Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 13, 1914, Page 7

ollars but serves him best. It's a better ar sold at a lower price and backed with Tord service and guarantee, $500 for a runabaout; $550 for the touring % car and $750 for the town car—if, o b. De- troit, complete with equipment. Get cata- log and particulars from Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla, yes Grocery Company - WHOLESALE GROCERS e find that low prices and long time not go hand in hand, and on May Ist will instal our new system of low @s for Strictlv Cash. have saved the people of Lakeland olk County tl:ousands of dollars in ast, and our new system will still e the cost of living. and also reduce xpeanses and enabfe us to put the ife in still deeper. We carry a full line groceries, feed. n. hay. crate material. and Wilson & DB B SO0 | . lidSummer - SALE f- COMMENCING [URSDAY MAY 21st we will cut all our Suits, Pants and Straw Hats down 20 per cent off of our prices. This is for CASH ONLY as we have got to have the money. Hart Shaffner & Marx clothing included in this sale. Thie Hub The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing JOS. LeVAY the gossip of Glen Cove | her head high out of bravado. | reckon Glen Cove | | be rid of the baggage. e . T — .~ ~— WAS NOT A GOSSIP By HAROLD CARTER. “So you're thinking of building here,” said the postmistress, leaning out through the wicket. “Well, you'll find Glen Cove a nice little town for such as minds their own business. That is to say, it used to be nice, be- fore the summer people came. Now] it's a hive of gossip—fairly makes me tired. i “I don’t see why those summer peo- - ple who build houses here can't mind their own business, but it just seems as though they can't. They're always talking about us and poking fun at our ways, and what are they themselves? Take old Mr. Hodges, for instance. He has that big white house on the hill, and they say he’s worth ten millions— all of it stolen in dishonest business deals. Then there's Mrs, Jetley, down by the shore. They say her husband married her at the point of a pistol. I don’t know; I hope it isn’t true. “As I was saying, Glen Cove used to be a nice little town before the sum- mer people came along and began building here. Now there's that Mrs. Alfred Perkins. Her husband made his fortyne in oil. When they built here I stafted to be friendly with them, not knowing that they were as bad as the rest. Young Tom Perkins seemed kind of sweet on Milly Watts, the daughter of our expressman, They used to stroll along the shore together, I used to hire Milly sometimes to clean up for me; the Wattses didn't have so much money in those days, when the sum- mer people were only just beginning to settle here. “Well, of course everybody in Glen Cove wondered what there could be between Tom Perkins and Milly. It stands to reason a rich man’s son isn’t meaning very much when he goes round with a poor girl like Milly. Folks used to talk about it, as they will, you know, but I'm no gossip and nobody ever heard me say an unkind word about anybody. “When fall came, the Perkinses de- parted for New York, taking Tom with them, After that Milly sort of pindled. Tom Perkins used to write to her every day or two, and I didn’t like handing her those letters. It seemed to me it was my duty to tear 'em up, only the “It Ain't Right to Keep Glen Cove in the Dark.” government’s mighty hard to deal with if they catch you interfering with the mails. But naturally I felt my respon- sibility. “I put it fairly to the girl one day. ‘Milly,” I said, ‘folks are saying that there’'s more between you and Tom Perkins than you've been giving out. It ain’t right to keep Glen Cove in the dark, and you'd best say what you have to.’ “She just looked at me and lald | down her broom and walked out of my house without a word. She never came back. She had the most impudent look on her face—just as though I hadn't been minding my own business. “I'll admit that hurt me some, after the Interest I'd taken in her. The Wattses didn't like her any too well, for Watts' second wife was her step- mother, and Watts was a good deal under her thumb. So after I'd voiced my suspicions about our town she didn’t have much of a place to turn to—just slunk along the street holding “That couldn't last, and along about Christmas time she disappeared. I was mighty glad to You see, we're | and God-fearing folk up here, ere's one thing we can’t tol Xt t yrality, it's deceit- ner came around and the sum- me back to their houses. | , who has charge of the | got to work cleaning had expressed doubts kinses would come | b [ brazen as ever. 1h alk old man Wa goon as Mr. and Mrs Perk ed—which they did in a of way, by automebile when nobody could see t L frank talk 1em, ¢ “‘Good m Mrs. Perkin glad to see you ¢ zhbor should way And what “‘I'm not i bit gossip, Mrs. Perkins,’ I ar tle mi her words there's going to be a of you and Mr, Perkin your son Tom, who, I U | daughter, ! Mr. Tom,’ I answered, laying the em- | fmmodest like on the top of her head, i Year, and I guess it's you that gets the | you altogether hate the universe. Oh, I know it doesn’'t sound noble nor ex-| 3 q | freedom from annoyance and regret. D, ye8, 1deed, Mr. Thomas is here in this house at this moment,’ answers Mrs. Perkins. ‘Wouldn't you like to | see him?' “‘No, I thank you’ I answered. ! ‘What I have to say might as well be | said now. Mr. Watts is going to sue you for the loss of his daughter.’ “‘How's that?” asks Mr. Perkins, looking up from his newspaper, ‘What's the charge, Miss Pray?’ “‘I couldn’t put it into English, be- ing a lady,’ I replied witheringly, ‘but it's concerned with your son and his There ien’t any doubt in th¢ minds of people around here that he} abducted her, and that's a crime | in @+ gtate. That girl was the apple of Mr. Watts' eye, and he's taken her loss real hard. He says he’s going to shoot your son, or else he'll take fitty thousand dollars, and he won't com- promise.’ “‘Do you mean Milly?” aske Mrs. Perkins, looking at me in a curious sort of way. “‘I believa that was the creature's name, Mrs. Perkins,’ I anewered. ‘Mind,’ I added, ‘I'm only telling you this as a good neighbor should, be cause, to my mind, I think Glen Cove is well rid of her.’ “‘l guess you'd better see Mr. Thomas after all’ says Mr. Perkins, rising, but before he had got out of his chalr the door opened and Tom Perkins came in. He was whistling, just as though his conscience was at perfect peace and rest. “‘Why, how do you do, Miss Pray!’ he exclaimed, and 1 was so flabber- gasted at his easy manner that I didn’t know what to say. *“‘I believe I'm all right, thank you, phasis on the “L"” “‘Well, 'm all right, too,’ he an- swered, ‘and I've got an old friend of yours outside I'd like to have you meet again. Milly! Milly!" he called, And the girl came tripping into the room as bold as brass. “She'd gone through a transforma- tlon scene since last I saw her, for she| :, was all dressed up in a silk gown that| looked as if it had cost forty or fifty dollars, and her hair was all done up and it wasn't any improvement. “‘My son's wife, Miss Pray,’ says Mrs. Perkins, introducing us. ‘Yes, they've been married eince the New surprise and not us.’ “Well, there wasn’'t anything more to say, and so I didn't say it. But since then I haven't had much use for the summer people here, and as for gossip—well, they're the meanest, snoopiest lot I ever heard of.” (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) AS TO THE GREATEST GIFT One Woman's 7|;;; V‘Fhat It Is Self- Complacency Seems to Be Worthy of Attention, Not long ago at a little gathering of women several young mothers wero discussing which of all the fairy gifts that the fates have to offer they would choose for their children if choice were possible, One young mother declared she would ask that ker child have some great talent; another desired most of all that her child should be gifted with & self-sacrificing nature; a third member of the group wanted her child to be possessed of natural high spir- its so that joy would come readily into its life at every opportunity. Then another woman, one whose face was marked with the signs of a life lived amidst the swirling eddies of big emotions, made her little speech, “I would ask above all things that the child know the happiness of calm,” she declared; “that it be born one of the serene ones who go through life goftly and sweetly, knowing neither torture nor the wild joys that mean endless pain.” A trig little woman with a humor- ous, bright face added the last con- tribution to the discussion. “The right thing to be born with,” she declared, with a twinkle, “is8 per- fect self-complacency. What yow all really want is to see your child happy through all its life and the one thing which keeps men and women happy is a good fair share of self-compla- cency When you have that and it stays with you then nothing can make s e CTTPTPPPETPEr T T alted, nor nearly as interesting as the things you've wanted, but it does mean an awful lot of comfort and Just to know that you are about as perfect as anyone and more: nearly perfect than imost, never to imagine that you arent good looking nor to go through agonies because you are § i badly dressed Yes, all : :;,:lnlmj ,-:'.,r.m’].t:—ux 'Ir:\m:]‘vl select .-1,,1.,_ We are better equipped than ever for giving you high place as the best eift of the gods.” class Laundry work, Was Aid of John \Wczley. Phone 130 Dr. Thomas Coke, one oi the and most famous I v | bishops of the Methodist chure 14 100 years ago on a ship in t l ocean, and was buried a Q@ i tive of Wales, Dr. Coke in early life | % z became a co-worker of John We 3 G. H. Alfielc Office Phone B. H. Belisario & and, as mu \ % Home Phone 39 Blue 247 Black Home Phone 394 Blue & is regarded | & i i ur Sidewalks Are the Best ganized the ri Why 0 I W :: i Machine mixed, Lake Weir Sard + : nig Best Flint Rock and Lehigh Cement. ® America India, and it he & ;: who finally founded Methodist educa- | Best Pressed Brick $11.00 Delivered + tion and literary work. Bishop Coke “ i : paid nine vi to Ameriea, and came | ;, . t (; * to be knowr this side of the At-|# a e a“ aVI“g 0“5 rUC |0" 0. : lantic as the “foreign minister of | & - Methodism.” 13 Cement, Sand and Rock For Sale b 4 307 to 315 Main Street Lakeland Fla * aw%fifl%@iflmw-i&@i $ D Pdg @ PEPEPE IO TP 1] SRR REH D oo Sodo oo B o B o o S Low Round Trip Rates FROM JACKSONVILLE = St.Lonis « o« $37.75 Chicage - - o $43.50 Cincimnati - - - $33.00 Deaver - o - 58.60 St Paul - - - 5675 Lowisville . - . 3150 Colorado Springs - 58.60 Dulath . - « 6150 Knoxville - - . 21.40 Salt Lake City - 71.60 Winnipeg » « « 76.75 Evamsville . - - 32.25 Yellowstone - - 78.00 Torosto = « « 48.90 Indianapolis - - 3630 Portland - - - 106.00 « 5545 FrenchLick - - 3520 Seattle - - - 106.00 51.58 Toledo - 4110 Los Angeles it 53.00 Detroit - . 43.50 San Frascise Buffalo = - « <4740 Chastau . 4740 Glacier Park Niagara Falls - « 4740 Mammoth Cave - 30.90 Low rates to other points in Colorado, California, Canada, Minne- sota, Michigan, the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountains, Proportionally low rates from other points in the State. Tickets on sale daily, until September 30. Return limit Oct. 31. VARIABLE ROUTE TO DENVER, SALT LAKE, COLORADO SPRINGS, ETC. Going through St. Louis, returning through Chicago, or vice versa. Liberal stop-overs on all tickets. TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST, three through traine daily; choice of three different routes. Three daily trains to the southwest through New Orleans. Unexcelled dining car service. Fast time. Rock ballast. Nodust. Nodirt. For handsome illus- trated booklets of summer tourist resorts, rates, sleep- ing car reservations and other information, address, H. C. BRETNEY, Florida Passenger Agent, 134 West Bay Street, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. “CONSULT US” For figures on wiring your house. We will save you money. Look out for the rainy season. Let us put gutter around your house and protect it from decay. T. L. CARDWELL, Electric and Sheet Metal Contracts Phone 233. Rear Wilson Hdwe Co. TP YOU ARE THINKING Of BUILDING, SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The 01d Rceliable Contractors Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who never "FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction. All classes of buaildings contracted for. The many fine residences buily by this firm are evidgnces of their ability to make good, MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue g BHBBH D J. . Welch Lakeland Auction, House 509 North Kentucky Avenue Auctions every Monday between 10 and 12 a. m. Parties wish- ing to dispose of any surplus articles at auction such as furniture, horses, wagons, stoves, or other articles, notify auctioneer, who will call and talk the matter over with you. We buy, sell or ex- change. When you are contamplating overhauling your home, see me for decorating and paper hanging. We Auction off anything Licensed Auctioneer ot rielododoiop BB B G DB BRI oo e oo decreddode e ool o do B OB EGHBG E RS Bd BBl Bl Q g - H N s e B prddobddiddnd BB PR D DR ddddbddd b ddddbibibbddp If you want your Shirts and Collars Laundered the VERY BEST Send them to the Lakelana Steam Laundry