Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 28, 1912, Page 8

- ¢ “J P2 o x'“ O T | DAL ly'y tick | § of the clock brings you nearer your ambition—. bank ACCONNE wil aidyou ¢lock ticks misfortn Sturva I startone, Realize .hat cvav ¢ime the that you are 0ne second no vertiatams g The best frieni yopconi» ol bank account Lere today, FINST NATIONAL BANY o Lake'vd 1is monoev, eln v Fyen a dollar wi s il e ocaiei s s ey b AN RS 05 e o) (Lop) nght ) ND it had come to | i him quite to the pass that on this day betore Christ- mas a man not old in years sat in his room at a ho- tel in a strange town and felt him- self of all the world the most lonely. High and low, rich and poor, mingled in the procession of hap- py shoppers ‘with. out. He alone had no thought for It went back five years. He, the son of a railroad magnate, had dared to fall in love with the blue-eyed daugh- ter of a locomotive driver on his fa- ther's road—a man whose face and hands carried grime—who dwelt in a cottage—who had no soclety outside of daily toilers. And he had dared stand before the father who thought himself specially created and say: “Father, I going to be married.” “Well?” “To Gladys Davis.” “Never heard of her.” “The daughter of one of our en- | gineers.” There was a moment of painful sus- | pense and then the storm broke, “You shall not! You are either a bells and catch the shouts of children | on the street—to wonder if bis child | still lived, and to wonder further what | old Santa Claus would bring her—why, the man cursed the fears he could not keep back. . A quarter of an hour later the out- law was down on the street. llol would mingle with | the throng. He H | would enter the stores under the evergreen branch- es and look about him—aye, make a ) purchase and be Santa Claus to some bigeyed child on the street. > He was an out- law, but the world should not crowd edge. He was al- most smiling as he crowded bhis way into a big store, and he was looking about him when hand was cuddled into child’s voice sald: “Please take care of me ‘till mam ma finds me—I'm lost!” It was a little girl, and on her face was both a smile and a look of en- treaty. “Why, of course,” replied the out- law, pressing her hand and drawing ' her back a little. “So you came here | with your mother after Christmas | things and got separated?” “That's it, only I think she ran away from me 80 that I shouldn't know || what Santa Claus was going to bring me tomorrow night.” “I hope it will be something nice.” “Oh, it will be. Are you buying something for your little girl?” “No-0.” “Maybe she's dead?” “I—I don't know.” The girl looked up and noticed the | % grave expression on the outlaw’s face, and cuddled closer to him and said: “I'm sorry if I have hurt you. Mam. ma says I talk too much. I've just | { Cott * thought that maybe you are mot mar- ; ried at all?” “I guess that's pretty near it re- plied the outlaw as he tried to laugh, but made poor work of it. “Well, if you haven't got any little girl I haven't got any papa. What We Won't Sacrifice Qualiy but we iire alwive studving how 1 ! £ Increase The Quantm We give the “mast nowe bot we are aracons more. Phone us and prove it. Reet Butter, per pound . ... Sugar, 18 nounde | vound pails | Cortolene. 4.y and Snow 1iifl, 10 il pails 3 cang family si>- Cream .. 6 cans baiy size Crepm, 1.2 %ay lene, 10 reils. | i .fillons Aeivas AT TR T T 2T R 4 R DT RS A I S IS MAPS, BLUE PRI Maps of any descriptice oo | fool or a lunatic to think of it. An lengineer's daughter! Think of your | mother—of me—of your sister—the ! disgracel You must have lost your you going to buy. “Why, whatever you say?” “But not for me?” D R R B given to compilivg ity i % South flsrm W Room 23-21C Drane Buiidiag DAEOFDHOSAHNEOT 0L =2 r 58 m I‘IRSI QUESTION AI Among the vamble Com- panies we represent, write for the Fidelity Undewriters Y- 1. MN maps kept ou hand C.oo oty wnable rates. speclal raes for Promypt »i m 7“. [V[ How Did 1t Star:? Second Question: How About The Insurance? To the first question ; the answer varies. : QYL 0‘5’0-' R The answer to the - second is alwayseither * “None At AlL” **Just Expired” or “Fully & Covered.” What would 2 we with assets of $41.000,000 fire at your house? Suceessor to the Johinson Room 7, Ravmondo Bldy. Agency Phone 30 — . ———. 7 AT R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furmial 2is 3 54 epeniitc ene o will foliow ang plans eud petihcy tioe tarnisheo. BURG.LLOWS .. sPECIALTY. Let me 2R0OW you some La s T haye buily LAgKiz 20 Fi FLORIDA be theanswer werethe « AT sy STATIONERY THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD~ azd's HARCOURT & (0, coms JUI\L { CORRECT" HANUPAC‘NRING ENGRAVE, LOUISVILLE, KY, U.S.A. N WB ARE THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE. p“ullme of Dennison’s Guit Dressings; also Gils n Eagraved Specialties, Holiday and Faney Goods, LAKELAND BOO« A Los ve, Et STORE . . WI’IEN.WE FURNISH YOU @ senses!” “But I am to marry her,” was the steady reply. “I say no! If the jade has trapped you into an engagement buy her off. The father must use his influence or take his discharge.” “But we love and are promised to each other.” In the next half hour the father stormed and cajoled. If the son In- sisted on such a marriage he would be cast out by the family; he would be ridiculed even by the common peo- ple. And the magnate ended up with: “Fred, I will have the engineer call- ed up here and give him a check for S hatinen ”.‘ a thousand dol- | { i ' lars and tell hlm; that this non- | sense must end.” | “We shall be | married three | { days from now,” | was his answer, ! In reply to that | the father point. ed to the door, and the son bowed and passed out to be ' | 4 son no longer. He had money that | had been left him | by an aunt, and the father could not threaten him with poverty. Love may always be right, but ft can be eo influenced as to be seem- fngly a mistake. The marriage took place and Fred Dillingham was ostra- cized. He was nol kindly welcomed in the other stratum. If there is a gulf between the rich man and the work- ingman the latter resents -Intrusion | as much as the former. There was love, but after a few months it was influenced from both sides. Both hus. ! band and wife were made to fear that | a grave mistake had been made. They | fought away the idea and sought to | hold their love, but that brought irri tations and vexations and culminated | in misunderstandings and quarrels. After two years there was & separa tion. Neither really desired it. it was what the gossips had predicted and what they strove to bring about There was more sorrow than anger * when the young husband turned his ! back on wife and Infant a year old | and went out into the world as a wanderer The wife went back to her father's cottage, but not to strug. ele with poverty. The husband been generous to her. Five long years, and Fred Dilling. ham had not been heard of. As an outlaw without a family, whom shonl he write to and why? At three years of age the child, who had been nanie Patty, wondered in her childish wa why she hadn’t a papa. At five s} demanded to know. At six she stoo, before the embarrassed mother in in dignation and threatenmed to go oy and find one. And at last the wanderer had re. crossed the sea and headed for his home. He was tired and weary ung lonely. Home? But he had none' He had left it when he left wife and baby. This struck him like a sudden blow, thougl he had all along realizeg it in a general way. No home—ng, . wife—no child! That was why he had left the train and taken lodgings. He had no place to go. With money in his pockets, he was a tramp. And to know that Christiaas was at | hr 1, and to hear the Jingla of sleigh. “Yes, for you. We'll select some- thing, and then whenm your mother comes I'll ask her if she'll let you have it” “I hope she will. You look to be such a nice man that she shouldn't re- fuse. I picked you out as the very nicest man that came along.” “Thank you,” sald the outlaw as he felt his heart grow big. “Now, t.hen. about this doll. Real halr, eyes t wink, pink shoes and almost as bl; n you are. She'll be a sister to you.” “And bhow much is it?” “Only ten dollars.” “My, but can you pay that much! It you can you must be rich.” “But you see I have no little girl of my own.” ‘That's so. Isn't Christmas nice? Do you know—there's mamma over there! Let me run and tell her.” The outlaw turned his back on the crowd and gritted his teeth and winked his eyes. He had been hit hard. Three or four minutes pass- ed and then a hand pulled at his and & volce sald: “Please, Mister nice man, tell me your name, that I may introduce you to mamma. | think she will let me have the doll.” The outlaw turned and gasped and his face went white. “You here!® “And youl” “And this is our daughter?” “Our Patty. Father was discharged from the road and moved over here to take another run.” It was the next day, and Patty was sitting on her father’s knee and the happy mother was wiping tears from ber eyes, when the child sald: “Say, mamma, I just picked him out as the very nicest man In all that big crowd, and I didn’t make any mistake, iid I? Don’t anybody sit down on my doll and give her a pain!” fil 15 9 ——— Made It Work. A week before the Christmas holl iays an undergraduate wished to start home, thus gaining a week’s vacation n the other students. He had, how- >ver, used up all the absences from he lectures which are allowed, and iny more without good excuse would ave meant suspension. In a quan- lary he hit upon this solution; he ciegraphed his father the following Mes s “Shall I come home at my leisure or straight home?” The answer he recelved was: “Come straight home.” An exhibition of the telegram to m professors was sufficient. ol _.Mu.umk.m. An Assurance. 'Don‘tm'-hlnilholldlyhmm’ cheerful when there is a large family | zathered about festive board ‘I do,” answered the sardonic per- son. “A large family is a glad assur ce that there is not golng to be “nough turkey left to supply the menu for the next few days.” E. 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