The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-09

asked for another and he had refused
to get it they threatened to tell on him
unless he obeyed. He thought too
much of the good will of his superiors
aft to let the men carry their threat into
execution, and as natural sequence he
met their demands. And their de-
mands grew larger as his duplicity in
creased, until finally it was too late for
him 70 make his book of conscience ever
balance.
After that Capt. Young and his
mates did not trust him. He could not
go anywhere without watchful eyes
upon him, for he had been tried and |
found wanting. But he could count
upon one friend and comforter, after |
all. Henrietta knew him when he was
a good boy, and she would not desert |
him when he had fallen from grace.
"Oh," she exclaimed one afternoon,
as a sort of exhaust to her wounded
feelings, "why did you do anything
like that, Harry; why did you do any
thing like that? 1t was dreadful for
you to steal for those bad, wicked men.
| Now we must all suffer for it. The ship
has been making such bad weather of
It that papa says the passage will last
more thnn six months, and because of
your helping yourself to everything
we must run short of provisions before
we arrive. It was dreadful of you to
do"
There was no mistaking the fact that
the craft was making bad weather of
it. Fifteen days had been consumed
in an endeavor to round the cape in
binding snowstorms and gales that
were dead ahead and as sharp as the
point of needle. Twice Capt. Young
had a conference with his mates on the
advisability of wearing ship and put
ting before it so as to finish the pas
sage by way of the Cape of Good Hope.
When it was not blowing great guns it
was a series of calms with the ship
tanning along, as sailormen say when
the canvas collapses every other min
ute. Ir these light airs she was as
slow as blind man groping his way.
The topsawers of the crew said they
never saw such weather before, and
they were about right. The gales had
played sad havoc with the sails and
spars, and the lusty seas which arose
. in their wrath ate big chunks out of
: the decks, their fixtures, and the hull
itself.
Then the food gave out, as was pre-
: dicted and dark looks were flashed at
Harry. The butter. milk and sugar
had been exhausted some time when
the news was passed around that the
l -four had given out. The growing be-
came general then, and even the green
4 hands turned up their noses every time
Harry put in an appearance. Some
t thing had to be done. The last few
f pounds of flour had been used one Sun.
u day, when Capt. Young thought OF
Y some old wheat, the sweepings of that
t famous cargo which was slowed in
the lower hold forward. This wheat
e the hens on board had previously re-
J. fused to eat, probably because of its
5 bilgeilie color. How to get it was
6 the thing that troubled Capt Young
8 most. for he knew that hungry mer
l. would not refuse it even if chickens
Il would.
e There was only one thing to do, ant
d that was to break out the cargo stoweC
p under the fore hatch 1t was a long
and difficult job, and the deck of the
n ship was like huge dry goods estab
S lishment while it was in progress, bu
; it was gotten at last, the green hands
g working harder than anybody else
d their appetites urging them on, per
h haps. Once on deck the wheat was
4 ground in the coffee mill and the stew
s. ard converted it into what Henrietts
d describes as good bread and pan
S cakes" 1t could not last forever
Il though, and finally it gave out, too
e, Then the last remaining stores were
1t taken in hand. These consisted of pea!
+. and beans, and Mate Harris though
l them so valuable just then that he haf
L. them counted as a prelude to distribu
le tion.
4 Harry, who was primarily responsi
'r BILE for all the trouble, did not sutfe
,t from hunger as much as did the othe
E. men, A worse fate was reserved TO
RS him. The Reaper was about monti
'r in the Pacific when she encountere'
vi a terrific storm that lasted three day
III aud nights.
- There was an oldsman in the GREY
IL who had made several voyages in tn
~ ship before and who was as capabl
G a sailor as ever let go and hauled. TIC
nc ward midnight On the second day O
y the storm this old man was struck b
sea which came on board, and tn
at ship being well heeled over was bein
w rapidly carried over the side, whe
Harry, who was passing, grabbed hin
- In doing so the lad fell and succeed
'" ing wave caught him, and, picking hiI
y, up much as it would straw, tosse
w him into the dim, dark sea alongsid
~ The cry of imam overboard!" brough
90 all hands to the deck, and the roal
ad of the mates could be heard above tn
~ bowling of the wind and the paint
ba creaking of the spars. An attemI
nj was made in response to an order
60 get the ship around, and though I'll
70 helm was hard to weather, all effort
. to get the vessel before the wind prove
br unavailing. Harry was never see
oUoin There WAS great ulOOm anon