Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 9, 1914, Page 6

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[ ] ] Are interesting,juseful'and durableiSouvenirs Wejcarry Handbags, Purses*Belts, Fobs and NOVELTIES ey The Lakeland Book Store Benford &§iSteitz mmm The Losszby Fire in the U. g During a Recent Year Amounted to Almost One-Half the Cos Ot All New Buildings Coastructed During the Entire* Twelve Months!™. We represent the following reli- able companies: Fldelity Underwriters, w cnpitd ...... & . 4,750,000 hen Buying or Building Philadelphia Underwriters, Provide the Means U e PN $4,500,000 German American, capital 2,000,000 Springfield Fire and Marine e 0w 107 Rebuilding! MANN & DEEN Room 7, Raymondo Building - LOVE AND THE BABY By MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD RIDGE. “Doctor, he has agreed!” “Very good. I will telephone the sheriff at once and make all the ar rangements for the test.” Perhaps few mortals have been in the peculiarly strained and unnatural situation of Doris Hemingway. She was of the world's obscure and hum- ble, and scarcely the heroine or even understudy for the upper crust ro- mance. There was, however, beyond the modest patient exterior a soul of rare worth. It shone out now in her eager, anxious eyes. The sombre looking, thoughtful phy- siclan who proceeded to a telephone closet and was busy there for a min- ute or two, was Prof. Alpheus Woods. He had made a name and a fortune in his profession. Now he was a fad- dist. At least so standard sources designated him, for he had written three extreme books on “Heredity,” leading up to the audacious claim that he could extinguish the criminal in- stinct in man, woman or child by a simple surgical operation, and make of the most vicious mentally warped assassin or thief an honorable, trust- worthy citizen. A month previous Professor Woods had interested the criminologists and the local jail authorities by asking that they find a subject for his test. It was intimated that any professional criminal in custody who would sub- mit to the operation should receive his liberty. It was not so easy to find self-con- fessed criminals who would run the risk of a dangerous operation. Tha majority claimed to be inherently in- nocent as lambs, and trusted to the lawyer rather than the surgeon to win their freedom, At length Professor Woods found a typical case—Robert Tyler, burglar, a man who freely ad- mitted that the impulse to rob was an irresistible influence of his nature. The world had hardly mistreated this man. A keen schemer had wrest- ed a fortune from him through the slippery deviations of the law. In des- peration Tyler had set at work to get “even with the law.” He had been appealed to in the matter of the Woods’ test. He had wavered, de. clined, but now to the satisfaction of “Listen, Sir,” Went on Doris, Earn- estly. Professor Woods a pleasing faced, pleading-eyed girl had appeared at his office to announce that she had pre- vailed upon Robert Tyler to undergo the operation. “I. have phoned the sheriff,” an- nounced the professor, returning to his seat. “I have no doubt that Tyler will be placed in my charge within the hour.” “Oh, sir,” breathed the girl fervent-: ly, “do you think you can cure him?” “I have made my system a life study,” declared her host, with dig- nity and assurance. “Listen, sir,” went on Doris, earn- estly, “Mr. Tyler is not the desperate criminal the world adjudges him. He is reckless, he is tempted, but he has been plundered, crushed down, in pov- erty until he believes all mankind his enemy, but I—ah, yes, I know him. At heart he is a hero, a martyr!” The professor regarded the soulful eyes of this fair young pleader curi- ously. There was no mistaking her sincerity. “You are his relative—a sister, per haps?” he ventured. “No, sir, I am—that is, I love him!" confessed Doris. “Thief as he is, un- der a long sentence, I would marry him tomorrow were he free. I, like himself, am an orphan, and like him, 1 have tasted the bitter dregs of pov- erty. He risked his life to save me from a burning building. As might the highest gentleman in the land, secretly, nobly he saw that I was cared for when I was {ll. He loves me; I know it, but he would refuse to let me share his disgrate, to be- come the wife of a convicted thief. Oh, sir, save him!” pleaded the girl pathetically, bursting into tears. “It you could do that, we would go away to some place where we are not known, and I would slave for him, to make him once more a man among men.” “My poor child!” spoke the pro- l fessor brokenly, placing a trembling hand upon the bowed golden head, i “for your sake I will exhaust all my science in trying to save this man’s body and soul.” And so the honest enthusiast had his chance. For a week Robert Tyler lay under his care. The surgical op eration applied to the cranium, cur- rent with a vigorous medicinal treat- ment. At the end of ten days the professor announced that the test had been completed and Tyler was a free man. The newspapers were full of the ex- periment. The professor proudly hoped, and Doris prayed, and that very night the professor discovered that before he had left his home Rob- ert Tyler had burglarized one of his cabinets, and had disappeared with two watches and a small amount of money. Gradually the incident of Robert Tyler and the professor’s great cura- tive system faded from public view. Two years later the professor received a package addressed in delicate femi- nine handwriting, containing a sum of money equivalent to his losses through the burglary. Three years after that Professor Woods, in a western trip, passed Sun- day at a thriving little town in the heart of the Rocky mountains. Stroll- ing about casuaily in the afternoon, he came upon an open air service meeting. The preacher talked from an improvised platform, near which was seated a lovely, peaceful faced lady with a child in her arms, evi- dently the wife of the speaker. Such rugged yet earnest eloquence Professor Woods had never before heard. And then he stared marvel- ously as he recognized the man as Robert Tyler and the woman he had known as Doris Hemingway. His surprise was heightened, as at the end of the meeting the speaker looked directly at him with the words: “Will Mr. Woods please remain for & few moments’ conversation?” Professor Woods advanced to meet the exhorter as the audience dis- persed. As he neared him he traced the old familiar lineaments of that ex- pressive face, but toned down, sof- cere. “Do you remember me?” spoke Ty- ler, extending an eager hand. “I can never forget you,” replied the friendly hearted professor. “My first and last experiment in anatomical ref- ormation ended with you.” “And cured me, sir,” pronounced Robert Tyler, gravely. *“Perhaps not directly, but the results, the effects materialized.” “You surprise and interest me,” murmured Professor Woods. “I went back to my old ways, as you know,” narrated Tyler, “‘but it availed me nothing, for I caught a severe cold where the operation had not healed up. I lay in hiding and misery for a year. That dear woman,” and he mo- tioned toward Doris, “worked for me, slaved for me through one helpless year. Then we came west, and then —I saw the true light and I am a changed man.” “It is a wonderful, a glorious word to report!” said Professor Woods with deep feeling. “The secret of your great transition—" “Was love, such love and devotion that came as a blessing,” and Tyler cast a fond glence at the smiling lit- tle woman udvancing towards them. “Yes, it was love—love, and the baby!"” (Copyright, 1011, by W. G. Chapman.) HOLES HCRSE AS SECURITY Four-Footed Prowler Feasted on Mrs. Boyle's Butier, But Her Turn Is to Come. The cowpunchers of the wild and woeolly west “have nothing on” Mrs. Mary Boyle of Patterson avenue, Bal- timore, when it comes to the nimble art of throwing a lariat. Mrs. Boyle had spent a busy morn- ing in her kitchen. Finding that she had over four pounds of fresh dairy butter left over she placed it on a platter in the yard to solidify, the heat of the kitchen having reduced its con- sistency. Half an hour later Mrs. Boyle went into the yard to get the butter, but, like Old Mother Hubbard in the nurs- ery legend, “when she got there the platter was bare.” In place of the butter, however, was a large dapple gray horse, whose color scheme and design suggested the now almost extinct rocking equine without which no children's nursery was at one time complete. The noble steed was engaged in pol- ishing the platter. But when he chanced to look up and saw Mrs. Boyle the equine hobo gave a succession of | loud and penetrating neighs and turned tail. “Not so fast!” quoth Mrs. Boyle. A moment later a lasso improvised from the domestic clothesline encircled the neck of the dappled steed, causing him to rear on his haunches. The uawilling captive is being held as hostage by Mrs. Boyle, who de- clares that she will not turn the ani- mal over to its owner until she re ceives remuneration for her stolen butter.—New York Sun. Untenable Theory. Husband—You are naturally of an unhappy disposition, that’s all that's the matter Wife—That's your theory, is it? Husband—I never saw you happy. 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