Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 31, 1914, Page 2

e e 4 & ! ! PAGE 7WO BEXS INVESTMENT By GEORGE ELMER COBB. _——— There was not a madder man in all Creedon than Rex Worthy. He was a brisk intelligent young fellow, but “he had acted like a muttonhead!” He felt that there was no excuse for his asininity, and while he winced at the visible grin on the faces of his acquaintances, he was honest enough with himself to believe that he de- served the ridicule. “I've acted like some crude farmer from Wayback,” he reflected. “Well, I won't waste time crying over spilled milk, but I'll make it the motive of my life to find this Martellus Melton. That probably isn't his right name, but I'd know him by sight a mile away and I'm going to get him.” “How's motors,” inquired a jocular friend at | the very next corner, and Rex scowled and growled and took a side street, savage as an Indian. “Humph! motor,” he anathemized. “l was well caught and fleeced. I guess I'll start out forthwith on my hunt of that swindler, Melton. By the time I come back maybe the joke will have lost its freshness.” It was no joke that had come about, but a positive misfortune to Rex. He had saved up two thousand dollars through hard toll, deprivation and thrift. One day a stranger came to Creedon. He gave out his name as Martellus Melton. He was plausible, { i “Ready, Gol"” pleasant and popular. He was spe- clous enough to soon get into the Bood graces of Rex. It was after he had very well won his way into the confldence of his pro- spective victim that Melton revealed ; & great secret. “Tell you, Worthy,” he said in a somewhat mysterlous way, “I'm a mind to tell you what brought me down to Creedon.” “Yes, maybe I can help you,” sug- gested Rex artlessly. “You can If you can Influence a lit- tle capital,” explained Melton. *“And you shan't lose by it. You know Ran- som the banker and Martin the rich grocer. Introduce me to them with a good word. I've got an invention that will make millions. In the city the speculators and promoters want to grab it all away from me. I calculate on finding some honest investor.here who will be fair and reasonable. To be explicit, I have Invented a motor on a brand-new principle. It will be invaluable in street cars, automobiles and in general mechanical uses. I want enough to build a working model.” “How much will it take,” asked Rex thoughtfully. " "Oh, about a thousand dollars.” “Why, I've got that much,” asserted Rex. “You have, then let me show you how you can make your fortune.” What Melton showed Rex was a small metal box enclosing numerous wheels, cranks and rods. The next day he purchased a child's wagon and went out to the edge of town wijth Rex. He applled a gearing running from the axle of the wagon to the motor. There was a whir as Melton touched a small lever and sure enough the wagon did some clever running stunts. “It's a new principle,” declared Mel- ton, “a combination of springs and magnets. There's a certain retroact~ ive effect which the magnets control.” And the glib schemer wandered oft into a wilderness of sclentific long winded terms that bewildered plain every-day Rex, while they influenced and pleased him. He succeeded in | convincing Rex that built on a large | scale, the motor would do wonders, 8ot the thousand dollars and dlsap—) beared Rex was full of his wonderful fn- | Vestment and naturally told his friends about it. At the end of a week, | boWever receiving no word from Mel- | ton, ke want to the city to investigate. He found 4 vacant lot at the address where Melton had told him the plant | was located that would manufacture | his motor. There was no such bank | @s the one to which Melton had re | farred. After a visit to the police, Rex went back home sadly convinced | that he had been deftly fleeced by a| professional swindler Rex told nobody in town of his io tentions, but started out on his search for his vanished business partner. He spent three days in the city seeking a clue as to the antecedents and possi- ble present residence of Melton. By sheer accident he at length became persuaded that the man he was look- ing for was at a little city named Ma- con, or somewhere near there. It was with zest and eagerness that Rex at length obtained a sure clue as to the doings and direct where- abouts of his enemy. It was with in- tense satisfaction that he located him at the hotel of a little town. He learned that Melton had been there posing as a wealthy promoter. Ac- cording to what Rex learned, Melton had become acquainted with the fam- ily of Col. Everts, a wealthy retired army officer whom he was interesting in a new flylng machine device. A high hill with a muddy slough at its base overlooked Prince Villa, the stately home of the colonel. From its summit, peering past some bushes, Rex made out three figures strolling along the lower path, an old gentle- man, a beautiful young lady and the man who had swindled him out of bis savings. Elegantly dressed, playing the plau- sible man of means to the colonel and the attentive exquisite to hisfairdaugh- ter, Melton finally halted and pointed up to the summit of the hill, as though discussing that point. Then after a brief conversation with the others he began its ascent. “Coming after something,” rumi- nated Rex. “I'll give him a welcome!” Rex noticed nearby what seemed to be a small summer camp. There was & tent, on {ts table a camera and he surmised that Melton had probably come after that. There was also a barrel. As his glance fell upon this, his eye sparkled, ; Melton, reaching the tent, was sud- denly seized from behind and his arms pinioned. Then Rex Worthy con- fronted him, He did not speak a o) - ‘ 3 Wora. He simply proceeded to ran- sack his pockets. Melton was In funds, it seemed. From his pocket- book Rex extracted the currency it contained, nearly eight hundred doly; P lars. “Now then, my friend,” he obsetved, “this much of the money you stole from me you will never see agaln. And I am going to give you a free ride in my motor.” In a trice he had bound Melton's feet and he was helpless. Nearby stood an empty barrel. Into it Rex forced his captive. He rolled it to a particularly slanting portion of the hill. “Ready, go!"” exclaimed Rex. Chug! This last was the dismal sound that ended a great splash as the whirling barrel struck the swamp. The as- tonished Colonel Everts and his daugh- ter saw their guest flung wide into view as the staves of the barrel crashed in. Deluged with mud they viewed thelr recent escort. First Rex Worthy released the ter rified wretch and sent him slinking on his way. Then he explained to Colonel Everts and his pretty daugh- tar, Myrtle. The former was ohagrined at being a dupe, but grateful to Rex for his escape. As to Myrtle, the contrast between a flimsy butterfly of fashion and a real man grew the stronger the more she saw of this new stranger. And the result was that Rex Worthy found at Prince Villa not only his stolen money, but a fond, loving sweet- heart. (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) OWES LIFE TO RABBIT'S FOOT Man, 8aved From Gallows Five Times, Has Faith in Charm Which He Long Carried, EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA, JULY 31, 1914, IN SPORTING CLOTHES DESIGNERS SHOW SOME GOOD NEW EFFECTS. “Dressing the Part” Is a Thing In Which Women Take Vital Inten est, and the Fact Has Been Recognized. By MARY DEAN. Sporting clothes are a matter of the moment and each new sport that is PO FRB LD taken up by women means an addi-, tional costume, or perhaps several ad- ditional costumes, in the summer out- fit. Dressing the part is the corner- stone of the average woman’s interest in sports, and though each year the designers turn out sporting costumes more appropriate as well as more be- coming than those of the previous year, attractiveness must not be sacri- ficed to practical utility if the model fs to succeed in winning feminine approval. There are rough Norfolk suits for tramping and va- rious short skirts with the accom- panying blouses and sweater and proper boots. The skirt for tramping should be very short, and there i8 no choice of footwear at least, as the boots must always be made of short tan leather. These heavy boots must have wide thick soles and flat Auto or Sport Coat heels, and if they are well made, the %o0le should be perfectly flexible, For the general utllity tramping costume, hothing hag ever taken the lace of the old statidby—the Norfolk sult. This bas been modified and varied in a number of ingenious ways, but it retains the characteristic Nor- folk cut. This serviceable suit can be had in varjous materials, in the durable cor duroy khaki, which is durable enough in reality and handsome when new, but soon grows to look shabby under hard usage, and in the new English worsteds and tweeds, homespuns and serges which seem to have been in- vented for this particular purpose. The skirts of these suits are always short, at least from six to nine inches from the ground and are never kilted, except in some cases there is an in- verted plait. One tramping suit of the modified Norfolk cut shown by a firm which makes a speclalty of sporting gar- ments was of khakl. The suit was a three-plece affair. There was a blouse with a roll collar and fast- ened down the front with a sin- gle row of but- tons, and a belt of the material which buttoned a little to the left. The skirt was fastened to the blouse by means of small steel clasps. The skirt fastened at either the back or front. There was an in- set plece at the back and front un- derneath the but- toned part to give more width to the skirt if desired. Two large patch Ervin Pope, flve times sentenced to hang for murder, has just obtalned another review of his case by the su- preme court. He believes a rabbit foot charm {8 better than a crack lawyer, but the two work extremely well, His long fight for life has not only made him celebrated as a prisoner, but has made his legal counsel fa- mous, Pope has been sentenced to hang in five separate trials for murder. Sev- eral gallows have been erected for his execution. While a prisoner in the Birmingham jail he watched from his cell window thq building of two scaffolds for himself. ; For more than flve years he has been fighting for his life. The su- preme court has ordered flve new trials for him, and in every one the lower court convicted Pope and pre- scribed the death sentence. Seven different days were set for the hang- ing. But Pope never believed he would be hanged. He sald no court could recizt the charmed influence of a left Fitd foot of a rabbit killed by a cress-eoved, red-headed Ethiopian in a grivoyard in the dark of the moon on .day, the 13th day of the l m Such a charm he carried con- stanily, and attributes his longevity to it Pope is charged with the murder of J. B. Mc( kin of Calhoun county, in April, 1901. McClurkin was a miller, and wus awakened about midright by | the ncise of some one robbing his cotton gin. He followed the robber’s wagon tracks. The following morn- ing his body was found horribly muti- lated in a cotton patch near the town of Oxford. He had been knocked on the head with a heavy club and his skull crushed with a large stone found near the body.—Birmingham (Ala.) pockets trimmed !the skirt. The coat was made 'with a shaped : yoke to which | Were attached, back and front, two box plaits running from yoke to the bot. tom of the coat. A belt of the mate- | rial surrounded the coat at the waist- | line—running underneath the box | plaits, and fastened at the front with | a single button. | There is a general utility cape called the Lancaster cape, made of { Scotch tweed. Such a wrap as this would be found useful in the out-door outfit—for either mountain or shore. Warm Wrap for After the Game. Novelties for Small Girls. Frocks for wee girls made of barred | or plain lawn stamped for embroidery and already made up and hemmed { cost from 50 cents upward. Linens and chambrays cost more, but any of | these are a boon to a mother, who ltkes to scallop and add the fancy touches, but who is not clever at cut- ting out and putting together the dress itself. Charming pinafores of colored lin- ens or of white, embroidered in colors, | make pleasant summer work for those who plan ahead for Christmas. The stamped patterns are really attrac- tive; fluffy kittens, processions of ducks and fleral designs are all ap- propriate and amusing both to donor and recipient. For Stains. Tomato juice is said to be successful in many cases in removing ink stains from white materials, such as hand- kerchiefs, muslin Is, etc. It must however, be done as soon as possible after the mishap occurred. A clean piece of blotting paper should be laid & under the stain and a slice of raw, ripe tomato rubbed over the surface, fresh OO OEDEOEO SISO POBHIMOEOFNEOFEIBNENEASERBOEEAPOMIE0I0, Do $$$ Saved Look Good to You) They certainly look good to several farmers about Lakeland, a5 we have sold the most of the McCormick Mowers and Rakes advertised at “'Special Prices. 5 only 1 only 5 Hay PP OPPOFOFFOPOUPODTPCFLP PO BB DO SOTOT > % DICTATES OF FASHION Contrary to the earller prophecies, the new hats are notebeing worn high on the head. Quaint suits for little boys are like those worn by ghe children in Dick- ens’ books, Some exceedingly pretty necklaces are made of curious beads and flowers combined. Fine dancing boots have their open fronts criss-crossed with embroidered leather. A new bedspread 1s a fleece blanket covered with white etamine and bound with satin. Trousers Factories Still Running. A writer, alarmed by the spread of feminism, wants to know if there are any men left in this country. There must be a few left. Most of the trousers factories are still running tull tilt.—Baltimore Sun. FLORIDA @ Dispatch to the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Ga- | pleces of blotting paper being substi- | ¥3 sette-Times. ! tuted until the ink spot has vanished. : # ¢ 2-horse 4 1-horse 32 Rakes. Foot Cut Come quick if you want to get a McCormick Machine at ess than wholesale cost. MOWER REPAIRS MODEL HARDWARE CO. C. E. 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