Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 27, 1914, Page 8

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There comes a time in everyone’s Efe when an ample CASH RESERVE 18 one'’s best friend—why not begin buling that reserve now? In time to vwine, the earnings of that reserve may be sufficient to keep you in com- fort. o po. wat interest paid. F LAKELAND FLA 2005000051504 58 5000064000+ s S e Sh A S T T THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., JAN. 27, 1914, CCCCCCCEECECEECEEEECTESEES About four weeks after that drive to SORRCCHCHOBHHOROCHORRCS. .. SCBORRIRE PR NOT A BAD MATCH By DON LA GRANGE. One day the good Deacon Penny- bone, of the village of Delhi, found it necessary to drive over to the vil- lage of Wharton, six miles away. He was hitching up his horse and buggy when Mrs. Hannah Savage came to the house to say: “Deacon, they say you are going to drive over to Wharton today?” “Yes, 1 am,” was the reply “Got a load?” “Only a jug to be filled with fle.” “You know my sister Sarah lives over there?” “Yes, guess che do, though I hain’t much of a hand to -keep track otl folks' sisters.” “Well, Sarah’s got a baby a year old, and she writes me that it can't walk yet. Something seems to be the matter with his knees or back.” “It sure orter be walkin' at a year old. They say | wasn't quite ten 4 | months old when I could trot right s out doors. Do you want to send any ¢ | word to Sarah?”" §| "I want to drive over and back with ¢ |you.” 5 “All right. You be ready in fifteen minutes. Guess the old mare can take us both and not git tuckered out.” Deacon Pennybone was a widower. Hannah Savage was a widow. They had both lived in Delhi for ears, and both belonged to the same churc& but gossip had never even hinted a marriage between them. It had never hinted that either ome of them would matry again. The drive to Wharton was made. The deacon went to get his jug filled ; with oil, and the widow to see her sister and the baby. The baby was walking all right. The next day after its mother had written about ts walk- less condition it had got choked on & 8pool ‘of thread and been shook and ; Whu'ton and back he called at the house of his pastor and said: “Pastor, I know a widder woman in this town.” “Yes?' was replied. “She’s a chureh member,” “Yes?” “She’s & darned nice woman!” “Be careful, deacon!” “I'm kinder thinkin’ that as I am & widower and she a widder we might make a match.” “Yes?" “She’s purty well off, and I'm purty well off, and—and—" “And what?" “Why, I've come to ask you what you think about it.” “Do you love her?” asked the pas- tor after a silence. “Can’t say that thinking about bher has kept me awake nights.” “Have you courted her?” “Not a darned court!” “Deacon, must 1 caution you again 'sbout your profanity! Have you spoken to her about marriage?” “Not a darmed—] mean not a word.” “Then, as 1 gather from your words, if you marry this widow it is a selfish sort of marriage on your part.” “Why, I'd get a good woman and her property, and she'd get & good man and be cared for.” “Such matches are made every day,” said the parson, “and I regard each and every one as an evil. Every marriage should be based upon love. If you should find yourself loving this wom- an then it would be right and proper | to offer marriage. Unless this is the case I shall hope there will be no mar riage.” “l guess' that cuts me out, parson. I bain’t got no more romance about me than a bump on a dead log.” And it s highly probable that the widow Savage did some more think- ing, for within a week she followed the ,deacon’s trail to the parsonsige and said to the pastor: “l am terribly embarrassed, but I, want your advice." dangled head downwards with vlgor-l “What {s the trouble, sister Sav- ous hand! Ten minutes later it was | age? was asked. taking its first steps. ! “If & man—if a good man—if a wid- The drive out and back was pleu ower asked me to mary him, and 1 ant. The widower and widow talked | did not exactly love him, would I be house that was going to be erected— the death of Silas White's cow—the plentitude of potato-bugs—the success of the late Sunday school picnic and even the best way of killing off bur- docks so they would stay killed, but not a word nor a hint of anything closer. They were just neighbors. It the subject of the heathen of Africa had been brought up they might have discussed it for miles to the exclu- sion of all else. The deacon's sister was his house- keeper. She was a sourfaced old maid with a sharp tongue, and when her brother got back home she felt it her duty to say something. She there- L] i about the new spire for the meeting dolng right to mary him? “Not according to my lights, sister. | You must learn to love him first.” “But if I don’t have the chance to learn?” “I sometimes think that Providence has a hand in those things,” replied the good man, though there was a bit of doubt in his tones. It was two weeks later and the widow was returning from the caw- mill, where she had beer to order some boards to repair ber pig-pen. Bhe met Deacon Pennybone face to face. He was bound for the mill to order some shingles for the roof of his kitchen. “Hope 1 see you well. widder.” fore remarked: “I suppose the match was at least half-made today?” “What match?" asked the deacon. “She’s been trying to catch a man for the last five years.” “Ruth, who you ‘alkin’ about?” “Why, the widow Savage.” “What's wroug with her?" “And the same to you.” “Did the frost last night nip your garden any?”’ “Not a spec.” And then, as the deacon was about to say that he guessed the frost had killed off the horse-flies for good and all, there came: warning shouts of: “Mad dog! Mad dog! Look out, “She'd )ike to change her name to | deacon!” Pennybona!” He turned to see a mastiff that was —— “Say, now.” replted the deacon as|surely suffering with the rabies com- he fired up. “you quit talkin’ that way! | ing down the street full at them. He She hain't the slightest idea of it. If | didn’t lose a second. He picked the she has I hain't.” widow up and threw her over a picket “All widders want to n.arry again,” | fence, and then sprang after her. The said the sister mad animal came racing up and would “Then let ‘em marry, but none of | bave made the jump had nct a big ‘em will marry me!" club knocked him down and after When the widow Savage got home | Wards battered the life out of him. Mrs.. Goodhue,.a neighbor, dropped in [ After the marriage, which took to ask about the baby over at Whar- | Place a month later, the deacon ton that couldn't walk. She was given | asked: full information, and then she re- Hanner, dear, when did you first marked: feel that you loved me with all your “Lots of folks thought it funny.” h‘:""" “What was?" 'Why, it was when you chucked me “Your riding over there with Dea. | Over the fence!” she replied as she con Pennybone.” gave him a kiss that lifted him off “But 1 don't see anything funny | his heels. about that.” (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure News- “Well, you hadn’t been gone half an paper Syndicats.) h h he story was Yoo, and: the dencen hat monnd tnat | BETTER TO ELIMINATE HAND to get married.” “Upon my soul! The deacon and me get married! Why, he don't want me, and [ don't want him. If the fool-killer would ccn~ along he'd find plenty to do in thiz town!” “Then—then—" “Then nothing!" What a curious thing ie human na ture! Here were two people who were neighbors and friends—nothing more. They hadn't thought of each other once a week, unless happening to meet. But now, because a sour tempered old maid and a gossipy neighbor made a few remarks they be- gan thinking of each other. “By gosh!’ said the deacon to him self as he sat down to milk the cow that evening, “the widder Savage wouldn't be such a bad match if a feller wanted to marry agin. She's purty good lookin' when she's got her Sunday duds on, and she can talk like a streak and talk sense too. I've heard she was a savin' woman, and had money in the bank.” And- as the widow Savage cleared away her supper dishes she smiled and mused: “So they thought the deacon amgi me were going to elope and get mar- ried! Um! Guess he’'d be the last man I'd think of, though I will say for him that he's good-tempered and upright. He pays his debts and never says anything mean of anybody. If I wanted to get married again, which I don't and the deacon wanted to get married again, which he don’t—why— why—" It is highly probable that the dea con did some more thinking, as ia World Will Improve When Machinery Takes Its Place as the Motive Power. The elimination of the human hand is the watchword or battle cry of many of the workers for pure-food laws and regulations. And it is the aim of many of the big producers of foods, too. The state of New Hamp- shire not long ago rendered a deci- sion forcing bread to be wrapped when it was sold. And some of the big factories where cnckerl md bl; cuits ar e, for instan far eliminated the human hud um you see human hands only manipu- lating the big steel machine hands that touch the food. So much for the efforts of state and factory. How about your own house? Does the human hand have a too prominent part in the making of your home-made bread? Even if ft is your own hand, it had better not be used unnecessarily in the prepar ation of food. From both the stand- point of health and that of economy, the use of the human hanc when ft is possible not to use it ought to be avoided. Make this the watchword of your kitchen, and so help advance a na tion-wide effort for better food and better economy in its making The Wit The Wit—To, Bill! Whatcha doing since you left college? “Working in a coffee factory.” “] gotcha. Starting from the ground ap."—Columbia Jester. " : | FIRST NATIONAL “Safety i All other cons tions are seca with this Bank 1f you want ab safety for money go the T L. CARLET SANITARY PLUMBIN TINNINGand SHEET METAL g Gas Fitting, Sewer Work, Dri % Wellsand Purrps . . . . . COR . N.5Y.[AVE and Male|ST. LAKELAND @ FL( " Special Atten 300 Pair Satin Pumps, $3.00 ' New Year’s Sale Price, $2.( We have line of s white, blac blue and tire stock of shoes at ROCK BO PRICES. 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