The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-11-22


pipe, for this is true. Good night, sir.
".FIO women t1ors SaUcR.D
Not woman saved !" If your ships
are unseaworthy if to gain a few more
dollars, Yankee thrift builds them with
SO much top hamper that a gale endan-
gers the life, Or insure3 the death of
hundreds where at least is the disci-
pline Of your officers and crew, which
ought to guarantee to a weak woman q
share in the miserable safeguards that
stinginess affords, and which without
that discipline brute force inevitably
seizes Officers aud crew saved in part.
but "not a woman saved q" Engineer
and purser in one boat, with crew, but
no woman and the purser lives to tell
the tale The captain and sixteen men
and only one woman and one child, on
another boat Fortunately, to avoid
meeting the shaking of locks cory with
the death water of the sea caves, the
captain of the ill-fated steamer after
six struggles after lie, ha8 gone to meet,
before another than earthly tribunal.
the question propounded. Why was
not a woman saved ?" Was there not
one among the crowd, of whose memory
it may be said,
"AmOng the faithless, faithful only he -
Some fifty years ago or more, ship
sailed from Liverpool with many pas,
sengers. just after midnight, when
little past the centre of the Atlantic, the
Jupiter struck an ice island, causing her
to settle almost instantly into the awful
water. She was badly provided with
boats, but such as they were, and all of
them, were at once launched in silence
aud in order. Every passenger that
was awake was summoned to the boats.
Discrimination was used, for the boats
could not hold all. Let those that are
awake save their lives? ? Let those that
sleep, pass to the sleep of death was
the terrific, but merciful decree. Sleep
is but the precursor, the portal, the sim,
lie of the great enemy Of life There
can be no pang in dying to the sweet
and unconscious sleeper. So every
wake person was summoned; every sleep.
ing person left to wake in an eternity /.
The two boats were already ciowd,
ed; the devoted ship fast sinking Again
the Captain went to forecastle, TO steer
age, to cabin, and on deck, to see if one
conscious person still was left unprovided
for. Not one "Push of your boats" +"
was the solemn order. "But where's
my sister ?" screamed a voice of despair
from Que of the boats " | see her not,
and | would die to save her. She
sleeps, [ would not awaken her. One
person more in, and the lives of all are
endangered" replied the Captain from
the deck of the laundering ship. "Then
| sleep with her, if | can not save her"
uttered the heroic brother, AS he sprang
upon the fasting vessel; aud he and
she aad the ship went down together,
with the great Oceans hymns testifying
to an heroic devotion and a self sacrifice
Graded in affection, and dying to meet
an immortality ! " Not a woman saved 4"
from the Evening Star What contrast!
We cannot recall the name Of the YES
sci, because, cut off from the world, the
Southern States, for four years back, have
little chronology left; but not many years
since, a British transport foundored in
the deep Atlantic. She was crowded with
soldiers, their wives, and women and
chilpren. Discipline prevailed, however,
in the awful scene where half thous-
and were summoned to death 4! Every
boat was launched and guarded evory
woman and child was conducted to the
gangway and securely deposited as If
the boats had been ball rooms, and the
seamen the ushers The boats were push
ee adrift; each soldier repaired to his post;
each sailor to his place and with the
drums beating and ites playing, and a SOL
itary gun booming a farewell to earth and
sky, the ship and its officers and crew
went down the British flag flying going
down with them, but covering them with
its cross of glory! There was dicipline !;
there was seamanship; generalship, he,
roism /! The gurgling waves told to the
mute heavens the story of devotion, and
the Recording Angel copied it from the
heavens upon the Great Book Of God.
Not woman, not a child vas lost =
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