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jvr7-7jrij txatv K 4 n,: IV ' 1 fjlWl.A.Al WRECKS 9 MASSACHUSEnS' .TVv A rW VJUAM PERCY K CUSHING HEROIC 3ATTIS OP THE LI FE-SMNG SERVICE r F YOU run through tho history of the United States life saving 'service, ou will find that, with the exception of occasional widely separated years, tho coaat of Massachusetts lays claim to more disasters than any stretch of seaboard within tho scope of beach patrol, Long Island and New Jersey not ex cepted. This Is partly on ac count of tho particularly heavy , Ecu-traffic In the vicinity, but It is chlelly duo to Capo Cod. It Is this crooked finger of land that has beckoned thousand ships to their doom and which In the "hollows of Its dunes holds many a tragic story of lives snuffed out In desperate grapple with wavo and wind. Tho night of Tuesday, March 11, 1902, was wild and storm-strown. Running up along the coast, the ocean-going tug Sweepstakes was mak ing bad weather with her tow of the two big barges. Wadena and John C. Fitzpatrlck. For hours tho triple-expansion engines of tho tug bad been churning her screw In tho drift of the heavy head sea and shortly beforo daylight her captain discovered that she was making no head way. Ho then decided to He to and, whllo feel ing about for an anchorabo in tho gloom, tho barges ran aground on tho edgo of Shovelful Shoal, off the southern end of Monomoy Island, Massachusetts. When daylight came, the crow of tho Monomoy life saving station boarded tlHTbargca, but finding It impossible to float thorn on the flood tide, took their crews OBhoro. It was six days' later that tho disaster oc curred. Wreckers sent from ttoston were at work on the barges. The tug Peter Smith was on tho ground, having replaced the Sweepstakes. On tho night of tho 16th the weather thickened and a gale swept in from the sea. The night passed without Incident, but early on the morning of the 17th Keeper Eldrldge of the Monomoy station received a telephone from the captain of tho Smith asking him If every thing was all right on the Wadena. This alarmed Eldrldge, as be did not know any one had been left on the barge all night. He started at once for the point of the Island, three miles away, to look over the situation. The Wadena lay half a mile off shore from the point. She seemed to be riding easily on the bar, but the distress was flying from her rigging. This was a signal Eld rldge could not Ignore. It was a terrific pull through the breakers that rolled in acroas the shoals to the Wadena, but. the life-savers accomplished it and put their boat under the leo of tho barge at about noon. Keen er Eldrldge then directed the men to get into the aurfboat and told thm that he would take them ashore. Tho rail of the big barge was a dozen feet from the water and it was here that the trouble began. The men on the barge lowered themselves over side on a ropo, but as Captain Olsen, a very large man, waB halfway down, he losUhls hold and foil on the second thwart of the lifeboat, breaking It, and making It impossible for tho rowers to use It. In addition, the boat was crowded and the wind, which had been momentarily increas ing, "was tumbling hugo combers into the wind ward of the barge. It was Into this maelstrom of breakers that it was necessary for the hand!- capped crew of the life-saving station to pull their overloaded boat, and they made a swift and able attempt to accomplish it. At the Instant the starboard oarsmen were swinging the head of the lifeboat to meet the sea, a giant comber lifted under the quarter and dashed a barrel of water overside. That was the signal for a panlo among the rescued men that, before It subsided, cost The Portuguese wreckers, in a frenzy of fear, stood up in the boat, rocking It to and fro In their endeavors to escape the momentary Inrush of water, and though the life-savers fought to force them Into the bottom of the craft, this could not be done before the next shouldering wave caught the bow of the boat, swung her broadside and turned her over. Then ensued a desperate struggle for life. A hundred yards to leoward the breakers were smashing themselves Into white foam on the bar. There was just one chance In a million that the N boat could he righted before the sea carried her Into them. Once she reached them It would be all over. Hampered by the wreckers, the life savers fought desperately In those few minutes left before the combers should be reached. Three times they righted the boat and strove heroically to ball her, but each time she was again over turned. They were fighting the last tragic fight when they were swept Into the smothering foam of the bar. At that Instant seven men, including all from the Wadena, went to face their maker. Five of the hardiest of the life-savers still clung to the capsized boat. They were Keeper Eldrldge and Surfmen Ellis, Kendrlck, Foyo and Rogers. By a superhuman effort Kendrlck crawled to the bot tom of the overturned craft, but the next sea swept him to Join the seven who had gone a mo ment before. Foye was the next. "Oood-by, boys," he gasped as a smother of foam'took him. That left Ellis, Rogers and Eldrldge the keeper, and Eldrldge was fast losing strength. In a brief lull In the wash of the sea, Ellis crawled to the bottom of the boat. Below htm, a foot away, was the keeper, a friend since boy hood. At the risk of bis own life, Ellis dropped Into the water again, pushed Eldrldge up on the bottom with his last strength, and again crawled out himself. 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Collier, director general of tho Panama-California ex position of San Dlcgo: Whllo riding atong a mountain road In San Dlcgo, Cnl., Mr. Collier came upon a dilapidated corral fence upon which hung a Blgn bearing the follow Ing announcement: "For Sail." A' bright-looking small boy sat on the fence hcsldo the sign, and Mr. Col ller asked him, "When docs this ranch snllT" Tho small boy glanced up quickly at Mr. Collier, smiled, and said, "When somo sucker comes along who can rnlso tho wind." Mr. Collier doffed bis sombrero, thanked the lad for his information, and rode on hi way feeling greatly enlightened.-" Hearst's Magazine grasp on tho gunwale several times, 'disappeared In tho maelstrom ofjwater. That left Ellis auu Rogers, a big and very strong nnn. In this desperate moment Rogers throw nis arms around the other surfmnn's neck In a death grip. For moments, while tho sea battered and tho foam strangled them, they fought tho last grim fight for life, EIUb to break the grip of his frenzied comrade, Rogers to retain it. Suddenly, when It seemef thnt both must drown, Rogers strength left him. His arms relaxed; bis eyes glazed. "I'm going!" he gasped and sank. A moment later tho bbat drifted inshore of the outer breakers and fora brief space was In smoother water. Ellis once more crawled out on the bottom and succeeded In pulling the center board out so that he could hold on to it and bet ter maintain his position. Now, you will remember that at the time of the stranding of the Wadena, the John O. Fitz patrlck, her 'sister barge had also gone aground. She had gone over the outer bar and was lying between It and the Inner breakers. On board her was Cnpt. Elmer F. Mayo, of Chatham, who was In chargo of lightening her. The Fitzpatrlck was so far away from the Wadena that Captain Mayo, and two other men who were with him, did not Bee tho life-saving boat go out, nor did they have any knowledge of the grim tragedy that was being enacted, until, glancing over the rail, Captain Mayo saw an overturned life-boat with a single man clinging to it. r The capsized boat wsb some distance from the barge, but Mayo did not hesitate. "I'll get that fellow," he announced coolly. On tho deck of the Fitzpatrlck lay a small twelve-foot dory, the only boat aboard, a totally unfit craft for the furious sea that was thundering acrosB the shoals. Kicking off bis boots, Mayo nnd the other men, who begged him not to go as It would be certain death, ran the dory overside. How the captain of the wrecking crew kept his fragile crart afloat, those who watched him from the Fitzpatrlck could nover understand. But he did keep her afloat, and the set of the tide and the gale carried him down toward the capsized life-boat to which Ellis clung now with the last of bis ebbing strength. The life-saver said afterward that he saw a dory thrown over the side of tho Fitzpatrlck as be drifted near her, but that a moment later the scud and the spindrift were driven so thick and ceaselessly before bis eyes that be saw nothing, until suddenly out of the mist a tiny, bobbing boat loomed a dozen feet away. Then the occu pant of this boat' shot her skilfully alongside the swamped life-boat and the exhausted surfman top pled Into her. Mayo, with the half-conscious life-saver lying limp In the bottom of the dory, had kept his word to his mates on the Fitzpatrlck. Necessarily, the most thrilling stories of the' coast-watchers are those In which loss of life is entailed, and therefore, In a measure, they are accounts of the failures of the men of the serv ice. But they are stories of noble failures ana sea which froze In tholr clothing, cut and bruised from tho buffeting thoy received. "And then," enya tho Servlco Report of tho oc currence, "tho luBt tlmo tho launch was attempted tho boat wno hurled high on tho shore, her crow were spilled out llko matches from tho box nnd tho boat was shatterod. And Captain AtklnB and hlB men, having cnten nothing since tho even ing before, spent, faint, heart-sick, had boon baf fled and had to enduro the mortification of see ing a rescue effected by an un-worn volunteer crew In a fresh boat brougnt from tne town, ine Investigation revealed that the men upon the wreck might have been properly landed by the life-lines but for Keeper AtklnB' failure to employ the Lyle gun which had recently been furnished the station, through a singular Inapprehenslon of Itfl powers." It was a bitter pill for the service the defeat of its men by a volunteer crew. The night of November 80. 1880, was clear but windy. A heavy gale was piling the surf over the outer bar off the Peaked Hill Bar station. Surfmen Fisher and Kelley left the station nt four o'clock to make the eastward and westward patrol. Kelley started from the dobr first. As he did so he heard the slatting of satis and the banging of blocks above the wind. At the west ward ho saw the lights of a vessel close Inshore. Shouting to Fisher to give the alarm, he ran down the beach, burning his Coston light. Keep er Atkins glanced at tho surf and ordered out the boat. The men dragged It eastward until they were opposlto the stranded vessel, which proved to be the sloop C. E. Trumbull of Rock port. The crew manned the boat. The Btory of what took place out there under the darkness on Keeper Atkins' last errand of rescue Is best told, perhaps, In tho personal ac count of Isaiah Young, one of the survivors. The narrative of this man, In bis own words, la taken from tho Life Saving Report of 1881. It reads: "When we launched, the vessel was still some to the eastward. We wont oft In this manner to take advantage of the tide that waa running to the eastward between the bar and the shore. It was low tide. The sea was smooth on tho shore, but. on the bar, where the vessel lay, it was rough enough to be dangerous. "We hauled up from the boat until the bow lapped on to her quarter. Keeper Atkins called to them to Jump In. "We landed four persons. This trip could not have consumed more than fifteen minutes. "When we pulled up again, after being thrown back, Taylor stood in the bow with the line ready to heave. I cautioned Keeper Atkins to have a care for the boom. He said, 'Be ready with the boat-hook; I will look out for the boom.' I was Just taking up the hook when a sea came around the stern, threw the stern of the boat more toward the boom as the vessel rolled to leeward and the boom went Into the water. "As the vessel rolled to windward and the boom rose it caught under the cork belt near the stroke rowlock and threw us over, bottom up. "We rolled the boat over, right side up, and I was the first to get into her. Others got in; 1 am not positive how many. She did not keep right side up more than two minutes when a sea bohlnd some of them lie tragedies other than roHed u. 0Ter Bn We not on attain and were tnose or aeam. Perhaps one of the greatest of these 1b woven about the career of Captain David H. Atkins, un til November 30, 1880, keeper of the Peaked Hill Bar station, Cape Cod. This man had followed the sea from boy-hoodr whaling, fishing and coasting. In 1872 he bpcame keeper of the Peaked Hill Bar station. Then came a wild day in April, 1879, and, as It appears In tho chronicles of the department at Washington, "a blot fell across the record of. Keeper Atkins." On this April day tho Schooner Sarah J. Fort stranded near Peaked Hill Bar. A terrlflo sea, coupled with an onshore hurricane and a tempera ture very low for tho time of the year, faced At kins and bis crew as they discovered the schooner and took their apparatus to the beach. , Without hesitation the keeper ordered tho surf boat launched, but tho sea was so heavy that It was thrown back on the beach. Time and again In the twenty hours of watching and battling with the storm that followed the keeper led his men Into the breakers with the boat, but each time they were beaten back, drenched with the winter washed off two or three times before I struck out for the shore. I asked May? to strike with me", as I knew him to be an excellent swimmer; but he said that we could not hold out to reach the shore and he would stay by the' boat. Keeper Atkins waa holding by the boat. "Kelley had already struck out I beard Taylol groan near me as I started, but did not see him "I saw a gap In the beach which must have been Clara Bell Hollow, two miles from Station No, 7. When about three seas from the shore my sight began to fall and soon I could see noth ing; but Tkept swimming. "I recollect Surfman Cole saying, 'For God's sake, Isaiah, is this you 7' nnd of his taking me up. I knew nothing more until I found myself in tho station, after botng resuscitated. I should think that I remained by the boat half nn hour before I struck out, Tho cork belt was all that enabled roe 'to reach tho shore The cork belts in the boat are a good thing and should be kept on." Thus Keeper Atkins died with his boots on, as be said he would die If necessary, in the, pen formance of his duty. Wo have studied somo of tho prln clples that arc to obtain in tho es tabllshlng and tho working out of this now kingdom Jesus camo to found, and tho question naturally nrisos, "Is it of sufllclent vtiluo for mo to con Hldor or seek to enter It, or to possess It?" In our lesson today there 1b et beforo us four parables (Jesus' favorite uuy of teaching) which ho gavo priv ately to IiIh dlaclpleB and not to tho multitude, thnt ought to answer any such questioning In our hearts. Tho first two huvo to do with the great valuo of tho kingdom, tho sec ond Its mixed character nnd final sepa ration, nnd tho hint, tho great respon sibility of those who possess Its truths. In this cntlro group of pnr ables found In tho thirteenth chapter of Mntthow nro four that nro for men who nro careful to observe tho out ward development, and four others that nro for thoso men of faith who soo beneath tho surface the hidden things -of tho kingdom. Those men who view tho kingdom in each par ticular ago ns Qod sees rather than as man observes. Today's lesson sots forth tho pur chaso of things of great valuo, tho ac quisition nnd disposition of things ot n mixed value, nnd lastly, tho uso ot theso values after comlug into tho pos session of them. I. Tho hidden treasure, v. 44. Per haps moro properly this should bo termed tho parnblo of tho bought field. Wo need to remember that In all ot these parables tho Master himself is tho Important personage Ho Is the ono who sows tho seed, etc. llonce wo understand that ho Is tho one who discovers this great trcasuro hid den In tho field. Ho has already told us that "the field is tho world" (Matt 13:38). Symbolism of Pearls. II. Tho pearl of grcatprlce, vs. 45, 10. This parable Is very much tho same as tho foregoing, yet It adds great strength and forco to this study In values. Wo ought to be very clear In our study and application. The pearl of great price may perhaps be taken as a symbol of our salvation, but if no for us to interpret tho merchant man as tho commonality of man would bo for tho sinner to purchase his own salvation, a thing as far as possible for tho New Testament teaching, , Why does Jesus speak of pearls to tho Hobrows who did not esteem them at all? What 1b the symbolism of a pearl? Tho pearl is the one precious Btone thnt Is tho result of a living organism; It Is the result of an Injury done to the life of tho oyster. It has always stood for purity nnd for In nocence. Is It then illogical for us to nssumo that. Christ Is tho merchant man who gave all to redeom (o. g., buy back) tho lost souls of mankind? III. Tho drag net, vs. 47-50. This pnrablo Is another that deals with the mixed character of the kingdom here upon tho earth and of tho final separa tion incident thereto. It Is notlcenblo that this 1b collective, not Individual, flshlnp;. There will bo many move ments that will ostensibly be for the gathering ot men Into this kingdom, but the principle hero laid down is that one considered In the lesson ot tho wheat and the tares, viz., that ul timately there shall be cast out all things that do offend. In the finality of all things the kingdom shall be without spot or blemish. Henco w So not read Into this parable ompha Us upon any phase of evangelism. Search the Scriptures. IV. The householder, vs, 61-53. In Iho first of theso parables we hod tho Word as the seed of this new kingdom! Jn this the eighth ot tho kingdom par 'ables we revert as it wero to the mat ter of the Word. Jesus asks hi disciples If they understand tho Won he has spoken to them. Their re sponse is, "Yes, we do." Then Jesus shows them what a burden of respon sibility due to possession rests uposj them. Jesus refers to the Scribes whose work under the Jo'wlsh econ omy was to transcribe and to interpret and tells the disciples that they in a like manner are to Interpret the king dom to all men. They are to "brine forth" hidden treasures. We must re member that Jesus taught In parables that "hearing thoy might not hear," etc., hence wo are to search the Scriptures and bring forth these hid den treasures of truth aa we go about doing our part. Aro we willing to pay the price for the sako of tho pearl? Are we willing to pay the prlco ot the field that oth ers may possess the great treasure ol eternal life In Christ? He paid tin prlco to purchase eternal life for us, Do not forget the kingdom Is not oat ing and drinking, but righteousness and Joy and peace in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17). The treasure was discovered, the jearl sought after; both methods lave their place and significance in our lives that are to bo hid with Christ In God. We must reveal to UH world great treasures. Incredible, "Gholly told mo solomnly yesterday that ho onco had a brainstorm." "Pooh, pooh! I'd Just as soon be Hove that a Jolly fish could have the backache." Don't counon your excuses before they nrojiatrhod. RECORD OF A GREAT MEDICINE Doctors Could Not Help Mrs, Templeton rRegainsd Health through LydiaE. Pinkham's Compound. - eMstTwasfMBaaBis Hooper, Nebraska. I am very flal to tell how LydlaE.PInkhams Vegetable! Compound has helped me. 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