Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 26, 1915, Page 7

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Dickson L i aaad ;i i i - | - 9 &< PSR PEDSPDEIPPIIPDPOBPPD Db D D LOVE B TELEPHO By LUCY GORTON BARROWS. “No!” shouted Simon Barclay in a' thunderous tome, crushing out the' tomorrow your uncle is up and about,” planned Ned. “Come here to- every evening!” ! O, the delight of it! That blissful ' Jim Hatbuway und | were not only fondest of human hopes, immovable tWilight hour! The deft hand of the ' chums, but occupied rovms in the same as a rock. His pretty niece, Hetty, covered her face with her hands and broke down utterly in a storm of tears. “Cruel—cruel!” she sobbed. “And a last meeting with this gay gallivanting young man—understand ?* pursued her callous-souled relative. “You are breaking my heart!” moaned Hetty, and really belleving it. “It isn’t because Ned Monroe is after your little fortune, as most young fellows are nowadays.” “What—what is it, then?” faltered poor Hetty. “It's because he's an electrical maniac. Huh—telephone! ‘Who heard of such a thing in my young days? Gossip-breeders, I call ‘em! ‘Worse than that—catering to laziness. Tried to get me to put one in my house. I'd like to see 'em! Now I've said my say. Drop this beau, or Il send you off a thousand miles to my | sister, where you can’t see him.” Antiquated, narrow-minded Simon Barclay had invented a new name for the most estimable young man in Redfern. He hated all innovations, master workman had arranged the' bucbelor apartwent house. Jim was picious, search- , gecretive cbap uud espectally fond of ve guessed the ' mission of the double wire loop run- ning from the fence up into the old apple tree. ! For three consecutive evenings Het- ty sauntered carelessly down road. Her uncle supposed she was go- ing to visit the daughter of the farm- er just mext to them. Hetty had no- ticed him standing at the door of the house the last evening of the three, watching her till she was out of sight. She made a cautious detour to reach the old tree. The fourth evening Hetty did mot start away until she saw Mr. Barclay busy in what he called his little of- fice, looking over his business papers. It was quite dusk by the time she reached her destination. She had climbed into the tree and had herself comfprtably disposed, When she was startled by a low quick whistle. A man came over the fence, rough looking and sinister. He stood directly beneath her leaty shelter. It was he who had uttered the ordinary bappentug making a mystery of what was an | poked fun at bim for dolug su. but this seemed to bave no effect in stopping him from vontinually trying to impress me with his ability to do things without my baving uny knowledge of them. Then wheu the dewvuement came be would ussume an air of superiority as much as to say, “| don’t go about blabbing of my nffairs.” There came a time when I believed that Jim bad an affair on band with a girl. The reuson why | came to this couclusion was that he began to show a4 contempt for women. “The best thing a fellow can do with a girl,” he would suy, “is to let her alone. By doing so be avoids the expense of the- ater tickets and Bowers, only to find - out later that she’s encouraging some other fellow.” | was not {nterested in Jim's love affairs, but | saw no reason why be should take pains to deceive me In the matter. However, it did not trouble me that he thought proper t do so. | was very fond of him especially a telephone. There was a whistle and in a few moments a com- | and considered bis idiosyncrasy of no reason. Simon had bargained too slowly in the purchase of a piece of property he coveted, a shrewd neigh- bor had got to a telephone and out- bid him. He hated telephones after that, and Ned Monroe in the bargain, for was not that energetic young man the head linesman of the district tele- phone plant? Hetty moped around the house all day. - She was disconsolate. If ever a girl loved a bright intelligent young fellow, it was she. As to Ned, she knew that she was to him as the apple of his eye. She dreaded meet- ing him, but she was toyal to a prom- ise she had made to her uncle that there would be no exchange of notes, no clandestine meetings. Hetty knew that promptly at 5:30 Ned would pass “It's Because He's an Electrical Maniac.” the old orchard road near the farm. Fifteen minutes earlier she repaired to the old tree that had been to them a favorite trysting place. Ned came spinning along bn his bicycle, not a moment late, a fine specimen of a healthy, buoyant young man interested and happy in his work. He swung a coil of wire and his tool bag to the road and was over the fence in a joyous leap. “Dear girl!” he said fondly, and then started at Hetty in alarm, for she was weeping. Bit by bit the miserable story came | out. He consoled her, he reiterated his love. He saif nothing of revenge, elopement or discouragement. “Little lady,” he observed in his hopeful sanguine way, “all right! If 1 can’t see you, I can keep on loving you, can't 1?* “Yes, yes,” murmured Hetty bro- keoly, “hut 1 shan’t hear—those. lov- fig Words! WHY, not T have you tell me how you think of me every day—" “But you shal announced Ned definitely. “You have agreed not to write to me. Don’t. You have prom- ised not to meet me. Keep your word. I'll arrange all that, but—trust me to break down this wall of preju- dice. Oceans shan’t part us. In the meantizie, until things settle down— this. Ned drew from his coat pocket one of the tools he used in putting in wires. He waved it buoyantly. ‘Yonder.” he said, pointing to the barb wire fence, “is a conductor right at hand. I'ti conuect up half a mile down the road with Farmer Moore's house line. The feeder will go up there,” and he pginted among the branches of thc old apple tree. “Oh, Ned!"” cried Hetty, clasping her hands in ecstagy, “you—you don’t mean—" “That | am going to put a tele- phone especially for you up in that tree. Why, every evening we can talk over the line for hours, if we want to.” “You darling!” exuberated Hetty breathlessly. “Oh, how fortunate it is that you know all about tele ool-teacher * he knew what meant by “at par,” replied that was always at pa when he came home late.”—Exchange. rade of the same type slouched into view. “Well, how's the outlook?” queried | the first comer. i “Capital.” “Girl gone?” “Half an hour ago.” i “And the old man?” “In the room where his safe s, ul' alone. There's a rich haul, partner. Come on.” “Mercy!” gasped the startled Hetty, as the two strangers disappeared in the direction of the farm house. “They are going to rob uncle!” Her wits worked quick. She was aware that the men folks on the next | farm were not at home. Then a bright idea occurred to her. She snatched free the receiver of the tele- phone. “X-X"—oh, quick, please! please!” she breathed frantically. And then as the connection was | made: “Oh, Ned! come quick, with help. There are two burglars here who are going to rob uncle!” “Will they never come?” she cried, standing out in the road and looking townwards. Then her heart took | hope. Two distant sparks grew | brighter, the lamps of a speeding’ automobile. Then she could hear the ! chug-chug of the flying machine. She | ran out into the road and waved her neck scarf. Two town officers accompanied her lover. One guarded the front door of the house as they reached it. Ned and the other man went around to the porch that opened into the office of old Simon. “Just in time!” announced Ned, and he and the officer sprang Into the room.. One ot the burglars was guard- 108 thefr victim with & revolver: The | other had just lifted his strong box from the safe. The officers departed with their prisoners. Ned explained. “A telephone did it?" muttered old Simon, closely hugging his treasure box. “But for that—Join hands!” he | said abruptly. “I'm converted, Hetty. This young man may put in a 'phone in the morning. As to coming here regular, 1 fancy he's earned the priv- flege.” And so love by telephone led to | love directly under the home roof. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman,) DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | His | been recelved by a woman and had real importance, not doubting but that | had others myself just as absurd. Hm and 1 occupied a common lving room, and one evening when we were about to go out to dinner together Jim picked up an envelope that had been | left by the postman during the day, unsealed, and took out a booklet ad- vertising some kind of goods. 1 no- ticed him looking at it, or some part of it, with apparent interest; then he tossed it in the wastebasket. The next morning 1 happened to go to that same wastebasket to recover a bit of paper | had thrown in it con- taining an address. 1 stumbled on the envelope containing the advertisement and noticed that it was addressed in a feminine hand. 1 thought nothing of this, since girls are usually employed to address advertising matter, and was buating on for my paper when 1 raked up the advertisement. It gave a llst of articles that would alone Interest a woman. This set me to thinking why it should have been addressed to a man. While meditating on this 1 no- ticed some lead pencil marks on the booklet. They were 8. 16. T%. Now, had It not been for what 1 have sald about Jim and his mysteries it would not have occurred to me that these figures were not merely some- thing put there by some unknown per- son for some very ordinary .purpose, but intended for a cipher. First, ad- vertisements of especial Interest to wo- men are not usually mailed to men. This suggested that the booklet hud been used for cipher purposes by the recipient. What better method for com munication could there be? Whether the figures had a meaning or not, 1 re- solved that if 1 ever got a girl whose parents would not permit me to visit ber | would use this plan of communi- | catlon. I tried bard not to pry into Jim's af- fairs, but the puzzle was too fascinat- | ing for me to let alove. Besides, there was the temptation to beat Jim at i own game. What 8 16.7% meant haunted me till I hit upon the fact that the present month was August, the eighth month In the year. The present day was the 12th. Did not the fig- ures contain an appolntment? If so, it was for Aug. 16 at half past 7 (proba- | bly in the evening). I could not quite bring myself to shadow my friend on that evening, but during tbe next month or so | uoticed that he received a number of adver tisements on which there were lead pencil warks. 1 did not try to de Important Medical Discovery Should Be Recorded In Mis Memorial. There has been a suggestion that | in a memorial to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes some worthy recognition be made of his incomparable service to | mankind in the discovery and propaga- i tion against obstacles that would have deterred a less honest and sympa- thetic mind of the contagiousness of childbed fever and its remedy. Lay Persons and unfortunately many in | the profession are unaware of this | epoch-making discovery by a man | whose memory is beloved and hon- ored for his literary attainments only. A disease which consigned thousands of recent mothers to un- timely graves was suddenly deprived of its malign prevalence by the dis- covery of Doctor Holmes that it was | contracted by contact with the doc- | tor or nurse and that simple precau- | tions by them would prevent its oc- currence. Persecuted in his own country by the ridicule of great pro- fessors in that specialty, Holmes pur- sued the even tenor of his way until his idea was accepted in England. Thence it was carried to the con- tinent, where it was taken up by a Hungarian physician who reduced the mortality in the Vienna hospitals enor- mously. To the latter his countrymen have erected a monument in Buda- pest, and annually homage is paid to his memory, while Hoimes is barely remembered in the United States for this sclentific discovery, which it is sald he valued more highly than his literary fame. Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.—Sir P. Sidney. To Wash Windous. - To wash windows quickly: Take & chamois skin, dipped in warm water, to wash windows. Then wring the same chamois skin dry as possible, and after wiping the window again you will have a finely polished glass, without the use of numerous cloths to do the work. Look Ahead! The present moment is the womst; the leuient band of Time is dafly and hourly either lighteaing the bur- den, or making us insensible to the welght —Robert Burns. all laughed together. But I k wondering for many months cipher any of them. Indeed, I had not deliberately tried to decipher the first one. | bad come upon it by accident it bad got into my head and 1 couldn’; get it out till 1 had solved it What 1 did was to buy a wedding present and | leave it where Jim could see it He was above asking me what it was. for, 80 | told bim that it was for a friend who was about to be married, adding that | 1 could not name the person since the | engagement wag & gecret. The reason why I counted on Jim's coming marriage was that it is difficult 1 not impossible for two men to live together one of whom is engaged with- out the other knowing it. Jim never told me of his engagement till a couple of weeks before the wed: €ing. There had been no reason what- ever for the secrecy attending the af- fair except such ss influences young couples in similar cases and Jim's idio syncrasy. The girl's parents were wmuch pleased with the match, and Jim's parents were not living. Jim probably would have kept the secret from me longer, but he wished me to be his best man, and it was proper that he should give me timely notice. The evening before the wedding 1 carried the wedding gift I had pro- cured to the bride’s home. Jim was there, and when I opened the box In which it was contained Jim started as if be had been shot. 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