Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 5, 1914, Page 7

| i Vigorously good - and keenly delicious. Thirst-quenching and refreshing. The national beverage --and yours. Demand the genuine by full name— Nicknames encourage substitution. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY Atlanta, Ga. »a” Y If you want your Shirts and Collars Laundered the VERY BEST Send them to the " {Lakelana Steam Laundry ) Weare better equipped than ever for giving you high fclass Laundry work, Phone 130 PRSP BEEPPEE SIPEPPEPPPPPPEPP PP PSPl 'PHONE 348 BLACK for Tlouse Piers, Cement, and all Concrete BUILDING MATERIAL Prices right. [Estimates given on all kinds of Cement Work,. @ W W dkeland Paving and Construction Company B. H. BELISARIO, Proprietor 7 to 317 Main St. LAKELAND, FLA. e SATISFACTION | Always tells in any line. Mr. Cole is in the Eastern farkets at the present time buying for our four stores. ou as the goods arrive oneWe will be pleased to show of the choicest line of General Merchandise ever offered in Lakeland. “A Pleasure to Show Goods” COLE & HULL Jewelers and Optometrists, Lakeland, Fla. Phone 46 THE ELECTRIC STORE 307 E. Main St. Fagure With Us We offer you the best and largest assortment of Electric Fixtures in South Florida On Display at Our Store Florida Electric and Machinery Co. 044800444000 00000000 00000 PAGE SEVEN TPPSPP 000000000000000000000000 LOVE'S LABYRINTH 000000000000000000000000 INGONSIDERATE MEN By RAY MAGILL. H 000000000200 000000000008 First the telephone rang. Then the buzzer buzzed. Then a voice from the inner office called sharply for the little stenographer. “You can all wait until I'm good and ready,” announced the little sten- ographer, decidedly, to the world in general. Mayes Grocery Company WHOLESALE GROCERS “A BUSINESS WITHOUT BOOKS” We find that low prices and long time will not go hand in hand, and on May Ist we will instal our new system ot low prices for Strictly Cash. We have saved the people of Lakeland and Polk County tkousands of dollars in the past. and our new system will still reduce the cost of living, and also reduce our expenses and enable us to put the knife in still deeper._ We carry a full line groceries, feed. grain, hay. crate material, and Wilson & Toomers’ ldeal Fertilizers always on hand Mayes Grocery Company 211 West Main St., Lakeland, Fla. By N. C. GOODRICH. “Blind!” . “Stone blind, Roslyn Moore has been for a year. It came about through the | premature explosion of a flashlight | while an operator was taking a view of the studio in which he, Roslyn Moore, had painted ‘The Deluge.’ ” “It must have broken his heart to know, later, that his picture was fa- mous, but his eyes forever closed to its beauties.” “No, he has been since the hour of the catastrophe just what you see him —gentle, patient, smiling.” “Ah! it is pathetic,” was the re- sponse. “See how he moves along.” The two speakers were Parisians, in the Latin quarter. They were re- garding and speaking of Roslyn Moore. Their briet colloquy had told all the story there was to tell. Roslyn Moore had remained amid the scenes of the student life he loved so well, although he could no longer view its points of interest nor scan the friendly faces of his fellow bohemians. Just now, cane in hand, he was cau- “Here 1 am—with my desk piled l tiously groping his way down the pave- high with real work! And what dO{ mep¢ Jeading away from the entrance you suppose that young Mr. Babcock | t5 hig hotel. wanted? He calmly asked me to take | Tngre was a little breathing spot of a few letters—personal thank you let- ' g park g square further on. It was ters—to friends of his who entertain- ‘' ygrg that Moore spent a portion of his ed him on his trip! And in each one | day, usually surrounded by the poor he excused himself for using a Steno- | children from the near tenements. grapher on the ground that he was 80 | Hig pockets were always stocked with Dressed for time! Pressed for timel | 5oy ang sweetmeats, and he held high Why, he doesn't know how to fill in court with the romping, lovable group, hours! to whom he told stories and listened *“Do you know what Mr. Brown Was | to their innocent prattle. 80 urgent about? He's been callln€| In order to reach the park Moore out here for ten minutes, while I Was | haq to cross a broad esplanade. At | engaged, and I thought it couldn’t be | itg fnner edge a young girl of eighteen | 4 anything less than drawing up & con* | kept a cheap flower stand. Pity that tract! But there he sat, looking Over hg could not see Cecile, as her face his last month's personal account, and brightoned at the first glimpse of him! he was too lazy to think for himself! | Rainy days were all gloom to her,| ¢ He wanted me to stand there beside | missing his accustomed approach bim and go through the things With | Now the deep eyes brightened, the him—because, as he said, two heads | Jovely cheek grew damask. She stood are better than one! What he might | a]] g.quiver as he halted, for some tele- have said, if he'd been strictly truth-| pathio sense seemed to tell him she ‘fl':l‘.l is that my head is better than | wag nearing him, Her small, pretty hand would steal shyly into n. “This morning Mr. Gray came strol- s oy ling in an hour after things had begun, | GV 7 and he sat down and read & newspa- ‘U‘H\ IH‘H‘”H % f,i\'i? ‘ | per and smoked a clgar before he went i S il through his mail. Then he called me " ol in to take his letters, and though I | & | ‘ purposely let him know how much ’\ work I had piled up he gave me half ' a dogen phone numbers to call for him! And he sat there looking oué of the window while I got his numbers fcally. “I must own,” he said, “that | they're an inconeiderate bunch!” ‘ “Inconsiderate!” cried the little stenographer. “They do it on pur~| pose. They've got it into their thick heads that they're business men, and they can't be bothered with detafl and the little things. They’re such big men! Their time is awfully valuable | and mustn’t be wasted! “Do you know what I'm going to do | sometime? I'm going to accept a pro- | After this declaration of indepen- dence she hastily answered the phone, then grabbed book and pencil and hur ried into the inner office, pausing an instant on the way to let the owner of the impatient voice know that she was engaged. “I tell you,” she remarked to the bookkeeper when she returned, “I get 80 exasperated sometimes that I al- most explode! These men make me awfully tired! Here I've been work- ing all the years that they've been having a good time getting gducated. Then they come into the office, and, after selecting the lightest window and the most comfortable chair, they think they're busy! | i PEEPPPIPREEEBIBIGREEDPPRP PSSDPESDE ; “CONSULT US” For figures on wiring your house. We will save you money. Look out for the rainy season. Let us put gutter around your house and protect it from decay. T. L. CARDWELL, W%’Ofli Electric and Sheet Metal Contracts ' Phone 233. Rear Wilson Hdwe Co. WM‘M“WW' $0000000000000000000000000 S20LH00 088800820000 TP YOU ARE THINKING Of BUILDING, SBEB MARSHALL & SANDERS The Ol1d Reliable Contractors Who 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 evidgnces of their abilityto make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue el L _W. K. Jackson W. K. McRae - JACKSON & McRAE REAL ESTATE Large Listing--Always Some Bargains LL L SRR R DL i Just Received Today BB 8o angry, I'd llke to express myself from a public platform on the wrongs of busy stenographers!” The bookkeeper listened sympathets on the telephone! Oh, it makes me@ posal of marriage. That'll make me free to do as I please. Then I'm com- 8he Watched :""'I'M Little Booth ing down to the office, the same as baclat 4o usual. When the buzzer buzzes I'll g0 ' Proudly, flutteringly she would lead in, and I'll take the business letters, l him across into the park and deliver but when a personal letter comes I'll | him into the guardianship of the glee- simply say, ‘I'm busy today.’ Then, ful coterie of little ones awaiting him. when they ask me to get some phone | “Thanks, mademoiselle, you help to numbers, I'll say, ‘1 see you aren’t at ' make my lite beautiful,” always Moore all busy; would you mind getting | would say, but never an audible re- those numbers yourself? I've a great sponse. Only a soft pressure of the deal of work to do!’ Then I'll walk | gulding hand, and then—a flower. out to my desk! Finally, for a week, Cecile missed “When Mr. Brown calls me away | her friend. She grew pale and thin in the midst of an important letter to | and distressed. She watched from her stand st his side while he leans back | little booth hourly. Moore was gone, in his swivel chair so that I may help | and with him her sole interest in life, him add up figures and straighten | the sunshine, heaven! out accounts I'll say, ‘Mr. Brown, I'm There came to her the woman in very busy today, and if you've noth-i charge of the little hotel one day. She Ing of importance to say you'll have | placed a eoleau of gold pleces upon to excuse me!’ the counter of the flower stand. “Oh, but won't they be surprised! “See, Ceclle,” she sald, eoftly, “the The only trouble is that I've been & ' maestro has gone to see a wonderful slave for so long that I'm afraid I surgeon in London. He bade me bring won't have the courage to break up l you the money, and each day you are traditions and precedents!” to take your daintiest blossoms to the “Then,” sald the bookkeeper, mus- | little ones. He left the word, too. It Ingly, “you'll put on your hat and go | was this: A kiss through me of hope, home, and the man who proposed to | of courage, of gratitude,” and the you, so you could be free from this | woman pressed her lips to the brow dally grind, will eay, ‘I want dinner | of the pure, innocent girl. early tonight,’ and you'll hurry to get And then one day—oh, love immor- it! Between times you'll be mending | tal! There came out from the en- and darning and dusting, to make him | trance of the hotel the familiar form. comfortable; and he’M call you, and , But there was no cane mow. He you'll come running to hear what he's | walked erect, his bearing that of some got to say. And you'll go on training | knight, gladsome, in rhapsody with life him to expect that sort of service, 80 | and all its message. A new glory when he goes to his office he’ll be | shone from the noble face, sightless just like the rest of the men!” no longer. Straight up to the palpi- The little stenographer listened, fas- ’ tating Ceclle he advanced, both hands - Brandy Peaches Brandy Cherries - Imported Cherries Preserved Figs Imported Olive QOil Also Piemente and Cream Cheese W. P. Pillans & Co. [ = Pure Food Store $1.00 $1.15 35 S0 S0 SR PEEEPPPPTOLEPEPIEEEEP00 $ cinated. “Why, that’s so!” she ex-) extended. And there he stood, silent, claimed. She paused and thought it | motionless, while he gazed past those over. “But I guess I'll try it any- ! beautiful eyes into the very soul of way,” she announced, “because I'll | the lovely girl dare to say ‘I won't,’ for he can’t fire “Cecile! Cecile!” he sald softly at me!” length—"“to see you first, my dream, my thought—reality! Come—I am yours, you are mine.” Her hand went tremulously to her lips. In mute signal she motioned that she was dumb. ! “I knew it not until the day I went | away,” he said, the more fervently en- oircling her dear hand. “And then I | knew how I loved her who loved me— No 666 ; blind, stricken, helpless. But your | L4 eyee—they speak, your soul, it speaks! |, This is & prescription prepared especia Carita—how happy we shall bel l}bf MALARIA :t cull’u.s .?‘é'vszf And so it was. There was a quiet | Five or six doses will break any case, and, wedding 1n the little park that even- |if taken thea as o g i g ing, with Roslyn’s old loyal com -3 on the liver better than fons in attendance. PA% Calomel end does not gripe of sicken. 25¢. (Copyright, 1814, by W. G. Chapman.) Phone 93-94 B % Fix "Em Shop Garage THE TIRE SHOP Phone 282 Blue VULCANIZING Tires and Inner Tubes. Inner Tubes a Specialty All Work Guaranteed. PETE BIEWER, Mgr. S92 RPPPPIPPIOLPEIDPEIEIED Learn How to Rest. Fortunate i{s the man who knows how to rest. To know how to take a vacation is not the least among the gifts of living. Herbert Spencer told us many years ago that we lived too fast. Carlyle’s man who sings at his work is the exception. The man who loves his labor works better, and, oth- er things equal, lives longer than the man who worries with his work. Homn- est work is a stimulating mental and physical exercise. Men die not of overwork, but of overworry. They Wwho live two days st a time shorten thelr lives.