Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 16, 1914, Page 11

| tunnel leading straight to the vaults . of the Cedardale National bank. This tunnel was the result of much strenuous labor, carried on under the cover of night and loneliness, when he was popularly supposed to be resting from his not overengrossing duties. | The house being built on the veryl edge of a steep cliff overhanging the Missewa river, the dirt from the tun- nel had been very easily disposed of, being simply carried across the cellar and dumped through an opening in the other side into the swift current. . | The roof of the tunnel being composed adition your are your own wel- tation in the were cut short who shoved got an awful it mop of hair,” & very careful quickly into | t* split it open fer ye fnside. An’ I will, too, years now Jimmy's plans that vital “when I git ) years one can plan D, If one is possessed ability, can plan them light gained by these back upon his first pes\ with poignant ed now how raw iy had been. out—" jentlemen,” the surgeon : A case of acute con- versity. Here is the $n, inherited from | ich is the seat of ‘for the property in all of us, but has be most prominent in 8, and captains of indus- '~—Jimmy shivered— | Jimmy shaped his R "Consoqucntlv such of our unfor- . You perceive cranfum. Di- nerve center rying out of i by the region From birth rritated this into abnorm:.! # cause will nat- 1 propose to renvlace it by a ver plate. Thus and consequently, «dlm Nt} 'fll be allayed.” was unintelligible ernd that there | e in the operation, | ' hm though reluctant- IM MQflng from the, $ by the chloro- ,he would enjoy a ’ rest in the hos- grntetul to the board, giving n who, in their d of their crim- operations per- son who lately 5 pong them. Brace list to the board the case. e state. ©of the men he has You are par- | “db Martin, convict 843 no had all rushed to, was holding high was free. ' Fyee to fulfill his des- 'i‘. embark again on the! nature had de- with all the skill *”fl his three years’ ‘ulre. city plumb- Ing. L s lit ey, infinite pa- , 60 mechanical skill, n instinct for . » 'He also possessed the use that had fig- one of the most ms that has oc- | . The * forwarded it to. He has of stiff clay, it had required no artifi- cial support. All that had been required was minute exactitude in planning the course of the tunnel and plodding in- dustry in digging it. But one hundred ::unnd dollars lay at the end of his Behold, therefore, this spectacle: It is early evening, barely eight o’clock. Martin crouches at the extreme end of his long burrow, which at this point slants abruptly upward. He is work-' Ing upward, too; his flying fingers are l dislodging rapidly the bricks that sep- arate him from his goal. And as he works his old-time prison babit comes back on him, and he talks to hlmnelt! in whispers that carry barely beyond ! his lips. “I£ 1 ain't made a mistake, I should be gettin’ close. One more layer of bricks an’'—there it is. The steel plate! Now if this new-fangled elec- tric contraption works. Well, it it don’t, I'll go back to me old drill.” He turned a button, carefully muf- fling the clicks, though he knew that | a rifle-shot would have little chnnce} of being heard outside the tunnel. A sharp, pointed something sprang into intense, white heat, which re- vealed every eager line of Jimmy's set | face. He applied the electric drill to' the steel roof above him, and it ate its way in with barely a sound, send- | ing out a shower of heated steel. He groaned in his eagerness and satisfaction. “Good, good! Oh, a winner—a win- | ner—a winner! Now {f the tide is backin’ up the river right—pshaw, of course it is. I c¢’'n get away in the boat before midnight. Then for Porto Varez an’' the wide, wide world—an’: the beauty parlors.” Half an hour later a square section ' ; of steel plate sagged down, snapped | off, and dropped to the bottom of the | ! tunnel. Jimmy Martin’s breath came in little excited gasps. He thrust him self through the opening and emerged ! on the floor of the great vault. He had no need to waste time in, investigation. The plans of the vault had not been hard to get; he knew | them almost as well as the bank pres- ! ident himself. He stepped across to one corner, worked for five minutes | with a lock, and drew open a ln-geI | drawer marked: 100 G. C. It was a grand sight. The drawer was literally packed with bundles of gold certificates. One | hundred dollars each, one hundred in a pack, and ten packs. It required no mathematiclan to figure the value. One hundred thousand dollars! Jimmy's mouth worked and watered. | He stretched out his hand to take the money. He stretched out his hand —he tried to. He trled again. His body was bathed in cold sweat while he stood there and willed that his . hand reach into that drawer and re- move a package of gold certificates. But it hung inertly at his side. For the first time in his life it refused to perform its function. How long he stood there he never knew. His mind must have been in a chaotic condjtion. In wild efforts to retain its reason it groped blindly for the solution of its strange helpless- ness. And in his goaded memory half- forgotten phrases used by the great surgeon sprang again into promi- nence. “The motor nerve center concerned with—unlawful acquisitiveness— Sud- den release of abnormal pressure like- ly to paralyze the nerve center— Con- tinuance of predatory habits will be impossible.” These words, uncomprehended when they were uttered, and but vaguely explained by the warden, were now plain as day. The instinct for theft remained, but tBe nerve center that carried the order to the muscles had been destroyed Cursing all science and scientists, Jimmy Martin left the vault—and the town. The laboriously constructed tunnel and the hole in the vault, both apparently unused, remained to form one of the great unsolved mysteries of criminology. Hens Locate Golf Balls. Arthur Bender, who lives near the East Lake golf links and raises chick- ens, has about decided to move or' go out of the poultry business, says ! the Atlanta Constitution. Golf has wrecked the chicken ranch. { Bender has some old hens with the setting habit. They would set on | door knobs or anything that looked ; like an egg. He hid everything of that kind on the place. Then the hens ; climbed through the fence and got to waiting around on No. 11 green. Every l time a good mashie shot sent a golf ball to the green the hens would go + after it, and by the time the golfer | got there the hen would be industri- | ously trying to hatch it. It made the balls easier to find, as each was marked with a setting hen, but it in- terfered with Bender’s business. Just Between Friends. “Julian has uved my life nine llar and the cel- ; times this year.” er Martin's re- the shape of a “So that is what he meant when he called you a cat!”"—Puck | sometimes! 350505050006060505.505 HER SUBTLE STBATEGY o 13 e % ° % g By GENE MACK. .#.fi'.fi.fi.fl.fi.fiflfiofi.i".fi: “It's got to stop!” insisted Pilkins. Mrs. Pilkins maintained her placid- ity and continued sewing. “Hasn't 1t?” he added, more mildly. “No, it hasn’t,” said Mrs. Piikins, and when Pilkins showed signs of ex- ploding sho finished, “because it won't!” “I fail to comprehend you,” her hus- band sald, with great indignation. “You are an ucnatural mother! Here your daughter is on the point of elop- ing at the age of seventeen and you refuse to raise a hand to stop her! You say you won't stop it!” “Not at all,” sald Mrs. Pilkins, sweetly. “I said I couldn't stop it! And neither can you nor anybody " “Elmira,” sald Mr. Pilkins, “you are an unusually exupenun‘ woman If you haven't lost your tongue or for- gotten the English language, do you mean to say you can’t tell Guinevere | ot to see that young whiffet of a Thompklnl seven nights a week?” “Oh, dear no!"” said his wife. “And I could tell her the earth was a rub- ber ball and that we had interited $10,- 000,000,000, any of which remarks would make not the slightest impres- ' sion. “If you want to exercise your vocal » This is one of the times! : THE EVENING TALEGRAM, LAWK ELAND, FLA., DEC. 16, 1914. COSTUME FOR THE WINTER Of as Much Importance to the Woman of Fashion as Are Those of Summer. For winter sports the girl must be just as smartly equipped as during the summer days, when she was so immaculate in white linen and buck- skin. The winter girl is a trim figure in her sporting clothes. She wears a short, heavy skirt, preferably of some dark woolen material; a heavy jersey, of white angora, trimmed with huge fur collar, and on her head is a jaunty little hat. Some of the newest of these winter sporting hats are made of chamois, a warm and durable ma- terial; also adjustable to many differ- ent shapes. Often the cap is in the natural chamois shade, a light yel- low, a color particularly becoming to brunettes. Sometimes it is dyed to match the skirt of the costume, or again, it is in some brilliant shade, supplying a brilliant touch of color to the whole outfit. A new thing in sporting equipment {s the fur trimmed jersey. This is & Parisian idea, which originated in the summer and has been carried on into the winter outfits. Bands of skunk, fox, mink or even sable trim the new- est sweaters and often a huge collar and cuffs of the fur are used instead of bands. EVENING COAT [ cords you might try fit, Wllllm!"| amplified Mrs. Pilkins. “Just take | Guinevere aside and say, ‘Daughter, I want to point out to you that you are ' making a very grave mistake in act- ing as though young Thompkins was the only male creature on earth! If you will take your time and look, . around a bit you'll find dozens that can give him cards and spades! More- , over, you are far too idiotically young ! to be considering matrimony and will probably ruin your life and have to get a divorce. I know men, and this Thompkins never will earn over eight . dollars a week.” “This Is One of the Times.” “Well, that would be something like ; t!” murmured Pilkins, with inter est. Mrs. Pilkins kept on sewing. I suppose you fancy Guinevere would at once be smitten to the soul with the conviction that papa knows best! ‘Yes,’ she would say, ‘I can see the truth in your wise remarks, father! How can I thank you? When Tommy comes this evening please assist him down the steps quickly!’ “Not at all, my poor deluded hus- band! Your child would set her teeth grimly, turn pale and vow heroically that wild horses would not drag her from Tommy. She will be true to him forever! And then she'd write him a tear-stained note telling of your cruelty and her heroism and ever lasting devotion! And if you forbade him the house that would merely make it all the more romantic and she’d be sliding down the porch pil- lars from an upstairs window to meet him on the corner!” Pllkins groaned and clutched his head. “You may be right, Elmira,” he admitted. “They are that way, now that I consider the matter! How do parents stop their offspring from making everlasting fools of them- selves, anyhow?” “They don’t,” said Mrs. Pilkins. “Did you ever hear of a parent’s circum- venting a love affair by force? You know you never did! The only hope or chance’ is that our child will be smitten with an attack of common sense. It does break out occasionally, in fact, for 17 years I've been train- ing Guinevere for just this occasion. “I never told you, did I, how I came near running away with the grocery delivery boy when I was fifteen? It sounded lovely, and I lived in a dream outside of which the fears and moans of protests of my protesting parents sounded faintly and made a pleasant eubstantial background. Then some- thing inside my head reached out cold, | clammy fingers and smashed all the romance and I didn't take the fate- ful step. I hope that's what will hap- | | pen in Guinevere's case!” “But what if it doesn't?” asked Pll- kins, somewhat tremulously. | “I thought of that,” admitted Mrs. Pilkins. “So last week I wrote that | gchool down East and got Guinevere | accepted. I heard from there today. | She leaves next week! She's excited | over the girls she may meet, and al- ready planning to whose seashore home she’ll be invited next summer, so that she is now forgetting Thompkins ' at the rate of a mile a minute!” “Thank heavens!" groaned Pilkins. “Why rnder creation didn’t you tell me 80 before?” “Oh, I love to hear you talk!"™ said Mrs. Pilkins.—Chicago Daily News | | | | i This evening coat Is a New York de- sign. It is of white velour and black fox. Very narrow long waist line at the back. The bottom is very full and made in square scallop effect; wide fox band at bottom. The fur on the sleeves when brought together gives the effect of a muff. High fur collar scalloped. Odd Combinations. Green golfine, chiffon and monkey fur are combined in this way: There is a foundation skirt of soft green silk golfine. There is a long, gathered tunic of green chiffon that leaves ex- posed about fifteen inches of the) foundation skirt. The tunic 18 edged with a fringe of monkey fur. The long chiffon sleeves are edged with monkey and the bodice is composed of golfine and chiffon. Square Train, The square train is shown on some of the new importations. It is espe- clally good when it {8 used on a frock with a square-cut neck, back and front, just as the long, pointed train was good with a frock in which the V- shaped neck was used. The Ideal Christmas Remembrance The personal thought — spirit of the giving, de- termines the value of the gift. What then, could be more fitting than your portrait for the Christ- mas remembrance —t o carry your simple mes- sage of friendship? A dozen portraits solves. at once, a dozen perplexing gift problems. 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We just cannot believe—that with these facts true—and every orphanage in Florida crowded to the doors—that the people of Florida will let our great work which has cared for 850 of these little ones this year alone—go down for lack of funds to keep it up. Your immediate help—is greatly needed—right now—Please send what you can to- -day—to R. V. Covington, Treasurer of The Children’s Home Socnety of Florida Florida’s Greatest Charity 361 St. James Bldg. JACKSONVILLE, FLA.