The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10

1t was on Tuesday evening that mighty
vessel was steaming majestically ont of
the mouth of the Thames and shaping her
imposing course straight ut the ball of the
setting sun. Most people will remember
reading descriptions Of the steamship
Kangaroo and being astonished at the
power of her engines, the beauty OF her
fittings, and the extraordinary speed
about eighteen knots-which she developed |
in her trials, with an unusually low ex-
penditure Of coal For the benefit of those |
who have not, however, it may be stated |
that the kangaroo, the Little Kangaroo"
as she was ironically named among sailor !
men, was the very latest development OF |
the science of modern ship building. Ev- |
erythirg about her, from the electric light
and boiler tubes up, was on n new and
patent system.
-Four hundred feet and more she meas
ured from stem to stcrn, and in that space
were crowded and packed all the luxuries
of q palace and all the conveniences of IN
American hotel. She was beautiful and
a wonderful thing TO look on as, with her
holds full of costly merchandise and her
decks crowded with her living freight or
about Il thousand human beings, she
steamed slowly out to sea, as though 10th
to leave the land where she was born. But
presently she seemed to gather up her en-"
ergies and to grow conscious of the thous-
ands and thousands OF miles OF wide toss
ing water which stretched between her
and the far-off harbor where her mighty
heart should cease from beating and be
for while at rest. Quicker and quicker
she sped along and spurned the churning
water from her swift sides. She was run
ming under full head of steam now, and
the coast line of England grew faint and
low in the faint, low light, till ut last 1t
almost vanished from the gaze OF tall,
slim girl, who stood forward, chnging To
the starboard bulwark netting and look
ing with deep gray eyes across the waste
of waters. Presently Augusta, for 1t was
she, could see the shore no more, and
turned TO watch the other passengers and
think She was sad Ut heart, poor girl,
and felt what she was-a very wair upon
the sea of life. Not that she had much to
recrct upon the vanished coast line. A
little grave with white cross over it
that was all. She had left no friends to
weep for her, none. But even as she
| thought it recollection rose up in her
mind of Eustacc Nelson's pleasant, hand
some face, and or his kind words, and
with it came pang as she reflected that,
| in all probability, she would never see the
| one nor hear the other again. Why, she
wondered. had he not come to see her
again She would have liked to bid him
"good-bvc," =" and had half mind TO send
him note and tell him oi her going.
| This. on second .nou&ht. however, she had
decided not to do. .1. one tAin-, she did
not know his az >lggss, and-wcli, there was
m end Cf H.
Could she by tn. :aolus of ciairroyance
have seen Eus.acc', face and heard his
words s'sc woalG Lay, regretted her de-
cisou .'or eycn a% lEa. great vessel
plunged on her fierce way rirht into the
| heart of tba .ratherf,,.. aarliupss he was
st.p,l;,.r =, ,j',. E,ar,,I tb.. Io4,,in.,-bopse
In tho little street in Birmgnrham.
"Coror, ha v,,s savf,,,, ..\Ji.s smith
ers gone 10 New XanInul. What is her ad.
drnss,,,
"Sbe didn't lcava no Address. sir" re.
n1ied tbo dirty oaid-of-ali-,,nrS with \
grin she went frou. her- two days a-o
ond was Going ON tn tn. shin in London. =
"Wbat was the name of the shipr" he
asks in l,snoir
acknowledgements repfies the
,r;rl i, +r;rrnb and ,huts tho danr in his
face
poor rrstace, he had gone TO ,ondon "a
try and gat Soma emnlovment and having
ofter some dieicuItv succeeded in obtain
;r, n b;,,.t "a reader in latin French ant
Ens,1;sb n n nrbI isbing hons. of good re
nrte At the salary of e1So a year he haf
hrrr;.a b,clr to R;rrpi-ghor, for tho sol.
nnrnoso ~ seaipg Ni.s Aurusta Smithers
With whom If tba whole truth must bt
told chad tn his credit he IL said. fallen
1aar,,- +rr1v ,pd violently in love In
deod 60 for w.s be in this w,v gone thai
be md dotermincd to make all the pro
r,-oss tbot h. conId and n he tbourht
that the-a ,vos anv nrosnect Of success. tt
. decl.rs his nassion This was nerhaps. ,
, I;,,1o ,,ror,atpr. hut then in these mat
, ,nrs neonle are ant tn he mora premature
than is GENERALLY sunnosed Human ma
, ture ;s verv svvift ia .omipp to oconclusion:
T., r,ot.ars in which that strange mixtur,
Voc coll tbo nfTactiops IL involved perhap
, bacause although the conclusion Is no
: oltorathar n nlc9sinr one the affections
, ., o5v rots IN the herinpinr are larrel,
denendant On the senses.
, p;tyy a poor vonnr man, To coma from
5 Jondon 70 Birminrhnm to WOO ones crav