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D flunes: Office 351; Res. 113 Rec i Lakeland, Florids J. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW i Dickson Buildtmg tice in all courts. Homestead. s located and contested [Established 1n July, 1900 DR. W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST 14 and 15 Kentucky Building LOUIS A. FORT ARCHITECT “r Hotel. Lakeland. Florida DR J. R. RUNYAN ' and 1%, Raywondo Bidg druge furnished with- 0‘ out extra charge Residence phone 303. Ofice Phone 410 ICK? 8 eland Sanitarium Hanna [ARDIN BLD | !:Ntnlp.m.K ! : i A Flower Valentine i$ It Was Growa In the Sunny South ! By EUNICE BLAKE O Arnold Bates, having broken down from overwork, was ordered to the south to spend the winter. He chose 8t. Augustine, Fla., in which to spend danuary and February, arriving there in the latter part of December. The invalid was accompanied mother, and they took a ~:utm:e’ ::o: the season. Their domicile Was one of two houses standing side by side and about 100 yards apart. In the adjoin- ing rarg belongiug to the uther dwell- ing was a fower garden, but since it Wwas during the brief interval between 8casons in that climate there Wwere no ll\':;lm in bloom. ere was something else in bloos that delighted the eye of Arnold Bnu:. This was a very pretty girl. Bates no- ticed her cn the very day of his ar- rival iz a tennis court to the rear of ber bome playing the game with a boy of twelve, whom Bates judged to be her brother. The Foung lady was ap- parently about elghteen years of age, and. though tennis is not always cal- culated to show grace, her movements Wwere unusually graceful, The invalid sat in the window of his bedroom watching the game and thank- tul for sumething to look at, for he was Dot well enough to read and had no desire to look at a book. He was con- tent to watch the girl flitting abont over the tennis court. The family nest door were also strangers to the place, who had come from the north to escape the rigorous winter of their home. RBoth families were city bred, and city persons are not Pprone to make acquaintances of neigh- bors. Consequently neither made any movement to be neighborly. They lived side by side for several weeks without even learning each other’s pame, and only one member of each family could tell anything about the other, These two persons were Arnold Bates and Helen Farnsworth. Bates suppos- ed that he was admiring one who wis unconscions of his existence. This 1= not so. The girl had eyes for the idsome invalid as well as he bad Ves for her, Indeed, she was sym- athizing with him and wishing that . WS strong «h to come down 1v tennis with her. Whether, if he had been strong enough, the two wotid have broken through the con- ventional barriers that kept them apart Is 2 question which we need not ask. On the 2ist of December the sun starts worthward and in Florida brings 8 irmth of the coming sum- capidly than in the north One morning Arnold Bates saw Miss Farnsworth and her little brother, Bob, in the garden Bob had a spade and. under his sister’s directions, was dig- ging up the heds. Then the two did some planting, und from that time on the garden received a good share of their attention. Arnold Bates was im proving nnd vow walked out every day On several occasions he and Miss Farnsworth met. and both showed 2 consciousness of the fact that they were not entirely unknown to each other, though neither spoke. The young lady was usually accompanied by her brother, whose evident interest in his next door neighbor indicated that he bad seen Mr. Bates and that the boy acd the girl might have dis- cussed him together. Bates was by this time in condition to wish that something wight turn up to give him an acquuintance with hie pretty neixhhor. About the 1st of Feb ruary he saw preparations for St. Val- entine’s day. which was approaching. and he wished that be might make it serve for the coveted introduction. But unfortunately this anniversary has been largely relegated to children. Be- sides. Bates did ot see any way that be could utilize it. After turning va- rlous schemes over in his mind bhe abandoned the idea aitogether. But Bates saw that Bob Farnsworth was making preparations to celebrate St. Valentine's day. One day, with a lttle girl companion, be 1aid out his stock of valentines on the veranda, and the two children made an inspec- tion. Bates was sitting at his window watching tuem, but not near enough to it to enable them fo see nim. Pres- ently he suw the boy lovk up at the "lll;‘]uw and say something which caused his companion to Jook up at it too. Therc was evidently some dis- cussion between them with which the window was connected. Then Bob went into the house and returned w'th a bit of writing paper and a penci'. The paper be placed on a table on the veranda. and the two children busied themselves with the pencil. After this Bob went to an out- house and brought a hoe and a rake. with which he smoothed one of the fower beds. Next he went into the bouse and returned with a paper bag. With a stick he scratched something on the bed that Arnold thought to be Jetters, but he could pot see what w:’y were. lnto these scratches the chil- dren sowed seeds from the paper b.':.d : This proceeding paturally exclt ! Mr. Bates' curiosity. He waited ::. tiently till night came on and ml:gm- terior of the house pext door was S quickly indrawn breath. He had Mt' e — the chil- yard till he came to thé bed dren had been planting. light so that it could not be seen from the house, he ran it over the place. Scratched. Without any dificulty he Tead letters composing a sentence of ?finep:mld.. followed by the letters v oon LETITIA’S | LICENS i By MOLLY McMASTER prepared himself for the big innocent eyes of Letitia or the demure smile on Letitia’s lips or the smooth shin- up the entire Letitia. He only looked ELECTRIC B aioror s pere e BT WILL PAY YOU ! T0 . at her and gripped himself the harder When Arnold went back to his home ey he was chuckling as though greatly | T oo~ M0 liteny Preil) * She drew nearer and held out & | amused. but what he bad discovered| The Rev. Samuel Durand strolled steady, cordial hand. Any member of be kept to himself. The next day he | lelsurely through the park. It was the clergy was always welcome to Went ont _intq his_ygrd agd with hjs DOt often that the young minister had Letitia and she supposed he was one because of the pain he felt he was about to inflict. ! CONSULT US ON THE OWh hands' 3 the time to stroll, but even ministers whlch: PANS s M Led I find that all work and no play makes e planted some seeds. But he 00k care uot to plant the seeds while ® tiresome pilgrimage through life. the children next door were about. The park was still wearing its winter It was now two weeks before St. SATD Yet there was that in the alr Valentine's day. Bates, who was im- which suggested an eary spring. The s n botihy sovmad see e bo 0 ol e fevw T et of the a state of pleasant expectation. Eve: day be examined with a palr of bioc, [Tésh alr. He reslized then with ulars the bad the children had planted, b blood coursing through his veins Meanwhile there were various meet- &t he was thankful to his big con- ings between the parties, but Miss STegation for insisting on this much- Farnsworth for some reason best Deeded rest. known to herself ignored Mr. Bates _ His eves glanced ahead through the entirely, and Mr. Bates externally ig- labyrinth of glistening trees and the nored Miss Farnsworth. But when. YiRdIng path below. A few yards be- ever be met Bob he looked at the boy Y0udd. in the middle of that wide with an amused expression. He feit Path, 1ay a long envelope, and when sure that Bob had been teasing his sis- the minister reached the spot he ter and the person about whom she S5toPped and picked it up. There was had been teased was Arnold Bates. |no ‘writing to indicate an owner and A week passed after sowing the seed, | the Rev. Mr. Durand turned a search- but neither bed showed any effect of RS Slance about the immediate vicin- the planting, though Arnold Bates by ! ity. Perhaps some one would even close examination saw a slight swell- ' then be returning to look for the lost ing of the earth where the seed had Property. been planted in his own bed. His! But the park was deserted save for binoculars refused to disclose any sign ' the sparrows and the little besging whatever of a germinating force in the | 8quirrels that sat up with forepaws bed in the next yard. He had sown 88ainst their breasts in mute appeal. | crocuses in his bed. for he preferred The minister's hand went deep into that they should come up loo:—-ooneri his pocket and drew forth the desired | than whatever might be in the next bed, | Peanuts; three days in Central park On the 11th of February his cro- | bad taught him that New York squir- | ELECTRIC WIRING IN YOUR HOUSE OR STORE We Are Electrical Experts FLORIDAELECTRICESMACHINERY Co THE ELECTRIC STORE Phone 46 Kibler Hotel Bldg. § WELECTRICm@ b and ends of charity work. The girl's eyelashes swept quickly down when she felt the warm, pro- tecting pressure of the minister's hand. Then she looked up and said: | “Won't you be seated?” 1 “I have come on a rather peculiar | errand.” The minister spoke with ' a touch of gravity. “I found this.” He held out the marriage license and | saw the quick color flame into Leti- | | tia’s cheecks. 1 { “Oh! Thank you so much. Harold i —Mr. Dwyer must have lost it.” ; “I found it in Central park,” the clergyman said and waited until the color had receded from the girl's face. “I could have mailed the doc- ument but I used to know a Harold | Dwyer—in fact—" the Rev. Mr. Du- " rand hesitated for the fraction of a . minute then went bravely on, “I II.IIFI ried a Mr. Harold Dwyer four years ago. His wife was a dear friend of | mine.” | The minister watched the girl's face. ,It had grown a shade paler and a startled look had come into her eyes. She regained her composure almost ' immediately and laughed a pretty, ringing laugh. “Why is it,” she asked with a not quite steady voice, “that one always who had learned of her little oddli | R E LECT RIC Deliveries cuses appeared above the surface far ' Tels Were not the untamed varlety of | jumps to conclusions? enough to show the word “Gladly,” though they were not piain enough to be read by one in the next house. On the 13th Bates could discern in the | bed in the next yard parts of letters. On the morning of the 14th, S8t. Val- | entine's day, after a rain in the night, the plants in both beds stood out pllln-| ly in green letters, the one “Be My ! Valentine” and the other “Gladly.” | What was going on hext door on] that St. Valentine’s morning was not | known to Arnold Bates. If Bob was | in trouble at baving perpetrated what he intended for a very good joke the fact was not permitted to reach the gentleman for whom he had raised out | of the ground a valentine from his sis- | ter, for nothing could be plainer than that such was his intent. The shades | on the near side of the house were! down and kept down all day. { The next morning no signs of the | valentine next door appeared. It had been removed in the night. Bates had ' believed that this would be the case. ! At any rate, he removed his reply, and on the 15th of February not a sign of | elther message was to be seen. Helen Farnsworth the morning be- fore St. Valentine’s day had noticed the parts of letters that had appeared | in the bed under her window, but had | failed to make them out. The next morning, however, she not only read | them plainly, but read the reply. She ! judged at once that Bob was the per- petrator and accused him. He admit- ted the impeachment with shouts of merriment, which were turned to moan- ings on being shut up by his mother in a dark room. No notice was taken of the valentine during the day, but as soon as night fell Helen went out with a hoe and destroyed it. The Karnsworth family were much disgruntled at Bob's performances, .nd’ Helen wns at first troubled lest the handsome invalid, supposing that she had planted the valentine, should con- sider her bold in the extreme. But how had he been enabled to grow the reply in such short order? There was but one explanation—he must have seen the planting of the seed. Bob ad- mitted that be had done the work in daylight, which settled the watter. The obloquy having been removed. Helen gradually came to attach less unpleasantness to the matter, and one day while standing before her mirror dressing her hair she saw the frown on her face disappear before a smile. Then she laughed. She was shocked at herself for laughing at such an out- rageous proceeding, but. after all, it was rather funny. Besides, the hand- some invalid bad been so gallant as to make a favorable response. One morning when Mr. Bates was feeling quite recovered he walked out into the yard. Miss Farnsworth came out and walked in her yard. Presently she tripped up to the hedge separating the two places. Mr. Bates advanced toward her. removing bis bat as he did so. “1 owe you an explanation,” saild th~ girl, “for the joke my brother perp trated. He planted those flowers that"— “1 saw him do it.” “Then you understand?’ “Of course | do. But permit me tn say that if your brother planted the valentine 1 planted the reply.” Miss Farnsworth blushed and drop- ped her eyes. “l shonld have made an effort to make vour acquaintance,” added Bates. “but | have been something of an in- valid. | bave seen you playing tennis and regretted that T could not play with you. However, I am so much better now that 1 feel quite able to swing a racket.” ~1 shall be happy to bave you play with me™ “When?" “Any time.” “] think 1 would like a game now.” the western woods. The Rev. Durand stooped to meet the demands of the little crea- tures that waylaid rich and poor, saint and sinner. ‘When his pockets were emptied his mind returned to the legal looking to Conclusions?” document he had picked up from the path. | “A marriage license! i man could be 8o careless to lose 80 precious a thing?” For a moment the minister's yes were wistful, “If the right girl had ever come into my | life and had registered her name with | mine—I think I would not let go the. paper in a hurry.” He scanned the document for the names of the couple. “Letitia Larken and Harold Dwyer.” The minister repeated the last name and a thoughtful line drew between his eyes. He stopped still in the path and probed his memory. “Harold Dwyer? Where have I seen— Ah!" He continued his walk, but the puzzled frown only deepened. “I married Harold Dwyer to—to— Rose Lange five—no four—years ago.” ! And during the remainder of his ! walk back to the hotel the Rev. Mr. Durand was lost in thought. There might easily be two Harold Dwyers and yet something told the minister that it was not so in this case. He suddenly felt as if his trip to the east. his walk in the park, and in fact his whole life had been a preparation for the finding of this marriage license. Argument whispered to him that Harold Dwyer may have lost his |first wife, but wisdom told him that such was not the case. “In any event, T will take the - cense to the girl,” he decided and wondered why he sought the girl rather than the man. Yet instinct told him that the man cou!d not be trusted and that the girl was in need of warning. It was toward the -late afternoon Wwhen the young minister made his way to the home of Letitia Larkin. Somehow he had had a presentiment that the girl would be living In a boarding house. Yes: she did live in one of those domiciles for the homeless in the big city. A slovenly but affable maid let the young minister into the fromt room with the information that Miss Larkin was engaged with the ladles’ guild, but that she would bring her down from the top floor. Lost in wonderment as to why the Now what When these two young persons be- parlors of boarding houses invariably gan to dwell next door to each other | contained a plush album and a table is one of the features of our business The world is certainly large enough to contain two or even three Harold Dwyers.” There was a sudden silence in the room while a glance fraught with fear and a newborn understanding passed between the minister and the girl. The minister was the first to speak and he strove to make his tone light. “Then you are the first to venture with your Mr. Dwyer into the land of . matrimony ?” “Yes,” sald the girl, imitating his tone, but underneath there was a vague feeling of disquiet. The room seemed suddenly to be peopled with | strange and ugly shapes. The girl turned toward the window as if to escape some hidden pressure. “Here i3 Mr. Dwyer now,” she said, but in a dull monotone. The Rev. Dr. Durand had caught a ! fleeting glimpse of the man who was then entering the house, and he took up a position well in the center so that Dwyer might see him to best ad- vantage. The minister was consclous of heav- ily beating pulses when he heard the man's entrance and felt him glance into the front room. Then he heard a smothered exclamation and realized that Harold Dwyer had fled precipi- tately from the life of Letitia Larkin. The girl realized everything in a flash of intuition. She smiled a half, wistful little smile and because she | You can have your package done on short notice if wish. We wish also to call the attention of to the fact that we are making special low prices on bed and table linen when sent in lots of six sheets or more §§ with towels, napkins, etc, The Lakeland Steam Laundry PHONE 130 R. W. WEAVER, Prop. at 1 ek AN you & housekeepers § PUBLIC SALE " earnest. | Tetreat.” I On a Common Plane. fainted into the minister's arm When she opened her eyes he | into Letitia’s cheeks. [ "1t was good of you to save me,” she sald demurely. “I couldn't do less,” the minister | told her. “And I thank my good mem- ory for names,” he added. Letitia wi lowly tearing the Ili- cense to bits, “You can get another one—some day,” the Rev. Durand sald, half in| | Letitia blushed for she caught the serious meaning beneath the jest. And when she did get another marriage | license the big minister accompanied her to take charge of it—and her. ONE OF NATURE’S FIRST LAWS. was adorably feminine she did that which was expected of her and’ | gazing down at her with an expres: | “Why ls It That One Always Jumpe sion that brought all the color back | | Digestive Organs Must Ge Given Time | te Do Their Work if Good Health Is Desired. | A certain fundamental law of nature if it were written out would read: Thou shalt not eat any manner of food until that which thou didst eat afore- , time shall have been fully digested. | And he that eateth before his peptic glands are ready shall pay the pen- The law is mandatory. Ailthough I do not find it written “in the tables of the law” as One af the tem com- mandments, yet it is written among . the laws of nature, and judgments | innumerable have been rendered sus- taining it. The underlying principle is that the operation of digestion is not a continuous performance. it when or how a law was given, as long as it contains the steam-roller | truth? 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