Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 15, 1915, Page 7

Love and Loneliness L] [l (Copyrigh! by A t, 1912, PL- Slocl-m! Literary New York is larger than Bologee, Alabama, and Willy Ben Bibb, who knew every man, woman, child and dog in Bologee, did mnot care for a town that was chiefly made up of strangers. He lived iu one of those elegant apartment houses, where everything is done by magic. He pressed a button when he wanted any- thing and another button when he || did not want anything. His laundry disappeared and reappeared while he || was at work. Even his shoes were spirited away while he slept and, no Each Saturday and Monday If it were only & faint, something must be done for her, so he found a basin and, pouring some water into it, kneit down by the bed and awk- wardly began to bathe the girl’s fore- head. So troubled was he that he forgot to wonder why he had been sent for, until his eyes fell on a pic- ture that hung by the bed. To his utter astonishment, Willy Ben found his own image staring at him from an ornate gilt frame. Then he looked about the room and saw that he was everywhere. When he won the big tennis match from the champion of the Enderby Athletic association every paper in New York had printed his photograph, and here they all were, on walls and tables and dresser, the only pictures in the room. His address was printed under one of them and Willy Ben could now eas- ily understand why the landlady had sent for him. But he had never seen the girl on the bed, he was sure of | that, and why had she lined her walls Rilesd The Professions | B el Chiropractor DR. J Q. SCARBOROUGH, Lady In Attendance n Dyches Building Between Park ‘[ «nd Auditorium OFFICE HOURS 3 to 11:30 a. m. 1:30 to 5 p. m. 7:00 to 8:00 p. m.. ! ensultation and Examination Free. Residence Phone 240 Black e —————————————————— @ D. & H. D. MEND CONSULTING ENGINEERS Suite 212-215 Drane Building Lakeland, Fla. | “hosphate Land Kxaminations ané 2lant Depigns karthwork Speciaiists t i & 4 1 % & matter how early he rose, never a e | ———————————————| Remidence phone, 278 Black. )Mce phone, 278 Blue. DR. SARAH E. WHEELER OSTEQPATH Apuex, Door South cf First National Bank Lakeland, Florida glimpse could he catch of the boot- | with his photograph? There could be black. The elevator boy wore a me- | only one explanation. Willy Ben was chanical, highly glazed look, the tele- | 2 strong, well-built, six-footer, but he phene girl was calm and repelling. | was not handsome, and to tind that his !11¢ he ventured a salutation, the clerk | Foush-hewn, freckled countenance had || at the desk gave him a reproving, appealed to one feminine heart was a impersonal bow. All of this was very wonderful thing. A deep crimson painful to Willy Ben, who liked hu- | dved his tanned cheeks. man beings. | The stairs began to creak and a The truth is, he missed his mother wheezing sounded regularly from be- and his six pleasant sisters, but he | 10W. Mrs. Lorgey and the doctor, ho was capable and ambitious, and as | supposed it must be, They puffed into '| his mother's cousin’s nephew had | the room, a large oily woman and & “! given him a good position in his law | ]arge untidy man. While the doctor office, there seemed no excuse for a | examined the girl, Mrs. Lorgey sank -~ | return to Bologee. When he left | into a chair, oozing over the sides and 3 3 A home Willy Ben had brought his | began a grumbling explanation. ‘ PY 55 | Bible, which he did not read; his ten- “She came yesterday, and ‘twas bad ! nis racket, with which he was ma- luck I took her in. [ gave her the e l son "Q; king a reputation among the athletic | Foom most reasqnable, and this morn- %l | clubs, and—his ideal. His motner 22 | had given him the ideal when he was ing she goes and gits run into by a HardWar C % a very tiny boy, his sisters had fos- ¥ € LO. YOU SEE THIS PICTURE? THIS IS NO FANCY, IT'S R FACT. YOU CAN'T GROW A TREE WITHOUT A RUOT; YOU CAN’T BUILD A HOUSE WITH- OUT A FOUNDATION; YOU CAN’T BUILD R FORTUNE WITH- OUT PUTTING MONEY INTO THE BANK TO GROW. AND IT 1S MIGHTY COMFORTABLE TO HRVE AR FORTUNE WHEN YOU ARE OLD. START ONE NOW. BANK SOME OF YOUR EARNINGS. BANK ‘WITH US. WE PAY 5 PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS. American State B:nk BE AN RMERICAN, ONE OF US.” tunn \ DR. W. R. GROOVER PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON tooms 6 and 4. Kentuckv Bulldine Lakeland, Florida —————— DR. W. B. MOON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Telephone 850 fours 8 to 11, 2 to 4, evenings 7 to 8 Over Postoffice Lakeland, Florida ————————————————————— AS OO OO o8/ cab.” tered it, and strange to say, it clung | tor, soothingly, “‘only a slight concus- 3| to him sturdily among the tempta- sion.” The landlady pointed to the picture “A concussion,” murmured the doc- tions of the city. All this partly ex- | Pl 3 . E Sl biE Toietneas of the young man. “I didn't know i ace o uslness 5 He was dressing for tennis one aft- | Where she come from nor anything Law Office of ““m?‘ BHDBDBIIAEEF O DB PEDBPI PP I 15| ernoon, suffering at the same time | 8bout her, but I seen you was a friend A X. ERICKSON ;lfl-!"vé" 23 B P o el 2 ns--xus.m‘imwww*; a violent pangs of homesickness, when | Of hern, so I sent for you on a guess.” Bryant Building b3 ¥ 73| & sharp tap sounded at the door. He Willy Ben was about to admit his A X. ERICKSON ":'\. Is where you SHOULD GO 2| Hung it open and found a small mes. | 18norance, but he looked at the pic- T C. WILLIAMS de ' ' ‘ fi;]‘ senger boy waving a telegram at him, | tures of himself and then at the E. W THOMSON our ° our | “Cy 2 ve,” P . retty little girl on the bed. Beneath i 2 at a" times for 23" Come at once,” it commanded; | Pretty e 8 L | . % D ammeae New York clothes nis | Notary, Depositions attended. 1§ home-made Dologee heart swelled with pride. “She is a very dear friend of mine,” he answered tenderly, “and 1 intend to have her moved to the hospital at once.” At the hospite' limily Walton came back to consciousness to find a clean- looking, red-headed young man sit- ting patiently beside her. Ior a long time she regarded him in silence, then she spoke wonderingly. “Willlam Benjamin Bibb, the tennis champion, however, did you come here?” “Never mind,” answered Willy Ben, for the doctor had sald she must not talk. “T'll tell you tomorrow. Were playing that I'm your big brother.” She was asleep when he left, and like a big brother, he kissed her—a friendly, respectful kiss—just as i she were Bess or Evelyn. But all the time he knew that she was not; he knew she was the ideal come to life. Tomorrow came, and for the two a great many tomorrows. She told him all her sorry story, how she had run away from her home to go on the stage, and how, though she could cook and sew and recite Hamlet's so- llloquy better than any girl in board- ing school, she could not act. Hav- ing a stubborn kind of pride which took the place of courage, she had gone on trying and trying. “And when the cab struck me,” she told him, “I was glad to think the fight was over.” “Miss Walton seriously injured. Maria Lorgey.” It gave an address . on the lower east side. “Now who,” asked the puzzled Willy Ben, “is Miss Walton? And who is Maria Lorgey? The messenger boy did not seem to know; he did not seem to care, so Willy Ben dismissed him and pon- I \ ). Q. Rogers Edwin Spencer, J* ‘§. Building Material Such as Lime, Cement, Brick, Wall Plaster, Sash, Doors, Oils Paints, Stains & Varnishes Stoves, Ranges, Oil and Gasoline Boss Ovens \ EPPES TUCKER, JR. o Now is the Time to Lay In a Supplv P 98 Ib. Sacks Best Plain Flour 24 Ib. Sacks Best Plain Flour 12 Ib. Sacks Best Plain Flour LAWYER taymondo Bldg., Lakeland, Florida KELSEY BLANTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office in Munn Building Florida Lakeland \ - DR. RICHARD LEFFERS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Rooms 2-3, Skipper Building ve... Over Postoffice .. . W. 8. PRESTON, LAWYER ce Upstairs East of Court House BARTOW, FLA. gxamination of Titles and Rea Xs tate Law a Specialty Farming Implements, Plows, Cultivators | Garden Tools, Hoes, Rakes, Hand Plows | s $3.85 1.00 50c \ i i | W. HERMAN WATSg}:. M. D. Morgan-Groover 3 relephones: Office 3561; Rle 113 Red “I"ll Tell You Tomorrow.” dered on the matter. There were his Our highest Ideals are Bume and address writton clearly 08 | iy mother, e brothors and sisters,| Lakeland, Florids # . the envelope, yet he bad never heard | oy he used to steal away from SCH00! | e 98 Ib. Srlf- Rising Flour B e 4.00 Qualzty ana Servlce of either of the women who Were |, yigit the swimming pool, how & 7. H. PETERSON sending him this urgent call from the | ;haq dog came through town and he unknown. He concluded it was a plot | pag to kill his faithful hound, how & to trap him, though why he should be | rattjegnake bit him in the leg one trapped he could not imagine, for 1f ATTORNEY AT LAW Dickson Building Come to sce us and let day. He told it all so fervently that | .Practice in all courts. Homestead . ; - 3 " | ing house and brought up In hotels, us supply your needs ously, the thing to do was to ignore criw l‘alomeslck. o 2 " | c——— 4 . the telegram, but Willy Benm Was| = wpen the wound on her forehead (L young and hotheaded. He stuffed |yag well and the time came for her Jatatlianediia Uply P800 his revolver into his pocket and de- | t; jeave the hospital the young man DR. W. 8. IRVIN PH N E 59 - d‘!‘f’:n“’n::L‘::“;;’v;:fl:;“:’fi. isaiage made a brilllant suggestion, DENTIST “Why go back to that horrid place? cky Buildin ::‘:’":"‘:l:r’“‘";:c:’;".';;n‘;' -:::el:- Let’s go right out and be married.” Soom 14 end 15 Kentucky . . ot A TV d the h n (o W e =g S There was no one n sight, but when | goqn :h:p::ded,. sy smoon In Bhl LOUIS A. !‘0:3’1' Willy Ben rang, the door flew open | g, jt was sgettled, and Willy Hen, ARCHITECT instantly and out of the blackness [ wpo yrew that marriages are made | Kibler Hotel, Lakeland, Florida within appeared two wild white eyes |y phaayen, fell to wondering. “To 3 A WA R E C O and a row of gleaming teeth. WILY |¢pinp» he cried rapturously, “that e [ Ben recolled, then realized that this |y, go)) yn Jove with my plcture be- . M. BRYAN was no apparition, but & ragged negro | ¢,.o you ever saw me!” AR(leT\‘(‘T B /aY girl. 2 22 _ i “Is you Mr. Bibb?” she questioned, .nzutp:::ui:‘tle "];m::l’tin;." !::m:‘: Room $ Elliston Building At evngerl)n “° ‘lowed yow'd bBurry.| gyered, leaning fondly against him. P. 0. Box w,F' ¢ Come this way, sub.” She plunged|.y ¢yt your picture out of the paper Lakeland, Florida ° back into the darkness. WIth Some | yecause you looked like a man I used 3 misgivings. Willy Ben followed her.| ., 1o in love with out west.” B s l e Om Somewhere in the inky blackness ¥ premrTrreseerey TSRS L L | they stumbled on some crooked stairs and up, up, up Interminably they College Fraternity Privileges. OFFICE ROOMS L] climbed, the ragged gulde Mitting on| Over the dor posts of a fraternity < i ren u er before. clubhouse in the middle west, says a FOR RENT P> = At the top the girl stopped and writer in the Century, is the inscrip- Telegram Building [ pushed open a door. “Miss Walton's tion, “Thou shalt not loaf;” and the In i Th- . . . p | been kilt,” she whispered, in & scared | quoter of the sentiment commends it | 8 (olast and Best Lighted is Is the Busy Building Season voice. “Miss Maria’s dome gone for |88 especially applicable to those col- s . ” N In Orl a- the doctor.” Before Willy Ben could hrflmen who look upon frternity in the City LET’S HAVE A BUILDING BOOM! stop her, she was gone tearing down | Privileges as inviting them to “incon- ion in Fac Every building that is built brings just so the steps and the blackness swal- llwflant and foolish play, ;he dissipa- Running;Water in Each Room much ]rrn:)crit\' Yo thctcr::l‘l:\:nji‘l‘;t i lowed her up. tions of soclal eve and the auto- 2 7 * Willy Ben walked into & small, bare | cracy of athleties.” He says, how- Call at Get Busy and Build? WE DO NOT BELIEVE that the good people of Flor- room. In the corner was a parrow |ever, that there is a plain tendency TELEGRAM OFFICE s . ur State H bed, with a figure thrown limply |&mong the members of the fraterni- PSSR, We are l|~u:|lly busy, but never so busy ida realize that there are right now 1n 0 oo across it. He stole across the room |tles to face the dangers as well as to it that we could not be busier, and will get of litde children in real need—some absolutely ho! and looked at her in wonder. She was :’:joy the advantages of such socle- busy with your building business as soon a young girl, no larger than his sister 8. as submi : = that just must be cared for. | Bess, and with beautiful hair like his { 9 GO & 15 submitted to us. n- sister Evelyn’s. It spread over the The Limit. ee Us for Lumber and Building i We feel sure—that they do not know that there are hu bed in disorder and framed a sad, 1it- | Binks—This fellow Snaggs is a real £ TO ng Material The walst was torn tle, lovely face. open at the neck and there was clot- | ted blood on her forehead. He asked himself in horror If she were dead? peseimist, isn't he? Jinks—I should say so. Why, he even exaggerates the mean things he knows about himself. Lakeland Sanitarium Ors. Hanna HARDIN BLD dreds of worthy mothers in Florida who are just struggling to keep their little ones alive—and at home. We just cannot pbelieve—that with these facts “fh:‘;i every orphanage in Florida crowded to the :?3:5;5 people of Florida will let our great work W x: L for 850 of these little ones this year alone—go own b of funds to keep it up. Your immediate help--is gr needed—right now—Please send what you can to-day—to R. V. Covington, Treasurer of Lakeland Manufacturing Company PHONE 76 LAKELAND, FLA. | Ant’s Remarkable Strength. | An ant can carry a grain of corn | ten times the weight of its own body, while a horse and a man can carry & burden only about equal to their own weight. SBHPBHPE D LPPPPESIEPHEBBSDE PGB J.B. STREATER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Having had twenty-one years’ experience in buildi and contracting in Lakeland and vicinity, I feel oompet:'t Curse of idleness. Idleness is the badge of gentry, and the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of dis- cipline; the chiet author of all mis- chief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upen which the devil The Children’s Home Society im’ o A Strain on Ticket Office Man. to render the best services in this line. If comtemplati Of Floflda A man in the ticket office on a busy | bmlgmg, will be pleased to furnish estimates and .up int;:t‘- @ay has ”n“:‘”" his Nbl.-‘ 10;:“" Cause of Waterfall's Roar. mation, All work guaranteed. Florida's Greatest Charity %o much that he gets to be a better | The roar of a waterfall is produced Phone 169 KSONVI _ FLA. |lsctor than some of the peopie on the |uimost entirely by the bursting of mil- e 109. J. B. STREATER. Jass s oo, ions of air bubbles. T e aaaaas TIE TR LTV E NP TRT PO TVITTY