Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 18, 1913, Page 2

CERCERCENTENLENE THRE BVENING TELEORAM, LAKELAND, FLA.,, APRIL 18, 1913, DROCKEFELLE 3 away on a foollsh boy Mke Alfred. | 2 : FROM ABUST B Look at him. Do you see the limited .~ ) u;;:,;‘:‘;{ ! As Ioln Bv A nANc[n cranial index? Meaning to say, don’t | oF you perceive that you have hooked a .When She [‘anced Her Brain Was as Busy as Her Kimble Toes. Rl (2} I (o) : > ) o RO DO & QB CrP O i <o ? By JOHN FR.AICIS MACKENZIE. é | When Lottie danced her Lrain was c" as busy as her tces. Her famcus ¢ snake dance had been the rage in Londen and New Yoik during the genson. In three months Lc‘tie had made more money than she had earn- , ed before during the whole eight years { of her working life. Lottie had always known that she could dance. But that money was to | bb made in dancing had seemed an !abnurd idea—would have seemed so, it anybody had suggested it to her. . In those days of which she was think- . ing she had danced round her little ! hall room until the roomers below had complained to the landlady; that was the extent of her dancing. The young fellow in the second row of the stalls, with the foolish, dissi- | pated face, was watching her again. | She knew him, though he did not : know her; in fact, she knew him in- P Vou/d ohn D i?acke/é//erfiaj: been lhe richest man in the world if he had £ the lirst money he earned? He put Im In THE BANK When Jol.n D. Rockefeller went into the oil flelds, he went ¢ R e g there with Two Thousand Dollars that he had saved and with which g e ———————————— e et ettt ettt ettt bad one?” Old Mrs. Jones said: “The store | is in my name, and if Alfred marries you he will get nothing. And Alfred : cou!1 never earn an honest dollar in his life.” “I'll leave it to Alfred,” said Lottie, and Alfred Lurst into tears and ":nelt at mamma’s kree; and old Mrs. Jones petted Lim and caressed him, and Al- fred did not look up at Lottie. When LA stopped her in the hall, “Will a couple of thousand dollars ; settle it, my dear?” he asked. Lottie shook her head and walked out of the house, and for weeks old Mr. Jones lived in daily fear of re-: celving a lawyer's letter. But it never | came, and he never saw Lottie again. | Lottie had stopped dancing now and was bowing to an .applauding ' house. The foolish young man in the | second row was clapping his gloved hands fatuously. Lottie looked at : him derisively. It was for that puor | wretch that Joe had shot himself; lt was for him that the course of her , life had been altered; that she had | cabarets and at amateur nights, en- she had left (he room old Mr. Jones been driven into dancing in cheap | - = i i We Won't Sacrifice Quality but we are always studying how to Increase The Quantity 3 D during scoffs and insults, to earn a i hc was ready .o take a g(x':d business chance. HAD HE NOT HA I timately, and she reflected on this | misersble living when the'depnrtment ‘ HIS MONEY 1N THE BANK, he would not have been able to take { with a little smile of amusement which | gtores learned about Young Mr. Jones | . W ; the “moat sow bik Sk iy p the business chance that led to his stupendous fortune. John D. “I‘e fl“‘:’*‘“ces;“mrm: bf°“ a l'flrgs and refused to engage her. Lottie & ~ € glve wue SE oW R WE x'“'u’ Y e : easantry. ais - Rockefeller was no different from otlier fabulously rich men. Their :y a:h: rf);r 5 :ee"‘“ now*‘!efl“l;::l;o“- :::‘:::fl"fl the stage and put on her | more. Phone us aud|prove it. f great fortunes were the logical resit It of their FIRST savings. auets had come with little notes In| A¢ the stage door she saw Young Best Butter, per poURR ... . ccomesss cooero sannn, (R Do YOUR banking with U3, l:‘;e':l-’:l'l‘;’flt"fl;f’:- :":ge h:u‘“d ;“'ed Mr. Jones, with a bouquet in his BigRr 10 P0ARID. e 0 ] ! 0 her st the stage Goor. . Young Mr. Jones planted him- | ; 7 : s | Sho had put the flowers fn water, | Lor sqioears seros her path, and o Cottolene, 10 poundpails ooiimiiiiiiiiiiimn i ' tossed the notes and the letters away Lottie gave him a box on the ears that Cottulene, 4 pound pails. ......comivimamerraiiin-w n i lrs a flgna an { unread, and brushed past him as quiet- | gont him tumbling to the ground. %1 Growdrift, 10-pounl Pails . m.emeeeemecsoccnsiom: i 4 Iy as though he wero a lump of mud | ywhen he had picked himself up she ‘i Latiite Sl s LI in the strect. Still he persisted. He | gaia: % 3 cans family size Cream. . wvvveriimmeeiniieninm. o . ¥ ' A;\ g L A N D liad not always been so persistent, In |~ «yoy had your chance years ago ., 8 cans baby size Cream. . LUl L 1 ' - o EET I A e I e b TR L O SO GOHOBOTADODSGIOHO OLO0 & . . o 2 oung Mr. Jones looke 8 though . P 3 GE0s0E000F0IAT0TII0TIOIOT0T0000M00N0IO0IOOIVIAIIIONO0 geven years " re she 1~d beer . . was zoing to cry again. Dut Lot- 7 12 pounds best Floar. .ow. coviiiimiimiiiinn o { f ' u saleswoman fi. Pryant & Jenes' de- !¢y had already forgotien him, She ¥ Picnic Hame, per poand ... ..n.. U AN Sl —_ | partment store. 1t was o bis 8tore g ¢1gor to hurty home; there might - ryguive's Uncinvagsd Tomws ! |und treated its employes tuirly well. | po news for her. | il e i ¥ i i | Stili, Lottie had not been happy there. | gpe got Into the® taxicab that al- {4 Octagon Soap, 8 for.. —....... 1 IR R R L T R She had been domestic in her tastes— | wave” Gaited for her and was ariv. 13 (’wmd Coffee, per pounl. S S istill was, in fact—and she and Joe | pypiqly to the modesi litile flat hat 3§ yailons Reroseme . .. 58 she rented in Harlem. Nobody in #i h|were both looking forward to the & time when they were to be married ong l e 0 1”8 n y; and live in their little home, when along with good Isundry werk is what you are looking for and that is just what w dre giving. Tryws. | Lakeland Steam Laundry Phone 130. West Main B8 the 2partn:ent house, save one, Knew that Lottie was the famous dancer who had set the town crazy. She got | out of the elevator and entered a 1 bedroom in which a little boy lay sleeping. She bent over him; and ll the audience could have seen the look on her face then they would have wondered what on earth this womn had in common with Lottle. Then she went into the living room and bent over a man who sat reading in an arm chair, and kissed him. She had come in so softly that he had not heard her. “I've got good news, Lottle,” he sald. “The doctor thinks I'm getting L&, &, Tweedc'l IF YOU ARE {THINKING OF BUILDING. SEE The 0ld Reliable Contractors 3 MARSHALL & SANDERS | . who never “FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction. All classes of buildings contracted for. The many tine residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their ability to make good. well as ever in six months more.” “You dear old Joe,” said Lottle, brushing away her tears and kissing him again. Wisely Insure Otherwise We Would Not Was Watching Her Again. Be In The Lottie would not go to work any more. ing girl, and she often wished that Joe could earn a little more than his $15 a weck as a tally clerk. Then Young Mr, Jones—the one Fire Insurance Business | s i s It has been said, “A fool is a mortal who is wise too late,” And sgain, “He may hope for the best, that’s prepared for the worst.” ARE YOU AMPLY PREPARED. | mmmevem— It will cost you no more to have a policy in the strongest companies Fire Insurance is my sole business. Your bysiness will have my personal attention. Y. Z. MAN & WI'IB‘N. WE FUIKNISH YOU o row—had seen her and asked who she was. supper. Both were young and simple tuen, and both knew that they were madly in love with each other. And sarry him. time? * neither. Raymondo Bldg. Room 7, Phone 80 Joe soon discovered where she spent these evenings. Once he waited for have made a scene had not Lottie i managed to calm him. That night Young Mr. Jones asked Lottie to mar- ry immediately. “Not unless your mother and father are willing,” snid Lotti>. Poor, sim- | ple Lottie! Here she was practically refusing the only son of a millionaire, that was the way in which she had THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD~ Dut Lottie was a pleasure-lov- | with the foolish face, in the second And he had taken her out to, Young Mr. Jones had asked her to| Can a girl love two men at the same | Perhaps Lottie really loved . 8She wes very fond of slow, ! easy-going Joe, but this was different. | her outside the restaurant and would and just out of foolish principle. But (Copyrllht, 1913, by W. G. Chapmun.) THIS BURGLAR WAS WELCOME Victim Would Give Anything for An- other Visit From the Night Marauder. i “I know a burglar—that is, I met him once—who can have anything I've | got it he will only visit me again,” said the hollow-eyed man. “I was in bad shape. For months my arch-encmy, insomnia, had held me in a death grip. I was in the midst of one of ny very worst nights when the burglar came. | *“I had been lying for 1 don’t know how long trying to imagine I was asleep, which was the nearest ap- proach to sleep I ever got these nights, and had just about succeeded, when my burglar scraped his foot against the wall. “] opened my eyes and saw him st ting on the window sill. I knew he was a burglar, but I wasn't scared. “‘You can run away with the house ; itself,’ I said, ‘it you'll only let me sink ' into a doze again.’ “He understod right off how it was. *“*“Tough, ain't it?' he said. ‘I've been there. In fact, I'm just getting over a nasty attack and have half a dozen sleeping powders in my pocket now, A , doctor I tried to hold up one night gave them to mo. They're the best I | ever tried. If you like, I'll let you have one.’ | “l did want one, g0 the burglar turned on the light and mixed the pow- better. He says Il be as strong and ! Who have been building houses in Lakeland for} years, [and MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 blue ¢ WWMO@G}O’MI‘O!VWOWWWiKW ey §Smlth & Steitz. \- POCHON For AIIf hinds of 'REAL ESTA:TEE See Us Fur RflS[llAl[ ¢nd PARK RILLLcts Lakeland. Fla Deen & Bryant Bmldmu 7 mmmmmmmwo FOR SALE FROSTPROOF : Land and| Groves | We own. or have for sale, some or tue chuicest properties - jacent to the town of Frostproof, including & few good bear - groves. Timber, turpeutine azd colonization tracts. Also see us "' Y.akeland strawberry farms, groves and city property. been trained. Stay, though, how very | ger with a little water. [ gulped it s H i IF EN=- “I118 unprincipled it was to throw over gown, ‘ I“ er Ie : GRAVED BY Com. Joe, just for the comfort that Young. «.rhanks’ sald I. Then, as I ten ! H $ Mr. Jones could offer her! She was pack on the pillow, I said: ‘Go ahead ¢ MUPACTURNG ENG sure now that she had always been gnq help yourselt. A ; LOUISVILLE, m'u_RA‘ A VEM in love with Joe. But eight years a0~ «He did, but he was very consider | % LAKELAND. FLORID b WE ARE, THEIR EXCLUSIVE' AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE. Lottie had rot been certain at all,’ g0 e only took my watch and a roll | Qe0S0A0A0SCE0SCOPOITICI0S oo i and Young Mr. Jones, with his foolish Full line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's : face, had possessed an indescribable ’ ed a scene. fat me shew yea iomo Lakeload homes { kave beilt LAXELAYD, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA ly and said: s young woman to throw yourself Old Mr. Jones shook her hand warm- “My dear, you are far too upnhlo‘ : m.u-m-.-..m-|3uhscnbe for The Telegram of bills from my trousers pockets. In | payment he left the other five ;leepln. PO WW No Frills on It *“Was the tectimony in that case ul-nlau"!" hxmrxlved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, 1oys, Etc, | glamor. He had altered a good deal powders. 1 CAKECAND " ez o § DOREE STEAM PRESSING CLLB LA E A BOOK STORE | . o:';’;:"ui‘; e‘cl::o:lm:‘:::‘:“r: put me into such fine condition thnyl e ; —— : AR e Bt m Sldaie § 03 MANN PLUMBING CO, | - | mind w(mhih 'have been expected 10, wnow Innomnl; has me again and I 2 | suggest to him. He shot himself In p,ve no more powders nor the address X Foo™N (the breast. Tho doctors saved bl of the burglar’s doctor. 1 wish bed |$ Cleaning, Pressing” and Alteration. Lac'ce Work a . t the bullet had injured the spine. ' rob my house again.” g E . = - | Joe would never go to his tally desk | ' Specialty. o AllJ|Work}{Called For ¢rc Celivered. & again without two sticks to support ' ! 3 CONTRACTOR BUILDER him, they said ; Goes the Limit {$ Prompt’ Service. ! Satisfaction Guara~:eed. § | But Lottle did not know Joe had | 7Mss Bleeker affects literary atra.” | — ¥ - plens i onifoations i il tcllow any plans and [ been o ool when he sccompied L 0 o s st wmre § C. A. MANN € M ANAGER ‘oung Mr. i { specifioations farnished on the avenue. Young Mr. Jones had sition?” | ' i told them of fhllhinte&lo;l - Ad Nuwm"':’n‘::fl“'h;:r :::l;ot‘ 0.';1’ :‘I: N. Kentucky Ave. PHONE 257 Bowyer Bldg. 3 ¥ SUNGLLOWS A SPECIAL were waiting for her. Lottie anticipat- u ut she o . . i But there was no scene. 'bles chocolate creams as well.” DOOSOATHGEOEOH0MISTIOHOPIE DHTHDITHISOTIOIINGI0IOH S ”——-—