Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 11, 1913, Page 7

Listen! Big Cut in Maz- da lamp Prices .5. 20 and 25 Watt were 50c now 40: 40 Watt were 85¢ now 60 Watt were 75¢c, now 100 Watt were $1.10, now. ... 150 Watt were $1.60, now. . 250 Watt were $2.60, now .. 2da tamps and reduce your light bill. For sale by fiectric & Machinery Co. DRANE BUILDING » HOIABOBOBOIO #EHDIGIDIOIC I OPOIOFQFOBOOS WE HAVE PUT IN A NEW LINE OF ICE CREAM WHICH WE GET FROM TAMPA. GIVE US A CALL LAKE PHARMACY 23 5 #Q HHPOHOBOBOBC LODOIV POBROBOLOHOBATOEOPOFISOIOH P40 #04030 FOSOBIFOSO L0 OHOIDBOHOIVDIOFOHOSOSOSAS0S0HC PHONE 226 For Fresh Opysters, Fruits, Candes, Nuts and all Confections PROMPT DELIVERY H. O. DENNY | CAOPHO0P0P00PCE O#OQOOOO"MO-E-O&%-OWOO‘ THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAXND, FLA, FEB. 11, 1913. | ; How a Dlscredned Husband Was | | Shipped Back to Wife in- Goods Box. By H. M. EGBERT. Abigail Smale entered the express | {office at Norbary, which was kept by | Mrs. James Searles, her finger on her Ilip, her free hand pointed down the | road. | “He's coming, | mysteriously. Jane,” she whispered Mrs Scarles looked up wearily from §a: | her ddlivery buok, “Who?" she asked | | tersely "I"L it !rn-s;‘m.n!‘-‘ | becn gon \is reguiir spices with that Joe Turn s friends. Jane, ake him back r tarty. ard folded her aven lm\u hold of hi he's somchody what to do.’ Abigail Smale stood up “Jane," she said firmly, “last time he came home you told him if he ever another drop of liquor passed his lips you'd cast him off for good. Here you are with a prosperous business and a worth-. less, drunken husband that contributes nothing to your support. \Why should you endure him any longer, staggering round the house and putting you to shame before decent folks? you're weakkneed and spineless enough to take him lv wck again you i lose all your frienc 1 oguess you'r sponded Jane “Good! Good!” exclaimed the other heartily. “And as | him coming up the path now and dont want to be contaminated by his presenee, T say ! good-hye™” Jang Scarles look after her thought fully. "1 wonder just why you're so set against Jim, Abigail” she said “1 wonder if it's true that you and he were sweethearts once Or s it just love for me?" “My dear!" said a thick voice be- hind her. Jane Searles turned. Her husband stood on- the threshold, re- garding her with a mixture of anxiety and affectionate benignness. "My dear, I've come home to the fold.” he mur- mured with an ingratiating smile. Jane Searles went up to him “Jim,” she said, "I've been a good wife to you for nearly ten years, and I've worked and slaved for you, and I've stood for a good deal, but It's over now. | told you if you went off agai: to drink you couldn’t come home This home is mine, and U've jpuid every penny that's been put into it else. don’t Know ht, Abigail,” rles meckly re- see We have in our employ, Yr. S. Miller, who is an wpert in hisline. Let him ~ure with you on vyour Metaland Tin Work IVRG Ecis i all ki oofing. or G'-'“*'el Siate, Tile, iV Make or repair any- v in ShecetIron or Tin, ~ e - oy ! ll«,( v\x “ ‘e iy LAltie 1 . »( il ] \ carload of the Famous strawberry Cup, the kind that fits the Refrigerator 30Xes. ~ . ’ A full line of Sash, Doors, Builders Hardware, all at prices which will make it to your irterest to let us have a she f your trade. TheJackson Now take yourself oft!™ “Jane! Dear Jane!” murmured Mr. iSonrh-s uncertainly. But he witha hastily as the slammed door grie his nose, and. looking back ruc! at this unexpeeted phenomenon, he de-! L cided that it was not a propitious ¢ [ mert to rencw the attack, and i back down the road in the dir of his crony's, |urm T What, buek 1in?" shouted latter, looki up from his Though a hard drinker, Joe never lectod his work He was an old b lor, w live-dong friend of Jim's hi i tt itil Jane had | to atl Joe aomatter « noeh 1 ) od o and yon've ent by the ¢ spirit Now spoiled hoer t XCCESIVe gse you'll have of out her ‘Part it's breakinz my hes muttered the other. “Help e 'l help ye,” roared the bl advincing upon the other hot horseshoe gripped bet of tongs. “Get out of m drunken profligate. T've d I've made merry u't bresk vour wife's ho ak her heart either, Jim.' { Jim Searles tumbled off and grovelled Joe "begged it h at his friend's feet help me out this onc “I've had my lesson h bher and I'll ne ver | liquor aguin. Jane's so curs | gcientious” he added ! et down the horse | because she said she wouldn't 1: | back that she's bent on keepi ‘“ord Can’t you help me, Joc | Joe Turner pushed his friend | the little room at the back | forge. i “You lie down there and tuke i nap,” he gaid i be done for you.” ‘ Jim Searles awoke that evening to find Joe Turner toasting bacon over | the fire | two and a caldron of soup hisscd om the coals “How d'you feel, Jim?" { blacksmith, coming | bacon. beer?” “Not for me, Joe," sald Jim Searles, and the other gave him a violent clap ; on the back. “Good for you, Jim,” he shouted. into of the asked the ! back with the; “Pretty bad, hey? Have some & Wilson Co. _“Now I can go ahead with a good con- science. Well, I've been up to your there. Bhe won't take you.” Jim's face fell several inches. other resumed: “But, Jim, I guess she loves you, The Jane, if “I'll see what can be'! The table had been laid for | wife's. Jim, there’s nothing doing; \nt the talance trembled. .1 ent un angry retort, 1 how he dared criticise her or their relationship. That quelled one less exper 22i. He fell upon i his s and seized her hand and l T : i .y Rensley.” he im- | | plored “1i was unpardonoble in me— | | vet they say nothing is unpardonable in one who No, do not start faway Hear me nnl then dismiss me for ever. | have ever loved you, you f bea I:.m- always known that he did not flove vou. Why, | life wretehed all your days because he has vou in his power? e with me to Italy v love all your & lovéds worthless husband of yours,” “He's | fivs now on one of That wos the moment when Rensley turned a week rlier than had been tod, He i word, but he rived bhefore his own Loiter. So I strelled quietly in v the ro ! when he e lichted, none of K Lim 3 w for the fla 4 .|‘“\l they woere; hot 1o with the hair slielitiy s ©temples—who was he? cared. They were dancing no lonsger, Cbut whispering and gossiping in the drawing rooms, and loitering near the conservatory. Somebody had told them that Rizzi and lady Rensley were theve Then Rensley entered the conserva- tory alone. And Lady Rensley, seeing him, drew back with a frightened catch of the breath, and Rizzi, know- ing him, rose to his feet and stood looking at him defiantly, with folded arms Pardon me for interrupting rd Rensley. “Baron Rizz s quiet woover Nobody Yes? what s it you so urge ntly de- | of 1 L 4EY | GV Since 1dy Rensley that vou go down v knees to her? he did not turned to his wife Ay ddear, is it in our power, or s it vour d.m » |u grant this gentleman ¢ he demanded. “No.! derment Rensley wnl\ Rizzi by the arm. My dear fellow, you shall have vour five hundred pounds,” a lond voice which carried to those waiting outside, asked me instead of my wife.” He turned to the guests. “Gentlemen, my carriages are at your disposal,” he said. Then he led Lady Rensley through the ballroom to her private apartment. 1he grounas. Lady Rensley tapped on the table. “I want to tell you one thing before we part,” she sail. “I have never given you reason to be ashamed of | me. | have kept iy vow.” lord Rensley took her hands in hln “But I have not kept mine,” he said. . “Edith, let my faith in you bhe the proof of my love. chance to show its reality?” That broke her pride; she crled then, in his arms “I've been a fool,” he sald; but she laughed throuzh her tears . when he put back the engagement rlng.ulmn her fi A nt, her fingers up- (Cop 1912, hy W, «} Chapman.) BALKED AT THE WOWAN JURY Ship's Captain Derided Federal Regue lations, bt Threat Crought Vine, t Dir Him to wpect of facing a 1 court v woms more n ol the n of- thrent n Dakesy him to display port lizhts proper rangway. From bis berth, whither he had retired ecarly, Capt. Prown commended the pairol- man 1o a “warm climate.” Paj cplied that there we federal fine of $200 for the ofc H the captain grunted from his berth. Pakesy threatencd arrest; the eaptain snored “They have a woman jury in muni- cipal court,” guzpested Dakesy, you will have to that,” Iv the captain rai whiskers and the watchman came running. “All hands on deck” went to the ship to and rig a Instant- changed and proper lights hung. i won't face a woman jury in any court, . and me 60 years old."- eonian. Monuments to Mark Twaln. Mark Twain is to have two monu- | ments in Misrouri, one at his birth- | place In Florida, the other in River- | view Park, In Hannibal, both erected by the state. He deserves them both, but is not the Inscription proposed | for the Florida memorial a little too | despondent? “He cheered and com- forted a tired world.” But Is it a tired world? The fashion nowadays is to praise literature in the terms of | Sancho Panza’s blessing on him who |lnvenh>d sleep, but is as dublous a | compliment as Pope’s tribute to an Industrious contemporary writer, “Sleepless himself, to give his read- | {er sleep” It is not only the ex- |hvm.ed who gets good from Mark Twain; he is one of the favorite aw- Mflmn:m | Queensland’s Riches In Timber. Queensland is estimated to have | 'hfly milllon acres of forests as ydl uninspected and unreserved. ' 40501030000 + with your secret sorrow, and I | is he to make your TG TR T T T T R | " sald | | answer Rensley i 1l sh «d out in her bewll- | he said in | “But I wish you had | Under the windows the | I ¢cowed guests were streaming out into | Will you give me l | “and ! ed his hand to his | g commanded | 4 Capt. 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