Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 1, 1912, Page 6

| PAGE SIX e d A an _)’,some ay | -cq satisfied with your N T RESULTS of lst year? Unkept s weaken vou: DOING what you d:teninine to do will build yeur chasacter. Bring the mon:y you have ia your pocket to our bark RIGHT NOW, aud begin the year semsibly by starting to SAVE and GET AHEAD. If you do, one year from today you will thark us. Saving ouly 25 cents a day—37.50 a month—and interest will amount to over ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS in 10 years. FIRST NATIONAL BANK LAKELAND Under Control of U. S. Government. s yne nv«wvw_ W. FISKE JOHNSON REAL ESTATE| LOANS NEGOTIATED BUYS AND SELLS REAL ESTATE, ORANGE GROVE PROPER- ; TY A SPECIALTY. Raymondo Building. We Carry Nothing But Absolutely Fresh Stock All the lme <) Our Goods Are Right. .. Our Prices Are Right . . .. And You Will Be*Right 1f You Buy Your Groceries W.P. PILLANS & (0. POTATOES BEANS ALL SEEDS Don't send away ‘for such. I have as good as money and experience can command. N. Y. and Eastern grown. Some from other sections wherever the best grow. FRESH, PURE, TRUE, RELIABLE Car of Pure Maine Bliss Potatoes ALSO FERTILIZERS D. B. Dickson ) (Copyright, by Reilly & Britton Co.) (Continued from page 2.) was promptly hailcd by the children, cgnized them, he burst quo such u rear of laughter that it L.uw d all the other passengers to turn wound and iook in theie direction. “What y' 2!l gwine to do nrx' I jes’ !vmmh r,” he exclaimed. “Yo' ekals | ain't made dis side o' "ternity. Lordee, | Lordee,” he pazed at them admiringly, j"yuu sho' is gencowine cornfed, ster- 'lin** silver, all-wool-an’a-yard-wide, pure-leaf, Green-River Lollapaloosas. Does yo' folks know 'bout yer? Lordee! | What I axin' sech a fool question fer? ‘Comse dey don’t. Come on, I gwine .| to take y’ all off 'm dese cars right here at dis Woodstock, an’ ketch de 'commodation back hothe.” “But Sam,” protested Billy, “We | to go to Memphis.” “Hit don't matter what y’ all wants,” | was the negro's reply, “y’ all gotta git | Hy. right off. Dis-here 'scursion train don't | went on, “against Billy and against leave Memphis twell twelve o'clock | me. You have about as much idea how tonight an’ yuh see how slow she am |10 manage a boy as a—as a—" he | Lesitated for a suitable comparison; her "Il be full o' red eye. An’ yo' folks | he wanted to say “goat,” but gallantry is plumb ‘stracted 'bout yer dis min- | forbade; “as any other old maid,” he runnin’, and ev'y no 'count nigger on ute, I 'low. Come on. She am gittin' ready to stop.” He grabbed the blackened hand of i each, pushing Jimmy and pulling Billy, and towed the reluctant little boys | through the coach, “Yuh sho’ is gp'iled my fun,” he growled as he hustled them across the platform to the waiting-room. “Dis- year an’ I aimed fo' to roll ‘em high; an' now, ‘case o' ketchin’ up wid y° all, 1 gotta go right back home. Now y' all set jes' as straight as yer kin set on dis here bench,” he admonished, “whilst 1 send a telcgraph to Marse Jeems Garner. An' don' yuh try to ‘lope out on de flatform neider. Set yuh, yuh little slipp’ry-ellum eels. Den 80 y' all look like | folks.” ‘ Miss Minerva came out of her front door looking for Billy at the same time ‘spectable white i led into mischief.” we KDy, the toys and playthings a boy | I zhould have; you have not even given don’t want to go hock home, We wants { jo was letting himself 2o, for he knew ! that she needed the lecture, and, won- { derful to tell, she was listening meek- 1 a woman had rather be called a goat here 's de fus’ ‘scursion ' been on widout Sukey a-taggin' long in five' whar [ kin keep my eye skinned on | gwine to come back an’ wash yer, SYE LVENING fiLbGRam LAKELAND, FLA, FEBRUARY 1, mz.' i nmod the Major had remnined to try to cheer her up. Mr, and Mrs. Garner were also on ‘ {he porch,‘discussing what further steps they could take. “It is all the fault of that William | of yours,” snapped one little boy's | mother to the other little boy's aunt. “Jimmy is the best child in the world wa.en he is by himself, but he is easily ’ Miss Minerva's face blazed with in- dignation. “William's fault indeed!” she an- swered back. “There never was a sweeter child than William;"” for the lonely woman knew the truth at last. At the thought that her little nephew might be hurt, a long fcrgotten tender- ness stirred her bosom and she real- ized for the first time how the child Lad grown into her life, The telegram came. “They are &ll right,” shouted Mr., Carner joyously, as he quickly opened A read the yellow missive, “they | nt on the excursion and Sam Lamb 3 the major, short, plump, rubi- cand, jolly, end Miss Minerva, ta!l, «.llow, angular, solemn, were walking tion to meet the train that + heme the runaways, the ¢ lover knew himself to be at .=t master cf the situation. » trouble with Billy—" he Leran, adjusting his steps to Miss Mine rva’s | mincing walk. | “Willlam,” she corrected, faintly. “The trouble with Billy,” repeated | her suitor firwly, “is this: You have tried to make a girl out of a healthy, | Ligh-epirited bey; you have n't given the child common love and affection.” “You have steeled your heart,” he blurted out, realizing as he did so that than an old maid any time. The color mounted to Miss Miner- va's face. “I don't have to be an o!d maid,"” she | snapped spunkily. | “No; and you are not going to be| one any longer,” he answered with de- cision. “I tell you what, Miss Minerva, we are going to make a fine, manly boy out of that nephew of yours." “We?" she echoed faintly. “Yes, we! [ said we, didn't 1?” replied the major ostentatiously. “The child shall have a pony to ride nndi everything else that a boy ought to | have. He is full of natural animal spirits and has to find some outlet for them; that is the reason he is always in mischief. Now, I think I under- stand children.” He drew himself up proudly. “We shall be married tomor- ‘rov. he aunounced, “that 1 may as- sume at once my part of the responsi- Itlut Mrs. Garner appeared on hor bility of Billy's rearing.” | porch in search of Jimmy. “William! You William!” called one woman. “Jimmee-ee! O Jimmee-ee-ce!” called the other. “Have you seen my nephew " asked the one. “No. Have you seen anything of | Jimmy?" was the reply of the other. { “They were talking together at the ! fence about an hour ago,” said Billy's aunt. “Possibly they are down at the livery stable with Sam Lamb; I il phone and find out.” “And I ‘Il ring up Mrs. Black and Mrs. Hamilton. They may have gone | to see Lina and Frances.” i In a short time both women ap- peared on their porches again: “They have not been to the stable this morning,” said Miss Minerva un- easily, “and Sam went to Memphis on the excursion train.” Frances,”—Mrs. Garner's face wore an anxious look, “I declare I never saw two such children. Still, I don't think we need worry as it is nearly dinner time, and they never miss their | meals, you know.” But the noon hour came and with it no hungry little boys. did the relatives of the children grow uneasy. The two telephones were kept busy, and Mr. Garner, with several other men on horseback, scoured the village. Not a soul had seen either child. At three o'clock Miss Minerva, worn with anxiety and on the verge of a collapse, dropped into a chair on her veranda, her faithful Major, by her side. He had come to offer help and sympathy as soon as he heard of her distress, and, finding her in such a l softened, dependent and receptive “And they are not with Lina or| Then, indeed, | Miss Minerva looked at him in flut tering consternation. “Oh, no, not tomorrow,” she pro- tested; “possibly next year some time.” “Tomorrow,” reiterated the major, his white mustache bristling with de- termination. Having at last asserted himself, he was enjoying the situation immensely and was not going to give | way one inch. "\\'e will and—' “Next month,” she suggested timidly. “Tomorrow, I tell you!"” “Next week,” she answered. “Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Tomor- row!” cried the major, happy as a schoolboy. be marricd tomorrow I “Next Sunday night after church,” ; pleaded Miss Minerva. “No, not next Sunday or Monday or ! Tuesday. We will be married tomor- | row,” declared the dictatorial Confed: | i erate veteran. Billy's aunt succumbed. | | “Oh, Joseph,” she eaid with llmofit: | @ simper, “you are so masterful.” ! “How would you like me for an! uncle?” Miss Minerva's affianced asked | Billy a few minutes later. : “Fine an’ dandy,” was the answer, | as the child wriggled himself out or. his aunt’s embrace. The enthusiastic ! reception accorded him, when he got | off the train, was almost too much for | the little boy. He gazed at the pair In | erbarrassment. He was for the mo. ' ment disconcerted and overcome; In place of the expected scoldings and punishment, ke was received with caresses and flattering mngldemtion He could not understand it at all. The major put a hand on the little boy's shoulder and smiled a kindly smile into his big, gray, astonished eyes as the happy lover delightedly ‘Mspered “Your aunt Minerva is go- . | Green Hill, lu. hereby call a mass meeting to!® and to clect delegates to the State]| and Congressional Convention, which on Febraary 6, g them home on the accom- | . | easily sett’e the quesiion which is said | b‘ DON'T WAIT, ing to marry me tomorrow, Billy.” s “Pants an’ all?” asked William |Take Advantage of a Lave:; zen's Exverience Before 1+ Too Late. THE END, I\OTXCE TO THE PUBLIC! When your back begir. » Don’t wait until backy i, We, the Re publhans of Polk coun- hronic; meet Friday night, February 2, in "‘1:;: serious Kidney 1o the city of Lakeland, at the K. o’ P. : :l'ili Sl i Hall. Meeting to begin at 8:30 ;..o Paitbeil ol troul. 108 o'clock. I'ofit by a Lakelang .- This meeting is for the purpose|pei.eonce. »f forming and passing resolutions, J. L. Requemore lessee, avenue “My advan q-d ace ( . much to do with briy wiil be held jn the city of Palatka, Kiuu.,, compiaint a. ..y 1912, years l ~ulT.ud Whereas, a few cfficers have ‘dp- ney s:rz-ziox.s i pointed themselves delegates to lurs'-,dmp weuther alwiis . !ons without noti.ying the|trouble. Dean's l\ Convent ¢ eovea the Res ar: of Polk'! chrained l, H ‘cunty, do truly condemn sach meth- | “‘“d quickly in piviog s | they proved o ta mm:_\ to Evervbody is earnestiy . request »4!|,».‘| m.” (Stat to Le presert at this meetinz, 1i0us ROBT. L APPLEWHITE, | Re.Endorsomen: A, W. GORDON, | When \r Rig GUSSIE WASHINGTON. dewed an bt said: 1-51-2t-pd ' pjy *1 still cor 1 temedy of sure in verity sement of them s remedy ocoasiong » and it has always =t of results” ; For sale by all d.0, Foster-) New Yorkers and “iire West.” If we lived in New Yok we (‘uuld! to be disturling the minds of the | western governcrs—as ‘o what is the | o dividing line between the eust and the (Now Y west. 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