Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, September 1, 1913, Page 7

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Miller Building, East Side Square BARTOW FLORIDA IF YOU ARE THINKING OF BUILDING, S8EE MARSHALL & SANDERS The O!d Reliable Contractors Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who never All classes of buildings contracted for. residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their abilityto make good. DOWN" or failed to give sat isfaction. The many fine MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue ~ { | R | pride. TElI KGHAM, | 1] P DS PN ST What Eastern Miner Learned When He Mace Pilgrimage to Old Home. By VICTOR REDCLIFFE. “We are looking for a good candl- date for mayor, and we're come to you.” The speaker was one of & group of a dozen husky miners, rough, red shirted, lacking all the formality of the average “Committee,” but repre- senting not only the brawn but the brains and enterprise of Lucky Gulch. Ransome Jordan's eye glowed for a moment, he threw back his head in his characteristic bluff and independent way. Pride and pleasure showed for a fleeting moment in his handsome full bearded face. Then it faded, slow- ly, steadily, until those of the men who viewed him became as grave as his own from some innate sympathetic gense. " “Boys,” he said, and his full clear voice was broken from some intense emotion. “I thank you, but—I cannot accept.” “See here, Ransome Jordan!” cried Big Ben, leader of the crowd, the gi- ant {rresistible--champion of a man when he was his friend, “you’ll run. There isn't a man in the Gulch who doesn't want you—" “Ben,” interrupted Jordan in a tone of unutterable pathos, “I can't do it There {8 a reason. Next time maybe, but not until—" “Until what?” challenged Big Ben stormily. “Until—later,” faltered Jordon. “Don’t press me, boys. It's an honor that fills my soul with pride and grat- ftude. Pass it up till next year. Then —maybe.” That was the way that Ransome Jordan turned down what his friends called the chance of his life. The com- mittee retired, less worked up as Big Ben expressed it than uneasy. There was a reason, Jordan had told them. He held his secret and his loyal friends respected it. “Ransome, dear, why?” were the words that greeted him as the wife who had overheard all met him at the doorway, and that was the hardest part of it all. She was a little dark woman, the daughter of an old prospector who had picked up Jordan in the old days when he was sick and poor. It was Nance Dalziell who had nursed Jordan back “My Name Is Ransome Jordan” | to health. It was she who had staked i him with a claim that panned out big, and married him after she had turned | | him from his old reckless ways. Now those cl-ar searching eyes of hers challenged his soul. His love, his gratitude, his loyalty spoke in his fervent returning glance. “Don't ask, Nance!" he pleaded. “8ee here, it {8 you who made me what 1 am. The boys have helped, I don't know why.” “Who could help it!” gently mur | mured Nance, stroking his great it | brown hand caressingly. “Now they want me to be mayor. # In these new days of progress, that means something. It means schools, % churches, good roads, better citizens {nstead of saloons, gambling houses, road bandits and roustabouts. A man # | of clear record, who will make the | district proud of him, deserves the § | office.” “Is there a better one than you!” erled Nance, her eyes gparkling with “Is thero & man who has made cky Gulch clean and respectable as you have done? What is it, Ransome ~—what is troubling you?" “It 1s—no, I can't tell even youl” de- LAND, SEPT. 1, 1918, ¢ Ui i, be it what 1t ilng. In a cer \ e Jordan melh ve town, and very step be seemed ac- 4 by dim Lovering wraiths of t Several times he passed under the red lamp of a polico station. Finally he entered the place, esked for the of- ficer in churge, and was shown into the captain's private offica. The offi- cial glunced admiringly at the bronzed stalwart specimen of humanity. “I am from the west,” stated Jor dan without ceremony. “I have come to give myself up as a fugitive from Justice.” The police captain regarded his visi- tor with curious expectation. “)My name i3 Ransome Jordan. Did you ever hear it before?” A strange smile crossed the face of the official. “Why, yes"—he began, but Jordan went on with his story! “I was a wild wilful fellow here years ago, and trained with a wilder crowd. One night in a drunken brawl a friend named Prescott insulted and attacked me. I resented him with a knife thrust. I heard later he died. It was self defense, but I have come back to clean the slate, whatever the law may say.” “I have heard of you!” cried the of- ficlal, arising and wringing the hand of Jordan with strange fervor. “Come this way.” He led his visitor into an adjoining court room. He pointed at a large ofl portrait. “William Prescott still lives. He is judge of this court, and after that night you refer to become a reformed man.” “Thank heaven!” murmured Jordan in a great aspiration of joy and re- Uef. “Do you recall nothing further of " that night?” asked the official, & queer expression on his lips. “Little but flight, despair. My brain "‘ was crazed with the drink and the horror of my deed. I recall a fire, and plunging into its exciting whirl, hoping _' fate would blot me out.” “Again—come. with me," invited the official. He led the way to the street and to ‘: tho outskirts of the town where a large building stood. “The fire you speak of,” he said. i¥§ “destroyed the old struciure of the Dorothea Sisterhood. That night a brave man by means of a plank span- ning two roofs saved cvery soul in the building trom death. You never heard of it? Strange! Sec,” and Jor- dan’s guide pointed to a neat column | surrounded by an iron fence, and bear- ing a broad metal plate plainly visible in the white moonlight. | “I will read the Inscription,” said the official. “In grateful memory of Ran- some Jordan, Iero, who lost his life after saving fourteen imperiled wom- en. lle was a true man!” “And that was me, gasped the pet- | rifled Jordan. ! “That was you,” responded the offl- ' clal, reverently lifting his cap. “Held in loving memory, because you disap- | peared amid the flames and it was sup- | posed you had perished.” So the pilerimage ended, but its echoes, now made public, reached ‘ Lucky Gulch ahead of Jordan's return. | And when he appeared, a cheering de- | putation of welcoming friends knew I ' he would now 2ccept a rightful honor. A patient loving little woman clasp- ed her arms around his neck as he stepped from the train. “Oh, my love! my herol” she sobbed—"a man amorn, men, and mine, all mine!” (Copyrighy, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) KEPT LIVING BY MAGNETISM French Physician Makes Public As i sertion of Remarkable Suo- cess of Experiments. ‘ Dr. Henry Durville of Paris, whose feats of mummification and preserva- tion of animai and vegetable bodles by the magnetism that passes from his hands are attested by well-known physicians, now asserts that by siml- lar passcs he has been able to extend in an extraordinary way the results obtained by Dr. Carrel in preserving life in the dctached parts of living or ganism. According to Dr. Durville, he has gucceeded in keeping a frog's heart, fmmersed in a seven-tenths of 1 per cent. solution of salt water, beating for twenty-four hours and more by “magnetizing” it with passes from time to time. In this way, he says, he also has succeeded in making the hinder parts of a frog respond to an electric current fifteen days after kill- ing the animal, three days being the extreme limit under normal circum- stances. He further declares he tested his theory with two frogs’ hearts. One elared Jordan. “At least not mow— ©Of these which had ceased to beat he aot yet, Nance, do you trust me?™ | put in a magnetized serum; the other, | “To the death—and after!” still beating, was immersed in an or “If I go away—away to—to pay & dinary serum. At the end of several days the magnetized heart began to ' beat and continued to beat at the con- tact of an electric current, while the other was completely dead. Dr. Durville began his experiments ' witk a study of the effect of magnet- fsm on microbes, and says he is able ' to stupefy or even klll cholera germs. | He says also that he has completety mummified a human hand by passes. debt, to clear the books, to take my medicine like a man so that when I eome back and can look every man fn the face and say honestly I owe the world nothing, what will you say ™ Nance gave her husband one look | of ineffable love and faith. Then she stood back with set lips and steady ayes. “Ransome,” she sald resolutely, “bow soon shall I help you pack up for your journey?™ And thus began the pilgrimage of Ransome Jordan. It was no brief one: over the ranges, past the prairies, the ! great lakes, the eastern ranges, and one evening the train to Easton, s/ {ittle New England town, halted to let off the pilgrim arrived. This was his Mecca—perhaps his Qethsemane, he knew not, but was | One-Sided Deal. *“What are you and your wife ab | ways quarreling for? When you mar ried each other, it was with the under standing that you were taking the step for better or worse, wasn't {t?™ “Yes, and that's the trouble. My wife keeps complaining that ever since she’s been getting the short end of the transaction.” | i 1 i | ~ PAGE .(EVEN . P. McCORQUODALE The Florida Avenue Grocer 290——PHONE RED Respectfully asks his friends and the pubi generally to give him a call when 'needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. 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