Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 17, 1914, Page 6

i i 1 B { lifference in the bank. ¢ between Ford cost and heavy s "velvet” for the prudent buyer. ITe knows the Ford not only saves him s but serves him best. It's a better sold at a lower price and backed with rd service and guarantee, y for a runabaout; $350 for the touring 50 for the town car—f, ob. De- Get cata- and $7 troit, complete with equipment. log and particulars from Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla, EOOPEIPSDIPIIID FIDEDIIIGIBFOOPEDIIET 384 Mayes Grocery Company WHOLESALE GROCERS “A BUSINESS +1THOUT BOOKS” We find that low prices and long time wifl not go hand in hand. and on May Ist we will instal our new system of low prices for Strictly Cash. We have saved the people of Lakeland and Polk County thiousands of dollars in the past, and our new system will still reduce the cost of living. and also reduce our expenses and enable us t) pat the knife in still deeper. We carry a fuM line groceries, feed. grain, hay. crate material. and Wilson & Toomers' Ideal rertilizersalways on hand Mayes Grocery Company . 211 West Miin St., Lakeland, Fla, @ o PDREE B i 3 FredofofeBregegs FeFP & g % BB BEDGDBORIPISIEILIISSIEDIEPS DS & B B oz g geod SEDEGEEBEEIOOPEPEOBEHHEHS DHEDHIPDBEGEOOPDEGE BEBD P H l UST LOOK AT & FESFPFLEESFEUASPSODFDBEBSDE THIS fart, Schafiner & Marx Suits Selling as Low as | $16.00, $18.00 & $20.00 l | $25.00 and $27.50. Mohair Suits as low as $9.60 to $12.80 now. All our Im- ported Straw Hats cut way down in price. Don’t miss this Suit and Pants Sale as THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKEL By JACK BRANT. the boiling waters of the Colorado river. 1 had moved out there to a KXXXXXIOOOOOOOOOOOKNNXN] : ; “Young man,” said he, holding up | ionc finger and looking at me sternly, It met him sitting disconsolately on the edge of a precipice 1,000 feet above | fyng it after the pancakes. AND, FLA., JUNE 17, 1914, | “1g that coffee?” he asked, peering over my shoulder. “Uh-huh!” 1 grunted. ing a little sore over the pancakes. 1 was feel- b ¢ of Providence that or now I, in turn, will |”h is a bless { you saved me, i [ save you. The effect of coffee on the humu} ystem is as destructive thuu‘:l.lv | perhaps not as rapid, as prussic acid He took the pot from the stove and : We had dry toast for breakfast, and boiled water. Boiled water has 8s lonely cabin where I could get iuspira- | mych taste and staying qualities as | tion from the canyons for my literary f‘ work, with no one to bother me. Wit | the exception of the Indian who "bmught my provisions, this was the { first man 1 had seen. | He looked so sad that I felt it my | duty to go up and speak to Eim, though !'it annoyed me to think I had to do it. “Sir,” 1 sald, approaching him with reverence, for he was an old man with a white beard, “what are you doing here?” “Young man,” he answered, “don't bother me. I am about to commit sui- cide by jumping oft here.” “It's a good place,” I said, not be- ing able to think of anything else to say. “The best in the world,” he said. “And I've come 2,000 miles because it 1s the best. I know a good place to commit suicide when I see one.” I had to admit that he did. Then, because my curiosity was aroused, I asked him why he was determined thus abruptly to end his existence. “Pride,” he sald sadly. “Family pride. I can’t bear to see our fine old family name disgraced.” “And who,” I asked, “is disgracing your family name?” “I am,” he sald simply. “How?" I asked, trying to conceal wy feelings in my voice, “how, pray, did you disgrace your family?” “I was a teller in a bank,” he began, “for 40 years. At the end of that time the deficit was only $50,000. It was discovered. “Think of it, only $50,000 in 40 years! It was a small thing, you will say, but”—here he drew himself up proudly—"but the fine old family name of Griggs has never had a blemish. “No!"—here he struck the rock with his clenched fist—"I will not live to see that bright name dimmed. Better the rocks below, than blame above!” My mind was working rapidly all this time, seeking some method of sav- ing him. And all at once it found one. “See here,” I said, in the matter-of- fact manner that is the most convine- ing of all oratory, “have you consid- ered your case carefully? Have you thought of the dangerous step which you are about to take? “The life which you are about to take is, in one sense of the word, no more your own than the gold of a bank. Ordinary embezzlement fis child's play compared to suicide.” Having said this, I sat silent and pressed on Griggs' mind. This hap- pened slowly, but the effect was as good as I could have wished. When he looked up at me, there were tears in his eyes. “Young man,” he said, “I feel that what you say is true. You have put things in a new light, a light in which I have never seen them before. You have saved my life. Take it and do with ft what you will.” He extended a hand trembling with emotion, and I shook it heartily. I took him home, and as it was late I immediately showed him to my room, where he was to sleep. I would spend the night on the straw in the shed Before I left him he turned to me, and again grasped my hand sides that, I had earned a friend whose one object in life would be to repay a debt of gratitude In the morning I washed in tho kitchen, in order not to disturb my guest ing. “Good morning,” he sail. “Don't you know that you should always use your left hand when you are shaving the left side of your face?" I tried it and cut my nose just in front of my ear. It always annoys me to cut myself. 1 left that side of | my face unshaved, and put tissue paper on it But I only looked re proachfully at s, and started to get breakfast. If there is one thing that I do well, it's pancakes. Raw pancakes bad as raw peaches. I made one pan full, and started another “Don’t you knov G are as frying said Griggs, who rse 1 didn't like to be rude to y that I had ipitous death. | 1 ust it is your only chance to get a good thing for a song. Tiie Hub The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing JOS. LeVAY l that were originally $20.00, dow is too late! eat such ® pancakes out of the win and started on the coffee. waited for its meaning to become im- | “T will try,” he said earnestly, “to repay you." 1 calmed him and went to bed. And | in bed I must confess I felt a good deal like the hero I no doubt was. And be- had heen watchi that eating a | pancake that i *h browned is like t uch poison into our system? There are more green 1 by burned pancakes boiled air. ! But boll it Griggs would and, as I | still felt a little delicacy about refusing | ! him anything, 1 submitted. I content: ed myself with the thought of the lamb chops which 1 had provided for dinner, and washed down dry toast with boiled water. The morning pipe goes best over a { steaming cup of hot coffee, as any one who has ever tried the morning pipe Iwell knows. Now, though I had not | the coffee, I still had the pipe. I walked out on the front porch and sat down in the second-best chair, { which was the only other chalr, and {not fit for a man of literary pursuits to sit in. Griggs fcllowed me out, and sat { down In the real chair. I started to | fill my pipe. “Young man,” he exclaimed, look- ing at me over his glasses, “young man, tobacco is drying up your life- | blood at a rate that is appalling! A’I'u- ; bacco {s the curse of our American | manhood, and is slowly sapping the strength of our race. Truly, the days of the smoker are numbered. “But I am glad to see it. I am glad to be the means of saving you | from a far worse death than that from | which you saved me. It is my duty, and it 18 my good fortune, so soon to be able to repay the debt of grati- tude which I owe you.” With that he picked the pipe from my mouth, my tobacco pouch from my hand and threw them into the stream that passed my door. For a moment the thought of resist- ance possessed me. And then came the more quieting realization that this was a man whom I had recently saved from death. Besides, he was much larger than I, and showed by his atti- tude that he was determined to save me, even to the extent of employing physical force. I sank back into my chair in sullen acquiescence. At the proper time I went to the kitchen to prepare the chops. To my horror, they had disappeared! After hunting fruitlessly for half | an hour, Griggs joined me. “My boy,” he said, “what is {t?” “I've lost the dinner,” I said shortly. “If you mean the meat,” said my | salvage severely, “I considered it my | duty to dispose of it before it could wreck your life. Meat is only fit for animals, and to animals I have glven it. Vegetables are the only proper food for man.” I gasped. Then I ran to the back door and looked out. There, in the pan that is reserved for my moth- eaten watch dog, Kipling, were what remained of the chops. Less than half were left. I gathered them eagerly In my hands and turned to go back to the house. The next instant the chops were snatched from my hands and flung into the stream. I looked up angrily into the calm, sad face of Griggs. “Food for dogs alone!” he sald. “And T will save you. It is my daty.” “Duty be hanged!" cried I, and struck at him It was a thing to do—to strike at him—for the old fellow was acting for the best. And the next in- stant I realized how foolish it was. Something descended on my head like the side of a house, and 1 passed peacefully into a land where I wag surrounded by stars that gradually took the shape of lamb chops oVhen [ recovered 1 wag lying on | my back in my straw bed in the shed, | and Griggs was sitting beside me with foolish | a bowl in his lap. T opened my mouth | to speak, and he filled it with gruel With that my salvation beg. in earnest. Griggs did the cooking, and meat, tobacco and coffee were on the black list. I stood it for three days “Griggs,” I sald, “I thir k I'm cured, all right. And I'm the kind of a man that likes to live alone. I'd be ever so much obliged if you would move on.” But he wouldn't hear of it. I had saved his life, and he would save mine. 1 begged, bribed, entre ated, even threatened; but to no avail and And | I realized that as long as we both lived [ was to be the victim of Griggs grati- tude I hated to do it | way I enticed him to walk wit} | the very cliff where 1 haq but it was the ¢ | When we reached a ¢ | him to look into the ; | low, and then p behind | As I was the only | had not dow | before, I so to do it, if 1 want to—I h Then I of well-l C of ¢ Australia has near thousand acres of up T ; < ]l..ow' ound Trip Rate FROM JACKSONVILLE 5 St.Lonis « - $37.75 Chicago - =« « $43.50 &lle .60 St. Paul « « « 56.75 Catoer % 60 Dnllfl;u - - « 6150 Colerado Spring: Salt Lake City « 71.60 Yellowstone - - 78.00 Portland « « - 106.00 Wiskioss © o <1018 To'?:.ll’fi'l. o % Montreal - Frit 2727 10600 Petoskey prire Ll ;::“Al:xekl - - 89.50 Mackinac Detroit -« . . ., San Francisco - - 89.50 Buifalo - - Chautaugoa - . Glacier Park « - 82.75 Nisgara Falls mmoth Cave . ints in Colorado, California, Canada, Miny | ot Bt e P o Rocky Mountaias. Propo low rates from other points in the State. o Tickets on sale daily, until September 30, Return limit Oct, 3, | VARIABLE ROUTE TO DENVER, SAlt LAKE, COLORADO SPRINGS, ETC, i th St. Louis, returning through C} D b ditidle o TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST, thre, [ through trains daily; choice of three differen routes. Three daily trains to the southwest through Ney Orleans, Unexcelled dining car service. Fast time, Rock bAllnlt. Ng dust. N: -‘hl"t-t Ea:;'l‘::nds:)me ‘illu.. er tourist re y rates, g;lg‘zgrb;:tr:‘:l‘i'o;: ::': other information, nddr:u:,» H. C. BRETNEY, Florida Passenger Ageat, 134 West Bay Street, JACKSONVILLE, FL “CONSULT US” For figures on wiring your house. We N 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. ko 2:'&»1';«::& L BHRPTEPBRGD GGl dobddrdon Bl oo oo B YOU ARE THINKING OF pUILDING RKRK MARSHALL. & SANDERS 3 ¥ The 0id Rellabie Contraciors # g 3 Wao bave boon building houses in Lakeland for years, Aol @ who never "FWLL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction. H All classes of buildirgs contracted for, The many tine i residences buit by this v are evidgnces of thewr ability to make good, { MARSHALL & SANDERS P Phone 228 Biue ’ EEEEDAIEED A ED DIDEDBEIIIFIIBEES b b | [l i [l \ [l [l [l b [l [ [l [ | i [ [} [} | | [ | [| [ i 5 J. F. Welch Licensed Auction Lakeland Auction | Hoyse! 509 North Kentucky Avenue Auctions every Monday between 10 and 12 ing to dispose of any surplus articles at ]l('l't*'i‘\‘. \\'IIL'HHS. ,\'t()\'l‘s, or othe T a. m. Parties w auction such as furnit articles, notify auctioneer, who : will call and talk the matter over with you, We buy, sel] or » change. » When you are contemplating ove rhauling your home, see me for 5 decorating and paper hanging, i We Auction off anything itk Pudged Bt sefnoereeduaeedrsd 10 If you want your Shirts and Co llars Laundered the VERY BEST Send them to the - Why Our Sidewalks Are the Best . ; Machin xed, Lake Wej Sard Best F e. t Reck and L\‘!lil‘h Cyelilk'lll. . Best Pressed Brick $11.00 Delivered. : - Lakeland Paving & ConstructionCo. : = Cg-ment' Sand and Rock For Sale ; I, ¢ t0 315 Main Street . . Lakeland Fla. § : o4 T