HILLSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1908. NEW SERIES-VOL. XXVIII. NO. 9.
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, THE WANDER : TKAIL " f , ; ;
TJp ati'ovs the mountains. downward through the vale, -Chi-
upon the foaming seas i runs the wander trail;.
Pack your bundle, comrade, and take your staff in hand:
We're off to seek contentment, which dwells in No Man s Land,
The skies are blue above us, the roaming wind is sweet.
The roads are warm and springy beneath our faring feet;
Oh, leave the home-kept people to work and play and breed
We must be off, fulfilling the rovers' easy creed.
For lands we've never traveled, for seas we've never crossed,
Our hearts are all a-hunger, we never count the cost;,
The sun in all his glory of rising at the dawn
But calls to us to follow where he is leading on,
And when in sheen and splendor he sinks beneath the sea.
He seems to send a message, "'Come,; comrades, follow me."
The end of all our journey who knows what it may bring?
But, friend, the wander fever has wakened with the spring.
Berton Braley, in, McClures Magazine.
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THROUGH THE STRAIT
OF BELLE ISLE.
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"Icebergs, eh?" said Captain Sar-
Bt JOHN K. COTTON
pany's wharf is like to be. that berth
gent Spinney, in;;reply to a question
from a knot of school cadets huddled
round the stove in the Cape Ann Sea
man's Bethel. "Oh, yes, a good many,
all told. Mostly off in the distance,
though."
Seating himself astride a chair, he :
stared reflectively through the bank
of crimson geranium blooms in the
window out upon the shipping in the
harbor. t
Although I continued to hold up
before me a volume of Geodetic Sur
vey Records, in which I had been
studying the singular changes in the
coast-line, I lost all interest in its
contents, and found my eyes Tender
ing expectantly to the rucad . skip
per. .
'Cape Ann fishermen-up In -northern
waters," said he, "don't go in for
scenery much; it's mostly halibut.
Once in a while a duck or a seal, and
sometimes a game and a dicker with
the Eskimos but it's mostly hali
but. "But spring before last we an the
Nancy Lee up to latitude fifty-five
degrees and fifty-six minutes. That's
about one hundred and sixty miles , balmy
east by north of Cape Harrigan, and j cakes
not far from the queer little settle- dainty
a
C3
ments of the Moravians. 'Twas as
far up as .we could get on account of
drift ice.
"The Nancy is only an eigbty-ton-ner,
and though she is Essex-built,
and as clever and able for her tons
as any craft fishing out of this port,
she was never timbered to bunt arctic
ice in those fierce currents and windy
fogs. It's nearly always foggy up
there, and when it blowsjt blows.
"The sea was full of field ice,
good deal of it full-fledged ber
higher than the burgee on our top
stick. Sat trawls? I guess not! We
didn't even try the bottom of send
down an anchor.
"First a blow kept us busy, then a
snow; wet, heavy snow, too, that
stacked up all over the deck and sail,
" and weighted her down so that we
naa to wear often and take it on the
other quarter to keep her trim. And
fog! 'Twas foggy all the time.
"So we headed her back south
again, and ran until we found a hun
dred and fifty fathoms of water, about
one hundred and twenty miles east of j wallowinS 'or home, I felt sure, with
Belle Isle. We had fished along here
many trips before, and felt quite tidy
and homelike when we hove over the
dories and got the gear all out and
fishing.
"The sun came out and shone
bright in the blue, and for nearly a I
week we found good trawling. We j
had two-thirds of a trip in the hold,
when one morning up shot big Judic
Uiisholm in the Therese Prindall, and
we hailed him. 'Twas on that dav.
Friday, that a lot of poor judgment
tries to hide behind.
" 'We've got only about ten thou
sand fish and thirty of fietchers in her
iiow!' he sung out as he flew by.
'Going to try for a better berth south
a bit.'
" 'Better berth south, eh, thought
J as I watched them bear off to
Bou'west, his dories all nested and
wade fast, both anchors taken on
deck, and the craft' setting so deep
that if she had a fish in her she had a
Sood sixty thousand pounds.
" 'Touches me Judic have a likely
catch in her already, cap'n,' blurted
age Rowe, who sat beside me on the
House.
" 'Aye,' spoke he again, 'I say he's
the clean , leap for home by the
outside course this' very minute.'
Akes a navigator to slip through the
traits.'
" 'Me, too,' joined in Buster Plum.
'The Cape Ann Halibut Corn-
seemed full of them, and they loomed
up in the deep dark so sudden and
often, white and ghostlike, that 'twas
scaresome to stand there and "watch
them sail along in that tide.
"I went. below, arid stretching but
on the port locker before my bunk,
with my boots and watch-coat on,
watched the hands at their games and
listened to their bandying.
"I could hear the lookout for'ard
every once in a while sing out steer
ing orders to the man aft at the
wheel, arid? feeling the Nancy running
smooth, I dozed, in spite of my de
terinination to keep awake.
" 'Yes, sir, Toby,' I faintly -heard
Buster Plummer say, 'when we chucks
that rat overboard a big gull swoops
dQwn and grabs him, and you may
not believe me, sir, but what does
that rat do but turn round and grabs
that gull, and setting one wing up for
a mainsail and to.th.er. for a jib, he
beats into port ahead of the ship, and
when we got up to our dock he was
there waiting for us.'
"But I must have slept in spite of
myself, for seemingly right on top of
Buster's yarn I heard thundered on
deck:
'Up with her! Let her come up
quick, man, I say!' And though I
could swear 1 had not been asleep, I
landed all standing as I felt the craft
careen to port before a short helm.
"I shot a glance around the cabin,
and was dumfounded to find the card
board deserted and the light turned
down low. I looked at the clock be
fore me and read half past two, and
as I make toward the companionway
I noticed all the aft hands sound
asleep in their bunks:
14 1 felt her strike easy as I stumbled
on deck, and then shivering and quiv
ering she rose, as on a sea, but in that
second I felt 'twas no sea she was
riding. In fact, she didn't ride at all;
up she went and stayed there.
" 'Long Jack at the wheel,' thought
I, as I pushed by him. Surely Peter
Hanscom and his dory-mate took the
deck as I lay down. I must have
slept.
"I stumbled round the house, and
clutching the starboard rail, seemed
to be staring into a great white wall
that ran straight up higher than I
could see. It was ice. I could almost
reach out and touch it with my hand.
u 'All hands now!' I heard the man
at the wheel roar with all his might,
and before I could collect my wits
from the surprise, every man of that
crew stood round me.
"Not a word broke the deep silence
that held there. We :ould see the
green glare of our starboard running
light reflected against the glistening
wall, and could feel the cold air from
the sides.
" 'Cap'n, were high and dry on an
iceberg!' came a trembling voice from
for'ard, and for the first time I was
able to fathom our true situation.'
"I had been up on the rocks, hove
down on Georges, and with a coaster
poked clean into our windlass, but
mgn ana ary on an lceoerg l never
was before in all my life.
"We needed no torches to see how
we lay. Dark as it was all round
us, every inch of that ice shone out
as plain as day. Up on the starboard
side like a great crystal cliff towered
that mountain, awful to look at, its
great top pinnacles leaning out into
the air, seemingly ready to drop down
on us at any minute. '...
"At its foot spread out a shelf, its
breadth so great that we couldn't
see or form any idea of its size, run
ning from below the water at its edge
up a steep grade to the base of "the
berg, allowing us, under our head
way, to slide fair upon it, high and
dry, for more than our length, and as
those mountains of ice. The straittruly flush with the face of that berg
south a bit he have in mind, I fancy.
Judic's a crafty bundle. He be that.'
"While we sat there watching them
up staysail ana up topsail running
off more to westward all the time, I
! calculated in my mind the difference
j in the price of the first spring trip
landed and the second, though 'twas
only an hour's difference in hailing
'the market. No fisherman likes to
, be shown the way home to market.
"We baited up again that day, and
the next morning the dories began
to come in with good fish from that
' night's set. But before all hands got
j aboard the glass began to falland
dropped steadily until, through that
golden sunshine, all hands stared into
trouble of one kind or another. So
before noon we were headed for home
by way of Belle Isle Strait, with a
fair trip tucked away.
'I'm glad for one,' said Toby
Snow. . Toby's a black man. Negroes
are scarcer, than Irishmen aboard a
fisherman, but Toby's one.
gro, but poor fisherman.
" 'Alabama's de place,
every meal-time,
as could well be. And there wet stood.
1 "The wind screeched round us and
the rain shot down in slanted sheets,
hut the, swinging of the berg " had
brought us fair in its lee. The little
Nancy stood there, stark still and
straight as an arrow, her sails limp
.and ; empty, as if she was like all
hands, dumfounded.
"I ran round to the port side, then
.for'ard, and as far off as I could see
In any direction lay a great white fiat
lof ice. I ran aft again, and looking
;off astern, could see that the only
iway off was the way we came on
And while I stood, there, was a thun
.derous report beside us, followed byi
'a long, tremulous vibration, as though
the whole earth was in upheaval
round us and with a shrieking roar,
ton upon ton of ice crashed down on,
pur deck for'ard.
"Timbers crunched and crackled
beneath it, and the little schooner
shook and trembled until I felt as if
my own life was being crushed out
with her. The crew broke in con
fusion for the first time and made aft
from where they stood amidships, but
not a man spoke.
"I felt the wind beginning, to
squeeze round behind us again, and
the whole mountain of ice seemed to
be revolving as on a pivot by the
force of the wind and tide.
" ' 'Tis the way of these blasted
bergs to turn turtle at times, cap'n!'
some one said; and as he spoke, a
blast of wind struck our mainsail, and
over the Nancy went on her beams,
sending us headlong down against
The Jutpft
Good ne-
said he,
and talked about
days and chicken and hoe
till the crew began to get
and actually shivered quite
ladylike with the cold, though all of
them were Newfoundlanders and true
'dogs' the length of their six feet.
"But everybody felt neat that after
noon when the Nancy tripped into the
Strait of Belle Isle, the deck
scrubbed, her skirts gathered up be
hind her, and stepping off ahead of
a six-knot breeze.
"But ice as soon as we got into
the mouth of the strait, ice was every
where, as far as we could see. Not
field ice, but bergs, high toppers, too.
And as we ran farther in, it looked
as if all the bergs coming down from
the pole had shot off into the strait
for a farewell game among them
selves. '
"'A likely lot, cap'n, 'said Alec
Peoples to me.
"I stood watching them sail along
before supper, and I, realized that
to put into the strait at this time of
the year was the most foolish thing I
had ever done in all my life.
"Outside was the Prindall, though,
a handy twenty-four hours start. I
gulped it down as it was: 'twas no
fisherman that would put back then
before his crew.
"After supper I went on deck to
sniff the weather before snugging
away for the night in the cabin. A
heavy mist had settled down, and it
was beginning to rain, and I could
smell a true northeaster in the air. I
felt a little chary as I watched her
shy and duck in and out amongst
JL.
it (he M ljistalcs of ife:
wrong
An English paper-is said to have given what are called
"the .ten mistakes of life," as follows:
11' To pet up our own standard o what is right and
and judge people accordingly. . -
To measure the enjoyment of others by our own.
To expect uniformity of opinion in this world.
To look for judgment and experience in youth.
To endeavor to mold all dispositions alike.
look for perfection in our own actions.
worry ourselv.es and others with what cannot be
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
remedied.
8. To
9. To
To
To
refuse to yield in. immaterial matters.
refuse to alleviate, so far as lies in our power,
all that which needs alleviation.
10. To refuse to make allowance for the infirmities of
others." ,
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SSrr -A-ikik it A 'k -kk ic k
A SERMON
3Y TE REA-
Subject: The Sustaining God.
the wheel cover in a bunch.
"A deafening series of snapping
reports traveled- from beneath us.
Everything solid round us seemed
to shake .and... tremble for a second;
then down she went, straight down
through that honeycombed ice, until
it seemed as though we were going
under altogether. The tons of the
schooner's weight in capsizing had
smashed through the ice that held
her!
"Ice and sea rolled over the" rail
as we went down into it, and there we
lay on our beam-ends, and spars and
sail stretched fiat out upon the ice.
I could not move. I hung on to the
wheel, my eyes and teeth shut tight
as a vise.
"Then I felt her beginning to right
as the broken cakes of the ice parted
round her, and rising slow but sure,
and coming up to her bilge, with a
lurch she stood up straight again, and
I could feel that we lay in good brine
once more.
Ttie big main-boom swung out
with a bang; the mainsail filled, aud
starting off before the wind, she bid
up with a glancing blow against the
edge of ice. in that little bay broken
round her. Then turning a half-circle
along its edge, she shot up dead
into the wind, out into clear water,
and off to starboard of her own will,
straight away from that monster.
" 4 'Twas more than our own hands
did that!' I heard old Barnacle Gran-
nett say, as those thirteen men, one
after another, let go their holds and
breathed deep again as she gathered
way.
" We found our rudder hanging
loose and wrenched from the steering-gear.
Tons of ice lay piled for
ward on our deck, the flying jib-haom
was gone altogether, the martingale
was forced into the stem, opening the
seams in the peak; her bulwarks and'
stanchions were cleaved off flush with
the deck on the starboard bow" and aft
to amidships, and the fore chain-plate
was bent and twisted like tin. 1
glanced at the clock again as I ran
below for an ax. But twenty minutes
had gone from the time we struck,
yet in those twenty minutes T seemed
to have lived longer than in all my
twenty odd years at sea.
"Daylight opened at last, and found
us running wild, with the rudder
rigged in a 'berther,' and water mak
ing fast through the peak into the
hold. The compass had shaken out
of the gimbal and was useless, but
we felt v round in all directions for
soundings until we caught the ringing
of a bell-buoy up to windward, and
we. knew we had Point Rich and a
landing at hand, and we made it, fast
and hard.
"But we got the market first for all
of that. After all Nancy's frolic, and
the scrape she led us into, we were
only steering cleai of worse things
on the outside course. We were the
last men to see the Prindall afloat.
And except a few timbers and one
man, we landed home with our trip,
and as fit as when we started. .
The Philadelphia Press says
ihall "soon have battles in the air.'
we
Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded
thee? Be strong and of a good courage;
be not afraid. Neither be thou dismayed;
for the Lord thy God is with thee wither
soever thou goest."
5 Moses is dead. Joshua, the son of
Nun, the minister of Moses, leads.
For forty long, weary heart-trying
years Moses had led Israel; led her
in the face of discouragements and
disagreements, against the of
the fickle multitude that with long
ing looked back to the leeks and gar
lics and onions of Egypt desiring to
serve a thousand years in the house
and under the bondage of Pharaoh
rather than to live for a day by faith
in God; in spite of machinations and
cabals, through the desert to the
bounds of Canaan. Moses' work was
done. The task for which he was
-particularly fitted was completed. A
vision from a mountain top. Canaan
to the west. "And the children of
Israel wept for Moses."
The old leader was dead. The new.
leader is in command. Moses, the
cautious, relinquishes the rule to
Joshua, the captain.. Moses had his
capacities, opportunities, talents.
Joshua is not Moses. But even as
Moses was the man of the hour, so
Joshua is the called of God in his.
Moses and Joshua are not struck from
the same mold, but they both strike
for the same cause, serve the same
people, yield homage to the same
God. ' Each is necessary to his age.
And the age that'produced each is
prepared, by the wise providence that
broods upon the affairs of men, for
each.
Differently, and yet not altogether
otherwise, is it with us, as together
in this church we confront the larger
labors of another year. The leader
is the same. The cause is the same.
The same Spirit moves within us.
The same Sovereign directs. But the
old year is dead. A new one lives.
The old year had its problem, difficul
ties, discouragements, perplexities,
delights. The experiences of the old
year are memory, history, yesterday's
events. The new year, full of larger
tacks, mightier opportunities, more
searching joys, lies ahead. The old
year had its peculiarities that will for
ever differentiate it from any other
tnat shall evar be. The new year
cannot be the old. any more than
Joshua could be Moses. The old year
is dead. The new year Alleluiah!
Moses is qeaa. But tne Goa oi:
Moses persists. Joshua is the leader.
The promise of God to Abraham and
Isaac, Jacob and Moses, is the prom
ise of God, in its ripeness and effior
esence, to Joshua. The God of Abra
ham is Joshua's guide. ' The Spirit
who made bright the way for Moses
is the evangel of Jehovah to Joshua.
Be not afraid, neither be thoii dis
mayed; for the Lord thy God is with
thee whithersoever thou goast."
The promise that God gave to the
new leader He makes to use in a new
year. Joshua has no mortgage upon
the loving kindness of Jehovah. He
has no monopoly of the grace of Goc..
The arm of the sheltering God is not
shortened; His affection is not less
ened. His promises are not ceased.,
His heart yearns toward us. God
speaks to us as much as He did to
Joshua. We shall not do damage to
the text to unduly strain it if we in
sist that God advises us that which
He delivered to Israel through
Joshua. He makes covenant with us
as we face the work of the new year
in the language that He used tG
Joshua. "3e not afraid, neither be
thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God
is with thee whithersoever thou
goest." '
Under the sway of the conscious
ness of - the reality of the promise
Israel took courage, received enthu
siasm, was enlarged with expectation.
Believing that God was with them the
people entered with heartiness, en
thusiasm and hopefulness into the. la
bors of the Lord.
We need courage, enthusiasm, ex
pectation. That is to say, -we need
heart, heat, hope.
Without these we cannot be effect
ive, in the service of our Saviour.
These we may, secure if we will accept
as words of comfort and encourage
ment from God to each of uh. the text
of our - discourse, "Be not afraid,
neither be thou dismayed: for the
Lord thy God is with thee whither
soever thou goest."
We need courage. Heart! A Lao
dicean church, neither hot nor cold,
lukewarm or warmed over, is as inef
ficient for real accomplishment as the
white of an egg to the satisfaction oi
the taste. The people must be cour
ageous and the organization must
have the heart of the Master kind,
robust, roborarit to attract the mul
titude and to uplift the mass. Only
by' intrepidity and interest can we in
spire or command the men and worn
en to whom as the .messengers .we
"come with a necessary and vitalixi
appeal. , .
We need enthusiasm. Heat! Oz$
the day of Pentecost the disciples
were so enthused that the natives
said" "These men are full of new
wine." They wera hot with a mighty
joy, thoroughly on fire. They acted
as though they were - drunk. They
appeared to be fools. Fools fo
Christ's sake. But it seems that the
heat of Pentecost is the only force
that has kept and can keep alive the
force and power of the church...
Would God that we had more. Pente
costal fools! Men. and women who
could be as much on fire with enthu
siasm for Christ and His kingdom as
they are ablaze with interest iu poli
tics, fashions or art.
We. need expectation. Hope! Hopr
that shall not be deferred. FaitSr
that there is life in God, value in Hia
truth, salvation in His Saviour; use
in our efforts, result in sight. Hope
is the breeze that fans the fiame ol
enthusiasm. It is animative. " A
hopeless church is likev a hopeless
fight. Lost! The hope-full company
of Christ's followers is scintillant, vi
brant with energy in full, majestic
play, invincible.
What Ave need we may secum. And
Joshua and the Jews! "Tl? Lore
thy God is with thee wiilthsi'svss
thou goest." Believa it. Iteceiv
Him. Trust Him.
Let no man belittle the value r
courage. They were a gloomy ban
in blue who ran from Early at Cellar
Creek. Vincible, discouraged, dis
gusted, fearful! But when Sheridan
sped from Winchester to their heai
rout became victorious frenzy. The
courage of Sheridan infused heart
into his men. Courage has written
October, '64, large and lasting upou
the tablets of valor. It was not an '
easy matter for Lincoln to declare
against the wisest counsel of his most
devoted friends that "A house divided'
against itself," "A nation half slave-
and half free," could not endure
It lost him a legislative election. It
made him President. Without trans
cendent courage a hero would have
been undiscovered Heart in the
martyr was the motive that sowed thet
blood seed of the church.
Let no man underrate enthusiasm
Israel was at Eben-ezer. The Philis
tines were pitched at Aphek. The
ark was at Shiloh. They met. Israel
was beaten. Thereafter the ark ot
the covenant was brought into their
midst. And the Scriptures tel! us
"when the ark of the covenant of the
Lord came into the camp all IsTa'Pi
shouted with a great shout, so that
the earth rang again." It mattf.n
little for our purpose what was tiie
outcome of the ensuing conflict. "The
earth rang again." Enthusiasm
reigned. The beaten hosts again
took up their arms. Faithlessness?
gave place to hope. They were re
vivified. What were the Crusades
without enthusiasm, or the victories
Forget not expectation. In the
hope of everlasting glory Paul en
dured stripes, buffetings and terror?.
Hildebrand planned the -g! rnVs of
Romanism, that found expression in.
the r.eirns of Innocent HI. and iiimi
face VIII. , in hope. Henry Ward
Bfiefher went to England in the dark
est days of civil strife to fisht a (vn
tuple, oratorical ?nd moral battle for
his country and the "right. He was-
knocked, scoffed, - threaten d, r.nl
treated. But in hope h talked nidt .
battled on. At last faith found its
victory. Commercial Enl"inl yIeIde?S
to God Almighty ar He sake throusb-
His latter-day evangl-ci trutu.
All thfS3 meui in 'th?ir divers,
fields and under th33 rivers condi
tions, werf encouraged, enf'ins-w!,,.
hopeful. wThey. were enheartend,.
augmented in sea''. ert-.rp:?d in thir
capacities . through richest expecta
tions, because they heard, ovw a.3
Joshua. the voice of thn. .Vrvl saving
unco them. "The Lord thy find is
wih th?? whithersoever Uio:: goest.
There is no 'vsycholovic!-:! fmnetn'''
more profound, tbato thi?. This isr Ihfs
mair spring of--.human power. It iar
the dynamic of human, endeavor. Tins
consciousness aud csrrninty r( the
reality of a sustaining God t.h sc
pernal motive of all life. .ShaT? irw
not realize its ROTenlan(i srpc?
"The Lord thy God is With t!f3e.
"Be not afraid." "Have not I roni
manded thee?" Hear Him? This is-
comfort, joy, peace. Hear Him!.
Listen! 1
Irving Square Presbyterian Church.
Brooklyn.- New York.
A GENEROUS LAND.
"r--,!o j o foinc country. Bri.lj
. . J M. - - .
exclaimed Norah, who had but re
cently arrived in the United States.
"Riirft it's eerierous everybody
;etr
is.
'I ' asked . at the post office about
sindin' money to me inither, and the
young man tells, me I can get a
money order for $10 for 10 cento!
Think .of that no I" Youth's
panion.
There is a lot of poverty on Man
hattan Island, , but the assessment
rolls gives $2,000 jn taxable proper
ty -to each inhabitant.