VESSELS WITH BAD NAMES
|0ome in the British Navy That Seem
Destined to Meet with
Disaster.
If one should be so bold as to
•characterize the superstitious
•Bailor as silly he would at ouce de
clare that there is sufficient reason
Vor his belief, and would proceed
ito prove that war vessels named
jiifter stinging and venomous
things have been unlucky, and that
ithe count ry should not be so indif
ferent to the men who follow “a
fife on th<> ocean wave” as to or
f^anize a mosquito fleet, says the
jKTavy League .Journal.
That Snake is regarded as an un
fortunate name for a vessel is
•diown by the fact that two of that
iiiimr have been lost, one in 1781
4i(i the other in 1847; but no vessel ,
tiearing that name is known to ex
tint now. Serpent, which is only a
substitute name for Snake, is an
amlucky one also, for the one
■■wrecked in 1892 was the fourth
Stritish war vessel of that name to
•neet the same fate. Viper has
tieen an unlucky name in tin1 Brit
fail navy. The first one was wrecked
Ju 1780, but the admiralty would
not swerve, and so kept the name
on the list, each vessel meeting its
•loom, and the fourth was lost only
recently. The French navy has also
tieen unlucky with vessels so nam
ed. The Viper, used in the British
service after she became a prize
from the French, was lost in 1793. 1
•The second was lost a year later,
1he third in 1797, and the fourth
■was recently lost in a collision off
^Juernsev,
Tin* Cobra, another British war
n?ssel, was lost recently at the
fiame time as the Viper. Among
mother vessels similarly named and
"which met fates other than in bat
tle are the Rattlesnake, in 1781;
the Alligator, in 1782; the Croco
dile, in 1784; the Adder, in 1846;
three Lizards, two Dragons and
one Basilisk. All of these were of
the British navy. The list could
J»e made larger by citing the rec
ords of other navies.
The Norsemen, who were so fond
tof naming their vessels against the
Saws of superstition and using hid
<eous heads of dragons and reptiles
on their high prows, were less un- ,
fortunate, and these did not meet
with frequent disasters. They did
liave a belief, however, that it was
unlucky and a sacrilege to select
*mck a name as did Lord Dunraven
•for his tirst yacht to challenge for
jthe America's cup, the Valkyrie.
'And this belief was strengthened
.when she was sunk bv the Satan
lila. The second challenger, with
the same name, gave trouble, and
•he was broken up .if ter only a
•bort existence.
'HORSES TURN AMPHIBIOUS
Mlroup in Australia Dive to River
Bottom for Succulent Weeds
to Eat.
While on a cattle station in
^western Australia, Henry Tauu
Jfou had an opportunity of seeing a
Jremarkable instance of the way in
%hich animals can adapt them
•elves to their surroundings, says
• writer in Australind.
“Outlie upper reaches of the
river there was a large pool, just
fordable at most times, but in a
tirv season very low,” he says.
‘Among the horses making their
,n in the vicinity of this pool, an
:i‘u mare and a number of foals
tu.j yearlings used to come down
‘P*v day in the long, dry summer,
pruhe herbage was scant and
dimi* into dryness. They
a.to the pool until the
on./rly reached their heads,
-there for hours, diving
ir Co for a mouthful of
which thev
Oui
saw a group of horses standing in
the water and disappearing from
time to time as they ducked their
heads below the surface. My won
der was soon at an end. when I saw
one of their heads suddenly come
out with a mouthful of dripping
weeds. No sooner was this mouth
ful disposed of than the head dis
appeared in search of another.
“The overseer told me that dur
ing a long drought some five or six
years previous, when hardly a
vestige of feed was left on the run,
and bush fires had laid bare the
sand plains, the old mare had dis
covered that there was plenty of
luscious feed at the bottom of
pools, which could be procured by
diving for it; and. having once put
her discovery into practice, she
continued to do out of preference
what she had been driven to do by
necessity.
“The several generations of
foals which she had reared had all
followed her example, although
none of the full grown horses had
Joined the amphibious group.
Here, then, seemed to be a new
variety of horse in evolution,
which, if left undisturbed, might
breed and separate from the run.
perhaps to survive through
droughts severe enough to exter
minate all others.”
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OKLAHOMA SKETCHES
Men Must Prove Their Honesty
Before They are Trusted
in That Country.
Well, Mr. Editor, I am still in
Oklahoma. This country is im
proving rapidly. The Indian
lands will soon be on the market
and a home can be bought cheap
— that is they call it cheap here,
but we Arkansans would not call
it cheap.
Where they rent for cash, land
runs from $‘2.00 to $:5.00 per acre.
I know of a creek bottom farm
for rent that can be rented for
$2.50 per acre. The man who,
rented it last year made $1,500 on
it. Hut that kind of land is what
they call “gumbo.’' It takes a
good team td handle it, but it is j
very productive. A man told me |
it was the best farm in Lincoln
county. This will give your read- j
ers some idea of the rent. Hut i
people here consider every man
dishonest until they tind out bet
ter. hence when a farm like this is
rented they require the renter to
put up security for the rent or.
pay in advance. Some farms are
rented without this security where
they rent for a part of the crop,
which is usually a third of the corn !
and a fourth of the cotton. The!
renter gathers all the crop, the;
cotton is usually sold and the mon-1
ey divided or divided at the gin.
The corn is cribbed on the farm.
The farmers lease the prairie
from the Indians at 25 cents per
acre for hay and make lots of hay. ;
It cures easily and will keep in
the rick all right. The traveler
sees large ricks of hay on the
prairies. I believe Pawnee coun
ty is better for farming than Lin-.
coin and Payne.
1 was at a public sale last week
and saw Irish potatoes sell at;
$1.25, and corn ->4d cents a bushel, j
It was sold on a year's time with
i
12j per cent interest. They have i
lots of sales of this kind out here.
The land is mostly rented now.
Some few farms are for rent.
Parts of the country is what we
would call rough, as dances and
frolics are frequent, yet in other
parts there are good churches.
Most all denominations are repre
.sented here and 1 find Masons,Odd
Fellows, and a number of other
secret orders represented.
They all want statehood.
There are a great many more
towns here than in Arkansas and
they all seem to be doing a good
business. Stroud, i n Lincoln
county, is as pretty a town as 1
ever saw. It stands out on the
prairie. So is Cushing a pretty
town. I expect to start home
soon. #L I. Martin.
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