The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-05-11

COA vctCV ScI1&ctsANos JSASI uc"1y Out
from England. Harry was soon senior
midshipman on that ship, and ere
very long Junior sub-lieutena1lt:- -
Y! u would hardly have known Harry
Winsome now. He was MO longer the
little bashful boy, who rode on board
his first ship. ON top Of his sea-chest;
but tall and handsome young man
still q little quiet.looking,. and with a
cast of care I'M his countenance, but
with fair irrepressible hair that curled
over his we'll -br0nzed brow, and an eye
|th.t never feared to look 5ed'tn the
|'Heigho J" said Harry to his friend
and chum one Sunday morning; 81
wonder if there will ever be any fight.
ing to give q fellow chance to win
his epaulets."
'Epaulets, indeed !'-replied Lawson,
who was still MILDLY II only wish l
could win my scales and a stripe, let
alone epaulets. But suppose shall
never be anything but Lazy Lawson.
| envy you, Harry. How the dickens
do you manage it,"
II Just keep pegging," said Harry.
"Mind, I'm not Jealous, Harry, but
somehow I envy you.''
"Why don't you keep pegging away
as do :" asked Harry simply.
"Oh, hang work and grinding!' said
Lawson II can't do it. and there's an
end. Besides, there's luck, you know,
The skipper never fell into the hands
of the natives, and give me a chance
Of saving his life. And happened to
be on leave when the skip was on fire.
Williams told me, though it was quite
a sight to see you, all black and
grimy, scuttling the decks with the
carpenters axe. But-by gum, Harry,
I'll never forget the day you jumped
overheard, in half gale Of wind, after
poor Joe Emmett. It was funny be-
cause when saw you come up and the
broken water all around you frothy
and bloody, I made sure the shark
had you instead of Joe and you only
brought up one-half of Joe after all
that was funny. Oh, you're a lucky
beggar, Harry J"
ssAnd so would you be Lawson, if
you would only just make up your mind
to keep
''Strange sale on the lee bow, sir -
this in stentorian tones from the man
at the mast: t:head.
It was a sight to see the bright CLEAN
that now shone from Harry's eye, and
illuminated his whole frame it was a
sight to see the alacrity with which,
glass in hand, he Skinned up the rig
ging and it was sight to see poor
little Lazy, Lawson stick his hand deep
into his peg top trousers-pocket, and
gaze upward after him.
"Lucky--lucky beggar - said Law.
son.
Harry came down as quickly as he
had gone up, went below, and entered
the commander s cabin. Shortly after
ward, the order was passed to let the
men have dinner half an hour sooner F.:
and even a novice could have been
told, from observing the unusually
beaming faces of both men and officers.
that something more than usual was
in the wind. The ship was kept away
few points in the direction of the
strange vessel, which in less than an
hour could be seen from deck-a large,
three-masted ship, under every stitch
of canvass she could carry, and keep.
ing well toward the land.
The Vengeance rose and fell on the
long smooth rollers of the Indian
ocean. Which of us has not seen or
read of the beauty of this romantic
sea f; of it's bright peculiar waters,
beneath whose depths are spread gar
dens of marine flowers, of colors as
| bright as the hues of the rainbow of
the little coraline isles that dot its
surface, green-fringed with waving
palm.trees of it's blue skies, flecked
with heecy cloudlets; of the strange
sails that, birdlikc, skim over its
waters and of the peace that seems to
hang forever around it? For ever
Nay, not forever-for at night, when
all is quiet, you can hear the cry of the
tortured slave in the dark woods that
line its shores down among the flow.
ers turks the dreaded shark, the scor.
pion dwells on the coral islands, those
strange sails are often pirated, and at
times the cyclone careers across its
waters, and many gallant ship and
many a brave sailor lie beneath its
waters.
| It was the rainy season. Instead OF
the bright blue sky usual in these lat.
itudes, the sky was overcast and OF
leaden hue, the forked lightning play.
ed necessarily on the surface of the
water, while any wind there was came
in sudden gusts and wild, and had
hardly come till it was gone again.
a packet of letters.
All Harry's letters were papers but
one-it was his commission as lieuten
ant.
Harry Winsome had won his epau
lets.
When Harry read it his eyes spar
kled aud the old pincushion came back
again, and for a moment he thought
he must make q fool of himself but hi
didn't.
Harry is home again, and holding
his mother in his arms. Home! Oh
reader! it is worth while going abroad
for a few years il only to know thu
meaning Of that one word, home.
#"I tell l.you," said Gen. Strathburn,
(Harrys uncle) "that peace or war
there is no better career in the worlt
for a boy of spirit, than the brav,
old English navy" The general il
right.
In Spencer, Wis, there is a secre
society In. operation, of which the pub
lie will probably learn much soon, a
the members are to be: tried for tn
murder of candidate while undergo
ing initiation.