Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 8, 1915, Page 3

. s raising Lake lands do not need draining other than small ditches necessary on any farm. Make a trip -on the new division of the Florida East Coast Railway without delay, and see for v’htth-hflhln. Note that Okeechobee is now only a trifie over twelve hours’ Investigate This Wonderful Country While You Can Have a Choice of Locations for Your Farm will find it unexcelled for general farming, livestock and poultry raising and for growing all ds of vegetables common to Florida as well as the finest citrus fruit. This town and country grow at an nty particulars keechobee Farms ald big ceops of velvet beans, rape, peanuts, kudzu, spineless cactus? \ Rhodes, F for hay and pasture. With all Rhodes, Para, Natal and other grasses crops available, cattle, sheep and hogs can have green food the year round. Thousands of Acres of Our Land at the North End of Okeechobee Are Now Ready for Cultivation rate during the next few years. We also have excellent land and town at Chulum% growing, trucking and general farming, and the latter a fertile pine land country in Osceola especially adapted to stock raising, general farming and fruit growing. Write today for i to ille—the former a fine lake section in Seminole County suited to | tractive nurse. It was dusk when Ralph awoke ! again. He observed a light in the under the charge of a faithful and at- i a weazened, elfish-faced old man con- versing. “I am poor, very poor,” the latter' was whining. “I cannot afford expense. Get money from him, if he has any.” “No, uncle,” spoke the girl definite- ly. “I know from his ravings while in fever his whole story, and it is a piti- ful one. See, uncle, he himselt will surely find some way to pay the sur- geon when Qe is well. As to the iittle he costs us, the way we live, you can surely spare that for the sake of sweet charity.” “Charity! charity!” groaned the old “Who gives me charity? No. no, I tell you I am poor, poor! See how miserably I am obliged to live! See how hard I work in the city! He must pay—pay!” “He will, when he recovers” declared the young girl. “Oh, uncle! would you drive him ont, possibly to become crippled for life, because of neglect? Be humane, for my sake; I will work the harder for you.” snarled the old man. The girl blushed hotly, but she sald, with girlish “gnity: “The memory of the poor brother who died bids mé de kind to the stran- ger. 08 SuviFonient siEgeated hat DO WAD gy aipbidibs svsdditts sose0 3 i next room and made out his nurse and ' | x Coolest OFFICE ROOMS . FOR RENT In Telegram Building b b b . Running Water in Each Room Call at TELEGRAM OFFICE For Good Dry. STOVE WOOD Phone 201-Red or 18 We wiil do the rest. W.J. WARING 3 Room 218 City Building ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA J. E. INGRAHAM, Vice-President - Land and Industrial Department, Florida East Coast Railway .W.YARNELL LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING HOUSEHOLD MOVING A | The old man grumbled, but his com- . panion held to her point. He exacted ! a promise from her that she would see 1if the suitcase did not contain some | belongings that might be sold to pay Kibler ndwise. The med HONE 408 resh Groceries Clean Store Right Price Good Service Large Stock Yours to Please D. B. Dickson; PIOOBIPPISIPEE PIEPPSFEESPEFFIPIPIPIIEIIILID MOVED IBLERHOTEL BLOCK AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES FLORICA ElEBIHIG—AiIl MAGHINERY GO. THE ELECTRIC STORE Hotel Building Read what I say in this paper every week. I will tell you how to be healthy, beautiful | pure and fresh ; our beautifiers contain no harm- 1 ingredients; it is wisdom to buy at this Drug Store on which you can RELY. Woods’ Drug Store SPPEPPPPP 22 DSEPEPFEFPPIPIPIIRL PRPEEVIN By WALTER JOSEPH DELANEY. “How did I come here?” murmured Ralph Norton, and turned in his bed and gazed out through the window of a cheerless, sparsely furnished room. Far as he could see the sluggish river wound in and out a low marshy stretch. Barges loaded with coal moved lazily along. Beyond a group of dilapidated factories and shipyards was the city. It recalled the last fad- ing picture presented to his conscious- ness, how long since he knew not, but that problem was instantly solved. “We found you outside, where you had fallen into a cinder pit,” spoke a melodious voice, and Ralph turned glance to see, seated near his bed, a young girl sewing. She was poorly, but neatly dressed. She wore few articles of adornment, Ler hair was worn without attention to fluft or flummery, but the sweet re- B! arrested the attention of the invalid and held it riveted “You have been there four days, unconscious,” she went on. “You must not move, the doctor says, for your left ankle is broken.” 4e=LECTRIC aware that it was not in normal con- dition. “You are strangers to me,” TO THE abbut the docks with my suitcase.” “That is here, safe,” spoke the girl. FULL LINE that and you would have the broken limb only to trouble you." 'ELECTRIC and his mind drifted hazily. left his home after a quarrel with hi Phone 46 S SSPEPP600000) % ELECTRIC B T L Ll SRttt Rt ] “l am Poor, Very Poor.” the world. Alas! it had been a hard, awakening experience for the disap- pointed young man. ! false friends, hard knocks, was | brushed aside in his efforts to secure work by men with a “punch” as well as those “with a pull!” He had to confess that be had not the training to % | combat in the journalistic arena with | those who knew the ways better than be. | He had come from home with a very i good outfit, and his dressiness had .. | helped him get several good assign- » | ments with a society journal. The sea- son over, however, he lost his position. No new ones offered. His money ran out and, selling off some of his effects 2227 icines in our Drug Store are always : in a suitcase. Ralph was city-wearied as he wandered aimlessly. He had a vague idea of finding some country and forget his old vain ambitions. Near the spot where he now found himself his mishap had overcome him, expression. and here he was, helpless. Apparent-| bowever, for WE TAKE CARE | the way for his unwelcome guest. ! "It did not take long for Ralph to ! understand that the miserly Galbraith, NRTONS_DARLNG pose of her face, the kindly gentle eyes . said | “Only,” repeated Ralph bitterly un- der his breath, and then sheer weak- | ness causeed him to close his eyes His thoughts took in a present very | unbappy and forlorn condition. He hl:l own class and that they would be wealthy uncle, to make his own way in He had found | to settle his debts, he placed the rest weekly where he could bury himself, as he learned his name to be, was a | miser for whom his niece slaved. He ‘had some busines in the city in the scrap-iron line. Within two days Ralph was able to sit up. Then the girl, Ottila, in some | way got a pair ot crutches, and inside of a week he was able to move to a bench outside the house and hobble around. He had unpacked his belongings from the suitcase. Recalling the con- versation he had overheard, he did up the dress suit that had done vast serv- ice in his society reportorial experi- ence. He asked Ottila to dispose of it. The sale brought a pitiful sum, but it quieted old Galbraith for a day or two. Then Ralph handed her the watch he wore, a cheap silver timepiece that did not go. She seemed embarrassed as these negotiations showed the niggard- ly persistency of her uncle and placed her in a false position with the guest whose respect she cherished. Ralph was pained to note the sharp corners she had to cut in order to pro- vide'the meals from the narrow amount her uncle allowed her. It could not be otherwise that day by day the sterling qualities of his devoted nurse wooed his mind from all thoughts save inter- est, and then deep gratitude and finally love. After the sale of the watch he ob- served that Galbraith was more favor- ably disposed towards him. Then he | acidentally learned the secret of this. He missed a gold necklace that Ottila had once worn. He was sure that she , had disposed of this and that the pro- ceeds had gone to Galbraith as if com. . ing from their patient. His soul was Ralph winced as, moving the mem-| g¢jrreq to their depths. ber in question, he was promptly mnd.l That evening Galbraith came home | in a great state of excitement. He | showed Ralph a newspaper advertise- | ment stating that one missing Ralph Ralph weakly, “and this s a strange | norion would learn of something de place. I recall wandering aimlessly ' .jjeqiy to his advantage by communi- | cating with a certain law firm With- n twenty-four hours Ralph learned “We found it by your side. You must, q¢ piy yncle had died leaving him an have stumbled and fallen. The doctor independent fortune. s 1 called was at first serious about the | bruise on your head, but he said this | morning that all danger had passed for | eral amount. Then there was & royal It was a happy day for Ralph when he sent Galbraith a check for a lib- | gift for his faithful nurse. Accom~ panying it was a letter, telling her of his love. There came & brief note. It bade him forget the obscure girl so far removed from his social circle. It hoped he would find some fitting bride in his | happy. When Ralph went in quest of the Galbraiths he found the old house on the river deserted and abandoned. For a year he watched, waited and hoped. Wealth had not its anticipated | charm, with his thoughts fixed ever and always upon the one woman who had befriended him in his distress and whose loyalty and simplicity had won his devotion. Then one day, just & year after his first meeting with Ottila, an amazing visitor came to Ralph. It was Gal braith, but a new Galbraith. He was arrayed decently, almost gorgeously. “I sold out my business,” he clicked I with a shrewd grin, “hence, some i profit. It was for the sake of my niece. You remember Ottila?" “I shall never forget her!" cried Ralph, starting from his seat. “Where —where is she?” “You would see her?” | Galbraith. “I have been searching for her for a whole year.” “And your mind has not changed concerning her?” “It never will! where is she? “Come with me,” said Galbraith, and as they walked along he told of how Ottila had been at a school studying for a year, how she was now at the | comfortable home he had provided for her. “It was a test,” said the old man. “Ottila wished for education, to wait a year, and see if you still remembered her. See, neither of you are poor now, and she is a jewel!” And within the hour Raiph Norton fondly folded in his arms his darling! (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) questioned Speak out, man— Memories of Vanished Happiness. Long, lingeringly, languishingly, he looked at the photograph in his hand Tears gathered in his handsome eyes like crowds about a scoreboard. “Is it too late? 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Is there yet time?” With the picture still in his hand, he staggered to the mirror. There was no doubt of it. The large bald spot in the center of his head was still spreading. “Oh, why did I not take care of it while I had it?” he moaned, and again his eyes fell yearningly on the picture of himself taken seven years before.— Detroit Free Press. WILLING TO SUFFER AGAIN Old Woman's Prayers Were Not Ex- actly the Result of a Feeling of Gratitude. A lady had a friend who called to see her one day, accompanied by her poodle. 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