Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 6, 1915, Page 2

[ P e e sand Favorite line Steamy ST. PETERSBURG AND MANATEE RIVER PQpy !nm-nu We Wers on ary lamd agita, | NOT HARD TO UNWIND SPRING jumping along as fast as ever. “Can’t you stop it?” yelled Smith. | “I want to get out I tell you.” “Stop it yourself then,’ yelled pack | the professor, seeming a iittle exas- —_— | perated. It in winding a clock actuated by | Smith took him at his word, and, | a spring you have given the key a | grabbing a crowbar, he smashed it turn too much and so have wound into the machinery. This proved ef- | the spring so tight that the clock | fectual, for with one more bound the ! won't run, you don’t have to take the grasshopper stopped. | clock to a clockmaker to have the “Phew!” says I, a little excited my- | spring unwound. You can start it self, “here’s where I walk.” yourself if you will go about it the “Same here,” says Smith. right way and exercise a little pa- are we?” tience. Refore 1 could answer, someone ] Jarring or sinking the clock does no started shooting from the outside, and ' good. What you want to do is to hold we all made a jump for the door and | it up and turn it right and left quickly looked out cautiously. | but gently to oscillate the balance There were six men, dressed from | wheel. The object of this, of course, head to feet in furs, and standing knee is to set the clock in action and free deep in snow! And this, mind you, | the spring from the binding restraint happened on the 24th of July. | upon it, give the spring a little play, “Who're you shooting at?” yelled ' a chance to exercise its own power. | Bag. . | If your own strong arm were .bouml The men looked surprised and came | tightly to your side you couldn’t use up alongside. /1t at all; but if you could work your | “I beg your pardon,” says ome of arm free just a little bit you w:‘]‘d. them. “I thought this thing was alive | then break loose. It is lo_'"lh I: : and indigenous to this region.” | tightly wound clock spring; give | “Well, it couldn't act any worse if | just a little Dbit of play and it will it was,” says Smith. “Who are vou?” then be able to exert itself. | Simple Method of Starting Clock When the Key Has Been Given a Turn Too Much. Okeechobee Farms i j ineless cactus? Wil yield big crops of corn, cane, cowpeas, velvet beans, rape, peanuts, kudzu, spinel i Hdfl nm‘nsg Bui’l‘nudn. Rhodes, Para, Natal and other grasses for hay and pasture. With al these crops available, cattle, sheep and hogs can have green food the year round. Thousands of Acres of Our Land at the North .End. of Lake Okeechobee Are Now Ready for Cultivation These t need draining other than small ditches necessary on any farm. Make a trip to Okel::hdo.b‘:: :101 :he new :]il:ifi:n :frthe Florida East Coast Railway without delay, and see fol: mndl just what these lands are. Note that Okeechobee is now only a trifle over twelve hours' Journey imm Jacksonville. Investigate This Wonderful Country While You Can Have a Choice of Locations for Your Farm i it unexcelled for general farming, livestock and poultry raising and for growing all m;:}lvfie‘:elt::bles common tuK;lflfidn as well as the finest citrus fruit. This town and country will grow at an amazing rate during the next few years. We also _huve e{(ce]lellt land lnt‘l town Jots at Chuluota and Kenansvill—the former a fine lake section in Seminole County suited to fruit growing, trucking and general farming, and the latter a fertile pine land country in County especially adapted to stock raising, general farming and fruit growing, Write today for full particulars to J. E. INGRAHAM, Vice-President Land and Industrial Department, Florida East Coast Railway Room 218 City Building ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA “Where | “SPECIAL GASPARILLA StRVI(; St. Pitersburo Transportation Compa TELEPHONE 230 and 463 TAMPA T SEPSEDLIPPORLDIRIOSBODED Rt 2L Sl LR S ¥ " says he, ‘and 1! With your first oscillation the bal- wa;tm yos:d::l .:nde";y.nd that T got |ance wheel will stop after half a dos- here first.” en ticks, but that has helped. Keep “That .'o?'- said Smith. “Well, that this up for ten to fifteen mlnul:;. ain’t any sign that we didn’t hurry | and you will then have givel;l l: along as fast as we could. Hope we clock spring play enough to enable haven't kept you waiting.” to exert its own power and keep the ! “Seeing that I wasn't expecting you, | clock going. ; 1 can’t say that you have,” answered Stellman. “Did you get here in ‘hat A Century Ago. i thing?” One hundred years ago congress .;n' | “We did.” gaged in a warm discussion of the “Where'd you start from?” report transmitted by the president “Kansas.” from the secretary of war explaining i “Kansas! How did you ever get | the failure of the army on the north- | across the Arctic ocean?” ern frontier. The political opponents . “I wasn't aware that of President Madison and the anti- crossed it. Have we?" war party in general had much to . i criticise in the conduct of the war. While the American navy had distin- i POPE ORDERS EXPIATY A AP AP PPN PN You Are Not Getting Full Value Out of Your Paper Unless You Read the ADVERTISEMENTS Rome, Feb. 7.—The Po ed all the faithful to par a great expiatory function i to be held tomorrow and oy urope on March 21, ,on tomorrow he anc t would take part in a sp at St, Peter’s. ] BAG'S GRASSHOPPER By HOWARD DWIGHT SMILEY. “Aluminum,” he answered. “Built in exact proportion to the ordinary grasshopper, even to weight and ¢.reagth; propelled by a ten thousand horse-power engine, invention of the | professor’s. With one barrel of gaso- heavy plate glass. ‘r'ne sensation was much the same as one experiences on board a ship in a heavy sea, only more regular and steady. We would alight with an almost im- we had “Why, you must have. Don’t you line we can encompass the earth.” While he was talking a crowd of about fifty very excited farmers, | armed with shotguns, horse-pistols and pitchforks, came galloping up. “Did you see 'em?” they yelled. “See what?” answered Bag. “What's (Copyright.) Smith and I drove back from town one day and found Bagley sitting on the piazza, holding a big grasshopper perceptible jar and immediately rise again, covering fully a mile at each Jump. We passed over four towns in as many seconds, and all in one jump. Things were beginning to get interest- ing. know where vou are?” “I wish I did,” says Smith wistfully, “Would you mind telling us?” “This is the north pole,” says Stell- man. I locked at my watch. Just 50 min- utes had elapsed since we left Kan- guished itself on the seas, the land forces had accomplished little of rezl importance. Failure had resulted from the invasion of Canada by Gen- rals Wilkinson and Hampton. The report of the secretary of war, which | PR OHIPEPPPPIPRIPIESSIRPE between his forefinger and thumb and Yooking speculative. “Friends,” says he, “did you ever stop to think of the vast possibilities based on the construction of these little inseccts?” “I've observed the vast results, based on the destruction of things wvegetable and otherwise by those lit- tle insects, if that is what you mean,” answered Smith. “Which it ain't,” replied Bag. *What I mean is, supposing that this grasshopper was as large as a horse mnd as strong in proportion, just think of the terrific speed that could be ob- pained from such a creature; why, ounted on such a beast, one could outdistance the fastest locomotive in the world. The idea is wonderful, griends, wonderful.” “William,” says Smith to me sor- wfully, “he wants to cross a grass- opper with a horse and ride the re- wult. That is the limit. Will you E:mw him down and sit on him while was founded on lettere and reports received from the several command- ers, allayed much of the criticism, with the resuit that congress author- ized a loan of $25,000,000 for the fur- ther prosecution of the war. And just then we hit something. It might have been a tree or a church— we were going too fast to see—but, whatever it was, we went right through it like a bullet through a pine board. It gave us a terrific jar though, and Smith, Bag and 1 went down all in a heap in the nose of the grasshopper, while the professor slammed into the table and over that went. We all jumped up and righted the table as soon as we could, but the controlling apparatus was all in a tangle and we seemed to be going faster than cver. “Stop it!” yelled Smith. “I want to get out.” But we couldn’t stop. When the shock came the professor had his hand on the speed switch and had jammed it over to full speed and broken the lever off short. About ten minutes passed, during which Bag and the professor worked frantically, trying to stop the machin- sas. “Gosh!” says I. “Gosh!" And now 1 wonder that I was able to express myself that much. Then we all got together and ex- plained things. Mr. Stellman, who represented the Chicago Boomerang, had discovered the north pole in an airship. Having discovered it, he was preparing to re- turn, and as the machinery In the grasshopper was hopelessly ruined, ae kindly offered to give us a )ift as far as Spitzbergen. It almost broke Bag's heart because he had to leave his grasshopper be- hind. He wanted Stellman to take it along in the airship, which ne wouldn't do. We had had enough of grasshoppers. At Spitzbergen we caught a trading vessel bound for Helifax, from which port we finally arrived home, none the worse for the racket. Bag mentioned something about building another grasshopper one day, ' but he only mentioned it once, for Smith and I opened up and made re- King Gasparilla His Queen ant Crew buy th:ir Shoes nere Our stock is so Scatter Sunekine. ! COmple‘e at i’“ 'imes ‘h at .“ tast:s 7 p o At are sati-factorily cstered to. the matter with you folks?” “Grasshoppers!” answered “Grasshoppers as big as barns! They are loose in Kansas! We must run ‘em down and kill 'em, or they’ll ruin us all! They are eatin’ up cows and horses and everything! Get your guns and come on!" “Well!” sald Bag, “if they're calcu- lating to exterminate that grasshop- per with horses and shotguns, they're going to be highly disappointed. There ain’t a thing that moves on legs, wheels, or wings that can catch my machine.” Next morning we prepared to take another trip, for Smith and I were just as enthusiastic as thc others by then. We all went out to the shed together and entered the mdchine. The interior was mostly filled with machinery. There was an open space about ten by six feet square at the for- ward end, and a table, covered with levers and switches, stood in the cen- ter of this. ery. Then came a tremendous splash The professor took up his position |and we dove into a lake or some- in front of this table and pushed over | thing. 'one of the levers, and the machine We came quickly to the surface moved out into the yard. Then he ; again, and then how that grasshopper “That's just the way,” growled Bag. shoved ovcr another one and away |did swim! It went through the water “This is what comes of a man of We went. like an express train, throwing up a frains associating with such ditch dig- Smith and I stood forward, looking ' spray in front of it so we couldn’t see ‘gers as you two. You can go to blazes, out of the eyes, which were filled with ;olu of the windowns. In about two end I will prove the feasibilities of i sy idea if it takes every cent I've! got” And off he went, mad as a wet cat. Later in the day Smith and I drove down and found out from the ticket agent that he had purchased a ticket to St. Louis. He had informed the agent that he might be gone for sev- eral weeks, and that was all we could Jearn as to his whereabouts and in- tentions. It was a month before Bag returned. He came down the road one day in the lead of a dozen wagons, loadel with lumber and a lot of packing boxes; with him were several carpen- ters and a slim, cadaverous man. They unloaded the wagons down back of the barn, and Bag immediate- ly put the carpenters to work build- ing what turned out to be a shedlike structure, about sixty by forty feet square. When this was finished the packing boxes were moved inside, and Bag and the slim fellow got busy. Another month rolled by, and then, one day, the big front doors of the shop were thrown open and out of it crawled an object that caused the top of my head to give a first-class imita- tion of a cat on a fence-post talking to a dog. 1t was all of twenty-five feet long, with eyes two feet wide, and it looked 80 natural that I honestly thought it ‘was alive, Waddling into the front yard, it stopped. A little door in its side opened and Bag stuck his head out. “Are you gentiemen still of the opin- fon that I am a fit subject for an in- sane asylum?” he inquired sarcastic- ally. Bag didn’t wait for us to reply, but closed the door, and a moment later the grasshopper gathered its legs un- der it and jumped. It rose into the air as gracefully as & bird, and shot off across the fields like a bullet. When it lit it was a mile away; it immediately rose again, and in six jumps disappeared below the horizon. Pretty soon it came sailing back, about two miles to the south of us, and disappeared in the east. For an } four we watched it come and go from all directions, until finally it came shooting back from the direction in which it first started and, landing oquarely in front of the shop door, ecrawied in. Bag was the happiest man alive. He had forgotten all about his grouch. “Friends,” says he, “allow me to in- troduce you to Prof. Albertus Ether- x" cou one. GBPE BPEPOBHI vastly your own happiness depends on the way other people bear themselves ' toward you. The looks and tones at ! your breakfast table, the conduct of : your fellow-workers or employers, the ! faithful or unreliable men you deal | with, what people say to you on the street, the way your cook and house- maid do their work, the letters you get the friends or foes you meet— theso things make v> very much of the pleasure or misery of your day. Turn the idea around, and remember that just g0 much ere you adding to to the plcasure or the misery of other | people’s days. And this is the holf of | the matter which you can contrel. ! | Whether any particular day shall ! | bring to you more of happiness or of marks that caused him to abandon the i suffering is largely beyond your power | idea. X to determine. Whether each ray of | There's a limit to all things, you ! your life shall give happiness or suf- know. fering rests with yourself.—George 8. l Merriawm. | Men’s Shoes Ladies’ Shoes ] Children’s Shoe | | | | | | “We fit the shoe to the foot, A We do NOT fit the foot to the shoe® | ride to town and wire the asylum send attendants out after him? It's mn awful way to use a partner, but a fman ain’t safe running at large with such ideas as that in his head.” DS SR O RIbRPId e Glenn Shoe Company | @ppPPPeePt ISR EIPBPODOE D BEDE DR S o RS e ik DI TSI X P s il {ll > i \ il I | | l \ SR ‘ 1' i H lh'mgl Lt QUL e < S T thess United States or any ntry. “It 18 with his assistance that I have succeeded in perfecting this most won- derful achievement of human genfus: Bagley's Automatic Grasshopper and Marine Waterbug!” “It's wonderful, Bag!"” says 1 hum- bly. “What's it made of?” 1 EBRUARY 1213014 i ' i it wi‘ul!I\En” i ,;'i.!':,\‘*“ '1!"9 I 5 | Lll e '.f%'t”m'hi;|!'3{‘¢'{f‘!31|‘!‘:';"‘m i E’I'JJl\h{\’fihisu\'ifluunu’:!!\\luifllfl.lflffififlfillhflfilflJfi'u}lllfi»{dl I FIVE DAYS YOU'LL NEVER FORGET Everyone is in Search of Happiness T AMP A IS PREPARING TO fr!x‘llae Ul:l 'ag_zvegl:'uvm IN A JOLLY TAMPA Wants You Here, and Trusts Nothing will Interfere. i &m‘% l.garned b:’ul from h'.onl:'“ Year's Carnival. and Knows FANTASTIC PARADES ARTISTIC PARADES MASONIC PARADES EVENING PARADES ; and “PARADE PARADES” Coustantly Day and Night A Spectacular capture of Tampa by ; KING GASPARILLA AND *“YE MYSTIC CREW™ ALL TO BE FREE Tampa detests “hold up™ entertainments. 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