Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-08-08
The P1underers
BY c. j. cUTLIFFE HYNE.
BY c. ). cUTLiFFE HYNE.

and their crews AXE into Mobile
When they came to count heads. 1t waa
found that the captain. Cambel and one
OF the engine room hands were missing
In the hurry to escape they seem to
have got into neither lifeboat. The
telegram says that no other boat would
nave lived a minute in the sea that was
running at the time. even II n had
been lowered, and the mate, who writes,
does not think hat this was even at
tempted. because the Port Edes sank
before they had driven out Of sight.
We had a private cablegram at the Of
flee before l left. and that told how
other steamers crossing that part Of the
gulf had been on the lookout, but up to
then not even so much a. "a scrap of
wreckage had been sighted. So fear
1t Is past a doubt that she sank like a
stone In deep water and took those
poor fellows down with her"
1t is horribly sad. especially when
n remembers what l heard this
morning. Hamilton. the girl Mr.. Cam
bel went wild about six years ago, Is
out In Florida this minute and free.
DuVernay, the man she married, died
six months g of malarial fever. You
know, Mr.. Cambel was engaged to her
Just after he left Cambridge and went
as an attache and was desperately
fond of her, as l imagined he could be,
and when her people forced her into
marrying the other fellow he threw up
his post n wandered into all the most
out OF the way corners of the earth to
try to forget things. What makes me
SO Interested is this: I've just found out
that h was a Miss Mabel Kildare be-
fore h was married, and when was
4 child I used to know her sister Elsie
very we'll indeed. In fact. 1 believe we
were some sort of cousins. and for half
81 wear VIC had fhn -.
gether and were as intimate as two
children could be. Then her sister mar
r1ed MIR. D~uvernay, who had a colonial
appointment, and Elsie went with them
abroad, and we dropped completely out
or touch with one another. Strange,
isn't 1t, that l should hear of her again
the same day that brings news of poor
Mr.. Cambel's DEATH"
IT'S a small world this" said Fair
fax sententiously, and condolences are
the commonest things In it. 1 sup
pose in Il novel the pair of them ought
to have come together and forgiven the
past and married and settled down in
a villa residence, with ivy and clematis
attachment. and lived happily aver af-
terward. Unfortunately real life is
balder and far less romantic
You seem out of Spirits" said his
fiancee. linking her fingers ove' his
arm.
Il suppose / am. To begin with this
Port Edes business isn't calculated to
ehllven one, and then on the top of that
I've had another taste of your blessed
guardians business methods which
have nearly sickened me out of the Of
fee altogether. You know about this
Brothers Steamship company which he
Is trying to float? Well. we had a
meeting today-quite 1000
people. and all. comparatively speaking,
moor ThaV Unr0 fN~ %LD ~.-- -
the gang he breaches to on Sunday.
with a sprinkling Of shippers out Of
work and other seafaring folk who had
saved a trifle of money.
Shelf commenced the business with
prayer. which Is right enough at its
proper time, but struck me as being
particularly out OF place there. The
audience. however. groaned approval,
n their confidence in the man seemed
to be strengthened. He followed this
up with Il clever speech about the pro-
fts to be made o u of the modern sea
carrying trade n enlarged upon the
notorious fact that the ~,losses OF the
business largely arose from the lack
or interest on the part OF shipmasters
INC the officers. This last. he said.
would be entirely removed in the
Brothers Steamship company, because
Dy the article of association no man
would mold q responsible position on
any one OF their vessels who was not
an actual shareholder OF the
And then he pointed out that there was
an : per cent. dividend guaranteed on
cent. or 18 per cent. on the ordinary
and wound up with another dose Of
cant: The company. he said, would
not be alone content with earning in
come for its ~bondholders. 1t would
have as its equal object the spreading
OF the gospel n tie civilization Of
England to the uttermost parts OF the
globe.
Then the meeting cheered and
amended and wrote sWt an application
Tor 10000 e5 shares laen and there in
the room on forms whA..h were handed
round. and when it dispersed Mr..
Theodore Shelf and I drove back to the
offices.
LOOK here I said to him, you've
put me down on the directorate Of this
thing, with a salary OF E1,00O q year. I
want to resign
VIVA on earth for?'
Oh. shall we say I haven't suffi-
cient money loose to take up enough
shares?'
But he said quickly. you needn't
take up any. You can draw your first
quarters salary. and pay that back to
the company's bankers on your frst
call. That will qualify YOU
Mo- ] said, Tn not going to do
nat I'm going to be mixed up with
this new company in no degree what
ever. Flatly. l don't believe in the
thing one bit. It's a notorious fact that
fresghts are so low just nov that thou
sands of tons of shipping are laid up
because 1t can't be III at a profit, and
IL you put more in commission freights
will tumble down still lower
You speak from your Ignorance he
said. I should remind you that
am by far an older man and have a
much deeper experience. The business
of Marmaduke Rivers & Shelf IL q last
ing monument of what my humble
alents can accomplish and you viii
some day see for yourself the newer
company on an equal footing. Did you
not notice what enthusiastic confidence