Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 5, 1913, Page 2

A National bank mustoperate under STRONG RESTRICTIONS for safety. laid down by the Government at Washington. Before the U, S. Government granted us a charter todo a banking business, they satisfied themselves that there was both money and character behind our bank. They wanted te INSURE the safety of our depositors. Do Your Banking With Us First National Bank OF LAKELAND Long Life of Linen along wiih geod laundry work is what you ave lesking for amd todh 4 fust whad we are giviag. Try ws, Lakeland SEI—;I Laundry West Xain B Fhone 139 “LUCK IN CHOOSING GLASSES is ecmething you dca’t want to trust to. Never buy them withcut having your eyes tested. Have it done by us and it will be done J thoroughly and accurately. There will be nothing “chancey” about it. e Buying glagses any other way is like taking medicine in the dark. It's dangerous. COLE & HULL Jewelers'and Optometrists Phone 173 Lakelan¢, Fla, De REE SIEAM PRESSING CLUB z, Pressing and Alteration. Ladies Work a Specialty. Work tor and Delivered. Prempt Service . Satisfastion Guaran- J M. WELLES : : : : Manager ; g itueky Ave, Phone 287 Bowyer Building : W. K. Jackson-ssscites. W, K, MCRae Owner and Manufac- Real turers’ Agent Estate Brokerage--Real Estate TelllUs What You Have to Sell, We Will Try to Find a Buyer Tell Us What You Wantto Ruy; We Will Try to Find a Seller Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & RRYANT Building Lakeland M - Florida T e e e ————————— Telegram 10c Wetk Protested Note Wakes “Blue Monday,” but Eventually There Was Glad Ending. By GEORGE ELMER COBB, It was “Blue Monday” for Max Wik bright, blisstul Sunday, for had he not of his life? Not that affairs were set- tled in that quarter, but he could not forget the bright eyes and radiant cheeks that had greeted him, nor the parting moment under the waving cherry blossoms, with the white moon- light drifting down upon that rare head of burnished gold. Then, too, up to the hour of the opening of the bank, Max had felt something more than cheerful and happy. He was thirteen hundred dol- lars to the good, had a permanent po- sition, enjoyed the confidence of the bank officers, and was led to look to & cashiership in the near future. And then the reaction: the formal call to the office of the stern and dig- | nified president, who waved him to a , seat and tossed a note across the glass-topped table with the single word: “Protested.” 4 Max turned a little pale as he scanned the bit of paper. It was a note ninety days old, signed by, Simon Marsh and indorsed by himself, amount $1,000, and pinned to it was the notation of fifteen dollars interest overdue, and one-fifth of that amount for protest fees. He was considerably perturbed, but looked up steadily with the question: “It could not be renewed?” “Scarcely,” sententiously remarked the president, his declaration fixed and somber as the utterance of fate. “1 will pay it, then,” said Max, who quietly drew out his check book, cal- culated the gross and passed over the earnings and savings of two years. All this was done quietly and strict- 1y according to bank ethics, but even when Max had turned to leave the A Bronzed, Bearded Man. room he could feel those probing, re- buking eyes of his superior fixed upon him. Hence “Blue Monday;” hence at the noon hour Max disregarded lunch and visited the dingy room where the man he had befriended lived. He found Si- mon Marsh bending over a worn satchel, trying to close its top over a bulk beyond its capacity. “Sorry you came,” he observed, straightening up, but looking embar rassed and guilty. “I was just going after that thousand dollars I owe the bank.” “You owe it to me now,” Max, with a nervous laugh, “Eh—how's that?” ‘Well, I deceived you. When you wanted that money, and wanted it so bad, and seemed to have such glitter- ing prospects, I hated to refuse you. I submitted your application to the di- rectors, together with your security— a deed for that ten acres of mining land out in the Black Hills. They laughed at it. I—I knew you, and be. sides—" advised knew it first.” “Your niece—Leila?” repeated Max, stupefied. ago, crying. She twitted me for taking your last dollar. Say, did I know it? An honest, well meaning man, hadn't I faith in my little mining claim and a right to believe that the bank saw it my way? Say, I feel it hard—you put the loan through for me and risked your dwn money! I—I—" The old man sat down on his satchel and dashed the tears from his eyes. Max was really touched. “I've ruined you, I see that,’ went | on Marsh quite brokenly. “I see it all i It was Leila I was thinking of. Say, | I feel mean!” “Don't go worrying,” sald Max, | greatly moved at the old man's genu- | ine misery. “You meant well. As to | Leila, I am very, very sorry that she | has learned of this.” “That is the hardest part of it" mourned Marsh. “Now, then, I'm going to leave Lere. Atter that money, There's one thi do-—give up my foolish dresia o1 ruwsing a million to exploit my wice and jo back to the e 1 ¢ Frred - Lo * old grub basis. It's slow, Just hold that note. I'm going to make good.” left the old man. ber, with a vengeance! It was after a ! i | high consistency to principle, but this ‘;Ut ’ sure. Max shook his head dubiously as he He was gloomy all day. In fact, his spirits became so de- pressed towards evening that he felt he must get sympathy, at least distrac- tion of mind somewhere. So he went to see Leila. She was formal, chilling. He spent an awkward hour trying to keep up a casual conversation. Then he grew fairly desperate. He had lost his money—it looked as if he had lost his love, as well. “There i8 something I must say,” he spoke in a strained, tremulous tone as he stood at the door in parting. “It seen Leila Marsh and passed with her| . ) 1y hoart and will not allow me one of the most delightful evenings; rest.ymiss Marsh, Leila, I love—" The solemn dignity of her uplifted hand checked him, i “Not—now,” she said simply. “There is a debt to pay, Mr. Wilber. Good evening.” And about a week later Max knew that Leila had done two things— opened a savings bank account and in- sured her life. He might admire her get barrier against love made him wretched They met at church, at some local social events after that, but always a distance between them. It nearly broke the heart of Max to see & marked economy in dress on the part of Leila. She was an orphan and worked as stenographer for the city courts. Her pay was not large. “Saving, skimping, suffering to pay me—me, who would give her my life!” reflected Max, distractedly. There came into the bank one day a bronzed, bearded man, with a ragged canvas satchel bearing traces of long and difficult travel. He placed it across the counter, opened it and took out a small wooden box. “From the mint,” he said in a curk ous, hoarse voice, The clerks watched him with some interest. They had ncver before seen those little oblong yellow bricks, stamped, “U. 8. M, $110,” “U. 8. M,, $112,” “U. 8. M., $114." The stranger placed ten of them to one side with a single question: “Where is Mr. Max Wilber?” And this is what Max saw when he came out frem the directors’ room. “I promised you,” said Simon Marsh, extending a hand hard as a piece of gristle. “Just a pan of water and & dip into the old chute tailings. It's a sure ten dollars a day and 'm going back to the Hills to repect the opera- tion as soon as [ see my niece.” Max Wilber saw his uncouth visitor as far as the door. He whispered into his ear: “Speak one word for me.” And this was the line he received from the grim cld prospector a few hours later: “Debt canceled. Claim your own. Leila sees the light, Bless you both!” “Only a little sorrowing, a little pa- tlence,” spoke Max that evening, Leila by his side, once again amid the lure of the white moonlight, “and this glad ending.” “Rut how much love, too, through all the cruel ordeal,” whispered his prom- ised bride, *enderly. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) AS DICKENS PICTURED IT| ™ Henry James Telis of London in the ! '508, When He Visited Britain's «'A(I‘AS ] | “Just that. She was here an hour Great Metropolis. Henry James' descripticn of London as he saw it as a litile boy in the 608 is not only one of the most interesting portions of his biographical work, “A Small Boy and Others,” but should be cited by those who contend against current opinion that Dickens’ charac- ters are exaggerated. For instance, he says in one place: “The London peo- ple had for themselves an exuber- ance of type. We found it in particu- lar a world of costume, often of very odd costume, the most intimate notes of which were the postmen in their frock coats of military red and their black beaver hats; the milk women, in hats that often emulated these, in little shawls and strange, short, full frocks, revealing enormous boots, with their pails swung from their shoulders on wooden yokes. The range of char- acter on the other hand reached rather dreadfully down; there were embodied and exemplified horrors in the streets beside which anv present exhibition s pale—figures reminding me of George Cruickshank's Artful Dodger and his Bill Sikes, only with the bigger bru- tality of life—and culminating far to | the west in the vivid picture, framed “You needn't tell it!” almost shout- by the cab window, of . , of a woman reel- ed t.he'old man. “You did that for me? ing backward as a man felled her to And it’s leaked out. And my niece the ground with a blow in the face.” —— Scored. Mr. Smart was a very testy old fellow, and if there was one thing he hated more than another it was to be “caught napping.” As a consequence, he was always very suspicious of any deed or word the full meaning of which he could not grasp. A few days ago he paid a visit to the zoo, and, being fond of animals, was greatly interested, and soon got lknto conversation with one of the eepers. A very entcrtaini; sy ng chat en- As Mr. Smart was about to leave, thoBk,ee:er turned. to him and asked: “By the way, sir, have black-faced antelope?” i onrl There, thouzht the old attempt to “have” him. ey e “No, sir,” he replied, stifly, “ hlnl not. May I : with whom it was that your blaclifaced aunt eloped 7 | e His ld:a of the Physician. The 1 says Brown, “is the man w! vou that you need change, aud tiou tekes all you have™ , TRANSFER LINES SPLE“DWV) I oraying and Hauling of All Kinds t “ 4 e Prompt and Reasonable Service P Phone 57 Green Lakeland, s - The sidewalk that is mlm: of CEMENT 1s the walk 1 g The Best Table in the Land of the Sky Hotel Gordon Waynesville, N. C. weather will not effect. ° NOW, before the inclement y, * _u or of late fall sets in, have 5 those needed walks, repair yy, Mr. lar and make other repain should be done with CEMEND o, In heart of eity. ilectric lights ar:. every coavenience- Buths. No mosquitoes. Altitude 3,000 feet. [.' WEEKLY RATES $12.50 UP. 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