Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 22, 1913, Page 7

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ST irst National Bank OF LAKELAND T — S s Steam Laundry West Main b Q90 $O snthe Flames Die Down g " And As You 3 TURN From the Ruins Then, IF Neve: Before, Should You Realize The Benefits of A Fire Insurancz Policy, The Follow'ng Companies. Capital —eo...$4,500,000 tal. e 2,000,000 78, Caplital.. 4,750,000 Captal____. 3,000,000 Insure Your Property! IN & 'DEEN]] Room 7, Ray.nondo Bldg. ’ 080080002 O And Resolve To since 1 was a child that 1 ought to ! €r and his wife might go to town. I marry (i k Townsend. | his favorite gray, “that child is long- ! and I take it, it's up to us to produce { pretty daughter, “didn't 1 see Clark | wife, are you crazy? | nicer young man anywhere round than | had everything fixed up between you | and you were not satisfied. care, but I'm not going to have that fool business gene through with again I told him I'd fill him full of bird-shot it I caught him round here again, and ] guess he knew whether I meant it or not!" amazed Mrs. Shepard when her hus- band's angry footsteps died away in the direction of the baras. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAR KLAND, FLA,, JULY 23, 1913. carbara, we had best humor him & little for a day or two. And for good- ness sake, don't mention Clark Town- send's name till this spell has worn off!"” FONANGE T0 ORDER In | her window thinking of Clark, who Why t::rgladramx:a;m':::ned was forbidden even her fromt gate, Affair. low: “Barbara, come down, just for a minute.” 1z By SUSANNE GLENN. “Oh,” she whispered l'nnucall!. ‘oh Barbara had listened for the sound | Clark, please go away!" % of Lucy's light feet too many times| ‘“Not until you come down, please. Dot to know who it was coming along | Trembling, Barbara made her way the road behiud her, but she did not | through the silent house and let he: turn until Clark Townsend drew up | Self noiselessly out at the unused and called cheerfully: “Let me take | (ront door. “What made you co’me. you hoime, Barbara?” she sobbed nervously, when the )ou.l‘lg “I—I did not kuow you would care man lcomed close in the darkness. “If to, Clurk,” che hesitated, flushing. “Of course 1 care to,” he caid, lift- ing her in carewully aund gatheriug up Wie rais ¢ For a tuue there was silence save for Lucy's feet on the scft wool road. The gl was evidendy too ill at case 1o speaik “I Lave you in a trap at last, haven't I?” the wun sailed, covering her cold little haid with his big warm one. “And I'm not going to let you go, Barbara, until you tell me what it Las all been about” “What do you mean?" asked Bar- bara. “l guess you know what I mean. What happened all of a sudden that you should send me this?” He took carefully from an inner pocket a fold- ed paper out of which something| horse in this neighborhood ; dropped that shone in the twilight.| “But Clark,” tremulously, * “where “Low do you suppose | felt to see my | can we live? Father will never have girl running round with that artist [ us here after this!” chap? I realiy think that I deserve a| “Leave that to me. Just you prom- betier explatation than | have had.” | Ise to be there. Here Is a rope, Barb; “Oh, Clark,” she wailed suddenly, | Fack your suitcase and let it down to “you do—but I'm afraid I cannot make [ Me. You'll probably have to be mar- you understand. I—just couldn't mar- | ried in that blue gingham affair you ry you?" wear mornings.” “Of course unot, Barby dear, if you did not love me enough. But I though you did—I thought—well, never mind. What cawe up, anyway?" “Nothing—that 1s the trouble. I could 1ot cndure it! Nothing hap- pened to nie, no experiences like oth- er girls have. Pecple have told me | give me and I do not know what he Viil do to you. What has happened? lie—he threatened to shoot you if you g here again. Please—please g0 ., quick!” )y you do net want me to y wer, Darbara clung to him very istactorily. “Lis- | ten, dcar, I can’t give you up like this. Why, we love each 6ther, do we not, little girl?"” “Oh, yes; but what is the use?” “There is this much use; we are going to be married tomorrow. Now listen; I'll be down here at the bend in the road at twelve, sharp. You must manage to get away while they are at dinner. If I can once have you in the rig, I'il put up Lucy against any " Lain, complete her preparations, and not until ghe knew Clark was safe on his est tears of her uneventful life. Diuver was prepared carly at the Shepard home next day that the farm- It When | told | Was with the utmost difliculty that that I've alvays despised. | “It's up to Clark to manage her, and “Ido not know what you will think | I'm not worrying about him, any!” of me, Clark, but that is the truth | (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure News- about it! It scemed as if I just| PERSREYClonia) couldn’t endure it-——to be married ac- cording to rule, and just to settle down | afterward and live by rule. I've lived | that way all my life and I know what | it means—I didn't dare try to endure t!” “But that doesn’t explain that artist | fellow that has hung round you all | summer. Does he fill the bill better than I did, Barbara?" “There has been this one comfort, at least, no one has known what to expect. And mother has been fu- rious!"” Young Townsend watched the girl hurry up the path to the side door of the big farmhouse with a whimsical smile. Yes, he could see how her ex- istence had been depressingly matter- of-fact for a romantic young thing like Barbara Shepard. The unlovely severity of the comfortable house told its own story; its exterlor prepared one for a drab kitchen with gray utensils. “Lucy,” he said, shaking the reins affectionately over the sleek back of Science of Detection, There had been a bold, brazen rob- bery in the jam closet. Kvidence of ing everywhere. When the owner of the jam made the discovery that she prompt and practical steps. searched in the spilled jam for fin prints and found them, Sherlock Holmes manner, “I shall have the thief in five minutes.” She went to her bedroom and took from a bu- reau drawer four squares of paper. They were labeled respectively: Wil- Quietly she took them to the jam closet and made comparisons. { she got down; “it was Tommy's.” “That night Tommy got his.—Wom- an's Home Companion. ——— Teacher’s Age. Ing for romance in her gray little life, | genator Joseph L. Bristow of Kan. the geoods!'” “Barbary,” eaid Farmer Shepard next morning, looking severely at his | banquet when reference was made to | the somewhat doubtful age of the falr sex. In a village school a short time ago, 80 ran the senator's anecdote, the teacher was Instructing a class of | small youngsters in history, whose lesson for that day related to the | Civil war. The wish of the teacher | was to Impress on the minds of the children how long ago it had oc- curred. “Just think, childrew,” ghe care | fully remarked, glancing up and down the class, “that terrible war was fought o long ago that even I do not remember jt.” “Gee, Miss Mary!” earnestly ex. claimed one of the wondering kids, “Was it before the flood "—Philade]- phia Telegraph. Townsend's gray mare out here by our gate last night?” “Very likely you did, dad. He brcught me home from the Pine road.” “Well, I don't want to see him here agzain, do you understand?’ with ris- ing irritaticn. “Why, Hiram,” expostulated his | There ain’t a Clark!” “Just the same I'm pot going to have him hanging round Barbary, and I want you both to understand it” “Then you'd better tell bhin so, yourself,” retorted that young person, indignantly. “I certainly shall not.” “I have told him, young lady,” rcared her irate parent, “and now I'm ' - — Most Unflattering, when his voice called softly from be | tacher Lnds you here he'll never for- | Barbara stolo breathlessly back to | Lomeward way did she lay her head | | on the window sill an| sob the happi- | moher we were engaged, she said, Darbara escaped at the appointe | *Why, of cource. I've known it this . hour. “By jove,” cricd Clark as he long tiwe. ive got everydhing plan- | ¢ g her inte his buggy, “your folks ncd about ihe wedding and your lave wtrned into the road. It's geing houschocpins 1 had been so bappy | 10 be a close call!” And Lucy shot beiore 1 wold her, but alter that | eried | 0 as if she reaiized the part she had mysell o slecp—you couldn't know | (0 vlay. aboue ikat, Clack. But that was the | Put the license was safe in his beginning. | pocket, and (he minister's door stood “No, | did not know,” Clark admit- | open. Clark just held her hand a lit- | ted. I tle tighter when veices sounded out- “Bveryt knew, bolore we did deind Farmer She pard and his wife | ourscive {0 We oushi to be mar. came in breathlessly, as the ceremony ried at Clrist +0 that Biown could | began. | wove o yo.r place the lirst of Jan- ' “Parbara Shepard, what a looking uary. And they knew we would spend bride” sobbed her mother, when the our how yicon with your sister Grace = Minister's veice had ceesed. “Now 1 in Vlawsbero. 1 planned out the dear- | BUCss you can see, Hiram; you've al- est kitchien all buif and blue, but when “ays thought I was too steady with I mentioned it mother insisted noth- | her! She's got her head, now, and ing vwas s0 good as drab, und settled Mercy knows where she will stop.” the matter by getting me a set of | ver mind, mother,” soothed the those wretched gray cooking things | farmer with astonishing good humor. had been robbed, she spent no time or' effort in futile speculation. She took | AND THEN THE PRICE TO MEE] She YOUR APPROVAL WITH A GUAR 8T | ANTEE THAT “Hah!" she chuckled in the best| WILL BE AS REPRESENNED, “It 18 as I suspected,” she sald, as | § cans Baby Size Cream HELPLESS AS BABY —— and What Helped Her. ummit Point, W. 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B tfie time 1 had taken 12 bote tles, my heaith was comyletel restored. 1 am now 48 years years old, but feel ag good as I did when only 16 Cardui certainly saved me from losinE my mind, and I fecl it my duty to spea in its favor. lrwish] had somedp&v:'“er | over poor, suffering women, an | make me’ know tiie good it would do them.” 1 you suffer from any of the ailments peculiar to women, it will cer!alnl¥ be worth your while to give Cardui a trial, It has been helping weak women fof more than 50 years, and will help you, too 'l:ry Cardul, Your druggist sells it Down in Mind Unable to Work,| O el MY LINE INCLUDES Newspapers Magazines Stationery Post Cards Cigars Come and see me before pug ! 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An | X-rny examination disclosed the fact that there was a depression on his | skull, prebably the result of a fall or Q a blow, which the surzeons say caused the change in the boy's deportment. Insults U. S. Flag; Men Strike, Hohoken, N. J.—Becouse a Manadian referred to the Amcrican flag as a | mdiviv oll ras” 150 of his American fellow-workers at the Fletcher Iron works have gone on a strike. They | refuge to return “ntil the Canadian is | djamissed pecial I’ric@s BELOW WE GIVE A FEW OF 0UB PRICES WITH MANY OTHES GOODS OF EQUAL QUALITY ANI haste was plain, splotches of jam be- PRICE, QUALITY OF GOODS IS THI FIRST THING WE LOOK AFTER EVERYTHING THESE PRICES FOR CASH ONLY s pounds Bugar for........, Cest Butter, per Ib, ..., L) cees L1 $nowdrift, 6 pounds Octagon Soap, 6 for.......... Ground Coffee, per pound .. .. . 8weet Corn, 8 for ........... Best White Meat, per Ib. | 8as contributed this one at a recent |5 &8l. Kerosene . ..., ! DT | ) e o Compound Lard, per Ib. ....., .j¢ L] 8 Feed Stuft is our Specialty. We ary out on South Florida avenue. Bu ; call us. We deliver the goods D. H. CUMBIE & C0. § Phone 337 Wflm We lrake children’s hajr cutting a specialty. We are familiar with al) the latest styles, Bring us George W. Perkins, in a tarif argu- ment, £aid the other day: “Well, that may be a good defense, brt it certainly isn't very flattering to the intelligence of the American peo. ple. It is, in fact, so unflattering that it reminds me of a chap who was sued for breach of promise, “This chap was twenty-five, and the lady suing him was forty or so, “What is your deefnse?” t aeked, o “The defendant waved his hand toward the lady and bromptly re plied: *‘Insanity, your houor.’* telling you! And I want this the last word on the subject. You and Clark I don’t kiow who was to blame, and 1 don't “Well, of all things,” cried the “l guess, oY p—" T P S ‘L. your boys and girls, Lakelandhas one of of the largest barber shops in the State “THE PHOENIX E. PEACOCK Proprie :or L g SO00R00000000000e00nemgs ' H. B. Zimmaciman, Prop PR (] ; 800d quality. lle's thumbprint; Helen's thumbprint; | Uottolene, 10 pound can ...... 1.3 by Tommy's thumbprint; and a fourth—a Cottolene, 6 pound . ... | very little one—Baby's thumbprint, snowdrift, 10 pounds 3¢ | 1© Eive sometihng of permanent FOR DRUGS | Surgical Goods, Household and Sick Room <Zup- plies go to ' Lake Pharmacy { Bryan’s Drug Store 'We wil' send them up to 'you and will try totreat !you right, | . 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