Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 4, 1911, Page 6

PAGS SIX. Col. W. I. Clifford Gives Impressionof || Uncle Toby's Confederate Reunion | Col. W. Il. Clifford hands us the following article in which he gives| his impressions of Orlando during ' the Confederate Reunion: We, of the Lakeland dclcgalinn! arrived in Orlando on Tuesday on the train that leaves Lakeland at eleven o'clock. On our arrival at Orlando we were met by the cou- mittee and we were assigned to our homes, and speaking for myself, was all that the heart could wish. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant, proprietors of the Windermere, a beautiful and spac- jous home on the shore of Lake Luceme. Mr. Bryant is a Confeder- ate veteran and knew how to enter- tain his comrades. Orlando is a nice, clean, well-kept city, full of great big hearted peo- ple, her streets are paved with brick, wide and roomy, her homes are built after the modern styles of architec- ture with green lawns and date palms and pretty flowers. There were 250 veterans registcrad and all seemed well and in fine spirits and the hand shaking and greetings were cordial, we passed tie scenes of bivouac and field and fought again the battles of the Civil War; we sung the old-time songs and shouted the Rebel yell; we visited all of the public buildings which were up-to-date and were equal fn every respect to any of the towns of Florida that 1 have seen; we were welcome on every hand and were made to feel so. Mayor Albernethy in his Address of Welcome in behalf of the Sons of the United Confeder- ate Veterans said in part: “A few mornings ago when | awoke | heard the little birds singing and the words of his song were ‘They are coming, They are coming,’ and this morning when | awoke | heard him sing again and in his cheerful song he said, ‘Get up, they have come, They are bere," " Lakeland was honored in the un- animous election of General J. A, Cox as Commander of the Florida Division and J. D. Allen was ap- pointed as his Adjutant, and Miss Beulah Hooks, whom all of the old veterans have learned to love and , Who is the life of our conventions, made us feel proud by her eloquent address. And now, Oh comrades, as we have passed another bright spot in our march on carth there are others promised ahead, the question natur- ally arises who of us will survive to enjoy another re-union. Some of the hands that we so warmly pressed at Orlando will In all probably be laying quiet in the grave when the convention meets in Lake City. 1t is a sad thought but an occasion that we must meet and as we have been good soldiers on the blood-stained fields of Virginia and Tennessee, may our grey heads rest in an honorable grave, Methink 1 hear the watchman on the other shore as he with shaded eyves, tears throng the fast fading light in whispering tones and the: words of the little birds, “they are coming, they are coming.” Soon all will be here and our ranks will be full again then we will pass in re- view before our Great Commander and on earth the curtain will drop apon a service full of sorrow and the historian will turn a new leaf. W. H. CLIFFORD. DANIEL WEBSTER'S ADVICE TO HIS GRANDSON. You cannot learn without your| mal avenue and Main street, feeling ! All the teachers in the ::l“':“lh as & man searching for the world can neve ake a scholar of nbow's | orld can never make a scholar o Socty lelmt like an alien as he joined | own efforts, you if you do not apply yourself et e o R o it 7 ST THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND. FiORIDA, “Lead ‘My Sweetheart Was a Rov- er,’ Patience Allene” | “Patience Allene! Why—why," stut- tered the young wman to himself. { “Have | really found bher—so soon?” | He crossed the street at the first fn- | tersection, doubled back on the other side and halted beneath a friendly maple opposite the group. From up and down the street came appreciative hand clapping when the selection was ended. Jerry jolned beartily in the applause; but bis tribute was to the soprano voice that bad led the rollicking college song. “How old are you?” A moment later he regretted his en- sir, you should be married. t‘ilo ym bim: that age and rel o b i * "Peek-a-boo, you rascal, you, | see o w:“Ylon did, Uncle Toby,” grinned Ger- | you hiding there!’" ald Mcintyre. Tobias Brenton was a| Jerry suddenly remembered it was confirmed bachelor of many years'| time to catch the car back bome. standing. He met Patience Aflene Truesdale “That's all right, boy,” returned his | presently; the girl of the soprano uncle. “I'm the exception. But you | voice was really she. It took five should be married. Tell you what,| trips to Collegeville and three ice Jerry—" cream socials before he accomplisbed “What, Uncle?” an totroduction. “The day you get married I'll give| Then he made up for lost time. He you a thousand dollars for a wedding | called on Patience Allene as often as present.” Normal convention and the girl ber “You will?” self would permit; patronized soda “1 will—with one proviso. If ).u | fountains and confectionery stores, as marry anyone but Patlence Allene| well as the two moving picture thea- Truesdale.” ters, liberally, and otherwise followed “Who?" the path which his uncle’s words “Patience Allene Truesdale.” should have barred. He fell heels “Who's Patlence Allene Truesdale?| over head in love with Patience And why couldn’t | marry her? And | Ailene. where does she live?” As for the girl, he could not de- “] didn't say you couldn't marry | termine whether she cared for him, her,” replied Toblas Brenton. *“I| any more than he could be sure her baven't anything to say concerning | eyes were blue instead of gray. She her. | belleve she is now at College- | Was canriclous. And yet beneath it Thousand Dollars (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) “Jerry,” observed Uncle Toby, “it's time you were married.” “You think so, Uncle?” ] certainly do,” replied Uncle Toby. | o SATURDAY, NOVINMBER 4, 1911. apart for” experiment fn breeding the birds. The climate and soil are said t0 be eminently sultable and, bearing in mind the example of South Africa, thero seems to be no reason why the native breeders should not be success- tul. The only drawback lies in the all im- portant matter of the first supply, for according to the South African law as at present constituted, it is unlawful to export either ostriches or eggs. Those in authority at Las Beyla, how- ever, are hopeful of overcoming this difficuity. Aid for the Hobbled. “You know those rubber rings that are fastened to the bottom of chair legs, sometimes half a dozen, one on top of the other, to raise the chair high enough for a child to sit at the table,” sald the restaurateur. “Well, we are using them by the dozen, mot to boost the children, but to give the women with tight and tied-in skirts a chance to sit down. “High chairs, so the well informed tell me, prevent their knees from pok- ing through the material; therefore nigh chairs are a necessary equipment in every restaurant that caters to well- dressed patrons. The style 18 too ephemeral to warrant buying a lot of long-legged chairs, so we simply ele- vate a part of those we already bave by means of rings and reserve them for the hobbled women.” Get Plenty of Sleep. Plenty of sleep {8 conducive to beauty. Even a garment looks worn when it loses its nap., AT ALL TIMES Strong in supplying the needs and wants of customers. 4 ville. What 1 did say was that it you | all Jerry knew there were depths in |3 married anyone but her, I would give | ber nature, ‘ you a thousand dollars.” He puzzled still over the mystery of “But, Uncle, 1 don't know this| his uncle’s dislike for Patience Allene. Truesdale, and there’s no possibility | She came from his uncle's home town, 1§ Shot guns and shot gun of my marrylng her, or anybody else.” “It's nearly train time,” observed Uncle Toby, rising. don't know Miss Truesdale, and so what | sald may seem foolish. But | her father's best friend, she said. you can't say I baven't put the propo- | was Mr. Brenton who had advised her | ¢ to attend the Normal, so she could be | % ting marrled, Jerry. A thousand dol- | a high school teacher. lars Is a thousand dollars, these days. “There’s something troubling you, Jerry,” she sald, so unexpectedly that |{ The rest of the day Jerry gave his he was taken completely off guard. |2 sition up to you. Think over this get- Let me hear from you."” muscle to the bardware store where he was employed, but not his mind, for that was elsewhere. He was, he knew, Uncle Toby's favorite relative; and his uncle waat- ed him settled in & home of his own. | “There's Something Troubling You.” Uncle Toby had no prejudice against matrimony, only so far as it applied to bimself. That part of his talk was reasonable and understandable. But as to Patience Allene Truesdale —rather a pretty name, though an odd one. Who was Patience Allene—Patlence Allene; it was a quaint, sweet pame —against whom bhis uncle seemed so prejudiced? After supper he changed his clothes, | tried on four neckties, and went to Collegeville. A rickety trolley line bumped and jerked him to the normal town. Jerry got off the car at the corner of Nor the leisurely procession on the streets “l realize you | versation one night, she had spoken Long Rapids; and when he bad craft fly utroduced his name into the con- glowingly of Mr. Brenton, who was It “Tell me what it is.” Jerry, blundering, attempted to finesse; it delayed things a little longer, but at last he had to tell. “Your uncle needn’t have worried,” she said coolly, when he bad finished. “l baven't any designs on you or your prospects. You are wasting time with me; better begin trying to earn that thousand dollars. No, I'm mot augry; good night!” Jerry, raging, went home to find i Uncle Toby, baving dropped into town unexpectedly, the center of his own merry family circle. ln five minutes Uncle Toby, the wealthy, the courted and the master- ful, was on his way to Collegeville, virtually a prisoner in the custody of this goim and silent young stranger. Patience Allene was alone on the {ront porch of the boarding house, a forlorn little huddle which shrank away at sight of them, “Now, sir,” grated Jerry, “1 brought you here to say ‘hat your prejudice against Miss Truesdale doesn't make any difference. We're going to be married; and we don't need that thou- sand dollars.” “Is this true, Patience Allene?” asked Uucie Toby. Patience Allene did not seem to mind the queerness of Jerry's mar riage proposal. “Yes,” she sald, sim- Ply; “but, NIr. Brenton, what did you say to Jerry?” “What did | say, Jerry?" “You said you'd give me a thousand dollars if | married anybody but Pa- tience Allene.” “Correct. Anything else; any reflec- tion on her?” “No-o.” He took a hand of each. “My dear young people,” he said, “your uncle | bas ‘put one over, as the boys say. Ever since | began buying dolls for Patience Ailene and marbles for you, Jerry, | determined she should be your wife. | never mentioned one of you to the other. It you dreamed I wanted you to marry, you'd have flown apart. There, now, never mind thank- fng me. I must be getting back | suppose the last car goes pretty soon. T'll let you walk that three miles alone. And—the thousand dollars shall be five thousand.” They went with him to the clinging shyly to each other’s h::;:: starting sentences of apology and with all your migiat. Be of 200d| fop i) the talk was of semesters and | STatitude that were never finished, character and behavior, a boy of| text-books and discipline. He went on : since they must stop to look into the strict truth and honor and conscience | up Normal avenue to the campus. in all things. “Remember now thy| A "'m:w m‘::"':m' plle of | Creator in the days of thy youth.” bulldings he came & house over God has given \‘(\:; mind :;mi facul- flowing with feminiohty. The bland ties, and .||o \.\'ill surely call you e S e S5 & Miroes to an account. Honer and obey your | fons on the porch. parents; be patient under restraint;| There was chattering and laughter | lock forward constantly to vour ap-| and an undercurrent of plaintive tink- proaching manhood; and put off | 108, for three of the party in the cen- | every day all that is frivolous and ter bad stringed lnstrumenta. childish. —Daniel Webster. m ?nlmo l‘ H g | wonder and glory of each other’s eyes, | be the proud possessor. And Uncle Toby smiled whimsical ly as he went away, yet sighed a Mit- te, too; for he knew he was already forgotten. Ostriches for Baluchistan, hn unexpected rival to South THE PLACE OF Better Things - Ice Cream Candies inent In All the Before-Winte: Fabrics. Navy blue and scarlet are appear- ing prominently in the autumn en- semble of sartorial effects. They are the old army colors, deep navy blue and bright red, and are striking as well as youthful. 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