Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 16, 1914, Page 7

csian schools pupils are al- \noose between learning | iduring the month of September was ' 4; A SRR RN Ilhe largest of any Septemher in tne hlstory of the industry. lencw that the producnox. a[mro“ employment when speak- i mates 6,000,000 tons. Ty Ifor September slnpments in nd German , and 70 per bose German, because it is they have better chances of € p— The production of anthracite coal Statistics record 1912 was 5,876,496 tons. not get one of those Cement Uraus to tify your yard? ‘ot get the oldest ble cement man to put not get vou Brick Blocks of these CES ARE RIGHT. SO ARE THE GOODS DIDA NATIONAL VAULT GO. 508 W. MAIN ST. P KELLEY'S BARRED Plymouth Rocks Better now than ever before High class breeding birds at reasonable prices. high!class pens for hatching. Write me’ before ordermg else- where, H. L. KELLEY, Griffin, Fla OO BB RO IO B ISP B L SO O eep the Quality Up” has been our watchword You can’t whistle away the fact, the one great bi dicates this Sto Ouality In Merc A Step Ahead i A Step Behind in Price BATES Evéry piece of WOOL GOODS in STOCK ABSOLUTELY NEW Ch: e Woodrow Wilson WOOD be PLEASED at WOO0DS’, The N New FRESH Shipment of that : Kustom Katching Kern's KANDY Justreceived. The New D :~w»«x»«xmn«x~m¢mm . 'ug, | Lake error Hotel MRS. H. M. COWLES, Prop. Under New Management. Refurnishedand thoroughly renovated, and everything Clean, Comfortable and First-class. ag & Dining Room Service Unexcelled. S Rates Reasonable. Your Patronage Cordially iy | LW, YARN[MS LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING | HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY HORSES AND MULES ¥OR HIRE Phones: Office 109; Res., 57 Green BOTH MATINGS Fggs from, g point that in- re’s Betterness handise: n Quality--- —————— STORL % OEOBONOL a0 PUPOEOECEOB0 ew Drug Store Phone 408 | all his old working chums to “a grand rug Store; JUST OPPOSITE THE CITY HALL. i PEPEEEEE THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LARELAND, FLA., OCT. 16, 1914. I GETTING A SIAHT'm By VICTOR RADCLIFFE. “Horace, 1 appoint you my confi- 4 | dential secretary, terms to be decided as soon as I realize on my inheritance.” “Very kind, and having no present position I'll be glad to accept your of- ! fer,” said Horace Lee. “Much of & legacy ?” “I don’t know, but my cousin, Noah Cleave, had a good deal of money once, | , Of course it must be quite an amount. : The letter from the lawyer at Boone- vllle says I am sole legatee. I'm go- Ing to give up my job here. I'm going & "to enjoy life and luxuriate, and also .4 you. I've got eome literary ideas—: { to me.” i “See here, Winfleld,” sald blunt, prac- , : tical Horace, “I'm friend enough of yours to give you some advice. Don’t drop your position until you find out ' what your cousin has left you. Don’t' begin spending your fortune before you know what it amounts to.” “Oh, I'm quite sure it must be some- thing substantial,” insisted the opti- mistlc Winfield Grey. “Anyhow, I want you to run down with me to Booneville till I take possession of the estate. I'll pay your expenses and for your time.” Horace was willing. He was unem-I ployed just now. It was his own fault. / He had worked for three years for a local firm—mean, stingy and unap-' preciative. He found this drudgery un- promising and resigned. Now his idea | Mmmm*lfly PLudim | can't use the place. See here, Hor- | wce,” he added, turning to his friend, lln sick and tired of this whole business. I'm ashamed to go back I have a brother out West pretty well fixed. I think I'l just go out and try my luck with him.” “But you might get something out of the place here,” suggested Horace. “Not much, I fancy,” submitted the man who owned the land. “My lease holds, and of course you forfeit the building if you don’t pay the ground rent. The only way to get anything out of it is to lease the building to lome one, or start in business in it.” “Well, Horace, I've fooled away your time. Come back to the lawyer's and I'll give you a bill of sale of . I won'’t bother with the proposition,” de- i termined Grey. “I'll do it, and work something out of it,” said Horace. “I'm thinklull I believe I see a way to use| that buildt: N & .,. | you shall jot them down as they come time ‘:: :a;gyou ::&eran l:l;l;?h:l:;a::: i lation.” i “Nonsense! I'll give it to you.” l Finally, however, Grey consented to , take a note for $50. Then he left on the next train for the West. Horace went back to the shop. He had a talk ! with the landowner, got some newl ideas and looked over the inside. ! He found one of the barrels filled ! with plumbers supplies, the other with ! ' a babbitt metal composition. Then he | sought out a local plumbing establish- | ment and sold the stuff for $75. | “Those signs,” he reflected. | next day they disappeared. | “What you done with the signs?”, asked the curious land owner. “Sold 'em,” replied Horace. *“You . see, one I got rid of to that plumber at the cnd of the town. Then! I sawed the P on the second and a lumber man took it. Taking off the P and L left ‘Umber’ Well, struck a paint shop man. There's a . shoemaker named Blum a little wnys! down the street. I sawed out his name & for him. $42 ahead.” “You'll do!” chuckled the land- owner, much amused and interested. | “Say, we talked about your starting a little repair shop. I like your ways' and shares.” “Done!” announced Horace prompt- ly and took the train home that after- noon, to report to Dora and start in on his new independent business ca- reer. Everybody happy and I'm Now, it strangely happened that on |« the same train, also homeward bound, was Dora's father. Naturally he was | interested in the doing of a young | man who had been “shining around” They Located the Shop In Queltlon.] was to try to get some capital to make a start for himself in a modest | | way. Dora Wayne, to whom he was en- | gaged, had scolded him gently for giv- | ing up a small but steady income, but | | Horace was ambitious and energetic. So Horace started with Grey for Booneville, a little city about fifty miles distant. Grey had togged him-| self out in great style in accordance with the grandeur he, favored heir to; a fortune, should assume. He invited | blowout” upon his return. He ar- ranged to buy an expensive trotting team and turnout. He knew the; Waynes pretty well and invited Dora to share his first ride in that model | of swiftness and elegance. Hor:wel | wondered if it could be possible thut his friend meditated becoming his rival. He felt pretty safe about Dora, | however. An enormous disappointment greet- ed Winfield Grey when he reached Booneville. The lawyer who had writ- ten him informing him that his cousin | had lost all he had in unwise specu- lations. “All there is left outside of paying his debts,” advised the attorney, “is a little shop on Main street and that is on leased ground. It seems that your cousin took a fancy to a young plumber and tried to reform him. He built the shop, making it look more like a parlor than a place of business. His protege sold the equipment, put the money in | his pocket and sloped. The building is ! yours, though I don’t believe you can | get much out of it.” Grey was so disgusted and disap- pointed that Horace could scarcely pre- vail upon him to visit his meager in- I heritance. They located the shop in question. It was queerly incongruous for its rude surroundings, brand new, gaudily painted, a ten by thirty structure more | adapted for the office of some plant than for real work. A plate glass win- dow took up nearly the entire front. It { was bare of furniture inside, where only a barrel or two showed. On the square roof on four sides was a sign. It read “Plumbing.” The let- ters were painted in dazzling gilt. The signs etared an onlooker in the face conspicuously from the - four cardinal points of the compass. “] gay,” observed Horace, signs must have cost a fortune.” “Huh!” snorted Gray—“what good are they to me? I don’t want to go into the plumbing business!” Just here a man came up. He looked over the two visitors critically. «] own the land here,” he remarked “Any interest in the property ?” “Yes,” answered Grey shortly, “I've inherited this shanty.” “Well, I've given a ten years’ lease on the land. Who am I to look to for the ground rent?” “Not 1,” retorted Grey sourly; “I “those his favorite daughter. By plecemeal the story of Grey's inheritance came out. The rest of the circumstance was finally related. “And you're thinking of moving to Booneville and starting in business, eh?” propounded Mr. Wayne. “That's it,” assented Horace. “You see, I'm a pretty fair tinker, and the man who is going to back me says ! 'there is plenty of work to pick up.” “What about Dora?” submitted Mr. ‘Wayne archly. I'll finance the proposition oul 4 e e s e HOW ABOUT s p 4 & ¢ 5 4 & ¢ The Finishing Touches that add exclusiveness and distinction to the modest toilettes of today can be beselected from our compiete stock of Unusual Novelties in Fme Jewelry YOUR EYLS? 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I asked you once for your approval to the engage- ment, but—" “Oh, you've got some practical pros- pects now,” interrupted the wise- headed Mr. Wayne. “You've proved you know how to grasp an opportuni- ty, young man, and you can have my daughter.” (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) VOICE OF A LITTLE CHILDIZ How One of the World’'s Greatest Songbirds Was Discovered by Chance. Many years ago a -maid employed | ; by Miss Lundberg, a famous dnncer' of the Royal Opera in Stockholm.' was given a holiday by her mistress and set out to take a walk. Passing a shabby little house in the poorest | section of the city she heard a child’s voice, which seemed to her wonder-; ‘»; fully fresh and beautiful, and, look- ing up, she saw a little girl sitting ! near the window singing to a pet- kitten. In great excitement she, rushed to her mistress and told her;f of the exquisite voice she had heard. Miss Lundberg was somewhat skep- tical, but finally went to the house and heard the sweet song. She, too,' was convinced of the great netural beauty of the child’s voice and report- ed it to Croelius, the singing master of the opera. i 4 Croellus was also somewhat skep- ; tical at first, but at Miss Lundberg’s request he, too, went and, standing 3 on the sidewalk, heard the child sing. Enraptured in turn, he told Count Buke, manager of the Royal Opera, | and arrangements were made by, which the little girl sang for the count. She was at once taken as a free, pupil in the Royal Opera school and thereafter received the best lnstruc». tion Sweden could give. he child was Jenny Lind, the famcus “Swedish Nightingale.”—Ladies’ Home Journal. Rhetorical Embellishments. I “What did you bring that parrot for?” asked the manager of the mili- l tant suffragette meetlng | “To help out,” replied the orator. : “There are some things a ledy can't' say, and whenever I give the signal | this parrot swears profusely.” And Some One Must Pay. 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