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A Bit of Wisdom. “Graf‘p the nettle with both hands. An it shall not sting." Take this bit of wisdom, dear, Into everything. If the lesson's long and hard, At it with your might ‘. Do not let it conqer you While you've strength to fight. Foolish people stand and fret, \Vonder what to do, Bear the trouble twenty timesâ€" Such a silly crew ! hat the trial over, dear, Never frown and pout ; With a brave and steady look Po the foe to rent. not to-morrow’s load, Little heart, today: Trip with happy feet along Life's uneven way; “Grasp the nettle with both hands And it shall not sting." Take this bit of wisdom, dear, Into everything. Tommy's Business Venture. Tommy wanted some money. He hadn't many chances to earn it, though willing, rery willing to work pretty hard for it. He wanted ten dollars before the next winter's winds and snows shut the Lane family in for days, inside the little red farm- house at Maple Grove farm, five miles from a neighbor. Ten dollars would, if divided right, bring weekly and monthly bright periodicals from different portions of the busy world into their own little home. And then when the blizzards came, and he sat at the little round table getting his daily lessons, mother and father, too, could s end the hours delightfully, sitting beside the fire reading something very “good.” It’s not nice to be a “shut in,” when your home is a small cabin away out upon aprair- ie, if you have nothing new to read and very few neighbors, and those living out of sight. Tommy's home was part dug out. Their fire in the winter was fed by bundles of twisted grass, sun flower seed, cornvstalks, dry weed stalks, and sparing handfuls of coal. Coal was precious. Wood was very valuable. Tommy helped with all his strength the loving mother gather, in their seasons, first, the wild strawberries, then raspberries, plums, grapes, and has in the garden from planting until harvest time. Between them they had filled jars and glasses fullof nice fruit for winter use, gather- ed in asuppl of pumpkins, squashes, beans, potatoes, an other good things, which were stored in the “cave” for the rainy days when they could not work. Tommy helped his father, too, in the “ cm i” tending and gatherin r. Mr. and Mrs ane thought their littlelar a “ wonder- fully bright boy." At twelve, Tommy was stout MN tanned. All through the winter of 1887 and 1888, he had, while “ studying" under Mr. Lane’s direction, been trying to plan a way to earn at least ten dollars, talkin over his desires with both father ant mother. _. a Before lanting-time rolled around, Mr. Lane one (lily said : “ Tommy, couldn’t you raise seed corn to sell? I mean if I give you a patch and break it for you, can you plant and tend it without help ‘3 The corn that I am planting I paid five cents for each car. It is very fine for this climate. I have now quite a start, and can supply you with enough to raise quite a crop. Xou might also try planting the several varieties of pop-corn. There is the rice grained and a large yellow.” “That is the very thing! Of course, I can tend a crop! Mother! mother! we’ll have 'em, well have "em by next Novem- ber l” shouted Tommy, as he ran to pick out his share of the fine corn. The “ground” was broken, the corn planted. Tommy had managed to get to- gether seven varicties of fine corn besides the pop-corn. Friends from Buffalo, after hearing of his wonderful plan sent him ackages of the very best varieties, the car y roasting ears, also field com. Tommy’s mother became interested, and could not resist helping “just a little.” The lad laid out his rows with care, saying "he wanted every row straight." The grains sprouted well, the tender blades grew thriftily, and Tommy battled wvully with the crows, taking care that 1 ie mules and two cows did not have the opportunity to trample down his growing “cm i." 'l'lie weeds grew fast, and Tommy‘s hoe had to “swing” out lively sometimes, to kce ) them down. .\ rs. Lane, pitying the tired and hot lit. tle fellow, often wanted to rest him, but he had a chivalrous care over her, and gently ut her aside with “it. dosen‘t seem just rig it, mother, for women to bee, when there are boys to do it.” Late in October, that harvest was gath- ered and packed in large baskets ready for market. The result was very gratifying :0 Tommy, whose visions of books and opera to make the lonely days of winter go y more pleas- antly, he felt sure would soon be realized. But where to dispose of the crop to the best advantage was the question now to be settled. “'hilc he was talking the matter over with his parents, neighbor Ewing came in, and being informed of the subject of the conversation. suggested that the cow be taken tot‘arney. avillage some ten miles distant. “In t‘arncy," said be, “you will get a good price for it, as this and the adjoining settlement is settled up with farmers that need just what you hmc to sell. It is always a satisfaction to me to know that the article l’m scllin' is goin‘ to help somebody. There isn't an inferior variety of corn in the lot you‘ve raised." “I couldn‘t have done so wcll without father and mother to help me. Father thought it out for me." returned Tommy, pleasal and happy. “ Tommy has earned a reward, for he has toiled maniully to raise his crop." said Mrs. Lane, proudly, and neighbor Ewing said: “ I'l warrant ye, work tells on any crop." The seed-corn was taken to the nearest town, fifteen miles away, and left with the stun'kceper, who also kept the t-otiice. A few weeks, later neighbor fitting went "totown." and asked sboutTommy's corn, if there had been adorn-Lad for it. The post master replied : _.___________â€"â€"._. ' “A party consider‘ble of sdemand. Every , grainhss been sold, and folks come now-ask- in’ for more of that Lane seed- corn. Carry this to Tommy, an’ tell him I don’t charge him anything for sellin' his corn, as I’m an ; admirer of sech industrious little fellers, and i want to lend em’ a helping’ hand.” “'hen the several silver dollars were : laid it all in Mrs. Lane’s p, saying : “Mother, it’ll make us happy all through the lon winter. There’ll be something for on an father, too. Say, mother, can’t we vs a school here, for those who will come and study with me 2" Of course, Mrs. Lane said, “yes."'â€"- Ar- thur's Home Magazine handed Tommy by nei hbor Ewing, hei THE GERMAN EMPEROR. .l Werklnzuun Who Ind a Chance to See and near the Kaiser. At a meeting the other day of the Con- servative society at Madgeburg a locksmith named Deppe thus described his impressions l of the recent sittings of the council of state before which he appeared : “Called by the emperor as one havin a knowledge of technical matters, I had t é pleasure of attending these meetings last week under the presidency of the emperor himself. The sittings, with the exception of a short pause for lunch, lasted from 1 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. The emperor opened, ad- journed, and closed the meetings, called on speakers, spoke himself, or stopped a speak- er when he made a mistake, as the case might be. First to come and last to go, he followed the proceedings with eager attention. Dur- ing lunch, where we sat in careless rows, and at which the minister of the interior was our host, the most dutiful of monarchs be- came the most gracious. When speaking singly or in small groups and discussing various questions, we quite forgot that it was the German emperor before whom we sat. As I stood modestly apart Herr von Boet- ticher toot; me by the arm and led me up to the Emperor, and at,the same time I had the opportunity of sharing in a. discussion with the social democrat Herr Buchholz, who, as a representative of the workingmen and member of the Unfall Versicherung (accident insurance), could boast of the su port of 650,000 votes. Herr Buchhoiz, who wore the iron cross, believed that patriotism and socialism could be united, andhad no desire at all that the emperor’s rule should be got rid of. Hereupon the emperor asked: ‘Do you believe that your leaders in the reichstag will do anything for you '2’ Herr Buchholz replied: “Certainly, your majesty; they l have promised, and if they do nothing we shall not choose them again.’ The emperor rejoined: ‘W’ell, we shall see. If only we could put it to the proof and oblige these gentlemen to bear the res nsibility of gov- ernment. But I can not save Bebel on the throne.’ The Cabinet-maker Vorderbrugge and I rather drove Herr Bucliholz into a corner, but when next (lay the emperor in- quired if we had got him round we were obliged to answer no.” Queer Women. A woman can faint away at the sight of a. bit of blood on her finger, have all the chil- dren in the house screaming with fright, require eau de cologne to bring her to and be nervous for twenty-four hours after, yet the same woman can in perfect silence stand by and help a doctor perform an operation that may mean death to some one she loves. A woman can scorn what she calls made- ovcr clothes, can laugh at indiscriminate charity, and yet the same woman can cry as if her heart would break and take all her spending money to buy an overcoat for a newsboy she met in the street cars because his face was so pitiful. She can take two hours and a half to dress to go to the theatre and then tell Charley she knows she looks like a dowdy, but the same woman can pack a trunk with things enough to last her for two weeks in twenty minutes when she gets a telegram saying: “Come as soon as possible; your mother is sick.” She will bake a chicken until it is brown and then calmly ask the master’of the estab- lishment if he doesn’t think the English way of roasting is preferable to any other. ‘- A Song of Spring. The swift is wheeling and gleaming, The swift isbrown in its bed, Rain from the cloud is streaming; And the bow bends overhead. The charm of the winter is broken ! The last of the spell is said ! The eel in the pond is quickcning, The grayling leaps in the stream: \Yhut if the clouds are thickening '.’ See how the meadows gleam l The spell of the winter is shaken ! The world awakes from a dream ! The fir puts out green fingers, The pear tree softly blows, The rose in her dark bower lingers, But her curtains will soon unclose ; The lilac will shake her ringlets Over the blush of the rose. The swift is wheeling and gleaming, The woods are beginning to ring, Rain from the cloud is streaming; There, where the bow doth cling, Summer is smiling afar off Over the shoulder of Spring ! â€"Rosr.a'r Bt'cuuss. Nothing to Steal. New fatlicr-in‘lawâ€"“ “'ell, sir, the cere- monv is over. and now that you are the busâ€" band of my daughter I want to give you a little advice. “'hat would you do if you would wake up some night and find burg- lars in the house 1'" Grooan I should tell them that my fa- ther-in-law forgot to give my wife a wed- ding dowry, and they'd go away." Entertaining Journals. Blinksâ€"“ What sort of comic papers do they have over in Eumpc f" Jinks-“ Excellent." Blinks-~“ Are the jokes like ours ‘:" Jinksâ€"~“ll-lxaetly. Same jokes. in fact, only a month older." Bellamy's Mistake. \\'inks~"l are that the ublishers of “Looking Backward' have mm e $50,000 on that look,while Bellamy, the author has made but $5,030." Blinksâ€"“\Vell. if Bellamy had looked forward instead of backward he would have published it himself." :gin traffic only received a more M_._ __. Afisr the Slave Prado the Gin Traffic. With the stoppage of the slave trade the powerful stimulus. To its propagation all the ener- gies of the traders Were devoted. For spirits - . _ . - . there was already ahuge demand, and it was s 311; gmghogiinéfiimfgfiziaska' m the neighborh increasing out of all proportion to the taste , for better thin . It required no exertions‘ on the part of t e merchants to set it agoin , and once started it grew and spread itse f ; without any danger of its stopping. The? rofits, too, were enormous and certain, cause the appetite for drink had to be assuaged, no matter what the price. Yet in all conscience the leasures of intoxication are not ex nsive in Vest Africa. Over the doorway o hundreds of traders” houses might be ban the signboard of Ho rth's picture, “ Drun for a penny, dead rank for two- pence,” only the “ clean straw for nothing” would have tobe left out. '\\"ith the trathc when we ought to have been head“, for in useful articles it was entirely difi‘erent. ' To push it was a slow and laborious task, and the profits were uncertain, which did not suit men who wanted to make money ragidly. he result of this state of matters is that u the diabolical work commenced by the slave trade has been effectually carried on and widened by that in spirits. I for one am in- I clined to believe that the latter is producing greaterâ€"and what are likely to be quite as l making fast, but it was our gold‘gn opportu. lastingâ€"evils than the former. The spirit traflic has a more brutalizing efiect ; it more effectually blights all the native’s energies, it ruins his constitution, and, through the habits it gives rise to, his lands are left as desolate as after a slave raid. What are the most characteristic Euro- pean im rts into \V'est Africa? Gin, rum, gunpow er, and guns. “'hat European articles are most in demand? The same. In what light do the natives look upon the Europeans? “'hy, as makers and sellers of spirits and guns. \Vhat largely supports the Governmental machinery of that re- gion? Still the same articles. The ships which trade to Africa are load- ed with gin out of all proportion to more useful articles ; the warehouses along the coast are filled with it. The air seems to reek with the vile stuff, and every but is redo- lent of its fumes. Gin bottles and boxes meet the eye at‘ every step, and in some places the wealth and im rtance of the various villages are measured y the size of the pyramids of empty gin bottles which they erect to their own honor and glory and the envy of poorer districts. Over large areas it is almost the sole currency, and in many parts the year’s wages of the negro factory workers is paid in spirits, with which they return home to en- joy a few days of fiendish debauch.â€"â€"Joseph Thompson in the Contemporary Review. ______*.._.â€"â€"â€"-â€" In Favor of the Prayer. A ballot was taken after the performance of Steele Mackaye’s play, “Money Mad,” at the Standard Theatre last evening, on the question whether Aunt Phillis’s prayer is sacrile 7ions or not. Aunt Phillis (Mrs, Annie ’eamans) is a colored mummy, whose mistress has married a poor artist and has fainted on the stage for lack of food. This is Alum Phillis’s prayer. 0 Lord you know I’s awicked ole woman, yes a perfect ole sinner, but den my missy e 8. angel, an’ fo’ her sake I pray dc Lord to hear de sinner’s pray’r. Lord you knows I’se always believed in you an’ now (lat my po’ missy be a starvin’ I come to you fo’ help. You’s all I’s got Lord, but den you’s almigh- ty an’ all lovin’ an’ all marciful. Dat’s your rcpetation, Lord, an’ I sticks my faith by (lat. O Lord, let me do all do stai‘vin’, for I’s a worthless thing, no good nor fit to lib. But my missy she be sinless. Spar’ her, Lord, spar’ my po’ little, helpless lamb (lat never did nobody no harm. Dear, precious Lord, spar’ O spar’ my helpless chile. go back on you’ reputation dis time, Lord, an’ I’ll bless you fo‘ eber an’ eberâ€"Amen. Mr. Mackaye stepped in front of the curtain as it was about to be lifted on the act in which the prayer is uttered and explained his high moral purpose in writing the prayer and the lesson which it was intended to im- rt. “Those of you who feel with me,” said Mr. Mackayc, “that this heart cry of the unselfish servant is helpful .to our common humanity will please vote for its retention.” Mr. Mackaye announced that J udge John R. Brad ', Judge H. A. Gildcrslecve, and Mr. Charles elmonico would count the ‘ballots, and then he concluded: “It is with entire con- fidence in the humanity and enlightenment which you represent thatIlook forward to the result of your voting.” There was applause when Mr. Mackaye finished, and the delivery of the words of the prayer which followed presently was greeted with applause. 0 Nearly 1,000 votes were cast, among which were counted but- twenty-four against the continuance of the prayer. Sixteen of these ballots were signed, the others being anony- mous. The Toryr Scheme. Englishmanâ€""l’atrick, what do you think of emigration as a cure for the ills of Ire- land ‘2” Patrickâ€"“Emigration do be all might, sor, but th’ landlords must be th’ wens to emigrate.” A Useful Boy. Irate Suscriber (in thunder tones)â€" “\\'hcre's the editor of this sheet ‘1" Smart Boyâ€"J‘He jist stepped in next door. Come along an' I’ll show you." [Leads the way to a building occupied by several den- fist-3.] Irate Suscriber (sto ping in hall way)â€" “Eh! What’s that ye ling upstairs?" Boyâ€"“Guess the editor has caught the man he was after." Subscrilwr (hun'iedlylr- --“I‘llâ€"I'll call again." A Discouragin' gAddition Cora.â€"â€"“ Doesn‘t it make you feel nice for people to remark how well you are getting on?" Merritt.-â€"~“ Yes, unless they add ‘ they can't understand it.'."' Lippinrmt'x .lluyaz- HIE. What She Wanted to Know. “Sense me, ma'am, but I'd like to ask you a question," said a long, leather ', keen-eyed woman to an elegantly clad am aristocratic looking lady sitting in front of her on a rail- road train. "Very well," replied the lady hanghtily. “Well, then, here goes: Ibeen settiin' be- hind you for three mortal hours trying to figgcr out if your hair is all your own or if part of it's a switch, and blest if I kin yit. 'ou’ve a sight of it if it’s all yer own. an' if it's a switch it’sa very good match. Which air it, anyhow 3" _- a sailor that the order of retreat has on the soldiers. It creates a panicky feeling, and he loses his judgment. \Ve had not. gone ' _ _ . five miles before some of the men began to “ 9 were “Mg m ‘he Amt“? 00”“ to curse the tSizzptain‘s stupidity in leaving the of the bark, and others ex‘ _ Tl)“ “‘35 pressed their doubts of the ter's re- my fifth whaling V0333“ “ml “0 Ship “mid ‘ ports. However, all preged forward. and, have had worss luck. When we had been ‘ 3f“, making ten miles, we went in“, mm I out fourteen months we had to buy avbarrel , Fortunately for “a, the“, was no wind, whi a of Oil to keep our lam S gomg. “6 had :the thermometer was only about 15° be- gighled 5 While “0‘7 m um“ bl“ the)‘ we": 7 low. After a rest of six hours we ushed as Wild as deer. and “Vice When “"3 m“ l on again, and now our marches ant rests made fast we had our boats stove and lost 3 were markede hours. It was mnimy had two or three men- “ 9 11351.10“ “Inna-‘3": work crossing those ice fields, and five hours been slash. had several sails destroyed. ,ofpulling, hauling, climbing, and slidingwere been on fire. and #- seemed 35 1f the "e"? enough towear out the best man in the crew de‘nl was to pay mm the "03389: and 3'“ “’e had made fort miles or more. and 11.0 one coulfi1 Flame 333 one 9159- It “‘3 were strung out on t 0 pack for a mile or 81m 1y “ Bl“? 813101" .311d “'5’ had to make more, when a man named Tinkerson and the 8‘? Of 1‘7. Funny, late 1“ the 33350“: myself, who were ahead to pick the route, turned a large hammock or hill of ice to the south, we got among the Whales- in find ourselves bumping it against a three- is, they suddenly fippefll‘ed 3“ “Emma “39 . masted ship. There she ay. broadside to 313d 0“ the, "NY mist day “'0 liluefl four ‘ us and not over fifty feet awav, looming u Without accident._ “ 8 cut $110331 1“ “1310‘” ; in the darkness likeamonntaih. Wernbbet “3mg 0‘“, as “1‘3 was the (imam? Way ‘0 i our eyes and looked around again, but it dispose of them, and the last of the blubber I WM not a deception. “Ye gem the news was no 500118? Over “19 mil than down “'9’” back and waited until all had come up, and the boats and “V0 more Whales were se' then Capt. Tree went forward withhis mates , cured. . . and hailed her. There was no response, and The “'mler Sales were at hand and me was after hailing again, the first mate climbed in over the bows. In three or four minutes A QUEER EXCHANGE. .1 Startqu Story of the Arctic Ocean. - feet thick. l the crow’s nest and took a long look, and Don’t I and be nity. \Ye drifted slowly to the south, killing . and cutting in as we went, and if We coul have had two Weeks more of it we could have filled the ship. One afternoon, as we had a half-cut whale on each side of us, a gale sprang up, a heavy snow storm came on. and in less than an hour we had to let gp of our prizes and look sharply after the ark. It was the beginning'fof THE ARCTIC \VIXTER and while the Captain was satisfied of it he decided to take one more chance. There I might come a few days of fine weather after the gale, and so we drifted away to the north to wear out the gale. For thirty hours there was no let up, and every half hour we had to turn out and shovel snow over the rails. Just as the gale broke we got among the field ice, and the tem erature went down in four hours from 2° Ilielew zero to 18 ° be- low. From a. gale blowing at the rate of forty milesan hour the wind died out until it hadn’t motion enough to flare a. candle. On that first night, when we were surrounded by field ice and drifting with it, many of the men were badly frostbitten, and the frost cracked through the old ship like muskets. Morning came without a breath of wind, with the temperature down to ‘27 ° below, and now every man knew it was one chance in ten for us. “7e were drifting very slow- ly to the south, and while we made every- thing as snug as possible the Captain hoped for a breakbefore winter actually shut down. Before noon the sea, as far as could be dis- covered from the crow’s nest with a glass, was covered with field ice, and by night the temperature was 32 ° below. \Ve kept up our fires and got out all the spare clothing and bedding, but many of the men SUFFERED WITH THE COLD, and no one slept more than ten minutes at a time on account of the noises. \Vhen morning came again it brought in wind, while the cold was just as. intense, and we could now discover a great change in the ice around us. It was rugged and broken, the heave of the sea having piled cakes on top of each other, and the field was four or five The old man himself went to when he came down he saidto the men, who were waiting to hear his words : “\Vell, boys, it looks very serious to me, and I expect you had better prepare to Win- tcr this side of Dundee.” That settled it with us. We turned to an to caulk and batten to keep out the coligl, less night. It was iceâ€"iceâ€"ice. he reported her abandoned, and we all went. on board. Bristol ship Endurance, a whalcr, of course, and two-thirds \Ve soon found her to be the FULL or BLUBBER AND 011.. She had a slight list to port, and after looking her over, the ofiicers said that she had hove out, the same as our bark, but had settled back again. abandoned in a hurry, as there were many evidences, but an inspection showed plenty of provisions aboard, and proved her per- fectly sound. clothing, and when it was decided to take possession of her the crew were pleased. She had also been “’0 had our bedding and 11 three hours after first sighting her we were as much at home aboard as if we had formed the original crew. or craft than ours, and also better fouiu , and we profited by the change. She was a larg- lVe had been aboard of the Endurance about a month when the carpenter fell sick. In his case it was pure homesickness and nothing else. He was moody and taciturn, refused to make an effort to throw off the feeling, and at length took to his bed. There was really no medicine to touch his case. He was slowly dying because of his desire to get home to wife and bairns. All of us had a touch of his malady. but we shook it off by hunting, trapping, indulging in games, and keeping our thoughts with the ship. Lord ! man, but I have often wondered wh half the crew did not go crazy. It was end! It was like being shut up in a dungeon, with the addition that when night came and all was still, the ship was full of groans and sighs from stem to sternâ€"noises caused by the ice heaving and settling. I was appointed to nurse the carpenter, and when he had been brought very low and knew that. he must go, he told me a secret. He said he had made a false report to the Captain about the dam- age to the bark’s bottom on purpose to induce him to abandon her and start for land. He hoped in this way to get home the sooner. This confession was made to me with the promise on my part not to betray the man while living, and he lived on for two weeks after making the statement. \Vhen he had. been buried in an icy grave I told the Cap- tain, and he at once fitted out an e): )cdition to go back and look up the bark. ‘he first mate and five men composed this party, and after being gone a week, during which time the weather was full of tempest, snow, and and in a couple of days we were as I sleet. they returned from the west and blunâ€" ready as we could be. For four days and (lel‘ed right “P “gain” “5 Mime they “W i 1 ts there wasn’t a ufi‘ of wind with the the ship. I n g 1 p ’ l and they had been lost for Si): days on ' cold so intense that ice formed to the thick- ness of seven feet alongside the bark. At daylight on the morning of the fifth a squall 3 came out of the south-west accompanied by snow, and before noon the ice field was broken up. At noon the wind (lied almost out, but within an hour it shipped to the north, and away went everything to the south. A wilder sight than a sea covered with great cakes and blocks of ice, each one tossing, grinding, and crashing on its own account, no one ever saw. “’0 dared show only a mg of sailâ€"just enough to give her stecrage wayâ€"and the smashing she got that afternoon seemed enough to break every timber in her bows. At night the wind fell again, and at 7 o’clock the thermometer marked 42°below. As soon as the heave of the sea subsided the ice was firmly weld- ed together again, and \\’llE.\' MORNI NC CAME there were hills and lmmmocks in sight as big as the ship. The men were now told by the mate that our position was about ninety miles north of Smith‘s Bay, and that our fine was no longer drifting. This signified that the southern edge of it rested against the shore ice, and that we were in for it, unless some unlookcd for streak of luck came to our aid. Next-day there were heavy wind squalls, but the ice did not break nor did the ship move. That settled it. For the next week we had calms and squalls, with the tempera- ture ranging from '27 ° to 38 9 below. but the pack was as solid as a rocky ledge. “'0 were housed in by this time, and had established thewinter routine, nudihe Arctic night had come. For the next. month. not to weary the reader with details, our life was that so often described in the books. Then a sudden and terrible interruption came. The bark began to heave out. The first movement occurred at about 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and filled everybody with dire , alarm. After five minutes she heaved again. lifting right out of the solid field. with great cakes clinging to her, as if machinery was at work. As shelifted she canted to starboard. and at noon her decks were at an angle of 45 degrees. powder ought to have been used to blow up the ice around her andlet her back. could have cut and sawed and dragged away half an acre of ice in a half a day. Thi- carpenter. who had a little plan of his own. reported that the heave had shattered several planks in her bottom, and that she would fill if she was cradled back. beam ends, and then we got the order T0 ABAme "EB We got out clothing, bedding, provisions. a com heads away in four gangs for Smith’s Bziy. each gang having a boat. which was drag- ged and lifted over the ice. The order to abandon ship has the mane effect on the ' had seen to the north of thtm. It has always seemed to me that ' Indeed. I had not our (‘aptain got so badly rattled we I Their compass had been broken, THAT FEARFUL \VASTE 0F ICE. One man died of exposure that night, and two others were used up for a month. Two weeks later the second mate headed a party, but they only went about fifteen miles to the north. They reported travelling so difficult that they had to return. Nothing further was done until the sun and daylight came again. Then the first mate set out. again, but after making about half the distance he found open water and signs of a break-up, and returned. No further efforts were made. Day by day the sun lasted a little longer, giving us more of the blessed daylight, and at last a god:- camc to break up the great field and show us streaks of open water. When we were finally clear of the icy bed which had held " the ship, we headed for Point Barron, sonic- timca gaining and sometimes losing ground. One day. I remember, we made twenty miles ' to the south. but on the very next'a change of wind packed the ice and drifted us that far back to the north. \Vc were slowly working down toward the Straits, however. when, one day at noon, after a snow squall lasting about two hours. we got into a channel run- ning southwest. “'c had scarcely entered it before we caught sight of a bark coming down a channel from the north,and not over a mile to the west of us. Twenty voices at once cried out that the stranger was our old craft, the Emma Davis, and as we neared each other, running on the long lines of a triangle, everybody felt sure of it. “'c also noticed much excitement aboard the bark, v but it was only when the two crafts got out their ice anchors within a stone's throw of calch other that matters were fully explain- ct . Who do you sup )050 the strange men were? None others than t ecrcw of the Endurance. They had ourbark and we had their ship. A swap had been made of crafts. Their shi ) had hove out about the same time oum diif, and they had abandoned her for the same reasons. Instead of tr 'ing to make theland, they hadsought to fim a brig which they This brig was a myth or some foreign vessel which got safely out and could not afterward be traced. In hunting for her they came across our bark. Three days only had passed, and yet she hurl canted back almost to an even keel. They had lmardcd her, taken full [meow-Him], and then worked her out on the break-up. “'c changed crews and resumed the voyage, I and both crafts entered the port. of Nuwuk she took onenmre together, whence, later on, both resumed heave, canting over until almost on her the l’“”"“”‘" “f “'halmg' It was L'iillcdevon up all the way round, and neither was dd» tor um H'Cdllfll‘. .â€".. When you make a mistake don't 'lmk , and four boats; and at midnight back at it long. Take the reastm of the thing into your own mind and then look for. wan . Mistakes arelessons of wisdom. T be .t cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. â€"â€"{May Riley Linith.