Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 10, 1913, Page 6

Pian KT | JIES B S Only Chicken in World That i though, just now. AllI have is the lit- | tle plat of farm land my mother left me. You will have to wait till you get some steady position.” “And then, Susan?” pressed Greg- ory, anxiously. | “Why, the day you can make & | start to stock up the farm I will be, glad and willing to go into life part- | Walked Backward Proved .. nership with you. “It's a good, sensible woman you ! to Be Gold Mine. b are,” declared Gregory, warmly. “I'm | 8Y AUGUSTUS GOODRICH SHER-|going to deserve you, and then I'm WIN. going to have you.” .“Why, Colonel Travers sends five| “I hope 80, returned Susan, with i3 Bundreds miles for a plate of straw-|an encouraging smile. “I'm waliting | : 8 berries costing a dollar a plece, if he | for the agent of the seminary people | i1 3 takes the notion,” was the way Greg: | to give him the keys. Oh, Gregory, y ery Jones usually descanted upon the would you do a favor for me?” : fmmense wealth of the proprietor of| “You don’t need to ask that.” ‘ i 3 Hillsdale hall. “They say, too, that he| “The colonel sold oft all his barn has banknotes bound up into books in | stuff, the chickens among them. his library.” There's a poor witless hen the purchas- Gregory was given to a good deal |ers wouldn’t take. They said it was of exaggeration, but there was a cer- | crazy and would annoy the other lay- | i tain basis to his profuse statements. | ers. They've left the homeless thing ! The Travers people lived in grand | behind. Won't you take care of it?” style. They were pleasant, liberal, and | “I will,” promised Gregory, “and, 1B spent & good deal of money with the [ think of what a kind-hearted woman i ] 3 village storekeepers. There was,| you are every time I look at it.” b i therefore, considerable regret when ity Gregory located the lone chick on was known that the hall had been sold | its roost, found a bag, said good-by to for a seminary. 'Susan and took his prize home. The In Hillsdale hall Gregory was very | keeper of the village general store was much interested. He was given many | just getting ready to put up the shut- an odd task well paid for by the col- | ters for the night when Gregory onel. The matron of that lordly es | rushed into the place in high excite- wablishment was Mrs, Susan Morton. | ment. He carried a covered box in one Bhe was a buxom widow, cheery but| band. ! all business. Gregory had felt a grow-| ‘“Hello!” hailed the storekeeper, ing fondness for her for years, and | “going to move?” the widow really liked him. However,| ‘“Pretty nigh that, Silas,” replied be had nothing but what he earned, | Gregory. “See here, I want a little ac- and at times work was slack. commodation of you.” On the day that the hall people| '‘What is it, Gregery?” moved, Gregory brushed up his best! “I want to borrow twenty-five dol- suit and started for the hall with a de- | 1ars. Eh! Don’t want to loan it?” termined, though anxious face. He ex. ! dueried Gregory, ag his friend shook pected to find Susun there, and he did his head dubiously. —seated on the top step of the porch.| ‘It Isn't the money, O e Gregory. You can have fifty or even a hundred, and "The house had been divested of all its fturniture and moving vans were vish Welcome to it. T was only thinking 1o down the road. Susan had the keys that I hope you aren’t going to make w? tho house in her hand and looked some foolish investment again, like Yonely. that oil well you discovered where a “You've bcen crying, Susan,” ob-' kerosene can had tipped over, or the served Gregory, sitting down brsidei flying machine inventor who nearly her. killed both of you.” “Yes, I'll admit it,” confessed Susan,| “I'm all right this time,” announced waking room for him. “It grieves me | Gregory with a chuckle of surety. 40 leave such a kind, liberal family.” The storekeeper proceeded to his “What are you going to do now?” | old iron box of a safe. Gregory be- softly insinuated Gregory, edging near | came immersed in reading the glaring or to her. poster on the wall of a circus exhibit- “Why, my sister, the milliner, wants| ing fifty miles away. It showed for me to'rest up with her till I find a new | four days, and this was the last one. pl:eo.' “Just in time,” he said to himself. Susan,” said Gregory, with longing| “Thank you, Silas, I'll pay you back all | | eyes, “you know my feelings towards | right,” he added aloud. *“May be away you?” from town for a spell. Got to catch “I do, Gregory,” acknowledged Su-|the midnight train. So long.” ean, frankly, “and feel honored by them. It is useless to talk about that, Cheerily Gregory put the money away. Gaily he waved the covered box. It contained the lone hen Susan | The Services of Artist.s Are Yours When You Bring Your Printing to the Lakeland News Job Printin Y i Our plant turns out ten papers of state-wide circulation; bt this does not mean that we do not also give the closest attention to the small work. An order for visiting cards, or for printing a rib- bon badge, or a hundred circulars, is given the same careful consideration that enables us to secure and successfully carry out our large contracts. And, having had to fit up for the bigger work naturally enables us to do the smaller work better. For Printing--a R e T THR EVEN.NG TELRGRAM, LAR ELAND, FLA, JUNE 10, 1913. _Its cover bore the legend, “I make it Ou ggt your work done by people who know--who will not let some foolish error creep into your work that will make your printed matter ineffective, and perhaps subject it to the amused comment of discriminating people. THE LAKELAND NEWS JOB OFFICE e~ cholrs in England. The effect is hor-| Yes, RHEA BPRINGS aas 4 to the| Susan.” | rible: and everybody declares it sub-| ang dancing—the place you cay “What chicken?” asked Susan, fo* jime. Many of the songs in these gol, tennis, croquet, go i 2 getfully. | oratorios were taken by Handel from | Quppyng, poating, riding ang g “The cne you asked me to care for. pig operas and set to pious words; for ing; automobiling, Fine I ¢ (il that was a wonderful fowl. No cxample, ‘Rend serero il ciglio madre; 8i . d‘ ® awn ol hat you or I—only queer.” | non piange pip’ has become ‘Lord, Re- broad walks, and the home (f | member David; teach him to know thy | Old Reliable Rea Springs atg “Well, it walked backwards. Think ways’ If any one in England were|the best that flows—been trieq g, of a hen that walked backwards—the tg take the song from the oratorioand ' century. No better Dlace to re, only one in the world, 3‘—“—1‘" and get it back again to secular wto;da fho erate. Fine accommcaations: l’a‘q 1 Gregory foundered and consulted afwould probably be prosecute or | e circus bill. “A rara avis, that's it. I bhuphell;y."——George Bernard Shaw in ’m“:;‘Aw;:;x::;sbzfllculm i went straight to the city where a cir | Ainglee’s. | 0., Rhea Springs, Tennesses, had asked WTm to care for. | dollar I've got. | There was great gossip as | mysterious departure of Gregory. At| the end of two weeks, however, the | storekeeper received a draft for his! money. That same day Susan Wwasj| Susan, handed a registered parcel by the post- | more crazy t! man. Inclosed was a neat gold breast. | On the card were these words: “How queer, Gregory?” pin. :& cus was showing. A side show was ——————————Tw”sr interested. Not that a chicken that H st walked backwards was so strong ab cown 'N T E attraction of itself, but with the tat- Feature of Fash tooed boy and the trick porcupine it Most I:rdToh':z";I'II::t B.: Pointed made a big draw. Showman gave me Out at Present. twenty-five dollars a week. The chicken just caught the farmers. Al ,y;05 g1 the new shirtwaists in- | “Oh, the char 3 , ged wire at the g 4 fl';‘ BLOSIOAL oll’er:g |:nel die B:;n:fcluds color. Some are made even | doesn't bother me; what I have mm"‘ osihy osissiaget fine missions. La8% from the brightest lawns and crepes | dread about 18 the charged accoury :fgoo :::h e,;rsuf: n::rl-losny r:o I'm to be found. This is in marl;ed cor: the store.” 1 g 4 trast to the ready-made spring an ——— :le:; wlé‘llxhfl:edmoneuy t: stg::a::g"that summer waists of the past few years . a"’l‘imt yo‘:x a:eyoa 'hi'sban A aorth which have been of all wlgte mr:tt;mh " | in preference to color. One of these wAliDY (7" replid BUMG Vandery, : new blouses is of deep rose color lawn (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman) | {ycked closely lengthwise. It has a vest of white lawn about three inches i nd the sleeves are long. Of Atter supper they bestow one hour :lfiet: ailowered crepe, with buttons i: fig{e:nl:u"?:;: mc;"fgo:ar?;‘:: | matching, there are tailored wnistslnl: h | 85, while a simple crepon one Wit stitched is only $2.90. e white in honest and wholesome communica- | .o waists whose regulation price 18 | Different Kind. ; Wite (anxiously)—I do wish n 5 were in some other work, dear. |, I in constant fear that you will tom"' charged wire at the shop.” gy, l Ret Mueh Difference. j “De you ot towards your win, you did before you married * "Bxaoctly. 1 remember just hoy used to not when I first fell in |y with her. [ used to hang over g fenos Ia front of her house and g st ber shadow on the curtaln, atny § % go in. And I act fust the sauen ] wow when I get home late.” g Amusements in Utopia. Located the Lone Chick In Its Roost. tion. Dice play and such other fool w velvet ! Lo T = “June Is tha wwth of brides, roses, | ish and pernicious games they know :%,tl;zvzescilallh?:&a ::en:t;:(c)hed evlmhl € Embiom of Charity. song-birds, sunshine.” lnot. But they use games not much| o, .4 thréad and those which open | Leve, Kindness, tohntl('m N B bt pustvs sy vy 0 DR AEEEAS G B stealeth away another. The other is monizing with the stitching. These | latter cost a little more than the oth- over eharity mey be, or if she 13 e pounded of them all, I know not. | that I do kuow {is that she i3 my A month later, from another city, came a five-pound box of chocolates. Janu{?‘y———l)]ia!]oloo, merry sleigh where.m ch(s fight with virtves as it oy and that her emblem on a #ailc bells. were in battle array, or a set field. In| S i ng Beles -4 always drawn between the : “I declare.” said Susan to her sister, | the Which game is very properly | T e L T O e s “ can’t understand all this extrava | shared both the strife and the discord | . e 15 1. temperature going | ham. dinte gance and mystery. I'd rather have; that vices have among themselves, o MO g Gregory back with nothing than have :1“‘!14 again their unity and (‘f’m'_”“l “1 am sorry to say it is, sir.” him away, maybe in all sorts of | agai virtue; and also what vices be “So am I, for so will my doctor's bother and hard work. Poor fellow! 1' repugnant to what virtues with what biili' . ! Modern Clothes for Chiney.. drove him avay, and—" Susan dis power and strength they ail them Trevellug for an English ¢ solved in tears. | openly; by what wiles and subtlety il makes ready-made clothing A weck Jater there came a letter. { they assault them secretly; with what ; <C‘ose SHave:ay T,h‘?" ner rect secured or “Dear Sweethoart Susan,” it read, “I've - belp tho virtues resist and overcome fix 1;’“ yousare Ly l”'”’q‘ In the | 1105 00 th of “foretgn” ordered that farm outfit and Im com. | the puissance of the vices; by what bul“”l""_,“o‘ sk iz ve L0IWANC L0 lhel i Morchuria. Th fng lome, Get ready to begin that|Cratt they frustrate their purposes,| HJIW\ m,],‘ml.;[;f il 0y C ] and, finally, by what sleight or means | the one getteth the victory, — Sir Thomas More. this fall—beautiful 1 life partnership sunsets, harvests and all Susan gave a scream of delight as ghe opened the door one morning and | found Gregory on the doorstep. He| was dressed in a neatly-fitting suit; he| “Handel is not a mere composer in wore a well-trimmed mustache. i England; he is an institution. What | Con- | fidence and opulence were suggested |18 more, he is a sacred institution. ‘Messiah’ is performed the by his bearing. Love, too-—his ]oym:When his eyes told that as he boldly kissed Su- audience stands up, as if in church, while the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ is being SO OO OO SIS PTLCIOTHDL O BUILDERS'SUPPLIES | Exclusive sales agents for HYDRO BAR WATER PRCOFING National Bhow Cases and ¥'ixtures, Plate and Window Glam STAFFORD STANDARD SFATS. for Schools, Churches sni Theaters. Terra Cotta Roofing Tile. Goed Red Building Briek Carload lots for prompt deliveries. Handel in England. | 1P O P san. “Gregory,” was her first word ag | SUDB. It is the nearest sensation to Concrete Reinforeing Bteel. Get our pric ] buyt they were seated on the sofa, “what the Elevation of the Host known to, . e o English Protestants. 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