The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-10-16

weHt over sue nau jumped from ueE
bed to run on deck, but the chest
broke away from its lashings on the
weather side, and. sliding across the
floor, knocked her down, and half
through the thin pine panelling, hold
ing her there bruised, bleeding and I'M
able to move.
She knew that if her husband left the
deck to come to her rescue, the few
moments in which he might right the
ship would be lost. When he called
through the broken port she said moth
ing OF her situation. feeling sure that
If advised OF it, his first thoughts
would be for her. She purposcly mis-
led him by her feigned solicitude for the
safety of the log-book. and, forgetting
her danger, admonished him to
look to his ship. If the vessel had
gone down, she would have been
drowned like a helpless animal in y
trap; but she ran the risk. in order
that the crew on deck might not be
diverted from their efforts to save the
ship. With this end in view, she
made no cutlery when the heaving OF
the ship moved the chest back and
forth. grinding her against the sharp
splintcrs. She had tainted from pain
when the captain found her. Part OF
the bulkhead had to be cut away to re-
lease her, without further liberation
from the ragged edges of the wood.
work.
When the carpenter went forward
he told what he had seen in the cabin;
and the man who had been at the
wheel related the conversation that
had passed between the captain and
his wife through the window. The
crew were impressed. Sailors un.
avoidably see so much that is u~nlove.
ly in women that they are especially
quick to recognize true w%omanhood,
and are outspoken admirers of that
high moral courage which often
nerves delicate ladies. in times OF
great danger, to q hcroism seldom
equalled by the sterner sex.
After breakfast, the next Sunday
morning, Mrs. White appeared on
deck, for the first time since the squall.
She was seated in an casy-chair on the
quarterback, her arm IN a sling. and a
bandage round her forehead. The off.
GERS were suddenly startled by seeing
the crew come aft in 4 body; and, re-
membering their former experience,
Immediately assumed y defensive at
titude.
One of the men reassured them by
advancing as spokesman, and saying.
with much rude cloquence, that they
wished to thank Mrs. White for her
brave and unselti>h action, both by
saving her husband and for indirectly
saving the ship when struck by the
squall, AS they knew well that. had she
been released first, the ship could not
have been righted afterwards. They
had been so determined. that a show
of force by the officers would not have
sutficed to make them work the vessel
to Montevideo; but the courage and
kindness of the weakest member of the
ships company had done moro than
all the powder and ball in the arm.
chest could have accomplished; lame
l.y, induced them to give up their in
t%ention to mutiny again, and run the
ship ashore near Pernambuco.
They all felt that she should be
credited with the prevention of mutiny
and bloohshed. the safety of the ship
and the lives of the officers. Present
inc their respects to Mrs. White. they
assured her and the officers that they
would be peaceable and subordinate
for the rest Of the voyage. The man
who had been wounded during the
mutiny brought aft a hammock which
he had made of cod-line for Mrs. White,
and when he had slung it in the shade
of a sail, she was placed in it. well
pleased at the influence Il good woman
could have over sixteen lawless and
desperate men.
After the Sunderland reached port,
the incidents of the voyage were made
the subject of much comment by the
press, and the captains wife received
every mark OF respect and admiration
from the masters of tho vessels then
lying in the harbor of Monteyido.-
James j. Wat, IN Ionta's Companion.
The farmer sincerely regrets the