Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 15, 1913, Page 6

b PAGE SIX. L VHEOPRI0LCH CEOPAPRF R U+ CH G w&mmnmwm&moy o CURED MEATS Country Cured Hams Ib 21c " “ Picnic Hams Ib 18¢ Breakfast Bacon Ib [25¢ “Ask for Red Wing Grape Juice” The Pure Juice Pure Food Store P, Pillans & (. PHONE 93 i P A -.'l LQPQ e W.W*m'. b ;‘l THE EE;.WN’S PEW BY J. E. MACDONALD. The littie frontier town of Sander- son ;-<,~»ussed several saloons and | gambling houses, two churches. a tele- [ graph m ice, but no newspaper, There. ! fore, W hen Gen. Gorgon Snorter, late ‘ox tho Confederatz army, anived on | the scene and announced his inten- one was pleased. But when the gen- {eral visited Deacon Lamb, one of Sanderson’s most prominent citizens, with a view to penting a g&ultable building in which to house the Sand- erson Daily Trumpet, the deacon de- clined to lease without recelving & quarter’s rent in advance, edvance, indeed—never, sir, never.” ‘ The deacon, one of the mfldest. [N 10 of- | ! fmpediment of speech: ‘ fense, I ho-ho-hop ' Jut General Snerter's affronted and the ini the Trumpet contained a a» draecon, and; I E3 ra:oemmmmmo PR OO 0000#00-000#0 0] THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, l-'LA., APRIL, 15, 1913, ! tion of starting a daily journzi every- | cessful speculator, | t “Sirrrr!” thundered the redoubt- | ject of living was to extract frcm able Snorter, “you insult me. Pay in ! each day as much pleasure as theq | mannered of men, felt (T\!.‘.'Msscd‘fmm the position of millionaire to '! ‘ond stammered out—for he Lad an l that of pauper, a not unusual change ' nity was | was out of the gawme for gocd. The number of chock killed the old gentleman, and i scorching | Th— D4R CIOPUPLTOIOIOLOFCEOE. GOSOFASOLOTOPD, E0L0PIag GRADUATION TIME IS HERE We have just received one of the largest stocks of solid go} SPEAKING OF GHA:"‘ES By COSTER BYLES. d 4 cordial invitation is exteng. ed to all to inspect the Cole & Hull stock. “Always a Pleasure to Show oods.” rompentens GOLE & HULL b gl sy * Jewelers and Optomelrists Fhone 173 Lakeland, Fia son that he must spend his money | J4CHOEIPOPCINFOPUS OO 400D like a gentleman or not at all. The young fellow had imbibed aris- ' tocratic desires from his earliest days, he had learned never to stint himeelf, never to do anything himself that others could be hired to do for hlm. nnd to believe that the one great ob- i jewelry and novelties ever shown. There was not a wilder boy in town ! ‘than young Cuthbert Tanhurst. Alll the mothers with marriageable daugh- | ters held up their hands in horror at the mcre mention of his name, and the men-about-town were unanimous | in pronouncing him a thoroughhred. n was partly the fault of his educa- i i 3 2 3 ¢ ! Q 1 ¢ H i H H Q r/ce our hours would hold. Then his father dropped suddeuly 6’/0’ Sy 9‘::// m? on the stage of speculation. A grand a coup went wrong, and Tanhurst, Sr., s vwlien the lawyers were done with the l} :cttlements, Cuthbert found himself o OG B Quas Qe i Qi 08 PANY! H & E 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS, Foot of Main Strees. ™ Phone 98. G!PBES:; SHWEI.ES 0, Ufl A3 . N0 4 IM ALK ; ND. 1 GTANZAND GIPAESS LATH .00 W MR FLG & CEILEIS GIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 25.00 M § We are handling the cut of a small mill, and can furnish you rough and dicssed framing from 2x4 to 10x12 best heart if wanted, cut from round timber, We moke 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, varunishes and oil. Our lumber and mill business will be managed by Mr E. H. Ilopkins, 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. Fulghum § 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue \—2'1&71 'H uf O ORFHI GUOPLOEIPAPOS articia devolird to i scd without the | penniless. | some manner| It was against his grain to go to! scarccly a doy — good man being in [ SO LR 1 e A e vituperated in tho columnus of Sand-| work, so he becarae an habitue of the # g n 11 # erson’s only paper. Now Deacon | poker rcoms at fachionable clubs, and '1‘1 e ‘. | £4°% by e g il memhor of the|a prominent fizure at the race ui}_fi {J ‘L‘ “E]_}a Qy u I§ church, wai much respected by his | courses. It was at this time that his | L 5 fcilow citizens nona of whom ap-|aame became as a red rag to the | proved of the Trumpet's attacks. |£ood peosle of the town. With a very i 7ct nobody dared to remonstrate | fow exceptions all the strictly proper 'f fulks who had been glad to accept the hospitality of Tanhurst, Sr., turned | away their heads when they saw the | son, At the close of a summer day he | was walking home in a sull-n mood. 't had been a bad day, misfortune nad doyged him persistently, and he o n-oh the editor. General Suorter was known to b: tha only survivor of four brothers, who kad ail died “with their J beots on” icaving bloody records be- hind them; and it report spoke truiy the controller of the Trumpet's edi- torfal deetinies had slain several per- sonal friends ¢uring 2 somewhat lim- fted residence in Texas. Yet the | deacon picserved an unruflled calm under fira, fiven when Elder Durham, fearful lest the trucuient Snorter 1 mizht proceed from verbal to physical /1 violence, urged his brother church- 4 man to try to placate the ex-terror of the Lone Star State the deacon merely shook his head and stam- mered: | “T..the gg-general isa c-ch-ch-child of w-w-w-wrath, but I d-d-d-do-don’C conslder him a d-d-d-dad-dangerous man.” | ‘Thus matters stood when Snorter, 'In an editorial on a religious revival belng then conducted in the town by a couple of traveling evangelists, seized the opportunity to emit the following vindictive blast: | “We know of no one in greater need of the sacred ministrations of these good men than that preclous old scoundrel—Deacon Lamb. Even forty-rod whisky won’t revive him. He has tried that for the past thirty | years. If the liquor he has swallowed _during that period could be poured into one vast tank it would form & {lno sufficlently large to drown the of continuing it all. He was of no ood to himeelf. and there was no one ! +1sa in the worid who cared for him, r of whomn he dared think as caring for him. In the old days of luxury he 1ad always hoped to call Marie Faire Lorn his own, but now it was too late. Ile had said to himsell in the years vast that after a taste of life there would be nothing like & quiet home ' shared with Marie. She had never disguised her liking for him. But now? He had not dared to go near the Fairborn house for over a year; | when he had seen Marie he dodged | round corners and avoided her. Now | she was in his thoughts as a prize that he had long ago forfeited and | must forget, with other things. His thoughts encompassed him in such & mist of gloom that he hardly looked where he was going. The lake was . before him and he was walking toward it. He never noticed the figures that were approaching him. A sweet voice, like the memory of an old perfume, aroused bim. “Why, Cuthbert!” Marie Fairbora | +tood before him. He saw a look of wonder and pity within her eyes. “I beg your pardon,” he exclaimed confusedly, “I was not thinking—I never noticed—" he moved as though to pass on, but the girl stopped him. “Cuthbert,” she said, “why won't you speak to me? I haven't seen YOU | s esss———" & TN ed, cheated and gulled by this toddy- ‘IOM and loathsome old hypocrite.” At about eleven o'clock of the day 'on which this article appeared Dea- wag asking himself what was the use (¥ Come on le.nll!'l F | On our lower pricz suits the Styie and Fit are just as good as on cur better grades. We wori’t sell ycu cs good a suit for $15 as we will far §¢ either will anyone el=e. PBut cur $15 suits are fifteen plump deila:rs worth, and/were they not good we would not sell them at all. We want you to come zgain, and again for life. Boys, ask your father to bring you along when he comes for a suit aid getadandy good one for you, too I The Home of Hait Schaffner & Marx Clothes The Hub JOSEPH LeVAY | £ f‘ E l 'con Lamb entered the editorial sanc- !um of the Trumpet and approached | Snorter's desk. The general looked |up with a savage scowl, “Well, sirrrr,” he growled flerce- "1y, “what can I do for you?” | “N-n-n-nno-not much, gg-g-general, 1 m-m-m-merely . w-w-wished—" “Come, come, make it short, make it short, I can't sit here all day listening to your infernal stuttering.” “Yes, g-u-g-general, I'll m-m-m-make it us s-s-s-s-short as p-p-p-possible.” Taking the morning issue of the { Trumpet from his pocket he pointed 'to the obnoxious article and asked the i general if he wrote it. “Of course I wrote it. What of it, sir?” An instant later the deacon | gripped the general by the back of his neck and, producing a stout raw- hide whip, proceeded to lash the as |tonished warrior with tremendous | vigor. Snorte: struggled and yelled for mercy in vain. The deacon held him in & grasp of iron until he had . | finished hia exercise. Then ho huried i | his victim into & corner, remarking: ‘| “I hhhhave mmm-made it as s-s-8-short as p-p-p-possible, g-g-g-gene .. | eral, b-b-b-but when you zre w-m-me | more at lllleisure I s-s-s-shall be * | h-h--happy to renew tt-t-this ceo | | con-conversation.” The news spread quickly through | | Sanderson and the deacon's friends begged him not to venture upon tho street unarmed, as it was freely pro- dicted that the ferocious Snorter would not rest until he had executed dire vengeance upon his castigator. | But the deacon refused to encumber | himself with a weapon. He e ! smiled mildly and said: | “T-ttthe ggggengeneral 1s s c-c-c-ch-ch child of w-w-w-wr-wr-wruth, | bb-bbut I d-d-d-don’t c-cc-con<on- sider him & d-d-d-dangerous m-w-me man.” | On the following Sunday morning, Heavy and Fancy Groceries Hay, Grain, and Feeds a Specialty Phone 334 M Prompt Delivery 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. Red Cross Pharmacy Phone 89 % Quick from the former's house and proceed arm in arm in the direction ot ths church, where the fire-eater from Texas sat meekly in the deacon’s pow, listened to the sermon with grave attention, and gave liberally to the collection. Gen. Gorgon Snorter’s conversion was & convincing and accomplished tact. Delivery b el greatly to the surprise of the cnl-l'r‘““““"t after he marsied. Used to ' zens of Sanderson, Deacon Lamb and | be the most worthless scamp in town. General Snorter were seen to emerge : B for ever so i “Marie,” he returned desperately, “I'm not fit. If people should see you talking to me! Really, I'd better go.” “What ncnsense, Cuthbert. You're fit enough for me. Come, you shall walk with me and tell me every- thing.” With much incoherency Cuthbert told the story of his downfall, or as much of it as he could relate without breaking. Somehow the soft eyes of the girl by his side led him to tell the story as he would have told it to no other human being. He spoke of his sins, his sorrows, his hopes, and of his present despair. “So you see, Marie,” he said at the finish, “I'm of no use at all. I might as well get out of the running alto- gether. Why should I take the trouble to work and struggle? I do not care enough for myself, now, to do that." “But it there was some one else that you cared for, some one who would try to teach you to win back vour self-respect, would you not try then “But there is no one,” he responded. “Perhaps, 1t there was—but why think of it?” “But there is some one, Cuthbert.” A little hand touched his gently, and he turned from his moody gazing to look down at the girl. “Marie,” he exclaimed, almost flerce- ly, “don’t play with me. Are you in carnest? You don't really mean that | you will be that some one, do you? You can't—you can't—what—?" He stopped and kissed the gloved mdl O e SCREEN FOR THE DOORS, ANDWINDOWS BUILDER'S HARPWAR HoW 40U Dooe HA7S 2 SOV SOe : ’ We carry everything you needin builders 2 hardware, from thewire screen on the front & door tothe outsideknob on the lutchen door. § Your house or building, if properly “hard- fervently. “Now don’t be an absurd boy,” sald Marie. But for the rest of the walk Cuthbert behaved himsclf like & boy just out of school. About a year later a number of men Ig were enjoying an after-dinner chat at the Bellevue club. “Speaking ol @ changes,” one man was saying, “did any one ever see anything to equal the change that came over Cuthbert wared” will be much more handsome than if you gave no care to the kind of “trim- ‘g mings” you use. TINNERS AND PLUMBERS i The Model Hardware Co. S 4QFLOLTOITDIIOFEOIFOFI0 0 OHOS0S0S0SIINI0ICI0H0F0S Subseribefor TRETELEGRAM | | | | % Buckled down to work like the mis. chief, and now he’s dcing fine. How d'you account for it?” “You remember the French pht | losopher’s rule,” renhed his friend, | “the rule he applied to all sorts of ! cases, good and Yoi Find the wom- ’ an’ It was a woun 2 in that cau.~ She usged to be Var:: Fuirborn, she's Mrs. Tanhurst now.” 3 3