Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 15, 1913, Page 6

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Artiticlal Stone, Brick and Concrete Bullding Material Estimates Cheerfully Furnished on Paving fand all Kinds of Artificial Stone Work 307] West| Main Street- Phone 348-Black F.J BOFFNAN 'S N.OMIS J. P. KEWEECKER Pres. Sec.& Tres. Supt, & Gen. Men. V. Pres. & Asst Kas the Best Canine Living. By C. B. CRAWFORD, They were' a lonely old couple:. Seth Harl was sixty and his wife, Ada, fifty-five. If they had had chil dren living they could have faced the future more Hopefully. But the lone- liness that had' always encompassed them since their omly boy, Arthur; bad died in babyhoed, seemed to be closing in around them more tightly from day to day, like a tangible thing. They owned tlieir house in the vil- Iage and Earl's pension from the cor- poration that had employed him for 30 years, small though it was, pro- vided them with the mecessities of life. Since Bari liad retired he bad mooned aimlessly about the garden plot. He had slways looked forward | to his long holiday, te a life of leis- ured ease, and now life seemed to offer nothing. Once, five years before, they had discussed adopting a.child. But Seth bhad never returned. to the subject. ‘The look: upon his wife’s face har rowed him, and he knew that no child could ever take the place of their little boy whose photograph was the omiy picture in the neat little par- lor. “] guess I'm too old: to start caring for a child now, Seth,” said his wife. Besides, we'd be in our graves, as. like as not, before it was zrcwn old enoughs to shift for itself.” Both of them had always been somewhat afraid of life, and both shrank from new enterprises. The narrow round of their days had be- come a rut along which they traveled. aimlessly. “If only I had something, if only a dog,” he said to himself. “That would be company. He'd ccmc ‘o wake me ! mornings, barking and wagging his tail, and then what walks we'd have together. Well, why aot? Why shouldn’t I have a dog? Other men have one.” As he expected, Ada offered strong opposition to the suggestion. Put Seth was insistent over his tremen- dous plan, and gradually his enthusi- | asm won his wife over. “He’d muss up the house and| scratch things,” she protested. “But | “This Beats the Best Dog Living™ it you've set your heart on a dog I suppose you must have one. But where'd you get a dog, Seth? A good dog would eost $20 and we haven't a dollar to spare. Nobody we know bas dogs to give away—leastways, not good dogs.” “0, yes, we can get a dog," an- swered Seth promptly. “The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals has dogs to give away. I was reading something about it in the paper yesterday. It says they pick’ up stray dogs that nobody wants, and | lost dogs that no one claims, have got turned adrift, and give them away to anybody that will guarantee them a good home. Ada,” he contin- uved firmly, “I'm going into town to- morrow to see that soclety, and I'm coming bome with a dog.” “Well, 1 suppose he ean eat the scraps,” said his wife grudgingly. The imminence of the event smuod—ll-l most terrified—her, but her husband’s eagerness quenched all further objec- tions on her part. She evea began to plcture their meat little home with ita new occupant. “I hope he won't be a noisy, ill-tem- pered dog, Seth,” she sald. “And don't you get ome that's going to dark all night, unless there's burglars round. And mind he fsn't a biting dog.” They discussed all manner of dogs that night and finally settled upon & fox terrier as likely to give the most satisfaction. When Seth had depart- ed next morning Ada found, to her astonishment, that she had become almost as eager as her husband. She paced the floor nervously in the inter vals between her duties, and once she caught herself In thie act of polishing the chairs, as though some humaa visitor were expected. “I wonder what sort of dog Seth will bring back with him,” she mused. And when at length Seth stood at the door, dejected and dogless, a great discontent settled upen her. THEY WANTED A DG | But Got a Baby Which SR MYENING SELSGRAM, LAKZLAND, FL&., AUG. 1., 1913. Beats o say. I hadn't got the word ‘adopt’ ! the best dog living.” or that |y oo ~Couldn’t you find & single dog that oudd suit, Seth?” she snapped out. “Couldn’t get near "em,” ber hu"l- band answered apologetically. 1 found the society all right, but the woman secretary woulda't let me in. No, nov even finish what I had begun out of my mouth before she asked me. it I were married. ‘Married 30 years, I answered, ‘30 years, ma’am, and to the best woman—' ‘Then bring your wife along,’ she smid. ‘We don’t have dealings with men.’” “You mean to say they take all that tyouble about a dog?” inguired his wife: “You'd think it might be babies they were giving away instead of dogs. I reckon,” she added thought- tully, “slie must be one- of those suf fragettes.” “Well, I suppose we'll just have to give up thinking about a dog,” an- swered her husband gloomily. “Now, isn't that just like you, Seth!” replied his wife. “The mo- ment a trifle happens to upset your plans you want to give up: You promised me 2 dog and & dog Fm go- ing. to- have.” Seth looked at his variable wife in amazement. “But I thought you | 41dn't like the idea of getting = dog. i Ada,” He said. “I: aid: and I didn’t. When you first spoke about getting & dog naturally 1 was scared a little. But I've been thinking it over since and—O, Seth, 1 want a dog as muck as you and more,” slie sobbed. Her husband drew her to him ten- derly. Her old gray head rested wpon his shoulder. HMe knew it was the instinct of motherhood within her that had provoked her grief. At last she dabbed her handkerchief to her eyes and smiled at him. “Ada, my dear; you're going to have your dog, and the finest in the land,” he said, “even if it takes the last pen- ny of our savings.” “But it's not going to cost a peany, Seth,” she answered. “Because I'm going into. town tomorrow and—and— I'm going to bring back our dog.” Seth Earl put his wife aboard tne train mext morning. He was to do the housewor): that day, while she was gome upon their errand. And as the hours rolle¢ by he, too, was over- taken by the same impatience that had overcome his wife on the preced- ing day, and he, too, found himself dusting the furniture and straighten- ing the chairs as though a human oc- cupant were expected. And when at last he heard a tinkle at the bell he could hardly open the door, he felt 80 shaken. Ada stood at the door, a basket in her arms, and her eyes were bright with happiness, and the look on her face was ‘almost like that she had worn on their wedding day. She en- tered and set the basket down. “Let me see him,” cried Seth, as she began to unfasten the blanket that covered it. “Is it a fox-terrier, Ada? It must be a puppy.” He jumped as a child's feeble wall came to his ears and looked at his wife in terror as, with motherly fin- gers, she pinned back the coverings, disclosing a fine baby boy. “You goose,” said Ada softly. “That was the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children you sent me to. And when | saw the babies lying in their little cots all in a row I wanted to take them all and—and—" “I wish you had, dear,” answered her husband ecstatically. “This beats (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) PLOW DEVISED BY ABRAHAM Unlversity of Pennsylvania Has Ple ture of Probably First Ma- chine of Its Kind. The University of Pennsylvania has just discovered that it owns what is believed to be the first picture of the plow invented by Abraham cen- turies ago. According to the Egyp. tologists at the museum, their trans. lations of the hieroglyphics show that Abraham was the progenitor of the bharvester trust. While plows undoubtedly were used before the timre of this invention, the Abraham plow is a combination seed- er and planter, and, according to the inseription on the picture, three men were necessary to operate it. The picture was made upon a Baby. lonian brick, which was the days. The apparatus had a tube-like attachment, into which the seeds were poured. A vessel above the ground facing the frame of the plow was used as a receptacle for the seed, and then the harrow was ap tached to the back of the plow. The Babylonians sowed and tilted according to Abraham's commands, and with his invention they feared neither the ravens nor any other | birds that devoured their graim, —————, Royal Widow's Woee. Poor old Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria, is again called upon to use his kindly offices by another dis. tressed lady who desires the approval of the pope to the divorce recently granted to her by the civil courts. The lady is the Archduchess Isabella, who married Prince George of Ba- varia, a unfon that was but for a day. Pius X has ratified the legal decls. fons. but has ordered as a pennance for the lady that for six months she shall remain retired in the Red Cross convent and nrnister to the sick. The archduchess finds this prescrip- tion of the pope altogether tos se- vere. as she desires to attend the wedding of her cousin, the prince of Croy, with Miss Nancy Leischman, daughter of the United States minis. | ter to Berlin. 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