The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-03

As the type is supposed to show direct Idescent from a companion of the Con
 queror it is cherished with warm affec- ton.
 After dinner there is very little left
 to do but to go to bed. You will find
 In your bedroom one small candle. If
 you ask for lamp or for another can
 de, to read by, you will probably be told that there is reading room down
 stairs. You know it, for you have Just left It, and left it as dark as Erebus,
 after ringing and ringing in vain for
 llght' To put it very mildly, Devon
 shlre and Cornish hotel men are thrifty, II you get one clean towel a day you
 may be happy. John Bull likes to be
 comfortable. How can he tolerate such
 contemptible meanness?
 Dismiss the unpleasant theme from
 your mind and now examine a Tor"
 About fifty miles due south of Lynton
 m just about the very center of Devon,
 starts stream, dign!fled. of course, as
 a river, and called the river Dart. It
 runs southeast and comes out at the
 apex of the ballet girls heel, midway | between Exeter and Plymouth. Every
 such stream always has town where
 It meets the sea; and every such town
 IS called by the name of the river with
 the addition of the syllable mouth
 Dartmouth, Exmouth, Plymouth, Fall
 mouth, Weymouth, and many others
 are examples. About the source of the
 Dart are any number of enormous hills. Ihese hills together form the region
 known as Dartmoor. To understand
 Dartmoor, imagine you had on your
 hands about fifty hills, each hill from
 one 10 two thousand feet high, and rom ten to twenty miles in diameter. NOW smash them all in together not applylng the same degree of force in all directions, but different degrees of force in various directions. Some of your hills would be so driven into one another that their tops would be near, With but slight declivities between. Other and tougher hills would have thelr edges shattered into deep ravines ana would stand apart with yawning aoysses between. The most singular feature of the convulsion was that the titanic pressure brought to bear in con- solldatlng the hills caused fantastic rocks 10 be squeezed up through their rounded surfaces and to shoot up hun dreds Of feet with pyramids and pima cles of every imaginable size and form. These extraordinary projections are called tors" Every hill on the moor bears at least one tor, situated at or near it's top, where the circumscribing pressure was the greatest. Many hills have many tors. The convulsions which produced the tors must have taken place when the interior rocky material of the hills was in a semi-flui state. Otherwise it could not have been spurt- ed through the hardened surface The hills are known by their tors. There are hundreds of them. Some look like demolished castles. Some look like gi- gantic images of a lost mythology. One called the Vixen Tor looks on one side like monstrous Cleveland equipped for fishing. As you pass around 1t 1t loses the likeness of the ex-president and assumes the unmistakable likeness of the sphinx of Gizeh.
 Most interesting questions are sug- gested by these monuments, not only to the geologist, but also to the arch aeologist Are they entirely natural? Have they not been supplemented by mans activities, and are they not there fore entitled to be regarded and studied as the most important megalithic works of the primitive race? Some of the smaller tors are most evidently artifl- cial, in part, if not in whole. That at one time the moors were thickly inhab- ited is proved by remains of prehistoric villages, by discovered tombs, and by thousands of exhumed flint shavings. The tors may have been the backbones of vast military or sacerdotal edifces, and the models of all so-called Druidi- cal remains. The point does not seem to have been sufficiently considered by scientists, or there would be more books to be consulted and studied Perhaps when Prof. Marsh has finished off the geology of Russia and has returned to England, he may find time to take a crack at Dartmoor The layman may | stir up the game; the scientist will do the bagging. Prof. Marsh was one of the ships company landed at South ampton a week ago last Wednesday | from the American liner St. Paul. Of l that company nine out of ten were | landed with the fixed conviction that | the vessel is suffering from some radi- | cal injury. No ship sound in limb and l wind could possibly emit such tremend- | ous, such fearful and such ominous l squeaks. Anyone who has crossed the | ocean few times is accustomed to or dinary creaking and is not alarmed | thereby. But the St. Paul's suueaks | were of an entirely different nature. They seemed to proceed from the inner most being of the creature and indicat- ed, if reliance may be placed on acous- tics, fundamental loosening of rad ical joints. The creaks were not dis tributed, but were in spots. There were huge creak centers here and there. near ly all of them on the port side. Every body was asking everybody else was not that the side particularly injured when the St. Paul started for it's Phila- delphia home over Jersey by land Woe betide you if your room were near a creak center. Unless your hearing were as dull as Swiss cheese and you had no to speak of, sleep was ir- possible. In the midst of every re- freshing nap you would be startled by a shrieking groan that pierced from ear to ear and seemed as if the ship were breaking into minute pieces. Stateroom |, No. 1O7 has creak center in its rear upper and outer corner. Don't accept No. 1O7 or any number near it as a gift. It was deserted two days after sailing and no one would go near it during the voyage. Another creak center is near