Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 14, 1915, Page 3

s ey s e T O i BRANOED AS A TilEF ‘ gy AUGUSTUS GOODRICH ' WIN. Martin, mortgage banker, wd and careful man of business, acing his bookkeper, Raiph Ter- , a pleasing, clear-minded young an, in the estimation of Eunice Mar- at least, although the money ab- bed father knew nothing of that. The two men were seated in the pri- vate office of the banker. This had an anteroom and both apartments con- pected with the residence of John Mar- un. In the anteroom was a lurking figure. It's owner had approached the glass door connecting the rooms. He jistened first, then he peered cau- tiously where a smiall piece of the clouded glass was out of place. This man was Burton Beale, a bach- elor cousin of the banker, who had peen the guest of his relative for pearly & month. “You understand, Terhune,” the panker was speaking within the pri- vate office. “Perfectly, Mr. Martin,” replied the young office man in his usual attentive and pleasant way. 1 have never trusted any employes as | am trusting you. It is necessary that I should, for some important transactions will have to be handled by you during my absence.” “You will not be gone long, I pre- sume ?” “perhaps a week. Lean a little clos- rhune. The combination of the is 12-105-19.” alph Terhune nodded comprehend While the banker spoke he wad carelessly seribbled the numerals on @ slip of scrap paper. Instantly his employer drew the tell-tale slip from his hand. No, no,” he spoke, tearing the bit of paper to pieces, “Never trust such busir.css as that to a record that may accidentally fall under strange eyes. Memorize it.” “To aid me, I will make a temporary potation, then,” said Terhune, and he drew up his coat sleeve and marked the numbers on the white surface ot his shirt cuff. The modest but pretty cuft button holding it together met his glance as be did this, and his eye brightened. Those buttons were a birthday gift from Eunice, a week ago. A memory of her charming face coupled with the s HER- In the Anteroom Was a Lurking Fig- | ure. great confidence her father reposed in him made the heart of the young man thrill with cheer and hope. . When the banker and Ralph pagsed through the anteroom, Beale was not there, He had hurried from the apartment, trembling all over with ex: citement. He had heard and seen that which to his mind was as a plank of eafety thurst suddenly before a drown- ing man. “A way out of all iny troubles!” he breathed, as he reached the street. “Let me think.” He drew a letter from his pocket. He scowled darkly as he read From a notorious gambler, it tounced that unless within forty-eight bours a certain note was paid it Would be presented to the man whose forged signature it bore—John Mar- tin “Everything depends Terhune away with me and watching my opportunity,” mused the bachelor. | k I must get one thousand dollars or I ! ruined—worse, 1 must become 2a ited eriminal. Ah, I have it!” and had eyes sparkled with cunning. t us take a little stroll, Ter hune™ he suggested as, apparently ‘asually, he later met his intended vic- Um on the street near his hotel bat do you say to a show for the 'vious engagement,” replied Relph, glancing at his watch and ‘ounting the minutes until eight ¢clock, when he was due to spend the Sve with Eunice Martia. ne for a game of billards, pressed Beale. 7 % ves; I have a full hour of leis- at leas me on, then.” * led the way to a reputable ! parlor, and they were goon ed- a preliminary game with t& vheres. Zuised ths fact rt at the game. ag for his oppo anipulations deepened t! and cuffs 2 watching his ad Howed Raiph to b a clatter of talk cclock they left the place. = Ralph halted upon the public eclare,” he exclaimed, “I 1eft Ts in the rack back at the b 1 Shall I go back with you or walt 19r you?” inquired Beale, courteously- “Toanks, but 1 shall have to hurry 19 ket to my appointment,” explained it. ! an- | on getting | roubling 1 know Euuice said, of little intrinsic iveé vou another sweetly, “The value, and I will B pair.” Ralph did o 7 ot leave the trustful girl In au altog : Cr €2sy frame of mind. He did not tel! her of the safe combi nation which be had scribbled on one of the cuffs. For the life of him be could not recall those numerals. This put him in a state of anxiety, | and to some decided inconvenience. Fortunately no business came in that Tequired reference to the contents of the safe, but large amounts were paid and important documents received, and these Ralph locked up in a strong tin box and slept with it under his | pillow each night. Mr. Martin returned at the end of ten days. He looked surprised when Ralph made his report. He opened the safe. Then he turned upon his bookkeeper with a dark, suspicious face. "1 left a package containing twelve hundred in L in this safe when I went away, aud it is gone,” he said, sat down grimly, wrote out a check for a month’s salary and added: “Ter- hune, you are discharged.” Ralph was explain, about Ic ope u0 opportunity to tin scouted his story combinaticn and not 1s ridiculous. Ralph allowed to see Eunice nded as a thief, he was from that cherished para- dise of business and love Two days later Beale borrowed a thousand dollars on a mnote from a banker. Two days still later Martin learned that the note was a forgery He began an investigation. At fits | termination he was satisfied that his fugitive relative was swindler. | Obdurate and self-willed, he retused ! to consider that Ralph might be 'guiltless. Just after the flight ot | Beale, however, Eunice came to him | with flaming eyes. “Papa,” she said, “I want you to send for Mr. Terhune at once and make some atonement for misjudging him so cruelly.” “What do you mean—" began her ! father. | “This: Ican prove who opened that safe,” and Eunice placed before him— a pair of cuffs and a card covered with figures. “The maid found these in the waste basket in cleaning the room that Mr. Beale occupied.” said Eunice. “The cuffs he stole from Ralph, the card shows how he distributed that missing twelve hundred dollars.” Within the hour Ralph Terhune was restored to his old position—and a new one—as prospective son;in-law of John Martin, banker. (Copyright, 1913, a conscienceless | V. G. Chapman.) RICH MEN AND THEIR MONEY Most of Them Are Exceedingly Care- ful in Limiting Their Personal Expenditures. Although Henry Phipps, the Pitts- burgh magnate, delights in giving mil lions of rs to hospitals and chari- | ties, he will get out of Lis motor car and go back to his study to turn out the electric lights before starting on the ride. Aundrew Carnegie has gone | downtown with only a couple of dol- lars in his pockets. He is quite m; contrast in this respect with the late | Charles G. Gates, who has been seen | to pull a roll of thousand dollars bills from hig pocket when paying a hotel | bill, August Belmont is a careful sp(tndvr[ in wost every particular. He carries a | pocketful of dimes for use in (hspen-l sing tips to waiters and other svr-\ vants, but when it comes to the ques- tion of shoes there is no limit to his | he indulges in many new | 1 week ’ might be indefinitely ex- | there is perhaps no other ! which more widely dif- Probably no d their money in just ect is of peren everyone outlay, pairs ea The tended cha ferentiates n f then two of them r, as widespread dis b 1e action fireworks displays, yacht | any PREPARE FOR GASPARILLA Tampa, The “Payroil City,” Getting Ready To Receive Ye Mystic Krewe Next Month ——Cosmopol ughout the cou ¥y making elab- & the arilla Carnival, nam- one of the most that ever infested of Florida and the Spauish Main during the closing days of the eizhteenth and opening days of the nineteentih centuries. The dates of the Carnival, which is patterned af- ter the New Orleans Mardi Gras, with many amusement features peculiar to the semitropics added, are February 12 10 16, nclusive, and in Lonor of the celebration the railroads have offered extremely low round-trip rates from all points east of the Mississippi river. Every attraction of the Carnival will be free, and Tampans are preparing to care for 100,000 visitors during the five days of festivity. Gasparilla was not as widely known to fume as Captain Kidd and LaFitte 'the French terror, but he was their equal in cruelly and daring. He and his crew robbed and burned many | merchant ships, securing millions in Spanish gold and taking captive many women, whose husbands, fathers and brothers were made to “walk the plank” and find graves among the cor- al beds beneath the blue Gulf waters. “Overboard with the men, but capture the women,” was Gasparilla’s com- wand to his crew, and he held many beautiful but unfortunate women for a long time in an immense but crude and well-fortified castle on Gasparilla Isle, on which the thriving port of Boca Grande stands today. HMe and his crew were finally captured and hauged by the fighting men of an American gunboat in 1800, since which time peace has reigned in the Gulf wa- ters except during the filibustering and troop-embarking days of the Spanish- | American War. For ten years, though, the ghost of Gasparilla and his phan-, tom crew have attacked Tampa, and | | their coming is marked by a festival | such as people of the semi-tropics are alone capable of producing. This year the Carnival will be more attractive than ever, and particularly to residents of winter-bound states. Among the features offered for their attraction will be monster pageants, in which allegorical floats of great beauty will pass through the streets of the city; maneuvers of war vessels in the harbor and of United States troops, aeroplane flights, day and night and motor boat racing, strect dancing by thou- sands of gaily costumed people of many nations, music by famous Amer- ican and Cuban bands, balls in the American, Spanish, Cuban, Italian and man clubs and other brilliant so- al features To the tourist and homesceker the principal attraction will be a * en of Eden™ exhibition of fruits, flowers, vegel and other semi-tropical on the court house square in This exhibition will surpass ivthing of the kind ever prepared by semi-tropical or trop state or country President Woodrow Wilson is being urged to attend the Carnival and make South Florida his winter home in futuve | vears, and noted Americans and for- cign dipiomats have also been invited. | Tampa has in the past ten yeais enter- | tained a larger number of distinguish- ed Amer 15 and foreigners than any other Southern city, these delighting to visit the section while other states are winter-bound Preparations have already been | made for housing and feeding a larger number of people than a Florida city has ever entertained before. COPY BELGIAN STYLES iles | MODISTES QUICK TO SEIZE THEIR OPPORTUNITY. With That Country So Much in the Limelight It Was Perhaps Inevi- table—Collars of Many and Pretty Designs. There 18 no doubt that we will have an epidemic of Belgian styles new and old. Callot has already sent over a gown of velvet trimmed with tiny white porcelain beads and fur, which she calls Belgian, and the Flemish peasants will gurely furnish much that {3 colorful and pictorial In the new fashions Everything contributes to this domi- nation of fashions in the near future by the country and the people who have stirred the minds and hearts and imagination of the people more than any other factor in this world war. As one writer has sald, Germany may have occupied the place where Pelgium was, but ite soul has escaped to all the peoples on the planet. One has a thrill of pride in even wearing a that goas by that sted by that touched by decided d vedse her 3 benen it. She : street in the coldest her coat cut down aimost to the top of her corset, showing a flicker of bare skin be- tween, and her ck enveloped in a fur stock that is warm enough to do| duty in the Russian trenches. The new blou also have high boned collars and the coats reach to the ears. Some have the directoire collars that rise high and turn back on themselves in a straight line; oth- ers have the consulate collar, which goes straight across the back of the neck, also high and turned over and made of some brightly colored stiff silk thickly incrusted with gold or silver arabesques. The smartest outside collar is of fur as wide as it is possible to wear it. It is made like a clown's ruff in that it rises to the chin and does not bind the neck under the chin. It fastens at the left front with a rosette of velvet ribbon, or with braid but- tons and loops. High black velvet dog collars are again in style with house blouses that are cut in a deep surplice opening in front, Clever women use these on the street under a coat so there will ot de a bare expanse of neck be- the chin and the coat collar. | usual rolling collar of starched | te muslla that cxtends in a sur-| effect o the bust has had its th "GATOR KILLED 30 PERSUNS ARer Terrorizing Two Villages Enor- Mous Beast Was Finally Cap- i tured by Whites. | With other white companions I have often plunged into the waters of the ' Tuyra, a fairly large river which flows Into the Gulf of Panama after having | traversed immense stretches of im- penetrable forests. Regularly a score or so of alligators assisted at our sambols, at a distance of thirty to forty yards, and we came to look upon them as quite harmless. After an absence of two years 1 re- | turned, and in two nelghboring vil- lages found the inhabitants terrified. No one dared to go near the river at nightfall; no one ventured, even in, broad daylight, to cross the stream in the narrow canoes which are used by the natives to carry bananas and veg- etables from their plantations. The cause of this terror, 1 discov- ered, was an alligator that had de- voured 30 persons in less than two months, surprising some on the river | bank, and literally snapping others out of their canoes. Thirty people— ! and the two villages together only numbered 250 souls After a series of fruitless attempts we ended in capturing the brute with a baited hook—an enormous affair, to | which was fastened half a pig! The | creature was close on 21 feet long. He was so old that scaweced and | mosses were growing hetween his | scales, and he presented the appear- ance of a tree trunk that had a long time submerged. e was, we estimated, than one hundred vears old Drevy, in the Wide World Maga heen more ! Paal ine, t tind 15y small an be different wd in our sketch ilorty neat and a place in every 1 a useful article to present. Doards of t made in a great nun, shapes and forms may be seen a par ornamental beard for ha £ upen the wall at some conyenient spot where the articles it conta‘ns may be ready to hand whenever they are re- quired. For making it, cut out a diamon.. shaped piece of stiff cardrosrd. meas- uring six and a half inches each way. This card is smoothly coveved on boih sides with pale gray watered silk, the material being cut out in two piecos, stretched tightly across and sewn to- gether at the edges, which are after- wards finished off with a pale pink sllk cord, arranged in three little loops on either side and again at the top and bottom. A flat oblong cushion, covered with pale pink silk and edged | With a fine claret-colored silk cord car- ried into three little loops at each cor- ner is made separately and sewn on { In the center of the board. The up- per edge of the cushion is left free . 80 that a small pair of scissors can be slipped behind it in the wanner il lustrated, On either side of this cushion, two reels of cotton, one black, the other white, are suspended with loops of narrow pale pink ribbon. At the low- er point a small pocket is sewn into a little frill at the edge, in which a thimble may find a place, and a long loop of pale pink ribbon, with a bow at the top, is attached to elther side of the board by which it may be sus pended from a nail in the wall. “Do they have spring fn the fall any place?” “Hardly.” “Or fall in the spring?" “If you keep this thing up much longer, George, you'll get something worse than a fall in the spring. I'll duck you under the pump'"” Uncle Sam Qffers All Americans a Chance to Feed Starving Belgium Arrangements Made For Sending Parcel Post Packages From Rural Districts. How to Aid the Stricken Little Sister of the World = By WILL IR®WIN — HOMELESS BELGIAN WOMEN ON THE wAY TO THE BREAD LINE. first time n a charitable vndorta wishes to must feed them or they way iillion people. until and pros Amer While perishable f sium needs everything in its history th last year the r 15 uation in Europe, will %0 to their graves this winter unless ves as never nation gave before, postotlice | From th rving people tment has time forth it 1l been en- Amer. m las 1h the T arry it to any v 1 1 woway end ] v it her is who iny™ | the not There Is Do other wt indus peaceable will starve us. st of all just food—non- A1 which will stand the test of ocean transportation, such as flour of any kind, peas, beans and preserved meats. The douor has only te seen is the ma-| all forms of g outlines the | mart Black Silk Beaver Hat, With naces between are Long Qulll Ornament, Modeled on 4 the Belglan Soldiers Cap. this work DU ‘pnlium and the € | cut away- put up his gift in packages of not less than twenty-five pounds nor more thaa fty pounds, stamp it in the usual way and mail it at the nearest postoffice, If the douor adds his own name and address, TOGETHER WITH THE LET- TER “R,” the money he has paid for stamps will be refunded to him by the commission. 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