Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 24, 1913, Page 2

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WE ARE, THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE« 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 BUILDER Will furnish plans and sposifleations or will follew amy piezs and 5 specideations furnished BUNE.LLOWS A SPECIALTY Lot me thew you 2ome Lakelond homes I have duilt LAKELAND, Phone 267-Greea FLORIDA MANY HAVE SEEN| 'S A WOHAN'S WAY They Are Sometimes Puzzling, but She Usually Knows How to Manage Man. Bessie Thurston had two lovers, and therefore two rivals, practically ene- | mies. It had come about through a rude disturbing influence in a clear field for Rodney Thorne. He had fond- ly considered Bessie his own until Willis Gould appeared upon the scene. Given a bewitching young lady and a newcomer, the latter good-looking, with superior prospects, and feted and petted by all the other young la- dies in the town, and naturally all that was vivacious in Bessie’s nature was aroused. Gould was “a jackanapes,” accord- ing to Rodney's prejudiced ideas. He was the scion of a wealthy family, had never worked a day in his life, and was shortly to go abroad as secretary of a consulate. This gave Gould “high diplomatic ideas,” and the apparent right to wear a semi-military coat with two gilt buttons on the neckband, which some of his girl admirers desig- nated as “too cute for anything!” “It's got to come to an end,” said Rodney, definitely, one balmy eve- ning. “And now's my chance to end it,” he added, as he reached the Thurs- ton home to find Bessie alone in the garden. If Rodney had appeared as the pla- cid, contented suitor of ante-Gould Clinging to Either Side of the Craft. days he might have won his way. He made the jealous lover's mistake, how- ever, of preluding his suit with his own peculiar ideas of his rival. Then he ridiculed and censured Bessie's in- dulgence for “the spoiled society pet,” as he denominated Gould. “I won't hear a word agalnst my friends!” declared the aroused Bessie. “A fine friend for nobody to claim, that jackanapes!” snapped out the ir ritated Rodney. “I think we had better meet later, when you are more rational,” suggest- ed Bessie. “No, you shall hear me now,” de clared Rodney, determinedly, choosing the very worst moment to appeal to en offended deity, and putting his plea more in the form of a complaint than a true and tender confession of love. He managed to get hold of her hand, and she was more than interested. A proposal of marriage was a serious, solemn thing to Bessie. Just then some girl friends came into the garden. She feared ridicule and drew her hand away. Rodney's brow darkened. “I must have my answer—yes or no?” he persevered. “Later in the evening.” At that moment Gould came saun- tering up the walk, “No—now!"” “Then—no!” Rejected! Rodney was positively rude as he brushed by the newcomers. He made no allowance for his own faulty impetuosity. He had made an honorable offer of marriage to the woman he loved, and she had refused him. After that he evaded Bessle, and her friends as well. One evening he made a wide detour to evade Gould and Bessie, who were ldly drifting in a frail rowboat and, Rodney fancied, looking serene and happy. It was a rapid, torturing flight. Rod- ney finally seated himself on the banks of the river three miles down the stream. The moon came out brightly, the night was full of sweet sounds, the soft drone of the rapids further along would have lured a sentimentalist to sleep. Rodney, however, cherished only bitter, gloomy thoughts, Perhaps an hour went by when a cry caused him to look up. The river its center held patches of little islands The wider part of the stream lay br yond these. Suddenly he saw a box skim through the channel separati: two islands and bear down directly to the spot where he was. like a frail feather from side to side, a female form. And then— “Bessie!"” | to either side of the craft. was broad and deep at this point, and | cured for 120,800 pounds. { It seemed as if some giant force | | price is not yet ascertained. nerved him to mighty strength as he | Season's crop is confidently expected | | saw in the approaching boat, tossed to be over 2,000,000 pounds, He saw her shapely hands clinging | Lawrence, debated last week on the Her ter- | Subject, “Re<olved, That the Indian rorful eyes were fixed tensely ahead. | Should Be ! Rodney threw off his coat, kicked off firmative won—Kansas City Journal. his shoes. eddy whirled the boat around. It tipped, and with a gurgling shriek Bessie disappeared beneath the wa- ters forty feet distant, but near to the edge of the island. The flerce, strong current bandied Rodney about as he made & direct plunge. It was a wild, desperate fight with the battling waves. How he made it he never knew, but he caught at & | o ,gg: limp body swayed along by the under- tow, dragged Bessie ashore and sat down beside her, breathless, exhaust- ed. What a woeful sight she was—all the daintiness of the witchery of lace and jewels and form and features be- draggled, the fair hands cold he chafed them. He tremb! direful agony until he felt the faint, fluttering pulse. 'Then he could do no more save watch and wait, gazing down at the white face so dear to him, the moonlight flooding the scene with a cold, steely brilliancy that seemed ominous. At length Bessie stirred. There was a faint moan, she sat up, shuddered and met his gaze. “You!” she voiced in hollow accents —and his clinging garments told her intuitively how she had been saved. Then she turned her face away. Strange juncture—to be here, isolated, with the man she had rejected! He read her thoughts. He noted her lashes fall in humbled pride, in shame. He realized that her escort must have acted the coward’s part, he recalled her mother, with a weak heart, unable to stand any shock. Rodney arose to his feet. “Miss Thurston,” he said quietly, “we must lose no time. Your mother and your friends—you will not have to stay here for long.” “Come back!” It was a wild, plead- ing shriek, a call of anguish, of love, as she saw him plunge into the flood, as life and death fought a desperate battle within her sight. But he reached the shore, though nearly stunned and his head bruised and bleeding at contact with a rock, and staggered away out of sight. | She sat moaning, her head buried in | her hands, as a slow hour went by. Then a shout from the shore from the | midst of friends—a weighted rope cast ! across the chasm. A strong boatman | clasped her and carried her thus to the mainland. Bessie in one swift glance swept the group. Rodney was not there, “My dear Bessie—" for the first time began Gould, hastening to her side. She turned to him, her eyes blazing contempt. “I despise you!” she cried out. “Oh, it anything has happened to him [ shall hate you!"” Her sister put her arm around her and whispered in her ear: “He is safe, dear. Only a slight hurt, and the shock, and—" “Take me to him!” cried Bessle. “You are deceiving me. Oh, my hero! my love! If you should die, then I shall die, too!"” She would have her willful way. When they reached home they polnted‘ to the library room, where Rodney hy upon a couch, his head bandaged, pale, weak, but not seriously injured. She knelt at his side, with no thought of her bedraggled attire. “Last week,” she choked out, and | burst into a sob—*I did not know my own mind, but, oh! tonight—" She pillowed her lips upon his cheek, | Her arms stole around him—oh, so pitifully!—as she whispered wordg of love. “Never mind the yesterdays,” he said, with a smile of ineffable peace. “Forget everything except the golden Tomorrow!” (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) Qualified as a Bargain Hunter. It has been said of women that few of them can resist anything having a family resemblance to a bargain, but a young woman of independent means living in the northeast district has reached the extremity of bargain-grab- bing, says the Kansas City Star. Her habits along this line have long been a joke among those who know her. and when she attended her club meet- ing recently the others began to twit her about it. “But I certainly found a bargain yesterday, girls,” she said with an alr of satisfaction, and they all wanted to know all about it right away. “Well,” she told them eagerly, “I went down to attend a suit sale I read of in the paper, and I was passing a place on Main street where they sell monuments, and they were all marked down, and I bought the loveliest gran- ite monument you ever saw for $50, and it is worth three times that much it it is worth a cent!” | South Africa’s Tobacco Industry, « South Africa has grown consider ably during the few years in which se- rious efforts have been made to estab- lish it. Its success is sufficiently strik- ing to afford a reasonable prospect of better things to come. The 1907 crop amounted to 26,644 pounds, which sold for an average of about 18 cents per pound. The 1908 crop was 96,058 pounds, and realized an average of 2215 cents per pound. In 1909 an av- erage of 29 cents per pound was se In 1910 ha average price advanced to ‘34 ‘nts for 123,210 pounds. In 1911 the crage price fell to 301 cents, but > crop advanced to 407,402 pouuds 3 crop for 1912 is known to be over 0.000 pounds, but the average i Little Loss by Delay, Indians at the Haskell institute, erminated,” and the af- Next | e A wayward streak in an | Loans, Investments in Real Kstaty -The Professions: P DR, SAMUEL F. SMITE SPECIALIST. Xyo, Kar, Wose and Threat ofi“:un Restéonse, § Bryant Blig, Lakeland, Fla RS R J. 7. WILAGN, United Brotherhood “of e PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON and Joiners of Amerios, Loca] 177¢ Phones—Ofies, 370; residense. as ice as 197-3 Riags. Mests overy Tuesday night 4 led with |Musn Bufldins., Lakelsad Wiorié' |o'eloek, at McDonald's hall, : R. L. MARBHALL, Prosige;: '2 W. X GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rooms § and 4 Kentueky Bide Iskeland, Florida. J. W. LAYTON, Vice Pres J. W. LOGAN, Treasurer 1. K. FELDS, Fin. Seey. K. P. DIETK.CH, Rec. fe.; H. L. COX, Ceaductor. SAMUEL BOYER, W. B. MOON, M. D, 3. W. SCARR, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. C. L. WILLOUGHBY, Beard of Trustees. Office in new Skipper building over | _______ =~ postofice. ‘Telephone, off.ce and real dence on samg iine 360. Laheland Lodge No. 91, r 4 , M. Regular communications helq o ‘second sad 4th Mondays at 7 130 p. . Visiting brethrea Oordmlly - EXKIAEY BLANTON vited. 1. C. OWENS, w. y LAWYED 1» 'umN. Sacy - : ;N n 3 Jlfl‘h‘l‘ , Lakeload, Lekelane Chapter, R. A M. po 39 meets the first Thursday night onch month in Masonic Hall vy ing companions weleomed. 4. D, Lesnard, B. P.; J. I. Wilsen, Secy DPR. QARAY X WHEEELER OSYROPATE PHYSICIAN avems §, ¢ and 1, Bryant Duilding Lakeland, Pa. wies Phenq 318 Blue. $auge Pheny 376 Blask G. H. & H. D. MENDENHALL Civil Engineers. Rooms 313-216 Drane Bldg. LAKELAND, FLA, Lakeland Camp Ne. 13, W. u. W, Pnosphate land examination. Bwr | meets every second and f~artk Th veys, examination, reports, day night. Woodmen Circle & Palm Vbapter, V. B. 8. mcois ¢ver socond aad fourth Thursday night of ench month at 7:30 p. m. A Viera Kesn, W. M,; J. I Wisn (= A Blueprinting. 0 G0 Tauisueys, W, J. Bstridgs, “enncil Commander, Mra. Sallie 8¢ A 1. MACDONOUQGE, 4 \trels Soom ¢ Deod & Lryamt sudy — Architest. K Ore Newest Mm in e and, m Regular meeting every Tuesd at 7:30 at Odd Fellows Hall. V! ing wembers alway weloome F. D. BRYAN Chanceller Commarder A R _ACKSON, Beeretary BONFOEY, ELLIOTT & MENDENHALL Associated Architects, Room 212 Drane Bullding. Lakeland, Fla, POST 33, G. A. R. Meets the first Saturday in ever, # 0. ROGERS, month at 10 a. m. at the home ¢ Lawye, J. L. Sparling on Kentucky avenu Soom 1, Brnl’t”m A. C. SHAFFER, Cowmmander Phong 269. . R. TALLBY, tant Y J » Adjutan: S Hizora Rebekah Ledge No. 2. B. KUFTAKRR, moets every second and feurth M ~Attornsy-at-Llaw— day nights at 1. O. 0. F. hall. V! “eor 7 Btuart Bldg. Bartew, P» ing brothers and sisters cordially vited. MRS. F. C. LONGMAN, N @ R W1 BVIN ORNTIS? Dstablished {2 July, 1909 “ovms 14 and 13 Keatuoky Bulilts lake Ledge Ne. 3,10 0 B Phones: Office 100; Roaldonce 8¢ | meets Priday nights at 7:30, ot — |0. 0. 7. hall. Visiting brothers TUIKER & TUCKIR cordially iavited. —Lawysrs— J. L. REYNOLDS, Sec. Raymoade 4. | H. B. ZIMMERMAN, N. 0 Talnat, P i OLAWBRALLE o9 . Oraage Blesvem wem Div. No | Akorneg-se-lse. 6.1 A t8B of LB meets ov Offes in Musa BuiMin, (gooynd snd fourth Wednescayt LAKELAND, FLORIDA. each moath et $:80 p w. Visit Sisters always weleoms MRS J. C. BROWN B8acy wnmum Oftos Upntatrs Besy « Crent Hoem BARTOW, FIARDM, ORDER OF RAGLES. kzaminston of itiap and Res atm— Bstats Lav o Sgedebip The Praternal Order of 73 meets every Wednesday alght JEREMIAH B. 1:30, at 0d¢ Fellows’ Rall. NOTARY PUBLIC, J. H. WILLIAMS, Presidest € M SMAILS Seerstar Have some interesting snaps fn et jand suburban property, farms, et PLASTERERS’ INTERNATIONA Eetter see me at once. sell for cash or on easy terms. Room 14 Futch & Gentry Blag Lakeland, Ma. e e Will trade | BRICKLAYERS, MASONS AND UNION, LOCAL NQ. 12 OF FLORI Meets each Thursday night Morgan & Groover hall © Bates’ Dry Goods Store. Visit brothers welcome. POLK ENOAM'PEENT 0.3, 100 Bnowgh of Glants. Littte Frank had had o parental meeting with his six-foot-two papa about filling the tooth-powder bottle with water. After the meeting ad- Journed, be went in and asked his mother to promise him one thing. Without knowing the nature of the request she promised, and then ask ed him what it was. Re told hert “Mamma, when papa dies, I wants you o promise me not to bring any more Polk Eneampment No. 3, I O: F., meets the first and third M days. Visiting Patriarchs welc® F. A. McDONALD, Serid H. B. ZIMMERMAN, glant mens to this house to Chief Patriarch us!"—L{ppincott's, MWL Soiiesta . B.P.O.E .;hopplng In the Ozark Distrier, ou keep sportin' goods you?” inquired a fnulel":o:k?l: citizen from out on Rumpus Ridge, ad dressing the proprietor of the Yard wore store at Polkville, Ark “Eb beh, that's what | ‘lowed, Well, what [ was almin’ to git wag a ltl-ulnll Jacket for " Bt 8 CTaly man."—Kansag Ctty a— Lakelang Lodge No. 1291, Bf’;_ lent and Protective Order of b meets every Thursday night i 1o recoms over postoffice. visiting bré ren cordially welcomed. GEORGE MOORE, E Wodorn Clothes for Chinedd Traveling for an English 07 wakes ready-made clothing: © mer recently secured Ort $125,000 worth of “foreign’ ! a collection @8 |in Harhin, Marcharia. T' Valuable 8tamp Collection. How stamp collecti; ng has become speclalized is Instanced b: Paris some time ago « o ‘. . Bwiss stamps for ahoyt % S he Chiv AN Ul he. cold te t