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CHAPTER XV.
BAISEO Inst TUB men
The inventive faoulty whfuhhad led me
in bygone days to model clay figures and
then to carve them in wood, revived in mo
eel gaited health and strength, My de-
termination to do nothing which would
bring book the past to my contemplation
kept mo from employing this faculty in
artistic creation, and for ethers I kept it fu
idlesubjection, like smallholding his tongue
for fear of saying emnething foolish;
but the power to form ideas was alive
within me, and sooner or )ater it was bound
to find expression in some form or other.
I found groat comfort in e book of phy.
sire that I got from the library. It took
me out of myself, aid gave a tarn to my
thoughts when they wore in danger of
wandering into vacanoy. 2 have known
the time when that idle wandering of
the imagination is full of delight; but
never in my prison. Many a night, for
want of mental occupation, I have cried
myself to sleep like a child for I would not
think what. And so, as I say, that book
upon physics was a source of comfort to
me,
.Every evening I had it out, and when I
came upon a now problem I would ask my-
self why it was worked out in that way
and not in another. Thou I set myself to
solve the problem in that other fashion—a
task that gave occupation to my brain in
the dark waking hours after the lights
were out. In this way I came to invent all
sorts of things, from gases to planetary sys.
toms.
Mechanics afforded me the greatestinter-
est, for here I could give visible shape to
my ideas. I had a slate and pencil, and
with two splinters of wood that I brought
in up my sleeves, an old screw found in the
tool stores, end a darning needle picked up
outside the tailor's shop, I contrived to
make a useful pair of compasses. With
those I drew my mechanical contrivances—
plan, elevation, and section—all to scale as
if they were working drawings.
Our chaplain was an exaellent man—the
very beet that could have held that posi-
tion. One could believe that the reformfug
of men was his vocation, and not a mere
trade, chosen for its pecuniary or social ad-
vantages. He had the clear sense to see
that, before we could be converted to angels,
wo must be humanised, and he sought to
humanise us by encouraging our better ten-
deneies, and developing any taste that
might lift us above the condition of torpid
brutes.
Well," said he, one Sunday afternoon,
as ho seated himself on the stool in my sell,
"what is the last invention ?"
" A Iamp, sir," said I, fetching my slate
from the shelf. "You see the light here is
very poor and trying to the eyes "—there
was no gas fn prison at that time—" and
I've been thinking how it might be improv.
ed without expeuse or danger."
" Why, this is a subject that interests
mo," said he, oheerfully, as he took the
slate, " for the girl has broken two chim-
neys in the week, and nearly set the house
en fire last night ; and it's a serions ques-
tion whether I should not go to the ex-
pense of laying on gas."
" You ought to get gas from petroleum
as good as that from coal, and cheaper,"
" You shall show me how. Come explain
it all. What's this—Fig. x?"
" That's a reservoir for the oil, six inches
in diameter, with a convex bottom of burn-
ished tin or white enamelled iron to re-
fine the light, and fitted with a hemispheri-
cal glass below,"
' No fear of broakiugg that How do you
fix it There's no foot.'
" No, sir ; that would show a shadow,
for the same reason there is no burnor or
jet under the flame ; the light parts in a
spray from the circumference. I planned
it to drop through a !sole in the iron over-
head ; but it could be hong from a ceiling
or hooked on a wall oquelly well."
"I see. It looks promising. Now let
ate acme to the section, for I've no idea how
it's to work,"
7 matte my drawings clear to him. Thee
is no need to repeat the explanation here.
The invention is old now ; my lamp has
superseded the ordinary gas illumination ou
one of the Continental lines, and the system
is sufficiently well known to those who in-
terest themselves in suoh matte's.
"It seems poseib1e," said the chaplain,
when I had shown all, " 1 don't see why
it should nob answer."
" The only proof is a practical trial, and
that as not practicable."
" Why not? I should like to make the
experiment. Will you let me have your
elate 1'
Of course I will sir ; you know that."
Ho nodded shaking my hand kindly, and
went away with my slate.
About three weeks later he came with
more than usual animation in his genial
face.
' It's a thanes, your lamp," he said rub.
bing his hands, ' A brilliant success,"
We talked about it fur some time, He
told nae he hoped to get the governor's per-
mission to let Inc eco it alight ;• then, grow.
ing grave, he seated himself on my stool
and said, " Now, my good fellow, I want
to speak to you (upon a subjeob that I have
hitherto avoided in referenoe to your
wishes."
"There's no one 1 should be more loth to
deny, sir," I replied. " I am sure you
would not wish to speak about that"—I
knew that it was the past he meant—" un-
less you felt it was my duty, to hear whet
you have to say."
' It is your duty. Well, there, you trust
know that your lamp is worth a great deal
of money. The manufacturer who has
worked out your Idea—a personal friend of
mine in whose integrity I have the utmost
confidence—is prepared to patent it, and
pay you a royalty cat all that are sold, I1
would seem that money would be of no
use to one in your position ; but you and
I know better, don't we,"
He took my hand and bold it in his,
peaking with touching earnestness, It
was not reep0baiveratitude that shook my
frame and thrilled me with an emotion
impossible to express --mot the thought of
such kindnoas and delicaoy being shown by
a etainiess man to aconvioted orfminal, that
awoke my heart from the torpor in which
it had existed so long, driving the hot blood
tinglibg through my veins, where for four
years it had flowed eluggiehly, never for one
moment a generous glow to my breast. It
was the consciousness that I lived again,
and had the power to spend my life in the
service of that dear soul in the outer world
to whom I was linked.
"Raised from the dead?" 1 cried, my
spirit exalted almost to madness. "Raised
from the dead 1 "
But indeed even that ltd not express all
Z felt, For the dead aro better than those
who live only because they cannot die,
" 1 see I was not mistaken, 365," said the
chaplain, "You know what to do with
the money."
" x es, sly. 1t shall all go to my poor
wife, I oan talk about her now ; I oan
think about her night and day now, I have
had to drive her away from my thoughts
ell these years, for fear I should go mad
evith the knowledge that I could not in any
way alleviate the miafortuno and suffering
I have brought upon Isar. You oan under.
stand how a poor fallow feels in here, sir,
Think what it would be, sir, if yon had to
keep the thought of heaven and God's
mercy out of it for a day—think if you had
to keep the place they filled a blank?"
Something of the frenzy I felt as I looked
back upon the terrible struggle 1 had gone
through must have boen in my looks, for
the chaplain stopped me with au admonish.
ing geeture.
That will do, No and to thinly of
that now," he said.
" No, sir, no ; I won t nuke a fool of
myself," Then I burst out crying to prove
the contrary, "If you knew how good and
beautiful she was!' said I,between my sobs.
"Yes, I can believe that," said ho.
" Corse, be a mat."
"Ay, sir, but I must be a child first."
I laughed hysterically, like a girl ; thea,
with it simplicity no less girlish as 1 strove
to be calm, I continued ; "She is but
twenty-two now, sir, Hen face was like
Clytie's you have seen the bust. Sho can't
have changed as I have. So sweet and
gentle—yet bright, yet quiakwibted, and
bright and gay—then. We were married
clandestinely, and then her father came
home. A millionaire, they say he is ; I was
nothing but a poor cabinet•makor. He
hasn't a good heart—a selfish man with a
great desire to make a position in society.
If he has found cut my poor dear's secret,
he will make her life unendurable, even if
he does not send her away. And now she
may be dependent for subsistence on her
own resources. What can a giel, trained
as she has been, do ? It's difficult to those
who have been brought up in hardship.
Perhaps she may be dependent on the
charity of friends—in terrible misery.
That's why I dared not think of her ; but
1 may naw. This money will give her in-
dependence ; that will be some relief to her,
dear soul: And there's no reason to keep
this a secret from you ; I will tell you all."
"Better not just yet, 365."
"You can tell me Wyndham now, sir, if
you like. I am a man again."
"Weil, Wyndham, that is a great deal.
But yon moat not let your hopes carry you
too far. My friend is too good a man of
business to venture upon an undertaking
withonta tolerable assurance of commer-
cial success. Still the result may be less
remunerative than I have led you to ex-
pect,"
What of that, six If I oould only
throw a bunch of violets in her path it
would be something to live for."
" Limit your hopes to that for the pees•
ant, I will speak to the governor about
this matter. I don't think Ise will object
to your seeing my friend in the ordinary
way, and hearing what he hoe to say about
the lamp ; at the same time it may be con-
trary to the regulations of the prison, in
which case you may entrust the affair to a
personal friend. Individually I fear that
any position avill not allow me to do more
than I have said. I think," he added,
rising, "we shall do well to say no more
upon this eubjeot until the governor has
considered it."
"I understand you, sir," said I. "You
shall not hear another word about it from
my lips until you give mo permission to
speak."
I shall never forget the joy of that day,
It was impossible to sit still for two nein.
utes together. I walked up and clown my
little cell with feverish haste, revolving in
my mind all the inventions that had occur.
red to me, with a view to finding the best
material for building up a fortune for her.
I caw nothing clearly, for the host of ideas
Huth phased each other. "Never mind,"
thought I, "I shall calm down presently,
and do good work ; I can afford to do no.
thing this evening." Then I stretched my
arms out, spreading and closing my fingers
strenuously, as if feeling for some object;
on which to expand my overflowing energy;
I felt I must be doing something, after all ,
and so, impatient already of idleness, I sat
down and opened my book. How often had
I buried myself in it that I might not
think of her ; now I could not follow
out a sentence for thinking of her. Oh, I
might take her back into my heart again 1
1 might conjure her up before my eyes in
the darkness 1 I was no longer a dead in-
cumbus, crushing the life out of her dead
body, chilling the life -blood in her heart, I
could think of her fntura withoutthat meds
doffing souse of impotency. It was in my
power now to lighten her burden, to smooth
her path, to make life endurable to Mar.
What should Ido, thought I, if our relative
positions were reversed—if I were free and
she a prisoner ? Assuredly my heart would
ache whenever I thought of her, and nothing
in the world could console me for her lose ;
butt could find distraction in travelling
abroad, in vielting the cities of Europe, and
searching out all that was beautiful in nat.
ere and arts. What I might do eke also
could do if only she lied an independent
fortune, " And that she shall lave, said I,
shutting up the book and starting to my
feat. "It is in my power to give you that,
dear Hobe 1"
To be doing something I took down my
bedding and rolled it up anew, polished up
soy tin vessels, and dusted the Doll from
end to end. I had never seen nay cell look
so nice, I was in a humor to be pleased
with anything, and unconsciously I fell to
singing snatches of songs I knew years and
years ago, My own voce sounded strange
to me after so long a silence; it seemed
notlese astonishing to the warder.
" What's the matter?" he asked, coming
in as I was standing a little way from the
shelf, with my head on one side admiring
the effect of my neatly folded blanket with
the bright tins on each side. "What are
you doing of?"
"I'm just looking around my Dell and
thinking how happy a man may be even in
prison•'
"Is that all ?" he asked,w£th a euapioioua
glance, I really think 1 was losing my
smote et this moment, when they were, as
I may say, conning beak tomo,
I woke in the morning with the old buoy,
ant feeling of vigor and freshness ; and
though I had slept but a few hours of the
night, I sprang tip at moo, and was dress.
ed before the bell rang. It was as if not
only life had Dome back to me, but youth
With it, I could almost think lnyseif bank
in my Ironic ab Felteiham, with a half•fin-
iabed panel in the workshop that promised
to be it real maatorpiece when it was done.
When the time came to go down in the
yard. I marched off cheerfully with it
spring' step. My aged meet have dug -
'
this alterabiofs in my feelings --the
expression came back to my £oaturaa,
for that morning old Beaton, who 1 mot in
the yard, r000gnlaed nae. I notioed Iiia
brows maths perplexity Be he scanned iny
fano, and then expend as he jerked his head.
The mestere seemed to say, "Oh, ft's you
is ft7' and I nodded with a grin In reply, I
was no longer afraid to think of the past,
anxious us t avoidrecollection1
of r o o of the world
outside,
Two or three days after that, a oouviat
who was drifted into our gang from tine
road -mending set, in which Baotou worked
getting alongside of me, said—
"Ie year name Hib 'Wyndham, what's
gob put tap for a job ab Roismosid 1"
"Yes, said L
" Well old Beetan bold ole to lot you know
as Ise waste to speak to you. He's got some-
thing to tell yon about your wife,"
CHAPTER XVI.
11EETON'S TUBBABLE NEWa,
I was now tremulous with excitement to
know what Boston had to tell me. At times
I quaked with apprehension Leet the tows
should be bad. Her some might bavo been
found out; her father might have ant her
off; she might be friendless and in waist ;
but still e, more terrible foreboding lay be-
yond these possibilities—a foreboding that
I dared not to whisper to myself, but was
present in nay mind, for all that, She might
be dead. My hand trembles as' write the
words with a recollection of the terror that
unnamed suspicion carried to my soul. At
other times and more frequently—for Hope
predominated over Tear—I anticipated
better things. Hobe might have charged
him with a message of love and comfort to
deliver to me.
Again and again I tried to get near him
in the exorcise yard, but all to no purpose,
for though in the fields it was impossible to
prevent communication between prisoners,
the rule was rigidly enforced ie the prison.
Thera was no alternative but to wait until
a favorable opportunity came. Meanwhile
I was not idle.
In thinking about my lamp it occurred
to me that this expansive force developed
by the flame in vaporising the oil or spirit
to give light might be employed sea motive
power. If the force were thus got direct
from the fuel, there would no longer be a
necessity to use water ae a medium. That
would be an advantage, opening up bound-
less possibility in locomotion. Even aerial
navigation might be made practicable with
a powerful motor, disencumbered of the
weightof water necessary to produce steam
by the old system. Gradually my notion
took practicable shape upon my slate. Night
after night I worked steadily on, devising,
simplifying, improving until at length 1 be.
gen to feel satisfied with the result. Tho
cylinders of my engine I jacketed in the
boiler itself to prevent loss of heathy radia.
Mon. The vapor, after producing the
stroke, Wag carried offbythe exhaust to the
furnace, where, in combination with atmos•
phorio air, it produced the heat requisite
for the further development of vapor. The
same governor I had designed for the lamp
served to carry off the excess vapor to a
condenser, whence it woe returned in a
liquid stet° to the boiler. By a diaphragm
in the cylinder, and by enclosing every
valve in the boiler itself, there was no pos.
sibility of the vapor escaping unused. Here,
then, as I said, was an engine in which heat
was converted into motionwi th the leaatpos-
aible waste, capable of being sat in motion at
once, throwing off neither smoke nor steam,
and by its portability applicable to any
purpose in which the ordinary steam engine
is employed.
I had carried my alterations to a point
whence I could see nothing left to improve,
when the chaplain cause to tall me that the
governor had acceded to his request, and
that his friend had telegraphed to say that
he would come to Prince Town that evening
and see me next morning according to the
rules of the prison.
"I thought it advisable to let you know
nothing until the last moment, in can of
any hitch," said the chaplain, "The delay
has given bit. Renshaw time to consider tate
maw, and his coming proves that he is pre.
pared to maks terms with you."
"I wish I know how to thank you, sir,"
1 began. "But if you knew the light you
have let in upon my darkened heart— the
wonderful joy end happiness I have felt
since you changed sue from a hopeless, use-
less alcd—"
"If I knew all that 1 should need no
better reward, hey 7 Well, I think I do
know it," he said, patting me on the
shoulder "so the will say no more about it.
What's this?"
He took up my slate to change the subject.
" Why, sir, that's sot ething else for Mr.
Renshaw, if he will have it."
"He will have to enlarge his works if
you go on this way," said he, smiling; "is
this another lamp?"
I told him all about my engine, and he
listened attentively, sitting down and ex.
amining my drawings as I explained them.
" An engine without smoke or steam—
that ought to be taken up by the under.
ground railways; they need it badly
enough," said he; "and an engine lighten.
ed of water and fed from the nearest oil
shop should bo acceptable to the Fire
Brigade. That's good enough ; your aerial
navigators need not be pressed for the
moment."
I feared from his tone that he did not re-
gard my new invention escapable of serious
development ; but he undecesved ma on this
point when he spoke again.
" I am not very good al mechanics
dont think that nay perception goes beyond
lamps; but my friend is an authority upon
such matters, and I will show him your
drawinge, and do my best to explain them
tonight. You will know the result when
you sea him to -morrow. In that way two
birds may be killed with ono stone, which
is advisable, because it seems to be a moot
point whether the governor is quite within
his right in according you permission to
henterind." into business transactions of this
The next morning I was taken up to the
visiting room ; there brought face to face
with Mr, Renshaw, a warder standing in
the divided space between us, I trembled
Violently wish excitement; it seemed hardly
possible that my new born hopes could be
realised, He began to speak at once about
my lainp. With my hand againet my oar I
leant forward, listening greedily, fearful of
losing a word. He told me that acting on
the elaplain'e authority, he had already
protected my invention, and put specimens
into the market,
"You think it will be a suc000a," I said,
when he paused.
"Oh, that is beyond doubt, he replied.
"Orders are already taken for a consider•
able number. A suburban tramway oompany
are going to give ib a trial ; that will be en
excellent adverbisetnent. Fifty are wanted
for a hat factory in the Nbrth, 'rhe ensooss,
tndoed, iaeo wall assured that I am prepared
to buy your invention right out at onet. In
your own interest, however, I should advise
you to hold your patent and take a royalty
on what are sold. I am prepared to give
you a couple of hundred in advance if you
need a sum for immediate use ! further pay-
month
aymonth to be paid ab the hal£,yearly balancing
of accounts."
"Thank you, sir, for your advise" said I,
eagerly, "I accept the offer of oonrss. Tito
two hundred pounds down I shanld like urs
soon as p0esibl0,"
"I will draw not the oheryoe to -morrow ;
you have only to lot me know what I am to
do with it,"
The question had neveroccurred o m
rl o sC e
11ow1I was to couvey the money to nay wife.
I had not oven settled whether I should
let her know where the many came from.
I did not know her address, or how I was
to learn 1t,
"1 will let yon know where to send the
(Moque," said I, after a little consideration,
"Meanwhile if you will take nee of it for
me—"
"Certainly, oertalnly, At the same Haim
if you oan give me the name of any friend
of yours who will outer into a legal agree-
ment on your behalf—"
I told him I knew no one in whose honesty
I could plana greater trust than his, and
that I should be quite content to leave the
snatter of payment entirely to his sense of
jnetioo,
"Very good," said he ; "and now with
regard to this new invention shown to me
by the c haplaln last night, Are you
willing to place that in my hands to level.
op in the best way I can ?"
"With all my heart, sir, if you think
favorably Of it."
"1 do think favorably of it—very favor-
ably. Your amine has oortain advantages
over the ordinary gas engine which should
lead to its employment where the other is
impracticable. One oan never answer be-
forehand for inventions of this kind ; but if
it answers one's expectations as well as your
]amp has, there is reason to believe that
your remuneration will be measured by
thousands instead of hundreds,"
I hardly know how I went back to my
cell ; I was intoxicated with the achieve-
ment of success, and the prospect of still
greater.
I was tempted that nighb to write to my
wife and tell her all. "Surely," thought I,
"she will be glad to know of this change in
me—glad to know that I am better and not
worse than I was. Will it not enlighten
her heart to hear that I have found happi-
ness in a prison, just as ib week' rejoice me
to learn that else also had found some
such source of joy? To be sure, my long
silence, my perenstent refusal to accept
letters or hold any communication with her,
might have produced the effect I desired
when I resolved upon that lino of conduct.
And if Isar heart under sunk treatment had
grown callous, and she had become in.
different to my condition, was it kind
or generous to soften that heart again,
and revive a hopeless affliction in her
dear bosom ?" But my own feeling told
me that her heart was not hardened
and that as long as we lived site must think
of me with a mournful longing for sone re-
turn of her love—if it were only a written
word. These healthier and more natural
feelings overcame in the end the morbid
sentiments I had fostered—one being just
as much the result of a now condition as
the other. And I wrote my letter—letting
my pen go as my heart dictated, and alter.
ing nothing that it occurred to me to say.
When I had written my letter and read
it through, I was glad, and lay down to
sleep with a feeling that I had done right.
She will ory over my letter, thought I, just
as I should break down if the wrote to me ;
but she will be happier afterwards. Those
who neither sweep nor smile are not the hap
pier, as I knew well enough.
Now how was I to send my letter to her ?
That perplexed me terribly. To send it
through Mr, Lonsda'e after four years of
sitencewonldineve ab'yerouse the suspicion
of the vioar's wife, perhaps invoking a dis-
cussion which would involve Hebe in new
difficuleies, It seemed wiser to enclose it
in a letter to the major, asking him to for-
ward it privately; butI did not know what
address to send at to. However, it was
pretty oortain that soy friend the chaplain
would help iOo ; so I kept back the letter,
with the hope that I should see him in the
course of the clay.
That afternoon it rained as heavily that
the outdoor gangs were kept in, and put to
work about the prison, I with some more
lands were sent in to limewhite the wash.
house. A brush and a bucket of white.
wash was given to me, and I wee sect off to
help to do the passage leading to the baths.
Some men were already at it ; the wall
was marked off into portions, each being the
task for one man.
" Number 5'a your lot," said the warder.
I sat down my bucket and tuned up my
sleeves, While I was about this, I cast a
glance at my neighbors.
To my delight I perceived that the man
next to ane wee old Beeton, I can hear the
major's address from him and hear what he
has to tell me about Hebe as well, may
be.
We went aaoh to our buckets for a. dip of
whitewash at the same moment. He gave.
me an unmistakable wink, and, taking him.
self to the further side of lois division, be.
gen to paint the wall with the air of an
artist born to the trade.
" If he really wasted to speak to me he
wouldn't get as far as possible away,"
thought. I, as I drew my pail close to his
division. A jerk of his eyebrows bade nae
go further away. I saw his design. By
both beginning at the further extremity we
must in the end workup side by aide, with
out fear of being put back by a suspicious
warder. I shifted my position and carried
out my part of this manoeuvre. Ae we got
through our work we drew nearer to aaoh
other, and before long gob within whisper•
ing dietanoe. I was the first to bogie.
" What is Major Cleveden's address 7" I
asked.
"Why do you want to know 7"
"Want to send a letter through !aim to
my wife."
He took a ala at the wall with his brash
H
and aoming back Baked—
" What
aked—"What ere you writing to her about 7"
"Sending her some money."
Again Ise took a slap at the wall ; it seem.
ed to be the irreaisttble impulse of one who
could not otherwise give expression to a
feeling ; and his puckered faro showed that
it woo one of amusement,
" Why don't you answer 1' I whispered,
angrily, when I got the chane ; "what are
you grinning at 7'
"You are thole a d—d fool!" he replied,
with anotherelap, wagging his wicked old
headi rent side to side. I let him reopen
the dialogue,
' Playing into their heads fromthe first l"
he whispered ; "I warned you, I knew
that major, and the game Tao was playing ;
and I saw through Isar game, too,'
" What do you mean V' 1 gasped.
"Mean ? Why the major and your wife
were publicly Married three weeks after
they gobyou away for life, and they've been
living together aver slant!"
(To AZ OONTIIQUED.)
•
There le a tree in Jamaica known as the
life tree, on acoottnt of iia leaves growing
oven after being severed from the plant.
Only by fire oats it ho entirely destroyed.
Drowning, as a punishment for crime,
was legally enforced in Scotland up to the
year 1611. The samOpnniahmeatpprevailed
in England up to a few years before thie
date,
TWO COMING OCEAN FLUBS.
The Giant Cunard Ship ileo] anis Now
Afloat 011 the Clyde.
ltailt in lines ter t'npeel ly, Fleetness, and
Beauty, She Exceeds the Limit or rte
Groat Inman Twins by Over IMO Toil.
What aro the limits of the marine archi-
tect in the building of mighty ships? A
representative of ono of the great lines
thinks this question may be answered in
Yankee fashion by propounding another,
and that Is ; How big const a ship be bo•
fore her running expenses exceed hoe re.
oeipts? Will1argerships than the giantess
of the Cunard fleet, Campania, launched
last month on the Clyde, be sent forth to
battle for oonmereial aupreinacy of the At -
tenths? Other competitive linea doubtless
will build, and we may notunreasonably
expect to see within the next few years a
flyer of greater tonnage and power than the
Campania. An American engineer of large
experience recently wrote to Mr, Vernon
H, Brown of the Cunard line, congratulat•
ing him on the launching of the great (Jun -
artier and expressing the belief that the day
was not remote when the 1,000.toot ahip
would be in aervioo between New York and
Liverpool. Mr. Brown says Iso (loos not see
what is to prevent the Doming of
TRIS MARITSOE COLOSSI'S
1111 oan be demonstrated to tine lino that
may order her from the ambitious 13ritish
builders that she will yield a reasonable in-
come. There is now no dock either in Now
York or Liverpool large enough to accom-
modate each a vessel. The biggest docks
we have, recently lengthened for the twin.
vi are not over 700
screw ships new in or oe, ,
feet lone, and they would not be wide
enough, even if lengthened, safely to berth
a 1,000•foot chip, whose bean would be
close upon 100 feet. The Liverpool docks
were not largo enough for the 11Thite Star
flyers, and these vessels are cloaked at Birk-
enhead, whioh bears the same relation to
Liverpool thee Brooklyn does to New York.
There was a stronger feeling among ships
ping men when the pioneer of the twin•
sorely Titans, the City of New York, was
launched in 1888 that she would ruin the
Inman Company. Sho turned out to bo an
inunenaely profitable ship, and in the im•
portant item of ooal consumption she show.
od herself more economical by nearly 8100
a clay than either the Etruria or Umbria,
then the swiftest merchant ships afloat. The
sister Cunarviers burn about 350 tons, and
the City of New York and City of Paris
burn each about 325 tons a day. The con-
servatives opened their eyes when they
Board that the Cunard line was building two
600 -foot chips. They had supposed that no
company would venture beyond the 10,500
tons of the City of Paris, and they shook
their heads after the ancient custom of
shellbacks, and looked a big doubt they did
not caro to utter after the failure of their
evil prophecies about the first twin screw,
The Campania is more than 2,000 tons
larger than the sister ships of the Inman
lino. The only vessel ever launched that
was bigger than the Campania was the
ponderous Great Eastern, whose designer
sought
TO SOLVE THE PatOBLEal
of swift ocean navigation by bulk, oombin•
ed with the comparatively insignificant
horse power of 6,200, applied to paddle
wheels and propeller. The Great Eastern
was 680 feat long and 83 feet broad, or 60
feet longer and about 13 foot broader than
the Campania. The builders of the Cam-
pania expect her engines to develop, after
she has been in service a season or two, be-
tween 20,000 asd 30,000 horse power, or
nearly five times ae much as the Great
Eastern used inaiTeetually and with much
expense, owing to the marine engine of her
time, The Cunard Company feel so well
assured that the Campania will be a swift
and profitable chip that they have dupla•
rated her in the Laconia, which will be
launched next month.
The Campania slid from the ways at the
yard of the Fairfield Company, the builders
also of the Etruria and Umbria, on Sept,
8. The Clyde was dredged immediately
opposite the yard, as there was fear that
the deep draught of the ship would camber
to strike bottom. She made hardly any
commotion when she took the water. She
is built somewhat on the lines of the Um-
bria, having a straight stem and an ellepti-
eel stern. She wilt have, when completed,
two pole masts. Sho measures 020 feet over
all and 600 feet nn the water line, and thus
has an overhanging stern of 20 feet, Her
extreme beam is 65 fees 3 inches, and her
depth of hold from the upper dock is 43
feet, She will have sixteen water -tight
bulkheads, so constructed that in ease of
damage to any two of them she will still be
able to float. She is built to anent admit,
ally requirements, for serving as an arined
cruiser m time of war, having decks espe.
oially arranged and atrangthened to carry
guns, and her vital parte protected. Unlike
the other twin-screw ships, the Campania
has an opening in the stere framne similar to
that in a single•serow steamship. This is
intended to give the propellers more free-
dom of movement. No brackets are fitted
to the stern frame to support the outer and
of the ahafts. Instead the frames of the
hull are bossed out and plated over so as to
form the stern tubae. At the orator end of
these are strong castinge of steel which an-
swer the purpose of brackets, and being a
continuation of the linea of the hull are sup-
posed to offer the least resistance io pros
pulsion.
It may bo assumed from this deeoription
of her business end that the Campania was
built for a racer. Her designers and eon.
etruoters have done away with almost every
conceivable !Andrew* to speed that exists
in the best of the twin-screw fleet in ser-
vice. But the most marked difference be.
bate= the Campania and the City of Paris,
fleetest of steamships, is in their engines.
The engines of the City of Paris are triple
expansion ; that is, each sat has three cyqlin•
dere, one high pressure, one intermediate,
and one low pressure. The engines of the
Campania although nominally triple=expen.
Bion, might not improperly In called gain.
tuple expansion. Each set of engines is fit.
ted wills five inverted cylinders, two of
whioh are high preasuro, two low reeans° ,
anis one intermediate pressure. The for.
ward and after cylinders are tandem, that
is, the !nigh pressures are placed above the
low pressures. The exhaust is from the
high pressures to the intermediate, and
thence to the double low pressures. Engine.
ors say that these aro the
MOST rowisi won &NOISES
ever eonatruoted. Tho cylinders are 'ar•
ranged to work on three cranks, sat at an
angle of 120 degrees with one another, and
all having the same strolco. Steam is gen•
crated for the rugines in twelve big double,
ended boilers, arranged in two groups, with
one funnel for each group. Each boiler has
eight furnaces, ninetyafx m all.
Excepting her rudder, Mho Campania is
entirely of British build. No British firm
had tlse machinery necessary for making the
rudder, which is formed of a single piece of
Noy. 25, 1892.
tool, and was rolled by Krupp, the gun*
maker of Essen,
With rho advantages her oonetruotors
have had through studying the weak points
of the racers of this season the Campania
ought to earvo a largo slice oft' the record in
a year or so, when Tier ass ineers begin to
undpretand her, Since June, 1888, when
the Etruria held the record, then 6 days 1
hour and 25 minutes the twiu.eurew speed-
ers have reduced the tuna between Sandy
Hook and Queenstown by 11 hours and 31
minutes. In the next tour years we may
not reasonably expose the power of steam,
whish has its limitations oven when exer ted
through trill() expansion engines, to knook
another eleven (sours ermine off the mord,
But we navy hope to see the Campania fulfill
the expeotatione of her owners, just as the
other big ships have sometimes done after
disappointing first efforts by covering the
ocean rase track at the average rate of 22
knots an hour, thus bringing Queenstown
within five audit quarter days of New York.
Should she develop 23 knots and maintain
it for the voyage, ago, the New World and the .
Old will be divided by only five daye.
MADE A BONi:'IEE OP HIM.
Mule. Schlegel Trow Spirits of Wine On
nor IUiaban it and Burned 111m Up,
Some months since Parisians were horri-
fied by the report of a case in which an at.
tempt was made by a wife bo do away with
her husband by pouring molten lead into
one of hie ears while he slept. There was also
several years ago the ease of the peasants
who burned [heir elderly parents alive, and
whose crime furnished M, Zola with several
effective hints, which he made use of in
"La Terra." recently, at the Paris Assizes,
another revolting case of the kind was un-
folded.
Mina Schlegel, a rather good.looking wo-
man of thirty, was charged before the jury
with having thrown spirits of wine on her
husband and then set fire to the inflammable
matter. The man expired in fearful agony,
but was conaoims to the last and kept re.
prating that it was his wife who had caused
his horrible sufferings. The effete happen.
oil on March 17 last. Schlegel was an erbium
living in the Avenue de Paris, near Saint
Denis, and is said to have been a quiet,
steady, hard-working fellow, His wife had
the reputation of being a shrew and had
frequently made her husband wince by the
acrimonious vigor of her tongue. Every
evening there were bickerings between the
pair, and, according to the indictment, on
the night of March 17 Sohlegai, after an
exceptionally hard day's toil, was in no
mood for the scolding_( of hie wife. She,
however, continued nagging, and he made
but monosyllable replies to her recrimina•
tions. When he had got into bed he said
however, to the woman, •' That will do 1
Lot us have no more of it 1" Whereupon
she flung rho inflammable liquid oss lam,
His back and shirt were saturated with it
and before Ise could move his ami-
able partner is said to have ignit-
ed the stuff from a small kitchen lamp
which she used. There was immediately a
seat sheet of flame, and Schlegel ruslsed
wildly to the door, which was closed. He
succeeded in removing the bolt, and ran to
the landing shrieking for help. Some neigh.
bore arrived, and seeing his piteous condi-
tion, enveloped him in wet sheets. He bad,
however, been ggrieviously burned, and was
carried to the St,Deonia Hospitai,whero he
died on the following clay. While her hus-
band was being attended to by tlse neigh-
bors Mme. Schlegel was calmly cleaning
the drops of spirits of wine off the floor, and
it was while engaged in so doing that her
arrest was effected by the gendarmes. She
maintained that her husband was drunk
and had upset the bottle of stuff while stag-
gering to bed.
An inquiry was then set on foot is the
neighborhood, and it was ascertained that
the heeband was a meek man, who born
with his wife's reproaches like a lamb, but
that he was occasionally prone to drown
kis domestic troubles in absinthe and petit
bleu. It was also said that Mme. Schlegel
had already tried to roast her husband alive
while heslepb, bathe wokebefore shelled time
to carry her bis eful project through. From
that time the woman had the reputation in
Saint Dennis of being a female Torgnemada,
her exploit being compared to those of the
Grand Inquisitors who are exhibited in the
peepshows at fairs, A neighbor oleo declar-
ed that before the husband was burned,
Mine. Schlegel had said that she intended
to " make a bonfire" or "to let off fire.
works" on her own a000unb. These asser•
Eons were all used a-ainst her by the pros-
ecution. In court to -day the accused em-
phatically adhered to her original line of
defense, although her husband had
sworn "before God" on hie deathbed, fn
her presence and that of several others,
that it was she, and she alone, who had
burned him alive.
lime. Schlegel was defended by Maitre
Robert, and on the conclusion of the ease
the jury brought in a verdict of " Gulley,
with extenuating circumstances." She was
then condemned to penal servitude for
fe.
WREN MALAYS RUN AMUCK.
Everybody Who May bo in the Way Falls
Before Their Dripping liutvea,
11 is a religious fanaticism, a madnese
under which a man makes up his mind to
kill any one he can until he himself is killed,
Brought on by drink and religion, or from
whatever cause, the process is the same.
The madman seizes hes kyles and rushes
headlong down the steeob, cutting at every
one Ise meets. To any one who has seen e
kriss or a parang further detail is unneces-
sery.
A man running amuck is as a dog with
hydrophobia, but the panic caused by the
former is by far the worse. Like the mad -
dog the madman is followed by a noisy
rabble, who, sooner or later, run into their
man and exterminate him. When this
vengeful rabble is made up of bloodthirsty
Mateyo and Chinamen its wild rage and
fury are beyondoontrol, beyond description.
The clamor and bloodcurdling yells of the
pursuing crowd and the ever.noaring shout
of "Oran amok, oran amok," is an inoidenb
which eau never be forgotten by any one
who has seen or hoard it. The bravest
quails when suddenly turning the corner of
a street his ears aro greeted with the ory of
"Oran amok," and a few yards off he sees a
Malay running straight at hint, brandish.
ing in his hand the bloody kriss with which
he has already slaughtered all in Iiia way.
Isis hair flowing behind him, his sarong
thrown away or torn off in a struggle, hie
naked chest necking with blood, his eyes
protruding frown hie hood and twico thtir
natural else, owning towards you with the
rapidity of a doer, every mole la his fuer,
eulean little body swollen to its greatcab
tension, his pries dripping with blood, hie
eyes upon you, with dire hate and deter.
minetion gleaming from them; down ho
cones upon you, tiro whole place ringing
with the en, of the over•inoreasing anti
avenging,• u behind him, down upon
you ooa. •• .e "oran amok 1 orae amok i'
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