Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 25, 1914, Page 7

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA,, JULY 235, 1914, — TRADE . w3 reg R —it answers every bever- age requirement—vim, vigor, refreshment, whole- someness. It will satisfy you. Demand the genuine by ful name— Nicknames encourage substitution, THE COCA-COLA CO. ATLANTA, GA. 4 never see an ow think oca-Cola, HUNDREDS OF THEM! A bigfshipment of the reprint edition of famous copyright- ed books—the best reading for the least money. 50 Cents a Book! HE BOOK STORE ur Shop is d Yeritable Museum all the rare and staple materials and appliances el in Fancy Work. It is easy to make Things eautiful if you have the Things Right to work Braids. Linens. Stencils Stamping Outfits, ruction Books, Advice and a Welcome are w aiting pu ‘Lt 203 Madison Street THE NEEDLE WORK SHOP TAMPA, FLORIDA v such occupan PLLECTION OF TRASH. s ral residents of »y do not under tions regarding the garbage, the city or tie matter is reprir ONALD F. McL City Manager Ordinance No. 153 ance requiring tl o 1, i That all occupants of | MORRIS i1l put their vegetable and or more th a tight con )t more tk one or ccording t I access t« provided, shavings anc ter shall otherwi "’“WMWW%W; TR ELTLLTTRL L LA R LR LR R L RS TRL T TR L LSS bttt L ts under tk | | e R e e b B T E e T e S EINEY '\-— | watch that hole to see she don't get N ON GREUND FLOOR —ede— | | By WILLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNE. | ! | vided into two great classes. | those who get caught: ‘“hn don't. | & @ ¥ % & € PRPRPPPRPPIDBDD ——M The underworld in New York is di- [ First, | second, those The police department, | finding it impossible to keep an eye on j everybody all the time, had come to | the conclusion that Britches Bellman | belonged to the latter class. In theh' hearts they knew that Britches was up | to many things; but when they came ! to sift even one of these things to the ! bottom invariably they found them- selves woefully weak when it came to evidence, “Evidence,” snorted ain’t got no use for it. none of it around me. evidence.” Now, Britches Bellman, being a citi- zen of thu underworld, had come to the conclusion that for a part of the time, at least, such a citizen ought to reside underneath the ground. He got this fdea one day when he was passing the County National bank. In front of the County National bank was a ditch. This ditch is called the subway. “Gee!" sald DBritches Bellman, knocking himself on the side of the head, “Get down in that hole, just where you belong.” Now, i Britches hadn’t been an ex- traordinary kind of a man, he never could have pulled off the little scheme that filled his head. But he was any- | thing and everything, from an A-1 con man down to the lowest kind of a strong-armer. In a high hat and a frock coat he was superb; in a busi- ness suit he was all matter of fact; in a slouch hat he could scare the wits out of a belated rich old party by just looking at him. One day a genteel-looking personage called at the office of the subway con- tractors and announced that the Coun- ty Natlonal bank (which, by the way, was backed by the Democratic boss) had concluded to strengthen its under- pinning just a bit. He produced a let- ter apparently on the letter head of the bank, signed apparently by fits president. He was courteously re- ceived, as, of course, any representa- tive of the boss’ bank would have to be, and he left bearing with him the written direction of the contractor to the section foreman to permit the workmen of the County bank to make any necessary excavation in the sub- way. This genteel-looking personage, it cannot be denfed, looked extremely llke Mr. Britches Bellman. A day later a rough, honest-looking workman, wearing a unfon button and dressed in toil-stained overalls, handed the letter to the sectlion foreman, together with another letter from the bank, stated casually that he and Sam Parks had known éach other all their respective ltves, borrowed a chew of tobacco, and started in to work. The work he was about to do he had all planned out on a sheet of rough drafting paper. It was to cut a square hole four by four from the subway in to the foundation of the bank, “The bank,” he sald to the foreman, “ain’t so much afraid of going as it is of fallin’ down. Its pine is weak, or somethin'" In five hours the genial Mr. Bellman had made himself the most popular man in the ditch. He talked to every- body, sympathized with everybody, jollied everybody Britches; “I| I don’t want To —— with | | He was a good workman and he un- | derstood his business But he f{n- gisted upon one thing. Every night, when he left his job, he carefully cov- ered up the mouth of the hole he was making with a pile of dirt. “Some fellow,” he explained to the foreman, “might take a notion to fin- fsh up r )y some night and go clean through the bank, outside and in."” The foreman expectorated. “Gee!"” said the foreman, I never thought of it.” his head and grinned. “]1 g'pose,” he added, “that I might take a hack at it myself some night. What d'ye think?” Britches Bellman, honest workman, | shook his head “If you talk that way,” he said, smiling, “I'll have to set a plain-clothes man on top of you. 1 got to take care of that there bank and no mistake Hv caught the other “that’s so. He scratched by the arm went on Britches | Bellman, “it's a blamed good thin you chaps down here are honest. If you weren't—say, think of the whole lot of banks here on Broadway—you could tap the whole lot, almost, and nobody wouldn't know the difference, not un- | til added, “not until they found | out “And when they found out?” sug- gested the foreman “There'd be a hot tim He scratched ok-a-here,” he we nice, delicate, It se ' returned | ad again, t on, “that important to me | to put a to set in | the bricks. ! trick’ll be turned to a T. And no mis- ! placed hig' hand upon Mr. | for two days; workin' day and night, so I gotter 'plaster on the make-up. And I gotter away from me. For when a hole gets away from a man—especially a hole like this one—it ain't no easy job to get another.” Mr. Bellman had worked only a few | days and a few nights when he struck somethlug with his spade that gave ' him joy. “If this ain't & vein of gold-bearing ore,” said Mr. Britches. “I1l wager /1t’s the underground part of the Coun- ty bank's underpinnings; and if it's that, why then it is a vein of gold.” He wag right. It was a portion of | the bank's cellar wall. He hastily cov- |ered it up, hung around until the whistle blew, then he left and, return- fug later in the evening, brought with him a new set of sharp tools. “I'll get this job finished by morn- ing,” said this night watchman, “or I'm a Dutchman.” He removed a layer of tar coating; then a layer of cement. Then he struck “Now,” he said to himself, “if she ain't more than three feet thick I'll have her through fn no time. That's what.” VIA Southern Railway Premier Carrier of the South Monoay, July 27, 1914 | Round Trip Fares From JACKSONVILLE 10 | AUBNREA L S S $4.00 | AUIANDR S e Seals eniyredice 6.00 Athens 6.00 Birmin 8.00 Chattan 8.00 Columbia i 3 MAton: i i SIPA SRS ey 4.00 Tickets limited to Aug. 1, and are good returning on any regular train within limit. ‘Excursion train will leave Jack- sonville for Augusta and Columbia 9:30 a. m. and for Macon, Atlanta, Athens, Chattanooga and Birming- ham, 9:40 a. m., July 27. | Through coaches and Pullman ser- ! vice. Special trains. City ticket office, corner l“nrsyn.; But that wall was a blank wall, and it had been laid many, many years before, when there were no trade unfons and no employers' associations, and when cement and bricks were ce- ment and bricks. When the first gray streaks of dawn had appeared in the sky above the subway Britches had not finished. Rut he judged from the sound that there was but one layer of bricks still to be removed. “Tomorrow night.” said Britches to himself, “tonight, 1 mean, why—the take." He took a day off and rested up. He was made of flesh and blood and he was tired. But that night he atarted in, refreshed in mind and body. deep peace was upon him, for he knew that in twenty minutes he would be inside the bank. And there was no man in the whole world who under stood the fnglde of a bank as well as Britches Beliman, One by one he loosed the bricks; he was rizht; it was the last layer. Little by little the hole widened. He stuck his head inside. It was dark as pitch. He was prepared for this; prepared with a dark-lantern. “Now,"” he finally explained, a huge Joy possessing him, “now, here I am.” The hole was just wide enough to admit his body, and he pulled himself carefully through and dropped down to the inside floor. “Ho, ho!" exclalmed Mr. Britches Bellman, softly, “this {s nuts, for fair.” He didn’'t want to show a light. So he groped his way carefully about across what seemed to be a little room. It was, as he supposed, a coal cellar. He crossed it, and the boiler room; picked a lock and entered still another room. In this room he walked into a wall and stepped back suddenly. | Ag he did so his heel trod upon gome- thing soft. Suddenly the room was flooded with a bright white light. Britches gasped and looked behind him. “You stepped on my corn,” a voice in his ear. of a very big man. growled It was the volce This big man Bellman's Lellman looked {in Two other men wern smoking clgars They wore blue uniforms and brass buttons. They ciniled on Vritches Bellman. “Is s the gentleman,” sald one, archly, “who lmn no use for evidence?” Bellman gasped arain. “The bank,” said ancther, “has been a-watchin’ you they wanted to stop you, but we wanied you to go on, until you finished the- the jobh.” “Geo!” shoulder. Then front of him. looking on wsped Bellman, hovding out his wrists, “I--I finished it, all right.” (Copyright, by Dally Story,P’ub. Co.) Trousers Factories Stil| Running. A writer, alarmed by the spread ot feminism, wants to know if there are any men left in this country There must be a few left. Most of the trousers factories are still running full tiit.—DBaltimore Sun Rexall “93” Hair Tonic A I for improving the condition of the ha nd scalp, te r to restore them to a eait state In two sizes. 50¢ and $1.00 Lake Pharmacy e e and Hoean streets, Jacksonville, Fla. | Phone Nos. 743 and 4041, G R PETTIT, DR Ay Jacksonville, Fla. K. B. Pinson, T- P. A Tampa, Fla. | DR.GEO. E. 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