Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1923, Page 68

_Young Sailor at the Wheel Saves Eator's Note: This i @ wries of exceptional Chlef Kenlon describiog h in fourteen years as a sal week the author told how he shipped undergoing furious the third of rticles by ome & ma He also described how, having ar- ge In_a British square-rigged ship at the tin the port of Musca lf of Oman, an the Arabian sca, an infection came within an sce of costing bim bis Jeg or his life Howeveér, ttough & sim- ple treatment he had ‘loarn 1] old Irish doctor, he saved himself pouring cold water ‘upon his infamed member ail night around on his feet @ DY .JOHN KENLON, FTER spending some days amid the ruins of Babylon I made my way back to the port of Muscat. When we had finished discharging our cargo of coal we cleared away for Basseine, In British Burmah, It was while on this trip that we met with one of the most dreadful experfences it has ever been my mis- fortune to encounter. A few days out of Muscat almost every one in our crew of forty-four men was taken sick with a strange sort of intermittent fever. One of the alarming features of this was that It made each man delirious three or four days at a time. The sickness not only Involved the men before the mast, but extended to the navigating officers and even to the captain himself. There were days at a time when there was practically nobody on the ship without fever ex- cept two apprentices and mysclf. It was the season of the north east monsoons, and after we had set our salls we kept on down the Ara- bian sea with breezes blowing steady. This was an extremely fortunate thing, for, if we had had to touch a! brace or a vard during those ten aw- ful days when everybody was ill, or it a gale had come up, or even a heavy breeze requiring the furling ot & single sail, there would have been no one on board capable of dolng it. * ok % * (QNE of the features of this lliness was the terrible thirst that it caused. On leaving Muscat we had enough water for a thirty days’ sup- ply, counting the usual allowance on board British ships. But the men ‘were 80 crazy for water during their spells of fever that it was not long before we got down to one quart of water for each man, for all pur- poses, over a period of twenty-four hours. Men grabbed their quart of ‘water and drank it down at one gulp in spite of my warning that they would not get another drop for any purpose—for tea, coffee, soup, wash- ing—In twenty-four hours. The men during their period of de- lirfum, which amounted almost to in- sanity, went about the decks, cutting up all sorts of strange, unholy antics. One or two of them became homicidal, and wanted to kill their best friends; others attempted to jump overboard; some Imagined themselves to be Ma- homet, Christ and other leaders of hu- manity. These would pass their time in making long harangues and trying | to convert the rest of the crew some form of imaginary religion. had to select certain men who were not 8o sick as the others and appoint them to keep guard over these men. Perhaps the man on board who was more {11 than anybody else was the captain himself. He lay for several days absolutely unconscious and I thought that he would surely die. The socond officer and the senior appren- tice were also down with the dread disease and, In consequence, I had to get out my navigating instruments and virtually command the ship. Navigating the ship, however, did not worry me at all compared to the to “WHY THEY DRINK IN SCOTLAND” Stephen Leacock Says Duty Provides Many Reasons. ECAUSE they manufacture the best whisky in the world, the Scotch, in popular fancy, are often thought to be addicted to the drinking of it. This Is purely & delusion. During the whole of two or three pleasant weeks spent in lecturing in Scotland, I never on any occasion saw whisky made use of as a beverage. I have seen people take it, of course, 28 a medicine, or as a precaution, or as a wise offset against a rather treacherous climate; but as & bev- erage, never. ‘The manner and circumstances of their offering whisky to a stranger amply illustrates their point of view toward It. Thus, at my first lecture in Glasgow, where I was to appear be- fore a large and fashionable audience, the chalrman sald to me in the com- mittee room that he was afrald that there might be a draft on the plat- form. Here was a serious matter. For a lecturer who has to earn his living by his occupation, a draft on the plat- form ls not a thing to be disregarded. Nor 1s it altogether safe for the chair- man, himself, a man aiready In middle life, to be exposed to a current of cold atr. In this case, therefore, the chair- man suggested that he thought it might be “prudent”—that was his word, “prudent”—If 1 should take & small drop of whisky befors en- countering the draft. In return I told him that I could not think of his accompanying ‘me o the platform unless he would let me insist on his taking a very reason- able precaution. Whisky taken on these terms not only seems like & duty, but it tastes better. In the same way I find that in Scot- land it is very often necessary to take something to drink on purely meteorological grounds. The weather simply not be trusted. A man might find thaf on “going out into the weather” he is overwhelmed by & heavy fog or an avalanche of snow or a driving storm of rain. In such a case a mere drop of whisky might save his life. It would be folly not to take it Again—*coming in out of the weather” Is a thing not to be trified with. A person coming in unprepared and unprotected might be seized with angina pectoris or appendicitis and die upon the spot. No reasonable I appalling situation over the water pply. One day It looked as it we were going to have a good rain. I had the scuppers stopped up on deck in the hope that we would be able to get some water. But it did not rain. ERE Y AFTER this it looked as If we were going to be entirely out of water, | and I cast about in my mind for some way of rigging up a condensing ap- paratus, We had some large coppers in the galley and the cook had been in the habit of bolling salt water in these coppers and letting It condense on the bottom of the lids. He then took the drippings off these lids, this { water, of course, being fresh. The quantity supplied by this method was negligible. We eventually managed to pass a steam pipe through the copper, coll- ing it around in such a way that it made a cooling jacket, and the first ! time we used this plece of apparatus we were rewarded with ten gallons of fairly good drinking water In twenty-four hours. The situation was saved. It cer- tainly was, however, a close shave, as the men were on the point of mutiny for the lack of water. Their terrible tever had made them despcrate. Be- ing partly delirious and unaccount- able for thelr actions, they might uave resorted to very serious means, even though such tactics would have | brought no reliet. It 1s a long lane that has no turn- ing, and after a while, especialiy with a plentiful supply of water, every- | body recovered and came back to nor- {mal. I have talked to & great many seafaring men since that time, but have never found any one wio Knew just what sort of fever it was that we had contracted. As I look back {on it now, I attribute it to one of| those strange diseases that sweep out of eastern skies. | After the captain recovered I was { naturally in very high favor with him, and he seemed to be under the impression that my nursing and at- tention to him had saved his life. He complimented me on my navigaung, for 1 had brought the ship up the Bay of Bengal almost to her destination. As the second officer was so 11l that he had to be put ashore when we| | reached Basselne, I had the honor of | being appointed in his place. I have to record here a somewhat remarkable incident that happened oni this voyage after we had left Ceylon, India, on our way home to England. | { Weo had oleared up all the sickness on board and were well on our way, having rounded the Cape of Good Hope, on our northerly stretch to the British Isles %k (QNE autet afternoon, as the sun was setting in the ocean In a blaze of glory, 1 was standing by the quar- terdeck taffrail, looking over the side !in & brown study. I was thinking of iome and my sweetheart and count- ing the days, and almost the hours, when I would be with them once) more. Just at this moment, when every- thing was calm and serene, a most | astonishing thing happened. I was | looking over the side of the ship, and might say that my height above the surface of the water was about fif- teen feet, when, all of a sudden, a | glgantic form appeared Immediately ! beneath me In the waters against the | side of the after-quarter. I could scarcely belleve my eyes | when I saw the vision of this mon- ster, which first appeared as a great dark shadow. Suddenly the surface | of the sea was broken and this mon- | ster, or whatever it was, rose up and, before I could count three, was with- in a foot and a half of my face. I could just get a glimpse of an | enormous cavernous opening al cov- ! ered with what appeared to be great | | THE My astonishment was so great that 1 was literally, for the fraction of a second, paraiyzed with fear, as Ham- “Bostilled almost to jelly with the act of fear.” My hair stood on end “like quills upon the fretfui porcupine” A vague, unconsclous, self-preserva- tion impulse seemed to draw me backward from the taffrail, and I managed to get four or five feet away from this terrible object, the nature of which at the moment I was wholly unable to discern, owing, of course, to being too close to It Suddenly there was a great spout of water which ascended into the air at reaching more than half way up to the jlgger yard. At that instant I realized that my terrible visitant was no other than a very large whale, “blow" on reaching the surface. This monster seemed to turn a sort of half somersault, and 1 next saw his tail into the sky. I may frankly say.that T was never 30 frightened in the whole of my ex- istence. For a moment I was face to face with the cavernous mouth of a whale, and I hadn't the slightest doubt that this object had risen out of making a meal out of me. To say that I was physically and mentally scared hardly expresses the idea. * k * % I laughter that went up from both strings of seaweed. person would refuse the simple pre- caution of taking a small drop imme- diately after his entry. *x ok % FIND that, classified altogether, there are seventeen reasons ad- vanced In Scotland for taking whisky. They run as follows; Reason one, because it Is raining; two, be- cause it 1s not raining; three, because you are just going out into the weather; four, because you have just come In from the weather; five—no, | I forget the ones that come after that. But I remember that reason number seventeen s “because it canna do ye any harm.” On the whole, reapon seventeen is the best. Put (n other words, this means that the Scotch make use of whisky with dignity and without shame, and they never call it alcohol. In England the case is different. Already the English are showing the first signs that indicate the possible approach of prohibition, Already all over England there are regulations about the closing hours of the public houses. They open and close accord- Ing to the varying regulations of the municipality, In some places they open at 6 in the morning, close down for an hour from 9 till 10, open then | till noon, shut for ten minutes, and so on; in rome places they are open In the morning and closed In the evening; In other places they are SHALL never forget the roars of officers and crew when they saw my open in the evening and closed in the morning. The anclent {dea was that a way- side public house was a human need that might be wanted any hour. Un- der the old common law the innkeep- er must supply meat and drink at any hour. If he was asleep the trav- eler might awaken him, And in those days meat and drink were regarded in the same light. Note how great the change Is. In modern life in Eng- land there s nothing that you dare wake up a man for except gasoline. The mere fact that you need & drink is no longer held to entitle you to break his rest. In London especially one feels the full force of the “closing” regul tlons. The bars open and shut at Intervals, like daisies blinking at the sun. And like the flowers at evening they close thelr petals with the dark- ness. When I was in England I amused myself one day by writing an imagi- nary plcture of what England will be like when the last stage Isreached |and London goes the way of New York and Chicago. I cast it in the form of a letter from an American prohibitionist in which he describes the final triumph of prohibition in England. With the permission of the reader I reproduce it her ' a helght of about thirty-five feet,! which happened to come up just un- | der the quarter of the ship and to| with its gigantic flukes stretching up | of the depths for the express purpose | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON “THE MEN WERE CRAZED FOR WATER." consternation, Needless to say, my | rellef was immense when the tall of | this whale diseppeared into the depths, Never in’ my life shall T forget this unique experience. For two or three hours after this I did not feel alto- gether myself. I consider that I had a very close call. If T had fallen forward Instead of backward I guess| it would have been all over with me. We reached Falmouth in due course. 1 was pald off as a second mate, and you can just depend upon It that I lost no time In making my way back to my home in Ireland. My home- coming was welcomed in truly royal style. My family and friends greeted | me with more enthusiasm than they | had ever expressed before, It may seem rather far-fetched for { me to claim that my sweetheart upon this oocasion appeared more beautiful | than ever. To me she seemed like a | falry queen, stepping out of & beautl- | ful romance. I had idealised her in | my imagination, but I felt that she fully came up to my fondest dreams. It was due to her that I had made up my mind to become & master. Having been ashore for some time and my funds running low, I began to look about for a ship. Business in the shipping line in Dundalk was very slack at the time, but a sallor whom I met on the quay sald some- thing about a full-rigged ship bound |for America, with emigrants, that was lying offt Warren point, at the| head of Carlingford lough. I made up my mind to seek out this vessel. | On arrival at Warren point I was | astonished to witness a very un | usual scene in the tiny Irish village: THE ADVENT OF PROHIBITION IN ENGLAND. Aws written In the correspondence of an American visitor LI 'OW glad I am that I have lived to see this wonderful reform of prohibition at last accomplished in England. There Is something so dim- cult about the British, so stolid, so hard to move, But at last it has come. After the most terrific efforts we managed to get this nation stampeded, and for more than a month now England has been dry. I wish you could hav witnessed the scenes, just like what we saw home In America, when it | years old, had domestic pets which instead of finding the place practical- ly deserted, as 1 supposed It would be, it was crowded with hundreds of families, mostly peasants from the | northwest counties of Ireland, seek- ing passage to “the land of the free.” | Fathers and mothers, brothers and | sisters were going to America. - Each | group appeared literally to have hun- | dreds of friends to bid them a fond tarewell. Many children, particularly young boys about twelve or fourteen’, they refused to leave. *xxn MOST of these people were leaving " their homeland, owing to the dreadful economlo conditions, which were forcing them out practically at| the point of starvation. Numbers had | 801d their little belongings and realiz- | ed whatever cash they could get to pay elght pounds required for the passage. It seemed like the whole of Ireland | had come to Warren point on this| occasion, The boats were waiting to | take the passengers out to the ship, but in many cases the families found it impossible to separate; mothers clung to their sons or daughters as If they were sure they would never | see them again. I had no particular desire to go to America on this occasion, but I sud- denly made up my mind that I would make a desperate effort to get on this emigrant ship, as I felt that a trip of the kind would be a 'very unusual experience. This I succeeded in doing. 1 well remember the date of our salling, September 14, which was clear and fair, with a fine northwest breeze blowing. Once out in the channel, we set every stitch of canvas, with starboard braces checked in. Our course lay across the entrance of Dundalk bay. On this occasion I had a feeling of lonesomen the shore of my na- tive place ‘passed from view. There came to my mind a vision of a sweet girl standing there waving me adleu, with & prayer for my safe return on her lips. I had sald that I had no particular desire to go to America just at this time. There was a reason; I was very. loath to part with my sweetheart, I had a vague plan of remaining in European waters until-I could make » good living for myself and ulti- mately settle down somewhere, pref- erably In some nook or beauty spot 11, 1923—PART 5. John Kenlon Describes Vessel When the Officers and Crew Were Swept by Deranging Fever—Under the Hovering Jaws of a Whale—Strange Visitation in the Arabian Sea—The -Call for Water—Inventing an Expedient—Memorable Voyage on an Immigrant Ship, (QF course. like cvery one else In Ire- land in those days, I bad dreamed of golng to America at some time in my li‘e for, with the vast numbers of people constantly going out, I had many friends and assoclates in that country. I do not think I would have gone to America just at this time had 1 not chanced upon the embarkation scenes at the Irish village which filled me, as I sald, with the sudden Im- pulse to make the voyage. It looks, at times, as if there were a mysterious fate in our affairs im- pelling us to take certain steps and do certain things at particular times which have a tremendous upon the future course of our lives. It will appear later on that this par- ticular trip on the emigrant sailing ship was one of the turning points in my career. Although I had shipped as an able seaman on this vessel, I made up my mind to continue my study of naviga- tion as far as possible so that I would lose nothing of the very valuable In- struction which had been given me by Mr. Lane on the ship bound for Archangel. Very fortunately for me, on this trip I made friends with one of the officers, who, finding me interested in navigation, offered to help me along. He was a fine mathematiclan. He took me in hand and gave me a thorough review of algebra, trigo- nometry and geometry. Before I had completed the end of this voyage I had become a really good navigator. Up to about the fifth day out we had very fair weather, but now things began to change. The sky be- came ashen and “wool packs” gath- ered in the northwest. An old salt sald: “It's going to blow,” and he was right. It took us very little time to shorten sall, all our “kites” came down and our topsails were close- reefed in no time. Never before have 1 seen such a high sea make up In so short a time. Within less than four hours the ship was literally riding over mountains. The condition of the passengers at along the Irish coast, with my *“col- leen.” S N was known that the bill had passed. The members of the house of lords all stood up on thelr seats and yelled, “Rah! Rahl Rah! Who's bone-dry? We are!” And the brewers and inn- keepers were emptying their barrels of beer into the Thames, just as at St. Louis they emptied the r into the Missiesippl. I can’t tell you with what pleasure 1 watched a group of members of the Atheneum Club sitting on the bank of the Thames and opening bottles of champagne and pouring them into the river. I got one to give me & fe bottles as & souvenir, and 1 got some more souvenirs, whisky and liqueurs, when the members of the Beefsteak Club were emptying out their cellars into Green street, s0o when you come over, 1 shall be able, of course, to glve you a drink. I must admit, and I am sorry to tell you this, that now we have pro- hibition it is becoming increasingly difficult to get & drink. In fact, some- times, especlally in the very early morning, it is most inconvenient and almost impossible. The public houses being clowed, it is necessarysto go Into a drug store—just as it is with us—and lean up against the counter and make a gurgling sound like apo- plexy, One often sees these apoplexy cases lined up four deep. But I don’t want you to think that 1f you come over here to see me your private life will in any way Im- paired or curtailed. say that I have pl nections whose cellars are very am- ply stocked. The Duke of Blanls is said to have 5,000 cases of Bcotch whisky, and I have managed to get & card of introduction to his butler. (Copyright, 1923.) influence | sel was going down, made conditions truly appalling. No food could be prepared under such circumstances; it was almost impossible to get hot tea or coffee; a bit of hard sea bis- cult and a glass of water were about the only fare that could be served. * X %% OF‘ course, nearly everybody suffer- ed from seasickness; some of the passengers were desperately {ll. For about four days it looked (as one of the Irishman aptly put it) “as it hell had broke loose.” No one was allowed »m deck but the crew. Even old hands admitted that the blow was one of the flercest they had ever met. A consultation among the officers esulted in the decision to heave the <hip to. This very important maneuv- r was accomplished without great 1ifficulty, as the captain and mate vere both first-class seamen. So the ship was lald to under a close-reefed lower main topsail and a three-reefed spanker, 1 had some experience In heavy gales, but this was my first encounter with what sallors term & “holy ter- ror” The wind blew at a rate not less than a hundred miles an hour; the Stricken Ship thirty-five days out and were about midocean. But bad weather could not last for- ever; after the storms blew tbam- selves out, we had spells of fine sall- Ing. The rough seas were soon for- sotten. Almost every evening there were dances and entertainments of one sort or anéther. 1 was particularly attracted by a family group of fatier, mother, three sons and three daughters. They were of evident refinement. The father had been In business in America as a young man, returned to Ireland and engaged In business there, but times being bad, had decided to sell out and again seek a home in the republic of the west. His wife was a splendid type of Irishwoman, careful of the education of her children. * k ok % ‘HE thing that attracted me par- ticularly to this family was thelr deep religious feeling. Every morn- Ing and evening I saw this family kneeling in prayer; innocence and purity were stamped on the faces of the girls. The thought occurred, what the cold was Intense. Up to that time, not even in the Gulf of Archangel, nor near the coast of Spitzbergen, had I telt such penetrating cold. One violent gust of wind split the main lower topsall from foot to head. Like a burst balloon, it was blown clean out of the bolt ropes. The fury of the sea was awe-inspiring. During the height of the storm, as I went below on one occasion, my at- tention had been attracted by a kind old lady, who appeared to be about seventy years of age. I wondered what & woman of her age would be doing on such a journey. When the weather moderated I managed, with the assistance of the stewardess, to wrap the old lady up in some shawls and brought her on deck. Her condition improved very much and she was very grateful for the attention which I had been able to show her. 1 mention this incident because, many years afterward, 1 happened to sit In the visitors' gallery In the United States Senate, and listened to | the speech of an orator on the floor of {the Senate whose name corresponded {to that of the old lady whom I had at- | tended on the emigrant ship. I ascer- tained afterward that the senator was the grandson of the dear old {1ady with whom I had voyaged across the Atlantic so many years previously. * o ko (Y the evening of the thirty-first day out from Queenstown we were In latitude 46, 4 north, longitude 44, 25 west. The wind dled down, a peculiar stillness pervaded the face of the sea and presently there was not enough wind to give the ship steerage-way; she rolled about some- times heading west, sometimes north, |and even turning around and heading !east, as much as to say she would | rather go back than face the storm coming from the northwest. After two or three hours of this rolling and tossing 2 light breeze lclms from the north. This was hall- ed as a godsend. We stood away to the westward under three roy: | everything pulling finely. ‘With amazing suddenness, however, | the ship was struck by a flerce gale | All hands were called to shorten sall; iroyals, topgallant salls, stay sails.| { J1bs and courses were furled. Before | | we got through, upper topsails were turled and lower topsails were reefed. The headway we were making, how- ever, being to the westward, Wwe were content, provided we could keep the ship on the wind. At times this seemed impossible, owing to the ter-| |rific force of the gale and the ex- traordinary height of the seas | I haa the morning watch, 4 to 8. As | dawn came it was a wonderful sight | ! to behold tne angry sea. I could not ! help admiring it, the more so because ship was making good weather. A test of the pumps showed she was as tight as a bottle. As the wind was still ahead, there was nothing left but to keep her breast to the waves and “hammer it out.” Head winds and heavy sea retarded our progress. My observation at the the stanch old | “] STOOD FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE CAVERNOUS MOUTH." this time was pitiable. down. In heavy weather, of course, it was necessary for all the hatches to be battened The tossing of the ship;, the | With favorable winds, p: of less than forty miles. The outlook certainly indicated a long passage. ages to the end of the day often showed a ‘Lll'll an asset such people are to the land Zilgx::u‘ adoption; physically strong, . intell] et gent, but withal highly Shakespeare said somewhere: “Thers !s a divinity that shapes our ends rough-hew them as we will,” and it seems that on this voyage I was des- tined to “meet my fate” In the person of my future mate through lite, Though I had left on shore my early flame, I became very much interested In one of these daughters. She took 2 great Interest in the ship and was quite an adept at learning many things about navigation. Naturally, a sallor has many oppor- tunitles of making friends on a trip lasting, as this one did, sixty-nine days. It might be said, in fact, that 1 knew practically everybody on board, even the pets. It was not until years afterward, however, that this young lady and I met under other eircum- stances. It was when I had managed to riso considerably in the world that 1 brought to a final conclusion the open- Ing chapter of this romance. But of this more anon. (Copyright, 1023.) A Mountain of Gold. OME time ago the Elgantic task of burrowing into a mountain bulk to mine millons of tons of gola ore was completed in Alaska. Three mining companies undertook to open up the largest vein of gold In the world, and when the stamps started to drop, the biggest ore-crushing en- terprise of all was under way. It Is esttimated that the “life” of this vein will approximate 100 years. If everything goes as expected the daily output of the three mines will be in excess of $50,000 dally. The Juneau gold belt lies In a pre- cipitous mountain range, which rises from the very water’s edge of south- eastern Alaska's great archipelago. Hunters used to scale the mountains and hunt for bear, deer and mountain sheep; and in winter, when the winds from the glaciers come howling up the channel, searing the whole coun- tryside with frost, many a luckless hunter has perished. Into this dreary country, after the discovery of gold, engineers came and started their work. But this moun- tain of ore near Juneau was not thought rich enough to mine, and so, although conceived originally twen- ty-five years ago, when the success of the famous Treadwell mine, two miles from Juneau, astounded the mining world, the plans for developing the Juneau mines on the elaborate scale mentioned did not assume definite shape until about ten years ago. The first step in the vast undertak- ing was the question of power. Four miles north of Juneau & mountain stream tumbles down from a per- petual snow field. The engineers pro- ceeded thither, hauled a mile or two of wooden pipe from the ocean's edge, installed it, bullt a penstock and con- structed a makeshift power house at the mouth of the stream. In a few months 1,600 horsepower was avail- able for construction work. The work did not stop there, how- ever. More pipe was brought in, a tramroad bullt from salt water to the head: of the stream, a dam site lald out and an Immense concrete dam started. This dam Impounds enough water to cover 20,000 acres one foot deep, and Insures the operation of two 3,000-horsepower electric plants the year round. A tunnel nearly 10,000 feet long then was driven along the ledge of gold-bearing ore, and such splendid work was accomplished by tunnel en- gineers that special recognition was glven the crew by the company. One end of the tunnel is connected with the surface by a perpendicular shaft 1,644 feet deep. The ore from the ledge is dropped to bins arranged along the main tunnel, to be loaded into self-dumping cars and earried 1% miles to the mill by an electric trolley system. The engineers are planning other tunnels to parallel the main tunnel and thus double or treble the output of the mine. Sclence has been called into play in the treatment of the ore after it reaches the mill. Great iron jaws crush the coarse ore to a definite regular fineness. The ore falls into an underground bin and Is carried by a massite bucket line to & fine-crush- ing plant situated on the same hill- slde a few hundred feet farther down. There are two kinds of crushing mechanism that effectually extractall the free gold in the ore. Tables that move back and forth with quick jerks serve to concentrate the heavier par- ticles of refuse that contain minerals. This “concentrate” s subjected to chemlcal treatment and every graln of gold In the. ore is recovered. The mining engineers of Alasks have ap- plied to their work the motte of the Chicago meat packers: “Save all the pig but the squeal.” From the sand that is carried out to sea by the tail- race of the mill, a miner could not obtain & particle of gold If he sifted through & thousand tons of the refuse. Traveling Incog. From the Houston Post. The stranger signed the hotel register, “King of Italy,” and was soon accosted Dby the manager, who demanded' that his guest sign his proper name, adding, “You are not the King of Italy, you know,” “No,” agreed the guest, “but I darkness below, and the ignorance of | westward were often made in from |travel under the name—-it's my in- the passenge; Who felt that'the ves-'twenty to thirty days. We were now J cognito.”