Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 8, 1914, Page 3

THE , Kt this poinfthe dulles hal Y Nave | mentioned before stalked from thelr respective corners and tried the ef- fect of withering the great temptation, | but it was waterproof. ‘ | Great b 1o g “‘How fresh is the smell of the lake . T - air!’ it went on. ‘How pleasant is the 3 * beach! How much good it would do lem tahon‘ the children!’ | “I bad put the dishes to soak fl‘htl } after breakfast; that was all I had | dome. .uat was all I was going to do. | | I ran upetairs and dressed myself and the children, locked the door and fled toward the nearest station that would jmrnilh a train to bear me and mine to the lake shore. As I turned the | corner and looked back at the house isten | a duty glared at me from my bedroom i t dutles glared | L, ‘Going away for the day, various corners of the ! ! and not a single bed made!’ it shriek- y glared at me accusing- T isds o daf 1 ho willing | ed after me. ‘1:::":‘ me ln:l’l(:::l:l;t, | had none to make. 1000 lightly assumed duties with “The faults of the great temptation ‘o8 discharging them. They | M8Y have been legion, but it was pityingly, as one who had | truthful. The lake was blue, the air y brought up and didn't | delightful, the atmosphere quivered But I turned my | 8nd sparkled. There were very fow the woman who was tell- . “1 did not have the 'do as I dlda — I took | There was plenty of why 1 should bave EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., DEC. 8, 1914. GRS OF WUSE ' | born than ever. By PHILIP HARRISON. | “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| ‘t him back. Till then—no, sir!” { | Yet Lucy knew that he secretly do-l voured the newspapers, searching tor' 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?” (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 | 18 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! groyled the farmer. “Hain’t 1 heard been visited upon him. | him times and again strumming on At least, hardly a farmer father In. ¢hat old piano? I've had enough of Middleboro. It is essentially & farm- hearing him, my lass.” ing commuity. The banker and the| However, by dint of coaxing, Lucy parson, the etorekeeper and the livery , ynveigled him to Boston, and thence to man have their proper recognition, of | the opera house, where, upon a dozen course; but Middleboro has no use for | piliboards, as large as life, were the poetry. words Henry Milton, beneath a flesh However, Henry Milton was not & ganq blood reproduction of the young A NEW FIRM, But Not a NEW MAN T.iE Lakeland Electricai Supply Company will be open for business in about ten days, with an up-to- date line of ! ightiag Fixtures, Electric Irons, Percula- tors and other useful things of the very highest quality. All work will be personally supervised byflan expert Electrician. Lakeland Electrical Supply Co. C. B. LOCKE. MGR. 0% FOE OB QOO SO OPOSONE JOIN THE s P U G il SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF USELESS GIVING m all, dressed the children \why 1 went. I had taken persons about. The children and I sat on the beach and ate quantities of fruit that I had bought and later I gree! 1 fro intelli- | Fead a new magazine. Once or twice I | l.n: :-’:lnod nl‘\:rh. steadily ll had an uneasy feeling that a hovering duty was asking me what would be ot bad trained h t:'noloq ‘:h“ ?wufl;::_ the result if the sisterinlaw should and, getting into | d do the housework more ' 8rrive ahead of time or crook, should | well. Any one who has | the house by hook en” gl Tor two months | 20d the beds unmade. I refused to lis- b knows that a rest cure is | ten—absolutely refused. rainer, but I'll never be able Pe rest cures into my curricu-| “I am now coming to the part of the didn’t feel abused. story that I don't like to tell. Even then one Thursday evening a | to myself it sounds ‘fishy,’ but it really woman with a fairly good is true, notwithstanding. of English appeared and[ “As I approached my own door late she went up to Stasia’s that afternoon, literally saturated with hen they reappeared Auntie,h ozone and the joy of living, being ac- ii—for that was the gaunt companied by two children similarly pe—held Stasia’s papler | affected, my neighbor crossed the case in her hand. Stasia, |lawn. Behind her came her maid and er month’s pay, acquired lbehlnd her came still another maid. purs previously, brought up | Briefly told, the mistress of the second girl was going to England to visit her husband’s people. She would be gone four months; I could have Jeanie for that period if I wanted her, but Jeanle would like to return to her first mis- tress in September. “Would I take her? I had difficulty to keep sfrom throwing my arm around her. I promptly arranged for her to come next day. “After this masterly achievement I went inside my house, donned an apron and worked like one possessed. “‘How did you dodge the headache? asked my husband at dinner. ‘I thought you were in for a regular old timer when I left this morning.’ “q was,’ I answered. Then I told him the story of the great tempta- tion. “] don't exactly know myself what ; the moral of this tale is. Many good | housekeepers would say that it hul none, that it was, in fact, highly un-l moral in its lesson of rewarded shift- lessness. But I don't know.” l ‘was about to leave, at work was not too hard. No, ‘want more money. She was p married, and, as the girl : expressed it, 1 didn’t even ‘was keepin’ company.’ ent in the middle of the ning. She went when a sis- f whom I had never met was from the Pacific coast to he three intelligence offices tituted the first aid to the oould send me no one for & p 1 went to bed discouraged i up sick. as 1 drank the tea that the pptation reared fits head. lovely day? said the great p, enticingly. ‘You ought of doors on such a day. Oh, mow the work isn't done and no girl, but the work will the world ia full of girls, - A Cold Wave Is Liable to Come Any Day | How about your supply of fuel? Are you ready for cold weather? If you wait too long to let us have your order may you regret it _ We sell Tennessee Jellico = LUMP COAL for Grates, Cooking, and Heating Stoves at prices that will interest you [LLSO! ARDWARE CO. .\ poet; he was born a musician. And; that was worse. For poetry, unln.l-‘ 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- i cumb, but music— “See here, Hen,” said hie father, “I don’t object to your playing the old pianner. I guess that’s what pianners {8 meant for, though I don’t seem to see as you gets much tune out of it.' But you've got to get down to work, my boy. Planners ain't work, unless you makes ‘em. Now, it is to be the' farm or Mr. Sutphen’s insurance busi- ' ness?” It was the scandal 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,” wailed his father. “I heerd the fellow who wrote ‘The Star-Spangled Ban-| ner’ got a heap of money outen it. But | who's going to print that rubbish | Hen's writing?” l In the eyes of the good citizens otl Middleboro, the profession of music “] Dont Object to Your Playing the Old Planner.” was assoclated with a barrel organ, & dark, Italian face, and a monkey. “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 bad 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. Thea 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,” sald the insurance agent, remembering sundry errors of omission and commission which he had diecovered after Henry left his, employment. ! That was the universal -mament.! 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 public. Then came the day when an attack of paralysis seized him, and he awakened from his coma to see Lucy ! at his bedeide, 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. The months passed. Lucy some- times dared to speak of Henry, but the old man would not betray his emotion, | “He was a bad lot, my dear,” he said. “I know there was something between you, but you've had a mighty | narrow escape. I want you to find, some young fellow that will be worthy | of you.” Then Lucy 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 ! opera, he said, composed by one Henry Milton. He was America’s great mu- | gical prodigy. The mewspapers were ! full of him. Middleboro reluctantly agreed that it might have been mistaken. But not ALSO THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION man. Lucy felt herself trembling. She | reconciliation; if she saw Henry she | content with the compromise. | knew that he had long ago 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 meant to show him her indifference. But when the farmer saw his son conducting 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 | 3 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, perhape three hundred dollars,” answered the other. The farmer gaped at him ard sr* sided into his seat. They were at Henry' - i before the piece wos Henry, looking up. = . ' his father and @ pale. . “Hen! Vv and sudd: to ; his heart ing about forgiy ..me. “Well, fatl: «oores of times, but you | me not to see you aga.. .t i 1.d sot a bet- ter job than cowposing 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- it beats blowing the church organ out and out. Go on and compose all you want to, Hank, so long as you keep at that there job of yourn.” But Henry, knowing his father, was It was all his stubborn old soul could bring itself to. Besides “Lucy, dearest, if you had answered me—" “But it was you, stopped—" And that explanation was the begin- ning of the long-promised paradise. Henry, who Saved the Children. Our class was held on the third floor of an old wooden school building. One afternoon another boy and myselt scattered some snuff in the air before the afternoon session began. When | | the professor began talking to his as- sistant they were seized with a fit ot sneezing, bobbing their heads toward ter when they were not sneezing. | 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. 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