Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1928, Page 86

f 4 THE WHAT JEALOUSY DID TO A SHIP SUN DAY fi’.I‘AR._ WASHINGTON, D. €. MARCH 4. 1928--PART T ) i ED STARK, sccond engincer of ! the Maritora, was madly m luve with Sylvia Jesperson, the wife of his captain, old Dave Jespe son. Sylvia had taken several trips on the Maritora. She was voung, ceger for admiraiton. and, undoubtedly. ! she had flirted with Jed Stark. But Jed had no reason to think she was ix any way in love with him, or even really interested in him. Did Jed hops by the trick he plavea on Capt. Dave to swing Svivia's favor from the n to hims:l{?> That ily L . In fact. Jed diint think the thing out or p! wasat in his natwe snatehad a sud mata Capt. Dave ndiculou Ths Maritora had finishad loadine at the Missabs Dack and was read. for # quick gt~ . qust es Capt Ja: the compan: offices o1 Superior street to hustie to his ship. he got & toispione res thet his chief enginser. Charle: call. couldn't crawl out of €21l had bsan greaning w 2l ths wey up the lakes. S that his t in bad v adn't Hr told S T it h 4 excirimed prasdent cking !p‘ inth today ndlag the ea- steady boy. un 1o yvou _Maydbe ip o eazinesr in Buffalo. 1 want vou to 2 n thies trips on wi oty “You bt I vant to. . Dave took a taxi to the dock Ths min he reached his cabin. he telephoned aft to b engine room for Jed Stark. Jed, slim and dark. his honds smeared with greres. his black heir glistening n the soft Octobsr light that wavered mcrcss <the harbor, hurried forward along the deck = Capt. Dave, 2 bizg man. with a round. smooth face and pale blu® 3, WRs striding up and down ht epewing a racgsd “The chisf's lald u *®Can vou handle the *Yes. sir.” #Caleutt put it up to m* wh trust you with the responsibilif her I'd to reach the Sof Just then Sylvia Jesperson. in a fluffy dlus chiffon, appeared in the doorw of the captain’s cabin. Jed didn't knov she was aborrd. He had seen her go ashore with the captain when the Mari- torz. docked, the day bofore, and she ht have stayed ashore with her v. out of the northeast sharp cold puff of wind. For world like a gust from the Then Then, came A/ all the iy outdoors in & warm room. another. Then quiet again, And then a strange thing happened. A long, low wave came from somewhere, passed under the ship. and vanished. Ihen another. Then another, And quite abruptly the soft ripplirs surface chonged into a long. smooth, ol IU was vaguelv menac v t lake rolling from horizon to horizon, under the immense., wind- loss arch of saffron sky. The deck nds paused at their scrubbing and <tarcd upward uneasily, Capt. Dave walked out on the bridge. azed sround At sea and sky. cam back, and descended into his sitting room to stare move at the gloss v heaven, down to 29.20 and «ill 2! But where's the wind? Them ook more like th~ 1{t over of a ]:D feit the Marit 7 a littie unrasv engine reem ladder. roer of the had happ-ne s roll. Curlous. b climbed the Ho halted at the starinz. What th> Maritora orld? Aad thn taring, the wind riffid the eresis of the tong rollers into f Tarad, and wal This wasn't @ The deor of the galley slammed like a nistol shot. The mate’s vell cam» bark- ing down thes wind. A deck hand ian forward. A stlver spra chrek, No. this was not so funny. How had it come up so quick? If he only hadn't ved down in th~ engin® room there never once stuck H~ turpad. ey and crawled on ir 1w stakers on ol T Jed an_ odd look. ® ' 60-mile gale that ripped the crests off room, took snother turn in front of his throttle. Then. with sudden dccision. climbed sga'n to the deck and ran for- rd. In thess few minutes. the w ssemed to have doubled in violenc: Jed galloped up the steps of the for ward deck house and his fist clamored on the captain’s door. “Come n." Cept. Dave sat in a straight chair at a little table directy under the bavo- meter. ierkily plaving solitaire. Tn the big chair in the far corner lay Sylvia. ' reading a novel. Capt. Dave slapped down a card. glanced up at the glass, then around at Jed. “Captain.” Jed gasped. “I His gaze wavercd toward Sylvia: he would | have given a million to have had Svivia | out of hearing. but there was not a| second to waste—"Captain, I—I was' flicked Jod's « mother. who lived here in Duluth. “Why, hello, Mr. Stark!" she chat- ‘How-do,” Jed growlsd. ~The chief said there was plenty coal | %o reach the So00." Jesperson persistzd. The devil of jealousy leapad up in Jed and 2lmost choked him. He hesi- fated. then said slowly: “Yes. sir.” It was a lie. Jed knew there wasn’ enough coal to reach ths Soo. Charl Crandall's one weaknoss was an opii- mism about coal. He always imagined | that he burned less than he did and had more in the bunkers than he had “I'm mighty glad we got enougl Czp:. Dave cuclaimed. “If we hadn't have to wait over here till day Nefther Berwind nor | and they won't have till the Sturdevant | @geis in on Thursday. All right, let’s| Jed turnsd, with a flash of a glance at Srivia, strode out of the cabin, ran dovn Wu:!l Mmsl;ld :(t to his engines. | < up, Sylvy?” Capt. Dave climbed the stops to the pilot house, stuck his head out of the window and bawled to the first mate to cast off the lines, then rang half-speed | shadow of the great ore dock. A soft blue haze lay on the blufls tkat towered behind Duluth. “Z'--4y! Keep her on the buoy!” Th: Aacelsman spun his wheel. the Manitcia glided on at half-speed through the Duluth-Superior bridge, then swerved to port. Ahead lay the long, long sendbar that divides Duluth Harbs: from opsn lake. In the sand- bsr sppeered a narrow gap—the ship channel. “Pull speed ahead,” Capt. Dave tele- graphed. ‘The Maritora shot through the gap “Why, Dave,” exclaimed Sylvia, star- ing out over the great blue lake, “look how fist it is! Not even the teeniest weves!” “But it looks as if we might have some wind.' Capt. Dave said slowly, Jurt as Sim Richards, the first mate, ;nuer—d the pilot house. “Think 5o Richards, desiccated and 50, a man with master's papers who had never | had s ship, gazed sourly zhead | Mebbe.” “It's 2 good thing we got enough coal # reach the 500" £aid the captain “Yes, sir. t “Yes, Dave.” | 8ylvia ran down into the cabir., powdered her nose, fluffed her bob up #oove her cars a little more bewitch- pranced on her high heels ong narrow lane of deck between the hatches and the raifl. Cant. Dave walked heavily benind her. In the dining room. Gustavsen, the second mate, hunched over his plate, &7bbiing 2n apple dumpling The other ehairs were empty ‘m , dinner, 8yl got enough cosl W resch the £00" Capt. Dave sald, as he snd Bylvia sat down. “We'll pick up enough in the river w take us W Buffs!o and scoot ngnt on Sylvy, 1 belitve, if I can make three more trips before navigation closes beat out Stewart for tne bonus.” Bylvia was not listening. Ehe was looking scross the table at Jed Btark's empty chair snd wondering vwhy he was not here » worship her through his brooding biack eyes Down in the engine room Jed paced back and forth in front of his throttle Just when would he go up forward end announce that Crandall had been wrong—that there wasn't enough cosl v reach the 800” Well, he'd wail uil night—ill the Maritora was well pest Devile Islans The Gap would have 1o vireless for 2 tug 1o come out and tow him in, or else signal some uphound vesse] Lo give him & oW, What & laugh would roll up and @own the lakes! Everyhody knew tliat 1':’;;4 Dave a8 racing o win Uie bonus Wered v, the coptain of the vessel that earned the biggest profit for the sea- wm on the Grest Laker Nuiigation Line. And now, stuck out in open lake with no coul, voved in, Lwo daye lost meyhe three ihat would queer him sure! His rive), Capt. Tom Btewart, would con the bonu: sgain Ana whst & how) of lsughter! Bylvia would laugh, vn, you bet she would. 1o know that Byivie would laugh oo, v enough pay for losing hit job, yes, even for neing blecklizved on the Jares sna mayie that's whet the Cap would do 1o him What of 117 He'd quit the laks end go back o &n engine 1oom o4 grore Or else go dovi 1o sslt water Ve farther away from Eyivia and the torture of her Lie beiter v oo ]."m four hours the Maritie diove; on thiough s fist blue sew Her eourse vae roughly paisilel 1o the high north sihore bul miaduslly diveigid from 11 Now. in late afternoon. those tovering blufle weie 12 or 15 miles Gietant, ehadovy i Autumn hee | Imperceptibly at i sfternoon diev | on & esffion cloud the northeast erept upwerd 1l It touched the venith ond cart & quees eljgwih hight onl softly rippling Buperior. As yeb there NRLLY $ieh A Lreris, ! proportions of & gale “l GOT TO PHONE AFT TO AND STOKE - HOLE tol hat?” | hardly more'n elght tons| dovn there Maybe less. | With one stride, Cant. Dave reached the stairs and bounded up into the pllot house. Bylvia dropped her book. Slowly she | stood erect. | This was 1o have been Jed’s moment of triumphant revenge, when Sylvia was o have laughed the captain to | soorn. wrong! There isn't enough coal h 1o Boo!” Instead, she stood there, staring | 2t Jed in bewilderment. | “Did you know there wasn't enough conl, Mr. Btark?” i E his tongue twisted be- | tween the )= and truth, “I hoped | there was enough-—-" “You're funny!” Then she laughed But her Jaugh was not at the caplain It was at Jed | Jed wanted o stride to her, to selze her in bis arms, kiss her or choke her — | or both. But, with an ron effort, he | forced himself 1o turn, forced himself step by step to the stalrs and up Into the pilot house, with her mocking laugh | tingling In his eais Capt Dave hsd jerked the chart draver open and yanked out the chart | of Lake Buperior e glanced at the, slate, on which was recorded the latest | reading of the log “When was that put there?” { “Just & minute agn, sir” smid the | second mate Cept. Dave snmtched a patr if d viders. straddled them upon the s of miles on the margin of the chart then walked the points of the spread dividers along the course of the Mari- tors. penciled on the chart “There” his thumb punched down, there's where we are” He swung on Jed. “You haven't got enough coal to back tn Duluth?” T'm efreid not, sir” “Got enough 1o reach Two Harbors Jed stared at the churt. Two Harbors 35 tie first port up the porth shore from Duluth. ‘The Maritora was, at this moment, perhups 60 mniles from Duluth, 40 from Two Hurbors. “yes” Jed fultered "I guess 80" Capt. Jespersan lifted his face and wazed out over the darkening lake. ‘The vind whistled sgalnst the plloL house viindows, moment nearer the i- | le ' In & blow on rocky-shored Lake - perior the proper seamanship 15 Lo sand out b midlike and iide jtoout But without cosl! Buppore thie ehould turn out 1o be e of 1hoge Leriific Autumn hlizzard 1hAl have enatched such & toll of lves and ships on the unsalted scas? How an hour. That'll set us six or seven lony could ho broast it before the fuel | miles off shere. Then we'll come round was gone and he was tossed on rocky | on the course to Duluth.” Iieweenaw or the savage north shore? | “Yes, sir.” Would it—or wouldn't it—be better| What else was thoere to do except to take a chance, the chance of reach- | run with the blizzard back into th: ing the nearcst port before the coal | narrowing western end of the lake? gave out Of course, the coal would give out long “All right,” Capt. Dave snapped, “get | before they reached Duluth. But the there and give her all she has!|blizzard would carry them on and in your helm!” | two hours or so hurl them on Minnc- The wheelsman spun his wheel, the ' sota Point. that narrow sandbar that | Maritorz, ung to westward and |divides Duluth Harbor from the opch | headed quartering across the seas. |lake But better that than be smash-| mbling aft, felt the ship's|cd on the fangs on this north shore roll. A quartering sca. flop- | If they went on the sandbar, most of ping through the low wire fence. caught | the erew. perhaps all, would probably him the knees, flung him down | get ashore alive. | enth hatchway, then sucked him | - “Sorry, Sylvy. we can't zot mto Two tack toward the ley lake. He snatchad parbors woing back to Du- * fonre. hunt on il the wave Juth” Capt. Dave stooped over then picked himself up and | bed and stroked Sylvia's hair, crenched. He fell rather than | you haven't had eny dinner! we ware going to b> inside Two Har- bors by ater in fust a little while |and the steward cculd bring us up omething." he shouted into the stok red up at the steam gauge. shoved his throttle open ta the noteh. A shiver ran through him | “Never mind, Dave. T finishad the head to feot, but mot from his|pog of chocolates, so I'm not hungry What if there shouldn't be | Sav ‘Dave, dear—— : {h mats Two Harbors? |~ yessw ' | “I guess when we got back to Du- luth Tl act off th~ boat and stay with| mother 1 th> season’s over. I don't| lik» this \umbly weather.” | A TR Sy ! L es .| Capt. Dave stooped an: ssed her | SECRANDALL'S & careless WhY | it faid stole cut of the cabin. | 4 ¢ia ps tall me ha had enough | ~Good heavens, look at that!” Tha T ouzit to have chacked on him | mate stared. A ought to have. T'm sur-| " The Maritora's bow was lifted on one | Joil thought h2 was a|wave, her stern on, snother and her | i . midships seemed to hang in air. thought of Jed's| “isna won't stand much of that.”| said the wheelsman, shaking his head. | ‘Il tell the cross-eyed world she i se 1 s ain' t s~ eqan. | 5 lv‘.!" ‘These lake boats ain't buil i from With all hande? . Ine revenge! ~amad s»," growled Capt. H> ran up into the pitot Low ir angry west blazed a sud- | | e o N itty aies, | Now. the midships was lifted on a| rkness fell unon the lake, | crest and bov and stern hung in mkl-1 wind had climbed to a howling | @ir’ ! tha seas and flung them horizontally to| A solid wave went right over the aft joeward. Each time tha Maritora deckhouse, smashed in a gangway door |and came down into the engine room. slewed down in a trough a foilowin; ave went clean Across her deck a,,,fl«vust then Jed heard a frightened cry 1 from the stoke-hole. | v trom sterboard to port. % No dinner tonight, boys, I'm| “What's the matter? afraid.” said Capt. Dave. “I was going| A stoker pointed upward to the cargo to have the cook try to bring us up a | bulkhead. Between two slightly buc- basket of grub, but no man can live on | kled plates came a tiny gush of water. that deck.” | "Jed ran back to the telephone. Azain and again Jed Stark ran up| “Captain, there’s water in the cargo- to the deck to peer ahead through the hold!" gale. Then, at last, a whits flash on| Capt. Dave made his way down the horizon—Two Harbors light. Then , through the forecastle, where the deck the red flash of the light on the Two |hands huddled. frightened. in the Harhors breakwater. | gangways, peering out at the storm, “Thank Heaven,” he breathed, “we've jon through the windlass room and made {t!" | down a ladder into the cargo-hold. He slid down the ladder and ran into| He flashed his torch. Above were th stoke-hole. 3 the arched steel girders, spanning the ‘Shovel it in!" he velled {ship from side to side. Below was the Are we almost there, Dave?” called .red ore, mountainous 1t Th on | | heaps of | | | I 3 / Eylvia from the cabin, where she was|stretching on the length of the ship. | “lpping into her negligee. “It hops| And yes there was water, two or three and bumps sol” L “nm of it. “sloshing ‘about in the val- | “Yes, we'll be inside the breakwater | leys of the ore | tn a little while, dear.” | "As he stood there he felt the bow | Then suddenly, something amazing. | and stern lifted again on the crests of | The two lights ahead .dlmmm, van- | two waves, el the mg of the midships, | ed! Capt. Dave, the mate, the|the crackle and groan of beam an wheelsman, gasped, astounded. '~ The | girder, the stretch of plates, the wug- captain_ran to the door, wrenched 1| ging grip of ten thousand rivets, and open. Javelins blinded him. | then thelr slow. relentless shear-—the | fnow! i put fn B face, | TIyisble gush of waler through the ‘The door was flung shut in his face.| ships bottom The lights emerged slowly as two| “IUs coming In fast!” blurs, then vanished again, as utterly| He climbed back into his sitting as 1f they had been awitched out. room, peered in at Bylvia, sleeping amid “You can’t see anything!" all thia roar and smash, a yellow tousle | "‘rrlinv. " lgin(" I — t|n! hair on the plllow. He tiptoed mi he mate ran around the wheel her. lowered the center window. 'The three | men strained their eyes into the whirl- | ing white curtain. It hid even the bow of the ship, 30 feet away. | The captain reached out his arm to | the telegraph and rang down to half.| “How_far are we from the break- “',!;;;HCI-"!:':"_ filla i8I ; The .m. Iteboats on the .n' vk b , louse had hoth heen torn out of their o :“."”":,':ll:( l")’]“‘/"/:"‘." on, blind, “""“"‘l;lnvlu and carried awny, llluL] on the l zard, | for deck-house were lashed two e e e e oveE swinn peh ekt g 0! ha 7N & 0o of e, snow! T don't dare risk it, Bim. We'd 1 “gim. take & couple of men and go run on to the breakwater or the rocks, [down there and chop loose them life- e Rers 8 240 rafta. Get ‘em all read S h e do, sir “A Ilfe-raft’s no good,” the first mate For a minute the captain stood there, ' muttered under his breath. “MIght as clutching e churt-table. He scemed | well jump in the lake." i stunne A8 K00N'S you get ‘em ready let me "Then_ alowly his hands moved and'knowe - 0 & lifted the engine room telephone. | “Yes, air” “How much coal you got left, Jed?" i“N“‘ no, “About three tons, captain.” spin It out as long a8 you i il ey 1 more “Guess maybe you better get up.” “Oh, Dave, I'm 8o sleepy.” | Every time the bow rose on # Wave | 1t came up more heavily, every time it | went down 1t sank deeper deck- | LR ean’t stay In there Any | she's sinking—drown 1ike | of “Well, wn” “Yes, sir” What did the captain mean by that? | ‘There was plenty coal to gel inside the bremkwater. Just st that instant, Jed felt Irats ‘The slokers came the atoke-hole. VAl right,” sald Jed. “Clo on up! | You, George, g0 on up, too, and you, Alt ‘and Jack." he sald to’ the third expected lurch of the ship, & engineer and the two ollers, "I guess cource was sharply changed we're going to sink. You'll be caught “What's he doin' emanded Alf | like rals duwn here, all vight.” Ehmke, the third engineer, “Feels lke | “But what ahout you, Mr. Btark®" he's swinging her right aroundl” “Never mind me —go onl I'm atick- | “IIL run up and see,” exclaimed Jed. |ing here.” Before he reached the top of the| HBylvia Jadder he felt the blast of sow Whirl- | wynpped tn a long cont, Capt. Dave ng through the gang Biinded, he | wan at the wheel alone Will v peered out dnto the storm. The Nghts | hold the wheel n minute, Bylvy? Hold | of Two Hurbors vanished. The wind | it steady, vight there, 1 got to phone on the port heam nstead of the star- [ aft to (hose hoys I the engine room | bowrd quaiter! In w flash he realized | and the stoke hole (o get out. 1 we what lind happened. ‘The Cap Jiad | sink, they'll all he caught like rata” headed her round for open lake. And “Dave, we golng to dnk?” the! meant - what? Iodon't know. Bylvy 1 pray cod “We'll keep her on this course balf|notl Hellol Hellol Phone's dead!” crowding out ) n- 1t her ne up into the pllot house, | | jof | with him for an answer, there can be A wave lifi=d the propeller out of vater. Madly the engine began to race. | Jed leaped to his throttle, throttled her | fown sharply, then ran into the stoke | It wos awash with a foot of fle flung open a fire door, drove 1 fato the tiny pile of coal in | eor, tasisd the shovelful into | ce. sinmmed the fire door, ran | ea to th nest, flung a shovelful fnto ! that, slammed it shut, and then scure ried back to his throttlc. “They've got a life raft ready, Svlvy.| Now you put this coat on over yours| and go down there with Sim. H!'ll‘ tie you to t!" | “Aren't you coming, too, Dave?” \ “No, I got to stick here in the pilot | 0 ahead with Sim."” | little slender body k here with you! Of house, “WWel grew taut, course, I do!” A strange figure, sheathed in fce, peered down from the top of the lad- der into the engine room. “Jed! Come up out of there!” “Captain, how'd you get here?” “Crawled down the deck on my hands and knees! I come to get you boys out here! Come on, Jed!" “I got to stick here, Cap!" Jed yelled against the roar of engines and storm. Say, Cap!” “What?" “Found almost two tons of anthra- cite up in the cook’s galley! Lowered it down in buckets! Helped a Jot! And Cap! Look here! Got a hose You g Sylvy. 11" Sylvia {and pump rigged up to suck the water out of the stoke hole! Sucks it out almost as fast as it leaks in! Listen!” “There's 12 feet of water in the cargo hold! She can't ride much long er! Come out!" “No. 1 stick here, Cap. I got to keep the screw turning as long as there's a scrap of coal left!” “Never mind the engines! We'll let her drift and hope she floats till she hits Minnesota Point! Come on!" The | captain started up the ladder again. “1 got to get back for'ard quick! She's up there m"_the pilot house alone! “Captain! Listen! I knew there wasn't enough coal! I told a lie—-" ! b R MIND THE ENGINE: HOPE SHE FLOATS TILL SHE Hi !" THE CAPTAIN STARTED yon top of Minnesota Point this min- | ute. It's wonderful how Jed has spun that coal out! If this snow would only Uit half a second—-" “Dave, look!" Right out of the raging snow and leaping seas flashed two lights. straight things like that! You coming?” | ahead, only a ship’s length beyond the “No!" | bows. A great wave lifted the Mariiora and carried her straight between the two lights. Down she went, in a trough and there was a shock as her bottom struck. Then another wave lifted her and carried her on again. Then, suddenly, the ship ccased to and roll. The roar and crash “Shut v with that, Jed! You're off your nut!" 1 did! “Shut up! Men don't lie about “You fool, Jed! He vanished. And. as the Maritora wallowed on through the night, something new and strange was born into Jed Stark’s soul. | When Jed had got a job on a lake | freighicr, two years before, it had been | pluni merely another job. No different from | of es_was left behind. any job he had held in stoke holes or | Capt. Dave jerked open the pilot- engine rooms on shore. The ship had | house door. meant nothing to him. And all these | “Sylvy, look here!” ‘We're in!" two seasons on the lakes it had never * ” come anything. ! Alf Ehmke came tumbling down into the engine room. “Mr. Stark, we've But now. as he toiled down there alone ® | run through the ship channel! We're alone, leaping from throttle to stoke- | Tun through thy hole and back again, into Jed dawned Jed felt suddenly dizzy. He sat down Well, I got to go!™ he shouted. a dim realization of the meaning of a ship to a man. A ship has a personal- on the engine room bench, jumped up, | took a step toward the stoke hole, then | WE'LL LET HER DRIFT AND TS MINNESOTA POIN COME P THE LADDER AGAD damage to the zhip, had been his fault alone. As ho neared the forward deck house he caught sight of Capt. Dave and Syivia on the bridge. Sylvia put her arms around Capt. Dave's neck and kissed him. But the sight did not stir a fiicker of jealousy in Jed. All his bitter anger ‘against Capt. Dave had burned itself out. He halted at the rail, waiting. In a moment he would 20 up and speak to the captain. And, as he stood there. staring out over the harbor, that strange something stirred in him again, more vivid, more more conscious, something underneath +his oppression of guilt—the deep satis- faction of a man who has done his utmost to expiate a wrong. the deep realization of what | a man. | Tomb Under the Capitol. From the Pathfinder. Not many visitors to the Capitol are aware that underneath the very center ity and individuality of its own. It demands allegiance. When Jed told that lie about the coal he was unwittingly doing some- thing far more despicable than playing | a trick on his captain. 12 was being disloyal to a ship. The trick marked him as a creature to whom a job is only a job. But now. dimly at first, then more vividly, the utter treachery of his act dawned on him, and. as he toiled, he was, without quite knowing it, strug- | gling to square himself with the ship. Even the captain and Sylvia up in| the pilot house became unimportant. | He had heard the captain say that| there was no chance of saving the ship, | that the best he could hope for “lsl in Jed's face that made them fall back, to beach her, yet Jed worked on in| silent, as he made his way forward the blind, desperate belief that some-| along the ice-sheathed hatchways. how his efforts could save the ship. Yes, the ship had come through to But how could they? fety. but Jed felt no satisfaction. no “Now,” said Capt. Dave, “it's G\Tl’;tll!lnn. Only a heavier sense of guilt, two hours since we saw Two| A& more pressing need to convince tha Harbors Light. We ought to be right ! éurged and climbed slowly up to the eck. Dimly he saw a ship's length astern mountainous surf piling up a pier. And the Maritora was moving gently across the quiet security of the harbor, whose shores were hid in flying snow. “It's luck. sure”” Capt. Dave was saying to Sylvia, ut I guess moren that it was Jed keeping his engine turn- ing. so's we could hold her irue on her course.” The ollers, the deck' hands, the cook and the scullery boy crowded out upon the deck. They stared around in be- wilderment. Then they wheeled and stared at Jed. There was something captain that the peril to their lives, the of the building is a tomb bullt especial- |ly for George Washington but never occupied by him. A star in the center of the circular chamber on the first floor is the only visible indication of e tomb's location. A week after | Washington died Congress asked per- mission to bury him at the Capitol. Martha Washington agreed. but the body was never moved. When Mrs. Washington died Congress wanted to entomb her at the Capitol. but the Washington family, abetted by Virginia. would not permit it. The only use the tomb has been put to is as a bier for famous persons to lie in state. George and Martha Washington continue to rest side by side in the old tomb at Mount Vernon on the banks of the Potomac they loved so well. . Exclusive right to manufacture vege- table ivory buttons in Ecuador fer the i next 2 vears has just deen awarded by the government. Asquith Was Last of Old School VERY one in England feels today | that the death of the Earl of | Oxford and Asquith has severed | the link binding us to the past. | It is not only a man who has gone; but a generation. For Lord As- quith has left no successor. We are new men. He stood for the type of public| servant and party leader which the swirling tides and hectic business of | our time have discarded. He never ' yielded to the mad pace which our public life has assumed, to its sleepless | agitations and never-ending concerns | which have invaded the repose of the | mind and the leisure of work. He be- longed to the days when our statesmen drank port and read the classics in their proper tongues and spent their week ends in leisurely fashion and | spoke in rounded, sonorous perfods. 1 had been in the House of Commons with him since 1906, and with the ex- | ception of one home rule issue and| fts consequent parliamentary move like the Parllament act—1 rarely agreed | with him. Only once did I sit by his| side. hat was when the opposition | was divided between the Liberals and | Ives In the short Parllament of | But there was a bigness about the man which made strong political dif- ferences appear insignificant and which always commanded homage and re- spect. His mighty intellect seemed cold | and formal. One’s heart was never warmed at his fires. But his steadied | head and invigorated solid faculties divided the truth from error and cloths | ed his thoughts and arguments in dic- tion of Roman demeanor. Asking myself now what it was that marked him out among our public men, | and reviewing the years I have btfl\; doubt ubout the reply. It was the di nity of his mind , They say-—and, indeed, facts prove it —that those who were admitted to the privacy of hi life were bound to him by loyalties that defied both time and fortune. His wealth of conversation, his good humor, his genial humanity that dwelt beneath the mask he wore, his easy-going tolerance, his catholicity, made him one of those rare beings—a genial and enduring friend. He was a shy man, however, & man whose doors were not wide open to any one who cared to enter them-—-a man | who was not* one of thoss “hall fellow, | well met” crentures, whose smile means | nothing and whose hand 18 no bond. He was ever & man who met strangers with A chilling greeting that frequently seemed like n rough growl or a snap. And as A result few came to sit on his easy chars, where, amid the whirling smoke, they could find and enjoy the real man One night T sat besids him at the table of & rich young man whom he had taken to his bosom. 1t had been a troublesome day for him i the Houss of Commons. Andrew Honar Law had been rudely nsulting. It was at the tme of the parllament bill. T saw that he was disturbed, but t one word of what had happened crossed his lips. One would have thought he was u pleas- ant man of the world, without & care ruMing his mind, Often have I won- deved why it was that the man who re- vealed himselt to me that night was so little known among those -who shared his parilamentary tife, who fought with him i his dally battles. For, Indeed, Itke all men who caved for the Joys of the cultured life, who et tradition and who value the spa- elous nonorous harmonies, he was what W oealled & man of the world, whose eye apirkled Wit m merry, knowing twinkle and whose langh 1evealed the deep wells of enjoyment within But i public he was apart. He often went through the diviston lobbies with out turning to the vight or to the left With a short, rapid atep, he went down BY J. RAMSAY MACDONALD. Former Prime Minister of Great Britain. THY EARL Prom a Pami OF ONVORD AND ASQUITH W Solomon J, S the cortidors without u glance of vecog- nitlon, In the House of Commons itself, he gave the fmpression of & mountain standing alone, high over the surround- g hills, and holding communton not with them, but with (he stars—-or per- haps with himaelt There ave two Kinds of magical ova- ( Lloyd George terest to the confie gave forth the heavy, smashing metal that shattered the foundations, t polities and the cconomies of the Tart Reform Lea He was a leader who did not cow heering popularity, but who was v warded with well established confidence tory ere 1 the spatkling Rush of |/ who caved litile for the publicty or the thought and feellng upon Which (he | yewards of demagogy. but who cared lghts of imagmation and emotion Aash | 16 Solid work Sy done. who lved i and play. That type overwhelms with | pot upon, the st face f (hings : its force, blinds by s brilliance. But i pe did not enfoy the lust of battle that was not his kind of oratory. His e fought because he had to nght Bat Waa the slow-moving, majestice mass when he went to battle he \\l":\(' that flows 1w ateady, tmpervious food | throngh 1t sturdily. He was not ntble: | WIthout A Fipple upon §s surface Some- | he was slow. But you knew wheve he | times 16 was formal, sometimes 1t was | was And therefore he was 1ot alwass dead, sometimes we speculated, as 1t syecesaful leader Lighter qualities in volled along, What would be the second |public Hfe not nfrequently got the bet- | or third adjective or adverb e would | ter of him aud at last he had to lay | string o his substantive verbs. But the | down his staff of authority and vetive | next morning 1t read ke a plece of fio (he House of Lords and (o the lawns | pure, fintshed lterature 16 ha didi't | along the banks of the Thames at Sut- always apeak well, he alwaya vead well | ton Courtney The apeeches -certainly Parts of them | dignity and Which he made i the early days of the | sholtered by war are worthy of being placed along- 1 the blurting, lde the best ever apoken by an Athentan | strong tongue When he entered polities he heton His argument was always a struetune. | to the radieal sehool of social vafoom never a formieas heap of reasons He [ The At tnge of soctalism was appe DUl up his case e upon Hne, precept | tng ke a flush of prak on the \\\m:n, upon precept - and when i was Andshed mimd. At the univeisitias there was a A waa (Al (0 1ook upen. Tn (hat con- | movement to make the world batter foversy of the Tians which vaged [as Lord Eshar i bis latest ook of avound protection betwern 1004 and | reminiscences, tss us they exprossad it 1008, his part was easily the most de- | (hemselves -and young men from the | atruetive. The Bght nature of Winston Lelect and select cireles cams wnder 16 | Churchul and the dashing audacity of influence. They read John Ruskin and ' but Mr There he taught us the | beauty of @ calm mind | fta own self-respect from | NOIY - winds (hat blew | | ‘| 1 not Know | and | Thomas Carlvle. Asquith was those in the movement But to them.the phrases and slcgans of political radicalism were well nigh dead. Int was shifting from politi- cal to social democracy. Events were aiso about to happen which were to revive interest .in - British imperiaiism and were challenge all parties in British politics to define their attitude t as an acquisitive world of the old genera t old slogans and ism to be s sin. The young ns saw, something more than tinsel In the dominion empire. tone and Harogurt were in Rosebery and Asquith in the e of imper general i c other. The Boer War broke out and Asquith d intcd the radicals. Those were t and disruption agues, days of open hostility ders sitting side by side in Yet, although een lea liberal bench ith was definit o side of the imperialists. he ws d by the narrow enmitie s colleague: He recog- ties of Sir Henry Camp- n as A leader of the liberal party, and when that rtv was called for by the ev 1! tand loyally ly possible leader end pronounced upon him ulogy that rang with & sin- ! on such occasions. ext war found the nation it perhaps has never been e or since—and he lifted the emo- of the people onto planes of stern, mination. What took place enes in those vears is still ¢ whispered rumor and of to print n idle winds. He has undoubtedly left m records of what he knew eod or evperienced. But during he gave forth to the world no g vevelations like Bismarck. He Kept his silence and gave us neither enlightenment nor guidance, Phe 1iber fored greater humt next vear wted and in oo election smote 1 st my Then. when Ladar was returned as the seoond party and was about to pe office, NIv. Asquith made th blunder of his lite Speaking at ational Lideral Clud the election, he used de an approach from gy v impossible. He evidentd At we would go in and make ¢ by being unequal to the of governing an emyp Doubtless he felt that 1 hold office for & brief ok h or so and that upon our fatture Al would retum to faver and to What moved him to this T da 1t Was fatal When 1 read Dis speech at & fiveside far remate from the center of things, 1 could not de eve that his sagacious judgmens hae falled. But it was History telis the test In the end the Liberals had to sup- pott that hollaw and Wigust plea that untus political xterforence had bdeen AL WK I the Campbell case, whea Communist was jrosecuied for sedition the prosecuiion had deen withs drawn. And W the electin that fuls owed. My Asquedth, (0 the personal re- el O @very ane, was defeated Paisley and ceased (0 Do & membder of the House he had led and ruled by his miellectual power and enthralled by Rix mastertul aratoy But his (roubles Were not aver and agaiin Was he stricken. vet he stood amil his frtunes as great W his ad- veisily as he had been i his power His memary will stand the wearing ot TN vears. The wisia of time may x\u‘\‘v nuuhmm but what will he be Dald Wil he a form of seren nity AN WIIOved Tectitude, " oo be the Asqu h by t much of it s At anv b or bal Tabor pa thought we w m Lib powet Again