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Port Perry Star, 8 Apr 1926, p. 6

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tery i) 4 } BY CAPT. ARNOLD WHITCOMB, : more worthy o re yu : : study. Indeed Capt. Arnold. Whitcomb, of Hyan-{ for the boats and launched them in A we had our weapons always with us world's greatest nis, Ma$s., tells this story of his ad-| sea, which was all but impossible. We and made no attempt whatever to ais Jor. 20 lng 8 1 ® be sew t in ( venturous youth. He has faced death lost four men in getting away, but we guise the fact, had a great deal to interested at | ig; BT 5 and 1 v sh : 8in often, bit the wreck of the Susan|had mot blown and drifted two cable with keeping our rescuers from be- 18a Hook gf" beg 5.. Th i id-] fruits, =. © ©. _|'packages of 1 anid ting of sea Worthy was his first tragic experience! lengths from the Susan Worthy when coming overbearing, but even as it meaning of ame, g word! To choose a Kitchen color scheme ing, » a small rack Just above | and made the deepest impression on the ship turned completely over on her was, they took every possib'e oppor- yi. "gr g oi n" or "beginnings." that would harmonize with eac the | rig side of tl 0 gt in, ad Te v : 4 is sintilar 'and is the! different urtains whic 3 his mind. i'side and slopped below the surface. | tunity to make us feel' we were de- ral £] de " , ; 3 : a 4 S| 8 i i 1 ¢ in 8 As far back as 1 know, my fore-| ONE LIFE BOAT IS LOST. | pendent upon thém, and thoir manner gar Engiiah EShe ust three Sarde, of the plan to use one after the other as, po sitver polish and chamois. irritating restrictions 1 bears wore sailors, and from baby-| There were two boat loads of us,'was sometimes hard to bear with. ginning of the world, of men and wo. | mood digs ted, WAS :gomé| me a; Fro screwed Jthe boithin, Canadia exporters sill | hood it was understood that one day I but we soon became separated. What| The Kanaka who acted as leader men, of evil thoughts and deeds, pro] ly 'the ot- of two | Also it draws ttention to into. since f this' re suspended Sapatns were erode. ag, 8 cope "wire shades of violet, two pair of kitchen scissors. brown, green and | ©. ppFICIENT BUT GNK ! , of families nd ecored | ~~goul, dreaded the hour when 1 should Capt. Endicott, I never learned. The port we were, but it was our policy 'nations, of war "of religion. The ed three bo old enough to ship as able seaman, | boat in which I was puiling an oar, a! to let him know nothing whatever: We first eleven © rs tell us something, shades of bl should go t¢-sen.> My mother, patient became of the other boat in which was pressed us dfteri to tell how far*from society ahd rx and ve; x t . f A and 1 ve.. that throughout ..my, useless. occupation while the storm knew very weil that the moment the he suly history pol yhumaptey.| dash of black and orange. for goodi mack of the door leading into the Lhe i Bjpasking, childhood her fearsome thoughts cast lasted, drifted about for.two days be- savages thought themselves capable atriarchal Ancestors of the people of ; + hala door which Foaling 1a never "basic Daa : hetivity _ which 8 gloom over her naturally happy dis-, fore we sighted a four-masted schoon- of getting the ship to land they would srael. So the contents of the book. - RUGS "TO MATCH. > ~ |closed, holders for broom and. dust, been showing gradual but steady. position. "My father looked with pride er. There was a very light breeze! get rid of us. Even though the duth- erry from the ear.iest times down| Cream and green were the colors| mop attached, ooks on Provemen the per upon my growing know'edge of things blowing at the time und we signaled orities of the port knew that white to the settlement of Jacob and his finally chosen--greon stain for 'the \ dey nautical and used proudly to boast' the vessel by waving our shirts and men had been slain, it was doubtful sons in Egypt, some time between B.C.! floor, cream-colored paint for the walls , that before I was out of my knicker-| handkerchiefs. Much to our astonish- whether they would act in the mattery 1,800 and 1,600, ./ ~iooo (and woodwork. Over the green'stain| A 'tall white-enameled stool was ra bockers I had a swagger that would ment, the schooner took no notice of us, tor it was perfectly obvious that the The contents of Genesis. are exceed: 'were applied shellac and wax, making | slipped bepeath one of the sink drain | vit 'have grace any quarter dock, yet he, too,| and kept bearing away from us. We vessel had been a slaver. ~*~ | ingly yasied ip are ful of life and 4 finish extremely easy to care for, as| boards when notin use, while beneath . constilntes ane of tho g sometimes became grave when I talk-| could not doubt that she had seen us This did not make out position any De op api Ts oo nat nike, grease could not penétrate the surface, | the other was the tall white-enameled' diag industrial vil ed of my first voyage, for his father, and we were at a.loss to account for the easier, for the blacks and -Kanakas we have TE Blctun ihe hota ¥iH Vision | Various washable rugs were purchas. | wire waste basket. - Re ah | fourth H his grandfather, and two of his bro- the outrageous conduct of her master. did not know this, and they feared our ,¢ creation, the paradise garden and' ©d showing a variety of colors. They| = An electric wall outlet at the right. value thers had gone to sea, never to return! With the breeze as it was she wouid turning them over to the law. its first man and woman, their sin and; Were to be changed with the curtains|of the winllow provided for grill and 195 of this easitacizat : For me there was nothing but glor- have had no difficulty in distancing; One evening Mr. McMilian discover- expulsion, the brothers' quarrel, the that happened' to be hung at the win-|iron, while over the ink was a small] $20,478,195 of 3 apitaizat. on was fous anticipation. The water held no us, but it was our fortune that not ed through the glasses a light, low on sword-song of Lamach, the pious wis-! dows. One week would find a brown- [wall fixture in which was placed an Canadian, $18,113,5 Ld d States, terrors for my boyish heart and 1 had half"an hour after we sighted her the the horizon. It was only a dim speck, dom of Enoch, the saving of Noah and | and-gray-and-whité Navajo blanket j ambeér-dipped bulb, making it unneces- | 8nd $11,500 United Kingdom. By the faith that my parents' forebodings Wind dropped and a dead calm lay on visible for a second, then fading from his family from a dreadful flood, the rug on the floor, the next a braided |sary to have the kitchen flooded with 1d of 1923, when the last return' 2 were groundless and that T should live the sea. Mystified as to why the 'sight, to return again. rainbow covenant, Nimrod the mighty Tag Tug, the next a linoleum mat 'of |the brilliant while light of ceiling fix. | Bal 'this capital had increased to . y : a | hunter and founder of a kingdom, the ; ; 058,776. There were then 76 estab- « to carve out a fortune for us all. It schooner should have tried to shake us! = cyaNCE TO REACH THE LAND. tower buil : ngd ! ra. | TOSe and gray.block squares. ture wher a less penetrating ligl 4 Le oy er builders of Babylon, the migra. The ceiling and r pit of it all that was Ticeded. FS lishments which had a production val- ds was in my 19th year that it was finally, we rowed toward her, making the best! amo, gar for the naked eye," said tion of Abraham and Lot and the x ; Lf decided I should make a deep sea voy- of the calm. We had no idea what | nate to me. Whitcomb, we're in_ tribes of which. they were ore Eiders walls were-painted a'spmewhat lighter| Attractive, convenient, but- not "in ued at $133,218500, £2 an age, as able seaman, after having our reception might be, but we had 0 There's mist' in the air. If I'm Isaac and Ashmael, Jacob and Esau,|Shade of crefim than the lower side the least "kitcheny" is the resulting TRADE DEVELOPING STEADILY. walls and woodwork. ~ The kitchen | room, thanks to the cheerful, uncon- Government figures show that Cam-. shipped several times as cabin boy carried arms from the Susan Worthy | | Tiidge of wether there'll be no see Joseph and his brothers, The story with my father on coastwise cruises, and we were ready to fight for our | {Lo a light a 'bisouit's toss away [anges over the vast territories lyi®g range was of gray and white e 7, [ventionally curtiined; Window which aden Crm ie oe ne mot at Cans ach also ' the Kitchen aprons m he Pa and, At the last moment, much against the 'lives if need be. | before the sun's up. We'll lay off and in crescent shape between Mesopot-!with the minimum of nickel trimming 'serves as a focus point for decorative : i ? ; a ; ! dE 1 a! ye § ing at a very gratifying rate of re- wii of my ponents, I war. backed in When we wee within greaking Sis. tack around till it settles, if it does, gated ming B he Ephites and the 2 keep polished and free from rust.' interest. pee Sis | vent yewr®; the total trade in the 5 ad ii 2 ~ s Busan Worthy, .in- tance We cou.d Ses oho! the a oy and then run in close under cover of Nile. Sometimes it is the story of 5 igi -- = | twelve months ending November, 1125, He - Bt saivng Yer my iw looking gogundsals 1 jase Sve on | the fog, and desert this black crew." {individual weiriaind women Whose er- Es NN amounting to $36,586,310 in compar- . Ezra Endicott, master of the cyes on pacing the quar ck. "| The mate's prophecy was fulfilled. Sonalities stand out strongly against ; ison with $24,825,026 in the previous Susan Worthy: as a gest friend of that close range we Boticed Sak desk Vor-three hours we Jockeyed about. in the havkgro nd of tent and wilderness, THE AQUILEGIA | corresponding twelve months, an n- my parents, and it was he who per. and rigging were in the utmost eon ip. yy "trom time to time running inoynch rs.iiih theit flocks, caravans, (Columbine) crease of over $12,000,000. Fxports of fresh beef increased from $1,863, ~~ ° 216 in 1924 to $3,008,171 in 1925; mut- 'close enough to catch a glimpse of the digo, cities and temples, altar and i light, but keeping far enough away to gacrifice. Sometimes it is the story suaded them that it was to my own| fusion and there was an air of un- best advantage to make my first voy-| kemptness about the ship which spoke By Miss Anna Moyle, Member of the Ont. Hort. Ass'n, "There's something mighty strange the Kanakas and blacks, who were their national interest, but chiefly be- } ants; then 1 began to study the Sed | «0 "° res 0 ng mig oe [supposed to be the crew. Grog was cause they conveyed fhe reiigibus = ; i My on purchase was a United Kingdom. age under the command of some other ill for the condition of the crew. Our : . I A : "Tam » i) ¥ : run no chance of the light being seen of tribes, 'incipient nations and of fon and lamb in the period increased ict uaa my Bathe irs ou iid inti was that all must be hy the naked eye. A Scotch mist was their movements. : : 8 ds ape a ge from $150,185 1. o0c 3%; . nif e were bound for Batavia with a * ._ {settling over the water. It thickened Always -there is' in Genesis "the : f 7 ind up in the and bacon and hams from $10,478,881 rT cargo of cloth and machinery and we| The black man on feck called ost in ieadily, $0 "that. cach. Life we -were Strong, religious interest. Fort val. fess sqlumhine 1 Jue up in ihe to $27,865,188. Th general trade, is fo were to return with coffee, tea and language we 4id nog Ee drow] able to run in closer to the light. (Neto siories told x Propheis and planted in a shady; spot in the garden. being carried on with" a number of i a ele at Ania The i re hatchways Most of them Were To fAvor our plans, it seemed that I ratio Rh aa Sal The seeds dropped and in a few years oe: Hol he ory helming gs he § ) A A i i om iL ; : n of busi- 1 we did a little trading there with |negroes, a very few being Kanakas. | the devil was in the crew, or at least to the exile in Babylon; told because of I had a fine group of these lovelyi . at the present time is with the t Bid " natives. Up to that time we had met | 8. Boma y with mo mishaps, but six days out of | about this," said Mr. McMillan, lavender. wid a. dep purpie; then Tf sin SIGN Th ont Inder go flowing plentifully and the men were teaching of the Brophels in.an unfor- Apig we ran into a hurricane, which mate. "Be on your guard, boys." [fowl 3 X , 0 3 : sosiit iA i I 5 ; : J drove us back across the date line and |- No 'word was said to us, but as we, or Pes Sack in Shek own Snguage; A ty kg ye Pp: RETR TTI bought seed" and grow hens by the ving steadily back to the plage it oc- to the southward. After fourteen |drew alongside, a Jacob's ladder Was | ies, which were very strange and un. they-have come.to-us. bearing the ned. ais . | dozen, as_ one can hardy have too eupied before 'the war. Live cattle hours of banging and tossing about|thrown over and we climbed to the %1¢% 4 ® (finitely precious lessons about God Li a many. " : 7 exports to Great Britain in 1925 inthe highest seas I have ever seen, | deck, our- fingers ready to clutch the; C&INY to me. _ . and. faith, and covenant promise; and : The flowers with their peculiar £or-| io ped 4 tatal of 110,000 head, as. the Susan Worthy sprung a leak and butts of our revolvers at the first sign| Before morning the fog was thick obedience, sin, righteousness, and a mation and striking colors are very compared with 67,000 head in 1928, : a watch was set at the pumps. lof treachery. A big Kanaka stepped enough to cut and a man could scarce judgment. Hi | atfractive in the border, also very use-| = *° ( _ °, \ , ;: A i and a'pinnacle of such exports of 163, LEAKS GAIN DESPITE DESPERATE work. | forward and asked in bad English see the length of the quarterdeck.'| pup MakING OF THE WORLD, 1:1-3, pin Xpo Lu ful for cut flowers for the house, theigg, onia's Jane prior to the Sinoe: h ew 3 Afi or Sets 5 ] - We held the water for a time, but Who We were and which "was our) Luckily the savages were &0 far BON; pq wordy sin the beginning" mean! ; fino delicate foliage showing of tel sition. of the embargo. Tn connestion ) shortly after the first leak had been | 'adr: rth heatiagithe low be PEL. abso:utely at first, before anything u - wars 2 Sih te with developing - mutton and lamb discovered the carpenter reported that| The mate stepped forward, and ex- 0 on ear es e low: TUmb.8'0 ' © else happened. 'They assume that God | - The flowering season lasts from. markets in the United Kingdom, Un- the ship was taking water badly in the | Pressing no surprise either in his voice Sur od e Cindy TAINIng our ears lor was inthe beginuing and that His : spring far into the summer onthe, ited States, Bermuda, British Guiana, . forward hold. There was a bulkhead | OF actions, related briefly our experi- lit, and at last it came. . { word of Rover brought the world into : so they are really indispensable. ral "Prinidad and Newfoundland, it is in. ..betwoen--the--two flaws and we were | ences, saying that he had been mate; I went below and sent all of our being. 0 it is said by a Hebrew 3 | mixed bordey. Seeds. are Argely pro-| teresting to note the greater attention ~~ obliged to keep two sets of pumps go- of the Susan Worthy. party, eight in all, on deck. Without poet: 2 114 duced, carried by the birds and wind, being davoted fo sheep raisti g in Cap' 4 v ing 'continually 'and even then the| BY now the decks weresswarming,loss of time Mr. McMillan explained "Of old hast thou laid the foundation| g i | and one finds plants. springing up In| fq. q the increase in sheen popuine bilge kept gaining on us. We were | With negroes who peered at us curi-| the situation to them. All were agreed of the earth, « : (. ; all sorts of places. 2 tion. The trade in bacon and hams. . - ankle deep in water when we firet|ously. The Kanaka explained that the that the best thing to do was to swim, And the learns fe the work of thy FABRIC COMBINATIONS a The border is exposed to the biasing amounting to 76 per cent. of the total manned the pumps, but before a watch | White captain and mate of the vessel, | for it when the time came. One of the ands," Ps..14nied. ACHIEVE SMARTNESS sun all day, vet I find they do as wel 'and poing almost entirely to the Un: had passed we were in to our shins, Which appeared to have no name, had men was sent into the forestays to] The writer assumes that the world, IN TWO.PIECE FROCKS 88 in 8 partially shaded place. The y.q "Kinodom, = furnishes the most died of smallpox and that he was |throw the lead.. The water began to When first made, was a mass of waters, + i 'a great abyss, without form an t0-| bid : a penter reported a third leak, some of [acting as master until they could|get shaltow, but we still had plenty, © FUR. Toysh, WIEGCRL JOTI RCL oot ln oe Costume is charming- | other or with' other plants, a PRODUCING FIRST QUALITY BACON the men were standing in water to|reach some port. He was not capable to spare. There was scarcely enough darkness; but the creative Spirit of |ly expressed in this model which has ; "ro! "Prior to t threak their thighs while they worked at the|of navigating a ship, he said, and as sea to make it Sangorous even should | Gog" was' there, hovering lik x a bird Avy Shict, round Colne: sel hands Plenty of Tool io spread out all sound Prior he outbreak of the war, a pumps. the crew were green they would wel-| we take the ground. with outspread wings over the face on the sleeves of mavy-blue taff ots | ory e 2 i nok nil i ey et All this time the seas were rising|come us if we would take them to &| The surf was sounding pretty plain-|of the abyss. Then in obedience to the ol) he Sal and the ship rolled, a sodden thing at port. We asked first for food and a|ly, but we counted on the blacks being divine command, the darkness is shot plaided in red, yellow and white, whie in heautifu:ly for charming calor com- j cold clay soil no doubt is the reson. | punt ifying feature of all N § and some hours later, when the car- Fashion's fancy for combining tWo! mhey will not do well if crow. : a 5 the overblouse is of navy-blue crepe hinati Th f the beautiful i chance to clean up. i too far gone to take notice of it.|through with rays of light. Ps : (binations, . Three of the beau rey Sb] er : K DANGEROUS CREW. Presently the Kanaka leader came & The story of God's making the world Sa. bl EBD. ee) -t Ale. ea re {wirites; "one on each side, a third one KANAKAS A %._ CF ind Spoke to the mate: of light and order, of life and the liv.| °F the blouse, which s.ips on over the in front of a blazing Oriental poppy, wailing sound like the shriek of a BPN i . i head, fastening under a flat plait, and Yas a abo! : t Sousand soul In torment, and the 0 S08! "Praty bad nts Ti way of hel EJ Ip tod dr he igor, oS, LSSRINE MAS 8 ALP A make an ative ape nthe border, lcs of th of dul fold us the foremast had gone by the| "wrhe Kanaka is lying. The obvious said. "Guess we run near surf." |ging and carries on his work day after | bloused effect. The skirt is moderate: the exquisite' pinky mauve with lemon | suffered accordingly. When the su-. boards. When I was spelled at the 1 angtion is that this ship is a| "Possibly," said the 'mate, "butiday until its completion and the, ly circular, opening at the side front jijies- the varioty fs almost endisss. | Derior pre-war type was in demand pumps, I went above and found the yi. 1pirder. Some of the Kanakas of | there's no reef charted here ~ ° [seveith, or sabbath, day of rest, so and joined to a fitted band at the 'fPhie long: bpurred hybrids are con. | again in Great Britain after the con- facile asd sails in shreds. _|the crew must have betrayed the| 'Me ears preity good," said the, (od docs in his great task and when natural waistiine. If desired the side! cidered the finest, as 'the beautiful] clusion of hostilities it had to be de- Even as I was getting my bearings' \hites, who probably abused them,|Kanaka. "Think him near land."w svi of he pronOuiNee i Rd: The front opening may be omitted and the hive. 'yellow, with| veloped again in' Canada and the the mainmast toppled and crashed and the negroes were liberated and| The man in the stays came aft. for the 'most To tua, oo front. made in one piece. The Blouse," ; y 'of 'Pink and rose, have whole trade rebuilt. Government, over the side, causing the ship to lurch murdered most of the crew. This must "You daren't run any closer," he|Rirst, light appears radiating energy | NO: 1062, is in sizes 16, 18 and 20 yp 88H two fect high, and packers and farmers worked togethe and take water badly. We cut away have occurred after the storm, for I said in a low tone to the mate. and motion Ho aghout the chaos of | Years (or 34, 36 and 38. inches bust. , sught "adter for' decorative for this, and the successful result is® the wreckage with axes and then, hav-' qo not believe they could have weath-| At that very moment there was a|waters. Then there is the open ex-!only). Size 18 fo (36. bust), re-. purnoces. 1 p border whe | evidenced in swelling export figures ing word from below that the water ered that gale. The Kanakas prob-|glight rasping shock which just stag- Panse of the air, the appearance of quires 2} yards inch material. The forth uring the past- few years remark. As soon as we were alone the mate was gaining hopelessly against the ably, thought they could navigate thegered the vessel a trifie and she float-| dry land, the vegan Jord then Skirt, No, 1067, is in sizes 26,.28, 30, est wind" broken; .abla.. progress. has. been made: and. pumps, we began" fo get ready the ship -and intended -to become 'pirates, {cd clear again. The Kanaka gave af Ton. dogs andthe in ifé of the 32 and 34 inches waist. "Size-28 waist "The I sow, Canada is to-day producing a bacon b but now that they find the task more, howl of rage. He whistled, and like a} "1" t," 0 0 iT that there. requires 2% yards 42'er:bdsineh ma- mn (cover. equal to the highest Danis Capt. Endicott was a tower of than they can handle, they will not tiger sprang at McMillan's throat. | bY ory oF Co Cant Le Br a torial, Soke 20 v hs ly, firm ¢ sown * x feed as such in : ! ur Fashion kK, : prot from the cqual price. . strength and courage. He seemed all lest us so long as we are of service! # i : was standing near him and struck | the second chapter, beginni t v. 4, on ox es. he Yessel = oud, trop Sieg to to them. When we near a port, 100k yi over the head with the butt of | differing OR hAE In TE ar of Dewey. sid most practical sty.es, will n, {rom d old, an was gut," i : my pistol, but as he fell 'the whole|events and in the language; used, but|be of interest to every home dress- pon _ always cheering the men on. Way to This seemed the only plausible ex-| 4 ver gang piled aft in answer to in fundamental agreement with chap- | maker. f «the b the eastward the sky was showing a planation and we decided to take for y.. SEB ir fer ridin eo Jor pie.as to the central.and impostant, copy. Lat la i . gray light streak, and it seemed the oranted whatever our willy-nilly res- eA Ps acts. ~ Similar" sf aries, "but" grossly | HOW TO ORDER PATTE = wind was dying slowly, though the cyerg chose to tell us, 'and to get the There were four or five reports. As| polytheistic in character, have been| FTN SOL SL ema a ateit oa ate ri enough a port for us te| Many. revolvers flashed in the hands Fd tablets in the| Writs your name and address plain- ha hal the shor whe spn escape. As for turning the vessel over d Ran-| ancient. wedges of As-lly, givin nd si and that we might fight against ¢, the authorities, we thought that , : laces 'of Bible! Pre the encroaching water long enough for no( only a little ungrateful, although | times." Tt 0 be ; 908 10 to ve i forced on our| h by inch the water gained on for practicing their ilicit trade. nd some of the men were hanging, Our first task was to calculate our | X¢ 'over the pumps, scarce able to position. This we determined to be their grips, to say nothing of about 147 lishing any work. T decided

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