Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1889-05-23

| pass over.
And another time we had occasion L
leave home on a day when no western
bound boat stopped there but was told tina
the MT Desert would pick up passen
gers who might row ont to her. Their
were two Others going and in good season
we engaged boatman to pull us out an,
wait in the proper place. He said hi
name was Mr., Black" and he objected t,
our calling his fsh-boat gondola II,
entertained Us not with the songs of tn,
Venetian gondolier but with the larces
sized American lies. Somewha behind tim,
the steamer came along. feeding the fire.
with hams and fish-oil, and possibly no
making more than thirty five or forty mile,
an hour. but it looked to me like a hun
dred and had had some experience in cal
culating speed through the water 4 fine
solid pair of steps were put over her low
side and everyone seemed prepared to take
! Us onboard except the engineer. | have
been told that when people believe they
see death coming close they think great
deal in a very little time | did not see
any danger. but for a slow thinker made
/ some rapid calculations. | saw that our
! hoatman knew what he was doing and was
! making his plans to put the boat along
/ SIDE the steps in proper shape. My plans
were 10 catch the solid rail on the steps
and with my lower half jammed in the bow
/ of the boat would bring her up 10 the fu-
rious gait of the steamer or be- pulled in
two. | am still whole and went that day
on the Mt. Desert. but without any special
thanks TO the one in charge
ON our cid and long g-tinc faithful Hen
ry Morrison made q trip a long time be
fore she came To our eastern shores She
was owned by the city of Boston ami used
principally a. q tender To the city con
vict farm, Deer Island In the sprn. Of
1872 was sentenced to go down there.
but not for the same reason that some Of
our other passengers We're. | had come
into port IN the stealing hy the pi-
Int>-and SAILED along up town without call
lng at quarantine which i also Al Deer
Island and where ought TO have anchored
till daylight ana been visited hv the doctor.
| thought the quarantine season was not
on 80 early. No objection was made 70
my entry at customs, but after few days
when my i've Passengers and all the crew
had been scattered to the four wiud>all
in good health to he sure. | was notified
of my error AMI given t. understand that
If | wen, down to the Island and paid the
doctor the usual five dollars hr would par
don me and I'LL ont my piper yrafiip,.
Just after noon | went down to the Nor
rlson' and telling the captain my distress
and wishes he allowed me to come on
board with dozen other convict> The
lines were cast on and we steamed over to
South Boston and took oubuard seventy
live patients from the lunatlc asylum FOR
an airing aud excursion down lie harhnr
ami among the islands The convict,
were landed at the Island and | soon set
tel with his majesty. the doctor W.
hal 4 good time and before night some Of
the insane ones got livcnrd up and were
full Of fun, while the majority were quiet
and orderly behaving far better than the
general run of cXcursioni,ts or other pas
srnser- whom We often meet not under re
straint nor supposed to tie insane
Some of them wanted me to dance and
one lady insisted upon my doing Tho
schott!>chc with hcr->he would teach me
Ii h,w.-..ju>t Two, three-hnp," Others
GAINED ms ear for their troubles OF their
hopes and one Young man who dil not
LOOK 10 be oy r twenty-five said hc was
going up in New Hampshire the next wees
10 his daughters wedding ana to his very
1t being dark before We got back 10 their
landing was afraid that | might be hus
tied OF with them and iud myself in the
asylum. We brought back a batch Of dis
charged consict>, but both in going and
comm. that class were kept down on the
freight deck aud not allowed to minglc
with the rest of Us. Though was not
with the poor patients hut a few hours al
together | think that more than half Of
the >cscnty-fyc shook hands with me on
parting and | silently hoped that God
mi ght be with them in their unrcalizcd mis-
fortunes.
A. the Turk believes that in heaven he
will be surrounded by beautiful women al
his command, who knows but If one j.
1 & i II, l.
est of all he Is patient in calms and per
SEVERN. in storms and head winds, never
causing the loss of life in long career,
and altogether as good as his surroundings
viii admit Of, but that his reward may be
the command Of a fine >eagong steamship
in the better world: He might Dc employ
ed carrying passengers from just inside
the dock gates to the intermediate land
ings and along to the higher plane-to the
upper terminus of Paradise. For oue who
broke up a singing school in his young
days, by his eternal discords and complete
inability TO sound a note correctly, such
| employment would be more lifting than
| placing him in a chorus and the position
be worth his best endeavors Some old
steamboat captain who had been a faith
| full servant here-one who had never slept
| at the risk of many lives, who had ever
been protector of innocence and had
| taught his subordinates that they must do
/ their duty as he did his, would be, under
| higher orders. the manager of the line.
! Discipline would be maintained and there
| would be no sign at the head of some Sha-
| DIV steps, '.Bar-room down forward"
| The acquaintance of passengers with
| through tickets would be worth cultiyat-
! ing and their conversation most congenial,
! for they would be of the class who never
strained their eyes to see faults in their
| fellow-creatures, had never repeated and
much less magnified any evil they had
heard of others. The opposite class would
| be employed just inside the gates at coal
| ing up the steamers and some of them
would be carried as fremen and rouse
abouts. Some poor, faithful, never-paid
minister would be the purser and he
would be just as kind and respectful to
the common people as to the well dressed
and by that sign alone we should know 1t
was heaven. Capt. John Kane should be