Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 22, 1915, Page 6

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Our methods are open and above board, and Your Trade is Solicited WILSON HARDWARE CO. 1|for to let such a chance for excite- THE COLONEL PAYS By FREDERICK WALWORTH BROWN. b4 (Copyright.) “Talkin’ about snakes.” said Ser- geant Hook irrelevantly, “reminds me of the time I got hunky with old Blue Nose. He was our colonel till he was transferred for staff duty, an’ a ram- pageous old porpoise he was, too.” “Cut it out,” said Corporal Toplatch. “Don’t I know him? Ain’t I took his lip many’s the time? Get along to the snakes.” “Well, then, it was old Blue Nose's the fakir, takin' him by the neck. ‘Git especially in large country towns like lip that brought on the riot. We'd sat , out!’ I says, an’ give him a shove to- Roxbury. down in cantonments, an’ they sent us & batch o’ the rawest rookies that ever their country. D company’'s draft was & bunch to sicken a steer. An’ Chislett set me to drillin’ ‘em. “I drilled ’em an’ I drilled 'em an’ I drilled ’em till I'd wore the soles off my boots, an’ they'd still go seven ways \ for Sunday when I gave ’em an order. ‘ Then along comes old Blue Nose stalk- in’ ‘cross the parade, with a look on him like he’d bit on a worm. He stops an’ watches the sheep I was herdin’ an’ then he steps nearer. I halts the squad and comes to attention. “‘How long have you had 'em, ser geant?’ he says. “‘Three day! sir,’ I tells him. “‘Well, you're a darn poor drill mas- ter, then,’ says he, an’ tramps off. “Well, say, I could 'a’ et him alive | right then, an’ relished him. The rook: fes were a snickerin’ behind my back, an’ I was wore to the raw with 'em anyway; an’, one thing an’ another, 1 Just put that away on ice, in my cold- | storage plant, an’ swore I'd get hunky | with old Blue Nose or die tryin’. “Later, D company was sent up in the Bengalong district to keep the peace an’ after we'd been there a spell along comes old Blue Nose an” allows he'll make us his headquarters for a while which we had no use for him, but couldn’t lose him. He brought ; his wife with him, she havin’ just come out, an’ bein’ crazy to see the coun- ! try. “Say she had him cowed. He was the little dog under the wagon. She was a pill, she was, with the sugar- coatin’ wore offt. An’ old Blue Nose took it out on us. | “Well, anyway he brought her up to Bengalong to pacify her, an’ after he got her there he had to provide con- tinuous amusement to keep her paci fled That's how it happened that he picked up a Hindu snake charmer down in the bazaar an’ hiked him an’ i his fang-drawea reptiles up to canton- ments | “He was one o' these here dreamy- | eyed little heathen, with a sun-baked | complexion an’ a scraggly white beard. | 1 happened to see old Blue Nose a hik- in’ this outcast from Injua’s coral strand down toward the officers’ row. an’ I recognized the beggar instant. I'd | watched him doin’ his stunts in the ' bazaar. “Things were horrible quiet round the barracks. an’ it seemed a shame ' | ment escape. Here was a Hildu heathen. with twenty-five or more per- fectly venomous reptiles, right in our : midst. An’ here was the boys in bar- racks a needin’ something bad, to take their minds off the .thought o' bein’ ! sold into slavery for three years; an’, v besides, I had that score ‘chalked up ' against old Blue Nose. | “It was a case of your Uncle Jarvey on the job. I sat down in the shade, an’ studied how to get them two in- gredients o’ turmoil properly mixed up. Well, I sat there for mebbe an hour watchin’ the veranda where the fakir was a doin’ of his stunts, an’ the little red an’ yellow reptile ever an’ anon | stickin’ his tall in his mouth—" | “Aw, cut it out!” came from the corporal. “By an' by the Hindu packed his : squirms in the basket again, made his little salaam an’ backed off. On the | way he had to pass me. When he | came opposite I held up a quarter to . him an’ motioned to him to sit down. “‘What I want to know is this, I| says. ‘Are their fangs drawed? “‘Are their fangs drawed? says I, an’ made out to pull one o' my front teeth. Also I showed him the quarter again. “With that he reached into the bas- ket, casuallike, an’ fetched out four or five feet o' reptile by the neck. He pried open its jaws an’ showe® where the teeth had been pulled. “‘Good!’ says I. ‘They look danger- ous, but ain't. “Then 1 pointed out the barracks to him an’ gave him his instructions. He took his quarter, an’ made tracks with | dignity, while 1 went off to pave the way for doin's which was to paralyze all the blue devils in cantonments, an’, at the same time, square up my ae count with the colonel “Casey was with us then You nl member Casey, the little red-headed Mick, who was game to fight anything ap to an elephant? Sure you do. Well, { hunts up Casey an’ puts it to him straight He was shy at first, not lik- ! ' snakes, beim’ Irish, but 1 told him they was toothless, an’ that I'd looked in their mouths, so he came 1n at last, an’ we framed up a program We felt like philanthropists, for D company needed diversions bad “Wel), the boys was sittin’ round the barracks that evenin’, smokin’ as usual, when the fakir pokes his sead in, an’ Casey gives a yell o' pure joy. He grabs the little man by the shoulder | || an’ hauls him tenderly in, basket an’ | all, an’ the boys get up an’ begin to Man of His Werd “ls Bliggins & man of bis werd?™ : “Unfortunately so. Whenever he sings ‘Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowll' or ‘T Won't Go Home Till Morning!" he absolutely insists on making good.” j out from under a cot an’ reared up, | with his hood spread, not two feet | again to see if he had lost any; an’| rubber. So, presently, they had a nice little tight ring made, with the Hindu in the middle. I was conspicucusly absent, it bein’ my duty to disallow such proceedin’s. “Casey said they had a gorgeous time. The snakes come out o' the basket one by one an’ crawled over that old heathen like grapevines on an arbor. When it was over they took up a collection, an’ the fakir packed up his pets, an’ then Casey give me my cue. I ramped in immediate, boilin’ with rage. I ripped through that ad- mirin’ circle like it was paper dolls ‘stead o’ grown men, an’ I give that basket one everlastin’ kick .that disin- tegrated it completely an’ spread them serpents like a summer shower all over the place. | “‘What you doin’ here? I says to ward the door. | “He ran into a jam o' men fightin’ No.2 .|C.H.& N.l| signed away their souls for love o', for the doorway, an’ bounced back like injia-rubber. Somebody hit him, I reckon, which was a pity. “'Twas one o' the most successful riots I ever attended. You could hear the noise of it for miles. Presently, as I stood watchin’ it, a big cobra come amblin’ over my foot, an’ I kicked out = by instinct. Well, sir, that reptile rose right up like a goal from the fleld, an’ fell in the middle o' D company, fight- in’ in the doorway. “With that somebody yells, ‘They're droppin’ from the roof!* | “When the fightin’ riot finally broke through the door an’ spilled out into the veranda, a mob of officers came pourin’ in. Casey was goin' gingerly from cot to cot lightin’ the lamps. The Hindu was squattin’ on his hams, wailin’ like a Chinese gong, and your Uncle Jarvey was doin’ the virtuous hero act in the middle of the floor. | “Then in ramps Chislett, old Blue Nose, the major, an’ half a dozen oth- ers, wantin’ to know the reasons. | “ ‘Snake charmer, sir,’ says I to Chis- | lett. ‘Found him here amusin’ the boys.” “‘How’d he get in? snaps Chislett. | “ ‘Someone must 'a’ brought him in, ' sir,’ I says, an’ old Blue Nose cut ln‘ quick: . | *“‘Well, never mind how he got in,’; he says. ‘Get him out again.’ “Right then a big king cobra come from the colonel's leg. Say, old Blue Nose jumped back like a yearlin’. “‘Look out there, sergeant, says Chislett. “I took a look like I hadn’t seen the beast before, an’ then, with the worst yell I had in me, I leaped for a cot. “‘Gather 'em up,’ says Chislett to ' the heathen, an’ the little man rolls up | the whites of his eyes at him. He| was gatherin’ 'em up the best he knew, | but they wouldn't stay gathered. They oozed out of his clothes faster'n he, could shove ‘em in. “‘Are they dangerous, sir? I says, like an innocent che-ild. “About then some one o' the boys ; that didn’t know any better hove in a ! coffee basket, an’ the Hindu grabbed | it like a godsend, an’ begins shovin’ | in his pets. After he'd got all there was in sight, he had to turn 'em out when he got through countin’ ‘em he let out a wail, an’ begun talkin’ wild- like, in the language of Injia. “We switched him into United i States after a bit, an’ learned the pleasin’ news that he was four snakes short. “‘Find 'em,’ says Chistlet, short as : ks. “The Hindu pokes around on his belly under the cots, moanin’ like a bereaved parent, but he don't find any loose serpent: n’ all of a sudden he Jumps up an’ trots over to old Blue Nose an’ begins revilin’ him in mighty choice language, accusin’ him o’ bring- | in’ him in there and gettin’ him into all this trouble. He winds up by de- mandin’ five dollars for his lost snakes. “Well, I thought old Blue Nose would have apoplexy. He turned seven colors, an' made sort o' suffo- catin’ noises in his throat; an’ then, without sayin' a word, he uls out his wallet, digs up a fiver, an’ lets it g0 at that. “Halt D company had black eyes next morning, but there wasn't a blue devil In the outfit. “Well, Casey an’ I were talkin' it over that afternoon, when along comes old Blue Nose, trottin’ his wite out to see some more sights. “I had my back to him, an' I says to Casey, I says: ““Things like last night’ I says, ‘are rotten bad for discipline. There's that bunch o' rookies. How're we goin’ to beat 'em into shape if our officers—* “About then old Blue Nose sort o' checks in his gait, an’' Casey an’' I faces front an’ salutes. The old geezer hangs on one foot for a second, starin’ at us hard, an’ then clamps his mouth shut an’ goes on. “An’ with that I called quits.” Would Only Stand One Verse. At Christmas the children of an Eng- lish provincial school tried to collect money by singing carols and snatches of hymns. Many complaints had reached the rector's ears ot bands of | youngsters scampering through m.‘ first verse of “While Shepherds Watched,” and then violeatly the doorbell. So he instituted inquiries on the next occasion he visited the school. “Why is it,” he asked, “that ! instead of singing the hymn in a rev- erent way, you scamper through one verse and then ring the bell? Silence reigned for a short time. Then a shrill voice from a small boy at the back of the room was heard in explanation. ‘“Please, sir, it's 'cause they always lets the dog loose at the secona verse.” Ingenious Youngster. A Mttle boy came near getting a good spanking for answering his father in a pert way, but escaped by saying, “When you were a small boy, dad, didn’t you ever get excited and say the wrong thing?" Stickers. ‘The great difference between a pudb- & domestic servant is servant would not re- sign even under fire—Loulsville Cour | Iy way, which Tam usually missed, be- FOR HER SWEET SAKE By FRANIC EVANS. 1 5. by W. G. Chapman) gff&rfi"ffi:ffirflh had been in the ‘ teller's cage twenty-four hours he re-| alized that sometlung was WIODE with Van Loeuw's methods. On the sec | he was sure of it. onal‘::{‘oeuw and he had entered the bank within a week of each other. Van Loeuw was a college graduate, while Tom was only the son of a coun- try storekeeper. That mlgm'r!ot to make any difference worth noticing lv America, but everyone knows it does. It made this difference in particu- lar: Van Locuw was privileged t,o call on Miuired Leeson, the president’s | daughter, to dine at her house and take her driving in the automobile he owned. Whereas, Tom Graves, who bad, in his boyhood, often served Miss Mildred behind the counter of his fa- ther’s store, could scarcely gather up his courage to look like an ordinary man when she bowed to him in the street; and then, seeing his confusfon, Mildred would smile again, in a kind- cause his eyes were on the ground. Everybody said that Tom was of the kind that are born to be drudges | and to work for men like Van Loeuw. | Van Loeuw never doubted that hP‘ was destined to marry Mildred Ifldl‘ step into her father's shoes. He told | Tom about it. “When I'm president of the bank I'll take care of you, Tom,” he said. “I'll see that you get a better job.” Tom ‘would swallow his feelings | then and turn to his books Now, it was a fact that s(vmr‘thlng‘ was seriously wrong. Tom soon dis- covered that it was not a mistake, to De picked up and rectified with a few hours of extra work. After two weeks of night work he traced back the error to something that had begun two years hefore. In short, there was a defalcation of £12000, and the man who was responsible for it had hidden his trail beneath the cleverest and most intricate system that any thief had ever devired Two years ago! That was when Van Loeuw bought his antomobile! But Tom did not think of that He resolved to tell Van Loeuw of his dis- coverv and ask his advice. He did sn, and when he saw the ghastly pal- for unon the man's face the hideous suspicicn came home to him. “Tom, I'll see you at your place to- nicht,” sald Van Loeuw. “I—I want to sneak to you.” Van Loeuw came into Tom’s room at eight o’clock and flung himself down in a chair. “What did you want to meddle with the books for?” he began angrily. “It's no confounded business of yours.” “Perhaps not,” admitted Tom. “But I know it now, and I've got to go to Leeson.” “I tell you I can pay snarled Van Loeuw. “No,” answered Tom. “I'll nave to go to Leeson—unless you do— " Van Loeuw rose up, ashen white. “My God!" he cried, “what ¥ill be- come of Mildred? Don’t yon know she thinks the world of me?” Tom sank down again, whiter than the other man. Yes, he knew she did When at last he spoke there was an air of unusual decision about him “Van Loeuw,” he said, “if T take the blame for this, will you swear always to run straight in future? It doesn't matter to me, you know. For Miss Leeson's sake—" “You'll say vou stole the monev?” | erfed Van Loeuw, incredulously. “Tom, I always knew you were as true as steel. And T'll make it worth your while.” “Good night,” =aid Tom, coldly. He went into Mr. Leeson’s office the following morning. Van Loeuw had not appeared at the bark, and he was forced to close the cage when he went out. Fortunately, depositors were few in the first hours of morning. “Ah, Graves, T was going to send for you,” said the bank president, ris- ing. “We have made an unfortunate discovery—" “Yes,” answered Tom. “I wish to Inform you, sir, that I have embez zled $12,000 of the bank’s funds.” The door opened and a woman came in. Tom started as he saw Mil dred. This made it doubly hard. But he was prepared to play his part to the end now. “Mildred, will you come here a mo- aent? asked Mr. Leeson, to Tom's Amazement. “Please sit down. Mr Graves has just been informing me that a serious embezzlement of banl tunds is to be placed to his discredit.” “Papa—" began the girl, and Tom saw that her face was drawn and white, and her eyes red. “You are sure of your statements, Graves?” inquired Mr. Leeson, turn. ing to Tom. 2 “I should hardly have eome here if 1 were not,” answered Tom angrily. “It is very strange” sald the banker, shaking his head. “You see, Mr. Van Loeuw, who is now being sought for, wrote me a letter inform- Ing me of the facts, assuming the re sponeibility, and stating that you pro posed to bear the blame. | under- ttand that he had a spasm of eon- sclence after my daughter had brought him to his senses by refusing—" “Papa!™ cried Mildred, blushing fu. riously. “Well, my dear,” said the banker, rising, “perhaps when I am gone you yourselt will be able to convince Mr, Graves that he is under a delusion.” 1t mack,” — Acquiring an Education. Nobody ever drifted into an educa- tion. Consclous effort to direct one's | reading and thinking into the channels is an absolute reqnlm Choice must be made of books, of friends and of pleasures. One cannot read trash and think literature.— Amos R. Wells. ;i ——— Dally Thought. Youth comes but once in Mfmldnllo-jwnnlnh :flywu'hnu‘“._lm | copperas, which, B Fales B Worla-agg things right in {ts own whatever men may do ¢, imy progress of right on this gy’ ‘We must hold, with Tennyggy, Oh, yet we trust tha: S0me| Will be the final goal of j). nothing With aimjgy to llhb' g made th‘c ';:x’llf , We may adorn our tajty it Of unesgey, trine. But the backgroung .,,‘: tern must be the belier “woven of conyiction.” m THE FAITH THAT WEARS. “The only faith that wears well and bolds its color in all weathers is fll.;t which is woven of conviction and t with the sharp mordant of experience,’ s Lowell. “l-{lral, of course, you have to lno'” the meaning of the word “monhm.d- which may be unfamiliar to some rea with a deep, sincere belief i, ness and its power of ry| holds faster and faster t, the that all will yet be well, explanations of some thingy w hidden from mortal eyes, That s setting the colors o ™ “the sharp mordant of exper, It is.2 belief and a hope thatayy of the sou) of man and not o periences of the body. Th, Intter, the former is tmmortai. ing o “Here's the dictionary of it: Here's the dic! s «Mordant, any substance, as alum or baving a twofold at- traction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the " dylt is a good metaphor, that of com paring the faith that shall serve as a shield against the trials and disap pointments of life, and be an evidence of bellef visible to all men, to a gar ment that is made of the cloth of firm dyed In the colors of ex- ::ilifn::d '.ll‘!;re ientence shows the pen ber of dh:;cu ce‘x.c(z,.‘,df, this, marks of the finished literary artist. ;’;nflllflud illl 7\-' “t) \ocahu. He tells us that before our faith may ! an |llt exico the Nop become a sure refuge we must belleve :lmlnn up -rl;. 0 some seven | In it firmly. We mnust be convinced dialects. 4 ci-re ar'o hundregy | ? its truth. 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