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Show Ill Heber Wasatch County, Utah, Monday, August VOL. 15 th 1892 No 6. s?a i-- i f THE HEBER HERALD. 54 M J 1 i H Hatch Jr, tEditor and Manager.- Entered at Heber .Postoffice, as sec- - A. mi class mail matter SUBSCRIPTION - PRICES . Or, V One Six Year. Months . $1.00 $0.50 Three Months $o. 25 1 HIS MOTHERS PROTRAIT. rrj A No sir, the nail is still there as secure asever. in the place I drove it at thebegining of the voyage.-- How do you account for it's dropping?'" I was obliged to admit that 1 was puzzled, but. nevertheless, I endevored to convince the ypupg man that it was noting hut a singular accident. He y would not admit it, and left me petish- y- - All through thti day 4hesecGndjmate seemed absent minded and disturbed. Along.towards sundown the wind be six about ljells," eleven oclock, it was blowing so Iwd it was necessary to put a reef in to breeze up until die fore-topsai- l. his duty called the second mate aloft vhh his men. 1 was standing beside t ie when the captain on the quater-decI k KOWM 'ft - . li. i young officer and the sailors came down from the rigging. ' wss surprised to see the second of stopping to reset the mate, reefed topsail, walked hurried aft to where the skipper and myself were. As he joined us I noticed that the mans face was palid and his frame shook convulsively. Are you hurt? I asked quickly. No, sir," he answtred, but I have seen her. She was with me on the tops'byard. My mother is dead. So impressed was the poor fellow with what he had seen or thought he had seen, that as soon as he went below he marked upon a calander which he had tacked to the inside lid of his chest, the date and hour of the dropping of the picture, and. on a piece of paper wrote down the incidents. As our voyage progressed, the young man's spirits gradually rose, and when we entered the harbor of Rio Janeiro , ' he was the same old, 'merry self." The captain went ashore and at evening returned, bringing with him the the lejtters directed to the brig. Only one was directed to the second mate. This he opened quickly, but scarcely had he read a dozen words, 1 when he exclaimed solemnly, knew it, sir, I knew it just as well as I in-ste- J ad - a |