Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-09-29

out the boats to the relief of the sui
ferers
1t proved to be a vessel from Quebec.
bound TO Liverpool, With passengers on
! board. She had sot entangled in the ice
and finally frozen fast, and had passed
several weeks in Il most critical sitta-
! ton. She was stove, her decks, swept
in fact mere wreck; all her provisions
and almost all her water gone. Her crew
and passengers had lost all hopes OF be
ing saved.
As one OF the men brought away in
the third boat that had reached the
/ wreck was ascending the ships side. the
mate, catching a glimpse of his face,
started back in consterna ion. 1t was
the very face he had seen, three or four
hours before, looking up at him from the
captains desk, Not only the face. but
the person and the dress exactly core
-ponded
A soon as the exhausted crew and
furnished passengers were cared for. and
! the bark on her com sc again, the mate
called the captain aside. 1T seems that
was not ghost / saw today, sir; the
mans alive"
What do Won mean? Who's alive?"
Why. slr, one OF the passengers we
have laSt saved Is the same man | saw
! writing ON Your slate ut noon. | would
swear to IT in count OF Justice
IheT toun OHM in conversation with
the captain Of the rescued ship. The
captain asked them both to step down
INTO the cabin. Then. turning TO the pas
j senger, he said, Il hope. sir. YOU will not
think | am trihing with you; but | would
be much obliged TO YOU if YOU would
write few words on this slate" And
he handed him the slate, with that side
up on which the mysterious writing was
not Il will do anything YOU ask" re-
| Piled the passenger; but what shall
! write 20
"A few words are all | want. Suppose
! you write, Steer to the nor'west.'"
The passenger, evidently puzzled TO
! make out the motive for such n request.
complied, however. with a smile The
captain took up the slate and examined
it closely; then, stepping aside SO as to
conceal the slate from the passenger. he
turned it over and gave it to him again
with the other side Up.
You say that is your handwriting?"
said he.
i need not say So" rejoned the other.
! looking Mt ii. for YOU saw me write it."
And this! said the captain. turning
the slate over.
The man looked first at one writing.
then at the other, quite COMPOUNDED. At
last, What is the meaning of this ?" said
he. i only wrote one of these. Who
wrote the othcr?'
That's more than l can tell YOU sin.
My mate here says you wrote it, sitting
ut this desk, at noon today"
The captain of the wreck and the pas
/ senger looked at each other, exchanging
Chances Of intelligence and surprise; and
/ the former asked the latter. Did YOU
| dream that you wrote ON this slater"
No. sir; not that | remember
You speak of dreaming" said the cap
! tam cf the bark. What was this gen
| tlcman about at noon today?'
| Captain rejoined the other, the
| whole thing IS most mysterious and OK
traordinary; and had intended to speak
to You about it as soon as we got Il lit
| tie quiet. This gentleman pointing to
| the passenger, being much exhausted.
| fell into heavy sleep, or what seemed
such, sometime before noon. After an
| hour or more he awoke and said 10 me.
! Captain, we shall be relieved this very
| day.
When | asked him what reason he
had for saying so he replied that he had
| dreamed that he was on board a bark,
and that she was coming TO our rescue
He described her appearance and rig, and,
| to our utter establishment, when your
vessel hove in sight she correspondent ex-
actly TO his description of her. As it has
| turned out l cannot doubt that it was all
| by an overriding Providence, so that we
might be saved"
| The above narrative was communicated
to me by Capt. J. S. Clarke of the
schooner Julia Hallock, who had it direct
| ly from Mr. Bruce himself They sailed
together for seventeen months, in the
years 1886 and '37.-Robert Dale Owen.