Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 7, 1912, Page 2

g R PAGE TWO. e moke.... | | CIGARS A. H. T. CIGAR CO. Lakeland, Florida WWWWWWW‘ “The Home For Savings” Through the Door of a Bank Many a young man has won his way upward in the business world. The habit of saving in a representative institution---as well as the belpful as- sistance which this bank renders its patrons---demands consideration. The doors of this bank are open to as- sist every worthy enterprise of indi- vidual or corporation. THE AMERICAN STATE BANK OF LAKELAND We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest @Ommunity Silver UST received a complete line of this reliable make of Silver Plated Ware, and will be glad .0 have you call and look it over. . Also Rogers 1847 Goods and Reed & Bartons. @ All are reliable and guaranteed byme. THE EVENING TELEGLAX, LAN ELAND, FLA., NOV. 7, 1912 fi' A RISKY EXPERIMENT? A Man With a2 Home Should Use It. Y LOUISE OLNEY, The Boss stepped out for an hour, and oflice conversation flourished. Both business and the force were lan- guid by reason of summer and im- pending vacations. Adkins, thirty-five and single, was wise on matters matrimonial, and “started something” by maliciously attacking the bliss of Simpson, twenty-two and just en- gaged. Miss Gertrude tried to ..sten and type letters at the same time. Ad- kins looked up from his bookkeeping. It's a dangerous experiment, my boy,” he persisted. “Look at Peters, once jovial and free, now a slave. He talks about babies and the cost of liv- ing and blacks his own shoes. His wife was almost as pretty as Miss Ger- trude, with a string of beaux instead of a string of babies. She's thin and old-looking. I bet she wishes she was on her old job, and that she's begun to ask Simpson if he will really love her when she’s old. A mortgage hangs over them, too. It's a risky experi- ment, getting married, Simpson.” Adkins added up a column of fiures very accurately, while Gertrude clicked away and Simpson got out the order list unperturbed. Simpson straightened his young shoulders and answered tranquilly: “You're an old grouch—soured on life because you haven't got a girl. Wait till you visit Amy and me and you'll curl up with envy. Things don’t always go right for single folks and two people can live as cheaply as one.” The whole force groaned at the platitude, and Gertrude, her blue eyes alive, turned on them. “You'll get what's coming to you, anyway,” she contributed. “Mr. Ad- kins changes boarding houses and varieties of dyspepsia every few weeks. [ live at a cousin’s. It's not a home, but it's not so bad as a board- ing house. The children impose on me, but I feel less like a stray cat than when I'm with utter strangers. But [ will say that I'd rather be Mr. Simpson than you, Mr. Adkins, He and his girl are good sports, they aren't afraid to take a risk and swal- low some bitter stuff for the sake of the sweet! I'd rather be Mrs. Peters with all her troubles than Miss Still- well upstairs here. She's got a little bank account, but she sees only her- self. She will end her days in an old lady's home somewhere, Mrs. Pe- ters may have to ‘live round’ with her children, but she can scold her sons-in-law and spoil her grandchil- dren- she'll have something to live for!” The girl carefully licked on the stamps and gave the letters to the of fice boy “Get ‘em right oit the Boss told me to sign them.” She turned back to her work with an air of finality, and Adkins gavo an cmbarrassed |illl.~| whistle. The girl had been there | three months, but had been barely | friendly to the force business almost fiercely keeper turned on his high look at her straight, flat, little back, The book- and neatly arranged heavy fair hair. | P Con 1 LRI 1S She attended to | stool 1o be counted freckles on her :.raht little nose, and hoped she did ot de spise him too much. He was begin- ning to be wistful about her opinion of him. The fair sex had usually re garded him with favor as a rathe: eligible fellow in his class, and in- teresting because indifferent. “Well,” she replied slowly, “I think it's pretty and cofnfortable looking. but you ought to keep it in shape, You ought to live in it yourself instead of shirking the task of keeping up 2 home for yourself. It's sheer laziness.” He looked at her reproachfully and caught a gleam of saving humor in her eye. “My cousin, for instance,” she resumed, “would be wild with joy at a home of her own! You have one and don't use it. What's it for?” She turned away, but he followed her. walked with her into the country and finally took her home. He enjoyed that walk. She gave no sign as to whether she was glad to be rid of him at the gate or sorry. Ie was piqued. but life seemed highly worth the lv- ing. He thought about her and a day or two later drove up with a light buggy and asked her to drive. She went cheerfully enough, but he felt at arm’s length somehow, and resented it. He discovered how sweet he had always considered her smile, how admirable she was in every way. how up-stand- ing, and brave. He drew out of her that, but for the cousin, she was alone in the werld, that che loved gar- dening and children, disliked city streets, and enjoyed sewing. She did her office work well from pride, rather than liking. These trifles seemed important to him. The country was sweet and green, and they got buttermilk at a farm- house. A sweet-faced old lady took back the glasses with this remark: “Wouldn't your wife like some more? She don't look overly strong.” Without a word they both drank more buttermilk, but when they drove on there seemed to be little to say, and she avoided his glance. The horse slowed down to a walk under an ave- nue of green trees, and the man, still silent, came suddenly upon his real self. He knew what he wanted—he had found the key to the closed door of his life. “Gertrude-1 wish it was so;—you don't know how I wish—" “Wish what was so?" she asked, though she must have divined. “\What that woman sald—" he put his hand over hers which was not withdrawn. “It seems as if I had wanted you from the first and did not know it! Why don't you answer? Do you despise me so? Do you think I am afraid of the game? [I'll take care of you and love you and be glad all our lives it you will let me!” He spoke rapidly, and she brushed a hand over her cycs, and then looked full at him. Toars stood on her lashes. “Oh! ~ spoke breathlessly. “At feast 1 have kept you from seeing that 1 carsd for you' 1 thought T could 'r..‘ww siand it another minute, and still 1 eoanddn’t keep away from you— d the tears away. aid, “Dearest, shall we © home? the MeClire News- wr Svndicate.) Rich Copper in Neva Zemtla. Copper ore discovered in Nova He was not used to being attacked by | Zembla is said to be 40 per cent. pure, girls. He was rather superior, with an air of indif- ference to women. He had a little home, but rented it to advantage, and lived drifting about, his violin his only real solace and companion. As Simp son grinned exultingly at him, he turned back to his work The Boss came in again, so nothing more was said that day, nor on the next, The routine work went on for a week or two, and not once did the unnecessary word or look. Kkins felt a bit aggrieved. It was as if a fluffy kitten he was petting should e e LILC. 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She was, he decided, a sweet, sensible girl, who knew how to mind her Dbusiness, month month, without any fooling. After that Lttle bout with the girl | about marriage, Adkins kept respect. } fully out of her way. The spell of his self-satisfied smugness was broken for him. with a wonder as to whether he and created She after his “girl” were not, after all. what { Gertrude had called them, . “good sports,” willing to take life's bitter with its sweet. Then he began to wonder if she despised him. She g | nored him, but she ignored the others save as to business He wished that i she liked him. Now it happened that Adkins and Gertrude had their vacations at the same time, and that by a strange chance neither went out of town. She slept half her time., and spent the other half playing with her co 'S children, sewing a little, and £ to parks with a book, and she would an- der off for walks in the country-like suburbs. Thus it was that one day passing a trim little place, she c.m;o full upon Adkins. a cigar in his mouth his hat tilted back, his hands in his pockets. He was leisurely staring at the place. e saw her, and raised his hat. i “Well,"” he said, stopping her, “what are you out here for? [am thinking of fixing my place up a bit—these folks are going in September, ar;d the new tenants will wan i teng ant things done. What do you think of the house?” She stopped, leaning her \\’hilé arms ,on the fence, and considering, whiIe! stenographer give the bookkeeper an | Poor Ad- | | to cure catarrh or a cold in the head | “touch the spot” and do its work But Miss Ger- | Guickly He regarded Simpson furtively, | good-looking, older, | Bteps are being taken to mine it. SAFE REMEDY ENDS GATARRH MISERIES Gives Instant Relief, Cures and Pre- vents Catarrh and Cold in the Head The quickest, best and safest way is by using a remedy that wul without leaving any bad cffects. 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Begin today. for No. 182, Treasury Department, State of Flor- ida, Office of Comptroller, Tall2- hassee. \Whereas, by satisfactory evidence piesented to the undersigned it has been made to appear that a banking pssociation under the name of Amer ican State Bank of Lakeland, located a1 Lakeland, Florida, and organized under the laws of Florida, has com- plied with all the provisions re- quired to be complied with by the banking laws of the State of Florida before an association shall be autho- rized to commence the business of banking. Now, therefora, 1, W. V. Knott, T et A A Xy i comptroller of the State of Floria. by virtue of the authority vested i me by section 2702 of the gener:! statutes of the State of Florida, ce:- tify that the American Sate Bun: of Lakeland, of Lakeland, in ti. county of Polk and the State of Flor- ida is authorized to commence tis business of banking under the name above given with a capital stock of $25,000. 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