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THE WEEKLY.
VOLUME VII.
A STORY OF THE SEA.
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Captain and the Manner In Which
j Brave Two Hundred Lives.
He Saved Over
It a number of years ago that the
was took place. The
little episode I refer to
steamer Lexingtou, a Sound boat, was
commanded by a New Yorker called
Dostan-a tip-top man, and a first-class
sailor. The boat was makin’ her trip
from Providence to New York, and had
got a considerably more than half way
Jjien a terrific struggled squall overtook with the her. tempest,
The vessel
and the panic which had at first broken
oat on board among the passengers was
gettin’ allayed by the skill and coolness
of the crew and captain, when, right in
the midst of the tempest, the ship un
shipped her rudder.
The gale now had full power over the
helpless, utterly helpless ship, which lay
like a log in the trough of the sea, liter¬
ally the creature of circumstances—lit¬
erally at the mercy of the wind and
waves, which had no mercy.
The gale drove the ship nearer and
nearer every moment to the shore,
ugainst which she would soon have been
dashed to pieces. Destruction was in¬
evitable unless the ship could be headed
from shore, and that was impossible un
less the rudder was restored, and that
could only he done by some man or men
leapin’ into the sea and lashin’ a rope to
the rudder, so that by the united strength
of all the crew tuggin’ at the rope, the
rudder might be reshipped or restored
to its place, or temporarily held in posi
tion. Captain Dustan called his men to
getker and asked which of ’em would be
brave enough to do the necessary deed;
but brave as they all were, there were
none of ’em bold enough to attempt
what under the circumstances seemed
equivalent to suicide. He offered one
hundred dollars to any one who would
attempt to fasten a rope to the rudder.
Bat a liandred dollars was no induce¬
ment, Then he doubled the reward—
trebled it—then raised it to five hundred
dollars. But every man on board the
Lexington that night seemed to think
that a whole life was worth more than a
half a thousand dollars. Time passed
on with terrible rapidity. They ■were
gettin’ nearer the coast every minute.
Fifteen or twenty minutes more and the
Lexington would be a battered wreck
among the breakers. The suspense and
the situation were terrific. The passen¬
gers, huddled together in the darkness,
awaited death. One old man who clung
to life with as much tenacity as the
youngest there, offered to increase the
captain’s reward 6f five hundred dollars
to one thousand dollars, if a man would
only try to save the ship iu this the
eleventh hour, by restorin’ the use of her
"udder.
It was a temptin’ offer to the poor
men of the ship’s crew, and two or three
of em were tempted for a moment to
think and to talk of makin’ the attempt.
But when they looked at the ragin’ sea
and calculated their chances of life they
didn’t even think and talk of doin’ any¬
thin further. No, the ship was lost. All
any naan could do now was to save him
self 1
The women began to pray and the
men to prepare for the inevitable;
children clung to their parents; hus¬
bands and wives clung to each other. It
was a supreme moment.
When suddenly a cry went up, “A
man overboard.” At this cry the af¬
frighted passengers drew closer to each
°‘her. Some shuddered violently. It
was a harbinger of their own cornin’
doom—a foretaste of what awaited ’em
111 a few moments.
But imagine the terror, the despair,
fhat seized the passengers and crew alike
or a moment, when it was ascertained
that the man overboard was the one man
fo whom alone all looked up to now in
their peril, the commander erf the
steamer, Captain Dustan himself.
‘ Now, indeed, we are lost,” said one
*fre sailors. Then peerin’ out intently
“ho the sea, he suddenly exclaimed,
By heavens, only look there ! The
Captain has jumped overboard on pur
P°se. g e , s goiQ’ t 0 help ship that rud
w himself.” And such was the case.
vhe .Captain Dustan had undertaken to do
job which no other man would un-
Independent in All Things.
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO., GA., MARCH 21, 1884.
dertake for a thousand dollars. He had
fastened a rope round his body, had
stationed some trusty men at the stern
post to hold the rope, and had leaped
into the ragin’ sea with another rope in
his hand.
As soon as those on board understood
the situ "Lon a cheer went up that came
from 'he very hearts of some two
hnr _ d people. And all eyes watched
the 1 rave captain as seldom eyes strained
to watch a man. Two or three times in
the next ten terrible minutes a shriek or
a groan was to be heard among the crowd
on the steamboat as the brave captain
seemed to be swallowed up by some
monster wave. But he was never quite
devoured or destroyed. He was buffeted
and bruised and sore beset. But his
courage and his will held out, and the
rope around him held out, and through
the storm-tossed sea he made his way to
the storm-tossed rudder.
He gained it at last. He lashed part
of his rope to it at last. And, with the
rudder fastened to the rope, and the rope
in his hold, was dragged on board at last.
Oh, what a shout of gladness and grati¬
tude ascended to the heavens from the
deck of the saved steamer. For the
steamer was saved. Heaven helps those
who helps Wives, , and , it . helped , the
brave captain now, and his crew. By
the joint efforts of crew, captain and
passengers, all workin’ with a will, all
pullin’ for life and land and home at that
rope, the huge rudder was returned in
place, till finally in God’s good provi¬
dence the sea itself did what the sea had
undone, and a huge wave knocked the
rudder into its place, just as the wave
had previously knocked it out. Thus a
magnificent steamer and two hundred
lives were rescued from destruction,
No Changing Works There.
You never had a chum, did you ? asked
the bad boy of the grocery man. If you
ever had a chum that you loved, that
had stood by you in all kiflds oi weather,
who would work his finger nails off for
you, and go without eating and sleeping
to make you happy, you could never talk
that way. My chum is just as tender as
a woman, though he was strong as a
giant afore the rheumatiz struck him,
and now he is as weak as a little tiny
baby, and we have to handle him just
as though he was eggs. Every bone, and
muscle, and drop of blood, and piece of
skin about his body is just like ma’s
neuralgia, and sometimes they all ache
at once, and then they take turns ach¬
ing, and my chum lays there and takes
it as calmly as though he was at a pic¬
nic, and never grumbles. He smiles his
great big old-fashioned smile when he
sees me looking over the foot-board of
his bed, and when I go up and put my
hand on his face, and wipe the perspira¬
tion off his forehead, the tears come roll¬
ing down his cheeks, and he tries to
raise his helpless hand to shake mine,
but he can’t, and he says, “Hello, old
pard,” and then he shuts his eyes and
the rhematiz commences where it left
off and goes to grinding him up again.
Gosh, if I could pull off my shirt and
things and get into his bed and take his
place, and let the rheumatiz get in its
work on me for a day, while my chum
might go out and slide down hill or kick
over a few barrels, and feel bully for
awhile, I would enjoy it. But you can t
change works with a fellow that has got
rheumatiz.— Peck’s Sun,
Red Flags of Attraction.
A newspaper agent called upon Mr.
Closefist the other day in a business
way. advertise, said
“Oh, I don’t want to
Mr. Closefist. “I have a regular run of
customers, and strangers are attracted
by my red flag on top of my house.”
“All right,” said the agent. ‘ ‘Just
continue doing business that way and
some of these days people will see a red.
flag in front of your house, but they
won’t be attracted by it. They will be
attracted by the bell that the town
crier is ringing as he walks up and down
before your store.”
That agent was something of a phi¬
losopher.
A Chicago man shot at his wife, but
her corsets caused the ball to glance and
saved her life. And yet men whose
enrolled high upon the scroll
names are corsets injurious
of fame assert that axe
to the health,
LORDS DUO LIKE OUR LAND.
English Noblemen wlio are Deeply Inter¬
ested iu Americau Agricultural Real
Estate.
The largest owner of land bought in
recen * y ears in ibis country is Sir Ed
wai 'd James Reed, M. P. for Cardiff,
Wales, He has purchased in the last
ten years 2,000,000 acres of well-selected
cattle-grazing land in Montana and Da
kota. Sir Edward Reed is a practical
man and the founder of his own fortune,
which he got out of the iron and coal
mines of his native Wales and the tin
mines of Cornwall. His investments in
this country directed many others to our
public domain who had great confidence
ths sagacity. Next in consequence is
the purchase last year of 1,300,000 acres,
consisting mostly of pine land in the
®tate of Mississippi, though included in
this holding are 400,000 acres of the
finest agricultural land on the continent,
lying on the Yazoo river bottoms. This
magnificent property belongs to the
firm of Philips, Marshal & Co., wealthy
corn factors of Mark Lane, London,
who are also the largest dealers in
American wheat and other grains in
England.
Next in consequence comes the Grant
Mtate which includes au entire county
in K and ha8 withia its bounda
350,000 acres, This probably is the
most desirable landed estate held by a
single owner in America, as the land is
rich, well watered, and settled mostly by
emigration farmers from England and
Scotland, Alexander Grant, the owner,
has laid off all his lands into farms,
built about 400 good farm-houses, each
with the necessary out-bui [dings, and is
conducting the estate just as though it
was north of the Cheviots instead of
America.
The Duke of Portland owns about
500,000 acres, part of which is on the
North Platte in Nebraska and part in
Colorado. Not much of it is yet in cul¬
tivation. Lord., Stafford owns 100,000
acres on the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad, and he is gradually colonizing
it and getting it into field cultivation.
Lord Dunraven is the pioneer of the
English nobility in American land-own¬
ing. He bought the well-known prop¬
erty in Colorado called by him Dunraven
Park in 1868, and at government prices.
Dunraven Park contains about 100,000
acres. The first purchase was 60,000,
and subsequently 40,000 acres more
were added. It is one of the best cattle
ranches in America, being a lovely val¬
ley, full of pure streams fed by moun¬
tain springs, rich in the best cattle
growing grass known, and the whole
property is fenced in by mountain
ranges. It is now easily worth $1,000,
000, but Lord Dunraven refuses to sell
it at any price. Lord Dunmore owns
10.000 acres not far from Dunraven, and
very much the same character of land,
which is rapidly improving. The Duke
of Beaufort is one of the four owners of
400,000 acres recently bought by En¬
glish gentlemen in the Pan-Handle of
Texas, and Sir John Bae-Reedis another
of them, the others of interest being
two rich bankers’ sons. There are many
other Englishmen who have from 1,000
to 2,000 acres in Colorado, Texas, Da¬
kota and New Mexico.
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The Egyptian Situation.
The horror of the situation in the
Soudan consists in the fact that there are
scattered at various points in it garri
sons of Egyptian troops, separated from
Egypt proper, or from the Red Sea, by
deserts over two hundred miles wide
which cannot, under the most favorable
circumstances, be traversed by troops
without great difficulty and the aid of a
large number of camels. These garri
sons the rebels have cooped up and re
fuse to allow to withdraw peacefully, and
make no secret of their intention to mas¬
sacre them if they surrender.
What Baker Pacha has been trying to
do is to organize a force capable of re¬
lieving at least one of them, and striking
enough terror to enable him to make
terms for the rest. It was for this pur¬
pose, too, that General Gordon has been
trying to get to Khartoum.
The lectures of Joseph Cook suggest
a story to the San Francisco Bulletin :
“Sandy, what is the state of religion in
your town?” “Bad, sir, very bad.
There are no Christians except Davis and
myself, and I have many doubt^ about
Davis.’!
NUMBER 2.
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