Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 20, 1914, Page 6

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKEI JAND, FLA., JULY 20, 1914, PAGE SIX = et R R SRR R R R R R R L L L R L S S R S e T G C. Barton, G.C.Rogan, W.T.Sammon, Wm. Steitz, President Vice Pres. Treasurer Secretary POLK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT (0. CAPITAL STOCK $300,000 A New and Unique Bond This Company is 1ssuing a series of $150,000 of Partici- oo BB foaedo o oo B B o B B ; pating Donds on 7,500 acres of land near Lakeland. These ‘,: bonds are redeemable in any of the land at any time. They :EI bear 6 per cent interest for ten years, payable semi-an- ® nually, which is evidenced and guaranteed by Coupons attached. HUGH LARMON General Sales Manager Rooms 1 and 2, Deen & Bryant Bldg. ™ Lakeland, Florida. 20430330 D) s AR RL L SR T BT B : “CONSULT US” :' For figures on wiring your house. We ff: will save you money. Look out for the i 2 rainy season. Let us put gutter around your house and protect it from decay. ¢ T. L. CARDWELL, 2 Electric and Sheet Metal Contracts ,;. Phone 233. Rear Wilson Hdwe Co. b r-: e R T T T T TV TIPS | SHI000000 04000 RH MR EI R RS AR R PRI PR B BB E DT Pb e 'F YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING, SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The 0Id Reliable Contractors Weto have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who never “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 ability b make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue Lo 2 LT T N] ~r— ;“m"ug.i e J. B. Contractor and Builder Having hag twenty-one years’ experience in building and con tracting in Lakeland and vicinity, I fee] competent to render the best service in this line, If contemplating building, will be pleased to furnish estimates and all information, All work guaranteed. Phone 169 J. B. STREATER b Bl oo B B e SRt B o Don’t, Forget the DATE 20th, 21st ano 22d Our representative will be here at The Hub, Jos. LeVay, with a FULL LINE OF MERCHANT TAILORING FOR THE FALL The Febrics and Colors are most exquisite for the Fall. A look in- side will convince you of this, so don’t fail to come and convince yourselves. JOS. LeVAY Thie Hub The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing ! 1 | R S R S S R B T T ha g et SR TR TR EET T R RN 0 HBEIIIIOEBIIDEE JIBED | you?” M 000 TIY PLTE By JOHN GREGG. A dusty plece of tin plate, one side of which bore the legend, “Tompkins Avenue!” Carol Marston, the young lawyer, looked at it idly. It was lying in a dry ditch beside the roadway, on the outskirts of the town. Some prowling dog had probably unearthed it from the six inches of sofl in which it had lain for years. The discovery seemed not of the smallest importance. Marston had long since dismissed it from his mind when he had a call from Pretty Elsie Vincent. “Sit down, Miss Vincent,” he said, offering her a chair. He knew her by sight, although they had never spoken to each other. “What can I do for “I want to bring a sult against the Richards company,” answered Miss Vincent. month as telephone operator in their new apartment house at New avenue and Seventh street, and dismissed me on the seventh with a week's pay be- cause they are cutting out the sery- ice.” “Well, you seem to have a clear' case, Miss Vincent,” said the young lawyer, after he had learned scme fur-' ther particulars. The flagrant mean- ness of the action stung him. 0ld Sol Richards had the reputation of being the meanest man in town; but thig Wwas worse than anything he had done, for Lewis Vincent had started him in business, twenty years before. Lewis Vincent had died when Elsfe was a baby. He had once been wealthy, but had backed a note for Richards, and when he died it was found that all the property had to go to meet it, Richards being insolvent. The man bad become wealthy since then, but he “What D’'You Mean?” had never repaid the money, and there was no legal claim on him. “And I just mean to get this forty- five dollars out of the old skinflint,” sald Elsie to Carol Marston. “Just to show him what I think of him. Now, why is it, if I have a clear case, no other lawyer will take it?” “You have tried? inquired Carol. “Yes,” the girl admitted. “You see, Mr. Marston—" here she blushed pret-' tily—"you seemed so young.” Carol smiled rather grimly. “I guess they are all afraid of Richards,” he said. “That's why. He {8 a man of considerable influence, you know. But I will take your case—and win it, too.” “And I have a lot at the corner of | Tompkins avenue and Seventh street,” | the girl confided, “so I can pay you by selling that. It is all father had to leave me, and it {sn't worth more than & couple of hundred dollars, because the town didn't grow the way he thought it would, but—" “They engaged me by the ' , Marston ! street. man, ‘“possess Seventh ' nue. Richards would make good his threat. § And then one night, while he was | turning over the situation in his mind, 1l there flashed across trance of that old tin plate. it the remem- | It was a flash from the subconscious, and for a long time Carol Marston it recurred so incessantly could not imagine why the thought of R And then, suddenly, a dim remembrance came to him which made him start up with a cry of joy. The next morning he paid a visit to the town hall and spent the whole forenoon burrowing among old lxxzxps and charts of the village. Although it was an ancient settlement, the popu- lation, as with many small towns ad- joining cities, was largely a floating one, and hardly anyone in the place had lived there more than a few years. Hence the surprise of the discovery was somewhat mitigated; neverthe- less, it assumed enough importance to inspire the young man to write an ‘ to come to his office. | Meanwhile he had had a talk with Elsie which made the young woman's eyes sparkle with gladness. And, em- }boldened by the very kind look that she bestowed upon him, Carol Marston ventured to make a singular request of her which, while it threw her into | confusion, did not produce any decided rebuff. | merey, he was considerably astonished to see Miss Vincent there, and Marston seated at his desk and bearing no ! traces of spiritual humility. “Well, young man, 80 you've come ! round, eh?”" growled Richards. ‘Sit down,” said Carol. *“Mr. Rich- ards, when you attempted to deprive Miss Vincent of three weeks' salary I did not realize that you were actually . in possession of stolen property of hers.” “What d'you mean?” growled Rich- ards, turning pale, nevertheless. “The records of our town were de- stroyed by fire fifteen years ago,” went on; “but fortunately certain deeds were saved—among them that to your apartment house at the corner of New Avenue and Seventh “This is a conspiracy!” yelled Rich- ards, rising. “Miss Vincent,” continued the young one of those deeds, giving her possession of a vacant lot at street and Tompking ave- He rose and, shaking his finger with that dramatic air that was well known in the courts afterward, continued: “You infernal scoundrel, Tompkins avenue used to run where New ave- nue runs today, and Miss Vincent's lot is that on which your apartment house now stands!” Five minutes later Richards got up [ from the floor and wiped his knees, which were very dusty. “I'll send that check for ninety thou- sand as soon as I can fix the mortgage, Mr. Marston,” he whimpered. “And you'll let it go at that?” “Yes,” nodded Elsie, and Marston said “yes” obediently. But it was not more than a minute before Miss Elsie was saying “yes" also—in obedience to the singular stipulation above mentioned. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) DO REALLY WONDERFUL WORK Spiders in Paraguay Spin Webs That Might Almost Be Referred to as Cables, The roads of Paraguay are about five yards wide throughout, and the trees meet overhead at a height of some 18 feet, thus forming a tunnel of very uniform dimensions. In the clear parts of this tunnel, that is, where it is not choked up with the giant nettle—it is full, from roof to ground, of enormous spiders’ webs, stretching clear across the road, the b{g trees usually being chosen as anchorages and the total clear span being thus more like eight yards than | five. The main cables or framework of the nets are composed of five or six strands of thick yellow web, and are almost as strong as cotton thread, says the Wide World. The rest of the net f8 made up of single and double strands of the same stout material, which is as sticky as it is strong. Ev- Well, being a practical lawyer, Carol | Y Yard or so one of these nets ex- did not refuse her offer and assure her tends across one's path, making it that he would take her case for noth- , ecessary to hold a cutlass or a fairly ing, even though he was conscious of Stout stick at arm’s length in front as certain flutterings in the reglon of the heart when he looked at her across his | table. And so the case was flled. Richards had two reputations. One | was that of being the meanest man in town; the other of being the most vin. ! dictive. Carol expected to receive a | visit from him, and he was not disap- | pointed. Three days later Richards came stamping into his eflice. “What's this I hear about your filing a claim against me on bohalf of tuut Vincent woman?" he roared | “I don’t know what you have “oard, ‘ Mr. Richards, but it is true,” answered Carol. “Do you know I can ruin you, y¢ man?” cried the infuriated old “Say, are you plumb crazy?" Y “Can't say,” answered Carol ung nper- 'turbubl,\'. but that claim is going to be met.” I “We'll see,” grunted Richards and | stamped out again That was the beginning of the trou- ble. One by one Carol's clients dropped away from him. The case | never came into court, for Richards | 2 . ! pald; and thenceforward Carol was de- prived even of the solace of Miss El- sie’s occ: g man bad little capital, and it seemed thag one walks. The makers of these troublesome | but picturesque obstructions are large, highly colored, gaudy-looking spiders, with bodies that look as if they were about to explode, they are so blown out and glossy. At intervals in some more open space where the sky is vigible, one will notice a different kind of web, far more irregular in shape, but far larger than the others. Not content with the space available in the tun- nel, these webs are stretched in com- plicated mazes from the ground to the very tops of the surrounding trees, with clear spans frequently 20 or 30 | yards from one tree to another. From these main cables smaller ones extend to the ground—a drop of 15 or 20 yards—and the spaces in be- tween are filled up with a mass of webs spun in all dir Of No Use to Him. Coal Dealer—Why don't 3 the barrow along more qu It's not a very hard job inclined plan ly, Pat? there's an you ter, the plane may be me if I am!— e to relieve Pearson’s Weekly, urgent letter to Richards, inviting him When Richards stamped into the § lawyer’s office, anticipating a plea for | § Low Round Trip Rate FROM JACKSONVILLE i+ - 83175 Chicago « - o $43.50 Cincinmati . . . gy, i‘.’-';:“. 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