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

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HOOTING TOURNAMENT AT CAMP PERRY +The Professions-§ WHY SAFER - THAN CASH DR. SAMUEL . SMITR SPECIALIS?, Rys, Kar, Nose and Threal §lasees Boien Presoribw. Paying by checks is not only tifoally more convenient than pay- “heme: Ofice, 141; Residenes, p y Bryant Bldg, Lakelsad, Ms. ing in cash, but it is safer, : because it eliminates risk of X, W. R, GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND sURGNOR, bbby o loss. Your account subject to check--large or small--is cordially invited. Lakelaad, Florids, AMERICAN STATE BANK BR K. L ERYAN, J. L SKIPPER P.E. GHUNN DENTIS?. ikipper Building, Over Pestefg- President Gashier Phone 339, Residence Phone 300 Red LAKELAND, FLA. DR W. 5. RVID * DENTISY i Botablished ia July, 138, Tcoma 14 and 15 Keatucky BN Phones: Office 180; Residomes §/ 3R, C. C. WILEOF— PHYBSICIAN AND SURGRON Ypecial Attention Gven to Dissam f Women and Children. OR> Jeen-Bryant Bldg., Suite 9. Phone 857. ————————— BLANTON & LAWLER— ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW fere will be a great touruwment of riflemen at Camp Perry, Ohio, starting with the o ;:uocistlon of America. The international matches begin September 1, and teams pete. % J. P. McCORQUODALE The Florida Avenue Grocer PHONE RED Respectfully asks his friends and the publ generally to’ give him a call when needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. | sald oné day, “ot writing a historical | account of the drama from its first in- ception down to the present day. Imagine the possibilities of such a work!"” “Splendid!” the woman had ex-| ° claimed. “Why don’t you begin at She had no more talent for uu“lonce?" And he bad begun that very day. He :‘:;‘ had he; and they both knew it | 4oy then that it was no mean task, : this that he had set himself. It meant Of gentle birth, she still retained .\ reading, research, condensing, e worth very“tiie. r GRK His wife had been beautiful. Now, . she was a poor, faded, common-place creature. Her illusions, too, were all gone, like her beauty; and, woree than | A that, the man’s illusions in regard to oken in | her were dead also. 290 290 Lakeland - Florida pistaken ) the fire of a cen- jin third- ihad been t a man his labor bor was some traces of refinement, in spite of her long sojourn in Bohemia. But the novelty, the charm, the mystery of the life were gone. Every illusion had been destroyed, save one; and to that they clung with desperate tenacity, At an early period in their married life the man had writing, re-writing and writing again. Not a book that a man could rattle off in six months or a year. The one {llusion that the hard reali- tles of life had failed to dissipate was this: That though both were failures at acting, yet one day the man was to achieve fame for himself and @ BR. SARAX 3. WIRELE) OSYROPATH PHYSBICIAN Aooms §, ¢ and 7, Bryans Buhain TFla. Lakeland, JSies Phone 178 Blue. HE WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT AND WILL GUARANTEE SATISFACTION Wouse Phong 378 Blask. A J. MaUNONOUER, Beem 6 Doer & Bryant By conceived a great literary project. competence for them both by the pub- 0 “I've been thinking, Evelyn,” he had prene v L) lication of his great history of the drama—the dedication to a grateful world of his life’s work. For twenty years and more he had stuck stolcally to his task. Often the last nickel went for pa- per, while the children were crying for bread. Present necessities were "forgotten, or ignored, in the anticipar tion of comforts to be bought through the sale of Reginald's life work. “I have finished it at last, Evelyn,” the man announced one day—one day while they were in Baltimore. “1 bave finished my life's work.” For three months he awaited the publishers’ decielon, calling upon them at intervals, only to be told that his manuscript would receive the earliest attention possible. Three long, weary anxious months; and them the man took to his bed in a high fever. He was delirious, and raved about his book. ANOTHER DROP IN MAZDA LAMPS 25 watt Mazda 4“ ol (1} 60 *“ 60 * 100 * 150 *“ pine $1.30° 250 *~ ! $2.00 We carrya stock of lamps at the following places and at our shop: LAKE PHARMACY HENLEY & NENLEY JACKSON & WILSON Cardwell ano Feigley Electrical and. Sheet Metal Workers » PHONE 2331 COLE & HULL Areselling agents for the celebrated Harcourt & Co’s line of Wedding In- vitations, Letter |[Heads, Business add Visiting Cards. We invite you to call and see our samples. COLE & HULL Jewelers and Optometrists Phone 173 Lakeland, Ha. “A Plecsure To Show Goods” st 0 35¢ 35¢ 45¢ 60c 80c unskirted skirted “Finished, fin{shed!” he would shout exultingly. “I have finished my life's ‘work!”—and another time'he would repeat the same words, with a wall of anguish and despair. Then the woman passed her cooling 'hand across his brow, and sought to ‘comfort him by saying his lite's work ‘was only just begun, One evening as he lay helpless on his pillow, the crimson rays of the setting sun shone suddenly into the room and lighted up his pallid face, handsome even in emaciation. He started up to his elbow, with wide ‘staring eyes, exclaiming: : “Finished—finished! I have fin- ished my 1life's work. I am going home.” And the tears that welled to Eve lyn's eyes had fallen from them to her 3 cheeks, she looked once more upon VISE YOU on business matters, an tige, his face and saw his words were true. g The man was dead. He had finished W. 0. PRESTON, LAWYDD ; his life's work. He had gone home. | ogeq Upstairs Hast of Cours News Banking With Usj _ P oo ol a1 amalAXTOW. TLORDA. ational Bank 'LAKELAND ' L] Life of Linen came a gentle tap upon the door, It was Mr, Hayes, an elderly gentle MISS EMMA POCOCK PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER jliry work (s what you are lesking for and giving. Try ws, 0es 01t to the man who has MONEY TN in the bank enables you to carry out your ; to join youput in an enterprise. Try to thout sgme MONEY OF YOUR OWN; with SOME MONEY that is ours; you man from the publishers’ office, who had called once or twice before to in- quire after the health of the author of the bulky manuscript. “At last, my dear lady,” he zald, “I am able to report that our house has accepted your husband’s life work.” “Your house?” the woman echoed, failing at first to recognize her visitor or comprehend his meaning—the one, cruel sense of widowhood overwhelm- ing all things else. Then, as the recollection of the fatal book that had sapped her hus- band’s life away came back to her with bitter memories, she said: “Your house? Too late—too late! He has gone to another house., There his life’s work can be judged the best. His life work will be accepted or re- Jected, in his father’s house.” (Copyright, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) Something to Think About, Laurence D'Orsay is telling of & time when a brother comedian and himself were comparing the size of thelr respective chests and biceps in D'Orsay’s dressing-room one evening. “Feel the muscles of my neck,” D'Or say sald. “Put your fingers around m* throat.” " The other gripped D'Orsay's throat while the latter set his teeth and contracted all the muscles. He geemed much impressed by the dis- play, and D'Orsay says he expected some compliment to his muscular de- velopment. All the other =aid, how- ever, was, “D'Orsay, they will have a 'bother to hang yo»” Surgical Goods, Household and Sick Room Sup- plies go to Lake Pharmacy Bryan’s Drug Store For Fire Insurance SEE—/r— MANN & DEEN Room 7, Rajmondo Bldg. d Steam Laundry West Maiz b We will send them up to you and will try to treat you right, PHONE 42 The 'M Stort STO0SLP0ILPLPLIINL v +CONN . am 40¢ Week 5]

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