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with Mri. A.J. Sawyer on April 11th,
on which occasion the program will be
a symposium on the club movement.
The following questions have been pre
eonted the members to which brief
replies are deiired:
1. What is the strongest atgument in
favor of women's clubs?
2. What is, or should be, the Sm
mum bonum of a club?
3. What is the duty of members of
small clubs to large clubs?
4. Wherein is the greatest strength
of the club movement?
5. Does it show inefiicency or in
adequacy? G. Does it make women more com
panionable to men? Would mixed
clubs be preferable?
7. Is it helpfully or injuriously en
croaching on social usages?
8. What should be its attitude on
public questions? (e. g. labor disturb
ances which affect women who are wage
earners.)
To what extent should it foster par
ticular schemes? (as the "True Travel
ing Library.")
10. Has it reached a climax in num
bers or usefulness?
11. What ia the greatest danger
which threatens the club movement?
12. Do you consider the next five
years a "critical period?'
FERGUS SHOAL
Leonard H. Rchhhns.
At the meeting of the Child Study
department of the Woman's club last
Saturday afternoon, Dr. Hart of the
pedagogical department of the State
university gave a scholarly and instruc
tive lecture on "Art in Education,"
which was listened to with great in
terest by the members. This being the
last meeting of this department the
following officer" were elected for next
year: Leader, Mrs. Abel; assistant
leader, Miss Anna Bette; secretary, Mrs.
Cora Berge.
During the year this department has
been favored with lectures from
Superintendent Saylor, Dr. Stein, Pro-
ammaa r.itAlvAat nTMfM ori UoHf mkinn
'' . .. ', . loose rone end gave him
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added much to the interests and help
fulness of this section of the Woman's
club. A resolution of thanks was ten
dered these gentlemen.
This department also completed ar
rangements at this meeting for a gen
eral patrons' meeting to be held in the
High school auditorium on the evening
of April 1st. Patrons' meetings have
been held in the various school build
ings during the year and have been
very well attended, but as these have
mostly been in the afternoon, few of the
fathers have been able to attend; hence,
this evening meeting has been arranged,
where the following questions will be
discussed. "Home Environment" by
Profetsor Luckey. "Street Environ
ment" by Principal Waterhouse.
"School Environment'' by Mrs. A. J.
Sawyer. "Responsibility of the Public
to the Schools" by Hon. H. H. Wilion.
"The debt the School owe to the Public"
by Superintendent J. F. Saylor. Mrs.
A. W. Field, president of the Woman's
club, will preside. A cordial invitation
is extanded to all interested in this
subject.
"Did you ever hear of Fergus Shoal?"
asked Captain Main.
The speaker wai a passenger from
Glasgow on his way to take a tramp
stoamor out of American waters. He
was "ship.mate" with evorv ono on
board from the officers and stylish wom
en in the saloon to the pretty Swedish
girlB in the Btoerago and the smutty
faced Slav, aged six, who smoked a pipe
as long as his arm. Captain Main was
the life of the ship, and had it not beon
for him some of ub long before wo saw
the lightship over Nantucket Shoal
must have perished of ennui.
We drew our stoamor chairs closer
into the BunnieBt corner of the deck
where we were trying to warm the chill
of the Labrador current out of our
blood and waited expectantly while
Captain Main prefaced his yarn by
whittling from a very black plug a pipo
full of tobacco.
"Fergus Shoal isn't down on the
charts, but it kept the Hydrograpbical
society guetsing for a year and caused
the scientists no end of trouble. In
fact an expedition spont a month out
here somewhere looking for it, and one
of the leading geographers wroto a
paper on a submarine volcano that was
going to epout before the end of the
century; and there are many people
who still believe him. I know all about
Fergus Shoal, but I have never told the
yarn uutil now, for reasons.
"It was in 188- when I shipped bb
third mate on the Dakota, Captain
Fergus, Liverpool to New York with a
cargo or. drygoods. I was pretty fresh
then, although I had been knocking
about the world for fifteen years and
knew all about the bally business.
"Captain Fergus was a fat, puffy
little man, and if he had been in com
mand of a six-day passenger boat he
couldn't have put on more lugs. Every
thing had to be just so on his ship. A
a spasm and
the slightest variation from the routine
work ot officers and men got him sput
tering ugly.
"From the way he studied his charts
you would think he were poking into
Queenstown harbor in the dark instead
of booming along at eight knots in the
middle of the pond. Observations he
was always taking, and he made the
bo's'n heave the log every two hours.
Why, he was so punctillious that when
a fog came down on us he would reduce
the boat's speed to four knots! And
that's something no enterprising skip-
MANY HOUftS
QUICKER !
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tho common sailors. Four times that
watch I chucked tho plumb, and whon
I went bolow I had an idea.
"The fog whb still thoro whon I came
on deck again, and so wero tho sound
ing ordors. Whon my mon wound in
tho load at the ond of tho hour I un
hooked it from the wiro, carriod it into
the dock house and jabbed it into the
box where sand (or scouring tho decks
!b kept. I lookod hard for a bit of Bhell,
but thoro wasn't any; eo I washed tho
Band off the lead and carried tho tallow
to tho Captain.
" 'Bottom at 80 fathoms, I enye.
"The ukippor nearly hugged mo.
" 'Bottom?' he saye, looking g'ud liko.
'You're my kind of an officer, you aro.
Let mo get my microscope.'
"He fetched his glass and bont over
tho tallow.
'"Uoarso white sand rod specks,'
says ho all tromblinir with iov.
"Then he got his charts and figured gohe mine lit fast mail.
up bis longitude by dead reckoning,
because we hadn't seen the bud for two
days. Try bb he would ho couldn't find
coarse white sand with red specks on
his chart in that part of the world.
"'Try again says he, and I triod
again. When I judged we had run out
about 60 fathoms I signalled and the CISCO.
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"About twelve days out a bloody fog
settled about us for keeps, and the
chances of rising Sandy Hook light dur
ing the summer at our rate of speed
seemed to me mighty few. Well, our
troubles began. Captain Fergus became
more exacting than ever and started us
sounding for the Grand Banks. I knew
and we all knew that we were every
inch of 200 miles off the Bank, and the
second mate told the Captain so. The
second mate's name was L ullock and I
put him up to arguing with the skipper.
(Bullock and I bunked in the same
cabin, and it one of us coula do the
other a dirty turn he went out of his
way to do it.) What the Captain told
Bullock I never found out. But when
I went onto the bridge there was trouble
in the skipper's eye, and Bullock as I
passed him looked squally and as red as
a boiled beet.
"After that we took soundings every
hour, trying to find bottom in 800
fathoms. Casting the lead and wind
ing it in again with the wire zipping
through the water fifty yards astern is
perhaps the meanest job on shipboard
when you know bally well that there
ipn't bottom within half a mile of you;
but we had to do it or go forward with
men braked the wire and brougbt in
the lead. Coarse white sand with red
Bpecks. There couldu't be any doubt.
The captain wbb so happy over hiB dia
covery that he danced a Highland iling
and invited me into his cabin, where,
over a bottle of port, wo christened
Fergus Shoal.
"It came Bullock's watch again and
be ran the lead clear out and ot course
found nothing. The ekipper was furi
ous "'You're a hell of an officer!' he
roarnd. 'Main there ia worth two of
you. He can find bottom any time'
"That is how Fergus Shoal happened.
And that is why the Hydrographical
society worried and fussed and spent
money looking in the middle of the
ocean ror coarse wnite sand witn red
specks that was dug out of a pit in the
north of England.
"It was three days later that I set
tled accounts with Bullock ."
Just then the little cabin boy with
the black eye and a bad ear for music
came out of the companion way and
blew the bugle call for lunch. Like
trained soldiers we responded, for the
chill breath of the Laberador current
makes one hungry enough even to fore
go a sailor's yarn.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Williamson They say there's a great
change in Hawkins since he reformed.
Henderson Well, I should say so.
Why, even his worst enemies wouldn'
know him.
Only 60 hours to San Fran-
58 hours to Portland
from Missouri river.
For time tabid, folders, illustrated book
pamphlets descriptive of the territory tra
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First publication April 1. 4
In (he District Court of Lancaster County, Ne
braska. Susan A. Hay, ")
Plaintiff.
s. I Notice to Non-Resident
John 8. Main. (Horn r Defendants.
B. Main and Edward
Ruisoll,
Defendants. )
John 8. Main, Clara 8. Main and Edward
Russoll, dofondnnts, will tako notice that on
the 18th day of March, 1890. Busan A. Kay,
plaintiff lioroln, filed hor potitlou in the dis
trict court or ancestor uounty. Nobraskn.
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uualnit Bald uorouuauts, tho object and prayur
oi which is u lorocioso a curtain mortgago
cutod by the defendants, Johu 8, Main i
Clara S.Main.to tho Castle Lund Campany.u
all of block Hlxtoon (10) in . W. Wright's Ai
o.io-
and
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ddi-
Heights, Lancaster County,
HEART DISEASE
And nervous ailments are as curable as
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Office 1427 O Sr., Lincoln, Nebr.
tlon to Hothnuy
ami- a. f a'i .
anumntooi nenrasaa. to necuro tno imvmmit
of a cortain promissory note dated January
22ad, 1894, for tho sum of $400.00, due and pay
able throoyoars from date thereof, tn-wit: Jan
uary 22nd, 1897, with interest at the rate of 8 por
cent. That there is now due upon said note
and mortgago tho sum of $100.00, for which sun
with intorost from January 22nd, 1894, plaintiff
prays for a doc roe that defendants be roquirod
to pay tho same or tho said promises may bo
sold to satisfy tho amount found to be duo : and
that defendant Edward Iiussell purchased said
property subject to said mortgago and that the
right, title, interest and estate of said Edward
Russell in and to said premises be declared In
ferior and subjoct to the lien of aald mortgage,
You are required to answer said petition on or
bofore tho 1st day of May, 1899.
Datod March 30, 2899.
Susan A. Ray,
Plaintiff
By Charlos O. Whodon and Charles E. Magoon,
her attorneys.
First publication April 8. 3.
NOTICE.
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