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Lady Franklin,
DEI
=l2=M 0:1117013
Fold thy hands,thy work to overt
Cool thy watching eyes with tears,
Let thy poor heart, overwearted,
Rest alike front itopei and tears.
Hope., that saw with sleepless vision,
One sad picture fed.ng slow;
Fears that followed, vogue and nameless,
Lifting bsek the veils of snow.
Ma
For thy brave one, for thy lost 0110,
Truest heart of woman, weep:
Owntng sill the love shat granted
Unto thy beloved sleep,
Mot for him that hour of terror,
When, the long tee-bottle o'er,
In the softie-a day his comrade
Deathward trod the Polar shore
Spared the cruel co'd and (amine,
spared the fainting heart's despair—
What but that could mercy grant him?
What but that lens been thy prayer?
Dear to the, that last memorial,
From thr cairn besidr the sea
'Escrows.. %tr. month of 1014 C%
Shall hr stirred timr to thee!
Sad it i• the mournful yew•tree
O'er his .lumbers may not wave;
Sud rt i. the English dabq
May not blossom on 114 grave.
Buz his tomb •hail storm and winter
Shape and fashion year by year—
Pile hie mighty mansoleura
Block by block, and tier by der.
Guardian of its gleaming portal
:oo his ~tatiale-s honor be,
While thy love. a sweet immortal,
Bova...O'er the armter sea!
EN. Y independent
Wolfgang;
THE *RECK u tR'S BEACON
CHAPTER 1.
BEFORE THY GALE
The good ship Pathfinder, of New York,
and bound to Copenhagen, had entered the
North Sea, having left the Straits of Dover
two days behind.
The commander of the ship was a young
man, not ever eight-and-twenty, and his
name was Maurice Lester. He stood by the
taffrail, gazing riff upon the horizon to the
eastward, ever arid anon raising his hand
above his head to feel if there was any
wind stirring, and as often cast his eye aloft
to see how the Cllll7l/9 hung. As he stood
thus his mate approached. and spoke to
him:
"What d'ye think of this, Capt'n?"
"I think we're in for a storm, sir," the
master replied. "And I tell you what it is,
Griffin," he added, after sweeping the hori
zon with his eye, "when it comes it will be
an earnest one. None of your broad Ocean
puffs, with nothing but water to hatch wind
from; but we'll hove it right fresh from
some of those places where they know how
to make things blow."
"Then you think we'll hare a hard one?"
said Griffin.
"Aye," answered the captain, with almost
a shudder, "I feel it in my bones."
In the meantime, Captain Lester had been
watching the sea and sky as before, and he
fancied that the signs of the storm were
growing more and more palpable every mo
went. The sun was going down in a thick
bank, giving to the whole western horizon
a dull, purplish-red, bloody hue, with here
and there spots of a darker tinge, like open
ings, through the fiery cloud, looking upon
a fearful blackness behind.
"Do you see how strangely it looks off
there?" said the captain, raising his finger
towards the point where the sun was set-
ting
"Aye," returned Griffin, "I have been
watching those dark places."
And others noticed the same thing, and
spoke of it, too.
Seven o'clock came and went. sight
o'clock came, and the first watch was set.
"Don't go below," said the captain, as
the men of the last dogwatch left their sta
tions. "This calm can't last a great while.
You had better batten down the hatches now
while there is nothing el. , e to do; for I am
sure there will be need of having them close
before the coming of another day."
The men had no thoughts of going below,
for they could see and feel; and they were
not wholly ignorant of what was coming;
so they went to work and secured the
hatches with thick tarpaulins; and when
this was done those who had no particular
station collected about the wheel. Another
hour passed away—and another. Ten
o'clock came, and still not a breath. The
ship lay upon the water like a dead thing,
with the ropes, and blacks, and sails, rat
tling and flopping as she was swayed to and
fro by the lazy swells of the sea.
"What does it mann?" cried Griffin, as the
boy struck five bells.
"liarkl" euid the captain, almost instant
ly. "I guess soon see. Did you feel
that?—Elal—and that?"
It was a puff of wind, and a light flying
of spray; or, perhaps it was a spit of rain,
At all events, the puff was felt; and the
drops of water fell upon other cheeks than'
Maurice Lester's; and other ears than his
heard the dull moaning which came over the
dark waters. So other ears heard the rear
which followed, and other bodies quivered
beneath the shock of the atertn•giant when
he came in his might.
Aye—the storm had come. It came with
wind and rain, and with an angry heaving
ft!' the sea. It came with n drokneom like
E b i 1,1 wlth the Noiee ~f
;AC gale COMILILICa iocrelte io fury u
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 31, 1859.
the long night passed away. When the
morning came the scene was one of awful
grandeur. The wind was bowling with ter
rific fury; and the broad sea was lashed into
binge mountains, that foamed, and tumbled;
and leaped along over the bosom of the
deep, seeming every moment ready to whelm
and engulf the frail bark that struggled
within the demon grasp.
When Captain Lester had observed the
signs of the morning, he feared that the
storm would continue through the day, and
so he told his men. The sky wore a hue of
horror, and rain was now driving down,
mingling with the lashing sea. At noon it
was grill worse.
At length night shut in again, and not a
sign yet of the passing away of the storm!
The frightful howling of the tempest seemed
rather to have increased than abated. The
men gathered upon the quarter-deck, cling
ing for support to the racks and rails—fur
the life-lines swayed So much that they were
afraid of them—gathered as near to the
binn•tiele-lamp as they could, as though even
from such eeble beams they might find
some comfort. Bue not all were there• No
—not all! Four stout, true-hearted men
had been swept away by the storm. Near
a score were left; but how many shall see
the light of another day?
At nine o'clock Captain Lester went be
low. He took down a chart of the North
Sea, and having spread it upon the table, he
sat down to examine it. He was thus en
gaged when.ilir;Griffin catne'down; but he
did not look up until he had finished the
calculation. .
"Ilow is it?" the mate asked, ati he, saw
his commander lay down the dividers. •
"I have been making a reckoning, and I
find that we have but little more sea-room
left. The course we have made since we
wore, has been, as near as I can calculate,
north-west-by-west, so that we must be driv
ing towards the coast of S , )rthum be rland.
I think we have plenty of room to stand on
until midnight: but we cannot stand on
much longer. If the gale does not abate
by that time I know not what we shall do."
The captain started up from his chair,
and would probably have walked across the
cabin, but at that moment n heavy sea
caught the ship, and gave her a pitch for
ward, which caused him to catch hieseat as
quickly us no,tilds. As soon as the flood
e had gone from the deck. nod the vessel had
struggled up from the shock, he looked into
Iris companinia's f a ce, ;Lod said, in a vo:ce
made tremulous lay deeper emotion than he
had before mani.ested:
"Griffin, I•have soreething , upon my mind
more than you know; and I am anxious to
communicate it too. I must tell it now, for
I have a strange foreboding of coming il:.
Something is to happen that will hear great
calamity to some of us. lam not croaking
—I am only reading what the Unseen ha ,
written in my soul. However, you shall
heir my story. You hare heard that my
parents were both lost at sea?"
"Yes," said the mate.
"And perhaps you know that they were
lost in this sea?"
"I have heard ao, sir."
"Aye—so it, was. I was a boy then.—
They were on their way to Copenhagen, as
we should be now. My father commanded
the shit—slie was called the 'Clara Jane.'
She was named for my mother; and she was
a staunch, noble craft. I was at school then
in,Troy; and when I knew that my parents
were dead I was well nigh mad with grief.
I fancied then, in my first hours of orphan
age, that my heart would break; and, I
think such wouid have been the case if they
had kept me at school. But some of those
who cared for me came to see me, and it
was finally arranged that I should go to sea.
And I prospered—prospered so well that,
when I was twenty years old, they gave me
command of a ship.
' "The man who owned the ship which. I
first commanded Iraq named Thornton. He
had a daughter named Carrie—one (if the
I sweetest, purest, and loveliest creatures that
ever graced this poor life of earth. She
was four years younger than myself; but
oven when I first knew her—and she was
not then inure than fourteen—she was a wn
man in intellect and grace, though a child
in simplicity of love 'URI confidence. Mr.
Thornton did not object tv my suit, so I
loved her with all my soul, and was blessed
to know that she loved me in return. It
had been arranged that we should be mar
ried when she was twenty years old,—that
had been our plan for more than two years,
Mr. Thornton having set the bounds him
self: It lacked two months of the time, and
I bad arranged to remain at home, until we
were married. But—Thornton had a heavy
ship freighted for Copenhagen, and her cap
tain was dying. Re could find no one to
take his place but me, and he asked me to
go. I could not refuse; but I asked that I
might be married first. Mr. Thornton
shook his head, and said no. But be had i
another plea which said would be better.—. l
Ile had been planning to visit .Copenhagen,
where he had two brothers in business—they
were in company tt ith him—and he &aid he
would take the ner.t ship and bring Carrie
net with him, And we should be married
there. finally conoented to take out the
new ship, and Mr. Thornton, with his
daughter, was to meet me in Copenhagen, I
and there we were to be married, and all
three come home together. The evening he-
for. I , v 1•)! , T!lrri,, and 'rhea !
I i!:" I Col: m o t
"Well," continued Lester, wiping his
eyes, "I went to Copenhagen. I waited a
month—then I heard that the American
ship, 'While Fawn,' with William Thornton
and daughter on board, had touched at Do
ver, and that all were safe and well when
she left. I waited another week, and then I
crossed over to Hamburg; but I could learn
nothing there. Next I went to London, and
there I learned enough to assure me that
the ship had been lost! On the second day
after she left Dover a severe storm had
arisen, and several vessels had been reported
lost. I sent my ship home in charge of the
mate; and spent four months in searching
after the lost ones, but I could gain no trace
of them. Not even a piece of the wreck
could I Sod—not a mark of the ship nor of
one of its crewl I came home with a sad
and heavy heart."
Maurice Lester stopped a few moments,
and bowed his head upon his hands, for his
feelings had almost overcome him. In a
little while, however, he looked up again,
and added, in a touching tone:—
"Ali, my dear friend, you do not know
what I have suffered—tongue cannot tell it
nor can pen write it. That blow did break
my heart—broke it in the rending of its
tenderest cords, and in the crushing of all
its earthly hopes!—Do you believe in
dreams?"
The mate started, not ea much at the
character of the question, as from the sud
den manner in which it was put.
"Well," said Lester, in a lower tone, "I
have had a dream repeated many times; but
never has it come to me so directly and so
vividly as within the past three or four days.
Carrie Thornton le not dead! I know she is
not!—she has appeared to MC repeatedly in
a dream, and calls upon me to save her!—
To•night, as I stood all alone in the mizzen
rigging, trying to peer out in the thick
gloom, I heard her voice as plainly as you
now hear mine, and she called out for me
to save her. Of course what followed was
mere fancy, though even that affected me
much: I thought I saw her, standing not far
off, upon a huge sea, with her arms stretchod
imploringly towards me—saw her then,
with my eyes open, as I have often seen her
in my sleeping dream!—"
At this point the captain was cut short in
his speech by the cry of "Ltoar•no!" from
thedeck. They hurried up and found the
men crowding forward.
"What is it?" Lester asked.
"I think it is a light, sir?" replied Parker.
"here, sir,—just here.—Now turn
your eye about four points up,,ti the lar
board bow. Wait now, ull qhe risei.—tin
—there!—there?—See!—Did you see it,
sir?"
Xes—lie had seen it: and he knew it.1.11,45t.
light.-a.il/-e. Tne light was bold and
distinct, and evidently at a cmisiderahle dis
tance above the level of tne se i; for, had it
nut been so, it could not be at tit t
tance. ,liter a short coast' itat WU, during
which re erence was had to WC chart of the
Northumberland coast, it wits decided that
this light must be upon Dorton Point. To
the north of Dorton, as the captain knew
from personal experience, as well as fawn
the chart, there t va , a snug hal bor of easy
entrance. These thing,. were seified.
As soon as it lied been determined whete
the light was, Captain Lester made all pos
sible haste to determine his course of ac
tion. Had the thing been practicable, he
would have laid his ship to; but that could
not be done. No one even gave it a seri
ous thought. So it was determined that the
ship should stand on, et least till something
further was discovered.
At half-past twelve the gale had modera
ted considerably. The light was now to be
seen very plainly whenever the ship rose,
and the captain and his officers felt sure
that they were right in their calculations.
"At all events," said the former, "we
have no chice but to stand on, at least---"
Ile was interrupted by a cry from the
bows that made every soul start with hor
ror:
"Bar.ticEas! BREAKERS!"
Captain Lester leaped forward, and in a
very few moments he was satisfied that the
warning bud not been a false one; for he
could not only hear the awful roar of the
breaking seas, but he fancied that he could
see the ?teaming of the white foam as it
flew high in the air. As quickly as possi
ble the topsail was taken off, and the anch
ors cut loose. The ponderous grappling@
plunged into the hissing Rea, and the iron
cables were spun through the hawse-holes
like lightning. Snap went the starboard
chain, and in a moment more a shook was
felt as the larboard anchor found bottom:
but it could not hold. The cable parted as
though it had been a hempen string, and
on swept the devoted ship.
"In heaven's name!"gasped Griffin,"what
does this mean? Seel The light is still
burning as brightly as ever—et least a
league away—and yet here ate the rocks
directly under our bowel What can it
mean?"
Maurice Lester did not answer; but an
old weather-beaten sailor, who stood .tt, the
wheel, and who had looked a thousand dan
gers in the face, answered for him:
"IT'S A WRICCICER . 9 ntACON! I've seen
snch thing. tattre. There aint no use in
firin' the gun, sir. That light was put
there to lead poor Jack to his death that the
iniaht pick hi+ hones;"
Tr. f: f, (;:i Rtarboard
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ME
tvo luta 1,..At T.;1411
ship had met her doom. She wont upon
the rocks with a crash that sounded high
above the roar of the elements.
CEIAPTZIL II
WOLFGANQ
Maurice Lester was near the starboard
gangway when the ship struck, having
started aft to look to the helm. The shock
threw him upon his back, and be tried to
get up; but ere he could regain his feet the
flood of mad waters came surging over the
bark, and he VMS thrown—he knew not
where. He only know that the flood came
—that it caught him in its giant grasp—
that it burled him as a gale hurls a feather
—that his head was hurt—that his body
was tossed and bruised—and then the lamp
of his consciousness went out. When he
came to himself it was daylight, and the
rays of the sun were beaming above him.—
At first he did not attempt to move, any
further than simply to assure himself that
he was really alive and sensible; hut sought
to recall the events of the past, which he
did, very clearly, up to the time when the
ship struck upon the rocks,—he could go no
farther. After this he raised himself upon
his elbow, and tried to gaze about him. He
found himself upon a bed of sand, between
two immense rocks. He had been landed
there in that deep nook, and the tido had
gone out and left him. In a little while
he rose to his feet, and managed to crawl
up, by the aid of a stranded spar, over a
low part of one of the rocks.
After seeing all that was to be observed
from this point, he moved on towards where
he thought he should soonest find an open
beach, for he felt faint and sick, and he
wished to findhelp as soon as possible. Af
ter toiling over slippery, slimy ropits, and
cruel, tearing crags, until his clothing was
all torn, and his flesh bruised and lacerated
he finally reached an open space among the
rocks, where many pieces of the wreck had
been lodged, and where he found the bodies
of three of his men. He basted to the spot
whet° they lay—two of them being clasped
in each other's arms—but he found no signs
of life,
With a sad, heavy heart, Laster passed
on, and presently he found two more dead
ones, and one of them was David Griffin, hie
chief mate. He kneeled down by the offi
cer's side, and raised the head; but it was
cold and lifeless and the skull was broken!
Gently he laid it back upon the sand, and
then moved on again. And he saw more
dead meo also! Could it be possible that
he had been the only one left alive?
Hal—wait—what is this? It moves—it
tut.s life:
Captain Lester hurried forward, ae fast as
his feeble strength would permit, and found
two men lying by the side of a heavy spar.
One of theta was death but the other gazed
up into his commander's face, and stretched
forth his hands as though he would ask for
mercy. His name was Dick Mangle, and
he had been one of the best seaman on board
the ship.
`•Pour Dick!" said Lester, knisling by his
side and lifting his head. '"Are you badly
hurt?"
"They've done it for us!" the sailor an
swered, in a weakening fvoiee. "They've
killed Tutu. Ain't he dead?"
It was the body of stout Tom Brisket that
lay close by, and when the captain had
made himself sure that there was no parti
ole of life in it, he reported the same to Dick.
"But," he added, "what do you mean?•
Who has dune you harm?"
"haven't you seen 'em?" the man asked,
struggling for breath.
`•Seen whom? What do you mean?" de
manded Lester, eagerly.
Dick started up to his elbow, and gazed
around; but he seemed to find nothing for
which be was looking, and he sank back
again. Had he not made this effort he
might have spoken further, but the act of
rising had exhausted him, and the last grain
of strength was leaving him.
"What do you mean?" cried Lester, as he
saw that the poor fellow was sinking. "Has
anybody harmed you?"
Dick managed to raise his hand to his
head—to a point above the left ear—and, as
lie did so, he whispered—
" Look out—they asked for the capt'n.—
That's where they struck!" Ile tried to
speak further, but his voice failed him.
What could this mean? Maurioe Lester
started to his feet and gazed around. Who
had killed his men?
The captain was disturbed in his medita
tion by the sound of voices not far off, and
upon turning he beheld four men coming up
from the water. He who came in advance
was a tall, muscular man, with a gaunt,
heavy frame, somewhere about fifty or fifty
five years of age; and habited in a garb of
blue cloth, cut into a frock or !4b irk which
was secured at the waist by a broad pistol
belt.
Maurice Lester was startled when be be
held the stalwart leader and bin three ruf
fianly companions; and, considering all the
eirournmances, it is no wonder that he was
startled. However, be bad not much op
portunity for reflection, for, by the time he
had fairly made out the party, they were
upon him.
"Hallo," the leader -mimed, as he saw our
hero, "here we have another." And, as he
came up, he added: "And I geese we've
found a live one, too,—one that know•
something. fay—who are ye?"
Thi s 11 1 4 Perffitnee Ara. addressed to Man
rive, who quickly answered:
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"My name is Lester. And now, to be
fair, what is your name?"
"Well—l. guess you ye heard it before.
Men call me Ryan Wolfgang."
"Wor..raaNa!" repeated Leoter, with a
start;
"Yes. That's my name."
Then Wotarmixo was not a myth after all.
That mysterious wrecker, whose name was
a source of terror to honest sailors, was a
being a flesh and blood, like other men.
Maurice gazed upon him with wonder; and,
as he gazed, he felt that he looked upon a
fiend incarnate. He had often heard of the
pirate-wrecker, and so dark and mystic had
been the tales which the Northern Sea sail-
ore had told, that he had been inclined to
believe that the whole theme was a fabrica
tion. Now, however, he had no more doubt,
for the man before him looked as dark and
bloody as were any of the pictures he had
heard drawn of him upon the forecastle.
But our hero was not allowed much time
for reflection. Wolfgang plied him with
questions, to all of which Lester gave straight
forward answers; well knowing that evneiun
would servo no practical purpose, and hop
ing by his frankness to propitiate the mer
ciless fiend in whose unrestrained power lie
knew himself to he.
When the wreaker chief had elicited all
the information he could, and learned with
what a rich cargo the vessel was freighted,
and that she had $40,000 in specie on board,
he smiled grimly, and remarked to one of
his confederates that she would perhaps be
a richer prize even than the White Fawn
had been a few years before. The mention
of the name of the ill•fated ship in which
Carrie Thornton and her father had been
lost, gave Maurice Lester such a shuck that
he nearly fell to the earth. He grew deadly
pale, and his frame quivered convulsively.
"What's the matter?" said Wolfgang.—
"You don't seem to have much strength
left! Bring him along, boys, where we can
doctor Lim."
The sinister glance which accompanied
this last remark, and the peculiar emphasis
laid upon the word "doctor," struck a chill
to our hero's heart. But he could not give
his own safety much thought, while be was
partly forced and partly carried along after
Wolfgang, who strode rapidly on for nearly
half an hour. Lie could think only of the
While Paton that had been wrecked on that
coast, and of his beloved Carrie who had,
perhaps in company with those same men,
trod the same path he was now treading.—
What bad been her fate? Had sbe been
murdered by these wretches, or reserved for
, some more deplorable doom? These thoughts
filled him with unutterable agony.
' Woltgang had now drawn near the water's
edge; and soon ooming 'to the mouth of a
cave he entered it, followed by the three
ruffians who had charge of our hero. The
bottom of the cave sloped upward from its
entrance for some distance, and then became
almost level. The captive (for such Maurice
Lester now felt himself to be) frequently
hit his feet against what he thought, with
a chili of horror, were human bones strewn
around the cavern, but he could not clearly
make them out in the dim light. lie also
noticed that the bottom of the cave was very
wet, as though it had recently been covered
with water. The wrecker chieftain stopped,
at last, near what seemed the end of the cave,
and making a sign to his followers, they
clapped manacles on the wrists and armies .
of Maurice before he had time to note their
intention.
"Now, Captain Lester," said 1V011;:,:ini;,
"you must remain in this place fur a short
season. You are perfictly safe here.--sile nee!
Say not a word! If you attempt to leave
this spot you will be slain the moment yuu
set foot outside the cave."
Time speaking, the chieftain and his fol
lowerssilently but rapidly withdrew, leaving
Maurioo nearly stupefied with astonishment.
As they passed from the mouth of the cave,
their feet were wet by the rising waves.—
The tide was
,fast coming in.
After a short time, the captive looked
about him with eyes somewhat accustomed
to the dim light, and became satisfied that
what he had supposed to be human bones
were really such. There were many of them.
And moving among them were huge rats,
seeking fur prey. The top of the cavern, in
some places, was but a few feet above his
head, and in one place he discovered a small
aperture, through which a faint light strug
gled, and on going underneath it he thought
he smelt the odor of vegetation and flowers.
On turning, from the contemplation of
this aperture, towards the mouth of the cave
Captain Leiner observed, with alarm, that
the water was creeping up the sloping bot
tom. What if it should fill the eavernl
Alil now be could account for the presence
there of those human bones! They are the
sad memorials of other hapless prisoners who
had been left, in that care to perish' by drown
ing!
Slowly hat enrely the waters crept along.
The rennin fled before them to the elera
tottl spot on which Maurice stood. Slowly
following. the inoozning water at length rea
ched hie feed
At the end of the gime, vrithin a few feet
Hof the wall, and underneath the aperture
before spoken of, was e large piece of rock,
some four Ism high that might have fallen
from above. To this Maurice hastened as
quickly se his manacles would permit.—
After some exertion he suoceeded in climb
ing to the top of it, and stood erect, his bead
rithin a few inches of the roof of the ear.
ern. But he wee est showed to temy this
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retreat alone. As the water began to circle
round its base, the rats also sought refuge
on it in great numbers, and in vain did Mau
rice try to disloge them with his manacled
feet.
Soon (as it seemed to the captive) the wa
ter came rippling over the top of the rock.
He felt its moisture upon his feet. And
still it ro...e—t.b.o.vly but relentlessly it rose
higher—higher; and Es it rose, the rats
clitubcd up his limbs for safety. It was in
vain that he hi us:KA them off with his fet-
IP) ed 1:11015. They instantly returned.—
They clamered up his back—to his should
ers—over the back of his neck—to the crown
of his head; their clammy bodies striking a
chill to his very heart.
And still higher the waters rose, and
more thickly the flu! vermin clustered upon
the devoted captive's shoulders and head,
as their only places of safety. Driven fran
tic at last by the horrors of his situation,
he was about to plunge into the surging tide
and seek a watery grave, when his attention
was arrested by the tread of rapid footsteps
near the aperture above his head, and the
sound of a harsh masculine voice, almost
I instantly followed by a noise as of n strug
gle, and a piercing shriek which thrilled
Maurice Leger to the very soul. He could
not be mistaken: it was CARRIE:B voice.—
; Again he heard it, but now in tones of en
treaty. Oh, it was her voice. She was r 4
dead?. She lived and was near bind Gath
ering, all his strength he alionted, "Carrie/
Currie: CARRIE:"
A dead silence followed, broken only by
the fearful murmers of the still rising wa
ters, and the splash of the rats as they fell
from the wretched captive's head and
shoulders, only to return ngain, in their
fierce struggles fur a perch of safety from
the advancing tide, which had now nearly
reached our hero's shoulders.
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Sabbath Physiology
The Almighty rested one•seventh ot the
time of creation, commanding man to ob
serve an equal repo.e. The neglect of this
injunction, will always, sooner or later,
bring mental, moral and physical death.
Rest is an invoriable law of animal life.
The busy heart beats, beats ever from in
fancy to age, and yet for a large part of the
time it is in a state of repose.
William Pitt died of apoplexy at the early
age of forty-seven. When the destinies of
nations hung in a large measure on his do
ings, he felt compelled to give an unremit
ting attention to affairs of State. Sabbath
brought no rest to him, and soon the unwil
ling brain gave signs of exhaustion. But
hi 4 presence in Parliament was conceived to
be indispensable fur explanation and de
fence of the public policy. Under sixth cir
cumstances, it was his custom to eat heart
ily substantial food, moat highly seasoned,
just before going to hie place, in order to
afford the body that strength, and.to excite
the mind to the momentous occasion. But
under the high tension, both brain and body
perished prematurely.
Not long ago, one of the most active bu
siness men of England found his affairs so
extended, that he determined to devote his
Sabbath to his accounts. 110 had a mind
of a wide grasp. the views wore so com
prehensive, so far seeing that wealth came
in upon him like a flood. Ile purchased a
country seat at a cost of four hundred thou
sand dollars, determining that he would
now have rest and quiet. But it was ton
late. As he stepped on'his threshold, after
a survey of his late purchase, he became
apoplectic. Although life was not destroyed,
he only lives to be the wreck of a man.
It used to be said that a brick-kiln "must"
be kept burning over Sabbath; it is now
known to be a fallacy. There can be no
"must" against a divine command. Elea
now, it is a received opinion, that iron blast
furnaces will bring Mill if not kept in con
tinual operation. Eighteen Tears agn, an
Englishman determined to keep the Sab
bath holy as to them, with the result. as his
books testified, that he made more iron in
six days than he did before in seven; that
he made more iron in a given • time, in pro
portion to the bands and the number and
else of hie furnaces, than any establishment
in England which was kept in operation
during the Sabbath.
In our own - New 'York, the lel Mtn
who made half a -
-az went out it.
the night of ma
/col an early grata
d
only ton ' ., trout the very strain rat