Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 26, 1915, Page 3

S R T “THE WINNER By AUGUSTUS G. SHERWN, (Copyright, 291, by W. G. Chapmag,) “Well, boys,” spoke Stephen Dale in brisk hearty way, “here we all are we will now proceed to the at- of the spoils!” elder_sons, Heary, Claug lflfllfln-i:rl. hohd, impressed eager. youngest, Jac| half pleased interest. el Jou that, man's es you should assume and re- it. l'lll'“l s going to Here. Now. Fairly.” lawyer, who had changea to Claudius, because he sounded more claesical, his ears and looked serious, ' you at the start,” pursued indulgent father, “that whoever takes Idlewild here, the family home, | will be the wise fellow in being the eldest—the home or $25,- 000 cash.” i “H'm!” observed Claudius gravely, “with & vast political future ahead of | “You will need some money, me, the ready cash will best help me reach the destined goal of my ambi- tion.” “Very good,” nodded Mr. “And you, Monty?” “I” replied Montgomery with short and snappy precision “expect to re- ceive a general's commission in time, ‘The money will help me get it.” “And you, Hank?" “I am devoted to club life, in debt' and need a fixed cash income, my good ! father,” he said, “so . fancy the ready money would suit me best.” “Of course I'll take the old home, it I'm lucky enough to'deserve it,” spoke | bluft honest Jack. | Stephen Dale darted a gratetul, af- ' fectionate glance at his youngest and favorite son. He drew out the three checks and passed them around. “One word more,” he spoke, as their recipients arose to get them cashed as quickly as possible. “There's something else. See here, boys, my experience teaches me that there's nothing so steadies a young man as getting married. Now then, to the first one of you who takes a wife I will give $10,000, to the second 45,000, to the third, $3,000 and to the last, $1,000. By the way,” he added, a suggestive twinkle in his merry eye, “I'm thinking you won't have to look far to find the prettiest heiress in the country right nigh to hand.” | Each one of the three knew whom -he meant—Miss Dalia Bliss, not a mile away. It was said she was to have half a million in her own right. | It was strange, but each one of the ! trio departed determined to call upon the young lady in questiom and see how the land lay. Two mornings later Claud met Hen- ¥y and Monty. He informed them that he had called upon Miss Bliss the eve- ning previous. Her father had been greatly interested in his long talk sbout the law. Then Mority in undress military uni- form went to see the heiress. Henry's turn followed. He fancied he was irresistible and languidly in- formed his brothers that he believed he-wyould. take the girl on a chornce. Dale. MMiul"ElE?li:fd" U HedFeadfally” ém.- ¢ barrassed at being . { three impetuous B‘ufit:l' i 1ot 4 had_ told them in her pretty, artless way that she was already en’zuad. About three o'clock one afternoon Jack, Plain, simple, unostentatious Jack to the end of the chapter, direct- ing some men in parking a roadway Tunning through the estate, loo] over in the direction of noted a blue ribbon from one of its windows, left '.hte ;urectlon of the One of their number. In a few min- utes Jack had gained the hedge l'-::o the two estates. s 0 Dalia appeared. Certainly Jack i was her friend, that she should signal him and now make a confidant of him, 1 8nd pour into the willing ears the fluttering He quietly workmen to i 8tory of her persecution by three great W"ll:vn boys! o such nice brothers of yours taey are,” she told Jack. “What a terrible escape they have i bad in evading the wiles of a young lady who is not duly awed by their grandeur and importance,” smiled Jack. It was the next morning that the three city brothers were ready to de- part. They were just completing breakfast when Jack made the re- the eng. mark: “You can have your choice, Clllld,' “Father, if you dop’t mind, I think i1 will run up to the city with the boys.” “Surely, son,” responded Mr. Dale. I sup- pose?” “No, I have enough for the one pur- chase 1 intend to make,” assured Jack. “It's a ring, father,” and he darted a teasing glance at the lawyer, the sol- dier and the fop—"a ring for Miss Bliss. You see we have been engaged for the last six months.” “Ha! ha! ha!" chuckled old Ste- phen Dale, slapping his knee with vim as the trio arose from the table and sneaked away, looking bored and em- barrassed. “It seems to me, son Jack, that you've got the best of it all around!’ Important Legal Ruling. The latest ruling on the admissibil- ity of “dying declarations” in evidence in criminal cases i{s made by the su- preme court of Georgia in Sewell vs. State, in which the court states in its syllabus: “In a murder case it was error to charge the jury that ‘when death is approaching and the dying man has lost hope of life, and his mind feels the full consclousness of his condi- tion, the solemnity of the scene gives to his statement the sanctity of truth, and such dying declaration, whon made under such circumstances, may be given in evidence and submitted to the jury’ Such charge tended to un- duly impress the minds of the jury with the weight of the evidence con- tained in dying declarations, as to which juries do not require any em- phasis from the bench.” hysique Counts for Much. Muscular movements are the golden chords of good works which mingle with the visions of great deeds and harmonize the soul of man with purer worlds. They give both a source of reserve power and confidence, a power of growth, of good and of evil, which nothing else does. Optimists are usu- ally men and women who come from a vigorous, stocky, muscular race. They are of the type who are potenti- ally as well as ac‘ually of fine physique often lics in the brassie wear the Bien-Jolie Bri it as necessai and gives the a corset, rments_imaginable, t of materials s ingof great durability—al Fustiess—permitting laundering without reroval. “l"h“clyunoll T all styles, and your local Dry Goods n—hyn«mmma’n. Ifhe does not carry them, them for ‘booklet dealer to us, Send for S i ok ves thak are 1o high favor. BENJAMIN & JOHNES Newark, N. J. /t will Pay you o buy Our New /mplements T ? ) PAYJ!?(‘)’NG AND WILL LAST the Bliss home | Sy CHARLES N. LURIE THE FAITE THAT WEARS. “The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience,” says Lowell i First, of course, you have to know the meaning of the word "monhn&"l which may be unfamiliar to some read- ers. Here's the dictionary of it: “Mordant, any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold at- traction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union and thus gives fixity to, or bites im, the dyes” It 1s a good metaphor, that of com paring the faith that shall serve as a shield against the trials and disap- pointments of life, and be an evidence of belief visible to all men, to a gar ment that is made of the cloth of firm bellef and 18 dyed In the colors of ex- ASk your dealer for prod- ucts made by us—they bear our name. Roofing ¢ FowTorkCity Basten Chicage Suloss Ciaciessti KaamsClty Mimespels SeaPrasciess Sesith Lendee you keep interrupting so. He said the feminine sex was the rock on which men were—wrecked, or foundered, or —something naut anyhow. He| was a horrid man.’ “To some extent” I admitted, “T perience. The sentence shows the pen marks of the finished literary artist. He tells us that before our faith may become a sure refuge we must belleve in it firmly. We must be convinced of its truth. Collins & Kelley DEALERS IN can sympathize with your feelings.” “And then he said,” she went on, | “that marriage was a snare to which ' woman was a successful but inadequate bait” She paused, flushed with ine| dignation, and eyed me expectantly. . “A felicitous phrase,” I said, leenngl bound to say something, “but sadly | lacking in tact.” “Yes, it was, wasn't 1t? So, of course——" she spoke in the tone of one who had made many sacrifices— “I had to—" “Snub him.” I interposed. “Natural- ly. That, of course, accounts for his behavior just now.” Elizabeth flushed a little, and gazed interestedly at the tip of her ghoe. Well,” she said. a trifle awkward- ly. “I didn’t exactly SNUB him. T—I talked to him—tried to persuade him . . . differently, you know.” Her exe pression was vague. “Oh” T sald, not “What did you say?" “I didn’t say anything. Don't pro- tend to be denge. Don't you under stan “Hanged if T do.” “Why, don't you see, of course I had to convince him that women were not —well, weren't quite what he thought them. I had to try and make him have a higher opinion of them.” see,” I crled, my brow clearing. ! “Well?” “Well ™ “What happened; did you succeed ™ “Temporarily, anyhow."” “Do you mean you couldn't live up to it or what?" “No, there was nothing to live up to; he—he misunderstood my mo- tives.” % “I suppose,” I ventured, “he thought you had converted him for personal reasons?" “I think he must have. I don't think, you know, he could have been quite a gentleman. “To have entertained such a base I said T DON'T know | ) —he couldn’t; he becsme a stocw ' TRUISTIC ELIZABETH 3555 “I met him,” she went on, “at my aunt's last year; he was a misogy- Agrees That Flirting Is Height of ©ist- ‘ 2 ; “A what?" I cried, aghast at this i Altruism. | display of erudition. i ; “It means a woman hater. I ooked it up in the dictionary when By F. HAE’ DEANS, lthey told me what he was.” o 2 “Good Lord!” I said, still unsettled. :mm b'::::' ‘;‘ ‘&‘::‘m" :I"Fncy having people looking one up 100k as if she hadn't l:“ ::: dlc:onry! # No wonder hn' ey 3 ooked 80 depressed. . ,h":';.":'“d e ‘;::‘vm':"“ Tound, “He used to say most awful things | “He's on the ground,” I informed | L0t U8 8Irls” she pursued. T her, as she finally 3ll|;ed ¥ ::‘o;ldnt like to tell you halt he “he hasn't = vith him today 1 meas e e ot | “Wouldn't your 1 Thuiv s the other nide of the road, who dosen't |Patietically. “Try. Don't think to ol Ha BT 2, 8 "“Well, for one thing,” she satd, thus didn't see your bow, or that you aidn't | "5°d: “he said—he said—well I don't pre At - g eyl R 4 2 worry about what he didn’ i '05.“ “:‘,:‘ "”:’bh';‘m“;w’- say—that's not the part I feel I shall “What mads you bow to him, thent” | "yen oy -:Tci—mna this tsn't “I dldn't He bowed to me. I cut : e ibea o) him. You know I did. I a quarter as bad as some, of them, only 5 you Sl 1 von b N "'"'dl A _:__l"" I can’t remember those—he sald the “Anyth ‘o’u‘ ':k:“ 5 feminine sex—that shows you the sort | taa Ty w”: ol :bl e ”;‘lu"“ of man he was, doesn't it?” she broke ! You it Mm.‘lol"meyr'al :;‘:‘ X :: off. “Fancy saying ‘feminine sex.’ o) blo6d catad 05 B 'Y“Q" Well, anyhow—don't get so impatient, “No,” #aid Elizabeth, clu.tc hing ek I'm telling you as quickly as I can; my arm in her eagerness, “not really? Do you mean he—blushed?” “Well,” T hedged, “if he wasn't blushing he was feeling particularly healthy at the moment; he distinctly glowed. “Is he"—with an effort she stopped herself glancing round—"“is he still staring at me?—horrid creature!" “No,” I reassured her, looking over my shoulder, “he’s gone on.” “Beast!” she snapped viclously, “that’s just like him.” | “Seeing you are unacquainted,” I mentioned mildly, “you seem curiously familiar with his manners.” “I never sald I didn’t know him.” “You did.” “I didn’t. him.” ““Where's the difference?” “Wasn't there a law to make chil- dren go to school when you were a boy? One’s the present tense, and the other's the past.” “I see, and he's a past tenser?” “M’'m,” said Flizabeth, with an afr of one exhausted with the subject. “Just look at that woman's hat, Dick; did you ever see anything like 1t?* Loloriae dihery “Awful, isn't it?" T agreed. “How can you know’—you're not looking.” “I know without looking; that's why I let you come out with me some- times; I hate ugly things. and you al- ,wlzl point out where I don't want to ook.” “I'm sure I don’t; I always tell you it T see anything pretty. There's a To say the things Vhy, what did he say?" “For one thing he called me a fiirt. That wasn't fiirting, was §t?” “FLIRTING! It was the height of altruism.” “The height of altruism,” Elizabeth murmured reflectively, at the same time glancing at me approvingly. “Do you know, I think that's rather a nice description. And it's true, too, isn’t 14 4 ‘'Why, yes,” I answered, “compara. tively.” —_——— Day Set for Marriages. smart hat over there, now—at least, they were all the rage last year; no- body decent could wear one. . I wonder why on earth she wears the thing—it doesn’t suit her a bit.” “Perhaps the poor woman hasn's any friends to tell her. Visitors to the quaint old city of lonely soul. Plougastel, in Brittany, are struck “More likely they have told her, | with the fact that all marriages are and that's why she bhasn't any|solemnized in a single day of the friends.” She hesitated for a moment, {year. Why this unusual custom pre- and glanced at me from the corner |valils is easily explained. The men of her eye. “Talking of friends,” she |are all fishermen, many of them going resumed, ia & curious tome of embar |88 far as the Newfoundland banks, rassment. and are at home only during a few “Don’t let's start talking seandal om | months in the winter. One day In a lovely day like this,” I pleaded. early February is set apart for the “l1 wasn't. going to.” She paused, |Wweddings. Little courting is done, but and dug at the gravel path with the |much haggling over the dowry of the end of her sunshade. “Let's sit down, |&irls. They have to bring a certain . shall we? I want to tell you some- [quantity of linen, chickens, pigs, and thing.” vegetables. Frequently “About—7" I gave a backward jerk |broken off because a father refuses to of my head as we seated ourselves. |84d a sack of potatoes to the dowry. “Ye—es, though I doa't know how- |On the day set the inhabitants of the ever you guessed. entire region go to Plaugastel. The whole population goes to churuch to hear mass, to take communion. Often 60 or more couples are united on the same day. Bride and bridegroom do not walk together until the ceremony bas been completed. She looks & It Was the Boss, All Right. In the window of a downtown res- taurant somebody had placed a sign which read: “S8ECOND COOK WANTED.” An applicant made his way to the Kkitchen and found the head cook. “There's the boss “I wouldn't tell you,” she at length, “only I know it's duty.” “Duty!” I sneered disparagingly. ,“It it's your conscience that's egging i vou on to tell me, Elizabeth, let’s talk | of something more interesting.” ' “And anyhow, if I didn't, somebody | ly the direction of a man washing dishes. “Don’t kid me,” sald the caller. “Tell me if you want me or tell me if you don’t. There's no use of ring- Ing in a dishwasher.” The man at the sink picked a stack of plates out of the water and let them all fall to the floor with o else would.” “Ab, that sounds more hopeful. I knew I shouldn’t hear much if it only depended on your coascience.” | “His name,” she said, beginning for once at the beginning, “is Greatorex— Marmaduke Greatorex.” “Marmaduke,” 1 said reflectively— “T knew a boy of that name at school; we called him ‘Marmnaduke.’ Still, it's & good name If you can live up to it “Now.” he exclalmed, “tall me who vou think the boss = Duily Thought. Let us wipe out the past, trust in after the mice, but it catches ‘emr just the same,” replied hubby. ‘There must be no faltering, no “ifs” or “but” We must believe with a whole souled, strong, unshakable be- llef in the ‘“‘power not ourselves that makes- for righteousness,” the .power 1 Bt “Fules” tie~world and wiIl 88¢an | things right in its own good time, whatever men may do to impede the progress of right on this earth. ‘We must hold, with Tennyson: Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ilI; That nothing walks with aimless teet; ‘That not one life shall be destroyed Or cast as rubbish to the void When God hath made the plle complete. ‘We may adorn our faith if we will | with the addition of unessential doc- trine. But the background of the pat- tern must be the belief which ia “woven of conviction.” As life goes on the thinking man, with a deep, sincere belief in righteous- ness and its power of ruling all lives, holds faster and faster to the faith that all will yet be well, even if the explanations of some things are still hidden from mortal eyes. That is setting the colors of life with “the sharp mordant of experience.” It is a belief and a hope that are born of the soul of man and not of the ex- periences of the body. The latter pass; the former ls immortal. What He Wanted. “Canvases?” said the artist, flattered by the presence of the millionaire in his studio. “Yes, sir, I shall be happy to show you my best canvases. Some- thing allegorical? Or do you prefer a landscape?’ “What 1 want,” sald Mr. Newrich, the eminent contractor, with decision, “is something about a yard and & half long and a yard wide, to cover some cracks in the frescoin’.” . Fishermen's Favorites. 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