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assuming that there is no fog or that
the fog has lifted.
Even IL fog held the harbor the
coast defences would retain their ad-
vantage against mine destroying ves-
sells since they would send out against
them their floating harbor defences,
monitors, torpedo boats, gunboats and
submarines. And. even without these,
they could do great injury to the in
truders through the service OF patrol
boats familiar with the home harb
that would be able, even in fog. TO
locate the mine destroyers with great
precision.
1t should be explained that our for
tilted harbors are divided into many
squares, measuring 500 yards on a
side, these squares being charted and
numbered and so accurately located,
with exact ranges known, that, If word
came of the presence of hostile ves-
sells in square 1907 every gun in
the fortress could be raining shot and
shell on that particular area within
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Tea Plate Poetry

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around Ia teas no
certainly i N."
the women" vcnturrd t'
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paper plates on tn" tea -,
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passed IL over to III" lH.
verse written into its prrN ''-
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had given her house ami -,
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everybody. Thus it cam" '''
read these lines:
All, Lady fair, -
To offer, as YOU 50"
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OF nice, fresh poetry
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but poet would ever hay 49,,
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Nunded by sentimental . 40,
empty plates waiting t' ~,
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come snap to be poet
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-25
ny CLEVELAND MOFFETT.

" HE coast artillery war game is
played in a spacious room,
wherein is set up large
green board TWENTY-FIVE by
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There was long silence, which Curt.
with stronger voice, broke by asking for
Corlinnsen.
ale is busy on deck, answered Ragna:
and then, for the first time, he recognized
who it was that was minstering to
him.
"You are not hurt, Ragna?" he asked.
"No-oh, no." And she hastily put
hand over a knife slash on her head, for
getting that he could not see.
Again there was silence which the
husband ended by saying: "Tell Cor
linnsen to get under way for Apia-Apia.
Understand"
al understand" she answered
"If | didn't have you aboard, Ragna,
as am"
"Yes,' was all that she could say to
this, and she started from the room.
A MOMENT later she was standing at
the break of the poop, calling to Cor
linnsen. Stark across the main hatch
lay the sailor Sandstrom, and beside
him the fellow who had said he was
street-corner preacher. 1t was the sec
ond mate who had done for them-the
two who had plotted to leave the Pleiades
in her small boats.
Along the coaming of the hatch stretched
a third body-the mulatto cook who had
fought with pepper. Corlnnsen had had
to pry Curtis fingers from his throat.
"Get under way at once-for Fireman.
tie, Mr.. Corlinnsen,' said Ragna, as the
mate came toward her.
The men heard her and looked up in
wonderment.
"Veare going not to Apia- to de Samoan
Aylands?" Corlinnsen asked in astonish-
ment. at is de nearest port We might
have help"
"You-you will" she began, only to
pause with sharp gasp. Her hands
went to her throat: For perhaps min
ute she stood as one hearing voices from
afar, and the while swiftly changing
light came and went in her blue eyes-a
light mixed of the elements of joy, of awe,
of wonder, of happiness, of the ecstasy of
life, of fear.
A silence fell upon the bestial lot below
her, and their hard faces filed slowly with
wonder, becoming chastened, like faces
of men beholding a miracle.
"You will get under way for Fireman.
tie, Mr.. Corlinnsen, said Ragna, catching
her breath. AT once!"
The mate offered protest
"Corlinnsen, nothing must stop us from
going on she said-using, as if uncon-
sciously, their own Morse speech "This
is Curt's-my husband 's-first command.
Nothing must happen to it. Men who
have ill luck in their maiden ships, who
make expense and trouble for their own
ers, get short shrift."
"But you, dear woman-you--" he
stammered in embarrassment
IL am my husbands wife!" she retorted
fiercely. "His right arm to strike! His
eyes to see for him! am he until he is
well again!"
The words fell from her lips with maj
esty that fired his Scandinavian imagina-
ton. She was of his own blood and
breed, this girl with the golden hair.
by Thor, we 60 to Fremantle!" swore
Corlinnsen
THEREAFTER, in fair weather and
foul, she stood watch and watch with
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Curt Chase made Ragna Storm his wife,
and took her back to the Pleiddes, which
had Graded her. That night he wrote a
letter to Mrs. Storm that brought a
prompt delivery of Ragna's personal be-
longngs. 1t was the one answer he ex-
pected; but it was not the only one the
green-eyed woman returned.
Pinned to a shirtwaist, where on open
ing her trunk she could not help seeing it,
Ragna found a card on which her step
mother had scrawled:
"You hrew yourself at that boob's head,
and he took you out OF pity Wat tM he
makes up"
Defensively, shamefully, the girl de-
stroyed the card, but not its sting.
March roared out with the strike mount
ing in fury and bitterness. April heard
dynamite used for the first time. Laysan
suggested to Chase that he send Ragna
ashore to remain with Mrs. Laysan until
all danger had passed. Ragna overheard
him.
any place is here with my husband
she said; and they could not change this
determination.
THE beginning of May brought lull
which, however, was only the calm of
the storms vortex The end of the month
saw the port paralyzed and gorged with
idle coastwise shipping.
ave should be carrying cargo, Curt"
Ragna began to murmur, with the coming
of June. She was not herself, and great
and growing uneasiness for her filled Curt.
ooh, but I'm not afraid, Curt. To be
out in the open again is all that wish.
That was the sum of her answers to his
repeated urgings that she go ashore with
Mrs. Laysan. The last time he mentioned
her leaving him, she said, with fierce
pride: IL am no shore woman!'
That was on an evening when, with no
thought of the two armed watchmen
her arms round her husbands neck and
kissed him. Her wonderful golden name
was down that evening, hanging below
her hips in two braids as thick as Curtis
sinewy wrists.
any husband, you do love me, don't
your" she asked, clinging to him. but as
she spoke shudder went through her
warm body. The round, half-bare arms
became as ice against his neck.
And, instead of answering her question
with the lovers assurance that was on his
lips, the boy exclaimed in all tenderness:
"Ragna, you are cold! You are not
WE'LL"
4Oh, I'm well, she answered, with a
little laugh of bitterness, and drawing
away from him. "But | am tired; | will
go below"
The thought that excluded all else from
her mind was that never in so many words
had Curt said: "Ragna, love YOU"
Mid-June brought truce in the labor
war, and John Laysan snatched at deep
water charter for the Pleiddes-railroad
supplies to Fremantle, the port of Perth
in western Australia.
Without let-up, the lading of the
Pleiades was driven until, in. the midst of
a young July morning, manned by crew
put aboard under the cover of night
dregs of the port churned to the surface
by the strife ashore and for the most part
shanghaied,- passed out through the
Golden Gate. Even the two mates, signed
on at the last minute, were strangers to
Chase and to each other. Clayton, the
<lsa 90 1nI &l,n,, n.
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE Tor October 8, 1915

by incOmpetency and inefficiency, inn
agined, as youth is so prone to do, that
he stood alone against the world.
Going below in the first watch of the
night after entering the southeast trades,
to get his sextant,-the ship was coming
up with Caroline Island, - Curt dis
covered Ragna asleep in chair at the
cabin table. He bent to kiss her smooth
white forehead, then Strengthened with
shock that made him gulp. Lying open
in her lap was her fathers copy of Spencer
the book that had started the brave old
man cogitating about the "infnitude of
space" At last Curt had an explanation
of Ragnas moroseness.
WITH the dizziness of thief, he slipped
the book out from under the hand
resting on it, and stole up on deck. AS
he flung it overheard, the second mate,
returning from sweating down of the
fore-braces, joined him.
"Ay got de street-preacher faller on de
fo'c'sle lookout, sir, and two more fallers
bane on de foret 'gallun yard Wit yarp eyes
open for de ayland," Corlinnsen reported.
Everybody bane lookin' yarp tonight.
LAY SiuiHiHy, OH, youNo ltHh uty oil
axpec t go ayore.
ave ought to be getting the loom of the
breakers within the next ten or fifteen
minutes, about two points off"
The cabin clock struck five bells; but
the man at the wheel, who had been listen
ing with straining ears, struck six.
what do you mean by striking six
bells?" demanded Chase whirling round
"You-"
In that second babel started, forward.
"Silence, for ard! Silence!" Curt shout
ed, springing away from Corlinnsen's side
to the break of the poop.
A haunting laugh answered him. In its
wake followed stream of insulting cpl
tibet. Curt, snatching up belaying-pin,
cleared the poop and started forward on
run. A warning cry from Corlinnsen
was drowned by violent ringing of the
wheel bell, but anyway 1T would have
failed.
AS Chase reached the break of the
forward house, the trap into which he
had flung himself closed. Four, five, six
men-all with blackened faces-sprang
upon him. One dropped on him from the
top of the house. Others sprang out of the
shadow of the bulwarks and surrounded
him. The ship flying into the wind and
aback, filled the night with a racket of
threshing canvas and shivering spars.
And the youngster at bay had but one
thought: if these beasts should finish him,
they would have Ragna at their mercy.
knife slipped in and out of his thigh.
Another pierced his arm-stuck there.
Thus steel came into his hands to meet
steel. He saw Corlinnsen running for
ward on one side of the deck and the
helmsman on the other He drove his
knife into Sandstrom's side, and as he
pulled it out he saw flash of white emerge
from the cabin.
1t was Ragna running along the moon
white deck. He took another knife
thrust in his arm in order to cry to
her to go back and lock herself in. But
as that warning left his lips handful
of red pepper struck him full in the face
and blinded him. His head became a
flaming torch, and he gave way.
Yet no earthly power could have stayed
the girl. With the passion of tigress
going to the succor of whelp, she flung
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faced fellow built like poplar sapling-
who admitted the avocation of street.
corner evangelist.
As the wheel was being relieved at four
bells Ragna appeared in the companion
way to say that she was tired and would
sit up no longer
"Good night. Curt said, with brusque-
ness of which he was not conscious. He
did not see that his wife had reached up
to kiss him.
Turning aft from the companionway,
Curt saw that the wheel had been relieved
by sailor who had been shipped by Will
sons clearinghouse This tow-headed,
ox-thewed fellow called himself John
Sandstrom. But he was a sailor, one of
five by actual count who knew stem from
stern.-- The possibilities of strength in him
had challenged the young master. Now
vagrant CLEAN of moonlight picked
from under the helmsman's sou 'wester the
point of prognathous jaw, and a thick
upper lip that had recently been shaved.
Carrying a press O. sail, that fellow
Shaved in hurry or miss my guess
This observation, made by Clayton
during the morning, came back to Curt
now, just as Sandstrom, seemingly con-
scious of scrutiny, let the ship yaw badly.
One stride and Chase was beside him,
swapping close to his ear:
"Don't let the police worry you! They
can't get at you here!'
1t was a quarterback sarcasm of an
cient and common use in American deep
water ships.
am not afraid of the police, sir, an
swered the sailor boldly enough. But
somehow the Pleiades' master felt that he
had ficked him on the raw, and he warned
Clayton and Corlinnsen to keep an eye
on Sandstrom..
1T was on the following day that Curt
put the last tier on the barrier that
separated him from Ragna. He ordered
the fitting up of one of the spare after
cabin state-rooms for his use.
al think, Ragna," he explained, "you
feel as you do because I've been coming
and going at all hours and you haven't
been getting your proper sleep. But I've
got to get this gang whipped into shape
The girl made no comment, but he
caught a flash in the depths of her eyes
oiuu hihuN iiiI aoh ltI IL llc uiu Sotlu ally
thing that hurt her feelings.
"No-indeed, no, Curt" she answered.
But voice somewhere within her was re-
peating over and over again, "What pity
takes pity rarely keeps" 1t was line
upon which she had stumbled that morn
ing in Norwegian novel,
The Pleiades swept down the northeast
trades. Chase kept telling his mates that
they and he would prove that ships could
be got through "a passage despite all the
labor unions that ever existed Thus he
communicated to them some of the spirit
of terrible bitterness that the strike and
Jon Storms assassination had implanted
in him.
Suddenly, in an hour, the Pleiades lost
the trades. Followed week of battling
airs. And then days were upon the ship
whose Moons made her deck seams spit
pitch and her rigging weep splattering
drops of tar
1t was on the fifty-eighth day after los
ing the northeast trades that Curt Chase
finally pulley-hauled the Pleiades into
fair breeze. In that time the ship had
made only six hundred and sixty miles.
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THEREAFTER, in fair weather and
foul, she stood watch and watch with
him. Yet it was che who commanded the
ship, for, good seaman though Corlinnsen
was, he was tyro in exact navigation.
And withal she was nursing Curt back to
strength. None save herself entered her
husbands room; her hands alone minis
tered to him; her lips alone lied as to the
course the vessel held
A fortnight Of this, and she had to con-
Tess. The Pleiades plunged out of the
province of the trades and into the maui
OF succession of southwesterlies. No
longer could she conceal the fact that they
We're not headed for Apia. But she gave
Corlinnsen all the credit.
Hes done a big thing for you and me,
Ragna, Curt said, when she had told him
There's more to him than thought
"Yes, she answered. Usually there
The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-24
KILLING Of
NON-COMBATANTS
SEEMS TO BE ONE OF GER
MANY'S INALIENABLE
RIGHTS ON THE
SEAS
CAssociated PressD

Berlin, Aug. PA Berlin newspa-
per publishes what purports to be the
brief dispatch to the London Tele-
graph, quoting Secretary Tumulty as
saying Americans are unitedly with
the president, and if necessary will
give their lives to maintain the in
alienable rights of Americans on land
and sea. The Kreuz eZitung says,
"These inalienable rights as known
consist of using British passenger
steamers"
No further details of the sinking of
the Arabic have been published here.
Beerlin papers do not comment on the
situation.
As it has not been reported in the
United States that Secretary Tumulty
made the remark attributed to him,
it is likely that the dispatch to the
Telegraph was based on rumor.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-24
SHOULD KEEP OFF
BELLIGERENT SHIPS

Chicago, Aug. 2S.-William ]. Bry-
an last night gave out the following
signed statement:
''I have read the editorial opinions
concerning the sinking of the Arabic,
as those opinions were reproduced in
Saturday mornings papers, but they
seem to me to avoid the most i'm
portant question. The real question
is not whether American citizens
have, under international law, a right
to travel through the danger zone on
the ships of belligerent nations. That
is admitted. The question just now
is whether an American citizen should
put his convenience or even his rights
above his nations welfare. If Ameri-
can citizens refuse to consider their
own safety or the safety of the ma
ton, then a second question arises,
namely, whether the government
should permit a few persons to drag
the country into this unparalleled
war"
The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-24
" AT THE HANDS Of
PARTIES unknown Y
FINDING OF THE CORONER'S JURY ON THE LYNCH
ING Of Leo NJ. FRANK
ASSOCIATED Press)

Marietta, Ca, Aug. 24@"Leo NJ.
Frank came to his death by hanging
at the hands of parties unknown"
This was the verdict of the coron-
er's jury here this morning. Eleven
witnesses were heard. No clue to
the identity of any member of the
mob was elected. The verdict was
given three minutes after the testi-
mony was received.
City and county officials testified
that they had endeavored diligently
to get at the facts. Their efforts so
far are unavailing.
'These things are kept pretty close
and are hard to find out" Mayor
Dobbs said.
Deputy Sheriff Hicks and City
Marshal Looney stated they were
working hard on the case but could
not throw any light ON the identity
of the lynchers. The nearest thing
to a disclosure was made by j. A.
Benson, a Marietta merchant. Mr..
Benson said he drove by the place
soon after the lynching. The party
had parked its automobiles by the
road side and led Frank to the death
tree He said he had a pretty good
idea what was going on. He did not
stoy to see it. He did not recognize
anyone in the party.
w. J. Frey, near whose cotton gin
the body was found, was working in
his field when three or four automo-
biles passed. He thought he saw
Frank. He hastened to his house and
ate breakfast and went to Marietta,
then to the cemetery where Mary
Phagan is buried; went back to Mar
ietta, met Benson, who told where
the cars had stopped, and the two of
them FASTENED to the woods and
found the body.
Others testified to finding the body
and its condition.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-24
MET THE GRAND MASTER
Well Attended Session of the Ocala
Odd Fellows Monday Evening

Well Attended Session of the Ocala
Odd Fellows Monday Evening
In response to call for a special
meeting of Odd Fellows number of
the local members and several repre-
sentatives of nearby lodges convened
at the hall of Tulula No. % Monday
evening.
The object of the meeting was to
organize and get under way a dis
trict movement. At the last meeting
of the grand lodge provision was
made for dividing up the state into
districts so as to enable the grand
lodge officers to meet with their
deputies more frequently than is pos
sible under the old plan.
This was the subject principally
brought out in several splendid
speeches by those present, among
whom were Grand Master w. u.
Lathrop of Bradentown, and Grand
Secretary John w. Blanding of
Gainesville.
District Deputy w. C. Blanchard,
who presided at the meeting, appoint
ed committee on organization con-
sisting of Messrs. NJ. NJ. Little, Jake
Brown and w. L. Colbert. This com
mittee was instructed to prepare con-
stitution and bylaws to submit to the
next meeting, which will be held in
Ocala Tuesday, September 9th. At
that time it is proposed to complete
the organization of Marion, Citrus,
Levy and Sumter counties into a dis
trict to work under the orders of the
grand lodge officers. Mr.. H. E. Mar
tin, representative of Amity Lodge
No. Al, Oxford, was elected secre-
tary.
Grand Master Lathrop has formed
the state into sixteen districts and
finds the work progressing nicely un-
der the plan in that it gets together
the members of neighboring lodges at
intervals more frequent than under
the old one. 1t is the present plan to
call a district meeting quarterly.
Among those present was Mr.. C. G..
Lameraux of Center Hill lodge, who
gave valuable assistance by his sug-
gestions during the evening.
The district movement is meeting
with hearty approval and the lodge is
anticipating much good from the new
working plans.
Messrs. Lathrop and Blanding re-
turned to their homes on last nights
trains
The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-24
Germany Asks for a Suspension
of Judgment
AMBASSADOR BERNSTORFF SAYS NO REPORT HAS BEEN
MADE OF SINKING OF THE ARABIC
CAssOciated Press)

Washington, Aug. 24.-The Ger
man imperial government, through
its ambassador to the United States,
Count Won Bernstorff, has asked the
United States not to make a final
stand in the Arabic incident until all
the facts are known. This is the first
word from Germany since the White
Star liner sunk. Ambassador Bern
storff telegraphed TO the state de-
partment, saying that he made this
request at the instruction of his gov
ernment. He added that the German
had not yet been able to
get a report of the sinking of the
Arabic
The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-24
NORMAL SUPPLY
FOR NEUTRALS
OF COTTON WON'T BE CONFIS-
GATED BY THE ALLIES
ASSOCIATED Press)

Washington, Aug. 24.-Cotton car
goes for neutral countries will not be
confscated under the recent decree of
the entente allies, making the staple
absolute contraband, if the consign-
ments are within the normal con-
sumption of these countries. This
assurance was given shippers in a
statements issued from the British
embassy today.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-08-24
FIXING COURTHOUSE FLOORS

Courthouse officials are busy NOV
ing the apparatus out Of the tax col
lector's Office and the court room Of
the county judge preparatory to put
ting down concrete floors.
The tax collectors Office viii be
moved to the second floor Of the build
ing until the work is completed
Messrs. McIver and MacKay have
the contract for the concrete work.