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THE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER
TT. XV. HANDKItS, l'ubllshor.
NEMAnA, NEBRASKA.
THE SURPRISED AVOWAL.
When one word 1b npoken,.
When ono look you bc,
When you tnkc tho token,
llown'er bo Blight It bo,
Tlio enrco'n bolt lu broken,
Tho happy bird In free.
There li no unrmylng
Th ut lovo-ntnrtlcd word;
It woro Idlo praying
It no inoro bo heard;
Yot, lta law obeying,
Who uhall blnino tho bird?
Wlmt avails tho mondlng
When tho cngo wnn wonk?
What nvnlln tho Bonding
Knr, tho bird to seek,
When ovory eldud 1b lending
Wings toward yonder pcnk7
ThriiBh, could they rccapturo
Vou to newer wiong,
How could you adapt your
Strain to suit tho throng?
Gone would bo tho rapturo
Of tinlinprluoned song.
Ilobort U. Johnson, In Century.
IN THE GllASJL' OF ODIN.
jiY !i:oK(ii: u. coomkh.
OMI3 30 years njro
I belonged to the
whip Hollo, lylny: nt
Hotter (1 n rn, and
after wo hud re
niiiined there Koine
weeks our cnptnln
R-ota freight for
Itargcn, in Nor
way. We were to tnhc
back a load of pine
lumber, but on ar
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riving at Bergen it was found the cargo
wiih uway up tho const, nt a small sca
jvorton the Vest-Herd, and for this plnee,
after dlschnrglng, tho Hollo mnde sail.
With light, contrary breezes, we
Inched a great many times, and on one
of these taclcs, near the Loffoden islands,
passed cIobc by the spot whore, nt cer
tain times of tide, and especially after
northwest gales, ragca the great Mael
strom, the terrors of which were so ex
aggerated by the early geographers.
Tho ebb current had probably set ns
out of our course, but we saw nothing
remarkable, save a commotion of tho
waters two or three miles away, re
minding us of the Jtnce In Long Island
round, or of Hell Gate, as it used to be
In those days.
IN THE QRASP OF
A good breeze would hnvo carried tho
ihip through It in perfect safety, nor
would it have swamped a llshlngbont.
Standing into thu Vent-fiord, wo
flnnlly dropped anchor in a snug har
bor, before the little Norwegian hamlet
which was to furnish us with a cargo.
Hero were great piles of lumber all
nbout tho shores. It was wholly pine,
for we were now in latitude OS, where
no other timber .will nourish, and where
even tho pine Itself almost reaches its
northern limit.
Whnt a cold and lonely region Itwasl
Tho captain's wife and little boy were
nn board, and the sight of them kept
a warm place all tho time In my heart,
ns if so much of bright New Englnnd
till survived for us, though we were
away up In the Vest-fiord.
A Dutch brig, called the Zuyder Zee,
rva.s likewise there.
She had sniled a week before ourselves
from Rotterdam, and by a singular coin
cidence, her captain nlso had taken his
wife and little boy. But tho little blue
fiycdfellowwasnomorenbout the decks.
-IVe had seen his pretty face at the rail,
is the brig went out of Rotterdam, and
igain ns she went out of Bergen, and
littlo Charlie Rivers, climbing upon tho
bulwarks of our ship, had hailed him
In childish tones ns tho Zuyder Zeo
swept past us.
Mounting upon tho head rail, while
bis father and mother were below, ho
bad fallen under the brig's bows and
was never seen again.
Tho bereaved mother, coming on
board of us, ns we lay nt anchor, took
Jttle Chnirlie In her arms and cried blt
serly. Mrs. Rivers cried, too, and from
Umt moment she wus continually tip-
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prchenslve of some accident to hcrllt
tic ono.
Tho two vessels finished loading at the
Mime time, and the brig nml ship got tin
der way together, to go down the fiord.
This is very wide and long a sea in
itself anil in rough weather one of tho
most dangerous places in tho world.
But now all was pleasant. Thousnnds
of sen-fowl circled around the vessel,
mid the distant shores of Hie LolFodcn
Islands had a warm, misty beauty.
This state of tilings, however, did not
long continue. The weather thickened,
as if preparing for a storm; then tho
breeze left us, and we dropped anchor
in deep water, in order not to be set out
of our course by the tide.
Soon afterward It began to blow heavi
ly, yet the wind, being from the north
west, our anchorage, under one of tho
islands, was so sheltered that wo did
not drag.
It was a furious gale, making every
thing creak aloft, and we thought how
tho Maelstrom would roar after such a
northwester.
But snug as wo were for the time,
there still remained the apprehension
of a Mil! ft of wind. And, surely enough,
the gale at length hauled southwest,
driving tho sea directly in upon us
through the mouth of the (lord.
The ebb tide opposed the wind, and
tho tumult grow fearful. The sea was
tremendous. It carried away the Dutch
brig's deck load, her longboat nnd yawl,
while both vessels pitched bowsprit un
der at every plunge, rolling "scuppers
to," nnd fast taking along their anchors.
The brig dragged faster than the ship,
nnd being to windwnrd, came near get
ting afoul of us, ns, stern foremost, tug
ging back on her chnius nnd deluged
with water, she sagged slowly past.
Indeed, her mninyard struck our own
ns the two wallowing vessels rolled
toward each other; nnd nfteiward she
lay tumbling for some minutes, so close
to our quarter that we could almost
have jumped on board of her.
At this moment, little Charlie Rivers
was with his mother in the cabin. The
stern lights were open, and, standing
on the transom, Chnrlic was gazing from
ono of them on the foam that curled
and swashed past tho counters of tho
ship.
Suddenly ho caught sight of the
Zuyder Zee, and in some way losing his
balance, while straining his neck to
look nt her, out he went.
Mrs. Itivcrs' hnd just missed him ns
he disappeared. She leaned out to
catch him, as the Hollo's stern settled
In tho eddy beneath, and she, too, was
gone.
Those on deck knew nothing of the
catastrophe, until, ns the Zuyder Zee
THE STORM.
swung partly athwart out stern, they
biiw a woman clutching a little boy, car
ried forcibly ngainst the Dutch brig,
and almost dipped up by the h.eavy bul
warks. Tho stout Rotterdam sailors
grasped them ns they came, and the
square-built Holland skipper signaled
to us that all was well.
Ills astonishment, of course, no signal
could express; nnd ns to our own cap
tain, I will not dwell upon tho emotions
ho must have experienced at that mo
ment. Soon afterward wo saw that the
Dutchman, having pnrted both her ca
bles, had been compelled to make snil,
sheeting homo his topsails, into which
he put close reefs.
With this sail, nnd the tide in his fa
vor, lie might possibly in the wide, sea
liko fiord, still keep his vessel from go
ing ashore, though her peril was ex
treme. It was not long, however, ere the wind
greatly abated, and wo could see that
lie had set his forsail, forctopmnst
staysail nnd trysail, with which amount
of canvns his chance of safety was much
improved.
Soon nftcr the galo was over, a thick,
rainy mist gathered upon the water,
obscuring everything for 24 hours; but
tho wind, which hnd changed, blew a
strong brccA) directly out of the fiord.
At length the nir cleared nnd we got
under way, seeing nothing of the Dutch
man. Had ho felt his wny out with his lead
line, or was ho dashed upon the rocks?
Tho suspense of our captain was dread
ful. As we passed tho mouth of the fiord
the wind hauled in such a manner as to
head us off; the air became foggy,
and, in making a turn, c approached
po near the maelstrom ns to hear its
heavy roaring.
The order was given to put the ship
In stays, but scarcely had we. gone on
the opposite tnck when It fell entire
ly calm, and wo wcro at the mercy of
the tide.
"See all clear for letting go anchor!"
was the next order.
And the Rollo soon swung to her
chain, with sheets and halyards let go,
r.nd courses, topsnils, lopgallantsalls
and royals clewed up and lazily slatting
au she rolled.
Tho maelstrom roared louder nnd
louder, for the tide wns ebbing, and Its
greatest force would bo nt the turn.
TJio late gale, which had at first been
from the northwest, must have given it
awful power.
In half an hour tho fog lifted, tho
sun shone clctirly nnd we could see the
tremendous surges rushing around tho
fearful pool like monsters inn pit.
It was to tho west of us, and ns tho
air to tho south grew clear we ob
'uorved a tall brig drifting slowly townrd
tho fearful vortex.
"Tho Dutchman I tho Dutchman 1"
cried all our men, In a breath.
For everyone saw that the vessel wns
the Zuyder Zee.
She had no anchors, no boats, and tho
current was currying her steadily
townrd that place of terror, where tho
ser god Odin would grasp her by tho
heel and hurl her thundoringly below.
"Clcnr away the yawl 1" shouted Capt.
Rivers. "Como with me, four of you!"
lie added, springing over the tall'rail.
"Stand by the tackles! Lower away
mid enst off!"
Three of my shipmates and myself
went with him. How wo sprang to tho
oars!
Tho Zuyder Zee wns reached. Mrs.
Rivers and little Charlie, together with
tho Dutch cnptuln's wife, wcro put
into the boat, and all hands besides, ten
in number, taken with them.
With a complement of 18 persons our
llltlo yawl felt the tide in n way that
placed her in terrible dnnger, butnt last
ve succeeded in l caching the ship in
Eafety.
As we did so the Dutch brig went into
tho whirl. What a sight it was! Around
and around she swept, now standing
nearly on end, now lying over till her
yards dipped in tho water, nnd all tho
while headforemost, sternforcmost or
broadside to going with frightful
speed.
Then the hull disappeared; the lower
masts were swnllowed; the royal yards
wont out of sight. Sho was gone.
Wo arrived safely at Rotterdam. But
who can describe the caresses showered
upon little Charlie through nil tho
passage? The Dutch mother, who had
lost her boy, seemed to love the Ameri
ca u child almost as her own; and when
wo sailed from the old Holland seaport
sho wafted "him tearful kisses as his
small face looked bnck to the quaint
drawbridge where she stood.
EMPLOYING CONVICTS PAYS.
North Cnriillim'B lNmltontlnry Kolf-Sup-portlng
Through thol'rlsonurs' Industry.
The North Carolina penitentiary was
solf-supporting Inst year for the first
tunc in its history of a quarter century.
From 18S3 to 18S9 the appropriations for
its maintenance averaged $100,000 a
year. Then, under a change of policy,
the annual expense dropped to $.'17,500,
which was the figure until 1803, when a
further reduction was made to $23,000
a year. The achievement in 1890 was
under the management of Augustus
Lonzer. He thinks it could be done
again, "not probably every year, but
certainly, if the present policy is ninin
talned, self-support should be" attained
or approximated every year." This re
sult, the convict labor demagogues may
be grieved to learn, wus accomplished
by keeping the convicts profitably em
ployed in farming. They not only grow
their own subsistence, but cultivate
sufficient cotton to pay the expenses of
management, their crop of cotton last
year being 2,059 bales, valued at over
$77,000. There would have been 400
inoro bales of cotton were it not for a
disastrous flood on one of the convict
iarms, which nlso destroyed 10(),d00
bushels of corn. As might be expected,
this outdoor employment of the con
vict has a good eil'ect on their physical
condition. The present rate of mortal
ity among them, the manager reports,
barely exceeds that of some of the best
regulated towns in the state, while the
mortality rate among the colored con
victs is much less than the rate among
the negroes in the large towns. N. 1".
Post.
For tho Uefontlaiir.
A Welch county court judge recent
ly had before him a case in which a
printer sued a pork butcher for tho
value of n large parcel of paper bugs
with the hitter's advertisement printed
thereon. Tho printer having no suit
nblo illustration to embellish the work,
thought he improved the occasion by
putting an elaborate royal arms above
tho man's name and nddre3s, but ulti
mately tho latter refused to pay. The
judge, looking over a specimen, ob
served that, for his part, ho thought
tho Hon nnd unicorn were much nicer
than nn old fat pig. "Oh, well," nn
m ered tho butcher, "perhaps your hon
or likes to eat animals like that, but my
customers don't. 1 don't kill lions and
unicorns. I only kill fat pigs." Vw
diet for defendant. Answero.
HE GOT THERE FIRST.
Tho ICeiuly Wit of n Ucltlcoao Old Ocn
tlcitmn. There is a small town In ono of tho
eastern stales, not far from Boston,
whoso inhabitants take great pride In
oxcelling every other town in their
vicinity. They try every now inven
tion, and if it has any sort of merit it
is sure to bo assigned to duty in some
part of the place. Two portly gentle
men, one a sea-captnin and tho other a
lawyer, both retired from active life,
were the prime movers In the experi
ments and adoptions, and, naturally,
in tins course of time they failed to
agree. Extreme jealousy then pre
vailed, and a bitter animosity sprang
up between them.
Unfortunately these two gentlemen
lived next door to each other In fact,
so close wcro their houses that the side
walls almost adjoined. Ono very
windy night the lawyer was reading a
book in his study when a terrific crash
up stairs startled him. Upon investi
gating he found that an unruly chim
ney had ruthlessly hurled itself
through liis roof, doing considerable
damage. That In itself wns a matter
of great annoyance, but when ho dis
covered it was the sea-captain's chim
ney that was responsible, his wrath
knew no bounds. Hastening down to his
library, ho pulled out his law-books and
hunted up similar cases, devising and
scheming how he could secure satisfac
tion from tho detestable captain.
While thus engaged a note arrived from
his enemy that read as follows:
"Sir, If you don't return those
bricks at once, I will put the matter in
tho hands of the law." Harper's
Round Table.
I'nprr iHurto for Gorman Only.
An attorney who has won renown
because of his appearance in behalf of
many alleged murderers came into tho
state's attorney's oflice this morning
with a lead pencil in his hand. Ho
looked about him, right and left,
seeking paper whereon he might tell
somebody what he thought of some
body or other, and his eye lighted up
on a Gorman newspaper miin, scrib
bling at n table. "Ah, my friend,"
said the attorney, "will yon lend mo
some of that paper?" "Certainly,"
said tho Gorman, passing over a gener
ous block, "but I must tell you that
you can't write English on that paper.
It will take German writing only." And
the attorney believed him, and, laying
down the block, tried to get some pa
per from a law clerk who happened in.
Chicago'News.
Cntnrrli Cannot He Cured
with Local Applications, ns they cannot
reach the Beat of the disease. Catarrh is a
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure it you must take internal remedies.
HimTh Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acta directly on the blood nnd mucous sur
faces Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack
medicine. It was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for years,
nnd is a regular prescription. It is com
posed of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, noting direct
ly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients is what
rroduces such wonderful results in curing
There was a young maiden named Grace,
Once the prettiest girl in the place;
But she a changed a great deal
i Since she took to the wheel,
For she now has a bicycle face.
Up to Date.
TTnlc's Honey of Horehound and Tar re
lieves whooping cough.
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The man who has a strong will is often
6trong in nothing elhc Bam s Horn.
The worst of winter is to slip nnd sprain.
Best cure St. Jacobs Oil.
Gray hairs and wrinkles may como, hut a
happy heart is always young. Rani's Horn.
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When bilious or costive cat a Cnscarct,
candy cathartic, euro guaranteed. 10c, 2oc.
i J,fc is Ma,ro mn.n wno Kcts anything but
bul3 and kicks in his letters these days.
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Whenever a boy says ho is not hungry, it
is a sign lie is polite.
Cold creeps down the spine, then lum
bago. St. Jacobs Oil creeps in, then cure.
Tho world's creed is: "He is the best man
who wears the best coat." Ram's Horn.
P. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.! Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, price 7.1c.
Hall's Family Pills arc the best.
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A Coogiier9s Coffers
may not bo bo full as he -wishos, but if ho is
wise ho "will neglect his coffers awhile and
attend to his cough. A man's coffers may bo
so secure that no ono can tako them away
from him. But a littlo cough has takon many
a man away from his coffers. Tho "slight
cougn" is somewhat liko tho small pebble that
lies on tho mountain side, and appears utterly
insignificant. A fluttering bird, perhaps, starts
the pebble rolling, and tho rolling pebble begets
an avalanche that buries a town. Many fatal
diseases begin with a slight cough. But any
cough, taken in timo, can bo curod by tho use of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
More particulars nbout Pectoral In Ayer's Curebook, too pages.
Sent free, J. C. Aycr Co., Lowell, Mass,
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200 IlL'S. OATS, 17 ItUS. ItAItl.KV.
M. M. Luther, Enst Troy, Pa., grew
00 bushels Salzer's Silver Mine Ontsr
and John Brcider, Mishlcott, Wis., 173
bushels Silver King Barley per acre.
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Fodder plants ns rape, teoslnte,
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rel. Salzer's seeds arc bred to big
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you by John A.Salzer Seed Co.Xa Crosse,
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Sho had been looking nt herself in the
glass. "I suppose FI1 Get used to it," sho
said, "but niter what wo've been through
in tho last few years these tight sleeves ac
tually make mo feel immodest." London
Figaro.
The people have the promise blest
Of an approaching calm;
The orators will take the rest
And so will Uucle Sam.
Washington Star.
The Pnmtum Went Count Hotel.
Tho famous hotels of tho west coast of
Florida are nil open. Tho magnificent
Tallinn Bay Hotel, aptly termed a "modern
wonder of tho world, with its casino,
swimming puni, uicniricni auunorium, eic,
eituated on Tampa Ray; The Seminole, at
Winter Park, in tho lake rccion of Florida!
tho Ocnla House, at Ocala; the Hotel Kis
simmec; the Rellcview, at JJellcair, over
looking tho Gulf of Mexico; The Inn, nt.
Port Tampa, and the Hotel Puuta Gordar
at Puntn Gorda.
Tho Plant system of hotels is under tho
management of Mr. D. P. Hathaway, Tampa
Hav Hotel, Tampa, Florida.
Mr. J. J. Fnrnsworth, Eastern Passen
ger Agent, 2fll Rroadway. New York, or
Mr. L. A. Hell, Western Passenger Agent,
312 Marquette building, Chicago, will give
full information regarding any of these ho
tels, together with rates via rail or water.
Palace Car Porter "Kin T brush dc dust
outer yer clothes, boss?" Traveler "There's
no dust in my clothes, Sam." "Well, yer
doesn't look like yer was dead broke, boss."
Yonkcr's Statesman.
In winter sciatica is worse. 'Any timo
St. Jacobs Oil 'is the best euro.
A man encourages notoriety in every
thing except his love affairs.
Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe, 10c.
No one likes bologna sausage outside of
n saloon. Atchison Globe.
Your blood now with a courso of Hood's Sarso
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change to warmer weather comes.
Is tho best In fact tho Ono Truo Blood Purifier.
HnnH'c PiJIe nro tho only pills to tako
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