Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 7, 1914, Page 8

) R T e —— Jieware o the beauty that's only paint deep. Performances, not promises, measurc the worth of an automobile. “Beauty 1s as lLeauty does,” and the Ford car has a rec- that record you should judge it. i ive hundred dollars is the new price of the Ford runabouts; the touring car is five fiitv: the town car seven fifty—all . o. b. «d unmatched in the world’s history. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get catalog and particulars from Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla. WE!"ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE ON DISPLAY A FINE LINE OF LADIES GOLD STRIPE HOSIERY. COME IN AND LET US PROVE TO YOU THERE IS NO BETTER SILK HOSIERY ON THE MARKET. BRING A SAMPLE OF YOUR GOWN AND GET SILK STOCKINGS TO MATCH. ASK TO SEE THE WASH TIES SUITABLE FOR SHIRT WAIST WEAR. Williamson-Moore Company The Fashion Shop Bggdddgd 'SIDEWALKS Having had many years’ experience in all kinds of cement anad brick work, 1 respectfully sollcit part of the paving that is to beg done in Lakeland. All work ) ] GUARANTEED ONE YEAR a%- As an evidence of good faith I will allow the property owner to :5, retain 10 per cent of the amo unt 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 guarant ee periog if the work shows no in- :5: jurious defects caused by defe ctive material or workmanship. D. CROCKETT Box 451 Res., 501 North Iowa Avenue. -t & Brferfedd S BB TH T e B e 30 FHE S & Eg: M. 0. Address, & @ & LLTTL AL LT EL EERRLLRLRL LT L LRLT T TS TEL LR LT 000 0 00 & i AR W. K. Jackson-asscatea- W_ K, McRae Owner and Manufac- Real turers’ Agent Estate Brokerage--Real Estate TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO BZLL, WE WILL TRY TO FIND A BUYER TELL US WHAT YOU WANT T¢ BUY; WE WILL TRY TO FIND A SELLER Rooms 6 and 7, DEEN & BRYANT Building Lakeland L] e Florida —— AYES GROCERY C0 S Reduce the cost of living,” our motto for nineteen fourteen R —— e — 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 e ————————————————————————— % EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND. FLA., APRIL 7, 1914... the first thing she does is, naturally, to ask for Dicky. “Dicky?” asks Ike. ‘Dicky Mears? Why, yes. He started out to work & property he bought some little time ago, about sixty miles from here. I'm sorry I can't take you there, miss, see- ing as how I've got business over in leesons tomorrow, but I reckon Hi Frank would let you have a buck- board—’ “That was as far as he got. I had drawn up close by to hear what Ike had to say, and [ wasn't going to stand for no more gold mine sales. But Ike stopped short there, for in the door- way stood—Dicky! “He was scratched from head to foot and covered with blue mud, but the girl ran to him just as he was and he took her into his arms and she put her head down and just cried for joy. Even Ike looked a little foolish at that. “When she had done crying Dicky | put his arm round her walst and turned to Ike. “YWhat are you going to do about it?" he asks. “‘About what?' asks Ike. POODOODIOXIOXXXHXXXIXXXKA IKE'S SALTED MINE By FRANK FILSON. 1 “When Dicky Mears was sent west by his loving and long-suffering parent, with his ticket in one pocket and five thousand dollars in the other, and or- ders not to come home till he had made his fortune and a man of him- self at the same time, Setango Gulch spotted a good thing. There sat Dicky in the White Horse hotel, owned by Ike Brown, sipping his lemonade and talking of his expectations. “‘You see, boys, I've been kind of wild, he says. 'But I've cut out the drink for good and—well, it's this way.’ And he showed us the picture of a girl with innoCent gray eyes and light, ! fluffy hair and—well, you know the kind. ‘She'll wait a lifetime for me, says Dicky. And I allowed she would. : “He was a good thing, and even five thousand dollars is worth picking up,| *‘About that seven thousand, you if it can be done easy. Now Ike Brown confounded swindler, roars Dxck?'. worked out ! ‘There wasn't an ounce of gold in had about half a dozen placer mines. They were pocket mines, | either of those two mines, and I have meaning to say there wasn't any gold | | information that you salted them after in them except a few pockets of the | i working them out.’ metal that had washed down from thel “‘Oh, pshaw!’ says Ike. mother lode about the time of the! 80od properties, Mr. Mears. deluge, when the thin trickle of water them off your hands if I had the mon- that now ran there had been a roaring | ‘Them's stream, and when they was emptied juAst now. Maybe next summer I} the gold was gone. Ike had picked the | “‘1”"*' “‘@h, you will, will you? sneers| pockets dry and then salted them with | ‘ gold dust fired from a shotgun for Dicky. suckers like Dicky Mears. They were scattered here and there along the bed, | less you take it I'll cram it down your Nobody was mean enough to warn swindlim; throat.’ Dicky, and as Ike had got him first it ‘‘What's “1«'-“7' wouldn't have been gentlemanly to try j did you say? target him away till he was dry. ! “‘Though,’ says I to myself, ‘if it was me, I'd let him off for three thou- sand, may be, Green Star, fnr the sake of the girl’ “Tke only let Dick stay three days in Setango Gulch, and what he didn’t! see In that time was a wonder, For m-\ stance, when the water carts come in from Montserrat, fifty miles away, which was the only way we had to get for the rights.’ the stuff, he thought they carried kero-| bank book. sene, and his morning bath, which| * ‘Hold on, says I was worth twenty-five dollars a time,' come in. TIl give you twenty made Ike grit his teeth. So as soon as ' sand, Dicky.’ he could he got him out to the Green | ‘hirty,” vells Tke. Star, where he left him with three; “ ‘Forty,’ says L months' grub and a heap of dynamite| “‘Have you ail gone crazy?' inquires cartridges. ‘Stand back after you've Dicky. lit the fuse until you hear the explo-, “'No, I tells him, ‘but if you've sion, Dicky, says Ike. ‘You'll find turned that antediluvian river back in- , to its bed it means a fortune for ™ Setango and an irrigation plant that'll t ' reclaim about fifty million acres, not ' to mention tree baths for everybody.' “‘I'm sorry,’ says Dick, real hum- ble, ‘but I nodded when Mr. ke Brown , said thirty, and I guess I'll have to let S himitake it N wmre | “Ike writes him out a check and 1 fi“” go sadly homeward vells Ike velled Dicky. ‘You infernal scoundrel, | hard rock dislodged it. The whole bed's a roaring torrent.’ “Ike waved him back. ‘Dicky,’ he velled, 'I give in. I apologize. I'm any- thing you like to call me, but I'll give vou your seven thousand this instant And he reached for his *“This is where I thou: “La SY Sin And that night]* ; Dicky is married and he and his bride | lights out for the coast, carrying a ! suit case stuffed with bullion. ' “No, sir, there wasn't any water on the Blue Shank property.” (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. (‘lnpm'm) HELPED SURVEYORS IN WORK o Brmsh Expedltlon Found the Wireless | Telegraph of Almost Invalu- able Assistance. N4 HAr) Commander Herbert A. Edwards, | the officer sent by the British govern- ment for a period of three years to command the Bolivian survey commis- sion, recently returned to civilization after having completed over 200 miles of frontier survey. “What's That!” Yells lke. | The party, whose duty was to sur- | vey mostly unknown country, the dis- enough water to dip up in your tin puted frontier between Bolivia and l)z\sirl it you make a hole about the' Brazil, traveled up the Abuna river to middle of the bed. Good-by.' | a settlement called Santa Rosa, whence **‘Good-by," says Dicky, in a dream,! they cut across country to meet an- and Ike rides home with Dicky's five| other section of the commission, Both thousand dollars in his pocket. parties then returned down the Abuna “Just about three months later, when on the completion of the survey. we'd forgotten Dicky, he comes into The great achievement of l-he ex- Setango, having walked all the way.! pedition is that they fixed all their He hadn't seen the color of gold. | longitudes by time-signals sent by “‘That's too bad, Dicky,' says lke.' wireless telegraphy from Porto Vallo, ‘Ot course, it may be you didn't strike | situated 120 miles from the base of the vein. Why don't you write home | operations. A party was left at Porto for another five thousand, and I'll Vallo, and, by the courtesy of the stake you to your board on the chance Brazilian government, time-signals ;)f your making the old man fall for were sent every night. - | Commander Edwards carried with A couple of weeks later two thou- | him a rough receiving set and a long sand comes, and the old man adds that a . i wire, which was rigged up on trees. his sentiments is about the same, only ' ' He has proved that wireless telegra- .a little less cordial, and, anyway, that phy will enable the explorer to dis- is to be the last. By the same post as ! . \ I pense with chronometers, and easily he'd written to his father by, Dicky | and accurately fix all longitudes. sends a letter to the girl. He said he'd Commander Edwards says this will h9«1 bad luck, and he thought it was| begin a new era in exploratory sur- his duty to let her go, but if ever he ; v to veying. He eulogizes the work of a m;fdo his pile and she wasn't married | wireless expert, Mr. Chapman, who he'd come back to claim her. ¢ labored night and day to make the “Tke was sort of glad that Dicky got | eXperiment successful. In the course his money, being a good-hearted sort | Of his work this gentleman had ter- of a fellow, and he agreed to sell|Tible experiences with hornets, ants, Dicky the Blue Shank for his two : and other pests. He was provided thousand, and to throw in six months’ | With climbing irons in order to ascend outfit of flour and bacon into the bar- the highest trees. gain. So Dicky starts out again, and| The commissioners have still to Ike smiles pleasantly and allows that | €rect boundary marks along a portion he'll run down south for the winter, | Of the frontier, but the commencement setting out just about the time that! Of the rains will render it impossible Dicky's due to return. | to deal, this year, with a section of “After three months had gone by 1| #0 miles of frontier which, it was began to feel uneasy, somehow. You|loped, would be covered during ‘the see I'd sort of taken a liking to Dicky, | Present season. and it seemed to me that it was all right to sell him the Green Star, seeing it was experience he was getting, but that Blue Shank business sort of un- settled me. I hoped he'd hit upon a pocket somewhere on the Blue Shank property, though Ike had gone over it with a fine comb. And just as my hopes was beginning to sour mé against Ike who should come on the scene but the girl, “Oh, no” she replied, quickly. “She come in on the afternoon | Toast butter. We never eat rolls."— coach and puts up at Ike's hotel, and ' [lustrated Sunday magazine, Again the Bride. Mrs. MacDonald was a young house- keeper and marketing was new to her. 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