Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 18, 1914, Page 7

Laké Pha YT e e rmacy The Rexall Store Y andy Candy Candy We are the Agency for Huyler’s, Liggett's Guth and Kern’s Dhone 42 Phone 42 We delivery anywhere in the city oo L DEWALKS | o OO0 HEOBOEAIOF GEOB0FOEGTOHIFOTOFOPOLOSIN O B B BAIEAF B BHAFEHD B Criod s O GBS 5 G D BRI D BB O 3O O GO Having had many years’ expericnce in all kinds of cement andd brick work, I respectfully solicit part of the paving that is to be done in Lakeland. All work GUARANTEED ONE YEAR As an evidence of good faith T will allow the property owner to : retain 10 per cent of the amount of their bill for that time, pro- & viding they will agree to pay the retainer with 8 per cent per anrg; num at the end of the guarantee periog if the work shows no in- k) jurious defects caused by defectiv e material or workmanship. & & @ D. CROCKETT . 0. Address, General Delivery. Res., 501 North Iowa Avenue. ; gl ks -stu%éui»ini»@ns»@xs»«i:黫%éwi«ifllfli«i»«ini»«i’? y K. .IfiCkSOl]-Assec!atvn-w_ K. Mcud(’ Owner and Manufac- turers’ Agent Real Eotate Brokerage--Real Estate US WHAT YOU HAVE TO BIL WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYLR TELL U8 WHAT YOU WANT Te Y; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLEY: ... Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building Lakeland » ] Florida e c—— MAYLS GRQC[RY 00. “Reduce the cost of living,” our motto for nineteen fourteen s Will sell staple groceries, hay, feed, Wilson-Toomer Fertilizers, all kinds of shipping craies and baskets, and seed potatoes, prifi____—-——-—’__—-— Mayes Grocery (0. LAKELAND, FLORIDA ks NOTICE Dtice is hereby given that the Isicned was on the 12th day of | & A. D. 1914, appointed|: tratrix of the estate of J. D'Hern, deceased. All creditors, ‘. distributees and all persons| ¢ laims or demands against of the said J. D. O'Hern, | sed, are hereby called upon (0}« 1t them within two years, iD ince with law, or else they beforever barred. ¢d at Lakeland, Florida, this day of February, A. D. 1914. ALLIE A. O'HERN, fuistratrix of the Estate of J- O'Hern, Deceased. Wea, etc., at reduced NewMarket For the cheapest and Jest Meat in town. | Phone 67 Red North Florida Avenue EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., It et sssessassnssessesssnssesssesssiss LONELY 0LD WOMAN e—ete—— By JEREMY MAITLAND. Miss Millie was dead, and all that was mortal of her had been laid away in the village churchyard. She had been a lonely old woman, and as the vears went by her loneliness had in- creased. “Cranky,” the people called her. Her only companion had been Dorothy, surnamed Vincent on the day, 20 years before, when Miss Millie took her from the foundling asylum in Ralston, 25 miles away. Now Dor- othy was left alone, mistress of the lit- tle cottage in Winborough. Dorothy vividly recalled the day of her adoption, though she was only five at the time. Miss Millie Vincent had appeared with the head of the institu- tion in front of the “Stand up, Milly!" tendent. ‘his girl think, Miss Vincent,” she added, turn- ing to the middle-aged, crabbed-look- ing woman. “Can you do anything, child?" in- quired Miss Milly in her high, thin voice. “I can sew, ma‘'am.” piped the child- ish treble a “Merey! Can yeu cook a dinner?” asked Miss Millie. “No, but I'll try, ma'am,” said five- vears old. “I guess they're all equally useless,” sighed ) Millie. “However, TI'll take her. Milly did not prove a hard mis- tress, but she had little love to give the waif. ated her well enough, but she v always harsh in the presence of Generally it is the other way round. As Dorothy grew older she becaine more curious to learn who her mother was. Once, when she was fifteen, ¢he made a jour- id the superin- She t angers. There Was a Moment of Horrified Si- lence. ney to the asylum. Miss Miller, the superintendent, did not recognize or remember her, and to all her petitions she turned a deaf ear. “Except by the wish of the mother, we never give the information you ask tor,” she answered coldly. “Won't you write to my mother and tell her hew I want to meet her?” in- quired Dorothy tearfully. Miss Miller agreed to do that. But when Dorothy went back she could learn nothing more. And Miss Vin- cent learned somehow what the girl had done, and scolded her for her in- gratitude. As Dorothy grew older Miss Vincent became kinder, but the crabbed old woman had one peculiarity. She would permit none of the young men of Winborough to call on Dorothy. She explained why, frankly. “Men are all bad,” she said. “They only bring trouble to a girl. You're going to be an old maid, the same 28 me. Do you understand?” Yes, Dorothy understood. And 80 she gaid good-by to Fred Dane, her one sweetheart. She was accustomed to self-suppression, and after ak she could not leave the old woman who had been good to her in her sour fash- jon. So Fred went away to Ralston, to open law practice there, and soon he was a prosperous man. He had never con k to Winborough. Miss Vin 1ad tried to say some- thing to the girl a e lay dying, but the stroke that killed her had come without warning, and the old woman never spoke again She died two days after the beginning of her last illness. On the second day after the funeral an elderly man and woman came up the garden path. The man bore a re- markable resemblance to Miss Milly. He stared hard at the girl. “g§p you are the young woman that my sister adopted?” he inquired, and his wife gave a prod us sniff. “Per- haps you've never heard of me? 1 am your mistress’ brother Joel, from Wayneville.” «] didn’t know Miss Milly had a 3 & | prother,” faltered Dorothy. 3 @ ~ L . New line of Grocerics. & “well, you'll scon learn it,” an- gwered the man. *“I understand she left no will. You hain’'t seen no will, have you?” « pever heard of one” said Dor- othy. “] thought as much Then this { house and grounds belongs to me. Now show me that old mahogany fur- ill suit you, I} MARCH 18, 1914. niture I've heard of. It ought to be worth a mint of money.” Then for the first time Dorothy un- derstood that the house was not hers. She was to become a waif again, as helpless as when she had first gone there. But later in the day another arrival came in the shape of a prim maiden lady, even more like Miss Milly, who hammered |, violently upon the door and, when Milly opened it, burst in unceremoniously and shook her fist in the face of Brother Joel. “Now ain't that like you, Joel, try- ing to forestall me,” she screamed. “Perhaps you don't recognize Sister Bessie, do you? Thought you and Eliza would get ahead of me, sniffing around Sister Millie's property, didn't you? But there ain't no will and I defy you to lay a finger on this house till I've had my say. Now, young woman, where's that old mahogany furniture?” Another relation appeared toward nightfall in the shape of a cousin, who groaned drearily to find the others in possession. “If there ain't no will,” she shrilled “I say cousins has a right to share in the property. If I am only a cousin, at least I stood by Milly when the rest of you cast her off.” They departed at nightfall to seek accommodation in the village inn. They wrangled down the street and the sound of their rasping voices only died away to leave the girl's heart des- olate. She had grown to love the trim little place; she had made plans for a long life there. She was going to raise chickens, sho had intended to grow vegetables and flowers, to bright- en her dreary existence with books and music. She felt helpless under this cataclysm. Early next morning the four were back again, wrangllng over the prop- erty. Brother Joel wanted the house, his wife wanted the furniture; Sister Bessie insisted on the piano and the dining-room set to begin with. They argued angrily in the parlor, while Cousin Jane wrung her hands and la- mented Milly's “stuck-upedness.” “Well,” said Brother Joel's wife sneeringly, “at any rate we can all agree on one thing. This young wom- an here hain't no business here, so we can begin by saying good-by to her.” Dorothy could bear it no longer. She ran out of the room and down the gar- den path, sobbing desperately. She never wanted to enter the house again. She did not see the tall man at the gate until he caught her. Then she gasped in dismay. “Fred!” she exclaimed. “Dorothy! What is the matter?” “They’re all in there,” wept Dorothy, “fighting over Miss Milly’s things, and they've turned me out, and—" In broken words she managed to give Ired Dane an outline of the situ- ation. Fred Dane laughed comforta- bly. There was the sound of success and self-confidence in that laugh. Dorothy stole a timid look at him. How big and protecting he seemed. He had become a man during those five years that he had been away. “Now you come right back with me,” he sald. “I've got something to say to that crowd.” And he caught her arm in his and took her back, right into the parlor again, where the fight was proceeding with such in- tensity that nobody saw him for quite a minute. Sister Bessie and Brother Joel's wife each had hold of one side of the plano and they were trying to drag it in two separate ways. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Fred Dane, clearing his throat. Brother Joel looked up with a snarl. “What, another of them?” he demand- ed. “Oh, no. I am just the lawyer who was intrusted with Miss Milly's will,” said Fred. “You see, she had a pre- sentiment of her approaching illness and took the trouble to have it wit- nessed and signed and placed in my care last week.” “Who gets the pianner?” shouted Sister Bessie. “Miss Milly has left everything to her daughter,” answered Fred Dane. There was a moment of horrified si- lence. Then Sister Bessie shrilled: “What? That brat still living and come back to trouble us after all these years? | thought it died! What right did she have to have a child of sin? And now we're going to lose the house and the pianner just because Milly—" “Poor Milly!” wept Cousin Jane. “I'd have stood by her it she’d only le; me. 1 didn’t cast her off when she was young and beautiful because she slipped. 1 wrote to her once a year for a whole year, only she was too stuck-up to answer.” “So, let me invite you to leave,” said Fred, “because, you see, the house and property, as well as the piano, are al- ready disposed o “Oh, I'll leave!” shouted Brother Joel. “But ther ain't no lawyer can skin me out of my property. I'll have the law on you.” “And I'm going to have my pian- ner!” shouted Sister Bessie, as she moved toward ‘the door; and they went out blustering and threatening. “Dorothy,” said Fred, when they were alone, “now that I've come back I'm not going to let you escape me again, though you did dismiss me so cruelly before. I always meant to have you, and now' that I've made a little money, do you know what I am going to do? I'm going to buy this house and start a law practice here, and let my partner run the one at Ralston. And I'm going to marry you, and I'm going to sign that contract like this.” And he kissed her. “But, Fred,” said Milly, a few min- utes later, “who is this daughter? Poor little child! I feel as though I had usurped her place! To think Miss Milly didn't dare acknowledge her! Who is she?” “Why, you, dearest,” Fred answered. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) began PAGE SEVEN g;w*miw-ww@wwww:mz»e»«:»a»«i» bbb b g BN - Get, Resuits & | e & & & £ ¢ Sherwin-Williams Ready Mixed Paint § And be; Convinced that it is THE BEST FORMUI A: 10 oo Zeifr oo Go B R4 s L DR SRR R S RS SR BT R INER T L T i Zinc Oxide, 33 per cent. @ 2 Lead Sulphatc, 22 pcr cent. 2 & Lead Carbonate. 26 per cent, 4 4 Magnesium Siiic ie. 9 per cent 5 “ Yours truly, : The Brighten-Up Folks @ 213 S. 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