Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 16, 1915, Page 7

. Convenience To The Public:— It is our desire to call your attention to the convenience that we can extend, to you in a banking way and also the ad- vantages of using the check book instead of the pocketbook. Nine-tenths of the business of the world today is done by check. Why? Because it is the most practical and it is the one safe way ! " Are you utilizing a checkbook to pay all bills that can be paid by check? Think this over. Our bank’'s advantages for your account are many. Chiropractor J y“ ‘in Attendance s Building Between Park torium. ! OFFICE HOURS. 30 8. M. 1:30to S p. m. "7:00 to 8 sion Examination Free. ence Phone 240 Black since her poor dear mother died.” Miss Clare’s eyes showed tender, courteous concern for the departed one. She was all attention, all con- sideration for the old lady who eyed her with such frank disfavor. “When I saw Mildred the heart of th ot B 1o Lantar b ey tomale | e S e youth softened and owed t to Lester as his only female started out through the moonlit relative, to come and close the af- enchantment toward the porch and fair for him as discreetly as pos- the wicker chalrs. But as he neared sgfble.” : the familiar environment there came | Tom nodded gloomily. :z;arlng through him the memory of | “Of course I didn't know there was 1 sklnnocent remark and the strange anything up, Aunt Philly. He asked ‘zt:o Hnnd vivid blush that had greeted me down for a week, and I came. E is resolution turned to gall with- She's a mighty charming girl, that's D him. He drifted aimlessly down a all I can say.” 80— The flufty head sank down to the 8rm of the chair and she sobbed. Weeks pussed and the youth and the girl passed each other with averted looks or frankly belligerent stares. Once, notably on an evening of the fragrant, glamour-filled variety, g by Associated Literary Prosa) ® June evening was baim: fragrant. The last long rays :t ‘t:: setting sun slanteq over the grass :l:l Uup on the wide, vine-hung porch, ere two wicker chairg were drawn :only together. In ope sat a gtrr o;ng) as to gown ang hair, dlmpled' : eek. In the other sat g youth, ol;lprenlve of manner, dark of eysl‘ o : type of physical anracllvenen‘ At corresponded with a satisfying completeness to the girl, the night, ht}ur Tues- “He 1is here now,” interrupted Esme, happily, eagerly. “He has but just arrived. It was for that I was absent. I had gone to the depot to meet him with the car.” “He is here?” Miss Drake rose, troubled and ruffied. “Tom, I must have a few moments’ conversation alone with Miss Clare. You go and keep Lester busy till I call you. H D. VIA. D. . Chiropratic. Over Post and 3. ors of Hours 8 tO 12. a. m. 317to8 P B uates and Ex-Faculty mem- of the palmer School of atic. Consultation and analysis free at office. and the general at and roses. mosphere of June Was saying, an accusing fi 3 sing finger di- :‘:;-te:{nt;zw‘ard the table where they » Dot to be put over J forgotten St in your She looked aronnd w ed around with a little ai i th a little air “Why, 14 4 Poor things b & H. D. MEND '\vs‘rx:nNG ENGINEERS . 212.215 Drane Bullding Lakeland, Fla. ate lacd Examinations an enigns Miartpwork Speciaiists | id forget them, didn't 12 Rising F“le went ov f er to the tabl, and picked them up t; s ing out the crumpled they had lain. “I bet if Pennett had breught them over you wouldn't have or] smooth- s Wwhere jce phone, 278 Black. phone, 278 Blue. “I brought you those flowers,” he ' ] re and | ‘x\“t.\ul. but to wear, or hold side avenue, whence he wandered to the outskirts to sit on a lone rock and curse fate. Gradually he began to meet the maiden and Bennett going about to- gether. Presently he met her at a dance. Though she kept far from his vicinity, and Ler silvery mirth seemed oftenest mingled with Bennett’s bray- ing laughter, he imagined with a thrill of rising hope that her vivacity Iwas m_.t quite s0 genuine, her eyes not quite so sparkling bright nor her beauty so radiantly undimmed as in ‘t‘he days of his uninterrupted devo- 10n. Nevertheless rumors began to reach him that the girl and Bennett were en- | gaged at his aunt mischievously. “A dangerous charm,” supple- mented Miss Drake. “When I heard that she was French, I said to myself then, Lester must be saved. against my wishes in the first place that he ever engaged a French gov- erness for Mildred. take her and do my duty by her until gainly Tom. she was of age, and could be a help | rairly trembled with passion as and a comfort to her father, but I|, 540 her final appeal. did think Lester was old enough and worldly enough not to be caught by a girl like that.” It was I was willing to Tom's eyebrows lifted. He grinned “Have you seen Mlle. Clare yet, auntie?” “I have not.” Tow shrugged doubtful shoulders, but obeyed, with a look of what he would have called “bolstered up courage,” at the demure, low voiced girl waiting for the storm to break on her pretty head. It broke as soon as the door closed after the tall, un- Miss Drake's voice she “I have no doubt it is only infatua- | tion,” she said. “Men are like that when they have a pretty girl around ' & them. Butlhad no idea Lester would | think seriously of marriage—" “Why should he not, madam?” asked Esme gently. | “Well, to speak plainly, it don’t Yours very trul)’,@ % Q @ Cashier. THIS BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. s FIRST NATIONALBANK § We are now in shape togive you the benefit forgotten,” | “Then reserve judgment. Take it right straight from your little nevvy, Tom, she’s an excuse for any form of madness. “She doesn mot even know that I 'hnve arrived,” Miss Drake added, { firmly. “Nor does Lester. I saw him In Washington Tuesday. He seems i1l I know Lester pretty well, and im‘ symptoms, and he was not at all |¢jon~ “He is wonderful, is he not? free with me when I spoke to him |why should he even desire to marry about it. Then I asked about this | just merely—me?” {French governess.” She wheeled | “The lord only knows!" answered about suddenly in her chair. “Do you |Miss Drake devoutly. “The main know that she went down to Mexico |point is he does want to, and he with him at Christmas time?” mustn't be let. That is the real ; “Not with him. He sent for her |regson why I came from Washington. to bring Mildred down, because he |]f he won't see sense, then I thought could not go home for Christmas, and |perhaps you would. Now there's he wanted the child with him.” Tom, & nice, good-looking boy. He'd “Pish, tush.” Miss Drake's mose |make a good husband for you, and rose half an inch in the air. “She || don't mind saying I'd be willing to was scheming for Lester and Lester's | gettle a little on you both if you mar- half million. 'When I think that poor |ried each other.” Lillian hasn't been dead four years | *“If I married—" and what a suffering child she was, | “Tom, I say. If you'd promise to marry him, I'll settle a couple of thousand a year on you both.” And suddenly Esme’s mirth broke, and she leaned back her charming head and laughed. But she checked herself as the door opened and Les- ter himsell entered, Tom behind him. “Well, Aunt Philippa, did you run down to congratulate us?” he ex- claimed heartily, catching the thin old figure in his arms and kissing the faded bony cheek. “Congratulate who?" Drake grimly. Tester turned quickly and drew Esme into the family circle. “My bride,” he sald proudly. “We were married the day after I saw you | in Washington. There was a short, sharp internal struggle in Miss Drake's mind. Sha] | 1looked at Tom, knowing him to be gullty of foreknowledge of the fact.'|B She looked at Lester's happy, tender face, and last of all at Esme herself. | Esme whose eyes met hers with a sort of passionate entreaty for for- giveness. “Ah, madam, what could T do?” she implored. “He wanted me 80| very much for his wife.” And the ice melted in Aunt Philly's heart. She sighed and smiled. “Well, child, can you blame him?” she asked. “I've done my level best Lil, and was a good husband to her. | to save him, but as long as he's been 1 But, hang it all, auntie, it's doggone and gone and married you, any- lonely for a man stumping around h,uw, vff'“""““ may call me Aunt the country alone, and Mildred | PHIIIY adores mam'zelle.” 1 Sy e “What's her name, did you say?” | IRONY OF PRUSSIAN LAW “Esme Clare. She's an orphan, | ———— and was educated in a convent. Don't | Crippled Girl's Pension Was Reduced be too hard on her, Aunt Philly. She's | by Some Pusillanimous Official, been nursing Mildred through meas- Says Socialist Paper. les, and has been a perfect brick to{ —— her.” | A socialist paper is responsible for He stopped. The front door opened | a story which, even if not absolutely lightly. - There was a sound of quick, | true in all its details, brings out the soft footsteps in the hall. A voice | unsympathetic character of Prussiun called: “Gyp, come to me!” But Gyp bureaucracy, a European correspon- did not come. Miss Drake's lips set dent of the New York Sun writes. A in a firm uncompromising line as the | country girl while occupied with a trolicsome little Pomeranian ran into | thrashing machine got caught in’the name h. Not only that.| ¢ory maker and lived in the old Kour-lthe yoom and leaped at Tom's out- | machinery and as a result had to have but And not | toonth ward, now the Fifteenth stretched hand. Then she turned her | both her legs amputated. She drew Mr. Ziehn was persuaded to run!pead and got a good full look at the | thereafter from the state insurance ')“0‘[ |30 for alderman and be succeeded in de-| prench girl. fund a monthly pension of $3.50 and ' | feating George Mugler. Slender, dark, she looked indescrib- | continued drawing it until one fine This was after he got going. At}ghly attractive in her short, black | day she got an intimation from the of- aye the outset campaigning was full of | yelyet walking costume, trimmed in | ficlals that the pension was reduced surprises to him, and be was natural-| gark fur. The fur toque set lightly on [to $3. The girl protested and in the he said seem fitting for him to marry, well you, don't you understand, child?” | in spite of herself her tone did soften. | & Esme looked very young, very much "}I alone as she stood there listening. | Miss Drake remembered Tom had "; said she was an orphan. ‘,‘{ “I understand?’ breathed Esme . softly, her eyes ashine with emo- ‘i; & H F. WHEELER AgsAmorA‘m mShc paused in her ady: 1him and an oad, a Nnues: l)oo‘l’ nsoukth of FIM' over her face, Pre National Ban Lakeland, Florida of our Low kxpenses. Let us wire your House ana save you money, Lower Insur- ance, Cleanliness and Convenience are the results T. L. CARDWELL Phone 397 With Lakeland Sheet Metal Works *PPEES IT WILL PAY YOU| CONSULT US ON THE ELECTRIC WIRING IN YOUR HOUSE OR STORE We Are Electrical Experts FLORIDAELECTRICEMACHINERY Co THE ELECTRIC STORE Phone 46 Kibler Hotel Bldg. There came an October evening. chill and gray. The blood-red rays of the setting sun struggled through banks of stormy cloud, across wind- | swept reaches of dead leaves and up on a wide, vinehung porch, where two wicker chairs were drawn stifly japart. In one sat a girl, slimly plain as to long ulster and jaunty cap, dis- The youth stared at her suspicious- | COncertingly distant of mien. Tn the ly. “What are you blushing about?" | Other sat a youth, mournful, shadowed he demanded, a dawning resentment | ©f eve, of an ensemble which accorded in his voice | ches v with the girl, the night, She retorted i neral atmosphere of ruin it I want to d decay anyway,” she oo itly, | 1 brought you that autumn foli- “You're alws 2 . |age” he was saying bleakly, “not be- “Imaginin . |cause T thought you would care for more resentful K |it, or value it as from a onetime firmer root, | friend, but merely as a symbol of the sunset! I m death of our- 4 to hear you that you ce toward | ested look stole ntly she moved | somewhat stifly over, dropped pre- cipitately into the chair again, while a burning blush spread glowly up to her very hair and slowly died |away. IR. W. R GROOVER YSICIAN AND SURGEON § and 4. Kentucky Bulldina Lakeland, Florida DR. W. B. MOON YSICIAN AND SURGEON Telephone 350 gto11,2to 4, evenings 7 to 8 Over Postoffice Lakeland, Florida Law Office of A. X. ERICKSON Bryant Building A. X. ERICKSON 7. C. WILLIAMS E. W. THOMSOR tary, Depositions attended. “Thank yo sently. He leaned back heavily, and the !wind moaned in dirge-like cadence ‘lhrnllgh the deepening gloom. i “It was good of you to let me see { you, for the last goodby." | “I had nothing else to do,” she ad- | mitted with faint regret. “Mr. Ben- | nett is out of town.” i The youth's eyes burned with a idull fary. The fiery rim of the crim- Rogers | son sun shot an angry gicam at their {feet. Suddenly he leaned forward, R0GERS & SPENCER ) | cheerless decision in his air. Attorneys &L Law, R /™ | “You needn't pay any attention to Bryaot Building {it, of course,” he chanted wearlly. keland, Florida {“I don't expect you to. But I'm going ' to do it again—just to round the thing out and—er—because I'm accustomed B H. HARNLY to doing it, and [ miss it. Here it is. Batate, Live Stock aad General !T love you. I have always loved you. AUCTIONEER I am going to love you to the bitter Sales Manager lend. Will you marry me?” ONAL REALTY AUCFION CO. I | “Yes,” said the mald. ction Lot sales & Specialty | The sun shot down precipitately, { wrathfully. The youth sat petrified, mondo Biag. Lakeland. Fia | {mmobile, his tiouth still partly open, The girl looked back at him with level eyes. “I said you looked silliest doing it {in the moonlight,” she taunted. “You {don't.” | “Why o sit on a lone rock | tenderly ard curse fate | Annoyance spread over the face of the maiden. aiden with (s CEONT i KELSEY BLANTON, it 5 I Baet I refuse to discuss it.”" she sald. ATTORNE¥ AT LAW By what right, may sk 000 gpuipn ihe mystery, unsolved! For Ofice in Munn Bullding kg [ one fateful moment the heart of the A ‘Right!"” youth grew cold with doubt and Lakeland Florida What things threatened to go wrong again | to mar for evermore, Then an {llumining | last three m new v thought leaped in. She was going to well you're gof e | marry h What mattered it? time. 1 w in 101w« "paye it1" he announced exult- night if ¥ antly. “You were blushing over the [ was only wa thought of being silly enough to blush up.” over Bennett.” . 5. PRESTON, LAWYER “Then T certai uldn't have | “Exaetly!” she murmured with joy- Upstairs East of Court House | ‘yes' tonight” | tul pride. “How clever, denri ; indignantly Then peace and darkness fell, BARTOW, FLA. indignantly {nation of Tities and Reas &v | moonlisht t N*—'——' PR 1alt The youth ot Familiar to . vl b his chair. “Vey | The political game was wholly new calmly, “that ends i’ i 0l to Willlam O. L. Ziehn l'nen‘uur- me every T n to believe youre IN | yigon Sears and Harlan fought it out love with that Ttennett. [ mention bfS | gor ¢he mayoralty. He was a pat- ve a color exhibition that would fade & uckers to ‘ pink. I'd like to know what you mean by it." “Would you she murmured ab- Edwin Spencer, Jt asked Miss Send your Palm Beach Suits EPPES TUCKER, JR. LAWYER m Wy Should he rot, madam?” - did you blush?” he asked it makes my heart ache to think of | her place being filled by a French ‘h’]." “Her place could not be filled,” re- plied Tom pleasantly. “Lester loved omdo Bldg., Lakeland, Florida suspicious sweetness to the interrupted hotly Haven't 1 asked you h t tor the he Steam laundry DR. RICHARD LEFFERS : EYSICIAN AND SURGEON ooms 2-3, Skipper Building Over Postoffice .. We are prepared to handle them in the proper way, and § our price is 50 cents a suit. The Lakeland FRANK H. THOMPSON NOTARY PUBLIC Dickson Building ce phone 402. Res. 312 Red | attention to drafting legsl papers. lage licenses and abstracts turnished stifled voice com- ! You needn't be in u'll see in | “Oh, I'm goir such a hurry. It of me” the vouth the last ¥ threatened | Iy a bit suspicious of that which he sepulchral tones x i He turned on the third step You ¢ e with HERMAN WATSON, M. D. might walk down to '~'-“-hr- Morgan-Groover Bldg. me,” he conceded y 4 Prones: Office 351; Res. 113 Red | jast time” plained a furious lit Lakeland, ~ Florids BB won't stir from this stand there till the J. H. PETERSON ATTORNEY AT LAW Dickson Building tice in all courts. Homestead ims located and contested gloon tle volce. “I chair—not if you crack of doom!’ She watched him as gate, listened intently to scrunch of his boots on Vl.w’ e outside till the gounds grew a\vn“wd the distance. Then she rose. ‘anuv forward three stens gave ar;: A little shake to her rufed skirts 2 Established in July, 1900 h b ALY fi d out of a filmy mes " DE} refully steppe Imy ! : Dmm Building 2: lace and linen that was caugh! st “ek, about her feet. She picked it up ; iy wmc“mA‘ mfl’T a little ball and shook it i AR front of her face er Hotel, Lakeland, Florids be strode tothe the vindictive gravel crunched it into isly o “What did you have to n'm;x ‘0::1 : 2 ghe demanded. "@ e 100! Now he'll j“s'elm\::i" 1 always mi““l never underst? R blushed hecause e never explain—never i sinking down into the ¢ T. M. BRYAN ARCHITECT 1 Room 8 Elliston Building i P. 0. Box 605 sl Lakeland. Florida B ICK ? 78 dkeland Saaitarium B. Hanna HARDIN BLD | Camel's Working Life. ; | rious work & | Camels are fit for se a i five vears, and thetr strength begi:: ‘ to decline at twenty-five Years, . though they live for thirty-five an forty years. handles. Hable to & derpost beetl kerosene and lin repellents againe Mes Vary Conversation. it o mllhi:?u ‘men .. imagine wre always talking about their Sometimes they are talking thelr hats, es it 'hu zeed Of ¢ these insec ts did not understand. It was arranged to give him a start- off with a meeting. was hired and filled with chairs., At | the far end of the store a brewery | table with an American flag, and bebind | the table was Joe Strauss. The candidate’s entrance was timed | i s0 that he should be greeted by a full | house. and as he progressed down | the ais come: “What's the matter with Ziehn?” Mr. Ziehn paused, glared at Strausa, | and shouted back: | “What the is the matter with 2"—Chicago Evening Post. | e e . ! To Bring Back Erring Husband. | Mrs. Alice Edwards, East Columbus, }Ohio_ firmly believes her husband will return, as she confided to a neighbor, who inquired why bis picture hung on the wall upeide down. “If a wife de- gerted by her husband turned his pic- turn.” she declared. R Placing Both of Them. “] was slmply & question of verso Tt e sad o |said bhe was one.” “Humph!™ re | jotned the village postmaster. “That's | the first time 1 ever hear of either of | you telling the truth.” —— of Pager Supply. paper has been made »y the forest service lsboratory from A vacant store was stretched acrose, draped g fa;.sighted adventuress, Mr. Strauss shouted in Wel- | gallen & victim to Mademoiselle. | i 1 | | ! onher brown hair, her cheeks were flushed from her walk in the bracing winter air, her lips were parted ex- pectantly, and her dark eyes glanced half wistfully from one face to the other. Surely she did mot look lke and yet Miss Drake's lips did not relax. Tom performed the Introduction somewhat awkwardly. She saw at once by the absorbed look on his face that even buoyant Tom had It Ralf pleased her. Tom was not -orn“ fighting over. He was merely Tom, ' no more, no less, in the family esti- “l was anxious about Mildred's state of bealth, and came on to look ! after her,” she explained. 1 Esme's expressive face brightened fnstantly at the mention of her “Ab, but she is better, oh, much better, madame, now. And so pa- tient, so sweet. If you would care to see ber at once, it could be ar- ture upside down, he is certals to r® | ranged.” Hibernation. | All sleep is phenomfenal, but the | sleep which endures the winter surrounded by frigld weather, when all functions that make for the | best of life are as if they had never | been, is most curfoun While it is mainly explicable it is none the less | astonishing. Cynical Comment. 1 Every man is as Heaven made him, | ,and that, moreover, she had never usual leisurely course of official time received a reply. The authorities, it sald, had care- fully considered the case, but were unable to come to a decision in her favor. She was reminded that now that she ha¥ no legs she was saved the expense of shoes and stockings, been charged for the wooden legs she bad been supplied with after the am- putation of the natural limbs. It was finally indicated that she shoumld re- member the cost the authorities were put to in supplying the spirit in which the amputated legs were preserved! Where Explorers May Reap Glory. There Is some work left for the ex- plorer to do, even though the sources of the Nile have been discovered and the north pole secret is out. A writer in the National Geographical Mag- asine says of Western China: “It is my firm conviction that whea this terra imcognita is properly surveyed, peaks will be found thers rivaling even Mt. Everest itself.” — Valusble Soet, l When the chimneys of the reyal | said the oldest in- | through with some warm-blooded 8} gyyy ¢ Berlin are cleaned about one 1 was s liar, a8d | mals which find themselves suddenly y;u5574 dol'ars worth of gold is tak- /on from the soot | Fameus Connaught Rangers. The Connaught rangers were orig faally called the “Devil's Own" be- cause of thelr rescality, but their su- \ perd fighting in the Peninsular war Mflelflh’omon.dr‘-l proach to one of honor. At Fuentes . 34 different woods, and a number COM- | o4 Lo otimes a great deal worse— | d'Onoro and at Badajos they fought pare favorably with pulp paper. standard SPruce | 5y vantes. with amazing fury. ) Must Little Homeless Children Suffer In Florida? WE DO NOT BELIEVE that the good people of Flor- ida realize that there are right now in our State Hundreds of littde children in real need—some absolutely homeless— that just must be cared for. i PTN We feel sure—that they do not know that there are hun- dreds of worthy mothers in Florida who are just struggling to keep their little ones alive—and at home. We just cannot believe—that with these facts true—and every orphanage in Florida crowded to the doors—that the people of Florida will let our great work which has cared for 850 of these little ones this year alone—go down for lack of funds to keep it up. Your immediate help—is greatly needed—right now—Please send what you can to-day—to R. V. Covington, Treasurer of The Children’s Home Society of Florida Florida's Greatest Charity 361 St. James Bldg. JACKSONVILLE, FLA.