Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 23, 1912, Page 6

W. FISKE JOHNSON REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED i 1 | | BUYS AND SELLS REAL ESTATE, ORANGE GROVE PROPER- TY A SPECIALTY. | | | | | | (Copyright, by Reilly & Britton Co.) : T T T Raymondo Building. (Continued frem page 2,) top.” screamed Jimmy. “Tou all time | got to perpose someping to get little boys in trouble anyway,” he added un- generously. “You perposed this yo'self,” de- “You said ‘ligious clared an indignant Billy. Aunt Minerva's would'nt git mad.” “Christian woman's can get ju-i as mad as any oiher kind,” declaied the other boy, sliding from his perch on the fence and running ucross the lawn to disappear behind his own front steps. Holding her skirts nearly up to her knees Miss Minerva stepped gingerly along the wet and muddy street till she got to her gate, where her nep- ! hew met her, looking a little guilty, ' but still holding his head up with that characteristic, manly air which was | 80 aftractive. “Willlam,” she sald sternly, “I see you have been getting into mischief, | and I feel it my duty to punish you, | 80 that you may learn to be trust- | worthy. [ said nothing to you about the hose because I did not think you ! would know how to use it.” Billy remained silent. He did not want to betray his little companions of the morning, so he said nothing in his own defense, “Come with me into the house,” con- tinued his aunt, “you must go to bed at once.” But the child protested vigorously. “Don’t make me go to bed in the daytime, Aunt Minerva; me an’ Wilkes Booth Lincoln ain’t never went to bed in the daytime since we's born, an' I ain't never hear tell of a real ‘liglous ‘oman a-puttin’ a little boy in bed 'fore it's dark; an’ I ain’t never a-going to meddle with yo' ole hose no mo'.” s0 she Are you satisfied with your NET RESULTS of last year? Unkept resolutions weaken you; DOING what you determine to do will build your character. Bring the money you have in your pocket to our bank RIGHT NOW, and begin the year semsibly by starting to SAVE and GET AHEAD. If you do, one year from today you will thank us. te j Saving only 25 cents & day—$7.50 a month—and interest will amount to over ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS in 10 years. FIRST NATIONAL BANK LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Goverzment. and the little boy spent a miserable hour between the sheets. CHAPTER VI. Successful Strategy. “I have a present for you,” sald his aunt, handing Billy a long, rectangu- lar package Timber, Turpentine, Cut-over Lands, Choice Colinization Tracts at Low Prices, Florida Homes and Groves on High Rolling Land, Situated on Beautiful Lakes, Paying Straw- berry and Trucking Farms. i 2 WITH 32 YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH FLORIDA SOILS, CROPS AND CITRUS GROVES. WE GUARANTEE ALL PROPERTY JUST AS REPRESENTED BY US. FOR RELIABLE INFORMATION SEE Ohlinger @ § Alfield Opposite New Depot, ~ “Thank you, ma'am,” gaid her beam- ing nephew as he sat down on the floor, all eager anticipation, and be- gan to untie the string. His charm- ing, changeful face was bright and bappy again, but his expression be- came one of indigrant amaze as he saw the contents of the box. “What I want with a doll?” asked angrily, "I ain’t no girl.” “l think every little boy should have a doll and learm to make | clothes for it,” said Miss Minerva. I | don’t want you to be a great, rough boy; I want you to be sweet and | gentle like a little girl; I am going to teach you how to sew and cook and Sweep, SO you may grow up a com- fort to me.” This was a gloomy forecast for the little boy accustomed, as he had been, to the freedom of a big plantation, ! and he scowled darkly. , “Me an’ Wilkes Booth Lincoln ain’t never hafter piay with no dolls sence | we's born,” he replied sullenly, “we goes in swimmin’ an’ plays baseball. I can knock a home-run an’ pitch a curve an’ ketch a fly. Why dont you gimme a baseball bat? [ already got a ball what Admiral Farragut gimme. An’ I ain’t a-goin’ to be no sissy neither. Lina an’ Frances plays dolls, me an’ Jimmy—" he stopped in | sudden confusion. “Lina and Frances and James!” ex- claimed his aunt. “What do you know about them, William2” Mayes Grocery Company Wholesale Grocers il b d et HAY : GRAIN : AND : FEED We sell all kinds of Crate Materal and Ship- ping Hampers. A few cars of Shingles at COST to close. he IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants MAYES GROCERY COMPANY Lakeland. Florida | sharply. | a selfish Billy, “he could save me a | barrassed. | two was known to every one in the But Miss Minerva was ohdurm.’ ) THE LVENING fELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JANUARY 23, 1912. " The child’s face flushed. “I seen | ‘om this mornin’,” he acknowledged. Miss Minerva put a hand on either | shoulder and looked straight into his | eyes., | “\Villiam, who started that sprink- | she questioned, ¢ l ling this morning?” Billy flushed guiltily and lowered his lids; butonly for an instant. Quick- Iy recovering his composure he re- turned her gaze steadily and ignored her question. “[ see yo' beau too, Aunt Minerva,” he remarked tranquilly. It was Miss Minerva this time who lost her composure, for her thin, sal- low face became perfectly crimson. “My beau?’ she asked confusedly. “Who put that nonsense into your head?” “Jimmy show him to me” he re- plied jauntily, once more master of the situation and in full realization of the fact. “Why don’t you marry bim, Aunt Minerva, so's he could live right here with us? Anm’I could learn him how to churn. I s’pec’ he'd make a beautiful churner. He sho' is a pret- ty little fat man,” he continued flat- teringly. “An’ dress? That beau was jest dressed plumb up to the top notch. 1 sho’ would marry him 1f I's you an’ mot turn up my nose at him ‘cuuse he wears pants an’ you can Jearn him how to talk properer’n what he do an’ I betcher he'd jest nachelly take to a broom, an’ I s'pec’ he ain't got nobody 't all to show him how to sew. An' yo' all could get the doctor to fetch you a little baby so he wouldn't hafter to play with no doll. I sho' wisht w& had him here,” ended lot of steps. An’ I sho' would llke to hear 'bout all them Injuns an' Yan- kees what he's Killed.” Billy's aunt was visibly em- The persistent admiration ot this, her one lover, had been pleasing to her, vet she had never been willing to sacrifice her independence for the cares and trials of matrimony. The existing state of affairs between the {small town, but such was Miss Minerva's dignified aloofness that Bil- |1y was the first person who had ever dared to broach the subject to her. “Sit down here, Willlam,” she com- manded, “and I will read to you.” “Tell me a tale,” he sald, looking up at her with his bright, sweet smile. ! The doll lay neglected on a chair near by and Billy wanted her to forget it. “Tell me 'bout Piljerk Peter.” “Plljerk Peter?” there was an inter- rogation in her voice. “Yag'm. Aln't you never hear tell ‘bout Piljerk Peter? He had fifteen chillens an’ one time the las’ one of ‘em an’ bis ole 'oman was down with the fever an' he ain't got but one pill an’ they so sick they mos’ 'bout to die an’ aln’t nobody in the flel’ fer 0 pick the cotton an’ he can't git no doctor an’ he ain’t got but jest that one pill; se he tie that pill to a string an’ let the bigges' chile swaller it an’ draw it back up an’ let the nex chile swaller it an’ jerk it back up an’ let the nex’ chile swaller, it su' jel It back up an’ let the nex'—" children,” interrupted his aunt, I will tell you biographical and historical stories and stories from the Now listen, while I read to you.” “An’ the nex' chile swaller it an’ he jerk it back up,” continuned Billy se- renely, “an’ the nex' chile swaller it an’ he jerk it back up tell finely ev'y single one of ‘em, plumb down to the baby, swaller that pill an’ the las’ one of em got well an’ that one§pill it done the work. Then he tuck the pill and | give it to his ole 'oman an’ she swaller | it an’ he jerk it back up but didn't potbin’ "t all come up bLut jest the | string an’ his vle ‘oman she dlvdf ‘cause all the strenk done gone; outer that pill.” Miss Minerva opened a book called “Gems for the Household,” which she bad purchased from a silver-tongued book-agent. She selected an article the subject of which was “The Pure | fn Heart.” | Billy listened with a seemingly at- tentive ear to the choice flow of | words, but in reality his little brain ! was busy with its own thoughts. The | article closed with the suggestion that | if one were innocent: and pure he; would have a dreamless sleep: “If vou have a conscience clear, ; And God's commands you keep; i If your heart is good and pure, You will have a perfect sleep.” its a Skunk™ “I bought you a i morning,” she remar! silence, “and I want yo, +, . son every day.” ) : “I already knows a lo1 " “Tabernicle, he an' Mc:(.. been to school an’ they i, i Wilkes Booth Lincoln crooked S, an’ brol curly tail Q, an’ roun spell cat cat, an’' doz . stands fer apple.” That night he conciuic! 3., lengthy prayer at hi, xi.... knee with: : 0 Lord, please muks Minerva a litile baby, 1 of 'em. O Lord, 1t vo. spare please make her 1 bies an’ let ‘em all bo . can learn 'em how to (! An’ bless Aunt Mineryv, Minerva, £'r ever 'nd ey, As he rose from i asked: “Aunt Minerva on Sunday?” “No-0,” answered his itatingly. “Well, it look like 11 work on Sunday, ' a-makin’ babies. H. | Billy's aunt concluded. Wishing to | know if he had understood what she | had just read she askel: “What people sleep the soundest?” “Niggers,” was his prompt reply, as he thought of the long summer days and the colored folk on the plantation. She was disappointed, but not dis- couraged. “Now, William,” she admonished, “I'm going to read you another piece, and [ want you to tell me about it, when I get through. Pay strict atten- tion.” “Yas'm,” he readily agreed. She chose an article describing the keen sense of smell in animals. Miss Minerva was not an entertaining reader and the words were lon and fairly incomprehensible to the little boy sitting patiently at her side. Again his thoughts wandered, though every now and then he caught a word | or two. “What animals have the keenest sense of smell, William?" was her query at the conclusion of her read- ing. “Billy goats,” was Billy’'s answer without the slightest hesitation. “You have goats on the brain,” she said in anger. *“I did not read one niggera an’ heathens ui word about billy goats.” SRILE chiilens: 0 1_"."'L i “Well, if ‘tain’t a billy goat,” h”bmh' th 11-~|1».lxin. replied, “I do’ know what 'tis’ thout .\linl'r\'u'.‘" ; (Continued.) o7 Aunt - .,‘\)’ Visit the FLORIDA HIGHLANDS C0.'S LANDS at Duui Jeaves Lakeland at 7:10 a. m., Monday, Wednesday and F:iduv 10.000 acres of choice fruit lands to select from. Locatd Florida's Highland Lakes, in Polk County. Countless sparkling spring-fed lakes, altitude 240 feet pure, soft water, good transportation. 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