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BOLDLY DEFIED DEATH When Petty Officer Willis Went Aloft In an Arctic Gale. RISKED LIFE FOR HIS MATES A Modest Naval Hero Who Accom plished a Feat That Seemed Utterly Impossible and Saved His Ship and the Lives of Forty Men. The barkentine rigged steamer Ti gress . is a British sealer before our government bought her, a stanch, stout ship, having a record of many hun dreds of miles in dangerous arctic seas. In 1873 the Tigress was fitted and equipped at the Brooklyn navy yard and dispatched to Baflin bay on an unusual and hazardous mission. Some of the members of the tragic Polaris expedition were believed to be alive and adrift on the floating ice. Commander Greer of the Tigress was ordered to cruise in the ice pack throughout the summer and as late as possible in the autumn to search every bay and inlet along the coast of Baffin Land for the survivors and the wreck ed vessel. With him were Lieutenant Commander Henry C. White and Engi neer George Wallace Melville. the last named becoming known subsequently as one of the heroes of the Jeannette expedition and as rear admiral. Before the mast was a petty officer named Willis, a veteran of the rebel lion, a scarred, weather beaten, pow erfully built fellow, possessing the savage pluck which makes the true seaman. Had Willis not bunked in the Tigress' forecastle or had he been less than the man he was it is scarcely probable that a single one of the forty four men on board would ever have come back. After refitting at Disko late in Au gust the Tigress turned her bluff bows to the northeast, crossed Davis strait and, pushing her way into every lead or river of blue water which afforded a passage, made a persistent but un successful search for the castaways. This continued for several weeks-a strange cruise, but uneventful, save when occasionally there came a terrific crash from a crumbling berg quite near at hand or the danger of collision - with the towering ice wall sent the crew rushing to their stations. One afternoon this strange existence came to an end with suddenness. The horizon thickened, a fresh wind sprang up, followed by a swashing sea and growing fog. The violent wind and mighty currents joined forces in a way that caused the Tigress to drift in calculably. It was discovered that her engines were not working satisfactori ly. When, the next morning, it was seen that the gale was increasing, the choppy waves frothing wickedly under a sky dark as cinders, the commander at once turned southward. His stanch vessel driven and blown, he forced his way into Cumberland gulf, which af forded a meager shelter. As soon as the gale lessened a trifle the engineer made ready to repair his machinery and boilers. Accordingly the heavy weather anchor was sunk, and with the vessel fa.cing the wind's eye and behaving quietly the engine room force got the forge in place by the fire room hatch. However, as the sky was still ugly, they did not Imme diately bank the fires. The wisdom of this precaution was soon proved. Dur ing the night it began to snow. The snow fell fine and dry, and it seemed to grow much colder. At the same time the wind renewed the shrill pip ing in all the ropes, and the vessel laid down her nose to the gale, which was blowing again, more violent than be fore. Daylight revealed only too plain ly what a wild and terrible storm was raging-the swift, lowering clouds, the snarling, abrupt seas, which shook the vessel in all her timbers. The Tigress tugged heavily at her chain, now diving, now springing to the top of a wave, which suddenly hollowed out, causing her to thrash down again, as if she would knock her head against. the bottom. All at once a loud, sharp clang resounded through the ship. The anchor chain had parted! With a hissing roar the wind caught her, and the Tigress rose on the foam to leeward and soon after began to roll broadside on. The rolling brought every one on deck. The engines were started. In time, after wariowing fearfully, the groaning ship was brought round to her old position, facing the seas. She lay as close to the wind as possible, with a reefed staysail forward and the spanker halfway brailed up, the en glnes'being kept going to hold her. All might have been well enough then if. to the dismay of all, the foretopgallant sail had not blown adrift. The big canvas, thrashing In the northeast gusts, endangered the mast. Every bound of the gall shook the mast like a whip. All hands watched It. hoping fervently to see it blow away from the yard for good and all. Lieutenan~t White, the executive offi cer, had taken his station by the main mast. The hurricane gusts now drove the waves the length of the deck. Sometimes the snow and smoky clouds of spray mlingled in a dense fog, so that it was impossible to see any thing. The lieutenant gripped the life line and listened to the fearful noise of the fiercely flapping sail. The men could not possibly handle it, he said to himself. It would be easy enough to shout through the trumpet: "In to'gal lan's'l! Lay out and furl!" But who would obey the order? Anyhow it would only send brave men to their destruction. As he stood there hooking his arm through a bight of rope one of the men eame slowly toward him. The sailor worked his way along the frozen "Health Coffee." is really the closest Coffee imitation ever yet produced. This clever Coffee Substitute was re cently produced by Dr. Shoop, of Ra cine, Wis. Not a grain of real Coffee in it either. Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee is made from pure toasted grains, with malt, nuts, etc. Really it would fool an expert, who might drink it for Coffee. No 20 or 30 minutes tedious boiling. "Made in a minute" says the doctor. Sold by Manning Grocery Co. A Financial Differnce. Small Boy (to his artist father) Papa, what's the difference between an artist and an artisan? Father-An ar tisan. my son. Is the kind of an artist who earns S0 or ST a day and doesn't have to wait for his money.-Cirdle. Learn to see In another one's calam Ity the ills which you should avoid. PublI's Syrus. ____ Don't cough your head off when you can get a guaranteed remedy in Bees Laxative Cou;:h Syrup. It is especially recommended for chil dren ns its pleasant to take. is a gentle laxative thus expelling the phlegm from the system. For coughs, colds, eroup. whooping cough. hoarseness an<1 all bronchial trouble. Guaran life line. stopping occasionally to duck below the rail to avoid the boarding seas. At last the man hauled himself up. It was Willis. "Mr. White," lie said. touching the rim of his cap coolly, "if we don't get in that sail the mast will go." "It may hold. Willis," the officer an swered. "Anybow. it would be useless to send men aloft in such a gale." "Some one must do it.- said the sail or obstinately. "Seud me." "It can't be done. I would simply be sending you to your death." Suddenly both men ducked involun tarily and crouched against the mast. A high, dark wall of water was ap proaching the rail. It crashed upon the deck and swept over them. The vessel careened frightfully. Once more Willis touched the rim of his round cap. "Mr. White. it means forty-four lives. If you wOI't send I me," he muttered, "I am going any way." Struggling with the wind, he made his way to the weather shrouds and de terminedly hauled himself upward. He was blown like a leaf against the rat lines. All hands watched him, yet in their anxiety there was scarcely a tinge of hope. They thought him half crazy to attempt such a thing. Sup pose he passed the foretop in safety and reached the topgallant yard-he would instamtly be blown into the sea. When he was not completely hidden by clouds of salt spray it could be seen that Willis was slowly and persistent ly crawling aloft, paying no more at tention to the fearful lunging and leap ing of the Tigress than to the shadowy abyss of boiling foams below him. He mounted the shrouds of the topgallant mast and after clinging there for a few minutes w"' ned his way along the spar unti. u reached the weather earing and then laid hold of the dan gerous sail. The wind shrieked and howled. It seemed an3 impossibility for the man to keep his place on the foot ropes of the veering yard. and it seemed in credible that he should be able to do anything with the boardlike, frozen canvas, which constantly bounded out of his grasp and then leaped toward him in an attack that was terrible in its grotesqueness. Nevertheless his pluck, wariness and great strength served him well. Keep ing clear of the waste of sail which blew off to leeward, he managed to furl the canvas inch by inch. An hour-two hours-passed. Finally he reached the mast. Should he now venture out to the end of the spar on the other side he could never escape, so felt the watchers anxiously, with one thought. , They shouted to him to come down. Willis, however, did not answer them. He rested for perhaps a quarter of an hour and then attacked the canvas once more, furling from the mast to the outboard, thus keeping safely to windward of the flapping belly of the sail. After five mortal hours Willis low ered himself to the deck. Exhausted as he was, so that he could scarcely stand, he made his way aft and re ported to the lieutenant with the formality of an old man-of-war's man, "All secured aloft, sir." Then, ignor ing the cheers of the crew, he went to his bunk in the forecastle. The. storm had not yet done its worst. But the Tigress rode it out in safety. Her engines were repaired, and, word having been received that the lost members of the Polaris ex pedition had been picked up. by a whaler, the vessel proceeded to. the States. There one of the first official acts of her commander was to write to -the secretary of the navy an ac count of Willis' heroic action. As a result Willis was made a boat swain insthe navy and received besides a cash present the medal of honor awarded for unusual and uncalled for daring and devotion to duty.-Carl Ho vey in New York Tribune. Fire, Air, Earth and Water. The doctrine that man is made of the four elements is frequently referred to by Shakespeare. It forms thne theme of two connected sonnets, the forty fourth and forty-fifth, written in ab sence from the friend to whom his sonnets are addressed. The dull ele ments of earth and water cannot leap across the distance which separates him from his friend-that is, the theme of the forty-fourth sonnet. The other two elements, air and fire, are gone on embassy to his friend, leaving him mere earth and water: My life, being made of four, with two alone Sinks down to death, oppressed with mel ancholy,. Until life's composition be recured By those swift messengers returned from thee. Thus the doctrine is applied to his purposes in the forty-fifth sonnet. "I am- fire and air," cries CI'eopatra when about to apply the asp to her breast: My other elements I give to baser life. -Edward Dowden in Atlantic. A Housewife's Frankenstein. "In buying things to cook," said the economical housewife, "I always take into consideration my gas bill. Even then it doesn't seem to have much ef feet, bug I am of a hopeful nature. Take beets, for instance. It will cost about $2 in gas to cook 5 cents' worth of beets, and then they may not be done quite to suit the taste of every body, but the thing I most regret when it comes to the gas bill is the sugar cured ham. This ham comes from Virginia and is hard as a rock, to be gin with. You have to let it simmer and simmer, gas all day, burning even ly, then you put it in the oven and bake it another day, more gas burning evenly at so much the ,hour. Then it is just about as fine a bite to eat as you ever put to your lips. but when your bill for gas comes in at the end of the month yoti can't hellp regretting that you had the audacity to prepare it for eating."-New York Press. Weak women get prompt and lasting help by using Dr. Shoop's Night Cure. Thse soothing, healing antiseptic sup positories, withi full information how to proceed are interestingly told of in my book "No 4 For Women." The book and ztrictly confidential medical advice is entirely'free. Simply write Drn. Shoop Racine, Wis. for my book No. 4. Sold by W. E. Brown & Co. A Fitting Question. Jim, who is six and thinks he is a man, got into a crowded car with h'is nurse. The~ nurse got the last seat, and two ladies made a little place be tween them for Jim and squeezed him in. Presently a portly lady got in, and Jim, the pink of courtesy, rose and lifting his hat offered his place. It wvas embarrassing. Afterward nurse explained to Jim that he must be care ful in offering a sent. as a place that Fwas large enough for a boy might not accommodate a lady. Next time he, was in a car and a lad'' ;- i .T Jfim leaned over to nurse and in i whisper asked, -'Lze, do you think Whitman on Reading. 'Reading, most of it, by candlelight. indoors, up against a hot register or steam pipes, Is a disease. I doubt if it does anyl one much good. The best reading seems to need the best open air. When I was down on the creek Timber creek-and roamed out and along the water. I always took a book, a little book, however rarely I made use of It. It might have been once, twice. three. four, five, even nine times. I passed along the same trail and never opened the book. but then there was a tenth time always when nothing but a book would do-not tree or water or anything else-only a book, and it was for that tenth trip that I carried the book." - Extract From Horace Traubel's Daily Record of Conversations With Walt Whitman In Ilis Old Age at Camden, N. J., in Century. The City of Roses. Shiraz itself is the most beautiful Persian city I saw. City of roses, city of poets, city of sunshine, it has al ways been famed for its lokeliness. Under the brown hills and amid the gardens of roses and oranges there lived the poets Saa'dli and Hafiz and many another sweet Persian singer. Thence has come any inspiration which has ever animated the nationality of Persia. nor does this seem strange to one who has known days spent in the brown walled, cypress studded gar dens and nights wrapped in soft still ness and bewitched by the power of the mystic Persian moon.-Wide World Magazine. Worth Seeing. In a certain preparatory school In Washington, says a contributor in Harper's Magazine, an instructor one day made the statement that "every year a sheet of water fourteen feet thick is raised to clouds from the sea." "At what time of the year does that occur, professor?" asked a freshman "It must be a sight worth going a long way to see." Prescribes Dr. Blosser's Catarrh Remedy. Dear Sirs-I first u:sed your Catarrh Cure in he case of my son. who had chronic naso-phar vngeal catarrh, with great benefit to him. I )ften r:escribe it for other of my patients. and think It is quite the finest remedy for catarrh that has ever been placed on the market. Thanking you ror past favors, I am. Yours very truly. NI. J. D. DANTZLER, M. D., Ellorec. S. C. Dear Sirs-Your medicine is n:inning fast in his country. It has effected some remarkable ures. I do not snow that it has failed in one instance where it has been fairly tried. Very trulv yours. REV. T. H. ALLEN. Lexington, Ky. Dr. Blosser's. Catarrh Remedy is for sale by . R. Boger, Manning. S. C. A month's treat ment for $1.00. A free sample for the asking. A postal card will bring it by mail. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup COITAINS EONEY AND TAR Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves Coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. "As pleasant to the taste as Maple Sugar" Children~ Like It For BACKACHE-WEAK KIONEYS Try leWIt's Kidney and Bladder Pills-Sure and Safe W. E. BROWN & CO. STATE OF SOUTH CAROUINA, County of Clarendon. By James M. Windham. Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, A. 1L Barron, Clerk of VCourt, s'uit to me, to grant him Letters of Adinistration of the estate and effects of Joe Nelson. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Joe Nel on,. deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Manning on the 7th day of Ma', mnext after publica tio~n thereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be ranted. Given under my hand, this 20th day of March, A. D. 1908. JAMES M. WINDHAM, [SEAL.] Judge of Probate. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Clarendon County, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Copy Summons for Relief. (Complaint Served.) Marion Noise, Plaintiff against Arthur Billups, Defendant. To The Defendants Above Named: You a~re hereby sum mo.ned and r quired to ans'wer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer 'to the said epmplaint on the Subscribers at their office, 120-122 North Nain Street, in the City of Sum ter, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof. exclusive of the day of service: and if y-ou fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaia, the plaintiffs in this action will aply to the Court for the r-elief demanded in the complaint. Dated February 22nd. A. D.. 190)8 LEE & MOISE. Plaintilfs Attorneys. To Ti~a Defendant, Arthur Billups, Take Notice. That the Summons and Complaint in the above styled Action were filed in the Oflice of the Clerk of Court on the 24th day of February. 1908 LEE & MOISEI. Plaintiers- Attornev. Notice of Discharge. I will apply to the Judg~e of Probate for Clarendon County, on the 28th day of -ipil. 1908, for letters of discharge as administrator of the estate of J1. Hl. Hodge. dlecealsed. A. .1. RICHBOURG. Administrator. Summerton, S. C.. March 28, 19OS. EE & McLELLAN, Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors, SUMTER, S. C. 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