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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-11
CHAPTER xvItI.
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Mr. Blithers In Graua1arI<. w IMMEDIATELY upon receiving her letter Roland sent for Quinnox and Gourou, who were stopping at a hotel nearby.
 sI am ready to proceed to Ede1weiss, my friends" said he. Miss Guile has
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At sight OF mis- master. the great
dog bounded forward. wagging his
stumpy tail In Joyous greeting. leaping
up ut Henry for careGs. His splayed
paws brushed against Henry's flannel
trousers, leaving dusty marks on the
white cloth.
Henry, with an exasperated curse
at the a~ffcctionnts brute's awkward
ness, swung back one buckskin-clad
foot and delivered q tremendous kick
on tho dogs throat. Both father and
son chuckiod with laughter as Cham
pion Colborn tumbled prone into the
dust, under the cruel impact, and then
limped c~restfallsn back late his ken
mel.
Tom went "a with his planting. A
minute later. Mabel emerged from the
cottage. Calling out a CHEEKY goed-by
to her brother. she walked down the
short garden path to the street gate.
Toms yellow puppy had followed her
from the house and now frisked along
in front Of her. gleeful In the prospect
of a walk. But at the gate she sent
him back, calling:
"No, no, Hutchiei Go back to mas
ter. You can't walk with me this eve
ming"
Chagrined, but optimistic, the puppy
obeyed. He trotted over to Tom. The
boy patted him on the head, then
went on working. The puppy, finding
no n had time to play with him,
decided to go for q walk on his own
account.
He ran to the gate. Mabel had
neglected to close 1t tightly. A few
scientific butts Of Eutch's furry nose
pushed 1t open wide enough for him
to wriggle out.
Mabel was no longer in sight ON
Hudson lane, having turned the cor
ner q block above, Hutch cantered on
In happy search for adventure. He
was not long in finding 1t.
Tom heard Henry Rokeson say, in
amused excitement to the kennel man :
"Let Champion Colborn out again.
Quick! And open the gate In the
hedge that leads into Hudson lane"
To his father. Rokeson explained:
THAT mongrel yellow mutt Of Nor
rissey's is out on the sidewalk. Watch
some fun |"
Tom jumped to his feet and a to
his W gate. But, fast as he ran,
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intrevvrtioh - Mabel followed.
Mabel was anything but happy to
meet the man who had once done her
brother such a bad turn. But Henry
Rokeson could be extremely fascinat-
ing when he chose.
In less than ten minutes Mabel
found her early resentment against
him fading to n~othingness. He was
magnetic, brilliant, altogether delight
ful-to her unsophisticated way of
thinking.
When the last dance was over he
begged leave to take the girl to her
home In his runabout. Reluctantly and
against her wiser impulses, she con-
scented.
When the ali-too-brief ride ended at
the Aorrissey gate, Henry helped Ma
bel from the . and walked up the
path to the porch at her side.
Tom had found Mabel's latchkey on
the hall table. Knowing she had for
gotten it, he had sat up to open the
front door for her. Now, hearing the
motor stop, he looked out Of an upper
window. To his amaze, he saw his
sister coming toward the house with
the last man In the world with whom
he would have expected to see her.
He ran downstairs to the front door
to let Mabel in.
Meantime, she and Henry had
paused at the top Of the front steps,
while the girl CROPPED in her handbag
for the forgotten latchkey.
Henry Rokeson, scarce knowing
what he did, threw his arms about her.
She wrenched herself free, with IN ex-
clamation Of alarm just as Tom opened
the door. Henry, blind to oil except
his love for her, cried out:
Sweetheart, 1 love you 1 want you
to marry mel"
He caught her again in his arms.
AS he did so he felt himself whirled
backward and away from her with q
force that sem him banging against a
post of the veranda.
In front of him stood Tom Norris
sey, white and coldly resolute.
Keep your hands Off my sister,"
commanded Tom, very quietly. "We
do not want men of your sort around
our home. Please CO."
Cor" beloved Henry, insane rage
gripping him at this interruption to
his love-making, and at the humilia-
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Jup persecution CT your unhappy
brother. I ara anxious to make
amends. Won't You give me the
chance? If not for my own sake for
your sick mothcr'sI Faithfully yours.
"HENRY ROKESON."
Mabel thrust the letter into the
bosom Of her blouse. She was desper-
ate wei her mothers illness. Much
as she loathed the idea Of accepting
help from Henry Rokeson, or Of aid
ing him to lessen his very Just re-
morse, she felt she had no right to de-
cline the offer. Her mothers life
might depend on 1t.
Up the long stairs to their tenement
home she hurried. forcing herself to
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Champion Colborn ran faster. Tom
was just in time to see the gigantic
white bulldog dart out into Hudson
lane and fling himself upon the un-
%suspectingly frisking little mongrel
puppy.
There was a deep-throated growl,
followed at once BY an almost human
scream Of mortal agony. Then In re-
Spouse to his masters laughing sum-
mons, the bulldog logged back into
the Rokeson grounds.
On the sidewalk lay a pitifully
moyeless little mass of yellow fun.
Tom went out into Hudson lane, ten
derby picked up the lifeless body of
his loved pet, and bore 1t back into
his wi yard, smoothing out the rum
pied yellow fur as he walked.
In Tom Morrissey's heart was no
rancor Of vengefulness.
He did not want bis mother to see
Hutch's twisted body, lest the sight
make her cry. SO, getting a spade,
he buried his ~four-footed- chum under
q big rose bush In q corner Of the
perch.
.
Mabel had a better time than she
had expected at the pavilion dance
that evening.
The FIRST check to her pleasure came
about ten o'clock when Elsie Paynter's
brother brought up \ q to be intro
duced to her. Elsie's white forehead
puckered into . slight frown Of dis
pleasure ~ she recognized the new
conner. He was Henry Rokeson.
For more than a year Henry's eyes
had followed Aabel's dainty figure with
open admiration as she passed him on
the street. He had ut last admitted
to himself that he was genuinely in
love with this girl whom he had never
even met. He had taken to spending
much time near his own side the boun-
dairy fence, when he saw her at work
In the Morrissey garden. Thus 1t was
that he had heard that afternoon of
her intention to 90 with Elsie Paynter
to the pavilion dance.
Henry had laid his own plans nc
cordingly. He had rome to the dance,
had, with some dl1iculty, found out
that the man who escorted the t-c
girls was Elsic's brother. and had
hy q dint OF q good deal Of diplomacy,
! picked an Acquaintance with him. The
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ton to which he had Just been sub
jected In the presence of the fright
ened girl. 600, eh? / go or stay as l
please. You've seen how I treat mon
grel ours. Take warning by it."
He mistook Toms calm self-control
for cowardice, and enforced his angry
retort by a smashing blow at Morris
sey's face.
But Tom, sidestepping the blow,
landed q short-arm left handler be-
tween his as~sailant's eyes.
He struck too high to score a knock
out. But he broke the bridge Of Hen
RVS lose and sent him Keeling back
ward under the trained muscular drive
Of his fist.
Henry's Keeling feet missed the top
step. He fell sprawling into the BRAN
bly, heart Of the very rose bush under
which poor little Hutch lay buried.
Painfully Henry Rokeson crawled to
his feet, holding two very badly
scratched hands over his broken nose.
In his heart blazed q murderously
undying hatred for his conqueror. Glar-
ing up at Tom, from between his puff
fing and blackened lids, Henry gasped
incoherently:
9Th get you for that! I'll get You,
IL 1t takes my last breath and my faith
er's last dollar and last scrap OF infu-
ence. I'll get you'll"
Henry Observation-Disclosures, his face
distorted with swelling and with fury
stamped into his fathers study,
three minutes later.
"Look at mel" he gurgled, choking.
~. Look at mel That Norrissey
swine did this. He"
His father broke into amazed ques'
tioning. But Henry cut him short.
you've been wanting me to accept
that chance to 60 to Vienna, as at.
tache to the United States embassy
there. I didn't want to 60. In spite OF
! your saying 1t meant a big career fel
me. I don't want to, even yet. But
I'll make Q bargain with you: I'll &c
to Vienna. without any further kick
II you will find q way, frst to send
Morrissey to jail. Get him q prison
sentence for what he's done to me, and
TIL start for Vienna the day after he's
sentenced.
'T1l do It'll" said the elder Rokesor
| eagerly ct ouRht IN have null enough
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FOURTEENTH STORY
The Irony of Justice.

II began ON Halloween--on the
night when Tom Morrissey finished
his apprenticeship and received q
union card as a full-fledged journey
man printer. With the card he had
received a job in the big shop where
his apprenticeship had been served.
1t was a splendid job, too, for n
boy Of twenty--a job that would scare
away the DOGGY of poverty which had
haunted Tom ever since the day, two
years earlier, when his father had
died, leaving his only son with a Wild
owed mother and q pretty sister TO
support.
Tom Morrissey was h%urrying home
right sieefuiiy, froE, the shop when.
rounding a corner, he came upon q
group Of boys who were dancing
around a Halloween bonfire. The
blaze roared merrily. The boys greet
ed with cheers each new member Of
their group who arrived with an arm
full Of fresh fuel.
The cheers swelled to a howl OF de-
light, AZ two young fellows ran to-
ward the fire from q side street, carry
ing between them a big wooden gate
they had dexterously lifted from Its
place In front Of some ~unguarded
house.
As the two gate ~stealcrs trotted for
ward and cast their burden on the fire,
Tom recognized one Of them as Henry
Rolesor. a youth several years older
than himse!f-son OF the towns fore
most lawyer-politician.
Tom also saw what none Of the bon
fre-builders ut frst noted. Namely,
that a policeman (who evidently had
watched the gate robbers from q dis
tance) was running toward the merry
makers.
Before Tom could call a warning,
the policeman charged down upon the
lads. One Of them yelled: BEAT I'll"
and the group melted az IL by magic.
One of them--Henry Rokeson-
dashed across the street toward the
invftingiy opsn entrance to an alley.
AS he ran past Tom, his toe caught
IN the edge Of tho curb, and he
sprawled headlong.
Tom stopped 10 lift young Rokeson
to his feet. But the moments delay
had been enough for the policeman to
overtake him. The bluecoat nabbed
Henry by the collar, shaking him into
submission. In the same movement he
seized Tom Morrissey.
Tin the name Of the law! !" sputtered
the officer. and if either OK you re-
.sist, I'll pull my gun on you. / saw
the two of you pinch that gate"
you did not" denied Tom, indig-
nantly. I'm just on my way from
the shop. i stopped here. a second,
to watch"
"You didn't zee me do It." declared
Henry Rokcson. II was on my way
home from my fathers Office, when I
noticed this fellow and another boy
going toward the IRE, with q gate be-
tween them, whom"
"You saw me doing thatf" gasped
Tom incredulously.
81 did" reiterated Henry. land I'm
ready to swear to Il. T."
Come along. the both Of you'll"
broke In the policeman. You can
tell IL tomorrow to the Judge.
At the towns single police station
(under the city hall) the two boys
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The Little Heusshsld Was Ideally
Happy.
were arraisnsd bsfors Z grumpy lieu
tsnant ana then consigned to the same
rcIl.
Henry nsksson. ~ means Of : hve-
ocalar t1p - the doorman. had = tcle-
phone message vent to his father. Tom
MQrrtssey. not wanting to worry his
mofter and dnfer. made 40 effort 70
~ feeesH - ~ nd Ata ec!lct4ts wcro
~ olrn~ t6ceeAer - their barrs1 -
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"rll do It'll" said the elder Rokeson
eagerly. Il ought to have pull enough
In this town to get pretty much what
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15
EIFFEL TOWER TRANSMITS
EXACT HOUR TO SHIPS AT SEA

Paris, Jan 10 The Eiffel Tower
which transmits the official and sup
posedly exact hour three times
day to ships scattered over the sea,
as well as to all land wireless sta
tions, suspended its morning trans
missions recently; the effect was
general inquiry as to whether the
Eiffel Tower had gone wrong. 1t is
still working twice day.
The time is furnished to the wire
less station by two clocks, one in
cellar 25 yards below the surface
of the earth protected by double
covering of copper and glass against
changes of temperature and of at
mosphoric pressure; the other is
plunged into a tank where the tenn
perature is maintained at a constant
point The clocks are called time
regulators" wound up every 80 sec
onds by system of batteries placed
alongside dozen observation in
struments. The time regulators are
verified by comparison with meridian
glasses. All the indications thus
taken are centralized in the clock
room, where, at fixed hours, COM
manding appliances put the the Elf
fel Tower wireless post in movement,
sending the exact hour within the
hundredth part of second all over
the world
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15
SNOWFALL ARMY"

Sidney, Australia, Jan. Is THE
SNOWFALL army" idea has taken
hold of many communities and there
are now four such armies" march
ing from as many towns in New
South Wales toward Sydney, accum-
ulating recruits on their way. The
"Walabies" "--so-called from a species
of kangaroo-are marching here
from Narrabri; the "Kangaroos"
from Wagga; the "Waratahs"-
named after an Australian flower
from Nowra; and THE Men from
Snowy River" hive left the town of
Delegate. The nickname of the lat
ter party is taken from the poem of
THE Men from Snowy River by A.
B. Paterson, popular poet, who Is
now a major with the Australian
forces in Egypt.
The military authorities are CIV
ing these voluntary. armies as
much encouragement as possible
staff sergeant jors have been pro-
vided for each contingent. The sew
eral marches now in progress cover
from 100 to 400 miles, and along
the way the volunteers are the CEN
ter of many patriotic ovations.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15
FLORIDA WELCOMES SUCH
ENTERPRISES AS THIS

Green Cove Springs. Jan. 1.-THE
largest corporation of its kind in
Florida is now located at Green
Cove Springs and is progressing so
rapidly that everybody in the state
interested in farming and stock rails
ing is looking at Clay county.
The Southern Cattle Feeding Com
pany, producers of beef and pork
from Columbus. o., who purchased
20 900 acres of land six weeks ago
If Messrs Bowling & Schundo. acre
on the ground converting 5000 acres
into a veritable garden.
Two hundred employees are at
work tearing out stumps and prepar-
ing the land for the planting of vel
vet beans. corn chufas, natal hay,
Japanese cane. Irish and sweet pota-
toes, rice. Help from all over the
State are pouring into the town and
by the last of the week, 500 men
will be at work. track engines, gang
plows and other implements on q
large scale have been ordered and
parts are arriving. Ten large mod
ern horses for the superintendent
| aud forty smaller ones win be bull
as soon as the contracts are signed
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FIXED THEMSELVES TO BE
WILD WEST HEROES

Miami. Jan 15-The police have
succeeded in roundup up the young
sters who on Saturday night last
stole Chalmers automobile, a re-
volver and an automatic pistol from
the residence of William E. Combs,
Thirteenth street, and fed to the
Everglades to hide until the vigil
ance of the officers had relaxed and
then to go to the wild west of the
dime novel of years ago and the
movie film of today The lads were
the young son of Mr. Combs, the son
of d. B. Walker and young Walter
Williams.
Hunger drove Williams from the
camp at the head of the Miami river
where the boys waited and hid. He
came TO Miami for sugar and coffee
and other supplies, and was follow
ed back to camp by Mr.. Walker and
several others who suspected that
where one of the boys were hid there
all would be found
None OF the boys would tell the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15
$32,000,000 WORTH OF
Machine GUNS PURCHASED
IN j. s. BY RUSSIA
ACCIDENT
DUPLICATED IN FLORIDA

Albion, Mich, Jan. 15-Fate
played strange trick on Mrs. NJ.
C. Ismon of Cameron City, Fla,
daug hter-in-law of +. A. Ismon of
this city. Her death according to
word just received in Albion. result
ed Jan. 3, in Sanford, Fla. from
day or two of the anniversary of a
very similar accident that occurred
two years ago in Jackson and which
resulted in the death of her mother
in-law, Mrs. E. A. Ismon, of this city,
and the permanent disabling of her
father-in-law, E. A. Ismon.
According to the Sanford Herald's
story of the tragedy. Mrs. Ismond
and her daughter, with Mrs. T. w.
Dryden, were driving from Cameron
City to Sanford in the latter's auto
mobile when they were struck on a
crossing by an Atlantic Coast Line
train. The auto was hurled through
barbed-wire fence into a deep ditch
filled with water, with the two wom-
en- underneath Mrs. Dryden was SER
iously hurt but will recover Mrs.
Ismon, who died in hospital at San
ford. had double farcture of the
jaw, losing all her teeth but four,
and also had other severe injuries
Her young daughter was practically
uninjured, being thrown to one
side of the railroad track.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15
INTERESTING FLA. QUESTION
BEFORE U. s. SUPREME COURT

Tallahassee, Jan. l5-AttOrney
General 7. F. West has just COM
pleted and forwarded to the Clerk
of the Supreme Court at Washington
a brief on behalf of the defendant
in case in which the State is
interested.
The suit was brought to test the
Validity of the statute requiring GER
tain residents of the State to assist
in maintaining the public roads by
performing labor on the roads in
certain number of days in each year.
The claim is made by those con-
testing this matter that to require
one to labor on the public roads
without his consent and without
paying him for the service amounts
to involuntary servitude, and is con-
trary to the Thirteenth Amendment
to the Federal Constitution. 1t is al
30 claimed that to compel one to
work on the public roads without
his consent deprives him of his la
Dor and his property without due
process of law, in violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution
The case Is of some Importance as
it involves the power of the counties
of the State to work the roads in
this way, as it has done for a great
number of years.
SO far Attorney General West has
not lost a case for the State in the
Supreme Court of the United States,
and it is understood that he does
not expect to lose this one.
1t is also worthy of note that the
, Attorney General is now doing all
/ the law business of the State and OF
the Trustees of the l. |. Fund, and
no money is being paid out to EN-
ploy special counsel in cases in which
the state or the Trustees are inter
ested.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15
GERMAN OFFICERS TO
WEAR BAYONEIo

Berlin, Jan. 13.-The officers s"oru'
whose usefulness had long since van
ished and whose sole remaining luno'
ton was to trip its wearer up al ~
|opportune times, is now to disappear
officially at the German front lne
Emperor has just issued an ofue. -
Permitting officers at the front VIZ
the exception of the commanders o.
large detachments and stan ONCE .
10 wear a short knife or bayone1 =.
order approves a custom which nau
already established itself with 'n
'aeit acquiescence of the military @"
thOrities.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15
DOGS TRAINED FOR
LOCATING THE WOUNDED

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Jan. Is.
In mo mans land" the fire-swept
zone between the trenches, one may
occasionally find, among the mass of
human and material debris, dead
dogs which, in the opinion of many,
are deserving of the cross for valor
equally with their human friends.
On both sides, dogs have been large
ly employed in locating and succor-
ing the wounded, and many touch
ing stories of canine devotion and
sagacity are told and remembered
with gratitude by those who must
have miserably perished but for the
trained Red Cross dog.
Different countries have adopted
different modes of training the ami
mails. One was to teach a dog to lie
down beside wounded man and
bark until assistance came. Another,
to train the dog to return half way
to his master and attract attention
by short sharp bark, and yet an
other to teach the animal to pick up
some object belonging to the SOL
dier. carry it back to his master and
guide the latter to the spot where
the man lies awaiting help.
The first method has been found
to be the quickest in practice but at
the same time the most dangerous,
inasmuch as the noise is apt to at
tract the noice of he enemy, and
may even at times give him useful
information. The second method
was based on the idea that 1t would
save time if the dog could be made
to produce tangible evidence that he
really found a wounded man; but it
had to be abandoned because the ami
NAL, in his unreasoning eagerness to
procure the evidence, would some
times badly maui helpless man and
often tear OK a temporary bandage;
thus endangering the life of the per-
son whom the dog had set out to
save.
The silent method Is the only one
that has been found really satisfac-
tory, and this is now universally fol-
lowed; although, on dark nights and
when there is rough ground to be
covered, certain obvious drawbacks
present themself.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-15
BOSS BULL MOOSER OF
FLA. BACK FROM CHICAGO

Jacksonville. Jan. 15-Hon. Her.
| bert L. Anderson, national COM
|mitteeman of the Progressive party
lin Florida, returned to Jacksonville
Thursday morning from the meeting
/ Of the national committee of his
party in Chicago early this week.
NIr Anderson declared that the Pro-
gressives have not proposed an ANAL
gamation with the Republicans, but
he admitted that if the latter will
nominate a man sufficiently strong
to oppose President Wilson, and If
principles advocated by the Progress
sives are incorporated in platform
they will support that nominee, be-
lieving their duty IN their country
higher than to their party.
The national committee of the
Progressive party held its meeting in
Chicago on the 18th inst.," he said
There were forty-seyen members OF
the committee, representing forty
seven out of the forty-eight States
and also a member representing Ha-
waii.
There was a full discussion OF
the present political situation exist
ing in this country, and the sense oil
the committee was that the men con-
situating the Progressive party owed
higher duty to the country than
to the Progressive party, and for TINS
reason only the committee conceived
that it was its duty to indicate tc
the country or make any rehabilitate
concessions necessary to rehibilltatt
the country, both in an economic
sense and in it's reputation abroad