The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-07-19

arrayed like flowers of the f5ld of all
those lovers dreaming of love in summer
dalllance, and of cottages among figs and
olives; of all the vigorous manhood and
ripe womanhood, with all the skill and
courage of success in them-not 1.-THE
was saved The CHASTITY nav of the
waters covered them and swallowed them
"A lew sprang, among crashing tiulbers,
on floor laden with impetuous water
The many, perhaps never walked at all,
or woke to but one short prayer. The
lew who were saved-the many who died
never knew how they were slain or
| drowned
% II has twice been my fortune in life to
see such storm, and to know its sudden
destruction once, to see low, broad
shelving farmhouse disappear in the
ground before my eyes, as if its
substance had vanished into air, while
great globes of electric fire burst down
and sunk into the ground once, to see a
pine forest of centuries growth cut down
as grass by the mowers scythe. do not
think it possible to see third and survive
and do not wish my soul to be wnirlod
away IN the vortex of such a storm.
AT noon or later, after the ruin of Last
Island, a gentleman of name renowned
IN Southwestern story found himself
clInglng to bush in the wild waters
dashed by the long whips of branches
halt dead with fatigue and fear For a
time the hurl y-burly blinded and hid
everything, and the long roll rocked and
tore at him in desperate endeavor tc
wrench loose his bleeding fingers. The
impulse OF the wind and storm at such a
time is as of solid body, and there is "a
look Of solidity in the very appearance OF
the magnificent force. But as it abated he
thought he heard a faint cry, and looking
around, he saw peor girl in her night
dress, clinging 10 branch, and slipping
from her feeble hold. Tired as he was
and wild and dangerous as the attemp
might be, he did not dare to leave her K
perish. Choosing his time in lull, he
struck out to the bush, ana reached it Jus
as her ebbmg strength gave way. lie
took her In his sturdy arms, and, clingine
with tooth and nail, stayed them both tC
their strange anchorage. Faint, half
conscious, dIsrobed as she was, in thu
sweet, delicate features. the curve of the
lip, and the raven tresses clothed In sea
weed, he recognized tee Creole belle o
last nights hop. lie cheered and encour
aged her, pointing out that the storm wa
abatng-had abated. 1t could not bt
long before search boats came, and while
he mad strength to live she should share
it. 1t proved true. Generous and hardy
fishers and ships had come up at once t.
the scene of disaster, and were busy pick
ing up the few spared by wind and wave
They found the two clinging together anC
to that slight bush, and took them of
wrapping them in ready, tough, fisher
mems coats. The reader can see the enc
of the story. A meeting so appointed hac
It's predestinated end in a love match
SO we leave 1t and them the rest of theil
lives belongs to them, not to us.
The pair found by our fishing smacl
were a wealthy planter and his wife. Fol-
nine days of starvation and danger they
/: had chung together. When / think of tht
husbands manly care in thus abiding by
his wife, find it hard to reconcile it will
the fact that he only valued his life anc
hers at few dollars-not enough to com
pensate the traveller for the loss incurred
as demurrage to the fishermen.
Now Lost Island is but a low sand,
reef, on which Il few struggling fruit tree
try to keep the remembrance Of its by
gone beauty. 1t Is as bare and desolat,
as the bones of those who filed its hall
in the cataclysm of that dreadful night
bones which now waste to whiteness OF
sterile shores or are wrought into coral il
the under-sou.