The Lakeland evening telegram., August 27, 1912, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND. FLA., AUG. 27, 1913-
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Every little bit helps. You can always spare "something" if
;mi, .).( just a little within your income. By adding a "trifle" ev
; day you will, in time, have a fortune and in any case provide
KiMinst misfortune. Bring a "little bit" into this bank every day
Mart now. "i.-.tJ"?5r
FIRST RATIONAL gA
OF LAKELAND
Und'r Control of D. S. Government
IF IT'S
REAL ESTATE
You want, sec us before you buy. We have it
an wnere anu in any size tracts, ami n ii is
INSURANCE
You are needing we can give you thebestjon earth
& and treat you right.
Polk County (Real Estate & Insurance , Co.
g Office: Kocm.7, Decn k liryant Building
YOU SHOW WITH FKIDE
I'.. rniiiu vim h;i( had us
equip in up-to date stylo. You don't
r-liow tln old fashioned kind at all. If
ft; you have been deterred from having
yours inoiloini.od by the imagined
expense, have a talk with us. It may
i:t;t cost nearly so mm h as you have
been led to believe.
Lakeland Hardware & Plumbing Co.
Jim Bushwick's
Widow
By Lawrence Alfred Clay
(Copyright, 1312, by Associated Literary
Presi.)
Jim Bushwick of the village of
Rawlins, was a ne'er-do-well. He
was born lazy and without business
acumen sufficient to sell or buy a
peck of potatoes. He didn't drink,
smoke or chew, and when he married
it was to have a wife to take care of
him. She was a hustling, ambitious
woman, and if she could have had
his help they could have been well off
after five years.
She didn't have It, however. Jim
was always going to do this and do
that, and he never even got up. energy
enough to set out a bed of onions.
The wife seldom scolded or com
plained. She was the village seam
stress, and by steady work she man
aged to keep a roof over their heads.
Now and then there was talk of do
ing something to Jim tar and feath
ersa whipping the law or some
thing else, but It never went beyond
talk. As for tar and feathers, there
was no tar in the town, and no citi
zen would have been willing to con
tribute the feathers.
Thus things went on for eight
years, and then Jim Bushwick was
taken with a hopeless illness. When
this disease took hold of the man lie
galloped to the grave very fast. It
was only after the doctors had told
Jim there was no hope for him, and
that his flame of life would be snuffed
out in a couple of weeks more, that
the true spirit of a manly man camo
out. He called his wife to his bed
side one day and began:
"Sarah, you are going to be a
widow soon."
"Yes," sho replied, as tears filled
her eyes.
"I've been a no-uceount man and
husband."
"Hut you've done tho best you
could."
"Mebbe so, but when I look back
I'm ashamed of myself. I can't leave
you a dollar."
"Never mind, Jim. Everybody will
be kind to me and I shall get along.
" t . .MM. &
r. l. Marshall!
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Will famish phut and specifications or will follow any plans and
specifications furnished.
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let me show you some Lakeland homes I have built.
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Your Neighbors
We are exercising great care to
ell our ROSEDALE lots only to tht
best class of people. Thus we give
you desirable neighbors in addition
to ROSEDAI.E'S other aitratclons.
wtd, streets, shade tres, fertile
building restrictions. Inside the
i. one blo.k east from fake Mor
ton. SMITH & STEITZ
wd G. C. ROGAN
Deeu-Bryaat Building.
Whatever you want in tea lestVo
4 have It.
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He Had Signed Without Looking.
Ijet us hope the doctors are mistaken,
and that you will live many a year
yet."
"Let us do nothing of the kind.
but get ready for business. Sarah,
you know what brcach-o'-promiso Is,
of course?"
"Yes."
"If you have a pretty good case
agin a man he'll settle for cash."
'But how can I have a breackof-
prcmise case?"
"That's what I am going to pro
vide you with several of them.
Bring my pen, ink and paper, and
then run over and tell Deacon Harri
son I want to see him."
The deacon was a widower and
well to do. Ho was one of those who
had spoken of tar and feathers, but
to had a neighborly feeling, for al'.
that. When he had come in and ex
jiressed his sympathy, (ho dylns man
n 1 1 1 :
"Deacon, Sarah will s"on be left
alone."
"Yes."
"I want folks to be kin.I to her when
lm gone."
They will be. Jin; they will be."
' I'm not so sure of that. Folks got
tired of being kind after awhile. I
know how good you are. but if you'd
only put it in black and white thai
you'd be kind to Sarah after I'm
gone I should feel a heap easier
about going. Here's a paper I've
drawn up that says you'll be kind."
"Why, I'll sign that, of course."
was the reply; and the deacon, for
once In his life, signed a taper with
out reading It and looking for traps.
lie did more than that. He offered
to boss the funeral when it cama off
and to be one of the pallbearers.
Then Cyrus Barnes, another wid
ower, was sent fo?. He was awfully
sorry to find Jim so near :he grave,
and he was going To pull out a dollar
bill and leave It with .m when he
didn't. He Indulged in further words
of sympathy, which made it SS re
cent, cheaper for him.
' Cyrus, I've been a poor sack cf a
man," sajd Jim.
"You have that," was agreed.
"I ought to have been at work
ever day."
'We all know that"
"It's a wonder you folks didn't atlr
me up."
"So 'tis so 'tis. We talked of It
many times, but we knowed that if
we put on the tar and feathers yond
be too all-fired lazy to scrape em
off, and your wife would have the
'That's right. She is good, Cyrus."
"None better."
"And that brings me to what I
want tQ ask. She won't have a dol
lar after I'm gor.e."
"Of course she won't."
She'll have to depend on the kind
re ss of the neighbors."
"She will."
'Cyrus, you don't belong to any
church, but you believe In heaven,
don't you?"
"Yes, kinder."
"You'd like to feel that I was look-h.-i
down on you and acting as your
grdiau angel, wouldn't you?"
"if you are going to keep up your
laziness"
i tut I'm not, Cyrus I'm going to
1 s!l-. I'll do all that I can for you
if vou'll sign this paper."
What is it?"
.lust a promise to be kind to, and
t! it you will look after, Sarah. We
shall both feel a great deal better If
you will."
The caller looked upon It as a dy
ing man's whim, and signed. When
ready to go he said:
"I hope you will get a hustle on you
up there, Jim." j
Then three more widowers and one ,
old bachelor got the word to call, I
m'kI in the course of three days the j
business was wound up. Then a !
lawyer was sent for, the signed pa
pers, handed over to him, and a
great calm fell upon the dying man.
lie smiled every few minutes, and;
made no understandable explanations I
regarding what, he had been up to.
A few days later ho passed away, j
and almost his last words were: ;
"Sarah, if they want to be kind to!
via;, let 'em go ahead."
Tin-re was kindness from every di-;
rei tion, from contributions to pay
the funeral expenses to groceries and ,
provisions sent in for the widow's j
: iistenanee. After about a month had i
elapsed Deacon Harrison received a;
letter asking him to call at the law ,
ofliee of the attorney who had the
dead man's papers. When the god
man came strolling in, only mi dly
curious as to why he had been sum-
inoned, he was greeted with: j
"Of course it won't take place for
a year, but allow me to congratulate !
yen in advance."
"What d'ye mean?" asked the deacon.
"Your marriage with the Widow
Bushwick."
"Shoo! What ye joking about?" j
"Only this." '
The paper he had signed for Jim j
Bushw ick was handed him. Ilehadslgn-
ed without reading, and now behold:
"I not only promise to bo kind to j
James Bushwick's wife after she be
comes his widow, but to marry her
one year after his death."
"By thunder!" exclaimed the dea
con as ho .danced around.
"No better evidence wanted In a
breach-of pronilse case," quietly re
plied tho lawyer.
"She can sue and be hanged!"
"Better settle for a couple of hun
dred, deacon, and carry off your pa
per. It wouldn't sound well to
have people saying that you had
your second wife picked out while
her husband was alive."
The deacon hung off for a week
and then came down. One by one
tho others followed suit. Each one
was financially well able to do so .
"Money contributed by your good
friends, and nothing Is to be said
about It," remarked the lawyer to
the widow as he handed her $950 of
the thousand.
To this day she has no other Idea
about it. Now and then some one
says something about Jim Bushwick's
laziness In Deacon Harrison's hearing,
and he turns and replies:
"Why, there wasn't a lary bone In
his whole carcass! He made more
clean money in the last two weeks
of his life than 1 did In the hull year!
Yes. drat him, he did!"
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We give the "most now but we are anxiou?- t.;u
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Sugar, 16 pounds j q,;.
Cottolene, 10 pound pails j 23
Cottolene, 4-pound pails 5.3
Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails ij
4 cans family size Cream 25
7 cans baby size Cream 25
1-2 barrel best Flour .
12 pounds best Eour 140
Picnic Hams, per pound 12 1-2
Cudaky's Uncanvassed Hams u
Octagon Soap, 6 for , jj
Ground Coffee, per pound " 21
5 gallons Kerosene grt
E. G. Tweedell
WELL PLANNED AND CARRIED
Prince Kropotkin's Escape From Pris
on Hospital One of the Most Daring
Recorded in History.
In originality of conception and In
genuity of execution, the escape of
l'rinoo Kropotkir from the prison of
the Nikolaievsk Military hospital In
St. Petersburg in 176 is probably un
paralleled in prison annals. Twelve
conspirators outside the prison took
part In it. but not one of them was
ever arresttd or suspected, although
many of them were subsequently ban
ished to Siberia for other political of
fenses. The escape was made In broad day
light, about five o'clock In the after
noon, in the presence of three armed
soldiers, and with such novel acces
sories as cherries, opera hats, a mouse,
music, a black mare and a microscope.
The chances were at least ten to one
that it would fall, notwithstanding the
extraordinary Ingenuity with which it
was planned, but every device and
stratagem worked perfectly, and the
liberated prisoner dined that night ia
Demon's restaurant, the most fashion
able in St. Petersburg, while the entire
police of the capital w as ransacking
the city in search of him.
Nobody even imagined that he would
be shrewd and bold enough to take
his dinner In so public a place, and
not a single detective looked for him
there, although search was made la
scores cf other places, and every exit
from the city t carefully guarded
that a mouse could hardly have crept
through unobserved. Century.
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