THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FK2D AT, DECEMBER, 30, .1892.
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" 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
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