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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FK2D AT, DECEMBER, 30, .1892. 'Aft " J will tnant ibm, fair nrnid, In a bowl of liie " finttsi - - - '. - t'aiwr' we mo fmm tbu rebols in Spain. .. Iel the win1i hoar me witm. lliuu art thv . tlittru'M . " i Of creatures aknilH over battltni lu 'aio. The wind will reimtf. tUen forget it BKain. Though I llauiited thy sleevo at the gates f Oranada. And held the the fairest, the trntrst. the hest . . ' : eVye, proved it to many a nou;tiern ttravada. Who lay on the ground with my lance at fair breast j' 1 find that another now dotb thy behest. - - And today In the tourney I meet my ac cessor Be claims among maids thou art trneMt ol all- ; 1 ride at the sleeve of which he is possessor, , - To catch it and bold it aloft ere be fall. Then place both thy sleeves on bis bier in the ball. r ;. ' Bo, at rest in his armor, thy pour blinded lover . May dream that both arm thou about him. dost throw: ' 'Sot the world which will stand at his side aball discover Bow false was his challenge, bow empty the show - What he who will die for ihee never will know. -Flavej Scott Mines in Harper's Weekly. QUIXAHVYX'S RIVAL. The battle of Sedgeuinor had been tonght and lost. Night had couie aguin. and in the old gray church of Weston Zoyland 500 of the beaten rebels Uy im prisoned. The scene inside the church was awful in its weird impressiveneas. It might kave been a gorge of the lost souls in the Inferno. The lurid glare tr" a few torches which were stuck at i;i:rvaN against the pillars revealed the forma 01 men sitting aud lying on the seats ami floor in every attitude of dejection and despair. Up and down the aisloa UK iron shod heels of the sentries rang'upou the pavement. The greater part of the prisoners were silent, or only moaning with the paiu of recent wounds; some were praying: ne was raving, mad with terror. And. in truth, he and his companions had good cause for fear, for their conqueror Was Fevers ham, the general of the Royalists, whose only mode of dealing with a rebel was to hang or shoot him ' without more ado. and who was only waiting for the daybreak to begin' the work of slaughter. A few only kept their resolution among them two who were sitting together in the shadow of the pulpit steps. Both these men had been conspicuous in the fight, and both knew well that they moat die at day break. C The elder of the two was a man of about thirty-five, with a -powerful, thif-kset frame and strong and rugged features: a bad man to have against one. ne might say. Ho was by trade a horse breaker, and a great part of his business wan to break in the wild colts of the , marsh. His companion was some ai or eight years younger. His figure wa tall and slight, but finely made, and his face was singularly handsome. He was the swiftest runner in the west of - Eng land, perhaps in the whole kingdom. Bis name was David Dare; that of the aider man was John Qui xarvyn. Both were natives of the town of Ax bridge, bat until the day before they had been j Grangers to each other. Chance had made them comrade in the contest, where they had fought side by side and where the same troop of Royalist had seized them both. The two were silent. Ooixarvyn had pulled out a short black pipe, had filled and lighted it, and was now smoking 1 tranquilly. His companion bad also ' pulled out something from his breast ; but it was not a pipe: it was the portrait ' ' of a beautiful young gixL He took a long look at the lovely face a look which said farewell (juixarvyn watched him. In the dim light in which they sat he could not see the features of the portrait, but he guessed how the case stood.. "Poor fellow!" he said, with more tenderness than would have been ex pected from his' looks. Then, after a minute's silence, he went on, as much tc himself as to the other: "And yet my ease is harder. 1 was in love 1 am in lOAove. God help me! and I also have her portrait in . my breast. What would 1 give if 1 could look on it as you can look an yours!" Dare looked at him with interest, r What!" he said: "have you also the aame trouble a poor girl who will go distracted when she hears' of what hah aappened to you?" - "No." said the other bitterly, "she .'will not go distracted: she has had enough of me. And 1 shall have the pain of dying unrevenged upon the - knave who robbed me of her!" ' It was strange to see how in a mo ment his eyes had grown ablaze with passion. The young man looked at him in astonishment.' "Who was iff" he inquired. . "Who was it?" echoed the other. Do you think, if 1 knew that, that 1 should now have cause to writhe at dying with out crying quits with him? No, 1 do not know him 1 only know she loved . me that she cooled toward me that, when I asked her plainly whether she . bad found a younger and better' looking -man. she confessed that it was' true, and threw herself upon my generosity to set her free from our engagement. 1 djd so in a frenzy of mad passion. But when 1 asked her for his name, she would not tell me, fearing, 1 daresay, that I might : ftwist bis neck. 1 should soon have found him: but then this war broke out. and in my rage 1 conld not keep -myself from rushing to the fight to coo! my blood with blows. And so here i '. -tun going to be shot at daybreak. Bnl I swear to heaven, if I only had that fel low in my power for one brief minute. I ould die contented." - "You are right." said the other: i - bould feel the same." , (jmxarryn. drew a portrait front bin kraast. aad held it vat to ma ooaip.uon "Look." a aaai. "ia thin 6k t jil M to ena tt b-ir him Let mm look at yours it w n '. Hum this en f at lite uauie Uiatt uauiied bun his own. Each looked in silence at the portrait it. hu hand in a silence of amazement, of stupefaction. The two portraits repre- j aented the same person! ' . " Quixarvyn was the first to break the i silence. .. . - - j "What!" he said, drawing a deep I breath and bursting into a low laugh. which was both fierce and glad, "you, i was it? To think that that 1 have found yon after all! Fate' is kinder to me than I fancied." . ' ' j , The other returned his gaze, i "Well." he said, "it was 1, it appears, 1 though I never knew it, nor suspected : it. . And." he added simply, "it has j been no one's fault." j "No one'B fault?" j "No. no .one's. Mary Seldon liked you. but she did not love you. and when ; we met she found out her mistake. You j frightened her with your bad humors. Without mentioning your name she told i me the whole story. You could not i make her happy, and 1 could: that's the i whole case. Do you blame her?' - "No," said Quixarvin. thrusting the I portrait back into bis breast. "1 don't j But I have sworn to be equal with the ! man who turned her mind against me will never believe he acted by fair means and 1 am going to do it. Defend your self. 1 give you warning. " Both men sprang to their feet at the same instant and stood glaring at each other. At that moment there was I beard outside the church the rattle of a I dram. Only the rattle of a drum. Bnt the . sound struck them motionless as figures turned to stone. Nor was the effect oa ! their companions lens remarkable. There ; was a moment's silence in the church deep as the silence of the dead: then a ! movement a long thrill of horror. That 1 summons meant that day was breaking I and that their hour was come. f The guard set instantly to work to prepare the first batch of prisoners to be ! led out of the church. Dare and (jmz j arvyn were among tbe first seized. ! With about a dozen others tfiey were marched into the oxsn air. The gray ; dawn was scarcely giving way to the ! first streaks of sunrise as they passed out of the churchyard gales, but the whole village was wide awake and in a j tumult of excitement, indeed, there had ! been little sleep that night. Every win dow was alive with terror stnckoa gazers as the party of doomed meu, sur rounded by a band of soldiers, were hur ried through the narrow streets and out upon the open moor. At the border of the moor sat an offi car on horseback, sarrooatled by a troop of soldiers. Here the party halted, and the guards - saluted. The officer was a man of about forty, whose dandified ap pearance, which was as trim as that of a toy soldier newly painted, showed oddly in the midst of soldier stained with battle. This was Lord Feversbam a man in whose nature vanity, callous ness and love of pleasure were about equally combined. His face was gay with pleasant expectation as the rebels were drawn up before him. "Good!" he remarked. "These were all ringleaders, were they? Sergeant John, draw up your firing party and shoot down every man of tttem." The order was instantly obeyed. The firing party was drawn up; the prisoners were ranged in line at a few paces' dis tance. At one extremity of the line David Dare and John Quixarvya temmi themselves once more aide by aide. An ofiicer who sat on horseback at Peversham's right hand observed them. "1 know those two." he said, pointing to them with his finger. "Pity two such fellows should be done for. One' of them is the best runner in the countryside and the other the best rider." "Eh? What?" said Feversham, stand ing up in his stirrups. "Hold there a moment, sergeant: I spy a chance of gallant sport. What say you, major a race between these two across the moor, the one on foot, the other mounted. Will you back the runner?' The major was a man of some human ity. . He reflected for a moment. "Agreed!" he said "And to insure that both shall do their best, let the wis ner have the promise of his life." Feversham received this proposal witn by no means a good grace, for to spare a rebel hurt him to the soul. But the de lightful prospect of seeing two men racing for their lives, and of being able, after all to shoot the loser, at length reconciled him to the scheme. He gave his orders and the two prisoners were led out of the line.- ,v Out upon the moor, about a quarter of a mile away, stood a solitary tree. This was selected as the starting point. A double line of troopers was drawn up, stretching from the tree to the spot where the general was stationed, leaving a space between them like a race course, some yards wide. - At the end of tht course FevertjKam and the major sat op posite each other. ' Whichever of the two - competitors should pass between them first would be rewarded with bis life and liberty. " - And what were the sensations of the pair while these preparations' were in progress? .. . . 4 '! ' David Dare, standing before the mus kets of the firing party, bad . beard the strange proposal with a sudden thrill of hope so keen that it was almost like a pain. Then for a moment his heart fell again. . He knew his own speed of foot, but he knew also that against a fleet horse, urged by a skillful rider spurring for dear life, bis chance was likely to be small, Still there was hope again, and he could do his best.' More he could not do, though success meant life and life with Mary Seldon. At the last thought his eyes glistened, and be moved op the course between' his guards - with the keenness of a hound in leash. In the meantime a trooper had dis mounted, and (juixarryn, armed with whip and spurs, having taken hit place fat the saddle, the horse was led by a couple of soldiers to the atartsag pout. TJalik) Vm rival, (uixarvya's face aaow4 ao elatiosv Tor ooe mias, m rii,T tK proponal. a irieesii aaeV i.fv ?-) :-. th. hit r he rod with V-i- 3,;.s!; if ijt ia tnonjkt. 7 A -.A'-ia. .; v'.'-rv;. 'fMjut tttuftrMtv iyhl' his 1-tr.a t" - .liU:iJ? nsed b Dare in their - quarrel iii the church 'You conld not make her happy and 1 could." He muttered the words over twenty times. It was not until the tree -was reached and the horse was halted with his head toward the spot where Feversham. discernible far off between the lines, sat waning, that he started, roused himself and looked about him. , David Dare wax standing on his right, stripped to the waist and without his t.'joes, ready for the starter's signal. CJuisarvyn's guards dropped the horse's bridle; and Serjeant .John, who stood between the two competitors, drew a pistol from his belt to give the signal. The excitement at that moment was intense. Not a KOtind was heard in the still morning air: but All down the double line were faces fixed intently on the two competitors. ' Feversham and the major, with glasses to their eyes, sat motionless as statues. : Even the con demned men, forgetful of their own ap proaching doom, stretched their necks to catch a glimpse of the strange con test on which depended life and death for two of their companions. The sergeant raised his pistol. The report rang out. At . the same instant horse and man shot out together from the mark. At first the runner, practiced in flying from the start and having lees momentum than the horse, drew out in front. In a few seconds he was some twenty yards ahead. Then the gap between them ceased to widen, then it was seen to be decreasing: the horse was gaining slowly at first, but gaining surely stride by stride. When half the course was covered the home had drawn up level, and then came such a race as bad nevet yet been seen. For a hundred yards and more the two ran lin-fced together, side by side, the runner almost Hying ovei the crisp turf, the horse streti-hed out in a fierce gallop, with the ridor standing in the stirrups. And now the goal was only fifty yards away, but the gazers drew a deep breath as thy saw that now the horse was gaining wan draw ing out in front. For an instant it seemed that all wa over: the next, to their amaxetnent. they were conscious that the horse was fail ing. Then they saw a gallant sight: they saw the ruuner nerve himself to the last effort and. close upon the goal, dash past the horse and ;r the jndgw and fall headlong on the turf. At that scent'&in spite of discipline, a frantic cheer broke forth along the Hue. Even Feversham himself smiled grimly as one who. though be hnd just lost a bet. had gained aits fall equivalent ie pleasurable excitement. The wiunci'. who had fall an panting and rxliatihtcu. was raised into a sitting posture by two troopers, one of whom poured a draft of brandy down . hi? throat. The spirite almost instantly re vived him. and in a few seconds he was able, though still weak and dizzy, to stand upon his feet and look bout him A few paces off his beaten rival stood beside bis horse. Dare looked at hira and their eyes met. Quixarvyn's face bore an almost imperceptible smile; but it was not this, but .something ia hit look which the other could not have defined, which struck him baekwai-n liVe a shock. He staggered back a pact or two. bewildered by the light which broke upon bis mind. Then be stepped vp to his rival's side, and the guards, who saw no cause to interfere, falling oack a little, he put hie mouth close to (juixarvyn's ear: You pulled that horse f he said. Qnixarvyn looked at him, but an .-wered not a word. "You let me win," the other went on J ma voice breaking, "r or tier saice yoc did." Quixarvyn drove his nails into hit palms; be had acted, he was acting, not without a bitter cost. "Make her happy." he said briefly. As he spoke he turned away and strod swiftly to his old pijtdtion at the head oi" the line of prisoners, befon which tht tiring party was again drawn up. Dare turned his back upon the scene and thrust bis fingers in his ears. Nev ertheless he could still hear with hor rible distinctness the sergeant's loud, ;lear voice, with an interval between he words: ... "Ready!" 'Piesentr Fire!" Almost as the word was given came the crash of the reiort. Moved by an impulse which lie could not conquer, he turned around with a shudder I he soldiers were lowering their smoking muskets, and it thick while cloud bung above the line of prisoners sti-etched upon the ground. At the extremity of the line (juixarvyn lay upon his face. with his right hand clenched upon a portrait which -he had taken from his breast, and with a bullet thr jiig ha heart. H. (ireenhough Smith in Strand Magazine. Aonast Gtms Coins. To the Lydlaiis the innovation of coming gold and silver is attributed, and the year Ktij B C is fixed as the era of the invention. Some 800 years after this, it may be noted. Onesus was king of Lydia The coins of that period were not very elegant.. Among the Ureeks banking was earned on to a considerable extent Homer speaks of brass money i among tbem in 1IH4 a. J.. but it was weights, not coins But the art of coin-' ing was soon acquired by the (ireeks The earliest coins they made were some what crude. The original method of making a coin was -by placing a given weight of metal. itfter it bad been softened, over a die upon which a national symbol or emblem was engraved-, and tben pounding it with a hammer on the dis anal a good Impression was obtained ' Tby were rude and battered mad ahowd a xi usv presaioo oa one side only, the ttisr bear ing the rough marks at the aamnksr The earliest Ureek cotaa vers af silver whereas those of Lydia wars' -af sM ar electron rld and silver TVy vara V asxtoI -haraotr. ajksl tkw aM Sa- i -Jmtvw. Brook Ira IRON A .-1) WOOD SHIPS MATERIALS USED IN SHIPBUILDING AND THEIR VALUE. ... The Points In Whioli 'Iron and Steel Are Sii;-rlor to W ! - Their l.islilu and Luraliltty ami tiie C'nmparatite Safely of All Kinds of Vessel. " ' The tin t materials used in the cou struction of shies in general are wood I iron and steel. Wood baa been in list I from time immemorial. iron is onl : about fifly -. veain old. and steel is uasili within the memory of every man' : moderate years. The importance ot tli three materials are inversely as state. i steel being the most .valuable, then in:. ai.. last wood. NotM-eably is this so m ! the construction of swift steamships for wood is unsuited to the great engine power nowadays put into ships: it can not properly stand the strain. ' iron ships are superior to wooden one- in the following particulars: LightueM couihuied wit a strength, durability when properly treated, ease and cheaiHiess ol construction and repair and safety when properly constructed and subdivided, lu wooden ships it has been found . that about one-half of the total weight ol the ship is required for the hull, whereas m irou ships only from 30 to 40 per ceut. ol the weight is tnus taken up. ror in stance, in a wooden armored warship the weight of the bull being SO per cent of the displaceuieut leaves 50 per cent for the weights to be carried. In an iron armored warsliip the weight of the bull is only 40 per -cent., leaving 60 per cent for weights to be carried. , The tensile Ktrength of iron ia from 40.000 pounds to 60.000 pounds per square inch, and this strength can be secured throughout all the metal used, so that the material worked into the ship ts am form and homogeneous. These are quail ties-wanting in wood: the greatest care cannot eliminate such weak spots as are due to the presence of knots, crossgrain hidden defects, etc. (ieneraily good sound timber may be said to have a strength to resist pulling apart (tensile strength) of about 10,000 pounds. ikon far superior to wood. 'When m shipbuilding it comes to fastening pieces together, 'as. for in stuuoe. in making a ships keel or her ueck beams, the weakness caused by scarfing the pieces of wood together be comes an element of strength in riveting the iron. No matter how it may be line esssary to treat the pieces of metal whether by riveting or welding or oy angle irons, the iron stands far above the wood m resistance to tensile strains It is only when lesistip..sT rains of com pression that there is a tendency ot iron plates to buckle, and thi is guarded against by making the plates thicker than is required for other s trains or by re-enforcing them. Durability is a quality of iron tnat if not yet thoroughly determined. In geu eral. a wooden ship may be said to last about fifteen years. Some last longer but there will be much patching and re newing to be done. The rules of Lloyd.' allow about fourteen years as the aver ge durability of the best built timber 'essela ',.' Iron is not subject to ths internal aourcea of decay to which wood is liable Worms and marine animals cannot in . jure it, nor will it rot from imperfect ventilation. Neither can the parts work loose from the motion and straining of the ship, allowing water to get m ana cause decay. Ths dauger to iron lies in the rusting or corrosion, especially lu the under water part outside from tin Se:i" writer and inside from the bilge water. The only prevention is careful watching, cleaning and paiDtitig. aud aven with all this supervision galvanic action is likely to do some damage Therefore the life of an iron ship is lim ited., and in the present state of knowl edge of the sniiject may be set down as approximately thirty years, for. thougti a ship will last longer, extensive repairs will hare to be made that will cost oou -siderable money. STEia. KKTl'KIl THAN IKON It is also easier to repair an iron ship. since the necessary sbafie can he turned out at ouce - The rapidity with which an iron ship can be h;u!t counts for much. In the present day the ease with which iron is obtained and worked con stitutes another element of cheapness for the final cost Ui.iay must amonut to nearly 25 per cent. less, especially when the time, preparation, saving of weight and life of the ship are considered As to the safety of a ship when prop erly constructed and subdivided, it i only necessary to say that when the in ternal space of an iron ship is sub divided into many . compartments by longitudinal or transverse partitions rising to a sufficient height, or by hon -zontal platforms, or inner- skin, and ail such divisions are made water tight, then that ship is safer than any wooden ship would be against fonndenng. for the space required for these bulkheads cai not be found in a timber built vessel .The subject of steel may be briefly dis cussed by remembering that steel is sim ply a superior kind of iron, and by vir tue of its greater strength is of lighter weight. The strength of steel is from 70,000 to 100.000 pounds per square inch. Steel is as strong lengthwise as it is broadwise iron is one-fifth stronger lengthwise than it is broadwise. The elastic limit of steel is about 26 per cent.' greater than that of iron. So steel may be trusted with working loads nearly 25 per cent, greater than; the oth er material. Lloyds estimate that by i building ships of steel there is a saving in weight over iron of about 13 per cent, or. to put the same, thing in another way. a steel ship of the same dimensions as aa iron ship would bare an increased cargo capacity (ia weif ht) of soma 16 or fiO per eetit. la ths litter at ess. rtei is more -peosivs at first, bat ths best proof of its alternate aheaprssi is found ia ths in tact that asodsra assrshaat are swim built of stesL ta um Mts M atatl ships fcaiX, M iroa sssd 17 aasssMite ss4 wood. Tasee aas4 ha ao fattaat arrnMst as to ta t- sr steal (Vara arflry aaast sr 'w Tart YJa-eaa, , . -. 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