Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 9, 1915, Page 3

——— bremium List Polk County 7 | PRECIOUS CARGO Fair To Be Held In Lake- Land Week of Fep, 22 Conti m Y (Continued from y erday.) Be:t Centerpiece (Crochet) Best Centerpiece (Novelt: Best Centerpiece (Whitc . Best Centerpiece (Colored s; Best Centerpiece (Punci Work) Best Centerpiece (Eyelet) Best Embroidered Lunch Cloth Best Embroidered Table Best Embroidered half dozen Napkin Best Drawnwork Table ( loth Best Drawnwork Lunch Cloty ., g Best Drawnwork half dozen napkins Best Lunch Set of seven Best Pair Embroidereq 7 B Pair Embroidercd s Jest Pair Embroidored | Best Embroidered Best nbroidered Best Embroidered Nig Best Lincerie Set of 1} Best Collar and Cuff Se: Best Hemstitched 1. DBest Hemstitcheq H Best Fancy Apron Best Work Apron .. 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Section 2 Best Best Best Best Best Best Best Best Collection of Antiqu Pewter or Ur Specimen ( a Piece Embroidery Specimen Lace Stamp Collection Collection Old (‘oins Article, other than CUT FLOWERS (Class C, Section 3 Collection Potted Plants Single Specimen Fern Single Specimen Palm Single Specimen other than named. Display Cut Flowers GIRLS' AND BOYS' CANNING CLUB 1st. and largest exhibit of canned fruits and Vegetables in tin cans shreid 1.00 1.00 1.00 100 1.00 . 2,00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 2.00 . 2.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 2.00 5.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2 00 1.00 .50 | manding { the imminent outbreak of war; | nostications ridiculous. | on completing her art course in Eng- { land. When it was completed she was | to become Adax | become the wife | nothing but his pay | Adams never thou | ahead of the pursuing craft | verted | a man and | ever. By GEORGE HUNSON. I ——————————— “There she 1is, sir!” exclaimed Lieutenant Bingham, pointing into the distance. Lieutenant Adams, his senior, com- the torpedo-boat Spitfire, looked through his glasses toward the horizon, where a tiny wisp of curling smoke denoted the presence of the Kronprinz. The Kronprinz had sailed from New York four days before, carrying a few passengers who were resolved to risk capture at the hands of the British fleet, a cargo, mostly contra- band, two million dollars in gold, and Miss Frances Lowell of Bangor. This last item was confirmed news. Lieutenant Adams had written to his American sweetheart, warning her not to attempt the journey owing to but she had not received the letter, and had considered the newspaper prog- She was bent " bride. reason why Miss y art in order to a lientenant with still, Lieutenant oi opposing his He learned that 1il on the Kronprinz a day before his squadron put to sea, With orders to clear the Atlantie. The Kro S a treasure ship, a8 Cshe red by the Brif There was Lowell shou sweetheart’s wishes, she was to Fired a Shot Across the Bows of the Kronprinz. if he saw her he was to summon her to surrender or sink her on sight. And, of all the scouting torpedo- boats and destroyers, it had fallen to; Adams to sight the fugitive Kron- prinz. Of course there was no doubt she | would surrender. Then he would take his precious captive, with her still more precious cargo of one, safe into Plymouth. He rang full speed to the engine- roown, and, standing beside the wheel- man, watched the distant wisp of smoke creep up until it covered the horizon in hull of the majestic passenger vessel appeared upon the waters. And gradually the Sritfire overhauled her. The signal to lay to being disre- garded, at a distance of a mile the Spitfire fired a shot across the bows of the Kronprinz. The fugitive's only response was to quicken her speed, until with all her furnaces glowing un- der forced drafts from the open ventilators, the Spitfire was creeping up inch by inch rather than by leapn and bounds. “Shall I give her a torpedo, sir?” asked Lieutenant Bingham of his com- mander. He was amazed to see the ghastly pallor upon Adams’ face. A torpedo, striking fairly home, would send the vessel to the bottom before she couid launch her lifeboats. And the life- boats of the Spitfire would not suffice to save a tithe of the Kronprinz's | erew and passengers, few though the latter were. “I'll give her a shotted gun first, answered Adan. This time the shell went very near the Kronprinz, but the result was the same as before. She sped through the water about fifteen hundred yards Through his glasses Lieutenant Adams could plainly see the passengers crowding the deck “They say that she's carrying two | twelve-pounders,” suggested Bingham. “That may be the reason—" Adams had heard the rumor that the Kronprinz had been partly con- for the destruction of mer- chantmen. A sudden resclution was apparent on his white face. ve her a torpedo when [ signal, m,” he answered stood within the wheelhouse, i ipreme battle of his life It luty to his coun- try against the Iy woman whom he er loved. and, though the result s never in doubt, the conflict was one leave their imprint for He had met Frances Lowell two H years before, when he was temporar- {ly attached to the embassy at Wash- fngton. She was of Southern birth, and had been visiting relatives in the capital. From the first they had been attracted to each other. When, | after a few weeks of acquaintance, Adams had been recalled to England, he had gone with the understanding | that, as soon as he got his first com- mand, he should ask her to be his wife. The command had come three months before, and by that time thelr correspondence had shown them that front of him. Then the| of those that go to the soul of| | beeti lookmg forward to their reunion, and had urged her to take a British | ship. And she had sailed on a Ger- | man. i The battle was over. With a firm expression upon his face Adams took up the speaking tube. He knew that | Bingham was waiting at the other end, that the first word would send the torpedo hurtling upon her deadly passage of destruction. But before his hand was on the tube he heard a singing in his ears, al roaring over the sea which caused | him momentarily to postpone giving | the order. Something unexpected had occurred. Next instant he knew ' what it was. He heard the screech of the shell from the converted liner, the following boom of the cannon; and then everything was fire and smoke and splinters. The next thing of which he became aware was water around and about him. Stunned by the concussion, he managed only to make out the wreck- age in the water of what had been the smartest torpedo-boat in the Brit- ish navy. He heard the cries of drowning men, the calls for help. The shell, aimed with deadly pre- cision, had struck the torpedo-boat amidships, rending her and sending her to the bottom. With a groan Adams closed his eves and resigned himeelf to the embrace of the icy waters. And that was his last remembrance until a lonz time after. He awakened in the Plymouth hos- pital. The first face to meet his eves was that of Ringham, secated at his bedside. The sub-lieutenant stretched out his hand and clasped Adams’s firm'y. “Where am 17" groaned Adams “In the hospital. and ti " answered Ringham ou got » of shell in your head, but it was pulled out vesterday, and a couple of w s should o vou aboard the finest destrover afloat. “You see,” he continued, “the Vongeance came up and received the Kronprinz's surrender and got us out of the er. We had vou in the boat, unconseic And the admiral- ty court has acquitted yvou." cquitted me?" cried Adams, in- eredulous, “Yes. They held you did right not to send that valuable treasure to the bhottom. even if you waited too long. And then, you had been informed that { the Kronprinz had no guns on her. But I mustn’t talk to you any more at present - besides, there's somebody waiting to see you."” And the “somebody” who came in was believed by the doctors to have shortened Adams's period of recov- ery by at least three days. And that meant a three days’ honeymoon be- fore he accepted charge of his new command. | (Copyright, 1514, by W. G. Chapman.) ! EXPLAINS GROWTH OF SEEDS English Scientist Has Discovered That Carbonic Acid Gas Keeps Them From Sprouting. Why seeds should not sprout while maturing, and why they should lie dormant long periods of time, are questions that occur to few who ac- cept nature's ways as a matter of course. But there must be some restraining cause to preven: growth in seeds, and Franklin Kidd, Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, reports in the pro- ceedings of the Royal society that it s carbonic acid gas. Removing the part of the seed which th gas generates, it will sprout before it is ripe; it will sprout if the high partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere be removed. High temperatures remove these pres- sures, hence seeds germinate best, in warm weather. The arrested development, Mr. Kidd finds, is not due to lack of molsture, ' but solely to the narcotic effect of the carbon dioxide. . Planters who would hasten th sprouting process should increase the temperature of seeds and submit them to the pressures of oxygen. ong Unprofitable Agreement. A St. Louis man tells of a farmer in the Ozarks who for years had suf- fered through the activities of a hog thief named Bill Mullins. Bill was known to be a thief, but he was never caught, and, besides, was so much of a comedian that nobody cared to pros- ecute him, The farmer was one day standing by the side of his pen surveying a particularly fine looking lot of hogs when along came Bill Mullins. Bill's eyes glistened as he regarded the hogs. “Them is fine hogs,” said the farm. ! er, noticing Bill's expression. i “I never seen better,” said Bill 1 “I'll tell you what I'll do,” said the farmer. “If you'll pick any two you can have 'em, providin' you'll let the | rest alone.” | “All right,” said Bill. “You've been ' a mighty good neighbor, and I'll agree | to it, but I'll shore lose meat.” | PLAIN LINEN FOR THE TABLE Beautiful in Many Respects, Amquh‘1 Admittedly it Has Some Real Disadvantages. | Plain heavy linen makes very attrac- | tive table cloths and napkins. It is used in a restaurant where the fur-! nishings are all interesting, and it is | used by some fastidious housewives. | In the restauraut it is quite satlstac- | | tory, for every diner. But in the or- dinary household it has this one dlis- advantage. It does show wrinkles and spots more quickly than a heavy fig- ured damask does. So if there is not a | fresh cloth for every meal, damask | may be a better choice. But the linen is beautiful, and in any H household it might be used for a spe- clal dinner set. The napkins and | table cloth may be finished with a fine | embroidery stitch, or like the ordinary | napkin hem, finely done by hand, or else they are hemstitched in an inch- wide hem. | NECKWEAR OF THE MOMENT ! touch of white neckwear was organdie STILL THERE WAS GHEER By NETTIE KENNER. “I'm going to give up,” Loretta de- clared, as she wearily pulled off her gloves. “I'm not going to be conceited any more.” ¢ “\Uhat a terrible resolution,” chuck- led Ler brother. “Fortunately you : don't say it as if you meant it, so I shall not send ior our family physi- cian until I hear the details. What's up?” “I traveled downtown this morning very well content with my looks and my clothes,” Loretta explained. with a little line in her smooth brow. “Ot course, I don’t mean that I couldn't be improved on.” “Of course not!" “I merely mean,” she went on with- out heeding, “that considering the fact that it's me I look and dress pret- ty well. 1 was quite satistied. 1 stopped at my dressmaker's to see ab. 1t having that crepe meteor made in cose I have enough of my allow- ance 'eft to get one, and that is where 1 had my first shock.” f “Hov on earth did madame hurt | your ycung feelings?” “You needn’t laugh! You wouldn't | like to b told that you are too sallow | to wear lavender or that you can't have one of the new girdles because it | would eall attention to the fact that one hip iz higher than the other. I know you *culdn' “It would ' “And that i 't all” sighed Loretta | he said ' so awfully narrow chested that 1 »m just in sty can wear the ists that make you look so horribiv skinny. T am goi to take up gym work next week if [ have any monev !0t "ou needn’t . hoxing with me. 1| value my life.” “I'm glad that < 2body does. Well, listen to my tale ¢ woe! From the dressmaker's T went to the milliner's. There my hat was ¢ ady to be sent home if T liked it—v ' ch 1 most em phatically did not 1he back of it lay down on my collar in . ».0st ridiculous way and T asked the ni'iner as nicely as T could to change it for me. She said she was afraid she could not do any better because I alwavs insist on wearing my hair in a coil on top of head. She said that when I wore at the way 1 like it there was my heart.” an awful line from my ccllar to the top of my head that was cxtremely ugly. She said that this was the truth though she hated to say it.” “No more than you hated to have her say it, I'll bet.” “l1 wasn't pleased. [ took the hat, but when it comes home I'm going to put a whole newspaper in the back of it to keep me from looking llke a to- boggan. Then every time anybody looks at me I'll think of that perfectly horrible line from my collar to the top of my head and shiver.” “If you only could cut off your head when you wear that hat!” “1 wanted blue,” Loretta went on “But that incorrigible milliner sald black subdued my features better, so I got black. I've been wondering ever since which of my features need sub duing. It'll end in my getting another hat, for my suit is hrown.” " “Oh, you got a sult?" “That’s what I went for, the fitting of my suit. I had to hurry because they don't like it a bit if you are five minutes late and they make you lose your appointment. They kept me walit- ing half an hour but that’s different.” “Certainly.” “I had hardly put the skirt on when the fitter said that really she scarcely knew whether she was going to be able to make it do because I was so tall, you know. Then, too, she said, my hips were large and she'd have to swing the skirt a lot. “Cheerful, wasn't she?” “The hairdresser was just as bad,” Loretta sighed as she gathered up her gloves and hat. losing tone and luster every day. I came home after I'd been there. I was the last drop in the bucket.” “It's always darkest just before the dawn,” suggested Loretta's brother. “You know that cousin of Al's from Philadelphia whom I introduced to you the other night? Well, he hung aroung the office all the afternoon ask- ing when you'd be home, so I brought him back to dinner. He's up in my room prinking now.” “For goodness sake!” Loretta cried as she turned to run to her room. “If you aren’t the worst! Why on earth didn’t you tell me!"—Chicago Dally News. Quite So. “Young Whitcomb should get on in the world. He'l o “Yes. What" ? “Dentistry.”"—Philadelphia ledger Styles Are as Pretty as Those of the Summer, Though Materials Are Different. Just as last summer the lovely and lawn, so now it is of cream net and lace in the finer costumes, and of pinue in those dresses that smack of the tailormade, There 15 less wiring of the collars to them staud up, as the necks are higher far as decollete is con- cerned; they can, however, be lightly wired if they are more becoming. Fine venise, applique and point laces are noted in the collars of the new dress models, and there is always enough net added to the neck decora~ tion to keep the lace from looking too hard against the skin. Some of the lace guimpes are of embroidered net of the applique type of lace, and they finish at the top with a round neck that does not come quite up to the base of the throat. “She sald my hair is ; Must Little Homeless Children Suffer In Florida? WE DO NOT BELIEVE that the good people of Flor- ida realize that there are right now in our State Hundreds of little children in real need—some absolutely homeless— that just must be cared for. We feel sure—that they do not know that there are hun- dreds of worthy mothers in Florida who are just struggling to keep their little ones alive—and at home. 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 ight now—Please send what you can to-day—to . V. Covington, Treasurer of The Children’s Home Society of Florida Florida’s Greatest Charity 301 St. James Bldg. _l.'\(fl\'SOA\'\"[LLE, FLA. SEPPEEPIEIE0IS : Cut : Prices - Un All » Meats P PPPCY PIPEIPIOPBIEPPREG o R Roast Beef per pound Saus 2 pounds for .... 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