Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 29, 1914, Page 3

THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA. AUG, 29, 1914 OUR WEEKLY LIMERICK There once was a builder, by the | name of St. Clair, * Who was honest, and used the best Builders’ Hardware. Is at r Store we sell it b (ssortment is prices are fair. e Make a Specialty of uilders’ Hardware ening on ha~d constantly a full ¢ of the many items needed by b professional contractor or the ateur builder, rd wear is demanded of this ss of Hardware, and you can bend on the reliability of the pas we offer. e ] RN LSON RDWARE CO. irrfeodeRrdebod Fryreerr ey S eI L LR B pgdod urity Abstract & Title Co. Bartow, Florida UFFAKER, PRES......L. J. CLYATT, SECRETARY H. THOMPSON, VICE PRESH. W. SMITH, TREASURER ABSTRACTS OF TITLES np'to'date plant. Prompt service. usiness left with our Vice President at Dickson Bldg will pmpt and efficient attentism. FEER DI PBEIIE FRBIRPEEEI b Eas 7 IR NES which Caused the Loss OF ; . . $215,084,709 in the United States in » recent year were ascribed TO THE FOLLOWING CAUSES Defective chimneys, flues, fireplaces, heating and lighting apparatus; faults of construction and equip- ment. Matches, sparks and explo- siong lgured prominently, followed by incendiarism, electricity and lightning. Nearly One-fourth of all Fires Are Labeled “UNKNOWN CAUSE!” Significant and Potent Reasons ————————————————————— Why You Should Be Provided With ——————————————— mt the following reli: 8: writers, L ... 4,750,000 nderwriters, capital 2,000,000 i Marine, ...$2,500,000 . ; tford 3,000,000 Fire Insurance Protection! NN & DEEN Room 7. Raymondo Building ness will have the best at tention if placed with us. FBEHEFEPEPEI0P B. STREATER TRACTOR AND BUILDER twenty-one years' experience in building in Lakeland and vicinity, I feel competent best services in this line. If comtemplating | be pleased to furnish estimates and all infor- work guaranteed. J. B. STREATER. PAIN N SORROW By MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD- RIDGE. Wl T with: i | groaned a h desperate-faced | man on one siae of a garden wall. “Oh, you beautiful world!"” lisped a child in an invalid chair on the other side of the w The man merchant ard, Robert Dale, a city | He sat in the shade of a tree near the ruins of some burned- down residence. Despair was in his heart, his eyes were full of the mis- | ery of a tortured spirit. “There are ¢nly two ways,” he mut- | tered, darkly 'here is bankruptey, but that reads disgrace, and I could not bear it. The other is—this!” | He drew from his pocket a loaded revolver and gazed at it fixedly. He | had come out to this secluded spot in | | @ quiet village to end it all with a ! pistol shot. A proud man, a crushed | man, the last ditch seemed reached, and he set his lips grimly The little child was Flora Easton, a sweet-faced, angel-eyed girl of ten. The chair was drawn up close to a rustic table. Upon this were writing | materials. As she took up a pencil, | one could sco from the slow, weak and erratic movements of her hand | that she had only an imperfect con- trol over its muscles, | Poor child! Young as she was, | | Flora had known both pain and sor- row. She had seen her loving parents broken hearted over the sudden death | of that other flower of the family, her | sister, for whom now her little mourn- ers clad in black, the crickets sliding through the grass, each evening pipud' a solemn mass. Then Flora, too, had been stricken On the rare golden threshold of joyous girlhood she had been deprived of the use of feet and hands. A patient father, a loving mother had brought to her aid all that money or medical skill could effect. It was the grand heroic spirit of the little one herself, however, that had won half the battle. “Fine!"” was little Flora's accus- tomed cheery reply when asked how | say she was getting along. “Never die!” she had even taught the pet! parrot to cry out. In the forvor of the optimism she had adopted as the i 2 RS RN b g TN G Jaore =A% Sl = | | | | | The Last Ditch Seemed Reached. creed and ¢ Lealth | broken life she shed nshine everys | where, | And daily, f | of a single el e our gaining | gome ground, to her old activity On this especial morning her brav little heart } time she tound U hand to write a w the effort to | y a 8 had gparkied, h therto le I L e od to burst it been a r sonl seen pulse *Oh, paj a wild fervo most breath she comp the sheet of Her parent from the I “What is quavered he ‘Oh, no!" dis one. “J think of it well, papa! For written a whole sentence And then | of direful disr wind had come along the loose sheets of paper, them in every direction air, over among the lilacs, even to the street, In the grounds, and over the | wall. Father and mother w¢ to collect th geattered nted gure, , Fiora uttered a cry A great br It caught up it scattered high in the blooming front of | garden ath of sweet rked arduous gheets ly % | Search as they | among two row | B0ON Best for athlete — fan — everyone whoseeksa genuine thirst-quencher that's wholesome. refreshing, Derr Nicknames encov Whenever you see an Arrow think of Coca-Cola, overflowed with hope at this indica-! tlon that the little sufferer was on the road to recovery. | In a week the episode of the miss- | ing sheet of paper was forgotten. Lit- | tle Flora, indeed, improved. Day by | day she grew stronger. Always was | she cheerful, happy, with a bright essence of sunshine that permeated | the life of the whole village. Many a | burdened heart revived at a sight ufi the patient, loving little creature, who saw only love and helpfulness as her | rare mission of life. Click!—the man who sat on the| other side of that fateful garden wall had been too absorbed in his misery to heed the sounds about him, He got ready the deadly weapon. Then it dropped suddenly from his nerve less fingers. There had come float- ing down like a dove of peace, like a heavenly messenger, a sheet of paper It fell directly fn his lap. With awed staring eyes Robert Dale read the rude, scrawling words: “Never say die!” A quick revulsion of feeling passed, over him. Whence had the message come? No one was in sight. What but Providence could have directed this strange occurrence at the most critical moment of his life! He burst into tears, he dropped to his knees and & new strength and impulse came into his life Two years later littlo Flora and her parents attended a meeting at the town hall of the village. It had been announced some time previous that Robert Dale, a wealthy city merchant, ! had purchased the grounds beyond the garden wall. A meeting had been called where he was to publicly donate | the land and $50,000 to build an or tender of his beneficence to the town Then his face grew grave and solemn as he stated that he wished to tell why he had been impelled to his phil anthropic action. He recited his ex: perlence the day when that strangé message had come to him. He told how, banishing his cowardly fears, he had gone back to the city nerved t combat his business difficulties and had turned the tide of disaster to one of prosperity. Then he took from a treasured cor ner in his pocketbook a folded plece of paper and passed It around among | the audience, the precious sheet of pa : per bearing the words Never say die!” The little phan asylum Mr. Dale arose and made the formal § | serap of paper passed | Ag it came | of geats 'l to Mr. Easton little Flora uttered a | quick ecry ‘Oh, papa, it's my you remember that Don't | gar- | writing day in the den?" ‘ pread like wildfire and Dale rned of it T child whoga 8im d him from going as an angel of yim in the dark Robert bim the sweet litt] pla action had 8 WS down a wreck merey, sent to gulde egt hour of his career Not only for him, but for others wha had felt the gentle, hopeful influence of little Flora, the rare perfume of | her loving soul seemed to diffuse hope | and happiness everywhere ! As Robert Dale left the Easton home the following day the lofty flight of a bird appeared to BY mbolize the puri- fled aeplrations of his better nature The lark was flying straight into the face of the glowing sun, its wild, glo- | rlous note echoing like a call to life, to duty. Then it was lost to view, but in the fervor of his grateful nature, to Robert Dale it seemed as though i ‘ singing at heaven's gate! Chapman.) the lark wae (Copyright, 1814, by W G In Place of a Pocket. ' ed BUl r dresges, hick 1 and 18 & tuck the y con- trivance for the same purpose. Delicious and nd the penuine by full name- substitution THE COCA-COLA CO. ATLANTA, GA. THE UNIVERSAL C AR N X Lower Prices on Ford Cars Iffective A\ugust 1st, 1914 to Augustist, 1915 and guaranteed against any reduction during that time. Al cars fully equipped o. h. Detroit, Runabout. . . Touring Car Town Car... 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