Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 13 | Bravery's Bright Face

S Bravery's Bright Face 1 S-S S O 0 blow bIow the tIie man down bullies bullies blow blow the theman man down OId Old sea chantey if HE sev seven seas seas still run with the d deeds e s of men who dare Over the lashed storm ra rail even even en 11 no now peers peers' peers pers- th the face of t the man le man who and nd the eyes of f bravery have not notS S Phased ceased to iove rO Fitl in in their earch for new coasts f f adventure The other day i in the China se sea ti Ja new chapter was written in iii the tile book book of Adventure adventure where the courage of the every every- S t t se sea life blazed forth in one fierce and andS andS S S Beautiful gesture gestureS of daring When the British steamer Sunning left a Chinese port for Hang Hang- 3 J kong ong forty m male le passengers came aboard Jin W S1 a every mothers mother's soil sob of them pulled a a gun and nd rushed the bridge Officer Officers were Quickly overpowered and disarmed T The lie l pirates ir tes' tes too took control and placed h two o of their J j number on the bridge to watch H B Bu I for the e c challenge all that was vas accePted A jy a a. a chief officer and second officer a another other f pirate irate ship might be sailing the main main today J nd a new scourge held over the China sea But ut the dare was there and they took it At S midnight th the two men who had obtained re rek ret re- re t k- k 4 Silvers and ammunition watched their chance chancel l t recapture the ship What odds V t Two Against forty fortyl It was their moment of su of-su- su- su preme adventure the chance perhaps they i lad i-lad dreamed about since boyhood and the fear ar of death was not to dizh it now now Th They y shed shed the bridge and mowed down the two 1 guard Buccaneers str streamed amed up from from- beThey be- be e w. w They seized the chief engineer engine and d Rising using ing him as a shield advanced toward vard the th idge S H H Here r the steel in the men mert men menon o on t t Jhone its brightest Into the heart ohe the S l argin fired even though some ie their bulli bullets ts must pier pierce e a n comrade comrade The hance was one of the fortunes of wax war va and i venture which must be accepted Hand to t if jand and then with their fists and the butts of revolvers the two bully boys boy who vho ho t ok J e dare fought their modern moden Thermopylae t S on n fl a ships ship's bridge Their fierceness er eness and S 5 c urage turned the tide The pirates f fell back Ck Then flames roared out ut of the first first class class I Quarter The inv invaders ders had set fire to the S I ship lip It was vas th their ir last attempt to conquer conquet jie e spirits o of the gods godsho who ho ho had stood there ther 1 Jen the bridge in the black Slack night and beat beal Them em back But th the fire vas was their own own- uny un un- y ing bing It attracted a British cruiser When r 1 approach was noticed the pir pirates tes leaped ito 10 lifeboats and p pulled aw away y Most of them ere ere captured It is an epic of f the old seas lra posed into a modern day It Itis is a work S o r jr r Homer The act must stand out brightly m l t the chronicles of all the bully bully boys boys of the tte theS S Sta a who stood there to take fake the dare and alid bIow them down