Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 16, 1914, Page 3

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Chapman.) “It's settled,” announced John Ritchie gloomily, as he entered the humble home kitchen and threw him- | self into a chair with an abandon that : , evidenced strong emotion. ; His patient-faced wife looked up : anxiously, their pretty daughter, Ina,; . with quick eagerness. Both knew i what he referred to, but silently wait- . ed for him to explain. ‘ “The lawyer filed the will in court | today,” proceeded Mr. Ritchie. “It | leaves everything to Blanche Morton.” about the lips, the hopeful gleam died out of her faded eyes. Ina’s face quiv- { ered. She was not avaricious, but she ' had to confess secretly to a severe dis- ! appointment. She left the kitchen, passed out into the garden, chose a Mrs. Ritchie grew a trifle white . shaded corner and sat down and cried. “Hardly right, 1s it, Nancy?” submit- " ted Mr. Ritchie to his wife. + “It's hard, John, and unjust,” re- i sponded his helpmeet with a gulp, bit- terly. “My own brother, too! . see it all now. My dead sister’s folks have been courting favor with Uncle Ralph for over a year in the interests of Blanche. Of course, she's my niece, but we know that she is selfish and scheming. They tell me that she and her father just had Brother Ralph un- der their thumb Yor the last year. don’t doubt they noisoned his min” against us and Ina. Poor Ina!’ and Mrs. Ritchie wiped ~ tear from her eye with the corner of her ~pron and | resumed her drudgery tasks with « hopeless sigh of iesolation. It was, indeed, hard ror the Ritchiee. Things bad gone wrong with John Ritchie for the nast year ar two, and he was desperately in debt There i was an old mortgage on the little home, held by Uncle Ralph. They had "oped at the least *hat he would remit this. It seemed not, however. | Everything had gone to Blanche, mort- ! l ‘. She Inspected It. gage and all. Knowing the ways and worth of that self-centered young lady, Mr. Ritchie doubted if she would show much mercy. He came upon Ina as he strolled about the garden. She was not aware of his near presence, and he softly stol back to the house, his face more saddened than ever. “Nancy,” he sald to his wife, “I want you to be more gentle with Ina than ever. She's out in the gar- den crying out her heart. Poor child! You know what that means.” “Disappointment about the fortune, I suppose,” observed Mrs. Ritchie. drearily. “She had a right to expect something, and we certainly needed it badly.” “I'm afraid it's that young man, Al- bert Telford,” said Ritchie, bluntly. “Why, I didn’t think it had gone that far,” remarked Mrs. Ritchie, with a start. Ina and to Blanche, too. half the girls in the village.” “Yes, but lately he has about equal- ly divided his attentions between Ina and Blanche,” explained her husband. “And I think he has favored Ina. Of { course, that's all over and done with now.” “What do you mean?” questioned Mrs. Ritchie. “It's the way of the world. Ina poor, Blanche rich. He's a likely chap and can take his pick. It will be Blanche and the fortune, naturally.” However, twice during the ensuing week young Telford called at the Ritchie home, as was his wont. He was courteous as usual, but Ina fancied there was a new subdued air about him. She learned that he also visited her cousin, Blanche. Telford seemed to be studying her. She could not fathom him. No word of love had passed between them. She wondered if, in his generous-hearted way, he was not making an effort to break off their close friendship gracefully She heard great news of her for- tunate cousin, the heiress. Blanche had started out to make a great spread. She was arranging to sell all the property which she had inher- fted. She was talking of building a mansion home. She had entered on a career of reckless extravagance. One day she invited Ina to come down to the old home. Ina’s heart saddened as she entered the place, to find it dis 4 ) ' i | mantled. Blanche was selling off ev-! erything. She offered Ina some of the old relics of the family. In tears ! . Ina selected only a framed, faded pic- | i ture of her dead uncle, which hung ! | in the room where he had died. | | A month went by. Blanche was | | urging the closing up of the estate as | §speedily as possible. One day Mr. ' Ritchie came home with a serious, | worried face. “There are some pretty heartless; neople in the world,” he remarked, de- jectedly. “What now?” questioned his wife. “Blanche. What do you think? Her | lawyer notified me today that we must pay up the mortgage on the place here, now owned by her.” | ! A dull blow fell upon all the hearts ; within the room. It had meant pov- erty before. It was sheer destitution i now. The selfish -avarice of Blanche | was apparent. The family decided te i move to another town. Then came a | vast surprise. © There came by malil | one day a week later a package. It | contained the mortgage, the notes and | & release deed. The dear old home i stead was free of debt! “Blanche has relented!"” cried Mrs. Ritchie joyfully. I “No.” dissented her husband. “T| have learned positively that Blanche | had no hand in this blessed deed. It is some benefactor friend who does not wish his name known,” but the next day he foun out who it wal——l Albert Telford. i What did it mean? Should Ina feel | humiliated, or glad? She could not‘ analyze the situation, ye she felt it needed an oxplanation. She went to | the Telford home¢ It was to learn | thau Alber’ had gone to the city to fill . nev .n? better position. “Oh, my ‘ear. said his mother, ! “don’. you "nderstand? It was love ! that prompted him to give all he had ! for y»ur sake.” Then it was not the rich Blanche, but the poor Ina whom he loved! What could Ina do but feel happy! And then a second wonderful thing came to light—unheard of, extraordi- nary. in cleaning the old picture of her uncle, Ina noticed a sheet of paper folded in its back. She in- 3pected it. There was the latest will of Uncle Ralph. Practically a prisoner of Blanche and her friends, he had selzed a favored moment to make this latter will, just before ne died. It had been | witnessed secretly by two old serv- ants, whom Blanche had later dis- charged. There was a great commotion in the town when the news came out. In shame and chagrin Blanche Morton disappeared, meanly taking with her what money she had been able al- ready to secure from the estate. “Come home,” ran a telegram to Albert in the city, and it was signed by Ina. “1 have sent for you to return the money you so nobly gave to us,” she told him. “Your mother misses you, and—and—" “You, too, want me to stay?” in- quired Albert softly. And her blushes, her quivering lips, her ardent grateful eyes answered him lovingly. BOON FOR THE SHIPWRECKED Life Preserver Invented by a German Enables Person to Remain Afloat For Days. | | NAN VISITS EUROPE By DOROTHY DOUGLAS. Copyright, paper Syndicate. When Nan went on her first visit to Europe she had not the slightest hint that she would arrive in a land ‘ hrown into the horrors of war. She had taken her trip across the ocean on a long delayed holiday and had expected to find only joy and merriment, for Nan had a way of meeting happiness half way wherever she went. But in Belgium she had fled from the advance of the comihon enemy ' into Paris and from the gay city she had enjoyed a scant three weeks when with hundreds of other Americans ' she had scrambled onto safer Eng- lish soil. London was a haven of refuge to Nan, who had smelled the smoke of battle and heard the boom of dis-, tant fire. She had seen pitiful little families of Belgian refugees fleeing along the roads from devastated homes, leaving behind them all beau-' ty and all hope and going they knew not where. But London was waiting with open arms to receive all of the weary refu- gees from the courageous little coun- try, and Nan found herself again face to face with the realities of war. There were no less than a dozen of these Belgians sheltered in hospitable homes in Norland square. It was in the acre of green park belonging to the square that Nan be- came acquainted with little Jean Leman, a Belgian child who had been brought over from the devastated city of Louvain. Jean's mother was a French lady, who was sleeping beneath a flower garden in Belgium. Her father was a soldier, Maj. Albert Leman. From that moment on Jean and Nan became fast friends. They romped and played and went on long ‘'bus rides through the city and out into country lanes. When the wounded soldiers began to arrive in trainloads, Nan could no more have left the city of London than she could have cut off her own right hand. She simply had to re- main. Something held her, she knew not what. It was during the sixth week of the war that Nan discovered little Jean Leman’s photograph on the front page of the Sketch. Major Leman was anxiously seeking news of his little | girl and had asked the papers to as- sist him in the search. Nan did not wait to have her breakfast but went quickly into the boarding house next door in search of Jean. Nan explained as swiftly as possi- ble in her improved French that Dad- dy Soldier was in London and that he was looking for his little girl. “We will go down this morning when you have eaten your nice break- fast,” Nan told her and went off to ascertain the location of the King Ed- ward VII hospital and the quickest way of getting there. Jean chatted incessantly on the journey down; she was so excited that Nan felt her own calm engulf her as if for the purpose of steadying the child. Consequently, when they arrived at the hospital proached the big Belgian officer whose head was swathed in bandages 1914, by the McClure News-, and ap- and one arm pinned in like fashion | Hundreds of inventions for the pres- ' to his side, it was Nan who displayed : ervation of life in case of shipwreck a most wonderful calm. Major Leman have recently been tested, but what broke down emotl(mnlly——-perhnps’ seems to be the safest is a suit which | more than he had during the entire i takes the form of a combination of weeks of flerce fighting—when Jean life-belt and suit made of watertight | was swept into his uninjured arm. ' canvas, which envelops the whole per- Over her head, which he held against "NEUTRAL TONES This Is Not War the Colors Costun. From a fashion standpo. tones bid fair to have adoptio. novelty shades for spring. As a matter of fact, this use of n. * tral shades began long before the ou break of the war. It was exemplified, in Paris through the great use of mas- tic, or putty, shades in gaberdine and fine serge, materials which were at the height of popularity when the w. started. Putty had proved the big new favorite at the end-of-June races, and July found it the high style color note E for all Paris. The war, too, has added to the feasibility of creating such a fashion, | emphasizing as it has “invisible” colors in field uniforms. These colors| show a good range of earth, air, ln_ . 8ky an¢ withered foliage tones. ] | Austria has a sort of Mmolpheflo gray wit bluish tinge. Germany uses|| a sturdy stubble color, neither tan nor green nor gray, but of a character which melts into the landscape. Hol- land’s uniform is the color of muddy ,canal water. The Russian uniform is earth color. Great Britain’s khaki 1s already familiar. i | | | SANITARY PRESSING CLUB ‘I CLEANING,|\ PRESSING. REPAIRING nd DYEING. Ladies Work\a Specialty. Satisfaction GIVE US i Kibler Hotel [Basement. Phone Np. 393 WATSON & GILLESPIE, Proprigtors I | Lakeland Dry Cleaning Willianjson, Prop. PHONE 405 OUR SHIELD . son. The suit has sleeves ending in A gloves, and there I8 a port-hole in the head, which can be closed when the weather {8 rough. When this port- hole is closed, air enters through a tube above the head, this tube being 80 constructed that no water cdn en- ter. Furnished with this device, it is claimed that a passenger might be thrown into mid-Atlantic and live in ' comfort for many days, while waiting to be picked up, for the suit can be i for a week or more. | A man or woman using this device stands with feet in a sort of bucket, which forms the base. This bucket takes in a certain quantity of water, | which acts ar ballast and keep the life- | | saver and its occupant upright. Furthermore, the apparatus is pro- vided with revolver an signal lights with which the shipwrecked passenger can signal for help by day or night. Attached to the apparatus are ropes by which two or three people can keep l themselves afloat i1 they have not the good fortune tc¢ havc one of these life- saving suits. The suit is the invention of a Ger- man named Gustave Hernrich, and he declares that it will deprive shipwreck of all its terrors in all circumstances. Canine Sagacity. { A remarkable instance of canine sa- | gacity is related at Nuneaton. The { owner of the dog some little time sinco , arrivec at Nuneaton from Taunton, in | Somerset. He came by rail through | Birmingham and had his dog (a Pom) | with him. The day after he arrived he j missed the dog, and diligent inquiries failed to discover anything about the animal’s whereabouts. About a fort- . Inight or so afterward he receiveu a letter from Taunton, telling him th dog had “landed there all on its own.” Seeing that Taunton is something like ! 150 miles away, it is a wonderful in- stance of canine instinct.—London mail. ' scientific society his breast, he looked at Nan and made swift apology for having conversed in a foreign tongue. “One 18 apt to forget convention in moments of great emotion,” he added. “In a moment I will thank you for having cared for my little Jean.” “You are not going away from me again, are you?”’ Jean was asking her father. “Yes, dearie, as soon as this arm is better, and the more often Miss Nan- ny brings you down to see me the “I knew he was friendly to | equipped wtih sufficient food and drink sooner I can get back to help the sol- In fact, to . to keep a shipwrecked passenger alive diers at the front.” So it was that during the long hours of convalesccnce Nan came to know love. The emotion was so great and wonderful that Nan was shocked at her own weakness before the attack. Jean did not know what her father and Nan were talking about, nor why her father swept Nan so suddenly into his arms, but she smiled for the pic- ture was pleasing and Jean knew that all was well. Light Humor. In the latter half of the eighteenth century one of the members of a little in Liverpool, Eng- land, laid a curious wager. He bet a brother scientist that he would read a newspaper by the light of a farthing dip at a distance of 30 feet. The B. 8., | finding the feat difficult at even a sixth | of the distance, cheerfully accepted the wager. The layer merely coated the inside of a shallow wooden box with sloping pieces of looking glass, so as to form a concave lens, placed behind his farth- ing dip and readily deciphered the small print at the stipulated distance. The experiment was witnessed by a Liverpool dockmaster. He was a think- ing man and saw great possibilities in this learned jest. He straightway adapted the principle to lighthouse re- quirements and forthwith the modern reflex light, with its miles of reflected range and untold life-saving powers, sprang into being. 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