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Sydzwy Saved a Kid-
mpped Sailor
Mr: ' Harry Kemp, a poet -tramp, re-
lates in The World To -day a vivid
memory of how he ran away to sea on
a three -masted German barque, which
sailed rounce the Cape of Good Hope
to Australia with a shanghaied Alsace-
Lorraine on board.
"Around ten o'clock, in the full of
'the •moon, a nighthawk cab drew .up
alongside the ship where she lay dock-
ed, and out of it jumped the first mate
and the captain with a lad who was so
drunk -.or drugged, or both, that his
legs 'went down under him when they
triedto set him on his feet.
"They tumbled him aboard, where
he lay in an insenate heap, drooling
spit and making incoherent, bubbling
noises,
"Without lifting an eyebrow in sur
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prise,'the sailmaker stopped forward
-and joined the mate in jerking the
man. tohis feet. The captain went aft
as if it was all in the day's work,
•"The mate and'the sailmaker jerked
the shanghaied man forward and bund-
led him into a. locker,where bits of
-rope and nautical odds and ends were
piled, just forward of the galley.
"We were all intent on putting forth,
when a cry carne from the port side.
The shanghaied man had broken out,
and came running aft. He stopped a
moment, Like a trapped animal, to sur-
vey the distance between the dock
and the side . , measuring the
possibilities of a successful leap.
"By this time the first and second
nates were after him with some of the
men , - he ran forward again,
doubled in his tracks like a schoolboy
playing tag , . we laughed, it
was so funny the way he went under
the maters arm . , the look of
surprise on the mate's face was funny
Then the man who was pur-
sued, in a flash, did a hazardous thing
-he flung himself in the air, over the
starboard side, and took a long head-
long tumble into the tugboat.
"He was tied like a hog, and hauled
up by a couple of ropes, the sailmaker
singing a humorous chantey that made
the boys laugh as they pulled away.
"Sydn▪ ey Har• bor, ▪ the air aliv▪ e with
sunlight, and white flutterings of sea-
gulls a -wing, alive with pleasure boats
that leaned here and yon on white
sails •
"They had rounded Franz up and
locked him away. On the second night
of his incarceration, : when nearly
everybody was away on shore -leave, I.
took the captain's bunch of keys, and
I let the shanghaied' man; the niutin-
eer, the man- Prom Alsace-Lorraine-
out!
"It was not a very dark night.
Franz stole along like a rat till he
reached the centre of the dock. There
he gave a great"shout of defiance; why
I learned later.
• "The Lord Summerville, which had,
after all, beaten us in by two days,
despite Captain Schantze's boast, was
lying on the other side of our dock.
And her mate and several sailors thus
became witnesses of what happened.
"The shout brought, of course, our
few men who remained on watch, on
deck, and over the dock after Franz,
who . allowed himself to be caught.
The dock was English ground, the ship
was German -a good point legally, as
the canny Franz had foreseen.
"His clothes were almost torn from
his body.
"Milder accidentally showed up, com-
ing back from shore. And he joined
in.
"Come hack with us, you verfluchte
Alsatz-Loth ringer."'
"The Englishmen from the Lord
Summerville now began calling out,
'Let him alone!' and 'I say, give the
lad fair play!'
"Some of them leaped down on the
dock In a trice.
"I was shanghaied in New York,' put
in Franz swiftly, 'and I demand Eng-
lish justice.'
" 'And you shall get it, my man!'
answered the mate proudly, 'for you
have been .assaulted 'on English
ground, as I'll stand witness:
• "A whistle was blown. Men came
running, Soon Franz was outside the
jurisdiction of Germany.
"At the trial, during which the "old
maids" and The Sailors' Aid Society
came to the fore, Captain Schantze
roared his indignant best -so much so
that the judge warned him that he was
not on his ship, but on English ground.
"Franz got •a handsome verdict in
his favor, of course.
"And for several days he was seen,
rolling ' drunk about the streets, by
our boys, who now looked on hila as a
pretty clever person."
Found Three of Them. '
Three smart young men were trying
to take .a rise out of a very old He-
brew. One saluted him with, "Well,
Father Abraham, how are you to -day?"
"You are wrong," said the second
student, "'this is :old Father Isaac."
"No," Haid the third, "you are both
mistaken this is old Father Jacob."
The iiebrew looked at the young
nen and ,replied; "I am neither old
Father Abraham, nor old Father Isaac,
nor old Father Jacob but I am Saul,
the son of Kish, seeking his father's
rises, and lo, T have found three of
th ism,"
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Cost Great Britain $Ioo,000,000 to
Stage Single Battle.
Everybody knows that the late and
still lamented war was not only the
biggest but the costliest war in his-
tory. It remained for Great Britain to
show how rapidly modern warfare
runs into money, so that, for instance,
the mere setting of the stage for a
single battle niay cost upward of $100,-
000,000.
During the fourteen days from July
17 to July 30, 1917, the British Army
was getting ready for the third battle
of Ypres. Part of this preparation
consisted in a thorough bombardment
of the German positions, during which
the British guns expended 4,283,550
rounds of ammunition, This ammuni-
tion cost £22,211,389 14 s. 4d., or ap-
proximately $107,947,361 at normal ex-
change according to "statistics of the
military effort of the British Empire
during the great war,"
This formidable volume, recently
published with the sanction of the
War Office, audits Armageddon and
renders a cost accounting of destruc-
tion with almost appalling minuteness,
as witness the four pence noted in the
receipted bill for the preliminary bom-
bardment of Ypres, which is further-
more itemized to show the different
varieties and sizes of shell used. They
ranged from 1,606 fired by the giant
fifteen inch howitzers to 2,239,608
shrapnel and . high explosive fi•oin the
eighteen pounders corresponding to
our three inch field gun. Next to
these the six inch howitzers consumed
most shell----750,119-and the 4.5 inch
gun was a close third with 728,345:
The total cost of this preparation
was greate2• than of any other indulged
in by the British during the war. But
the cost per day had mounted to all
even higher level six weeks earlier,
when, from May 20 to June 6, they
were getting set for the battle of Mee -
sines, During a< period of eleven daye
es,
their artilleries expended 3,561,630
rounds at an approximate cost of $85,-
075,502. This averages $7,734,227 a
day, where the longer bombardment at
Ypres. averaged $7,710,525.
Nearly 19 Million Dollars Was
Burned Up In One Day.
But even Ypres and Messines do not
represent the peak load. The heaviest
expenditure in any single day by the
British armies in France was from
noon to noon, September 28-29, -1918,
when they pushed off for the final ad-
vance in Flanders before the armis-
tice. During these twenty-fou,r hours
943,847 rounds were expended, very
nearly twelve shells a second or 720
a minute. The stated approximate
cost of this ammunition was $18,813,-
060, which amounts to $783,378 an
hour and $13,064 a minute. Every
time a watch ticked off a second that
day the equivalent of $217.77, or inore
than the monthly income of the aver,
age family, went up in smoke.-
These figures are for artillery ate
munition and for France alone, where
the estimated strength of the British
forces, all ranks and labor units, on
November' 1, 1918, was 1,966,727 cif]
cersand men. And this was only one
of several theatres of war In which
British land forces were operating. In
Italy, on the same' date, their number
was 83,630; in Selonica, 183,007; in
••British East Africa', 115,670; in Egypt,
458,246; in Mesopotamia, 408,138; and
at Aden 11,461, giving a grand total of
3,226,870 in the expeditionary forces.
To this must be added the estimated
strength of British and colonial troops
at home, 1,603,384, and hi India, Bur-
Mali and the garrisons of defended
ports. This brings the total estimated
strength of .T3ritish land forces ten
days before the Armistice to 4,386,943,
Cost of Army Maintenance.'
Tomaintain and o. er t
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rules cost correspondingly great sums.
The ""Statistics" states that for the
period from April 1, 1914, to March 31,
1919, five full fiscal years, the army ex-
penditure,proper was equivalent to
$14,118,249,807, of. which $4,008,330,193
was spent in 191849 alone. The aver-
age yearly expenditure during the pe-
riod was $2,823,649,981. The army ex-
penditure for the year April 1, 1913, to
March 31, 1914, was $137,859,256. So
the average war time annual expendi-
ture was 2,048 per cent. of what it had
been, and during 1918-19 was more
than2,900 per cent. higher.
And• the army ekpenditure was only
ener`of several war cost items. An-
other table gives the average daily ex-
penditures at different periods for the
army, navy, munitions, shipping, etc.,
as follows:
•191..6' -October 8 to December 9, $27,-
970,040 daily.
].917 -April 1 to May 5, when the
GerziK'ians', retreated to the Hindenburg
line and the Arras offensive began,
$36,261,020 daily.
1917„November 1, to 1918, January
19, the period of the peak load, $36,-
532,620 daily.
191$ -April 1 to November 9, A,
stretch of more than eight months,
$36,172,980 daily.
To provide for these expenditures
Parliament granted between August 6,
1914, and November 12, 1918, a series
of twenty-five war votes of credit
ranging in amount from a37,000,000
to :700,000,000. The grand total of
these credits was ;88,74.2,000,000,
eriuivalent,to $42,486,120,000 at normal
exchange for the sovereign.
Horsepower under the hood is not
so inipof"tant'as horse -sense behind the
steering' -wheel., •
London is badly off for bridges over
tho Thames; Westminster Bridge is
1,063 yards from Waterloo and 1,699
from Vaucha11, ' In Paris there are
twelvebridges over the Seine, with an
average of 316 yards between them.
Winter, the Shepherd.
Off from the cloud -hills,
High in the air,
Where bloom the daisies,
Dreamy and fair,
Winter, the shepherd,
Is calling his sheep,
And the white fleecy snowflakes,
Flock home to sleep,
Where have these lambkins
Been all the day?
High on the cloud mountains,
Skipping at play,
Into clear brooks or sunshine,
In valleys of sky,
They put their cold noses
And drank the streams, dry.
But Winter, the shepherd,
Is calling them home;
And, down every cloud side,
See how they come!
But tomorrow a shearer
The sun shining full,
Will cut off their fleeces,
And take all their wool.
• ---S. E. Sears.
ZIe--•-"One more kiss, darling, and
I'll go."
She ---"Yes, • Tlarolcl, but you've ale
ready lied forty-seven on the same
prornis•e,"
No Absolute Zero.
Science assures us that there is a
definite Iimit to the lowest conceivable
temperature, and that this may be
placed with conceivable accuracy at
459 degrees below zero on the Fahren-
heit scale,
It is held that at all temperatures,
above this "absolute zero," particles
of matter, either solid or gaseous-, are
in a state of vibration, the more rapid
vibrations corresponding to the great-
er degree of heat. All such vibrations
would cease entirely at absolute zero
and all gases would liquefy and even
solidify before reaching this absolute
zero point.
Many experiments, extending over
a long period of years, were necessary
to attain this knowledge. Liquid air,
with its 312 degrees below zero, was
a great advance on previous records,
although still over 100 degrees above
this absolute zero. Liquid hydrogen,
at minus 422 degrees, or 37 absolute,
was a still greater advance, and when
this was frozen into solid hydrogen
"ice" at 432 degrees below; or 27 de-
grees absolute, it seemed as if science
had gone as far as it could in this di-
rection. But not so long ago the rare
gas helium was liquefied at minus 451
degrees. When this was belled under
reduced pressure a temperature of
minis 454 was reached, or only- five
degrees above absolute zero. Slightly
lower temperatures can undoubtedly
be reached, but it is said ,that, even
with the most refined methods, there.
is little likelihood of our ever attain.'
lag absolute zero, ,
Eskimo Ple.
"Darling, did you sing any pretty
songs at Sunday school?"
"Yes, mamma, we sung a io -e]y only
about 'Greenland's ice-ereafu znoun-1
tarns.""
The oyster is ono of the strongesh
creatures on the face of the earth; the
force required to open ell oyster is:
more than 1,300 times its AtOght,
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