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Bill tells this tale of the wreck of the steamer Sibiria in 1916, and it’s one that I wouldn’t have missed for a lot of money. Bravery and hardi hood aren’t such common qualities these days that you can afford to pass them up, and this yarn will bring to light a certain feat of the Landsdowne volunteer crew of the English coast guard that well deserves to be recorded in print. Bill Thom was chief engineer on the Sibiria, and in November, 1916, she was carrying munitions from Halifax to London. She .crossed the Atlantic without incident, but the night of the nineteenth was black and wild, with a high sea running. A few miles off to port lay the Kent coast, with no lights showing, due to the danger of air raids. AH hands were looking forward to tying up at the Tilsbury docks the next morning, BUT THE SIBIRIA WAS NEVER TO MAKE FAST TO A PIER AGAIN. The Sibiria Was in Serious Trouble. Sometime in the black stormy night a mistake was made. The look out had missed the North Foreland lighthouse beacon, and now the Sibiria was in serious trouble. Practically at the mouth of the River Thames lie the treacherous Goodwin Sands, graveyard of many a ship. In the same locality was a mine-field, set to trap German submarines. The Sibiria had blundered in between the two. Lost—wallowing through rough seas in inky blackness—her captain was faced with a difficult choice. He could either run her into the mine field, and probably be blown to bits, or take his chances wfth the dreaded quicksands. "What an alternative,” says Bill. "But on the Goodwin Sands we had at least a slim chance of being rescued by the English coast guard. Another Lifeboat Battling Its Way Toward Us. So Captain Swift steered away from the mine field and gray dawn saw the Sibiria on the sands, held fast, pounded by the waves and SLOWLY SINKING.” Rockets and wireless messages were sent out all through the night. Finally, in the light of the gray dawn, they saw an open lifeboat headed toward them from Deal. Huddled on the bridge and the boat deck the Sibiria’s crew watched the boat’s crew make a terrific fight against the sea. Imagine the disappointment those fellows must have felt, when, after hours of battling, the lifeboat was forced to return to shore. i Couldn’t Launch the Boats. As a last resort the captain ordered one of the Sibiria’s own boats launched. It was battered to pieces against the side of the ship almost as soon as it hit the water. "It was now afternoon,” says Bill. "The deck was awash and on the staircase of the dining salori we could see the water slowly rising, one step every hour. Fifty-two of us huddled on the bridge and the boat deck, waiting, waiting. Our hopes rose as, from Ramsgate, on the north, our straining eyes picked out another lifeboat battling its way tpward us. But it was the same story. The high seas broke their oafs and almost swamped them. They, too, re turned to shore.” It was getting dark by then. The masts, funnel and bridge and boat deck were all that remained above water. "We were being drenched by every wave,” says Bill. "The end was in sight—but we hadn’t reckoned with the determination of English seamen. They hadn’t given up. Again from the direction of Deal came a boat, making a bitter struggle. This time a British destroyer, at the risk of being torpedoed by lurking U-boats, stood by and illuminated the scene with her searchlights. For more weary hours the crew of that lifeboat fought the mountainous seas. Nearer and nearer they came while we held our breaths ever time a big roller hit them. It was a life and death matter to us—but it looked this time as if they were going to make it.” Then Came the Coast Guardsmen. They did make it! And wbat a scene that was. The lifeboat couldn’t come alongside the ship, for it would have been dashed to pieces. But they came up on the lee side, and, at the shouted instructions of the boat’s coxswain, one man jumped into it each time it swept past on the trough of a wave. ONE MAN AT A TIME—that’s all they could take. Then, to get in position again, they had to row clear around the ship. Around they went, and a second man leaped into the boat. Around they went again—and again. There were 16 men in that boat. They were the Lansdowne volunteer crew, and most of them were fishermen. Their names deserve to go down into history, for, after a heart-breaking battle with the waves getting out to a spot two other boats had failed to reach, they rowed around that ship time and again, saving a life at each trip. Every Man Was Rescued. And they didn’t stop until every last man had been rescued. FIFTY- TWO TIMES they circled the Sibiria. Then, with 68 people in thair badly overloaded boat, they started a precarious jourpey back to the shore. If it was hard going out, it was worse going back. The rowers were tired. The load was more than three times as great as it had been on the trip to the sinking ship. Of that struggle Bill Thom doesn’t say much. "But we made it all right,” is the way he describes it. Yet, I can read between the lines of that simple statement, and I guess you can, too. • The Sibiria was under charter to the Canadian government, but her crew was American. So it came about that our own President, Wood- row Wilson, was the man who took official recognition of the Lansdowne crew’s brave act. He awarded the coxswain a gold medal and a silver one to each of the oarsmen. "And, believe me,” says Bill Thom, "they deserved at least that.” <£>—WNU Service. Ancient World Wonders Among the ancient wonders of the world are listed the Pyramids of Egypt, Mausoleum at Halicarnas sus, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Jupiter by Phidias at Olympia, Temple of Diana at Ephe sus, Colossus of Rhodes, Pharos or Lighthouse of Alexandria. Other wonders usually include the wireless telegraphy and telephony, airplane, radium, automobile and locomotive, anesthetics, antiseptics and antitox ins, spectrum analysis, X-ray and ultra-violet r«y. Ionization Ionization is the modern theory of electric conduction that an elec tric current consists of the motion of minute particles of matter whicll are charged positively and nega tively, the motion of the oppositely charged particles being in opposite directions. These charged particles are called ions, and they are in no case identical with molecules; in fact, it rarely happens that a mole cule as such is charged. The forma tion of these ions is called ion ization. 4 'Twas This Way • • By LYLE SPENCER © Western Newspaper Union. Making Slavery Profitable T 4 HE invention of the cotton gin A was partly responsible for the Civil war. For it was the first labor- saving device in America that made slave-holding profitable. Eli Whitney, a young Ya.3 gradu ate, working down in Georgia, in vented the gin in 1791. At a so ciety dinner one night he happened to sit among a group of big planta tion owners who were discussing the high cost of cleaning cotton. Thinking he was a greennoin, they kidded him about making a device that would take the seeds out of cotton cheaply. Everybody laughed when Whitney said he bet he could make one. Ten days latei, it was Whitney’s turn to laugh. He had built a simple little machine which cleaned cotton with amazing ease. News of the revolutionary inven tion quickly spread throughout the neighborhood, and Whitr ey found himself famous m a week. The tremendous labor-saving value of the gin was shown by the fact that i could clean a thousand pounds of cotton while the ordinary man was picking the seeds out of five pounds. But the real value of the gin was even greater than appeared on the surface. For the first time it made the growing of cotton profit able in America Before that time, less than 200 acres in all the Sduth were planted in cotton. The cost of cleaning it was too high. Since a slave could clean only 300 pounds a month, he was not worth his up keep. The cotton gin made him very valuable. The Jack-Rabbit Baseball LD TIMERS say that modern baseball is nowhere near the game it used to be. They say the ball players of today are dumb, that they don’t use the headwork demanded of big leaguers when Christy Mathewson and the Tinker- to - Evers - to - Chance combination were the national sport heroes. They ask, where is the strategy and fi nesse that was the heart and soul of "inside baseball” 25 years ago? It’s gone, all right. Smart base ball was killed by the "jack-rabbit” ball, first introduced into the Na tional league in 1909. The secret of the new ball was its stuffings It was made of a fine Australian wool, tightly wound around a core of cushioned cork. It seems like a small change, but it was big enough to revolutionize the national game. The jack-rabbit ball made hits longer and more frequent. So the artful base stealers and hunters of yesterday have been replaced by fence-busters and big-stick men who believe one lusty cut at the ball is worth a whole day of subtle man agerial generalship. The “smart” ball player has given wav to slug gers and cleanup men. Who was the home-run hero of 1908? Honus Wagner, wh> hit, for the circuit 10 times. Compare him with the Babe Ruth of 1927 who lashed out 60 homers. Hew about the base-stealers? Ty Cobb stole 76 bases in 1909 and 96 in 1915. In 1935, Frank Crosetti won the base stealing championship with 29. The game they play now may not be such good baseball, but it makes the turnstiles clatter and the customers shriek, and that’s what makes it a paying business. The Early Typewriter W HEN the typewriter first was invented, people considered themselves insulted when they re ceived a typewritten letter. They jumped to the conclusion the writer thought they could not read pen writing! The first typewriters, incredibly rickety machines that ,vere always getting out of kilter, began to ap pear in America during the 1850’s. Most business men laughed at them and said they wouldn’t trade one good quill pen for a dozen of those new-fangled contraptions. Only a few wise acres and journalists al lowed that they might have some future. But one crackpot became so enthusiastic he predicted that the day would come when a schjol- boy would only be taught to write his name with a pen because he could write anything else by “play ing on a literary piano.” The early skepticism was partly justified. Up to 187,0, a typewriter cost $250, and a ribbon could be had only by buying a roll of silk at a dry goods store, soakinj it in ink and hanging it up to dry. Mark Twain was one of the early type writer converts. Christoper Sholes of Milwaukee is said to have built the first really practical machine The sentence he tapped out time after timt, while testing it in his little machine shop was "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.” The Hottentots The Smithsonian Institution says that the ife of the Hottentot tribes in South Africa is centered on the raising of cattle. The wealth of the members of these tribes is esti mated in terms of cattle, and their existence is directly connected with their herds. * On to Success With It Comes Boldness in New Ideas; Our Sphere of Friends and Activities Expands A POOR salesman may be a genius at gardening; an in different stenographer sometimes never suspects her own gift for cookery, for dress design, for abil ity to pick up foreign languages. By thinking candidly about your self, by being as friendly to your self as you would be to another, you can often draw up a picture of your tastes, abilities, desires and hopes which will astonish you. Take an inventory of yourself, paying special attention to the things you like but which you have little of in your daily life. Then start putting them into it. From Interest to a Specialty Often we have to begin slowly —reading, or finding courses of in struction within our means, or working out a program for our selves in solitude; but every day something can be done toward the new way of living. It can grow from an interest into a hobby, from a hobby into a side line, from a side line into a specialty. Then comes the day when the un satisfactory work can be given up (to someone who will find it as satisfying and as absorbing as we find our own new field) and suc cess is at last really and notice ably on its way to us—or we are on our way to it. Vitalizes Character Then living begins to be fun. We meet people with the same tastes, not just the chance acquaintances who come our way in an uncon genial profession^ Having suc ceeded once, we begin to show a little daring; we try new ideas more boldly, and our world of friends and activities expands even more. Chances we couldn’t even imagine until we got inside our real work turn up on every hand. Best of all, even a small success has a vitalizing effect on character. That is the most interesting dis. covery that success bririgs in its train: those who are living suc cessfully make the best friends. They are. free from malice and spitefulness. They are not petty. They are full of good talk and hu mor.—Dorothea Brande in Cosmo politan. South Magnetic Pole The South Magnetic pole has not yet been reached. The near est approach was made by Ross February 16, 1841. 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