Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1913-09-18
SEA BATHING IN THE TROPICS
Water Becomes Heated to Remark
able Degree and a Plunge 10 the
Height Of Luxury.


Height Of Luxury.
Those who live in temperate and
cold climates do not realize the effect
of the suns direct heat on the sea-
The luxury Of bathing In an ocean that
has q temperature Of 108 degrees.
writes MIR. E. J. Banfeld In MY Tropic
ISLE" is not for the multitude who
crowd the cities that the sun touches
tremulously and aslant.
On November 81, 1909, we bathed at
Moo,Jee, north Queensland, in shallow
water, on the edge Of an area OF de-
nuded coral reef fully two miles long
by a mile broad. For three hours
considerable portion Of the reef had
been exposed to the glare of the sun.
and the incoming tide filched the
stored-up heat from coral and stones
and sand.
The first plunge provoked an excla-
nation Of amazement, for the water
was several degrees hotter than the
air, and 1t was the hottest hour-three
o'clock in the afternoon-of very hot
day. No thermometer was at hand to
register the actual temperature OF the
water, but subsequent tests at the
same spot under similar conditions
proved that the surface stratum OF
about one foot was at 108 degrees
Fahrenheit, from four degrees to six
degrees hotter than the air. Below
that, the temperature Of the water
seemed ordinary, and corresponded
with that of the water a hundred
yards out from the shore.
On another day, January 10. 1910,
between noon and three o'clock In the
afternoon. the sea, scientifically test
ed, was heated to 80 degrees. with
the bulb buried in the sand six feet
from the waters edge, the mercury
rose to 112 degrees very quickly, and
remained stationary.-Youth's Com
panion-
Lost Car Load Of Silver Orc.
In June, 1908, there was shipped
from the Cobalt district a car con-
tained IA tons Of ore, worth about
$1,000 a ton. The ore was consigned
to a smelter at Perth Amboy, and
John Black, one Of the Cobalt pio-
neers and the shipper Of the ore, just
had to have money in a hurry to
carry on his operations. 1t was the
first lot Of ore shipped from his mine,
and was dispatched in such haste that
Mr.. Black forgot to take down the
number Of the car or to get q receipt
for his ore. Just what happened to
that car Mr.. Black has been trying to
find out ever since. The ore never
reached its destination, and search
for nearly five years has failed to
bring to light a single pound OF the
ore. Mr.. Black doesn't need the mon
ey now, but he never will overcome
his curiosity as to the Identity or
persons nimble enough to make away
with IA tons Of valuable silver ore, to
say nothing Of the whereabouts OF
the car itself-Wall Street Journal
Good Idea.
Serial stories can be taken out and
bound. Any one who understands
bookbinding can get really beautiful
books in this way; but the woman
who does not understand this art can
cover pieces Of pasteboard a little
larger than the magazine page with
cloth, carefully folded over and pasted
down on the wrong side about the
edges, the inside Of the cover made
neat by a square Of cloth or paper
pasted over the edges of the covering
of the other side. Two of these cov-
ers, with half a dozen holes punched
half an inch from the back edges can
be fastened together over the story
by means of silk cords run through
neat corresponding holes in the pages