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


pool when was second mate of the Julia
months earnings for new one. What
possessed me l 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 6
sandy mustachc, and had not 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 ct Constitution
wharf, in Boston, discharging her cargo
of sugar.
''Well," pulled the captain. "nothing
10 do now but to get rid Of tho old sex-
tant. should go ashore next time if I
mad two sextants to navigate by. Must
work the old off on some landlubbcr or
somebody
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-'Sextant for sale,
cheap, and if somebody don't bite at
1t, l miss my guess"
Ihe next morning the only thug the
captain could see in the paper was this:
sextant for sale by ship captain; near
lyn ew AMI in perfect order; will bs soli
cheap. Address o.. Al Globe Office.
And now my story's begun.
Eta Bourne had been at work in a
millinery store in Boston for nearly two
years. She and her older sister Annie
had learned the trade with the village
mi!iner down in Kennebunk.
But Annie, who had long been the
belle OF the village, got married, and
Eta concluded to try her fortune in
Boston.
She was full of ambition.
So 1t fell that in her two years in the
millinery store she stu liel shorthand
and tyrcTriting, with the intention of
litinS herseii TO be confidential clarb.
On Sunday she saw this advertise
mept:
For Saie-Jones's Premier Typewriter at
halt price; been use | less than a m onth: in
perfect order. Address O., a. Globe ofii,e.
Eta Bourne, being Maine Yankee,
knew bargain when she saw it. She
wanted to own typewriter, and so she
wrote brief note addressed to "O., AZ
Globe Office, asking where the machine
could he seen, aud dropped it into the
letter box as size went to work Monday
morning.
Nov, ] said at the beginning that the
advertising clerk was to blame. Per
haps the mistake was partly that of Eta
Bourne. At any rate it will never be
known.
The clerk va; sorting the replies and
putting them in their Appropriate boxes.
When he came to Eta Bourne's letter to
20. A." lie read it so. Al" and put it
in the pigeonhole as such.
That was very, very little mistake,
Of course, but you who have noticed
how things go iu this world Of ours have
discovered that tho most serious changes
in the course Of QUO lives como about
from just such little happenings.
For it was that very day that Captain
Sprowl advertised his sextant for sale.
And Captain Sprowl was 80 Al"
Now the tall captain was very busy
man, anu nc was late That afternoon BE-
fore he vert to tho office to gather in
the replies from people who were anxious
to buy a sextant.
But the sextant market was apparent
Iy rather dull, for all tho clerk could
give him was one solitary letter. The
captain tore the envelope open and tossed
it aside.
~ saw your advertisement in the
Globe" rcnd the captain. al wish to
buy good second hand machine OF
standard make, aud il the one you offer
is in perfect repair and the prics is sat
isfactory, perhaps NC can trade. But l
cannot give more than $50, and if you