The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-23

I verse, and the York was doing twelve
and overhauling her with foam to the
| figure head with derisive laughter aloft,
| with all graceful scorn of the wind-swept
| structure in every leap, that brought
| closer yet to the eye the laborious
ploughing of the paddles,
Hardy and Mr. Harper touched their
! caps to each other.
This is business, SIR" said the boat
swain, land this ship is going to point
moral to that there steamer"
| Hardy sent a critical gaze aloft. Every
thing was set to a hair and rounded firm
as a boiler full of steam. Everything
was doing the work of a boiler and more
than the work of a boiler, witness
yonder sky blackened fabric, like painting
| Time, toiling to elude the Camilla of the
| sea,
your captain has sent me some good
men, said Hardy. ''It Gid not take you
long, I reckon, to bend new canvas
The boatswain smiled loftily betwixt
his red whiskers.
ut isn't all New Navy yet SIR he am
swered; ''but It's coming
| He sighed like a risen porpoise.
'There'n be no call for sailors when
| it's to be nothing but that, with pole
masts and so built'-he was pointing
as he spoke to the steamer-"that a dock
master might fifty sing out to the skip
| pei w 1ICi' Gnu Ol you rs coming
| He suddenly drew himself up as though
On drill and Julia stepped out of the
companion hatch. Sleep had touched
! her cheeks with a delicate bloom She
| had refreshed herself with soap and wa
| ter; her abundant hair was gracefully
| dressed; with the cunning fingers of
woman she had somehow, I do not know
| how, effaced in effect at least from her
attire the soiling and creasing influence
Of hard weather upon the single robe
She had managed to warp her hat to
| Its old bearings, and it sat cooked in its
old coquettish pride upon her head
Her gaze was full of rapture as she look
ed at the ship, the straining sweep Of
white water over the side, the easy, man
| ly figure Of the man at the wheel the
Magicienne, which, If the breeze lasted,
the ship must presently shift her helm
| to pass.
What do you think of this?" said
Hardy to her.
rs 1t a dream, Mr. Harper?" said the
girl. Shall Mr.. Hardy and awaken to
find ourselves on board an abandoned
wreck2"
Call 1t dream, num-" answered the
boatswain, land when you awake it will
be in England!'
This story of the ships adventure is
told. Because what you wish and ex-
pect is bound to happen when safety and
home are to be reached and realized by
a noble, we'll found clipper ship in charge
OF two sailors of the manifest character,
and manned by fifteen splendid examples
of the man-of-war's men of the navy of
that age.
The merciful eye of God was upon this
snip, for certainly the strength of our
courageous couple had been expended in
a long strife with the gale, and the dog,
and the Watch-tackle, and the winch
until NTTk l. II
no use. Hardy would have been forced to
take the first assistance that offered. 1t
came to him in the triumphant spirit
which informs the whole Of the couples
adventures Our sailor yearned for an
estate for himself and for the girl that
was to be his wife. He richly deserved
the reward he desired. Had any ship
but man-of-war assisted him to get
home the salvage claimed would have
diminished his proportion to a sum
which at the present rate Of interest
| would not have yielded him the value
of the pension of the retired naval blue
jacket. The British man -of-war de-
mands no salvage, and this is but lust,
because her very existence depends upon
the safety Of British merchantmen If
you ext1nguish the merchant service Won
extinguish the need for a navy and you
eXtinguish the nation herself because we
are surrounded by the ocean, we are fed
by the merchant sailor, and the blue
jacket is paid to protect him whilst he
| brings us the daily bread for which we
pray every Sunday in church, and some
times more often than every Sunday.
have never heard Of single instance
in which the admiralty have claimed
salvage for services rendered to a British
merchantmen. Possibly they may have
sent claim for the value of stores ax-
pended in the salvage services In the
case of successful salvage it has some.
times happened that the owners of the
ship have by permission. of the admiralty
presented a service Of plate for the of
f1cers mess, or they have made personal
gifts to the officers and a dinner or sup
per ashore to the crew. Thus it will be
gathered that Hardy reaped the harvest
he had sown and held in view;an having
said this no more need be asked, for
the hand that has penned these lines has
no cunning as reporter of the marriage
service.
The End