Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 12, 1913, Page 2

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Jones was now five and thirty years of age and had spent nine years in the state penitentiary for killing a fellow man in a drunken brawl. His sentence had eleven years more to run. A little public sentiment had been dis- played in favor of the prisoner, but this was of a purely sentimental or- der. It had been aroused by the loy- alty of the prisoner's sweetheart, Mary Lomax, who had petitioned suc- cessive governors and boards in vain and who, it was known, was waiting for his release to marry him. She had stuck to him since his conviction. Henry Alton was a good man in | the eyes of the world but what is more, he was actually good. He lived up to his convictions. A deacon in his church, a leader of the anti- liquor movement, he passed as & shrewd, hard, conscientious type of citizen. He knew that justice was not temperamentally mixed with mercy in his mind and wished to do his duty to the state and the accused, There- fore he did not visit Jones, lest he should be swayed by sentiment, but went away for a week to think over the matter. He went to Lake hotel, Fairview, and after ‘three days he had come to no decision. On the fourth day he resolved to vote against the pardon. As he got into the train on his home- ward journey a young woman fol- lowed him and took the vacant half of his seat, although the coach wae, nearly empty. When Alton looked at | her in mild surprise he saw that her eyes were read from weeping. “My dear madam!” he sald, rather shocked, “is anything the matter? Can I help you in any way?”" “Yes, Mr. Alton,” she answered. “My name is Mary Lomax."” | The train was rushing toward the metropolis. Alton was disconcerted. For three days he had read pefltlon!‘, Spent Nine Years In the State Penl- tentiary. by Mary Lomax addressed to succes- an was at his side. She was a sweet- looking, comely girl, perhaps about eight and twenty. She was simply dressed; favorably. “You have come to ask me to vote . ed for another chance to help the boy, : ance sin. | stances merit setting him free I will sive governors; now the young wom- | she impressed Alton very, AND, FLA., MAY 12, 1913. " lest Saian enter into him through {dleness. His mother died when he was a boy; his father loved him, I believe, but never showed his love. When he was sixteen James got into some trivial scrape. It was about money. It was not honest, but he ghould have had pity and sympathy. But his father only thought of justice. He turned him out of his home. The son fell among bad companions. He) was weak, he sank lower and lower until T met him. and he had gone there to listen and deride. Instead of that the spirit of | love entered into his heart. We| worked together for three months. I was engaged to marry him. “Then—well, he fell in with some old friends. They laughed at him when he told them of his changed lite. In mockery they tempted him with liquor. He could not resist. He fell once more. For two weeks he was gone—where, I do not know. On the fifteenth day he stood in the| magistrate’s court, charged w‘ith mur- der. But it was his father who should ‘ have saved him, and the guilt is on; his soul, ot on the boy’s.” | For the first time she glanced up| at Henry Alton. The man was vis-i ibly shaken. The perspiration was| streaming down his forehead and his} hands were shaking. Her words had | gone home. “One of those hard. un- | vielding men,” she had said. A mask | seemed to fall from before his splr-f itual vision and he saw himself, a Pharisee, one of those who obeyed ! the letter and not the spirit. “And you intend to marry him! when he i8 freed?” he asked. “I have waited nine years,” she an- swered. “I can wait eleven more. But, Mr. Alton, will you not set him free? O, what good will it do to keep in prison one who has long repented, whose crime was the result of a life of evil already atoned for? Make him happy!” She might have sald “Make me happy,” thought Alton. The train rushed on, but he did not! answer her. He was struggling with, a whole uprush of new feelings which | had long lain prisoned beneath the icy bonds of his conventional righteous- ness. He thought of his own son. his| only child, whom he had driven from home for just such a boyish escapade years before. How often he had long: | but pride forbade. He had tried to balance his deede before God, and he bad forgotten that God's dice are loaded and his balances weighted. Nothing but love could counterbal- “Miss Lomax” he sald presently, turning to her, “T told you that I base my convictions upon justice. In this case I think justice has been done. I will see the prisoner at once—I can't say what I will do—but if the circum- vote for his release.” “When you look into his eyes,” she sald, “you will know that there will be no danger of his proving undesery- ing.” She snapped open a locket and showed Alton a photograph within. “That was taken nine years ago,” she sald. “He has changed greatly, but not for the worse. You-—" It was in a mission, | I/ She stopped suddenly, for Henry Alton's eyes were filled with tears, and he was staring at the photograph with an expression that no man had ever seen upon his face befors. He was looking at the photograph of his son. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) EASY TO LAUGH AT TRUST One Man, at Least, in This Broad Land, Is Unaffected by the | Price of Beef. | The fat man on the end-seat of the | oar was softly humming to himselt | when the man with a grouch climbed over him to sit down and ask: “You couldn't have read your paper this morning.” for the pardon?” he said to her. She bowed her head. “I heard you were at Fairview. there and learned you were on your way homeward. I hurried to the sta- tion—and here I am.” Henry Alton was distinctly annoyed. He assumed his most judicial man- ner. 1 followed you | “Every inch of it. sir,” was the smil- . Ing reply. | “Then you saw that there was an- other raise In the price of beet by | those Chicago robbers?” “I did.” *“And did you get onto the fact that it 18 the seventh raise in a year?™ “I did.” “l may as well tell you,” he sald, “that T have decided to vote against pardoning Jones. I have looked into the case very thoroughly. A man who takes the life of a fellow man—" “Clapp was trying to murder him,” said the girl with a low sob. “It was his life or the other man's.” “The life of a fellow man under any fshment,” continued Alton. “There may have been some slight extenua- tion. But Jones has been amply con- sidered in escaping the death penalty. My decision is final.” “Will you let me tell you Ahis story?” sald the girl. “I will only ask you once more when I have ended, and then, if you still refuse—well, that will be all,” she said, sighing. “I cannot well help myself,” an- “But I am not a man of mere moods. I base my convictions upon justice and, once they are made up, they are unshakable.” ‘I'm going to tell you,” sald the young woman. “Don’t be afraid that T shall create a scene—just listen, Mr. Alton. Jones, of course, is not his proper name; that he has refused to reveal even to me, until he can as- | sume it as a free man. James was | brought up in the family of one of those good men we all know about— | one of those hard, unyielding churchly men was his father. You know them! | Justice, inflexible justice—but never pity. For every childish misdeed he was flogged. When other boys played James was kept at home to study, e e~ At - “And don't it make you feel like breaking somebody's neck?” “Oh, na, sir. On the contrary, it is laugh with me.” “Then you must be a mighty queer _— t D | ardly that. I am just a hafpy | man. I am in the hands of Providence, 80 to say.” circumstances, deserves condign pun-| “Will you explain?” was asked AM: a minute. i “With pleasure, sir. Thres years ago I got all my teeth but one knock- | ed out by a brickbat. I havea't had them replaced by false ones.” . “Well?” | “A year ago a horse kicked my son's itnth down his throat. They havea't ' been replaced yet.” i “But you have a wife?" “Oh, yes. She had all her teeth un- swered Alton with a frosty smile. ! til an hour ago, and then she fell down | | stalrs and knocked them out. They will not be replaced.” “Well, I'll be durned!” exclaimed the man with the grouch. “So you see, sir—so you see that the blamed old Beef Trust can ralse prices and be hanged to it. The four of us are living on mush and milk, and don't care if beef goes to a dollar a pound. Excuse me while I hum some more!”—Excha 3 The Wrong Way. “That fellow will never get along 14 life the way he treats peopie.” “How does he act?" “Why, he is polite to people who can't do the least thing for him.* TAILOR MADE CLOTHING AT CUSTOM PRICES. We have just recelved our samples for this soaso'n. Can ufrnish you tailor made clothing at your own price. Cap to match suit with all orders thrown in. DE REE PRESSING CLUB Bowyer Building. -The Protessions: DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH SPECIALIST. i Scientifeally i'.*‘};::“ Ofice, 141; Residente, } Bryant Bldg, Lakeland, Fla bR, J. F. 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