Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 8, 1915, Page 2

axenecececececescensa ELECTRIC DHLHPOSPIMOSLHY 1oror0s0e0s0se ELECTRIC oo [=XRet0 el Sel Bullut 1 | SOPEPPPFIOIOP DO BRI PUFOPOFO O OFUPIR P UPRFIPO PO t THE EVENING TELEGRAM LARELAND, FLA,, JAN. 8, 1915. SHE WAS A PEAGH By SETH MONROE. “Anthony? You mean Jim Anthony { who used to cover this territory for i King & Co.? Why, he has another | route now, and he ain't traveling for King & Co. any more, neither. And | Letty—you remember Letty, who used ' to be in service here. Well—say, I'd best start right at the beginning. p “Letty was the housemaid at this hotel when Anthony was King & Co.’s best salesman. Her mother had brought her up very strict, and when she died Letty was only eighteen and knew about as much of the world as a child does, The house was worth about two thousand, for property had been going up for a long time; but Letty couldn’t live on nothing while it was on the market, so she came to the ‘tavern’ as second housemaid. In those days service of that kind wasn’t con- gidered anyways lowering in Wake- field. “Anthony was sta, was a small town'o hadn’t made many ¢ v a bit depre We will Move January 1st to the Kibler Hotel Annex Our New Store will be the Finest Electrical Store in Florida FLORIDA ELEGTRIC AND MAGHINERY GO. THE ELECTRIC STORE Phone 46 307 E. Main St. % R BDPODOAPGUDGFO | & over night. It his route, and he “Don’t fail to see us” > brightened up a bit liked a jpretty face. ) to her. “‘Hello, kid, vou sure are a pea before having your Elcetrical work done. We'can =ave you money and giv : you better & fstufi’” than you have been getting, and for - 5 's, and kisses her, That dc i el S & |he goes into Lis room, thinking no & | more about it. 3 Mubbergasted. She had 5 a gitl her, and here was a per »r who had | { kissed her the minute he sct eyes on her. The little fool put down her broom and began to cry with happi- ness. Anthony 18 about forty and rather fat and flashily dressed, but he | was all gold in Letty's eyes. | “Next morning Anthony, having re- | newed his grouch, went out of his | room oearrying his suit case. He met | Letty, who had been waiting on the | stairs. ‘Morning, mi said Anthony, and passed on, leaving Letty still more flabbergasted. “I guess she cried all that day, but when night came she had made up her | mind. Of course a fine gentleman like T.'L.CAKDWELL, Electrical Contractor EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL PHONE 233 West Main Street and New York Avenue DD | BOSOTOOEOED | SEED TIME Seed Potatoes, per sack ciienen....$3.00 Anthony wouldn’t want to marry a girl in service. Her little head was full of Seed Beans, per bushel ...... ..... .....$6.50 to $9.00 romances. She had read about men Tomato Seed, All the Best Kinds, per 1b. $1.75 to $2.50 Watermelon and Cantelope, Seed Corn, and all Other Field and Garden Seeds. Fertilizers— V. C. C. Co’s Make. CALL TO SEE ME. D. B. DICKSON | SPECIAL SALE His Grouch Began to Clear Away. being true to death, and all that, and she made up her mind to make herself worthy of Anthony. “She took her savings and went to night school with them. By the end of the year Letty was a fair stenog- rapher and bookkeeper, and, as the young woman who kept books for the ‘tavern’ was leaving to get married, N and his He al- Don’t let this opportunity pass without supplying your needs. The quantity is | limited. Come at once. When they are gone we can’t duplicate the order. We need THE CASH. You need the Machine. Our interests are mutual. For THIRTY DAYS we will Letty stepped into her shoes. The comes on his route again, and when Letty looked up from her books and saw him standing, waiting to register, her heart beat so that she couldn't speak. “Anthony looked at her, grouch began to clear away. ways liked pretty girls. “‘You sure are a peach, kiddo,” he | said, and chucked her under the chin. | ‘How about the movies tonight ?* Just one-half the usual price - | chap was a king in Letty's eyes. i Takes one of them | " guess Authony wanted to take | her out all right. though he hadn't the slightest notion that he had ever met her before. Dut he fell in with'some | of the boys, and they got him into a poker game, and when he got out, at midnight, he was §72 in the hole, And by that time he had forgotten all about Letty, who had been waiting all | “She gave up hope then, but she stayed on at the ‘tavern,’ keeping the books. She wouldn't have anything to do with the young fellows of Wake- field, but she was always nice to trav- eling men. About the time when An- thony was due again she began to ask timid questions about him. But no- body told her much; you see, they guessed something had happened be- tween them. But at last Letty got the come let us Se've vou. ,Ns!errllory now for King & Co. | see, they caught him with the goods, miss.’ “‘Goods?' inquired Letty, puzzied. *‘Yes. Two thousand dollars he had taken to gamble with. His case comes H up for trial pretty soon. and he'll likely i get about four ye:rs as a sirst offend- A er. Poor old Anthony! When he | comes out he'll have hard work get- | ting on his feet again.’ Make a SpeCial Sale on the | salary was a dollar less than her | “With that he was gone, leaving primped up since eight o'clock. | truth from a youn HARDWARE CO, =i ens - \ ! wages had been when she held the broom, but she was mighty glad. poor Letty in a heaven of tasy. Her | ged had noticed her again; he was “Letty cried herself to sleep, and next morning Anthony was gone be- making the rounds. *‘Anthony?" he | gand dollars for her bouse, which had goue up o a good deal more than that “At the end of the year Anthony Thirty Dollars Cash going to take her out. That flashy | fore she was down in the office. won't be here any 1 value 3 position, and | it sermed starfed for New York: Bhe . King & Co. “‘] want to see Mr. King on impor- tant business,’ she sald. “The clerk took her in and Mr. King stared at her, and she stared back at him. There was something tragical about Letty in little things. People didn’t like the way she looked into their minds. 2 “Mr. King was growing uncomfort- able when Letty burst out: ‘If I pay you will you let him out, Mr. King?" | “‘] beg your pardon. Whom are | you talking about? acked the head of the firm. “‘Mr. Anthony, sir, said Letty, de- positing her two thousand dollars upon the table, and Mr. King stared harder than ever. “‘Who are you? he asked, eyeing first her and then the money. ‘You ain’t his wife, because he wasn't mar- ried last time I heard. “‘I'm going to be,’ eaid Letty qui- etly. “Well, King was glad enough to drop the proceedings, and he took Letty round to the jail to see him. Anthony didn’t feel too good to King, but when he learned that he was to be free he saw the point. “‘You can thank this young wom- an instead of me,’ says Mr. King. ‘And let me tell you I uldn’t have taken her money if it hadn’t been for tho aged to you, In my d deal too good ch he turned on Letty and Anthony le is a g for you.’ With v his heel, lc looking at cac of his knowled seen her befs thought it w of Lis friends, ‘Whose moncy was it, my dear? ore in all b 3 a game put up by he vered Letty udly. ‘I u don't care for me any more, n I h 1 you were in trouble med only right for me to'—gulp—‘give you my money." “‘But you told Mr. King you were going to be married to me. said An- thony in bewilderment, “‘I wouldn’'t marry you for all the wealth of Wakefield, Letty flashed out, and meant it, too. Somehcw that word Wakefield recalled to Anthony the broken engagement, and then he understood and,remembered herg His hand shot out and grasped her under the chin. “‘Kid,’ he said, ‘you certainly are a peach.’ “Yes, sir, they have been married nearly three years now, and he travels for Constable. Letty i8 as proud as a queen of Aathony. I gucss there is the right woman for the right man ev- erywhere, but, Lord, what luck An-| thony had finding her!" (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) RICH IN HISTORIC INTEREST! Excellent Reasons Why Mississippi’s Old Capitol Should Be Preserved | by People of State. k but whe 1 ‘wondered why he bated Rim 80. He MMMevenlmkdflllyhllm. Littlefield had been expecting his dis- missal since the first of the year; ho"n- ! ever, he had stuck it eut for Lucy's, sake. But when Lucy Merritt went back on him— | It was a foolish quarrel, but she had | given him back his ring and told him | she never wanted to see him again.| He could not even remember what| they had quarreled about. At first Littlefield had been overwhelmed; but then he began to accept it as part of the grudge fate seemed to have agalnst him. And, once he had begun to belleve himselt a victim of destiny, he lost. all moral sense. He was alone in the world, and now that he had lost Lucy he meant to make amends to himselt at the bank's expense. He had reached the door when the porter came up to him. “Mr. Johnson wants to see you, Mr. Littlefield,” he said There was a si the man's face. Litt! impulse to bolt for t of that he steod at Jacks. J “At once, S cant look upon 1d had a wild Instead ey > door. r, b Johnson looked un tlefield, you don't look said. “You seem to work with a perpet least when I meet you Was ho s this the pr # Littl H “Put y 1 g | tlefield,” cor « ¥ look as thoux er % going to open < beside me—never mind th ittleficld flung the bz H fiantly and stood facing hi ! Johnson arose ar »: clapped his hand hard on the other's 2 shoulder. o “We've been looking over your rec | & ord since you came here, Mr. Little ficld,” very ere you Kknow, cashier's o gull. We cre going to pron his place at the salary wh goes with it—two thou d to start and an annual increase of a hundred up to twenty-five hundred.” Littlefield still stared at him; hehad not yet understood. | “So you see,” continued Johnson, “we have not failed to recognize the zeal that you have shown in our In-‘ | | 1 Joh n, “and it n abie showing. Mr is leaving to accept the tion with Brown & Sea te you to 4 z 3 terests. 1 may tell you in confidence i that there was much difficulty in de- ciding between you and another mem- ber of our force, and that you were selected on my insistence for the rea- | - son that I have given you.” | Littlefleld understood at last, and he swung round {mpulsively and looked into Johnson's face. “I have thought sometimes that you had taken a dislike to me,” continued the manager. A bill for renovating Missiseippi's old statehouse calls for the legislature | more or less continuously discussed by Mississippians ever since the comple- tion of the present capitol in 1903. For a comparatively medest sum the old | capitol may be restored and put to ex- cellent and appropriate use. So that today the sentimental plea for the building’s preservation is strongly re- | inforced by utilitarian arguments, Mississippi's old etatchouse should be as dear to Mississippians who take pride in their state’'s history as the Cabildo is to Louisianians. Built in 1839 the old capitol at Jackson is identified with the most stirring events in the most stirring period of Mississippi’'s history. In 1849 it housed the convention that formally asserted the principle of secession as a state right. In its hall the convention of 1861 was assembled | and the ordinance of secession passed, | During the stormy years just following the war it witnessed the dispossession of two governors by federal troops, and staged the notorious “black and tan” convention. It was the scene of the impeachment trial of Governor Ames. In 1890 it sheltered the consti- tutional convention which framed and enacted the franchise plan that solved | the south’s most portentious problem. | Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Pren- tiss, Lamar, Walthall, other makers of George and history historic structure. It witne: election of Jeferson Davis general of M ippi troops at the beginuning of the 1ggle between the states. From its rostrum the Confed- erate president in S84 delivered his farewell address to the people of Mis- sissippi. major Housewife's Problem. At the opening of the Woman's In- dustrial exposition in New York, City Chamberlain Henry Bruere said that getting foed to the family is the great problem. The market will not de it he says. In order to find out what is ithe right way, he says they sent around the worl They found the German housewives still go to market, but New York we 32 t JeyeneleeLeeenononenon . TWIST OF THE MIND By FRANK FILSON. 2-X 2 | o % bd | fi.fi.c.fl.fi.fi.fi'.fi.fi.fi.fi.fl.fig At half-past twelve® Littlefield stepped out of the teller's cage with his bag in his hand. Inside the bag were eight thousand doliars in bills. The loss would not be discovered un- til haif-past one, for certain reasons which Littlefleld knew intimately, and by that time Littlefield would be on his way south. He had made all his calculations and had no regrets. He had slaved for the Eighth National for seven years, and he was now drawing a & ° & . & . < o pect of a raise. Johnson, the manager, ! did not I'ke hi Sleigh, the paying | teller, hod been with the bank since The road to promotion was blocked, and, if it were not, there was no chance for Littlefield, with Johnson's eamity. __Littlefield %24 gtudi-d t“e man and of the state to consider a question ! have ad-, dressed Mississippi audiences in the ! sed the | beggarly fifteen hundred, with no pros-| | boyhood; he was an old stick-in-the- | mud and would die in harness there. | “No, sir; no,” blurted out Littlefield. “I must have given a false impres- sion. I—" “I am indeed glad to hear it," a swered Johnson, wringing the other man’'s hand warmly. “And now permit me to offer you my best and sincerest congratulations.” | Littlefield found himself outside the . office again. He walked {dly toward ° the door. Hao did not quite know where .. he was going. lle was recalled to him- < self by Jacks, who thrust a letter into his hand. “Just come, sir,” said Jacks, smil- ing. Littlefield looked hard at the porter. Why, he was the acme of friendliness. What had been the mat ter with him? Had he, Littlefield, been ' seelng everything through the mirror ¢ of his morbid and perverted mind? He tere open the envelope with trembling fingers. The letter was from . | Lucy. § “My dearest,” it ran, “forgive me a thousand times for my unkindness to { you. I was so hurt by what you said” | —here Littlefield remembered the | cause of their quarrel—"but I see now <+ how wrong I was when you have al- © | ways been so kind and good. I trust you as every one trusts you. You are ! the soul of honor—" A rush of tears blinded the man's | eyes. o could not read the letter further, then. So it was all in his own mind, everything, the sense of injus- tice, the quarrel with Lucy, Johnson's assumed unfriendliness, Jacks' an- tipathy—all his fears and wrongs and injuries! He took his bag and crept back into the cashier's cage. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Full Skirt. Now that full sk are actually cshowing, it will ple most women | to find that the iull, circular skirt is | her After all, the circular the most gr 1 of all and g ticularly well with the redingote and | other basque and moyen age waist etiects now in vegue. | | “Home, Sweet Home.” It was dark and cold and the gaunt and leafless trees were swayed by fit ful gusts of wind that spoke of com- | ing rain. Plodding Pete and Weary Willie ' quickened their pace in order to reach a place of shelter ere the storm should overtake them. This suddea burst of energy seemed to excite con- versation. “Wot’s up with yer, Pete?” inquired Willie. “Yer look as if yer goin’ ter ery. “I dunno,” was Pete's reply. “T don't feel the joy o' livin' like 1 used to, I've been thinkin' o' my wasted life, an’ I've got a sorter uneasy, homesick feelin’.” “Homesick!” broke in Willie. “Why. bless me, I believe that’s wot both nf us are sufferin’ from. We ain't nei- ther of us bin inside a jail for close in three me: Just So. “Do you think that marriage is a lottery? “Can't say 1 do. who Still, everybody e3 a changa™ POLK COUNTY AGENTS. N — 1 = H. FIS 5 ESTAIQSHHEDESIQE 1&' SON Equipped with Modern Electrical Ma- When You Think of Gents' Furnishings You instinctively turn to the house with the reputation of high class goods 5% x Our Hart Schatfoer and Marx Suits are selling better this Foll than last. Neow i your fime to get one. Also, our Eoyg Suits are extra geed m Quality and oy in rriccs. ~ Come in and 100k over oyr Srock and cenvince yourself as to Prices and Quality of our Merchandise. 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