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A Bride From
The Sea
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Richard Heriot pauses.' abruptly
on tilf.0bridge' companion -steps, a
duciden faintness •tectiving at hie
Motionless he atood on the brass-
, shod stairway, his nervously -clench-
ed hands gripping its sun -scorched
rails; then, recovering himself as
by a violent effort of will •over aelf,
he tramped upwards to the bridge's
From its altitudehe followed the
progress of the slender figure that
had been responsible for the mo-
mentary arrest of his passage on
to the bridge.'
"'Gwen!" he murmured uncer-
tainly beneath his breath, "Gwen!
And she used to be as pretty as a
daydrearn." ,
, Helf eoneealed by such shelter
as was afforded by a weather cloth,
Heriotf allowed his glance to rest
on the calm beauty of a face the
first bloom of ighich had been care-
lessly brushed by the touch of care.
•To a gaze so keen as the first lieu-
tenant's the weariness of the tired
eyes told its own tale of quiet and
unoomplaining sorrow. Instinctive-
ly the officer's strong, yirile hands
clenched in a gesture of angry im-
patience on catching sight of the
man following heavily in her wake.
Stout, with saturnine features bloat-
ed by wine and excess, the face was
well enough knewn to the liner's
passengers as belonging to John
Delmar, the Diamond King. To
Heriot, Dehnar was, however, more
than being merely a man of colos-
sal wealth. He was the husband of
the girl whom he still loved with all
the strength of a hungry Soul. To
the lieutenant he was the man who:
had saved' a bankrupt father from
pauperisM'by the purchase of his
daughter's beauty. •
Three years had passed since the
news of Mrs. Delmar's marriage
had reached Heriot's ears at Fun-
chal. Three years had elapsed
since he had seen the face of the
girl who still held her place in the
shrine of his heart by right of
memory. Now, by a jest of fate, it
was destined he should meet her
at a port where the news of her
wedding had been broken to him
by letter. 'Leaning forward, as he
now did against the taffrail, the
' first lieutenant felt the pressure of
that missive against his breast. Its
feel caused a vivid recollection to
surge across his brain in letters
of fire, and, doing so, his heart mo-
mentarily beat furiously in a' mur-
derous pulsation, as his eyes met
and held those Delmar had almost
unconsciously raised to the level
of the bridge.
Startled by the unexpected sight
of his defeated rival, the Diamond
King paused; then, a peculiar smile
of extraordinary malace contract-
ing the corners of his lips, anew
proceeded on his way up the deck
companion.
Glance for glance Heriot - held
that of the millionaire, till the lat-
ter, losing confidence, lowered his
eyes on gaining the deck. A moment
later Delmar had disappeared from
view through the doorway of a
deck cabin. On the bridge the lieu-
tenant waxed profane beneath his
breath, then lapsed into a sullen
silence, till the Sheffield Town,
churning the Atlantie into a
creamy waste astern, stole out of
its anchorage towards the °Pen
Ocean. '
In command of the leviathan
Heriot paced the bridge, waiting
till he was relieved before descend-
ing to the level of the night -veiled
deck, Sullenly he tramped out his
watch. looking ever and anon at the
. fast disappearing Madeira light
astern; then, handing over his -
command to the second, descended
to the dining -saloon, to take a seat
at the well -laden board.
Dropping into a vacant chair He-
riot discovered his vis-a-vis neigh-
bors • to be Delmar and his wife.
The discovery came as a shock, and,
had not fate intervened, he would
have left the table. Delmar, in
the latter capacity, however, -tak-
ing malicious delight in the lieu-
, tenant's discomfiture, would have
none ,it. Obviously suffering
libation of champagne the man
leaned heavily forward: over the
edge of the table, exclaiming un-
certainly as he did so :-
"Dick, my boy, how the dickens
• did. you manage to get washed
aboard this ship, eh 7 Were the
company short of officers that they
Promoted you to first --what,?"
ant in its offensiveness than when
first uttered, could now no longer
be passed in silence. Delmar was
striving to force an open rupture.
Heriot, recognizing the latter fact,
was equally determined to 'disap-
point the millionaire in his'amiable
"If you are addressing me, Mr.
Delmar, my name is Heriot," he
remarked, with a pointedness his
interlocutor could . not fail to, ap-
premate. You , observe, I give
your name the prefix demanded by
courtesy's usage. ' I should .be
obliged if you would accord me a
similar. favor.".
The millionaire's ruddy face •grew
bu`B
c(°lyie.Gael, I shall call you what I
choose," he snarled. "You were
Dick' to my wife. You have writ-
ten letters to her signed by that
name, and if my wife is allowed to,
call you Dick,' it seemasto.me the
husband has every whit as much
right. Soo here, ray fine fellow!
COM0 fooling around Gwendoline
whilst She's aboard this ship, and
I'll have you flung out of the ser-
vice neck and erop ! I've read your
letters, and—" -
Delmar paused in his fierce flow
of invective stammering and dis-
mayed. Uncertainly he confront-
ed the white4aeed officer, flinching
before the 'directed blaze of the
eyes bent ,on his.
"Mr. Delmar," said he, in low,
frigid accents that stung as with
the cut of a whip -lash, 'you say
you have -read My letters. If so,
yen -will have learned my opinion
of yourself. To my statements
therein I should, however, like to
make an .addition. It is an import-
ant one. You will appreciate it, I
am sure, when I say I consider you
to be • the most unmitigated black-
guard it has ever been. my ill luck
to meet."
."A blackgma,rd! Why, you in -
'
"I repeat -a blackguard." Heri-
ot's calm incisiveness silenced Del -
mar's bluster. "No individual with
the least pretensions „te a gentle-
man would endeavor to pick a
quarrel in a public place on the
plea of a prenuptial episode, or try
to decry his wife in the presence of
strangers. I have the pleasure of
informing you, sir, I consider you
to be a cad of the first water."
A deathly hush reigned through-
out the length and breadth of the
crowded dining saloon. For a mo-
ment the strained silence prevail-
ed, the next it found its rupture in
the crash of a breaking plate as
the millionaire., in a gust of ,pas-
sion, brought his fist down on its
surfage with shattering force.
"You beggarly hound I" he
shouted, venomously. "If money
has any power in this world, I'll-"
"John -John, dear 1"
White and trembling, Gwendo-
line Delmar laid her slender 'hand
on her husband's arm in a gentle
yet retentive cling; then, loosing
it, crumpled backwards in her chair
beneath a blow of her husband's
fist. .
The cowardly act broke the ten-
sion, galvanizing passengers and
stewards on the instant into life
and activity. Quick as they were,
Heriot proved yet more rapid of
action. In a second he had 'gained
the infuriated magnate's side • then,
cool as .though taking a billiard
stroke, drove his fist into Delmar's
face. Catching him on the point
of the chin with his whole weight
behind it, the millionaire, swept
off his feet, sprawled in heavy in-
sensibility on to the carpet's level.
Shrugging his shoulders, Heriot
allowed himself to be escorted out
of the saloon, darting a searching
glance at the face of the woman
he loved with all the fierce devotion
of his honest soul. She was weep-
ing softly, the only touch of color
about her ashen features being an
angry fed on the brow where Del-
niar'a knuckles, had abrased the
tender skin.
"By Jupiter, this means my exit
from the Town Line," he mutter:
ed grimly to himself, as leaning his
elbows' on the tsffeail he allowed
the breath of a rising wind to fret
against hi.s fevered temples. "Strik-
ing a pa,ssenger I Good Lord! It's
hopeless for me to expect my di-
rectors to ever overlook a thing
like that; don't regret hav-
ing acted as .1 did. It was more
than flesh and blood conld stand
to see Gwen struck by that hulk-
ing brute." '
For upsverds of an hour Heriot
stood like is statue. Lost in the
from the effects of a too generous shadows he gazed out across the
'darkness veiled waters, listening
to the fugitive yet ever loudening
moan, of a rising wind, till the faint
echo of a footfall on the decking
in his rear fell on his eels Turn-
ing, ball in the belief, his hearing
had played him false, he found
h ms el f • ooiifronbing Gwendoline
"If I had twenty careers to lose,
I would risk them one and all in
order to possess the satisfaCtion of
having thrashed is bully who dared
lift his hand against the woman I
"Dick, he is in husband!"
Heriot shuffled his feet uneasily
over the surface of the immaculate
decking.
"Delmar stole you from me I'll
forgive him that, but if he dares
act the brute I'll teach him a les-
son with my bare knuckles, even if
I am put in irons by my captain
for so, doing! You re Delmar's
Wife, I '
"Thanks for the admission. She
is therefore mine to do as I Wish.
Gad, I bought her from her beg-
garly father. Bought her, do you
hear; man? Beeght her body and
said! Gwendeline'l do to your
cabin. 1 have a• few 'weeds to say
to thisee-individeal...He ,sieerna
to ignore' his. position. It is, I
think, more than time I should ac,
quaint hina with •
The low; clearly uttered words
Id! like a bomb -shell on the ears
of their hearers, as Delmar, emerg-
ing - from behind the Shadow of is
cowl, eanie boldly into sight, and,
doing so, halted in front .1f the
lieutenant.' •
"Go 'to your cabin I" he snarled
out, viciously. "By Gad I'll set --
Ile with you later, 'women For
the moment my businesa is with
Heriot."
Shrinking backwards es though
in anticipation ofa coming blow,
Gwendoline, turning, disappeared
amid the shadows of the night. The
next moment Heriot folt the con-
tact of a cloud of tobacco smoke
against his 18,6e.
"Let me find you hanging round
my wife again and I'll report you
to the captain," rapped out Del-
mar, coarsely. '`Underitand7 Let
me discover you speaking to Gwen-
doline again before we reach South-
ampton Water, and I'll make it
deuced hot for you in other ways,
besides having you kicked out of
the line for the mongrel you are.
Yes, Mr. Apostrophe Heriot -
deuced hOt! Not only for you, but
for -her as well. Follow? Good
night, and be hanged to you!"
"And if you dare raise your
hand to break your head!"
Clenching his hands, Heriot, hav-
ing hurled out his defiance, listen-
ed to Delmar till the end, a low
breath of satisfaction escaping his
lips on seeing the man swing round
on his heel and leave him to his
own reflections.
Impotent, Heriot allowed :the
pent-up fury of his soul to find its
vent in a growled -out threat as he
slowly tramped ahead along' the
now faintly shuddering deek to-
wards the distant bridge.
Entering the wheel -house, he
glanced at the barometer hanging
on its wooden partition. His brows
contracted on reading its warning.
"We're in for dirty weather,
Richards," he muttered, jerking the
words out over his shoulder to the
second: "The barometer isn't fall-
inging-it's simply tumbling
down."
Heriot proved ,a true prophet.
With Biscay on their starboard
quarter, the Sheffield Town ran in-
to the worst gale the had encoun-
tered since her launch. Worrying
her way ahead in the teeth of a
snoring eoe'-wester the great liner
helcl on her course, blundering her
bows heavy,smashing blows into
the slopes of gale -tortured- surges.
Hummock -backed and wreathed in
clouds of storm -battened spindrift,
the great seas swamped the levia-
than's struggling fo'c's'le in washes
of creaming spume which swept aft
with is torrential rush that spelt
death and destruction for all and
everything contendine'against their
rapid transit, if onlyfor a second's
span.
With Ushent limned grey and
threatening in the Offing up against
a menacing sky -line, the gale reach-
ed its zenith. Making but just fillf-
ficient speed for steerage -way, the
captain, bred of a long race of
dogged seamen, kept . the liner's
nese up 'to the eye of one of the
worst,sterres known in the Channel
for upwards of a quarter of a op-
thry.
Hour in and hour out the Shef-
field Town, laboring like a striCken
creature in its agany fenght the:
glade's Lenzied strength,-- till as
nighb relactaritly ceded its sway
to the lurid -grey ofa hail -swept
dawn the liner crashed -broadside
on the erest.e.fa reef off the iron -
boned Cornish ceast.
Rolling heavily in the trough Of
a broaching sea, the great vessel
loSt alike funnels. and 7beidge in a
swirling maelstrom' of seething,
spume -wreathed -waters.. : By a
miracle Heriot saved, himself by
gripping at is stay, and, doing so,.
found himself by is freak -of fortune
jerked into the poaition of com-
mend on board the strieken liner.
Shrewd sailor as he was, it took
him but an instant to realize his
vessel, wedged es she was between
massive baulks of rock would be
Sale from breaking up for well over
a quarter of an hour. Assured on
this point, he gave orders to clear
away the boats on the leeward
side, where, if the seas rolled heav-
ily, they were -at least unbroken
under the shelter of the liner and
the -reef on which she had met her
doom. Issuing is rapid atring of
orders, he reeled aft into the thick
of the panic-stricken passengers,
who, sweeping up from 'tween
decks, sought to carry the boats in
a rush as the Sheffield Town shot
her first rocket of distress towards
the storm-sveept heavens in a hiss-
ing stream of fire.
The moment was not one in which
to stand on ceremony, and Heriot,
being above all things an opportu-
nist, restored order in a manner
peculiarly his own with fist and re-
volver; but he hammered order out
of chaos, seeing the women and chit -
dreg safe on board the lifeboats
and clear of the vessel before ship-
ping his male passengers in the re-
MEIA IlileT.
, The buzz of conversation ,around
the tables died down a,s by a corn-
.. mon impulse. Delmar's clearly -
spoken words, thick and insulting
in their intonation, hasl reached
every corner of the saloon, and do-
ing so, caused the assembled pas-
sengers to 'expectantly await the
lieutenant's reply. Offensive in
phrase and utterance, it seemed im-
possible for Heriot to pass -them
over as unuttered, yet this was pre-
cisely the courSe adopted by the in-
jured man. For a moment he he-
sitated, flushing hotly ; then a swift
glance at the white, distressed face
, of the girl seated, by thc million-
aire's side decided him how to act.
Unfolding his serviette. the limit-
,
enant asked the steward standing
at, his side to serve him with clear
soup. Outwardly. Heriot appar-
ently remained unconscious of hav-
ing been addressed, a course of ac-
tion which found its punctuation in
an oath from Delmar's lips.
',Sow did you bluff tImm into it
-eh, ).Dick. my boy?" he demanded
aggressively. "How did you man-
' age to get the directors of this line
to promote an incompetent fool
like yourself to be first officer of a
vessel like the Sheffield Town 1"
The insulting question, move blat-
Apart from the surge that had
exacted its ghastly toll of victims
from among thecrew when the Yes -
el struck, the sea had been merci-
ful in its demandof human life. It
continued to be so till the last boat
was ready to cut its.headfall, with
a space for one remaining vacant
aboard her. Dashing the swirling
brine from his eyes, the man re-
sponsible for this cutting glanced
through the driving clouds of spin-
drift up at Heriot's fiere clinging
to a davit.
"Jump, sir," yelled the sailor,
his voice echoing out uncertainly
above the sobbing gale. "Jump,
catch you."
"Gwen," he whispered, "why
have you comelere7 It it fair you
;Should find mg oub and -not pees
on? Heaven knows it wonld be
kinder to leave me alone ih my
misery. Do you think I am stone,
dear -se callous that :[ can sec you,
feel your presence on board this
ship, without the quickening of is
pulse? Gwenny, fog three years
hOW I have tried to live down the
memory of all you were to me. IC
it were possible for me to be so,
-I had almost grown reigned
find the woman he loved heated by
his side. Almost unbelievingly he
looked up into the beautiful profile
beside him; then, realizing he was
the victim of no trick of fancy,
spoke.
"Delmar V' he whispered, hoarse-
ly. "Is -is he saved?''
"NO," she paid, slowly. "He
was washed up four hours ago -
dead, and 1, cannot weep. Dick,
you gave him your life belt. How
like you to do a thing like that!
How like him -to take' it!"
Gwendoline's eyes wa'vered before
the tense glance dinected at hers,
then she bent her head. Still, she
did not withdraw her hand from
Heriot's clasp; neither did the
dropped, quivering lashes hide the
befrayal of her soul, The lieuten-
ant had read its secret in that fu-
gitive glance--gor did he do so
wrongly, for within the year Heri-
.he led Gwendoline Delmar to the
altar. -London Tit -Bits.
Alert and strained of attitude he
awaited an obeying of his shout of
command, then started US he saw
two figures join that of Heriot.
They were, those of Delmar and
his wife!
White and treinbling, the: mil-
lionaire sought to climb over the
taffrail and spring into the strug-
gling beat beneath, to find himself
torn from his hold as lie did so and
held in a grip .of iron. Flung back
on the deck, he turned to find him-
self staring into- the. muzzle Of a
revolver held within an inch of his
face.guardians of our lightship; cheery
"'You hound hissed. Heriot. men, all of them, and hospitable, as
"Women first! There's only room becomes a sailer, though they roam
for -ane in that boat. It's for your
wife I Understand. Move, and
I'll sheet you like the dog you
are."
Flinging Delmar clear bf
Heriot swept Gwendoline up clear
of deck and taffrail to drop her in-
to the embrace of watchful, waiting
arms; then, signing to the boat to
cut herself clear of the retentive
fall, fought the maddened million -
circ till the craft had disappeared
shorewards amid that waste of torn
and churning waters.
Panting, half weeping in the ex-
brethity of his terror, Delmar
shrieked out imprecations on the
head of the man who had prevented
him playing the part of coward; till
an echo of rending wood, dominat-
ing even the roar of the gale, hush-
ed his incoherent vituperation.
Heriot heard the significant sound
and, doing so, shrugged his shoul-
ders.
"We're breaking up," he said as,
taking 'the life -belt from his waist,
he handed it contempteously to his
tcompanion. "Take :its It's the
last one, Delmar, and trust to,
luck. In a minute or two it will be
each .of us for himself aud God for
us both."
With a caBousness• that was in
thorough keeping with his nature,
Delmar enatched at the extended
life -belt, to pass it over his head.
only jest in the nick of time. A
second later he, was fighting death
.in the hungry maw of a storm -
tossed ocean,' with Heriot, though
he ,knew it :not, a hundred feet
away clinging for Safety to a cop-
ing with all the desperation born
of despair. .
For an hoer. Heriot elang to his
frail support,' till, exhausted,by-the
unequal struggle, he was about to
surrender to the sea's thereilese
buffeting, when friendly hands,
gripping him.' by cellar and hair;
dragged hini clear of the ocean's
embrace to 'carry him up the
shingle's slope. Sighing; •Heriot
lapsed into. a recuperative uncoil.,
seiousness thah, lasted till the Sun
bad nearly sot
I Fate, that fickle juggler 'of the
lives of Men, ordained that Heriet
should be taken to the seine cot-
tage which afforded GwendoHne
Delmar shelter:: Thus it came
about that when conaciousneas ye
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SENTINELS 01' TILE SEA..
FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS BY IMAIL ABOUT JOHN
BELL AND HIS PEOPLE'.
Occurrences in The Land That
Deigns Supreme lis the CoM-
mereial World.
Houses are being erected at Cov-
entry at the rate of over a thousamd
There are 101 emallholders in Sur-
rey, who between them have is to-
tal holding or 1029 acros.
Enfield's medical officer reports
that the birth rate of the district
for 1911 wee the lowest on record.
' No fewer than BO per cent, of the
children sleep' With their bedroom
windows open at nights, thesEsifield
schools doctor states.
Colchester „Town Council is, on
the seggestion of Rowhedge, con-
sidering a proposal to amalgamate
that place with the borough.
Owing to the lack of interest ou
the part of the, younger men the
Derbyshire Miners' Permanent Re-
lief Fund is to be wound up.
No less thaM$e00,000 of bullion
was recovered by divers at work on
the aunken Ocean& near Eastbourne
on one, tide recently:
An epidemic of measles of a viru-
lent type hes broken out in Car-
diff, and fifty-nine deaths have oc-
curred during the past month.
It is proposed by tho London
County Council, which purchases
$300,000 worth of coal annually, to
appoint a coal expert at a ss-lery of
$1,500 a year:
• So popular is open-air bathing in
the Thames at Walton and Wey-
bridge that, the local authorities
are enlarging the ace,onuncelation
at their public bathing places.
Owing to the fact that school
teachers cannot be obtained for
some,of the North Yorkshire county
sehools, many of them have now
been closed until further notice.
Including Himalayan bears, leo-
pards, antelopes, and a rhinocer-
one, the King's collection of Indian
animals, the gift of the Maharaja
of Nepal, arrived in London from
Calcutta.
Sheffield Education Committee
has provided shower baths at the
elementary wheels in the city's
slum area, and every child is to re-
ceive is shower bath at least once a
week.
A costes named john Bunyan,
who was fined at Marylebone for be-
ing drunk and disorderly, was des
scribed by the magistrate as one ef
the most disorderly persons in
Marylebone.
Among the curios sold at Messrs.
Stevens' Auction Booms, Covent
Garden, recently, was a long string
of rough garments -worn by natives
of India le keep away the "evil
eye."
A wren. has nested in is work-
man's disused jacket suspended on
a wall in a sawmill near Bourne,
Lincolnshire. The nest, built of
sfew feet of a circular saw in regular
uasev.dust and shavings, is within a
The typhoid fever epidemic in
Bradford continues to spread. Two
more deaths have occurred, making
four in ell. There are now ninety_
seven patients in the hospital.
Built at Wallsend at a cost of
$1,335,000, the Medway floating
dock was delivered at Sheerness.
It will be available for docking the
heaviest battleships in the navy.
Major J. H. Finlayson, V.T),, has
been the recipient of a gold watch
from his brother officers of the nth
Battalion :Middlesex Regiment,
from which he has just retired after
29 years' service.
Record prices were realized at the
auction sale which .succeeded the
Eveshant annual asparagus show.
Th's bundle of 120 heads which took
the challenge cup. and weighed 18'
lb. 4 oz., fetched 10 guineas.
How the Men Are Employed -Aboard
a Lightship.
A faint splash of light on a dark
waste of waters; the wash of the sea,
against the ship's side; the creak of
clockwork; the measured footfall of
the watch on the deck:; the barely -
heard throb of a distant steamer,
or the near loom of ghostly stifle'
passing in the night; and, through
a pall of chilling mist, the boom of
the foghorn hurling its note of
warning into the far-off silences.
Such, in the long night hours, is
one of the many lightships which
keep keen vigil around our coasts -
the Isentinels a the sea, the protec-
tors of those who go out on the
deep waters, says Loudon Answers.
To understand the spell of the
life, let us step aboard a lightship.
No 'sooner are we on the deck than
we feel at home. Spacious and cosy,
one can picture happy hours spent
in this craft, remote from the
stress of shore life. Theta are even
plants and flowers to give a pictur-
esque touch of the domestic life.
And the men who ma,ke their hoine
here? They are only eight all told
-it may be only six -a master and
his mate, three sailormen, and
three lamplighters •, and of this
small but sufficient crew only five
are on duty -the remaining three
are .taking a well-earned rest
ashore, tern and turn about.
No long -faced hermits are these
"I came to thank you for the
championing of my cause to -night
in the saloon -to apologize for my
husband's insult," the girl'e low,
hesitating speech broke ,sharply an
on the man. s fevered utterance.
--John was not himself -quite. He
-it is his failing, and -Dick ! Dick,
promise me you will never act again
towards him as you did an hour
ago. John is rich, and, if he can,
he will do you an injury, I have
already done you is big one, ana-
1 think it would just beak my heart
if 11 thought I had also been re-
sponsible for the ruining of your
career."
Heriot's jaw set in grim, hard
THE TRAVELS OF A NEEDLE
X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHY
no seas.
"Dull?" said the mate of the Nor -
ship to the man on is visit. "Why,"
we've no time to be dull! No time
for grizzling here!"
And this as the truth. From rising
to sleersing no moment need be un-
occupied. The lantern alone keeps
two of the five eonstantly busy. At
suns.et the lamps arcs lit, and the
lantern is hoisted to its eminence,
a few feet below the, ball of the
meet; then the clockwork is started
which eets it revolving. All through
the night, et frequent inkerSrals, a
gong sounds the signal for the la-
borious re -winding, and woe betide
the watchman who is deaf to the
signal, or does not keep an eye on
his revolving light.
At sunrise the lantern. is lowered,
and a busy hour or more of cleaning
follows, with rag and leather and
cans of oil, until each reflector al-
most blinds one with its glitter.
There is the foghorn to keep boom-
ing every twominutes by strenuous
work with a foot -pedal whenever
the mist -clouds roll up.
Eye's must be kept ever on the
alert night and day, the watchers
ready at any instant to send a warn-
ing signal by gun or flag. 11 may
be a vessel heading for a shoal; a
ship in distress; an imminent col-
lision which only the promptest ac-
tion can avert. And every happen-
ing of night or day must be care-
fully noted by the master in his log.
But, of course, it is not all work.
There are hours of leisure for those
off clay. And there is alw'ays the
prospect of that month on shore,
which comes round 'with such wel-
COMO frequency, and which lends
wings to the days aboard.
No; with a cheerful spirits plenty'
of work a,nd play, good pay, and a
pension to look forward to, the life.
of a lightship -nen is far from being
undesirable, even in the isolation of
a foggy night amid the lone waters
of the sea.
THEM.
FINDS.
Cases Where Needles Have Ikon'
In People's Bodies for
Many Fears.
• If, an ordinary needle,, or a •por-
tion of itriapas into the, hand or any
other part of the body, it displays a
strange propensity to start off on
what may prove a long course of
travel,
. Some years ago a lady called up-
on a surgeon stating that a part of
a needle had "molten in the first
ioint of her. left thumb'. The sun
geon'e attempts to extract the nee- .
dlg being ineffectual, he advised her
to let it alone. About a year after-
wards he was again visited by the-
lady,'Nyho stated that a few days
previously she had felt is pricking
sensation in the right forefinger,
and that on breaking the skin she
had without difficulty extracted the
portion of the lost needle. The nee-
dle had in this case travelled from
the left thumb along the arm,
across the chest to the right arm,
and down the latter to the finger,
whence it was extracted.
' HAT PIN CASE.
Another well -authenticated case
is the following. A man having
been stabbed in the back of the
right shoulder with a hatpin, the
blow inflicted caused the pin to
break. Only the bead an.d upper
part of the pin could subsequently
be found, but as the man ..suffered
no inconvenience from the injury,
he thought no more about it. Some
time afterwards he was troubled
with pain in the right shoulder, and
this being supposed to be caused by
rheumatism he was treated accor-
dingly. The 'treatment brought no
relief, but in several weeks the
pain passed away apparently with-
out any cause. Some time after
this lm observed a long, hard sub-
stance under the skin on the lower
part of the breastbone, and he be-
thought himself of the pin that had
beeis run into his shoulder some
twelve months previously. A sur-
geon being called in, he soon ex-
tracted the foreign body, and found
it to",he a portion of the pin 2%
inche.s in length.
SOMETIMES STATIONERY.
13ut, needles do not always travel
when they enter the body. Some-
times they remain in a fixed posi-
tion-na.me,ly, at that spot where
they originally entered. A young
girl beim-, admitted to a country in-
firmary slated that four years pre-
viously, while kneeling on a hearth.
rug, a needle had run into her right
knee. A careful examination was
made, but the surgeons failed to de.
tect any indication of the presenet
of a foreign body. :The girl, hoe,
ever, was positive in her assertion
that she could feel the point of the
needle, and that upon pressure it
caused her pain in a particular
spot.
• PROVED IT THERE.
This statement induced the sur-
geon . to make an incision over the
tissues of the right knee, but with
no result therefrom. Nothing could
be felt or seen. A deeper incision
(undee an anaesthetic) was made,
but still without result. The tissues
were now divided still further, and,
at, last, lying almost upon the cap-
sule of the joint, the needle was
discovered, and. with some difficulty
extracted. The wound healed quick-
ly, and in the course of a few days
the girl Was quite well.
Nowadays, however, such opera-
tions are rarely needed, for by
means of the X-ray photography the
position of travelling needles or any
other foreign Substance in the I10-
ith body can be immediately as-
certained and the offender extract-
ed,
USES OF THE QUEUE.
Sacrifice to Liberty Made by the
Chinese Revolutionitds-
DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT SHEEP.
"Now, .Itoddy,'' said the'teacher,.
"if there • were 'eleven Sheep in a
field and six jumped the fence, haw
many would there be left?"
"None," replied Roddy; ''Why,
there would," said he. "No, sir,
there wouldn't,'" persisted he.
"You may know arithmetic, but -yea
turned to Heriot's eyes it, was to don't know :sheep." !
THE RICH MAN'S SON.
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• Ilia Top; in the Past.
.).4giit
His Toy in the Present.
.Frorrt Puck Ne v York
SWISS WON'T IIA.YE LOAFERS.
Work Found: For Unemployed-
- Begging Not Allowed.
In Switzerland the people act
ellen the theory that a man who is
unemployed is, if left to himself,
liable to become a waste by being a
subject of charity an4 is tex upon
the community. Therefore the
problem 10 considered ais fo econo-
mic qUeetien. :The purpose is to
assist the ,unfoetunate uneMployed
to: secure Week, not only for the
sake of his family; but in the inter -
esti of the state. There is no tol-
eration `fos the loafer, Begging iS
prohibited by law, and vagrancy is
classified as a crime. 11 an unem-
ployed person does not make A ser-
ious ffort to, find work, the authori-
ties will find it for him, and he is
compelled to perform it. If he re-
fuses he is placed in the workhouse,
where strict discipline is Maintained
a,ndevery inmate is required to
werk to his full capacity. -reggiving
therefore his board end lodging and
from 5 to lb cents is day in wages.'
There Ore also institutione wheye
tem p era Ty empleyment 'is :f fetish ed
to persoes .ves9 of wask through ne
fault of their own, and comfortable
accommodations and 'eome money
compensation given: until they can
find more remunerative wages,
BLOCKING TBE Tif Ausc.
There were times when ;Rodeo
gloried in the fact 0)&11 he was the
father (if nine children ; but on a
holiday, when he was taking them
out for, a walk, he felt annoyed. 13:e
was walking along a fairly good
street, when he was hailed by is
policeman, who asked -"I say, what
have you been doing?" "Nothing,"
replied Macfee. "Why?" "Well,
what's the crowd following you
for?"
New. Merchant -"How big an `ad'
would you advise?" Advertising
Man -"That depends on how many
tons ot Customers your store floor
will sustain. You wouldn't want
'em to break' through into the cel-
lar, of course!" '
Although modern Clhina has sacrie
freed the queue. on the altar of liber-
ty, many Celestials look upon the
pigtail as an object of veneration,
says a Chinese newseaper.
The pigtail had its advantages
and thesc are five in number. It
protects the ears, for if twe Chinese
quarsci, if they have tailo, tliey
Belie one another's and thereby
. -
spare the ears. the plait is a fine
aid to sessile. II! one falls into the ,
water the riverside .men jump in
after the person who has met with
the -mishap, seies him with their
hooks by the tail aed then with it
hitch him up to .a treo.
Their energies being thus free
they can lend assiStenee to eny
other tersou in distre.se, and when
Fetich be saved; the reseners can' un- ,
tie the Man hanging froio the tree
and devote themSelvee to his rt,ses-
citation; whereas if these had been
no tail the second Mail might', have
been drowned While the first was bc--
Mg, attended to.
The third Usc. of the pigtail is le
the noliee, who do not require
handcuffs, .f hy, they ean tie op the
..offenders with .their tails or lead
t hem by the: plait. Four tidy,. the:
pigtail is a guarantee against ino.
lestatiois front .the police, for citi-
Sees hearing this sign of re,spectie:
1)i:14y are never suspectedwit:limit
good'groends. On the other hand,
if a rev/ is ia progress Or a fireds
raging the suspects who are arrest,' •
ed are always theSe who .1i0e lost .
their Pigtails, •
Finally, the pigtail ensures peace
in the honsehold, for with it the
husband is. free: from being no -
braided by his wife, who,, ±1 1,0 haS
lest, his (incite, might describe her :
husband as "that de.spieable 001 -
A: baby yells beeause soinething
Wervies it, bet a college youth
becaese he hasn't any batter sense.