Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 26, 1914, Page 6

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STREATER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Taving had twenty-one years’ experience in building and contracting in Lakeland and vicinity, I feel competent to render the best services in this line. If comtemplating building, will be pleased to furnish estimates and all infor- mation, All work guaranteed. AR Phone 169. J. B. STREATER, Let Us Supply Your Needs Wiss Orange Clippers Spruce Pine Picking Ladders Cement Coated Box Nails Avery’s Orange Plows American Field Fence Cyclone Ornamental Fence Everything usually carried in an up-to-date Hardware Store WILSON HARDWARE CO. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., OCT. 26, 1914, departed for lunch in happy ignorance ! of her impending downfall Miss Bur ton walked in from the dock. Mr. Rogers and Miss Burton were accustomed to greeting each other lmore as old friends, but when Miss Burton clasped both her employer's ! hande in hers and asked him, in a | trembling voice, whether he was well, Mr. Rogers was a little startled. More than that,-he was a little pleased at this evidence of Miss Burton’s regard. “I'm as well as ever,” he answered, “only the business is going to the dogs without you.” “But you wrote me—" began Mise Burton, and stopped. “Something wrong with a letter of mine?’ asked Mr. Rogers. This was too much for Miss Burton. Mr. Rogers had never seen her in tears, but now—it must have been a joke, an underbred joke! He was not mentally aflicted—that was clear at a glance, and he was acting as though nothing had occurred. “Miss Burton!” exclaimed Mr. Rog- ers, terribly etartled and frightened, “show me the letter. You have it with HIS FATEFUL LETTE By JULIET JENNINGS, “My dear Miss Burton,” dictated Mr. Rogers to his new stenographer. “Have you got that?” Little Miss Smith had got that, but | Mr. Rogers had discovered during her | three days’ service in the woolen im- porting company that her stenography was superior only to her spelling and transcription. However, he was a kindly man and intended to keep her] it she showed signs of improvement. A childless widower of fifty, he looked out on the world in a benevolent and self-depreciatory manner. “My dear Miss Burton,” he said ! again, and then he etopped. . Miss Smith, with uplifted penctl, watched you?” him. He had fallen into a daydream, | ", h u” wailed and the essence of it was that he '’ o8, but Lican's Whow yon, : Miss Burton, “Miss Burton, as your employer, I command you,” said Mr. Rogers, as- suming a dignity which he was very . far from feeling. And Miss Burton's The new tarif was playing havoo | t6a fir with his affairs, and two of his old, | SESNSHNAN s RIS e A e n .’ | such a strong-minded woman. trusted employes had re’clentlybletlt him “There! gnko your hateful old let- to establish an opposition bueiness. » ghy id, fiinging it down on Miss Burton had been with him for :fl:ld;ko b L seven years, working her way up from “My tienr Miss Burton,” read Mr. stenographer to foreign buyer. He Rogers, “Now that you are in England leaned a good deal on Miss Burton. If N Enum what's this? I ke were not twenty years her senlor— | o, ", new, strong wife, not a cross Sy cCoar 0is8 Burton,? hoiRRlA fdr ity ke iy 1At anzibie, (but] 6oxie: the third tme, resolutely putting aside | thing durable, showy and serviceable. the dreaming impulse. "Now that you | Er . . er . . . why,itis simply are in England you might run up to outrag&oue!" Hudderefield and see if you can't find “It 1s,” snapped Miss Burton. “That's some novelties that might go well on ! hy I 'h ried h the market here. I am anxious to put T iaesoe 1 thoushitiyon must be {ll. As you aren’till . . . out a 'new line. Have you got that,| qpen Mr. Rogers explalned, and Miss Smith?" 8 Miss Burton, having been herself a “Yes, sir,” sald little Miss Smith, h 4 poising her pencil between her teeth. stenographer, understood that the sym i bols for “weave” and “wife” might 1 want a new, strong weave, not a readily be confused by anybody who cross weave like my last sample, but transcribed without intelligence. But something durable, showy and eervice- —but that made it worse than ever. able. One that a man would like to i fifififififllfiifi“fi | ; | Rogers was ‘standing over her, with a (A0 l y 5 f_"‘ 1 4 Smith’s lunch hour was at hand that (Copyright. 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) ol M S ol Pt T 2B Snd BRNEEut Subalul Sul Sul Sul Sus Bul ul Y wished he had the strong, clever, capable Miss Burton to advise him in the depressed condition of the wool importing business, 3 HOREHONERCHERCHEROHE0NE MERCHEHOH OB I OHBH0R 0B 0N B CR BBt 3 RO F0HS very un-employer-like expression on his face. “Mary,” he sald, in a firm volce, “it wae' abominable. But now that the mistake has been made, won't you— won't you—?" And & moment' later he was clasp- ing the strong, capable Miss Mary Burton in his arms. And he found that he did not feel anything like his ) <" he remembered to tear the letter d which he had left on her desk to 5 pleces. “A business letter?” inquired Miss Burton, wondering why he was de- stroying it so carefully. “Nq, my dear,” answered Mr. Rog- ers. “I'm just covering up my tracks, that's all. By the way, can you find a place in your department for an age. ignorant, unintelligent young woman 20k BT BrEregguges Emerson’s Idea of Dreams. Emerson's claim that even in the dreams of the night we are carried forward, accords with all that science “My Dear Miss Burton.” put on his back and wouldn't be ashamed of showing to his friends. Do the best you can for me. That’s all.” | or philosophy can unfold touching the The last words were addressed to ! onward march of being. It is true that Miss Smith exclusively, but she con- | it is for the active mind that he be- sclentiously embodied them in the | speaks this gain and it is in the re- body of the letter, which unfortunately | freshing ministry of sleep to man’s escaped subsequent perusal, because | mind and body that its purpose in hu. there was a pHe of ocorrespondence | man life is commonly found. To nurse that day and Mr. Rogers picked up | and refresh him for further use of his two letters together and only signed | powers is the meaning of sleep’s mis- the top one. slon in general acceptation and car The letter duly reached Miss Mary | ried to fulfillment little more could be Burton in London. Miss Burton had | asked of it. Nothing surely if it selected a particularly fine assortment | could enfold that sleep of death in its of goods that spring, but when she re- redeeming logic. For truly it after ceived Mr. Rogers’ communication she | life’s fitful fever man sleeps well it did not go to Huddersfield. On the | must be, as Browning so clearly dis- contrary she sat down and stared at | cerns, that he “sleeps to wake” to the the letter for about five minutes; and | grander use of his powers in the life then the strong-minded, capable busi- | more large. Nor should he fear to find ness woman buret into tears. himself of just such stuft as his dreams Her employer was evidently going | were made of. insane. She had come to regard her — work as something more than employ- How He Could Find Out. ment; she had an interest in the suc- Henry Irving, in his early days, cess of the business second only to her | once played & part which in the first Interest in Mr. Rogers. It wae not! act called for a dark stage. In this like him to write in that way; in fact, | darkness he fought with an old earl, if-he were in his right mind he could | threw him heavily and, when he did not possibly have done so. not rise after the loud-thud of his A hasty survey of the situation, and fall, Irving would cry out: she decided to take the next boat back “Great heavens! What have I to America, which she duly did. done?” Meanwhile little Miss Smith was One night he played the part in a demonstrating her incapability at ev- small English town. A stage hand ery turn. Her spelling might have de- | was very much impressed with the lighted the heart of Mr. Carnegle, | play and to him scenes quickly be- though it went somewhat beyond his | came real. So that when Irving own ideas of reform, but her transcrip- | reached the climax, felled the old earl tion could have delighted no man. | to the ground and spoke the line. Miss Smith cherished the idea that| “Great heavens! What have I done?” vowels were an immaterial episode in | he was startled to hear the stage hand & letter. So that, when Mr. Rogers’ say in a loud voice: best customer received a eommunica- “Strike a match and we'll kave a tion informing him that the goods | look.” which he had ordered had a ticking ef- fect (Mr. Rogers had dictated “tak- ing”), and wrote back canceling his order, Mr. Rogers pereeived that Miss Smith's days were numbered. And when a letter slipped past his scru- tiny gratuitously instructing a large tailor that he could supply him with some fine drool for .white waistcoats (which should have been “drill”) Mr. Rogers sat down to cogitate. The result was that, being some- ; thing of a timerous as well as a kind- i hearted man, he placed a note upon ' Miss Smith’s desk during her lunch ; hour, informing her that two months’ ! salary would be at her dispoeal, and that it would be advisable for her to look about for a more congenial po- sition. Tea minutes after Miss Smith had i Thoughts Not Up to Her Looks. There was one young wcman in the box party at the theater who took no part in the noisy clatter and giggle. With her gaze fixed upon the stage she watched the progress of the play, indifferent to the gayety around her except that her delicate, aristocratic, finely chiseled features bore a look of weariness and’ a scornful smile curled her lips. At last, however, she' turned her head slowly and looked at the other members of the party. Then she spoke to the elderly ma. tron sitting by her side. “That chick- en in the blue kimono,” she said, “thinks she is the whole custard!” BSOSO OSOERRICH PO TLH B0x Do You Want Fresh ', GROCERIES' We are at your service for anything carried by an Up-to-date Grocery Phone orders glven prompt attentiop W.J.REDDIC KELLEY'S BARR ' Plymouth Ry BOTH MATINGS Better now than ever High class breeding by reasonable prices. Fgge high!class pens for hatching A Write me before ordering " where, H. L. KELLEY, Griffis, Heinz Pure Food Demonstrator failed to get here last Saturday on accoy accident, but promises to be here Saturday, October 24th All Ladies invited to call and be served with Don’t Miss It. Sampl| New Goods Arriving Daily My Line is as Fine as any in- Town. My Store Clean, Sa itary, Free from Rats and Roaches. 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