The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-07-14
The Bronze and the
Human Heart
By ALAN HINSDALE


named for the man who did more
Tor 1t than any other person. While
Joel Hollingsworth did much for the
town, he did not do anything for
any one in it excepting himself. He
founded the Hollingsworth institu-
ton and endowed 1t for the work Of
scientific research. Its Der ef1ts to
mankind were intended to be general,
not particular, and the real design was
to perpetuate the name Of Joel Hol-
hngsworth. On circular plot Of
ground just within its gates stood a
bronze statue of its founder on q lofty
PEDESTAL
1t represented man who looked ag
gressive, by no means modest or retir-
lng-one who would not hide his light
under a bushel
One day Edgar Walker, young fell
low seventeen years of age. was pass
Ing through the town Of Holdings
worth, his worldly effects tied up in a
bandanna handkerchief, on his way to
city near by, where he hoped to make
his fortune. His way led him by the
Hollingsworth institution, and, paus-
ing, he looked through the gilded bars
of the gates at the noble pile within.
his eyes finally resting on the statue
Of its founder
Hearing moan behind him, he turn
ed and saw a girl about eight years
old crying Turning, he asked her what
troubled her She told him that her
mother had sent her to the store with
silver dollar to make some purchases
and she had lost it.
I Now, Edgar Walkers capital on
which he proposed to found his for
tune was exactly 81. Taking it from
his pocket, he offered it to the girl
She drew back, stopped crying and
with a changed expression said:
1T would be mean for me to take
shoes. even as gift My father says
that the man who built all these build
ings used to take money from anybody
he could get 1t out of. won't do that,
no matter what need"
The girl went on her way, and Ed
gar passed on through the town dream
4 ing Of the fortune he would make, how
he would make 1t and what he would
do with it after 1t was made.
The years went by. The noble pile
/ called the Hollingsworth institution
still rose high over the town that nes-
tied about it. Joel lIollingsworth In
bronze still stood with folded arms
within the gate. conscious Of his no
still stopped to peer between the bars
The particular passer who gaZed one
summer afternoon just before sunset
was a prosperous looking gentleman
few years short of forty.
Hearing musical laugh behind him
he turned and saw u woman between
twenty-five and thirty with girl some
, twenty years her junior whose resem
blance to her indicated that the child
was her daughter.
. Come, mamma" said the girl, tug
, ging at her mother Tets look In al
the green grass and the flowers and the
trees and the pretty walks"
The woman yielded, and the tive
stood beside the man, mother and chile
gazing on this beautiful home of sci
ence the man gazing upon the girl.
"Madam," he said, twenty years agt
, | was looking through the bars OF this
gate when. hearing some one weepint
behind me. turned and saw tina
child She said that her mother hat
given her dollar with which to maxi
purchases and she had lost 1t. l offer
ed her the only dollar possessed, an,
she declined it, saying that she would
not be so mean AS the man standin,
there In bronze. can it be that sh
ceased from that time to develop am
is still child
Il am or was the child replied TIN
Z mother. who had lost the dollar ant
who declined your kind offer. | grew
70 womanhood. married and becam
n widow This child is my daughter
: | have not forgotten the boy who OF
j fered to supply my loss, and he ha
: always existed In my mind as the an
g tipodes Of the man OF bronze"
! and | have remembered your r.
marks about the bronze heart of TIL
D man. was going to the city to ente
upon nv life's career. resolved tina
j II I could not make fortune withou
+ grinding my fellow beings, without RI
fusing the poor and lowly, | would &c
S on without one | have come With
reasonable bounds OF keeping my rest
I mtion | have made money, but | a.
G tribute II to a natural gift for bushes
rather than to hard work. Fortunate
IL II has not been necessary for me I
be mean. To me money making ha
: been easy.
Then you will not leave mont
I mani n Yourself such as this!"
u shall leave no monument at al
when die all or nearly all the funo
> have accumulated will have gone
ready TO any deserving, or 1t may .
nndeserving person whom | happe
= . ,,oadinor assistance II theT