Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 16, 1915, Page 2

by the “Golng to be married?” echoed YBarry Miles. | Ned King nodded triumphantly. “Bure as fate,” he smiled. “ITl hold you to your old promise, Barry; you'll ‘dbe my best man?” | Barry thrust out a friendly hand. “Ot course, you can count on me, old man? Congratulations—and who is the girl?” ] Ned reddened, but his eyes were | “Della Adams,” he said carelessly. Barry whitened and all the light \died out of his face. “Della Adams?”; hhe repeated in a curious tone. “You i il " 5 : g 7 i { i i§! Bt £ f i i ' It ! i i ] 3 B y i : E g s { ¥ g F i : E l £k i i i E E g H : He pocket are to be congratulated indeed, Ned!” he could complete its destruction “Thanks Barry. Remember, it's to Della’s slender form stood before him ‘be & ve.s quiet affair—perhaps a doz- l‘lnd her hands grasped the marriage en guc..s. Next Wednesday evening e'uue, 5 at seven—and you're to be best man!”; Della!” he gasped, falling back a Barry did not wince mow. “I th step. not forget,” he said gravely as he ‘turned away. H Was Ned King his friend? Barry asked himself this question over and over as he made his way toward the village hotel. Surely Ned had known that Barry Miles, the young salesman for a whole- sale grocery firm in a neighboring city, was in love with Della Adams, and Della could have told Ned, if she cared to listen to something especially ' interesting when Barry paid his next visit to Grasston. Meanwhile, Ned King had hurried toward the Adams house and told Della of the best man arrangement. The girl turned a blushing face to the minister. “Mr. Fraser,” she pleaded, “please tell him it is all a mistake—" Ten minutes later Ned King came whistling down the path in search of his flancee. * By the river's brink, un- der the bending willows, he found her, standing with her hand in Barry's, while Mr. Fraser pronounced a bless- ing on their marriage. For a moment Ned watched them. Then silently, with ghastly face, he i turned and disappeared. —_—— Indiscreet Memory. “You and that very charming Miss “Ned! You asked him, Barry, to Malcom were boy-and-girl friends, I'm be your best man?” she faltered. told?” “Why not? He was willing. Said “Yes.” X was a lucky chap to get you—and 1! 1 saw you talking to her. You guess I am,” confidently. ! must have had a delightful time re- Della smiled strangely. “I'm going calling early days.” - to send you home now, Ned. If we! “Well, no. 1 tried to make it pleas- are to be married next Wednesday I ant, but it didn’t seem to work. I re- ‘have a thousand things to do.” called to her how she climbed trees Della watched nim striding down and fences when she was ten years ithe village street, his stocky figure old, and she gave me a freezing look. ‘covering the distance in absurdly long Then I asked her to remember how steps. Why, she asked herself, had she was thrown from an overturned she engaged herself to Ned King when , bobsled and went head foremost into she loved another man? a snowdrift and stuck there. ‘You Because the death of her uncle had | Were seven years old,’ I said, ‘and I ‘left her singularly alone in the world i recall that you wore—" What do you and she had learned that Barry Miles = think she dl:l?" . was engaged to & Drayton girl. ';'-‘lgnno. A i 4 Della put on her jersey and went! “Said Bir!’ and stalked away."— out into October sunset. The way to A Cleveland Plain Dealer. the river led along a narrow path ankle deep in autumn lea: She sat Mixed. @own beneath a bending w. Vicar (his mind full of the recruit- Two men were sitting on a greffi flat ing posters)—Wilt thou take this stone. One of them was young, and ' woman to thy wedded wife—for three #the dark head was buried in his hands. | years or the duration of the war?— e was listening to the words.of the Pungh. Lower Prices on Ford Cnl;s Effective August 1st, 1914 to Augustist, 1y15 and guaranteed against any reduction during that time. All cars fully equippea f 0. b. Derroit. Runabout. .. Touring Car Town Car... ... ...600 Buyers to Share in Profits Aul 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 to $60 per car, on each car they buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de- liver 300,000 new Ford cars during that pe- riod. Ask us for particulars +. FORD MOTOR COMPANY ™= Lakeland Auto and Supply Co. ©OLK CQUNTY AGENTS. The .Financial Crisis Over We'are noav in shape to give you the benefit of our Low Expenses. Let us wire your House and save you money, Lower Insur- ance, Cleanliness and Convenience are the results. T. L. CARDWELL Phone 397 With_ LakelandSheet W::1! V) ¢ @444 EPE0E R E ISR R4S S HPPFLEEPEL VNP LSOV EGRBD S3444 800000645 4P EFEFEEPPEICFIIIPECEE L LN LF I NNNNNNO Collins & Kelley DEALERS IN ' Crushed Rock, Fertilizer and Lime East Lafayette St, on Seaboard Ry. TAMPA FLORIDA ANALYSIS The following is an anlaysis of the Fertilizer from our mine near Brooksville, Fla., The analysis was made in the Laboratory of the State Chemist by L. Heinburger, An- alyst, Lab. No. M19gs5: i 1 0.I3 per cent 97-34 per cent Iron and Alumina—Fe203 & Al203 ....... o.12 per cent Our Lime Fertilizer is highly recommended for Citrus and Truck Gardening. Hat for a Formal Occasion ERE is never a time when a hat, moderately broad of brim and with & crown which is so conservative as to escape attention, is out of style. A shape of this kind with a covering of velvet and a facing of crepe or satin, trimmed with plumes, is about the most reliable of all millinery. It has no eccentricities that catch the atten- tion, but its grace and elegance and general becomingness make it always pleasing. The hat shown in the illustration is & superb piece of millinery made of velvet over a frame whose brim droops, in the gentlest of curving lines, just & little ‘at the back and front. The fac- ing, of crepe georgette, is a creamy white. Besides the beauty of rich ma- terial, that of exquisite workmanship adds its charm to the fine color-con- trast of black and white and the pleas- ing lines of the shape. Very hand- some ostrich feathers, are used for the trimming. Such a composition re. sults in a hat dignified and beautitul, which will harmonize with any color in the costume. Its wearer may face any formal occasion undismayed and very secure in the knowledge that her millinery is quite equal to the strict. Between-Seasons Gown of Broadcloth | HERE is g0 great a variety in the incoming modes thatone is bewil- dered. Many designers, working along independent lines, have launched many designs, and it will soon be left to the public to reject or favor certain styles and thus develop the fashions for spring. One authority in gowns de- clares that our waists are to be small and that we must all be recorseted, while another calmly launches ador ably pretty gowns in which there is no such thing as a waist line. All of this difference of opinion among those who create styles fosters ! est requirements of the current mode. Another hat which is in the same class with that pictured has a brim of equal width ‘all around, a crown of medium size with soft top and a fac- ing of. the softest shade of coral pink. It depends for decoration upon an os- trich pompon from which springs & spray of long rd of para- dise tuthen',,ufi in m and tints of the color in the facing. The brim droops a little on all sides and the pink of the lining is partially veiled by a border of black lace which man- ages to stray over the edge of the brim, where it seems to be in easy and irregular festoons. ‘To some complexions this facing of pink is much more becoming than a facing of white. One should experi- ment with color before using it. But it a doubt disturbs the mind, in se- lecting a dress hat, as to the best of shapes, it may be set at rest by choos- ing either of those described here, or others similar to them. They belong to the ancient and honorable order of “plcture hats,” and great artists have delighted to paint them, even before Gainsborough’s time, JULIA BOTTOMLEY. short, and coats are safely cut on straight or flaring lines. An attractive suit is pictured here made of dark brown broadcloth silky finish and sheen. The draped and further elaborated pointed tunic. It is worn 3 of deep cream-colored net and lace. The coat is quite an elal when compared to the wide flaring box plait. A straigh a growing independence among those | panel of the cloth finished with tassels who make fashions. It is for women to decide this season, with nothing to influence them but their own likings or dislikings, as to what shall be cor- | wide, turned-back cuffs finished with a Trect style. et each side fells from bdeneath a turn- | over ccllar inlaid with velvet. | The slceves are roomy and set into | home, and from the first she had ac- customed herself to the peculiar state of affairs in that family. It was convenient to say what you wished to say through the intermedi- ary of a third person, instead of hav- ing to soliloquize. It was when Maud Grant married John Springer, the doctor, that the wrench came. If Maud had only known it, the old aunts were so chas- tened by her approaching departure that she could have made them friends. So Maud went to live in the new house at the bottom of the hill, as Mrs. John Springer; and, though she climbed the hill often, the old ladies were sadly disconsolate at her loss. But after a while Maud did not climb the hill so often; and then the time came when she did not climb it atall And the two old ladies began to be very busy with knitting and crochet work, and the balls of yarn rolled all over the room as the busy old fingers pulled at them. Miss Mary and Miss Martha sat op- posite each other in their chairs, their fingers working and the needles click- ing, and, as they worked, they solilo- quized: “A pink ribbon on the little cap, be- cause, of cou it is going to be a boy,” said little Miss Martha. “How glad I am it is going to be a girl,” said Miss Mary. “I love blue ribbons. 1 think a baby girl with a dainty little cap with a blue ribbon on it is just the sweetest thing in the world,” Miss Marths. “I am so glad that Maud’s baby is to be a boy. Charles? Or Ferdinand? My uncle or my fa- ther? 1 think Ferdinand will sound prettier, and then, it would be a sort of tribute to papa.” “She must be called Dorothy, after mamma,” Miss Mary soliloquized. They emphasized their sentiments to callers, and it did not take at all a long time for the news to reach Mrs. John Springer, in the house at the bottom of the hill. “The dear old things!” she said to her husband. “Oh, John, one of them is going (o be so dreadfully disap- pointed. Whatever shall we do?” “Well, my dear, they are bringing their own troubles on their own heads,” laughing. “We must just leave them to work out their own problems. Anyway, we shall be happy, whichever way it is, won't we dear?” Maud smiled up at her husband, and he put his arm round her shoul- ders and kissed her. And now the day arrived when the blue and the pink ribbon each re- posed upon its cap, along with little Jackets and coats and all the para- phernalia of babydom. And the little maiden ladies waited. And the walt proved longer.than they had expected. And by and by rumors bogan to spread about the town, and then a carriage drove swiftly up from the station, and & famous specialist leaped out and ran through the room in which the two old ladies sat, waiting. “Dear Lord, save her to me!” prayed Miss Martha upon her knees. ;Thou knowest I want her—we 'want er.” Little Miss Mary started, for this was the first time in all those years that her sister had betrayed the rec- ognition of her identity. “Martha! Sister!” she sald in a trembling voice. And it was Martha's turn to tremble and look afraid, for she had not dared to hope that the olive branch, held out, would bear |1 such fruit so soon. The little old ladies looked at each | other, and of a sudden they fell into each other’s arms and cried. And as the tears streamed down their cheeks and mingled, they asked each other's forgiveness with sobs and self-re proaches. “I—I—1 hope it will be a girl! There!” said little Miss Martha. “No, no! It is going to be a boy. I want it to be a boy!” answered Miss Mary. And eacn had gone as far as it was possible to go when she made that admission. There was the sound of hurried foot- steps on the stairs, and Doctor Spring: er came into the room Instantly the two old ladies had seizea him, one by each hand, and their wrinkled old faces were upturned to his. “John! She's doing well?” they both pleaded together. “Well!” cried John Springer. “Why, it's all over. It 1s—" “A girl!” exclaimed Miss Martha. “A boy!” said little Miss Mary. ‘Well—it's both—,” admitted John Springer, rubbing his hands. Formation cf Californla Coast. = 3 i g % i i ik | il 'H s [ i { : ‘ E i ¢ i i i i j E | | | E ! i | [ £] “] San't abide blue” soliloquized ' 4 e bvSOSOOINSS S P SH 1444 $SH T IIT DPSPPUPPPIDIDPDEDISD SDDBPOED: G 1B o BB B . PP GHPod PPOP PP racts In Large and Small ” SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and Samples 23,000 ACRES—In Polk County at $6.00 per acre. Timbe worth more than half the price. 40 ACRE FARM—35 in bearing Orange Grove, 8-rooq house, packing house and barn, .large lake front, New Irrigation plant, good heavy soil and good road. §i miles from Lakeland. Price $30,000.00. FOR NON-RESIDENTS—Good Fruit Lands, well locateq in ten, twenty and forty acre tracts; Co-operative Devel. opment Plan. NEW BRICK STORE BUILDING—In the city of Lake land; Leased for five years at $2,600.00 pér annum, $30- 000,00. Will trade for Orange Grove as part payment, 9-ROOM HOUSE and three vacant Lots. Close to Laks Morton $4.200.00. $1,200 down and terms, TWO HOUSES In Dixieland (5-rooms), rented. $300000, Terms. TWO GOOD SUBDIVISION Propositions. and desirably located. 20 ACRES FARM—At Lakeland Highland. bearing grove, 600 trees in good condition. Large res. idence with modern improvement. Private water works; good out buildings with implements and team, Price $10,000. 34 ACRES OF RICH HIGH .HAMMOCK 1land near Cen ‘ter Hill. 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