Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, March 30, 1915, Page 7

fR0M A FAR GOUNTRY By ALLAN INGLIS. (oyright, 1935, by W, G. Chapman.) The prison gates closed behind Lar ore. He was free. Nobody had se to meet him except the report- put that caused Larrimore no dis- Of course Laura would not come to the prison gates. She | pride, and, though he had been tly condemned, Laura was not g to publish her shame before the es Of the newspaper men. larrimore had done no wrong. brie, he had beggared a few score of men and trusting men who had put ir all in his wildcat scheme, but | p everybody did things like that day in the course of business. | Ine five years in the penitentiary that pad served had been a gross injus- | Larrimore felt no degradation, | meant to repeat his trick, butf ore craftily, in order to secure the | mds to start things going again. ‘ still, he was thinking, as he sat in | train, & lot of things which dis- | sed him; and yet he could not' e them out of his mind. He had | me to the metropolis twenty yeara! ore, a gawky farmer boy, to make ' js fortune. He had become wealthy an incredibly short space of time, Larrimore was quick to adapt jmself to the dubious ways of finance. ten years he was married and had house on the avenue. He had married the daughter of his pployer. He had not loved Laura metly, but she had thought he had. After his marriage he seldom went pme. He made his old mother an jequate allowance, but he had not pen her for three years before he s sentenced. With his connections ie could not afford to have it known tat his mother was an f{lliterate old oman. Laura had never seen her; larrimore had been ashamed to let her know. still there had been trying episodes, hich, as a man of the world, he had und difficult to explain to his wife. for instance, old Mrs. Larrimore’s ktters. The old woman had been powing lonely. She wanted to come b town and live with her son. Of wurse that was impossible, and he had told his mother so frankly. But laura had seen one of the ill-spelled ktters, and Larrimore had been ishamed. 1 “You see, she mever could learn to | mell very well,” he explained to his | vife. “We are of good family, but | mother was always the dunce at | ichool.” | The look in his wife’s eyes when he | ipologized for his mother had vague- ly annoyed Larrimore. After his conviction Laura had come to see him regularly each three | months. Three months before his sen- | tence expired she had told him that the thought it would be no use their living together. The house had been wold, and she was living then in a boarding-house. Larrimore had not wswered her, because he meant to 0 to her as soon as he came out of prison and explain that he would be a rich man again within a year, and that he could provide her with every lxury. That would alter his wite's declsion, he knew. Nevertheless, when he got out of | the train he was dissatisfied with him- | telf. Something of conscience had | begun to prick the thick skin of the | man.. When he called at the boarding- | bouse: he discoyered, to his dismay, | They come in all will show be an “SANITARY.” WE HAVE MANY { €¥es have been open The Secret of a Good Figure often li the brassiere. Hundreds of thousands of women 'tl:'l {;:: l'i’i‘c;-lo“e Brassiere for the reason that they regard and gives the figure the youthful outline fashion decrees. 7 -LEE) stance, “Walohn”, flexible bon- BR’K;&I‘@ S’ Inkof great durability—absolutely rustless—permitting laundering without remov. them to y¢ them iting to us. Send for e k1ot o (g sirice that are In Digh favor. BENJAMIN & JOHNES Ks easser to m?/(' usirG NLY THOUGHTLESS TO GO ON USR G 3 | T*’Em ©LD, WORM-OUT COCHING UTEN:.!. : 2 I WHEN YOU CAN COME TO OUR STORE, Ar\go r:"r ASMALL SUM GET BRAND NEW ONES. AND o FORGET—MOST OF THOSE OLD KITCHEN LABOR -SAVING THINGS 'YOU WILL BE GLAD TO OWN. THEY ARE INEXPENSIVE. COME AND SEE THEM. w——— Hardware and VAN HUSS' PLACE Bat BisWife Fad gone away: A Tetter was handed to him, and the door closed on him. Larrimore did not mind the closing of the door; he went 1n!..¢; the {nrk and read the letter, am leaving you for ever, Henry,” his wife haa written, “because I cr:x’r :ot live with you again. For years I ave borne your callousness, but my ed. You are the most selfish, worthless man that ever Ll;e:l..m: u:z going to the last place Wwhere you will think 3 ing for me.” s The letter was None of us is so bad but sooner or later the day comes when Wwe see our- selves in the mirror of our souls. Lar- rimore said afterward that it was the reading of this letter which shook down the palace of his colossal self- conceit. He sat for hours in the park, dazed with the hideous self-rev- elation. And, like the prodigal in the para- ble, except that the more loving par- ent remained alive to him, Larrimore caid: signed simply will arise and mother.” AR The following morning he took the train out to the little village where his mother lived. And as he dismount- ed upon the platform a great terror came over him that his pilgrimage Wwas vain, and his mother dead. He hurried up the well-remembered street. He reached the little cottage. The place was occupied. He knocked. An old woman with white hair came to the door and peered at him with her dimming eyes And Larrimore gasped out his repentance and fell upon the floor before her. “Mother, I am going to take care of you,” he said at length, rising. “We two will live here together, and—" The door opened softly, and Larri- more, looking up, saw Laura standing before him. One glance at him, one incredulous look, and the two children were kneeling in each other's arms at the white-haired woman's feet For sometimes in the game of life hearts are trumps after all. Important Legal Ruling. The latest ruling on the admissibil- ity of “dying declarations” in evidence . ln criminal cases is made by the su- preme court of Georgla in Sewell vs. State, in which the court states in its syllabus: “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 consciousness of his condl- 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. 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J. when you @ have fots of handy || Krichen utensr/s 5,3;»@;;;1 & 2 ksl ONES ARE Plumbing Co. muscular races '| about the town. From that day for e | OLD MILLER'S DOG By JOHN PRICE, JR. 0= “Jehoshaphat!” exclaimed Jim Pe- ters, staring after the couple that walked down the street. “Did you 8ee that, Polly?” Polly, his wife, looked out of the parlor window and threw up her hands in amazement. For such a ined in the village. The ‘“couple” consisted of a man and a dog. The man, Henry Miller, | was white-haired, shabbily dressed, and walked with a sort of pompous and yet mean self-assertion which in- dicated clearly, “Keep out of my way.” The dog, a fox-terrier mongrel, trotted beside the man, looking up at him with such an expression of faith and trustfulness as only dogs display. “Who ever heard of Henry Miller showing any affection to anyone?" asked Peters. “You'd think he'd show what little he had to that crippled- son of his, and his young wife and baby,” an- swered Polly. Old Henry Miller was the hardest character in the place. He had never been known to have a good word to say to anybody. He had turned his only son®out of his house years be- fore, and the boy, who suffered from a congenital lameness, was now liv- ing in a mean quarter of the town, with his wife and child. His illness had necessitated his giving up his position. Miller knew all about it, but he collected his mortgage moneys just the same, and added to his pile at the bank, and snarled his wzay through life, hated and feared, and called “the meanest man in Pilking- ton.” But even the hardest man has a streak of humanity in him somewhere or other. Three days before Miller had found the little mongrel, shiver- ing and wet, on his doorstep. The cur looked up at him and whined. Miller had lifted his foot to Kkick it away when a sudden idea occurred to him. “l guess we're both outcasts, old boy,” he said, stooping down and pat- ting the dog's head. “They haven't ward Miller was never annoyed by the children again. It began to be said that the dog, which he had adopt- ed out of the bitterness of his heart, was making a man 6f him. Old ac quaintances, who had dropped Miller years before, began to nod to him in the street. Somehow life began to seem easier to the old man. However, he still collected his money as harshly as ever, he still snarled as he went about his ways. It is hard to change one's disposition at seventy. But the dog was always at his side, with the friendliest dis- position imaginable, always with tail spectacle could not have been imag- Wagging, and Miller's devoted friend. ! done under pressure. Men who write Then came the day which was destined to have a permsnent effect on the old man. He was going home with Outcast after an interview with ! one of his debtors. He had fully lived ! up to his reputation and he was thinking bitterly that he would show the fellow no more mercy than te would have expected. Suddenly a runaway horse came tearing down the street, attached to a buggy, fortunate- ly empty, which was swaying dizzily from side to side. Right in the path of the animal was a young woman, poorly dressed, wheeling a baby-carriage. She saw the horse and seemed paralyzed with fear. She did not know where to turn. The animal was almost on top of her. Suddenly Outcast leaped from the old man’'s side and sprang directly in the horse's path, barking furiously. The horse swerved, Outcust caught WHEN BEST WORK IS DONE Literary and Other Labor Performed Under Pressure Generally Is of High Merit. . Fortunately we often have to do our s‘lbstltntes 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 to a friend: “I never knew anything worth while to be done that was not Round Package ) under pressure give to their writings a equip ‘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 sharply limited in our time for a cer- 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 life often surround us.—Sunday School Times. Pearl-Fishing Industry. R amaaas 22 02 2 T NE SR RS The world has at least one locality, ! as it has at least one industry, in which machinery, and even the sim- at the reins, the horse dashed to one side and fell, dragging down the dog with it and overturning the buggy within a foot of the baby-carriage. An instant later the spectators had leaped to the fallen animal's side and were pulling it to its feet. Others seized the mother and the carriage and conducted them across the street | under the shade of Miller's trees. The l‘\'oman was sobbing hysterically and clutching the child, which still slept, in her arms. of the horse. Outcast was in a sorry plight. The horse had kicked him as it fell and in- flicted serious injuries. The dog could not rise: it got on its front feet and dragged its hind quarters piti- fully. It licked its master's hand. Old Miller, forgetful of all but the dog, kneeled beside it. stroking the paralyzed back. It was clear that Out. V cast had not long to live. He picked him up in his arms. Miller stood at the side e The Man and Dog Were Inseparable. much use for you or me, have they? Let's stand together, since we're both without friends.” And he took the dog inside and gave it a meal of bread and meat. From that time onward the man and dog were inseparable. Miller's idea had been to make the dog as much fearci as he was himself, but all his endeavors to set it on the children, who played about his door- step in spite of his angry threats, failed. And as the weeks went by it began to seem as though old Miller was growing more human. For instance, there was the day when the baseball, hurled by the boy across the street, went through his parlor window. Oild Miller, dozing in his chair, was awakened by the crash of glass, and the ball, bouncing across the floor, landed in his lap. mongrel leaped up and barked. The furious old man saw what had stick and rushed to his door. Upon the opposite side of the street the children, too terrified to run, were | staring in fascination into Miller's | | teach you a lesson!” yelled | Miller. “Sic ‘em, Outcast'” | The dog lcaped at the nearest boy, pulled at b { his tail barks as Le looked pleadingly from his master. Outcast knew | in Miller's mind, but nz to harm his friends. | 3 coat, and stood wagging tinued to wag his tail and look up at | him. | “You ought to be more careful,” muttered Miller. “However, boys will be boys. I've done the same unn;* myself in my day when I bad friends to play with.” The miracle was duly reported The | happened at once. He snatched up a | There were tears in old Miller's cyes, and his hide-bound nature seemed softened at last—Dbroken. ° young woman nfdly, our dog I saved my baby's she said. there anything 1 can do—anything at all? 1 don't know how I can thank you. 1 have nobody in the world but my child and crippled husband.” Old Miller stared at her. your name, giri?" roughly. “Emily Miller, sir.” Old Miller took her hands in his. “l have nobody in the world either —unless my children come back to me,” he said. People said afterward that it was the joy of the reunion that made old Miller a friend of all the boys and girls in Pilkington. But everybody gave the credit to Outcast, who might generally have been seen playing with little Henry on the old man's doorstep. The superstition grew, also, that when the noted surgeon cured the old man’s gon of his lameness it passed into the dog, and that was why he limped a little. Because things get distorted with the lapse of time, long before he died “cranky” old Miller had passed into a legend. (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman,) “What is he demandcd FARMING LANDS IN SIBERIA That They Are Rich Is Proved by the Crops That Are Gathered From Them. We have inherited from the tradi- | tions of the past the idea that Siberia is a country with a not very fruit- ful soil. Yet in the last few years very decided advances in farming have been made there, as a result of the ef- forts of the Russian government to arouse the native peasants and set- tlers to a more Intensive cultivation of the ground. In the western section of the country, so the German journal Prometheus tells us, large associa- tions of farmers have been organ- ized for the export of their products. | In 1912 butter to the value of 7,000 000 rubles (a ruble is about 51 cents) was exported. In 1913 this amount | had doubled, for in this year butter to the value of 14,600,000 rubles was sold to Germany, Austria-Hungary and { England. 1In 1912 experiments were made in the manufacture of the Eng- lish cheddar cheese. After several ! failures, the cheese, which ig very pop- ular in Great Britain, was so success- | fully imitated that in 1913 England im- | ported 65 tons of Siverian cheddar. The trade is carrled on by ships di- ind uttering short, sharp ' rectly from the interior of Siberia to Scientific American. London.- Effective. An irascible Irish colonel was lead- He d plaved with them too often ' ing a regiment on a long and difficult for that | march. Fagged and worn out, they Old Miller, who had advanced | halted for a rest by the wayside. When across the street, waving his stick, | It became necessary to move on, the sudderly stopped dead. The dog con- | colonel gave the order, but the weary men remained stretched upon the ground. He repeated the order per- emptorily, and still there was no mo- tion. By this time his temper was at a white heat, and he thundered out: “If you don’t get up and start at once, I'll march the regiment off and leave every d—d one of you behind.” Thev started at once. Dally Thought. Let us wipe out the past, trust ta e foture—and rejoice in the glorious plest mechanical appliance, is not § permitted, through the agency of pro- hibitive rules, to obtain ascendancy ! over hand work and primitive met.h-i ods of labor. The locality is the Tuamotu or Low Archipelago, eom-' posed of 87 coral atolls, about one hundred miles eastward of Tahitl; the industry is the pearl fisheries of | the archipelago, the finest pearls in the South Pacific being 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. TAMPA mine near Lrooksville, Fla., Laboratory of the State Chemist Awful Misfortune. alyst, Lab. No. M19955: 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- ternoon. We had to give oral themes and I had studied mine out so care- fully that I wasn’t a bit nervous at first. But by and by something dis- tracted my attention for a moment, and I sald something that spoiled the unity, the coherence and the literary value of the whole thing.” — - Moisture, ...... . Lime—GaO ... . Insoluble Matter and Truck Gardening. FEEPEEIEE S FROBI M 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 is entitled to a chance “to do the things” which he is able to do for others. 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