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ties Standish
W ith Illustrations by
H o w a rd Chandler Christy
( Copyright. The B obh s-M errill Company)
bailing o f
the M a y flo w è r
■ J u s t In the gray of the dawn, as the
K mists uprose from the meadows.
There was a stir and a sound in the
»• lu m b e rin g village of Plymouth;
s and clicking of arms, and
' the order imperative, "F orw ard!”
Given in tone suppressed, a tramp of
H te e t, and then silence.
Figures ten, in the mist, marched
^ p lo w ly out of the village.
lsh the stalwart it was, with
____ ight of his valorous army,
Led I by their Indian guide, by Hobo-
R m o k , friend of the white men.
Northward marching to quell the sud-
0 den revolt of the savage.
Giants they seemed In the mist, or the
■ m ig h ty men of King David;
Giants In heart they were, who be-
K lie v e d in God and the Bible,—
Aye, who believed In the smiting of
. Midianites and Philistines.
Over them gleamed far off the crlm-
son banners of morning;
Under them loud on the sands, the
Btserried billows, advancing,
T ired along the line and in regular
■ o r d e r retreated.
Na y a mile had they marched,
■ w h e n at length the village of Ply-
K^Hm outh
W *ke from Its sleep, and arose, tn-
■ tent on its manifold labors.
Sweet was the air and soft; and slow-
■ ly the smoke from the chimneys
R « e over roofs of thatch, and point-
B e d steadily eastward;
Men came forth from the doors, and
■ paused and talked of the weather.
8ald that the wind had changed, and
was blowing fair for the May
flower;
ed of their Captain's departure,
and all the dangers that menaced,
being gone, the town, and whai
should be done In his absence.
ly sang the birds, and the ten
der voices of women
lecrated with hymns the common
cares of the household.
Out of the sea rose the sun, and the
billows rejoiced at his coming;
itiful were his feet on the pur
ple tops of ‘the mountains;
itiful on the sails of the May
flower riding at anchor,
red and blackened and worn by
11 the storms of the winter,
ly against her masts was hang-
^ ^ I n g and flapping her canvas,
Rent by so many gales, and patched
■ b y the hands of the sailors.
Suddenly from her side, as the sun
■ r o s e over the ocean,
a puff of sinoke, and floated
eaward; anon rang
over field and forest the can-
n’s roar, and the echoes
His Musket, and So Stride Out.
rd and repeated the sound, the sig-
[ nal-gun of departure!
but with louder echoes replied
[the hearts of the people!
ekly, in voices subdued, the chap
iter was read from the Bible,
Ikly the prayer was begun, but
[ended in fervent entreaty!
from their houses In haste cams
| forth the Pilgrims of Plymouth.
and women and children, all bur-
[ rytng down to the sea shore,
er. with tearful eyes, to eay fare-
! well to the Mayflower.
Homeward bound o'er the sea and
leaving them here in the desert
Foremost among them was Alden.
All night he had lain without
slumber.
Turning and tossing about in the heat
and Unrest of his fever.
He had beheld Miles Standish, who
came back late from the council.
Stalking into the room, and heard him
mutter and murmur.
Sometimes it seemed a prayer, and
sometimes it sounded like swear
ing.
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Nearer the boat stood Aldan, with one
toot placed on the gunwale.
One still Arm on the rock, and talking
at times with the sailors.
Seated erect on the thwarts, all ready
and eager for starting.
He, too, was eager to go, and thus
put an end to his anguish,
Thinking to fly from despair, that
swifter than keel is or canvas.
Thinking to drown in the sea the
ghost that would rise and pursue
him.
But as he gazed on the crowd, he be
held the form of Priscilla
Standing dejected among them, uncon
scious of all that was passing.
Fixed were her eyes upon his, as If
she divined his Intention,
Fixed with a look so sad, so reproach
ful, imploring and patient.
That with a sudden revulsion bis
heart recoiled from its purpose.
As from the verge of a crag, where
one step more is destruction.
Strange Is the heart of man, with its
quick, mysterious Instincts!
Strange is the life of man, and fatal
or fated are moments,
Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the
gates of the wall adamantine!
‘‘Here I remain!” he exclaimed, as he
looked at the heavens above him.
Thanking the Lord whose breath had
scattered the mist and the mad
ness,
Wherein, blind and lost, to death he
was staggering headlong.
"Yonoer snow-white cloud, that floats
in the ether above me,
Seems like a hand that Is pointing
and beckoning over the ocean.
There is another hand, that is not so
spectral and ghost-like,
Holding me, drawing me back, and
clasping mine for protection.
Float, O hand of cloud, and vanish
away in the ether!
Roll thyself up like a fist, to threaten
and daunt mei I heed not
Either your warning or menace, or
any omen of evil!
There Is no land so sacred, no air so
pure and so wholesome.
As is the air she breathes, and the
soil that is' pressed by her foot
steps.
Here for her sake will I stay, and like
an invisible presence
Hover Aro.und her for ever, protecting,
supporting her weakness;
Yes! as my foot was the first that
stepped on this rock at the land
ing,
So, with the blessing of God, shall it
be the last at the leaving!”
stood for the open Atlantlo,
Borne on the send of the sea, and the
swelling hearts of the Pilgrims.
Long in silence they watched the re
ceding sail of the vessel,
Much endeared to them all, as some
thing living and human;
Then, as if filled with the spirit, and
rapt in a vision prophetic.
Baring his hoary head, the excellent
Elder of Plymouth
Said, "L et us pray!” and they prayed
and thanked the Lord and took
courage.
Mournfully sobbed the waves at the
base of the rock, and above them
Bowed and whispered the wheat on
the hill of death, and their kin
dred
Seemed to awake In their graves, and
to Join in the prayer that they ut
tered.
Sun-illumed and white, on the east
ern verge of the ocean
Gleamed the departing Ball, like a
marble slab In a graveyard;
Burled beneath It lay for ever all hope
of escaping.
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How Good You Have Been to Me.
Lo!
as they turned to depart, they
saw the form of an Indian,
Watching them from the hill; but
while they spake with each other.
Pointing with outstretched hands, and
saying, “ Look!” he had vanished.
So they returned to their homes; but
Alden lingered a little.
Musing alone on the shore, and
watching the wash of the billows
Round the base of the rock, and the
sparkle and flash of the sun
shine.
Like the spirit of God, moving visibly
over the waters.
FISH
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P O R T W IT H W E IR D T A L E .
Relates How an Enraged Dolphin
Dragged Him Through the Wa
ter, After Pulling Him
Off His Boat.
Boston, Mass.—John Haywood, able
seaman and fisherman aboard the
schooner Maseasolt, which reached T
wharf the other day, declared that he
had undergone the very worst ex
perience at sea with which he had
ever met In all his years before the
mast, or that he had ever heard of.
He was dragged through the sea at a
furious rate of speed by an enraged
dolphin, narrowly escaping death at
the tali of the monster.
In relating this very unusual ad
venture of the deep, Haywood said:
“ W e had been out a matter of two
weeks or more, had some fifteen
swordfish under the decks, and I was
standing with the lily iron tn the pul
pit waiting for a chance at a sword
fish.
“ The whole cruise wag sort of a
funny one from my way of sighting
It. You see, the water ought to be
pretty cold on the banks, but, sink
me if it was not warm enough clear
to the Bay of Fundy from Georges
Banks to douse an infant In, and we
were out only a matter of a day or
so, or more, when we sighted a great
school of flying fish.
"Those bird fish are some scarce
In these waters, and I never saw
them so crazy-like. Why, sink me If
they wouldn't even skim over the
very poop, sometimes alighting on the
quarter to wink at the skipper, and
then flip Into the water with a sort of
chuckle.
"Ever hear a flying Csh chuckle?
No? Well, It's some chuckle, sort of
exasperating-like, and 1 once advised
the skipper to spread a few sheets of
fly paper over the deck so as to trap
a few. The skipper, he allowed as
the scheme was a right smart one,
only the lack of fly paper spoiled it.
"Anyway, 1 was there In the pulpit
with the lily Iron getting heavy in my
hand when I sighted what looked like
a big swordfish.
“ I signaled astern, and as we came
closer I let fly with the Iron and
caught the beast fair. It was no
swordfish, though, worse luck; it was
one of the dolphins that had played
about the bows like puppy dogs for a
whole day or more, and when I was
letting out the line from the Iron to
the keg buoy which we drop with It,
the line went so fast It caught me
amidships about three fathoms abaft
the critter's tall, and away I went,
clean out of the pulpit.
"W e must have gone a mile at
least, and by the time the dolphin be
gan to get tired I had brought up the
keg and was hanging onto It for dear
life with a load of sea water under
my bulwarks. I was near dead when
the schooner reached me and discov
ered that we had made that mile In
Just about 31-knot time. The fish had
to be Ironed again before It could be
taken."
Meanwhile the Master alert, but
with dignified air and important.
Scanning with watchful eye the tide
and the wind and the weather.
Walked about on the sands; and the
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people crowded around him
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Saying - few last words, and enforc
ing his careful remembrance.
Standing Dejected, Unconscious of All. Then, taking each by the hand, as if
he were grasping a tiller.
Once he had come to the bed, and Into the boat he sprang, and in haste
stood there a moment in silence;
shoved off to his vessel.
Then he had turned away, and said: Glad in his heart to get rid of all this
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
"I will not wake him;
worry and flurry,
Let him sleep on, it Is best; for what Glad to be gone from a land of sand
Th e Hidden Purpose.
is the use of more talking!”
and sickness and sorrow,
A young lieutenant from a New
Then he extinguished the light, and Short allowance of victuals and plenty
York regiment surveyed the Texas
threw himself down on his pallet.
of nothing but Gospel!
Dressed as he was, and ready to start Lost In the sound of the oars was the scenery gloomily and reflected upon
bis great distance from the lights of
at the break of the morning,—
Broadway. The smoke from a smelt
Covered himself with the cloak he
er and he swirling sand from the low
had worn in his campaigns in
lying hills had spoiled the lieutenant's
Flanders,—
disposition. "T ell me,” said an editor ASKS FOR A COURTSHIP ROOM
Slept as a soldier sleeps in his
from El Paso, “lan't there some hid
bivouac, ready for action.
den purpose behind this mobilizationT” Pastor Would Establish Place for
But with the dawn he arose; in the
"There is.” replied the lieutenant
Boys to Woo and Girls to
twilight Alden beheld him
‘W e are going to force Mexico to take
Be Wooed.
Put on his corselet of steel, and all
hack Texas.”
the rest of his armor.
Hoboken. N. J.— The Rev. Joseph D.
Buckle about his waist his trusty
T h e Gun Camera.
Peters, pastor of the First Reformed
blade of Damascus,
A remarkable method of making church of this place, suggests that a
Take from the corner his musket, and
blrdseye photographs Is by tbs use of large public room be established and
so stride out of the chamber.
a “ gun camera,” which Is shot several put in charge of a matron, so young
Often the heart of the youth had
feet into the air from the top of a persons may make love In It. In the
burned and yearned to embrace
standard tn the head of which la an pastor's opinion, most of the young
him,
explosion chamber. The camera Is set
men and women in a big city have no
Often his lips had essayed to speak,
to expose from one to ten seconds
suitable place In which to woo and be
imploring for pardon;
after the explosion, when It reaches
wooad, and If such a place is provid
All the old friendship came back,
its full height
it must be caught
ed, with restrictions, he Is of the opin
with its tender and grateful emo
in a net when It comes down to pre
ion the number of divorces will be
tions;
vent It from being smashed.
lessened to a great degree.
But his pride overmastered the nobler
"The need of a proper place for
nature within him,—
Height of Pams.
courtship," said the pastor, "has been
Pride, and the sense of his wrong,
"And how Is your son Henry get
and the burning fire of the Insult.
ting on in literature?” asked the visi responsible for many disastrous mar
riages, I believe, and If such a place
So he beheld his friend departing in
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anger, but spake not.
"Oh. he’s doing famously,” said the would be provided, In charge of a
Saw him go forth to danger, perhaps
nifi proud mother
"His
autograph matron who would be a sympathizer
with heart affairs of the young. It
to death, and he spake not!
brought 110 the other day.”
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would do wonders toward shaping a
Then he arose from his bed. and
"Really?"
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heard what the people were say
"Yes— signed to a promissory note courtship to a glorious end.
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"There are so many young persons
ing.
for three hundred
I bought It my
who have no place in which to make
self."— Harper's Weekly.
Joined In the talk at the door, with
love. Many wooers and wooed never
Stephen and Richard and Gilbert,
learn to know each other as they
Joined In the morning prayer, and In Th e Common Caree of the Houeehold.
The Kansas Way.
the reading of Scripture,
Here is the way a Kansas paper should before matrimony. Many think
last farewell of the Pilgrims.
And. with the others, tn haste went
duns Its subscribers: " I t you have fre fascination Is love because they have
O strong hearts and true! not one quent fainting spells, accompanied by not had a sufficient opportunity to un
hurrying down to the sea shore.
went back in the Mayflower!
chills, cramps, corns, bunions, chil derstand what real love is.”
Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had
No, not one looked back, who bad set blains, epllspsy and Jaundice, it la a
been to their feet as a doorstep
Woman of M Weds Man of 24.
his hand to this plowing!
sign you are not weiL but liable to
Into a world unknown,— the corner
Troy, Mo.— Mrs. Nancy Edey, 96
stone of a nation!
die any minute. Pay your subscrip
Boon were beard on board the tion In advance and thus make your years old. has become a bride for the
self solid for a good obituary notice’ sixth time, her newest husband being
shouts and songs of the sailors
There with his boat was the Master,
Ree Indow, 24 years old. The bride's
Heaving the windlass round, and
already a little impatient
fifth husband died six weeks previous
hoisting the ponderous anchor
Lest be should lose the tide, or the
Often the Way.
wind might shift to the eastward. Then the yards were braced, and all
"Now that your daughter has grad at the county poor farm here.
Square-built, hearty, and strong, with
sails set to the west wind.
uated she will have more time oq her
Dynamite Cured His Earache.
an odor of ocean about him.
Blowing steady and strong; and the bands.” "Y e a ” "1 suppose she as
Speaking with this one and that, and
Shreveport, La.— Fellow-workmen It
Mayflower sailed from the harbor. pects to help her mother f" “No. she
cramming letters and parcels
Rounded the point of the Gurnet, and expects to Join another bridge dub." the employ of the Dollnger Lumber
company told James Donovan dyna
Into his pockets capaetooa. and mes
leaving far to the southward
mite would cure earache It did. Don
sages mingled together
Island and cape of sand, and the Field
It May Be Your Whets Vacation.
Into his narrow brala. till at last he
of the First Encounter.
Before deciding, send for handsome ovan used one application and was
was wholly bewildered.
Took the wind on her quarter, and ly illustrated booklet—New York Boa. hurled two days later.
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