Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 15, 1912, Page 6

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FLORIDA LAKELAND, THE VERY BEST WHEAT t6es into our bread. And the very best wicthods only are cmployed to Ptoduce both the flour and the bread You'll like the whea you see it. still better when you try it Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide strects, shade trees, fertije sall, building restrictions. Inside the city, one block east from Jake Mor- ton SMITH & STEITZ ad G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lestate. wea have it Fooling Dad By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY (Oopyright 1912, by Associated Literary Press Thirty years is a long time to carry 1 a grouch against the world, but Moses Fairbanks had done it, and also com- | pelled others to help him carry the burden. i At the age of twenty, being then: a farmer's son, Moses fell in love with a village girl, and perhaps there would have been a marriage in time had not a young man from the city interfered. On finding himself thrown over, Moses’ first thought was to lick his rival. He tried it—and was badly walloped. From that hour he was death on dudes. His idea of a dude, was a “feller"” who wore good clothes, tipped his hat to the opposite sex, made the most use of his fork at table, and demanded something besides his | coat sleeve to wipe his mouth on. | Moses had an iron will and would not depart from the policy he had | only is used to make the flour which | You'll likg its taste mapped out. He married a nice girl, but as a wife she could not even argie with Lim on the grouch. That was the bitter spot. He was called eccen- tric by some, and a fool by others, but he went his way just the same, Children came to the family. The mother would have taught them many little things the times demanded, but the father opposed. The worst licking his son Harry got during his youth was administered for raising his cap to a merchant's wife, and the worst that his son James got was recelved for saying “Yes, sir,” to a dude of a drummer. The boys grew up rough and uncouth, with just the rudiments of an educatlon, and the father smiled as he thought how he was beating the world. His daughter Cally took after her mother in all things but that of ob- stinacy. She had that trait from her father. She was soft-spoken and gen- tle in her ways, but at the age of six- teen her father was glad to permit her to go and live for a couple of years “Plenty of Dudes There, | Suppose.” with an aunt. It was his undoing. She acquired a fair education and a! good deal of the world's polish, and her wits were sharpened until she be- | came a plotter and a conspirator. A nice young man fell in love with Miss Cally, and for a long time she failed to realize that he came under the head of dudes. Even that he wore { collars and cuffs would have been | enough for Moses Fairbanks to point him to the door. When the girl did realize this it was too late. She loved in return, and her i aunt cncouraged her, Georse was th { son of a fairly wealthy man and love resulted in an engagement. It w; | then hat aunt and nlece awake to the | gravity of the situation. Tt mizht haw { been solved in five minutes by a s g e _ | CTet marriage or elopement, but queer looks of our bread| 1y enough both young people opposed y t these ideas. George's parents n { be willing to consent to a ma : { but when Miss Cally thought of her father she shivered. She could imag ine her young lover, even though his | shirt cuffs had been forgotten, stand ing before her grim and grouchy fath. er and asking for her hand. One look over and then it would be: “Marry my daughter! No, vou in- fernal dude—a hundred times no'™ And her brothers would snigger and haw! haw'! and go outside to wavlay the dude and pound blazes out of him for his cheek. Oh, yes, she could fig- ure {t all out, and her cheeks burned with shame and her soul rose up with indignation. It was then that she be- came a plotter and a conspirator “You'll have to have a frank talk with George,” cautioned the aunt aft. er she had been told of the plot. “I mean to.” “Perbaps he'll see some romance in it, but I can't.” “But he'll have to see the romance If we are to get married. Dad's got | to be fooled or I don't marry any one.” i George was told the history of the grouch, and he was told what he must do in the matter. It looked good to him before he had heard half the evi. dence. He was down om grouches on general principles, and noth!ng that he could roll out of the way was go- ing to stop him from marrying Cally Fairbanks. The girl was ordered home. The father had heard in a roundabout way that she frizzed her hair and wore tan-colored shoes, and he didn't pro- pose to put up with any such foolish- ness in the Fairbanks family. He was at the house when she arrived, ready to inspect and find fault, but was greatly taken aback. The shoes were THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LARELAND, FLA, JUNE 13, 1912, | black and old and run down at the | heels—the dress was of calico—the | hat lop<ared and devoid of even a! rooster feather. There was no putting | on frills in any direction. When it | came to the supper table the girl made much use of her knife and drank her tea from her saucer. She \so asked for a second helping of them ‘taters.” The father nodded his head in ap-; roval. Going away from home had ot snoiled his daughter. “Plenty of dudes there, I suppose?” he queried. “Yes, but I had no use for them.” “It you had I'd have sure disowned | »u. What's this we hear about your 'aying the pianer?” “I can jangle on it.” l “well, tomorrow you take hold ad help your mother to jangle this | .ousework. I'm looking to take on nother hand at the mill, and if 1! ot one, he will come here to bonrd.} [ s'pose vou went to school over there | and learned a lot of flumididle non- | | “Qime history and geography.” “X+ more good to a woman than 80 muech sawdust.” ! Mozes had spoken of the mill. It was a sawmill, and he and the boys | had ron it. Waea very busy an extra hand was hirea for a time. | Ten davs after Miss Cally's return ! a young man presented himself at the mill and asked for a job. He was. dressed for wors bnut his hands were ' hardly rough enough. i “Guess you haven't got the mus. ' cle for sawmill work,” replied the; father as the sons stopped work to listen. | For answer the appleant picked ! up a heavy plank and boosted it up on the pile without much effort. | “Purty good, but you've got the| voice of a dude.” “Iemme see If he is a dude,” sald Harry as he came forward and took a wrestling hold of the stranger. In fifty seconds Harry was on his| back in the sawdust, and it took! ten seconds less to put James down. “Twenty dollars a month and| board,” sald Mr. Fairbanks. “All right.” [ And that was what Miss Cally | had plotted and planned and succéed: | ed In bringing about. She met the new hand cordially, and he sat dows to his first meal and ate as the rest did. For just an instant he hesitated about taking his seat In his shirt|$ sleeves, and then down he sat. In side of four days he had made such progress that Moses sald to his daugh ter: “I was a little shy of him at first, but I guess he's one of our kind and all right. I'd be mighty glad to see you married to a feller like that. He ain’t working his mouth all the time like the boys, but is right after his work.” There was no courtship. That 1s neither the father nor the brothers surprised any kissing or overhnrd; any terms of endearment, but at the end of six weeks the hired man stood before Mr. Fairbanks and said: | “Str, I have asked your daughter | to be my wife. WIN you give her tc me?” | “Hanged if T don't!"” was the reply. “I'm just fearing all the time some dude will come along and get her tc | elope with him.” { The plaln truth had to be told again. For three minutes after the | father had heard it he sat sllent Then he quietly said: | “[ wanted to be an idiot all the rest of my life, but T see I've got tc| change. Get marrfed as soon as you will and yon all hear me when 1 say that we begin eating with our forks tomorrow morning, and there's no more pouring our tea fatc the rs to cool it off. As for In . 1 'spose they've got a rizht tc live same's the rest of us.” Boy Answered Him., John Muir, Californfa’s naturalist and explorer, relates the following sory of Coll D C. Collier, ctor ceneral of the Panama-Callforni sition of San Diego: While riding along a mountain road in San Diego, Cal, Mr. Collier came upon a dilapidated corral fence upon | which hung a sign bearing the follow ing announcement “For Sail” Al bright looking small boy sat on the | fence beside the sign and Mr. Collfer | asked him, “When does this ranch sail?” | The small boy glanced up quickly at ‘ Mr. Colller, smiled, and sald, "\\'hen‘ some sucker comes along who can| raise the wind” Mr Colller doffed | his sombrero, thanked the lad for his | information, and rode on his way feel ing greatly enlightened —Hearst's | Magazine a Expo Double-Deck Street Cars. While American street raiiways are | trying out various “pay-as-you-enter,” | “pay-within” and “stepless” care Euro- | pean cities have been experimenting with the double deck cars. Two new types of electric car are to be tried tn Liverpoo! designed to facilitate prompt exit and entrance of passen- gers. In one of these cars the maln feature is a central platform divided into three parts by brass rails, the two outer parts being used for exit and the inner part being the entrance for all passengers. a separate flight of etalrs being used for ascent to and descent from the upper deck. In the other type, there are two sets of stairs leading to the upper deck from the platform at each end of the car. Dreama First: Then Realities. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak | sleeps in the acorn: the bird waits in the egg: and In the highest vision of | the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams |are the seedlings of realities.—James Allen. — e — s Our aim is to give the people in Lakeland the cleanest ang be: that the market affords. Our goods are the best and prices the other markets. B Florida Loin Steak........... o . ’ Florida Round Steak y Florida Tea Bone Elorida Roast Florida Stew Hntler oo e s s ol ; All kinds of cheese, dried fruit and canned meats. Give ys a It costs you no more to trade at a nice, clean, sanitary market tha, place. Yours for business. PACKING HOUSE MARKET Smith-Harden Bldg.) R. P. BROOKS —_— O.K. BAKERY RESTAURANT Cakes and Pies a Specialty Cream Bread and Light Rolls “Like Mother Used To Make.” Rye and Graham Bread on Hand. Sandwiches 5c. Short Orders Reasonable W. A. YAUN. Pror 107 South Florida Ave. Phone 29 Peacock Bldg. N. B.—f'ish Market, Ne. 218 North Kentucky. Mullet, Pompano and Red Bass B e T e e DOUBLY DAINTY is the sight of a pretty giri b a box of our confectlonery Tue &if and the candy match each other | fectly in daintiness and ewe.tne Such a scene may often be see: Lere for our candies appesl to dainty taste, It's surprising timi you have not yet tried them This Is No Place For Me! These people have bought a Weslern-Llesirsc Fan Wherever there’s a Western Electric fan flies are con- spicuous by their absence. In the dining room, kitchen, restaurant or store & Western Electric fan effectively rids you of these little pest For the store=a ceiling fan outside the entrance i better thana screen door. Itaffords an unobstructed view of the interior and at the same time effectively keeps out the flies. An 8-inch desk fan on the table will give you 3 meal in comfort. This type costs only ’s of a cent an hour to run Every fan hasa felt covered base. Can be used the table, mantel, book case, without scratching. Come in to-day and let us show you the new fans we've just received. Florida Electric & Machinery Company T. 1. Woobs, MANAGER | 1 1 The Telegram Is Up-To-No¥