W If v 41 ft i w IP W Av a S1.00 a Year, In Advaace. FOR OOP, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH." Single Copy, 5 Casta. VOL. X V. PLYMOUTH. N, C, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1905. NO. 52. 1 ,6V r .A ROM white .Neath a sky 01 deepest :bJue, ::,., ..V;;?. V L pledge for the wide world's wealth" and weal, AVith P.SP.h mimmpr'n nun nw:-,. t And ere fierce winter can call his clans, Or his shrilling trumpets blow, The fields shine white, through the autumn light, ;.. With my harvest .crown of snow! ' -. . y ' -.y. j.'-''; a.' ' i Then on,Jn the eager world's emprise, I hasten to bear my part ; There's highway for me, o'er land and seai And welcome in every mart. , My vassals true are the gin and screw, i ' ' The wind and the winged steam. 1-. My thrall the boom of the mill and loom And the dancing shuttle's gleam. From rainbow tint to the opal's glint My varying colors run, And I change my form as the clouds that swarm The couch of the setting sun. . . The spider weaves in her nest o leaves,- No gossamer wbvUke mine, ... ; And strong the grasp that my fibre's clasp' In the twisted cord and line. I enter the doc? "of rich and poor, . I clothe the king and the clown, ; And serve man's' need with my stalk and seed When my, leaf-is. sear and brown. . . A truce: to your wains of golden grains,'. ' While my flag is still unfurledj ' '" O'er mill and wheel, and spindle and reel, - I rule the trade of the world!,, 1 ,. ""'.' "." ' "' ' ' From Youth's Companion. Si BOWS': m t- ' ': :" ' '.-' . . HAT water, at the last cast?" "Marie, thirteen; no bottom, sir.". "Then lay your- lead in." The leads man in the gunboat's port uxitiiii coiled up. hi leadline ana se cured t, swung1 himself .inboard and disappeared down, the forebatch in search of his tcj.v Astern was the red .jsector of Kuropn Point Light, which Eiows over the Pearl Rock, and to the starboard " the lights of Algeeiras -twinkled in the gathering dusk si fine vening in ate September, clear and liotj "but the- west wind swept up the Straits of Gibraltar, bringing with it I W' ' a cool breath of the North Atlantie. Soon dusk changed to blue-black, dark Hng.night arid the wind dropped to the lightest of zephyrs. The stars burned in the cloudless sky with such intehsi ',Vr"ty as to reproduce themselves on the JgJ greatest of all ocean highways, save jne, the English Channel,, which does , not concern itself with stars in this iiianjuer. She , is' outside the Fearl llock. now and rising Tarifa light, and from the lookout man on. the ..forecas tle head comes reports of lights seen , ,: fa quick v succession. Trom all the western ocean, from the North Atlan tic and the South, from, the Baltic to the. North Sea, from Ushant and the Biscay ports, and the. harbors of the English Channel, the ships pass In an .ttnending procession. Man-of-war, jnail steamer, tramp,, wind s jammer " .-ailiMSf. through the Gut, and faring on ward past the Pillars of ,. Hercules, to .iimfcnown destinations -in ."the tideless, sea." Those who know the great sea thoroughfares will telJ you that at times they seem crowded beyond be-! Jief, and at other times there is an al- most unbelievable absence of sb'ps . -tvh ere ships are usually most in evi dence. But on this occasion the for mer condition of affairs prevailed, and ,,-alI the surface of the waters was span- rgled with Hghts;moving, seme swiftly, .gome at a nail's pace. With all her, glaring electric lights shining through open ports a 7000-ton liner'rushes past and a faint strain of music is 'borne across the sea "as -he passes- wall id- v etl, swift, and businesslike. A. red blur crawls, as .were, reluctantly into -s!ght, and the slgnalman on the bridge stares i;t it intautly thrtugh bis night .glasses;. . . . ., ' ' . "One o' them' there Norwegian tim . ba: :s1Fm,4hiukhJg, sir,' he says at last, A great mun: oowea 4iou-ton .::ies' hard on her fieels one - -rt they build by the mile and hy tlie fathom on Thames, A Clyde a smother of white iises from uader her clumsy tramt of the ' Tfnt. ; water V. 1 to red hurhsi tiav blaKsom'Kftre: id;"' as 25 1 Ml. as i THE SEA. bows, and on her iron decks grow der ricks of portentious size and ugliness, an up-to-date vessel. But an electric eye winks maddeningly for above the navigation lights of a vessel approach ing from afar. 1 " 'And me -up that there ' lantern. Bill," says the signal man to the quartermaster of the watch. It's that there new battleship, sir, what's bdund up the Straits to Malta." On battleship and gunboat the lanterns blink in bewildering flashes, long and short. "Wish you a pleasant passage, sir; that's tho end of tho message' says the signalman at last. 4 Fifteen thousand tons and 300,000 horse power surges past at a short quarter of a mile, going well within herself at six teen knots. Meanwhile a felucca, show ing no. lights, gets under, the gunboat's bows and is nearly run down, and Jose, Juan and Jaime hear some pretty straight talk from the bridge of the latter vessel as she jams her helm hard-a-port and slides 4 under their stern. They shrug their indolent and ineffectual shoulders, .and mutter "que importa" as they light fresh cigarettes. On the forecastle, where the men are smoking their pipes, the comments are' lurid and picturesque.1 "And if we'd a' run her down, we'd 'ad to lower a boat and pick the blighters up, and I don't 'old with lowering no boats at sea after what I seen one time in the North Atlantic," said the chief boat swain's mate. - "What was that, Alf ?" asked a chief stoker. "Time o. the. sailing frigates, my son, what you never seen; we was four days out of Halifax, bpund for Lisbon, and what you might call ugly weather, not blowing a gale, you understand, but a tidy lump of sea on, and the glass dropping and it breezin' up. They clears lower deck and reefs tops'ls, an the capt'n of the maintop o' that there frigate 'e was just the smartest man wot ever put a foot to a rattlin' run out along the yard; he did always. No foot ropes for 'im. ' I was a young A. B. in them days and in his watch. Well, that day o was on the yard and out, aj; the--yr da rm afore any one of us was bare clear of the futtock riggin', aa he slugs out, Up, you blighters, ' an' ; light out to, wind'ard! Am T to reef' Oils 'ere tops'l all my lone self?' and he lays back.wihthe earring in both 'ands,- lifting for all 'e was worth. That there earring carries away just as she rolls to wind'ard and he falls clean on" the yard plump into the sea, where I seen 'im swimmin a moment after." The narrator paused and knocked out his pipe. "Well, fee went t Fiddler's Green, poor chap, but that ivasn't the tale of it by no means. Wo 'eaves the ship to, near takin' the sticks out of her in doln' of it, and starts in to lower the lee quarter boat, 'im .swimmin' grand and rlsin' on the crest o' them big . rollers.'.' .. The , chief boatswain's mate became somewhat husky in. bis speech and spat ferociously into the "8pltkid.-:-;VvfAll....x,ead.y. sir,' sings . out the coxswain o the lifeboat," and-they starts to 'lower. Well, what the right of it was no one never quite knew; but, anyways, some one lets go the line of the patent slipping gear, and the for ward pin weren't out. Consekens, down-goes the ster-.and up comes the bows," and - afore yon could'say Jack Robinson there's the whole boat's crew thirteen men and the midshipman, overboard, too. All this time the sea's gettin' worse and worse. Well, we starts in and lowers the other boat, and she gets away clear, and then my God! she capsizes. All whatever got aboard out o' that mess was two men what caught ther bowlines we hove to 'ein, so there were seven and twenty went to Davy Jones' locker that day. And. that's why I've never seemed to fancy seein' boats lowered at sea." "Not much' wonder, neither," assent ed ttrt? chief stoker. The coast of Portugal greeted them fair and bright, the land lay steeped in sunshine, the sea cobalt blue, and no tiresome head wind came to mar the complete cpinfort of this part of the passage. . "Looks, like .making a flat cal m of it al 1 the5 way home," remarked the captain "to the navigator as they paced the bridge- together. A mile on the starboard hand lay Finisterre, land and sea asleep in the evening sunshine. . ".looks like it, certainy sir, an swered the latter. "butCfiere's one thing you can never count 011, and that's the Bay. I came home one time when the glass started to fall when we cleared the Straits, and by the time we got as far as this it seemed as if someone had knocked the bottom out of it. so low did it fall; and yet we didn't have a breath of. wind all the way to Plymouth." ' "Rum turn out that," remarked his superior officer, "but I must say I pre fer the omens as they are this even ing." "She's on her course northeast half north, sir," reported the navigator to the captain an hourater4 just as. the latter officer was finishing his dinner, "and I'm sorry to teli you that the glass has gone down a, tenth and it's looking, a bit wicked ahead." "Ah, I thought I felt, her getting a bit of a jump on," replied the captain.. "Let's hope we're not going to reverse your experience which you spoke of this afternoon." "Hope not, sir." But the hope was in vain. As tho night closed in. hard. reasy looking clouds spread them selves in menacing masses across the northeastern horizon, and the glass fell another tenth: by midnight it was blowing hard and a considerable sea was. running. At that hour the cap tain came on the bridge and took a heavy dose of spxay slap in the face as he raised his head above the bridge weather cloths. "We're in for it, I'm afraid," he remarked to the officer -of the watch, and the latter nodded grim ly. "I've had to ease her, sir. and I'm thinking it's about time. I eased her a bit , more." A gray-green .sea climbed past the starboard cathead as he spoke, and roared over the topgallant fore castle, falling in tons on the deck be low. 'Yes. ease her; high time." was the answer. It did not come all at once, but hour by hour the wind grew in vio lence, the sea -mounted even higher. The captain did not leave the bridge. At 4 in the morning she was going dead slow, but the water was slopping aboard of her in ton.. 'This wpn't do. I'll heave, her to as soon as the light comes, and I won't trust the trysails in this breeze. Let the watch rouse out the'sformsails and bend them." It was not a nice job or a particularly safe one. that bending of storm sails, for the hands on deck worked as often as not waist deep in water,, "and. the inen aloft were nearly blown out of the bowlines in which they sat;, but it got Itself done at last, and, with the engines stopped, a storm staysail and two storm trysails, and the helm lashed hard aleet the gunboat rode the gale. It was at its height nowT and the outlook was. not cheering for, those on board. ) "It's a very queer thing," remarked the captain, "that there are people knocking about, presumably in posses sion of their senses, who will tell you that a gale of wind at sea is a beautif ul spectacle.' 'I wish to the Lord," said the riavl gator sourly, "that we hatt some of 'em aboard here now; I wonder what they'd think of it?" The real big Atlantic sea was run ning now, the sea which becomes un checked and unhindered over, thou sands of miles of water. As tho ship fell into the-trough of the sea the wind fell light and puffy, and this, perhaps, was the most disagreeable of all th sensations experienced by those on board. Then, on a long slant, for she had chosen, as all ships do, to heave herself to in her own way, and not in the . way those., pn board, would have likedand nearjy broadsfde to the'Svirid she tossed" her bows heavenward and slid up the incline to the boiling fury that crested the seas. Here the wind smotes her, and the water dashed aboard in. a chaotic mist, and it was only by the thud on her decks that they could-tell when it canje in "green." Then once again would she slide "down ward, with freeing ports and scuppers Spouting like a wounded whale. "Thank the Lord for plenty of sea room," said the navigator. "Oh, yes, we're all right," answered the captain; "she's as tight as a bot tle, only it's just like this if one of those chaps," pointing upward at the foam-crested monster whose side they had just begun to descend, "really makes business of , it and comes' aboard solid he'd simply drive us to the bot tom like a stone" .-. ..-. . . . "Pretty thing, a gale of wind, 4ain't it?" said the navigator? "living on cold 'Fanny Adams' and biscuits, let alone- the chance of being drowned;' But all things come to an end atlastj and after" two days" of unmitigated dis- comfo'rt, the gale wore itself out. . As the sea went dowiv and the gunboat settled into her stride once more, pea Lple got into dry clothes and contrived to get a meal. . "Eut I stick to what I say," com mented the navigator to the mess at large. "I'd like to see any silly fool who says a gale of wind at sea is a magnificent sight put aboard a hooker like this, and sent to look for a snorter like the 6ne we've just gone through; then, it he did not die of fright and sea sickness, . I should like to ask'-for his impressions. I don't:think you'd find he'd want to see another," To which the mess responded, "Hear, hear:" Pall Malf Gazette. . ' " ' Tlie Sign Hyilj, Spreading:. The fuss about the framed signed in the New York City Subway has start ed an outbreak of the billboard fever in an entirely new direction. Men were going around the downtown skyscrap ers last week putting up small framed signs in the elevators. They were hung up and devn the steel sides and the back of the car, advertising mani curists, stenographers, breath sweet eners, patent medicines, sign painters, stationers and various other persons with whom men who ride much in ele vators are assumed to have business: In many cases they were fiimsily fas tened together and toppled down at the least provocation. A man who jostled against' a sign m a crowded car jvas likely to bring the entire outfit on tne neaas 01 nnnseii anu jus un offending fellow passengers. New- York Press. The Slasen ViUin- Ship, According to Prof. Montellus. the Viking ship unearthed at Slagcn, 111 Norway, is a pleasure yacht of the pe riod, having several marked charac teristics which distinguish it from tho Gokstad shit. The shutters closing the oarholes and the shields along the uinyales are absent, proving that the ship was not Intended for warfare or long cruises. It is very low amidships;. Several costly carved objects were also found.vsuch as sledges, in which even the coachman's footboard is decorated with a handsome carved design and numerous small figures of men and ani mals. One object was part of a walk ing stick, the handle of which was carved as a dog s head in hue, almost modern style. Gangways to ships were also found, and oars handsomeljr orna mented, and so well, preserved as to warrant the uso of them to-day. Xho ihenaeum. To Keep Soldier Alive. An emergency ration, packed In a small tv,-o-compartment cylinder of tin. is carried in the .hayersack of every British soldier. As its name suggests, the ration. Is not to be used except in cases of the direst necessity. .One compartment holds four ounces of co coa paste and the other a similar quan tity of concentrated beef.v If consumed in small quantities, it will maintain BtrAnffh fni minr hnnr S The Slaby-Arco-Braun system s of wireless telegraphy is in use across Lake Baikal. Consul-General Gtienther at Frank fort reports thr.t the chemist, Verneuil. has succeeded in making artificial rubies, pure and brilliant in color, and apparently possessing all th physical properties of natural rubies., by melt ing a mixture of clay and oxid of chromium at a temperatu. of 70UO . degrees, obtained by means of a blaze when suddenly cooled becomes very hard, and can then be cut and polished like the natural stone. A ruby weigh ing five pounds has thus been pro- ' duced, but so inexpensive is the process that the value of this huge artificial gem is sold at only ?G00. Natural rubies of line color are among the most costly of precious stones. In the great corn and wheat belt of the Middle West improved windmills . J ,1 . v - t -v Alfll'ltll rMVA1f fni 'vnnM'nl nor rm lniv f:1ms. At hrrft v. yv-iav-m v ry- -- . , the electricity so obtained was ' em ployed only for lighting houses and, barns, but more recently it has beed utilized for running small motors,, ,FoC- - many years wmamnis .or raising waier. tn ivrisrsite lh land have been almost as common in: some parts of. Uie.pnairie States as in Holland,., but-; ofeit.ttiey were auite crude in construction. The, Department of Agriculture has now taken up the subject, and begunthe distribution of information among the farmers concerning the latest forms of windmills, and it is such improved mills that are found useful for devel-V-oping electric power. In Germany elec-' tricity derived from the wind for agri- cultural purposes , has been used 'sue-?. cessfully for the past two years. . r... Although the problem of color pho- tography is still far from solved, prog-..: new Gerriian discovery that of Dr. color negatives, and depends -upon the use of paper coated witn coJiouion solu tions of colorless compouuds of green ish biue, cherry red and' yellow dyes '" . ... . r posure to light. The set , of three necfltives is first made under t tie usual first coated with the solution of the ish blue, and, after drying, it is ex- posed about thirty seconds under the negative taken through the red filter. When the required depth of color is reached, it is fixed in a solution which removes the unaltered dye compound. The paper is then recoated, this time - . mi .1 it. i y 1 L . 4. (Villi llU IJUllUlllUil 1UI kUC ICU (J1IU1, ' and exposed in exact register under ' the green negative. After this is fixed the third coating is made, and the yel- low image is developed under the blue negative. - Artificial cotton is noy made from various woods, as from pine in Ba-.-varia and from fir in France. In the French process, tho wood, freed from bark and knots, and pulverized by a special machine, is steamed ten hours ' in a horizontal brass lead-lined cylinder ; of 3500 cubic feet capacity, after -which 2000 cubic feet of a bisulphate of soda ;. Avasii is uuueu anu tue wnpie is neaieu thirty-six hours under a pressui'e of xuree aimospueres. j.ne 11 ore, inus made very white, is then washed and ground by a series of strong metallic meshes, after which it is given electro chemical bleaching by thlorideof lime. Tho mass is dried between two power ful rollers. The resulting pure cellu- with a mixture of chloride of zinc and hydrochloric and nitric, acids, to which is added little castor oil, casein and gelatine to give resistance to tho hlmy The very consistent paste produce' drawn into threads through a k draw plate. The threads arr over gummed cloth, then weak carbonate of jsoda between two slowly t' and finally given so. 'acr.l bath. In Japa boy is der y

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