Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 3, 1914, Page 7

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CARDWELL, Electrical Contractor EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL PHONE 233 West Main Street and New York Avenue PO PRRPRRTEEE TR TR TS T 2 BDDESBHGTIPEEDE bbb SHOPHRGPEDBDOPINDEPL PP PIPBISS JIM SING : First Class Work teed Chinese Laundry ~ Sveraxeed ¢ Work Called for and Delivered P I have been a resident of Florida for 20 years, and am well known to many prominent gentlemen, all of whom will recommend me as doing First Class Work at Reason- able Prices JIM SING 218 Pine St-eet Phone 257 KELLEYS BARRED Plymouth Rocks BOTH MATINGS Better now than ever before High class breeding birds at reasonable prices. Fggs from highiclass pens for hatching. Write me before ordering' else where, H L. KEL LEY,Griffin Fla. | You makes ‘em. ! wailed his father. GHARNS OF HUSI By PHILIP HARRISON. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) Sometimes a poet is born (they are | not made) in an unpromising place. But then, everybody knows that. There is hardly a father but has looked upon the cherubic countenance of his heir and hoped devoutly that the deadly, unpractical gift of the muse has not been visited upon him. At least, hardly a farmer father in Middleboro. It is essentially a farm- ing commuity. The banker and the parson, the storekeeper and the livery man have their proper recognition, of | course; but Middleboro has no use for . poetry. However, Henry Milton was not a poet; he was born a musician. And that was worse. For poetiy, unhal- lowed as it is, was known by reputa- tion to Middleboro, and a young fellow with such an unfortunate name as Mil- ton might have been expected to suc- , cumb. but music— “See here, Hen,” said his father, “I don’t object to your playing the old pianner. I guess that’s what pianners is meant for, though J don’t seem to gee as you gets much tune out of it. { But you've got to get down to work, my boy. Pianners ain’t work, unless Now, it is to be the farm or Mr. Sutphen’s insurance busi- ness?” It was the scardal of the town; a hulking lad of twenty, home long ago from the high school, spending his days at the piano composing airs. “And there's .no tune to them,” “I heerd the fellow who wrote ‘The Star-Spangled BRaa: ner’ got a heap of money outen it. But who's going to print that rubbish Ilen's writing?” In the eves of the good citizens of Middleboro, the profession of music dark, Italian face, and a monkey. | | “] Don’t Object to Your Playing the Old Pianner.” was associated with a barrel organ, a “Never mind, Harry, dear. 1 be- lieve in you,” said pretty Lucy Rollins. “They don’t understand. But I know you are going to become a great com- poser, and some day Middleboro will be proud of you.” The end of it all was that Henry Milton packed his grip one morning and took his departure for the me- tropolis, with the evil predictions of all Middleboro ringing in his ears. But there was sweeter music than that, sweeter even than the melodies which came to him night and day. Lucy had promised to be his wife when he had achieved success. Of the boy's struggles in New York nothing need be set down. Lucy wait- ed three years, four, five. Occasional- 1y, in the firet part of the long wait, a letter came, full of promise. Then the letters ceased. New York had swal- lowed up the boy, as she swallows many others. “I reckon that Hen Milton went to the bad long ago,” said the insurance | agent, remembering sundry errors of omission and commission which he} had discovered after Henry left his employment. That was the universal agreement. Old man Milton had had the misfor- tune to have his only son turn out bad. The stubborn old man mourned for the young fellow secretly, but he set his face as hard as a flint in publie. Then came the day when an attack of paralysis seized him, and he awakened from his coma to see Lucy at hiz bedside, nursing him. When he | recovered he asked her to keep house | for him. He meant to adopt her, he said, as he had no children. 9 ths passed. Lucy some- speak of Henry, but the | n would not betray his emotion. | +s a bad lot, my dear,” he old ma 3] said i know there was something l veen vou, but you've had a mighty n escape. 1 want you to find l soore voung fellow that will be worthy of you.” Then Luey would sigh and say noth- ing. It was three years now since she | had heard from Henry. Then one day the insurance agent came in, breathless with excitement. All the city was talking of a new apera, he said, composed by one Henry l Milton. He was America’s great mu- sical prodigy. The newspapers were full of him. \iddleboro reluctantly agreed that it might have been mistaken. But not THE EVENING TALEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., DEC, 3, 1914, so the old maa. born than ever. “I don’t care if he can fool the pub lic,” he said. “Any knave can do that. ‘When Henry takes up a clean line of work and makes good at it I'll take him back. Till then—no, sir!” Yet Lucy knew that he secretly de- voured the newspapers, searching for his son’s name. He was secretly proud of him. Lucy had an idea. “Father,” she said coaxingly—she called him that nowadays—“he is to conduct at a performance in Boston next Friday. Now you know you have been promising to take me into Bos- ton. Let us go and hear him.” “What do I want to hear him for?”" growled the farmer. “Hain’t I heard him times and again strumming on that old piano? I've had enough of hearing him, my lass.” However, by dint of coaxing, Lucy inveigled him to Boston, and thence to the opera house, where, upon a dozen billboards, as large as life, were the words Henry Milton, beneath a flesh and blood reproduction of the young He wus miuie stud elf trembling. She v that he had long ¢ forgotten her; she had nerved herself to accom- pany the old man only out of a sense of duty, in the hope of effecting a| reconciliation; if ¢ w Henry she meant to show him her indifference. But when the farmer saw his son condueting in the orchestra, a strange look came over his face. And Lucy, | watching him, knew that the past was | forgotten in the joy at finding his boy. The old man’s stupefaction increased ; as, seated all through the bewildering medley of sounds, he saw Henry wav- ing his baton and his hand, sometimes in alternation and sometimes together. “Well, I'm swinged!” he exclaimed. He turned to his neighbor. “How much do you reckon that there young fellow Milton makes a night out of this?” “0, perhaps three hundred dollars,” answered the other. i The farmer gaped at him and sub- | sided into his seat. i .They were at Henry's side almost | before the piece was ended. And Henry, looking up, suddenly perceived his father and Lucy. His face grew pale. “Hen! Hen!” faltered the old man, and suddenly he grabbed Henry to| his heart and muttered something | about forgiveness and coming home. “Well, father, I wanted to scores of times, but you know you told me not | to see you again until I had got a bet- ! ter job than composing music,” said Henry. “Better job? Suffering snakes, you | ain’t composing still, Hen, are you?”’| demanded the farmer. “Three hundred dollars a night for working that wood- | en plug and making the band go—say, ' it beats blowing the church organ out and out. EEEEEEESERTERRR SISy - - G AR L WP W that there job of yourn.” But Henry, knowing his father, was It was content with the compromise. all his stubborn old soul could bring itself to. “Lucy, dearest, if you had answered it was you, And that explanation was the begin- ning of the long-promised paradise. i S T | Saved the Children, Our class was held on the third floor of an old wooden school building. One afternoon another boy and myself scattered some snuff in the air before the afternoon session began. the professor began talking to his as- sistant they were seized with a fit of sneezing, bobbing their heads toward each other in a most ludicrous fash- fon. The students howled with laugh- ter when they were not sneczing. Finally the professor managed to get his breath long enough to ques- tion the class and all but we two guilty boys were dismissed. He took us to his office and while we were there—about twenty minutes later—fire was discovered in the build- ing. We got out with difficulty and the school was burned to the ground. From an angry man the professor became deeply thankful and he has since maintained that we boys were the instruments of fate, for the build- ing burned so rapidly that there | would have been great danger if all of the children had been in class when the fire started.—Exchange. Various Compounds of Coal. Coal has given to the world several hundred thousand compounds, most of which are of great value. For coal contains carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, ni- trogen, sulphur, phosphorus and the halogens. It sometimes even contains gold and radium. Among the materials mentioned by Dr. Louis Cleveland Jones in an address before the Frank- lin Institute as obtained from coal | are acid bases, alkaloids, gums, var- nishes, solvents, sugars, saccharine, stuffs as bitter as saccharine is sweet, disinfectants, dyestuffs of brilliant ' hues, stimulating and sleep producing drugs, healing medicines and violent poisons, vile odors and pleasing per- | fumes Coal and Its Formation, Fach different kind of coal—peat, ! lignite, semibitumin bituminous, | gas coal, smokelcss cousr, semianthra cite, anthracite, graphite, diamond — represents only “a different step in na ture's slow process of converting the vegetatioh of the carbonif era into the fuels so necessary to our mod- ern civilization.” | The earth’s crust is a vast retort | and in its work of carbonizing \rgeta- | tion it saves us the by products in the | form of asphalt, »it1men, petrc! um and natural gas Bl Brduefrieed 30 on and compose all you 3 want to, Hank, so long as you keep at | ¢ Besides . . . | § Henry, who | stopped—" [ When - H Boost Your City and Buy Hart Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes Fr OU ought to be thankful that you are a citizen of s narion thet is rot at war. You cught to get some ~omfort, i~ such times as these, by contrasting your goed foriune in this respect with the sorrows of our fellowm n across the sea. We must go cn doing our own wash; the duty of this store ts to supply the men of this community with Hart Schaffner and Marx Fine Clothes. We’re doivg it. k ok ok ok The Hub THE HOME OF Hart Schaffner and Marx_Geod Clothes =4 JOS. LeVAY v W SR K GG g oo Bl i Criningofod i Rl mpany GROCERS Mayes G WHOLESALE “A Business Without Books” | E find that low prices ardflong time will not go haund in hand, and on May 1st we installed our NEW SYSTEM OF LOW PRICES: FOR STRICTLY CASH. We have saved the people ofg Lakeland and Polk County thousands of dollars in the past, and our new system will stillf reduce the cost,of living, and also reduce our expen$es, aud enable us to put the knife in stillldeeper. We carry a full line of Groceries, Feed, Grain, Hay, Crate Material, and Wilson &.Toomer's IDEAL EERTILIZERS alwayslon hand. Mayes Grocery Company 211 West Main Street. LAKELAND, FLA. ! SPPEPP PP B DG SR DHEE D DODBHEIGDDEPIODEPDIIII DD b o o4+ #EEREEIIRRERRRIEERRR RS SS 2 & & Errea e BB B BB G BB GO BBy Lower Prices on Ford Cars ffective August Ist, 1914 to Augustist, 1915 and guaranteed against any reduction All cars tully equipped during that time. i o 1. Detroit. Runabout. . . $440 Touring Car ........ 490 Town Car. .. ..690 u yers to Share in Profits All retail buyers of new Ford cars from \ngust 1st, 1914 to August Ist, 1915 will <hare in the profits of the company to the extent of $40 1o $60 per car, on each car they buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de- liver _vv’;,nw) new Ford cars during that pe- riod. \sk us for particulars = FORD MOTOR COMPANY L akeland Autv and Supply Co. »OLK COUNTY AGENTS.