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AND, FLA., AUG. 15, 1918. NOW at $6,000 each. Work on the | Evening Telegram building, on the Have you been waiting fo~ proper- eastern of these lots, has begun. ! ty to get cheaper in Lakeland, be- When that building reaches the sec- | fore you would buy? If so, what has ond story, my price on these lots go been your experience? While you,up $500 each. When the Telegram waited hasn' it doubled and trebled | building is finished they go up 'THE VOICE OF OPPORTUNITY. AGE THREY great success in his treatment” of drug flends sentenced to the city prison farm from the municipal The fact that many pe~ tients recentiy have been discharged from the farm apparently cured of court. in valua? Are you going to walit till it doubles again? $1,000 each. Opportunity is knock- ing at your door, but will soon pass the drug habit makes it appear that much good in this connection is be- Dol to Ty, faeny Water of Immortality. The legend of the origin of Amritsar tells how, one morning long ago, & woman carried her husband in a bas ket—he being without hands or feet divine sacrifice. In the water here are hundreds of big, large-scaled fish, R dark-brownish creatures, about two lB.fl) UP. feet long, which are cherished and fed UAND SEPTEM: | regularly. On the steps of the ghat Buths. No 3,000 foet. I propose to meke the CLONTS STORE the Greatest Bargain House in Lakeland. OAN—Tj nuch as e, at vey no one is permitted to wear shoes, | —and placed him in the shadow of a o) our The wise man, if he ever expects ::d :::t:o::t RN ing accomplished. Judge Anderson hi to buy a business site, will purchase Y- 5, 1069 J. W. KIMBROUGH. [has decided to send all dope flends r now while the few available loca- . 1o ihe fatm o ‘ ers they will not oland tions may be had at a moderate sasd. price. The best located lots in the| CURING THE DOPE FIENDS |only be demted the drug but will = city, and the cheapest ,are those on receive scientific treatment in an ef- e '“ Main street facing the Tremont| Dr. M. B. Herlong, city physi-|fort to break up the habit.—Jack- ”c’ob;mmm property. ‘These lots may be had clan, states that he is meeting with | gonville Times-Union. o v o ARDWAR, where the sacred - people Ganges leaves the foot-hills of e the Himalayas and enters the | Priests were four black-bearded must- U plains, is still the great place | clans, with gray clothes and white tur 3 of pilgrimage which Brabam- | bans, playing drums and a kind of Vith log, ism has made it for o many ages, and | Viol. They were siuging words of the . W, every year, on the occasion of its fes- | “Granth” to their music, and the viol- et. Fiy tival, draws hundreds of thousands of | Player was blind and made grimmaces office g mative people from all parts of India a8 he sang. Beyond were the moun- e 2 to seek redemption in these upper wa- | tains and infinite space, and the sound ——288, , | ters of the holy river, and incidentally | Of the river came faintly over the great : s " te awell the trafiic returns of the rail- | 6xpanse of stones. I h f h G ' T d P b Losr ways and compensate somewhat for | It wasa week later before I reached WIS tO inrorm t € enera ra ll'lg up- - Baturg the unprofitable carriage of “tourist™ ;llo oo;'ur of the dstkh ullzll;u. and, k B firstclass passengers. The crowds of | Journeying a second time to that coun- l h I h h d b k t ':um, worshipers came for ages before the | try of doabs and deserts, the Punjab lC t at aVC purC aSC my SfOl'e aC roata ‘t'a railways, but it is only:since the Brit- | —land of the five rlvm—-rrl‘;od ;:tl; 5 ish occupation that the practical value | One afternoon at Amritsar, the f M M " & Sh d - Dictud" of the river has been sxtended In such | €ity of the Sikhs, which has become rom CSSr'S. urre ar y an ou roward 30 gigantio eystems of irrigation as the also a great commercial ceater . % X ’ . ¥ 13, Py vast canal which carries off the wa- | through which passes much of the wfll flnd me in the ‘ lonts Bufldlng my nith llu‘ ters of the Ganges at Hardwar during | trade with Kashmir and Afghanistan. 9 the season of low flood and spreads it { I found the whole city shrouded in over the level flats of the United Prov- | dense clouds of white, choking and old Stand it frop inces, writes A. Hugh Fisher in the | almost intolerable dust, which not ¢ . ight, a i d London Illustrated News. only hid overy;hln: out of doot:“ a;, in l " b d b h ld d t 4 The wide river, clear as erystal and | 8 thick fog, but drove on a furious . W stomers Pt Lo ordon gloriously blue in the bright mnhm: :v.llnd -lonsdthe nnu;se w-ydof tlh; bo- most cordia y invite everybody, oth 0 and ne cu 1 of that February morning, flowed jo , entered every door and window, irsteln N.G. e Mebrusry morning, Bowed 107 | 1o) Soven when 1o storm was over, || 0 come in and see me. | am here to do business and my motto 1 for the . ter of attraction was the temple and | took more than a day to clear out of Slectrio lights | Bathing ghat, on the reputed site of | the air. is not to buy goods to keep. I assure you and everybody that I particy ow, Fla — SUt old sox ! y day tree while she sought alms in the neighborhood. According to the story, the cripple noticed a erow, similarly afflicted with lameness, fly to an ad- Jacent pool and become cured as soon as its legs touched the water; fits plumage turning milk-white at the same time. Rolling towards the pool, the poor cripple himself became re- stored. and on his wife's return she found a perfect husband with normal and it was in my stockined feet that I visited the “Charan,” or sacred foot- prints on a stone let into the wall. By the entrance to the temple, squatting ! upon a tiny platform, a priestess, dressed in bright colors and spangled clothes, played upon a flute. Sacred cows, of which [ had already noticed several in the street, stood about at the top of the steps. They bore a strange deformity in the shape of an I propose to keep in stock and offer for sale a standard quality - of goods, and you can rest assured that every time you trade to | tye extent of a penny at the Clonts Store, you will receive the very best in return, the Clonts store your store. We want you to come and see us. Courteous and fair treatment will Make an be €] ke B e e it ' T ot i an povt i |0 OUr special aim, and your vislts will be appreciated. ) “Amrit,” t f i ' can b wh;l:l-: be:n;nw:hg;ee(;orw::m&:“:: Ver y tr ulY’ ulars, rESES: The Clonts Store, Clonts Building 10 Lakey Gor Kentucky Ave and Pine Street S' L~ Ao CLO NTS —R CLONTS’ BARGAIN COUNTER 75¢ Men's Sleeping Gowns.25¢ 25¢ Carpet Slippers......10¢c 25¢ and 35¢ Boys' Shirts..10c $2.25 Dress Pants ...... $2.50 Dress Pants $3.00 Dress Pants 15¢c Wash Ties .......-c.- 5c o w10 Carhart Overalls” $1.25 gon Sri Fants . kind for $1.00 $4.50 Dress Pants — o 16 yards 4-4- Bleaching.$1. $6.00 Dress Pants ......$4.98 FER $2.50 Men's Work Shoes $1.98 $10.00 Men's Suits ....$5.69 i $1.00 Men’s Work Shoes. .89¢ $12.00 Men's Suits ....$7.19 leulint ang Cof $1.00 Men's Pants, Pin- $15.00 Men's Suits ....$8.50 Reamiist Corn, ChECK weve weee eeeeeeB9C $20.00 Men's Suits ....$12.00 arast, White $1.50 Maon's Panls ....91.19 25.00 Men's Suits. .. .$15. 's P $1.15 $25.00 Men's Sui $15.00 Also a lot of Ladies’ Wash Skirts at half price, and many hold of Plessuree. ‘hoof, and with some in a second palr of horns. About the road and along the banks of the river, in front of low stone shelters, numerous holy people squatted silently — “Sadbus” and “Nagas,” with naked bodies whitened with ashes. Many Places of Worship. In the inner sanctum of another cred tank of Amritsar, in the midst of which was bullt the famous sbrine of the Golden Temple. Within this build- | ing the “Granth™ lies, covered with & cloth of gold and canary-colored silk, under a great violet-lined canopy, while a priest watches it, taking his four-bour turn of duty, and occasion- ally dusting it with a bundle of pea- temple at Hardwar I saw for the first cock feathers. Over the center of the time the “Granth,” the sacred book marble pavement, upon a white drug- of the Sikhs. It was placed rather get, stand, in front of the “Granth,” like & body upon a wooden bed, and silver receptacles for offerings of was covered ':10;1 .d m“"h.md eou: | :oney. ::d rdow-eyedhpl:eonl peck at let decorated with drawn-thread wor ce scattered upon the floor. Twelve miles farther up the river, af- Strikes at Caste. ter a difficult drive through very rough | The religion of the Sikhs—founded country, 1 reached a village called by the Guru or prophet Nanak, who Rakhykash, where the Snlu}g have was born In 1469—is based on the two many places of worship. Upon the principles of the Unity of God and the wide stretch of rounded boulders along ' Brotherhood of Man. It prohibits im- the side of the river the scerc was & age worship, and struck from the first very beautiful, the hills ;mr‘* vt:!- at the fundamental Institution of Hin- ly from the f{arther bex| ® | dulsm—that of caste. water rippling over “o""' 4i. ‘8t The Sikhs remained steadfast to ing through the deep & Ig their faith through centuries of Mus- came at intervals to pa! 8. | sulman persecution; became a bul- within which devpul c.rm s 0| wark against northern invasion when ing to a priest who was '!‘; 1 'Y | the Mogul power fel linto decay; de- a thatched gabled cover. Lecii g ay | veloped later, under Ranjit Singh, into shoes, with others, at an opening ”‘; the most eficient military state in all the fence of one such inclosure, “di India; then, after his death, challenged recelving welcome, I e:lered and l‘h‘t a mightie power from the west; and, upon a reed mat like the rest, in the ' - . they had accepted the rule of | warm glow of the setting sun. | their conquerors, proved themselves chief priest sat just In front of the | ;. mogt trusty of subjects, stanunch ‘pleasure 1 have fy | thatched shelter, and round him “Gris- | y;0uch the great crisls of 1857, and ish hawker, in e» tis,” or minor priests, one of whom ', .y among the mout was speaking. Junhhutdm‘;flui"m:‘n lfllllltlhl other things that we are making a special reduction on. G5 pairs Ladies’ Shoes, worth $2, $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 a pair, as long as they last, per pair, 98c. “GET WISE” (. SEE US betore making a purchase of anything in our linz. trade with us you will make no mistake. An 1asdzction of our stock will convince you that to @ Let US turnish your new house. “Your Creditis Good.” Everything in Housefurnii hings. Building Materials-——WE HAVE IT. Everything in the con~ struction of a house. Standing of contestants in word contest August 9. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. A, E. Miller M. M. Moore W. H. Austin E. Trammell Mrs. J. E. Sharpnack Mrs. G. W. Friend 9259 6336 4940 4425 3800 2326 Mrs. T. J. Mardis Mrs. G. L. Crews Mrs. Ada Padrick Mrs. W. H. Fleming Mrs. Reed Tillis Mrs. John F. Wilson 8644 5517 4437 4336 2634 1832 lakeland Furniture & Hardware Co.