The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-01

AS read the account OF how one wom-
Rev. W. 4. Worth in a recent Zlon's Her
ala and reprinted in the September mum
bsr OF Our Dumb Animals. 10 occurred TO
mo TO write out little incident of tho
vacation season which made deep i'm
preston on my II Ind. and which, l be-
lieve, was IA direct answer to prayer.
The morning Of July II, when the off,
cial train for u o Toronto Epworth League
Convention was being made up In Bos.
ton. found me a hundred miles away in
a summer cottage on the stern ana rock
bound shore of mountain lake IN New
Ham pshire.
A heavy storm OF wind and rain had
been raging through the night. and the
whitecaps looked threatening enough
when morning light revealed them Co one
anxious watcher. Not even CeiiaIbaxter,
on her sea-girt Isle OF Shoals, was more
at the mercy of the winds and waves than
i for though IA storm on "A mountain lake
Ia like "a tempest in tea pot compared TO
the oceans fury, still it is "a real ana live
ly tempest while IL lasts.
Our cottage is called Rockledge, and
no road leads from it TO the neigh boring
town-only "a blaZed trail over almost'i in
accessi BILE rocks, for which we have found
a new name since reading description
OF the Chilkoot Pass
My only hope. then, in reaching Con-
cord 60 connect with the official train
was the small steamer, the "Lsdy Wood
sum, whose captain had been duly noii-
fled To stop on his morning trip for two
pilgrims found for Canada, who must 60,
rain or shine.
But would he stop, was the question
anxiously asked by the family party or
the cottage piazza. who had resolved
themselves into weather bureau. The
little wharf in front OF the cottage rocked
and swayea with the force Gf the waves,
and Jets Of water were forced through tho
cracks OF the boards as eBch teavy wave
threw its bal TO ing force against IL.
at is out OF the qestiOn' said the heod
OF the family. 1T the Lsdy Woods I'm"
should try 20 tleto this wharf, she would
pull wlarf ana oil out 10 sea.
So the cIuLcil OF war wGs held. and IL
WIS decided that IL a large new wharf at
some distance along the shore could he
reached, the steamer could stop there in
comparative safety.
Away we went through the woods. over
slipplry bowldGrs sand treacherous rolling
stones, which, contrary tn the teaching OF
the proyerb. bal gathered moss In sufli
cient quantities. toirenuer them very un-
certain stopping places. Tho toboegan
slide, down which logs arc driven into
tho lake, was the last barrier TO be crossed,
and the new wharf lay before us, wet
with the falling rnin and washed by the
waves that were pounding against 10. The
little steamer soon came into view, we'll
out in the middle of the lake. ana keep
ing straight on in her course in suite OF
our shouts and signals. The wind is IA
IN atchless ruarer and only laughed at our
efforts tO be heard; the rain fell In sheets
and blotted out the white flag wildly
waved at the end OF q long bamb pole
The Lady" had forgotten US indeed, for
she kept straight on her way past our cot
taee withoust oven warning whistle.
'Yhere is one hope more, we said;
1.-The big steamer, which usually ignores
the small wharyes and keeps on her proud