The Tribune-Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 20, 1894 Page: 3 of 8
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SO HANDY.
Ho nses It in work and play,
In every time and place;
A whisk to brunh the tiles away,
A fan to e«ol his faoe
A basket, all with flowers a blow,
Or filled with apples red
And when it's out of use, you know,
It's handy on his head '
It makes a trap for butterflies
When summer days be*in;
It's just the very shape and slz«
To cuddle kitties in
There's not a finer tishinj net
For cverythin; afloat.
And when u shingle's hard to get,
It answers for a boat.
To-day, when rani the dinner bell,
He left it in a tree.
A robin mother scanned it well—
"A cozy house," chirped she.
But even while the careful bird
Considered this an1 that.
The owner's cheerful shout was heardt
"Where did I leave m/ hat?"
Jennie Harlowe.
BT W. CLTKK RUSSELL.
CHAPTER VI—CONTINUED.
When I recovered my senses I was
lying upon the tleck with my head
upon my wife's knee. She was bath-
ing my brow with Hungary water.
The cabin lamp was burning and I
opened my eyes upon her sweet and
anxious face as she bent over me.
For a minute or two my mind re-
mained abroad, but the memory of
the thunderous blows that had
heeled the ship over flashed upon
me on a sudden like something seen
by a fierce light, and I sprang as
though electrified to my feet.
"Oh, dearest!" cried my wife. "I
feared you were dead."
"How long have I been unconsci-
ous, Jenny!" I inquired, eagerly
straining my ears as I spoke.
"I cannot tell. I have been too
much terrified to know. Some seri-
ous accident has befallen the vessel,
I fear. There was a deal of hurried
rushing of feet overhead, and a
noise of masts breaking, and faint
cries as of people in a boat at some
distanco and then this present
stillness."
With lifted hand as a demand for
silence I listened. The ship was
slightly pitching; before I fell sense-
less she had been rolling. The
straining sounds within her were
very heavy; there was also a sloppy
sort of noise as of near waters close
to us, as though the wash of the
surge came very near to the scuttles.
I also distinguished in the move-
ments of the ship, slight as they
were, a sluggishness that was like
a slow, but steadfast languishing
into 'ifelessness, different indeed
from the familiar buoyant lift and
fall of the planks. AH this I gather-
ed in the space of half a dozen res-
pirations along with the sense of a
dead stillness on deck; that is to
say, I could not hear a human voice
nor catch the dimmest footfall.
CHAPTER VII.
"Dress yourself, Jennie, as quickly
as possible," I cried, "as completely
as time will suffer. I will rejoin
you in a moment or two;" and with-
in at least a couple of minutes from
the instant of my recovery I was on
deck.
The cabin lamp burned dimly. As I
rushed to the companion steps I
spied the door of the captain's berth
swinging to and fro. I sprung up
the ladier and looked around me.
boot off when the sudden heel of
the ship threw me.
"What has happened?" she cried.
,-A collision,nodoubt," I answered.
"The -Lady Charlotte' has been
run into and is fast sinking. There
are two dead bodies on the main-
deck. "
"Oh!" she exclaimed, as though
stabbed.
"The captain and seamen have
abandoned her," I proceeded, "if
one of the two dead bodies be not
the captain. They must have for-
gotten us in the hurry of their
flight, or believed us to be amongst
them. The quarter boats are gone.
But the gig remains. See! it hangs
there," I cried, pointing shad-
owily to the taffrai.. "Jenny,
whilst I clear away ready for
lowering her get you whatever pro-
visions you can lay your hands upon
in the cabin."
She ran below. I jumped into tho
boat and found a breaker in the
bows. With this I sped forward as
fast as my legs would carry me to
the scuttle-butt lashed just abreast
of the main-hatch. The metal dip-
per lay beside the bung-hole. I
filled the breaker and cut away the
dipper to serve as a cup, and rushed
to the boat again and fell to with a
large clasp-knife, that I had just
purchased from the captain for the
convenience of cutting up cake to-
bacco, to saw through the lanyards
of the gripes. I worked as though
the ship was to founder in five min-
utes.
Jenny arrived with the lap of her
gown filled with articles of food, all
of which she had met with in the
little pantry adjoining the state
cabin. I swiftly put the articles
into the boat, and observing that
she had oars, mast, and sail in her,
with a rudder and yoke In the stern
sheets, I proceeded te lower her, 1
slacking away one fall whilst my
wife let slide the other. Had tho
ship been in any other posture than
almost head on to tho sea tho low-
ering of this boat would have been a
very ticklish undertaking, perhaps
impracticable to amateur hands such
as mine, but under the counter the
water rose and tell of an oil-like
smoothness. I had sense enough to
so thoroughly overhaul the falls, that
the boat lay athwart under the stern
as safely as if she were detached;
then telling Jenny to climb over the
rail into the mizzen-chains, I slipped
down one of the tackles, unhooked
both blocks, got the boat alongside,
helped my wife into her, and rowed a
little distance away where wo could
take breath and yet be clear of tho
whirlpool should the "Lady Char-
lotto suddenly founder.
1 stood up to take a look around
me, for the collision could not have
long happened. The surviving boats
must therefore be near, though it
was possible that their inmates had
been taken on board the vessel that
had run into us. It blew but a light
air and she could not have traveled
far, yet i searched the darkness in
vain for any murky smudge upon the
obscurity that might indicate her.
It was a little after 2 o'clock, as I
had noticed when running up the
companion steps, and day would not
break till about five. I resolved to
linger near tho "Lady Charlotte" till
that some
tho
! chance would lie In sailing north
I where the islands were, off one of
which we might find a vessel willing
to receive us. Unhappily, and I
cursed myself for being guilty of
such an oversight, in the hurry of
leaving the ship I had come away
without a compass. There was
nothing to be done then but to steer
by the sun or stars. I forthwith
stepped the mast and hoisted tho
sail, and in a few moments the sharp-
lined gig was buzzing through the
: blue serges with tho sun broad on
our starboard beam, and the wind
blowing warm and fragrant over tho
| quarter.
I will not dwell upon this passage
of desperate and perilous navigation.
I was no sailor and was bat ill ac-
quainted with handling a boat, and
had tho weather changed, had it
come to blow a fresh head wind, in
short had there been any obligation
of skill put unon me, we must cer-
j tainly have perished. Happily the
mighty Pacific, upon whoso dark
blue expanse our tiny sail was a dash
1 of light scarce biggor than the pin.
ion of an albatross, remained truo to
its name. Tho wind sat steadily in
the southeast and blew us north-
ward, the heavens were pie-bald, the
sun brilliant and hot; the brine
| underran us in curves of rich blue
brilliance, the night sparkled with
stars.
It was on the morning of tho sixth
day that, being awakened from a
short doze by the flash of the sun
; athwart my faco as I sat with the
( yoke-line coiled round my hand, I
j lifted my chin from my breast
and glancing drowsily ahead
spied a little to leeward of
j the curve of the boat's sail a green
i cloud that looked to be resting on
the sea-line on a narrow base of
frosted silver. I rubbed my eyes to
quicken their perception, and sure
enough clearly distinguished the
| shape of wharwas apparently a small
island swimming in tho blue atmos-
phere as though viewed through a
j hot air. Jenny lay in the stern
| sheets sound asleep, her head was
i pillowed on her arm that rested upon
the rail. I kissed her pale cheek
vehemently in the sudden transport
of joy which the spectacle of tho
island kindled in me, and she in-
stantly opened her eyes and sat
erect smiling at me whilst she fon-
dled my hand as though to thank mo
for the manner in which I had
awakened her.
"Land, darling'" I cried, pointing.
She looked and exclaimed, "Oh,
thank God! How have I prayed that
we may be spared. Oh. dearest, we
could not—we could not part!"
It was still a dark night; the steam-
white clouds I had before noticed ' stie foundered, conceivin_
were trending in largo masses north- [ of oul' Pe0Pl0 might be doing
west, and there were stars enough • s^mo thing out in the unsearchabl
between to complexion the midnight ' round about, and that wo
atmosphere with a very delicate, i Blight find companions therefore
dim sheen. Tho wheel was deserted
and revolved to left and right to the
rise and drop of the rudder as tho
vessel gently pitched. All sail was
set upon the main and mizzen, but
forward was a mass of wreckage as j neai'ness
though the bowsprit had been " *
wrenched off, bringing down the
foretop mast and all above it. I
sent a loud 6hout along the decks,
but received ao reply. I ran for-
ward, thinking there might be men
past the barricade of wreckage, and
when I had approached near to the
galley I kicked against something
soft and nearly fell. It was the
find
when the sun rose. The breeze was
soft and mild, yet a chill would rise
from the floating blackness of a near
sea, which sent a shudder through
one from time to time. Indeed, the
of the ocean was
tremendous presence, and
the hugo, glooming surface,
or void rather, with its spectral
glancings of pallid foam, seemed to
sweep to tho very throat with a
sense of strangulation as the boat
slided into a hollow and hung a mo-
ment in it, with nothing to see save
a star or two staring sparely over
the crests that stood up on cither
body of a man with another lying j
athwart it, and on top of both was a ! I held Jenny to my heart, and
huge, heavy fragment of spar that comforted hor as best I could. It
seemed to have struck them down
with one and the same blow. This
dreadful sight filled mo with un-
speakable consternation, and I fled
back to tho quarter deck, where I
again raised my voice in an ear-
piercing shout, but obtained no
answer, not even an echo from tho
wind-hushed canvas.
We had carried a boat on either
6ide; now glancing at the davits I
found they were empty. I sprung
past tho wheel and leaning over the
taffrail saw what was called the cap-
tain's gig, a long slender boat which
he used when in port, hanging at the
irons there. I thanked God for the
sight of it, for landsman as I was—
though by this time I could express
myself in many nautical terms—I
was perfectly conscious from the
peculiar sickly motion of the vessel
that sho was draining water rapidly
into her hold and might sink in the
was about an hour after we had
quitted tho "Lady Charlotte" that
she foundered.
I made up my mind, however, to
linger till daybreak, and at last,
after an interminable spell of wait-
ing, the faint, pearly gray of dawn
showed in the east, and then the
wide field of ocean oponod with a
suddon lift of the sun's pink aud
flashing head, and a fine-weather
sky of great white clouds, and blue
heaven liquid, soft and glowing.
There was nothing to bo seen.
"No doubt," said I. "the ship that
ran us down took on board the peo-
ple that got away in the boats.
Would to God, Jenny, wo were of
them."
"Dearest, keep up your heart,"
she answered. "In what part of the
ocean are we? to what place shall
wo endeavor to sail?"
,1 remembered what Captain Chris-
boat of a pulse. 1 put my head into tian had told me of our situation on
the companion and called loudly to J the preceding day by tho first sights
Jenny. Sho was coming on deck as \ he had been able to obtain for a long
I cried out—she had completely while, and putting a chart of tho
though hastily clothed hersolf. I, j South Pacific before mo in fancy, 1
you will remember, was fully dressed 1 figured the place of our boat upon
too. being in the act of takijv^ a i it, and then perceived that our best
CHAPTER VIII.
I eased off the sheet of tho sail
and directed tho boats head at the
green and glimmering mass, and
i through it the little craft sped with
j a misty twinkling of flying-fish on
j either hand from time to time, and a
i satin-white wake pointing arrow-like
j behind us. It was not until about
| 2 o'clock in the afternoon that we
had brought tho island close enough
to enable me to distinguish it clear-
ly. What had resembled frosted sil-
ver in the distance was coral sand
that stretched in a dazzle from the
verdurous acclivities and flats in-
shore to the wash of the blue sea
j that glided to and fro upon it in
small opalescent breakers. There
was a great abundance of cocoanuts.
and there wore green hills apparent-
ly toward the center, but of small
elevation, along with a quantity of
bush and a species of rank, "tall
grass, like to what is called Guinea
grass. I could witness no habitations
of any sort, nor discern the least
signs of a ship, nor, for the matter
of that, of human iife. I scanned
the horizon eageriy, but there was
no more land in sight, in view at
least from tho low elevation of our
boat.
I had read Commodore Wilkes'
account of his expedition into tho
seas, and of the man-eating people
he had found on some of the islands
liorc, and I stared intently in search
of anything that should resemble a
black figure; having made up my
mind, should tho place be inhabited,
to lie off till the darkness fell, then
sneak softly ashore and ondeavor to
obtain a few cocoanuts and make off
agaiu into the north where tho
islands would be plentiful,and whore
I might be sure of falling in with a
ship or a trader of some rig or other.
I asked Jenny tf she could see any-
thing stirring. She brought her
glowing eyes to bear upon the island
and aftor a thorough search of it
said no. So I continued to hoad right
in, aud presently opened out a
point of land that rounded into
a sharp creek. The breakers flashed
in spray against the point and raised
a little commotion in the mouth of
tho creek, but past this trifling flur-
ry, that was too inconsiderable to
cause me uneasiness, the water
rounded into quicksilver. I made
directly for this creek, keeping a
thirsty lookout for savages, but,
unless there was a oommunity of
them dwelling upon the other side of
this little green spot of land, it was j
unquestionably uninhabited. It ;
stretched east and west ah«- t a
league, but how far it extended fro- j
ward the north I could not tell.
TO J J CONTINUED.
THE TWO TERRITORIES.
CONGRESSIONAL AND LOCAL
SUMMARY.
News In General of Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory X'ertalnlujj to
the l ale Face and the lted Man.
Big crowds attended the fair at
Guthrie last week.
An African colony of Negroes lias
been organized at Guthrie.
Chief Justice Dale adjourned court
the other day to go to the fair.
In the Cherokee Cosmos a birth no-
tice is headed with the single word
| "Kid."
Professor Magruder of the Agricul-
ture college at Stillwater will soon
marry Miss iiessie Duncan.
It is a cold day when the firemen at
an Oklahoma tire do not use "heroic
action and exercise cool judgment."
Bishop Vincent presided at the an-
; nual meeting of the Methodist minis-
ters of Oklahoma at Oklahoma City
last week.
Several of the Pawnee Indian boys
| have recently been sent to the train-
{ ing school at Santa Fe, N. M., by the
| government.
All the Indian territory papers are
certain that the. Dawes commission
will make its report to congress in
| December.
The experimental station at Still-
water has come to the conclusion that
i the worst pest in Oklahoma is the
j winged pig weed, a sort of tumble
| weed 'which resembles the Russian
thistle.
Last week James Hunt, living east
of Guthrie, in Lincoln county, thought
he heard a noise in the chicken coop,
taking his gun went out to investi-
gate. As he did not return for some-
time, August Hunt, his 17-vsar-old
brother, followed him out to see what
| was the matter, and in the darkness
was mistaken for a chicken thief and
was fatally shot by his brother.
There is a strange coincidence in
the afflictions that have recently been
visited upon Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wil
son of Deep Pork. Just three years
to the day before his son Will was
killed, a younger son was killed by an
accident at Deep Fork. Two weeks
ago Mrs. Wilson's brother dropped
de ad in his chair, and a couple of
weeks prior to that another brother
passed away in a similar manner.
Bands of Cheyenne and Arapohoe
j Indians have been stealing a great
I many cattle from the numerous
i ranches in the Cheyenne country west
of Hennessey, and several fights with
Winchesters 'have taken place, with
I the cattlemen and cowboys on one
side and the Indians on the other,
j The most desperate one was fougbt
last Thursday, at a point forty miles
west of Hennessey, and four Indians
' and two cowboys, named Gus Schmidt
and Mike Delaney, were killed.
Gold has been found in the Glass
mountains in the Cheyenne country,
west of Hennessey. Great excitement
! prevails, and farmers are deserting
their farms and flocking to the scene
j in great numbers. It has been known
j for some time that the Indians have
j been paying for provisions, saddles,
etc., with gold dust, but not even the
most ventursome were able to discover
any traces of the yellow metal. Num-
| erous parties, while prospecting for
gold in that region, have been fired
upon by Indians. The little city of
j Okeene is almost deserted, nearly all
have gone in search of gold.
A. F. Davis was held under a 8750
bend by Commissioner Gibbons last
week at Ardmore, charged with im-
personating a United States officer.
Davis had subscribed for an Eastern
papor and had received as a premium
a commission from a detective associa-
tion. Armed with this authority, he
went to near Thackerville and told a
young man named West that he had to
arrest him and take him to Texas,
but that if West would pay him 815 he
would release him. West did so, and
Davis played the same gameon afarm-
er named Woodall in the same vicini-
ty, getting 835 from his last victim,
lie informed both parties that he was
a United States secret officer.
Prof. H. B. Hardy, a school teacher
abort 70 years of age, living ten miles
north of Caddo, rode into town Thurs-
day afternoon and surrendered to a
Deputy United States Marsnal, stating
that he had killed W. B. Thorp at
Cobb's ferry. The particulars, as
gathered from Hardy and others, are
as follows; The Dasfc ten months
Thorp has been operating the ferry-
boat, which is owned by Hardy, who
took his shot gun and undertook to
take possession of the boat. Thorp
claiming a balance of 83 due him, re-
fused to give the boat up until it was
paid, and ordered Hardy off the boat.
Hardy refusing to go, Thorp picked up
a piece of iron and was advancing up-
on Hardy, when the old man dlscharg-
his shot gun at him. The load took
effect In Thorps groin, and he died in
a few minutes. Thorp leaves a help-
less family of four small children.
JConsiuerable building is going on in
tho territory.
The first child born in Enid is sick.
Its name is Enid Slaughter.
Five hundred new call boxes will be
added to the postoftice at Enid.
The Blackwell Times-Record has
purchased the Eagle's subscription
list.
Frank McMaster's new Oklahoma
magazine is out and as pretty as a plo-
ture.
Cyrus Bates has been appointed
postmaster at Wade, in tho Choctaw
Nation.
A company of soldiers arrived at Ft.
Sill last week. They were from San
Diego, Cal.
Harney Cooper has been sentenced
to fifteen years at hard labor in the
penitentiary.
The next sale of military reserva-
tion lots at Oklahoma City will ocdUr
November 8.
Charles Garland, the Seward man,
who was arrested for perjury, is an
old newspaper man.
A half-breed Cherokee Indian has
been nominated for the territorial
council by the Democrats.
There is a town in the Strip that
says the trains stop there just the
same as they do in Chicago.
The editor of the Oltlahomian has
retired because he could not support
all the nominees on his ticket con-
scientiously.
Larsen, who escaped from the Okla-
homa City jaii with Vic Casey, is baok
in his old quarters. He was captured
in Missouri.
Trade is steadily improving in Ok-
lahoma, and general prosperity of a
modest conservative character, seems
to prevade all classes.
There was a concert given in the M.
E. Church at Oklahoma City Monday
evening. It was a farwell to Rev. D.
N. Stafford and family.
An editor of a paper in Oklahoma
notifies his readers, as he huddles close
to the stove, that he will no longer
take ice on subscriptions.
Several citizens of Oklahoma CiSy
have supplied the high school with
the leading periodicals. That is the
right way to educate boys and girls.
Harry Carl, aged 16, was killed Sat-
urday by being buried under a load of
hay which went through abridge west
of Guthrie. Leve McVey was also
buried under the load, but managed
to get his head out and call for help,
and was rescued.
A peculiar accident happened at
Perkins the other day. Three peo-
ple were taking a calf to market in a
wagon. There was some loose hay on
the bottom of the wagon and a spark
from a pipe set it on fire. Th e wagon
was burned up and the calf perished.
The gasoline stove of Mrs. John
Stevens of Lela, exploded while din-
ner was being prepared and the wom-
an was terribly burned. A little girl
was so badly burned that she has
since died a little boy will die from
burns received. Assistance of men
near by saved the house from being
burned.
A general and lively interest is man
ifested in the selection of a new site
for the fair ground. A fair ground
must be secured now while land is
comparatively cheap, and as conven-
iently near the city as possible. This
is to be a state fair and Oklahoma
City says it is just the proper place
for such an enterprise.
Saturday was the sixth day the
Choctaw Council has been in session,
at a cost of S 'OO a day and nothing has
been done. Both houses met and pass-
ed resolutions to appoint school sup-
erintendents, trustees and other offi-
cers this week, and then adjourn until
the following week. Then the loby-
ists will begin their work.
The Eufaula high school building,
one of the educational edifices owned
by the Creek Nation, was set on fire
Monday night about 9 o'clock by some
of the students, who were tired of go-
ing to school. The fire was extin-
guished with great diftlculto, and only
after great damage had been donej
This is the third attempt made by the
pupils to burn the building.
The Creek Council has been in ses-
sion for several days, but nothing of
importance has been done so far. Two
committees, composed of eight mem-
bers from the House Kings, and twelve
from the House of Worriors.liave been
appointed to count the votes that
were polled last June, to determine
whether or not the present constitu-
tion will be abolished and a new ona
substituted. The new one is in many
respects superior to the old one. but
it is doubtful if it will be adopted
Chief Ferryman recommends in his
message that they enact such laws as
will cause a reduction of royalty on
ooal and tie timber, making a mora
reasonable tax, as outside capitalists
claim it can not be handled at a prof-
it He is of the opininion that such ft
law would greatly increase the rev-
enues of the government
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