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HAMILTON, HARRIS CO. GA„ FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1875.
THE PERILOUS SWING.
Oft’ tlio line, the weather, as may
be supposed, is too warm for a com
fortable reverie or nap in the mere
box of a forecastle aboard a whale
ship.
At any time, in fact, the whaler’s
/ore-cast!e is not a place in which one
can very conveniently build atV-oastles,
There is an eternal jargon of Span
ish, Yankee, Portuguese, Danish,
Flemish—of almost every known lan
guage—dinging in your ears, about
whale blubber, Captaiu so and so,
and “ my last v’vage.”
Your sweetest reveries are thus
rudely trampled upon, like dandelions
crushed by the heel of a great boot,
and as to thinking pleasantly of your
lady-love, that is out of the question,
as the clouds of tobacco smoke float
ing around you will give a copper
colored hue to her skin, in spito of
every effort of the fancy.
Little blue eyed Minnie Wharn
clift’e, passenger aboard the whaler
Truxton, for Rio Janeiro, was the
sweetest gill I ever saw, either on
land or water. Her father, who was
with her, had, for many years, been
a sea captain, hut was how on his
way to take possession of some prop
erty left for him at the place men
tioned, by a Portuguese relative.
I was at this time about eighteen
years old, while Minnie was but fif
teen. The silvery music of tho girl’s
laughter, her sweet ways, and the
starry light danemgtin her dove like
eyes, made a powerful impression on
me, whenever I found myself near
her. This often happened, as the
captain was mv third cousin, and
would send for me to visit him in his :
cabin.
When away from tho girl I woxl<l
go by myself to think of her, usually
mounting into the maintop, or sitting
on tho topsail yard, for that purpose,
as 1 could not Tear to m*se upon so
gentle a subject amongßiy noisy ship
mates.
One eveninir-Ave were then in a
O
few’ days’ sH of Rio—the wind came
on t-* Glow a gale, sending the seas
roaring aud careering along, with
crests gleaming white, and the phos
phorescence sinning upon them like
showers of stars.
We were standing along with dou
ble-reefed topsails, foresail, topmost
staysail and jib, rolling violently, now
and then plunging bow under, when
I heard a cry from Minnie, who Lad
come up to look at the scintillating
waters.
Turning round—l stood at the time
near the main hatch —I beheld the
girl’s hat—a little, round one of vel
vet, with a green feather—whiling
upward toward the main-royal mast.
Watching it, I saw it finally catch
against the royal yard, where it re
mained; the ribbon dangling from it
having caught round the lift covered
with melted tar, which caused it to
stick fast.
Of course the gallantry of the sail
ors was at once aroused. Several,
myself among the number, sprang for
the main shrouds. Before we were
in the rigging, however, the captain
sang out:
“Hold, there —that mast is sprung!”
(injured).
When the gale first struck the ship,
we had heard a cracking noise, but
had not known whence it came. The
skipper, however, had gone aloft to
investigate the matter, and came
down just before Minnie lost her hat.
There she stood upon the quarter
deck, a pretty picture to look at—her
little rosy mouth half open, her hands
clasped, her eyes turned up towards
the fluttering hat, the wind making
merry with her long chestnut curls.
“Oh, no!” she exclaimed, turning
to (he captain: “do not let them go,
if there is any danger.”
Mv companions obeyed llie cap
tain’s order, returning at once to the
df ek, but I kept on.
“Torn Burke!’’ roared the skip
per; “come down, I tell you!”
Reluctantly I obeyed, although I
would much rather have preferred
risking n f life for the velvet hat with
the green feather.
An hour later darkness van <-.ri the
sea. The wind still roared a gale,
and the seas were as violent as ever.
In calm or rough weather, it was
my custom, when in warm latitudes,
to -sleep either on deck or in the top.
In a gale like the present I usually
took the precaution to fasten a rope
round my middle, that I might not
be jerked overboard.
Just as the bell struck for my watch
below, I mounted, as usual, into the
maintop, and having secured my form
with a ropi stretched myself down,
with my load against the mast.
As may >e imagined, I could not
sleep, owiig to the violent grinding
and j'U’kini of the spar.
turned uprard into the I
lay musingabout Minnie Wharnoliffe
and the hot with the green feather.
The pvett vlittle head-piece was prob
ably still a’oft upon the end of that,
hateful royal yard, and the thought
occurred tc me that it would boa
glorious acVnfveinent —would raise
mo wonderfully in the fair passenger’s
eyes—if, at tin imminent peril of my
life, T should [rocure the hat.
I resolved to try. Tho captain,
•who was now'Mow, would at pres
ent know nothing about it,, and as for
the officer of tho watch, lie would be
unable, owing to the intense darkness,
to see me go aloft.
It struck me that tho captain had
shown an urichivalric indifference
about that llat. because ho had not. in
some way contrived to rcstoro it to
the owner, yhoreas I should have re
membered that he was an old seaman,
and had gotkl reasons for not making
the attempt!
Obeying flic impulse of the mo
ment, I darted rapidly up the top
mast rigging, gained the topgallant
shrouds, and was soon close to the
royal yard. At, this moment every
spar in the ctaft was cracking with
the violent uiotions of the vessel, and
as I gained i tho yard, she plunged
with a suddenness and force that al
most threw n(e from my position.
I looked for the hat, and saw it yet
fluttering from the lift. With a quick
movement, I secured it, by darting
out on the fobl-rope, and was about
moving in ward, when there was an
other plunge of the ship—a crash—
and, to my horror, I felt the spar go
ing over. I threw myself upon the
yard, grasping it firmly. Down went
the mast at, the same moment, hurl
ing me from my position.
As I fell my knees came into con
tact. with the end of the maintop-gal
lant yard, and I endeavored to grasp
the lift.
A r< ll of the ship made me miss it,
a:id 1 w“ iL.^own offil
Wildly Id my firms, and
grasped a thin lino, which,! instantly
comprehended, was the top-gallant
gasket—a rope which is used to wind
round and hold the sail when it is
furled, or stowed upon the yard.
Sometimes, during a gain, this rope
becomes loosened, especially when
the sail is not. very neatly furled, by
the wind getting in beneath the folds
of the canvass and pulling it out.
Such was the case, on this occasion;
but it must be understood that the
gasket had not blown entirely clear,
and that it was simply one of the
bights or turns which I had suc
ceeded in grasping. The turns being
all loosened, this bight slackened be
neath my grasp, causing mo to be
precipitated head downward.
I expected to continue my course,
but in an instant my progress was
arrested by a circumstance, which,
while perfectly natural, was totally
unexpected.
My ankles, as I fell, had caught in
two turns of the loosened gasket,
which becoming twisted round them
by a swing in ihe ship, tightened,
bringing my heels sharp tip against,
the yard, as if they had been screwed
there ! It was my weight that pre
served the twist of the rope —preven-
ted its uncoiling; and so there I hung,
swaying aloft, head downward, nearly
a hundred feet above the, deck!
A thrill of strange horror went
through me—the blood surging into
my brain, soon confused and bewil
dered me.
Through the darkness, tho phos
phorous gleaming from the white
foam patches of roaring water, re
sembled the eyes of miniature sea-de
mons looking up and exulting in my
painful, perilous situation!
As well as I could in my present
position, I shouted to make myself
heard, hut my voice was swallowed
up in the tremendous din of tho sea
and gale!
To me, the noise was as if hun
dreds of cannon were booming in my
ears.
Despair seized my soul. At the
mercy of the rolling, plunging ship, I
was tossed hither arid thither like a
pend uln m. Far and own—down—down
beneath me in the darkness, the sea,
by rnv distoi led vision, was noon mag
nified into one great yawning whirl
pool, contrasting with which, the
dim deck looked like a mere chip,
whirling round and round.
I would rather the rope parted £ud
lot me go down into that whirlpool,
than hang thus much longer. I could
not make myself heard—doubtless
those below were still ignorant of my
position—and so there I was, that
ship’s living pendulum, swinging so
far aloft, with bursting eyeballs and
brain filling with blood!
Boom ! boom ! Room ! Swing!
swing! swing! crack! whiz! whish
shsh!
How droerily monotonous sounded
these noises of the rolling ship, the
swashing water, the thundering gale!
llow I prayed that the rope might
part and end my misery.
There was something fearfully tan
talizing in being held by the more
turns of a gasket, without any pros
pect of my rescue.
But to bo made yet metre of aTavf
talus was I doomed ; for beneath me,
faintly discernible in tho phosphor
lighted gloom, appeared the forms of
two of my shipmates, standing m ar
the nmin-rnast, apparently conversing
in the most quiet, unconcerned man
ner possible!
The gloom inpenetrable above, pre
vented their seeing mi 1 ; they, with
all the rest below, wore even ignor
ant that the royal mast had given
way, the noise having boon drowned
liy the din of tho tempest.
Could I do nothing to attract, the
attention of my two shipmates?—to
make my situation known to them ?
I again endeavored to shout, but
now niy long, unnatural downward
position bad almost deprived mo of
the power of speech ! My brain was
becoming more confused every mo
ment. I felt that my senses were
deserting mol
Ere consciousness left me, however,
a sudden thought flashed into my
brain! I clasped my hand lo tho
belt in which I kopt my knife, and
discovered that the instrument, thanks
to the tightness of the sheath, was
still there!
I pulled forth tho blade and drop
ped it, hoping that it would fall clqso
to the two men and thus excite their
curiosity enough to make them dis
cern whonoe the weapon came.
Alas I I knevv, by tho manner in
which trie Stlfli) left niy hand, that T
had not made sufficient allowance for
the wind; and the weapon was, there
fore, whirled off into the sen!
And so, there I still was doomed to
swing, while rny two shipmates so far
beneath me—right beneath me—still
stood calmly talking together, ignor
ant of m y peril!
O! how my head throbbed! bow
hot became my eyeballs! A sea was
surging in my brain as well as below!
Another thought! my pocket knife!
I felt for it, tied round my neck by
an old lanyard, which, with one jerk,
I severed.
Then I dropped the knife, and then
—a twanging sound, like that of a
bow string went through my brain,
and I knew no more.
When I came to niy senses, I was
in the cabin, the captain bending over
me, a pair of soft eyes turned upon
niy face —a soft hand upon iny brow.
She was by me, Minnie Wharnellffe,
and I was happier than words can ex
press.
What more to add ?
My last effort had proved success
ful ; the knife, falling near the two
men, led to a search a’oft, and to my
rescue, accomplished by means of
ropes.
“Do you see that?” inquired the
captain, holding up a piece of rig
g”l fl
it was from the gasket, and there
was but one ting strand left, the other
two having untwisted!
“That was all between you and
eternity, when wc hauled you in ! ”
continued the captain—“a moment
more and the strand would have par
ted ! ”
“ Did Minnie got her hat ? ”
“Yen,” she answered, blushing, and
with tears in her eyes, as she held it
up —“it was found tied to the but
ton-hole of your jacket.”
In duo time Minnie hecarno my
wite.
“Take her,” said old Captain
Wharncliffb, when I told him that I
wanted his girl, “and, although I
shall fool eternally grateful for the
peril yon incurred on her account, in
the matter of the hat with the green
feather, still remember, hereafter, not
to let your gallantry, my lad, run
afoul, as; it did in that case, with the
wisdom of an old head that knows
how to steer his craft according to
the weather! ”
The stamp of civilization—
The postage stamp.
WIT aud HUMOR.
“Why do they call the people who
live in tho South Sea Islands ‘canni
bals ? ’ ” asked an old lady of a sailor.
“ Because they live on other people,”
answered the sailor. “Then my son
in-law must be' a cannibal,” said she
Ninoteen years ago a Tennessee
Cither refused to let his daughter go
to a candy-pull, an l she disappeared.
Tho other day she returned, lifted
eleven children out of the wagon, en
tered the house and took off her
things as coolly as if she hadn’t been
gone over a day.
A fellow rushed into an offloe one
morning with tho interrogation:—
“ What’s tho difference between the
mice that, have just, been eating,mv
greenbacks and the epistles of Paul ?”
All present subsided, and he gasped,
“Thoy’re both scripohewers I ” and
then proceeded to the door.
A Dutchman describes New York
ers as “berry fine beeple, who go
about dor sthreets slie.ating each ud
der, and doy call dat pizziness.”
TTcwbo goeth it blind sitteth down
on'tlio bent up pin, while the observ
ing man scannctli the chair-seat before
ho squatteth.
Why is the world like a piano?
Because it is full of sharps and flats*
When Gen. Thomas was asked for
a furlough by a backwoods soldier, in
order that lie might visit his wife,
to whom ho had been married but
three months, lie replied: “ Why, my
dear fellow, I haven’t seen my wife
for three years.” Tho backwoods
man stared incredulously at tho Gen
eral for a moment, and then broke
out: “ But, you see, me and my wife
ain’t that kind.”
There is one piece of property in
Rhode Island which none of tho
Spragues desire to lay claim to. It’s
twenty acres of graveyard.
“Shingle weddings,” it is said, are
coming rapidly into style now. This
novel wedding takes place when the
first born is old enough to spank.
An Idaho ma stripped himso!£
hung his tmpnrcl on a saw-bnek, and
retired on a pile of cord-wootl. Ilia
mistake was discovered by his wife,
who overheard him quarreling with
an imaginary old woman about there
not being enough cover on tho bed.
A Dubuque boy was rather troubled
for fear he would not know his father
when they boih reached heaven, but
his mother eased -him by remarking:
“ All you have to do is to look for an
angel wiih a rod nose on him.”
It is stated that Brigham Young is
about (o call a mass meeting of all of
his children, so that they may be in
troduced to each other.
An amateur farmer in Massachu
setts didn’t know how to take off a
wagon wheel to grease tho axle, so
he bored holes through the hub and
poured in the grease.
It is time to stop talking about tho
softening influence of women. A
Massachusetts man who has four
wives has been sent to the peniten
tiary for stealing horses.
A Kansas farmer purchased a re
volver for his wife, and insisted upon
target practice, so that she could de
fend her house in case of his absence.
After the bullet was dug out of his
leg, and the cow buried, he said he
guessed that she’d better shoot with
an axe.
Col. Prnll, of Lexington, Ky., says
tlmt an on old la.ly on his pension
roll, now living in that city, is in her
102d year. But she is killing herself
smoking a pipe. Hlio has been at it
for tho last half a century, and he
thinks she can’t stand it many years
longer.
“Well, Mr. , how do you feel ?”
said a friend to a defeated candidate
a few days after election. “I feel, I
suppose,” he replied, “as Lazarus
did.” “llow was that?” “Why,”
said ho, “ Lazarus was licked by the
dogs, and so was I.
When may a man bo said to be lit
erally immersed in business? When
he is giving a swimming lesson.
The most direct method of deter
mining horse-power: Stand behind
him and tickle his hind kgs with ft
brier.
Rhode Island proposes to have her
census taken. That’s easy enough—
let the people stand up arid be counted.
The lady who advertised a lecture
on the subject of “woods,” was dis
gusted at not having the “first per
son present.”
Music by handle—a street organ.
$2.00 A YEAR.
Texts, Alphabetically Arranged.
A good task for Sunday-school
scholars will bo to soaroh out and tell
where the following texts are to be
found in the Bible;
A.—“ Ask and it shall be given un
to yon.”
B. —“Behold, T stand at the door
and knock.”
C. —“ Children obey your parents
in the Lord.”
D. —“I)o unto others as ye tkould
that they should do unto you.”
E. —“ Evon as Christ forgave yon,
so also do ye.”
F.—“ Fear not, little flook.”
G. —“ God is love.”
II.—“ Honor thy father and thy
mother, tlmt thy days may he long in
tlio land which the Lord thy God g’tv.
eth thee.’*
T,—“ 1 love ttrfroi that love me, and
those tlmt seek me early shall find
ine.”
J. —“Jesus Christ, tho same yes
terday, to-day and forever.”
K. “Keep thy tongue from evil,
and thy lips that they spoak not
guile.”
L. —“ Love as brethren; be pitiful,
he courteous.”
M. —“ Make mo a clean heart, O,
God, and renew a right spirit within
me.”
N.—“ Now is tho accepted time;
behold, now is tho day of salvation.”
O. —“Open thou mint eyes that
I may behold wondrous Ahings out
of thy law.”
P. “ Perfect lova oastetl* out foar."
Q. —■“ Quicken thou me, O, Lard,
according to thy *. ord.”
It. —“Remember than thy Creator
in tho days of thy youth.”
S.—“ Search tho Scriptures.*'
T. “ Tho Lord is my Shepherd, I
shall not want.”
U. —“Unto you which believe He
is precious.”
Y. —“Verily I say unto you, he
that beliovelh in me hath everlasting
life.”
W. —“While wo have time, let •
do good unto all men.”
X. —“Excellent things are spoken
orinee, tnou city ortfOUF’
Y. —“Your s'ns aTe forgiven yon
for His name’s sake,”
Z. —“Zealous in good works.”
Table Etiquette.
1. See that those about you are
helped before you help yourself.
2. Do not eat soup from the tip,
but from the side of the spoon.
3. On passing your plate to b re
plenished, retain tho knife and fork,
4. Wipe the mouth before drink
ing.
5. Remove the knife only in cut
ting the food; do not raise it to the
mouth,
8. Eat slowly : rapid eating is un
healthy.
7. If you find anything unpleasant
in your food, avoid calling the atten
tion of others to it.
8. Close tho lips when chewing.
9. Keep your elbows off tho table.
10. Do not speak with food in your
mouth.
11. When asked to help your
neighbor, do not shove, but hand tho
plate to him.
12. Do not turn yotir head and
stare about the room.
13. If any one at the table makes
a mistake, take the least possible no
tice of it.
A Lawyer.—lt is related of George
Clarke, the celebrated negro minstrel,
that being examined as a witness, he
was severely interrogated by the at
torney who wished to break down
iiis evidence.
“You are in the negro minstrel
business, I believe?” inquired the
lawyer.
“ Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply.
“ Is not that a rather low calling ?”
demanded the attorney,
“ I don’t know but what it in, sir,”
replied the minstrel, “ Out is so much
better than my father’s that I am ra
ther proud of it.”
“ W hat was your father’s calling ? ”
“ He was a lawyer 1 ” replied he, in
a tone of regret, tLat put the audience
in a roar. The lawyer let him alone.
B@T A good wife is 'like a snail.
Why ? Because she keeps in her
own house. A good wife U not Hke
a snail. Why? Because she dooa
not carry her all on her back. A
good wife is like a town oiock. Why?
Because she keeps good time. A
good wife is not liko a town clock.
Why ? Because she does not speak
so loud that all the world can hear
her.