The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-12

with foam and yellow with sand. The
wild pillows came tearing through the
rocks that stand out IN the sea, broke
/ on the walls of the houses and leaped
TO the tops. Far up the beach the
waves ran high on the drifted sand,
and the wind, blowing hard from the
African coast, pulled off great feeces Of
foam that went out over the desert and
1ecked the sides of passing canels.
And when the sea ran back again It
showed in the swirls the grinning
skeletons of lost ships that had been
driven there and wrecked on the reefs.
Every day we could see a passing
steamer rolling and pitching eight or
ten miles from shore. At the end Of
an hour or two she would steam away
and leave us. This was the third day,
they said, and the sea would surely go
down that night-but it didn't Then
II looked like rain, and Professor Har-
oegg, the manager of the Hotel Jer-
usalem, said if it rained, the sea would
surely subside, and we hoped again.
The next day it rained. 1t continued
to rain, almost without ceasing for
forty-eight hours
AT night we were iulled to rest by
the moaning Sea, and at morn when we
aWoke the sea was still sobbing away
one evening I called on my friends the
English officers, at the Hotel Jer-
nsalem, to learn the latest prophecy.
Ihere were six of these officers strand
ed here, for their ship had parted her
cable, left her anchor and gone to sea.
Inc good old Hardegg said: 1.-THE sea
viii go down tonight, for it is the sixth
day. which is the limit On the
strength of this, some one ordered a
bottle of brandy.
Novel Attentions From JafYa Hotel
Keeper.
In a little while young Hardegg. a
youth of IA or Is springs, came in with
a number of pamphlets. We each took
a copy and found they We're bible
Pills, by Silas Hardegg" 'Bible Pills"
consisted of brief texts from the tesla
ment and short sermons from Hardegg.
They were a hard dose of pills; but
OF course | was not compelled to take
them-I was only a caller; but the
poor Englishmen had them three times
day and on going to bed.
Presently the boy looked in again
and said: Father says you can have
Just one more bottle and not another
drop"
But one taste of the first bottle had
ended IN our taking the pledge, so this
gentle hint was lost.
George Henry" the professor had
said when I called that evening, take
the gentleman up to Martha" I fol-
lowed the boy away, musing the while !
ana trying to reason out who Martha |
was, and why was going to her room. |
Yes, there was her name in white por /
celaln letters on her door. The boy
knocked gently and my heart beat !
wildly. To avoid staring into the
lady's room | turned away and saw !
Jacob" on the door just opposite |
Martha's. Then I looked down along |
the narrow hallway and read on the
other doors, Peter "Jacobus." "Phi1-
lipus,' and Paul
a Welcome Rescue.
1t was Friday morning when shin
from Egypt landed her passengers.
and although she was going to Bier
out, where we had been and
Where we did not want to go,
we took passage, saying like Byron.
mat we cared not what land she
bore us to save not again to Jaffa.
The Author Refuses to Become an
Admiral.
On the following Monday, just ten
days from the day we came down
from Jerusalem, we anchored again
near the rock of -Andromeda. The
sea was smoother now. The battle
snip was fishing for her anchor, found
It. and just after dark whistled and
7NCeNAA1CQ away II0IIl Aldlld. rom Inc
deck of our steamer 1 watched her
away and felt that 1 had six true
friends, new-made but lasting, in her
crew. And l thought how hard It
would be for me to shoot her up and
send her TO the bottom of the sea with
all those jolly good fellows aboard;
which 1 should surely do if we bad a
var and L were an admiral. Then
how, one night at mid
light, in company composed of al
most every nationality, when the Rus
sian vice-consul, looking at me, the
only American, raised his glass and
said: Monsieur pAmericain," how
hese six English officers stood up and
Ill at once, with one acOrd, and as
Justify as they had sung Tommy At
Tins" sang Hail Columbia, happy
and" and I rejoited that I was not
IN admiral.
She was far at sea now, the lights
we're growing DINNER. Suddenly the
was turned on and shot
streak across the sea which seemed
0 reach to Europe. Then changing
quickly she swept the waves toward
egypt till you fancied you could see
he pyramids; and swinging round the
-reat glare came down the coast and ;
ound Jaffa, and from our ship, q
nile from shore, we could read the ;
igns and count the window-panes ard
ee the sash. Another move. and the {
ght rested on our ship and in the {
.lare 1 raised my cap and wondered
{ they could see US. Then as sud
emily as it came the light was gone,
he battle-ship sped on her way, and {
oisting anchor, we steamed away
0 Port Said-to Egypt.
CY wARMAN. 5