The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-23

pool when was second mate Of the Julia
A. Smith And now l have put out n
months earnings for new one. What
possessed me don't know
And so the captain went on.
Now, Captain Sprowl was not, rs you
might think from the name, bald
headed old man with bushy whiskcrs.
No; names arc very misleading. In
stead, lie was tall and slender, with 8
sandy mUstachc, and had not q gray
hair in his head He came from Maine,
and although but thirty years old, he
had been for SIX years captain or the
Edna Dunn, now lying at Constitution
wharf, in Boston, discharging her cargo
of sugar.
"Wcll," pullcd the captain. "nothing
TO do now but to get rid Of tho old sex.
tant. | shonld 80 ashore next time if l
nad two scXtputs to navigate by. Must
work the old oil on some landlubbcr or
somcboly.'
The package was lying on an old news
paper which lie had read through and
through on his last trip out.
"The very thing!' said he. "I'll put
notice in the papcr-'Scxtant for sale,
cheap, and if somebody don't bite ut
II, | miss my guess"
The next morning the only thiuy the
captain could see in the paper was this :
Sextnnt for snlo by ship captain. near-
iyn ew AMI in perfect or Ter, will bs soli
cheap. Address o.. Al Glob, Office.
And now my story's begun.
Eta Bourne had been ut work in n
millinery store in Boston for nearly two
years. She and her Older sister Annie
had learned the trade with the village
miiliner down in Kcnnebunk.
But Annie, who had long been the
belle Of the village, got married, and
Elta concluded to try her fortune in
Boston.
She was full of ambition.
so It Icll that in her two wears in the
millinery store she stu lie | shorthan1
AMI tyre writing, with the intention OF
Iitlrg HcrScii To be Il confidential clerk.
On Sunday she saw this advertise
ment:
For Saic-Jones'S Premier Typewriter at
hall price, been use less than III Dath; in
perfect order. Addres, o. {, Globe otii,e.
Eta Bourne, being a Maine Yankee,
knew bargain when she saw it. She
Wantci TO Owl typewriter, and so she
wrote u brief note addressed 70 co., AZ
Globe OIlice, asking where the machine
could he seen, aud dropped it into the
letter box rs size went TO work Monday
morning.
No~, ! .ad at the beginning that the
advertising clerk was to blame. Per
hap the mistake was partly that of Eta
Bourne. At any rate it will never be
kEoNr.
The clerk va; sorting the replies and
p|itlng them III their Appropriate boxes.
When he cane TO Eta Bourne's letter to
20. II, lo read it so. Al" and put it
IN the piSconholc rs such.
That was 4 very, very little mistake,
Of course, but YOU who have noticed
how things 90 iu this world Of ours have
discovered that the most serious change:
in the course OF our lives comc about
from just such little happenings,
For it was that very day that Captain
Sprowl advertised his sextant for sale.
And Captain Sprowl was go Al"
Now the tall captain was very busy
man, anu It was iatc that afternoon be-
fore he wcr: To the office to gather in
the replies lrompeoplc who were anxious
to buy sextant.
But the scxtant market was apparent
ly rather dull, for all the clerk could
give him was ono solitary letter. The
captain tore the envelope open and tossed
it aside.
~ saw Your adycrtiscmen. IN the
Globe, rc0d the captain. al wish to