The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-01-07

LIE III NUN.
six hours they manned the pumps and
fought a hopeless fight against the
grim fate which drew nearer t o them
with every mighty wave which sept
the doomed vessel, and at the end of
the thirty-six hours that fate was
close upon them-the North was
about to go down.
Then they prepared the two boats
for launching; but fate had not yet
done it's worst. AS they were about
to take to the boats there came a
wave like a mountain of water, which
fell upon one of the boats and crush
ed it as If it were an egg shell.
"Cut away the other boat! The ship
is about to go down." cried Mrs. New
lin to her husband from her post of
vantage on the forward part of the
quarterback; and even as she shouted
the words there came another great
wave and swept her into the sea.
For Mate Newlin, who was dashed
to the wheel, to cut himself loose from
that position, rush to the remaining
boat and lower it was but the work of
a few moments. But his wife had
disappeared, and he was compelled to
give her up as lost. Then he helped
the captain and three other seamen
into the boat, losing the oars in do
ing so, but more could not be done
before the vessel went down with all
remaining on board.
The story of these five bits OF hui
man f1otsam is such a one as lot in
frequently is told of those who "go
down to the sea in ships" For three
days, starving and athirst they tossed
to and fro upon the waters, drifting
at the will of wind and tide. At the
end of three days, living skeletons
and so weak they could not talk, they
were picked up by the English steam
er Olympic, bound for Philadelphia.
Mate Newlin vas saved, but his wife
was gone and he could not forget her.
Ae drifted hither and thither upon the
way Of life, but always the memory
of his lost wife was with him and
sometimes in dreams he would hear
again her final despairing shrek as
the waters closed about her.
Finally, in his wanderings he came
to Long Beach, Cal, and there ac-
cepted a position as mate of a pleasure
yacht. And there the second chapter
in his life romance was opened by the
hand of fate.
Among the passengers on this yacht
on a day but a few weeks past was
a woman who was the veritable image
o. his lost wife. 1t is fair to say, and
thus dissipate all semblance of mys-
terry, that she should have been, for
she and the wife were one and the
same person. But Mr.. Newlin did not
know this then, and, not unnatural
ly, he was not disposed at first to
give credence to the evidence of his
W senses. 1t was only after he had
talked with the woman and knew her
story that he was compelled to be-
lieve.
When the great wave anne and
swept her from the North she was
drawn beneath the stern of the vessel
and emerged on the opposite side. She
was a good swimmer and managed to
float until she was picked up by an
English ship bound for Seattle, Wash.
which CHANGED to be in the vicinity
She was saved, but mourned her hus-
band as dead.
After a time, however, she found
comfort, as people sometimes do in
this queer world, and married the
comforter, a railroad man.
But a brief investigation convinced
her that her heart still chung more
fondly to the loved n she ha6
mourned as dead. And so a little a
iation from the Enoch Arden program
was arranged by the strangely re-
united people.
Mr.. Newlin had shipped on thu
schooner Beulah, bound for a north
ern port, and he was compelled &
complete his contract. So he SAILED