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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1890-5-15, Page 6IOSS OF THE MAMMA. A Thrilling Tale of the Sea. DIED AT 13.IS root I was now thoughly alarmed. INThere was the negro who ordinarily waited at table? What could the cook be doixeg? And why hail not the cheery captain cent° down in accordance with his wont? Although I had the honor of serving '3' - at heart and eonvineed tlllLt some miller the Confederate flag duringthe thing far more terrible than I had up to that.greater part of what it is still the fashion to time Imagined Inust have occurred, I once call "the late unpleasantness' in Auieriea, I more moluded the companion stairose. I ant an Englishman, and have never ceased knocked loudly at the door which led ont on tolaea British subject. It is perhaps for deck, but there was no response. I hammer - this reason that in the autumn of 1804, when ed at it with fists and heels, but ID vain. The the cause of seeession had already begun to dead lights at the top had not been removed, look very black, I was selected liv the Con- although there was no farther need for their federate goverument to carry to Paris some protection. Returning again, I fettled a meat very important secret despatches. Theaxe in the pantra.a and with this, after ten Southern ports were effectrally blockaded ' unieutes, work, 1 forced out one of the panels by the federal squadrons, and, upots my ite- of the companion door, which I then opened eeptiag the dangeronee vet withal attraetive• ity taming the key :ruse the outaide• 171ission, it was deeitled`that, instead of at- , Lashed W the stump of the mainntast was 'tempting to sail direct. I should make my the frozen, body of the captain, covered from tray overland as best I could to New York, , bead to foot with glistening ice. Ile had and thence take passage on board a British, died at his post. steamer bound for Liverpool. , It was a pitiable sight; yet worse remain - During my stay in New York I was in- to be seen. trodueed by some English acquaintances WI 1 noticed that the ship was very much an American family of the name of Vanhoof. !down by thehead, and, upon Walking forward Always afraid of exciting suspieion, I felt !I discovered thatthe for castle companion hound to agree to a proposition which wasidoor hail beess wrenched from its hingea alai 'made to me by Mr. and Mrs, Vaulted. :that thehow compartment as full of water Their daughter Celia was going to join laer'Even, while I gazed into the black gulf. sister in Eagiand, autil itutittled to sail in , beneath me, I saw floating in it the bodies the Olympia, aecompanied only by !!l!.0&1. of several seamen, and then the hideous Would 1, 1 was asked, net as the youngltruth broke in on me anti I knew that I and lady's escort ? I assented, simply lecause the tWO women were the only living souls ., 1 did not know on what atrounds to refuse. onboard the Olympia. •And so, one wet ami seneereble morning. we; IN TUE 11ANDS OF two. vent 911 TKiarti the hiat steamer und Were I No wonder that I felt as if harball my strength towed out of or. had ebbed from tile, when once more I AT TIM ST..1Treei MERCY. found my way into the saloon. Where I The weather during the tiret three days 0f,was I knew not. For many hours the -es - the yoyage was wet, but not otherwise mi. sel hail drifted with the storm; my know. ' pleasant, but on the fenirth 41ay /he oiympia ledge of navigation was not suffiaieut to en - was overtaken by a viehmt atom from the ,able me to take art observation and so to westward. We were, I should explain, the , arrive at ifly position. I could. do nothing. only passengers, for wollioassieat,Wrs between . I oweltanittally imw sereed the deedlights an Europe ti Anseriea was 1744 tlIell SO eaSy :that tilvered the 5110011. 1:70TtS 111111,1111,11 tried end 1011111147a ad it iS 111711, itIllt neither the to put the room III order, potent raw the tituatiles 4e1 stifitita amiss the t''''ha entered while I was engage(' and A looked at me us wonderment. t:untie enwearaawl people to trav4:1 0551- looked hat is the matter?" she said. ward for pie:testae'. The ship seemed to be doomed. to daster. 44W1y don't you leave that to the steward.? The captain Liens.eif, an old ealt who hied I suppose that he has overslept himself, vaned the Atiantie for forty years, hail never poor fellota llut there is so) greet hurry for Wore experieneed sueli weather, and the breakfast, is therer bands, always rather prone to superstition,: I turned my lave from her, not liking to aleelared with conxi,Aion that "summat was trust thYself to tell her the truth. wrong soniewlieres." They had no respite, "NN elli she continued. "since it la suelz a ' -peer fellows. The donkey engine, whielt lovely morning I shall g? on deek." (night w have worked the steam pumps. was „ "Poe God's sake. no!' I ejaenlated, rush - smashed, owl the pumps, which it wasneces. mg to place myself between Miss N anima rary to keep geing continually, had to be and the door. "I mast tell you. I suppose. worked by hand. h:verv seam= Immo A most awful thing has happened. I do not haw fearfully lithos ef that kind tells on a know what, 1)14 I thltlk it must bare been a ar„ wheo there ia a heavy sca on. and when vi.-aterspout that frightened us so last night. the men, in addition to tieing always wet 1 ou must not go on deok. There are things alwough, are hal:frozen. The hurricane be. there wrileli ru must not see. Indeed you 'came, if possibe, snore and more savage, it lutist net go. literally blew great guns, and °nate evening, Celia SW by my manner that I was very a the math day the wiptain, fevIlug that lus mach in earnest. TO me," she said, losing crew were rapollygrow mg too week to strug. so 00 100, has any one been killed. Ifas gle any long", maw ,uswn into the saloon any one been hurt! Oh let sue go and help and b tie us prepare for the worst He was 'them "Sit down," I said solemnly, "you Can do still talking to us, when a shock, different fr audiling. We three are in the hands of tied, om any 1 11111. We had 'already experienced, shook the vwsel, azol 0 moment later it was , In all this ship we and amtir maid are the reporteil that 114'T shaft 11 4ei broken and that mil living ereatttres." her maims were, therefore, useless. "What 410 you umant" she eried, becalm It ing still paler. wits midnight. The storm was more terrili"., !him ever. A partieulariy heavy " Last night in that fearful commotion, a a away toe foremast, snapping we heard shrieks even above the roaring of 1e,01, ".1!4 a Sliation erash about six feet the wind and the dashingof the waves. They thee* . % , ,teuk. The word was given, 44All eame from the crew. Heaven alone knows hoe ,., ou deck to lear awa.y wreckage io ,how it all happened but / lettve been on deek, and the ehivering crew swarmed up the Om- allil I have seen the work of the storm.' Pardon. and with axes and capstan bars set to work to throw the shattered utast and gear overboard. Cold, stiff and weary, the men made but slow progress= the slippery, ice bound deck. More than one of them, indeed,had been washed away in thestruggle, when suddenly and without warriutg the must save me. I cannot die. It is cruel ! And 'wind dropped. I 'mewl quick , shrieks, of we are all alone, in mid -ocean !" terror, and the voice of the captain shouting 'gently freed myself from the hand win& to the men to close the companion. Theu she had placed upon my shoulder. "I must till the sounds on deck were drowned to a go," I said, "if we 500 10 escape with our "wild, unearthly roar that now rose high lives. We must do our best to attract the at. tention of passing. vessels. If we have any more rough weather it may sink the ship al- together.' And I went on deck. 1Vith the axe I reverently cut down the captain's body, and then, rolling it in a cloth which I obtained from below, 1 weighted it and lowered it overboard. I also committed the steward's body to the wave, and with the few facilities that were at my command battened down the forward companion, for while that remained open I dared uot allow the women to come up on deck. When I had fastened it handerkerchiet to the stump of one mast and a piece sailcloth to that of another, and had assured myself that no vessel was in sight, I returned to Celia, whom I found bending over her maid and trying to restore animation, for the girl had fainted. ABOVE A WATERY GRAVE. I procured some coals from the bunkers, rearranged and lighted the stove in the saloon and a second stove, by means of which cooking operations could he carried on in the pantry, and in the chart room came upon an excellent glass, which I lost no time in carrying up to Celia. By midday I had. a large flag flying five -and -twenty feet above the deck., and had the satisfaction of feeling that no ship could come within a radius of eight or ten miles without seeing it. But when all the needful supplies had been found there was little for me to do save to watch. Celia's maid cooked the meals; and while Celia and she were below eating their share I remained on deck, going down when : they relieved me, and hastily swallowing my' portion. The weather grew considerably' warmer, and even the women could keep ' watch during the day time without much personal discomfort; but at night the work could only be done by me. At dusk I light.. ed all the lanterns that I could lay my hands upon, and fastened thein th my improvised , flagstaff and to the stumps of the masts. At ten I sent the women to bed, and with my thickest great coat buttoned up ander my chin and a rough pilot jacket beneath it went on deck to remain there for eight hours. , It was a moonlight night and there was almost a dead calm— a strange contrast to the riot and turrnoil of the previous evenin g The sea resembled a slightly ruffled sheet of molten silver, and the light swell that is seldom or never wholly absent on the Atlan- tic was not sufficient to cause any percep- tible motion to the disma,sted vesseL Although I am, I hope, no coward, I kept aft There was something horrible in tramp- ing the deck above the watery grave of these unknown and unnumbered dead in the fore- castle, and, besides'the stern of the vessel was higher than the water-logged bows, 1 and from it I could see further than from any other part of the ship, when, as hap- pened scores of times during my watch, I swept the dim horizon with my glass each time seeing nothing, and .each time turning away with an ever =teasing load of depres- sion on my heert. That night, however, I watched in vain, and at six o'clock I awoke the women and as soon as they relieved • me turned in to get a couple of hours' sleep be-' fore breakfast, leaving word that I was to he called if any sail were sighted. • I i SINKING. wonder whether, after all, her cargo would i When I awoke again it was nearly y her not keep her afloat, when, at about ten Celia had let me sleep, and had nine. o'cloch, her stern, suddenly canted up into, owie hands prepared my breakfast, while her the air, and she sank- head foremost, leaving maid,who had now recovered froili the first 110perceptible trace of herself upou the , shoot of the calamity, remained, alone ott bosom of the sea. We looked in solemn deck silence toward the spot which had so nearly 1 And so another long day slowly passed, been cnitir commou_ grave. I was sad, and aud at its clo.ee help seemed to be no nearer tears g steiled in Miss N'enhoof's eyes, but, than in the morning. For forty-eight hours she brushed them indignantly away. ! ,. we had, been drifting so wahaag at the mercy of the I i winds and currents, and We had been long "I ain afraid," I said at last, " that our , enough at sea to have Almost reached Queens- prospects are rather black. We have now i town, and yet we were still probably with. only our,provisions aud this wretched raft in a couple or three hundred miles of the to depend upon. The least rough weather hamerion coast. That night I again. kept may deprive us of one, or even both of them, watch, but ia, was drearier work than it hahl aud so we must make up our minds for the been before. Hope was dying "131` at .WOrst. Yet we must slot be altogether down. tharteason of the year it WAS not likely that hearted. There are at this momexit 1i1111- 1 Nnutny noire hours would elapse without areas of ships iti the orth Atlantic, and bringiug rough weather, and I knew only it is quite likely that we may drift across tceo well what frightful risks the disabled the track of one °intent, ship would run directly the sea should rise, " Good Heavens !" interrupted MISS Vaal- ' again. My anxieties were further increased hoof, who had just then begets* to take stock , by tht hnowledge—obtained surreptitiouely of the provisions and stem, ''We have no during the day—that the Olympia was slow- water." • ly but steadily settling down. The forward'' No water 1" I exclaimed with constern- bulkheads were not aboaluteiy watertight, kation and incredulity, " Impossible ! I fill - hut it was not the leakage from the fore- ea two kegs last, night, and pot them ready castle that I feared. That would, only help on deek. They must, he here:" . to put the ship once more upon =MR keeL i But they were not to be found. " Surely," i There were other leakages AS well. On the said Miss Vanhoof to her maid, " you did . night of the fearful storm the vessel had ' been strained beyond endurance, and 1 5:11:5-itiet, 101:01) them." The poor girl's reply was a peel of idiotic , tied myself that far more water VMS enter- laughter ; and at last we diaeovered that, mg the hold than was dr:titling from the for. Apprehensive. that the raft would be over - ward compartment. file level there watt weighted, she had tittestiia in the swarms; ouly a few melses lower than it had been un rolled them into the sea, not realizing in the 1500111115when I hat" Arst. seen t,ne her hysterical excitement that the keg eon. drowned bodies floating below ; but Ine tained the most important, portion of the ; night (Wednesday) fully tell inches big ler clewed, that they were full of s irits, level in the main hold was on the eeerd whole equipment, and 'belie, as she de. I than it had been on Wednesday morsung, and at that rate of pi:ogress it seemed blew- wangle the W0111411 *01)0 had OM 81,011011For an instant, I confess, I felt AS if I could table that the Olyntra must sink in two or sny plans; but when elle knew what she had three &ye, if not sooper. All the pumps slone her self reproaches were so bitter thist I were damaged or wholly destroyed, last even could not help pitybig her. It was only clear lf theY were 11(ht " "Iliill 11" "rk the" , that she was ra »Ay becoming less and less Nresponsible for er Wiens. p eiii :01KII:C: Aepa:efor„ the worst, ,411u 1111151 " Well." says Mies Vanhoof bravely, "we I deterinin must suffer together then, I suppose ; aud, after all, 1 amto blamefor not haviugwatela hatches and barrels, so as to be rawly. "Dou't despair," he mid ,„, ed the kegs, Alla for not having missed them well we have WA (M L far !. -;w:Ssebeall""r before WO Started." a sail today, I hope." - A MA= num "Ah ! Hope is 14 feeble reed for us. We I The prospect WAS now truly frightful. must work. We must do our best to make The witel was piercing cold ; Gee torments of a raft 1 1int33 abe've all we MU" WaStVI 110 thirst were almost within sight ; sual the time." do you think the Asp eall float 1" iutilt1v41aPsPe3'v.iiguil IastitiesuiVelitglattl'alladinitiQiumpetbrail "And for hawing," she ventured timidly, "I an't say. Perhaps for two (lir ; bethe chances of her mop:Lamm chaps 114)1114)1 for 01)0. Now let us begin. I made Miss Vanhoof lie down, and, ham- per . made her as warm as I could, devoted READY 81111 THE worst. myself by turns to scanning the horizon and I had stlready dragged up from below two to watebing the girl. I felt that, come what, cylindrical halts of timber. 1 bad determined might, I dared not sleep. The dangere were to ham the raft oil these, so that in case of too DIRDY and too imminent. Ill order to need they might serve as rollers to aul us m keep inySeil 411%4 e 1 c lea ei ea leavvii an" launching it. Empty barrels and cases were continually wetted my head with stilt water. uot plentiful. Such things are generally It WM about two o'clock and Miss Van. the good fortune to find some casks of stole up behind. Inc. I was standing ageing, g quietly1 the t moan et erboard as uselees, But I bad i . . p hl Malone which had presumably beenshipped the mast. Putting her hands upon my in order to benefit by one or two ovean shoulder she hissed late 11)3' 0140, "I want voyages, anti I knocked out the bungs of somethiug to drink !" these, drained away the generous wine, aud "I can't help it," I returned, as I shook baying rendered them watertight hauled myself free and faced her ; "you threw the them, wit h seinen difficulty, on deek and keg" hverheartle you know. I am very lashed them together as a 'buoyant under. sorry, but if you are thirsty it, is you awn structure for our new craft. liut to Invade fault." six heavy casks and then by sheer main She laughed at me. "Guess you want me force to hoist them out 01 1* vessel's holil are to believe that lie," she said i "hut you've operations whiela when there is but one lean got water, I know, and I wautsome." to perform them, take a great deal longer to "There is no water on the raft," "I replied, carryout than describe ; and it was already "so sit down and be quiet." growing dark when the last of the six reached But instead of obeying me she Wean to the deck. I contented myself for the nonce search among the parcels and packages and with tying it firmly to the others and lashing to fling them about, quite regardless whither the whole mass securely to the stump of the she east them. mainmast, but my ultimate design was to "You .will throw something overboard if den comings yau 1100 not careful," 1 said sternly. "Sit overlay the casks with Gee woo of the hatchways, and so to make a kind of down or I shall have to tie your hands." deck upon which to stow provisions and She laughed again. "Tie my hands 1" she baggage. exclaimed in derision. "Guess ril jump At ten o'clock I went down into the bold. overboard first." The water there had rieen snore than a foot 'WAIT AND DOPE TO WATCH FOR 115171.. She looked at me speechless and with evident horror. At last she rose, trembling, but self-possessed. "You must save us," she said. "You above the turmoil of the waves. There was .a 'fearful shock, and the smitten vessel seem- ed to spin round and round as if she were descending the vortex of a -whirlpool. "Oh 1 What has happened, Mr. Herrick ?" gasped Celia, "Are we sinking ?" "God alone knows," I answered, "but something very awful must be upon us,' Just then the bows of the Olympia, were lifted bodily out of the water, it bitter cry if agony and horror was audible from the deck above the roar of the conflicting ele- ments, the vessel reeled and quivered as if she had come into violent collision with a rock or an iceberg, and so nearly perpendi- cular did she rear herself that I feared that whe mat inevitably sink by the stern ere she could regain an even keel. • She came down again, however, not 'gradually, as on the slope of a roller, but -suddenly as with a thump ; and then the =earthly din slowly died away and gave -place once more to the ordinary whistle and -whine of the storm. Foram TEE STEWARD DEAD. •Celia and her maid were preparing to go 'to bed after their long day of excitement and terror, and were only waiting to bid me good night "I think that the sea is quieting down a little," I said hopefully; "and I trust that the raptain gave you an unnecessary fright this evening when he told you to prepare for the worst. It has been bad enough, but westill have the good ship beneath us, and would not be surprised if in the morning we find that the sun was shining and the storm had worked itself out" 1 also turned in. My expectations were justified. I succeeded in getting a good might's sleep and when I awoke the sea was comparatively calm and there was every pros,peat of a fine day. I rose and was rather astonished to find that the steward had not brought me hot water as usual. At- tributing the omission, however, to the dis- astrous consequences of the previous night's 'barmen, I washed and shaved in cold, and then went into the saloon hungry as it hun- ter, prepared to see brea,kfsat ready on the But no sign of breakfast was visible. The saloon remained itt the condition in which I had left it, and no one could be heard moving about either above or between decks. • I rang the bell sharply, but there was no reply. The dead lights were still up, and almost the only light in the saloon at -half-past eight o'clock on a fine morning was the sickly light of the cabin lamp that, owing to the breaking of its chins/ley, had filled the room with smuts and evil odors. I rang again, and then unscrewing the bump and carrying it with me, went in -aearch of the missing steward. This time I found him—dead on the floor -of his cabin, whither he had evidently been thrown by the great concussion of the night thefore. The poor fellow had apparently been lying half dressed in his berth, believ- ing, probably, that his services would not be required again until the morning, and •and had been thrown violently out, his head coming into contact with the sharp, brass bound corner of his chest. uex 53' t0 altenipt 10 1115 1(0 a 1 4 0111 0 was senseless and struggled no more I was so exhausted that I could not even pull on the rope, the end of which I still retained. Then crallips took hold of me a,nd I lost hope, I remembered the rescuing ship that WAS so meat' at hand and the despatches 'which I .....n.., to Europe but I did A Word for our Mothers, "The Chief Etta of Women" is the title of sin Petiole which says i. Peri- odical literature for women concerns itself so largely with her new successes in the business world, is so taken up with not suffer. My eyes looked up for 4 moment ehrontchug her achievements ni commerce, 10 Waal at the still glorious beauty of the evening in literature and iu art, that t.1 , sky, aud then closed, as I thought, forever. reader might be pursuaded to believe the - I But my time had not come. Miss Vanhoof good, old fashionedoceupation of leather - had opened her eyes and had seenethat hare hood had falleu into disrepute. Surely, pened. Not many yards from her I was „ be done with all the might: atui skin whatsoeverthe female mind finds to do, let struggling 10 the sea. By gently hauling on " the rope, whielt I fortunately clutched cora possible ; hist let the woman not forget in vulsively in my need, she drew mcs to the her new delight in the discovery of the wide board. or her anew= aimus pma=sauna. ran e of her powers the diva): and majesty raft's side anal dragged me senseless osi - ,g . , ,. , . . a SAVEV,,I .. Let her remember that in ail the ages she Iralf an hour later the shtw Rosierucian, all of lunnanity ; that, in the face of has tood sat the altar of life the hgh i Ave days out from &John's, ahiewfoundland, au accusation of weakness and inferiority anti 'bound. far Louden with cargo came she hasgone with dumb lips and brave eyes alongside and havered a boat. At first the people believed that Loth Miss Vanhoof and again aud again lett° the shadow of death to 1 iInzedro:eydetahda,tarlaii%tvakmos ifiorotnuauttliilethceolmoalltoosve. ,:fla:te:pher::::::Beet:deyr the rage ; and that in state into which I had fallen while attempht" being these later days of knowletiza biologists, ing to save the wretched girl, h announce that it is AO who le the of thePshenomena, of to destroy herself had altimateIti"lpeeeentr6h4a1 'trunk of the tree of life, and GM males are bub 4sisl t arr forcel tIeworiilfgenesis 1 too successful. Even then I was o weak Te seiItie1ttafron:mhiehueheo: and weary that 100111(1 do little save ask ray . clusious have been drawn have not been en - whereabouts. It was not until Sunday that tirely hidden from popular apprehension, I I Appeared on deek, but ill the meantime I had seen Miss Vanhoof. for certain facts of heritage are matters of I 1 do not recollect that there was any love proverbial aceeptanee. Great men have malting between 10. I oily remember that .neadr/Y -4-1571.,YeTtltmd-art .7"ffuledeohairaeltetri as she sat by lest' cot, I took, her baud, end strength of a Wien are usually in direct that it seemed to me to he the In"'5t wItural'proportion to the liberty Ind dignity of its thing in the world. that I siandil ask her to i iig be utY wife' al"1 that site sh""b1 8"e' "1"."." to the same eonclusioll11 I t 11 t r . The iove inalsiog eithie afterwarea ; ea at, e It is undoubtedly proven that, in Capella, 1 iselt3isptpie r5,11tIvi gilt, 110111 asw-ea Wrg CI 1 aCirt1:41!;fg Iiilill,taian..aiity and the freeaem of their intelligence, ge,"4" **hero the women are famous for their origin. nel, 19111111 GS 0119 evening '61;`,'1.1.i'4' ue"ladit, the men are noted for the highest develop. the wheel beim' alul sah",:—.1",a, 1 ment of the S10110 gnalities, aliti the aatidit all the slaameY, mooneY, athh,s"hhie(4 i PX. moves with prodigieus strides toward the eieesive Pays us ever I eiaPPelt eyes 08 Yell full perfection of existence. Let the brit - air by some elialks the very wustest couple. Jim t wo its of vo tan he glurilicd, and cried N" i Don't Yen In cmlyealenee Ywraelvesi 'linens the house tops with trunmets of Miss Vaultoof and Mh. Herrith. Bless you!, sayer ; with a wink at me, "see here, 'hliss h an- able as galy may be in themselves. Her I've leen through Gee mill myself. Rut, works a • the1 f 1 ' 1 slierves mina. but let it not he imagined that these v reb. Mr. Herilek is a rel.), ale to t along , hoof, closet you give your affeclion to 14" '.real missimi is greater au wieler them all Iwith Geuerel Lee. That s so, ' with all- this' anti them pictures, h'Irs, aele"iille . other wink. "Eh, Mr. Herlicit t" pll it discoveries, learmng and commercial sue - was tea late. cena ‘,.aabeef haa sna-dlt7.ap.. .4:eSfieS are but the means by which she works her mind. toward the lifting of the whole race. ' .lotherli000d grows more glorious with Ia ............-... TBLEGRAPHTO BRIM. ;being, and her offapring, like the whelps of every step She takes upward m the Bessie of I WiNls•PO .the Items, shall lee brought forth heirs of . . • her own rigdoza of power ail (*ammo% Mr. Mercier, the Premier of Quebec, is re; i..Ince she las-caught Up the tore i of wisdom 0r au earn110e11 ti . a ported to be seriously 111. , learning. „ dile. Men of races may be destroyed Capt Casati the Italian explorer of Africa, Tess nud ablitero.ted by lower forces, but woman haS (11 (4*, the German service. 4 is eternal. War and barbarian influx pass The Spanish Government will introduce a by and er„re her, bill in thC e artes for improving the it:audition and whatever social or ,political convulsion znay attack oiw present of the workmanship. ..eiltiliZati0111, st cannot be wholly destroyed, i " Several Berlin employers have resolved dike those of old time, since of this one wo. upost almhslang Sunday work in their estabe man bolds the tweet. lishmente. In the Telegraph Confereme Germany proposes two uniform rides of 124 and 15 minutes per word between all Ituropean I Health for a Dollar. count dee. Since the athletic girl has become PO dun - Mo. Chaldean has introduced his long hung 4 figure in the feminine world, and promised measure creating a Bateau of Lab- fragility has grown it reproach rather thine or Statisties. The new department wiil he 'a charm, the treatises multiply on all ley. culture, and $10,000 win be staked to defray! without number to tell eery wonu what under the control of the Minister of -Agri- I gienie matters, mul volumes are elk forth 1 next year's expenses. idle shall do to he saved front all ills that flesh lis heir to. The woman with the htteresting IThe Mayor of Montreal has received anipallor, the violet -shadowed eyes and the intimation that the Duke of Connaught does !willow -wand form has given place to it bux- not wish for it public reception during his 'omnade, whose cheeks are red as the dawn, visit to the city. !with brown muscular hands, who, amid a I The Berlin branch of the Wein Relief wreck of platter and crash of worlds, would Committee has received a latter from Dr. ziever feel a.tremor of berated -strung nerves. Peters, the African traveller, saying he, is And this magnificent person is all ti e pro - 1 on his way to the coast. duet of athlettes and athletics and yeT again athletics. Ride a cook horse, say the urers on this subject, playtennis swim, AN ODD SIGNALMAN. !fence, pmctise in a gymuasium, titke cold since the morning. When, therefore, Celia Seeing that she was preparing to put her implored me to go to bed and let her watch, snad threat at once lista practice I sprang at least during the earlier portion of the upon her and seized her by the shoulders. night, I dared. not agree to the proposal. `Don't be insane," I said. "Yoa are no "Watch, if it ou think that you are able," worse off than we are. Wait and hope 1" and I said, "Ina -I must watch, too. We must I opened for her it tin of preserved meat,' go on with the raft. Time presses. We the juicy,jelly of which she swallowed with cannot he certain now that the ship will avidity. 'Now," I continued, "unless you be afloat in the morning. Tell your maid will promise not to make any further at - to bring up vour things on deck. We must tempt upon yourlife, I shall really be obliged be ready." to tie you to the mast. All that I valued I had with me—my The girl sulkily gave the required promise, I money and the tin cylinder which contained but a couple of hours later, we caught her the despatch. soaking her handkerchief in salt water and By the sickly light of the lanterns we squeezing it into her mouth, and by sunset worked nearly all through the chilly night. her senses had completely left her and she The hatches were lifted on, and fastened was chattering insanely to herself, with ropes and wedges th the casks ; and "You must sleep," said Miss Vanhoof to two chests, to serve both as lockers aud me, "or you will die. Yon have had no real seats, were nailed upon the hatches. At sleep for more than three days." five o'clock, seeing that good progress had "I am begining to think," I replied, "that been made, I sent the women to'bed ; but I shall not sleep any more until I sleep for two hours later 1 felt so utterly incapable good. I cannot leave you alone with her. of keeping my eyes open, that I had to re- She might murder you or push both of us call them and to go to my own berth, overboard. But you can sleep. Sleep while directing them before I went to collect all you can." the required stores on deck and to wake "No," she returned; "Isbell not he down I me at the first sign of danger. SAILING AWAY. The last morning dawned cold and gray. Be- tween waking and dreaming I was tossing in my bunk, unable, in spite of my fatigue, to rest peacefully, even for a minute. The ripple of the waves against the ship's side was lulliug me off for the third or fourth time, when, with a cry, Celia's maid burst into my cabin. "Wo are sinking, sir! Come! Come for God's sake! Quick 1" When, startled by this exclamation, I leapt, ready dressed, from my berth, my feet splashed the water that already covered the floor of the cabin to a depth of more than an inch, for the subtle enemy had silently crept in upon me while I dozed. Hastily seizing ode or two things which I thought might be useful I rushed on deck. Celia was tolerably calm, but the maid was again wild and hysterical a,nd she was of n assistance in launching the raft ; indeed sheo against the dazzling glow of the sunset. was rather a hindrance than otherwise. I .A SAIL. Fortunately the sea was almost still, and "Aye 1 What is that? echoed the maid, therefore there was but little difficulty and who leaped to her feet, and with extraordin- no danger in pushing the improvised craft ary tokens of excitement went to the very overboard to leeward. As soon as it was edge of the raft and gazed intently in the afioat I helped the two women to get upon indicated direction. It was a sail. A •few it, and then 1 hastily handed to them the Elements swept away all doubt upon that !items and necessaries which had been ac- adore, and, moreover, it was approaching us. cumulated in readiness. The raft gave Poor Idles Vanhoof, who until then had so every satisfaction, being both buoyant and admirably retained her self-control, uttered steady, and when apparently everything a ory of 'Thank God!" and sank first to her had been piled up and secured upon its small knees and then senseless and inanimate prone deck and I felt that I dared no longer re- on deek. main with the ship I joined the others and I was in the act of stooping to attend her reluctantly pushed off. when the maid, with a yell as of a demon, We soon spread a little sail by means of jumped headlong into the sea. an oar and a boat hook, and the raft, in I flung her a rope's end, but she declined spite of her clumsy construction, drifted to take hold of it, and as it was evident that away eastward at the rate, .1 dare say, of she could not swim I hurriedly tied the two or three knots an hour. The motion; other end of the rope to the mast, took the slow though it was, was a relief to us, and slack M myaleft hand and leaped after the for the first hour or so the spirits of Miss would -be -suicide. to night. If anything were to happen to you we should all be lost, and I see how weak and tired you are already. Besides, I have slept well to -day." The maid had begun W moan petulantly for water, but there was nothing to he done for her. ,(Are you not thirsty, too, Miss Vanhoof?" I asked. "Yes, my mouth feels like brown paper, but it is useless to grumble. You are as bad, I am sure. What shall we do if we are not picked up? We shall go mad, too, shall we not?" I turned away without replying, and for the hundredth time that day swept the hori- zon with my glass. The sun had just dipped in the west, and sky and ocean were red- dened as with the hue of blood. "What is that?" I ejaculated, starting and pointing anxiously across the ruddy waters at a small black object which stood out Vanhoof and myself rose considerably. But The water was like ice and I was wofully the maid was taciturn and strange in her weak, but by great efforts I managed to manner. reach the drowning woman and to grasp her For some time we watched the vessel by the hair. She struggled violently. which we had left under such terrible cir- Twice she grasped me by the throat, and. I cumstances, and we had almost begun to had to choke her off, and when at last she baths, live in the °peel air, But it, costs A Baboon That Works Railroad Switches ononey to ride it cock horse; tennis presup- and Makes No Mistakes, poses various advantages of environment that'allwomen don'otpossessiswimming Teens it country home near the sea or a, river; fencing., work in the gymnasium and life out of doors argue leisure, some money, and liberty to follow one's own devices. The pale, the nervous, the flaccid -muscled woman has not disappeared yet, and these read with hopeless envy the directions given by the books for the attainment of rosy beauty, their own lives being too filled with work, too narrow or too straitened th make the use of any of these prescriptions possible. But athletic exercise, with its resultant health, happiness and. beauty, 10 10 be had, and that .at a price within the means of every woman, no matter how poor or how hard worked. Ninety cents will purchase all she needs to stringher muscles up firm and make them elastic ; to set her blood pulsing warmly under the skin; to fine away too lavish outlines or fill up hollows. A pair of small dumb bells are to be had for thirty cents. These are a good weight to begin with, but should not be used violently at first. Two towels of heavy Turkish crash cost the same stun each. On rising in the morning begin practice at once. With dumb bell in each hand lift the arms, touch the shoulders with the bells and straighten the arms out smartly at right angles from the body. Do this smoothly and regularly ten times. Then touch the shoul- ders and lift the bells ten times straight upon either side of the head. Hit out from each shoulder ten times' the bells at full The baboon which figures in this sketch is n. well-known character in the Cape Colony, but more tutrticularly in the neighborhood of. Port Elizabeth. The history attaching to him is a curious and probably unique one. The signalinan, his owner, was, through no fault of his own, run overby a, passing train, and had to have both legs amputated, which would naturally incapaeitate him from work, but the idea struck him to secure a baboon and train him th do his work. This he has successfully accomplished, and for many years the one in question has regularly looked after the levers, and done the hard work for his afflicted master. The animal IS possessed of extraordinary intelligence, and has never made a mistake. Of course, the human servant works the telegraphs and the baboon the levers, according to instruc- tion ; and taking into considertion the fact that at the station in question, Uiten- hage Junction, and about twenty miies from Port Elizabeth, there is a large volume of tm-ffic, the sagaeit of the creature is really wonderful. At rat passengers raised a strongprotest against the employment of the animal, on the score of risk of accident, but the baboon has never yet failed during his many years of work,and on more than i one occasion has acted n a manner simply astounding to those who never had personal experience of the intelligence of thesebrutes. A Derelict Discovered. HALIFAX, MAY 15.—The schooner Ad- vance, Captain Silver, arrived at this port the other night. Captain Silver reports that on Friday at 12 o'clock he sighted a, vessel partly bottom up, with a portion of her sails and spars hanging to her. From observa- tions the captain believes the vessel had been in the same condition for four oh five months. She is new and is about 115. ton. Her bottom, running gear and houses, ha near could be seen, correspond with the missing Laburnam. The action of the waves on the vessel has washed off most of the paint and obliterated the vessel's name: Captain Silver took the vessel in tow. Last evening when about five miles off Beaver Light a chain on the capsized schooner slid out causing her to come to an anchor. The crew of the Advance tried to raise the chain and kedge but were not successful. The Advance finally decided to leave her prize and proceed to Halifax to secure the neces- sary appliances to raise the cable. The schooner Can't Help It, 'which succeeded in finding the W. D. 'Richards, has gone in search of the prize. Bad for the Burglar. Goodfellow (nearing Jollyfellow's house very late at night after a "time" at the club —"I shay, Jollyfellow, zhee there. There's a burglar getting into your house by doe window." Jollyfellow--"Sho he is. Shay, wait a (hie) wait little. :My wife '11 zhink he's me and (hie) she'll half kill him." Better be good than great. You'll have lees competition. The latter business is overdone. ; p length of the arm and draw them up to the armpits; vary these /notions in the twenty or thirty different directions possible, as one's own cleverness saggests, thus exercising every.musele. Begin with only two or three the first morning, and increase them as the strength increases. Finishing with the bells, set it mark on the wall at a height of feur or five feet, and standing on the left leg, try to touch the mark with the right to ten times, doing the same afterward with the left. The mark can be raised nearly a foot more as one's agility increases. Then set' hands on hips and jump up and down 'tekt times. Next spring into the bath, a warm one is best, sponging oneself off with cold water after- ward, and dry the skin with vigorous man- ipulation of the rough towel. Try that for a month, and see whether health and beauty are not the consequence. Bellamy's. Mistake. Winks—" I see that the publishers of 'Looking Backward' have. made $50,000 on that bock while Bellamy, the author has made but $5,000." . • ' Minks—" Well, if i Bellamy had looked forward instead of backward he would have published it himself." • The patent of a recent invention sets forth that the claim of the inventor is that "by the use of a magnetic penholder, owing to the action of the rnagnetio currents from the poles of the magnet or magnets forming the penholder on the muscles of the hand which holds it, the user cannot experience writ- er's cramp 10 any appreciable extent.