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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Times, 1891-09-18, Page 6t • snisselateeelallameleaellallswimenenuselasseellesleislegemai . with close reefed topsails, wtth t11e let us lcnow whether ,there is anyolte She passed throligll tiro meadow at sun- ateCitiu*rtilEimo� wind hGwiill and xoariug thi:ougli the living or dead aboard of iter S. fiat do rise, rigging till it seernea as if every stick not be Longer than you call help, for I A Iti flowed her n t e bl 1y a of the hoavena must go, and the seas tumbling over believe the breeze will freshen again Sent greeting my lave to greet. I;LI 18, l Jil. the Forecastle and quarter deck as i£ soon and we don't want to lose a day. Her path as a queen's was on purple, the Bands to shorten hail, So 3oyous the violets ran: they meant tearing the craft plank Bo'sun, pipe But I Nvas the blindest of mortals _ from plank, However she came and clew up your fore and main Since ever the world began. through it with DO worse loss than a sail. We entered the wheat -field together, set of topsoils and .courses. .After You mtty he sure I did not want to The harvest was ample and fair; be asked to term ono of that boat's She gathered the crimson of poppies Tet bind in lige silly of her hair; that we bad a brief spall of better ° weather • the sea dropped, and the crow. There was a bit of a scramble; 1, caring for nothing but treasures-- � Thogoal old of the plentiful wheat— Went crushing the delicate blossoma skies cleared,and we were able to matte but I was the first to dropinto leer, That jewelled the print of her feet. a bit more sail. Well, just about that The umber was soon made up ; and time, we were washing decks one in a few moments we had oast oft andgropinSo she passed while I lingered still • morning at daybreak, when the second were Pulling in the direction of • the For Ingots to add to my store, gderelict. She passed as a breath of the moaning mate, who had the morning watch, singe out to one of the lads : Go below From her royal masthead to her That noon -tide can never restore. cabin, waterline, our ship looked a picture as When the larl� int lite heavens grew silent and fetch the glasses out of my1 searched for lay daxling in vain, Away he goes, and presently conies up we pulled away from her ; and the 1 had but a handful of treasure • with a pair of these here opera glass voices of those left aboard, as they That weighed as a mountain of pain. things. bent to the ropes, drifted cheerily over We didn't take much notice of this, the sea. It was a stiffish pull, I can for we thought perhaps he'd sighted toll you, for the sun had got a bit of a sail in the distance. But after a power by that time, and made things *arm all round, and the distance seemed 'twice as long, for every man was on the tiptoe of excitement, and anxious to get alongside, and kept looking over his shoulder to see what way we were making. The mate said nothing but•a few words of encourage.. went now arid again ; but at last he stands up, grasping the tiler ropes in his hand, and with his eyes fixed ou the boat we were making for. Every line of his face was working with ex- citement ; x•citement; but a mornent afterwards, he turned the color of canvas, and said in a husky voice that weren't a bit like his own : Were too late, lade' 1 Easy, all ! Stand by forward there with the boat -hook. And the next moment we were alongside the straneor, to find— what can a few rags of canvas lianging from a ain't no bigger than a man's hand from rnast, an empty watersbreaker awash here, reports the bosun. •In the bottom, some pieces of sodden So I thought, was the mate's reply. leather, a pencil case and a human figure huddled in the stern sheets— dead. Well, mates, we took the boat in tow and made back for our own craft. The breeze had sprung up at last, and she was s;oming down to us like a yacht, hand over hand,with every line of her canvas filled, and it was a pretty sight l ,IDA, SEeTE\I Tire Coming woman. ,'What will the Corning woman do To plague, perplex and interfere with us? Will site forbid the festive chow And cuspidore for ages clear pith us? Will site invade with uplifted Wase, Retreats where. female feet, ue'er went till late Barroom cosy and courtroom close, And force reluctant men to ventilate? Brother, and so I hear. "Will the dear haunts whore manhood play- ed At euchre bold and frisky seveu-up— Ileants where so oft our reasons strayed— To conversation teas be given up ? ]!'lust we then, all go home to dine? And must a friend in. soda pledge his mate ? How shall the coming man get wine At all, if she's allowed to legislate?" Brother, the case looks queer. "Speak, 0 friend! has the woman's sphere Tile soft.soap rainbow sphere we kept her inWith the world at , • Burst and vanished, and left her here long look ?lead, he calls out again largewield her i ' Bo'sun, just take a look through these and tell me if you can see anything ahead yonder. Wait till 'she dips again ! Now ! about two points off the weather bow, low doWn on the water. What do you make of it 7 I see something away there, sure The enfranchised female rise ubiquitous Partner in purse she'll claim to be, Logic of business she'll outwit as in; • Lost from life is the dead latch -key, And lost from earth the white male ei•tim zen 1" Brother, the end is near. sceptre in Is she up. to our little game? And can she blind us, iu reality, Down to the precepts, much too tame, We'vepreached to her for pure morality?" ° Brother, the worst I fear. "Friend' of my youth, I can no more, 0 fiv with me this land iniquitous, Nay, for I seo, from shore to shore enough, answers -the bo'sun after a pause, and it looks as if it wore about midway between the bow of the ship and the horizon ; but I can't rightly make it out; sir, with these. 1'11 go aloft and take a look around. TOO LATE. , ° In less than five minutes his voice The barque Eagle lay in the London came from the foretopmast erosstrees Docks, taking in the last of her cargo Below there I' and getting ready for sea. It was mid -Ay ! ay I responded the mate. day; and a pleasant lull had followed That's a ship's boat ahead there, sir, the din and turmoil of the morning. fromb t 1make of it ; but it The huge steam cranes on the quay- side were ett a- stand -still, their sups pressed vitality showing itself in little puffs of steam that escaped with a hissing. noise from the safety valves. The ring Of the calking hammer was hushed for a while. Stevedores, rigs gers, painter and carpenter had gone ashore to dinner,'and the half dozen hands left, aboard were gathered for the same purpose in a snag little cabin on the main deck just for'ard of the charthouse.' Ben, the sailmaker, in his canvas jacket, was a prominent member of the group. He was a man in. the prime of life, with a pleasant :look on his sunburnt face. His heart and soul were in his calling, for his bxperience dated from boyhood, and hewhad a way of telling things that was racy of salt water. The conversation had turned from the business in hand to the latest bit of shipping news, the loss of a well known London trader, that had that;, 'As you may guess, we were all agog at this news, and not a few of the watch below turned out to have a peep over the weather bulwarks, Some said they could see her, or made out that they could,;:, but for my part, when. I came to look, I could not for the life of me make out her where- abouts. But there was no doubt of it she was'tliere, and maybe half a dozen poor wretches aboard of her, Wonders ink whether the big ship saw them, or was going to leave them to their fate. In the meantime the mate had gone below and roused out the skipper, who came on deck looking sleepy and not over good tempered. He had a look through the glasses, and, my word, yon never saw such a change in a man all at once, He was wide awake in a All right , that will do. Then glans ing at the canvas aloft, he muttered an oath : Confound the.wind ; it's dying away altogether now. - And so it was ; and by the time the sun had been above the horizon for an hour, there was not breeze enough. to lift the leech of royals, and the lower to see her hove�to. There was a row sails beat against the masts and rig- ging at every roll of the vessel ; for I of anxious faces.lining the bulwarks as though the surface was like a looking- we pulled alongside ; but they disap- glass,there was a bit of a swell on that peered one by one when they saw that might have been a reminder of some heavy,. W tl w had been having How Jay Gould Began His Career. I had occasion not long ago to call upon Jay Gould on a matter of busi- ness, writes Mr. A. J. Cockerill, and met him by appointment at his Fifth Avenue residence. After a half-hour's chat our conversation drifted in various directions. Mr. Gould said to me— Are you not a country boy ? Yes, I said, and 1 know you are. Without making any reference to this the great financier asked me in return—Did you churn ? 1 said I bad a recollection .of a peculiar up and down churn I used to operate when I was a boy,and which was the cause of many blisters. on my adolescent hands, He smiled- pleasant- ly and continued—The churn that I have in my mind was a different one, and it had a great deal to do with my career. My father had a little dairy farm in Delaware county, and the special products of that farm were but- ter and cheese. We had a rotary churn which was operated by a tread- mill on which we worked a large dog, and sometimes a sheep. In course of time the dog and slieep came to under' stand what was in store for them when they saw the people about the place setting the churn up. Thereupon they were in the habit of disappearing. On such occasions, to supply the missing motor, I was pressed into service, and eventually I came to understand that when the churn was being prepared I too was in danger of involuntary ser- vitude, and so I used to disappear. On one occasion, howeyer, 1 remonstrated so bitterly against being made the Substitute of the dog that my father chastised me with a great deal of'3e- verity, and after brooding ovor the matter all night I concluded to leave the farm and seek my fortunes else- where. So, like many another boy, 1 packed up my few clothes, and in the early Morning left the farm and started out into the world for thyself. (kc fxng not Imes —IS PUBLISHED— EVERT FRIDAY MORNING, --AT VIE— TIMES OFFICE, JOSEPHINE STREET' `VINGIIA.B1, ONTARIO. we had done no good. That night we stood round the gangway bareheaded ea ler e . while they said the last words over the or it might mean a bit of a breeze poor fellow. itgain before nightfall. 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"Mrs. Win- slow's Soothing Syrup" for children teething is pleasant to the tasf* and is the prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in tUnited States, for by all druggists throughout the wod.Price twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mas. WtNsnow's Somme SYRCP And take nn other kind morning been posted fit Lloyd's as missing. Many were the reminiscen- ces brought up by first one and then another touching the skipper and crew of the ill-fated vessel. D'ye think there's any Chance that some of them might ha' been picked. up ? asked one. No, I don't, answered Ben,• and is the truth. I'm afeard it is the story, if any of them got away n her at all. And that reminds of'solnething that happened about years ago, which maybe none of have ever heard, but which is as le as we are sitting here in this fain. 1 shipped, said Ben, from the port f Hull aboard of the Queen of Kent or a round voyage to Hong Kong. She was one of the Bell Line, and a moment, tools a turn or two up and stilarter craft I never wieh to sai down the deck,glances sharply aloft at aboard of. She was well found, too, the idle canvass, and then itas a careful gear, stores, and everything. Well, look all around the horizon, as if look - we made a fast passage out, with fair ing for the wind ; but .never so much weather ; but because we wanted to be os a breath came to his aid. A few first home, from the time we dropped words with the mate, and his voice the pilot until we crossed the line it rings out over the deck : Clear away was eltonether different. For days at a time we lived i11 our oil -skins, you might say ; the hatches were battened down, and the forecastle was awash, Southward of the Cape we ran into the and the boat swung over the side. worst gale 1 think I ever was in my Lower away easy, there, Copes the life ; olid I'm aura of this, that not next order. Now, Mr. East, take half many a craft would have lived through a°•dozeli Hien with you, and make the ;, For three days we Were tlove•to best of your way to yonder boat, and vioualy imported. the starboard lifeboat. A dozen hands spring forward to execute the order; and in less time than it takes ale to tell you, lads, the lashings were cut will be Tran - in R. ELLIOTT PROPRIETOR AND RURL1SIIER DR. MACDONALD, SOSEPHINE STREET, WINGI1An, Y . B. TOWLER. Member College Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. —CoronOr for County of Huron— Office at " THE PIHARMACY" - Winghant Ont, OFFICE MOORS. -0 to 12. a. m., 1 to 6, p. m., or at Residence, Diagonal Street. ONTARIO How Vessels go Through the Suez :.anal The average time of transit by day is 15 hours ; by night with electric lights it is 19 hours, and has beet, done in 15 hours.. In order to navigate by. night, a vessel must light the way by carrying an electric projector at her bow as close' to the water as possible, and pay the closest attention to the orders from the 'passing stations or nares."' Three white 'lights shown ver- tically indicate 'slow down ;` then'the display of two white lights is the order to stop and haul into the gare. The steamer presently hauls in, makes fast, puts out all lights and, lies snug in her berth alongside the desert,while the oncoming vessel, looking like a locomptive at night, passes by. One white light from the gate and lines are let go, and the journey •Continued until Suez is reached,--Lieuttanant Eidgely `Hunt, in Scribner. DIt. J. A. MELDRUM, Honor Graduate of Toronto University, and Member of the College of Physicians•and Surgeons of Ontario. Office and Residence—Corner of Centre and Patrick streets, formerly occupied by Dr. Bethune. WINOIIAb[•- - ONT R. VANSTON E. 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