Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 26, 1914, Page 7

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ILSON ARDWARE CO. —_Opposite Depot hone 71 ann Plumbingce Bes[ Place Work Now Under id Glenada Hotel owest Pine Street rices Work Guaranteed First Class in Every Respect. Furnished on Short Notice. Office Phone 257 Residence Phon Now anr Avoi0 tie Rush Estimates Will B e 274 Red FYOU ARE IV MM MARKT For Tin, Sheet Iron, Copper. Zinc or aiy kind of Roofing Work, call the LAKELAND SHEET METAL WORKS 212 South Florida AY"‘( Ask for J. P. CARTIN We can fix that leaky roo’. Our Motto is hodest Prices and All Work Guaranteed. ] i glho Vances found themselves. VGG CICICCIECECCEEEIEECEEe SRS R s e FROUGHT ) MIRAGLE By GEORGE ELMER COBB. “I'm afraid we are going to lose our money, Abner,” “l hope not, Mary; I think not. When we decided to go into this | business we agreed to stay by it to the last. It is a long way from a failure.” “Yes,"” sighed Mrs. Vance, “but the anxiety and slow worry is wearing You down.” “The only mistake we made was | that we calculated on too little capi- itnl. With another thousand dollars | POPOBOBODPEGOE b DeTHBOR0E0 ties,” “We invested all we hLad, Abner.” “Sc, let us make the best of it,” Smiled her optimistic husband. “We (Wre started right, we will give clean, meritorious entertainment, and—we are bound to win!" it was a peculiar position in which Two { months previously they had sold out ia little general store business that ;hud given them a bare living for twenty years and enabled them to | glve their only daughter, Helen, an i excellent musical education. A relative in the south had been the cause of a sudden determination on the part of these worthy, credu- lous people that had altered the whole | current of their lives. He was some- thing of a plunger and speculator, With the motto: “Get in first on the new things.” He had made a lucky investment in a motion picture show and was fast acquiring a fortune. “We'll sell out, find a nice, respect- able location in some pretty home town and 8o into the business,” de- | cided Mr. Vance. “I'll learn how to operate the films, you can take in the tickets and Helen—why, with her lovely voice and fine piano playing, she'd be half the show.” So, pride and novelty carried the | Vances away from their usual sober Judgment and here they were now, discussing the results as proprietors lof the “Palace” photo playhouse at : Malden. | They found a poor, cheap motion Picture show in the town when they | started in, but it catered to a second- class clientele. There was a vacant | hall in the place that Mr. Vance cov- eted, but the rent was too high. The Y idead e — “Abner, This Is Pitiful!” THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA. JAN. 36, 1914. i T could have overcome all the difficul- dead alcoholic taint permeated the air. It was plain to read the presentment —strong drink. They aroused the unconscious man through their own ministrations, but they discovered that one limb seemed broken. The doctor told them that it was a bad fracture when he was summoned by the humane Mr. Vance. They knew the next day all that the young man cared to tell about himself. His name was Adrian Noble. He had been turned away from his father's door on account of his drink- ing habits. He had wandered to Mal- den, in a muddled condition, had " fallen from a high sidewalk and here he was—penniless, homeless and friendless. He told the story shamefacedly as he met the beautiful eyes of Helen fixed upon him sorrowfully, reproach- fully. “The penniless part of it needn’t worry you, if you are resolute to work and reform,” said Abner Vance in his blunt, practical way. “As to being homeless, you are welcome here till you are better and we will be your friends if you will let us.” In a strange, subdued manner, the young man grew into their family and business lives. They fixed up a room for him behind the playhouse stage and when he got so he could move around on crutches placed him in charge of the little ticket booth. Adrian Noble would set his eyes fixed upon Helen as she practiced the music for the entertainments. He rarely spoke to her, yet when she was away from the family group he would watch the door restlessly for her reappearance. When he could get around more | freely, Noble began to take a rare interest in the business. He suggest- ' ed improvements in the character of | the films, he was the distributor of some unique advertising that brought | in the audiences. He invented a “noise piano,” as he called it, placed behind the stage. As the projeétor | threw scenes upon the screen, he gave ,a vivid accompaniment that fairly i electrified the audiences. i\ Thus: a horse trotting, a railroad bell ringing, a storm, the clatter of a wagon, 8 blacksmith’'s anvil—by means of wooden, metal and whistle accessories, timed just right, he illus- . trated the motion pictures in a new way. With brighter business prospects, | Mr. Vance still longed for the big hall | in the center of the town. He talked _about it incessantly and it interested ' Noble. One day the latter came to Helen with a grave, earnest face. “Will you write something for me?”’ i he asked. i “Certainly—what 18 it?” {inquired | Helen, flushing a trifie under his clear, steady gaze. “A temperance pledge. I am ithrough with the old folly. I want your hand to inscribe the promise I shall never break.” Two days later Noble disappeared mysteriously from the playhouse. Helen never dreamed she could so miss him. He walked in upon them ! just after the entertainment Saturday night, a new being in apparel and manner. “There is the lease of the hall for ' a year, all paid for and made out in | your name,” he said quietly, handing "a folded document to his host. | “What does this mean?” stared the astonished Mr. Vance. 1 “I went to my father with that pledge and a truthful, manly story,” irr-p]ied Noble. “He bade me return , to the true hearts of gold who had | wrought the miracle of my reforma- tion.” | Mrs. Vance was crying in her moth- ! erly, sympathetic way. Helen’s eyes { beamed upon him, and in their glow- ! ing depths Adrian Noble read the | sure promise of a lasting haven of love! | your Qrdei ___J_’,_,...——-: lighted it and passed out into the gtrawberry reference was to a famous | store he transformed into a little bijou o of a playhouse was not located near (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) | the business center, but he fancied —_— i 1 people would not mind that. They P|GEON USED IN POLITICS 1 | did, egpecially rainy nights, and he BOW sav: Lip I0iLdses, Bird Found in Central Park, New The Vances had arranged some cozy York, Believed to Have Come living rooms at the rear of the play- From Philadelphia. home- house. It was comfortable a i | like and a palace to the old people' «rhe gtrawberrics may come and when Helen, with her happy, cheery he strawberries may go, but the chief | | ways, was about. Just now she had g 4lways with us. How are you going taken some children home from the ¢4 yote?” | show and Was expected back at any | mhjg election eve inquiry was found | moment. attached to a large gray homing “What was that?” suddenly ex- pigeon which fell exhausted in Cen- | claimed Mrs. Vance, and her husband tral park near the menagerie and was sprang to his feet as a scream echoed picked up by Daniel Burns, who has | out in the yard back of them. charge of the aviary. “It's Helen!” cried her husband, A gmall brass ring encircled the! and ran to the door, tore it open and pigeon’s neck, to which was fastened | his daughter burst into the room, pale an aluminum tag with the initials “J. | | With affright. M.” and below them the letters “L. L.” ! | “What is it?” gasped her mother in The election query was written on a | | alarm. small piece of paper which was at-| “I—stumbled over a man—maybe tached to the tag. dead, I don’t know!” ghuddered Helen. | Burns gave the bird some food and “It was so—s0 unexpected, so start- water and after three-quarters of an {ling that T lost my wits." | hour's rest it was liberated. The pig- “A prowler or some one wandered eon rose straight up in the air to a lup from those vile drinking dens on ' high altitude and then headed south. | the river,” decided Mr. Vance. “I'll| It was thought that the pigeon’s | g0 and see,” and he took a lantern, ' home was in Philadelphia, and the darkness. {remark of James McNichol, the Re- | He returned in a few moments stag- publican organization boss there, who, | | gering under the great weight of a at the height of his power, once sald: | helpless human form. He carried and “As a boy I was glad to get pork and ' ! dragged his burden to a lounge and beans. Now I have strawberries and placed it there, gasping for breath cream.”—New York Times. ! from his undue exertions. dear! dear!” exclaimed the Mrs. Vance, after a glance te pulseless face of the un- stranger—"“a young man, ! Abner, this is piti- “Oh, Inefficient. | The young man approached the magnate, resolution gleaming in his | eyes. “While I was calling on your daugh- | ter last night, sir,” he said, “your dog | growled at me.” “Did he bite you?” “No, sir; only growled.” “Humph! Then I'll have to get an- | other. Confound these dealers’ guax»! antees!” hov tood regarding the rescued .r as though gazing upon some vivid camera scene. A handsomer face she had never seen. There were, however, the traces of dissipation | upon its surface. Then, too, the at- itire was all torn and disordered. A : The Loss by Fire in the U. S. 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