Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 29, 1913, Page 3

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SARAH E, WHEELER OSTEOPATH Rooms 2 and 3, Skipper Puilding Lakeland, Fla. Residence phone, 278 Black. Ofice phone, 278 Blue. DR, C. C. WILSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Bpecial Attention Given to Diseases ¢ o0 Women and Children. Office " Deen-Bryant Bldg., Suite 9. / Phone 857. e — AR i 1) Lawyer, = 7, Bryadt Ruiiuay Thone $§). lakeiand, Meoride ! NREXIAK B, SMITH 1 NOTARY PUBLIC | 1o, investments in Real SaWi | Eae w00 interesting snaps in si B4 a0 oan property, ferms, e Biter . 2 me at once. WIll tree L K. for ish or on easy terms Ron 4 Futeh & Gentry Blds Lakeland, Fla. | } EOFYIXER Lttoraey-at-Tow et Bidg, Barww "TER & TOCKR® -lawysrs— Faymonde Bldp ¥t Mttt v b4 0000000000090 | : LOUIS A, FORT “THE ARCHITECT" g _ Kidler Hotel, Lakeland, Fla. | b bbbl I PREETON, LAWTHF | vitairs East of Court Kary N FLETOW FLARIBA Baiantion of Witlew and ¥ Mitate Law g Rpesiali; | ¥is8 EMMA POCOCK ‘ P 'm'l 'LIC STENOGRAPHRER | M g, Reom 11 < LIR PS | | L lifeg ¢ i | | | | Mo '® '™ on That Road. ,, .* @ no signboards along the | ‘0 fuccess. Wa have to paint ous | boss who have found the | ererally too busy to atiend | |'[catch me trying to beat the other T P —————y . . - . BB Wito bid Uy By ERYANT €. RO Miss Gracie ol ds two years ol Miss stenographer and typist for the firm of K. & K, and wasg S0 smart that she earned §14 per week ‘ She was receiving $10 when it was discovered that some employe was carr)‘h’lg goods out of the store. The detective from headquarters spent a week and did not get a clew. “Here is where I get a raise to $12,” sald Mies Gracie to herself; and she shoved back from her machine | and wandered about for an hour and then said to K. & K.: “Your assistant bookkeeper Just gone out to lunch.” “He goes every day at this hour,” | was the calm reply, “And the missing goods go with him.” “What! You can’t mean ft!" “Come with me! I know where he feeds at this hour.” She led K. & K. to a quick-lunch room three miles away, and they walked in upon the he had ordered his usual spring chick- en. “Has the firm failed?” he asked as he looked from one to the other. “No, but you have!" replied the smart girl with a little giggle of tri- | umph. “lland over quietly and you may not get over 25 years in the jug!” The young man, who was the sole support of a widowed mother and six fatherless sisters, and who firmly be- lieved that the moving picture shows were filling the jails to overflowing, smiled a gladsome smile and began to hand over bolts of silk, yards and dozens of real pearl buttons, until he had deposited encugh on the table to stock a department store in the Bronx “Georze, what tempted you?" asked the senior meinber of K. & K. “I wanted to sell the stuif and buy Bibles for the heathen.” Whea the thicf had been tucked \ in a little cell in prison | (Iraci told by the firm: “For your smartness you now get $12 per.” “Thanks.” “And during your epare time you can watch others.” She did. and she brought the por- ter, the janitor and two elevator men to justice. They were in a conspiracy to rob the store of thirty shirtwaists per week. Then Miss Gracle was raised to $14 per week, and the senfor partner said to her: “Such smartness I never saw be- fore, and K. & K. are sure proud of you, but you needn't do any more watching for a time. It is only a strain on your brain, but you might b | ) i [ I TVTT ERS. twenty- has y nice wog K. or vice versa.” Miss Gracie Hollands stuck to her real duties, but she imbibed the idea that she was a born detective. She began to look at all men and women as suspiclous characters. Even when a young man tried to flirt with her on the street her detective intuition | was so strong that she almost laid a hand on his shoulder as she hissed at him: “You are a sate blower, and I know it, and you make your hike or I'll run you in!” He was a minister’'s son and a salesman in a large jewelry house, | and had just organized a Bible class, but he made his “hike” just the same. When Miss Gracie began her pro- fessional career she went to board with Mammy Jones. It was a hall bedroom and a starvation table, but as the salary went up things improv- ed. When it reached $10 per week teord, and 1 assitant just as | s { T put an end to it. One day when Mer- | Miss Gracie took the best front room, and became the star boarder. She | did not leave when the salary became $14. Strangers came and went. It sud- denly occurred to the stenographer thalAsho was most favorably situated to continue her detective work and went richt at it. She suspected two actors out of engagements; she suspected the old maid who had her hall bedroom; she suspected a grocery clerk who had a room in the house, and she almost suspected the landlady herself One evening, when an old-clothes man called to see if she had any sec- ond-hand garments to sell, the word “yillain” stood out so plainly on his torehead that the girl laid a hand on him and said: “Retribution has overtaken you at last!" “yhat fsh dot?” was asked “Your crime has found you out!” “T lick my wife ten years ago. but she don't go by der police” Other callers were put through their paces but none of them was frightened into confessing murder or bomb explosion. The day must come, however, and it did come It came three days after a little incident on the street. A bare-headed young man with a pencil behind his ear, and who seemed to be ¢ clerk In a ac- costed ) racie at a corner nr.id asked could give him a 210 bill for five twos [t was her s ry day and she was carrving home her $14. The $10 Why not ob he ¢ k was passed over for the twos, and it geemed to the girl that she was be- ginni t me importance as a capitalist The cobbler toc pairing a pair “:, s restaurant was cheap jewelry tha was 75 cen:s the two-dollar The other two money, and she the store, k fifty cents for re- a lunch at a a bit of ned to please 1se cne of 3 banded out. her board Jones pessed i — d the boy say son,” and her It sounded serl- th nter. Then the 1 soberly, ure I'll come when you send Merey.” i Mercy answered with gentle | ‘I'll never write till L hear from you, Bert,” and the door | closed slowly. ! Bert didn't kuew, as 1 did, that she‘ ng at the door instead of ng down the long passageway; | 1 till the clatter of Bert's feet ou the stairs and the slam of the door | proved to her that Bert had really | for me, And STARTED gone. Then 1 heerd her go back down the passage, and after a minute she began to play the piaro. But in a mo- ment more that stopped with a dis- #ucssed, though I could r, that Mercy was crying. I waited almost as eagerly as she for the boy's step again, and the boy's veice in the hallway; but two weeks { and 1 knew that,, stubborn things that they were, they a good chance of spoiling the | lerful thing they held between them. Merey crept in and out of the flat like a pale little ghost, and one day I spoke to her sister of it. “No, she doesn't lock at all well, Mr. Bonner," her sister admitted, “but I don’'t know what the matter {s.” I stole a look at her out of the corner of my eye. The woman meant it! Was she blind? Well, the long and short of it is,' that it got to be too much for me, and ! cedes had stolen out as usual, 1 wrote a note—in French, and in the bny's! unadorred, dependable handwriting, and tucked it behind their mail-box. It was just a sentence or two, but I | ended it with the phrase that had end- ed Mercy’s note to him. 1 had an idea that it was a sort of pass-word of theirs, and 1 was right From the window, I saw Merey come in. There was a pause in the vestibule, then the heavy door opened | and Merey stumbled up the stairs. [ watched her through the half-open door, and heer young face was alight with joy almost too great to bear. A moment later the door opened and she flew out ain. 1 knew Bert was to | have his answer. | The next day was warm, so warm that windows were open everywhere; and so it comes that sitting in mine, I heard the end of the story. Oh, the sound of that young voice again! For me and one other, there was no sound like it on carth. Then there was a duet of voices. They were evidently | sitting on the deep window-sill—his arm around her, I had no doubt. After a moment of silence, the epi- sode of the note was reached. In the boy’s voice I heard incredulity, aston- fshment. Then Mercy's voice came clear and convinced. “But, Bert, dearest, it was in your dear, funny writing, and in French. | And oh, Bert, it ended—you knowf how!" Then I gathered that she got up and found it for him. There was a mo- ment of blank silence—then in a voice of awe and wonder: “By Jove, it is! You're right.” | “Let’s keep it always, dear,” Merey | sald softly. “We can't quarrel again | after that.” Ah, well. Even meddlesome men have their uses. by the old McClure News- i | | RECOVERED FROM JUNK HEAP, Enormous Sum ls the‘-Aggregate That | Is Saved, Ascribed to “Second- ary Metals.” The value of “"secondary metals”"— exclusive of gold, silver, platinum, iron | and aluminum-recovered in the Uni- ted States in 1012 mous total of §7 13, compared with $52,585,390 in 1911, according to J. P. Dunlop of the United State geo- logical survey, an increase of nearly $25,000,000, or alm 50 per cent “Secondary m are those re- covered from scrap metal, sweepings, skimmings, dros ete., and are 80 called to distinguish them from metals derived from ore. which are termed “primary metals.” The values ven for the secondary metals are arbitrary and are based upon the approximate av ;e value of the primary metals for the year. While junk dealer: d collectors fre- quently pay low 3 for small quan- tities of scrap n s, competition re- sults in good pr for carefully as- sorted products in large quantities After remelting or refini als are sold at only slightly lower an new metal. These second- an equivalent y metals and must any estimate of le for consumption in rached the enor- displace stocks availal any year Quite Bozton Five-Ye: {s the exact meaning of ginning Sprat couid eat [ mple, d—Father, what verse be- no o Lhe Dg Jack it is as her—In simple te: ] ite "k Sprat couid foreign face © monly called ¢ wake Bes | Wi ‘Iroughest and wiil reach his purpose, if there be wven a little wisdom in it }—»Carlylu. 'many a g the met- & (. This ts a genuine clean-up sale of numerous lines. 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