The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-08-09
BELLEVIEW
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part of the auto up In the air, and the
faithful engine still, continued to kick. |
It beats me how so many people will |
go on that river ferryboat and expect
the old fat to stand still while the two
rear wheels of their car are pushing
it backwards. These two guileless
ones are not the first to do this trick,
neither viii they be the last, and this
is the condition that Mr.. Hightower
and Mr.. Baldorf found them in as they
upon the scene. Mr.. High
tower is some engineer, and in short
time they had arrangements made to
get Nancy out of the river. Mr.. Rog-
ers and Mr.. Baldorf pulled on long
rope that was hitched to a pine tree
and run through two or three pulleys.
Mr.. Hightower got big, long pine
sapling, 80 feet long, and used the
front end the scow for pry, and then
climbed out on the little end and hung
there, yelling for them all TO pull and
push. While Mr.. Miller jumped in the
river and leaned his mighty left
shoulder against the back of the car,
and the harder he pushed the deeper
he sunk in the mud, and with q
mighty effort as he was about to dis
appear below the water for the first
time, he gave one desperate upward
push and altogether Nancy climbed
on shore, under full head of steam
and made directly for Mr.. Rogers. Mr..
Rogers is some acrobat when it comes
to getting out of the way of quick
moving automobile, and Mr.. Baldorf
soon captured Nancy. After that all
was plain sailing; they motored up to
the canal and transferred the accou-
trements to Mr.. Hightower's speed
boat and off they went. The little
fishes knew they were coming and
waited for them and as their bats by
the dark recesses these little fishes
would rush out. and hook on to the
fast flying minnows. 1t just seemed
like fate and luck was with them, I'M
til it began to rain. It rained In their
shoes and filled their pockets and sat
ufated them, and the fishing went on,
and Mr.. Charlie Miller still smiles and
Mr.. Rogers looks like business man,
and Mr.. Hightower and Mr.. Boldorf
are saying nothing, and my firm belief
is that all of these men should have
been in Sunday school last Sunday
Anent all this excitement about
of the state troops, the
big battles taking place in Europe,
the arrival and departure of the big
German submarine, ETC., the sea bat
ties, by memory harks back to the
early days of the present war, when
any vessel flying the flag of any ma
ton was subject to peremptory stop
page at any hour of the day or night,
and subject to search of seizure, as
the circumstances warranted. War
ships of the allied nations were not IN
any way slow about exercising this
prerogative and it was with high
hand they sailed the high seas and
with a peremptory signor or shot
across the bow stopped the passage
of many a vessel as they sailed the
seas hunting for their port of desti-
nation. A number of American yes
sells were stopped, their papers ex-
amined and allowed to proceed. Num-
bers of them were carried into Eng
lish ports, their cargoes seized and
the owners of the vessels put to great
expense and delay. Even our coast
wise steamers, sailing from port to
port, were stopped, visited and allow
ed to proceed. These proceedings
were sometimes called high-handed
The commander of warship while al
sea is a law unto himself. Into his
hands are placed grave responsible
ties and that feeling of bigness of =
ann is not excelled by any class OF
men on the face of the earth. Espe.
cially is this true of the men that
command the ships of our American
navy. One dark, stormy night in the
early days Of the war powerful war
ship of the u. S. navy was speeding
ksouthward off the coast, battling will
immense seas. Outside the blowing
of the gale there was not sound
With lights burning brightly in tn
darkness she proceeded. Far out Il
the distance the lights of another yes
sci were sighted. This did not con
Germ the commander of this vessel, $
lhe took no notice. Of sudden on
of the distance the wireless spit an
sputtered and the operator handle
the commander of this great Amer
can warship message, stating terse
", "Heave to! and await boardin
party This commander, as he crush
ed the message in his hand quietly Is
sued orders to clear for action, as sh
ship plowed on through the seas. ]
: few minutes later his wireless opera
tor handed him another message say
ling, .Lay tot' and in the distance
was noticed that the sailing lights
1 the other were rapidly drawing nea
For while a tense suspense he
every one on board, as they Watche
the on-coming lights. When with
a mile, the strange vessel, who
lproved to be foreign warship, fiasl
ed its searchlight on this great Anne
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