Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1924, Page 9

MEXGOPROPLSE TOBAN APANESE “Unalterably Opposed” to Any Far-Eastern Coloniza- tion Schemes. By the Associnted Prass. BRAWLEY, Calif,, November 1.— The Federal Government of Mexico “is unalterably opposed” to Japanese and other Far-Eastern colonization schemes, and to any further admissions of orientals to any part of the coun- try, according to a telegram received yesterday from Mexico City Abelardo” Rodriguez of the district of Lower California. Autkorized by Government. | Rodriguez stated that the tele- he had received from Mexico City, came from the office of the sec- retary of exterior relations, wha, he declared. had authorized its publica- tion and would confirm its content: The governor made his announce- ment at Mexicali, across the interna- tional border, declaring that the fed- eral authorities upheld him in opposi- tion to recently reported plans of a Japanesc-American syndicate to send .000 Japanese colonists to land im- mediately south of Mexicali. Japanese capitalists recently visited this scetion when it was stated they were in the country to make plans for the large colony. A party of Japanese business men also was re-! ported recently having visited Mexico City where it was being en- tertained at the Japanese legation. BARRED BY LAW. Colonization Near Border or Coast Forbidden. Br the Associated Pre: MEXICALI, Lower California, Novem- ber 1.—Colonization of Lower Californi: Mexico, by Japanese or any other for- cigners is declared impossible under | by Gov. | northern Gov. gram panacea for one of the greatest t. i Insane! } THE EVENING STAR,” WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1924. - CAPTAIN BLOOD By RAFAEL SABATINI DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Is There Any Way to Curb-a Wife Who Will th ; Stop Spending?—Can a Man Love a Girl and Yet Not Tell Her? JDEAR DOROTHY DIX: When I was, first married I had an income of $10,000 & year and dived accordingly. For the last two years I have had heavy 1 s and my income now is only $3,000 a year, but we are living just as extravagantly now as we did when we had more money. I have tried in every way to get my wife to be more economical, but she will not stand for cutting down expenses, so she spends more than I can pay for. I have pleaded with her to go easy and help me to get back to my standard, but she just goes on spending and spending. I am utterly discouraged, but with all my wife's faults I love her still, so please advise me what to do and how to control her. UNHAPPY ONE. Answer: If I had some magic remedy by which the extravagance of spendthrift wives could be controlled the grateful husbands of the country would build me a monument as high us the skies. But, alas, I have no such subles of domestic life. 1 know.of no Way to stop an extravagant woman's spending except to stop her credit, for such a woman is deaf to reason and blind to results, and she has no more neart and sympatny than a stone. When you see a woman plunging recklessly down the road to ruin, dragging her husband and children down into the pit with her, you can only think that she is the victim of some horrible manfa, and, indeed, she is crasy. She does not realize the nature and quality of her acts, as the legal definition of insanity says. She is mad with the lust of things. She can no more resist the temptation of the thing she wants than the sot can resist his craving for liquor. So you see women buying, buying, buying finery that they know they cannot pay for, living In houses that they cannot afford, running up bills wherever they can get a little credit, knowing that the crash is bound to come sooner or later and they will be penniless, and foodless, and shelterless. Insane! Insane! Such women are utterly selfish. In order to gratify their own passion for display and luxuries they are willing to work their husbands to death and to bring their children to penury and want, and I believe that they should be dealt with as ruthlessly as they deal with others. I belleve that when a man has tried in vain to appeal to his wife's| affection for him, her common scnse and her honesty, to keep thelr expenditures well within their income and she refuses, he should call the law to his protection and make it impossible for her to run up any more bills. : And 80 far from this reflecting on the man, everybody would have more respect for him for having enough backbone to refuse to let a woman ruin him. And especially would he be admired by the merchants, who would be saved thousands of dollars on bad accounts every year. But the real way to cortrel an extravagant wife is to prevent her acquiring a spending complex. If every man would deal fairly and intelligently with his wife on the money question there would be mighty few wives who are wasters and spenders. Ivery young husband should sit down in his honeymoon flat and explain to his wife just how much he is making. He should budget their expenses and help her to keep her budget straight, give her a fair personal allowance and hold her to the schedule thus made out. 1f he did the existing laws of Mexico, in a bulletin made public here yvesterday by Gov. Abelardo Rodriguez of the northern district of Lower Califor- nia The bulletin, which devotes the greater portion of its space to a de- nial of recent reports of a contem- plated Japanese colonization in Lower California, quotes the secretary of exterior relations at Mexico City te the effect that Mexican federal law prevents the colonization of foreign- ers either near the seacoast or the international boundary line. Though not stated in the bulletin, it was announced that the distance which a colony must locate from the coast or the border is approximately sixty miles. A Visit of Japanese capitalists here several days ago was followed by a report that a Japanese-American syndicate was planning to colonize 20,000 Japanese on land immediately south of Mexicali Gov. Rodriguez. according to tary af State Rul Martinez, posed not only to Japanese cbloniza- tion, but also to the admission of more orientals into Mexico. L ETeey DENIES CONSENTING TO GOULD WEDDINGS Edwin Says He Did Not Sanction Second and Third Weddings of Frank. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November l.—Edwin Gould. returning to the witness stand yesterday in the hearing before Ref- eree James A. O'Gorman of the ac- unting suit of the $82,000,000 Jay Gould estate, testified that he never had given his consent to the second and third marriages of Frank Gould, principal objector to the accounting. Ldith Kelly was Frank's second wife_and Florence La Caze his third Attorneys continued to question the witness on the marital phases of the | Gould entanglement and elicited the information that Edwin had proved the marriage of Frank Gould and Gulenevre Sinclair on March 1, 19 Referee O'Gorman ended the discussion at this point by stipulating that Arthur Leve of counsel for George J. Gould, jr. could resume his questioning at some later date. Edwin admitted at session that George J. Gould person- ally loaned $2.000,000 to the Missouri Pacific Railroad, while neither his brothers ‘nor sister were putting money fnto the enterprise. He as- serted that in his belief the burden should have been equitable, with the estate bearing its share. The other executors and trustees were “not in a position to take up the loan at the time,” he =aid DR. BAIN FACES FURTHER OIL SUIT EXAMINATION Testimony Promises to Consume Most of Short Session in Los Angeles Court. B the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Further cross-examination of Dr. H. November Ifoster Bain, director of the Federal | to con- | Bureau of Mines, promi; sume most of today’s bricf session of the Government Federal court bat- tle to recover Elk Hills leases and contracts awarded the Pan-American Petroleum & Traspo Co. in 1922, Through cross-examination of the bureau "director yvesterday. ment counsel brought out that the Pan-American was the only oil com- pany willing to take a chance on the legality of a contract involving ex- change of royalty crude oil for Pearl Harbor storage facilities MYSTERY STILL VEILS DROWNING OF PORTER Recovery of Body of Secretary to United States Rubber Company Head Fails to Solve Death. Iy the Associated Pres NEW YORK. November 1.—Identi- fication yesterday of a body taken from .the Hudson River Tuesday as that of John F. B. Porter, missing assistant dslferetary to the president of the United States Rubber Com- pany, falled to clear ¢p the mystery surrounding his disappearance on ctober 17. The body was {dentified at the morgve by Dr. C. F. Schrann of Beloit, Wis, Porter's brother-in- taw. An autopsy revealed that death was cauded by drowning, but also dis- closed a slight contusion of the brain, which may have resulted from a blow, according to the medical ex- aminer, who turned the case over to the police. 2 After his day’s work on October 17 Porter returned to the apartment he shared with Frank Suess and lay down for a nap. Suess left the house soon afterward and returned ‘several hours later to find his friend had vanished. | homes as drink ap- | 3y the afternoon | Govern- | he would keep her from ever acquiring the vice that has wrecked as many . < DOROTHY, DI | [DEAR MISS DIX: Can a man really love a girl and vet not tell her?| | Does a man call on a girl and take her out several times a week and | | spend his hard-carned money on her if he does not love her? My friend has such a young man calling on her, and she doubts his love | because, while he makes love to her in a beautiful, appealing way with his | { eves and by his attentions, never does a word of love escape from his lips | | He does not even hint of his love. Now. this young man is not bashful, and | she does not understand his silence in regard to his affection for her. | Don’t you think she should be content with the “actions-speak-louder-than. | words” test? All women know that words of | at all —they are just bits of wind, not binding, your opinion? love from men mean nothing | and soon forgotten. What is LEAP YEAR MAID. i Answer underwritten with a proposal of marriage But. on the other hand, the attentions that are not by you-be-mine?" proposition are mighty apt to be without intention I do not believe that any man who Is in love with a woman ever refrains from telling her so, unless there is some weighty reason of honor why he should keep silent. Certainly no man ever “lets concealment, like a worm th h y on his damask cheek” when he is wooing a malden. Then he oues tes bre ! vedal on tie soft talk and goes to it for all he is worth. ! young man who looked unutterable things and acted in a loverlike manner, but who studiously refrained from making sentimental specches, was a foxy gentleman who had no matrimonie] intentions whatever. but was simply plasing safe. i Least sald, soonest mended, in affairs of the heart, . . tired of the little platonic flirtation he will Just look surprised that the i) | put the wrong interpretation upon his conduct, and he will have no love talk to take back, no broken vows to recant For a man to g0 to see a girl and take h that he finds her an agreeable companion. | [DEAR MISS DIX: I have been engaged for the last 10 months to a man who is very jealous. Several weeks ago an old friend of mine made a | purely friendly call upon me. When I told my fiancé about this he became Yery angry and. although I have asked him to come to sec me, he simply ignores me. What can I do MARY. Let him go, and thank God that vou found out what kihd of | a narrow, unreasonable, suspicious creature he is before you married him.| | instead of afterward. Any man who hasn't enough intelligence to distinguish | | between an old friend and a lover, and who doesn’t trust a woman enough | to believe that ske can have an innocent conversation with another man | will make his wife utterly miserable. DOROTHY DI » (Copyright, % f— e e | EXPLAINS LA FOLLETTE %WHEELER TO MAKE LAST i SUPREME COURT STAND| NEW YORK TALK TONIGHT! to make it of any real value. I should say that any er out means nothing except DOROTHY DIX. i Answer: | Son Says Candidate Does Not Want | Bi€ Demonstration Planned for In- dependent Candidate—Will Speak at Columbia U. | v the Associated Prexs, | NEW YORK, November 1.—Senator ‘g‘lsl'('ln tk'. {\;he(ler. third party can- ate for Vice President, wi ‘lette. independent can- | his final speech in this city "'o:"":: didate for Prevident. in an address |on the Weat Side. Leaders hore {here last night outlined) what he | planned a big demonstration for b |said was his father's stand on the Su- | Amos Pinchot and State Chairmanm |preme Court question. The Wisconsin | Arthur Garfield Hays will speak wiih {Senator. he said, sought merely (o |Senator Wheeler. | place before the people for decision Eator WVilealor alsor | Whether or not one man should have | Columbia University thie afiarmsont the power to decide a momentous |H. will complete his campalgn in _?ul}slllan for the population of the | Bultimore Monday night. “nited ates. During the war, La Fellette said. his father did hix duty ae he saw it land declared that persons who be- | amirch his character because of his St. Paul address de'ivered at that time are misguided. The saddress {never was published, according to the Senator's son. His father was as- saile he stated, because of a “mis- take" made in transmitting the | speech in which, he claimed, “words which La Follette never uttered ap- peared in messages telegraphed throughout the country.” The present campalgn he charac- terized as the {'greatest moral issue since 1860, when Abraham Lincoln | was elected President” in that it is fight to bring back honesty to the | One Man Making Momentous Decisions. | By the Associated Press, | CINCINNATI. Ohio, November 1.— | Philip La Follette, son of Senator Rob- ert M. La Fi BLAST KILLS GUARD. MIAMI, Fla., November 1.—D. D. Brooke, convict camp captain, was killed and Isadore Pommerance, con- vict, lost an arm in a premature ex- plosion of dynamite during highway work near here vesterday afternoon. Sheriff Louis Alien of Dade County has asked the county commissioners to release Charles Overman, John Kelly and Harry Wolfson, three con- victs who showed unusual heroism in rushing the dying and the injured man to a hospital, . R., ARRESTED 1 {R. B. DULA, J | Son of Tobacco Magnate Accused . of Deserting Wife. NEW YORK, November 1.—Robert Byron Dula. jr., son of Robert Byron Dula, a director in the Liggett & My- ers Tobacco Company, was afrested yesterday on a civil order lssued by Supreme Court Justice Donohue. He was later released. ,His wife, Mrs. Elizie H. Dula, petitioned the court for the arrest in a separation suit based on alleged abandonment. Mrs. Dula charged in a suit for! $250,000 damages that the tobacco di- rector and his wife had alienated the affections of her husband. The arrest was applied for on the ground that if alimony - should be awarded to Mrs. Dula the court might inot be able to enforce its order be- |cause of. Dula's absence from the State. Every Cold Is Dangerous-- Begin Taking Father John’s Medicine at ———— HIGHT TRIAL DECEMBER 3. Judge Rules Month Enough to Pre- pare Evidence. . MOUNT VERNON, 1, November 1.—The joint trial ef Louls Hight, tormer Ina, 11, minister, and Mrs. Elsle Sweeten who ‘are indicted for murder in connection with the poison- ing of hiy wife, Mrs. Anna Hight, and her husband, Wilfrcd Sweeten, was set_yesterday for December 3 by Judge J. Kern, after he had over- ruled a motion for a separate trial of the defendants. Former Judge Nelson B. Layman, counsel for Hight, plesded for more time to prepare his defense, but Judge Kern insisted & month would suffice. —NO DRUGS— OVER @ YEARS oP. SUCCESS Once. | some suit of clothes, is mine by right The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) The level black eyebrows went up, & faint smile curled the lips of the long mouth. “You are still delirious, 1 fear. This is not your ship. This is my ship, and these are my clothes. “Your ship?' quoth the other, aghast, and stiil more aghast he add- ed: “Your clothes? But . .. Then... " Wildly his eyes looked about him. They scanned the cabin once again, scrutinizing each familiar object. ‘Am I mad?” he asked at last. “Surely this ship is the Cinco Llagas ““The Cinco Llagas it Is.” ~ “Then . .." The Spaniard broke off. His glance grew still more troubled. “Valga me Dios!” he cried out, like man in anguish. “Will you tell me also that you are Don Diego de Espi- nosa?" “Oh, no, my name is Blood—Capt, Peter Blood. This ship, like this hand- of conquest. Just are my prisoner.’ Startling as was the explanation, vet it proved soothing to Don Diego, be- Ing 80 much less startling than the things he was beginning to imagine. “Bu Are you not Spanish, then?" s you, Don Dlego, You flatter my (astillian accent. T have the honor to be Irish. You were thinking that a miracle had happened. So it has—a iracle wrought by my genius, which is considerable.” Succinctiy now Capt.-Blood dispelled the mystery by a relation of the facts. [t was a narrative that painted red and white by \turns the Spaniard's countenance. He put a hand to the back of his head, and there discover- ed, In confirmation of the story, a luntp as large as a pigeon’s egg. Last- 1y, he stared wild-eyed at the sar- donic Capt. Blood. | “And my son? What of my son?’ he cried out. “He was in the boat that brought me aboard.” “Your son 13 safe; he and the boat's crew together with your gunner and his mcn are snugly in irons under hatches.” 4 Don Diego sank back to the couch, his glittering dark eyes fixed upon the tawny face above him. He com- posed himself, After all, he possessed the stoicism proper to his desperate trade. The dice had fallen against | him in thix venture. The tables had been turned upon him in the very moment of success. He accepted the situation with the fortitude of a | tatalist. With the utmost calm he Inqulred:! nd now, Senor Captain?" | And now,” said Capt. Blood—to | Of course. most lovemaking is just hot air, and must be|Kive him the title he had assumed— | TIght “being & human man, I am sorry to| cked up by a “Will- | find that ye're not dead from the tap | cCame. we gave you. For you'll be put to the all over again.” “Ah!" Don Diego drew a deep| breath. “But fs that necessary?” he asked, without apparent perturbation. | Capt. Blood's blue eyves approved his bearing. “Ask yourxelf,” said he. | ‘Tell me. as an experienced and bloody pirate, what in my place would you do, yourself?” “Ah, but there is a difference.” Don Diego =at up to argue the matter. “It lies in the fact that you boast yourself a humane man.” ! Capt. Blood perched himself on lhul edge of the long oak table. “But I am rot a fool,” said he, “and I'll not | it means that | trouble of dying| 7 | | ! allow a natural Irish sentiment to stand in the way of my doing is necessary and proper. You and your ten surviving scoundrels are a menace on this ship. More than that, she {3 none so well found in water d_provisions. True wo are fortu- nately a small number, but you and your party inconveniently increase ita. So that on every hand, you see, prudence suggests to us that we shquld deny ourselves the pleasure of your company, and, steeling our soft hearts to the inevitable, invite you to be &0 obliging as to step over the side.” f said the Spaniard pensively. He swung his legs from the couch, and sat now upon the edge of it, his elbows on his knees. He had taken the measure of his man, and met him with a mock-urbanity and a suave detachment that matched his own. “I confess” he admitted, “that there is much force in what you say.” “You take a load from my mind, said Capt. Blood. “I would not ap pear unnecessarily harsh, especlally since I and my friends owe you 50 very much. For, whatever it may have been to others, to us your raid upon Barbados was most opportune. 1 am glad, therefore, that you agree that 1 have no choice.” “But, my friend, €0 much.” “If there 18 any alternative that you can suggesi, 1 shall be most| happy to consider it i Don Diego stroked his pointed | black beard. “Can_you give 1 did not agree me until morning for reflection? My head aches o | damnably that I am incapable of| thought.” And this, you will admit, is| & matter that asks serious thought.” Capt. Blood stood up. From a shelf he took a half-hour glass, reversed the bulb containing the red sand was uppermost and stood it on the table. “I am sorry to press you in such a matter, Don Diego, but one glass| is all that 1 can give you. If by the time those sands have run out you can propose no acceptable alterna- [We desire “Then let me put it in another way—perhaps more happily: You do not desire to live? “Ah, that I can answer. | do de- sire to live; and even more do I de- sire that my son may live. But the desire shall not make a coward of me for your amusement, master mocker.” It was the first sign he had shown of the least heat or re- sentment, K Capt. Blood did not directly answer. As Dbefore he perched himself on the corner of ‘the table. L “Would you be willing, sir, to earn life and liberty—for yourself, your son, and the other Spaniards who are on board?" “To earn {t?” said Don Diego, and the watchful blue eyes did not miss the quiver that ran through him. “To earn it, do you say? -‘Why, if the service you would propose is one that not hurt my honor . . .* ‘Could I be guilty of that?" pro- tested tho captain. “I realize that even a pirate has his honor.! And forthwith he propounded’ his offer. “If you will look from those win- dows, Don Diego, you will see what appears to be a cloud on the horizon. That is the Island of Barbados well astern. All day we have been sailing east before the wind with but one in- tent—to set as great a distance be- tween Barbados and ourselves as possible. But now, almost out of sight of land, we are in a difficulty. The only man among us schooled in the art of navigation is fevered, de- lirlous, In fact, as a result of certain ill treatment he received ashore before we carried him away with us. I can handle a ship in action, and there are one or two men aboard who can assist me; but of the higher mys- teries of seamanship and of the art of finding a way over the trackless wastes of ocean we know nothing. To hug the land, and go blundering about what veu so aptly kall this vestilent archipelago, is ‘for us to court disaster, as you can perhaps conceive. And o it comes to_this: to make for the Dutch settlement of Curacao as straightly as possible. Will you pledge me your honor, if I releass you upon parole, that you will navigate us thither? 1If so, we will release you and your surviving men upon arrival there.” Don Diego bowed his head upon his breast, and strode away in thought to the stern windows. There he stood looking out upon the sunlit sea and the dead water in the great ship's wake—his ship, which these English dogs had wrested from him; his ship, which he was asked to bring safely into a port where she would be com- tive, 1 shall most reluctantly be driv- | plefely lost to him and refitted per- en to ask you to go over the side With | ho0( "o make war upon his Kin. your friends.” [That was in one scale; in the other Capt. Blood bowed, went out, and | were the lives of 16 men. Fourteen locked the door. of them mattered little to him, but Elbows on his knees and face in his | the remaining two were his own and hands, Don Diego sat watching the |pis rusty sands as they filtered from the| He turned at length, and his back upper to the lower bulb. And what|being to the light, the Captain could time he watched, the lines in his lean | not see how pale his face had grown. brown face grew deeper. Punctually | <~ accept,” he said as the last grains ran out, the duor: —_— reopened. | CHAPTER XL The Spaniard sighed, and sat up- | Fillal Plety. to face the returning Capt. Blood with the answer for which he| By virtue of the pledge he had given, Don Dicgo de Ispinosa en- “I have thought of an alternative, | joyed the freedom of ‘the ship that sir captain: but it depends upon|had been his, and the navigation charity. It is that You put us ashore | which he had undertaken was left on one of the islands of this pestilent | entirely in his hands. And because archipelago, and leave us to shift for | those who manned her were new to ourselves.” P the seas of the Spanish Capt. Biood pursed his lips. because even the things that had has its dificulties,” sald he slowly. happened in Bridgetown were not “I feared it would be so.” Don|enough to teach them to regard every Diego | sighed again. and stood up.| Spaniard as a treacherous, cruel dog “Let ¥s say no mor |to be slain at sight, they The light-blue eves. played over|with the civility which his own suave him like points of steel. urbanity invited. He took his meals “You are not afraid to die, Don| in the great cabin with Blood andythe Diego?" three officers elected to support him, The Spaniard threw back his head, | Hagthorpe, Wolverstone and Dyke a frown between his eyes. They found Don Diego an agres- “The question is offensive si zble, even an amusing companion son’s. “It used him | Main, andp and their friendly feeling toward him was fostered by his fortitude and brave equanimity in this ad- versity. That Don Diego was not playing fair it was impossible to suspect. Moreover, there was no conceivable reason why he should not. And he had been of the utmost frankness with them. He had denounced their mistake in sailing before the wind upon leaving Barbados. They shoula have left the island to leeward, head- ing into the Caribbean and away from the archipelago. As it was, they would now be forced to pass through this archipelago again so as to make Curacao, and this passage was not to be accomplished without some measure of risk to themselves. At any point between the islands they might come upon an equal or su- perior craft; whether she were Span- ish or English would be equally bad for them and, being undermanned, they were in no case to fight. To lessen this risk as far as possible, Don Diego directed at first a souther- ly and then a westerly course; and 80, taking a line midway between the Islands of Tobago and Grenada, they won safely through the danger zone and came into the comparative security of the Caribbean Sea. “If this wind holds,” he told them that night at supper, after he had announced to them their position, “we should reach Curacao inside three days.” For three days the wind held, in- deed it freshened a little on the second, and yet when the third night descended upon them they had still made no landfall. The Cinco Llagas was plowing through a sea contained on every side by the blue bowl of heaven. Capt. tioned it to Don Diego. “It will be for tomorrow morning, he was answered with calm conv tion. “By all the saints. it ‘tomorrow morning’ with you Span- fards, and tomorrow never come; friend.” | “But this tomorrow is coming. rest assured. However early you may b astir, you shall see land ahead, Don Pedro.” Capt. Blood passed on, content, and went to visit Jerry Pitt, his patient, to whose dondition Don’ Diego owed 7 DAILY TRAINS Conveniently scheduled with a complete ar- rangement of through siceping ears rom New England, New 7ork, and Washington is pro- vided for this sea- son via Atlantic Coast Line The Standard Railiad of the South New Through Train Service to <UBA . FLORIDA EAST CCAST POINTS SARASOTA BRADENTOWN TAMPA ST. PETERSBURG Winter Tourist Tickets, good until Jne 15th, now on sale daily. Write LYNN J. IRVIN. D.P.A. | | 1418 “H” St.,N.W..Washington.D.C. Mourning Blacks Dyed 24-HOUR SERVICE Carmack Dry Cleaning Co. Main 1344 " LIST YOUR RENTED AND VACANT REAL ESTATE WITH J. LEO KOLB 923 N. Y. Ave. 1237 Wis. Ave, " PERPETUAL | BUILDING ASSOCIATION | Pays 6 Per Cent Blood uneasily men- | his chance for life. For 24 hours now | the fever had left the sufferer and, under Peter Blood's dressings, his lacerated back was beginning to heal satisfactorily. 8o far, indeed, was he recovered that he complained of his confinement, of the heat in his cabin. To indulge him Capt. Blood consent- ed that he should take the air on deck, and so, as the last of the day- light was fading from the sky, Je- remy Pitt came forth upon the cap- tain’s arm. Seated on the hatch-coamings, the Somersetshire lad gratefully filled his lungs with the cool nizht air. and professed himself revived thereby Then with the seaman's instinct his eyes wandered to the darkling vault of heaven, spangled already with a myriad golden points of light .Awhile he scanned it idly, vacantly; then his attention became sharply fixed. He looked round and up at Capt. Blood, who stood beside him. “D'ye know anything of astron- , Peter”" quoth he. Astronomy, Is it? 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