The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-02-19

$50 little to do. and there might he so
much if If sllr-oh. l.or,l.." And he
firmly resolved to think of nothing ut
all for the next hour.
Presently Marsh looked up from the
neatly printed pamphlet he had been
reading and remarked. with his most
Oracular air:
This ocean Journalism strikes me as
a fake. See these alleged news items.
read all Of eth in the papers before
we sailed"
Brill cared nothing about the matter,
but replied for courtesy's sake:
II shouldn't think they'd send old
news by the wireless"
"perllaps they don't. I'm Il little
suspicious about it's value as /; news
service. Hullo. here's something that
is news"
Rrill's eyes questioned the other.
Yes, stree" said Marsh: then he
read: ''From company's II. NJ. S. Ne
Rad. Message from Marconi station
ut poldhu says immense ice fields and
bergs. with heavy fog, have been re-
ported at about IS north latitude and
~ west longitude, moving southeast
Marsh put down the pamphlet and
ran his fingers across his eyebrows, as
if IN mental calculation.
"That's strange he said. The ice
is not usually AS far south as early as
this"
ice in the water: Why don't it
melt:' i%nterposed Stebbins.
Does in time, my SON. What do you
think OF an ice islalld-a tloatiny is
land, but not the kind the steward has
just set before yuu-W miles long, ~
wide and 600 feet high: Saw one in
the southern ocean"
Stebbins' eyes became prelernatural-
~ round as he listened to the recital.
There WAS !; sheltered bay in one
side OF it forty miles WIDE" vent on
the raconteur. "A big rmiyraut shit
sailed into it, the ice closed in and
crushed he" like all egy>llell."
Aristldes' mouth grew us round as
his eyes with aWed attention.
"uoW do they know" he asked ear
ncstly.
We'll, my doubling Thomas, neur!,
|, year after the ice had broken up =,
that another vessel Went near enough
to see the wreck and make out he,
name."
Even this circumstantial account die
Tot appear to satisfy Mr.. Stebbins, AM,
he turned to Brill as the fountain heat
Of all things movable.
The iceberg is certainly the terro,
Of the SCI, JAY said his friend. I'll
carries no compass and has no course
Ii. it carried Il flag it would be tn,
black one
Poetic. but more correct than 20
ctry usually is cried Marsh. "Ant
the good Lord help those around whc.
one of 'cm tips over
You may we'll SAY that. sir. VIII,
dc they tip" roared II great voice il
blSso prof,ndo.
1t was the noble organ Of the small
Professor lcnuythorpe. who lna(
caught a word Vr two in passing nrt
lad stopped to lean oven the tahl,
where Marsh and the others were dis
cusSing ]iceherys. No one had asked +;
question. but it was Professor Penny
thorpc'S ruling passion to assume tina
somebody had in order that he nigh
have the pleasure of answering. IL,
now threw back his head and wazc, Il;
the three men deiiantly, awaiting IL re-
ply. None anne.
"KecH,lSe. ycntlclncn." he ruml,lrl
III cubic foot of ice weighs $50 ounces
whereas the same volume of sea waite,
weighs 13.oSO ounces; hence ice floats
and only about unc-ninth of II berg 4
exposed"
Here was Il new oracle for Stcnbins
ana he stared ut the queer little np
partition sIellhnum!. This WAS wla
he liked -inturmntion reduced to fact
and figures. He would miss no wore
Of such Il marvel. Meantime the pro
fcsso, wnS growing confidential Will
Marsh.
My noon observation today" he said
with less If his usual noisy dogmati>n,
"SlloWel that we are much off on
course ANA are lcarin. strongly to TIL
south. We ought to- be ut the forty
seventh parallel. and were only ut TIN
forty-fourth."
"Nvhy don't YOU speak to Captain
uumpl.ries about it," inquired Mars.
indulscntly.
II did"
"Oh, we'll. then. professor, it's prob