Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 16, 1913, Page 8

PANE BINIY CEREREIERERENG LOVER WORTH VIRILE Lovely Lass—Derelict and the Precious Treasure Left in the Ship's Cabin. By FLORENCE LILLIAN HENDER. | the salvation of our family, abourd. SON. Melvin Warrington was a lover ! lft I show you a possible chance to save Myra, what would you say?’ “You know without asking,” re- THR EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., APKIL 16, 1913, ; 33 was—the Lovely Lass, How his heart beat as he swam to the wreck and descended a water-log- { £cd eabin, to find the hiding place, and - " sponded Melvin, with deep emotion. | within it—the precious tin box! | “I would give my life for her, for any member of her family, i “Then listen, my friend. I am sat- isfled that the Lovely lass s stiil afioat,” declared Lisle. “I feel cer- .tain that somev hcr: on the bosom ¢f the broad Pacific she is knocking about, with that tressure, which mea 1 Lloyd's Register has printed her ‘foundercd,’ but this marinc oblit was worth while. Strange things happen | later changed to ‘Abandoned at Sea.’ fn this world at times that recall the ' January 12 a tramp schooner sighted |, age of chivalry. Romance i8 not | her 600 miles west of Chili, and at- entirely dead, and amid a quiet, every- | tempted to take her in tow. During day cxistence this superior young man | February she was passcd by six dif- suddenly found himself enmeshed in | ferent ships. In March the French ! ® labyrinth of daring and adventure ' lincr, Dubois, nearly ran into her well worthy of the knights of old. during a night storm. She has be- 1t all came about in the most nat- | come such a menace to navigation . wral fashion. He loved Myra Evans =le, poor and ambitious. So did Rolfe Danfels—rich, selfish and an fdler. Her father had borrowed all the money he could to fit out an ex- pedition to Australia to import a new | that the Americar. Lloyds have post- ed notices for her destruction wher- ever found, else some fine night some big liner will' smash into her, car- rying down every soul on board.” “And since March?” inquired Mel- dreed of sheep. The Lovely Lass was | vin, purchased, sailed away with her ! “Not a word regarding her until last goung brother in charge, was wreck- ' month, when she was sighted 400 od in a terrrible storm at sea, and Mmiles west of the Bolivian coast near Lisle Evans came home crippled, a |the Djalmi islands, at which no ships pauper and his health broken, | stop on account of the unfriendliness The worst of It was that when all | of its savage population.” Rands were forced to abandon the | For two days Melvin Warrington re- Lovely Lass 350 miles west of the 'flected over this interview. He stud- Bouth American coast, in the rush and , ied maps, he consulted ‘old sailors, peril of the occaslon Lisle had left in | then he made up his mind to devote & certain Lox in a certain part of its | all his money and time to scouring eabin over $20,000 in money to buy the | leagues of trackless ocean, to traverse ship with, and papers representing as tlmus:fnds of weary miles to seek for much more. An abandoned derelict, | the missing Lovely Lass and win back the captain and crew gave her up for , & fortune from the deep—and Myra Jost. The blow crurhed the proud | epirit of old Colonel Evans. He had ' Evgns, This is why, two months later, the mortzaged his home to fit out the | devoted lover found himself the In- venture. In some way Rolfe Daniels bad secured the notes. He pressed mate of a hotel at Valparaiso. His lit- payment. Ruin stared the Evans fam- tle store of money was all but ex- fly in the face. 4els proposed to cancel the obliga- tion if Myra would become his wife. A despairing father, a helpless broth. er, poverty ahead, not for a moment ' Some of the numerous inlets of the It was then that Dan. | hausted when he had chartered a | small yacht. From close investiga. tion Melvin had decided that the Love- ly Lass, if afloat, was grounded in Melmin e2me back to the deck with l a cheor, ite box thrust in his bosom. IR & Pt 1 to glance ashore. There i on. He had just fired at Jootia time Melvin dove. A fright. h esunded out, Even in the wa- suld feel the concussion, Come », lie dove again, for the air was illcd with huriling splinters. He shore finally, to confront the fas ed IHudson, i Thea there were mutual explana- rflons. Hudson was a special repre- scatative of the Lloyds of London, cominissioned 2t any cost to destroy the derelict. “One minute more inside that ship,” thuddered Melvin, “and she would never have known my fate!” “8She,” questioned Hudson, with i his usual quaint, challenging smile. “Yes, the sweetest, dearest, loveliest woman in the world!"” replied Melvin, with fervor, ! He knew that she was all his own ' { three months later, when he handed to i Colonel Evans the little tin box rese cued from the Lovely Lass—derelict, (Copyright, 1913, by W, G. Chapman.) EDUCATION OF A GENTLEMAN | Epeaker Made Point Which Niost Men ' Will Feel Qualified to | Answer, l Friday afternoon was “debate day” i In a Virginia rural school. On that i afternoon classes after two o'clock | were let go, and the assembled echool listened to shyly spoken pieces of po- | ctry and addresses to gladiators, Then came the climax, the debate when | world issues were settled for once and i all. The speeches were after the pat- | tern of this one, which one teacher | recalls: “Mr. Chairman, Ladics and Gentle- i men: I rise to defend the aflirmative of the question whether it is better sto e wrock one of Lis sticks of dyna- |- BLOUSE CUT IN ONE PIECE One of Tulle Valencicnnes Is Made With Neither Trimming Ner Fuliness. The pevest cream white blouses are in than ever. The prettiest J valenciennes, or a kind of coit it d'esprit with figures like those in the valenciennes design, One of this muterial has not the ¢ cest. trimming or fullness except fn the back, where there is a tiny bit i to cover the opening and make it look | > r | i‘ tike a narrow plait. The entire thinz | is made in one picce, the sole garnish being little bution studs of black vel- vet in two rows at the throat, both back and front, and on the wrists. The neck is cut low and round, with cording of the lace in tiaree rows. A neticeable feature of this blouse, which was designed in a house in the 'FOR SALE FOR SALE OR RENT. Place Vendome and intended for the Rivicra, is the cleeves made all in one piece, with no extensions whatever, It is a5 though the entire thing had been molded together. No doubt thé styles for the coming seascn will adopt ideas | seen in this blouse. We have arrived Two elegaut bungalows, five rooms and bath, with all wodern conveni- :nces, with east front; desirable neizhborhood, situated on South Ten- nessee and Missouri avenues. Small ‘ash payment .and balance menthly, at a period when cuts and finishes are juarterly or yearly Could give eight at their cresendo of plainness. Noth-| ;cirs in which to pay mosc of it. | ing further is possible because effects | {to have wealth or education, Mr. i Chairmgon, if you was to get a kiss- letter from a lady and couldn’t read ' it, wouldn't you just fecl like going did the poor girl forget her lover, Mcl- | qulml fslands, : vin Warrington, but drooping daily, flhu day before the yacht sailed, a for the sake of her father she con. | britk. busin. s appearing young man sented to make a great sacrifice. She , 50uht out Melvin, spoke a Jast heart-broken farcewell to ' Melvin, She was to marry the man of money In six months, One day Lisle Evans called upon Melvin, @8 he spoke of Myra. He deprecated the scliishness of his father. He sought some way out of the sacrifice that was destined to bring gloom and Salled Away. @espalr into his life and that of poor, Joyal Myra, “Listen, Melvin,” he sald, “this mar- rlage must never take place. I can @0 nothing In my condition, but you— mantled and lying on her beam ends, There were tears in his eyes | noon, ravine, they came to a rude bamboo “I learn you are going on a cruise to the Djuhal isiands,” he observed. | “I will pay you $300 to take me there "and return,” Of course Melvin accepted the of- fer. He found his passenger, who colled himself ITudson, decidedly re- rerved as to the motive of his strange voyage, however, He constantly car- ricd a small satchel, and Melvin often wondered what it might contain, | When the yacht reached the Djalmi iclands, Melvin ordered that it land him on the barren eastern coast of the largest of the group. Thie was done to evade the natives, who lived | at the more fcriile southern end. The Lovely Lass had been sighted about ' the center of the group of islands, to | the west. Taq his surprise, when he | left the yacht, Hudson accompanied | him, Neither disclosed his purpose in the curious jaunt. That day shortly after | while lining an - impassable bridge. They had just traversed it, when a shower of darts rained about them, and half a hundred savages ap- peared in the distance, “We are safe, 20 long as they can- not cross,” observed Hudson. “I'll ix that.” He opened the satchel he carried so constantly, selected an oblong pack- aze, opencd one end ,and gave it a away and dying? I close now to give — Clothes Without Seams. Bernard Shapiro, a ladies tailor by trade, at Orange, N. J,, claims that he , has solved the problem of making & ! geamlosg form-fitting coat for women | without cutting the cloth into pieces | and sewing them up again. The amazing thing about Shapiro's inven- tion is that it came to him in a dream. For fourteen years he had puzzled i over Lhe problem, how to cut a ladies’ coat without seams, One night, as he was asleep, ke saw himself making the coat, and when he awoke he was overjoyed to find that he remembered the secret. Shapiro also dreamed that his in- vention brought him riches. To give this latter part of his dream chance to come true, he has applied for a pat- ent, place to an abler speaker.” j | Why 8he Was Silent. Bessle—DIid you scream whea he tried to kiss you? Jessie—No; there is a poor man across the street who is dreadfully sick. Discontentment. *“She looks so Ciscontented and dis- satisfled.” fling. In an instant the bridge was shattered to atoms, “Dynamite,” explained Hudson, and Mclvin marveled more than ever at the eccentric comrade who went about loaded with the deadly explosive. They camped that nisht near the | “No wonder; she has a husband: who gets her everything she wants!” As a Precaution, Qet a dozen tiny bells, and every west shore. At daybreak Melvin was | time & bottle of polson is brought on tho move. He went along the .!Bto the house tie a bell to the neck ghore, came to an inlet, and there, dlo-ls““ in the dark the bell will'tinkle ite warning. 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Othes out the dampness you keep av:¥ Paint made with ATLANTIC WHITE LEAD (Dutch Boy Painter Trade Mark) will keep away dampness and prevent decay. We sell it. Come in and have a talk with u sbout painting. JACKSON & WILSON C0.