Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 9, 1913, Page 2

i PAGE TWO LLASSIFIED., wviRnsig 5 A K E FOR SALE FCR SALE—Good Winchester rifle, wili be sold cieap. Phone 242 Red 1 3 Store HCRSE COLLARS?McGI-ASHAN. 819 e e e ————————— FOR SALE—On easy terms, or will We H ave T.mpa lc rent beautiful home, eight rooms, two story house, large lot cover- Cream ed with bearing orange and grape- i fruit trees, just up hill from Lake Beulah, on west side. D. H. 8loan. 912 Anywhere in th City FOR SALE—Free dirt. Kindling wood at $1.00 per load. Apply &t Kibler Hotel. 886 S —————————————————— B FOR SALE—Will take as first pay- w sus—winane s mr| Promnt Delivery.. RO AIORORIIIONIEIS SESVSSTAOIOSOITHIBSTHOH0 S two blocks of school, a vacant lot or small cash payment and $12 per month on balance. Now rented for $16 per month. Dr. i ™™ "l The Protfessions TICKET to Kansas City, via Frisco; | - good until July 26. Price $15. 32, SAMUEL ¥ 'm Phone 217 Red. 942 A d MR SR SPECIALINT. _FOR SALE-Good milch cow. F. B. Ry, Bar, Nose and Threst Terrell. 924| Glasees Meiemtifieally Presctim:. ‘tonet Ofca, 141; Restdumes, FOR SALE—One bouffet, one couch, Bryans Bldg., Lakeland, Fis. 2. W. B. GROCVER, PHISACIAN AND SURGROr | Scome b ADG ¢ BORMMCKY &t Lakeland, Mlerida. one range, 2 rocking chairs, 4| straight chairs and a kitchen ta- ble, all in first-class condition. Apply to 309 South Missouri ave. or phone 114 Green. 927 ¥OR SALE —-Fresh milen cow: also| ~ ne large horxe elght years old | DR N. L. BRYAR, Apyly to Picard WBros, Drane DENTI®T. buillding. Phore No. § 75n| Skipper Bullding, Over Pesto®i =4 MLl o O ST Phone 889, FOR SALE- -New house of 9 rooms,| bath, electric lights, corner lot 60 x 135; will be sold at a bargain. | arties leaving town. The John F.i DR. C. C. WILSON— Cox Realty Co. 037 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Kesidence Phons 300 Rew LAXKELAND, FLA. of Women and Children. Deen-Bryant Bldg., Sulte 9. Phone 367. HARNESS REPAIRING?— McGLASHEN. FOR SALE-—Good two-story house of 7 rooms and bath, electric light, corner lot 70 x 100, shade trees, $3,200. The fohn F. Cox Realty Co. 9317 LAWYER e e ————————— FOR SALE—A bargain; Hudson 33, 1912 Model Auto. In nrst-class 3. GARAE A WEMEN GAVROPATE PEYSICIAN condition. New tires all around with 6 extra innter tuoes. Apply| Sesme & @ and 7, Bryest Balks Box 165, Lakeland, Fla. 936. | Lakelond, Fia ‘ulu Phone 110 Blwe. Olvil Eagineers. Reems 313-31) Drane BiGe LAKELAND, FLA. bath, shades and screens. One and & haif qouares morth of school, Florida FOR RENS—6 room house; We Take Orders From Special Attention Gven to Dissaw (o] I3 2. 0. Bidg. Phone 810, Lakoland, ¥. ¢. L & X D. XENDEXEBALL . bbb bbb doddebddd b intiidbilblpiodnlidbilbl bR R BN PEACH ELOSSOM GIRL A Story of Everyday Life With a Moral That Is Obvi- ous. By H. M. EGBERT. “The phenomenon of conversion,” gald the evangelist to the psycholo- gist, “may be, as you say, the culmin- ation of a series of obscure mental im- pressions, but the condition itself is the result of a moment. Something which was not in the sinner's heart enters there and drives out something @ | that was there before. “] knew a man—never mind who or what he was. He was uneducated, the sort of average American countryman who is the staple human product of this nation. With good fortune he might have become anything. With bad fortune he might have sunk to any depth. His will was weak, his @ | senses stronger than his character. At the age of thirty Le was a tramp, plodding along a country road in Car- olina. Unwashed, unshaven, hungry, his self-respect gone, he would have run from a barking dog or cringed for a meal to any housewife. “And then the moment came. It was early spring and the orchards were aglow with peach blossoms. As he passed outside a long line of blos- som-bearing trees he saw a girl stand: ing on the other side of the fence, her arms full of spraying boughs. She was about sixteen, beautiful, innocent, and good. A simple-hearted country girl, in short, born into just such cir- cumstances as himself. “The sight of her brought back memories that had been submerged band. for years. The ragged, outcast man felt an intense yearning for human sympathy, for friendship. He stopped and spoke to her, and she was the first human being who lad treated him as an equal in neariy a year. “He learned something of her cir- cumstances, Her parents had been could not be fulfilled. were rich, she said, it might be, but he did not believe in educating wom- Side of the Fence. son. compelled to mortgage their farm: they were heavily in debt; they feared the loss of their home. And she—her dearest wish to obtain an education If her father en. He wanted her to stay on the || “*Yes,” grumbied the woman. ' “-na had become like a daughter ) him, in his imagination, but when tou years had passed he suddenly ound himself growing into middle life | end very lonely. He dared to begin to imagine dearer things than that. And at last the day came when he | turned his dreams into actual plans | | he would return and humbly ask her to E | be his wife. ¢ “It was not until he actually de- scended from the train at the obscure Ulittle Georgia village that the futility ‘Iot his dreams suddenly dawned upon | "him. Me had heard nothing from her | during ten years. It might be that his money had never reached her; it Imight. be that she was already mar- | ried. A thousand chances might have intervened. And she was twenty-six and he a man of forty. He was bent on the wildest and most quixotic er yand that had ever befallen a man. “Another thing, too, came to his | mind. He had educated her in Paris and at the best college in the state. But he himself was a crude and ig: norant man; he had even retrograded in knowledge and manners, living in his western town. How could he ask her to link her life with his? “And by the time when he saw the peach orchard looming up in front of him all his 1esolutions had shrunk to this: that he would ask for & drink of water and inquire after her, learn how | she was and what life had brought her, ! and go his way again. “When he heard the harsh voice of the mother at the door, he told me af- | terward,” continued the evangelist, | “he was conscious of an absurd desire to run away, just as when he had pass- {ed by the house, a tramp, ten years | before. But the woman, seeing that he was dressed like a man of means, | {nvited him in to rest, and she gos- | siped readily about her circumstances, | and was loud in complaint of her hus- He had acquired a good deal | of money, she told my friend, and had | squandered it all in speculation. Ten years before he had heen on the verge | ol bankryptey, «nd though things had ! brightened he was still in the same pe- sition. She wished that they could | sell out and move into a city—but it | was hard to tind purchasers for peach | orchard land in that section of the | state. { “‘How much do you want to sell for? he inquired “The woman hesitated, ‘Four thou- \ sand,’ she.said at last. ! “He had twice that sum. With [he! farm he could live among the mem- | s ories that had controlied his life; he | ! wanted nothing better, I will buy it ! at that figure, he answered. Al this 1 _time he had not found the heart to ask . | about the womun's daughter, but now Py she volunturily spoke to her, | | “‘There’s one trouble I've got' she | | grumbled, ‘and that's Bessie. She de clares she won't go to a city. She ! 1 | hates city life and says if 1 go she's! going to hire out somewhere! : | “‘Hire out?" stammered the visitor. | ‘She | ain't a bad girl, but somehow she nev- | | er quite saw her duty toward her fa- | | ther and me after Jim refused to give | i her an education. She wanted to go i to high school, and Jim hadn't the money.’ “At that moment the farmer stamp- | ed into the room casting a suspicious look at the visitor. The woman in- troduced him. 'This gentleman talks {of buying the farm, she announced. “The farmer's visage cleared. ‘May- | be you'd like to come and talk it over l ’ouulde,' he said, and my friend fol-f lowed him. He followed him down to the peach trees and then he turned . | ghout and put his hand on his shoul- Saw a Girl 8tanding on the Other | seething in his heart. This man had der. A wild, uncontrollable rage was defrauded two lives, his daughters and his own. He had squandered the farm and help waintain it, with the | meope h which prospect of marriage to sorae farmer's ' IS RN EN s RS U to redeem this young life from ig- norance and servitude; ten years of “The ragg-d man could see that this | work had gone for nothing, flung avenue. Inquire at Pillan’s groc- el LR - agance, of which -m was quick-witted, earnest, and with a ':: o::‘;t." which even his wife was YOR RENT—Furnished and unfur- nished rooms. Apply at 806 S. FOR RENT—Office rooms in the Resm 813 m Smith Hardin bullding. The John Lakeland, P 937 FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Apply at 104 East Oak and N. Florida Ave. 933 F. Cox Realty Co. 3 0. ROGERS, s vy, Gaem 1, Bryamt Beldhe Phong 160 Lakeland, Forida Miscellaneous| 819 1. B, NUFFAKER, —~Attorney-at-Taw—~ Yser 1 Gtuart Bldg. Bastew, W HARNBSS?—McGLASHAN. WANTED--Your safety rasor bindes to resharpen, made better thaa new, 25¢, 350 and (0e¢ dozen. Lake- land Furniture end Hardware Co. Catadilshed fa July, 180¢ <ooms 14 and 13 Keatuchy Buiis> Phenes: Ofce 180: Restigmer & R e P o : i TYAXER & TUCKEA BRIDLES?—McGLASHAN. sy —lawysrr— B e Taymondo My STEAM Vulcanizing, automobile cas- xetand, LU S ings, and tubes repaired. All work T ———— guaranteed. C. H. Haycraft, at the W. & PRAENROR, LAWY Fix 'Em Shop. Pine street. 940 superb simplicity and radiating good- these words. name and that of the thanked her for a drink of water that she gave him, and, as he heard her ! mother's harsh call from the house, went on his way. “At that moment he was converted. He lost his desire for vileness. He | resolved that, since his own life had | been spoiled in the sight of his maker, he would give him that of another. | “He jumped a freight train and made his way by stages westward. He ob- tained a menial position, and every penny that he could hoard he put, away in a bank. When he bad a hun- | dred dollars he sent it anonymously to the girl. ‘For your education,’ he wrote on the envelope. Then he be- gan saving again “Gradually the memory of this girl took possession of his life. As the months changed into years he pictur- ed her, first completing her course in high school. then going to college. He even ventured once to suggest the! name of the college she was to enter | —a famous one in Georgla. Seven | years later he was a man of moderate | means, and he had spent two thousand \ dollars on the peach-blossom girl. i “What was she to become? Noi stenographer or clerical assistant in any business, of that he was resolved. { Why, she should go to Paris, of course, { and achieve triumphs there. He knew | nothing of Paris, except its name a8 | the capital of France. But that would demand a heavier expenditure. e]a set aside his whole accumulation, of money—seven thousand dollars—and | sent it to her. This time he wrote, his first detailed instructions. was to have an annual income of! | \ twelve hundred dollars and to !ollov] any career she fancied after she re| l turned. i She | “The habits of ten years fell away ness. Of course he did not think it in | trom bim, and the old devil came But he l»-me& mh" , back. He would murder him as sure- postoflice. |y 54 he himself must die for it. “The farmer, looking into his face, and seelng the wild passion there, and being a coward, like every thief, trem- bled. He looked right and left for , some escape, and the stranger's clutch wac (ke steel upon his shoulders. 1d then, coming through the tree 1y friend saw the peach-blos- som g.cl, and his hand fell from the man's shoulder and the old sense of peace came back to him. Except for a certain maturity of face and figure she was the same as when she was sixteen, and the same serene inmno- cence looked out of her eyes, and she wore her tattered dress as a queen might wear her robes. And ir her arms she carried branches of peach- blossomy boughs.” “Well,” said the psychologist, “I can guess the rest. They were married and settled down on the farm and spent a life of idyllic happiness.” “That's obvious,” answered the evan- gelist. “But now that you have the story, you must endure the moral. Suppose that the money had reached her—would it have benefited either of ! them 8o much as that which actually occurred? He had come back, an ig- norant man, not daring to ask what he had so long dreamed, and he found an ignorant country girl of his own station in life in place of a fine vain lady. And the years of toil and dis- cipline had not gone for nothing. So you see, conversion is a matter of the soul, and whatever results it brings about, one may be sure that it can have only good to follow it.” He hes- itated a moment. “If ever you gentle- men are passing down my way,” he sald, “you must come and visit my peach orchard.” (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. 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