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

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i, wilh 0 £, %{Mcmo@ i ‘ = When we buy a pattern of clothes we We fiz‘ Jat oen, slim men, all men ago}w/olbps 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 (1} Stout” Maiterials also, suits for stout men, in Breezy Be you long or short, slim waistcd or big around the belt, we can fit you. And the price will be as low as good stuff can be sold for. Outfitter The Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing JOS. LeVAY The Hub ASOHPOMLCR PP RORFCRECD 7 i 4&%%“@% ¢ lakeland I’av ng&ConstructionCo Artificial Stone, Brick and Concrete Bullding Material OO IPO SO and cll Kinds of Artificial Stone Work C07 VWest Main Street- Phone 348-Black ' F. J. HOFFMAM J. N. DAVIS Pres. Sec.& Tres. Supt, & Gen. Mas. S HOHCUCOHIORR H MIBOF AT i LAKELAND SHEET METAL WORKS We are ready to do you Sheet Metal Work in Lakeland. Cornice Skylights, Ventila- tion, Slate Tile Composition and Metal Roofmas Awnings, Furnaces and anything in the sheet .metal line. Ask us about Galvanized Tanks. Shops in Smith-Hardin Bldg Phone 279 o e = e Are You Going To Build? USE BRICK Not just brick, but specity, get the best; they cost no more, look better, last longer, and are more sat Isfactory all around. JELK'S Macon brick, common, paving, fro and rough texture; none better. LEGG’S pressed and fancy faced brick. I am State agent. Carry large stock on hand, make quick shipments. Wire your or- ders at my expense. P | Handle— ATLAS PORTLAND CEMENT, BEA VER BOARDS AGATITRE CE- MENT PLASTER. Fuller’s Peninsular brand roctn.e 7, metal laths and shingles, crushed rock, granite curbing, bulldis, sand Also fruit and vegetable pickers’ and packers’' = .yplies, crates, wraps, flield boxes, straps, nalls and ladders. Offices, Salesrooms, Wharves, Track- " er age and Yards Hendry & Knight Terminals Tampa 5 o'h Florida Al “Clome, Estimates Cheerfully Furnished on Paving N e J. P, NEWBECKER . V. Pres »& Asst Mas He placed his hands in hers. She *RBE EVENING TELEGRAM LAX EL AND, FLA., SEPT. 6, 1913. L..‘_S C: HS HAND By BRUCE SH ERMAN. | Mrs. T. \nhur Smythe was easily thfl I»m‘f‘" of ‘untingdon's Four Hun- dred. Her parties were charming. So delightful was her tact and so great her re- sources that ev- erybody was glad to go. Hence It was that on a cer- tain evening Rich- ard Sherry found himself bowing over the fair| hand in the Smythe room, sure to be bright-! ened up and have one's wits sharp- ened here, Mrs. “What is it to be ist, a prodigy, ville or a literary lion?” sha responded, brightly. would you say to palmistry?” “Palmistry,” he repeated. “Ah, 1 see. Dark-eyed gypsy girl and all that.” “Still wrong,” she replied. “I've found such a darling. Do you remem- ber the Raymonds who used to live here and moved south or somewhere five years ago? Yes, I thought you knew them. Well, Dr. Raymond lost his fortune and died and Mrs, Ray- mond and her caughter are back here again trying to support themselves. The girl has developed a perfect gen- ius for palmistry and does quite a bit along that line. I lave engaged her to NIRRT RV R . TR SN G T Y0 DN AT NN WY eI S TR TN S R MM PR S P S e come here tonight and read palms.” Remember Florence Raymond! What else, indeed, had he been doing irs, since he had feet and asked for the past five )¢ thrown himself at her her to be his wife one great passion of his life and he had always felt sure that she returned his love, but she had left it her duty to remain with her father in his mis- fortune and had resolutely refused to permit an enzagement or even an un- derstanding. Sherry had taken it hard and abandoned society for busi- 258 and books. Smythe, who discovered him in the conservatory., 5l come, this will never do,” ! she cried, tapping him with her fan, must do as the Romans do. Come and have your rizht hand read.” Unresisting he library, where the entertainer was reading the palms of all comers. “I have found a splendid subject,” said Mrs. Smythe, triumphantly. “Here is the enizma of the town. We want to know why so fascinating a man should be a recluse and a woman- hater. We want also to know his fate —his love affairs, past and present.” She was not a guest and knew her place. He also knew his. But he was startled at her unchangeable beauty followed the lines intently, looked at the fingers and general shape of the hands. | “You will live to a very old age,” she said. “I do not see much sick- ness, past or future. Your head is ex- am ceptionally strong. No mental trou- | ble will overcome you. You are in- tellectual, fairly artistic and a money maker.” “And his Smythe. “His heart is well under control, but he is capable of a great and abiding love for a woman.” “Is his passion passed or to come?” relentlessly pursued Mrs. Smythe. “I see a strong line about the age ! ot thirty,” said the girl slowly and “It seems to be cut and It looks like some obstacle.” insisted Mrs. heart?” put in Mrs. barred. i “And the future?” ! Smythe. l The girl looked long and earnestly. ' | She was breathing a trifle faster and the color had come into her face. ‘ “I cannot see the future,” she said,' and then dropped his hand with a ges- ture of exhaustion. “I am very tired, | Mrs. Smythe, and really must beg to | be excused from any more work to-! night.” 3| The crowd drifts back into the ¥ | drawing room and the palmist slips 4 into the conservatory. Sherry follows hor unobserved. After a time they re- appear in the drawing room, where Mrs. Smythe is receiving the con"r'\lu-: | L\tions of her last departing guests. “Mrs. Smythe,” said Shery, “I will ‘flm«h the reading of my own palm. | The barrier has been removed and the one great passion of my life for the alized. Mrs. Smythe, permit me to present the future Mrs. Sherry, and to | thank you for the happiest evening in tmy life.” vine light in both their eyes, remarks tactfully: greatest social triumph.” It certainly was much talked about. (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Not Exactly. “What a mobile countenance Jen- nie has!” I “It's the real auto face.” R A W R L " Fin AR SO 7, T A IR drawing | [ “One is always ‘ Smythe,” he said. | tonight — theoso- | phey, a new art-| musical | vaude- | “A poor guess,” ; “What It had been the His reverio was cut short by Mrs. ! “When the hermit comes to Rome he | followed her to the | Sherry gazed upon the woman of his | dreams, and she looked up straight in- | to his eyes, grave and unresponsive. | The years seemed not to have told at, one woman in the world is to be re-| And Mrs. Smythe, catching the di-| “I think I may call this parly my ZLLANE RULING IS I-HT sno l CLLANE Duchess de Tzlleyrand Says It Was Given Withcut Her Knowl- edge or Consent. 1 Rome, [taly—The duchess de Tal- | nd, who was Anna Gould of New | . in a letter written to the (iiornale d'Ttalia concerning the deci- | sion recently given by the Rota | tribunal annulling her marriage to | Count Boni de Castellane, her first| husband, says the decision was hand- | ed down without her knowledze aud; without her having a chance to defend herself. The duchess says her object | in appealing from the ruling and fight- | Duchess de Talleyrand. ing the decree of annulment is not to vent Count i'oni marrying agalu, but to keep him {rom reclaiming their two sons e A SHORT Ar..‘l'.lD WORLD cut New Japanese Rall.,a,'s Will Connect With the Transsiberian System and Shorten Route, London.—The time required to cire cle the globe to be measurably re- | duced as a resuli of a conference of "steamship and railroad companies, to be held at Moscow. This will be done by bringing into the regular passen- | ger service the new Japanese rail- i ways in Korea in connectlon with a ‘ fast line of steamships to Japan, Passengers by the Transsiberian rallway will, under this armngemen” ‘travel through by rail to Fusan and . thence by steamship to Shimonoseki, | a much shorter route than by way of | the South Manchurian railway to Peking or the all-Russian route through Vladivostock. The Japanese, ‘Canadian, and other steamship lines are expected to speed up communica- | tions for passengers across the Par cifle. The great drawback to this route for passengers wishing to see the country is that they will miss the ! most interesting part of China, that in the vicinity of the Great Wall and | Peking. SAVES GIRL FROM THE LAKE Boy With Broken Arm Rescues Young Woman Canoe Victim Near Wilkes-Barre. Wilkes-Barre.—James Boland, Jr., aged seventeen years, with his right arm broken and in a sling, rescued Miss Anna Grady, aged eighteen, from | Harvey's lake, after she had sunk sev- | eral times. Miss Grady, Miss Queen O'Malley | and Miss Margaret O'Malley were bathing near the shore. Miss Mar- garet O'Malley and Miss Grady en- tered a canoe. After they had pad- dled a short time Miss O'Malley dived from the cance and swam to shore. The canoe capsized with Miss Grady | and she sank, being unable to swim. ’ Young Boland threw off his coat and : entered the like. When he reached the point where Miss Grady sank he dived and fovxd the girl on the bot. tom. Seizing her hair, he cams to the surface, and by h aged to reach sher exhausted | Doctors worked Miss Grady b (:ol'.;\gors at once circulated a pau-‘ tion and will ask the Carnegie com- | | mission to reward young Boland for his heroism Lights Home With Firefly. Morgantown w Va.—Thornton ‘I-']ovwrs of declared that by | treating a firefl a secret chemical process he ha duced a light eur- | passing electricity, He says he hag his home illuminated with the new lights cic efiorts man. . where he fell | two hours over‘ * she was revived. | Monn Girl Waiks Out Window In Sleep, | Phila \‘nl‘\hm—~l)rvax'11'1z she wag! fleelng from a deg which had bitten | ‘ her twe months ago, Anna Wils | tourteen, walked out of a third "un bedroom window and broken arm. fioor | sustained only g | | which for half a century has fairly , ancient tower, but the mystery sur-| | Christensen walked alone one night { found himself a hero; was paid for his swiftly drawn carriage reached his Archl ears and as he turned he eaw a horse, - 2 llnes draeging on the pavement, Yuwesh [doas in m“ 4 | plunging wildly on, with a girl help- Lakeland, Florids less in the vehicle. e — . Christenson, who i8 young and ath- yall letic, made a football tackle on the ' - horse's neck. His hold slipped, but I‘"." Fedll as he fell he grabbed a dangling rein. W1, S He rolled almost beneath the wheels, Phone 360 S S IR ~Jawysre— = { INTO FIRE TO ESCAPE SNAKES Baymends Dt —_— fm Reptiles by the Dozen Entwine Them- | - - selves About Campers, Who Roll Into Flames, 000000004 0.2 2004 Pledmont, W. Va—Georga Ensor, g| ™' LOUIS A. ¥ K-H\mnz his bur ,OLD HAUNTED WATCH TOWER Tragic but Interesting History of One of Spain’s Old Forts at San Juan, Porto Rico. IL.W. YARN Wuesessor to W. Ky — TRANSFER ) Draying and Hauling of Prompt and Reasonap|, , San Juan, P. R.—Unless the insular government can be moved to act, and act quick, the famous “haunted” watch tower of San Juan, Porto Rico, reeked with mystery, will disappear Guaranteeq beneath the waves which have under- e a— mined its foundations. This melan-| Phene 67 Green Lakgy choly relic of the vanished glory of - Spain's empire in the west now hangs precariously over the boiling tide rip, which has gnawed ceaselessly for 300 years. Originally a part of the outer The Best Table Land of the §; T s, Hotel Gorq, Waynesville, N, ¢ defenses of the great fort of San Cris- tobal, which was built by the Spanish In heart of eity. - ar’ every conveLlence 3, mosquitoes. Altitude 3 WEEXLY RATES $125 (PECIAL FAMILY AND y BER RATES, SEND FOR BOOKL oty SOCHHHCBHHICHO OO0 .fhe Professi M ATSOPLIRHIC R. BAMURL ~ iy | NPRCIALY Zye, Kar, Nose sx: ii 94‘(0! Scientifcal] Haunted Watch Tower of San Juan one: OMcy, 141 conquistadores to guard San Juan fi'yan' nd" Teks ‘ from land attack, the “haunted” sen-| — e try box is r ed as one of the| ‘L W.X. ‘,‘l(}\,‘]!} “gights” of the Porto an capital. The story of this crumbling bit of ma- B A i3 sonry runs to the effect that within L the last 100 years six men have en- Lakelaad, <le>as tered the tower and were apparently swallowed up. None ol the sextet, it| G is declared, were ever seen again. The PR N L EPRii} first three disappearances, of which a 3B, C. 0. WILLO02— record has been kept, occurred within DENTINE the first halt of the mw»f\»m.t‘l century awtpper Bullding, Over i and were separated by considerable & T ntervals—the last one being in 1840. Phone 28 | Ten years elapzed and the mory of wexluence Paoue o0 » the mysterious happenings was wear- | LAKELAND, ¥l. L ing thin when three more men \':m-: e e 1410(1 in days. Since then P VTR the tower :n shunned as a pes- | R l;';'fi!‘ilg g tilence, bu ecret—if it has one— iR " has remained undiscovered. All the Vi "‘ 2y | cases were identical in that the miss-| ripen e, "fld Y E“- ; | 4 ? boacs. Ofcey 180; ok | Ing one was a member of the garrison | _ N of San C bal detailed for night| i sentry duty on the sea wall. Ghostly PHYSICIAN AND sUE 3pecial Attention Gven ! Women and Chiidra Deen-Bryant Bldg., Sult« ¥ legends by the score cling round this rounding the fate of the six luckless “goldados” remains as deep as ever. Phone 367 KISSED FOR HEROIC NEED|3rANTON & LAWLEE- Young Man Saves. Girl in Runaway £ f"i;IORHEYS-AT'U‘ and Is Affectionately Rewarded for the Act. Lakeland - F 3B, SARAE B W CSYBOPATH PHY3IC Ssoms §, § and 7, Brysnt* Lakeland, Fis. Ofse Phome 378 Blue bravery with a hug and a kiss, and | ¥euss Phong 378 Blae™. had been shyly invited to call. _— Screams from a girl, the rapld A 7. MACBONGUE pounding of hoofs and the rattle of a Goom @ Deen & Bryaat! Cleveland, 0.—With romance all about him and the soft spring twilight filled with strolling couples, Harry H. and felt himself an outcast until he started to cross Lake avenue at West 110th street. Then, in a breath, he but held the rein fast and brought the Lakelazd, 1 s 58 horse to a stop against the curb. The young woman jumped out,| RREMIAK B. SMITH ' gi:kle? him up, hugged and kissed him, NOTARY PUBUL= ristenson says. i When the h v gy o R orse quieted the young| sgve some interesting ars woman drove her rescuer to his home, perty, 1561 West 116th street. En route she w:t: '.? oneo.' : conflled to him that she had 0" | wll for essh or on easy i driving against her parents’ wishes. It he would promise never, never to Room 14, Futeh & Gentr Lakelazd, Fla. tell of the incident she would like very much to have him call. He promised. Also he promised, at her request, not to reveal her name. He kept that promise, too. The girl is the daughter of a promi- nent Cleveland business man who | ™= lives in Lakewcod. Christenson is & real estate salesman. business man of this city, while figh. 1bng near Mountaindale, wag q'taci\ed ¥ snakes, which came from Kibl L 1 & rotten | ==, log on which he was sitting. Before | Ial lx'ofel” .‘.h., he could beat them off x11 rept”q? R W. K PRESTOF. ° had entiined themselves | 8 bout him, binding his arms, hands ar.d fn;r The | ‘@fes Upstairs Past o' | BARTOW, ¥iovY -y "THE ARCHT" s?al\es more than a dozen in number, measured from 4 to 6 feet in length. 5 Mr. Ensor, atter vainly endeavoring | Wramination ef Wities &) 0 work his arms and feet loose, had Brtate Law a #+ot the presence of mind to roll down S o + hill into a fire he hag vy b bmlt to cook his I Mr. Ensor ran to ¢ 1 he strea; ! | threw himself into the w . MI98 DMA roct? PUBLIC STENOGELT, ater, extip- | Bryant Bldg. Reem 11 ' feons 352 ning clothes,

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