Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-05-20

9 me passed around the walst-noJ " al
z loah. but 'hG graceful figure OF girl
- ! stood as if rivoted to the deck #! Where
bad her faco appeared to me before!
Suddenly there flashed into my recollec'
. tiou the remembrance of tho picture
' and inscription which | had seen III
Wailoah's possession, ana involrntarlly
nv lips framed the syllables, "lolanl. -
The next instant she had vanished.
Whence she had come did not III that
hour of peril seek to ascertain, bat When
the line we stood watching with mingled
hope and fear ceased to pass over the
side and we knew the effort had proved
truitless, felt bitter pang at heart to
think that the devoted girl had sacri'
feed her life in trying to save ours.
Notwithstanding that she was but
one of many, from our brave commander
down, who failed to reach the shore on
that fatal day, as l clurg through its
long, painful hours, together with my
fast diminishing shipmatos, to the tan
gled rigging of our gallant ship while
her life was being ground out upon the
cruel rocks, my thoughts constantly re-
verted to the ineXplicable appearance of
the Samoan girl among us ard the sad
consequence of her horOism.
1t was late in the afternoon before |
they at length succeeded in landing a
line from one of the mOrtars on the
Trenton across our fore and aft stays,
al, l,I law,
to cross over to the comparative safety
of that vessel but even then our rescue
was not complete, for the old flagship
was hard and fast aground and rapidly
breaking up, But the natives Oh shore
CALAMITY came to our II lief, and, linked
arm in arm they formed living chain,
through the breakers to the
side of the stranded war vessel and
through the eXertions of these brave
'ellows the entire ships company and
hose of us who were saved from the
Tandalia were eventually landed on the
leach. As climbed down the side in
ny turn to leave the wreck | was
rasrCd ~ the strong arms of the fore
lost islander. who seemed to peer anx-
0usly in my face as he passed me on
own the line, and, though had caught
ut fleeing glimpse of his features, it A
al been sufficient to convince me that
was Waioah. Later on again OBJ
rived HIM moving restlcssly in and ont
nong the throng of shipWrecked mar.
lers on the shore, and as lie came near
called him to me. | can see him vet
he stood before me with haggard face
III questioning eyes, and when | told
N OF the fate Of her for whom he
ught he appeared as if turned to stone We
III another instant an agony of grief sy
lzed upon him, and shifting his fore. WI
ad with his clinched hand he uttered
ny OF anguish and sprang to the edge an
the bufetlng waters. I was too over tin
ne with exhaustion to detain him. es1
two CT his fellows who had stood
lr and listened to my words OWNED m,
purpose and dashed forward, barely Gu
time to prevent him from leaning W
o the sea. He struggled ferceiy to en-,
0 himself, but finally permitted his
trainers to lead him back to where I
od, and there Oh the surf dashed EN]
ana, with the hurricane still raging ~
tut US, he revealed to me in half ar.
1late sobs the mystery enshroudiup
lost lolani. She was his wife. and
the night the storm arose he Law in
drunken stupor, from which, at the
ming OF the recall guns she had
My strlven to arouse him. At length.
Ter 1earfulness of his being punished. A
had conceived the idea of domino n
UNIFORM and reporting on board in y
stead. No enc had questioned her u !
ltlty as mutlled in his oilskins. she ~
entered the boat at the LANDING nj b
IL was not strange that later, amid
CONFUSION about the decks of the p
}, she should have escaped notice a y
nat became OF Wailoah after we left nj a
lSlahd L have never learned. and @ d
olless Wero 1t not for tho memory Of III y
noble wife he would long since hnvo I.
eu from my recollections, but when Ia p,
~ reVerles again live through the r o
'lllh2 scenes at Samoa and view tbe ia
mar faces of those who persisted in 1 c;
lerce battle with the clements tboro til
ways one which fingers in nv fam. en-
wien all Others have fled. That a an
10 which my thoughts must ever en- en-
IN tehderest admiration-is fine IN
or lolanl, the brave Samoan uirl NTA1
"o oli'afes III New Orleans Times.