Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 12, 1915, Page 6

Mrs. Glenmore bastily kissed her two children and turned to the pretty gov- erness. wbo stood demurely beside them. “Take them to drive, Miss Northam,” ! she said pleasantly. “The ponles bave : mot been out for a week. Goodby. | ehickens.” “Goudby, mother.” called the chil- dren in unison, as their parent stepped , fato the waiting limousine and was whirled down the drive and through the great stone gateway to the road that led to the raliroad station. “What shall we do, Miss Northam, dear? asked Chberry Glenmore, slip- ping a fat hand Into that of the gov- erness. “Mother said to drive the ponles,” put in Alex, taking possession of Miss Northam's other hand. Polly Northam smiled and sighed in @ breath. Sbe dearly loved the Glen- more twins, but teaching was so tire- eome when one is young and has only bhad a wee taste of the world's pleas- ures. Day after day glided by at the beautiful country home of the ulen-' mores, and Polly Northam saw little; more of the life and gayety that went on under its roof than if she bad been reading a society novel—for the nurs ery and schoolroom were in the west wing of the rambling old house, and the twins were being' reared in the simplest manner and seldom came into the drawing room, save when thelr parents were alone, “Ho, hum:!" sighed Polly, wishing that some adventure might come to her in this goiden October weather. She had read stories where the heroine was a beautiful but humble governess who was invited to fll a vacant place at the dinner table, with the result that ber charm and lovellness fascinated the entire gathering, and the most eligible mun present fell in love with ber and marticd het. ~ ““There were giants In those days,’ * swiled Polly to herself as she jogged through the woodsy roads in the little basket cart with the twins. “And fairies, too. Miss Northam! added Cherry. “And fairiles nowadays” declared Alex sturdily, as be flicked the ear of the near pony with his red lasbed whip. “EELLO, GIANTI" SHOUTED ALEX SUD- DENLY. Polly smiled induigently upon her lit- tle charges, but she was very thought- ful. It was hard to hold to one’s belief in fairies when one is left alone in the world and everything goes awry. It was terribly dull to be confined to the company of two little children. If Mrs. Glenmore would only ask her to come o and listen to the music sometimes; If she were not made to feel so entirely out of everything: What was it ber married sister. Bertha, had sald? “A govervess, Polly Northam? You are treading the straight and narrow patb tbat leads to spinsterbood” “Pooh!" Polly had laughed. “Miss Northam, dear, bas sighed five times!" anuounced Alex suddeoly. “Have you a hurt, Miss Northam. dear?” Polly shook her head. . “Ounly a loneliness sometimes, lad- die” she sald. as she kissed him. “Come, let us drive to the big oak, and ;| when we are underneath it we will | eat our sandwiches and 1 will tell you the story ot the oak fairy.” After the sandwiches had been con- sumed and the story of the oak fairy ' had been repeated for the third time. the little black ponies shook their nll-l ver chains and trotted on through the brown woods. “Let us go down to Giant's Cradle” A workman owes it to himself and his family to take care of himself. His labor is his only asset in business. { Workman's Asset. i | vatin:z ber sancy little nose, race up to the cradle.” and followed siowly in the wake of the two children, who had started to mount the rucky pile. ed Alex from a safe perch. blowu cedars. “Smells good!" sniffed Cherry. ele- “Like the sea. Come. Cherry. let's Polly tied the ponies to a tree trunk “Coming up. Miss Northam?" shout- “Yes, dears; wait for me." But the twins were impatient. and when Polly reached the top she found them staring open mouthed down into the deep depression of the cradle. M:m sat down and caught hber “The giant’s here!” whispered Cherry in an awestruck voice. “Fast asleep!” added Alex, staring down curiously. Polly smiled. The twins were imag inative mites. “Please come, Miss Northam, dear; be’s waking up.” Folly humored them, as usual. When she bent her flower like face. with its dark blue felt hat. a ftting frame for her golden hair and blue eyes, she nearly fell into the cradle, for of a truth a veritable giant was asleep in the stone cradle! A great bronzed creature, with bronze brown hair growing about a broad forehead, a handsome nose and a finely chiseled mouth. He was young and evidently an artist, for a painter's kit plllowed his head. He was dressed in rough gray clothes. and a gray felt hat was tossed to one corner of his couch, While they gazed he moved. yawned prodiglously. opened one hazel eye at them, blinked the other one and then sat up and stared openly at the three charming faces gazing down at him from the rim of the cradle. “Hello, gilant!” shouted Alex sud denly, and with the words Polly sud denly awoke to the situation and drew back with the reluctant Cherry. “Hello, imp!" called back the giant in a deep. rumbling bass. “I'm not afraid of you, glant!" chal lenged Alex. lenning so far over the cradle that he lost bis balance and fell in, with a frightened squeal. The young man caught him quickly and presently appeared. bearing Alex in his strong arms. Alex had ome arm around the stranger's neck. and his round cheek was pressed affectionately against the brown bair of the giant. “Alex, come to me at once,” chided Polly primly as she stood at the base of the rocks and watched.the careful descent of Alex and his rescuer. Cherry whimpered softly. “What is it. dear?" asked Polly. “I want to ride with the giant” she sobbed. “Come, fairy!" called the stranger. And to Polly’s surprise Cherry wrench ed her hand free and flew to he mounted upon the giant's other arm. “Ge-r-r-r-r-fe-f-fo-fum! I'll eat you both up! growled the young man playfully as he kissed the twins im- partially. Polly untied the ponies and turned the cart about. She knew that Mrs. Glenmore would be much displeased when she found out that the children bad been permitted this familiarity with a stranger. Mrs. Glenmore was very particular, and, although this young man looked llke a gentleman. certainly there was no need of his tak- ing advantage of the children’s inno- cent friendliness. It was all very un- conventional and unpleasant. Polly frowned on the young man. and he gave her a startled glance in return. Her frown melted and a little smile softened the sternness of her lovely lips. She bad pined for adventure. Here it was in the shape of a band- some young urtist, surprised as bad been the sleeping beauty of the fairy tales. Why not enjoy its fieeting pleas- are? They would be jogging back through the lonely woods in a few minutes, and there would be the dull nursery tea and the long. lonely even- ing i her own room, or sitting om an apper balcony, where she might listen to the distant strains of musie from the rooms helow. Mrs. Glenmore was glving a dance that evening. “Come. children, we must go now. It s growing late,” urged Polly, with her cheeks very pink under the admir- ing glance of the young man. “No. no, no!" protested Cherry and Alex In a breath. as he would bave put them down. *Carry us te the edge of the wood. giant.” “If 1 may.” he replied with a ques- tioning glance at Polly “l think Mrs. Glenmore would pre- fer that—1 am the guvernecs, and Mre. Glenmore wishes them to drive. if you please,” stammered Polly awkwardly “But | love my old giant!™ whimper ed Cherry, burying her angel counte- nance in the neck of the stramnger. “And so do 1" echoed her twia. tweaking the ear of the glaat with great familtarity. “Childrea!™ cried Polly feebly, yet smiling at their enjoyment. The puzzied countenance of the young man suddenly cleared. “By jove! 1 dou't belleve you know who | am. Now, that's stupid of me!™ he exclaimed. Polly was silent. *“Pell her who | am, Cherry Pl commanded the giant. Cherry gurgied mirthtully. Never Time for Content. The men who do big things in the world and lead the way to success for ‘When injured, be is for the time being ; others are never quite contented. & bankrupt. If killed, his family may De left destitute and his children de- | Whenever a man is willing to let well enough alone he has struck 12 and prived of an education and forced to | his life of usefuiness is practically seek employment before their matur- | over. ity. This philosophy is found in a bul- uo(thcueuobmol-lwA Popular innevatien. Cheerful Old Lady—“Well, Dominie, the new churchyard’s fllln’ up real Men will it, oght e e ————————————————————————————————————— A A GOD By M. QUAD Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Nyndicute. 1 have to tell you in conpection accident that brought me to | is this: My parents were being passed from une persvn to Was at last sent to a pau- At the age of ten | ran the institution, bouping to better my cundition. but jnstead ot that 1 fell into the hauds of this and that farmer, and In every instance | was overworked and ground down. The name generally given me wus “l'au- per,” and | wus clothed in the cheapest and poorest gurinents ang teg with the dogs. If | bure it patiently | was un object for further nbuse; if | rebelled 1 was kicked out to find anuvther place. 1 used tv wonder nnd speculate as to why | was treated In this munner— why there was pever o Kigd word for me, why men, womnen ningi “®uildren de- burdens. | wasn't walfurwed, #nd | wasn't sulky or impudent. human being Interested himself In me I should uave come up to give the world an bhouest tight in an honest way. | wus sixteen years old as near as I can make it when | was last kick- ed out. | had worked for that farmer & year, and he bad clotbed me like a scarecrow and fed me like a dog. Sim- ply because | broke the bandle ot a hoe by accident | was beaten until 1 fell unconsclous. In the small bours of the night, groaning at every step, but fearful of my life, | took to the highway. and a carter gave me a lift which carried me many miles before light. | was determined to try the city this time. My rags., my ignorance and my general appearance had alwags frightened me away from the towns and kept me among the agricuiturists, I had scarcely descended from the cart when | encountered an old man. who looked me over and then accosted we. He seemed to have a kind face, #and be spoke pleasantly, and it was soun agreed that | should go witb him. As | was a pauper and a runaway, too. | conld expect no more than clothes and board in exchange for my services. The man was nawed Savin, He kept a secondhand furniture shop, and as he was all alone in the world be lived In a miserable way In a room over the shop. In a day or two he got me to sign n puper binding myself t0 him until of age, and the ink was bard- Iy dry on the “X" mark before | found a change in him. He wus by nature cruel, stingy and scifish. He worked me without stint. and during the two bungry and tired. One night when | had been with Mr. Sabin about two years and just after be had beaten me for some trifle und laughed over bis work a strange thought came tv me. For the irst time in my life a feeling of revenge crept into my heart. and it made me shake and tremble. abuses beyond number and Dever thirsted for reparation. In & quarter of an hour there was more chunge In me than the last ten years bhad wrought. | called up all my wrongs. My beart filled with bitterness against the whole world. | wanted to strike men dend for what they bad made me suffer. in me the nest morning. | bad spent the whole night thinking, and when he called me his dog and threw me a morsel of food | stood up and cursed bim. When be luid bis bauds on me | threw him to the tloor. He was dumfounded. out be sbut his teeth together and lovked at me with bait shut eyes and said that he would bave my life. We were both sullen ana s lent that day. but | reasoned it out that his plan was to come downstairs that night us | siept and bind me fast and then torture me to bis beart’s cun- tent. Yes, | reasoned it out that this would be bis way, and while | was wonderiug how | ceuld bafle bim Sa- tan came to my ald. “Go nnd kil him!" whispered the tempter. “Go and kil bim and take alt bis money and tiee far away. He deserves killing for the way he has treated you. nnd aM the money you can find should be yours by right!" The more | thougbt it vver the less murder and robbery veemed a crime, and by and by | bad peither fear pity in my heart. At midnigbt, wi an irop ber in my band. | crept stairs and softly pushed the vid door open. He had just got out of He had » caudie i» obe band and rope in the other, and there was & flish smile vn his face as be thoug! bow he wounld trap and get revenge vu me. My face must bave told him that 1 was there to @v murder. for bis jaw dropped. 2nd | saw terTor 1D Bis eves. | bad raised the bur and was abowt o wpring forward bnelther ot ux baving uttered » word. whed there was a crnshing and » splinteriag. 2nd & grent Renp of junk which was stored ia the routn ahove W come down !Eé us He bruised and crushed out of sl sem- No man suspected that | was there v @ munder. They called it an accident. *hough | tell vou it wax the band ot 3ad. Ged took the okl naan iife 10 prevent me from becoming a munderer, but at the svme time dealt out my just punishment. Had | dyed my hand in blood there would bave been Do heaven for me. Temorrow when they bear my corpse ont of this maybe the nn- gels will bave pleaded my cause ana secured forgiveness for me. — Debt Liquidated. “Well, I've settled that there note I've been owin’ Jack Gap for so long!”™ triumphantly stated a prominent eiti- sen of the neighborhood of Rumpus same locality. money®” “Aw, it didn't take no woney! 3 just shot Gap."—Judge. e ————————————————————————— Aftsrncen Farmen. umnr-h-r expressioa for one who puts of his werk uwati] the last moment. ‘ 1 was standiug in a room crowded sired to bumillate me ulid ndd to my Had any | years | was with bim | was aiways | 1 had stood insults and . The old man found a cbange ' It was merning before any vne fonnd i was dead- broken. battered. hlance- while | was little better on. | when | begrd a cheery fewinine voice oear we esclalm: “Why, Tom! “What luck™ responded a young man, with blond bair, parted Io the ! middle, and bis chin beld up by a very ! high collar. i “I don’t know a person here,” said ! the girl, who bud spoken first. | “Nor I I would rather bave met you | than own a gold mine.” { “lso't it nice to meet some one you don't expect. but whom you wish to meet 7" Happy smiles llluminated the faces of these two youugsters, whom it made : wme bappy to lonk at Indeed, there | was one especial reason for my enjoy- ment of this pleasant surprise, for it reminded we of ‘one that bad occurred in my own fawily years before. i In the sisties—I refer to the last cen , tury—my (futher, thep a youog man, went out to Denver to grow up: with a pew town. Albert Reeder bad gone there a few years before with bis | family for the purpose of building a ; stamp mill on Clear creek. up in the mountains, and bad become interested in the extraction of gold from ore. My, father, who was as poor as a cburch | mouse, found work in the service of | Mr. Reeder and was sent up to one of ' his stamp mills, where be soon became | superintendent H Mr. Reeder thought my father one | of the brightest young mey in the world and was ready to do anything for him till be discovered that bis em ployee had a iove affair with his daugh ter, Agnes. Then he suddenly turned against bim. The trouble was that Reeder had u prospect of soon becom ing very rich and had begun to cherish expectations of Agnes marrying either a duke or a prince or sumething of that order. The young couple were In a peck of trouble in consequence of-the old man's refusal to consent to their union. Of course the matter rested with Agnes My fatber couldn't do unything with out her concurrence, uud she was in disposed to brenk with her fatbher But ber father must bave been uncer tein of her. for he ordered her to get ready to go back east to stay awbile with an sunt Agues seemed disposed to yleld to his commands. She wrote my father that he wight come down from the mill und suy goodby to ber He did so und there was a very affect ing svene between the lovers. Inasmuch as Agnes was making ber preparations to go east and it was supposed that she was bidding bher lover a last farewell, no opposition was made to the two youngsters seeing as much of each other as they liked. They_spent a whole evening together during which Agnes told my father i that If sbe marrled bim ter father would disinherit ber and that she would lose a very large fortune. Her mother was bitterly opposed to her marriage with my fatber, for it was she who was determined to exchange the wealth she would inberit for vne of those rundown titled foreigners who are in the market for American heir esses. " My father was the more cast down because, while Agnes talked about her mother's wishes in this matter, be was not quite sure that Agnes berself was not inclined to the plan of marrying a title and was accustomed to do pret ty much as she pleased. However, there was nothing for my father to do but submit, and be said goudby to Agnes jugubriously. Oune thing he knew —if she was disposed to obedience be could not move her, and if she was not disposed to obedience her parents could not hoid her. My fatber, notwithstanding bis em ployer's opposition to his marriage. was continued in his position and the morning after his farewell left for the | | with wen and women in evening dn-‘ | here's one for you." He pointed to an old lady on the back 1seat. My father looked at her | ingly, and suddenly she threw ;v‘lnflumm—mu of Agnes. This meeting between | mother came back to me | upon the young couple a | expression of pleased surprise. | tancy my fatber’s was far | diant. ‘There was a clergymas u the &mmmm“fl it Il ) | | To Get All Juice From the Lemon. | If you will try bolding the lemons In |hot water a few minutes before cut- ting, for making lemonade, tney will yield double the julce they would oth- Ridge. “That so?" returned another |erwise. and equally prominent resident of the “Where'd you git the No Cause for Tears. “We have never had a president {trait of Whistler's mother plus two | Rufus Willard whben enghteen decid od to leave the paterual nest lostend | of remaining i the city of hw birth l or golug elsewhere in the United | States be decided to tahe u lonket | flight He salled for South Amwricy | and, wot coutent Wwith rem:nning on the esstern coust, passed southward | through the strait und up to Chie i There he becume engiged I LLsIess ‘ | | and there was every prosject { would make that country his perma nent home. A man sertiing In o far distant ! is mot likely to feel people there and bis old associates After a few years In Chite W) that If be had » Wite- vne frow bis native land - he would be Letter con tedted. He remembered one [eonn Andrews, a very protty giri tbat be bad formerly been “sweet” ou, uud it occurred to him to begin a correapond ence with her with a view to m:rriuge Miss Andrews replied to hix letter and be wrote again, the correspond ence growing sweeter and sweeter til: be made u proposal by letter. which was accepted The yonog lady realiz ed that it would be difficult as well as inconvenient for him to return fo America to marry her and consented to go to Chile for the wedding I'bi~ was a very satisfactory arrangement. and Willard was happy over the pros pect. He bought a house, furnisbed ! and made all essential arrangements for his bride’s reception. Miss Andrews wrote bim of the steamer on which she would go to Chile, the date of her depurture and the date of her probable arrival. Wil lard counted the days till she should come and his loneliness would be end ed. He had made a number of good friends among the Chileauns, and they bad volunteered to do all in thelr power to make the indy’s residence among them A happy one . One Matus afternovu the ship on which Miss Andrews was coming was | * announced to arrive the nest morn ing Willurd made arrangements for a simple uoon wedding to take place on the day of nis uride's arrival, to which a few friends were Invited. When the steamer arrived Wilard was on the dock. lvoking up to see his Bancee. He saw her standing beside | g @ gentleman, und when she caught his eye, instead of greeting bimn with a | bappy emile, she lovked embarrassed Running abvard, among the first to dv 00, be joined the lady, Who introduced bim to the gentieman beside her: “My busband.” The voyage bad been a ilong one She bad met a fascinating man, and the two had concluded that the most satisfactory solutiom of the problem | would be for them to be married be- fore their arrival in Chile. Willard would accept the imevitable without annecessary prolonged torture. Thus ends the first part of this story. The second part is in this wise: Willard in order to recover from the i1 RO DD BPDE PP Pbh S PRI PP PP PI PP PI P hebid. B GPOH0 POPAFOFOFOFOITHOPO OPPBEPPPPPIIED & e | Moved! The Lakelazd Seed Co. HAS MOVED TO WEST MAIN STREET, NEAR ™ e —— [. 6. 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He bad suffered oace from this | cause, and be did not propose to take the rub a second time. | many friends showered upon him. The | ' matrimonial experience, but the men | ! shouted: tv bim from the dock. “Don't | |E Fid H Esf;ii i§ : s i il THT ] i ot i [ Whlard on oar voyage out. and we Tork" - “Why couldn't you have courted ber | bere,” asked the men. “without goine | all the way round the HBorn and ap the Atiaatier" { “Geatlemen,” sald the groom. “if any of you doubt Cupid's power on an oceay | voyage try it and see for yourseives.” { | Home, Sweet Home. One talking machine plus one me chanical piano-player plus four Nay- | ajo Indians blanket rugs plus a por ibeer steins equals cue refined Ameri. 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