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

When it comes to fresh, pure, full- strength drugs, toilet articles, sun- dries, and all drug store merchan- dise, just go to your phone and cal: 62, and you will be connected with our special order department, and your particular desire will be taken care of with satisfactory, good and Prompt service. . # 4 THE EVENING TELEGRAN, wAKELAND, FLA. NOV. 7. 19812 tter. Duun was somewhat ld- unl.E ”'ss cAI_IPERs 'dl(’ q \b drink, and on several occa- How a Sick Lumber;aek's Daugh- ter Made Good. By N. J. COTTON. Amos Tuttle hobbled slowly into his rude log shack, a half mile below the landing and camp of the Kilkenney Lumber company, and wearily threw down his string of wooden figure tab- lets and calipers. “It's no use,” he dejectedly exclaim- ed, “I can't go on with that scaling. The rheumatism has got me worse than ever. [ don't know what's to be done. 1 asked Dunn for a lay-off to- night, and he told me if 1 quit now it weuld be for good. He's it in for me for a long time, and 1 sup- pose he thinks this is his chance to xhip me.” ' “I'm sure I don't know what is to become of u# with a payment due on the farm,” complained Mrs. Tuttle, a little worn, tired-faced woman. “Say, dad!" cheerfully exclaimed a sturdy, rosy-cheeked girl of eighteen, throwing an arm lovingly around his neck. “Why can't I take your place on the log pile? I have been with you ever since 1 can remember, scaling tim- ber.” PR ERl SRR NN il e | R POSUILPOEO OSOTO 2 =000 IOEVFOSOI QIO FOSQ Every day a busy day at thls Store. Come See he was proud to have her offer to for yourself. o i ey LakePharmacy | =5us 5 eral moments he tenderly regarded her in thoughttul silence. At length The Nearest Drug Store in Towu O OHOBOBOIOLAIOPOIE - QIIIL CIDIBOBOE White Drug Store replied the old man, tenderly stroking her cheek, “it's no place for you among all those rough men,” “But I know the most dad, and 1 am not afraid.” “Amos Tuttle loved his daughter better than anything else on earth, and of them, he spoke, but with evident reluc tance. “Well, Rita, if Dunn is willing you may try it, but it any of those Jacks insult you, gal, tell me, and I'll crawl up there on my hands and knees and shoot the cusses.” Then next morning Amos Tuttle could not get out of bed, but his sub- stitute, cheerful and self-rellant, i promptly at seven o'clock swung the h ! u «H calipers and figure tablets across her ‘M’W w“"\'\lilmlfli shoulder and resolutely started for the landing. Clad in short skirts and red sweater, with long gaiters and overshoes, and her riotous curls con- fined by a long topped Canadian to- boggan cap, she successfully defied the cold and was a most bewitching wood nymph personified 1 Jdim Dunn, the boss, was alone L on the landing when she arrived. The | teams had gone up the mountain after their tirst load, and the landing { men had not come up from the camp. Dunn was a big, coarse, illiterate man, who kopt his job by sheer museular force Hello, Titthe one he exclaimed in o ecoarse, f L voiee Rita acknowledged the greeting as a e en Or sractously as possible. She had an in- <1im'i\ dread of this man Father is lald up with rhenmaticm i \h\ I take his place’ sler‘ ulc er‘ e er Dunn regarded her a moment in { open adwiration before answering, then laughing coarsely he said: ‘It's irregular, gal. and might cost It won’t cost you much, and;-m- ::'.;'.,".'-’.“.-.).':'(.;::...;":?";“xfmr"'::; it xl. on one (un:lidvm(inn It you'll give think how much happier your s i o i it wife will be. Rita's h art sank Is there no other alternative?” she asked I don't know what that jawbreak "er means: but I reckon you mean, is Hn re another loop-hole? 1 opine thers Lr( the job.’ . . . . | Let us show you the little inexpensive kltchen: il o et oo A : . . ’ “Ain't got none, an’ if 1 had reckon implements that will make an casier day s work unfeeling reply. Her plea had falicn She hesitated. It | fered, but on it hung her father's job able kitchen ware of all kinds, keen edged and they necded the money, vided you take the kiss when no one {s around.’ say. Guess U'll take me first install- { ment now.” Ipowpring diggust for this beast fill- ' ed her soul. But she regolutely held sacrilege. ! It was well Amos Tuttle did not ' witness the act; if he had Jim Dunn A would never have lived to insult an | other woman. — - lips, Rita went to the scaler's littls shack to wait for her first load of W l C It was not long before several teams “Put a daughter of yours in my a kigs wouldn’t hurt her any,” was his for your wife-=food choppdrs, handsome, dur- > B o o e o vesmmmmm | ] accept,” she crisply replied, “pro cutlery, toasters, percolstors fetc. “All right, my dear, just as you Inwardly Rita trembled, and an over up her head and submitted to the | Energetically wiping her outraged timber. | drove on the landing, with clanking of \chaims booming of dragging timber, and hoarse shouts of the teamsters. Illtas debut created a sensation, but ! it was a cordial, good-natured onc ‘ Admiration for the plucky girl who SUOBHODCFOD IO COOTC GO LIRS ICICRISON LI OLL.IK = | 80 bravely took her father's place amid such trying circumstances brought out F 0 R S A , E Timber, Turpentine, Cut-over a shout of approval from those rough s s teatt men. One old teamster, a friend of 5 = % Lands, Choice Co}mm‘.mn her father's, shouted enthusiastically: Tracts at Low Prices, Flerida Homes and Groves on High & “Bully for yew, little Miss Cli. Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw- pers!” beary and Trucking Farms. Weguarantee all property just A cheer and the name were taken as represented by us. For reliable information see up and repeated, until the woods rang with the echoes. | There was not a man in camp but would have championed her, and taken a licking from Dunn, had she appealed to them. But she realized Dunn was a power there, and it would do no good to appeal to anyone. When she could stand it no longer she would LAKELAND, FLORIDA 3 aquit " : B ' A week passed, and Mr. Tuttle grew 0hlmger s Rita had been saved further in- [ dignities by the opportune arrival ol the landing man. On Menday rorning Dunn had heen drinking more than common, and in- | sisted on kissing Rita several times | before he would release her. Suddenly she was conscious of a stranger present, and looking up she saw a tall young man standing in the ;mmu.n sympathetically regarding 10T There was a quick step, and & clenched fist caught Dunn on the ear, aud he went down. With a curse, he a bull. Dunn was a lighter, and Rita trembled for the stranger; but her coneorn was needless; he just played with Dunn; circling around him, and when he wished he promptly knock-[patronage appreciated. «d him down, until Dunn, acknowledg- «d he had enough. Now,” said the stranger, standing over the prostrate man, “don't you ever try to insult this girl again, or Yeu won't get off s0 casy next time; and remember she is to continue with the ing unmolested. | suppose you may as well know, first as last, that I am Ralph Orton, eldest son of Arthur Orton, senior member of the Kilkenney Lumber company. | shall be here for some time, looking after our interests; and if 1 hear of any more of your deviltry, we shall dis pense with your services.” Finishing, with a cheerful nod to Rita, he turned on his heel and walk- ed away, Dunn painfully rose to his feet and slunk away, a look of concentrated ha- tred on his brutalized face. Rita, trem- bling with excitement, went into the shack to think, and secretly cherish something new and strange that had entered her soul. The days and weeks went by unin- terrupted. Ralph Orton took up his alode at Tuttle's home, and the old man soon acquired a distinct liking for this energetic young man. Ralph |& helped Rita with her work when he was not on the mountain. Dunn kept his place in sullen, vin- dictive silence. Ralph and Rita soon fell into the pleasant habit of waiting for each other at the landing, and walking home together in the twi- light, It was a Saturday night in Febru- ary. The ml-n had all come off the mountain early, except Ralph and Dunn. Anxiously Rita walted, but still they did not come. The sun had drop- ped behind the western horizon In a deep red setting, tinging the snow blood red. She trembled. A forebod- ing of danger reached out and closed bout her heart. Sud nly she heard step on the snow. burting behind a tree, she waited, alert and expectant, Hor quick car told her it was Dunun. I'resently he came in sight, and her heart sank like lead. His face car- ried a covert look of triumph. In- stinetively she knew something had happened to Ralph. Soon as his foot- steps had dicd awey she sprang ioto the road and sped up the hard moun tain road like o startled fawn, Hee one thought was of the man she loved better than Tl She had no definite idea where 1o look for him; nor had it occurred to her to alarm the man. Sho knew he was in grave danger somewhere on that bleak mountain side, and on her rested the task of rescving him; so, panting and trembling, she sped on. Every few steps she stopped and called his name, No answer come back, but the moan- ing of the light breeze through the woods. On she pushed to the top of a ridge. It had got quite dark now. Pausing on a ledge almogt on the top of the cant, she shouted: ‘Ralph' Ralph! where are you?” “Here, Rita, at the top of the cant,” came the quiet, reassuring reply. With a glad ery she hurried to the top of the ridge, where a lone spruce stood. Then she stopped, and her heart sprang into her throat. She saw his danger, und swayed dizzily. “Courage, my little girl, courage,” came from the smiling Hps in cool, even tones, “This is some of that devil Dunn's work. \When my back was turn- ed the coward laid me out. Take heart, lttle one, we win yet.” It was an ap- palling situation. Ralph was bound to the lone spruce with a piece of snub warp. The spruce was near- ly cut off, so that it cracked ominous- ly in the rising wind. Rita heard it roaring in the distance, and knew when that wave reached them the spruce would break and leap over the ridge to the north, a sheer drop of one hundred feet. A name- less terror seized her as she frantically dug at the knots, and the rising wind roared in her cars like the knell of doom. “Take it casy, Rita, dear, there ig plenty of time,” his cool voice reas- sured her. “My knife is in my pocket, tear it out and cut the warp.” Nearer and nearer the wind came, roaring like a demon in her ears. With one last mad effort she cut the last coil, and Ralph stepped from the |3 tree, safe. With a wild, exultant with a sharp crack, the lone spruce 5 on his feet in an instant, ugly as Come and see me before pur-' 8woop the ,' wind tore through the tree tops and. | - PAGE rr.. "¢ “ LINE INCLUDES NOTICE OF ELECTION. ! MY | Newspapers An election will be held at the usual voting place in Lakeland, Fla., 'on November 19th, 1912, for the | purpose of elgcting a mayer and three councilmen. Said election to be conducted according to the re- vised ordinances of Lakeland. S. L. A. CLONTS, Mayor of Lakeland. Cigars|we IAMMER OUT SATISFACTION Yo“r! with every set of horse shoes we put lon. For we make the shoes fit the { teet, mot the feet fit the shoes as is often done. To know how mucia dif- ference this makes send your horses here to be shod next time. You'!l be amazed at the improvement ir his ait and temper. IThe Fix-em Shop Magazines | Stationery Post Cards chasing elsewhere. 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