Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 1, 1918, Page 4

Aged Skipper-Brinigs Home: Fore /. tune in Boat of Boyhood* ; Fancy. + GMLED BACK T0 : Aged Bark Revives-Dreams and ‘- Lures Him- Forth to 5 Riches. New Bedford, Mass.—Three store years'ago'a small’ boy: in ' this ‘city watched the whaler Charles W. Mor- _gan leave port and sall beyond the “giéty ‘horizoh, ' Tn boyish: fancy he saw. himself “bringing the ship back to port, filled “with valuable cargo. Now ‘thé’dfedm ‘has come true. ' Capt. Benjamin 8. Cleveland, seventy years old, has just returned to New Bed- fofd: i’ the dream ship of his boyhood “witl /& cdtgo of $30,000. As Oléveland grew to manhood he took to the gea, but not in the Charles W. Morgan. He spent his life on the “fiifi and returned to land a few ‘ago, with Just enough' of a for- :I:%fi keep him-the rest of his days. Theén,'a little more than a year ago, he saw the dream ship of his youth tled up at Fairhaven and doomed to the scrap heap. ' - The ship was seventy-five years old, but Captain Cleveland knew the men « ~who had built it. He knew where the “sthfy wobdsmen had cut the oak and Jlogust trees out of which the ship was m:;ed. Visions of his boyhood [ h““hdunted 'him’' until ‘he finally bought the old bark, hired a crew of: 80 men &nd #alfed, in ‘September, 1916; His goal ‘was’ Desolation island, 2,500° miles south of Cape Town, South Af- rica, the lair of the ‘sea elephant. On the shelving beaches .of that aréary “island In- the 'South Indian :yg the sea elephants disport them- Ives. They leave on a three-months l&dfi\rexp‘e/dmon each year, but re- - turn in the mating season. The bulls -fight for the females and never quit -umtil one s killed. Hundreds come ashore and lie on the beach. It is :Ifi“thlt ‘tHe hunters reap their har- Bullets Bounce From Bodies. . ° 'The bodies of the sea elephants: are L. Af¥uerable, except in-one soft spot ~'i'sbove the eyes. - If a bullet strikes Took a Secret Route, So as to Avold German Raiders. them in ‘finother part of the body it bounceék’ off "as ‘it would from plate: steel. With rifles’and spears the hunt- ers kill their game, sometimes even clubbing the smaller ones. The sea elephants are like seals and the only ones that will fight are the bulls, which ‘bttie ercely. .After the oll had been rendered on ship board and the boat was filled with the precious fluid, Captaln Cleveland turned the prow of his boat toward America.: He took a secret route, so as to avold German raiders, although he barely missed a mine while making tor the West Indies. Not long ago the 15,000-mile trip was finished, with the seventy-year-old skipper on the deck s seventy-six-year-old dream ship, of g e-hold ‘was the fortune -that ‘his’ [ fancy had seen. _BHORT SENTENCE: SAVES HIM Man Released From Prison Because Court Gave Shorter Sentence Than Law Prescribes. Montgomery, Ala. — Because the eourt gave him a shorter sentence than the law prescribed as punishment for e ting a gambling table, J. F. Bai- “Leighton is a free man. Bal- fey was convicted and the court sen- ~~tenced-him to serve six months in the : ‘penitentiary. He sued out a writ of 3 s corpus. After the hearing the ‘-' court judge ordered his release, ng that the trial judge had erred fn glving him only six months ) Iaw proscrib e~ -~ SEA ‘Dedeith Life‘oh Water, But Sight of | o e e ®rakeman Seldom Properly Appreck ,.ated_In Life or Appropriately = Following a railway accident recent- ly, there was great relief in official circles when the reportywas made that only a brakemanrhadibges killed. Only a brakeman! And: there were hun- dreds of other_i ‘walting to fill his | shoes. Only. & brakemaniHis,name Nasnot | given in the telegeaphic report of the |; accident. 'He had not-made. & nam! | which: the : world would. pay:. tribute. | There ;were, only & few friends who knew, him in the ratiway: ¥, M. O. A. and a-brother and sister in. Russia. Home, family, friends he had left;in the .1and. of -oppression: to ccome; to America, the country: of opportunity. Alone, ignorant, unteained in Amerl- can ways, he was oply & brakemsn In . the ‘official report telling of his;death, Only a brakemant:;:Yet it:is such as he who are moving onr.freight, truck: ing the meat that:supplies.onr; tybles, hauling the coal that:beats.our homes, bringing the milkjwith. which we feed our bables. Standing:on top of their. treight i cars, leaning-against the wind,. with the dust of ithe deserts in:thelr faces, the roar of the engines in thelr |- ears, and the grime;of -the nations on their hands, wherever_you find: cars, engines, freight, soot, danger, there you will find the brakeman, tolling; sleeplessly, shopefully, juncomplaining- 1y, with'death stalking ever at h de, to give us: comforts and make.our homes happy. /Yet: when _the. car | couplers pinch him‘within, their glant Jaws or the wrecked train crushes out his life beside the railway track, the reports that the public.reads record the death of only a brakeman—Mil. waukee Journal. ONE OF WORLD’S-CURIOSITIES Fir Tres In Belgium Has Characterle: tics Unlike Any of:its Kind 8e.: - Far.as Knewn. What s claimed to be one of :th most curious trees in the world was found in Belginm:by M., Louls Pire, president of the Royal Botanical:So- clety’ of ‘Belgtum.: ‘It is a firitree, still standing at last account, in the forests of Aliaz, Canton of Vaud. _“Thig particular tree,” reports Pro- fessor :Plre; “stands 4,500 feet .above the sea ‘and 18 surrounded by a forest ot firs,; which it exceeds, fn-height by 30 to 40 feet. “The trunk of this tree s ten me- ters, or a little more than thirty feet, in circumference at the base, At about yard from'the:ground:it'puts: out, on the south side; seven offshoots, which have grown into trunks as strong and - vigorous -as- those. .of the -other trees in:the forest. ‘Bent and gnarled at the bottom, these side-trunks:soon straighten themselves up and rise per-. pendicularly and parallel to the main stem. “Another most. curlous fact is that the two largest side-trunks are con- nected with the principal stem by sub- quadrangular braces resembling. gird- "ers. These beams have probably been tormed by an anastomosing . of branches, - which, - common enough among- the anglo-sperms;-is extremely rare among conifers.” Ben Franklin’s 8imple Diet. It is amusing to read how .Ben Franklin thrived on’ a biscuit, or a slice of bread, a handful of raisins, or a ‘tart from the pastry cook and & glass of water, varied at times by boiled rice or a petatg, or & hasty pud- ding of his own: making.. Upon' this fare grew America’s’ greatest states- man and the world’s -greatest philoso-. pher. The rich and ambitious youth of these_days would scorn such a diet, holding - that' it -was- the:eating: that made the man. But Benjamin not only saved time and money by his new diet, but as he says: “I made greater progress’ from: ithat greater (cleafness’ of head and quicker mpprehension which generally attended’temperance in eating and drinking.” This abstemi- ous life did not seem to detract 'from his health, but gather contributed to his longevity, “for .he lived .to-be.glghty four ‘years old. v - A Formation and Coelor. The iridescence of nacre, or mother- of-pear], is a matter of form and not actual color. In‘fact; ail“changeable” colors-are more:or-less, the, result. of form even where there is pigmentation beneath, such as'{n certain ribbed:silks. When sunlight bears directly upon finely ribbéd metal, as,a file, there is the same play of colors. .-In the case of mother-of-pearl an in- teresting “experiment -ha¥- beén-made. ‘An impression of the pearl was tak- en upon pure white wax. It was then found that the apparently smooth sur - face-of:the pear] ;had. still suficlent h’ “ . use mgare corn. 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