The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
'Plebeian
Son
High Bred Wife
Made Him Over
F. A. mitchell

Ter goodby. He was going to
little shack in which he had
and had lived for seventeen
9e was going to the city to
fortune. And he was likely
n in doing so, for he had In
principle Of bringing every
his own advantage. He was
trader, and in every trade he
Ire was a margin Of profit for
) of his boyish transactions
he traded a jackknife he
n more elaborate one which
and dull. Taking off the
Epening the blades and polish
70 handle. he traded it for a
. with one Of its blades bro
! broken blade he filed into a
her and traded the knife for
receiving % cents to boot
he now owned he put up at
charging 10 cents a chance.
n was that the original knife.
IS worth little or nothing. had
tamorphosed into $3.25. The
won it paid very nearly what
Forth, and the boys who did
II contributed to the traders
fortune.
Schenk reached the city he had
had grown out of jackknives,
rbles. children's wagons that
Manufactured himself and other
which he had dealt. He hired
0 a Junk dealer. and, selecting
articles that he found in
repaired them and sold them
than they were worth. turn
his employer the price they
tdinarily have brought.
grew rich. No sooner had
bed the dollar ladder than
ID to climb the social ladder.
~ day. Immediately dressed.
uifully furnished Office at a
desk, with clerks and Office
lis call. He put men who were
Of different clubs under OBJ
to him. then asked them to
w him for membership. Unfor-
be had done business in a
BY in his own name and was
bred by some as Schenk the
This kept him out. of sew
be best clubs. but he was ad-
the rest and in time became
y Of those that had turned him
similar process he worked his
a dancing club called the Car.
erS, He had never beaten car
2 he had done work equally
Consequently he disliked the
the club and wondered how
lagers could have selected it,
g that they were so far re-
rom the class who really beat
that they were not at all sensi-
be matter.
time. like one of the jack
pat had been the beginning of
nne, Schenk had been so fur
3 to have value in the matri.
market Mothers urged their
to set their caps for him.
daughters demurred. If the
the junk shop did not still
put him there was a certain
that, like certain rust spots
Venile jackknives, could not be
put. But he was capable OF
no end Of snubbing from
aides who were to the man
and contented himself with
dured by others who were moi
Ter or whose mothers had ar
is fortune.
ally succeeded In the matri
larket, as he had succeeded II
mercial markets-that is, by
inferior for a superior arti
Celia Evans. the daughter o.
parents. consented to MARI!
'uSe he had helped her fatheI
numerical hole. It was sup
the time that he had dom
uld from a kindness of heart
lade a fair profit out of thu
lOn.
vas told of Schenk's mag
and after that accepted at
from him which she had pre-
eaied him with a fairly gooc
ue wanted her. and the aH
ue had rendered her fathe
part Of a plan he had lai'
f That a pecaniary prof
70 his magnetic fingers wa
wing to their attraction 70
Ous metals. He stuck to tn
urged by her parents, she con
marry him.
w that Mr.. Schenk was abou
aaother round In the socis
ldtter came up of IN embal
ature- Matrimony is a juno
ines. This junction may b
u all ways but one. Ever
70 the married pair derive
nom each and both families
..al' therefore, that when tw
= ABOUT 30 be married Their
mtroductions between the
near blood relations.
y raising feature In Schenk'