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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Gazette, 1894-04-19, Page 2JACK ASHORE. PERILS OF THE BRITISH SAILOR AFTER HE IS PAID OFF. Mrey of Crimps, Bullies, and Trlppers— The Crimp Gets A11 His Money and Then Ships Him for a Long Voyage. Those making a special study of the ques- tion say that 18,000 sailors and sailor boys may be found in London every night. Most of these do not live there—in fact, have no home anywhere in the sense of word under- stood by landsnien. Jack ashore has been given a deal of attention ; so mach, in fact, that no trade nor class of men has so many different kinds of persons looking out for it, Some of these have his welfare at heart. Same of them care nothing for his welfare, but devote themselves to his pockets and to getting rid of him as soon as these are emptied. A day or so ago two sailors appeared be- fore Mr. Lusbington at the Bow street po- lice court in London, and charged Jeremiah Brady, of Well street, St. George's -in -the - East, with having them unlawfully shipped aboard the British steamship Thirlmere. It was proved that Brady had no license and was, in fact, a crimp. " Crimp," according to the dictionaries, is the term applied to a person who, gener- ally by false pretenses, decoys others into a service, especially by unlawful detention. At one time, not so very long swathe crump was a recognized evil and when press gangs flourished was regarded as a valuable ad- junct of government itself. But stringent laws have been passed and the crimp exists to -day only because so many Jacks ashore act MORE LIKE BABIES THAN ME's from the moment they get on solid ground until they are afloat once more. , The two sailors who made the charges against Brady went to his boarding house and left their clothes there. Brady induced them to hand their discharge papers over to him. Then, when there was nothing more to be made out of them, he shipped them abroad the Thirlmere. - Unfortunately for Brady,the Thirlmere is a British ship. Had she been a foreigner the board of trade would have been without jurisdiction and Brady would have escaped punishment. As it is he was convicted of unlawfully supplying seamen and was fined L11, including costa. But for one case of this kind that reaches the eourts probably twenty or more cases are never heard of. In sailor towns THERE ARE MANY ALLUREMENTS for Jack ashore, and a majority of these do not tend to benefit either his health or his pocket. He can keep away from them if he pleases, but as a general thing he does not please. Jack ashore can hardly be judged by an ordinary standard. He has been away per- haps on a long voyage, has hardly put his foot on land fora year. Ha has been doing nothing but work, and whether he would or would nothe has been unable to spend any money for the simple reason that he has not had any. When he arrives in port, there- fore, and knows that in three days. HIS POCKETS WILL BE LINED the temptation to have a " bit of a fling" is very strong. If he once goes ashore on his own hook and is not exceedingly circum• spect in his conduct the " bit of a fling" often means empty pockets and not sel- dom a broken head. The crews of ships that arrive in the port of London are paid off three days after arrival at the shipping offices of the board of trade. Every- crimp in Sailor Town knows the date of departure and destination of each vessel that leaves the port, and can calculate to a nicety when she will return. His runners are on the dock to the minute. They see Jack and they hail him whether they know him or not, and, if possible, they get hold of his clothes. Once the box and bag are in their posses- sion the chances are that Jack is also, for a sailor's clothes are to him as tools are to a carpenter. Without his bag Jack cannot go to sea, so he follows his bag. There are many respectable sailors' boarding-- houses to which runners are attached, but these are not "run" by crimps. The Iatter often give their victims nothing but a bare shelter, and until Jack is paid off supply him with enough cash for his grnb and a reasonable afiount of drink. The crimp is careful that Jack shall not go on a debauch until he has received his wages ; then he engineers the debauch in a manner that gives Jacks a headache and MAKES HIM ANXIOUS TO GET TO SEA as fast as possible. There are public houses in Sailor Town, the lowest dens in it, which enable the crimp to outwit his victim with the least possible amount of trouble. A single drink of alleged whisky, which is fire water in every sense of the term, will put Jack in a generous frame of mind and makes him feel as if it were a matter of no consequence whether he - or anyone else "stands drinks" for the crowd. A glass of drugged liquor makes him oblivious to hie surroundings. While in this condition he is taken to a, strange boarding house and put to bed. Sometimes every penny is taken from him, and he is awakened in the morning by the pdasessor of a gruff voice and a villain. out face, who says : "Now, then, do you want to sleep here all day as well as all night ?" The poor wretch is still almost. on his beam ends from the effects of the drugged liquor, and if he weren't a sailer would probably wish that he was dead. He does not recognise his surrpundings, and asks how he came there. He is told he paid for night's lodging, and having had it he must get out. He staggersout to the crimp's place. The crimp has a respectable per- centage of Jack's money in his pocket, but laughs at the victim when the latter de- clares he has been robbed. Jaele may ask for his.clothes. He is told to pay up. He says he has nomoney, but -will pay, with his month's advance es: soon as he gets a ship. Sometimes he gets' a ship himself and HANDS OVBilr HIS ADVANCE WIDER, to the crimp in exchange for his clothes, although hemayowe thencrimp only a few shillings-, while the order may be for £4. emetiaies the, eripip finds . a -ship for his victim, ., a foreigner: if possible„ and then makes terms vehich are as profitable for himself as they are unprofitable for. Jack. At `other:times Jaekis not;robbed, except in. a mild;sortof way, befoi fie: is -bundled into bed " He is woke np theenern ng ..b y the boardrn,house keeperr,,xvho says h " t'iNt. 1? si'- and h es botlzs 'hist- 4et „hag 110- ol3t os. of t n ing of this, sort, and says so He is told ,to get un and come downstae,He does so, and is shown a table that is packed with empty. bottles which have been -collected for .the purpose. He is informed that he refused to permit anyone to " stand a single round," but insisted that he should pay for everything. His bill is presented. It amounts to half or three-quarters of his money. He pays it. Then the boarding- house keeper, with assumed heartiness, insists upon " standing" drinks " for old acquaintance Enke." The liquor is drugged, and Jack staggers into the street to fall into the hands of those who are waiting for him. When they leave him he is penniless. There is danger every foot of the way for the sailor who wanders about Sailor town at night. Two of these dangers are THE "TRIPPER" AND THE "BULLY." The " tripper" is a female and the " bully" a male brute. Every " tripper" has her " bully." Sometimes they work in couples, sometimes singly. The " tripper" is o called on account of her dexterity in trip- ping. She does not trip as the country maiden does in light opera, nor does she trip herself ; she trips the unwary sailor. When she meets the Iatter in a locality where she is not likely to get any assistance, and she finds that her ordinary blandish- ments have no effect, she suddenly trips him up, and then, almost before, he is aware of what has happened, kicks him about the head and face until he is unconscious. Then she proceeds to rob him of everything of value. The general opinion in Sailor Town is that the " tripper" is more brutal, if that is possible, than the " bully." Not long ago a sailor boy landed and fell among theives. He thought they were hail fellows, for before he had drawn his pay, which was £24, he found that his credit was good for all that he wanted. One of his newly made friends took him to a slop shop, where he purchased a suit of clothes worth a guinea for £3 10s. Then he bought a pair of boots and a ring. When he drew his pay he paid for these articles,and then, to show there were no hard feelings, all hands ad- journed to a public house and had " drinks around" at the sailors boy's expense. He re- membered nothing more until the morning, when he found himself in the street minus his clothes, boots, ring—everything, EXCEPT A PAIR OP DRAWERS. There is always a crowd of crimps, run- ners, and touts—the latter of both sexes— hanging about the shipping offices 'of the board of trade, where sailors are paid oft, and if a sailor delivers himself into the hands of any of these he is lost. Many a man who has drawn his pay and has been inveigled into taking a single drink has found himself stranded the next morning. This often happens to men with wives and families, and in numerous cases the sailors, upon waking to a full consciousness of the situation, ha' a been ashamed to face their wives and have shipped for other voyages without catching a glimpse of those who were anxiously awaited their coming. Often a sailor's wife, who knows that his ship has come in, will call at the shipping offices to ask if her husband has been seen or has drawn his pay. She will discover that he has drawn his pay, but otherwise cannot learn whether he is dead or alive. The shipping offices of the board of trade are soon to be removed to Well street. This thoroughfare is short, but not sweet. On account of the contemplated removal and the knowledge that the street will be more dangerous than ever for Jack ashore, aMis- cion to Seamen institute has just been opened there. In it there is a large and comfortable room, which is well furnished with newspapers and magazines and with games, and into this room JACK IS AT LIBERTY to come and enjoy himself in a rational way and without price until 10 o'clock in the evening. The organization is else building a large institute in East India road, and the intention is to keep that open until the public houses close. From the foregoing it might seem as if Jack ashore was a person much to be pitied —in fact that ho had not only a hard life afloat, but little chance for a quiet one on land. This is not so. Jack need not step into any of the pitfalls mentioned unless he is so disposed, although there may be more excuse for him than if he were a landsman. Every ship that arrives at the port of Lon- don is boarded atGravee end by an official of the, board of trade. This official catechizes the crew and finds out how many men do not live in London and have homes elsewhere. Every man who is willing to go to his home, no matter where it may be in the kingdom, as provided with arailway ticket and 10 shillings for spending money on the way. Then the men who aro willing to go to the sailors' home are picked out and their num- ber is sent by telephone to the home. At no matter how late an hour the ship arrives in Bort the men who go to the sailors' home find a hot supper waiting for them. Good board and lodging is to be had at the sailor's home for 15 shillings a' week. When the ship arrives at her dock the home's cart is there waiting. The crimps and runners gnash their teeth as they see the dunnage of the- crew thrown into the cart and the crew mount on top of it. The men who have railway tickets are taken to the station by an official of the home and put aboard the proper train, and, when the ship is paid off, their money less the price of their fare and the 10 shillings advanced is sent to them . - If sufficient accommo- dation cannot be provided at the home good boarding houses, where the men will be properly taken care of, will be found for them. It is said that when the shipping. offices are removed to-Weilatreet there will be a mee,nsof communication between them and the sailors' home, so that it will not be necessary for the sailors who are stopping at the home to show themselves -to the harpies, who will throng the vicinity ; and these harpies have been known to number 120 When a single ship's crew was being paid off ClearinganObstacle. An Irishman, having placed a new chim- ney on his cottage, called one of hisneigh- bours to show him his handiwork. "Now 1 -what do yez:. think to it?" said Mike to his neighbour. " Begorra," said that worthy " but the chimney -is !peeing to the ''left."-- . - "An' bedad.S" replied Mike, "ii` you: wuz to go round to the backyard an' look at it, ,you'd say it wuz-laneing.to the night, so shure it must be: straight." -1 ilEriALLa Medicated Fomentations. There are many frrms of the -medicated and cooling compress for -the relief of -pain Chat most frequently used, perhaps, is the menthol application. Take ordinary men thol liniment and mix with it two or three parts of water ;and saturate in it a cloth large enough tocover the part to be treated. Extract of witch hazel and laudanum may also be used. The witch hazel may be used full - strength. For the lauda- num, use one teaspoonful to four or five teaspoonfuls of water. Dip the cotton in it, end spread over the part. The fomentation may be medicated to increase its power as a counter -irritant, or to intensify -the soothing effect. For the former, mustard, Cayenne pepper, or tur- pentine may be used ; and for the latter, laudanum or poppy -head tea. To give a mustard fomentation, cover the part with one thickness of cotton cloth, and sprinkle over it about half a teaspoon- ful of dry mustard. Cover with another layer of thin cloth, and then put on the fomentation. As soon as the patient begins to be uneasy from the burning, remove the mustard, and continue the fomentation as long as desired. The pepper may be used in the same way. For a turpentine fomen- tation, take one thickness of woolen cloth, wet it in hot water, and sprinkle on it ten to twenty drops of turpentine. Wring or rub the cloth soas to distribute the turpen- tine evenly. Lay this over the, painful -part, and then apply the hot fomentation cloth. When sufficient reaction is secured, the turpentine may be removed, and the treat- ment.continued as above. Twenty to thirty drops of laudanum applied in the same way as the turpentine, is used for a more pro- longed application, as it is soothing in its effect. As a fomentation in a private house has to be given in bed, -great pains should be taken to avoid getting the bedclothes wet and also to keep from wetting the carpet or furniture, The water in the pail can be kept hot by covering closely with a blanket or anything that may be handy. If no oil- cloth is at hand, common newspapers may be used under the pail and around the bed to protect the floor. —Never try to give a fomentation with a cotton handkerchief or a small crash towel. See that the water is hot, not tepid, and make the treatment neat and pleasant fos the patient. How to Cure Cholera. The great dread with which this disease ie regarded finds an ample foundation in the terrible fatality which bas nearly always attended the malady, as shown by the records of its ravages from the earliest times to the present. Doubtless a few per- sons fall victims to the disease through fright, but the usual cause of death in chol- e_a is the intense poisoning of the system by a specific poison produced by the mic- robes or germs to which the disease is due. The futility of the alcoholic and other methods of treatment of his disease, has been very clearly shown by the more ra tional methods introduced in modern times, No physician who is thoroughly conversant with the result of modern investigations upon this subject would thins: of giving alcohol to a cholera patient, although it was once , retied up )n as the most essential measure of treatment. As Dr. Ernest Hart, editor of the British Medical Journal, very ably remarked in his address at the last meeting of the -American Medical As - so dation. " The introduction of alcohol"` into the system of the cholera patient i simply to add another poison to those wit which -the body is already struggling." New Theory of Sleep. A new theory of sleep has recently bee advanced by a German investigator,to th effect that the animic condition of th brain in sleep is due to an excess of wate in the brain cells. The idea is that slee is due to fatigue of the nerve cells, whie brings about some change in the circulatio of the blood. The theory is that the nerve cells are supposed to be full of water whe sleep comes on, and during sleep this wate passes into the venous blood. When th water has thus passed _ out and the cell have received nourishment from the arteria blood, the sleeper awakens At the sum time that we note this theory, we also se another one advanced to the effect that sleep is caused bypressure on the surface of the brain due to a congestion of the pia mater. A number of theories have been advanced from time to time to explain this mysterious but very common phenomenon, sleep. We are not by any means satisfied with the two latest additions to the num • bar. --- The Hygiene of Laughter. _.. -ice `TRICTPOSIBLE. Some Prcialiar Conditions as a Result of the New .Native Power—The Market Gardener Will Have to Change Ws Methods. There seems to be no doubt that -.the electric current will Its applied to street locomotion in an increasing ratio. A re- cent issue of the London Times contained the information that during the past few weeks a parcels van driven by electricity hasenade its appearance in London streets. it resembles an ordinary two -horse . van without shafts. The current is supplied by accumulators hung below the body of the vehicle ; these with one charge can propel it 50 miles at any desired speed up to ten miles an.hour, .and when run down can be changed for a fully -charged sot in a couple of minutes, The steering is said to be very easy and satisfactory, and is managed from a wheel worked by the driver's right hand. The motor occupies a very small part of the interior, which is lighted by two elec- tric lamps. It is stated that this van can be run and maintained at about half the cost of one of the same size drawn by 'two horses. If this sort of conveyance should come into general use, it will be a further step towards BANISHING THE HORSE from the streets of our cities. In Canadian cities this tendency is already producing important results. In Toronto, for instance, a year or two ago there wee 1,300 street car horses ; now there are only about 276, or Less than a fifth of the former number. In a year or two more the horse car will be a curiosity for a museum. No doubt this is a good thing from a public health point of view. Our streets are not nearly so dirty as they were, and the necessity of stables is being abolished. But an- other result is that an important source of manure for the market gardener, the far- mer, and the florist has been suddenly cat off. As the tendency to banish animal traction is gradually developed, a number of tillers of the; soli will find that they will have to revise their meth- ods, and this is a consideration that is being telt in a considerable area in the outskirts of cities. Under these circum- stances it will be in order for our agri- cultural colleges and the directors of our experimental farms to give some instruc- tion as -to what is the best thing to do. No doubt there are means of artificial manur- ing which are quite as effective as the use of the old-fasioned farm -yard product, but unless the fertilizers are used with due re- ference to the knowledge that science sup- plies, there will be a good deal of waste. Meanwhile, it may be suggested thatit is a matter which is worthy of the attention of our Provincial Department of Agriculture. There is probably no pursuit in which technical instruction is more needed in the midst of -the changing conditions of modern life than agriculture, and there is none which will better repay the expenditure of time and effort. Recent Seismology. From the time of the ancients until the middle of our own century the phenomena of earthquakes had been observed and de- scribed on countless occasions. But if any one will look over the pages of Humboldt's "Cosmos," (published in 1844,) which sum- marize the then existing knowledge on this subject, he will find almost no sign that earthquakes are to be studied like other mechanical motions. The effects of the great Neapolitan earth- s I quake of 1857 were so studied by Mr. Rob - h ert Mallet, a distinguished engineer, and his most interesting work, in two profusely - illustrated volumes, is, perhaps, the first in which an attempt is made to attack the problem from its mechanical side. His n study of the destruction due to the earth - e quake was intended to lead to the know - e ledge of the intensity' of the individual ✓ blows or impluses. But, in fact, an earth - P quake is not made up of blows at all. It h is a continuous series of intricate twist- n ings and oscillations .in all possible direc- s tions, up and down, east and west, north n and south, of the greatest irregularity both ✓ in intensity and direction. e Frequently it is quite impossible to find s among these any single impulse at all ade- 1quate'to do the damage wiich is actually e observed. This damage is not done by a e blow; it is done by the combination of many small motions and twistings taking place in many directions. On account of this fundamental misconception of the nature of ar. earth quake, most of the conclusions arrived at by Mr. Mallet are not valid, and his methods generally do not lead to correct results. But, nevertheless, the spirit in which the question was approached was the true one, and he is one of thefound- ers of the modern science of earthquake measurement. This science had its birth in the city of Tokio only a few- years ago. Within the last dozen years the University of Tokio hasbrought together great num- ber of foreigners of ambition and learning to constitute its Faculty. I shrewdly sus- pect that in many cases they had few pres- cribed duties, and that the instruments and laboratories for research were often lacking at least in the earlier years. This band of learned and active men could not fail to be incited to the study of the very frequent earthquakes in Tokio and the vicinity, (when we take all Japan into account there are on an average two shocks daily,) and it is chiefly to the members of the Seismo- logical Society of Japan that we owe the science of earthquake measurement. It has been aptly said that there is not the remotest. corner of the inlet of the minute blood vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsions occasioned by good, hearty laughter. The life principle of the central roan is shaken to its innermost depths, sending new tides of life and strength to the surface, thus materially tending to insure good health to the persons who indulge therein. The blood moves more rapidly, and conveys a different impression to all the organs of the body, as it visits them on that particular mystic journey when the man is laughing, from what. _it does at other times. For this reason every good hearty laugh in which a person indulges, tends to lengthen his life, conveying as it does new and distinct stimulus to the vital forces. , Take Care oldie Body. If a man injures his liver by bad treat- ment, it can never be restored to perfect soundness. If a man abuses his stomach, it is injured for life. He may have his crippled stomach repaired; to such -a degree that it will digest, but it will never again be able to do the amount *work it once olid. So we ought -not to abuse these God_: given bodies; we ought to make the niogt of our vital forces, and: save and-, preserve; rather than squander them - -When To Drink. - Probably the best time to drink isbefore meals. It necessary to supply sufficient fluid to the blood for the fnanufacture of the_:, digestive juices. consequently it is Won, to' take some _ fluidebefore` eating, in _many ases (especially in eating ttry food); a °gltyss- two -of water should: be taken beforereatt np , in case the stomach. is able t o nlisorb it reaaity. c It proposed :that Dsta e. -stains be or numbered so that when g Po t en; stoles- from- post -i c s the l? .,o h rogues e sma-' be: traced. y tra d. Gigantic Leaves. What trees bear the largest leaves? An English botanist tells us that it is those that belong_ to the palm family. First must be mentioned the Inaja palm, of the banks of the Amazons, the leaves of which are no less than 50 feet in length by 10 to 12 in width. Certain leaves of the Ceylon palm attain a length of 20 feet and the remark- able width of 16. The natives use them for making tents. Afterward comes the cocoa- nut palm, the usual leegth of whose leaves is about 30 feet. The Umbrella magnolia of Ceylon bears leaves that are so large that a single one may sometimes serve as a shel- ter for fifteen or twenty persons. One of these leaves carried to England as a speci- men was nearly 36 feet in width. The plant whose leaves attain the greatest dimensions int -our temperate climate is the‘Victoria regia. A specimen of this truly magnificent plant exists in the garden of the Royal Botanical -Society of Edinburgh. Its leaf, -which is boutfeet in a 7 diameter,is capable of -_ ,supporting a weight of 305 rounds. DEATH OF LORIS 110S31)1H. THE AGED HUNGARIAN PATRIOT PASSES AWAY AT TURIN. It Was Not His Fortune to Die, as He Wish- ed, to His Native Land—Career of One of the Most Eloquent Orators and Un- selfish Patriots of the Century. A despatch from Turin says 1—Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patrist, died at 11 o'olock on Tuesday night. Louis Kossuth, once Governorof Hungary, was born in Monak, Hungary, on April 27, 1802, of a noble Croatian family. :: is tendency to opposition to Austria may well have been hereditarg, for between 1527 and 1715 seventeen members of his family were prosecuted by the Austrian Government for high treason. This instinct was fos- tered by his course in the college of Patak, an institution where traditions were all anti -Austrian. Shortly after his graduation he became an assessor for the county of Zemplien and spoke in its Assembly. He was at that time a lawyer. His political influence among the people grew rapidly, and at the age of 30 years he was sent to the Diet at Presburg as an alternate for an absent member, but when he endeavored to speak he was set upon by the party in power, Finding freedom of speech denied to him, he began publishing reports of the Diet's proceedings and his articles were the sub- jects of much 'attempted repreasion by the Government. Feeling that he had the people behind him e e published a series of letters in Pest, criticizing the Govern- ment with such courage and bitterness that in 1837 he was sentenced to four years' im- prisonment. mprisonment. Two years later, when the liberal party came into power, he was re- leased, and in 1841 became the editor of the Pest Journal. For seven years his unceas- ing efforts were for the establishment of Hungarian independence. As member of the Diet he proposed the address to the Emperor Ferdinand asking that Hungary be restored to independence, and when this was done Kossu th became Governor of Hungare . But the bloody war for thepreservation of independence was cloaebehind. Kossuth saw. it coming and prepared as best he could Against combined armies from without and treachery from within Hungary fought her bravebut hopeless fight, and lost. The ext Governor fled to Turkey, where be was im- prisoned. Austria demanded his extradition, but the Porte, strengthened by the support of the United States and England, refused. Thesetwonations demanded that Kossuth be released, and the United. States sent the war ship Mississippi to bring him to this country as the nation's guest. His request to be allowed to pass through France was denied by Louis Napoleon, to the great indignation of the French people. In.England he was enthusiastically receiv- ed, and on Dec. 5, 1851, he landed in the United States, where he was received with much enthusiasm. A gentleman who has heard him speak writes of him :- -"He was not merely the most versatile but the most eloquent orator I ever heard. He never repeated his thoughts or his ex- pressions, and bis mastery of the secrets of language was complete. There was one peculiarity in his use of English that was remarkable ; it was for the most part the English of the Elizabethan age and of the older einglish writers, and in that way he acquired at times an exceedingly quaint, f not obsolete, air. It arose from the fact that be had learned English while he was n prison, with no other books obtainable han a dictionary and Shakespeare's playa. There was a richness and originality in his English vocabulary that is not often shown by modern speakers." Kossuth returned to Europe in 1852, and for years lectured in the hope of winning ther nations to help in the fight for Hun- arian independence. His last great effort was to get the Hungarians to repudiate the leeak compromise with Austria. Failing n this he settled down to a life of exile in Turin. For some time this advertisment ppeared in the Turin Courier: Lessons in German, English, and Hangar - an given at moderate rates by L. Kossuth, 64 Strada Nuova. Thus he supported himself, declining a if t of 50,000 florins offered to him by Han- arian admirers. After the publishing of is memoirs he lived in comparative com- fort from the proceeds of the sale of tot ook, his sister, Louise Kossuth Ruttkay, eeping house for him. In 1892 the city of udapest presented him with the freedom f the city, and he was the recipient of undreds of testimonials of hiscountrymen's dmiration. Nevertheless he considered hat he had lived his life in vain, not see - g that Hungary, practically free to -day, wes her liberty in a great measure to his got in past years. Kossuth was married when about 35 ears old and had three children, two sons nd a daughter. His wife ands daughter re dead ; his sons survive him. Kossuth had three nephews in the_Union rmy at the time of- the rebellion : Col. ulyaysky, Col. Ruttkay, and Major Al- ert Ruttsky, Mrs. Albert Ruttsky and er son, Louis Kossuth Ruttsky, a name- ke of his great uncle, live at 348 Grand venue, Brooklyn. The Stormiest Region i i t 0 g i a 1 g g h b k B 0 h a t in 0 fi y a a a z b h sa a Known. The -waters of Cape Horn have never been unvisited by storms for more than a week or two at a stretch within the mem- ory of man. Stauding on the outpost of the world Cape Horn is the meeting place of ocean currents of very different temper- atures, from the icy cold waters of the Antarctic drift to the warmth of the Braz- ilian and Peruvian return currents. The prevailing winds are from the northwest and west and these, coming from the warm regions of the Pacific, condense into fogs, which thesailors call "Cape Horn blankets" and which are the sure forerunners of storms. The extremely low level to which the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego descent, the - perpetual congelation of the subsoil, the meeting of conflicting winds of very different temperatures, are all direct or indirect causes, combining_to-make this the most constantly stormy region of the world. "What is verse, as distinguesbed from poetry f" asked the inquisitive man. -"Verse," replied the magazine editor, after be had pondered, "is the term applied by any poet to the work of his.contemporaries." 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