Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 4, 1913, Page 6

PAGE SIX. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LA K ND, FLA., FEB. 4, 1913, T A A money fo play with OU requice money if you are .0 get all the enjoymeat possible our of life. Only a bank account will heip you to that ricasurc. A very small sum will open an account at THIS bank. HRST NATIONAL BANK of Lakeland Long Life of Linen with good laundry work is what you are looking for and [t 13 just what we are giving Try us. along Lakeland Steam Laundry West Main 8t. Phone 130. . RN TR An Ounce of I’R[V[NII(DN e - e e S S S+ 4 N B e Is worth a pound of cure. [For that reason it Will Pay Yot To Insure While Fire Insurance can't ¢ tthe ! burning d 25| ; prever 1ome from own It is the Scurce means for the BUILDING OF IT UP ¢ comes the 2 lre prcscnt reliable companies. | am dealing 3 ininsurance only. Thatis my sole busmess. : e R S Y l MANN Successor to the Johnson \KCIILV% Room 7. Ravimondo Bld . Phone 30 uswww .mm"m‘ tmmwtflomm’ HODOVO IO 2O 03'0‘ HEN URNISH YOU @& THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD~ “wio's HARCQURT &0, come JGRAVED BY CORRECT" MANUFACTURING E ENGRAVEN LOUISVILLE, KY,U.S.A. WE ARE THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE. Full line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings: also Gibson Art Co's Eneraved Specialties, Holiday and ¥, ancy Goods, 1oys, Etc. LAKELAND BOOK STORE, R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Wikl furnisk plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifieations furnished. SUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me 2how you some Lakeisnd homes I bave baily, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA D5 OBOEOHOPO | | friend and the | Miss Ethel had been told that ga | paper that must be signed by the per- cUKGLARY FOR LOVE ' Girl Who Intended to Steal Mort- gage Papers Gets Hus- band Instead. By GRACE KERRIGAN. had been worried over Ethel Barrie. There was father, mother and little Bob--little, but having a wise head on his shoulders. “She doesn't sing or whistle any more,” said the father. “And she's quite lost her appetite,” added the mother. utes,” announced Bob. ness.” “I thing she's worrying over some- thing.” “l have asked her, and she says no.” “Mavbe the kissing-hug has come back and hasn't kissed her!" put in Bob “Well, if she docsn’t shirk up scon we'll speak to the doctor about ft,” said the father as lied up his pa- per and began reeding ‘Bob, «a mother, “have you seen kthel « ? “Nope.” “Do you hear her tossing around in | her bed at night? “Not a tosg" “Haven't vou asked her if she was I'in trouble?” "Yep, avd she more of her love said if 1 read any letters she'd break my infernal neek If she's commit ted murder or invthing she ain't going to give it away " While this conversation was hein; held within the house, Misg Kthel and a girl friend wore approaching it along | the street and peaking tn whispers, al though it would have been safe enough to use the ordinary tones, Clasped tightly under Miss Lthel's arm was a | good sized bundle “I'll bet vou buck out!" whispered the other girl ‘No, I shan't shall go through with it.” “But 1f you arrested?” “Heavens, don't speak of it.” “Better give it up” “But I can't. [I've it. Here we are at the steps. lope | can get in right. I'm scared, but [ e Oh, I Now go away on tiptoe, at a time, the hall stalrs mounted as softly as a cat, and Miss Ethel found | hersell in her room and her entrance | undetected the Barrie house lived the widow Lee. She was not only a widow, but poor and hardworking. She had lost har | husband and son in the same week. | There had been nothing but {il luek | for her, and just at this time max seemed at hand. She had gziven a mortgage on her home and was be- | hind with Interest and principal. The | &rl was at the house when the money- | lender called and said he should be- i gin foreclosure proceedings after an- “ other week. The widow was sick in ! | bed, penniless and would have been without food except for what the girl brought her. The cottage must xo.' “But it shan't!™ said Miss Ethel "My dear girl, there 18 no other | way. You have gzot money from your | father and used it for me, but he ean’t take up the mortgage. Perhaps there are men that would, but who [ 18 to find them? 1 I can got strong [ again 1 can get along all right.’ | "1l go to Mi and appeal | to him tor To be laugl nard old | man. 1 he g year | | more what j | 1 But I shall do =om U the syme | | pathetic girl liced ven be- { tore she left the house she began | planning ! Few persons woanything <Imu!“ tlm old man Foster cxcept that he was a Shylock, hiving in a tumble- down shanty by himself Some per sons #aid he had a nephew 0 whom he was going to leave evervtliing, | and others that he hadn't 4 reiative in the world. He was hootad at and hated, and only those driven to the wall for want of money ever went near him. It was such & man that Miss Ethel set out to plan against, taking into her confidence only w girl triend as ignoraut of law and human nature as she was herself “It 1 get down on my kuees to him —if I plead with tears in my eves, his heart must melt,” mused the girl as she went over her plans But suppose that railed” widow The girl were sure it would. mortgage was some sort of a legal son who got the money. If she could get that paper away from old Foster and Into the hands of the widow, then be might whistie for his money. Some dasy he might get it, but not for years and years. Would the appeal, no matter how tearful it was, secure her the desired document? Was she stroug enough to wrest {t from the old maon? Her broth- er Bob. out playing shinny at the mo- ment, could have given her advice on that point. But brother Bob was not asked for his legal opinion. In- stead of that his sister went to the wise Miss Soloon, of whom she had made a confidaat. “There is oniy one way,” replied the girl. “If you want that paper you must steal it.” “Why—why—" “You must erter the house ag g burglar and take it from his desk™ “Graclous me!” For a fortnight or more the family ' “And when any of her fellers drop: in she gives ‘em the skate in ten min- | “May be coming down with an ill- | said 1 would do ' and upstairs all ' The front door was opened an inch ' Seven or elght blocks distant from | the ell- | s | when Jones reached home, but he did ~t go by night.” l canitit You must go in disguise™ Never! “You must be disgiuised as a boy. 1 cain get you a suit of brother Sam's | clothes for § “We'll give up the idea right now! 1 never could do those things.” | “Easiest thing in the world. They say the old man sleeps like a log, and that a child can climb inio his win- dows. You carry g candle with you, | and you light it so as to find the desk. ! In three minutes you have the paper, and half an hour later the widow has it and you have saved her home. ‘ Talk about knight-errands, but you'll surely be one!" “But suppose the old man wakes up?’ asked Miss Ethel, “You can't go to supposing in such a case If he wakes up tell him you are in the wrong house by mistake—tell : him most anything you think of. Dear ' e, what a romantic adventure!™ It took the sympathizer widow's troubles three long days and | uights to make up her mind to do the | ‘oolish thing, and then not until the tiad walked past cld Foster's hanty half a dozen timers and as- ured theinsel that it would be an 1sv job iso heard the gro- iy that the old | " man was sick abed. This would make | L all the easier, as his stinginess might be depended on to ge clear of nurse and doctor. A darkish night, a boy along the streets, a human heart chok- ¢r on the g a human being, and a himan be-| s knees wobbling and his teeth hattering. If little Bob Barrie had there to see and know he would | d out: You are a horn fool, sister, | t you'se got more grit than a sand b ¥ H [wice the bey passed the shanty. ! No dight! No ene moving! A window ! conveniently raised! He trembled md sheok, but he elimbed in. His toes had just touched the floor when a hand gripped the back of his neck and a voice spoke in his ear: “Make a move to get away and you | I have been watch- ing you for the last ten minutes.” And then a match was scratched and a candle lit. It was a voung man who had the disguised Miss Kthel in a are a dead man ¥rip of steel an arm up, but he quietly said: “Toke that chair there. You came | tiere to rob!” “I' -1 wanted a paper,” stammered the girl “What sort of a paper? ‘A A mortgage! The young man was not fooled by her disguise No sooner had he seen [ her by cand!e light than he knew her sex. That handsome, although perturbed face could not belong to a eriminal. It was a daring thing for her to do. but he suspected there was a bad adviser behind it | | “Tell e all avout it he kindly | With tears and sighs and sobs and blushies the girl related her story, | tand for ha!f a minute after she had | concluded there was no word from the mun. Neither did he look at her. “I was his nephew,” he finally said “Yes he was a hard man on his debt- | | ors, but tie world had wronged and soured him 1o died at three o'clock this afternoon ™ “What doad ! exclaimed the | girl He taok up the light and signed for her nd entered the next room { pointed to the cofin. Then he led * to the onter door and said He letf all t Tell the widow | not to w I I send her a re- | | lease of mortgag You will unders stand see vou home, | Geood niz It was at who reach- ed her he di o undetected, and she f t she could be grateful o for the young mun" consideration They met ag six weeks later lt the widow s w he brought lho papers that made the cottage her home, but it was more than a '»etr before Bob Brodie had the feli umtlon of brageing to a playmate “Your sister ain't azoin’ to be mar- ried next week, but mine is, and ltl' to a corker of a man who can buy two tame ol~'|»1n'|ls if he wants to!” (Copyright, 1912 hv the MeClure Newse paper Svnldicate)) His Very Latest Jones had come home very late ono' night after a convivial evening at a smoking concert, and had consumed more cigars and refreshments than was good for him. It was midnight not know it “Ah'" he muttered. “if the church clock would only strike I should know ! the time. It's too dark to see.” Just as he spoke the clock began to strike. Breathiessly Jones counted. | “One, two, three, four, five, six, sey- | en, eight, nine ten, eleven, twelve™ But at that moment another clock be- gan: “Thirteen,” counted Jones, “four- teen, nfloen (Great Scott!), sixteen, | seventeen, eighteen (gracious! ), nine- | teen, twenty (!!), twenty-one, twenty- two (!!!), twen‘y-three (mercy on us’), twenty-four™ Mopping his steaming brow, he ex- claimed: “My word. I've never been g0 late | in my life!™ | Powerful Support, | Upton Sinclair. at a vegetaman re. | union, attacked bitterly a malefactor of great wealth | “And yet this man” said a vegata- rian, “claims that when he embarkea on a business career, he took for his motto, ‘Get thee behind me, Satan!® | Ho! ha' ha!™ “Well.” said Mr. Sinclair, “there’s | nothing like having good backing.” s with a' keep the [ skulking | She shrank away wilh] | ] but we are always studving b Increase The Quantiny We give the “most now but we arc ., more. Phone us and prov | rewscseamesis 4, Best Butter, per pound . i 8Sugar, 16 pounds . ......... Cottolene, 10 pourd pails. .. Cottolene, 4-pound pails. .. .. ... Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails .. {3 cans family size Cream. . 6 cans baby size Cream.. ...... 1-2 barrel best Flour. ... ..,. 12 pounds best Flour. ...... .. Picnic Hams, per pound ............ Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hamg Octagon Soap, 6 for... ... 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