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The Seaforth News, 1959-10-22, Page 3Ex -Slave Trader Captured Warship Handsome, muscular, with a pair of; roving eyes, Paul Jones was the adored hero of the love- liest ladies of Paris, Yet in real- its' he Was a gardener's son from humble village and had run away to sea. In the primeof manhood his love for the Duchess de Chartres, the richest woman in France, was merely an episode in a ser- • ies of swaggering escapades. Even before he made his way to the American Colonies -this was in the year' 1760 -there were Scots lassies in his native shire who bitterly rued his kisses. Yet lithe, good-looking Paul Jones resented their coarse lips. He dreamed of the languorous caresses of women reared in great palaces, even of winning perhaps the love of a princess. They were strange dreams for a boy from a village school, though destined to be fully realized. Three years after running, away from home, Paul was chief mate in a slave ship, learning the rich profits to be made by smuggling slaves into America Another five year's and he had made a small fortune, running brandy, silks and sugar as well as slaves under the guns of the excise men. Then came the revolt of -the American colonies against the British crown. Every sailor of fortune jostled for a ,place in the new -formed American fleet. Paul Jones had good friends who secured him a commission, He was charged with carrying despatches from Congress to the American commissioners in Paris -and to sink or plunder every British ship he ' found on the Atlantic. By the time he reached Paris news of his exploits had preced- ed him. Almost in sight of the French coast he. captured two British ships laden with food and' wine. These were the days; when, in the whirligig of history, every British'' surrender, seemed a victory, for liberty. As his, daydreams had fore- told, Paul' Jones was receive& with praise and, flattery in the, most gorgeous ' court .in the world. Above all; the lovely' Duchess de Chertres consented to 'receive him .and . was . soon sweetly conspiring to see him alone. . Paul Jones did not know that she was ;a vain and vapid wo- man, bored by an unfaithful. husband, always eager for amor- ous conquest. "You are my Achilles, my knight of the sea,"•she-told him,.. in one of their secret love -letters; that have survived. And when Paul had to resume his _ naval duties at Brest, the Duchess fol- ' lowed. ' Hungrily seizing her kisses one night, he vowed that he would Jay an English frigate at her feet. A ship, the. bold Rang- er, was being refitted• for him. When it was ready at last, Paul and the aristocratic. Parisi- enne made their tender fare- wells. As a keepsake she gave him a watch, gold and jewelled. Within the lid was -her- portrait set in pearls. "I shall wear it all my life," Paul promised, Yet oddly enough he had. al- ready met the 'woman who, in the .tangible terms of'' domestic happiness, was to mean far, more to him. Aimee. Thelusson was a -beauty of piquant dark eyes.'and red-, gold hair. On their first intro- duction, Paul Jones largely ignored her, Preoccupied with the 'Duchess, brooding on stolen kisses, he did not :recognize the loving devotion, that destiny had bought to his path, Roving the seas again, he was delighted to hear that the British warship Drake was out hunting him, The pursued turned pur- suer and, catching up with the Drake, the Ranger brought her under such withering fire that , her. wounded captain was forced to surrender. , Baek to Brest returned Paul with the captured ship he had promised his charmer, But the new American government re- fused to pay for the maintenance of his prisoners and his naval: honours turned into an inglori- ous squabble Faul Jones was relieved of his command. It took months of pleading, intercession and nego- tiation to gain another ship.. Without sufficient funds in France, Paul was forced to bor- row money. ' Aimee Thelusson offered him everything that was hers. Paul refused, and borrowed from the Duchess •de Chartres instead. As. soon as he had received the money • she allowed him to see her scoffing. contempt. He put to sea at last, deter- mined to lay yet anther prize at her feet. In the North. Sea he caught up with three 'British men -o' -war. The desperate bat-, tle 'was to become one of the most famous '.sea -fights in his- tory. Before the action Paul gazed long at the . portrait of- the Duchess set in his watch. But it was Aimee who waited for him', in Paris, weeping when couriers brought news of his death. The report was false. Paul Jones' vessel was set aflame un- der him and had to be abandon- ed. He lost all his books, clothes; and'papers. In Paris the Duchess offered him' rooms over her stables -but Aimee Thelusson offered him her home and her heart. What demon was it in Jones, urging him to refuse the love of a good woman, constantly driv , ing him to seek the vanity of a woman .who was capricious? Butat last his friendship.; with Aimee turned,to love. When•he was' sent to• Russia her letters followed him to the, cold„ dark northern •regions. To Aimee .he' confided the care of a •good"sword given him by the King of: •Fr'ance:. Yet whenever, talk- of ;marriage • blossomed in - ,the, . tenderness between them,; Paul Jones always deftly turned to other topics.. He yearned 'to find marriage with a princess, someone perhaps superior .•in birth even to the Duchess de Chartres. He did not know Aimee's own amazing sec- ret, that she was, ;in 'tact, the "daughter of a king:; Her' mother, daughter of a voor Provencal nobleman, 'had been King Louis XV's mistress at'.Ver- sailles until dismissed -with her child and' a ''pension.. Aimee did not tell, for she wanted to be ' loved for herself alone .and. not for her royal parentage' or 'high social standing. So the strange drama=went on. In the. capitals of: Europe Paul Jones "'sought the hands of, 'the • highest -born •beauties and yet' returned again and again to the tranquillity -of Aimee Thelus- son s 'little home. "The whole world may forsake you;" she . once wrote to him, 'but I am eternally yours." Paul. Jones never..married her. Yet it was in her . house that, tired 'out at . last, he coughed away his life. ' They found .'him kneeling be- side his bed one morning. In ,his lifeless hand was the Duchess de. Chartres' watch. On a Hollywood set, Actor - Singer. Pat Boone, 25, took a swift kick at what, seemed a papier-mache rock, but he -should have taken it for granite. The •rock was real. Boone broke. a - toe, The male prairie chicken has a wind sac on 'his throat with which he makes a booming call. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 10. Filth 33; Marine 11. 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Seine 61, One of Columbus' ships 56. Paradise 57. Cow genus 58. Trial 58. Country DOWN L Luzon :native 56, By ®®11111 a 1111®®d" :1:,:,11®® ®®1111114®111111111111 101111111111111111111111111111111111 1/1111111/1411111111111111111M 111111'::.611■11111111:11® 11111111111111111151111111i1111111 111111111111111111 X1111 11M1111111>::t4l1n11w1®;:::3:=a a:`j allIMill1111111051111111111111 111111:.:111111111111■ Answer elsewhere on this page FOOLISH FATHER! - Eleven -year -,old Robert Dow Hamilton Jr. shows his lawyer father the fine points of a real western gallows he and some friends built in the back yard of his Columbus Ohio, home. Hamilton Sr. explains that the boy is always building things - tree house, soapbox racers, etc. -- so so he gave the O.K. en this project. Sheep production''in Canada, regarded as a minor livestock' enterprise,' has a potential greater than most 'other classes of. livestock.. Given .adequate ,' attentionsupport and organiza- tion, it would readily assume. the stature of a niajpr-term ;en _.terprise. * '5 * This ie the opinion pf a special committee appointed by Agri- cultural Minister ;Harkness in 'July, 1358, - to "study Canada's sheep industry,. The committee!' report, outlining current .condi tions and making recommenda- tions, has just been published. • In visiting each at the ten provinces, the. _committee held ;23 meetings and made 22 'field' inspections on f a r m•s and ranches. Ten briefs and numer- ous letters were carefully 'con- sidered.," con-sidered.• - e 4. r In• addition, the committee traveled through the mid -west areas 'of the United States;, visiting hacking -plants and farms en route :and studying , lamb' feedlot, operations in sev- eral states. * . * * A total of: 631,668 cows were bred by . artificial insemination last year, reports J. D. Baird of the Livestock Division, Can- ada • Department of Agriculture. This represents a 20.5 per cent increase over 1957. And,, with a cow population of 5,036,100, this • means that about 12.5 per cent of the na- tional female breeding herd was ' bred artificially. * * * Mr. Bairdsays organized arti- ficial insemination businesses operate in every' province ex- cept Newfoundland. Bull • studs in six provinces supplied the. bulk of the semen used `through-' out ,he -.country. 'The ' balance was imported from the "United- States. There were 16 semen produc- THE ONLY WAY There was a sale at the big store and a surging mass of ex- cited women elbowed their way through the packed aisles. A lit- tle red-faced man managed to wriggle out of the crush and found himself in front of the hosiery counter. Gazing around him anxiously he . mopped the perspiration .from 'his brow. "What ban.1 do for you, sir?" inquired 'a pretty girl clerk. "Would you mind if 1 just talk• ed to you for a few minutes?" he said. "I. don't want to buy anything -- !just want to .talk to you," "But . don't understand, sir," replied the astonished girl. "I'm terribly busy. What do you want to talk to me about?" "Anything! Anyhting!" said the. unhappy man, desperately, You see, I've lost my wife somewhere in this crowd and I'ean't find her. But if i talo' to. a .pretty, girl she will be sure to turn up!" nig and 147 semen purchasing "organizations. * * * Numberof first •services per- formed with frozen semen was 176,856, -;an increase of 47,586 - `or 36.8 per cent•_ •over the previous year. The number of "artificial in- 'isemination" calves registered as purebreds in 1958 'was . 47,072, a boost of 6,161 over 1957. * * * Number of herds serviced was 71,509. And, reports 'Mr. Baird, from a survey made in .- 1956, 1956, it is estimated that . seven per centof the herds serviced were tested on Record of ,Per-. forinance or Dairy Herd' Im- provement programs. * * * 'There were 321 dairy, 21 dual ,purpose and 104 beef bulls in service during 1958,. The average number of, services per bull 'in each of these classes was 1,474 for dairy,' 750 for dual purpose and 1;427 for ,beef. Forty private . individuals ob- tained 153 import permits 'for semen, and 14' 'inseminating businesses obtained 342 permits: All permits' were for semen -from the U.S.A. Semen was exported in five shipments totaling 465, vials to Germany, Australia, New Zea- land and the British' West - Indies. A r ti f i c i al insemination, of swine, says Mr. Baird, did not progress beyond the research' stage in, 1958. ' The horned toad, is nota toad but a lizard. It does not lay eggs but gives'. birth to living yong. Currents In Tire Atlantic Ocean One might imagine there were Innumerable possible mixtures of the various 'sorts of water' in the vast basin of the ocean. But this is not so; The investigations show that in the Atlantic there are relatively few great layers, clearly distinguishable from each other, First of all, beginning from the bottom, there is the cold deep water, which comes from the Antarctic. The enormous ice masses of the South Polar Con- tinent reduce the temperature of the surrounding sea almost to. freezing point. The cold, salty, heavy water sinks to the bottom, to a depth of many thousand feet, and creeps slowly to the Equator and beyond it. In the Arctic, toe, cold water sinks to the bottom, mixed with and salted by the last tentacles of the Gulf Stream. But much colder masses off Greenland and Labrador press forward along the bottom of the ocean in enor- mous quantities, at the rate of some 2,600,000 cubic yards a sec. ond. When still a long way from the Equator the' deep water of the North Atlantic meets the colder water coming from the South Pole and con- tinuing on its way along the sea's bottom. The deep current coming from the north is conse- quently compelled to rise above the current from the south. It then meets another stream coming . from the Antarctic, which consists of water formed of melted ice and therefore weak in salt. This flows above the stream from .the north, so that we already have three streams one above '.the other. The middle layer of the South Atlantic is matched by • a simi- lar layer in the North Atlantic, which' also consists of ' melted Ice, weak in salt, from the Po- lar regions and finds 'itself: drawn from the calmest 'to the liveliest 'part of the world's Waters. That 'makes four huge streams. of water, one above the ,other. . The North Atlantic ,has •a fifth interzngdiate layer; coining from the Mediterranean. There the surface water .is subjected to _great evaporation from the sun and 'has a high salinity. Sinking to the'bottom through Its greater • weight, it finds its' -way to the . exit through the Straits .of Gi- braltar, where -it spills over the threshold 'and rolls away down the slope into ,the 'ocean. There 7t .sinks to depths of as much as 3,000 feet, takes . up its position above the colder, deeper bottom - water, and flows • on as lar as the Sargasso Sea. In its place less salty .Atlantic water .flows ,over the Gibraltar still into the , Mediterranean 'in the form of a strong current which some investigators consider to be a branch. of 'the Gulf Stream. - From '"River • in the Sea," by Hans Leip. TOUGH .BATHING The way of the pioneer can indeed be hard! For introducing a bathtub to his' home in Cin- cinnati, in 1842, Adam Thomp- son, met with scathing comments from all and sundry. The State of Virginia went one'better and, imposed a hefty tax, plus in- creased water rates, on anyone who installed a bath: Boston made • bathing illegal, except un- der doctor's orders; while Phila- delphia unbent . officially to al- low bathing between March 16th and October 31st - baths taken on "off" dates were unlawful! ND lOO11' LESSON Rey, R, Raroley Warren, ! 13.A., R.D. Peter and John, Undaunted Witnesses - Act 4:1-14. Yes, this is the Peter who de- nied his Lord when a little girl identified him as one of'the fol- lowers of Jesus. But what a dif- ference! Here is a leader, un* daunted by prison itself. It is s thrilling episode and the very rhythm of the writing of it em- phasizes the invincible courage of these Spirit -filled men. The priests and Saducees were thoroughly fatigued with the continuance of the preaching by Peter and John. Their minds suffered more labour, through vexation at the success of the apostles, than the apostles did in their fatiguing exercise of preaching during the whole day. They were disturbed because of the preaching through Jesus of the resurrection of the dead. The Saducees did not believe in a resurrection. Peter, facing them, did not hesitate to charge them with the slaying of Jesus. Of Him he said, "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby wemust be saved," The leaders could not deny the reality of the miracle. There. stood the 40 year-old man who before this healing had never walked. But they feared this continued preaching in the name of Jesus. They commanded Peter and John to cease teaching in the name of Jesus. The apostles answered in the words of Acts 4:19-20, which form the memory selection for this lesson: 'Whe- ther it . be right in :the sight of God to hearken into you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." Here is the secret These men '.couldn't' keep the good news to themselves. They had an inner, compulsion to tell it. We don't see enough of this today. How ;quiet we. are!. What'sthe matter? Jesus -said, (John 7:38-39 - 'Phil- lips''paraphrase), "The man who believes, in me, as the :Scripture said, will have rivers of liviflli water flowing from his inmost .heart." Then' John 'adds, "Berri i he was speaking about the Spirit whichthosewho believe in Him would receive." Before Pente- cost these very .men forsodk'Jes- us "and fled. Tom Allan, who was field organizer of the "Tell Scot- land" movement says it is "idle" to speak of lay visitation to mem and women who have no first- hand knowledge of the Christian •experience. We must have before we can share. In Sydney, Australia, the Rev. Jack Leonard, who is also ven- triloquist, showed up for Sun- ,day school with a wooden dum- my on his lap, obliged his youth- ful parishioners to listen while it delivered a 20 -minute sermon. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking • MOW © 0 MU© ri ti�orv� ©BOWM - L7C.7©o MOM. ' HMO 9Q E00 L7©Fn F�1't1©.07 .0,• 5MMODo UDoo 4 ©U t=JJCI®D©0 EIE711 Q0 MOW NIMMUW JOE® mud= DEMO OHO L�rr7" L4 ©E 1! f�'•1t1 DL7!1C7 NEM 1SSiJE 42 - 1959 ALL WASHED UP All wet and 'enjoying every minute of it, Minyak the circus elephant gets a thorough dousing with a spray washer, Giving the modern bath is circus petformsr Antonietta Bisbini of Milan, Italy.