Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 6, 1915, Page 7

McClure Newspa- had been teasing that they had gone sensitive; that to him." They ntil now that the in earnest. They a man who would fire fighting. Now to ponder over it it was Frank Jud. proposed the or- liary fire depart- had been he who in its existence ibject was diverted his penchant for ‘bell every time the rm was given. And d little to say, he foverlooked the teas- ight, however, (ho' quiet suburban sec- | re department’s bell jang! out upon the f the winter night. ous houses dashed alarm, all mutter the man who saw company on the Hon. pmobile lights cast fection around the ing to the firehouse . driven by a girl fur coat, pulled up tus which had been irehouse. well enough to an- i1 came in his place,” fhompson. “Do you rt on behind?” iJudson,” sald Helen d fastened the ap- 'k of the car. got in beside the occupied the ton- remaining members b started out on foot. e contingent from fire department ne of the fire, the extinguished by the e. credit for being e job, sald Martin, jed himself into the to Judson here, we putation for answering er. to Miss Helen—this udson, forgetting, for fake notice of the fact ng chaffed. jurn?” asked the girl, inds together to keep In them. ttle party returned gk, cold, dreary streets jging bell of the ap- them. Judson tried to ‘wind from Helen and and again if she were the girl kept up her. n home was in sight. ttle more conversation wo, but when Judson om the car and picked | rches to carry into her he hoped Helen's him to sit and visit at that hour of the ppson met his daughter “Helen, you'ra better ve. Youlra Judson. Warm up a minute by our hickory log.” “It’'s Miss Helen who is to be warmed up, doctor. I'm afraid it's been pretty cold for her,” said Jud- son. “I didn’t want her to go out, but she would do it,” said Doctor Thomp- son_proudly. “I'd like to find another girl who would,” Judson added, looking into the girl's eyes. It was the first really interested look he had ever taken into them, and what he saw there made him realize that he had missed much of the good in the world. When he left the girl and her father he asked if he might come in often to see them, which was more or less of a surprise to the girl, for she had known him for five years, and he had never made it a point to drop into her home. She was even wondering, on the following night, when, if ever, Frank Judson would come, when she heard his voice in the hall. He was telling her father that he had been worrying for fear she had taken cold. “Indeed, I haven't,” Helen assured him as she gave him her hand. “I should never forgive myself if you had,” Frank replied. *“Never.” “And I know something else you never would have done, too, Mr. Frank Judson,” Helen said, laughing and displaying two dimples the young man had never seen before, “you never would have taken the trouble to come to see me if I hadn’t hap- pened to appeal to you through your hobby—the fire department. Now, would you?” Frank Judson flushed as he had flushed that day when the boys kad teased him. “What does it matter? I—I have come and I intend to keep on coming—if I may, Helen?" His Chole “Talking about widow! “Which we weren't. about them?” “r'd rather be a widow's first, than her subsequent husband.” Still, what Miles Here and There. In England a mile means the fa- miliar 1,760 yards, but in Iceland it means 2,340 yards, and in the High- lands it may mean the old Scots mile of 1976 yards. In Switzerland the bardy mountaineers think 9,163 the proper thing, even when, as generally. is, it is very much uphill. The Swiss is the longest mile of all, being fol- lowed by the Vienna post mile of 8,296 yards. The Flemish mile is 6,869 yards, the Prussian 8,237 yards, and in Denmark they walk 8,344 yards and call it & stroli of a mile. The Turks are satisfied with 1,836 yards and the Italians shorten the distance of a mite to 1,766. Awful Misfortune. Children of the right sort take their school work seriously. Jennie, aged fourteen, is a second-year high school studeat. The other evening she ap- peared at the family dinner table evi- dently not in the best of good spirits. Pressed for a reason, she made this explanstion: “Oh, I muffed it in English this af- ternoon. We had to give oral themes and I had studied mine out so care- fully that I wasn’t & bit nervous at first. But by and by something dis- tracted my attention for a moment, and I said something that spoiled the unity, the coherence and the literary value of the whole thing.” Let me send you FREE PERFUME ‘Wiite today for a testing bottle of ED. PINAUD’S L!l:A e e mj:'""" 5 IS ONLY THOUGHTLESS TO GO ON USING ME CLD. WCFI'-OUT CCCI ING UTENSILS § By CARL KILGORE. eoccssoce ecasscccccse “Now, for the love of Mike,” sald Slatter in a resigned tone, “remember it's white paint—and keep out of it!” He glared at the three young Slat- ters and included Mrs. Slatter in his general glance. “You know,” he added hmum.mmm.ml Yyou are just as impetuous and thought- less as the children! Some of you will be sure to fall against the woodwork or try to sbsorb a bucket of stuff be- fore the woodwork is finished! I don't| see why the painters had to choose Saturday, when the children are home from school!” “We'll be careful, John,” promised Mrs. Slatter. “Oh—wait till I get some turpentine and take it off!" Slatter, clad in his broad-shouldered, fuzsy winter overcoat, had attempted to pass through the den door to the hall and the door jamb affectionately brushed his right arm, leaving a white smudge. “Tee hee!” mistakenly sald Sally Slatter, aged nine. “Sally!” barked her father. that you get no dessert tonight! It is| time you learned to exercise a little | respect toward your elders! Marcia, I should think you would endeavor to bring up your children in a manner that—" “For “It's all off, now, John,” interrupted Mrs. Slatter. “I think it you will go through the front door sideways—good gracious, you've whisked the tails of your coat against the parlor door!” “Yeow!” yelled Johnny Slatter, Jr., and dived for the swing door into the | kitchen. “Look at that!” cried Slatter, point- ing majestically toward Johnny's exit. “If that door had been white instead of oak and if it had just been painted Johnny would have struck it with both hands just the same! That's what I mean by your carelessness! I expect that when I get home tonight the ‘whole place will be marked up with smears!” “I hope not,” said Mrs. Slatter, anx- fously. “Good-by, dear—o-h!" In turning to kiss her Slater had rested his gloved hand on the front door jamb. The glove that Shtm! tore from his hand and hurled violent- | ly as he went down the front rteps hit one of the parlor windows and left & smear. With the exception of the baby’s feat of licking oft one of tho freshly done spindles of the stairease and the catas- trophe which befell Johnany, Jr., who lost his balance and grabbed the door to save himself, the painting was a triumphant success. Mrs. Slatter wel- early return | tolerably clear | stepped into & buoket of N i Slatter ooufided kindly. *“You must up the children all day and good luck yourself. Well, ltite forethought will from . I hadn't sny n paint from Slatter’s hands and soothed him as best she could. He was still mutinous when they departed and his fingers showed a grimy gray which re {fused to come off. | “Lovely looking mitts for playing | cards!” sald Slatter with reproach. “It you'd only use your head a little | and warn people They got home late and Slatter was tired. “It's good to get home!” he groaned. “I'm dead to the world!” ! With a long sigh of relief, he tossed his overcoat over the stair ralling, where it clung affectionately to the i spindles. He himself sank down on the seat built in at the foot of the stairs. Mrs. Slatter’s shriek when she ! turned around and saw him expressed | some horror, but more malicious tri- umph. Siatter pulled his dress suit painfully loose from the stair seat and | grabbed his coat, which also stuck. ' “I'm going to tend to the furnace and go to bed,” he growled, and| stalked down into the basement, mer- cifully spared the tragedy of seeing the rear view of his evening clothes. He was absent some time and vhan’ he came up he was in his -wcllu| foet. “You needn’t ask where my shoes are,” he snapped to Mrs. Slatter, who | paused in her gingerly progress up: the paint-wet stairs. “Because they're in the furnace! And,” Slatter ended savagely as her lips opened in threat- ened speech, “they’re in the furnace because I stepped into a pail of white paint the painter left on purpose right in my way! Darn your old paint, any- bow!” of or With All His Scientific Skill Man Cannot Produce Them. . THE CURVING OF A BASEBALL. it Is Possible Only Because the Ball Is an Imperfect Globe and In Compari- eon With Its Size Much Rougher Than the Surface of the Earth, The real reason why a baseball can be thrown so that it will describe won derful curves during its progress through the air is that every such ball has a surface made up of mountains. valleys, craters, canyons, gorges, plains and other irregularities of the surface that. when the difference in size is taken into comsideration, makes the surface of the earth seem like plate glass. If It were possible to make a perfect sphere—Iif it were possible to make a baseball with an absolutely smooth sur- | face and an exact sphere—no pitcher| " in the world could make it curve. The very best pitchers baseball has ever known or probably ever will know could not make the ball deviate a hair's breadth in its flight. And so while It Is partly in the art or knack the professional pitcher has in bholding and releasing the basebali as he throws it, it is also due to the fact that a baseball bas a wonderfully rough surface against which the alr catches and turns it that gives it the curve. It you pass your hand over a plate glass it moves smoothly with nothing to retard it. If you pass your hand over an unplaned board you can feel the roughness—splinters we call them You cannot wove your harnd as easily over the board. This is the same prin- ciple with the baseball. There is a roughness in its surface that catches In the air and forces one side about or retards that side. This bas but one result—to make the baseball leave its straight course, and in doing this it de- acribes a curve. This does uot detract in the least from the cleverness of the pitcher who can so accurately judge his wuscular control as to make a baseball curve up or down. right or left. But the fact remains that it is the roughness of the baseball that makes all bis pitching cleverness possible. Take a brand new league ball in your hand. It looks to be a perfect sphere—that s, absolutely even and aniformly round and as “smooth as glass.” And it may be smooth as glass, for glass also bas a rough sur- face. Put a baseball under the most pow- erful microscope, enlarge it microscopl- It looks like the landscape in the Alps or Yellowstone park or any other rough section of the it bas peaks, ranges, ridges, valleys, plains and boles, guiches and all sorts of uneven places, and if the earth could be made as small as & ‘baseball it would be practically a per- fect sphere and absolutely smooth. This is because the highest mountalos of the earth and the deepest valleys would be millions upon millions of times smaller in comparison with the rough uneven places on a baseball if elther the earth were reduced to the size of a baseball or a baseball enlarg- ed to the nize of the earth. If this were not true the earth would not revolve so regularly upon its axis. It would perform an “in shoot” or “out shoot” and curve off through space, Even the billlard ball has a surface much rougher in comparison to its size than the surface of the earth, and we refer to a billlard ball as about the smoothest thing known. *“As smooth as o billiard ball" Is a well known simile. For the same reason that a perfectly smooth baseball could not be | curved, a perfectly smooth and per- fectly round billiard ball could not be made to curve on the table. It would not take “English.” as billiard players call it when they make a ball go for- ward and then roll backward or in any direction just by the manner in which they strike it with a chalked cue. This fact of roughness causing it to spin becomes all too evident when a player forgets to chalk bhis cue and plays several shots thereafter. If the leather tip of the cue becomes shiny it will slip on the ball. There is no purchase with which it can take hold. But chalk is sticky stuff, and the gran- ules are large. 5o that a well chalked cue has a very rough surface, and this rough surface of the tip of the cue fits into the rough profections on the ball, and thereby a ball can be given a lot of twist. successfully, moreover, cloth nap must be new and therefore rough. During recent experimentation with regard to the kinetic theory of gases a Belglan scientist desired to find out bow perfect a sphere could be made In order that by the clashing of these to- gether an idea might be secured of the effect of the collisions of the spherical atoms that make up a gas. The proj- ect had to be abandoned ut last be- cause no machinery could be construct- .|.ed that would turn out a perfect 1s the sisple life—direct and im- sphere artificially, and nature bas no perfect sphere of large size In all her many forms of matter. Perfect disks could be made. but a round ball was beyond the limits of human accom- plishment.—New York American. ‘The greatest pleasuce is the power 8o give it. Fishermen's Favorites. In order to aceomplish this | the billlard | CENSUS Bl . ON FLORIDA LANDS Deals With Increase Ir| Assessed Values | SOME INTERESTING DATA' In Single Decade From 1902 to 1915 Remarkable Increase Is Shown— ‘Total Taxes From Ad Valoren Taxation In 1912, $8,435,628. A bulletin just issued by the census bureau shows graphically how the as- sessed valuation of real estate and improvements subject to taxation ir Florida has increased. In 1860 the assessed valuation of all property subject to ad valorem taxation in Florida was $68,929,685 In 1912 the assessed valuation of all | property in the state had increased to the enormous total of $212,- 887,518, In that period the assessed valua- lon of real property and improve- ments subject to ad valorem taxation increased from $21,722,810 to $140,- 200.555. The increase during the single de- cade from 1902 to 1912 is equally striking. During that ten years’ pe- riod the assessed valuation of real property and improvements in Flor- ida incrensed from $63,615,667 to $140,200,555, and of all property sub- Ject to ad valorem taxation from $103,047.937 to $212,887,518. In 1860 the per capita assessed valuation of real property and im- provements subject to ad valorem taxation in Florida was $154.69 and in 1912 it was $169.85. In 1860 the per capita assessed valuation of all property was $400.87 and in 1912 it was $257.91. The higher figures in 1860 were due to the assessed val- uation of slaves. The total taxes raised in Florida from ad valorem taxation amounted; to $8,435,625 in 1912 as against $2,- 681,040 In 1902, and only $159,121 in 1860. The assessed valuation of real estate and improvements subject to ad valorem taxation in the whole United States in 1912 was $51.8564,- 009,436 ns against $26.415,300,744 ten years before aund $6,973,008,049 in 1860. Harm In Improper Pesture. It the lungs are cramped by im- proper posture they fall to get the proper amount of oxygen and do not throw off the waste and poisonous matters they cheou!d -— — - Danger of Lockjaw in Felt. That commercial gelatin, charcoal and other substances useful in medi- cine and surgery may contain the germs of lockjaw is well known. Quite recently it was found that felt 80 commonly used in orthopedic reten- tive dressings may also contain these germs ia abundance. Two patients who had been treated at a German hospital lost their lives as a result of Infection from the felt plates used to make a reteation support. Racket or Raquette. ‘When you use the racket in playing tennis you do not stop to think what it means and how difficult it has been to trace the word. Some thought that it was so called because of the nolse made by the ball striking it, but this is impossible. 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Eurcpe huyvs 80 per cent of this articie, and aithough we are the biggest individual con:umer of choco- late on earth, our merchants purchase but 20 per cent direct. Earth's Diameter. The earth’s greatest diamcter is not necessarily at the equator. According to the eminent Professor Henkey, the actual greatest diameter is that taken from the summit of Mount Chimbo- razo The line drawn from this point to the opposite side on a point in 8u- matra gives a diameter of 7,929 miles. Yo miy oot’a Subetiiaton Paokage Home And He Did. A country deacon went home one evening and complained to his wife that he had been abused down at the store shamefully. “One of the neigh- bors.” he said, “called me a liar.” Her eyes flashed with indignation. “Why didn’t vou tell him to prove it?” she exclaimed. “That's the very thing— that's the trouhle” replied the hus- band; “1 told him to prove it, and he did.” Weeld Not Think of Defeat. As to deing prepared for defeat 1! esrtainly am not. 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Delicious Maxwell Choco- lates and*Martinque Chocolate;] Che ries, only 40¢| Has moved their Plant to their new site corner of Parker and Vermont Avenues. Mr. Jelisario, who is now sole owner of the company says that they will carry a full line of Marble Tomb Stones in connec- tion with their Ornemantel Department of this business, Office Phone 218 B.ack Res. Phone 153 Blue FEEL 00000500000 00000000 KELLEYS BARRED IS OUR WV Which is proven by our six years success in Lakeland. i eh" ored by || Maker of the National Steel e “mllreiniorced concrete Burial ' Vagult ‘;x:n:: .fi.-:.um:n ! Building Blocks of all discrip- by give added zest to tions. ed Cement, Pressed Brick, White Brick, Pier Blocks, 3 nd 4 inch Drain Tile, 6, 7 and 8-ft Fench Post; in fact anything made of Cement. FLORIDA NATIONAL VAULT C0 i OU CAN COUME TCOUR S "Cre. AND FCR 7 | 3 % ! ALL SUA G SBRAND NIV ON S. ANDDD.I"Y 2 ==0iO3T Or £OSE LD Ohvzs ARE NOT FARY.” HAVE MANY KITCHEN LABOR-SAVING YOU WILL BE GLAD TO OWN. 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