Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 1, 1914, Page 2

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FI PAGE TWO TSR e e e = 2 | (0 ——ebo—— ! : § By HAROLD CARTER. ‘\ Never before did the people g 4| Bobby was lost. It is very hard to of Lakeland have the oppor- tunity of getting A 20 L . STETSON and | | KNOXHATS | FOR $1.00 8 That's what we are selling them o for. Think of it, one dollar g ¢. can buy these hats. Better - g,, g come before your size is gone. g 4 3 TYH[H Cl h' [; 2 - Williamson Clothing Co. b ¢ “Fasbion Shop for Men” ; ] 3 3 “’ O OO OISO D H O GG BT SEPEGIDIIIIADFFDIDEDEIE GUeeeDEIPIIOUEFPHIDE Ibdd 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. 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 the knife in still deeper. ¢ We carry a full line groceries, feed, grain, hay. crate material, and Wilson & Toomers' ldeal Fertilizers always on hand Mayes Grocery Company e SR B B B S o St S R W OOHE 33 4 o 2t ¢ 211 West Main St,, Lakeland, Fla. *%bew%fifiuiui»oo@«‘ T PP PP T PPN ot JUST LOOK AT] THIS Hart, Schaffner & Marx 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. e Hu The Home of * = Px JOS. L ¥4 LeVAY } / be lost when you are only five years old and have gone out into the world to find a father. i He had wandered away from the little apartment uptown, and, having found the street, had run on and on, ' past big, friendly policemen, and hos- tile districts where bigger boys lay in wait for five-year-olds. Then he had come into a place of tagxicabs and street cars, and how he crossed that he never knew. But finally he was in a crowded street, and—and he hadn’t found a father yet. He held the scrap of paper which was to be a talisman in his hand. He had taken that from mother’s desk when she was in the other room. He knew that this would help him to find a father such as he had always, wanted, Suddenly Bobby's legs gave out. He was tired and bewildered by the rush of traffic and the busy pedestrians, who did not geem to have time to look ' where they were going. Several times he had been swept into doorways, and once he had been knocked down, and it required all his manliness not to ery. If he had not been looking 'a tearstained face and grimy hands | | that clutched a scrap of paper, came | | in your hand, young man?” JULY 1, 1914, he said—and just then a clerk came in | through the private door. “To see me!” exclaimed John Swanscott incredulously. “The porter, did you say?” Then anger got the | better of him. “Did you tell him I | had a company meeting?” he began. And just then a dirty little boy with | toddling into the room. Bobby looked round gravely, and he stared into the face of each of the amused directors in turn before plant- ing himself upon his sturdy little legs in front of Swanscott. “Well, sir, what can I do for you?" inquired Swanscott gravely. “Have | you come to attend the meeting of this company?” “Yes,” answered Bobby, with equal gravity. “I want a father.” The words stung Swanscott to the | quick. He glared at the little boy, | and the directors, each of whom knew the tragic story of Swanscott’s life though he did not know they knew, tried to suppress their interest “So you have come to me to find a father for you, have you?” inquired | the president, “What is that you have | Bobby stretched out his hand and offered him the paper, with the assur- ance of five years old. Swanscott took it and gave an involuntary start. It was Hilda’s handwriting that he saw before his eyes. It was impossi- ble to mistake that. How many times had he not seen it upon those letters at home, every one of which he had read so often that he knew it by heart! “Mother is always crying because | I | @ ® o H & | & ® e @ line. I haven't a father,” explained Bobby. “She cries all night, and sometimes she writes things on a plece of pa- per and then tears it up and frows it away. So I thought—I thought I would get a father.” John Swanscott looked round hi; and suddenly a warm sense of human- ity filled his shrunken heart. And the B directors, seeing the look upon his H face, drew together into a corner. | “What {s your name?”’ asked Swanscott of the boy. “Bobby?’ That | was his name—his second name, and |1t had been arranged that if there | were a boy he was to inherit. Swans- cott reached for his hat. “Well, Bobby, I guess you have found one,” he answered. ‘“Gentle- . men" he added, turning to the direc- tors, “there will be no company meet- ing today.” * (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Helght of Tower of Babel. The details of the great Tower of Babel, the remains of which utilitar ! ian Turkish contractors removed from the face of the earth, are insured to us by the finding, recently, of the clay tablet or book, describing the tower at Babylon. It was George Smith, the Assyri- ologist, of the British Museum, who had in his hands the inscription, but died before being able to complete his examination of it. His description of the tablet was often quoted, but no one knew its whereabouts till it came to light again in the hands of the Rev. “Well, Sir, What Can | Do for You?” for a father he might have let the tears come, And they did come now. He sat down upon the curb and rubbed his eyes with two grimy little hands, and still he could not rub the tears away. “What's the matter?” asked a big policeman, striding up to him. “Are you lost, boy?” Bobby handed him the plece of pa- per. The policeman looked at it and | V. Scheil. whistled. After descriptions of the temples “Mr. Swanscott!” he ejaculated. and shrines, the writer turns to the “Saints alive! 1Is he your daddy?” | Tower itself. This is the Tower's de- Bobby nodded dubiously, more be- Scription: cause he felt that it was the right' One hundred fifty feet square, 55 thing to do than because he under- feet high, of worked brick, was the stood. And the policeman picked him lowest stage. up and led him across the street to a big building that seemed to tower into the skies, and spoke to the porter. The porter took Bobby to the door of a little room that was moving up and up, with people standing in it and pressing against the walls. Upstairs John Swanscott was hold- ing a company meeting. The directors were all assembled and ready to be- gin business. John Swanscott walked restlessly about the room. His heart was not in the company that day. He i was thinking of the girlish wife who had left him flve years before be-, cause—because— Well, that was ancient history now, and he had repented his fault in sack- cloth and ashes ever since. And he had tried to find her so many times. But Hilda's pride had lent her power to evade him, and he had learned nothing. He did not know, for in- stance, that he was the father of a boy. He did not know that he was,a father at all. Certainly he did not know that Hilda wrestled with her pride every night in her lonely bed, and tried and tried and could not bring herself to write to him, even for Bob- by's sake. But with the shrewd instinct of five years Bobby had long ago divined that someiliing was the matter with moth- er. True, he did not know that moth- ht not to ery at r ) o the was only formed 1 and mother, home a father Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing | had become street. There was not one of the directors, who stood nervously about the room, who was not afraid of him “The meeting is called, gentlemen,” One hundred thirty feet square, 30 feet high, enameled, the second. One hundred feet square, 10 feet high, recessed, the third. Eighty-five feet square, 10 feet high, recessed, the fourth. Seventy feet square, 10 feet high, re- f, cessed, the fifth. Forty feet high, a fraction under 35 feet wide, 25 feet high, variegated to the top, the seventh—the house Sa-|.: hura. Birds Interest English Cabinet. The water fowl in St. James's Park seem to exercise a quiet fascination over cabinet ministers. Lloyd George frequently stands by the lakeside ad- miring the birds, particularly the pell- cans, and discussing their points of interest with his young daughter. Oc- casionally John Burns patronizes the birds with more than a passing glance as he strides along the graveled paths. Other members of the ministry have been seen recently meditating on the peaceful life of the feathered water dwellers. I saw Sir Edward Grey walk across from the foreign office into the park, accompanied by a for- eign friend, and for fully a quarter of an hour he turned his thoughts from such mundane things as inter- national and home politics to an ex- ¢ Bl edng o b deE e E R ey, ™® YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDPING. ZEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The 01d Reliable Contratins Whno have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who neyer "FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction, All classes of buildings contracted for. The many fine residences built by this firm are evidguces of their abilitytg make good, MARSHALL & SANDERS ci Phone 228 Biue e ipdifarbi B d AP M b P dPd i BB PEDeD 2GR § g % § § t ey, Dok g { When You Are Getting Married Let us have your order for the wedding station- ety. It will be right in every particular. Calling cards and engraved let- y terheads are also in our ‘ N \_—= THE BOOK STO L3 G C. Barton, President G. C. Rogan, Vice Pres. W. T. Sammon Treasurer Wm. Steitz, Secretary POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT. CO. CAPITAL STO.K $300,000 A New and Unique Bond This Company is issuing a series of $150,000 of Partici- 2 pating Bonds on 7,500 acres of land near Lakeland. These bonds are redeemable in any of the land at any time. They bear 6 per cent interest for ten years, payable semi-an- nually, which is evidenced and attached. HUGH LARMON guaranteed by Coupons | & " @ & General Sales Manager & b @ Rooms 1 and 2, Deen & Bryant Bldg. Lakeland, Florida BRBREEDDIELBIPEDETDDEIOIIE SO BEHDEGFPPDDEFIITIEIIPEIPIBIIIIOBED ¢ Phillips Bros. Fancy Grocery 2o ffodrgibeid 1053 0.5 B B e G B oo Flour, per barrel . . $6.00 Sugar, 18 pourds . . $1.00 Compound, lard, Ib. . 12¢ Bacon, by thetside, Ib. 16%¢c Best Jap Rice 20 Ibs. $1.00 10-1b. pail Snowdrift $1.20 R position of the merits and peculiari- tles of the floating fowl.—Liverpool Courier. Castle Under the Sea. 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