Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 25, 1913, Page 7

A TH)Y, BVENING TELEGRAM, . '+~ ELAND, FLA,, AUG. ATHLETIC MEET EVER HELD IN AMERICA of the public schools of New York recently took part in a series of athletic contests ln! occ i PAGE .RVEN Bappened: T ddn't Tmean toTGse my position; I was not going to Luella out of revenge, but as a friend. I knew she was not the girl to tell where she sot her information. But I would have glven a good deal to have seen Bar- * rett’s face when she gave him his walking papers. | § I was at her house at eight o'clock, ' and by good luck she was alone. When 4 he largest assemblage of schoolboys ever gathered together for such a purpose. 67 Whom TiothIng was known, opened his bank and took Charlie to be his confidential secretary, and they put ) on the airs of millionaires, and wouldn’t mix with the rest of us fel- lows, it naturally set Long Corners against them. . The first time I met Barrett was at If on Being | (e nouse of Luella. Luelia and I had d Many always understood that we were to be married when I could support hu' 1 couldn’t keep her in much style on . fitteen & Week, which wag all that Bar ORE. rett allowed me as one of his book- as the more | keepers. But I hadn't reckonmed on Anthony Bar | Barrett butting into the game—a man lile Meadows, | of forty, with nothing known about his pn the whole [ past, except that it was reported he had been a jailbird. . ys prided it-| Luella grew pretty cold to me when [But we aren’t | [ taxed her about him. At last I had pllow Barrett, | to_tell her that if she wanted to flirt m’i’%’,}%’é‘/m‘ goes out to the man who has MONEY TN Y in the bank enables you to carry out your hers to join youput in an enterprise. Try to without some MONEY OF YOUR OWN; it with SOME MONEY that is ours; you DVISE YOU on business matters, an time, r Banking With Us ational Bank LAKELAND Life of Linen o Steam Laundry West Main B0 am 40 Week With a man 610 enough to be her fath- er, all right, only she could count me out. She showed me the door then. I thought for sure she would tell Barrett and he would fire me, but ap- parently she had too much sense, and things went on in their usual way. None of us fellows in the bank had any sort of respect for Barrett. He didn’t treat us llke human beings at all. Ha used to come in carrying & cane, and that made us pretty tired. And Charlie Meadows was just as self-opinionated as he was. So what with all this and Luella’s turning me down, I was feeling pretty bad when By This Time | Was Listenlag With Both Ears. 1 happened to overhear a:conversation between Barrett and Charlie. I was putting away some books in | greatest attraction from the outside. I she saw me she looked unpleasant; the scoundrel had completely ousted i me in her esteem. i “Well, Mr. Coolidge?” she began., ! “Well, Miss Mason” I retorted mockingly, “you don’t seem very weil pleased to see me, but you will thank me warmly enough when I get through. That friend of yours, Bar rett, is a thief and a scoundrel.” | tibf !M"Rather hard words to say about a ' 0]‘ 09 i friend of mine,” she said. “I suppose | you are willing to repeat those words o,' o-v I” to Mr. Barrett, face to face.” w f “No, I'm not,” I answered. “I don't t ] %want to lose my job. It wouldn’t be o"J a ,,,(q quite fair to be put in that predica- a[ ome Iment Luella, when I have only come to you as a friend. Now listen.” She refused to hear me, but I was { determined that she should. So I told { her everything that Charlie had told AN ! me that morning; how Barrett had ; A @ yRDEE been cashier in the County and Na- tional in Wayne City, and had stolen fifty thousa dolla \msEa | . Mo ir OTHING knocks out clothing so “When did this interesting eplisode . ur?” she asked when I had ended. N f st as autoing, but who wants to “;P 1909,” 1 answefr;ed. v | i 5 'di : t b_l 'our years ago. t It ht | o | ia oo Y aLe. By m«;:;u ou cn quit riding in an automobile or go ing for an outing? Then, prepare |id M n:‘gefll I suppose they let him out i i e vegogpbien B o | forit. Let us furnish you a sensible Top heard the bell ring, . i the middlo of my remarks when Ban || Coat to keep off rain, wind or dust---also, rett walked into the room. ' d l S We e“ comfort “This gentleman,” she said, m a cap an Sto‘u g W § ——— Luella turned from me to him. , “has b kind )i | = 0,‘;1‘“?35;‘ ;go,?t“,h:'c?“‘;, - :l‘ble clothes, but they always have the h"‘“"wi‘,‘n;_’,i‘,‘,‘:’.fl,’;,, ottt tigt | “GNAP” to them. to ha host of ({3 mfii‘.’""ff answeret. orus w e | €L We will not “PUNCTURE” your , isn’t it?” “The tweltth” she answered, and | pocket book for more '‘than we ought to 'tlllen E:Ie tuénefidto mel.w "Yl;)u nr& 'g:% l h ll ow, Mr. Coolidge. Mr. Barre 5 :ne all about thft weeks ago, and so for the be“er ¢ Ot €8 we s¢ have many of his well-wishers. Only | you left out the fact that he was par- | ¥ doned before the first six months were | Outfitter The Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing I out because the real thief confeued Good evening, Mr. Coolidge.” Well, I walked out. I wouldn't d& JOS mean myself by arguing with that sort e of man. And I'm still in his bank. That is his confounded hypocritical LCVAY cunning; he won't discharge me and he won't raise my salary. And Luella and he were married yesterday. (Comrlght. 1913, by W. G. Chapmsn.) | Psychic Channels, @ Given a ‘stored up quantity of elec trictty, It follows that a great reslst: ance will prevent its moving in & cer tain direction; it also follows that its G RS S S BATES force will leap over a weak resistanoe, ‘ ‘| and will also move toward a strong at- ‘ | —that it must either move along the original line of least resistance, or | else along the line of the original War Paint is on for Business. the cabinet behind the door of Bar | Stop a moment and consider this rett’s private office and the door was & little way ajar, and I heard Charlie strike him for a raise of salary. “You're getting thirty-five now, Mr. Meadows,” sald Barrett, in his cold, heartless way, “and that is ten dollars more than you could get amywhere else.” "I guess I'm worth fifty a week to , Mr. Barrett,” Charlie answered m l sort of impudent way. “Indeed!” said Barrett. “Perhaps you will explain just why you put such an exaggerated value on your serv- {ices.” By this time I was listening with both ears, as anyone would have done. “Because, Mr. Barrett,” answered Charlie quietly, “I happen to know that you have served a five years’ sen- tence in state’s prison for the misap- propriation of bank funds.” I just had time to hurry away be- | fore Chartle came out. He had been discharged. Barrett thought he could | . bluff Long Corners. But he couldn’t | bluff mé. I laid hold of Charlie. “] guess you are feeling pretty sore,” I said. “I bappened to overhear what | Barrett was saying to you. Are you going to make it public?” “You bet I am,” he answered, and his rage made him quite friendly. He had been living under the shadow of the great man and it had turned him into a sort of cheap imitation of him, but now he saw what a fool he had been. “T'd give a hundred dollars to know just where to hit him first,” said Char He. “I got the whole story from some of his private papers. Confound him! Perhaps he’ll try to buy me off. I feit sure I was good for that extra fif- teen.” “I'll tell you where to hit him first,” I sald. “He's stolen my girl—Miss Luella Mason. Isn’t that enough? I'm going right round to tell her.” *“Wait till tomorrow,” he urged. “He | may think better of it and offer me & pq thousand to keep quiet. If he does I'll give you ten per cent.” This sounded good, but I ran him up to a third before agreeing. But on the morrow Barrett was just as cold and self-possessed as ever. And to eap the climax, when Charlie weat down to work—his month not being up—Barrett gave him his salary and ordered him out of the office. “] guess you'll smart for this before many hours are over,” sneered Charlle as he went out. I coulda't neglect my duties, and I !MMMJ!WJL‘&M proposition, and see it you can find any way to overcome the stated com- dition. Is there a way to overcome ' ft? Yes! Here it is: Establish new lines of attraction and least resistance by erecting a system of wires leading | in the destred direction, and eonneot the system with the stored-up power. See it? Simple, but marvelously efficient. The stored-up power will forsake the old lines of least resist- snce—will turn away from the old attracting power—and will, |nM| Jeap joyously and swittly to the mew sttractive line of easiest passage, the system of wires erected by you. Price is the Power. Tb unload my Summer Stock - LOW PRICE has the job. Come in and you will decide the time well spent. tracting qbject, writes Willlam Walk- m er Atkinson in the Nautilus. At first ‘;’3 sight, it would appear as if the ques- | tion of its manifestation were ntflod S Porto Rican Children Mudlwc. That Porto Rican children are asapt | . % ATES or more apt than American children in their studies is the assertion of Miss Grace E. Josselyn of the Porw | Rican Missionary soclety. | “My experience has been that the ! Perto Rican children are usually bright and clever when it comes to as-| — | similating studies,” she sald. *I think . ut Tl 2ul Tul el | they are as apt or more apt than Wmmwm geapursatiel Tal Sl o | | American children. Of course, they | ' have not had a long time in which to | De R[t pursue their studies. “Thirteen years ago, when the Uni- S ted States commenced its government |of the island, there was only omne ., Pressing and Alteration. Ladles Work a Specialty. Work schoo! Porto 5 there are | two &ol:md' onn:,wth:,:::: of which for and Delivered. Prompt Service . Satisfaction Guaras- are public schools.” Takked Too Much. Some people can’t stand it to have people ask them questions. In a book on “Court Fools,” the following true incident s related: Selim, the son {of speech. When he was engaged on . 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