Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 28, 1914, Page 7

Lower Prices on Ford Cars Ffective August Ist, 1914 to Augustist, 1915 and guaranteed against any reduction during that time. All cars fully equipped io.b. Detroit. Touring Car ........490 .690 Town Car... ... .. Buyers to Share in Profits All retail buyers of new Ford cars from August 1st, 1914 to August Ist, 1915 will share in the profits of the company to the extent of $40 w $60 per car, on each car they buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de- liver 300,000 new Ford cars during that pe- r'od. Ask un for particulars = FORD MOTOR COMPANY I ake'and Autv and Supply Co. POLK COUNTY AGENTS. $3000EEPDIIPICEPILL BIPPFPFREFEDIOIIEE Dbttt b b B 000 HPPRNIPIBEIESIEFTIIIIIILIIPIOIEI400 IF YOU WANT YOUR SHIRTS AND COLLARS LAUNDERED The VERY BEST sad Them J akeland Steam To the We are better equipped than Lau ndry ever for giving you high grade T S Laundry Work. #&#03Ge0eg SEFEDPPPEPPIOBRPPEES PH)Y (T LI J.B. STREATER CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Ilaving ,had twenty-one years’ experience in building and contracting in Lakeland and vicinity, I feel competent to render the best services in this line. If comtemplating building, will be pleased to furnish estimates and all infor- mation, All work guaranteed. . Phone 169. J. B. STREATE& Let Us Supply Viss Orange Clippers Spruce Pine Picking Ladders Cement Coated Box Nails LR R Avery’s Orange Plows American Field Fence Cyclone Ornamental Fence . LI R Everything | usually carried | in an up-to-date Hardware Store | | WILSO! HARDWARE CO. [ [J [ ° L3 (3 ° [ 3 ° L] little woman, “how I wish I had had that book years ago when the children accomplished! ery now when I consider the time once and make up for lost time!” | the part which said not to hamper i the point where they will be presi-, | deuts or something famous some day! , brought him? he mused. What was Your Needs | THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, ‘FLA., OCT. 28, 1914, DiXY) p .'.l.................. 95050404.¢0$.¢l@.b.@.&.&.fi 2 ON A SINGLE ROD By A. HERSCHIN. mmmaommmaommmfig PERSUADING CHILDREN £ [ - [ B : By LILLIAN YOUNG. s < () B @ & [ ] & [ 4 . oo-ooouoooo-coooooooooz “You can't imagine,” said the earnest , bridge, his hands plunged deeply into ! his pockets and his head sunk far into the turtle neck of his soiled sweater, he re- were mere babies! What I might have It makes me want to wasted! Still, I am going to begin at “I don't take much stock in it,” com- : mented the lady who had brought up six children, all of whom had escaped the penitentiary, | “Mercy!” cried the earnest little Wwoman. “How can you feel that way! What particularly impressed me wae wandering career. On this particu- lar day he had de- cided to end his alliance with the panhandling citi- their individual development, to give | - zenry. He was them mental freedom, to allow their ' ¢ 3 * definitely and sat- ; minds to work out problems their own ! isfactorily “done.” way, and always to answer their ques- ! tions, because they may be working to | fling and fill; he was going home. As for corporal punishment—it made , there to show for his long dissocia- me feel I deserved to be shot at dawn | tion from the conventional world and because 1 used to spank them once in : its endeavors? a while! 1am going hereafter to treat them like human—" “Mother!" interrupted seven-year- | by beating it. old Henry, “kin I go over to Oscar's?” He stepped away from the station The earnest little woman smiled at , lights and crawled into the narrow him beamingly. “No, darling,” she said. | SPace between a long, high pile of ties ;_—""" “I told you yesterday you could not go |and a steep embankment, some dis- to Oscar's at all!” tance from the tracks. “Why?" Here, he concluded, he would rest a “Why, I explained to you very care- | couple of hours. He was dog-tired, all | fully,” eaid the earnest little woman in | right. some surprise. “Oscar is not the sort | He awoke suddenly in a cold shiver, of boy 1 want you to be with. He i8 ' amid a confusion of noises, to see the not the right kind!" broad patches of color reflected from the Pullman windows moving swiftly { away from him. The greater bulk of the train stretched far in front. Faster and faster it took its way, leaving the tramp with a choice of only two cars to negotiate. for the handles of the vestibules, and, and the anxiety to succeed, he stooped ' half over. Running close to the smok- ) strength and speed, he darted forth last coach. | zontally into the air like a feather in ! from danger and onto the rod. “Susanna! Come Down at Once!” | son loudly. “I wanna go! I wan—" Rising hurriedly, the earnest little woman clutched her recalcitrant son's arm and turning him over her knee ad- flying steel. speeding car. er which he departed growling. you have to spank them. Argument petween. seems to make no—" Say! It was cold! this side of the grave! Of course, it's @ rigid grip straight ahead. good for the lungs, sort of exercises them, if you care for that, but for chil- coming over him? but an annoying noise!” numbed hands and legs. woman, somewhat mournfully. “And . same.” then their quick little intellects would knew best—what?” had brought up six. “I never knew screamed. even a grownup who would abandon something he wanted to do and thank K now,” he rambled to himself. you for your wisdom if you tried to etop him! I suppose you are follow- slipped away somewhere. ing the few rules with Susanna, and in | care. “My goodness!” gasped the earnest ' foot-path by the tracks. little woman, dropping her work: “Su- sanna! Come down at once!” | shriek of the air-brakes as he jerked “But vou must let her work out her back a crippled knee from the ties. own problems!” reminded the woman | a lot about gravitation before she gets ing itself around one’s thumb. through—" ' As he walked across Burnside street' flected grimly on' the prosaic term- ination of his He had had his What bad his fourteen years of exile He was going home, going in the | way he most always went anywhere— ' er with all the power of his lithe limbs, and with a fierce burst of' :to the single, outside rod under the l His outstretched hands struck the . steel brace, an: instinctively doubled about it. His body was yanked hori- | & gale. With quick, experienced grop- , ing he managed to throw one ieg into the space between the rod and the i car-floor, and with one leg twined safe, | he quickly pulled the other away There he sprawled like a frog aleap, . ey hugging his hold, rocking from side to I wanna go to Oscar's!” roared her gjje with the wide oscillations of the This was u new one on him, he said —this hanging on to a single plece of It there was only some ministered the old time discipline, Aft- way to maintain u little better bal- ance, he could surely stay with it un- “Of course,” said the earnest little ¢j) Woodburn was reached. That was woman, somewhat flushed, “that was only 20 miles farther, and they were unavoidable. In special cases 1 guess hitting a pretty clip, with no stops in | He drew one “It's been my experience,” said the arm in and crooked it across the rod woman who had brought up six, “that to serve as a balancer, a face-protec- argument hasn’t any effect on anyone tor, and a rest; the other he held in He jerked himself in horror back to grasp your meaning and see that you his right position when he realized | what tricks his imagination was play- “[ just choked,” said the woman who ing. He must stay awake! he almost | “What's the use? May ’s well quit His olutch of the rods relaxed and He didn't He could feel his legs break that case it I8 all right to let her climb | their cramped hold and glide away. that tree out there—when that limb It seemed as if his body was just kind, breaks she's now on it will develop—" | of anxious to drop off easy into the A scream of agony merged with the He seemed to curl around his nar- who had brought up six. “She'll learn | row purchase like a caterpillar wind- With another cry of agony, he impelled by the fascination of motion ; X He saw the uselessness of trying & ng L3 SOBPBDDPHPDPOPSPPPPBPRBBIDS ¢ | What was that strange lnnltudol He yawned and dren especially argument ie nothing gently released the tension on his \ Again he “The book said you should always yawned, and his drowsy head sagged. explain to them when you refused It wasn't cold now, and something them anything,” said the earnest little was saying: “Go to sleep; it's all the 1 “Susanna!” cried her mother under- | tightened his grip on the rod—and ' I neath. “Come right down!” | knew no more. «I don't wanta!” protested Susanna, | climbing higher. | “Susanna!” shrieked her parent. | station and settled him comfortably in “1¢'ll break—and yowll hurt yourself a reclining position, placing his in- badly—" ! jured leg on a low box. “I don't wanta!” “Get his name and address when he Crack! Crash! Binding up the lump on Susanna’s | “and send it in.” head with trembling hands somewhat | Then he passed out into the night. later the earnest little woman spoke | The agent tucked back the torn at last through hér teeth. “Susanna!” | trousers and undcrwear < f his patient, | she said distinctly, “if ever again you | apq picking up a small sharp pen- dont mind instantly when I tell you knife, he sterped to the stove, where to do a thing, without stopping to talk ' ho held the blade for a momert in a about it, I'll give you a spanking you'll | pot of boiling water. remember! You are lucky you're not While thc now conscious man at- killed!” | tentively watched the )peration, he “Why?" inquired Susanna. | quickly thrust the sterilized steel into «Cheer up!” said the woman who | 5 great, colorless protuberance on the had brought up six, as the earnest lit- | ypee, tle woman clutched her brow and: He stared ut 1is surgeon with a breathed hard. “Only I'd dig a hole in ! grin of pain distorting his face. the back yard and bury that book! ' “Ip's pretty ‘ough, -t that!” he There’s nothing much beats the old | gagped, as -he perspiration formed in way of bringing up children!” | thick, tiny crystals on his forehead. “1'd like jolly well to meet the wom- | “Is fust lik~ .. guy going safe with & an who wrote it!” vindictively said the | wad of coin through a tough alley, earnest little woman.—Chicago Daily ' only to be rapped on the head and News. robbed on his own doorstep.” The conductor and brakeman car- ried the half-conscious tramp into the | comes to, Joe,” said the trainman,; 8! { your city. weather—is your copy. ' “Don’t fsil to see us” before having your Eleetrical work done. We can save you money and give you better * stuff’’ than you bave been getting, and for a litt e less money. T. L. 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