Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 22, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWO NEW GOODS Mr. Cole has just returned fre 1 two months' stay in the mar kets. We are receiving nt s for the fall and holiday trade We invite you to call and inspect the quality and styles. Alwaye D W A Pleasure to Show Goods" EOLE & HULL gewelers and|Optometrists Phone 173 Lakeland, Fla. TAMPA'S MODERN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN HOTEL i Electric Lighted, wwcric Bewors Beerie DL S010 HOTEL : urgut and most comfortable lohby In the city. Two large All outside rooms and well ventilated Courteous sons, without bath, $2 50; two persons, with bath, $3. AMERICAN: out bath., $3: one p«r-un with bath, $3.50; persons with bath, $6. Lakeland Business College Men and Young Women for lucra Bookkeepers Prepares Yeung ive positions as Stenogrephers, Telegraphers and Civil Service employees. All English and Commercial iBranches taught in poth day and night sessicns. Parents. enter your son or daughternow and give them a thorough commercial training at one-|| fourth the cost of sending them elsewhere. Call and get our terms or address W. D. HOLLAND. MANAGER School Books and Nchool Supplies Tablets, Pencils, Ink, Crayons, Lunch Baskets, Book-bags. Etc WE CAN SUPPLY YOURWANTS LAKELAND BOOK STORE Benford &4Steitz “Yes, son, that is a good haircut. | have my work done there. |1 will haye mother to take Wary to have her hair bobbed. 1 hey make_ a a specialty of cutting children’s hair, The PHOENIX BARBER SHOP is the largost in Polk County L. E. PEACOCK, MANAGER e e . o s e Long Lifeof Linen alsng with good laundry work (s what you ave lusking for axt 138t iy jush what we are giving. Try ws, Lakelana Steam Laundry Brooches, pendants, scart pins, bar pins—a full line of the abuve goods just selected from & large stock. Every stone fine, ciean cut, the work of artisans. Call and look them over. We are al- ways glad to show our goods. H. C. STEVENS Jeweler Lakeland, FKla. W. K. Jackson-ssswciaes- W, K, MCRae Real Estate Brokerage--Real Estate Owner and Manufac- turers’ Agent TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO »£LL WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYER ~ TELL US WHAT YOU WANT Ty BUY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLER _ ., - Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building Florida Lakeland % e TA® EVENTNG TELEGRAM. - A PERSONOF W. L. Parker, Mgr., Tampa, Fa porches; do not have to be coopet treatment guaranteed our patrons lATES—-Fl ROPEAN : One person, without bath, $150; one person, with bath, $2; two per One person with two persons wlmoul bath, $2.50; twc LAK ELAND, FLA,, OCT. 22, 1918. 'SOME IMPORTANCE Frn o RS S v X SYNOPSIS Matt Broughton lenves the service of John Mort on a Pacific {sland to return to America Mort gives him a valnahle rine Broughton promises to eay nothing ahout the mysterfous Mort and his woman com- panfon He s shipwrecked and must realize in San Francisco on the ring Manaswan He thinks of goinz into the mule business with Vietor Daggancourt, a colored garage keeper Broughton ls visited by the local aditor, who calls him “king." Matt had 1o '.?E-.-fii?fi of Twhat u pieturesqie tigure he was to those wa- tery, bleared old eyes, nor how sin- cerely Hunter Hoyt adored him. As for Lis own looks, he had long ceased to give them much thouzht. At thirty- one most men have outerown that. fle was scarcely aware that his fine, sensi: tive face was recovering the color it Ralsing §1,000 on the ring, to he repaid, | Broughton returne to his old home at! had lost in the tropics or that his vig- | orous_frume and broad shoulders and wavy, clustering black hair were like- Iy to attract favorable attention. The key to his whole character and the un- derlyinz cause of his charming man- ners could be found in the modest es- timate he had of himself. pal endeavor of the naval academy is to teach the midshipman he is a per gon of very small importance, who i3 to do what he is told, keep his mouth suut and respect the flag, and Matt ! had not wholly dutlived t.is youthful | training which had been put in his bones to stay. In contrast to Hunter [Toyt the rest of Mrs Sattane’s boarders seemed commonplace indeed One of them was too humble a creature to call him- aolf a bhoarder at all. Matt lived a week ut Mrs. Nuttane s betove he even discovered the man's grave, elderly mulitto ol a Kindiy, vpen face and incratinting manners, who was something i the watuve of the boarding house skeleton wias Daggancourt, existence — i The prinei- | His nawe i possible corrap- tion of be Goncourt- Victor Dazzan- court—who, although he paid $§7 a week, while the otaers paid only §5, | bad what wight be called a furtive po- | sition in the house. He would wait gnobtrusively about the porch until ghe rest had tinished their meal, when & second tinkle of the bell would sum- mon him to the disordered table. Here color prejudice forbade that he should be served by Bridget, who placed the dishes near his plate and left him to shift for himself. The was, of course, forbidden to him, without impropriety He in the doorway and listen to the superior race. wis the owner of a small g | machine shop—"Victor's g tit was | called—and was a widower without | ehildren. “This is a hard world for a colored ! man, sir,” he said once to Matt, * ‘spe- cially if he's better edueated than the most of his race and is given to think ing u little, like 1 do The majority of them are no company for me, with their common ways and cheap ideas and, 1 am personum non Cgrata to white folks Here 1 am, stuck | midilewise between the two ™ Matt conceived a sincere regar the old fellow, ol course, d for whose lowly, foo was not without a ceriain 0 sre was a tine strain o the m Land an innate diznity and Kivdness that commanded respect, not to speak | of a whimsical hueor that aleamed ont even in his U earnest momen ™ Lp once said to Matt, When we eat. we're a prohlem: when vo to a hospital, we're a problem; can’t hop on a train, bnt there in we're a prohlem: when ‘re a problem. for, Lord save us, blaek b mustn't Iy next to whita ™ | Nothi 1] he ot from the board ers exeept warnings. Each one ran down his own bosiness. On Matt's we | we At we die appealing to Vietor the latter foretohd the swift finish of the zarage bhusiness “Owners are getting to know too much,” he said. “You can't eell a ten sitting room | though he mizht linger for a mowent | arage and | | e man” 1 have the mix‘ortune to be a| pr 1. That's a birger difference I wn us thon eolor itsef The ] darky ean't go anvwhere and do an thinz, but right off, he's a problem | g i t "LLOYD OSBOURNE { | Copyright, 1911, By the Bedbs-Marrill Lompany. l Aliat pafr of gas NgEHTs Tor wIXty ke you did once. 1f 1 was you, Marse' Broughton, I'd try mules. There nev- er has heen enough mules, and there pever will be!” Matt uccordingly, though rather glackly, it must be confessed, hegan to look into mules; he accumulated stacks of mule information; he wrote to Washington and got for nothing the concentrated wisdom of a whole mule . sub-burean. All this was very encour- asing, and was made more so by Vie- tor's request to come in as a partoer. e thouzht he could sell out his ga-) rage for 81460 or $£1.600, and volun- teerad to be Matt's won Friday, “1 won't be any trouble to you,” he pleaded enraestly. 1 know my place, and I'll keep it, no matier how close we bhave to live; and 'l cook and wash, and do everything till we're on our feet."” Matt did not commit himself; it was g0 much easier to dawdle along and “And so you are a real live king?” coquette with imaginary mules, and work out fmaginary mule protits, than to bestir himself with actualities. One day, after breakfast, while he was in his room, he was called down to the parlor by the only visitor that had ever sought him. The grizzled, smiling man who rose to greet him ! was a stranger ! “I'm the editor of the Manaswan Banner." said the stranger, introdue- ing himself deferentinlly, “Tom May- nard, my name Is, and a very injured man, Mr. Bronghton! Yes, sir, a very injured man, for surely the local paper had the first eall on a local boy? Oh, Lord!" he einculated in the same kn,v‘ of pretendel indignation, *“to think you were hiding here all this time, and | I didn’t know a thing abont " “1 don’t understand.” said Matt, smiling “What's this all about, anyway? o0, *And so you are a real live king? | went on Mro Mavnar the | question, and m in humor- | ous awe. “Whit a lot of stick in the muds it makes ns feel that one of onr bors could go out and do that, while| we stayed at home with the chores.” CHAPTER 1lil, ‘ A Voice at the Telzphone, “ P ING? cried Matt. *“T den't| y‘ know what you're taking about. Y nistuken— | who said 1 was a King:” [ good putting me off | P Mayuard, “If it's ari first, it has 18 1er secoud, | It wou ‘1.‘. be mir if you didn't give | us second place, considering you were | born aud raised here. and owe that, minch to the town. I've got a cracker | Jack stenographer waiting in the of- fice, two typists, aud the operator's bolding the wire for the Associated Press, so get your hat, and cvne along (Contiaued on Page 6.) rmoring ure J. F. TOWNSEND & COMPANY BUILDING CONTRACTORS w? l'urr lsh MHMV Bnn(i\ fln All_c_?"tfacts If you want a careful. consistent. and re- liabie estimate on the construction of your building, SEE US IMMEDIATELY. TELEPHONE 241 Futch & Gentry Bldg virat mv/{yom' 0./;7’ CALPS o ;&/’de&i or ' gx ravagance Rrog 4 Every old man is the ripened fruit of his younger days. A man does not grow old over night. Age creeps upon us, and f extravagance is stealing away our money, age is stealing away our capacity for work and preparing us tor a desolate old age If you wish to be comfortable, you must begin putting away your money now, then when old age co.nes you can fall back upon the money you BANKED when you were younger. 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