The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-04-29

READY 10 go out ana 1gnC the 0eYll
himself if he went fooling around my
girl. Then / saw Sarah coming around
a bend in the road a couple of hun
dred yards away and / opened the
door quick and stepped out with the /.
gun ready. That old sky devil was
just coming down for another rock, i
reckon-anyway he was coming down .
when he seen her, too, and made a /
sweep for her. I let out yell and /
took after him. trying to shoot, but /
the gun wouldn't go of, so I threw it /
down and just went after him naked /
handed Didn't hardly know what /
was doing or I'd have kept the gun /
for a club. She hadn't seen him and /
was standing still there and wonderin' /
what made me act so when he /
dropped down upon her like a hawk |
on a sparrow and swept up again |
without slackening his speed, dang |
ling her by the arm. Ny God, if you |
could have heard the scream she |
gavei II will haunt me 10 my dying
day. It was awful, men, awful. l just
raved and raced about and beat my
chest until they were but a speck in
the sky and headin' for the mountains,
then tore back to the house. l just
hollered to my wife to stay where
she was until somebody called her by
name and not to pay any attention to
any noises she might hear above on
the foor-not DARN to tell her what
had happened-and then run out to
the barn and saddled up the horse
and run her all the way in. That's all.
He fell upon his knees at this point
and became incoherent again in his
appeals and prayers. Sympathetic
and even Mortified though the police
were, they were unable to think of
anything to do save notify the press,
call up such farmers in the vicinity as
had telephones and send out messen-
gers to the others telling them of the
| horror and advising them to be watch
full and be sure and go about well
armed. After that they managed to
brace Jones up little and sent him
home accompanied by special officer
armed with rife to care for him and
| guard the house. The man had be-
come absolutely irresponsible and
| threatened suicide.
An hour later and the heart of the
| great electric system that from its
| center OF the web pulsates the wires
and cables that span the world, as the
| human heart pulsates the veins and
arteries Of the body, were again
| athrob with vibrant life, and this time
| less laughter arose in response to the
! Yankee news" The British press
Re frs ~
! statement that 1T certainly begins to
/ look as though there was a vein of
truth after all in the wild west story
! of the American Flying Man" One
! French paper remarked in parenthesis
! that Should America announce a fly
| ing submarine, France should not be
| surprised to see the announcement
| fulfilled, as one must be prepared to
| expect anything from America" From
Latin Europe came the hope that
| their first comment was correct, while
! the stole German said 1--WE are still
unconvinced. The whole thing is
/ absolutely unscientific" But mean
while throughout the civilized world
there ran an undercurrent of horror
| and sympathy resulting from the trag-
| edy which was alleged to have taken
place upon the great western plateau.
| AS for the father Of the missing child.
| he raved night and day in the obses-
/ sion that she would be dropped
| through the roof as the stone had
been, while the bereft mother wan
dered about speechless and dumb and
to all intents practically thoughtless
| T17ff hof
| heavily over their heads those-at
least those who abode near the scene
| Of the tragedy no longer doubted.
| Their normal reasoning faculties once
| more ConUToIed them ana man 10
man, family to family and concourse
to concourse they talked the matter
| over graYely. The probity of the eye
| witnesses of the first appearance of
| the apparition was not to be ques-
toned nor their saneness disputed.
| Also, Farmer Jones was an intelligent,
| truthful man, his wife a Christian
woman and the disappearance Of their
daughter inexplicable except one be-
lieVed the story of the now practically
| insane father. The mayor and city
| council deemed it a matter of suffi-
cient Importance to summon all wit
nesseg into their chamber, and before
them there appeared in answer to the
summons the persons who had seen
| him with their own eyes. One by one
they corroborated each other with an
| earnestness and fidelity of detail that
convinced all hearers that no halluci-
nation-the only possible explanation
| of their story heretofore if one did not