Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 26, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO ¢ & b i Every pair of HANAN and WALK-OVER Shoes, STETSON and KNO X Hats Going for $1.00 “While They Last” Now’s your chance to get a BARGAIN “FOR CASH” EAOEAON AR GBI BN FN AR EAO R PP BOFI L PGB OTOE AT CEBTRBLIRLH l = [} ] [ \ ' Williamson Clothing Co. ¢ ! 2 i ‘; ‘- ’3 “Fasbhion Shop for Men” E h? il ;?0'?0'3'0‘0 O OO O B R u)}«z»aemeg»m;:m;é Boifofodudodesdudodofo 0ROk Bedeeee el G e OO BEBIDEEEDEE 3 Mayes Grocery Company WHOLESALE GROCERS “A BUSINESS WITHOUT BOOKS” We find that low prices and long time will 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 tlousands 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 the knife in still deeper. We carry a full line groceries, feed, grain, hay. crate material, and Wilson & Toomers’ Ideal Fertilizersalways on hand Mayes Grocery Company 211 West Main St., Lakeland, Fla. JUST LOOK AT THIS Hart, Schaffner &: Marxl T B N3 g : Suits Selling as Low as $16.00, $18.00 & $20.00 that were originally $20.00, $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 it is your only chance to get a good thing for a song. Thie Hub The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing | | ! Jos. | LeVAY | { i % SO0 PO 21 THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, JUNE 26, 1914. THE WOULD-BE HERO By GEORGE ELMER COBB. —_—_ “I'll discount Roy Waldron's hero game two to one,” declared Levi Plerce in so marked a way that his auditor stared at him curiously. “Sort of envious of that diamond spangled medal the steamship people sent him?” it was suggested. “Not at all. Why, any schoolboy diver could have done what he did. Boat a-leak, two little children tipped out. Bah! I'm not much of a swimmer but I could have done as much my- self.” “But you see Waldron was quick and did just the right thing at the right moment.” “Well, I'm watching my chance. It will come along. Just because all the O | girls are making a hero of him, I want to show 'em I can shine in the same line.” “Especially Estelle Bartley?” was significantly hinted, “Oh, I fancy I'm solid there,” swag- gered self-conceited Plerce. “I'm in with the old man, I've got more money i than Waldron. Estelle sort of admires | him, like all the silly girls here, but that will wear off.” | And then Levi Pierce swung on his way chuckling. He had indeed some money and fancied that he ought to be idle to show his aristocratic contempt for work. Idle hands find mischief to do and Pierce was in the midst of carrying out an extremely hazardous plan, About a mile from Rushbrook where the railroad curved through a deep cut | some phosphate mining had been done | in the past. It had not paid and the' diggings had been abandoned. One of the men employed, a shiftless dissi- | pated old man named Red Davids, had f remained in the dismantled tool hutE on the place, working at odd jobs' about the village only when he needed food and liquor, It was to this same | hut that Pierce now made his way by a circuitous route, as if chary of any- body knowing whither he was headed. Red Davids, bleary eyed and ragged, sat smoking a blackened clay pipe in | front of the hut as Pierce approached. “Have You Thought Over What | Sald Yesterday 7" A crafty expression came over his! mottled face as Pierce greeted him with assumed cordial familiarity, [ “Well, old man,” hailed the latter, “have you thought over what I said to you yesterday ?” “All of the time, guvnor,” promptly replied Davids. “That bottle you gave me helped my ideas wonderfully.” “I've brought another one,” an- nounced Pierce, producing an oblong package which his host eeized greedily. | “And I'm to have two dollars each day I work?” he inquired. “That's it. Now see here, Davids, don’t you go to fooling me.” | “Why should I—with plenty to eat | and drink?” “You've got the tools to do the work ?" “All T need is a shovel and pick.” “And you can fix that rock along- side the railroad tracks so that at a touch of my finger it operates?” “To the thousandth part of an inch | and timed to the millionth part of a | sccond,” asserted Red Davids posifl tively, “Famous! If there is no hitch in | the plan I will give you a twenty dollar; bill extra when the work is done.” | For three days after that old man Davids was occupied in digging about | a rocky ledge overhanging the railroad cut about a mile from Rushbrook was a secluded spot, but wh anybody appeared in the vic worker suspended operations ir diately and secreted himself anc tools. Of all these el the town peoj knew nothing 1d cv spicuous an friends It | iborate arrangements pocted 1ith) as ratner con- | in his atti- tude to h some glowing secret | forth in full power and 1 | and dazzle | Roy Waldron was a pr a cr the comt T 1 aten suddenly e uproarious though when some one here!” eaker, Roy located Red Davids ered down in a nest of shrubbery, blinded, nerveless, fairly [ helpless from strong drink. ! 5 look here, Levi Plerce,” he maundered in maudlin tones, *I want that twenty dollars right now. I've done my share, the rock is all ready to tip down on the track. I've mad\ you a hero. Now then, I want my money, or I'll blab the whole scheme. Yes, sir. I'll tell the railroad pmp.].e and that pretty gal, Estelle Bartley. “What's this?” cried Roy in startled tones, “the rock? the railroad? Speak, man! where—" ! “In the cut, of course,” replied Davids, “Hi! there's the whistle of the express, Better give me that money and get to your hero act.” Some quick intuition seemed to give Roy an inkling of what was going on. - ' The old miner in his present mquled T :fi ‘,: g? E condition had taken him for Pierce. i 73 Something was up between the twain. Mischief, it seemed—and “a loose rock” and “the cut” comprised the clue to the same. Towards the cut Roy now ran at the top of his speed. Lo » - $3.75 Chicage = = o $43.50 Cinciamaii . . Reaching the edge of the bluff an %‘.‘m:', .. y,s %,‘l:,‘fl 8 e ag ..'iH" 3 amazing spectacle greeted his vision. mmw 1 .Sl::“ Wluin' A :m:'.u; e The side of the cut was all dented and Yellowstons + = 1.,3 'rml o osg.g ;:..u.rm,, £ jagged where an immense rock had “:“ m"“‘?” _ Fed Toeds ick o rolled down it, landing squarely across "“'“"f e :i.;:z 2.‘::.:‘; the double set of rails. Running down the track in the direc- tion of Rushbrook was Pierce, He had set a red neck scarf in the crotch of a tree branch near the rock and was dashing towards the town and the coming express waving a flaunting d il P @ { ¢ Low Round Tri Raty FROM JACKSONVILLE Ningara Falls = « 4740 Mammoth Cupe ints in Colorado, California, sota, Ilz:;nll:::.. ti‘:c(g:;t” I:l?n and Rocky Mouno::i:,, P low rates from other points in the State, Tickets on sale daily, until September 30, Retura limit Octy VARIABLE ROUTE TO DENVE LAKE, COLORADO SPRINCS, bt | HISTORY FROM WALL PAPER red handkerchief. It was impossible from what Davids had said to mistake the situation. Plerce had created a dangerous situa- tion in order to pose as a hero. There was no doubt that he would succeed in halting the oncoming train. At that moment, however, there was a distant echoeing whistle from the op- posite direction. Roy thrilled as he surmised what this might mean. An extra, probably some special excursion train not reg- ularly scheduled, was coming. The thoughtless, foolhardy Pierce had never calculated on that. In an instant Roy realized the peril that menaced. B DB B BB BB BB T B Phillips Bros. the cut without hesitation. ‘.;xining}«)} Fancy Grocery Going through St. Louis, returning through Cj or vice versa. Liberal stop-overs on all tickets, TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST, s, through traine daily; choice of three diffuy routes. Three daily trains to the southwest through N, lled dinii 3 P bt No dust. Nodet. For basdim trated booklets of summer tourist resorts, rates, g ing car reservations and other information, addrey, H. C. BRETNEY, Florida Passenser Agent, 134 West Bay Streg, JACKSONVILLE the road bed below, he started to run | through the cut in the direction of the « in-bound excursion train, “’f Just beyond the cut the long dry |% grass along the tracks had been mowed :: recently. Roy gathered great heaps of ; & the light tindery stuff and applied a | match, Great clouds of smoke arose. Then, tearing off his coat, he ran for- |, ward, waving it at the approaching < train, | The outgoing express halted, with | Levi Pierce in a heroic pose. The in- & Flour, per barrel . . $6.00 ing excursion special ca @ stop, the nose of ta comcatner fuet | & Sugar, 18 pourds . . $1.00 burrowing into the massive boulder |% from which it had so narrowly escaped 12¢ 16!:¢ destruction. (i Roy sald nothing of his discovery, but two days later Red Davids in an inflated condition blurted out the truth, Between two suns Levi Pierce dis-| - appeared permanently and Roy Wal-| > dron was a hero more than ever in the | -, eyes of his admirers—especially in | those of Estelle Bartley, who was | proud of him and loved him, @ (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) 5 Compound, lard, Ib. . Bacon, by the side, Ib. Best Jap Rice 20 Ibs, 10-1b, pail Srowdrift Idea Seriously Put Forward In Eng- land Would Seem to Have Some Good Points. “CONSULT US” For figures on wiring your house. We It you have grown tired of the same- | hess in the patterns of iyour wall pa- & pers, you will goon be able to select | ¥ more interesting ones, for wall paper | &* Look out for the | Wales the cost of living may | packer of that city, | walked ir | the pri manufacturers have made startling changes in the matter of their de- signs. Instead of the old familiar bunches of roses and forget-me-nots, says Pear- son’s Weekly, all manner of intere. Ing wall paper pictures will become | popular. These include reproductions of scenes from English history, and series of pictures illustrating sport- { Ing incidents, such as punting, boxing & and cross-country running, Other very interesting lines show incidents from classical history, such as the Fall of Troy, the Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis ; When these new wall papers really become the rage, the walls of (JlA’I' rooms will becorhe veritable picture galleries. We shall be able to have lessons in Roman history by paying a visit to the back bedroom and pol- ish up our knowledge of Greece while we are having our dinner in the din- ing room. Visiting will, no doubt, become more popular, too, for it will bo great fun to see how the respective tastes of our friends lie in regard to their wall papers. ——— England and Her Roast Beef. “Now in England, Scotland and climbed just as it has in other parts | of the world, but there never will be a time when beef prices will reach the high figures at wt sold in this country,” Clayton of Milwauke v old pork at the Willare was |\ ast year | 0 butcher sh I of beef that would } in this country at pound I asked the butcher wha at, and ! 1 yest can prevail among the d when occasion gives to take advantage o would seem to pre e and resultant higher prices.”—Ww shin et ashington have , | if taken then as a top; will save you money. rainy season. Let us put gutter around your house and protect it from decay. T. L. 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