HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-11-18, Page 6RIFT
AND SPRAY,
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LOVE AND VENGEANCE AMONG THE SMUGGLERS
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CoonA /sato .ISLan,y4,ar.
CHAPTER IX.
IS Timis 4'Marron .a.atax0 sroiimes?
The Nadal look wee in and about the
eyes of Dolan as he glaneed from Moe to face
of his crew, and in A low, deep valise, ad-
dressed them ;
" I told you, my men, that the Sprey you
see yonder wee counniesioned to Inuit us
down, but I did not tell why, exectly, and
who gave the information that brought ft
bito the narrow Sea, llor do I mean to tell
you now. If we can get clear away, I don't
want to leek° ill blood by telling you at all,"
"Tell us at ono," growled one of the
crew.
"No, Jackson—Bo. Rut I cannot help
saying that we are in &Anger.
" Oh, we know that."
"I'm glad you de. But if yo go on,
Jackson, putting in your oar with nit being
asked, while I am speaking to S he ship's
company, I'll knock your lubber y brains
out.
Jackson looked indignant, but said no-
thing.
"As I was saying, then," continued De-
lan, "we are in danger, though not exactly
and directly from the Spray, because we
can outsail her yet."
"Ay, ay," growled Flan Bowline.
"But when she chases us a little further
inshore—that we come to coast the cliffs of
old England—she will signal to °roes us to
every craft she sees; and then we shall have
a foe in both ways."
"Ay, ay," growled Ben, again.
"So my opinion is," added Dolan, that
we ought to try and shake her off now, that
we are in mid-chennel."
The crew looked at eaoh other dubiously.
"You know what I mean, all of you, as
well as if I had said it. You all know that
if we are taken without firing a shot, the
utmost they can say ot us is that we are
smugglers; but—but—" (here the baleful
look about the eyes of Dolan deepened)
s" but if we as much as fire one shot against
athe king's ship—though it flew as wide of
its mark as west is from north—it's a yard-
arm affair."
"We didfire one," growled Jackson.
"But if we did, you lubberly swab," said
Martin, "wasn't it in the fog—and who is
to say or prove it came from us S"
" 04s, well !"
s" ate quiet, will you, with your shore -
going palaver ?"
"What say you all?" added Dolan.
" Would you rather be taken as smugglers
than escape as—
"Pirates 1" cried Ben Bowline.
" Well, you may call it that, because
such is the name they will give to it. In
the one case, you will be put in prison for
twelve months or so, and then be drafted
on board a frigate. In the other, you will
:get clear off; and as this is to be the last
venture in these waters, why, I am for risk.
Mg all, and making a fight for it. What
.say you? Are you fond of imprisonment,
and then being carried in handcuffs for five
years before the mast of a frigate? If you
like them, say so; but if you are men—if
you want to keep your little hoards that
you have all saved—if you want to lead free
lives and merry ones—'
Captain Dolan only got thus far in his
oration when he was stopped by a ring,ing
cheer from his men and then a noisy de-
termination to fight the schooner.
„ Well," he said, " that's man -like. Now,
mind you.'I don't want to fight quarter to
auarter—that's not the thing; but I do
vent to cripple the Spray so that she may
let us alone—and as soon as she lets us
alone, we will let her alone."
"Ay, ay," shouted the crew.
Captain Dolan had stated that the night
was coming; but from the sudden darkness
that now crept over the scene, it would ap-
pear that it had been much nearer at hand
than he had assumed it to be.
A bank of dense clouds slowly crept over
the sky from the southeast and the water
looked black as ink. The wind came in in-
tensely cold puffs; and now and. then a
slant shower of hall ram, half sleet, be-
tokened the approach of what sailors call a
"dirty night."
The white sails of the Spray could be dis-
tinctly enough still seen—for she was not
above three-quarters of a mile astern of the
Rift; and now the government vessel began
to fire rockets in couples into the night air,
wbich gave Dolan and the crew of the Rift
a gooclaleal of uneasiness—they had so much
the character of signals to some force that
might be in shore and which might prove so
very hazardous to the Rift.
Dolan now held a brief consultation with
Martin and Ben Bowline; and then, in a
loud, clear voice he cried :
"Clear her out—' Number Twelve'—clear
her out, my men, and we will give the Spray
a little taste of our quality 1"
"Number Twelve," as it was called, was
a long,” that would carry a twelve -pound
shot with,gratt,,precision and for a, great
distance. It was Of Spanish manufacture
and had been purchased by Dolan at Cadiz.
Once only in the history of the Rift had it
been found or considered neeessary.to fire
this piece of ordnance—e.nd.then it had been
the means of freeing her from great danger
of capture.
It was with the grim looks of men who
are facing a great clanger, but have made up
their minds to do so,. that the crew of the
Rift prepared to fight the Spray ; for well
they knew that the words of Dolan were
true, and that one Shot 'ffred on the king's
ship subjected. them to the punishment of
pirates.
By the faint staange light of the evening
that still gleamed at intervals from beneath
the towering clouds the' ship hada special
kind of look, and the faces of- the crew seem
ed paler than usual. The wind hissed and
sighed through the stout rigging of the cut-
ter ,• and rolling and foaming in the trough
of the sea, they could see the schooner, with
every inch of canvas they could carry, in
full pursuit,
"Hand over hand she ceinee I" cried Mar-
" Let her come 1" growled Ben 13owline,
4E Will Dolan fire the gun ?" •
" Yee—he or his 'nester."
" Who's his master'? What do you mean?"
-Martin significantly pointed below ; and
then Dolan cried out loudly
"Martin to the helm Keep a bright
lookout and dodge the shot. There she goes
it again," .
Flash came a stream of light from the
side of the schooner; and, then with a sharp
clap, came the report of the gun, and the
cutter heaved heavily in the sea;• aa the
shot agaie passed her in inosi dangerous
proximity.
The. crew had been busy with "Number
,Tweive," as the long corronade was called,
aixl its dark muzzle now pointed threaten.,
Maly toward the Spray.
"All reedy?,,' asked Nolan.
"4y, ay, sir ; all ready."
Then, my nice have something to tel
you before the gen does, I hope, its work
f
He sprang upon. 4 portion of the gun -cars
riage as he apolse, and in the singular night -
light that was about and. upon him, Dolan
looked perfectly fiend -like.
"You all think it something out of tre
way that the government should cominisaion
sohooner on purpose to hunt us down, but
there is a reason iu all things. We have
been betrayed 1"
There wits a visible commotion among the
erew.
Yes, betrayed 1 But before .E ask you
te think of this,—before I ask you to act
upon it—and before I tell you who the
traitor is—I have one request to make of
you, one and all."
"What is it ?" said Jackson.
"It is, that you will sPare the life of the
triter—it is, that you will let him be to
what punishment may overtake him for his
treaehery—it is, that you will make him,
andlaiin only, fire this gun; so that, come
what may, lie will be committed to the act."
A general shout of acquiescence to this
proposition, or rather to these several pro-
positions, followed Dolan's speech; and then
Walrbig hist arms for silence, he added
"Very well ! We will understand each
other and I will read you a letter."
Bang? went another gun from the Spray
and a portion of the orneatiental bulwark
that had been placed at the stern of the
stern of the Rift by way • of disguising her
was torn away, a splinter from it grazing.
the cheek of Dolan and inflicting a slight
wound, but still one from which the blood
started in a row of drops like red rain.
"Only a touch," he said, "only a touch.
It is part of the whole affair. You shall
hear shipmates—you shall hear who it is
that'I have to thank for this."
There was a wild, unnatural, mewing
tone in the latter portion of these words,
and then, holding before his eyes the paper
he had taken from his pocket, but evidently
at the same time repeating the words he
tittered either from memory or concocting
them at the moment, he spoke as follows,
while you might, to use a popular expres-
sion, have heard a pin drop on board the
Rift:
"To SIR THOMAS GLIPPORD, PORT ADMIRAL,
FALMOUTH :
"Sin THO3rAS-11 you wish to put an end,
once and for all, to the . worst gang of
smugglers on this coast, you will look out
for a cutter named the Rift. It is very
crank built and its mast rakes out of all
custom. There is a secret about the matter
in which it embays itself that I will not
disclose, as it might endanger the safety of
one I wish to preserve; but if you choose
to take the Rift in the opeS channel, you
may find her on the fifteenth of this month
dressed to Admiral Sir Thomas Clifford ?"
eaid Dolan,
" Ay ay, she; thet's it."
" Why, it's a copy of it. It says at the
top ef it A copof a letter that I sent to
ivThomas
caCallielfogodnal,btOhieltctrle\er 11, if ' "
"Does it?" said Ben.
" does,'"
" It will eettle the matter, Captain Dolan,
if I reads that ere bit of it to the crew."
" Ay, ay—Ben read it—Ben read it,"
ly eye 1" said the sailor, who had be-
fore expressed his admiration of Bowline—
‘.` If that Ben oughtent to be thea—that's his
name—the LOrd High Admiral Chancellor."
"Take it, Ben. Take it," said Dolan, as
he etretched out his hand and. let go the pa-
per before Ben could reach it ; and the wind
talsing it, whirled it at ouce far :Sway to see,
wham no mortal eyes weuld ever look upon
it again.
" OIi 1" said Ben, that's nulacky."
Hera' provolsing 1" said. Dolan. "
thought you, had iloia 01"
Oh, dear, no 1"
Dolan suspected that the oh, dear, no 1"
Was a contradiction to his statement of what
he thought; but he affected to take it in its
other sense—namely, that &naiad not got
hold of the paper.
Well," he said, "it can't be helped
now. It's gone; hut, just as I read it to
you, my men, there it was as this blood
now trsokliug down my cheek can testify."
' Now the blood upon thc cheek of Captain
Dolan did not testify to anything of the
port ; but there was the material blood, and
the thine sounded like an argument and to
the illogical sailors it was received as such.
There is many an affected truth—and
many a hoary inquiry, in this world., that is
supported upon no sounder a logical basis
than was involved in this statement on the
part of Captain Dolan 1
Alas, poor Gerald ! Danger thickens
about him.
What is it that he is beloved and caressed
by those who know his worth and his true
nobility of soul, if that band of desperadoes,
on board the Rift, believe him to be their
mortal foe and treacherous enemy? What
now can save him?
"Make him fire the gun," said Captain
Dolan. "Ile shall fire the gun !"
"He shall 1 he shalt 1" shouted the crew;
and they made a rush toward the cabin
where Gerald was a prisoner.
CHAPTER X.
CAPTAEg MORTON Makes aat
Datikvsity.
We left Captain Morton, of the American
yacht Nautilus, about to take his way down
the narrow turning that led to the sea, near
to the town of Falmouth.
It seemed to him as if, from the first mo-
ment that he had lauded on the shores of
England, he had been surrounded by my-
sterious influences • which had directed his
movements, and with a feeling at his heart
—that heart so burdened with sorrow—he
believed that yet before he closed his eyes
that night in sleep he should hear or dis-
cover somethingon the subject whi di now,
Lor ten years past, had engaged all his wak-
ing_and much of his sleeping thoughts.
The turning was very narrow, and on the
little plateau, or slope on either side of it,
coarse shrubs and some of the wildest of
wild Rowers had grown.
anywhere between Falmouth and the French From the top two slips of chalk and loam
coast. Keep my name a secret. I will call had partially taken place, bringing with
on you after you have captured the Rift." them the huge, gnarled foots of old trees,
Probably to any persons but sailors, who
from which spurious suckers had shot forth
UNEXIIECTED
"A new one end a raw One? I don't
understand you, I an captain, and owner
of the Nautilue, out yonder,"
" What ? that tidy little es'afa; With the
1+1e, ft a4gi
, a
• "Then, I beg your perdon, sir, 1 thought
you was a custom houee ()Amer on the spy,"
etartling yell at thisinoinent from with-
ia the boatahouse testified. to the fact that
old Simms, as the fishermen galled him, had
ubyigilitio, means finialuel his alarms for the
" Well," said the fisherman, "lie do seem,
a bit worse nor ueuel, hilloo.!
Simms, ahoy 1 Hilloa ,„
"Keep them away; I don't IMO LO SCO
them, with ell their ,drowsied Awes, keep
them away, will you ?"
" There he goes; you see, sir, He • be-
longed to the runners about St. Just's Bay,"
SYte, sj:uysotir
'isVI'ionor ; and at times he seems
to dream About things ;t would be all as well
he could forget."
"Perhaps uot--perhaps not, I should
like to speak to him, CU I get into his
hovel?"
"Not a bit of it, your honor. Ho shuts
lainself up pretty safe, unless one chooses
to break inaand that would be easy enough."
So I should think," said Captain Mor-
ton, as he set his shoulder to the fraildoor,
and. Witth cra,sh it fell inward. "That
will do."
Calmly and collectedly, to all outward ap-
pearance, Ceptain Morton entered the dwell-
ing of old Simms ; and by the light of a cot-
ton wick, that just projected from the spout
of en. eerthen jam of coarse -fish oil, he saw,
lying on a miserable trundle bed, an old
men, whose bloodshot, staring eyes were
-fixed on vacancy. He did not seem to have
observed the entrance of Captain Morton, or
to have noticed. he breaking down o fhis
door; but withlit lips rapidly moving, he
seemed to be conimmung in agitated w his
pers with a something that no one saw but
hincrGoelf.
away—go away—go away 1" was
whet he kept on saying, and each time that
he uttered the words they seeaned to increase
in agonyof expression.
Captain Morton advanced close to the
bedside and placed his hand on the wrist of
the old man, saying, with a deep, solemn
voice :
" Simms, I want to question you about B
St. Just's ay."
The old nsan uttered a scream and started
up in his bed and looked wildly at the cap-
tain.
"You—you—you are not—not—"
"Not what ?" .
"The—no, no—not like you! Oh, what a
soul—what a soul ! Hush, hush Were you
on board ?"
"On board what?"
"The Sarah Aun."
(TO BE CONTLNUED.)
SLAIN BY SAVAGES.
Bishop's Torture Makes Sport for au
African and His Wives.
The diary of Bishop Hannington, who
was put to death by order of King Mwanga,
of Ugundi, in Africa,. has been published.
' In giving the details of the last week of his
life he describes the arrival of his party at
I Lubwas, where a chief at the head of a
thousand troops demanded ten guns and
ten barrels of powder. The chief asked
Bishop Hannington to remain with them
for a day and the latter complied. While
gluxuriance. taking a walk the Bishop was attacked by
have so little to do .with letters and who
The place was dark, in some portions of about twenty natives and struggled with
know so little of their ordinary style, or of
it, as a cavern, and it was not until Captain his assailants but became weak° and faint
shore life, this pretended epistle would at
Morton actually cense within sight of the and was dragged violently a long distance by
once, on its surface, have presented ample
evidences of concoction for sinister pars sea that he could persuade himself the nar- the legs. When his persecuters halted they
row, tortuous turning actually led to it and stripped end robbed. him and imprisoned
poses; but to the crew of the Rift it ats.
to the beach. • him in a noisome hut full of vermin and
peared diabolical' production, express y
It was now just that period of the evening , decaying bananas. While he was lying
written and planned for their ruin and s when all the dim clouds had piled them- there ill and helpless the chief and
quite sufficient to account for the presence
of the Spray in their wake. selves up from the southeast and the slant, HIS HUNDRED WivEs
oold rain began to
'
A groan of execration at the writer, be he Captain Morton paid no attention what-
came out of curiosity to feast their eyfasson
whom he might: burst from every throat; ever to the state of the weather. The pro-
him. On the next day he was allowed to
and then one cried out, gruffly: bability is that he was scarcely aware of it return to his tent where, though ill, he felt
"Tell us who it is, Captain Dolan; and
more comfortable. He was guarded, how -
1 • li f 1 in. h* • t
I'll for one, lend a hand to pitch him over-
board,"
"No," said Dolan ; "you forget. You
promised me; all of you, that such was not
to be the ease—that you would let him
alone."
" Ay, ay, so we did."
" Will you keep that promise?"
n an noisy all a e ma tina e
"We will—we will." up in front so as to look like an eccentric
"And will you make him fire the gun at house. ' sleep. At last he became 'delirious. On he found that the former condition corres-
the Spray ?" From the windows of this boat residence the eighth day, Sept. 29th, he was conscious pended to a high per centage of ozone in the
or from what served as windows—beini His entries on this day are brief: "No air, and the latter to a very low per centage.
" We will—we will."
"Then, shipmates, I will read you the openings over which oiled paper was paste news, a hyena howled all night smelling the Ozone being a natural antiseptio (proven -
name at the foot of this letter which was in- --there gleamed a faint, uncertain light • sick man ; hope he will not have me yet." tive of putrefaction), he at once commenced
tended to be the destruction of us all. The and Captain Morton thought that he heard
t This is the final entry. It is believed that to treat his patients with antiseptic medi-
name at the foot of the letter ,is—is—now some one reading or praying within the shortly after writing that he was taken out eines, taken internally. The result was very
what, think you ?" boat -house. favorable. The method was confirmed by
and put to death.
"Oh, be bothered," growled Jackson. The captain drew closer to the singular further experience, proving satisfactory in
it." 011t 4 almost every case.
"Tell us at once, do, and. make an end of residence, and then he heard some one cry
though he might not altogether suit the Hygiene in the Cure of Disease.
Bang 1 came the report of another gun . "No—,.no--I tell you no! I never did
from the Spray, but Martin succeeded in that. Therdid it—oh, heaven knows • for
changing the course of the cutter so quickly it used to look down ott us with its million The progress of hygienic medicine in the
taste of the shires. His saddle is generally
the hall only grazed her side and fell harm- eyes—the stars they are. Heaven knows
cloths ; the last fifty years is the medical fact of the
red, peaked before and behind, and placed
lessly in the sea. • that they did it, but I did not—I did not! present age, and the fact that will stand out
upon several colored felt saddle
"The conclusion of the letter, then, is in Oh, have mercy! Oh, do have mercy ! stirrup broadens out so as to give a wide ' in boldest relief when the history of this
these words: space for the foot to rest on • it is pointed period shall be written by some future
Captain Morton paused and listened.
at the corners ; thereby enabling the rider
"I beg to remain, Sir Thomas Clifford, "Let me die in peace—in peace! Go /Esculapian scholar.
your obedient servent, GERALD Dor.'" away 1—go away! I tell you to go away, to tear the horse's ribs even without the aid But, rapid and effective as this progress
' of a pointed stick or a steel spear -like spur has been., the principles of hygiene are yet
all of you—all of you 1" •
A succession of deep groans then came which he often pushes in between his slipper in.their infancy. We R
.
from some one apparently in great agony, preciate the true value of hygienic prima
and the stirrup side. The Arab so ter,
A ld*
• f th him is high re saddle and saddle cloths, thr ..
Nies in the prevention of diseases of the epi -
la h•te b flutteringbehind
with is va t burnous. di i
and then all was still.
Captain Morton tapped at the door o e , h• . d emic type; and the me ca profession,
his long silver mounted gun flourishing in owing a,side all selfish recollections, has
boat -house. his knees high and body bent forward, with
"No, no 1" screamed the same voice that
h 11 forward • been the first to teach the practice of these
—a pityrin. ciples and to prove their force and vital -
The next step in the way of advance -
the air, looks, as e ga opsin
had ' before spoken."No no more—no
` n 1
ITEALTH.
" The Wages of Sin is Death."
Tim inspired author of these words dinibt-
less had reference to Morel sins, but the
eenteece of detail is as surely executed
upon trausgressors of physioal, as of moral
lware. rTegiiitertilea(Yi sbsyvheiins lelligont vaenr(sloxcloeate,1811
vieitations of Prevideuee„ have leng since
passed. Selene() has poured upon the
eatuesa of disease brillient light of dis-
eovery and reSearelt, until the material
laseuts which precluee disease are almost es
well understood as the elements of any
coranion problem. in elgebra or geometry.
Witter plus typhoid fever germs, and pure
air plus small -pox Wool:iota will as surely
produce typhoid. fever or small -pox iu a,
susceptible person as two plus two will ineke
four, er ten times ten, one hundred.
It is very eseful as v. ell as interesting to
study the etatistics of death in any civilized
community, At the recent Sanitary Con-
veatiou at Coldwater, Mich., Dr, IL B.
Baker, Secretary of the State Board of
Health of Michigan, react an able paper on
the prevention of contagions and infectious
diseases, in which he pointed out a number
of very important ancla interesting facts
gleaned from the vital statistics of Michia
gan, According to the annual reports pub-
lished by the Seeretary of State, 3,709 per-
ms die annually in Michigan alone, of
four diseases: small -pox, scarlet fever,
typhoid fever, and diphtheria. It is Well
known that only About half of the deaths
are reported, eo these figures should be
doubled, making over 7,000 deaths from
only foer diseases, all of which are prevent-
able, Is not this an enormous secrifice to -
ignorance or carlessness or both? What
are these seven thousand lives worth? The
lowest estimate of the cash value of a
human life is $1,000. This would represent
then a loss of $7,000,000. But there are
not less than eight or ten persons sick for
every one who dies, and for each one there
is a loss of time, and other expenses, ag-
gregating not less than one hundred dollars,
making at least another $7,000,000, or
$14,000,000 iu all, which is lost every year
through sickness arid deaths due to four
preventable diseases. The loss of friends,
of genius, of leaaers of great enterprises,
the damage to society, these and many other
losses are not included in this estimate,
Is it not a fearful thought that this
enormous waste of human life is unneces-
sary, the result of criminal ignorance or
criminal carelessness? The State Board of
Health of Michigan has for years been labor-
ing to enlighten the people of the State re-
specting the means of avoiding and prevent-
ing disease, and it was clearly shown. that a
vast deal had been done. Within ten years
the average annual number of deaths from
small -pox has been diminished by fifty.
This mea,ns fifty lives saved every year, or
one thousand lives in twenty years; and
fully five thousand cases of illness from this
loathsome disease have been saved within
the same time. And yet there are people
who begrudge the few thousands necessarily
expended in this beneficent work 1
Whooping -Cough,
Whooping -cough is a, highly contagious
fever, affecting the entire system, but spec-
ially manifesting itself in an inflammation of
the bronchial tubes, and a spasmodic cough
occurring in frequent paroxysms. The whoop
is due to the rapid coughing. This renders
it impossible to draw in the breath until the
coughing ends, when the breath enters
strongly through the glottis, , still partially
contracted by the spasm.,
'It rarely ends in less than six weeks; gen-
erally its run is longer, sometimes many
months. As a rule, the physician merely
aims to palliate the symptoms, guard against
complications, and abridge somewhat the
attack. Says Flint, "It must be Admitted
that there are no known means by which
the affection may be arrested."
completely to prevent any air from passing
through the cavita in the act of 'breathing.
will
ansiPa !ley csailsceasa sa,rrei if t ptic, or sbi siteeeudlinyg. t rTie4de,
lisruorrbage persists because the clot that
forme et the rupture in the bloodaveasel is
displaced by the air being drawu forcibly
through the cavity in attempt of the patient
to clear the nostrils. If this air is prevent-
ed from peseing through. the cavity, tlic clot
cousohdates in position and the hemorrhage
The ton commandments for bathers : 1.
Do not bathe when excited. 2. Do not
bathe wben feeling badly. 8. Do not bathe
after having been up all night or after ex-
cessive exertion, before resting. several
hours. 4, Do not bathe et ter having taken
heavy alcoholic &Mk. 5. Walk slow-
ly to the bathing place. a. Inquire after
the depth and the ourrent of the water
as soon as you arrive there. 7. Undress
sloNvly, but then go into the water at onee.
8. jump into the water with your head
first or Wet the hea,c1 quickly. 1.1 you cannot
do the first, 9, Do not re alfiufti tnhooth bvoet y7e
e blood and
take moderate exercise. Bathing and
swimming is useful for body and Soul., not
alone in warm but also in cool weather, if
above advice is heeded.
water long, especially if you
strong, 10, After the bath r
well to aid the circulation o
LATE AMERICAN NEWS,
John Hughes, a farmer near Chebause,
Ill., has been boring for water on his farm
fax over twelye months. The drill is now
down 400 feet, and the earth is said to be
so dry that they pour water in the hole to
make the drill work.
The chestnut gong was run so contin-
uously in the public schools of Portland,
Oregon, that it bedame an unbearable
nuiaance, and now any pupil who carries one
to school is permanently expelled if the
teachers discover it.
An illustration ot true wifely unselash-
nese comes from Newaygo county, Wiscon-
sin, where a woman, after making a nice
little sum of money by picking blackberries,
instead of buying a new dress, bought her
husband a fiddle.
It is sald that the only way an ex -press
ear ou the Pacific roads can he robbed is by
'collusion with the messenger. The cars are
lined with boiler iron and provided with a
shotgun and two revolvers, and the doors
so secured that they cannot be opened from
without in an hour's time.
A bell in a church in. Biddeford, Me., has
been silent for over twenty years. Suddenly
its ringing has begun again. Its notes are
discordant, and the town is not happy. The
new pastor ordered the bell to be rung, be-
lieving that his people would be shamed into
getting a new bell. The result already bears
out his theory.
Fifteen years ago a woman near Bangor,
Me., borrowed $55 from a friend in that city,
giving her note. When it came due she
could. not pay it, and she promised to clo so
when she could. The note had outlawed
and the holder had forgotten it, when the
ether day the creditor received beak pension
money from the Government, and at once
paid the old debt.
Fifteen years ago the buffal—oT;anges o
Kansas and Colorado were covered with
thousands of these animals. The other day
a party went out from Denver, and after a
week's hunting managed to kill three from a
herd of twenty-nine that they found in Lost
Park. It is said that there are not more
than 2,000 buffaloes now in existence. Sys-
tematic slaughter has produced this shame-
ful result.
The other day a citizen of Napa, Cal., saw
in the river there what bethought was cer-
tainly the sea serpent. Closer inspection
showed that the serpent was a sho 1 of little
fish, each about an inch and a elf long.
They were moving up stream in a '.;alid body
150 feet long and about 3 feet wide, and a
constant commatien in the water was caused
A writer in the Lancet for March, 1886,
thinks that the prevalent treatment has been 1:7 large fish darting among them and gulp-
ing down the small fry.
directed too much to the Symptoms, instead
of to the cause. Hence the medicines pre- John Sanford, employed in. the mills at
at (Jnoc or twice coat pocket for the fragment of a newspaper ; ever, by natives. He remained in bed dur- scribed have simply had an anti -spasmodic Sanford, Me., drew his month's pay the
that seemed to be the most precious object ing the following days, and parties of the and sedative effect—relieving the cough, but other day, and when his wife brought him
in his' possession. chief's wives out of curiosity came daily to not reaching the disease itself. During a his supper at 6 o'clock he handed her the
I severe- epidemic of whooping -cough, he money at her suggestion. He worked until
8 o'clock and then went home where he found
his two children, :both babies, on the floor
alone, apparently having fallen out of bed.
Their mother had run away with Frank '
Sherburn, an old admirer of hers.
see ham. He was allowed to send messages
And now he has nearly reached the
to friends, but he believed they were inter -
beach. A few wretched fishermen's huts
are there, and one in particular, which is eePted• On the seventh day he writes that
the fever continued, that at night the place
made entirely from about half a large boat
patched swarmed with vermin, that guards were
set up on end on the middle and
noticed on several occasions a marked alle-
viation of the symptoms, and then at other
times a marked aggravation. This lea him
to suspect some powerful atmosphmic in-
fluences at work. On consulting his charts,
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The Arab Soldier.
The Arab looks -very well on horseback,
A yell burst from the crew and a half
kind of rush was made for the cabin where
Gerald was known to be.
"Now," added Caption Dolan, as he pre-
tended to pass the back of hand over his
earesS as though he were very much affected
by having thus to accuse his town Gorr-
" now you know all and why I got the
promise from you. to spare his life- You more. Why do a you come to me 1:1 did
know all now." not ,kill them I saw it done ; but did ot
cloud of dust, the very e,mbodiment of the
picturesque, exultant war spirit of past ages, ment is to demonstrate that the same prin-
t
..0 .......l 1 b • a•a f eiples are as useful and as necessary in the
murder butfree to ca out his own
"Overboard with him! The Jonah ! Kill 1 kill them ! Go away! Go away 1"
him! Brain him! Fasten him to th grin and The captain tapped at the door again ;
e but this time no notice was taken and he
send him off to the Spray 1"
Ifelt for some Mode of opening it, but there
Such were the shouts that arose from the was none.
in furiated crew; but Dolan placed himself The shadow of some ono passing close at
by the hatchwa,y, as he said: an scenic ot a monien deepen e
Nail no 1 he is my son still." gloom of the spot and Captain Morton call-
0'"Down with him to Davy Jones'Et lock-
ershouted jackson " Only let me ge
t ed out aloud :
at him 1" " Hilloa Who goes there ?"
" No 1 no You shall all Keep your A man in the garb of a fisherman lounged
promise, and when we get back to e eav- f
ern in the cliff—which we shall get back to
if you are all true to rae and true to your-
aelvea—then we can think of what to do
with hire ; but, at present, we will make
,him fire on the Spray, which his own letter
has sent in pursuit ot us, and which has
brought this blood upon my cheek and would
blow its all out of the water, if it could."
"But, Captain Dolan," said Ben BoWline
with a puzzled look, "may I ask one
thieg ?"
" Certainly, Ben,"
"Well captain, and you, mesemates! how
collies it, if this here letter, villainous as it
is, Was sent to Admiral Sir Thomas Clifford,
that our own skipper herb Captain Dolan,
has got it?"
Dolan looked staggered fax a moment, and
one of the crew, as he put into his cheek an
enormous extra 'lump of tobacco, eaid
"My eye 1 but that Ben it an out-and.out
sealawyer, / never thonght of that now."
"Doe; your honor want a boat?"
" A boat 1—no. Tell me who it is that
esides here I°
tri the old boat, your honor
"Yes, yes."
"Oh, that's old Simms,"
"But he's very ill; perhaps dying."
"Lord bless your honor—no. That's his
way. We don't mind him. He has had a
tap on the head, we all think, in Some smug -
Ong affair, and he don't Sean to be quite
right in his wits. He hies here, but no-
body knows very well how—though they do
say he gets kept by the runners."
"The who?"
" Oh,, the lade that run e cargo now, and
then without ash ing leave of the cestore
house."
"' Oh, the smugglers 1"
V"ou may call them that, sir. And if a
plain man may say a plain thing I would
just advise you, as you are it new one and a
raw one, to keep a whole skin and go home
Hew comes it that I have the letter aa a that's all I'd say to you 1"
try blood-
thirsty purposes with as much swagger and Preventmn•
ostentation as possible. As a horseman, I ! A great advantage in the hygienic treat -
believe the Arab to have an excellent seat ment of disease is, that it does not, or at
but an I hand; h p . least need not, interfere with sound and ex.
beast's head high in the air, and so he cease- Perience-preved modes of treatment of a
lessly joggles at the bit upon which he al.- medicinal kind. The stientific physician
ways rides, until one wonders how the finds, in fact, that there as always a c011815 -
wretched brute can put his feet safely down I tent. plan for combining the medicinal and
yet he does somehow. No one rides camels hYPeele systems' He seed that the two
in this country, but the Sultan is said to i Vete= are One ; he sees further that the
treatment of actual disease as they are in
have some ve fleet dromedaries capable
of doing !nerve ous jolirneys, and, of course,
in those parts of Morocco whieh merge into
the Sahara the camel is indispensable. The
Barbary. donkey is a shortalegged,, long-suf-
fering, indispensable beast. It is easy to
comprehend the ass existing withoutTan-
al chared ioth stealing a blanket. She
gier, but it is impossible to eonoeive Tangier gv
patient little , pleaded that she was under the influence of
existing without the ass; his
he
body bears every possible burden, from the tahneotwmrmPearraan' ofother;adasheata6idaolangd,ilaYealutde
anything
foreign Minister's -wife, for example,
site ucton the pack with great dignity,
, . who . flu:twits told her. She was examined by a
of Charot, Bronardel and
tPtillill'ise:ilgie intdh °bill:yr/4Mb °ice' CI ilsst°E81:1ss‘hv itlgo'oels1;leiteols.Otpl di El''ey isiii6catantelicaillet4 ' cial in le ti : 8 w
i °11'1°
came from the nee of morphia, suffering and
reported that this condition
publte merket. hanger. That those euggestione from others,
" The Thuo R's." I acting on an Unstable nervous organism,
i greatly deranged by, morphia and other
•-••• ,,
'What makes that little boy move so un- etbacturt4'Stheelicwlears6("whZittletY8P"sible for her
easily in his seat ?" asked a visitor of the In persistent hemorrhage from the nasal
pretty achoolinistress. ' cavity, plugging the posterior nares should
'1 Oho he is studying reading, writhing, not be done until an attempt Ines been made
and arithmetic, and lie is practising writhing to cheek the hemorrhage by firmly grasping
now."
mere medicinal plan without the hygienie
is in all casts imperfect and in some eases
worse than imperfect.
Notes.
A girl was token before the Paris tribina
the nose with the finger and thu nh, so as
The Rev-. A. A. Horton of Sheffield, Pa,.,
was walking home from Tiona the other
night when six men stopped him and de-
manded his money. He handed them thirty
cents. They searched him for more, but
found none, and told him to go on. Before
he went Mr. Horton made this remark:
Gentlemen—excuse the expression—the
next time you hold up a stranger, be sure
that he is not a Methodist preacher."
The other day the Rev. Francis Howard,
of North Washington, Me., while hunting
for his cow in the woods, came face to face
with a big black bear. Though 70 years of
age, the clergyman shinned up a tree with
remarkable celerity, and thebear, apparent-
ly not caring to take the trouble to climb
alter him, looked him over for a while and
then strolled ofE Thereupck Mr. Howard
came down and went hem in quicker time
than he had made for years hefore.
1
The other day, on a railroad near San
Francisco, a train missed a switch, where it
should pass another train, and the two rush-
ed directly towards one another on the same
track. Ono of the engineers, quick as
thought, disconnected his engine from the
train, blew for clown brakes, and then shot
the engine ahead to meet the other, receive
the force of the collision, and save his
passengers. Fortunately the other train was
able to reduce its speed, and the !shock,
when it came, was comparatively slight, &nay
i
inhuil.
theprineky and level-headed engineer w
A rat was put into a box with a rattle-
snake in Sa,cramento the other day. In-
stantly the snake struck it, and in a moment
the rat turned over and died. It was then
ssvallovred by the rattler. The next day
another rat was put in the box. The snake
made no movement toward it, but the rat at
once attacked the snake, which in defending
itself struck its enemy several times. The
bites had no apparent effect on the rat, which
after a while was released,, and ran away
seemingly none the worse for its battle. This
would seem to indicate that tor a considerable
time after expending its virus a rattlesnake
is harmless.
Sister Baptista of St. JOSepWS Iloapital,
in Philadelphia, has charge of the ward de.
voted to the treatment of drunkards, and
her success with that elaes of patients is
said to be remarkable. She has effeeted
501110 notable curet, but there is one man
she cannot cure. He is over 60 years of age,
has retired from business with some $20,000,
and has for years been a regular patient of
Sister Baptista. The whiskey habit is
chronic with'Inin, but as he has no initnedi.
ate relatives or friends to nurse Or care for
him when he breaks down from excessive
drink, he is received at the hospital when.
over he appsvh
lies, ich 18 at frequent inter.,