Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 12, 1913, Page 2

THS EVENING TELBGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., FEB. 12, 1913, SOUVENIRS ~ We have some very heavy Sterling Spoons with a cut of the A. C. L.§Depot on the handle. Also a nice line of Cloisonne and Hand Painted Pins in many styles. H. C. STEVENS Lakeland - Jeweler ISR 088 Taieiuiaceinintn] or T e Men A.HT. | “A convict,” she said, and only half yeiled her terror. I “Yes,” said the man. *“T'll make a olean hreast of it. T'm Brewster— Richard Brewster. 1 see you know who I am. There 18 a package un- ‘der that seat with a key that will un- Jock this padlock, and five hundred dollars. I can’t reach it with this at- tachment. Get it for me and I'll di- SN HS MTARE How Scion of Rich Family Dis- govered That Money Would Not Purchase Everything. s vide the money with you.” By GEORGE MUNSON, “We don’t help convicts here,” an- Though his family and friends had | swered the girl, watehing him stead- disowned Richard Brewster when he|ily. She half turned, still clutching was sentenced to serve five years In | the child. s i the Alabama penitentiary for forgery, “I'll give you all,” shouted Brew- he had still enough influence tg have | ster. “Five hundred. Good Lord! ‘I’ his escape made easy for him. At|could buy your erazy cottage for that | twenty-five, the second son of old | —and you too.” e Peter Brewster, the millionaire, he | She turned on him, *“I guess thalis ! suddenly found himself bereft of ev-| where you're wrong,” she answered | erything that meant life to him. ' For | bitterly. “Some folks can’t be bought. three years he clerked in the war-|If they could my folks would be rich- den’s office, dreaming of the time |er than they are. Perhaps you know when he would be free once more. He | my father, Herman Grace,” she add- | would jobtain money from his puri- | ed. | tanical old father who had disowned| “Grace! him, in spite of his threats; he knew “I thought you did. If he had taken | that he could blackmail him for twen- | that five thousand dollars your folks | ty thousand by threatening to publish | offered him to let you escape, wel certain facts in the old man’s early | wouldn't be living in this ‘crazy cot- history. For although Peter Bréw- |tage’ as you call it.” ster was the squarest man in Ala- “Then you Wwon't get that package bama, once, when he was a young | for me?” he demanded. man—well, Richard had discovered “No, nor I won't lift a finger against that slip, which had made the mil-|you, either. Go your own way. I've The head warden!” lionaire indulgent to his son's weak-| heard of you and your doings. Yolll i nesses until he crowned. them with | poor creature, what sort of happiness forgery. Peter had never stolen oOr | have you found in your life, you who forged; still, he could be made to | think everybody is for sale?” yield up twenty thousand, Richard .| knew, for silence. After three years the Brewster im- fluence had waned with the change. CIGARS of governors, and Richard was taken | out of his easy berth and shipped oft The thought was new to Brewster. “Why I-—I haven't had much,” he stammered. 3 “How long havé you to serve?” “Nearly two years.” “Two years!" she echoed. “So you A. H. T. CIGARJICO. Lakeland, ' Florida 290 Blue, 4t ¢ Cakes! We have putin a full line of Steel-Drake Baking Co. Cakes. Lady, Marble, Fruit, Raisins, Citron, Nut and Sponge Cakes. 30c pound . Pure Food Store W. P. Pillens & (. PHPNE 93 - Acres 8 fine land as there is in Florida, one and a half e from station; 60 a:res under good wire fence; 0 acres cultivated; 125 large bearing orange trees, 200 grapefrnit trees, budded, 4 years old; 30 acres “fine pine timber; 10 acres choice hammock land cov- ‘ered with oak: 10 acres good muck land. - The first man with $2,500 cash gets this bargain, . another $2,000 to be paid in gne, two and three years. , | Act quick as this will not last. Call o1 write REALYY C0., Lakeland, Fla & Sale, Bavis, Fulghum & Campbell Successors to D. Fulghum 218-220 S. Florida Ave. Dealers in Phone 334 ’ m-l;m.qm to labor in the turpentine camp at|are willing to purchase two years of Parsing. There the horror of his po- | liberty by a life of ignominy, hunted sition moved unwise friends of his|everywhere, hiding from all, trusting father, who, acting without the old | pnone, always expecting to hear the man’s knowledge, approached the | step of a detective at your heels? You head warden with bribes. The only result was that a fifty pound weight was attached to Richard’'s leg by a chain. But others were more venal; and so it came about that Richard Brewster found himself alone in the woods, with two hours’ grace, and poor fellow!” y He hung his head. “I don’t—know!"” -he stammered. “Nobody ever put it to me in that way before. I've never met a girl like you. I thought they were gll out for the mumey. Say!” he went on rapidly, “that little daugh- ter of yours ought to be proud—" “My sister,” said the girl, smiling for the first time. “I'm not married— yet!” . W Brewster took a step forward and stood before her, the ball clanking on its chain behind him. In his eyes was a light that had never shone there before. “Miss Grace,” he said, “if I go back —it 1 serve my time—if I try to live ‘| & decent life afterward, and I have “A Conviect.” only a mile to travel to the motor boat which lay awaiting him, hidden in the mangroves, with five hundred dollars under the seat and a key that would unfasten the padlock of the chain, That mile meant hard traveling, when one weighed fifty pounds above his norm, but Richard made it Through swamps and over trunks, and plunging into rotten ber, he pressed forward, at length, bleeding and head of the little bay. It was late afternoon; a cottage stood on the bank not fifty yards distant; and the boat just showed among the man- groves. Brewster crept cautiously to- ward it. He pulled it from its place into the shallow water. : Then he discovered that, with the chain and the ball, he could not enter it. He could not lift his leg from the swampy bottom of the bay; nor, had he done so, could he have climbed in without upsetting the craft. Under the seat, as he had been ad- vised, he saw the little ailskin pack- age containing the monéy and the key. But he could not reach so far. His finger tips stopped short a full foot ;to stretch further mean to up: set the little oraft. He struggled till the aweat poured down his face, Then, turning, he became aware that a small child was watcihing him, a girl about five years old, evidently from the cot- tage. “Come here,” said Brewster hoarse- ly, and the child obeyed. “Do you see that package under that seat? Could you get it for me?” The child stood watching him, finger in mouth, half frightened, half inter- ested. It was evident that she had no intention of doing what the strange man told her. Brewster resolved to try the effect of fear. “Marjorie! Marjorie!” called a clear voice from the cottage. “Come here!" cried Brewster in a hoarse, pngry whisper. “Climb in there at once and get me that pack- age!” Terrified, the child began to cry. Brewster lost control of himself and she set up a scream. Then the man- groves parted and a clear-eyed, indig- nant young woman, perhaps Brew- ster's own age, confronted him. “What are you doing with Man jorie?” she cried. “Do you think we are afraid of tramps here? Off with you, or I'll set the dogs on you.” Then her eyes fell on the ball and chain and she recoiled a step, but still stood hand holding Marjorie tim- to emerge torn, at the wanted to sometimies, only I never had any encouragement—if I do all these things, will you let me come to you the day I am set free and ask you to help te? Just to tell me what to do? So that I can feel that I have ' , besides money?” ‘“Yes,” she answered impulsively. “Yes, And I shall tell my father what you have told me.” | ; Brewster turned and plunged back tllx the mangroves toward the oon! camp, the ball jangling be- hind him. . (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.)’ BALBOA DESERVES ALL HONOR M" of Great Spanish Adventurer Never Can Be Forgotten In the " History of the World, In the list of heroes dear to the normal boy who loves courage and adventure, will be found those. intrep- 1 The Ilo@me\afm@? SCHAFFNER & MARX Clothing We are getting in every day oy, . Spring Line, so if you want a gooq nobby suit, see us, as tmis is the o]y store in town that [keeps them. ___ We havefalso received{our spripg line of Hats, Shoesi Arrow Brang Shirts and Onyx Socks. The Hub JOSEPH LeVAY 118 Kentucky; Avenue Lakeland Where Can You Get Them? Here at this drug store. If the doctor says you need a certain®instrument or appliance come right to this store— we have it. ed Crioss) Fharmaq) ¥ QuickfDelivery Phone 89 id forelopers, Columbus and De Soto | and . Balboa—Columbus, of Anarinp:‘ De Boto, discoverer of the that lone peak in Darier, looked down upon t:a Pacific, and later claimed it ‘in the mame of his vluxl master. That was on September 26, 1518, and on September 325, 1913, the four hun- dredth anniversary of the évent, it is proposed fo have the first ship enter the Banama canal. If this original trip can be prolonged for. four days— for it may well he both pageant and voyage—the craft will reach the Pa- cific on the anniversary of the day, according to the annals, when Balbda strode down the shining sands and waded into the surf, waved his sword over the sea as a symbol of its future \ vagsalage to King Ferdinand. A wild and dashing cavaller was this Balboa, a swashbuckler of his time, an adventurer of many hair breadth escapes, and finally the vietim of an unjust persecution. The envi- ous nobles who encompassed his downfall are forgotten, the king he honored is rarely recalled, the Span- ish dominion has passed from the great ocean, but the name of the dar- ing!ploneer, the resolute soldiers, the fearless leader, lives on in history and story, and will, if all goes well, be fittingly linked with the completion of that masterpiece of engineering which joins ocean and ocean—the ocean which he sailed and the ocean which hé found. Religious Chickens. My little boy, Frank, foor years, likes to lock the chickens in their coop at night. Lately he has had me go with him, as he is a little timid about going out of doors after dark. One night last week he had driven the chickens Into the coop, and the little ' chicks in settling down for the night were peéping. Frank sald: “Oh, mamma, aren’t the chickens good, just listen to them saying their prayers.”— Exchange. Sclentific .Speech. “I'will now proceed to add to hp. | man knowledge,” said one sclentist. | “How will you do it?” asked the other, By taking some short word in popu- lar use and causing several syllables $ il For,iAIiRinds (ofl Just received car lo§q fof “BUCKEYE" Wire] Fencing and a car lload of Sanitary } Bath Room Fixtues. "Give us a_call and . be convinced that our prices are right. A complete stock of Builders’ Supplics always on hand. All Plumbing and Tin" ning Guaranteed. New stock of Hard" ware and Furniture, O Oe-bOe The Model Hardvare (0 ¥ IV g % :