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THE SPEED OF A SHIP

METHODS BY WHICH ITS KNOTS PER HOUR ARE MEASURED.

an Interesting Description of the Mechanism and Use of the Log, With

a Truthful Red Sea Shark Story At. tachment,

"How do you ascertain the speed of & vessel?’’ isa question frequent}y ad- een naval men, and an explana-

will therefore probably be of inter- est to many readers. There are several fethods, the commonest and most an- cient being by the use of the “log.” This instrument consists of three parts

—the logship, the line and the marks. The logship is & piece of wood about balf an inch thick and Shaped like a quadrant, with a piece of lead let in round the circular edge to make it float perpendicularly in the water. It is slung by lines at each angle, the three lines being joined together about two feet from the logship. Two of the lines are securely fixed to the ship and the other has a bone peg at the end, which, being pushed intoa hole inthe ship, tempo- rarily fastens it there.

From the point of juncture of the three lines a sufficient length is measured, generally about 100 feet, to take the logsbip well clear of the ship's wash. This is called the ‘‘stray line’’ and is marked with a piece of bunting. From the bunting is measured 47 feet 3 inches, and the line marked here with a piece of leather. Then another 47 feet 8 inches is measured off and marked with two knots, then another space the same length, and marked with three knots, and so on as far as seven knots. Halfway between each batch of knots one single knot is made. The log line is then ready for use.

The space between the knots is found from the simple little rule of three sum: As 3,600 seconds (number of seconds in an hour), 28 seconds (length of sand- glass), 6,080 feet (number of feet in a nautical mile); length of line required —which works out to 47 feet 3 inches.

To use the Jog four persons are re- quired—two men to hold the reel on which the line is wound; the quarter- master, to bold the glass, and the mid- shipman of the watch, to heave the log. The last named putsthe peg firmly in the logship and then gathers three cr four coils of line in his hand, sufficient to admit of the logship being thrown well clear of the ship. He asks, ‘‘Clear glass, quartermaster?’’

‘‘OClear glass, sir!’’ comes the reply, and overboard go the logshipand line, the reel rapidly revolving. Presently the middy feels the piece of bunting passing through hts hand, and he gives the order, ‘‘Turn.’’ The quartermaster turns the glass and watches the sand while one ‘‘reeler’’ holds the reel well over his bead, so as to give the line fair play. When the sand has run out, ‘*Stop!’’ cries the quartermaster.

The midshipman grasps the line, as- sisted by the other reeler, and looks for the nearest knot, finding a single one close to hishand. Then the line is haul- ed in, and four knots appear, which signify that the ship is going four and a half knots through the water. The jerk of the line draws the peg from the logship, which now floats on its flat side and is easily hauled in. When a ship is going over four knots, a 14 sec- ond glass is used, the speed being double that shown by the knots on the line.

Another method in use is the patent log. This is altogether mechanical and consists of a long cylinder with clock- work inside it and four fins on the ont- side. It is towed astern of the ship by a line made fast to a swivel in the head of it. As it is dragged through the wa- ter the four fins make it revolve, actu- ating the clockwork inside, which regis- ters on a seriee of dials the number of knots run. This log has to be hauled in every time cue wants to read it, but there is another kind where the fan is towed astern and the dial isa fixture in the ship. This is called a ‘‘cherub.”’

These Joga are not always accurate, and are constantly verified when near Jand by cross bearings—that is, the bearings of two well known points are taken, and the position so obtained is marked on the chart, the time of obser- vation being noted and the reading on the patent log. After an interval has elapsed the position of the ship is again taken by cross bearings, when the straight line joining the two places on the chart will show the direction of the course steered and its length the distance run. A comparison with the readings by patent log will give the error of the machine.

To finish here isa pit i

s told by an old messmate. Igive It In his own iia ‘*When in the Crocodile in the Red sea, juet after taking the reading one night at 8 o'clock, the quartermaster reported, ‘Shark taken: the patent log, sir!’ I got another one over at once. At 9:30 next morning we stopped. for half an hour. To amuse the ladies I tried for and caught a shark. On opening him we found our patent ‘og, and,” he added gravely, ‘strange to say, it registered the same as the one in use. The line had jaramed between his teeth, the fan working all the time he followed the ship. He had swum just 122 7-10 miles,’'—Navy and Army Llustrated,

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FANATICAL CHINESE.

SUPERSTITION RULES THE RACE FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE.

All Business and Family Matters Di- reetly Controlled by This Unreason- ing Influence, Which Makes Brutes of Its Slavish Devotees.

No race in the wide world is more Sontrolled by superstitious notions than the Chinese. They enter into every act of a Chinaman's life, and their infiu- ence is more lasting than that of his re- ligion. He cannot move hand or foot without their agency, and from the earliest moment of his life down to the Jas* detail in connection with his burial theic power and influence are the guid- ing motives of his acts. All business and family matters are directly con- trolled by superstitious sentiments, both rich and poor, young and old, being slaves to their force.

To the average Chinaman his religion is a mere negative factor in his mode of life, to be followed or disregarded at will, but notrue son of Han dares to act otherwise than in accordance with the strict precepts of those spiritual powers which directly control his life.

There are some amusing superstitions Couuected with Chinese entertainments. A dinner party is an ordeal which once experienced is never forgotten. It con- sists of from 46 to 50 distinct courses and occupies the greater portion of a day. During the whole of these repasts and notwithstanding the endless variety of dishes served the invited guest re- tains the same plate throughout. The explanation of this strange custom is an old proverb, which has now become a superstition, that ‘‘he who changes tbe plates kills the housewife.’’

Chinese proverbs explain several of the superstitious notions with regard to women. It is considered unlucky fora woman to mix with the builders of a house or other edifice during its erec- tion, and to avoid any possibility of one straying into the premises all approaches are carefully guarded by watchmen, and a fence is erected around the pro- posed building as soon as its founda- tions are laid.

The explanation of this is the saying, ‘*‘Women mix ill with wood, and death lives in the house over whose founda- tions a woman has 4walked.’’ There is a similar horror of the fair sex interfer- ing with any public matter of national interest or in any business transactions where men are concerned. ‘‘ Women tie knots,’’ says the Chinese proverb. ‘‘ Let them remain at home.”’

No funeral can take place until as- trolegersand professional fortune tellers bave been consulted. These unscrupu- lous diviners decide the place of burial, and in the event of disagreement no final interment carn take place. This ac- counts for the number of unburied cof- fins which are seen about the country districts in China. Sometimes the coffin is temporarily deposited in a temple or kept in the house of the heir of the de- ceased. Among the poor as cften as not it is conveyed to some sheltered spot and covered with a mat.

When in course of time (by aid of additional fees) the diviners can report that all objections to final burial are re- moved, the funeral takes place amid re- joicing and profane excesses. The mode of propitiation generally prescribed by astrologers is the purchase of some stone or piece of iron, to which an elaborate ritual of prayer and sacrifice is made, or, if the client is wealthy, the building of a pagoda is suggested, in connection with which the mercenary fortune teller doubtless reaps a large commission.

The last species of superstition to which we will call attention forces us to place China among the balf civilized and brutal nations. One of these super- stitions is that the soul of a dying per- son takes possession of the bed and room in which the invalid is lying. To obyi- ate such a ourse as this the relatives of the dying person, as soon as they per- ceive his end approaching, forcibly re- move him from his bed and place him almost naked upon a board. If by chance aman should expire in his bed, it, to- gether with all the furniture in the room, must be burned and many atone- ments offered before the room is consid- ered fit for habitation again.

Many strange and inhuman ideas are associated with the illness and death of children. If a chiid sickens and dies be- fore the age of 12 years, its last mo- ments are hastened by the borrible cruelty of its parents. So long as hope is possible the parents do their utmost to save their child, but as soon as the doctors abandon hope the child is strip- ped naked and placed against the outer door of the house. When the ep2 aas come, the corpse is thrown out into the street to be picked up by the passing dead cart.

Tbe reason for this brutality is this:

If a family Joses a child before it has |

grown to maturity, its parents refuse to regard it as their offspring, but rather as some evil epirit who has worked its way into their home in order to bring ruin and misfortune upon it and them.

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PLAYED A WAR GAME.

HOW THE BIG MAN FLEECED THE SUBSTITUTE BROKERS.

The Tricky Six Footer Worked His Physical Defect to the Limit and Reaped a Rich Harvest While the Opportunity Lasted,

Daring the civil war in what was then a pretty village of Michigan and has since become a city without losing any of its beauty lived a strapping six footer who looked as hard as nails, dtessed well, talked smoothly and was set up like a soldier. He had no means of support visible tothe naked eye in the village which he called home, but he would make occasional trips from which he returned with plenty of money and afund of interesting talk about some section of the north. The people thought him a mystery, but he Was a pleasant one, and curiosity never went further than to ask ingenious ques- tions that were just as ingeniously par- ried. After his harvest was at an end the mystery explained himself without reserve, aud no one expressed serious Gisapproval of the way in which bis wits had won him bis money.

‘‘It was a simple case of diamond cut diamond,’’ he laughed. ‘‘I’ve been tak- ing fleeces from the fellow that went out to shear. I’m not an Apollo Belve- dere, Diomedes or Samson in appear- ance, but I pass in a crowd asa fine specimen of physical development. The truth is that I’m a whited sepulcher. I was born with a defective heart and would not take three minutes of real violent exercise for all the money you could load ona freight train. I take things easy all along the line, and the

engine keeps pumping up to require-

ments.

‘*When I could see the end of what property was left me, and it was not far away, I cast about for some light work to do and concluded to dea] with the substitute brokers. There was no chance of meeting the required medical exam- inations, so I took another tack. When- ever I visited a place in my business, I’d manage incidentally to fall in with the broker. I’m better than a raw hand asa jollicr, and I’d soon have some mutual friends asinnocent parties in the play.

‘*‘Whcn it came in naturally, I'd chaff te broker about his business and ask wlat kind of a soldier I’d make. He weuld either jump open mouthed at the ;roposition or chaff back under an impression that I would never think of goirg to war. In either case it would ust.:lly come to some kind of a proposi- ticn from the broker... Ther the other fellows would guy me, intimate that I was a bluffer and wonder how I was to get out of the thing withouta clear funk.

‘*Here’s where my fine work came in. I’d demand a retainer, and I’d put it high enough just to maks the broker think that I was trying to escape him. If he would pay me a epecified sum down, I would agrees to appear at the recruiting office the next day and offer my services, but I gave notice that I assumed no chances. If they would not have me, the broker must stand the loss. The idea of my being rejected al- ways raised a Jaugh and only tended to confirm the broker in the belief that I was trying to escape him. When the doctor turned me down, [ went into the dumps, became nervously timid, aroused the sympathy of those with whom I had become acquainted and snapped an or- der to the disgruntled broker to keep clear away from me.

‘*The best baul I made was in Pitts- burg. Acoal baron there who could not well enlist and who had not been druft- ed wanted a representative in the army who would make a name honorable to that of the principal. He was after a big, handsome, intelligent fellow of whom he could be proud and put the whole matter into the handsof asbrewd little broker. I managed to meet him at the Monongahela House, and I work- ed around tothe main subject in. the mauner I have described, but I could see that he was eharp and did not like to run any chances.

‘*‘While he went to dinner, after which we were to resume our talk, I went out and had ashort conference with a huge truckman. When I again met the broker, that truckman insisted on bothering us and, after showing a proper amount of patience, I threw him half way across the office, and he went limping out, while all observers grew wide eyed in their wonder. I did not exert enough strength to throwa half grown boy five feet, but the truckman knew his business, and was paid $20 for attending to it.

‘“‘That apparently cool courage and gigantic strength removed al] doubt from the mind of the broker. I was the man hs wanted, and he wanted me badly. Istuck out till 1 got $2,000 as @ ‘retainer,’ and then was rejected. I felt like giving the money back when the millionaire came around to condcle with me and tell how disappointed he was in not having me for a subctitute,

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mission that I was notin a legitimate line of business.’’—Detroit Free Press.

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