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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-4-14, Page 34 r A FIGHT WIT$ SEA -ROBBERS. 4 NewVersion or an clad Story About .Col- es, It is one of those tales that illustrate the manners of this one' age. The pirates hsd tong been the scourge of the honest Venet- ian traders. Sometimes they would .die- aise themselves as merchantmen trading eaesfally to Candia for wine, and then hrowing off their disguises, would prey upon, all around them. No mercy was shown in these fearful. contests. Between the sea -robbers and the merchants there was. a lasting and deadly hostility. It was to the pirate class that the Columbi belonged, and of all the corsairs of the day they were the most .renowzied. The elder .Columbus, had apparently lain in wait in vain for the rich fleet that sailed yearly to the north. But he had a son, known as Columbus junior, who followed the same profession, and whose true name was Nicole Griego, or Nicholas the Greek. He at last succeeded in the project which his father had so long essayed in vain. The prize was a tempt- ing one to the bold buccaneers. Tlie Flanders galleys faith their freight were valued at two hundred thousand ducats—' nes a e two million of dollars and would have proved au immense fortune to the captors could they have retained the spoil. In 1485 the galleys were equipped with unusual care, We have the decree of the Senate under which they set sail, The Doge Giovanni Moncenigo appoints the noble Bartolomeo captain, with a salary of six hundred ducats. Four great galleys are provided, and to each captain a bounty of 3500 golden ducats is promised upon their safe return to Venice, This money was to be paid out of the tax on the Jews, and calls up anew Shakespeare's unreal picture; It is plain that the merchants of Venice were the true Shylooks of the time. A medical man was assigned to the fleet; his salary was only nitre ducats a month. Minute rules aro given for the conduct of the ex- pedition. The freight is to be paid to the state. No deck -loads of tin or pewter warn are allowed, no currants nor molasses are to bestored in the hold. Two galleys were to go to London or the English ports, the rest to Slays or Bruges. On their passage they might touch at Malaga and other ports in Spain ; on their return a ship was detached to trade with the Mollautmedans along the Barbary shore. The Venetians were too keen tradersnot to find profitable markets even in the lands of the infidel. The Columbi or the Griegos were at last to seize their prize. They watched with seven ships—powerful, no doubt, and well equipped—oft the Spanish coast to intercept the fleet of Bartolomeo Minio. The eom- mender of the pirates was Nicole Griego, tie son, we are told, of the elder Columbus. a father had disappeared from sight. t with him in the pirate ships was an. r Columbus, the future discoverer and iral of the Indies. In his " Life" For- edo Columbus boasts of his father's share In this famous eugagement---famous because it led to the aettlemeut of Columbus at Lis - eon, his marriage, and his future exploits. Ifo was now a roan of at least fifty, harden - q l by thirty-six years of eeaselese adven- ture. What position ho hold in the pirate Root, whether as commauder or seamen, Ilia son does not tell. We only know that he terve( under his relative, Columbus or Grieg and that he fought with desperate seem, in the famous sea fight off Cape Std Vincent. The corsairs or the Columbi approached their prey in the evening ; they waited all night on the still Atlantic, and in the morn - Ing rushed upon the Venetians. It was seven, perhaps eight, ships against four. The galleys were heavy -laden and unman- ageable, ;Compared to their swift assailants. The Codi umbi had evidently resolved to make sure of their prey. They sailed ander the French flag, and may have been fitted out in Genoa. It was the enstotn of the pirates, it seems, to assume false colors. But dreadful was the contest and fierce the fight that raged all day, as Columbus had told his son, on the tran- quil sea—the scene, nearly four centuries later, of the battle of St. Vincent -and his narrative is confirmed by the Venetian archives. The four great galleys under Bartolomeo Mini° defended themselves with unfailing o:urane. From the first to the twentieth hour they beat off their savage assailants. The ships grappled with each other, and fought hand to hand. They used we are told, artificial aro and the pirates fastened their ships to the galleys by hooks andiron chains. Then no doubt they hoard- ed, and were at last successful. And then Fernando Colon relates the romantic inci- dent that led, he thinks, to the dicovery of a new world. The ship in which his father fought was lashed by chains and hooks to a great Venetian galley. The Venetians seem to have set Columbus's ship on fire. The flames consumed both vessels. The only resource left to the survivors was to leap Into the sea. Columbus, an excellent swimmer, seized n oar that floated near him, and partly resting on it and partly swimming, sustain- ed himself in the water. He knew that he was about six miles from the land, the coast of Portugal, and made his way toward it. Wearied, half inanimate, he was dashed apon the shore. He had much difficulty in reviving himself. But he was near Lisbon, and madejhis way, a shipwrecked, penniless !siemens' To the Portuguese capital. --From "The Mystery of Columbus by" Eugene Lawrence, in Harper's Magazine for April. It is the part of a great mind to be temp - orate in prosperity, resolute in adversity to despise what the vulgar admired, and to prefer a mediocrity to an excess, ' The Duke of Richmond and other peers of Scotland are directly interested in the liquor traffic, either as distillers or owners of public houses. Among the principal offenders are the Dukes of Hamilton, &thole, Sntherland, and Fife ; the Mar - guises of Bute, Ailsa, Breadalbane ; the Earls of Roseuery, Aberdeen, Moray, Zet- land, Haddington, Home, Login, Wemyss, Stair, and Galloway. Sir John Gladstone, the nephew of the " Grand Old Man," is one of the most extensive whisky distillers u North Britain. Among the most notable achievements of Emperor William singe his accession to the throne, is his success in reconciling to the existing order of things the rulers deprived oftheiraovereignties,and of their dominions by Prussia, at the close of the war of 1866. It was in vain that Prince Bismarck extend. sd to them the olive-brancli while he was at he head of affairs. They refused to enter nto any friendly communication with, the Nourt of Berlin. Since, however, the young Emperor took the negotiations in hand they ave entirely modified the originalattitude, nd at length proclaimed their adhesionto phe Germs s Empire 4 now constituted. he most important of them all, and: the one who was the last to accept William's lffers of friendship, was the Duke of Cum- berland, ex -Crown Prince of Hanover, and overeign de jnre of the ancient Duchy of Brunswick. LIFE'S LIGHT AFFLIOTIONS. The pathos of life shows itself in many ways. Sometimes it can be read in the pin- ched feature'. and sad lips, or in the eyes humid with disappointment. It is not seldom expressed in words, or if it reaches the gates of s eeab it is toolate to make itself heard. Dead faces tell the story often - est, and the mourner, reading it written there, cries aloud : " Oh, if I had only known : But I never thought of it," A woman lies dying wild hashad one grievance all her life. It is such a simple one that the telling of it would provoke a senile, yet to her it was an intolerable suf- fering, mental as well as physical.. But also had never spoken of it to anyone, least of. all to him who was the one to remedy it, They were young u hen he bought a gig such as people rode in. fifty years ago, and it had no springs and very little back. In this they traveled .long miles over bad roads, to church, to funerals and to christ- enings. At first he helped his little wife up into the high seat of the gig ; then she jumped up ; as the years went on, she climbed. Sons and daughters came, and her hus- band bought a spring wagon still higher, to keep out of the mud, or the dust. The man never thought of its being a hardship for his wife to clamber over the wheel into that farm vehicle. Her neighbors consid- ered her a fortun+te woman to be able to ricin. When it became too hard and her strength gave out, he would gall on the tall, strapping boys to " give mother a boost," and mother couldn't have told which was hardest, the boost or the climb. But at last she was unable to get in with- out a chair, and amid much good-natured, unfeeling raillery, mother was gotten up to her perch, where her feet touched nothing, and ahe could not lean back, and was in mortal terror of being jolted out, and ilg- body ever knew I Now she lies dying in that darkenedroom from which she shall go forth to her last long rest, and she is talking wildly, delir- iously of all the things of her life, and as she talks her husband looks perplexed and says to the neighbor who is taking care of her: "Mother seems to bo getting flighty." But soon she addresses him : "Don't put me up into the seat," shosays wearily, "I'd rather go in underneath than. sit dangliug up there. It's broken my back and worn meout a-riden' hi thatoucomfort- able way. I'd rather have walked a thous- and times, if I'd only hod the strep"th." "You never told rue, mother, that the wagon was hard to got into afore," saki the man in a troubled voice. "No, I didn't want to vex ye," said the poor little woman, "bat I dew hope if they coma for me with the chariot of Israel it will be easier to get into than our farm wagon. If it ain't, I believe Fd rather walls." It is not much of a story, but it is one of the hidden tragedies of a human heart, and it exemplifies what I was talking about --the pathos of life. iif e. case ccsof notice, A Anothert is worthy woman died recently whose husband was known in his neighborhood as a good pro. vides. His wife had all thatany reasoaable woman in her walk of life could demand or expect; that is, she recieved clothes and board for a long life of labor. Sometimes she wanted a little money to expend for herself.—perhaps to purchase some of .the useless things that a man never buys. But when ahe asked her husband for money, lie sprung a series of answers upon her that effectually silence her. Don't I provide well for ye Jenny? What do ye want that I hnin't iven ye? You know I ain't made of money." So he carried the purse and provided liberally, gave everything but a ohanoe for his wife to feel indepertlent; she was really less in the household than a servant, since sloe would have her wage. But when the wife died, and the tide of remorse that comes with death had set in, the husband remembered that the ono thing she had wanted all her life was a little money to spend as she pleased, and then his heart re - 1 ' e wentto his moneybox and took He thence some of the shining silver coin it held and placed them tenderly in the dead, cold hand of his wife." There," he said, "she allus wanted ter have some money of her own, and mebbe she'll know that I've give it to her." And it never entered into the sordid soul of the man that what he had done was ever- lastingly too late. In groat calamities we have the sym- pathy of our kind to bolp us bear them. It is the nagging pain that goes with us and takes all the sweetness out of life that we must bear alone. And because we mast not reveal it to the world, but keep it un - shared, it becomes to us at last a demon of unrest. A man may wear a wooden arm and go through all his days with a smile, but there is not a moment day, or night, that it does not cause him pain and apprehension. When he is alone the smile becomes pitiful, it is so full of self -sympathy. These light afflictions have not the dig- nity of misfortunes. They are the martyr- dom of life without its crown. A Sioux Indian's Prayer. Thefirst recorded prayer of a Sioux Indian was made 1837. Walking -Bell -Ringer was not a Christian, according to Rev. S. W. Pond, his teacher, and his prayer had little reference to Christ. The Sioux had no word for forgive, but they asked God to forget their sins. The following prayer shows the earliest manner of worship, and it was offered in the Mission house at Lake Harriet, which stood a few rods beyond the park pavilion f— "Great Spirit, my Father, I would wor- ship You, but I do not know how. How I wish You would teach me. I want to i Yourhave grown u understand Book.I in ignorance, and have worshippd stones and trees and everything, but I wish now to worship You alone. I want to throw away everything that is bad, and listen to You. Il I hear evil conversation among men or women I will not listen to it, but leave the house. I wish my soul to be happy when I die. When the spirits of all the dead are assembled in judgement, and the bad are oast into the fire, I want to be saved with the good. I will not unite .any more with the Indians in their idolatrous feasts. I want you to forget my sins. I want the Son of God to forget my gius. The Sioux are all ignorant and wicked. We have all grown up in ignorance and have done wrong. We have forgotten You and pray- ed to things that have no ears. I want You to pity all my relatives and take care of them. I want you to pity me." Many a child of the Church wouldbe put to shame by the pagan's prayer. A weak mind sin under prosperity, as well as under advers;" y. A strong and deep one has two highesftt'c'ides, when the moon is at the full, and when there is no more. SUN SPOTS.. Witat Euxlnnil'fi Astronomter Royal says or the Phenomena. the spot on the sun, first noticed on the 5th inst., has had special attention directed. to it by the reports received of the interfer- ence with the telegraphic system of Russia, Sweden, the Milted States and Canada, he magnificent display of aurora borealis to Saturday eight last and the magnetic dis- turbance which was also experienced in this country. Mr. Christie, the astronomer royal, informed our representative yesterday that this is the largest spot yet photograph- ed at the Greenwich Observatory (where the sun has been regularly and systematically photographed since 1873,)and that the great- est attention has been paidtoth it with a view to clear up, as far as possible, moot points with regard to the cause, periodically, and, perhaps, even more particularly, the magne- tio disturbance which these spots bring about on this earth. Some excellent photo- graphs have been secured, but, unfortunate- ly, on several days the sun was obscured, and until photographs are received from India or Mauritius the investigation can net be regarded as complete. However, the in- formation which Mr, Christie has obtained is of the greatest interest and value. In the first place, the spot is found to be composed of two nuclei, very black, surrounded, as usual, by a penumbra or fringe, and with several smaller nuclei oonnocted with it. Occupying as it does an area of about 1-350tIis of the face of the sun as we see it, the "spot"—still to speak of Olathe singu- lar number—is plainly shown on the nega- tives taken at the observatory; photogra- phic plate ten inches square being used, and the solar disk being eight inches in diamet- er. Without, therefore, the aid of a magni- fying glass, the unusual size and importance' of the spot are at once evident. But it is when the negative is placed under the mic- roscope and accurately measured that the details of its size become more striking, for it Wound that, while its greatest length is about 100,000 miles and its greatest breadth 60,000 miles, the whole group extends over 150,000 miles. ,Asked as to what was the cause of these spots, Mr. Christie said that THERE ILSD nEENSEVEZALT5SEOiLIES framed to account for the phenomenon, but none that w.is entirely satisfactory. There were those, for instance, of Faye, Secchi, and Lookyer. Tho theory of the last named was that the snots are caused by a bombardment of meteoric matter falling into the sun and, causing a great " splash." The nucleus, as the dark spot is called, is cold, and is at lower level than the general surface of the sun ; while around the spot are generally seen what are called faculty, parts of the sun's surface which aro raised up. Often by means of the spectroscope can be traced masses ot molten matter surging round and over the nucleus. The apparent movement of the spot across the face of the stm is, of course, the movement of the sun itself carry. ing the so-called spot with it. On these points Mi. Christie was careful to state that all is conjecture • and ho pointed. out,as an objec- tion to Mr. Lockery's, theory that whilethe spots never appear far front the sun's center the nearer the spot is to the solar equator the faster it appears to move ; a spot at the extreme limit from the equator taking two days longer to complete the oirouit than one near to it. What he was able to speak more positively upon, from the records at the Ob. servatory, was the characteristioof thesp ots as they have been observed. In thisconnection a very valuable series of diagrams have been prepared by Mr. Ellis,both from the observa- tions since 1573 and from the records prior that year, showing not only that the meg- natio disturbances have been coincident with the appearance of the spots, but that the intensity of the disturbance has been in exact ratio with the size of the spot. They further show that the "spottiness" ot the sue reaches its maximum every eleven years, dying gradually down to its minimum of absolute freedom from spots, and as gradual- ly increasing. 'There was, for instance, a minimum in 1878, and tlioanaximum at the end of 1882 or the beginning of 1883. Then, again, there was a minimum in 1889, since which year the number and frequency of the spots have boeu increasing. It is anot- able fact that when there are the fewest spots they come near the equator, but when a fresh cycle begins the spots appear in high- er latitudes—about 35 degrees or so from the equator, though never appearing at a greater distance than 40 degrees. These are the solar phenomena in connec- tion with the spots. Tho terrestrial mag- netic phenomena are equally striking, the magnetiostorms ordisturbances being of great extent—amounting to several degrees in the deviation of the compass. IN THE PRESENT INSTANCE, soon after the spot had passed the central meridian, there was a great magnetic dis- turbance from noon on Saturday to noon on Sunday, and that was accompanied by aurora on Saturday night. During this period both the movement of the needle to the north and its attraction to the earth showed great disturbance. This has been fixed by the recording instruments at Green- wich, which work in this way: In the point of the magnetized needle is a small mirror, which reflects light upon sensitized paper. Ordinarily, therefore, there is on the paper, which revolves on a drum, a continuous line, which shows that the needle has been quies- cent. But when the magnetic disturbance of Saturday set in, instead of a straightline there was recorded a series of zigzag lines, showing that the needle was darting from one side to the other to such an extent to get off the paper—some four or five inches in width—on both sides, many times, and exactly the same results were found in the register of currents passing through the earth. The matter of interest now, said Mr, Christie, is to discuss what is the connection between the sun spots and these extraordin- ary magnetic disturbances. There are now three or four marked cases on record of large spots on the sun being coincident with these disturbances on the scale experienced during the past few days; but while there are no cases of a lage spot • being seen without mag- netic disturbances being felt, there are cases in' which the latter have been experienced without sun -spots being visible. This might be urged as upsetting the theory ; but we only sec what is going on on one side of the sun, and it is. very possible the spot was "on the other side ;" so that the absence of a visible spot can not be hold to prove that there is nothing on the sun causing the dis- turbance. Irish Humor. A provincial citizen, forthe purpose of arresting attention, caused his sign to be set upside down. One day, while the rain was pouring down with great violence, a son of Hibernia was discovered directly op-; posite, standing with some gravity upon his head, and fixing bis eyes steadfastly on the sign. On an inquiry being made of this inverted gentleman why he stood in so singular and attitude, he answered : "I am trying to read that sign." Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoriai Terrible Explosion of Gun Ootton.. A late St. Petersburg despatch, says:— This city was thrown into a state of intense excitement by a most terrific explosion. So molt has been heard here lately of the fiend- ish work of Anarchists that for a time every. one believed they had attempted to destroy some of the public buildings. It was soon learned, however, that the explosion was due to an accident at the State factory for the manufacture of smokeless powder,where in some unknown manner five tons of gun cotton had exploded. The shock of the ex- plosion was tremendous. The whole city was shaken and houses swayed on their foundations as they would from the effects of an earthquake. As soon as it was ascer- tained that the explosion had taken place at the powder factory a steady stream of peuple flowed in that direction to witness the effects of the accident. The build- ing in which the gun cotton had been stored was nowhere to be seen. It had been blown into splinters. Nine workmen were in the building when "the explosion took plane, and every one of them was blown to pieces. A search was made for the remnants of their bodies, and some of their limbs were found 250 yards away from the building. The gun cotton was stored in a separate building, and to this may be at- tributed the fact that the loss of life was not much greater. The adjoining factories were greatly damaged, and five workmen in them were injured. Houses a mile and a quarter away from the scone were made to oscillate by the shook of the explosion, win. Bows were shattered, and ()rockery and glass were thrown to the floor and smashed. The loss from these causes alone -will be very heavy. There is no possible way of ascertain- ing how the explosion accursed, as every man in the gun oottoa building was killed. It is thought however, that it was due to carelessness. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorta. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to CastorIn. 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