The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-05-25
CRUISE OF THE CONQUEROR
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diately helped one board by the brave
captain and boys. One Of the girls
was tall and stout. while the other
was small and thin. and as the cap
tain said, no higher than a table, and
they certainly were laughable objects
when they were finally safe. The tall,
stout girl was other than Ellen
Clarkson. and the small, thin one was
the writer herself. The passengers
| made the newcomers as comfortable as
| possible and they were soon the best
of friends.
The next day Ellen and Helen were
| introduced to the school room and
! they enjoyed their first day very much
although they were too frightened to
| misbehave. Ellen Immediately show
ed that she would soon become
| Latin scholar, and studied it with
will Helen also liked it, but did not
like Physical Geography at all. The
rest of the ninth year passed by very
| quietly and everyone settled down TO
| good hard work.
| One day in the tenth year the pas
| sengers heard by wireless that there
/ was going to be a big balloon ascen-
| sion in a nearby city and they wanted
| to it. but this was impossible and
| everyone went to dinner very much
| disappointed. While here they heard
| shrill cries and Immediately rushed on
| deck to ascertain the cause. Imagine
| their surprise upon looking at the
| smoke stack to see two girls clinging
on for dear life. a ladder was put up
| and the girls descended very black
| from the smoke and trembling like
| leaves. They We're the two girls who
had made the ascension and instead of
1ny
supposed to the wind had carried them
! to sea, causing them to come down on
the smoke stack. These girls were no
| other than Mamie Counts and sara
Davis. After they recovered their
| composure, they entered the dining
room with the others and entertained
| them with their adventures. Mamie
and Sara were so pleased with their
surroundings that they decided to
stay on board and take up the studies
with their friends. They worked very
hard at times, but at other times they
played and enjoyed themselves.
Three staterooms We're still vacant on
! the "COnQueror," but these were occu-
pied sooner than any one on board ex-
pected. While sailing along one beau
tiful afternoon in the eleventh year of
the voyage the captain saw a flag wav-
island. The ship was steered to that
point when, 10 and behold, there stood
a boy, a real live boy, clad in the
skins of all kinds of animals That
boy was Robert Polly, who had been
shipwrecked many years before and
had lived on the island like Robinson
iCrusOe waiting patiently to be res
cued The day held still another sur
prise for those on board, for they had
gone but short distance when they
heard someone shouting and look
ing around they saw two people stand
ing on the bank not far from where
they had picked up Robert. The cap
tain again steered the "Conqueror' to
the island and took the boy and girl on
board. Robert was very much sur
prised because he had lived there so
long and had never seen the two new
corners, who We're Mabel Beck and
Robert Ferguson. The passengers
: made the three "savages," as they
nicknamed them, tell them all that
had happened since they We're ship
wrecked and they told some stories of
some very narrow escapes. In spite of
all the excitement the newcomers
were started in the school the next
day and soon showed the captain that,
although they had lived as savages for
SO long. they were very bright and
would make good students.
The captain now said he thought it
. was time that the passengers should
spend more time at their studies, as
he wanted them to have good educa-
. ton also, SO that when they had fin
ished their voyage they could go home
and know that they had accomplished
something during their sail. One of
no he tn lS.a
them study Plane, Parallel and Middle,
and Traverse sailing, because he said
he thought they ought to know some
thing about sailing after sailing for so
many years. OF course the passengers
thought it was terrible, but they man
\ aged to sail through it and come out
with flying colorS. This is one of the
examples the captain thought it nee
, essary for them to work: Leaving
latitude 81 degrees, 16 minutes south.
[ Ion gitude Is degrees AZ minutes west
ship sails northeast 104 miles, then
north northwest 60 miles, then west by
south 16 miles; find the position reach
ed, and it's bearing and distance from
the point left. Do you wonder that
7 the passengers thought it was terri
BILE? Then, too, the worst thing of all
their trip was the examinations which
occurred every two months and over
which l am sure many tears were shed
The last year Of the voyage was de-
voted entirely to study. One day the
captain announced to his passengers
that he had decided to land them very
soon as they had done everything that
he had mapped out for them. Every
, one was sad because they had enjoyed
the companionship of the others and
;. hated to separate. landing was
n made on the twenty-thrd of May and
you see before you the famous class OF
1910 which made this wonderful voy-
age. Helen Brown.
! Ocala, Fla, May %. 1910