2 Lightship No. 4 By M. QUAD Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. One day thirty years ago it was re ported to the Trinity board, which has charge of all lights ou the coast of Great Britain, that a shoal had made in the English channel about iniie miles due east of the Lizard. At tbe spot indicated there had been thirty fathoms of water ever since a British ship went to sea, and the board, of course, argued that there bad been a mistake, it was a fishing craft which had reported the shoal and found only fourteen feet of water over it, and a craft was sent out at once to make an official investigation. What bad hap pened was this: It was a bowlder strewn bottom, and two or three old wrecks had drifted together and piled up on each other until u dangerous ob struction bad been formed. It was as if a great rock bad been heaved up from the bottom, and tbe board must guard against tbe danger without delay. Thirty years ago tbe diver's dress was not what it is today, nor c-ouid men handle explosives under water as they can now. After two or three vain attempts to clear away the wrecks the work was left for a storm to accom plish, and meanwhile lightship No 4, under Captain Crox. was moved around from Mounts bay and anchored near the spot and notice given to mari ners. That night it was the captain's watch from 8 till midnight A gale had come up. It had come 10 o'clock when a sudden hail reached the light ship. The captain was aft and his mate forward, but he knew at once that the hail came from seaward. It was not so dark but that one could See a ship 300 feet away, even though she had no lights aboard. As soon as a port fire was ignited the sea was lighted up for hundreds of feet around in a ghastly way, and both men looked for the craft they suppos ed to be near by. They looked in vain till the signal was nearly finished. Then a ship's yawl, driving right up in the teeth of the gale, hove into sight. She was without a mast or sail or oars, and the only figure in her sat in the stern sheets, and Ids arms and legs were bound around with ropes. The man was bareheaded and dress ed as a landsman, and as he drove past within twenty fcc-t of the rail they had a look square into his eyes, and the agony on his face made thorn shudder. They started to throw him a rope, but as the coil swung into the air they re membered that, being bound, he could make no use of it. The yawl and the man went straight to windward and In a couple of minutes were out of eight, and the men found themselves all a-tremble. Captain Crox was full of indignation over the crime of send ing a man afloat In that manner and of pity for the victim, when his mate touched him on the arm and shouted in his ear: "If I was ashore, captain, all the money in England would not bribe me to set foot on this deck again!" "What's the matter with you?" was called in reply. "It's only a bit of shore villainy that we must report" "It's nothing that's happened ashore, eir. Did you take notice that the craft was driving right in the teeth of the gale? It wasn't a live man in that boat She was going to windward with a ghost, and I'd give the bit I have in the bank if I'd not seen it." It was agreed between them thatnoth lng be said to tbe other watch when they turned out, and they went on duty without knowing or suspecting that anything out of the way had hap pened. While carrying the thing out with pretended indifference. Captain Crox was, as a matter of fact, pretty thor oughly upset over it and on turning In found he could not go to sleep. He had been lying on his bunk and turn ing the thing over in his mind for ar. hour or so and the gale was still howling and the lightship bouncing about when he realized from the movement of the watch that they had been hailed. He was out of his bunk and on deck just as one of them light ed a port fire, and you can judge his feelings when he saw the former scene re-enacted. There were the yawl and the man, and the boat slowly forged past them and disappeared to wind ward. Tbere was no more sleep for any body on board No. 4 that night, and next day, when the gale broke and the tender came alongside, all de manded that they be put ashore a! once. The captain was as badly rat tled as the others. They were guyed and ridiculed, of course, but thej" stood so firm that the tender brought off another crew, and they were rs> lieved from duty. A new crew waS assigned, but the man and the boat ap peared to them twice in one night and drove them ashore, as they did the others. A third crew went out and for two weeks began to prepare to remove tbe wrecks. Some progress had been made when a three days' gale set in from the north, and there were more wrecks than had been known for ten years before. For two days the light ship hung to her anchors, though hav ing a signal of distress out after the first day, but when the gale abated she had disappeared. She had been swept down the channel and out to tea, and a week later she was passed bottom up mors than 300 miles away. The same storm broke up and remov ed the wrecks, and there was no longer need to keep a light at that spot SON OF MIKADO IN DRAWING CONTEST. -• Photo by American Press Association. At an athletic meeting of the primary class of the Peers' school in Japan the emperor's sons competed— Princes Hirobito and Yasuhito. The latter took part in the rapid drawing competition. He is to the left of the picture. BRITISH SOLDIERS IN "TEDDY BEAR" CGATS. { / """ "\~ ; I /yl r > \ '/ X iv, ' •.. >. il Photo by American Press Association. ISOLATED ISLANDS. Lonely Tristan da Cunha Gets Outside News Once In Two Years. Though scientific progress has made it possible to do a double journey be tween England and America in a fort night. there remain many islands with which it takes years to communicate. Off the Scottish coast are the groups of islands known as the Hebrides. Ork neys and Shetlands. Of these the moat Isolated island is St. Kikla. some three miles long and two miles broad. The inhabitants lead lives of great loneli ness. for it takes a month to get to the next island, and the sea often makes any communication with St. Kilda impossible for months. The group o' eight Phoenix islands in the Pacific has a total population of only 138. while another little bit of the British empire is Fanning island. This is a landing place for the Pacific submarine cable, and usually tbere are about 100 people in the place. The loneliest of all parts of British territory is the island of Tristan da Cunha, in the south Atlantic, which is also the smallest inhabited island in the empire. It is 1,800 miles from land, has a population of seventy-four Scottish Americans, and the inhabit ants get news of the outer world usually once every two years.—Loudo Stray Stories. REFUGEE CHILDREN OF RUSSIAN PRIESTS. Photo by American Press Association. In Galicia many Russian priests were arrested by the Austrians and held as hostages, some being executed. Their children were later sent to Petrograd by the Russians. i Oregon's Woman Stale Sen ator Likes Job rls?; Yow! Wfcnto bv American Press Association. MISS KATHRYN CLARKE. The Patriot. Tried It on the Postman. A young business woman on her way to the car. at closing time, stopped at the box to mail a letter. Just as she was about to drop the letter in the box the collector arrived and. reaching for it. said, "I'll take it." The young woman looked at him a moment and handed him the letter, with the remark. "Now. don't forget to put that in the postoffice." The collector looked at her in dis gust and said nothing. "He never saw the joke." the young woman said after she had told the story of the incident. "I suppose he has no women folk in his family who know that the letters they intrust to the men are carried around in their pockets for days before they are mail ed."—Columbus Dispatch. Aye, There's the Rub. If we had to turn our own grind stones we wouldn't have so many axes to grind.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Drummer. *1 sometimes think." remarked the Mgular patron, "that the snare drum mer should be the best musician in the theater orchestra." "He usually i," said the drummer.— Chicago Tribune. Hard to Pronounce. One of the hard names to pronounce is that of the central Russian govern ment called Nijni Novogrod. The first "i" has the sound of "e;" the second is short. The "o" ID the penultimate syllable is long, as in the English word "go." The "o" in the syllables "nov" and "rod" has the sound of ' o" in the English word "rod." ".T" has the soft French sound. The accents are on the first and last syllables, "Neezh ni Nov-go-rod." CURTAIN FALL'S ON BSD CONGRESS Ssssion Ended at Neon Today; Stir a! Finish NEUTRALITY E!LL iS PASSED President Jt Last Minute Has Resolu tion Adopted Which Will Strengthen Him In Enforcing Nation's Obliga tions to belligerents—Many Prom inent Cs ".ators Retired to Private Life Today. Washington, March 4. —The sixty tliiril to.. o .iso came to an end today at noon. Pre—dent Wilson caused an unex pected sc.r before adjournment when lie aanu lor iv o .SiUi.ou to enable tiie goveii—i— .. to e-~v>me more strictly its uc.—o us a nou-.ai. Tdo -.u.on .a ucjignod to givo the ..... - .. i jov.cr co deal with the 5..U.. . —i tnrough Gemma war ve.,Sw. a—iUv,an coast having supplied from A—rts Lj merchant vessels. 'mo of the resolution, .... legal verbiage, was ex plained Ly iicprese..tative Temple of Peuii£>y lvu-uia, who is reccg .zed as an expert on international law. It i 3 this: "The warship of a belligerent is not permitted to buy supplies in the ports of a neutral nation except to a limited extent. They sometimes em ploy nierciiant ships to make pur chases, which are forbidden to wai ves , del.vsr them-outside of the three mile limit. This resolu tion provides that when an American merchant ship .is thus acting as a suppiy ship to naval vessels of a bel ligerent the port collector shall refuse clearance and a vessel sailing with out clearance shall be punished by heavy penalties." V ♦ • Prominent Senators Retire. Today's final adjournment of con gress saw the retirement of nine prominent senators from official life. Keen regret is expressed on ail sides over the retirement of Senators Root and Burton. In them the sen ate has lost two of its ablest debaters and counselors. Both men tired of the game. Burton had planned to be a candidate for re-election, but when opposition developed he quit. Senator Burton is a scholar and student. His special knowledge extended to river and harbor work, monetary legisla tion and foreign relations. Senator Root in leaving the senate removes from the body the ablest lawyer and most skilled diplomat in congress. This fact is conceded by Democratic as well as Republican sen ators. Like Mr. Lodge and Mr. Bur ton, he has been pointed out from time to time as the "ideal" senator, the type of man the framers of the constitution had in mind when they created the senate. The two richest men in the senate included in the departing nine are Stephenson of Wisconsin and Camden of Kentucky. The story of their wealth may be told in two words, "lumber" and "coal." Stephenson is the oldest senator. He will be eighty six next June. Camden is the young est. Neither knows exactly what he is worth for his holdings are in un developed natural resources, the value of which is yet to be definitely de termined. With the passing of Bristow the senate will lose a picturesque figure. The most aggressive of the band of Bristow had. qualities that" everybody in politics thought would keep him in the senate for some time. I Senator Crawford came into office as a Progressive. He had behind him as governor of South Dakota a fairly good record. He was impaled on the spear of a reactionary when he came up for re-election. Two able lawyers leave the senate in the departure of Thornton and White. The former was chief justice of Louisiana. The latter was a very successful attorney in Alabama. White came for a short term to suc ceed the late Senator Johnson. He will be succeeded by Oscar Under wood. Senator Perkins of California, who retires voluntarily on account of ill health, has served more than twenty years in the senate continuously. Perkins was popular. No senator was more punctual in hi.-; attendance upon the sessions. • • No Impeachment For Dayton. The house judiciary committee voted, 11 to 4, to drop the impeach ment proceedings against Federal Judge Dayton of West Virginia, al though the majority report held that the judge's conduct in some instances had been "reprehensible." A minority report, drawn by Chairman McGilli cuddy of the subcommittee, which in vestigated the judge, recommending impeachment, was rejected. The action of the judiciary* committee ends the Dayton inquiry and no further steps are anticipated. Two members of the subcommittee filed a report with the judiciary com mittee criticising Judge Dayton's of ficial conduct, bht asserting that this conduct was not Ibfficient to sustain impeachment proceedings. 1 indicted Far Alleged Viola tion of Niuirality WW L If* . | ? F? v j ~V ; V ' f ,V, ■ Photo by American Press Association. KARL BUENZ. QUEEN UNMINDFUL OF BOMB Belgian Monarch Reviews Troops De spite German Aviators. Paris, March 4. —The Germans, warned by spies who still succeed In operating in Flanders, sent five aero planes laden with incendiary bombs over La Pianne last Friday while Queen Elizabeth of Belgium was pass- In Grenadier regi ment and tue Tenth infantry. As soon as the Taubes came abreast of the city they began to drop their bombs, apparently aiming for the pa rade grounds. Some of the bombs fell near the Red Cross hospital, while others dropped close to the royal villa, but none did any damage. While the presence of the aero planes, which were so high as to be almost invisible, created excitement they were not allowed to interfere with the review. Unmindful of the fact that the proceedings were punctu ated occasionally by the explosion of a bomb the band struck up a lively march and the seventy-two companies in the two regiments marched past between the queen and the sea. The queen unmindful of this also sat on her horse like a veteran. BELIEF WORK HANDICAPPED Germany Will Not Allow Belgium Ships to Stop In England. The Hague, March 4. —Tne German government informed Dr. Henry Van Dyke, American minister to The Netherlands, through the German min ister, F. von Mueller, that arrange ments had been made to grant safe passage through the naval war zone to American relief ships bearing sup plies for the people of Belgium, but will not permit them to touch at Brit ish ports. The German order stipulates that relief vessels must be rendered recog nizable by the usual marks, which must be plainly visible at night (namely, large painted letters on the ships' sides and a white flag with the same marks in red letters.). Germany's refusal to grant safe con duct for relief ships to and from Eng lish ports may have an important bearing on the relief work. The com mission s efforts will be hampered if its ships are not permitted to touch at English ports for coal on the home ward voyage. _ ARMY CAMP WATER. How the Supply Is Conserved and Used In the German Army. Suitable drinking water is of vital im portance to an army, and this is only one of a multitude of problems that must be studied carefully by those who conduct a successful campaign. The water supply of a camp Is a matter of great importance. Only running water is used. In the German army the upstream water is used for driDking purposes and the downstream water for water ing horses and for bathing. Suitable signs notify the men which water Is safe to drink and which may be used only for bathing. In shallow or narrow streams basins are dug or small dams built so as to form a reservoir of ample dimensions. Stepping stones are provided to keep the water clean, as we J! as board pro tection to prevent the banks from crumbling. Basins are dug for water ing horses; troughs are provided only in case of necessity and are then prop ped on posts and filled by means of pumps. Pipes may be driven if water lies at a reasonable depth—in other words, not more than twenty feet. De pending upon their size, these pipes will deliver from four to twenty-two gal lons of water per minute. If water lies very near the surface a hole is dug and a cask, the bottom of which has been knocked out. Is placed in the bole to form a basin. If the wa ter lies at a greater deptb the basin may be formed of box sections driven In one on top of the other.—Scientific American.
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