Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 31, 1914, Page 7

Lower Prices on Ford Cars I Effective August 1st, 1914 to Augustist, T 491§ and guaranteed against any reduction lf - o b Detroit. ‘ Buyers to Share in Profits - All retail buyers of new Ford cars from - August 1st, 1914 to August Ist, 1915 will share in the profits of the company to the “extent of $40 1v $60 per car, on each car they buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de-. liver 300,000 new Ford cars during that pe- riod. Ask uy for particulars FORD MOTOR COMPANY Lakeland Aute and Supply Co. 2 POLK COUNTY AGENTS. : g PHONE 13Qré8é4 § IF YOU WANT YOUR SHIRTS AND COLLARS LAUNDERED The VERY BEST sead Then 1akeland Steam We are better equipped than Lau ndr y “ever for giving you high grade Laundry Work. J.B. STREATER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER HHaving had twenty-one years’ experience in building und 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. . - Phone 169. Let Us Supply Your Needs J. B. STREATER. Wiss Orange Clippers Spruce Pine Picking Ladders Cement Coated Box Nails by Cias b LR g Avery’s Orange Plows American Field Fence Cyclone Ornamental Fence sees 1 Everything usually carried in_an up-to-date Hardware Store WILSO! we'll follow.” $ *“You couldn’t! You wouldn't dare!” THEIR ARDENT CASE 2. o 1y sweenn By LOUISE J. STRONG. ; She sniffed drearily. =~ “Come, Lucy,” he coaxed. “You don’t want your pretty eyes all puffed and red.” : ) She laughed, with a sudden veer in “How good of you to come nrly!"l lttle Mrs. Foster greeted, effusively, | the gentleman entering with her hus-, ber volatile mind. “You have yeur, band, “but—I expected your 'flc."l old, blathering tongue, Dudley. looking vaguely over his shoulder. | After all, I needn’t make a fright of, ' you are,” the visitor smiled. “I hope; WFaP coquettishly when in the car, HARDWARE CO. | “Everybody isn't married because MYSelt” She arranged the M| Hal's matrimonial experiences have sobered him. He needed it.” | i “He didn’t! And I don't want him H an atom!™ Mrs. Foster pouted. ; ’ “Ab, 80 you manage him through his ' vanity,” Winston teased, with the free- “I never have to manage him!” she retorted. “You can ask Helen.” A ripple of emotion swept his face as he suid: “Your cousin, you mean, | Miss Sears—or, is she married also?” “Everybody isn’t married because I am,” she repeated slyly. “But I supposed that she was.” I “Helen seems proof against the germ,™ Mrs, Foster sald absently. She was examining his face with an as-' pect of alarmed surprise. Suddenly! she cried: “Dudley Winston! was there ever anything between you and ' Helen?” | “Excuse me, Mrs. Foster, we will not drag a defunct past out of its ! grave,” he replied coldly. Conviction seized her. “Oh! oh!| and I never dreamed!—Dudley, you— Helen is here. I must see her in-, stantly!” She whirled away, leaving him star- ing. In a few moments she whirled ; back, her excitement boiling. “Helen's gone!” she shrieked. “Well, that's polite,” Foster growled. | “She came especially for the dinner.! You must have offended her, though Helen tsn't touchy as a usual thing.” % “I didn’t,” Mrs, Foster denfed, vehe- mently. “And she isn’'t offended. She says she has suddenly made up her' mind at once to start on that visit,” : consulting the note in her hand. “That visit is an old matter; it must be something you said or did.” Lucy gazed about distractedly try-| ing to remember. I asked her to wear her amber gown. She is so love- ! ly in it, and—oh, yes, I told her Dud- ley was coming. Oh! oh! that mult.f be it!” Her eyes widened with horri- i fled certainty. Winston, who had grown white, grasped her wrist, demanding: “Why should you think my coming affect- ed your cousin? Mrs. Foster!—Lucy! ; tell me!” “l can’'t—not you! I'll see Helen."| she fluttered. “Lucy,” Winston took the old famil- far ground unconsciously, “I gather that you think you did something that caused a misunderstanding between Helen and myself; you must be mis- | taken; there was never an under- standing—only a hope on my part— aud at one time I thought—but I, must have been misled by my feel- ' ings.” “Oh, I am sure!—though I was so dense that I never—I'll see Helen, and make it right.” His excitement suddenly blazed. “I ‘don’t understand you. I've borne hope- lessness—I thought her lost-to me—I «can't bear suspense! Your manner suggests—I know not what! I can't wait! Come with me to her now, at once!” Lucy made a tragic gesture, which included In one sweep her billowy gown, bare arms and shoulders and elaborately dressed hair, Winston did not even see it. He had | rushed to the hall, and was back with bhis hat and a cape he had snatched from the rack. “Come!” he commanded. “But my guests!—the dinner party!” she shrilled. “Oh, you’ll be back,” Foster as- sured her, grinning his delight, “and it you're late I'll apologize, and ex- plain that you're doing penance for your sins. That'll amuse them; most of them know you!” “Harry Foster, if you dare!” “Come!” Winston hailed a pass- ing cab, and hurried her away. “Wait till I see it she is here,” he advised as they drew up at the Sears home, “Oh, yes, and I can go straight back!” Lucy exclaimed. 1L In a few seconds he dashed out, gave some directions to cabby, sprang in and turned to her, saying: “I am sorry, but you'll have to go on with me. She is to call at her sis- ter's; we may catch her there.” The cab was tearing along at a rate that indicated a large extra by way of incentive. “Oh, but I can't go all the way to Marie’s! 1 must get home, please, Dudley,” she begged. “] am pained to be obliged to re- fuse your request,” he sald politely. She muttered an opinion of him and his conduct which was anything but | polite. Onmly the stubbornness of the | cabman prevented her running away | while Winston was interviewing Marie. “She left for the union station a ter of an hour or more ago,” he ed, springing in again, after ions to the driver. “She spted to make the early train. have to take the electric pres- Marie sent this for your head,” | owing & soft, white mass about "1 won't! 1 won't! It's miles! I'll pot get back till midnight!” she ex- rated wildly. x o3 t back for days,” | | Helen, for I would have been obliged ! you had given me cause to—oh, need sensible of the admiring glances be stowed upon the unusual display of| elegant dinner costume and glowing' beauty. > | A question at the station told Win-: ston they had time to spare, and at the thought of really being in Helen's presence again, a fear attacked him,, and he leaned against the wall. “It ' may be only your imagination, Lucy! ' turb her.” “After all this chase!—and when I have my courage up to the point, We'd much better go back and not dwi { too! But, of course, if you find you don’t care so much for her—" she sug- : gested wickedly. | “Care!” he exclaimed, with unmis- takable fervor. ! “Come on, then, and I'll take my medicine!” i Helen was alone, at a window in & far corner of the room, her back to them. “Its & mercy you hadn't gone,; to follow you like this,” Lucy laughed at her astonished cousin. “I see you are on speaking terms, if you did run, away from him,” she continued, as the other two shook hands formally. “Now, listen—for I'm not going to confide in the public, and if 1 wasn't; the best-hearted creature in the world I'd never humiliate myself by—" she stopped, her cheeks burning. “Dud- ley,” she began again with an effort, “you know you were always with us that summer—I hadn’t met Harry then, remember—and I was a sort, silly!—a romantic moonling, and l—li got the mnotion that you—you were making love to me—" “W-h-a-t!” he howled, “Don't bring the police upon us! And 1 was certain that I was in love with you—oh, more than that—I felt that I would die—if—imagine anything you please, it'll it! I confided all my throes of anguish to Helen with much weeping and wailing—I hinted without an atom of foundation, thal I say more! And Helen—believing it all, how could she listen to you?— and it was nothing but mere play-act-| . ing in me, reveling iIn my romantic emotions. 1 found that out quick enough when I.met Harry and learned what the real—and, oh, simpleton!—I never dreamed the truth about you two—I never fancied even, or imag- ined—and I've gone on, so happy my- self, and spoiling your lives! Helen!"” with sudden tears, “I think you might have said a word to open my selfish eyes!” “How could I?” Helen murmured, averting her betraying face. “Helen! Sweetheart!” breathed. She lifted her eyes to his, and he saw into his heaven. CARE IN USE OF MATCHES Wise Person Will Take Every Precau- tion—Proper Receptacle for Used Ones Should Be Utilized. When handling matches, those of us who are old enough to know the danger connected with them are wary. The receptacle into which we put them is absolutely fireproof. Then, it we are wise, fnstead of foolish, we place the burned matches in another little fireproof receptacle instead of an inflammable wastebasket. Yet, al- most invariably, even the wise ones will place their burnt matches in a tiny glass swung on a ribbon loop from the gas jet, or some nearby con- venient place. Supposing that a burnt match should still have a smoldering spark in it that would set fire to the other dead matches, or should leap up in a liftle tongue of flame and lick Winston the baby ribbon with which the glass | is usually hung The result would be a little heap of blazing firewood upon the floor, and the next thing the fire- bells would be clanging before the door. To obviate this possibility, al- ways strings up match glasses with wire. It is hardly likely that the: matchwood within it could burn lonc' enough to melt the wire. There I.l. danger, however, of it breaking the glass, 5o that to exclude danger en- | tirely, receptacles should be metal or thick china. Above all, teach the children to never, under any circumstances, put a burnt match in the waste basket. Let them place it upon a china tray or match, which may have a quantity of heat remaining in it, near the cellu- loid combs upon the bureau. A Sensitive Plant. 1 should like some explicit explana- tion,” said the income-tax man, “of the itam marked ‘losses’ in your declara- tion.” “Great Scott!” exclaimed Mr. Bloo- chip. “You can't expect a person '.o' publicly disgrace himself by explaining how he came to have three of a kind or better beaten time after time!” ’ ! From “Him.” ! “Grayce seems to got a great many letters.” “It's only those she reads ia bed that are important.” some plece of metal near by. Also warn them against placing such a , New Arrivals Hecker’s Old Hom:stead Flap Jack, Prepared Bu. kw h ‘at, Cream farina, and Cream QOatmeal. Roxanc Graham, Whole-Wheat, Cake Flour, aud Selfrising Flour., Richelicu Pancake and Buckwheat Fiours and]Oaimea. My Line is as Fine as any in Town. My Store Clean, San- itary, Free from Rats and Roaches. FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES DAILY Yours to Serve in Groceries, Feed, Seed and Fertilizer. D. B. Dickson “Don’t feil to see us” before’’having your Electrical jwork done. We can save you money.and give you better ‘““ stuff’’ than you have been getting, and for a litt'e less money. T. L.CARDWELL, Electrical Contractor . EVERYTHING ELE CTRICAL kit B . PHONE 233 E‘ 0 West Main,Streel ard New York Avenue KELLEY'S BARRED Plymouth Rocks BOTH MATINGS reasonable prices. high class pens for hatching. " where, But Talk Business, and Boost Your Town HE HUB is still selling Hart Schaffner & Marx good Clothing, and it is the best clothing ever brought to your city. Now, Old Men and Young Men, come around and see what you can buy for ' $15 and $18 to $25 Have just re.celved a new shipment of Arrow Shirts, Neckwear and Onyx Hose Will appreciate showing them to everybody JOS. The Hub £ This Store is the Home of Mart Schaffiler and Marx Gsod Clothing Better now than ever before High class breeding birds at Fgge from Write me before ordering else- H. L. KELLEY, Griffin. Fia Don’t Talk War,