Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 8, 1914, Page 8

e ot WORK OF THE STORM By DON LA GRANGE. | staggered into the room. Up to the night of the 15th of De-| cember there had been no winter weather. The water in the ponds and ditches had scarcely frozen over, in-| deed, the highways were dry and| dusty, and “the oldest inhabitant” said that the bluebirds were as numerous | in the country as in June. | At three o'clock the cows were out | in the green pastures. At six a gale from the north was raging and the snow driving in blinding sheets that man or animal could not face. Of course, Mr. Rayburn and his wife has selected that very afternoon to drive over to the town of Hepburn, 12 miles distant, to see about some business that should have been attend- ed to a month before, and that could be attended to any time within the next month without loss to anyone. They were two miles on their way home when the storm-wolf struck them and ran them into a farmhouse for the night. that night. And back at the manor house as darkness shut down and the blizzard grew stronger, was a cook who flung her arms about and wept, and a Miss Bird Rayburn who scolded: “Yes, it's a blizzard, and father and mother can't possibly get home to- night, and maybe not tomorrow, but what of it?" “I was reading that where there was a blizzard there was always half a dozen murders with it!" persisted the cook. “Fanny, you'd tire a cow with your fears and your whining!"” was the sharp admonition. “You go back to the kitchen and make a big pot of coffeo and keep it hot. Have things ready s0 that you can get a quick lunch. It's likely that some one will ask us for shelter within the next hour.” Miss Bird was no heroine. She was bluffing herself and bluffing the cook. It was a fact that she was frightened. There was not another house within half a mile. The telephone had “gone dead.” The first move was to see that every door and window was secure, and then the sentinel sat down to wait. After half an hour or so she began to wonder whether she had really locked the out- side doors of the vestibule. Of course she had. Perhaps not. It would take only a minute to make sure, but she did not move. There came what she thought was a shout or a cry for help from the highway. Was it a cry or the wail of the gale? What Miss Bird did was to go to one cof the front windows and raise the - e o They were only two of hun- dreds that had to seek strange shelter THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JUNE 8, 1914, snade ana let the iight shine forth into the storm for a beacon. Five minutes after she had token her seat again the front door opened and a man of snow She had not locked the doors after all. The unbidden guest staggered about til he could clutch the back of a chair for support. The snow had piled on him inches thick, and his battle £ A COMMON LANGUAGE “For goodness sakes! If that old Mexican cow ain’t been and gone and with the storm had exhausted him. It et my glory-de-John rose.” was a full minute before he spoke, and then a nervous laugh preceded his words: “In two or three minutes I shall be able to ask you to excuse this intru- cion.” The girl was holding a revolver in ber hand. She kept her eyes on him, but made no reply. “Sorry to bring this snowbank into the house, but [ was that done up that 1 had to crawl from the gate to the house.” Still no answer. “If your father is here I beg the privilege of introducing myself. Mr. Deering, my father, is in public life!” “The railtoad magnate?” queried Miss Bird. “The newspapers refer to him as such. I myself am generally spoken of as Ted Deering, the son of his father.” “Neither of my parents is at home land it is doubtful if they get here | through this storm. I shall accept | vou as Mr. Ted Deering, however, and there is hot coffee awaiting you. I had the cook prepare for just such an emergency.” “And you'll lay aside the revolver?” “I am not afraid.” Miss Bird and Mr. Deering were good Samaritans that long, flerce night. Two wayfarers were admitted, thawed out and put to bed, and they would have done the same by others had the storm drifted them that way. When Mr. and Mrs. Rayburn finally reached home there was a good deal of talk about blizzards, but it was mid- summer before Miss Bird's father closed a conversation by observing: “Why, if you and Bird love each other, I see no reason to object, but if you live with us I shall expect you to keep the walks clear of snow in the winter!"” (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspa~ per Syndicate.) | Nasal Handicap. { Capt. Frank Sulzer of the Salva- tion army is authority for the state- ment that a red nose is not always the badge of a drinking man. He tells a story of a man who applied to him for work. The man was an excellent workman and a total ab- stainer, but was afflicted with a nose that shone like a red lantern. Capt. Sulzer finally got the man a job after a lot of difficulty, but he says he never realized before the difficulties a red-ngsed man has to meet.—Boston ! ly. Post. a I looked up from my gardening and saw my next door nelghbor——usu;llyf the most aimiable of women—Iliterally , shaking with indignation, on her front porch, while a cow was on the grass plot below, contentedly munching the last of thc Gloire de Dijon, Mrs, Farleigh took a pot containing u small, withered palm from the porch rail, heaved it at the cow, and ex- claimed: *“Drat the beast!” The pot broke innocently some way from the cow, and the animal went over to it and “xamined the palm. It was too dry for her taste, however. She evidently preferred sweet, succu- lent rose bushes." “Shoo!” Mrs. Farleigh followed the exclamation down the steps, shaking her apron vigorously as she went. The cow walked leisurely away, notwith- standing the pjeces of broken flower pot that my neighbor sent after it. “Ain’t that the limit?" 1 had intended to keep out of the controversy, and had busied myselt be- hind a hakea, but a hakea forms a poor shelter, and this last remark was evi- dently intended for me. “It's hard,” I replied sympathetical- ly. Of course I sald just the wrong thing. Anything I might have replied would have been wrong to one in Mrs. Farleigh's mood. “Hard! Hard!” she shouted in dis- gust. “I wasn't thinking of the cow’s digestion. It's my glory-de-John rose that worries me. I've tended it all winter, like a mother, and it was just coming into bloom. Them Mexicans have no right to keep cows in a re- spectable neighborhood.” The Mexican was a bete noir to the neighbors. He had arrived recently, and bought four lots. On these he was keeping half a dozen cows, and running a small dairy farm. He seemed to be circumventing the eity ordi- nance, which prohibited one person keeping more than one cow, by dis- tributing the ownership of the animals among his children. The bad feature about the affair was that the family were casual about letting the cows roam off the premises, They had owned a large ranch in Mexico, before the revolution, and did not understand being confined to four city lots, “It's too bad. Why don't you go over and see them about it?’ I sug- gested mischievously, for I knew the Mexicans understood little or no Eng- lish. “I will,” Mrs. Farleigh said decided- “You surely have.” I agreed. “It's EHd 194 $12.50 Suits Reduced to . $15.00 Suits Reduced to $1R.00 Suits Reduced to 5 $22.50 Suits Reduced to 5.00 Suits Reduced to S £30.00 Suits Reduced to $54.00 Values now $3.00 Values now 6,00 Values now $8.50 Values now A1l 50¢ Shirts now A\ll S1.00 Shirts now .. All $1.50 Shirts now All $2.00 Shirts now ... All $2.50 Shirts now ... 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I was bad enough to take up a poind mum, to watch the burlesque, for I imagined my neighbor had not the Spanish. The Mexican woman appeared, and my neighbor started the attack. “Your old cow has been and et my glory-de- John rose,” Mrs. Farleigh shouted. “Gloria de Juan, senora!” the Mexi- can woman exclaimed, in surprise. Juan was her eldest son. “De waun seniora nothing. Your cow, cow, cow,” each time she spoke the word, Mrs, Farleigh pointed a fin- ger viciously at the offending animai.; which was contentedly ruminating over the flavor of rose bushes near by, “your cow has been et my glory-de- John rose.” The Mexican woman was clearly puzzled. “La vaca gloria de Juan! No, no. Ordena la vaca.” “Can't you savvy English?” Mrs. Farleigh asked indignantly. “No hablo ingles.” “You have no English, eh?”’ Mrs. Farleigh resorted to pigeon English. Tapping the Mexican' woman on the chest with a finger, Mrs. Farleigh de- manded: “You no savvy?’ “No sabe.” “For the land’s sake. And I've been and left my housework to come over here and give you a bit of my mind.” The humor of the situation dawned on Mrs, Farleigh. She placed her hands: on her hips, and, with arms akimbo, laughed uproariously. 3 The Mexican woman stared in aston- fshment; then she caught the infec- tion, and joined in the laugh. There, on the Mexican’s porch, the two wom- en stood, each seeming to try to' outdo the other in her hilartousness. After ' a time, they became week-kneed from the effort, and sat on the top step and { continued to laugh, wiping the tears that ran down their cheeks with the corners of their aprons. They had found a common language. Royal Talent. American women who consider themselves well educated will be si- lenced by a recital of the accomplish- ments of the new queen of Albania, although it is doubtful whether she's much better informed than other royal consorts. 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