Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 19, 1912, Page 6

i . . ! | ) PAGH SIX THE EVENING TELEGR:AM, LARILAND, FLA, JUNE 19, 1912, ; toseq 1ty creditors and sold to PICK L' N G TI E strangers, but even their h‘om]ei ;\'i:ll: E » st throngh ir sha { the liab ' BaSh[ord llli)(; x.J\}r L:hilh:‘:ins’l];':l\if l?(fen wrought l I Pride ,}\\!;1:‘\.'1 Maria Bashford recovered e“ty I"ces a" k“‘ds 0'. |0kel|ng a“d (:anmnu ; Sh— from the shock of these disclosures, " By Marton Gordon she clung hysterically to her son,and I:rl“t Jar R“bbers SC and |0 ‘ would not permit him to leave her. c (Copyright, 1912, by Assoclated Literary Press.) “But, mother, we can't sit here and starve!” cried’ Harry Bashford impa- tiently. “I'd rather starve than have it sald a Bashford worked in the mill!" re- torted his mother sternly. “Well,” and the young man drew a deep breath, “all I've got to say is that the Bashfords will be pretty thorough- ly despised root and branch it I don't g0 to work and earn some money somehow.” “l suppose you mean that I'm the root, and you're the branch, seeing that we're the only two Bashfords left,” remarked Maria Bashford, iron- teally. “I don’t know that | mean anything like that, mother, only it's this way: of course I understand your feeling In the matter—it would be a come- down after the mills being in the Bash- up ‘interest at this bank The best way to secure a child against the future it so open a bank account in its name. Even a dollar at a time will, in a few years, provide a sum that helps the y:ungster in any misfortune that may , befall. Fad f ford family for so many generations, Sl for me, the last one of them, to go to work as a common hand——but I'm not When the child is able to carn money, it is but natural that he fitted for anything else. What do | SRk s know ?—absolutely nothing save how to will add to the savings himsel! Start an account today. It will spend money!” Harry spoke bit.| - ~ terly. draw interest the same as yours, “If your Uncle David had not specu- lated and lost his own money as well as ours!" groaned Maria, flying to what was always her last argument when the matter came up for discus- sion as it did now daily. “Well, he did lose it, and the mills passed into other hands, and Uncle David has been dea! and buried for a year now—and here | am hanging around eating my head off! If you would only consent, mother, to my go- ing into the mill for awhile anyway until-—-" He paused and a worried frown crossed his brow. Maria was preparing for one of her “bad spells” that invariably ended all unpleasant discussions, She closed her eyes and leaned her head against the back of her -chair, “Please don't continue this discus- slon, my dear,” sald Marla feebly, “I really don't feel equal to it. I am afrald your poor mother will not long trouble you with her preposterous no- tlons of proper self-respect—after I am gone you may disgrace the name of Bashford to your heart’s content— [ shall be beyond caring!" Mrs. Bashford permitted her bewil- dered son to kiss her smooth brow, te draw the blinds and leave her to recover from the shock of the in- terview. Harry Bashford took his cap and left the house. He paused on the wide driveway that led to the iron gates, and looked up at the comfort. able white house that he had always known as his home. There were acres of rolling closeclipped lawns dotted with noble trees. Flower beds bordered all the paths and on a sunny slope was a pretty rese garden. It all showed the care of the old black gardener who was now fussing among a row of gorgeous dahllas. It was not a magnificent home, but It was a handsome one, and Harry Bashford had never known anything different until a year ago. Ile had been the petted son of the great mill owner, Harry Bashford, and had been permitted to graduate from college with a higher record for athletics and a general good time than tor bril- lianey in his studies | IRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND Under Control of U. 8. Government WE OFFER YOU PLUMBING of the highest class at moderate rates. Get our figures for converting your old bath room into a handsome and sanitary lavatory. They will be much less than you think and will ccnvinee you that you need no longer do without the luxury of modern plumbing, * Lakeland’ ardware & \Plumbing Co. R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. Let me show you some Lakeland Lomes I have built, " LAKELAND, Phone 267-Graen. FLORIDA - THE VERY BEST WHEAT Bell had sald gravely. “Hasn't the any ambitions of his ewn?" “Full of 'em—wants to help me in the mill, but 1 don’t want {around! Time enough when I'm g [1f he bas a taste for the knltting ‘ness. I never had a good time when Iwasa youngster, and | want Huarry to have his fling,” chuckled Bashford. “He won't thank you for it, h- S, 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 | his heel and stamping off. Dr. Bell was right. Harry Bash. ford was recalled from his travels to attend the funmeral o: . o disease. After it was all over H: ! to ROSEDALE'S other attratclons. and his mother departed for Eur:mr: 3 Wide streets, shade trees, fertile huvlng the business in the hands gi sail, building restrictions. Inside the | David Bashford, a man of many the city, one block east from Take Mor- orles and extraordinarily impractical ton. !in business affairs. Balanced by hig A 'pnrtmr the dead man, he had map. lced to pin himself down to conserva. | 5 SMITH & STE|TZ | tive business methods. : | Now that his brother was dead and 4 .n G. c- ROGAN the widow and son were traveling y Deen-Rryant Building abroad, David allowed himselt £y Whatever you want in rea lestate. e e . . Sxperimentil e have it improvements in the mj s well as L . = a dip Into the ex of Wall street speculation When Harr, summoned ho Then had fol- | lowed two years idling about Europe, | dreaming away most of the time in the | music centers of Germany, for Mr only i used to make the flour which| Pashford had a strange pride in sce imu his only son enjoy the wealth an Loes into our bread. And the \\'r_\'{w.n‘livr generation had strug T weumulate hest wethods only are employed (ul “Let the boy ewjoy himselr! he | eried to expostulating triiends 'y produce both the flour and the bread. | made money enough to keep hin . rest of his days in ddleness i bie You'll like the looks of our bread|chooses. The Bashiord mills ar {on a sol 1 foundation of hard cash, when you see i, You'll like its taste | if 1 step out my brother David wil ¢ : {the whole thing, and all Harry will still better when you try it. have to do will be to draw his =live of the protits.” 1 he Modern Bakery Bar"'(e Bro[hers “Under no circumstances could 1 b ! lieve that you are pursuing a sife — e | course with your son,” his friend, D lad ford,” muttered the doctor, turning on | father, suddenly stricken with AAx:;rti Neither would she hear of his finding ~aployment in the mill where his fa- er had ruled for many years. Bolstered by her false pride she kept m beside her. They were allowed to main in the cld home for a year at large rental—which remained un- id. Bashford credit in the village of ' shford had all been unquestioned, .4 Maria strained it to the utmost. . e cluosed her eyes to the fact that , sc¢k Nick and his wife, Heppy, were srking for her unpaid; she even be- voaned the fact that she could not vep a second maid to help Heppy. jne persisted in living in the same style to which she had become accus- tomed and the tradespeople came to helieve that Mrs. Bashford had means oI her own in reserve, All this false standard of living af- ccted Harry Bashford keenly. He, tuo, was proud, but his was the pride of youth that sees no disgrace in work. He was eager for the privilege )Nooe: ng money, and he had gone even to the length of engaging a pret- little cottage belonging to Dr. Bell and proposed to his mother that they move and live upon his wages a3 a4 worker in the mill if she would not pormit hin to leave the village to find vwork This morning’s interview minated as every other one on sine subject had done Harry looked from the handsome home 1o the well-kept grounds, winced when he saw the wageless gardener, clenched his fists in his pockets and walked out of the gate, He had sold everything that he owned personally to satisfy creditors, and now he had sent his remaining trinket, a small jeweled scarf pin, to the city to be sold. \With the money obtained from the sale he intended to pay the two servants. At Dr. Bell's gate he hesitated, and then swung It inward and went up the path. Across the garden he saw Alice Bell's slender form among her flowers. She saw him, but as his hand went to his cap he found that she there had ter- tralling a climbing rose. His face turned scarlet. He knew what looked like deliberate idleness, and willinguness to llve upon tradespeo- ple. He longed to set her right, but loyalty to his mother sealed his lips. The worst of it was, he had fallen in leve with Alice Bell. Dr. Bell was in his study when the young man was announced, and he pushed a box of cigars across the ta- ble and sank back into his deep chalr. He was a beetle-browed little man with kindly blue eyes and frosted hair. He looked at Harry over his spectacles. “Light up, Harry,” he commanded. Harry shook his head resolutely. “Don’t tempt me. ['ve sworn off all that sort of thing until I can pay some of my debts” “Good for you! Hope It hurts you to do it—makes all the better man of you in the end. Not but what you're good enough, lad, as it is, only I wish you'd had a chance!” “Ah--you understand that I want a chance!™ Harry mutterd quickly. The doctor nodded. *I understand | the whole situation. Do you actually | want to to work in the mill, | Marry 2 “Willlng to start the 1 20 in as an operative noone of “hines?” Anythi Blake will give you a job of that at two dollars a day.” I know it, only mother objects You woshe isn't very well—" She can stand a shock of that rt'" growled the doctor It will 1n her good in the end You g he o and go to work and learn the jsiness from the 1! » I've + a mortgage on the Bashford mills, nd it will have to be foreclosed some lay. When {t is I shall want a man | to step in and take charge of the place, and if it's a ghap by the name f Bashford, o much the better! Not a4 word to your mother or anybody | else! Understand.” Tears were in Harry Bashford's ‘v,\'os as he wrung the good doctor's hand and they were there as he left the house and hurried straight to the mill. There he got the coveted job, nnd the next morning went forth with we other workers to spend a day in the racketing mill | Dr. Bell was in daily attend | ance upon Mre. Bashfor® and wheth- | er it was his carefully pointed ridi- | cule at her false pride, or whether she succumbed to his a“guments and real- ]y saw that her son was in- deed more of & man now that he had come into his heritage of labor, she grew used to the idea and after awhile Heppy could openly hang Harry's working overalls and blouse on the clothes line Wwithout protest from her mistress. It was hard work and grilllng for the youth brought up in idleness of a sort, but there was sweet recom pense in the approval of his little world, of the added respect for him. self and his co-workers. Time came the | had turned away and was absorbed in | that Alice Bell must despise him for | @ when he was able to buy back the ! home on eAsy payments, but that wag | long after they bad removed to the little cottage. 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