Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 9, 1914, Page 2

FAGE TWO SEPPEIPEDE I DDEBISBEDTDH DGR s % | 52543 oo S S oo Bosdodo Bl BB B S D R B BB - Bates, The Ladies’ Store New SPRING GOODS GLAD TO SHOW YOU RATINE RAYE, RICE CLOTH, CAMEO CREPE, COMET RATINE, INDIA CRAEPE, BROCADE SILK, RATINE. NEW THINGS IN SHIRT WAISTS AND SKIRTS. HOUSE DRESSES g8¢c AND UP. Selling Out All Man Furnishings soc Shirts for....... 2395 | 50¢ Sox for .........30¢ 25¢ Caps for......... 19¢ | $100 Shirts for......75¢ soc Caps for ........ 39¢ $1.50 Shirts for ....$1.10 15¢ Colfars for ......10c | $200 Shirts for ....$1.39 25¢ Neckties for ..... 19¢ $3.00 Shirts for ....$2.00 soc Neckties for ..... 39¢ Z5c Sox dor ... s 20 Same reduction on all 250 S0% 10T v sais s 19c | Underwear. WASH GLOVES. $1.00 foft s it 75¢ so0oc and 65c for ..... 39¢ | SIEOMOR e $1.10 Boys’ Clothing Going at Half Price YOURS FOR HONEST MERCHAN. DISE, U. G. BATES vl d @ E E % 4 <8, 3 s All our $3.00 and $3.50; Hats going at $2.00 Those Shoes still going at $1.50 that were $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00. Our Spring Styles of Hart Schaffner and Marx Clothing are in and greatly reduced in price. PSR FP RRRE TR R PPl PP B S ool i § S drfrioiinieotoiol ool dog g SRS PDHOGDRSRPRPPdddi il SdgePant L 23 4 3 Boys’ Suits and Pants are way down in prices. Now is your t:me to get Fresh goods very cheap. Feas BeiBrioeosfirodede fERTPRPERPRRPREERET LT LT T PL TR L PO PPy % ¥ [ The Hub 2 The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing 6?* P/ THF UNIVERSAL CAR N Now is your time To Buy an Automobile We have in stock twenty touring cars, with six more touring and six roadsters on side tracks. Ford Touring cars, $610.50; Road- sters, $560.50, delivered anywhere in Polk county. LAKELAND AUTOMOBILE AND SUPPLY CO. Lakeland, Fla. B e e e Rk g s e L e L RN T S e s Su b Se s Sa T Pet Sul Bal Ta Ty S BB TR g Je000000000000ss00tse0ssseseets sttt ttitssssssssetss PARTNERS FOR LIFE By GEORGE ELMER COBB. “Things look pretty dubious, you see” observed Lawyer Bailey. “There is no doubt that my father’s business is in a critical condition. Well, I am here to mend it.” “I hope you do and you look as if you are going to give the experiment a good, hard try,” observed the attor- ney with an admiring glance at the clear-faced, supple-limbed young man before him. Percival Deane had been called from the midst of splendid attsinments at college to realize the true nobility of a self-sacrificing father. Deane & Marvin had been to the son a synonym for stability and profit. It was an old iron manufacturing business and al- though Percival had known that it had got somewhat behind the times, he had never mistrusted that it had been narrowly grazing the edge of ruin for many months, “The situation is easily told,” said Mr. Bailey. “Two years ago your father's partner, Mr. Marvin, induced him to agree to investigate a chance to purchase a Peruvian concession to cost $30,000. This they had every assurance could be sold withia a year at an enormous advance. Nearly all the capital of the firm was turned into cash. Mr. Marvin departed on his mission. He wired from San Francisco and since that time not a word has been received from him.” “They think he was murdered—rob- bed?” “That’'s the only way they can ex- plain this unaccountable silence,” agreed the lawyer. “Cramped for capital, your father has seen the busi- ness fairly go to pieces. He kept the true state of affairs from you. even paid Mrs. Marvin the old liberal drawing account of her husband. She has a daughter, Elsie, just finishing her education. Poor woman! it was a severe blow when your father broke down physically and mentally and she learned the bitter truth as to how affairs stand.” Percival® Deane figuratively took oft his coat and started in to make time and ability count. The first thing he did was to send his father and a “But We Must Not Be Thus Privi- leged.” trained nurse to a southern health re- sort, os suggested by the family phy- sician. At the end of a week he had the muddled affairs of the firm on a tangibtle basi “It doesn’t look very promising,” he told himself. *“The factory can do no new work nntil the debts are paid eff and some fresh ital secured There is, however, a big stock of foundry and machine shop supplies on hand. If this could be sold cff it would bring in a large aggregate amount. I have a plan to create a demand.” Deane & Marvin owned exclusive models and patterns of a large number of utilities in requirement daily all over the country. The young man di- rected a circular to all of the old ratrons of the firm. He stated the conditions truthfully, offered a redue- tion in price and hoped for the best. It was ®aturday evening when he paid a visit to Mrs, Marvin. He had known hLer casually for years, but since being away at school had not seen her often. “We shall be able to pay you quite a weekly allowance, Mrs. Marvin,” he stated cheerily, “and when I get things straightened around I hope to be able to give you the regular amount you have heretofore received.” “You are most kind and consider- atey declared Mrs. Marvin. “I have felt that as my husband took away with him the greater part of the cap- ital of the firm I could scarcely ex- pect anything from the business.” “You shall receive a share as long as the business lasts,” insisted Perci- val. “It is my father’s wish and my own as well. T understand that your daughter is within a year of complet- ing her education. We must see that there is no break in that—" “But there will be. I am not going back to school,” broke in a new voice and Elsie Marvin entered the room. Her beauty, the fascinating influence of her charming face made Percival doubt if his was the child he had played with years in the past. A glance from her beautiful eyes gave ( He has | goi0 innocently. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., FEB. 9, 1914. } “But what at, my child?” inquired her mother solicitously. “Oh, I can surely fill in somewhere. In the old busy days of the factory you had some one to keep the books and take charge of the office, Mr. Deane. Can I not be of some service there now?” Had she been a stranger, he would have said no. As he reflected how that lovely presence would be a con- stant comfort and encouragement, Per- cival said yes, and so t was arranged. How harmoniously they worked to- gether that first week! What a joy it was mutually to feel that they were. merging their exertions for the sake of their dear ones! Percival attended to the packing and crating of articles ordered. Elsie did all the billing and correspondence, Often she insisted on aiding Percival at his work. Her soft | silky hair sweeping his face, her per- fumed breath, the touch of her fairy hands would send a rare thrill to his soul. He could scarcely control the impulse to take her in his arms and tell her how he loved her. Then came to Percival Deane the disappointment of his life. A young man came to the village. For two days he was almost constantly with Elsie. It was whispered about the vil- lage that he was the brother of Elsie’s closest school friend and her fiance. Elsie came back to work more shy and self conscious than before. SheI was still kindly and helpful, but there seemed to be a barrier now between them. One day she came to where Percival was busy. “Mr., Deane,” she said, “I find that while you have been sending mother a regular allowance, you do not draw any money yourself.” “Oh, that's all right,” insisted Per- cival brightly. “I will take my share when the collections come in.” “But we must not be thus privi- leged.” “I—I fancied perhaps you particular- ly ngeded your allowance—just now.” “Why, what do you mean?” inquired “I heard you might leave here. That is, I fancied—well, as you are en- gaged—" “Engaged?” repeated Elsie vaguely. “Oh, you mean to my recent visitor?” and she burst into a merry laugh, “He was a very good friend, but anything farther than that was never possible with me and utterly cut of the ques- tion with him—when he learned how poor I was.” “Yes,” observed Percival, “we are both poor.” - “But, oh! so glad to share that poverty cheerfully, almost happy—" “You say that!” cried Percival, un- able to restrain his fervent emotions, and her downcast eyes, her blushing face told him that his love was re- turned. One evening a pale, travel-worn man came to the Marvin home—the miss- ing partner. What a story he had to tell of adventure, imprisonment, es- cape, the $30,000 safely hidden, the final investment and—weaith! What a reunion it was, when Mr. Deane was called home to learn the joyful news! What glowing prospects presented for the partners—and Elsie and Percival partners for life! (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman,) ASSERTS FLOWERS FEEL PAIN French Scientist, After a Series of Ex- periments, Is Most Positive in His Opinion. Can flowers feel pain? This is a question to which French physiologists lare giving attention at the present time. M. L. Chassaigne believes that they fcan and do. His opinion is based on | Interesting experiments. Taking a mi- mosa plant, he exposed it to the action i of heat. The leaves writhed as if in pain. A ple mechanical effect, say | the skepti a proof of sensibility, says M. Cha gne, since it does not take place if the mimosa be anesthet- ized. If the vase containing the mimosa i1s placed in a glass globe with a piece of cotton impre;nated with chloroform or any other volatile anesthetic for half an hour, t"e foliage becomes wilt- ed and the plant has all the appear- lances of being in a deep sleep. If it be now subjected to the action of heat It remains unaffected, M. Chassaigne has repeated the same experiment with many different kinds of plants, but always with the same result. “It is maintained,” he says, “that plants do not suffer pain because they have no nerves. “Many physiologists hold that nerves are but the extension of protoplasm, modified and adapted to fulfill the re. quired function. Hence the proto- plasm of plants can perfectly well act 88 a rudimentary nervous system.* That Labeled Trunk, A New York woman had just re turned from a trip around the world. The trunk which she took with her | Wwas naturally covered with labels | from the different hotels, steamshlps! and expresses which she had visited or used, and, though it had been an unusually expensive and very strong trunk, it was somewhat in need of re-“ p_air by the time she landed in this | city. She accordingly sent it to the ! place where she had bought it ang! asked how much it would cost to have | it put in good order. { Imagine her surprise to receive a! letter from the firm, telling her that a thorough rehabilitation of the trumk' would cost a certain moderate sum; | “but,” the letter concluded, “if you will & new inspiration to the ocecasion. “I could not think of being a bur den on your father and yourself, two of the noblest, most unselffish gentle men I have ever known,” she said de finitely. “No, mother, the school dream 8 over. I shall go to work” give us the trunk, we shal! be glad to give you in return a new one emctly‘ like it” If you walk up Broadway | You may see that much belabeled trunk in some show window, as an adver tisement of what a certain firm's trunks can stand.—Leslie’s. i Jutes. el Sul St ted Sutiul St ded | DOHBOE QI OB OB BB PP ORI The Store of Good Taste IT FITS OUR DOOR CUT IT OUT Carry it in your Pocket ang Come In Any Time You’re Always Welcome OUR WEEKLY RECIPE (orn Oysters—Get a can of corn and put it through the meat-chop- per or get the grated corn. Add two Y THESE: beaten eggs, a teaspoonful sugar, TR one tablespoonful salt, one pint of flour, one-half pint milk, two table- spoonfuls butter. a little pepper. Sunshine Crackers Mix corn, flour, milk, salt. pepper 101 Kinds and sugar and beat well together; then add butter melted and eges | They are Eresll and Fine, beaten light. Drop in spoonfuls in hot lard and cook about three min- ! Also ask about our (‘abbage Salad with Pimentos— Shred cabbage, and mix with mayon- naise; pile lightly on a dish; put halved English walnuts over, and C:nned Fruit Sale around the edge put strips of pimen- 1 H ; iy 1t e put strips of pimer PNCGS are nght W. P. PILLANS & CO0.; Pure Food Store Phone 93 MONEY To LOAN Will Loan you Money at 5 per cent. to buy or build, That you pay back in equal monthly pay- ments in 2 and 5 years, if you take a rea- sonable amount of Life Insurance. E. B. PARRISH PLANT CITY, FLORIDA, MESH BAG SALE We are offering our line of Mesh Bags at a special price to make room for the Spring line.‘ This offer does not last long- @ “A pleasure to sh. w Goods” COLE & HULL Lakeland, Fla. 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Let us demonstrate them in your own windows : Wouldn’t you like to see this lighting in one of your windows? It won l; cost you a cent and it won’t obligate you in any way, to allow us to ms;a i few in your \\'mdov-"{to show you how we can double its brightness, . doudiets attractiveness,—double its value to you,—and all wi i : t . eas- ing your light bill. e N As.k for a copy of the free book “‘Show Window Searchlights.** Telephone us when we may make this important demonstration. T. L. Cardwell LAKELAND, FLA. 3 B paa i l eoe>8] pod | o =2 o