Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 12, 1914, Page 3

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., MARCH 12, 1914, GO FEHIEPE S0 00000008 More Goods, New Goods, and Better Goods Sffl;lAl BARGAINS EVERY DAY :19¢, 39c, 49c. Chlldren s Dresses, come see, 39c up SELLING OUT ALL NEW GOODS - Shirts, 14 and 1414, 25 and 50c; all sizes 35c, 3 for $1 A good half-dollar Elastic Seam Drawers, 35c, 3 for $1. Scriven’s Ne, 50, while they last, 50¢ the pair, all sizes. Men’s Hats, any price you want ; must go Check Nainsook Underwear, 2-piece Suit..... .39% SEOD WHion Suits . . o il Lol 69¢ Boys’ Suits, $4 for $2.49; $5 for $2,98; $7.50 for $4.95. More Goods for Less Money U. G. BATES Spring Opening Our Spring Clothing for Men and;Boys are far' superior this'year than they {have ever been. The prices are way cheaper also, and it will pay you to come in and examine our Suits that range in prices from $15.00 to $25.00 “® (L, Everything is now in our Store, and a | glance in our windows will convince you - of the Quality and Prices we are offermg the Public this year. Our Straw Hats “Are all Imported, and we are the only ones in town that have them. ! i Arrow Brand Shirts and Kneeland Shoé_;_. Onxy Socks in good Styles and Quality. The Hu The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothmg v CHODOLHOORISC SO IO R D EOHOHOROH0S DO SN G. H. Alfield Office B. H. Belisario, Res. Phone 39 Blue Phone 348 Black. - Res. Phone 372 Blue. JOS. LeVAY Let us estimate on your sidewalks or concrete floors. We lay floors that are water-dust and grease-proof. Ask us about them. e 20 LAKELAND PAVING AND CONSTRUCTION CO. Lakeland 307 to 311 Maln St. Fla. ~We do out of town work too. "andy! Candy! CandY WE HAVE IT rom Stick Candy to the Finest Box Candy Have you tried any of our DME-MADE CANDY ? A Triai is Al We Ask e also have a nice stock of Fresh Fruits. Nuts, Dried Figs, Dates and Raisins. FRESH APALCHICOLA OVSTERS H. O. DENNY Phone 11} l e e e e eI eI O R EEe e eI e e rereeoeereeteresererers IT FINALLY CAME By L. A. CLAY. If there had been occasion for George Shoemaker to jump into the river to save human life he would not have hesitated a minute. If a farmer’s bull had broken out of pasture and was on the rampage through the village, George Shoemak- er would have been the first to seize him by the tail and swing him over a fence. It the village cooper shop had been found ablaze some midnight, it would have been George Shoemaker who would have plunged into the fiery fur- nace to save the kegs and firkins. There wasn’t the least doubt of the young man's physical courage, but when it came to moral courage he was sadly lacking. They couldn’t get him to a dance, a Sunday school excursion, a straw ride, or a spelling school. He would go to/ a circus, but he'd take a top seat where no girl would be to the right orl left of him. Now and then he attend- ed church, but he waited until the congregation was seated, and then dodged in and took a back seat. There are lots of men that are moral cowards so far as the other sex are concerned. That's why there are old bachelors. Just how they reason it is hard to say. In fact, they don't reason at all. If a woman is born to fear a mouse she fears him, and that's all there is to it. George realized his fail- ing and had tried hard to overcome it, but had arrived at the age of twenty- five and was still as bashful .as a young gosling. Then two important things came tumbling into his life He was chased up a tree by a mad dog, and when he had come down again he found himself thinking of the | opposite sex from a new standpoint. The bashful man didn't stop to ask himself if the scare had brought about the change, but went right on and let another take place. Ile was twenty- five years old and ought to get mar- ried. His feet began to grow cold at the thought, but he. took 2 run around the school house and came back to | hug the idea. Yes, he ought to have a wife and a home. As the idea broadened and enlarzed he found him- self musing: “Now, there is Ifunny Desbro. She is very plain looking, but so am 1 for that matter. She is called a very steady girl and ought to be a good | y, housekeeper. Dang my buttons, it 1| don't get up the courage to court her!” It was a month later when George Shoemaker walked home with Fanny Desbro from prayer meeting He didn't ask her consent, and she didn't drive him away. He was surpriged to find himself there, and she was sur- prised that he had broken loose, as it were. They walked side by side for half a mile and all he said was: “I wonder if that is the same moon they see in Africa?" And all she said was: “l am glad there are no wolves in Spooner county. I should hate to be eaten alive.” A week later the bashful man stop- ped to talk with the girl at her father's gate. He wanted to talk, and she wanted to talk, but all he could think of to say was: “They say that ‘tater mighty plemty this year.” And all she could think of to say bugs are was: “l hear that Deacon Jason's dog bit | old Mrs. Rodmai cow yesterday.” “Was that George Shoemaker out | there?" Miss Fanny's mother asked. ‘Getting brave all at once, isn't he?” ! “Seems like it."” | “Well, he's a good steady chap and | a girl might fare farther and l]l)‘\ worse, | ‘He ought to marry a dumb girl mt match himself."” “That makes me think. 1 was read- ing in a paper the other day that a quiet, bashful man like George was entirely cured of his ailment by a sudden great shock. Perhaps he'll get one.” One evening a fortnight later George came courting That is, it was what he called courting. He sat on the edge of his chair and looked up at the ceiling and observed: That doctors had found a new cure for indigestion That there were more toads around than he had ever seen before, That some folks thought the steeple of the Methodist church was out of plumb but he didn't. That a stranger had arrived at the village hotel and taken a room for a week, and it was evident that a busi- ness boom was about to set in over the whole country. On her part Miss Fanny observed that she had been told that the school- house was to be repainted. That some tramp had burned a ha} stack for Farmer Johnson. That a rat had run over Mrs. Ray- burn’s bare foot and made her faint away. That Grandpa Stivers was already predicting that next winter would be cold enough to freeze the hinges off the gates. When George rose to go he held out his hand, and it was evident that hel wanted to say something bad, but he had just begun to stammer when Miss ; Fanny's mother came into the room and he broke off. He was invited to call again, and he did so to invite the girl to a candy pull with him. She accepted. It was at a house a mile away, and en route he started to say something and a stray dog ran be- tween his legs and killed his speech. On the way back he started out again, but just at the wrong moment they were overtaken by another couple and he had to bite his speech short off. This discouraged him, and he was si- lent even when they parted at the gate. “Well, is the bashful man still bash- ful?” asked the mother of the girl next morning. “He's improving a little, but I can’t make him out.” “How ?” “He wants to say something to me, but he's so slow about it that some- thing always happens to interrupt.” “He can't be going to propose?” “Why, we are hardly acquainted.” “But some men are in a dreadful hurry.” A few days later as Miss Fanny was walking by the river she ran into Mr. Shoemaker, who was out for a couple of hours with rod and line. 8he sat down upon the log beside him, and they passed a few sentences; when he said: “Miss Fanny, I have been waiting an opportunity to—" “Yes,” she queried as he stopped ) there. “An opportunity to—to—" “Hello, folks!" saluted the owner of the sawmill as he came strolling that way. Of course what the bashful man wanted to say was postponed. Miss Fanny's curiosity was piqued, and she said to her mother when she reached home: “Mother, Mr. Shoemaker wants to say something to me, but can't.” “Does he keep trying?" “He does.” “Then why can't he say 1t?” “Because he's so slow of speech that before he can get the words out something or other interrupts.” “Well, it must be painful for him. He ought to get a shock, like the man 1 was reading about, but goodness only knows if it will ever come. He might write what he wants to say in a letter, but I 'spose that idea has never occurred to him.” A Sunday or two later the bashful man sat in church when {t began raining. Miss Fanny was there, and she had no umbrella. He made a | 8sneak and returned with his, and when the service closed he was at the door to offer his shelter. On the way home he remarked: “This rain'll help 'taters.” “And string beans,” she added. And five minutes later, after several { preliminary coughs, he began: “Miss | anny, what T want to say to \\h.|| 1 want to say—' “Ah, George” said the minister as he overtook them. “You are also one of the lucky ones to be prepared for the storm.” As he continued to walk their way, poor George hadn’t another opportuni- ty to say what he wanted to say. Two weeks later, without having got the matter off his mind he started to walk over to the village of Hudson, four miles away, on business. Half an hour after he had started Miss Fanny was driving over the same road with a horse and buggy. Of course she overtook him, and of course she gave him a “lift.” They had jogged along for half a mile when he began to hitch around uneasily, and after a time it was the old story over again: “Miss Fanny, I have been trying to tell you that—that— “Yes.” “I have waited for an opportunity to say—" Neither heard the honk of the auto coming up behind on the sandy road. The first they knew of its presence was when the buggy was liften ten feet high, the horse knocked down, | and themselves went sailing into a thistle patch. The autoist didn't stop —of course he didn't; but, aside from the Imu\ no great damage was done. “Hurt?" asked George, as he scram- bled up “Got & bruise or two.” “Then, Miss Fanny, what I've want- ' ed to cay and what T will say now if 1 die for it, is that I love you and want vou to he my wife, and I'll knock the head off'n any human hyena that comes along and interrupts before you can answer!"” “And what did you say?" asked the mother of the daughter, “Why, the shock had changed him so that in my surprise I guess I sald yes!” (Copyright, 1914, by the MecClure News- paper Syndicate.) “$'Matter, Pop?” Though not considered absolutely careless in his attire’ Senator John Sharp Williams does not pay particu- lar attention to his gloves, his ties or whether a handkerchief is sticking sort of careless out of his vest pocket. But the other morning he reached the limit of not ca.ring. or, possibly, was too engrossed in certain measures to pass criticism upon himself in the hall mirror as he left his home for the capitol. When he came into his office, hls‘ clerks grinned, but said nothing, think- ing he knew his own business and didn't care to be reminded or advised as to his appearance. But it was Mrs. Willlams who called | up, presently, and asked one of the young men to please go over to the senate and remind the senator that he had worn their young son’s rakish green felt hat down to the capitol, and that the boy couldn’t go to school, or wouldn't till he had it. A Veritable Peach. Gray—Is she pretty? Whyte—Well, you can judge for yourself. She told me last night that she never had to stand up in a crowd- ed street car.—Somerville Journal. Long Life of Linen Shat {» just what we are giving is what you are looking fer and along with good laundry work. Try us. Lakelana Steam :Laundry Zhens 180. Wost Maix 0. . OO P YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The OId Reliable Contractors V ho have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and 1. ho never “FELL DOWN"or failed to give satisfaction, All classes of buildirgs contracted for. The many fine residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their abilityto make good, MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Bilue [eaaaaaad st ottt ot i)l X L] ~ WIFE, ARE { ALt THESE FrROM TWE : sTore oF E \ Gooo TasTe? /= ! ..... e ) { i ANTICIPATION---Tnen---REALIZATION WE HAVE ANTICIPATED YOUR EVERY GROCERY WANT | Realize onThese George Washington OUR WEEKLY RECIPE BREAD AND COCOANUT PUDDING Mix a cup of soft, fresh bread Preuaren cottee crumbs with two cups of hot : milk, add a heaping tablespoon Made in the Cup at the Table ful of butter; stir well and set 30c and $1.00 Tin aside to grow cold. Beat the volqs of two eggs with a half cup of sugar and a teaspoonful Iamna Bay notel of lemon juice, with a little I t made Tampa grateyy rind, half a teaspoonful Co‘fee y Famous. 40C.L8B. of vanilla, half a cup of grated cocoanut anq the erumbs. Bake .in a pudding dish in a moder- ate oven till it is of thec onsist ency of custaray spread with jam and a meringue. Also the Largest- Line of Coffecs in the city. W. P. PILLANS & CO. Pure Fobd Store PHONE 93 | I | Double your show wmdow s bright- ness at no increase in lig t bi in light bill No matter how excellent your window displays are,— —no matter how alluring the values offered may be,— —no matter how much time, thought and money has been spent to produce an unusual display,— —if you do not light it properly, it will fail to attract the attention it should. Brilliant window lighting from Asdden lamps will compel attene tion to any display,— —it will fncrease the pulling-power of the best-dressed window. 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