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from ashe over the the inese _ the tical H 13 gathering Then, driven back away from life just as it seemed to be in their bleedâ€" Ing hbhands, they saw the Volendam putting out of Bermuda in the twiâ€" light. They watched her come toâ€" ward them, then sheer off to the right. They groaned. . Peter succeeded in lighting a wet match. The red flare sputtered in the fading light full of purple dimness. . And all at once the Volendam sheered out of her course, stopped and then backed into the galo, stern to them. The iast man up puilâ€" ed the plug and sank their boat." A red flare faming up over the darkenring waters had been sighted, so we are told, from the bridge of the Volendam as she headed away from Bermuda for New York. That flare was the ‘ast desperate cffort of the exhausted men in their drifting boat to get once more in touch with the life that woas so rapidly leaving them. Says the World story : Potter and Bill and His crew had pulled and sailed into a gale 400 miles, just up to the gate of Bermuda. Then slowly the wind pushed them back. Their blankets and sheots, rigâ€" ged up on oars and a harpoon haft for sails whipped futtlely in the gale. They slipped back. They had been within a mile of the reef. not more than eleven or tweive miles from Bermuda. ol th Yesterday "BHll" still h book, and he had proba more during those seve open boat, between sp and pulling at an oar prayerâ€"books ever are their whole existence. the story â€" Volendam Bill‘s ince the r throw preva lines of weariness, "the first thing he asked for was a bottle of rum and a Bible," § It happened that they didn‘t have a Bible on the Horatio Foss, the old tub of a fourâ€"masted schooner, which now lies somewhere in a thousand fathoms of Atlantic. They had a prayerâ€"book. Yesterday "Bill" still had that prayerâ€" book, and he had probably thumbed it more during those seven days in the thirtyâ€"yearâ€"old caDhi;lfl;va 'tho founder ed schooner, with a titred grin. SEVEN DAYS IN OPEN BOAT â€" _ IS ADVENTURE UPâ€"TOâ€"DATE Wignitte®l, ud sdsc dth 2c d 1 sea in ships," as tmeles sas the gray waters that had tossed their cockleâ€" shell of a boat to and fro so many weary hours. In essence it has been told a thousand times in song and story, but the thrill of it is still "as new as the newâ€"cut tooth." There is something about the sea ard man‘s cternal struggle to tame its tremendâ€" ous forces to his will that has the power to stir us all to the very depths, a call of the primitive that finds an answer in every heart. Here is the tale of these nine men and their boat as recorded for us in the columns of the New York World: "It wasn‘t no pienic," gaid Chief Mate Gene Bradell. "Next time I‘ll take more fruit and’ less beet," said William D. Poiter, the Ameeotthomflehwuhtho salty tang of a forecastle yarn by Joseph Conrad or Clark Russell was brought to light on October 30, when the Volendam, of the Hollandâ€"America Line, carrying a number of bankers on a holiday Junket, picked up in the dangerous waters off Bermuda an open boat containing eight white men and a Jamaica negro. These men, shipwrecked seven days before, were almost spent with battling drainst wind and waye, and, to make rtten worse, their provisions and water had come to an end. Their tale .as they told it, when warmea and fed aboard the hospitable liner, was as old as the race of men "that go down to the sea in ships," as timeles sas the gray waters that had tossed their cockleâ€" shell of a boat to and fro so many Npve ww Y 2200 C Thrilling Tale rpt am h i1 ine men from th uled to and m cef at Bermuda,‘ € °© newâ€"cut tooth." There is about the sea and man‘s ruggle to tame its tremendâ€" J to his will that has the tir us all to the very depths, the primitive that finds an f ilMmos most prayed the other n that twentyâ€"t+woâ€"foot ito craziness. â€" Captaia ‘t talk much about that. ‘ he said. Nevertheless, gone about on board the how, balf insane from it eJaculations to Delty, ca negro. These men, seven days before, were t with battling d#ainst ty and made a lee just trmuda," he said, "arnd vn a ladder over the The last man up pull " ‘nfecastle yarn by or Clark Russell was on October 30, when f the Hollandâ€"America & number of bankers me it," said the big ho was cook. Joseph :e, but everybody on this of Nine Men Afloat on Atlantic With Food Aang_Wpter Gone n nd h on." said the cut deep with first thing he of rum and a : of bailing than most umbed _ in A CONRAD TALE f th th N t T J in Potter bitter Bill tho'And while his crew dragged the inâ€"‘‘4e ®3 "Volendaim woighs ling| strument through the heaving dark and steod out from Haimilton nost| water, Potter swam back and was 4ad4 seon that a dozen red f! in | pulled in over the gun‘l. lbeeu stowed in his boat b "We rigged a sea anckor and lay to Abandoned ship. _ Now he ther | ali day there," he said. "At five a.m.,! One of theso and got it ligl foot| an bhour after abandoning, my ship|the twilight that ~red signa taia| went down. Sheâ€"eank by the head. |the eyo of the Dutch captain, hat.| We rowed over to the spot, but ail|ing. on the "Volendam‘s" bri ess,| that floated up was a lifeâ€"presorver,| within hal? an hour the nine 1 the| Well, we rigged up three sails Wa)had been beaten back towa rom | had two sheets, a blanket and a small by the gale, found the "Vol »ity,| plece of canvas. For spars we usedladder dangling over their I to| two oars and a harpoon haft. Beâ€"heads. While the island had tter| sides this we kept pulling on the oars. |from them, this floating ste tter | _ "Two men had to be bailing ali the Came ont ard picked them 1 time. The boat had so knocked , Friendly hands caught the Volâ€"| against the ship some, ond she was Ccams warm food and clothes ittal leaking prott> bau. But we fourd she| drink. A collection was tak | rodo very well it we kept hor headed the bankers. It was all a ro: just | right. â€" We headed for Bormuda by| for Bill with his prayermâ€"b ‘and’the compass." f ?P(-wm(m the bos‘r, and Tom the? ‘That was the beginning of the long the donkeyman, and all the Potter watched his <compass and tried to get every bit of forward moâ€" tion he could out of the contrary wind. Though they were nine, the ocean became lonelier and lonelier. Now and then a sea bird came over head in the wet murk with a haunting ery. The only other life they saw was a dolphin. For three days the doiphin played alongside and around The nine men talked little. They measured out the food and drink. There wasn‘t a drop of rum in the boat; hadn‘t been any on the schoonâ€" er. They measured out the beef and tomatoes and water, and watched their store shrink. They saw nothing but the gale and the ocean,. The sea was as big as the sky, and the sky as big as the sea. _ Everything was gray and immense and destructive. Always when the two bailing men were spellied by their comrades they dropt over against a thwart and went to sleep, They dared to sleep, and had to, in order to have strength for more bailing in the next watch. And Bill the cook prayed. . If Bill had been devout before, he was plous now. He prayer, he doxologized, he halleuliahâ€" ed Tha salt water came slatting over in sheets every time the launch smacked down into a wave, but Bill kept his prayerâ€"book dry. ~When the gale slackened away a bit and things faired up, Bill would shout: "See what Fadder sent us!" When things got worse again and the wind howled hungrily all around them, Bill would shout still louder: "Fadder ain‘t ready for us yet!" The days that followed were lived through somehow by the forlorn little party. Most of them had not the faith of the negro to uphold them,and it was hard to fight off despair. The picture drawn for us of their unhappy state is a poignantly moving ona: week, the longest week those ning men ever will live. Two hands had to be bailing with biscuit tins all! the while. Others were at the oars. Potâ€" ter sat up in front and managed things. For seven days he never lay down to sleep, In the first place, there wasn‘t room to lie down. In the second place he didn‘t dare. "All you could do was catrnap now and then when you had the chance," he satd wearily. . "Onee I curled up on top the biscuit tin, but couldn‘t sleop." "We pulled back the boat until we the got about twenty feet off. I‘d striped | £@A!k off my clothes. Then 1 jumped in land and swam to the ship." ‘ T1 The captain broke the compass out| then of the foundering _ schooner‘s binâ€" hark nacle. Then he grabbod a handiine| in« and threw one end to the boat and | WA made the other fast to the compass.l T4 And while his crew dragged the in-f'“e strument through the heaving dark and water, Potter swam back and was b@4 pulled in over the gun‘l. | been "We rigged a sea anchkor and lay to AbD@L ali day there," he said. "At five a.m.,! 0"° an hour after abandoning, my ship|the went down. Sheâ€"sank by the head.}|the We rowed over to the spot, but all|in&. that floated up was a lifeâ€"presorver,| With Well, we rigged up three sails. We)had had two sheets, a blanket and a small| bY t plece of canvas. _ For spars we used i ladd two oars and a harpoon haft. Beâ€" head sides this we kent pulling on the oars | from tim Dawn was just breaking, the wind was screaming, the Foss was sinking low into the water, her bows half unâ€" der, and the nine men were 400 miles north of Bermuda. "I thought I‘d counted noses," said Potter, "But after wo were away, I found we‘d only eight aitogether. Then I looked back and saw Olsen hanging onto the painter. We got bim in. We didn‘t dare get too close to the ship for fear of getting a stove boat. When we‘d got a safe distance awar, I remembored then that we had no cempass. 1 knew we had to get the ship‘s compass somehowâ€"a tenâ€" inch compass it was. axe dropped it Sea. The day before abandoing ship Potâ€" ter, who believed in being â€" beforeâ€" kand, had looked the situation over and decided the ship‘s launch hardly would take his whole crew with the weight of the gasoline engine in it. so ue had ordered the engine shipped. Now, when the time came to get away he was in fair shape. Bill came sweatâ€" ing from the galley with a case of beef, a case of tomatoes, some old cans of salmon, and a few biscuits. A water beaker holding about twenty gallons was stowed athwart. Another fiveâ€"gallon tin of water was added. Then the boat was slung out from the davits. The falls were useâ€" less. So the boat was slung from a rough tackle and two blows from an of her length. She was registered out ot__Bpston at 846 tons. We now have a glimpse of Captain Potter, safe and sound in his cabin on the Volendam, reading from the log of the Foss, carefully preserved by him through all these perilous ‘days, the story of the beavy gales that at l(st forced him to leave his sinking vessel. He then takes up his. tale once more by word of mouth. Th W n he beg A ead p 1 two blows from an flat into the running M and manraged he never lay e first place, down. In the s $T. ANDREW‘S CATHEDRAL (Anglican) At Sidney, Australia, which it is proposed to take down and reâ€"erect at Canberra, Australia‘s new federal capital, this fine (and for Australia) old Cathedral. * ,them. The sea ahead was all foamâ€" Ilng, hungry waves, closing in on the nine men like a pack of gray wolves. | | _ _One night the friendly doiphin flipâ€" ‘ped his tail and vanisher and never, | came back. Perhaps ho felt the preâ€"| sence <f a dark shadow gathering over i!haQ boat. _ Voices which had hbeen | cheorful at first became morose. The| extausted bailers growled when theyi changed watch. _ Everybody was comâ€"| |stantly wet with the rasping salt !water and their hands blod and their ‘bodies, chafed by saltâ€"stiff clothing, broke out with sores. Tho climax | came on the seventh day. There were | seven biscuits left in the tin. In the waterâ€"beaker swished about three gallons of stale stuff, They sighted land ahoadâ€"Bermuda. | l That land was only to tantalize thom. Betwoen them and the rising harbor back of Bermuda was a gale of ;wind that pushed them slowly backâ€" ward tihe way they had come. ! That was last Friday. At 3,30 p.m. the bix "Volendam" woighed anchor Beside the ijron fence that skirted the grass ta the park sat an artist,. He was making a sketch of the trees opâ€" posite, whosa leaves were glorious in their autuman tints. Presently two littie urchins drew near, then came and stood behind him, watching with intense {nterest evéry brush stroke he mado. They saw him mix color with color, till gradually the sketch took shape, spreading 4tself over the paper untii there was hardly any white to ba scen. Quite suddenly one of the boys broke the silence. "Just fancy, Fred," he said, "a little while ago that was a lovely piece of white paper!" A leader in the automotive industry says there is room for many more autontobiles in this country. Doesn‘t he mean in "the" country? A stiriking snapshot of men and hor Hawthoru Hill, England. do n n tha s last Friday. At 3,30 p.m. Volendam" woighed anchor out from Haimilton,. Potter hat a dozen red flares had ed in his boat before he ship. Now he took out so and got it lighted. In t that ~red signal caught the Dutch captain, de Konâ€" + ‘‘Volendam‘s" bridge, and an hour the ninc men, who beaten back toward death e, found the "Volendam‘s" gling over their sagging wile the island had receded . this floating steel island ard picked them up. hands caught thein, There i food and clothes and hot ‘ollection was taken up by . Ti was all a rosy dream vith his prayerâ€"book, and o bos‘r, and Tom Del Rae. man, and all the othersâ€" wedes. Italian:, and Amertâ€" ravry Digest. Adding "Atmosphere" to Canberra "While longitude had been deterâ€" mined at many points on the earth‘s surface, they were less exact than the radio longitude campaign. The comparison of the clocks at two wideâ€" ly separated points was made by sigâ€" nals sent over land wires or subâ€" marine cables, and there were many relays in the land wires whoih interâ€" fered with the telegraph signals. In the radio longitude survey the time of transmission did vary from night to night, dependent upon the adjustâ€" ment of relays with the radio signal. Very little apparatus, however, was used, and the transmission time through the atmosphere is that of the velocity. of light, 186,245 miles per second. ERROR IS FRACTIONAL. "The accuracy of radio longitude as determined last year is indicated by the closure of a circuit involving obâ€" The United States Coast and Geoâ€"‘ detic Survey would answer these questions in the negative, basing lts= assumptions or regults of the worldâ€"| wide radio longitude campaign conâ€"| ducted in October and November,: 1926, by thirty countries. These were approximately thirtyâ€"five astronomic stations where observations â€" were made each clear night on the stars asthey passed the meridian, These observations enabled the observers to determine their local time. The clocks at the various stations were comparâ€" ed by means of radio signals sent by cne of a dozen of the most powerful' radio stations of the world. Major William A. Bowie, who reâ€" presented the United States at the Prague meeting, expressed the followâ€" ing views: "The campaign was a great success in every way. We now know, or soon shali know, after computations of all have been made, the exact longitude of each station taking part in the campaign. These stations will now be bases for astronomic work, charts, maps or surveys of various countries and groups of islands. Are the continents and islands driftâ€" ing? _ Are we affioat in 140,000,000 square miles of water, since the earth‘s land surface is only 57,000,000 square miles? These and other vital questions were discussed at the third general congress of the Geodetic and Geophysical Union recently held at Prague, Czechoslovakia. Astronomers Take Observations on Stars Passing Meridian Then Compare Local Time With Radio Signals From World‘s Master Clocks The Most Thrilling Race of All Scientists Use Radio to Check Drift of Continents and Isles ovEr THE WATER JUMP w rses poised in midair during the ruuning of the Staines‘ Handicap at TORONTO "There is a slight land force acting on continental masses due to the earth‘s rotation, which is believed to make continents drift toward the equator. This drifting would be modified by the earth‘s rotation, with the resuitant Cdirection being westâ€" ward. ‘The officials of the Coast and Geodetic Survrey and many other stuâ€" dents of the earth believe this force totally inadequate to break continents away from their setting in the earth‘s crust and move them about like chips on a mill pond. "It may take us years to find out! AUNFOTA, altractingk Government ofâ€" k whether Wegener is right or wrong, ::‘:ll:'le‘: the only city with an excess ‘ % ‘ but the test will come when the very‘ s s accurate longitude determinations of| us g C 1926 are reproduced in the future. If,| The ukulele is now an accepted musâ€" He: Sally is a good girl. for instance, the new value of tho! ical instrument, and specifications for She: Yes, good at petting, maybe. distance of Washington and Greenâ€" an approved standard pattern Inve! Sitrmitormmtiffcsomtmme wich, say, ten or twenty years from been adopted by an organization: of _ Now the stores are introducing now, is 100 féet, we shall be justified manufacturers of musical instruments, rainbowâ€"hued kitchen utensils; pots, in claiming that North America has ‘ It is just as well that such an organâ€" pans and electric appliances done in changed its relation to Europe. If ization did not exist in the days of red, blue and green. Doubtless the idea the distance is only five or ten feet,! Amati, Stradivarius, and Guarnerius is to add a touch of color &r an aiready we would consider it was due to un-iin Cremona._ M lmd place. _ "Professor Alifred Wegener of Ausâ€" tria formulated a hypothesis which has appealed to many earth students, Pépciaiy biologists, who are conâ€" fronted with problems of accounting for the distribution of animals over the earth‘s surface. The same species of animal are present on all the conâ€" tinents, and the question has been asked for generations, How could they move from one coast to another through oceans? Some investigators say the bottoms of the oceans were dry and furnished ‘land bridges‘ from one to another. Wegener‘s hypoâ€" thesis would obviatethe necessity for land bridges, since, according to him, all continentalareas were once a sinâ€" gle land mass. servations made at Greenwich, Engâ€" land; Shanghai, China; San Diego, Cal., and Washington, D.C. The 360 degrees around the earth was measâ€" ured by this longitude work, and the closing error of the circuit is only twelveâ€"hundredtbs of a second of arc, , or, in the latitude of New York, about | ten feet. _ As we measure this clos. ‘ing error in time, it was only eightâ€" thousandths of a second. _ "One of the principal objects of conâ€" ducting the longitude campaign was to begin a worldâ€"wide study of the hypothesis that North and South merica are drifting away from Europe and Africa and the other land masses, like Australia, and wandering on the earth‘s surface. This hypothesis does not appeal to oficials of the Coast and Geodetic Survey as being possible, but scientific workers must have open minds and test any hypothesis that are seriously adhered to by other scientific workers, "All of the computations have not‘ been deduced by the large net, but it‘ is hoped in the near future to be able | to furnish the exact longitude of ; every station involved in the camâ€" paign. It will be possible, when these results are available, to compare the longitude determined by radio signals ; with the longitudes of the same points | determined by signals sent over wires | and cables. If the differences are very great it will be an indication; that there has been a shifting of the : continents and islands of the earth‘s surface. | "In this longitude work the best inâ€" struments and most skilled observers were employed by the United States. The Naval Observatory operated staâ€" tions in Washington and San Diego, while the Coast and Geodetic Survey had stations at Honolulu and Manila, Many of the private observatories of the country took advantage of the opâ€" portunity to locate their places in longitude while the campaign was beâ€" ing made. u> EG Angora, attracting Government ofâ€" ficials, is the only city with an excess of males. Turkey Has 481,137 Excess of Women, Due to Many Wars ‘"‘Whoever, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations, or otherwise, intenâ€" tionally insults or attempts to insult the religion, or intentionally outrages or attempts to outrage the religious feelings of any class of his Majesty‘s subjects, shall be punished with imâ€" prisonment , . . for a term which may extend to two years or with a fine or with both." The abolition of polygamy and the freedom of women is leading to exâ€" tensive changes in labor. Women are now employed in nearly all forms of industrial and commercial activity. Turkey‘s incessant warfare in the Balkans and the great war made heavy inroads on the male population. Constantinople.â€"Further data from the first Turkish census, taken last month, reveals an excess of 481,137 wome‘. The Indian Legislature is considerâ€" ing a bill for penalizing insults to reâ€" ligion. The proposed addition to the Indian penal code reads as follows: Plants may also be started early in a coldframe. The frame is set in place now and six inches of good, rich, friable soil is placed in it. . Over this leaves, straw, strawy manure, or litâ€" ter not containing weed seeds is put to keep out the frost. _In the early spring this little is rem?)ved and the sashes put on, and it will be found that in a short time the ground will nicely warm up, so that seers of the hardier vegetables and flowers may be planted.â€"W. 8. Blair, Superintenâ€" dent, Experimental Station, Kentville, PUTTING ASIDE SOoilL FOR HOTâ€"BEDS When spring approaches thought is turned toward the botâ€"bed for starting vegetables and flowering plants, but it very often happens that soil for the hotâ€"bed has not been set aside and is not available, and as a result nothing is done. _ It is wise, therefore, to preâ€" pare for the spring now, and to make up a coneâ€"shaped pile of suitable soil in a convenient place, so that it will be reasonably â€" dry and _ ready for spring . work. Or it may be put under cover in an outbuilding in barâ€" rels. Any good friable loam is suitâ€" able for starting plants in. It is wise to use a '?1 that does not bake, or one contaifiing considerable sand and decayed vegetable matiter or humus. The surface soil from a garden that has previously been well manured serâ€" ves the purpose admirably. Or, if the soit is poor, well rotted manure should be added and mixed well with the soil, using about fifteen to twenty per cent. of manure. Sods gathered during the summer and piled alternâ€" ately with manure will, when cut down and well worked together, make the best hotâ€"bed soll. If flats or shal low boxes to grow the plants in ure} available it is not necessary to put aside much soil, and usually two bar rels will suffice to meet the requireâ€" ments for an ordinary garden. _ If on the other hand the soil is to be put into the hotâ€"bed direct, twice as much will be necessary, ‘ "It is rather interesting to note that scientific workers have adopted the radio in their research operations go soon after the radio time signals were broadcast. _ As a matter of fact, students of the earth have always folâ€" lowed very closely the application of scientific discoveries by the physicist and the engineer, The study of the earth going on toâ€"day is due to instruâ€" mentsand methods attributable to reâ€" sults of the work of physiciss." avwoidable small errors present in physical. measures. aaim." A Timely Topic Insults to Religion " Kir~"dward and a@ â€" The Meistersingers Firm With ‘"Motorized" Bees Plans Business in California Los Angeles.â€"Bees‘ wings as overâ€" land motive power are to be replacd with motor trucks, at least by one enterprising concern which made sueâ€" cessful application before the State Corporation Commission for a permit to sell stock.. The Orange Blossoms Products, Inc., the applicant, proposes to mainâ€" tain aplaries on truck trailers, movâ€" ing swarms to places where the bees believed, would greatly increase their productivity . ¢ load of honey. Motorizing them, he was on 1 had long in the ¢ exact s The death of Hannibal Tosci, on his estate of San Marzello, near Mantua, recalls a strange story, of how his great wealth was acquired. At the beginning of the last century, accordâ€" ing to this legend, there was erected on the Naples highway near the Abâ€" bey of San Vito a stone column bearâ€" ing in French this inscription: "On the ist of May in every year, at 6 o‘clock in the morning, I have a goldâ€" en head." On the next ist of May many people gathered to see the mirâ€" acle. Nothing happened: The column remained unchanged. For years thereâ€" after at the appointed time curiosity seekers flocked thither, only to be disâ€" appointed; until at last it was conâ€" cluded that the inscription must have some hidden meaning. Surmises and ‘"What exactly do you mean by that?" he said coldly. "Where was the quintet? Where was Pogner‘s address? _ Where was Beckmesser‘s Serenade?® Absolute laziness, I call it." He paused, then added, "And now for a punishment you will play over the whole selection. From beâ€" ginning to end, please." But that did not in the least sult His Majesty, for when, the moment the last bar had been played, he rose from his seat it was not dificult to perceive his displeasure. concert was at an eng. At five minutes to eleven one night he instructed us to play his favorite selection, the "Meistersingers." ‘This put us in somewhat of a quandary. The concert was supposed to close at eleven, and here we had a demand for a selection which would occupy about thirtyâ€"five minutes. Hence the conâ€" ductor thought it better, by making a judicious cut, to bring the time down to seven or eight minutes. As most people know, he writes, King Edward was a great lover of music. Also, he was very considerate in his treatmhent of the orchestra. Actually, our dutiecs were extremely light, entailing only playing from 9.16 until 11 o‘clock each evening, at which latter hour Queen Alexandra would rise from her seat as a signal that the concert was at an end. Before Mr. Stior worked with Mme. Paviova he belonged to a small drawâ€" ingâ€"room orchestra, and played at Sandringham for two months each season from 1899 to 1904. Londonâ€"How King Edward "punâ€" ished" a drawingâ€"room orchestra at Sandringhom for making a "cut" in a selection from *Nagner‘s "Meister singers," is described by Mr. Theodore Stier, for sixteen years musical directâ€" or to Pavolova, in his new book, "With Paviova Round the World." Orchestra Leader Made "Cut" The Legend of the in th columm.. But he noted the pot where the head of the ast its shadow and there dug ground. Not far below theh he came on a knapsack conâ€" 80,000 francs in gold. ‘The me was Hannibal Tosci. Found Out