I placed my wife next one of the 
boat davits and made her promise not to 
move, whatever happened, until | came 
deck. 
back. ThenIrandown. The com- 
panionways were clear now; all were on 
deck. 
“But in the corridor I found one of 
the stewardesses, perfectly calm. She 
asked the number of my room and 
brought me there, then she helped me 
to bundle what I could into a big steam- 
ershawl. Suddenly she was called away. 
‘©The physicians wanted her to at- 
tend a woman who had been injured in 
a room just aft. I, making a sack of 
my steamer shawl, carried up my wife’s 
skirt and petticoat, her handbag contain- 
ing her jewelry, etc., her cloak and our 
travelers’ money orders for $2500. 
““T found her again and held up the 
steamer shawl to shelter her from the 
wind and to hide her while she put on 
the garments. Soon afterward we were 
told that stewards would serve hot coffee 
to all hands. Sure enough, they had 
been preparing it down on the galley. 
“Tt came up piping hot, and there was 
enough for everybody. “The officers and 
men alike, the whole ship’s company, 
behaved heroically and devoted them- 
selves to the passengers with never a 
thought of themselves and their own risk. 
“Coon afterward, as it seemed—I do 
not know just when the Florida appeared 
—-little by little we were taken off. I saw 
no disorder among the first-class passen- 
gers and no fight to get to the boats, what- 
ever the steerage passengers might have 
done. 
“‘Women and children first was the 
rule, and I had to see Mrs. Mead go off 
in a deeply laden rowboat and then wait 
six hours before I knew what had become 
of her. Mrs. Mead was the second wo- 
man to get into the first boat. All the 
men had to suffer the same experience. 
It was worse for her, whe left me be- 
hind and did not know until six hours 
later whether I would be able to leave 
the sinking ship in time. 
**On the Florida they hurried us in, 
immigrants and first-class all alike. The 
food was coarse, though there was plenty 
of it. It was uncomfortable, and we 
were scarcely less anxious than we had 
been aboard the vessel we had abandoned. 
‘‘The Florida’s bow was all stove in 
and she was down by the head. We 
feared that she would sink before the 
night. 
‘* There was a good deal of disorder 
among the steerage passengers, and there 
were over 1600 of us on board. 
*“That evening the Baltic came up 
and we were transferred again, this time 
less comfortably than before. There 
was a rough scramble, and the immi- 
grants fought hard to get off. Again my 
wife left some hours before me, and we 
were separated. [I was knocked down 
in a fight with an immigrant while | was 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
THE FIRST MARRIAGE. 
Continued from page 3 
‘©T do not mean every one should 
marry. A good many men are such brutes, 
such tyrants and so debased that no 
woman ought to be permitted to live 
with them. Some women are so cross- 
erained, so cranky and disagreeable that 
no man ought to live with such beings. 
“*Notice in the third place the con- 
dition. It was a condition of equality. 
There are men that are living not very 
far off who believe that woman is a con- 
venience, like an easy chair. They be- 
lieve she is like a slave and was only 
made to work. They think her work is 
a work of inferior quality. Is that so? 
Would that God would place that man 
in the woman’s place for a_ week! 
Would he not be glad to get back again? 
Man’s lot is often very much easier and 
softer than the woman’s. In Eden man 
stood beside his equal. Woman was 
his equal intellectually as well as  spirit- 
ually. It was also a condition of con- 
fidence and trust. Young people often 
get married and then get jealous. They 
begin to have secrets and keep them 
from each other. Shame on the man 
who cannot talk to his wife. 
‘Tt was also a condition of mutual 
helpfulness. God pity the woman. that 
is tied up to a man that is too lazy to do 
anything for her. Adam was not lazy. 
He stood by Eve and they helped each 
other. The motto of Eden could well 
have been: *Not to minister unto but 
to minister.’ Then it was a condition 
of spiritual strength. What is more 
beautiful than to:'see husband and wife 
united spiritually? What asad sight it 
is to see one with religion and the other 
without! Many a husband could make 
a Heaven on earth if he would only join 
his wife as a Christian. Perhaps it is 
the other way. If the woman would 
only accept Christ, she could make her 
home a heavenly resting place. “The 
time to reform the husband is before 
marrying. 1 don’t believe that happiness 
can come into any home that 1ts_ spirit- 
ually divided. Both Adam and Eve 
were spiritual and of the same mind, and 
both worshipped God. Would that sin 
had never come in to mar that spiritual 
union, and bring sorrow and misfortune 
in the stern trying to steer our boat, 
which had no tiller. 
‘* After reaching the Baltic we were 
comparatively comfortable. We were 
pretty well dressed. | had our money 
orders and could buy some things. Oth- 
ers were lent us. A New York man 
loaned me underclothes. A shirt was 
presented me by a German from Berlin, 
and a collar was donated bya Milwaukee 
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Prof. N. B. Sargent of Haverhill, who ~ 
is so well known and loved in Manches- — 
ter, being for so many yea.s principal of | 
the High school, has recently written 
two more ‘‘From Heart to Heart Songs,’’ — 
in the ‘‘series of helpful solos for evan-— 
gelistic church, Chirstian Endeavor, Sun- 
day School and home- singers.”” The- 
new songs are ‘‘ Nothing Can Held Us. 
Like Prayer,’ and “‘ The Singer’s Pow-~ 
er,’ and they have promise of joining 
the ranks of popularity with the other 
compositions of Prof. Sargent, such as” 
“Building for Eternity’? and ~ The 
Iron Gate.’’ 
We acknowledge receipt of copies of 
daily papers from Oklahoma City, Okla., 
the past week, through the kindness of 
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Lutz who re-— 
cently moved there from Manchester. 
Mr. Lutz, we understand, has sold his 
blacksmithing business and has entered 
real estate for a venture. We see by 
the papers that building and land boom= 
ing is one of the chief things at present 
in this growing city, the population of 
which is not 50,000. 
DUUWW US 
to the human race. 
‘*Notice in the fourth place what 
Jesus Christ thought of the first marriage. 
Some Pharisees came to Jesus and asked 
him if it was lawful for a man to put 
away his wife. Jesus asked what Moses 
said. Jesus Christ, the son of = 
Eternal One realized that the institution 
of marriage was sacred, fundamental to 
the human race. How much sorrow 
has been brought into the lives of many 
boys and girls whose parents have been 
divorced. 
‘*'The first marriage should be the 
ideal marriage. The first marriage 
was planned and brought about by God. 
Would that God might plan and bring 
about the marriages of today. Some 
marriages are made in Heaven and som 
in the other place,---you know where 
‘* The first marriage was no financt 
scheme. A good many marriages toda 
are schemes for making fortunes, sin 
financial arrangements. A man ©¢ 
woman that will marry for money 1 
committing a sin in the sight of A 
mighty God. Some people like to ge 
married on the sly. The parents knov 
nothing about it until it is all over. — 
don’t believe God thinks much of tha 
‘* The family ideal is God’s ideal fe 
man. ‘The solitary soul, the soul sep 
rated from Christ is the lost soul. Th 
church of Christ is the family of belie 
ers in Christ. First be united to Chri 
by a living faith and then you can be 
come a member of the divine family, th 
Church of Christ.’’ 
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