Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-23
URsA MAJOR.
EDicATrD TO cAPr.J.l OMAN As S SCOTIA


DEDICATED TO CAPT. j., oFB.&N IS SCOTIA
"Ohi 'haies o'm ehty forests wild
What charm hath rom ,hy hsunts hegulod
AMI hther brought soy roughest shild-
from native lar
The grilay bear2
What healk has nature strangely used,
How all her harmonies abused,
when man and beast are thus sconiused,
There's but bear
He who would sec this creatures grace,
And feel the animals embrAoe,
Need only seek, and iace 70 lace
Then question ialr,
THIS precious bear
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Ask mm how we've run by lag7
or ftrere's dsnger in this fog
Or how they mix the sailors grOgi
Aud see him glare
This gentle heari
v.
veil him the Wind ~ on the beam,
Ask we're unier al our steam,
then see the hruin nature CLEAN,
and then beware
This human bear
vi
Ietno MAJ hone to take by guile
This brun, It's 10 womHn's smile
Al ne he shows he's human, whue
To man he'se'er
"oi''uh'"N peni'
VII
sEs mn, sSest NspIene, rom 99r sRh'
Let Inv bro I'd rains forever blight
Ir m vision far
MS o's'u oo'''
1.-THE doughty captain should ever see these
lines he can regard them as a just represen-
tation Of the feelings towards him of ninety
nine out of every hundred who have crossed
the Atlantic ferry" under his care What a
pity il is that the Cunard Company cannot
lind a combination OF the sailor and the gen
temdn, to command the finest ship in the
world
Toward the close Of the tenth day Of our
voyage, while we were all enjoying the social
pleasures which, siuce lair weather returned,
had made the deck appear 10 be the scene Of
a continuous picnic, the Young officer in
charge of the forward partol the ship report
ed a sail in front of us which looked like a
piot-boat This announcement OF course
caused sensation, and Immediately every
thing in shape of spy-glass was leveled in
the direction OF the little vessel. Soon the
surmise became certanty-it Uas pilot.
boat--and we were almost home. The Can
tain standing upon the bridge connecting the
two wheel-houses with single gesture
caused the great snip TO turn her hea !
towards her little ally, as promptly as a well
trained steed obeys the rem. but so gracefully
aud quietly that we knew not it had been
done, until we noticed the wide curve the
waves in our wake had made upon the still
face of the waters In few minutes we
we're within hail. and our eneines-titanic
monsters that had fought for us the waves o
the ocean without moments rest since leay
ing Ireland nov took moments breathing
spell, while yawl brought US the mysterious
| little man, without whom our great ship darec
not attempt to enter the harbor before us. A
ladder is lowered over the side behind The
wheel, a rope is thrown into the yawl, and III,
pilot springs hptely up to the deck We wer,
still hundred miles from land but here wa,
| a bit of America, and we all crowded the decl
amidships TO see and welcome him. Etiauett,
was to he observed however, and not sou
would he oos at and not word would be
saw, until he had climbed 10 the wheelhous,
and saluted the Captain. Their converse
tion of two or three minutes seemed very Ions
TO us. add dozen impatient voices at lenpti
demanded whats the news p "Tbe .teem
shin Africa WAS wrecked a week ago off Can,
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