Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 18, 1915, Page 2

§ i “If he does I'll him and send him can.” Up to the day the suit was called the efforts to get young Dayton to change lawyers continued, but he was firm. On the date set, father, mother, brother and sister were on hand at the court house, and presently Miss Mollie got a surprise that opened her — By EMMA LEE WALTON. t (Copyright.) Her name was Miss Carberry, and she was young and pretty, in a quiet | sort of way. She came in two or three at face. When Mr. Huston crossexamined her, he was as kind as he had been to GRANDMA STILL KNITS BUT THE YARN TANGLES. X ly “Sometimes,” sald the striking handsome woman with the white hair, “I really wish mother. It must have been 80 rest- 1 were my own grand- eyes, Her brother’s attorney proved to be the Mr. Graham she had talked with at the lawn party. Yes, he was his first case. Blushes galloped over 4 " 4 i | times every month from one of the me though it was plain to be seen suburbs to do her shopping, and she ' that he was sure she was in the thing was the easiest person to walt on I gomehow. Her not knowing anybody @ver saw. in Chicago looked pretty bad for her, She wasn't a bit like these women ' and it was much worse that she had who make you haul out everything in | no one in Peoria she was willing to fui to be a grandmother in ber day. “Yes, of course I'm one myself, but the styles in grandmothers have changed so greatly that I'm not in ¢ least like the dear old lady in the black silk and real lace cap who used hand They stood for a quart of pounds starch. horse and rickety wagon the kept counting the strings and of sugar and a package en the job, and the horse was left to pick his own going. Young Dayton’'s chauffeur might Rhave been looking over the landsca on either side of the highway, or he might have had his eyes closed as he thought of the perfidy of the cook who had led him on and on until he Bad declared his love and then hit Aim with a four-story brick house. As for the young man he might not have been thinking of anything, and Bhad his eyes on the toes of his shoes. When both farmer and auto are properly encouraged there is a get- can of baking powder, | the girl's cheeks as she remembered how she had maligned him, and if he looked her way he found her looking another. The farmer was the first witness on the stand: He had gone over his testimony a hundred times, and was all ready to start off with: “Wall, I was goin’ up town to buy | some 'lasses and things.” “Yes?” “I was keepin’ my eyes peeled for them darned autos, and I was a say- ing to myself that if one come As he jogged along with | along— “Never mind what you were saying. One did come along, didn't it?” “I should say! Come along and sent me a-flyin’. forty feet high!” “And injured?” “Injured? Why, it scraped most of the hide off'n me, and I was lame for two hull weeks afterwards!” “That was too bad. Now, Mr. Saul bury, you know the rules of the road, don’t you?” “I've knewed ‘em ever since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. You keep to the right-hand side.” “That's correct. Why didn’t you do s0 in this case?” “I did, sir.” “Then why was the dead body of the horse found on the left-hand side ting together. There was in this case. There was a crash and there was a | together with the wreck of the buggy? stock, and then walk snippily away, saying they guess they’ll get it some- where else; or, even when she didn’t want to buy, she was that kindly it was a pleasure to do things for her. I always like to remember her, when it seems some days as though women folks were pretty hard to deal with. She remarked to Minnie once that she was a stranger everywhere, having ! recently come from the South after traveling all over the world. It was| all along of her being friends with our | however, to feel sure he wouldn’t think keep up with my departm floorman, Mr. Winter, that we first no- | of anything except that she was in Woman'sleague. She wasn't bur ticed her. They'd met somewhere, llfll trouble and meeded him. So I asked either, with a civic conscience. refer to. Mr. Huston kind of smiled crooked when she said the man who had gone surety for her running an account in Meadows’ store had died the week be- fore. Things were beginning to be pretty dark for her when I thought of Mr. Winter. I was going to blurt his name right out vhen I remembered they had quarreled and she might even deny she knew him at all. I thought I knew him well enough, ! to sit placidly knitting by our fireside ! when 1 was a little girl. I can see her now, in the summer time, too, in & retired corner of the porch of our old home. Usually Young's ‘Night Thoughts’ lay open on her violet- sprigged muslin lap. It is a lovely picture of quiet and repose !o recall in ghese busy times. She didn’t have ! to read Bergson and Ellen Key or any | of the modern philosophers that I have i to gobble in large bites in order to partment in the dened,‘ 1 he was always sure to come and talk . Mr. Huston if I might phone to our de- don't suppose it would ever have oc- to her for a good half hour as soon as ' she appeared on the floor, whether she ' was buying waists or suits or a kimo- no. We all noticed it, of course, but by and by we got so used to it we didn’t even smile to each other. Well, everything went all right until one day toward spring they quarreled. We didn’t know a thing about it until some one said she hadn’t been in for weeks, and then we took to watching. Along in April she came in, in a hurry, for a waist, and that tall Miss Ring waited on her. She wanted the waist charged, and wished to take it with her, so Miss Ring called Mr. Winter. Mz, Winter signed the check, Miss Carberry bowed freezingly and said! “Thank you,” and he walked away, for . partment. He looked surprised Mr. Winter came in. “We are conducting a private inves- tigation, Mr. Winter,” he said coldly. “Could your business wait a half hour?” “I beg pardon,” Mr. Winter said. *1 understod you wished me to come up here at once.” “I phoned for Mr. Winter,” I sald eagerly. “He can help Miss Carberry, it you will let me tell him.” I was astonished at my own bold- mess, but I knew Mr. Huston liked straightforward people, and anyhow— I had to. He smiled. “Go ahead,” he said. It took a good many words to tell it all straight, and Mr. Winter’s face was when ' curred to her that it was her duty to | leave her dinner half eaten and rush down to the city council on a Mon- day night to throw the moral weight of her presence against the passage of a nefarious ordinance. “Oh, dear, there's the telephone. | Friday forenoon, did you say? Please wait a moment until I consult my cal- ! endar. Yes, I can see you at ten.! | Please come promptly, as 1 have a committee meeting at 11. “That's & young woman who wants | me to hear her paper on eugenics be- fore she reads it to the Mothers’ coun- cfl in the settlement where she works. 1 wonder what my grandmother would H have thought about eugenics? “Just. excuse me a moment while I Hams Uncanbassed at 18 Cents This Week Only all the world as though she were a a study. He looked angry and hurt and glance at these notes. Here's an in- | [. 6. TWEEDELL smash—shouts and yells, and there they were! The dld horse was dead, the buggy wrecked, and the farmer hoisted over the fence among the Why were you tossed over the fence on that side?” “The hoss—the hoss—" “Yes, the horse?” complete stranger to him. It was llteI one of the melodramas where the hero- ine freezes the hero with a look before puzzled, and then he burst out before 1 finished, sudden as lightning. “Mr. Huston, Miss Carberry is as vitation to the ball poudre the Had- salls are giving Wednesday of next week. 1 certainly must squeeze in a PHONE 59 thistles. The auto was banged, the| ‘He must have jogged over when I chaufteur knocked about, and young [ Wasn't looking.” “Yes, he must. Can you expect dam- ages when you are breaking the rules of the road?” “Plague take the old woman for ty- Ing them strings around my fingers to make me remember!” The farmer was non-suited on his own testimony, hut young Dayton said to him: “Perhaps [ was a bit to blame in the matter for being under such speed, and this hundred dollars will X | at least pay for your old horse. « Miss Mollle tried to get away from (A |the court house without a word to Mr, Graham, but he had his eye on her and followed her out to the auto and sald: “You know you agreed to shake hands with the winner?” “But why.did you let me talk to you that way?” she asked as she ex- ¥ tended her hand. . —."?*:.':@ “And you are to send me all the cases you can.” Poor Mollle could hardly speak a word on the way home, and after the arrival there her exultant brother added to the situation by saying: she knows he is “a man with a heart honest and straight as you are!” he dancing lesson or two before then. “A(rmas There Were 8ome Awful Made. Dayton had a bad limp on him as he | arose from the dust of the road. “You've done it now—b'gosh you've done it!” ghouted the farmer as he hung to the fence, “Yaas,” drawled young Dayton, with an accent that would have done credit Threats “Sis, there was but one thing to do under the circumstances, and I did it. Mr. Graham will be here to dinner.” “I won't see him!” “And after dinner you will be left alone with him.” “I won't!” “And he will plead and win his sec- ond case.” Miss Mollie denies that they are en- gaged, but her brother does not take her word for it. of gold, though a rough exterior.” Miss Ring sald she nearly fell over, she was that surprised and taken back, but of course she didn't say & word to Miss Carberry. After that we didn’t see her again for weeks, and were just beginning to wonder it Mr. Winter would ever get over it, when in she came with the strange lady. The strange lady was quietly, dressed, and seemed very nice, but I didn't take to her a bit. We'd had an | awfully hard day, anyway, and I was | terribly sorry I didn’t happen to be off the floor when they came in. I'd go'.' an awful calling down, too, because I lost a “Don’t-ticket” off one of the suits ' being fitted, and I just wanted to cry.) But when they came in, and Mr. Sem- ple called me to wait on them, shout- ing my name as though I were deat, I had to go and be good. Miss Carberry and the stranger had met on the train, and seemed already good friends, though Miss Carberry was usually so reserved. They were both looking for blue suits, so I could wait on them together, which made it easier. I had shown about fifteen suits, when a customer came hurrying back from the elevator and grabbed my arm just as I was going into one of the lit- tle stock rooms. She had lost her purse, she said, and she was all broken up, for it had lots in it. We were all sorry for her, and helped hunt, the stranger being espe- cially nice about it. She spent so much time lookipg that she said she | couldn’t stay any longer, as she had to cried sharply. “If she says she met this woman on the train, you may know it's as true as Gospel. I will stand responsible for her every act and thought. It's an outrage, by Jove, it is! She’s as innocent as—" Mr. Huston raised his hand and turned to Miss Carberry. “Do you know Mr. Winter?” asked severely. Miss Carberry hesitated. When he first came in she had looked very an- | gry to think he had dared; but when she found how it was her face softened a little, and there was a funny little light in her eyes when he became so excited. “Yes,” she said softly. know Mr. Winter.” “If all this is true, Mr. Winter,” Mr, Huston said slowly, “how can you ex- plain her unwillingness to send for you before?” “I didn't send for him this time,” Miss Carberry protested gently. Please remember that.” Mr. Winter glew red and glanced at Miss Carberry, who leaned forward, listening with parted lips and very pink cheeks. He hesitated a moment, but her eyes seemed to sort of smile, and he answered reluctantly: “Well, you see,” he stammered, “Miss Carberry and I've been friends for a long, long time, but a while ago we—well, we had a falling out, and she said she’d never speak to me again. 8o, you see—" Mr. Huston smiled. “I understand,” he sald. “It would take a hardened sinner not to"believe “I used to Billy—that's my younger grandson, you know—told me the other night at the club hop that 1 was really rusty on the waltz and twostep. You see, I've done the new dances so much the last two years that I've rather neglected the old ones, and now that they’re coming in again, I certain- 1y must brush up. I suppose I might afternoon before 1 go to the lecture { on Chinese porcelain. That reminds take a private lesson early Monday | Causes of Unhappiness. The worst kinds of unhappiness, as well as the greatest amount of it, come from our conduct to each other. It our conduct, therefore, were under me—I must refrcsh my memory on | the control of kindness, it would be the comparative importance of the art | nearly the opposite of what it is, and of the successive dynasties. Dear old | go the state of the world would be grandma, she wouldn’t have known | almost reversed. We are for the most the difference between the Ming dy- | part unhappy, because the world is an nasty and a china teapot, and I be-| unkind world. But the world is only leve it was a comfortable state of | unkind for the lack of kindness in us to a Hindoo in London. “And why in the devil were you here instead of somewhere else?” de- manded the chauffeur. There was more jawing, and there 'were some awful threats made. By the great horn spoon, and the little mrf::::: :::':; r.lgxz ::mh‘:.:m: And the first woman who fought for wouldn’t take a cent less. He spoke American liberty was Gunner Corbin's of warrants, arrests, sherifts, jails ana | W1dow, at the capture of Mount Wash- astate prisons, and he was still speak- ington, by the Scotch and Hessians. In tng when the auto limped off. the midst of the fight Gunner Corbin, | Young Dayton never settled things | Struck by a ball, fell dead at his wife's on the spot—not even when he bought feet as she was aiding him in his du- FIRST OF AMERICAN HEROINES ———re i Gunner Corbin’s Widow Fought for the Country’s Liberty at Mount Washington. . telephone a friend at once. Then the your faith in her justified. Miss Car customer who had lost her purse got berry, I am sorry you have been incon- still more excited and I sent one of . venienced, but I think you can see our the stock boys after Mr. Daly, our de- position. I am sure, with Mr. Winter tective, because I saw the lady sus- as such an earnest champion, I cannot pected the stranger, who was leaving hold you longer, even as an accom- the department. ! plice. Only remember, it is safer not When Mr. Daly came to me I told to make friends on the cars in the him all about it as fast as I could, and neighborhood of Chicago.” he stood a moment watching the stran-! Miss Carberry smiled, but couldn‘t ger disappear. Something in her man- | speak. ¥ ner seemed to bother him, for he| “Now, Daly,” Mr. Huston went on walked after her as quick as a flash. briskly, “I hand the real prisoner over Miss Carberry was nervous and dis-| to you. Find out whether it i her first cigarettes. There was a suit for dam- It was not an uncommon occurrence ages. A week after the accident Miss |fOr Irish women (as at Limerick) to Mollle Dayton, who had the honor of | Share the dangers of the bivouacks, as deing the sister of Mr. Clarence, at- At the gather- fng she was introduced to George tended a lawn party. Graham, and they were very con- genial. Being asked about the accl dent, the girl made a good witness on the stand. ‘She repeated all that she ‘bz been told about it, and then she h: -omething to add. Clarence had secu 2 lawyer to defend the suit, dut father thought and she thought he had made a great mistake. He had retained a fledgling who had mever had a case. He had been re- talned because he was a classmate at college. The father said, and that was also her idea, that the young lawyer was & person who wouldn’t come within a hundred miles of making a decent de- fence, to say nothing about winning. They had begged of Clarence to get some real lawyer, but he was ob- _ stinate about it. The farmer had sued for $500 damages, and with only & young lawyer opposed to him he ‘would likely get every cent of it. Mr. Graham listened and did not ftalk much. Now and then his face /fushed, but as it was a warm day Miss !Mollie laid it to the heat. When she finished her narrative she asked is opinion of Clarence’s chances and Be replied: Daily Thought. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these eome before all morelity; they are the perfect duties—R. L. 8. 1 a biscuit box, a table chimney sweep, a chain link, SAy, a camera slide, a garden & sword fish and a wall flower.” ! ! instance the deeds of that other hero- ine, Molly Pitcher. Instantly, without a word, she stepped into his place and worked the gun with redoubled skill and vigor, fighting bravely until she . sank to the earth, plerced by three ' grapeshot! Though terribly wounded, she finally recovered, but was disabled for life. A soldler’s half pay and the value of a soldier's suit of clothes, annually voted her by the Continental congress | (but soon discontinued) were all the | reward that the first woman who | fought for American liberty ever re- ceived for such heroic love, courage and suffering.—E. F. DeLancy, in the Magazine of American History. | Wanted to Double Up. Robert was about to have another { birthday. In the past, the fun-making had always been so hard and pml longed that it left him fatigued at | night, » this year, before he went to bed the nizht before, when he had sald ! Lis prayers be began over aghin. His mother, surprised, asked him: “Why are you saying your prayers twice, Robert?” “Oh,” replied Robert, “tomorrow night I'll be too tired to say ‘em at il "—Everybody’s. | Daily Thought. ! Let us wipe out the past, trust In the future—and rejoice in the glorious | Now. H { Now, Jasper! If, as the newspapers would have us believe, all brides are beautiful, where in Sam Hill do all the homely married women come from?"—Judge. tressed, but didn’t realizé at any time that the two quietlooking men stand- ing by the window were two other store detectives, who had been sum- moned by Mr. Daly, and had their eyes on her. They signed to me to go on showing goods; so I did, though my ! hands shook with excitement, and I was terribly nervous over the wailing of the lady who lost the purse. We were getting nervous enough to scream, when the manager’s office boy came down to speak to the detectives, and they asked us if we would have any objection to going with them to one of the upper floors They picked up an elevator that wes empty, and we | went up, scarcd out of our wits When we came in Mr i:! standing by the desk answe Huston's questions and the s was crying softly into a lace handker chief. Miss Carberry was as vhite as a sheet, but the lady who had 'ost her purse was real calm. Mr. Huston had Mr. Daly tell us | telephone booth, where he had seen | her take a purse from her sleeve and pour the money and bills into her stocking, throwing the purse after- ward on the floor. He had followed conductor to go up, though he was on his way down at the time When he finished his story, Mr. Huston asked the lady to describe her property as well as she could She did easily describe the puree end the money, and Mr Huston ex- | | Humane Turkish Laws. It ts unlawful in Turkey to seize & man’s residence for debt, and sufi- clent land to support himm is also ex- empt from seizure. Gharpening a Worn File. “Whea & filo gets dull,” said the master mechanic, “you can restore its offectiveness by pouring a little nitric acid o This roughens the raised parts the sunk parts so that it will again file your nails or cut & bar of iron.” offense and act accordingly. Madam, I would have been more inclined to let you go had you said the least word to help Miss Carberry out of the pickle you put her in. Remember that hext time. You are excused, all of you.” At the doorway I looked back and caught a glimpse of Miss Carberry crying on Mr. Winter's serge coat, and I forgot how tired and nervous and cross I had felt all the whole day long 1 felt for once as though I was living in a novel or a play Funny Tug of War. At a logging camp in lower Missis- sippl one day a hog commenced squeal- ing vigorously and when the foreman . investigated, he found that the porker had been seized by an alligator and was being drawn into water. He called for help and three men seized the hog and pulled. Then began a tug of war. , The men would pull the hog and the alligator up the bank, and then the | how he had followed the stranger to a | alligator would pull the hog and men back again. This merry game—for all but the hog—went on until a fourth man came running with an ax, and with it he hit the alligator such a rap on the head that it relaxed its grip, { her to the elevator then, and told the |and the men saved the hog, or what was left of it Compassion. Hobo—I've eaten nothing but snow- balls for three days. Lady—Poor man! What would you bave done had it heen summer time? Constable in Hard Luck. The special constable was chaffed by his friends for appearing on parade without his badge. “You see” ex- plained the “special,” “I was in rather a tough crowd getting on the car-the other night, and when I got in I found that someone had pinched my dadge. ‘They really ought to have detectives to watch the busy spots on tram routes.”—Manchester Guardian. Worth of a Friend. A frlend is worth all huzards we ean run.—Young. {gnorance. “No, I can't rest much Thursday afternoon, because I'm one of the pa- tronesses at the play and the dansant that Adelaide—that's my granddaugh- ter, you know—and the rest of her sorority are giving for the benefit of the Red Cross. But Saturday will be quite a free day. Just one short meeting in the morning, a musicale in the afternoon and the theater at night. I'll have the time to rest in the early morning, while the manicure is doing my nails. I always take that hour of the manicure's weekly visit | to do a lot of quiet thinking. I sup- pose grandmother had all the time for || thinking that she wished. “My head fairly buzzes with projects for the new vacation camp I'm get- ting up, the movement for introduc- ing household economics in work- men’s homes, that I'm pushing, and ! plans for all my other various boards and committees. The change of fash- | ions is bothering me just now also, for all my frocks, nearly, are too nar- row skirted for the present mode, though they were only made last au- tumn. I'm trying to evolve a meth- od of making them fuller which won't necessitate a complete remodeling. “How pleasant it must have been for grandmother always to know that her Waists were to be made surplice and her skirts plain gathered. It must have given her a peace of mind far exceed- ing that I gained from the course in artistic dress design that I took last year. She wag free from all wor- ries about harmony of tones and grace- ful lines. Her onmly care was for cleanliness and neatness, and her feel- ing for art was easily expressed in the pattern of knitted lace which fin- ished the hem of her crisp white apron that she rarely mussed, for all she had to do was to knit. “Yes, of course, I knit. 1 knit with- units who compose it.—Frederick Wil- | liam Faber. 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