Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 23, 1915, Page 2

Dutchy and By FRANK FILSON (Copyright. 1916, by W G. Chapman) | Nearly all the boys liked the little ‘doc when he came to Sapphire. He wasn't much of a man to look at, but his big head was chock full of learn- lnc,ndh-mulflnhnfltflm iy as anyone. The only man who didn’t take to the doc was mtnhy.l the bully of the camp. Dutchy was sullen enough and mind- od his own business in general, but when he had two or three drinks in | him he would start out to find trouble. He generally found it, and, being the kind who picks upon a smaller man by preference, he usually gave better than he got. The doc was a young fellow, and pretty Miss Lida, old man Pearce's daughter, who had been East to school, seemed to like him well enough. It made most of the boys rather sore to see a pretty, clever girl like that take up with such a little runt. However, that was her business and nobody thought any the less of the little doc for succeeding where sq many of the yest had failed. Besides, there was an epidemic of typhoid that fall, and everybody was pretty much scared. Nobody knew who was going to be the next victim, and the doc was working with might and main to shut off the spread of the disease. However, he found time to sit for o half hour on Miss Lida’s stoop oc- casionally, and fan himself with a palm leaf. The boys who used to go there and weren’t invited so much mow used to grit their teeth and go around a block so as to avoid seeing him. But still, it wasn't a case for & personal grudge.. At least, except with Dutchy, who, being naturally a boor, and never hav- ing succeeded in making any impres- sion on Miss Lida's heart, set out to “That's All Right, Dutchy.” be ugly. He used to scowl at the lit- tle doc when he met him. But on a certain night Dutchy, having had more than was good for him, felt in the mood for trouble. Jim Moffat and Phil Duggan, who were seeing him back, at the request of the town marshal, tried to pull him past the stoop, but Dutchy shook them away and stood facing the lit- tle doc, who was fanning himself nt| Miss Lida's side. It you're a man you'll come down from behind a woman's skirts and talk face to face!” screamed Dutchy. The little doc came down. Miss Lida let out a cry, but there wasn't anything to be done, for Dutchy was & big man and he could have smashed Phil and Jim with a blow of his fist, Ao say nothing of the little doc. The doc came up to Dutchy and looked keenly into his eyes. “Ha, the furor Teutonicus, I see!" he said to himself, as though sum- ming up the condition of a patient. | And then, while Dutchy was Altllll 8! owering him with insults, he caught hold of his hand and felt his pulse, quite in a professional way. “You'd best go home to bed, Dutchy,” said the little doec. Dutchy less anger for a few moments. Then he shot out his big fist and caught the doe on the mouth, knocking him down and cutting his lip open. “Have you spunk enough to fight, 7" he roared. The little doe, very pale, stood be- fore Dutchy, not atiempting to defend * roared Dutchy. “Nice sort of man you're going to get, Miss Lida. "d fizht the little whippersnap- h one hand tied behind me.” Then, being somewhat pleased with v Dutchy permitted Duggan t to lead him home, still g out threats of what he was | going to do to the doc next time he caught him on Miss Lida's porch. What Miss Lida said to him is un- known, for she sat in a sort of daze while the little doc was being knocked down. However, it was noticed that Daily Thought. Gentleness and cheerfulness, thesre eome before all morality; they are the perfect duties.—R. L. 8. Marvelous Acttvitics. A diner in a restaurant thought by would have a joke with the waiter, and asked him if he had ever seen a saus- age roll. “Say,” sald the waiter, “T have not only seen a sausage roll, but 1 have seen 3 biscuit box, a table gpoon, a chimney sweep, a chsain link, & nose gay, a camera slide a garden gence, & sword figh 2nd a wall fower” stared at the doc in speech- | 'thalmlcdnedldn’tall on her for & day or two, and next time he dropped in Jim Moffat was there, hav- : ing apparently been restored to favor. | And though Miss Lida was friendly . enough with the little doc, anyone could have seen that things weren't quite the same. For however small a man may be, it is expected that he will do something when he gets a hit across the mouth, instead of picking himself up and smil- ing, as the doc had done. And Miss | Lida was certainly placed in an un- | comfortable position, for no girl likes going with a coward. Three days after the episode Dutchy's friend Hinkman came run- ning into the doc’s office. “Dutchy’s got the fever, doc,” he sald. “You won't remember what he did to you, doc? He's scared out of his wits, doc, and thinks he's going to die.” “All right,” answered the doc. He got up and went round to the shack, in which Dutchy lay upon his bed, tossing and muttering deliriously. It was the last case in Sapphire, but it was the worst. The doc had pulled the rest through without a single dis- aster, but this seemed hopeless from the first. During the next three weeks the doc put in nearly dll his time with Dutchy. He told Hinkman to call him any hour of the night when Dutchy seemed worse, He persuaded Miss Lida to lend her ald and between them at last they got Dutchy out of the valley of the shadow. It was an awful time, said Hinkman. Dutchy dimly recognized the doc and thought he was trying to poison him. Sometimes he fought so hard that it was all they could do to keep him from jumping out of the window. The little doc showed a good deal of strength, Hinkman reported, in such encounters. Winning Out | By Donald Allen When young Clarence Damn' stepped into his auto waiting for him at the depot at Short Hills on his re- turn from the city, he had just he forgot that the auto- ustry of America was still job, and the horse was left might have had his eyes closed as he thought of the perfidy of the cook who had led him on and on until he had declared his love and then hit him with a four-story brick house. As for the young man he might not bave been thinking of anything, and ! “One can never tell how a lawsult may end. This young lawyer may prove more than & match for the oth- er side!™ “If he does I'll shake hands with him and send him all the cases I 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 court house, and presently Miss got & surprise that opened her Her brother's attorney proved the Mr. Graham she had talked at the lawn party. Yes, he was young lawyer who was to plead %? SR M EEE “] was keepin’ my eyes peeled for them darned autos, and I was a say- ing to myself that if one along—" “Never mind what you were saying. One did come along, didn't it “I should say! Gosh, but I believe I was knocked forty feet high!" “And injured?” “Injured? Why, it scraped most of | yroqching ball. the hide off'n me, and I was lame for two hull weeks afterwards!” 'tity of thelr leaderstobe. All the Come along and ' town girls vied with each other in killed my hoss and sent me a-fiyln’. | pignning their costumes and the men T0 HEAD THE DANGE By HOPE AINSLEE. | (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) | Mrs. Melledge, president of the Village Civic league, felt very much satisfled with her selection of Corinne Long as Martha Washington to lead the march in the dance to be given by the organization on the approach- ing patriotic holiday. She had al ways been fond of Corinne, and when the girl had been forced through war time conditions to earn her own liv- ing she had been glad to help her to get a dancing class in the city. “I'll have the sweetest little Martha Washington you ever saw,” she told Mrs. Ramsey at a committee meeting on the following day. “And wait till you see my George | Washington!” Mrs. Ramsey counter- enthused. “And he dances perfectly. I'm fortunate in being able to securé him, for—be it known—he's a most popular dancing man in a tashionable circle in town.” The members of the committee were naturally curious as to the iden- of the town sought city costumers for colonial suits for themselves. Much interest was manifested in the ap- ‘When Corinne arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Melledge and was “That was too bad. Now, Mr. Saul ' ;1oceq before a cheerful hickory fire bury, you know the rules of the road, don’t you?” “T've knewed ’'em ever since [ was kneehigh to a grasshopper. You keep to the right-hand side.” “That's correct. Why didn’t you do Finally Dutchy, ont of danger, and | nag his eyes on the toes of his shoes. 80 in this case?” weighing about one-third as much as he had done, lay on the bed, conscious, and looking up at the doc with a sort of dumb dog gratitude expression. “Doc,” he had the grace to say, “I'm sorry.” “That’s all right, Dutchy,” the little doc answered, smiling. The days passed, and evidently the doc had succeeded in squaring himself with Miss Lida, for they sat together on the stoop every afternoon now. And there was not a man in camp but vowed the doc was a white man, and that he would give his life rather than let anyone say the opvl posite, or lay a finger on the doc!| again, Well, Dutchy went North to con- valesce, and at last the day came when he stood before the doc, who was still sitting on Miss Lida's porch —they being now engaged—and spoke up much less sheepishly, but still sort of ashamed. “Doc, I've come back and I want to thank you,” he began. “That's all right, Dutchy,” answered the doc. “Are you ready now?” “Ready? For what?” asked Dutchy. “Why, for your thrashing,” an- swered the doc, as if surprised, and | he went down. “Put 'em up, Dutchy,” he said. “You see, I couldn’t strike | a sick man, and I knew by your look and your pulse that you were getting ready for a slege with typhoid, But now I'm going to lick you.” | ‘Which he certainly did. When it was over Dutchy’s face couldn’t have been recognized by his own mother. But then we found out that the doc had been the featherweight champion at Princeton. “Now come along to the surgery, and I'll sew up your wounds. No charge,” sald the little doc, Dutchy was the sort that couldn't rest until he got even. He threw the shoe after the wedding and struck the | doc behind the ear. That settled all | scores. CUSTOM OF TEA DRINKING | Love Brewed the First Cup, According to a Legend Believed in China. i When both farmer and auto are properly encouraged there is & get- ting together. There was in this case. | There was & crash and there was a smash—shouts and yells, and there they were! The old horse was dead, the buggy wrecked, and the farmer hoisted over the fence among the thistles. The auto was banged, the chauffeur knocked about, and young —~o0 3 Caalatald [ There Were Some Awful Threate Made. i arose from the dust of the road. “You've done it now—b'gosh you've done it!"” shouted the farmer as he hung to the fence, “Yaas,” drawled young Dayton, with an accent that would have done credit 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 brass spoon, and various other spoons, | that farmer wanted $500 damages, and | The Chinese claim to be the first users of tea as a drink, and how it' originated is told in a pretty little leg- | end that dates from 2,000 years before :’he coming of Christ, says Ireland’s wh. elgn fell in love with a young noble- | man whose humble birth excluded him | from marrying her. They managed to | exchange glances and he occasionally | gathered a few blossoms and had them | conveyed to her. One day in the palace garden the lovers met and the young man endeav- ored to give her a few flowers, but so keen was the watchfulness of her | attendants that all she could grasp | was a little twig with green leaves. On leaving her room she put the twig in water and toward evening she drank the water in which the twig had been kept. So agrecable was the taste that she cven ate the leaves and stallzs. Every day afterward she had bunches of the tea tree brought to her, which she treated in the same way. Imitation be > sincerest form of flattery, the s of the eourt tried the experiment, and with such pleas- ing results that the custom spread throug the kingdom —and the tea industry became one greatest businesses in the , sued for The Way to Clean Lamp Glasses. Here is an excellent way i{o clean temp glasses: Hold them over a jug of boiling water until they are well %teamed; then polish with a soft dry rag. This 18 a much easier way tham hing them, and the glasses very anely bicik | | Daily Thought. Let us wipe out the past, trust in the future—and rejoice in the glorious Now Now, Jasper! | *There is one thing that has sl | ways refused to ooze through my | noodle,” remarked Jasper Knox, the ! sage of Piketown-on-the-Blink, “and ‘;unt is this: If, as the newspapers | would have us believe, all brides are beautiful where in Sam Hill do all the homely marriedl women come from *™-~Judge. wouldn’t take a cent less. He spoke of warrants, arrests, sheriffs, jails and state prisons, and he was still speak- ing when the auto limped off. Young Dayton never settled things on the spot—not even when he bought A daughter of a then reigning sover- | ciggrettes. There was a suit for dam- ages. A week after the accident Miss Mollle Dayton, who had the honor of being the sister of Mr. Clarence, at- tended a lawn party. At the gather- ing she was Introduced to George Graham, and they were very con- genial. Being asked about the acel- dent, the girl made a good witness on the stand. She repeated all that she had been to!d about it, and then ehe had something to add. Clarence had gecured a lawyer to defcnd the suit, but the father thought d she thought he had mnie a g X He had retained a fledglin never had a case. He tained because he was a at college. The father said, and that was also a person who wou hundred miles of 1 fence, to say nothing about wir g They had begged of Clarence to get some real lawyer, but was ob- stinate about it. he farmer had damages, and with only a young lawyer opposed to him he would likely get every cent of it. Mr. Graham listened and did not talk much. Now and then his face fushed, but as it was a warm day Miss | Mollie laid it to the heat. When she had finished her narrative she asked he replied: ——————————————————————————————— Humane Turkish Laws. It is unlawful In Turkey to seize @« man's residence for debt, and suff- clent land to support him is also ex- empt from seizure. Gharpening a Worn File. “When a flle gets dull” said the master mechaaie, “you can restore ita effectiveness by pouring a little nitrie acld over it. This roughens the raised parts and deepens the sunk parts so that it will again file your nails or cat a bar of iron.” “I did, sir.” “Then why was the dead body of the horse found on the left-hand.side together with the wreck of the buggy? Why were you tossed over the fence on that side?” “The hoss—the hoss—* “Yes, the horse?” “He must have jogged over when I 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, but young Dayton said to him: “Perhaps I was a bit to blame in the matter for being under such speed, and this hundred dollars will at least pay for your old horse.” Miss Mollle tried to get away from the court house without a word to Mr. Graham, but he had his eye on her and followed her out to the auto and said: “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 Mollie could hardly speak a word on the way home, and after the arrival there her exultant brother added to the situation by saying: “gis, 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 | Dayton had a bad limp on him as he alone with him.” “I won't!” “And he will plead and win his seo- ond case.” Miss Mollle denies that they are en- gaged, but her brother docs not take her word for it. FIRST OF AMERICAN HEROINES Gunner Corbin's Widow Fought for the Country's Liberty at Mount Washington. And the first woman who fought for American liberty was Gunner Corbin’s widow, at the capture of Mount Wash- ington, by the Scotch and Hesslans. In | the midst of the fight Gunner Corbin, struck by a ball, fell dead at his wife's feet as she was alding him in his du- ties. It was not an uncommon occurrence for Irish women (as at Limerick) to share the dangers of the bivouacks, as instance the deeds of that other hero- ine, Molly Pitcher. Instantly, without & word, she stepped into his place and worked the gun with redoubled skill and vigor, fighting bravely until she sank to the earth, pierced by three grapeshot! Though terribly wounded, she finally recovered, but was disabled for life. A soldier's half pay and the value cf | march of merry dancers, a soldier's euit of clothes, annually voted her by the Continental congress (but goon discontinued) were all the | reward that the first w fought for American libe ceived for suc and sufferin Magazine of A Wanted to Doub 3 Robert was about to another birthday. In the past, the fun-making had always been so hard and pro- longed that it‘left him fatigued at | night. | So this year, before he went to bed the night before, when he had sald bis prayers be began over again. His mother, surprised, asked him: « twice, Robert?” “Oh,” replied i a1t *—Everybody’s. Constable in MHard Luck. that someone had pinched my They really ought to have detect! to watch the busy spots on routes.”—Manchester Guardian. Worth of a Friend. iin, and—oh, T am so tired. 1!enrchingly at the girl. “Why—what's in the great dining room, she sighed | . more contentedly than she had sighed on any evening since she had become a wage earner in the great city. This was her first real holiday, and she felt, once more, like the old Corinne who used to be a member of house parties in fashionable suburbs, with dancing and gayety in prospect. How little she had appreciated her care- free existence of those days. How little! “You haven't showed the slightest interest in your gown, Corinne,” sald Mrs. Melledge, as she approached the fire and sat on the arm of the girl's chair. “Don't you want to see it?” Corinne slipped her hand into that of her friend and sighed. *“Where is 1t? And my partner? Has he come?” she asked. “He's to be here tonight, Marden Drew, no less, my dear!” Corinne shrank into the corner of her chair. “Marden Drew! Oh, Mrs. Melledge—I—oh, why did you select him?” Mrs. Melledge stood up and looked the matter, dear? Do you know him?” Corinne covered her face with her | hands. “Know him? I—should say— I—did know him.” At last Corinne looked up. “ITsn't there someone else who could lead this march, dear Mrs. Melledge? I just can't do it with—Marden,” she said. “Nonsense—why not?” Mrs. Mell- edge tried to laugh off what threat- ened to be a tragic ending of her plans. “He—we were engaged,” Corinne began. “When I had to leave home and find employment I told him I could not marry him because—oh, well, you know how a girl feels wno has always had all I had.” Mrs. Melledge put her arms about the girl. “Don’t you suppose this is fate—this chance coming together, dear?” she asked “Oh—1I don’t know,” sobbea Corinne, her head down on her arms. “I—I was thinking of him when you came Let me | g0 to bed and T'll promise to behave tomorrow and—do what {8 best. I'm sorry to be so silly,” she eaid, rising, her arm across her face like that of a little girl trying to hide her tears. Mrs. Melledge followed her you like, dear—Oh, Herbert!" she ex- claimed, seeing the form of her hus- band in the door. “Quick, Corinne,” to the girl. Herbert Melledge was followed by their neighbor, Mr. Ramsey, and a tall, serious young man. sey wanted you to meet Mr. Drew be- fore this party is pulled oft—why, Co- rinne—you here, too? This is fuck!" “So you are to be my Martha Wash- ington?" Marden Drew said, calmiy, when they had been left alone togeth- | | er by their tactful hostess. “I—had been asked to,” Corinne whispered. “Had been?” the man echoed. Corinne laughed nervously. —T am to help you to lead the march on. Mondav™ she said “Wouldn't it be a good idea if we were to plan to get ourselves on het- ter terms hefore trving to lead a | ! Corinne?” he asked. stenn r to her “Tt—might loock better.” “It micht look better tor and ha better den i t ook d feel bet- rod Mar- taking her hand d to find dene f “T've I'va Yor vou in Nes ! von and to vou 1 ov Ipow that T h |you go TN coma over hern and invite onr hosts respectfully, to ba contented a long game of br n I have much to tell yon — that we have to rehearse onr stepe—that— that you are my fiancee and that we haven't seen each other for a year So be prepared to substantiate my statements and—" But Corinne, girllike, was crying | sholl not and hos it “Why are you saying your prayers again, but this time for joy, and when | ihe held her in his arms and told her Robert, “tomorrow | What she wanted to hear, neither of his opinion of Clarence’s chances and night I'll be toe tired %0 say ‘em at | them saw Mr. and Mrs. Melledge and {Mr. Ramsey pass tha door and dis- | creetly turn their heals away. | \ Trapped. mousetrap the mice, but it catches 'em just same,” repiled hubby. “Helen, Ram- | | at This Week Only E. 6. 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