Lime Springs Sun, The (Newspaper) - July 7, 1904, Lime Springs, Iowa THE LIME SPRINGS VOL. LIME 8PBINQ8, JULY 7, 1904. No. 48 CLARENCE That Is of Real Worth Can Bo Achieved Without Courageous per In Advance Gentleman From Indiana TA 1399. Ar Co. by Co. o Tbc sons lind bat tbe musician and the keys were plaintive harmonics new to Be bad come to before won tbc price at and bo tbc for tbe first Listening to to move lest lie should wake from a summer night's A ragged little shadow down the and from n tary apple tree standing like n ly ghost in tbc middle of the field came tbe of a screech owl It was a clump of elder bushes tbat grew In a fence comer fifty yards west of tbe pasture Then tbe barrel of a squirrel rifle lifted out of tbe white elder and lay nlong tbe The music In tbo house across tbe way and Harkless saw two white dresses come out through the long parlor dows oh to the will be come tbe voice of the singer clearly through tbe a John vaulted the ban and started to cross tbc saw him from tbo and called to In As tall figure stood plainly In the bright light white a streak of fire leaped from tbo and there out the sharp report of a Them were two screams from tbe One white figure ran Into tbe Tbe a little one with a gauzy wrap streaming crime flying out into the moonlight straight to There was 3 second re- port The rifle shot was answered by a William Todd had risen from kneeling by tbe fired at the flash of fcr the Mr. he them Per God's come Empty banded as bo tho editor for tbe elder bush M fait as bis long carry but before be bad strides a hand clutched bis sleeve girl's voice from close run like Mr. I can't keep Ha wheeled about and confronted a a dainty little figure feet a flushed and lovely and disarranged and He stamped his foot with back In the he mustn't suo the only way to stop to the you coiner God's cried William Keep out of tbe He was emptying bis revolver tho clump of tbc of bis blasting the night Some one screamed from tbe Helen John seized the girl's Her gray eyes flashed Into his you bo Ho dropped her caught her up In his arms aa If she bad been n ten and leaped Into tbe shadow of tbe trees that leaned over tbe road from the The rang out and the little ball whistled ly Harkless ran along the fence and turned In at the A loose strand of the girl's hair blew across Ma and In the moon her bead shone with She bad light Thl rifle mtt brown hair and gray eyes Bud a lip like n curled rose He on the veranda of with always thought you were he and there was afterward a time when be bad to agree tbat this was a somewhat vague CHAPTER DOB DRISCOB smiled ly nnd leaned on bis shotgun In the by the He and William Todd had been kicking down the elder bushes returning to tbe found nie on tbe be sold to bis who turned an anxious fare be nnd In our I oughtn't to have let them They're all right That half way to Six Crossroads by Isn't tuck up the fence like a scored Todd looking Into bat to avoid meeting tbe eyes of the I didn't have no cal. to He knowed how to I Time Mr. Harkless come out the we see him take across the road to tbe wedge near half a mile Somebody else with him like n Must cut across field to Join They're fur enough toward home by Miss Helen shake hands with you four or five asked My hand and I guess William's docs He nearly shook our arms we he'd been a Seemed to do him I be ought to hire somebody a shot at him erery morning before that It's any Joking tbc bid gentleman finished should sar Bald with a deep nnd Jerk of his head toward the rear of the Jokes about It Wouldn't even promise to carry a gun after wouldn't know how to use never shot one off since he was a on the Fourth This Is the third time he's shot at this bnt he says tbe others was at What fd he call merely complimentary He banded William a cigar nnd bit the end off you better go house and I unless you want to go down to the creek nnd Join those abe know when to stay Do go and put that terrible gun said lighting bis cigar nil there's no question of but maybe William and I out and take a smoke In the orchard as long as they stay tho In the garden shafts of white light pierced the bordering trees and fell where June roses breathed the mild night and through mer the editor of tbe Herald and the lady who bad run to him nt tbe pasture bars a path trembling with shadows to where the creek tinkled over the They walked with an air of being well accustomed friends find and for some reason It did not strike either of them as unnatural or They to a bench bn the and he made a great fuss ing the Mat for her with hla slouch bat Then ho regretted the hat was a old hat of Carlow county It a long and he seated himself rather remotely toward the end opposite suddenly realizing that he bad close to her coming down the narrow garden Neither knew that neither had spoken Since they left tbe nnd It taken them a long time to come the little orchard and the She rested her chin on her leaning forward and looking steadily at tho Her had quite her seemed a little wist ful and a little He noted that her hair curled bcr brow In a way he pictured In the lady of his This was so much He did not for tall He had not cared for them for almost half an It was so much more beautiful to be dainty and small nnd piquant He had no notion that he win In n' way that would put n fur nace to but he turned bin 03 es from her he that If he looked longer he might out sonic her His anil be had to look away from to keep from telling her that be meant to advocate a law compelling all women to wear crisp white gowns and white kid slippers on She picked a long spear of grass from tbo turf before twisted It In her then turned to him Her lips parted as If to Then she turned away Tbo action was GO as did so and the pre- served silence was such a bond be- tween that for his life be could not have helped moving half way up the bouch toward Is he and bo spoke In a whisper as ho might have used at tbc bedside of a dying He would uot have laughed It be had known he did so. She twisted tbe spear of grass into a little ball and threw It ftt a stone in tbc water before she an- you Mr. you and I have not have Didn't we to be presented to each beg your Miss In tbc perturbation of was wasn't she He but she shook her he said glance rested on tbe but Its diameter Included the white skirt the tip ot a little high i tint out from Neither knew that neither had your part of It You shouldn't have done It This evening was not arranged in honor of you mustn't think me n I didn't plan It My friend from Six Crossroads must be given the credit of devising the though you divined was a little too I I know Six Please tell me what you to What 1 mean that you will keep on ting them shoot at you until She struck the bench angrily with bcr no summer theater In Six There's not even n Why shouldn't be asked the long and tedious ings it cheers the poor soul to drop over here and take a shot at me. It whiles dull care for and be has the exercise of nil tbc way sbo cried told me you always answered you the Crossroads efforts have proved so thoroughly hygienic for me. As a patriot 1 have sometimes felt extreme mortification tbat such bad marksmanship should exist In tile but I console myself with the thought that their best shots un- In the arc many left Can't you un- that they will organize again and come In a as they did before you broke them And If they come on a night when they know you are wondering out of have not bad the advantage of an Intimate study of the exclusive people of the Miss There are thirty men who remain In neighborhood while their relatives sojourn under If you had the entree over you would that these thirty could not gather themselves Into a company nnd march the seven without physical debate in the They are net precisely amiable among They would quarrel and shoot ono another to long before got they worked in n company for seven Four miles was their Five would see them She struck the bench you laugh nt You make n Joke of your own life nnd death nnd laugh five years of taught you to do only nt tbe poor j foo 1 don't at your running into to help n low j knew there wasn't any I knew he had to stop to load before he shot did If I had known tonight UN and he spoUe at your feet In worship of your divine It's to much to risk nor racer tuat was tne way you she It was not that way your life for a stranger than for a You won't despise uie for being he haven't bad Is a man's point of isn't j thu chance for so I Tho night wrapped them risked yours for a man you had and tbe balui of tho little breezes that never seen stirred the foliage around them was no. I saw you at tbe I the smell of damask roses from heard you introduce tbe Hon. Mr. j Tbe creek splashed over tho pebbles at their und n drowsy I don't understand your tag to save She nud turned her half wakened by tbo ed languorously In tbe Tho girl looked out at tho sparkling water gray eyes upon him with troubled i through downcast it be- and under the sweetness of her cause It la RO transient that beauty is regard he net n watch upon bis she wo can though he knew it would not him long. He had driveled along ably so ho but he had the couie buck to it In quite tho I am a sentimental you are born BO It is never entirely sentimental longings of starved i out of Is of culminating In his heart She continued to look nt him Then her eyes over bis big shoes patch of moonlight fell on they wero he drew them under the bench with a to bis broad shoulders shook tho stoop out of She stretched her small white hands toward him nnd looked at in contrast and broke into tbc most de- licious low laughter IB the At this he knew the watch on his was It was a question i utes till he should present himself to her eyes as a sentimental and tible Ho knew wild spirt you realize that one your dangers might be a she your seriousness a lost Her laughter ceased not I understand said tbc French laugh always In order not to I haven't lived here flve I should if I were at the he with tbo best of for my I seo more of it You do not We have in the heart of the and what other capital has advantages like Next Whiter the railway station is to have a new stove for tbc waiting en Itself hi ono of our is so close that all one has to do Is to You insist upon my being you and I know you arc fond of non- How did you happen to put The Walrus and the at tbe bottom of a page of How were you sure It was ir Carlow might have written it has in his life read anything lighter than cuneiform in- doesn't read Lewis and it was not her What made you write It on was here this I him a little about your bending In the aud the the Altar and the Isn't ho said It had always troubled but your predecessor bad used and yon So do I. He I could think of anything that you might like better and put In place of it I wrote 'The Time Has because It wna the only thing I could think of that was us ate nnd us us your He was perfectly dear about it He was so He said he feared it wouldn't be I didn't notice tbat the paper he bunded me to write on was part of his nor did I Afterward be put It back In bis pocket It wasn't u not so sure be did not He Is very Do I have the Impression that the old fellow wanted to dear nnd good of She und bcr was fused with n warm was no doubt about her meaning she John answered knew how great iny need of a few she meant dear and good to me. 1 think he waa ing of It was for my sake he wanted It might have been hard to convince a If lind overheard this speech that Miss humility was not the calculated affectation of n Sometimes a man's Is and knew In night la ail a It isn't you You couldn't bo Her tone was gentle aa a and it made him tingle to his anger do you he Just Do you think I'm very bold and she said was song I wonted to be sentimental about I am one through days of that doesn't quite devoid of but I can't claim that ono doesn't sleep well It is one who heard In hli soul the music Of wonderful she come here and to do what you have dono und to live this Isolated village life tbat must bo desperately dry and dull for a man of your and yet to have of heart wonderful melodies slug In she say that Is do not he ed wishing before bcr to bo un- mercifully just to came hero because I couldn't make n living anywhere And the have only known you one the He rose to bis feet and took a few steps toward tho be me take you Let us go before finished with a helpless She by tho ono band resting on It stood all In tbe tremulant Sbo moved one step toward and a single long silver of light pierced and fell her He It about the she 1 don't know how to you for this evening you en me. suppose you arc leaving No one ever stays about the He gave It makes ple insane he that is then you need not be more afraid than I. because Is What were you saying hod heard my heart When I heard your voice tonight I knew that It who sang them bad been singing them for me she cried de- bate about it pretty sinking before him In a am beholden to she yon think no man ever made n little tery for me before At the edge of the where they could keep an unseen watch on the garden and the bank of the Briscoe nnd Mr. Todd were ensconced under an apple the former still armed with his When the young people got up from their tbc two mctl rose then ed slowly toward When they each of them by the Lumd without seeming to know It were coming to look for explained the wni afraid to go uomo one might tote him for shoot him before he got Into Can you come out with in the Hark I he went go with the young todies to see Aud Minnie wants you to and go to tbe show with them In tho seized his hand nnd shook It and then laughed heartily as be ed tbe At the gate Miss extended her band to him nnd said while mockery shone from tier Mr. I do not I nm very glad to have fection that nna reminded when he lint saw It. of an old Sunday school 1'cok woodcut of au Inebriated parent coinoy of n devoted Tbc title to these buildings and the blank yard bod Included In the purchase of the and the cottage was the editor's There was a light burning upstairs la the Herald From tho street a tumbledown stairway ran up oa the outside of tbc to tho second and at tho log John turned and shook his com- warmly by tho night he was plucky of you to Join la that muss tonight I shan't forget Jest happened to corno ro- the other with n portentous he ye to Parker wouldn't allow observed with an- other which threatened to ex- pose tho veritable soul of how yc stand It It's on 11 Good went up the singing well For tonight we'll and stopped on the sagging platform at tho top of tho and gave tho moon good night with n wave of the hand and friendly At this it suddenly struck him that ho was years of ago and that bo had laughed a great deal that laughed and laughed over things not In the least like on excited schoolboy making a first formal that ho had shaken hands with Mlsa when ho left her as If he should never sec her that be had token Hiss Sherwood's baud twice in ono very temporary tbat bo bad shaken tbc hand five times and William's be has to Then ho shook bis fist at the moon and went in to be thought Next THE FOURTH OLD Tho Fourth of July celebration at tbe Town grounds more than realized the expectations of both tbe managers and tho public wbo v It was a orderly celebration ia tuoro thun can often bo All camo off BB tbo address bj Rev. thu of the bicyclist down tbo 128 foot and tbo display of fireworks in tbo Tbe tbe public ull while two fine steel owned by private portion and several other row added to the Tho for and tho bout chute afforded us much enjoy mout tu the who lined thu im to thv dunce in tbo under aud deserved n it It is to thin feature ono ftich week during the The tho de- sire to to the public precaution of. tbe they received nnd tbe evident 11 uJ support in tbe of giving thu public the bcM in On July 15, H dunce will be of which we will give more 943 INJURED Tbo reports u Hot of 25 injured as thy re- sult of Fourth of July futilities this Thu total list will 110 doubt be UK tins wan compiled the CHICAGO LIVE STOCK that not flirting with he was not n fatuous he did not extend the Implication of ore going to keep her all sum her words nearly BO for as she would lf weaving have her arm about her friend's waist I had mot said i come In the I Miss he re- she nnd her eyes turned has been actually pleasure meet Thank you so Do he much for saving my It very In field nnd heard you infused life into cattle and this aud tho bear received several SH JH Bros. It of in H letter to TIIE Log and cattle prices are as I It a time since I lind beard you sing: was n of four lit for a You llm of my And to my But that h the good of in the Good good He shook with nil of Ing Mr. who going with He laughed nil the way nnd liam walked at bis In amazement 1 Tbe Herald n decrepit on Main It The truth is you were a lady at bad once n small warehouse and the court of nnd I wan n was now undly In need of en I you sing tlan hymn nnd for ly adjoining It In a blank looking stood n low brick over Khe i lid not with which story of the Light i in igut tao Chi lotto to 1.70 mod plain lei a lid tit Id fair futilt Fair to mil I 2U Too 2 10 lo 4.. 1 4 in vi 3V, 29U ris 43k tM 'M his famine from In an effect of tipsy lof
