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EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN JULY 25, 1900

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TRAINS

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STEAMERS PRINCESS.

Leaves for Pictou every morning Blivccveccosccceess + : ee ~0 a m

Arrives from Pictou every even- Vy 0 eee LA GRANDE DUCHESSE.

Arrives from Bost

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every Monday........--. 12 p m. Leaves for Boston and Halifax every Wednesday {0 am. HALIFAX. Arrives from Boston and Hali/ax every Thursday .....-06 mene £98 | s for A ifax and Boston Leaves for Halifax and B SERINE divs cocesems. ce SUR CAMPANA. Arrives from Montreal and Que- bec every alternate Friday. Leaves for Quebec and Montreal! the following Monday evening. CITY OF GHEN Arrives from Hoelifax every Thursday afternoou ......... Leaves for Halifax every Frijay 10a m. JACQUES CARTIER. Leaves for Orwell Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdave..... ~~ Caos Leaves for Crapaud every F'ri- Ttivchirsecoemeccess. cs SD th Leaves for Crapaud every Satur- a 5 a ay oe oe snadiebik - teh an FERRY BOATS “Bilisborough” —Leaves Ferry Wharf for Southport every half hour. se . . “E'in”—Leaves for Rocky Point daily at 630, 8,9, ll,am; !, 2,4, 630, nm, ocalume. Sundays at9a m, 12.45, 2,3,4pm. Returnioz 1.15, 2.30, 3.15 and 5 pm. “Southport” —Runs up East River every Tuesday, leaving at 5.30 a m, and 3 7 pmiocai. Runs up West River every Friday, leaviug at 6.30 am, and 4pm local,

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION.

For the benefit of tourists and others we poblish the following Jist of hotela and warding houses in Charlottetown aud tleewhere :—

Charlottetowo—Hotel D vies, Que Hotel, Revere Hote!, Evreka Hon. Ueran House, Railway Houte, Lepuy: House, Duncan House, Fiulav Gow - McFadyen House.

Summerside— Clifton 4H uae, mn Hotel, Campbell Hotel, Perry House

Souris—Sea View Horel, Oven

Ouse,

Tracadie— Acadia Hotel.

Rustico—Sea Side Hotel.

Stavhope—Clitf House, Mutch House.

tackley Point—Shaw Houre.

Albertoun—Seaforth House, Albion

errace.

Malpeque—Hodgeon House, North

bore House,

Pownal-- Florida Hotel, Dominion

Ouse,

Vernon River Bridge—Fialay House. *orgetown—Aitken House, Tapper

Ouse, Acadia Honse. Cape Traverse— Lansdowne Hotel. Bo pte — McKenna House, Bellevue Otel, Railway Hotel. tial Hae olarke’s Hotel, Commer- n'ague—Macdonald House. ® Bouse vart—Clarke’s Hotel; Man- Hempion—-Pleasant View House. eet Hill House, *8, there are @ gocd many private “uses tbrougboot the province where —. Btaccommodation a| a reasonable tot: may eee Purther informe- obtained upon application at {wu Rzamrven offies..

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SACKED BEN,

The Whale of the Cross.

By James Cooper Wheeler,

A better man than Portuguese Joha never slapped the deck of a whaler with his foot. All of marine New Bedford 30 years ago which was fiercely skeptical of Dago virtue freely allowed that John was the exception which proves the rule.

rherefore no one was surprised when dH * iimrod, master of the Java, as fourth mate. As this offi-

cer acts as captain’s boat steerer when the “old man” lowers and heads the starboard boat when he does not it goes Without saying that he must be good timber through and through,

common on an American whale ship for a Portuguese to berth aft, but before the Java had erossed the west- ern ocean on her way to the southern whaling grounds John was accepted by Cotlin, Holder and Bigelow, the mates, as an all around goodifellow and as capa- ble a seaman as ever sniffed brine. His whalemanship was an unknown quantity, for none had sailed shipmates with him before. But they took it for granted and grew fond of the grave, undemonstrative man who never courted, but always wel- comed, their rough fellowship.

One day in the south Atlantic a “lone” bull whale was raised from the mainmast head. It was breaching a long distance to windward, and it took the bluff bowed Java three hours to beat up to where the lonely monarch could be seen from the deck. Bigelow, the third mate, was in the slings at the main royal yard with his glasses. He scanned the whale long and closely while it lay spurting without

sught of enemies. Suddenly he sent his voice to the deck:

“IT never seen a sperm bull like this

Cap’n Timrod. He’s queer, an no mistake!’

The “old man,” pacing his quarter like a penned animal, paused in his swift stride and looked idquiringly aloft “What do you make of him, sir?”

“I’m blowed if he’s a Protestant!” an- swered Bigelow, with a brief chuckle. “He's marked with a cross on his head.”

Portuguese John, who stood by the sturboard boat near the master, gave a it as the w was described Wis about to speak, but he restrain- ed himself, and Bigelow continued:

“Seems like the cross was painted on hite lead. The long streak goes e nose to the hump, an the cross-

bar reaches clear athwart his head.”

Captain Timrod happened to glance at

s fourth mate, and to his surprise

irthy face had turned that liv-

Now which takes the place of emo tional paleness in the Latin races.

“What is it, John?’ he asked in sur-

i The Portuguese’s voice was husky, and is he answered, pointing in t of the bull: “Sacred Ben, sir! The whale of the cross!”

“Hey!” exclaimed the “old man,” with an expression .of deep interest. “I’ve I him. He’s got a bad record!”

Portuguese John moved nearer and laid tendy hand on the master’s arm.

1} in a strained whisper,

in death. He kill my

broth’ three year ago in the Indian ocean.

An many more! He stove three boats of the Mary an get away with four ‘irons’ an all the lines. That time I know, for I was there. My broth’ Anton, he steer Misser Brown, the mate, an all that boat crew Sacred Ben kill. An many more! I hear of him in other ships. He always kill an always get away!”

“!] heard something of the Mary losing her boats. I was in the Okhatsk that year,” answered Timrod. “Well, what of it, John?”

“Captain, for Christ his sake do not lower after the whale of the cross!”

Tke sailor in Hank Timrod quaked be- cause of the superstition begot by the sea, but after a moment the tough Yankee spirit of the old New England whale hunter surged up in his breast. ‘Sacred Ben will try out like any other whale, I reckon,” he grimly muttered.

John made the sign of his faith. He saw the skipper’s jaw set and knew the breed. With the instinctive gesture he resigned his welfare to the care of his patron saint and braced himself to do his duty whatever might befall. The “old man’ took his glasses from the compan- ionway rack and climbed the weather main rigging to a height where he could see the bull plainly.

“The whale of the cross right enough,” he murmured when he had adjusted his

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“L'il give bim a wairl for luck.~ hen he snapped bis glasses together and roared, “Stand by to lower away.”

Che masthead k okouts seemed to drop

to the deck. The crew, on hot foot since

Bigelow’s first call from aloft, ranged themselves at their stations.

“Lower away, all!”

The falls creaked. In a twinkle all four boats touched the water, and the men were on their thwarts. Timrod, with the smartest of the crew, was the first away from the side. “’Vast pull- ing!” commanded he. “Peak oars! Step the mast! Shake that sail loose! Throat and peak balyards hoist!”

Almost as he spoke the well trained men had the mast secured, the sheet passed aft, and the sail took the wind. Let her go! he said to the midship oarsman. Down it went and held the boat up to the wind us the “old man” laid her head straight “Pull, all!’ The men bud back on their oars again, and the form curled from the cutwater.

“Drop your centerboard. Fe

for Saered Ben.

Captain Timrod, the only man in the boat wit face to the whale, looked ut nhend with a dancing devil in his

gray ere, His bhloed was afire with the

it The whale of the cross, doughty

Hise, ghoe whak old sea warrior as he was, had an antag-

‘nist whe would tax his art and test his

tehting quality. A mile—two miles—were

issed, nnd the ck bulk lay a quarter ng like a bare rock in

jocaun. His vreat hump was six feet adove the sea. At times he spouted sending a jet of steam 30 feet in the air and anon in the wantonness of might he thrust his huge body half above water with a writhe of his muscles and falling back splintered the brine into foam 100 yards around.

Nearer came the boat. Portuguese John, watching Timrod’s eye, saw it glow as the dancing dev?) leaped with mad ote. but he never turned his he

ough he knew that Sacred Ben was close behind. Then the captain spoke again as he threw tie boat’s nose into the wind—this time in a strained whisper that shivered along the men’s nerves like an electric current:

“Take in the sail—cleverly! Down with the mast. So! Stand up, John! Pul! hard!’

He accompanied the last order with a swing on hés steering oar, and by the time Portuguese John had knee in clumsy cleat and hand on his “iron” he was fae ing the whale of the cross not ten feet abaft his fin. John, though Dago, was grit clear through, and if Timrod remem- bered his shaking hand when the whale Was first sighted he knew now that the fourth mate world send his harpoop home with as brave a heart as beat und@ his own Yankee ribs.

“Give it to him!’ The old man spoke in a fierce whisper. The hearts of the men leaped, and they gripped ours in ar- rested stroke with fingers of steel that al- most dented the ash. John’s “iron” went above his head like lightning, and with a swish its barbed point sung through the air and stabbed deep into tke side of Sa cred Ben.

Like report of gun after touch on trig: ger he responded. A hundred tons sprang into activity as lightly as a wildcat meets its foe. “Starn all!” roared Timrod. “For your lives, starn all!” With their very souls in the strain the crew pushed on their oars. A maelstrom of blinding foam encompassed the boat. Whirlpools of an- gry water spurted vicious gushes over its side, and a deafening rush as though of Niagara was in Portuguese John’s ears, while the boat reeled and danced beneath his feet. But the latent tiger at the bot- tom of his heart was aroused, and he did not give back an inch. Wiping the spume from his face with his left hand, with the right he sought and grasped the “second iron.’’

Timrod at the stern had for a moment a clearer view than bis boat steerer, and now he cried, “See, he’s milling!’ :

So it was. The bull had settled in the water at the prick of the steel, and with two strokes of his fins and a lash of his flukes (which had caused the vortex) he was milling (turning) his bulk as though on a pivot, with the effect of bringing his tui] underneath the whaleboat. Timrod was too old a blubber hunter not to know what that meant. An upward stroke of that tremendous engine of destruction would send the boat and erew 50 feet in- to the air as though thrown aloft by an exploding mine. He gave a great heave on his long steering oar, and the boat

irled about. Joun stood, harpoon up- lifted. His eyes, searching the whirling mldies in front, saw the flukes of the whale of the cross. curved like a bow, as- cending from the depths.

The next instant Timrod bent to his blade again, and the boat again swung j e

le distant. loom

from the rising death. The captain di his best, but even as the bow turned the great tail came from the sea smoothly, silently, as though driven by some irre sistible mechanical force. John gazed at the black horror in momentary paralysis, his “iron’’ poised for the dart. Its point was caught by the corner of the fluke aud flipped as a boy jerks his knife in mum blepeg. The harpoon turned upon its axis, and Jobu was impaled upon it. In continuance of the high in the air arei then sunk from sight. Sacred Ben had sounded, and the line hissed over Portuguese John's prostrate body through the chocks in the bow.

There is no time for horror in a whaie boat. All is action. The men, searcely realizing the tragedy, but knowing the whale to be fast, peaked their oars. Tim- rod reached for the line and tossed two flakes from the tub to give play that he might bring it over the snubbing post in the stern sheets. It coiled through his hands like a hissing serpent, and in the very act of accomplishing his purpose a flake leaped into the air and, opening like the loop of a cowboy’s lasso. dropped over his shoulders. It seemed for a sec- ond that nothing could save him from be- ing cut in two. But the bow onrsman happened—by the Aimighty’s favor—to see the fatal loop as it sprang in the air In a heart beat bis sheath knife flashed, and the line was severed before it had time to nip or become taut on the “second iron.”

The “old man” cast the loosened coil fronr his body.and settled back in the stern sheets. “Jonas,” he said to the bow oarsman, “I guess you saved my bacog, But now look to John. I'm afraid

eotion the flukes rose

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ally collected in large quantities from the cliffs at Freshwater and sent up to some

part of their summer occupation, and for which when cleaned and sorted they re- ceive 4 shillings per bushel. It is put up in casks with sea water for its better preservation on the journey and probably aiSO to extract any bitterness it may con- tain.””"—Longman’s Magazine.

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sed Whale of tne cross Nas nxeag

nas reached to where the body of the ! mate lay on the thwart and turn i his face to the sky. On examination was found that the harpoon he had ! against Sacred Ben had cloven his wu heart in twain.—Independent.

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Samphire.

Not so many years ago the gathering f samphire for purposes of pickling was t regular occupation on various parts of the English coast. This trade is a very ‘cient one and is alluded to by Shakes- peare in—

Half way down flangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! ‘iethinks he seems no bigger than his head!

This plant still grows abundantly on the white chalk cliff known as Shakes- peare’s cliff at Dover, though the “dread- ful trade” has ceased. Fifty years ago, however, it was regularly followed by the isle of Wight. “The warm aromatic pickle prepared with this plant,’’ wrote the author of “Flora Vectensis,”” about the year 1848, “is greatly esteemed and commonly seen at table in this island.

‘For the purpose of pickling it is annu-

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April 2nd 1900,

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In white and colored shirts, underclothing, collars, and can do best. ind colored shirts for 50c, worth from 90¢ to $1.50.

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