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finger following the line Of the Ant
arctic ice-drift.
The second mates watch, huddled
beneath the fo'c'stle-head, awaited
what should be.
X X X
THE morning watch passed, Wispy
and his fellows slumbering, mo-
tionless as stones, rolling as the ship
rolled, unaware that they rolled.
Until they were again awakened at
a quarter to twelve. they rested tired
limbs, the clipper speeding beneath
black skies under two topsails, the
sea whipped to fury, the weather bit
ter.
"a few hours and she'll be out of
the ice" said the skipper.
"Noreas," sand the man at the
wheel, turning 1t over to the appren-
tice at the change Of the watch.
"Nor'eas'," said the apprentice; '1et
her rip"
"Nor'eas'," sir" said he, reporting
to the mate upon the bridge.
"Nor'eas'," said the mate. "All
right"
"Skipper's holding her to the nor
| ard, amt he?" said the second to the
mate.
AYE. He's getting her out Of the
ice" said the mate. Seen many
DeTSS IN the morning
"A few" said the second, going be-
low.
The mates watch huddled under the
fo'c'stle head. waiting what should be.
The watch passed, the trembling clip
per driving.
The dog-watch coming, the hands
gathered in tho port fo'c'stle, the
mates watch in oilskins, the others
in oilskin trousers only, their upper
bodies freed. for time, from that
heavy clothing.
Harris, where's that concertina?"
asked one.
AYE! Get that concertina out and
give us some music" said another.
Were bound for Liverpool direc',"
said another.
AYE. An we'll dance wen we get
there" said another.
I'VE amt there yet" said an old
gray bearded man.
Harris played the concertina. its
happy wheezeS crying high above
the weather's cry without.
They sat smoking, twenty Of them.
seated at the little table, leaning
against the bulkheads. beating their
feet. nodding their heads to a con-
certina's merry tune.
Wispy, seated upon his old sea-
chest. rewrapped the Prince Alberts
on his feet and legs.
"Wispy, ye're all dressed up, amt
ye, old SOM" said one, between tunes.
Make that concertina play.
likes to ear it," said Wispy, looking
up.
"Hows this, them" said Harris,
smiling happily.
They stamped their feet, heads
nodding. eyes shining. pipes putting
white smoke, one of them lifting a
song to the tune, all of them COM
| ing in on the chorus, drowning the
roar of the Horn sea, the drive of
the spray, the wind thunder.
"Oh who's that a-knockn' at the door,"
Said the fair young ladee.
"Oh who's that -knockn' at the door,
Said the fair young ladee.
"Oh, this is me an no one else"
Said Abel Brown, the sailor.
"0h. this is me an one else"
Said Abel Brown, the sailor.
* X x
light bells was struck upon the
II iron bell for'ard of the fo'c'stIe.
all hands crowding out to the night
and the cold darkness.
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Alleged Gold-Making by Science
Is Vital Subject to Entire World

DOR 90 years Nine. Curie has
gone on, amid these terrific
things, producing radium, which is
worth vastly more than gold.
Long ago she became the worlds
greatest producer of radium. and the
French government wishes her to
continue to be so. She accepts the
situation as useful. But her thought
is elsewhere. Always she has sought
the worlds secret-along with inter-
atomic power, to make mankind like
gods. Any day she may hit on it.
Become rich, honored, powerful, liv-
ing with these great things, how
should she not become severe and
aristocratic elegant and reserved?
What is gold making to Nine. Curie ?
DR.. Miethe has net been so long on
one thing. With high-tension cur
rents and 4,000-degree centigrade
ovens. he knocks particles off the
| mercury atom and says he finds gold
as a residue. His dream is similar to
that of Nine. Curie-interatomic en-
ergy and the worlds secret.
Men who are out for gold are
ready to put up 20,Ooo.oo0 gold marks
for preliminary outlay on mercury,
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forty feet along her dancing teak
wood decks.
"Belay-belay ALL yelled the mate
"'Belay all. the man says-com.
up behind" yelled the sailor at the
pin.
Check in those wcath.a Sra,es
little" shouted ;.e skipper from the
bridge.
weather y.races." shouted mate.
watch TO the main"
Haul awa.. sons" shouted the
second.
At the man ntaces Wispy Cavendish
was singing, 81 the fore the singing
apprentice, heeia-s time together, all
hands hauling to toe long song OF il,
water to their kneeA
''Hi-leeee- yo-ho-n>, hi-lee-yo-
hobo, hi-leeee, hail away-oh"
The clouds broke above a ragged
horizon, d cold moon shining through,
stormy waters.
MY Cod" cried the skipper.
My Cod crisI the mate at the
lee fore braces
At the wneei the man from Suva
stood, his grex. eyes bulged, his
white teeth shining through far
parted lips
Come on" CRIED Wispy Cavendish.
and, turning, saw beyond the racing
clippers bow.
Sing. Admiral sing" he yelled
Sing with me, SON
''Hi-leees yo-ho-ho, hi-leeee-yo
-ho-ho."
Head on. igh-ltfted, leaping all
aquiver, she struck upon the dismal
parapet of an awaiting berg, the loose
cakes grinding roaring tinklino
falling about her dyirg beauty, the
storm clouds driving down across the
moons dimmed face. shading the sea.
Way-for-a-Sail
(Sing, sailor-singD
Copyright 1921
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A Famous Steamboat.

UCTEAMBoAT days" on the Ohio
~ and Mississippi Rivers have CIV
en- rise to a mythology entirely
American, in which certain famous
names are repeatedly used. Old river
men have been heard recounting
tales that seem to have to do always
with the Eclipse and the Shotwell,
the Lee and the NatcheZ, or some
other pair Of famous racers which
were the fastest in their day. But
there is one name which always
stands alone. that of the steam pack
ct, j. M. White, for many years the
unrivaled holder of records of river
speed.
There was but one J. NJ. White and
no other could be built. The story,
according to A. B. Hubert, an au-
thority in such matters, is substan-
TALLY as follows:
The ]. M. White was built at Eliz-
abeth, Pa, in 1914. BILLY" King,
drew the plans. He figured to
nicely the contour of the hull, so that
there should be but two waves
dragged by it when under way. Then
he so located the side-wheels that
they should strike the second wave at
it's crest, and so convert this obstacle
to speed into a benefit.
Converse, who was to Dutld the
boat, objected strenuously to this
plan for putting the wheels 20 feet
aft of the accepted place.
81 will make her this way or not at
ALL" said King. Converse appealed
to Chouteau of ST. Louis, who was
financing the construction.
Let King do what he thinks best"
was the answer. So the White was
built as planned, although river men
scoffed.
On it's first run it placed the de-
signer at the head of his profession.
It ran from New Orleans to st. Louis,
against the full current of the Mis-
sissippi, in days Is hours and min
utes, fully a day under the best pre-
vious record.
River men in st. Louis fairly be-
sieged Billy King to design boats to
beat the White. They offered him
unheard-of sums. To all his refusal
was the same.
when any man designs a boat to
beat the time Of the White, then ]
viii DAT enc e beat his.
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The builders draft of the White
was lost, and until the boat was worn
out and cast away no one thought to
take another from the hull. So, after
a few short yearS-for the life of a
river boat is brief-the only draft of
it was that which the designer had
kept, and this he refused to let any
man see. He had gone to st. Louis,
and from there he wrote home to a
friend:
Bring my wife to ST. Louis as soon
as she can get ready. Go into the
attic of my house and, under the comb
of the roof you will find a model, in
a boxjbring that box with you. Do
not open it or allow any one to see it.
Lock it in Stateroom on the boat
and leave it there till you reach St.
Louis. will pay all expenses"
When they reached St. Louis his
first inquiry was for the model, and
upon securing it he took it at once to
ence of his wife and his friend, and
showed them a beautiful model of the
White in walnut and pine, several
| feet long.
With a saw he cut it to pieces and
| with a Ratchet reduced it to kindling
| wood.
IT could have done that at home
just as well, Billy" said his friend,
| land saved the expense"
His fame rests secure on the
| achievement of the j. NJ. White,
whose record was never eequaled I'M
| til the r. f. Lee cut it to days Is
| hours and IA minutes, &c years later.
| He was wise enough not to try an
other, and by destroying the last
| draft, kept the actual plan of the
| boat forever secret.
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electric installation and other factory
stun before gold can be produced.
So, is gold-making a small thing?
AS a fact the attempt to manufacture
gold might cause cataclysmic results
for all human society. before the in
teratomic dream of the pure scien-
fists is realized.
Nearly two years ago. when the
gold making rumors first came out of
Germany, Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale
University, one of Americas leading
economic and financial specialists,
hurriedly sailed for Germany to in
vestigate the reports at first hand.
He has since spoken.
Is it small thing that today the
most sober newspapers in Germany
at last cannot refrain from solemn
hints that lit is time to ask pardon of
the alchemists of the middle ages"
for the contempt which We have
held for their idea of transmitting
metalS?
This jubilation. apropos of DR..
Miethe's gold-making claims strange
ly confirms Prof. Fishers cautious
suggestion, made previous to it, but
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after his own long Investigations,
that Germany may be on the high
| road to flooding the world with syn
thetic" gold.
Germany'S pressing interest in gold
making is, of course, not far to seek.
Her reparation debts have been fixed
in terms of gold, and Germany, hav-
ing deliberately devastated vast
values in her invasions. owes vast
gold. If she can manufacture gold.
she can dump the manufactured ar
| ticle on to the allies, her former vic
tins.
lnF course, there is another side 10
~ it. An argument used widely to
| tranquilize London and Paris is
drawn from the case of synthetic
| rubies and sapphires and Japanese
pearls. All three are real"
The synthetic ruby stands every
! test of science. including the famous
polarization of light. 1t cuts glass
like a mine ruby, or a diamond. In
deed, in the first years of synthetic
| rubies, when the scare was great, the
French government pawnshop, the
Mont de Piete, refused to loan q dol
lor on any ruby, however beautiful
and authentic.
Every one will remember the more
recent scare IN the pearl business,
caused by the Japanese article.
They are real pearls, made by pearl
oysters, but started" by man, not ar
tificially but purposely and deliber-
ately, whereas the pearls of nature
get their start naturally, by n bit of
sand or other object getting acct
dentally inside the oyster.
1t is pretty close to a distinction
without a difference; yet the expert
eye makes no mistake.
Japanese pearls, today, have their
settled quotations in the pearl mar
| ket, honorable in themselves, but
Orient" pearls; and mine rubies
| and sapphires have more than re-
! gained their old Values-while the
synthetic specimens, in great use and
perfectly beautiful, can be bought for
a few dollars each, plus their cost of
cutting.
They arc scientifically real" yet
the eye of the trade distinguishes
them perfectly.
So it will be, they say, if gold is
| manufactured. 1t may come to have
considerable value; and, in this sense,
| German chemists would have worked
out a chemical way of paying Ger
man reparations debt-better, indeed,
than making poisongas to destroy
civilians of the great cities, in their
| next invasion. But no synthetic gold
| will compete with gold wrung from
| the mines and used in commerce and
! finance"
| This view has the backing of Ar
thur J. Chapman of the Claudet firm.
assayers to the Bank of England. 1t
| had better be true. Because
What else?
They are discussing the subject
furiously in Europe. If gold be de-
stroyed as standard of values, "other
metals are, indeed, available, but it is
| doubtful If the world would again
risk its entire exchange on the vaI1a
of a single commodity
1t is not stated what the other
available metals are. 1t might be
| hard to put a finger on one such. And
the only other standard would have
to be the averag e value of a mum
| Der OF cunmouItIes.'
| Alas, the Soviets, in Russia, have
| tried it, issuing paper money based
on wheat, the labor hour, and what
not. Such money is away down, at
present.
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Got By With Him.

First Student-Who is your ia
Vorite author?
Second Student-My father.
First Student-What did he write?
Second Student-Checks.
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Not a Chance.

First STUDENT can't get this cleo
tricity through my head.
Second Student-No wonder; wood
Is 2 non-conductoE
Evening star., 1924-07-15
Sabrina Facts Given.
Bronze Statue Formerly on
Campus of Amherst College.

To the Editor Of The Star:
If 1t is really true, as stated in
the article entitled Folks" in a re-
cent issue of The Star, that Attor-
ney General Stone is sent into
"chuckles of mirth" by. the. mere
mention of the name "Sabrina" then
the perusal of the aforementioned ar
ticle would most certainly cause Mr..
Stone to almost laugh himself to
death.
Sabrina, called by the author of
that article '"The Rag Lady," happens
to be a bronze statue weighing about
a ton. She formerly presided on the
campus of Amherst College, but
when the students showered indigni-
ties upon her, among other things
painting striped stockings on her
shapely limbs, the college authori-
ties removed Sabrina from her place
of honor and slowed her away,
If the writer of that article wouId
look up the true history of Sabrina
since the time when the class of '94
stole her from the class of '93 he
would find many facts which would
tax his credulity. sabrina lies in
and once a year is spirited about the
country to suddenly appear for a few
minutes at the annual banquet OF
one Of the even-numbered classes. A
couple of years ago one of the odd
numbered classes succeeded in steal
away from a banquet in Boston, but
she has since been recovered by the
even-numbered classes.
ARTHUR H. KfMBALL.
Evening star., 1924-07-15

meeting modern ideas Of stunt" II
the old gentleman insists In going over
the Falls In q rubber bail, and II police
do not interfere. he Will satisfy his
itch for fame or funeral. But he 10 old
enough to know better.
Brooklyn Bridge and the East River
used to lure many whose sanity was
doubted by normal.minded mon, and
many men intent on notoriety or sui
eide have gone over Niagara Falls in
barrels. have plunged into the whirl-
pool. and all that. Persons who take
interest in such things will Wish good
luck to Mr.. Bobby Leach.
None Of the latter-dAy Niagara
"daredeyils" has paled the fame Of
Charlie Biondin. Some new. readers
may not have heard the name. No
modern "daredevil' has carved such a
niche In tho haIl Of fame as he nor got
SO Arm d hold on the affection Of
Americans and Canadians. Charles
regular name was Jean Francois
Gravefet, and he was born at st. Omer
All AoI4 6QO ulcQ Ill 1oSt. nc WdS
reared as an athlete and specialized as
q tightrope performer. On June 80,
1859, he walked a tight-rope stretched
over the Falls. Twenty-Five thousand
spectators watched him. On July 4. in
the same year, Blondin, blindfolded,
according to the testimony of Judges" 4"
pushed a wheelbarrow on a tight-rope
across the. Falls. On August 19. in the
same year, he walked the tight-rope
with a man on his back, and no doubt
the name OF that assistant daredevil"
is preserved somewhere in history, but
it is not available at this instant. In
September. 1860. Blondin walked his
rope across the Falls in the presence
of a mighty crowd, the most famous
of the spectators being the Prince of
Wales. Blondin revisited the United
States in 1880. and was with US the
last time in 1888.
Evening star., 1924-07-15
Forest Fires.

Periodically forest fires occur in this
country, but such news generally
u comes in Fall and Winter during dry
weather, when the forest floor Is COW
cred with dead leaves and branches
and there is little sap in standing tim
= aber.. Throughout the year We read or
hear arguments for conservation of
the4forests and the need Of protecting
them against fire. We read figures
Of the annual fire loss to timber. and
. the figures in dollars run astonish.
-tngty far into the millions. Perhaps
people in the cities are not especially
sensitive to forest losses because they
know little about forests, and feel that
they are not directly concerned with
bA&hsm, though If they think moment
they realize that the forest is of great
concern to them. But disastrous fires
IA the timber regions Of the West and
South do not stir people In the cities
deeply. One reason is that news Of
sethis kind comes 80 often. It is some.
thing like news Of q crop failure in
spne section or another. The. disaster
is far away.
= JuSt now We are getting forest fire
reports from several parts Of the west.
Evening star., 1924-07-15
Tammany's New Leader.

George W. Olvany, who by appoint
nent of Gov. Smith is serving as
a. Judge of the New York court of gen.
q eraf sessions, was yesterday selected
by virtually unanimous vote as leader
, OF Tammany Hall to succeed Charles
IF. Murphy. Thus Tammany, which
sought to induce Surrogate Foley to
. take the leadership, goes again to the
bench for its chief. The new boss of
-'Tammany has been a member Of the
organization for more than 25 years
and a district leader for 10. He has
come up from the ranks. as have prac-
..fleally all Of the Tammany chieftains
) Back of him stands Gov. Smith, who
.seould have had the Tammany leader
ship himself had he desired, and if it
had been consistent with his holding
OF the office of governor, which, Of
course, it would not have been.
Inasmuch as no salary is attached
to the office Of leader of Tammany the
new chief will, on resigning from the
bench, resume his law practice He
ss-swill be the first big chief of Tam
many in long time to be Of that pro-
feseion. Croker was no lawyer, nor
was Murphy. It will be interesting to
observe how successful Judge Olvany
IS in "scrupulously complying with
the ethics of the profession" as he
promises, when he Is engaged stimuli
taneous1y in the practice of law and
the management Of the most powerful
.oolitical organization in America.
Evening star., 1924-07-15
Padlocks for Hotels.

Recently prohibition enforcement
officers visited the roof cafe Of one of
New York's largest hotels, and there
according to their statements, pur-
chased wine and liquor, having no diff
ficulty whatever in securing service
The drinks were sold openly, without
any attempt at concealment. The Off
GERS repeated their visits and had the
same experience. Now it is announced
that proceedings will be instituted to
secure paddock" injunction against
the hotel, not merely the roof cafe. but
the entire establishment, closing it for
year. Ordinarily closing proceedings
are not started until after third
Criminal action is had against the Of
fender. Under the law, however, a
single offense sunices to render place
subject to paddock.
To close a great hotel for a year is,
of course. a very heavy penalty. But
that penalty is prescribed by the law.
1t is well understood. Simply because
the establishment is a hotel Of wide
dHO HcdNy anu Will d
fashionable clientele does not justify
any lessening of the punishment. One
of the reasons why prohibition en-
forcement has been difficult and only
partially effective has been the dis
position to ''go easy" on large offend
ers. to give a margin of laW.breaking
before applying the severest penalties.
There is no warrant whatever in the
law to wait for three violations before
applying the paddock. One Of the en-
forcement chiefs Of the New York
area. recognizing this fact, admits that
it would appear to be a discrimination
between rich and poor offenders if i'm
mediate action were not taken against
the big hotel.
The f1agrancy with which the law is
violated in certain places is an encour.
agement- to lesser offenders, who are
caused to think that they can get
by" with bootleggfng and private ped
ding. To paddock a great hotel for a
year would be wholesome object les.
son in the rigor Of the law, regardless
of the station and influence and re.
sources of the offender.
Evening star., 1924-07-15
Another Niagara Wonder.

A dispatch to The Star from Buffalo
says that Bobby Leach, 70 years old.
who once went over Niagara Falls in a
barrel, will soon 90 over the Falls IN
a rubber ball. The ancient ''daredeviE'
said: II will be in the ball when it is
dropped from an airplane flying over
Niagara River just above the cata.
ract."
A good many years ago there was q
popular Summer phrase, "the silly sea.
son. Perhaps because news was
Stacker in hot than cold weather more
foolish things were printed. but it
might be said that there are not nov
.themometric limits to the Silly season
However, going over Niagara Falls in
4 rubber ball, no doubt with a tank
Of oxygen inside, does not seem up to
the 1924 standard Of thrills" II
Bobby would go over without the aid
Of the rubber bah IT would come nearer
Evening star., 1924-07-15

From California came news that
thirty.three fires were started by
lightning in the klamath national
forest in Northern California and
following that dispatch was one that
fire had broken out in three other
forest reserves in that state. Every
man available is fighting IRE and the
loss is heavy. Fire news also comes
from northern Idaho. Miles Of tree
lands are being destroyed. =:
It 10 a curious thing that all the
outbreaks of fire in the northern Cali.
fornia forest region are ascribed to
lightning. Man knows no means to
keep lightning from setting flre to
forests, and the best he can do is to
provide means for quickly discover
ing a. fre, keeping It within narrow
bounds and putting it out. Evident
ly our means for doing these things
are not adequate. If our forests are
to be saved the fire peril must be
controlled. o..
Heretofore a large part Of forest
fires have been charged to careless
campers, to smokers who throw hot
pipe ashes or burning matches and
cigarettes among the brush and to
sparks from railway locomotives. A
curb has been put on campers and
smokers and we hear less Of fires
started by locomotive sparks. The
state and national governments have
a big job in saving forests from fire
and in redeveloping cut-over and
burnt-over land. but this york must
be done. It is one Of our important
national problems.