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PAGE SIX Bates The Ladies’and Children’s Store More Goods, New Goods, and Better Goods SPECIAL BARGAINS EVERY DAY — e —————— Ladies’ Shirtwaists_... .- 19¢, 39c, 49¢. Children s Dresses, come see, 39c up SELLING OUT ALL NEW 0000§ Shirts, 14and 14712, 23 and 30c: all sizes 33c¢. N A good half=dollar Elastic Seam Drawers, 33c, 3 t for 1. Scriven’s Ne, 30, while they last, § 30c the pair, all sizes. u Men's Hats, any price you want: must go % Check Nainsook Underwear, 2-piece Suit..._ ... 39¢ $1/00 nlon SUlES 00 coi diiieiaic fa ot e 69c Boys' Su1t~. 34 for $2 49: 25 for $2.98; S7. m for 54 95. More Goods for Less Money U. G. BATES rohdd obod i eI iiedddd b oo Sreoefrie @i gofo BB faiel B2utal L Rutal B 2utud L Sutal L lutal T Sutul L 2atul L 2ute ] Spring Opening Our Spring Clothing for Men and Boys are far superior this year than they heave 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 offering the Public this year. - Qur Straw Hats Are all Imported, and we are the only ones in town that have them., Arrow Brand Shirts and Kneeland Shoes. “Onxy Socks in good Styles and Quality. ~JOS. LeVAY The Hub The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing G. H. Alfield Res. Phone 39 Blue Office B.¢H Phone 348 Black. . Belisario, Res. Phone 372 Blue. S ouiall nle il Let us estimate on your sidewalks or concrete floors. We lay floors that are water-dust and grease-proof. Ask us about them. ! padd LAKELAND PAVING AND CO\STRUCTION Co0. Lakeland Fla. § 307 to 311 Main St. do out of BODOB OO POLIGHLICH - We town work too. Lans ey jnton tug gud Supdul Qet Sutul Tt Tat Tut Tal Zul LT R R RN EX RS ERT LR LW X 304 0 0 Q0O OBOBOBOBOEBOROEO R PO BOBD D HER WEDDING GIFT | herself TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., MARCH 14, 1914, THE EVENING ’ e S not given to any human being to be more alone than that” Sylvia was always charming, but { pow her face took on such a variety of bewildering expressions that the impressions of her iriends were al- | most as vivid as if they were viewing a mental panorama. “When the train pulled out of the depot—" “Never mind the train, Sylvia; you gaid that cnce before, and it is well on e R St s n it ten i n By B. MAYFIELD. _——— Olga Anderson had a new place. But a new place was far from a pnew experience to Olga. A widow | | its way to New York now,” interrupt with & baby of three must be prepared | ed Mrs Jenney, emerging from the 4! to follow the pillar of cloud by day | depths of her easy chair. 4 B e Rt o0 e night.Ain“ *1 skip the train, but 1 must {nsist search of employment. A concession e snd the nearer 1 ml-ls,l be madeslh .ml" \;a.gflbs( éor u]lg a;v;.rriwlwl brand-new hquse the BN o s D el more lone d deserted I felt, and this event the wages were go low that b 2 d-new maid began it was only a question of time till she y awe of felt compelled to seek another place o n\iu i I' [ b;iupatrc; i R o Py Mk o Rl ;(y 20 \ v and leave me with such a | bz}by ik oaen L.hrw YEALo Olga.was strange r | ::i?leflfl@nfl(l. S Yes," sighed Mrs .Ivuno."v, “com- Her husband had died two months l« .+ really companionable hert ¥ i [5Gt corn o ur ignorance, and [ pit- ghed Sylvia. “When I re- o I found a baby less than on the porch. Onehand | jle, held in a sheer kerchief like a bou- 1d taken two Dbites \dkerchief. She ‘wept like the Walrus and the held up a finger that a before the baby's penniless. The first two weeks of the baby's life she had been too ill to care about | n the baby. The fact that it was a girl | thr ing with possibly the same problem to | face that she herself was facing, only lir added to her misery, When the baby was two weeks old,? 'h" Olga dragged herself from her bed | like anyth in a free ward of a hospital, and placed | Carpenter, and birth, leaving W OB OB OE O OR S (he 0 £90 # 0 her baby in a baby farm while she | bee had not been able to DeEieriine Phone 228 Blue il: 2:1; v B0 R 0 I 'See who I found on my doomstep,’ | (h4d-ddrdetstitbbbdbidbiis & #0404y 3l Olga had been one week in her new | I gaid to Olga, who answered the bell. S io place, when the postman brought h”, ‘Ien‘t she adorable? 1 wonder whose 24 two letters, one with a foreign post. | baby she s ____._..._,.-_-m mark. They were the first letters ()1;{;1‘1 " Mine,' acknowledged Olga, dog- —_— — 5‘1 had received in years, and her curios- | $°dlY. : . S ity and surprise were so great that ‘Yours? \Why—when— WWIFE, ARE .hal she stood for some time in her kitch-, “In her broken English or Swedish, ALL THesE “aa en locking them over without at-| 1 te confessed that while FROM THE ;e tempting to open them. | ith Carl she had sTore oF woman who baby could not ! i Father's dead. yeen farmad out ever since. T busily think- ," then ap- | . I " to the bee |1 ‘.rn: But il thing in ‘first roblem or . ga was the || ul baby. Later i § | As her new mistress was out for the morning, Olga had a few hours to She took the letters to her room for the difficult but delightful | She b task of reading them. | She chose the one with the foreign | postmark to read first, It was written in Swedish to the ef- fect that an old sweetheart of hers was now a widower with two children. | He asked her for old sake's sake to come back and marry him, Financially H]‘ i where the baby he was well fixed. Write him favor- “,:fll’\ I{'{“S[ ably and he would send her thel . 1e dear money | b with some y. | Poor, poor Olga! : 4 m“(‘n | f She took another letter from the en- |\ i ; TRRE e | ! Velope ‘ de » veins ( r white temples | “Mrs. Anderson pleas com rite away "4 feeling of so niuch love and long to get your baby, i cant keep it 1 = oxn | longern next monday when i ar- hea saien D bee Akt b ried. mrs, Kimball" ‘ _ GEenb e Suppose she pr d to herself | § it f _\ S ”,‘,‘»‘ “‘ i that she never ceived the let- ,il‘l A bty “,'\“ .llf“[.“ F ter. Why not borrow Hel shvinEL Y o e Coe MGLICOHER N LG | | Helga had offered then times by g Bl when she had been so hard pressed | o Sl ! that she dfd not know which way to _lh o B ‘.\ B nolang turn. She had always refused them be- | ”_""' L SN el .d”“ :f“( | fore, but now. Petersofi could retnr: | h.“h 88 an a r, that it seemed nothing Helga the money and she need never A PGS abit-everdame ing. But ihis w ot the cause of her 1ed ther the next room excitement. Sylvia was a typical twen- The babdy was ¢t ep. Her yellow | ticth century bride, equipped with a | CUrls were da: ter forehead, one | domestic science course, and calm | ¢hubby hand tucked under her chin. with the rance that her sand.| -\ bare foot with the dearest, pinkest wiches were toothsome and her cake a | 1068 Was pe from under the i triumph of the culinary art cover girls ap- { The fifth and last member of the | Prehensiv s were fMled } club had arrived with tea approba- [ —or to myself, i will sew | both,” he hop body cares for De i i 1l s Jane.” th raft, “You needn’t blame me for De Mor- | “that 1 s t gflh " aeaf N ' (andy! Candy! Candy WE HAVE IT From Stick Candy to the Finest Box Candy Have vou tried any of our HOME-MADE CANDY ? A Triai is A We Ash We also have a nice stock of Fresh Fruits, Nuts, Dried Figs. Dates and Raisins. FRESH APALCHICOLA OYSTERS H. O. DENNY <Tomdt Delivery Phone 113 to Carl. Just now he has gone on ;n e | that mysterious journey known as The aid Road. I suppose in time I will get| Bobby ,Q G0 used to it. When that train pulled out | a moment. and . (r‘t“;“’ over for of the depot this morning, I certainly biha tnmmn 1:;» I s'pose felt all alone, with Mathew Arnold’s boys and | ding ring almost as new | know. ‘ out bri and ¢ She turned | Her mistress was out She he | S.H‘.h bl Wiencl men; only a suit case of clothes, She coyld | HONCE Per name, that my compassion- tako that, shut the door, and no one ate and ‘(»,\'m] thetic v!'x‘:un.»c of mind | would know what had become of her. became almost hupmicious.” Mrs. Kimbali must find the baby a Dl l.\"‘” e f:nhl»'r. pho home. Maybe she would adopt her: had some Olympian ancestor.” imer- rupted Mrs, J ¥ “Poor scul, she never had and ney- | er would solve the problem of taking care of herself and that baby. She could marry an old sweetheart of hers | if it was not for the baby. She begged | me to ‘et her keep the baby with her until she could find some one to adopt she was to be married again. Each year the struggle had been harder. As the baby grew older the demands upon Olga increased, and she saw no hope of meeting them. She had eared for her baby more with a dull sense of duty than from mother-love. She felt no pangs at the thouzht of aban- | doning her to her fate or Mrs, Kim.| 1" ‘When I discovered that I was be- | ball, as the case might be. i sm“v‘“'hw U wih oy | Instinet must have been keener | “You girls may think 1 am crazy. than her feeble desire to free her.| YOU Know erandma gave me $300 self from her burdens, for she delib. | (0 DUV anything 1 wanted for a wed- erately put on her hat and went for | ',3““ present. It 1ediately popped her baby. ; into my head to bu at baby.” Iy be on thy guard!” Although a bride of six weeks, it| I ' was Sylvia's turn to entertain the “Just like § al “Peoria Avenue Reading Club.” “In two hours’ time 1. had that | Her flushed face and more flustered | WOMan ficked up, gave her my $300. manner were attributed by her ds romised 1. ver to come back and to a per s fed anxiety lest her the child She has gone.” refreshments be subjected to the time the bahi? honoered jest upon a bride's housekeep- her fiv2or on her lip, Sylvia becke | tion and eterna 1ce to the new tears adopted “Girls,” said Mrs. Jenney, as she sank into a deep leather chair and patted her rolls of beautiful bn\\\‘ halr with a hand adorned with a the that as Sylv “I just can not read De M 1f, for that Who will read suppose you blue stocking Any ¢ nk if we women that t ble i lamb arounc “Oh, bo er Z) 3noug! gan on the him, turn on the electricity un kettle. Now, isn't that cozy “Sylvia mants to talk, s tell us how grand and goo ble, ete., etc., etc., Carl is “Nonsgense Can't you re when I wasn’t married, some think I must have been born ms say no more shelf—the prop thin} y of to my eirls. and God to the big folks — ‘mortal millions,’ and you know it is ' Pyck. BR——— Vo 2 e =D ath! eI A S L BT i ler PR 1 ol 3 :ioy " YO ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. &, ANTICIPATION---Tiew---REALIZAT . . I Long Lifeof Lin P alony with good laundry work. Try us. Lakelana Steam :Layngs Weat Wiy B g "rsue HARSHALL & SANDER f»fl g e Tk Gic Riiiatle Contractors \ Lo bave been building houses in Lakeland for gy, B < be pever "FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaey . ¢ All ciasses of buildirgs contracted for. Tae my- " residences built by this trm are evidgnees of tieiry, 'é‘: make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS™ Goop TasTe? WE HAVE ANTICIPATED YOUR EVERY GROCERY WANT < iealizeoniig George Washin: OUR WEEKLY RECIPE e BREAD AND COCOANUT PUDDING N, N - Mix a cup of soft, fresh bread }Jreuare {,\‘ 1l crumbs with two cups of hot milk, add a heaping tablespoon- + Madeinthe Cupu ful o i stir well and set | 30:ana $1.00° aside to grow cold. Beat the t e - H Yolgs of two ezzs with a half ¢ 2 | cup of su nd a teaspoonful Tumfla Ba) F‘L of lemon juice, with a lihlv; It | grate;y rind, half a teaspoonful ; COitee F: B0 ) of vanilla, half a cup of grated I 1ho cocoanut ang the crumbs. Bake = 4OC, LB b .in a pudding dish in a modor- § ate oven till it is of thee onsist- | ‘ L0 ency of custare; spread with Also the Ldrg‘ 1 . N \ . § 1 jam and a meringue. ! Of (,(»ffeks n tne W W. P. 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