Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 5, 1913, Page 8

i It’s what you save—not what you earn that puts your credit up! A SAVINGS ACCOUNT Started here {8 the first step to Inan- cial independence—ust make it your i 9 business to drop in now and get started. You'll Ind the savings habit one easy to acquire. THE STATE BANK OF LAKELAND FLA. ON THE LONG ROAD He Was Rough, but of Her Own People, Not Like the Other Kind. By LOUISE MARRIFIELD, S “Did ye ask Evalora?” Oliver looked down at the white clover springing up through the chips in front of the sawmill, and marked patterns with the butt of his ox goad. “Not directly, but she knows what I mean all right, Mr. Kinnecott.” “What do ye mean, to put it straight?” Old Steve Kinnecott shot a shrewd glance from the golden shadows of the mill at the big overgrown youngster. His hair was tawny yellow and needed cutting His face and neck looked tanned almost a brick red under his wide brimmed flopping straw hat. Be- hind him stood the yoke of oxen, with patient lowered heads and switching tails, He had come down after a load of slabs from the hill farm. It was a mighty good proposition, that hill farm. Steve knew the value —_— of every acre on it, and its rich wood | lots. Evalora could do a sight worse, but would she think so? Since she had had the school training down at' the county seat, she had different ideas. Would the hill farm and her old sweetheart appeal to her as love's ful- filment? “I just mean 1 want her to marry me, sir,” said Oliver, a bit throatily. “Then I tell you what, boy.” Old Steve's gray eyes twinkled. He shuf- fled forward into the wide arched en- / mane; but she needn’t make herself conspicuous, and his own anatomy felt fairly well parred from the accident, quite enough to demand sympathy. “] don’t think he would want to g0 | to the hotel, Mr. Dixon,” said Evalora, flushing slightly, but speaking as old Steve's daughter should. “He's an old friend of ours, and a neighbor’s boy. I wish you would plase take him home for me, and some one look after the oxen. Then you can settle with Pim yourself for the wagon and slub?‘: “Well, if you say so, Miss Kinne | cott—" “I do say so. I'm going with you to i look after him.” It was a strange drive over the long road. Tom Dixon at the wheel, and Evalora looking after the unconscious youngster. Once she directed him to turn and make for a doctor's house down the road. They took him along with them up to Oliver's farm. “Anything more I can do?’ Tom asked, after he had waited for the doc- tor's verdict, and left a check that cov- lered the damage. “Can I drive you back, Miss Evalora?’ Evalora stood at the kitchen door. | Beside her the double hollyhocks grew "33 tall a8 herself, Jt seeined as if they | turned thelr ruby hearts to her in wel- come. Her hair was rumpled and wavy, her cheeks flushed, her sleeves ! rolled high to the elbow. “] don’t think I'd better go back, , thanks,” she sald, happily. “If you take the doctor with you, and stop at the sawmill and tell father what's hap- pened, he’ll come up and help, too.” “I don’t think it's necessary, all this fuss. He's all right now,” sald Tom, sulkily. “I know,” Evalora returned, shyly, “but you see, he’s our own folks, and we like to look'after him.” She waited until the buzz and hum of the motor had died away far down back to trance to the mill, and blinked at the the hill road before she went sunlikht like some mole. “You take the couch where they had put Oliver. the long way home this trip. I ain’t He was bandaged until he looked like got a mite of objections to you if you & turbanned Hindoo, but he smiled up can get her.” at"her. The long way home! Oliver curled : al"henrd what you his whip out to the oxen, and took 'Ora. 3 o the stee: hill road. He knew what her ' “Well, that's just what father dhflfg- tather meant. She was up at the big isn't it?" She pull:z: al tbl“‘;te:n:o: hotel teaching some children in one of d4oWn to keep -ff the late al the rich city families. He-had seen funlight. her only at church in the valley on Sundays, only caught a few words with Want to tell you why dI“went up there her in the shadow of the pillared porch today on the long road. afterwards. And it had been a whole year since he had kissed her goodby oW rocker beside him and flAngered the down under the pines. He wondered pleced courthouse steps quilt on the if she remembered. Not that she had bed. There were some pieces of her promised anything; but sometimes he ' ¢resses there when she had waited for had almost kept the memory of her Oliver down at the sawmill on the way kiss as a promise. to school. He had always carried her It was two miles and a half up to the little tin lunch pail those days. Some- hotel. Lelsurely he walked it, with !mes they had stopped at the bars d “peeked” inside to the slow-going oxen and a load of rust !oWer down, an colored cedar slabs. Several times he : see what surprise her mother hai:l he had to stop and turn to one side | Slipped in, a berry turnover or a dough- at the sound of a horn. Once he Nut with jelly inside. She shared her , treasures with him then. 'zl:otli‘soh:o}:‘sl;ii:gnlzed Easions. in‘nn Then had come her schooling, first told him, Eva “Sit down here,” said Oliver. “I| Evalora said nothing. She took the ; " ‘Lakeland, Fla, R ————— FOR SALE JOR SALE—Furnishings in board- ing house in Lakeland, doing good | business. Mann-Fitts Lapd Co., 692 FOR SALL--Fine farm of 30 acres; 15 acres in grove; 1 acre in sweet plums; 8 acres fine strawberry land; good house of 8 rooms; with- in 2 miles of Lakeland. Price $8,500. 669 = FORSALE+~Three secondhand bug- gles and three surreys, all in good condition. B. 8. Rivers & Son, liverymen, Lakeland. 634 FOR SALE—Beautiful grove Tot, 59 x250, on western slope of Lake Morton. 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They talked the matter over 'md concluded tnat the plan was ex- travagant. Now both attend the same place of worship and expect to enter the golden gate on the same uk:hb—l Carrier Mills Mai —— To Save Matting, To save your matting, make a cover | outing fiannel to slip over your He went forward steadily, knowing just what old Steve had meant when he had told him to take the long road. If Evalora could stand it to see him slabs and the oxen, in his brown jeans and high boots, she would take the long road for life with him that way. There would be no pretense, no com- he was. When he reached the bend, the long vine covered verandas came In view, the tall white chimneys, and many ga- bles. A large space had been cleared in the virgin forest of the mountain- eide to make a fitting site for the ho- tel. Oliver had never seen this since its completion. Now he surveyed it with calm, interested eyes, its golf course clear down to Peck's brook, its Italian gardens that cut up the fore- ground, the stables and tennis courts, everything that made up Evalora’s everyday life that summer, even though she was merely a summer gov. erness. | And suddenly, as he turned up the curving drive, he saw her. She was on the veranda at a little table with (COPYrisht, 1913, by the McClure News- magic and wonder of it all, laughing two children. That veranda looked like a distant flower-bed to him, wlth' all its daintily clad women and young | girls, but he could pick our Evalora. ! And he heard the boy call out: | “Oh, look at the oxen!" Everybody looked at the oxen, and at their boyish driver. He stopped at the turn of the drive and waited, looking up at Evalora Would she take the challenge, and come to him before them all? Just then a car made the sharp turn at the bend in the forest road, and he heard the cries of warning. Now Evalora had risen, and was running down the steps towards him. He lifted his hat to greet her just as the car struck the heavy wood wagon broad- | sldes. It swung about, tangled up with | the terrified, backing animals, and the boy went down in the wreckage. “Of course, it was my fault. I'Il pay for him here at the hotel.” | Evalora looked up at the owner of | the car. She knew him. Every day | of her stay at the hotel he had done his best to make her appreciate the value of his very existence. He was | young and from a good-sized town in the middle of the sate. He spent money freely. He had been far too generous in his offers of motor drives, | she had thought, to the little country governess of his sister's children. But {In his way, she knew he tried to be, | as he would have said, on the level. He did admire her frankly, ang took the only way he knew of letting her know ft. Now he stood looking down at her, the center of the gathered crowd around the ox driver on the grouna. He felt snubbed and bothered, seeing that rough head on the girl's dainty white linen skirt, watching her stop ;moom when sweeping. This will be the flow of blood on his head with her ‘ound to take up the dust easily ‘‘aves the matting much wear, - silk scart. It was all right to be hu- promise. She would take him just as at the high school in a nearby town, and later up at Normal. She had slipped out of his reach for a little while. It had been this summer at the drive up to the big summer hotel with bigihotel that had taught her whete, life ran in sweetest places, and she had tired of all the shams and petty battles of that daily round. Life was what one made it, and the makings lay in one's. own heart, as Oliver would have put it. She could have her books and music up at the hill farm, with peace and plenty and—him. “I know why you came,” she whis- pered, “just to get me.” “Would you have come along it I hadn’t got all smashed up?’ There was a whimsical touch of longing in his tone. “Would you, girl?” He reached out one arm towards her, and drew her to him. “It's a rough road to travel, the long one, but I'm just starved for you, Evalora. I know I ain't the sort of fellow you ought to marry, but—" Her hand was pressed firmly over his lips. “I don’t like the other kind,” she said, softly. paper Syndicate.) Mother of Invention. John and Mary married impecuni- ously on thirty dollars a week and | went to live in a “walk-up” apartment, two flights up. Then baby came, and ' besides adding to the family, added to the impecuniosity. Ingenuity went far toward solving the problems of living for two in an inexpensive place; baby strained that ingenulty farther. At "first it was no impossible task to car- ry him upstairs, but he grew, as ba- bles will, and Mary’s back became weary dally as she carried him up. What was to be done? Oh, for an elevator! The dumbwaliter! Of course! There- after when Mary and baby came in. baby was put in the dumbwaiter. Then Mary walked upstairs and hoisted baby. Baby liked it; Mary liked fit; and if you don’t like it, that doesn't matter. Don't Laugh, and Save Time. Bernard Shaw has issued a little “personal appeal” to the audiences attending the Kingsway theater for the matinee performances of “John Bull's Other Island” on the subject of their “most generous and unrestrain- ed applause.” “Are you aware,” he asks, “that you would get out of the theater half an hour earlier it you listened to the play in silence and did not applaud until the fall of the curtain? “Have you noticed that if you laugh ' loudly and repeatedly for two hours you get tired and cross and are sorry next morning that you did not stay at home? “Do you know that it you delay the performances by loud laughter you will make them balf an hour long ™ : 00 censes for that girl thig ' Pathfinder. — s lur T0 DATE INFANTS | By CAROLINE CROW., / ing up wonderingly from her emlfi'?i{deiy, rhe girl in the apple blos- som kimono beheld her roomxpato stalk gloomily in from the matipee. Without a word the newcomer pitchs ed her muff at the offended angora. still without a word, she poured and drank three cups of tea in desperate i ion. susgils,sMeg! Now what has happen- ed?” pleaded the girl in the apple blos- som kimono, “Couldn’t the childreg go to the matinee with you, after all? “Oh, yes, we went, seven went, geven strong,” darkly responded Meg. | “Lols, how old am 1?” “Why, don’t you know?” queried her bewildered friend in the kimono. “] thought I did. But oh, those children—those alleged children!™ groaned Meg, clasping her wh'l‘te gloved hands about her knees. 1t " you wish to preserve ope lingering il- | Jusion, Lois,” she said presently, “nev- : er, never be deluded into giving fac- ulty children a treat.” ! “But why?’ demanded Lois. “My first misgivings attacked me when I saw how competent and com- . posed the little creatures were at the very outset,” related Meg, some- what calmer by now. “No timid, up- | ward glances for guidance at cross- ing; no clinging to my skirts when the | fearsome locomotive approached full blast—you know it makes my heart | jump to this day to see the great mons sters coming on; no shrinking reluo tance about selecting and appropriat. " ing the best accommodations on the ! train.” ! “I'msure the Blodgett children have | charming manners,” defended Lols, “And Jamie Dowd—" “Oh, they have, they have!” wall. : ed Meg, biting a rose stem savagely. . “Nothing alarmed and discomposed FIRST METHODIST CEpd —— (South Kentucky An Rev. lIsaac C. Jenkiy, Temporary residence, 9 Florida avenue. Office " ‘iours, 11:30 to 12:3¢. sunday Services— Sunday school, 9:45 4 n'® Preaching, 11:00 a, p, | Epworth League, ¢:3¢ Preaching, 7:30 p. o Week Day Services— Woman's Missionary Monday afternoon, Prayer meeting, Weqy ing, 7:80. Teachers’ meeting Fridy, A cordial invitatiop ¢, to all services, ———y CUMBERLAND PRESBY. TERIAN (3 (Corner Florida Ave, anq (,, Rev. J. D, Lewis, pastor, [ Sunday school, 9:45 g p, Preaching first and gy days, at 11 a. m. and 1:303 Weekly prayer meeting Gay evening at 7:30. Woman's Missionary g, the third Monday afternoy month. " To all these services the cordially invited. | FIRST PRESBYTERIAN (y} (Tennessee Ave., Betweem My Lemon Streets,) own are a crude, backwoods product sz:;'"w's:':::'f;: :’m i 9:46; preachirg. 11 anm | 7:30 p. m, Wednesday—Prayer 7:30 p. m. . me so much as their manners. DIXIELAND AND MYRIL STREET METHODIST (i Oixfeland Church-— Services—1st and 2d Sab a m; 2d and 4th Sabbaths, .} Sabhath School—3 p. m, Prayer 8ervice—Thursdy at 7:30. Myrtle Street Church— fervices—1st and 3d § 7:30 p. m.; 2d and 4th Sabd s m. Sunday School—3 p. m. Prayer Services—Tuesdy at 7:30. W. H. STEINMETH | | ; ALL SAINTS CHUR(E “ Corner of Lemon Street ai | “Wasn't It All Just Perfect?” v 3 %m?]t:d&‘;f“; by comparison. They had the man-|eharge. , ners of little dukes and marquises to Services at 11 a. m. and | each other and to me. My mouth sim. All Sundays except tLe tult ply fell open, and stayed open, at the ! polite lies those midgets favored each | TN, Qfher servicw i other with. They certainly have the : responses down pat. Now, personally, Eass Lakeland Minl Sunday scheol a1 3 p. m I like nice mannered children—but byi that I mean just good, old fashioned, ! farm manners!” | Milton, superintesdicnt. Her companion laughed merrily, | weoting Thursday at 1 p. 0 “You would!” she agreed heartily if| ' somewhat ambiguously. “But didn’t the dears seem to have a good time? “The finest kind of a time,” assert. ed her friend, nibbling a lady-finger. | “There was I just thrilling over the Lutheran Churea Cor. B. Orange ana 80 #unday school 10:00 s 1 Services are held on | and crying by turns, and all but climb- | f°Urts Sundays. ing on the stage in my absorption in ! the sport. Then there came an inter CHURCH OF CHRIS! mission. I dried my eyes and turned G to clasp the enraptured babes to my heart, “Instead of finding enraptured babes | I found six mature little entities, cool, alert, pleased as Punch, and interest. edly discussing—what do you sup., Preaching, 7:30 p. m. pose? the mechanics of the produc-| Prayermeeting, Wednesd! tlon! That was what had caught at 7:30. thelr attention and continued to hold it, despite my heartbreaking efforts | to Interest them with the miracle of ! the thing. They didn’t care two figs | about fairies and poetic imaginings, but wires and bulbs and back drops moved them to sincere enthusiasm. Lo(lls, I got fairly hysterical before the end. “The worst display of all, however, came when we were in the foyer, pass- ing out. A dear, well meaning, moth- erly soul, as pitiably behind the times @8 I had been myself but a short | while before, accosted our party. “Beaming on Rhoda’s little golden C. Redgrave, Minister Missour{ and Lemon’ Sunday school, 10 8. B Preaching, 11 a. m. Christian Endeavor, 6:3 FIRST BAPTIST CHUX Corner Fioriga avenue sof Tha Rev. Willlum Dudief J. D, vastor. Sunday school 9:45 s Preaching Suaday st 11} 'S pm Weckly prayermeeting L svening at 7:80. Weman's Missionary 8o cloty Monday 8:30p. B Baptit Yousg People’ seraph's head, she said: ‘And wasn’t | o8 6:15 p. m. . Il just perfect, dear?” Rogular menthly busioed Rhoda regarded her gravely for a | Sret Wedneaday ~ 7:80° moment—not shy, you know, merely Onm— weighing her answer. Then, ‘With ! — % one possible exception,’ she replied Pesel courteously. ‘I suppose, of course, you mh,.rb.fi“ noticed that the climax comes far top | _ 3™ take, ¥ early in the piece!’ m":hn‘“ b pl:“ the Oh, Lois! Hand me that cat]®— | ..‘.h“‘.;: : have Chicago Daily News, ::‘ hs thlnlfl'f and Ne? ot ot : i Popular Girl, Sen ——— H want a license to m the (€l 1o the world” said the youse - ' man, . | The clerk nodded smilingly and re- ere i plled: “Sure. 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