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

Full Weight CleanGoods Chase & Sanborn’s Bulk Coffee 25¢.pound GOTPOSTSTEOIISTAPTd 160, Pure Food Store } W. P. Pillans & (0. i PHONE 93 5] \ v RN R SOPOPQPOH O OFOPIPCFAIAP OO IQFOBOFUE Ot OFQITHQIOR0S J [ J CO. Successors to D. Fulghum 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue | /| | ; | ‘:‘S { haired youth, THE EVENING TELEURAM, LAKELAND, FLA., MARCH 12, 1913. | Why the Oldest Boarder Left Her Little, Half Bare, Top Story Room. 8Y HUBERT PAUL. ] The Little Gray Lady bhad left our toarding house! It was all the more astonishing be- cause she had lived there, 8o Mrs. Pot- ter said, for fourteen years. She had occupied that little half bare room of Lers on the top story mearly all of ! that time. When she had come, most | of us young fellows had been children | playing Indians and making mud pud- | dings. Nobody had thought that she | would ever leave. She went out every | morning at 8:30 to het work—she was | | cushier in some oflice downtown—and , | came back promptly at six; she had . no friends; she never went cut ln! the evening. Some of us, taking pity ' on the lonely little middle-aged spin- | ster, had sought her friendship, but, rhe had always amiably and pelitely discouraged us. ! We looked at each other in aston- | febment thut evening at the dinner ta- | ble when Mrs, Potter told us. No, the Little Gray Lady had given no explan- | ation. She had mercly said, very | i@ | sweetly, that she was going away, had packed her trunk and gone, glving some address in a modest uptown gtreet. Mrs. Potter had hoped that she might be permitted to call. The Little Gray Lady had evaded the proposition with the adroitness born of fourteen years of evasion of all personal matters. Then she had driven away in a cab, and that was the only thing that had seemed un- usual in the manner of her going. | L G LY 222 “when he arrives at the station For the Litle Gray Lady was not | glven to cabs. | “Perhaps she's gone to get mar- ried,” sugzosted Parsons, a shock- | ho sat at Mrs, Potter's & | right. | “Mr. Parsons, there isn't any ma ! worthy of her, M Pott | verely, and tot ! iy ! i \ /o9 bilg [ i \ 'aal, ' A ik g‘:(il':“. H. STOWI E. V. BURGESS 8 A, &5 Beiel, Coment and Wooden Buildings K S Lavrgzoand Small lll ( ry S !\.v -~ o - om X P i) tSTOW:S & BURGESS 5 CONTRAUTORS AND RUILDERS Lahkelan !. lori ' |~v;u Satisfaction n %% ‘ s NA b ) b Here at this drug store. If the you need 4 certain‘instrumert or appliance (eme right te this store - we have it. doctor sayvs \ is ¥ |3 ' 4] 1 1 ¢ { { ! i 2 Piv 0'd Reliable Centractors k b4 ‘ ‘ « houses in Lal 2 :\'\‘ B f;ylt,"'u" N 3 § MARSHALL & SANDERS ¢ Phone 228 Blue % FOLO$OITHOF fif Ll impr yoors sinee 4 his o faded out o 1 will bricity 1 sorved sever but sir release t ot the pu! record it J 3 teen years for the murder of 1 Iriggs. It was a deliberate, nremedi tated, cold-blooded murder, Jetloy v a racing man, partner. Jetle a very charn of a fas town. Th ) eingularly happy his old habi down, refo S 0N [ pess, [ 10y od teen don seventeen years the ag n contine ued. No doubt old-timers argue out the matter yet, as we did on that eve “Look at it this way,” said Parsons. tlood. The law prescribes a penalty or murder. It should have been ex- ncted.” I r.an’s duty to defend his home. were divided half and half. “I den't believe the taking of life is ever justified,” put in Cranborne, cur Socialist boarder. “Jetley was the viciim of his environment. How wany of us would not have done the sume? DBesides, did you fellows ever stop to think that he may have had loved ones who would suifer more than he by his death?” “You're a sentimentalist,” sneered iursons. “Who cares fcr a murderer scrving a life sentence?” “Somebody may have cared. vife!” “(Good Lord, Cranborne, do you sup- pese she cared what happened to him, or he what happcred to her? You 1r at those crimin.ls as though they were actuated by the same emotions =s ordinary people. Why, society is well rid of them. Kill the man and drive the woman out of society and vou'll improve the world better than Lv any crazy theories which don't ac- cord with facts.” “I'd like to take a look at Jetley to- morrow,” sald Pursons. “The papers say he'll come down on the 2:42. 1 vss there'll be a mob of sight- socrs.” “Yes, ready to mob him,” sald Cran- borne. 3 “Stuft!” said Parsons, “They’ll car- ry him shoulder hizh. The mob al- ways applauds tie wrongdoer.” “Well,” I interposed, “let's go and gee.” I think, but am not positive, that somebody laid a bet that Jetley would swagger through the crowd like & triumphant baseball star. Somebody else expected to see a bro- ken eriminal, creeping back hopeless- maintained that it was every We His {1y to the world of men. Anyway, we vere all curlous. The train cuwe in half an hour We were janitied into the heart {or a huge throng thut blocked the . tation. On the outskirts a | of volies ot ted vainly to il 36 Tl The train slows the § s doseended an 1y it them. i up. “Thet \ a ",‘ litt1 ] up to ot t it d ard I | and Lis hand i we ot tingers Little i can tell, aud 1 « t ok was—althoish which w1 may have bhoon ned recordin: lice pustin man ai appeared But th and of 1o i t nd 1 ( ) Cler! 4 Will of T cul rved Pro d chronie 1 and who wili tind L* proinotion” The new clerk get himself to ple tome the ones v plain and will do 80 no matter and merchan says, “that th reod as the nest man be more difeult to Tt wos not | cierk bad W o that cr fer him on ent rt <hpan T | th the hu cent in. “Did you eat lois of bread and mo. | < Insces at the detention h nie?” he was aslked in juven @ court “You bet,” he answered, with a mer ry twinkle in his eye.—Indianapolis { *“The man thot a fellow man in cold News % livered prompily. Fhsteclass senvic AN . . . s N |& in lurniture movirg and general trir { gl PEa00 0] noer: L {05 L TOPEOPF OSSOSO SO EOL $OFe Don’t Forget the Date TUESDAY, MARCH | Dr. Edgar H. Cole will be here tq look { ¢ afrer your eyes. All errors of refractiop § % correctly fitted. Examination FREE | : COLE & HULL | {7 Jewelers and Qptometrists QFOFQIOLOPLP QIR ACOSLE T ¢ Fhooe 173 Lakelang, 1), § .mnwmmws«:. At Your Service | § $ Phone 55 H PHOENIX § A 5 : Bartber Bath The Place 7, § {Shop Rooms Cifiien" | : L. E. Peacock, anager§ VWMWY WAL Lakeland Fuer Supply and Transfer Co ¢ b Charcosl ard all kinds of Wecc' de- AND GRANITE WORXS L John Eix e — LAKELAND MARBLE Lotated on East L ) Solicits the Ord ss : i New Lite of Tombstones on 1 I T o £+ ey g e They’ve Just bought, i T2 some ncw furniti .ij-g'! f*,:fig,‘\s ':dr’,v\! >0 g AEN viivs LELUE %fi AU U = o s LA ¢ FOBO DD HETELEGR subscribe