Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-19
From The battle-ground of Thought.

The Ship When four-funneled,
And tho twenty-seVen-knot steam
Z Balloon. ship sets out from New
York Harbor toward
Europe, the officers OF the company at
the dock and the captain on the bridge
doslittle worrying about the ocean cur
rents which the big boat is going to
meet on her journey across the sea.
They may w orry a little about the
possibility Of her meeting head-winds
but only then because the head-Winds
may make her passage q llttlo slower.
than the record. She is almost sure to
5ploW through on near to schedule time.
When a man goes up In q balloon. with
a circular bag, a dirigble, or an aero-
plane, the winds of the air are his all
concerning problem. Fake the man In
the circular balloon or aerostat, If the
wind is toward the west. why west
he goes unless he can find another
current, whether or not in that direc-
: ton lies a body Of water where a land
ing means sure death or a very mar
row escape. II, on the other hand,
when the four-funneled, tWenty-seven-
knot Steamship got outside Sandy
+ Hook, 1t We're sure toSfind a current,
itself going at twenty-seven, knots
which would land 1t near Southamp-
ton, it would mean that to Europe in
two days would be an established fact
and that the ocean would do most OF
the work for which the stokers now
get credit. If the man in the ship of
the air can find such a current in the
heavens, then the perfected ship OF
the air has that much advantage over
the perfected ship of the water. The
wind has been one of the greatest
causes that have retarded the naviga-
ton Of the air. When the airship is
perfected, and Jules Verne is justified.
the winds which have kept back the
fnlfilment of the narrators prophecy
will be the very elements which will
the land In trains or the sea In ships.
: The current which in the sea would
take the steamship from New Y ork to
liverpool in two days waits In the air
for man to use. Already the man in
the spherical balloon with his tiny
init himself entirely to it--but when
man brings forth the airship that can
successfully combat the wind and that
can stay up until Its pilot wants 1t
to come down, the wind will do easily
and noiselessly what is now Aone by.
the soft coal and the stoker with much
black smoke and sweat.--Dayid Torrey.
Wells in Golfers for June IL.
Grewsome The threshold of the
Tale of liarem has occasionally
Turkey. been crossed clandestine-
LIAONl ly, yet save IhoSe IN rare
cases where Turkish family. hay.
ing adopted the conventions Of the
Europeans, admits its intimate friends,
no stranger has openly and officially
been permitted to visit the gynecaeum
OF the Turk. The one ex,
1ception to this iron-clad rule,
strange to say, occurred In the palace
of sultan. 1t was in the year 1907
when the British Government, at
tempting to coerce the sublime Porte
into a coalition against Napoleon, or
dered the Sultan. Selim III, TO sur
render his fleet. This the Sultan efused
to do, and the English fleet sailed
through the Dardanelles into the
'Propontis. Meanwhile, General Sebas-
tiani, the French am bassador assist
ed the. sultan in organizing the defense
OF Constantinople,t and did 1t SO fadrni-8
rabIy that tile British fleet retired
without firing a shot Accordingly. the
Padishah told him to choose his re-
ward. The general. thorough French
man asked permission to visit his;
.Afajesty's harem. SeliIn, bound by his
word, granted this unprecedented.
favor, and Invited him to witness the
review of the sultanas AS the latter
tho most beautiful women of the East
with bIushing cheeks and modest eyes,
passed one BY one before them the
Sultan said Who ever of them all
you find fairest is yours. Sebastiani