Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 30, 1912, Page 2

bank account here today, | | FRST NATIONAL BANK of Lakeland brings you nearer your { | account vilaidyou Realize .hat every time the clock ticks that you are one second nearer that ambition or misfortune. The best friend you can have to help you is monev. Even a dollar will start one. Start a Room 213-215 Drane Buildinz siven to compiling city, display and advertising maps. MAPS, BLUE PRINTS Maps of any description complisd on short notice. Special maps kept on hand. Chemically prepared, non-fading blue prints st res sunable rates. Special rates for prints in lsrge quantiiles. Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprint.Co ! THE EVENING | man just at present. attagtisy County ané #tate s Among the Reliable Com- panies we represent, we write for the Fidelity Undewriters with assets of $41.000,000 Y- L. MAN LAKELAND, [ IF EN~ VED BY SOGOIOIOIRBLHOBLFO TGO FOC CPOBOLBLFOBOBIFOGOH OB FIRST QUESTION AT EVERY FIRE-- How Did It Start? Second Question: How _ About The Insurance? To the first question the answer varies. The answer to the secondis alwayseither *None At AIL” *‘Just Expired” or “Fully; Covered.” Whatwould be theanswer were'the : fire at your house? Successor to the Johnson Agency Room 7, Raymondo Bldg. Phone 30 ‘R. L. MARSHALL " CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. SUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you dome Lakeloud homes I have built, Phone 287-Green. STATIONERY THE, BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD~ HARCOURT &.CO. FLORIDA “11s 5 CORRECT MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS LAKELAND p LOUISVILLE, KY,U.S.A. LWE ARE, THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE. { Full|line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Ragraved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, 1oys, Ktc, BOOK STORE ‘| heart out. There's my train. YOU @& TEL SHORTMOTORTOUR ! Ennui Burdened Man of Society Takes Up Human Interest Matters. By ALVAH JORDAN GARTH “Disappointed, Gordon?" “With everything in life generally,” was the reply in a tone of ennui. “Not including Miss Marcia Vansant, of course?” insinuated Ned Darrow, a trace of mockery in his'voice. ‘ Dale Gordon did not reply. He winced slightly. Miss Marcia Vansant was a sensitive topic with the young He had danced attendance on the queenly beauty half the season. He had come down to Seagrove at her royal request, and this was the second day he had mo- tored to the train to find no eager, de- lighted lady love, Aas at times he pic- tured her. b They were not as yet engaged, but as Ned Darrow and all the social world of Seagrove knew, the proud coquette had set the net for the wealthy young city broker. A week at Seagrove would settle the affair, Ned had told mutual friends, and con- fidentlally he stated he was sorry for 1t “What you want, Gordon, is some thing In life to interest you,” he now said. “Dawdling the time away at clubs, soirees and summer resorts kills a fellow's vitality. Try some thing for a change.” “As what, for instance?” challenged Gordon. “Human interest, philanthropy— why, say, the very thing! See here— look yonder.” Ned pointed to a young girl who sat on one of the station benches. Her ] n e The Machine Fairly Skimmed the Roadway. eyes were fixed sadly down the rails. There were tear stains on her pretty cheeks, and something so inexpressi- bly mournful in her pose that even Gor- don, chivalrous and gentle always with the opposite sex, was at once in- terested. “Looks to be in trouble,” he re- marked. “She is. Poor little thing!" sald Ned. “She has been trying to support a widowed mother by taking an art class at the seminary here. It seems she received a rush telegram an hour ago telling her that her mother was dangerously sick, and that if she hoped to see her again in life she must take the first train for Brook- ville. She missed it by four minutes, no other train until eight o'clock this evening, and there she sits, eating her Good- by.” Ned flashed out of view. Gordon stood studying the forlorn girl for a few moments. Then he went straight up to the bench. “Excuse me, miss,” he said, lifting his hat, “my friend just told me of your misfortune in missing your train.” The girl started, looked up, and then drew back a little shyly. The open, sympathetic eyes meeting her own seemed to inspire her with the belief that the interest of their owner was genuine. “It is 80 heart-breaking!” she sod- bed. “My mother is dying, and there is no way of reaching her before mid- night” “Brookville cannot be over seventy- five miles by a cross-country route,” eald Gordon. “That is no task for my machine. Come, miss, cheer up. We'l try to remedy your trouble.” As he pointed to his touring car the young girl at once understood him. “You are so Mnd—so kind” she murmured, as Gordon helped her to 5 seat in the machine. Good roads and fair weather made the first stage of the trip pleasant and comfortable. A farmer yelled after them as they whirled down a country road an hour later, but Gordon had not caught the import of his call. A minute afterwards, at a sharp curve, he straightened up with a thrill. Re cent rains had eaten into a narrow stretch of turnpike with deep ditches | on either side. As they fairly flew along great masses of earth were dis- turbed and rolled down. At one spot & wheel went over the edge. To at- tempt to stop was to invite disaster. With the power applied to the last notch, the machine fairly skimmed the | roadway. | A great exhalation of relief left Gor ‘h'-llnum-mmmck-I safer thoroughfare. He turned now to glance at his passenger. She was bale as death, but she smiled mutely ! up at him. | “That was a narrow graze,” he said. | “Were you frightened?” | “How could I be,” she replied, “with ! you, who have so bravely tried to help | & poor, friendless girl?” l “Do not delay to thank me,” said | Gordon, as two hours later their auto ’ stopped in front of the widow's home | at Brookville. “Get to your mother at once, Miss Barton.” She had told him something of her life history during the trip. Her name was Eunice Barton. An earnest-faced young man came out of the house while Gordon was getting his ma- | 3 chine ready for the return trip. He z seized both hands of his sister's time- | & ly friend. “I cannot find words to thank you,” he said fervently. “You have saved my dear mother's life. She was sink- | | ing fast, and the delusion that some one had stolen Eunice away from her, the doctor said, was distracting her dangerously. She just smiled and sank into sister’s arms like a happy child. The doctor says the crisis is past, and thank you and—bless you!” At eight o'clock that evening fate willed that Gordon, passing an open window at the Vansant home, over- heard these words: “It's time you ceased trifling with your chances, Marcia. Mr. Gordom will not stand your coquetry much longer.” “Oh, I can bring him to my feet when I choose,” was the confident re- ply of the imperious beauty to her maneuvering mamma, Gordon turned on his heel, and | Marcia waited in vain for her expect- ed caller that evening. If there was any consclaticn for Gordon as he thought over affairs in general that night it was memory of the glad little g face that had looked up so gratefully into his own when the automobile @ N but we are always studying how to Increase The Quantity We give the “most now but we are anxious to g more. ive Phone us and prove it. Best Butter, per pound ....eoocomeets oun... e Sugar, 16 pounds . ....... Cottolene, 10 pound pails. .. ........ Cottolene, 4-pound pails. .. ..... : “ (%) Snowdrif{, 10-pounl pails . 3 cans family size Cream. ... N 6 cans baby size Cream........ G et 28 1.2 barrel best Flour.... . ..... 12 pounds best Flour....... .. stopped at Prookville, Gordon wrote a brief note to Marcia We Won't Sacrifice Qualit the next morning. In a very formal |5 o °, = manner he announced a Dl:fsppctivn g Picnic Hams, per pound S e il ol Re, MU AR/ G 1814 motor tour, and indicated that it would (# Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams. ..o................ i 14 end with a resumption of business du- ,‘é Octagon Soap, 6 for........ Gl e o “",’r’ 1810 oity, . |#% Grouad Coffce, per pound. ......... e : 1] hat motor tour was not very ex- i tended. Gordon felt it his duty to 5 gallons Kerosene .............. PRI SIACR Sy i learn how Funice's mother was get- | ting along. e was actually glad i when the auto broke down near |- Prookville. He put up at the town |. Y Py hotel that night, and called at the Barton home the next day. That was only the first of many pleasant hours spent with Eunice. Her mother was convalescing rapidly, and Gordon convinced her that auto rides would hagten her recovery. When the mother could not go the daughter did. There came the crowning moment in those two lives when wistful eyes met the love challenge ot honest, earn- est ones. It wap at the gate of the little cottage, and Gordon said: “Does your mother still worry over her old fear of your being stolen away?”’ *Oh, no,” replied Eunice innocently. “That was only a passing delusion.” “Suppose that some one should really steal you away?” suggested Gordon. “Who would do that with poor little me?” inquired Eunice, Dale Gordon told the fluttering, blushing girl who would, the chance given. With her head nestling on his broad, protecting shoulder, she whis- pered back lovingly: “You do not need to steal me away, Dale. I would go anywhere in the world with you.” P 3 T weedefil Cigars For the Holidays make a splendid gift for men if they are the right kind of cigars. We beg to inform the ladies that Inman’s Biuni Cigars are the right kind. The kind that men smoke themseives instead of giving away to the porter. So you can come and get a box of BLUNTS for hus- band, brother or sweetheart and feel sure you are giving what he will like. Be sure you call for “NKANS BLUNT For sale at’ ull cigar Busy Night After the Election. “Well, no, Mr. Slickun,” said the landlord of the Skcedee Tavern, ad- dressing the encyclopedia agent. *“I am afraid you can't do much business here, just at this time. The people who might be expected to appreciate your books are all otherwise engaged. Pip Maudlin has set out to roll a peanut eight miles with a toothpick and won't be back for some time. Claud Fidd will commence in a few minutes to parade solemnly up and down all day with a portrait of Taft displayed wrong side up on his back. Judge Ramshottom is heading a pro- cession of twenty-eight consecutive wheelbarrows, each with a successful patriot in it and an unsuccessful one bushing it, or vicy vercy—for nobody really knows who gets the worst of it in & wheelbarrow ride—twenty-five or thirty gentlemen are now buying the same quantity of hats for an equal number of other gentlemen, and prac- tically all the rest of the voters are either sleeping off their triumph or disappaintment or planning how they can get the postoffice. So, as the people who ordinarily would be in- terested in your valuable works are mixed up in the usual afterelection N pursuits, I don’t s'pose you can get | h their undivided attention.” ! | Started Important Industry. | wn II[ SI A Living on a pension in London is W. H. Wickham, the man responsible for the introduction of rubber trees in India at the risk of his life. The agricultural department of East In- dia sent Wickham to gather the geed || of the Para rubber tree in Brazil Wickham lived in the jungles with the natives and won their confidence. Slowly he collected seeds until he had 75,000 of them. He put them in bags | and smuggled them aboard a ship, which was short of cargo and funds. That was the beginning of the rubber Erowing industry in India, and now | millions of dollars are made annually | from the rubber plantations in Cey- | lon, Malaya and other East Indian provinces. Wickham ran the risk of 8 long term in prison, for a Brazilian law prohibited the removal of seeds from the oountry. stores. Manufactured by INMAN CIGAR FAICTORY Phone 233 Red Long Life of Linen along with good laundry work is what you are looking for and thati:jutwhtvelruinng' . Tryw. Lakeland Steam Laundry Phone 130. West Main 8t. GUY W, TOPH PROPRIETOR G. P. 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