Daily British Whig (1850), 18 May 1912, p. 9

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YEAR 79. NO. 118. Lhotobraplied : Irom the J. CEPOIIH IE pe praphe The sinking of the glant White Star liner I'itanie, after having col lided with, an lccberg, going down with mord" that 1,600. © sowie; haw quickened. the pulse of every mas- ter of the great steamships that ply the Northern route between this country and Europe. And well it may, for all perfls of the deep are as nought compared with the aw- fulness of striking one of those buge pleces of floating ice, That is was & submerged shelf of ice that dealt the death blow to the Titanje there is no doubt, and it sebms sirange that there should be on record an insthce of an- other vessel beigg similarly injur- ed, although not so deriously, for she managed to maké port. This vessel was the British steamer Nessmore which made Halifax 2 few years ago with her bows stove in. When she was docked for te pairs it was found that there was a deep score extending two-thirds the length of the bull, : Four frames were broken and many of the plates were almost out through, showing that had the impact been greater the plates would have been cut through and the vessel must have been overwhelmed by the inrush of water which no pumps could have checked. At the inquiry that followed the ~skipper 'of the Nessmore testified that after striking the berg he backed off and changed his course and expressed the belief that it was possible that the - steamer had struck a projecting ledge deep un- der the water, for there was clear water between his ship and he berg up ta thé moment of striking. Icebergs have always ben a 'er ror to navigators since the sailing of the # ne-Atlantic vesss) from America "Eurppean po "us. In the beginning it was customary for stoamers Salling eastward to edge 'along ithe coats until they made Cape on the lower o»- tremity of Newfoundland, their just landfall and, westward, to make this point their first Inad- fall. = This course too vessels "alrly across. the ind Banks, a region of 45 per cent. fog and in a lew years the coast around Cape Race became strewn with wrecks of vis sels that had lost their beariazs and had piled up on the rockbound coast. Eo About 10 or 13 years ago, ihe several big steamship companies made an t to adopt a course knowm (as the Northern route steamers and a Southern route for ensthounnd steal ~The Ni Trou 0 a raed reales took her from . Queenstown in a southwesterly di- lhe OO Carpaliuag eastbound ships, did not clear of ice, and so the various steamship companies have laid off mew ocean lanes, this time still far- ther to the south. To the arm-chair navigator, no- thing is more certain than the be- lief that if one will draw a bucket of fresh sea water and place in it a thermometer, a rapid fall of the mercury wil at once denote the presence of ice. This is a fallacy, proven by numerous experiments by ship masters and by naval officers who have sought, and sought an- xiously, for some real indication of the whereabouts of bergs when the air is thick with fog. Shipmasters, in making experi: ments along this line, have found that at the point where the waters of the Labrador curren and the Guif Stream commingle there is fre- quently a difference of 20 degrees in the temperature of the surface sea water within a distance of 2 few hundred yards, and not a piece of ice within 20 miles. On the other hand, in clear weather, these same shipmasters have passed close to huge bergs and noted no dif- ference in the temperature of the water they have drawn to test. Not in many years have there heen s0 many bergs reported as during the past few weeks. Not only have the floating fields been larger in extent but they have been reported many miles to the south put her DRINK CURE A MIRACLE. No, Just Sound Science. Many drunkards are sent to jofl when what they need is medicine. Drink has undermined their constitn- tions, inflamed their stomach and nerves, until the craving 'must be sa- tisfied, /# it is not removed by a scientific prescriptidn like Samaria. Samaria Prescription stops the craving, restores the shaking nerves, builds up the health and appetite and renders drink distasteful, even naus- ous. Tt js odorless amd tasteless, and dissolves instantly in tea, cofiee or food: It cam be given with or without the patient's knowledge. Read what it did for Mrs. G,, Vancouver * "1 was so anxious to get my hus- band cured that 1 west up to Harrl son Drug Store, and gdt your remedy there. 1 had no trouble giv without his knowledge. thank yoa for all th ness that it broug home. ing to what he wonld ing. The curse of dr was putting v grave, but now I feel so bright. May the Lord be wit ou and help you in curing the evil don't want my name published." Now, if you know of any unietun, ol | were | | shelter, on he Saily 0 ~ KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1912, * ish A Z HE PERIT. OF THE DEED Pa -------------- -- VIEERN OOD A UI DERN OLIV: clceberd Phot S of where in the they have been reported past From western Green- land, where the bergs originate, come reports bf remarkable free- dom or ice, indicating that en- \ the tire formation has worked way its {into the Aatlantic to become a men i ace to shipping. In western Greenland the be rgs are in formation all of the year, but in the middle of summer the ice begins to break up, setting adrift thousands of these flotillas of ma- Jestic but terror-inspiring forma- tions, many of which reach. the Grend Banks the following spring. In size these bergs vary, but one taat is from 60 to 100 feet to the top of its walls, with spires or pin- nacles from 200 or 275 feet high, and a length of 1,000 to 1,600 feet is considered to be an ordinary Arctic berg. 'These measurements, however, apply only to the part that may be geen, which is gener- #lly conceded to be but one-ninth of the size, cight-ninths being un- ayy He wailer, \:hen a berg, such as described, breaks acvilt from the ice pack it starts on hs southward journey via tire Lal vador current. Its drift not an casy one, however, for the whole coast of Labrador is cut up by uumerous islands, headlands and bays that form serious, and, rerhaps, fortunate obstructions for the bergs. 'Some of them ground in the Arctic basin and are ground to small pieces; others reach the shores of Labrador, where they con- tinually ground and float, each time reducing their bulk. Many of them disappear entirely through the steady grinding. It is rémarkable sometimes requires to break up a huge berg, Often the concussion of gunfire will cause a huge white monster to split Striking a rock will have the same effect. Fisher- men and whalers give the bergs a wide berth, fearing they will be caught 'beneath a portion should the berg split. The noise of the rending of the bergs along the Lab- rador coast during July and August is said to be almost deafening at times. But ia spite of the long drift and the many obstructions some of the huge hergs do reach the open wa- ters of the North Atlantic and there have 'been, from time to time, re- ports of having sighted gigantic floes, some of which were said to be 300 to 600 feet high and 1,00 to 2,000. feet long Allowing a little for imagination, and something for the breadth of the berg, one has to admit that a steamer striking such a floe would have but little chance. In one instance an iceberg prov- ed to be a floating home for a com pany or 27 men, members of the erew of the exploring steamer Pol- aris, which, in 1872, was crushed in an ieepack. The men managed t0 save a vast quantity © of the ship's stores and were also fortun- ate in finding themselves upon solid ice when the pack broke up. In a short time the men discovered that they were upon a berg that was drifting to sea. As long as the borg held together they felt that they no knowing the many horrible hours they had through the 185 days and nights they were adrift upon their strange craft. It was on the last day of 'April that they 'managed to attract the attention of the sailing steamer Tigress and in a little while they were safely on and enroute to civilization, Surely no party could have had a more 'terrible experience or a clos- er shave. Another instance in which is how little it Castlegate sought refuge upon a berg with which their vessel had 'collided and sunk from the injury. For two days and nights the men d adrift with practically no whereas the crew of the lop rapled were safe, although there is! 7 Lid LEE 4 / a there broke The most that ever skipper of persuaded cle berg that the passen gers might take pictures of it. The genial skipper commodated them and steamed close in. The steam er .ran a portion the berg that was under the water The movement of the steamer disturbed the equilibrium of the 'berg and it turned over The Portia was 1lift- ed clear of the water as the of ice under arose, and might have happened is a matter of conjecture, but the ice broke and the ship once more settled into aer native element. It is safe to say that no more passengers with cam- sprang up the heérg a saip the to when the approach some 180 80 of over of 120t what her | eras will be accominodated by that particular shipmaster, who after- wards doclared that it was the narrowest escape from disaster that any man could have, Even the hardy Newfoundland fishermen, with all their knowledge and skill, are sometimes victims, There was the bark Nellie that sailed in May, 1910, with a crew of ten Before dark the two su:- vivors were back in port, having been picked up from a floating spar by another fisherman. The Nellie had struck a berg The sailing schooner Albatross, with a crew of twenty-two, sailed in March of the year before, never to be heard of again. The presumption is that she struck a berg shortly after leaving port for the weather was foggy. * : There is not a year but what fishing and sealing craft hailing but of St. John's and other far north ports disappear, victims of what no one knows, hut it is generally con- ceded that icebergs play a princi- pal part in the tragedies that are never told. From April to October the Grand Banks off Newfoundland are veiled by heavy fogs through which the giant, pallid glaciers drift in silence, borne by the currents and wind in a general southerly direc tion, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and not until they strike the warmer water that flows in the Gulf Stream do they begin to melt Of the ships that have colMded MAKE DYSPEPSIA VANISH. Distrtss From Gas, Heartburn and Indigestion Go in Five Minutes. Every family here ought to keep some Iiapepsin in the house, as any one of you may have an attack of In- digestion or Stomach trouble at any time, day or night. This harmless preparation will di gest anything you eat and overcome a distressed, out-of-order stomach five minutes afterwards. : If your meals don't tempt vou, or what little you do eat seems to fill you, or lays like a lump of lead in your stomach, or if you have heart- burn, that is a sign of Indigestion. Ask your Pharmacist for a Se. ease of Pape's- Diapepsin, and take a little just as soon as you can. There will be no sour risings, no belching of un- Jood mixed with acd, no stomach gas or heartburn, fuliness or heavy feeling in the stomach, Nausea Debilitating Headaches, Dizziness or irtestinal griping. This will all go and, besides, there will be no sour food left over . in the stomach to poison your breath with nauseous odors. Pape's Di ja i* a certain cure tor out-ohonies" slomiohs, beset nu prevents fermentation and takes hold of your food and digests it just the same as if your stomach wasn't Relief in five minutes from all sto- mach misery is at your drag store Es Rares de. casen of , cases ape's contain more than sulle cient to cure any case of a, or any other Stomach | i {is abandoned. ! | { i jackal the 77x these floating islands and 'hed port to tell there are deed it a question what 'to the ship that is 3 month after not many; | does posted | month, | and all hope is he years escape Even ly to Arctic sue steam withstand ice craft built especial- | the h¥rd usage of ib. The Wolf, the! Hope, the Mastiff, the Resolute, the | Eliott and many others are on the | records\as lost in the ice--some by | being caught in packs and crushed, | Otlers. from colliding with bergs. | Among the long list of "missing," is the Collings liner Pacific, which is supposed to have struck a berg and gone down with all hands. A} few years ago one of the "Turret" steamers, a huge freighter, sailed from Baltimore with wheat for Eyr- ope. She took the Northern route and she has long since been posted as "missing." Her fate is not known | but it is not unlikely that she struck a berg. It 18 no wonde that the sink- ing of the Titanic her caused every shipmaster running a trans-Atlantic route to be apprehensive lest a like fate. befall him. : ANCESTRY OF Between Skulls Indian Wolves and Canines. Harper's Weekly It seems to be DOGS, Resemblance of generally accepted by naturalists and the world at larg that the domestic dog is in some sense a collateral descendent of the wolf or A professor in the Natural Museum in Paris History | has communicated results of his study of various eanioe skulls to the Academy of Sciences, He appears to have noticed certain peeu- liarities of growth which have hitner- to escaped zoologista, He states that the skull of almost every species of wolf and jackal differs from the skull of the shepherddog to an extent that it impossible that this dog should belong in the same classi: fication SRE I'he skull of the Indian woll, on the contrary, points of re is the only we canine the top of whose head projects like that of our dog There are, moreover, other sharke teristics which the Indian wolf has in common with the dog and which the ordinary wolf does not share with them, although his origin and that of the dog have long been supposed to a common one. I'he conclusion of" this scientist is that the Indian wolf is the progeni- tor of the shepherd-dog and -the blood hound. There were two primitive rades of dogs gnalogues to these which were first domesticated in Centra, Asis, whence they passed t3° Europe, and there seems no reason to doubt that the bloodhound of to-day is the di rect descendent of the dog spoken of by the ancients as "the dog of the age of bronze." makes - shows This, some semblance indeed, Annual Massacre of Workingmen. In 1907, according to the United States Geological Survey, 3125 men were killed and 5316 injured in coal accidents in the 22 states that produce 98 per cent. of the Amer} can coal; in 1908, 2540 were killed and 6772 injured. ending with 19208 19 469 men were killed in the coal mines of these States. The Interstate Commerce Com- mission reports that in the seven years ending with 1908, 28885 employes were killed and 335,964 were injured on the railroads of the country. According to the United States Census Bureau of all deaths of sdult males from 1900 to 1908 inclusive 126.587, of 9.1 per cent., were due to accidents, and the United States Bureau of Labor says: "It is safe to assume that about one-half of the deaths from accidents among males is the result of industrial employ- ments."--New York World. -- the instalment "My husband heard of Peruna and bought five bottles. This treatment vir | Whig ~ SECOND, PART "Every One Thought I Had Consumption.' Pe-ru-na Saved Me." "I THANK DR. HARTMAN FOR PE-RU-NA" A "I hardly know how to thank you for the good Peruna has done me. "I suffered five years with pain in the stomach. About a year ago it Became | | #0 bad I could hardly bear it. I coughed day and night and grew weaker and | weaker, The pain extended through my body and I also had difficulty in | breathing, which made me cough. 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