The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-17
=, A SEA HERO.
low Harry, the Cabin Boy,
Atoned for His Sin.

Everybody who knows anything
out Bath, Me-, and her ships must,
ecessarily, know the Reaper. She is
1se of those trim-looking craft that
snimore Cooper might naturally have
4.ctured for his Skinner of the Seas.
Hhlky of hull, shaped like sword
In, with wings of enormous spread,
fhere was time when the Reaper had
lore "quick work" about her frame
u an the twenty periaguas built into
single craft" of which the great
american author used to tell.
&Few who were anywhere near Bath
% certain day during the centen-
Nal year can ever forget with what en-
thusiasm the Reaper was consigned to
her native element. She won distinc-
ton on the high seas from the very
start, and when it was not in winning
races or carrying notable cargoes it
was in rescuing some poor wretch cling
. ing to a piece of timber. 1t is only
q few years since the Reaper arrived
here the winner of a 15,000-mile race
around Cape Horn from Astoria, Ore.
| Her competitor on this occasion was
the sturdy and speedy bark Western
Belle. The sum of $1,000 was stalked
on this event, and the Reaper took
tie prize.
But the Reaper is now in trouble,
and her many friends will be glad TO
learn that the marine doctor entertains
hopes of her recovery. She is at Port
land, where she arrived the other day
badly broken down in health and
spirits, after the longest and rough
est passage in her experience, from
ocean to ocean, and that is saying a
Great deal for a craft that has doubled
he cape as many times as has the
Neaper.
Not only were her hull and wings
1ahly crippled, but she lost a little
hsro, and those who remained on the
Nattling craft were a struggling, enact
I'D, exhausted and starving lot when
tie vessel finally reached the head of
tNs Columbia river. The story might
N8Ner have been known on this side had
Il the nine-year-old daughter of Capt.
SING, the master of the vessel, writ
4tH briefly of the same to Mrs. III. w.
Norris, of Brooklyn. The little girls
INC is Henrietta, and she accompan-
led her mother to the Pacific coast
ia the Reaper. Henrietta is a sea
14hph, if there erer was one. She
los the sea as she loves her doll, and
not only can she spin yarn as well as
any of the fol- sic hands, but she can
Wfite an interesting one, too.
here never was a tougher lot
o1 #hands" collected at the instance of
any shipping master than that which
fumblcd aboard the Reaper as she lay
iii tho stream off Liberty island last
May.
Hardly had the ship got off shore
from Sandy Hook when the mates dis
covered that half dozen of the sailors
who had been singed as A. BIS were as
Green as the sheathing on the ships
bottom Some masters believe in in
troducing a capstan bar on occasions of
this kind; but Capt. Young is humane
man. and, with sigh, he simply logged
the men, and determined to put up
with bad bargain.
be mess cabin boy who went in
the Ship was known to the officers as
~. He had never been to sea be-
10fe although he told Capt. Young
when he came on board that he had
made deep water voyage in an English
bark. He was a good lad for time, and
~ vas not necessary to ask any ques
tons to discover that at one time he had
1eIt the influences of good mothers
hand. He was only IS years old, rather
tail for his age, with a full, open face,
M8Ap curly hair and blue eyes that
IIf1|ed the clearnesS of the sea itself.
&oUehow or other he evinced fond
ness for that little water sprite Hen
1Ietta Immediately after she came
4poard. 1t was one of those attach
ments that an older brother forms for
his little sister, and at the beginning of
the passage he made frequent trips be-
tween the cabin and the headquarters
of charley Noble to get some dainty for
MS little queen. But after the ship had
been at sea seven weeks it was noticed
that Harry was irregular in his habits,
and that his devotion Ito the little
woman aft was not as marked as it
should be. The lad had had much oc-
caslon to associate with the men in the
4sp al course of events, and presently
hI4 conferences with the green hands be-
hIme so frequent and pronounced that
41t. Young was obliged to reprove
was like casting water on ducks
naek, though. These men seemed to
nHNe some unknown power over tn. boy,
NNS the extent of this power was not
te8 ped until the stewardess one day
N'1.p vered that somebody was stealing
fN condensed milk. A watch was
ntained, but still the milk continued
sappear, and finally the butter be-
to take French leave. Then the
followed to keep it company, and
soon joined by the sugar. Those
0Ese duties called them aft began to
*ANect one another, but never for a
HcUent was thought given to the
E1nesty of Harry. Little Henrietta
vowel ed for him, and that was enough.
ID told her repeatedly that his am
t'N*n was to grow up a good, brave
'7H hat he might command a majestic
NiH like the Reaper, and on Sunday
ICONS, when he pored over the liz
e ger-stained Bible that some Chris
s'aN bother had given him as an heir
&44I6 Rnd read aloud therefrom to the