Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 11, 1914, Page 6

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More than a half million buyers have picked the Ford because of its serviceability, its low cost of upkeep. Ford has made good. The Five hundreq dollars i s the price of the Ford runabout; the touring car is fifty-five; the town car seven fifty—f. o. b. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get catalog and particulars from Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla, An exchange A full line of books. BENFORD Lo 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 im Lakeland. All work GUARANTEED ONE YEAR As an evidence of geod 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 t he. retainer with 8 per cent per an- num at the end of the guarantee period if the work shows no in- The best of the INTERESTING READING FOR Summer Days library. periodicals. “The Harvester,” and other popular books at 50 cents. The Book Store & STEITZ newest ooy Ewill Ten acres truck land, one lot near school : house; also 1 new six room house one acre = of land. MANN PLUMBING CO. SHPPEHIPIEPFORIEIEEIEEBG fE PHONE 257, PINE ST. & oo B E § jurious defects caused by defec tive material or workmanship. ¥ E D. CROCKETT : 1 % % ®. O. Address, 3ox 451 Res., 501 North Iowa Avenue. F | \: ol oo Bedele ool BB defeddednbde B i } i cosmzme e e e - | { BPPP PO PRDIE H T EVENING TELEGRAM, A REFORMED THIEF By SELINA ELIZABETH HIGGINS. Burglar Bill breasted the storm bravely. The lights of a village were directly ahead of him, and he pressed on through the deep fallen snow with & vision of warmth, food and comfort ahead. Burglar Bill was a reformed burglar. That was the reason why he was in the most deplorable condition of his life. | Hard as had been his luck for the past week, he had a “trade” that would have brought him a ready income with no other equipment than a pair of pin- cers and a skeleton key. But when Bill had left the peniten- tiary, his sentence reduced one-half through the kindly intervention of a triendly and human chaplain, he had made a sacred promise “never to break a safe again.” It had been hard work so far keep- ing that pledge. BIll had gone to the city. Whenever he got honest work, however, elther the police exposed him or old cronies came about the place and got him into disrepute. 8o now Bill was tramping about the country, where his past was not known. It was at a bad season of the year for work, and, caught in a great snow storm, he was now making his way towards the nearest village. “I can't go much further,” breathed the well-night exhausted wanderer, as he neared a lonely house set by itself in the midst of extensive grounds. “I gee a light in that place. I'll apply for | something to eat, for I'm nearly fam- ished. Surely they wouldn’t turn a dog from their step a night like this.” Burglar Bill went around to the! | kitchen door of the house. He knocked, and a stout, comely woman answered his summons. Her sympa- thetic face gave him a welcome before she spoke, his forlorn aspect appealing | to her pity at once. “What do you want?" wonderingly. “A bit to eat, madam, a warm corner in a barn, anywhere so I can rest after a ten-mile tramp in the deep snow.” “Who are you—a workman?” she asked, ! “No, ma'am,” answered Bill. “I'm| not much of anything—as yet. I was! a burglar.” The frank admission somewhat | daunted Mrs. Warden, the housekeep- | AT | 1‘ [ Il Deftly Opened the Old Safe. er. Then the frank truthfulness of the applicant, his eager, wistful face at- tracted her. “That {s not a very creditable thing to say,” observed Mrs. Warden. “No, madam, but it's the truth. Iam not trying to hide anything, and I wouldn't be here begging if I wasn't an honest man.” “Come in and welcome,” spoke the generous-hearted housekeeper, acting on a womanly impulse of her true na- ture. “We have sickness and trouble in the house and I can't pay much at- tention to you, but you can help your- self to what you see on the table there, and rest near the stove till I speak to my master as to how we may stow you for the night.” “You mean to say you trust me in the house here; that you believe what I say?” “Why should I not, when I gee the truth of a striving, maybe tempted man in your 2" challenged Mrs. Warden steadil “I have had trouble | myself and I feel sorry for you, and I | am glad to help you.” | Burglar Bill told his story in frag- ments while he ate like a f;m:'.>lxvdi man. Then a bell summoned Mrs. | Warden to another part of the house | and he was left alone “A fine woman, a true woman,” he mused grate . “What comfort after the long, hard tra 1, well | fed and content, he ed down in | r by the warr 'y kitchen house- n. He | | won- | the | aown Into the [ ered and breath 1 been under- exercise. She ght up to Bill and looked him earnestly in the face “You said you were a burglar—" ghe began. LAK ELAND, FLA., MAY 11, 1914. “Once, madam,” returned Bill—"re- formed now.” “will you do something for me?” ‘ “Anything in my power, surely I will.” “will you break open a safe for me?” “Oh, now!” fairly shonted Bill, springing to his feet in the wildest ex- citement, “I promised never to do that same again.” : “Not if it was to get at a person’s own property and bafle a wicked schemer, and do a good deed?” “That looks different,” said Bill. “well, I wish a safe broken open. 1 have been trying to do it myself with | an ax.” “Hammer and chisel is all 1 need,” observed Bill, with a slight remnant of i his old professional pride. “If you| could explain a little farther—" “I will do so,” said the housekeeper. “In an upper room of this house an old | man, John Noble, is lying desperately ill. My dear sweet mistress, Anabel Bryce, his granddaughter, is with him. For a month her cousin, Doctor Boyd, a villain, has attended Mr. Noble. He has kept his aged relative under the influence of dangerous drugs ali along and has induced him to sign certain papers that would rob my pretty Ana- bel and her lover of their fortune, should Mr. Noble die and the doctor produce them. These papers Boyd, who went away yesterday for a few days, locked in the safe and took the key away with him. Mr. Noble has awakened to the truth and wishes the | papers destroyed before Boyd returns. The safe is an old-fashioned one and with your skill—" “It will be as easy as opening an old iron box,” declared Bill. “Get me a | chisel and hammer, madam, and count‘ the work done.” | “Some good in the world after all? Burglar Bill congratulated himself, as he deftly opened the old safe in the | room of the invalid and saw a package | of papers taken therefrom and cast in- | to the blazing grate. ! Then old Mr. Noble put out safe guards to keep his evil-minded rela- tives from coming into the house again. He began to recover his health, and a month later, closing up all his business affairs, after the marriage of | his granddaughter to Earle Summer, he went with them to their new home. Meantime Burglar Bill had worked | around the place as a hired man. ONO gugfudeuipoddbdddddrp it Shddnd IRPddddedfddddi day Mrs. Warden came to him. | “Mr, Day”—that was Bill's right name—"Mr. Noble has given me a nice little farm as a reward for my long gervice to the family. How would you like to try farming?” “With you,” answered Bill honestly, ' “it would be an ideal life.” And so there was another quiet, hap- py wedding. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) MOTHER-IN-LAW HIS FRIEND Young Londoner's Scheme to Make Traditional Trouble Maker Char- acter of the Past. A youthful prospective bridegroom has just begun an interesting experi- ment by taking a house in a London suburb and living alone with his pro- spective mother-in-law a month before the marriage, Grave warnings from his friends led him to do this to prove that the old conventional idea that the mother-in- law is necessarily a menace to the peace and happiness of a household has become a myth, If the experience of the month is encouraging the mother-in-law will re- main, and the next and more anxious stage will begin after marriage. He recognizes that the mother-in-law will be on her best behavior but thinks that a month will give him a good in- sight into her character. “The first week has passed off very happily,” he says, “although we still have the decorators in. The situation is full of hope because my mother-in- law is a sweet-natured woman, always willing to compromise, “In the morning she eees that the bath water is nicely hot, and if I am late and have to hurry over breakfast she smiles, has the meal ready to the minute on the table and does not talk while I am reading the paper. She sees that the toast is done exactly as I like it and that the coffee is prop- | erly made. l “If I am working late at the office she tells me on the telephone not to worry about getting home to a very late dinner, but to have a comfortable meal in town. When I get home my | slippers are warm by the fire. If .I; am very late she does not sit up for me. “On my part I g ing the many cl noticed in her d tensely I feel er exy leave 1 atify her by relat- | ng ways I have! er and how in- | 1@ moth- ation to | she feels | the le: itruder in her daughte s “l am convinced each other's likes ar are do sorts o Hadn't Bargained for That. u exam- | \j | service.” ) | 4 said the examiner, “you | are ) “They ask me how far it is from{ the earth to the moon.” “What of that?” “Well,” : said the candidate, *“T hadn't figured on taking an airship run."—Kansas City Journal, | G For sale in Lakeland by Henley & He 3 %TAMPA el LW.YARNELL TRANSFER LINED Draving and Hauling of All Kiné Household Moving a Specialty the bath, Asaface powder. As a foot powder. Really indispensa- ble. In sifter top cans. At drug- gists, 15 cents. A The 3 | Creations Bathing ( Just Receive:s | Red Cny | Pharmg The Drug §, on the corg ” For Babies. For prickly heat. Aftershaving. After nley. ‘ THE SONG SHOP 909 Franklin Street. 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