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and Phrases
Blague. (F.) Boastful talk; an
incredible story.
Damnum absque injuria. (L.)
Loss without legal injury.
Enfonts perdus. (F.) A forlorn
*hope.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse
juvabit. (L.) Perhaps sometime
it will be pleasant to remember
even these things.
I^aud passifous aequis. (L.) With
unequal steps.
In propria persona. (L.) In
one’s own person; in person.
Ab uno disce omnes. (L.) From
one learn all; from a single case
infer the whole.
Locum tenens. (L.) One holding
another’s place; a deputy, a
proxy.
Quot homines, tot sententiae.
(L.) Opinions as many as the
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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936
“Heroes of the Sea" \
By FLOYD GIBBONS,
Famous Headline Hunter
F ROM William M. Thom of Brooklyn, N. Y., comes another
swell story of the sea—a heart-breaking tale of a sinking ship,
and a fine epic of true sea-going courage. 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.
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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.
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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. The British
expedition under Captain Scott on
the Discovery, 1902-1904, reported
the probable position of the Mag
netic South pole to be 72 degrees
50 minutes S., 156 degrees 20 min
utes E.
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