Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 29, 1912, Page 2

LE FAGE TWO THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JANUARY 29, 1912. . )] MISS - MINERVA and ST GREIN HIlL e —— By TRANCES BOYD CALHOUN (Copyright, by Reilly & Britton Co.) CHAPTER XVI. | The Humble Petition, Billy, sitting in an old buggy in front of the livery stable, had just | engaged in a long and interesting conversation with Sam Lamb. He was getting out of the vehicle when the sharp wire around the broken rod caught in the back of his trousers and tore a great hole. He felt a tingling pain and looked over his shoulder to . investigate. Not being satisfied with the result, he turned his back to the negro and anxiously inquired: “Is my breeches tore, Sam?" | “Dey am dat,” was the reply, "dey ! am busted f'm Dan ter Beersheba.” “What I goin' to do ‘bout it?" ask- ed the little boy., “Aunt Minerva sho' will be mad. These here's bran-spankin’ new trousers what 1 ain't never wore tell today. Ain't you got a needle an’ i thread so's you can fix ‘em. Sam?" “Nary er needle,” said Sam lamb. | “Is my union suit tore, 100?" asked ing his way, Billy again turning his back for in- She made no answering comment, | spection, His friend made a close examina- tion, “Yo' unions is injured plam sean- erlous,” was his discouraging decision, “and hit ‘pears ter me dat yo' hide done suffer, 100; you's got er turrible scrateh.” . The child sighed. The injury to the flesh wuas of swall importance—he | could hide that from his aunt—but the rent in his trouscrs was a serious | matter, | “1 wish T could get ‘em mended ‘fore l 1 goes home,” he said wistfully, “I tell you what do” suggested | Sam, "1 low Miss Cecili'll holp yeh: | jest go by her house an' she'll d:u'n!‘ ‘em up fer yeh” . shifted uneasily in his seat. Billy flushed at the compliment and That ! patch seemed to burn him. “If God'd jest do his part,” he said | darkly, “I wouldn't never git in no meanness.” After supper Miss Minerva washed the dishes in the kitchen sink and Billy carried them back to the dining room. His aunt caught him several times prancing sideways in the most idiotic manner. He was making a valiant effort to keep from exposing his rear elevation to her; once he had to walk backward. “William,"” she said, sharply, will break my plates. matter with you tonight?” A little later they were sitting qui etly in Miss Minerva's room. She was “you , reading “The Christian at Home,” and he was absently lcoking at o picture book. “Sam Lamb’s wife Sukey sho' beantiful patcher,” is a he remarked, fecl and the couraged little boy was si- lent for a tew wminutes. He had worn Anunt Cindy's many-colored pittches too often to be ashamed of this one fop himself, but he felt that he would like | to draw his aunt out and find how she | stood on the subject of patcehes, “Aunt Minerva,” ed, “what sorter patches'd yoeu r wear en o’ oante, Ll or brown?" “"On my what?" she asked, looking at him severely over hel paper, “I mean if yon're me,” he hastily ox- |-I.nn< d. “Don’t you think blué patches is the mos' nat'ral lookin'?" “What are you driving at, William™ she asked: but without waiting for Lis : g answer she went on with her read- Rilly hesitated ing i . A\ '],I' you see, Sam, me an’ ..\“ f 0 The ehid was ¢itent for a lone time, (lllll-tT v Aot we's i o g dittle mind busy, then he begang ;o jos on's 1 oput on long | “Aunt Miferva panis, an’ I 'shame’ 1o ask her, An Slie pecred at him over her glasses I dow't believe young ‘omans patches {000 1 a secon > § ) Teves the breeches of young wans what . " il “‘” SHEC R i e e i g paper where an interesting ariicle on Aunt Mierva ain’ ne hed noy \I.”‘Iy .!h' :l\x lh I|‘| el i breeches for And then,” F o x\'-| | ]I. d 1 : ”! e with a wodes “my unions is dH\ i) ol b bl R tore, too, an’ | ain ot on nothin else to hide my skin.” ¢ ln ,1“| furr (*I‘l ack to bis g Cennnibal feast rietd and, his cionded le faee & | I 's aesertin’ on it right now,” he re- ing over his shenider, he asked: llw lied plied. my l:n..x show .‘. Anoiher long silenee ensiod. Billy Q! n i . he ne yd eve.” . 1 She am virible the naled eve,” | resolved 1o settle the ,,,.,!;\ r and Sam Laaub I own wit, “1 don't In-lxr\n God pars tie much | attention nohiow,” suid the litile boy dolefully; “ev'y day 1 gets put to bed | thed loualy at his sently, | et me zee the place,” h plued to a T eyes “I's gortin’ ny,” he “Aunt Minerva, i want to say my pray- ers and go to bed.” She laid her paper down and dropped to his knees by her side. he te What is the he presently aske | ier | ¢ yawned, | Lakeland Lodge No. 91 F. & A. M. meets in Masonic Hall every Second and Fourth Monday nights. A cor- dial invitation to visiting brethren.' C. G. Arendell, secretary; J. L. Love, W. M. | L) . L | Lakeland Chapter, R. A. M. No.' 29 meets the first Thursday night in each month in Masonic Hall. Visit- ing companions welcomed. C. G. Arendell, Sec'y.; J. F. Wilson, H. P. e o | Palm Chapter, O. E. S. meets every second and fourth Thursday nights of each month at 7:20 p. m. Mrs. Flora Keen, W, M., Lucie F. B. Eaton, Secy. [ s s 0 | Lakeland Camp No. 78, W. 0. W.,, meets every second and fourth Thurs- 'day night. Woodmen Circle first and third Thursdays. C. F. Ken- ! nedy, Council €cmmancer, Mrs, Sal- lie Scipper, Guardian of Circle, - . . 1.0.0. F. Meets every Friday n&;hl at 7:30 cat 1, 0. 0. F. Hall ,corner Main and Tennessee, Visiting brothers cor- | dially invited. J. Q. FRENCH, Noble Grand. ; K. OF P. l aular mecting every Tuesday at Odd Fellows Hall, Visit- members always welceme, | ing I F. D. BRYAN, | [ Chancellor Commander. | ‘1‘\. M. JACKSON, Secretary. . ! G.1LAtoB of L E. | | Orange Blossom Div. No. 499 B ¢ A B to B, of L. E. meets every iwrond and fourth \\'(llllo~(|1l_\':w‘ of | each month at 2:30 p. Visiting ‘sistors always \\|Irnm<\ i MRS, J. C. BROWN Sec'y. | Mrs. J. B. HOGAN, Pres. - - . G. A R | Meets first Saturday in every month at (. E. Dayton’s, South Ten- nessee. J. R. TALLEY, Adjt. S. L. 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From $1.75): ‘cause sumpin’s all time a-huppenin’, |lx~ull'\ sprawled all over her lap dur- |’ If he'd had a eye on me like he ought- | | ing his lengthy devotions, but tonight er they wouldn’t a been no snaggin'. | he clasped his little hands and rear ‘Aunt Mingrva's goin' to be mad th'0o | ed back like a rabbit on its haunches. an’' th'oo.” After he had rapidly repeated the ¢ “May be my ol' 'oman can fix ‘em, | Lord's Prayer, which he hgd recent- s0's dey .won't be w tumhle bad.” Il\ learned, and had invoked blessings suggested the negro, * ‘tain’t fer, on all his new friends and never-to-be- you jes' run down ter my cabin an’ lell forgotten old ones, he concluded with: Sukey 1 say fix dem breeches.” “An, O lord. you done kep' me The child needed no second bidding I fom meddlin' with Aunt Minerva's ~—he fairly flew. Sam’s wife was cook- | hose any mo’, an’ you done kep’ me ing, but she cheerfully stopped her f'om gittin' any mo' Easter eggs, an’ work to help the little boy. She sew- | playin’ any mo' Injun, an’ you done ed up the union suit and put a bright | kep’ me f'm lettin’ Mr. Algernon Jones blue patch on his brown linen come agin, an’ now, O Lord. please breeches. don’t lemme worrv the very zistence guffaw of the untutored boy, there is sure to be something of good- an.l! usually a whole lot of it—in that person’s character. 1 Lav er and mirth come as natur- ally to children as the sun does to summer. It is good for them and it is good for all of us to hear them; yet riany parents and most teachers go te a vast amount of trouble t laughter in children. Have we a the-) oty that childhoed should be si Za.-rious and “sour?” Enough of that will come into life as the years mul-! ROCKER to repress i nt. Billy felt a little more cheerful. | outer Aunt Minerva any mo' 'n vou “ Nf L SO ‘h.“m';'."""' ot though he still dreaded confessing to | can help, like she said | done this 1 the man has been trained to meet! his aunt, and he loitered along the l moernin’, an’ p if thy will be done, | 'ouble with a smile, he s thrice) way till it was nearly dark. Supper | don’t lemme the next new j&imu d 1o overcome it. In the tren was ready when he got home and he | breeches v b gimme like Vdone uous activities of meie 1 4 walked into the dining rcom with his | ruint these Lere whar 1 got on.” We crave lau t thot customary ease and grace. But he took S - ey - el . . theatre shail ¢, Rockers in Qak. Reed. Ratt: and he was so quiet I CHAPTER XVII. vstead of Shakespearean tragedy: Roc Misalon at 1 e o tan neal and ate so 1 that | e e e Asbsaa L L Misslen at prices to suit. asked him if lie was sick. | A Creen-Eyed Billy, we hunt for the man w !.“ laughs and _— He was pli his mind how to ! “Have some candy? said Miss Ce TONL Ml HY W o | Cash or Instaiment. Your break 1h of the day’s disaster cilia. offe of vonbons i E Y o de, Ragapesl oo Credit Is Good With Us, “You are impr o1 he asked, as 1 M remarked 1e 1 has won pea into any wischof sent them te been a michiy good two days.” ) lae this morn- Hilly put all his candy back into the (Continued on page €6.) e MK[[AND FURNITURE & . - HARDWARE (0. n l‘l‘ midst of millions of ¢ trouble i dianapolis Star. Phone 208 1OCOLOIOIQIOTOIONY O RED 2 CALL AND SEE THEM. CAN SAVE YOU MONEY 2 Crushed Rock, Sand and Cement for Sal ¢ BUILDING BLOCKS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS 12°'and 18 inch Drain Tile for Sidewalk, Gate Posts, Mounds, Ete, Good Stock on Hand H. 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