Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 16, 1911, Page 8

e ,00000000000Q0000 Q - lLove and v © GHUKCH CALENDAR. i a 1 GOoO0DRC000020Q000, Presbyt-rian Church. Rev. W. }* Taalmers, pastor, Sunday vol 9:45 a. m. Morp’ sermon 11:00 a m. Ev - .g sermon at 7:00 p. m. Y. P. S. C. E. meets at 6 p. m. Prayermeeting, Wednesday, 7:30. Christian Church. Geo. W. Weimer, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Communion 10:45 a, m. Preaching, 11:00 a, m. Y. P. S. C. K. co-operates with other societies at Cumberland Pres- syterian church. Evening sermon, 7:30 a. m. BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner Florida avenue and Bay St. The Rev. Willlam Dudley Nowlin, D. D., pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Stevens, superintendent. Preaching Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:15 p. m. Weekly prayermeeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. Weman's Missionary and Aid So- ciety Monday 3:30 p. m. Baptist Young People’s at 6:15 p. m. Regular monthly business meeting first Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. East Lakeland Mission. Sunday school at 3 p. m. E. A. Milton, superintendent. Prayer- meeting Thursday at 7 p. m. Meeting Episcopal Church. Rev. J. H. Weddell, rector. sach Sunday excepting only the third Sunday of each month, Sunday school every Sunday at 10 m. Service 11:00 a. m. Evening Prayer 5:00 p. m. M. E. Church, South. W. K. Piner, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Morning sermon 11:00 a, m. ‘pworth League 6:00 p. m. Evening service, 7:00 p. m. Prayermeeting Wednesday 8:00 . @, Lutheran Church. Rev. H. J. Mathias, Pastor. Sunday school 10:00 a. m. Preaching service 11:00 a. m., and 7:00 p. m., second and fourth Sun- days. Catholic Church. Rev. A. B, Fox, Pastor. Services are held on second fourth Sundays at 9:00 a. m. Cumberland Presbyterian, Without pastor. Sunday school at the regular hour Y. P.S. C. E. at 6:30 p. m, e TR ST L L ] ‘§t La@ins‘ Tailored Suits and Skirts. MISS MINONA HERRON Herron Block. MILLIN : SEPPLPIEEPEP PP DL FOOR DG ISP L. M. Futch. J. H. Gentry. Gentry Undertaking{Co. Successors to Angle Undertaking Co. :: EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL ; DIRECTORS. ‘Phones: day or night, 245. S. L. A. CLONTS DEALER IN Real _tstate CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts’ Building. J.W.ELLIS REAL ESTATE AGENT ity aad Country Property; Im- proved and Unimproved Orange QGreves a Specialty: W2 EAVE SOME OF THE FINEST TRUCK LAND IN FLORIDA Resm 1, Raymonde Buildiag. L. Pasae 200, a Shorgun By Carl Jenkins B (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) Scores of farmers had written to the university that they could use ex- tra hands during July and August, and Clarence Davis was one of the students who elected to work during the vacation. He went to a farmer who wanted only one man, but a big, stout one. Clarence was big and stout, and the farmer figured that if he only had a small appetite he would be as much of a bargaln as a dollar shirt marked down to 69 cents. There was a regular hired man on the farm. He had been there a year. The farmer, the good wife and the daughter welcomed the new hand, but Jim, the hired man, didn’t. He took a long look at him, listened to his talk for a few minutes, and then went out to the barn and shook his fist at the haymow and kicked over a half-bushel measure and hoarsely exclaimed: “If he does it I will kill him if I hang for it!" Farmer Bush's daughter was named Amelia, She was twenty-two years old and engaged to Jim. He had won her heart and hand in the first three months. No date had been set for the wedding, but it was counted a sure thing. Amelia had taught a district school one term, and was inclined to look down on Jim. The college boy went to work with a good deal of vim. He wanted mus- cle, and he wanted the wages. While he was a hired man for the nonce, he couldn’t help being himself at the same time. He didn't use soft soap to wash his hands; he made use of comb and brush before coming to the table; he made a change from his working clothes after the chores had been done up for the night. Amelia was impressed from the very first day, and she was foolish enough to show it. The student hadn't been an inmate of the farm- house two full weeks when it was plain to everybody that Jim was down on him. He jeered at his work, A"il \\! “If He Does It I'll Kill Him.” sneered at his talk and became al most insulting over his musical abil ities on the cottage organ. “Better go slow,” cautioned the farmer to the lover one day. “If you get him real mad he'll break you in two.” “RBut he shall never take Amelia from me and live!” was the reply. “pooh! He isn't giving her thought.” But Jim could see flirtation, love, marriage and all that in every little action, and one evening, as the two men were milking the cows, he boiled over. The knowledge had come to him that the lemon pie on the supper table had been made and served on account of his rival. That ple broke the camel's back. He an- nounced the fact to the student and pitched in. He was gathered up and thrown over the fence, and then he planned a tragedy. Two evenings later, as Mr. Davis entered the barn to feed the horses, there was a flash and a roar and a handful of birdshot whizzed around him. Jim had fired a second too soon and the old fanning mill, in- stead of a live man, had received the leaden pellets. The would-be was taken by the nmeck and shaken. “Now then, you blamed idiot, sit down here and tell me what's the matter! What do you want to make a lead mine of me for?” “Amelia!” almost sobbed Jim. “And what about Amelia?" “You have cut me out with her! She has gone back on me! We loved till you came. Now she says she don’t know whether she will have me or mot.” “You pumpkinseed! I have simply been courteous to the girl—nothing more. So this is what has been alling you, is 1t?" Jim took from his pocket & memo- randum book, and by the fading light of evening he read: “Amelia was in & flutter about his coming. “She frissed her batr for the first time ia six meaths. “Had on her Sunday dress. “Had on a breastpia. ! | i write?" “Talked with him about New York, . 3Joston and Chicago, though she 1ever saw these places. “Said yes, sir, and no, sir, to him, “Scrambled his eggs for breakfast. “Asked him to have a third cup of offee. : “Been dressed up every day since. | Been talking about Shakespeare and Byron. | “Talks mostly to him when we sit on the veranda. “Hain't the same girl she was, : “Won't let her mother cook any | more biled dinners. Says they are plebeian and vulgar. “I am a desperate man.” “You must have been suffering all this time,” said the student when the hired man was finished. “Suffer! I'll show you how I have suffered. Listen to this. And he took the lantern down off its nail and' lighted the stub of a candle and sol- emnly read: A “Amelia struck on the college chap, and he on her. Didn't get to sleep till an hour after midnight. “College chap eats with a fork. I sneered at him, and Amelia gave me a nasty look. “College chap combs his hair three times a day. Tried to joke with Amelia about it, but she wouldn't joke. “College chap says ‘thanks’ when his plate or cup is handed him. l| told Amelia he might be a horse thief for all that, but she said I'd better mend my own manners, “The two were talking about & poem or something named ‘Evangel- ine, on the veranda last evening. I broke in to talk about hogs, and later on Amelia said it would be awfully hard to be tied to a man like me, “Lald awake and tossed all over the bed till I heard the roosters crow. That college chap had best be- ware. My loving heart is mot the only one that has been driven to des- peration. “Amelia still frizzing and saying ‘sir’ College chap can play the organ and sing. I sald he'd better be split- ting rails instead, and Amelia wouldn't speak to me for the rest of the evening. False girl, beware! “College chap is too big for me to lick, but I know where I can borrow a shotgun. It can go off by accl dent. I tried to press Amelia's hand last night, but she wouldn't be pressed. Never slept a wink all nigbt. “Amelia has told me that I snore in my sleep, and that the college chap don't. She says that snoring is vulgar. More desperation! “This book will be found on my person. Let it be my excuse for what I am about to do. Amelia, let thy consclence be thy punishment!™ l With the ending of the record Jim blew out the candle, hung up the FREE LUNCH SATURDAY AFTERNOON SOEOPOEOE0 Cooking Done by Electricity from 2 to 4 o’clock p. m. Everybody Invited; Most Espec- : g ORGP g r 5o @@ P OO Ayt ially the Ladies. PROT TR TR Y T EVERER S SR L L Dt o . 'Y OHOVOFOPOTOLIPOIOLOHOBOT OB DTOIUIOL AP OB OLOFCEOSOFOINEOFOLOROFO 102 Florida Electric & Machinery Co. Store The Professions DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH SPECIALIST Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Scientifically ‘Phone: Office 141, Residence 22. Bryant Bldg, Lakeland, Fla. DR. W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST Established in July, 1900 Rooms 14 and 16 Kentuoky Bullding Phones: Office 180: Residence 84 lantern and sat down on a bag of |~ feed and was silent. \ “Jim, did you mean to shoot me?" asked Mr. Davis, “Yes, meant to blow you all to bits!” “Just wait here till I come back from the house.” He went to his chamber, packed his things, wrote a short note to the farmer as to where to send the wages due him and get back to the barn without being seen. Jim hadn't moved off the bag. “Going away?' he asked as the other entered. “Yes.” “Did you bid Amella good-by?” “No." “Didn't give her hand one last squeeze?” “I didn’t even see her.” “And you won't come back of long, “Neither.” “Then—then—" said Jim as he rose and advanced—"then—" And he kissed the college chap on the cheek and the other felt, as he headed away in the darkness, that the hired man's eyes were wet with tears. CRITIC DEFINES WHISTLING R. H. Schauffier, Musical Critic, De- clares the Art Should Be Encouraged. The whistler is generally regarded as a nuisance, and is suppressed it possible, but R. H. Schauffier, the distinguished musical critic, thinks the art ought to be encouraged. Mr. Schauffier confesses in his recent book that he himself whistles B::hms themes whenever he is alone. The Office Window man has never heard Mr. Schauffler whistle, but his own personal opinion is that Brahms {s not adapted to whistling, being far too high-browed. The art of whist. ling really became lost when such tunes as “Money Musk” and the “Irish Washerwoman” passed out of common knowledge. In those old days the accomplished whistler had a trick of wobbling his tongue about in his mouth in such a way as to produce a pecullar effect of trills and harmonies that really belonged to high art. As matters are now, the attempts of an office assistant to render his favorite themes from Wagner, Dvorak, 'hchalkownky,‘ Scharwenka and other eminent Teu- tonic or Slavonic composers some- times threaten scenes of carnage and | bloodshed that would put Caneva to the blush if the strong hand of justice did not intervene. An Explanation. “Your nephew is a college graduate, ien't he?” “Yes,” confessed honest Farmer Hornbank; “dut in justice to the col lege I'll own that he had no sense be- ‘m"—w-'o Home c-.-l DR. J. P. Getzen, ntist. Bryant Building. Office 'Phone, 5-2 Rings, Residence 'Phone 148 Lakeland, Florida. DR. 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