mosey Low the earnestness of sour by =aving it from its epamies, lakeland Hardware & Plumbing Co. BYLN ATRNORe . . T ..: mm.w- R. L. MARSHALL | CONTRACTOR ANDIBUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans ane specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakelond homes I have Suilt. LAEELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORID2 0 . ok St A L A R SRR 3 K e ""“Y’V'_':"'_.\_‘_ TG FETE T 3 o IRBARL £ horo ) LiveW |Ul! Wiil Like MUl v you desirable m-n:hbor~ in addition IEDALE'S other attrateions. , shade trees, fertile uilding restrictions. lnside the one hlock east from lake Mos- oy SMITH & STEITZ and G C ROGAN Whue €r You want in rea lestate. wa bave it “T wunt you to go down tayheach to have it aone. 1 i * b i hiers v 1t i 1 b ! | o me" A week [ ciled in the vld hou with her Aunt har 8 | i | | [ | It's an Excellent Likeness’ [ loved the place. It wouid be no hard- | ship to spend two quict aecks there The portrait painter made s ap- pearance the morn after Penclope’s arrival. There was & momis of speechless surprise. 8he had expeet- ed to see a shacgy-haired German on the shady side of lrfe. This man looked more like a prizefichter than an artist, being young, muscular, handsome. [is name was Owen Deering. “T wonder it dad saw him?" mused the puzzled girl. “Or did he just take to be presented to the man U've out for your husband.™ Her head went up, and she « d at her father. “I would have told you 1 o but [ didn't want to put s of love and marriace fore the time ca: You've heard me crony, Major Grabam like twin brethers into d be- fi things v ol I were dead these fifteen years, e leit a nephew six ur senior. When yor ere babe in the cradle the r 1 solemnly pledged you two childrea to each other.” But the ! question. It ! ! know, f there’s money involved—a tidy | snm—$§50,000—" wheeled on him. “So you'd or your daughter's happiness?” he flashed. “It+ isn’t the money, child, but a| omn compact made with the dead o kept.” He looked down into A.H. CIGARS A H. 1. CIGAR Lakeland, Flo T nous fiace, his strong lips | ¢ i pe, you've had i ; ever sinee you were ! o m TV Yo ma t i B Lo mocked, with ring eycs, Youn ought to know your daughis v woll to make so rasha declaration nddenly eatching her breath in ob, she flung herself into his arms. too ridienlous. Now give and let the P £ | A R SN T T l' 1d been toc it's dominion wrotched night [N » «0 why marriage with | . whose name she did not i. £0 ohmoxious to her, ik When ahe took her pose for the ,; | next moraing's sitting her pretty face ! osy freshness, a teary | Owen Deer lagsly for » r eves fie colors reck v moments, ihen threw down the 1 1 I mo ( ar i el ¢ nuch } i 1 ito 1 .l." i‘ f | Oh, I'm ‘e maii unhappy girl in) ‘ f D tee world! 1 l‘ o ‘What wuout, Poaelope, my darl | B \ ing? i N0 ] That wa stgaw teo much | § Ity B Down went her t and down went EP oy her head upnn shonlder. In ald* ¥ \ g+ stormy gust of exctement she mldit“ W w t 5 ( 11 him everything. { e On dcrl! )U st “T could always twist dad around my finger! Now he's firm az a rock. | but we arc always studyin, Gow ¢ Oh, what shali T do”* ! y “Marry me'" Desring whispered | l (2 ‘.t eagerly. | B [ I h L “Dad wouid naever zonsent.™ ncrease e u‘ln ll 3 “We'll elope.” Trieht eolor eame into Penelope’s | pe We Jive the "most now but we chooks. She was s¢ steeped in wils! . ", g e e fulness and perversity, the suggestion ! £ more. Phone us and e appealed te her powerfully Then! 5 came the thounght of the big, silent ! Best Butter, per pound . ......... i ! By Heve n .| B i father who lad never donled Ber anp B\ gogar, TE OB .. ... ervvonesreo - g1 2l L e rishe », : “Oh, 1o, * eonldn't zet married with- | & Cottolene, 10 pound pails. ......... ont dad,” <o eried And then, lnl-: Cottolene, 4-pound pails. . ”"_,l""“,' '_""'”"]"” i "[“ i ,‘r:fl“"'] % Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails . ... .. do We 1 1 an \ \ . 5 solemn .ow fo warey cach others | | 4 cans family size Cream......... ...... never aever o marry anvhody (% 7 cans baby size Cream Tt wiill be 2 thousand times| 3 ) 5 inding th hat sill¥ betrothal 4 1-2 barrel best Flour. ....... o irrcsponsible Children.” it 12 pounds best Flour. L cort ‘]l]’v] .q'ulysvx’nml “What " Picnic Hams, per vound . ..... . ever von e repliod P . “Now i Penelope. when the | @ Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams...... . ...... whimsical sugzestion had been acte 1§ Octagon Soap. i ()RR ssiesemunse upon. “woll beard the Ten in his Ground Coffee, per pound............. den ™ 1 Several hours later, two Iluflmd! 3 gallons Kerosene .......... o radiant people entered unheralded Colonel Hrady's ecity office. The col- )] onel regarded them fixedly a mnmrmt., w‘ e L then shut and bolted the door \ “Good morning, yvoung people. Wiat can i de for you”" o ! It was Penelope who repited. “Dad.” she sald in a rather simky voice, “Major Graham's nephew will RS | have to look eclsewhere for a ‘hride. | him on somebody’s recommendation? He's very nice. It's going to bo great Please write and tell him so I\o | fun having my portrait painted promised to marry Owen Deering: ] Mrs. Cunningham \\'hn‘ g not and T will rot o back on my word.” e au {Blind to the yonne man's attrtons. | r‘]-\~ i 1 "L l“:fl-d grin T 'OI\‘! d to be in evidenee at 1 the | i i ‘.“' e [sittinga. Put the sood lady dearly | v : fiy '1 n\: Sore vh ': ' i m‘ R? {loved an afternoon nap. Her easy l 4 : “‘v',‘ ol . i chair was comforta her eves had | o o0 4 L - i " ; 1 ~nmrly mrwr a tendency to clos she }‘,‘3.'1. : ,i! b'.’.\knfl:"“ ;“va‘l']“v o <ank Into fts luxurious dn 1 | wirh 2 B ';’;“‘I' ‘”,"“1 1 1 he he a i L s i lbig g ‘m;.‘ | trick had laved upon her by che ’ ] ‘ yorrer i worsted, heretofore, y k ,, , lonet | e 4 i s her wa 2 3 20N who | "l L ts the pride of the geed b sach. had x clean cut man or wonci H r'nl: ;‘glff"xrh‘:jmx‘mltr;‘ < dea w care that makes you a constd ted: “That artis “"«v'- 4 N g .» Wl ai e s ¢ diffey l\':\:‘u"].\'er:(;wr-v ~i:w:" ¥ has caneh® | cainst me You—sou've prot aiw at Loing the “Laandry that s d @ s o - to marry me, Yoa know!™ . NDRY e e e e BAL s 1 Nave” umtied Peastope ,,,,., YOUR OWN SPECIAL LAUNDR xeellent likeness,” ehe con ! donly ok “Now TIl tell you so FCahs et B Try Us Today—Just Guce dear. The portrait, when 2 Retriever for Sea Work. srman in Crete has evolved plan for recovering ar- over with the v Suda bay oly clear, <= Lakeland Steam Lm. Phone 130. —-flmf (\_{'f‘a | B Subscribe for The ¢ e wa- hp scans 1 with his water glass and sees a plate or other article he takes from the bottom of the boat an octepus attached to a line, which he drops down just over the object. “When the octopus is right over it the sherman at the top jerks the line. | which makes the octopus cling at once to the thing nearest it, which in this case is the plate. Then the plate and octopus are pulled to the surface. Wes s