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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
SHADY

Shady, Dec. 13.-C Cotton, cotton, on
every hand you hear Of preparations
being made TO plant cotton. Visions
Of wealth rise before. our minds eye
when our better half makes good on
cotton crop. We may have to learn
to make thread and cloth yet, who
knows?
Thanksgiving and fair week are
events Of the past. Christmas draws
near and we are wondering, woA1er-
ing, are we going to have enough
sugar to MAKE any sweets. Some of
our neighbers, thoughtful people,
have been putting by small packages
and "shooing" the home folks away
from it; only when company col
is it served. Some Of the rest Of as
were not wide awake on the subject,
hence we. are wondering.
Mr.. Homer Hamilton took the
measles while in Jacksonville and be-
ing a generous boy brought them
home to the rest of the family Mor-
day.
Little Frank Sellers was quite sick
Sunday and an 0cala physician was
called in. The little fellow is better
at this time.
Mrs. B. j. johnson has been ia
Ocala for the past several days With
her sister, Mrs. Jim Brown, who We
are glad to hear is conyasescing after
spell of typhoid fever.
Ar. B. j. Woods after due delib-
GRAFTON has decided to make Shady
his permanent home. He has bought
small farm on the Shady road and
is putting up neat cottage on It.
Mr.. William Jones was the dinner
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. n. ". Douglas
last Friday at Spring Hill. aBilIy1
| is going to plant more cotton this
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. KnobIock and
little sons of Martin visited MrE.
Knoblock's mother and brothers here
Saturday and Sunday.
We have been having some fine.
bracing weather, the kind that makes
you hate to leave q good fire az night
and hate oh, so bad, to get up IN the
morning, but once you are up vou
can step lively. Wish we could have
more cold weather, not IN spots but
in long lengths, so we could adapt
ourselves to it. We had 4 most re-
freshing rain here and some are pre.
pairing ground for oats and rye and
others are turning ground for spring
planting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nasri have moved to
0eala, where Mr. Nasri win follow
the mercantile business.
Mrs. F. c. Barnes friends regret
to hear she is on the sick list.
We are informed that Rev. r
Strickland viii preach at the Baptiss
church next Sunday, the 10th inst
We hope everyone win 20 Who ean.
/ Mr.. Macon Rutland Of wildwood
was a visitor here a few DAYS AGO
Mr.. Edgar Proctor's Ford 4 seen
hitched near certain cottage on fhe
boulevard frequently lately. eon,is..ss
lover from Pedro.
1 Our school children win anfv hsvs
one week for Christmas which = 49,
! ter for them and relief 10 their 81
Il parents. What with the boVa ana
their guns and the small fry witb
their toys, one is glad the davs are
short and the usual length 81 lie
christmas holidays trimmed.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
.SH|VER|NG IN THE
WINTER STORM
Frost King Will Extend his Domain
Tonight Far Down Into
Southern Florida
ASSOCIATED Pressl

Washington, Dec. 14.-Most of the
country is in the grip of storms and
cold weather today. The northern
part of the country is under cover of
snow almost from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. In the south temperatures
are very low for that section and the
weather bureau predicts a killing
frost as far south as Palm Beach,
Fla, tonight.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
CLYDE LINE WANTS
MORE COIN
Puts Up an Objection to Carrying
Any but First-C1ass
Passengers
ASSOCIATED press)

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE CIyds
Steamship Co. asked the Interstate
Commerce Commission today for au-
thority to cancel its second class and
ateerage passenger rates from New
York to southern ports and parts
fares from New South to the south.
The result would be an increasa II
passenger fares.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
MUCH COMPLAINT FROM LIVE
STOCK MEN

Washington, Dec. 14.-The live
stock interests complained to the In
terstate Commerce Commission today
that because the railroads don't main
tain through rates from producing
packing centers west of the Mississip-
pi river to the southeastern states,
livestock interests are seriously ham
pered and it is impractical to ship
cattle to the southeast for breeding
and fattening purposes, consequently
production is curtaiIed.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the stockholders od
the Mutual Mining Company win be
held at the Office Of the company IL
Ocals, Fla, on Tuesday, December
25th, 1917, noon.
Geo. E. Armstrong, Pres.
Robt. w. Groves, Sec'y.
December 11th, 1917, Ocala. Fla.
11-2t-wed
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
KILLING FROST TONIGHT

The weather forecast today says
there win be killing frost tonight to
the twenty parallel, and it
will be good idea for Ocala folks to
protect their ferns and flowers in ex-
posed places.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
BLOCKED UP BY
THE BLIZZARD
Shamokin, Pa, Mining Coal District,
Completely Smothered
i'm Snow
Associated rressy

Shamokin, Pa, Dec. 14.-Fifteen
thousand miners in this district are
idle today as result of last nights
blizzard Whole train loads of coal
mined Thursday are buried beneath
heavy snow drifts.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
DEATHS AT. CAMP WHEELER

Macon, Dec. 14.-William Taylor.
Company. A, 106th engineers, pneu-
monia- meningitis.
Willie Young, Company K, 121st
infantry, pulmonary tuberculosis.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
CRoZIER AND BAKER CONFLICT

Washington, Dec. 14.-General
CrozieF's examination before the ex-
ecutive session of the Senate commit
tee investigating the conduct of the
war today went into further details
OF the rife and machine gun situa.
ton. Somewhat heated" exchanges
between the witness and members of
the committee are said to have oc-
Cured. Some members are said to
be inclined to attribute. to Crozier the
responsibility for the reduction Of
rifle production.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
COTTON CONSUMPTION

Washington, Dec. Cotton con-
sumption to Nov. was 9O,76S bales,
and for four months 2,278, ,181 bales,
the census bureau announces. The
number of cotton spindles sactive in
November was 38,604, $50.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14

See our line Of MANICURE SETS
before buying your Christmas pres
ents. We can save you money. The
Court Pharmacy. tt
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14

Our genuine Partisan White Ivory
Manicure Sets, Mirrors. Combs and
Brushes are on display. See them.
Anti-Monopely Drug Store. 12-8t
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL
CONTRACTING

When you have plumbing or cleo
trical contracting, let us furnish you
estimates. No job too large and none
too small. If H W. Tucker.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14

Thermos lunch kits or bottles.
Nothing better for Christmas gift.
The Court Pharmacy. tt
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14

Try that famous Jonteel Talcum
Powder. Sold only at Gerig's Drug
tore at 25cts. the can.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14

Chesapeake Bay Oysters received
daily at the Delicatessen Shop. OcaIa
House block. 17-4
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14

Come in and look at that new lot of
Correspondence Cards. Fifty and 75c
values for 29cts. the box. Gerig's
Drug Store.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14
AN INVESTIGATION

Washington, Dec. 14.-A House
subcommittee to investigate the con-
duct of the war by the navy was
created by the naval committee in ex-
ecutive session today. Hearings win
be arranged soon.
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British on the Contrary Claim to Have Made
Advance Toward Bullecourt

Berlin, Dec. 14-British troops, en-
deavoring to recapture trenches they
lost to the east of Bullecourt on the
Cambria front, were beaten back yes
terday, the general staff announces.
On the front in eastern France, the
French artillery fire has increased
BRITISH ADVANCE AT BULLE-
COURT
London, Dec 14.-An official state
ment today says the British troops
improved their position slightly east
of Bullecourt as a result of fighting
in that locality reported in last
nights communication.
AUSTRO-G GERMANS DRIVEN OFF
Washington, Dec. 14.-Austro-Ger-
man operations, aimed at penetration
Of the important coastal region of
the Venetian lagoon in Italy have
been frustrated with heavy losses to
invaders, official dispatches from
Rome announce.
FOUR AMERICANS DEAD
Washington, Dec. 14-General Per-
shing reported to the'war department
four deaths of American soldiers
from natural causes. including Ser
geant Paul Jordan of the quartermas,
ter corps, who died from injuries re-
ssrlting from a motorcycle accident.
Jordan's emergency address was
that of his uncle. Grady Haley. at
Lavonia, Ga.
BOLSHEVIKI BEAT THE DEATH
BATTALION
Petrograd, Thursday, Dec. 13.-
Polsheviki forces have defeated the
death Battalion" near Bielgorod,
where it was fighting with General
Korniloff. Gen. KGledines' forces are
centered in the Orenbarg district,
where General Dutoff has a large
force of Cossacks. There has been
little fighting. 1t is reported that
Kaluga has been taken by the Boil
shevili, after the defeat of the coun-
ter revolutionary death Battalion"
STEAMER SUNK
London, Dec. 14.-The steamer
KurIand has been sunk in collision,
according to Lloyds' announcement.
Steamship records show three steam
ers bearing the name Kurland-one
Belgian and two Russian, all compar-
atively small.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14

Call and inspect our new ina
Madame Grace Corsets The szIe
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-12-14

A beautiful line Of stationery at
THE BOOK SHOP. st
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Service flags, all sizes, THE BOOK
SHOP. st
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Weather Forecast: Fair, con-
tinued cold tonight and Saturday;
killing frost tonight to 9th parallel;
light frost in south portion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

, late, and it keeps me on the rush
all the time"
Certainly 1 do, dear We'u be-
gin with next week and spend more
evenings at home" Helen was
thrilled all over at the thought that
warren was actually proposing
more evenings at home with her.
She had thought that he preferred
evenings out or people coming in
How glad she was now that the
argument had started
All right he rejoined: that
makes a better lookout Now go on
with the story. l really want to
hear it,"
Why it wasn't anything at all,
protested Helen. Il simply thought
that it was awfully characteristic
and rather timely. 1t seems that
this Billie Hunt spent six months at
the border. He belongs to one of
the regiments, so that when the
troops began to be called out again
he was almost afraid to get up in
the morning for fear that he would
betaken away from his wife again.
They have been married only a
year"
Gee! that was tough. But there
must be lots of similar cases." re-
Joined Warren.
the men are proud to be called.
But Billie was hoping that the mar
ried men of his regiment would not
be called until later. Finally the
regiment was called out; and what
do you think-the requirements are
so much more rigid now that he
was rejected physically"
What was the matter?"
Fallen arches, but he was re-
jected, and just as soon as he dis
covered that he was. he felt horribly
ashamed and Inundated, and so did
his wife. What do you think of
that for human nature?"
Pretty good" said Warren.
stretching back in his chair and
lighting n cigar. "Well, what is
the program for tonight? | hope
were not going anywhere"
Helen flushed. I'VE are, dear; we
promised to go down to the
Browns"
e We'll, can you beat that" ex-
ploded Warren. IN bet you made
the date, all right. This is the first
I've heard of it. After this you can
let me know a little bit more about
our engagements | think | am en- !
titled to a little consideration"
(The next installmcnt of this in
teresting series will appear here
sOon).
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The Honeymoon House
By HAZEL DALE

let me tell you something, Karen.
You are going to need all your
strength for the next few weeks.
You are going to work as you have
never worked before. Remember.
you know nothing at all about the
stage, and you must learn every
thing in a months time.
Some men would call me crazy
for thinking you can do it, but L
have confidence in you. I know
you'll make good. But you'll have
to give yourself up to it body and
soul. You'll have to forget every
thing else, because there won't be
room for outside interference. Are
you prepared to do this? To work
and fight and be sensible?"
Karen looked up at his keen,
earnest face, and read his meaning.
OF course, he could not know about
Dick, but he did suspect that some
thing was wrong. His grave eyes
had nothing in their depths that
she might fear to read: apparently
his feelings for her were purely
platonic. Karen longed to be free
from this weakenSs that seemed to
to hold her back when she would
scale the heights of success.
But she would put Dick Arm
strong out of her mind for good
and all. She would make good and
do all that she could to repay this
man who was her friend, and ex-
pected nothing in return for what
he did for her. How could she
know that John Armstrong also
loved her?
ITO he continuedl
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advertising for laborers in the Den
YER newspapers was a few miles up
the river from Brewster.
AS the train swept along on its
way down the grades the valley be-
came more open and the prospect
tory roundings the box car passenger
had a glimpse of a shack built con-
struction camp on the rivers mar
gin some distance on ahead. A con-
crete dam was rising in sections out
of the river. and dominating the
dam and the shacks two steel tow
ers, with a carrying cable stretched
between them. formed the piers of
the actual spout conveyer for the
placing of the material in the forms.
The train made no stop at the con-
struction siding, but mile farther
along the brakes began to grind and
the speed was slackened. Sliding the
car door another foot or two, the
young tramp with the week-old stub
BILE beard on his face leaned out 20
look ahead. His opportunity was at
hand. A block semaphore was turn
ed against the freight and the train
was slowing in obedience to the sig
nal, the tramp put his shoulder to
the sliding door. sat for a moment
in the wider opening, and then
swung off.
His alighting was upon one of the
embankments. To the
westward, where the curVing rail
road track was lost in the farther
of the river, lay the little
intermountain city of Brewster, a
few of it's higher buildings showing
clear-cut in the distance. Paralleling
the railroad, on a lower level and
nearer the river, a dusty wagon road
pointed in one direction toward the
town, and in the other toward the
camp.
Ito Be Continued)
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for him to make any reasonable de-
fense.
With one glance over his shoulder
at the darkened front windows of
the bank, Smith began to run, not
toward the police station, but in the
opposite direction-toward the rail-
road station.
For j. Montague Smith. slipping
from shadow to shadow down the
scantily lighted cross street and list
ening momentarily for the footballs
of pursuit, a new hour had struck.
1t was all prodigiously incredible.
The crowding sensations were ter
rifying, but they were also precious.
in their way. Long forgotten bits of
brutality and tyranny on Watrous
Dunham's part came up to be re
membered and, in this retributive
aftermath, to be triumphantly cross
ed off as items in an account finally
settled. on the Smith side the bank
cashiers forebears had been plod-
ding farmers, but old John Mon
tague had been the village black
smith and a soldier-a shrewd Smit-
er in both trades. Blood will tell.
Parental implantings may have much
to say to the fruit of the womb, but
atavism has more. Smiths jaw came
up with a snap. He was no longer an
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. unit in the ranks
of the respectable and the well-be-
haVed; he was a man fleeing for
his life. What was done was done,
and the next thing to do was to avert
the consequences.
At the railroad station a few early
comers for the west-bound passenger
train due at ten o'clock were already
gathering, and at the bidding of a
certain new and militant craftiness
Smith avoided the lighted waiting
rooms as if they had been pushed up
from the freight-unloading platforms
recently, and in the shadow of the
cars he worked his way westward to
the yard where a night switching
crew was making up a train.
Keeping to the shadows, he walk
ed back along the line of cars on the
makeup track, alertly seeking his
opportunity. Halfway down the
length of the train he found what
he was looking for; box car with
its sidedoor hasped but not locked.
With a bit of stick to lengthen his
reach, he unfastened the hasp, and
at the switching crews addition of
another car to the makeup" he
took advantage of the noise made
by the jangling crash and slid the
door. Then he ascertained by CROP
ing into the dark interior that the
car was empty. With a foot on the
truss-rod he climbed in, and at the
next coupling crash closed the door.
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Ito be continued)
Sauce For Vegetables

When vegetables are expensive it is
often an advantage to help them out"
with some sort of sauce. Yet one
grows rather tired of the eternal ap-
propriate sauces that you will find
1t to your advantage to use with veg
etables from time to time:
Nut Gravy-This is especially good
when used with rather tasteless veg
etables. Melt a teaspoonful of butter
without browning and add two table
spoonfuls of ground walnuts or any
other sort of nuts you have on hand.
Now cut a small onion into small
pieces and add it and fry all to a light
brown. stir in slowly one tablespoon
full of -four and add one cupful or less
of hot water, a little at a time. A lit
tie meat extract or stock may be add
ed. Season with pepper and salt and
serve poured over the vegetables.
Graham Sauce-Rub u tablespoon
fuls of graham flour with half table
spoonful of butter till smooth. Add a
half cupful of milk and stir over the
fire till smooth and creamy. Boil for
five minutes. season to taste and pour
over carrots or other boiled vege-
tables.
Green Sauce-Green sauce is not
only toothsome but very attractive to
see as well. Wash and cut up fine a
little parsley. chive tops and borage,
If you have them. Make ready a thin
white sauce and add the greens. This
is delicious with lima beans or cream
ed potatoes.
Horseradish Sauce-To make this
make the usual thin white sauce,
When 1t has been cooked for five min
utes add grated horseradish in vinegar
in the proportion of one tablespoons
full of the horseradish and vinegar to
one cupful of the white sauce. This
is also excellent on boiled beef. 1t is
very good with plain boiled potatoes
when served with any sort of boiled
meat.
Celery Sauce-This calls for celery
washed, cut up and boiled tender as
for celery soup, excepting that the
least water possible should be used.
When tender rub through a sieve.
This celery pulp should be put back in
the water in which the celery has
been cooked. and placed in a small
saucepan. Add a little melted butter.
salt and peper and serve with carrots.
oyster plant, potatoes or boiled greensJ
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CHAPTER III.
Thn EioIa Hills

The Nevada through freight was
two hours late issuing from the west
ern portal of Timanyoni canon.
Through the early mountain climb
ing hours of the night and the later
flight across the Red desert, the
dusty, travel-grimed young fellow
in the empty box car midway of the
train had slept soundly, with the
hard car floor for a bed and his fold
ed coat for pillow. But the sudden
cessation of the crash and roar of
the shut-in mountain passage awoke
him and he got up to open the door
and look out.
1t was still no later than a lazy
mans breakfast time, and the May
morning was perfect. Over the top
of the eastern range the sun was
looking, level-rayed. into a parked
valley bounded on all sides by high
nearer reaches the valley was dotted
others dark with mountain pine and
fir.
From the outer loopings of the
curves, the young tramp at the car
door had momentary glimpses of the
Timanyoni, a mountain torrent in its
canon, and the swifteSt of upland
rivers even here where it had the
valley in which to expand. A Copah
switchman had told him that the
railroad division town of Brewster
Law at the end of the nights run, in
a river valley beyond the eastern
and that the situation
of the irrigation project which. was
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face and in the staring eyes there
was foolish smile, as of one mildly
astonished. Smith loosened the collar
around the thick neck and laid his
ear upon the spot where the blow
had fallen. The big mans heart had
stopped like a smashed clock.
Smith got upon his feet, turned off
the electric light, and, from mere
force of habit, closed and snap-locll-
cd the presidents desk. The watch
man had not yet returned. Smith saw
the empty chair beside the door as
he passed it on his way to the street
The cashiers only thought was to so
at once to police headquarters and
give himself up. Then he remember
ed how carefully the trap had been
set. and how impossible it would be