Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 29, 1915, Page 3

UNDER A-WAR STAMP gy ELSIE GRUHL MARTIN. (Copyright, 1815, by W. G. Chapman.) grery time Earl Hosmer thought of fair young girl with whom and tather he had passed a pleasant gonth abroad, his heart stirred with- jahim. They had been nothing more han friends, but she had made the im- on of his life upon him. A thought of how genial and friendly father and daughter had been to dim, of their present distressing con- dition, of thelr friendlessness and pov- ety In a foreign land, appealed to the pest instincts of his loyal nature. They were wealthy people, the Duri- but Earl as well had an abuna- ance of worldly means. He had a pusiness to attend to, and going just now meant something se- rious for Its interests, but he was will- ing to make the sacrifice. When Earl reached his office he sat down to think out his plans for an im- pediate departure. While he was ar- ranging in his mind all the details, the ofice boy brought in the afternoon mall. Earl flipped the letters over carelessly. Then his face flushed up and his eyes took to their depths a rare token of interest. From post- mark aad handwriting he knew at once the source of one of the letters. “It is from Elsa—from Miss Duril- vage!” he breathed eagerly, and opened it. The letter was a brief, ordinary mis- sive, as if written between acquaint- ances. It gave an address in the far away war-beleaguered city. It told| of business there going on as usual, ; of no particular effect of the war. There was nothing in the letter that would not pass the most critical cen- sorship. . There was a postscript to the let-| ter and it greatly puzzled Earl. It read: “The war stamp on this letter is probably quite a curiosity in Amer-, fca. You might soak it off, for they | will be scarce after a while, and it is | quite a memento to preserve.” “Of course, I will save it,” mur- er wliitle foiryearold giFl Tying ten feet down in the dismantled cellar where she had fallen. Her arm was broken, she was well nigh exhausted with cold and starva- tion. He managed to learn from her | where she lived. When he restored | her to her frantic parents he found that she had been missing for two | days. ! The gratitude of the poor parents Was genuine. The father chanced to mention that he was one of lome' fitty wagon men who were to carry | some wounded soldiers to the city where the Durivages were. He was to bring up the rear with five days’ pro- vislons. It did not take Earl long to decide that here was his opportunity to reach his beloved. He had an understanding with the man. When the caravan set out Earl was comfortably ensconced in a shielded corner of the enclosed wagon. How his heart beat with suspense and then sorrow as he finally reached his journey’s end! The Durivages | were sheltered in a poor hovel and had parted with all they possessed to secure the bare necessities of life. i The wagon man was to return to neutral ground with his vehicle, and Earl and the Durivages were smuggled through in his vehicle. “To think of that dreadful past!” murmured Elsa, as they set sail from the coast, homeward bound at last. “Oh, what a messenger of joy and hope you have been!" A messenger of love as well. The moon was smiling down, the stars twinkled, the gentle breeze breathed only of peace. He told her all that was in his heart, and she kissed the lips that spoke those precious words. He Was Surprised. “You learn much by travel.” “How now?" “The streets of Boston surprised me. They are just like the streets of other cities. “Why not?" “I thought streets in Boston had Latin and Greek names.’ Important Legal Ruling. The latest ruling on the admissibil- THE | and actually looked happy and hope- e SPELLBINDER ——— ’ By GEORGE ELMER COBB. Two more days and Ronald had left : the towe. Three more and old Ezra zppeared at the Delevan home in a new high state of exasperation. “Werse and worse!” he raved. “Ron- 21d has engazed with'a traveling ped- ldler to sell so2p on the public streets.” ‘ Just this Ronald had done. He “You've got to go to work, sir!” de-' more harmful than helpful, but clared old Ezra Porter stormily. : pal s e was a cleauser. It was good soap. He "Y?u haven't raised me to work and | went from town to town and his story- ! I don’t know how to do it,” replied his telling qualificat.ons, Lis cloquence, | to nephew and heir, Ronald Dunstan, not | his mimicry drew crowds and sold impertinently, yet with a shade of de- | goods. | nl:ce in his tone. One day Ronald arrived at a large | Then what did you waste five years town where the coming of the advance on an education for?” snarled thelcalenm:m of the wonderful soap had in'u old man. g been widely advertised. In the public ‘General knowledge and training.” | square was a platform used on mass replied Ronald calmly. “It led to my | meeting political and municipal ocea- | 1y limited in our time for & cer| sharply limi { winning the prize in oratory. I came |sions. This had been leased from the to you the finished article and told | town by Ronald’s employer, big pla- you my bent. You wouldn't have it.| cards set about it and a good crowd Your heart is set on my being a | expected. physician. Why, sir, I'd break down| A well dressed man appeared on the at the first patient! I can't bear the | spot as Ronald was directing the deco- sight of pain and distrees.” ration of the stand. “All right, then,” berated Mr. Por-| “I wanted to see if you would not ter, “start out and earn your own | sell your stand privilege here,” he re- living. Until you do, I disown you.” marked. “I'll give a good bonus.” “I shall have to do that, I fear, since| ‘“Soap, too?” insinuated Ronald, with you insist upon it,” observed Donald | his smile that never came off. in his usual smiling, imperturbable “Oh, dear, no!” dissented the other way. “It may be hard at the start, for | in a dignified way. “I am a candidate your kindness has spoiled me, but I| for state senator; the campaign is on. will try and keep respectable.” This is the only date I have for a “Ugh!” growled the old tyrant, fair | speech here and you have pre-empted ly wrathful because he could not fright- | the only available speaking platform. en this independent young man into| I will pay liberally for the use of the becoming humility. “As a penniless ad- | stand. There is my card, sir,” and venturer, I hope you will not have the | Ronald with considerable interest read presumption to continue your atten-|the name “John T. Delevan.” He be- tions to Miss Delevan.” came thoughtful. This was the uncle “Ah, Constance?” intimated Ronald, | of Constance. ful, and old Ezra thrashed around anew | ployer would not be willing to give up at this further exasperating evidence | the privilege here, but if you will sup- -of the perfect confidence of his nephew | ply me with some of your campaign in himself and the future. “Why, sir, | literature I'll promise to do you some we are engaged.” good.” “Her father will settle that. For the Mr. Delevan was in the crowd about last time—the medical profession?” the stand that evening. He was great- “Never.” ly edified. Within an hour, as was “Then the book is closed!” usual, Ronald had a great crowd in “With a characteristic slam of your | high good humor h his funny right royal and powerful honest old | stories. When he had sold out, he fist, my dear uncle,” railed Ronald.| said: “The world is wide. I'll hit some- “My friends, next to clean hands thing.” and faces, guaranteed by our famous “Youw'll hit poverty and disgrace,| soap, is clean politics,” and he went would have balked at patent drugs, | “See here, sir,” he said, “my em-. mured the ardent Earl, thinking of: ity of “dying declarations” in evidence the dainty lips that had touched the ’ in criminal cases is made by the su- insensible plece of paper, and he pro- | preme court of Georgia in Sewell vs. ceeded to follow instructions. ‘ State, in which the court states in its “Why—there is writing under the ' syllabus: stamp!” exclaimed Earl, and with dis- | tending eyes he read the words: “We are penniless and starving.” | In a flash Earl Hosmer read the| oracle. The letter had been written | in a noncommittal way that had| passed with the censor. FElsa had used the war stamp to conceal a mes- sage telling of the real situation in| the district from which she wrote. | It required no further thought for Earl to arrive at a speedy decision. | “The evening train bore him eastward, and two days later he was on the ocean, bound for the continental war center. Within two hundred miles of the <ty that held his beloved, the prog- ress of the ardent Ecrl was blocked. He had with him a large amount in ready cash. This had enabled him to proceed thus far without much diffi- culty. Now a broad stretch of dis- puted and war-ravaged territery lay between him and his prospective des- «tination. It was through a little child that a | long, anxious waiting was brought to | a close. Passing a house wrecked by a shell in the litile town where he was stayicg, Earl heard a faint w il- ing veice. He investizated tro disenve Let me send you FREE PERFUME | ally “In a murder case it was error to charge the jury that ‘when death is approaching and the dying man has lost hope of life, and his mind feels the full consclousness of his condi- tion, the solemnity of the scene gives to his statement the sanctity of truth, and such dying declaration, when made under such circumstances, may | be given in evidence and submitted to the jury. Such charge tended to un- duly impress the minds of the jury with the weight of the evidence con- tained in dying declarations, as to which juries do not require any em- phasis from the bench.” Fhysique Counts for Much. Muscular movements are the golden chords of good works which mingle with the visions of great deeds and harmonize the soul of man with purer worlds. They give both a source of reserve power and confidence, a power of growth, of good and of evil, which nothing else does. Optimists are usu- ally men and women who come from a vigorous, stocky muscular race. They are of the type who are potenti- us well ae actually of fine physique Write today for a testing bottle of ED. PINAUD’S LILA every drop HOW WILL IT PAY young man!"” blustered Ezra Porter. “I'm through with you.” It was pretty lonesome for the old man when he saw the last of his irre- pressible relative going down the road, whistling cheerily and waving his “Next to Clean Hands and Faces ls Clean Politics.” hand back at his old home, smiling as | brightly as though its owner was send- ing him off on a well-inanced pleasure trip around the world. Then he went down to the counter- part of his own fine mansion, the home of the Delevans. He evaded pretty, anxious Constance, who gave him a pleading, reproachful look. To her fa- ther he said confidentially: “I hope you see the necessity and wisdom of giving that disobedient nephew of mine your ultimatum, that you have no room in your family for & shiftless wanderer.” “I have thought it over,” announced Mr. Delevan gravely, “and have told Constance that she must not see Ron- ald nor correspond with him.” “Famous!” gloated old Ezra. “I'll bring him to terms, or break him. Orator! Spouter! Roald's got his head full of Demosthenes and all that! Bah! He'll be a doctor, or starve.” When Mr. Porter came to see his friendly neighbor again, however, || things did not seem so “famous” to him. In fact his first vociferous re- mark was: “Infamous!” “What now?” queried Mr. Delevan. “That nephew of mine. What do you think? He's viclous, yes, sir, vicious! He's trying to drive me into rescinding my firm determination. He's playing an organ. On the public streets! With a monkey!” “You don't say so.” “I do. I heard of it, I saw him—at a distance. There he was, grinding | away, smiling at everybody, telling his jolly stories and receiving the pennies in a tin cup!” Mr. Porter groaned. It was true, but the next day the newspaper ex- plained that “our generous hearted and original minded friend, Mr. Duns- tan,” had given two days to helping out an invalid ecripple by assuming | his place temporarily “and providing | pleasure for our music-loving com: YOU? THEY ARE BUILT STRONG AND WILL LAST A LONG TIME! THEY RUN THEY. DO NOTGET YOU GET LARGER CAUSE YOUR GROUND THEY HAVE THE e d Plumbin Lakeland ng&mr&%a“ g EASY AND DO MORE AND BETTER g ‘ et ABOR. OUT OF ORDER. AND BETTER 1S BETTER PREPARE LATEST LABOR cnorss. BE- § | - SAVING Co. ' S S A munity.” s | - Trapped. They wers quarreling. “Well, you ean't say I ran after you,” sald the wife. after the mice but it catches "em just the same,” repll ed hubby. Alligators’ Eggs Edible. tors’ eggs are eaten in the India islands and on the west of Africa They resemble in a hen’s egg, and have much the taste, but are larger. More a hundred eggs have been found one alligator. on to boom the abilities of Mr. Dele- crowd was cheering the candidate he championed, who came up to him van. When he left the platform the | WHEN BEST WORK IS DONE, Literary and Other Labor Performed ! Under Pressure Generally Is | of High Merit, | Fortunately we often have to do our H work in less time than it seems to de- serve, for that is likely to mean that the work will be better done than if we had ample time for it. A veteran Christian worker and writer once said a friend: “I never knew anything worth while to be done that was not done under pressure. Men who write under pressure give to their writings a ‘temper’ they would not have were they written at leisure.” Pressure often seems to produce a quality, a concentration of thought, that comes in no other way. Even if we are not tain plece of work, it is quite within/ our power to gain the benefit of the: sense of pressure by remembering the preciousness of every minute of time, and the stewardship for which we are to be held accountable. An easy-going sense of having “plenty of time” is likely to mean a loose, flabby quality in our work. Let us welcome the en- forced safeguards against this with which the circumstances of lite often surround us.—Sunday School Times. Pearl-Fishing Industry. The world has at least one locality, as it has at least one industry, in which machinery, and even the sim- plest mechanical appliance, is not permitted, through the agency of pro- hibitive rules, to obtain ascendancy over hand work and primitive meth- i ods of labor. The locality is the | Tuamotu or Low Archipelago, com- posed of 87 coral atolls, about one | hundred miles eastward of Tahiti; | the industry is the pearl fisheries of { the archipelago, the finest pearls in | | the South Pacific belng found in the | waters adjacent to these islands, as well as considerable quantities of the so-called black-edge mother-of-pearl | shell much used in commerce. Awful Misfortune. f Children of the right sort take their school work seriously. Jennie, aged | fourteen, is a second-year high school student. The other evening she ap- | peared at the family dinner table evi- | dently not in the best of good spirits. | Pressed for a reason, she made this explanation: “Oh, I muffed it in English this af- aglow with delight, and ofered him a | ternoon. We had to give oral themes generous salary to speak for him ex- | and I had studied mine out so care- “Neither does a mousetrap run | clusively during the rest of the cam- paign. So Ronald drifted from soap into politics, and with great success. One evening a month later Mr. Por- ter went over to his ‘neighbor’s to find two unexpected guests there. “My brother, just elected to the state senatorship,” introduced the fa- ther of Constance. “My campaign manager, Mr. Dun- stan,” spoke the fortunate politician, and Mr. Porter stared at his smiling nephew. “You see,” resumed the sen- ater, “he Las elected me and I've of- fered him a very fine position in con- nection with the state central com- mittee.” Old Rzra saw that Constance and her father were very proud of the achievements of his nephew. A sena- tormaker in the family was no trifling circumstance. “He is a natural arator. Mark me, he will make a record as a future Pat- rick Henry,” enthused the senator. “I suppose I'll have to forgive him,” observed Mr. Porter, shaking hands with his rencgade nephew, “Ronald Dunsten, you are simply irresistible!” “He is, indeed!" fondly murmured the blushing Coustance, and, although her eyes were lowcred, her lovely face was filled with pride and confidence. (Copyright, 1 “hapman.) | HOW THE MASTERS WORKED Creat Musical Composers Used Dif- ferent Mcthods in Getting Their Melodizs Ecfore the World. Mozart loved company, wine, and good fellowship. Operative managers were driven to despair by the fact that he would linger in the wine room or at the billiard table when they were in sad need of perhaps an overture writing until “tomorrow.” But the overture was sure to be forthcoming just at the last moment, for was it not all completed in his head, and had it not been for many days or weeks? It was the manual labor of writing out that he shirked. Who that has copied music can blam? him? Schubert lingered much at the tav- ern. Well, perhaps it was more cheer- ful than his home. No clatter of plates and glasses or chatter of busy tongues could stay the flow of his beautiful melodies. The fountain must flow even though the world thought naught of the stream. Many of his songs went for twenty cents apiece, while their au- thor lacked the necessities of life. Haydn would shut himself up in his sixth story garret and pen the sym- phonies which paved the way for Mo- zart and Beethoven. So absorbed in his work would Haydn become that the absence of food or fuel was un- | known; the joy of composition was enough to produce oblivion to all min- | or matters such as food. But a scold- ing wife may have had somewhat to do with his voluntary isolation. May Be Joking. “A police commissioner says, ‘The professional criminal has almost disap- peared.’” “Do you believe that?" ¢ sh I had 2 tenth of his optim- Daily Thought. | Let us wipe out the past, trust a | the future—and rejoice in the glorious Now, Jasper! Deautiful, where in Sam Hill do all the bomely married wemen B frem F—Jedge that he had promised, but had put oft ' fully that I wasn't a bit nervous at first. But by and by something: dis- tracted my attention for a moment, and I said something that spoiled the unity, the coherence and the literary value of the whole thing.” Joy In Service. A life lived for seh can never be good nor great. There is only one ‘way to save a life and that is to lose it in service to others. Every child s entitied to a chance “to do the things” which he is able to do for others. 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