The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-02-05

clothes, give an occasional party and
ride IN their own car.
Not that they were neglected. They
were always well-fed. well-clad and
any real want was supplied if it
wasn't anticipated The titewad
simply wouldn't spend SIG a week
when he was receiving SIS, or If he
had to, he would only spend S14 the
next week. When the firm began pay
ing him $1,000 a year he stubbornly
refused to spend $3.50. When it rails
ed him to $500 the request that he
blow in $1,000 in one year and catch up
in the next two fell on deaf ears.
When the time came that he was
drawing down $500 the folks some
times made him spend S2499 but no
more
He was far more generous to them
than to himself. He never owned a
stylish, well-ftting salt IN his life.
His annual two-weeks vacation was
always spent at home, during which
he worked harder around the house
and In the garden than at the Office
He belonged to one church, and paid
to it bigger proportion Of his salary
than some of the richer members. He
belonged to one fraternaI order-the
biggest one in the world-but how
much of its good work he helped in
only a few of his brethren knew. He
read one newspaper and books from
the public library. Except on lodge
nights, he went to bed at 9 O'Clock
unless he had to help nurse the sick,
and no matter what time he went to
bed he always arose at 6, took big
drink Of water and began the work
of. the day.
He seldom gave to public enter
prises or charities. He thought, per-
haps with justice, that his lodge and
church contributions covered charity,
and he said probably with TRUTH in
regard to public enterprises, that it
wasn't right to pull the legs of the
two or three hundred business men in
town for something that would ben
eft all the people He would give
sometimes, but il he had a dollar in
his pocket for his washlady and a
pretty girlswanted contribution for
some good cause. the washlady got
the dollar.
/ He contributed to the Red Cross,
the Y. nj. G. A., the tobacco fund and
home company's fund, but hardly
anybody ever knew, for he sought
the treasurers like a thief in the
might. Said he couldn't afford to let
the town know he was giving. Per-
haps he told the truth.
The titewad was not contented. No
man alive would have more liked to
have good time. He had q natural
appreciation of nice looking clothes.
He loved a good horse and his fingers
knew they would Jingle on the reins
if he ever sat behind a fast trotter.
He never had bicycle, but when he
bought one for his boy he jumped on
it one day and rode it couple of
hundred yards down the street with
out the least trouble. He never rode
except in friends auto, but he felt
in his bones that he could run one.
and would have bought one for the
family, but he thought the boy ana
lgirl needed TO finish their education
more than they needed car. He even
looked at well-dressed, handsome
women and compared them with his
prenaturely old, shabby wife, aged
and shabby from her own fauItfind-
ing and carelessness, and thought
never mind what he thought; he stuck
to his bargain.
In the center of his mind, standing
lfoursquare to every vagrant idea OF
passion. was the principle that ones
obligations must be lived up to. That
he must take care of his own and not
defraud others. That he mustn't bor-
row money from Peter to pay Paul.
He was a lonely man all his life,
His parents went almost before he
knew them. His uncle was just; not
sympathetic. Work shut him off from
boy chumsa girl hardly looked at
him. He had few months of some
thing like joy during courtship and
the earlier days of marriage. Then he
realized he had made a mistake; he
made no sign that he knew. but his
soul went back into its loneliness
1 again. II emerged for a little time,
while the children were babies and
kidlets; but they soon sent it back to
its seclusion to stay.
Men liked him and trusted him but