Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 9, 1913, Page 6

THX EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., SEPT. 9, 191 3;m G T R e [ 3 j We do not “work you” on the price when you buy clothes from us. We want your trade for life and we go after it with just two things: QUALITY and VALUE, You c:n’t go out of OUR store with a suit of clothes that does not fit you as it should; we wouldn’t let you. You can’t get poor stuff from us at any price; WE DON'T KEEP IT. | Outfitter The Hart Schaffner & Mar Clothing | JOS. LeVAY E Lakeland Paving&Construction Co. Artificial Stone, Brick and Concrete Building Material Estimates Cheerfully Furnished on Paving and all Kinds of Artificial Stone Work 307 West Main Street- Phone 348-Black F.J HOFEMA¥ J.N.OMIS J. P. NEWBECKER : Pres. Sec.& Tres. Supt, & Gen. Man. V. Pres & Asst Man * S RRCRROCRRCRICIERRO G OOUILUGNY DML 00BN IONNS LAKELAND SHEET METAL WORKS We are ready to do you Sheet Metal Work in Lakeland. 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Florida i § 1 1 FAIR-ANDED “LOVER Though It Took Several Thrilling Episodes to Convince the Widow. By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY. Stephen Hackett was a bachelor | thirty-eight years old, and a carpenter | by trade. There is always a little cu- | riosity as to old bachelors and old maids. The query of: “Why don't ;they get married?”’ is always a live one, The reason Stephen didn’t get mar- | ried was because he was always a lit- ‘! tle too late. When he had come !across a woman he felt that he could i love he discovered that some one else fwas loving her and had the promise | of her hand in marriage. ! Stephen Hackett had come over to the town of Hillcrest to work at his trade. The first job he got was build- ing a fence for Deacon Hardy. It was | ! a line fence between the deacon’s va- | cant lot and one owned by the widow { Nixon. No measurements had been | taken, but the dividing line had been ' guessed at. Therefore, when the car- penter found a dead apple tree in his | path he cut it down. Three hours later he was sued for the sum of $25. He went to the deacon's house to state the fact. “Was that apple tree on the wid- ow’'s land?” he asked. “I dunno,” was the reply. “But you ought to have known. “Yes, I s'pose I had, but I didn't think there'd be any fuss raised if we | got a foot over on her line.” “What sort of a woman is she?” “She always pays back borrowed tea and coffee, but she's a leetle techy.” “D'ye think I'd better see her about this suit?” | “I don't think it would do any good. | The widder has sued you because you | was workin' for me. You see, we don't agree.” i “But why didn't you say so?” “I forgot to. You see the widder be- lleves 1n sprinklin’ and I believe in im- mersion, and we can never agree as to which saves the most souls.” “You'd better cut the water out en- ' tirely and be neighbors!" advised Stephen as he started off to call on : the widow. Shc was at home, and he introduced | himselt. “If I could find the right sort | of a woman I'd get married,” he said. “Sir!"” she gasped. “l am an even-tempered and a lov- ing man.” “Sir!" “I've got money enough in the bank to buy a little home, and it's time I gettled down and took some comfort. I know you will excuse me when I say I am pleased with your looks.” “Sir, are you crazy!” the widow de- manded. | | | “No, ma'am. I'm just speaking & word In advance, as it were.” “You are most impudent, sir, and—" “If it was a man suing me for that dead apple tree I'd tell him to go to, but with a woman, and especially a widow, it's different. You'll get beat- en because Deacon Hardy is the right party to sue. You will have to show that a dead apple tree bears apples. You will be asked if you don't quar rel with your neighbors. You will be asked it your deceased husband was not glad to die.” The widow was speechless with sur prise and anger. “And worst of all, ma'am—worst of all for you, you will be asked your age! VYes, ma'am, they will ask it, and you must answer or go to jail for contempt! 1 take it that you are under forty, and I am sure that your i neighbors do, and what a seusation it will create when you have to swear to forty-three or forty-four.” The widow Nixon turned pale and sat down. “You believe in sprinkling instead of immersion,” continued the penter. “What will folks say fif you take me into court, me believing | the same?” e a vital quc never find another man to agree with you more heartily than I do that sprinkling a convert beats immerzion all Lollow. We may diifer about i Dan’l in the lion's den, but we never ! shall about sprinkling.” | Nixon—a fair-minded man.” | very nice man. | no opinion. She had been to the post- i overboard and struggled to No, sir,” was the huffy reply. “Reen too busy putting up currant jell. ¢h? Better think it over. It's ! stion to both of us. You'll “Ain't you going to get me loose?’ she asked. “Certainly I am. [ don't expect & woman caught fast on a rail fence i8 going to give much thought to matri mony, but think it over when you get home. I might walk along and refuse to do a thing 'till you had said yes to me, but I'm a fair-minded man, Mrs. Mrs. Nixon decided to return home but not to think. She kept saying to herself that she wouldn’t give the car- penter's words one single minute's consideration, and then she sat down and thought over them for two long hours! He was a queer man, was her conclusion. She neither liked nor disliked him. She wasn't going to ask him to call, but if he did call she wasn't going to turn him outdoors. A couple of weeks again went by. | Such villagers as had got to know Mr. Hackett were saying that he was & The widow expressed office, half a mile away, one after- noon, when a sudden thunderstorm came up: She thought she could beat it, but was forced to take refuge in the porch of a church. The thunder was rolling, the lightning flashing and the rain descending in sheets when Mr. Hackett came running up the steps to grasp her arm. “You must get home, even if you get drenched! The spire of this church may be struck by lightning! Come on, and after you have got into dry clothes, think it over. I am a fair-minded man, and will take no advantage of a woman in a thunder storm!"” As he threw her into the gate of her home a thunder-bolt hit the spire and knocked it into a continental cocked hat, and flames followed and consumed the church. The widow Nixon did some hard thinking. She kept at it until she had “thought it over.” She almost wished that Mr. Hackett would call, but he didn't. The next she saw of him was when she was out for a row on the mill- pond with another woman. An oar was lost, and the other woman jumped shore. This left Mrs. Nixon alone and help- less, and drifting slowly toward the high dam. She was getting ready to yell when along came Mr. Hackett in a boat, “It's & high dam, widow,” he calm- ly observed. “Oh, I shall be drowned!"” “No one that's gone over it has es caped death.” “Oh, save me, Mr. Hackett!” “I shall save you, but have thought it over?” “I have—I have.” “Haven't I said to you on sev- eral occasions that I was a fair-mind- ed man?” ¢ “You have—you have!"” “And I shall continue to be. I might take advantage of you on this occasion, but I shall not Widow, there isn't a drop of water pouring over the dam!” “And I can't be drowned?" “Not any more than on dry land."” “But—but—" “But your answer?”’ “Why, I'll have to say yes, I sup- pose! I can't keep on having my life saved every few minutes, can I” (Copyright, you 1913, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) Mexican Chivalry. Nearly two-thirds of the Mexican population are peons. The remaining third is divided into land owners, mer- chants and professional men. The land owners are the ruling class and a visit to their haciendas is alwaye interest ing. There is a chivalry about the Mexican haciendado which is exceed- ingly pleasant and covers many de fects. Everybody has heard of their proverbial politeness and it is pleas- ant to relate that this quality exists in fact. It is often carried to extremes, however, and has led to misunder- “And later on do you want folks to | Standings. According to Mexican eu say that you sued me before I would |quette it is not considered good marry you? They always get things | breeding to admire unduly anything mixed up, you know. You can never | belonging to your host; the code re- make anybody believe that you sued quires that such a thing must be im- me for a dead apple tree.” “Sir, what is all this talk!” demand- ed the woman as she suddenly found her volce. “We are talking about line fences, dead apple trees, sprinkling, lawsuits and getting married. Think it over, ! widow—think it over. I am a fair minded man and will not take advane tage of you' With that he walked out of the house. The widow first shed tears of anger. Then she went down to the lawyer she had employed and said she guessed she would withdraw the suit. “I think it's better,” he replied. “We can't prove anything but a dead ap- ple tree, and anyhow Deacon Hardy {s the man we ought to have sued.” It thus came about that Mr. Hack- ett heard no more of the suit. For two weeks he heard no more of the widow, either. Then he got an idle day and started off fishing. It was also an easy day for Mrs. Nixon, and she concluded to visit a friend a mile | away. To shorten the distance she | made & cut across the fields, and in climbing a rail fence a sliver caught her dress in such a was as to hold her fast as if she had been nailed down. The carpenter heard her cries for help from where he was angling, and he hastened to her aid and began: “I suppose you have thought over what I said the other day.” !—Max E. Schmidt, in Engineering mediately offered to the guest, and to do s0 may not be always convenient. It is related of General Grant that, when in the City of Mexico, he was the guest at the mansion of a native millionaire, and greatly admired one of hie paintings. He was immediately told that it was his. The general, in his simple way, took the host at his word, and sent a messenger to make arrangements for the shipment of the picture. The consternation in the Mex- ican household can only be imagined, Magazine, Getting Even With the Judge. The suffragette story, which made the biggest hit at the Park theater during “suffrage week” dealt with the ardent advocate of votes for women who was committed to serve a term | in jail for contempt of court. After her release she was relating the ex- perience to a friend. “You see, after the judge got; through lecturing me,” she explained, | “I snapped my fingers in his face and yelled ‘Fudge!' He gave me ten days.” | “And how did you employ your time while you were in jail?" inquired the friend “Why.” sald she, “1 embrotder word ‘Fudge!’ on a sofa pillo:d:fide sent it to the judge with my compli- ments the day | was released."—New | York Moruing Telegraph. | ! g CASTELLANE RULING IS HIT Duchess de Talleyrand Says It Was Given Without Her Knowl- edge or Consent. Rome, Italy.—The duchess de Tal- leyrand, who was Anna Gould of New Y&rk, in a letter written to the Glornale d'Italia concerning the deci- slon recently given by the Rota tribunal annulling her marriage to Count Poni do Castellane, her first husbar.d, says the decision was hand- ed down without her knowledge and without her having a chance to defend herself. The duchess says her object in appealing from the ruling and fight- Duchess de Talleyrand. tng the decree of annulment is not to prevent Count Bonl marrying agaln, but to keep him from reclaiming their two sons. A SHORT AROUND-WORLD CUT New Japanese Railways Will Connect With the Transsiberlan System and Shorten Route. London.—The time required to cir cle the globe is to be measurably re- duced as a result of a conference of steamship and railroad companies, to be held at Moscow. This will be done by bringing into the regular passen- ger service the new Japanese rail ways in Korea in connection with a fast line of steamships to Japan, Passengers by the Transsiberian railway will, under this arrangement, travel through by rail to Fusan and thence by steamship to Shimonosek, 8 much shorter route than by way af the South Manchurian railway to Peking or the all-Russian route through Viadivostock. The Japanese, Canadian, and other steamship lines are expected to speed up communioa tlons for passengers across the Pa cifie. The great drawback to this route for passengers wishing to see the country is that they will miss the most interesting part of China, that in the vicinity of the Great Wall and Peking. ——— SAVES GIRL FROM THE LAKE Boy With Broken Arm Rescues Young Woman Canoe Victim Near Whkes-Barre. Wilkes-Barre.—James Boland, Jr. aged seventeen years, with his rl(h; arm broken and In a sling, rescued x:: Ann: Srady. aged eighteen, from ey’s lake, after she eral times. e Miss Grady, Miss Queen O'M; and Miss Margaret O'Malley were bathing near the shore. Miss Map garet O'Malley and Migs Grady en- tered a canoe. After they had dled a short time Misg O'Malley dived from the canoe and swam to shore. The canoe capsized with Miss Grady a.n;l she sank, being unable to swim. Young Boland threw off hi; entered the lake. When h: c:e:te;:: the point where Miss Grady sank he dived and found the girl on the bot tom. Selzing her hair, he came to the :;::’ac:, and by hercic efforts man- 0 reach sh bl B ore, where he Doctors worked two Miss Grady before she w::“:oviov:ll: Cottagers at once circulated tion and will azk tell * etk the Carnegle com- mission to r ard young B his herois- e L Ie ¢ \"'ith Flrefi Morgar W Vn.-—T{:omtou Flowers declared that by treating a . v a secret chemical process he L. | . oduced a light sun passing electricity, He says he h; home liluminated with the new fi.ghh: —_— Glrl Walks Out Windo: Phlladelphia,——nream!n";: lns::!ee? ¢ fleelrg from a dog which had blm her two months ago, An fourteen, walked out of bedroom window and sus broken arm. tten na Wilson, & third floor ! tained only a i L.W. YARN Wueoessor to W. K. an — TRANSFER [ Draying and Hauling of Ay Prompt and Reasonab) 4y Guaranteed. | Phone 67 Green Lakely \‘ The Best Table j Land of the Sy e ———n Hotel Gord, Waynesville, N. ¢ In heart or eity. an: every convenience. mosquitoes. 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