Port Royal Commercial and Beaufort County Republican, 1874-04-30

would get into his head and he migb fall over the rocks way down into th dreary moaning waves. Perhaps I fhal never see him again. I know what I'J do. I'll just take the lantern and g after him.'' She did not seem to think of the will storm outside or the perilous and dar road she had to traverse?all she ap peared to remember was that her fathe was in danger and that it was her dut; to rescue him from his peril if it wer in her power to do so. She covered over the fire with aslie and, having taken all due precaution against a conflagration she wrappei herself in her cloak, tied her hoo' closely over her head and with th lighted lantern in her hand startei forth on her merciful errand. He progress was slow, for even with lanter alight and the red light shining in th distance but dimly, the road she tra^ eled was full of deceptive holes, int any one of which she might stumbl unless she took heed where she place her little feet. The wind was high and would ofte strive to whisk her cloak from he shoulders and snatch the lantern fror her hand, but bravely and nobly di this child keep on, praying all th while to God to give her strength to ge to the hut of Joe Clay's?praying Go to keep him there until she had placei the lantern safely in his hands. Ever and anon would her light b thrown on the surrounding objects fearing if her father had fallen on th way she might miss him. The red ligh never seemed so far off to Maggie as i dM that night?it seemed tokeepgoin farther away the moro she advance towards it. What if it should not pre ceed from Joe Clay's house at all bu merely be some " will o' the wisp " at trading her towards the sea and the: into it? At last it shone brighter and brighte and Maggie know she was near her jom ney's end. Then 6lie could hear lou< voices above the storm -then slio ap proached the window and peered inshe could see Joe Clay and four othe men seated around the table, 6mokin| and drinking, but hei" father was no one of them?her father was not in tli room 1 Maggie's heart Bauk within her?: blinding flash of lightning shot througl the sky. Maggie gave one wild, pierc ing scream and fell prostrate below th< window. The scream called the men from tin room and as they gazed out into tli< darksome, boisterous night, this wai the scene presented to their view. A little figure drenched through witl the rain, lying on the ground clasping in her cold hands the lantern. The] thought she bad been struck by th< lightning, but she had only faintcc from exhaustion and excitement. "Why, bless my soul!" exclaimei Joe Clay, "If it haint Mark Gordon'i little gal, Maggie ! What could hav< brought her out such a wild and un cauny night ?" They soon knew well enough, for tin child opened her eyes and, looking /> ^ Avnlmm/ul 14 T NT/

cannot Was ever ran over this course. The at back rival train had a little the start, but our ections engineer thought he could get out of sounds South Chicago even with them, and nt and ??then was when the fun would come." , flood Jt had grown dark enough to have the d upon sparks gleam brightly as the two enlem off. gines vomited forth,. with nervous, t cloth, spiteful coughs, great volumes of coal n flint, smoke mingled with steam, which sole of streaked off away over the trains and d, with iay like sullen storm clouds over the ;rspira- iow landscape. We left South Chicago d every wen together, and each engine was i ready 8oon put to lively work. As the flrehe floor man opened the furnace doors bright itating streaks of glaring angry, red light e cloth would shoot backward through the mass he con- 0f smoke and steam, for a moment lightfection jng it up with a lurid glare that smackhow it ea 0f the internal regions. Faster and ray and faster flew the driving wheels, and the in your lightning like motion of the parallel ou like bars bewildered the eye. Tho headwithin light of our engine seemed to throw its 38 back luminous rays ahead by jerks, lighting I them. Up a weird scene of low, sedgy marsh, You sandy wastes, stunted pines and single from giBh lagoon, through which lay the it not a iron-bound course over which our ponnotion. derous engine glided nt a fearfully rapid iu must oaco, seeming to givo every energy to ip?the the struggle, as much as if it wero a id you thing of life and reason. Side by side :iv8. the two trains sped for many miles, ours leading by half a car length. Onr engineer was one of the most cardful on this road, aud one who very . * seldom indulged in a race, but he conlfornia ciuiied that it would never do to suffer seldom a "scoop," as that is something the it from paper never allows ; so to show what or two pride of an engine could do, just before parting company with his rival mps of be gave the old machine a little more one is latitude, and the faftbful assistant n land, heaved in an extra dose of coal, when, with an intensified growl, away he sped ' at a rate of speed rarely accomplished ounus, by a locomotive, and with a parting e only screech of the steam-whistle we left the adroit vainly struggling rival far in the rear, eata is roa^8 diverged we could see the . engine of the opposition line plunging c to the matjiy through the low oaks and pines, lg con- seemingly running twice as fast as we he big- were. We had jumped by switches, ner his airlines and stations, bnt now a coterie

5 UliU UCUUUicn wui^vw^. ' A doctor writes to the Baltimore Sun | that hydrophobia can be produced by J the bite of a perfectly healthy dog. r "The one thing," says Jean Paul, r " which a maiden most easily forgets is 3 how she looks?hence mirrors were in* vented. * Three tons of base ball bats have ! been shipped by a single Vermont * mannfactnrner to the Boston market t this winter. f Eight yonng ladies took the final vows of the sisterhood and four received r the initiatory veil at St. Joseph's Oon vent, Troy, lately. , A Western paper is dead. In its last gasp it gently whispered: " Two hunr dred subscribers, and only thirty-one t of thorn paid up." > Few take care to live well, but many - to live long: though it is in a man a r power to do the former, but in no man's 1 power to do the latter. r "Isay," said a rough fellow to a fop ' with conspicuous bow-legs?"I say, ? don't you have to havo your pantaloons out with a circular saw ? ' ' ' In a murder case in Kentucky 300 ' men were summoned as jurors before \ they could get 12 who didn't know anyt thing and were therefore eligible as 3 jurors. The telegraph message boys of i Albany formed a ring recently, and a oharged and reoeived p-y for over 3 2,000 messages that had never been rc rc. - . rc. ceived. 3 If a New York Alderman attends a strictly to business he can in the course t of two years accumulate two race ? horses, eight coach dogs and acomforta3 ble brick house. 3 A Cincinnati editor accusses another 3 of stealing three lead pencils and a sheet of paper. The progress of editorial courtesy in Cincinnati appears to r bo "stationery." 3 A Portland school teacher, to punish t a little boy for chewing gum, compelled b him to chew all taken from the other s scholars, and for one day that boy got i tired of gum. * The St. Cloud (Minnesota) Journal 1 says that several Chippewa Indians o were in that placo a few days since, > " studying civilization and picking up * cigar stubs in front of the saloons." It is relnted of Poussin that being 0 shown a picture by a person of rank, j ho remarked, "You only want a little 0 poverty, sir, to make you a good painty er." r I clasped her tiny hand in mine, I t "-i aiiial<1 l,or from the wind and

permits, all nanus are empiuyeu, ouui< cutting off the blubber, while other attend to the caldrons, set in a row 01 . biickwork. Tho blubber, when it ha ( passed through these caldrons, an< been made to part with as much of th> > oil as possible under tho circumstances ij then used for fuel. While thus em i ployed, the different groups of work . men present a fine study for auy ram bling photographer who may chance t come that way. The scene is enlivenci i by songs,* often by fighting, owing t > the great facility with which rum ma; , be obtained in exchnngo for fat o " whale-beef and tho proprietor o ' the station must keep a shar; r look-out at this stage of tk I proceedings on the fleet of small canoe f that crowd around, ready to carry ol t any blubber they can lay their hand i on. , In the case of a female whale, th L sea is often whitened by the milk tha , flows while sho is being cut up. Steak I cut from a young whale are not ba |. eating when fresh, and possess this ad } vantage over other kinds of fish, tha . they may be eaten by Roman Catholic j through Leut, the whale, though ir f habiting tho sea, being a mammal. ; Great numbers of vulture-like crow L blacken the trees round the statior t and regard the proceedings below wit t much interest, descending uow un again to steal any flesh or fat they ca I lay their beaks on. It is often nmusin 1 to see a couple of them fighting over j long strip of beef. Having begun t 1 swallow it at the same time at opposit j ends, thcu perhaps having got dow j some five or six inches of if, each cro' becomes aware of a sudden jerkin , sensation imparted to tho meat froi the other end. One or other must di; t gorge, and then a regular light ensue; B The fishermen of the neighborhoo t cut the meat into slices, nud hang it t . dry for future use. After exposure t j the sun it becomes quite black iu nj B pearance, and very rauk both in sme j and taste; but for all that they seem t 1 like it, and what is more to the pui 2 pose, get fat on it. Pigs, dogs, au . cats improve tho occasion, and all b< come quite round and sleek during tb whaling season. For some days after whale has been taken, every bush an tree near the fisherman's house is hun ? ' ? 1 i

in a abort time to do mooreu u uiwcdi , mass alongside his boatr Off goes tin shirts of the pnllers, the boat's head ii turned in the directson of the whale , and with their muscular back and armi ( shining in the snu, the boat, impeller ! by the regular stroke of six oars, dashei in pursuit. Wheu within fifteen oi twenty feet of the whalo, the harpoonei ! drives his haipoon into the huge fish a: ! near the breast as possible, and throw ng over ten or fifteen fathoms of loos< rope coiled in the bow, draws his lonf knife, and stands prepared to cut away in case of accidents from entanglement of the rope with the clothes or limbs o ! any on board. The oarsmen have mean while, laid in their oars, and sit readj to check the rope on one of the thwarts as soon as this may be done withoul risk to the boat, or injury to the palmi , of their hands. If the whale goes straight down, 01 I "sounds," as they term it, rope must be allowed to run out till it takes it int( , its head to rise again towgrds the] sur face. When partially exhausted aftei its first burst, the rope is hauled it , hand over hand, and the harpoonei ( prepares his lance. A good harpooner i if he gets sufficiently near to strike tin ( whale in some vital part, may cause i ( to blow blood with the first lance-thurst t and so end its straggles at once. This is, however, the exception, not the rule When the chase takes place withii sight of those on shore, the excitcmen , among the relations or friends of tin I crews knows no bounds. Tho yells of delight that hail eacl lance-thrust, and the " paean" that risei L when the monster blows blood, eeh< , and re-echo from tho hillsides behind j Even a stranger feels tho blood coursi ( more quickly through the veins as In sees tho harpooner strike, and the boa ( almost instantly bound over the water I in obedience to the first rush of tin . wounded whulo, then bury itself be ' tween tho waves, which form like i ( wall on each side, leaving only tin ( heads of the crew visible to the sp ec tator. Tho whale is now dead; tho othei J boats coming up, assist in towing it t< the station, where, as soon as dayligh " 1 * 1 ,1

he ani- 0f red and green lights appear. The s loose reverse bar is thrown over, the throttle on for valvo closed, the-bell set to ringing by ox and steam, and, with hand on the valve he has which governs the air-brake, the ens rope, gineer, with great drops of perspiration t stand standing on his brow, gently reins his ot pos- glowing steed, and stops the pondrous around monster right where ho can water it ely get easily, and then remarks, with great indie the ward satisfaction, "Well, they got it ajured. that time." Then, as he gets down in the with torch and oil can to muke the pe; its grand rounds, the representative bids s huge him a hearty good-night, and slips back j bo so to full-sized seats and lazy-backB, and it. As ig greeted with the remark, " You were red sea out there, were you ? I wondered what box or had got into the old man." rrow to The passengers are all elated over I yelps the victory, each one regarding it in iported the light of a new case of personal it is, it prowess, quite as much as if they had e tank run the engine, or in fact owned the v space road. No other topic entered into the do not general conversation, and, as the train s chief drew up to the supper station, sixty dy full miles out of Chicago, every person on n cap- the train seemed to have a keen nppernter. tite, which the excitement of the grand raco had begotten. Of conrse all the e, passengers of that train will over after ... T swear by that road, unless, perhaps, t, till 1 bIjouIJ somo time sulTer defeat, ir, liap- and that would leave them in a quandary ,n ever as to whether they had been beaten render fairly, and whether they did not have j more and heavier cars than tho rival vken I trajUj jn a year or two mere, when the armly; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the st your Canada Southern, and the Air Line ieived ; Railroads are completed, there will bo ir chil- many a lively race in that neck of woods s !? of which skirts the lower lake shore, so dicious that tho representative American may ings of hope for any amount of fun of the st, not rapid kind. ir dear ro now What Constitutes a Car Load.

p from the world's cold storms. She set e her beauteous eyes on me, and with her s lips said she, " An umbrella will do as ff well." 8 Dr. Brown-Sequard successfully ingrafted a cat's tail in a cock's comb, but c there are some coxcombs so firm on the head that not even a tale of sorrow like 8 that could bo made to penetrate or toko hold on them. l Silver was first coined by Phidon, ,8 King of Argas, about 8G0 B. C., the ( epoch of the building of Carthage, and about 140 years after the building of Solomon's Temple. Parson.?This term, now vulgarly h used for a minister of nuy kind, has a d classical origin^ and is derived from the u Latin term "persona ecclesiae," the g rector being a corporation sole, a A young lady in Gloucester is charged 0 with keeping her light burning in thq, c parlor until very late on Sunday night, n in order to harrow the sensitive feelings (v of nn envious neighbor into tho belief g that she had really got a beau. 11 A lady asked ft pupil at a publio ex1 amination of a Suuday school, " What ' was the sin of the Pharisees ?" " Eatd jng camels, ma'am," was the quick re0 ply. She had read that the Pharisees 0 "strained at gnats and swallowed jj camels." A young man recently wrote to the Mayor of Pittsburgh : " I desire to get (j some information in regard to razor j grinding. Will vour Honor Jiloase visit " the place where" they grind them, and ' writo to mo whether they grind on one ^ side or both sides at the same time, what size stones or wheels they use and ? if dry, and oblige." ,t Yon may step out of your Pullman y car to get a breath, in journeying through Nevada, at somo little way station, and stumble over a pile of silver bricks breast high, and worth fifty or a hundred thousand dollars. Yon will >f generally perceive, on very close in - i?j-J

answered by a loud, shrill cry, which was soon repeated muoh nearer him, and again in close proximity to him. He was riding a young, but spirited horse, and at once knew that his only safety was to remain upon him if possible. The panther was now crouching before him?the noble horse leaped furiously over him?the panther in turn leaping over both horse and rider. He gave tho horse the rein and bado him go through tho trackless forest. The flight was rapid and inexpressibly terrific ; and great drops of perspiration fell from the rider's brow, as he fell tho keen breeze, made by the panther in leaping over him. Hatless, lacerated and bleeding, the rider was carried over fallen trees and young saplings, until the bridle caught over one, as it sprang back to its place. Having no knife to cut the rein, various attempts were made to bend down the sapling, or unbridle the horse ; with a laBt desperate effort the bridle was loosed, and the horse, maddened almost to desperation, again bounded forward until he reached a cleared field, and having been trained in a regiment of light horse, (of which our horo was Colonel) he leaped the fence and tho pather gave up the chase. A light was seen in the distance, which, when reached, proved to be the abode of a friend, who took the horse and bade our hero ' go in ;' and upon going into the house and seeing the scratched and bleeding condition of hie guest, declared that ho would not have put up his horse for all he possessed, if he had known of his hair-breadth escape. The next day, after hearing of the adventure, Maj. James Britton and others started from Greenville with a pack of hounds in pursuit, and reaching the locality, soon 'struck trail,' and on reaching the river beheld a large pauther emerging from tho water on the opposite side, which Anally made ite