Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 4, 1913, Page 6

WwHE FVENING We fil fat wen, slim ocn, all men w’% c/othes ZIME TOG TEREETED v When we buy a pattern of clothes we buy enough SIZES. We do not combine our patterns in “Slims” and “Stouts” to just a few old-f.shioned dead colors, but we carry “Slim” suits for slim men, and “Stout” suits for stout men, in Breezy Be you long or short, Materials also, slim waistcd or big around the belt, we can fit you. Andthe price will be as low as good stuff can be sold for._ umm'er The Hait Schaffner & Marx Clothing he Hub .. A»;MOM»D#&QHGMMOW‘-&«M»} w3 DG RE LSO OLIOTIONON | | Lakeland Pav. ng&ConstructionCo i H Artiticial Stone, Brick and $ ‘ f fg Concrete Building Material ‘ | § Estimates Cheerfully Furnished on Paving j and all Kinds of Artificial Stone Work 307 West Mein Street- Phone 348-Black * ‘ gf J. KCFFMANJ. N. DAV i z Pres. Sec.& Tres. Supt & Gen. Man. J. P. NEWBECKER : V. Pres & Asst Man ~ RS LAKELAND SHEET METAL WORKS We are ready to do you Sheet Metal Work in Lakeland. Cornice Skylights, Ventila- | tion, Slate Tile Composition and Metal Roofings, Awnings, Furnaces and anything in the sheet metal line. Ask us about Galvanized T anks. Shops in Smith-Hardin Bldg Phone 279 BT Are You (iomu To Build? USE BRICK Was | Not just brick, but specify, get the best; they cost no more, look better, last longer, and are more sat isfactory all around. . answer: | way . through the wives of the various audi- | tors of Yoakum’s ultimatum. ' chilly | were the nearest neighbors of one an- ! other, and they had known each other ! gince childhood. Yoakum was a man { bans had been announced when the | i Farley forgave his daughter and took ' . proud as well as shy. Thus, when he ! i given above. e e i e SHHLERANNRERENS ARNAAROERR SN A ,.rr)«v.-""; rvp i} it U GioLUna Acts as liatchmaker and Reu-| nites Lovers After HMany 1 Years of Risunderstanding. Ey JOHN ALWAYNE. “Why don’t you an’ the Widow Wil gon git hitched?” his cronies would ask of Williain Yoakum at the village store. And Yoakum, with a sudden flash of anger in his blue eyes, would “I don't go courtin’ no women. When they want me let 'em send for me.” All of which would duly find 1ts to the Widow Wilson’s ears Nevertheless it did seem strange that two old friends should live in isolation upon neighboring ranches. True the ranches were quar- ter sections, and at least half a mile lay between the two houses. But they, of fifty, and the widow might have been forty-five—though she did not look anywhere near it. There were few residents of the lit- tle Kansas settlement who remem- bered the time when it had been a frontier outpost But everybody knew that old man Farley and old man Yoakum had migrated together and fought Indians together. The children | had grown up together-and everybody | had expected them to get married. | Then Wilson had come along and snatched Adeline Farley out of Yoak- um's hand—almost literally, for the startling news came from Kansas City that the pair were man and wife. Old | her home when Wilson deserted his | young bride; but Yoakum never got| over it. He went to Cal.fornia and was not heard ot for five and twenty years. Then he drifted back to take | up land in the town of his birth, to find all his old friends scattered or dead, and Adeline Wilson, a widow, farming her father’s land. Yoakum had never married. Gos- | sips averred that he and the widow would soon come together, cven “It All Seems Like a Dream.” though a bitter enmity seemed to rage between them. But Yoakum was was twitted, he returned the answer “I should think, Adeline, that a com- paratively young woman like you! would think of marrying again,” her friends would say, thinking of her neighbor. “If it's Will Yoakum you're think- ' ing of,” Mrs. Wilson answered, “you're all dead wrong. When a man wants to come courting me, let him come and ask me. I don't go out of the . way to invite any man into my home.” “I'n never enter her ho::e until she ' asks me,” was Yoakum's answer, and the two stood pat. Inwardly both re. gretted the position they had taken. ] Each had secrét romantic remem- brances of that period when they) were sweethearts, but the widow's will was as inflexible as his. They were not enemies; when they met they would bow and sometimes speak, but their spoken words acted | a8 a barrier between them. Thus matters ran along for a year after Yoakum's return. JELK’S Macon brick, common, paving, fire and rough texture; none better. K- LEGG@’'S rressed and fancy faced brick. I am State agent. Carry large stock on hand, make quick shipments. Wire your or- ders at my expense. 1 Handle— ATLAS PORTLAND CEMENT, BEA VER BOARDS, AG.\T CE- MENT PLASTER. Fuller's Peninsular brand roofing, ! ths and shingles, crushed rock, granite curbing, bullding sa:« Also fruit and vegetable pickers' and packers’ supplies, 28, wraps, flcld boxes, straps, nails and ladders. W.R. Fulier Tampa e ; Ofices, Salesrcoms, Wharves, Track- age und Yards Hendry & Knight Terminals Florida March came, snowy and blustering. | The winds were incessant. Yoakum . was harnessing his horse for the first plowing one day when he felt a vio- | lent blow on the back of the head. He turned to defend himself, but every- thing swam before his eyes, and, with the sense of being carried away on a swift river, he lapsed into uncon- sclousness. He opened his eyes ages later, as it seemed, and the first thing they lit upon was the Widow Wilson. ! He was lying in bed in a darkened room, and she sat by his side. Her eyes were red from crying. Yoakum endeavored to sit up “Hush!"” she said, gently pressing bim backward. “You have been very fil. You must lie still.” The wido s house! Yoakum had often pic 1 the possidility of suchh an occu t now, to his surprise, hic s one of shame. He lo 18 well as he could in the ¥ of the room. \ ' lL'\\D FLA., SEPT. 4, 1913, e e A e B A - s e | —, 7 ! ey was more matronly ! and that th s cf gray showed at her temples, she mizit have been the same Adeline Fariey, and he might have parted from her a few minutes before. “Adeline,” he said timidly, “it all seems like a dream to me.” Adeline was silent, but he could see that she, too, was moved. “It seems as though we hadn’t been parted these five and twenty years, Adeline,” he resumed. “Do you re member when we went down to the stream that night I asked you, and found a bunch of wild myrtle grow- ing, and how I put it in your hair?” “And then you told me you loved me,” said Adeline. “And I've loved you ever since,” Ad- die,” he continued, taking her hand. Adeline Wilson made no resistance, but her eyes were still downcast. “Why did you marry Wilson, dear?” asked the man, For the first time she raised her eyes. “I guess because I was & fool, Will,” she answered. “And ycu couldn't manage to care for me just the least bit, could you, Addie?” he asked. J The widow was tracing out the pat- tern upon the counterpane. “Why wouldn’t you come to see me?” she asked suddenly. “I guess for the same reason that you married Wilson,” he answered. “I'm stubborn, as you are. But I'm sorry. And when I think that it was you who gave in and came to me, it just makes me feel cheap. Did they get the robbers?” “Robbers? What robbers?” asked Adeline, looking at him curiously. | “The men who struck me down. Slick fellows they must have been, too. There was I, sitting beside my plow in broad daylight when they got me and I never so much as saw or heard them.” | “Where do you think you are, Will?” ! inquired the Widow Wilson. ; “Why, at home, of course,” he an- swered. “\\'lwre else should I be? Jut I see you've changed the furnb-' ture round, haven't you?” The Widow Wilson was laughlng and crying hysterically. Yoakum look- Except that sl | ed at her in wonder. | “Don't you know that when our' fathers built their homes they made them both the same and got the same lind of furniture?” she asked when she had recovered her self-possession. “You mean—that I'm in your house, Addi?” he cried. “Who brought me { here?” | “You rought yourself, my dear, yes- ' terday rioriing. There weren't any robbers, Will, i + a cyclone. Pick- ' plow and carried you nicely throug:. lo air and plank- ed you down beside : e on a bed of hay 1'4 pulled down to~ Bessie and | her cal’. 1 1hat plow hadn't toppled over on your head—" But the Widow Wilson did not have a chance to finich just then for Wil linm Yeakum had caught her in his arms with surprising strength for a sick man to show; and you can't talk when ycu cre b\‘ing kissed, they say. UNMOVED BY GOOD FORTUNE ed you up from . John McCIuskey Evrdentiy Possessed of All the Well-Known Calmness of the Scotch Nature. It was said of John McCluskey when he visited the states that he| was the calmest man in the world. Throughout his sixty years he had been a farm laborer in Scotland. Some months previously his brother James died and left a fortune of sev- eral hundred thousand dollars to the brother he had not seen since they bade each other good-by in the heath- er forty years before. A lawyer was appointed the ad- ministrator. It was his duty to find the lucky brother. “He was slicing turnips for the sheep on his employer's farm, up among the mist-clad hills of Scot- land,” said the man of law, “when I found him. T had traced his life from the old farm on which he was born step by step through the forty years of {ll-paid and often most unpleasant labor, before I found him. It was not difficult, for he had held bat few po- sitions in all those years. Everyone in the countryside knew him, “‘Are you John McCluskey? I asked. “‘I am,’ sald he, without taking his eyes from the turnips and the knife, “‘Your brother James is dead in New York,’ said 1 *“‘Aweel, aweel, all men must e'en die,’ he said, slicing away. *“‘He left you a good fortune,’ said I. ‘I want you to come to the house with me, so that I can establish your identity and arrange for you to enter into possession of the estate. “‘TIl talk to ye at sax o'clock, young man, said he. ‘I'll be busy till then. The fortune will keep, but the turnips will not.’ " Quite Correct. During the army maneuvers two of- ficers of the Royal artillery were dls-" puting about the classification of a tree. One said it was a birch tree, and | the other an oak tree, They could not agree, so they called a gunner who was sitting near by and asked him it he could tell them what kind of tree it was. The gunner looked up and down the tree, walled all round it, drew his sword, and began cutting it. The officers asked him what he meant by this behaviour, when he looked up ati them and answered: | “I am trying to discover what kind of tree it is.” Inrpecting the gash he had made, with the a r of a sage the gunmer at length delivered his lorg-expected verdict: “It's & wooden one, sirs!” UNLESS | YOU HNCH | WHERE T0 | BUY — QUESTION OF LIVING IS GREAT L) Q A 3 L | IF YOU KNOW { i ) The selection will be the best i The variety unmatched The quality unsurpassed The price the lowest All these you find at our store Just trade with us This settles the question of living Best Butter, per pound. . -......... R LR | | Bugar, 17 pounds ...... e 1.06 ; Cottolene, 10 pound pails.......... it Cottolene, 4-pound pails. .......... by nabei B8 4 pounds Snowdrift Lard. ..... Vhahs b e 80 Snowdrift, 10-pound pails..... shaselnal 3 cans family size Cream ....... et R e SN Bl || 8 cans baby size Cream....... ST e e B ) 1-2 barrel best Flour ..... civeaeateerrene ceaaee 310 12 pounds best Flour........... oo vuy vunenn.. 48 Octagon Soap, 6 for ........ ShlEE R T 2 @round Coffee, perpound ... ... ... ..c0v o0 oenn 1 4 5 gallons Kerosene .............. e S 9 \[. G. TWEEDELL What is There Here Ycu Need There must besome- thing in our great assortment of hard- ware that you need. No matter what it is--come to our store. Pick out what you want and you will be surprised to find such good articles at at such low prices. We.please the hard to please -- our best customers are those are hardest to satisfy. No matter what you need in hardware, it will repay you to call and inspect our stock be- fore making a purchase. Wilson Hardware Co Phone '(1 3 Opposnte Depot mm"fm_ PRI N T S I U A R