Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 13, 1913, Page 8

By JEAN INGLIS. 1 The magic light of the unshaded ‘wax candles lay on the white robed table. They were placed in a dozen TTTTTT] sticks of old sil- /1 ver, and burned \| Jow and singly, \ and their pure \,‘v' glimmer and the \| lilies which stood \ | in silver vases, \ gave an air of \\ Doly mystery to :.\\‘ this very worldly - entertainment, 0 M:vion Lamont // furned to the man on her left. He was speaking. “I feel like a aun,” he said. "It %sn't too white for you’’ he added. “Ob, no,” said ahe. “It chills me,” he said. "I like d shades and a eap of roses. This wouldn’t be bad at a hunt dinner With the men in piuk, but tonight it's mnearthly. There is only one man ere wito docsn't look a florid sinner.” She followed his eyes down the fble, and they indicated a man about -thirty, whose profile alone was ! wisible to them.” “He s very Marion. “I suppose,” he said, “your soul is Just like that—a glimmering white- @ess, with here and there your good <works burning like little candles.” Marion laughed. me to believe,” said she, “that yours M8 as completely black."” “No,” said he, “not black—only acarlet. And, after all, I would rath- ar you believe nothing at all about a@e."” “Why?" asked Marion, “Well,” said he, “you are a debu- sante, and your illusions must not e shattered.” “If they are false?" she asked. “Illusions are no more false than anything clse,” said he. “Miss La- aont, you remind me very much of @ fricad of raine. I haven't seen him dor six yours until today. There wasn t an illusion he didn't enshrine in the lofty temple of his thoughts. ‘Whea he was cighteen he was happy durnitig incense before lis ideals that Be wasn't gocd for much else. The &ext year a friend went Lack on o handsome,” said him-—forged his name, and disap- peared. “He foreswore friendskip, took up philanthrophy, and we to work in a mission church, wh he fell in love wiih one i the s in the choir, | Heria a shop, but what did it matte Not a bit to my tri Y about a quarrel wiii r, though, who dizinh. s tim and died. You can g relaitives Kept the money up their noses at turned the little ¢ dy. DBy this time most of my fricud’s illusions were gone. Expertence is an iconoclast. The temple had been desecrated, and the sacred images had been thrown down. There was only one shrine left, and here he had placed a little golden figure of a saint. It was love he worshipcd. and with that left he scarcely secied -to miss friends or father, money or position. After all, a chapel does as well to pray in as a cathedral. He was perfectly happy | till his pretty chorister went on the stage, took a boy's part in a comic opera, aud murricd the tenor.” “He should hive been glad to have | escaped,” said Marion. | “I don’t think he took that view. | It wasn't that he regretted her; but ! you see, Miss Lamont, she had stolen nis golden suint. Ior the hundredth time I congi lated myself that my | mental bric-a-brac was inferior and dispensable. There was my friend with @ long life before him and no | taste for living. 1 think he would have ended it, only he has a great deal of persistency, hates to beg off, i wants to carry out what he begins. of | "deal.” “And you want | the ' Some one has restored his golden im- So he pulled himself together, looked out for hard things to do, made life ' an intellectual gymnasium, culti- vated a distaste for women, studied Russian, and buried himself in Ni-- beria for six years.” He stopped and turned to Marion. { “There,” he said, “you have the his- tory of the man with the lost | ! She looked at hua rather strangely, | “Is that all?” she asked. 1 “Not quite,” he wnswered. “I met ' him again today, and 1 find that once more the altar is illumined and service going on as before. age.” | “Why,” said. Marion, “that is the ! best part of the story.” There was a quiver in her voice, and a brighiness like tears on her lower lids. She was looking down the table at the man they had no- ticed berore, and his eyes v .re fixed on her face, adoringly, “The candles are alight on the al- tar,” said Marion's friend, | He asked: “Then you know him?” “Yes, ' she said. “We are engaged to be married. We met last summer in St. Petersburg.” (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub., Co.) — e bB) that stays. O A SUEN WY EST S Y e ST SR T SRR IR, T SRRa e AT Good as a it is if you wear Styleplus Clothes $17. \ guarantces of certain quality; the Label in the coat, the Ticke antee Ceitificate in the pocket. Find these three marks of ider overcoat and you can enjoy the sense of absolute confidenc: that “its style is the style Let your new fall suit be Styleplus and you ’ MADE OHLY GilZ RESZAVATION Mrs. Weddleston Much, but There She Felt 1 Had to D.aw the Liae. Mrs. Weddleson was deeperate, For five months she had beon t ing to get a maid for gencral ugework, She had become a familiar tigure in all the intellizcnee offices, she had wor- i ried her f{ricndz by ing their girls to the telephione i ng them in- ducements to enier her se rvice; she | had complained so much that her hus- { band welcomed evcry chance he got to get out on the road for a week or two, and she had publicly given it as ker opinion that something ought to | be done by the government to compel girls to accept posiiions in kitchens, whether they wished to or not. JFinally one morning a cheerful-look- ing girl called to enter into a discus- Grant | She | i sion concerning the matter that was nearest to Mrs. Weddleson's heart. “How many of you are they in the family?” the girl asked. i “Only Mir. Weddlezon and 1,” the lady hastened to renly. *Of course I have my mother with me most of the time, but Mr. Weddleson is away a good deal, so thet the work is very light.” “What time do you have break- fast, and does you maid get Thurs- days and Sunday afternoons out?” “Oh, yes. I shouldn't think of ask- ing you to stay in Thursdays or Sun- day afternoons. We are all prompt about sitting down to breakfast at 7:30 every morning except Sunday. But we will have breakfast whenever it suits you, whether it is early or late.” “Yes, self?” “There is a lovely bath room on the third floor for your exclusive use. And I send all my washing out.” “What about havin' company?”" “You may have all the company you want. We will have the side porch screened in for you, and—say, please stay. You can have everything you like and do everything you wish to except call my husband by his first name.,"—Chicago Record-Herald. Do I have a bath to my- Mrs. K. M. Holder wishes to an- nounce that she will open her mil- linery business in the same location as soon as the building is completed which will be the early part of No- vember. 1290 Truest Moments, Count always your highest momenty your truest moments. Belleve that in the time when you were the great est and most spiritual man or woman, then you were your truest self -—Johs Weeatoy THE EVENING TELEGRAM, L! AKE | . i * g oy 2 (' f L aperiising il i 7d 4 H 1 ; i o iadinind i 5 o A LSRR | RN = . : SALE. LFOR REI e -.""'.-;f‘i.. )[‘l’. shuee 'I : L - uinished rooms fo7 | ahet. ML St Lvi visexeepiny. No chiidren Ba 1l oo desired. Apply 401 North Flor- vl os ! Ida. 1134 v KB, eleciric aail o AR detin sina oo N SR i ,.4Ge trees. Sev &. C Rogan of 8 | FOR RENT—Three-room cottage % Stephens Yiy on South Lake Hollingsworth. G R Price $3.50 per month. See W. “OR SALE——-Two choice lots in; fiske Johuson. 1284 LAND, FLA QCT. 14,4 913. Dixieland, cheap if sold at once. Samuel F. Smith, M. D. 1266 FOR SALE--Thoroughbred Barred Plymouth Rock eggs for hatehing; also some fine cockerels. ! Kelley , Griffin, Fla. ;i by 1257 FOR SALE QUICK—Cottage on S. Virgin ia avenue, between Main and Lemon strects; 5 rooms and bath, location, close in. Now payin: 2 fireplaces, nice lot, 3 per cent on $3,000. Don't be slow. Yours for $2,600. A J., Cut Price Store. Moore, 1278 FOR SALE—Ozone Grove, 14 lots, 2| houses, 18-year-old trees, full of fruit. John B. Wooderman, 210 | Lake Ave. Jersey cows for sale; some fresh,, are heavy springers; others 1297 FOR SALE—We have a car of nice | all good colors and young stock. J W. Stegall, Thomasville, Ga. FOR SALE_Two-story houge of en rooms and bath, in Dixieland, for $2, ty Co. FOR SALE ; 2004 H-room house, Tern cleared easy . Realty 250. The ohn F. Cox D= L arTas = h $2.200. The John F (o R Cox 1903 | WANTED- Position as driver, on FOR SALE—In Avon Patk, Fla., 11 acres beautiful lake front land, & acres i house, price $3,000. n bearing grove, barn, ete. For quick Address Box Lakeland, Fla sale, HEYIN 1305 | | | | 7-room | FOR “libil\"’f:-Furnished rooms with private bath. Apply 1011 South Florida or phone 43 Red. 1207 FOR RENT--Half acre fine truck land on Lake Hollingsworth. See rooms for light Telegram. T G. E. Southard, city. 1289 1c N ‘] pay Miscellaneous. LLOST—One small and one large key, were not on a ring. Finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving at the Telegram office. WAN CED—Position as stenographer | for afternoons only. Address P. | 0. Box 61, Lakeland, Fla. 1273 WANTED(— Your safety razor blades to resharpen. Made bet ter than new. 25c¢, 85¢c and 60c dozen. Lakeland Furniture & Hardware Co. T4¢ NOTICE It you want a first class mechanic to build your residence or to do other carpenter work aud one that has ha¢ years of experience and is a hustler and can do your work at the mini- mum cost, drop a postal to A. M | Fobbs, Box 627, City. 1184 auto, either truck or pleasure car or business. Address Driver, care Telegram. 1293 WANTED—Eoy to sell the Evening Telegram on the streets. Apply Telegram office. FOR SALE—Houschold furniture, EXPERTENCED WAITRESS wishes Mrs. . A. Strong, wife of governor of Alaska, has left th with her husband for their home§ Juzeau after an eight around the world. San Francisco, a and was educated in ance Policy on your good appearance. Stylep including piano, excellent condi- position in hotel or cafe. Address tion. Sell cheap. A pply A. H. \. Williams, General Delivery, 310 S. 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