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THE YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA:
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ed with a screw propeller, and an engine of
one hundred and twenty horse power. More-
over, the masts provided for unusually large
sails, so that, if deemed advisable, the brig
eae depend more on her sails than her en-
Ine. The stom was Very sharp and entirely
Eheathed with iron.
Brerything. about fhe brig indicated that she
was intended ist the t furious at-
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prow wus of tempered steel, and strong iron
rs, doubly riveted and screwed, secured and
baud together every portion of the frame,
The Rescue was completed on the first day
of April, 18—, and as Captain Grant and. Don-
ald surveyed the noble brig, after she had
been launched successfully, they were fully
satisfied with the work of the ship-builders,
most practizal seaman could have found
nothing: at which to justly cavil about this tri-
umph of marine architec!
illiam Hall, the experionced Arctie navi-
gator, bad alrea dy been engaged as “ Captain
onal ” first officer, and to this excellent
- poner ‘had been intrusted the duty of select-
ing a crew.
As soon as The Rescue was launched the
work of provisioning began, Captain Grant
had decided to provide for a three years’
eruise. Donald Personally superintended the
storage of the cargo, There was alarge quan-
tity of pemmican, barrels of lime juice and
mustard and eochlearia seed and other anti-
seorbutic preparations which are as necessary
as food in the polar seas, The other stores
consisted of salt meats, fish, biscuit, flour, eof-
fee, tea, sugar, and other articles whieh need
be enumerated, .
The medicine chest was also filled with
great care by Captain Grant himself.
There was a stock of fire-arms, a large
azine of powder, great ice saws and lev
hatchets of enormous size, blasting eartridzes,
filled witu dynamite, and fuses and fire-sig-
nals ip great variet;
boats, too, were worthy of mention;
several were made of tinned iron, covered
with gutta-percha, Others were mado of India
rubber, and were to be inflated when needed,
mage
The day the idling of the brig was complet-
ed, William Hall reported that he had a crew
of eighteen men engaged, The second officer
was named John Worth, and he was a young
man of aplendia physique, and a thorough
feapan er members of the crew, to
had all been selected with a view to ‘thei
aby to withstand the rigors of an ‘Aretio
Tt Was the night before the day set for the
sailing of The Rescue, and Captain Grant and
onald were crossing the dock at which the
brig lay at anchor, when they observed a man
who had been surveying The Rescue critically
through a sea-glass, slink away at their ap-
proneh, as though he wished to evade their
Rate
Captain Grant stopped short as he reeng-
nized the man whose conduct was certainly
open to susp lon.
That man is Jasper Cadger! I don’t like
this!- Woy should the scoundrel come here
9, inepect my vessel?” said the captain to
ee T am sure I do not know,” replied Donald,
as the’ man they had sighted disappeared
amons th the bales and packages that littered
t
Captain Grant said no more about him, but
his face wore a troubled look all the way home.
reason, which he had rot ex-
plained, Captain Grant had instructed Donald
and first officer William Hall to tell no one any-
thing about the destination of The Rescue,
a the good man fancied that the plan which
@ had formed to institute a search for the
fost ship was known only to those whom he
had jaken into his confidence. The crew hae
been engaged for three years to
“ Were ordered.” These words were partie.
ularly noted in every sailor's contract for the
voyage, and it had not been ‘iffleult to find
the wen toshtp on such conditions, for the
excellent reason that the wages offered were
almost double the sum usually paid for able
seamen
When Captain Grant found himself alone in
his Woeney tat pyening he said, mentally:
“Tow if it can be that Jas:
suspects “the. truth about The R
hope not, for the rascal is capable of almost
any villainy. I cannot shake off a certain np-
prehension which I have felt since I saw him
on the dock.”
That same evening, much to the old cap.
tain’s surprise as well as plaasure, he received
acall from his old friend Dr. Yau unan, the
celebrated scientist and traveler, who was not
otly a physician, but a man of varied ani ex-
tensive knowledge, who had journeyed over
almost all the world,
Captain Grant sup! Dr. Vaunan
was in South Africa, and he was for that rea-
son surprised as stated at his appearance,
The two old friends conversed for some
time, and all at once the doctor, who was rath-
er an eccentric personage, sii
“Captain, I may as well come right to the
point, and ‘tell you that my main object in
coming here to-night, aside from my sincere
desire to sea you, is to usk you to ship me as
surgeou on The Rescue for her Arctic voyage,”
“Weil, well! I should like to know where
you got your Information about my brig?” ex-
“Why, from the eraft herself. I've been hav-
ing a good look at her, and said I, when I
noted the topsails, as well as the smokestacks
of the engines, ‘She has all that rigging fora
certain purpose; she is surely bound for Arc-
tie seas—uas sure as my name is. Leonadas
auvan.’ Then I found gah withoat great
difficulty, that you owned the bi
wasn’t a livin:
“ Well, I forgot that you were an old sailor,
and a shrewd observer. I will confess you
have guessed aright. The Rescue is bound
for the Arctic seas, and if you will go as sur-
geon you are a thousand times welecme, and
f thank you for your offer,
“Say nothing about that. ae extreme
after another suits me. I’ve t been melt-
ing for mouths in Africa, and now Llike the
idea of freezing up in th e Arctic Sea. But tell
me all about this Proposed voyage.
tain Grant aceeded to this request, en-
tering into all the particulars which the reader
has been made acquainted with, Then Donald
came in, and he) was introduced to the good
doctor, He was a genial, eon good-nat-
ured man, with a fund of humor, an
Donald liked him from the
The following morning all hands reported on
board The Resi at an early hour, Donal
took an affectionate farewell of Captain Grant,
and then his vessel weighed anchor, and t
boy captain began his adventurous Posse.
tt was the fifteenth of April when The Res-
gue weighed anchor, and the weather was
andso continued until the brig entered
Davis Strait, between Greenland and the banks
of Bruce Williams Land, hat time the
yorage had been devoid of theident of special
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est.
“But two days after the brig passed Cape
Farewell drifting ice was sighted for the first
lime, and a look- -out was promptly established,
The “ crow’s-nest” was attached to the top
gallant mast head, and there the ice-master
took his position to keep watch over the sea,
erow’s-nest was a cask with a movable
bottom, in which the lookout was_partially
sheltered. Whe brig was now in the forty-
fourth degree of north latitude, and hardly
far enough north to anticipate immediate dan
er from ice drift.
Several days later the humidity of the at-
mosphera gave warning of the approach of
fog which oftentimes comes on very densely
and suddenly ig these latitudes,
“Captain” Donald and Dr. Vaunan were
on dee! Teaning on the Joc-rail, and Mvatehing
the open sea ahead while they conversed.
Nearthe wheel stood a tall,dark-haired. “Swarthy
june, who had shipped as one of the
reading w letter, fue presently he tore it inte
frag ments, and thr Ww them over le t
the wind caught up © of these little slips,
and dropped it on the dock almost at Donald’s
‘Without any thought as to what he was
doing Donald carelessly picked up the frag-
ment of paper as it fell, and he was about to
erush it in his hand when his eyes eaught
sight of a name, and part of a wor ra traced on
the slip of paper, Ata rend thus: »
JASPER CADGER.”
nald was positively startled. Ie glanced
at the swarthy Danish seaman, and noted that
the man did not seem to be conscious of his
presence on 3
as one of the crew upon. whose devotion
and honesty the safety of the expedition and
its success depended in communication with
9 would lose A fortane if the cap
tan of the Tost ship Hope was fou
nald experienced something ‘like real
atu as thisthoughteame to his mind, But
there. wis was no time for further reflection grant-
e
At that moment the ice-master in the erow’s-
nest sheuted :
“ Teebersss ahead!”
“Captain ” Dont seized the glass which
hung ut his side, and ran up to the look-out and
ook an observation. The entire surfaco of
the sea ahead was covered with towering ice-
bers, and the great drifts were bearing down
n the brig with speed impelled by a stiff
Polaco
To add v0 the danger the fog began to fall,
But as the nearest berg loomed’ up nearer and
nearer, Donald, through bis glass, discerned
a dark object upon it which he could not make
out at first, but whieh finally developed into
the erect figure of a man clad in the costume
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flag, upon which,
printed in large letters ‘Donald read, with such
eelings as may be imagined, the name Hope.
Donald announced his discovery, an
once the greatest excitement prevailed on the
brig, for the crew had been informed of the
object of the voyage when it was well com-
menced.
berg upon which stood the solitary flag-
bearer, was drifting to leeward, and to res ach
him it was necessary to man a boat, One of
the whale-boats was immediately launched,
and Donald Teaped into it and ordered the
erew, amon; om was the swarthy Dane, to
row for the berg. Donald did not notice the
Dane until the boat was under way, and it
was then too late to send him back, a
became quite dense as the boat rr roe ene
berg, and mate fast to it, Donal. ie ges tOKLY
the first to leap upon t! the fo, Ae ‘nthe fag,
a vanced | to tne as wolliione aod Tnotionloss asa
wich
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claimed the old captain, gazing at the docto:
in profound astonishment, pe7ing .
f
\
enpadaenly Donald discovered the cause of
his. The man on the iceberg was frozen as
polrd asa ston
Momentary the fog grew denser and yet
more den:
Donald ‘hurriedly searched the seaman’s
frozen garments and in his bosom he founda
packet wrapped about with bearskin.
The boy captain had ordered his men back
to the boat that they might get ready to cast
off upon the instant, for he well knew the
danger of delaying there in the fog,
Placing the packet he had taken from the
dead seaman in his pocket, Donald turned to
retrace his way through the fog to the boat,
alone guided by the voices of those who had
preceded him there, But all at once there was
a mighty See of the berg.
lieved it was “ats to pieces.
ips and he bounded for-
stretched him upon the heaving ice, which
threatened each moment to separate into a
thousand fragments,
{T0 BE CONTINUED.]
—_— 0
Literally True.
THERE is a farmer pie is Y’s
Enough to take ‘
And study nature with his I's
and think of what he C’s,
He hears the chatter of the J's
As they each
And Z's that when a iree D K's
~ It means a home for B’s.
A pair of oxen he will U's,
With many haws and G's,
And their mi stakes he will XQ’s
While plowing for his P's.
—— — poo mee
“The Portuguese Man-o’-War.”
TuenreE is a little creature sails the geean
that is as well known to mariners as the North
star, and which is distinguished both “oy “the
boldness of its seamanship and by the great
bexuty of its pes
Bailors call it the Portuguese man-o’- war,
t most abounds in the great belt of water
southward and westward of the Azores or
Western Islands. It is one of the large family
of seanettle, so called on account of the sting-
ing sensation it imparts to the skin when it
comes in contact with it.
The cause which produces this stinging is in
the provision God has made for its protection.
Concealed in the tubes of its feelers, is an
acrid substance which it ejects at will.
Seen on the surface of the water it looks
like a semi: -transparent bladder, about six to
ten inehes long at the water’s edge, its form
upwards : being that of a quadrant ofa circle.
adrant is generally of n whitish blue
colon fr nged at the edge with beautiful and
delicate pink, or not unfrequently with ultra-
marine
The quadrant is of a membraneous charac-
ter, and looks like a shell, for which it fs often
mistaken. Its sides are somewhat compress:
ed,and descend from a narrow apex to
ng from two to four inches in Drenthe
They are also wrinkled or ribbed, to allow of
a reduction of sail at will—for the
ous quadrant is a sail, and being exposed to
the wind, seems to driveits owner along faster
than the ficetest ya
Below the cot gacn ot the water, the Portu-
fuese man-o’-war consists of a bundle of
brown feelers and tubes, that look like 60
cots, Some of these act as feelers, or
the fish kind; others serve to seize the prey
required for its sustenance; and others as
grapples or anchors, by which it can fasten
sell to any
Tn the: largo ‘specimens these roots stretch
far below the surface of the water.
Whenever the weather is too rough to al-
low of its continuing its course without dan-
ger, or when an ene too powerful to be
fought heaves in sizht, the singular creature
lays its sail flat on the water, quickly furls il,
lets out the air in the bladder which acts as a
float, and sinks rapidly down to 0 depths where
the curlostty of man cannot
a rule it is only in fine ve ather that Por-
tuguese men-o’-war are seen, They may be
seen on occasions sailing in large convoys, th:
most picturesque little craft on the face of the
whole ocean.
At nigh ht they are prepared with warning
signals to other navigators, for by a beautiful
provision of their Maker, they are enabled to
make the whole of their sail luminous with a
phosphoresvent light which appears like that
of the glow-worm,
he me
toa
h looking | rontlompatst FE Toughy®
see See SE 2 ay
wan rie yee
Presa, uid thee
ons -
A wild ery of con
R001
sir.
* Go
other T's, dollars and tift;
of the di
BUTTON BUSTEK=s
Fond Father—“ Talk of pollere not fitting a young
man for earning a living! as soon as Johnny
graduated be obtained a Splendid Rasitio ition.”* Friend—
“* What was it?" yond eee ba
Omaha Girl
ak: nk nglish dune moe
Mr. Alceeliow nn to be ashamed of hinself. ¥
+ tired; w"anid the lady at the bead of the
y one Sunday evening. “You should not
nister, who been as
you baven’t prenched two sermons
said the lady, absent-mindedly, * bat
Diistened to them!”
Book, Agent (to womanl—"The book sells like bot
hock wheat cakes on a
io ‘that wettles, it”
ook ‘Agent—*' Well gould you give 2 Poor fellow a bite
of omen ing to
oung M. O. (to the lady he is courting)—* Isn’t
hard to, dave to attend the house in Sept
” hy nit 6 yor pair?” she replied,
Tu: e ddlivered a ma
You
eee
Hehting « free ele
while you ar are trying. to get rieh arentt you sper
fmoney?” “Ob. I don't mind | the expense,
a m willing to get rich regardless of c
Artist (displaying @ picture) —* Tuspaie
“Jonah and the Whale.” le Pu
Young Artie Vha
te ler" Are you thera te fair with the
ke" New Clerk—"
eis a cost mark on thie landscape . ax
‘Se hat des tbat ston d for?” New Ci erk—"" Eleven
the peiling price ice tae five dollars, -
guess you're posted. ”
“* Grace, Tam nearly worried to death.” Mrs.
* Well, Dr. Van Nox in-
ayoatt
ps stticken with tempor
“Yes, I aw.” Mrs. iter inquire
ee coenize the change. It
it comes, 1 should Thiele very.” Be
“Ob, will he bite?” exclaimed one of Milwaukeo
ayerne’s s sweetest te with a look of alarm when she
saw fo
Ww Why, ear Mr.
am threatened with
‘8. S.—"* Oh,
ie ell you had bette:
morning or two since to axe. icker
and earlier than usual lated with the
prospects ofa ponetual dinver that sho gave the boy
a nickel, re ey ae that the reward w
reath, bat he
out nkee, mum, yes; the tole me
to hurry up wit! “the mest 0 42°C gettit here before it
beginned to smell.”
INTERESTING ITEMS.
list of the heaviest hammers ia
grical point of view. Fr. Kropp,
1873, 50
The following 5
Europe, hi
Essen, abi, 10 tones Jered Werke: Ite
Creusat, I rance. 17, £0 tons; Cocker J
400 Topp, k. » 156, 150 tons.
now the heaviest sieain hammer in the world.
A Kansaa City engineer bought a second-band snit
of clothes the other day, an when he e xot home beer.
amined the rarmente carefully tom teortot a bar~
ain hehad made. Something a attention
Eotweon the linmng of the weet and cloth and be ripped
the seam, ‘Tucked snugly in (he opening be found tour
$2 bills. “The clothes cost bim $6.
Ilinois bas a railroad with side tracks nine or ten
times greater in length than the main line. “The roa
is the Peoria and Pekin runs from Peoria
to Pekin, a distance of fourteen miles. That in the
main line: Being a belt rond. caring for the cars of the
several roads running into Peoria and transferring the
care from one Foad Lo auother. it has many mites of side
trackso
e pr roduction of locomotives in F:
ope during the
curse amounted io England t ermany, 2,
¥ra ane 1.000; ely iam, 600: witzerland;
120: nd Holland, 2
in ant $ 30 one mes, The largest works in the world
the Baldwin Eocomotive W orks. in Philadelphia, which
is capable of turning out 600 peryear. Borsig in Berlin
ce 300 at ‘ime,
‘sper window glace is now said to be an sexnred fact.
AB des cribed: “* A window pane a made of white pa-
r linen, and modihed
ut Into remarkably tough speets entirely transparent,
n be dyed with almost the whole of the aniline
colors, the Teste being a transparent sheet. showing
far more vivid ban the best tries
A gentlema’ ach reneon rklan
Cal, was ick Nolently upon the hend by a hietd eu
d looking up, was startled by a ghostly flut-
away. A great gray gull just
With a half.
on the san
nm hix shoulders,
dizzy height, al pped it
upon a rocl k which broke the shell, and the egull de-
scended aud dine
The Dubii n, Ga, Gazette tells of a fight between an
a je that. earured i welve feet from tip to tips and a
uzzard. .They fonght in air, unt
See iited “and fell to the grounds. The fon the eagle Hew
y and brought four young eariets ay inves a DAS te
fhav began dining Pe on ie oube smelt the ‘blond,
bg, feeding near by, and, rea were. ‘The old mother
ro red. sf struck the hog, cutting one of ite
its head, ‘The hog retreated, and
PAT adie nirack it again, this time taking off spare of
its na. Then the ground kog made its escape, not to
tambourine on the parchment head of which is painted
f flowers corresponding to th ir Rgures of
ordinary dials. On Lzanination, two bees, one large
Te discovered crawling among the
fer, te We nt
ist T cam 1 laid’ down on the pre ail bee raus rapidiy from one over
dry. " fell asleep Ps and n 1 woke up the fa. had to another, « mploting the circle in an hou: I
arped my legs, ‘replied the man with thi large one ti
inane “My friend,” said the gentleman, “
allow
a jake you a the hand. py ree
Woaretwo of tkind. I pre-
the affidavits to the circulation of a New York
ga aly paper.”
i Tr, bile the
kes twelve houre to complete the circle,
aye parchment isanbroken and t i
it, but two magnets con ected w shoe!
work inside the tanibourine move just ander the
brane, and the insects, which are of iron, follow them: