Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 11, 1913, Page 6

PP CP O ISO T i 35¢ 35¢ 50c¢ 15¢ 55¢ 25¢ 35¢ Anchovies, Glars Imported Cherries, Glass Imported Crab Meat, Tin Imported Clams Pine Apple Cheese Dried Herring, dozen Horse Radish, Glass Pure Food Store W. P. Pillans & (. PHONE 932 . QICIOELPOE0® 04 OFOEO BuildersLumber & Supply COMPANY B. K. & E 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS, Phone 8. NO.1 4 AND § INCH CYPRESS SHNGLES 85,00 M “24MD5INCH " ; 400 M NO. 1 STANDARD CYPRESS LATH 400 M MR FLG & GEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 26.00 M We are handling the cut of a small mill, and can furnish you rough and dressed framing from 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. J. DAVIS & CO. Successors to D. Fulghumw 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue b py Ny Heavy and Fancy Groceries Hay, Grain, and Feeds a Specialty .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 HAD TO FIND WORK Supreme Effort by Which Miss Sophira Became a Grape Picker. By HAMILTON POPE GALT. Miss Sophira was neither a grape ’picker nor a grape packer, but she { had ambitions. Ambitions in Wood- bridge ran to either the one or the other of these important branches of industry. Miss Sophira believed she could learn to pack grapes. The tea-kettle was boiling and Sis- ter Eugenia had not stirred yet, so there was timo for Miss Sophira to en- joy the first f2ll morning of the year warming under the California sun. “] must find work,” said Miss So- phira. And as she sald the words, Miss Sophira, standing in her garden, imme- Giately saw rows upon rows of grape- vines, stretching on and on, loaded witl red Tokays. green Malagas and black princes. Miss Sophira felt sure she could pack grapes. Boarders were out of the question. She and Eugenia were not aualified for boarders. The last boarder had swamped them completely, and they were glad Mrs. Staples was gone— Mrs, Staples, the millionaire, the in- valid, the exciting the dictatorial; Mrs. Staples who had to have tea, toast and titbits at all hours of the day and night; Mrs. Staples, whose vast pos- sessions were unfortunately tied up so that she had no ready money. Mrs. Staples had gone away without paying one cent for six weeks' board and lodging, and now Miss Sophira must have work in real earnest. Miss Sophira had ‘o find work, and decided that she would pick grapes She confided her determination to Miss Eugenia over their breakfast. “You have never packed any grapes and they want only experienced pack- ers,” objected Miss Eugenia, “It pays $2 a day.” “You are not strong enough.” “It pays $2 a day.” “I expect you would learn to pack pretty quick." mused Miss Eugenia. “They would only have to show me once.” “You have to pack them points down, stems up, don't you? That sounds rather hard.” “There are lots of people doing it. I will put on my 1847 Rogers bonnet and my colonial silk dress and go out and get a place in cne of the sheds " “] guess you'd tetter carry that mis- sion style pockethook with you,” sug- zested Rugenia, entering into the gpirit o her sister’s fun. I “Yes, 'l turn the gold side outside do! don’t They'll need no, that won't you're rich and “Oh, think work."” ‘L am surprised at your ignorance of tie world. If yov look poor it is all the harder for you t) get work™ And with these words Miss Sophira walked brigkly down the street, swing- ing her handsome bag, and enjoying the crisp, braciug air. ’ She limped hame at noon, drooping | and dispirited. They would not give | her work at any of the sheds she had | visited. “I. spite of the gold iligree!™ Miss Eugenia, l “All the filigree in the world would not help me!"” answered Sophira. "It! is this (touching her white hair and bent shoulders) 1 am too old - they ' will not have old poople.” “Well ‘t that too had!™ Eugenia, and then like 1 man she was hurried uy After some and lunch Miss Sophira was braced up consider- ably She brushed the crumbs from her silk dress, and announced that she was eoing to spend half o dollar. | “That's a lot of money to spend,” wavered Miss Fugenia ! “I know it, but I must spend it.” “What for?" 1 “Hair dye. It is a case of goodby , to my silvery locks, and welcome | work. 1 think 50 certs’ worth will be | enough for my scant locks.” “1 should think so if vou don't have to dye vour scalp.” That afternoon Miss Sophira started forth again, her hair a beautiful wal nut color to within a half-inch of her ! S0l She felt very voung and sprightly as <he tradged all the way out to Mason's packing shed, the packing shed farthest out and least promising, the shed of Masgon, the terrible She carefully ! of the sandy | cried I suid Miss rood wo- the tea tea some fted her skirts clear roac It rows upon rows, precise and resular, the grape vines spread. like the bristies of a tooth brush or clothes brush. and green, red and purnle srapes hung heavy among the )agzed leaves ‘ She passed a group of pickers, hap | py and jocular to the verg: oi romp" ing. It seemed like a picnic. There were no old wonien among them. Ste climbed up the worn steps and ! enteres the packing thed. A girl wae | packing grapes swiftly. It was not easy, but a thrilling feeling of con- fidence passed through Miss Sophira. | She knew she could do that. She hurried intc the office. It was occupied by two oblivious men. The more oblivious of the two was a bald- headed man whose eves poped like a spider's and whose red rair fringe stood out very straight. He was the dreadful Mason. There was no pos- sibility of his ever looking up. Miss Sophira addressed the least terrible man. “T%ere is nothing,” he said, without cver looking up. But Miss Sophira had walked too fa> to be dismissed so easily. “] can pack,” she sa‘d, “Any experience?” { | what was the lackey's astonishment [ “Life in the Legion” | curiosity | the war with Germany! - sian bullet at ' that the ritle had indeed been his, and THE EVENING 'rm.lum. LARELAND, FLA,, APRIL 11, 1913, “No, but I know I can do it.” “Oh.” “I know. I watched a girl do it. 1 am pretty good vith my hands.” At thia point the other mar looked up, jus a flash of the spidery eyes, ‘then another look. “There is nothing,” repeated the lesser man. M'ss Sophira moved toward the door WVith her hand on the knob 8h. ‘ired one last bold saot She ad- dresse’ Mason, the terrible, “Won't you give me a chance, Mr. Mason?" Mr. Mason looked up again. The restless eyes surveyed her again. “Yes, ' guess s0. You might take her out to the shed and ask Thompson if he can start her to work.” The clerk arose in obedience. So- phira was astonished. So was the clerk. But Mason was again oblivious. Had dyed hair fooled him? Did he admire it? Did he not see the gray locks showing at the roots? He usual- ly saw more than most people. Could he not see the stooping shoulders? It could not be sympathy! “le was not sympathetic. No, dyed hair hod not fooled him. It had enlightened him. It had disclosed to him a quality he could not resist— determination QUITE EQUAL TO EMERGENCY Diplomat, Intended Victim of King's Joke, Cleverly Extricated Himself From Emberrassment. The passing of the court fool as an institution did not mean that kings had ceased to take pleasure in the sort of nonsense that the jesters had been licensed to perpetrate. King Fred- erick Willlam 1. of Prussia was an in- corrigible joker, and greatly enjoyed testing the cleverness of his ministers and advisers by planning embarrass. ing situations, from which they could extricate themselves only by the exer- cise of the quickest wit. However, the king was almost as ready to enjoy his own discomfiture as that of his intend- ed victim. One day, at a small dinner, the king, happening to be in the mood to play a prank, chose as his victim one of his ministers, seated at his left. After a moment's thought, his majesty leaned toward the courtier on his right, and giving him a gentle slap on the cheek. said, “Pass it.” As the tap was passed from guest to guest round the table, the king’s in- tentions became apparent. The min- ister at Frederick Willlam's left would either have to commit lese ma- jeste by slapping his sovereign, or ad: mit himself beaten, and be the laugh- ing stock of the table. Although the company was already in a gale of merriment at his expense, the minister was not at all ready to| acknowledge defeat. Just as the blow wag passed to him he let a knife fall clattering to the floor between the King and hims 10 Immediately a ser- vant gprang torward, picked the knife up, and handed it to the minister; but te receive, instead of a word of thanks, a tap on the ok, The minister, by his wit, had ed the situation with- out violating the rules of the game. The king was the first to join in the laughter and applause that greeted the minister's cleverness.—Youth's Companion, His Rifle Returned. While Mr. Frederic Martyn was serving in Africa with the French For- eign Legion there eame under his no- tice an incident that he records in The legion had advanced against the Dahomeyan army, and was in pursuit of the black warriors A Dahomevan was killed in the act of leveling his gun at Captain Bat- treau of the legion from behind a cot- ton tree. As he fell his rifle clattered down at the officer’s very feet. Cap tain Battrean saw that it was an old Chassepot, and picked it up out of Suddenly he became very much interested. He examined it care: fully, and at last exclaimed, with a gasp of astonishment “Well, this is a miracle! Here is the very rifle | used in 1870 during See that hole in the butt? That was made by a Prus Suint-Privat. 1 could tell the gun from @mong a million by that mark alone; but here’s my num ber stamped on it as well, which is evidence ecnourh for anybody. Who would have thought it possible that 1| should pick up in Africa, as a captain, a rifle that 1 used in France as a ser- geant twenty-two vears ago? It is in- credible.” | Captain Puattreau was able to prove he received permission to keep it.— Youth's Companion Bill Would Follow Lawyer's Advice. Mr. Lovelor was one of those Pl’@“ ple who on every possible occasion consulted his attorney Nothing pleased him more than to go to law. The lawyer regarded him as an inval- uable asset “I have been grossly insulted!” he | exclaimed. rushing intc the office of his solicitor, for the seventh time in | three days. “In what way”" asked the solicitor, | somewhat wearily. “My next door neighbor has de- | clared he will pull my nose next time | he meets me What shall 1 do| about it?” ' “Well,” said the lawyer, as if he had given the case due deliberation. *“1 should soap it, then it will slip through his fingers. Good day' My bill will follow in due course.”"—Tit-Bits. A man who was charged in lll, English police court with attacking his wife said: “By an accident, sir, we were both perfectly sober.” ——— —— POPUPCTUFURC @ 00 DFOPOSOSO SOUVENIR SPOONS We have just received a new shipment of Souvenir ; Spoons with the passenger station in the bowl at , | popular prices of,$1.00, $1.25 andi$1.50. We wi h: pleased to show you these new goods. ‘A pleasure to show zoods." 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