Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 16, 1914, Page 8

% FESPELD S EIEEISEDPFINOELFLIRRLFIEL B : : § BHPPEEEEEEHEOOEPEEPREDODDS BEOGDOHEHHOIOUPBEDEDD Db THE UNIVERSAL CAR Put the difference in the bank. The saving between Ford cost and heavy car cost is “velvet” for the prudent buyer. He knows the Ford not only saves him dollars but serves him best. It’s a better car sold at a lower price and backed with T'ord service and guarantee. x00 for a runabaout; $550 for the touring car and $730 for the town car—f. ob. De- troit, complete with equipment. Get cata- log and particulars from Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla, WHOLESALE GROCERS ““A BUSINESS #ITHOUT BOOKS” We find that low prices and long time witl not go hand in hand, and on May Ist we will instai our new system of low prices for Strictly Cash. We have saved the people of Lakeland and Polk County thousands of dollars in the past, and our new system will still reduce the cost of living, and also reduce our expenses and enable us to put tle knife in still deeper. We carry a full line groceries, feel. grain, hay. crate material, and Wilson& Toomers’' Ideal Fertilizers always on had Mayes Grocery Compn 211 West Main St.,, Lakeland, “la. JUST LOOK AT \ . For sale iz THIS e Don’t miss JOS. LeVAY The Home of Het Schaffner & Marx Clothing RETTEEE Eantn k0 T S SR L LR R ERR R B SR LS wie s LA L L LR A ] Mayes Grocery Company % herves to see hm drink his soup from i oo g & & & & £ @ @ @ @ L] Hart, Schaffne & Marx | Suits Sellingas Low as $16.00, $1840 & $20.00 that were o:ginally $20.00, $25.00 and /27.50. Mohair Suits as W as $9.60 to $12.80 nw. All our Im- ported Sraw Hats cut way down irprice. this Sit and Pants Sale as it is yur only chance to get a god thing for a song. Tie Hub PO B PR P o PP PPEP 33D DR %WM%‘W | ! ! —_— FOOOOODOOOOODOOOXAC RICH MAN' PEARL —_—— By J, S. WOODHOUSE. Like a golden link tc bind in hnpp}’ unison the democratio and aristocratic } extremes of the social :hain, the little §0ne€tory yellow cottsge of Magnus Hertz occupled a geographically har- monious position betveen the minor and major keys of a thriving municl-, | pal life. | From under this mdest little roof | & man—because of Hs broad shoul- ders, his long, lank body, and his sinewy arms—went down the hill, | \plerced the smoky counterpane that almost hid the lowlsads, and worked among the glant engnes where there was heat and dirt anl foul air. 1 And the woman, bxcause of her nat- | ural charms of beaity and grace of manner, went up te hill to mingle with those of the siclal set. | They had marrbd because of an | ardent love for eah other, but gold is a rare metal tlat cannot resist a! | strain with the tenacity of the more vulgar Iron or ste!l or brass, and the | oppesite weights were beginning to pull hard on this Tagile link of love. Her intercours: with the more gen- | teel had served t» magnify in her eyes 1 the crudity of her hueband’s manners, and by gentle emonstrances at first | she had undertagen to correct them, ! Her esthetic tense had developed to | the point that i grated harshly on her the bowl. | In the begiming she had tried to in- duce him to ge with her into this new- ! ly discoverec world. But he just laughed, lighted his corn-cob pipe, and { sat contentecly down by the fire after a day of hand toll to enjoy a pleasant relaxation. All her coaxing would not alter him. He aspired to no soclety beyond the geniality ¢f his home, and his chief demand of wifehood was good cook- ing and s sweet disposition. Her in- creasing social indulgence but magni- fled in her eyes the shortcomings of the husband, and frequently elicited from hin a reproach. The time devoted to her soclal ambi- tlon was detracting from both of his chief dsmands of wifehood. This “so- | clal lure” then was the one element that had interfered with the hitherto pertect domestic peace. It required a most remarkable inct- dent to arrest the development of this rapldly widening domestic breach. The catastrophe was precipitated by her vanity, coupled with a pronounced conceit, The pretty compliments, the kind attentions, and the suggestions of | wealth due such beauty, continuously showered upon her by men superior to her husband in both income and in- | tellect, were attributed by her to no ulterifor motives, but accepted with an audacious convictlon that they were the truth. She had nourished her vanity so far that she believed the diamond brooch, proposed by an ardent admirer as an enhancement to the beauty of her neck, might conscientiously be accepted by her without moral turpitude, But one thing withheld the too eager | hand from this and many other prof- fered gifts—the jealousy of her hus- band; a sentiment, she convinced her- | self, due only to his ignorance. It must be conceded that Mrs. Hertz, regardless of the many indiscretions of which she might be guilty, was— when the question resolved itself to the one-element measure adopted by moralists today—virtuous. But to sacrifice ambition within one's grasp to gratify the shortcomings of another is a concession that would | wear on nerves even less feminine than those of Mrs, Hertz, and accord- ingly she soon found herself trying to | evolve a method of harmonizing the | difficulty that oppressed her on one | side, and the temptation that lured her | on the other, How to accept from some admirer | the wealth that would buy the dresses | and jewels she would have and how to make her husband gracefully accept the situation was a problem that would readily have confounded a less preten- tious person. Even she might have been compelled to bow beneath the weight of this problem had there not crossed her so- clal horizon Horace Duval, who, as a distinguished visitor from the East, | attracted considerable feminine atten- | tion, but who chose in turn to center ! | his on the beaming Mrs. Hertz. Ostensibly he was an importer of | African furs and very wealthy, but} with a ripening acquaintance he con- | fided to Mrs. Hertz that in reality he | was an eastern fisher of pearls. To her | 1s eyes he exhibited some of the st beautiful specimens upon which she had ever looked One of exceptional size and beauty | which appealed to her feminine fancy | he frankly admitted was worth one | | thousand* dollars. It became between them quite the chief topic of conversa- i tion, largely because a woman loves to | revel in a secret. It was at Mrs. Lancaster's ball hls; attent ht of their | manifestations, and he suggested he would love to shower jewels upon a | woman of such magnificent beauty. So while Magnus Hertz sat in his little cottage home trying to figure how he could make his meager income cover his rapidly increasing expenses, Horace Duval whispered in the wife's ear that he would gladly give her the big pearl if she feared not the hus- band's scruples. reached the heig That peculiar machination of lntel-] lect that formulates intricate pumtI within the twinkling of an eye and has been charged by some with belng the devil himself, here entered with alac | rity the woman’s mind, and she u(’c.vpl I o gift that was pressed firmly into '.iml while the giver extracted U;l to call at her home the | edtl | her | | permis " next afternoon It was an ingenious scheme that h;\{l entered the pretty head of this umhy tious young woman! It was with mingled feelings of as- | tonishment, gratification and hope that ! Magnus Hertz the next evening saw his wiie bring to the table a steaming tureen of oyster soup. And seeing his wife’s face beam with a patronizing smile, he accepted this as an offering of peace and notice that hostilities had ceased. Nothing so thoroughly appealed to the appetite of this thrifty worker a8 oyster soup, and when his wife passed his bowl he smiled so agreeably that it quite banished from her mind the wonder over the failure of Horace Duval to keep his appointment that afternoon. She bubbled over with laughing chatter and gave an anxious glance at every spoonful of soup her husband ralsed to nis mouth, blew lustily, and | then sucked noisily through his lips. “l was icading in the paper some time ago,” she nalvely suggested, “of a man who tound in his oyster soup a pearl wor'l several hundred dollars. Wouldn't it be fine it we could have such good fortune?” “No such luck for us,” was the frank opinion expressed between two spoontuls of soup. “Ah, but think,” she urged, “what it would mean! You could take a vaca- tlon. You haven't had a day off ex- cepting Sunday for five years.” In a meditative way he slowly skimmed the crackers from the sur- face and chewed them with a delib- eration that extracted every flavor of the soup for the gratification of his taste, unconscious of the fortune that might lay in the dregs. Mentally she had counted the spoonfuls. He had eaten 12 already. It seemed there might be a thousand more in the bowl! “And then,” she continued, *“I might have some new dresses and an opera cloak.” He commenced to eat faster while she chattered on in an incoherent way, scarcely knowing what she sald, so intently were her eyes fixed on her husband’s soup. Then, suddenly, when but & few spoonfuls remained in the bottom, he thought of an incident at the shops, which he deliberately stopped to re- late. It was something about the work of the men. She lost her self-restraint and 1n- terrupted him abruptly: “There's plenty more soup, Mangus, when you've finished that.” Before she could realize the effect of her words he had quickly grasped the bowl with a movement of gratifica- tion, raised it to his lips, and downed the rest with a single gulp. Anxiously she looked into his face, confidently awaiting some exclamation of wonder or surprise. He interpreted the strange inquiry of her eyes as a rebuke for his greed, and blurted: “Well, you said there was more, didn’t you?" She sank in a heap upon her chalr. The glutton had swallowed the pear]! Through her dizzy brain rushed the mocking recollection that she had, confident of her scheme's success, al- ready ordered the desired new dresses and opera coat, Then came the conviction that her husband's uncouth manners were the cause of her failure, and, fearing to tell the truth, she rose in haughty in- | % dignation, resolved to have revenge in a tirade on his vulgarity, “Such manners—-" Her sentence was cut short by a |’ loud knock at the door, one that wait- ed for no answer, and husband and | wife turned suddenly to look into the faces of several officers. “I beg your pardon,” cynically ex- : plained the leader, “but a notorious | % pearl thief, masquerading under the name of Horace Duval, whom tracked as the thief of the rare Cargan collection, has been arrested and hag 3 He has returned all the |: confessed. jewels but one pearl, the finest of them all, which he says he gave to Mrs. Hertz. If you will kindly return it we will trouble you no further.” Color rushed suddenly into the woman's face. Now the husband's jealousy and ire rose in turn The storm so suddenly calmed in her now raged in his breast, but it was stayed by her prompt reply: “I have no such pearl.” “You will pardon us for seeming to doubt your word, madam, but our in- structions are to make a thorough search.” The officers departed with apologies, after leaving a wild confusion niture, the middl sat Mrs 1 of fur linen and pi In it all, on the pa Hert imiliate startled to ¢ ness wl | jumped t | into his f Magnus,” she s she wound let her 8 rough working- re tr 1 lue va in ¥y man who eats hig soup Copyright.) we | head sink & R R Low Round Trip FROM JACKSONVII[f St.Lonis - - $31.75 Denver = o+ - 58.60 Colerado S, - 58.60 Salt Lake City - 71.60 Yellowstone = - 78.00 Portland - - - 106.00 Seattle < « = 106.00 Los Angeles - - 89.50 Cag Lowg, Winnipeg 76.75 Toronto = « = 43.9) Montreal « « « 5545 Petoskey « « « 5153 i DA R sn N Smbpek L 8275 Nagar Fal + - 47.40 oth ints in Colorado, votn, Moohimant e Creat Lakes and Rocky M. low rates from other points in the State. A Tickets on sale daily, until September 30, Retwy) VARIABLE ROUTE TO p) LAKE, COLORADO SPRiy] h St. Louis, returing, stop-overs ony| TO THE NORTH AND NORTH through traine daily; choice of t routes. Three daily trains to the southvy, Riifihn.‘.’:"fi:'?..‘.f No dirt, Fol, trated booklets of summer tourist i;lz :.Il‘ reservations and other i r SRR B D B DB “CONSULT US” For figures on wiring your house. will save you money. Look out for ti rainy season. Let us put gutter arou: your house and protect it from decay. T. L. CARDWELL, Electric and Sheet Metal Contn Rear Wilson Hdwe Co. UL T RL R AR FrRg . Phone 233. & BB B T® YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING MARSHALL & SANDE The O!d Reliable Contractors Who have been building honses in Lakeland for who never 'FELL DOWN' or failed to give satisfu All classes of huildings contracted for, Thes residences buily by this firm are evidguces of tier make good. MARSHALL & SANDES . Phone 228 Blue el o e oo ool ool el DB oo b SEEDPEEOE PODDBEPIEOBPDOIED DPEEIEY. # 1. F. Welch e Lakeland Auction® Licensed 4 1 Ho 509 North Kentueky Avenue Auctions every Monday between 10 and 12 a. m. P ing to dispose of any surplus articles at guction such horses, wagons, stoves, or other articles, notify at Wwill call and talk the matter over with you, We 't change. When you are contemplating overhauling your home, # decorating and paper hanging, We Auction off anything PPECRIPESDEPEIIGDDE SEIBPIDDIGDIPEBBE o —‘\_ 3 e AR S g g A 1 WA oy If you want your Shirts and Collars Laundered the VERY BEST Send them to the Lakelana Steam Laun Weare better equipped than ever for giving ! elass Laundry work, G. H. Alfield : Oftice Phone B.1 Home Phone 39 Blye 347 Black Home P Why Our Sidewalks Are the A\I:u‘n:pg mixed, Lake Weir Sar Best Flint Rock and Lehigh Ce Best Pressed Brick $11,00 Delivert - Lakeland Paving & Constructio $ Cement, Sand and Rock For Salt B0l B o B0 B0 B 307 to 315 Main Street : - P804 Ty RN