Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 4, 1913, Page 2

CLEAN GOODS FRESH STOCK 35¢ 35¢ 50c 15¢ 53¢ 25¢ 35¢ Pure Food Store W. P. Pillans & (. PHONE 93 » CACHOeOIDEE0SOFOSOPINNO0S ! Anchovies, Glars Imported Cherries, Glass L Imported Crab Meat, Tin B Imported Clams Pine Apple Cheese Dried Herring, dozen Horse Radish, Glass e e Builders Lumber & Sum)ly COMPANY B K. & E. 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS, Toot of Main Stree: NO1%42AND & INCH CYPRESS SHINGLES §5,00 M “ L4 IND G INCH * ; 400 N NO. 1 STANDARD CYPRESS LATH 400 N MRZFLG B(CEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 25.00[M We are handling the cut of a small mill, and can furnish you rough and dressed framing trbm 2x4 to 10x12 best heart if wanted, cut from round timber. We make doors and sash and can furnish any kind of mill work out of pine and cypress lumber. Re carry a first class line of points, varnishes and oil. Our lumber and mill business will be managed by Mr E. H. llopkins, who is well known by the people of Lakeland as an nu-to-date lumber man Terms:Strictly]Cash{on Delivery of Goods J. JJIDAVIS & CO. Successors to D. Fulghum 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue 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 stere— we have it. Red Cross Pharmacy Phone 89 % Quick Delivery I | ‘the clinging child, and supported her |against his arms. She was softly | | erying. the other one is winding up, thus | "See here, little girl,” gasped Wil ! creating perpetual motion. The auto drhe her in here from the cattle pen. l won't leave her till I find out where | he's taking her, and I can take her ! back to grandma.” Just here the train took a siding| SNOWCALL'S RETURN i1 id. I climb down to the ground and rest her !4 Young Prodlgal Saved the Wid tired arms, by teliing her that he ow’s Cow and Won Wife would “see about things.” A brakeman and another man came for Father. strolling from the caboose. They | stared strangely at the pair. Wilfrid By MADELINE ADA LEIGHTON. | began to explain, The man with the “We have been friends for a good l brakeman smiled before the narrative many years, Lydia.” was concluded. “And let us continue the same, Dan-, “Poor little thing!” he said. “I'm|: fel.” sorry for her, but she don’t under- The scene was in the neat parlor of | stand how affairs stand. I'm a consta- the village home of Miss Lydia Park-|ble from the county seat. Mrs. Gran- er, spinster. Her caller—and suitor— | by owed some money, and there’s an was Daniel Brackett, ten years a wid- | execution out, I didn't want to dis- ower, They were a well-matched |turb her by levying on her household couple, she in the matchless perfec- | goods, so I took the cow.” tion of mature loveliness of face, fig-| “And this brave little child followed ure and mird; he in the strength of | poor Snowball,” said Wiltrid. “Offi- a really noble manhood. cer, is the amount very much?” “I have waited a long time to ask| “Forty dollars and costs,” was the you the question nearest to my heart,” | reply, with a sympathetic look at the he went on. “I am disappointed, | child. “I'd pay it out of my own Lydia—and a trifle hurt.” pocket if I wasn't a poor man.” “Daniel,” said Mr. Lydla, “we can| “If I can pay it, will you release be straightforward with each other.|the cow?" asked Wilfrid. I was the school girl friend of your “Yes, and throw off my fees, gladly,” dear wife. I am the friend of her|replied the officer. lonely, wandering boy. You have! Wilfrid was parting with hard-| asked me if I would marry you. I will not answer that question till you have taken Wilirid back where he earned, proudly-prized savings, but he[r felt like a royal kind as the trans. | action was completed, a slanting pla'.- E 1 | | i belongs—to your home and your love.” | form run up to the car, and Snowball | | Daniel Brackett took up his hat and left the house, He was not only troubled, but sad. Wilirid, his boy, had been a wild, reckless lad, impul- drlivered into his keeping, ! The officer wiped away a suspicious } moisture from his eye as the little! girl threw her arms around the neck sive, always in difficultics, but whole- | of the snowy white animal, cried over hearted and generous to a fault. One | her recovered pet, and then laughed or two boyish scrapes the indulgent | for joy. father had overlooked. Then one| It was only ten miles back to her night the son was a member of a Hal- | home, Wilfrid led Snowball with a lowe’en party which wound up in an | halter. Part of the way the girl rode accidental blaze. A farmer's barn |on her back. was burned down. Mr, Brackett paid| Somehow the people of the town fitty dollars to prevent trouble for|found out what the strange precession Wiltrid, and banished him from the |meant. An enterprising reporter eag- house, erly gathered up the material for a “When you have earned that fifty | good story, and when Wilfrid left the dollars and repaid it,” said the father | happy child and her pet at their home, sternly, “you may come back to your|the wires were clicking an incident home. Not before.” of rare human interest all over the That was six months since. From |country, The afternoon papers had it, that day until this no word had come | including the Rrandon Evening Tele- from the homeless lad, Forty miles | yram. I told you Wilfrid was worth while. I knew he had the making of a grand man in him—and what do you say | now, Daniel Brackett?” demanded Miss | Cynthia at the Rrackett home at eight | i o'clock that evening. She pointed to the newspaper she had brought with ;Iwr on her impetuous, unceremonious visit, “Yes,” answered Mr. Bracket hum- i bly, “Wilfrid is a splendid boy.” “You start right out finding him, | Daniel Brackett,” ordered the spin- { ster sharply, “or I'll never speak to you again.” “No need, father! Miss Parker!" ,cried a choery voice, and the boy in Munsllon burst into the room. The wiurm, fatherly greeting made everything all right, but it was the emotional Miss ('ynthia who caressed Wilfrid and wept over him, and was proud of him for his unselfishness. “There's that fifty dollars, father,” sald Wilfrid in a business like way, placing a rol! of bills on the table. Mr, Brackett pushed it back sheep- ishly. Miss Lydia's eyes twinkled. ! Her would-be suitor sidled up to her. | “That question | asked you this ! morning, " he . gently, Miss Worner placed a loving arm | . i | about Wity I “TIl thi u\ about the answer,” sho | 1"“'-‘ ' ‘ F { Somchow the People of the Town! .0 . ' g [ s " (‘ ":(' anc"/ Found Ouvt What l e Strange Pro. | $2id 81 o i i < b 1 (Copyi % by W, Q. Chapinan) | ¢ 3 | | ng Wiiid 1 gngland, 1t Whuld Scem, 1t Is Ap. | i - o $ - ; A 3 " f 100 ' { '-4'.\".7 aAe q*‘l ! b i L o Ty i 3 S comm ( ! pa ing to ! ! - » ~AAla r ! could 1 v 1 follies I..‘;. ) y { A w Wl D (‘ \J; L‘Alts B now. and n Beve | It vory (‘h‘lllv, i : ' Esd much of a ! *ill, he experls | to Yoeal 3 M aes i A : £ Y’!’ eneed a ok Iy, ¢ 1 nt gailed 10 1 ho & - - P~ in his he ot 1 t i (.fi S Seaidld o : I ol * editorial s th e would ! i ' PlCe pouse, 1 1 n b} P 4 he wus Lo home g " y : I rompt Deliver “I've done the risht thing,” he told | L2 fred $100 and cos v } p y " l\.",-"‘ ; ) it ting," he ',' 1 g earter by the reenloss driving of an > ™ ‘ l‘got "‘ Jflhm‘“‘ 5 bikea '\M”"‘ ‘ll‘-«-h. The other cuse was that of a school teacher, twent;-scven years old, who had been teaching school for ten years. Her salary was $50 a year. In | order to support herself and her moth- er she has had to eke out her salary by working as a waitress in a restau- rant. Recently a member of the school committee recommended that the teacher’s salary should be increased to $100 a year. The committee has not yet acted on the rccommendation. ers up Dalton river, had some luck, {and I'm going home not only with the | flrty dollars, but as much more to the 00d.” “ilrrld stepped aside to allow a slow moving freight train to pass him Then he gave a great start as m last cars swung around the long lcur\'e He stored in sheer wonder- mcnt at the fizure of a little girl not | xmore than ten years of age, clmgmg ' to the top of the iron ladder on one | .slde of the car and huddled up | | against its rounls, “The mischief!"” uttered the astound- | Who resides in the wilds of Bracken {ed boy, “She must be scared to death, | county, says he has found perpetual or the pluckiest girl I ever saw.” 4 motion, and is building an automobile { Wilfrid posed to catch at the ladder | to be propelled by this power. He | 88 the car reached him, swung under | $a¥8 that the power to run the auto- Imobile will be produced by springs. When one spring is running down —ee. Found at Last. Joe D. Blades, the noted inventor, i frid, “what are you ever doing here?” | is now about completed and he says | “Snowball,” was the single re : it Will be on the road in a short time. , sponse. ! “Who's Snowball?” | “She’s our own dear cow. It is a selfstarter. When you sit ' down in the seat the machine is put in motion; when you get up it stops.— Falmouth (Ky.) Ouuook They’re taking her away from grandma, who Is sick in bed. 1If she finds out that ‘Snowball has been taken away, she'll | just die, I know she will. Grandma jraised Snowball. She’s one of the family, and we got halt our living | from hersmilk.” “And where is Snowball?” ques tioned the bewildered lad. “She's in this car. [ saw the man Senslble Fatker, “You say you want to marry my daughter?” “Yes, sir. After thinking the ma!- ter over I have reached that comeclu- sion.” “You have, eh? Well, I want her to marry a man who is not so all-fired deliberate!” ‘ WWW : ; H 3") "COLE & HULL_ Insinuated | quermom e f s ——r— e P WQullth o8 vent Vegetable Odors from Making Your Butter and 1 Subscnlxetorllltl[l[fim mmio = See our line of Sterling Silver ths ha just arrived. The pieces will make fi o ¢ Wedding Gifts. You can be sure of mm correctness when they{come from ys, *“A pleasure to show zoods.” L T A L R PR L L , > Jewelers andjOptomelrists “Phone 173 lalclard Hg ¢ . DHisbands clothes Your wife or sweetheart will lixe your clothes iffyou buy them ficm us, because women kncw mcre about materials and styles tha: i men d», anyhcw. We are not afraid to have our clothing and furnichir¢s subjected;to the closest scrutiry. A man cwes it to his wife ‘and sweet- heart to dress well* it helps them SOCIALLY. It also HELPS HIM so- clally and in business. 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