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ee, eT ae eer ae SEPTEMBER 12, Ig01. THE HERMIT OF GARE: MALEA, About twenty- -five yeats ago there was a ‘young sailor HO, by dint of hard work; , integrity of character and firmness; of will, reached ‘at the age of 26 the: summit of’ his ambition . becoming master of what would then be called a good-sized steamship, some goo.tons register. Upon this accession to}. good fortune he married the girl of his choice, who had pa- tiently waited for him since,as boy and girl sweethearts they parted on-his first going tosea.. And with rare complacency his owners gave him the inestiniable ‘privilege of carrying his young bride to sea with him. How happy he wag! pride, as steaming down the grimy Thames he explained to the light of his eyes all the wonders that she was now wit- nessing for'the firsttime, but which he’ had made familiar to her mind by his oft-repeated sea stories during the few bright days between voyages-that-he had been able to devote to courtship. The ship was bound to several Mediteranean ports, the time being late autumn, and ‘Cons: quently the most ideal® season for a honeymoon tHat could possibly be imagined. - Cadiz; Genoa; . Naples, Venice, ’ ‘a delightful tour with not one weary moment wherein to wish for something @lse. Even a flying visit toold Ror e fron. Naples had been po ssible, for the two officers, rejoicing in their happy young skipper’s joy,, saw to it that no: “unecessary cares® Should trouble him, and bore willing testimony, in order that he should, get-as much. delight. out. of, those,’ -halcyon days as possible, that the entire crew were as docile as could be wished, devoted to their bright commander and his beauti- ul wife. Then at Venice came orders to procede to Galatz and Toad wheat for home. wife. “She ‘would see Constantinople and the Danube. Life would hardly be long enough to recount all the won. ders of this most wonderful of wedding trips. _And they How deep and‘all-embracing his Great was the glee of the girl sailed, with hearts overbrimnjing, with joy, as ithe, b} ne sky scame upon his lifeless Hodly“fallen forward: wide ‘its: cee at ie above them seemed welling over with’ ‘sunlight. he nae ‘“Wind and weather favored them; nothing occurred toe cast + a shadow over their happiness until, nearing Cape Malea, ati? ‘firmed in their opinion! 6f the sanctity of 1 mit: ecthé.dawisy whiB odMbilka. ea aS ‘Bullen, inthe London Spectator. 2 y,9 er time, they, were run! t stpamer coming Vhewthet way, s to the water’s edge. To their .., The Lumber Trade. Journal~rises, to, rem ‘pedteful’ Sleep or ‘quiet appretiation, of the: night’s silvern North Pole, it is believed,~will .be found, ‘that fatal hour of the morning just more collisions occur than at into, bya) blunderin sk ‘and’ cut ' ‘dowh" anidshi 2 the, little, unglazed window through whic + look, out upon the sea where his dear’ one, gpeoe Soy Reg FLOTSAM, JETSAM, AND. LAGAN. 30, peek splendors succeeded the overwhelming flogd the. ertte to) be tnade of cypréss*-no other ‘wood could’ last, from roar of escaping steami,' thie suffocating’ et embrace 0: In. that dread fight for life all‘perished but one, ‘he - the happiest of men, the skipper. afragment of wreckage, he had been washed ashore under Cape Malea at the ebbing of the scanty tide, and his strong physique reasserting itself enabled him to climb those rug- ged battlements and reach the plateau. Here be was found gazing ‘seaward by some goatherds, who, in search of their nimble footed flocks, had wandered down the precipitous side of the mountain. come with them back to the world, but in vain. He would live, gratefully accepting some of their poor provision, but from that watching place he would not go. And those rude peasants, understanding something of his depth of woe, sympathized with him so deéply that without payment or Fhope of any, they helped him to build his hut and kept, him supplied with such poor morsels of food and drink as suf- ficed for his stunted needs, - ‘ And there, with his gaze | ‘fixed during all his waking hours upon that inscrutable depth wherein all his bright hopes had suddenly been quenched, he lived until quite recent years, ‘“‘the world forgetting, by the world forgot,” a living monument of constancy and patient, uncomplaining grief. By his humble friends, whose language he never learned, he was regarded as a saint, and when one day: they ath. ately Instinctively clingitig to They endeavored to persuade hit to: Re bi ng ofthe world to the date of such discovery. aI fore the end of the present year two of the Jlargest.ships ever built in the United States, and the fourth, largest i im the world, will be floating on the: Deleware river, = (The vessels national Navigation Co., and will be the largest and fatost vessels ever constructed for that line. Twenty-five hundred men are now employed at the. _ ship. yard of the New York Ship Building Co., in Camden, N. i.) and the company has eight, vessels anita contract, four: ‘for the Atlantic Transport, Jjine, three for the Hawaiian- American Steamship Co., and one for Colonel J; M. Guffey, the millionairé ‘oit inab Mate! - - The last named ‘vessel is now being .converted.~into-a-bulk~oil carrier; “which will “havea carrying s at, ‘of ever, 1,000,000 gallons.: 7a hag 1B Assistan Hn dest Wim. T. Blunt is (realities the’ Take fot! the obstruction which-has been reported off Monroe. The obstruction,: which i is, supposed, to, be a‘sunken Doaty § was re- ported la year by. the steamer. Ravenscraig and by the Helena this year. The. bearings taken by either boat are not of’sufficient accutacy to locate.the’ ‘obstruction and Mr. Blunt has*been} instructed to keep up the ‘search until he finds it. Already he has covered an area of 32,0 ooo feet by 150 feetiay >. 3th ae THe CHASE Machine Company, ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS. : > MANUFACTURERS, UNDER THE CHASE sages ohi OFS Whistle Machines, Hoisting Engines, Steering ues: Netiaintic Towing Engines, | : Power ag Drop Hammers, and other achinery. 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