Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 14, 1914, Page 8

i J i i A e A AT Db AP 55 f you want your Shirts and Collars Laundered the VERY BEST Send them to the .'Lakeland 1'Steam :Laundry Weare better equipped than%ever for giving you high class Laundry work. Phone 130 'L\N Beware o the beauty that’s only paint deep. Performances, not promises, measure the worth of an automobile. “Beauty is as beauty does,” and the Ford car has a rec- ord unmatched in the world’s history. By that record you should judge it. I'ive hundred dollars is the new price of l the Ford runabouts; the touring car is five fity; the town car seven fifty—all f. 0. b. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get [} catalog and particulars from . Lakeland Automobile & - Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla | Dress Patterns That have fit, style comfort, simplicity The Book Store SIDEWALKS Having had many years' experience in all kinds of cement ana brick work, I respectfully solicit part of the paving that is to be done in Lakeland. All work m GUARANTEED ONE YEAR As an evidence of geod faith I 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 an- num at the end of the guarantee periog if the work shows no in- Jurious defectsycaused by defective material or workmanship. D. CROCKETT ¥. O. Address, Box 451 Res., 501 North Iowa Avenue. e 4 MAYES GROCERY CO. B “Reduc® the cost of living,” our motto for nineteen fourteen feed, Wilson-Toomer Fertilizers, all kinds of shipping crates and baskets, and seed potatoes, etc., at reduced prices Mayes Grocery Co. LAKELAND, FLORIDA | Will sell staple groceries, hay, ———— o arvp 5% R Benford &4Steitz - e ——— PR T TR R R T S RS L AL L SR LR R R e L L SR 00000000000000000000000000 § [ THE THREE RUNAWAYS By CARRIE LOUISA SHAW. Covertly pulling back the window shade, Mrs. Carson watched Lila pass out of the gate and down the street, swinging her books. She could not deny herself what might be a last glimpse of the little blue checked fig- ure. Slowly she turned and walked to a desk that stood in the room. It was the one at which she sat each morn- ing to write the household accounts. Today it seemed to her the property of another. Every inanimate thing appeared to stand coldly aloof. She sat down and wrote, her hand trem- bling slightly= Jim Dear: Three months is not a great length of time, but it has been long enough to con- vince me that I am a failure, The children will never accept a blun- dering old maid as their mother. That is why 1 am leaving today for the West. Oh, 1f I could only have made them care for me—that was my greatest dream. I love them more than you can imagine, but they will be happier without me. I have looked truth squarely in the face and I know they want no substitute for that real mother, poor little things. T ngs After you have considered al very carefully, you will see my view- point and realize that I have acted wisely. a1 e g G A, She folded the note, and addressed it to her husband. Three months of the only real hap- piness she had ever known, and her stronger self sald this must be the end. It would be hard to leave them all, and the white, clean little house; but the futility of staying had come to her quite suddenly that morning. Lila—ten, dark eyed, and reserved —had prefaced a request with “moth- er” To Mrs. Carson “mamma” had somehow always seemed & sweeter, more intimate term.’ “Don’t you think the word ‘mother a bit formal, dear?” she had ventured, with fast-beating heart. Lila looked up quickly. “I'll call you Mrs. Carson, then,” she announced briefly. “It's no use—no use!" her mind kept crying. even come. to dislike you.” There were two others—Fred, sev- en, and Alice, the baby. She kissed the baby, but shyness withheld her from caressing the two impregnable little strangers who very plainly did not wish to be caressed. All her patient life she had longed for domesticity and little ones, but for years perverse necessity had kept her in the schoolhouse of a middle West town. Some time after the sister's wed- ding she met Jim Carson, a widower, and after a brief hut sincere wooing he brought her Last as his bride—a girl no Icnser, but full of the inno- cence and illusions of youth. The train she must take left at two. She placed the note in the center of the round table, and entered the bed- room—her bedroom and Jim's. Carefully she took her clothes from the closet and piled them on the bed. They were new, neat things that were her trousseau. In opening the top bureau drawer, a small package and a sealed envelope met her gaze. Both were addressed in very round, precise letters to “Mrs. Margaret Carson.” The writing was vaguely familiar. She tore open the letter first. It read: a voice in “They may Dear Mrs. Carson: I take my pen in hand to tell you that I am going to run away today. If my brother, Frederick (arson, will go, I will take him, too. You can keep the baby because you love her, I know you do, be- cause you kiss her and call her my little darling. Here is your berthday presunt. 1 sowed on it every day after schoel so I could get it done by May 12th (twelfth), but it is not done yet. If you will kindly imbroldery the big green leef it will be done. I am sorry you did not like for me to call you mother. Respeckfully, Lila Carson. P. 8.—I know you won't care because you don't love me. You never kissed me good-night in your life. “Mrs. Margaret Carson” drew a long breath, then almost reverently untied -the package. A large cushion-top, embroidered in bright red and green, unrolled to view. There must have been hundreds and hundreds of the crude little stitches, and the goods had puckered woefully; but to the recipient it was a glorious thing. And then, because she was a woman, she cried. Soon small feet came pattering through the house, and in a minute Fred stood 4n the doorway. “Kin I have a doughnut?” he asked. “Yes, dear, yes. Did your sister come home with you?” she queried eagerly. “Yes'm. She's out in the wood- shed. She wants me to run away with her, but I won’t,” said Fred vir- tuously. “Don’t tell her I told.” In the woodshed she found her hid- ing behind a box. A bit of the blue checked dress had betrayed her. Si- lently the little mother raised and folded her in her arms. She kissed the flushed face several times. “My dear, dear little girl, you will not run away from mother now. Won't you believe I love you?" The tone carried conviction. Lila glanced up shyly. “I thought sure you didn't. And then you sald you—you thought I was too familiar, or something, because I called you mother.” The mother gave a wabbly little laugh. “I said formal, dear; but that only meant I would rather be called mam- ma. I like it better. Now I am going to give my babies their lunch,” she paused, “after I have torn up a very foolish letter I wrote today.” (Copyright.) er 909 Franklin Street. AMPA - FLORIDA SHEET MUSIC MUSICAL SU PPLIES ; our Specealty MAN AND THE GRIZLLY § By JOHN P. MURPHY. Mail Order The parade was over at l;lst ta:::i the performers filed into the big t€ g glad to escape *Mlss trom the drizzling | b dunte rain that hadbeen |z W.C.Villiams NURSE and MASSEUSE Facial and Scalp, all the|s ];Od\ i . ::‘gzg"fl- % and “Swedish \ lbrat(;u; Sidonia was not | & Massage Treatmen in herusual ively | & given ab private homes. s 0 1 4 ibratory and neces- mood, hardly knew whether to ascribe it to the weather Electric v! sary appliances supplied. . Agent for Swedish Electric or to the baleful Vibrator. glare which she|& molophone 228 Red. tancied she detect- p 206 East Oak. L 3% M@‘-%“!“& ed in the eyes of Bruln, the big grizzly. Her anx- ety with regard to the ill-humor of of the bear was explained by the fact that Francesco, the gay and fascinating animal tamer, was billed to exhibit the brute's intelligence at the close of each per formance; and Francesco had been paying considerable attention to Sidonia of late—se much that Otto, the strong man, once foremost in her affections, had been relegated nlmostl entirely to the background. [ She sought her lover at the first op- portunity and informed him of hfu'l: fears. | & “] wish you would take extra pre- cautfons when you enter Bruin's cage this afternoon,” she sald. “I never saw him look so ugly before, and I fear that he may do you an injury.” “What foolish notion has taken possession of you now?”’ he playtully inquired. “Bruin i3 as gentle as a kitten and has never been known to harm any one.” The audience was largely composed of rough miners from the coal fields, and when the bear cage was run in they rushed from their seats and swarmed around it. So densely were they packed that Francesco experienced considerable dificulty in forcing his way through them. The crowding of the people seemed to have a bad effect upon Bruin’s temper, and he _growled viciously when the trainer entered. The latter started toward him whip in hand. At the first step he slipped and el to the ficor. The sight f the trainer helpless be- fore him aroused all tke ferocity of | the bear's nature, and with a furious ¢ ~rowl he rushed at the prostrate man. A cry of dismay rang from Sidonia's lips. In an agony cf grief she turned | to the faithful Otto, who was stand- ing a few paces away. | “Otto, save him!" she cried | “And why sheuld 17" was the florcu; reply. “He I8 my enemy. Had he not come between us with his treach- ary and deceit you would love me stl” “Otto!” she pleaded, sinking to her | knees while the tears streamed down her face, “save him fcr my sake. Quick or it will be too late.” Tearing a club from the hands of one of the assistants, he plunged into | the crowd like an avalanche. He was not a moment too soon. Francesco was down aud the bear was tearing furiously at l'is skoulder when he flung himsclf Letween them. And now commenced a mighty struggle cver thd body of the uncon- scious man. The bear's fury was Suoeessor to W. 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Sidonia’s shriek rang above the cries of the people, and she was ahout to close her eyes to the awful spec- tacle when suddenly a long pole was thrust between the bear and his vic- tim; then another and another, angd with a gasp of relief she realized that | the long delayed help had arrived nx‘ last. Then the face of Francesco ap- | peared in the crowd in front of her; a face that was bloody from the rough handling of angry men. no sign of recognition. Then the face of Otto appeared; bloody also, but with wounds rece dived In another’s defense. Their eyes met and in hers was a look that asked for. giveness. His answerlng look toid her that it was granted. (Copyright, 1914, by Datly Story Pub. Co.) Best Butter, per pound....., Sugar, 17 pounds ......... Cottolene, 5 pound palls. . 4 pounds Snowdrift Lard. ... Snowdrift, 1v pound pails. .. 3 cans family sise Cream. ..., 6 cans baby eize Cream....,. 1-2 barrel best Flour. 12 pounds best Flour. 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