Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 13, 1913, Page 6

p——— Y need \ - money to play with; YOU require money if you are 0 get ' all the enjoyment possible our of life. Only a bank account will help you to that pleasure. A very small sum will open an account at THIS bank. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Lakeland Long Lifeof Linen along with good laundry work is what you are looking for and that is just what we are giving. Try us. Lakeland Steam Laundry + Phone 130. West Main 8t. An Ounce of PREVENTION Is worth a pound of cure, For that reason it Will Pay Yot To Insure While Fire Insurance can’t prevent the home from _burning down It is the Source whence comes the means for the QBU!LD!NG QF 1T .UPR irepresent reliabie companies. ! am dealing ‘insurance only. That is my sole business. Successor 'to the Johnson |Agency Room 7, Rayvmondo Bldg. Phone 80 )} WHEN WE FURN STATIONERY THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD~ 255 HARCOURT&CO. cox CRAVED RBY CORRECT" MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS LOUISVILLE, KY,U.8.A. WE ARE THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE« Full line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Rugraved Specialties, Holiday and Pasicy Goods, ‘loys, Etc. LAKELAND BOOK STORE, R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnisk plass and specifications or will follow any plans and SUNGLLOWS A SPECIALTY. Tok e thow yiu some Lakolond homes I have built. Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA t 1 4 ¥ proved that he was ot asléep. - Miss | see 1f that bird had any documents concealed under his wings. She must verlook Caught in Trap, But She Foung | overlook nothing that might furnish » | Qut All About the Mysterious | | looked the trap that yawned for her | Neighbor. right foot, and with & snap the jaws R came together. There was a wild yell from the captive and a chuckle from the gander. Steel traps are made to take hold and pinch and hang on and hart, even when they have no teeth. Could the girl work the springs and lobsen her benumbed foot? No sir-ee! | cottage with an acre of ground around | ghe tried it and failed. She must yell l'it. The owner had died just as the ' ang get help or wait the return of cottage was ready for occupancy, and | young Burton, And if she got help it had stood tenantless for more than | what would people say! And if the a year. There were all sorts of 8to-| young man returned and found her CASE HEXT DODR By GRACE KERRIGAN. 1913 MeClure News- paper Syndicate.) Next door to the Needham's was a (Copyright, by the { ries as to why, as the agent who had | there what would he say! There was | it in chargé lived in another town, but at length there came a young man who announced himself as Mr. Paul Burton, and his errand to take a year's lease. 3 The young man met Mr. and Mrs. nothing funny in the situation. There was nothing. interesting in the old gander. 2 A step approaches! A cough coughs! | “Boy, I know you are in there and | caught in the trap!” said the voice of | ances. Needham, and he might have met their daughter Grace at the same time had she been bome that day. Nothing was sald as to the young man's occupation or family, and the mystery was soon deeper than ever No mother, sister or housekeeper come with him He did not engage bourd anywhere, He 'did not engage a woman to come in and do the cooking and other work. He did not seek to make lcqulnt- Mr. Burton, “and I want tv talk to you a minute before I release you. I Enow I have upset the town by my coming here and living as I have, but it’s about over. I was brought up bya rich aunt. She loved me, but didd’t think 1 amounted to much, and made a will with the following provisiohs: | “As 1 had never helped her about the house, even to bringing in a stick of stove-wood. I must keep house alone by myself for a year and see what & mean job it was, % He evidently had no trade or profes-| “As she didn't think I knew enough sion. And when the Needham's and others | of the girls for twelve months. had sized that all up and wondered|' “As I was always a great hand to and wondered there was something | gab and blab, I must tell no one here else. At the rear of the deep lot he my business. built a small house. It was hnrdlyl “As the old gander in there had once larger than an ordinary bedroom. It ( flapped his wings and squawked and there had been any children it would | scared a robber away, I must take have been pronounced a play-house. | care of him ’till he was claimed by There was no dog, and so it could not | death. o be a dog-house. ; “If 1 went through all this for & A week after the house had been | year I was to have the hundred thous- | finished, and while the neighbors were (88d she left. If I falled it was to go holding their breath, an express wagon | to the heathen of Africa. I didn’t pro- drove up and delivered a goose in a | Pose to let the heathen cross one over crate. It was a gander—a pure white |on me, and so I am here. I went to gander, and those who got a close look sald it was an old patriarch who was Iliving out the last half of his century.’ “A goose?” queried Mrs. Needham, the remainder of the year was to be “ it's months and months to | cancelled. [ am thersfore free to do Thanksgiving.” ‘a8 1 will, even to finding some nice |- ‘“He may be a vivisectionist/and is | 8ir] and asking her to share my for- golng to carve her up alive,” re- |tune with me. marked Mr, Needham. | “I do not think you came here to - “He's got a goose for a companion!” | _mal my gander. I think it was boy- sneered Grace, “That’s what might be ' 18h curiosity that drew you. You see, looked for in a young man of his |1 have been a boy myselt and know all lp,,mgn about it. I am not at all displeased The old goose was nken:):";m the :‘n::l: you, and will set you at liberty at goose-house and provided excel- 4 | gior to lie on, dishes to eat and drink/| Thereupon Mr. Burton entered the {from, and young Mr. Burton visited goose-house and knelt down, and with | him half'a dozen times s day to:aak | Strong hands pressed the spring back about his health. It was said that he v::& litted out & very shapely foot and even got up twice a night to go out g : there &nd speak a word or two of |, oW you capm.run along home, cheer to his pet. mw If I weré you ‘ld tell mother “That young man is_off in his top | S8t I tell down wtairs. Goodhre, filocy) paiiL s, m’l‘:’s blushes! The tears! The shame w " ! { 10&:‘: law ought to step in!” said of 1t as Miss Grace limped home! she | “If he ism't making counterfeit Just had to tell her mother, and her ‘mohey then why all this mecrecy?” | mother said she deserved to have her ‘asked the wise ones with a wink. m‘“’h:lf:."z 'm.rnk o yout® No letters came for Mr. Burton. He Al 7 angwered no idle questions of the shiy wound up ered three tradesmen. A minister called to invite T questions’. WAk ARSN hito 8 attend chureh but-his ring was | DIOBSHS later when the hth:rg:fl: ignored. The mystery had lasted for h‘"‘;’ Jo syeuiag fom U | three months when Miss Grace Need- | °77~ ham threw down her book one even- m: ;.'::;‘..'m n h" ing and turned to her father with: i “l declare that if T were you I m-mn:::?n WAS IR Wy A Y wouldn’t stand it another day!” (Blushes.) i “Stand what?™ “will y(;u marry him or the gan- “You know what 1 mean. I wouldn't der?” stand wui‘tl; case n;::;mm{'d have & . uymy. pqy» talk Mr, n ask him | 0 what he means by such conduct.” i aidn't. ko thy: ymder. “As how?” “As living alone.” “That's his business. 1 choose to live a8 I {ive and that is my business.” “But he has to cook for himself.” “Yeal” “And make his bed, and sweep and dust.” “Yen?" “And he has an old gander for com- pany!” “But we have an old cat!” ' “But—but you won't do anything about it?" “Not a thing!” “Then I will! He’s just got to ex- plain himself or I'l know the reason why!"” “Spoken like Nick Carter,” replied the father with a laugh, and the sub- ject was dropped. The young boys of the village had heard all about the gander, and the time came when they thought it would he a good foke to climb the alley fance and bear the veteran away. One night they tried it, but the gander’s protests called Mr. Burton out of bed and to celved a letter from the executors to the effect that I had done so well that | Woman and Military Service. t “Sister Maria Theresa,” said a vet- eran French general to a nun at a distinguished military gathering in the year 1889, “you were only twenty of age when you first gave r services to the wounded dt Bala- clava, and you were wounded in the of your duty. You were ‘wounded at Magenta. You brave- | 1y nursed the wounded through all our wars in Syria, China, and Mexi¢o. You were carried off the fleld at Worth, and before you had recovered from your injuries you were again perform- ing your duties: When a grenade fell, fnto your ambulance, you, without hesitation, took it in your hands and carried it a distance of a hundred yards, when it exploded, wounding you severely. No soldier has ever per- formed his duty more heroically than you have done, or lived more success- fully for his comrades and his coun- try. 1 have ilié Lhonor to present you, in the name of France and the French army, with the cross, which is con- the rescue, He could have put a lock ferred only on those who have shown on the door next day, but he didn't. FRNNAble Hravery '!n o . He bought a steel trap without teetn | dier®—Present arms! and set it where a boy might put his foot in it. Miss Grace Needham was very much in earnest in her intentions to solve the next door mystery, but how was she to go at it? She had puzzled for a week, when one day she saw the young man leave the house with a market basket on his arm.” He was going to buy provisions, and would be gone an hour, Mrs. Needham was off to a neighbor’s, so there was no one around to say nay. As a beginning, the goose-house was to' be visited. There was the key, perhaps to the whole mystery. There was only & fence to. climb and the girl was there. i The gander could be seen through the half-open door as he luxuriantly re- clined on his divan of excelsior, and his open eyes and outstretched neck Wasn’t Going So Far, Last summer C. ‘T. Heaton of Mon- tana was visiting his mother in Ohlo, He was driving one morning to & town, and a negro womas ask- ed him for a ride. After she had climbed in she asked Heaton where he lived. “In Montana.’ “Is you drivin 'there this mawnin'?™ ghe asked. “Better let me out right now—and she climbed down.—Satur day Evening Post. Fitted With a Name. “What kind of a tellow is Badger? “Well, 1 call him an auto-philapthre- pist. ‘ %And what is that, pray?” “An auto-philanthropist is one who :_hnflul)iflllflnn-pu.‘ to select a wife yet I must keep clear | Grace must step inside, however, to| 3 She did, just the same. 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