THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. i iitniB n A River Aan Waiting and Hop ing to be Drowned. RIVER FRONT STORIES Only One of Thlt Family Left-All Loved the Water-Cannot Leave the Longshoreman' Life -One wrth a Bank Account, but Pertlsis In Working as a Longshoreman. "Old Ripley" was another St;itcn Island waterfront man with a hMnry mrl a fortune. lie hnrt Mue blood, bo ddes, for he was descended from ona f the old Huguenot families that set !ed on the Island In the younir years of America a family of noble linen. ire. He was the last of lils family, be cause, lie ttnld, "love of the w.tter keeps me from nil other loves." Hut It Is told on the Island by those who knew "Old Kipley" that his love of the wafer was Inspired by an uncon querable desire to be near the plirn where the betrothed of his youn man hood lost her life while attcmpMni to cross the Arthur Kill durlnir a squall. From that day "Old Uipley" no lerted his business In New York and took to hanging around the wharf of the little suburb where his fiancee had embarked to her death, ll's friends, unable to make him f orient, dexts ed ater awhile, and then "Old Uipley" swiftly sank to the level in which he stayed for neirly thirty years. He diil odd Jobs to keep body and soul together, but always near the water, lie slept, suminvr and winter, as close lo the water as he could pet. And when he was neither working nor slefnlni: he could be found Raz ing out over the V" the girl and her brother had drowned. Tbe only pleasure that "old Uipley" ever permitted himself he ImluK'od in whenever he was able to srr.tpe up ennnjih money to hire a boat for an hour or t-vv or was successful In pleading with some of his acquaint ances for the lo.n of one. Then he would pull out into the kill and furiously row up and down until worn out. when he would leisurely m-';e th: l ied ntid Flink off. his uncut hr.Ir tmd ! v bristling beard ri.irin.ir out In .nil directions. "Old l!;i'ey's" end was In keeping with his life. He rolled oiT the wharf on which he was sleeping one sum mer's night. They picked up his body peveral days later over on the opposite shore, and the old man's riverfront acquaintances, who wero conversant with his romance, vowed thnt the body went ashore at the place There his sweetheart was making for " hen her boat capsized. There is a river man in Pittshurir 7ho has been waiting for half of nan's allotted span of years to be drowned in the Ohio. He believes Im plicitly that he will not, cannot, die) any other way. His reason for his belief he states in a matter of fact way: "The men of my family have been river men ever since they settled here In the latter part of the eigh teenth century. They've all loved tho water they've nil lived by It, and they've all died In It. "My great grandfather and one of his sons sank with a raft off Cincin nati. My grandfather was drowned, along with his wife and two daugh ters, In an explosion on the Monon eahela, as the boat was about enter ing the Ohio. "I saw my father knocked senseless off a coal barge during a fight, and ho never rose aliove the Ohio's surface. Three years ago my brother and a cousin were capsized during a storm n piece down the river, nnd their bodies were found a week biter. "Now, I'm the only one of my fam ily left, and the Ohio Is waiting for me. It will get me some day lust, as sure as I'm talking to you and then, maybe, It'll be contented. "Why don't I leave tho river? I can't. It's got Its hold on me. And what good would It do if I did try something else? I'd come back to tha river some day, because I couldn't stay away, and then I'd he no better off. The average longshoreman is not re garded as a man who would have much romance in his life, but a cer tain longshoreman in rhlladelphlai has had varied adventures all over tha world. Thongh a longshoreman, with a dally wage of something under $2, he lives, not in one of the waterfront hoarding houses that his fellow work ers haunt, but In a second-rate hole! In the central part of the city, where the rates for rooms alone equal his earnings. lie has been staying there for ten years, and whenever he pays" his bill It Is by check. The tTrst time that he offered a check It was politely refused. 'If you are afraid of it," smiled the man, "Just call tip the Bank nnd ask them about me." The clerk did so, and this was the .reply he got: "Certainly, it's all right. He's good for many times that sum any day." But who the man Is, or where he has made his money, or why he per sists In working as a longshoreman, no one can satisfactorily say. Those wbo know as much as this of his his tory believe him to be an Englishman, with blooded family ties. Put that is only guess work, as are also their conjectures aliout his wealth. And for his apparent relish for the rough work of a longshoreman they have no explanation except that which the man himself gives: "I love the water'rort, and o I work an it." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. I I. rnon tit the lnli-riinllnnnl ffcrlea j for llviM-nilirr CI, IIMi;l 1 lir l)eil- Irnlloti of the Temple, j Tin: i.imkx ti:xt. I C Is Hik vl-M, i2, t;,) I 1. Thru So.i'ii.uii as.'iiiililtM the eUtiTi of lsrin I, 11:11 ail (he l.tndd of the tribes, itie il.u l ol t h . liiil.tr of the ihl.dieh of Isrntl, ii tit o K .i .unon In jMmim, I I . : H il.e m'.nV.t tirini; up the ai k ul U( u i'imi.1 in' tin- l.iuU uut ul the ci.) of iiavio, vft.ich is Ziun. 2 And ail the mi n of Israel nsi mb'.ed I hems. 1 .. until KIhk Ho!i. mull lit 11. i f.nsl In the mnnth Kthuiuin, wblrh is tbe biv f mil monili, , o. A i,d nil ihc t'.Jn of Israel came, and 'the prints took up the ark. t. And iliey bronulu up the ark of Ihe I. ot j, and the tabu nacle of the congrega tion, and all the holy vessels thatweroin tin tiUniimele, evtn those did the prints and the Levitts bring up. 5. And Kin Solomon, and all the con gregation of Israel, that were mblid unto him, were with l.im In (ore the ark, e n Hill ing sluep and oxi n, that could not be toid I. or numbered for multitude. 6. And the priests brouuht In tt.e ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, Into the oracle of the house, to the tnot holy ph.ee, even under the wings of th cherubim v T. For the cherublms spread forth their two wIi ks over the. place of the ark, and the rl.i ru'oims covered the ark -and the staves thereof nbove, . And they drew out the staves, that th ends of the staves were seen out In the holy place before the oracle, and they were not sen without; and there they arn unto this i!;iy. . There was nothing- In the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, wh re the Lord made a cove nant with the children of Israel, when thty cams out of the land ofKnypt. 10, And It came to pass, when the priests were rome out cf the holy plaic, that the cloud tilled the house of the Lord, 31. Fo that the prksis could not stand to minister liicause of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had lilltd the house of the Lord. t'-i And the kins, ar.d all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before tRe Lord. 6a. Am? Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offering, which he olYert d unto the Jord, two and twenty thoiisnnd oM-n, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Ho the km? and all the children of Israel indicated the house of the Lord. ;il.li: TKXT I was ulnd when they mild ti n to ,e, l,ef n (to Into th hoime of the Lord. I'm. 12211. OtTLINK OP SCItH'TUKK SUCTION. I'rt punulon for Iiuildlng the Temple 1 Kings 6. Doscr.ptlon of the Temple 1 Kinasfi, 7. 'I he Indication l eremoiiles. .1 Kings The King's Address and I'rayer - Kings S:13-6G. ! NOTKS AND COMMENTS. i (1 Kings 5.) When, in his fourth year, Solomon began to build the tem- I pie, he found that the preparations of David had made the work very much lighter than It would otherwise have been. Immense quantities of gold and silver and brass and iron had been stored away. Just how great these quantities were and how much they were worth in our money we have no way of knowing, for the numbers, es pecially in the Books of Chronicles, seem to be greatly exaggerated, ow ing perhaps to the confusion arising from the use of letters of the Hebrew alphabet for numbers. (Chs, 6, 7.) In these chapters is given an interesting and detailed de scription of this most magnificent building. The cubit was about 18 inches. As we saw in Lesson IX, the site of the temple was the threshing floor of Oman, Just outside the city. The temple walls were of huge blocks of hewn stone. "Like the tabernacle, the sanctuary consisted of two cham bers; the Holy place (40 cubits long by 20 broad J, and the Holy of Holies, which formed a perfect cube of 20 cubits. . . . Abutting upon the out er walls of the temple were built cham bers rising in three stories, for the use of the priests and other officials. The place of worship assigned to the peo ple was the large outer court, contain ing a brazen 'sea' or laver Intended for the ceremonial ablutions of the priests, and doubtless also (though it is not expressly mentioned) the great brazen altar of burnt offering." Ottley. For more details of the temple see any good Bible dictionary. (Ch. 8:1-11.) "Solomon assembled the elders of Israel," etc.: Solomon be lieved in the inipressiveness of great pageants. The dedication ceremonies covered an entire week, and were im mediately followed by the regular Feast of Tabernacles. "To bring up the ark:" Which David bad estab lished temporarily on Zion (the "City of David"), one of the two principal hills of Jerusalem. "And the tent of meeting:" The old tabernacle dating from tbe days of Moses. It had been standing of late at Gibeon, but was now brought to be preserved as a sa cred relic In the new temple. "The holy vessels:" The candlestick, table for showbread, altar of incense, the brazen serpent and perhaps the great brazen altar. "Before the ark, sacrific ing:" The whole ceremonial was re ligious and the most impressive part of It to the people was the sacrificing. It expressed their gratitude and praise, but also their confession of sin and their faith that Jehovah might be ap proached in penitence and would glad ly pardon the sin. The animals sacri ficed provided food for the immense crowds that thronged the city. "The oracle:" Better, the most holy place. (Vs. 12-C6.) After the priests had placed the ark in ihe most holy placo the singers (2 Chron. 5:13) burst forth with what has been called the national anthem of the Hebrews, "For He Is good; for His loving-kindness endureth for ever." Figs aad Thistles. The heathen have no monopoly on vain repetitions. Character is the only permanent cap ital in business. Perfection is a glorious prospect but a sad boast The fruit that will keep for. eterni ty does not ripen in a moment The Influence of a nation depends on the affluence of Its manhood. A man's religion in the shop is worth twice his religion In the church. Cod will not give you power until you have some purpose to hitch It to. Ham's Horn. THE WJlALEKS LOSE. Season Closes with Very Few of ilia B.g Fish Caught. Only Una Ship Has a 1'rolllnhle Trls to the Aretlc aters History of Other Dlsnstrous I Seasons. i The whaling season In the uorlhern Atlantic, which ended last month, was a disastrous one. Of the dozen steam sailing craft that cruised In the Arc tic waters not more than three have made expenses, and only one, the Alex ander, had a profitable trip. liver since 1848 whaleshlpa have cruised in the Arctic ocean for the bowhead whale with varying luck, but never before in the history of the in dustry has the chase been marked by such lioor success as this year, except when disaster has overtaken the fleet. This was the rase in 1817, when 34 vessels were crushed in the leu, caus ing a loss of more t'aan $1,000,000. Five years later came another disaster, when 12 out of a fleet of 20 crafts were lost, entailing damage, aside from car goes, of $142,000. For some years prior to the entrance of the Superior into the Arctic whaling had been carried on in the waters of the northern Pacific. In the year fol lowing the flue voyage made by the Su perior, no fewer than 154 vessels tried their luck In the chase for bowheads. In 1S52, when there were 278 ships engaged in the fishery, 3,000 whales were captured, yielding about 5,000,000 pounds of bone, which sold for a little more than 50 cents a pound. The largest catch in the last 20 years was made in 1SS7, when 3D ships took 3G0 whales, of which 292 were bow heads. In 1S95 only 46 whales were taken. Poor as was the season of 1805, it wasn't a patch to the record of 1903, and if whalebone docs not Jump to the six dollar mark, it will be because some sharp Vaul.oo has a cargo or two stowed away for Just such a year as this. I So far as heard from, the number of whales captured this year Is about half that of 1SD5. The failure of the catch in 1?J5 was due to the early formal ion cf Ke. That season whales in plenty were sceu to the westward, but no one could reach them. This year they were seen in open water, sandwiched in between ice floes, and . capture was impossible. Capt. Foley, a well-known whaling master, who sailed for New Bedford agents, has just returned to San Fran cisco in the auxiliary schooner Mon ; terey. He made use of gasoline to drive his engines, and ho reports tbe experiment a very successful one, ex ' cept that the catch did not reach his j expectations. This was due, however, I to the thick ice encountered east of , Point Barrow. Capt. Foley raised eight or ten whales, but only succeeded In captur ing two, which yielded 3,500 pounds of bone. The steam whaler Thrasher, Capt Gurney, of San Francisco, which was reported clean on October 11, ar rived down from the Arctic on No vember 8, in exactly the same condi tion. After a seven months' cruise in northern waters she returned without having taken a Bingle whale, and, as her fitting out cost $20,000, her ownerssuffer quite a loss. Only once did her crew have a chance at one of the monsters, and then he got away. IRELAND LOSES IN RESIDENTS. Decrease of Sixteen Thousand There the l'ut Tear, l'.xclusive of Emigrants, Ireland is a country which still loses thousands of its natural Increase of population by emigration, in which more boys are born than girls, and the most fatal efiidemic is influenza. The population of Ireland in 1902, according to the registrar general's re turn, was 4,4112,274. The marriages, numbering 22,949, and tho births, 101, 803, show a trifle Increase on the aver age of ten years; the deaths, 77,676, ; were a trifle below the average. The excess of births over deaths be , Ing 24,187, and the loss by emigration , amounting to 40,190, there was a de ' crease in the population during the year of 10,003, less whatever immigra tion there was, of which no record is kept. NEW STYLE SMOKER. French Hallway OlllcliiU Test an Im proved 1'ullern of t ouch for I sera of Tobueeo, An effort is being made to Introduce a new type of railway carriage on the Metropolitan railway, in France, suit able lor smokers, the glass of the win dows being replaced by metal plates Viereed with square holes. Many officials were present at a trial at Paris. Police Prefect Lepine ap peared with a box of cigars, and soon all were smoking merrily. The smoke passed through the holes, and the ven tilation was excellent, but it was rath er chilly in the car. A woman suggested having the com partment made smaller. The experi ment, as a whole, was pronounced a success. New Mask tor Antoiuoblliats. The difficulty automobillBts find in protecting their faces has at last been satisfactorily solved. Ugly masks and goggles are now likely to be cast aside for a new mask, which is strong and transparent, and modifies in no way the appearance of fair complexions. It is constructed of transparent horn, with the usual spectacle glasses, and thus obviates the danger of fire so much feared with inflammable cellu loid maska. . EACH COLOR TO ITSELF. Horn the Cherokee fit Ion llavt Solved for Thenisrlt ea Ihe Knee I'rolileni. The race problem in she Cherokee nation Is solved to the general satis faction of the three races concerned and the Intermediary mixed bloods, says tbe Kansas City Journal. In the loitltm of homes tbe Cherokee full bloods and negroes are mostly In set tlements. The Intermarried whites largely are in towns and territory con tiguous to each other. The Cherokee speaking citizens much prefer to asso ciate together. In the nation there are 30 schools at tended by fullblood Cherokee children and 17 by negro children. The negro blood schools are not so by legal re quirement, but as a corollary of their preference to live near each other. Tho Cherokee and negro do not Intermarry or socially mingle. Two seminaries and an orphan asylum are attended by fullbloods and mixed bloods, only, the colored high Bchool by negroes only. In Uic Incorporated school districts whites and Indians attend the s.ne schools, and race prejudice and undue feeling on either side are being lost ill fellowship and friendship cultivated In the class room and on the playground. Koth sides are better satisfied In the combined schools than they were when they were kept separate. Fullbloods seem to mingle as freely with white renters and their families of good char acter as they do with mixed bloods. Of the 38,500 citizens of the Chero kee nation the best statistical Informa tion gives about 8,5110 fullbloods, 3.200 intermarried whites, 22,800 mixed bloods, and 4,000 freedmen. KRUPP ARMOR NO PROTECTION Experiments In ICnttlnnil ltnlse Ueniiinil for Itevolntlou In Construetlon. The revolutionary changes in naval construction which are likely to result from the recent Belle Isle experiments have caused considerable discussion in naval circles. Inquiries made among well-known naval authorities show that the result of the experiments makes a drastic change in the defensive character of ships an absolute necessity. One eminent authority pointed out the difficulty there would be in adding to the armored strength of the vessels, . and expressed the opinion that the change necessary was a great incrcaso In speed, as it was practically impos sible for a torpedo to be accurately aimed at a quickly moving target. i Two prominent officials in the naval construction department at Devonport agreed that a modification in the con struct I tm of warships had been made necessary as the result of the experi ments. "It is impossible," added one of them, "to completely armor the uuder-water I portion of a warship owing to the ques , tlon of weight. The comparatively small section of Krupp belting on a modern battleship weighs already about 4,000 tons. Now the heaviest armor yet devised would form an effective pro tection against the torpedo. "The only means, it Beems to me, of providing against this most potent method of attack is by a great multipli ctaion of the water-tight bulkheads with which every warship Is supplied. There is no denying that the problem of torpedo attack is the one with which we must grapple." KEEPS TAB ON HIS ENGINES. How James J. Hill Heiliiees the Hun. iiliiH I0peuses ou Ills Ilullrouds, James J. Hill has introduced a new economy out west on the Great North ern, Northern Pacific and Burlington railroad Bystem. While it has caused the bookkeepers, trainmen and engin eers much tribulation, it has been found to pay well. Each engine on the system has a tab kept on its daily employment. In a book is kept the cost of that particular piece of machinery, and against it Is charged every cent of expense for oil, for fuel, for repairs, for operation, and on the credit side is given what it earns each day, based on tbe tonnage hauled. If engine No. 200 is found to be cost ing more for oil, fuel or repairs than engine No. 300 an investigation is at once instituted. The engineer Is JiiBt asked to explain. The result Is that No. 200 reforms. The same plan is to be extended to every car on the system, and the conductors and englnemen who can make the best showing are down to get bonuses at the end of the year. The sole Idea is to secure better re turns, and while the Idta costs many thousands of dollars In execution, It has been found greatly to increase earning power while lessening expense. A Medjcnl Discovery. Medical authorities are puzzled over the case of a man who was operated upon for appendicitis and immediate ly recovered his sense of smell, which he had lost many years before. This seems to indicate, says the Chicago Tribune, that the appendix verml formls may be made vicariously use ful. Wealth to a Uaby. Alfred G. Vanderbllt has given his two-year-old son $1,000,000 as a Thanksgiving present. This isn't likely, however, says the Chicago Rec-ord-Herald, to keep the boy from hav ing more or less trouble with his teeth. Cause and Effect. When a general alarm is received at the New York police station, Rays the Washington Post, now the officers are left in doubt as to whether a riot or a fashionable wedding is in progress, Tlio Kind Yon Have Always Kouglit, niul which lias heca lu liso for over 30 years, has homo tho Mjrnatnro of ri - niul has hoon matlo mulcr his pcr- yy" noiinl supervision ulnco Us Infancy. Wiaf-Yt S-ccccAsA'. AUowno ono todocelvo you In this. 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