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Bellefonte, Pa., April 23, 1915.
LOVE BY TELEPHONE.
[By Lucy Gorton!Barrows.]
“No!” shouted Simon Barclay in a
‘thunderous tone, crushing out the
| fondest of human hopes, immovable
‘as a rock.
His pretty niece, Hetty, covered hel
face with her hands and broke down
utterly in a storm of tears.
| “Cruel—cruel!” she sobbed.
| “And a last meeting with this gay
‘gallivanting young man—understand ?”
pursued her callous-souled relative.
“You are breaking my heart!”
moaned Hetty, and really believing it.
| “It isn’t because Ned Monroe fis
after your little fortune, as mosi
young fellows are nowadays.”
“What—what is it, then?’ faltered
poor Hetty.
“It’s because he’s an electrical
maniac. Huh—telephone! Who
heard of such a thing in my young |
days? Gossip-breeders, I call ‘em!
Worse than that—catering to laziness. |
Tried to get me to put one in my
house. I'd like to see ’em! Now I've
said my say. Drop this beau, or I'll
send you off a thousand miles to my
sister, where you can’t see him.”
Antiquated, narrow-minded Simon
Barclay had invented a new name
for the most estimable young man in
Redfern. He hated all innovations,
especially a telephone. There was a
reason. Simon had bargained too
slowly in the purchase of a piece of
property he coveted, a shrewd neigh:
bor had got to a telephone and out
bid him. He hated telephones after
that, and Ned Monroe in the bargain,
for was not that energetic young man
the head linesman of the district tele
phone plant?
Hetty moped around the house all
day. She was disconsolate. If ever a |
girl loved a bright intelligent young |
fellow, it was she. As to Ned, she |
knew that she was to him as the
apple of his eye. She dreaded meet-
ing him, but she was loyal to a prom-
ise she had made to her uncle that
there would be no exchange of notes,
no clandestine meetings. Hetty knew |
that promptly at 5:30 Ned would pass
“it's Because He's an Electrical
Maniac.”
the old orchard road near the farm.
Fifteen minutes earlier she repaired
to the old tree that had been to them
a favorite trysting place.
Ned came spinning along on his
bicycle, not a moment late, a fine
specimen of a healthy, buoyant
young man interested and happy in
his work. He swung a coil of wire
and his tool bag to the road and was
over the fence in a joyous leap. |
“Dear girl!” he said fondly, and
then started at Hetty in alarm, for
she was weeping.
Bit by bit the miserable story came
out. He consoled her, he reiterated
his love. He said nothing of revenge,
elopement. or discouragement.
“Little lady,” he observed in his
hopeful sanguine way, “all right! If I
can’t see you, I can keep on loving
you, can’t I?”
“Yes, yes,” murmured Hetty bro-
kenly, “but I shan’t hear—those lov-
ing words! Why, not to have you tell
me how you think of me every day—"
“But you shall,” announced Ned
definitely. “You have agreed not to
write to me. Don’t. You have prom-
ised not to meet me. Keep your
word. I'll arrange all that, but—trust
me to break down this wall of preju-
dice. Oceans shan’t part us. In the
meantime, until things settle down—
this.”
Ned drew from his coat pocket one
of the tools he used in putting in
wires. He waved it buoyantly.
“Yonder,” he said, pointing to the
barb wire fence, “is a conductor right
at hand. I'll connect up half a mile
down the road with Farmer Moore's
house line. The feeder will go up
there,” and he pointed among the
branches of thc old apple tree.
“Oh, Ned!" cried Hetty, clasping
her hands in ecstasy, “‘you—you don’t
mean—"
“That I am going to put a tele-
phone especially for you up in that
tree. Why, every evening we can talk
over the line for hours, if we want to.”
“You darling!” evuberated Hetty
breathlessly. “'% cw fortunate it
is that ver + » ot hout tele-
nhones!’
tomorrow before your uncle is up and
about,” planned Ned. “Come here to
morrow evening, climb up in the tree.
There’s a comfortable seat on the sec:
ond branch. Take down the receiver.
Call up XX. Ill arrange with the
switch-board girls as to what that
means. Then-—last kiss here, but I'll
send you a dozen over the wires
every evening!”
Oh, the delight of it! That blissful
twilight hour! The deft hand of the
master workman had arranged the
wires so that only a suspicious, search.
ing person could have guessed the
mission of the double wire loop run-
ning from the fence up into the old
apple tree.
For three consecutive evenings Het-
ty sauntered carelessly down the
road. Her uncle supposed she was go-
ing to visit the daughter of the farm-
er just next to them. Hetty had no-
ticed him standing at the door of the
house the last evening of the three,
watching her till she was out of sight.
She made a cautious detour to reach
the old tree.
The fourth evening Hetty did not
i start away until she saw Mr. Barclay
| busy in what he called his little of-
| fice, looking over his business papers.
| It was quite dusk by the time she
reached her destination.
She had climbed into the tree and
had herself comfortably disposed,
when she was startled by a low quick
“Ill be at my task bright and early |
|
whistle. A man came over the fence, |
rough looking and sinister.
directly beneath her leafy shelter.
It was he who had uttered the
whistle and in a few moments a com-
rade of the same type slouched into
view.
“Well, how’s the outlook?” queried
the first comer.
“Capital.”
“Girl gone?”
“Half an hour ago.”
“And the old man?”
“In the room where his safe is, all
alone. There's a rich haul, partner.
Come on.”
“Mercy!” gasped: the startled Hetty,
He stood | leaves of which bay rum is obtained
|
as the two strangers disappeared in !
the direction of the farm house. |
“They are going to rob uncle!”
Her wits worked quick. She was
aware that the men folks on the next
farm were not at home. Then a
bright idea occurred to her. She
snatched free the receiver of the tele:
phone.
“X-X"—oh, quick, please!
she breathed frantically.
And then as the connection was
made: “Oh, Ned! come quick, with
help.
who are going to rob uncle!”
“Will they never come?’ she cried,
standing out in the road and looking
townwards. Then her heart took
hope. Two distant sparks grew
brighter, the lamps of a speeding
automobile. Then she could hear the
chug-chug of the flying machine. She
ran out into the road and waved her
neck scarf.
Two town officers accompanied her
lover. One guarded the front door of
the house as they reached it. Ned
and the other man went around to the
porch that opened into the office of
old Simon.
“Just in time!” announced Ned, and
he and the officer sprang into the
room. One of the burglars was guard-
ing their victim with a revolver. The
other had just lifted his strong box
from the safe.
The officers departed with their
prisoners. Ned explained.
“A telephone did it?” muttered old
Simon, closely hugging his treasure
box. “But for that—Join hands!” he
said abruptly. “I'm converted, Hetty.
This young man may put in a ’phone
in the morning. As to coming here
regular, I fancy he's earned the priv-
lege.”
And so love by telephone led to
love directly under the home roof.
(Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.)
DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
please!”
His Important Medical Discovery
Should Be Recorded in His
Memorial.
There has been a suggestion that
in a memorial to Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes some worthy recognition be
made of his incomparable service to
mankind in the discovery and propaga:
tion against obstacles that would have
deterred a less honest and sympa:
thetic mind of the contagiousness of
childbed fever and its remedy. Lay
persons and unfortunately many in
the profession are unaware of this
epoch-making discovery by a man
whose memory is beloved and hon:
ored for his literary attainments
only, A disease which consigned
thousands of recent mothers to un:
timely graves was suddenly deprived
of its malign prevalence by the dis-
covery of Doctor Holmes that it was
contracted by contact with the doc
tor or nurse and that simple precau-
tions by them would prevent its oc
currence. Persecuted in his own
country by the ridicule of great pro-
fessors in that specialty, Holmes pur
sued the even tenor of his way until
his idea was accepted in England.
Thence it was carried to the con:
tinent, where it was taken up by a
Hungarian physician who reduced the
mortality in the Vienna hospitals enor-
mously. To the latter his countrymen
have erected a monument in Buda:
pest, and annually homage is paid to
his memory, while Holmes is barely
remembered in the United States for
this scientific discovery, which it is
said he valued more highly than his
literary fame.
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‘easonable than to cease reasoning on
‘ngs above reason.—Sir P. Sidney.
There are two burglars here !
| found abundanily in green plants, es-
Dreams.
It is a common saying that ome
dreams of that which one has been
thinking most about. This is the ex-
ception and not the rule. The dream
may be of something that ote thought
of at some time, but possibly not for
years, that would not be recalled in
waking hours, which had lain dormant
in the mind, to be prosaically re-
hearsed through some operation of
physical functions, such as impeded |
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posture of the body, a late supper, pos-
sibly ended with a dessert of mince
pie, stomachic distress, clogging of the
circulation or some bodily pain.
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r* barb and the water it was washed
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will lemon and table salt.
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The plant from which the bayberry
candle is made is the shrub Mpyrcia
cerifera, a plant which is common in
New England, and especially along the
coast of Maine. The bayberry shrub
is not closely related to the Myrcia
acris, or West India bay, from the
by distillation.
What Gives Milk Its Color.
Recent experiments show that the
color of milk is chiefly due to the pres-
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pecially in grass. The yellow pig-
ments of our bodies also consist of
carotin, which is probably derived
chiefly from our food.
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“I tell you, sir, the great benefit of
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you make.” “That's so. No matter
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through college you can always find |
some one to play poker or bet on the !
races or go on a spree with.”—Life.
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Wsoden. !
“I can’t seem to figure cut now to |
make his box.” “Why don{ you use
your head, man?” |
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