The Seaforth News, 1927-12-15, Page 7•
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EN DAYS IN OPEN OAT
IS A 6lri VENTURE UP. TO- ATEt
'Thrilling Tale of Nine Men Afloat on Atlantic With Food
and Water Gone
A CONRAD TALE
A: romanee of the sea Lich with the of her length. She was roglstered out
malty tang of a forecastle yarn by t of ?Boston at846 toils,
Joseph Conrail or Clark Ruesell wase We now have a glinipso of Captain
'brought to light on October 30; when Potter, sale and .sound 10 his cabin: oa
:the Volendam, of the Holland -America the Volendain, reading from. the log
Line, carrying a number of bankers of the Foss, carefully Preserved by
on a holiday junket, picked up in the 11110 through all those perilous days,
dangerous waters off Bermuda an the story of the heavy , galee that at
•open boat containing eight white men last forced him to leave his elnking
:and-- a 'Jamaica negro, These men; vessel. He then takes up his tale
,shipwrecked seven clays before, were , once more by word of mouth.
almost spent with battling against I The day before abandoing ship Pot -
wind and wave, and, to tltalce matters l ter, who believed in being_, before.
worse, their provisions and water had .hand, had looked the eituatiou over
come ;to an end, Their tale ,as they • and decided rho chip's launch: hardly
told it, when warmed and fed aboard 'tt eiltl:takc hie Whole crow with the
the hospitable liner, was' as old as weight o1. the gasoline engine hi it.
i sat e of men "that go down to the So ne had ordered the engi is shipped,
iii!Ca in sir lis," as timelee sas the. gray Now, when the time came to get away
eters that Lad toesed their cockle he was in flair shape. Bill canto sweat
hell of a boat to and fro so many ingfrom the galley with a case 01
weary flours. In essence it has been beef, a ease of tomatoes, some old
told a- thousand tinlee in -song- and .cans of salmon,- and a few biscuits.
story, but the thrill of it is still ego A water beaker holding about
new as the new -cut tooth," There is twenty gallons was stcwod athwart.
:something about the'' sea and Juan's Another Live -gallon tin or Water was
•eternal struggle to tame its tremendi added. Then the boat was sluzig mit
ons forces to his will that has the from the davits, The falls were use
power to stir us all to the very depths, less. So the boat was siting from a
at call of the primitive that rinds an rough tackle ami tete blotut from an
anewer in every heart. Ilere is the
axe dropped 11 flat into the running
tale of•theso eine men and their boat' sell.
•a0 recorded for ns in the columns •of,
( the Now York World:
• "It wasn't no ohmic," maid Chief
Mato Gene Bradell.
"Next time I'll take more fruit and
• ;less beef, said William D. Potter, the
'thirty-year-old cream of the founder-
ed schooner, with a tired grin.
"!'adder Bed done it," said the big
.Jamaica negro, who was cool[. Joseph
:Notice is his name, but everybody on
The Most Thrilling Race of All
OVER THE WATER JUMP
A striking :.aapsnoi. of men ant! 1101-e;4 pound in midair during the running of th_•
kiaeeliorn Hill, Enitluntl.
avoidable small errors present in all King t '
phyeleal measures. YETEdward �
"It le rather interesting to note' Fd3ffi °
that scientific workers have adopted $gi$I$- li°�y
Oho radip in their research operatiaas
so soon' after• the radtb time signals Orchestra Leader Made "Cut"
were broadcast, As a.: matter of fact, in Selections—Was
students of the earth have alwaye fol -
Sowed very closely the application of
Found Out
ecientidn dlsooverles by the physicdst London, -How King Eldward "pito
and the engineer. The atncly of the
!shed" to drawing -room archeetra at
earth going on to -flay is due to bistro- Sanclringhom tor making a !'eat" to
mentsand methods attributable to re- a selection from Wagner's "Moisten
sults o1 the work of physlcle8." singers," is described by Mr. Theodore
o Stier, for sixteen years musical direct-
or to Pavolora, in his new book, "With
Pavlova Round the World,"
Before Mr. Stier worked with Mme.
Pavlova he belonged to a small draw-
ing-room orchestra,. and played at
Witten spring approaches thought ls. Sandringham for two.months each
turned toward the hotbed for starting season from 1809 to 1004.
vegetables and flowering plants, but it Aa most people know, he writes,
very often happen, that soil for the i I{ing 'Edward was a great lover et
hot -bed has not been set seine and is l music. Also, he was very considerate
not 'available, and es a result' nothing in his treatment of the orchestra.
to done. It is x ise, therefore, to Pre- Actually, our duties were extremely
pare for the spring now, and to make tight, ontailing only playing from 9.19
up ,a cone shaped pile of suitable Boll until 11 o'clock each evening, at which.
1n a gunvenient place, so that It will, latter hour Queen Alexandra would
be reasonably dry and ready for rise from her seat as a signal that the
sprhlg work. Or it may be put 'concert was at an end.
under :over in an outbuilding in bar- At five minutes to eleven one night
rely. Any' good friable loan) is suit- ho instructed us to play leis favorite
able for starting plants in, It is wise :1.election, the'"Meistersingers." Thls
e -.�e.i to use a soil that fines not` bake, or put as in somewhat of a'quaudary.
� � one contalutug eonaiderable sand and The concert was supposed to close at
decayed vegetable matter or humus. eleven, and Here we had a demand for
7811105' Handicap at The surface sell from a garden that a selection which would occupy about
p
has previously been well manured ser- thirty-five minutes. Ilene the con-
vas the purpose admirably. Or, if ductor thought it better, by making a
the fioii 16 spoor, well rotted -manure judicious cut,: to bring the time dow,et
should be added and mixed wen with to seven or eight minutes.
riftthe Boll, using about.fifteen to twenty But : that did not in the least suit
duringIs es
Der "et, of manure. -Sods gathered Iiia Majesty, for when, the moment
cluing the summer and piled alters- the last bar lied been played, he rose
Astronomers Take Observations on Stars. PassingMeridian, ately_with manure will, when cut from hie seat it was, not difficult to
down and well worked together, make perceive his displeasure,
Then Compare Local Time With Radio Signals the best hot -bed septi. I1 flats or shat- "What exactly do you mean by
From 'World's Master Clocks low boxes to grow the plants in are that?" he said coldly. "Where was
liable it is not necessary to put the quintet? Where was Po use's
A Timely Topic
PUTTING ASIDE 5011.'. FOR
HOT-l8EDS
Dawn was just breaking. the w;ud 111010, The sea ahead was all foam- r�$
was screaming, the Pose was sinking lag, hungry xatl•ee, rlushig in en the'jcientists Use Radio to Check
low into the water, iter• hews half un
der, and the nine then wore 400 mlies
north of Bermuda..
"I thought I'd counted notes," said
Pater. "But after wo were away, I
found we'd only eight altogether.
Then I looked back and ;ata Olean
hanging onto the painter, Wo got
t1n1 in. We didn't dare get too close.
CIO lost schooner called him "Bill" to the ship for fear of getting a stove
boat. When we'd of a safe distance,
\\ hy, they didn't know; they just call g
'ed him Bill, and so Bili he was. .r,tvtt; I1emembered thou that we had
"When ]3111 chipped en," said the no centimes. I knew we had 10 get:
'young captain, Iris face cut deep with the ship's compass somehow ---a ten -1
:lithos of weariness, "the first thing he inch COmpas.4 it was.
.asked for was a bottle of rum and a "Vit e 11'•,) hacl- rho boat
Bible.
It happened that they didn't have a
Bible on the Horatio Foss, the oil tub
'of a four -masted schooner, which now
'lies somewhere 10 a thousand fathoms
of Atlantic. They had a prayer -book.
Yesterday "Bill" still lead that prayer -
book, and lie hurl probably thumbed 11
more during those seven days in the
open boat, between spells of hailing
and pulling at an oar, than 10001
prayer -books ever nee thumbed ill
'their whole exietonea.
13111 had almost prayed the other
-eight e x
m -u in than tit enty t n foot
open boat into ci•aeiness, Captain
Potter wouldn't talk much about that,
"I like Bill," he said. Nevertheless,
-the story lead gone about on board the
Whetdarn of bow-, half insane from
Bill's iuocseant ejaculatione to Deity,
the rest of the crew pati tvant,-d to
throw hint overboard, and how Potter
prevailed against this to the bitter
end.
Capt. Jacobus de Ko1ht of the Vol-
endam wag Mtlmnst as noncommittal
as the nine men from the sea, ,
"I hauled to and made a lee just
off the reef at Bermuda," he sold, "end
then we let down a ladder over the
stern to then, Tite last man up pull -
eel the plug and sank their boat"
A red flare flaming up over the
.darkening waters had been sighted, so
we are told, from the bridge of the
Volendam as she headed away from
Bermuda for New York, That flare
tidesperateeffort of the
was the ]n.t c rt
exhausted men in their drifting boat
to get once: more in touch with the life
that wits so rapidly leaving them.
Says the World story:
Potter and 13111 and his crew had
Dulled and sailed into a gale 400
miles,
Net up to the gate of Bermuda.
Then slowly the weed pushed them
back. Their blanke`t's and sheets, rig-
ged up on oars and a harpoon haft for
sails whipped futilely in the gale.
They slipped back. They had been
within a tulle of the reef, not more
than eleven or twelve miles from
Bermuda.
Then, driven back away from life
just as it seemed to in their bleed-
ing hands, they saw the Volendam
putting out of Bermuda in the twi-
light. They watched her come to-
ward them, then sheer off to the right.
They groaned. Peter eacceetled in
lighting a wet match: 'rho red flare
sputtered in the fading light full of
purple dimness. And all at once the
Volendam sheered out of her ,course,
stopped and then backed into the gale,
gathering speed.
And a little later, in the darkening
light, the excited bankers leaned
down over the High rail and watched
the .small boat slide and reel into the
slick which the liner made with her
hull broadside to the wind.
They saw ho cramped men, more
dead than alive, creep up the, rope
ladder slowly and drop on the deck
exhausted, their bodies covered with
boils from the slatting of the salt
water for seven days, . For that in-
stant the comfortable passenger's
glimpsed the sea.
"We left Philadelphia. October 10,"
said Potter, his face still drawn from
tho strain, "We were for Martinique
with a cargo of coal for Guadeloupe.
Wo had 1,100 tons under our hatches.
Everything seemed fine when we
stood out of the Delaware River, anti
'two days later we were in. the Gulf
stream ,with wind picking up."
The Horatio Foss, nearly twenty
years old, had four stubby masts, rig-
ged fore and aft, along the 182. feet
got about 1uettty feet off. lel striped
off my clothes. Then t jumped mt
and swam to th-e ship."
The captain broke the compass nail
of •iha foundering seltouner'- btu
mete, Tien ho grabbed a It:tedihte
and threw one end to the bnttt and!
made 111e outer fas•: to ilia compass,!
And while hie rrew dragged tee in-{
elrument threugit tate heaving dark.
water. Potter swain back and was
pulled in over the gun'l.
"\\•e. rigged a sea smelter and lay to
all day there," he said. '.1t tiv.' t.:u.,
an hour after abandoning. nt,
went down. Shp sank by t,,eboleti
eve rowed ever to to ;pr.., M-' en
that floated up eras a I1 irre- 1
Well, we rigged ftp Out tt e. '1
had in'u sheets, n blanket owl a smolt j
piece of enures i'ur -pv a t
ttvo otu')) and a heep,,,,!t h.tf:,Be-';
skies that w' kept waling e the,. .
"T,vo men had t' be t ails se al. !tri
time. The boat int,l e., lin:who 1
against the .ship mite;tad4Ir
leaking m e r; ,fuel s.
rade very wall it .. e hate 1101' heeded
k1;
right. Mee 110041:-.1 for L..:,nu'bi ar
1.hc compote."
ts."
That xa+ tit bel ,tri aTrott;
week, the longest 1!,,,,c` nen
Hien over will Hee l'tt h:, :11.1 1 0l •.
to be bailing with biscuitt , at tib'
while. Others trete. e. the
ter sat t:p ut tear t 011,1 managed
Melee. For seven da y n h0 never lay
pawn to sleep. In the first. idace,
there Wasn't Croom to 1te down. In the
r
e
so and il _e h- didn't dare.
c a t
1
"All v could e was eating) w�
. 1 , oft c uld d a, niul p ria
and then when yew had the chance,"
he said wearily. "Once I curled up
on top the biscuit stn, but couldn't
sleep."
Always when the two bailing men
were spelled by their comrades they
dropt over tg'tiust.. a thwart and went
to sleep. They dared to sleep, and
had to, hi order to have strength for
more bailing hi the next watch. And
13111 the cook frayed, 1f Bill 'L'ad been
devout before, he was' Mous.. now. He
prayer, he doxelogized, he halleuliah-
ed. 'lie salt water came slatting
over in sheets every time the launch
smacked down into a wave, but Bili
kept his prayer -book dry. When the
gale slackened away a bit and things
Weed up, 13111 would shout:
"See what Fodder sent us!"
When things got worse again and
the wind howled hungrily all around
them, Biil would shout still louder:
"Fadden ain't ready for us yet!"
The days that followed were lived
through somehow by the forlorn little
party. Most of nem had not the faith
of the negro to uphold them,and it
was hard to Sight off despair. The
picture drawn for us of their lt,ehappy
state is a poignantly' moving oue:
The nine men talked little. They
measured out .'the food and drink.
There wasn't a drop of rum- In the
boat; hadn't be?on any on the schoon-
er. They measured out the beef end
tomatoes and water, and watched
their store shrink. They eaw nothing
but the gale and tate ocean. The sea
was as big ars the sky, and the sky as
big as the sea. Everything was gray
anti immense and destructive,
Potter watched his. compass and
tried to get every bit of forward mo-
tion he could out of tho contrary
wind. Though they were nine, .the
ocean became lonelier and lonelier.
Now and then a sea bird came over-
head in the'wet murk with a ltannting
cry. The only other life they' saw
was a dolphin. For three days the
dolphin played alongside and around
nine men like a paclt ee gray wolves.
One night the friendly dulphin flip- 1
ped his tail and vanisher and never
canto back. Perhaps he felt tete pre-
sence of'n dark shadow gathering over
that boat. Voices whish had been;
cheerful at first became neene0. The:
exhausted bailer's growled seben they!
changed watch. :Everybody was con•
scantly- wet .'wi!t: the rasping' salt
water and their 1ta::d it;'d and their
bodies, chafed by ea110tiff clothing,
broke out with soros. The climax
value. on the seventh Clay. There were
yetis t bi,cuit left !h the tiu. In
the wure.. 1, ll.tt s'vlehed about three
gallon~ Cif re llc etuff. 'rimy sighted
:anti al'eed—.i rtnuda.
That laud was rally to tantalize
them. Between then, tad the rising
harbor Back tr hi,'m ul t wee u gale of
wind that p, s,1n.1 ti: a ;lowly bads- .
ward 11te 'lu•y had 4'.11..
That. tie 1, ,'ridgy, At 3.00 p.m.
11 trig-1`ul'u,lato" "14h'+11 nu"heir
and teed a'. : ,:1 11Utt.'.ifi,it. Pette.•
had .'e'n 'Ala, . ,1;,''o tel dares 1111
been t0wO,1 in htc: boa' hefure he
aieandt.ued ,irtp. Now he took out
one of tlte:e and got 1r lighted, In
the , 1)511 t the. red signal caught
the 1 t e if the r, it captain, ole Kcal -
lug, 00 the ...',,,ut's" bridge, and
hitt half : ..t- ,.. t1n• 111110 m,°n. wltn
11IrarIl dealit
fir t.t.• 1;,, ''� olendaut'y"
ladle ,t:. .t,, ,,.-,,r ,hair sagging
tet et i-tl- l> l lead receded
.0"8, t lt.t -tit• [Pel island .
,,.1)r` .et., rIe;t '1 t1111, ,ip.
1 , t. :,t. 1r•., . 'There
•,,,.. ':n ,,,I ;;,;1 ..rid hot.
tit.1n). t 11. 'o t , .t, 811811 up by
t1 I. t._iC- ., 1'. was :til 11 :..sy ,lro:1n)
SW' 111;1 h', .,,e ba,vlt affil
,''r•<0n .. ui :1rr:t Del Hae.
at. ; tlt2rs—
�, t t t ti Set, 1 lichens, and Ameri-
i'O'tt. '(.ictal,
Are the continents and Offends drift -1
lug° Aro ',•o, sees
square miles of water, since the.
earth's land surface is only 87,000,900
square miles? These and other vital
questions were dtecussed. at the third
general congress of the Geodetic and
Geophysical Union recently held at
Prague, Czechoslovakia.
The United States Coast and Geo
tletic Survey would answer these'
questions in the negative, basing Its
assumptions. or results of the world -1
Wide radio longitude campaign ca11-;
ducted in October and November,
1721, by thirty countries. These were
approximately thirty-five astronomic
stations where observations were
matte each clear night on the stars
aethey passed the meridian, These
observations enabled the observers to
determine their local time. The clocks
at the. various stations- were compar-
ed by means of radio aigrette sent by
enc of a dozen of the most, powerful
radio stations of the world.
Major William A. Bowie, who re-
presented the United States at tate
Prague meeting, expressed the renew-
ing views:
'Tin' campaign was a gt'eai 011(15118
t.ret'y tray. 1\•e nov: know, ur soon
ellen know, after computations of all
have been made, the exact lcugitttde
of each station taking part in the
campaign. 'l'hese stations win now be
h t fes for astronomic work, charts,
maps or tnut'eys of Yn1.10110 countries
end 515)11lts of !elands,
j "While longitude had been deter-
: tallied 11t,+t11a117 prink on the earth's
' surface, they were less exact titan
the radio longitude campaign. The
comparison of the clocks at two wide-
ly separated points was made by sig -
nate sent over land wires of sub-
there
many
were
restarts, and
marine 8
v '-
relays in the lana wires tvhclh Inter-
fered
n.
et
fered with the telegraph signals. In
the radio longitude survey the time
of traatem(ssion did vary from night
to night, dependent upon the adjust-
ment of relays with the radio signal,
Very little apparatus, however, was
used, and the transmission time
through the atmosphere is that of the
feloeity of light, 180,245 miles per
\ tike in the tutr oti" industry
stn there is , h,tel fee many 1110(' `
ttnteirultitee it: J11: empire. Doesn't
he 1001511 111 "ate" 00 entry?
floottle ht t of ranee skirtedted
the erase in the =nark ratan arllet. IIe
WWI Making' tt loot Olt a1 the trees op-
posite, whose lee vee were glorious in
then' autumn tints. Presently two
little urchins drew near, then mane
and stood' be kind him, watching with
intense interest every brush stroke he
made. They can' him ntix color with
color, iIII gradually the sketch took
shape, spreading itself over the paper
Mall there was hardly any white to
be. seen. Quito suddenly one of the
boys broke the silence, ".rust fancy,
Y't ed " 110 said, "a little while ago that
was n lovely piece of white paper!"
second.
ERROR 'IS
"The accuracy
determined last
the closure of a
ave g
serrations made at Greenwiolt, Eng- aside much soil, and usually two bar- address? Where was Beckmessere
Shanghai, Ghlua; San Diego, eels will suffice to meat the require
-
Cal., and Washington, D,C, The 360 moats for an ordinary garden. IE on
degrees around the earth was meas- the other hand the soil Is to be put
need by thin longitude work, and the
into the hat -bed direct, twice as much
clueing error of the circuit is only will be necessary.
twelve -hundredths of a second of arc,{ Plants may also be started early in
or, in the latitude of Now York, abouta cold=Erame- The frame is set Sn
ten feet. As we measure this [los_
lag error in time, it was only eight- piece now and six inc of good, rich,
thousandths of a second. friable soli is pieced in 1t. Over this
leaves, straw, strawy manure, or lit -
"In this' longitude work the best In -1
n ter not containing weed seeds is put
etruments and most skilled observers 1,o keep out the frost, In the early
were outplayed by the United States. spring this little is removed and the
The Naval Observatory operated sta- sashes put on, and it will be found
tions 111 'Washington and San Diego, that in a short time tate ground will
while the Coast and Geodetic Survey' nicely warm up, so that seers of the
hart elutions at liouolulu and Manila,' hardier vegetables and flowers may
Mane- of the private observatories of he planted. ---W. S. Blair, Supertnten-
the country took advantage of the op- dent, Experimental Station, Kentville,
portunity to locate their places ill N.S.
longitude while the campaign ryas be -i
s
log 108118. ,
i
".111 of the camputatlaus have net
been deduced by the large net, but it1
le hoped in the dear future to be able
to anneal. the exact Longitude of,
every talion involved in the cam -1
I paten. I, wit1 ne pnoelble: when 11 e>.e'
l'sst!11'4 .,i`+, :)vu:!a1)1e, to compare the
iongliadn detce-.'mined by radio signals:
with the Iongitudes of the same points
(tete:'min !1 by f.lgnals sent over wires !
and cables. If the differences are
ver,- gyve, itwill be an indication 1
that th.nv has been a shifting of the
continent', and Islands of the earth's!
1.,urface.
"One of the principal objects of can- I
ducting the longitude campaign was
to begin a wprld•wide study of the;
hypothesis that North and South
merica are drlftime away from Europe
'and Africa and the ether hard masses,
'like Australia, and wandering on the
'earth's surface. This hypothesis does
not appeal to officials of the Coast and
Geode -tie Survey as being possible,
but scientific workers must teem open "The first wave disturbs the
minds and test any hypothesis that
are seriously adhered to by other!
scientific workers.
"Professor Alfred Wegener of Aus-. Insults to Religl
aria formulated a hypothesis which
'on
has appealed to many earth students, I The Indian Legislature is consider -
bag a bill ter penalizing instate to re-
elekeelally blologista, who are con- Ilgton. The proposed addition to the
FRACTIONAL, fronted with problems of accounting' Indian penal code reads as follows:
of radio longitude as fol' the distribution of animals over ,,V hoover. by words; either spoken
year Is Indicated by the earth's surface. The same species'
circuit involving ob.
Adding "Atmosphere" to Canberra
5T. ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL (Anglican)
\ 14111' , Australia, which it Is proposed to take Clown and re•el'ect a.t
Canhe•rra., Ausl tuna's new Pedaled. capital, this line (and for Australia) old
Cathedral.
of animal are present on nR [ne con 1 or written, or by signs or by visible
representations, or otherwise, inten-
tinents, and the question has been tlonally Lisetteor attempts to insult
asked for geueratlo(15 How could they the religion, or intentionally outrages
move from one coast to another or attempts to outrage the religious
through oceans, Some investigators feelings of any class of his NTttjesty's
say the bottoms of the oceans were subjects, shall be punished with ins -
dry and furnished `land bridges' from prisonment , . , for a term which may
one to another. Wegener's hypo-1extend to two rears or with a tine
thesis would obviatethe necessity ter or with both."
land bridges, since. according to him,'
ail conItinentalareas were once a sln-
gis land mass.
"'Phare is a slight land force acting Turkey Has 481,137 Excess
on continental maims due to the of Women, Due to Many Wars
earth's rotation, which Is believed to; Constantinople.—Further data from
make conttnents delft toward the the first Turkish [ensue, taken last
equator. ' 'P1tle drifting would be month, reveals an excess of 431,137
mortified by the earth's rotation, with women.
the resultant direction being west- Terkey's incessant warfare lu the
ward. The oftielale of the Coast and Balkans and the great war made
Geodetic Survey- and many otbor stne heavy inroads ou the male population,
dents of the earth believe this force The abolition of polygamy and the
totally Mader -mato to break continents freedom of women is Ieading to ex -
away from their setting in the earth's tonsive changes in labor. Women are
crust and move them about like chips • now employed in nearly all forms of
on a hill bond. ( industrial and commercial activity.
"It may telco us years to find out Angora, attracting Government of-
or
Wegener is right or wrong, Belga is the only city with an excess
of males.
but the test will come when the very I
accurate longitude d-eterminations of.
1921 are reproduced in the future. If,
for instance, the new value of the
clistan0e of Washington and Green -
The ukulele is now an accepted mute
teal instrument, and specifications for
an approved standard pattern have ...._.___e
wlch, say, ten or twenty years from ' been adopted by an organization of Now the stores are introdueiug
now, is 100 .feet, we shall be justified manufacturers of musical instruments•. rainbow -hued kitchen utensils:pets,
in claiming that Nerth America bee It is justas well that such an organ- pans and electric appliances done, ea
changed els relation to 'Europe, If leaden did not exist; in the days of red, blue and green. Doubtless the Idea
the: distance is only five or ten feet, Amati, Stradivarius, and Guarnerius is to add. a touch of color to an already
wo would consider it was due to un- in Cremona,
Serenade? Absolute laziness, I call
it." He paused, then added, "Anel
now for a punishment you will play
over the whole selection. From be-
ginning to end, please,"
The Legend,:f the
Golden Head
The death of Hannibal Toscl, on his
estate of San Marzello, near Mantua,
recalls a strange story, of how itis
great wealth was acquired. At the
beginning of the last century, accord-
ing to this legend, there was erected
on the Naples highway near the Ab-
bey of San Vito a stone column bear-
ing in French this inscription: "On
the 1st of Niay in every year, at G
o'clock in the morning, I have a gold-
en head." On the next 1st of May.
many people gathered to see the rale -
stele. Nothing happened: Tee column
remained uneltangeri. For years tilers•
after at the npplfnted time curiosity
t,rk,ty pocked thither, only to be dis-
pn•,inted; until at. Last it was cop.
Clem:, that the inscriptionmust have
sear hidde,i meaning. Surmises and
' t,ircuiatiotte as to what it might be,
however, were alt le rain.
In the year 11741, however, a Naples
boy wandered along the highway,
t ame to the c•011mtn and suddenly
telt that he had divined the secret,
He said nothing. but on the next May
Day at 6 o'clock in the morning he
was on the spot—along, since people
had long ceased to take any interest
in the column.. But he noted the
exact spot where the head of the
column east its shadow and there dug
into the ground. Not far below the:
surface he eame on a knapsack con-
taining 80,000 'francs n gold. The
boy's name was Hannibal Toed.
Firm With "Motorized" Bees
Fr �V
Plans Business in California
Los Angeles.—Boas' wings as over-
land motive power are to be replace
with motor trucks, at least by one
enterprising concern which made suc-
cessful application before the State
Corporation Commission for a permit
to sell stock..
The Oranga Blossoms Product,
Inc., the applicant, proposes to main-
tain apiaries on trunk trailers, mor-
ing swarms to places where the hoes
can make short side trips ou their
own power to blooming growing
this,
Frank S. Clark, President of the
company, said the bees could travel
only a limited distance with a full
load of honey. Motorizing them, iso
believed, would greatly increase their
productivity.
1 -le: Sally is a good girt.
Sha Yes, good atpetting, maybe.
Icheerful place.