Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 6, 1914, Page 8

CLEAN, FRESH GROCERIES e THIS IS WHAT YOU FIND AT MY STORE—ALL AT E THE LOWEST PRICES. ? 8 MY SAUSAGES WILL MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER FOR A MONTH AFTERWARD, JUST TO , THINK ABOUT IT. E. P. HICKSON Phone 144 =) N Wcourse 0f coutse you know the neoessity and advantages of building up a bank: account—BUT HAVE YOU NE? Tomorrow, next week or next month isn’t the time to start it— TODAY is the time as the account once started proves an incentive to further thrift, t ! 4 per cent is paid on these ac- ’ counts a tthis institution. i THE STATE BA OF LAKEBAND F | SEEDPOTATOE R CAR NOW IN : LA M Also Car of i - ' FERTILIZER 1 New Bean, Tomato and other Field] and Garden Seed . D. B. DICKSON 3 Room 17 Kentucky Bldg. Phone: Office, 102; Residence, 160 i A 2 E | _. W. FI'SKE JOHNSON 4 REAL ESTATE AND LOANS 4: ClT—Y—AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY A SPECIALTY L LAKELAND, FIA, If you want te buy property we have it for sale; if you want o sell property we nave customers, or can get them for you. Make out your list and see me today. Saw the Letter on the Bureau in QAL AN S A A A A Ak A Sk A EHEARTED GIRL By MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD- RIDGE. “The artful minx!” “Yes, it's simply disgraceful!” Thus Miss Blanche Ransom, thus in indignant echo Miss Eunice Brad- ner. They were seated on the veranda of the summer hotel at Silver Lake and their mutual interest was centered on a couple passing down .the beach, smiling, attractive and happy—a mmn : and a girl, the latter Lois Tyrell, school mistress, the gentleman Vane Walton, grandson and heir of John Walton, the oity millionaire. He had joined the gay aristoeratic group at the hotel two weeks previ- ougly, Mr. Paul Durand, fop and trail- er, of the fashionable set, had culti- vated him and incldentally made him his: occasional banker. Between Miss Raasom and Miss Bradner there had been a positive race. for the attention of the promising young man, Quite accidentally one afternoon Vane had rescued Lois Tyrell from the grasp of a thieving. tramp, bent on robbing her as she was gathering wild flowers in the wood.. The rare beauty and modesty of the young girl had held Vane spellbound ever since. For the first time in his life he knew what real love was. In a week he had confessed the fact to the object of his adoration, at the end of two they were engaged. “After his money, of course!” re- marked Miss Ransom sourly. “Oh, everybody knows that!” chim- ed in Miss Bradner with like acri- mony. Meantime the happy lovers con- tinued their stroll. It led to the hum- ble little schoolhouse where Lois pre- sided. Then Vane came back to the hotel. It was to face a vast sur- prise. A letter awaited him and by its su- perscription he recognized the hand- writing of his grandfather. He had written his eccentric relative frankly informing him that he had met his heart's choice. With some anxiety he Here it was. had awaited the reply. Vane's Room. The missive was a brief one. “The timber investment has gone beyond my control,” it ran. “You had better think of something besides getting married. I am going away to find out if anything can be saved from the wreck. In the meantime you had better try and start in earning a liv- ing.” The timber investment!—that in- volved the entire fortuneé of Vane's grandfather. To say that Vane was not seriously impressed and disap- pointed would be to stray from the facts. It was a positive blow, a rude shock. Paul Durand, always meanly poking into the business of others, saw the letter on’the bureau in Vane's room later. The news soon spread. Be-’ fore nightfall the fashionable coterie at the hotel knew of the failure of the | | old millionairé. Before nightfall Vane had set the stamp of truth upon the rumor by retiring to the cheap little hotel in the village. “What a narrow escape!” shudder- ed 'Miss Ransom, recalling her efforts to capture the young man. “There will probably be a change in the sentiments of that scheming school mistress now!" sneered Miss Bradner. There was certainly a change in the shallow natures of the tuft hun ters who had praised and petted and sponged upon the generous young | Walton. ! Cold shoulders were turned to him, | distant glances and supercilious nods awarded him. Mr. Paul Durand made a point to evade his former friend, and forgetting to repay his borrow- | ings. | There came one bright spot in Vane's experience. The young clergy- man who had charge of the struggling church on “The Flats,” where a poor working community predominated, came to Vane in his new quarters, “I hear you have met with some distress in your expectations, Mr. Walton,” he remarked. “I fear it is true, gravely. “I wish to offer my personal as- replied Vane | quite so light as that; not quite so 'FLA, JAN. ¢, 1914 ‘mtuu. then. You were more than liberal in donating to my life work. I have some small cash I can spare for a time. If you are temporarily em- . barrassed—" ! “You are s good man—as I always ' thought you to be,” interrupted Vane . hastily and in a choking tone. “Your 'sympathy is & rare boon just at this i time. I can pull through, thank you. ‘R i I can suggest one way you can help ! me, though.” | “I am certalnly at your service,” { declared the good-hearted young mim- | ister earnestly. “Then find me some work to do.” ‘“You mean here, in the village?” “Just thet, I am going to stay. My will probably have te | throw. me_on my own resources. A ocertain pride influences me to remain i away. from my former Dess . aequaintances.” wite.” . “A tree,. noble. young lady,” mented the' clergyman warmly. 8o Miss Ransom and Mies Bradner found themselves in error as-to the motives and fealty of the loyal littls' schoolmistress. It really. seemed: as though Lois was not sorry that wealth' had dropped away from:the man: she loved—it placed them more:on an equality of social position, it put to rout, the ill natured implicationw that her motives were sordid. " The kind hearted clergyman found a really good position for Vane with a firm in the town controlling several grain elevators in the district. Lois who was alone in the world, was about to be transferred to a new school district. The problem of a separation was solved by Vane insist- ing that they be married at once. To Lois the little cottage that they called home was a palace of comfort and ‘delight. Often, however, she would wonder if Vane missed the old time luxury, often she reproached herselt for becoming a burden to a man just learning to make his own business way. in the world. Then Vane would divine her thoughts. There was no false note to the steadfast joy and supreme con- tentment the new life had brought to his loyal soul! Lois was alone ene day in the house when the whir of a halting au- tomobile outside called her to the porch. The chauffeur of the machine helped a dignified old gentleman alight. He came directly up the gravel path to Lois. } “Mrs. Walton?” he inquired. Nellie bowed assentingly. ! “Then my granddaughter,” went on her visitor. “Oh, you are Mr. John Walton? Vane will be so delighted!” The old gentleman looked about the neat parlor into which he was shown in an approving way. ‘ “Sorry I am going to disturb you here,” he remarked, “for you are cer- tainly to be envied in this home-likel nest.” “But you are not going to disturb us!” exclaimed Lois heartsomely. “Thank you, dear, but I have come to take you back to the city. So you i are the true hearted girl, unlike a good many of the others, who really g loved my grandson for herself and not for his money?” propounded the g old man, his eyes fixed commendingly upon the neat little housewife. Lois blushed and rassed. “Well, it was all a test,” continued Mr. John Walton. sure that Vane was not being caught by a fortune hunter. When I wrote Vane that my timber investment had gone beyond my control, it was true— but I had sold out at a princely profit. When I spoke of ‘the wreck'—well, there was a wreck at one of the log- ging camps when a small engine blew up.” A few months later at a fashion- able function in the city, Miss Ran- some and Miss Bradner sat spell- bound as Vane Walton and his beau- tiful wife came into evidence. “What a beautiful costume!” com- mented Miss Ransom. “Yes, indeed, we must cultivate the dear girl,” added Miss Bradner. So runs the world. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) Wanted a Certain Shade of Blue. As proof that the clerk’s lot “is not an 'appy one,” the Manhattan Na- tionalist quotes a shopper as saying: “Something in plain taffeta, please, I don't want anything as dark as navy blue, nor anything as light as Cam- bridge blue, but something darker than Eton blue, and a little off from electric blue, and not a sky blue or lab. oratory blue; more like a robin's egg blue, and yet not so light, but not an India or Wilson blue, but something like this new tint pearly blue. 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