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 Earii^^ r ha? «hed Val la tk mda tiian te **• ther. _. *o. how ^ing berthed ai„„ "PPerdecV**^? '^l^^^ationheardl' amledbeca, :^^G POLKS. i Bit of Wisdom. j-r^ the nettle with both hands. "'^A^it stall not sting." rt^this bit of wisdom, dear. Into everything. ,fSlesson-B long and hard, ^4- it with yonr might! \t let it conqer you %-Seyou-ve strength to fight. ^ffondwwhattodo, iw the trouble twenty tunesâ€" ^ch a silly crew! â-  'the trial over, dear, Vever frown and pout V;th a brave and steady look ' ^„ the foe to rout. Carry not to-morrow's loiad. Little heart, to-day; jrip with happy feet along Life's uneven way; •'Grasp the nettle with both hands ind it shall not sting." lie this bit of wiedom, dear. Into eveiything. *Lon the hand*: He smiled beT ge ashore, Stankv *rom his gheit/' who Presente I- orowdm London there had been ce arrangements wei inconveDience. Th, on the platform fc, ec as he took his aclyBurdette-Coutt^ to stand up and bo^ s appreciation of th n to him. station, accompanii, ttsandMr.Bnrdetti omethmg very mnci the immense crovi ghfareinthevicini; y of work last veel â- enchmen have over the bmtal 3 involved in hia visi le of that conquerei d enough to see tl the flouts and gil 11 not serve to hid^ rg, supposed to li] â- on heel of the invi â- ated and illmninal 1 enthusiasm of th( been surpassed evei itly happened at tii^ r and his family £ ly at Gatchina witlj a month, when earljj •rders were receivei iurg palace for theiJ the entire court reJ the capital. Thi aph which the neit hed, saying that t and rainy weather i t of view St. PetersI more favored ' 1 the British govemj ^rative demand th luestion shoald The United Stita .d a long interviev^ iign Minister, whoj 'ul consideratioa C'aisseofthe pablij le scheme for th^ ithout awaiting t delegate, whow* )le at the time i has now raii^ij Lieoftheconversioq lat the Sultan h;' le- the scheme. Tna German syndicate J ersion. IS. to speak, be sure 'J uivocation is the whole wa lliam Penn. which we are lete a character.- ixed, 8tead:r aifl It dignities t.-f icMSs.-iStop^"" ir own imag® ' iful image « ' he hcM«t. ,^jV unkind feehn?- use them in 3='-1 (eus«Lâ€" {*^ of sincerity, ries witbonnt- e new '^^ at e«»*«w, mottsa"^^' it, as Goif„t liT*;.^ eat* «*^1 "A pnrty consider'ble of adraiand. Every grain has berai sold, and folks come now ask- in' for more of that Lane seed- oeni. Garry iMa to Tommy, an' tell him I don't charge him anything for sellin' his corn, as I'm an i admirer of sech industrious want to lend em' a helping' When the several silver dollars were handed Tommy by neighbor Ewing, he laid it all in Mrs. Lane's lap, saying "Mother, it'll make us happy all through the lone winter. 'There'll be something for you and father, too. Say, mother, can't we have a school here, for those who will come and study with me " Tommy's Business Venture. Torsmy wanted some money. He hadn't ,y," chances to earn it, though willing, ,â„¢' Tilling to work pretty hard for it. ' wanted ten dollars before the next '„.(js winds and snows shut the Lane 'jilvin for days, inside the little redfarm- -ce at Maple Grove farm, five miles from jfjfrhbor. ' Ten dollars would, if divided right, bring seekly and monthly bright periodicals from -iferent portions of the busy world into i,ir o«-n little home. \ni then when vthe blizzards came, and -i Silt at the little round table getting his Iriily lessons, mother and father, too, could nend the hours delightfully, sitting, beside le fire reading something very "good." It's not nice to be a "shut in," when your :ome is a small cabin away out upon a prair- f, if you have nothing new to read and very ifw neighbors, and those living out of sight. Tommy's home was part dug out. Their -je in the winter was fed by bundles of twisted grass, sun flower seed, corn-stalks, iiy weed stalks, and sparing handfuls of rtiaL Coal was precious. Wood was very vdnable. Tommy helped with all his strength the loving mother gather, in their seasons, first, the wild strawberries, then raspberries, I'iimis, grapes, and hoe in the garden from planting until harvest time. Between them they had filled jars and glasses full of nice fruit for winter use, gather- td in a supply of pumpkins, squashes, beans,^ ptatoes, ami other good things, which were stored in the ' ' cave" for the rainy days when they could not work. Tommy helped his father, too, in the â-  crop" tending and gathering. Mr. and Mrs Lane thought their little lad a " wonder- tdly lirigjit boy."' At twelve. Tommy was Jtout and tiinned. All through the. winter of 1887 and 1888, :c had, wiiile " studying" under Mr. Une's direction, been trying to plan .. '.vay to eai-n at least ten dollars, talking ver his desires with both father and ::.(aher. Bfcfdru pldiiting-time rolled around, Mr. Lane one day said â- ' Tommy, couldn't you raise seed corn to nil? I mean if I give you a patch and 'reak it for you, can you plant and tend it â- i ithout help The com that I am planting i paid live cents for each ear. It is very ^ne for this climate. I have now quite a start, and can supply you with enough to raise quite a crop. You might also try planting the several variaties of pop- com. T'ncre is the rice grained and a large yellow. " " That is the very thing Of course, I lan tend a crop Mother mother we'll !iave "em, we 11 have 'em by next Novem- t'tr I" sliouted Tommy, as he ran to pick 'VX his share of the fine corn. The "ground"' was broken, the com planted. Tommy had managed to get to- gether seven varieties of fine corn besides "he pop-corn. Friends from BufiFalo, after hearing of his ivonderful plan sent him packages of the ""ery best varieties, the early roasting-..^ars, "Iso field corn. Tonuny s mother became interested, and if'iild not resist helping "just a little." The lad laid out his rows with care, saying "ae v.anted every row straight." The grains sprouted well, the tender I'iades grew thriftily, and Tommy battled royally with the crows, taking care that " -e nudes and two cows did not have the 'pportunity to trample down his growing â- 'Top.'" The weeds grew fast, and Tommy's hoe jiad to "swing" out lively sometimes, to iieep them down. Mrs. Lane, pitying the tired and hot lit- "le fellow, often wanted to rest him, but -e had a chivalrous care over her, and gently put her aside with "it dosen't seem jiist right, mother, for women to hoe, when 'â- 'â- ere are boys to do it." Late in October, that harvest was gath- '^!'ed and packed in large baskets ready for "iiarket. The result was very gratifying to Tommy, whose visions of books and papers to make 'ie lonely days of winter go by more pleas- antly, he felt sure would soon be realized. But where to dispose of the crop to the best advantage was the question now to be settled. While he was talking the matter over with his parents, neighbor Ewing came '•^t and being informed of the subject of the ^nversation, suggested that the cow be taken to Carney, a village some ten miles 'iistant. "In Carney," said he, "yon will get good price for it, as this and the adjoining settlement is settled up with •aiTners that need just what you ha^e to fell. It is always a satisfaction to me to Snow that the article I'm sellin' is goin' to •"elp somebody. There isn't an "inferior Variety of corn in the lot you've raised. " "I couldn't have done so well without father and mother to help me. Father, thought it out for me," returned Tommy, pleased and happy. " Tommy has earned a reward, for he has toiled manfully to raise his crop," said Mra. ^-*^. proudly, and neighbor Ewing saidi ' "111 warrant ye, work tells on anjcro^f, The seed-corn was taken to the neali^ town, fifteen miles away, and left with the storekeeper, who also kept the poBt-!e. A few weeks, later neighbor Ewing w^t totown," and asked aboutTommy's cwn, if th^ had been a demand for it. The post master replied After the Slave Inde tiie Gin Tnffio. With the stoppage of the slave trade the gm traffic only received a more powerful „ „ „ stimulus. To its propagation all fiie ener- of sech industrious littie fellers, and ' l?«8ofthe traders were devoted. For spirits lend em' a helping' hand.** there wa« alreadyahnge demand, anditwas "icreMing out of all proportion to the taste for better thinss. It required 'no exertions on the part of the merchants to set it agoinj Of course, Mrs. Lane thnr'8 Home ACagazine said, "yes."â€" Ar- TH£ QEBHAU EMFEBOB. A Werklnipnan ^Tho Had a CkaBce to gee amd Hear the Kaiser. At a meeting the other day of the'^Con- servative society at Madgeburg a locksmith named Deppe thus described his impressions of the recent sittings of the council of state before which he appeared "Called by the emperor as one having a knowledge of technical matters, I had the pleasure of attending these meetings last week under the presidency of the emperor himself. The sittings, with the exception of a short pause for lunch, lasted from 1 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. The emperor opened, ad- journed, and closed the meetings, called on speakers, spoke himself, or stopped a speak- er when he made a mistake, as the case might be. First to come and last to go, he followed the proceedings with eager attention. Dur- ing lunch, where we sat in careless rows, and at which the minister of the interior was our host, the most dutiful of monarchs be- came the most gracious. When speaking singly or in small groups and discussing various questions, we quite forgot that it was the Glerman emperor, before whom we sat. As I stood modestly apart Herr von â-  Boet- ticher too me by the arm and led me up to the Emperor, and at^the same time I had the opportunity of sharing in a discussion with the social democrat Herr Buchholz, who, as a representative of the workingmen and member of the Unfall Versicherung (accident insurance),- could boast of the support of 650,000 votes. Herr Buchhoiz, who wore the iron cross, believed that patriotism and socialism could be united, andhadno desire at all that the emperor's rule should be got rid of. Hereupon the emperor asked 'Do you believe that your leaders in the reichstag will do anything for you ' Herr BuchholS replied "Certainly, your majesty they have promised, and if they do nothing we shall not choose them again. ' The emperor rejoined: 'Well, we shall see. If only we could put it to the proof and oblige these gentlemen to bear the responsibility of gov- ernment. But I can not leave Bebel on the throne. ' The Cabinet-maker Vorderbrugge and I rather drove Herr Buchholz into a corner, but when next day the emperor in- quired if we had got him round we were obliged to answer no." Queer Women. A woman can faint away at the sight of a bit of blood on her finger, have all the chil- dren in the house screaming with fright, require eau de cologne to bring her to and be nervous for twenty-four hours after, yet the same woman can in perfect silence stand by and help a doctor perform an operation that may mean death to some one she loves. A woman can scorn what she calls made- over clothes, can laugh at indiscriminate charity, and yet the same woman can cry as if her heart would break and take all her spending money to buy an overcoat for a newsboy she met in the street cars because his face was so pitiful. She can take two hours and a half to dress to go to the theatre and then tell Charley she knows she looks like a dowdy, but the same woman can pack a trunk with things enough to last her for two weeks in twenty minutes when she gets a telegram sayin'g '"Come as soon as possible; your mother is sick." She will bake a chicken until it is brown and then calmly ask the master of the estab- lishment if he doesn't think the English way of roasting is preferable to any other. A Song of Spring. The swift is wheeling and gleaming. The swift is brown in its bed. Rain from the cloud is streaming; And the bow bends overhead. The charm of the winter is broken The last of the spell is said The eel in the pond is quickening. The grayling leaps in the stream; What if the clouds are thickening See how the meadows gleam The spell of the winter is shaken The world awakes from a dreani The fir puts out green fingers, The pear tree softly blows. The rose in her dark bower lingers. But her curtains will soon unclose The lilac will shake her ringlets Over the blush of the rose. The swift is wheeling and gleaming. The woods are beginning to ring. Rain ft-om the cloud is streaming; There, where the bow doth cling. Summer is smiling a£ax oS Over the shoidder of Spring â€" BOBEBT BUCHAXAN. Notiung to Steal New- fatlier-in-law â€" " Well, sir, the cere- mony is over, and now that you are the hus- band of my daughter I want to give you a little advice. What would you do if you would wake up some night and find burg- lars in the house?" Groom â€" " I should tell them that my fa- ther-in-law forgot to give my wife a wed- ding dowry, and they'd go away," and once started it grew and spread itsdf without any danger of its stopping. The profits, too, were enormous and certain, because the appetite for drink had to be assuaged, no matter what the price. Yet in all conscience the ^easures of mtoxication are not expensive in West Africa. Over the doorway of hondreds of traders' houses might be hung the signboard of Hogarth's picture, "Drunk for a ienny, dead drunk for two- pence," only the "clean straw for nothing" would have to be left out. With the traffic in useful articles it was entirely different. To push it was a slow and laborious task, and the profits were uncertain, which did not suit men who wanted to make money rapidly. The result of this state of matters is that the diabolical work commenced by the slave trade has been efiiectually carried on and widened by that in spirits. I for one am in- clined to believe that the latter is producing m.^ .^„+„ â„¢i„„ „^«. „* i,„„ j „„ j ;^ â„¢.. greater-and what are likely to l^ quite ai ^^ T^^ iff *•! "'" ** ^a "** "^Z^ f=i=ti«„^^i„ *i,„_ *v.. r f_ mi." -^_JI makmg fast, but it was our golden opportn AQUEEB EZOSAli^ A BtartUiMC Storjr ar tke Arette •eeam. We were whaling in the Arctic Ocean, to the north of Point Barrow, Alaska, in the old Scotch bark Emma Davis. That was my fifth whaling voyage, and no ship could have had jrorse lack. When we had be^ out fourteen months we had to buy a barrel of oil to keep our lamps going. We had sighted awhale now uid then, mit they were as wild as deer, and twice when we had made 8t we had our boats stove and lost two or three men. We had lost topmast,- been aleak, had several sails destroyed, been on fire, and it seemed as if the very devil was to pay with the voyage, and yet no one could Uame any one else. It was simply " ship's luck," .and we had to make the D^t of it. Finallyi late in the season, when we ought to Imve been headingfor the south, we got among the whales. That is, they suddenly appeared all around us, and on the very first day we killed four without accident. We cut them in without trjring out, as this was the quicker way to dispose of them, and the last of the blubber was no sooner over the rail than down went the boats and two more whales were cured. se- Eotertaining Joumals. Blinks â€" " What sort of comic papers do they have over in Ekirope " Jinksâ€" "Excellent." j t K' :minksâ€"" Are the jokes liOy ews?' .-t Jinksâ€" "{Exactly, only a month older.' Same jokes, in fact. 'Looking Backward' have made 950,000 on that book, irtiile Bdlamy, the author haa made but 95,000." Minks-^" Wen, if Bellamy had looked forward instead of backward he woold have pnblished it himadt" lasting â€" evils than the former. The' spirit traffic has a more brutalizing eftect it more effectually blights all the native's energies, it ruins his constitution, and, through the habits it gives rise to, his lands are left as desolate as after a slave raid. What are the most characteristic Euro- I)€an imports into West Africa? Gin, rum, gxmpowder, and guns. What European articles are most in demand The same. In what light do the natives look upon the Europeans Why, as makers and sellers of spirits and guns. What largely supports the Governmental machinery of that re- gion Still the same articles. The ships which trade to Africa are load- ed with gin out of all proportion to more useful articles the warehouses along the coast are filled with it. The air seems to reek with the vile stuff, and every hut is redo- lent of its fumes. Gin bottles and boxes meet the eye at every step, and in some places the wealth and importance of the various villages are measured by the size of the pyramids of empty gin bottles which they erect to their own honor and glory and the envy of poorer districts. Over large areas it is almost the sole currency, and in many parts the year's wages of the negro factory workers is paid in spirits, with which they return home to en- joy a few days of fiendish debauch. â€" Joseph Thompson in the CoTitemporary Review. ♦^ In Favor of the Prayer. A ballot was taken after the performance of Steele Mackaye's play, "Money Mad," at the Standard Theatre last evening, on the question whether Aunt Phillis's prayer is sacrilegious or not. Aunt Phillis (Mrs, Annie Yeamans) is a colored mammy, whose mistress has married a poor artist and has fainted on the stage for lack of food. This is Aunt Phillis's â- proiyer. O Lord you know I's a wicked ole woman, yes a perfect ole sinner, but den my missy be a angel, an' fo' her sake I pray de Lord to hear de sinner's pray'r. Lord you knows I'se always believed in you an' now dat my po' missy be a starvin' I come to you f o' help. You's all I's got Lord, but den you's almigh- ty an' all lovin' an' all marciful. Dat's your repetation. Lord, an' I sticks my faith by dat. Lord, let me do all de starvin' for I's a worthless thing, no good nor fit to lib. But my missy she be sinless. Spar' her. Lord, spar' my po' little, helpless lamb dat never did nobody no harm. Dear, precious Lord, spar' O spar' my helpless chile. Don't go back on you' repiitation dis time. Lord, an' I'll bless you fo' eberan' eber â€" Amen, Mr.Mackaye stepped in front of the curtain as it was about to be lifted on the act in which the prayer is uttered and explained his high moral purpose in writing the prayer and the lesson which it was intended to im- part. "Those of you who feel with me," said Mr. Mackaye, "that this heart cry of the unselfish servant is helpful to our common humanity will please vote for its retention." Mr. Mackaye announced that Judge John R. Brady, Judge H. A. Gildersleeve, and Mr. Charles Delmonico would count the ballots, and then he.concluded: "It is with entire con- fidence in the humanity and enlightenment which you represent thatllook forward to the result of your voting." There was applause when Mr. Mackaye finished, and the delivery of the words of the prayer which followed presently was greeted with applause. Nearly 1,000 votes were cast, among which were c'ounted but twenty-four against the continuance of the prayer. Sixteen of these ballots were signed, the others being anony- mous. The Tory Scheme. Englishman â€" "Patrick, what do you think of emigration as a cure for the ills of Ire- land?" Patrick â€" "Emigration do be all roight, sor, but th' landlords must be th' wans to emigrate." A Useful Boy. Irate Suscriber (in thunder tones) â€" "Where's the editor of this sheet " Smart Boy â€" "He jist stepped in next door. Come along an' 111 show you." [Leads the way to a building occupied by several den- tists.] Irate Suscriber (stopping in hall way) â€" "Eh What's that yelfing upstairs?" Boy â€" "Guess the editor has canght the man he was after." Subscriber (hurriedly)- "I'llâ€" I'll caU again." A Discouiaging Addition Cora. â€" " Doesn't it make you feel nice for people to remark how well yon are getting on?" Merritt. â€" " Yes, nnless they add ' they can't understand it.'" Lippincott's Magaz- ine. What She Wasted to Know. "Sense me, ma'am, but I'd like to ask you m question," said a long, leatiiery, keen-eyed woman to an elegantly clad and aristocratic looking lady sitting in front of her on a rail- road train. u Very v^** x^li^ the lady haughtily. "WeU, then, here goesi I been settin' 1e- MihI yontfer^ l'^^ njnctal^hoiirv trying to Sggr oat ^yonrliiff 'i« all nir oyfn or iS part of it's a switch, and Meat if I kin ^t. You've a sight of it if it's all yer own, an' if it's a switch if sa very good aiatdi. WUdi •ir it, •mybow!' i nity. We drifted slowly to the south, killing and cutting in as we went, and if wie could have had two weeks more of it we could have filled the ship. One afternoon, as we had a half -cut whale on each side of us, a gale sprang up, a heavy snow storm CE^me on, and in less than .an hour we had to let go of our prizes and look sharply after the bark. It was the beginning'of THE ARCTIC WINTER and while the Captain was satisfied of it he decided to take one more chance. There i evidences, but an inspection showed plenty sailor tSat the dtder of retitet has 4m tile soldiers. It creates a panicky feeling, and he loses his judjgment. We had not gone five miles bsfore some of die mt began to corse the Gaptain's stupidity in leaving the neq^borhood of the bark, and otdien ex- pressed their doubts of the carpmter's re- ports. However, all pressed forward, and, after m a kfng ten miles, we went into camp. Fortunately for us, there was no wind, whue the thermmneter was only about 15® be- low. After a rest of six hours we pushed on again, and now our inarches and rests were marked by hours. It was terribly hard work crossing those ice fields, and five hours ofpidling,haTi3ing, climbhi^"ana sUdingwere enough to wear out the best man in the crew We had made forty miles or more, and were stnmg out on the pack for a mile or more, when a man named TinkenKm and myself, who were ahead to pick tiie route, turned a large hummock or hill of ice to find ourselves bumping up against a three- masted ship. There she lay, broadside to us and not over fifty feet away, looming up in the darkness likeamnmtain. Werubbed our eyes and looked around again, but it was not a deception. We sent the news back and waited until all had come up, and then Capt. Tree went forward with his mates and hailed her. There was no response, and after hailing again, the first mate climbed in over the bows. In three or four minutes he reported her abandoned, and we all weht on board. We soon foimd her to be the Bristol ship Endurance, a whaler, of course, and two-thirds FULL OP BLUBBER AND OIL. She had a sligh,t list to port, and after looking her over, the officers said that she had hove out, the same as our bark, but had settled ba;k again. She had also been abandoned in a hurry, as there were many might come a few days of fine weather after the gale, and so we drifted away to the north to wear out the gale. For thirty hours there was no let up, and every half hour we had to turn out and shoVel snow over the rails. Just as the gale broke we got among the field ice, and the temperature went down in four hours from 2 ° belew zero to 18 ® be- low. From a gale blowing at the rate of forty milesan hour the wind died out until it hadn't motion enough to flare a candle. On that first night, when we were surrounded by field ice and drifting with it, many of the men were badly frostbitten, and the frost cracked through the old ship like muskets. Morning came without a breath of wind, with the temperature down to 27 " below, and now every man knew it was one chance in ten for us. We were drifting very slow- ly to the south, and while we made every- thing as snug as possible the Captain hoped for a breakbefore winter actually shut down. Before noon the sea, as far as cou'd be dis- coveredfrom the crow's nest with a glass, was covered with field ice, and by night the temperature was 32 below. We kept up our fires and cot out all the spare clothing and bedding, but many of the men SUFFERED WITH THE COLD, and no one slept more than ten minutes at a time on account of the noises. When morning came again it brought in wind, while the cold was just as intense, and we could now discover a great chancre m the ice around us. It was rugged and broken, the heave of the sea having piled cakes on top of each other, and the field was four or five feet thick. 'The old man himself went to the crow's nest and took a long look, and when he came down he said to the men, who were waiting to hear his words "Well, boys, it looks very serious to me, and I expect you had better prepare to win- ter this side of Dundee." That settled it with us. We turned to and began to caulk and batten to keep out the cold, and in a couple of days we were as ready as we could be. For four days and niehts there wasn't a puff of wind, with the of provisions aboard, and proved her per- fectly sound. We had our bedding and clothing, and when it was decided to take possession of her the crew were pleased. In three hours after first sighting her we were as much at home aboard as if we had formed the original crew. She was a larg- er craft than ours, and" also better found, and we profited by the change. We had been aboard of thie Endurance about a month when the carpenter fell sick. In his case it was pure homesickness and nothing else. He was moody and taciturn, refused to make an effort to throw off th© feeling, and at length took to his bed. There was really no medicine to touch his case. He was slowly dying because of his desire to get homes to wife and bairns. All of us had a touch of his malady, but we shook it off by hunting, trapping, indulging in games, and keeping our thoughts with the ship. Lord man, but I have often wondered why half the crew did not go crazy. It was end- less night. It was ice â€" ice â€" ice. It was like being s^ut up in a dungeon, with the addition that when night came and all was still, the ship was full of groans and sighs from stem to stem â€" noises caused by the ice heaWng and settling. I was appointed to nurse the carpenter, and when he had been brought very low and knew that he mnst go, he told me a secret. He said he had mswle a false report to the Captain about the dam- age to the bark's bottom on purpose to induce him to abandon her and start for land. He hoped in this way to get home the sooner. This confession was made to me with the promise on my part not to betray the man while living, and he lived on for two weeks after making the statement. When he had been buried in an icy grave I told the Cap- tain, and he at once fitted out an expedition to go back and look up the bark. The first mate and five men composed this party, and after being gone a week, during which time the weather was full of tempest, snow, and sleet, they returned from the west and blun- dered right up against us before they saw the ship. Their compass had been broken. cold so intense that ice formed to tlje thick- and they had been lost for six days on ness ot seven feet alongside the bark. At daylight on the morning of the fifth a squall came out of the south-west accompanied by snow, and before noon the ice field was broken up. 'At noon the wind died almost out, but witihin an hour it shipped to the north, and away went everything to the south. A wilder sight than a sea covered with great cakes and blocks of ice, each one tossing, grinding, and crashing on its own account, no onfe ever saw. We dared show only a rag of sail â€" just enough to give her steerage way â€" and the smashing she got that afternoon seemed enough to break every timber in her bows. At night the wind fell again, and at 7 o'clock the thermometer marked 42 ® below. As soon as the heave of the sea subsided the ice was firmly weld- ed together again, and â-  WHEN MORNINO CAME there were hills and hummocks in sight, as big as the ship. The men were now t»ld by the mate that our position was about ninety miles north of Smith's Bay, and that our floe was no longer drifting. This signified that the southern edge of it rested against the shore ice, and that we were infer it, unless some unlooked for streiak of luck came to our aid. Next-day there were heavy wind squalls, but the ice did not break nor did the ship move. That settled it. For the next week we had cahns and squalls, with the tempera- ture ranging from 27 ® to 38 ® below, but the pack was as solid as a rocky ledge. We were housed in by this time, and had established the winter routine, and the Arctic night had come. For the next month not to weary the reader with details, our life was that so often described in the books. Then a sudden and terrible interruption came. The bark began to heave out. The first movement occurred at about 10 a'clock in the forenoon, and filled everybody with dire alarm. After five minutes she heaved again, lifting right out of the solid field, with great cakes clinging to her, as if machinery was at work. As steHfted she canted to starboard, and at noon her decks were at an angle of 45 degrees. It has always seemed to me that powder ought to have been used to blow up the ice around her andlet her back. Indeed, TH.iT FEARFUL WASTE OF ICE. One man died of exposure that night, and two others were used up for a month. Two weeks later the second mate headed a party, but they only went about fifteen miles to the north. They reported travelling so difficult that they had to return. Nothing further was done until the sun and daylight came again. Then the first mate set out again, but after making about half the distance he found open water and signs of a break-up, and returned. No further efforts were made. Day by day the sun lasted a little longer, giving us more of the blessed daylight, and at last a gale came to break up the great field and show us streaks of open water. When we were- finally clear of the icy bed which had Breld" the ship, we headed for Point Barron, some- times gaining and sometimes losing ground. One day, I remember, we made twenty miles ' to the south, but on the very next'a change of wind packed the ice and dinfted us that fer- back to the north.. We were slowly workziig^ down toward the Straits, however, when, one day at noon, after a snow squall lasting aboat two hours, we got into a channel run- ning southwest. We bad scarcely entered it before we caught sight of a bark coming down a channel from the north,and not over a mile to the west of us. Twenty voices at once cried out that the stranger was our old craft, the Emma Davis, and as we neared each other, running, on the long lines of a. triangle, everybody felt sure of it. We also noticed much excitement aboard the bark, but it was only when the two crafts got out their ice anchors within a stone's throw of each other that matters were fully explain- ed. Who do you suppose the strange men were? None others than the crew of the Endurance. They had our bark and we had their ship, A swap had been made of crafts. Their ship had hove out about the same time oura di and they had abandoned her for the same reasons. Instead of trying to make the land, they had sought to find a brig which th^ had seen to the north of them. This brig was a myth or some foreign vessel which got safely out and could not afterward be traced. In hunting for her they came across our had not our Captain got so badly rattled we j ^rk- Three days only had passed, and yet " gjjg jjj^(j canted back almost to an even keel. They had boarded her, taken full possession, and then worked her out on the break-up. We changed crews and resumed the voyage, aind both crafts entered the port of Nuwuk together, whence, later on, both resumed the business of whaling. It was called even up all the wayiAnnill; and neitlier was deb tor aor auditor. could have cut and sawed and dragged away half an acre of ice in a half a day. The carpenter, who had a little plan of his own, reported that the heave had shattered several planks in her bottom, and fiiat abe would fill if she was cradled biKsk. 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