8
OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY MAY 0, 1898.
THE PURSER'S NERVE
fHAVEO TO KEEP HIS WITS WHILE
THE SHIP WAS SINKING.
Told the Story to the Gallia" Ship,
wrecked ruwafin-U the Matter of
Nirre He Went the Amateur Photoe
repher On Better.
It ws oor.y room, with antique
Inngings and furniture and walla huug
pith handsome works of art which
nnld be only indistinctly wen by the
IiK lit of the flickering fire on the hearth.
The little party agreed with the beau
tiful hostess that the room was just
ark enough for a ghost story. "I don't
uow a ghost story, " said oue of the
f itm, "but the dratnatio rescue of the
Veendam'a passengers by the St. Louis
tVmindg me of my experience on board
(lie old Gallia when she was caught in
4 barricane in midwinter about TOO
ftiilts from Queenstown. The waves
troke in our decks and flooded the cab
ins, and nobody thought for a little
t bile that any one on board the vessel
ould ever see land again. There waa
a u panic, no shouting, no weeping, and
ft seemed that all were perfectly pre
pared to go, though they looked far from
lap py floundering about in the water
pressed in such garments as they could
rap when they were aroused from
Jbeir sleep by the crash which sent
ous of water into the ship. It was
bout 7 o'clock in the morning. The
ftewards bad begun to set the table for
breakfast, and, as I recall the picture, I
fio see men and women, most of them
ith heavy wraps over their nigbt-
iresses. standing on the table and danc
ig a forced minuet between the guard
fttils and the dishes.
"At oneeudof the cabin, while others
y ere silently praying, stood a young fel
low with nothing on but a suit of blue
fnd white pyjamas, holding a snap
Anient in front of bim. 'If yon folks'U
fold still a minute,' be said, 'we'll
Ijtive a picture of this if we ever get out
dT it' And for a moment people forgot
tie terrible situation, and I have always
Iclieved that one of the women adjusted
ker water soaked gown so that she
Alight look well in the picture taken
iidir the shadow of the destroying an-
"Well, we got through it all right,
? though we came to Liverpool in a sad
battered condition, and wben tbey
knitted the tronks from the bold the
t'ater ran out of them as though each
Iiece was a sieve. We had service on
oard the ship the Sunday following
Cbr disaster, -id, although two days
lad passed b.iice we thought we were
one, we seemed only then to appreciate
illy what bad happened. Men aud wo
ftien who bad shown no sign of fear now
Jinped in corners with trembling lips.
sable to speak because of the lump in
jeir throats, and the service of song
rag a flat failure, because no oue could
tig any more than the young woman
45 the organ could get a note out of that
ater soaked, dripping piece of furni-
"We reached Liverpool too late at
gbt to leave the ship, and the men,
I bo bad become better acquainted than
ey would have been on a less tem
festuouB voyage, gathered in the saloon
Ud for tbe hundredth time exchanged
congratulations.
" 'This was nothing, 'said our purser,
fo tbe experience I once had, and not
sH long ago. To go down with all bands
Oust be hard enough, but to be the only
5e of a whole shif ul to go and to see
?1 the rest eaved that's pretty hard,
bat came near being my case, and I
JLn't want another similar experience.
" 'I was an officer on tbe Ohio when
-ate knocked a bolfl in ber bottom, and
X helped tansfer the passengers and
tfve what we could. Wben all bad been
fnt to the ship which came to our re
ef, we made ready for tbe last boat
tied, of which I was to bo oue. We
(ad a lot of money and valuables in the
chip's safe, and I went below, took a
Cbleclotb from the cabin table, and
(to this dumped the contents of tbe
various compartments of tbe safe. I
iude a bag of it, carried it on deck,
ajid when I came to where tbe boat
Could have been I found that it bad
fbne, and 1, with the treasure, was left
ii the rapidly sinking ship. lean think
jf any number of situations which I
tpuld have preferred to mine just then.
4ie wind being against me, I could not
B&ake myself beard. I put up signals,
s&d no one would ever guess what I did
ijjmi. I wanted to keep my wits about
xtfe and block all chances for nervous-
088, so I did what requires a man's
fill attention began to shave, and I
&iubt whether I ever did a cleaner or a
setter Job.
"'By tbe time I bad finished my
companions must have missed me, for I
cftuld see them returning, and when
tjoy came alongside there were not
xtany inches to step down from tbe
striking big boat to the little tbing that
tfiok ns away. I tall you this story to
stiow how necessary it is to have nerve
ciQ hoard ship.' "
"And did he tell it for a true story?"
gked the hostess.
"He swore to eery detail."
"Then be did have nerve." New
oik Tribune.'
The Dear Child.
Little Tommie Sister Lillian likes
ta have you come here.
Mr. Simperling Aw, indeed 1 How
tfj you know that?
Little Tommie Well, people always
Kke what makes tbem glad, don't they?
Mr. Simperling Generally. But bow
So yon know I make bur glad?
Little Tommie I beard her tellin
8e of tbe other girls today that she
fust bad to laugh every time she looked
e3 you. Cleveland Leader.
South.
"Have you ever traveled in the
c4htb?" asked the New Orleans man of
tie chap from Bangor, Me.
"Oh, yes, indeed," said the Maine
?an. "I bave heen to Boston and Now
ork." Harper's Bazar.
GAME BETTER THAN GOLF.
ThMaa Prom Jerery lowers HI Veeora
For Train Catching.
His countenance suffused with satis
faction and his walk expressing tri
umph, the man front Jersey mad his
matutinal det-oent upon the ,netropo
lis. Without waiting for questions be
begun the pHau of his joy. .. , r!.
"Knocked seven-eighths of a second
cfT my iword this morning," he sald
"I simply can't be beat. .Nineteen and
quarter minutes from the1 arms of
Morpheus, through ablutions, vestiture,
nutrition, conjugal admonition and a
balf mile of geography to the confines
of a car, and there you are. (Jiving all
pioper handicaps, by this performance
I win tbe cup, and I'm going flown to
the engine boute tonight to get it. ,
"Mobbe you thought we didn't have
any sporting blood out in my country?
You never beard of a links from me, and
you never saw me going around like a
gosh binged umbrella mender with my
arms full of shinny sticks. No, slreel
But we have a diversion that beats golf
all hollow in making time for the
trains one that lasts all the year round
too.. Records? What are tbe records of
putting little pills into little holes to
the records pinned up in our little de
pot, records of honest toil that appeal
to the instincts of all industrious men?
I tell yon that the desiccated individual
who thinks be abides in joy wben be
has quartered over a county in one
stroke less than be ever did before is an
object of pity to tbe man who is trying
to out off a fraction of a second from
the passing from sound sleep to tbe
busy railroad.
"He is engaged in a useful occupa
tion. He is trying to demonstrate the
capacities of the wonderful human en
gine and at tbe sometime adding to tbe
well being of tbe race by lengthening
the hours of sleep. Any scientist will
tell you that tbe great fault with man
ia that be doesn't sleep enough.' You
take my advice and quit golf and come
live in the country and keep tab on your
transits like me, and if 'that ain't
enough you can go down to tbe engine
bouse on Sunday afternoon, wben there
ain't any trains, and pitch quoits."
New York Sun.
GARFIELD'S STRUGGLES.
Bow Be Burned tbe Mldnicht Oil When at
William College.
Garfield was said to be only one of a
very few who kept up their literary
studies while in Washington. He never
did so well but it Beemed he could easi
ly do better. He always gave the im
pression that be bad much more power
than be used. As Trevelyan said of bis
parliamentary hero, Garfield succeeded
because all tbe world could not bave
kept him in tbe background, and be
cause, once in front, he played his part
with an intrepidity and a commanding
ease that were but the outward symp
toms of the immense reserve of energy
on which it was in bis power to draw.
" When 1 was a freshman in Wil
liams college," said Garfield, "Hooked
out one night - and saw in tbe window
of my only competitor for first plaoe in
mathematics a light twinkling a few
minutes longer than I was wont to keep
mine burning. I then and there deter
mined to invest a little more time in
preparation for tbe next day's recita
tion. I did so and passed above my rival.
I smile today at tbe old rivalry, but I
am thankful for the way my attention
was callrd to tbe value of a little mar
gin of time well employed. I have since
learned that it is just such a margin,
whether of time or attention or ear
nestness or power, that wins in every
battle, great or small. " Success.
Prototype of the Da Manrler Girl.
On tbe mantelpiece in my studio at
borne tbere stands a certain lady. She
is bnt lightly clad, and what simple
garment sbe wears is not in the fashion
of onr day. How well I know herl Al
most thoroughly by this time, for sbe
has been tbe silent companion of my
work for 80 years. She bas lost both ber
arms and one of ber feet, which I de
plore, and also tbe tip of her nose, but
that has been made good.
Sbe ia only three feet high or there
abouts and quite 2,000 years old or
more, but sbe is ever young
Age cannot wither nor custom stale
Her infinite variety
and a very giantess in beauty, for she is
a reduction in plaster of the famous
statue of the Louvre.
Tbey call ber the Venus of Milo or
Melos. It is a calumny, a libel. Sbe ia
no Venus except in good looks, and if
she errs at all it is on the side of aus
terity. Sbe is not only "pootiuess," but
"wirtne" incarnate (if oue can be in
carnate in marble) from the crown of
her lovely bead to tbe sole of her re
maining foot a very beautiful foot,
though by no means a small one it
has never worn a high beel shoe.
George du Maurier in Harper's Maga
zine. Eaav.
"Ob, see here I Come and look at
Dickinson's manuscripts!" were the first
words that fell upon my receptive ears.
Dickiusonl Such is fame! Tbe speech
fell from tbe lips of a middle aged lady
comfortable in appearance, admirably
dressed. "Dickens Dickens," pro
claimed her spouse rather sharply.
"Didn't I say Dickins? Well, I meant
Dickins." Then she went on : "Fancy
him tuakina all those corrections such
a famous writer. Why, I always
thought it was so easy, John." Lon
don News.
Only three people know tbe password
of tbe Tower of London, and tbey are
tbe queen, the lord mayor ana tne con
stable. This password is sent to tbe
lord mayor quarterly, signed by her
n,ajesty. It is merely a survival of an
old custom.
The north of Ireland is justly famed
for holiday resorts, for its beautiful
scenery and many spots of historical interest.
FRENCH MARRIAGES.
MATRIMONY THE GREAT OBJECT TO
ALL GIRLS OF FRANCE.
Cutonit la This Particular Bave Chanced
' Radically At the rreeeat Time the Per
' tonal Inclination of Young Women Are
Considered.
Mis Anna L, Bicknell is an English
lady who has had most unusual oppor
tunities for studying French life.. For a
number of years she waa a governess in
the household of Nitpoloon III aud re
sided i the Tuileries. For The Ontury
Miss Bicknell has writtou an article on
"French Wives and Mothers." Miss
Bicknell says:
The old mariuge de couveuauoe, which
raumid so much sorrow and oouaoquout
evil in former days, when a girl was
taken out of a convent to be shown tbo
man to whom she was about to be mar
ried, is now a tbiug of the past It must
be acknowledged, however, that mar
riages are still mudo up, often too has
tily and superficially, by uiooly balancod
family arrangements aud by tbe inter
vention of friends. Nevertheless, attrac
tion and repulsion are now taken iuto
consideration, and a girl is no longer
forced to marry a man whom she posi
tively dislikes. I could quote instances
In the very highest (historical) aristoc
racy where, at the last moment, after
the trousseau had been sent in (marked,
according to custom, with the united
initial letters of the two names elabo
rately embroidered) and all the social
preparations made, the marriage was
broken off because the bride bad de
clared that she coold not "get accus
tomed" to tbe bridegroom nor endure
the idea of seeing bis face in her home
during ber natural life. In one of theso
instances the family lamentations over
tbe initials of the trousseau were really
amusing. Fortunately a substitute was
soon found whose name, like that of the
rejected suitor, began with an X. and
the complications were thus .happily
settled.
Tbe great object of the French girl's
life is marriage. From tbe time of ber
birth her parents have prepared for this
event, and in many cases they have con
siderably straitened their income and
curtailed their enjoyments to make up
ber dot. Every girl in every class is ex
pected to bave something. Those who
bave nothing are exceptions and consti
tute a minority of old maids. The girls
who from choice do not many generally
become nuns, usually much against tbe
wishes of their parents. Tbe old talcs
of young women being forced into con
vents to improve the position of their
brothers are forgotten in these days,
when, while no child can on any pre
tense be deprived of a share in the fa
ther's inheritance, mouastio vows are
not recognized by law. Nuns and spin
sters are exceptions; marriage is the
rule.
Wben a girl is of age to be introduced
into society, her friends and relatives
immediately look out for a suitable hus
band, whom it is considered highly de
sirable to obtain before she has reached
tbe age of 81, that she may not be pro
claimed fille majeure when the banns
are published. The principal considera
tions are equality of birth, of position,
of fortune, and in tbe last particular
the scale ia usually expected to weigh
rather more on the side of the young
lady, especially if the young man, in
addition to sufficient present advantages,
can bring forward a number of relatives
not likely to live long. This is called
having hopes (desesperances beaucoup
d'esperance8). If the young lady with a
substantial dot caualso show a satisfac
tory background of invalid uncles and
aunts, then everything is as it should
be, and the young people are brought
together with every prospect of a favor
able conclusion. It happens, however,
too often that they do not know each
other sufficiently, aud that they are per
suaded to believe that the mutual liking
is greater than it really is. Sometimes
this sort of undefined attraction ripens
into a deep and devoted love. When
this occurs, tbere are no more affection
ate wives or more faithful widows than
Frenchwomen.
More frequently, especially in the
higher classes, a sort of cool friendliness
springs up, where they see but little of
each other, and freedom is enjoyed on
both sides. Tbe authority of tbe bus
band is less felt than in an English
household. There is a sort of under
standing that in ber home the wife is
queen and settles matters as she pleases.
But their best and warmest feelings
are awakened by all that concerns their
children. French parents are perhaps
the most affectionate in the world. The
interests and welfare of their children
are their first consideration, and won
derfnl sacrifices of their own pleasure
and enjoyment are made in favor of
their sous aud daughters by the most
worldly men and women. These are
taken as a matter of course; no one
thinks of doing otherwise or of seeing
any merit in such acts.
The mothers especially are unequal
ed. Nothing will stand in the way of a
Frenchwoman where her children's in
terests are concerned. This love is so
engrossing that it swallows up every
other. They are more mothers than
wives, and if called upon to choose be
tween allowing a husband to go alone
on a foreign mission or leaving their
children tbey would not hesitate. "Mcs
enfauts avant tout. "
More Proof.
O'Hoolahan (Jountiu tbe two min
yesterday, there's been 18 kilt so far o:i
tbe noo buildin goin up across tbe
street.
O'Callahan (impressively) Thot'a
another proof av tbe unluckiness av tbe
number 13. Brooklyn Eagle.
Oysters after tbey have been brought
away from the sea know by instinct
the exact hour when the tide is rising
and approaching their beds, and so of
their own accord open their shells to re
ceive their food from the sea, a if the
were still at home.
A GEORGIA HEN COOP.
It Was Hiiro Proof Agmlnat the Inroad, of
Outsider.
"There isn't a more faithful being on
earth," said a Georgia business muu to
a reporter, "than one of our Georgia
darkles. Neither is tbtre oue more su
perstitious, nor yet again is there one
who loves better the products of the
hen coop. And Cartorsville isn't any dif
fereut from any one of a hundred south
er u towut. When I wits dowu there
sumo time ago, a customer of miue who
had a fancy for ebickeus aud who had
always had muro or loss trouble in
maintaining ownership of thorn told me
be had a remedy and nskod mo to go
around with him aud seo it. I w anted
biro to tell mo what it was, but he in
sisted on my seeing it first, so I went
along with bim, and in a few minutes
was standing in his back yard before
what was to mo tho oddest chicken
coop I ever saw, It was ooimtruotiHl of
lnrgo timbers and there wvn a down
places in its walls where a hand could
be run in and everything cleaned out
within reach. Then tL.ro was uo fas
tening ou the door, nor was there any
kiud of protection to tbo fowls. I
couldn't understand how such au in
viting snap could bo of any use to the
owner and said as much.
" 'The charm is in tho timber,' said
ho.
"'No,' said I.
" 'Fact, just tbesanip,' said he. 'You
don't see it on tbe outside and you don't
know it, but the darkies around hero
do, aud they won't come within 100
yards of that coop if they can help it. I
don't care how full of chickens it is.
'Cause why? It is built of the timbers
of a gallows on which a muu was huug
about three months ago in another coun
ty. It cost me something extra to get it,
but it has tuore tliuu paid for itself
since I bave bad it, and I am in the
market now to buy all the secondhand
scaffolds in Georgia. If you ruti across
a sheriff any place with one fur sale, let
me know by next mail, won't you,
please?'
"It was a true bill," concluded tbo
traveling man, "for I saw a darky
tried on it, and he refused a big silver
dollur to go down to tho coop to get a
chicken fur breakfast "Washington
Star.
TEAS AND TEAS.
Thine One Caad or Now l'wil a abtl
tute Tor the Chinese Herb.
Of course every one knows that we
drink a good deal that im't tea wheu
we driuk a cop of tea. We drink or
are supMised to driuk some tea, some
lend aud some straw. But there are sev
eral "teas" that the drinkers know aro
not made of tea leaves aud yet aro not
adulterated.
In Fern tbey drink mate, a tea made
from tbe Ilex paragneusis, a species of
holly. This is the only mate tea, but
there is a Brazilian tea, gorgouba, call
ed mate tbere; another tea used in Aus
tria, called Brazilian tea, and several
other so called mate teas are made from
different varieties of tbe ilex. In Lab
rador they make a tea from two species
of ledum. Oswego tea was made from
tbe scarlet niouarda, and tuouutain tea
from the dwarf evergreen, Gaultberia
procumbens. Then clover tea and tansy
tea and catnip tea aud mint tea are
used, though not as beverages.
In Sumatra they use coffee leave to
make tea out of, and the beverage is
said to be very refreshing. In Mauritius
tbe leaves of an orchid, Angrnecum
fragrans, aro used. Tho ToutmiueHo
have teas of their own, n ade of leaves,
berries, barks aud woods. The Abys
sinians make tea out f the leaves of
tbe Catha edulis. Wbtu a sentinel can't
leave bis post to get a cup of tea, be
can chew a leaf or two of this plant,
and bo won't feel like going to sleep
all night. In Tasmania there are said
to be more than 200 substitutes for tea;
in England tbey used to make a tea of
sage, betony or rosemary and of rasp
berry leaves; in Franco they use black
cu.rant leaves aud borage to tnuke tea,
aud a century or so ago tbey gathered
in English gardens and fields ash, elder
and sloe leaves, aud the leaves of white
thorn and blackthorn, out of which to
make tea. So it is evident that there
are teas and teas. New York Sun.
Animals' Frlfht b Short.
A question that bas often been asked
is, How long does fright last jn a wild
creature? The close observer will be
surprised at its brief duration. Tbey
are not subject to "nerves" like humun
beings. A partridge after running (or
rather flying) tbe gantlet of half a dozen
guns if we may be allowed a mixed
metaphor drops on tbe other side of a
hedge and begins calmly to peck as if
nothing bad happened. Yon would
think a rabbit after hearing a churge of
shot whistling about its haunches aud
just managing to escape from a yelp
ing spaniel would keep indoors for a
week, but out it pops quite merrily as
soon as the coast is clear. A fox pur
sued by hounds bus been known to bait
and kill a fowl in its flight, though we
may assume that bis enemies were not
close to Reynard at the time. We have
been led iuto thinking about the mattor
by noting what took place at a cover
after being shot over. Pall Mall Ga
zette. Drying- Clothe.
Tho drying of clothes in frosty
weather is sometimes, in tho case of
delicate fabrics, attended with tearing
because of the quick stiffening in the
very cold air. A simple precaution
which will prevent any such trouble is
to dissolve three or four handfuls of
coarse salt in the last rinsing water,
thus making it, in fact, a weak briua
Articles so rinsed will not suffer from
or stiffen with tbe cold.
Tbe cheeks become pale from fear be
cause the mental emotion diminishes
the action of tbe heart and lungs and so
impedes tbe circulation.
About 46,000 sovereigns pass over the
Bank of England counters every day.
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is3 if
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r KWHcwrorroucHrnfcw,
ONE POUND OF THIS STARCH WILL CO
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