Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1923, Page 74

s = i p———— Do Seld st % hat dled in the night ¢ | trom -poisoning. The officer to I described to him my attempt whom he spoke said: ydrotherapy, and he admitted. .mn: “Oh, that’chap with the sore leg |I had discovered the remedy; evidert \a8 been walking about the deck. I |°NOUSh from the condition of my leg a2k eaua dor Bt itself. Y could nbt resist the tempta~ On my limping up to’the doctor and | "o L0 52%: showing him my lex, I could sec the | o 1o o™t ¥0U think of that, doc. tor, instead of being 1 h & b look of astonishment on his f; & In such a burry ‘| e sata: 's face a8/ o saw off & young chap's leg?™" (Copyright, 102%.) marveldus, and I will never be satis- fled- till 1 learn for myself whether or not some of them are true. I hope to bring you back a lot of furs. They tell me that the Eskimoos—I think that's the way they spell it— vill give you fine furs for mimost nothing. These natives are so fond of eating tallow cangdles, that they say .you can get & bears skin for half a candle. 1f this is you can count on my bringing a shipload of furs back for you, as I am gomg to trade off a box of candles for all the bearakins I can get, “I shall only be happy when once more I your Jovely face, Devotedly “Yours, Jack.” ‘We sailed from Newcastle on the 21st of:June, “midsummer day,” and With favorable winds, made two hun- dred nautical miles in three days. This -brought us well northi along the coast of Norway. I had noticed In golng about the decks,. “especially in tne nighttime, that there was.a Ereat deal of light, ' Although Chief Kenlon possesses { ! . an internations] reputation as & Sl G o MG fighter of fires, the fact that he spent fourteen years of his life & sailor was, until recently, um- public. Last week the author recounted how, to solve &he situation of poverty in his Irish home, he ran away to sea at the age of thirteen, and how in his first year afloat he under- went two shipw! in which the little co he was sailing was flung by the waves clear out of the water upon the beach, ‘and the other in which an Australian-bound ship, the Iron Cross, manned by art intoxi- cated captain, went ashore on the rocks off Dundalk, his own native bay. - No less remarkable than many of the facts of this narrative were the circumstances under which it was written. In tha cold weeks of a recent unususlly bit- ter winter—the worst within a period of thirty years—New York Fire-Fighter Who Began Life as a, Sailor Recalls Experiences During Which He Was Learning the Ropes Aboard Various Vessels—Trip to Archangel and Imaginary Tales of Polar Bears and Eskimos—“Heaving-to” in a Tempest—Choice Submitted by Doctor Between Am- putation of @' Leg and Death—How Problem Was Solved. 4 self walking on crutches for the rest of my- life. I suddenly came to a very firm de- termination I would rather die and be ‘thrown overboard than have my |. leg cut off, even at the price of sav- ing my life. No matter what ha pened, I would not have this opera- tion done. Having arrived at this decision, my mind skemed to clarify and I began td wonder If there might not be something which would cure me, something which I had not yet tried. it is well, in the time of a crisis such a8 this, for one quletly .to control himsel? and /to. give the mind = chanee to work unhampered by fear and (irresolution. X Suddenly, there appeared in my mind the picture of & dear old fam- ily physician In Ireland, mear my own home town, who had a wonder- ful reputation for effecting some al- most miraculous cures. As I thought of this man, I recalled the case of a young lad who had a very badly In- fected foot. n tact, I belleve that gangrene had set in and his case was consld- ered hopeless by all doctors except this particular man. He would not consent to amputs- ting the foot, but-advised the boy to 80 to & brook nearby and to hold the huge waves and I gased in admira- * . tion as she rolled over those moun- tainous seas like a stormy petrel asleep on the angry ocean. LR N two days the gale moderated and: we made sall for Notth Cape. During this storm. while we were 1ying hove-to, giving us very little work to do, the navigating officer showed me how to do “3 day's work.” This consisted of keeping a -direct record ‘of the ship’s movements for twenty-foiir hiours, thé courses sailed, the tides, mccounts’ for leeway als lowanoes, etc., and & final 'computa- -nduvlv:'fin' _we"Peached the sixty-Afth|tion showing where the ship should ) ? par 'rom my Irish way of look|be according to dead rpckon! :‘r:zn:::::-‘"‘""::: f;:;":‘ o |ing at thibgs, there was “day all| My pride know mo bounds when 1/ Of this the public knew nothing; » but the danger welghed like & stone upon the members .of the oity's fire department. The resson was that snow and fce were so deeply embedded In the streets that it was almost im- possible to move fire apparatus in epite of the streot-cleaning ef« forts of 40,000 men. In twenty days of February, 1920, there were in New York 1,143 fires, *The seyere strain on my mind,” says Chlef Kenlon, “made sleep WISH I had taken Mrs. Amos Jack- son. to see that movie. It would urely have mdde her think twice before she tells young Bill and Ethel any more fairy tales about the stop-look-and-listen lives the American plopeers led. One view of “The Covered Wagon" is enough to convince the tightest soul that. the last thing grandpa did was to stop, look and/ listen when adventure called and that, In truth, he had more Jazz to the square inch In his life than his grandson has tothe square mile! Perhaps you haven't seen “The Cov- ered Wagon.” It is the film story of the long 1849 trek in prairie schooners across the western wilderness of Amer- ica Into the treasure lands of Oregon and California. Such a trek! Shivers dance a tattoo on your spine as you see the feats those men and women dared. A strine of ramshackle wagons swayed against 2 horizon whose lonely immensity ap- pals—such battered wagons—such slight ‘women In their poke bonnets and young blood mills about In ity cen- ters, wrecking a social order which i3 no longer strong enough to hold going to waste for lack of an out~ let. And blindly we refusé to un- derstand. We ean’t see that this s the same old energy which drov their fathers on to fmmortal achleve ment. The youngsters must have their trail of perilons adventure If the world is to be saved. They must meet their Indians in open combat and fight their battles of blood and flame. But the real Indians are dead and the tralls paved with macadam. Yet battles remain to be fought if we lead the way. Battles to_ right industrial ‘wrongs—battles to oust the savagery that lurks in politics and , greedy capitalism — battles make all life clean and free as ntended it to be. There lies the n rrail for the eager feet of youth Stop preaching the doctrine of fenr land compromise and smug evaston, Tell these young rebels what splen- did rebels were their forebears and -~ fmposaible., I found it necasary iinjured member In the clear stream |Sweeping skirts—such common, heavy, to turn from the extraordinary Exactly how long | Plodding men. 'And yet, those battered :vhat romantic ventures they sect conditions. .cesfionting s b continued I do|wagons went through flood and fire like | fOTtR upon. Do reverence to that something to occupy my mind be- not know, but I quite well remember |the arke of God—those slim, frail [‘UMmult in their blood—call it God given instead of damnable. Then, women served their husbands and bore their bables undismayed while Indiahs scouted on the Heights above—those common, blundering men’swept on and on untll they'd planted- homes 'beside that an absolute cure was effected, and I made up my mind that I would try this remedy, {f: possible, on my own” leg. D tween alarms. “In looking back over the many difficult situations and hardships of my early life I started reading and thep only, will you yourself be worthy of those*who took that daunt- less journey in-the covered wagon. Copyright, 1923. some diaries that I had kept. The 1 asked the carpenter to fix me up reading of these dlaries seemed to & barrel sawthat I could put my leg |the sefting” sun and spread America; = retresh me and give me courage to 15 it in such ay that'I could dip |across a cortinent. Curiosities of Taste. master the extraordinary condi- {up.water. from » bucket'and pour 1t | “Hub! " The mothing new Inj,..pp gange of taste in human belngs tions with which I was confronted. on my leg. and keep-drawing the | tRaL" You sa: learied all that| L7, been aivided into four classe “After a while the thought oc- water off and. repeating the tregt-|ln school® Yes but how aid vou| ' o 0 BES SR O TP S C Ol curred to me that I should write deist Lt A S S s ::d“t:lo“r:-:m;-fi?mf; bA:"nf:,',J four classes, with thelr combinations, ter m a r 0! 3 ng! etwe somefhing on the subject If for e e e otk 1t wold | thecovers of & book. A tale that,Produce all. the deliclous sensations no other reason than to encourage that we ascribe to taste, as well as 3 blance of & running stream. p later was Invested with an added others. During the nights of the all the - disagreeable impressions of twenty days referred to I wrote . The carpenter wiliingly consented | 4reaFiness by hearing sormonsyal (he disagrecable impregsions of 40,000 ‘words of the story. It to 0% up.this epparatus.for me, and | Droachod o e A kil "But: the tensus s mot equally seemed to relleve my mind. Mady | 1.s00n found myself installed on &| ' "HEC L ear a recital that | Sensitive in all'parts to these sensa- little /stool- with -my leg properly placed. in *he barrel; I had the run- nifg etream - going for all it was tions. _Indeed. It has been shown that different tastes result from the same times I stopped in the middle of the sentence, went to a fire, and would make any normal child prefer a.livély Zulu as an ancestor-to the to different on my return finished the sen- tence and wrote on.” A ing for Australla, had conven- fently put me off in my own ‘beck yard iIn Ireland, and after making & number of cross-channel trips, 1 made up my mind to try once more to get on a ship “going somewhere that counts.” This opportunity came to me when, on reaching the Tyne on one oc- casion, it was learned that our ship was to load for Archangel. Several of the men declined to ship on what they considered the morth pole, but, as I aid not” know exdctly where Archangel! was, and had a mind set for adventure, I made no objection. As our captaln was only a “coaster, board of trade regulations required us to take on a navigating officer in order to get our ship to the White sea port. Our navigating officer, Mr. Lave, came on board a few days before sail- ing, bringing with him a set of instru- ments which appeared to me to be ex- tremely complex. When I saw him at work with these “contrivances” a few days after we*had been at sea, peeking at the sun through a strange-looking triangular affalr, and making weird hierogiyphics and drawings, I regarded him with a sort of awe, as if he were ' one of those magicians of the .o'den | days who could transmute base metals into gold. I kept my eyes rivited upon him with such a strange expression, gaping at him as perhaps only & raw Irish lad would do, that finally he BY JOHN KENLON. FTER the famous wreck of the Iron Cross, which, though sail- night” I did not realize for & long time that we we eally In the land of the midnight sun, For two whole days I went about looking up at the sky, leaning over the side and looking at the ocean, not hav- Ing the nerve to ask & qui these regions before and the phe- nomenon was nothing new to themi. When I turned out in the morning before - day it was practically as bright as when I_went to bed at j midnight; “there was no difference at all, between eight bells and eight ‘bells” any hour of the day or might. * * % BEGAN to wonder whether some- thing had not happened to my eys, when Mr. Lane came to the rescue and explalned to me the po! tion of the earth and its angle to- ward the sun, an angle of 23% de- grees, and how .in summer the north half of the earth is canted toward the sun, so that when one reaches as far north as the sixty-fifth parallel and arrives, so to speak, at the top of ‘the world, he would be in such a position that the sun would not only be the orb of the day, but that of night As well. This was the first time that I understood the siterna- tidn of the seasons. The wisdom of Divine Providence in designing such woénderful changes deeply impressed me. The favoring winds did not last more than three days. Soon we had 4 of that ered the dsy's work and then it my wakening ambition med to-take some comcrete form, and I began to feel that if'I care- tully followed Mr. tions I would somb day be the master ship, with all that it meant for me and my ‘‘colleen, Lane's Instruc- ‘When we had rounded North Cape 1 arctic and were In the White sea proper a blow from the southwest sent us nearly around Spitsbergen, and here I got a taste of r There were a lot of fleld ice and a fow small birds and, before long, I saw my first polar a long time to get used to seeing these animals, camouflaged as they ther. . It took me | * were against the white background. It was tion that I was able*ts The sight of th out. only while they in mo- pick them trange ani- w mals, the constant daylight and the presence of the icebergs made me 1f T had entered an entirely feel oD world. ‘With a favorable wind we managed to get up the Gulf of Archangel and eventually found ourseives in the old town (itself. in Archang reloading with a cargo asking the question, ‘“Where do we g0 from here?" I was overjoyed to be informed that we were bound for Dundalk, Ireland, my home town. ' Once We remained filve weeks discharging oyr carso, of tar. Onm o spread Gur wings-for Ireland. A fair wird %arried us up the Guif of Archangel and around Here we had a few days “THE LITTLE VESSEL THUS LAY WITH HER BREAST TO THE HUGE WAVES" Muscat, on the Persian gulf, in' 100 days. While we were lying in this port I had a rather serious physical trouble that might have affected my Whole | life. I was wearing a pair of what we called Wellington boots, leather rubbed o skin of my ankle and caused infection. Sail- or-like, I paid little attention to this matter, At the end of & few days I noticed that the leg had swollen below the knee.and it began to give me con- rable pain. 1 put & bandage over sore and thoyght no more about At the end of a week my swollen to almost twice its normal sise. I had to report on the ick list and was lald off from duty. ‘When things had reached. this pass the captain suggested that.I should have a consultation with the shore doctor, the only one at th port being a British_medical officer connected with the &rmy post. He 7 and ! somehow or other a plece of the bel ship strongly advised me to have | this done. 2 You can imagin® my feelings at hearing this sentence. thousands of miles from home, with | nothing but the low-lylng Arablan desert before me, and the prospect of g permanently crippled for the rest of my life. My spirit rose up in rebellion, both at the ides of losing |nou and indifference of the medie man. Hs evidéntly looked on & contrivancs . that . could lb:lll at will.” This angered me.” I a: ¥You don't geem to think very much of a young fellow like me losing his leg and being a cripple for the rest of his life, doctor!™ ‘Well, my man,” replied the medico, 's a question of losing your leg or losing your life. Besides, itt's a mat- ter that requires immediate attention. If you don't have an operation per- gprmed by 10 o'clock tomorrow morn- Here 1 was, |- my leg o ‘this way and at the cool-, human being as a gort of mcwj £5 .o (Tor seversl day. ~Of ‘oburse, L worth. As the doctor was coming off - the - next morning to have another logk &t my leg, and would. prob- ably ‘bring - his :insfruments =along, 1 kept-the water going all might and was well- nigh ~exhausted next day when the doctor came-on board. LI B EN I took my leg ou€ of the barrel 1 was astonished to no- tice that nearly all of the awelling had gone down.; As a matter of fact, there was'no -inflammation &t all. " 1_could put ‘m3 lég. down and walk Tubout the teck ds 1 had not' begm able . wau cenglderable goremess still “#émaining, but: there ‘was ‘no doubt ‘in the world that the remedy had 'been effective. Though more water treatments would, of course, be re- quired; I had certainly hit upon the one thing that brought about the cure. I was not on deck when the doctor came aboard the next day. but had gone’ forward into the forecastle for | ! to believe the Mrs. Jacksons of the stimulus when applied plces on the tongue, The tip of the tongue, for instance, is most sensitive to sweet and Acid tastes, while it is 1nr less: capable of perceiving a bit feel exactly as if you'd been fathered | toF taste than any other part of tho by a castiron stove, Caution and|OT&an. Somepersons are unsble (o sacrifice. séem..to be the dominant|Percéive any bitter taste when qui- motives in their lives. ' Undoubtedly | nine is applied to the tip of the they did herolc things, but, If you ate|tongue only. At the back of the tongue the bitterness of the drug is perceived at once. An explanation of the curious se- lective powers exhibited by -the tongie ig that a variety of merve fi- bers are. present ‘In-that organ; €ach }gnd beipg ‘sehisitive only to-one of 6 tour prisétpel classes of taste. “Phése' nerve fibers are distributed in varying numbers over different parts of the tongue. > dehumanized grandpa sl lepieta. LR I € there anything thrilling or allur- ing about our . grandfathers as usually described? There is not. You world, they went about them just as if they were taking a good big dose of castor ‘ofl. Never did they do a ETéat -feat for sheer love of- the doing; hever 4id they fling un!lu 1o wind or defy the wiseae: And ever; mover djd they: “themn- | selves. LR - Was this stupendous trek under- taken because they were seized with 3 the joyful hunger of the wanderlust?| At the tip, for instance. the nerves No indeedy! They did it simply that|whickare sensitive to swest and acld they might serve their country and|stimull are most numerous, and &c- bequeath rich acres to young Bill and | cordingly in that locality those tastes Ethel who now disgrace the honored | are the ones most readily perceived. mame they-bear, Such were the plo-| At the back of the tongue, on sthe neers, according to Mrs. Amos and her | other hand, the nerve fibers concerned > something. The doctor asked for me, expecting, as he said afterward, to ilk. And a more sickening slander |in the perception of bitterness prevail was never breathed than that. Siasithe) iliers. The truth is that those ploneers| A singular proof of the fact that were the most reckless, excitement|gn particular parts of the tongue one loving, human lot of rebels that ever|gort of nerve fibers may overpower turned the established order upside!ang mask the effect of another sort down and struck out in deflance of [y gunin o' S O phate ot all cautlon or common sense. TheY| agnesis on the back of the tongue. were- the very quintessence of YOUth| 44 frgs only a strong bitter taste is in revoit! \ 1. | percelved, but when the nerves pro- That trek was no sacrificial Dil-, 4,01p the- bitter taste are paralyzed, grimage trodden grimly by aband of |, "4y may be by: the application of Dasp e e o tams | the drug called gymnema, without af- fecting the other nerves, than & live. They were spreading out thelr| ;0 " ia'0oie pecomes evident. North Cape. calm. It was August and the mighty flas! of the aurors borealls were extraordinary to behold. These elec- tric discharges, proceeding from what appears to be s ocloud, shot up in|- great ‘streams from a crescent or arch reaching to the senith. As the air became rarer aurors was blearer and more béautiful. Out again into the north Atlantie, we stood to the westward. Mr. Lane declded to go to the west of the Hebrides, through the north chan- nel and into the Irish sea. Our ship made splendid weather and good speed. ' As we neared the coast of Ireland my thoughts were naturally of home and friends. I longed for a glimpse of the “Isle of Saints” This was at noon of the tenth day, so I felt that, before sunset I should once more feast my eyes on the shores of myl / native land. About four bells the outlines of the Giant's Causeway nto view. At six bells, th e e v menind| ThUS even our siightest sensations T himan progress. That march of | Of Pleasure or pain are the result of Feirs was Inspired by the most auda. | ® Complicated system of nerve fiers tlous corlosity the world has evér|and merve endings, and while we can seen. Their veins were spulse with|DeBIn to'perceive that certain nerves the mightlest jazz that has ever |POSS6sS certaln powers, or are sensi- rocked the universe—the marching|tive to certain impressions and not jazz of man the conqueror. to others, yet the cause of these dif- PP terences remains to be discovered. HERE is nothing related to our humanity in® the men -or the standards which Mrs. Amos Jackson extols. No_wonder their grandchil- dren listen to such recitals unmoved or with open contempt. No wonder magnetism arranges nails in paral- they belleve that their forefathers |lellayers ready for packing. It works were “sticks” and feel that this on the principle that all linear irom present generation s the first red objeots in a magnetio fleld arrange blooded one in America. themselves automatically in the dl- But with what a feeling of proud | rection of the lines of force. The ma- comradeship they would reverence |chine can also. be used to arrange their names if you told them that}wire rods, halrpins, knife blades, pens those same ploneers were the rebels |and fishhocks. The packages to be and_adventurers of their day, as; filled by the machine may be the young Bill and Ethel are of 1923!|atandard type of nail keg, wooden' Only they made better use of their | poxes or paper cartons. It {s probable hot blood than the youngsters' are|inat the ten-pound cardboard pack making now. But the “Mrs. Amos|age will supersede the old-fashioned ‘| Jacksons -of 1849 .41an’t’ think they | nap) keg, because it costs less, weigha were making good usie of it. Read| ..o and is more convenlent. and you' will find} "o pachine consists of two parte— . : paralleling platform and a feed [ ‘|ness then as they squeal against It} pp ahove it, which is fitted with o now, misunderstanding cobrase theh ‘shaking mechanisni The articles to as.they. ";"‘;““"""'l"k e by 40| D¢ Packed aro poured into the feed ml‘:,:;:":w:: cked Hing By on |troush In lots of about 1,000 pounds: i¥ed those herofo thin ahid womens | S50 BY--the. sctlon’ of (he SHAKNE] ot ] mechanism, are moved to the frontiof :‘:m;’c,'&;f;‘.:‘.’r‘.rfl; ;l':;":: the trough, whence they drop into tho’ & flaming 1ght to these young stum. | Paralleling platform. That consists of & tray, each side of which forms bling feet who wander .far' astray. But we have smothered the light and [one pole of an electromagmet. . The robbed’ the childten of the richness |articles as they fall-are drawn fnto of thel? heritage. ‘Instead of’ show- |the direction of the magnetic. lines 1ng the noble use’to which hot youth |of force, which adjust them at once may be 7 preach’ caution, |in parallel lines. put, saféty, sanity.’- But every inch of 'real - human . progress . h: been chfeved by Tecklessness and noble u?!“ Fast for the Milk. . aisregard of safety. Unly when men From s ¥ lweve-williig: to liye dangerous ilves, [ Sam had: passed through & har {818 those lyes smount to anything |TOWIRE experiemce. He had scen a ghost. While' his audlence_ listened’ with bulging eyes, ho related the de+. <[to themselves or their ohnlr;n.fl | -That the true message of “The oovmal. n.” It is our sacreda|talls of his adventure. . % duty to hahd that message on to “Ah jes. come out of ude cowshed and Blll=-to -tell; them |'he sald, ‘an’ Ah hed & buoket o7 the truth sbout grapdfsther’s jass.imilk In mah hand.. Den ‘hears. {ediblood which: riots In young |a nolse by ‘de side of do road au" | veins: today - differs ‘no: & particle|de ghost rushes out.” AN from the red blood. which rioted in| #Good heéavens! lnlafi:rptnd one of ‘thie - _veins of 1849, _And only |nis ‘listeners..’;“Did yo'-ehake with thoss W blood ‘does riot are going > nmwm mark On-the world, | a fregular northeas Our ‘light salls were furled first and, as fhe blow continued, our mainsall was reefed and a reef also taken in the foresall. Prudence demanded that we should keep away from land, so we stood to sea on the starboard tack heading sbout north-northwest, keeping on this tack for about eight hours, and then wearing around on the port tack. As the gale ingreased we took an- other reef in the mainsail, furled the foresall and brought the ship’s dre down_ to lower topsail, Jib and dou- ble-reefed msinsail. Although the sea ,was heavy - we made ‘good weather”; that is, she was dry. We could walk about the decks without geeting our feet wet. This was re- garded as a very good sign as to our vessel being & staunch ship. The glass kept going down all next day and we knew we wers in for some very heavy wntlurr.hlmou: tion to this Iittle 1ady and see ig|4 ©'clock In ths afternoon of the nex day the order was given to close reef "..mwum o sall the sea of life| 87 100 P T and take another landscape was visible, and together. 1 had written Rher from | . c.'i\'tpe mainsall. It was my job|what & viwl Waving' flelds of ri- several ports and, unlike the average | """ . uion to help in reefing Pening grain Just turning to gold sallor, I had kept her in my mind &8 | o "o c0il and as soon as the yard;and rows upén rows of bleaching b fmslyay s lowered I sprang Intol the rig- | flax slistensd white in the sunlight. AR IR ging-determined to get the weather| Ay morning dawned we-were be- T was my delight to write letters |erring. tween the point of Ayr, Isle of Man, to her from almost every place| This meant lying out on the yard|ang Strangford Bar.\ The wind fresh- where we called, in order to impress | to the very end, getting astride the ened so- we made the ‘Bay of Dun- her with the Importance of my |Yard in position to haul out the er-|dalk about eight bells in the after- wanderings (although- they were |Fing and secure it, while another man [noon, got a pilot, signaled for a limited only ‘to British ports). In-|d0es the same on the les side; then tug, and by six bells (7 o‘clock), ) geed, one of my ideas in signing on|the Teef points are tied, all hands) were safely moored &longside. the for Archangel was to be made to write | d¢scend to the deck to haul away on|quay of Dundalk. her thrilllng, if perhaps imaginative the topsail halyards, thus setting the! I had gone away & boy; I came talea-of -fights with polarbears, Eakimos, | 20} &sain. This put the ship under|home & man. : yery reduced canvas. 3 sea llons and other inhabitants of those and, indeed, The average' landsmen iy regions. 1 knew that my letters > et Bing ot el would be read with amasement fn|l STTAES bed S or” of these days, can scarcely un-, the little Irish village, and I ex- g0 0 inC 900 Perous operation of. pected to come back a hero. Some reefing & topsall during & gale in & years afterward my‘“sweetheart lent [y, .uy gea. This danger is caused by i the Channel under a press of canvas me a copy Of & letter which I wrote |¢n, roiling and pHching of 'the ship, | with everything pulling, . including to her just before sailing’ on this|whicn causes the =all tb siacken. |the stunsails. T - The beating of the sall will' throw| A morthwest wind carried us.well a man off the yasd. The slightest|down;into the ‘“trades, ;. whisre of smiled and asked me If I was interested in his work. “If I knew what you were doing, I think I would be, sir,” I answered. Thereupon he proceeded to show me some of the elements of the game of navigation, and to explain the use of the instruments he was ‘using. In my home town a few months before taking this trip I had pur- chased what Mr. Lane profiounced a falrly good sextant. 4t the time I did not know its exact value, or how to use it I had seen & master of a ship with something that looked very much like a sextant and I thought that, if I had the necessary Instru- ments, I too, might some day become a master, This plan had much to do with Marjory. I planned, after I had ar- rived at & point in the seafaring game where I would be in a position of authority, to put a certain proposi- A Magnetic Packer. 18 reported that a Swiss Inventor has produced g machine that by e e HEN, I shipped in & four-master, square-rigged on all four masts. o) sallors say you don’'t have to use| With the topsail close-reefed and the anchor, but can just tie the]the mainsall reefed, she was what v.hlnl the “doldfums” an ship to the north pole. The pol - “snugged” down for head 120 miles; "sixty ‘miles b’ Dears are so tame, some say, that|resching. The 1ing so|of the equator. In this sfea they. come aboard for breakfast [much that she could not-be hesd-{blow from all directions 'and- my shipmates, who :oclaims |reached 80 it became necessary to'|not unusual to have the Wfter there before, tells me | heave-to” In all my experlence at/or stern of & uhip favorsé wi pisses through eracks [sea I had not, up to the present time, | falr ‘wind ‘while the forwira ‘which was ‘hove-to.” or head of & ship, has & 80| This- process, in sea terms, meant| We- 1 y that the throat of the mainsail was[drums,’ ight wasches take | lashed-dows, the peak hauled ' ub, 13 (3 T sayln’ ‘for suttin Ah shook .af, all. But whea Ah spirits will | got home Ab Tound all de milk gone mmm:u two pounds ' butter in de o . bucket: