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

il o Do - O RO 0RO L HOED 0L GEOBOINTOPIPCRCEED Deposit your money in our pank; ydu feel secure because it is in asafe place. It will make you feel happy to know tlat some day, t A BUSINESS CHANCE arises you can go to the bank snd find your money where you left it. The possession of a bank account not only gives you prestige in yourcommunity but with YOURSEL Begin at once to put away just a portion of wkat you are now letting go in extravagance. Do YOUR banking with US. First National Bank OF LAKELAN along with gocd lauadry wect 1 wka! you are lvokizg for ane that 13 just whay we are grivies, Tey a8 Lakeland 3;7;1 Laundry Zhone 130. West Main Bt. » [ cagaiiasie EMANY 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 c..7 bne is a Ruthless Destroyer! M PO PR IO BOSIO I @ WHEN WE FURNISH YOU @& THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD~ a5 HARCOURT &0, comtecr MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS LOUISVILLE, KY,U.S.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, loys, Ete. LAKELAND BOOK STORE, R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Wil furaish plaas and spesifications or will follow amy plaas and spesifications furnished BUNEGLLOWS A SPECIALTY Lat me thow you dome Lakelond homes | dave Wilt LAKELAND, Phone $67-Greca. FLORDA MOREL'S HOLIOAY It Was Enforced, but Brought Happiness Instead of Ex- pected Sorrow. By AUGUSTUS GOODRICH SHER- wi With a clang a great gate went shut, and a shrill whistle and the harsh boom of a bell told that the giant fac- tory had begun the noisy grind of the business of the day. The inflexible rule of the plant was applied on the exact second—the worker who was not inside the walled grounds on the stroke of seven need not apply for admission until the next morning. Half a dozen scurrying men and women had crossed the dividing line, grazed and all but knocked prostrate by the sliding barrier. A pretty, neat- ly appareled girl reached the gate to grasp its handle just as the lock shut. A young man, hurrying too, halted with a shrug of his shoulders, one-half dismayed, one-half resigned. These two were shut out. Others came strag- gling along in the distance, but turned about and retraced their way home- wards, realizing the futility of seeking admittance. While Sidney Harper, stock clerk, took the forced idleness of a day rath. er indifferently, in fact with rather a sense of enjoyable novelty, Muriel Hope, employed in the office of the big works, paled and her lips quivered. A sigh that was a sob but half sup- pressed left her lips. Her eyes filled with tears, and with a' despondent step she started slowly from the spot. Sidney Harper construed aright the girl’s deep concern, and his sympathy was awakened. He was a man who had steeled himself against pity, but he ceuld not help but be interested. He knew that low wages and ceaseless work held most of the employes of | the works bound like slaves to a wheel. With many of them the loss of a day meant the loss of some other day’s meals. Then a memory of a dark passage in his life that had made him a lonely, resentful being on the fair threshold of manhood, caused him to crowd back his interest in the girl. Once he had loved. It was all over ! | %«{%:’:‘/ * These Two Were Shut Out. now, but he had never forgotten the false beauty who had been a traitress to her vows. “Helgh-ho!” he communed with himself. “In four years of steady, per- sistent work at last a day off. I'm not sorry—TI'll try and see if I am still hu. man enough to be interested outside of the dull treadmill of hard labor.” IIe had noticed off and on for a year or mere the fair young girl who an- swered to the name of Muriel Hope. Once he had adjusted a gas jet above her desk when she had some extra | night work. Only a week since, too, he had brought a new chair to replace the crippled and uncomfortable one she ocupied. After that he had al- ways bowed to her when they met. Even that morning they had spoken, but very briefly in the urgency of get- ting through the gate in time. His thoughts came irresistibly back ;& water pagoda to the strains of sweet She started, drew back, and the tears | (oaogI0000 gushed from her eyes. “] dare not—that is, I cannot go home just now,” she faltered. “It g was of that I was thinking when I so | carelessly crossed the stfeet, and how ‘. I should pass the long day.” “I do not understand,” insinuated Sidney gently. “It 18 my dear mother,” explained Muriel pathetically, “She 4s an in- valld, nervous and apprehensive. My father when he died left nothing but & house on leased ground. The owner has raised the rent, and it is all we can do to meet his exactions. Every day's wages counts. If I let mother know I had missed one, it would upset her for a week, with the added dread that it might lead to my losing work altogether. I must not go home until night, and I must keep the truth from mother.” A plain story, but infinitely pathetie, it made Sidney Harper think. Then in a half humorous, half serious tone he sald: “Miss Hope, this is our day of co- incidences, We miss work together, you have a house, I own a lot. We are like dull children given a holiday and not knowing how to enjoy it. Won’t you help me find a way?” The clear frank eyes of the girl looking into his own saw there only manliness and respect. She entered into the spirit of the proposition smilingly. “I am as unused to holidays as your- self,” she admitted. “Just forget your dear mother, and all your troubles, and the day's work, for a few hours, Miss Hope,” advised Sidney. “Help me make it a pleasant, restful day for both of us.” Children of the heart, with nothing sweet in the city for them but the pa- tlent lives of the poor, it seemed as if the sunshiny, golden hours drifted them into a veritable fairyland of en- Joyment. Never would Muriel forget the rare wonder and novelty of the pleasure park, where her courteous escort made her see everything worth seeing, where they had a delightful lunch in KE PHARMACY The Texall Store — We Have Tampa Ice Cream We Take Orders From Anywhere in the City .Prompt Delivery.. music, and then a long row on the dreamy lagoon. Muriel with a bright laugh emptied ' out the tell-tale lunch she had brought | S from home, her beautiful eyes suffused as she spoke softly of “deceiving poor mother!” There was the lovely flush of excitement and joy in her checks as they neared her home. “Miss Hope,” said Sidney, “you have ! given me the most delightful day of my life. You live here!” he exclaimed abruptly. “Why, yes,” responded Muriel, won- dering at his startled manner. Sidney Harper smiled strangely. “¥Yo own the house,” he said, “and ze’ it is the lot I told you about. ~er coincidence, is it not?” Their eyes met and their souls thrilled, and in the mutual glance was the serene promise of a closer friend- ship. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) CORN STALKS MADE CEILING Weary Traveler Slept Soundly Amid Primitive Surroundings in “Hotel” In Mexico. A tourist who was tramping over Mexico last year was “put up” for a night at a lazy, rickety little shack that was called a hotel. It was in the country, in the northern part of Nuevo Leon state. “At that hotel,” the tourist said, “the old stage joke about stopping on the outside was no joke at all. Very much travel-worn, I arrived late in the af- ternoon. There were only two rooms in the ‘posada,’ meaning in Mexico ‘the hotel'—a large dining room, and a much smaller side room, which was kitchen and everything else connect- ed with the hostlery. “I did not find out until after I had paid, a little matter that was demand- ed in advance with such a flourish of courtesy that I could not hesitate. I spent several perturbed moments, off and on, wondering where I was to sleep. However, there were three oth. er ‘guests,’ Mexican, who did not ap- pear to be worrying so I tried to be patient. “Supper, an affair of lots of pepper and little food, was ‘served’ by the proprietor's wife. Shortly after night- fall the proprietor, with much bowing and gesturing and ‘Senor Americano's ing, signified to me that he would take pleasure In assigning me to my room. I followed him—out of the ho- tel and into a small corn patch behind TAILOR MADE CLOTHING AT CUSTOM PRICES. We have just received our samples for this season. Can ufrnish you tailor made clothing at your own price. Cap to match suit with all orders thrown in. DE REE PRESSING CLUB Bowyer Building. > [\ THE SAFE SIDE YOU'RE SURE If you build with CEMENT Sure of a lasting gocd job—one that will cost least; rcduce repair costs, look test, wear longest. Let us givo you figures on your jub—show you why it's best to get the quality material we supply. Do It now! LAKELAND ARTIFICIAL STONE WORKS to the girl as he saw her shift the lunch box she carricd and move her handkerchief to her eyes, as if to wipe the tears away. He wondered what dreary life drama hers might be, what secret care and trouble might sear her tender girlish heart. And then—just as she was crossing a street he saw her step directly in the path of an on- rushing automobile. He made a spring. Just at the critical moment he seized and drew her out of the way of a dreadful peril, and led her back to the street curb half fainting with ter ror. “Oh—how 'can I thank you!™ she panted, and ‘her hand rested uncon- sciously on his own as though she was glad that her rescuer was an acquaint- | ance, it even a casual one, #' “Had you not better let me help you into the drug store yonder, where yo1 ‘an rest till you recover your fright?” @ asked solicitously. i | was trembling still and her lips were unsteady. He took her hand and drew It through his arm in a kindly brotherly way she could not resist. “We will walk on slowly then,” he said quietly. “I will see you safely as far as your home.” “Qh, no, I am quite—quite mysclt! i now,” insisted Muriel, although she! the building. “In a corn row, at a spot where the overlapping top blades were thick enough to form a canopy that was at least dewproof, my landlord halted and pointed to an old blanket which had been spread in the hollow between the rows, and, bowing and Senoring H. B. Zimmerman, Prop. Mrs. H. C, Cochran some more, commended me to the GROCERIES care of the saints and departed. MEATS “That was my room. There was an old frayed mat for a pillow and & di FISH and lapidated blanket for covering. COLD DRINKS “Did I call up the office and kick on the room? I did not! The earth was A Kice, Fresh, Clean Stock dry and warm, and having ‘been re- At Lowest Prices. cently hoed, was not hard; and being dead tired I turned in at once'and had a dandy sleep.” YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATEIL 703 North Kentucky Avenue Phone 188-Blue. Lakeland, Fla (11} T ————————————————————————————— A Rare Convenience. “How do you like this apartment house? Service good?” ! “Best ever. Why, the janitor even - { has a dress suit and makes a good| emergency man at bridge.” | Not Much Difference. “Do you act towards your wife as you did before you married hert* “Exactly. 1 remember just how 1 used to act when I first fell in love with her. ! used to hang over the !eneotnfruntollorhonu-u” at her shadow on the curtain, afrald to go in. Andlnfl’num-'fl 0w when I get bome late™ Too Much in Earnest. “Why did you quit that barber? His talk is harmless.” t *“I could stand his talk. But, wll.h' a razor in his hand, I didn't like his : emphatic gestures.” -The Professions DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH SPRECIALIST, " Rye, Ear, Wose and Threat Pheme: Offico, 141; Residence, Bryant Bldg., Lakeland, Fla. DR. J. ¥. WILSON, PHYSICIAN AND BURGRON Phones—Office, 370; residence 297-3 Ringa. Muns Buflding, Lakelaad . W. R. GROOVER, PEYSICIAN AND SURGRON, Rooms 8 and ¢ Kextueky Bleg Lakeland, Florida W. B. MOON, M. D, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office in new Skipper building ¢ postoffice. Telephone, office and dence on same iine 350. LAWYRR 2. 0. Biig. Phone 319, Lakeland, JR. GARAR R WHRELER OSYBOPATH PEYSICIAN @. K. & H. D. MENDENHALL Civil Engineers. Rooms 212-215 Drane Bldg LAKELAND, FLA. Pnosphate land examination. veys, examination, reports, Blueprinting. A J. MACDORCUGIL Moo & Deon & Bryant kueg Arohitect Xowest Idess in Bungslow Do Lakelaze, Mlorda, BONFOEY, ELLICTT & MENDENHALL Associated Architects. Room 212 Drane Building. Lakeland, Fla, B. 0. ROGERS, yer, Room 1, Bryant Buiiing. Phong 2069. Lakeland, Fiorida 2. B, NUITAKKR, ~—Attorney-at-Low— Qosr 7 Btuart Bldg. Bartew, R W 8 BRVIN OENTISY Detabdiished ia July, 1909 dooms 14 end il Kentusky Bull Phoaes: Ofes 18¢: Rosidence M TUAKER .6 TUCKER ~lawysr— Laymeades Blas ANein ‘¢ 6 EDWARDS Attcrney-et-low, Ofiies 1n Muna LAXELAND, FLORIBA. W. 5. PRESTON, IAWTER (Ofioe Upstairs Basy of Court Sxaminstion of Tities and Bt Estate Law ¢ Gpeeatw JEREMIAH B. SMITH NOTARY PUBLIC. Loans, Investments In Real K Have some interesting snaps in ¢ and suburban property, farws, © Batter see me at once. Will seli for cash or on easy terms. Room 14 Futch & Gentry Blds. Lakeland, Fla. In compliance witn constitut and by-lawsof B. M. & P. 1. U.} 12, Florida, all contractors In building line will pease take not that on and after the first day August, 1913, the working hours this union will be eight, and cents the price per hour. This union appreciates the operations of conmtractors who b paid the scale of prices in the P and expects no difficulty in that spect in the future. JOHN MURPHY, Presideut. C. R. FIELDEN, Financial Secretary. 6 Shopping In the Ozark District. *You keep sportin’ goods yur, & you!™ inquired s frassled look ¢itizen from out on Rumpus Ridge. dressing the proprietor of the ha wore store at Polkville, Ark. beh, that's what 1 lowed. Well, ¥& [ was aimin’' to git was @ strsl ::’llt for a crazy man"—Kansss C