Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 6, 1913, Page 7

SSON IN LAW ind a Cow Jumped in When e Deserted, but Renfew Got the Girl. { By CARL JENKINS, Mr. James Renfew was fin- ith college, he bought a little n the country to further his ents in horticulture. There ects and diseases that prey ffruit trees, fruit vines and and the finished horticultur- t be able to diagnose the same tor. enfew's purchase consisted of res of land and an old house. jace had been abandoned for nd the fruit trees on it offercd pus opportunity for one of his on. He decided after a care- nce over them that they had thirteen ailments to be diag- nd cured. As for the old t couldn't be cured. It was old man dying of his years. miles to the west lived Farmer , and he had a daughter named He was no farmer to break k at the plow or pitching hay a gentleman farmer, with an the city and three hired men around the farm. He farmed philanthropic motives. He that if he didn’t farm there mong the poor of the world. was Miss Grace a milkmald ckled face and sunburned She didn’t feed the hogs, gath- pumpkins nor peel the pota- sn't farming trom philosophical ‘n mile to the east of the Ren- ce lived farmer Halsey. He that scraped like sand when seys had heard of the sdle of ‘the surely be a shortage of tur' She wasn't a philosopher, and real farmer down to the horny | ;place when Miss Grace Halsey went over there one day and dug up two currant bushes and carried them home. The act reached the ears of Mr. Renfew and he had signs of “No Trespass” posted up. They care no more for “No Trespass” signs out in the country than inhabitants of the cities care for the signs to “Keep Off ’tbe Grass.” l | With three plain signs staring her |ln the face Miss Grace Halsey enter- ed the grounds and dug up a rose- bush. A farmer who knew her saw her and called out. “Hey, you! trespass?” “Go on!” was the reply. | “You can be arrested!” “Come off!” “Mighty techy feller, that Renfew is, so they say.” | “So'm 1" Three days later, as Miss Gracs | i Haskell rode that way with pony and | ,cart, she saw a flower that she want-‘ {ed blooming among the weeds. She entered the grounds and picked 1(.; and she also looked in at a broken "pane. As she came out of the gato | a farmer who knew her by name and | sight came along and called out: ! “Didn’t see the signs, did you? | “1 did, sir, and do now!” was the independent reply. | “Mebbe you want to be arrested as & trespesser?” + “Maybe I do!” ! | *Jest about three months in the county jail is what that gal needs!” muttered the farmer as he drove on. It happened that Mr. Renfew came down two days later to diagnose the | aflments of an old pear tree and en- countered both of the farmers. They | | were eager to tell him of both the trespassers and advise that they be ‘made examples of. “That's what s needed around this neighborhood,” urged one, “If you don’t do something theyn i be tearing the house down next,” add- ed the other. “But 1 hate to go to law.” “Course you do, but them gals waa Don't you know thats ook hands with him. He was a mighty sassy. They fest the same as | for profit, and his one hired gq they didn't care a darn for you as kept on the jump, and any anq your old signs.” that went out into th? wide | «1 mioht scare one of them.” i had to be paid for In cash. He | “That's ft—skeer the life out of ad a daughter named Grace. |ypapi» i Iss Grace Halsey was of coare- | «| take tho one who took the | n than Miss Grace Haskell-—if ' pycheg” | THR® EVENING TELEGRAA LAKFLAND, FLA., MAY 6, 1915, he hadn't learned a thing abouf faw. He was to begin his lesson now. He had nardly drawn a long breath be- fore the father of Miss Grace Haskell began suit against him for $25,000. There were claims of a false charge, false imprisonment, defamation of character, and so on and so on. The 13 different ailments of fruit trees were all mixed up in one big scare as the warrant was read. What made the matter a dozen times worse was that the two farmers were suddenly seized with loss of memory. They might possibly have witnessed two cases of trespass by two Graces, two Susans or two Pollys, but they wouldn't want to swear to it. And then, to cap the climax, Miss Grace Halsey came upon him as he was making a diagnosis of & dead plum tree and said: “You can have your old bushes back if you want 'em. They are dead as punk.” “Then it was you that took them?” “Nobody else.” “But I have had Miss Haskell ar rested!” “More fool you! She has also had you arrested, and you may bet they | will make it hot for you!" “I—I think I will call and have & talk with her,” sald Mr. Renfew as he gave the old plum tree a kick and felt that he didn't care what diseaso it died of. “Better keep away, young man. Her old man {s just aching to get his paws on you, and they keep a bad bulldog and a boss hired man that once chased John L. Sullivan three miles.” “But—but—" “Oh, don’t be a squealer! You are stung and you might as well begin to count on the twenty-five thousand. You ought to have known that I took the bushes and had me arrested. Guess you'll have to take soothing syrup to sleep o’ nights after this!" Mr. Renfew consulted two different lawyers in the city. They sald he was up against it. He came back and drove by the Haskell house. The ! bulldog growled and showed his teeth, and the bad hired man spat on his hands and removed his coat. Commit sufcide? Flee the country? Ambush the girl as she rode out and assassinate her? The situation might not have af- fected a poet so hard, but it upsot the horticulturist until if a man had e stride and strength of a man was nature's handiwork. She either to be blamed nor prais- he dilapidated Renfew placs queer charm for her, and she was haunted, and Miss Grace d to meet the ghost and give Lakelan e e d generous feet, many freck!esi As to which one it was the farm- | come along and asked him at what st one crack with her bony fist. | her the Haskells nor the Hal- nigh honors as a hortjculturist. axd one ers d'ffered, and probably honestly, One was cure it was “that Haskell gal” and the other was just as sure it was “that Halsev gal.” It was thus | that jt came about that a warrant | often over mousing around. | wag sworn out for Miss Gracs Haskell, | was a story afloat that the and was served with eminent satis- | he could hardly see straizht, Mr. Ren- faction. Bail was given and the trial | set for days ahead. | Mr. Renfew had graduated with | age a sour apple tree begins to grow sugar plums he could not have told him within ten years, When all hope deserts one Fate jumps in. One day when he had worried and stewed and fretted until few bhorrowed a boat and went row- ing down the river. It was not a Tair show. At a certain stretch there were high bluffs and deep wa- ter. It was on one of these bluffs that Miss Grace Haskell sat fishing as Mrfl Renfew came gliding down. They could not see each other for the bushes lining the bank, but an old cow ashore saw the girl and withont rhyme or reason made for her. Cows have various emotions, and human beings can't tell what particular one will come uppermost at a particulas time. There were screams and There was a charging cow. There was a dodging girl. Then a space of | bluff some forty feet long and twen- ty feet wide gave way and went down into the river. The girl and the cow with {t. Mr. Renfew wasn't fifty feet away. He did not hesitate a moment between the price of cows and girls. He got the girl, but in a half-drowned condition. He got her to the house by means of a passing auto. He got a doctor by means of shrieks. ment ring, and the suits were settled out of court. (Copyright, 1°13, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) Saving Thousands of Birds. A system of perching rods, like & huge spider’s web, is to be placed on all lighthouses on the coast of France to afford roosting places for the great numbers of tired birds which would otherwise perish nightly while migrat. ing north or south. It is not that the birds dash themselves against the glass, but, bewildered by the glare and already tired by their oversea flight, “‘hey fly round and round ft till they fall exhausted and die through sheer weakness. The arrangement already has been placed on the Terschelling light and one night it was calculated that 2,000 chaffinches and larks slept there, and thus refreshed, winged on their merry way next morning. On another night 3,000 fieldfares were seen, while hardly a dead bird was found, whereas the same night other lighthouses without such perch- ing rods were surrounded by heaps of thousands of dead birds. Price of Progress. “Woman has become emaclated. We have cut her off from air and sun. She is geizing them back from us with determined strength. . As! the plucky little women! . Inevitably, many among those who are etruggling today will die in the fight, many will go as- tray. It is an age of crisis. The ef- fort is of too violent a nature for soft measures. When a plant has been for a long time deprived of water, there is always the risk that the first rain , scorches it. But what of that! another. 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