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Tlooked where the roses were blowings
They stood among grasses and reeds;
I said, *“Where such beauties are growing,
Why suffer these paltry weeds?’
‘Weeping the poor things faltered,
“We have neither beauty nor bloom;
‘We are but grass in the roses’ garden—
‘But our Master gives us this room.
“The slaves of a generous Master,
Borue from a world above, ;
We came to this place in His whdqm—-
‘We stay to this hour from His love.
“We have feed His humbles? creatures,
We have served Him truly and long;
He gave no grace to our features—
‘We have neither color nor song—
“ Yet He who has made the roses
Placed us on the sclf same sod ;
He knows our reason for being—
We are grass in the garden of God.”
—Rev. James Freeman Clarke.
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A CAPE HORN INCIDENT.
On a December morning, in the year
1883, a mail steamer, homeward bound
from a New Zecaland port, was ap
proaching the meridian of the Horn,
but on a parallel more southerly than
it is now the custom of steamships to
take in rounding that stormy, ice-girt,
desolate and most inhospitable of all
headlands.
December in those distant regions is
midsummer, and the weather of that
morning was as fair and still as a
breezeless April day in this country;
but the swell of the vast track of ocean
ran ceaselessly, reminiscent respira
tions of a gian'ess whose conflict with
the heavens is eternal, and whose
breaking-pauces are very few and far
between indeed. Over this long,
dark blue, westerly swell the long
metal fabric went sweeping in long,
floating, launching curtsies, whitening
the water astern of her with a mile of
milk-white wake. The frosty sun,
whose beams in that sea have some
thing of the silvery brilliance of the
electric light, flashed a score of con
stellations out of the gilt and glass
and brass about the steamer’s bows and
quarters and decks. A number of
passengers were pacing the long hur
ricane platform. Far away on the
starboard beam, poised, star-like,
upon the keen blue rim of the ocean,
was an iceberg—a dash of crystalline
light against the airy sky that out
there, low down, wore the delicate hue
of the opal. Otherwise the ocean
swept naked to its confines, a plain of
rich, deep blue, with the heave of
the swell shouldering the morning
glory under the sun as it ran, and
making that part of the deep magnif
icent with flowing light.
The chief officer was on the bridge;
rthe first breakfast-bell had rung, and
“the captain, smart as a naval officer,
-in buttons and lace trimmings, quitted
Ithe chart-room and joined the mate to
dake a look around before going be-
Tow. The skipper was a man of eagle
sight, and instantly on directing his
eyes over the ship’s bows he ex
claimed:
¢“What is that black object yonder?”
The chief mate peered, and the cap
tain leveled a telescope. |
¢<A ship’s boat,” said he, ¢‘and seem
ingly full of people.”
‘The boat, when sighted, was some
three or four miles distant, and the
speed of the steamer ‘'was about thii
teen knots. In a few minutes the
alarm in the engine-room rang its re
_ verberatory warning, ser-ding a little
thrill of wonder throughout the ship,
80 rarely i 3 that telegraph handled on
the high seas.
]I count cight men, sir,” cried the
chief mate, with a binocular glass at
his eye.
Again the engine-room alarm rang
out; the pulsing that for days had
been ceaselessly throbbing through the
long fabric, languished, and in a few
minutes, to another summons of the
metal tongue below, ceased, and the
great steamer floated along to her own
impetus, slowly, and yet m :re slowly,
till the boat was within the toss of a
biscuit off the bow, with the passen
gers crowding to the side to look, and
sailors and waiters and steerage folk
blackening the rail forward.
~ The occupants of the boat consisted
of eight wild, hairy, veritable scare
crows of men, dressed in divers
~ fashions—Scotch caps, yellow sou
westers, sea-boots, toil-worn monkey
jackets, and the like.
Vot g Yoar iy Lot
g 8 wrong with.yourt o-o o o
fli’* r‘“"%’?‘& ¢upiit \\ i
“For God's sake, sjr, take uns
aboard! Our water’s almost given
out, and there’s nothing left to eat.”
‘Look out for the end of a line,”
bawled the captain. ¢Are you strong
enough to get aboard without help®”
¢¢Ay, sir, we’ll manage it.”
A rope was thrown, and one after
another the fellows came swinging and
scraping and scrambling up the clean
side of the steamer. The passengers
crowded round and gazed atghem with
curiosity and pity. Their sympathetic
eyes seemed to find famine painfully
expressed in the leathern countenances
that stared back through mats of hair.
“We must let your boat go,” said
the captain.
¢Can’t help it, sir, thankful enough
to be here, I reckon,” answered the
fellow who had called from the stein
sheets, and who acted as spokesman.
¢«Anything belongingto you to come
out after?”
¢“Nothing. ILet her go, sir. If
sailors’ sea-blessings can freight a
craft she ain’t going to float long.”
The boat was sent adrift, the engine
bell rang ouat, once more the great
mail steamer was thrashing over the
long, tall heave of the Cape Horn
swell.
““How came youn into this mess?”
inquired the captain.
The man who had before spoken
gave answer:
- «“We're all that’s left of the crew of
} the Boston bark ¢George Washing
ton.” She was a whaler, a hundred
‘ and forty days out. It were four days
ago. I was the first to smell fire some
while arter two o’clock in the middle
watch.”
«It wanted ten minutes to six bells,”
’exclaimcd'a man, aund a general, em
!phutzc, hairy nod followed the inter
ruption.
1 “I was the first to smell fire,” con
tinued the other, ¢‘call it what hour ye
like. I gave the alarm, and all hands
‘turned to with hoses and buckets. But
there was a deal of oil in the hold, and
the ship’s planks was thick with grease
besides, and that gave us no chance.
By ten o’clock in the morning the
flames had bursted through and was
shooting up mast-high, and then we
calculated it was time' to look to the
boats.”
The others stood listening with hard,
stolid, leathery faces, generally gazing
with steadfast eyes at the speaker, but
sometimes glancing askance at the cap
tain and the crowd of others which
stood round.
“There was an ugly sea running,”
the man went on, “and the wheel
being desarted, the ship had fallen off
and ran in the trough, and the lower
ing of the stern boats, whalemen
though they was who had the handling
of ’em, cost our company of twenty
eight souls the loss of all hands saving
them as stand afore ye.”
“A bad job! a measly, cruel, bad
job!” here broke in a long-jawed man
whose brow and eyes were almost con
cealed by a quantity of coarse red
hair.
“Well, us eight men got away in
the boat,” proceeded the spokesman,
“bringing along with us nothin’ but a
small bag of bread and abou! six gal
lons of fresh water. We're been a
washing about since Tuesday, and
now, the Lord be praised, here we
be with a chance of getting
something to eat, and what’s more
pleasurable still to our feelings, the
opportinity of comfortably tarning
n.?
A murmer of pity rang among the
passengers, several of whom were
ladies, and there was more than one
somewhat loud whisper to the effect
that the captain ought really to -send
the poor creatures forward at once to
get some breakfast, instead of holding
them, starving and dvy with thirst, in
talk. The eagle-eyed skipper, how
ever, asked several questions before.
‘dismissing them. : ‘
~ «Since by their own confession the
fire gave them plenty of time to escape
from the bark, how was it they left
her so ill-provisioned as they repre
sented ?”’ ,
This was most satisfactorily account
ed for. Other inquiries of a like na
ture were responded to with alacrity
~ Every sentence that one or an- |
i Andasd 8 g iaic Kb dic |
forward, adding, that after a good hot
meal had been served them they might
turn in and sleep for the rest of the
day wherever tliey could make a bed.
At the breakfast in the saloon no
thing was talked about but the whaler
that had been consumed by fire, the
dreadful drowning of some two-thirds
of her crew, and the miracuwus de
liverance of the survivors from the in
expressible perils and borrors of an
open boat in the solitude of the stormi
est part of the ocean the wide world
over. A benevolent gentleman pro
posed a subscription. Before the lunch
eon-bell was rung a sum of thirty
pounds had been collected. The incident
was & break in the monotony ; and when
the eight men re-appeared on deck dur
ing the afternoon they were promptly
approached by the passengers, who
obliged them to recite again and yet
again their melancholy story of mar
time disaster.
On the morning of the third day,
following the date of this rescue, a
ship was sighted almost directly in a
line with the vessel's course. As she
was negrad she was seen to be rigged
- with stump, or Cape Horn top-gallant
masts; she was also under very easy
canvas which gave her a short-handed
look in that quiet sea. Great wooden
davits overhung her sides, from which
dangled a number of boats. She pre
sented a very grimy, worn aspect, and
had manifestly kept the sea for some
months. It was observed by the chief
officer, standing on the bridge of the
steamer, that the eight rescued men,
who were look:ng at the sail ahead
along with some of the crew and
steerage passengers, exhibited several
symptoms of uneasiness and
even of agitation. Suddenly the
stripes and stars, with the stars invert
ed, were run aloft to the peak-end—a
signal of distress! The engines were
‘glowed,” and the steamer’s head put
so asto pass the vessel within easy
hailing distance. A man aboard the
bark stood in the mizzen rigging.
«Steamer ahoy !”” he voared through
his nose.
¢Hallo!”
«] have lost a boat and eight of my
men. Have you seen anything of
her?”
The captain, who had gained the
bridge, lifted his hand.
“Bark ahoy!” he cried; ¢<what bark
is that?”
«“The ‘George Washington,’ whaler,
of Boston, a hundred-and-eighty-four
days out.”
The captain of the steamer con
trolled a sour grin.
¢'How came you to lose your Dboat
and the meén?”
«They stole her one middle watch
and sneaked away from the ship.”
The captain of the stcamer uttered
a laugh. -
¢“We have your men safe here,” he
shouted. <«Glad to learn that you are
not burnt down to the water’s edge,
and that tho rest of your crew look
brisk considering that they are
drowned men. Send a boat and you
shall have your sailors.”
Twenty minutes later the eight
whalemen were being conveyed
to their bark in one of their
own boats, mest of them
grinning as they looked up at the line
of heads which decorated the steam
er’s sides; and, indeed, there was
some excuse for the smiles, for among
them they were carrying away the
thirty pounds which had been sub
scribed for them. It would be inter
esting to know what their skipper said
when he learned that they had lost a
fine boat for him; but ocean mail liners
have to keep time, and the steamer
could not wait to send a representative
on board the whaler to report the
many elegancies of sea-dialect which
we may reasonably assume embellished
her skipper’s rhetoric.—New York
Independent.
~~ Greatest Fires in Nistory,
The two greatest fires in history are:
The London fire of September 2-§,
1666, in which eighty-nine churches,
many public buildings, and' 13,200
houses were burned; 400 streets laid
waste, and 200,000 persons made
homeless. The ruins covered 436
1811, in il A 8 MM 10l e
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FARMERS' ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
BECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.——LEGISLA
TION, NOIE3, ETC.
An Alliance warehouse will be built at
Cheraw, 8. C. g
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A baggage factory will be built at
Winona, Miss.
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The Alliance in Putnam county, Fla.,
tell the county commissioners that they
must be more economical in the disposi
tion of the county funds.
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The Alliance co;ers all the territory
from Texas to Minnesota, from Maine to
California, and yet it is hardly five years
old.—Alliance Vindicator,
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Alliancemen should attend every one
of their meetings. Things will be dis
cussed that may benefit you. Know what
is being done by your lodge.-—Mineral
Post,
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The Farmers’ Alliance Exchange of
South Carolina has been in operation two
months and a half and has done a busi
ness in that time aggregating $50,000,—
Cutton Plant.
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Will those men who oppose the sub
treasury plan place themselves on record
against the national bank plan, the whis
ky warehouse plan and other like
schemes? We pause for a reply.—(At
lanta, Ga.) Southern Alliance Farmer.
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Cowley county, Kansas, Alliance will
celebrate the Fourth in grand shape.
They have secured Ralph Beaumont, of "
Washington, D. C., and L. L. Polk,
Nationa% President of the Alliance, as
principal speakers for the day.
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An immense elevator will be built at
Bt. Joseph, Mo., in which a large quantity
of wheat will be stored and held for bet
ter prices. A bank in that city will ad
vance money to the farmers. This is the
Sub-Treasury plan by private individuals.
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Alliancemen and all others have a
right to ask questions of the office-seekers,
and the office-seekers, have a right to an
swer or not, just as they please. In fact
it is well to know how a man stands on
public issues before he elected to official
position.—Acworth Post.
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The enemies of the Sub-Treasury plan
and the farmers tell you that it will not
benefit the poor man for that bill to pass.
Do not be deceived by such talk. The
Sub-Treasury plan, if adopted, will assist
in freeing the poorest farmer from the
clutches of those ‘‘so-called friends.”
That’s what’s the matter.
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The chiefs of the Alliance organization
throughout the United States, report to
the New York Herald a membership of
about 2,000,000; of these there are some
thing over 1,000,000 votes, with the mem
bership rapidly increasing. The Alliance is
becoming a power in the land which will
soon be felt in the political as well as the
commercial world.
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An Alliance in Davidson county has
expelled their President upon the follow
ing charges: “‘Tirst, for using language
in open Alliance calculated to disorgan
ize; second, for denouncing the State Or
gan; third, for putting wrong construc
tions on the demands made by the
Alliance for the purpose, as we think, of
misleading the members.—Progressive
Farmer, Raleigh, N. C.
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As yet we have seen no argument
gagainst the Alliance sub-treasury plan that
has any weight when weighed by the
scales of justice and equal rights. The
farmers only ask that they be aided to
secure a fair compensation for their labor
by advances upon a deposit of evidences
of wealth. Bankers are enabled to rob
the people with the consent of the gov
ernment,. by the use of the evidences of
indebtedness. The Alliance proposition
is more honest, more honorable, and more
just.—T7'he Tocsin.
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The object of the Farmers’ Alliance
summarized, is to unite the farmers for
the promotion of their interests, socially,
politically and financially. How can
they promote their interests socially with
out understanding their social condition,
and how can they promote their political
interests without understanding their po
litical condition, and how can they pro
mote the financial interests without un
derstanding their financial condition, and
how can they understand these conditions
without a discussion of them?— Dexter
(Kan.) Press.
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A most powerful farmers’ organization,
a branch of the Farmers’ Alliance, is un
der way in the State of New York. The
obligation of members isas follows: *‘l
hereby affirm that I will do all in my
power by vote and influence to serve the
passage of an equal tax law, and such
other laws as will, in my judgement ben
efit the agriculturists of the state.” This
new organiza‘ion is said to be goin
~ahead like 8 lightning express train, ang
it is expected thatbégmf its enrolment
will contain 100,000 members.—Z%e
SRI e
Ga., Allian %i me days ago, the follow.
s e Ak e ) L %@;@’
service to Georgia, and a consistent, el Jfi
quent and able exponent of Alliance prin
ciples; therefore, e
Resolved, That in further recognition
of the conspicuous services he rendered
to our order in this State, we hereby an
nounce him as our choice for the next
governor of this State, and request hi%
to announce his candidacy at his earli&i&%g
convenience. a 8
A GASOLINE EXPLOSION #
¥ WHICH ELEVEN FIREMEN ARE nunxmff?%i
SOME OF THEM FATALLY. &
On Friday, at Philadelphia, while %’b
men were engaged in extinguishinia \‘3«;
in a small building of the Penn Globeand
Gaslight compuny, the flames reached the -
storage basin in which were twelve bar- |
rels of gasoline. A terriffic explosion .
followed, and eleven firemen were caught -
in a shower of burning oil and were ba%lyfi.‘g;
burned. Some of them will probably
from their injuries. g
A CYCLONE’S WORK. )
TWO INDIANA TOWNS REPORTED TO HAVE
BEEN SWEPT AWAY.
Information was received at Jefferson
ville Ind., stating that Huntingburg and
Jasper were almost swept away Monday
niggt by a cyclone and that many per
sons were killed and injured. Hunting
burg is seventy-five miles distant from
Jeffersonville, and Jasper eighty-two
miles. No particulars were given, as tele
graph and telephone wires were down,
A BIG SCHEME,
EFFORTS OF NORTH DAKOTA TO GET THE
LOUISIAJA STATE LOTITERY.
A Bismark, Dakota, special of Wednes
day says: Efforts to sccure a charter
for the Louisiana Lottery in North Dakota -
are being renewed with great energy.
The state is swarming with agents of the
lottery, and it is said that $500,000 will
be expended with the view to sgcuring}
the election of a governor and icgislature
favorable to the scheme.
FOR ARBITRATION.
THE BRAZILIAN CABINET ATPROVES OF
THE AMERICAN CONFERENCE. ;
The Secretary of State (Blaine) has te
ceived a dispatch from the United States
consul at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an
nouncing that the cabinet has passed a
resolution enthusiastically epproving the
actiol of the international American con
ference in recommending arbitration in
all questions of differences between the
several governments of America.
WILL WIN. :
TWO-THIRDS OF LOUISIANA’S LEGISLATURE
IN FAVOR OF THE LOTTERY.
A dispatch of Thursday from Baton
Rouge, La., says: A poll of the mem
bers of the Legislature of Louisiana
shows that the necessary two-thirds vote
will be secured for the proposition to
submit to a vote of the people a const';i
tutional amendment permitting the re-¥
chartering of the Louisiana state lottery.
Rob Roy’s Sword.
On one of the tables in the library of
the Long Island Historical Society’s
building in Brooklyn there lies an object
that is more than ordinarily interesting.
It is o sword bearing the marks of time,
as well it may, for it is more than two
centuries old. None but a strong man
could yield it. Its original owner wasa
strong man, if what we read of him is
true, for the battered sword in question
is none other than the claymore of Rob -
Roy MacGregor, whose fame has beem '
perpetuated for all time Dy the genius of
Beott. v
The wars of the Highlanders were con
cluded long ago, but looking at thisa
great blade one can almost imagine that
those tierce feuds and battles which Scotfi@
has so graphically depicted were but
things of yesterday. Rob Roy’s blade
was not drawn in the fights of the High
landers alone, for it was swung right
sturdily in many of the battles over the
border between the Cavaliers and the
Covenanters.
The famous Claymorsis about five feet
long, weighs some fifte:n pounds, and
has a broad, two-edged blade of the -
finest tempered steel. It has a baskéfig
hilt of strongly wrought brass, so fashfi%
ioned that the weapon could be used with
one hand or both. This was at one txmu%fi
covered with leather, which has beenz
worn away by time and hard use. Theté:é
is a wee picce left, however, on which the
name ** Rob Roy,” with the exception of
che first letter, may still be seen. T‘
blade, though much nicked, is as strong™®
as it ever was. HE
The relic is the property of John M;fi
Gregor, Esq., of Brooklyn, and was ex
hibited at the Philadelphia Centennialin
1876. It is by the courtesy of Mr. Mac-
Gregor that it is exhibited by the Long
Island Society. e
L T va;g N
BRAIDENTOWN, 17a., has a :’”g' :
curiosity in the shape of a three-legged =
pig. The little thing is perfect in every
respect, being the %nest of'a'. g
six, except that his left foreleg isabsent,
the place where it should h ‘*}‘é*
being marked by a boneless projection
~about an inch in length. He seems to
got around with periect ease, and isal
Toye resdy for o frolia wiis Big S
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