Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 23, 1912, Page 6

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THE VERY BEST WHEAT goes into our bread. And the ver best methods only are employed t still better when you try fit. Live Where You Will Like Your Neighbors We are cuercising great care to soll our ROSEDALE lots only to the best class of people. Thus we give you desirable neighbors in addition to ROSEDALE'S other attratcions. Wide strects, shade trees, fertile sall, 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. I ——————_ R only is used to make the flour which You'll like the looks of our bread d¥ra too. The Modern Bakery Barhite Brothers! Thre great steamer Ti unsinkable, starts a« and, once lieuter ilor, meets his old | men is with her husband and ct . The captain he will b s him of attem land The Titan strikes an iceherg and sinks. Thousands are lost. Myra e in e boat. Rowland and the enild tind refuge on the icebers. He loses an arm in a fight with a polar bear, CHAPTER V. Marooned on an Iceberg. ITH fucid intervals, during whi'h Le replenished or re built the tire. cooked the bear meat and fed and dressed | the wounds of the child, this deliriun | lasted three days His sullering was ;lm(-nse. His arm. the seat of throb ' bing pain, had swollen to twice the patural size. while his side prevented his taking a full treath voluntarily. He had paid no attention to his own hurts, and it was either the vigor of a constitution that vears of dissipation | had not impaired or some anti-febrile property of the bear meat or the ab sence of the exciting whisky that won the battle. e rekindled the five with his last mateh on the evening of the third day and looked around the dark ening horizon. sane. but feeble in body ' and mind i If a sail had appenred in the interim he had not seen it, nor wius there one [ {n sight now. Too weak to climb the slope, he returned to the boat, where the child. exhiusted from fruitless cry fng, was now slecping His unskillful and rather heroie manner of wreapping it up to protect it from cold had no doubt contributed larzely to the clos Ing of itx wounds by forcibly keeping It still, thouzh it must have added largely to its present sutterings. e looked for a wmoment on the win, tear stained ditte face. with its fringe of tangled curls peeping above the wrappings of canvas, and, stooping hmlnfully down, Kissed it softly, but the kiss awakened it, and it eried for its mother. Tie conld not soothe it. nor could he try, and with a formless, wordless curse against destiny welling up from his heart he left it and sat down on the wreckage at some dis tance away. “We'll very likely get well™ he mused gloomily, “nnless | let the fire go out. What then? We can't last longer than the berg and not much longer than the bear. \We must be out of the tracks. - We were about 900 miles out when we struck, and the current sticks to the fog belt here- about west-sou'west—but that's the surface water. These deep fellows have currents of their own, There's no fog. We must be to the southward of the belt—between the lanes. They'll run their boats in the other lane after this, 1 think—the money grabbing wretches. Curse them if they've drowned her. Curse them, with their water tight compartments and their logging of the lookouts. Twenty-four boats for 3.000 people, lashed down with tarred gripe lashings, thirty men to clear them away and not an ax on y | the boat deck or a sheath knife on a map. Could she have got away? If ol they got that boat down they might have taken her in from the steps, and produce both the flour and the bread. |the mate koew I had her chiid. Ile would tell her. Her name must be It was her voice 1 heard in that dream. That was hasheesh. when you see it. You'll like its tulel What did they drug me for? iut the whisky was all right. It's all done with now unmless I get ashore, but will I?” The moon rose above the castellated structure to the left, fooding the fcy beach with ashen gray light, sparkling in a thousand points from the cas- cades, streams and rippling pools, throwing into blackest shadow the gul lies and hollows and bringing to his mind in spite of the weird hoauty of the scene a crushing sense of loneli- ness—of littleness—as though the vast plle of inorganic desolation wuich held him was of far greater iwportance than himself and all the hopes, plans and fears of his lifetime. jue child "HE EVENING [ELEGRAM LAK ELAXD, FLA., MAY 23, 1912 L acrocanic, | swered ut the moment. { the stars above any number of billions. ttat impels the elvilized man to o churches, that has kept in existence from the beginning a class ) S0 vors, medicine men, wd 1nd fe 104 low ted by themselves? i wand people pray—millions of them _and cliim they are answered. Are thev? Was ever supplication sent into rh:.i sty by tronbied bumapity ap- swered or even heard? Who knows? They pray for rain and sunshine, and both come in time. They pray for aealth aud suceess, and both are but |4 aatural in the marching of events not evidence. Put they say that they kuow, by spiritual uplifting, that (hey are heard and comforted and an- Is not this a physiolozical experiment? Would they pot feel equally tranquil if they re- peated the multiplication table or box- ed the compass? “Millions have believed . this—that prayers are answered—and these mil- lions have prayed to different gods. Were they all wrong or all right? Would a tentative prayer be listened to? Admitting that the Bibles and Korans and Vedas are misleading and unrelinble, may there not be an un- seen, unknown being who knows my emvslo~ “Bark ahoy! Bark ahoy! Take us oft!"” heart, who is watching me now? If so, this being gave me my reasom, which doubts him, and on him Is the responsibility. And would this being, it he exists, overlook a defeet for which I am not to blame and listen to a prayer from me based on the mere chance that I might be mistaken? Can an unbeliever, in the fuil strength of his reasoning powers, come to such trouble that kre can no longer stand alote, but must cry for help to an Ima; ned power? Can such time come to a sane man—to me?" He looked at the dark line of vacaut horizon. It was seven miles away; New York was 900, the moon in the east over 200,000 and He was alone with a sleeping child, a dead bear and the unknown. He walked softly to the boat and looked at the little one for a moment; then, raising his bead, he whispered, “Ior you, Myra.” Sinking to bis knees, the atheist lift- od his eyes to the heavens and with his feedle voice and the fervor born of helplessness prayed to the God that he denled. He begged for the life of the walf in his care, for the safety of the motber, 50 needful to the little one, and for courage and strength to do his. part and bring them together. But be yond the appeal for help in the service of others not one word or expressed thought of his prayer included himself as a beneficiary. So much for pride. As he rose to his feet the fiying Jib of a bark appeared around the corner of fce to the right of the beach, and a mo ment later the whole fabric came into view, wafted along by the faint westerly ale, not half a mile away. He sprang to the fire, forgetting his pain, and, throwing on wood, made a blaze. He hafled in a frenzy of excite- bad cried itself to sleep agaiu. and he | ment, “Bark ahoy! Bark ahoy! Take paced up and down the ice us off™ And a deep toned answer “Up there,” he sald moudily, jooking | came across the water. fnto the sky, where a few stirs shone| *“Wake up, Myra,” he cried as be faintly in the flood frow ti: moon— | lifted the child. “Wake up. We're go- “up there —somewhere — v don't | ing away.” know just where—but sci.where up| *“We goin' to mamma? she asked. above, Is the Christians’ hoovon, Up | with no symptoms of crying. there is their good God. wh hisplaced | “Yes, we're golng to mamma now— Myra's child bere—their &4 God— | that 1s,” he added to himself, “if that and down below us, sou o again, i clause In the prayer is considered.” are their bell and their Lo ., whom | Fifteen minutes later, as he watched they fnvented themiseires yyg they | the approach of a white quarter boat. glve us our choice—beas. or pell. It ' he muttered: “That bark was there, fs not so—not so. The .rur mystery | half a mile back in this wind, before 1 is not solved. The hu: cart is not | thought of praying. Is that prayer an- helped in this way. No _. 1 perciful | swered? Is she safe?” God mn‘(ed this word ts condi . . . . . . . bbb iture of | On the first floor of the London Royal the causes at work 1. vision, one fact is ind proved - that the qualities of & :ded 3 coodness, | Justice, play no part cernment echeme. And yet they - all religions ou eart L\;?:: ;,‘: this. Is it, or is it ¢ vardly, bu man fear of the uuk the savage motheg i tuat impels * hgrluabe : meutal | Exchange is a large apartment studded | with desks, around and between which surges a hurrying. shouting crowd of brokers, clerks and messengers. Fring- ing this apartment are doors and ball- ways leading to adjacent rooms and of- fices, and scattered through it are bul- Jetin boards, on which are daily writ- (Continued on Page 7.) ey Phone . priests | \. all living on the hopes 1233 Red THE POPULARITY OF IN. MAN BLUNT CIC—;,RS is-not due to tkeir price 1. quality. Mapy men who . 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