Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 21, 1913, Page 2

BEECI0H0I0TOIITGI0IOTOIOFO0 lhe réchest maninthe workl i hehed iyuwwftfieJfinsfamangy'be‘amnneuflfi He puT It IN THE BANK — When Joln D. Rockefeller went fnto the oil flelds, he went there with Two Thoussnd Dollars that he had saved and with which B was ready io take a good business chbance. HAD HE NOT HAD HIS MONEY N THE BANK, he would not bave been able to take the business chance that led to his stupendous fortune. John D. Rockefeller was no different from other fabulously rich men. Their l'lilt fortunes were the logical res: It of their FIRST savings. i Do YOUR banking with US. First National Ban OF LAKELAND aiony with goud tsundry work 19 what you are looking for ame that is just what we are givign. Try e« Lakeland Steam Laundry Phone 130. 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MANN Room 7, Phone 30 CORRECT" WE ARE THEIR EXCLUSIVE, AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE: THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., AURIL 21, 1918, FAGE TWO —— ¢ o— SO+ ISUSOBOSOGOGVIOSTIOGD 000 OrOSOvOSOSOH0POHTD J.DROCKErCL FROM ABUS? INTHE o UniversiTY or CHICAGO MREE R UTTN L SN P T G TR T MR R DRI l Zong Life of Linen ) SEPCODOVVBLOPBG0v 00868 +648008x" . 4+ .8 8 " LASEBAHE FOROIOPDBOSOPOBOPOHOPOPOST SDO0SOOTSDSCLOSOITHOSDH0 6 BRIGHT LiiTLE ELSIE — 1 ! and Brought Back Old-Time Happiness to Him. l ! By GEORGE ELMER COBB. | Bright as a dollar, Elsie Danvers i had a great idea in her busy little | head. She was only nine years old, { but she knew more than n:ost ehil- dren of twelve, and thought more some people of twenty. I Under her arm she carried a small cardboard box, neatly done up in wrapping paper and carefully tied. To her way of thinking it was a very im- portant belonging. When she came | to the neat little cottage known as the Hyde home, she found its spinster occupant, Miss Susan, resting on a rustic bench after her exertions in trimming the rose bushes. Miss Hyde liked the Danvers people well. She had been glad to do many o kindness for pretty Mrs. Danvers, and she truly pitied her patient, sad- faced husband. The latter was & man of fine scholarly attainments and had at one time held a lucrative profes- sorship in a college. Il health had enforced a change in vocation and residence. They had drifted to New- ton. The only work he could find was as bockkeeper in the stufty, insanitary old local dye works. His physician had told him that he must give it up or his days would be shortened. Noth- ing better offered, however, and he kept n toiling for the support of his family. Miss Hyde received her little visitor i with a welcome smile. She at once “My Old-Time Happlness Back to Me.” noticed the Berious face, usually so sunny. She made room for Elsle on the garden seat. “Miss Hyde,” spoke Elsie at once, “you are a great friend of mine, aren’t you?” “Indced, I am,” replied the lady pleasantly. “Everybody is that, El- { sle.” “Yes, I know, but you are especially. Now, I want to know If I ask you to do | something for me you will not tell mamma or papa, or anybody else.” “Why, I must know what it is, dear, before I can promise,” replied Miss Hyde hesitatingly. “Well,” said Elsle, fingering the lit- tle box, “I heard some people telling about the parcels post. They said you could send anything you liked, just like you do a letter. You put a post- age stamp on it, and it goes to the person you want to send it to right away.” ' “That is true,” answered Miss Hyde. “Have you something you wish to send. Elsle?” “Yes, ma'am, I have,” sald Elsie in & prompt, business-like way. *“I heard mamma crying the other day while she was telling the minister's wife [ WHEN WE, FURNISH YOU .. { about my grandfather. I never knew | T had one before. He hasn’t been i very good to mamma, but maybe he ! doesn’t know how she loves him, and | how she puts some flowers on his ! picture whenever his birthday comes around. On my birthday two friends gave me the same present—those lit- tle speaking dolls, you know. Well, I'm sending one of them as a present to grandpa in this box, and I've writ- | ten him a little note in it telling him | about poor papa and all of us, and I | want you to direct it—I've got his { name and everything: ‘Mr. John | Marsh, Rushville’—and send it for me through the parcels post.” A strange shade passed over Miss Hyde's face. It was intensely pathetic, all this, entirely outside of the child’s realization. The tears rushed to her She Saved Grandpa’s Fortune greatly, and little Elsle particularly | ed through | witticism, is considered a deadly o' sopgen:: Nellie had written, pleading for an *¥ k Then she was ' sincked to hear of the death of the | Since then old John Marsh | to ever approach him again in any way. explanation. It was coldly pefused. The mnext thing she heard was that her uncle was arranging to will his fortune to Eunice. latter. had shu. himself in to a miserly, cheer #John Marsh, Rushville,” received |the poreels posi package two days later. He carried it into the house, 1 lees existence. ’ ! note it containcd. His eyes glared. | iHe gritted his teeth as he gave the rqueaky doll a fling through a door- | way, into the room Eunice had once | deeply and more to & purpose thai | occupied. He rarely entered it, and as the toy rolled across the carpet he . turned his back upon it. “Bah!” he jeered, “s paltry trick to try and catch me and my dollars through the child.” I All the same, he did not sleesp very well that night. Somehow, he coul not keep from thinking of the sunny days when Nellio had lived in bouse. Then he dosed, i : lantern was kicked over, there was a crash of glass, and the burglars appeared. old man had compary. bag left behind by the burglars filled with money and papers secured from his own wardrobe. Then, as he be- gan to pick up the papers strewn abc i ‘rom the desk Eunice had owl A jpo mede a s artling Ciscovery. V hat hal cstranped him from Nel- lle was a letter apparently in her handwriting, shown him by the plot- ting Lunice, Addressed to her lover, it referred to her uvn-'e !n gnocring terms, telling hcw siie cared only for the fortu « I+ might leave, her., Now, among the scattered papers, John Marsh found evidences of Eunice hav- ing laboriously practiced to counter- feit Nellie's handwriting. Towards the end of the week, as Elsie was sitting in the garden, an old man opened the gate. Carefully re- packed, he carried the parcels post package. “Why,” shouted the little miss, all smiles and dimples—“I know who you are—sgrandpa—'cause that's the box I sent, and—oh, I must tell mamma!” It was a tearful, yet happy inter view, that which followed between uncle and niece. All was explained, and when Mr. Danvers came home that evening, he learned that all the family were to return to Rushville, where he was to have a free, glad- some life caring for the old man's property, “Dear little child,” sald John Marsh, fondly stroking the golden-haired falry who had brought all this about— “my fortune saved, my old-time hap- piness back to me, all through you and that blessed parcels post.” (Copyright, 1913, by W, G. Chapman.) | IN HOTEL MEN'S BLACK BOOKS Their Parsimony. There 18 much more politeness in Eurcpe between master and servant than there is in America, writes Mau- rice Francis Egan in the Century. In continental hotels I have never heard | anybody but an American or an Eng- lishman find fault audibly with the waiters or servants. Whether the American point of view is changing or not, or whether American extrava- gance in Europe was ever as great as represented or not, I cannot say; but |1 am informed by hotel proprietors, who occasionally confide in me, that the most parsimonious and exacting | of persons in European hotels are at present Americans, and apparently those of the better class. German tourists are proverblal for | their closeness in money matters, but | the great swarm of German tourists | in Europe is frankly determined to { save money. It is different with Amer. ;Icans: I think that Norwegians, es- | pecially, prefer Germans to us. I gath. | er from the opinions of the class who | | mot only stand, but wait, that it is | hard enough to endure the artiess | ’censure of certain people who come | abroad to complete an education that | was never begun at home when this | is accompanied by a generous tip; but . | when the tip does not appear, the criti- cism, which was formerly an amusing | i sult, , Court Upheld Conductor. i The supreme court of Vermont re- { viewed a suit for damages by a woman “I will do just as you say, dear,”; passenger who hadn't reached her she said unsteadily, “and nobody shall | Seat when the train stopped suddenly | know about it except you and L.” Elsle parted with her precious pack- age with supreme confidence in her i to | did some thinking on the way. She {had heard of stern, hard-hearted old | John Marsh. Mre. Nellie Danvers, the |orphan child of a brother, had been the postoffice and mailed it. She {on board ! position Ilnd-hemthmvnhthefloorofllo' car and injured. The court found that | fjntuthotnlnwummnnmf ; Hyd | ran out of the station, stumbled and good friend. Miss Flyde took it dowa | fell on the platform and was probably | | going under the wheels when the con- | | ductor pulled the emergency brake | and the train stopped. The court sald: “There were many passengers the train, but the in the car bappened that she was injured ta i quence of the performance by the i duty. Ia these Ba . | imperative 3 i 4 or=ned it, au1 read the tiny childish ' | FOR SALE groves. Timber, turpentine and edlonisation tracts. Also see us for Lakeland strawberry tarms, groves and city property. We Won't Sacrifice Quality but we are always studying how to Increase The Quantity We give the “most now but we are amxious to give more. Phone us and|prove it; Mhm'.nm““..—g/-'-q--o es0see ssssesaa... M0 Bogar, 16 pounds ... iiomeiiimeiimineetannn, 1.0 A ([ ] Suowdrift, 10-pounl PAS. . — . o ...ome i 11D For!, Allf hinds of See Us Fer ROSEDALE axd! 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