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the knife into the sea, retreated to 'i
ical attempts on his life vanished, many
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in an instant he had unlocked nights
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the cuddy door, and seized the signs
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of recovery. But he pulled
November
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mate by the arm, dragged him, through
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at last. The captain was
The mate after this grew more half stunned and half dazed by his i also for a time entirely prostrated,
furious, and after vainly attempting fall, out onto the main deck, and, 1 but he, too, gradually regained his
A DOOMED SHIP.
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and in a fortnight was on
to enter the cabin withdrew to the as another flash of lightning dis- strength,
Out on the broad blue ocean, not j forecastle and took up his abode closed the brig to view again, cried: < deck again.
“There! There! See what a
Poor Jarvise was greatly embar
far from the equator, thousands of there;
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and for three days he had merciful
heaven has sent us!”
i rassed when he first met his old ,
miles from any land, lying motion- been
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waiting and watching for the
A second or two afterward a viv- commander.
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He was naturally of
less on a calm sea, was a dismasted captain
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’s death.
id flash of lightning moved over a i humane disposition, and now the
ship. Nothing remained of her
To be buried alive has been the mizzenmast; it ran down the frantic passion, which was begotten
i despair had passed away, he was
taut masts and spars but the miz- thought
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to be beyond question the mast, which totte ’, and with a of
zenmast, the bowsprit, and jib and , most painful of all deaths ; but it is crash, fell over the . le. With the heartily ashamed of himBelf and his
first crash of thund< that followed , conduct.
flying jib-booms. From the mizzen doubtful
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if the long-drawn agonies Jarvise rushed to the side and was
“I was not myself, Captain Dun
topsail and cross-jack yards hung a < which were being endured by these in the act of springing over into the nett,” he said apologetically. “I
few ragged strips of canvas, and out | two men were not more painful of sea when Captain Dunnett seized was mad with hunger and despair.
him by the collar and flung him The devil seemed to have got into
at the far ends of the flying jib- | the two.
back violently on the deck, where my heart, and when I reflect on the
boom depended part of the stay and
“How long—how long can this he lay stunned and bleeding.
thoughts that passed through my
some fragments of a sail, torn and ] last?” moaned Captain Dunnett, as
The lightning flashed incessant mind, and the things I planned
rent, just as it had been left after ] he sat and gazed out into the night. ly. The wind came in hot puff’s. during that time, my mind is filled
the fierce gale which had rendered . A painful sort of apathy was steal The brig still held in her course. with horror and I blush for shame
this gallant ship so helplessly a j ing over him. He had no hope, he By this time she was within half a when I think of them.”
“I am sure you do, Mr. Jarvise,”
wreck. Not a breath of wind was ] had no effort, he had no longer any mile of them. But suddenly the
hot puffs ceased and she lay mo peplied the captain soothingly, “let
stirring in the heavens; not a cloud < wish to live. If death were com!’
tionless on the water.
us forget all about it.”
was in the deep-biue sky; not a ] his only prayer was that it might
All this while Captain Dunnett
“Forget it, Captain Dunnett,”
and the mate, who had soon recov cried the mate plaintively; “I shall
ripple or flaw disturbed the far- ( come quickly.
stretching ocean.
It was high
Slowly, minute by minute, the ered hie consciousness, stood watch never forget it 1 The misery and
her in an agony of suspense.
torment of that dreadful time will
noon, and the Bun was almost ver life was ebbing out of him; and m ing The
gloom was rapidly deepen haunt me to my dying day.”
tical. All was silent. The sun | surely, with a tortoise-like grada ing; the clouds were hurrying on;
“A dreadful time, truly,” replied
was pouring down its fierce tropical tion, the night crept on. The moon the moon and the stars had all dis the captain solemnly, “and I can
rays on the blistered deck and on had risen, and now, in full-orbed appeared, and the sky was one only pray heaven that no other
the vast, calm sea. There she lay, splendor, was riding high in the vast pall of inky darkness. Broad two men may ever be called on to
sheets of lightning now shot up
a spectral ship upon a silent ocean. heavens, casting a long wake of from the bosom of the ocean, illum pass through such a dreadful ordeal
as we did.”
There was not a sigr. of life on silvery light on the placid-sea, inating the whole mass of sea and
“Amen!” cried the mate.— All
board; not a Bound could be heard, which danced and flickered right elouds with a blue, spectral light, The Year Round.
which made the portentious aspect
except now and again when a swirl away to the distant horizon.
Personal and Pertinent.
of
heavens more visible, while
of water made the rudder-chains
The two lights still gleamed on the the
silence, when unbroken by the
About 300,000 telephones are in
rattle and creak, as the wheel the deserted deck and two watchers thunder, was solemn and oppres
use
in the United States.
moved a few spokes backward and still watched on.
sive.
New Xork expends $100,000 a
But what is that curling up from
forward; or when an albatross
Meanwhile nature had not been
flapped up from the sea, hovered idle. Away in the distant horizon the open hatch in the cabin? It is month in street cleaning.
over the ship, and then flew away great masses of fleeey clouds began smoke! At first it came in small
The entire village of Powelton,
wreaths, but now it is pouring out
in the distance.
to pilo themselves up one above in a great volume.
Pa., is advertised for sale.
Tuesday passed slowly, as many another, gradually extending them The ship is on fire.
A Japanese has discovered a
The lightning, which had shiver process for making artificial tor
days had passed; the sun began to selves across the northern heavens.
sink lower and lower in the western The cloud-packing went on for ed the mizzenmast, had descended toise shells with the white of an
sky, and once more, like a blood- more than half an hour accompan into the hold and set fire to the car egg-
go, and the conflagration was
red shield, it sank into the bosom ied by hot puffs of wind which now spreading rapidly.
Nevada City is said to be so
of the ocean, leaving behind it a and again ruffled the waters. The
The two men, when they made quiet that flocks of quails are seen
flood of erubescent light, which sky every minute grew blacker and the discovery, stood appalled with
on the streets every day.
tinged the sky with its ensanguined the clouds more dense; vivid flash horror. They knew they were stand
One of the remarkable things in
hues, and these, reflected in the es of lightning shot across the ing, as it were, on a volcano, for in
the magazine below was stored a Utah is a mountain near Salt Lake
water beneath, caused the ship to northern heavens, and there were quantity of gunpowder, which
appear as though she were floating mutterings of thunder in the dis might explode at any moment and City completely covered over by
oyster shells.
blow the ship to atoms. ,
in a sea of blood. The crimson tance.
The smoke belched forth in large
Over 1,000,000 miles of telegraph
faded into orange and pink, and
The silent watcher in the cuddy
then into gray, and then the shad saw nothing and heard nothing of volumes, and now and again a wire are in operation in the United
bright, flickering flame shot up States—enough to encircle the
ows of evening stole slowly over the all this. His head had sunk heav from the hatchway.
scene; then one by one the stars ily on his bosom and he slept. Sud In another few minutes the flames globe forty times.
The most widely separated points
came out and studded the whole of denly there was a noise below the were pouring into the cuddy, and
the cloudless firmament.
deck like the scratching of a rat; the whole structure was on fire. between which it is possible to send
flames extended and in less a telegram are between British Co
Suddenly there came from the then, slowly and noiselessly, the The
than ten minutes the whole of the
cuddy windows a stream of light, trap-hatch under the table was after part of the ship was on fire, lumbia and New Zealand, via
and a man, gaunt and emaciated, lifted, and through the aperture a the lurid glare lighting up the America and Europe.
peered out on the deserted deck. A head, with curly red hair and fierce superincumbent clouds and leaded
A Belfast, Me., merchant hired a
few minutes afterward another eyes, appeared. They were those sea, and producing a scene of sur new clerk, who immediately distin
passing grandeur.
gleam of light shot from a small of Jarvise, the mate. After paus And now another danger was guished himself by trying to get
aperture in the door of the forecastle ing to see that all was clear, he threatening them. Away in the those queer chimneys off the incan
deck-house, and two eyes—cruel, placed his hands en the deck, and distance there was a dull, sobbing descent electric lamps so as to light
reddish-brown eyes—also peered then with a supreme effort, he lifted moan, which each minute became them with a match.
cautiously out. These two men had himself to a sitting posture, and more distant—the tornado was fast
The fish are getting so numerous
approaching.
been for days watching and waiting again he paused to listen. He
The last time they had looked at around the docks at Fort Tampa,
for each other’s death. They were could hear the regular breathing of the brig she was lying becalmed, Fla., that they jump out of the
the captain and mate of the vessel, his companion as he sat sleeping and they had imagined that at the water and land on the docks. A
who, when the crew had taken to 1 peacefully, and a grim smile of sat rate the conflagration was extend kingfish weighing seventeen pounds
the boats, had refused to desert isfaction passed across his wild and ing there was little chance of succor was captured in that way a few
arriving in time to save them, for
her.
haggard face. Silently and stealth now the deck was getting hot un days ago.
For days and weeks—how many ily he crawled clear of the table, der their feet, and the fire had ex
Massachusetts has probably a
they had no idea, for they had lost and then stood erect upon his feet. tended to the forecastle deckhouse;
larger
assortment of ex-governors
all count of time—they had been His eyes glared wildly, and his i but at that moment they were star-
than any other commonwealth,
!
tied
by
a
sharp
cry
of
“
Ship
ahoy!
alone on the pathless deep. At breath came quick and short as he
Ship ahoy!” and looking in the di- They are taken alphabetically,
first they had made the best of drew a knife from his bosom and 1 rection whence the sound came they
Banks, Boutwell, Butler, Claflin,
their situation—day by day hoping : poised himself to strike.
saw a boat, manned with four oars, Gardner, Gaston, Long, Rice and
and expecting that succor would
All unconscious of his peril, Cap . pulling rapidly toward them. In Robinson.
come and they should be rescued. tain Dunnett slept on. He had no , another minute the welcome sound
A biographer of David Bennett
They had put themselves on short idea of danger from such a quarter; . of “In bowl” was heard, and the
' boat was alongside.
Hill
recalls the fact that the bache
allowance of both food and water; no idea that the mate had for two *
No time was to be lost. The
but, notwithstanding, the food was at days past been laboring with mani storm was brewing in the north, lor governor was never fond of the
length nearly consumed, the water acal intentions to clear an opening and if it burst upon them before girls. He ha6 always avoided their
was quite exhausted, so that they through the cargo and had at they reached the ship their doom society, and has been known to
had nothing left that was drink- length succeeded in making his was certain. Again, the powder in walk around a block to avoid meet
the hold might explode at any ing one.
’ able but a few bottles of wine and way to the cabin hatch.
minute, so they hurriedly lowered
brandy. To the torture of hunger
Jarvise stood over his intended themselves into the boat and push John Burns, the English socialist
leader, who managed the great
was now added the agony of raging victim, his eyes glittering with dia ed off.
thirst—a thirst which neither wine bolic light; the blow was in the act While the second mate was rescu strike of the London dockmen, is a
ing the two men from the burning relative of Robert Burns. In ap
nor brandy would quench, but of descending, when his arm was ship,
the captain and mate of the
rather intensify.
arrested. The cabin was suddenly brig were making all preparations pearance he resembles the dead
Anything more horrible than i illuminated with a blue, eleetric for the coming gale, and before the poet so strogly as to cause general
their situation cannot be imagined, , light, and a peal of thunder, loud boat had got alongside, the sails comment.
A contemporary has discovered
and the dreadful conviction was i as the crack of doom, broke over had been furled and everything
made snug.
being forced upon them that they the ship. The maniac stood with
that
as the hand of Providence
Captain Dunnett and his mate
must die.
his arm raised, as though it were had been kept up by the excite blanches Dr. Depew’s whiskers, and
This was the state of affairs I suddenly paralyzed.
ment of the situation, but the mo his own band boldly adjusts his
three days previous to the opening ; The crash of the thunder awoke ment they were on board the brig white cravat, the resemblance be
of this story. The captain was sit • Captain Dunnett from his slumbers they fainted dead off and were tween the great New Yorker and
taken below in a state of uncon
ting with his eyes apparently closed I and he sprang to his feet. He took sciousness. This had scarcely been the late Col. Vanderbilt becomes
and the mate was watching him i in the situation at a glance, and accomplished, and the quarter-boat daily more and more striking.
with eager, hungry eyes. Up to flinging himself on his would-be hoisted up and made fast, when the
It is not generally known that
this point the mate had been the murderer, sought to disarm him. tornado burst upon them with ter there are in existence some very
most hopeful of the two; but now The struggle was for dear life, and rific fierceness. For a few minutes spirited ballads by Lord Macaulay,
they could neither see nor hear any
he had abandoned himself to de the mate fought savagely. But at thing but the roaring of the tor which, in accordance with the au
spair.
last the captain’s superior skill and mented waters and the howling and thor’s wish, have never been pub
No succor could reach them, he strength prevailed, and Jarvise was thundering of the wind. At first lished. The best of them relates
the brig reeled and bent before it; the story of Botsworth field.
knew, while the calm lasted, but once more at his mercy.
then
she rose up, and, like a furious
this was not the thought that was
“Strike man—strike!” shrieked
When the pope recently received
steed, dashed on frantically in the
haunting his mind. “One of them the mate. “It is your life or mine.” wake of the burning wreck.
a letter from Harvard university in
must die—the death of the one
“You are mad, Jarvise!” ex
It was a scene of grandeur and acknowledgment of some presents
horror which would be difficult to which he had sent it, he read the
would be the preservation of the claimed the captain.
other.” This was the mental re “Yes, I am; but strike, man— equal, and excited awe in every communication out aloud, slowly,
frain which, as it were, formed the strike! Put an end to this torture; heart. The force of the wind was and expressed his admiration of
tremendous, and the two vessels
chorus to every other thought. I can stand no more of it.”
drove on madly before it. The the classical Latin in which it was
“The death of one would be the
“No!” cried the captain, throw wreck was now one mass of flames, written.
the red glare of which lit up the
preservation of the other.”
ing him from him.
Mrs. McAdow, one of the owners
Then he turned and left the cab foaming sea and the sky above,
He sat there eyeing the captain
of the Spoiled Horse mine of Mon
showing
the
outlines
of
the
brig
and
in,
locking
the
door
behind
him.
with a diabolical Jeer. He was no
Out on the deck a grand and the faces of her crew with terrible tana, recently drove into Helena in
longer a man; he was a demon. startling sight met his gaze. The distinctness. The two vessels were
a buckboard, unattended, carrying
Suddenly he started up. By a re whole of the northern part of the running in parallel lines and were
a gold brick worth $40,000. It
vulsion of feeling which is not un heavens was enveloped in the not more than half a mile apart.
took
two porters and a truck to get
common in such cases, he had blackest darkness, while the south Suddenly there shot up into the sky
the heavy mass of gold from the
a
towering
mass
of
flame
and
smoke
ern
half
was
clear
and
bright.
The
passed from helpless despondency
next instant the northern half was which was followed by a terrific re wagon into the bank.
into furious delirium. With a ablaze with a most vivid light. But port, and then all was black dark
Gov. Lee, of Virginia, has a letter
hoarse cry he sprang at Captain it was not this that caused excite ness. The powder in the magazine
from
Lord Wolseley, saying that he
Dunnett, brandishing a long knife ment in the breast of Captain Dun had exploded, and that was the
will
attend
the unveiling of the
last
that
was
ever
seen
of
that
poor
nett.
The
central
object
in
this
in his hand. A fierce struggle en
doomed
ship.
monument
to
Gen. Robert E. Lee in
scene
was
a
large
brig,
not
more
sued; it was short and sharp, and
All that night the gale continued Virginia early in December unless
than a mile and a half distant,
the mate, after being disarmed, was bearing down to their succor, under and shortly after daylight it mod
something unforeseen happens.
pushed forward, and fell violently a press of canvass.
erated, and by noon it had blown
This
is in response to an invitation.
For a second or two he stood itself out, the clouds rose and the
upon the deck. Captain Dunnett
Jefferson
Davis will also attend,
weather
cleared
up.
rooted
to
the
spot.
Then
in
a
wild
was the younger and stronger of
and Lord Wolseley and Mr. Davis
Captain
Dunnett
and
the
mate
transport
of
joy
he
threw
up
his
the two, and, had he been so in
were attended with all the kindness will be the lions of the occasion.
arms and cried:
clined, could have despatched the
“Saved! Saved! Thank heaven! and attention which was necessary
mate with ease; but he contented Thank heaven!”
for men in their exhausted condi Children Cry for
Pitcher’s Castoria.
All thoughts of Jarvise’s diabol- tion. Jarvise was delirious; and
himself with disarming him, threw
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THE PRESENT RAPID GROWTH
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Both in Public and Private Improvements and Popu
lation of the Beautiful and well situated
CITY
M’MINNVILLE
Demonstrates that the Nucleus for a Great City
has been formed. During the last two
years in the neighborhood of
$200,000 Have been Spent for Public Improvements
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It is the Only City in Oregon that Owns and Operates
COMPLETE ELECTRIC LIGHT and WATER PLANTS.
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And soon the Rattle and Ring of a Street Car Line will be heard
No city in the Willamette Valley presents a better field for the operation of Capital.
The Manufactories of the Town
Are comparatively few in number, but still they employ a large number of people.
Among them are the McMinnville Flouring mills, with a capacity of One Hundred Bar
rels of Flour per day; two lumber yards, with sash and door factories in connection; a
creamery and cheese factory, wit a capacity of one thousand pounds of butter per day; a
furniture factory, yet in its infancy, but with the surety of increased operation in the near
future.
The Population of the City is 2,500
And is constanly increasing; faster in proportion than other cities of the same size
in Oregon. The surrounding country is exceedingly productive, a larger yield per acre,
being raised within a radius of ten miles than in any other section of the State. YAM
HILL County is known as
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press of the State, and it is the intention of the propri
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