Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 16, 1914, Page 2

THE EVEXING TALEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., NOV. 16 1910 __—-—/ ) . - - GSOHOLOBEEEIIIID LOWS [BRNG [Bamty] P The Professions i OF CHRONIC DISEASES , opegoal Pl 7 I ieav R are) LNCE OVED in. High, 12-in, in. High, . High, . High, 5-in. High, . High, . High, . High, in. High, High, H-in. Ui 0 Ui “«“ ul o Y < 12-in h O-in. ,,. © < @ 12-in. o ® @ " 6-in. o £ ® 12-in. 6-in, o (3 < 7 12-in. & =1 < s uy o Unou U U o 5 G = w .1 [+ 6-in, « Everything in Hardware Furniture Our Famous All Cotton 45-pound Mattress 3.99 The House of Quality and Right Prices LAKELAND Furniture 4 & — Hardware Company Smith-Hardin Bidg., Cor. Main and Florida Ave, Phone 391 F. H. Hanna. oresident. Dr. anna. chiropractor. System—aElectricity. X-Ray. Hydrotherapy. = Turkish Baths. Massage. Chiropractic. Physi- cal Culture, Dietetics. etc. Free car Phone 391. Consultation CHIROPRACTOR HUGH D. VIA, D. C. Rooms 4 and 6 Skipper Bldg., over postoffice. Graduate and ex-Faculty member of the Palmer School of Chiropractic. Consultation and Spinal Analysis f ree. at office. Hours 2 to 4 daily. G. D & N CONSULTING ENGINEERS Suite 212-215 Drane Building Lakeland, Fla. Phosphate Land Examlinations and Plant Designs, Earthwork Specialists Surveys. esidence Phone 240 Black DR. J. Q. SCARBOROUGH, CHIROPRACTOR Lady in Attendance Consultation Free Office in Dyches Building Between Park and Auditerium 2 2 Restdence phone, 278 Black. Office phone, 278 Blue. DR. SARAH E. WHEELER OSTEOPATH Munn Annex, Door South of First National Bank Lakeland, Florida J. D. TRAMMELL Attorney-at-Law ‘an Huss Bldg. Lakeland, Fla DR. W. R. _gnoom Rooms & and 4. ‘Kentasks CBonains Lakeland, Florida DR. C. C. WILSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special Attention Given To Deen-Bryant Bldg. oms 8, 9, 10 Office Phota 357 Kesrzence Phone 367 Bine A. X. ERICKSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Real Estate Questions Drane Building DR. R, B. FAUDOCK DENYIST Room No. 1, Di-kson Bldg. Lakeland, Fla. Office Phone 138; Residence 91 Blact D. O. Rogers Edwin Spencer, J¢ ROGERS & SPENCER Attorneys at Law, Bryant Bullding Lakelang, Florida " EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER Raymondo Bldg., Lakeland, Florida KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office {n Munn Bullding Lakeland Examination of Titles and Real R« tate Law a Specialty DR. H. MERCER RICHARDS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office: Rooms 5 and 6, Elliston Bldg Lakeland, Florida Phones: Office 378; Resid. 301 Blue FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building Office phone 402. Res. 312 Red Special attention to drafting lega’ papers. Marriage licenses and abstracts tnrnished W. HERMAN WATSON, M. D. M -Groover Bldg. Telephones: Office 351; Res. 113 Red Lakeland, Florids NORTHROP SCHOOL OF WUSIC KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY MRS. ENSIGN NORTHROP, Lakeland, Florida PETERSON & OWENS ATTORNEYS AT LAW Dickson Building Established in July, 1900 DR W. S. IRVIN DENTIST Room 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT Kibler Hotel, Lakeland. Florids Sales Manager NATIONAL REALTY AUCTION CO. Auction Lot Sales a Speeialty 21 Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, Fla | | FAOM THE TIY BOX By ALVAH JORDON GARTH. _—_ m . G. Chapman.) (sl\ot a m?i‘a bl:l Yhoow;rldpl ” sald Rufus Deane, desolately, at six o’clock in the morning. “A nest of comfort and true hearts to cherish me,” he added that same evening. For years he had lived alone, occu- pying & wretched attic room with 2 poor family in the slums. Long since he had lost the use of both his lower limbs. He had been confined to the one apartment, his wants attended to by his landlord, but living in the most narrow way. Somehow he managed to scrape up the few dollars required to pay for board and keep each Saturday night. Then that day there had come 10 his lonely habitation a pretty, neat, but plainly dressed young girl. “I am Rhoda Leslie,” she said. ' was Rhoda Merrill. Do you remembe the name?” “Merrill?” repeated Mr. Deane. 1 ought to! It was that of my best friend, Robert Merrill” “My father,” said Rhoda, and her eyes were filled with tears as she noted the helpless condition of this once proud and wealthy man. “Hs pever forgot, and I never will I 1 line of 10 ard 12 (O 8 WD R L N L O ah g Wiy ¥ PR B RS that we are able to the comforts he so appreciates and en- thought you in another country, or I0F dead. It was only yesterday that i learned about you—poor, an invalid, friendless. Oh, sir!” and her eyes ex- pressed the genuine love and grati- tude she felt, “it seemed that I could not come quick enough to your side You did everything for my father when he was alive. He told me tha it was your money that kept me = boarding school for two years. W= owe everything to you. See, sir, I am Startled at a Conversation Going On Below. just married to the dearest young fel- low in the world. When I told him about you, he i{nstantly ordered me to remove you to our own little home. We will be as your children, tenderly caring for you all your lite.” Then thes tears of the astounded and overcome old man mingled with those of this bright angel of hope. who had come to his succor at the darkest moment of his life. She brought her husband with her that evening, a stalwart, honest-faced young man, who moved about and spoke at the behest of her sugzestion, as though her sweet, loving volce were rapt, directing music. It was dusk when the closed carriage they brought conveyed the old man to his new home. He did not see that it was located in a poor street, he did not no- tice that as they tenderly carried him up the stairs the lower apartments were furnished sparsely, Indicating rigild ecomomy, if not a scarcity of mouney. As they placed him in a wheel chalr and turned on the lights a rapt cry came from his lips, ending tn a sob of mingled joy and gratitude. “TRis is your home,” said Rhoda, sweetly. “And welcome, thrice welcome, sir,” spoke blunt, plain Ernest Leslie. “We realized how you could not get about freely and have tried to make it com- fortable for you.” Comfortable! The bedridden old in- valid felt as if he had been lifted to a new sphere of perfect luxury. It was & large, roomy apartment, newly pa pered. Two neatly curtained windows looked out upon a pretty garden. There were soft, warm rugs on the floor, a @replace, and as they brought up his evening meal all this attention and plenty reminded the old man of the days when he had wealth at his ready command. | “You are the best husband in the; world!” sald Rhoda, as they left their| guest comfortable and content in wm: was to be his own special apartment. | “I love the old man because he was good to you,” answered Ernest simply. period of ease de life one con- Never triends taan the le who ministered devotedly as though his children. He - ly more than t ‘they should not lose by but they paid no further heed to to feel that his grati- tude well repald them for their exer- tions. Then came dark days. Ernest Les- lle lost his positicn. It had come! about through the firm employing him | learning of his negotiations for a little | store. These fell through because he | could not arrange for the paymentsi required. | One month, two months, passed by; and Ernest found no work. Bravely, | however, the devoted pair saw to it | hat their honored guest, the old man | upstairs, never suspected their real conditian. They denied themselves ‘ every luxury. All they had to support | themselves with now was what Rhoda | earned by some filne sewing, and a| baby was coming, too. The old man never surmised how | hard the shoe of poverty was pinching { until one morning, and then quite acel- | dentally. TUnder the kind ministra- | tions of Rhoda and her husband, good | food and sanltary surroundings, Mr. | Deane had got so that he could move | slowly about the room. As he neared | the open doorway that especial morn- Ing he was amazed and then startled | at a conversation going on bdelow. Rhoda was pleading with the land-: | lord of the place for a respite of an- | other week on rent payment Her! bard-hearted creditor twitted her with | keeping a lazy burden, not even a rel | ative, upstalrs. Amid her tearful | emotion Rhoda told of the love and | duty they felt towards her former benefactor. i “The rent tomorrow, or out into the street you go!"” roared the implacable old landlord. “The coarse scoandrel—my poor, little Rhoda!” raved Deane, and hob- bled to a corner of the room, pulled open the top of his old trunk, and after fumbling over its contents, brought lato view a well-worn tin box. Then with this he stumbled to the head of the stairs. i He could hear Rhoda sobbing bitter ly, he could catch the rough censur- ing words of the landlord. He started forward. A scream rang from Rhoda’s [ lips and her creditor gazed agape, as Mr. Deane lost his balance and came rolling down the stairs. The tin box | came down with a slam and he on top of it. Remarkabdly active was the old man. Excitement seemed to arouse | his emerzy. He sat up, shaking his fist at the landlord. “You insolent rufian'™ he shouted. “Rhoda, my dear, pay this man all | up, and akead if he wants {t, and he'd | better keep out of my way, after be- | rating you the way he has'” { And Mr. Deane opened the tin box | and took outaroll of bills, and besides these there were a dozen valuable- | seeming documents. ‘ “Yours,” he said, tendering Rhoda the box as the landlord retired—"you | brave unselfish dear! 1 never sus- pected that you were poor, and kept | | | e ey el T L Sal 2l Sl 2l el sileat about the little fortune I had.! It is all yours, now.” { And Ernest Leslie got his little store, | azd Rufus Deane saw to it that they shared the luxuries of life with bim. | = = | Bullock’s Freak Appetite, A curious appetite has been dh-! played by a bullock owned by a North | Lincolnshire (England) farmer. The | farmer found the hair had apparently | “You are so willing to make sacri-| Deen cut of the tail of six of his fices for others, Ernest,” fondly. l “OB, We are young, and the pleasure| afterwards the constable saw a bul- of seeing this dear old man happy and| l0¢k eating the hair off a horse's heels. | comfortable will compensate for the| It “cleaned’ the heels, and then de- ! loss of a few luxuries.” “He must nct know how poor we| The tails of the other horses were are,” urged Rhoda earnestly. “He can- not leave his room, you know, to flad out.” Borses, and a constable was instruct. | ed to keep a special lookout. Shortly | voted its attention to the horse’s tail. then found to show unmistakable signs of having been bitten off, and halr was found nearly all over the fleld. l Just received, a con}plete The Brinley Plow isg on: is sold with a back. HODEL HARDWARE ( Phone No. 340 } Py Orange Plo inch 10 to 14 inch Regular Turning Plo built especially for Florida soils, E guarantee of satisfaction er your mop, ( C. E. TODD, A WOODS and look at our line of (2 B3 Waterman and Mercantile Fountain Pens Before buying elsewhere. ( Giret Girl a Box of Kern's Phone And get it Quick WOODS, The New Drug St City Hall is just across the street from U§ PR A S S A 408 i1 o o oo b ool Dol e o B Bl Py 'F YOU ARE THINKING Of BUILDING §E MARSHALL & SANDERS The Old Rellable Contractors Whno have been building houses in Lakeland for yaan, who never "FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfactin All classes of buildings contracted for. The ma residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their sl make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue HOROHOSEIE QS0 IEISOPOENI0 OOS 0T O50K Your Feet will be Pleas: If you bring them to us to be fitted correct: ly with a pair of our Shoes. CPOPOPOEOPOP0 Send in the children and we will take care of their shoe wants in a proper manner. Just received a shipment of the It Baby Dolls in Patents, Satins and Ki We have put in a shoe shine stand for the convenience of our customers. §| Visit our Shoe Repairing Deparim And be convinced that better Shoe Repair- ing is impossible. We will open your eyes with our Latest Machinery and the Neat tiess and Quickness of our work. .Work W71 called for and delivered. DUTTON-HARRIS COMPA 123 Kentucky Ave. FOOTFITTERS ~ Phone 35¢° x FOIF OO e OO » ! : PH. FISCHER & S0 ESTABLISHED SINCE 1894 g Equipped with Modern Electric®, chinery we are able to do your ;\e. at Short Notice. We use Best M and Guarantee all Work at Satisfactory Prices. Also a fine line of RATTLESNAKE and ALLIGAT BELTS. Pocxzmoug. Shoes, Hand 13¢5 ; Work Called for and Delivered We pay Parcel Post charges one way, on 2°¥ : amounting to $1.00 or over PH, N § S e At‘ln FISCHER & SON * LT TS e