Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 14, 1913, Page 2

THE EVENING TELEGRAM AT HER POST OF DUTY Heroic Manner in Which Girl Telegrapher Foiled Band of Train Robbers. MARION LOWELL LIVINGSTON. “You are not afraid, Esther?” “Not a particle, Nettie. Why should I be? This is not my first time on duty here, you know.” “Yes, but at night, and all by your self! I should think you would die with lonesomeness.” “What! With your dear brother Paul to think of? Why, Nettle, just imagine it—he may be a passenger on the very train I send speeding to the city at midnight.” Esther Manning mounted the iron ladder leading to the track tower, half a mile from the nearest house of a small scattered settlement. Her father had been dispatcher at Tower 10 for fifteen years, and befcve that in other employment with the Central Northern. He was something of an invalid, and in one month would be due for honorable retirement from the service and a pension, if nothing happened to spoil his record. During the past year, while not teaching school, his helpful daughter, Esther, had learned telegraphy and had famil- farized 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- ship to old Mr. Manning. He was par ticularly indisposed this particular evening, and Esther had insisted on acting as his substitute. She was engaged to Paul Reynolds, who had been for a year in the west and was expected home daily. His sister had accompanied Esther to the tower, as noted. The latter waited till Bruce Vallette, the day operator, was relieved by Esther, Then the two walked away, leaving Esther alone at her 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 freights in the ocpposite direction. Everything was now trim and tidy on v, g -fi,/. ; 4 Perhaps a burglar or a fire has not invaded your home, but if they should, they would get all of your money and valuables. Do not be one of those who lock the stable after the horse is gone, but put your money where preparations havé been made for protecting it, not only from fire and burglary, but from your own extrava- gance. It will be SAFE in our batk. Do YOUR banking with US.l"‘E!'l\-_‘») First National Bank OF LAKELAND Long Life of Linen elong with good laundry werk is what you are looking for and that is just whay we are giving. Try w. Lakeland Steam Laundry Phone 130. West Main Bt MANY HAVE SEEN The Accumulation of a Life Time SWEPT AWAY In One Short Hour FIRE A Fire Insu- rance Policy a Beneficent Restorer! HAVE YOU ONE? Y. Z. MAN L ek Sed Tal Sal et Sul SR te L del qul jal Jul g Lud FURNISH YOU @& THE is a Ruthless Destroyer! e orders from either end of the line. Raymondo Bldg. Room 7, Phone 80 then into a thinking spell. IS NONE T00 GOOD~ home coming of Paul Reynolds. He had written a glowing account of his IF EN=~ I'IAKDUR’[ “11s success as a gold miner, hinting at a | » comfortable nest egg, and telling, GRAVED BY . CORRECT Esther to keep her eyes open for al . st EeT neat little cottage, big enough, though, MUPACTUR[NG ENGRAVERS to shelter “father,” as well as them- LOUISVILLE, KY,U.S.A. selves. WE ARE, THEIR EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE: Full line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Engraved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, 1oys, Etc. LAKELAND BOOK STORE, Esther roused from her day dream reverle 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. Esther had taken the precaution to bolt it. She heard a mufiled ejaculation of disappointment. Warned—more, alarm- ed—Esther sprang up quickly apd 8he Had Shot Out the White Light| the schedules. She had only the Night Flyer to take care of, due at 12:03. That crack train of the road usually went through clean as a whistle. All Esther had to look out for was cross Esther saw that the west sema-| phore was set for, clear tracks. Half a mile distant where the big curve|ing the same thing for months and began was the east semaphore. She, months.” noted that the go-ahead white light!| showed. Some occasional messages |the other. went over the wires, but no call for Tower 10 through the ensulng hour. spell,” reflected Esther; but the rest. | it. When the games began last spring ing spell merged into a reading, and pleasant to realize that she was doing her duty and helping her father; it was still more so to anticipate the 1913, ELAND, FLA., MAY 14, sast tracks. A startled cry esc.'\npd! The white clear signal was | not visible. It had been changed to the red stop signal. Esther sprang to the scmaphore levers. wphe wires are cut!” she gasped, white and trembling and almost over come. Within fifteen minutes the Night Flyer was due. The signal to come | on was set, and sho could not change it. The east signal had been tam- pered with. The Flyer would not dis- cover this uatil its engineer had pass- ed the tower. The train would halt around the curve at a Jleserted spot, outside of any immediace help. “Train robbers!” breathed Esther, aghast. “What shall I do0?” She imagined the Night Flyer at the merey of lawless, armed bandits. Esther glanced at the clock. In six minutes the fastest train on the Cen- tral Northern would come dashing down the railss She could see one of the men in half view, as if his special mission was to prevent her from in- terfering with his nefarious plans. Esther summoned all her innate bravery and good sense. In one cor- ner of the tower room stood a repeat- Ing rifle, a part of the furnishment of all isolated stations along the line. With pride and nerve she recalled some of her past proficlency in arch- ery. She threw up a west window, took aim at the semaphore, and fired. No result. Again—and there was a crash. She had shot out the white light signal! Surely the Night Flyer would take some heed of this circum- 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 the lamp, she flared the end of the fusee and gave it a fling. It landed, | laer lips. TAILOR MADE CLOTHING AT CUSTOM PRICES. We have just received our samples for this season. Can ufrnish you tailor made clothing at your own price. Cap to match suit with all orders thrown in. DE REE PRESSING CLUB Bowyer Building. ———————————————————————————— -The Professions: DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH BPECIALIST. Xye, Ear, Nose and Throst hissing and sputtering, amid the loose & A . hay near the cattle pens. In an fin- Ginsees “‘mmn’uwb" stant the mass burst into flames Un | FLoRS: Offico, 141; £ til the bundle was exhausted she lit Bryant Bldg., Lakeland, Fla and hurled fusees. It was not only — a grand beacon, the blazing hay, but DR.J. 1. wn‘o" the glare spread red and warningly across the sky. PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON Bang—bang—bang! A hall of bul| Fhones—Office, 370; residence {lets from the revolver of the man left | 197-2 Rings. on guard rattled across the crashing | Muan Building, Lakelané Fioric. lwmdowl of the tower. Then he dart- | - 8. W. . GROOVER, ed down the rails in search of his PHYSICIAN AND SURGRON. | companions, Up dashed the Night Flyer. Esther 2 8 and 4 Kentucty Blds Lakeland, Florida, was down from the tower, rifie i ‘hand, a figure heroic as the train came %0 & stop and its crew surround ed her. In an instant an armed party was made up, proceeding to the east semaphore to investigate the situation at that point. The baffled bandits had fled, but preparations were discovered to hold up the train in true wild western fashion—the train which carried in its express car over half a million in currency. The leader of the investigating group was a 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 wife. The railroad 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.) HE WAS A REAL ENTHUSIAST What the Great American Natlonal Game Did for One Ardent Fanatic. He had turned away from the front of a newspaper office, when he found & man at his elbow smiling at him, and, after a feeling of anger, he alse smiled, and said: “l see you have got on my curve. Yes, I turned aside to look at the baseball score, forgetting that the games were over for the season. Force of habit, you know. Been do- W. B. MOON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in new Skipper building ove) postoffice. Telephone, office and resi dence on same line 350. KELSEY BLANTON LAWYER P 0. 3!dg. Phone 319, Lakelaad, N DR. SARAH F. WHIILER OSYTEOPATH FHYSICIAN Rooms §, ¢ and 7, Bryant Buildtis, Lakeland, Fla. J@os Phone 278 Blue. House Phone 378 Black G H & H. D. MNENDENHALL Civil Engineers. Rooms 212-215 Drane Bldg. LAKELAND, FLA. Pnosphate land examination. Sur veys, examination, reports, Blueprinting. A 1. MACDONOUGH, Room ¢ Deen & Bryant Bldg. Arehitect. Hewest [doas in Bungalow Designin Lakeland, Morida. BONFOEY, ELLIOTT & MENDENHALL Associated Architects, Room 212 Drane Building. | “You were an enthusiast?” queried Lakeland, Fla. “Say, I lived on it? I ate and stept| ¥ ©O. ROGERS, with it. Every morning I made a bet Lawyer, “Now for a comfortable resting and every evening I found I had lost Room 1, Bryast Buiiding I had a hundred friends. Wh iy i ad a hundred friends. When they Lakeland, ¥t It was closed I hadn't one. I had called them st | all liars and horse thieves over base- 2. B. KUTFAKRR, | ball, and they couldn't stand it." ~Attorsey-st-Taw— “It gets in the blond.” “You bet. I couldn’t think of any- thing but baseball all day, and at night I dreamed of it, and cried out cuss the game, and the relations be- tween us were strained. Our servant girl refused to argue, and I discharged her. Mv fatherinlaw sald there was no game like poker, and 1 {nsulted 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 threw the tin shade over the lamp on the operator’s table, She ran to the window and glanced down. It was just in time to see a | lurking form steal from the tower | base and slink over behind the cattle i pens. Hero he was joined by two men. They seemed to converse ani- | matedly. Two of them leaped into 'R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER e wili tereisk plans axd gpesifications or will follew any plazs and specideations furnished | the ditch at the side of the tracks| BTNE TOWS A SPECIALTY 5 ;pnd started in the direction of the { east semaphore. The third man | stood half concealed by a great frame | filled with hay used in the cattle pens. | £sther wondered what these suspi- | clous movements betokened. Just | then she chanced to glance down the Lat me ehow 7o iume Lakelsud Romes [ Bave buiit FLANR Thone 287.Greea FLORDDA month I can get over thinking about |" 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 sh it as gently as I can, and w 1t threatening to knock the other fel low’s head off.” | | Unusual Way, “A thief's way ousht certalnly tc confound a mathematician,” “Why so?” “Because the thief multiplies by subtractine ™ in my sleep. My wife refused to dis-| 1 do | w3 T Stuart Bldg. Bartew, ¥. ———————————————————————————————— 3R W. 8 1RVIN OENTISY Qetablisked in July, 190¢ v @ 14 and 15 Kentuoky Baslat Frones: Ofice 180; Residenss & i ——————— TUCKER & TUCKER Raymondo Bldg *helaad, Prta N A YR ey 6. 4 EDWARDS Attorney-st-Law. Ofice !a Musa Buile:n. LAERLAND, FLORIBA ——— ———————————— V. 1 "RESTON, LAWYRR (Ofvs Thers vy Lass of Court Houm P270W, FLORIDA { Takine oy of Wil and Res Pety' Low o Speslalty |JEREMIAH B. SMITH | NOTARY PUBLIC. lLo:ms, Investments in Real Estats | Have some interesting snaps in cit fand suburban property, farms, et | Beiter see me at once. Will trad: | sell for cash or or easy terms. | Room 14, Futch & Gentry Bldg Lakelarnd, Fla. Come to us for the goods advertised in JOHNSON & JOHNSON'S First Aid Handbook NOW BEING DISTRIBUTED. LAKE PHARMACY United Brotherhood of Carpentem and Joiners of America, Local 1776 Meots every Tuesday night at ! o’clock, at McDonald’s hall. R. L. MARSHALL, President J. W.LAYTON, Vice Pres. J. W. LOGAN, Treasurer 1. H, FELDS, Fin. Secy. H. F. DIBTK.CH, Ree. Bocy H. L. COX, Conductor. SAMUEL BOYER, J. W. BCARR, C. L. WILLOUGHBY, Beard of Trustees. Lakelan@ Lodge No. 91, F. & A M. Regular communications held oo second and 4th Mondays at 7:30 p. m. Visiting brethren cordially fo- vited. J. C. OWENS, W. M. J. F. WILSON, 8ecy Lakeland Chapter, R. A. M. No 89 moeets the first Thursday night 5 each month In Masonic Hall. Visiv ing compadions welcomed. A. D: Leonard, H. P.; J. F. Wilson, 8ecy. Palm Chapter, Q. B. 8. meets every second and fourth Thursday night* of each month at 7:30 p. m. Mn Viora Keen, W. M.; J. P. Wilson, [ 2 Lakeland Camp Ne. 78, W. u. ¥. meeta every second and f~arth Thure day aight. Woodmen OCircle Ir# and third Thursusys. W. J. Estridgs Council Commander, Mrs. Sallie 8cit- viardian of Cirele. KEOrp Regular meeting every Tuesdsy at 7:30 at 0Odd Fellows Hall. Visi¥ iog wmembers always welcome. P. D. BRYAN. Chancellor Commanést A M. _ACKSON, Becretary. POST 83, G. A. B. Meets the first Saturaay in eveér’ month at 10 v m. af the homs O J. M. Sparling on Kentucky &veul® A. C. SHAFFER, Commandr J. R. TALLEY, Adjutant Elnora Rebekab Lodge No ¢ meets every second and fourth Mo day nights at L 0. 0. F. hall. Visl* ing brothers end sisters cordislly !* vited. MRS. F. C. LONGMAN, N. 0 MRS. ILA SELLERS, Sec Lake Lodge No. 3,1.0.0 F mests Friday nights at 7:830, st ® 9. 0. F. hall. Visiting drotbers &* cordially invited. J. L. REYNOLDS, Sec. W. P. PILLIANS, N. @ S GLAtBOLE Orsnge Blossom Div. Ne. ¢! G. L A to B. of L. B. meets o7*7 tecond and fourth Wednesday® [each month at 2:30 p. m. Vis'if Bisters always welcome. MRS. J. C. BROWN §ac7 ORDER OF EAGLES. The Fraternal Order of Fsf'® meets every Wednesdny night * 7:30, at 0dd Fellows® hall. J. H. WILLIAMS, President B M. SMAILS Sacretar?