Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 11, 1913, Page 2

e S LLASSIFIED. FOR SALE SCR SALE—Good Winchester rifle; will be sold cheap. Phone 242 Red | FOR SALE—Free dirt. Kindling wood at $1.00 per load. Apply at Kibler Hotel. 886 | FOR SALE—Good milch cow. F. B. Terrell. 924 ‘ FOR SALE—One-half undivided in- terest in the Live Wire Real Es- tate business. Robt. Thompson. t FOR SALE—Lots west Florida ave- nue, 150 and up. Fla. and Ga. Land Co. Phone 72. 948 { FOR SALE OR RENT—Four-room house, best portion of Dixieland, $250 cash, balance like rent. Fla. & Ga. Land Co. Phone 72, 948 FOR SALE—New house of 9 rooms, bath, electric lights, corner lot 60 x 135; will be sold at a bargain. arties leaving town. The John F. Cox Realty Co. 9317 l FOR SALE—Good two-story house of 7 rooms and bath, electric light, corner lot 70 x 100, shade trees, $3,200. The 'ohn F. Cox Realty Co. 937 FOR SALE—A bargain; Hudson 33, 1912 Model Auto. In urst-class condition. New tires all around with 6 extra innter tuoes. Apply Box 165, Lakeland, Fla. 936. FOR SALE—At a vargain, second- hand Cadillac Touring car. Lake- land Auto & Supply Co. 958 FOS SALE—New 7-room house nev- er occupied. South Florida avenue, Dixieland. $500 cash, balance $40 per month. Florida & Geor- gia Land Company. Munn build- ing. Phone 72. 964 —— FOR SALE—One buffet, one couch, one range, two rocking chairs, four straight chairs and a kitch- en table, all In first-class condi- tion. Apply Mrs. F. A. Morrell at Mrs. M. S. Booth’s 927 FOR REN8—8 room house; bath, shades and screens. One and a half qsuares north of school, Florida avenue. Inquire at Pillan’s groec- ery. 864 FOR RENT—Furnished and unfur- nished rooms. Apply at 805 S. Florida ave. 928 FIVE-ROOM BUNGALOW—On W. Lemon and Ohio Sts. Phone 307 Red. 9565 PO R S GRS L ORI L MNSE Stk FOR RENT—Office rooms in the Smith Hardin building. The John F. Cox Realty Co. 9317 FUR RENT—Two furnished rooms fcr light housekeeping. Apply at 104 East Oak and N. Florida Ave. 933 FOR RENT—!ouse at No. 215 Mis- souri avenue. Apply to Mrs, John Patterson, next door 952 — Miscellaneous WANTED--Your safety razor blades to resharpen, made better than pew, 25¢, 35¢ and 50c dozen. Lake- land Furniture end Hardware Co. 746 b STEAM Vulcanizing, automobile cas- ings, and tubes repaired. All work guaranteed. C. H. Haycraft, at the Fix 'Em Shop. Pine street. 940 WANTED AT ONCE—Ry couple, very larze, well lighted, unfurn- {shed room, close in. Permanent —_— WILTON LODGE Turnerville, Habersham county, Gacrgia. In the DBlue Ridge sec- tion, near by Tallulah Falls. IExcel- lent fare. Ciimate unsurpassed. Outdeor sleeping porches House BCreened, 957 Neatly Expressed Warning, *This seat 18 provided by the viess for old pcople and children, and not for men who ere born tired,” is the foscription on a public seat which has ust been placed In the pretty Susses ug.) town of Midhuyret e tenant. Address Box 268. 953 | : | foans, Tnvestments tn Real Meta: Bome Loss. *Did you lose much in that bank Aflure, Jim?” asked Hawkins. *1 should say I did,” said Slabsides. *1 pad an overdraft of a hundred and sixty dollars in that bank, and geel now I had to hustle to make good|"== Harper's Weekly. Question of Economy. He—"We must economize. Suppose, darling, that you try your hand at making your own clothes?’ She— “Oh, George, dear, I could never do that Suppose I begin by trying to wake youra?” L.W. YARNELL uccessor to W. K. MeRae. TRANSFER LINES Draying and Hauling of All Kinas Prompt and Reasonable Service Guaranteed. Phone 67 Green Lakeland, Fi» «The Protesslon_s- DR. SAMUEL J. BMITR BPECIALIST. @lasees Bcien Presc:1ae Faeas: Ofleo, 141; Resideace, ' Srysnt Bidg., Lakeland, Fls 8. W. B. GROOVER, PHESICIAN AND SURGRON, Sooms § and ¢ Kentuexy #.a, Lakeland, Flerida DR N, L. BRYAR, DENTIST. dkipper Building, Over PestelSs Phone 839, Residence Phone 300 Res ' LAKELAND, FLA. DR. C. C. WILSON— PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 3pecial Attention Gven to Diseas. of Women and Children. 0% Deen-Bryant Bldg., Suitg 9. Phone 3617. KEIARY BLANYSS LAWYER ? 0. Blig. Phene 810, Lakuiaad, B3R GARAN 3 WINELDY GITBOPATNE PEYSICIAN House Plone 378 Blach @, K & K D. MENDENEALL Civil Rooms 313-315 Drane Ri€s LAKELAND, FLA. Phosphate land examination o veys, examinatien, reporta Bluepriatiag, A J. NACBONOUGK Ssom ¢ Deea & Brrans Bid; " Areditent Newest Ldoas in Buagalow Busign). — Associated Architeots. Room 313 Draae Building Lakelang, Fla. ? 0. ROGERS, Rsem 1, Bryant Beiidfu. Phone #§). Lakeland, Florida R. B. HUFFAKRR, ~—Attorney-at-loaw— we T Stuart Bidg Bartew, * R V. 60 AV DINTISY Eetahliahad fn Jniv. 1907 ~wms 14 and 1§ Kentucky Bufias Phezes: Ofes 1R0; Residomes # TUCKER & TUCKER, . ~lawyers— Raymonde Blég Takeland, Past. W. & PRESTON, LAWYDD Offee Uyutairs East of Conrt Hess BARTOW, FLORIDA Examtuation of Titles and Ra- Estate Law g Snestalty TEREMIAR B. SMITH NOTARY PUBLIC Have aoma Intererting snaps t» o 4 ghhurdban property, farms o i Retter mea me at once. WII tree 'sell for cask or ou eaty ferms Room 14 Futch & Centry Bla Lakelarng, Fla. (hr 2 G HRBIBIDDE PASAILTIL | —_— LOUIS A, FORT -— “THE ARCHITECT” —. Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Fla. Q¢ PP EPPPLTRIPPLIPNPEE DY - EVEN UNTO DEATH Story Concerning Love and Death in the Frozen Wilds of the North. By JACK LONDON. It might have been due to mere coO- incidence. It might have been be- cause there are undreamed-of bonds between the quick and the dead, and it might have been that Bat Morgan- ston felt a blind consciousness of the future, when he turned suddenly to Frona Payne and asked, “Even unto death?” Frona Payne was startled for the moment. Her shallow nature would not permit her to understand the strength of a strong man’s love; such things had no place in her fickle stan- dard. Yet she knew men well enouglt to repress her inclination to smile; so she looked up to him yith her serious child’s eyes, placing a hand on each brawny shoulder, and answered, “Even unto death, Bat, dear.” And as he crushed her to him, half- doubting, he passionately cried, “If it should happen so, even in death 1 shall claim you, and no mortal man shall come between!” “How absurd.” she thought as she freed herself and watched him untan- gling his dogs. And a handsome fel- low he was as he waded among the fierce brutes, pulling here and shoving there, cuffing right and left, and drag- ging them over and under the frozen traces till the team stood clear, Nip- ped by intense cold to a tender pink, his smooth-shaven face told a plain tale of strength and indomitability. His hair, falling about his shoulders in thick masses of silky brown, was probably more responsible for win- ning the woman's fleeting affections than all the rest of him put together. Yet when men ran their eyes up and THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND FLA., JULY 11, 1913. each other in June, and to jouney on down to Circle City and set up housekeeping after the primitive man- ner of the northland. The Yukon broke early, and soon after that important event, the river steamer, Cassiar, captained by her brother, was scheduled to sail. The Cassfar had the mingled honor and misfortune to be both the treasure- ghip and the hospital ship of the year. In her strong boxes she carried five millions of gold, in her staterooms ten score of crippled and diseased. And there were also lower country traders and kings, returning from their winter labors or pleasures at Dawson. Among these—a little anti- cipation of the event—were listed Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crellin. But when the gick and heart-weary lifted their volces to heaven at the cruel delay, and the goldshippers waxed clamorous, the Cassiar was forced to sail hefore her time, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crel- Iin were yet man and maid. “Never mind, Frona,” her brother gaid; “come aboard and Il take charge of you. Father Mahan takes passage at Forty Mile, and you'll he snugly one before we say good-bye at Circle City.” Plimsol marks, boiler inspectors. and protesting boards of underwrit- ers, not yet having penetratetd the dismal dominions of the north, the Cassiar cast off her lines, with passen- gers, freight and chattels packed like badly assorted sardines. Wolf-dogs, whose work began and ceased with the snow. and who grew high-stom- ached with summer idleness, rioted over the steamer from stern to stern or killed each other on the slizhtest provocation. Stalwart Stick Indians of the upper river regions, lightened their heavy money pouches in brave endeavors to best the white man at his games of chance. or outraged thelr vitals with the whisky he sn‘.d at thirty dollars the bottle. There were squat Mongolia, denatured Male- mute and Innuit wanderers from the great delta two thousand miles away; down his six foot two of brawn, they i not ameng the whites was the janale declared him a man, from his beaded | 0" i 1o Jess pronounced. The moccasins to the crown of his wolf- skin cap. But, then, they were men. She kissed him once, twice, and yet a third time, in her shy, trusting way; then he broke out the sled with the gee-pole, “mushed-up” the dogs as only a dog driver can, and swung down the hill to the main river trail. The meridian sun, shouldering over the snowy summits to the south, turn- ed the tiny frost particles to scintil- lating gems, and through this dazzling gassamer Bat Morganston disappeared on his journey down the Yukon ‘o Forty Mile. Down there he was ac- counted a king, in virtue of the rich dirt which was his after the dreary years he had spent in the darkness of the Arctic Circle. Dawson had no claims upon him. He did not own a foot of gravel in the district, nor was he smitten with its inhabitants—the che-cha-quas that had rushed in like jackals and spoiled the good old times when men were men and every man a brother. In fact, the only reason for his presence, and a most unstable one at that, was Frona. He had har- nessed his dogs and run up on the ice to renew the pledges of the previous summer, and to plead for an early date. Well, they were to be marriad in June, and he was returning to the management of his mines with a light heart. June!—the clean-up promised to be rich: he would sell out; and | then, the States, Parls, the world! Of | geufiing among half a dozen drunkan course, he doubted—most men do when they leave a pretty woman be- hind—; but ere he had reached Forty Mile he no longer mistrusted, and by the time he froze his lungs on a moose hunt and died a month later, he had attained a state of blissful optim- ism. Frona waved him good-bye, and alse with a light heart, turned back to her father's cabin; but, then, she had no doubts at all. They were to be mar- ried In June. That was al! settled. And it was no unpleasant prospect. | To tell the truth, she thought she would rather like it. Men thought a great deal of him, and it was a match not to be ashamed of. Besides, he was rich. People who should know, said he could at any time clean up half a million, and if his American Creek in- terests turned out anywhere near as reported, he would be a second Mac- | Donald. Now this meant a great deal, for MacDonald was the richest miner fn the north, and the moest conserva- tive guessers varied by several mil- lions in the appraisement of his wealth. Payne committed was a sin of deed, not fact. There were no mailteams between Forty Mile and Dawson. and as Bat Morganston's mines were still a hundred miles into the frozen wil- derness from Forty Mile, no news nf his death came up the river. And since he had agreed to write only on nations of the world had sent their sons to the north, and the tongues they spoke were many. At Forty Mfle more passengers and freight were crowded aboard. Among the pilgrims was Father Mahan, and in the baggage was an unpainted pine box, corresponding in size to the con- ventional last tenement of man. The rush of life has little heed for death, g0 this box was piled precariously upon a pyramid of freizht on the Cas- sfar's deck. But Rat Morganston, hav- ing lain till the moment of shipment in a comfortable ice-cave, did not care. Nobody cared. There were no mourners, save a huge wolf-dog, to whom the taste of his master’s lash was still sweet. He crept aboard un- noticed, and ere the lines were cast off had taken up his accustomed vigil on the heap of freight by his master's side. He was such a vicious brute, and had such a fearful way of baring his fangs, that the other canine pas- sengers gave him a wide berth, choos- ing to leave him alone with his dead. The cabins were crowded with the sick, so the marriage began on the stifling deck. Tt was near midnight. but the sun, red-disked and somber, slanted its oBlique ravs from fust above the northern sky-line. Frona Payne and Jack Crellin stood side hy side. Father Mahan began the sevv- ice. From aft came the sound of gamblers; but in the main, the human cargo had crowded about the center of interest. And also the dogs. Still, all would have been well, had not a Labrador dog sought a coign of vantage among the freight. He had traveled countless journeys, was a veteran of a dozen famines and a thousand fights, and knew not fear. The truculent front of the dog which guarded the pine box, Interested him. He drew in, his naked fangs shining like jeweled ivory. They closed with snap and snarl. the carelessly piled | freight tottering beneath them, At this moment Father Mahan bless- ed the two which were now one and Jack Crellin solemnly added, “Even | | SRTABHTODAT IS SISTITINOETELAIOT SO QSO ' unto death.” “Even unto death” Frona Pavne re- ! peated. and her mind leaped back to the other man who had spoken thoce words. For the instant she felt gen. uine sorrow and remorse for what she had done. And at that instant the two dogs shut their iaws in the death- erip, and the long pire hox poised on the edee of its pvramid. Hor hye. | band jerked her from beneath as it Now be it known that the sin Frona | the hichly improbably contineeney of | a stray traveler passing his dizgines, she thought nothing of his silence. To all intents, so far as she was cog- cerned. he was alive. So the sin she committed was of a verity a sin of deed. By no method may a woman's sonl be analyzed. by no scales may a woman's motive be weiched: so no reason can be given for Frona Pavne giving her heart and hand to Jaek Crellin within three menths of hor farcwell to Dat Jack Crellin was a Circle City kine possessed of some of the choice Birch Creek claims: but the men wh had made the country did rot rate him highly, and his only ad S were to be found among the eveo. phantic tenderfeet who s helped him scatter his yellow dust. Perhaps it was the way he had about Moreanston., Trns genere him, and perhaps it was the impulsive | affinity of two shallow souls; but be it what it may, they agreed to marry “ o fell, end on. There was a crash and snlintering: the cover foll awav: and Rat Morganston, on his feet erect Just as in life with the sun :l’n'!n;" on his silky brown locks, swept for ward. It hanpened very aquickly. Some say that his lips parted in a fearful smile, that he flung his arms about Frona Pavne and held her till thev fell tocether to the deck. This won'd seem impossible, seoing that the man was dend: but there are those who swear that these thincs were done. However, Frona Pavne shrieked ter. ribly as they drew her from beneath the bodv of her jilted lover, nor did her shrieking cease til land was made at Circ!» Citv. And Rat Mon eanston’s words were true. for tnr‘n\.' if one shonld ecare to lourney grer m the hiMls which Yia bevond Cirela Citv, he will see. sidn by { cide a pahin and a grave. In 3 tha one dwells Fro 13 rona Pavne: in the other. Pat Mcreanes on They are wai ting for each other tin thefr fetters shal' fall away and the trump of deom break the ef by o 1k _the cilence of the north : (Cooyright, by Daily Story Pud. Co) O ———— Even So! Even a smart man has to get up early in the morniug to get akead of a fool woman. Stop that shiftless, “hand to mouth” way now—begin to antici- pate the future by having a BANK ACCOUNT to call on when that chance comes or when an accident or illness, etc., overtakes you. The BANK ACCOUNT is a coa- stant spur to further thrift and good citizonship—it helps and protects you an dis of real benefit to the com- "STATE BANK; AKELAND FLA; [ OF We have installed a large Double Glass Sanitary Delicatessen Re- frigerator. It freezes butter and keeps vegetables cool and fresh. Absolutely FLY-PROOF., We °* invite inspestion by[ the ladies of our city. Cleanliness, high-grade goods znd 4w courteous {reatment we assure you Pure Food Store 3 W.P,Plllans & Co. PHONE 93 PURE ICE FOR LAKELAND PEOPLE The ICE I am handling is made fcf §lwlnlulsly ) O well water and double distilled. Itis not a question of quantity, '§ QUALITY. If the people wish ! kind of ice they must stand by me. L. W. YARNELY dhgran e Qe Qul JepdulZul 2l Sul Bl ol 2al Bal Sul Jutatslututelntolu e udetetuts tul el OcWed