The Republican journal., 1897-11-25

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hand toward the elsewhere clear views,
Electrically whispered: ''Now, now will
you, for once acknowledge that l am un
lucky?' Without hesitation she nodded
assent and offered an exchange of seats.
No indeed! l was enjoying myself too
well. One of the best plans in all nature,
and in the whole makeup of male man
kind is that he can think things without
| being heard. Take that privilege away
and life would be chaos-civilization
would be lost within a week. If the trim
mings on that hat didn't wilt it was from
no fault of my mental energies. We have
doubtless all been there before, more or
less, but this was an exceedingly bad case.
Portland has also a new hostelry, 1.-THE
Congress Square," of which the people
speak with awe. "Tavern'' is old fashioned
and ''hotel'' is so common that the word
is decidedly vulgar: hence ] have, for
effect, and at some trouble used a term
L
stable. We took in The Congress Square
and were assigned the best room in the
house-or, if mayhap there were better,
| truly should have looked upon it with
awe and been diScontented within its
shelter. Ours was good enough In that
house the new order of things is carried
out by having the grand dining room aloft,
just under the roof, instead of the old
style of feeding by gas light in hot sub
cellar From the windows of the dining
room the view is delightful, and were it
not for an ambitious dry goods house just
over the way, one could see the world.
The table attendants Wore black dress
uniform. TO put bright and willing young
girls on light Sunday morning into a sort
of half mourning doesn't seem to be in
good taste, but my views may not be
properly aesthetic. But we must away.
The clouds rolled by, the wind came out
from north with life and speed in its
breath; all Portland harbor was soon
astir. Farewells were early spoken and
we faced the rising sun with our course at
southeast, speeding toward the wide and
open sea. All other craft, and the moving
fleet was large, were steering at angles to
our path, as they were bound either up or
down the coast. Long before noon the sea
ened and with every thread drawing we
were making our best gait. At four O clock
the mate reported three masted schooner
on the weather bow with no sail set; that
was something odd, but his story proved
correct. No commander will ever pass by
anything at sea that seems to be out of the
usual order, without learning if anything
is wanted, or at least coming near enough
to see if any signals are set or other signs
| to be made. In this case we had to haul
up until the wind came broad and strong
on the quarter. The sea was rising fast,
while the increasing wind was picking off
the tops and sweeping it spitefully along
like sand or low blown snow. Our change
of course br ought far heavier strain on
all things and some light sails had to come
in. Within tn, rty minutes we were close up
with the odd craft, and as we swung off
ON our course again we went sweeping by
her within hundred feet. 1t was the
Cathie c. Berry of Eastport. Her sails
seemed to be all stripped in pieces, but she
looked to be otherwise in good order.
They were steering dead before the sea
under bare poles, and being loaded deeply
she was badly washing. No word was
spoken, and l thought they looked sur
prised that we came so near. Was glad
that the people did not want to be taken
! off, which their silence proved, as the
coming darkness and rough weather would
have made it dangerous, if not well-nigh
impracticable, for our people to help them,
providing they had no boats of their own.
Our craft, SO high and dry above the sea,
have been an aggravaticn to them. They
doubtless thought the wind would not
last long; that after getting smoother
time to repair sails, they would soon have
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wind turned to moderate gale, lasting
three days, and was soon followed by even
stronger weather. We often spoke of them
and hoped they got back to their home in
safety. So long as the north wind lasted
we ran to the southeast and were making
good time; in three days we had made
nearly all the longitude required and were