Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 24, 1914, Page 7

B GBI T O e B BB B B THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA,, JULY 24, 1914, (O FOBOBEIS0 FOBIEDRI SOOI O BN A Delightful Trip to the SEASHORE SPECIAL SUNDAY EXCURSIONS TO Saint Petersburg Passa Grille Fort Dade Anna Maria ROUND TRIP 75¢ Leave Tampa 9:30 A. M., returning, reach Tampa 8:00 P. M, Giving six hours at St. Petersburg or three or more hours at any of the Gulf resorts, for bathing, boating and fishing. Reliable Schedule Commodious Steamers, Good Meals served on Board. Lunches and Non-alcaholic Refreshments. Make this your Week End Trip during the summer months. See the Forts and Soldiers at Ft. Dade. Bathing at Passa Grille and Anna Maria. You Can Make the Trip in a Day Good music on every Excursion Steamer, Every possible provision has been made for the comfort and pleasure of pa- trons. g Enjoy the Surf DAILY SCHEDULE. Leave Tampa 7:30 a. m. and 3 Sunday Excursions' :30 a. m. returning, reach Tampa 8:00 p. m. Fare 75¢c For further Information apply to, Favorite Line Steamers Jackson and Water Streets Tampa, - - - Florida QLGB RIOEOT QBB ‘{0 p. Leave Tampa QBRI O . O DO OO BOTDDODOE SRS s B B0 150G S SO S SO 0D 20F SO SEx : 2 @ 4 & @ ® : g : @ §o 5] o o oo B oPr BreBr B Fudr el B B oo o oo oo ;, Y ¥ L 4 * b k3 o Here is The Best Announcement This Maas Store Has Ever Made At This Season Of The Year @ A Fortunate purchase of high class merchandise at prices that seemed ridic- ulous to our New York Buyver isthe prime cause of this unusual 10 Day Selling Event @ Coupled with this is the fact that we are planning extensive alterations to our store and the less merchandise we have, the easier it will be for us to move our stock. We Have Made Prices That Will Be a Revelation to All Who Attend (@ Prices cannot do justice to the mer- chandise. You must =ce the goods to fully appreciate what this event means to you. @ This buying opportunity lasts just TEN DA\b Those who come earliest, will profit the most. 'l Maas ‘Brothers { fl%olfg&fltero/)bdfiflm b i ’I‘ampa;-J*“ lpr.ldm ) ool o oo o oo o oo o <5 ofieoocooio o PR B oo oo BBl B DA BB P b OO BB O F OROE OISO EOE O S WITH AWAKENED EYE —0do— " By SYLVIA ST. JOMN. B————"—"——— There was once a boy who took & dreamy-eyed, pure-souled girl for his wife. The vision of death, cold and | naked, eternal, terrible and never- to-be-ended, had cast a sudden pall over his world, and his soul, smitten | with the emptiness of its delights, reached out for something real—some- thing that would endure. He found the girl. She had waited for her| lover—the strong man of her dreams —all her life. True, it was but a lit- tle tale of childish years at best, and | when the boy—the boy with the soiled soul and the sin-smeared life —told her of his love (and, indeed, he thought that he loved her), she | questioned not, but gave herself to | him, gladly and freely. For a little while all was well. The boy kept the memory of the shroud, the marble brow, the pulseless breast, the nameless terror of the hereafter; and the girl wife, so calmly unafraid, was love and life to him. But slowly the vision faded. The din of the world broke in upon him— the nofse of the tumult that he loved. Clamorous voices called to him, and would not be denfed. The girl wife, with her artless love, her transparent sincerity, her dreams and her absurd fdeals, became hateful to him. He called her a hypocrite, but he knew in his soul that he lled. Of all this, he told her nothing, and she, sweet soul, being a dreamer, dreamed on. She dreamed that his love for her, like her love for him, was rooted in infinity, and had neith- er beginning nor end. However, changed he was, and oh, he was | changed! However her heart might grieve over him—and oh, the grief was bitter!-—one thing she never questioned—his unchanging love. It was hard for the boy, these years, harder than for her. He had to endure her love, when every flber of his be- ing loathed her. The chain that bound him to her dragged heavilys He wondered sometimes that he did not break it, once for all. But he could not; there was human goodness in him still; something of the primal man—man before the fall. Children were in the home, and each one was | a mighty link, forged by nature, to hold him fin the tolls—he loved and hated them. The wife, too—the girl of dreams—he loathed her, yes—yet, there was the jealousy of possession . —she was his—his to protect and care for, though despised. Still the girl dreamed on, and sickened him with her kisses But the day of awakening was at hand—awakening for both. He, too, was a dreamer, though his dreams were ovil dreamns She was brushing his coat one dey, carogsing it as if it were a living thing. and singing softly to herself, when a paper dropped from one of the pock- ets. She took it up—Iit was an en-| velope, addressed in his handwriting to one whom she knew well ¢ A sudden pang smote her through the heart She opened the letter violets in {t--and 1 there were fresh read—only a word or two, but enough! Ah, God! The girl who lad kept her | girl heart and her dre 5 through the long years, would never dream again! She was @ woman, now, with a woman's knowledge, and her infinite capacity for suffering | How loug she sat there, counscious only of a mortal wound, a dull throb- | bing in her ears, a blindness in her _she knew not, A careless whis- tle aroused her. The boy had come back for the forgotten letter. There sat his wife, and the letter had fallen at her feet. She stooped and handed it to him; and as she lifted her eyes to his, he saw that there were no dreams in them, but only memories. “You have read it,” he sald mechan- {cally, not as & question, “Yes.” “It is all over then,” he eald. There was an accent of despalr In the word. He had lost her, and with instant realization he knew that in earth and heaven there was nothing so dear to | him. Her simplicity, her gincerity, her | sweet unworldliness were jewels worth the ransom of a soul, now, to | the fool who had desplsed them But | it was too late. There was a fire | smoldering on the hearth. He raked ' the coals together and threw the let- ter in the midst, violets and all, watch delight as it shriv- eyes ing with a flerce | eled into ashes i At last he turned and fixed his gaze | trom the hearth He moved toward | her and took up his hat, holding it in | his hand a8 a chance caller might, be- | | fore he went away. Yet he delayed, as seconds ran into r nutes. He could not go until she knew, though it was too late But his tongue falled | him—the ready tongue, so glib at lies, | halted at the truth ] cannot ask you to belleve me,” “said— the words were heavy, lnle- | tinet, but truth spoke in them—"I have | 1ot all clé jpon your confidence; 1 you only. 1 have ut 1 i but I love you, yesotted been ma2 ? you, but now v o 1 ar I shall g ot ur face again. Oh! never Ic | my God!” so altoge Lh»r to ife he had de { mother that night. | with her mother's dreamy eyes, gave | utterable w “Good-by,” he sald, with despair ln his voice, and would have passed ou! but she stayed him with a ges- "“ ait!” she breathed with difficulty. “God give me light!” And crossing to "her room she shut the door. Like a criminal who knows the verdict, and yet, perforce, awaits the sentence of the judge, the man sank into a chalr, The little children cried in vain for The eldest, a girl them bread and milk, and hushed them to sleep. Down on her knees, the stricken woman crouched, not praying, but walting for light—longing, hoping, but resigned to God's will, whatever It might be. Must she condemn him— now, when he loved her? The broken marriage law witnessed against him. He had despised and rejected her—a wife of youth—but oh, sheloved him! Must she send him away, homeless, without a wife or children—where there would be none to watch for his comfort—none to be glad of it just for love's sake? Could the good God re- quire of her that merciless justice? When she sent him away she took from him his last hope of a renewed life, and doomed him to sink lower, Oh, if she might but keep him, guard him, love him, forget the broken law! Women never forgave this sin—wom- en who loved righteousness and hated sin. She would obey God, though she perished—though he perished, which was Inflnitely more terrible to con- template. Liut, oh, if she might for- give him! There was the written word—with sudden, trembling hope she rose from her knees and got her Bible from the table. She opened it and laid her fin- ger at random on a passage. At first she dared not look. When she did, her face, red with weeping, bleached white. God had indeed spoken—her finger pointed to a section of the old law, Lev. 20:10, There was no appeal from that—the words seemed spoken in her ear—he must die. It was the law. The strug- gle wis ended -she would not fight against God. Once again she read the dread sen- tence, fingering each word as a child might, and this time a reference, in finer type, caught her eye. It was John 8:8. With trembling, uncertain fin- gers, she found the reference, and, awed and humbled, read again that wonderful story of divine forgive- ness. She read it through, to the great absolution, “Nefther do 1 con- demn thee; go and sin no more.” He, the pure God, the anointed Christ, ! could forgive, for his great love, Sure- ly, then, she might, nay, must. Sob- bing with awed joy, she fell upon her knees and broke into thanksgiving. Day was breaking when she stepped into the outer room. Her husband sat huddled up in a great arm-chair, be- fore the fireless grate, He had fallen into an uneasy doze. Love, love un- s in her eyes as they rest- ¢ on him and noted the marks of suf- tering on his face. Noiselessly she kindled the fire, and when the light and the 1eturning warnith awoke him to a sense of renewed cotafort she was standing before him, her loving arms I outstretched Neither do | condemn thee, my darling, my darling!” she cried, and falling on her koees, ehe hid her face upon hig breast, What of tl.e yeass before them? \\11] he, as the mmmvrv of that bloody ony grows Mm, t1! = that divine for- Sl s ac a light thing, or will he, indeed, “sin no more?” Will the world seem vold—upan- swerlng—now that she faces it with awakened m(-‘i" Wil she look back- ward, longingly, to the Land of Dreams, and forget to “march breast forward” with those ~‘ho “fall to rige?” Who dare say? Yet, marvelous as lite or death, is the mystery of for- glveness—limitless as eternity—fath- omless as the heart, 18 the miracle of love. (Copyright. by Dally Story Pub. Co.) 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Excursion train will leave Jack- sonville for Augusta and Columbia PETERSON & OWENS ATTORNEYS AT LAW 9:20 a. m. and for Macon, Atlanta, Dickson Building Athens, Chattanooga and Birming- ham, 9:40 a. m., July 27. s ' Through coaches and Pullman ser- vice. Special trains. City ticket office, corner Forsyth and Hozan streets, Jacksonville, Fla. Phone Nos. 743 and 4041, @, R. PETTIT, D. P. A, JEREMIAH B. SMITH NOTARY PUBLIC Loans, Investments in Real Estate Haye some interesting snaps in city st , and suburban property, farms, ete, Jacksonville, Fla. Better see me at once. Will trade, 10, B, Pineon, T.. P, A sell for cash. or on easy terms, Rooms 14, Futch & Gentry Bldg. Tampa, Fla. Lakeland, Fla. TUCKER & TUCKER LAWYERS 1 Raymondo Bldg., Lakeland, Florida 2t ——— DR GEO.E.LYONS OPTONMERIST Residence phone, 278 Black. Office phone, 278 Blue. DR. SARAH E. WHEELER OSTEOPATH Annex, Door South of First National Bank Lakeland, Florida Munn Toric lenses increase the field of vision. Come in, let us explain. J. D. TRAMMELL Attorney-at-Law We duplicate prescrip || van wuse Blag. = Lakeland, Fia. tion promptly in any tint. lenzes G. D. & H. D. MENDENHALL CONSULTING ENGINEERS Suite 212-215 Drane Building Lakeland, Fla. Phosphate Land Examinations and Plant Designs, Larthwork Specialists, surveys. Auto Driver Fishing Trips Sea Shore Sensitive Eyes Sun Glasses See Dr. Geo. k. Lyons Poom 2 Skipper Bld Lakeland. Fla. —————— e PEE—— LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Florida RE————-- DR. C. C. WILSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Speclal Attention Given To DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Deen-Bryant Bldg. oms 8, 9, 10, Office Phone 357 Residence Phone 367 Blue ———————————————————— p DR. W. R. GROOVER » PHYSICTAN Rooms 5 and 4, Lakeland, Florida AND SURGEON Why not get one of those large Kentucky Building cement urns to beautify your yard? A. X. ERICKSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Rea] Estate Questions Drane Building Why not get the oldest reliable cement man to put In your walk? Why not get vour brick and blocks | ) o, Rogers Edwin Spencer, Jr. ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, of them, prices are right, so are the goods. FLORIDA NATIONAL VAULT GL. . B. ZImmerman, Mgr. Bryant Building Lakeland, Florida Established in July, 1900 508 West Main St. DR. W. S. IRVIN DENTIST Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building [x“URSIQN Phone: Office 180; Residence 84 2 —_—n VIA BLANTON & LAWLER ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW ATLANTIC COAST LINE ‘Monday, July 27, 1914 ROUND TRIP FARES FROM JACKSONVILLE Lakeland, Florida ————————————————— W. S. PRESTON, LAWYER Office Upstairs East of Court House BARTOW, FLA. Examination of Titles and Real Es- AUGUSTA ...$4.00 tate Law a Specialty |ATLANTA .. ...96.00 IATHENS .. oo i viova $6.00| DR. H. 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