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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
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Battles Which Made the World
THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
Fire and Storm and Hie Sea Kings of England Kept Philip From
Realizing His Dream of a World Empire.
By CAPT. ROLAND F. ANDREWS
(Copyright, 1917, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate)
It is said that before the start of
the present hostilities Winston
Ohurehill, then first lord of the Brit-
ish admiralty, mobilized the grand
fleet in defiance of orders not to do
so, and thus was ready to spring at
Germany with every sea dog of Eng-
land when war broke forth. If Col-
onel Churchill thus acted he had high
English example in the case of Lord
Howard Effingham. It was he who
as high admiral of England in 1588
disobeyed most flagrantly Queen Eliza-
beth's own order to dismantle part of
Ids fleet and was therefore possessed
of the strength to smash the great ar-
mada of Spain when its lofty gal-
leons came rolling into the channel.
Spain was at that time perhaps the
most powerful nation in the world.
(England was by compar a feeble.
'Spain sought world o *. Her
Philip believed it possib. to make
himself the head of a universal mon-
archy, sharing power only with the
pope. England stood in his way.
Hence the dispatch of the armada to
make England vassal to Spain, burn
'her heretics and establish the sway of
Philip over both the old and the new
hemispheres.
Howard, with his captains, was at
a game of bowls in Plymouth town
(when there came scuttling into the
(harbor a Scotch privateer with the
news that the armada was even then
off the Cornish coast. Forthwith there
(was a rush for messengers, a lighting
nf alarm fires and a press of cap-
tains for their ships. Only Sir Frances
(Drake remained.unconcerned. There
was time, he observed, both to win the
(game and beat the Spaniards. So aim-
ing their bowls very carefully and cool-
fly they finished what Hallam reck-
ons the “best and bravest match that
ever was scored.”
The royal navy, augmented now by
several times its number of armed mer-
chantmen, had got together a fleet
of 191 vessels. The bitterly punished
but still Indomitable Dutch sent some
help from Holland. The largest ves-
sel of all was the Triumph, measuring
1,100 tons. The number of men was
slightly over 17,000. Howard, com-
manding, was himself a Catholic, but
though Philip proclaimed his cause the
cause of the church against the here-
tic, Howard and all the other English
Catholics remained splendidly loyal.
Against them Philip sent a force the
tremendous extent of which is given
!by Hakluyt. The vessels numbered
'150, no less than 64 of them galleons,
which Hakluyt says were of “-an huge
bignesse and of marvellous force and
so high that they resembled great cas-
tles.” Manning the fleet were 8,000
sailors, 2,088 slaves and 20,000 soldiers,
'besides nobles and gentlemen, all un-
der command of the duke of Medina
feidonia. At Dunkirk, the great Span-
ish general, Farnese, was collecting an-
other fleet for the transport of troops
to England as soon as the armada
should win the command of the seas.
1 “The Invincible Armada” as the
^Spaniards termed it, entered the Chan-
nel, headed for Plymouth in the hope
^of surprising the English, found How-
ard sallying forth to meet It, and stood
,<»ff for Dunkirk. Howard first sighted
this enemy on Saturday, the 20th of
jJuly. Letting the great, fleet pass,
die followed, harrying it so severe-
ly that the Spaniards lost several ships.
^Medina Sidonta at last brought his
(ships to anchor In Calais roadstead, Ills
jiarger craft lying in the outer circle.
(Howard dared not attack at close quar-
ters, since his vessels were much in-
ferior in tonnage and in ordinance,
while, as Sir Wallace Raleigh says,
“the Spaniard had an army on board
.him and Howard had none.” How-
ever on the night of the 29th he sent
in eight fireships, so alarming the
I Spaniards that they cut their cables
jnnd put to sea. One of the largest
(galeasses touted another and went
>ashoi*e. In the confusion the rest of
[the fleet became badly scattered so
|that In the morning the feat of reas-
jsembling in fleet formation was most
idifflcult. Now was the opportunity of
Ithe English to attack on something like
(equal terms.
Drake and Fener were the first to
itackle their cumbersome foes. Then
icame Fenton, Southwell, Burton and
smother of smoke and flame as they
smote the unwieldy Spanish hulls, on
the decks of which huddled the great
mass of soldiery, worse than useless in
this action, where the English simply
would not come to close quarters and
fight the matter out with boarders. Sir
Martin Frobisher was af one time in
action with no less than four of the
enemy’s vessels. Drake sank a gal-
leon Which took to the bottom with her
no less than 1,000 men. His foi’mation
broken, his ships shattered, the duke
of Medina Sidonia was driven past
Dunkirk, where lay the flotilla of Far-
nese hopelessly Imprisoned by Justin-
ius and his Dutch blockaders. Before
a southerly breeze the Spaniard ran for
the north, abandoning the effort to gain
command of the seas and hoping only
to round Scotland and make .his way
back home.
The rest is a pitiful tale. The Eng-
lish followed until August 2, their guns
thundering and their hearts exulting as
now and then a tall ship plunged be-
neath the waves. Then perceiving an
apparent shift of the Spanish course
toward Norway, and being themselves
well nigh out of ammunition they
thought it best, in the words of Drake,
to “leave them to those boisterous and
uncouth northern seas.”
The weather that summer was al-
most- a succession of gales. The clumsy
Spanish ships were hard put to it to
keep afloat. Many of them foundered
at sea with all on board. At least 19
are known to have gone ashore on the
coast of Ireland, where the Irish either
put the survivors to the sword or sent
them with halters round their necks
to Elizabeth at London. Of all the
magnificent fleet which had put to sea
with such pageantry and pride less
than 50 craft succeeded in making
their way back to Spanish ports.
Philip’s dream of world conquest
was at an end. Not so much as a
single English pinnace had the great
armada sunk;. England and the seas
about her were to remain free and
unconquered. The sea kings of Brit-
ain had saved her and in truth singed
the beard of the king of Spain.
Drake sleeps deep in Noinbre Dois
bay. His drum still hangs in Plymouth
Hoe and England has his promise :
“If the Dons sight Devon,
I’ll leave the port of heaven
And we’ll drum them up the Channel
As we drummed them long ago.”
DOG HAS THE SIXTH SENSE
Scientists Declare Canine Possesses
One More Than Number of Which
Human Beings Boast.
Human beings, as is well known,
boast five senses; but the scientists
argue that the dog goes one b(^ter, and
possesses six. What the sixih sense
is has long puzzled the best authori-
ties. It is something more than the
mere sense of smell, as the following
instances show, according to LondoD
Tit-Bits.
It is possible, for instance, for a dog
to make its way Into a crowd of people
and pick out its master. In so doing
the animal uses its sense*of smell;
but there is another qualification to
be accounted for. Cases have fre-
quently been reported where dogs,
after being taken on long journeys by
train, have been lost amid tlielr new
surroundings, eventually to find tlieii
way home again. Such a case is that
of a retriever which was taken by
train to St. Albans, but, leaving Its new
home shortly after arrival, returned to
its home at Highgate Hill.
It took the retriever two days to
cover this distance, and the dog was
well-nlgli exhausted when It reached
Highgate Hill. How is It possible for
a dog to pick out Its way In such a
manner? one might nsk. The dog has
undoubtedly more than the five senses
credited to human beings, but scien-
tists have yet to tell us what the extrr
one Is.
When the dog has been taught to
speak we may perhaps have the prob-
lem solved from self-experience.
Honest Resentment.
“That fellow Bligglns is a
flush.”
“Look here,” exclaimed Broncho
four-
(the rest, with the lord admiral plunging I Bob. “I don’t want to get into nc
lin himself. While the action was that trouble on account of sentlmerC But
jof detached vessels rather than squad-
irons, It was general and it was furious-
I’ra not goin’ to hear you com; r> ori€
of the purtiest hands in the deck for
ily hot. Drake was hulled no less than bluffing purposes . to a plain discard
j40 times and his cabin was shot out | proposition like Bligglns.”
from under him. The shot of a deml-
culverin landed on the dinner table of
the earl of Northumberland. But the
English ships wei-e the smarter sail-
ors, the English got the weather gauge
and they kept the vessels in a
Powers of Imagination.
When a fellow Is. in love he can set
poetry in every return snap of he*
jaw as she mangles a wad of chewing
gum.—Pittsburgh Post
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(Copyright, 1917, by W. G. Chapman.)
“I’m powerful tempted, Missy, but
I’m strivin’ hahd to circumlocute de
straight and narrow path.”
Thus Zelte Washington, dusky of
face and conscience alike, notorious
for past misdeeds, reclaimed accord-
ing to popular repute, but many a
former adversary still crossed the
street to evade him when mindful of
his quick temper and proclivity for
carrying a razor.
Pretty Miss Viola Ray tried to
Cheer and encourage him. In a way,
Zeke was a protege of herself and the
family. He had once worked quite
faithfully and efficiently for the judge,
her father. Presuming on this when
down and out and wrecked by a drink-
ing bout, pretty well battered up,
nerves shaken and penitent, he would
appear at the house humbly asking
permission to sleep in the barn and
“fo. bits” for “medicine,” i. e., “a
hair from the dog that bit him,” and
would emerge from obscurity In a day
or two, built up and on the warpath
after, daring negro foes who had
“mussed him up” when he was too far
gone with drink to counter scientific-
ally.
On the last of these recuperative oc-
casions Zeke just grazed the horrors
of delirium tremens. The judge had
him removed to a comfortable bed in
the attic and Viola: and a servant
nursed him by turns. Then Viola
gave him a lecture. The fellow was
amenable to gratitude. He really gave
up drink after that, became a noisy
and enthusiastic member of the little
African chapel got a position as porter
at the town electric light plant and
became the stock In trade “brand
plucked from the burning of the negro
minister.
hadn’t ought to bother you with
my distresses, Missy,” Zeke declared,
“for you look as if you have some
troubles of yer own,” and he eyed her
sympathetically and Viola, indeed se-
cretly sad hearted, wondered at his
powers of discernment. “That good-
for-notliin’, measly Mose Blossom is
de thorn in my flesh. Howsomever,
I may have been a bad razor man,
but Mose is a regular chicken snooker
and a disgrace to de profession.”
“Is he troubling you, Zeke?” in-
quired Viola.
“He is dat, Missy. For why? When
I got religion Mose comes in too. I
don’t put on no style, but Mose—he
swings de agony with his fine clothes
end his silk hat and his silver-headed
cane. Dey makes him a subdeacon
and lets him take up de collections,
while I, dat got in fust, am only a sort
of extra usher. Dat am my grouch at
fhe present time and malik me, Missy,
some day dose slippery fingers of his
will stick to de coin of the congrega-
tion, and de collection will be non-
combatimus en swampto, yessum.”
“Don’t be envious, Zeke,” chided
gentle-hearted Viola. “You are doing
very well and we are all proud of your
excellent behavior.”
“Thank you, Missy, but some day
I’se afraid I’ll gi*ve dat Mose just one
hahd clip to take some of the bam-
bozzle scruptiousness out of dat im-
portant pussonage.”
Zeke had cause to refer to the trou-
bles oi Missy. He had incidentally
heard that Dexter Ward, her former
constant attendant, had left the vil-
lage at odds with the charming crea-
ture whom everybody predicted he
would marry. Zeke liked Ward. He
had coveted a magnificent seal ring
Ward wore, and had admired it, an<J
Ward had compensated him for his
longings by presenting him with a dis-
carded stick pin. Keen-witted Zeke
had guessed that Viola was mourning
for her absent lover, but did not pre-
sume to make more than an Incidental
reference to her troubles. Had he
done so he would have found Viola
mystified, wounded by the silence, the
desertion of a lover to whom she had
penned a little note In answer to his
own one bright morning in the past, to
find the same unheeded and the man
she loved vanished to parts unknown.
She lived on her desolate life with
no complaints, with explanation to no-
body and affairs moved on with Viola
Ray In their natural course. Then one
day with something of a shock she
learned that Zeke, in dragging a vis-
itor fron? peril near a great whirling
driving wheel at the plant, had him-
self fallen against It, had been taken
to the hospital to have one arm am-
putated and was regarded as a Amllant
life saver, if not an actual hero.
It was four months later when she
*uet Zeke on the street, smiling and
cheerful and one coat sleeve empty.
Viola began to condole with him, but1
Zeke would have"hone of It
“Don’t express any pity about mej
Missy,” grinned Zeke. “You see, I
gets big damages from de plant and a
pension, .so I’se fixed for life. And
say, Missy, what you think? Dat low-
down Mose was cotched filching <le
collection plate and de congregation
has appointed me treasurer. I passes
de plate now, Missy, de finance com-
mittee deliberatin’ dat as I had to
hold de plate with one hand and
hadn’t no odder hand, consequently
de funds was safe.”
A week later Zeke sought out the
rival he had defeated and supplanted.
A poor washerwoman had complained
to him that Mose had not paid her
four dollars he had owed her for a
year and understood that Mose was
about to leave town.
“I’ll fetch Mm,” promised Zeke, and
forthwith started- for the domicile of
his oldtime adversary. He located the
room in a cheap lodging house where
he expected to find him. He pushed
open the door to stare, first mystified
and then fully enlightened, at Mose,
posed before a mirror and unconscious
of an intrusion.
Mose had a great seal ring on one
finger and was studying its effect as
presented on his bulky hand. He took
out a watch from his pocket and loft-
ily consulted it. >
“I’ll shore cut a figger when I get
into real sasslety in de city!” he
guffawed.
“Mose Blossom, whar you stole dem
traps? I’se got you. I knows dat
ring. I seen dat watch afore. Dem’s
de property of Mr. Dexter Ward and
I’ll have you pinched in two minutes
if you doant fess up on how you got
them.”
Mose told his wretched story. The
night Dexter Ward left town Mose had!
burglarized his room. He had never
dared to exhibit his plunder in pub-
lic.
“What else you got, hey?” pressed
Zeke.
“Only a little cash, dat’s all, and it’s
all spent,” whined Mose.
“And what else—you speak de troof,
or you get a sure jail sentence.”
“Only some letters, but dere was no
money In dem.”
“Whar is dem letters?”
The miserable Mose turned them
over with the rest of the plunder. He
sneaked out as Zeke looked over the
epistles. One only interested him. It
“I Hadn't Ought to Bother You With
My Distress, Missy."
was from Viola Ray. It answered a
marriage proposal, rnafle months pre-
vious, and because Dexter Ward had
never received it he had gone away.
“Just to find Lexter Ward aud
make Missy happy,” was the one domi-
nant thought of Zeke Washington aft-
er that. And he did find him, and one
evening he strutted down the street to
the home of Viola Ray, his reward,
the handsome watch and the big seal
ring ostentatiously displayed.
“Missy,” he said to Viola, “I’se got
a story to tell,” and he told it. “All
troo dat miserable Mose! And Mr.
Ward is down at the hotel and I’se to
deliber his message. And you is to
answer it.”
“Oh, tell him to come! Tell him to
come!” sobbed pretty Viola, palpitate
Ing with Joy, and hope, and love.
Amber.
Although today we know that amber
Is a hard, resinous substance which
originated from the exudation of ex-
tinct cone-bearing trees in prehistoric
forests, the ancients—particularly the
Greeks—regarded amber with super-
stitious reverence because of its mys-
terious origin and its equally mysteri-
ous properties. When set on fire it
burns slowly, and when rubbed It be-
comes warm and attracts light objects
to itself much as the lode stone at-
tracts iron. The Greeks explained
amber as the tears dropped by Phae*
ton’s sisters.
OLDEST LOVE LETTER FOUND
Billet Doux, Written on Tablet of Clay
About the Time of Abraham, Un-
earthed by Scientist.
The oldest love letter in the wor
Aas been found—and read- by eyes
which it never was intended.
Stephen Herbert Langdon, Museum o
Arts and Sciences, University of Penn
sylvania, was the man to find this bil-
let doux, written on a tablet of clay
about the time of Abraham. He also
has brought to life wliat is said to be
the oldest map in existence, drawn
about 1500 B. C., on another tablet of
clay.
Here is the letter, which, sad to re-r
late, is partly selfish:
“To Kaka and Mirsiia say:
“Thus saith Sin-maglr.
“May the Sun-god give good health.'
“How is this business?
“For a whole month you have not
sent anybody to ask about my welfare.
“Now I direct Shamashepiri unto
you.
“Send me thirty pints of barley meal
and ten pints of bean flour.
“I am in trouble.
“Give quickly.
“What you sent deduct from your;
tithers.
“As to the rest, send it according
to future Instructions.”
Evidently the writer was fond of
both Kaka and Mirsiia, two sisters.'
Although the letter could scarcely be
called affectionate, as the present gen-
eration understands the word, Its
translator assures us that It is a bona
fide cross-your-heart love letter.
What American Voice Is Good For.
A recent dispatch from London to
the New York Sun records the fact
that an American physician visiting'
in that city has discovered that Ameri-
can voices are better adapted to thei
use. of the telephone than the British
voices. To this defect in the British;
vocal cords he ascribes the fact that
the telephone service of London is
much maligned, and says:
Americans do not have soft voices,
hut their vocal cords are tuned correct-
ly for telephoning. English voices are
not. They seem to lack the timber nec-
essary for carrying over the wires.
It Is often remarked that American
women are given to talking loudly in
restaurants and other places. As a
matter of fact, they do not talk any.
louder than their English sisters, but
their voices have a carrying quality
that is sometimes rather trying. How-
ever, it makes telephone using a pleas-
ure for Americans, whereas for Britons
the telephone is always more or less
;n instrument of torture.
What Biblea Can Do.
The American Bible society In mak-,
ing an. appeal for a special war fund
of $150,000, says “We cannot guaran-
tee the Bible as a- charm to ward off
bullets,’’ such as It seemed to be in
the case of Eugene Defail, a French
soldier fighting in Alsace, the Bible in
question and the bullet which per-
forated it but did not enter the breast
of Defail, being now on exhibition In:
the Bible house In New York, “but we'
believe that what the Biblie teaches
can make soldiers brave in living and
braver in dying for their country. To
meet tlieir needs the society is provid-
ing ample editions for soldiers and'
sailors, some of them hound in khaki,
and all suitable for carrying. We are;
offering gratis a deck Bible for pub-
lic service to army and navy chaplains-
who request it. To do these things we
ought to have a special war fund of
$150,000.”
A Raconteur's Fate.
“How did you happen to come here*
my poor friend?” asked the sympa^
thetic prison visitor.
“My sense of humor got me Into
trouble, mum.”
“How did that happen?”
“I wuz robbin’ a man’s house, mum,
an’ had finished de job. I had him
covered wid me gat an’ there wuzn’t
nothin’ keepln’ me, but I couldp’t r*
slst de temptation to tell him a new
story I’d heard from a pal of mine.
Just as we wuz both laughin’ fit to kill,
de cops came in an’ nabbed me.”
Would Want Other Qualifications.
“If I'had to do it over again,” she
sighed sorrowfully, “I know one mis-
ake I should never make.”
“And what Is that?” they Inquired.
“I should never marry a man solely
because he was a graceful dancer.”
Desirable Information.
“Who was that very disagreeable
man at Mrs. Gaddy’s who was con-
tradicting everybody?”
“He? Oh, that’s my cousin once re-
moved.”
“How did you manage to do It?”
Happiness.
“When you think you'd be happy
you was let alone,” said Uncle Eben
“remember dat even then you’d mebbe
be so lonesome you couldn’t be happy/
No Hurry.
Bess—“Oh, yes, I know that he Is a
perfect angel, but there will be plenty
of time to mix with them after onat
.gets to heaven.”
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