Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 17, 1913, Page 2

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MARSHALL CONTRACTO AnND BUILDER WATl furnish plans and spesifications or will fellow any plans and spesifientions furnished SUNGALOWS A SPECIALTY. m’-‘uin you oomé Lakelsad hores 1 pave Wrily LAKELAND, Phone 267-Oreen, FLORIDA mm«mw BSOS #Wfi‘mfifi-m&»_‘) PR A THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK FLAND, FLA., APRIL 17, 1913, east tracks. A startled cry escaped o her lips. The white clear signal was not visible. It had been changed to the red stop signal. Esther sprang to the scmaphore levers. H | “The wires are cut!” she gasped, 'white and trembling and almost over ~me. v.ithin fifteen minutes the Night r‘}or o due. The siznal to ccme ‘on wa t. and sh» could not change i*. The ea.t signal had becn tam- pered with. 1he Flyer would not dis- cover tuls until i*s engineer had pass. “You are not afr.id, Esther?” ed the tow r. Tie train wou'd halt “Not a particle, Nettie. Why should ;o004 the evrve at a deserted spot, (I be? This is not my first time o0 445900 of any immediate help, . duiy here, you know.” i “Train robbers!” bresthed F:die!‘. “Yes, but at nizht, and all by JoUr- sonase “What shall I d»?" gelf! I should thmk you would dle‘ She imagined the Night Flyer at { with lenesomeness.” !the mercy of lawless, armed bandirs. “What! With your dear brother poyor olanced at the clock. In six [Faul to think of? Why, Nettle, Just 'y, ioq tne fastest train on the Cen- imagine it—he may be a passenger ...} Northern would come dashing : on the very train I send speeding t0 gown the rails; She could see one of the city at midnight.” the men in half view, as if his special = j Esther Manning mounted the irom | ioeion was to prevent her from fn- ' ladder leading to the track toWer,|iorforing with his nefarious plans. | kalt a mile from the nearest house Esther summoned all her innate % of a small scattered settlement, bravery and good sense. In one cor | ‘; Her father had been dispatcher at | por of'the tower room stood a repeat- | ;' Tower 10 for fifteen years, and befove Ing rifie, a part of the furnishment of that in other emiloyment with the |y’ jaciated stations along the line. Central Northern. He was something | yien pride and nerve she reea“cd of an invalid, and in one month would | gome of her past proficlency in arch. .. be due for honorable retirement from |ory ghe threw up a west window, f . the service and a pension, It nothing ooy gim at the semaphore, and fired. . | happened to spofl his record. During | Ng pesult. Again—and there was : the past year, while not teaching|y crash, She had shot out the white ' AT KER FOST OF DUTY F roic Menrer in Which Girl < ! Telegrapaer Foiled Band of Ticin Robbers. MARION LOWTZLL LIVINGSTON. R DRSSy~ oty - e We Won’t Sacrifice Quality but we are always studying how t Increase The Quantity We give the *“most now but we are anxious echool, his helpful daughter, Estber, kad learned telegraphy and had famil- iarized herself with all the details of her father's work. The night shift, with its chill mists and tiresorae treadmill system, had been a hard- hip to old Mr. Manning. He was par ticularly indisposed this particular cvening, and Esther had insisted on ceting as his substitute, She was engaged to Paul Reynolis, vho had been for a year in the west *nd was expected home daily. His ister had accormra~ied Fsthor to the ‘ower, as notéc. ‘the luter waited till Bruce Valle! e, the d v o' erator. vas relieved by »..iice, Thea the two walked away, leaving Esther alone at “er post of duty in the gathering dusk. Tower 10 commanded the wires west thirty miles to Lyons Junction, and east past the dangerous curves and trestles of the next section, The track inspection patrol reported from that branch shortly after dark. Then Esther saw an accommodation through to the east, and by nine o'clock two fnl;htl in the cpposite direction. Everything was now trim and tidy oa She Had Shot Out the White Light Signal. the schedules. She had only the Nigh Flyer to take care of, due at 13:08.! That crack train of the road usually ' went through clean Esther had to look out orders from a mile distant where the big curve began was the east semaphore. She noted that the go-ahead white light showed. Some occasional messages went over the wires, but no call for Tower 10 through the ensuing hour. “Now for a comfortable resting spell.” reflected Esther; but the rest- | ing spell merged into a reading, and ,nmn into a thinking spell. It was | pleasant to realize that she was doing her duty and helping her father; it { was still more so to anticipate the home comiag of Paul Reynolds. He { had written a glowing account of his success as a gold miner, hinting at a comfortable nest ezgg, and telling Esther to keep her eyes open for a | neat little cottage, big enoush, though, | to shelter “father,” as well as them- ! selves. | Esther roused from her day dream reverie with something of a shock. Very suddenly the trap door in the floor was given a great push, as if from a man’s strong shoulder. Fsther had taken the precaution to boit it. She heard a mufied ejaculation of disappointment. Warned—more, alarm- ed—Esther sprang up quickly and | threw the tin shade over the lamp on | the operator’s table, She ran to the window and glanccd down. It was just in time to see & : lurking form steal from thc tower { base and slink over behind the cattle | pens. Hero he was joined by two ;men. They seemed to converse ani- Imntedly Two of them leaped into | the ditch at the side of the tracks and started In the direction of the 'east semaphore. The thid man 1 stood half concealed by a great frame ; filled with hay used in the cattle pens. | Esther wondered what these suspi- |clous movements betokened. Just | thea she chanced to glance down the light signal! stance! A second rapid suggestion came to her mind. and she ran for a corner where a big bundle of red fire signal ' ~ fuses lay. | Carrying these to the table, she se- |, lected one. Drawing the screen from 3 the lamp, she flared the cnd of the . fusee and gave it a fling. It landed, hissing and sputtering, amid the loose hay near the cattle pens. In an in- & 'nt th» mass burst into flames Une til the bundle wes exiausted zhe jit 't was not only 4 anc Lurlel fucecs. a grand beacon, the blazing hay, but the glare spread red and warningly across the £ky. | Bang—bar.g—bang! A hail of bul- lets from the revoiver of the man left s on suard rattled across the crashing windows of the tower. ed down the rails in search of his companions, ' Up dashed the Night Fiyer. Esther was down from the tower, rifie in' band, a figure heroic as the train came to a stop and its crew surround- | ed her. In an instaut an armed party I was made up, proceeding to the east ! u.mmmnm wild western fashion—the train which carried ia its express car over half a million ia currency. The leader of the {investigating STOUp Was & young man from the west —Esther's lover. When the Night Flyer resumed its run, Paul Reynolds came back to the tower to greet the brave girl soon to become his wite. The rallroad company did some thing more than pension old Mr. Man- ning. They sent Esther a substantial | wedding present as a reward for her ' heroic efforts in saving the Night. Flyer. : (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) | 1 HE WAS A REAL ENTHUSIAST What the Great American Natlml Game Did for One Ardent anlo. He had turned away from the front ‘o( & newspaper office, when he found & man at his elbow smiling l! hlm. | and, after a feeling of anger, he | omiled, and sald: q “1 see you have got on my curve. ! Yes, I turned aside to look at the baseball score, forgetting games were over for the Foree of habit, you know. M do ing the same thing for months and months.” | “You were an enthusiast?” mmlod the other. “Say, I lived on it? I ate and slept with it. Every morning I made a bet and every evening I found I had lost it. When the gcames began last spring I had a hundred friends. When they closed I hadn’t one. I had called them all liars and horse thieves over base | ball, and they couldn': stand it.” “It gets in the blood.” “You bet. T couldn't think of any- thing but baseball all day, and at night 1 dreamed of it, and cried out in my sleep. My wife refused to dis- cuss the game, and the relations be- tween us were strained. Our servant girl refused to argue. and I discharged her. M« fatherinlaw said there was 00 gaw. like poker, and I insulted | him. On Sunday, when there was no | game, the day seemed a week long ' to me. The boss offered to raise my wages five dollars a week if I would | cut it out, and I told him he was no | patriot.” “But it's all over now.” “Yes, and I'm glad of it. In another month I can get over thinking about it and turn to something else, and be- fore the winter is over perhaps I can get interested in Shakespeare or his- | tory again. I may have to. get out | into the back yard and yell now and | then as a safety valve, but I shall do | it as gently as I can, and without | threatening to knock the other hl- low’s head oft.” ——— Unusual Way, “A thief's way ousht certainly bi confound a mathematician.” “Why so?” “Because the thief multiplies by subtracting.” Surely the Night Fiyer | ! would take some heed of this circum- | * Then he dart- '} g x OM:WMKWW” g DeREE SIEAM PRESSING CLLB and MANN PLUMBING CO, Lecies Wcrl\ Al Work" Called For erc Deliveree Prompt’Service§ Satisfaction Guarenteed. la N. Kentucky Ave. more. Phone us and|prove it. Peat Buttor, per pound . ... . Sugar, 16 pounds ... Cottolene, 10 pound pails Cotlulene, 4 pound pails. Srowdrift, 30-pounl pull e A e 3 cans family size Crea 6 cans baby size Crean: 1-2 barrel best Flour. ... 12 pounds best Florr. Picnic Hams, per pcand ., . . ... Cudaby's Uncaavassed daas Octagon Soap, 8 for.. ... 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