Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 26, 1913, Page 6

BULK DRIED APPLES 10¢. 1b. Pure Fdod Store W.P,Pillans & Co. PHONE 93 BuildersLumber & Supply COMPANY 8. K &K 0. GARLAND, PROPRIETORS, Phone 8. Foot of Main Streer NO.134 ANG: § INCH CYPRESS SHINGLES “ 24 MD 5 INGH * ; 400 M N0, 1 STANDARD CYPRESS LATH 400 N MR FLG.&CEILING SIDING, INVERNESS STOCK 25.00 M We are handling the cut of & small mill, and can furnish you rough and dressed framing from 2x4 to 10x12 best heart if waunted, cut from round timbcr. We make doors and sash and can turnish 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. H. Hopkins, who is well known by the people of Lakeland as an nu-to-date lumbe* man. Terms: Strictly Cash on Delivery of Goods J. J. DAVIS & CO. ELAND, FLA., APRIL 26, 1913. " AT BOOT OF AN OWL Queer Signal Arvanged for a Stage-Set Elopement That Culminated in Happiness. By ARTHUR JONES, Helene sat in her little room in the convent, straining her ears for the sound of the owl’s hoot without. She R DOCTORING OF DOLLY By MAUDE J. PERKINS, taken her in his arms and kissed ber, Helene, falteringly, told him her story. “Why, that is easy,” he cried. “Come with me and I will take thee on my sledge to Montreal, and there we wilk be married.” “] have almost danced the soles off Mmkedher!ewpoumhulnlm bag; everything was ready for her secret departure from the only home that she had known during the past eight years of her life. Bereft of her mother at the age of twelve, her father, a wealthy manu- facturer of Montreal, had placed her in the care of the nuns of St. Aune. True, twice a year he had paid her & flying visit, bringing with him some gift, but he had became more and wmore of an abstraction to her as the ‘years rolled by and she grew to wom- anhood. Her only mother was the Mother Superior, her sisters the nuns, her home the grim convent almost {a the wilderness, built there a hundred years before by a wealthy Frenchman, exiled by the Terror. 80 the years had rolled by happily, and then, ten months before, her fath- .jer bad appeared some weeks before ko was due. “Helene,” he said to her, “you ave & woman now and ready to take your place in society. I have arranged & Wealthy marriage for you.” Then he went on to tell her that she was to marry Plerre Rideau, the only son of his great business rival, within the year. His firm had been forced into a tight position, he con- fessed, old Rideau held the trump cards; nevertheless, Rideau was will- ing to make an alliance between the | at last. "W Traveling Merrily Over the Fresen ; Ground. two houses and thus convert enmity into friendship. So it was all arrang- ed. Then Helene burst into tears, begged to be allowed to spend her life g I FL iii’.a ic ¢ i i §e ¢ i i ¥= sl 1 H i i ik £d ® to the as her, and, taking her little bag, flung it down on the soft snow. A Seems to moment later, desperately daring, tage t0 have me fll fora Helene found herself swinging out in- : Of course you know to space and down to two arms up- ! YOur case.” stretched to her. } “I don’t need patients. I bave Then, lying in his arms, all the past Work now than I can do.” became & blank to her. His kissés ; “Then I suppose I am to un | upon her Ups were the sign and sym- IM Phil” Dolly said coldly, “that | bol of the bappiness to comte. For a | even 12 ] am 1ll, you don't care for | moment she clung to him; then, hand my case. Il try to remember and in band, they crept cautiously across ! Wara mother not to call you.” the snow and into the forest paths. | “Why, Dolly, you know better than At the bend of the road his sleigh | that. I—* was waiting, the horse, warmly wrap- ) “Is this your dance, Mr. Stafford?” ped, sending out great clouds of steam | Dolly rose to meet thie tall from his nostrils. Her lover placed ber in the sleigh, made the reins ready and leaped in beside her. And soon they were seated, warmly and snugly wrapped, and traveling merrily over i the frozen ground. The forest ended; now they trav-' eled more swiftly. A delicious drowsi- over the tall young man's shoulder. _ness overcame Helene; she slept, her | Phil stood watching her until she head upon her lover's shoulder, per- | Was lost in the mase of dancers. tectly content and never doubting but .‘Somebody slapped him on the back. that her fairy prince had come for her - He turned to/ face Jim Cowan's laugh- ing eyes. Jim was one of the older She awoke with a start to find that 'nen of the crowd, & pleasure loving !they were entering the suburbs of a | bachelor whose millions had made large city. For a moment the change | him the target for designing mothers from the peaceful forest and snow- |for many seasons. bound land startfed her; thenm, con- | “Don’t singe your wings about that tented, she slipped her hand intp her bright particular candle any more, lover's and waited She had not even |my g0od looking moth,” he drawled fn asked where he was taking her until illll indolent way, “for she is sched- |tho sleigh stopped at the door of a ;uled to light up my gloomy establish- mansion, brilliantly lighted, set in a |ment. Pretty, isn't she?” large garden. Then her lover leaped | “All the girls look pretty tomight” from his seat and the bell pealed; the answered Phil, feigning ignorance. door flew open and on the threshold | “Just which one are you honoring by her father stood. special mention?” She sprang to the ground, terrified, | “What a question! Dolly Carroll is overcome with anguish at this treach- | the most beautiful woman on the fioor, ery. But, returning, her lover took her lmll:“ly fawless like a perfect gently in his arms once more and g kissed her. “You are enthusiastic. Congratuls- “I am Plerre Rideau,” he said. tions if they are in order,” said Phil, (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) j|lll llapd“uhmded cordially, T T T For all his assumed indifference, REVIVED HIS LOVE OF LIFE pnii had been profoundly stirred { Dolly—Jim Cowan's wife! Alone, he i paced a deserted room, his cigar held £ i § zi&é Sick Recruit Decided Not to Die When He Saw Form of Burial That Awaited Him. “I have often heard of a person be- ing scared to death, but only once have I heard of a person nearly dead to offer her and she had so much that he had not dared ask her to go with him out to that far country lylng be- yond the commercialism of the mar ket places where women ex idly in his fingers. He had so little T, § s He was quiet for so long that aby ventured another question. " “What are youw thinking 4 Phl?” hmj “l was just thinking” he began, turning his eyes resolutely from the fair young face 8o near his own to look out at the snow falling eottly through the night. “I was just think. ing,” he repeated, “how wondertul it would be to have the right to take care of you always, Dolly.” A little hand slipped out of the vel. vet and laces and touching his face lightly turned it back to her own “Do you love me®”’ L[] Added Zest. *1 hear you are going to & ma inee today,” Miss Green said to Mis Blager. “] hope you'll enjoy your selt.” “Oh, I'm sure to have a good time!” replied Miss Blazer. “I'm go ing with a woman whose bhusband strongly disapproves of her seeing shows like the one we are golng to see; 80 [ think we can't fall to enjoy ourselves.” J He Knew. Teacher—"Tommy, you are 00 great an idler. Do you koow what be oomes of people who won't work!” Tommy—"Yessum. They gets sup ported by the rest of tha family."- Successors to D. Fulghum § 218 and 220 South Florida Avenue thelr hearts for gold. Love he had in "“" S A abundance and youth and strength, but what were they, pitted against millions of dollars? do';Dr. Brandon?” A servant in the rway spoke to him. “Yes, What is ft* I‘I::g:noblle gets away first.—Lippln e i B R SOCPSUOGOSENISO L 40 #FOPP U4 Usual Way. “Truth crushed to earth will risg sgein,” but nine times out of ten th HCME. P Bt P Phone 334 M Prompt Delivery Mr. and Mre. Home-owner:— Why do we love the forests and flelds? Because Mother Nature makes them deautiful with fiowers and streams and grass. We spend the greatest part of our time in the bhouse and we should bave deauty thers, too. We know how to make your home har- monious and beautiful. We have the furmiture and furnishings to do It with. Come to see our stock; you will not quarrel with our PRICES. TINNERS AND PLUMBERS The Model Hardware Co. —— Subscribefor THETELEGRAM 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 Fiarmacy Phone 89 % Cuick Delivery in the convent that was so dear to scared k her, and finally indignantly refused to ::}l::.m, and ‘l":lpp':n t:e:l:o ;:: be h:tered thus. Her father went | o551 knowledge of that one case,” away.in a fury. gl PO "“""‘:‘:o Be ;::nuy related a retired warship bar would give her a fine house and dowry, | « Franco- e he sald. Perhaps she had not under ml:.l::. ':,‘ ::d.fiun:ehum on stood that she was to be one of the (yho gegera) transport Supply, & -ves- first ladies in Montreal. Why was she | sop «ho¢ had been captured from the H eavy and Fa ncy such a stubborn girl? She would have | pryygh ang rebuilt. Barbering in the to come to it. navy was a little more strenuous in x Again and again be came back, until | ¢y00 days than now, and not so well Groce r le S 4::1;“" two months before, he said fin- | poiq ['got a dollar every three o months from those I shaved. “Do you think I keep you here and | “.upyg gupply sailed for France with support you for a joke? Choose NOW, | 4 ¢argg of food donated by this coun- Helene. Either agree to marry Plere | ¢y for the reliet of Prench war suf- Rideau this winter or I cast you off | qorerg 4t needed. The food did not Ha G r a i n a n d and you are no longer daughter of | ;o) “to be needed, or it was after y, s ml_?t . ward sold in London. On board was 1 will never marry Plerre Ridead, | g ray recruit, whoso first trouble was . { OF any man but of my own choosing,” | goy gickness, Then the vessel encoun. ee S a pecla ty she answered, and Charles Despard tered icebergs and storms, and for went away storming, Helene took the some time we were In danger of go- 'muer to the Mother Superior, & ing down. The recruit was scared grave, patient woman, well versed n | y5t o9 nearly to death as is posible the world's ways. & for a person to be and still live. A “I cannot Sounsel thee, Helene, "‘_‘ strange result was he completely lost snswered. “It is meet to obey one's | pyy gpnatite, The ship's doctor did all father, but not thus far. If thou re- he could, but the recruit could not fuse, perhaps I may succeed In Ob- | gg¢ o thing and was slowly starving m;'l‘u for th:e a post as go(vernmn.'d‘ to death. at was three weeks before, a “An effort was being made to kee; now the last week of her stay at the |y on hig feet with l(:uld toodl.whe: convent was drawing near. And mean- | ;o thing happened that scared him while a wonderful thing had happened, back to his appetite. Just after we %0 wonderful that Helene hardly €on | oot gut of the storm a man died, and vinced herself that it was true. 8he |ipe recruit, who had been helpe‘d oa was In love and she was loved. deck into the sun, witnessed the bur It had come about in the strangest | 3) " Tne sight of the man being sent way. Helene had been gathering Win- | overhoard to the sharks scared him tergreen In the great forests, and sud- | 3o hg coudin't stand up, and he had denly she had come upon a young | o pe carried below and put into his man, bent on the same errand, in the bunk; but at supper time that night same path. And, seeing her, he &p- | pe ate some solid food, and from then proached respectfully and asked her o | op his appetite came back till he was direct him to the Point St. Charles, normal. since he was lost. It turned out that The recruit never accounted for 1o was an artist from Quebec, and was | hig gudden determination to eat lhll': Spending the late fall there, to re- |jive, but the oplaion of the crew the cover his health. Helene showed him, | goetor agreeing, was that the b;u'hl and when she had done 80 he must | caused him to reflect on how dis needs walk back with her again, to agreeable it would be to be wrapped familiarize himéblf with the way. And |in o gheet and ted to the sharks.” at the end he had begged that he — might see her again. And Helene, | Extinguishing Burning Gas Wetl. tremulous, panic-stricken and yet over | A very unusual and ingenious meth. | come by the bewildering new sensa- jod was devised to extinguish a burn- tion in her htart. faltered “perhaps.” |ing gas well at Lone Pine, Pa. The S0 they met again and again, Helene | well in question, which has a capacity lmklen now, with her departure at : of 5,000,000 cubic feet & day, was ig- hand, and he evidently falling more 'nited by a flash of lightning, and more deeply in love with her. | After three days of ineffectual at. | And then one day be had been unable | tempts to extinguish the gas, a boller | &' to restrain his emotion, and, falling | stack, with base, was mounted on rol} !.m his knees, pressed her hands to ers and moved over the eight-inch his lips and covered them with kisses, and begged for permission to tell her L of the sentiments in his heart. {which the flame was raging, 1aade & When she had timidly bidden him ' break in the current of gas, thus ex arise, and he, growing more bold, had ::;mlu the fire instaatly.~Pope-