The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-09

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urbed.
FINE SENTIMENT.
hezekiah Dorskins had slipped
slyly up 70 the old oak tree and
through a. knothole that would
permit OF his arm, he reached In
and deposited a note In an en-
velope, addressed 10 his son, Jake,
and sealed.
The note read:
Nv fortune OF $4,000 have
placed I'm the wall OF the barn be-
tween the buggy room and the COW
stables. M ambition is TO get the
farm cleared OF the woods that
stand In the corner. H. after my
death. my son shan continue the
work OF clearing. he must come To
this tree and, this key 10 my hid
den fortune shall be his reward.
A few years later Hezeklah
Dorskins died.
Jake Dorskins had married and
continued to live on the old
place.
Jake Dorskins was very fond
OF his father and fine sentiment
resulted In his determination that
whore his father had left OF, he
would begin, so he picked up the
Ak where his father had laid II
down and continued the work Of
clearing the farm Of the piece OF
woods.
Jake Dorsklns was sentimental.
He was a great lover OF nature.
He knew all the birds by name
and he knew their habits.
He knew all the flowers.
His favorlte was the forget-me-
not
That his father had died poor,
az he supposed. did not crush his
sentiment.
At last the woods had been
cleared Of all the trees but one,
the old oak on the inside OF which
lay the key to the old mans tor
tune.
Jake Dorskins eripped the az
and was about to swing Il against
the old oak when he stopped SUD
denly and stood back.
clusters Of foreet-me-nots. i.
He looked at the tall giant OF
the woodland, srander now tnat
IL stood alone, and he looked
AGAIN at the foreet-me-nots.
Sentiment had him IN mana
again. 49, - .u.t
stand forever as a monument TO
nv dear, beloved father, here on
the spot where his lies work was
DONE"
Reaching home ne told his wife
of his decision.
.Oh, don't be so sentimental
Jake" said his wife.
This remark set Jake to think
ing.
he withdrew from the house
and went out and stood by the
hack cate, and was rejecting that
maybe he was too sentimental
when he happened TO look across
the farm and his eyes fell on the
tree.
mo sir" said Jake, and going
into the house he pronounced an
ultimatum:
Lizzie" ne said to bis wife,
81 wouldn't cut that tree down
for a hundred dollars
Sentiment is fine thing.
The first fall OF the season foul
the head OF the house out once aga
digging around on the front walk I
his lot line.
Said doubtful Flo;
I'D like TO know
How santa comes
When there's NO snoWf"
Her mother saidi "Iet me explain, deH
It's santa's way.
In his great sleigh,
To always ind
Another way.
Ere now he has come with re-
deer"
Speaker Clark appointed a de
man a member OF a committee TO
tend his own funeral This may ha
been an inadvertence or ii may ha
been the speakers intention 10 mai
somebody who would be sure 10
there.
ERE the time limit for nomina
tons expires" writes Patrol
who forgot to put on Red Cross
stamp. al suggest as a candidate
the citizen who wants armed in
PREVENTION in Mexico and who
would be the first man In case Of
war to step out in his back yarc
and shoot off his trigger finger
Now an Ohio man has blown out
t,,,e tho ufnrV a M