Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 13, 1914, Page 2

TAGE TWO 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 g8c AND UP. Selling Out All Man Furnishings soc Shirts for........39¢ | soc Sox for ..... .s4430C 25¢ Caps for......... 19¢ $1.00 Shirts for......75¢ 50¢ Caps for ........39¢ | $1.50 Shirts for ....$1.10 15¢ Collars for ......I0C $2.00 Shirts for ....$1.39 25¢ Neckties for ..... 19¢ $3.00 Shirts for ....$2.00 soc Neckties for ..... 39¢ I5C Suxafor oo 12¢ Same reduction on all 25c Sox fori i o 19¢ | Underwear. WASH GLOVES. I Stioofor el 75¢ sooc and 65c for ..... 30| Steoitor 0 .$1.10 Boys’ Clothing Going at Half Price YOURS FOR HONEST MERCHAN. DISE. U. G. BATES pefoeroodoeds Brefeeo B b B BB GO B R B BB N0 O QLS Gl e :amm& ot Geodrofndoodgrar bt dng oo e Goeioede oo | J»st Look At This oo / 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 Har} Schaffner and Marx Clothing are in and greatly reduced in price. i | | ! Boys’ Suits and Pants are way down in prices. Now is your t:me to get Fresh goods very cheap. | |The Hu The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing JOS. LevVaY 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- sterg, $560.50, delivered anywhere in Polk county. LAKELAND AUTOMOBILE AND SUPPLY CO. Lakeland, Fla. NEW LIFE AND HOPE By GEORGE ELMER COBB, Abel Darrow had two appurtenances that were prominent and peculiar to himself—a wooden leg and a lawsuit. The false limb was old, clumsy and splintery, for he could not afford an artificial one. The lawsuit also was frayed and worn and weak, for the rea- son, Abel declared, that he did not have the capital to push it to a con- clusion. Abel worked in a bank, and his du- ties, like himself, were erratic. He had charge of the waste paper depart- ment of the institution. That f{s, every afternoon after banking hours he collected all the waste baskets and placed them in a little store roem just as carefully as were the money trays set in the big safety vault of the bank. Through the day, too, he patrolled the institution, picking up every bit or stray paper thrown on the floor or left at the depositors’ desks. “In my time,” Abel had often affirm- ed, “I have found as high as a clean thousand in cash dropped by a care- less customer, and the checks and drafts I fish out from the waste pa- per mean a whole lot to the bank. For this original occupation Abel received a nominal salary, but was al- lowed to sell all waste paper to the mills, and this amounted to quite con- siderable in a yegr's time, Abel lived in a garret room of a boarding house kept by a Mrs. Smith. Miss Eva Tracey lived at the same place. She was a stenographer, and through two years almost every day Abel had bowed to her as they met on the stairway or at table. Beyond that, amid his troubles, Abel, in his reticent self centered way he knew her only casually as he knew hundreds of others. One evening he came to know the pretty maid very much better, how- ever, and it was a bright spot in his dreary life, He came home to find that a defective chimney had scatter- ed sparks on the roof of the house, and this was partly burned off before the flames - were extinguished. The floor of the room Abel occupied was covered with cinders and water, and Mrs, Smith told him he would have to sleep on a couch in the library for a | Was Grossly Decelved. night or two until the damage was remedied. After supper Abel repaired to the parlor to pass the evening. He found a book in a chair and began reading it. He had been thus engaged for a few minutes when Miss Tracey enter- ed the room. He nodded to her, and then, as he observed her looking about from place to place, remarked: “I think you are looking for a book I picked up, Miss Tracey.” “Only to take it to my room,” was the reply. “But I have read it, and you are welcome to the use of it.” That broke the ice. She sat down near to him. The conversation drift- ed on pleasantly. If Abel Darrow had been more observant, he would have noticed that the young lady seemed eagerly pleased at an opportunity to make his friendly acquaintance. Final ly she said: “I have often wondered what be- came of the young man who seemed 80 intimate with you when I first came to the boarding house here.” “You mean Robert Burton?” spoke Mr. Darrow, a shade first gloomy, then sorrowful coming into his expressive face. “Yes, I—I think that was his name. In fact, I am sure of it. I—I knew him slightly,” and Eva flushed deeply. “I thought him my best friend,” ex: plained Abel, and something like a sob choked cléar utterance. “I was gross- ly deceived. I loved him as a father and helped him to his feet when he was penniless and friendless, and— he sold me out.” “Oh, Mr. Darrow!” exclaimed Eva, growing deathly pale. “It cannot be!” Abel stared in wonderment at his companion at this revelation of fervid and unexpected emotion, “Dii he also deceive you?" he ask- ed bluntly, “Oh, no—that is—I knew him, we were friends. I learned to esteem him and—he went away so abruptly I—I have often thought of him,” fluttered Eva. “He is unworthy of your thought,” persisted Abel. “I'm sorry to say it, but it is true. As you must know, three years ago I lost a limb in a ma- chine while in the service of William Lane & Co. Lane witnessed the ac- cident, and knew that it was due to THRE BVBENING fmmm, LAKELAND, FLA., FEB. 3. 1914. the carelessness of the firm. He of- tered me a trifle to settle, which I re- tused. I brought my suit for $10,800. It i8 now pending. One evening he came to my room here with a new offer. I laughed at it. Robert Bur- ton heard him. In a trial his evidence might help me. A week later Robert disappeared.” Apnp: you have not heard from him since?” asked Eva anxiously. “Only once—a mere line from a dis- tant city. “What—what did it say?” pressed Eva eagerly. “Only these words. ‘Stick to the ship!’” ‘ “And that is all?” murmured Eva. vaguely. “No, I must tell you the worst. I positively know that Mr. Lane went west for his health, young Burto}ly went with him as an attendant. Can’t you see how it is—the boy I so loved | has gone over to the enemy! They | have bribed him to remain out of the field as a witness in my behalf.” “I can't understand it at all,” sigh- ed Eva. “He was so grateful to you, he was so kind to everybody.” Three evenings later Eva met Abel at the door of the parlor. She drew him within the room. Her eyes were red with weeping, her face colorless and traversed with anguish, i “Read,” she said sadly, and handed [ a newspaper to Abel, pointing to an item on one of its pages. } According to that, William Lane‘\ | and Robert Burton, traveling in the far west, had started to cross an arid des- ert stretch and had not been seen since. They were supposed to have | miserably perished in a sudden sand- storm that had come up. i “Poor, misguided boy!” sobbed Abel. “If he had only been true to me!” And in his grief he spoke tender for- giving words that showed that his heart was not hardened. And Eva mingled her tears with his, and Abel | knew that this fair young girl had | loved Robert Burton. The blow prostrated Abel. He wasi‘ not equal to going to work the next | day. Eva that evening hastened up: to his room with some dainties for the | invalid. The tray nearly fell from her hand as entering the apartment she saw—Robert Burton! Abel was seated in an easy chair, wreathed in smiles. Never had Eva seen him look so bright and happy. Robert, bronzed, brisk, sturdy, inter- rupted the embarrassed visitor as she tried to retreat. “What! going without shaking hands with me? rallied Robert. “You, who have been a comforter and sup- port to my dear old friend, Mr. Dar- row?” He relieved her of the tray. He held her hands till they trembled and her cheeks were a lovely carna- tion pink. “I have come back to give my old benefactor new life and hope, and to say to you—listen, dear, I should have sald it the day I left you— I love you.” She stood swaying, overcome, but happy. She dared not look up for fear the glowing joy of that exquisite mo- ment might depart. “I have brought to our friend a doc- ument that will win him his case,” explained Robert. “I lured William Lane into the desert purposely. Lost, in deadly peril, I vowed we would die together, but he should right a great wrong. I forced him to a written con- fession which he dare not gainsay, and—'stick to the ship,’ old friend, for you are bound for a sure, safe port.” “With a wedding at the end of it!" cried Abel Darrow enthusiastically. “My boy, it was—my girl, too, now!” And the bliss of old Abel Darrow was complete, (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) SHOW CHANGE OF THE AGES Geologists Can Make Exact Deter minatiop of Periods Through the Study ef Fosslls. Within the last few years, as the work of the United States geological survey has given geologists a larger knowledge of the rocks of the United States, a new sort of geography has sprung up—fossil geography. In this new geography the lands and seas of the remote past are mapped in their true form, and by means of these maps one may follow the development of the American continent and trace its many changes of land and water from age to age. It may seem scarce- ly possible to map theee ancient lands and seas by studying handfuls of fos- sils taken from the rocks on their sites, but this {8 what is being done. | The geologist can trace these geo- graphic changes by noting the extent of successive formations and the ' changes in the character of the rocks, but the age and the identity of a geo- logical formation must be determined principally by means of the fossils it contains. The more exact determina- tion of the ages of sedimentary forma- tion—the floors of ancient seas— makes possible, among other things, the correlation from place to place of geographic changes and shows the direction of invasion or retreat of oceanic waters. Advertising Novelty. A western retail dealer is securing for himself a measure of publicity quite out of proportion to its cost. This dealer has had all the lamps in his store wired to a switch which can be operated by a push button outside the entrance. Over the button there is a sign reading: “You can see our store by pushing fhis button.” Many of those who pass during the evening hours, yield to their curiosity and push the button, whereupon the en- tire interior is lighted. The lamps are cut off automatically as soon as the switch is released, and the scheme has caused considerable comment.— Electrical World. | * , - I \0U ARE IS UIE WARK) i L . Z. 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Mix corn, flour, milk, salt. pepper and sugar and beat well together; then add butter melted and eggs beaten light. Drop in spoonfuls in hot lard and cook about three min- utes, Cabbage Salad with Pimentos— Shred cabbage, and mix with mayon- naise; pile lightly on a dish; put Cflflned Frllit S‘le halved English walnuts over, and Prices are Right W. P, PILLANS & CO0. 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