Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 17, 1913, Page 2

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Bowyer Bldg, 203 N. Ky., Ave. Phcne 2587. PRUSEREAR. —— | | | I you wll “tackle” our fisking tackle you'll land any fish that tackles yoar ba't. Our lines are new and fresh and strong; our recls are not rusty. Whenever the thought of hardware eaters your mind, also let in the thonght that our store is the place to buy reliable hardware. THE EVENING (FLEGRAM, LA | at home. ( istered as “Dale Tyler, linesman,” He iformex' end reports.” 1 K ELAND, FLA., JUNE 17, 1913. e e e e - LGCATING THE BEEA New Linesman Repaired Two! One in Wire, the Other More ‘ Important, By WALTER JCSEPH DELANEY. “It's do the work, get a substitute, or discharge, I'm sorry to s2-,” an- nounced Forman Perkins of the Mid- land Electric Light company, It was in the office of the Midland plant that he said it, and the man he eddressed, Robert Cole, looked dismal- ly out across acres on acres of huge snow drifts, sighed desperately, and | arose to his feet with the words: “Rules are rules, Mr, Perkins, and I've always tried to follow the com- | pany’s here, but I give up this time. | In the first place, that soaking I got in the rainstorm last week has left me chills and fever, and I haven't the i strength to work. In the next place, ! there's a new baby at our house, and | I'm needed there.” The speaker’s hectic face and harsh, ' racking cough told that he was ma., king no pretence. He went to the window to hide the tears coursing down his cheeks and gazed out at the fast darkening landscape. Besides himself and the boss, there was only one other occupant of the little office. He was a stranger to both of them, outside of the fact that he was the new man sent from head- quarters that day. Young, bronzed, athletic, he was a vigorous contrast in physical health to the poor fellow | Must Reach It Some Way. who now saw his life chances fading away from him, with no position to guarantee comfort for the dear onecs The stranger had been reg- glanced twice at Cole after he had made his plea. He secmed studying the situation. There were lines in his face that showed hard contact with the world, and these did not indicate any deep sympathy. His accustomed cynical expression changed, however, as some good impulse stirred him, Hao | arose, went over to Cole, placed his | hand on his shoulder and said tersely. | “You go home—I'll take care of the job.” At the words the foreman turned ' sharply upon him, | “Why, you're not scheduled for work until tomorrow,” he said, “That so?" retorted Dale Tyler non- ' chalantly. “All right, I'll do it anmy- | way, and you can credit it to this man here, who faces death if he goes out in such a howling blizzard as this.” | The speaker resented the expres- | slons of deep gratitude attempted by | Cole, and went over to where the fore- | man had opened the order book. He ! reached into a corner, took up a re pairing outfit, and swung it careless- | ly over his shou)der, “It's the line between here and Hampton,” announced the foreman. “It's down somewhere, the trans. 1 “How shall I locate it?” inquired Tyler, “I should say it was the old trou- ble—pole 585 or thereabouts. Last week the rain made a sag in two of the poles near it and a break in the wires. The distance is about—" “You needn’t tell me,” interrupted Tyler, with a frown. “I knew this | district pretty well—once.” | “Oh, you did?” asked the foreman.! “Well, you can't miss it, following the | | Tinning and Plumbinga Specialty The Model Hardware Co. — - IFF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING. SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS i 1 The 0ld Reliable Contractors iR, Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who neyer “FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction. All classes of buildings contracted for, The many fine residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their abilityto make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue line. If the break is serious, reach | the nearest telephone and we'll send | help some way or other.” i “All right.” “There’s an extra fee if we get the | connection before eight o'clock,” ad- | | vised the foreman. “You see, there'sa big wedding at Hampton. They want i to get the lights on at any expense. [ It's the rich Miss Norton, going to ! marry—hello!” ! The new man was a strange man as well, decided the astoaished foreman as the former bolted from the place {88 suddenly as if shot. As the men- tion of that name—Miss Norton—Dale | Tyler shrank as if his informant had {drawn a red hot iron over a raw wound He ieft the place muttering strange | words, iis eyes fixed ahead in a pained, intense stare, heedless of the roaring wind, the cutting sleet, the great snow drifts. ' “What did I come back for,” ha | eried bitterly—"more torture? Lights | for the wedding! And I, of all men, jto add to the grandeur and brilliancy { of the occasion! Is it Fate or—Retri- { bution?” This man's soul was a seething volrano. No mervel that he disdained ! the hard brain with | 7, devastating 1 That name jvorton—had unlocked the most secret chamber in his heart OII henrts, Two years before Dale Tyler had been engaged to Miss Lucia Norton, of Hampton. There hLad come a lover's quarrel. Ile was impetuous, and she was just. In a fit of pique he had gone west. Losing his ambition, from work as an engineer he became a practical linesman on account of the bustle and exercise of outside work. All that time his life was embittered | by his rash act, but he was proud, and —long since he had decided that Lucia must have forgotten him as he de- served, he told himself, And now—transferred nearer to his old home, his first task had been to re- pair the broken wires for the wedding of Miss Norton. Oh, the cruel, bitter frony of it all! It was a fearful task breasting the storm, mastering with grim desperate resolution that rigorous tramp six miles along a lonely, snow-clogged highway. He counted the poles. The fever in his blood defied the intense cold. He found pole 585. Within thirty minutes he had repaired the break, but as he started to descend the pole he found himself frozen to it The reaction had come, ard he reached the ground coated with ice, chilled to the marrow. He swept the frost from his face and leaned against a tree to steady himself. A light showed In the distance, “I must reach it some way,” Tyler told himself. “I must phone the of- fice. Besides, I must get to sheltel| _ somewhere.” It was his hardest experience in two years' service in a hard line. It was a staggering, slipping, falling prog. ress all the way to the source of the light, a small cottage. He knocked at its door, So blurred was his sight, so chilled and numb was he, that he made out a feminine form in dim outline only, “l am a linesman nearly perished with the cold, and must telephone to headquarters,” he faltered out, Tyler was conscious of a cry of some kind, and that his hostess stood aside. He staggered across the threshold, fell to a chair and nearly fainted from the abrupt transition from the intense cold to heat. Life was a blur for some moments. Then his vitality came back to him, “I must beg pardon,” he began, aris. ing and removing his cap—'Lucia!" It was a gasp of wender, that name, Before him was the woman he had| 80 loved, still loved with sorrowful, regretful emotion. “I thought,” he stammered out— “they told me about—of the wedding of Miss Norton, at Hampton.” “My cousin,” was all that Lucia sald, She said more, however, when| under those strange unforscen cir cumstances arose the pleading, re morscful story of his wanderingg and her own story of change of for | tune and the silent patient grief of a| loyal soul, And the wild ringing of the storm !} became as happy as joy bells to t\\'c“ united hearts, (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) BEATS THE LAWYER'S LOGIC, Uncle George Not a Skillful Cross Examiner, but He Helped His Case a Lot. Hon. Walter Evans, United States Judge for the sixth circuit and west ern district of Kentucky, has to at tend to a great many offenders against the United States revenue laws. Recently he had an old neere before the court for selling whisky without a license. Uncle George had been in jail for six months awaltina trial. He was very long, and thin and gray, and generally dilapidated in ap pearance. The district attorney made out a complete case against him. The old negro had no attorney. “Do you want to ask the witnesses any questions, Uncle George?” in quired the court. “Yaasir, jedge: I'd like to ax a few ob dat nigger ober dere,” indicatina a small, chunky negro man with coal tar complexion. Whereupon Uncle George nervously cleared his throat. “Say, boy, how’s your ma?" “She’s well, Uncle George." “Is the res' of yo' folks well?” “Yes, Uncle George.” “Is you well?” “Yassir, I'se George.” “I believe dats all, jodge.” “Mr. Clerk,” said the court, “sinee George has refuted so much of the damaging testimony against him, wa will waive a fine in this case and just glve him six months' more rest.”= Popular Magazine, —_———— Kings as Prisoners. The Prince of Wales, although hein apparent to the British throne, does not enjoy the same privileges as does the sovereign when he travels abroad. Under the international law, a mon: arch is above any legal consideration such as hampers a subject, however illustrious. Should he refuse to pay his hotel bill, he could not be sueqd for it. In the improbable event of hig knocking down a Frenchman in Paris, or a Prussian in Berlin, no policeman could lay hands on him. 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