Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 5, 1915, Page 3

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He bad the patronage of the county, | T —————— WOLF IN THE FOLD By GERALD MONTAGUE. | “You will find no woman willing to stand for a life in a shepherd’s hut,” his friends told Larry Owen, when he ,announced his intention of getting married and retaining his job. I Llrry smiled, and when his friends saw hrldc they changed their opin- {fon. Dorothy was a mite of a thing, Just a little gray mouse—Welsh, like and a girl whom he had hmummhdouluwem.m Montana to work on the sheep did not intend to keep Doro- nclmlon upon the hills for- as the seaman has thoughts farm where he can spend years of his life, so Larry ways dreamed of a snug little ' place with an orchard, bees, and chickens, and no sign of a sheep ! within & hundred miles. He was an ex- | pert farmer, besides being a sheperd, and he had twelve hundred -dollars stored snugly away—almost enough to start the farm. There was a certain orange farm in a California county on which he had | his eye for some months. How Doro- thy would love the life there, the warm companionship of the westerner beyond the ranges, the sun, the ease. He had paid a flying trip there six months before. But he sald nothing of this to Darothy. A man should take his wife into his. confidence. As a rule the surprise element does not work out satisfac- | torlly. Rather it is the man who gets the surprises. This case was no exception. Doro- thy soon began to weary of the eter- nal hills. They had been married six months when Larry discovered that she was running a bill at the nearest town for clothes, far in excess of what he had planned for her. “Well, I'm just sick of the motonony here,” she said defiantly. “I can't re forever, seeing nothing but the sheep. Won't you get another Job? The Welsh girl was homesick for the old friendly society. She longed for the faces she had known; she felt that she had stepped into a vast, perpetual prison. It has been sald & man and woman cannot live in utter seclusion and re- tain their love for each other. In spite of their love of a dozen years, Rode Five Miles to His Nearest Neigh- bor. dating back to boy and girl times, they began to drift apart. Where there are sheep the wolt comes. It was no exception here. Jim Collins was six feet one, flashy and “taking” with women. He had a sin- ister reputation among the folks of the district. But he was the man for whom Larry was working. He had not often paid a visit to the range, preferring to gamble away his money : at Butte, where he had a string of | Larry. too. Many women had given their love to Collins. They had lived to regret it—but Dorothy only saw in him a big, good-natured man, longing for sympathy and to be understood. Once Larry, returning from the range sooner than had been expected, found Collins in the hut, bending over Dorothy as she made tea. Helooked up brazenly and laughed. Larry sald nothing then. Later he taxed his wife with caring for Collins. That was a mistake. A man should hold his peace until the time comes to strike. But all Larry’s wounded soul, all the suf- fering he had endured during those days of estrangement came to his lips in a flood of bitterness. Next morning he went to work with- out a word having been spoken. When he was gone Dorothy slipped out of the hut. An hour later she stepped into an automobile that was waiting for her below the hill. When Larry came home that night, his heart overflowing with contrition, he found the hut empty. A little note was pinned to the dresser. “I don't love Jim Collins,” it read, “but he can give me something bet- ter than sheep. We leave Butte for California on the night train and you will never see me again. But you won't want to, as long as you have your sheep.” tions his readers to bear in mind that “the effects of lunation are subordinate to those of the quarterly ingresses.” It only he will tell us now whether this is a threat or a promise our relief of mind will be great.—St. Paul Dis- Threat or Promise? A prominent Eastern astrologer cau- patch. Larry stood staring at the note for a long time, and into his mind came the picture of Dorothy as he had seen her in Wales, the innocent girl in the big sunbonnet whom he had loved. ‘What bhad he done? How had this thing come between them? He saddled his horse and rode five miles to his nearest neighbor. “Keep charge of my sheep a day or two,” he sald. “I'm going to Butte.” “Something wrong with the wife?” asked the neighbor sympathetically. “Yes,” answered Larry, riding away. However, he had no intention of go- ing to Butte. He knew that the night train from Butte stopped to take on water at a siding a few miles down the valley. He could catch her if he rode hard. And, once aboard—well, Larry had a revolver in his coat pocket. Yet his object was less to be re- venged upon Collins than to preserve Dorothy’s good name, to save her from herself. He rode hard. The moon came up and lit the mountain way. Time and | again he thought he heard the Butte train snorting up the incline in the dlmne.. but always the sound proved . And now he was nearing the railroad track, which ran, a nar- row, edged ribbon, beneath him. He spurred his horse down the mountain way. At last he dismounted and, turning the beast adrift to graze, waited be- side the rails. Terrible thoughts as- sailed him as he waited there. What | 1t, instead of killing Collins, he were to place one of the huge fallen firs across the rails, dislodging the engine from the metals as it came swinging round the curve? He could destroy Collins and a hundred others, sending them to their death among the bowl- ders far below the grade, and escape unknown in the confusion. Was Dorothy worth the sacrifice of | his own life in retribution? The temptation grew stronger, until the man shook with the agony that assailed him. At last he went toward the tallest of the firs, a glant tree as hard as ebony, which lay with its trunk projecting only a few inches from the rails. With the exercise of .all his strength he could shift it a few inches down the incline. He knew that just where it lay the curve was the most dangerous. He stopped. Then, in the distance, he heard the pufiing of the engine as she forced her way up to the summit before de- scending on the grade that led to the siding. There was just time. But the sight of the flery eyes of the monster above him paralyzed his mind, and he could not turn his mus- cles to the accomplighment of the exnng 08 ks, SR 53 screaming as she made her way to the -ldl::. Larry l'.mulh ltfif 3!! t00 late now. But it was not too late to carry out his original purpose. Bmo:lv the moving hass seemed to still, She gwerved, reared, mdthen.?v%hnnrimgtmm steam, the engine left the metals and toppled upon its side, followed by balf the cars, yet clinging almost miracu- lously to the mountain side. Flames burst out among the wreck- age. The screams of the injured reached Larry's ears plainly. Entire- ly forgetful of his purpose, the man ran at full speed toward the scene of the accident. Men and women lay half buried beneath the wreckage. Lar- ry ran along the side of the over- turned cars, searching for Dorothy. And he found her. She was unin- Jured, and, on her knees, she crouched beside a man with a ghastly wound across his breast. Larry knew Col- lins, though the face had been bat- tered almost out of recognition. He must have been killed instantly. He touched Dorothy upon the arm. “There is nothing to do,” he sald. “It is too late.” “Yes,” she answered, rising to her feet in a mechanical manner and mov- ing away. She seemed stunned by the catastrophe. = She hardly realized where she was. Larry devoted hour after hour to alding the injured, until the hospital train that was rushed out from Butte came up. Then 'he found Dorothy again. ; near the body of her , She was standi; companion, I her. “What are you going to do?” asked g uncertainly about “1 d.on't know,” she answered calm- ly. She seemed to have lost all power of feeling. “Go on to California, I sup- | pose. You see, I have my ticket.” “But what will you do there?” “What does that matter to you? Anything.” “Dorothy, you said you did not love that man,” said Larry. “Well?” she returned. “Dorothy, in the old days I used to love a little girl in Wales. She was highstrung and willful sometimes, but she was never bad. Nobody could have said that of her. And one day, after a quarrel—she didn't know I took it, but I took a vow. It was that I would always protect her, against herself even. And though that was long ago, and she is married now, do you suppose that makes any differ ence. Dorothy, I am never going back. I am going to Californis too. Is it to be together?” And suddenly she was weeping upon his neck in an agony of shame. (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) Marriage Age for Women. Training and efficiency, and not sex, should be the qualifications of those wishing to fill positions in life, says Dean Emilie W. McVea-of Cincinnati university. She says that girls should marry at twenty-five, and the only ob- Jection to a college education is that it raises the marriage age to twenty- eight or thirty. Cleans Paint and Varnish. Here is a good way to clean painted and varnished surfaces: To half a bucketful of warm water add a table spoonful of salts of tartar; wash the paints with 2 rag dipped in this, and it will remove every speck of dirt. Rinse in clear warm water and dry with a chamols. Peter the Great What Alfred the Great is to early Britain, that Peter the Great, in his erude way, is to Russia. If ever a Copyright. 1914, by the McClure Nevspaper Syndrie All 1 have to tell you in connection ' with the accident that bronght me to this hospital 18 this: My parents were drowned before | was a geur old. and alter being passed frum une person to unother | was at lasxt sent to a pau- pers bome. Al the age of ten | ran away from the ustitution. hoping to better my cunGitivia, but instead of that 1 fell jnto the bands of this and that farmer, and 1 every instance 1| was overworked und ground down. The Dume geverally given we was “Pag- per.,” and | was clothed in the cheapest and puorest garments aug fed with the dogs. If | bore It patiently | was an object for further abuse; if | rebelled 1 was kicked out to find another place. 1 used tv wonder and speculate as to why | was treated in this manner— why there was never a k'zd word for me, why men, women ana“uiidren de- burdens, wasn't sulky or impudent. Had any bumno being interested himselt In me I should have come up tu give the world an bhonest tight in an honest way. | was sixteen years old as near as | cun make it when | was last kick- ! ed out. 1 had worked for that farmer | a year, and he had clothed me like a scarecrow and fed me like a dog. Nim- ply because | broke the bandle ot a { boe by accident | was beaten until L fell unconscious. In the small bours of the hight. groaning at every step, but fearful of my life, | took to th highway, and a carter gave me a lift which carried me many miles before light. | was determihed to try the city this time. My rags, my ignorance and my general appearance had always frightened me away from the towns and kept me among the agricniturists, 1 had scarcely descended from the cart when | encountered an old man, who looked me over aud then accosted e, He seemed to have a kind face, and he spoke pleasantly, and it was soon agreed that | should go with him. As 1 was n pauper and a runaway, too, | could expect no more than clothes and hoard in exchange for my services. The man was nawed Sabin, He kept a secondhund furniture shop, and as he was all alone in the world be lived in a miserable way in a room over the shop. In a day or two he got me to sign A paper binding myselt to bim untll of age, and the ink was hard- ly dry on the “X*" murk before | found & change ig bi wag by naturg cruel, stingy an ul sh, He worked me without stint, and during the two ears | was with bim | was always ungry and tired. One night when | had been with Mr. Babin about two years and just after be bad beaten me for some tritle und laughed over his work a strunge thought cime to me. For the first time in my life a feeling of revenge crept into my heart, and it made me shake and tremble. | bad stood insuits and abuses beyond number and never thirsted for reparation. In a quarter of an hour there was more change in me than the last ten years had wrought. | called up all my wrongs. My heart filled with bitterness against the whole world. | wanted to strike men dead for what they bad made me suffer. The old man found & change in me the next morning. | bad spent the whole night thinking, and when he called me his dog and threw me a morsel of food | stood up nnd cursed bim. When he luid his hands on me 1 threw him to the toor. He was dumfounded, but he shut his teeth together and looked at me with halt | shut eyes aud said that he would have my life. We were both sullen and si- lent that day, but | reasoned it out that his plan was to come downstairs that night as | slept and bind me fast and then torture me to his heart’s con- tent. Yes, I reasvned it out that this would be his way, und while | was wondering how 1 could bafle him Sa- tan came to my aid. “Go und kill him!" whispered the tempter. all bis money and flee far away. deserves killing for the way he has ! treated you, and all the money you can find should be yours by right! The more | thought it over the less murder and robbery seemed a crime, and by and by | had neither fear nor pity In my beart. At midnight, with an iron bar in my hand, I crept up- stairs and softly pushed the old man's door open. He had just got out of bed. He bad a candle in one band and a rope in the other, and there was a dev- flish smile on his face as he thought how he would trap and get revenge on me. My face must have told him that 1 was there to do murder, for his jaw dropped, and | saw terror in his eyes. 1 bad raised the bar and was about to spring forward, neither of us having uttered a word, when there was a crashing and a splintering, and a great beap of junk which was stored in the room above him came down. It was morning before any one found us. He was dead—broken, battered. bruised and crushed out of all sem- blance—while | was little better off. No man suspected that | was there to do murder. They called it an accident. though I tell you it was the hand ot @ed. God took the old man's life to prevent me from becoming a murderer, but at the same time dealt out my just ponishment. Had | dyed my hand in blood there would have been no heaven for me. Tomorrow when they bear my corpse ont of this maybe the an- gels will bave pleaded my cause and secured forgiveness for me. Quite Portable. A man who had taken an interest in the “back to the land” movement and had gone so far as to invest in a bungalow met a friend who was anx- fous to know how he had made out. “Was that one of those portable bun- galows you bought?” asked the friend. “] guess it was,” replied the other, rather ruefully. “The wind oarrvied it away one day.” Hardly. “Some of the weddings must make Cupld laugh in his sleeve,” remarks newspaper cynic. Not the Cupld pictures we've seen.—Boston sired to bumiliate me n{d add to wmy ! | waso't waltormed. and 1| ° 3\\;;3"1‘::”1[ — ——n - e Every Dollar Expended for Lumber Is Well Invested The buildings you construct with the lumber you buy, mean not only economy in the conservation of crops, machinery and stock, but add to the equipment and value of the farm. Lumber purchased for repairs, is an especially wise purchase, as its use prevents the buildings from deteriorating in value and usefulness. Lakeland Manufacturing Company LAKELAND, FLORIDA, "5 Thereis a differ- ence between Shirts doneup at the Lakeland Steam Laundry and those done at the average place There is also class to our Shirt Work. ] Send us your Shirts next week and youy § will always send them. The Lakeland Steam Laundry R W. WEAVER, Prop. PHONE I30 Lower Prices on Ford Cars kffective August 1st, 1914 to Augustist, 1y15 and guatanteed against any reduction auring that time. All cars tully equippea t o. b. Dertroit. Runabout... ... .. Touring Car .. Town Car... ... ...690 Buyers to Share in Profits Ail retail buyers of new Ford cars from August 1st, 1914 to August Ist, 1915 will share in the profits of the company to the extent of $40 to $60 per car, on each car they buy, FROVIDED: we sell and de- liver 300,000 new Ford cars during that pe- riod. Ask us for particulars FORD MOTOR COMPANY Lakeland Auto and Supply Co. POLK COUNTY AGENTS. m‘mm The Financial Crisis Over We are now in shape togive you the benefit of our Low Expenses. Let us wire your House and save you money, Lower Insur- ance, Cleanliness and Convenience are the results. T. L. CARDWELL Phone 397 * With Lakeland Sheet Metal Works YOUR EYES Are worth more to you than most any other part of the body. When you feel them growing tired, hurting, smart- or drowsy, think of Cole & Hull for your glasses. We do our own lense grinding, all broken lenses duplicated. “A PLEASURE TO SHOW GOODS.” COLE & HULL Jewelres and Optometrists Lakeland, Fla.