Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 30, 1912, Page 6

W. FISKE JOHNSON REAL ESTATE LOANS NEGOTIATED BUYS AND SELLS REAL ESTATE, ORANGE GROVE PROPER- TY A SPECIALTY. Raymondo Building. Are you satisfied with your N:T RESULTS of last year? Unkept resolutions weaken you; DOING what you determine to do will build your character. Bring the mon:y you have in your pocket to our bank RIGHT NOW, and begin the year sensibly by starting to SAVE and GET AREAD. If yoa do, one year from today you will thank us. Saving only 25 ceats a day—$7.50 a month—and interest will amount to over ELEVEN HUNDARED DOLLARS in 10 years. FIRST NATIONAL BANK LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government. We Carry NothingBut Absolutely Fresh Stock All the Time <) Our Goods Are Right. .. Our Prices Are Right . . .. And You Will Be Right 1f You Buy Your Groceries g O W.P. PILLANS & CO. Mayes Grocery Company Wholesale Grocers S ———————— HAY : GRAIN : AND : FEED We sell all kinds of Crate Materal and Ship- ping Hampers. A few cars of Shingles) at COST tozclose. IDEAL FERTILIZERS Always on Hand. We Solicit Orders From Nearby Merchants MAYES GROCERY COMPANY Lakeland. Florida TyE LVENING fELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JANUARY 30, 1912. Miss Minerva w SOVWTTIAL N Il S DRSS O0) L (Continued from page 2.) s0 stuck on him.” “I would n't kiss him to £-ve his life,” declared Frances; “he 's got the spindliest legs I ever saw.” | CHAPTER XX. { Rising in the World. i The painter had just finished put- ting a bright green coat of paint upon the low, flat roof of Miss Minerva's long back-porch. And he left his lad- der leaning against the uouse while he went inside to confer with her in re-! gard to some other work. | Billy, Jimmy, Frances and Lina had been playing “Fox and Geese.” Run- ' ning around the house they spied the ladder and saw no owner to deny them. | “Le 's clam' up and get on top the porch,” suggested Jimmy. | *Aunt Minerva 'll put me to bed if I do,” said Billy. | “Mother 'll make me learn a whole page of the catechism if I climb a lad- der,” said Lina. “My mama ‘{l shut me up in the closet, but our mamas are n’t hound | to know ‘bout it,"—this from Frances. “Come on, let 's climb up.” “I ain't never promise not to clam’ no ladder but —" Billy hesitated. | “You-all 'bout the skeeriest folks they is,” sneered Jimmy. “Mama 'll whip me going and coming if she finds out ‘bout it, but I ain't skeered. I dare anybody to dare me to clam’ up.” “I dare you to climb this ladder,” responded an accommodating Frances. “I ain't never tooken a dare yet,” boasted the little boy proudly, his foot on the bottom rung. “Who s goling to foller me?” “Don't we have fun?’ cried a jubl- lant Frances. “Yes,” answered Jimmy; “if grown folks don't all time be watching you and sticking theirselfs in your way.” “If people would let us alone,” re- marked Lina, “we could enjoy our selves every day.” “But grown folks got to be so per- tic'lar with you all time,” cried Jimmy, “they don't never want us to play to- gether.” He led the way up the ladder, fol- lowed by Frances and Billy; and Lina brought up the rear. The children ran the long length of the porch leaving their footprints on the fresh, sticky paint. “Will it wash oft?” asked Frances, | looking gloomily down at her feet, which seemed to be encased In green moccasins. At that moment she slipped and fell sprawling on top of the roof. When the others helped her to her feet, she was a sight to behold, her white dress splotched with vivid green from top to bottom. “If that ain't jus’ like you, Fran. ces,” Jimmy exclaimed; “you all time got to fall down and get paint on your dress so we can't 'ceive nobody. Now our mamas bound to know ‘bout us mourned Lina; “we °ll never get this paint off of our feet. We bad better get right down and see if we can't wash some of it off.” While they were talking the owner of the ladder, who had not noticed them—and was deaf in the bargain— bad quietly removed it from the back- porch and carried it around to the front of the house. The children looked at each other in consternation when they perceived their loss. “What we goin’ to do now?” asked Billy. “If this ain’t just like Billy, all time got to perpose to clam’ a ladder and all time got to let the ladder get loose from him,” growled Jimmy. “We done , cocxed a goose ege, this time. You | dye some more Easter eggs! | we better not holler,” said Jimmy. | “Aln’t you going to do nothing, Billy { seemed the safest, and they were soon zot us up here, Billy, how you going to get us down?”’ I did n't, neither.” “Well, it 's Miss Minerva's house and she 's your aur, and we ’'s your company and you got to be ‘sponsible.” “I can clam’ down this-here post,” said the responsible party. “I can climb down it, too,” sec onded Frances. “You can't clam’' down nothing at all,” said Jimmy contemptuously. “Talk ‘bout you can clam’ down a post; you ‘d fall and bust yourself | wide open; you 'bout the clumsiest | girl there is; 'sides, your legs 're t00 fat.” “We can holla,” was Lina's sugges- | tion. “And have grown folks laughing fit to pop their sides open? I 'm ‘shame’ to go anywheres now ‘cause folks all time telling me when [ 'm going to Naw, ” “I "Il jest slide down this-here post and git the painter man to bring his ladder back. Y’ all wait up here.” Billy’'s solution of the dimmmyi reléased from their elevated prison. “l might as well go home and be tearning the catechism,” groaned Lina. “I 'm going to get right in the closet | soon 's | get to my house,” said Fran- ces. “Go on and put on your night- shirt, Billy.” Billy took himself to the bathroom and scrubbed ang scrubbed; but the paint refused to come off. He tiptoed by the kitchen where his aunt was cooking dinner and ran into his own | room, He found the shoes and stockings which were reserved for Sunday wear, 2nd soon had them upon his little feet. Miss Minerva rang the dinner-bell and he walked quietly into the dining- room trying to make as little noise and to attract as little attention from his aunt as possible; but she fastened her eyes at once upon his feet. “What are you doing with your thoes on, William?" she asked. Billy glanced nonchalantly at her. “Don’t you think, Aunt Minerva,” he made answer, “I 's gittin' too big to go ‘thout any shoes? I 's mos' ready to put on long pants, an' how'd I look, I'd jest like to know, goin' round’ bare- footed an’ got on long breeches. I don’ believe I Il go barefooted no mo* —1I'll jest wear my shoes ev'y day.” “] just believe you won't. Go take them off at once and hurry back to your dioner.” “Lemme jest walt tell I eats,” be begged, hoping to postpone the evil hour of exposure. “No, go at once, and be sure and wash your hands.” Miss Minerva spled the paint the in- stant he made his second entrance snd immediately inquired, “How did you get that paint on your feet?’ The little boy took his seat at the table and looked up at her with his sweet, attractive, winning smile. “Paint pertec’s little boys’ feets,” he said, “an’ keeps 'em f'om gittin' hurt- ed, Aunt Minerva, don't it?” Miss Minerva laid down her fork and gave her nephew her undivided attention, ;o “You have been getting into mischief again, I see, William; now tell me all about it. Are you afraid of me?” “Yas 'm,” was his prompt response, “an’ [ don't want to be put to bed neither. The major he would n’t put little boys to bed day times.” She blushed and eyed him thought. fully. She was making slow progress with the child, she knew, yet she still felt it her stern duty to be very strict with him and, having laid down cepr! L % A-MMDONMG, to rear him by, she wished to them. “William,” she said after he had made a full confession, “1 won't pua- ish you this time for I know that Jim- my led you into it but—" l “Naw'm, Jimmy did nt. Me an’| bim an’ Frances an’ Lina's all ‘spons- ible, but I promise you, Aunt Minerva, | mot to clam’ no mo’ ladders.” ' ! | ! CHAPTER XXI, Pretending Reality. The chain-gang had been working in the street not far from Miss Mi- nerva's house, and Lina, Frances, Billy and Jimmy had bung on her fromt fence for an hour, watching them with eager interest. The negroes weror ed by two, big, burly white men. ed Jimmy. | gether by two round, fat ankies and in’ craps an' Jimmy done got 'rested -according prompt obedience to their of wood taken from a railway station chained together in pairs, and guard- | &t Oakley, Fifeshire, says the Londca | Standard, there has beem found a “Let's us play chaingang,” suggest. | ¥0rd measuring over twd feet long. The plank bad been'in use for at “Wherg we goin’ to git a chain?™ least fifteen years. o e ly shook himself to pieces all avail; the key had disap..., by magic. “l berlieve y’ all done key,” concluded ne. “Maybe it dropped on t said Frances. They searched the yarg Over the key was not to be fourq O “Well, f that ain't jus iike Billy,” cried Jimmy, “you 411 + v, " posing to play chain-gang a: -, time lose the key.” Lina grew indignant. “You proposed this yourse!s, Garner,” she said; “we ne., - have thought of playing . but for you.” “It looks like we can't nev.: thing at all,” moaned “'thout grown folks 've g ‘bout it.” “Yes, ahd laugh fit to jo; - open,” said her fellow.} can't never pass by Owen Len Hamner now ‘thoy y just like idjets and grin ju.: cats.” “I ain’t never hear tell of | grinnin',” corrected Billy, " worser 'n what a billy goy “It is Chessy cats thur . plained Lina. “Look like folks woulq ¢« - of pole-cats stead o' chiilioy- ! hafto be wearing ussferry | - | their nakes, s0 's they cun ho.o whooping cough,” said Fri: “You can't wear a pole nake,” grinned Billy “And Len Hamner all iy » ing me,” Jimmy continued, going to wear Sarah Jun. queried Billy; “’t won't be no fun ‘thout a lock an’ chain.” “I can get the lock and chain off 'm Sarah Jane's cabin.” Yo' mama don't 'low you to go to her cabin,” said Billy. “My mama don't care if I just berra & lock and chain; so I 'm going to get . ; “I 'm going to be the perlice of the gang,” said Frances. “Perlice nothing. You all time talk- ing ‘bout you going to be a perlice,” |, scoffed Jimmy. “I 'm going to be the ! perlice myself.” “No, you are not,” interposed Lina, firmly. “Billy and I are the tallest and we are going to be the guards, and you and Frances must be the prison- ers.” “Well, I ain't going to play 'thout I can be the boss of the niggers. It 's Sarah Jane's chain and she 's my mama'’s cook, and I'm going to be what 1 please.” “I "Il tell you what do,” was Billy's suggestion, “we'll take it turn about; me an’ Lina 'll first be the perlice an’ y' all be the chain-gang, an’ then we ‘Il be the niggers an’ y’ all be the bosses.” This arrangement weas satisfactory, so0 the younger boy climbed the fence and soon returned with a short chain| and padlock. Billy chained Jimmy and Frances to- wit i Dheured ¢ 05" thy - ¥0u g Jimm woul ‘4in-gan, put the key to the lock in his pocket, “We must decide what crimes they have committed,” said Lina, “Frances done got ‘rested fer shoot-' :;‘;:;p:":,:::: public worship,” sald the Sunday s(-ll(vuI: Crown {0l “Naw, | ain't neither.” objected the | lunatickest things they i male member of the chain-gang, I | EOIN8 t0 unlock this chii done cut my woman with a razor| demanded. ‘cause 1 see her racking down the vt got o nnloc street like a proud coon with another 45ked Hilly. gent. lke what Sarah Jane's brother| A8 JImuy's father was tikinz g telled me he done at the picnic.” crestfalien chain-gang to The children played happily togetier | ”""Fh shop,to have their 1 for half an hour, Billy and Lina com- l‘nmed.. they ban'to s o2 manding, and the prisoners, entering Stable: and Sum Lamb, ber with intoxicating mirth at 11, thoroughly into the spirit of the game, ament, velled: “Lordee! Lordee! Y' ull :lo outlandishest kids ‘twixt de i an' de moon.” bosses. At last the captives wearied of their role and clamored for an ex- change of parts. JAll right,” agreed Lina. “Get the key, Billy, and we ‘Il be the chain- gang.” Billy put his right hand in his pocket } tried the ::I;e:o:::k:? :Ic'yh ':::eu:,: success: | its and thinks of the beautiful g he felt in his blouse, he looked in his | that was. So many more bachelo _ m up and down, he near- have no girl that was!'—Lippiucol; V0, 56 PEIR 40 i : Magasine (Continued ) The Loved and Lost A bachelor shouldn't feel sad as Visit the FLORIDA HIGHLANDS CO.'S LANDS at Dundee. Tni leaves Lakeland at 7:10 a. m,, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 10,000 acres of choice fruit lands to select from. Located 'mid Florida's Highland Lakes, in Polk County. Countless sparkling spring-fed lakes, altitude 240 feet. Fine sol; pure, soft water, good transportation. 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