Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 19, 1914, Page 2

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In time to come, the earnings of that reserve may be sufficient to keep you in com- fort, 3 per cent interest paid. THE:STATE BA OF LAKELAND F SEEDPOTATOES CAR NOW IN Also Car of FERTILIZER New Bean, Tomato and other Field and Garden D.B. DICKSON B & oo sy { ride this afternoon? Lge ALALAL AL A AL A A A AN A HER LITTLE MIRACLE By ANNA S. RICHARDSON. It was pretty generally understood that the Billy Daltons were drifting apart. There was no particular rea- 'son for this state of affairs, save the lack of something better to do. You see, they had just enough money so that Billy did not have to work, nor Janet to worry about mak- ing both ends meet. They had danced their way through several seasons into a lazy, good-humored and com- radelike engagement, thence into matrimony. After that Billy had con- tinued to lead cotillons and Janet to dance them—but generally with other partners. Matters between them haa reached the point where the rumor-laden so- that when Billy went to England and Scotland, where he had nothing in particular to do, Janet would probably take up her home in Nevado, or South Dakota, there to remain until Norman Stanley returned from Africa, where he was fighting ennui by hunting big | that | game. It was even whispered Billy Dalton had insinuated to Stan- ley that it was rather better taste to stalk blg game than another man's wife, especially when the other man was perfectly willing to make it clear sailing for his wife if it would make her any happier. Of course this sounds a.bit strong on paper, particularly to the old-fash- foned folk who still believe that mar- riage is a contract for life and not a mere episode. In the set to which the Billy Daltons belonged the situation was accepted as a matter of course, and when Janet asked a lot of peo- ple down to their Long Island place for the automobile races and the week- | end, no one thought of refusing just because the Daltons might separate within a fortnight after the gather- ing. Such was the situation when the Dalton car broke down on the Jericho turnpike, and its occupants, Janet, Mrs. Greenwalt, Joe Jeffreys and “Marsh” Huntoon, decided to cut through the woods to the Dalton place and leave the car for a farmer to guard until the mechanic who handled the Dalton garage could be dispatched to | the scene of the accident. Perhaps it was not entirely impa- tience which led them to take the short cut through the woods, but the call of a hundred autumn voices, in rustling leaves, rich, warm colorings and the chatter of squirrels laying up winter stores. And thus it was that they suddenly stopped in their tracks and listeded to a sound that was not of the woods, but of the nursery, the plaintive wail of a child. Janet it was who found it—a bit of white- faced, staring-eyed humanity rolled up snugly in a great shawl of Iceland wool. While she held the baby in her arms and tried to silence its wails with uncertain and awkward little pettings, the quartette held a confer- | ence. The child was too young to have walked there. Mrs. Greenwalt sald it was not a day over two months old. It was too far from the road to be heard by passing travelers. there was the answer—a wisp of pa- per, tied to the end of the shawl. “Please take care of little Elsie. It was not her fault that she came into the world—and I can do no more.” “I've always said that the govern- ment ought to regulate the question of marriage among the poor,” re- marked Mrs. Greenwalt severely. “Here is a case in point.” “You are jumping at conclusions,” said Huntoon dryly. “Let's take it to the town marshal—" “And what then?" asked Janet, with- out lifting her gaze from the child's face. The baby had clutched her finger with its tiny fist and sottled down as if it had found anchor:ge. “Oh, there are asylums and homes for youngsters like this. You'd bet- ter hurry along home with it before {t begtns to howl. One of your men can take it to town before dark. Shall I carry the little beggar for you?" “Oh, no—she's not a bit heavy and she is quiet now. She might ery if we changed her position.” They trudged on through rustling leaves and soft Indian summer haze, three of the party chatting gayly; two, the young wife and the baby, looking into each other's eves as if searching for a new key to the prob lem of life. Sometimes Janet wished that the child would close its eyes. | She did not like to meet their trust. | ful, cleareyed gaze. “Have you d'sposed of the young- ster?” asked “Marsh” Huntoon, as they sat down to dinner that night. Janet started and looked across the table at her husband. He lifted his | eyebrows inquiringly. } “What? Don't you know that our | party was increased by one durlng our | Rather a small ‘one,’” but. my! what lungs it has.” Janet drew in her breath sharply. | “I wish you would mnot talk any more about it at present, good peo- ple,” she said trying to speak light- ly. “I've started inquiries in a quiet way. I don't want the thing to get Into the papers—because if no one claims little Elsie, I think I—I shall keep her.” “Keep her!” gasped Mrs Greenwalt “Why, my dear girl, the place for a child without a name is a foundling silence. “I shall give her a name, because— once—just once—I saw a line of chil dren walking, rows and rows, by twos, Py clety papers had suggested r:overt]y_1 Ah— | | Baseball, of course, | sport in the islands, rand navy, as well a pines, and they are prett tered. It is a lively ga which the natural qui reformed head huaters is a useful set, from an asylum. I can't send her there.” Mentally, she saw again those clear, trusting, blue eyes. : “And I know you will all be kind enough to keep this very quiet un- tii—" there was just a slight, tense hesitation, “until we decide what shall | be done.” Naturally, it was talked about, how-| In boudoirs and at clubs th(j‘ question was raised as to what name | ever. little Elsie would acquire. Was it not bad enough to be facing a divorce| residence in the far west without ac- quiring an unnecessary incumbrance at the crucial moment? Within the Dalton bungalow Long Island stranger things were hap- pening. No clue to the baby's parents had been found. When Billy Dalton dropped down occasionally, as he had on up appearances, his first question was “Anything new?” and this n‘n\:x.‘:‘! meant “anything new about the baby’s history.” And little Elsie would look up at him with reproachful blue eyes, as if asking: “Why do you care?” And the worst of it was that Billy Dalton began to realize that he did care. Janet had changed, and, with an odd sort of jealousy, he realized that it was little Elsie and not he who had brought about the marvelous and altogether desirable change. She was no longer bored with Elsie cutting a new tooth every | few days, and such wonderful hamp- ers of clothes to be bought, all fine i handkerchief linen, narrow Val and convent embroidery? A more fastidi- ous customer had never entered the shops which specialize on layettes, and, with her own hands, Janet made covers for down pillows, silk-tufted afghans and other foolish things— while the tongue of gossip wagged gayly over the whole absurd episode. One frostly December afternoon Dalton ran down to the bungalow and found Janet standing at the window. | The low spreading evergreens on the west side of the house were powdered lightly with snow, and Janet turned to him with kindling eyes.” “Billy, T shall have a Christmas tree for Elsie. She is so bright for her age. I do believe she will notice it.” “Quite likely,” responded Billy with assumed carelessness, as she laid aside his storm coat. “But in making f,\’our plans you seem to have over- looked one important fact, As vet Elsie is not really yours. The law—" Janet turned on him sharply. “She is mine by right of—every- thing. 1 found her and I love her.” | “Yes—but you must formally adopt - her. I thought perhaps you'd better see to that before I leave. I've changed my plans a bit. I'm going to meet mother and Grace in Rome for Christmas. The mater has not been feeling very fit. I am not fond of England in winter—and—" Janet crossed to his side and her hand rested lightly on his arm. “Don’t you think you'd enjoy much more seeing Elsie have her first tree? And—and I think I need you-—more than your mother does!" Something rose in Dalton's throat and threatened to choke him. It was a sensation he had never felt before— rot even during the good-natured, lazy run of his wooing. Janet wanted him?! ! He thought he had not cared. Now he knew that he had cared all along. But it was characteristic he did not | express his fierce joy in words, He held Janet very close and whispered: | “Well, T rather did hope you'd giva the little beggar the name of Dalton. It's a pretty good name, after all, eh i Norman Stanley heard the news when he landed in London. He sent a lion’s skin, captured by his own hand, for little Elsie to roll upon. Then he went to the Nile country for the win- er. (Copyright | 1912, by the MecClure News. | paper Syndy City .Chamberlain of New York the Custodian of Large Sums That Are Unclaimed. There is a place in New York city where unclaimed fortunes lie; hyn. dreds of them, ranging from $1 up to $125,000. They are waiting there for heirs who have never appeared, for those whom litigation has enriched all unknowingly to them | The fortunes remain in the custody of the city chamberlain for 20 \'vurs'; then they are turned over to thn'smta. And there they are held forever, ae cumulating year by year, unti] some- body with an incontestible right ap. pears to cl.im them, But hardly anyone does appear. spite of the fact that in 1910 chamberlain turned over to t $246.510.06, and this yvear $5 : that there is about $200.000 being held there now, it is a rare occasion when & contestant does put in his claim, —_— Learn Our Games, Filipinos are taking to 8ports so rapidly that chic are fast losing favor in th In the city he state and American ken fights e islands. is the fancieq as it is bound that is under the ited States army S that of cullege men who fare forth as ¢ to be in any place influence of the Un ivil service employes, teachers and urg ers, but the American na does not | pino popul even golf find the far east [ ol widely mir asylum. ) ley ball. 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