Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 30, 1914, Page 2

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In'atead of def!reuing your taking of ice on the cool days which @l be oocasionally sandwiched between the warm omes, resolve right now that every day is a full ice day for you. And stick to that COUPON BOOK of ours. It is your consistent, per- sistent SAVER. Lakeland Ice Company Phone 26 THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., MARCH 30, 1314. WHATKITTY M By F. H. SWEEKT. As they walked she told her com- panion of new plans. That very day she had secured employment in the blanket factory, and would com- mence work the next morming. Six months before she had come home a broken wreck—her husband recently killed in a drunken brawl, her own life spoiled, as she thought, by the man against whom she had been warned. But now, with renewed health and resolution, she was about to commence life again, to build' up from the wreck. Halstead listened quietly until she had finished, then broke out: “You know there ain't no need for ;\t. Kitty. You know I've been wait- ' for Jou to get strong so I could say the same thing I did before—be- fore you met him. It didn’t seem right to persuade you when you first came, you was 80 weak an’ tired. But now you're strong again an’ know your own mind. An’, Kitty"— his voice trembling in spite of his of- | forts at self-control—"I've bé8H Wait—l in’ a good many years. I've never felt to marry anybody else.” Her hand rose impetuously, to stop him. i “But you must think to marry somebody else, Halstead,” she said, earnestly. “You're too good a man to be wasted that way. An’ you must stop thinkin’ of me, for it can’t ever be, after—after what's gone by. I ain’t much, but I couldn’t be so mean as to harm a man like that. Now, Halstead, please’—touching his arm as she saw the grim amusement on his face—“don’t make me go on feel- in’ I've ruined your life. There's Nelly Bocup. She likes you, an—" Halsted laughed aloud. “No use talkin’ that way, Kitty,” he interrupted. “I want you, an’ if I can’'t have you now, I'm willin’ to wait awhile. When it gets too hard I shall grab you up an’ run so fast an’' far you won't be able to get breath to say no.” “I'm sorry, Halstead.” There were tears in Kitty's eyes, but her voice was firm. “I shan’t ever marry any man to hamper him. It won’t be no use for you to wait and ask me . time, gasping for breath and garing moodily at the distant mountain tops. Kitty came to him there after she had arranged his bed and tidied the room. “Doesn’t it look good, Halstead? she said. He di¢ not answer at once, but presently turned to her with a dreary smile. “I—I don't know as it does, Kitty,” he replied. “You heard the doctor tell me it would likely be six months before I would begin to do any work, an’ that my eyes an’ hearin’ wouldn't ever be quite so good again. That's just the same as it I was gettin' to be an old man.” He was silent for some minutes, then added: “An’ that ain't all, Kitty. It'll take every cent I've got to pay the doctor. You see, before you came, I never saved any- thing. I didn't feel any need. What I got I spent to help Mary an’ the children. I've only been puttin’ by the few months you was here, before I was sick, What is it?” for she was now standing by his side, her hand upon his shoulder, smiling down into his face, “Will you marry me, Halstead?” He gazed at her stupidly for a mo- ment then his lips began to quiver. “Don't Kitty,” was all he said. “But I mean it, Halstead,” earn- gstly.v ! lsalll I would pever marry a fian fo hamper hiii, but I'm strong an’ well now, an’ you're wesl, @i’ the | i doctor says I can get all the work 1 | want nursin’. I can be makin’' money l while you're getting strong, an’,” low- ering her voice a little, “I believe ways. That—that other was only a | crazy spell. breaking into a sob. | Halstead's face now. But he held out his arms. ENGLISH NEEDS A STRAINER of the Country Is Nearest Correct. The announcement that a soclety has been organized in England for the purpose of disinterring the English | language from the English pronuncia- tion will be hailed with deep delight by Americans. This soclety means much to us. For generations Americans have been ac- cused of shocking crimes against the English language. According to Eng- again, ever.” There was much sickness in the', :town that fall—a malignant spotted ! , fever, highly contagious—and one by one the poorer portions of the town ;: were put under quarantine. Then one i evening Halstead helped what he thought to be a drunken man to his home, and the next day the man came down with the fever, and within a week was dead. Within an hour af- ter Halstead heard this he was on his way to the woods for what he said was to be a few days’ hunting. In reality, it was to watch himself. One morning before people had be- gun to appear on the streets, he stag- gered to the sidewalk outside the fence of his sister's home, where Kitty boarded. “Mary, oh, Mary,” he called. Then when his sister appeared at the door. “Don't come any nearer. You know that empty cabin up by the big rock, where we walk sometimes?” “Yes." “Well, I want you to send some food and water there, soon's you can. I've got the fever. Walt,” ralsing his voice a little bitterly as she withdrew hurriedly into the house. “There ain't a mite of danger this far, not for you nor the children. I won't go near the cabin till you get the things in, so it'll be safe. I'll stay off in the woods a couple of hours. But please hurry, for I'm beginnin’ to lose sense of things.” “Halstead!” it was a quiet but per- emptory voice from an upper window. Halstead raised his eyes and tried to fix his mind on what he saw there. “Kitty, Kitty,” he said, dreamily, “that you? Better go in an’ shut the window. Maybe the wind’'s blowin’ that way.” “Halstead,” the voice said slowly lishmen, who get more indignant over this crime than almost any other ex- cept that of beating England in ath- letics, we have racked, maimed, twist- ed, butchered and unjointed their peerless tongue beyond recognition. We have admitted thls with sorrow, but when it came to reform we have been helpless. Which one of the 79 dialects and contortions of English spoken in England have we defaced? Has it been Cornish, Yorkshire, Cock- ney or soclety English? Has it been Oxford English, Liverpool English, or stage English? Has it been the Eng- lish which makes “d's” out of all the “n's” or the English which trans. plants “h’s?” Has it been the Eng- lish which uses “brekker” for break- fast, or that peculiar brand which sub- stitutes “nycher” for nature, “audjins” for audience, and which says ‘“tup- pence-haypenny” as confidently as if it were spelled that way? All of this uncertainty has bafled conscientious Americans. In fact, it has puzzled us to the point of paraly- sls. But now that Robert Bridges, the new poet laureate, who seems dis- posed to do something more humane than anniversary verse, has headed an expedition for the selection of a real English tongue, we may take hope. " There could be no real objection to talking pure English in this country i2 the English would only agree among themselves upon the test.— George Fitch in Collier's Weekly. It Was Possible. A Vermon! man recently visited his brother, the owner of a ranch in one of the arid reglons of the west. Ag the guest was shown over the place, the owner told him of the difficulties and distinctly, “can you go straight to the cabin by yourself?” “Course,” indignantly, “straight's an arrow. But I'll wait two hours.” “No,” peremptorily, “you must go at once, straight. 1 will see about the food and everything else. I'll have a doctor there almost #s soon as you are. An' I'll have a nurse. I'd make you come in here, but there's your sis- ter and her children, an’ there's chil- dren in both the next houses. So maybe it wouldn't be best. No go, straight, straight to the cabin.” Halstead raised his hand to his forehead undecidedly. But the voice had been clear and incisive, and just now it was easier for him to obey than to think. So he nodded vaguely and staggered up the sidewalk. Kitty watched him anxiously until she re- alized that, in spite of his wavering steps, he was heading toward the cabin. Then she hurried downstairs. Mary met her at the foot. “What do you mean, Kitty?” she began, wildly; “you’re not going up there to him, an' then come back to me an' the children? Most every- body's died of the fever so far.” “That's all right, Mary,” answered Kitty soothingly. “I'm not comin’ back. You wouldn't have Halstead be without a nurse, would you?”’ “But everybody dles most, an’ you'll sure take it,” remonstrated Mary hysterically. Halstead did not die, but it was more than three months before he was able to leave his bed and totter across the cabin floor to a seat in the doorway. There he sat for a long | and obstacles that had been overcome in making the desert bloom, and he also touched upon his plans for the future. “You amaze me, Bill,” sald the vis- itor. “Is it possible to make a liv- ing on such land as this and in such a climate?” “It sure is. 1 have had a good deal more than a mere living.” “I am glad to hear that, for you must have lald by something for a rainy day.” The owner smiled. “I've done bet- ter than that,” he explained. “‘With the help of an occasional rainy day, I have contrived to lay by something for the dry days.”—Lippincott's. Gave Liberally to Education. Henry W. Sage, an eminent philan- thropist, was born 100 years ago in Middletown, Conn. At the age of twenty he went to Ithaeca, N. Y. and engaged in the mercantile business with an uncle. In 1854 he became in- terested in the lumber regions of Canada and the west. He bought ex- tensive tracts of land, erected the largest sawmill in Michigan, and ac- cumulated a large fortune as a lum. ber merchant. Some years later he returned to Ithaca, where he took an active interest iIn the affairs of Cop nell university. He established the Sage College for Women, ang his other benefactions to the university amounted to more than $1,000,000. He also endowed a lectureship at Yale college and founded a public library in West Bay City, Mich. Mr. Sage was a trustee of Cornell university from 1870 until his death in 1897, George Fitch Wonders Which Dialect I've always loved you, Halstead, al | Why, Halstead!” her | voice suddenly catching and then;'g) | 8 For the tears were streaming down | | | l| PHONE 71 R C A CE) B IECH a I Mann Plumbingc Best Place Work Now Under your Org Now and Glenada Hotel and [OWCSt Pine Street AY0iG Prices the Rush All Work Guaranteed First Class in Every Respect. Estimates Wil Furnished on Short Notice. ) Office Phone 257 Residence Phone 274 Red Phone: Office, 102; Residence, 150 Room 17 Kentucky Blds. W. FISKE JOHNSON e REAL ESTATE AND LOANS GITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY A SPECIALTY LAREIARD, FLA. st If you wait (o buy propierty we have It for sale; If you want 0 seil property we have customers, or can get them for you. 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