Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 17, 1913, Page 6

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Phone 30 9 Roowa 7 Tn;;n EST IS NONE T00 GOOD~ 2 HARCOURT &0, 2 CORRECT" MANUFACTURING EMGRAVERS LOUISVILLE, KY, U.S.A. WE ARE THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE. Fuiliine of Denmson's Gify Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Eueraved Specialties. Holiday wmd Faney Goods, 1oys, Ete. LLAKELAND BOOK STORE R. L. MARSHALL TR » RACTCR AND.BUILDER ey wed apeeiditions or wisl follow any plaus and e 1urnishea i3 i na st SPECIALTY ik - n‘ Loimes | bave byt FLORIDA Eroue £67-Green f"""‘"“ bu....fl ENCE! 3 u!l'l"r A Story of an Cld n'-'lan’s Hat, an| Adopted So», and a Schooi Teacher. By AUGUSTUS GOODRICH SHER- WIN, A neatly apparelled girl walking slowly and sadly down a shady street '’ Creston. Ahead of her a wizened, bent old man was picking his careful way where the pavement was most shaded, for the sun was blistering [ hot. Only a stiff rollicking breeze | saved the day from utter sultriness. ! As the old man turned the corner the { wind caught him like a cyclone. It ' sent his old fashioned high hat rolling | { and tumbling behind him. discolored head gear. ' “Get it! Get it!" shouted jubilant | | voices. *“Old Wilson's hat. Put lt { on the post and peg at 1t!" | “Boys, boys," chided the young lady, | | throwing up her veil and showing a , face tear stained but resolute enough the lads. { "Give it to me™ she sa.d firmly. | “The old gentleman is waiting for it.” ! “Humph, him!" cried the lad, con- temptuously. “Why, he's | Miser Wilson. Take it, | because you're so pretty, | ing to be our teacher” t The girl smiled b tly at the com i pliment. Her lip quivered, however, | at the last words of the boy. She | | compressed them tightly and went Lup to the old man. “The wind blew she uid, “And you re young torme H! man sharply "and his kee h(- «l uckled, “they only old though—just ' and are go- your hat away,” it from those » In the old v it all. T sup arkled, and told you who 1 \'vs =Mr, Wilson,” “And the old 1 or? Hey, did they say that? You don’t want to go | “Give It to Me.” She Said Firmly. | around dolng favors for old misers, do | | you, young lady?" “Why, if they deserve it You do not look very dreadful | Wilson,” said the young lady with smile. surely. | Mr. a| Miss Nellie | out the old You for ot You're the right sort Merrill,” snddenly spoke ! fellow. Yo 1) are the yo | vesterday to | here. They poir i you went to | this morning | teacher, 1 can s | ing to tell the i\ Miss Nellie's i ‘ again those ‘ to te.\rs | am afraid it wi : \\|I»nu" she said 1 ‘Why, what do yon the old man “They have given nu and a trifle more here” said Nellie | little premature. you Under the { law they canno: begin school untfl | there are 50 possible ¢Lolurs between the ages of six ana vighteen ip the | dlstrict.” “And you mean to more than that in ' township?” cried old Wilson . 1 rancy 1 ! could count more than that in boys alone who have stoned my windows, | robbed my orchards, and made them- selves generally disagrceable “The count is official” explained { Miss Nellie. “There are three schol- ars short, and the trustees have put oft opening the school until the win- ter term.” Gabriel Wilson oW ¥ the: nd I'm go- | wded; ge s were close | no enod, Mr. ifully mean” asked ny expenses | for coming down E were @ ay there aren't had been softly brushing his cherisied hat g this | time. Between whil.s he stole keen glances at the modest womanly girl | before him. ! "I suppose you've i been study- Ing yourselt half to death to quality for the wretched §20 month and board you were to get here?” he fip. ! quired with manifest interest, “l am an orphan, and have no fam- , fly dependence,” id Nell “I teel pretty bad u! splendid position.” “An orphan, eh?" re; briel ‘hcughthzlly. s my boy— that is, my adopted son, Sid: ey. He's away at college now studying to be ated old Ga- S ——— | | even in its rare prettiness to daunt | She managed to catch hold | 1, of a big boy who had secured the hat. | | and ! that of 1% | only a sn FLAND, FLA,, JAN, ——— lawyer. r bo; cmed a iserly, it's for him, d rong and sud- “you were to board 2gs, if everything went en't you?” “Why, name of the lady.” “Well, I'm going to take you there now. I want you to promise not to go | back to the city for a day or two. I've taken a sort of interest in you be- yes, | cause—well, she had lived till now. I think I ean ! fix this school question. let me try?” | Nella hesitated, but not for long. She went to Miss Griggs. It was the next afternoon when old Gabriel ap- | peared. He was sprightly and smil- | ing. “] guess there must be a ‘enulna. { warm spot somewhere in this hard | | *ull fifty quota of scholars has been pro- | vided for.” “Oh, Mr. Wilson, can it be truet” | criud Nella joyfully. “Yes, you can start in tomorrow, I'and T hope you drive some respecta- [ into that unruly mob of boys o wanted to peg my old hat. My t—think of it. + 40's, Miss Merrill!™ tow did you ever influence | uI trustees?" inquired Nella. Just moved a squatter's family with lit (‘hl]dl" 'n over the township line ¢ I own inside the the | I had a little girl who |k died. She'd just about be your age if | Wwill you | In the family since ! 17, 1913. 4 the old man I believe that is the i Immediately a crowd of urchins | )4 heart of mine,” he said, “for old| ; playing in a vacant lot just off the | \yilson the miser feels about as happy | street made a dive for the frayed, | as you will when I tell you that the‘ We Won't Sacrifice thy but we are always studying how 1, Increase The Quantity 1 '8 We give the “most now but we are anxi | . i more. Phone us and prove it. I o'l Gabriel | + became a dream ef beauty to lia in the levely litile villaze, The to her rentle ways ! idolized her. It od deed had penurious old he never miss- 1 the little | At the end of the | he | exhibition into the pl just home day e with from col 1t it was | d take ! exer- | of half a iren into class two. o note the rare pa- and kindness of the young girl ) £t hattle in the arena v bhread Sidney The latter simply Lis wont, and mut- ahout “good taste,” “respeet for old age, attached to it—even old hats,” then came the two weeks' vaca- tion, embracing the winter holidays. Naturally old Gabriel called to see Nella. Naturally, too, he took Sidney with him The sly old man i prond it churmed h huckied, tired something heard of skating | | and coastinz partics after that. The day before the new term began he nllod Sidney to him “See here, young man,” he observed, | “I never find Nella at home when I call now. 1 never find you at home at all. As a lonely old man, let me sug- gest that it would be a fine thing to ! get her into the family." “Why." smiled Siduey, broadly and happily, “what a coincidence! gested the b.unr- thing to Nella only last eventng! (Copyright, 1912, by W, . (hnpmn.n.) CARELESS OF SMALL CHANGE Like the Pin, Thousand. of Pennles Are Lost Every Year—Many Are Carried Abroad. That An small ¢ ricans ¢ rareless of thelr s aunual- ly sent counted ¢ luster and f a silver col they are | s0, for the n When the ne first placed in were used find their w: Hundreds wer vered to be uscd stickpins. County fairs and shows of kinds mutilate thon s of every year. At the veral eirculation td plated and sil as cuff links pennies at the same time emboss a view of the event Hundreds of thousands of pennies aré carried out of the United States by tourists, who leave them abroad. A year or two ago 111.000 of them were shipped to Cuban bankers and placed in circulation among the laboring classes in Cuba. The American cop- per runs a close second to the pin, of which millions are lost every year. souvenir Will Never Have to Propose Again. “Then you won't marry me?” “No, Archibald, 1 will not.” “You will not change your mind and be sorry afterward that you have refused me?” “Positively not.” *This, 1 suppose, is final.™ “Absolutely.” “And there will be no come back?* “None."” “You realize what you are doing ™ “Yes, I do. I wouldn't marry you if you were the lac on earth” “Thank heave miurmured the old bachelor, * done my duty, cgie. | mn g0+ I a r.nld vou might aw‘opx me Now, having been disappointed in love, I m-ll never have to propose again,” told his | and what | 1 sug- mint ' | and | various | fairs one may see | a machine that will !atten a cent and | Eest Butter. per pound . Sugar, 16 pounls . ..., Cottolene, 10 pound paile Cottolene. 4-pound pails. Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails 3 cans family size Cream. .. 6 cans baby size Cream 1-2 barrel best Flous. .. 12 pounds test Flour. . Picnic Hams, per pound . .. Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams Qctagon Soun, & fus Ground Coffee. per pound. . 5 uailons Kerosene | g CFE. MO 2 e l by the fact | The best Union Made cigar in tov. They have stood the test. Thc Town of Beautiful Loc tion The Town of Progress The Towa of Opportumt) lnqmre Abon! It At Room l Baymo ndo Bldg, Lakelund. C. D. M'CAIN, MANAGER. Telephone 309. (WATE STAR WARKLT GUY W. TOPH PROPRIETOR G. P. CLEMMONS MANAGEK Phone 279 Corner Florida & Main The Sanitary Market Florida and Western Meats of All Kinds Fresh Vegetables 4 Mother’s Bread { |