Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 18, 1913, Page 6

Country Cured Hams Ib 21¢c " Picnic Hams Ib 18¢ Breakfast Bacon Ib [25¢ , “Ask for Red Wing Grape Juice” The Pure Juice Pure Food Store W. P. Pillans & G. PHONE 93 BY E. L. TAIT. lOBEYING ALL ORDERS | “lad new-, Missah Anderson,” ex- cldml(d cid Jim, a venerable darky, ! putting his head in at the back door { one morning just as his master, a l farmer, in South Carolina, was sitting do“n to breakfast. “What's the matter, Jim?” inquired Anderson. “De prize ox is done took sick and 1s layin’ down.” Mr. Anderson went with Jim to the pasture to see the invalid ox, and to- gether they exbausted the whole range of remedies known in bovine com- plaints. Decoctions of herbs, spice wood, pine tags, etc, were resorted to, but though copiously drenched with all these, the ox did not rally mor could six men with fence ralls gain sufficient leverage to pry him up from the ground where he lay despondent. After spending the whole day in frult- less attempts to relieve the apparent- ly dying animal, Anderson gave it up ! as & bad job about sundown and; turned to go home, remarking to Jim as he started: “Anyway, 1 don’t want to lose his hide, so you must come down here and skin hiza the first thing in the morning.” The following morning Anderson rather expected Jim to appear with | § STORY OF MRS. JONES By JOSEPHINE BRANDON, $00000000000404040 004, GRADUATION TIME 1S HERf We have just received ome of the largest stocks of foli¢ Jjewelry and novelties ever shown.' A cordial fovitation is ed to all to inspect the Cole & Hull stock. “Always a Pleasure to Shov Goods.” COLE & HULL Jewelers and Optometrists l'im na Lakeland, 1, Srice our ck o e 2old Ntengd. Mrs. Jones was on her way to the broker’s, in the lower part of the city. Her bag contained some bonds that had to be sold—the last bit of stock she possessed. It was Junch time; and the quietness of the narrow streets, deserted save for a belated passerby :;,:, proved conducive to introspec Her thoughts harked back to by- gone days; to the time when her re maining parent had died and left her, with a few thousand dollars, in the first bright glow of womanhood. Soon after that she met Jones. Everybody thought he was such a nice young man, 8o, as his calls grew more and more frequent, she came to rejoice in the belief that the other girls were secret- ly envying her. He bought violets for her and brought her candy; he was a very nice young man indeed. There were old maids in those days, and she had the common fear and horror of being left single—stranded on the shores of the ocean of matrimony. One evening he had tremulously asked her to marry him; and she had as tremulously answered him, yes, But that was a good many years ag0. Since then several little Joneses { had come into the world to laugh ndf | the hide at breakfast time. Over an | cry, and get married. They must be hour passed, but still the negro did | clothed and fed; when old enough to go not arrive. first bright glow of womanhood. Soon “That pesky animal must be hard to | to school they asked often for pockdrl skin,” commented the farmer. At | money, the girls especially. The little length, growing restless, he resolved ' boys saved theirs, to go and see for himselt what the! On making closer scquaintance| hitch was. As a matter of fact, he , with Jones, she had discovered that | felt somewhat uneasy over old Jlm- ; the position he held was rather more BuildersLumber & Supply COMPANY R H & E. 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS, COME ON CHILDREN Phone ©8. _Boot of Main Btreer llll ‘124 AND § INCH CYPRESS SHINGLES 35 00 M “L4MDGINGH 400 M N0. 1 STANDARD CYPAESS LATH 400N MR FLG 8:CEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 25.00 M We are handling the cut of a small mill, and can furnish you rough and dressed framing from 2x4 to 10x12 best heart it 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 & first class line of points, varnishes and oil. Our lumber and mill business will be managed by Mr E. II. llopkins, who I8 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 Heavy and Fancy Groceries Hay, Grain, and Feeds a Specialty & Phone 334 Prompt Delivery Where Can You Get Them? Here at this drug store, fIf the doctor says you need a certain‘instrument or appliance come right to_this store— we have it. Red Cross Pharmacy Quick Delivery Phone 89 % prolonged absence, and feared that' he might have met with some mishap. The colored gentleman in question wn not overburdened with brains, but hll faithfulness was beyond doubt. If there was one thing that Jim prided himself upon more than another, it was his accuracy in carrying out in- structions. With Jim, to hear was to obey, and pcrnplratlon standing in big beads,on hls shiny black skin, the ox hide wav- ' In;. trophy-like, in his hand, while a | 100k of beaming complacency over | spread his face. “What in the world made you uk&! €0 long, Jim?” asked his master. | “‘Cause it was a awful job to ketch | him, Missah Anderson,” came the re- er, with a look of horrified surprise. “Yassah, He done gib me a heap ob troubls dat ox did. I done chase him | ober de pasture seben times ‘fore he let me git him.” “You—chased—him,” gasped Ander son, faintly. “Yassah,” continued Jim, proud of his efficlent management. “Den I knock bim on de haid an’ kill bhim, an’ den I skin him, same as you tole ‘me. It am a nice hide, too, Missah Anderson. Dere ain't no niggah on de place could a finer skinnin’. You kin allers ‘pend on ole Jim to do what yo' tells him.” Visions of his favorite ox, as he ap- peared in the heydey of his prize-win- ning triumphs, arose in Andemnl' mind, and the volume of his wrath ! swelled until it almost choked him. ‘ { He stood for an instant, a figure of | dumb, righteous rage, unable to find | words to do justice to the occasion. At last he found his voice and, ad- vancing a step, shook his fist in Jim's sable visage. “Yes, indeed,” he sald, in accents husky with uncontrollable bitterness. “I can depend on you—curse your black hide. Then, as though afrald to trust him- selt further, he thrust his clenched hands desperately into his pockets and strode swiftly away. Jim stood watching the retreating figure, his mouth wide open ard an expression of deeply injured innocence stamped upon his crestfallen face. ply "'l'o catch him!” repeated the farm- ’ Youth’s Four Seasons. For the small boy differing patns fn his “tummy” and acoidents mark the changing seasons, Spring entails being tied to a bow knot from the forbidden green apple, bruises from baseball and spankings : | for running away from school. In summer ice cream and “all-day suckers” hurt “Little Mary” and the premature explosions of Fourth of July pepper his epidermis with gun- powder, In auttmn overindulgence in Thanksgiving turkey and mince ple call for first aid to the wounded, while captures or falls from trees while robbing orchards provide the bruises, Finally winter brings Christmas pudding and canrdy, with their mid- ‘secflon pains, while skating, coasting and rocks in frozen snowballs attend i to the bumps. I Economy in White House. | It Mr. Wilson is so disposed he can i reduce his expenses almost to the | vanishing point. There is a legend in | Washington to the efiect that a form- | er president of parsimonious habit was so successful in his economies that when he passei into retirement he carried the full < i“ry for his four years with him, ha. "3 actually suc- ! cerded in living uporn the interest i thereon. i ty well, at least until the panic of "93 | he was never known to waste time in | unnccessary argument. Therefore, Anderson reascned, something extra: ' ordinary must have occurred to delay his trusted gervitor., Great was his re- lief then, when half-way between the house and the pasture he met Jim, the | "| arisen in plenty, but always to be' respectable than remunerative. Iy fact, she didn't see how he could have hoped to support a wife and family oz his salary. He must have been look: ing forward to an early promotion— or else he wasn't Jooking at all. But with the help of her little in- come they managed to get along pret ! On our lower prlce sults the Style and Fit are just as good as on our better grades. We won't sell you as Then many employes were turned out | b e contoried her witn e § 900d @ sUt for $15 as we will for $25, assurance that he had never been duly ¥ Mojther will anyone elce. PEul cur appreciated, and it wouldn't be lonl before his friend, Mr. White, could gel him a position worth while. Meantime they lived on her money. | She shivered gt recollection of the checks she had written to be cashed by him in the city. It was less pain ful to “lend” that way; because he' was enabled to keep tacitly to lllmul! the money he needed for personal ex- | $15 suits are fifteen plump dcilars’ worth, and{were they not good we would not sell them at all. We want you to come =gain, and again for life, Boys, ask your father to bring you along when he comes for a suit a.:d getadandy good one for you, too The Hub JOSEPH LeVAY SCREENS| || FOR THE DOOR 5 AND WINDOW.S BUILDERS HARDWAR HOW ABOYr DoowR MA?S 2 pense Bit by bit had her small fortune: dwindled until these few bonds alone' remained. Opportunities for work had passed over as too insignificant. The! places would lower his standing, he: sald, burt his chances for bigger| things. Next week or uext month Mr. | Blank or Mr. Ray had as good as pmmued to procure him this or that ! fine position. And the loan, you know, might go through. Then he would pay her back all he had “borrowed,” and they'd bo on Easy street for the rest of their lives. He then had hinted at an automobile; for he fully expected to get several thousand a year. But since time flew by and these ez- pectations were left behind untulfilled, it appeared that he set greater store by himselt than did others. She thought of how he would look when she returned home. There he'd be | sitting, with the eternal paper in his hand, smoking one cigar after another, It only he would learn to like a plpo. Soon after she came in he'd begin to berate the government for “its being possible that such a state of affairs can exist, when—" She was tired of his fatuity. These bonds were the last she had. When the money for them was gone, what should she do? Go to the poorhouse? He wouldn't let her work as long as she stayed with him, because she was bis wife; and yet he didn't do anything himself. She would leave him. Thea she thought of the children—after all, they belonged to him, too. But, pshaw! He seemed to regard them as a mat- ter of course, not as a charge (“host- ages of fortune,” flashed through her mind). . Was it for this she had promised to “love, honor and obey” him? How ab surd those words sounded in such & connection! Was she to love a man she rather despised; to honor one whom she could not admire; to obey her husband when she did not love! him? She had been forced by society to promise what she either could not bave helped doing, or could not pos sibly have done. Suddenly the dbreath was driven out of her by a blow between the shoul ders, and her bag jerked from her band by a man, whom:she then saw disappearing down a side street. “Oh, stop!” she gasped. “They won'’t do you any good—" But he had vanished round a eor » We carry everything you needin builder>' § hardware, from the wire screen on the front door tothe outside knob on the kitchen door. Your house or building, if properly “hard- § wared” will be much more handsome han § if you gave no care to the kind of “trim- mings” you use. TINNERS AND PLUMBERS Ihe Model Hardware (;o PR O su scribefor. ?Il[l[l[fiRM His Unexpected Holiday, Owing to an accident to the ele vator in his ofice, the busy Mr Charles Frohman, the theatrical man. ager, was once imprisoned in the lift for an hour. Alarmed for the conse quences of this loss of manageruli time the staff eyed Mr. Frohman nx- fously as he stepped cut. In spite ot | the reputation which he enjoys for keeping his temper they believed that this experience would be too severe a test. They were wrong. With a bll cigar in his mouth and a bigger smile | i on his face Mr. Frohman observed, ; “Well, boys, that's the first holiday | I've had for six years.” 'l memmmmmmn