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| AL L or Babies. For pri | | heat. After shavingp.r.,\cf‘:lx: 1 the bath. Asaface ’ powder, As a foot powder. Really indispensa- ble. In sifter top cans. At drug- gists, 15 cents, | | For Sale in Lakeiand by HENLEY & HEALEY | Are You Gettingm Satisfactory Results with KODAK \ e of those large y your yard? et the oldest reliable o put In your walk? vour brick and blocks ¢ are rizht, so are the TIGNAL VAULT GC. Zlmmerman, Mgr. Come in and let us explain the successful way to make good pictures., West Main St. ! Your summer's wrip will be - pleasantly remembered by the d"\ to PI'fiCflCa"y use of a good kodak. eople i the Town i THIS PAPER p—] YARNELL D HEAVY HAULING HOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY D MULES ¥OR HIRE e 109; Res., 57 Green | | | | | “The Red ©ross Pharmacy” “The Kodak Store” “ON THE CORNER" A complete assortment of “Cranes” Stationery 4 pou want your Shirts and Collars i Laundered the VERY BEST nd them to the kelana Steam Laundry 3 are better equipped than ever for giving you high | undry work. § Phone 130 GG RS BEG BDEE BB IDEDID ONE 348 BLACK: or Hlouse Piers, Cement, and all Concrete 4 BUILDING MATERIAL | ’rices right., Estimates given on all ;.' kinds of Cement Work, @ ¢\ land Paving and Construction Company & & B. H, BELISARIO, Proprietor ‘ 7 Main St. LAKELAND, FLA. i BB BB EE P SDOEHIIERRERIEE. | SATISFACTION Mi. Cole is in the fulll‘ Eastern stores. tells in any line. the present time buying for our the goods arrive oneWe will be pleased to show est line of General Merchandise ever offered in “A Pleasure to Show Goods” COLE & HULL elers and Optometrists, Lakeland, Fla, §oio B BORE G P FLORIDA LLECTRIC AND & MACHINERY COMPANY : $0ef Phone 46 THE ELECTRIC STORE 307 E. Main St. R R B Rd | | | ‘%w Ifirmml the suspicton ! the . that his theory was correct SETTLING A CLAIM By JACOB DEMPSTER. Catesby was disgusted with life, for two reasons. The first was that, just | as he had planned to spend two days in Rochester with Miss Lillian Burke, | his firm had telegraphed him to go | out to Scarsboro and investigate a ! $250,000 fire insurance claim. The second reason was that he could not afford to marry the said Miss Burke unless his salary were raised from 2,250 to $2,500, and the fire Insurance company resolutely refused to do so. “You make good on a few big claims and we'll see what we can do for you,” was all the comfort that Cates- by could get out of Johnny Roche, the general manager, The telegram, which was a long one, hinted at fraud. Catesby set off through a blinding snowstorm to in- terview the local agent, who con- “It's Peter A. Hanson's department store, and that's enough,” the agent nlained. “I wouldn't have written hilh Ypyself, from what I know of him. Jennings did it before I took over the agency. Hanson was in a| bad way and couldn’'t have lasted an- other three months: but everything | was reduced to a cinder, and there's no showing what he had in stock and what he hadn't.” “Happened on Sunday, didn't 1t?" “Yes, at three in the afternoon. Not a soul in the place, and fifteen below zero. The mains were frozen and the engines wonldn't work. You might as well have tried to put out the sun.” “No idea how it started?” “Defective insulation is Hanson's theory. It's a good theory, because it doesn't let you out. But he's a sharp customer and knows more than he lets on. Tle was in Rochester when it happened.” The word Rochester made Catesby mad. “I'll fix Mr. Peter A. Hanson," he said grimly, and went off through the storm to interview him. Mr. Hanson bemoaned his loss. He declared that the goods alone were worth the entire amount of the in- surance. He wanted to be paid as Boon as possible, so that he could start up business in a small way and | employ some of his workpeople. | | | | | Catesby Went Round to the Back of the Building. { When he had finished talking he took Catesby over the ruins of the store Catesby was experienced enough to see at once that there must have been | combustible materials packed around point where the fire originated Ignoring Mr. Hanson's patter, he ex- amined every foot of his ground. He satisfied himself upon one point. The fire had originated at the back annex where the heat had disintegrated a | number of large stones of the founda- tlon. More than that, it had been geveral degrees hotter there than any- where else, for the bricks were not merely scorched but cracked. “Know nothing more?" he unsympathetically of Hanson ing about where it began?” “0, sure,” said Hanson. “The elec- tric wires must have started it in the front washroom.” As the washroom was at the other side of the store, Catesby concluded asked ‘Noth- “I'll let you know tomorrow gald, and, shaking off the exypo ing Hanson, he went to his hot The Hanson store was the in town calling itself a depar store. It stood at the end of the main street: {t was badly situated and on that account had lost money, but H son had expected the town to fn the wrong clear space either side of it. In street, at the back a lttle ed lane, and on the other side were a few outbt gon to house his h vans. It was this region that Cate determined to explore He reached the spot at night and looked about hi I't red all above t of a hundred front came to agent's the sur i Cat somebody had gone not only up the wall but upon the sloping roof, for there were footprints in th snow. And there were no nai in them. It was evidently a re gentlemanly boot that had there. Catesby ascended the ladder got upon the roof. Then he something that made his heart beat faster. It was a lump of clear ice in the snow—frozen in, o that it was not readily discernible from bel but ly clear ice. Cate squinted at the west, which was stil red with the suncet clouds e frozen ned, and saw Then he looked across the lane toward the back door of tha store. Then ha | pulled out the jee with his hands, and tahing the precaution not to molt it fin: x, ha clilnhed He placed wwdrift, where ¢ noticed, and unlikely home It was ten o'clock the next morn- fng before ho walked out of his hotel and round to the rance agent “Got him," said Catesby. “What!" shouted the agent. “Why, everythi burned out. What was ft? Kerosene?" “Guess again,”” answered Catesby. “I don't know, unless it was a ton of dvnamite.” went “Let's call it a Rochester burner” | said Catesby, and the idea appealed to him as a humorous one. “Want to come and see the fun?” “0, sure,” gald the agent. Mr. Hanson was chafing and fret- ting upon the ruins of his store when the two men put In an appearance. Ho welcomed them with a cordial handgrip aplece. “Now, let's get down to business.” he began. “You advertised to settlo all claimg promptly, didn't you? Well, and you've had the night to think it over in. And there ain't no eighty per cent clause in my policy—you know that. So it comes to this: When do 1 get my check?” “You wouldn't think of arbitrating now, would you?" inquired Catesby. “No, gir. 1 want to pocket my loss and get my people to work again ag quickly as I can. It's quite a blow to this town, and T wouldn't relish being held up. And, what's more, if there's anv talk of arbitration or com- promise T put the case into my law- yer's hands today." “0, pshaw! Maybe you'll be only too glad to compromise,” suggested ¢. “Come, make me an offer.” quarter million,” sald Hanson. oot e ‘You bet it is me for?" “All right. I've heard yours, and now you can hear mine. Not one penny, but we won't prosecuto if you drop your claim, because fco is a deli- cate commodity to keep, even when it's wed You couldn't very well bring it into court.” “1h?" stammered Hanson, begin- ning to tremble “Come here! What d'vou take cold-sta gee, we gaid Catesby, and led the agent to the cool bent down, scraped Hanson and snowdrift. He away the gnow, and pulled up a huge & ana neatly burnished circular disk of b fce befor “Fxactly,” answered Catesby. “What would a jury say to that, I wonder? However, there's one more thing to take into consideration, and that's the focal length, We've got to prove that at three o'clock in the afternoon the that | & trodden | & PAGE SEVEN : Mayes Grocery Lompany WHOLESALE GROCERS “a BUSINESS wITHOET BGGKS” The thought of W €atesby grit his ¢ The horses were stamp! g i+ s 5. Nobody was about. Cates went round to the back of the build ings, and saw a ladder leanins against the wall. That was ail right—only there was no reason why anybody | should have wanted to go up the wall Looking closer, Cateshby saw FrQOE B I ERIEPEEE We find that low prices and long time 4 % willnot go havd in hard. and on May Ist = & we will instal our new system ot low # ' prices for Strict!ly Cash. |2 We hive sayed the people of Lakeland & and roik County thousands of dollars in Y the past. and our new system will stili + reduce the cust of hving, and alsoreduce ¢ our expenses and enabie us to put the . » knife in still deeper. ¥ 2 We carry a fuil line greceries, feed, % ¢ grain, hay, crate material. and Wilson & ¢ Toomers'ldeal Fertilizers alwaysonhznd & ra: - Mayes Grocery Lot pany ¢ 211 West Muin St., Lakeland, Fla. @ & oo SBOU b oo oo B o R B e o B SR S B B B QR BB F B deged Bdoy 8 (ETET T S i Bina } “CONSULT US” B For figures on wiring your house. We N will save you money. Look out for the rainy season. Let us put gutter around b your house and protect it from decay. v T. L. CARDWELL, Electric and Sheet Metal Contracts b Phone 233. Rear Wilson ldwe Co. 3 POBBHIPDEG D BPPBIFBRBED DD R ¢ D @adn i g D A e i s "F YOU ARE THINKING Of BUILDING. BEY MARSHALL & SANDERS The 0Id Rellable Contractors 3 i » Who have been building houses in Lakeland for yesis, and who neyer “IFELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction, All classes of buildings contracted for. 'I‘hq WALy fne E residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their abiltyte % make good. ¢ t s MARSHALL & SANDERS Phore 228 Blue PP PR T e T T PN TN RS B L 2] BB G DO EE GG B S Erd B B0 W. K. icRae A T L L Lo LR 0 B HBBBBED G EdDDEddE W. K Jackson 1 JACKSON & McRAE 4 REAL ESTATE Listing --Always Some Bargains Large I guees it formed on top of a tank i AL g Bid or somewhere, and that gave our friend hig idea afd Cateshy. “Catch on, Mr. Brown “Why, it's—it's like a burning- glass,” eried the agent “That's what it is, and pretty well (‘ done. I guess you were in the optical | ¢ | business once, weren't you, Mr. Han- | 2 son”?" @ “Why, he was the first optician. in :’” :g: town,” the agent cried, “That was | o he bullt this store.” 3 Brandy Peaches - $1.00 : Brandy Cherries - $1.15} Y gun is in a direct line with the tep of | & (g’ that ghed, where the glass lens was fixed, and those split stones at tha back of tho stors, where the fire be- gan. Furthermore, as I was sa ing, | that is the correet focal length to concentrate the rays. Now we'll go up tl afterr r G ke!” whispered )i % face was pea 1 All right. Make it two and it's ten per | ) to—" ) elled Cateshy, rigon [ am ¥ Mr You Roch- (ateshy re ]t trembling r ¢ Is it a ¢ he 1 Han i cta. aw a ti n the ext No Use a - Imported Cherries - .35 S0 Preserved Figs - - * Imported Olive Oil - Also Piemente and Cream Cheese : W. P. Pillans & Co. 03-94 * Phone | Fix 'Em Shou (iar‘avqe THE TIRE SHOP This is a prescription prepared especialls for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER Five or six doses will break any case, and S Sy Fever will no " No. 666 ,|: VULCANIZING if taken then as a ton return It acts on Calomel and does n g ( teea PETE BIEWER, Mgr i