Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 9, 1913, Page 7

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Raymondo Bldg. drbbdedddddddbbdddodddddddiit A STRANGE WOOING Action on a Sudden Impulse Lays the Foundation for Success. By ELIZABETH SCHOEN COBB, It was a strange wooing, if it could be called such. On the one hand was Bryce Wharton, with strong, earnest love. On the other, trustful, sympa- thetic Milly Dover. What she thought, what sweet words of encouragement she might have had in mind to speak to the ingenious, impetuous young man whose handsome face would ap- peal to any girlish imagination in a vivid way, she was not allowed to ex- press. “I have told you just what my heart dictated,” Bryce had spoken. “I must not ask you to tell me what you think of it, for it would be unfair to your- self and to your family. I only ask you to allow me to hope you will once in awhile remember that I am going to work at an ideal, to come back and tell you of it when I have reached the goal.” ! “You will be regretted now, and surely welcome then,” murmured Mil- 1y, and with a brief handshake he was gone. She was almost at the point of tears. “Oh, why did he not—did he not see that I am interested in him, and all he may do, and—and—" and then pretty Milly hid her blushing longing face in her hands, and only the mellow moonlight and the cooing nightingales saw and pitied. Headstrong and resolute, set upon an idea and determined to carry it out, Bryce strode down the lonely country road in the diréction of home. It had been a new home to kim for the past month. It had been as well a new home to his cousin, Evan Gray. Both were orphans. Both had been sum- moned home from different colleges for an interview with wealthy John Gray, their uncle. He was a generous-hearted, indul- gent old fellow, but he had some prac- tical ideas 1n that active mind of his. The Elms was a royal home of its kind. He had been a builder of note { the ultimatum of the old man. “You Give Me a Shock.” ‘. in his day, and the stately mansion was a sample of his own architecture. He was going on a long trip to Eu- rope. His nephews had graduated. B| They were welcome to remain, young 1| masters of the house, until his re- turn. “Then to decide on what you intend to do in the world for a living,” was “Enjoy yourself for the present, let your minds fallow through a year of ease and enjoyment. They will all the more clearly respond to the call K lfor duty when you start out on the real business of life.” The cousins found comfort, luxury and ease Indeed in their new life. | They had cultured social surroundings and the Dovers were their nearest neighbors. The first time the young men met the fair daughter of the house, Milly, the peerless, they mutu- ally decided they had found the fair- est thing on earth. Bryce found Evan lying in a ham- mock, dozing, when he reached the Elms. Evan was languid, settled down into the indolence of being as though it was going to last forever. “I say,” he observed, drowsily, “what's this I hear of your leaving in thé morning?” “A simple fact, that is all,” replied Bryce, seriously. “A journey somewhere?” “No; I am going to the city to look for work.” ’ Evan sat up and regarded his cous- in in bewilderment. “You give me a shock!” served. “What's your idea?” “I cannot afford to waste a year for nothing,” was Bryce’s response. “Why, another month of this motive less lite would divest me of all energy and ambition. Besides—" and there Bryce paused. He could have told of the urging influence of his love for Milly, but he refrained before a possi- ble rival he ob- l | “Sdrry,” yawned Evan. “Going to leave the field to me, eh—the fair Mil- ly included?” “She is worth any man’s winning,” replied Bryce, softly, and went into the house to finish his packing. The latent aspiration - in Evan's mind, if it might be designated as e PN ey THE EVENING fELEORAM, L\R ELAND, FLA, AUG. 9, 1918, such, was to become an artist. He | was a fair draughtsman, and might in | time become an architect. The wishes of Mr. Gray had guided both his nephews in the line in which he had made his business success. By Bryce, however, aside from that, a natural constructive prediloction had been in- herited. His favorite reading was de- scriptions of the great structural tri-' umphs of the world, and he reached the city with a pretty fair idea of the road he was about to pursue. Once a well known packer and a multi-millionaire had made an ad- dress at college that had made a great impression on Bryce. He had told how, in his early days, he had given up a good clerical position to accept forty dollars a month in the operating department of the plant until he knew every cut of meat intimately. “Get the rudiments—know the foundation,” was his slogan of enterprise. { That was just what Bryce did. He wasted no time in minor clerical ca- Pacities. He went to a large firm of | contractors erecting a giant skyscrap- er in the heart of the great city, wore overalls, helped lay the foundation, helped setting the mammoth stone pil- lars, and found that he had learned something, One day he was given charge of & portable forge. His work was to stand above the set steel beams beside the portable forge and heat red hot the bolts used to clamp these and the girders togeth- er. It was wonderful, the expert skill acquired in seizing these seething bolts in a pair of pincers, and swing- ing them so true to a line that the riveter was able to catch them al- ways in the tin pail he held for their reception, It was nearly noon one eventful day when Bryce held one of the heated bolts ready to swing it to the riveter. In the street below a sudden com- motion attracted his attention. A man on horseback was urging up his steed. He had a leather bag on the saddle before him, a revolver menacing a | shrinking crowd in pursuit. Even up at that distance from the ground, where human beings below seemed to be mere mimes, Bryce could hear the shouts proclaiming the horseman to be a fugitive thief, A sudden impulse ‘inspired Bryce with the idea that hie might be of some use in the situation. He believed he could halt the fugitive where others had failed. swing. Whiz! the flaming bolt cleaved the air and landed on the saddle di- rectly in front of the horseman. There was a flash as the saddle cloth burst into flame, a shriek of ag- ony from the steed. rider rolled to the ground, and some officers rushed up and the epis over. ] When Bryce was summoned below | § by the building superintendent, it was to learn that his promptness had halt- ed a thief who had snatched a bag from a bank messenger aontaining a small fortune. His recognition by the bank led to a princely reward, but, more valued than that to an influence exerted in his behalf that gave him a position as manager for one of their clients who was the most prominent builder in the city. The day that Mr. Gray returned home and I’van started out dolefully “to make his mark in the world,” Bryce, with a fair bank account and established business standing, re- ceived a welcome from his proud old | uncle that made him thrill with pride and pleasure. And when he made his second love confession to blushing Milly and asked her to become his wife, she hid her timid head upon his shoulder and whispered sweetly: “My answer is the same as it would have been a year ago—yes.” (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) Turkish Holidays. In nothing is the natural soberness of the Turk more ma:nifest than in his holidays. Ile kecns fower of them than his Christian compatriot, and most of them he cel-Liates in such a | way that an otusid'r would scarcely suspect the fact. ' This is partly, per- haps, a matter of temerament and partly because j:lam has not yet passed a certain rlage of evolution. A holiday, that is, is «till a holy day. Secular and patriotic festivals are everywhere of combaiatively recent origin. In Turkey, wh:re church and state are one to a dc ree now un- known in western couuiries, there was no real national holiday wuntil 1909. Then the first anniversary of the re- establishment of the constitution was celebrated on the twenty-third of July (July 10, old style). A highly picturesque celebration it was, too, in Constantinople, at least, with its mag- nificent array of rugs and medieval tents on the Hill of Liberty, its review of troops by the sultan, its procession of the guilds of the city and its eve ning illuminations, A Musical Feat, The old farmer and his wife lived near the village church. One warm Sunday evening, while they sat dozing on the porch, a cricket set up a loud chirping, “I just love that chirpin’ noise,” sald the old man, drowsily, and before the cricket had stopped he was fast asleep. Soon after the church choir broke into a beautiful chant. “Just listen to that!” exclaimed his wife. “Ain't it beautiful?” “Yes,” remarked the old farmer, sleepily. “They do it with their hind legs.” Domestic Science Applled. 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