Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 14, 1914, Page 7

I run PARENTS GE E. STREETER. okman, Ph. D., was one eedingly clever men— short and stout, spectacled and be- whiskered — who find it difficult to make both ends meet. As a pri- vate tutor he forced the old Greeks and Ro- mans down the small throats of the young, who were much more eager for dinner than for the classics. Everything Bookman was dingy and The world in which surrounded by creditors, t knew him as a debtor to y carried forward in their children looked upon him i stery, woefully deflcient nge; while his wife real- @ possessed real ability and o speak of. oasis in the Sahara of the mily was Lucretia, the eld- Ix daughters. She was an actical gir!. One day she father: | ong been thinking of our d it seems to me that hing is done at once we There are six of us girls, p earning a cent. I have r of marriage from Fred baker.” | gasped Mr. Bookman. | her; our baker. He is not an, but he has a good busi- exclalmed the has selzed terrible!” at madnes: jughter?” pess, father; am talking Listen to me for a min- know that we have never ed, though perhaps over- will never marry a man | yith either education or lit- thave decided to marry Mr. , if 1 want to read Plato I shall be able to do so d warm stove.” | retla, Socrates says—" i Bocrates, father, and all his | oined the young woman. ' be arrested as a vagrant in | Fancy the poor old man eople on the streets, and ir opinfon on the -tariff, or the Fillpinos. Mother willing to have me marry for it means unlimited oake for the Bookman fam- | get one of those large | ps to beautify your yard? t get the oldest reliable | n to put in your walk? #er vour brick and blocks prices are right, so are the NATIGNAL VAULT GL. 08 West Main St. an Talk to Practically e People in the Town UGH THIS PAPER JYARNEL AND HEAVY HAULING USEHOLD MOVING A SPECIALTY AND MULES ¥FOR HIRE | Office 109; Res., 57 Green. | getting | such airy , 80 nicely, e e s . S ST | samarras e ‘fHE EVENING TELEGRAM LATFELAND, FLA ., AUG. 14, 1914 fly.” For a minute or two Mr. Bookman was sllent. He was thinking deeply, and along a line of thought that was new to him. “I am becoming interested in what you say, my dear”” he flnally marked. “But bread and cake are nct the only necessaries, Only this morn- ing your mother told me we are in need of coal again.” “Well, father, before next winter comes, Jennie may marry yvoung Hart, the coal merchant of South street; he has called on her three times this week.” Father and daughter continued the conversation for more than an hour that dull March afternoon. Mr. Book- man began to see things in a different light, and gave his consent to Lucre- tia’'s marriage rhn bright young | Wwoman urged her 'rs to keep a sharp lookout for bu and , before the month of April was over she led the way marrying Fred Harris. In June, Jennle married the coal merchant; and L da, the sec- ond girl, became the wife of George Ross, a neighboring Things looked brighter for the Bookman fam- ily. In discussing with his wife the great change in the family's affa tho head of the house thus expressed him- self: “You see, €s8 men, by er irs, my dear, how are indebted to Lucretia's practical | mind. If my father had incisted on me becoming . blacksmith, or .. shoe- maker, he would have been wiser; and I, no doubt, would now be better off. Think of the years I have spent in trying to lead the youth of this town around the moss-covered only small fees in return. But we are now connected with trade, and although I am no politician, T appre- | ciate a free breakfast table. “The ancients,” he continued, warm- ing to his subject, “seem to have sat- isfied their hunger with dialogues, but nutriment as that is not suited either to this part of the glebe or to the present age." “No, indeed,” replied his wife. “Only yesterday T bought some combs from a Harvard graduate. He spoke but seemed thoroughly dis- heartened. He said he is not tall enough to join the police, over age for the army, and far too billous to enter the navy. 1 think he said he took four scholarships, but he de- clared that if he failed to sell the dozen combs he had with him before night, he would commit sulcide.” “Very sad, my dear,” remarked Mr. Bookman. “Just listen to this little verse I wrote this afternoon: Education 18 no good To take the placo of dally food, Half a loaf and a level head Are better thun learning bread! without any “Beautiful,” sald Mrs. Bookman, “and so true! For Babies. For prickly | # heat, Aftershaving. After the bath. Asaface powder, As 1 a foot powder. Really indispensa- ble. In sifter top cans. Atdrug- gists, 15 cents. 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Inez was the daughter of a sheep farmer, and John had worked for the man for two years before the unex- pected death of a rich old uncle left ! him a fortune. Phayre was forty years old and he had put a barren youth behind him. He had once thought of marrying Inez. But Inez was wholly uneducated, daughter of the western plains. They loved each other. Had Joln been ten years younger he would have plunged | But middle | headlong into age bri J And so, realizing | the improbability that such a mar- riage would bring happiness, John had | said good-by to inez and her father | and gone East. There had been a look in Inez’ eyes, a hurt, pained, hopeless look—he re- membered it often nowadays as he sat fishing on the little Adirondacks lake near the summer hotel. It was unfor- tunate that he should be thinkiag of Inez when he was engaged to marry Dorothy Baird. He had met the Bairds York, and Mr. and Mrs, suggested that they meet at the hotel that summer. There seemed to be a good deal in common between Dorothy and John. She was a merry, jolly &irl, just such a one as he would have fallen in love with, twenty years ear- lier, when life stretched, fair and un- stained, before him. So they became engaged, John picked up his fishing rod and, putting on his hat, stepped out of the boat and made his way back to the hotel. It was evening and the dark- ness was rushing over the mountain tops. John approached the hotel qui- watrimony in New Baird had The River Bore It Faster Upon Its Breast. Dorc she etly He meant to surprise alone on the piazza, where to sit in the hour bef was the month of June, was almost empty As he came through the ghadows of the pine trees he heard a man’s voico speaking “But is all our love to go for noth- ing?" he was asking “Surely duty you n of two people?” John meant to slip away. He did not want to spy upon a love affair But, to his horror, he heard the wom an's vo Dorothy. sobs “Arnold, I love you as I have always ! “But I ov and my du liked dinner. It and the hotel mean that the happiness does not ust throw away e reply, and the Her words were broken with woman was loved you," ehe answered er. ohn Phayre. Dorothy! And I respect hin he shall never ever ng to my fa forc Arnold. So know."” “Dorothy, you ar gelf. You that it is ¥ marry this jon't love him, I do please God, ra dec is are Perhaps it was a went to his lawyer and told him that he wished to settle a sum of money his fiancee. “l suppose it is not nec her know place,” he said. l"\' aspect of a—surprise.” rtainly not, Mr. Phayre,” swered the old lawyer. “How much is the sum you were thinking of settling on Miss Baird?” “One hundred thousand dolla swered John. “A large sum, ed the lawyer, thoughtfully. “It will still leave me a hundred i thousand of my own,” John Phayre replied. | “Well, Mr. Phayre, I don't want to dissuade you, but—well, often a man | acts impulsively and regrets it after- i ward.” “I shall not regret it,” answered i Join. “Please draw up the settlement | 1 in s\ ch a way as to make it absolutely i irrevocable in case I change my mind sgary to let " an- Mr. Phayre,” suggest- rubbing his hands or—die."” | tand John left him, Kk and drew out - and dollars in notes. to ! I Nobody anything He went to his hundred thou- This he mailed b & hic Station knew Phayre's Shoshone John at of mnections. Then John went back to the hotel. “Are you going fishing again, John?" inquired Dorothy affectionately, ting her arms round him. wouldn't fish above the weir, John. You know a guide was killed there last fall, when his boat drifted over the rapids.” “Oh, I can take care of myself, Dor- othy,” answered John, smiling. *I wish vou cared for fishing, Dorothy. After we are married I shall initiate you into the joys of fly fishing.” It was something of an effort to John to play the game. And the real- ization that the girl’s affection for him as a simulated one made it doubly {. But at last he was gone, and, half an hour later, above the weir, casting his line te fished for about two thinki ird. As every fly fisherman Knows tal exercise, He had fully made up his mind when the two hours were ended and five large trout lay in the boat. He would go back to Shoshone Station, insistent with him that day. rant? Unlettered? the type of woman who would always be true to her chosen mate. And he must give Dorothy to the man she loved. Poor little Dorothy! He was Igno- shadow of regret. He had loved her, but the discovery of her love for Ar- nold had shown him that hig heart lay westward, where he had once thought it lay. The faces of Inez and Dorothy rose up before his mental eye, as in a picture. He scanned them carefully, He saw himself and Dorothy, he grow- ing old, beauty of middle trying to fight down her dissatisfac- tion with life—then Inez, and the placid current of their life together on the great plains, He threw his hat into the boat and life, his pocket, {into the | knife, craft to tho tree trunk. Afterward, holding the severed end in his hands, he frayed the strands, o that the rope should seem to have snapped rather ilh:m to have been cut. Having done this, he released it and let it glide down the stream, and stood watchir it It drifted slowly, gathering impetus, Then the river bore it faster upon its breast, and it spun no more, but head- ed straight forward toward the treach- erous rapids beneath him. Faster and faster; now it was going full spced toward the rocks. How like his life! How like John's life! It shot forward as swiftly arrow, stopped for a moment, broadside and then, upon the brink, it leaped down among the foamy boulders to the placid lake | below boat also. Then, with \ as an spun on, poising itself The was John stood and looked after it. | irrevocable act was done. There I no going back now And he did not want to go back. He | had set Dorothy free. After a decent | interval of mourning she would marry | Arnold. The h that ndred he had W AIH be quit ford the lovers and ‘H.\]r‘ll larg ettled upon her It would af- a comfortable leave something over for old secure income, re smiled contentedly as banks and let the tr on his face se to his feet and country five 8 r lat he later he re It slowed < nu} Phayre A buck wait tation yman, was face to stay, enswered alkall turbed was im- owledge of pman.) ots at the | & always | 3 rything and every. before the marriage takes | 24 “I would rather it had | Q an- | \ The lawyer drew up the settlement, | ¢ imself at a post office in the West, | & eastern | 3 put- [ “I wish you | he sat in his boat | & hours, | 3 the sport is conducive to men- ' she approaching the mature | discontented, | 4 put on a cap which he had brought in ! 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