Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 4, 1914, Page 2

BILLYVALADON'S SPEGIAL By C. HAUSSMAN. “I say,” cried Billy, “wait for a fel- low. My remittance will be along in = couple of days and we can all go east together.” Mabel Brockman laughed. “You're twenty-nine, aren't you, Billy?" she asked irrelevantly. “In February,” assented Valadon. “And you have to wait until your papa sends you money? I don’t think you even call him ‘father,’ do you?" Valadon looked hurt. “You are al- ways at me to go to work,” he frowned. “I don’t see why I should have to with the governor so disgust- ' ingly rich.” “How much money have you?” she asked. Somehow her conversation this morning on the Coronado Beach was most uncertain. “Enough to pay my bills and get up to San Francisco.” “Then you will have to wait until gome one sends you the money to get home on. I don't think you are worth walting for, Billy.” Two days later Valadon stood on the wharf at Oakland. Miss Brockman stood by the sleeper in which she and her mother were to make the trip east. “I may see you sooner than you ex- pect,” he said with a smile. “Having money telegraphed to you?” whe asked. “No,” he answered shortly. “I have wan idea that perhaps I can come east in accordance with your approved methods. I'm going to try it, any- ow.” “If you do, Bill,” sald the girl soft- {ly, as she mounted the steps. “If 1 do, what—" Mabel shook her head over the port- er's shoulder as the train pulled out. Valadon took the boat back to the ! «city, but instead of returning to the 'hotel he went to the Barbary Coast. In one of the dives sat a party of men, rough, uncouth and with a most evi- dent smell of the stable about them. Billy went up to their leader. “I'm ready now,” he said. “Stow the glad rags,” commanded ithe other, “and come back here in half | an hour. We don't want silk hats/ around.” Before the end of the half hour the silk hat and frock coat had been meta- morphosed into a cloth cap and a pea- jacket, and Billy was five dollars richer. The leader marshaled the gang and an hour later Billy was back in Oak-| land, but this time in the freight- 'yards. ( On the track before him was a ‘train of 12 yellow cars, at the head of which panted a huge engine. Billy climbed into the third car. There was | much hoarse shouting, a blast from the whistle and a jolt as the traln ‘pulled out, and the first section of | ithe horse special was under way. Billy’s fellow passengers inthe car were another hostler and 12 thorough- breds being hurried east to the big winter sale. Five days later a tired and dirty, ‘but exceedingly cheerful, young man drove up to the door of the Valadon residence on Fifth avenue just as the head of that house was sitting down to his breakfast. It required an argu- ment with a new footman to convince him that the caller was not required to go to the side entrance, but at his | voice the elder Valadon came running into the hall. “Bless my soul,” he puffed after Billy had told his tale in brief. “Didn't you get my check?” Billy thrust a paper into his hand. | *It came the day T left,” he said, “but | it sort of spoiled the idea and I pre-| tended that T did not get it. Now T, want a bath and breakfast and then T | want to see if I cannot go down to the station in time to meet the Brock- mans.” The Chicago express was three hours late when it puffed into the huge arched shed, and Miss Brock- man was in no amiable frame of mind | as she descended to the platform. i There had been delay, and six days on the train even in a stateroom is not pleasant. For a moment she stared as a well- groomed young man possessed him- self of her handbag and turned to help her mother down the steps, and it was not until they had headed for the fer- ry that she found her voice. “How did you get here so quickly?” she demanded. “I came the northern way,” he ex- plained, “and I had a special” Miss Brockman turned away to hide her disappointment. “I might have 'known you would do something like that,” she said coldly. “I suppose that you wired for money.” “There was a check at the hotel when I got to San Francisco,” he ex- plained wickedly. “I had it in my pocket when I said ‘good-by’ to vou in Oakland. 1 thought you would like a surprise.” “It was not a surprise: it was the expected,” she corrected. “1 had hoped my sermon had sunk in.” He made no explanations until they were in the carriage, which had wait- ed at Twenty-third street. Then Billy leaned forward. “1 should have explained,” he be- gan, “that the special was for the Ora ranch horses for the sale at the gar- THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA.. Corpo Even the most enlight-| ened advocates of corporal ! punishment in schools do! not assert this form of ret- ribution is ideal. Wel]-ba.l-’ anced minds among those of our best educators have not made any such absurd assertion. Our civilization reserves as its ultimate governménml power that of rude force even if we temper some of the official brutalities with law and mercy and such forms of justice as are considered beneficial under present conditions of society, which are not ideal at all. Thus we decline, presently, to withhold the lessons of stern respon- sibility for wrong deeds that are done by the young, but we insist that stern retribution by brute force be meted out to the same children when they are grown up. The boy knows that “teacher dare not touch him.” Later on he finds out that police officers do dare “touch” him and even the sheriff. Another fashionable conviction is that an immature young person, even before the stage of adolescence, has the same mind attitude as one fully matured and world experienced. This is contrary to fact. We pass through three stages. In the first all impressions come from the outside. The impressions on our first blank, then immature, mind grow in volume. The schools are an important factor in directing and fixing these impressions. Then comes the period of maturity, in which those digested impres- sions are constantly enlarged, but also made use of. The mature mind applies by personal volition what it has absorbed. This is the age of activity. And then comes the age where the physical activities decline, but the mind, matured to its capacity, gives out again in counsel the con- clusions of experience gained. Hence we say, “Young man for action, but old man for counsel.” A writer asserts that nothing so brutalizes a child as corporal pun- fshment. Is that true? How about poverty, child labor, saloon influ- ences, the low suggestions ever active everywhere? If it were true that an occasional well-deserved lambasting knocks the best stuff—ambition, will power and self-respect—out of the present generation of children, why did it not do so in all past generations of Americans ? ral Punishment of Children Favored By A. WAGEMANN, Chicago There never was a time when the church needed power from on high more than today. Political meet- ings, labor meetings, land shows, stock shows, football games, saloons and theaters are crowded, while our churches are only half filled. One denomination reported that one-third of their churches had no accessions last year. The Reformed Churches of America report that they lost as many members in two years as they gained in three. The lack of spiritual power in clergy and laity is the answer to the question. Why is it that we have not the spiritual power today with men that Wesley, Luther, Whitfield, John Knox, Finney and Moody had in their day? Why is it that Evan Roberts, the Welsh coal miner, could deluge Wales with religion and Gypsy Smith create a greater spiritual atmos- phere than any other preachers? These men are baptised with the power of God. Demands Preachers Use More Dynamite By REV. A. E. SAUNDERS Pastor of Fowler Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago We throw bombs of truth into our congregations and they go off like CAIA[OGU[ — a Fourth of July squib. No one is hurt or slain. The Haymarket bomb that sent many to death a few years ago in this city was filled with dynamite. We fill our sermon bombs with saw- dust, and then we expect results. Sawdust preaching is not calculated to convict men of sin. There seems to be no spiritual “ginger” in our SDCCial preaching in these days. Essays of a rosewater type of theology, preached in a half-hearted, apologetic style falls flat on the ears of men and women struggling with the cares and burdens of life. We shall all be talking about vitalism soon—that is to say, those of us who are “serious.” Vitalism has been known for some twenty years or so among the eclec- Vitalism Will be Pop- ular Because it Chants By DR. ARTHUR LYNCH, London, Exg. as the new fashion in thought for the year. The greet apostle of Vitalism, Prof. Hans Driesch of Heidelberg, appeared in person to carry out the golemn sacrificial ceremony—that is to say, he began a series of four lec- tures on “Mechanism and Teleology.” Now Mechanism and Teleology would never catch on, but it is different with Vitalism; Vitalism will l».c popular. It chants. It will be remembered that the last fashion was Bergson with his Creative Evolution. But Creative Evolution had a somewhat superior, not to say exclusive air, only softened a little when called Evolution Creatrice. So all the earnest-minded men and women whom I used to see follow- ing Bergson's lectures with a curious expression of intensity and misappre- hension make clamor no longer. I saw some of them again at Professor Driesch’s with the same air of beatitude that comes over us all when we feel we are both intellectual and meek. I do not expect that Vitalism will be much better understood than Evolution Creatrice, but I have long since come to the conclusion that a philosopher’s reputation is made more extensively by those who do ot comprehend than by those who do. Finger bowls are to be abolished on many of the dining cars throughout the United States. Recently the heads of railroads in Oregon have been informed that the state pure food commission of Idaho, has placed a ban on finger bowls on dining cars running through that state, as unsanitary and unnecess Finger bowls have also been abolished from many cafes, hotels and restaurants in the west. The finger bowl is doomed in the west. Hotel men say that it is out of date aml unneces The finger bowl is still popular in the cast and the chances are that it will continue to be so. Just why the finger bowl is considered unsani- tary in the west I cannot understand. Finger Bowls are to be Abolished in West By JOHN T. WALDON, St. Louis, Mo. den. 1 was a hostler and 1 brought the check back with me.” “ . Jeaned forward and kissed him, t .ne surprise of her mother. 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