Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 6, 1913, Page 3

. CULEBRA CUT BEGINS TO FILL WITH WATER THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., NOV. 6, 1913. This photograph, just received, shows the first water in Culebra cut, just a little lake in the deepest svction :' the Panama canal, between Gold hill and Contractor's hill. This water was let in through pipes prior to the rlowing up of the Camboa dike on October 10. In the right foreground of the pictures is seen the Cucaracha slide. 3 -*oég*fl-fl-l-!-o-.w-:‘m:':‘:o::o-o;o iR BOY'S RETURN y GERTRUDE MARY SHERIDAN. “Scat!” ordered Mrs. Jared Smith, ad bang! a rolliug pin went hurding wough the open doorway uier a ying canine. It struck the auunal, ho uttered a cry of pain aund dis »peared, limping. “Basy, mother; easy does it, you 20w,” spoke an even, soothing voice, 1d Jared Smith came iuto view. fust & minute moic and | nmught wve got it. Here's your rolling pin, a I'll look aiter the dog! “You'll do no such mith!” stormed i 20 The animal got his leszon Lorves it. I told when Loought the hulisturved cio isre yesterday he'd moie us trou ! “And what has he been doing? quired Jared jlucidly “Better ask tlLiut Vil ipper,” observed Mrs h tartly, ieeing as the dog ¢ the small af I'd baked spccial tor you, and it it out to cool.” thiug, Jared helpmieet and de you you n you get your “Well, maybe the poor -oeded It worse than I did,” said wred. “One thing—don't you dare to bring at animal back here! Now, you ind me!” procluimed Mrs. Smith. Jared went out in search of the imal in disfavor. He had picked up @ poor creature coming home the - iy previous. j Jared was tender-hearted, even with e brute creation. His kindly face rinkled with sympathy as he came ross the dog sliuking behind the rn and holding up a broken paw. “Why, you poor thing!" he pitied, ressing the frightened and tremb- - g animal. “And don't you hold it ainst Samantha,” he proceeded. _ he's good as gold, but che's had her - osses, and she hasn't been used to §a sloce—h'm—" there was a The Animal Acted Strangely. »» ange eatch in Jared's throat— ace & long time ago,” he concluded {- » sad, dreamy way. went into the barn and got ared creature | ! l sore Worse TInament and some Tags. ! He soon had the injured limb mended ' up. Then he filled a pan with water and led the animal to an empty cat- tle pen way back of the house. “Now you stay here till the storms' blow over,” he advised his dumb charge. “Samantha will come around right when she knows she's hurt you, | and I'll see you get some supper,” and the dog wagged his tail and , looked up wistfully into his eyes as ! though fully understanding all that was spoken, § “Where are you going with that tin plate or st " demanded Mrs. St 18 just alter sup- h, suspicicusly, ted hor husband sneak- e Kkitchen with some or that dog, Samantha,” ex- ared. “Ycou huee Lim a good and 1've put hiw in a comfot § v bed ouigide of the lot, whero he wou't trouble you any before he gets in cLape to travel on his wi ey L encour 1 to hang around,” declared Mrs. Smith, Pt ' said her hu that Davic wun flamed, paled. Her he went about her work e, her head drooping, one by cne the tears falling across her home- "ly, toil-worn hands as she put things in order. David—her boy!—a door opened in | her soul long closed hvumfu,'l)', and 'a host of louging, pititul memories had ruched in. © Two years lonely, bitter and hope- less—two years without the boy who had run away from howe to become a sailor. Only cnce they had heard from him. There had come a letter | to the mourning mother from the er- rant but loving son “I wouldn't do it over again,” read the pathetic mis<ive, “but 1'm started, and I've got pride enough to go through with it Mother, I'm going to the East Indics next. Then I'm com- {ing home. And I'm going to bring "back some of the rare silks and jew- ~els they say you can pick up there ‘for a song!” Vain dreamer! A year went by 'and no further word from the wan- dering boy and the ship he had sailed /in reported lost in a terrible simoon off the Malacaca coast. Mrs. Smith was strangely silent all | that evening. After they had retired | for the night her husband noted how ! restless she was. Once he fancied he heard her sobbing softly. i He was himself awakened shortly | after midnight by the barking of the' dog. The animal seemed to have come up to the house and was pawe ing at the door. Mrs. Smith made no complaint and Jared knew she was thinking of the lost son. | | “You can fetch that dog into the " kitchen if you want to, Jared,” she said softly as her husband started out to feed the stock. | As Jared came out into the yard | the dog limped up to him. The far | mer petted the animal and motioned { it to follow him into the house. Howe | "ever, the animal acted strangely. It' did not seem to want to go with him, | eircled about him and then turning its face toward some thick underbrush | | figure—"your PN wiTned ®n a pialntive and it seemed a beseeching way. “The crifter acts funny, I declare!” Jared was suying as his wife came out inio the yard. “Why, what does the animal want, anyhow?” The dog had caught a loose fold of his coat in its teeth and was per- sistently pulling at him. This means something, Samantha,” gaid her husband quite seriougly. “See, he wants us follow him.” “Tt does look that way,” agreed Mrs. Sm ih both of them fol animal, The dog K copse given over ol curiogity litiping thic rarowth. Ten fect ad- neid this Jared Smith halted i 1 0Neh manth!” he exclaimed. ed timorously over is it some one dead?” [ hope not, Samantha,” 1 r a one-half eaten trom beside the prostrate bread!” Just there the dog crept up to the yeul stranger and nosed at his face buried in the grass. The recumhent man moved and then with a groan turncd his we fever-stricken eyes upon the ir lers. “Mother!” he uttered, and col lapsed “Oh, Jared!" fairly shrieked Mrs. Smith, “it's my boy!" Yes, thus the runaway had come home—in lieu of silks of the far away Indies, rag Instead of the dazzling gleam of jewels, the hectie glitter of death in his eye! Just in time *they had found him. + When they had carried him—oh, so tenderly! to the house, and the doc- tor arrvived, it was to tell them that another hour in inattention might have ended in his death “1 stole uvp to the house weak, al most fainting,” David Smith told them when he was convalescent. “Then ragged and ashamed, I could not go in. But there was mother's bread. I took it, not the dog, not this grand splendid hero to whom I owe my life in discovering me later that night” And the night of a grand family jubiles, attended, too, by the faithful sweetheart of old times, the faithful animal was awarded a post of honor. (Cupyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) NOT A FRIEND OF RAGTIME In Denouncing That Form of Music, Frank Damrosch Brings Forth Amusing Story.” Frank Damrosch, standing on the deck of the stcamer en route for Europe, deplored the grip that rag- time has taken ou the American pub- lic. “Ragtime tunes are like pimples” said the director of the Institute of Musical Arts. “They are impurities in the musgical system which must ba cleared out just home from France, told me with enthusiasm that we famous in Europe for our ragtime.” Mr. Damrosch smiled bitterly. “Famous for our time!” he scoffed. “A poor clai for distines tion. It reminds me of a story. “During his travels in the west a it a vaudeville artist, | were becoming ' well known English clergyman was accosted by a native of Deep Gulch, who said: ! 1 “'Wall, sir, and what strikes you | most about this place? {1 The cle 1n instantly replied: **Your bk my, sir. I don’t think I have ever been in a place where blasphemy was more general or mere i hor “A look of gratified vanity spread "over (he native's face, “*You're about right, stranger,’ he drawled. ‘For variety of blasphemy I don’t think we can be beaten. This is a wonderful region.'” WME. KERRI'S ADVICE | : SUGGESTIONS FOR ENTERTAIN- i MENTS AND OTHER THINGS. | November Party May Be Made One of the Most Enjoyable of the Year | —For Those Fond of Foot- ball. The man who said that November brought the “saddest days in the year” has another think coming, for while it brings colder weather, gray skies and shakes the last leaves oft the trees with its piercing blasts, it | | | | also brings the reopening of the so| Y*CEOECETHLNETHOSCIIF QS04 OF clal season, with blazing fires and all the cosiness of the home circle drawn around the lighted center table. At the end of the month comes our, own great feast day and glad holiday, for we all find room in our hearts for Thanksgiving. It seems to me that Japanese af- fairs are especially fitting for this month with chrysanthemums plentl. ful (which they love). Such parties are always effective and pleasing to one's guests. To make the rooms as really Japanese as possible much of | the furniture should be removed, par ! titioning off spaces where necessary | { with Japanese paper screens. Use! ;flnwuring shrubs, almond blossoms | (artificial), chrysanthemums and but.| terflies suspended by invisible black threads. | The hostess must bow very low, three times, saying “Konichiwa”, when the gu arrive and “Sayo-! nara” when they leave. Tea should! be served with no ercam; use cups without handles. Sponge cakes may be served if rice ones are not obtain- able, also preserved gi r. If some- thing cold is wished have cherry ice. Those who assist should wear kimo- nos. i Heve some young girls in Japanese costumes play “bag ball” (dama). Have a number of bright-colored bags filled with dried beans. Iach girl tries to keep as many bags poing as possible without dropping them. An- other amusing game is played by I of a long silk scarf, in the cent of which is a loose knot or loop held midway between the two players who hold the scarf and the floor. On one side of the loop a plaver sits. On the other side is a small obiject, a flower, a bean bae even i thimble. The plaver who gits) by the loop trics to slip her hand, thronah, erab the small article and| ain before those it tiaht take hoer hand back ag holding the loop can draw and make her hand prisoncer, A Footba!l Farty. | Boys, and incidentally the girls, are greatiy interested in foothall these davs: in fact a little chap only ten who had to go to the hospital for an operation was so keen ahout a forth- coming game that his one desire was to “got back” in time to witness it. I rezd of such a pretty party in one of the masazines some years ago that Just fitted this season of the year, and I am going to tell you a little about it, as I recall some of the ways it was carried out. I feel sure that the up-to-date girls who may want to glve a similar affair will have no trou- ble in working it out. I must confess I am not a “fan,” so have no personal knowledge of how to use the terms correctly. I do know that the favor departments of the stores show cun- ning little footballs to be used as containers for nuts or candles, and there are pennants galore, g0 all well- known colleges and many high schools ' are represented. A large football may form the centerpiece, from which rib- bons (team or school colors) may run to smaller foothalls at each place. The names of guests may be printed on the sides and so be used for place cards. MADAME MERRL. 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