Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 21, 1913, Page 3

ng Tackle Sporting Goods § |wmmsarut ' ™ o o lE@@@l@@l@. CIGAGIEHGHEAGAG AN He sat with his head on his arms for hours. Once he cried out in agony: “My God, if I had known! It I had known!” l‘a At last he climbed the heavy, dark stairway to the room above to face his dead. He turned back the whlto Summer Reading is Provided For, § 3| g § ; coverlid with hands strangely steady k Us About Our Exchange Library Any Book to Order Full Line of Magazlnes akeland Book Store Benford & Steitz nk Fiims Picture Frames after his long vigil. Her face was oddly girlish as it was in the little photo. He felt a vast tenderness welling up within him as he looked. “If T could tell her just once lnd see her amile as she used to smile before!” He buried his face in the clolhel at her side at the recollection. He remembered suddenly that she —_— | had been possessed of a horror of lburlnl with life still existant. He started and looked again, piercingly, into her still face. It was not mar- ble-like as the faces he had seen in death. A sudden hope clutched at his are showing the newest designs in ||t 3 a8 e 9 ; €S€ |tovea you—always. 0 s are soldered links which guarantees r wearing qualities. PLEASURE TOSHOW GOODS’ yOLE & HULL life. He was straining, striving plers and Optometrists Phone 173 Lakeland, Fla, Put two and two together and you'll un- 8 derstand why this is the Peoples’ Favorite Store. Why I lead in the procession in & good merchandise selling. Economical peop]e want good goods and at fair prices Some 14-karet double-distilled Bargains Men’s Furnishings against death, the conqueror himsell. ' He prayed by all he held sacred. By his mother’s memory. By his belief in love, by the prayers of the long- gone dead, and holding her two cold hands in his own, he chafed and warmed them unweariedly, repeated- ly, calling to her, pleading with her, | begging her to come back. The passionate warmth of his ap- | e i peal softened the cold stillness of her ! ~1 wonder I She knows now,” h® ' fingers. They seemed to him to be | breathed. “I wonder it she knows—' growing pliant human, T LO G SIGH ::duzgg:::ta:ds Slxxlie never seemed | ~ “Helen,” ho called for the last time, | and anything. I used to «peley, child, it is I—open yeur eycs | wonder how anyone could feel so lit-! | to me!” 1t was the impassioned ap- BRACE G. BOSTWICK. [ tle aad live. I tried once to tell her | peal of soul to soul. T S \ ?o: ze;eu andmshe laughed. Sald |~ Then slowly, wearily, unwillingly, g { i ar €€ something to tone me UP.|gag of some child waking from a slecp | as though she had carec,” Perheps she was right. Perhaps I 8m|of deep exhaustion, the cold, white | said, in a tired voice, turd~ g morbid chap. Poor Helen!” he (lids lifted and the fflmll]l r : Ehiere fmd telegrams over gighed as he pored over the letter in!jooked into his own, thou ‘lll fmcxftl]s “It isn't as though she bad the falling light. Ho sat up, startled.' ag from a long distance, The shadow | $1 00 Shirts, white and neat stripes, all sizes, for....... 50¢ Shirts white anl neat stripes, all sizes, for . coce cccaeoaacoee 5 A god 30¢ elastic seam Drawers, 33¢, 3 pairs for 51, 00 Boys Clothing Going at Half Price HATS! HATS! Stotson Huts, Herald Hats, Monroe Hats, Bengraco lhm sSteww s, Canvas Hats, Old Hats and then some, $100 and 5500 Stotson Hats for $2.75 3 $3 00 Herald Hauts for $1.98 Monrvoe Has wor h 8250 for $1.43, Str uv Hats going at half price. H0c¢ our-in-hsnd Ties, 8 for $1.00 ladies’ Ready-to-wear Department @@@[fi@fi@@@@fi@’fi“@.@@fi@@ e repeated, dully, opening g the small drawers, one by was searching for a photo- she had kept on her desk 88 taken in her early girl before he had met her. felt clumsily about among I a letter fell out. He atart- ace it, but caught sight of pame in the familiar writing . He opened it with trem- 1 thought I could—at $hought it would come with rs. the best I could,” he said,! ) himselt. *I couldn’t help “Dear,” he read, “I couldn't hope ever to make you understand how I | love you. You have just left me— cold, unloving, careless, as you always are—and I (poor foolish, loving thing) | put my starved arms about your chair and laid my lips passionately against the spot where your dear head has lain. Dearest, no man was ever loved more deeply, more tenderly, than you are. O, the sadness, the heartbreak of it all! “I want you to know if you are left cared. Dear, I know how it is with you. I know that the bonds have be- ~—and you will be—that I have always | lof a smile parted the gray lips—the lips of death, “You are going to live!” he cried, loudly. “You are going to live—for me” He felt her cold, cold face against his own hot cheek. He heard her sigh—a long sigh of rapture that was almost a sob—then blackness. . L * . L] In the little study below the sick: room—the room of resurrection—a few hours later Atherton again fum- bled about his wife's desk for the lit tle photo. Again his awkward hands ,tumbled the contents of the drawers in reckless confusion, but at last they The above Prices all next week. §1 00. $1.50 and $2.00 Waists, all sizes, for oo oocooiiooaaaas 98¢ Ladies’ and Children’s Dresses, come and see- Prices low. A great many Bargains to offer you in this department, See my line of Wash Goods—nothing better for the price. Prices cut. Fruit of Loom and Lonsdale Bleaching, 11 yards for ... .- 98¢ Summer Days Cambrice, 86 inch, 11 yards, for - coooocacaaaan 98¢ MONEY BACK IFNOT SATISFIED Now is your time, Starts 23rd. -@@@flfl@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ REIag) ) | 4 pd! hov;v hard it has been, come so irksome that they have worn hard!” He passed his thin, into your very soul. If you had cared, of joy, the great tears that rise out and wearily across his col John, we should have been very hap- of the deepest feeling of a strong pe. “At least, she never py, I love your work, your interests, man's heart, fell thickly, unres Q" e s B S B e e B R S S AR B y,” he sal erly. —O0 that look! that cruelly indifferent, sen hi - L e, who had been Lis wite for four long, | S e BUILDERS'SUPPLIES I hard, careless look! It birns into me migerahle years, S— e | THINK THEY HAVE A PRIZE Exclusive sales agents for HYDRO BAR WATER PROOFING. ERY HAT INMY STOCKIS NOW FOR B e SALE AT A REDUCED PRICE Theaters. Terra Cotta Roofing Tile. Goed Red Bulidiag Briek. Carload lots for prompt deliveries. Concrote Reinforcing Steel. Get our prices before duyiag. McKEE & CO. 204 70e8 forida I am winding up my Spring Season, but you will have veral weeks, yes,' months, before you need to think of banging. Now while hats’ are selling so low, it seems that ery woman should haves"Just One More.” I am determined to clean out before closing the season, Jur styles--our merchandise=~everythingis first-class. You ve months yet in which to wear the goods we are offering at ch a great reduction. closed on the treasured picture. Tears @@@mfi@@@@@@fid Ingects Too Small to See Brought Here by Scientists to Destroy White Flies. Importing Invisible Insects! Toa small to see with the unaided eye a newly discovered natural enemy of the citrus white fly, devastator of the orange groves, is now being brought from India in an attempt to relieve the orchards of Florida from the rav ages of the winged pest. Of micro- scopic size, the foe of the citrus fly staggers under the portentious name of Prospatella Lahorensis, bestowed upon it by its discoverer, Russell 8. Woglum, of the enomological bureaw, department of agriculture. The introduction of the insect in‘to this country is attended with numer ous difficulties owing to its poor qual | fties as a traveler. Living within the # body of the white fly larvae the para { | sitlc Prospatella thrives only in dia | tricts infested by these pests, and as | the white fly, in turn, can exist only | upon the leaves of citrus trees, it was I ! found necessary to import tho threa togzether. Young potiad orange treed were procured and allowed to become heavily infested with both the citrud ° Qy and its “killer” The plants wera —— N t s s l prlces 5 then carcfuly packed in the “War - = 0 e ome a e dian” cases, shown in the picture, and started on their 10,000-mile journey to the United States, 10.00 Hats for ~ $6.00 $1.00 Hats for Bllp Jojiieinm i 13 13 50 Lahore, northern India, brought to a 5 successful conclusion the long search 7'50 4‘00 l'OO Plowers for C 3 conducted under the direction of tho e {3 {3 ~o [ ment of agriculture for a nat- 5'00 > " 2-93 SOC ZJ() E al check upon the crop-destroying " white fly and its attendant sooty mold, ?; Orange growers were at their wity’ k f yuneed his find, Spain, 2.00 ({3 « l00 25¢ i » |5‘J (],-”l the HHIID' All at Great Reductions . b end for a remedy when Mr. Worlim | Wiy not meke THIS JULY tho IEBONS month from which you can date your JE———-Y freedem from all the dangers and Large Line Boys’ Milans 1.75 Milans for 98¢ $3.00 Milans for SLSS Also a Line of Girl's Hats, Going for 25 and 50 conis b i Lemer. Patent leather shoes and slippers fale Prices on Art Gocds, Stamped Pillow Cases, Towels, Gowns, Bt o oetachoonlly widh:n Mt hodt | orset Covers, Center Pieces, Table Covers and Many Other Pieccs 3 that has been wrung out of vlive oll woald like to have him dingnose the . BRYANT BUlLDlNG, LAKELAND, FLA. ?‘ case of the man "\“&v.’, nas to dodge ' 3 that has a cover, and the oil will last ] them.—New York Herald l ¥ g 3 fneonveniences of handing your funds by opening a CHECKING AC- OUNT witl: this institution, You are certaln of all the safe- guards and convenlences that a gtrony, well-managed bank offers when yu becomwe one of our deposl- 6 a long time. | —————— Would Be More Important, ‘ A sclentls declzres that the speed | Sania haa converted a great many age THE STATE BANK OF LAKELAND FLA.