Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 29, 1913, Page 2

b Lhe richest mambfle:bhfllffiefiag - /nnl'/de inst money he earned® He put I iNn THE BANK When Joka D. Rockefeller went fato the oll flelds, he went ) there with Two Thousand Dollars that he had saved and with which e was ready o take & good business ebance. HAD HE NOT HAD *HIS ¥ NEY IN THE BANK, k¢ would not have beea able to take the business chance that led to his stupendous fortuns, Jobn D. [Rockefoller was no different from otber fabulously rich men. Their - @1eat fortines were the logical resu It of their FIRST savings. Do YOUR banking with U8, First National Bank OF LAKELAND Long Life of Linen a! alopg with good Isundry werk is what you are looking for amd tha' e just what we ary givizg. 7Try . Lakeland Steam Laundry Fhove 130 West Main 61 R ien dmn LeU Tal Bl el ey sol o) e tel deb del tel te 2l el el Dal del Bl el Jol el T 1) MANY NY HAVE SEENt The Accumulation ! of a Life Time SWEPT AWAY; ! 1n One Short Hour FIRE A Fire Insu- rance Policy a Beneficent Restorer! HAVE YOU ONE? Y. Z. MANN PAOCHCEROUE0e is a. Ruthless Destroyer! Raymondo Bldg. Room 7, Phone 80 & WHENWE FURNISH YOU @ THE BEST IS NONE 100 GOOD- sz s HARCOURT &CO. comn GRAVED BY MANUFACTURING E F/NG RAVERS LOVISVILLE, KY,U.S.A. W!m‘l‘lllll EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE: Full liie of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; alsc Gibson Art Co's Engraved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, Toys, Etc, LAKELAND BOOK STORE. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Wil faraieh plans aad apeeientions or will follow any plans aad 00 w0 thew you somo Lakeood hemen | bove built CAKRLAND. Phone 907-Green. TLORDA T T R N~ ——r ' THD BVENING THLEORAM, ullum.m..mn. 1918, ZI0L4'S UFFERING There Were Many Beautiful LB I ies, but Her Own Dear Self Counted Most — “This doesn'’t help my Easter offer BY GEORGIA LOTT SELTER. ing.” she sald, “but I suppose I ought It Ziola Potter had lived in a latge ito be grateful for such a fine collee ‘town. she would doubtless have been | tion.” { called a very charming woman. How- | And when a little later the damaged ionr. in her own, plain-speaking lttle | runabout stopped decorously before ;eonmnnlty, people wondered why on | what was left of her gate, she opened ,u;ul she ;uu'z marry and live like | the door with her usual graciousness other folks! urumuu.mmu.muu ' ummm.mu.mm o was removed, was a note begging ber to accept the contents in part rep aration for the damage done her gar den. It was filled with bulbs of many shapes and colors. mm‘ ot the I There was no use in trying to eon- | “Ah—good morning.” The man beld |} ceal such apparent facts as the leak- {out his card. ing of the roof, and the coldness of | Zigla smiled when she read it. nttllu windows and loosened clap-| “Ia it possible this is Cousin Mady's | boards, or that most of ber acanty lv- | Cousin George? she inquired. and But Ziola managed In some unimag- lublo'uununuhdl ness and style beyond most neighbors. And she could ity §E§:;:§ E3d i i1 I §if :F ¢ ¥ 1 i s3f it £ i E | Were eight months of interevening never dreamed of porsessing. time. “IHow angry and impatient I was,” But time was of no account. After she cried contritely, “and here I can o slesploss night, the great idea came make my flower offering after all.” to her. | In the early morning, Ziola entered Flowers! She already had the best ! the little church, her arms aching with | garden in the little village, and her | I their beautiful burden, her heart full flowers were all that ever graced the ' of rc oicing. 1 bare, little church on Easter. But this | j But rhe stopped in amazement when year—and every year to come—there 'she lefted her eyes. The chancel was «should be banks of flowers, until tho a bower of loveliness. The air was ' congregation learned to look upon | htavy with frangrance. {them as her “usval Easter o!ferlng"" “Ziola,” cried George Gibson, com- ! A warm, sunny strip along the front ! ing quickly toward her, “do )ou like | {of the garden was chosen, and spaded . it? It is your Easter offering.” painstakingly. “It is beautiful,” whispered Zlola. She knew every trick of fertilizing | “And now, dear child,” taking her and working the soil, planting the | burden from her, “I want you to make . bulbs and protecting them through the | another offering today—more sweet ' winter. and precious than this. Cousin Mary ‘ In the carly spring. when other gar {1s in the vestry. She eays she will dens were still wet and cold, the green | give us just five minutes and her word sprouts began to shoot up industrious- | of honor not to pcep! Then she Is go- iy. She counted every stem, every |ing to take you home and help you leaf, every blossom. through the mysterics of dressing. “i love everyone of you,” Zlola whis- | “Zicla, will you marry me, here, tllll .| pered, “you beauties! There Is just | morning, among the flowers?” one week left for you to grow—you | Zicla caught her breath sharply. must hurry—hurry!" “lgn’t this just another way of unms Dending above them absorbed in | ceremoniously running down my their beauty and fragrance, she was unconscicus of all else, until & mighty | smile. splintering and throbbing crashed | “Perhaps o, dear. upon her, At her very feet lay a more than repald the damages?” confused mass of fence pales, crushed | “Yes,” she admitted, letting her flower stalks, an overturned runabout and a man's ecared face. Ziola, her hands clasped over her throbbing heart, stood in soundless misery. “Are you hurt?” cried the man, struggling to his feet in the midst of the wreckage. Ziola did not stir. “For heaven sake, madam, speak to me! Are you injured?” *“No,” said Ziola, bitterly, “but look at my beautiful flowers!” With a sob she flung her apron over her face and dashed past his into the house. “Well, If that doesn't beat the Dutch!" George Gibson stood still In astonishment—angry astonishment. it contracted with the state, which “Flowers! She does not think about had a year’s lien on Sam's labor be my life, or my rulned machine, or her cause he had mistaken somebody OWwn narrow escape!” elses’ property for his own and had He looked about ruefully. A farmer | peen caught, to have Sam stay lor driving slowly down the otherwise de- | tnat length of time. In short, Sun serted street, came at his call, and | wag a convict miner. they soon had the machine righted and It is the -ule that a convict has I back in the uneven road, apparently stint to do—so many tons a day. He none the worse for its escape beyond may earn extra money, and must do the knocking off of considerable paint. | g5 to pay for the tools given him, | But the fence! The tools are then his own property. | “It was about ready to fall down, | Sam paid for his, served ont his | anyway,” muttered Gibson, in no pleas- year, and went back to Birmingham. ! ant humor, “but 1 expect Miss Pep- Thoughtfully he cached his pack drill, ‘perbox thinks I had no business ca- | and lamp in a * dead” entry. i rening into it. And I think the coun- ; try has no business to have such roads | /that & fellow can't stay in them. | | can't see how cn earth I came to make ;such a fluke!” He hesitated a moment. “I expect I'll have to tell her I'l come back and mend the fence, or she i will arrest me.” And he strode up to the door and rang the old knocker. No response. “But surely she hears,” he muttered, ringiug for the third time. . “Well, I'll come bdack to-morrow. Maybe it is just as well not to see her today!” And he smiled grimly as have!” yright, 1913, by the McClure N Seom o paper Syndicate.) HAD A REAL KICK COMING Gam Jackson nghlly Indignant, n Mean Trick Played on Him by Fellow Convicts. Sam Jackson worked ia the coal mines in Alabama. The company semed to think so much of Sam's serv- fees that it put a striped suit on him, kept him in a stockade, with a pack at his old tricks, and the judge had ! sent himr up for another year. The sheriff took him out to the mines, and Sam went straight to the pilace ! where he had hidden his tools. They were gone, somebody had stolen them. Sam went to the super. “What they take them tools for?” he asked indignantly. “I axes you, ain't they kmowa man gwine need them tools again?” Away Too Much. Miss Mary Garden was asked the other day if she thought outdoor exen cise was good for women. “Yes, [ do,” Miss Garden answered, “provided a golden mean s maln- | fences?” she asked, with an uncertain But haven't 1’ In two weeks Sam had been’ caught - We Won't Sacrifice Quality but we are always studying how to’ Increase The Quantity We give the “moxt now but we are anxious to give more, Phone us and|prove it. Bost Butter, por pouBd ... cpomemcccs conerannnnnn.... ml‘mm e mPAIERseststtscet ot man l-. Cottolens, d-pound pails. .......cmvvimmeccrrcncem. .., M mlwn camsamecce@egiortscioamenm.es, LI0 l-lhmlhl!bu.... VEAORE Moy bessabbsscmmstianest m Plnhlnl.mmll S 119 mfiblflmnnmlll- T n Gmndwu. per pound. . . § gallons Keroseng E. G. Twecdell - ittt moemme ., tetes e, ceseseamen riEp et e i e — e —————————————————————ea e e ' POPQOUPUTUPUPUTOPUPUTUE O S OFOFOPOFQFOIOPOBOEO$T0 " IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. SEE ] MARSHALL & SANDERS E The 01d Reliable Contractors Who have boon building houses in Lakeland for® years, and who never “FELL DOWN? or failed to give satisfaction, All classes of buildings contracted for, The m many fine residences built by this tirm are evidgnees of their ability to makhe good, MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue STEITZ & LANE| For All hinds of REAL ESTATE Sce Us Fur ROSEDALE erd PARK BILLLcts Lakeland. Fla. ' hands remain in his, “I—belleve ’“i & bloodhounds prowling around ia case he tried to get away. Moreover, : l Deen & Bryant Building [OR SALE FROSTFRCCF § Lerd 2nd| Groves ; We own, or have for sale, some ot tue chulcest propertiee ai- | Jacent to the town of Frostproof, including & few good bea:'ns ¥ groves. Timber, turpeutine azd colonization tracts. Also see us for Takeland strawberry farms, groves and city property. | & Alfield $ LAKELAND. 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