Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 28, 1914, Page 6

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Manu* rs of Cement Brick, Blocks, and ornamental work. Let the big mixer put in your sidewalk—it does it better. Cement, Rock and Lake Weir Sand for sale, 307 to 311 Main St. Fla. La.keland T Lt X Tt 0 T2 SIDEWALKS Having had many years’ experience in all kinds of cement and 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 Iwill 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 an- num at the end of the guarantee periog if the work showd no in- jurious defects caused by defective material or workmanship. D. CROCKETT P. O. Address, General Delivery. Res., 501 North Iowa Avenue. Ll e aa L Lt L L L LR S S a L R TR R S R SR e ) 3 BB GBe G R B S % : i { : e — = t—.. . W. K. Jackson-assstee- W, K. McRae Owner and Manufac- Real turers’ Agent Entate Brokerage--Real Estate YELL US WHAT YOU HAVE T9 BILL WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYLR TELL US WHAT YOU WANT To BOY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLEY; ., Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building » he Florida 4 [ Lakeland MAYES GROCERY CO. P “Reduce the cost of living,” our motto for nineteen fourteen Will sell staple groceries, hay, feed, Wilson-Toomer Fertilizers, all kinds of shipping crates and baskets, and seed potatoes, etc., at reduced prices Mayes Grocery Co. LAKELAND, FLORIDA EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., MARCH 28, 1914. _—_————————— FOR THREE WEEKS By ARTHUR BOLTONWOOD. ( There was something about Alicia Farrar—a certaln frankness of eyes and speech—that would make you de- cidedly prone to trust her. Alicia, you could be sure, was a girl who would play fair. Jimmy Carroll, coming off the links with her, and strolling across the green toward the clubhouse, was sure of that. He was sure of other things, too, among them that he loved her very much and that he had known her far too short a time to yet let it be known. Therefore, he was very much sur- prised when Alicia stopped abruptly, and with never a prelude of warning, said quietly: “Would you mind awfully much be- ing engaged to me, Mr. Carroll?” Jimmy’s heart skipped about three beats; then it pounded so violently to make up for lost time that it sent the hot blood surging into his cheeks and his neck and even his ears. “Mind?"” he echoed, about to declare that such a thing was to be devoutly wished, but beyond his wildest dreams. But before he could voice these choice and sacred feelings, Alicla was speak- ing again, quickly, with a rueful, tired little smile. “Only for just a little time, Mr, Car- roll,” she explained. “Just while I stay on here at Aunt Helen’s. You see, aunty is such a dear, but I can’t seem to make her understand that I'm tired out, that I really want to rest; so she’s gone and routed every eligible nice young man hereabouts, and wished him onto me, as it were. She simply sees to it that there’s tons and oodles of them at the house every minute of the day to take me motor- ing or out on the river or golfing,” she ended with a droll little intimate nudge. “Oh, I see,” said he, trying to laugh naturally. “And 1 so want to rest,” she went on. Just go out in the woods and laze around and read and poke about by myself. I've picked you out because you're so nice and understanding about things, and also because I know you're level-headed and not the least likely to fall in love with me. I'm not your kind a bit. “Well, if you just would be engaged to me the rest of the time I'm here, don’t you see it would let me do all these things? You could be very de- voted to me, come every morning and afternoon to take me somewhere, and just get me out of sight of the house and then you'd be free to do as you like. It will only take just a few min- utes of your time each day, and you see how it will keep the others away and let me do the things and get the reet I want.” His laugh sounded all right to her this time. “Why, surely,” said he. right here and now.” “You're so good!” sald she. “And I accept you—for the next three weeks,” she amended with a chuckle. “And after that?” he asked. “Oh, we’ll quarrel, of course,” sald she, “and break it off and find out in time what a mistake we were making.” “Of course,” said he. Therefore, it was announced, and her aunt gave them a jolly little din- ner, and then she was free—free for the first time since she had come in- to this live-wire place, where all the nice young men had been so anxious to see that she didn’t have a spare minute on her hands. Now, of course, they fell off for the greater part. Each morning Jimmy Carroll escorted her down the road to the woods, left her, and went his way. Each day after lunch it was the same. She was sup- posed to be motoring or golfing or on the river with him, Rainy days he sat with her on her aunt’s veranda. “But you needn’t do this,” she said that first rainy afternoon. “This is asking rather too much of you, Mr. Carroll.” He grinned. “One calls one's flance Jimmy, if that happens to be his name,” he said gravely. ‘“And as to staying here, I like it; yes, really. It'll keep the others away. Oh, I've made ’em think I'm terribly jealous of you. They're scared to come around when I'm here, and that gives you a chance to read. Don’t mind me. Go on with that book you're reading. I'll finish the morning paper. I'm just the bulwark, you know, to keep the rest away.” She smiled at him and let her hand rest on his arm for a moment. “You're a perfect dear,—Jimmy,” said she. Then he brought her the ring. It was a beautiful stone. She caught her breath. “Why—why—" she began demurringly. i He laughed easily. “Must have an engagement ring to make it look all fair and aboveboard, you know,” he explained as he slipped it on her slim finger. “But the expense,” she remonstrated, Again he laughed. r f “l1 propose “Got it of a friend of mine,” he ex- plained. “Just left a deposit which I ! get back when I return it. We mlM | ObS( rve the ((\'l\!‘fll](‘ll\ Hl'l\“] t we WY 2 ) ¥ Jimm) 10 r‘u red something hn was | about to s He, He duly. too, would pl any advantages wouldn’t take So the da lipped past. Alicia be- ! | gan to look ‘he color flooded back to her > cheeks. Her spirits rose. St l)ml( red her tempo- rary fiance unmercifully at times. { “What shall we have our breaking quarrel about?” she would ask. “Shall it be religion, or literature, or music, | or the shape of my nose, or the way vou cock your head on one side? It's only a week away now, and we must 1 the same story.” l‘hey were coming up from the golf |0 rlub in the soft dusk of the early autumn evening. Jimmy stopped short. “Let’s don’t quarrel,” he sald so ear- nestly that she looked at him almost startled. Then she laughed. “Jimmy, you old dear, you don’t have to say all these nice things,” she declared. “You've been mce enough doing what you have for me." He swallowed miserably and plod- ded on beside her in silence. “It's been such a beautiful time since we've been engaged, so quiet and rest- ful,” said she. “It has been more than that,” said he in those earlier tOIla of his. “There you go again,” she mocked. Again words rushed to Jimmy's tongue, but again he bit them down and decided to play fair. They decided to quarrel about where they should live; she would stick out for the city and he for out here in the country. They'd have it hot and heavy and she'd throw his ring in his very face, The fourth green on the course was the chosen spot. Thither they re- paired and had the most delicious quarrel imaginable. She was leaving for home early next morning. Alicia sald: “Well, now it's all settled and we've quarreled. Here's your old ring!” And she handed it to him very gra- ciously, and even let her fingers lie in his for a moment, “You're the very nicest man I was ever engaged to, and thank you, oh, so much,” she said, as she arose to leave. “I've had the time of my Hte,“ said Carroll, almost glumly, as he thought that this was the end of it all. “Still saying the nice things to the bitter end, aren’t you?”’ she taunted. “I mean 'em,” said he. She smiled prettily and bobbed r head to one side to look at him with a certain archness, “You couldn’t fall in love with me if you tried,” she said. He was silent. “That's why I chose you to be en- gaged to,” she added. They walked up the road toward her aunt’s house. At the gate she held out her hand. “Goodby,” she giggled nervously. “We'd have made such a happy couple if we only could have agreed.” There was a long driveway leading up to the house. Suddenly without warning the girl made a queer little sound, turred, and started quickly up the drive. Jimmy started down the road. He went just three steps. Then he whirled about and went tearing up the drive after her. He caught up with her at the first turn, where the giant larches lined its either side. He took her almost roughly by the arm. “Don’t ever do this to anybody else,” he panted. “Darn it! You've made me go and do it. I've fallen in love with you despite the fact that I couldn't—madly, desperately, in- sanely—" She began to laugh softly. “Well,” said she, “well, what of it? It's just what I've hoped would hap- pen for the last week. Put back the ring,” she went on, holding out her finger for it. “I'm afraid you'll have to pay your friend for it, now.” (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure paper Syndicate.) News- CASE OF MUTUAL CALLDOWN Shopper and “Gum-Chewer" Have a Little Passage at Armg Over a Foolish Question, Did you ever stop to examine an ash can? If not, go out“and look one over before you read the rest of this short but entirely truthful tale. You will find that an ash can is a large, round thing, absolutely cumbersome and utterly unable to have itself wrap- ped up by a parcels boy, says the Washington Star. However, it fell to my lot to make a purchase of a trio of ash cans, three nice round ones, which could sit out in the cold full of ashes, and wonder why all the rest of the world had its cans emptied. I went to a department store, and there a girl with chewing gum who sells laces Monday, wash- boards Tues candy Wednesday, books Thursday, asked me if I wished to buy anything. “Yes, I want three ash cans.” “Ash cans? Step this way, please. There they are. Will you have them sent?” “No," I replied to this amazing in- quiry; “wrap them up and I will take them under my arm.” “Oh, is that so!” replied the gum- chewer. "I certainly do hate a fresh guy!” il Napoleon's Last Days of Power, One hundred years ago Napoleon restored Pope Pius VIIL to liberty and allowed him to return to Rome. The pope had been virtually a prisoner of the emperor, first at Savona and after- ward at Fontainebleau, for nearly five In 108 the French army oceu- pied Rome and took the pontiff cap- tive because he had resisted Napoleon e of his desi In captivity % tha ed tc S will of In the early part of 181 ded to grant some of the leon, but, on the ad s, the emperor he was persus inds of N no his carding ssions he Now emperor erty in preparati S of the papal and as a part of he program Lad resolved upon in a erate to save his tottering ration fort etracted | rapidly | at lib- | BIDS WANTED Bids for the removal of the Mc Leod house on Lake Morton will be‘ opened Saturday at 10 a. m. Bids should be addressed to H. D. Bas- sett. | — L | s (NENTRAT BY SMOTHERI But Husband, W:th Aid of Card Effects Her Deliverance, r, N. 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