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

PAGE TWO PO aaasasasasasansl We make children’s hair cutting a specialty. We are familiar with all the latest styles. Bring us “your boys and girls. Lakeland hasone of of the largest barber shops in the State “THE PHOENIX” L. E. PEACOCK Proprietor SUANILTHIACE0STICIUGTION ST —_—— .The Protessions I ————————————————. - BR. SAMUEL F. SMITK B8PECIALIST, Rye, Ear, Note and Thueat Pheue: Offics, 141; Residemss, - Bryant Blig,, Lakeland, Fia M* PR. W. . GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGHON, Rooms § and ¢ Keatueky iy Lakeland, Flesida. BA N L. BRYAN, ; DENTIST. Skipper Buliding, Over PuosteSe 3 Phone 339, ilestdence Phone 300 Bes. LAKBELAND, FLA. ———————————————— DR. C. C. WILCOX— PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Bpecial Attention Gven to Disea»: of Women and Children. ORa Deen-Bryant Bldg., Suite 9. Phone 357. TS KELSEY BLANTGR LAWYER 2. 0, Blig. Phone 819, Lakaland, ¥ ——..—_-—” 93 GARAX 3 WENELER QAYIOPAYE PEYSICIAN Reoms §, § and ¥, Bryeag BuliDn Lakeland, ¥he Ofies Phens 3¥8 Blws Houge Pions 310 Blask. _—‘—M @, K & K D. NENDAERALL Civil Engineess Rooms 313-315 Drase Més LAKELAND, FLA. Phosphate land examisatien, Pu veys, examination, Separin, Blueprinting, M A 1. MACHONOUEA Reem § Desa & Brran) B —~Attorney-at-Law— Beer ¥ Stuart Bldg. Bartom & TS S —— n W 8 BVE OENTIN? Estabiished tu July, 1040 Rosms 14 and 16 Keatueky Bwiiii - Phenes: Ofics 180; Residama> v Loans, investments in Heal Nem Siave some interesting snape In 4 snd suburdan property, farmm, Boetter see me at once. Wil e+ pell for cazh or on caSy terma. Room 14, Futch & Geatry IRls Lakeland, Fia. ————————————————————— 02 e (€S 42EF 000 L EOAHH OO LOTIS A. FORT “THE ARCHITECT” — =. Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Fla. THE KVENING TELEGRAM, LAKEL e et HUNTING THE HEIR She Was Located and the Set- ting Proved a Fine Opening for a Hero. By BRYANT C. ROGERS. (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) In the pioneer days of a certain west- ern state.a man named Josiah Flint took up eighty acres of land. Thou- sands of other men took up land in the same state, but there was no par- ticular occasion that the act of so do- ing should pass into history. Josiah Flint could have taken up for- Oh! man, what a snap you've over!” “Did you get that stuff around here?” > ha a talk.” The talk resulted in a partnership. They were to buy the Josiah Flint hill | and marsh and develop the minerals, | peat and other things. The deacon had laid by some money in his better days. He was besides, the only man in the county who knew anything about Flint. He knew that he had gone to Kansas, | and that he and his wife had died leav- ing a young girl behind them. The girl must be of age by then. She must have had a guardian, but he had never | made a move about the real estate. The young man, whose name was Edward Sweeny, was to go to Kansas and hunt up Miss Sarah Flint and stick right to her until she accepted an “Almost under-your nose. Let's have l b AND, FLA,, JULY 29, 1918, pe— kel | INTO ARMS OF LAW of law for a period 10! to state before I mad , policeman earns. enough to secure t municipal court judge. | and there had not been for trial. ence as a priv Even the law-breaker ghunned me. offer. Then Hardy and Sweeny were to buy it. “What's it wuth?” asked the dea con. . “A hundred thousand, at least,” re- plied Sweeny. “And what do you think we can get it for?” | “I think she’ll jump at a thousand.” | B The deacon chuckled. Then he sighed. Then he groaned. Then he went home and said to his wife: ‘Martha, if me'n and another feller est or prairle land—acres that would double in value in a year, but he passed them all by and selected the worst spot in four counties. A porticn of it was a hill and the remainder a marsh. There wasn't even a decent site for a cabin on the entire claim. Josiah might raise huckleberries on his marsh | and blackberries on his hill, but men gaid he could hope for nothing better. If he had any explanations as to why he selected such a claim they were lost as time went on. He and his fam- fly lived in his moving wagon for a can get the old Flint place for $500 few months and then passed on. aplece, and make over $40,000 apiece In ten years almost all the land in'out of it, do you think it would be the county was settled up except; wicked?” Flint’s hill and marsh. The nearest| “I should call it good bdargaining,” farmer opened a gravel pit at the base she replied. of the hill, and sold enough to pay the| “It wouldn't be laid up agin me?”’ taxes each year, and constituted him-| “Look a-here, deacon, they used to self the agent of the absent. The coun- raise a heap of cattle, sheep and asses ty wanted to drain the swamp and to in Biblical days, didn’t they?” cut roads, but no one could find Josiah [ “They did.” Flint. The only information was that| *“And they sold a heap of ‘em?” he had gone further west. “They must have.” By and by, in the village that had grown up two miles away, Ib fice. It was furnished .with two chairs, | they got a chance? a table, a Bible and Deacon Hardy. “I should say they did.” The deacon was one of the first set- | tlers and a good man. In connection with the real estate fit.” office was a department for the sale of | “Ought we to tell the gal what has Bibles and hymn books, and where one been diskivered on the place?” might subscribe for a Sunday school | “Does a merchant tell us what his paper or donate any sum he chose to *kaliker cost him a yard, and ain’t they the welfare of the heathen of Africa. | dying and going to heaven every day?" There was another department de-: The deacon’s conscience felt balmy voted to the sale of garcen seeds and after that, and young Sweeny started roots and barks, and In this depart- ' out to find the heir. Luck was with' ment a keg of root beer was always him. He had located her whereabouts kept on tap. Every caller was invited ' and was approaching the house where to drink whether he bought land or ;she lived when he beheld her coming not. And lastly the deacon’s wife held itowards him on a runaway horse. herself ready to take orders six days a | There was a fine opening for a hero, week for mottoes of: “No Place Like 'and he grasped it. He caught the Home,” at very reasonable prices and horse and saved Sarah's life and had a money back if you were not suited. | leg broken. A hero is a hero in every With all these departments in full state and county of our glorious Union. swing the deacon ought to have been When he has a leg broken in playing| a money-maker, but he wasn't. Why he his part he is taken to the house where wasn't was a matter that worried him the heroine hangs out and given the a long time and was still worrying | hall bedroom until he can once more when his wife said to him one eve-|jump fences. This case was no ex- ning: ception. Love came and a marriage “Josiah, you are honest and truth- | came, according to program. ful and conscientious!” One day Deacon Hardy got a letter “I try to be, Martha,” was his reply. | With the Kansas postmark. He read *There are lots of other men who it and took it home and laid it before a word of criticism in the Bible about | are not as you are.” his wife. “Yes, and I feel to pity ‘em.” ‘He says he has found the heiress,” “I don't think yon need to. They |she read. are getting new houses and barns, fine “Yep.” hosses and pianers, and we are r1;ht| “He says he saved her life.” where we was!” “Yep.” “Yes,” sighed Josiah. “He says they are married.” | ‘And I've thought it all over, and 1; “Yep.” think I know what is the matter.” l “And therefore he's the owner of the Flint place and don’t care about taking in & partner. Deacon Hardy, did you have any partnership papers drawn up 80 that you can hold him?” “I hope you do. I didn't hardly earn my salt this last year.” “You are too good.” “Can a feller be too good?” | “He can, and you are a living exam-| ‘No." ple of it. You've got to be like most “Well, you ain't a fool! You are just other men. You've got to get the big a good man who is going to heaven end of the bargain.” }llko a streak of greased lightning “But the Bible commands—" jwhen he dies, and If I'm left behind | “I know it does, but you've got to you I'll forward your fried pork and take your chances, same as the rest. johnnycake by the first express!” They are trading and selling spavined hosses and holler-horn cows right along and expecting to go to heaven when they die.” “I've been thinking it over, t0o,” said the deacon, “but I dunno—I dun-' no. I want to soar away on golden ,nqe yoy gre right. It is not that you wings when my time comes, but r are growing old, but that the best be snummed ';1‘ wanltflto live the rest | gyoq in the business, those from our of my life in this tumble old log house, | and ecat johnny-cake and fried salt own Hudson river, have passed out. pork three times a day. ! out their nets as usual. But nothing The deacon Wwas waiting for an O 'pappened. The shad s a tempera- portunity to be less zood when a keen: menta) peast, and it was thought at eyed young man of twenty-two bleW g.q¢ that g change in weather would {nto the village. His home town was‘bring him around. But wintry spring fitty miles away, and he vasn't sayiig | camg and went without results. And why he left it. After hanging about fOr | pow the oldest fishermen are selling four or five days and taking 10N8|,ut and moving to other waters, walks out into the country he entered |y ot why the thistle of the flsl; S Deacon Hardy's real estate office 0ne |y pag taken a sudden dislike to his afternoon and flung a chunk of marble | 413 haunts every one Is at liberty to on the table and asked: guess. Probably the fact that each “Do you know what that is?” vear the Hudson is becoming more “Looks kinder like marble,” was the | jke a sewer and less like a river has reply after inspection. something to do with the case. “Kinder like? Why, man alive, it's| At any rate, here passes a really marble for sure. And maybe you €am | famous institution. What a pleasure tell what this is.” ¢ it would be in future years to shake “It's some kind of sile.” our heads before the younger genera. “You bet it is, and it's a kind worth | tjon and sigh over the decadent shad money! It's peat. And what is that?” |of a degenerate age!—New York “I should say it was clay.” Tribune. ‘And you'd hit it. Fines kind of pot- ter's clay. And what's this?” “More clay.” ¥ “Youwve hit it again. It's brickmak- |, ® :‘,’n"z‘z;a{;‘? fioiybagharoge er's clay and as smooth as silk, Onee; ( oo o o ..ofl‘:m,,';i. EF ths Bonk o : » | but little Jim Bender. the rec “There's sand and there’s gravel. ported cockney waiter in a County “Good guesser. And where did a1l yro oo hoto) wos not aware of this cus mf?pf;::s from? %(om. relates the Saturday Journal. < | “Have you seen any of our officers “Well, it's no wonder that all the i, ", - morning?")asked aolordly files in Penson county gather on ¥ou , . 4 In the summer! Say, you haven't as| night of the quill of Jim a few days much getup about you as a blind | horse!” “] don’t know why you talk to m.’gator. that way,” stifly said the deacon. P — Hudson River Shad. You may have noticed that your i shad this year was wilted and taste- less and far from the fish upon which you doted in yous childhood. For Last winter the shad fishermen put Pen and Sword. within your grasp for years, and was . .. too much of a mossback to know it! | appeared in the open doorwa unmistakably from the cou i ly about forty-fiv | advanced toward my had a hunted look. per, “what will you charge to get me off?” you done?” T asked the fellow. 1 may as well warn you, before you go any further,” I added, remembering my new appointment, “that Tama judge, as well as a lawyer.” o ,, ad Of course they did, and there I8t | 5;5¢p0r Jaw office, and not tell me anything about your troubles,” I said, | “I can’t send you to jail until you are brought before me in the ordinary course of justice.” all, judge. hold it against me all these years, I here again.” | be prosecuted!’” Jim glanced keerly at his interro- “Yussir,” he answered promptly; “it A . |isn’t three minutes ago since one of “It's because you've had a fortun® .o, yepg oyt with his sword be'ind ‘is By J. A. TIFFANY. ngaged in the practice gsguone nger than 1 care e as much as 8 been fortunate il hadhe appointment of t day of office, a single case 1t looked as if my experi- ate practitioner was to n my offiial capacity. s and litigants This had been my firs! e repeated i 1 was aroused from my meditations y the sound of footsteps. In a few moments a man's figure y. He was ntry. A clumsy, ungainly man, apparent- e years of uge, he desk with tealthy, nervous step. The fellow “Say, mister,” he said, in a whis- “Off what?” I asked. “Well, I don't want to tell, but I suppose I shall have to; it'’s all over town. Please don't let them take me . to jail, mister.” i “What's the trouble? What have 1 “But, “You a judge,” the yokel exclaimed, in a tone of horror. “Oh, gosh lI'va “ run right into the arms of the law, ‘Well, do you reckon anybody #0ld | o;0n [ wag trying my best to escape. there came | below the market price? Don’t ¥0u | pleace, sir, don't send me to fail,” to be such a thing as a real estate of- | think they sold way above it when o fellow ‘Whited, “If you are in need of professional vice, I think yon had better go to “But, I don’t want to go to jail at 1 didn’t think they would haven't been in the city in thirty years, and if you'll only let me go this time, I'll promise never to come “Now, see here, my man,” I sald gharply, for the fellow was becoming tedious, “if you have anything to say to me, I will listen to it, and treat it confidentially, so far as I can, Either tell me your troubles, or go and tell them to some other lawyer.” “No,” said the man, desperately, “I'll make a clean breast of it to you, judge. You see, mister, when I was & boy—thirty years ago—I came to the city one day, in my father's sleigh; and while the old man was around town doing his business, I played | about the stable where he put up his | horse. There was a lot of snow on the ground, and some of the city boys began calling me a hayseed, and pelt- ing me with snowballs. I didn't like | ft—not so much the snowballing as their calling me a hayseed. So I| made some enowballs myself and ! shied back at them. Well, just as I! was throwing a good hard ball at one of the boys, a policeman came round the corner, and it knocked off his hat, ! I started and ran as hard as I could.i I never stopped till I got to my fath- er's farm ,away out in the country, ' ten miles from here. I laid awake ali that night, expecting that they would be coming for me; and I've been ex- pecting them ever since. But, as I had not heard of it in all these years, | I plucked up courage and came h;‘ g)‘:!:l;" thinllidng it had all blown over. | see that I w. 4 il I was mistaken, They're “What makes you think th | ‘ai:fer you?” [ asked the fellow?’ ~ There's notices all over the city,” the man whined. : ‘ ; “What kind of notices?” 1 asked 'I'haven't seen anything of them.” \ ‘Why, one says, ‘Bill posters pe | ware, and another, ‘Bill posters will | “What's your name?” I asked, as nj ‘| light seemed to break in on me in all &h}‘s nonsensleal tragedy. Posters,” the man replied, “Wil- liam Posters. But they generally call me Bill—Bill Posters.” | “ | Ah, I see,” I said, with a sigh of relief. “And you want to settle this qu};{ly“—without any exposure?” \ ‘Well, this is a case, T am af that can't be scttled with a fisan | 'sald, rising and confronting tht; vfl.‘, lain, who shrank from me, and cow. ! ered near the door. . “You won't send me to he pleaded. “No, we'll settle it witho 3 ut that,” 1 | salAd. Just turn round.” opt ‘ 8 Mr. Posters turned his b l t ack on | E:,tl a;::vte1 him a good, hearty kl:l: : sen! y 3 s im clear through the doon | “Is that all?” colic smile, “Yes, that's all—for the present,” | I replied. “Dut, it you ever cope | _mear this office again, I'll give yo 2 good deal more than that, .\'o*\-._:lkf daddle, Bill Posters, and get 1;3 G the farm, where you belong st (Copyright, by Daily Jail, judge? | | he asked, with g py. | ' Hobson (le: —Bah! Basebal !game. Here I paid | ® game, and the g is cal account of darkness, wit! % nothing to nothing, Dobson—Heavens man! That ally considered a greot game 5 led on h the scere is usp. i Hobson—Yes; but | ~ ’ thi should give one a run for ml: k they| anyhow.—Puck, money, I am prepared better than ever be fore to furnish you supplies—-and at better prices, quicker deliveries and4s fsfactiun. Crat. material, carload lots delivered to &l the State, complete box without hoops, hoopless b You can eliminate that worry and exasperation you experience over the way your money goes by opening a CHECKING ACCOUNT with this bank. The checking account keeps track of every cent—it reall DOES elim. inate waste and saves many worries and controversies. “Ask the man who banks here” HEZSTATE "BA) KEL AND;fl N Fui afi Vfb Growers and Shippe rounded, field crates, PEARSON’S cement coated nili pointed nails for hoopless boxes, the kind adopted by Exchange. PAPER—printed; cuts for special purchaser. 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