Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 29, 1914, Page 2

R S TN AR A I RS N S G S R TR S 1f you want your Shirts and Collars Lauadered the VERY BEST Send them to the Lakelana Steam Laundry Weare better equipped than ever for giving you high class Laundry work. Phone 130 A thousang might be wrong—but not five hundred thousand. More than a half million buyers have picked the Ford because of its serviceability, its low cost of upkeep. The Ford has made good. A~ Five hundreq dollars is the price of the Ford runabout; the touring car is fifty-five; the town car seven fifty—f . 0. b. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get catalog and particulars from e S | Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla, For the Graduate We suggest gifts of books, Fountains Pens, Station- ery in fancy boxes. Gradu- N\ ation Record books, Grad Sk nation Booklets. The Book Store We frame Diplomas. oo oo Qoo Bodele bbb oot e $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 2 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 paythe retainer with 8 per cent per an- num at the end of the guarantee periog if the work shows no In- Jurlous defects caused by defective material or workmanship, D. CROCKETT We Pay Your Railroad Fare IF YOU TRADE IN TAMPA ; The following ieading Tampa business houses will refund your railroad or boat fare, both ways, and charge yow no more for merchan- dise than would be charged if the fare was not given. These houses car- ry up to date wares: Clip this List and Bring It With You Balcom & Robinson: Hardware, Tools, Implements, Paints. 1114-1112 Franklin St Beckwlith Jewelry Co.: The House of Quality.] 410 Franklin St. Davis Shoe Co.: Men's, Women's, Children’s Footwear. 715 Franklin St. Dawson & Thornton: Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Shirts for men. Dawson & Thornton Bldg. Falk's llvp.\rtm(‘f\l Store: Dry Goods, Notions, Millinery, Ladies Ready-to-wear, Men’s and Boys’ Clothing. -714-716 Franklin St. 3 Hobbs & Knight: Wagons, Harness, Cars, A: 5 Harrison Sts. » , Auto Tops and Auto Painting. Corner Florida & Maas Brothers: Dry Goods, Carpets, Milliner y, Ready-to-wear Goods. 619-621 Franklin St !:luss. the Haberdasher: Furnishings for Men & |Boys, Boys' Clothing. Tampa’s Tallest build- ng. Owen-Cotter Jewelry Co.: ®. O. Address, 615 Franklin St. Tampa Furniture Co. Four stores. Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Ofice Furniture. 310 Twiggs St., opposite Hillsboro hotel, Turner Music Co.: Packard & Sterli P V Feankiin Bt erling Planos , Victrolas, Victor Records, Sheet Music. 608 Wolf l'}rfime;sb:o(v'lou;lnp, ant; Shoes, Il"llmlsh ings for Men & Boys. 808 Franklin St. e € houses buy in large ouantities and sell at_lower prices than other stores can afford: watch their advertisements. Come to Tam- pa and trade and vour railroad far> will be refunded. Main Store mwmmuwwwswmmw Look _»At‘My Window I HAVE A FULL LINE OF BABY . DOLL PUMPS, BLACK AND WHITE AND ALL KINDS OF COLONIAL pumps. - . . . . Clough Shoe Company. 1 4M THE SHOE MAN FEEFrrIFSFRRIRPIEEINNNNPeg 22 L S LT R TS ST LT T TSI ET LTS LA 222 } HVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., APRIL 29, 1914. drdviddebiddededb bbb bbb HS LONG “PuLL” By H. M. EGBERT. Nobody knew why Hawkins, the factory clerk, was a permanency with the Copperplate & Tin company, but it was vaguely surmised that he had some sort of & “pull” there. Hawkins was an embittered man; it was said that he had been the inventor of the copperplate process, and that old Green, the millionaire bachelor who owned the factory and spent his life abroad, had jockeyed him out of it and given him a life job at a hundred a month in partial amends. But Green had not been in the factory for years. The works had automatically continued under the charge of the ex- perienced men who operated them, and Green was satisfied to draw his hundred thousand annual profits and leave the operations alone. The only change made within the past seven years had been the arrival of the new superintendent, Blair, and the vacancy which he filled had been caused by the death of his predeces- sor. Times were comparatively hard, and old Hawkins was certainly valueless to the firm. Blair spoke to Adkin, his assistant. “Say, what sort of a pull has that old duffer?” he asked. “What's this 1 hear about his being a friend of Mr. Green? 1 have had no instructions about him.” “Why—he's a sort of fixture,” said Adkins. “A friend of the old man’s once, I believe. Everybody knows that he's not to be fired.” “Well, I'm going to call that bluff,” sald Blair. “Out he goes at the end of the month. Besides, even if the bluft’s true, I guess Mr. Green has for- gotten him, and by the last reports he isn't well enough to care. Poor old chap, they say he can’t live more than a few months.” This referred to Green, not to Hawkins. Hawkins was fifty, and hale and hearty, one of those lean men who wither up ratker than die, and then not till they are advanced in years. Nobody ever spoke to Hawkins, becanse his “grouch” was a permanent one. At least, he did have one friend—little Miss Smith, in the bookkeeping department; inmwn'n‘ but by a I G l\!lfl | I ") i i 3 Hawkins Stood Smiling at Blair mutual arrangement they never ad- dressed each other in office hours. Nobody knew that for nearly ten years Hawkins had taken Miss Smith for a walk in the park every Sunday afternoon, supping with her at a cheap restaurant afterward, and bidding her good-by at the door of her flat. Smith was thirty-seven and prim. She would have died with shame kad any- body known that she had a ‘“gentle- man friend.” Hawkins had never sald a word to Miss Smith about the terms of his engagement. That was part of the contraet between himself and Green. “Me boy,” said the genial old scoun- drel, when Hawkins was thirty-two and was planning to fight Green for the patent rights, “me boy, don't be a domn fool. Come in with me. It'll mean a hundred a month to yez for life, and—and I'll raise ye.” And Hawkins, desperately poor, was forced to yield. If only Hawkins were head of the factory! He would show them how it should be run. He knew every process in every department; he had, indeed, made a study of it with a view to some day starting a rival con- cern with his new patent. But the years rolled by, other inventions had taken the wind out of his sail, and— Hawkins was fifty. “I'd show them a thing or two,” he told Miss Smith, only the preceding Sunday. “I wouldn't spend my life abroad with this fine property run- ning down.” “What would you do, Mr. Haw- kins?” inquired Miss Smith. She was deeply interested in Hawkins’ schemes. “First thing I'd fire Blair and Ad- kins,” answered Hawkins. “And then rd—rd—" Suddenly he was conscious that he was looking at Miss Smith in a way which that lady had never experi- enced—at least from him, for she turned awa- with a blush that left her scarlet. And Hawkins, in the greatest embarrassment, bade her good-night at her door. When he got home the Sunday after Miss * he found a letter waliting for him which he read with amazement. Then he staggered up the stairs to his Iit- tle bedroom in the cheap rooming- house, which he had occupied for years. He spent that night in sleep- less planning. But in the morning he was as cool as ever. That morning there was a curious expectancy about the office. Haw- kins, absorbed in his useless routine work, did not heed the remarks that passed until one of the factory men touched him on the arm. “Well?” snarled Hawkins, spinning round on his stool. “You haven't heard the news, have you, Mr. Hawking?” “What news?” demanded Hawkins. “Why, old man Green's died In Paris, that's all, except that we're all expecting to lose our jobs,” answered the man. Hawkins stared at him and then went on with his work. For the first time in years Miss Smith addressed him as he was pass- ing through the business office on his | way to lunch. “0, Mr. Hawkins, isn't it terrible!” she said. “Mr. Green is dead and— I'm afraid I'm going to lose my posi- tion.” The "poor iittle woman was all in a flutter. It was well known that Blair wanted to reduce the superfluous staff; he was a man without pity, and the older members would be the first to go. ] “Miss Smith!"” called out an office boy, “Mr. Blair wants to see you.” Little Miss Smith hurried into the superintendent’s office, and Hawkins -waited beside her desk. Everybody knew the meaning of the summons. ‘When she came back she was wiping her eyes. “Good-bye, Mr. Hawkins,” she said, extending her hand. “You know what has happened. I—I—" “Walt a minute, Miss Smith,” sald Hawkins. “I want you to lunch with me at Fry's. Will you?” There was something so urgent in his tone that Miss Smith forgot to be alarmed. She glanced round nervous- ly. Nobody had overheard. “All right,” she whispered, and, gathering up her things, slipped out of the building. Hawkins was walit- ing. “Mr. Hawkins,” called the boy con- temptuously. Hawkins went over to Blair's desk. “Mr. Hawkins,” said Blair, “I may as well come to the point without any preliminaries. You have probably heard that Mr. Green has died in Paris. We do not know who the heirs will be, but meanwhile it is up to us to curtail a lot of unnecessary ex- penditure, chiefly in the matter of help, in which Mr. Green involved the firm. Times are bad, and the useless members of the force must go. You can get your salary for the month at the cashier's desk.” Hawkins stood smiling at Blair. The hour of his triumph had come. “I see nothing to laugh at, Mr. Hawkins,” said the superintendent an- grily. “Thought you had some sort of pull here perhaps, didn't you?” “I did and I do,” sald Hawkins, pull- ing a letter out of his pocket. ‘“Read that.” Blair snatched up the letter and be- gan reading impatiently. As he read, however, the expression on his face changed, first to alarm and then to terror. “My dear Hawkins,” he read, “I am writing this on my sick bed, and it is the last letter that I expect to write in this life. Eighteen years ago I stole your - >pperplate process from you. you had asked me to capitalize your invention, and I, seeing its commer- cial value, promptly patented {it— which you had neglected to do in the proper manner. You threatened a lawsuit. I offered you a life position at one hundred dollars a month as a compromise. I would have given you five hundred and signed a compact, but when you accepted the offer as it was made I took you at your word. “Now, that I am dying, I wish to| ask your forgiveness, and, to make, the restitution complete, let me say that I am making you my sole heir | in the matter of the company, my will | having been drawn to that effect, ac | cording to the copy which I am now sending you." i “Well, Mr. Blair, have you anything to add to your statement?” inquired old Hawkins blandly. “Well, Mr. Hawkins,” Blair began, ' looking to his assistant for support, “of course, this alters the circum- | stances considerably. It is rather for you to say what you are going to do | with the company.” “And with us,” said Adkin bluntly. “I tell you what I am going to do,” ; said Hawkins quietly. “I am going to ask you fellows—I mean gentlemen— to continue to hold your posts on the following conditions: A twenty per cent, increase in salary for every member of this firm, including your- selves, down to the office boys. That comes first. Second, there will be no discharges, now or in future, without application to me, stating the reasons. Third, you will send my monthly check—of course, after the will is proved—to my Paris address.” “You are going to live in Paris? inquired Blair with a curious smile. “Why not?” demanded Hawkins. “Well, you see, of course that would simplify matters a good deal so far as we are concerned, but—" “0, it won't be sald Hawkins. “In fact I'm just going over for a month with—I mean—see here, I'll write to you from Fry’s.” “Fry's restaurant?” inquired Adkin of Blair, arching his brows. “The old fellow has gone insane with happi- ness at his good luck.” But little Miss Smith knew better (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) permanent, i e 2L LT T T T T T Ny $ THE SONG SHOP I had no claim whatever, but ' FEE o PP REIRIER IS IR I PEITET All The Lates [ | | . ; Creations | | Bathing Caj 909 Franklin Street. ; TAMPA . . . FLORIDA%! 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