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AWFUL SUFFERING ???_ Of Seven Sailors on a Wreck that wan Storm-Swept, ADRIFT TWENTY-FIVE DAYS n ATE) RAW FISH AND SEAWEED. IMPROVISED HOOKS AND CAUGHT A SHARK?SPREAD OIL CLOTHS TO CATCH RAINDROPS?THEY WBJIE ELEVEN DATS WITHOUT' FOOD OR DRINK AND TORTURED WITH PLEASANT DREAMS WHILE ASLEEP. -Jt New York World: Oa ths steamship Saratoga, from Nassau, arrived yesterday Captain George C. Benner and 0v? of the crew of the Jennie F. Wll ler- The men have survived adventures, .privations, hunger and thirst ao terrible that It Is impossfble to conceive how men leaa stout-hearted than they, or even as brave, could .have survived. The captain la now at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Simpson, In WestHeld, 'N. J. ? On ?trip from Jacksonville to Martinique a. hurricane tipped the schooner to pieces and on the little bit of her remnant drifted the survivors for twentjrflve daya In a fight for life?one of the moat remarkable on record. The eet of the wreck was from latitude 27 and longitude 74, WO mllea to Little Bahama Bank, the most northwesterly part of tha Grand Bahamas. Captain Benner's story Is as follows: "The Jennie P. WUley was a 330-ton schooner of Thomaston, Me. With a crew of seven, Including myself, we left Jacksonville, Fla., with lumber for Martinique on September 22. On deck there was only 45,000 feet of lumber. On September 24 the wind was moderate from the southeast and so held; variable and light, with everything very pleasant till September 50. when we set light and easy galls, doume-reeiea rare and main sails and likewise forestaysall. On the latter part.of the day .we furled the foresail and the forestaysall. "On the morning of October 1 wo were taken with a hurrlcnne.wlth heavy seas, and at eight bells of the morning watch It waa blowing, with terrible comberi. We then took, In the foresail aad the forestaysall. Between 9 and 10 a. m. we got the ship on the starboard tack, acJ. although the hurricane Increased again and came with squalls, we were still comfortable under our double-reef mainsail. At 10 a. m. It was perfectly calm; the schooner woa In the centre of the hurricane. An hour later the sea began to break over the forward part of the ship and the gale to grow In fury. At 11:30 a. in. the planking started on the port ?>ow. I sent .a man to sound the well, but, the water breaking tover the Bounding-rod, he could not execute the order. "With one of the hands I went into the hold, but could not make out that the schooner was leaking. I climbed upon the forward house, and called the crew to dinner. One hand had just entered the galley, when be came out announcing that it was fulj of water. "The schooner had become waterlogged forward, sure enough. Before an axe could be brought the whole bow of the vessel was torn off. Then- the whole ? port side of the schooner was burst off. "As we took to the mizzen starboard ringing the schooner dropped over from 1*er^poTt slfle and her lore and main masts went -by the board, tearing out the -forward house, the after house, the deck load and the entire starboard side or \ne .vessel ciear uown to we rower deck. "The mizzen mast still hung: to the wreck, but soon after the cabin went the vessel came batik <fn her bottom again and then rolled Over the other way. We ail got over into the port rigRing and stayed there half an hour, until the cnizzen must was, ripped out and i crushed over the stern, dropping us Into the water. "Shortly after the mizzen mast fell the upper deck went, too, and all that was left a little above the water was a bit of the poop planking?a section ten feet square. Upon this we all climbed! and lashed ourselves to the planking. "AU that day October 1. and all that night and all October 2 a gale howled most of the time. Nearly every man waa shivering In his underclothing. The gale and the waves had taken the re illOJUUCI Ui UUI IUgD. -? VUUillV Vt men had remnants of their oil coata. "On a small piece of planking we stretched a tiny strip of canvas, all we ; bad, for a distress signal. 1 ordered that every man should watch.an hour, as we hoped that we would be picked up soon br some passing vessel, while the shipmates of the sailor on guard'should | sleep six hours. "As time and misery wore on the sole duty of the hand on watch was to keep his drowsy shipmates from tumbling into the water. We were now destined to exist for eleven days-without a drop of vaur or a crumb of food When we 1 thought, we longed for death. 1 "Death would have been the most welcome of rescuers. Still I deemed It my duty as an Amerlcan.seaman to hold out till the last lest one chance In ten thousand might be missed. "Our sleep was perpetually disturbed by visions and the seeming appearance of every beverage or kind of drink that had ever been offered to us in the past. Our longing was not so much for food as for drink. "in the tropical horror the weather was the most tantalizing of all. It would rain within ten feet of our baked lips. I could see It raining across the bow of the wreck, where we could not get the life-saving water. "Oa October It it began to drizzle. The men with the oilcloths spread their garments, forming of them little basins, in which, they caught the rain drops, which became tinctured with oil, but it was the sweetest draught I ever tasted. We ; laughed in the exuberance of our Joy. "On October 11 and 12 we began to , feel very cold, for our blood was getting thinned out. On October 12 and 13 w? I 8AV13 LUNGS Sore lunn, pain in tiio cheat and painftai breatiiingaro quickly relieved and cored by the old reliable spociflc,J)r. Bnll'i Couch Syrup. This remarkable remedy brake up a cold In one niflit and ia, without doubt, the very beat medicine for all affections of the throat and lung*. It baa cured thou imndiiiina win euro you. unoveruiaappolnU. Try it at oncc. DrJMll's Cough Syrup WW quickly heal Sore Lunai. Doki are unall and plraMtit to take. Coctora rcconracnd iu price sc eta. At all drunrtsta. TO MBS. PINKHAM From Mrs. Walter XL Budd, of Patohogue, Now York. Mr?. Bcdd, in the following latter, tell* a familiar story of weakneu and raftering, and tbanka Mrs. Pinkham Cor complete relief: " Dun Mm. rmouK-I think it li my duty to write lJ5\ t?y?,??ndtellyon what Lydia X TrlvV.I Plnkbam'i y I J Vegetable iS/ . Compound it, \ 11rJ hu done for Ome. I. feel like another.wuman. Ihadsuch dreadful headaches through my \ head ,P that I f nearly went i crazy ;wasalso I troubled with chills,wasrery I weak; my left 3 side from my 3 shoulder* to my waist pained me terribly. I oould not sleep for' the pain. Plastera would help for a J while, butas soon as taken off, the pain would be just as bad as erer. Doctors prescribed medicine, but it gave me no relief. "Now I feel so well and strong, hare no more headaches, and no pain in side, and it is all owing to your Compound. I cannot praisg It enough. It is a wonderful medicine. [ recommend It to every woman I Uad " C ' ? caught a very little rain. The moment the speck of a black cloud appeared we would all watch It like the approach of a friend. "On October 14 there was no water. On October IS Seaman Emll Ehlera found a part of a beefs tongue, which had worked It* way right up from underneath the poopdeck and through the lazarette. With pieces of this we baited a cotton hook which we happened to have, and caught a two-foot shark. "The (hark wae cut into seven strips, after we had first drunk the blood, and each strip was cut Into seven sections. I then turned my back, and as fast , one of the hands minted to a little heap of food I called the name of the man 1 who should have It. It was the fines'. S meat that any of us had ever tasted, 1 reserrfbllng In Its flavor that of codfish. E "Then w* caught, providentially, an- i other two-foot shark and a three-foot c sharlc. The nrst was caugiu ai iv a. * m. and the last at eight bells of the af- a ternootK watch. a "On October 16 no water, but we 1 caught some small dolphin, whose flesh t lasted us until October 17, on which day we had nothing to eat. From the eleventh day there had been more or lesa floating marine growth, which we were o able to clutch, but whose salty taste S seemed to aggravate our suffering. / ? a "On October IS there sat in a heavy 9 rain, and we caught- plenty of water, v \ CREW BRlTAIhf / \ 577 ships 1 N. 4403 Guns / THE GREATEST NAVA On a close examination of the aval I a-, ble ships that England and France have^ It Is found that Great Britain possesses" 677 ships, while France has only 471.p England would be much more heavllyo which we saved Ui a flfteen-scallon kero- 2] sene oil cask. Tftat same uay i ia?n- a loned the spokes in the wheel of my d bicycle, which I had taken along: on the d trip, into ftnall fish hooks, and with d twine, teased out from canvas made 01 lines. P "We then caught a number of rudder '] fish, each six inches long, but insuffl- 81 cient to stop the cravings of our appe- J tltM. l> ~~~~~ a "On October 22 one of the men sighted C) land. It was in the morning. I knew that we had been drifting to the westward, judging from the sun and my h watch. It was still blowing a gale when the Joyful about, "Land right ahead," arose. t "I Judged the land was eight or ten q miles away, and thought it looked like the northwestern part of Bermuda. We were really, as it proved, only three miles from land. "We expected to be taken right off, and our spirits rose to the highest pitch. At 10 a. m. the wreck began to pound on the bottom, and her keel was UV hnrt he?*n- Ditched upon the shoal*. So we remained until 11:45 a. m., but got no nearer the land. Then we drifted hark upon the rock head?, which were Just awash. We drifted at a two-knot gait, and Anally I could have Jumped or.' the rock heads. si "The- pal" was still blowing furiously, if but the undertow get us around to lee- ei ward, and at 12 o'clock we were In It smooth water. Till 2 p. m. we kept tl thumping, and then floated up har? and oi fast upon a sand bank, where we could dl Juki see land. ol si "Some time that night we started to V drift, and on the next morning, Octo- u ber, 2.1, drifted to th" south and west and Hi fetched up on a sand bar. Land was w out of sight. P' "So at high water wo drifted, and at tJ low water touched on bars. I felt that fli u rtirrent would finally set us on land. m "On Ortober24 It cleared, but no land ol was in sight. We had had nothing1 to si ?>at since October 22. We longed for oi death then more than before. On the tt morning of October 26 we tried to cut C away some of the old rigging. tc "It would be high water in the middle m I of the afternoon-, and I thought that j without the rigging we could gut Into n< the Gulf stream. wh"re we would be w I most likely to be picked up. dt "No one could stand up. Three men j lay down to two or mem were m \ ?i very bad shape. Seaman C. W. Haden o? ! -.van th* worm off. With a hammer *l ' very man tried to itvcr one strand of I the wire rlggln*- at a time. Every one was ino wtak to pound. The men who B v.??re Ijrrpg down looked likn dead men, ri with their eyes rolling backward In 8] lUelr ro'kAts. tt "About noon some one shouted s nail. P< tin n nli of us raw It. It was a sail. It ft was going to the northward, but bore c< to the southward of u*. "As we learned afterward, the skipper pj I JESS Jease Jaroci, who la on trial In Jtaasi footsteps, and Is proud of It He recenf chief In hla hand. In all of his photogr stories are those which tell of the wond Louis theatre, and It one of the attract! if our rescuing craft had sent a man up Wort to look for Walker's car, the lestlnatlon for which he was bound, , ind upon which we had touched, and rom which we had drifted away. "The man aloft happened to look iround and see our wreck, which he hough-; was the cay. Sailing closer hey discovered that It was a wreck, >ut thought no one was upon It. They tad come et> far that they thought they ?ould come closer. It was the twonanted British sponge schooner 'Sea Clipper,' commanded by Captain Fredrick Mlthlas Smith." For Iba Jwlft. Tit-Bits: In a case of slander that vas beard not long ago a lady had gono nto -the witness box on behalf of the rfalntlff, whose counsel was examining jer. "Now, madam," the lawyer beran,"please repeat the slanderous state- 1 nent mado by the defendant on this occasion, just as you heard them." "Oh, hey are unfit for any respectable per- t ion to hear!" was the emphatic anwer. 'Then," said the examiner, coax ngly, "suppose you just whisper them o the judge." j A Smalt Pcroentaga. I Chicago Tribune: The losses by death f the American army in the war with 1 Ipaln have been officially stated up to ' lugust 31. In Porto Rico 3 were killed ' nd 40 wounded; In Mianila, 15 killed and 1 ? wounded; In Cuba, 260 killed and 1,431 1 rounded. These represent a total of 1 < \ I . \ , PPANCE / * \ 471--SHi/ ^^ 6230 CuW5 \ L POWERS OPPOSED. _ . 1 rmed, as she carries 6.400 guns to * 'ranee's 6,200. Still, though England Is i tronger, these figures are a great sur- s rise to naval experts, as It was sup osed that Er.gland towered above all ther nations on- the sea. , , o '8 killed and 1,659 wounded In battle. i 0 these are to be added 91 who have c led from wounds received, 30 by accl- s ent and 2.225 by disease, or a total of ? eaths to August 31 of 2,624 in an army t f 265,000 men, or a little less than one t er cent. These figure will be somewhat i hv hr? iiontha from disease i ince August 31, but even then the total ill be lean than 3.000. The remarkable ?ature of thl? showing la the Immunity f the navy, which haft destroyed two panlsh fleets with the losa of only tour r live men. HOT A WHISPER. at Trumpet Noivi of Trnth Sownileil Herein Wheeling. Enthusiastic people every where. Sounding praises of the Little Conueror. Trumpet notes of truth. Like music to the miserable. Bringing comfort to the afflicted. Telling truths for public good. Telling how It can be done. tlou- thi? back can be relieved. Burdens lifted, pain removed. j Comfort, happiness and health. Facts that cannot be gain said. Proven easy by your friends. Because Wheeling people ray so. Thai's the proof that count'-. Itead this endorsement: Mrs. O. IS. Smith, of X South Walmsh Lreet, says: "Ever since the flood of {84. when I overtaxed myself, I sufferi from attacks of weakness and ach?g across the small of my back. As le trouble Increased I became devoid f all ambition, had frequent spells of laziness and aching through the back f my head, a urinary weakness and veiling of the limbs, feet and ankles, 'hen I over-exerted myself or walked p or down stairs once or twice, my tubs felt as though they would burst, nd often ached no they were really nlnfiil. I was tired and languid all ? % nmi hnd t_o force mvsclf to net round and do llRht homework. I used | any different retnedlea. hut the relief |, Jtalncd was only temporary. When I t< iw Donn'? Kidney Pllln ?o lilnhly rrc- n nmended. I mnde up my mind to try t, ifm and got a box at the Logan Drujt f1 o.'a "tore ond took them. They proved f i be the very thine I needed. I rerom- <ended (hem to olhtra who are trouled In any way from disordered kid- A pvh. unci truthfully *ay 1 uouUl not lie I Ithout them In the hou?e." t Doan'a Kidney IMIln for rale by all a nine Price 60 cent* Mailed by Foa- c, T-Mllburn Co.. Buffalo. N. T? Bole lentH for the United Htaten. Keinemthe namo?Doan'a?and 111<o no d ibntllute. n ? >m ir If (lie llftby ! ClllltiiK Trrlli. ? c sure and use thit old and well-tried " m*dy, Mrs. WlnaloWa Soothing yrup for children teething. It soothes le child, softens the gum*, allay* all tin. cures wind colic oud Is tho best (| smedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-flve y inta a bottle. m-wlcf 0 NEUBALOIA cured by Dr. Mllns' Paui " UP*- "Oaocant Ailoao/' A/, all druggists, h .w.-.'v.ik... . .... ?B JAMES A CHIP OP THE OLD BLOC; ta for the alleged robbery of an express tly bad a picture taken standing by his fa aphs he-Is coupled with hl? father In som erful darlnc of the outlaw. Prank Jani es, on? of that city. CELESTIAL FIREWORKS. A Tvra Great 6how?r? of Meteors are Due Title Month?Will be the Hoit Dazzllug Display Since 1800. ( Two great meteoric displays are bill- j ed for this month. On November 13 } and November 27, according to Garrett P. Servis and other astronomer?, who c are acting as advance agents for the 3 show, there will be, for two nights on- ^ ly, "a dazzling, pyrotechnic panorama of stupendous magnitude, and unapproachable in beauty." Get your seats 1 early and void the rush. ( The first of these displays will result h from the first meeting of the advancing o columns of the great Leonid meteors, e which envelop the earth In fiery spectacles once in every thirty-three and a u quarter years, or three times in a cen- e tury. The main mass of these meteors t Is due in November, 1889,but, since their i array extends over a length of at least 2,000,000,000 miles, they require not less S than three years to pass the place where l ttaeir orbit intersects that of the earth. Accordingly astronomers are confident c that their leading files will be streaming, in hundreds of thousands, across r the point of intersection when our u flobe arrives there about November 13, this year. The tocsin of science has been v sounded, star maps and directions to j observers have been scattered broad 'O InImnrnvampntc In nhfi tography have been enlisted In the ser- t trice, and the astronomical world Is c oh the qui vlve for the expected en?unter. The other great shower occurs on the 8 light of November 27, and It will be n :aused by the meeting of tho earth with ^ ;he meteors known as the Andromedes, a >r Blellds, which are closely related to ;he famous missing comet of Blela, if :hey are not, in fact, scattered debris >f that comet itself. These meteors were last seen in a great shower in (855, when a huge ball of blazing iron Iropped out of the sky while it was flllid with their dazzling trains, and it vas buried in the earth, near Mazapil, n Mexico. That meteor, or piece of a imasbed comet, is now in a mlneralogcal museum in Europe, and tho man vho finds another next month will pos >ss a treasure for which the scientific vorki will envy him. The adventures of the two great roops of meteors which are now rushng rapidly toward the earth have been rarled and startling, and the future nay have still more remarkable things n store for them and for us. The Leonds (thus called because they appear to adiate from the constellation Leo), told, like the Andromedes, close relation vitli o comet which is traveling Hlie ame track. Every time they meet tho ftrth thev suffer violent perturbations. In 1S33 a particularly dense mass enountercd the globe*. and the result was . spectacle that carried terror broadcast iver the world. Jhe greatest excitement >elng produced on the plantations of ?ur southern states, where the negro ilnves believed that end of the world vas upon them, while their white misers could not give them the assurance hat their fears wer* not well founded. Ul accounts agree that the universal tmazement on the 13th of November, 833, was such as the world has very arely experienced. In 1866, when the earth next encounered the Leonid meteors the display vas magnificent, but not so overwhelm ng as In 1833. Brilliant showers were een In the fears Immediately preceding tnd following 1S66. and this fact Is a irlnclpal reason for expecting a dlsilav this year. Whether we shall now I ncounter a compact column or tne ncteors or a comparatively scattered nass no one can foretell, but that nany will be seen may be regarded as n crtalnty. Even the precise time when he most brlllant spectacle will be preented Is not known. The Harvard ollege observatory advises watchers to tegln their vlgl! about November 11 and ceep It up until the stars fade In the nornlnff twilight on November 15. The constellation Leo, from which the neteors appear to emanate, rises about 0:30 o'clock, so that all the meteors een before midnight will appear shooing up like skyrockets from the northsstern horizon. Later on the radiant >oint approaches tiio mldheaven ln the arly morning hours and the tracks ?>f he meteors, when traced backward, will ppear to meet like the ribs of a glganlc umbrella spread over the earth. The Andromeda meteors, due on November 27, have had even a more rcnarkable career than that of the Leonis, although their history Is comparaIvely brief. They were never seen beore 1872. although previous to that Ime a well-known comet traveled ' In heir track. Something wonderful hapened to that comet fifty years ago. ' ust what It was nobody knows?possl- 1 ly a clash with an asteroid?but after he accident, whatever It may have een. the unfortunate comet was found & r> have been broken In two. It survived ? he separation, nlthough Its parts had jg een flung hundreds of thousands of illes asunder, and, continuing along Its j ormer orbit, came back ns a double J um'-t In 1859. Hut when It was next due, In 1872, fn- I tead of the twin comets, a dash of me- ; eors appeared In the sky, indicating S tint the romets had met with another Inanter. and that the forth had enountered n portion of tlielr shattered !>mnants. In lS8r? the meteors appear il enaln, nnd, In the midst of their [ (splay. em I have Already told, an Iron las* fell from the sky In Mexico. Now. | i 1898, they are due once more, and hat surprises they huve In store for n nobody can tell. Dfitraeilvit For?st Plr?? WICHITA, Ka*. Nov. 8.?A spcelal to fie Beacon from Earsboro, Okla. says: 5 'orest and prairie Are* are raffing* all e ver the HcmlnoU* Nation. Hmapnka S ilsslon ami property valued at $160,000 | as been destroyed* fa . \ . , ... . -V? - 1 " = cC. train, is following. in hla. fatb'er'a thcr's grave, with a large handkere way, and it 1b tald that hie favorite the uncle, fa a ticket taken in a 8U COMPANY CAME TO D1NKEB. it Informal Invitation Tit at iru Accepted Literally nml Technically* San Francisco Argonaut: A San Francisco hostesa, famous for her tact and *esourcefulness, telis a good ctory on lerself. It seems that an officer In one ?f the Tennessee companies, a very ahy roung man, brought letters with him vhen hla regiment came to the coast, md presented hlnwelf one evening at he (let us say) Van Ness avenue resllence. As he was the eon' of a well mown public man and a member of an Id family, his hostess exerted herself to ntertaln him. "We should be glad to have the pleasire of your company Friday at dinner," he said as he was leaving; **the Havattan commissioners are to be with ts." Friday came and the commission. Ihortly before the hour for dinner the mtler excitedly entered the room. "They's a regiment o' soldiers, mum, utslde." "No doubt In honor of the commlselonts; I will tell them." Just then the leutenant was announced. "When you are ready," he raid, "I rill have the men march to their places n formation." "Why," said the lady, "what men?" "It's my company," was the reply, "all iut ten. and they're very sorry, but they ouldn't come." DR. 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