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Show Sit Pnbllihd by rjden function. HVKKY EYEHINQ, th CaDIH Sundayt excepted PUBUSHL.X8 COMPANT. Terrific Steamboat Race. By Mark Twain and Charles D. Warner. At night the boat forged on through the deep "solitudes of the river, hardly ever discovering a light to testify to a human presence ; mile after mile and league after league the vast bends were guarded by unbroken walls of forest that had never been disturbed by the voice or the footfall of a man, or felt the edge of his sacrilegious axe. An hour after eupper the moon came up, and Clay and Washington (two boys) ascended to the hurricane deck to revel again in their new realm of enchantment. They ran races up and down the deck, climbed about the bell, made frionds with the passenger dogs chained under the life boat, tried to make friends with a passenger bear fastened to the verge staff, but were not encouraged; "skinned the cat" on the hog chains; in a word, exhausted the amusement possibilities of the deck. Then they looked wistfully up at the pilot house, and finally, little by little, Clay ventured up there, followed diffidently by Washington. The pilot tnrned presently to "get his etern marks," saw the lads, and invited them in. This cosey little house, built entirely of glass, and commanding a marvellous prospect in every direction, was a magician's throne to them, and their enjoyment of the place was simply boundless. They sat them down on a high bench and looked miles ahead, and eaw the wooded capes fold back and reveal the bends beyond; and they looked miles to the rear and saw the silvery highway diminish its breadth by degrees and close itself together in the distance. Presently the pilot said: "By George, yonder comes Amaranth I " - the A spark appeared, close to the water, several miles down the river. The pilot took his glass and looked at it steadily for a moment, and said, chiefly to himself: "It can't be the Blue Wing. She couldn't pick us up in this way. It's the Amaranth sure." He bent over a speaking tube and aaid f "Who's on watch down there?" A hollow, unhuman voice rumbled up through the tube in answer. "I am. Second engineer." Wood I lou want to etir your stumps, now, Harry the Amaranth's just turned the point and she's just a humping herself, too!" Tne pilot took hold of a rope that stretched out forward, jerked it twice, and two mellow strokeg of the big bell responded. A voice out on the deck shouted: "Stand by, down there, with that labboard lead!" "No; I don't want the lead," said the pilot, "I want you. Koust out the old man; tell him the Amaranth's coming. And go and call Jim tell V . lik" "Aye, aye, sir!" The "old man" was the captain; he is always called so on steamboats and hips. "Jinx" was the other pilot. Within two minutes both of these men were flying up the pilot house stairway three steps at a jump. Jim was in hia shirt sleeves, with his coat and vest on his arm. He' said: 'I was just turning ' in., Where's' the glass?" He took it and looked. "Don't appear to be any night hawk on the jack staff; it's the Amaranth, dead sure!" The captain took a long look and only said: "Damnationl" George Davis, the pilot on watch, shouted to the night watchman on "That's it! I thought any slouch that was running that middle bar in Hog Eye Bend. If it's Wash. Hastings well, what he don't know about the river ain't worth knowing a regular gold:leaf, diamond breast-pi- n pilot Wash. Hastings is. We won't take any tricks off of him, old man !" "I wish I'd a stopped for him, that's all.". , The Amaranth was within three hundred yards of the Boreas, and still gaining. The "old man" spoke J . through the tube : "What is she carrying now?" "A hundrei and sixty five cir." ; "How's your wood?" "Pine all out cypress half gone eating up Cottonwood like pie! "Break into that rosin on the main deck pile it in, the boat can pay for it!" boon the boat was plunging and quivering, ana screaming more madly than ever. But the Amaranth's head was almost abreast the Borea's stern. "How's your steam Harry"? sir!" i "Hundred and eighty-tw"Break up the casks of bacan in the forrard hold! Pile it in! Levy on that turpentine in the fantail drench every stick of wood with it!" Ihe boat was a moving earth v quake by this time. "How is she now: and "A hundred and ninety-sistill swelling water below the mid dle guage cock carrying every pound she can stand nigger roosting on the safety valve." "God, how's your draft?" "Bully! Every time a nigger heaves a stick of wood into the furnace he goes out the chimney with kid-glov- t.4' ' it wasn't ' ; EI. I., ; . - : OGBEHT, HMBOTHAIiI, 1 THE lETUIEST STOCK OP i (g(Q)i? Ever offered in this vicinity. Silks, A Linseys, etc. Full Line of Carpets and Trimmings. A Large Assortment of BOOTS AND SHOES, OF THE LATEST STYLES mean- She don t dare tackle it ' "Amaranth. the in; In another instant the Boreas plunged into what seemed to be a crooked creek, and the Amarantn s approaching lights were shut out in - NEW ERA AND OTHER COOKING STOVES. of .: , EVER CARRIED ON IN THE TERRITORY OF UTAH. Arising from a uniform system of dealing principally with Jttanulacturers, buying in Immense Quantities ana selling on tlie Closest Margins. deck: "How's she loaded?" tered now. but the three men stared ahead into the shadows, and two of them spun the wheel back and forth, with anxious watchfulness, while the steamer tore along. The chute seom- ed to come to an end every hity yards, but always opened out in time. .Now the. head of it was at hand. George tapped the big bell two or three times: two leadsmen sprang to tneir posts, ana in a modent their wend cries rose on me night air, and were caught up and repeated by two mea on the upper "Two inches by the head, sir." " 'Tain't enough." The captain shouted now : "Call the mate. Tell him to call all hands and get a lot of that sugar forward. Put her ten inches by the head. Lively now!" "Aye, aye, sir!" A riot of shouting and trampling floated up from below presently, and the uneasy steering ot the boat soon showed that she was getting "down bv the head." The three nmn in the pilot house began to talk in short, sharp senten As their ex ces, low and earnestly. citement rose their voices went down. As fast as one of them put down the tnr rings an other took it up; but calmness. Blways with a studied air of : was tne verdict time Kach deck. 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STA-ISTFORT- at his Store, Call and examine SINGER f Go's, 'I AND Lumber Yard. &JECXNGtTmT3&1 FIHST-OLAS- S MASCFACTUREIIS OF Sash, Boors, Blinds, Boor and Window Frames, Cupboards, Milk Safes, Tables, Sinks and all Kinds of Carpenter 1IACDIMRV ! EVERY OL was A bright little the looking through a picture-boo- k On exhibition and for sale at other night, when she suddenly ed, gazed eagerly into her mother s WHITE'S YARD, FOURTH ST., OCDEN. face, and while there shone in her BARNARD, 'She's a eainins!" eyes the light of a wisdom beyond her TV.o rnntnin unoke through the years, said (blamed if we haven't TJrancli Store id Offden the forgotten what she said.; KSrAt our Large and Coninjodious "What steam are you carrying? are in no wise inferior to Friends Northern The manner of advertising for sir "A hundred and forty-two- , oose at SiJi Jiake. in Java is by placing W. II. HOOPER, Superintendent, But she's getting hotter and hotter husbandflower-poroof. on the portico Sep 22-t- f t empty all the time." J TEASBEL Mr. J. THE dl-t- BLEES' SEWING MACHINES! IN ASP i the Most Approved Style, CALL AT ' Concluded - In a r five-year-o- ld OCDEN, of Main Street. Clothing In immense Variety, INSTITUTION AT S. L. CITY. , Hats, Caps, Boots and Groceries and Hardware. "Wholesale and IRetail G-H.-a.N- p E il GLE HO USE AND EXAMINE PARENT III W. II. HOOPER, Superintendent. MERCANTILE INST'N. IVE p. o. Box 28. A new Stock of Fall and Winter GOODS of the best quality. Made up A. Full Set of "Wood-workin- g jSlachinery in Operation. PLANS & ESTIMATES OF BUILDINGS TERMS. ON REASONABLE oo Orders addressed to Office I -- Which will be Cut in the Latest Fashion! JluT, KINDS. It E JUST RECEIVED. A LARGE STOCK II ,'? fi F1XD1AGS! - - FIFTH STREET, Two doors west u.c .m PRODUCE TAKEN. eST KEPAIKS NEATLY EXECUTED: TAYLOR, Doing the Largest Business THE SHOE U.P boa: MEECHANT TAILOfiJ A .... LEATHER AXD SHOES, r i, in every variety. s 1 AXD DEPARTMENT J. TINWAEE in O- - 3M. -- :o:- MONITOR, 6. Fourth Street, Ogden, 2!. Pour Doors Prom GME1U1 DEALEB i - Hod G. WHITEHEAD Heating Stoves of all Descriptions. 1 SPEC! U. Z. C. M. I. Stove Department. Of . A d88-i- y Complete t gaa GASH PHIB for.. Hides. j e, AND HARDWARE 8i far c.p AT THE LOWEST PRICES. . f All kinds of PRODUCE received Exchange. BOOTS Hats,' Caps and. Clothing! M inf. O For Gents, Ladies or Misses wear. ! f Corded Alpacas, CHARTER OAK STOVES Jacqaards, Delaines, CO-OPERAT- OGDy (:'..' ' I t ' Flannels, ZIOIV'S - PARLOR AND COOKING STOVES, Nouveautes, The Amaranth drew steadily , up till her jackstaff breasted the Boreas' climbed along inch by inch till her chimneys breasted it; GROCERY crept along further and further, till the boats were wheel to wheel, and then they closed up with a heavy jolt and locked together tight and fast in the middle of the big river, under the flooding moonlight! A roar and a hurrah went up 'from the crowded decks of both steamers; all hands rushed to the guards to look, the and shout, and gesticulate; i f weight careened the vessels. CHARTER OAK, The boat was straining and groaning and quivering like a monster in pain. Both pilots were at work now one on each side of the wheel, with their coats and vests off, their bosoms and collars wide open', and the persd 105-t- f t piration flowing down their faces. They were holding the boat so close to the shore that the willows swept the guards almost from stem to bank like a deer, and darted in a long diagonal toward the other shore. She closed in again and thrashed her fierce way along the willows as before The Captain put down the glass. 'Lord how she walks up on us. 1 do hate to be beat." "Jim " said George, looking straight ahead, watching the slight est yawing of the boat and promptly meeting it with the wheel, "how U it do to try Murderer's Chute?" "Well, its its taking chances. How was the cottonwood stump on the false point below Boardman s Island this morning?" "Water just touching the roots close work. That "Well, it's pretty 7 .1 erives six teet scant in tne neaa 01 Murderer s Chute. W e can just barelv rub through if we hit it ex- w. - i . - I 01 GENEEAL MERCHANDISE, ... " . stern. "Standby!" whispered George "All ready" said Jim under his breath. 'Let her come!" The boat sprang away from the - DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF Poplins, Repps, - MAIN STREET, x wheel-hous- CO- NEXT DOOR TO Z. C. 31. I., o, it!" & Retail Department. e, -- CHILD FLYGARE & & CHILD, Builders, Contractors and Mills, Fifth Street, Ogden, opposite Z. C. M. I. Granary. . g |