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The Wingham Times, 1885-12-11, Page 2A Cyclone ill Mid -Ocean, DY THOMAS S, COLLIER. Hietl The night was dark, with heavy blame Blonds lying close dpwn to the water, along whose reetlesa mase of foaming, phosphorlit waves the wind aoughed with thn t peculiar tone which surely foretells of a deepening of the tempest. We were riding out a Dyclone in the mid. dle Indian ocean, and the bell had struck four, telling that the first watch was half gone, when this word was uttered Diose to my ear. The voice was that of my chum, Jao'r Walsh, as good a sailor as ever trod a deck. Standing by my side during the two preced- ing hours, he had watched with me while the Northern Light, the ship of whose crew wo formed a part, drove wildly on through the mad tumult of the waters. "Hist 1 that was a gun." A cold shudder swept over me, and for a moment my heart stood still, for if the sullen boom we had heard was, as Jack said, the report of a gun, it meant but one thing, which was, that near us somewhere amid that turmoil of wind and wave men like ourselves were battling against a death that stared them in the face, And we were not the only ones who had heard and recognized the message, for as we stood straining our eyes to see if we could discover the vessel that was signaling the mate on watch joined us. " Did you hear a gun ?" he asked. "Yes," answered Jack. "And could you tell the direotion of the sound ?" "No but it must have been somewhere to the windward." "Let us watch for the next discharge, for if anything can be done to save life the Northern Light will not prove a laggard in the work." Again our eyes turned to the rough ocean lying about us and we watched the dark ex- panse with•an in t3ntne3s that was painful. "There 1" It was Jack again, and as he spoke a sud- den light flashed and faded along the waves, and the dull boom sounded out again, near- er to us, and clearer than before. "Quick I answer with our starboard gun, and let the poor devils know that friends are near. I will go aft and tell the captain. Jaok and I struggled over to the gun, which was loaded, and removing the tar- paulin that covered it, threw back the leek and pulled the lanyard. The sharp report that followed brought the watch below up from their snug quarters in the fo'castle, and the next moment we heard the captain's veice shouting out the orders that quickly brought the ships head close to the wind, and hild it there for the Northern Light worked like a yacht. The wind allows no leisure to those who battle with it, and knowing this we worked on, giving no heed to the vessel we sought to help. Enough for us was the knowledge ,that our officers were determined to clear the way for aresoue, if this were possible. When the ship was laid to we turned our eyes to the windward, and just at the mo- ment that a broad glare of light shone out il luminating a large vessel tossed on the crest of a large and angry wave. We could see that she was not of Cana - dial build, and that her fore and mizzen masts were gone, and that she was laboring heavily. We knew, too, though we could not see this, that . the seas had made sad havoc with the hull, and though we could not distinguish the faces of these moving about in the circle of light we felt that they were filled with anxious forebodings. "Burn a red light," cried the captain, "and men lay aft to mainmast." We did so, and even before we were all gathered at the place named, the second mate had the red light blazing on the 1narter. "My men," said Capt. Skewet, as he join. ed us at the main fife -rail, "you have all seen the ship yonder, and know that her people are in danger. It in a bad night, and a worse sea, what shall we do ?" "Save them if we can, and make the effort at any rate," said Jack Walsh, and several of the men responded. "Yes, that is the way." "I knew you would be true to the flag and the reputation our Bailors have won, and now I want twelve volunteers for the life -boat." We all volunteered. "Thank yon, my men, but some of us must stay behind to keep ship, and be ready to help those who go in the boat. I shall go with them, and if you agree will choose the crew." We all cried out for him to do this, and he said : "You, Walsh, will sot as cox- swain," and then he took half of the crew from eaoh watch, and when all was chosen, told us to man the boat. The Northern Light carried a new and thorough life -boat, with a patent apparatus for lowering, but even with this the danger of tempting the sea and wind on such a night would have been apparent to the veriest landsman. Still while we looked with anxious eyes to the dark and restless turmoil about us, we grasped our oars firmly, and waited for the word that would place our lives almost within the jaws of death. We heard the captain give directions con= oerninu a whip to be placed on the cross - jack yard, and a line that was to be boomed out from forward, and then he climbed Into the boat, and the first and second mates took the falls and at his command, lowered away promptly. Fortunately the boat had swung on the lee side, and we got away safe- ly, bat now came the struggle, for the wind and sea were both against ns and often we seemed powerless to atom their strength; The captain helped, and Walsh kept a steady hand on the steering oar, and we knew that, though making but little head- way, wo were nearing the stranger, for the wind was driftinher down toward ns, "Here she is,"cried the captain, 'rand a sailor oommands her, for see, he has brought her to, and formed a lee for us to work in, A bright blaze flashed ont, and burned steadily, and as its radicnoe ran on and showed us, a cheer came from the ship and a voice hailed, "What shall I do ?" it asked. With a rapid glance our captain took in the situation, the main yard was still across, and preventer brace was up. "Let me have the end of your main pre - venter," he Dried, "and keep the standing part fast, to bows, and look out for the line.' The order was promptly obeyed, and the people of the ship were as quick to do what had been shouted to them, and in a little time the end of brace was grasped by four strong hands. "Now let the strokes lay in their oars, and the reat of the orew keep theirs going ; watoh your line, my men, and keep the boat steady, and you, Walsh, manage her, for I must look out for the people," Clear answer! told him that all was as ho wished, and then he ahouted xo the captain of the wreck : "Now throw me a line from your bulwark and let your people slide down it. How many have you 1" "There are but eight loft, and two are wo- men." "Send them on." "Aye, aye 1 I will, look out," A rope fell across my arm as the word came, and I grasped it, "Now hold it firm," Dried the captain, "and I will look out for the people." This was to the after oarsmen, of whom I was one, and we grasped the line with a firm hold. "Here comes one," said the captain, "by Jove,that skipper is a trump." The words were barely uttered before a woman's form came swiftly down the line, sitting in a bight attached to a block that had a whip ready to haul it back, and it was this arraurment that had elicited our captain's approval. "Cut the sling," shouted the commander of the wreak, "1 have others ready ?" It took but a short time, following this direction, to get all of the stranger's people into the boat, and when the captain, who came last, slid down the rope and was haul- ed in by our skipper, the later said : "Now stand by to put off, get out your oars strokes. The bows will keep theirs in, and be ready to take our line ; stand by to let go from the wreck. Now, give way with the star- board oars 1 Give way together ! Lot go 1" And swinging around, the boat swept out from the protection she had found in the lee of the drifting Fillip, and began her strife with the sea once more. And now came the hardest part of our toil, for with her heavier load the stout craft was less buoyant, though she rode the sea - well and seemed to know that more human truat relied on her strength than had put faith in such a oraft before. Capt. Skewet had taken his position by side of Walsh, and kept his eye on the light that shone a lurid gnideon the bow of North- ern Light. Suddenly a heavy equall struck us; and the wind swirled and shrieked about us un- til it seemed that it would wrench the oars from our hands. "Bend to it, boys," cried the captain, and then, as we put all of the strength wo possessed in our effort we heard him say to Walsh : "My God 1 I have lost the light.' A shudder, cold a9' the keen' wind tin a brings the first snow, chilled ds, What if we should be swept past the ship, and car- ried on int) the seething hell beyond. There was but one end to such a fate, and that was death. The darkness had grown in density, but the great force of the wind helped us, beat- ing down the sea. We knew that this would last but a short time, and that a madder frenzy of the water would follow, and oh, how we longed for a gleam that would help US. The tension of mind that was ours in those few moments is seldom equaled. Where was the Northern Light ? Had we passed her ? There was no reply to those questions, unless it was the high shrieking of the equall. Then, in one of those rapid transitions that seem the result of divine love and care, the sky changed, and,, as if torn by the wind, a huge rift parted the clouds, letting the c.ear radiance of the full moon shine through. It showed us two things that will never bo forgotten—one the Northern Light, lying just anead ; the other the wreck, which, as the moonlight came, suddenly settled by the head, lurched, and disappeared from sight forever. The equall was sweeping by, but it had served us well, for before the wave rose again we had run to leeward of the ship, the man watching having seen ua, and our hu- man freight was quickly traneferred to the deck. The comparative emoothnees that had been brought about by the fierce rush of the wind, enabled us -to secure the boat with less trouble than we had expected, and just as the day broke, finished the work, and as the cyclone had swept by us, we were able to set sail and keep away on our course, The peoplewe had rescued were the cap- tain, mate, three seamen, and three passen- gers of the French ship St. Laurent, bound from Havre to Batavia. The remainder of her crew had been lost when the foreyard went by the board, or were carried away by a sea that followed this accident. he falling, the yard had bit the hull, and thia accident caused the leak that sunk the ship. I have been in several trying scenes since then, but never in one that so thrilled me with the nearness and the power of death. An Apt Quotation. A valued lady correspondent in Hamil- ton relates the following incident, whichac- tually occurred :— " A little Oakville boy, whose father was away from hjre, thought he would please him by writing him a letter. He got all the materials ready, and then paused, totally at a loss for something to say. All at once e bright thought struck him. Ho would as- tonish his father by writing something out of his new pprimer and let him see how well he was getting on. So opening the book ate random he laboriously copied out the fol- lowing :- ' Is it an ass ? It is an ase.' Your son, Roams," " Yes, my boy, you are correct, The file of a minister of the gospel is very laborious. Between traveling In Europe in summer, go- ing to the White mountains in hay -fever time, and arranging his lecture tour for the winter, he has hard enough work to find time to write an occasional sermon. Hey ? 0 yes, son, there are preachers who don't go to Eu- rope, you bet your boots, Some of them only know of Europe as a land a Iittle far- ther away than heaven, because they do ex - peat to am to heaven ;some time, But I wasn't speaking of some preachers. I was thinking of some others," THE 1,ARNC. Timely and Practical. HAND RAISED PIGS,—It is said that it will surely pay to try to rear a young pig byhand If its mother dies, e orif, as some- times happens, there are more �pige than teats. The pig thus raised n ill Levu r be any better than a runt, and the additional caro given it, if divided among the remain- der of the litter, will pay far bettor. KEEPING APPLES AND POTATOES IN SAND, —Dry sand is recommended for keeping sip - plea and potatoes in a sound condition, In- to a barrel, filled with either ofdthem, sand is poured until all the interstices aro filled with it. Parties who have tried this meth• od, any tho contents of the barrels are pre- served until Spring in a bettor condition than by any other means they have ever tried, CELLARS IN THE FALL,—Profeesor Bu'id, makes the seasonable suggestion that cel- lars in which fruit is stored between picking time and the setting in of Winter, should not be opened during the day, but the win- dows opened during the night, when the air is cooler. The warmer air of the day -time has its moisture preciptated by tho cold objects in .the cellar, and dampness is en- gendered, A WINTER POuLTaY-HOUSit,—In building your poultry house for next Winter, you of course want to make it warm ; but don't forget that fowls need a good supply of fresh, pure air, or disease will attack them. If you are making your walls double, do not fill in with sawdust or tanbark. Leave an air chamber between, making the outside wall close by strips, and the inside ones by felt or paper. Let your ventilator be near the top of the house, A HINT AS TO Hoes,—An experienced feeder of swine advises that when hogs are taken from grass, or other bulky diet, to be fattened, the change to a more concentrated food should be gradual, as too sudden a change is often attended with serious results. The animal should at first have light food. Bran and other mill stuff, made into slop and given with grain, is good, and if the refuse from the oroharcl or potato fie'd is given, that, too, will be beneficial, especial- ly if cooked and mixed with the bran. etc. CARE OF Live Seam—Tho farmer should bear in mind that the comfort of hie animals is always of first importance and in the line of direct success, observes a writer on stock husbandry. Feed, water and shelter are of equal importance in providing for the com- fort of any kind;of stock in the Northern States, There the Winters are severe, the water is frozen up, tho feed is often buried beneath the snow, and in no way can the stock thrive wi 'hout shelter and having feed stored and fed to them in the dry state, Loos To Yotne FLOCKS.—Sheep need ex- tra care now, in order that they may reach the cold season in full vigor, espcoially where wool is the object. If kept in a poor pas• ture till late, and brought to the barn in thin flesh, it will cost much more to get them into condition than it would to have kept them so. Cotton seed cr linseed meal, mixed with an equal weight of bran, giving about a quarter of a pound a day to each sheep, in addition to hay or straw, is one of the best foods to grow wool. Barley, rye and oats are also good, but corn alone is too starchy. WINTERING TURKEYS.—Turkeys that sur• . vive Thanksgiving and Christmas will not require as warm quarters through the Win- ter as other fowls. However cold the wea- ther, they should be allowed to run out of doors every day, except, perhaps, in very stormy weather. If confined in warm quar- ters, and not allowed to run out of doors, they usually show signs of indisposition, lose their appetite, become dumpish and in- active, and not unfrequently die. They are very hardy birds and easily wintered. About all they require is a place to roost at night, where they will be out of the wind, with plenty to o -t and drink, and their liberty during the day. DRYING SEED Coax.—The old plan of hanging the seed -corn to the joists of the kitchen by the husks, which had been strip- ped back and plaited together for the pur- pose, always seemed to make a' seed that would grow," because it was thoroughly dried, says a contemporary. Not many farmers' wives will allow their kitchens to be cluttered up this way nowdays ; and so we suggest that the Dorn be hung in the smoke -house and regularly smoked, like hams. This will secure its thoroughly dry- ing, which is the essential point, and the smoke will tend to koep birds and insects at a respectful distance when planted. Bat, whatever plan you may adopt, he sure that the seed ie thoroughly dried before it is reached by cold weather, CARE FOR THE COLTS,—Now is the time to make the young colts grow into valuable horses, or so stunt their growth that their valve, in comparlaon with their oost, will be almost nominal, says the Stockman. The colt, if properly cared for now and through the Winter, will grow right along, and come out in the Spring in condition to make rapid headway in development. Oa the other hand, if it is not properly fed and cared for at this season of its existence, it will soon become "pot-bellied" and stunted ; and, if It does not die before Spring, will at least never grow into aa valuable a horse as it otherwise would. Nothing on the farm, in fact, pays in cash returns better than so treating the young colts that they will de- velop into the most valuable animals that their peculiar conformation will allow of. Scall ON THE FARM,—Every farmer should have scales whereon to weigh his own produce, In dimming this matter a con- temporary pertinently observes that there are many farmers who do not properly es- timate the value of being able to weigh upon the farm whatever may bo produced there- on, especially that portion to be told. The dealer in stook who oomes to your farm to buy, is estimating and weighing daily, and beoomes so expert that he can guess the weight of an animal within a few pounds. The majority of farmers cannot do this. 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' Theliquidation being peremptory, dealers and the general public are now afforded such an opportunity as has never occurred heretofore in Canada, Toronto, 12th Nov., 1885.E $E�'Y' aSz CSC). F'LR9onIC TETE Ei BOOT & SHOE 1VIANUFACTURERS OF MONTREAL. Whereas the reports of the epidemio in Montreal have, for obvious reasons, been greatly exaggerated, we, the undersigned Boot and Shoo Manufacturers of Mon- treal, beg to inform the trade and the public generally that our manntactming establishments are entirely outside and far removed from what la known as the Ian rested District ; that the extraordinary precautions taken by 'us render it extremely improbable that contagion can be carried in our goods ; that every employee in our establishment has been vaccinated and re-vacolnated (their families also being vac- cinated), and that a thorough examination of the homes of our operatives has been made by competent physicians ; and that it is acknowledged by the Medical Faculty that the combination of chemicals used in the tanning, colouring, and finishing of the leather used in Boots and Shoes le in itself a potent diainfeotant. We have also complied with every requirement of the ONTARIO BOARD OP HEALTH, and after elm examinations of our factories by Dr, Covernton, their Chief Inspector, we have received hie certifioatos, AMES, HOLDEN & CO., JAMES LISTON & CO., JAMES POPHAM & CO., JAMES WHI.THAM & CO., GEO. T. SLATER, (Signed, SHARPE & MACKINNON, JAMES MoCREADY & CO., R. MoOREA.DY & CO., COCHRANE, CASSILS & CO., G. BOIVIN.