Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-03-27

instant dark object near the summit
Her eyes dlate, her whole figure trembles
with excitement, and she cries forth:
1T is he! 1t is Carl Emile! The boat .
the boat"
The astonished people flock around her
and ask, Where? where?" for they can
not see. She only replies, with half-frenz-
led gestures. ..it is Carl Emile! Come
away! The boat. The boat"
She leads the way to the little harbor,
and seizing the line to the best sea-boat
there. begins to haul IL in, while the people
stand around and stare at her In astonish-
ment.
II will rescue him" she cries.
'Whor they ask.
Carl Emile! lie is out there on the
iceberg. see him. and will go TO him
aud sHve hml''
by this time Nicholina has sprung into
the boat. She stands at the bow, and,
with hashing eyes. she cries.
"who will come with me? Who will
rescue Carl Emile7''
IN vain they expostulate and say that no
boat eau live in that sea. Nicholina Is not
to be dauBted. and as she repeats her cry.
a dozen young fellows leap forward. In a
moment, six OF them are in the boat, and
In their places.
ave will go, Ncholina, they say; "but
you must stay here"
Nicho'ina's answer Is to seize an oar.
spring to the stern. shove the boat of and
begin 10 pull. The young men are quick
to follow her irresistible example. and the
boat shoots out OF the sheltered harbor
into the angry waves, on whose crests are
tossing sharp fragments of Ice. which, by
striking one against another add TO the
tumult az the wind and wayes
The people on the shore watch the boat
as at one moment IL mounts q sea and again
sinks away into the trough, and for an in
slant Is lost to view. But steadily the dis
tance between IL aud the shore widens
though II does not go a length without
danger OF being crushed by the tumoling
ice.
The men try to persuade Nicholina to
abandon her oar. but she will not
II brought you here. and while | share
the danger will share the labor" Is her
reply
An anxious hour passes, and the boat
disappears behind an Island. A half hour
more and il is seen dancing between that
island and another further up to windward.
Behind this it vanished again, and then the
people sag: The boat is surely los. with
all on board. Nicholina must have been
mad"
But the boat Is not lost. only It cannot
be seen from the shore. Beyond the Sec
ond island |, is headed toward the iceberg
! where Nicholira first saw the dark object
which she took for Carl Emile. Bur she
does not see any dark object now. Per
haps It is the motion OF the boat which is
| unfayorable TO observation.
The water Is very angry, and what with
the fury OF the wind snd waves the boat
often makes no h.adway for minute at a
time. Give way. men give way! pull
Tor life," cries Nicholina Give way
give way, they shout In chorus after her,
aud the boat creeps on. They come among
loose ice which strikes their oars. and they
fall back. But Give way" the brave
girl shouts again, Give way" Is the re-
spon,ive echo, and again the boat moves
on.
They are among the boiling surf Of the
reef aud are almost overwhelmed. but
give way again. and they are safe from
that danger, and nearing the stliler waters
In the lee OF the iceberg for which they
steer They reach that water and max t
more rapid headway; they reach the berg.
and are dashed against il. but the boat Is
not broken. Nicholina has dropped ber
oar. .he has stood mp in the bow, her long
black hair flying in the wind. she has one
foot upon the gunwale, and before the
shock Of contact with the berg has come
she has leaped upon the ice.
She looks about her, but does not dis
cover the object Of her search. Her heart
.lnas within her. She goes little To the
lett, aud there lie TWO motionless figures
locked in each others arms. The younger
is without coat. He has taken IL of and
wrapped il about the other. They are
partly sheltered from the wind, but poorly
from the surf. The girl seizes the younger
mans hand. crying. with voice Of agony
Carl. Carl Emile!"
The eyes Of the young man open slightly /;
he moves little, but he cannot speak. IL
is Joy enough for Nicholina 10 know that
he lives. Peter gives no sign. but she
makes sure that his heart beats, and she is
thankful. In the shelter OF the iceberg
they are safely carried TO the boat, and lt
starts on Its perilous journey back to Up
ernavik. The whole village is assembled
on the hill watching for the temperance
OF the boat. aud great shout OF jOv goes
up as il is seen once more tossing on the
waves between the islands. IL comes along
steadily aud safely, and now they can count
the fgures OF those In 1t. There are but
seven.
Alas" they cry. ''Nicholina was
wrong. They have not found Carl Emile
or Peter
Nichoina relieves their minds by cryins
out: I've have found them. They are
here They are alive And then the
people cheer. The men are carried to
their home; the doctor comes and finds
that they are not frozen, only numbed.
The danger OF reaction is great, but with
careful nursing they both revive, and are
r
harm.
Within a week Carl Emile Is about as
well aud strong as ever; but 1t Is fully a
month before Peter is himself again, and It
Is doubtful if he ever will be quite the
same strong man he was.
Carl's first thoughts were OF his mother
and brothers ard sisters at Peverick. But
the ice Is completely broken up, and a
boat could not for many days be pulled
through it or dragged over 1t. Those were
days of agony to Carl. But at length Pew
erick was reached. and all was well. Csrls
mother had given him and her husband up
for lost from the moment she saw them
carried out to sea on the iceberg. 1t was
fortunate that those two seals, which Carfs
brothers brought to camp, we're shot by
the two hunters drifting away upon the
iceberg, tor otherwise the whole family
must have starved.
All are reunited and happy at Uperna-
vik, aud the pretty Nichollna is the hero
inc OF the village. The people cannot say
too much in praise of her courage and de-
vOtiOn. At last, Carl is we'll again and
able to go out, looking not much the worse
tor his adventure.
1t is needless to say to whose house he
went as soon as he did get out, or to mar
rate what he said to her or what she said
to him. 1t is sufficient that you should
know that not many days elapsed before
there was 3 grand wedding at Upernavik,
and that handsomer, happier couple
never lived in Greenland, nor indeed any
where. than Carl and his brave, black-eyed
Nicholina.-From st. Nicholas for March.
A SAD CALAMrTY.-The sanitary effects