Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 18, 1913, Page 7

Start that checking acconnt angd save yourself the risk, anncyance and inconvenience of carrying noney about and of paying bills, etc., with cash. The check book 1s sure to bring the enocomy that doesn’t pinch and will relieve you of many wo:ries. Your account is respectfully so- licited. BRI GH 00 0 ML IR L R R TR i e 3 A R 850 CHNELITD by What is There FHere Y. u Need There must be some- thing i n our great assortment of hard- ware that you need. No matter what it is--come to our store. Pick out what you want and. you will be surprised to find suck good articles at ¢t such low prices. We please th- hard to pleasc -~ 4 our best customers ae those are hardest to satisfy. No matter what you need in ardware, it wili repay you (0 call and inspect our stock be- fore making a purchase. Wilson Hardware Co Phone 71 Opposite Depot | years.” | Bannister, | By | coming back in two days as planned | mired this “break of FoyERR ‘g'i‘»fi i3 o MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD- RIDGE. Yes , thore goes a prodigal son," declared Scth Ramsey. With the fatted calf sort of left O.m‘ though, eh, Seth?’ and Ethan Baunister, the village gossip, poked bis crony in the ribs with a sly wink and a gleesome chuckle, "Oh, he's being treated all right, for I've tamed down some of his notions,” declared Ramsey. “I tell ! You, a feed of the real husks of life ' does some of these smart fellows 8ood once in awhile.” “Tell about it, Seth, urged the scan- dal loving Bannister, “Well, as you know Paul and Ver- non are my stepsons. Their mother | left them something substantial, but I am guardian and trustee for ten “Yes, I know about that,” nodded “Well, they have a yearly allow- ance. Young Paul thought it wasn't enough and went to the city a few months since. 1 refused to advance him a penny and 1 reckon he hates me for it. Last month I had to send Vernon to the city to collect a claim of his mother's estate. I knew he hankered to seo that shiftless brother of his, so I let him go. Instead of with the $500, he was gone a week and came back without a cent.” “Why, where was the money?”’ “Collected and spent. He faced me squarely. He confessed that most of it had gone in ‘a fling at city life, as be called it. Automobiles, six dollars a day hotel, a little gambling. Sorry, but the only thing to do was to cut out his year's allowance. That | squared it. Vernon has been meek and industrious ever since. Glad to get home and going to behave him- self.” It took Ethan Bannister just twen ty-four hours to spread the news all over Clifden, garnished with all the 1 did. ELAND, FLA., SEPT. 18, 1913. PAGE LR I would not even have come to Clif- den. Vernon, 1 have somuthing to tell you--vital, serious, Let me get under she r somewhere, will you?” n led the w to a roofed sumim sat down on one of its side benches. *Vernon,” said Paul, “you know how v 1 love Eva.” ' said his brother in a low tone of constraint, “I have seen her tonight, secretly. I am to see her later. She is all the world to me. I want you to let me teil her the whole story of my ! trouble in the city.” “No!" spoke Vernon, and his tones were incisive and mandatory. “I feel like a cad, a craven, to think that you should be blamed for what I was reckless, wicked when 1 took that $500 from your pocket and spent it, claiming that our step father owed it to me, which morally he did. | Then your kindness, your sacrifice. | Since then, oh, believe me! I have not touched a card or tasted wine. I am offered a splendid position in the west. The firm has even advanced me two hundred dollars. Vernon, brother, release me from my promise not to reveal my blame about that money."” “You are telling me the truth about your prospects, your reform?” “Sacredly.” “Then 1 glory in the joy it would have given poor dead mother. My boy, I am working out your salvation. Thank God for the privilege!” At seven o'clock the next morn- ing with a batter and bang on his bedroom door Seth Ramsey shouted out excitedly: “Get up, Vernon. Here's great ‘news! Your brother Paul eloped with Eva Cross last night. They have gone out west and left a note asking for- giveness and all that pother. What . do you think of that?"” “Are you sure of this?” asked Ver non in a husky tone. “Oh, yes. They drove to Virden and were married by the minister there.” The old man went down the stairs chuckling and talking to himself. With his stepson at a distance he could hold on to the trust money. Vernon arose, dressed himself, went frills his lively fancy could add to it. The serious ones of the com - i < 7 WUN gown the stairs and into the little < front parlor of the house. o< ‘Y‘\, He paused before a picture, that of AT IR, “| Have Seen Her Tonight, Secretly.” | fty shook their heads at the appalling a model young man. The Hvely youth of the village rather ad exponent of a finished edu | cation in the traps and glories of a | Vernon shared it great city Vernon had indecd quieted He acted as though he had something on his mind, but he carried himself as ercet as ever, as handsome and manly and looked every body squarely in the cye went one evening to call upon Eva down over ay his dead mother He looked up into her sweet patient face and thought ol all the Kind deeds she had done, | and then with an o fectionate glance at the t ool Paul, and smiled. Then, shoulders strengthened for the burden he had chosen to bear, Vernon took trom his memorandum book a pressed faded rose and kissed it (Copyright, 1 by W. G. Chapman.) RELEASED TO VISIT DENTIST Plea of Sufferer Softened Heart of Justice—Similar Circumstances Recorded in History, Recently Theodore Roberts, the actor, was released temporarily from Ludlow street jail, New York, in or- der that he might call upon his den- tist during five different days and have his teeth fixed. Roberts was & | serving out a commitment because he had failed to pay alimony to his wife under a decree of separation, Before ' be could be permitted to go to tho dentist an aflidavit had to be submit- ted in which Dr. Frank I8, Seely, the | dentist, declared Roberts had Riggs disease and would lose all his teeth if not attended to immediately. Thu‘ court granted permission because the | dentist could not make use of his elec- When he | Cross he was « trifle embarrassed at | | the rather cool reception of her moth | er, but that soon wore away as he sat in the rose bower with the daugh ter. id after a time, “I have bro ter to you from my n 1y twitehed as he noted the pr I 1 it that came i ticed by her -1 ywer and cou went th a few minutes he he pressed ‘,I’m:] flower to his lips, then care fully placed between two leaves of his memorandum book “And now t reet,” he said grim ly as he ret d to his cheerless home—"for I s sake.” It was a humdrum life with miserly, mean spirited old Scth Ramsey, but without & murmur He gave up all social pleasures and | the Clifden viewed his penitent behavior of the restored outcast approvingly One night[ dark and stormy, Ver- non sat reading in his room when there came a sudden rat-tat-tat at the At first he fancied it was ving the branches against the panes. Then peering out red a beckoning form near window wind blc tree he dizcove some 1shes he said, and was quick trical instruments at the jail, From the time of the story of Da- mon and Pythias various reasons for temporary release from jail have been given, It s related that in the Napo- leonic era a soldier confined in a mili- tary prison for *a minor offense against the service during a brief time of peace was released In order that he might be present at the christen- | ing of his infant son, born during his { impriscnment. But Napoleon, in or- der to test the desire made b longer for the privilege of im agree to serve a yed fur! h. The soldier gladly did it and v ) he returned found a pardon and a corpo 5 warrant for his in fant 1, be valid en the son ved h credit six months in r's are of the future.” t released an auda- I'rede the Gr cious captain under sentence of death | «ptain might “tell him a few bencficial things about himself.” The things told face to face influenced the great king to pardon the blunt death-defying soldier. 0 tl Nightmare Law. The effect of a man's declarations in his sleep when offered as evidence was involved In Martineux vs. people, before the supreme court in Colorado, in which tho court held that night- mare utterances in the nature of ad missions or declarations are not com petent evidence a2gainst a defendant. The court held also that where a wit- ness testifying to such declarations said he didn't know whether the man was asleep or awake, but thought he was asleep when he spoke, an in- struction that the jury might con- gider such declarations was erron- eous. 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