The Lakeland evening telegram., September 09, 1912, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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Through our connections we can make
collections for you in any part of the
world. The lowest possible charges and
the most efficient service guaranteed.
fTIIKT NATION A I IBANK
OF LAKELAND
Under Control of U. S. Government
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IF IT'S
REAL ESTATE
You want, sec us before iyou buy. Wc have it
anywhere and in any size tracts, and if it is
INSURANCE
You are needing we can give you the'beston earth
and treat you right.
Polk County leal Estate & Insurance Co.
Office: Rocin 7, Deen & Bryant BniMitig
THE VALUE OF YOUR
PRESERVING WORK
depends on I li ( things. The qual
ity of the fruit, the skill of the pre
server and I lit character of the jars,
glasses. rubbers, etc.. employed. We
supply the last in any quantity at
the lowest prices. The most skill
ful presirtf makers in town net their
tmppn.v liere. There's a reason.
Lakeland Hardware & Plumbing Go.
R. L. MARSHALL
CONTRACTOR ANDliBUILDER
Will furnish plant and specifications or will follow any plant ani
apeciScatious turuislicd.
1UKGAL0WS A SPECIALTY.
Let me tkow you some Lakeland Lomcs I have built.
LAXELAKD, Phone 267-Gren. FLORIDA
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Live Where You Will Like
Your Neighbors
We are exercising great care to
ell our ROSEDALE lota only to the
boat claaa of people. Thua we giro
you desirable neighbors in addition
to ROSEDALE'S other attratciont.
Wld streets, shade tres, fertile
sail, building restrictions. Inside the
7y, one block east from take Mor
ton. SMITH & STEIT2
aid G. C. ROGAN
Deen-Bryant Building.
Whatever you want In rea lesftte.
we hare It.
Girl Typist's Document Brings
Happiness to Two.
By A. G. GREENWOOD.
I was revelling in my latest find.
It was a will -an amateur's will
written on blue foolscap.
"The money of which I should die
in possession, amounting to 2,5W,
will be found in notes in the secret
drawer of the Patsea oakchest. Tc
open the receptacle, press the finders
of the right hand upon the five small
knobs in the margin of the second
panel on the righthand side; with the
thumb touch the inlaid rose in the
center of the the side panel. On
opening the chest the drawer will be
found open also."
I read thus far, then vaguely wrn
dered if the secret drawer had b cn
discovered. I glanced at the date of
the will and the name, address and
description of the testator since 1S:0,
when Erasmus Whitehead, sculptor,
wrote these directions, the money had
lain hid! Where had the old eccen
tric lived? At Mrs. Pelham's, 22 Mar
ianetta Terrace, Chelsea.
I made up my mind to call at 22
right away.
"Erasmus Whitehead! Dead these
twenty years," puffed an old woman
who opened 22's blistered door to me.
"Lodged with me thirty years, he did,
and his good lady, too, while she drew
breath. Miss Jan does now, an' a
sweeter body you'll not meet in all
Lon'on no, that you won't, an' I
don't care who says so!"
Mrs. I'elham showed me up to a
little sitting room. .Ian Whitehead
opened the door.
Her dress was plain, but her sweet
ness was enough to keep any ass of
thirty dikf myself i tongue-tied and
staring like n raw youth from the
country.
I found my tongue and plunged into
explanations. Erasmus was her un
cle. Jle was supposed to have died
intestate, lie had left nothing.
On I went about my discovery and
the chest.
"The I'atsea chest!" she echoed in
despair and her mouth trembled.
"Oh, oh. it's sold!"
"Twas old Sydney Jacob Sydney
who bought It, denrle," observed
Mrs. Pelham. "The shop disappeared
ten year ago."
' Til try to trace it," said Jan.
"And thank you ever so much for be
ing so kind."
"I I'm only too glad to help you In
any way," I stuttered and departed,
leaving my card.
I wanted to see her again. I
thought out a thousand plans, a bil
lion excuses.
But I never saw her. Seven whole
wasted days passed. Then I had a
note.
"Dear Mr. Oakley." it ran
"I have been fortunate enough to
trace the chest, but am unable to
open the secret drawer. Could you
help me? I am in some haste, and
would count myself even deeper In
your debt if you would come to my
aid. I shall be In after 6:30 each
night, If you could spare me Ave min
utes. Yours sincerely,
"JAN WHITEHEAD."
Spare her five minutes! Five years!
Five lives If I had 'em.
At the end of the road I met her.
She was obviously pleased (on the
beastly chest's account of course).
Mrs. Pelham bustled up to watch
proceedings. I examined the chest
bosses, knobs, Inlaid strips and the
rose. Then 1 opened the lid. A floor
panel had risen; from it, to one side,
obtruded a drawer. Jan bent down,
Mrs. Pelham lowered her head, pant
ing. I stood up, a sharp pain in my
heart.
It was empty. Whatever it had
contained had been abstracted.
Jan straightened and walked to the
window, Mrs. Pelham subsided Into
a chair and blubbered.
"Forgive how foolish you must
think me!" she said, trying to smile
a piteous attempt that shook a
shower of tears from her lriiiimtiip
eyes. "1 I had been silly enough to
be too sanguine."
Silence fell -a strained silence
Then she told me of her hunt for the
purchaser of the chest. She had
found Jacob Sidney in a back street
in Putney, whether he had gone on
giving up the shop. Fortunately so
fortunately as she then thought he
had taken a fancy to the Patsea chest
The old man was ill: she had not
been allowed to see him. and it was
only at A vastly enhanced price that
he consented to sell $250 she told me
with a shiver.
I've never felt so utterly wretched,
so entirely despairing, as I did all
that night, and the next day till an
hour after John King bad left me.
"I'm worried," old King had growl
ed.
"It's a girl t typist in the office.
I've always thought her as honest as
daylight. A day or so ago she came
to me in a state of nervous excite
ment She's been with us six years
since she was eighteen else she
wouldn't have asked nor I been so
foolish as to give in. She asked point
blank for a loan of $250. No wonder
you jump," he growled. "She promis
ed to repay within forty-eight hours.
She was certain of her abiility; g0me
money had come to her unexpected
ly. I let her have it. I trusted her
implicitly. 1 l; M you. Today sne
came to me. white as a sheet, her
eyelids swollen with tears, big 0Ue
rings around her eyes, absolutely
ashamed of herself, and confessed she
couldn't pay."
' What's her name?" I asked as care
lessly as I coui.
"Whitehead." s.d he.
At 6:30 Jan fiumi n:e waiting her.
laid,
!,. ('.-.. i!::. V. i-'.iraU have sca.veh
u t!i- ch.'.-t :.ien carefully. The
nous mislit have slipped, you know."
1 went over to the chest, found the
catches and threw up the lid.
She bent down, thrusting her little
hand into the hollow from which the
draw had risen.
1 heard her draw a noisy, shudder
ing breath. From the hole she drag
ged a bundlesomething wrapped in
yellow, dust-stained paper, tied with
a piece of rotten string. Cobwebs
end dirt fell in a shower as Bhe tore
:tway the coveting. Then she threw
back her head with a cry of delight,
of huge relief, laughing unsteadily,
trembling violently.
'clod bless you. look! You den't
'.now all you've done for me. I fed
I can breathe again. I feel clean now.
I felt dishonest. Now now every
'lung's glorious! How much is there,
.Mr. Oakley?"
"Five hundred pounds," I told her.
"It was. Yes, you told me ao,"ahe
answered, and she seemed all on
wires. "It's it's splendid. I've been
longing to pay Mrs. Pelham for ages.
I owe her rent, and she will buy
little extra things for me. I was
thinking of her mostly, which made
me- understand."
Then she told me the story I had
already heard from John King. Mrs.
I Vlham forever dissolving into tears
came upstairs soon after. We sat,
all three rejoicing.
"I knew I could trust him," she
declared. "I knew it by his face. A
good face plain maybe. A face to be
trusted."
Jan said quite angrily: "Sarah!"
And it was then that I first allowed
myself to hope that Jan didn't think
me plain.
In a month, then. It became a set
tled thing, for her to return and find
in- waiting for her.
I 'ut one day Jan did not offer her
bund.
' I received a letter this morning,"
she said, her angry eyes on mine. "It
came from a firm of lawyers. This
was inclosed:"
"Madam." it ran
' Some years ago I purchased a
chest from you. When repairing the
base of it I discovered a secret draw
er, which contained the Bum of $2,500.
Rightly or wrongly, I considered the
sum mine. Now, on my deathbej, I
feel a little uncertain. I have net her
kith nor kin, and I have decided to
leave yor, should you survive me, a
legacy of the same amount.
"Your obedient servant.
"JACOI1 SIDNEY."
"Why do this -why?" she cried pas
sionately, adding with cruel illogical
ness: "You must have known I should
find out! I'm alone in the world; I'm
poor. You've you've cheated me Into
spending money which isn't mine.
How dared you how could you? I
thought you my friend. You meant
to be kind. Yes, you've been cruel."
"Your trouble came about through
me," I said quietly, after a pause. "I
let you In for It. It waa my optimism
which made you so eager to buy the
chest. I apologlie."
She echoed the word In derision.
"I can do no more," t said.
"Except go," she said rudely; yet
she choked.
And then I did the only wise thing
I had done that afternoon. I went to
her and stood behind her and said
sternly:
"I have an excuse. The beat. I
love you. I won't bear your cruelty
any longer. I won't hear your re
proaches. I'll only hear your anawer
to my question. Jan, will you marry
me? And I'll not hear your 'No' to
that; only your 'Yes.'"
She had grown stiff, rigid, as first
I spoke. Then little by little her head
had fallen forward. She suddenly col
lapsed as her hands went forward,
upward to her face. She was crying
as my arms went round her, crying
as I dragged her fingers from her
tear-wet cheeks, crying as I bent her
bead back and stared into her eyes.
But it was her lips framing no
word, but something Infinitely sweet
er which answered me at last.
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KEPT MONEY IN CORK LEG
Before a Surgical Operation, Samuel
Rldenbaugh Disclosed a Deposit
of $1,100.
Not placing much faith In banks,
Samuel Ridenbaugh. a restaurant
keeper in Brunswick. Md., for years
d" 'sited his savings in a hole in his
c-r leg. especially prepares for a
banking receptacle.
Secretive and peculiar in his hab
its. Kidenbaugh had never disclosed
this eccentricity. Recently he was
taken suddenly ill and after a hur
rted consultation by physicians an im
mediate operation was decided upon.
He was taken the the Frederick City
hospital.
Before being operated on he asked
that a friend be called in. Vnstrap
ping his cork leg. Rldenbaugh in
trusted it to his friend's care, telling
him that it contained all his personal
possessions.
Rldenbaugh died and $1,100 In bank
notes of large denominations, gold and
some silver was found In the copk
leg. The money was deposited In the
People's bank of Brunswick under the
name of Rldenbaugh.
Japanese Horseshoes.
The Japanese Idea of horseshoes is
a curious one. In that country straw
instead of iron is employed' for the
purpose. The shoes are made of ordi
nary rice straw, braided very tight
and firm, making a surface the size of
a horse's hoof and about hL au Inch
thick. They cost about a halfpenny
a pair.
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Sugar, 16 pounds 1 00
Cottolene, 10 pound pails 1 25
Cottolene, 4-pound pails
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4 cans family size Cream. . 25
7 cans baby size Cream ?
1-2 barrel best Flour SfC
12 pounds best Flour h;
Picnic Hams, per pound .121-2
Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hamt is
Octagoa Soap, 6 for - . . 5
Ground Coffee, per pound 21
5 gallons Kerosene ................. . 3
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