Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 7, 1911, Page 6

PAGE SIX A Thousand Dollar Bill By Martha McCulloch-Williams “There never was a nicer lad than Ph Mrs. Ellis said, sighing. "It is teart-breaking to hear of him turning out this w “Nobody can make me believe he took that money,” Margery Clare, Mrs. Ellis's ward, said firm!ly. Again the elder woman sighed. *1 have to belfeve, much as [ hate to,’ she said. “Somebody certainly did get that thousand dollars—amd he was | the | about the only one who had chance.” “That knows,” Margery answered with spir- it. *Jim Franklin admits that he went | to sleep with open windows and on'y the outer doors shut. Neither he nor P'hil heard a sound all night--but that doesn’t prove a burglar didn't get in and stea! that thousand dollar bill.” “Jim thought of that first oif—but there wasn't a sign of such a thing. | Oh, T tell yon he was the worst cut- up—sald he'd rather have lost the money ten times over, ill as e could | spare it, than have to believe such a thing of Phil. And you know he won't o to law, in spite of what hi tells him.” “It would be better—and braver,” Margery broke in, her eyes snapping. “Phil could fight in open conrt—now | nobody him directly-—but | everyhody except me thinks he stole | the money, and he has no chance to | prove he didn't.” “Jim says he'll be punished enough it he did take it—losing his job and | his friends and—maybe you?" Mrs. [llis said the last word interrog- atively. Margery's head went up. “If he loses me it will be his own fault,” she said. “I'll marry him tomorrow --if only he'll ask me.” “Margery! Darling!” voice cried from the hall. Phil Ames had come in noiselessly to say good-by, just in time to hear his sweetheart's avowal. She rushed into his open arms and hid her face on his breast, sobbing out: “Phil! Dearest! Take me! Let us go away from all this—together.” “Are you brave enough to stay and face it—with me?” Phil asked huskily. more than is uncle accuses a shaken L OW anybody i [ dial to th | which appetite, too, helping thus to a nor- | mal mind. She knew he was under | constant surveillance—it was joy to | know the spying saw only a man do-I ing a man's work. H \'hen people came to see her she‘ !accepted them as if sure the motive | were pure kindness, But she made no visits herself, neither accepted in- vitations to join in church af S, nor | daneos at the courthouse, where crly she had been a leading spirit. | *hil wanted her to go—he was willing i0 endure martyrdom for her s: e. | Sut she smiled and shook her head— ~he weant never to go out among their n people until their own people saw acknowledged their mistake. THB BVENING TBLBGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, DEC. 7, 1911 Holding the FORT By DONALD ALLEN (Copyright, 3912, by Associated Literary Press) Moses Cosgrove had been a widov- ! er for three years when he decided to “look around.” There were three or | four widows whom he thought would fill the bill, but at length he settled on Mrs. Hannah Lee. In his own wuy he figured that he had only to drive Timne went swiftly; almost before | she realized it came the anniversary | of their wedding. The garden had | been a modest gold mine, but she | would not let Phil buy her an.\'lmng‘ aave a fluffy Pomeranian puppy, agree- | ing, however, to his proposition that | they should show themselves that | night at the courthouse. It was not a dance, but an enter-. taiminent by a so-called psychic lec- | turer. He was said to have marvelous | powers, Phil had a sort of feeling i that the villagers would think he' dreaded to face the seer. That was | intvue-—he had even a wild idea of | ! going forward if subjects for experi-| ment were called. Second thought | showed him he had better stay be- | ide Margory-—people had been cor- ! n1, offering felicitations with ¢ o apparent reseives. e would do| nothi to bri up the old story; in| twonty years perlings he could live it do A heard littde o the s a string of platitudes, But he wius somehow aware of a strange influence—something which got into him and made him shiver in spite of himself, He was on the point of ask- ing Margery if she also felt it, when he saw Jim Franklin moving toward the rostrum, his face faintly troubled. He spoke low but earnestly to the lec- turer, too low for the audience to catch a word. It watched with bated breath as he sat down and fell under influence. For a minute he was silent, mo- tionless, inert, as one in a deep and refreshing sleep. Then he stirred and sat up, opening eyes that did not see, The lecturer spoke to him. “What did you do that night?” he asked. Franklin stood up, not uncertaialy, but like a man with a purpose. He had taken off his coat—it hung neatly folded on the back of a chalr. He picked it up, took a knife from his pocket and ripped a short length lecture, | , of the stitches that held down the '. lo-"nn “Had Taken Off His Coat.” “l did mean to run away—it all seemed 5o hopeless. Now that | have you I can't do it. T must stay here and prove myself worthy your trust.” , "It is all one to me,” Margery said, lelinging to him. Mrs. Ellis bridled. “I have been a mighty good friend to both of you,” she said. “DBut, really--this is too much. Margery, as your guardian, 1 must forbid you to—to—act so.” “I'm nineteen; you can't forbid me marrying Phil,” Margery cried. Her sweetheart led her toward the door. In it he stopped, looked back and said slowly: “Aunt Nan—Mrs, El- lis, 1 gnean—thank you truly. You— you want to save my darling from herself, but love will save us both.” Then they went away to find a min- ister, Margery snatching down a sun hat as she went along the hall. It was the simplest bridal—but none other ever =0 stirred the village. 1t was a thrifty place, rich and full of family pride, also family traditions. Margery Clare embodied alike the pride and {the traditions. Throwing hersell thus into the arms of a thief, almost a thief confessed, was a shock, no less a nine days' wonder. Margery knew it: notwithstanding, she was happy. She and Phil set up housekeeping very slmply in a little cottage, the humblest place of real es- | tate she owned. She had an income sure but sufficient for one, Phil showed quickly he did not mean to stretch it into providing for two. There was a good bit of ground at-| tached to the cottage—he set to work on it manfully—inside of six months it was indeed a garden spot, return ing scant profits to be sure, but prom- | collar. Through the rip he thrust his fingers and drew out a creased and crumpled paper, narrowly folded, spread it out, folded it again, tucked it back in place and sald as he re. placed the coat: “Darn thousand dollar bills; one goes in bank tomorrow.” Phil darted toward the stage, his face white and working, Hushed cheer-] ing followed him; the hypnotist held up a warning hand. He was making swift passes over Jim. As Jim opened his eyes they rested on Phil and Mar- gery—in their faces he read some- thing momentous. He sprang up, hold- ing out both hands and saying husk- ily: “l know you didn’t do it, Phil, though 1 don’t know how I know.” “But we do,” the hypnotist said Kindly. Then for the first and only time P*hil fell forward in a dead fatnt. “To think I sewed down that ripped collar without ever dreaming it meant anything,” Jim's mother explained when she came to understand. The mystery was plain enough. Jim, worried in sleep over the big bill, had hidden it with the cunning of sonnambulism, and forgotten all about the hiding. It might never have been found except by a rag picker but for the hypnotic experiment. Be sure, though, Jim meant what he said— this namely, that getting back the money | gyery few days Moses would call to |the improvements for which was nothing compared to getting Imck] Phil, his closest friend. ALL WOMEN LOVE PRAISE Lack of Appreciation and Sympathy Be- tween Husbands and Wives Causes Many Barriers Between Hearts. \ Woman's love of commendation is one of her chief charms. There is not a woman alive who is indifferent to words of praise from those she loves. The very women who stifle their hearts’ cries because it is vain to listen for an answer where they have a right to expect it and go on perform- ing their duties just the same—Iif it be their duties—are the women who most hunger for the kindly appreciative word. In too many homes it is the lack of appreciation, the lack of sympathy, that builds up sickening barriers be- tween hearts that should be near. Is this love of appreciation a crime, |® weakness? If s0, men are very weak, for they cannot get along at all without this | sort of bolstering up—that is, the ma- | Jority of them. | woman. | widow woman, Read any of the precious “advice | over to her farm and say that he had decided to marry her, and the widow and the farm would be his. Moses must have heard Widow Lee was that the a very obstinate In fact, she delighted in be- ing obstinate. She denied many ac- neighbors. She lamented the loss of her husband, but at the same time ske said he didn’t amount to much as a man because he wouldn't argue a point. If Moses had known his busi- ness as a suitor he would have dropped in on the widow and said: “Widow Lee, 1 have decided to got married again, but I'll be hanged ir T want you.” The widow at once would have brought forward forty ditferent rea- | sons why he did want her, and why they shonld be married, and the core- mony might have come off in two Y . But Mc'es took the other way. Mrs, Lee knew him for a hard- working. successful farmer, and she rather liked him, but his assurance roused her opposition at once, and her reply was: “Moses Cosgrove, I wouldn't marry you if you was the last man on earth!” “But why?” “None o' your business! I am mix- ing bread just now, as you can see and 1 haven't time to answer fool I iyt “None of Your Business.” questions. You go and marry some woman who ain't got no mind of her |the Uity of Lakeland, according own." “But I want you.” “But you can't get me.” “See here, widow, I'm a determined | cach voter can vote for or man. When I say a thing I mean it.” “And I'm a determined woman, Mose Cosgrove. I've mnever been bossed yet, and I've never gone back on what I said.” “I'll come again.” “But it won't do good!” That was the beginning of what Moses called a six months’ courtship, but which Mrs. Lee characterized as six months of pestering around. you a mite of say: “Well, widow, have your mind yet?" “Not by a jugful!™ “Better get at it soon. You are growing old and homely every day.” “And that’s none of your business. If you pester me much longer I'll have the constable after yvou!™ “It ain’t against the law to court a and the constable can't interfere. I told you the first day 1 came here that we should be married sooner oy later, and by the you | great gewhillikins, it'll be so!™ “Never, Moses Cosgrove- never!" “l am an obstinate man.” “And I'm an obstinate woman. 1 said that soft soap was maple than give in.” It was early spring when Moses Cosgrove began his campaign. Fall had come, and he had made no prog- res. He wasn't discouraged, how- way. One forenoon he started for town to sell a load of hay. At about the same time the widow started to de- liver a load of oat straw ising creat things in the mext grow-: ¢, women™ and you will see how wom- | of him. They lived a mile apart. On ng season { ankind is advised to be cheerful and the highway between them was a The money had been lost in .\n-ikcp,, her sorrows and worries hidden, swampy spot which had been cor gust - he had married Margery at the pow she is cautioned to be up and duroyed. The way here for a dis- beginning of September. | doing at all times, on the front door- tance of ten rods was not over ten Thus he bad only his cold frames step ready to smile as soon as the feet wide. If a vehicle was on the and a tiny greenhouse to depend on. When he had plots of growing things there would be another and a better story. Margery loved the gardening—she knew it meant so much to Phil. Work made him so healthily tired he slept | dear husband turns the corner! But what about advice to husbands along the same line? ! One rarely sees any printed. | One might think it is because wom- ‘en don't care for commendation. Yet we all know that praise from both causeway another coming up must wait its turn. As Moses Cosgrove approached the narrow way he saw something com- ing that caused him to growl out: “I'll be hanged if that ain't the Widow Lee coming on a load of instead of brooding half the night over | men and women gobble up greedily Straw, and she means to get the way the stain on his name. It gave him an | and toudly ery, “More, more.” on me! Darn by cats. if she does!™ sold to a cider mill on the other side ! | Lakeland, ‘! for the purpose of voting for NOTICE OF ELECTION | |\ special Election is hereby called | {in and for the City of Lakeland, state of Florida, to be held on the | soth day of December, A. D, 1911, 'R the purpose of submitting to the ' | ificd voters of the City of Lake-| A the guestion of issuing .\]lllli(-‘ cul Bonds for the purpose of con- sorneting a system of Sewerage, pu\'-‘ sidewalks, and crecting Public Brildings, including Fire Station, Jail and enlarging he City Hall. Said Election to be 4 and certificd in accordance with the Ordinance of the City of Lake- Lnd providing for the holding and «rtifying of general Elections, ex- ept as provide dby Ordinance num- 122, calling said Bonding Elec- tioi. i jond Trustees shall be streeis aad Lor Ler Three ‘“lm-;uod things just to differ from her «lected at said Election, who shall ompose a Board of Public Works. | JOHN F. COX, i Mayor of the City of Lakeland. ORDINANCE NUMBER 132. An Ordirance providing for the iling and holding an Llection inoand for the City of Lakeland, for de puarpose of voting on the question " issuinz Municipal i the ity of Lakeland, and for the elec- tion of three Trastees for said Bond and the disbursement of the derived from the sale of said of by iinds Bonds, i 1T ORDAINED BY Tl COUN- | Cll, OF THE CITY OF LAKE- LAND: H Section 1. That an Election is| kereby called in and for the City of | in the State of Florida, or against the issue of Municipal Bonds by the City of Lakeland, for the following amounts and purposes: Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($75,000,00) for the purpose of putting in, constructing and operat- Ing a system of Sewerage in the; City of Lakeland. Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,- 000.00) for the purpose of paving Streets and Sidewalks in the City of Lakeland. Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,- 000.00) for the purpose of erecting Public Buildings, including Fire Station and Jail, and enlarging City Hall, for the use of the City of Lake- land. Sec. Only resident Electors, who are otherwise qualified to vote in the General Election of the City of Lakeland, who own real estate with- in the City of Lakeland, and who have paid taxes thereon for the last vear for which taxes were due, shall be qualified to vote in said Election See. 3. Notice of said Election shall be given by the Mayor for thirty (30) days, next preceding said Election, by publishing the same in a newspaper published in to law. Sec. 4. The Ballots to be used at said Election shall be drawn so that against cach Bond issue proposed. Sec. 5. There shall be elected at said Election three Bond Trustees, who shall compose the Board of Pub- lic Works, and who shall negotiate the sale of said Bonds, according to the Charter of the City of Lakeland, and receive the funds derived from caid sale, and who shall have power to contract for the construction of said honds were issued, and disburse the changed | funds derived from sale of same. Each of said Bond Trustees selected shall give bond ip a sum to be fixed and approved by the Cit, Council, payable to the City of Lake- land, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duty. Sec. Said Election shall he called and held, and the roeturns thereof certified in the same manner as other Elections Sec. 7. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance be and SO It | the same are hereby repealed Sec. 8. This Ordinance shall take ‘lasses I'd drink a quart of it rather | ¢ffect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Mavor, I hereby certify that the forego- ing Ordinance, number 132 was ever. There is such a thing as luck | duly passed by the City Council of in courting a widow, and he was pa- | l.akeland, on the 28th day of No- tiently waiting for luck to come his | vember A. D, 1911, H. L. SWATTS, City Clerk. Approved by me this 2%th day of she h““.\'owmlu‘r A Do191. JOHN F. COX. Mayor. Didn’t Tell the Whole Truth. A woman preacher says that her sex is to blame for most of the di- vorces. One might go even further |and state that if it were not for her sex there wouldn't be any divorces.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Beginning of Charity. 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