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S— s s — .. ao— T HE EVENING TELE URAM LAKELAND, FLA., FEB. 25, 1914, At this Period use all Safe- guards for Comfort and Well Being your food, conserves your health, increases your pleasure, does you good in ways too numerous to mention—and all for a very little money. Instead of decreasing your taking of ice on the cool days which will be occasionally sandwiched between the warm ones, resolve ”"l:"’ ”“] “”‘"5“ ”""l“““"‘_ ;‘-“S ”";“' pea at the time expected. He was 2 = : i 4 nah, and, like most other widows, she in ro hurry to get up a feeling of ¥ T : right now that every day is a full ice day for you. was full of business. There were jcalousy. The widow was provoked Reooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building Flori And stick to that COUPON BOOKX o sistent SAVER, l«i"vl iv';“'m‘l)’,m. burning ;,‘"p,\,,"” ’.‘: ":“:_j:,l : |"‘H dur o hour 4 Lakeland 12 Conp i i o i i o S e, oo W o The Cost of Living is Gre G (AR s ke pt ¥ h anyone o'clock +was there, She did e e e e U P ——— Y-8 any time to wasts Your best opportunity to save real, LOST GOLD The best and most practicable of these is ice:"OUR ICE. It preserves l f ours. It is your consistent, per’ i )uu'vv been keeping company SISTERHANNAH'S VISIT Rl e e By C. B. LEWIS. Miss Dorothy Spencer, spinster and forty years old, lived in the outskirts of the village of Grafton. She kept a servant and a cow. had a cat and lived in a comfortable way on her income. She was neither homely nor good-look- ing. She had a widowed in Towa, and one day that sister things she wanted to know about al- most before she had taken her bonnet off, and there was one thing in par- ticular that she lost no time in bring- ing forward “Now, then,” she seated in the big want to know why said, as she got rocking chair, "I you haven't mar- “For how long?" “Please let’s not talk about it, sister. Were the Perkins family well when you left howe?" “Never vou mind the Perkins fam- ly, but pay attention to this other matter. What's the name of the man| with?" “It's Henry Goodheart. I don't know , whether yvou'd call it keeping company iand sister i fourteenth of next month. | late you ousy, but after the mian had stayed his usual hour and departed she could not , tell whether it was a success or not. He had talked about as usual. “Did you say anything to him out at the gate?” asked Dorothy. “None o' your business whether I did or not. He's the in four states, but I'll bring him to the mark. He has either got to show his hand or dust along and make room for somebody else. 1 imagine he'll be around tomorrow night.” “It's awful, sister—positively aw- ful,” said Dorothy, as the tears filled her eyes. Mr. Goodheart did not make his ap- On Sunday evening she met him a auarter of a mile down the road and #ave him more of her confidence. She confided to him the was one of the a hundred miles around. She was also economical. Also loving and clit % in her disposition. Mr. Goodhe began, “at the to vou about the “Mr Goodheart,” she tine [ machine spoke sewing man [ didn't know that you engaged Wer You really must excuse me. When talking with you last night I did not know that the marriage day had been set for the I congratu- You will have best wives in the state woodenest man ' fact that Dorothy best housckeepers for one of the I shall stay to ! - W. K. Jackson-sscutee- WK, Mcl Owner and Manufac- turers’ Agent Brokerage--Real Estate TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE Te BELL WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYZIX TELL US WHAT YOU WANT T¢ BUY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A §ELLER {.akeland L} e Unless You Knew Where to B IF YOU KNO Estst 3 i | | tor not. He comes Sunday and Wed: the wedding and tender vou my heart- n - o : e | nesday evenings and talk: for aw | iest wishes ; R e anythl e the shoe line unless “Twice a week, eh? And how 1ong | The mun stammered and blushed you has he kept this up?” and looked around for & way to es | | “N-nine years.” vape. There was none. The widow o i -~ | ) cipe | none. 1 vido WA I ‘ H : “Lierothy Spencer!” exclaimed Sis- had run him to earth The SC]CC(IOD Wl“ be the bes' ter Hannah, as she almost sprang out “Yes- just s0." was all be could say, i of her chair. “Do you mean to tell me | a month later he was on hand for | : l,h:qt)I :l. 'n:w‘)‘x has I(:A .n\-’nl dzl‘l\‘\tl]llnyf ::I'Ullll(i | :;:].' \l\vlll ;1:11 o il mr: The Va”ety unmatChed s OU"StUIP. we sell the best “'shoes’ at Ccost here for nine years and never said a! “Here only two wecks, and yot see | ¥ word about marriage?” :\\llil' I have done!" said sister Han The quahty unsurpassed SE E “But he's one of the most bashful | nah after the knot had been tied h;ml‘ men vou ever saw,” protested Dorothy, | and fast. I tell vou, Dorothy, the way | Th . h l | " [ 7 | “and I-1 [ to get married is- to get married. € prlCe t € O“CSt $ “You are going to say you couldn't| I've tried it three times and ought to | What bargains your friend found & &k hi A OricourHe voul know! i | : 8 y d at our ask hn!vll to marry you. Of course you ' Know. A“ !hese you hnd at our store Blg Shoe Sa'e, couldn't, but you could have brought | | ! him to time years ago” WAS AN IMPORTED EXUTIC | 5 “He's a very nice man, and v\'ury-: | JUS( "'ade w“h us H body thinks so. | ;.uvsn, he thinks .X,‘ John Endicott Credited With Introduc: ' A dont want to get married to anyone 2 tion of Well-Known White- : : & Im rou u er or “What business has he to think) ! Thls Se"les the ques"on Uf “V' Weed or Daisy. : that? Of course yvou want to get mar- | S | 5 vty X5 rled. Every woman does. All widows Tradition has it that from the early | Em Sho Sellin’, Fellos and single women are just dylng to{ oqpq0y of Gov. John Endicott In Sal- | be asked. Nine long years and he h:xs“ em, Mass.. came what is now perhaps | —— | 0t asked for your hand! I thought| . (omonest field flower in the Best Butter, per POUNd. ... oot vcennrioe soeieiaans there was a nigger in the fence some-| i States. Few persons, writes | i v i ! 2 BRrB S GBI B 0w i o B o o s o oo o where, and have come on ((;] see about | Grace Tabor in “Old-Fashioned Gar- ugar, DOUDAR! s scis o oainaainmsininy i sisbiviass aasns ft. I have been married three times| gepine know that the pestiferous > 1_.! 4 | in eighteen years. and I'm expecting | wpiteweed, the jubilant, smiling Cottolene, 10 pound pails. .......oovvvvvnnnn, | i & | the fo?u-(h man to come along any day. | gajsy s an imported exotic. Cottolene, 5 pound pails.......... sl o < § '5 I didn't keep company with any of my From thix old dooryard garden it R e husbands over six months. After that | pag ganced to the music of the east 4 pounds Snowdrift Lard. ........coooen viiiiiiinian. . o0 & time had passed I Just wanted to know | i, q straicht across the land; up and ° % what they were hanging around for.| joun the meadows, through the long Snowdrift, 10 pound pails....... o0t viurinnns 0l ° G Dorothy, something has got to be done. | gr.os anq the short grass, along ev- 3 i That Goodheart, or Goodliver, or What: | are highway and every byway., Wher- 3cacsfamilysize Cream..........o000 vuivvnnnncinns o b : r his name is, has got to come to| oye an Bug gone 1t has followed 3 « : ) el ever man has gone it has followe 6 cans baby £12 CPeAM. .\ vvvurvreerer cvenneenrnnons Reduce the COS( Of IIVinq, our H ttme. gaily; often it has driven him com- y & h“l‘{;"“"' tsm‘l,r' 'Im',llflhl"d ”b you | pletely out of the fields he has ma;le. 1:2 barrel best PIOUP, .« o osvvvessnsorsise srnnsnseos oS0 ine Should go to mixing In e 80| That Kndicott valued the daisy 3 § motto 'Or ninsteen fou"een 4 shamed that I'd feel like runeing | enough to bring it with him to the 12 pounas DeBtRIONE: v i v'vi s vevbans vnviy v wissnssss g & away.” new England from the old marks him » § Wll el I h X “You leave it to me, and don’t worry. | as a man of taste, for this flower had Octogon Soap, 6 for..... R R IR R R PR PR | 2 | e staple rocerles ay & @ I'm older than you are. I've had three in ancient davs “found its way into i g 5: p g ’ ) C, | husbands and know how I got 'em.|the trimmest gardens; the green iround Coffee, per pound.........oovvt vuvvunnnnnean, ofl €% feed,|Wilson-Toomer Fertilizers, all § §| They were al bashiul men Tahan't) swards and_wrbors were“powidered BRI <o inmss con iunvssmna i il { - A f} ‘do anything to shame you with daisies.” and Chaucer wrote of & i < n 2 | It was a conspiracy of one. Neither | it in superlatives. It is not native to § klnd\ Of Sh Dlng Crates and baSKetS) I} Dorothy nor Mr. Goodheart was taken | England, either, however, but came 5 into the widow's confidence. She had | from the coutinent, or perhaps by way 3nd td p("? OeS, E(c-, at reduced § been in the house three days when | of the continent from an original fi Sunday evening came and he showed | home still farther east, in northern X reo 5 up on his bi-weekly tour. The widow | Asia— Youth's Companion. ° ° k3 i — — 4 liked him. He was slow, but sturdy e T 2 i and honest. He didn't look nor talk | Some Sccpe. love. He talked more of sunflowers| Dpr Charles II. Colmore, the new 2 and onions than he did of love. Dor- | bishop of ! rto Rico, said of divorce % ¢l othy was ill at case, as she did not|{n America - : know what was coming, and her hvurl} “Oh, ours is not the only country o LAKELAND, FLORIDA H beat l.lkv a trip-hammer as the wldm\" \\‘ilh. a rampant divorce A»plril(‘ 1 \}‘z\s : &S ¢ 4 | finally said: | talking one day to a Roumanian priest 2@ qepipp b $ : Mr. Goodheart, 1 think I shall take | and he said that the Greek church g Room 17 Kentucky Bl . . §g g ! [ Dorothy back to lowa with me when | only allowed three divorces. cky Bldg. Phone: Office, 102; Residence, W P EREEEELEPEES. LOPTEN L B N e b PO kB 1A pphe || B0 “‘Only. mind vou-those were his g : » He gave a start of alarm and the red | very words ‘onlv!’ W F I S K E JOH N S . y came to his face. He made no reply,| “He sald he married a couple once however, and soon took his depar- and the bride having already been di £ ture. vorced twice, he said to her in & 6 REAL ESTATE AND LOANS “How could you!" exclaimed Dor- Whisper at the altar: 3! S 7 Ak othy, with a glance of reproach, as the “‘You'd better be careful this time ]i CITY AND SCBURBAN PROPERTY A SPECIALTY gate was heard to latch behind the Remember. by the law of the church, | @ LAKELA; man. this is your lasi chance. This time it's S ' . . “1 wanted to jar him." replied the for keeps.' i!‘ » widow. “He'll be over here within a| °'Oh no’ said the bride, with a g fi. day or two and ask you to make him toss of the head: ‘oh, no. My first | happy.” husband was my cousin, g0 that mar- “But it will look as if we were drag- Tiage was illezal. and consequently L ¢ R g : SHHE HI G by Ve Nl b x\l;nf‘hg-’u?" have still some ) ? If you want e Duy property we have it for sale; if you Wi Now is vour time | “Never you mind the looks. The {¢ © sell propertr we nave customers, or can get them for you. To By an Automobile [ great object is to get marricd.” Filial |3 oOut vour list and see me today. i3 b i ll.\h- Goodheast didn't show up till . \;f"" ) ! \‘ the e TEPESEEPEEEEIY S SPPPPISEPIE : z b \is usv ednesday evening, how- he ( 1 " : ever. the tir he was ,\" ot- one st s ear e ed the was t y meet There v estio s S e him. \WVhen th d ~.".u|l each And 1 Viol ‘Mr. Goodh mt to ask you a US¢ ( £ LAKELAND \ rOMODR! questic 1 conti Prisn | 13 etty AND SUPPLY CO Y one. von Alonza Logan T Tawnce e S 0 LOGAN § TOWNSEN is ver ch smitten on Dorothy, [g She's « | o 1 it Ao BUILDING CONTRACTORSHE ! feel 1 dian t R T I We Furnis :.surch Bonds Cn Al ContraCR | ch ; it you want a careful, consistent. ana , he did i h g on the construction of youl ‘ ; : : IS IMMEDIATEL Y, ' ‘ had 0 buy e food to ‘X{t 66 Fu‘\h b “C”tr} b SRR ST SR T SRR AEe e,