The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-07-24

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him below.
9 Do you now guess the meaning of
that dream which was three times
dreamed by me?'
'Still was at loss and made no
answer.
=" Try for her in 5Oi' he exclaimed
Come, let's work out the latitude,
he said, and we'll find that iceberg's
situation. My hearts afre. Oh, he
cried, but softly in tone that thrilled
through me, my wife is dear to me. l
pray, pray, we may not be too latel'
g 1T is at this season, said he, that
the ice breaks away out of the south
and comes in fleets of bergs thicl1ly
crowding north. There's been heavy
weather. Well not allow for a larger
drift than league day. Try for her
in sol That's it. That will put the berg
when the Prairie Chief struck it in
about 81.
IT thought now began to understand
him.
7" You mean 81 degrees of south lati-
tude?'
of course 1 do, he answered.
i measured the distance due south
from the place where our ship then
was and made it few hundred miles
forget the figure.
g It's short run, said he, looking
at the chart. The boat did it in 10
days, and that's not above three knots
an hour. l was silent / shall strike
the parallel of so degrees, he con
tinued, after pause, then run away
east. If sight nothing, | shall head
back I'll find hereunder God, he
added, removing his cap and CHANGING
! upward with an expression of rapt de-
votion.
''The crew were briefly told that
Captain Huddersfeld's wife had been
aboard the Prairie Chief and that the
schooner was going to seek the survivors
of the wreck
mot until the fourth day did we
strike the latitude of so degrees, in
which time we saw no ice The ocean
was of marvellous rich blue, the heav-
ems a deep and thrilling violet, with
coasts of swelling white vapor of a rusty
bronze in their brows lying upon the
glasslike line of the horizon We now
headed due east. The sailors thought
our quest was ended. Throughout the
glittering frosty hours-the wind blew
with a piercing breath down here
Captain Huddersield kept a lookout.
He was forever crossing the deck to
peer ahead, and again and again, sling
ing binocular glass over his shoulder,
he would go aloft ON to the little fore
royal yard, where he staid till the bit
ter cold drove him down.
"And now comes the amazing part
of this tale l went on deck at midnight
to take charge of the schooner On
walking to the side, as my custom was,
and gazing steadily ahead-a corner Of
moon at this time hung in the sky over
the port quarter beheld dim faint
ness right ahead, delicate CLEAN like
some mysterious reflection of light in a
looking glass i'll a darkened room. A
man came along from the forecastle
and sung out in quiet voice that there
was ice ahead / babe him rort out
Dickens. 1t was his watch below, but
whenever ice was reported we had him
up and stationed him ON the forecas-
tie to keep lookout as the one and
only man in the vessel who would know
the berg we were in search of. l then
ran to the companion hatch and called
to the captain, who was lying upon a
locker below, and he Immediately ar
rived.
1.-The wind was scanty and our speed
through the water scarcely four knots,
but hardly had day broken-the ice is
land being then about a mile distant
when Dickens, who had remained on
the forecastle throughout the dark hours,
shrieked out:
g The iceberg, sirP
1T was fine morning, the sea quiet,
the wind a nipping air out Of the south
west. The sun shone full upon the ice
berg and flashed it into a great moon
white floating heap, scared with ravines
and gorges. The swell rushed in thun-
der into deep caverns. | saw many
gothic archways, with birds flying in
them. The mass was like a city of ala
baster, the home of sea spirits, of ocean
fowl of mighty pinion. The surf boiled
in thunder on the windward points /
observed a shelf Of the dead white crys-
tai sloping very gently like beach into
the wash of the water, and while L was
gazing at it the captain, who was work
ing away at the berg with telescope,
cried out fiercely. Then, growing mar
ticulate, he put the glass into my hand,
gaping at the ice and pointing to it.
81 leveled the glass and Immediately
distinguished a structure, contrived, as
l presently saw, of the galley of ship
and quantity Of wreckage. It stood in
great split in the ice within musket
shot of the beach, and while l looked
smoke rose from it.
g There is life therer cried out.
''We hauled in, and then with the
naked eye clearly perceived several fig
ures making signs to u.s. When we were
as close as prudence permitted, the long
boat was got over, and the captain and
five men, one Of them being Dickens,
pulled away toward the berg. / stood
off to improve my offing, and being full
of the business of the schooner had lit
tie opportunity to remark what passed
ON the ice island
by and by the boat returned. She
looked to be full of people. When she
was alongside, saw two women in
her One was locked in the arms of
Captain Huddersfield. He had wrapped
her in his coat and held her to his
heart. Both women were lifted over
the side. Three Of the men were also
fp
crawl ON deck unaided. There were
seven men and two women. They after
ward told rs that 10 in all had gained
the ice
1.-The wife of the captain of the
Prairie Chief-he was among those who
had perished-died before our arrival
in Sydney Mrs Huddersfield, a strong
er woman, quickly recovered, and was
walking the deck in the sun leaning ON
her husbands arm within week of her
rescue. w Clark Russell in Strand
Magazine
GFecian washing.
A contributor to the Pail Mall Mag
azine was travelling in Greece and had
occasion to send to the laundry white
shirt and a collar. He thus describes
the result:
The shirt came back resolved, as 1t
were, into its primitive elements-that
is to say, it was a piece of linen of If
regular shape. The collar / never saw
again alive, but instead curious strip
of linen, which baffled conjecture for
the time.
Grecian washing is conducted fnthe
following manner. Some o or - MOm-