Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 13, 1913, Page 2

Perhaps a burglar or a fire has not invaded your home, but if they should, they would get all of your money and valuables. Do l not be one of those who lock the stable after the horse is gone, but put your money where preparations have been made for protecting it, not only from fire and burglary, but from your own extrava- gance. It will be SAFE in our bank. Do YOUR banking with US.":mtl e R First National Bank OF LAKELAN Long Life of Linen along with good laundry werk is what you are looking fer and that is just whay we are giviag. Try w. Lakeland Steam Laundry Poone 130, n.y West Main 8. t MANY HAVE SEEN The Accumulation of a Life Time SWEPT AWAY In One Short Hour FIRE A Fire Insu- rance Policy a Beneficent Restorer! HAVE YOU ONE? Y. Z. MANN :. v DEOHDEIPOLTPS LM LIS OO0 OB D4 O-POITSINIIS @ WHEN WE FURNISH YOU @& is a Ruthless Destroyer! THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD-~ s HAROQURT &N, o CORRECT" MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS LOUISVIVLAE, KY,US.A. WE ARE, THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINEs Full line of Dennison's Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Engraved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, 1oys, Etc. LAKELAND BOOK STORE. R. L. MARSHALL | CONTRACTOR AND BUIL TR Wil furmish plans and sposifications or will follow any piaas and spesifientions furnished. BUNSLLOWS A SPECIALTY Tet me abew you deme Lakeload homes 1 Bave buils LAXRLAND, Fhone £87-Green FLORIDA TI CERBRENLRENERS OLD LOVE LETTERS Treasured Heart Breathings of the Man She Loved Turned to Good Account. BVENING TELEGRAN BY WALTER JOSEPH DELANEY. “The letters! They are gone.” Muriel Gray gave a great gasp, was obliged to lean upon the writing desk tor support, and stood there pale and trembling, mystified and frightened. She was thirty years of age, but still a girl. Many a one of sixteen might envy her the radiant, soulful eyes, the glowing cheek, fair and velvety as a damask rose, Sorrow had been her’s, grief and disappointment, but she had borne her troubles patiently. She had continued to exhale gentleness and love for others, and no one knew that she cherished a memory that had kept at bay numerous suitors for her hand. The old secret wound was torn open afresh at her present startling discov- ery. A hidden package of letters was missing from her desk. They were the history of her brief but happy ac- quaintance with Ranald Dyer, rudely disturbed and broken in a single twen- ty-four hours. Why, she had never known, and she had never seen him since. The letters she had preserved, even as she had retained the memory of the blisstul period when life had been filled to the brim with golden sun- shine. Now they were gone. Muriel sank to a chair and tried to think. Had her aunt incidentally removed them? Had the maid, dusting and set- ting things to rights, stowed them in some new receptacle? Hardly, Muriel told herself, for neither to her knowl- edge ever disturbed the desk. Just then jolly, ringing, boyish voices broke upon her hearing. Rosy- cheeked, bright-eyed, full of juvenile | vim and excitement, two little lads | barst into her prescnce. They were | the children of her sister, who came regularly once a week for a visit—Wil- lie and Paul Emory. “Oh, Aunt Muriel, we have had such rare sport,” breathlessly announced the latter, the elder of the pair. “I should say s0,” echoed his broth- er, “We always have lots of fun here.” Despite a vague pain at her heart and her worry over the missing let- ters, Muriel smiled indulgently. “What have you been up to now?” she asked. “Playing postman,” proclaimed Paul exultingly. “We went right up the steps of the houses just like real post- “It's a Hundred, or Nothing.” men. We didn’t ring any bells, but we | put letters under doormats, and on the top steps, and around the door knobs.” “What letters—where did you get letters?” exclaimed Muriel, a dull pre- | monition arising in her mind. “Why, right from your desk there, aunty,” explained Paul. “Don't worry,” | he added, noting sudden apprehension on the part of his relative—"they were old, good-for-nothing letters., Some of them didn't have even a stamp on them.” Muriel sank to a chalr overcome. She felt like screaming. In a flash she | comprehended that her cherished se- cret might become public property. Faint and distressed, she summoned | all her power of control. “Come with me,” she said promptly to the two boys. “Now then, Willie, and you, Paul, go instantly over the route you took, and get back those let- ters.” The lads loved her, and saw that in some way they were causing her trou- ble. They hurried with her from the house. It was a singular experience. ‘There were twelve of the letters, Mu- riel knew only too well. At the end of three blocks ten were back in her pos- session. No one seemed to have no- 'ticed them on the various porches | where they had been deposited. | “There are two more,” said the anx- | fous Muriel. | “Yes, ma'am,” replied Willle, “I | handed one to a man.” i ! “On dear—dear,” crled Murlel, | { wringing her hands in distress. | “And I left one on the porch of the big house yonder,” indicated Paul, and | they hastened to the place in question. | It was a vacant house, but a trampish | looking fellow was camped on its | steps. | “Lost something?” he inquired, in part overhearing the conversation of the trio. ELAND, FLA.,, MAY 13, 1913. «: am looking for a letter, an old let- ter one of these boys left here,” ex- plained Muriel. “Ah, indeed,” muttered the tramp. *“Valuable, ma'am?” “I will pay for its return.” “Mebbe I'll find it,” said the man, and Muriel left the place hoping the wind had blown it away among the rubbish at the rear of the lot. “Oh, Aunt Muriel,” said Willle, as . they reached home, “I just remem- bered! The man I gave the letter to Jooked & good deal like that photo- graph I noticed in your desk.” Muriel flushed, with a new pang at her heart at the allusion. She tried to hope that one letter was lost and that the other would be tossed aside unread. She sat on the porch that evening, trying to forget the distress- ing incident and Ranald Dyer, when some one came up the steps. It was the tramp she had met that day. “About that letter now,” he began with a leer. “What will you give for it?” “Have you found it?” inquired Mu- riel eagerly. “I will gladly pay you ten dollars.” “Why, ma’'am,” derided the tramp, “In these days of sensations any news- paper would give one hundred dol- lars, just to show its readers how a real genuine love letter reads, don’t you see?” The covert insinuation appalled Mu- riel. Not that the letters contained anything but the most respectful and commonplace sentiments of love. She shrank from the thought of others per- using these treasured epistles, sacred to her as the heart breathings of & man she had loved devotedly. “It's a hundred or nothing,” added the tramp menacingly. “Not a cent,” interrupted a ringing voice that thrilled Muriel through and through. And then the tramp was seized by the collar by a vigorous hand, was pulled over the porch railing, arrest threatened, the letter demanded and produced, and the blackmailer sent headlong into the road. His ready captor returned to the pet- rified Muriel. He lifted his hat cour- teously, but very gravely. “There I8 the letter that man had, here {8 one a little boy handed me to- day, ‘passing out letters,’ he called it.” “Ranald—Ranald Dyer,” murmured Muriel weakly. “Yes, it is 1,” replied her lover of the past. “I came to visit the old town after my long absence. You seem to have thought enough of those old let- ters. of mine to preserve them.” Her head sank low, she could not utter a word. It was a strained situ- ation. *“If 80, why then,” proceeded Ranald, “did you not make some reply when I sent word by my friend, Edward Ross, seven years ago?” “I—I never received it,” spoke Mu- riel quickly. And then: “He was not your friend—I see it all now!” She recalled how suddenly Ranald had left the town with no word of ex- planation. She remembered, too, how Edward Ross had proposed to her, and had been rejected a month later, He was dead now, and she did not wish to prove his falseness. It came out reluctantly-—the story. “Muriel,” said Ranald, leaning closer to that pleading, longing, beautiful face, “a true man tells his love once, and never regrets it. Is it, them, somebody else’s fault that we parted? Can it be possible that all these years you have thought of me as of old?” “Would I have treasured these let- ters otherwise?”’ asked Muriel softly, and the next moment she was clasped in his arms. ' (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) MODERN CITY OF DIAMONDS' Doubtless Few Have Adequate Idea of the Wealth of Glittering Stones In New York. Importers of precious stones are frank to say that there are more dia- monds owned and worn in New York than in any other city in the world. Indeed, our metrcpolis seems to be a second Golconda, that city of south- ern India where, from before the birth of Christ down through the cen- turies to the 17th, the major portion of the earth’s diamonds were assem- bled, guarded, cut and polished for the markets of the world. New York appears to stand out pre- eminent as a “diamond-wearing” city, and only those whose social or busi- ness status permits them to come in close touch with the facts can have an adequate idea of the volume or variety of the diamond and precious , stone adornments of some of its peo- | | ple. There are some women and mcn‘ whose gems are so valuable that they have been warned by the police not to make a public exhibit of them except under conditions where the greatest precaution is taken. Cleopatra ar rayed in all her pomp was no more richly bedecked than are often some of our New York, Washington, Phila- delphia or Chicago wmatrons. A few of the more cautious (and precaution is necessary in these days of welllaid hold-up plans) leave for the opera or soclal function devoid of Jjewels. Closely following them, however, in another motor or carriage, are strong- armed guardians with their ladies’ | jewels, which are turned over upon their destination, and| arriving at within some protected room the gems are donned. Homeward beund, they have the same escort. he precious stones are guarded during the night and the following day find themsel;es back in their safe deposit homa, Covetousness is the most common failing. The poor eavy the luxuries of the rich, in spite of the fact that these same luxuries don't seem to make the rich any happier. TAILOR MADE CLOTHING AT CUSTOM PRICES. We have just received our samples Can ufrnish you tailor made clothing at your own Cap to match suit with all tor this season. price. orders thrown in. DE REE PRESSING CLUB Bowyer Building. -The Protessions: DR. 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Wil t'.nd‘ | sell for cash or on €asy terms. | Room 14, Futch & Gentry Biag Lakeland, Fia. i LAKE 'IPHARMACY #oun Bullding, Lakelamd Fierids |Meets every Tuesday night & Come to us for the goods advertised in JOHNSON & JOHNSON' First Aid Handbook| NOW BEING DISTRIBUTED, The United Brotherhood of Carpent ang Joiners of America, Local 17 o'clock, at McDonald’s hall. R. L. MARSHALL, President J. W.LAYTON, Vice Pres J. W. LOGAN, Treasurer. 1. H. FELDS, Fin. 8ecy. B. F. DIETKACH, Rec. 80y H. L. COX, Conducter. SAMUEL BOYER, J. W. BCARR, C. L. WILLOUGHBY, Beard of Trustess. Lakeland Lodge No. !, I & M. Regular communicailers held second and 4th Mondays at 7:30 W Visiting brethren cordully i vited. J. C. OWENS, W. ) J. F. WILSON, 8ee Lakeland Chspter, R. A. M. 29 meets the first Thursday nlzht each month In Masonic Hall Vi iag eompanions welcomed. A. Leonard, H. P.; J. F. Wilson, Seer. Palm Chapter, 0. K. 8. moets o' second and fourth Thursday uif! of each month at 7:30 p. & Viors Keea, W. M.; J. F. W Sy, Lakeland Camp Ne. 18, W. V.7, meets every second and frarth day night. Woodmea Oircle Ld tnird Thursusys, W. J. Bstrid Council Commander, Mrs. Sallle ++i2 uf Clrole. K OF R Bogular meeting every I at 7:30 at 044 Fellows Hall. V iag members always welcome ¥. D. BRYAN. Chancellor Commané¥ A K. _ACESON, Becretary. POST 83, G. A. B. Meots the first Baturasy in ¢ month at 10 a. m. at the hem! J. M. Sparling on Kentucky s A. C. SHAFFER, Commaader J. R TALLRY, Adjuusnt e Blnera Rebekah Lodge N moets every pecond and fourth u day nights at L O. 0. F. hall. ing brothers and sisters cordiallf vited. MRS, ¥. C. LONGMAN, N.0 MRA ILA GELLERS, fe¢ lake Ledge No. 3, 1L 00 mests Friday aights at 7:30 0. 0. F. hall. Visiting brother cordiaily (avited. 3. L. REYNOLDS, W. P. PILLIANS, ¥ ClLAWB ALE Orange Blossem Div. Ne ‘e. LA toB of L B mets” second and fourth Wednesde™ each month at 2:30 p. ®. Sisters always welcome. MRS. J. C. BROWN st ORDER OF FAGLES _, l The ¥raternal Order of meets every Wednesday 0I5 |'=". &t 044 Fellows’ hall. prestéet