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swim or is only a fair swimmer doesn't
take any chances. But the strong chap,
confident of his endurance, taking no
consideration Of shis lack of what Is
called physical fitness, mentally derides
the gross and appalling power of the sea,
and in overriding the thing goes down
to his DEATH
The strappingest and finest-looking
bluejacket l ever saw met his death in
the water from heart failure when it
was a matter Of medical record in the
Navy Department that he had one Of the
finest hearts ever examined by medl-
cal surgeon.
He was bo'suns mate and a perfect
specimen Of manhood, a swimmer whose
art in the water approached greatness, a
perfect monolith of strength and agility.
In shipping and reshipping in the navy
he had, of course, been subjected each
time to the difficult and exacting physical
examination by naval surgeons, and the
splendor Of his physique always had
been commented upon by these surgeons.
He had been thus examined by a surgeon
when reshipping only month or so be-
fore he met his death while swimming
In the sea.
With the rest Of the men for'ard he had
jumped off the boom swung out for SWIM
mers, and then. full of the Joy Of swim
ming action, he had struck out far from
the more cautious group of men SWIM
ming around the ship. This happened in
a port in the tropics, and the bosun' S
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He showed her how the work was to be
done, and in five minutes she was busily
engaged at 1t. She had moved to another
bunk, a little further from the fire. and
he, with innocent artifice, had contrived
that the big soft sleeping bag should be
spread out under her.
Meanwhile he plunged into a systematic
search, through journal and maps. for
the thing that was to spell either life or
death for them.
At the end of an hour he looked up
suddenly an exclamation of triumph on
his lips. But at sight Of cher, 1t died
out in q smile She had slipped down on
the sleeping bag, her head Graded in the
crook OF one arm. And she was fast
asleep.
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mate often had been warned of the dan
ger of being detached from the bunch
of swimmers and surrounded by sharks.
He was as contemptuous Of the power
Of the sea as he was Of the ferocity OF
the sharks, and this time he swan full
500 feet from the ship. The officer OF the
deck, seeing him so far away. had .
man on watch megaphone to the Dos un' s
mate to come back. But before the mega
phoned order could be given the o'sun' S
mate threw up his arms and sank. There
was no chance to save him. They got to
his body in the steam cutter about ten
yards ahead of three huge sharks that
were making for him.
This man hadn't drowned. He had
died of heart failure. The autopsy dis
closed that. There wasn't any sea water
in his lungs. He had overdone the thing
and paid the penalty. Perhaps he had
seen the fins of the sharks cutting the
water in the distance and making toward
him, and perhaps this fact had added to
the strain upon his heart. But the fact
remained that he had not drowned.
The maxim that only the good swim
mers drown is becoming venerable. Still.
year after year. the bathing waters OF
the world. salt and fresh. keep right on
taking their toll Of the good swimmers.
The good swimmers do not seem to learn.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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She closed the book, holding it tight in
both hands, and leaning forward a little
as she went on, land Philip, his descrip-
ton sounds-oh. I suppose it's silly. but
it sounds like the thing I thought I saw
today when I was alone there on the
beach, before you came flying down out
of the sky. 1t didn't look like a bear. 1t
wouldn't have been SO dreadful If it
had"
Its possible" he said gravely. 1T may
have been he whom frightened off when
I came down last night. Certainly there
was somebody, and that somebody may
still be here on shore, though 1 supposed
he had gone out to join in the attack on
the yacht. But It's very strange. If there is
any one. that we could have passed a
whole day without encountering him."
The girl shivered; then, with shake of
her head as If dismissing the uncanny
thought from her mind, said, You
started to ask me about something else,
and l interrupted"
1t took him a moment to collect his
thoughts. 'Oh. yes. There's something
marked here on this map which took at
first for the location Of the hut. but 1t ap-
pears now that it was marked before they
built it. I wondered If. in the early pages
of the journal, there was description Of
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dHy lOTIuaJlOH dOOut uSIO IIAC q
cave, Or
She made as if to open the book, then,
suddenly. changed her intention and held
1t out to him, instead.
Il haven't been playing fair" she said
II wasn't really looking for anything.
was just reading stories and dreaming
over them. It's his handwriting, I think,
that makes 1t so hard to be good. It's
we'll, almost like hearing his voice. Won't
you work the book and the maps and
give me something to do-with my hands.
1 mean?-oh, I know I'm tired, but that
doesn't matter
Cayley's first impulse was to refuse,
but 1t needed only one thoughtful look
into her face to convince him that the
kindest as we'll as the wisest thing was
to do as she asked. An uncanny horror
of the monstrous Roscoe and the appall-
ing idea that he, and perhaps others of
his gang, might be sharing the solitude
Of this frozen coast with them. was plain
ly to be read in her eyes, and her own
prescription for dispelling it was prob
ably the best that could be thought of.
With a nod Of assent. he rose and went
into the storeroom. returning the next
moment with an armful of heavy rope.
I'm the old days Of wooden ships" he
said, when they wanted to discipline a
sailor. they set him to picking oakum.
Next to pounding rust of the anchor, 1t 8
the dullest job In the world. But we
need some for calking up the cracks In
our walls. Do you mind?''
Mind" she echoed. Did you think l
wanted to do embroidery?'
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she hopes to accomplish by this untoward
act. Meanwhile the twins, running away
to escape the annoyance of new domestic
matters, succeed in getting themselves
drowned. This story would make good
prologue of the housekeeping sort to a
really wholesome English story. For in
stance, this new mother and her little
daughter, with the father good and dead
might-and so the story could set out.
THE EDUCATION OF JACQUELIN.
BY Claire de Pratt. New York
Duffield & Co.
Jacquelines mother fits neatly into the
French landscape where this story is set,
but Jacqueine herself should have emf
grated to America, where self-suficient
young women have a fair field and where
the higher education crumples up in de-
these two. The mothers delusion rests
in the belief that she has developed and
is carrying out definite educational
theory born of righteous reaction against
the futile French training of girls. In re-
atty this Is only the laissez-faire method
of most mothers. in this case supplement-
ed by personal resentment over marital
receptions, traceable to the faults of her
educa ton. The daughters deluSiOn, also
common, is the belief that her own per-
sonality is unique, superior: that her men,
tality is of the soaring sort, her. general
powers of the Irresistible class. So,
through long story pert girl domineers
over a weak mother, goes regularly to
fixed up to satisfy women, and furnish
them with degrees of all sorts), shows a
woeful want of social discretion at the
first opening and, just like the average
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treats OF Russian and Chinese conditions.
The stupendous difficulties presented In
each country in the path Of the reformer
are clearly indicated. The dense ig-
norance and selfish reactionism Of the
opposing extremes Of the Russian people
stand obstinately In the way OF progress
there The ignorance and unpatriotic
provincialism and the lack of public hon
esty OF the Chinese oppose advancement
in that empire. Will Russia. thus handi-
capped. win the way finally into China.
similarly crippled? Mr.. Bates does not
venture specifically to predict the out
come. He points the way. and he evil
IDENTIFY believes that Russia is at this
time. with Characteristic persistence and
patience, preparing for the undertaking.
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the points marked c a few of the remark
able star clusters are indicated. At n is
the great nebula of Andromeda and at NJ
the faint ring nebula of Lyra The former
is a specially satisfactory object in a
small telescope or field glass. The vast
elongated cloud, with it's strong central
condensation, is believed to be a great
solar system in process of formation. but
this far-distant system doubtless contains
many thousand times as much material
as ages ago made up the similar nebula
from which our own sun, with its attend
ant worlds, was developed.
Just east of Aquarius Is the constella-
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

A TEXT BOOK ON THE THERAPEU-
TIC ACTION OF LIGHTs lncluAlna
the Rho Rays, SelAr and Violet
Rays, Electric Arc Light, the Light
Cabinet. BY Gorydon Eugene Rog-
ers. M. D., formerly .demonstrator OF
anatomy In the University Of New
York City. illustrated. New York
Published by the author.
liam Howe Crane. l. B. New York
Broadway Publishing Company.
POEMS OF TRUTH, LOVE AND
POWER, Original anA Complete.
BY william Lee Popham. New
York: Broadway Publishing Com
pany.
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moons may be seen to disappear behind
the planet. and eight minutes later an
other moon energies from transit. Sim
ilarly, on August at 1850 the inner
moon energies from transit. and one hour
and four minutes afterward the little
round, black shadow Of this moon will
be seen to pass off the planets disk.
The path Of the comet during the
month Is shown in Fig. 4. During this
time the distance of this body from us
increases from 247,OO0OOO to 3O3. 00O. OK
miles 1t is now very faint. and visible
in only the largest telescopes.
ERIC DOOLITTLE.
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But the tragedy Of life and death pro-
crosses unbrokenly in summer as well
as in the other seasons. A few after
Moons ago 1 was brought into very near
and overpowering contact with bit OF
tragedy; and am going to tell about II
here. even at the risk of being accused
of writing of sinister matters at season
when readers are more in need Of un-
exacting fantasies than of dark re-
minders.
1t was an incident of the surf and sand
After a sprawl in the breakers the other
afternoon I squatted on the sand for one
of those non-thinking intervals. when
one blinks at sea and sun without a
symptom of an idea in ones menta
mechanism. and permits his subconscious.
ness to reign for q little while.
1t was on a part OF the beach where
the great bathing crowd does not gather
Perhaps there were thirty men and WON
en- foundering in the heavy surf; GER
tainly no more. The sea was kicking up
it was a brilliant afternoon Of sunshine
with strong southwest breeze tossing
the combers thuddingly against the verge
had found it thick work trying to swim
in such distracted water. 1t was q sea
that was not to be triied with by the
timid or the oversanguine.
-.
A shadow suddenly fell athwart my line
Of vision, and snapped myself out of the
state of mental opacity. A fine-lookins
man. bordering upon middle age, was
standing before me; smiling agreeably ]
had noticed him in the water little
while before. He had been swimming
blithely rather far out-too far out, !
thought. considering the state OF the sea
and the drag of the outgoing tide.
He was handsome, outstanding, very
athletic man with CRAVING hair curling
upon an extremely shapely head; a big.
chested man OF nifty. with the waist of q
young athlete; brawny legs, big, vel
muscled arms. He wore a crinkly mus
tache that was nearly white. which con-
his rugged. characterized countenance
He would have reminded you of a high
grade ofiicer OF the United States Army
such was his erectness and bearing, with
It's convincing air Of command. / had
never seen him before. but folks, as you
know. don't stand upon ceremony when
they're in bathing suits.
He sat beside me and we chatted about
the temperature OF the water. the under
people dawdling upon the sand in bathing
clothes. He spoke crisply. humorousiy, In
the tone OF a seasoned man. The con.
versation veered to the subject OF thu
unnecessary chances taken by some sea
bathers.
Weren't you a bit far out a while
ago?' ] asked him.
Perhaps so,' he replied, with a shor
laugh. But can't get a swim out Of
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PEEK THROUGH A TELESCOPE AT THE HEAVENS IN AUGUST

are believed to be merely the scattered
material of this comet itself. Each par
ticle as it plows through our air 10
burned up by the friction developed
These particles are all streaming along
in their paths in nearly parallel lines:
the appearance they present to US OF
darting outward from a fixed point in
the sky Is merely the effect OF per-
spective.
August 80 Mercury will be at its
farthest distance east of the sun, and
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The beautiful planet Jupiter is also
rapidly drawing out Of the evening sky.
August 1 It may be seen in the west
exactly below the interesting double star
at A, Fig. 1. Its eastward motion Is now
so rapid that by the end of the month
it will almost reach the star at B. Its
moons and bright markings may still
be well seen In a small telescope. but
by September this most interesting OBJ
ject can no longer be observed. August
at STA pm. eastern time) one OF its
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may be detected shining out low in the
sky. almost due west of the observer,
for about an hour after sunset.
Mars is also very low down in the
west throughout the month, setting a
little north Of the west point, less than
one hour after sunset. 1t is now much
too near the sun to be satisfactorily OBJ
served, though 1t does not pass that body
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until September -. Mercury, as it moves
outward from behind the sun, will pass
within five minutes Of Mars August ).
These two bodies. the one red and the
other silvery white, would seem almost
viewed with the naked eye, but. very
unfortunately. their very close proximity
to the sun will render the observation
of this most interesting conjunction al
most impossible.
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the shower Of August shooting stars,
that stream of swiftly moving little bodies
through which the earth passes at this
time each year. Less striking. but Of even
more interest to the careful observer. is
the Frightening of the remarkable varia-
Bile star Mira, which is to attain its
greatest brilliancy this year on the Sd
of August.
Aside from these two rather infrequent
phenomena, the observer will find much
in the midsummer heavens to claim his
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8 L M M e r letter
from the seaside
should, I suppose,
be light. cheerful,
frothy as the lac
cry atop of the
near-verge combers
of the sea. Least
wise i have always
built my own sea-
side letters upon
that sort OF a
ground plan.
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attention AS he explores the summer
branch Of the milky way. which is now
in it's best position for observation, he
will encounter many faint cloud-,ike
nebulae and double stars, and most in
teresting of all are the large number OF
star clusters and clouds of stars which
he will discover. No one who. sitting at
his telescope on a quiet starlit night,
examines one of these last wonderful
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Nick-what good is an asbestos cur
tain. anyway?
Nax-Keeps the show from being roast
ed. Yale Record =
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D those who take pleasure in
watching the face of the heav-
ems there are presented next
month two events OF more
than usual interest. First is
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CHOWER of Blush Shoot
- ing Stars from August
10th to 12th-Halley's Comet
Visible in Only the Largest
Telescopes.
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One of the veteran life guards here
tells me that fully 95 per cent of the
men who are drowned in the sea here
are men who could be rated as top
notch swimmers. The man who can't
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If from the 10th to the 10Th of the
month the observer will watch the con-
stellation Perseus he will every few min
utes see one of these bodies appear near
the point X Fig. L. and dart swiftly
outward from this region in any direction
across the sky. The shooting stars Of
this shower are of a blush color, move
with unusual swiftness. and frequently
leave streaks, Or trails, behind them.
They are a stream of particles moving
in the path of the comet of 1852, and
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ton of the Whale, containing one remark
able object which has excited the wonder
and speculations of men for many CEN
turtles. This is the remarkable variable
star Mira, which may easily be found at
any hour after midnight by the help OF
Fig. 2.
~
Ordinarily this star is Of about the
ninth magnitude, and therefore only Wis
ible in the telescope, but at an irregular
interval of about $50 days it begins to
brighten until it may pour out 1900 times
as much light as when faintest. Some
times, when brightest, it has been of the
first magnitude, but usually 1t remains
always somewhat fainter than the North
Star. For many weeks it has now been
growing brighter If after having found
1t the observer will occasionally glance at
it at intervals of a few days he will see 1t
remain bright for about two weeks and
then rapidly fade away, not to again be-
come visible until next June.
1t is probable that this wonderful sun
is surrounded by dense atmosphere OF
hydrogen. which is upheaved periodically
by great disturbances and eruptlOnS IN
the hot central ball below, but the cause
of these eruptions, and especially of their
great irregularity in amount and time, is
|, wholly unknown.
Many other stars of the sky are varia-
BILE, but TO much less degree, SO INA.
their study requires much more careful
watching. The stars at f and f, figure l,
are interesting examples of these: the
former heightens suddenly more than one
magnitude at an interval of days 4
hours and ii minutes, and the latter SIM
ilarly fades away every days hours
and 81 minutes. The former is brightest
August % at II pm; the latter Is falntest
| August 8 at 8 pm. The fading away OF
the latter is due to its eclipse by darker
body, but the variation of the former
kind of stars IS as yet unexplained.
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FIGURE 1.-THE CONS

objects and reflects that each of the dis
tant, family shining little points Of light
is a great sun like our own sun can
fail to be overwhelmed by partial real
ization of. the stupendous magnitude OF
our universe.
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All the stars marked A in Fig. 1 are
interesting doubles. The one in the east
ern edge of CyEnus is about seventy
thousand billion miles away, one of the
nearest Of all the stars in the heavens At
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special Correspondence OF The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, July go 1910.
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BOOK REVIEWS.

DANIEL BOONE AND THE WILDER
NESS ROAD. BY II. Addington
Bruce. author of The Romance Of
American Expansion" etc. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
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A VILLAGE OF vAGABoNDS. BY F.
Berkeley Smith. author of The Real
Latin Quarter" etc. Color Illus
trations by F. Hopknson Smith.
Pen drawings by the author New
York: Doubleday. Page & Co. Wash
ington: Woodward & Lothrop.
4 sheaf of sketches, this harvested in
forgotten village of Normandy. Pont du
Sable, the lost fishing village In a
House Abandoned our artist sets up
hi, easel-and goes a-shooting. In the
rare between whites Of sport he makes
p,ctures-the ones unfolding from this
inosened sheaf. Here are the fisher folk,
compact in Marianne Here are the mayor,
and the miser and Pierre. Here, Mon
sieur le Cure. who divides his time so
uneoually between sea shooting and
mass This is the artists little maid
dear SuZette, not content with canvas
ali her own. but tripping on and on
every body else's picture, to the JOY Of
each everyb body else. And here from just
outside the hamlet is that charming relic
of tile old noblesse, and here, the beauti-
full stage folks come down from Paris.
'rnis Is a sketch of the lone salt marshes
about the town. and this-the sports
mans own-one of eloud-rack, and racing
tide. and northeast wind, and driven sea
fowl. AS these buoyant. speaking things
fall through the hands, one ticks the
brine from Off his lips, and shifts the
tide, and hears the cry of bird and the
Feiectable things to eat and drink! o
Suzette. The great platters of oysters.
What a sole smothered in mussel sauce,
what a lobster. scarlet as the cap of a
cardinal and garnished with crisp ro-
maine, and the chickens and the mutton,
,f shrimps! and the old Chablis and the
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mate often had been warned of the dan
ger OF being detached from the bunch
of swimmers and surrounded by sharks.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-12
caIIithumpian Hoodlumism.

Those who may have supposed that
the days of callithumps had long since
gene by, would have found themselves
mistaken had they been in the little
village of Woodbury., the other evening
when a party which included so-called
prominent citizens" descended at
midnight upon the home of the Rev
J. L. r. Wyckoff (aged 70) and his
bride, and gave them an old-fashioned
serenade. One news account says that
tin horns, pans. drums, accordions and
horse fiddles were used to make a din,
and that it was continued for an hour
before and an hour after the minister
came out to thank them for their dis
tinguished action" The account
of callithumps viii journey to South
bury soon aud administer similar rites
and ceremonies at a certain newly es-
tablished home in that place.
In old days, serenades of this kind
were common, and they were usually
given a pleasant turn by the visitors
leaving behind them some useful gif:
as a reminder of their good wishes to
the newly weds, something to make
the home happier instead of simply
making the night hideous. In late years
however. the custom has pretty genpr-
ally died out-since a few such parties
were greeted with a volley of shot from
an irate bridegroom, or hot water and
few words. AS conducted in Wood
bury, the serenade borders on hood
lunism. notwithstanding that some of
its participants were said to be prom
inent citizens. '-Ansonia Sentinel.