The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-17

sidewalk we walk on VIII %
my Of gold. And the house'r" o,...
vii, he Of rubies and diamonds. go
wi there he says. shaping tho do'a
Book. h,, wo couldn't
.rgue with him any more, anu ie .s
a n9,v Henry agreed to accept the tniru
'n' -. c.nital which came to seven
VI .ord dollars. He had drawn every
thing out of the bank and sou ou. A :.
sn,dines at a loss, and ! tell you -
n mada me cape to see Henry cooiiy
lhau ,.o,iny seven thousand dollars IN
hills Cousin James and COUSIN 'e
nia had already had theirs.
"The poor old fellow VIII nave ~
,,ooma OF Just six dollars q "ees
when we hand this back 10 nin, Sol
Henry to me, as we walked homewaiu.
We put the money in the stocklns
.. Tho chimney. and after that tnere
n.s nothing to do but wait inree
~ssss went by, and then we all got
invitations to be at Uncle Aehe "
an Tuesday night at ten.
when we got there we found James
and Jenny waiting in sort OF grim
silence in the parlor. with Uncle Iehe
holding out to them about Ne'e'"
lions. .,.., be
rye made a mistake, children ne
GAYS TO us. Il wasn't allowing ior 'ne
direrence between American ana OIL
ental time The millennium Will De-
ein axactlv at three minutes before
midnight tonight
And he showed us a cnart VI .no
sky with which he had figured out MS
theory.
There was a dollar and nine cents
nm the table for the milkman' VIII"
I-rcla Zeke had set there because ne
said that. though gold and silver
wouldn't be anything but dross. it was
a mans duty to pay his debts,
suppose the millennium doesn't
Gomez" suggested Cousin James, about
eleven o'clock. His words relieved me,
t-aause | had been getting a queer
sort OF creepy feeling, sitting there
and waiting for the end Of the world,
thought Uncle Zeke would get mad'
, but to my surprise he looked quite
mournful
children" he says, Il don't nina
telling you now that I've had my
doubts all along That was what MADE
me seem so sure. | wanted to snow
nv faith. but somehow I've mistrusted
whether it wouldn't be in nine hun
dred years more instead Of tonight.
You see. there's a passage in Danlel
which seems open to two meanings
But anyway" he says. it'll either De
tonight or in exactly nine hundred
years, if you add on another times.
| tell you, when it was five minutes
before midnight l felt all shivery. AND
the hand went round to the three.
ITS coming now!" says Uncle Zeke'
But It didn't come, and when mid
night struck Uncle Zeke banged down
his hand on the table.
Gabriel can't be late" he says, like
a disillusioned man. 1T won't be FOL
nine hundred years to come, and-and
| I'm a pauper."
NO you amt Uncle Zeke," yells
Henry, and shoves the seven thousand
dollars under his nose.
And, would you believe it?-what
did Cousin James and Cousin Jenny
do but pull out seven thousand apiece
and push it onto the table!
why, Jenny" cried, Il thought
YOU and James were trying to work W
uncle into giving each of you every
thing, and | wanted to save 1t from
YOU
Same here!" says Cousin James
staring at me.
But Jenny and were kissing eacl
other so hard that only saw out o
the tail Of my eye how Uncle Eek,
grabbed the bills and slowed then
away.
Yes, human nature isn't 30 bad al
some folks claim.