Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 3, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWoO. | | After Numerous Mistakes and Accidents He Gets the Girl - He Was After. By CLARA INEZ DEACON. ' Ex-Judge Rosser of Marion was Y widower and lived on the interest.of the money he had been wise enough to lay by in his younger days. Colonel Grafton was the owner of the Grafton Woolen Mills, and making money out of the capital invested. Fate was going to bring these two brings you NEATET YOUT . | ric mo'sone gt oo g’ town for five years and bad never met ' either in a business or a soclal way. | They simply knew each other by " sight. ; The judge had a daughter nmamed ' Bessie. At the time the happenings ; that follow took place to stir up the | country and almost precipitate an- | other panic Miss Bessie was twenty | years old. Her aunt was her chaper- { on and her father's housekeeper, and & large and fresh assortment of young men were seekers after her band and | her father's cash. The colonel had a son Burt who who was making his way through | oollege. Making his way does not signify that he was sawing wood, hoe- " ing cora or cutting ice to make good for his board and tuition. It simply means that he was somewhat slow | and absent-minded, and did not get a grip on the higher studies as the ma- Jority of students did. He was a good boy but a little slow! Young Mr. Grafton had come home ; on his summer vacation. He was go- i Ing to learn the office work at the Mills, fish, sail and take trips bere and there in an auto. Miss Bessie Rosser was also home ;on her vacation. She also had plans, | but every girl is liable to change her plans at a moment's notice. She did not know of the existence of such a young man as Burt Grafton. On the morning after his arrival home young Grafton started for the Mills to devote half an hour to learn- Ing the business and then go a-fish- ing. There was one busy street cor- ' ner In the town and he struck it. He | also struck a tall, slim man with bowed shoulders and a chip conveni- ently ready to be knocked off. It was | Judge Rosser. His walk abroad was always aggressive and his look de- { flant. He had somehow imbibed the fdea that he personally owned most of the sidewalks in the busy burg. Ot course young Grafton did not know this. He was used to walking where he pleased at college, even it one of the professors stood in the way, and as a consequence there was a collision between him and the judge, and the judge arose to shout at him: “What do you mean, you dunder- head. by bulling your way through a , crowd like this!" { “I didn’t see you,” was the apolo- getic answer. “Then you're blind!” “l hope—hope.” “Hope nothing! You shouldered against me and ought to be led around like a dancing bear!™ “I apologize, sir.” “But I don't accept it! You are a dunderhead, sir—a dunderhead! You | ought to be obliged to give public no- , tice when you are going to charge , through the streets!” The judge was sized up for what he | was—an irascible old man who loved 'n row—and the younger man paesed account vil aidyo Realize .hat every time the clock ticks that you are one second nearer that ambition or misfortune. The best friend you can have to help you is money. Starta bank account here today, Even a dollar will start one. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Lakeland MAPS, BLUE PRINTS Maps of any descripticn complied on short notice. SpeciRi Brran o glven to compiling city, displav and advertising mups L onute Jug 9ty maps kept on hand. Chemlically prepured, Don-Iading Gius “Cikiis o0 W mnable rates. Special rates for prints in lerge quavtivee. Prompt attention given mail ordere South Florida Map and Blu%t (o Room 213-216 Drane Building -.. 1 LN FIRST QUESTION AT EVERY FIRE--} 5 o0 How 7Did It Star? Second Qliloe‘:tion: R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER About The Insurance? To the first question Will furnish plans and specifications or will follew any plans the answer varies. SUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. on with a bow. On the next block he turned into a store to shake hands with a merchant and laughingly said: “Just met a raging lion and had a narrow escape from death.” “What do you mean?” ‘ “Happened to bump into an old chap who was on the wrong side of . the street and he gave me down (he | banks in great shape. Called me a | dancing bear and a dunderhead. | Thought he was going to haul off and paste me one.” “Huh! Wonder who it could be?™ “Some old crank living here fn town, | suppose.” A young lady who bad been at one of the nearby counters and heard ev- ery word arose and left the store, and as che passed the young man she bestowed upon him a look so full of contempt and scorn that he whispered to the merchant. “If I've stolen her purse or gobbleq up her dog I ask her forgiveness.” | “You've done worse than that, young and man!™ was the reply. “How? Which?” “1 guess it was her daddy you fefl foul of Sounds very much like him, That's Miss Rosser. the belle of the town.” “Just my luck! Well, I hope ene forgets my face. for that girl looks | good to me. So long.” Having learned all about the woolen mill business during the Temainder of the day, young Grafton hied him to & fishing-tackle store next morning to procure an outfit. He had jointeq o rod and was flourishing it about when & man entered the store just in time | to have his plug hat knocked off and ' sent rolling. | “So it's you gzain!" he shouted qg : he faced the man who had done the damage. The answer to the second is alwayseither **None At AIL” *“Just Expired” or “‘Fully Covered.” What would be theanswer were the fire at your house? Among the Reliable Com- panies we represent, we write for the Fidelity Undewriters with assets of $41.000,000 Y- 1. MAN Successor to the Johnson Agency i et me show you some Lakeloud homes I have bailt. LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA | l ® WHENWE FURNISH YOU @ | STATIONERY THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD-~ sz s HARCOURT &C0. comocr GRAVED BY MANUFACTURING ENGRAVERS LOVISVILLE, KY,U.S.A. WE ARE, THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENT'S FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE. Full|line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Engraved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, loys, Etc. LAKELAND BOOK STORE it up.” replied the assaulter. “No, sir—no, sir. I want no such—* And they both stooped for the ha, ! and there was a collision that bumped them to the floor. When they regain. d their feet Mr. Rosser, for of course ' it was he, held out the ill-used tile and wrathfully exclaimed: i mflumhbl&fibmu . / ”m T KVENING TELEGRAM, Tag DUNDERHEAD'S LUCK : l l “A thousand pardons—let me piex | *. FLAND, FLA., JAN. 3, 1913, I beg your pardon.” "You are a bull in & China shop—a China shop sir.” “I plead guilty to carelessnes, but—" “I won't accept of an apology! You are a blunderer and a dunderhead. You are a bear and a beast! ought to be locked up sir!” “I have sald that I was sorry,” an- swered young Grafton with dignity. “Get a guardian, sir—get a guardian | and a rope!” | With that the judge jammed the ' ; battered tile down on his head and ' | stalked out, and the young man gave | Iup his idea of purchase and walked | | after him. Three days later, having | rothing else to do, he brought out his auto for a ride. driving it himself ’ Miss Bessie Rosser had an electric ' runabout. but had not yet acquired the coniidence to run it herself The judge had to act as instructor, and this was one of the mornings he took | the daughter and the vehicle out. There was only one good road in and out of the town, and he naturally took that. So did young Mr. Grafton—but he was miles ahead. He had a long spin and ran over a hog or two before turn- ing about to retrace his way. Half- way home he met the judge and his. daughter and recognized them. Per- haps the judge was a bit off that day. Perhaps the daughter reached out to take the steering lever from him. It was something of the sort (that brought the two machines together with a crash and dumped their occu- pants out upon the dusty road. A few bruises and no great damage. Young Grafton was up first, but the hand he extended to the girl was ignored, and the judge had only got the dust out ! You i of his mouth when he sat up to shout: “Same man! Same dunderhead'” “If it was my fault sir—" began the young man as he lifted his cap to | WU & wxtweo the girl This photograph of one of the streets of Kirk K ilisseh was taken Just “It wus it was! You did it on pur- | after the capture of that city by the Bulgarians, and shows the awful ey pose! You wanted to kill us!” astation wrought by the bombardment “Father! Father!” < " e S e “But he did. He's the dunderhead 1 snoke of.”*’ “Rut 1 think it was your fault av much as mine. thouzh I am willing to nayv all damages. Hope you are not hurt. sir, and that your daughter has escane] with the seare alone.” “I'don't care a dum what you hope!” excliimed the judge. “You are the hizzest dunderhead in seven states, and if 1 ever get back to town I'll have veu indicted as a nulsance. Yee. | will!” At the spot where the vehicles had come together the highway narrowed and there were high banks on efther side. A hundred feet below was turn in the road and bushes to hide what might be coming. Of a sudden, cap in hand, young Grafton sprang cver the vehicles and raced for the turn. “Didn’t | say he was a dunderhead!” sajd the father as he pointed after the fiving fipure *“Why, Bessie, he's gone clean erazy!™ But the vext instant brought a pair of runaway horses into view. They were running as if mad with fear drageing the wreck of a carriage be- hind them. At the turn walted young Grafton to spring and seize a flapnin~ rein and to be carried into the rcad elde bushes and flung down and have a leg’ broken. 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