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THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER: THURSAY, APRIL 9, 1891.
TWO DAYS OF TORTURE.
A STOWAWAY SUFFERS FOR THIRTY
HOUFte IN A CRANK PIT.
He Live* to Tell ft Horrible Story of a
Frlghtfr^JCxperience—Lying Below a
Shaft TUvJ Mado Twenty-four ltevolu
tlou» » Minute.
This poor follow was an Englishman
who had bocorno penniless, discouraged
and homesick. He made up his mind in
his desperation to stow himself away
and take his chances. He stole into an
ocean steimahip—one of the regular
liners which ply between New York and
Liverpool—and! hunted for a hiding-
place. H« kn*w nothing about ma
chinery, and in his ignorance he picked
out the most horrible place in the whole
ship. It looked quite attractive when
the poor fellow picked it out, and he
thought that he was lucky to find it.
It was the hole—tho crank pit, I think
it is called—in the floor of the engine
room into which the great crank sinks
twenty-four times a minute when the
vessel is at fall speed. While the vessel
was still this crank was elevated above
the hole, and the unfortunate man, ig
norant of marine engines, didn’t know
that in a few minutes it would descend
with terribie effect upon hint.
He crept in; the ship started. The
crank in its first descent struck his left
arm with terrrible forco and crushed it.
He could not move, for in less than
three seconds down it came again,
1 crushing more bones and tearing more
flesh. Just imagine such a fate if you
’ can. The wretched man drow himself
irfto the smallest compaft he could and
oxpected death. Every time the crank
came down it escaped his head by about
an inch and a half. He didn’t know the
exact distance, of course, but he knew it
came very near, and he was in mortal
dread that it would come nearer.
SUPERSTITIOUS SEAMEN. ’
^Most of this that I have been telling
came from the lips of tho stowaway. For
be lived to tell it, and is still alive. He
must have fainted away after enduring
this terrible agony for a while, and prob
ably he did not again regain conscious
ness umil the ship -was twenty-eight
hours beyond Sandy Hook. It was then
the middle of the night, and one of the
assistant engineers, who had charge of
the engines on that watch, heard heart
rending groans proceed from the ma
chinery. He was horrified, and tha men
,employed alxrat the engines, who are
superstitions, were not only appalled but
thoroughly frightened, so much so that
they became demoralized and almost un-
ablo to work.
The assistant engineer .went to the
chief .engineer and. reported to hi%i what
he had hcartf. He was called a fool for
his pains. Presently his Watch was over
and ho was relieved. This new assistant
ingincer -heard the groans, 'too, and,
thoroughly alarmed, he appealed to the
chief engineer, and succeeded in getting
him out of his berth into the engine
'room. Tho chief heard them, too, and
at ohee stopped the ship. The watch on
deck was called down and the machinery
waMtb oronghly examined by the light
of laments. What demoralized the super-,
stations men about the engines was the
impossibility, as they believed, of a
human being remaining alive amid the
swiftly moving, gigantic machinery, and
their natural inference was that ghosts
or fiends were present and’the ship was
doomed. *
SAVED AT LAST.
By and by a lantern was lowered into
’the crank pit, and a bundle of rags was
discovered at the bottom. On being
prodded a groan proceeded from the
rags. They were lifted np, and in them
was a man, limp and braised and bloody.
Terror and anguish and wounds hud de
prived him of sense and almost of hu
man semblance. He could not talk; ho
could only utter groans, which pierced
the inmost hearts of the hearers, they
were so pitiful. Luckily for the poor
stowaway the surgeon of the ship was a
humane and skillful man. Hu said af
terward that he was bound to save'tlmt
man if he could, so ns to find out how
he got into the pit, and was not killed
at once when tho engine began to move.
The surgeon attended him night and
Ilf Un mna clili,*. ,.1 nfwmstll
Botany Hade Italy.
Children dearly love .to Imitate; in
that respect they should not be offended
at hearing themselves called very.nearly
the equals of monkeys. Boy Blue lives
in a family where botany furnishes one
of the occupations and pastimes of the
hour. Scarcely a day passes without
some learned exposition at the table or
the display of a leafy wonder.
It is not strange that the little lad has
caught the prevailing mania to the ex
tent of dabbling in science on his own
account. One day he waa overheard by
hia elders, as he gave the following
learned exposition to a little cousin.
Boy Blue held an apple tree branch in
his hand, and began enlarging upon its
peculiarities.
"Now, Tommy," said he. "see how
very curious tliis is. There isn’t often
so many pistils in the middle, hnt this
is a rare specimen, and it’s got. I should
think, as many as fifty. The petals, you
notice, are pinkish. It isn't often yon
find one yellow or blue, but if you should
you’d send it to some professor and he’d
name it after yon. Perhaps he’d call it
the Tommy-ania.
“Then here .are the leaves. You’d
bay, if you didn’t know anything about
botany, that they were netted veined;
but look a little closer”
Here Boy Blue himself looked a little
closer, and found that he waa not stat
ing a fact.
“1 do blieve this is netted," he ex
claimed. recovering his self possession
with the coolness of a truo scientist. “I
shall have to press this spec’men and la
bel it ‘rare, very rare indeed.’ Now, ob
serve how few leaves is on this stem.
Only six or seven, you’ll find: never more
than seven. One. two"
As the young lecturer proceeded he
found his prophecy was to be belied.
That, however, did not daunt him.
Calmly stripping off the superfluous
leaves ho went on counting and an
nounced in triumph: “Seven! I told yon
so. Oh, Tommy, it’s a great comfort to
be a real botanist!"—Youth’s Companion.
for Infants and Children..
“Castoriais so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me." H. A. Ancnxn, M. D.,
U1 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
“The use of ‘Castor!** is so universal and
Its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few; are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within eagy reach/*
Carlos Martyr,D.Dm
umip. v. t».i
New York City.
Late Pastor Bloomlngdalo Reformed Church.
Castoria cores Colic, OoosHpatloa,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes <U>
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA
Soutbwesiern Division.
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your * Castoria. * and shall always continue to
do so as it has invariably produced beneficial
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New York City. 1
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Repaying * Joke.
An incident occurred recently at the
Roosevelt street ferry office which illus
trates how one man can make another’s
life miserable with little exertion. One
evening the collector shoved out to a
'passenger thirty-two throq cent pieces
and cne cent in exchange for a dollar,
aftef deducting the fare, which was
three cents. The collector grinned and
thought he had played a good joke on
the passenger, who took the money
without a protest, hnt made up his mind
to get even with the joker if possible.
He thought hard for three days, and at
last hit on a scheme. Sharpening the
end of a file he nicked oqe 6ide of each
three cents
Every morning and evening in going
to and from his work be placed a three
cent piece in the palm of his hand and
slapped it firmly down in front of the
collector. At these times there was al
ways a rash. In his hurry the collector
tried to slide the money along with the
tips of his fingers, bnt it stack fast.
Then he resorted to his finger nails, mut
tering blessings on tb* head of the man
who annoyed him. This was kept np
for thirty-two days until the nickel
pieces were all exhausted. Bnt even to
this day the collector always picks np a
three cent piece with hia finger nails, so
strong has'the habit become.—Ernest
Jarrold in New York Journal.
Machinery Supplies.
We are now in our new building in Artesian Block,
and ready for business.
A Full Line ol Cooking Stas and Ranges.
Gas Fixtures and Sanitary Goods a Soecialtv.
Globe, Angle and Check Valves,
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-BUILDERS OF-
Engines, Boilers, Cotton Gins,
day. He was obliged to amputate'*the
arm or it would have mortified, it was
so dreadfully crashed. The other wounds
and bruises he healed, so that The man
was able to walk to the hospital when
he got to Liverpool. There he was cured
of everything except the shock to the
nerves which ho received. That will
never he got. over. Do his best, he says,
the thirty hours lie spent in that torture
pit. with the great crank crashing into
his tlevli twenty-four times a minute, can
never be got out of his mind. That hor
ror is seared into his sonl for the re
mainder of his life.—New York Star.
A Tree Growing In Slid Air.
There is to be seen a few miles from
theontskirtsof Richmond, Tex.,a nainral
enriosity, the like of which is perhaps to
be found nowhere else in the world. It is
an enormous oak tree literally suspend
ed in tho air. It stands in the midst of
a douse grove known as Bentley’s wood,
and is made quite a show of. The my»
tery of itssupension is that numerous
hunting parties having camped beneath
it during a period of many years their
fires have gradually burned the trank
entirely away for u distance of six feet,
bnt its large and spreading branches are
so closely entwined in those of the trees
growing closely about It that it is sn]>-
ported by them.
Jnst how its huge bulk is nourished is
*a mystery, bnt that it is well nourished
is evident, for it is green and flourishing.
—Cor. Philadelphia Times.
Repartee.
A man who returned from a yachting
trip, which for some part of the time in
cluded Mr. Edwin Booth as a guest, tells
the following good story of professional
repartee between Mr. Booth and Mr. La
Montagne, the well known amateur. No
sooner had Mr. Booth come aboard the
yacht than he was seized with a violent
attack of attention to the waves at the
sideof the vessel. Mr. Booth’s atten
tion was engrossed here for a long time,
and when ho returned to the party with,
ns one of them said, everything lost save
honor Mr. La Montague said in mild
reproof. "Why. Mr. Booth, is that the
way yon uro given to gagging your
parts?”
"Not at all.” Baid Mr. Booth, seating
himself in his best tragedy style, “not
at all. I simply didn't like the reception
that these swells gnve me, anil so I
threw np the part.”—New York Even
ing Snn.
Itons.tr In Main.,
Ait Anbnra business man was surpris
ed the other day to sea an old customer
come into his store and pey him » bill,
with interest, which waa contracted
forty yean ago when he was doing busi-
nem in another town. It was a small
/bill, ami the one to wham It wag due
had forgotten all abon{ it.—Lewiston
Journal.
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Beauty In Rnslness.
Oue thousand women in Ualesburg,
Ills., earn their own living. It doesn’t
appear why. There are plenty of men,
and they seem to ho clever. But these
one thousand women come down town
every morning to teach school, to
sell goods, to ran typewriters, to ask
yonr numlier when you ring up tho cen
tral, to scad messages, to keep hooks, to
work in factories, and so on.
Most of these women have not only
carped their own bread here, bnt they
have bnilt homes. Perhaps it some of
the vonng men here had done likewise
there might not have been so many
women bread winners.—Cor. Chicago
Tribune.
A New Way to Cot Old Debt..
First Florist—Yonng Do Pink is a slow
payer, isn’t he?
Second Florist—last week he paid up
the big bill lie owed me, and made all
sorts of apologies—said he'd forgotten all
about it.
“Eh? Did you send him a writ?"
“No; the last time ho ordered a bon-
quet to be sent to his girl I made out a
bill for tho past three years, giving the
address each bouquet went to."
“Yes."
“Well, the boy made a mistake, and
delivered the bonqnet to De Pink and
the bill to the girl."—London Tit-Rite.
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Americus, Georgia.
w« are now opening a FIRST-CLASS TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT and will have
line of goods of LATEST STYLES AND FASHIONS In Mock, and will
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Wis., whose annnsl crop has reached
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NOTICE TO MILL MEN.
I have for sale Two Mill Rocks and fixtures complete. One Rice Mil). One Pol
isher. One Fan, One Bolting Cloth complete, Three PairHcales, One Fifty Horae*
Power Engine aud Boiler, One PUuer One Gang Kdger. Five Glut, One Hark Cotton
Clearer, < »nc Pres*, Mhanfltugs and Pulley* world without end. all of the above
property will be sold
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REAL ESTATE BARGAINS.
the following 'wimble property clow In at r bargain:
' - -- iIMed;4 large rooms each; lot. 6'lilu, each.
I offer for a few
Four liou
rer o’ne i‘oJfesnd.lot on College Hill, large lot lUACTU, fronting two street.. The i ret-
Ce*C Louie frt Americas. . _ - .
One b.m«o mid lot mi Jeekion sli'eel, rronllne theCotlejr. I_argc lot, ., room, to
comparatively new house with cook room and baibtouev at*, a hed, nice out houee
barnonthe place. Call for bargain*.
HUGH M. BROWN.
Americus Ga.
705 Jackson St.]* :
Fifteen Share* Furniture Ku<- »..