Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 22, 1912, Page 6

By MORGAN If your home or business office were to burn up or be looted by a burglar WOULD YOU NOT LOSE VALUABLE PAPERS? Is it not careless for you tc longer put oc coming to us and FoE .enting a private box in our absolutely fire and burglar proof safety - b deposit vaults? | G E | i Our rent for a private box is only $1 and up for a wholeyear. Tl ¥ ‘ OF LAKELAND 9 4 Under Control of U. 8. Government 3 KEEP OUT THE FLIES ::. | ' ad of trying to drive them out ! .; 2 or kill them. It is very much casler. Y I : The way to do it is to come here at {1t once and buy the window screens and : i screen doors you will have to have| ! sootier or later anyway. Put them in “ at once and =ave yourself trouble, 1 ii annoyancy and discomfort El lakeland Ilardwarc & I’lumhmg (;o . R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Will furnish plans and specifications or will follow any plans and specifications furnished. BUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. 1 Let me show you some Lakeland homes I liave built, LAKELAND, Phone 267-Green. FLORIDA 1 THE VERY BEST WHEAT 13 | only is used to make the flonr which gees into our bread. And the \or,\'| best methods only are cmployed to produce both the flour and the bread. You'll like the looks of our bread TR when you see it. You'll like its taste still better when you try it 1he Modern Bakery Barhite Brothers is with her husband and chi! The great steamer unsinkable, E | Rowland, once a lic mon sailor, meets Lis old I . She The Titan cuts i captain enden 1o conce land obje The capta so that he wil ccuses him of att, 1 by the captain's er- E rd bridge 2o kou © himself. Myra' ecals away and juins Row- land v CHAPTER IV. The Titan and the lceberg, ORTY-FIVE thousand tons, dead weizht, rushing through B the f at the rate of fifty SW®) et o second. hud hurled it self at an icebe.g. Had the impaet been received 1 perpendicular wall the elastic re: ce of bending plates and frame would have overcome the | momentum with no more damage to the passengers than a severe shaking up and to the ship than the crushing fn of her bows and the killing, to a man, of the watch Lelow. she would have backed off aud. slightly down by the head, finished the voyage at re- duced speed, to rebuiid on insurance money and benetit larzely in the end by the consequent advertising of her indestructibility. Bt a low beach, possibly formed by the recent over- turning of the berzo received the Titan, and with her I\uil cutting the fee like the steel runner of an iceboat and her 1t weizht resting on the starboard bilze she rose out of the gen, higher r, until the pro- pellers in the half exposed: then, meet noensv, spiral rise in the ice uiler her port bow, she heeled, overbalanced wad erashed down on her side to stabonrd The holdiuz down bolts of twelve boilers and three trinle expansion en- gines, unintended 1o hold such weights from a perpendicnar tooring. snapped, and down throngh o maze of ladders. grating and fore and ait hulkhends came these giant wasses ol steel and ron, |v\|n< turing the sides of the ship, Ko lild, resisting ine and boiler steam, which tortured death 1 men on duty in went roar of eseaping fee, and i rooms with brought a quick .h [ to each of the the enzineer’s dv Amid the terrifying steam and the beelike buzzing of nearly 8000 hifnun vores, raised in agonized awd cadiings from within the inclosing anl the whisting of air thronzh hundreds of open deadlizhts as the water, entering the loles of the crushed and riven starboard side, expelled it, the Titan moved slowly b ard and launched herself into the , where she floated low on her side dying monster, groaning with he h wound. A solid. pyramid-dike hummock of fee, left to starboard as the steamer ascended, and which projected close alongside the upper or boat deck she fell o had ¢ ht in s sion every pair of davits to starbos bending and wrenching ing boats and snapping tackles and serentns walls, them, swash- gripes, until, as the ship cleared her- self, it capped the pile of wreckage strewing the ice in front of around it with the emd and broken stanchions of the bridg And in this shattered, box-like structure, ‘the sweeping fall throngl seventy foot radius, crouched Row- land, bleeding from a cut in his head and still holding to his breast the little girl, now too frightened to cry. By an effort of will he arcused him- self and lovked. To his eyesight, twisted and fixed to a shorter focus by the drug he had taken, the steauship was little more ihan a bloteh on the moon whitened fog, yet he thought — | he could see men clambering and working on the upper davits, and the nearest boat—No. 24—secmed to e of Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are exercising great care to sell our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wido streets, shade trees, fertile sail, building restrictions, Inside the city, one block east from Lake Mor- ton. SMITH & STEITZ ad G. C. ROGAN Deen-Bryant Building. Whatever you want in rea lestate. we have it A A - W 58 s e TN B be swinging by the tackles. Then the ltog shut her out, though her position was still indicated by the roaring of steam from her {iron lungs. Thie ceased in time, leaving behind it the borrid humming sound and whistling of air, and when this, too, was suddenly hushed and the ensuing silence broken by dull, booming reports. as from bursting compartments, Rowland knew that the holocaust was complete: that the invincible Titan, with neary all of her people, unable to climb vertieal floors and ceilings, was beneath the surface of the sea, Mechanically his benumbed faculties had received and recorded the imjpres- sfons of the last few mome could not comprelend to the full horror of it all. Yet his ming keenly alive to the peril of the w whose appealing voice he had and recognized—the wom dream and the mother of ¢ his arms. e hastily wreckage. Not a boat was Creeping down to the waters o hailed. with all the power of 1 voice. to possible t invis bevound the fog. calling to the and save the child, to look « woman who had been on d the bridge. He shouted this woman's Dame—the one that he knew—encour- aging her to swim, to tread w iter, to float on wreckage and to e boats 110 come it for a K. under er him uutil_he came to_her. Jhere was no | THEWRECK OF THE TITAN to mur- | and | " | with him there—deserted. © | Rowland, THE POPULARITY OF IN. MAN BLUNT (1g4p is not due to their price by; -, Leir quality. Many men who f,-. paid a nickel more for thejy * now prefer the Inman BIy e ROBERTSON count of the splendid they afford. Not to try is : treat. ten NS T voice “had 1 futile and his fect 1d of the thawing ice, th the wreckage, weighed 11 but erushed by the black- liad so far come into The little girl was to soothe her. she wailed. Le answered “So do I—more than heaven. Bat 1 think our chances are abont even now. Are you cold, lit- | tle one* We'll go inside and I'll make a house for us.” He removed his coat, tenderly wrapped the little figure In it and’ with tl.» injunction, “Don't be afraid, now,” placed her in the corner of the bridge. which rested on its forward side. As he did so the bottle of whisky fell out of the pocket. It seemed an age since he had found it there, and it required » strong effort of reasoning before he remembered its full signiti- cance. Then he raised it to burl it down the incline of ice, but stopped himself. “I'll keep it.” he muttered. “It may. be safe in small quantities, and we'll need it on this ice.” [e placed it in a corner: then, removing the canvas cover from one of the wrecked boats, he hung it over the open side and end of the bridge, crawled within and donned his coat—a ready made, slop chest garment designed for a larger man—and, buttoning it around him- self and the little girl, lay down on the hard woodwork. She was still ery- ing, but soon, under the influence of the warmth of his body, ceased and went to sleep. Huddled in a corner, he gave himselt up to the torment of his thoughts Two pictures alternately crowded his mind—one that of the woman of his dream entreating him to- come back, Inman Cigar Factory Lfl Phone 233 Red down est ¢ his You Can’t Enjoy Your Vacation Without a Kodak You will always have PICTURES to remind you of those hapy; days. Baby pictures taken now will be a great pleasure ten y..: from now. CENTRAL PHAR MACY ; Qulck Servuce Dhono 25 DOUBLY DAINTY is the stght of a pretty gir buying a box of our confectionery. The g and the candy match eaeh other per- feetly in daintiness and sweetnes, Such a scene may often be scen here for our candies appeal to those o Gainty taste, It's surprising :ny you have not yet tried them. O. which his memory clung to as an ora- M A Ps B LUE PR I NTb ‘ cle; the other of this woman cold and wd lifeless fathoms deep in the sea. [le pondered on her chances. She was close to or on the bridge steps. The Maps of any description compiled on short boat, 24, which he was almost sure was being cleared away as he looked, would swing close to her as it descended. She could elimb in and be saved unless the swimmers from doors and hatches should swamp the boat. And in his agony of mind he cursed these swim- mers, preferring to sce her mentally the only passenger in the boat, with the watch on deck to pull her to safety The potent drug he had taken was still at work, and this, with the mu. slcal swash of the sea on the fey be;lt‘h and the mutlled creaking and crackling beneath and around him—the voice of the iceberg—overcame him finally, and he slept to waken at daylight with limbs stiffened and numb—almost fro- zen, And all night as he slept a boat with the No. 2¢ on her bow, pulled by sturdy sailors and steered by brass buttoned ofticers, was making for the southern lane—the highway of spring traflic. And crouched in the stern- sheets of this boat was a moaning, praying woman, who cried and scream- | ed at intervals for husband and baby jand woull not be comforted, even | When one of the brass buttoned officers assured her that Ler child was safe in the care of John Rowland, a brave and | trusty sailor, who was certainly in the other boat with it. e did not tell her, | of course, that Rowland had hailed from the berg as she lay unconscious aud that if he still had the child it was notice, Special atteniion given to compiling city, display and advertising maps. County and State maps kept on hand. Chemically prepared, non-fading blue prints at res. sonable rates. Speclal rates for prints in large quantities, Prompt attention given mail orders. South Florida Map and Blueprint Co. Room 213-215 Drane Building unuxn m | C00L AIR FOR sl NOT HOT AIR Dest Oscilating and Ceiling fans. All sizes at the right prices. A complete line of Electric Irons that are Hot Stuff. A classy lin of Electric Cook Stoves that “cookum sum,” and all the Necessary Electric Appliances to convenience and beautify the home at & — price that is reasonable encugh for all to be haa. with some wisgivings, drank a small quantity of the liquor and, wrapping the still sleeping child in the coat, stepped out on the ice. The fog was goune, and a blue, sallless sea stretched out to the horizon. Behind bim was ice-a mountain of it. He climbed the elevation and looked at another stretch of vacant view from a precipice a hundred feet high. To his left the ice sloped to a steeper beach than the one behind him, and to the right a pile of hummocks and hller peaks, interspersed with numerous can- yous and caves and glistening wlth waterfalls, shut out the horizon in this direction. Nowhere was there a satl or steamer’s smoke to cheer him, and he retraced his steps. When but half- way to the wreckage he saw a moving white object approaching from the di- rection of the peaks. FLORIDA ELECTRIC & MACHINERY:CO. DRANE BUILDING PHONEZ298 We Always PLEASE Our l’atrmis We keep everything to be found in an up-to-date book store, azd His eyes were not yet in good condi- will be pleased to wait on you. tion, and after an uncertain scrutiny Laki he started at a run, for he saw that eland Souvenirs, the Latest Books, and All the Popular Magi the mysterious white object was near- zines, er the bridge than himself and rapidly lessening the distance. A hundred yards away his heart bounded and the blood in his veins felt cold as the ice under foot, for the white object proved to be a traveler from the frozen north, lean and famished—a polar bear, who bad scented food and was seeking 1t— coming on at a lumbering run, with great red jaws half open and yellow fangs exposed Rowland had no weap- on but a strong jackknife, but this he pulled from his pocket and opened as be ran. Not for an instant did he hesi- tate at a conflict that promised almost certain death, for the presence of this bear Involved the safety of a child whose life had become of more im- portance to him than his own. To his | horror, he saw it creep out of the opening in its white covering, just as | the bear turmed the corner of the bridge. “Go back, baby, g0 back!™ be shout- el as he bonnded down the slope " (Continued on Page 7.) LakelandBookStore . Otis Hun erford Building Contractor Twenty years’ experience, firge-08 work. Your Interests are m! me figure on your building. tmall. A postal will recelvs attention. Lock Box 418, or Phone ¥ & Lakeland, Fls.