Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 27, 1914, Page 6

R — PAGE SIX FISH AND THE HAWK By CLARENCE WILBERFORCE. For weeks the beleaguered city had held out against the artillery of its enemies. Night and day the cannon thundered, but, though the forts were ruins and the countryside a plowed field, the defenders had repelled every assault, until those without were in despair. If the warships within the port could be destroyed, the city must fall. But they were hidden from artillery range by a high, protecting bluff, and from torpedo boats by a stout boom which closed the harbor. Within that sanc- tuary their mighty guns made a suc- cessfu! assault impossible, Then it was that the enemy sent in their submarines, to creep beneath the booms and explode torpedoes aninst the vessels’' sides. But the pass was narrow, and the searchlights played all night, so that the moment that the periscope appeared upon the surface of the waves, a hundred guns belched forth destruction, aud the submarines never came back. The besfegers were in despair. And it was then that a new device was tried. A submarine without a periscope! Why not? It was not necessary to see one’s entrance. One could feel it. The warships were jammed together in- gide the small harbar, and a subma- rine, creeping like a blind mole un- der the boom, could not fail to hit: her objective. ‘ the sea with his selenium light. Noth- The enemy tried it. They sent the, “North Pole” beneath the boom at night, and five minutes after she had | left the line of the blockading ships, the Queen Dorothy went up into the air in a mass of twisted iron and steel. The “North Pole,” having accom- plished her task, put out to sea again for fresh torpedoes. This had been only a trial attack. There were eight submarines, and each of them ought to account for two battleships. By the next morning the defenders' fleet would be scrap-iron, and the town | would be at the mercy of the besleg-t ers' artillery, It was then that the defending gen- eral hit upon his idea. It was desper- ate to be at the mercy of the enemy; With a Roar, the Eagle Broke Into Debris. the richest city in the world would be theirs to plunder. Each side possessed a number of aeroplanes, but they had hardly come into use. Each knew accurate- ly the positions of the opposing forces, and warfare had proved that little damage could be done by dropping bombs from above. Moreover, the new- est field guns could be elevated per- ‘pendicularly and no aeroplane could hope to escape from that well-aimed fire, “From the heights,” said the defend- ing general, “one can see far under the sea.” It was one of those simple truths which everyone had heard and every- one had forgottén. So, on the following night, equipped with searchlights and stabilizators, which enabled them to hover with their engines shut off, aeroplanes took up their position above the wa- ter, waiting. John Winthrop was in command of this aerial squadron. He had a sweetheart in the beleaguered town, as what soldier had not? The thought of her gave him courage for the su- preme task that was his. position beside the pilot he watched the selenium searchlight—a far more powerful light than anything known | before, and solving the secret of that “cold light” for which inventors had sought so long. He saw it play upon the waves, and, where it fell, he saw, not the rippling surface of the water, but the sandy bottom. Through the glass which focussed the rays upon the retina he could see the inhabit- ants of the deep sea, passing lazily about their business. Here was a school of fishes—there the quiver of some scavenger mcnsicr, come to prey upon what lay beneat} NAs of metal which had once been the Queen Dorothy. And ther A lithe black shadow passed be- neath the surface. She was so far below the waves that nothi >ould be discerned clearly except e fs)- like rudder and the diving plane John Winthrop took the nufln‘[ gear from the pilot's hands, and the aeroplane dropped as a hawk dropc; upon the fish far beneath him, So swift was the descent that the sea splashed him before he touched the diving plane that sent the craft skimming along the surface of the | sea. He was too near now to see | anything at all except the searchlight playing upon the waves. But he had | aimed truly. ; Crash! As he pressed the button | a thunderous broadside of metal sentli his airship careening like a boat in a | current. Swiftly he rose to & height of 500 feet. Far below the waves | he saw the shadow, still against t.h.’ yellow sand. And now, all round him, the aero- | planes were diving, and, as each | touched the surface, she aimed her guns, which from a height, would | have been useless, on account of the | deflection of the water. It needed & sure aim and eye, to know when to ' swoop, to calculate how far ahead the | submarine would be before the metal | reached her, after the dive. | The airships rose into the gky, and slowly winged their way homeward. And suddenly, with a roar, tho' Eagle broke into debris before the | eyes of the air-sailors. One of the submarines, unscathed, had crossed beneath the boom and delivered her torpedo against the side of the flag- ship of the defending navy. i John Winthrop signaled to the squadron to retire. There was room for only one aeroplane to maneuver, He must catch the invader as she was returning toward the blockading fleet, He hovered, motionless as a hawk,‘ and keen-eyed as a hawk, sweeping ing escaped his scrutiny. He saw l‘ monster, predatory fish gliding upon | the bottom, but he saw nothing of the submarine. ! Had she escaped in the confusion? No! Suddenly Winthrop understood. This monster fish was the submarine. She had deceived him by moving for- | ward at an incredibly slow rate of speed, instead of at 25 miles an hour, her maximum—and, from that height, while every object was disclosed with startling clearness, it was difficult to form an accurate estimate of size. Winthrop took the steering gear and plunged. Instantly the shadow went out. He fired his guns and rose, There, far under him, skimming l [ \ { frantically béheath the ocean, was the | submarine. Again he plunged. Again' | From his | he missed her. | And now the submarine was half way to the blockading squadron, and | already the hostile searchlights were playing about him. A couple of shells whizzed past him, and once more he plunged and fired. | He rose. The submarine had stopped. No! She was rising to the surface. A shell had struck her aslant, injuring the diving gear, but, fortu- . nately for those on board, sernding her upward. She lay upon the waves and drifted there. John Winthrop plunged again, amid a hurtling shower of shell. His grap- pling irons swung free. They caught the iron fish's sides, and the aero- plane, pinned down by that dead weight, fluttered frantically above her like a wounded bird, i The play of shells stopped. Each man upon the ramparts, each man upon the hostile decks, held his breath and watched that battle, outlined as distinctly by the selenium lights as the pictures upon a cinematograph scene, If the power of the aeroplane wag stronger than that of the submarine, Winthrop would tow her into port. If the submarine could make headway above the waves, she would take the lighter craft captive, The head of the lieutenant in charge of the submarine appeared at the opening. Winthrop looking over from his seat, saw and recognized him, They had made each other's acquaint- ance when both were ambassadors’ aids in a foreign capital Neither vessel could fire, for the alr ship's guns could not be directed ver tically downward, while the subma- rine carried nothing except torpedoes —and those were exhausted, “Surrender!” called Winthrop from his place. The young leutenant laughed and went below And suddenly the sub- marine began to sink, dragging down the aeroplane with her. Winthrop strove madly to cut loose the grappling chains, but it was im- possible to reach them, for they were firmly fastened, and to do so would have necessitated unshipping the gun to starboard. And, while he tried, the waves splashed over him. His last thought as he sank was of the girl he loved Suddenly a hand reached forth and grasped him, He shuddered and opened his eyes. The aeroplane dritted upon the surface of the sea, and the sub- marine skimmed the surface. The ileu- tenant was pulling him in from the water, | “You are my prisoner Winthrop, dripping with water, sat beside him as the vessel repaired slow- ly to the fleet. She bad not been in- jured. Ruse had conquered audacity, as it always does Suddenly, from both sides the selenium lights began to flash through the sky Winthrop stared at the Morse code increx ly He caught at his captor's Did you read that The Peace has been declared to spelled out, as the white | ered above them | And silently the two men shook hands. (Copyright, 1814, by W. G, Chapman.) he gasped lieutenant nodded. at,” he young | because Miss Mary McGee's been pick- ! So every one else does! EVENING TELEGRAM. LAKE!] A POSTPONED ROMANGE By JEAN SHEAR. . 000000000000 000000 0000000 “What made you ask me to marry you? inquired the bride, as one asks what the weather {8 likely to be. “Why,” the bride's husband paused. “I guess it was because you were looking around and picked me out.” “No,” replied the bride, meditative- ly, “it could not have been just that, ing out husbands for 20 years, and she’d just quit that unprofitable oc- cupation and had begun to be happy, when she found him!” “Who's this Miss Mary McGee?" “She’s just Miss Mary McGee!" the bride laughed. “I don't know how I can explain more, if that doesn't tell you! She's the woman down the block who lives with the children and they all call her Miss Mary McGee. She’s been with the chidlren until she's just like one—but she didn't begin until she'd given up the hope of getting married, you know.” “How interesting,” commented the man. “Yes, but she's had a genuine ro- mance! breath to mark the beginning of the story, “through the children that Miss McGee wasn't invited to Jane Benton's wedding, because she was needed by some one or other to take care of the children. And no one thought she'd think anything of it! But the children talked it over before her, “Mr. Manning Was Interesting.” and her feelings were hurt. She im- agined that she had become nothing but a nursemaid in the eyes of the world, and gave up her play with the children! “So she ghut herself up in the house and wouldn't have anything to do with ._“ anyone! & “Mics McGee's tall and angular, and sort of eccentric looking, but she's got an awiully sweet nature, and every § one was sorry that her feelings were hurt. However, she wouldn't let any one console ber, or explain. “Then one day old Lawyer Manning passed the house and, hearing music, he went up. She was so surprised at his visit that she let him in, and what do you suppose she was doing? She. had saved a lot of newspaper articles on how to dance the tango, and she was learning it from them, playing untll she had a tune in mind and then singing for the dancing!” “And so Manning is the happy indl- vidual?" anticipated the husband. “Now, you just wait till I finish!” finished the bride. “Mr, Manning was interested in the tango and Miss Mary MeGee promised to teach him all about it. S0 he went almost every after- noon “And then the minister, who every one says was fond of Miss Mary Mc- Gee years ago, called. Of course, his visit occurred when Mr. Manning was there, and it sort of woke him up. I guess he'd been thinking Miss Mary McGee would always be there, and there was no hurry about asking her, Anyway, he began to call frequently, and Miss Mary McGee always let them come in, and they remained hours and hours, each trying to outstay the other, and thus get the opportunity to propose, I guess! But they always had to go away together, for neith- er would give in! “And actually Miss Mary McGese got §0 pretty with the activity and ex- citement—" “Dut which one got her?” interrupt- ed the man wet's the romance of it!” *d the bride. “They'd been r about a month, steadily, al- afternoon, and then one 4y the minister brought nlorfg his brother, who was visiting him, be- catse he couldn't leave his visitor and he wouldn't let Mr, ; get the advantage of a call d the minister’'s brother had the wit to invite her out. And he pro- posed right away, and now they're married! "—Chicago Daily News, Knows Better Now. Wifey—Do you recollect that once when we had a quarrel I said you were just as mean as you could be? Hubby—Yes, my dear. Wifey—Oh, Tom, how little did I know you then.—Boston Evening Transcript. You see it got out, natu- | | rally,” sald the bride, taking a deep LAND, FLA,, JULY 27, 1914, s I TR £ HOEOEISIPOSH0OO OB ST BIILOMISO 1O, $QP0POPOIOP0POLOPOIOI0L Do § §§ Saved Look Good to You) They certainly look gond to several farm:rs about Lakelard, 5 we have sold the most of the McCormick Mowers and Raj g advertised at ‘ Special Prices. 5 only 2-horse 4% Foot Cut Mowers { only 1-horse 3% Foot Cut Mower 5 Hay Rakes. Come quick if you want to get a McCormick Machine at |esg than wholesale cost. MOWER REPAIRS MODEL HARDWARE CO. C. E. TODD, Manager We Want YOUR Business POLQO. OREOIRROOE SRR G010 00 DONO YR PO GPEOIOTIOFOLOIOPUECEDIOD O IEOTOD 0D O 25Q POPCIUPQIVIRPRIOHOI THE CIR(C OURT. Tk Cling to Old Bellefs. GUARDIAN'S NOTICE IT, POLK Hollday-makers who visit the Eng- IN CH ce Hiers vs. the Merchants’ Bank of Ber gia, Inc.—Order of Pulb! It appearing by the aflids solicitor for the complain above stated cause that | ers & Merchants’ Bank | Georgia, a corporation, th ant named in the bill of is a non-resident of the = Florida; that its place of 1 and principal place of busi Berlin, in the State of Geo its place of residence is 1o | more particularly known to lish Lakeland, and regard it as a beautiful place in which to rest from strenuous work in order to be fit for harder work, would probably be sur- prised to learn that in the quiet ham- lets among the Cumbrian fells motor cars are still regarded as curiosities, and superstitious customs and be- llefs are much as they were a hun- dred years ago. Funeral feasts have lost much of their character, but a number of curious customs still sur- vive. The bees have at once to be informed of any death that takes place. Some one, generally a woman dressed in black, whispers to them what has occurred. Sometimes they take a holiday In consequence. At other times they continue their work, but, in any case, hives are braided Notice is hereby given that on the third day of August, T will apply to the hoaorable C. M. Trammell, county judze in and for Polk county, Florida, for an order authorizing the sale of the undivided interest cf Ima Pugh, Enola Pugh and William Pugh, minor heirs of William H. Pugh, deceased, in and to the follow- That there 18 no person i ing described lands, to-wit: State of Florida, the servic The west halt of the southeast |R0SNa, upon whom would I quarter of Section twenty-four (24) |ant is over the age of tw: in township twenty-seven (27) S;no:'ltl‘(‘lssidég(t)n(‘ife[}l;‘(‘n(]':lr;:l south, range twenty-three (23) east; |it is hereby required to and the northeast quarter of the (l'gfise-pl})ln %‘;. %%’{:)‘:_La’:{"tont‘m\lv northeast quarter of Section thirty |day of August, A. D, | (30, township twenty-seven (27) E(}S{’afigfi g;lgfigtile%ggdogw with black, and on the day of the |south, ranze twenty-four (24) east, |ant {tlmer:l‘wltr:le ::gd;w?: 0‘:“{;‘9; ?"9 |lying and being in Polk county, Fla. aced in the CHATRETON - o b i L Sir oosciiion. * & Hik toptd ] l\"f“; ‘“l‘”q \'\1:“‘“", & ,I;“fih‘ “de usually distributed to each man who |° hcth DRI EAULS OWABLS At Ui 1S id At is further ordered that this o der be published once a week fo four consecutive weeks in the land Evening Telegram, a news published in said county and [ i i i s : attends a funeral, and there was one m'lns. d«.{th, .oi an flr}(}l\ld(:]d one This June ullt.h}\.].‘l‘(‘)l‘['.\'.\'n\} person so much in demand forthese |third interest in the said lands. Gliek Glicuit Gouee melancholy occasions that in time he CORRIE J. PUGH, C. M. TRAMMELL, Solicitor for Complainant A true copy of the original wh is on record in my office. 9789 J. A. 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