Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 4, 1914, Page 6

el F H All orders|will receive (MI?)?IOI":I :‘url:(lture my prompt and care ‘abinet Wor . oful attention. and Boats B A Specialty P e Wl e T TPhon=] 3T 6-Red o B G o BB First Class Work Guaranteed JIM SIN Chinese Laundry Work Called for and Delivered 1 a resident of Florida for 20 vears, and am - prominent gentlemen, all of whom doing First Class Work at Reason- JIM SING Phone 257 € 218 = - # Lake Mirror Hotel MRS. H. M. COWLES, Prop. OURSHIELD 2 Under New Management. Refurnished and thoroughly renovated, and everything Clean, Comfortable and First-class. Dining Room Service Unexcelled. Rates Reasonable. Your Patronage Cordially Invited. L W.YARNELL LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING HOUSEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY , HORSES AND MULES ¥OR HIRE ! Phones: Office 109; Res., 57 Green \\— = TO “hich is proven by our six success in Lakeland. i the National Steel concrete Burial Vault Building Blocks of all discrip- tions. Cement. Pressed Brick, ck. Pier Blocks, 3 Drain Tile, 6, 7 Fence Fost: Infact, any- thing made of Cement. FLORIDAINATIONAL VAULT GO, M i reinforced r oof Red W1 fFresh Country Eggsand Chickens Arriving Daily We also have Fresh Home Grown Vegetables Our Meats are Sweet and luicy --and we handle everythicg to bz found in an up to-date Grocery. Your patronage appreciated. The Big Pure Eood Store PHONE 93 Robertsn & Edmonsor » B 4 g o 0% D0 080 $ Do? u n GROCERIES? We are at your service for anything carried by an Up-to-date Grocery Phone orders glven prompt attention W.J.REDDICK OPSTIDSPTITIDISTIDBIBLBOHIBCSY, FAIEISIRIICIIIIISIRIRISIIIK HIS FATEFUL LETTER 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' 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 more as old friends, but when Miss Burton clasped both her employer's hands 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 Burtor’'s regard. “I'm as well as ever,” he answered, “only the bueiness is going to the dogs , Without you.” “But you wrote me—" began Mise Burton, and stopped. “Something wrong with a letter of | Sl B E Fresh Apalachicola 25 Oysters 50c gt; pt. LUc Try our Home made Peanut Brittle and Chocolate Fudge H. O. DENNY Elliston Building. i PHONE 226. Prompt Del. ; | #6452500854000 00820554534 EE2ESEEGEEIIS S3gs, LAKE PaRKip BOAT HOUSg (JOYLAND PARK Power Boats and Royw ) | | Special Rates t i, and Picnic Part, Best Service —Reasonab)e W. T. MoONEY, Py, P.O.Box 32 qugv.;‘o..g.-g..9;g..;n|.;<y.p-.vnt..a‘.) - & & & H kindly man and intended to keep her A mine?’ asked Mr. Rogers. ' it she showed signs of improvement. | This was too much for Miss Burton. [ A childless widower of fifty, he looked Mr, Rogers had never seen her in l out on the world in a benevolent and 'tears, but now—it must have been a self-depreciatory manner. | Joke, an underbred joke! He was not | “My dear Miss Burton,” he sald ' mentally aflicted—that was clear at a : again, and then he stopped. Miss glance, and he was acting as though | Smith, with uplifted pencil, watched | nothing had occurred. i him. He had fallen into a daydream, | “Miss Burton!” exclaimed Mr. Rog- | and the essence of it was that he'ers, terribly etartled and frightened, wished he had the strong, clever, “show me the letter. You have it with capable Miss Burton to advise him in ' you?” the depressed condition of the wool “Yes, but I can't show you,” wailed importing business. | Miss Burton, The new tariff was playing hl"°°‘ “Miss Burton, as your employer, I with his affairs, and two of his old, | command you,” said Mr. Rogers, as- trusted employes had recently left him ' suming a dignity which he was very to establish an opposition bueiness. ! far from feeling. And Miss Burton's Miss Burton had been with him for answer was remarkably feminine for i Office Phone 348 B.ack Beutify your Lawn, S RY (¥ e 90D Let us tell you how, Little it will cost. & Lakeland Paving and Construction Compg seven years, working her way up from | stenographer to foreign buyer. He leaned a good dezl on Miss Burton. If he were not twenty years her senior— | “My dear Miss Burton,” he said for ' the third time, resolutely putting aside the dreaming impulse. “Now that you are in England you might run up to Huddersfield and see if you can’t find | some novelties that might go well on ' the market here. I am anxious to put | out a new line. Have you got that, ! euch a strong-minded woman. i “There! Take your hateful old let- | _<&&O@Od3 ter!” she said, flinging it down on his desk. “My dear Miss Burton,” read Mr.: Rogers, “Now that you are in England . hum! what's this? I want a new, strong wife, not a cross wife like my last sample, but some- thing durable, showy and serviceable. Er .. . er . . . whyitiseimply outrageous!” 207 to 216 Main St. LAKELAND, F Attention! o3 | Miss Smith?" “It is,” snapped Miss Burton. “That’s “Yes, sir,” sald little Miss Smith, | why I hurried home. I thought you poising her pencil between her teeth. | must be ill. As you aren’t {1l g “I want a new, strong weave, not a ' Then Mr. Rogers explained, and ]croas weave like my last sample, but | Miss Burton, having been hereelf a something durable, showy and eervice- i stenographer, understood that the sym- able. One that a man would like to [ bols for “weave” and “wife” might | iremdily be confused by anybody who | transcribed without intelligence. But | —put that made it worse than ever. | Suddenly she became aware that Mr. | Rogers was standing over her, with a | very un-employer-like expression on | bis face. “Mary,” he sald, in a firm voice, “it wae abominable. But now that the | mistake has been made, won't you— | won’'t you—1?" . And a 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 age. ! It was not until the end of Miss { Smith’s luach hour was at hand that { he remembered to tear the letter ‘whlch bhe had left on her desk to pieces. { “A businees letter?” inquired Miss !Bunon, wondering why he was de- stroying it so carefully. “No, my dear,” answered Mr. Rog- ers. “I'm just covering up my tracks, that's all. By the way, can you find ‘n place in your department for an . ignorant, unintelligent young woman | with a genius for happy blundering?” RSO EOTOLOIOH OBOTOID 1 OPOFOPTHOPOFOPOIIFOPOEOPPIBOTOI | | | | i | | “My Dear Miss Burton.” Some good things in Ladies’ Coat Suits Not the latest Fads, but see the Qualit then listen at the prices, $12.00 to $35.0 to close out at $700to 3] 2 00 With a little alterations you have a’go Suit. Glad to show you. BATES STOR e put on his back and wouldn't be . ashamed of showing to his friends. Do | the best you can for me. That's all.” | The last words were addressed to (Copyright. 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) L =SS Mayes Grocery Comp | Miss Smith exclusively, but she con. 9reams of the night we are carried scientiouely embodied them in the fOr¥ard, accords with all that science body of the letter, which unfortunately . ©F Philosophy can unfold touching the escaped subsequent perusal, because ' onward march of being. It is true that there was a pile of correspondence it is for the active mind that he be- that day and Mr. Rogers picked up 5Peaks this gain and it is in the re-| ‘two letters together and ounly signed Ireshing ministry of sleep to man's's the top one. i mind and body that its purpose in hu- The letter duly reached Miss Mary a1 life is commonly found. To nurse Burton in London. Miss Burton had &0d refresh him for further use of his selected a particularly fine assortment POWers is the meaning of sleep's mis-; | of goods that epring, but when she re- 5on in general acceptation and car | | ceived Mr. Rogers' communication she Fied to fuliliment little more could be | did not go to Huddersfield. On the 8sked of it. Nothing surely if it ! contrary she sat down and stared at ! could enfold that sleep of death in its | | the letter for about five minutes; and Fedeeming logic. For truly it after | then the strong-minded, capable busi- life’s fitful fever man sleeps well it ness woman buret into tears. must be, as Browning so clearly dis- | Her employer was evidently going C€TDS, that he “sleeps to wake” to the {Ineane. She had come to regard her , 8rander use of his powers in the life | work as something more than employ- , more large. Nor should he fear to find | ment; she had an interest In the suc- Bbimself of just such stuff as his dreams | cess of the business second only to her Were made of. interest in Mr. Rogers. It wae not like him to write in that way; in fact, if he were in his right mind he could Henry Irving, in his early days, not possibly have done so. | once played a part which in the first| A hasty survey of the situation, and = act called for a dark stage. In this| she decided to take the next boat back darkness he fought with an old eflfl.{ to America, which she duly did. | threw him heavily and, when he did| Meanwhile little Miss Smith was DOt rise after the loud thud of his|$3 demonstrating her incapability at ev- fall, Irving would ery out: ery turn. Her spelling might have de- “Great heavens! lighted the heart of Mr. Carnegie, done?” though it went somewhat berond his One night he played the part in fl: own ideas of reform, but her transcrip- | 8mall English town. A stage hand| S tion could have delighted no man.| Was very much impressed with the | Miss Smith cherished the idea that Play and to him scemes quickly be- f?. vowels were an immaterial episode in | came real. So that when Irving|o a letter. So that, when Mr. Rogers’ | reached the climax, felled the old earl | 2 | best customer received a communica-' @ the ground and spoke the line. tion informing him that the goods | "Great heavene! What have I done?” which he had ordered had a ticking ef- he was startled to hear the stage hand fect (Mr. Rogers had dictated “tak- 54y in a loud voice: ing”), and wrote back canceling his “Strike a match and w." order, Mr. Rogers perceived that Miss look.” Smith’s days were numbered. And when a letter slipped past his scru-| Thoughts Not Up to Mer Locks. tiny gratuitously instructing a large ' There was one young woman ia the tallor that he could supply him with | box party at the theater who took some fine drool for white waistcoats RO part in the noisy clatter and ciggle. (which should have been “drill") Mr.| With her gaze fixed upon the stage Rogers sat down to cogitate. | she watched the progress of the play, The result was that, being lome-; Indifferent to the gayety around her thing of a timorous as well as a kind- | except that her delicate, aristocratic, hearted man, he placed a note upon ! finely chiseled features bore a look Miss Smith's desk during her lunch | Of Weariness and' a scornful smile bour, informing her that two months’ | Curled her lips. At last, however, she | salary would be at her disposal, and | turned her head slowly and looked thnltmldbeldflubktorb.m‘u the other members of the party. look about for a more congenial po-| Then she spoke to-the alderly ma- sition. | tron sitting by her side. "nnml Tea minutes after Miss Smith had o0 In the blue kimono” she sald, |3 - | “thinks she is the whole custard!® | OB oG oo o o oo o oo s @iy o oo g 1 i | 1 ! & ) & &3 How He Could Find Out. What have II 1 k=ve a —_—— | | | POPOD DBODB OO B O PO OB WHOLESALE GROCERS‘ B “A Business Without Books” E find that low prices ard long time will not haud in hand,’and on May 1st we instalied o NEW SYSTEM OF LOW.PRICES FOF STRICTLY CASH. We have saved the people of Lakeland and P. County thousands of dollars in the past. ¢ our new system will still reduce the cost § living, and also reduce our expenses enable us to put the knife in still deeper. 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