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AMERICAN SHIPPING.

WEDNESDAY,

PATIENCE OF SCIENCE.

Watching for Earthquakes.

APRIL 18. 1923.

SEA STORMS.

M

New Line to India Reported.

Force of Giant Waves.

Paris-If there is anything in An earthquake, like the wind,

The violent gales now being

· rumor DOW eirculating in has seemed to go unchallenged experienced round our coasts European shipping ciroles, recent wheresoever it listed. Whence it have led to the telling of many reports from Washington to the osme and whither it went bare tall stories as to the height of effect that the Shipping Board alike been unknown, comments a waves encountered by ships at may be dissolved on account of writer in a Toms paper. But the sea, writes "Mariner" in a recent the failure of the Subsidy Bill can scientist has now taken up the mail paper. to discounted.

| challengo offered by theat mys- To say that in a storm waves For the rumor runs that greater teries, and by careful, patient become as high as mountains is plans than Chairman Lasker bas detective work has made these not true, although on occasiona given publicity, even in his most cataclysms amenable to prophecy. they do assame large and alarm- optimistic hours, now are being The first clus was the recogni-[ing proportions. studied for the greater glory and tion that the skin of the earth on Waves 100 feet high have been aggrandizement of the American which we live is in a constant reported by the captains of At- merchant marine. The high light state of flux. The poles describe lantic liners, and ships have even in the rumor is that instead of a tiny circle of 60-foot diameter, had their "crow's nests" store in, scrapping shipa and cutting down and this slight eccentricity, like s but in severe storm the height of or abandoning service on present wheel on faulty bearings, has set the waves is usually from 20 to trade routes, the United up a tidal movement of the 30 feet. In a storm of exceptional States Shipping Board

solid crust northwards" towards violence they may vary from 30, inaugurate A gigantic new the Pole. This slow, persistent to 45 feet in height. [service in competition with the creep affects vale sad bill, moun- At the Alderney breakwater Peninsular and Oriental line betain and valley, and descends to the sex has sometimes been tween Europe and India.

enormous depths. As a conse- thrown upwards of 200 feet, while:

may

Local officials of the United quence, corresponding straiax are at Peterhead waves 30 feet high States Lines profess complete are set up.

These strains have] bave struck the breakwater with ignorance of any such idea, even been measured and it is found that sued force as to be thrown to less of such a project, but the they affect every layer in theịa height of 120 feet.

Yet although waves may not jargument that accompanies the crust.

rumor-the same rumor comes! "As the "creep" continues the reach such heights as is generally from both Antwerp and Paris-strain increases; there is a read, supposed, the power they exert is is so strong as to seem at leasting of the crust, and thousands of sufficiently remarkable. tenable.

The force of a great ware square miles of surface sway bark) In effect, the argument is that with one mighty heave. There breaking against a sea wall is no since the war, on account of the fore, to us Professor Lawson's tremendous as to tax its strength absence of German passenger own words. If we find the rate to the fullest extent. French en- ships plying between ports on creep and the length of time gineers state that at Cherbourg both sides of Suez, the Penin-of 'creep necessary to produce the force of the waves on tho sular and Oriental finds itself the limit of tension in the earth's breakwater has sometimes been completely without competition crast, we shall know when and a much as 312 tons to the for the entire distance from Lon- where there is to be the next square foot. don to Bombay, except a few earthquake merely by watching! amall ships flying the French closely the increase in tension." flag. It is Squred that if the A TIRESOME BUSINESS, Lnited States decides to enter But this watching is & tiresome) the Indian trade it has sufficient business; the amount to be messur-) water. At Wick two stones ships now idle or not carrying ed is so small. A mountain on the full capacity which are more shores of the Golden Gate, on modern and even bigger than the which San Francisco stands best P. & O. liners,

moved 10 feet in 52 years; the The greatest solace the British Tarallon Lighthouse crept 80 passenger lines have to-day, re-inches in 46 years and such in- gardless of router, is the fact that finitesimal amounts American ships are dry. Their measured only with the most greatest bugaboo is the possibility accurate astronomical investiga that American ships some day tions.

At the Bell Rock Lighthouse blocks of concrete weighing 10| toos have been displaced at levels of from 17 to 30 feet below low

weighing eight and ter tons each were thrown over the parapet of the breakwater, the top of which is 21 feet above high water.

be can

At Bishop Rock Lightho tae, which is exposed to the full blast of the Atlantic gales, an iron column weighing over three tons. was thrown up 20 feet and landed on the top of a rock. At the barb- may become wet. Aside from pro- For this purpose concrete piers our works of Bilbao, in Spaio, a bibition, American ships already from 12 to 18 inches square are solid black of breakwater weigh- are extremely popular for their based upon the solid rock. Sunking 1.700 tons was overturned and excellent cuisine, smart service in the upper surface of each is a dropped into the water. and the fine sailorly fashion in bronze plate upon which can be Another example of the force which they are handled and, accurately mounted a 10 inch of waves is that of a block of above all, for the large number of telescope, with which instrument Concrete weighing 20 tops, bigb-grade one-cabin boats the the tedious necessary observa- which had been placed outside; President ships-that permittions can be made.

the harbour walls of Ymuiden, travellingat fairly reasonable fare. Already come ex'raordinary

and was liftad by a wave to a

It is pointed out that without results have been noted. The height of 12 feet and landed on competition the voyagers from slow creep of 20 years, with the top of the pier, which itself Europe to the Orient are bound to every particle of rock

was five feet above high water.

seven seLE,

atrung

&

MOON-FLOWER.

bave poorer service than in pre-bow-tight is sighted in

The largest waves are usually war days, when crack German moment of time. Fifteen thous-encountered in the neighbour- ships were giving everybody aand square miles of surface, 65 bood of a low-lying coast line.

un for his money on the entire miles deep, swayed back from a foot to 12 feet in the $40 It is дой figured there Francisco earthquake of 1906, would be the slightest difficulty and when the snap came the in arranging docking facilities earth waves moved at the rate of for American ships at any a mile and a quarter to two miles Indian port, and the predica second, much too fast for the tion is that the United States eye to record. These swift-moving, lines might speedily become the waves set up secondary distur popular route to the Orient. Such bances of a much slower nature. a service, too, would happily link But this information, interes- up the Pacific with the Atlantic ing and intriguing as it is, is of trade the former service by secondary importance seismic American ships already being prophecy. With the multipica-j extremely popular.

IMITATE MAN.

tion of stations, earthquake warnings will be as usual as atorm warnings, giving to the inhabitants of the doomed district time to move thoir property sad Save their lives.

The Gentlemanly Women. "Men can talk together without were the days in which women fighting and

now that women were supposed to be incapable of bave rights and votes they must the loyalty towards each other learn to behave as mendo. Bea that distinguished male friend. gentlemanly woman!"

ebjps If it was ever true, which

In these words a County Court I doubt, it is certainly not true, judge exborted so irate female to-day.

White Moon, slowly gliding,

Bearing away the hours

That brought me home to my

love,

And berwarm breast to

ποίηση

White Moon, what are you hiding

There in your smile above? A dream; or a death? Do

flowers

Bloom there in the cold

moonshice?

White Moon, into your keeping.

Out of what secret nooks.

Side by side from the sight

"

Of lovers have glauces

down? swiftly, with long rays reaping. Over the fields of night, Ob, the vanishing looks

Of love you have made

your own!

Into a window kind,

Into a place of sleep.

Into a covered uest

Did you not look and ses Love, in eyes that were blind,

Peace, in a harboured breast, Joy so deep, so deep.

defendant who appeared before In this sense at least the aver- him the other day. Of course it age woman is as "gentlemanly" is easy to reply that men do not As, perhaps more so than, the invariably discuss their differ average man. She has learnt to ences of opinion in the spirit of "play the game," not only in the courtly detachment which Sir sporting field, but in her relations Alfred Tobin suggests. No doubt with her own sex. Of course the be would admit that ungentle. feminine blackleg, whose hand madly men are as numerous as and tongue are against all ber ungentlemanly women. One sisters and especially against knows all the same what he those who are younger and love- meant by that phrase.

lier than herself-still exists. He meant that men who mistake But are there no blacklogs abuse for argument know in their among men. no jealous back- hearts that to lose their tempers in bitera? Unfortunately we have all discussion is to fall short of their met the type, more virulent than See best traditions. They are ashamed the prettiest woman in spreading of their lack of self-control, even scandal, often with the barbed if they only acknowledge it to dart of a pretty wit. tthemselves.

Yes, women have since the be-i

That deeper it could not be? Moonward, oh, could I fly!

Mount, and come to the place

Where you have reaped and

stored

Your harvest-row upon

TOW:

where withered they lie, Those sweets from earth out-

poured,

And, mesk in their midst, one

face,

Where the ghostly mooo-

flowers grow!

So, I am convinced, are women ginning of this century moved a -the modera woman who has long way towards that ideal, so won so many of the privileges difficult to define yet so real to us To life, the dream of an hour. that used to be reserved for the all The gentlemanly woman male sex only, She has also bears no resemblance to that adopted, even if she does not al-monster, the manly, woman. It ways attain, the "gentlemanly" is just the gentleness added to the Into ideal

manliness which makes all the difference

SENSE OF HONOUR. Who would be foolish enough to

Nor does the question of class reproach women to-day, as our enter into the matter all mothers were reproached by the Gentlemen of both netes are to man of their generation, for being be found at every step of the deficient in a sense of boneur? It social ladder, one in their fine was a Victorian writer who dec-oul quality whatever their clothes |lared "there were no Davids and or condition may be.-Margaret

Jonathans among women." Those Gordon in Ex.

Closed, closed are the eyes:

Over the folded lips.

Sleep lays cover of snow : the heart of the flower Softly one dew-drop slips! Deep in the cup she sighs-

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