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A RAIN COAT is the most service- able garment you can buy. 1t' will keep off rain and chlll on a raw day and dust on cool evenings all the year around. OURS are not only YNNG TELEGRAM, LAK P A BIT OF A SHOCK By H. M. EGBERT. Rittenhouse looked up tfrom his work impatiently as the sound of voices came to his ears. But even an author at work is not proof against the merry laughter of girls. Ritten- house frowned, pursed his brows, and then laid down his pen and looked out of the window. ; He had rented two rooms in a little, old-fashioned town for the summer months, 80 as to be at leisure to com- plete the book on which he was en- gaged, without the distractions of city life. But those girls in the third or fourth garden would play croguet—or was it basket ball?—and laugh over their game. He could not see any- thing of their garden because of the row of high elm trees that intercepted the view. “They're Judge Sanford's daughter and niece,” sald Mrs. Briggs, his land- lady. “You're sure to meet them bo' fore long. Everybody meets every- body here.” Rijtenhouse was resolved that he, would know nobody. He was fond | enough of company, but there was the book clamoring for his undivided at- tention. “A hit, May! A hit!" called one of | the girls. | Rittenhouse turned back from the window and sat down. His heroine had to be got out of a dificulty into which her own folly had led her. It was a nice problem. He was puzzled: he frowned again and then took up his pen. Swish! He sprang to his feet with| an exclamation of pain and clapped his hand to his left shoulder. To his amazement he found an arrow stick- ing there-—a genuine arrow, with a feathered shaft and a sharp point that had pierced his coat and stood quiver- ing in his shoulder. A tiny drop of blood was oozing over the lapel. Rittenhouse plucked it out with a grimace and took off his coat. It had made quite a wound, which was bleed- ing freely the arrow had evidently come through the open window. It must have been shot over the hedge by one of the girls, and, as if winged n ///"//‘/” serviceable but STYLISH and can be worn for any occasion. We have many splendid “numbers” in RAIN COATS AND CRAVENETTES. When you PRICE them youjwill buy one. We've got the Umbrellas too. Look at your OLD hot and see if you don't need a NEW one. We are “hat"-quarters for heads. The Hub = LeVAY The Home of. “i.’ Hart Schaffnzr & Marx Clothing §i £ rP LS bEEEEEEIERELS Alligator Goods § i Are interestiaz, us:ful 111)durable Souvenirs We carry Handbags Purses, Belts, Fobs and NOVELTIES ww The Lakeland Book Store Benford & Steitz Sencosmsessmamesssonest 2 Candy! Candy! Candy WE HAVE IT From Stick Candy to the Finest B Have you tried any of our HOME-MADE CANDY ? A Triai is Al We Ask its. Nuts W : e stock of Fresh Fruits ’ H APALCHICOLA OYSTERS b H. O. DENNY Fromyt Delivery ox Candy Phone 10 Sprang to His Feet With an Exclama- tion of Pain. by some malevolent power, had passed through the elm branches and found its billet in his shoulder. “Well, May certainly has made a | nit,” muttered Rittenhouse. His first impulse was to break the | thing in two and throw it away, but on second thoughts he put it in & | drawer of his desk. That incident ; ended his work for the morning. By the time he had washed his wound his | shoulder was stiffening and paining | him a good deal. ’ As fate willed it, that was the day he was to meet the Judge and his family. Rittenhouse was on his way back from the post office when he ran into Mrs. Briggs, who was standing beside the Judge's buggy, in which the Judge sat, and the two girls. “Mr. Rittenhouse!” she called, and Rittenhouse crossed the street unwill- ingly. “Judge Sanford, this is Mr. Ritten- house, about whom I was speaking to you,” she sald. “Miss May, let me present Mr. Rittenhouse. Miss Olive Sanford, Mr. Rittenhouse.” Miss May was a blonde: Miss Olive a brunette, pretty, but not so attract- ive as her cousin. In fact, when Rit- ten house had looked once into Miss May’s eyes he suddenly decided that he was not so much averse from feminine society as he supposed. He left her, in fact, with a certaln fluttering of the heart which he had bitherto supposed existed only in books, and with some new and real {stic idess for his love passages. That was the beginning of an ao- quaintance which played havoc with his work. Days sped into weeks, and memotmmbennwnod their heads significantly whenever Rittenhouse and the Judge's daughter were mentioned. Sometimes, when he was alone. Rit- tenhouse would take the little arrow out of the drawer and gaze at it and behave in an absurdly sentimental manner which, if anyone bad sug- gested it to him a few weeks before, he would have denounced as bad art. He would never forget those after- noons in the Judge's garden, when, | Miss Olive feigning some urgent oc- | cupation or other, and discreetly with- drawing, Miss May and he would | stroll together among the flowers. | | “Didn’t you practice archery?” ven- ELAND, FLA., FEB. 19, 1914. ¥ PAGE THREE tured Rittenhouse one day. always meant to tell her the story of the arrow, but not until a certain pro- ! pitious time which he meant to bring about at no distant date—as soon as he had assured himself that May loved him. “Yes, indeed,” she answered. “Fath- er bought us a shooting set onel day, but the bows were left out in the | rain and got wet and useless. He's, an enthusiast upon archery, you know. It really was his idea. He's always speaking about ordering sgme new bows from town. You 6u2§t to see my cousin shoot,” she continued. “Shol ‘can hit the bull's eye from the other end of the garden. Some day you must have a match with her.” “] don't want a match with her,” muttered the young man sulkily. \ “Why?” inquired May with appar- ent ingenuousness. “Don’t you lke Olive?” ——y _| IF YOU ARE N IHE MARKET For Tin, Sheet iron, Copper, Zinc or any kind of Roofing Work, call the LAKELAND SHEET METAL WORKS 212 South Florida Ave. L Ask for J. P, CARTIN We can fix that leaky roo‘. OurjMotto is. Moaest Prices and All Work Guaranteed, “It T do any shooting it's going to QOO SOSCEBIHIPOSLHOMHIOEOHS GOTO0OTONOISTOLS0 S be with you,” cried Rittenhouse, tak- ing her by the hand. “I want to do everything with you—shooting and walking and eating and—everything. May, don’t you see how I care for you? I've wanted to tell you a dozen times a day, but could never gather up the courage. Can't you love me & little if you try awfully hard?” May looked at him and suddenlyl threw her arms round his neck. “0, my dear, I think I can,” she sald. That was all, and it was not in the least like anything that Rittenhouse had ever written. But the two young people/ paced the garden in such hap- piness as comes only once to men and women, when they love for the first time, which is also to be the last. It must have been two hours later when they were suddenly recalled to their surroundings by seeing the sun drép behind the hills. “And now I am going to speak to your father,” said Rittenhouse. ‘“He doesn't know, does he?” “Father!” exclaimed May. “Why, he never dreams of such a thing about me. He only thinks of me in connec- tion with his hobbies. Just now it's archery. But he's a dear and 1 don't think you will have a very hard task before you. Are you really going to speak to him now?” “Now,” repeated Rittenhouse boldly, ' and they went into the house together, thrilled with a delicious terror. The Judge was in his library, and on the ‘table were two new bows which he was stringing. He whirled round enthusiastically as the young people entered. “I've got them,” he exclaimed ex-| ultantly, “I didn’t tell you, May— going to surprise you, you know. Here they are. Now tomorrow we must set up the butts again. We'll teach Rittenhouse and make a first-class archer of him.” “Judge,” said Rittenhouse, “I want to speak to you about something.” “Yes, my boy. What is it?" “I want to marry May,” he blurted out. The Judge stared at him. “Did you say you want to—to marry May?” he exclaimed. “Now, father,” said May, putting her arms round his neck, “you know you always said you could never deny me anything. So don't make any difficul- ties, because Arthur and I love each other and we are going to be mar- ried.” The Judge sat down and stared about him in a dazed way. “This will play the deuce with our archery team,” he said. “You'll lose your sight, May; you'll be thinking of— of love instead of keeping your eye on the target. It was my dearest hope to beat the Claybury team, and now—" He ran his hand through his hair and got up, looking like a man who has reached a great decision. “Never mind,” he said. “It's a bit| of a shock, but—take her, my boy. Well, I guess the fates were against me, anyway. | knew it when I shot that arrow over the wall and lost it two months ago.” And Rittenhouse, remembering cer- tain sentimentalities connected with what lay in his drawer, had the grace to look foolish. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Billy's Ingratitude. “A rich man can be a Christian while he's got his money, but he ceases to be a Christian when his money gets him.” The speaker was Secretary Bryan; the occasion a Washington dinner. “Old Billy Bones was a rich man,” Mr. Bryan continued, “whose money had got him. Billy was in the lumber trade. “One day he was bossing a lumber crew that was guiding a lot of loge down the river. Suddenly the log Billy stood on slipped and rolled over. Billy sank in the deep and icy water. “But a young Christian plunged in trom a nearby log, and, at the risk of his life, saved the old man. The youth naturally expected some reward for this heroic feat, but Billy only nodded a gruff ‘Thank you' and went his way. “When, the next week, he turned up at camp again, the young Canuck ap- proached him. ““‘Monsieur,’ he said, ‘I see you fall dans l'eau—een ze vawtaire—and I save your life. The pourboire, the re- ward, n'est ce pas, monsieur—’ “‘Look a here, young weller,’ he in- terrupted the stumbling youth, ‘it you'd been tendin’ to business as you'd ! orter, you wouldn’t ha' seen me fall int*” Saving. . “Speaking of stingy people,” said the shopkeeper reflectively, “there’s no one can beat old Serfmp.” “What about him?"” queried the cus- tomer. “Why, he even looks over the tops of his glasses for fear of wearing" them out.” R Rl SRR G. H. Alfield Pres., Sec. and Treas. B. H. Belisario, Supt. and Gen. Mgr. Office Phone 348 Black. Res. 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