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The Brussels Post, 1920-1-1, Page 2JOCK'S TE "MS A Tule of the Malta Hospitals, By ALBERT G. MACKINNON. ..._..wars .,._ .. CI•IAPTER II.if I was a general, I wud malt' ye Sock did not waste time in his �ft gie him, or duck yer heid." search, and next day, to his great dad "Ye can dae what ye like; butfwhen eight, he heard that Sandy WGibb was' I think Al' a' my- past, an' hoo it was a patient in St, Paul's Hospital, which! due tae Roderick Macpherson, it's no was only a short distance from his ,in me to pardon. I'm no made that own. To get a friend to wheel him wey. Sae ye needna fash Terser wi' over in his chair was an easy matter. talkin', I'm no the kind to be got It was not Joeilt's nature to do any- roond wi' palaver." thing by halves, and so he could not Jock looked at the wounded man rest until he had started on his errand with some amazement and no little of peacemaker. secret admiration. He had met his He trusted to eireum,stances to guide match. AU his persuasive powers had him, and to give hien an entrance into failed. He had sense enough to see The hard heart Whose lack of forgive- ness was killing poor Roderick Mac- pherson. "I hear ye're to get the Military Medal," Jock began tactfully as he drew up at Sandy's bed, "ant, as a bri- ther Scot, I've come to say hoo prood I am. I'm telt that ye brocht in fower wounded men efter that stunt at Saloneek." "Ay, ane ower mony." was the gruff response. "Diana say that, mon. I hoe seen the last ane ye saved, an' though he is gey bad, the doctors hope to pull him through, an' a better sodger there and was angry with himself. I eyes and a tremor in his voce. eudna be. Ye've helped the 'man- But Joek was lucky. Perhaps his; "Ay, I hae nee doots aboot that." pooer,' as they en' it. But yer job's no luck consisted in always seizing his"Gang an' bring her at aince. I'm richt done yet, an' I hae nae patience chances, and being on the lookout for., fair reein' to see her noo," said Sandy, wi' falf-feenished wark." them. Two days later he was still sitting up in ;bed and beginning to "Ihiv ye mean that I didna save battling with the problem on his mind, make himself tidy. Roderiek Macpherson? WeeL if I when he overheard scraps of a conver- "No sae—quick, Sandy. I hae got my didna, I dinna ken wha did or cud. I'll cation near him. An R,A.M,C. man terms." confess that I was verra near Ieavin' who was going to Egypt, and whose "Terms?" eee t{ many a nurse anti doetor had done POSSIBILITIES OF 1 'notI ore --"his bidding, gjl No sooner had his messenger gone iban Joel( got his chair, and calling 'or a volunteer to wheel him, set off; f. St. Paul'g I-Iospital• Ile found; 4.. sly M'Gibb in much the same mood 'ie had left him, FRUIT GROWERS CO: •Weel, Sandy, nee cheerier ?" was VENTION ADDRESS. 13. s salutation, "I hae got news for I ye though, that'll mak' ye sit up an' 1-ueh yer hair. Wha div ye think I am i,:gun to bring to see ye?" "No Roderick Macpherson, I hope, for 1'11 hae nane o' him, sae ye needna trouble." "If that's yer speerit, I lune a guid mind no to bring her," "Her? Wha?" asked Sandy with a new suspiciousness in his voice. "Janet Fraser, of course. She's here in Malta." 6 Sand s face flushed, the frown as- grasped for more for all time, bays whatever the teacher wished to pin onsed, and a softness crept into phis E. J. Atkin, Leamington in an address it. A few stale samples of drawing In ' voice. "Ay, I wed be richt gled to see at the Fruit Growers t o nveutfon. AN ACRE OF SOIL Fruit and Vegetable Combit:a- tions on Small Areas Are Profitable. •leew native Canadians have any con- ception of the possibilities of an acre of soil. The principle of expansion is as old as the law of self-defence. In- dividuals as well as nations have A Visit to the District School. Did you ever visit your district school? I slid this afternoon. I en- tered a small, rather neat looking room in some respects, Across the front of the room was the blackboard space. No boards on the sides of the and hands had evidently not seen soap and water for some thne and whose hair was uneetmaiutecl with comb or. brush. The doors of this Wilding are never locked; there is no way to lock them, The windows have no secure fasten - room, but between the windows were ings, and often pupils are in the build. stretched squares of burlap, probably ing an hour before their teacher ar- intended for exhibiting good work or rives. No respect for person or props city are shown and evidently is not taught. At recess time such noiee and disorder prevailed that it was almost impossible to hold conversation with the teacher, Something is lacking, not only its the school itself, but in the district.. Is this sehool in your aisiriet? Are you the teacher of this sdsaol? Are you a member of the school hoard of this district? Are you the father or the mother of some of these children? Don't blame the teacher, nor the school board but wake up and do some- thing. Remember that a good teacher does not teach for nothing. Until the wall and a small alarm clock ticks the salaries of teachers are improved, it the teacher's desk, with its hack to will be impossible to obtain the serv- room. The program was in view, ices of the best nen and women for though the teacher had one for her this most important work. The rem- edy lies with ourselves—A Mother. that it was useless to persist, that it her, an' wud be muckle indebted tae would only render the other more! Ye. Dae ye happen to ken, lad, :id stubborn in his resistance. Se, with aj she's mairrit?" curt "Good -day," he wheeled his chair' "Na, she's no mairrit, an' for a round and out of the ward. , verve guid reason." Defeat did not agree with Jock. Het "Why?" could not eat his meals, and he did! "She'll no tale then that want her, not talk for thinking. His ebeeriness because she didna get the ane she vanished, and the ward felt the chill wanted. She's been loyal tae ye a' of its eclipse. j thae years, Sandy, though ye dinna "What's wrong with you, Jock?" deserve it. Mincl ye, it was only her asked the nurse in surprise, yllnind that was turned against ye, an' "There's naethin' the inaitter wi' me no her hairt." but my brains," was the response, for; "Dae ye think sae, mon?" There he was eudgelhing them to no purpose;' were tears now in the wounded man's him in No Man's Lang, but as I had boat had called at Malta, had come "Ye dimsa expect ore, surely, to dae risked sae muckle to find him, I de- ashore to see a wounded friend in the a' this for naeth:in', an' tae a grvmblin terminad to complete the job." • next bed to Jock. body at bests" "But that' julst what ye haven: He was amusing his listener by giv- donc," interrupted Jock with some ing an account of his voyage and des - severity, which made the other open cribing his fellow -passengers. hes eyes in wonder. . i "We have a Scottish nurse, a per - "Ay, I slid that; an' it eost me this feet brink," he was saying. "Her name Wound, worse luck:" !i Janet Fraser, and she does credit ' Ye got him tubi the trench, I aci-' to then clan." • °� our greed for gain we ignore the small and seemingly insignificant things in nature, and rush wildly on without chart or compass. Unless our system of agriculture is radically changed within the next nifty years, coining generations will have a food situation to solve, that is now perplexing India. This fair Ontario of ours, which ranks highest of all provinces in the Dominion, for the production of food- stuffs, is being dlspoiled to satisfy this lust for expansion, With our forests gone, and our marshes and low -lands drained, so that the water that should remain for months in land is rushed in a few weeks to the sea, we have nothing to expect but blights and diseases for our orchards and crops; and drought, hot winds and hard winters for our farms, The past few years, owing to the great war and the extreme scarcity et farm labor, has taught our farmers , more in regard to intensive agricul- ture, smelled acreage, and larger yields than the whole previous ewe - Wry. tory, The successful fernier of to -day will no longer s read a five -acre crop g P p over a twenty -acre field, as the net in- come will not warrant the expense. The farmers of today, and more par- ticularly the fruit and vegetable growers, have learned several valuable lessons within the past few years. The first and foremost of thee° perhaps is, that intensive farming and rich soil is the only line of horticulture that pays. Secondly that crop rotation must be followed to produce suee'sssfully, year after year, a large, healthy and profit- able crop. Horticulture That Pays. "What due ye want, then?" asked the other in surprise. "That ye'Il write wi' yer ain haunt on a piece o' paper that ye forgi'e Roderick Macpherson frae the bottom o' yer hairt for a' the ill be has done ye, an' that yell never bear him a Sete but that n a:" 1 I wanner if cue's frae Loth par- grudge. I'll no budge a step to get ' i� ern, it's for the ea.:ris to d.ia rn,n, ray ony trar.;e1" interrupted 'Janet until ye pit that intil my hennas, Jock. an' withoot me she eanna find ye, for IThe isiter looked roun•i at him with she disna ken y e're in Malta." e L .,, , _ _ , c cf 1n'tin cern t: •Yes he answered "that "Men, ye hae got me fine," laughed a ilia '. , r �i,a cite.. somehow to s the perish she comes frim. Da you Sandy'. His hardened heart had been i + ulsdetli:i', aril foie', masoning. Sanity knew her':" I burst by the explosive of lot*e, w'hoso cert y was taken stack. He was. 'No personally; Though I hae been power Jock knew only too well rtieeei.,t)s that some sxiom, whose thinkin' a great deal aboot,her tatisj The message of forgiveness was e;ireness he had never doubted, was. last dayor two. Is she mairrit yet?", written, and Jock hurried with .it to •addeniy discovered to he rotten. ; '-I should think not, or I should not Roderick Macpherson, Who could "If the doctors canna cure, who. be so interested. I do not know why' scarcely believe his eyes as he read ran? Tell one that!"" he demanded a girl like that keeps single." it again and again. wil=t some warmth. answering', Scot-! "I kers," Jack replied with emphasis; - "He forgl'es me," he cried with the like, glestion with question, in his "an' the reason does her credit. But exuberance of a newefoundl relief. dete:•muation to shoe that he could she'll no remain unn•airrlt fang noo.' "Mon, Jock, I'm thinkin'that the next handle the gun of interrogation as hn fact. she'll no leave Malta withoot best thing to forgi'ein' is "Dein' for- e:ell as his interviewer. , bein' engaged." gi'en." ••You can," answered Sock, tenable' "Veli, it wilt have to be to myself, When Jock got,.baela to his ward to restrain a smile. for he had most then," laughed the visitor. "The boat Janet Fraser was 'there. In simple rtuceessfelly led the conversation up leaves to -morrow, and she is not Com- words he told her the whole tale. to the -point lie desired. He had stra- ing ashore, and of the men on board tc gically won the dominating position. I think I stand the best chance." "Me?" was the astonished reply,' "She mann conte ashore at since. "It was I who did the great wrong in ever doubting Sandy," she cried. "Take me to suint that I may ask his "i ni no a doetar." Tell her a life is hingin' j' the balance. forgiveness." "There are some pairts o' us medi-! Gang an' bring her this meenit. It's "He'll gie ye that a' richt," answer- eenes canna reach, but words can; an'' maiet imperative. Noo, dinna hesi- ed Jock. "He's learned the art o' it." Roden:ck's warst wound lies there.! tate. She disna ken my name, sae He took her to her former lover, Iles deein' o' remorse, an' its only; there's nae use sayin' wha sent ye; and then he left them alone. They did eure is forgi'eness, an' it's only you' but tell her that her ain future de- not notice him slipping away—they that can speak the message o' pardon pends on ,it, an' the happiness o' three were too busy forgiving each other. that'll pit new speerit intil him." ; lives, Noo, haste ye." (The End.l "-Ile can dee, then," was the un- There was something very cotn- eemnromising response from the bed,! mending about Jock on occasions, and "An' the British Airmy'll hae lo.,t i this was one of them. The visitor felt That Beacon Light. a guid sodger a' through yoe. Mond his mesmeric power, and did what in the olden days, a man who erect- ed a lighthouse—just as today ho builds a theatre—hoped to make a for- tune from it. As a matter of fact, men who gained permission to place permanent beacons on dangerous parts of our coast made thousands of, pounds profit, says an English writer. This practice of allowing priyate persons to build lighthouses betaine very much abused, and was eventually stopped. One man paid $2,225,000 as the purchase price of a barren rock on 1 which lie built a lighthouse. Of course, the value then of owning a lighthouse lay in the money that was demanded from passing ships. Sir Edward I -Toward, who built a light- house on Dungeness in 1615, collected one penny per ton from vessels pass- ing the lighthouse, . From the cliffs of Dover we can watch the flash of Cape Gris Nez an- swering our Foreland light, Though to -day both natfansloon greatly in the councils of the world, the lights re- mind tis that at one time they were both conquered by the might of Rome. In Dover Castle the lower part of the Roman phares still stands. For the first crude lights which shone from Boulogne and Dover were those erect- ed by the Raman legions, The French tall a lighthouse "un phare," the word being derived from tlse most famous of the early lights, that erected in 270. B.C., on the small island of Pharos in the Bay of Alexandria. The tower was one of the Seven Wonders of the World, its rays being visible at about forty miles, and the cost estimated at $1,000,000; It was overthrown by an earthquake in about 1220. '- The first British lighthouse seems to have been built at Caister 1n 1000, The Lowestoft light was then erected, and ea man named Frobisher built a light at Ravenspur, having to pay the Ring $41.25 annually. Navigation would be almost impos- sible without their aid, and donee- quently their value to the nation Is well-nigh Incalculable: so it Is as- tonishing to find that most of these lights -were originated by private en- terprise. Care Needed When Using Electricity Electricity. bile fire, fs r valuable ;• apt, but a dangerous master. So leer as it is kept in perfect control it is the most Convenient and -cleanly ,cur+a of energy that science has titch ;available for use in the hotise- 1 1�1. But it tenet be controlled. lrut- f :i Gi i-re'e are lest every year end ,,:rel property destroyed as a resnTt ,, flefectic-e wiring end the careless b eedli-ng ,•T boli' retuarif,tle tunlsc'en f, Tee. Belot i:, a brief 11)0re1aly of rccom- meendatufln' whirls• if followed, will go 'sax toward ruminating accidents In the use of electricity: II) Never touch a wire or any elec• tricot crevice whi'h has fallen on a street, alley or lawn. or which bangs within reach, if there is any possibili- ty that it may be towelling any over- head electric wire. This applies to in- sulated overhead wires as well as to bare ones. (2) Avold touching guy wires which are used to anchor poles to the ground, or the ground wire run down wood poles. Never try to jar arc lamps, nor touch the chains or ropes supporting them, tiering and atter storms do not teeth even the poles, if wet. a3) Never Climb a pole or tree an or neon' which electrlu wires parse. Never touch such wires from windows nor while On roofs. Warn ebiidren against climbing poles or standing on pole steps. (4) Never throw string. sticks, or piec:ee of wire .over the electric wires carried overhead, Alao, never fly kites near overhead wires, nor throw sticks or stones at imitators. (5) Do not touch or disturb any electric wiring or appliances in build- ings except 5u011 as are intended to Ise handled. Keep furniture and other matterials away from interior wire's, cr POO ibet the wiring. Is in conduit, or esi,et'wise adequately protected again- mtteletaittal hijtn'y. After tieing sC I eetii•h . , 1'.1:ces,.irone, ate., trill off the earrent before Jenving their.. 16) Neves' toueh those interior live metal parts of sockets, pings, etc., which are used to carry current. Use the insulating handles which are pro- vided for that purpose, While in bath -rooms. toilet rooms, kitchens, laundries. basements or other rooms with damp floors, stoves, heaters or �: etc.. w it pipe, • e f., finh may be touched: avoid touching any metal part of lamp sockets, fixterce, or other electrical devices, since they may accidentally be alive. While in a bathtub never touch any part of an electric cord or fixture even if it 1s a non-conductor. The use of electric vibrators in the bath is dangerous. Avoid touching stoves or other metals when using the telephone, particularly during electri- cal storms. (7) Never try to take electric shocks from the wiring in buildings or on streets nor induce others to take such risks. (8) Avoid touching bare or abraded spots on flexible electric cords. Do not hang such cords on nails and when damaged have them repaired or replaced by a competent electrician. (9) Never touch a person who has been shocked while he Is still in con- taet with the electric circuit, unless you knew how to remove him without danger to yourself. Call a doctor and the eearest.ligbting company. nee a long -dry board or wooden -handled rake or broom td draw the person away from the wire, or the wire away from isini• Never use any metal or any moist object, (10) To resuscitate a person suf- fering from electric shock draw hie tongue out of his throat and apply ar- tificial respiration for two or three hours it neceeeary. (11) Watch for and report any fall. en wires, defective wiring, etc, (12) Never employ anyone but cont. potent eleetricians to repair or change wiring and do not attempt it your- self unless qualified to de a0; I1ieaa1 ei rulasfinen8 Chives °olds. he, As to the first point, it is not my in- tention to mention it but briefly. In the Leamington section, whore the scarcity and high Cost of manure makes it almost prohibitive, we must resort to other means. True, we do use a small amount of farm -yard manure, particularly where we have to follow extremely intensive forms of culture, as in the greenhouses and on our irrigation plots. In the latter we give an annual application of about twenty tons per acre, which is supple- mented with commercial fertilizers. Where possible a cover crop is also sown in the fall which is plowed clown in the spring. On the remainder of the land a fall Cover crop 1s generally grown, this is plowed down in the spring and supplemented , with com- mercial fertilizers. Crop rotation is the one that re- quires, perhaps, the greater considera- tion, and the proper rotation, to a great extent, controls the loss from in- sect pests and plant diseases. While the majority of those before me, I pre- sume, are fruit growers, a large num- ber engage in vegetable growing as well. These two work well together in a good many localities and on pro- per soil, especially one that is sandy in nature; they give us a'combination that is both profitable and easily handled. While vegetable growing is the principle one in our district, a large number of the growers have found that a combination of the two work well togethei", especially the smaller fruits, such as strawberries, currants and even peaches, to a very at extent, As a sandy y soil is not oftener than every four years the were pinned on one piece of burlap, and pasted on various parts of the walls, and on the front blackboard were Christmas decorations. The teacher is a bright girl but she surely missed her calling when she took up teaching. She volunteered the information when she first took the school that she never intended to teach, but when the county decided to accept high school graduates on ac- eount of shortage of teachers she de- cided she would try it. A large clock hangs dead an theon own use. Five classes recited during the time I was ei the room, from one o'clock till recess time, and not one pupil was asked to do any board work. A farmer who is farming close to The board space is small but there is 500 acres of land has put into practice room for five or six to works at one a novel plan of handling itis lsi'-ed help time and there ere not more than to make them happy and contented that number in anywon class. with their job. Several hired men are Every pupil in the room answered employed, and up to last summer the every question put to him with a ris- farmer had all the usual drffir-tlties jn ing inflect -ion of the voice. There were keeping good ones. twenty-three pupils in attendance; and Then he built a fine new farm home, only four or five appeared to have any and in drawing up the plans far it hit work to look after, A failure in reci-•upon the idea of setting apart the tation was passed by with a frown on lower floor of one part of the house the teacher's part,- or the remark,' as a "hired man's, room"—not : bunk - "You must put more time on your room, but 0 room that w'oule serve work, John." No one was asked to the men just as the living loom serv- make up work, ed the family for resting itading, A boys'. toilet room and a girls' tell- ':riting and receiving their fti':ids. et room are built into -opposite sides The Utility side was also looked of the building and equipped with a after. A long row of hooks was )laced chemical closet outfit. Right here let on one side wall where the men could me say that our own small boy of six hang their coats when coming in from years says it is so filthy in the boys' work. On the other side he in=:tilled toilet room he will not go into it. In wash howls. This has meant the corner next the boys' toilet stands saving of work to the housewife, '0r a very unsanitary open water pail and the men now go direct to the root to! dipper. Would you want your child 'prepare for meals instead of using the: to drink there? , kitchen. There are no recitation seats, and a; The room is fitted up with eomfc'rt-i number of the desks are so insecurely able chairs, conches, a writing desk,' fastened that they flop, and squeak, and a cabinet for guns, fishing tactile, and wiggle more frequently than is and similar things. Here the men' pleasant, really have a hone of their own. The I -sate children from some of "our owner declares that the plan work c best families" whose faces and necks splendidly. France to Store Explosive "Hired Man's Room." ing year the ground is planted to onions, egg -plant or peppers. Ln this rotation five profitable crops are grown in the four years, while under ordinary means of eurture only three would be produced. If we had needed proof that a rota- tion of crops wes necessary we lac) an ample one this last season. A half - acre p101 was planted to egg -plant, ]calf of this area had been en old strawber- ry patch theprevious year and had also grown a crop of late potatoes, or in other words, was the fourth year of the rotation mentioned above. The plants were large and healthy and pro- duced over one-half bushel per plant, of first-class fruit. The other quarter acre haci been planted with egg -plant the previous year. This crop had been healthy and showed no signs of diseases, but the crop this year de- veloped practically every disease com- mon to egg -plant and I think some that were not. The crop wes almost a total failure. These two plots were side by side and throughout the sea- son it was easy to tell, even from a distance,,jtst where the division calve. We find that if a ,crop is not planted so well adapted to cherries, plums and I diseases common to it and tho family are not nearly as profitable as the I trouble, a probable exception to this is the mosiao disease and I very much doubt if this is carried over in the soil, but rather with the seed. To sum up, rich soil, good cultiva- tion and proper rotation, will give large, healthy, profitable crops with the minimum expense and labor„, pears to which these are very little grown and it belongs give very little aforementioned. The peach trees are planted out early in the spring on a soil that has been previously well pre- pared. Early tomatoes are then plant- ed in the orchard; the cultivation necessary for them gives the trees a good start at 110 extra expense. In the fall, the vines are pulled up and piled about the roots. These give pro- tection and also serve as a catch to the snow. The second year the or- chard is planted with melons. These grow well and the only preparation necessary is digging some well rotted manure in the Mlle, The third year often no crop is planted if the trees have made a normal growth, but if the space is limited and the trees per- mit lt,'two rows of tomatoes are often planted the wide way, the third year. By the fourth year the trees will com- mance to bear and further intercrop- ping would be unwise, Rotation Under Irrigation. Under the irrigation a djfferent ro- tation le followed, Cabbage are plant- ed in the spring, usually about April' 1st to 10th. These will all be harvest• ed by the first week in July. The ground Is then given a light top dress-, ing of manure and about August 1st t0 15111, is planted to strawberries, These produce a very good crop the next year. After cropping they' are cultivated, cleaned out, and later on mulched and loft for a full crop the eoihthg year. When picking 11 over they aro plowed Own and the ground planted to late potatoes, The follow - Who Invented What? The rivalry of candidates for the honor of having invented the Tank is by no means a new thing in the world. We talk very glibly of Stephenson in ,venting the locomotive engine, but dozens of attempts in the same direc- tion precededthe evolution of the "Rocket." The cotton industry owes its looms and frames not only to Ark- wright and Crompton .and •Cartwright, but to numberless other wonderful in- ventions which have made these men's work a hundred theca more eflective,• Thus, rival and independent claims have been made for the discovery.ef the theory, of evolution, the interpre tation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the 'invention of the steam-engine, the method of epectrttln analysis by which the colnposltion of the sun and the stars can be determined, the telegraph and telephone, as well as many other epoch-making discoveries and -Innen. tions which have- dono to much for mankind. Many women Are being etnployei. to help repair roads in Groat Britain, egsfeardee 7Animetut aurae ombutozin in Glacier -fed Lakes. The glacier -fart lakes of the Pyre- nees are to be the storehouses for France's vast accumulation of military explosives, according to a recent de- claration in the chamber of deputies. The speaker explained that the stuff will deteriorate quickly if kept in the usual way. 1f lestroyed outright, on the other hand, the government will suffer a loss of almost a billion francs, , So instead of "keeping her power. dry;' as onjoinad by the—old saw, it seems that France will keep It damp, and incidentally , at a low and even temperature, in the strange store- houses mentioned., You want him gcod and healthy, You want hint big and strong, Then give him a pure wool Jersey, Made by his frieed, Bob Long, Let him romp with all his vigor He`s the best boy in the land, And he'll always be bright and smiling, If he wears a Bei Ling Brand, =Bob Long, ..*;04 , se Bas Lang BOYS'- PURR WOOL WORSTED JERSEYS graoevn hoot "Coast to L°leosit.:r Pon 'IOW) WEAR, �oMPOI(T AND SMARTnAPPCARANCE R..G.LONG`et CO. LlMITIED TORONTO . , CANADA 144 ,Look for 1155 Labe? ' A 11 grasdbc Wr&tn Joz' Orief TORONTO OMT WOIIK1 lk• a. CUPP 1 • '6'ORON119 MAKING MARINE MOTION MICTURLS HOW EVEN DAVY JONES IS CALLED IN. Never Devices Employed by' Producers to Obtain a Realistic Picture. The film -producer makes a favorite' of no hind of craft, for 11e will handle everything frons a raft to an 00e5.0 liner. His pet stunts are the acct. dental turnover of a rowing -boat, Wreck of a craft by collision, or by running into an iceberg, rocks, or fire at sea. When a scenario atlpulates that a Yacht be set on fire, and a boiler ex- plosion despatch it beneath the waters, an old craft is purchased. Af- ter the preliminary deck scenes lead- ing up to the sensational situation havebeenproduced, the vessel is di- vested of its interior fittings, for the producer is not so rash ea is common- ly supposed. The next stage is to saturate the Fillip with oil and tarpon - tine, and place sticks of dynamite in the hold. It is dangerous work for the men Who are assigned the task, Down and Up Again. Immediately their work is over, they Jump off the yacht into the sea, and swirl about until picked up by a motor -boat and taken to safety. An- other example of the producer's deter- mination to gat full value for his Out- lay is given in that he never tinges the dynamite to explode until the ship has been well burned. Oftentimes. several scenes are taken for different produc- tions at the same time. In one picture an expensive yacht was blown up by a torpedo. Clara Iiinsball Young, the star, witnessed this'incideut, and declared it was a shame that such a pretty boat should be destroyed. The director informed her, jokingly, that she could have it as a free gift if it was of any use to her after it had got into the clutches of Davy Jones. - She decided to take a sporting ,•fiance, and had a diver investigate the vessel. To her joy, 11e reported tlntt although It appeared in the pic- ture that the torpedo split the ya,?rst in ball. it had only torn ;: hole in the side. :Wise Young at once had the yacht- ruined and repaired. It is now a trustworthy pleasure craft, in which lis fair owner has taken Many trips. • There are occasions when a misfor- tune proven a blessing in disguise to the mutter of movies. On hearing of a wreck along the coast within ease dis- tance, he will probably journey with his band of players anfl camera men, weaving a marine drama en route, and getting all the atmosphere he requires. Neither is he averse to the other Money -saving plan of cutting view's from an animated newspaper. Effective, But Not Expensive. There is also a certain film concern which, unlike otltere in the same busi- ness, apparently does not believe in the value or realism. They show a marked preference for the easy and inexpensive way of framing up a wreck in/the studio, An accurate model of a skip is placed on the edge of Z. green -topped table. 'filo "wreck" le produced -by means of an electrical device, and le photographed a good distance away from the camera. Uri the next day some sea seeees aro produced on the coast near by. Both negatives are then cut In two, and ono section of each, used. The first nega• dive ie cut in half along the line of the tabletop, which is the "water -line," and the real marine half of the other one notches it exactly, The finished combination creates a perfect illusion. Of course, when you see water flood - leg the cabins or hold, or smoke and flanges filling and devouring them, with the passengers and crew franti- cally trying to escape, you angst know that those situations are faked in the studio, as they would be too danger- ous for the actors it staged on a real ship, let alone the disadvantage that the infetior light conditions would not permit good photography. 1'n One, important production the C. P. Titgon, of the Scandinavian Ameri- can Line,.was hired. Five hundred players acted as the passengers who fought for the boats; many leaped into the sea, some of whom were "drowned," All the horrors, In fact, of such a calamity were dragged in, Many were the rehearsals to get the actors to render vivid portrayals. Strange as it may seen, the ship was not sunk at all. Its wreck was only cleverly suggeet d, without any ma- terfal damage being done; Using the Actual Ship. The producers savedt considerable expense by having e, wooden. replica of tho liner made, and sunk to the bot- toltt. Tho Photoplay director is also •par- tial to stories of pirate days. The ciif- finny one knight of the megaphone had when about to put on a play of Billy Hayes, a noted pirate, and smug- gler of a little over thirty years ago, .was to discovers, suitable'craft, Out a trip to San Pedro, California, he had the good fortune to Hire an antiquated ship that had been confiscated by the United States Government, - On board woe an old Norwegian, who informed Mtn that the ship was Origiu911y the Sprite, a vessel which hart seen many a fet'oeieus encounter. Once ft had illegally been seized by Billy TTayee, au0 with it he terrorized Pacific. Cett-etj, lawns, for. Amity yeas 1. This was is Bete -Of fortunate eotnei' deuce, as,,,it.mod for the film-man'e perseverance,