Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 2, 1912, Page 6

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All jobbing appre- cidted. Prompt and Guaranteed. Phone 298 Office and Show Rooms Vith the Florida Electric & Machinery Co., Drane Building W. E. O'NEILL Plumber and Sanitary Engineer Lakeland, > - Florida {fnllen in love. The young man was 0,0 An AmblthUS | the son of a lawyer who couldn’t trace g | his ancestry back over 200.years, and MO th er didn't care a copper cent if he couldn’t. it (e ol ! Young Bennett in time came to un- | derstand the ambitions of the mother. | If he had been the son of a merchant, R — | things might have turned out different- (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary | iy, but being the son of a lawyer he Press.) went at it to prepare his case for a Up to the time the hair hanging |jury. When it came time to go into down her back was coiled up, and her | court, as one might say, there was no dresses lowered to her shoe tops, Miss | weak joint to be tinkered up. What Irene Nixon enjoyed life. She had | does a girl of eighteen in love with her childish diversions and her play- | & YOung man of twenty-one care for mates, and if she also had her disap- ancestry? What does she care for nointments they were not bitter ones. dukes she has never met? What does Her widowed mother belonged to the she care for the spectacled old maid middle class, and she had just a fair | who runs the boarding school? The | elopement would only add to the ro- mance. By Donald Allen income. Then things changed almost in a day. It was a legacy to the mother = And there was an elopement and that did it. It disclosed a side of her marriage. When the widowed mother character that on one had suspected. K Was telegraphed to she fainted away. Miss Ircne was at once forbidden to ' The duke of Hartford had left her associate with this one and that one, ' louse that very afternoon. For the and when the list had been culled out | first time since king Harry went slosh- she found herscll standing almost ing around, a Nixon girl had eloped ¢ the money side of the question. She | alone. She must hereafter act so and | to bring obloquy on the name! It was s0, and she must hereafter not act just awful—terrible! g0 and so. Where she had chummed The widow Nixon first resolved that with a girl she must now give fier zhe could never forgive her daughter, tonly a distant bow. \Where she had and then that the law should be ap- | | walked Lome from school with this or pealed to to annul the marringe. Be that boy, she must now pass him as if fore steps were taken, however, Mr. | | unaware of his existence, That money and Mrs. Bennett appearcd before her was to make all the difference in the In her righteous anger and mortifica- tion she ordered them out of the house. They didn't go. The late Miss | Irene sat with a smile on her face, and the nervy young Pennett arose and suid he had a few remarks to make before going. “We will first take up the case of | | world. The daughter understood that | money was a good thing to have, but | she could not understand why it { should almost outlaw her. In forming | friendships she had never considered ;h:ul judged by character instead of | | wealth. | the family tree,” he began, “The ge- ! None of the Widow Nixon's friends | nealogist you employed is now in pris- | had ever considercd her ambitious in | on as a swindler, You are not his only la social way. DPerhaps that feature | victim by hundreds. I have looked ' was lying dormant. At any rate, she into the matter myself. There was no ;had scarcely counted the money left | Norseman named King Harry. Even {her by a rich sister when social am- | if there had been he would have been bition came to the surface to work | a bloody old pirate and marauder.” great changes. “But—but he assured me—" replied She decided almost at once that the | the widow. daughter could not be exclusive | “Certainly. He also assured the enough at home to finish her educa- | court, but he got three years just the | tion, and the girl was sent to a board- | same, The name of Nixon can be ing school where exclusion was the | traced back about 150 years, the motto. Then came the family tree. |sume as the name of Bennett. For the first fifty years our ancestors were leather dealers. “Yours might have been, but the Nixons, never!” “I have it all written out here and certified to as authentic, and you will find that while the Bennetts sold leather the Nixons worked it up. That is, Joab Nixon of a hundred years ago was a cobbler.” “You insult me, sir!” almost moaned the widow. “Your late husband's great-grand- father was a green grocer, but as the Bennett of that date patronized him we are about even on that score.” “Irene, I am your mother!” “Yes, mamma, but Charlie wants to tell you about the duke.” “We now come to the Hartford,” continued the young man. “There is no such duke in England. The fellow who has been playing that line over here is a fraud and a swindler. Didn’t you see by the papers this morning that he had at last been arrested?” “Mercy, no! Why, he—he!” “He has borrowed money of you, of course, and you may have to go into court as a witness against him. Mrs. Nixon, I loved your daughter and pre- vailed upon her to elope and marry 'me. Shall we say that the Nixons are all right, the Bennetts are all right, and that the happy couple are to re- ceive a blessing?” “Irene,” replied the mother in tears and sobs, “you—jyou shouldn’t have done it!” “No, mother.” “And Ch—Charlle, have done it!" “No, mother.” “But being you have, I—I guess— guess I'm glad!"” A Genealogist Called. Mrs. Nixon had never been greatly worrled as to whether the Nfxon fam- fly dated back to & king or a pirate. Her husband and her husband's father had been business men of good char- acter, and that had sufficed her. Now it was different. She had the money and she sighed for a lineage. There are so-called genealogists who make it their business to keep in touch with the newly rich and furnish them with pedigrees to match their cash. It had scarcely become known to the widow's circle that she had re- ceived a legacy when a genealogist called. He had the look of a pro- you shouldn’t Date Growing In Arizona. F. H. Simmons, who was In charge of the government date orchard at Tempe, yesterday brought to the Re- publican office a box of ripe dates, the first yet brought to Phoenix this year 8o far as known. They are of the Rhas variety, though Mr. Sim- tessor even to the dandruft on his coat | mons says he has had dates of the collar. He had been In the profession | Amari variety ripe for the last ten thirty years. He had traced the an- | days. ; cestors of 3,000 families and hauled The fruit brought in yesterday was them into the light of day. He had | thoroughly ripened and as lusclous as never made a mistake. His terms |a date may be. Mr. Simmons says were the lowest of any responsible | there are 124 varieties of trees In the party. For the sum of $500.he would | orchard and from that number it trace the Nixons back to the cave | would appear that the government dwellers of England. ought to be able to determine pretty The Widow Nixon agreed to the bar- | well about everything in the date gain so promptly that the fellow never { world that is suitable for culture in furgnvethms:If for not asking a thou- ( these parts. sand. Yes, he was commissioned to) «The particular value of the date is hunt, and _hunt he did, and In the|(nat it grows best on alkall land course of ninety days he had turned in | whepre little else can be ralsed nn(i his report and received his c:'\'sh. there are many such tracts lvniluble And from whom had the Nixons de- |1 the southwest. The government | scended and Jacob Nixon never sus- has demonstrated that dates may be pecting it through all his life? It did grown here as successfully as ' on | uge for the night in the cottage of an old lady. up early in the morning, warning her that he was quite deaf. ening much later than the appointed hour he found that the old lady, with strict regard for the proprieties, had slipped under the door a slip of paper upon which was written: “Sir, it's balf past eight.” pense account mystifies me,” said the | 8mple of the fishes that ore audltor. you mean by ‘raw material.’” “That’s an error on the’part of the stenogra- pher,” replied Senator Sorghum, “It I should read, “burrah material.’” not go back to the cave dwellers, but = their native soll, and it is shown by started at Harry, king of the Norse- | 114 demand of the market that there men. Right lherg was the beginning, | ywijj be buyers for all that can be pro- and it came down to the widow as |3,ced In competition with the import- straight and easy as a streak of mo- - lasses skating across a kitchen floor. B s sl s Not a single break in the whole chain. The genealogist begged leave to doubt if there was another family in the state that could go back within a hun- dred years of Harry, and he was gra- clously permitted to do so. Two years elapsed after the discov- ery of this fact when the proud widow informed her daughter of the need to be still more exclusive. With thelr Mosquito Saved His Life. A mosquito saved the life of John Mahoney. He was passing a bullding in course of construction when a work- man on the top floor accidentally dropped a heavy hammer. At the same time a mosquito tried to alight on Mahoney's nose, causing him to jerk his head backward. The | wealth and linéage the girl could be- | hammer grazed his face and chipped a | come a duchess. Still another auto | piece out of the stone pavement. ' must be purchased, and €0 on, and so Had the hammer struck Mahoney on on. the head it would have crushed his | Meanwhile, Miss Irene, even though | skull. Mahoney declared that the mos- | #lmost a prisoner at the school, and | quito’s attack was so vicious that the | having “exclusiveness” dinged into | pain had caused him to throw his head ber ears every hour in the day, had | pack, saving his life. Scotch Alarm Clock. - Ray-Killed Bacteria, A tourist in rural Scotland'took ref-{ A method for steriliziyg , out heating or adding pre.. . claimed to have been effe (i, onstrated recently in Holj.; paratus has been const explained, whereby the a thin stream along an ¢lcc the ultra-violet beams worki; bacteria. The result is arrr the quality of the ozone for:, the influence of the light.—7};, nsut. b He asked her to wake him Upon awak- S ——————— Fish Has Vocal Organs Perhaps the most consyic Going Over the Books. “This item in your campaign ex- (¢ | of utterance {8 the drum fis! by reason of the deep, boeiir ., - it produces at will, It | B the Atlantic coast, from setts to Florida. “I don't understand what : DOFD HOOVPOODODOOOL L. W. 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